Pickleball Bruises, Playground Beef & Musty Pudding | Wes Dawg

One of us took a pickleball straight to the butt—don’t worry, it's still family friendly.

 We’re talking open play chaos, the weirdest desserts ever created, and the childhood games we think deserve a pro sports comeback.
 Wes Dogg joins us to talk pickleball content, comedy, and building a brand while still drilling for dinks.
 And in Dink or Destroy: paddle taps after every point—friendly vibe or forced formality?

🎧 Tune in, tap in, and keep the dink soft and the energy BIG. #PickleballPodcast #BigDinkEnergy

Chapters

• 0:47 Kitchen Talk
• 8:48 Just the Tip
• 9:20 Pickle Pals
• 23:13 Dink or Destroy
• 26:50 News You Can Use
• 30:51 Wrap Up

Transcript

Speaker 3 (00:00.482)
Yes, so I got it in the butt. So we were out at an open play this past...

Don't worry, this is family friendly. You can keep it on in the car. This is Big Dink Energy, the pickleball podcast that's half insight, half nonsense, and all entertainment. If you love pickleball, don't take yourself too seriously and think a little trash talk makes the game better. Welcome home. This is the place where life and pickleball intersect. We celebrate the chaos, call out the nonsense, and put the fun back in dysfunction. You're either in or you're out.

And if you're still listening, you're in. So let's go. Big Dink Energy starts now. The official podcast of Pickleball is here in your ear holes. Big Dink Energy here for you again. So come and join us around the kitchen counter. And Steph, I know you had something right away.

Yes, so I got it in the butt.

Well, well, well, after all these years.

Speaker 3 (01:01.302)
Yes. this is the, got it in the butt pickleball edition though. So we were out at an open play this past Saturday.

I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:10.328)
worry, this is family friendly. You can keep it on in the car.

And I was playing with a lady named Jenny, because it was an open play level one, which is really nice because then everybody out there is at your same level. so I'm up at the kitchen line and she's, you know, towards the back and I'm, you know, up at the kitchen line so ready and literally like a bullet. She drives this ball into my butt.

I thought I had been shot.

We're taking fire!

It was like BAM in the butt We she first was like I am so sorry. I'm and we just started laughing Everybody was laughing because everybody heard it. It was so loud

Speaker 2 (02:02.264)
Grab your butt cheek and like roll on the ground.

I mean, I felt, it was like, I've been shot, I've been shot. It was not like a graze. It was so powerful.

down.

Speaker 2 (02:16.44)
Powerful experience, you're saying.

powerful experience. It was hilarious. Like the whole game just stopped. It was just an incredible life changing experience to get it in the butt for the first time. did have a little red mark on my cheekage.

So.

to show everybody. Maybe it's on our Insta, go over and see. know, Pickleball is one of those games that's just kind of a pickup thing and it made me start thinking of games we played as kids, you know, because in my generation, right after the war, the big one, WW2, you know, we didn't have iPads, we didn't have all the electronics.

Lord.

Speaker 2 (02:56.334)
So you're most of your time, especially in the summer spent outside, like kick the can and stuff like that. Um, you know, so I look at pickleball kind of like that almost, you know, being a semi pro adjacent rec player that I am. And so I came across something I thought was really interesting too, was the PFC. This is the pillow fight championships. This is an actual thing. This is a, a semi pro sports league. It may be just pro sports league. Yeah.

Seriously?

Yeah.

Hey.

I don't think that was like a fun game I ever did. I was all about like the original flirting simulator. What? Heads up, seven up. heads up, seven you used to peek. Look at those kids' shoes. I love that game. You would put your head down and then there would be people up at the front of the class. You'd to like your thumb up. then they would go and tap your thumb and then you had to go guess.

Speaker 4 (03:30.105)
No, I hated pillow fights.

Speaker 2 (03:44.206)
What is heads up 7up?

Speaker 3 (03:56.11)
which kid tapped your thumb. And it was like such a flirty thing too at that age. Like you're talking about like fifth, sixth grade. It was like, Ooh, he touched my thumb. Oh my gosh. He got it in the butt. Oh Lord. That was such a fun game and Duck, Duck, Goose and all of those games.

Yeah, so Kick the Can was another one. So I started thinking like, what are the games we played, whether it was in class or out in the playground that would, you know, could make a comeback as a professional sports league.

I know for me like foursquare that was like the birthplace of drama and like fast serves I think that's where I really got my competitiveness

There is a tag league. There's a league of tag. I think we saw that in the background when we were at like a Dave and Buster's. Dave and Buster's, you want to sponsor this episode? Go ahead. I think we saw that. Wasn't it on the background on one of the TVs? They were playing tag. It's kind of like a little court. so tag would be another one of those games. What do you think out there? Tell us on bdepodcast.com or go over to our Instagram and tell us the games you think could make a comeback as a semi-pro or pro sports league.

You know, well, not semi-pro, but my favorite was double Dutch. You're good now. You're tangled up in that. I loved it. That like in, out, in, out, trying to get that timing. that was the.

Speaker 4 (05:04.12)
I'm horrible.

Speaker 4 (05:12.983)
I could never get it.

And if you play with those plastic jump ropes you take one to the head.

I loved that.

and it just takes you out.

Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:22.774)
Those are some fun games. I Dread Rover too, like shoulder dislocation. That was the best, to clothesline someone.

Well, and then we saw the movie Dodgeball. Dodgeball was one of those games you played in the gym on a rainy day and went, man, listen, if you don't think you can smell a picture, pull up a picture of a red dodgeball. You can smell that. You can feel it. probably, you may even have a scar from it still.

Dodgeball was like the epitome of like the clicks. You know, like you would get those people you didn't like on that, on the opposite side and it was game.

Yeah. There was another one I saw that I don't know if it is a real thing and it's probably in Florida, cause everything like this is in Florida. It was like the balloon, like a rainy day, you'd had a balloon and you just had to keep it off the ground, right? was your hit. it then it was your siblings head. I don't even know what you would call it, like keepy upy or something like that. But I saw another league. saw like a league.

game

Speaker 2 (06:25.154)
They had like a court, there was a car parked in there and there some like other obstacles like furniture, like a couch, I think. And it was just, it was a game of keeping the balloon off the ground.

How about, did you ever play Mother May I? Not really. No, that's like power trip-centric. Yes. How about Red Light Green Light? Yes. Yes. Red Light Green Light is kind of like that, what is that new thing? Well, it's probably not new anymore. And we told the kids they weren't allowed to watch it. Squid games. I just kinda like Red Light Green Light. Or telephone. I it was a good one.

What about hopscotch?

Speaker 2 (06:51.792)
Squid Game.

Speaker 4 (06:55.47)
I've never seen it.

yes, teleph-

That's not a game that was just sitting there, right?

It was a game you would play it's like Stephanie kissed guy

No, there's no activity there you just doesn't you need over to somebody? church camp that was one of those games Dumb how many people did you have over five people? mmm. No

Speaker 3 (07:11.736)
When it was raining outside, we used to play it inside.

I'm talking about at school.

And would wheel in the TV on the cart with your VHS and

We are-

Yeah, we had to go to we had to go to the factory and put together airplanes.

Speaker 3 (07:31.446)
And I feel like also like Duck Duck Goose, like you just sit there and then pull ass in five seconds. That was some ankle breaking. that was like, you are not a sprinter, obviously. And you would just sit at least I would be like, please don't pick me. And then it's like, I'd have to get up and it'd take me like 15 seconds to get up. I hated that game.

That was some ankle breaking.

Speaker 2 (07:52.782)
And if you were the fat kid, you you're gonna let out little...

little gas. Duh. Can they put their hand on you? Duh. Goose. And I'd be like, well, I gotta get up

take like a lunatic. That may have been like an insane asylum game they invented.

I hated that game so much.

Especially being so short, like my legs aren't as long as everybody else's and so by the time I would get up like I'd have to like double speed run. You have double? didn't work. It's not that easy.

Speaker 2 (08:20.658)
You have less standing up to do though. Okay. Tell us what you think you could make a comeback, the game that you played outside as a kid at bdepodcast.com or go find us at bdepodcast or bigdinkenergy on the Instagram. Whatever sport you think could come back, you wanna bring it back with us, pillow fighting championships, keepy upy with the balloon, world hopscotch championships. Let us know.

Just the two

quick pickleball wisdom in and out before you even know it.

Where to serve in pickleball. In pickleball doubles, you always serve to the diagonally opposite service court. Your serve must completely clear the kitchen line and land between the sideline and the baseline to count. The serve can land on the line for the baseline and sideline, but not on the kitchen line.

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Speaker 1 (09:13.354)
It's a four

Speaker 2 (09:18.958)
have one place as a pickleball around the nation, around the world here on the Big Dink Energy Podcast. And we're so, so thankful to have Wes or Wes Dogg as he's known on the social here with us today talking about, you know, his strategy, what he does with pickleball and the community that he's developed around himself. So Wes and Wes Dogg. So how'd the nickname come about?

That's a great question. I wish the answer was cooler. When I was in like middle school, I didn't really have a nickname. So I just started like just calling myself West Dog. And then it just kind of stuck as I got older. I think it was more of a joke that people were like, just kind of playing into my little scheme. And then as I got into college and post-grad and just normal life, it just kind of, it was seamless.

Yeah, I think in the middle school area, you really do have to kind of come out front with something like that, right? Or it will be given to you, you know, in the special operations community, you get nicknames given to you based on some stupid performance you had and it just sticks with you. But I like that. I like that strategy coming out strong in middle school and just saying, this is what I would prefer. And then people picking it up and running with it. That's

Exactly, exactly.

So I've looked at your social and that's how we found you and come across it and I just love everything you're doing out there. On the humor side and in the playing side, some nice walk-off shots, right? Are those all luck or is it because of carbon or a little bit of both, column A, column B?

Speaker 1 (10:49.902)
I would like to say it's not all luck. I hope that I have a little bit of skill tied into there and then the carving gear certainly helps out. I mean, they're one of the best to do it. I love it. But yeah, I mean, I'm drilling and training a lot and so I'm hopeful that I can continue to hit some of those shots.

So you've played a lot of matches. What's one, if you can come up with it, what's one moment that made you think, yep, this is why love the game or yep, this is why I do it?

I don't know if I have a specific instance that I can necessarily pull from, but I think a relatable experience for a lot of people is when you're playing a match and it doesn't honestly, it doesn't even matter the level of match that you're playing at or skill level, but almost one point out of every time you go and play, you know,

there's a point that's just absolutely crazy, right? One that you wish, man, we should have gotten this on camera. Like this would have gone viral on the dink or on kitchen pickleball or whatever. And that happens like so frequently. And that just always brings you back to, man, this is just so much fun. there's laughter happening on the court. Like sure, when you're competing at a high level, that's super intense. And like, I don't want to take away from that. That's another side of things. That's awesome.

But there's just so much levity and so much joy and there's this communal aspect of pickleball. Yeah That I just think man this happens pretty much every single time that you go and play. Yeah

Speaker 2 (12:22.702)
Yeah, it's, you know, for people who are not initiated yet or haven't been at that level yet and you're just kind of dinking around as we say, it's those videos you see where the dude, some dude flips a water bottle and everybody in the room freaks out, right? That's kind of like pickleball when you hit that one shot and people see it, they surround you, they come around you like community to lift you up and be like, yes, that was awesome. ATP or Ernie or any, you know, any of those shots and.

It's so fun to just see that community. It doesn't matter if you've never met this person before. When you see a good shot, you're cheering that person on and it's just amazing. I don't know any other community that's like that.

Yeah, I completely agree. It's a sweet time.

Yeah, that definitely comes across in all your social media too, just the amount of fun you have with it. You bring a ton of humor to what you're doing over there. I love it. It seems natural to you. Is that just kind of, it's a natural feel for you or is it something you're developing?

When I got into college, especially around COVID, I started making little TikTok videos, which I was like, I had nothing better to do. And just things that I thought were funny and gained some traction on TikTok. And I personally really enjoy sketch comedy, standup, improv, that type of thing. And when I started doing the pickleball thing more full-time, I just decided like,

Speaker 1 (13:47.5)
I think my avenue to get one to get sponsorships, but also to get just some sort of being able to monetize pickleball in any sort of way. way forward for me was going to be kind of through this comedy section or comedy niche in social media, in the pickleball social media.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're repped by one of the biggest in the world right now, Carbon, right? So how did that relationship start? Yeah.

Yeah, so if you've scrolled back to a lot of my earlier videos, one of my bits that I really leaned into was I wrote on a sheet of paper and taped it to my chest, your company name here or sponsorship. Nice. And just would put it on a hat or put it on a t-shirt and just really kind of leaned into that. And then a couple of my videos started doing pretty well and I was starting to get a little bit more recognition from just

smaller companies, then some of the bigger companies started reaching out to me about partnering together in some sort of way, but it was more of like, hey, you post a video, we'll send you a paddle. Yeah. Nothing, no like contract or any sort of anything past just a one-off situation. then Carbon reached out to me and they're one of their social media guys. His name is Brody.

Nice.

Speaker 1 (15:09.326)
He's awesome. You know, he's a mid 20 year old that lives, you know, that's from Southern California and just reached out. We hopped on a zoom call and like, you know, we're just hanging out like it wasn't there is a there is a professionalism there of like, we're, know, we're setting up emails and we're doing all the normal things that you do, you know, when you're in the, you know, business world type of thing. But, you know, we hopped on a zoom call and he was like, Hey, I want to send you some gear. We love all the stuff that you're doing. We think that this could be a potential partnership and we

you know, we just want to explore what that may look like. And so they sent me some paddles and some other things to just test out and see if I liked it. And, know, both of us were very upfront because like my goal is to try and play professionally along with doing, doing the videos. And, I didn't want to just sign with a paddle company just because they're sending me stuff, but I actually like, don't like using their gear. It's gotta be genuine.

Yes.

It needs to be genuine. And you'll see that in the videos too. Like if I don't actually like the stuff, like it'll be hard to act super well about it. And then, and they felt the exact same way. They're like, if you don't like the gear, like please don't accept any sort of like deal with us. Like we want it to be genuine on your behalf and on our behalf. That's all. That makes a lot of sense.

Yeah. Yeah. I think if your name is Brody, you have to be from California. I think that's a national law of some sort.

Speaker 1 (16:34.76)
yeah, they just put that into legislation, I think.

So you know you have a ton of content it's all fire for sure and I I know the answer to this question but I think our audience who people are you know looking up to you or looking at you and seeing how you know how can I enter into the world of being an influencer. So you don't just plan you don't just hit press record and let go right I mean it's like do you choose some planning behind the scenes and you make sure you know everything's everything's right while still being genuine with everything is that correct?

Yeah, absolutely. I honestly, my brain's never turned off is what it feels like. I'm constantly thinking of ideas. Anytime I play pickleball, I'll some situation will happen and I will take note of that and then write that down. Right. Like right after we finished playing, uh, even, you know, and I'll look back at these notes and be like, that's a dumb idea. Like that's not even remotely funny, you know, like there's not, there's not a whole lot I can do with that, but

I'm constantly thinking of different concepts or things that I think would be funny. you know, I'll be laying in bed at night and I can't go to sleep because I'm thinking of a script, a script for a video that I'm going to shoot at some point and then memorize lines. lot of it, mean, some of it is improv. Some of it's like, well, here's my concept. I've got a few things that I know that I want to say, but I'm just going to, I'm going to press record and see, I'm just going to roll with something and see kind of what I come up with.

in the moment. there is a creative process for me, but I do think you kind of need a structure or some sort of guidelines before you start making any video, especially because it's just me by myself for the most part. I have some ideas for things together, but if it's just me, like I'm not playing off of anybody. There's no like outside thing happening. It's just ideas that I have and I'm just shooting them. And so I got to have a really, really good concept of

Speaker 1 (18:30.062)
how I want the video to go, where I want to take it, and how do you want to end the video is like super, super important.

Yeah, and people just think, you know, set up the camera and hit go and we're producing magic, right? So I love making sure I expose that because you're, mean, you're not the only creator that does it that way. And most of the top creators, they have an idea and they whiteboard it in their mind or on paper. And on the same way, you know, I'll be laying there at night and I go, oh man, this is going to be good on the podcast. And so I have my note taking app open and I just jot it down and then go from there.

And are you getting any, now that you're, you know, bigger getting in the numbers are going up, are you getting recognized out in the public?

Yeah, I actually am. It's kind of shocking. Yeah. You know, not like going to go to the grocery store and get noticed. But if I go to any pickleball like facility that's like in the area or even somewhere else, like pickleball is like kind of my home. Right. And like, it's super well connected. think if you're getting pickleball videos, then you're probably seeing my stuff. Yep. So pretty much a lot of times that I go play pickleball anywhere.

somebody will pull me aside and be like, Hey, are you West dog? Like, are you the guy that's making those videos? And I'm like, I actually am. Yeah, that's me. Uh, and so I've, I've taken pictures for, with people. I was at the PPA, uh, in, North Carolina, like it was like in our backyard, basically using Carrie like 20 minutes away. And one person like, uh, asked me to sign one of these huge pickle balls. I was like,

Speaker 2 (19:59.832)
Nice man.

I, yeah, sure. totally can. You know, I think I made the price of that thing go down, but yeah, I'll sign your, I'll sign that big old pickleball for you. It's like me, Ben Johns, Annali Waters. like, dude, one of these is not like the other.

Nice. West dog and Ben Johns. Yeah. That's the pickleball I'm buying on eBay.

Exactly. So yeah, I'm starting to get it noticed, which is really funny.

That's awesome. Any weird DMs coming in because of the notoriety?

Speaker 1 (20:29.934)
Not yet. I mean, I have been getting DMs, but none of them have been too weird. mean, honestly, that could be funny if they, could use that. starts sending me some weird stuff.

Yeah, for sure. That's going to be featured in the video.

Yeah, but I've gotten to I've gotten to film some videos with like some pro like pickleball players Yeah, like when I was in carry for the PPA some of them had seen my videos and reached out like hey We're gonna be in carry for the for the tournament would love to meet up Film some videos and like see if anything comes from that So that's been a really cool thing to is to to meet some of the pros through yeah that

That side of the community is just like going to your local rec court. Everybody's just wanting to help everybody it seems like. There's very little gatekeeping in the pickleball world. If someone's doing something great, it's recognized and then the collaborations that are gonna come. And again, I think you're on the forefront of it, we're on the forefront of it, because I don't think, I mean, it's been around for a little while, but it is just now getting the traction, the wheels are on the road and that car's rolling down the.

the street now. So next time you go to a tournament, if they pull you aside and be like, Hey, West dog, what's your walk up music? If you have a walk up song, what's it going to be?

Speaker 1 (21:49.676)
Yeah, I think it's going to be here comes the boom. Yes. It's kind of the one that I've landed on. Yep, exactly. I think that's going to make the most sense. Yeah. It's going to really set the stage for what's about to happen.

The OD.

Speaker 2 (22:03.328)
I love that. But you know, here's the thing, I can't ever think about Here Comes the Boom without seeing Kevin James in that boxing film that he was in.

I love Kevin James. They're hilarious.

Awesome. So Wes, how do people get a hold of you and what do you want them to get a hold of you about? Yeah.

I think the biggest way to get ahold of me is through social media. I've got Instagram, TikTok. starting to get into YouTube shorts. it's West dog underscore PB for all of those. mean, if you're wanting to watch some funny pickleball videos and hopefully laugh and. know, enter into a community of people that's hopefully really kind and just not taking things too seriously. Like I would, you know, love to love to get to know anyone through that.

Awesome, so for all you out there, please go follow Wes Dogg on all the social media. You won't find a nicer guy doing some funny stuff out there. It is gonna make you laugh and you'll probably spend a ton of too much time on his page, which is okay for the algorithm on his side. So please go do that. Wes, thank you so much for being on the Big Dink Energy podcast.

Speaker 1 (23:04.571)
Thank you so much for having me. was a pleasure. Loved it.

Speaker 2 (23:15.33)
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I do. I would like to dink or destroy paddle tapping after every point with your partner.

Mmm, okay, okay. I thought it was a rule.

So when I first learned pickleball, the gentleman that taught me how to play said, when you win a point, you celebrate and switch. that's what I've taught everybody. I have passed it down because it really helped me remember, especially when you're first learning, when you're supposed to change places. Because it's confusing if you don't know, like, do we change, do we not? So it's like when you get a point, you celebrate and switch. And so from that point forward, I've always tapped my partner.

and been like, yeah, you know, we got a point. And I just, I love it. I feel like it's a foreplay for friendship.

Speaker 4 (24:24.312)
So do people not do this?

I'm sorry. I couldn't let that slide. That was a good one. Foreplay for friendship. How nice.

There you go. No, people don't. So I've been at a lot of open plays and I'm like, you know, like, hey, that was awesome. And they're just kind of disswitch and to each their own. Right. But it's fun for me. think it's fun. Tap it, baby.

Well, yeah, so when we play with our son though, you got to kind of temper that because he's always wanting to go a little bit hard. It's kind of like the too hard handshake, you know? Yes. the too hard high. Or the too hard knuckles. You get those people to get... Punching. Number one, who are you? Why are you giving knuckles? Number two, why so hard? Are you trying to punch through my knuckles? Is this the bloody knuckles game? What are we playing?

Like you want it to be firm.

Speaker 2 (25:14.976)
So it's gotta be done in the right way, cause listen, I have a-

little boop like hey, while you're switching you just tap it, you know? And I feel like.

talking about the bottom of the panel handle right

People do that. Everybody like, because they don't want their paddle to get ruined. Well, this is rec play. Like tap my paddle. Like, I'm not doing this back bump BS. mean, whatever. If they do it to me, I'm nice enough to do it. Like I don't just hit my paddle on their thing. Like, no, I'm not doing that. But I just, think the paddle tap when you celebrate and switch, even I love to paddle tap when someone has a really good shot, you know?

I've seen that debated online.

Speaker 3 (25:55.436)
I think it's just way of celebrating. It's fun.

Yeah, I mean, that's why we're out there. We're out there mostly for the fun, sometimes for the game and a little bit for the exercise. That's how I look at it. So yeah, paddle tapping is something I'm on board with. Plus the, know when you celebrate and switch, then you've got to come up with, okay, do I turn my paddle into a guitar right now on this little tiny celebration here? Or do I wait till the end of the game and ride my paddle like a horse in front of the

I all of that is great during the game. It is a huge dink for me. I say tap it and trap it. I am. But it's a dink. I'm for it.

Are you just rhyming words?

Speaker 4 (26:35.574)
Definitely a dink.

Yeah, I'm a dink. As long you put it on my shirt it says tap it. Tap this.

this and then take it in the butt.

Not appropriate.

News you can use.

Speaker 2 (26:54.158)
What you have for news you can use?

So was scrolling the other day and I found something really interesting, kind of gross but interesting. There is a Michelin chef that concocted an old book flavor pudding. It's supposedly like a pre-dessert primer that is eaten before the grand finale dessert. So he drummed up the concept after being fascinated by the smell of old books that you would find like in a library. And this little pre-dessert

is $362.

What? For musty pudding? Yes.

It's like...

Speaker 2 (27:31.728)
Can Picklehead put that on his shirt?

Musty Puddin'.

And it's like this whole concoction of how he makes it and the butter and the alcohol that he puts in and then it's served with like pieces of old books on it. Okay, one, why? That's just disgusting. And two, who would think of something like that? But it was like this big thing because he's a Michelin star chef. he's...

Da-

Speaker 2 (27:56.334)
world or not.

I believe from Spain.

This is not even like a good cook.

Like if like if it was what do you Theo von? If it was like from France, okay now I'm I'm leaning in a little bit they do bring up

How do you taste the smell of books?

Speaker 4 (28:16.642)
To me, would just be like, you know, chapstick, how they have like the different flavor chapsticks, but it's just the smell of it. Like they don't actually taste any different. Like, is it just the smell that, I mean, it's just weird.

Yeah, like grape flavor. That's not really how grapes taste. No. Grape jelly is not what grapes taste like.

Right. That's why when you ask a kid, what flavor do you want? Purple. Yeah. Purple's not a flavor.

Flavor Lollipop.

You know if I tell you my I want purple as a flavor, you know what it tastes like

Speaker 3 (28:44.792)
that scene from what kind of Kool-Aid

Yeah, yeah. Red. If I said I want red, you know what flavor that is.

But so what would book taste like to me? Dust bunny catalog system.

just like mu-

hard catalog. I don't know. I'm still down with musty pudding. That be my stage name.

Speaker 3 (29:02.734)
Puddin' like Harlequin.

I'm not gonna use that as my stage name. I'll still stick with sir. Loin. There Sir. Loin. Ladies coming to the stage now, sir. Loin.

Sirloin?

Speaker 3 (29:14.036)
And musty pudding.

man.

yeah.

I have a little bit of news you can use from Pickleball World. There is a one million tournament prize from the PPA. They've upped their tournament prize this year for one million dollars. I feel like I'm from Austin Powers now, but the PPA tour just upped its ante with a one million prize good for a 2025 championship in Vegas. It is the biggest payout in pickleball history. Pros say it's legitimizing the sport. I don't know. What do y'all think?

Well, I mean, remember what I said the last couple of episodes ago about the first one? It was golf balls. I mean, we've moved past golf balls to one million. That's not bad.

Speaker 2 (29:52.797)
It's better than golf ball.

Speaker 2 (29:59.148)
Yeah, well, it tells you there's a ton of money in this industry. I mean,

Yeah, it makes me want to do a moneyball. I have not been able to do a moneyball tournament. I so want to do a moneyball tournament.

Well, I mean, do they hold them for a duper twos?

I was a level one open play. I'm sorry is a level one open play.

excuse me.

Speaker 2 (30:17.794)
Sorry, I should lower my chair. I'm so sorry.

Sorry. So I don't know if they have level one money ball. It's kind of like everybody puts your 50 cents in. don't know.

Everybody scrape together what you have in your ashtray. We're gonna play money ball level one.

Ashtrays in their car anymore. I probably do I have the lighter still cuz I you've got that thing Yeah, yeah, that's legit. That's a lot of money a lot And people calling people to be word over that

lot of money for one tournament

Speaker 2 (30:45.678)
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