Pickleball Tattoos & Adulting Failures | Tommy Flaim from Silly Pickles League | Big Dink Energy Podcast

This week’s News You Can Use is unhinged—in the best way. We’re talking cryptic floorboard messages, sketchy skeleton pranks, expired lettuce, and why adult life is just a series of bizarre plot twists.

Plus, would you get a pickleball tattoo? We’re debating that and other ridiculous ideas.

Then we chat with Tommy Flaim, the mastermind behind Silly Pickles League—a rec play league blowing up across the U.S. He shares how pickleball is bringing people together, one awkward serve at a time.

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Chapters

• 1:05 Kitchen Talk - Hot takes, weird news, and what’s on our minds this week
• 8:15 Just The Tip - Pickleball Wisdom
• 9:34 Sponsor Ad
• 10:23 Pickle Pals - Deep Dive with a Pickleball Court, Club or Influencer
• 21:58 Dink or Destroy 💥 This-or-that debate: Love it or trash it?
• 27:07 News You Can Use
• 35:36 Wrap-Up & CTA - Final thoughts, shoutouts, and how to engage with us

Transcript

Speaker 4 (00:00.738)
What do y'all think about pickleball tattoos? Do I need a big old pickle sticking out of my thigh? Probably not.

I'm a pickle that's sticking out of the top of my shorts. Why is that too... 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.

Too far! Far!

too far.

Speaker 2 (00:35.15)
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.

So what were you saying about the hair piece?

We are the official pickleball podcast.

Sorry, we were talking about her hair debacle. Her extensions.

the pictures I saw.

Speaker 3 (00:58.69)
Yeah, it was.

It looked like a hair murder scene.

to take them out. I mean, they were way overgrown and I had to just move them back up and it took 15 hours of my Saturday. It was a hot mess. So

Yeah, that's an adult thing for sure.

So, okay, get me aligned here. What I saw was it looked like you had went coon hunting and there were pelts. There were pelts hanging all over your closet. Is that close to what was going on?

Speaker 3 (01:28.216)
So we took all of the extensions out, which that in itself was a whole thing because I had waited way too long and I had chunks of glue in my hair. Gross. Yeah, it was really gross. And so we took all of the extensions out. Gluey. Yeah, it was glue. It was gross because it was like real hard and I had to sleep in the glue remover to try to soften it up.

say.

Speaker 2 (01:51.352)
Why do this to yourself?

Well, I needed to get it out of my head. I had a massive headache that day and having all of the extra weight of the hair was just driving me crazy because my head was throbbing and nothing would make it stop. And so was like, if I take out these extensions, maybe my head will stop hurting. So I had to take them all out. And then when I took them out, was glue still stuck to them. So then we washed them. my gosh, this is too the tabs in olive oil to try to lift them.

What did you soak them in? Olive oil.

Yes, olive oil. So we soaked them in the olive oil and then had to wash them. But then the next day, the extensions, like the part of the hair still had all of the oil in it. And so then I had to rewash them and I washed them with like Dawn dish soap and clarifying shampoo.

This is like an animal rescue going on.

Speaker 3 (02:45.262)
It was absolutely horrible. And then I had to take the razor and scrape all of the glue off of the tabs. mean, this was a thing. No. And then I hung them all up, on my dresser and like by the sticky part. And so it just looked like my dresser had a wig.

Yeah, it looked like you were in 1800s. Yeah, you were selling pelts out on the prairie. that brings me up to a good question that I had asked earlier on the socials. What's an adult problem that nobody prepared you for?

It was absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (03:14.858)
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Speaker 3 (04:00.565)
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I love- Kitchen talk, Talk, here we go. What was your thing now?

I was, you know, what's an adult thing now that I'm an older wiser gentleman, what's an adult problem that nobody prepared you for? And the one I came up with and it was on the social media is going to bed and waking up injured, even though you didn't do anything the day before. It does, it does, it does. So what are the other adult things that just come up like that, you know, nobody prepared you for it just started happening in adulthood like.

That seems to happen to you a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:37.77)
having to decide your own meal every single day

yeah. All of a sudden, people were cooking for you from day one, and then all of a sudden, now it's your turn. No one really sets you up for that. How about getting gas and then looking at all the gas stations after that? To see if you got the... Okay, I'm gonna go there next time.

Best price?

Yeah, making sure I got the best deal and then being angry with myself if I didn't. Now as an adult, I like to play a little game called dehydrated or depressed. Yeah, I mean, how about getting indigestion from drinking a glass of water? Yep, absolutely. Nobody tells you that's coming in adulthood.

So true.

Speaker 4 (05:20.28)
How about a simple trip to Home Depot turns into an all-day Saturday project? It's very fu-

And it's fun. It's fun. Like you gotta look at all the tools. You gotta pick them up. You gotta finger the tools. Another one that I thought was a really adult thing was investing $9 in lettuce to throw it away. Like Walmart's like, hey, please buy this lettuce so you can throw it out for us because that just sits in the drawer. And a week and half goes by and you had good thoughts about making yourself a salad and being a little bit healthy.

I just wanted to run in. I just wanted to run

Speaker 3 (05:53.55)
the whole recipe

Yeah, and then of course, well, we're just gonna toss this out.

Same with avocados and bananas. It's like they're good for one day. Yeah. Right. You know, and if you're not eating them that day, don't purchase them.

think my thing would be more like crisis centered. Like when we had snow vid and my husband cut the tip of his finger off, I just like, I was like, where is the adult in the room? wait, I'm the adult. Nope, I can't handle it. Yeah, and here comes my 16 year old and she's like guiding my husband as he passes out down to the ground and she's taking care of him. And I'm just over there like throwing up because it's disgusting. And I'm like, no, no one.

for an adult to your adult.

Speaker 3 (06:34.722)
taught me how to be an adult that way.

Yeah, I think that's also having to spend months trying to set up birthdays and dates for friends and going to dinner and hanging out and it's like no one ever prepared you for that.

No, so that brings another good one. It is, you you spent all the time forcing American history and algebra into my head. I still cannot pick a healthcare plan every year. Which one? Nobody prepared me.

We sit down and we're like, what? For the taxes, I mean.

standing up and something weird pops in your body and you're like, what was?

Speaker 2 (07:07.342)
Yeah, I now have to have fiber in my body? What is that all about? Nobody told me I needed fiber.

And also like getting excited over like new trash cans or like the weather app or like things that are just boring to kids. But I mean, to us, it's like, I love when I get a new thing for the house. Like, ooh, I got a new blender.

Yeah. The other games I play is this heart attack, or anxiety. That's a fun little game that I like to play as well. Yeah. Nobody prepares you for these things in adulthood. Tell us on BDE podcasts or go to our socials on Instagram. Tell us the adult things that nobody told you about that you're dealing with. Like how about everybody, you know, we had to worry about quicksand. I've never seen quicksand in my whole life, but growing up.

I love new appliances.

Speaker 4 (07:33.518)
Yeah it's fun.

Speaker 3 (07:50.224)
I just saw a news article about Michigan.

Growing up, I thought everything, it was everywhere. Never ending story, that's the way.

yeah. up.

And the whole like stop, drop and roll. I thought that things were going to be on fire a lot more than they actually are.

Yeah, I've never caught on fire, which is a great thing. Yes. All right. Tell us what you think, BDEpodcast.com or go over to the Insta, find us on BDEpodcast over there.

Speaker 4 (08:18.414)
All right, just the tip, quick pickleball wisdom in and out before you know it. And this week, we took to the socials and asked other people, and so I was gonna share a couple of their tips. So we have Darren Lee Smith, he said to make sure you follow the ball. Joan Marie says, take lessons and also never run backwards. Melanie Macacafock is what it says.

That's how I'm reading it. She said, invest in the right shoes to play. And I will definitely second that. Debbie Beal says, make sure you have fun. Tom Young, I don't think he really meant to be in here, but he straight up said, don't. I'm like, you're a troll, Tom Young. Barbara Hall Davis says, don't give up. Jonathan Small says, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Tom Young.

Speaker 2 (09:16.834)
Young Jedi.

Kim Gonzales says, make sure you wear court shoes. So those are our tips for this week.

How tr-

me.

Just the tip

Speaker 3 (09:32.014)
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It's time for Pickle Pals!

yeah, so today we're serving up a conversation with Tommy Flame, the mastermind behind Silly Pickles. He's the guy behind one of the most unique, I'd say funniest and fastest growing pickleball leagues in the country. It's called Silly Pickles. And in my mind, Tommy, that's what would happen if social hour and rec play had a very chaotic and very beautiful baby. That sound about right?

Speaker 1 (10:44.718)
That's exactly right. Yeah, we love, we definitely don't take ourselves too seriously.

That's awesome. Yeah, we don't overhear as well as you could probably already tell. So if you were on Shark Tank or you had to pitch Silly Pickles, what's the kind of pitch? What is Silly Pickles all about?

Yeah, I would say, you know, I think a lot of adults are looking to meet new friends, you know, and it can be difficult outside of the bars and outside of the apps. And pickleball is one of those unique sports where, especially with our ladder format, instead of signing with a partner, you sign up as an individual, you're constantly playing with and against different people. And we also host happy hours. Like, our vision is to kind of like facilitate

connections whether you're looking for a significant other or a friend or a pickleball partner that is at your skill level our main goal is like providing human connections outside of the apps and outside of the bars and the response has been crazy I mean, you know in the first year We're almost at a million in revenue and that's with zero equity financing It's been pretty crazy. And then you know, once you start building these local communities

we can start doing different formats. We're exploring volleyball. We've done speed dating cornhole leagues. And now that we have the software, we're now kind of switching the model to have local league runners, kind of like a franchise almost, to really kind of like, make sure that there's boots on the ground and really starting to build the community, the Silly Pickles community in different cities across the country.

Speaker 2 (12:20.692)
Yeah, the growth has got to be phenomenal at that level when you're expanding so fast. You do have to have, know, who's going to rep Silly Pickles here and make sure that the brand stays the brand, right? where's the name? Everybody's going to want to know this. Where's the name Silly Pickles come from?

Yeah, I mean, to be honest, I felt like I just wanted it to be a league that didn't take itself too seriously. Again, because I wanted the main point to be about meeting new friends. Yeah. And I think there's plenty of more advanced pickleball leagues. have their place. I wanted something that felt very welcoming. I wanted something that felt, yeah, kind of, yeah, friendly. And I remember texting a friend, I was like, I want something that like sounds kind of silly.

You know, pickleball, pickle, I just spit out the word silly pickles and check to make sure that you are, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was just, it was, it started with me wanting a silly name.

right yeah that's the next step

Speaker 2 (13:21.218)
Yeah, that's great. And that really encapsulates what it is because it is about having fun. It is about community. It's about not taking yourself too seriously, but serious enough, right, that you can continue to improve and play with people that are on your level. So I just absolutely love it. One of the things that you're doing over there that I thought was so unique and so on the vibe of the whole community at Pickleball is the speed dating stuff. Can you talk about that a little bit?

Yeah. You know, again, a lot of people were using our leagues to meet new friends, but also some people were using it to meet their potential boyfriend or girlfriend. And so one of our partner facilities, SPF in Chicago, kind of where we initially started, it's a great facility. They have this like lawn area with cornhole boards, you know, whereas pickleball is a sport where it's very sensitive to skill level discrepancies. Right. Cornhole is a sport that it's

doesn't really matter as much. And it's like a little bit more casual as opposed to running around where you can, know, whoever you're playing against, you know, who's standing next to you, you can kind of have a conversation, a little bit better than pickleball when you're in the, in the heat of the moment and pick, you know, whatever. So our thought was, you know, we kind of invented or I invented speed dating cornhole as a whim. used it. I basically socialize the idea on Tik TOK.

and it just really took off. think that video got like 200,000 views of people being like, I would love to sign up for something like that. So yeah, I think there's gonna be lot of opportunity to kind of continue to do different formats, different demographics. Again, with the common, I would say the connective tissue across the board is just like helping people, helping bring people together over like adult rec sports.

Yeah, I've noticed, there is that, that difference between the cornhole and the pickleball where I can actually hold my beer and smoke a cigar while doing cornhole. is a lot more difficult on the pickleball court and those indoor courts really frown on that when you're smoking a cigar on their indoor. so you got the, the community connecting and all this. And can you, can you just go into the, my scored on a duper doesn't really matter as much.

Speaker 1 (15:20.888)
percent.

Speaker 2 (15:37.971)
as how I'm showing up every single time.

Yeah. So I'll give a little info, kind of like the ladder structure. So basically it's an eight week season. Usually play like every Monday night as an example. Before the first week, we have everyone fill out a survey. A lot of our players have never heard of Duper. So we're not necessarily, it's not really ask for their Duper score. So we basically have them pick a number zero to a hundred. Zero is I've never played and I'm very, very uncoordinated. A hundred is the best pick well player in the world.

Typically people pick a number in between that. And we describe what a 10 is, a 20 is, a 30 is, so on and so forth. Towards a 50, we kind of start sprinkling in the corresponding duper rating. And then it has the 60 where you're not a 60 if you don't know what your duper rating And so we use those to formulate initial rankings. Basically whoever picks the highest number is rated number one initially. And then whoever picks the lowest number is rated the lowest.

And on any given league night you play for an hour with, you know, the best four people play together, the second four best, third four best, all the way down to the worst four. That way, like if you pick, if you join a league and you've never played and are very, very uncoordinated, we'll put you on a court with other zeros and we'll have a babysitter to make sure you guys know the rules. So it's nice for advanced players, but it's also really nice for people that are, you know, maybe newer to the sport. And then.

the format of the ladder, how you kind of move up or down. Let's say you and I are playing on the third best court with Jack and Jill. We play three games to 15 points. Me and you would want to play one game against Jack and Jill. Me and Jill would play one game against you and Jack. And then me and Jack would play one game against you and Jill. So it's also kind of nice from a perspective of like, you can't really be a dick to like, you know, to the people you're playing against because you're on their team. And so like it's a much

Speaker 1 (17:35.64)
friendlier, it's like simultaneously more competitive because it's much better, more precise in terms of making sure people are the same level while simultaneously being more friendly because you're always playing with and against different people. And then basically everyone reports there's the total points earned out of 45. play, again, you play three games of 15 points, top two point earners move up in the rankings, bottom two move down and first place moves up by a little bit more than second place and fourth place moves down.

by a little bit more than third place.

So it sounds like you've grasped the playability for everybody to play at their level, but you've got almost kind of like a mini paddle stacking within the original paddle stacking. you know, cause you're going to switch off and you still stay with the group, but I can't nasty Nelson you five times in a row and know that you're coming up to be my partner next. Cause I'm gonna take one right to the back, I'm guessing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's a nice format. know, inevitably some people are humble, some people are cocky. like, you know, week one rankings are probably the least. You know, it's a little, it's already more precise than saying, you beginner, intermediate, advanced? You're picking a number. So it's already a little bit more precise, but it sorts itself out basically. Yeah. And allows for people to, you know, that improve over the course of the season, allows them to kind of keep ratcheting up the competition. So it's a nice, it's a nice format.

Yeah, that's awesome. And man, you've got a page and page and page after location after location after location. So if our listeners can't find you, I can't believe that because there's leagues popping up all over the place. But if there is, if there is a location that is, is great for Silly Pickles, is there a way for you then to reach out to you and say, Hey, I think Silly Pickle League would do really well here. We don't have anything within a couple miles or whatever. Uh, is there a way for that to happen?

Speaker 1 (19:28.694)
Yeah. Email me, Tommy at sillypickles.com. And if you want to be the local franchise owner, again, like we pay up to $2,000 per league, per season. So we really kind of like have moved it to a model where like, I want them to be almost like small business owners themselves. And we'll give them our custom software that makes it 10 times easier to run the league. Yeah. Email me if you have a facility in mind.

even better if you have a connection to them or can kind of facilitate an introduction. But yeah, if you help us get a league in that and want to run it and or, know, some people might just want a league and not want to run it. Yeah, email me.

So Tommy, you're playing a game, you're at a major court, and they're like, hey, we need your walk-on music. What's the walk-on music for Tommy?

I would say maybe remember the name by Fort Wade.

that's a good, we haven't had that one yet. That's a good one. I love that. So Tommy, where else can everybody find you? What's all the social handles for Silly Pickles?

Speaker 1 (20:31.618)
Yep. It's at silly pickles on Instagram on Tik Tok. It's at silly sports. I'm working on converting it to silly pickles. So stay tuned, but I'm sure if you, if you type silly pickles and Tik Tok, you'll be able to find it. And then our website is silly pickles.com.

Awesome. Tommy, thanks so much. Tommy flame, the, the super genius behind silly pickles leagues everywhere around the nation. Please go find them, get into a league. You're going to love it. It's, it's better than, than, you know, advanced and intermediate and all that. This actually lets you play with people that are your level and allows you to increase your level incrementally over time. So Tommy, thank you so much. Thank you.

very much, it's been a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (21:17.326)
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So this got me thinking because we were talking about tattoos. And I was thinking, what do y'all think about pickleball tattoos?

Interesting.

So number one, I've got to find a space on my body. My body's a canvas, A large, sloppy canvas. And since I have that rainbow circling the top of my belly button with a dolphin jumping out of the belly button hole,

Speaker 4 (22:09.889)
A large

Speaker 3 (22:19.581)
my god.

I don't know where I would put it. That's the problem I have right now.

Yeah. My thing is, it's a lifestyle, so... Mark it down, baby.

Yeah, it's a cult for sure. I would say it's a cult. I mean, we're not Branch Davidians over here, you know, just putting weapons up and having multiple wives, but...

I mean, I don't know, I guess it just depends. Like, I'm not trying to get like a paddle on my bicep or like a net tribal around my arm. Right. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (22:49.13)
I mean, maybe like a little dainty one, but nothing that's like massive. Yeah.

like a little pickleball on your wrist.

How about a Taz from Warner Brothers playing pickleball? Absolutely.

See, this is where it is, is like, have absolutely not. So I have absolute destroys on certain tattoos. So pickleball tattoos as a whole, I'm a dink. But if we wanted to start getting like, do I need a big old pickle sticking out of my thigh? Probably not.

Yeah, okay, That's gotta be location.

Speaker 2 (23:20.622)
What about a pickle that's sticking out of the top of my shorts? mean, with a paddle, obviously with a paddle. Why is that too funny? I mean, I'm just thinking.

Just say it like there's just.

Speaker 1 (23:33.112)
Two.

Bar!

Too far.

Speaker 4 (23:39.576)
We were talking about pickle balls. That is like Spring Break 1995 right there. Agreed. MTV Spring Break. my god.

actual pickle.

Speaker 2 (23:46.924)
But imagine on every point I score, pull my shirt up and you see the pickleball peeking out of the top of my shirt.

We're gonna get arrested.

I get arrested.

Again?

Stop it.

Speaker 4 (23:57.23)
I just, I think it's cute if it's dainty and cute, like how people have like little stars on, I have a little star on my wrist or stars on your ankles or, but if we're doing big old monster style pickles out of our pants.

So no, no giant Yakuza or triad tattoo on my back of a, I'm just envisioning a pickle ball and a pickle playing pickle ball in fire.

There's just what why are we why where did that? From the store.

Why are we telling you

Because I mean I want to whip that sucker off and feel like holy it's an intimidation thing at that They call me the intimidator

Speaker 4 (24:32.396)
That is not intimidating.

What kind of drug is he on?

I just, think if it's cute and dainty. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm talking about for women, guess. No regrets.

Yeah, that's the one I'm gonna

Speaker 2 (24:44.94)
I'm gonna get a pickle ball in the corner of my left eye. Yeah. For all the kills on the court.

I'll get three pickle balls in a triangle on my web of my hands.

I'm gonna tattoo my eyelids pickle balls. And so when I close you can be like, he's thinking about pickle balls

I would like to see some pickleball tattoos. guess I never really even looked. Yeah, drop it. your you have a pickleball tattoo, we want to see them. Yeah.

The trashier the better as a matter of fact, mean, here's the thing, show us your pickleball tap, but don't show us where it is and we'll guess. What kind of skin it's on and what kind of body it's on and where it is on your

Speaker 3 (25:15.554)
Crazier the better.

Speaker 4 (25:21.838)
I guess we'll

Speaker 4 (25:26.062)
What kind of skin is it like a two skin or is it a what do you mean kind of skin or is it a I'm not quite sure

Everybody has a

Speaker 2 (25:32.554)
We might have- What comes after threeskin? What? no, we-

We're talking about tattoos, why are we here?

We may have people from the mortuary that listen and they may have some different people coming through there that snap a picture of a dead person's pickleball tent.

Please don't.

I'm just interested in seeing, because maybe I'm not thinking outside the box enough. Maybe there are some like really cool ones.

Speaker 2 (26:01.644)
If you have one on your box. What? Nothing.

Moving on

Moving on. Yeah, so I think it's a dink for me if it's dainty and not obnoxious coming out of your pants.

Pickle, balls. It's always obnoxious coming out of my pants, paddle princess.

I think that to me, as long as it's a pickleball tattoo, you do what you do. I mean, it's your body. If you like it, who cares what other people think? Get a pickleball tattoo, do whatever you want. But I do think that a pickle coming out of your waist pants is a little extreme. We'll see.

Speaker 2 (26:40.406)
It's a dink. Dink for you, Patil. I definitely want to see your pictures. Tag us on the Instagram, the Ticketi Talks if you want to, and also bdepodcast.com.

You're not doing it. It's a yes. It's a thing

Speaker 4 (26:54.424)
Get pickleballed, Ted.

Do it.

Speaker 4 (27:00.662)
News you can use.

You live from the big dink energy news desk. Now this is a segment where you don't know what we're gonna talk about for each other. I know what I'm gonna talk about, Paddle Princess, you know what you're gonna talk about, but we've never rehearsed this. We don't even know what anybody's gonna say here. So this could get wild and crazy. Paddle Princess, you go right ahead with your first news story.

Okay, so I saw this really crazy news story about this couple who just bought a brand new house outside of Seattle, Washington. And one night they're in their kitchen, just kind of hanging out, chatting about the renovations that they want to do to the house. And then they're looking underneath their cabinets and they see this tiny piece of paper that's like wedged into the cabinets. And they're like, what the heck is that? So they grab it and they,

open it up and it says, don't look under the floor. And then on the back side of it, it has a series of random numbers. I believe it was like 16 numbers, things along those lines. And people were like, well maybe it's like a library code, blah, blah, blah. And all these kinds of comments. And then somebody was like, well maybe like, don't look under the floor is the name of a book. And then somebody else commented on it.

Imagine if you tore up all of your floorboards and then there was another note that said made you look

Speaker 2 (28:27.04)
Yes. I'm in on that. That would be awesome. yeah, I'm totally down with pranks like that. Like the one where they close up a fake skeleton in the wall just in the hopes that somebody does some renovation and breaks that wall down. my gosh.

this a real story?

Speaker 3 (28:43.694)
That would be so creepy.

Like Halloween skeleton? Yeah. Yeah, but that's a long time to wait. I can't even hold onto Christmas gifts. And like...

Like from a doctor's office.

Speaker 3 (28:52.238)
You don't know who's going to buy your house. how are you going to know if they actually your You're not going to get that satisfaction.

I want to see.

no, so that's part of the long con here. You make friends with them over time, right? And you befriend them in a park or something. I've seen it on TV. You befriend them in a park and you're like, and then they get invited back to their house. Then you're like, you know what would look good there if you tore that wall down and then all of a sudden they start the construction and then the skeleton comes out.

And you're like, I'm the one that put it there.

No, no

Speaker 3 (29:23.918)
Who would put, like, the piece of paper was folded up really tight, and it was just like wedged in between two little pieces of wood in the cabinets in the kitchen. And it was like you had to look underneath.

Maybe somebody used it to like, you know, when you shiv a door, is that what it's called? Yeah. To like even it out or like put it up.

They're doing a lot more kitchen renovations.

Do you see what I'm saying? Like maybe somebody just grabbed that piece of paper.

What's the payoff? Did they look under the floor?

Speaker 3 (29:51.607)
No, they haven't done anything yet. As far as I know.

They're waiting until they get, what is it called on TikTok when they're like, same part, part two. you have to go. Yeah. I'm like, no, this is an article. interesting.

Yes.

So this is an actual news article. Yeah, was a whole news article about it and they showed pictures of the note. So it has all of the numbers. It's 2906530048938.

How many numbers?

Speaker 3 (30:18.186)
Don't know I'd have to count them. Okay, but people were like trying to figure out well, maybe it's like coordinate Yes, maybe it's like your house number

Da Vinci

Speaker 3 (30:28.768)
Yeah, so nobody's figured out as of now, as of that news article that came out, what the numbers actually mean. So I just thought that those were interesting.

was really cool. Here's the numbers. Eight, six, seven, five.

3-0-9-0

Don't call her.

Yes. Do not call Jenny. Jenny Jenny.

Speaker 4 (30:50.563)
Huh.

You gotta sing every episode. think I do. But I just thought it was really neat because my curiosity, done. Like my kitchen floor would be up, my house would be torn apart, we would be looking under the floor to find out what was going on. Yeah.

I think so.

I some type of x-ray before I did that. There's

Yeah, get a scope.

Speaker 3 (31:08.91)
Think about that, like my immediate thought was like, tear up the floors, let's go.

Yeah, scope camera for sure. right. My news you can use. I don't know if y'all follow this. There's an interesting guy on TikTok right now and the TikTok is called Sailing with Phoenix. Have you heard this one yet? I haven't. Sailing with Phoenix. this account follows Oliver, this guy, Oliver. He worked at a a discount tire kind of thing, a tire changing place. Found out he had some sort of illness, disease. And so he hated his job.

Anyhow, found this out, then cashed out his 401k, bought a sailboat and is now sailing. He wants to sail around the world, but right now he's on lie. He's on Tik Tok. His name is, the name of his cat is Phoenix. So it's sailing with Phoenix. It's his cat he rescued. He's on this sailboat going from, from Washington state all the way to Hawaii. And he reckons it's going to be like 30 days to do that. And he's never sailed before. He bought this

That's a recipe for disaster.

Can we go back to, you said, he reckons? reckons.

Speaker 2 (32:17.726)
He reckons it's gonna take about 30 days. But I thought that was, so he's documenting his life at sea and there's been some challenges, know, with high seas and waves and all that kind Just with his cat. Well, he has Starlink, so he's able to connect every single day and broadcast and tell us what's going he doesn't have human. Nope, just him and his cat.

Is he by himself?

Speaker 4 (32:33.933)
Another.

That's a recipe that... Exactly. Wills.

This is volleyball with

And like his last one was he got locked in the engine room, which is a common problem. If you don't lash the door open, the latches come down and lock themselves. So he got himself out of that, but he had to break the latches so it doesn't latch anymore. But it just, it got me thinking like, what if you had limited time, you know, what would you do? Would you sail around the world? Would you buy a sailboat? Would you just sit on the couch and do nothing? Scroll your life away on TikTok? I don't know, but I thought it was so interesting. He just grabbed his cat, cast out his 401k.

and went for it. And you can see and hear in his voice every single day, like he has the nervous laugh. Like, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (33:17.838)
That's how we are on this podcast. I don't know if it's gonna last.

Exactly.

No, it's going. Yeah, no, so I thought that was very interesting. Sailing with Phoenix, go look it up. It's pretty interesting. I really, I enjoyed the story.

That is interesting.

You know what though? gets me thinking is like, why do we have to wait until we have limited days to do something? Yeah. I think that that's what is the biggest problem in our society is where we have that whirlwind of life and family and work and then it's like, all of a sudden now you're sick and you have six months to live and you're like, I'm gonna do everything I've been wanting to do. Well, who cares? Like do that now. Don't wait.

Speaker 3 (33:40.651)
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (33:57.442)
Yeah, don't

Life is too short. Like you should be doing, well you should be playing pickleball. For sure. Every day, cause that just brings you so much joy. Cause I learned that 69 % of people, something like that, don't quote me, it lowers depression. Yeah. Like they did a study and I believe it was like 69 % or something like that. To play pickleball? When you play pickleball, it lowers depression. Sure, I can see that for sure. you're getting the vitamin D from outside if you're playing outside.

then you get the health benefits just being active. But to me, I think it's the laughing and the community. For sure.

your serotonin levels are going way up.

Absolutely. know for me, when I go play pickleball, I forget everything else that I have. I'm like, crap, I didn't even know, I forgot I had work or whatever. It just goes away. And I think that if more people played pickleball, they would realize they're not just depressed, they just haven't been around pickleball.

Speaker 2 (35:00.174)
Well, not only that, we would connect more as humans. Yeah, absolutely. got out and played pickleball and tap paddles every once in a while.

I could not be on a sailboat by myself with me and a cat. First of all, I am not a cat person, even though I have like...

But I if that's what he wanted to do and now he's doing it. That's what I'm finding value in that story. Yeah, yeah, like I love He's like I'm this and I think we need to do that we need to do more of that Do it scared go get your pickleball coming out of your short

Yeah, I love the story.

Speaker 2 (35:25.708)
do it scared.

Speaker 2 (35:32.398)
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