Can Pretty Be Powerful? Decency Laws, Pickleball Injuries | Karen w/ The Pretty Pickleball Company

🎙️ Can “pretty” be powerful? Karen from The Pretty Pickleball Company says yes—and she brought receipts (and sparkles).

🔥 We’re diving into:

• The one decency law we’d all pass (spoiler: check your fridge)
• Celebrity paddles, carbon fiber fairy tales & unapologetic branding
• Pickleball injuries, Blue Zones, and why playing might help you live longer

Plus: grocery store snacking crimes, pajama pants in public, and the great truck nut debate.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your pods.

Chapters

• 1:09 Episode Sponsor Ad
• 2:31 Kitchen Talk - Hot takes, weird news, and what’s on our minds this week
• 11:39 Just The Tip - Pickleball Wisdom
• 13:31 Pickle Pals - Deep Dive with a Pickleball Court, Club or Influencer
• 29:18 Dink or Destroy- This-or-that debate: Love it or trash it?
• 35:25 News You Can Use
• 40:26 Wrap-Up & CTA - Final thoughts, shoutouts, and how to engage with us

Transcript

Speaker 4 (00:00.482)
Definitely the wooden or tin paddles.

don't think I've ever seen

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Yeah, and then.

Ha!

Speaker 2 (00:33.262)
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. Open up your ear holes. It is the official podcast of Pick A Ball. Are your ear holes open?

Yes it is. My ear holes are open. They're always open.

yeah, girl.

So this is episode twi-

20!

Speaker 4 (01:00.078)
Woo! Episode 20.

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Speaker 4 (02:00.302)
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Yep, if you're going to do it, do it all the way. Don't show up boring to a court. We'll know who you are right away. So in our kitchen talk segment today, this is just where we kind of banter around the table, just like you would do if you're here sitting with us at our kitchen. Something that came to me out of necessity maybe, or just in my day to day life, I thought, okay, let's set it up like this. You became, you become president.

Right? you too. Obviously that's never going to happen. It could. You should get a start on that though, I would say. But you become president and you can write laws, but the only laws you can write are decency laws. Common courtesy, just decency laws. Some have said maybe even anti-

No thank you.

Speaker 4 (03:09.336)
Okay. Okay, like common courtesy.

Speaker 2 (03:16.718)
Peeve laws, whatever you want to say. Decency laws are the only things you can write. Yep, that's right. It's a nationwide federal law. Go, you got one.

Everybody has to follow these.

Speaker 4 (03:26.424)
I got you. I do have one. You are no longer allowed to put stuff on top of your refrigerator. Take down the cereal boxes, take down the waters halfway empty, take down your soda boxes with only four in them. my gosh, get yourself a closet, a cabinet, a pantry, something. I'd like to know how-

people actually do that. I don't know anyone.

For some of you that

Have you ever gone? Okay? I'm gonna

Yes, I do know who you're talking about though that person. Yes

Speaker 2 (03:59.628)
In my job, in my job, if I'm at your house and you're having to have all your stuff taken out and put to the curb, there is a 98 to 99 % chance I'm taking stuff off the top of your fridge too.

I just, it's aggravating to me. So that would, I would first law in.

For some of you, this is your notice or your reminder that you need to dust up on top of your fridge right now. And just, no. Okay, I've got one. Okay. This is a big one. And this is gonna affect you. Okay, so be prepared.

take it.

Speaker 4 (04:33.71)
No?

No eating in the grocery store before paying.

Please. I need me some cheeses right now.

No, no.

I agree with that one.

Speaker 4 (04:48.792)
serious

The grapes?

Yes, my grandma used to

I will have me a drink and I will bring it up. will even do a banana and be like, here you go Okay, maybe not a banana I know you hate it so much

Straight to jail for you. When you get up to the counter, what you putting grape bones on the counter?

Speaker 4 (05:06.862)
I mean, I really don't do that, but I have had like a protein bar and like a kombucha or something, and then I go, here you go, bring me up.

Yeah, and then throw it away also.

Do you want to keep it? And I'm like no y'all can keep it. Yeah

Does she look at you like you're crazy?

I got hungry.

Speaker 2 (05:24.226)
But I mean, that's the- Hey, I get that. But I also don't need, I don't need a receipt if I'm buying an apple. You know what I mean? I'm not returning it. no, absolutely, no, straight to jail. Straight to jail for that.

How about you?

kind of hard because I have several, but just drive the dang speed limit. Like, there is no reason to go 55 in a 75.

No hanging out in the left lane. No.

and do not drive in the left-hand lane if you're not passing.

Speaker 2 (05:49.582)
If you don't

I mean, I don't know, I've taken money, but that's the only way I drive it. Like, I am not gonna go under the speed limit. That's just atrocious to me. The only time you should be doing that is if it's like a tornado outside. Other than that, you should be going at least the speed limit. Like, it drives me absolutely insane when people just drive so

Another law that I would make is like the no cat fishing clause. So like girl, that is a filter and you need to, it should be noted like, cause I feel like it's false advertisement.

Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:24.864)
Yeah, if I'm showing up on a date with you and we've been chatting and I can't find you in the restaurant.

Yeah, like a social date or even like your LinkedIn or anything like that. It's like, okay, was that from 14 years ago?

I didn't recognize you without the puppy.

Yeah, I think you should have to have a clause that says hashtag filtered or I used a filter on this. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. think that would be definitely what I would do because I think a lot of people, mean, just nobody has those halos and butterfly eyes.

I see it on Facebook all the time. Look, I've seen you in person. That's not you. That's pretty version of you. That's not you.

Speaker 4 (07:01.534)
not you. That's a pretty-

I'm not even saying people are ugly, I'm just saying it's getting to a point where you're unrecognizable almost. And it's like people should know that's not who's showing up to the job interview. Your LinkedIn does not look like that.

Okay, another law from me. No fish in the microwave.

my gosh. How about this? No fish, no seafood ever.

Put at your house if you want to and all that kind of stuff. Not in a commonly used common area microwave in a place of business.

Speaker 3 (07:38.696)
not in a place of business

Straight to jail.

Straight to jail.

We had that happen a couple weeks ago and I walked around with the Odo ban and was just spraying it all over everything that I could because it smelled so

Someone needs saline at 200 watt.

Speaker 2 (07:55.662)
I think if you do that, you're required to bring donuts for a week for everybody and clean the microwave. gross. And clean the microwave. So we got to put some real teeth to these things. To yours, you said the highway thing and it brought up for me another one, which was you must be doing the speed limit when you're on the entrance ramp to the highway. Yeah. You must be up, you have to get up to speed to what you're going into. If you're on a side road,

God, that's so-

Speaker 2 (08:22.318)
doing 45 and you're going into a 75, I expect you to be on the gas like you're in NASCAR. Absolutely. Coming up with the...

That's a safety issue anyway. Yeah, that's Yeah, would I would create some of this and I guess one more just a little thing I feel like every email deserves a response like at least got it not or Yeah, but like a thumbs up or something cuz it's like you send an email and you're like I wonder if that person ever got it You know, so it's like I think I would make that like at least say I got it. Mm-hmm. Now, you know

That's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (08:42.062)
But not the letter K.

Speaker 2 (08:54.642)
Can I do one more? Go for it. Listen, the chances of me being president are pretty high. How about for me, you cannot use your speakerphone in public? Yes. No speakerphones in public. don't care who you are. I don't care what your culture is. We are not using speakerphones in a public place. Take it off to the side, especially bathrooms.

bathrooms, that's so weird. That's really I thought somebody was talking to me once. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, and I think you should have to wear a sign around your neck if you have if you have Bluetooth earbuds in that aren't like like Right away, right? Because if you're standing next to me and i'm trying to select my c4 or something from the 7-eleven gas station I don't want to think you're talking to me about your farm or whatever's going on. Yeah, you know

Or when they just go, hey, what's up? And you're like, hey, and you're like, never mind.

You are talking to-

Speaker 3 (09:43.374)
To caveat off of that one, I would also say actual straight-up pajamas in public.

through. Do not pass go. That's right. Maybe collect 100 so you can buy some new clothes instead of having

straight to

Speaker 2 (09:59.158)
have the money.

can wear like athleisure wear, things like that, but like if you're out in your SpongeBob pajama pants, like. I get that. No. Yes, no.

and slippers.

No. No.

Yeah, I don't want to have to think there's just a thin piece of cloth between me and your nethers. You know what I mean? There we go. There's our too far. Early on in the episode. love it. Tell us what yours are. If you were president for a day or a year or a month or whatever it is, tell us what your laws would be. Drop them into the bdepodcast.com or you can follow us over on the Instagrams as the kids say.

Speaker 4 (10:19.95)
That's

Too far for the...

Speaker 4 (10:38.636)
No, they don't.

I do. Well, as I say, how about that?

As the boomers say, as the silent generation says.

I am a Gen X.

Just the two

Speaker 4 (10:51.918)
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You are a beginner pickleball player. Karen from the Pretty Pickleball Company said, not wearing court shoes. Okay. All right. So pickleball underscore diaries said the balls.

Mmm

Speaker 2 (12:01.314)
It's important you have good balls.

need thinking balls.

Yes, she said the balls, and I think that's so true. People are very picky on the balls that they choose. you should be. Ipkl underscore society, so I pickle society, said the over the shoulder strapped bag with four paddles. And I literally replied, I feel attacked. Guilty. Because I do have that bag. But I understand that it says beginner, but I am a beginner. So Sean Paul pickleball.

We have the right

shouldn't you be

Speaker 4 (12:32.398)
He said definitely the wooden or tin paddles.

think I've ever seen. Yeah.

generation is that? are we steampunking pickleball now?

my gosh.

Ha ha!

Speaker 4 (12:44.878)
And then VonFurry.pb said, the Costco pickleball starter set.

mean mine's an Amazon starter set but I want to know

If you want a starter set, best one to get would probably be the one from the Pretty Pickleball Company. yeah. It's definitely not the shoulder bag, a sling bag. So I thought those were great. So if you don't want to look like a noob, make sure you take on these tips.

handle we're using.

Speaker 3 (13:11.726)
Maybe if I look more like a noob, somebody will help me play better. I'm like, okay, that girl, she needs help. I need to help her out.

I f- nevermind, I'm gonna leave now.

Okay.

Just the two

Speaker 2 (13:30.142)
It's time for Pickle Pals!

Speaker 2 (13:36.034)
Well, well, well, here we are again with Pickle Pals. Today's guest is living proof that you can serve up sparkles and smashes. Karen Teft is the founder of the pretty pickleball company where luxury meets power and every paddle comes with a touch of princess energy and a whole lot of control. She's a mom, a marketing pro, and now just out there dinking around with paddles, just loving it.

She's designing dreamy gear with her daughter, dropping dinks that make grown men question their life choices, especially when they see the pretty paddles, building a huge brand and a movement. It's fierce as it is feminine. Karen, welcome to the Big Dick Energy podcast. We're so happy to have you. You've got amazing things. For those of you, don't do it right now. I want you to listen to this whole interview. But after the interview, obviously go over the Pretty Pickleball Company.

Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (14:24.098)
website and look at what she's got going on there and that'll get you aligned to everything we're talking about. And you can see in the background of the interview the pretty princess paddles that we love over here at the Big Dink Energy podcast. Now obviously they're not for me and you can see why in one of the videos out there.

You look so great in the dress.

Yes, I have the shoulders for it sure. So you launched this a little while ago to help women feel like princesses on the court. Was there a single moment that made you go like, you know, this is a fairy tale and I want people to play like they're like their princesses.

So when I started playing in 2023 and I was looking for my first paddle, I went into the Sporting Goods store and I looked around and there was basically a whole wall of raw carbon fiber paddles or paddles that were painted and had like crazy 80s graphics on them. Right. So I felt like they were missing a whole demographic and that's kind of what drove me to want to do this.

I grew up in Florida, central Florida and south Florida. So I've grown up around princesses and castles and all the beautiful things out here. That's right. And it's something I've always shared with my children. And so when I was coming up with the idea of the Pretty Pickleball Company and I was already calling myself the Pretty Pickleball Princess, my daughter's like, why don't we just lean into that a little bit? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, she threw together a couple of designs and I was like, wow.

Speaker 1 (15:56.076)
These are beautiful. And then we found an amazing artist that brought them to life. And here we go.

So, you know, I've got to talk about this because when they, we have one and when it, when it arrived at our house, I really felt like, I think I stepped out on my porch and I thought there was a carriage that delivered it with some horses. Because even the packaging for someone to get that, there's a real emotion, right? And so, you know, for those uninitiated that don't know what, companies do, they sell you an emotion more than they sell you a product. And you have really done it. Your packaging is phenomenal. The paddles themselves be,

do speak for themselves but my gosh the packaging really hit me when it landed in our house.

Yeah, so we had toyed with different things and my daughter was, you she's a big part of this, but she was telling me about a book club that had a cute mailing box that looked just like a book. So then of course, I take things one step further than that. And I was like, my God, that's it. We need to have a storybook keepsake box, the paddles coming right off of the pages of their favorite storybook. And so we really...

I think we really did a good job with that. That's really one of my favorite things. And everyone is like, my God, that box is just stunning. I'm glad, because we wanted the entire process to be an experience for the purchaser. So when they get that box, it's like, my God, my box is here. And they open it up and they see their paddle.

Speaker 2 (17:30.016)
It was. I mean, the only thing you could have done differently was have a light shine from it, the inside. I think it looked like it did anyhow. of all the paddles we have, you know, we're typical pickleball players. We have tons of different paddles, not only just for our own, but, you know, people that want to come along, haven't played before. That's the only packaging we still have. And it's in a prominent spot. I can look over and see it right now in the room that I'm in.

It didn't get tossed out. It's right here because it's just that amazing. So I want to make sure people understand that too. You're getting a full emotion from it and it will quickly become your favorite paddle, even if you have others in your bag. I'll tell you that right now.

a great place to keep and store your paddle when you're not using it. That's right.

That's right. So you build a brand that's unapologetically feminine, pickleball paddles, not for me, not yet anyhow, dominated and it was in a world that was kind of dominated by basic gear. I mean, you could go to Walmart and buy a paddle, you know, you can now you can go to Dollar General or something and buy a paddle, one of the dollar stores. So did you ever worry that pretty wasn't going to equal powerful to people?

Yes, and I'm still trying to overcome that you know being a small brand It's it's hard to get that message across, but we're we're trying I've had to learn to be a social media marketing guru and You know try and paint pictures for people But the message is getting out there and the more and more people who review them and try them Are seeing that it's so much more than just a pretty face, and that's what I always say. It's so much more than just a pretty face

Speaker 2 (19:04.14)
Yeah, this, mean, the thing is powerful. It's got a ton of control. I played with it. No judgment, please. But it was just awesome. It's right up there with all the other big, well-known guys on the block, so to speak. It's amazing playing paddle, I'll just tell you that. And then we talked a little bit earlier that paddle stacking is now a new thing when you have something like that up on there.

It could be, know, look at this, look at this pretty paddle that somebody got. And then when you show up with that on the court and you start just dropping people with it, yeah, it speaks for itself at that point.

And that's where we came up with the beauty on the street beast on the court because, you know, it's kind of like you're gaming everyone. You get out there with your cute little girly outfit and your girly paddle and then you dominate on the court.

Yeah, I would say with your paddles, you could definitely win some money if you were that kind of person You could sandbag for a little bit and be the pretty princess and then just start crushing people Obviously once you raise the the wager or the stakes just a little bit So, you know we talked about a feeling and your daughter Sydney. Yes, Sydney runs it with you Do you guys bump heads on anything like that or is she the creative? you the creative? Tell me a little bit about the inside baseball

She came up with the majority of the designs and yes, we do. We bump heads a lot. She's extremely creative, but I have my own ideas as well. So it's trying to find a nice balance and mesh the two ideas that we visually see in our head into one beautiful paddle. Most of our paddles also have cute little sayings on it. And you know, she comes up with all of those.

Speaker 1 (20:52.278)
Like she's really witty and punny, so she comes up with the cute little sayings that are on the paddle. We work pretty good together most of the time.

Yeah, as long as you have the same mission and vision ahead of you and everything that you do, you're gonna keep producing awesome, amazing paddles like you are. And I've seen your paddles in the hands of celebrities, is that true?

Yes, we were actually gifted at a party that was hosted by one of the real housewives of Beverly Hills. So this was last December when we really just had like the first three paddles that we had just launched, because we launched in August and then the second set was in September. So there's people like Ashley Simpson and Paula Abdul and all these.

Zoey de Chanel that actually own our paddles. So we're like, my God, this is absolutely crazy. Like to see these people, Cynthia Bailey from Real Housewives, to see them holding our paddles and be excited about it is really cool. I actually had a couple people reach out after the party and say that they fell in love with our paddles and the whole aesthetic of our brand. And they were actually going to start playing pickleball because they fell in love with the.

the whole paddle and the aesthetic. that was really exciting. Then we were also featured on the red carpet at the Oscars with KTLA in Los Angeles. So that was a really exciting moment too. it's really cool.

Speaker 2 (22:19.918)
Yeah, wow. And that is just the world of pickleball, right? Where the culture and the community is just growing into so many different areas and celebs and stars picking up the sport and all that kind of stuff. So that is amazing. I'm so happy for you guys for that.

Yeah, was. It was probably the highlight of my year last year.

Well, more big things to come, I'm sure. So you've got this, you know, with the paddles, it's a soft on the outside, built tough on the inside, obviously, with the carbon fiber. How do you, how important is it though, that the strength comes through as much as the sparkle?

So it was really important for us to, you know, especially for myself. Like I've never considered myself a super athletic person and I've struggled with different sports my whole life. So when I found pickleball, I felt like it was a very inclusive sport that anyone can pick up and start to play no matter how thin or fit.

or heavy, anybody can get out there and do it. I've seen such beautiful stories of people actually losing hundreds of pounds because they found a love for pickleball. So it was really important that, and I firmly believe that when you feel good, you're always gonna play better. So if you have something and equipment that you love and outfits and stuff that you love, you should always bring that.

Speaker 1 (23:44.926)
onto a court experience because that confidence helps to boost your level of play as well. we wanted it to be something that was empowering and made people want to go out and try this sport. But then we also wanted them to be able to grow with the paddle. So because it is an investment, know, so from the first time they get on the court through maybe their first few tournaments, when they're really starting to get there and their duper level starting to go up, we want them to be comfortable with our paddle.

Yeah, and that's, you know, the psychological thing of it is the pickleball community as a whole. They, they, they, for the most part, no matter where you go, when you're playing pickleball, it's the same type of people, the same type of energy. They're, you know, everybody loves everybody. We want to help each other wherever we can. We want to lift each other up as much. And then when you, when you show up with a paddle like that and you look good and you feel good, then you start playing a lot better because of those things. And it boosts all the great chemicals in your body too. That make you feel just like,

generally euphoria and feel a lot better about yourself.

And that was the whole, now I've gotten a little bit of hate. know, there's some ladies who are like, my God, you're stereotyping women. And I'm like, I am a woman. I just, wanna feel pretty when I play, you know? I want something that helps me feel more confident and playing with a plain black paddle was not going to do it for me. So.

I don't think it does it for a lot of people. You have your own vibe, you have your own energy, you have your own individualism. I hate that for you, but there's always haters in every little space out there. These people who just think so little of themselves, they gotta start trying to drag people down to their level on them. I know you're not one to fall down to those things. Nope. So let's say we have a crystal ball and we're looking five years ahead.

Speaker 2 (25:33.58)
What's the wild and crazy thing you hope that the Pretty Pickleball Company is doing five years from now?

just really wanna be expanding the sport, bringing new people in. And a lot of the people who follow me on social media are brand new to pickleball. So they maybe love princesses and fairy tales and they saw my page. I actually got a call from my financial advisor and he said, Karen, I had no idea what you were building. And I'm like, what are you talking about, Matt? And he said, well,

I was sitting home and my girlfriend came up to me and said, my God, I love these pickleball paddles. I really want to start playing pickleball. And she showed me your paddles and I saw your brand name and I was like, my God. You know, so that is exactly what I want. I want people to look at our paddles and say, you know what? I've heard about pickleball, but I've never really thought about giving it a try, but I want to now. Yeah. So.

Hopefully we're bringing more people into the sport.

Yeah, you're definitely an ambassador out there. And so many people in our age group have grown up in the way that you did with the castles and the prettiness and the princesses. And I think new generations are only following behind that because it's something that resonated with me. And so my daughter knows that, you know, so, you know, and you guys are growing exponentially and I love that for you. But what is your, what's the secret though to make sure and you staying authentic to who you are, authentic to the brand, to the

Speaker 2 (27:05.816)
to the prettiness and just staying generally pretty in everything you do.

If it doesn't make me happy, we don't do it. So it's just gotta be something that brings happiness because otherwise it's just another job or another paddle. And I want it to bring happiness to people when they use it. So if it doesn't bring me happiness when we're designing it, then we move on.

I love it. I love it staying authentic. How can people get a hold of you? What are all the social, all the links that you want to share?

So on Instagram and Facebook, it's at The Pretty Pickleball Company. And our website is www.theprettypickleballcompany.com.

Awesome. So real quick, pretty or power, and you can't say both. Pretty. I love it. Pretty. Power. And if your brand had a theme song, what would it be?

Speaker 1 (27:55.342)
They will give you the

Speaker 1 (28:00.23)
my god, that's really a tough one. All the pretty girls, I think it's called pretty girl walk or something like that.

I like all the pretty, yeah, I got it. okay. Love it. Well, thank you, Karen, so much with the Pretty Pickleball Company for being on with us. Thank you for being a sponsor of the podcast. We love it. We're gonna continue to put out some funny things for you. So keep watching our page, keep watching her page. And please, if you have a princess in your life, go get a paddle for that princess. And Karen, can we talk a little bit about what's coming down the road? Do you wanna pull the curtain back a little bit on?

on some things that maybe aren't princesses?

So I don't know if you can kind of see behind my box there. There's another darker box. That is the Wretched collection. I love So that's our take on some of the fairy tales' biggest villains.

okay.

Speaker 2 (28:57.566)
Love it. Watch the space for that. We're done. I think I think I resonate with that. Karen, thanks so much for being on. Go find the paddle that resonates with the princess in your life over at the pretty pickable company dot com. Have a great day, Karen. Thanks for being on the Big Dink Energy podcast.

Thank you.

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I love me some paddle hands.

we used him at our tournament this past weekend. So fun. Hey.

Okay, so I have been vehicle shopping and so I've been paying attention to all of the different vehicles on the road because I can't decide if I want an SUV or a truck. So I'm looking at everything and something that I've been noticing a lot is different vehicle decor. yes, yes. So, know, some people have flags out their windows. You always see people around Christmas time with like the Rudolph, the antlers and the nose or the wreath on the front of their grill.

yes.

Speaker 3 (30:38.83)
But something else I wanted to bring out there would be like the big eyelashes on the headlights that flop around. And then of course you have truck nuts. So you have the regular truck nuts and then you have the blue ball truck nuts. So what do y'all think about vehicle decor?

I've seen him.

Speaker 2 (31:00.263)
Are the silver truck nuts, or they just hang a little bit lower?

They're wrinkly.

A little more wrinkle in there.

Speaker 2 (31:13.154)
Yeah! for the people who wonder, Naked Destroy is something we send over the net. Dink it, yep, thumbs up or thumbs down. Vehicle decor.

Yeah, so, I don't have anything on my car. I don't even like stickers.

No, we have student driver magnets on our...

I but that's a magnet and I can take it off. I like to put it on when I'm driving so people give me a little bit more grace. Didn't they look over and like, ooh, girl, you're only 16? Damn!

Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 2 (31:40.376)
What just happened? Nobody's saying that. Yeah, so when the truck nuts first came out, I thought that's kind of interesting. That's kind of, I get it. I was a little bit younger then, but now I'm like, okay, are we all, are you going to a douche convention or where?

I don't like them. I think it's dumb. I don't like the lashes either. I if you want to put a little skeleton out there, like I've seen some people with like the boots at Halloween where it looks like, you know.

So you're okay with vehicle decor as long as it's-

Like, holiday themed? not- okay.

This is my identity. Like when I see truck nuts, I'm like, I know who you are. can drive past you and look and go,

Speaker 2 (32:23.587)
You're singing Toby Keith at the top of your lungs when you're up.

And same thing with the eyelashes, I'm like, check. mean, but the holiday stuff, it's like you probably have kids. And I mean, I think the holiday stuff is fine. I mean, I really don't care what you do with your car. I just don't like it.

Yeah, I mean, then we, know, the whole thing with bumper stickers and great. mean, I love that you're a PTA mom. How fabulous for you. I'm glad that you did something in 1986. That's so awesome.

I I have a ton of those stickers that say 2.6 or 2.

26.2. you have a used car you bought it from somebody?

Speaker 4 (32:56.942)
6.2 I have a I have a point one sticker on my car

I .5, I did half a a half a half.

To be honest, whenever I see people with stickers on their car, I want to judge them. When I see the 26 point whatever and I'm driving past them, I'm like, really? Or it's like, my child was student of the month. like, I just saw your child in Walmart. I don't know how they're student of the month.

That's why they're on

Speaker 2 (33:17.452)
Yeah, you rate? Whose car are you borrowing?

Speaker 2 (33:28.942)
I like the ones that are the family too. And it's the mom and the dad and the three kids. And then every once in a while you see dad has been scraped off. Right. Those are the ones I like.

And the Calvin pissing on the Ford. my god, we in 1992?

Yeah, yeah, so I mean for me I don't put anything on my truck. All right, Yeah, the one that came with it right from Toyota. Yeah, I just haven't taken it off yet

You do have a sticker on your truck.

Speaker 4 (33:56.534)
No, no, it's a destroy for me if it represents your identity. It's a dink for me if it's a holiday fun thing. So, Can I do a have these?

I like it. so you're a dink if it's themed and it's for a holiday. So car going down the road, fireworks just shooting out of the windows on 4th July, all for it.

Yeah, but not like AR-15, like I'm like, come on.

Yeah, yeah, I don't need to know every gun you ever bought because it came with a free sticker. Here's the thing. Okay, so I'm a dink if you put the new BDE stickers on your car. Go over and see where they are and then find us. We have BDE stickers everywhere we go. I love those. Okay. I can be a dink. I'll go with yours as well where it's themed. Because I do my police car themed. parades. At least for the parade, for the holiday for sure.

There you go.

Speaker 3 (34:48.108)
I think I'm gonna go with y'all as well, because I don't like it to be overdone. I do think it's cute when like the Volkswagen Beetles have the outlashes. I just think that-

Okay, I would go with that one particular view.

Yeah, but the beetle itself is an identity. Right. You know, just like the big old truck is an identity.

I feel like you're missing a mark too. if you don't buy the red beetle and put black spots all over it, I feel like you're missing.

I just, I love that.

Speaker 4 (35:11.95)
car.

Okay, so we're all dinks on that in our own little way.

Dinkies. Dinkies. That means habsies and dink at the same time. There we go.

Tell us what you think. You're for Cardacor, not for Cardacor. Tell us what you think.

News you can use.

Speaker 2 (35:33.934)
breaking news from our live news desk.

my gosh. So, I don't know, you guys might already know this, but it was new to me. Apparently there are these like magical places in the world called Blue Zones. Heard of it. Where people regularly live past 100. And it's not like barely hanging on. Like these people are thriving, like salsa dancing, like still driving manual cars at like 97 years old. the top Blue Zones, there are places.

Nope, never.

Speaker 2 (36:05.582)
gotta be in europe

There are places you can't afford to move to, Okinawa, Japan. Sure. Sardinia, Italy. Okay. Is that how you say that? that one. Nicoya, Costa Rica. can't pronounce this one. It's Icaria, Greece. okay. Okay. And then Loma Linda, California. What? Yeah, so, mean, it's California. You know, have all the yoga and they eat their lentils and all that.

They eat their little s-

So this is what the secret is that they've noticed out of all of these blue zones. So they eat mostly plants. So like no Chick-fil-A and all the crap that we eat here. Moving naturally, so walking, gardening, that kind of stuff. They manage stress with like meditation where, you know, we just doom scroll pretty much. Staying connected to friends and family. And then having a sense of purpose. So those

I'm a loser, Megwin.

Speaker 4 (37:02.296)
Those are all the things that they have noticed in all of those areas where people live, like past 100. So, and I was thinking like, this is where kind of pickleball fits in because we're always moving, like you're moving. So that's that exercise portion. We're socializing. So we have that sense of community. It's a stress relief and we find purpose in the routine of like going to play open play or, you know, so I think that pickleball really fits into that blue zone.

Hmm type of area. Yeah

that and I would guess if we extrapolated some data from Pennsylvania, from the Amish country, we might see kind of the same results. bet they're just such a closed society.

I did see a video of some Amish people playing pickleball in their barn or something, I just... Yeah, and they didn't have a kitchen, but they could probably build one.

help with their net.

Speaker 2 (37:54.498)
I don't know how those dresses.

But I thought that like, know, pickleball might actually be your ticket to a longer happier life. So, zone. I like it.

to get the statistics on that.

Blue Zone is very interesting. Why wouldn't they call it Silver Zone? From the news desk. Okay, I've got a little bit of news you can use, maybe something for your water cooler talk in the office tomorrow. How many pickleball injuries do you think there are annually?

Called Blue Zone Look It Up.

Speaker 4 (38:22.542)
Oh, just me alone? Me and my sister, probably 32. A lot. Yeah, I don't know.

Ha ha ha!

Speaker 2 (38:30.702)
So total number of injuries, and this is research published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, not from Guy's mind, estimated that in 2023, there were more than 66,750 emergency department visits and 366,000 outpatient visits related to pickable injuries in the United States, suggesting that the overall injury count, including less severe cases, may exceed 400,000 a year.

Just me my next question.

only see knees. Knees, ankles, my wrist, pickle wrist, that's what Guy calls it, because my wrist is, he says I have pickle wrist.

yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (39:09.166)
Yeah, pickle wrist. Pickle wrist. That's what we're saying it is.

I could definitely, I could definitely see the injuries.

So most common injuries are sprains, strains, fractures, with fractures accounting for about 30 % of emergency department cases. It said ED. Really quickly in my mind.

Is ED a part? I think Pickleball would help you with your ED.

Yeah, pickle related injuries like that. Majority of injuries in current players age 50 and older who account for up to 90 % of reported cases. So if you're in a blue zone, if you're in a blue zone, be careful out there. You're about 90 % of the reported cases. Falls are the leading cause of injury, especially among the elder.

Speaker 4 (39:50.088)
I can see, especially if you have those pickle Richards out there lobbing the older people. Making them run.

He did that to you. remember you're telling me about that.

Yeah, I called him Rock Lobster. I was like, hey, Rock Lobster, stop doing that. I'm tired of running. I don't have a 26.2 sticker on my car, so stop making me run.

You have a 2.69 sticker though on your car. Big duper.

Yay. I don't want to be one of those cases. I do.

Speaker 2 (40:21.07)
care of your pickle wrist.

Or just pretend this never happened. Until next time, keep the dink soft and the energy big.