DUPR Ratings, Bed Snacks & Questionable Cologne Choices | Andrea w/ Cat 5 Pickleball

 We’re coming in hot with:
 🔹 The exact moment soup-in-bed became a lifestyle
 🔹 A cologne con so bold it ended in marriage
 🔹 DUPR finally explained like you're not a pro (because you're not)

Plus, Andrea from Cat 5 Pickleball drops in to talk racquetball roots, coaching vibes, and why glow pickle is a gateway drug.

🎧 Listen now before someone rates your dink a 2.5.

Chapters

• 0:47 Episode Sponsor
• 2:05 Kitchen Talk
• 10:04 Just the Tip
• 11:21 Pickle Pals
• 21:36 Dink or Destroy
• 29:57 News You Can Use
• 31:36 Wrap Up

Transcript

Speaker 3 (00:00.512)
I wanted to talk to you guys about eating in bed. I will eat soup in

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Ooh, I wanna get another one now. Mm-hmm. I love this. All right, it's time for our kitchen time.

though.

Speaker 1 (01:54.625)
I love kitchen talk. So this is just coming into our world and sitting around the table talking with us just like you're in our kitchen.

Yeah. So I was thinking we should do kitchen confessions. Okay. So this is something your younger self did that you are not proud of. Something petty, maybe illegal, who knows. But no judgment-ish. No judgment here.

This is a full judgmental zone that we are in.

I agree with that.

Definitely. So who wants to start?

Speaker 1 (02:27.724)
I got one. when I was a kid, lot of my childhood was spent at my grandmother's house. Both parents work full-time jobs. So hanging out at grandma's house was cool because grandma lived kind of like in a downtown kind of area. And there was a supermarket like right around the corner. And I was old enough and it was at the time when you could just send young toddlers, young tykes, if you will.

Go for it.

Speaker 1 (02:53.29)
out to the mean streets. And so we would walk over there and we'd get candy and stuff like that. But I remember one time specifically, I was not allowed to have a lot of gum. And I don't know the reason for that. And there's probably some trauma I need to unpack about that. But I stole a pack of Hubba Bubba gum. And I remember it to this day. Because I got back to my grandmother's house and one of the adults, I think it was my mom, she saw it.

And she said, where'd you get that gum? And I said, well, I can't even remember the name of the store. I got it from this place. And she goes, did you pay for it? I said, you know, as a kid, you know, you're not a good liar.

Right? You think you're good in your head, like...

huh,

No, they gave it to me. think I said something stupid like that. Like it was gum day at the store, right? They were just giving out. So she, I had to get into the car and it was a Pinto. I remember it was a Ford Pinto and we drove back to the store and I got marched in there and I had to tell them what I did and I had to pay them the full quarter that it cost. I'm a little bit older generation, but it was like a quarter for this pack of hubba bubba gum.

Speaker 1 (04:08.012)
and I remember it to this day.

That's a good lesson though. It is. Stuck with you.

It is I've only stolen five more packs of gum since then.

paddle princess?

my gosh, I mean, there's a lot. I did a lot of crazy things that my younger self is not proud of. Keeping it PG. Yeah, PG and family related. I would say the one thing that I'm really, really not proud of was how I treated my sister. Like, we hated each other growing up. Like, we would come... He's three years younger than I am. We still hate each other, but I mean, life goes on.

Speaker 1 (04:43.221)
or older.

Speaker 3 (04:47.918)
It is what it is.

Maybe she should invite her out to play pickleball.

Right, no, we haven't spoken. But anyways, when we were younger...

would be all inviting to play Pickable.

We were just completely, complete opposites. And we just, we would go at it with each other. She would have her little group of friends and I had mine and I was a cheerleader growing up. I was always involved in school and activities and sports. And she was very kind of goth skater girl. And we would literally just come to blows with each other. Her friends would be yelling at my friends. My friends would be yelling at her friends. And I think that if I would have cultivated that relationship when we were younger,

Speaker 3 (05:28.314)
and maybe tried to understand her more instead of just being like, you're weird, I don't like you, then maybe as adults we might've had a better relationship.

Hmm. What about you?

Yeah, what brought this on?

Well, I was thinking the other day when I was driving, that's what brought this whole thing on. Because my son needed cologne. And so I was like, I'm going to go, you I need to run out there and get him cologne. And then I'm driving and I just start laughing.

is Jharkar Noir? Aqua De Geo?

Speaker 2 (05:59.214)
I just start laughing because I had a long-term boyfriend of like, don't know, forever, seven years or something. And, but then I met somebody else. This is such a terrible story, I feel so bad. And the guy that I liked, while I was also with my boyfriend, wore a certain type of cologne called Issey Miyake. And it was chef's kiss. Love it. Love it to this day. Good stuff.

So what I did was I went and bought that club. I feel so terrible. And I gifted it to my boyfriend. Yes. So that he would start wearing it. Because it smells good, but it reminded me of the other person at life.

There you go.

Speaker 3 (06:40.174)
Because it smells good.

Speaker 3 (06:44.72)
yeah, that's a trigger. So... That's kind of weird. It all worked out.

Fortunately though, it all worked out for the best because I'm married to that man now. So not the boyfriend. And to this day you still wear Issey Miyake, but I laughed to myself. I was like, that was so mean. Like, my God. Like it's so...

You it girl.

Speaker 1 (07:05.462)
And it's so that's a that's a

Like those are just immature things.

But that's a swing. mean, that's a big swing because cologne is based on body type too. Like the musk that I normally put out mixes with the Issey Miyake. I have a certain musk probably coming through your ear holes right now.

I even worn that for...

Speaker 2 (07:27.982)
You've been wearing that cologne. I mean, we've been married for 24 years almost.

Yeah, yeah, and now people know my secret because people are always like you smell good and I don't tell them what it is because I want people on to this thing I'm kidding if you like my wife and she gives you cologne

No, I'll buy it for him though.

Speaker 2 (07:43.822)
Anyways, that just made me, was like, this is just in my kitchen mind, in my head, just bouncing around. And I'm just like, that was, that was not, that was.

Yeah, but I didn't land on the Issi Miyake and shoot, it wasn't even in the military. It was way out into law enforcement and I smelled it on somebody else and I was like, okay, I get it. It wasn't another girl though.

You weren't like, hey, boyfriend, start wearing this.

And Issey Miyake is specific to gender, so it wasn't like CK1. No. Or she could wear it, I could wear it. Oh my god.

No, it was specific and it was it was it was mean as a mean girl You're trying to you're trying to sugarcoat it I literally had the wrong intentions It was bad and I admitted it to myself in the car and I asked for forgiveness and laughed about it and then said I want to know everybody else's

Speaker 3 (08:26.879)
You're

a little selfish. You're tripping.

Speaker 3 (08:42.894)
Are you good?

do want to know what are the mistakes or the colognes of your life that you've made. Pictures are great. Stories are better for us. We got fan mail that I want to share that goes along. I don't know if it goes along. So a huge thanks to Dr. Taylor from Oklahoma City. Listen, we've got doctors listening to us. These are people that are smart listening to us. So Dr. Taylor from Oklahoma, OKC as they say.

You

Speaker 1 (09:11.114)
Thanks for the kind words. He says I got to play pickleball for the first time a few years ago right after a family funeral Wah-wah way to bring us down and she was not only my teammate But also my first ever pickleball teacher a little bit of romance there Maybe what a wonderful memory and an even more wonderful person. So dr. Taylor. for listening to us We hope that we bring you joy and laughter in your life. That's the design of this podcast anyhow So you want to send us a shout out to hit the send us a text link at the top?

of the show notes for the show you're listening to right now. It's super easy and it really helps us out and it shares this weirdness that we're doing with a lot of people.

Share it like you share cologne, folks.

Maybe not like you, Sherri. Put our podcast in your husband's listening.

Hahaha.

Speaker 2 (10:01.23)
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right now to make your paddle as bold as your game. So this, just the tip, is to stay out of the kitchen. In pickleball, the kitchen, AKA the non-volley zone, is a seven-foot area on either side of the net where you cannot hit the ball out of the air. If your feet touch the line or step in while you're volleying, that's a fault, and yes, people will absolutely call you on that. You can step into the kitchen if the ball bounces first, but once you hit it,

get out as quickly as you can. Hanging out in there puts you out of position and risks being caught mid-lob or mid-argument. So remember, volley outside the kitchen, dink smart inside it, and always respect the line. Respect

Respect it.

Speaker 1 (11:21.706)
It's time for Pickle Pals!

The people and places of pickleball today we're diving into the eye of the storm with Andrea, the powerhouse behind cat five pickleball, transforming a simple game into a community movement. She's building a vibe where hustle mindset and legit coaching meet confidence and community. So if you've ever wanted to play harder, train smarter, just look like you know what you're doing while doing drills, you're going to love this one today. Andrea, thanks so much for being here on the big dink energy podcast off the bat. I got to know about cat five, right? How,

I know where you're located. You're located in Louisiana. So obviously I think I get the gist there. But for our listeners, you know, how'd you come up with cat five?

It is absolutely a play on words with the whole hurricane situation for the area. our full name is Category 5 Pickleball, but now we've just become known as Cat 5. We're about 35 minutes outside of New Orleans on the North Shore and are just making a name for ourselves.

Awesome. So yeah, I just, wanted to make sure people didn't think you were a crazy cat lady and that's, there's five cats running around inside the pickleball court.

Speaker 4 (12:28.024)
That's not it. Sometimes we have dogs come. People will bring their dogs sometimes, but no cats. Yeah.

Yeah, people don't want to play with cats. mean, cats don't even want to play with people. So what ignited your passion for pickleball and then how did that evolve into Cat 5?

Yeah, sure. I grew up playing racquetball and soccer. Actually, I don't have a tennis background. I I played racquetball my whole life. And my husband's a Marine. We moved around everywhere. So with that, I would coach soccer and or racquetball for times. And so I've always been in the community, just helping out volunteering and doing stuff in that way. And then pickleball is something that my whole family can do. My husband's an Ironman athlete. My son plays tennis. My daughter played soccer.

Pickleball was something that we could all do together with my parents, with nieces and nephews, right? And so it just, and as I have coached and taught other things, I was like, this is something that I could coach and just start to do in the community. And then we moved to Louisiana. I started several programs in the area in St. Tammany in Mandeville and just at different clubs or different parks, different things. But ultimately I was approached by a few families that wanted to.

open a brick and mortar indoor facility. And they didn't have a ton of pickleball experience, but they knew that pickleball was all the rage and it would be a great thing for our community having an indoor spot. And they wanted me to help. And so I connected with these other families and that was about a year and a half ago. And here we are.

Speaker 1 (13:51.938)
So when we're talking about that community and you touched on it a little bit, how do you foster those vibes, right? How do you foster the sense of belonging? How do you capture those guys that have never, or gals that have never played pickleball before, but also how do you play in your local community as well?

They are super excited about the variety of programs that we offer. We offer everything from, we have intro to pickleball clinics several times a week. We have beginner duper nights. We have things just for ladies. We have a $2,000 muddy ball coming up with players coming in from Texas to Florida. So we tried to offer something literally for everyone in the community. We're starting an inner club league where we're hosting teams from the local park, from the South shore, from, you know what I mean? Right, yeah. It's just, we are trying to invite.

every demographic, no matter where you play, just to let everybody know, like everybody kind of has their home court, you whether it's in their neighborhood or an athletic club or even hopefully cat five. But, know, if we want everybody to feel welcome where we're at and we have the luxury of being indoors, if the weather's bad, we want all those other communities to know that they can come to us for their beginner open play or an advanced duper night. You know, we just try to offer something for everyone to bring them in.

Yeah, and your neck of the woods, it's so, everything is unique, right? So everybody has their own jambalaya. Everybody has their way that they do alligator. And so I imagine you bring a lot of that flavor to your own courts right there too. that's because it is small little pockets out there in Louisiana where everybody thinks that theirs is the best, but you guys bringing your flavor to it and making sure everybody's included. That's, that's awesome. love it. So.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:31.352)
Category five, known for its innovative programs. I've seen your May the 4th, I've seen the Star Wars kind of theme, and I've seen some of the glow in the dark pickleball, obviously. Where's the inspiration? Is that you or is that a team you have? Where's the inspiration for those things?

The glow pickle was something when we took over an old Tuesday morning and we had to completely redo the lights and everything like that. So when we were designing the indoor facility, one of us made a suggestion about like, we should just go ahead and put black lights in. Like while we're doing this, put black lights in. So then it literally is just the flip of a switch because we're trying to think of different things for casual players.

Really competitive players don't care a ton about Glow Pickle because it's not really the same as regular pickleball, right? Like it's just a good time. It's a novelty. It's a good time. 100%. And even our competitive people might come in every once in a while, right? But they're not, that's not how they're going to come in to like really get their game on. They're just good people will come in to do it for a good time and the novelty of it. But so we really just were thinking of different sessions that we could offer to bring in different people. And Glow Pickle absolutely caters to families and new people that are just trying to check it out. That's where that kind of came from.

kids and families.

Speaker 1 (16:43.384)
love that. Have you guys done the, I've seen it before, have you done the use anything as a paddle?

No, no, we haven't yet. I just had someone mention that to me.

Yeah, yeah, some of those look outrageous. yeah, it is. You know, is, it could be scary, you know, because we have a kind of a tennis vibey kind of thing, a little badminton thing in there as well. And then walking in those doors, if you've never played before, you've you know, you may have your wooden paddle from Walmart and you heard about pickleball and someone's dragging you to this. So that kind of vibe that you all bring to it, that's that's so awesome for those people that are just trying to figure out what is this, what is this cult?

or community, whatever you want to call it. And is it for me? And so obviously when they walk in there and they see that, they've got an okay. Yeah, this is definitely.

We've had an inflatable tournament before on Halloween. We had people dressed in inflatables and played, like, do one of those. That's a good time. And when people do come in for, like, beginners come in with their, you know, like, $20 Walmart paddle or a wooden paddle, we'll always kind of let them start the clinic that way. And then ultimately, we have a fantastic pro shop. We'll put other paddles in their hands. But we just tell them, hey, man, we're just glad you're here. I don't care what paddle you have. That paddle got you in the door, you know, and we're glad you're here. So. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:56.526)
So you do a lot of the coaching and you're kind of touching on one of the things that I love about pickleball too. Outside the community is kind of the mental health aspect of it. This is a way that I see, with your husband being prior military, myself with a military background in law enforcement, I see a path forward for guys and gals that have seen and experienced different things that come in, get into a community that isn't a high barrier to get into and just be surrounded by people.

that can help maybe with your mental health. And I'm guessing, you know, doing some of the coaching, you bring a lot of that to your coaching as well. Would that be fair to say?

Absolutely. We have several coaches on staff and all of us are, know, some just kind of might coach a couple hours a week, but our senior coach, Jeff, he coaches several hours a week and I'm in there a little bit. And we always just try to make everybody, whether we're coaching or we also have sessions called Prayer and Pickle, you know, where we've got like, just a little more welcoming. It's just about a good time. We're not coaching or anything like that. It's just come as you are kind of thing. We do really just try to let people know like, hey, don't get up.

Don't get uptight about this. We're playing a game called Pickleball. You know what I mean? Like it is our business, but also it's called Pickleball. Like we can just be here and have a good time and everybody can just relax.

Okay, so you've got a tournament coming up, you're walking onto the court and they say, hey, we need your walk-on music. What is your walk-on music?

Speaker 4 (19:20.106)
It would be Jump Around by House of Pain.

Okay, all right, all right. I like that. That's a good song. like that. That came out of left field. I was not expecting that. I'm just gonna tell you. That's awesome. Do you have any favorite pickleball shots that you just love?

I have a one-handed backhand from racquet coming from racquetball. I have a one-handed backhand and I'm incorporating it to a into my game, but I love having one-handed backhand. It's been very good for me.

tough having to keep your wrist straight. Do you find that? Because I play racquetball too.

Yeah, I mean, my forehand for sure, my timing coming over from rack wall, it's great at the kitchen, right? Like my hands are fast and all that, but my forehand, my timing is definitely off, but on my backhand, it just works. it's fabulous. Yeah, makes me happy.

Speaker 1 (20:07.47)
Any memorable moments or something you've seen?

I played the US Open last year, not this year. Cat 5, I feel like every few months we hit some kind of growth spurt. Something big happens and then we have to kind of take it in. we hit this wicket, so we're constantly growing and stuff like that. It just seems like the sport is so much and I'm in it so much that there's always something.

Yeah, there is. The size of it is immense. I don't think people really truly understand. When you're seeing payouts at tournaments of a million dollars, mean, come on. And you got Tom Brady's and people like that owning a team.

Insane so it's I kind of laugh a little when people tell me like the sports kind of cooling off a little bit I'm like mmm. No no

and you got people down from your, Drew Brees, he's got a team, I think. Yeah, he does. So yeah, I mean, that's, that's awesome. I just love, I love the community. I love the sport. I love that I can say that I'm in a sport at this age in life. Right. All right. Let everybody know about your socials where we can find you on cat five.

Speaker 4 (21:03.566)
Right, right, right.

Speaker 4 (21:09.154)
Yeah, so our website, cat5pickleball.com and then we're on Instagram and Facebook, cat5pickleball.

Awesome. Andrea, Andrea, Andrea. Thanks so much for talking with us today on the Big Dink Energy podcast. Love what you're doing out there. We kind of go through that area as we're traveling to Florida or somewhere else. So I definitely want to poke my head in and play a game there. Make sure. Absolutely. So thanks so much for being on today. Thank you so

Come see me for sure.

Speaker 4 (21:35.086)
so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (21:43.246)
Yeah, it's that time where we give you something to toss up and we either send it over the net and it's a thumbs up or we destroy it. It's not for us thumbs down.

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when it comes to eating in bed. I know for some people this is not a big topic, but for some people it's really controversial.

think the topic should have been eating at the table.

there other places to eat? We're big bed eaters. mean, we're not, we are, we're not big per se. My body weight's just about right. So I don't, someone else? Someone else wanna jump in? just look. Hey, look at me just hanging out here by myself. Thank you all so much.

Speaker 3 (22:33.078)
To eat? I know.

Speaker 3 (22:50.638)
We're just letting you

Talk about bed eating. They were big bed wetters

I get that cologne from bed eating.

Personally, I'm all for eating in bed. I only eat at the table when it's like a special occasion or when it's like we have people over, holiday, things along those lines. But for the most part, I'm exhausted by the time I get home. And typically it's after nine o'clock at night. I don't want to make my food and then sit all prim and proper at the table. At that point, I've already got my pajamas on. I, one, don't want other people in my house to see me like that.

So I'm just gonna go and lay in my bed and eat my food and decompress because that's what I have to do.

Speaker 1 (23:36.216)
Yeah, but I'm to have to guess your pajamas are all matching. I know for sure multiple pairs of them have monogram on them. mean, come on.

That's one of my monograms. I love my monograms. But yes, they are. But there also comes a time to where you just want to lay down.

Go to sit and relax.

So, you know, I think the table eating came, table eating was in my generation for sure. it was, you know, the way for everybody to catch up on their day. What did you do today? What did you do today? What'd you screw up today is usually how went when it came around. Yeah, that's right. And so, but now with, with the advent of the cell phone, we're all connected at all times of the day, texting, pictures, voice memos, all that. So I know what you did today. I do like to connect. I mean, there's times we get in bed.

did you steal? Who's alone did you buy?

Speaker 1 (24:25.214)
and we connect and we talk about different projects that are

I think it depends on your lifestyle. I really do, because I understand that, you know, we homeschool, but there's people that don't, and they go off to work that day, their kids go off to work, you know, they come home, everybody comes home around 5.30, because they work a nine to five, and now everybody's home right then. I can understand how was your day, all of that. But like, your husband, as a police officer, he has different shifts, you have different shifts, one of your kids work, so I get that.

Our lifestyle, we're with our kids all day long, pretty much. We run a business together, so we're with each other all day long. So what do want me to do at eight o'clock at night? I am done with y'all. You're just talking. I'm done. I want to watch my show. I want to eat my snacks.

And we have over 20 years of marriage, right? And so I know, I mean, there's nothing I'm gonna learn. Yeah.

And I see you all day. So what am I gonna ask you? What'd you do with me? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:25.334)
What did we do today?

Even like sitting on the couch and watching TV and if you're sitting on the couch and you're eating your supper and You're getting ready to go to bed It still leaves the invitation out there for other people to talk to you I and when I'm in my bed like my kids know that's You better knock on the door and if I don't say come in do not open that door because you have to turn around and go right back out

Hungry Man dinners and like the old school TV trays. And like, I remember like that was my dad and it was like, don't talk to your dad when he's eating dinner. And I mean, we would have.

Now though, don't

But I mean, we would have family dinners, but it wasn't like all the time, you know? And I don't know, I think it really just has to do with your lifestyle. I mean, I guess the other part of me is like, why am I trying to plate all this stuff into bigger bowls to put on a table to put onto the smaller bowls after I had the pans? No, I'm not trying to do all that. Okay. Take it out of here and put it on your plate. Go watch your show somewhere and don't bother me.

Speaker 3 (26:19.854)
and then you have extra dishes.

Speaker 3 (26:27.918)
There are some people who are absolutely adamant, completely against it. That it's like unhygienic and they have all kinds of different reasons why you shouldn't do it.

Understand how it's what are you just like throwing it all over the place? Are you not careful are you four years old?

See?

more

Exactly. I feel that way too. I think it's just a way for them to feel pretentious over people who want to just lay in bed.

Speaker 2 (26:51.95)
I love to eat in bed.

I do too. Well the weirdest thing is when I go to somebody else's house and I go get in their bed. It's always frowned upon.

So it sounds like we're all a dink.

Speaker 2 (27:03.342)
You're like, hey, you wanna come over for dinner? You're like, how big's your bed?

How do you use your remote? need to know.

You guys want to come over for dinner party? Can you put a show on?

How many people can fit in your bed? want a snuggle?

Now I did see something a little strange, and I know this is a little off topic, but my sister and I were at a restaurant and we were eating and there was a couple sitting next to us and they were like sitting next to each other, like you know how kind of date people do instead of across? And they literally put up their phone and sat there and watched a show. Why they ate their...

Speaker 3 (27:37.636)
Are we talking?

because y'all are out eating dinner.

The show is in front of you. The show is 360. It's all around.

I think that that's really cute. I that they're still sharing it together They didn't want to eat at home

Why are you doing that out?

Speaker 1 (27:51.822)
So that's one of the reasons we do it too, because we don't get a ton of TV time.

We don't, I look forward to my 30 minute show at the end of the day where it's like, I don't have to think about anything.

And don't dare, if we're on a series, you do not dare watch it while I'm away. We have our own shows that we're allowed to watch separate of each other.

I don't, I promise.

Speaker 2 (28:12.291)
Yes, though either one of us hate the other shows so we're like you can watch it. don't care. Yeah, okay, so I'm a dink

I'm easy a dink on eating in bed for s-

Do it.

For sure not soup though.

I will eat soup in bed. I love my soup though. You know I love soup. You want me a little soup crock pot, but I will eat soup sitting.

Speaker 1 (28:32.254)
There's a

I would hope you weren't laying down pouring it on yourself.

I was like, trying to get it inside.

What do got a thermos?

But like some things I won't eat in bed is like toast. Toast is crumbly.

Speaker 1 (28:41.676)
Okay, that's a yeah.

Are you not using plates?

It's crum- It's crummy.

It crumbles on the plate. Like the plate is there for protection.

I mean you gotta be sad. Not always. you're savage with toast. Are you? Yeah, I am. I'm big toast savage.

Speaker 3 (28:59.778)
I guess maybe I am too, because I make a mess with toast. Every time we eat toast, there's crumbs everywhere.

Are you eating toast? What? You talked about toast last time with peanut butter, like, damn!

That's a lot of soup and toast.

Speaker 1 (29:10.892)
We don't even toast that much. I Is our toaster even out? I don't know.

Sweet.

Speaker 1 (29:18.154)
Okay, can we dink?

My favorite thing to eat, especially in the morning, is a piece of toast with butter and cheese and ham.

in your

Yeah, I'll go back to editing.

Oh, you're a morning bed eater. Eww. Eww. bed eater.

Speaker 3 (29:34.99)
I only eat like once or twice a week a day. It's kind of hard. It's only on Saturday.

Scarlet letter

I didn't know you were MBE.

That's too much now. Okay, I'm a dink.

Dink, dink.

Speaker 2 (29:53.902)
News you can use.

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I get compliments on my keychains all the time. Alright, so some news you can use. I've had a lot of people ask me what duper is, and so I wanted to give you some duper facts.

It's from Young Frankenstein.

Super Duper. Okay, so Duper stands for dynamic, universal, pickable rating. The rating scale goes from two to eight. It applies to singles, doubles, and mixed. It's gender neutral and global, so the same system for everybody. It's based on win, loss, outcomes, and point differentials. Both recreational and tournament matches can count if verified. Algorithm updates after each eligible match.

Speaker 2 (31:06.958)
You can claim or create a Duper profile at myduper.com. A higher rating equals a higher skill level. Pro players are typically 6.0 and above. So not me, am I 2.9? 6. Oh, I am a 2.7. Yeah, 2.69. And then most rec players fall between 2.5, so I beat it. Good job. And 4.5.

Eww. Killing it.

Yeah, yeah. And Duper, I'm still looking. If you want to have a solid 1.5 in your rating system, come see me.

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