50 Episodes and Failing DUPRs | Sean Munoz Content Creator

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 🔹 Childhood myths we believed—hello, quicksand panic
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Plus, Sean Munoz from Volair Pickleball joins us to talk playing till your limbs give out, building a pickleball following without selling your soul, and why he might just bring the game to Argentina (¡Vamos!).

 🎧 Listen now before your DUPR drops just from hearing this.
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Speaker 3 (00:00.542)
I really thought we landed on the moon, but here we are. And now it makes me cringe.

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know, yeah, episode 50. Yeah.

episode 5-0. Almost my age.

That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:40.428)
Okay.

A few years ago.

Hey!

Hey, hey.

Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:46.925)
I'm as good once as I am. Thank you, Toby Keith, RIP. So episode 50, and that actually really means something. Here's why, 30 to 50 % of podcasts never even make it to a second episode. Good on us. Only 10 to 20 % make it to 10 episodes, again, beating the standard. And less than 5%, some say closer to 1 to 3%, depending on who you listen to, ever make it to 50.

Whatever was.

Speaker 1 (02:15.202)
just like men. No. Which means most podcasts don't stay consistent long enough to get here where we are right now. And that's because of y'all out there listening. So whether you've been here since episode uno, number one, uno for our Spanish speaking friends, or you just found us, thanks for showing up. We didn't quit, you didn't quit, and apparently we're still having a good time.

Yes, are. Yes, we are, for sure. I can't, I for one can't believe we made it this long. So I kind of wanted to just chat about the last 49 episodes. So let's talk about things we thought would be different by episode 50. So for me, I particularly thought I would be better at pickleball by now. no, just like, yeah, it's been 50 weeks.

of a pocket.

Speaker 3 (03:03.808)
So you'd think my duper wouldn't have gone down. you don't. You're just with me. Yeah, I mean, so I thought I would be better, but.

You played a couple games.

Speaker 1 (03:14.2)
For me, I thought that number one, I would be a well-recognized celebrity in the community by now. I kind of am.

but awesome.

I thought we'd have less technical issues. We still can't seem to get our technical stuff down. That's true. the time I forget my computer or I'm tearing down the set and Jeff has to help us and you we have some a lot of tests and that so.

My goodness.

Speaker 3 (03:46.03)
What do you think the most unexpected thing about podcasting?

What do I think? For, well, I... Kind of the setup we have now, I think that's gonna change in the near future. It works for us now, but we're kind of big time now, so we're gonna... I'm kind of a big deal. I think we're gonna rearrange. People have been complaining they can't see enough of me.

I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:02.453)
Kind of a big deal. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:07.81)
Yeah, I think the setup. Yeah, nobody's complaining. I think the unexpected thing is the timeline. Like you have to really prep and prepare, know, it's. And making sure we're staying consistent when there's vacations and travel and, you know, making sure.

We're all coming from different jobs.

Speaker 3 (04:29.73)
you know, I'm gonna be gone for two weeks, so we need to do it here, push it back to there, you know, getting the interviews, slotting them in. It is a little part-time job we got going on over here.

I wish we were making part-time money.

So that was going to be mine as well was the amount of work that goes into it. You just think that you sit down record press upload. No, like there's so much more that goes into it.

Yeah, even after the episodes are done. Yeah. Just the, like you said, the uploading, but then all the social media behind it and, you know, getting this stuff to the people who are doing the interviews, you know, all that behind the scenes stuff, I don't think. I mean, we knew it was work, but we just didn't really consider how much.

That's the 30 to 50 percent that aren't past episode two.

Speaker 3 (05:17.326)
I can't do this anymore. No, it's a lot. What do you think we've learned about each other by doing this? I can tell you that Paddle Princess has to say too far because sometimes you go too far.

Well, I think the audience loves that. really, my, when I crack this mic, I don't see you two. I see our audience. And so everything I say is for our audience. I care about the people that have us in their ears right now. Get us in your ears.

You are, you just have like the mentality of a 16 year old and make everything a sexual innuendo.

Everything? Yes! Not everything. Not every- I guess I put my pants on then.

I feel like I have a hard time not cussing. Like, realized that my everyday vernacular includes those words. And so, you know, I'm just trying to be myself here, but I know I need to not, I don't want to always hit explicit on the podcast uploads, so I do my best.

Speaker 1 (06:17.9)
You know, I think the first couple, if you go back and listen to the first couple, why wouldn't you start over and just listen to us like the office? really, after the first couple sentences, once the music plays and we're into it, it's our real personalities. Yeah, for sure. They really come through. It's not made up, it's not manufactured.

But we've, I think like what episode 50 actually means to me is we have been so consistent through being sick, through having parents being sick, through the 14 jobs we all have, playing pickleball, meeting new friends, all of that, we're still showing up every week. And I'm really proud of us. So I'm gonna be the first to say I appreciate our listeners, I love our listeners, but I am really proud of us because

we literally just decided to do this one day. And we could have very well just been like, okay, that didn't work. And I'm not saying it's actually working, but I think now we've got a good system and we're getting good feedback from people. And so that makes it a lot easier for us to do and continue to do. we do love that fan mail.

Speaker 1 (07:31.566)
Our buddy Apple John says, and I know Apple John right now, you are wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shirt for sure. But he says, I personally felt honored to be included in this community and asked to be a part of this show. Absolutely. You guys are the greatest. Smile emoji, smile emoji, smile emoji, smile emoji, then rock fingers, and then a pickle. Can't wait to see what 2026 brings. And yes, I didn't have to read all those like that. But when you take the time to put an emoji, I'm reading your emoji, because that meant something.

It made me feel like Wingdings. I remember when... mailbox, mailbox,

Yeah, bird, Hieroglyphics. So what I wanted to say to y'all, if you're wondering how can I get some fan mail to you, guess what? Go to the brand new redesigned up and working page for BDE podcast, the BDE podcast webpage. And if you're like me, and I know I am, that's where I go to communicate to people. Nothing for carrier pigeons yet, but we're working on that. There's some unionized thing about

Please jump on that website and give us a Google review. You can even text us from there. Super easy, 30 seconds. Just help us out.

Get in there, I may read it on air. I probably will. Put some emojis in there, I'll read those too.

Speaker 2 (08:42.508)
You

Just the tip, quick pickleball wisdom in and out before you know it. So this week we have windshield wiper dinks. So you're gonna use a side to side wrist motion to generate top spin on dinks, making them harder to attack. I for one cannot do this. Yeah, but not for top spinning.

You both have great wrist action.

Okay, alright, what is it for then?

Not for topspinning.

Speaker 4 (09:14.478)
Every time, too far guy, too far.

Speaker 1 (09:25.02)
It's time for Picklepac!

Speaker 1 (09:30.84)
Today's guest was born in Argentina, speaks fluent Spanish, plays for Volair Pickleball, the brand co-founded by Julian Andiamo Arnold. And yeah, he once played pickleball for over 24 hours straight. We're gonna get into that. Maybe he's just crazy. He's a content creator making relatable pickleball videos that over 13,000 people follow and you're gonna be one of them after this. He reps Bouquet Canyon Park in Santa Clarita where the paddle saddle is sacred and the courts are lit till 11.

All the way from California, we got Sean Munoz on the Big Dink Energy Podcast. Thanks so much, Sean, for being on.

Appreciate you guys, appreciate you having me. I think they actually changed that because the lights the other day went off at 10. So we have to check in on them.

You're big time out there, you're big baller out there, I think you can get that fixed.

I don't know, man. The city has a lot of, lot of permanent things going on. know, the other day they actually just came in and fixed one gate and it took three days.

Speaker 1 (10:22.003)
my gosh, and it probably took a whole union crew to do it.

And you know how much people complain when it's closed for a couple of days.

Yeah, no kidding. So obviously the biggest elephant in the room for us and for our listeners is pickleball for over 24 hours. I watched that. saw that. Are you crazy or was it just a crazy idea that a bunch of guys had and you went with it?

Not directly my idea. would say, you know, Vinny, one of the guys on there probably called me at one point and then just kind of didn't seem too crazy when we were aiming for 40 to 24. would have definitely done. But yeah, it's one of those things that, you know, sounded crazy until we're actually our 16. And then you're like, oh, it's kind of doable. But we didn't know if we were going to stop our 84032. So, yeah, I don't want to touch up too much because I know you had Igor on and he kind of talked about it. But yeah, one of the guys had to.

Had to give up because his arm had a small tear.

Speaker 1 (11:13.58)
Yeah, and that's, you know, Igor, a great guest, by the way, and he had said, you know, how the body just starts breaking down at a certain point. like for our 18, if you remember that, what is kind of, is, can you walk our listeners, like, what does that feel like, the brain, the body, what are you guys feeling at that point?

Yeah. mean, I'd say everyone kind of takes it different, right? Cause I'm a player who probably on a tournament day cramps towards like semi-spinals and you know, if we're talking about around Robin, maybe game nine, 10. So for me, I was just focused on like stretching, things like that during, and the part that's really tough is the breaks are like 10 minutes, you know? So at the most, so that was our biggest break. Some breaks would be two minutes. So you got to pick whether, you know, you get, you know,

lotion, whatever you need to do down there, or you go to the bathroom, or you get to have a snack. You don't get to do, I mean, maybe someone really talented can do all three at the same time, but yeah, you got to just pick around. So hour 18 was pretty rough for me. I didn't get great sleep before it. Just I kind of like, you know, it's kind of like a tournament day. You're kind of excited, you're nervous at the same time. So, you know, hour 18 was rough and I hit a second wind probably hour like 22, but I know all the other guys had a different strategy going on. Igor himself.

had energy the whole time. You couldn't even tell what was going on. So I don't want to say he took something, but maybe he took something.

Speaker 2 (12:36.504)
Yeah, mean no one was checking there, so you know, not too bad.

So, I mean, are you now on this, are you switching out paddles? I mean, you talked about the lotion and powder and all that kind of stuff, swapping out socks, shoes, all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, so I mean, we had a couple of sponsors that kind of threw us a couple of things. You know, I have a couple of paddles. I use the same one. So I wasn't caring about what paddle or anything like that. The only thing that I wanted to check is can the ball go where I want? I don't need power, right? Because we're not really trying to beat each other. So I just kind of taped up a couple of paddles just so I wouldn't have to re grip if I got sweaty. And we went with that. Now the challenge turned into can we beat each other? And we played competitively, I would say, for like

21 hours out of those 24. So I think that's why we didn't get the record. But yeah, it's still a day nonetheless.

So would you do it again? Or if not, and someone wants to do it, what advice are you going to give them?

Speaker 2 (13:30.952)
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I know I think you know this now, the record, someone attempted I think 48 hours. So if we're going to do it again, it just makes sense to do 50. Yeah, for sure. You know, I know that sounds crazy. I think it is doable, but it's nothing that I have just in my next couple of months. Right. It might be like a long term thing later down the road. If, you know, anyone's going to try it, I would say just take all the precautions you can. You know, we talked to a lot of doctors, we had medics on site. Unfortunately, that

issue that happened with my friend and his arm happened the only four hours we didn't have a medic or any are on the side. So we were trying to make calls like, can we keep going? But once you're trying to do that stuff, I mean, what doctor is going to tell you? Yeah, keep going. you can't it. at that point I would say just take the precautions, you know, prep, take your time for training and yeah, go from there.

Yeah, I

Speaker 1 (14:21.688)
So, you your content, I find it, and you've described it this way too, very relatable, pickleball, you know, for everybody, whether it's pro, semi-pro, or even rec players. What kind of, in your mind, what makes your stuff different from the other people that are out there kind of doing the same thing?

I think I started, you know, like 2021, 2020 probably doing content and it was a little bit wild when I started doing it just because I tend to cuss and those things kind of weren't in pickleball at the time. So it was a little bit different where some maybe a sponsor wouldn't necessarily go towards that, but it wasn't really what I was aiming at when I started. So I think that kind of makes it more relatable. And then just shooting things that I find funny that happened on the court.

You know, just like the average situations of your partner hitting a ball out, you getting upset with them or things like that, beating someone in the paddle rack. Anything that you find funny and pickleball just kind of always noted in my iPhone notes and just it's in the back of my head for a video.

That makes total sense. I'm like, I love that you said that because it kind of leads me to what I was thinking next is, you know, I don't think a lot of your stuff is scripted and you can tell me I'm wrong if I am, but I think it is organic. think it's things that you find. And then I was going to ask you, how do you, how do you make sure you note that down so you can come back to it later? And iPhone, right? Yeah.

So I'll use like iPhone notes a lot and just kind of write down what I would call the title of the video. And even, you know, I'm guilty of this that sometimes I'll check back in in a week later and I'm like, what was I talking about? And then I kind of have to remember what the idea was. But if anything, I'll write down a couple of lines, but I don't like to do too much scripted content because I feel like it takes away from that originality obviously, but.

Speaker 1 (15:57.558)
Yeah, you have to, even for us, we don't script, but we have a framework, right? We have these segments we definitely want to talk about and we don't want to guess at what we're going to say, but after that, just big titles, it's whatever we come up with at that point. And I think that's why your stuff is so great too, and it resonates with me. mean, over 13,000 followers on Insta, so how, I mean, for those people that are trying to get to those numbers like that, how long did it take you to build that and what do you think are some of your reasons for success?

Yeah, I mean, it's been tough, right? Cause I, I remember the first year I started, I started playing pickleball probably 2019. I wasn't necessarily doing content other than the content everyone does, which is a couple of cool plays here and there. And when I started, I kind of gave myself a goal of like, I'm going to post this much for like a year. And if, know, I wasn't necessarily like linked to the followers. So I would say like a good tip would be ignore all those numbers and just stay consistent. Like if you don't.

even check your views, you know, because like it's easy to check your views when you're starting out and you're not getting a lot of views and then give up on it. I would say you got to be consistent for a while and then just be original, you know, because I see a lot of people kind of copying each other's content right now. And that's kind of like, you know, it's easy to take a trend and give it a spin. I think that's a little bit different than just flat out copying someone's video. But if you come out with original ideas, I think Instagram rewards you for that. For sure.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Because, I mean, there is the formula on TikTok, right? When there's a dance and everybody does the dance and you just hashtag it or put it on the screen and then you'll get some views off of that. But yeah, I think Insta and the way you run it, you're coming up with some bold stuff, some fresh stuff, and that's what really resonates with people. And the most important thing is you're authentic in everything you do in it, which resonates with a ton of people. So let's talk a little bit about Volair, the brand connection you have there. mean, Julian Arnold, I mean, he yells Andiamo every five seconds, right? So how'd you land that partnership?

Yeah. So I mean, not sure how much you are in the know of it, but Julian's not part of the team. There was like a little falling out. I don't know if I can get super into, but Ryan, the owner of Valer, he reached out at one point when I was an advocate with Selkirk and you know, it's Selkirk. I love that brand, but it was just very tough because my, my comedy and the way I go about it in a little while does not necessarily how they view their brand. Right. So we kind of like.

Speaker 2 (18:16.194)
didn't match for a while. So, you know, Ryan gave me an offer to come on the team, kind of talk to me about what we would be doing. And, you know, it's been a perfect fit. They were already doing pretty original content that I found funny. And, you know, there's a way to market paddles, right? You're either going to go after the top pros or you're going to go after the people at the park that just want to have a laugh. They want to have a cool new paddle, but maybe aren't looking for specifics of.

Does Anna Lee have it or does Ben have it? Not that that doesn't sell paddles as well, right? I know right now she just went with a new paddle company and is probably going to sell a lot of paddles, right? So there's different ways to market and it spoke to me about what they were doing.

Yeah, I saw that and then I saw the Nike thing too for her and I think, when we were, when I see in that, I'm like, okay, here we go. Because, you know, we, we feel like, and I'm sure you do too, pickleball has just not reached what it, what it's capable of yet. We're still at kind of almost the ground floor, maybe, maybe, you know, floor one, floor two, but there's so much more to go. There's so much more runway for pickleball and I'm excited. And we see things like Nike coming on and sponsoring an athlete in it. Okay, here we go. You know, you're to see the Olympics following pretty close after that.

Yeah, huge. Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah. Some of your other sponsors, you had Bodhi, Ernie, I like that machine they have, we need to figure out how to get one of those. Head, how do you balance all of that, creating content for all of them?

Speaker 2 (19:37.388)
I mean, it's a struggle, right? Because with Valera, I have a contract where I have to post certain amount of videos per month, right? Bodhi is a great friend of mine. He's always provided like a gear, things like that, especially when I was just starting, you we were making a lot of content together. So I have Bodhi pickleball on every single palette. Like it's not even a question. And I, know, to me, that's the best grip on the market to other people. They may have their own opinions, but I'd say I've only used maybe like.

suited three grips ever where I felt like, wow, this is different. And you know, just with Bodhi, I mean, he's done a great job, like pushing to accessories of the game in general. So I mean, you know, I'll get DMs on certain companies all the time, but unless I really use that product, you won't really see me throwing it on Instagram to like do an ad. So I mean, mean, the head shoes, who doesn't need shoes, right? Like I use shoes and I last, I don't know how much you last, I last probably about a month and a half to two months.

her shoe with no matter what company. I've tried, like I've tried, close to 40 shoes in pickleball. I'm talking brands, like then we get to specifics, right?

Yeah. Yeah. And again, you run your business the same way we do. I'm not putting anything on this show out to our listeners that I don't believe in, I wouldn't use, and I don't use. Exactly. So we're very picky in that as well. And that does come across, and it comes across clearly in your videos as well. You're authentic about it, like I said, and people can trust that what you say is what you mean in that. So let's get into the Argentina side of things. Is pickleball big in Argentina?

You know, I haven't been back to Argentina in a while, but, Padel is definitely the biggest racket sport. And obviously tennis is huge over there too. I don't think pickleball has quite made its way. So it would be cool to kind of go back and do some stuff over there as well.

Speaker 1 (21:21.066)
Any thoughts of content strictly for Spanish language?

Yeah, you know, I played around with the idea that I actually had a friend Mike, he traveled to China as well. And I think he used AI and made some of my videos into Chinese. So we've talked about doing that, but yeah, you know, as far as like tutorial videos and things like that, I might get into doing a little bit of more Spanish as well. And just how you know, Federico Stokesford, he's the, he's been the number one. So, I mean, that's been huge in Argentina. So I definitely see more viewers start to like get a little bit more interest in pickleball.

Yeah, we're gonna have to. When I said earlier about the Olympics coming on board, we're going to have to make sure it's a global phenomenon. And having guys like you that speak Spanish, it's going to be necessary for us to put the love out there that we have for the game and put it in a way that people can translate. But pickleball itself, I think it translates across every generation and across all different countries and dialects and everything because it's just so fun and the community is so embracing. doesn't, I don't care if you.

If you're speaking Spanish to me, let's just.

play. No, yeah, for sure. And there's very little sports that you could do that with, right? Yeah. I think that's why pickleball is so special. You know, you could lose to like a 12 year old and a 65 year old kind of in the same day there. You can't really say that about other sports.

Speaker 1 (22:35.758)
Yeah, so what does, five years from now, what's it looking? Are you done with the full-time job and this is your full-time job, content creator, pro player, something else? What's five years from now?

Yeah, you know, I'd love to, but my full-time job, I basically work in the school district, right? So I do get summers and that Christmas break. So I'm pretty okay with that. I'll usually just ramp up content in the summer. From now, no long-term plans to leave my job unless an opportunity really pops up that I want to dive in. I think I just want to stay consistent and grinding with the content. You know, it's, it's tougher other times, you know, around the holidays, around like January, February are tough for me. But then in the summer, I usually have more fun with it because it's not like.

I have to have to do these videos and on a deadline in the summer, I'm more free flowing with it. So yeah, I'll have like seasons where, know, the motivation goes up and down, but I think just staying consistent with it is like number one for me.

Yeah, that's really the thing and that kind of leads me to the kind of last question here. Someone's looking at you and they're like, man, I wish I could do that. I have some good ideas, creating Pickleball content. They haven't started yet. What's one thing you wish you knew when you began that you could impart to them?

I mean a couple of things but I'd say like ask questions would be number one because when I started there was a couple Influencers, but no one was quite doing like the comedy side at least not consistent Yeah, so there wasn't a person that I could ask to like a what's working. What's not working I say now there's a huge network of if you have your little niche in comedy if you have your little niche on tutorials There's definitely people that are open to like helping you learn and things like that. So I would say number one is ask questions

Speaker 2 (24:12.862)
And then if you give me a number two, it's just staying consistent with the content, right? Staying original and consistent. feel like if you're posting every other day, you're going to get better at it just like anything else.

So yeah, that's then that's what we found to crack the mics, put out a consistent episode once a week, stay with it, stay on schedule and make sure you're you know, you're producing the content from that and and the the numbers will come. Like you said, don't even worry about the numbers. It's kind of like the guys in the gym. They wear a pump cover. I don't want to see my pump until I'm done, you know, fully working out. Right. So don't be looking at those numbers. Just stay consistent.

Yeah, not everything's gonna be a hit, right? It's not gonna be every single episode or every single reel is not gonna be, you know, blasting off on views. That's right.

Okay. Where's everybody? Where's all the socials for everybody to find you and connect with you?

Basically at Huan Shan PB across all my socials, I'm probably a little bit more connected on Instagram. I post on TikTok and YouTube, but I kind of connect them all together. So I'll probably go on there like once a week maybe, but I'm probably on Instagram I'd say daily.

Speaker 1 (25:12.814)
Yeah, and you're very responsive too. I was very thankful you and I had a back-and-forth conversation getting you on here and making sure our schedules aligned. so people, I mean, they see the numbers, but you're really connected to the people still. And I absolutely love that about you.

Yeah, I'd say if I ever, you I'll try to check messages at least like, you know, once every other day. But if I ever really do miss it, Instagram sometimes will hide it if we don't have enough common friends or things like that. you know, if you ever want to reach me, just keep reaching out.

Yeah. So special shout out to you listeners. Go pull your car over right now, as soon as this episode is over and go connect with Sean over on all his socials. You'll love everything over there. You're going to laugh alongside me and everybody else here at the Big Dink Energy podcast. Sean, thanks so much for being on tonight and taking time with us.

I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you having me. I appreciate you being flexible and working a time for us.

Yeah man, you're a big star man, I gotta do it. Alright brother, have a great night.

Speaker 2 (26:03.424)
No, come on, dude. thanks so much,

Speaker 3 (26:17.12)
Come on, that's what I feel like saying.

Listen, Pick Six is where we take one question and we each bring two answers and immediately regret to agreeing to this. Today's Pick Six is Things You Believed as a Kid That Make You Cringe Now. Things You Believed as a Kid That Make You Cringe Now.

I believed that we would actually be living like the Jetsons did.

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Speaker 4 (26:45.128)
I we're not too far off, but like, I don't have a Rosie that cleans. I don't have a flying car.

But I also kind of don't because if you've seen what those robots look like in your house that would be so creepy.

Yeah, but I really wish I had a Rosie. I mean, she was sweet and she cleaned everything.

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Speaker 1 (27:17.388)
Yeah, I planned for it. thought you're just going to come across this in your

The never ending story, that was the worst. I really thought that like 40 meant AARP and orthopedic shoes, like old AF. I really thought that, now I'm like, ooh.

thought that things were going to be on fire a lot more and I would have to stop, and roll like...

Yes.

There's a lot of stop, drop, and roll trainings.

Speaker 3 (27:46.35)
If you think about it, it's only three directions. Why did we have to practice that so much?

We practiced it all the time in school growing up.

couldn't get it right on the TikTok video I did.

No you couldn't.

Sorry.

Speaker 3 (28:00.63)
Hilarious. was the worst.

You know, if you wonder what I'm saying, go look at my TikToks if you can find it. Okay. So until I saw one in the wild, I thought as a kid, as a kid, I thought teachers lived at school. I didn't know they went home. I thought they were like a teacher supply closet or something. Until you see one out in the wild as a kid, you're like, what's going on right now? And they're not dressed like teachers.

Stay good.

Speaker 3 (28:22.574)
Right, and they're like going to the club, like they're doing their thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm last? I guess I'm last. I really thought we landed on the moon, but here we are. And now it makes me cringe. Get in our comments. I'm sure you're going to like that one.

Good ones.

I see the graphics on that one.

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News you can use.

Speaker 1 (28:53.71)
There you go. Lean in, listen up, turn your hearing aids up. It's coming.

So I thought I'd piggyback on last week's news you can use. Wee, wee! Oh, you piggybacking? Yeah. And here's the thing, like, last week's was about Anna Lee Waters, and then by the time the episode hit, we all knew where she was going. Yeah. So I know it was a little old by the time it got there. And this is going to be a little bit old when they get it on Tuesday. I'm little old. Because today, Anna Lee Waters signed with Nike. This is huge.

because

Speaker 3 (29:27.402)
Last week we were talking about it and it's like if she does that that's gonna put that puts pickleball like on the map like now we're a real Now we're Now we're legit, you know, if you the swish then that's

Yeah, because you had the Serena Sisters, the Williams Sisters with tennis. so, and she's probably the first one, I would guess.

She's very first one, not just first female, first one. she's gonna have footwear and clothes and it's gonna be exciting.

I can't wait to get my official Annalee Waters merch.

It'd be a whole line. She'd be super cute. the paddle company, went with Franklin, right? Yeah, Franklin. Yeah, she went with Franklin.

Speaker 3 (30:05.806)
But no Wheaties box yet. We're calling it She's gonna do it. Hey

Hey, she's gonna be on the

Franklin. Get up in our comments, ALW. Let us know what's going on with Nike and everything you got going on. We know you've heard about us. Exactly. And you're probably listening right now in all your Nike gear. So come up in our comments. We'll consider having you on. Yeah, if we...

have room.

If we have the time, let's schedule real quick.

Speaker 1 (30:32.12)
Let me check my

Yeah, just thought that was super cool, really exciting. And I'm looking forward to seeing how this grows, not only her career, but also, you know, the sport in general.

People are finally going to take us serious. Not us, not Pickleball, not our podcast, but Pickleball in general finally. Love it.

us.

That's super cool.

Speaker 4 (30:53.038)
All right, before we log off, I just want to say that a lot of our success is due to Steph. Steph takes the time and really does the majority of the behind the scenes while Guy and I get the luxury of showing up. she does so much. website, she plans the episode. so Steph, thank you for all of your hard work. Being our

For sure, absolutely.

lighthouse to getting us to 50 episodes.

Yeah, that's it is absolutely true. I echo those sentiments. You do the most you always guide us and lead us and have the notes.

Normally when you say that you say, you do the most. You do.

Speaker 4 (31:37.88)
But genuinely, you do so much to help this podcast and it's like, we wouldn't be able to do that. Cause I mean, like we all have full-time jobs too. It's nice to not have the extra stuff piled on because you take care of it. So thank you. I know she is. Well, we love you.

We're here because

Speaker 1 (31:55.468)
matriarch of

I appreciate that. And I couldn't hold this show by myself. I'm not that funny. Just kidding.

No, no, for the rest of you listening, you're welcome for my service.

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Speaker 1 (32:12.494)
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