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Carolina Panthers safety Trey Boston joins Marnie and Alisa to talk about the sport that's taken over his post-NFL life: padel. From a vacation rally in the Dominican Republic to traveling internationally for tournaments, Trey breaks down what the sport is, why it's exploding worldwide, where to play in Charlotte and why he's betting big on it as a business. Plus: his media career after football, raising kids with intention, the meaning behind number 33, and a look at the team tennis league he's helping bring to the South.

Episode Highlights:
00:00 — Welcome & introducing Panther legend Trey Boston
01:00 — Paddle or padel? The naming debate explained
03:23 — The international governing body and Premier Padel league
06:04 — Life after the NFL: ACC Network, Weather Channel, and HBCU GameDay
09:50 — Jobs that found him: on financial freedom and commercial real estate
17:25 — Why padel makes business sense: court economics and investment opportunity
22:37 — 92% retention rate, 45% women players, and why padel beats pickleball
26:51 — Where to find padel courts in Charlotte right now
34:15 — Growing up with a single mom in Fort Myers and the faith that guides him
39:04 — The meaning of number 33, Intense Tennis, and a new padel brand on the way

About This Week's Guest:
Trey Boston is a former Carolina Panthers safety who played six seasons in the NFL after being drafted in the 2014 NFL Draft. Since retiring, he's built a media career that includes co-hosting a daily show on the ACC Network, appearing on the Weather Channel for a home renovation series, and covering HBCU football for Byron Allen's network. He's now one of padel's most visible advocates in the United States, investing in courts, attending international tournaments, and building what he calls a "family" around the sport. Trey splits his time between Charlotte and Fort Myers, Florida, where he grew up.

Connect with Trey Boston: https://www.instagram.com/trebos10/
Follow Trey on Instagram and keep an eye out for his upcoming padel brand, Por Quatro.

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SPEAKER_00

All right, so welcome to Vince to Bold. I'm Elisa and I'm Marnie. And today we have Panther Legend Trey Boston.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my gosh, we have an exciting show today. We're gonna talk about Padell.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I'm excited. I'm a tennis player. I want to try Padell, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Listen, so I'm gonna tell you right now, there's a fight right now between the name Padell and Paddle.

SPEAKER_00

Is it Padel? Am I saying it wrong?

SPEAKER_03

It's not as you're saying it wrong. There's a fight inside the United States for if it's paddle and padale.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, well, what is it? I'm gonna let you know.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna let the people know.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

I think we should start calling it paddle.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so why was it padale at first? And why was it?

SPEAKER_03

All right, this is why I'm gonna give you the two reasons why it was called Padale. All right, so up north they play uh platform tennis. It's always played in the cold. It's similar. Similar. It's played inside of a cage, and they want to call that sport paddle. But no, it's called platform tennis. No, it's called platform tennis.

SPEAKER_01

Louder for everybody.

SPEAKER_03

No, it's called platform tennis.

SPEAKER_01

I've never even heard platform tennis. Yeah, I I have heard, yes, like in Rochester, New York. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, see Martin, she knows. Come on now. Marty knows everything. Come on, Marty knows. So, so then as well as paddle said around the world when you get to the Spanish, they say, hey, paddle, oh, padel.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, pad okay.

SPEAKER_03

Padel. So then we were like, as Americans, you know.

SPEAKER_00

I say it like this Padale.

SPEAKER_03

So then we we heard it from them and we're like, oh, Padles Padell.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, padel.

SPEAKER_03

So so they were like, no, like I've I've been with the top of the top. They say, no, it's paddle tray. Paddle. I'm like, okay, I got y'all. So when you now hear people say padale or padale, tell them paddle.

SPEAKER_00

I can say no.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna correct you.

SPEAKER_03

It's paddle. So I just taught y'all something new today.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. That's right. Learning is key.

SPEAKER_03

It's key. We learn something new every day.

SPEAKER_01

Every day.

SPEAKER_03

You know what I'm saying? So right now.

SPEAKER_00

Sometimes.

SPEAKER_03

There's still a fight. So so right now, people call it both. You have most of Americans still saying padale.

SPEAKER_00

Have you called it paddle?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, I did at one point. I did, I did. And so I got I got coasted up.

SPEAKER_01

I think paddle's better. It is. It just I think certainly for the American audience, it's better. P Padell is it's it's a different. I'm trying to say paddle fancy. Yeah. I I think that that it's I think, yeah, I I think you made a good choice. Now who's the governing body of paddle?

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so they have their own governing body, which is uh Federation of International Paddle, is FIP. Um, and they now have just continue to grow the brand, whether it's through uh FIP usually has its own tournaments. Um they're not the best league though. So they have their own governing body, um, but there is a league that is Premier Paddle, which is of the best players. Um and they go around internationally, even to a you know, come to America for the last two years, and they play all around. So it's been yeah, it's it's fun to just follow uh what the FIP has done, the growth of the sport, but also Premier Paddle, taking it to the next level with the professionals.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so you're an athlete. We know that. You're a you're a great athlete. Oh, thank you. You're a legend. Thank you. Um what got you interested in paddle?

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so what got me interested in I was in the DR with my wife vacationing on our anniversary, and we were just playing tennis, just rallying back and forth.

SPEAKER_00

Had you played tennis before? Or you were just on vacation and said, let's just go play tennis.

SPEAKER_03

No, no, so like still an athlete, so I play a little bit of like a little bit of tennis.

SPEAKER_01

You can pick things up quickly, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you know, so like me and the me and the wife have definitely like been in college at the tennis courts playing a little bit, you know, near the house playing a little bit. So uh while we're on vacation, we like to get a workout in while we're on vacation in the morning. So we went to go play uh tennis when we were done rallying back and forth. They were like, hey, we have this new paddle, which is different, it's a different shape of a paddle and a new sport. You know, here you go. Now the sport isn't new. It's 69, Acapulco, Mexico. It's not new. But for me, they're telling me it's new. Now they don't know I'm an athlete. So I'm like, all right, let's play. So I play the employees, me and the wife, I tear them up. So day one, I tear them up. I fought, I'm I'm kind of hooked. I'm like, all right, I come back day two. Like, I tear them up again. Like now for money.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, no money. No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_03

You know, you're at resorts, you know. You don't want you don't want you want a tip, you don't want to take their money, you know what I'm saying? So I gave them a tip to whoop up on them. You know what I mean? Exactly. It was entertainment. So it was fun. I'm gonna pay you to stay here and let me whoop on you. You know what I'm saying? So it got to the point where uh two days in, I I'm whooping up on them day three. I got blessed. I come back again, day three, and I play some Chileans. And the Chileans tell me all about the sport. They uh, you know, tell me, hey, it's big in Argentina, Spain, started in Mexico, and Chile has been getting big um for the last, you know, six, seven years. So then, you know, they're telling me about the best players and everything. And I go to, I come back. So I'm I'm like, okay, should I go to my home in Florida or should I go to my home here in Charlotte? And I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna come back to Charlotte because I seen there was courts closer to my home. So then I come out here, I start playing like once a week, and really that got me into the sport, into like the transition of like going to tournaments, meeting all the biggest names, biggest coaches, biggest CEOs, biggest owners, you name it, founders, like I met them all. Like they all like a figure in this sport now. So it's like, yeah, that was the beginning. The Dominican Republic was the beginning of Trey getting into battle.

SPEAKER_01

And how many years ago was that?

SPEAKER_03

That was July 2024. So really recently. Almost two years now. Um, but yeah, recent. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

All right, so Trey, so let's just back up a little bit. Right. So you're an incredible athlete, you're playing professional football. Yeah, then you retire.

SPEAKER_02

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01

And but you obviously are very driven and have a lot of things that you want to accomplish. What were you doing? Then how like, so what is this transition from retiring from the NFL and then saying, now, like, now what? Were you looking for things to do?

SPEAKER_03

No, um, when I retired, I had I had a very easy transition. I'll just be honest. Not a lot of guys have the transition that I didn't. Um soon as I retired, ACC Network called me. Um, well, sure, I didn't even retire. It was in the middle of like, hey, we don't know if you're playing this year, but um we would love you to come on our network, have a TV show three hours a day. Um, I was hosting Mark Packer, Taylor Tannebaum, who's all over ESPN these days. Um, and literally three hours a day, four through seven, Monday through Friday, and just having that talk show with them was fun. That was literally after I retired. Um, in the middle of doing that show, I got a call from the Weather Channel asking me, hey, do you want to do a show with us? Um, you and your wife renovating homes hit by natural disasters. So then I went on to do that show, um, renovating homes all over the nation, whether it was, you know, being in the bayou where you got to take uh boats to, you know, to the houses, whether that was being in the middle of Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas. Uh I got to start the show off in my hometown. We had just got hit by Hurricane Ian. So they allowed me to do uh two homes in my hometown, and that was like And where in Florida is that? Fort Myers, Florida. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. What you know about it, money? What you know about it?

SPEAKER_01

The Fort Myers miracle, which was and I know I I I spent some time. And the boys and girls club at Fort Myers. I'm really I I did a lot of work with Major League Baseball and and uh yeah, so I love Fort Myers. Okay, it's a great community. And and Hammond Stadium is a great, I mean, Hammond, which is where their minor league team plays. Yeah, yeah. And now they're the Fort Myers miracle.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, yes. Crazy thing is they just changed it again.

SPEAKER_01

They did?

SPEAKER_03

Fort Myers, like uh Oh no, wait, they did. It's the muscles, the mighty muscles.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they were the miracle. Then they were, yeah. I was sad. Then they were their mascot was the tree.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I used to love our logo, the M with the palm tree. Oh, man, I used to love it.

SPEAKER_01

So they're the muscles.

SPEAKER_03

I see you know a little son of Marnie. I see you, girl.

SPEAKER_01

So And Fort Myers did get really destroyed. It did. It did. It did.

SPEAKER_03

So to start that show there was was really big for me, you know. Um, and that that was so fun. So after I got done with that show, um, we got bought in the syndication, which was something that the network didn't even like, they were a little upset at because they didn't, they, you know, the the name of the game is to sell your show. That's the name of the game. And they sold, they, you know, they ended up telling us, like, yeah, we were a little upset that we sold it early. Like, we didn't expect you guys to be that good. Um, and and you know, it was truthful, you know, for them. And um, we got sold in the syndication, and then it led me to work with Byron Allen's uh HBCU Go. So what you see is like college game day. I did that for HBCUs. And then the next year, Panthers were like, hey, you know, you can stay home and just do us a show weekly. And I was like, well, you know, I could do that. One thing people know about me is I love to be around my family, my kids, my wife. So I take pride in taking my kids to school each morning, um, picking them up from school. Literally, I'll leave here, go pick up my son. Um, dropped off both of them this morning. And, you know, for me, I wanted opportunities in life that did not keep me from being a father or husband. And that's just how life has been. God has been good to me to put me in just avenues that, you know, a lot of guys have trouble finding work, but I've always just like, jobs have always found me. I told somebody just like last month, like I've never had to, I struggled on the word, like, uh, what's it called when you're trying to get a job? And then I got home and I was like, oh, apply. I've never had to apply to for a job, you know. And that's I'm I'm like so thankful because I've always tried to do God's will and God has always put in my path the right things to do and just stuff that I love and just for my family. So that's been my um my life. And I did a lot of commercial real estate while I was playing. So that helps me be financially free now that I'm done playing. Now I get to do the things that I love because I have the residual incomes, I have the checks that hit the bank account every month, that I'm not worried about um working jobs that I don't love. Um, that's my biggest thing is I want everybody to work jobs that they love so they don't feel like it's work. And that's the part where, yeah, man, God has truly blessed me with just being able to, hey, Trey, and one day I'm here, one day I'm there, one day I'm out of country, and then I'll tell you, like, oh, I'm free. And then next thing you know, I'm just out of country for real. Like, so it's been it's been a blessing.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I think that also, I mean, and first of all, that's a great story. And I when you do things that are rooted in in authenticity and being genuine and working your behind off and and having discipline and grit, that I do think that opportunities just naturally fall in your path. They just do because people are attracted to those kind of people, and it's like, I want that guy on my team, I want that guy to be involved in what I'm doing. So it doesn't surprise me that you've never had to apply for a job. But truthfully, as an athlete though, I mean you've been applying yourself, which is really much harder. Most people don't understand the rigors of being a professional athlete. So you really have to apply yourself to many things. All right, so now you're taking the world by storm with paddle. Yeah. So, all right, tell us like how people can get involved, or what's the vision for paddle, or where do they find it, or can they go buy stuff at Academy Sports or Dick Sporting Goods?

SPEAKER_03

What what's what's happening? So, right now the market in the United States is very small. There's two stats that I like to tell everybody when they're coming into the sport of paddle. Um, right now there's about 40 to 50 million pickleball players across the world, if not more, because it's growing. Um, 25 to 30 million of those players come from the United States of pickleball. Now, there are 35 million paddle players across the world. Only one million come from the United States. It's to show you how much further there is. Now, listen, this stat is what's gonna help. There's 17,000 registered courts in Spain. 17,000. Spain is not the size of Texas. There's only a thousand recorded. Now we're probably at a like a thousand thirty-ish, but a thousand courts in the whole United States. So I probably have close to 50 of those courts, um, 12 facilities that I'm invested in, and we're continuing to grow. And my part of helping people get to the sport is making it available. Um, right now, gear is kind of bought online. You can buy it at different spots. You can go to Racket Central, hey, my e-commerce, hey, one I invest in, Racketcentral.com. Go get you some some gear right there. But uh as well as just growing the sport. Like you want to grow the sport, get as many courts out here, many facilities, so people know about the sports. Some people still like I have people till this day. Let me get let me lean in. Got people till this day that will hit my DMs and tell me, Trey, I love pickleball ever since I saw you play it. Man, you got me into pickleball. And I want to let you all know I don't play pickleball, I play paddle. So I tell people, don't hit my DMs with that disrespectful stuff, for I get real disrespectful back. You know what I'm saying? No, but pickleball's cool.

SPEAKER_01

Um, but people do think, so how can you how can you explain to our audience what the difference is?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so what it is is when you have pickleball, pickleball is on a smaller court than paddle. Um, paddle is a 10 by 20 meter court. Um, it has glass on the back of both. So when I want you to think about tennis ball and racquet ball, kind of having a a baby. Um, smaller court than tennis, bigger court than uh pickleball, and you don't have this like plastic rinky dink ball. Like you have a tennis ball that is just a little bit smaller and pressurized. And that is it has artificial turf on the ground, a regular net that's a little bit shorter than the tennis uh tennis net, and you just go to town.

SPEAKER_00

Now, can you play singles and doubles?

SPEAKER_03

Straight doubles. Straight doubles. Straight doubles. Now, if you play singles, you get more out. Yeah, it ain't gonna happen. Yeah, it ain't gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01

Now, is it um an Olympic sport yet?

SPEAKER_03

So we we just got into the um Olympic or European games and Asian games as well. Okay. So the next step would be get into Bisbond in 2032. So they're supposed to be deciding on that um pretty soon here coming up.

SPEAKER_01

Is that the Olympic committee that decides?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and they've been at a lot of the tournaments the last uh year and a half, um just trying to just see measure measuring up. Uh right now it's played, I want to believe, in 90 countries. So now it's starting to hit that point where, yeah, we can explode it, get it onto the scene. So we're hoping 32 that the Olympic takes it on because that takes the next step inside of what America will see because America wants, we want steps. Like we don't usually do academies when it comes to like soccer and football, but that's what the rest of the world does. When they see a little kid, they bring him into their academy and they grow him through an academy their whole life or her and get them into that sport. Well, we have a system of uh a kid is good and he needs to play in high school. Well, when he plays in high school, he needs to play in college. Then after college, he goes into the league. Um, and we have to develop that for the kids. And the Olympics allows us to take the next step. Think about flag football. How much have we talked about that on the side? Now that is an official high school sport. And now, guess what? Now colleges are taking it on. Now that goes on to an Olympic, and most likely you'll have a professional uh flag football team, you know, league that will emerge itself as the one.

SPEAKER_01

It will there will be one.

SPEAKER_03

No, for sure. We we know there will, because if there's an Olympics, that means yeah, no, there is no hope. Like it's going to happen. It's gonna happen. Because if you you have you have an Olympics, then you're most likely gonna have a professional league of that. You're not just gonna pop up every four years for this.

SPEAKER_01

Especially with the it seems like with the American athletes, yeah, that obviously when you think about basketball in the Olympics, those, I mean, they're competing as I mean, they're it's the dream team, it's the all-star. So with flag football, obviously, we're gonna have the most incredible athletes performing at you know for the Olympics. So it's gonna be so fun and exciting to watch. So I that will be something fun to definitely see the flag football in um a year, that's a year from now, actually. Yeah, a full, you know, in 2027. Love it. Yeah. Uh now is paddle in high schools and colleges yet?

SPEAKER_03

Um colleges are starting to play it. Um what we're trying to do is get colleges to ad adopt them onto their campuses. So um if you can get two to three paddle courts on your campus, not only do you grow the sport amongst your um your students, but you actually get a team that has a home at court.

SPEAKER_00

I would imagine they're much less expensive than a tennis court, correct?

SPEAKER_03

How much does a tennis court cost? What are you thinking?

SPEAKER_00

Um well it depends whether it's um hard true or clay.

SPEAKER_03

I mean let's go hard.

SPEAKER_00

Hard probably a hundred thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_03

So yeah, each court is about um fifty to seventy thousand. But the thing about it is it's great real estate because you can fit up to two to three courts on a tennis court. So while you might have somebody playing singles probably paying twenty dollars an hour, what are you thinking?

SPEAKER_02

That depends on where you're playing.

SPEAKER_03

Forty dollars an hour, if you you know, forty dollars an hour. You'd have four people paying $40 an hour on two, three courts. So now it's you're talking about a uh actual money grab. How are people making money off of the facilities? Well, if you get people onto the courts, your occupancy's up, um, you build a uh community amongst your courts, giving people something to be around, be about. Um, everybody wants to feel like they're on a team and they're a part of something, they're a part of a community. And if you can do that, you find yourself um you know building those out. But going back to your question, Marnie, like they're building uh as well as not only these courts on the the campuses, but we're also renting out at least like we're we're we're brent we're renting out our courts to the to the whether it's the students or these college teams that are starting to build up to finally get their teams together and bringing them to play each other. So this year we held uh national championship at um at one of my conventions, which is called Racket X. It's it's like the PGA show, but the racket version of that convention, uh something else uh I invest in, you know. I I'm all over this spot.

SPEAKER_01

So now what about like squash and racquetball? Yeah. Now, are you guys so you're like brothers or cousins?

SPEAKER_03

I would say cousins. Your cousins. I have a cousin. Um listen, we love all sports except pickleball. Right.

SPEAKER_01

Um the reason why I'm asking you about squash is my friend's husband is in a a world famous squash player. He's got his name Ned Edwards. Like, I think I want to connect you with Ned. But so the like headquarters for the world squash, and they're always traveling all over the world. But um, but Ned kind of created, I mean, he's the best squash player that ever has existed. And it's an in I think that there's some similarities, and I want I want to connect you with Ned because if you've played squash or you play racquetball, you're you're good at paddle already.

SPEAKER_03

Because most people who are tennis players are also good too, but they haven't played with the wall. Right. So racquetball and squash players have played with walls, so they know how to, okay, ball goes past you, all right, let's hit it back. I'm about to knock it over. Yeah. You get very excited about it. I'm sorry, get your egg, get it, get your egg. A little performative out here. Right. So um, so even tennis players are really good because they had like tennis is the mecca of racket sports. So uh when you have somebody who uh comes out from tennis, I tell you if there's five levels, they're already mid-tier. They're three, two, off rip. All they gotta do is play a couple times and they're legit.

SPEAKER_01

What do people traditionally wear? So is it fashionable or is it? It can be. It can be.

SPEAKER_03

But I would say you would come out there like in a tennis outfit. Okay in a tennis outfit.

SPEAKER_02

So what I want in a tennis, I would wear a paddle.

SPEAKER_03

You would just wear the paddle. Yeah, whether you want to wear your nice dress, little corset, cute one, you come out there, look good in the paddle gear. Um, or if you're it's a day where you just want to wear shorts, long baggy t-shirt, little swaggy, like you do that, you know, and it's it's I've been out there with hoodies on, you know, I've been out there with pants on, yoga pants on, you know, like um, you know, joggers. And, you know, it it's one of those sports that um you can wear really whatever you want. But if you come out there in tennis gear, you're in good gear to play. And uh it's a low barrier sport. Like, no matter how like I've been out there with kids, my kids are, you know, I had them out there when they were four and six. They're five and seven now, and they're like, they can play. I I go I go out there, I'll see teenagers playing with three of them, I'll hop in and be their fourth. Um, all the way to I have this group of grandmas who play, like for real, legit, like 60-year-old, 70-year-old women, and I go out there and have a ball with them and have fun playing with them. So it's like it's a low barrier sport, there, low entry to playing, but hard to master. So it's so cool to go see the best play at an elite level where you're like, wow, we can't do that, but that's so amazing that we can still have fun. Like, what game can you mess up in and truly be laughing at each other having fun? Like uh icy golf. And golf isn't a game where you go out there with a new beginner and you say, Oh, let's go out here and hit your shots. And by the time whole three and four get to it, you're like, All right now, come on.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

Like I just drive the car, just drive the car, you know. And and mentally, they get in a position of not wanting to be there either because they're not good at it, they're not having fun, they're shanking the ball left and right. You know, let's get to the green so I can just putt.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Paddles a game that you can literally have fun with it being your first time. And what I love about it, why I got into investing it was those two numbers that I gave. With the stats, but there's more. 45% of the uh um population who plays are women. 45% women play the game of paddle. And the retention rate, the retention rate is what gets you into the business. When somebody comes one time, the likeness that you'll get them back a second time, can you girls guess?

SPEAKER_01

I well, I'm guessing it's high, like 80%.

SPEAKER_03

80%? What are you thinking?

SPEAKER_00

Probably 95%.

SPEAKER_03

Retention rates are hard. Like getting somebody back 40, 30, 50% is hard. 92% of the time, if you play one time, you'll come back the second time. Like you're talking about getting somebody back to your spot the second time. So it's it's dope. It's it's good.

SPEAKER_01

And so, all right, obviously, like my mother recently passed from dementia. So one of the things that I want to talk about all the because the best thing to do, my mom was a tennis player, but so but obviously paddle sports and paddle, yes, I believe are what I have heard are the best things to do for your brain. Absolutely. There's nothing better. Absolutely. So how much of an emphasis do you play? Like when you're educating people on paddle and the I mean, obviously your mind, body, spirit, all those things are important, but like the the brain part of it, neuro.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Like yeah, the neuroscience behind it is is really big because a lot of us, um, you know, we we try to get our our parents and grandparents to just walk, you know, just the walking ability to use your muscles. But now if we can get them active, eyes tracking a ball here, there, knowing how to move, like the more likeness that their brain is actually doing the work that's gonna help them. And that's something big because even sometimes with my neighbors, I take them outside, I have them doing the ladder. I just have them walking the ladder drills that I, you know, you might see an NFL player do because they'll tell me days later, like how much that has helped them just go up the stairs. Yeah, a lot of our parents are falling, you know, grandparents fall down, and that leads to almost it being it, Marnie.

SPEAKER_01

Like literally, it doesn't really end people's lives. And if it doesn't end their life, then they are very fortunate, but they might be incredibly compromised and it will shorten their life.

SPEAKER_03

So we know just a fall itself. So if we can get our our parents and grandparents to move, have fun with the sport, have their own community, um, the neuroscience really firing up and them understanding the center of gravity, knowing how to fall. Shoot, you might fall out there on the court, but you're learning how to do those things all over again and really building those muscle memories that we need. Um, it's really big. And again, as you can use it for a child, getting their uh hand-to-eye coordination right. It's the same thing for an adult. Uh, you know, when when they're on that spot of getting older and needing to play, um, whether they're 50 years old plus, like we we all need to be getting that neuroscience moving down, that muscle memory that we once lost, if we're not playing uh sports and racket sports all the best. And I think paddles, again, you want to do things that you have fun in. And like it's small, small vicinity, 20 by 40 meters or 20 by 10 meters. Like you hit the ball, it hits the cage, you just grab it from there. Tennis, you gotta run over here if you smacked it over the fence. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I gotta drag it to the other side.

SPEAKER_03

So imagine a 20, you know, 20 by 10, like you're you're finding yourself just collecting real close. You're you're you know, you you hit a ball, it hits the wall, you're laughing at your girl, you know. Like that's the fun that you want these, you know, people to have when they're playing, as well as really being able to function at a high level.

SPEAKER_00

I would think you would start to see an increase in the 55 plus communities that are going on because there's so many 55 plus communities going on.

SPEAKER_03

There's senior tournaments. Yeah, there's senior tournaments in like like and like they're really going at it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Like I just seen a video like a month ago that was like a senior tournament of ladies that were like hooping.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like they were hooping past pickleball because there's so many injuries with pickleball, and there's a lot of bending and just weirdness with pickleball.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I mean, pickleball is its own sport, but I think paddle, I see a lot more people having real fun. You know, like a lot of pickleball, you gotta really, for the most part, you're standing in one spot. Like you're you're you can move a little bit within this little court, but you're standing in one spot just dinking. Like, paddle allows you to really move around, more exercise. You see more people laughing and networking around paddle. Paddle is literally taking amongst, you know, the king of networking and golf. Like, people are now going to paddle courts to now network. It's it's me, you, and one other person with you guys, and we're trying to see how do we act words versus each other. You hit a good shot, are you congratulating me? Are you mad? Are you know are you are you happy to see me win? Like, like those are the type of things that people want to see inside of golf, and they have been seeing it, and it's I love it. I love it. Well, paddle.

SPEAKER_00

So, where in where in Charlotte can people find paddle courts?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. So uh I invest in one that's in Huntersville. Uh Prosperity Athletic Club um has uh five courts from Epic. And um also you have Charlotte Paddle Club down south, uh, which is in Matthews. They also partner with uh Charlotte Pickleball uh in tennis, which is the Sharon Lakes. Okay. They have a couple inside of there for indoors. Um and those are the three spots you can find it right now. I know uh Rick Schnall is about to try to you know open up one as well soon. So uh we're we're booming. Like it's it's it's gonna it's gonna get big and you're gonna find paddle courts everywhere. And the more, again, the more paddle courts, the more players. Yeah. So it's inviting. Like for me, it's like, how do you get more people to play the game? We'll build more courts, build more facilities. There is no competition. We don't have room for competition right now. Like we're so far behind the ball. Like literally everybody else in the world is playing paddle. And the United States is like, oh, what's this new sport?

SPEAKER_01

No, why do you think we're so why is it that America that we're so far behind with from other countries with paddle?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I think one, uh, we just dominate in every other sport. Um you name a sport, we dominate in it. Um, and that's that's something that I've kind of seen. I also seen that other sports like, you know, uh, I'll say this, the sport of paddle in Spain, when I'm talking to these guys, they're telling me that they have in their apartment complexes, like their apartment complexes that they grow up in. They have a little football, you know, field, they have a basketball court, and then they have a paddle court. And like, this is what they grew up on. And and we grew up on, you might have a field, but it's football, baseball, basketball. Like, we have so many other sports, and soccer is literally kind of set, you know, even third, fourth to us sometimes. Um, and I think paddle just gets lost in the mix.

SPEAKER_01

And they have not had a good spokesperson, maybe. I'm just saying, you know, I mean, I think that that's part of it too, you know, going out there and being the face of this sport. I mean, football's had um, we've had, you know, Joe Namath back in the old days who really I mean, faces of people that you see, you know, mean Joe Green, and then kids want to play football because of that. So I think that Trey, you're gonna go out there and be the face of paddle. The kids are gonna be like, I want to be like Trey.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You know, I'm I I want to do that. And I think also, you know, as a mom having kids, my kids did play, my boys played football, my daughter did horses, but you know, moms, when we decide what sports our kids want to play, there is a little bit of like a gulp in your throat when you hear that your boys want to maybe play a sport that is a higher contact sport. Yeah, you can manage. So, I mean, there just is. Obviously, I love football. I would highly encourage mothers to let their children play football. I think it's the best team sport out there. But that being said, not everybody's gonna be comfortable with it. So if they want to play another sport, I think it's a great way for moms, and typically moms are the decision makers in the house of what they're because they're gonna be spending time, a lot of time doing the hustling and the driving and whatever else. So if there's a a place that they could um, you know, take their children to go play a sport, and playing sports is great, and it still is a team sport. If it's played in doubles and played, I think that there's a lot of great reasons why you would want your children to play paddle.

SPEAKER_03

For sure. I'm telling you, again, man, to be able to just get kids out there and have fun with like that's what I love the sport for. I love being able to get to the kids, um, the women who um, you know, whenever you have kids, like you gotta give them experiences. Like, you know, at least has been on trips with me, you know, like more. I think you were at a couple, like whenever I'm around, like we're gonna have a good time. I have your time. We're gonna have a good time. And my girl took me down to Tampa Bay last year. Shout out to my girl and Randy. Took me down to Tampa Bay. And for me. We had fun, you know. It was just us three, you know, and you know, we linked up with everybody else. But it's like, for me, I want to give people the experience of everybody sees NFL players as like too distant. Like, oh, can I talk to them? What do they act like? Uh, should I ask them this question? And like, I like to take down that barrier and like let's show people like we're regular people. Um, for me, I love, you know, just giving people that experience of just like, like, no, we're regular. I'm a normal guy. I can joke with you, I can ask about your family. Um, next time I see you, I'm gonna show love to you. I pull up on the Hornets game, I text my girl, like, I don't see you in your seat. She's like, no, I'm here. Sends me the picture, you know. Then they come up to me like that's what I want. Like, I want to build family. Family. Like, that's that's the word I'm going for.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I think you're an incredible ambassador, certainly for the Carolina Panthers. And they're very fortunate to have somebody who really understands what it's like to have been on the field and now carrying that legacy. That's why you're a legend, because you can carry that legacy off the field and then continue to be an entrepreneur. Like, I I think that, and we talked about this before we got started, but being an athlete is you're an entrepreneur every day. Absolutely. So you have to figure out how you're gonna transition from you know high school, then to college, then professional, then what, and that is incredibly entrepreneurial. Not everybody handles it that that well. But when people come out to you in the public, Trey, what is the question that most people ask you?

SPEAKER_03

Uh, let's see, like uh the number one question would be like, are you Trey Boston? I see you everywhere. You know what I'm saying? Like, um, that's literally the next thing. It's like, Trey, you're everywhere. Like, what what what aren't you doing? Is like literally a question I get all the time. And for me, it's like I feel that way too. It's like, whatever God wants for me on my plate, it's like I'm trying to do. I tell people all the time, like, I don't have a job, but I'm never unemployed. You know, I always, you know, I'm always working somewhere, um, whenever I want, how I want. And I love just being able to have the flexibility of doing this stuff. But for me, you know, people are also gonna ask for pictures, you know, and they know that who's gonna give them to them. Like Trey Boston's gonna get a picture with you. I'm gonna love on you. I'm gonna ask you, I'm gonna ask you if you come up to me and say, You notice me, do you want a picture? Because some people feel like, uh, I I met them, but uh, do I ask for a picture? It's hard to ask. It's hard, you know what I'm saying? Like, and for me, I know that, you know. So if I know that, it's like, why not help them out, get this picture if their family's in it? If it's just us two, hey, I'll, you know, you got any kids, I'll send a little video, you know, shout out to the kids, you know. Like, that's my big thing. Is like I want to be able to give people experiences because you know, you never know who in life, you know, with one smile, you can change their day, you can change their life. Change their life. And, you know, uh, one thing I heard is when you talk to one person, you have the ability to to help four others. So if you're talking about changing one person's life and getting to five in total, like that's where we're we're we're but it helps us too.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I always think that whenever people call me and ask me for help or ask me for something, I'm like, thank you, first of all, that I'm somebody that you want to that you can trust enough that like you want me to do something, but I'm always the one I I feel like I'm typically the one that ends up feeling like I got helped. I'm like, I that is such a great feeling. All right, so Fort Myers, yes, you know, your family is your family still in Fort Myers.

SPEAKER_02

Yep, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And obviously they're very proud of you and all of your accomplishments. But where do you think? Like, so your mom and your dad, like all of this great positive thinking and positive outlook on life, not everybody is blessed to be have that. We have that, so I it's very uh, you know, we can we can sit here and really relate to each other, but so your mom and your dad, what was the history growing up in Fort Myers?

SPEAKER_03

For me, I grew up with a single mother. Um single mother, uh my mom taught me to be thankful for what you have. Um, and I grew up going to Salvation Armies, going to food kitchens and giving back. Um, you know, somebody who would, you know, quote unquote live in the hood. Um, she would still make sure that we understood, like, yeah, you have what you what you need, not always what you want. And, you know, as I grew up, uh, I took appreciation for that. You know, that's why I treat people the way um, you know, not only I want to be treated, but you know, I try to treat them better. Like, you know, when you come to something, leave it better than you found it. Like, that's me every time I wake up, like I'm I'm trying to make the world a better place. And if it again, if it's by a smile, if it's by shaking a hand, if it's by a picture, if it's by treating people the right way, like God called us to treat people, uh be the fruits of the spirit, be loving, be kind, be peaceful, be gentle, like all have self-control, like all these uh fruits of the spirit, like man, I appreciate my mother for showing me that way. And then I just got to a point in life where you know I found it for myself and truly was in my word and reading for myself to understand that it's another level that God wants for us. And for me, it's trying to take it to the next level, trying to um really die to my flesh, die to crucify uh the man that I am and be born again and unlearn the things that we learn in this world. Hey, you know, even as women, how hard is it to have an identity that people are gonna try to throw on you, whether it's this outfit doesn't look good, or you don't look good in this, or oh, you're this. When God is like God called us, you know, beloved children, you know, he called us loved, he called us chosen, he called us redeemed. You know, we're we're out here looking for our values and identities in this world when when Jesus Christ literally gave us these values when we read it. And I take pride in really trying to go by the book and leading from the front, like really leading from the front. And it's a blessing to be able to do these things, to be able to be who I am, because I really do, I I I know the power that I come with. I really do. And I try to truly harness that for good and really leave people in a better place than I found them and leave them with a good experience, like I say.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, you're doing that. I mean, the state motto, and I talk about this, Lisa knows I say this all the time, but the state motto of North Carolina is Latin, S-A-E-S-S-E, Quam, Q-U-A-M-Vidari.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

And the translation of that, which you are doing, is to be rather than to seem.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Amen.

SPEAKER_01

And I think that that is so, well, that's what's so authentic. And again, like I'm excited to watch paddle take off, not pedell, paddle.

SPEAKER_03

No, there we go.

SPEAKER_01

There you go, Mom. And so, and I I think you're an incredible ambassador for that. And also, you know, having a single mom. I had a single mom, I am a single mom. Like, there's a a cluster of us that really, you know, we we definitely uh are take pride in that position too. But certainly for your mom to take a look at her son and say, wow, you know, look at all these things that you've accomplished and that you're continuing to accomplish. And it's in a really genuine, authentic way. It's very exciting. And I'm sure people get very excited when they see number 33, you know, walking around.

SPEAKER_03

Give them a reason. You know, give them a reason, you know. And that's that's the biggest thing. Give them a reason to be excited about you, you know. And one thing I learned is people aren't supposed to clap for you of what you did five years ago. You know, like if you're the same person you were five, three years ago, like why am I still clapping for you the same? Like, you got to give people something to clap for, and that's us renewing ourselves each and every year, growing, getting bigger and better. And um, that's something that I just want to continue to do. Also, I got something for you. Tennis lovers. I'm an ambassador and potential owner of a of a team next year, but there's a league called Intense Tennis going down in Atlanta, and I knew I'd come to y'all because I know y'all love tennis, you and Randy. And uh it's a team formatted tennis league called Intense Two Ends. And I'm letting you know this is like legit. I'm talking DJ during the game. Oh, yeah, yeah. A light show. That's all you need. You can stop at DJ. I'm there. It's legit. So I'm just I'm just letting you know it's legit. So uh it just reminded me of something else.

SPEAKER_00

It's like a one-time thing, it's just not like a weekend thing.

SPEAKER_03

No, it's a weekend thing, and it starts uh June, the first weekend of June, June like four through six is the first opening weekend. Every weekend after that, I'll make it down to Atlanta. I'll actually uh call some games, color analysts a few games, do some crowd interactions. Um yeah, so so it's gonna be dope. And uh then uh I'll be trying to bring a team here to Charlotte the year after. So yeah, yeah, just some insider right there. Some insider stuff right there, you know.

SPEAKER_01

All right, well, two things actually. All right, so number 33, that's God's number. Okay, man. So I okay, okay, listen. So is that so what's the story with that?

SPEAKER_03

People are like, oh man, 33, you play football. I'm just like, no, it's the ace that Jesus Christ died for us. They're like, okay, you know, some people are like, okay, and then I just keep walking. But if they're like, oh, Jesus Christ, oh, I love it. Then I'll be like, okay, I'll play football too. Yeah. You know, but it was given to me. It really was. It was given to me. Um, and I just kind of took off with it. And you know, for me, uh, it's it is a sign of importance. So to be able for people to be like, oh, 33, what's that mean? And I just get to tell them, like, yes, hey, Jesus Christ died for us.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

SPEAKER_03

And just like, that's my start. That like that's my start of being able to share the gospel with them. And if they want it, um, if they want to talk to the football player, right? They gotta talk to me about God first, you know, and and and if they don't, I just let them go about their day, like, oh, what's 33 for? Oh, it's just, you know, Jesus Christ died, you know, the age you died for, and they just walk, oh, okay. It's like, all right, have a good day. But it's most people who are like, oh yeah, that's cool. I'm just like, I didn't know that. I was like, yeah, let me teach you more. That's it. It's a conversation starter. So it is definitely a conversation starter. I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_01

I I do too. I love it. 33. Meryl Hodge played was also number 33. Yeah. They're not there aren't a lot of 33s out there.

SPEAKER_03

It can be a stanky number on the field, you know. I mean, you gotta really make it yours, you know what I mean? Yes. I appreciate it, like really making it mine. So like anytime anybody's in 33 around here, they're like, oh, that's Trey Boss's number. And then somebody gets out of it because they're like, I don't really like it.

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I loved it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Trey Trey.

SPEAKER_01

Good for you. All right, and then with the tennis, okay, so we probably have all heard that song, Philadelphia Freedom.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, Elton John. This is my little piece of trivia.

SPEAKER_02

Talk to me.

SPEAKER_01

So that song was written about the Philadelphia Freedom, which was the tennis team that Billie Jean King played on in the 70s. Wow. So Elton John was very good friends with Billie Jean King, and she was on a tennis, professional tennis team. Yeah. And they were called the Philadelphia Freedom.

SPEAKER_03

Let's go. Yeah. Look at you with a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a. I know.

SPEAKER_01

I could play trivial pursuit, you know, with a bunch of facts that may or may not be interesting. But I think we need to get a theme song then for uh what the point is saying that Elton John did that song, which became a hit, and everybody doesn't. I mean, people don't know that it was written specifically for the Philadelphia Freedom tennis team. But I think with the DJ, maybe you guys need to come up with a song.

SPEAKER_03

We can figure something out. We need to tennis in Charlotte. Listen, it's it's there's a huge tennis community here. I got it.

SPEAKER_01

I think De Baby needs to write the theme song. There we go. I'm guessing De Baby needs to do what Elton John did for Philadelphia Freedom. I think we got it.

SPEAKER_03

I think at least, yeah, I think we have to connect right here.

SPEAKER_01

I can generate the ideas. Now we need to execute them. Yeah, we're going to do it.

SPEAKER_03

I think she'd get it done. I think she got it done for us. So yeah, it's it's it's gonna be high intensity. It's it's great, different type of format that uh even winners count as two points. So it's like, yeah, it's dope. Like co co-ed, like men and women on the court. Like, yeah, I got to play with them at my Racket uh Racket X convention.

SPEAKER_02

Film some of this and put it on.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I'm gonna film it. You know I'm gonna be content. You know, that's what they pay your point for. You know what I'm saying? So I'm gonna film some content for sure, be out there, and um, you know, hopefully we get y'all out there, maybe take a big drive together. And uh, you know, actually we can take. Yeah, I was about to say, you know, we don't drive no more, you know what I'm saying? That's just a 45-minute fly. You know what I'm saying? We'll take that out there. But yeah, it's uh it's dope stuff. So it's like I'm I'm always doing something. You know, caddy last week with you know, truest championship, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Well, hopefully we'll get get you for another football 101.

SPEAKER_01

We we thought.

SPEAKER_03

Oh man, we had a good time out there.

SPEAKER_01

I learned, you know, I I think I mean I grew up in football, but I still learned a lot from the football 101. So there were things that I love doing those with y'all for real.

SPEAKER_03

That was that was like when again, like being able to teach women sports and being able to have a personality that wants to interact with you guys. Like, that's so big. It's like, can you not in a you know uh disrespectful way, but like dumb down the game, like really give them pointers to where they can watch the game and know what to do and what to say and how to act.

SPEAKER_00

And um well, there's more and more women doing fantasy football leagues. I'm gonna start one. I've been in one for the past three and three and a half, four years. I'm gonna start my own this year, so I'm excited about it. So why not? And I feel like people need to know about football.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I think also when you know about something, you become interested in it. And so if you don't know what's going on, it's really hard to really enjoy what it is. So learning a little bit, you know, obviously I write kids' books about sports. So for me, it's like I always say sports and certainly football is really the universal language. Yeah. If you can speak a little bit of sports, and you don't need to speak a lot, but a little bit of sports, it will help you. It's helped me in my entire life. But uh, understanding a little bit of sports will get you in places you want to be in and out of places. Yeah, you know, like sorry, officer, are you a Panthers fan?

SPEAKER_03

You know what I'm saying? I mean I ain't had to use it, you know what I'm saying? I ain't had to use it, but I will say that you know, I have been recognized. You know, you know, maybe pull it over once or twice, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. They said I was speeding, but that's not true. No, of course not. Not true. Driver Jeep. You know what I'm saying? Those things can't even speak. Can't even speak. That's right. They can't. Can't speak. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, officer. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. That's right. I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_00

So we're leave you. We're gonna um sign up for some padale. Uh, paddle. There you go. There you go. Come on, Lisa.

SPEAKER_03

There you go. Well, I think so.

SPEAKER_01

Used to say in padal. No, it's paddle.

SPEAKER_03

I just think I'm we got you now. And now you have your reasons why.

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Pat. Pat.

SPEAKER_01

Pat paddle. Paddle. Paddle.

SPEAKER_03

Paddle.

SPEAKER_00

So we're gonna sign up for some paddle. Morning lives up at the lake, so she's here nearly. I'll meet you in Huntersville.

SPEAKER_01

Perfect. Yeah, I'll come up there and see.

SPEAKER_03

I think Lake Norman might have one court too. Oh, really? Lake Norman over there has one court.

SPEAKER_01

All right, great. Well, that is exciting. That's very exciting.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, good. All right.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you'll have to let, you know, I'll research.

SPEAKER_03

We'll meet in the middle because we got we gotta we gotta meet in Huntersville. We gotta meet in Huntersville so we can all play.

SPEAKER_01

And we'll play. Perfect. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Bring the wife out. All right. Let you know. I don't take it easy. I'm kicking y'all's butt, too.

SPEAKER_01

I know. It's all right. I don't know. But we'll have fun. Right. I promise we'll have fun.

SPEAKER_03

We're not, you know, just little mercy. Little mercy.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, yeah. I mean, when I'm like crying on the ground, burn the case. I'll have fun, but I'm gonna burn some calories.

SPEAKER_03

In one game, in one game. That's what I want to hear. One game, you can absolutely burn over a thousand calories. That's all in literally an hour to an hour 30. Yeah. I've lost 2,300 calories in literally through two and a half hours in a game. No, no, no. Listen, you can. I had Jay Stu out there one time, Jonathan Stewart, his very first time out there, he looked like he was leaving a training camp. I'm talking drenched shorts. Like I get to the point where sometimes like my my shoes are like in training camp, like you like wet. No, no, when the water's actually dripping out, not just like feel the water.

SPEAKER_00

Like and it's not from being outside and it being hot outside, it's from the extra.

SPEAKER_03

No, it's from really working and running around. It's I'm telling you, you you'll you'll have so much fun and you'll you'll then ask, like, can we play longer?

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Like it's not even a sport where you're like, all right, I'm done. I'm like, we're done.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay, good. I can't wait. Get on. What's that site we have to get on to get our clothes? Oh Racket Central Racket Central.

SPEAKER_03

Racket Central.com. You know what I'm saying? We'll link it. Don't don't worry, you know. I'm actually coming out with the brand, you know.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. I was just gonna ask.

SPEAKER_03

I'm actually coming out with the brand, so y'all be on the look. I'll I'll get y'all some paddles and we'll play with the exclusive Mr. Porquatro. Okay, Mr. Porquattro paddles. Yes, yes, I got y'all. So I I'll tell you, we're on the come up. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00

Stay tuned for uh this new brand coming out. Stay tuned.

SPEAKER_03

We got y'all. We got y'all.

SPEAKER_01

Will there be a 33 on the equipment?

SPEAKER_03

Not on the paddle, not on the paddle. You know, we're gonna we're gonna go a little different avenue, but uh, we'll have fun with it. I'm pretty sure it'll it'll show up somewhere somehow, but uh it's for the people. Um I want to give people something that they can be proud of. Um in every other sport, you can't play with any of their um the names that you're playing with. You you're a tennis player, Baba Lot Wilson. You can't play with those. Who is Mr. Wilson? Who is Mr. Baba Lot? Who is Mr. Knox? You know, Mr. Porquatro is what they call me. You'll be able to play with our gear and me going around the internationally this year, um, just holding kids in women's camps across the world, um, and just bringing people into the sport of paddle. So I can't wait. I can't wait.

SPEAKER_01

We're excited for what? We're excited to watch your journey on social media too.

SPEAKER_03

Come on, man. I'll be in the UK this weekend. Next weekend, I'll be back.

SPEAKER_00

Everybody follows over the Atlantic. We're leaving next week for the Are you? Yep.

SPEAKER_03

See, next week I go to I I gotta come back and I go to Texas. I gotta go to Texas, you know what I'm saying, playing another paddle tournament. Like, hey, I'm all over. I'm all over, baby.

SPEAKER_01

That's right. That's that's the way you're doing it. You know, to do big things, you gotta do big things.

SPEAKER_03

And that's what we're doing is big things. I love that.

SPEAKER_01

That was not my quote. That's Coach Dick for Miel.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

He said that.

SPEAKER_03

But we'll take it.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly. To do big things, you gotta so, Trey, you're doing lots of big things. So thank you for being an ambassador, being a great advocate, being a great father and a great son, and obviously a great football player.

SPEAKER_03

I love that one. Can we leave that one out for the wife, man? Hey, great husband, you heard that great. I know.

SPEAKER_01

So is your wife still playing with you, playing paddle with you?

SPEAKER_03

She gotta watch the kids sometimes, you know. I'd be out there hooping, you know. You know, we're we're she's gonna come to the UK with me, so I might have her on the court a little bit. Got it. You know, but I'm letting y'all know, like, yeah, somebody gotta watch the kids while I get while I get into action. Like I'm I get for real.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I I'm sure she is um very proud of you and happy to take care of the children. Yes. And uh, you know, provide that for them too. So that's always great.

SPEAKER_03

We love it. I appreciate y'all.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you for joining. Thank you, everyone, for bench to bold. I'm Marnie. And I'm Elisa.

SPEAKER_03

And I'm Trey.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, that's right. Thanks, everyone. We'll see you soon on the paddle court.

SPEAKER_03

Let's go. Vamos.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.