Episode 42 - Clips and Quips from the first 40 episodes!

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Check, 1, 2, 3. Check, check, check, check. All right, I think we're good to go. We are ready to rock and roll. One year anniversary. [00:00:12] Speaker B: Yay. [00:00:13] Speaker A: One year of us telling the people that listen to us that we're ahead of the. I'm Kevin Huff here with the ever lovely Sky Huff. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Hello, everybody. [00:00:31] Speaker A: And we're here to tell you happy birthday to us. [00:00:35] Speaker B: Is it happy birthday or happy anniversary? [00:00:37] Speaker A: Oh, it's our one year anniversary. That's probably the better way to put it. We're turning one year old though, so that's the birthday thing too. [00:00:42] Speaker B: Sweet Lobs is a year old and. [00:00:45] Speaker A: I'm not sure we're any better. [00:00:49] Speaker B: No, but we have covered a lot of material and we've had fun. [00:00:53] Speaker A: We have. We're going to play some of our favorite clips and some of the clips that you told us to play. So thank you for all the suggestions. Too many to play probably in one episode. But a side note, as I was going back through some of these and listening, we have. Most of our shows are about a half an hour. I could have come up with a half an hour of you laughing. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Really? [00:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah. There's just so many cute little laughter tips. [00:01:19] Speaker B: Pulling out my laughter. That's so funny. [00:01:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's awesome. [00:01:22] Speaker B: That's nice. [00:01:23] Speaker A: I thought about doing that for myself and then I was like. [00:01:26] Speaker B: A laugh reel of just my voice. [00:01:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll just take five seconds and just copy and paste a whole bunch of times. A lot easier. So, yeah, that's kind of cool. [00:01:34] Speaker B: Any voice actors need my laughter. There you go. Funny. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Let's start with our first clip. We're going to go to the very first episode. Episode. We've been to hell and back. Hang tight, everybody. Pickleball. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah, let's talk about pickleball. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Let's do. You got me into it. [00:02:01] Speaker B: I did. At work. I often apologize or I say sorry, not sorry. And we're going to tell that story today. [00:02:09] Speaker A: What do you mean? At work? You say sorry, not sorry. I don't even understand. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Well, you know, at my work it's a paddle racket club. And so for those who don't understand pickleball, they can find the noise. But how should I say this? They find that the noise is noisy and when they're used to a softer, lighter sounding ball hitting a racket. So. And there's always obviously court time issues and stuff like that, which is. Which is normal for a club. But when people ask, you know, how did pickleball come to this community of all places, Anderson, Indiana, or Pendleton, Indiana. I say, well, it's. It's actually my fault. And they just look at me like, you, how could you be at fault? [00:02:54] Speaker A: You know, it's not really your fault. [00:02:56] Speaker B: Um, well, technically, because there were people. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Playing Madison county, which is where those two towns are, but none of them before you. Oh, before you got anyone involved in. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Pickleball, nobody wanted to expand it like you, Mr. Ambassador of Pickleball. [00:03:12] Speaker A: Yes, I love the goal. Well, that's a heck of a first clip. [00:03:18] Speaker B: It. That's how it all started, folks. [00:03:20] Speaker A: That is how it all started. [00:03:20] Speaker B: It all started. [00:03:22] Speaker A: And then we had to figure out our name. Didn't we end up giving it away? We did, because we had to, like, name the podcast or something before we actually. [00:03:35] Speaker B: To put it out on Castos. Yes, he had to name it, so. [00:03:39] Speaker A: That was pretty stupid. But we're gonna play you the clip anyway. Here's how we got our name. But Sweet Lobs, because we've been married 30 plus years, you are coming up on a 32nd anniversary this year, and I've called you Sweet Love Forever. [00:03:57] Speaker B: It has been my pet name. [00:04:00] Speaker A: His pet name today. Do we say this before? Is that the right language? [00:04:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's still. If you keep playing the clip, you'll hear the whole thing. [00:04:05] Speaker A: I don't need to keep playing the clip. I don't. I feel like. I'm sure I said this exact same thing before, but you're not my pet. [00:04:13] Speaker B: It. When my. When I was a little kid. [00:04:16] Speaker A: Come here, precious. [00:04:17] Speaker B: When I was a little kid, my granny would call them pet names. And I think that was just the terminology that she used and she grew up with. It's not necessarily relevant or maybe even, you know, appropriate now to say a pet name, but. [00:04:33] Speaker A: Huh. All right. [00:04:35] Speaker B: But people used to call each other pet. Like, hello, pet. [00:04:38] Speaker A: Hello, pet. Yes, but that's like your 90 year old great grandma who's no longer with us. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's that. All right, well, here's something that we believe wholeheartedly. Here we go. Yeah. My big thing with pickleball is, and I hope always will be, that I think pickleball is a great, A great unifier in our community at large. Just the area we live in. So I guess there's five communities, right? I've talked about this before. I'm not sure, you know, I'm not going to be able to memorize what I said on the previous podcast. I'm just not that guy. But look, there are people who are a Different orientation than me. Whether it's belief, whether it's physicality, whether it's nationality, you know, whatever it is that may be completely on the opposite spectrum as me politically, let's say, or from a religious standpoint. Doesn't matter. And we share a court, and we have an absolute blast. And we don't care, and we love each other and we get on with life. Yeah. I mean, I think I felt awkward while I was trying to say all that stuff, because I was trying to be kind. [00:05:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Respectful. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Yeah. And not. It did feel awkward, and it felt awkward listening to it, so it must have sounded awkward to you. [00:05:48] Speaker B: It was only our second episode, so it's not like we're polished or had a lot of practice. And we were telling something very personal. You know, how we. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Have. How you and your. And our. Our friends, I should say, have grown pickleball in this community. [00:06:04] Speaker A: We just celebrated one of our really dear friends, Lisa, and she lost her husband, Bill. We all loved him. And. Yeah. So I think this whole community unifier idea. So true. She said. And this is a great quote from her, she's like, I'm just shocked at how pretty much all my friends now are pickleball players. [00:06:24] Speaker B: Oh. [00:06:25] Speaker A: And I was like, me too. Like, literally, if you just think about who I hang out with or who I see, most of them are pickleball players. [00:06:31] Speaker B: Yep. We have a. We have a core group that we see on a regular basis that do not play pickleball. And we try not to talk about pickleball all the time. [00:06:39] Speaker A: I was gonna say that the ones that don't tolerate us because they. Because we do talk about pickleball a lot, but probably that's because other people. [00:06:45] Speaker B: With us talk about pickleball, but now it's our occupation. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Your occupation. [00:06:50] Speaker B: Sure. [00:06:50] Speaker A: Good. Time for a commercial. This episode brought to you by PB Time Tournaments. It's pickleball time, everybody. Okay, back to one more clip from the second episode. This one. Because these are kind of setting up. These first four clips really set us up. Right. The whole. You introduced me to pickleball. The name Sweet Lobs. We believe it's community unifier. And this last one, which is very important to us. So hang tight, everyone. Here we go for a second. Our intro song. Right, Right. I'm ahead of the game. We didn't actually know that we were ahead of the game. [00:07:23] Speaker B: No. [00:07:24] Speaker A: Because when we started playing pickleball, it was just, hey, here's another sport. Kind of a weird one, I suppose. It was fun, fun, fun. Game with a funny name. Right. And it was fun, but we didn't know that we were on the precipice of an absolute explosion of the sport across the US and the globe. I'm ahead of the game. Yeah, we love that theme song. [00:07:54] Speaker B: We do. We hope you do as well. [00:07:58] Speaker A: A year ago, we would play the whole dang song at home just to listen. Listen. We don't do it anymore, but we. [00:08:03] Speaker B: Dance, we sing along. [00:08:04] Speaker A: I'm ahead of the game. I don't even know what half the words are. I'm only a butt slinger. That's what it sounds like, she says, but I know that's not. She was just saying I'm only a butt slinger about. I haven't. I'm like, I don't know what the words are, but I like this song. [00:08:16] Speaker B: That's so true about so many songs that you sing. Yeah, well, you make up your own words. [00:08:22] Speaker A: If I don't know them. And I want to sing along. Dang. Right? I do. [00:08:25] Speaker B: True. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Let's jump forward to what I think is a perennial episode, because so far in my mind, nothing has been done to fix this issue. My dupers in the pooper because of you. [00:08:41] Speaker B: It is. You wanted me to play with you. [00:08:45] Speaker A: No, you actually said, I'll plan a league with you if you want, honey. [00:08:48] Speaker B: Which you've asked me to free in the past. [00:08:51] Speaker A: And I did. Quit asking. Just want to be on the record. [00:08:55] Speaker B: As saying I'm not terrible. I'm just not good. [00:08:58] Speaker A: No, no. But your duper is, what, 2.8 or something, right? [00:09:02] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:09:03] Speaker A: Right. [00:09:04] Speaker B: It came up because of you. [00:09:06] Speaker A: You're welcome. Mine free fall. Mine was on a free fall and yours was climbing. [00:09:11] Speaker B: I was playing well, though. [00:09:16] Speaker A: I mean, that's a good place to stop that clip. [00:09:20] Speaker B: That little says so much. [00:09:24] Speaker A: Yeah, right? [00:09:25] Speaker B: Yeah, keep thinking that. That's fine. Sky Dream. Other people tell me I'm doing well. [00:09:33] Speaker A: You are playing good pickleball for somebody who wants to just go have fun. [00:09:36] Speaker B: True. [00:09:36] Speaker A: I love that about you. [00:09:37] Speaker B: I just want to have fun. [00:09:38] Speaker A: I do. I hope that we play again soon. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Tomorrow, hopefully next week. [00:09:45] Speaker A: On Tuesday. Probably be our next chance. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Man, it's busy time of year. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Yeah, we could have played last night, but I had drills this morning. Yeah, but you know, we still unlocked because we wanted people to come in and play. [00:09:58] Speaker B: Sure. [00:09:59] Speaker A: Okay. Let's see. You know, I think we should talk. Start talking about some more of the important stuff having to do with pickleball. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Because we actually start Doing some episodes that help people learn the game better or learn about the sport better. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Correct. And we're big, big, big fans of, like, the strategy and just thinking about the game and, you know, I don't know. I guess we'll let the clip speak for itself. How's that sound? [00:10:33] Speaker B: True. And I think my volleyball coach in high school said it best. He would say, let the other team make the mistakes. You play the smart game. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Really good. Really good advice. [00:10:47] Speaker B: It has stuck with me my whole life, whether it's about sports or work. [00:10:52] Speaker A: However, it was play the smart game. Was that the episode with Luke when we were talking about. That was the episode with Luke, Yes. We were talking about how to prepare for tournaments and be smart about it. [00:11:01] Speaker B: And it was. Yeah, it was our episode with our special guest, Luke Gibson. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that was really great advice, guy. And props to your coach. What was your coach's name? [00:11:08] Speaker B: Don Reynolds. [00:11:09] Speaker A: Oh, you remember? I remember my coaches as well. [00:11:13] Speaker B: It's hard to forget them. [00:11:15] Speaker A: It really is. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Good impact. [00:11:17] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Good job. You just took it right from me and I'm all for it. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Sometimes it's positive, sometimes it's negative, sometimes it's both. Hopefully you're a positive coach. If you're listening and you're a coach, I agree. [00:11:30] Speaker A: Well, let's go to our next clip here and see what we got. Sky, what's in your pickleball bag? [00:11:36] Speaker B: Well, my caseless shoes, my. I keep my Pro RX at the office. [00:11:44] Speaker A: Honey, we're never gonna get sponsored. Okay, if you call them Pro rx. [00:11:48] Speaker B: What do you call it? [00:11:49] Speaker A: Pro xr. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Pro xr. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Just think of them as Proxer. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Proxer. [00:11:54] Speaker A: That's how I remember. [00:11:56] Speaker B: I apologize. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Ray J. Zane and the rest of the crew. [00:12:01] Speaker B: I love that. I love the paddle. So I keep it at work, where I. I work at a paddle racket. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Club, so I love how you call it a paddle racket club. [00:12:09] Speaker B: Well, I'm like, one of the few pickleball people on staff. [00:12:13] Speaker A: What's in your bag? Pickleball first. That's. What is my bag. And now everybody sees why. I could have a half an hour of you laughing. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:24] Speaker A: In my clips. That was a good one. There's another clip I want to play from what's in my bag, But I think we're talking about. Well, I'm just going to let the clip speak for itself. Here we go. What the heck is wrong with you? Is it the mood lighting, baby? [00:12:43] Speaker B: No, it's just how you describe a pickleball marshmallow on a warm day. [00:12:50] Speaker A: I think a lot of people call it a marshmallow. It's not how I describe it. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Get my composure. [00:12:54] Speaker A: I learned this from other people. [00:12:55] Speaker B: Okay, move on. Keep going. [00:12:56] Speaker A: I'm not. Yeah, you're the one killing me here. [00:12:58] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Okay. I freaking love it. Just keep laughing. Love it makes me young. [00:13:06] Speaker B: I still laugh when you talk about a marshmallow ball. It just. [00:13:11] Speaker A: It's. [00:13:12] Speaker B: It's funny. It's a funny term. [00:13:14] Speaker A: Marshmallow ball. Okay, that's fine. We had an episode where we were. We were. What were we apologizing for? Do you remember? [00:13:25] Speaker B: Yeah, we had skipped a week, but we didn't. [00:13:28] Speaker A: And that's why. I'm not sure. [00:13:29] Speaker B: We were supposed to. It was supposed to be part two of the tournament series, and we weren't able to get everything added to make the. Or to finish the episode, so we did a special quick episode so we didn't miss a week. [00:13:45] Speaker A: Okay, I got you. That makes sense to me. I was just like. I feel like we didn't miss a week because the calendar said it would hit the same week, but. Well, let's see what this clip is all about, everybody. [00:13:58] Speaker B: It was my idea, and here's why. I want to get better at the game. I want to be better for my husband when I play with him. I also want to. I. I'm hoping to have a future part. A female partner, so that I can do more tournaments. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Thanks for qualifying. It's a female partner, and that does not hurt my feelings that way. [00:14:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, of course. So, you know, Kevin is a great coach. He makes people better. [00:14:22] Speaker A: I do not make people better. [00:14:24] Speaker B: Okay. You help people. [00:14:27] Speaker A: They make themselves better. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Okay. That. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Change the beliefs, change the behavior. Might cut on me there. Weird. Change the. Believe me. What did he say? I said change the beliefs. Change the behavior. [00:14:46] Speaker B: That's right. [00:14:46] Speaker A: That's right. Change the beliefs. Change the behavior. Thanks for sending that in to one of our fam. Fans. We appreciate that quote bouncing on to another episode here. You want. You want to do those there? The ones that came in on running the tournament? [00:15:02] Speaker B: Sure, why not? [00:15:03] Speaker A: All right, well, let's get over to that one and do it. So this was episode number officially number six, because we did not number our special episodes correct. So it's the seventh one we put out, known as episode number six. This one was on running a tournament, and we did a second one to follow up. And let's just see what our listeners sent in for us. [00:15:24] Speaker B: To. [00:15:24] Speaker A: To play back for you guys. I didn't listen to this one, so here we go. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Oh, it wasn't a huge moneymaker because we didn't get enough sponsors. The reason that you want to plan ahead is because you want to be able to have time to gather your sponsors and to be able to figure out your budget. [00:15:47] Speaker A: Oh, that's a great one. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Too many times we've heard from people that are wanting to start a tournament. [00:15:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:55] Speaker B: And we'll ask them, when are you proposing to have this tournament? And they'll say, oh, next month or two months from now or something less than six months. And it'll be a fundraising tournament, which if it's not a fundraising tournament and you have the budget to do it, it's, you know, go for it. But if you're really wanting to raise funds for your nonprofit, give yourself time to raise money for sponsors. [00:16:20] Speaker A: I'll tell you what. You're. You're dead on. This is a big one. I get called frequently. Three times in the last seven days. I have been asked by an entity to run a tournament for them three times. And hopefully I've talked at least two of them out of it. Look, this is not a tournament episode. I know that. But I'm just going to be very candid. Unless you have a lot of stick and stay power, meaning you're willing to be here for three to four years to finally get to a tournament size that can make you some money, they aren't magical moneymakers. They're just not. We were able to give away $30,000 to the Hamilton County Humane Society. Well, I think it's the Humane Society for Hamilton County. Right. Official name folks. That took a heck ton of work. And. [00:17:06] Speaker B: And it was the third or fourth year. Right. [00:17:08] Speaker A: It was the fourth annual. [00:17:11] Speaker B: It's a. It was a year we skipped, I. [00:17:14] Speaker A: Think, but, well, last year didn't really have one because it moved to February of this year or technically March of this year. But here's the thing. We had a ton of sponsors and we spent a lot of money. And without all those sponsors, there's no way we're giving away even a few thousand dollars. So, you know, you really have to have. You really have to recognize that tournaments aren't money makers if you're just getting players. They really aren't. There are a lot of expenses, including the courts, which are very expensive balls, expensive metals are very expensive. There's just so much food, snacks, giveaways, swag bags. If you don't have a sponsor, you're not giving away any money. You're not making money. So that's really what it comes down to. And that was just great advice, guys. [00:17:58] Speaker B: One more thing on that. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:00] Speaker B: If you are a tournament player, you're not necessarily involved with the running of a tournament. You know, please consider the sponsors for your business. They obviously wanted to invest in that project or that nonprofit or even in you to be able to have that fun day. So, you know, just take a look at it. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Great advice. All right, there's one more clip we were sent from this episode. Let's hear it real quick. Make it an incredible experience for the people coming to the tournament. What about you? Okay. Much shorter clip than some of the other ones. Five seconds. But I agree, you have to make it a great experience for the players. And that is my personal, like, mission. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Yes. [00:18:46] Speaker A: I mean, I am all about making sure that my players in my tournaments have a great time. They may lose. Sorry, that's not on me. [00:18:56] Speaker B: Sure. [00:18:56] Speaker A: Right. But even in losing, I want it to be done on time so they can go home and see their family like they committed to, or so they can go to the next thing that they have on the list, or so they can just chill and relax, or so that they're not stressed waiting around. Yeah, that's. Thanks for sending that in, folks. That's a good one. And we have two clips we're going to share from our second tournament episode as well. Sky, do you know anything about these yet? I haven't listened to them either. [00:19:23] Speaker B: I listened to them, but I've already forgotten. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Okay, that's okay. I think this one's rough because that's the name of the episode because I think we were recording at the tournament and so the audio quality came up. [00:19:35] Speaker B: We had several different guest speakers on that episode. [00:19:38] Speaker A: Yeah, that's probably a part of it as well. But I'm pretty sure this the reason this one was. The reason I called it. This one is rough, I think was the audio quality. [00:19:45] Speaker B: Right. [00:19:46] Speaker A: So. But we'll see here in a second. We got to just fast forward real quick to the clip. Mark. And here we go. I'm not a 50 player, but I had one hour left to sign up for the tournament because I found out I was not going to be in New York about a day. So I threw a big thing out on Facebook. I was like, who wants to play? I'm getting messed with. I'm getting trolled on this one. 50 plus men's five. Oh, yep. And nobody responded, which makes sense because none of us really are 500. We're talking over this one because I got trolls, several people. And I reached out to a buddy Donovan and I was like, come on, man, I'll pay for it. Like, let's go. And there's only one other team, so what's the worst that could happen? Well, the worst that could happen was they combined us with all the young pups. Yep. As you know what that's like as a tournament director, which we're going to. [00:20:32] Speaker B: Get into here in a second through it, though. [00:20:33] Speaker A: And I'm not playing any more of that clip. I was trolled, and I'm pretty sure that was by my wife. Am I right? [00:20:40] Speaker B: You're most welcome. [00:20:41] Speaker A: Oh, you suck. I love you, though, so stinking much. But, yeah, I had a feeling you trolled me on that. As soon as I started to hear it, I was like, that has got sky written all freaking over it. [00:20:51] Speaker B: I love that I did that. It was kind of funny. [00:20:54] Speaker A: No, I don't remember this one. [00:20:55] Speaker B: I did it. I did it. I was like, oh, this is gonna be fun. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Here's the next clip, people. Biggest challenge as a tournament director, I think it's. [00:21:08] Speaker C: It's a few things, right? I mean, when you start to look at the initial sign up, getting people excited about it and wanting. Wanting that to go as fast, as fast as possible, to be as full as possible, but also to want to provide the most value, right? I mean, yes, it's great that people get a play and show up, but there's something about, you know, I mean, like this last year compared to the year before for that big tournament I was mentioning, the Pickball Showcase. It's. We had so many more sponsors. We had so much more of a presence with all different industries and, you know, everything from sponsor prizes to, you know, door prizes to a bigger talk about sponsors players could kind of win things from. So I think, to me, it's. It's that, like, look, anybody can put together a tournament with brackets and show up and do your thing and march through it. But, like, what feels different? What feels like it's. It's got some value to it that players kind of look forward to that. And they'll drive five, six, seven hours, eight hours. Right? I mean. [00:22:03] Speaker A: Excellent stuff from my friend Justin. As a reminder, he's the president of the Omaha Pickleball Club, and What is it, 2000 ish members around that? [00:22:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:12] Speaker A: And he said over a thousand of them are active. [00:22:14] Speaker B: Wow. [00:22:15] Speaker A: It's just impressive. [00:22:16] Speaker B: It is. [00:22:18] Speaker A: I heard that PB Time tournaments might be doing A tournament out in Oahu. [00:22:21] Speaker B: That'd be fun. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Yeah. So we'll see if we can learn more about that and share that with our listeners. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Okay. [00:22:27] Speaker A: That was a good clip. All right, let's jump forward another episode or two. What. What we have found, folks, is that this was too much fun, and there was a lot of clips that came in. Yeah, we're probably only going to get through the first 10 episodes worth of clips, and we'll be at a half an hour already. I don't know that we need to do an episode two and episode three of this. I think it's just good enough. And it's fun. Because next week. Let's talk about next week. Next week we have Hefe on. I've been talking about Jeff a couple times. You've brought him up a couple times. [00:22:52] Speaker B: We have. [00:22:52] Speaker A: And he is with Stra. Or Stra. Ska. [00:22:58] Speaker B: Right, Sorry. [00:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Ska. [00:22:59] Speaker B: Ska is the name of the. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Sounds like a bad disease. I would not have called my company ska. [00:23:03] Speaker B: Well, it's based off of something similar. [00:23:05] Speaker A: Or something like that. [00:23:06] Speaker B: It's. It's based off of something similar for the running. Marathon running. Yep. [00:23:10] Speaker A: Yeah. So. And I will not tell Jeff on the episode that I would not call myself Skiva. Maybe it's a better name than I'm thinking of. It just sounded weird to me. [00:23:19] Speaker B: Or we just cut this part out. [00:23:22] Speaker A: At this point, I'm gonna leave it in that way it can be on my blooper list next year. Yeah, we'll do bloopers when I tell you that Skiva fired us and we are no longer working with them for whatever reason it was. Okay, let's bump into. I think this next one is nasty. Is that right? [00:23:39] Speaker B: It is a nasty episode. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Does that mean we talked about the nasty Nelson? [00:23:44] Speaker B: Well, why don't you just play? [00:23:45] Speaker A: I have a feeling that's why. Are you ready to get nasty? What? That's right. This episode is nasty. Okay, that was a fun intro. [00:24:04] Speaker B: That was fun. [00:24:05] Speaker A: We need some more fun intros like that. [00:24:06] Speaker B: You totally had me on that. [00:24:08] Speaker A: Hey, that's awesome. That's what I want. Let's just jump forward to the next one. That was fun. But let's see where we're at here. I already have that reputation. [00:24:17] Speaker B: You do? [00:24:17] Speaker A: I love to hit people. Not hurt. That will be my tagline. Hit not hurt. I cut off my wife laughing there, which is hard for me to do because I enjoy her laugh so much. [00:24:29] Speaker B: Apparently, there's a lot of it you. [00:24:30] Speaker A: Guys can hear, but yeah. Anyway, let's Keep going. We'll just bump forward a few more here. Here we go. [00:24:36] Speaker B: This one has a funny story to it. You'll see. [00:24:38] Speaker A: Oh, does it? Okay. Keeps going in each direction. So I can't cross that line at all unless it's after I've hit the ball or to follow the ball across that line to be able to hit it. Okay, well, sometimes with win and backspin, the ball can come backwards toward the team that just hit it. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Right. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Which pulls it back across that line that had just gone over to your side. So you're allowed to follow the ball back to hit it. [00:25:07] Speaker B: Folks, I have. I have a confession to make. [00:25:11] Speaker A: This one's on you, baby. [00:25:13] Speaker B: I totally forgot the answer to this. Trick shot or difficult situation? [00:25:22] Speaker A: It's just. It's so common. It's like a daily occurrence on Facebook. Somebody asks in the kitchen or in the pickleball form or somewhere else, what happens if the ball came back over the net? And I'm like, good thing we covered that on our podcast. And you and I have talked about it multiple times, because what happened a couple weeks ago in your tournament, it wasn't a tournament. [00:25:40] Speaker B: It was just normal league night. And the ball came over my side, and it had so much spin, it bounced in the kitchen and then went back over the net. And I sat there and I debated in my head, am I supposed to touch it? Or I'm not supposed to touch it. Am I supposed to touch it? And it ended up going back over the net. [00:25:57] Speaker A: And. [00:25:58] Speaker B: And then they. We all. I cheer. The other side cheers. And my partner looks at me and she's like, why are you cheering? Did you touch the ball? And I'm like, no, I wasn't supposed to. And then she's like, dude, and you. [00:26:11] Speaker A: Were so convinced, and you're my wife. And so they all followed what you said. [00:26:16] Speaker B: No. Because our friends were like, nope, sky, you're wrong. Oh, thank goodness. And I was so embarrassed. But I own up to my mistakes. [00:26:23] Speaker A: You know what happened that happens, sky, when you do something like this. Let me ask you a question. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:30] Speaker A: If what you're asking is who wins the rally. [00:26:33] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Because you don't score a point unless you're serving in traditional rally. Here it comes. Okay. Using all the logic that you have. [00:26:40] Speaker B: My favorite line, don't get. [00:26:42] Speaker A: I'm not trying to pick on you. I'm saying, right. Any sport, and especially pickleball, who do you think is going to win that rally? I, I. You should have done the same thing here. I never touched it. Which Means I wasn't the last one to hit it. [00:26:55] Speaker B: It seemed like it happened so fast, and so I literally had an argument with myself and lost. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Yeah. I'll say this. And again, I'm not slamming you with logic. I will say that if you are able to step away from whether or not you want to win the rally, which is hard to do. Right? Because I want to win the rally. You step away from it just minute and go, okay, logically, what makes sense here? They hit the ball at me. [00:27:17] Speaker B: I did. [00:27:17] Speaker A: But I never hit it back. So I guess that means I'm screwed because I didn't hit it back. Exactly correct. You are. [00:27:23] Speaker B: And that's why I was like, duh, I'm wrong. [00:27:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker B: And of course, my friends were very kind and didn't rub it in, but they definitely had smiles on their faces. And here's the thing about learning an important lesson, right? You make a mistake, you're never going to forget again. Because it was a tough lesson. [00:27:43] Speaker A: It was. And that is an interesting segue into our next episode, which is the last one we're going to share any clips with today, which is our episode on conflict resolution. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Right. [00:27:56] Speaker A: We had the wonderful and lovely Jessica Jones superheroine. Is that right? Superheroine. Is that how you say that? Or just heroin with us? And she had a few good comments, and then we also picked on her just a little bit because we love her. [00:28:11] Speaker B: Go for it. [00:28:12] Speaker A: All right, here we go. So I did a couple things to make her mad, and it worked. [00:28:18] Speaker B: You were a stinker. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Yeah. What? [00:28:19] Speaker B: She knew you knew he was doing that to you? I don't know if I knew in the moment. [00:28:24] Speaker A: Maybe not in the moment, but we talked about it right afterwards. She was like, you made me main ground purpose. And I was like, yes, I did. [00:28:29] Speaker B: My mom used to do that in volleyball. She'd be like, get angry from the sidelines, which would make me angry because she's embarrassing me. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Nothing like upsetting your children to get them to work better for you. [00:28:42] Speaker B: You know, it's a. It's a good. [00:28:43] Speaker A: We got 20 years of that with our own kids. Good job, baby. [00:28:46] Speaker B: It was a good memory. Now, but at the great memory, you know, a teenage kid, I was embarrassed. But it did work. [00:28:52] Speaker A: I'm sure it did. [00:28:53] Speaker B: Yep. [00:28:54] Speaker A: That's why she did it, because she knew it worked. Let's see what else we got from the Lovely Jessica episode. In those instances, we say, do not look at Jessica. There could be snakes. You could turn into stone. We're not sure. Don't look At Jessica. [00:29:13] Speaker B: That's rude. [00:29:13] Speaker A: I don't know who sent this clip in. It wasn't me. Justin. [00:29:16] Speaker B: Just. [00:29:16] Speaker A: I'm saying, first you call her a. [00:29:18] Speaker B: Heroine, and then he came. [00:29:18] Speaker A: I don't think it was the same. She's goddess. Like, I mean, she's a heroine or a goddess. I don't know which one scares me on either account. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Actually, what I hear is I'm a strong woman. So there you go. Take it. Take it. [00:29:34] Speaker A: Yes. Channel that energy, Jess. Okay. [00:29:40] Speaker B: It's true. [00:29:41] Speaker A: It is. She is a strong woman, and she's. [00:29:43] Speaker B: Been your partner for a long time. And I have to say, that takes a strong woman to be your. Your mixed partner. [00:29:50] Speaker A: She has not been my mixed partner for a while. [00:29:52] Speaker B: No. But she was there at the early days when we were all starting to figure out the game. [00:29:57] Speaker A: That's true. [00:29:58] Speaker B: And work through the growing pains of the sport. [00:30:01] Speaker A: Nope, that's very true. And let's see if there's one more clip of her here. [00:30:07] Speaker B: I totally sigh. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Also, her eyes roll, but we don't look. That's when the snakes come out. [00:30:13] Speaker B: When he. When he said, what, you wanted me to get that? And I. I said, yes, it's your ball. And then we had a disagreement on. On whose ball it was. Yeah. And then we couldn't agree. What is the step of conflict resolution where you leave. It still makes me laugh. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Almost every episode we cut in and out of was, you're laughing. Did you notice? [00:30:44] Speaker B: No. [00:30:44] Speaker A: A lot of them. [00:30:45] Speaker B: It's because you make me laugh. And it was so great to have so many guest speakers and visitors. And, um, Jess was a trooper. Uh, and I. I hope that episode helped people work through some conflict resolution, whether it's with someone that they're close to, like a spouse or a best friend, or if it's because they have been struggling with communication on the court. The. The whole thing is probably. Maybe we should laugh more. Maybe. Maybe sometimes we take ourselves too seriously. Too seriously. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:18] Speaker B: And if you just think about how much fun you're having on the court, or instead of focusing so much on the ins and outs of the sport, you just let go and have fun, you know? [00:31:31] Speaker A: I concur. And as we wrap up this last. As we wrap up this particular episode, I will just say we had a lot of fun going back through some of these. Again, thanks to those of you that sent in some ideas on clips. That was really cool to hear what your ideas were. [00:31:46] Speaker B: Thank you. And also finish listening to the last 10 or 20 that we have out there. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Pick out your next. Pick out your favorite parts and share with us. [00:31:58] Speaker A: Me. Who? [00:31:59] Speaker B: Anybody. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Anybody. We only went through, like, the first nine episodes. We have 40 episodes out there. [00:32:04] Speaker B: I know, and there's some great ones, and there's no. [00:32:06] Speaker A: We got other options. But we're already at 37 minutes, and after I trim it back, we'll be at, like, 33, so I think we should probably call the ball here, Mav. [00:32:13] Speaker B: Yep. Let's do it. [00:32:15] Speaker A: Let's do a different outro this time. Let's do this one. Goodbye, everybody. Make sure you tell your friends that we're ahead of the game. [00:32:21] Speaker B: And so are you. [00:32:37] Speaker A: Daddy boy. [00:32:38] Speaker B: I'm ahead now that. Well, I'm ahead now. [00:32:42] Speaker A: I'm ahead of the game.