The Heinz 57 Show!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I love Minnesota. And yeah, they liked you on the last. But they were like, yeah, Kevin, you're okay. But they all know me. But they said sky has a beautiful voice for podcasts. [00:00:10] Speaker B: Aw, I love that. [00:00:12] Speaker A: So, Brad and Tony, very kind. Thank you guys. We're hot rolling this mic. [00:00:16] Speaker B: Yeah, let's do it. You haven't told me what we're talking about today. [00:00:19] Speaker A: Well, that's because I'm out of the game. [00:00:23] Speaker B: Of course you are. [00:00:27] Speaker A: I am ahead of the game. [00:00:30] Speaker B: To your own horn. [00:00:34] Speaker A: My name is Kevin Huff. I'm here with the lovely Sky Huff. [00:00:37] Speaker B: Hello, everybody. [00:00:38] Speaker A: We're at the Pod Pod Studio in the pickleball mecca of the world, Anderson, Indiana. He's manifesting that I'm a man who believes that. [00:00:47] Speaker B: That's kind of what that means. I feel like they will come sometimes. [00:00:52] Speaker A: No, see, that's not. Manifesting is not the same thing as believing it. [00:00:55] Speaker B: I don't know. I have. [00:00:57] Speaker A: I don't believe it will come. I believe it's here. [00:00:59] Speaker B: Okay. [00:01:00] Speaker A: We made it happen. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Sure we did. [00:01:03] Speaker A: Eight years ago, I believe we turned this place into the pickleball capital of the world. Not everybody knows it yet. [00:01:10] Speaker B: That's why I'm laughing. [00:01:11] Speaker A: But our listeners know because I say it often. [00:01:14] Speaker B: You do. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Let's just jump right in with a branded promotion. This podcast brought to you by PB Time Tournaments. PB Time. It's pickleball time, everybody. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Sounds good. [00:01:28] Speaker A: Welcome back. It's as if it makes me laugh. As if I outsourced. [00:01:34] Speaker B: Eventually we're gonna get ourselves on camera and you'll be able to giggle at him as much as I do. [00:01:39] Speaker A: She doesn't giggle because I'm funny. She giggles because I look funny. [00:01:44] Speaker B: I mean, that's not quite what I meant by that, but sure, sometimes. Sometimes you look funny. And I do laugh. [00:01:52] Speaker A: So today's topic. We're in season two. [00:01:55] Speaker B: We are. [00:01:56] Speaker A: I think this is episode five. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Four or five. I can't remember. [00:02:00] Speaker A: It's five or six, I think. Pretty sure we've gone through four already. [00:02:04] Speaker B: You would know better. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I would. [00:02:07] Speaker B: So what is this episode about? Why. Why so much suspense? [00:02:11] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know what to do it on. I had a couple ideas and. [00:02:14] Speaker B: You mean you brought me to the Pod Pod studio without a plan? [00:02:18] Speaker A: Oh, I have a plan, baby. [00:02:20] Speaker B: I'm not like you. [00:02:21] Speaker A: I have two things I thought would. [00:02:23] Speaker B: You didn't believe I was going to cover come today, did you? [00:02:26] Speaker A: No, I. I knew would come. We talked about it earlier today, so I Knew you were coming over. [00:02:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:02:31] Speaker A: I had two topics that I bounced off of you. [00:02:33] Speaker B: You did. [00:02:34] Speaker A: How does one stay on top of technology, which is different than we've talked about technology? [00:02:39] Speaker B: Well, you said pickleball technology in particular. [00:02:41] Speaker A: I'm talking about pickleball technology. This pickleball podcast woman, they know that. Our listeners know that. [00:02:44] Speaker B: I know. But we have kind of ventured off. [00:02:47] Speaker A: To 2,000 of our listeners know that. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Okay, 13 to 2,000. [00:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Somewhere in there. [00:02:52] Speaker B: That's a big gap. [00:02:52] Speaker A: That's right. Well, I probably have it right now, so I think it's depends on the day. Yeah. How do they stay on top of technology? So like I, I'm. I'm facing this, the AI world, which we recently talked about. Every day there's an ad for 5,000 new AI companies, it seems like. And it's super simple to build an AI company. So like, how do you sort of filter through the noise? Because we have 2,000 plus pickleball paddle manufacturers. I know, folks, there's not time to try out 2, 000 paddles. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Not really. [00:03:22] Speaker A: At 10 games a day, which is a long time. It's two and a half hours of pickleball. I take 200 days of non stop pickleball. One game per paddle. And that's just one paddle per company, not one of each of their styles of paddle. [00:03:39] Speaker B: True. [00:03:40] Speaker A: So like I recently have started hitting with the slap paddle and there's at least four models or maybe more. So really we're talking about like if you started today, in four years from now, you know about Selkirk, who's got all these different models and paddle tech, who's got all these different models and. [00:03:57] Speaker B: Our friends at Revlon. [00:03:59] Speaker A: So you just have to give up. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Sure. [00:04:01] Speaker A: You find one that you love, not quit playing pickleball. It's not people. That's not what I mean. But yes. Find something that is good enough for you. You're not a pro. I'm not a pro. Find something good enough for you and then just play. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Is that your advice for all things pickleball technology or just paddles? [00:04:21] Speaker A: I think paddles is a good place to start. Balls is getting nuts. Every company now. That's awesome. We're leaving that in. I love how you laughed right away. This is a family friendly podcast, guy. What is wrong with you? [00:04:38] Speaker B: Never mind. [00:04:39] Speaker A: Oh, I don't think never mind is gonna work, but we're gonna move on. [00:04:44] Speaker B: Go on. [00:04:44] Speaker A: The number of different companies that are producing pickleballs is out of control. [00:04:53] Speaker B: I have composure. [00:04:55] Speaker A: I don't Think so again, I think pick the one that you like. Some people like Franklin, yellow little marshmallow that it is. I have adopted. [00:05:06] Speaker B: I like the X40s. [00:05:07] Speaker A: Yeah. That's the Franklin I've adopted the Vulcan Pro, the new one. I really, really like it. We used it at our last tournament for every single match and it was a good ball. I have friends who like the Selkirk and it doesn't break. It's hard not to like that ball because you can save a lot of money playing with it and the planet, you know, I mean, it does break, but not as fast. Yeah, I don't. We're not going to save the planet by. [00:05:29] Speaker B: By not breaking. [00:05:30] Speaker A: We're just not going to save the planet by breaking less pickleballs. You know, we can do our part. [00:05:35] Speaker B: We can do our part, but it's. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Gonna be super small. [00:05:38] Speaker B: True. Yeah, go on. We've had paddles you've talked about, but. [00:05:42] Speaker A: There'S other technology that I think we don't talk. I'm not sure we've even talked about on here. Like, have we talked about the top spend pro, maybe. Right. We have a. Do we have a. [00:05:51] Speaker B: We haven't talked about the new one yet. [00:05:53] Speaker A: So there's a. [00:05:56] Speaker B: We do have a code for slinger maybe. I don't know. [00:06:00] Speaker A: We do not. But that's okay. I. I think things like ball machines, there's not as many out there, but there's still eight or 10 at least, you know, companies out there. But people are now making AI ads that make it look like there's machines that don't exist. So you send in your money and then you just got screwed over. [00:06:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Do your research people. [00:06:18] Speaker A: Yeah. And don't research people that you don't know. Research through people that you do know. That's an important distinction to make. I think that's a. That's wise, really important thing to say just in general at this point in time, in a world where eight second videos especially can convince you something is true, that is not. And if you don't believe me, you know, drop me a little note and I'll send you some. Some movies I made. You'll be like, how did you do that? And not a single pixel. And there's. From a real world anything. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Well, it helps by listening to ambassadors as, as well, because ambassadors are real people. [00:06:51] Speaker A: But ambassadors want to get paid to make money. [00:06:53] Speaker B: Well, sure, but. [00:06:53] Speaker A: So that's why I don't love ambassadors, of course. [00:06:57] Speaker B: But ambassadors also can attest for a certain product because they've probably at least tried it. [00:07:03] Speaker A: At least to know it's real. [00:07:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:07:04] Speaker A: So I'm an ambassador for Pickler, but I'm not going to go out there and tell everybody that you have to play at the Pickler. Do I think it's the best courts around? Yeah, the best. That's why. An ambassador for them. But I want to encourage pickleball. So if people want to play 24, 7 or 3rd shot or pick on pin or any other, or their neighborhood courts, wherever, like, I want to encourage that because I want more pickleball being played. [00:07:27] Speaker B: We want people to enjoy the sport, fall in love. [00:07:30] Speaker A: We want pickleball to take over the world because right now we're only the. Well, we're only the national mecca. We need to be the global mecca. [00:07:37] Speaker B: For me, it's about people having fun and moving. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Let's talk about that for a second. That's kind of one of the places I wanted to go, possibly on today's podcast. [00:07:44] Speaker B: Okay. [00:07:45] Speaker A: You know, there's a lot of conversation around what makes pickleball so addicting. Let's use that word. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Which we've talked about. [00:07:52] Speaker A: No, we did, but I think we've got a new. I've got some new insight on it. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Oh, do tell. [00:07:56] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's great community, it's great family, anyone can play. Not a lot of restrictions. You know, short, fat, tall, skinny, whatever. People, older, young, old, young people, like, none of that stuff matters. Dudes, chicks, like, all that stuff's good. Here's the thing. I think a lot of that's right. Like, it's a low barrier of entry. But what a friend and I were talking about this week was, it's also an incredible stress relief. It is, but not because of the exercise. [00:08:24] Speaker B: No. You get to hit something, whack the. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Ball as hard as you want, and it usually doesn't, you know, go that far. [00:08:29] Speaker B: True. [00:08:30] Speaker A: I think that plays a big role. And I'm not sure we talked about. [00:08:32] Speaker B: That before, but movement in general is also a stress reliever. So it's a double. [00:08:36] Speaker A: Sure, double. But the fun stress reliever is whacking the ball as hard as you can sometimes. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:08:41] Speaker A: Anyway, so back to this whole staying on top of tech thing. You know, I think pick your poison and then just kind of play with it and go from there. Have some fun, try out some other paddles. But. And most people, I think, do this already. But there are those of us that really wish we could have all 2,000 paddles in our. In our quiver and try them out. [00:08:57] Speaker B: You know, Whenever you could see my garage. [00:09:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah. So we talked about sling the. I almost said slingshot. The Top Shot Pro, but they have a Spin Pro. Top Spin Pro, but they have a new one out that's really tall and lets you do backspin and stuff. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Yes. [00:09:17] Speaker A: So we'll have that out at our drill sessions within a couple weeks, probably when we get back. We got to build it first and test it out, make sure it works. Right. But the Top Spin Pro this morning had a lot of interest at our drill session. [00:09:28] Speaker B: Good. [00:09:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, because it's pretty awesome. [00:09:31] Speaker B: It is. It is such. [00:09:33] Speaker A: So I think that kind of technology tool, it. It's not hard to stay on top of that because there's not 50 different swing, you know, things coming out that. That actually let you hit a ball and see if you effectively did it right or not. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Right. [00:09:45] Speaker A: And then there's swing Vision, which we did not talk about for sure. I think it's called swing Vision. Isn't that the one where you hit the. The ball at the. The master. The Swing Master. Swing Master. [00:09:55] Speaker B: It might be Dink Master. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Dink Master. Well, they came up with a second one. [00:09:58] Speaker B: Remember, it might be a Swing Master. [00:09:59] Speaker A: Anyway, I don't know. The Dink Master, which is kind of like a ball. [00:10:02] Speaker B: We'll. Our terminology. [00:10:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Has. Has markings on it that you have the ballot, but the one that we talked about after we were in Texas in November, I still want to build that. And that's the one where you have a machine that feeds a ball to you, like, soft and gently, like sort of like a dink over the kitchen, but then you. You hit it against targets on the wall. [00:10:22] Speaker B: Right. [00:10:23] Speaker A: I'd like to do the whole video game thing. I haven't figured that out yet. Or who owns that. [00:10:26] Speaker B: There are some. There is some technology out there that it's similar to that, but it doesn't. [00:10:30] Speaker A: Necessarily feed you at some. Say we talked about that. Well, the one in Dallas fed the ball. [00:10:35] Speaker B: It did. Do you remember the name of that? It was a really nice guy. We met the owner. One of the owners. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Like I said, we talked about it. But. But again, from a technology standpoint, that's not something you have to stay on top of, because there's 500 different ones. There's like, two or three different ones. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Sure. [00:10:50] Speaker A: So I think those guys that are trying to build something in that niche, good for them. Right. And we don't have to stay on top of it, which is fantastic. But when it comes to balls and paddles, those are just an insane number of competitors out there. I get the paddle one because they're so freaking expensive and they make a ton of money. Oh, one of my buddies. [00:11:12] Speaker B: I didn't go backwards. What did you just say? [00:11:14] Speaker A: The paddle one I get because they are expensive and they make a ton of money. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:20] Speaker A: So one of my friends said they did a video on the cross section of the Yola 4 and a knockoff Yola from like, Timu Alibaba somewhere like that. And that was exactly the same. [00:11:33] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:11:34] Speaker A: Now, that's a cross section. I don't know that that translates to. It will play exactly the same and not break down earlier, you know, because the glue may be a little cheaper or like. I have no idea. Maybe it's totally. Maybe they stole them. Maybe they are the same manufacturer. I don't have any idea. But that adds a bunch of paddle companies that don't even really exist in our list because our list is only the USAP kind of people that are trying to get approved. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Sure. [00:11:59] Speaker A: So now there's 3,000, 4,000. However many paddle companies out there, probably. [00:12:03] Speaker B: More than we know. But like you said, there are some similarities. And there are companies that have better branding and better marketing and they're going to charge more versus maybe a smaller homegrown company like. [00:12:15] Speaker A: Sure. [00:12:16] Speaker B: Wild Monkeys uses the same technology and same materials as a company like Selkirk. [00:12:21] Speaker A: As they all do. Yeah. As most of them do. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And I was able to test three of their paddles and I absolutely fell in love with one of them. Um, it was just right for me. Kind of like Goldilocks. So Wild Monkeys is a US company, family owned. So if you're. If that's important to you, check those. [00:12:41] Speaker A: Sure. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Check those guys out, too. [00:12:43] Speaker A: Sure. So the other topic I brought to today's conversation with you was completely different than technology, but I think something that we're going to see popping up everywhere much faster. Leagues have been a thing that we've talked about and leagues have been a thing that have been around for a while. The thing that leagues hasn't done yet is kind of do what USTA did with leagues. [00:13:05] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:06] Speaker A: You're familiar with the term sea whittle, of course. You know what it stands for? [00:13:10] Speaker B: No. I mean, I don't remember. [00:13:15] Speaker A: I think it's like Central Indiana Women's Tennis League. [00:13:19] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. [00:13:20] Speaker A: That sound right? [00:13:21] Speaker B: Central, yes. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's right. So it's probably like a central enemy. Indiana men's testing. I don't know. But Seawoodle is really popular. [00:13:32] Speaker B: It is. [00:13:32] Speaker A: And. And we have ladies playing in their 70s, 80s even still in sea Whittle, like very popular. That doesn't exist yet with pickleball. Pickleball is very much like leagues are run by a facility instead of by an entity like the usta. [00:13:49] Speaker B: Yes. [00:13:51] Speaker A: So I think PPA is starting to kind of get into it maybe a little bit a duper. Maybe a little bit with leagues. [00:13:56] Speaker B: Does UTR do that? [00:13:57] Speaker A: UTR I think does it. And. And it's okay if those guys do, but doggone it, I don't love those companies. So guess what? I'm starting your own. Yeah, not really. I kind of. I'm partnering up with a couple of other people and we're gonna do our first club versus club league. We've done multiple club versus club, quote unquote leagues that were one day like tournaments. Really? [00:14:21] Speaker B: Yep. [00:14:22] Speaker A: Head to head club versus club. The last one we did, Lisa ran it was eight clubs that participated, which is really cool. We're now gonna actually do a league. So we're expecting at least eight clubs to provide teams. And those teams will be, let's say it's co ed. So it could be four women that come from a club, could be four men that come from a club or any mix thereof. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Right. [00:14:48] Speaker A: And two men could play two women. Because coed. It's not designed to be like mlp. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Right. [00:14:53] Speaker A: Where it's the men's teams plays and the women's teams place. Anyway, we're working on it and Lisa and I met with another gal who's going to run these leagues for us. [00:15:01] Speaker B: Nice. [00:15:01] Speaker A: So we put together our thoughts last night. Lisa sort of formulated it on paper. Uh, we've got over to Jackie. Jackie is going to run with it. And. And what would happen is then Jackie's. [00:15:12] Speaker B: The person that's running with it. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Yeah. What would happen then is you have eight locations because each location would be tied to a team. So like a piccolo Noblesville 24 7. [00:15:24] Speaker B: When you say team. Well, say that again. [00:15:26] Speaker A: It's the club. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Right. [00:15:28] Speaker A: So that's a better way to put it. So we'd have eight clubs, one club from each of those locations. And those locations have to have at least four courts. [00:15:36] Speaker B: Okay. I feel like I've heard of this before. I. I have met with people who I. A gentleman is doing this. Something similar to this in Florida. And then I met another lady who's doing more of an MLP style in Texas. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah. So there's something I think called the N NTPL national something pickleball leagues. This is not the npl, which is the Senior Tour that like Rick Whitzkin and those guys are part of. This is the ntpl and it's like the national. I think it's the only like national maybe tournament, pickleball league. I don't know. But they're trying to do it on a state by state basis and then have the state's winning teams compete. I don't know if that's going to work. It's grandiose. It's sort of too big, too fast. Those things tend to really struggle. I look at minor league pickleball as an example. It's been around now for a couple of years. They've begged for me to run a tournament. I'm finally going to, I think run one. But we'll still be the first one ever in Indiana and there's hardly any in the rest of the United States. There's like a couple in Puerto Rico, a couple in Mexico, the couple over in, over in like Spain or somewhere. It's just not happening. And what's funny is all three of those are Spanish speaking countries. There might be somebody that's, you know, a Spanish speaker that's running those. I don't know how that's how that's set up, but there's like hardly any in the US and this is like minor league pickleball, which is a partner of duper and I think major league pickleball. So they've got clout, but no one's doing it again. I think they tried to be too big, too fast, tried to capture all the market and the market's wary. The market wants to play with people it knows well. [00:17:18] Speaker B: I think there's also a barrier when it comes to team formation because when you compete in a tournament, a lot of times you just struggle to find a partner in your division. Not to mention a whole team or a whole club who is willing to participate. So almost as if you need to form a club that knows that they will be competing in a league. [00:17:47] Speaker A: I think this will foster those. But we haven't had any trouble in the past getting clubs to play in our, in our one day tournaments. [00:17:56] Speaker B: No, but sometimes we've struggled with a certain division. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Like a four or five division for maybe three of the clubs are like, we don't have four or five players. Okay. But it's not that no one wants to do it. It's just that they don't have anyone at that level. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Right. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think we're going to test that here in Indiana and see what happens. I'm really. I mean, I shouldn't say. I think we're going to. We're going to Labor Day is our target. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Say it with authority. [00:18:18] Speaker A: We are gonna launch this thing here in Indiana after Labor Day. So it'll be an eight week thing. Should end before Thanksgiving. You know, sort of good timing and all that stuff. There's seven weeks of play because you've got 18 air, eight clubs. So they have to play each of the other ones. So they have to each play seven. So one night I will go to your court and play. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Right. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Another night I'll go to someone else's court and play. So six of the nights I'll go somewhere else and this and one of those seven nights will be at my place. [00:18:46] Speaker B: Yep. [00:18:47] Speaker A: We're not asking the clubs to give up much in terms of space. We're saying, can we have one Tuesday night in the next two months to host the club versus club league? Well, I think that's. That's the way to go. [00:18:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:58] Speaker A: I expect that these clubs would be more than happy to donate one night to get this league off the ground. Sure, we'll see. But that's what we're gonna do. And would I like to groundswell it and have us take over the world? Yes, but we're thinking much smaller than that. Like our, our biggest effort would maybe be what if 12 teams signed up? Okay, great. We'll do a north and a south. The south division will have six teams and the north division will have six teams and we'll just go six weeks. So anyway, the eighth week if it's eight teams, or the sixth week if it's six teams, that would be like the championship week where one in four play and two and three play and then, you know, they go from there to get figuring who the winner is. Something like that. [00:19:39] Speaker B: Wow. That's pretty cool. [00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah. But now leagues has always been built into this idea from our sponsor PB Time tournaments. It's pickleball time. Yo. It's always been a part of their plan. [00:19:51] Speaker B: Yes. [00:19:52] Speaker A: So this kind of fits with that. [00:19:53] Speaker B: As well, I see. [00:19:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:56] Speaker B: Wow. I feel like we have just bounce from thing to thing to thing to thing. [00:20:03] Speaker A: This is the Heinz 57 episode. [00:20:05] Speaker B: I was gonna say this is how your brain works, isn't it? [00:20:07] Speaker A: Huh? What I really want to tell them all about is the referee and coaching stuff that I got going on. But we'll do that on the next podcast. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Okay. Or a future one I won't pigeonhole you into. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Oh, that's so sweet of you. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Just in case you forget. [00:20:22] Speaker A: As if you pigeonhole me. There are other things, but not this. [00:20:29] Speaker B: You never know. [00:20:29] Speaker A: This is my safe space for choosing. [00:20:31] Speaker B: What I want to talk about most of the time. Sometimes I insert. [00:20:34] Speaker A: You do insert. You stinker. We're gonna hit the road on Thursday morning. [00:20:40] Speaker B: We leave for a tour. Yes. [00:20:42] Speaker A: I feel like we're like Lily Johnny Cash. [00:20:45] Speaker B: It feels like a musical tour because I'm booking appointments as if it's a gig. So it's pretty funny. [00:20:52] Speaker A: Folks, just as a heads up, we're going to go to Branson. Actually St. Louis and then Branson and then Springfield, Missouri. There's a suburb of one of those Missouri towns that we're going to be in. [00:21:05] Speaker B: We're going to be. We're going to be in a couple. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Of suburbs of St. Louis, Cumberland or something like that. [00:21:11] Speaker B: Olivet and. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Yeah. So St. Louis, Branson, maybe in Springfield. [00:21:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Tulsa, Edmond, in Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Texas, Pueblo, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Denver, Longmont, Boulder, Fort Collins. That's just a three sort of on the same area. [00:21:35] Speaker B: You threw in some new cities, so. [00:21:37] Speaker A: I'm not sure I've got the whole list over here. Kansas City, back home and then take off again 10 days later and it's all the way to Denver. And then it's Kansas City, Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne. Home. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Yep. [00:22:00] Speaker A: And then a few days later, just me. You won't be with me on this one. It's kind of Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, St. Paul, Minneapolis and back home. [00:22:10] Speaker B: And then in August, we're going to. [00:22:12] Speaker A: Pick upon pickle con in Kansas City. Who wants to go? [00:22:15] Speaker B: We still need tickets. [00:22:18] Speaker A: I got tickets today for Bear City open. They're in your email box. You'll have to set up a. [00:22:24] Speaker B: You don't need to share that. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Set up an account with tickets. Tickets? Tickler. Ticker Tickler. That'd be a great name for a ticket company. Hey, welcome to the Tickler. [00:22:32] Speaker B: How can I help you? Sure. I can see so many problems with that. [00:22:38] Speaker A: Me too. The reason I see all those towns is to me, you might be coming to a town near you. [00:22:42] Speaker B: Yeah, reach out. We would love to see you. We'd love to come play pickleball near you. [00:22:48] Speaker A: We've already scheduled time with Justin Drake, the president of the Omaha club, that monstrous 2000 person club in Omaha. We scheduled time with Dr. Best and some friends in Kansas City. He has a bet on the table. [00:23:02] Speaker B: Really? [00:23:02] Speaker A: Yes. And I have to help him win the bet. Otherwise he has to turn around and face the music and get whacked with the ball from center court. [00:23:10] Speaker B: Well, if you would like to reach out to us, please reach out to us through our Facebook page or Instagram. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Or if you know it's just text us. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Yep. If you. Or if you know, it's just Texas. [00:23:21] Speaker A: And then we're going to do another tour because we got to get to Opelika in Alabama and a few other cities in our area. [00:23:28] Speaker B: That might wait until the beginning of the year because in September we have a big event coming. We have a big tournament coming up. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Well, PB Time does PB Time. [00:23:35] Speaker B: And then in November we'll have our. [00:23:38] Speaker A: That's our fourth. [00:23:39] Speaker B: Our fourth annual Hungry Hungry Games which. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Has had as many as 525 registrants in the past. [00:23:45] Speaker B: Yes. [00:23:46] Speaker A: And always over 400. It's a big tournament and I would. [00:23:49] Speaker B: Love so much actually have 500 players this year. [00:23:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, Shannon, did she pass 600? [00:23:56] Speaker B: I know she passed 500. [00:23:58] Speaker A: Oh, 500 easy. I think she might have passed 600. [00:24:00] Speaker B: She might have. [00:24:00] Speaker A: So in other words, the market here can support that and we'd love to have over 500 again at Hungry Games. So we gave away meals to. We have seen it was around 30,000 meals. [00:24:09] Speaker B: 12,000. [00:24:10] Speaker A: 12,000 meals. [00:24:10] Speaker B: 12,000 meals. And that was just a two day tournament or three day tournament. [00:24:15] Speaker A: Whatever. 12,000 meals is still awesome. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Yep. [00:24:18] Speaker A: So we are going to launch a tournament in September and you will see it very, very soon. Otherwise, I think we're good for today. What do you think? [00:24:28] Speaker B: I think we are too. [00:24:29] Speaker A: I think that they should tell their friends that we're ahead of the game. [00:24:32] Speaker B: And so are you. [00:24:43] Speaker A: That's what I'm ahead now. I'm ahead of the game. [00:24:46] Speaker B: I'm ahead of the game.