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Chris Wright joins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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Drinking Drinking. Welcome back to Drinking with Dog. It is Tuesday, the
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twenty fifth of April. A little getting a little nicer out there, but
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I think we're getting some rain tonight too. Uh. Just got a guest
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in tonight. We are gonna have some fun talking about pickle ball. Uh
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he is Chris right. First of all, welcome to the show, Chris.
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Thank you very much, no problem. Just pulled out like a little
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bit closer to you, so hear you a little better. Perfect. Uh,
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so you reached out to me or through a mutual friend, bridget and
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uh, pickle ball is kind of, I don't know, swept the nation
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if you will, in the last five years. Maybe, yeah, yeah,
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I mean it was something I played as an elective at Daniel Hannon High
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School in like nineteen ninety two. I can't believe that. Yeah. Yeah,
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it's like honestly, this one lady like on this big house and she
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had three or four I guess four pickle ball courts in her backyard and we
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went there every Tuesday at like five o'clock after school and played. I thought
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it was really fun. So pickle ball is like a cross I guess between
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tennis, ping, pong and badminton is kind of the what I read online
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anyway. Yeah, you could throw a pool into it because it's angles.
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And what's nice about pick a ball, especially when you're getting older like me,
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but a lot of younger people are digging it now, is that it's
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a half the size of a tennis court, so you're really only fifteen feet
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away from the people that you're playing against, right, so there's a lot
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of talking back and forth. They're having fun, and you only have you
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only get one serve. So I'm like tennis, if you're not good at
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serving, you know, you get two chances and you got to go find
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the ball. All that pickaball, all you miss it, come back right
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there. Yeah, it's the racquetball's right there. Yeah, And the games
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are quick, they're like fifteen or twenty minutes unless you get into a real
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competitive game. And what happened with me is because of COVID, I stopped
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going to my offices, which I've always either been in New York or southern
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Connecticut, and I lived always up here either in Stratford Woodbridge for a long
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time and then I just moved here six years ago. Driving south is not
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a great thing, or driving north at a certain time is not a great
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thing in Connecticut, right, So I had a lot of time. So
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last July I moved. Last January I moved my offices to my home.
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So by July I was looking for things to do. I've got a great
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lawn now, I mean I go out and pick weeds. So mean things
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for me to do because I have five hours even though I worked the same
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amount, I've got five hours that I wasn't in the car. Right,
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So somebody told me about going down the wreck and paying twenty five bucks and
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up at Eisenhower that joined the Milford Pickleball Association. And you go up to
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Eisenhower Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays or Saturdays from eight to twelve and they have
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a big white board that they have boxes in and you put your name in
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and the next thing, you know, even though I didn't really know how
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to play at all, right, you get to play with people and you
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know it's it's a fun time and you can you know, it gets really
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competitive if you want it to be, or people just go up there and
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have fun and talk. So it's a good thing. So I did my
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research on it and the history behind it, and it was invented in nineteen
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sixty five by basically three fathers. If you care, it's Joel Pritchard,
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Bill Bella, Barney McCallum, and up and outside of Seattle, Washington.
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It's where it was invented, and it was just kind of three guys goofing
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around whatever. The word pickleball has really nothing to do with the sport.
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There's a couple of theories. One is the dog's name was Pickles or the
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other one was something about the wife. That's something about both had a voting
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term or something. I don't know. But now the capital pickleball capital of
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the world is in Naples, Florida, which makes a lot of sense.
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Not that you need money to play pickleball, but there's a lot of money
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there, a lot of older people. And but one thing that's cool about
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the sport is it's almost fifty fifty men to women. Yes even feel slightly
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over for women, yes, yeah. And what I was reading is a
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lot of it is the reason why the older people like to play. It
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is like kind of like piggybacking on what you said. It's the smaller court.
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They get their exercise and there's you know, not everyone garattery and not
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everyone always you know, it's competitive to like, I think feeling having that
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competitive spirit, no matter how what age you are really helps you mentally,
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I think, just through the aging process. And we were talking when I
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first called, talked on the phone. You know, we'll get to the
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tournament itself in a second, but you were talking about forty five and older,
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and you were like, you know, I don't want these twenty five
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year olds coming in and just smashing the ball around. And I get that,
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but like, I think that's, like you said, the younger people
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are starting to pick up this game. It is. I'll tell you a
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story. I mean, I had a buddy of mine that I started in
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my business with back in the early nineties and he's no longer doing and he
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moved years ago down the del Rey Beach, and he had two older children,
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and for some reason, he had two younger kids, like twelve fourteen
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years apart. So his eldest son was an a standing tennis player, and
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he went to Vanderbilt, and then he left Vanderbilt and he needed something to
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do besides go to school, so he picked up a pickle ball racket and
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started playing. That was November December of two twenty one, and last year
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he signed a pro pickaball contract, got a three hundred thousand dollars a year
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marketing contract with Selkirk which makes the paddles and stuff. And he's like the
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second or third best player in the country. I mean, live a life,
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and I mean, so who would have thought so? His name is
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James Ignatowich and his father is too. But the thing is is that who
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would have thought, right? I mean, he was a really good tennis
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player, didn't work out, he started picking up and the next thing you
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know, he's traveling all over the place and he's going to make a lot
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of money this year. So that him being in it and his father talking
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to me about it and then be starting to play, I really fell in
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love with the whole thing. And when I needed something to keep me busy,
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you know, because I'm a need to be busy kind of guy,
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not to get in trouble um the people off in Eisenhower because I didn't know
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anything and we're really nice, and that's why, you know, going into
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the tournament, why I wanted to do that. Yeah, you know,
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but I think some of the pickle ball. Thing was the creation of it
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was to keep their kids. They all used to go on vacation together and
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they wanted to keep their kids where they could see them. Yea and enjoyable.
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So I mean it's kind of like when we were kids. You know,
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you would play. My parents didn't want to know where the funk.
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I was different now now they got tracker. Yeah, maybe I'd be gone
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for two for dinner that was there. Yeah, but you would play all
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different again. Yeah. Yeah, It's not like I'm saying you get a
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stick in a wheel and go down the road, right, you know,
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you'd always have a glove or ice hockey stick or basketball pickups pickups. No
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longer there's no pickups anything that's organized anything. Everything's organized. So what was
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great about going up to Eisenhower is I knew nobody went up with a paddle,
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didn't even have balls, And I was like a right, and then
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it's fun to do. Yeah. I I haven't played since high school.
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Uh. A lot of my friends play. They love it. Um.
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One of my best friend's mother reserves like three hours, like two days a
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week and it's just you know, eight ten people just playing, you know,
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back and forth and uh, and they get very competitive. Oh,
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they're like super competitive. Yeah, yeah, they work on it. They
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buy all different kinds of paddles. They're probably yeah, right, I gotta
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have the right ball to play. You can't, so you know, I
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haven't played in thirty plus years, dating myself a little bit. But you
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know, it's it's kind of more like tennis, but like it. But
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it's is it is it always two on two? No, you can like
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when my kids come off, I mean, they want to play singles with
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me because I'm all right, But you know, but doubles is much easier
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because you can still run around a lot. But like I play once in
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a while with a gentleman who's like eighty three. He'll just say to me,
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like the first time I played him, and he goes, Chris,
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right here, this foot and a half around me is mine. You get
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everything on right. But he loves playing, and it's keeps his mind and
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he's got a community. That's what's a great thing about it. Yeah,
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and the rules are pretty similar to tennis, except for you know, you've
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got the pickle line. So the court is smaller, right, but it's
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set up just like a tennis court, but then seven feet from the net
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on both sides is what they have called a pickle line or a kitchen line.
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I'm sorry, kitchen kitchen the kitchen. And when I first played with
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my three sons were all up and we had gotten a kit and went down
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to they just put the courts into a point. So we were just hitting
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each other. You know, it's hard as we could. Didn't know the
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rules. So the rule basically is if the ball bounces inside the kitchen,
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you can go in to get it. But if it doesn't bounce into it
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and you hit the ball over the net or and you take a step into
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the kitchen, you lose the point. So there is you know, a
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little skill on knowing where it is. And everybody's got the dream that they're
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going to go around the pole. They call it atp yea where you don't
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have to go over the net right and you just right like pang. Yeah,
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same thing. So there's it's a combination of a lot of different things.
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So uh, and it's a quick game too. Is there a lot
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of trash talk? Is there a lot of like is there a lot of
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people calling fouls on the other person? And then like the other person's like,
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no, I wasn't in the kitchen. Kind of kind of shit,
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you know, like they call fouls on a basketball court in a pickup game
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there, the kitchen only gets when the other team might be losing and they'll
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catch you. But the kitchen's really not it. It's more of the out
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of bounds lines. Yeah. I haven't seen very many balls that hit a
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line that were called in yea that were called in there. There are a
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lot of out calls, but that's part of all there. No, man,
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that was great to watch it right. A couple of weeks ago,
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Oh he did that Johnny mack and I used to love him have his outburst.
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There he is playing agazy and Roddick and Chang was playing with Macaro.
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Looked like he did when he was playing uh center court at the US Open
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or Paris Open, yelling and screaming, getting up, getting up, getting
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in, uh, getting and on that. The kid James Ignaiowich that plays
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right, bro. He has gotten so much better. He's going up the
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ranks. And a couple of months ago, his father um texting me,
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because you got to check this out. So what he did was he came
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up to the pickle, I mean the kitchen line and stomped his feet,
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and they called the penalty. On the rest called the penalty because they said
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it was a distraction. I'm like, how getting up to the I mean,
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come on, really know it's because he was being aggressive, more aggressive
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than they want. So there's all different kinds of rules. I'm still trying
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to figure out the rules. One thing that's difficult is the score because it
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starts at zero zero start or zero zero two. That means I'm serving on
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my far right and if I don't get it in, it automatically goes to
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the other side. But one thing I've learned playing with people is that you
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have to tell the score every time or people get up set. Yeah yeah,
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And a lot of confusion comes with the score two. I mean,
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I'm astonished that a lot of people know where they started and Okay, so
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it's got to be an even number because I started over here, so it's
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not five five, it's got to be five six, right, And I'm
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like, how do you know that? Well, just where you started,
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And I'm like, too too many numbers for me. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, it's like, I mean, tennis is a little easier because you
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know, you're in a game, you know, so you're only getting to
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forty love and then it's over. So that's pretty Ping pong is like you
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kind of serve five times and you switch off. So like if you're scoring
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by the numbers, like you kind of I'll wait a second. If it's
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you know, twenty to five, it's now it's my tournament, right if
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you know shit like that, Like yeah, but but again you're right.
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Numbers. People forget you don't say the score every time, and then you
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got to go back in your head and replay the play and blah blah blah,
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and they'll be and they'll bring people up that want to try to get
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in your head that I'll say, okay, what's the score now, and
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they'll say, oh no, I can't be that. And then a minute
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or two goes by and then you file you hit the ball into the net
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on your next serve because you're paying too much attention to the score. Now,
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your buddy that you know is third in the nation somewhere when he plays
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in the tournaments is like a ball boys judges. I mean, he plays
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in the league, the Major League pickleball league that you know Lebron and Um
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and Brady have teams. So but what's really funny? I'm sorry, I
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don't mean interrupt, but you're really not allowed to say Lebron on this show.
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Oh okay, Well that's okay, Tom Brady all day long, day
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long. But um, going there is that Um when you look at it,
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it's really like it's exactly like ping pong, except you're actually playing on
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your feet, you know what I mean, and you're moving and it's just
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fun. I mean, that's why when it's really helped me stay sane,
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because I've always worked with people. Yeah, and now that I moved my
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offices to my house, my right hand person lives in Indiana. Now,
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I mean with video and all that, there was no reason why I had
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to be there anymore. Right, So, you know you kind of you
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know, I have a beautiful office I built. I mean, it's great,
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and I love it because it's only twelve steps now, not two and
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a half hours to get to Stanford or two and a half hours to get
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to New York City. So but there's days where I'm like, you know,
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before July, it was like, all right, it's two o'clock,
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what do I do now, I mean, you know what I mean.
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So to be able to I still get up early in the morning and work.
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So I'll go up to Eisenhower or Fowler now and you know, play
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for an hour and a half, two hours, and then I go home
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and I'm still doing my job, right, right, that's great? Yeah,
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all right, Well let's get to the big tournament. The reason why
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you're here. Yeah, so you were doing well, I'll let you speak
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on it. So you're doing a pickleball tournament, right, I mean,
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I do a cherry event every year. Well, COVID kind of screwed that
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stuff ours, but and it's always been southern or in the city or wherever
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because that's where I work. So I decided when I found pickleball, I
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said, wow, this would be a fun thing to do. And so
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I got it approved. What got it disapproved by rec first, and then
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I went to the mayor And it was funny because I gave him my marketing
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department's grade. I gave him a slick on why it would be a good
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thing for Milford. And it was February first, because it was my wife's
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second knee surgery and I was bringing her home at my assistant sent it to
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him at like at eight o'clock. He called me at twelve o'clock. He
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goes, Hi, Chris, this is Ben Blake. I go the mayor.
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So he liked it. And then I talked to Billy Garfield again and
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he liked it. And it's Milford Rex Pickleball tournament and I'm supporting it,
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and it's more of COVID's gone. People can be together now. It really
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helps me. So I wanted to give back. So it's not a tournament
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like New Haven just had a tournament that had five hundred and forty two players
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from sixteen states and it was real competitive or as competitive as you want mine.
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There's always winners and losers in the world. But I want people to
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come up enjoy themselves. That's where the cocktail party is so they can talk
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between themselves, maybe neat meet some new people. I mean Ryan at the
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plate where where I'm having it. I wanted somewhere in Milford and he's closed
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it two o'clock, so to have something there in the evening is easy.
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And then the food truck then next day and then it's double elimination. We
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got a nice swag, so it's gonna be a good fun time, and
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I thought it would be harder me organizing this and getting it approved by the
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city than actually getting people to play. So that's why I'm on the show.
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Yeah, I mean, you know it's from I already. I'm pretty
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sure I got you at least ten commitments because that was just from talking about
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it over the weekend. Thank you. You know, you might have to
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make some exceptions on age, and I don't have a problem with that.
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The reason why I did forty five and older and nest doubles was I only
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have the courts for a day, right, and I was going to do
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you know, single men's singles. You know I've got all Yeah, I
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started thinking about it. I thought I was going to run you know,
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the US Open, and I came down to, okay, well, I
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only have so much time. How long does the game start, and where's
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this and how much of a problem getting from place to play? So I
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went with forty five and above because the average medium age in Milford's forty four.
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Yeah, So I thought, okay, and I'm getting some response from
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younger people, and I'm like, I didn't want to have two twenty two
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year olds that can hit the ball really hard, play against seven sixty five
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seventy year olds, right, So some people have called I'm you know,
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I just that. Look the program says forty five, So just put your
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put your age limited at forty five. Ye idea. No, there's no,
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there's no, there's no. There's not five policemen outside like at stone
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Bridge on a Friday, you know. And it's really just for fun.
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I mean there'll be there's real nice metals there. You get, you know,
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to sign up for fifty bucks each or one hundred dollars a team.
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You get the mixer at the play. The next day you get on all
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you can eat plate food chalk, which is good. Yeah, I wanted
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to do everything. Milford. You get a shirt that then Tucket Embroider is
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going and they're doing coozies with a water bottle too for me. And then
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um, he does all my stuff. He does. Really, I mean
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I knew him when they were called the Seymour Brothers. Brothers. Yeah,
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I mean when I walked in when somebody told me you were over there,
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I didn't have any idea what it was. Um, so yeah, it's
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that kind of a thing. And and and at the end of the day,
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what's the money going to. It's going back to the Pickup All Association
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to help um refinish the courts because and all of that, which is great.
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And then maybe next year because I really want to do this as an
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annual thing. I mean, maybe we do. Uh. Someone told me
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about Camp Happiness that's having some problems because a certain benefactor is no longer around
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doing it, or maybe it goes to something else in Milford. But I
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want to keep the money in Milford. So that's that's awesome. So it's
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June second. June second is the play. Une June third is eight am.
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It starts that registration game start at nine kind of thing. Uh.
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And and do you have your is it just you kind of like setting up
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all the matches or you got a little crew with you that are gonna kind
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of organize my kids? My kids are coming all back. I mean,
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Chris is back. How you will be back? Okay? And that saves
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me. This whole thing is great because all my life, since my kids
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were little, I've always done a Christmas card, a family Christmas card.
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Ye, so last year was the first time because one's up in New Hampshire
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going to school. Two of them are in Tampa, ones in Larchmont,
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and to try to get kids under thirty all at my house at the same
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time is almost impossible. Yeah. Yeah, So we had to do our
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first Christmas card from Christmas in different states. So this year I went right
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when I after I decided I was going to do this, I'm like,
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all right, all of you guys are coming up. I need your help.
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But then we can get our Christmas picture too, so that'll be a
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good thing. Yeah. I have enough volunteers and and all that. So
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I mean it sounds like, honestly a bargain. I mean, fifty bucks
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the money. Most of the money's going back to resurface the courts you get
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or whatever wreck one, whatever would they want to do with the money,
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right, it's going to the wreck though. Yes, you know, you
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get a cocktail hour or more more yep, the night before, get you
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a nice think. It'll be like stone Bridge, where you know, it
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all depends on how many farers you can just zombies walking in at eight am.
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Is there a rain date? Yeah, the next time next sary okay,
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so perfect, So you have the second or the third or the tenth.
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Yeah, yeah, Uh so, this is what I will do on
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my Facebook page when we post the picture in the comments section, I will
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post the QR code. Thank you. So people right from their phones to
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their computer or whatnot can access that QR code. You guys can sign up
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right there if you believe. Probably takes payment right through it, right right
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through everything. Actually, my marketing department, my back office is in an
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Oregon. Yeah, you used to call it Oregon, but no, that's
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it's Oregon. Yeah. Um, and so all the money goes through them,
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and then we'll go right right to the vendors and the Milford rags right
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right. You obviously gotta pay the vendors. Uh So, I mean sounds
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like a great, great day to be honest with you, like, and
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I know, I know there's a lot of Milford people that play it.
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Uh those courts are packed NonStop, NonStop, NonStop. You can't I mean
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really, you got to call ahead and reserve it, and or you're not
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getting out there, right. And that's what's nice about that Milford Pickaball Association
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for the twenty five dollars and I guess it's one hundred and fifty now for
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outside Milford residents. They uped it this year. But the first day I
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went there, like on a Friday, at nine o'clock, there was like
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seventy people there. I couldn't believe. I mean, honestly, I thought
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they were giving things away free. Yeah. Yeah, and but very nice
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people. I mean, for the most part, very nice people. Yeah.
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That play. Yeah, and you can get heated sometimes, yes,
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and that's and I like that anyway. I'm as good as anybody, you
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know having fun. Yeah, and you know, and I'm a loud,
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boisterous person anyway. So I was a little bit of a new avenue there
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because I was talking. I talked throughout the game, right, make jokes,
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all that kind of stuff. So so it's fun, yeah, and
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this will be great. And again there will be very good players there playing.
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But you know, the woman might be really good in the husband's not.
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The husband might be good. Both of them might be really good.
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I mean, same sex marriages are okay to me too. You know,
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it's in today's world, it's too hard to I'd rather go with mixed than
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people ask me, can I do this that? Yeah? Everybody's you know,
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do they allow alcohol there? No, I did not sign up for
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that. Permit, I probably would not have gotten it, right, not
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just curious, you know, I know how a lot of these guys,
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you know, they pack a cooler and they go, oh no, nobody
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know these people, I mean water, energy bars, gloves that goes.
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No, they' gonna whatever they do on the lower field. I don't care,
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no, no, no, just I just just get all the other
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beach. I would think that if you're if you over the point beach,
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you want to crack a yeah party, yeah yeah, yeah no. I'm
25:00
just saying, like, are they allowed to bring their own not booze,
25:03
but they can bring a cooler? They can bring well, the food is
25:07
gonna defeat right there. Right, but if you know, I mean again,
25:11
I am not the police, so hey, I'm just there to make
25:15
sure people are so fun, that's it. I can get to the right
25:18
courts. Yeah. And what's cool about it is I'm named because if it
25:19
is Milford and we're a coastal town, each one of the courts will be
25:25
named different beach at Milford. So people who understand when I say, okay,
25:30
mid uh, you know silver Sands two and three are playing so oh
25:34
cool. Yeah, It's all really about when does registration close. I need
25:40
three weeks according to the Seymours to get the shirts, so May fifth or
25:44
so. But I need more people, so anything we can do that would
25:48
be great, right or next week? Yep? All right, perfect,
25:51
So limited spots everyone, Like I said, you can go right to the
25:53
QR code will be posted on my Facebook page and I just click on it
25:57
and it's gonna be a fun time time. I probably won't be attending due
26:02
to the fact that one I have to work at night. I was,
26:04
and I worked till three in the morning on Friday, So eight o'clock is
26:07
my Z time, Like this my rem sleep time, right, But I
26:14
will swing by though, like later. Yeah, yeah, I'll definitely swing
26:15
by later before I go to work. Check it out, take some pictures
26:18
and stuff like that. Um so awesome. So it is June third,
26:25
register online. What is the website If they don't click on my QR code,
26:30
it is https. What's the main thing? Oh, they can go
26:40
right on to Milford Reck Okay Pickleball Association. Yeah, it's all here and
26:45
you'll see the tournament there and alright, perfect on the on the flyer,
26:49
yep, that's what I'm gonna poste and the flyers up on the Milford recks
26:53
um because it is their tournament. Okay, got you all right? Perfect?
26:57
All right, Well now that we got that and out of the way.
27:00
Yeah, yeah, no, you're welcome, man, Good luck with
27:03
it. It'll be fun. I know, I know a lot of people
27:07
that'll be we are talking about going you know, the talk talk is a
27:10
lot. I thought it would be hard, like I said, I thought
27:12
it would go like that, and then you know, yeah, it's not
27:15
as quick as I thought. Yeah, people are like, well, you
27:19
know, I mean, I can't find somebody. Can you find me a
27:22
guy? Chris and I I don't know that many people. I'm like where
27:29
there's like six guys right there? Then go out that. Yeah, I
27:32
don't want to be like that. Can you go do it? It's not
27:33
a pimp. Well it's your tournament though. You know you're a salesman by
27:40
nature, right, yes, uh speaking of salesman. Before you got here,
27:45
I was watching Biden announce his twenty twenty four re election run. There's
27:52
a lot of mumble jumble stuff. Didn't really understand what he was saying,
27:56
but it got me to thinking about what he did the other day and he
28:02
basically signed an executive order that, in Layman's terms, if you have let's
28:10
say a credit score of seven to fifty and go to get a mortgage,
28:15
let's say a four hundred thousand dollars home, you're going to pay on average
28:18
sixty more dollars a month to fund the people that don't have good credit so
28:26
they don't have to pay the fees. Yeah, I got that mostly right.
28:30
No, you did. And it's again we in America, we keep
28:37
rehashing ideas that did not work. Right. I'm in wealth management. I've
28:41
been in wealth management since nineteen ninety and you know, everybody worries about the
28:48
stock market. But if you look at the tip of your finger where your
28:52
nail is, that's the stock market. But if you look at the bond
28:56
market, the credit market, I mean that's all of an etiquette. Really,
29:00
I mean the worst. We can't live without credit, I mean it's
29:04
impossible. So we've tried. The wealthiest of wealthy use credit. Yeah,
29:10
they don't pay cash for nothing. The reason why in two thousand and eight
29:15
that we almost went to Barter Flintstone money, I mean Barter. It was
29:19
that close. I mean, I mean very very close. To not having
29:25
any money is because I wouldn't lend you a dollar for a day because you
29:27
didn't think i'd pay you back, right, And it was all everybody's got
29:32
to own a home. And I don't want to discriminate. I don't believe
29:36
discrimination is good. But there's a reason why everybody doesn't own a home.
29:41
They might not have enough money, they might not they may spend too much
29:45
money. There's reasons, what different reasons why people don't have a good credit
29:48
score. It's not always that someone's impoverished. It's not they just don't pay
29:53
their bills on time, or they just forget, or they just realize they
29:56
don't have to, or they over extend. So when everybody needed to own
30:03
a house in the early two thousands, two thousand and eight happen, I
30:07
mean it was a bubble, it was, and it wasn't because houses were
30:11
too expensive. It was that there was nothing in the mortgages anymore. We
30:17
were selling things that didn't exist, so Wall Street could make money. And
30:21
I've got no problem with people making money, but this new one is just
30:26
seems to me like a rehash. And I don't believe everybody needs a trophy
30:32
in America, you have to earn a trophy. And if you're going to
30:38
have commercials, because that's what I envision now, credit agency saying, let
30:42
me show you how to miss a credit bill and so your credit score goes
30:48
down a little bit so you can get you don't have to pay as much
30:51
in closing costs. That just doesn't make any sense to me, right,
30:56
and that's going to be the new trick, Right, that's going to be
31:00
a new trick. No, I can tell you there are firms out there
31:03
right now that are trying to figure out how to put a lipstick on that
31:07
pay right, to make it attracted to people, to miss about, you
31:11
know, to miss a credit to go down, not to put as much
31:15
money in. But I think if you don't have enough money to if you
31:21
if you only have exactly the amount of money or ten cents more to buy
31:26
a house, You're probably not going to succeed in the long run anyway,
31:33
because shit just happens, right the furnace blows up though water pipe. I
31:38
mean, well, I always look at myself when I make a big purchase.
31:44
I have like I have anxiety by nature, but I'm always like,
31:48
you know, if I break my leg or break my arm, or God
31:52
forbid, something takes me out of work for the summer. How the fuck
31:56
am I gonna pay? I mean, in my profession, right, I
32:00
can get this right, right, And but I worry about it. You
32:06
know, I was like two thousand and seven, I I filed for bankruptcy.
32:10
You have no problem admitting that. And it was probably one of the
32:14
best things I ever did. I learned a lesson and my deck got wiped
32:17
clean. And but I didn't make a joke of it. I like,
32:21
really like on my own, like all right, this is how I got
32:24
to do it. Now my credit is around eight ten and after which is
32:30
amazing, just after years, that's amazing. Congratulation, thank you. And
32:37
I look something like this, and I'm like, are you fucking kidding me?
32:40
Like teaching teaching people how to I guess budget right, budget their money
32:52
and not over extend. And you know, I'm still guilty of it.
32:55
You know, we all I buy dumb shut shit. I shouldn't be buying,
33:00
but you know, we're human and we have wants and needs, and
33:04
you know it is what it is. But to me on the outside of
33:08
this, I look in it and I think Okay, so fuck the sixty
33:14
dollars a month, right, right, right? Whatever is this plan actually
33:19
gonna work? Let's I would be more than willing to pay that extra amount
33:22
if this plan would work, but I am ninety nine point nine percent sure
33:27
it won't. And the reason is is because these people that have bad credit
33:31
have bad credit for a reason, just like I did fifteen years ago.
33:36
However, I had means to get out of it financially, not not just
33:39
because of bankruptcy, but because of the job I had. And I don't
33:43
feel like you're right, I don't feel the lower income you know people and
33:49
you know, let's call them minorities, people in the inner city one,
33:52
Where are they going to buy housing? Where are the houses right for them
33:55
to buy? Because they don't? Because what's it's the major problem with our
34:00
housing market for new homebuyers. My daughter and her husband are looking to buy.
34:07
And you know when I first bought with my wife, I mean I
34:12
bought in Stratford. I paid, you know, it was late late nineties,
34:16
maybe one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars for a two bedroom, one
34:21
and a half bath that I added on a little bit too, and made
34:22
a killing. I mean, I really did. I mean when I sold
34:27
it in two thousand and six, because it was right right right at the
34:30
market. Right. But now where do you find a home that you can
34:36
afford that's not a big mansion. And you've got venture capitalist and you've got
34:43
people on Wall Street that any time a house like that comes up, they're
34:46
buying it because then they're gutting it and renting it out, and rent pisces
34:53
are going up. So really, what this executive order, which I'm not
34:58
a big believer, and is that you know, we didn't elect the king,
35:00
I mean, right, Congress, right, but and I'm just not
35:05
saying Biden and then right, and Congress allows him to when people wonder,
35:12
why, right, get out set of balls, right, get back your
35:15
power? Right right? You know? Um, but you don't have the
35:21
houses. So rent is more than a mortgage, right, So the administration
35:29
must be thinking, well, if rent is more expensive than the house mortgage,
35:34
well let's make it easier for them. They get a mortgage. But
35:37
the problem with a mortgage is you gotta pay it, right, you can't,
35:44
you can't miss it, right, So it was eight months. They
35:46
can't they can't get the addictions done. But you know I mean, and
35:52
what you're going to see because I worked for a major financial institution for twenty
35:58
five years and they get some bad days, right, I mean, is
36:04
that they're just going to do the mortgage and sell it to somebody. They're
36:09
not going to hold it. That's what happened in the early twos right,
36:13
they were just doing it, getting their money and then selling it off,
36:16
and then Wall Street started packaging them. And that's how we're in the whole
36:20
two thousand and eight. So who is this a win win for? I
36:22
don't understand it. There's not enough houses to be bought anyway we're in.
36:29
They're not going to be able to buy the homes they live in, right,
36:31
That's not going to happen because those are cash cows for the guys that
36:35
own them. Yes, so let's say they do find a house and it
36:38
is in the suburbs. Great, awesome, they got out of where they
36:42
did, where they didn't want to be. Now they own American dream,
36:45
the American dream. Now they're there. Now, let's say they were able
36:50
to pay for a year, but each month they pay is depleting their savings,
36:57
depleting their overall monthly income. More fights in the household. Right now,
37:01
you get like you said, that mortgage gets sold back to Fannie or
37:06
Freddie. They bought it from Webster Bank or Milford Bank or somebody local total
37:10
Mortgage, whoever, and they're they're not dumb. They they'll they'll make the
37:15
quick buck and sell it. Now you have the problem where Okay, now
37:21
they're at three months default, they're going to be basically foreclosed on. And
37:27
then they got to move back to where they were most likely right, and
37:31
they got to uproot their whole family again. And then who's going to swipe
37:35
in? Some dude with money is gonna come in and take it over,
37:37
right, and then what's he gonna do. He's gonna rent it right?
37:42
That that than that because the bank doesn't want to own right the property the
37:49
property right. So what you look at is you just look at what we
37:53
consistently try to do wrong. Our school systems do not teach financial literacy at
38:07
all. I cannot agree with you. More like I spent twelve years in
38:12
high school or twelve years in grade school, four years in college, four
38:15
and a half. Maybe my economics course in college kind of like taught me
38:22
how to balance a checkbook. That was about it. And that was like
38:25
back before, you know, way before the credit card or the debit card
38:30
were delivered or that money just moved. They were still swiping my card like
38:34
at the gas station with the fucking and then people were jumping in the jumping
38:40
into the into the trash ban. Yeah, just get number. Yeah yeah.
38:47
But where we are is we're in a society where everything has to be
38:52
instantaneous, right right right. More and more people can't buy because we've priced
39:02
them out of the marketplace and they don't know how to get better credit scores.
39:09
But if you watch TV now, if you get an experience app,
39:15
I've never done it. I have one, right, you get if you
39:20
do certain things, you gotta get notified when my credit goes up. Your
39:23
credit I mean, Wells Fargo and other banks now have a credit card that
39:29
you can use to pay your rent. Right, that's a good thing,
39:34
is it? Well, no, it's you know it's yes, because you're
39:37
getting you're using that a credit card or a debit card. A credit card,
39:42
a debit card, credit card both, you know what I mean.
39:45
But so if I rents a thousand dollars, I throw it on my credit
39:46
card. They're going to charge met No, well, if if I don't
39:52
pay it, yeah, if you don't pay it. But if I do
39:54
pay it, you your yours or whatever your credit card not so much rewards,
39:59
but you're you're improving your credit, right, because what we're doing here.
40:05
But then but then you get people like, see, this is this
40:07
is the problem I feel. Then you get people like, all right,
40:08
well, let's say I have a ten thousand dollar credit limit. Well,
40:12
you know, I'm just gonna throw it on this month. I don't really
40:15
have the money to pay, or I want to buy something. I want
40:16
to buy a car. They let that month slide, they pay the interest
40:21
on it, and then they do it again ten months later around Christmas time
40:23
because they want to buy some Christmas gifts. Now they're two grand in debt
40:28
on prior rent. Just how many people actually know if you don't pay off
40:34
a credit card that you get hit with loan worse than loan shark y.
40:39
Yeah, I mean, and that a lot of people don't know that.
40:44
I mean, they don't teach, they don't teach how money's doubled in school.
40:49
Einstein did Eagles MC squared, Yeah, but he also did, and
40:52
there's a tripling. But if you an easy way to know how if you're
40:57
paying interest on something, or if you're return earning money in the market or
41:00
in a CD or whatever, is if you divide that number into seventy two,
41:06
that's how long it'll take your money to double. So if you're getting
41:08
one percent of your money, it's gonna take seventy two years to double.
41:13
If you're getting eight percent on your money, your money's doubling every nine years.
41:19
So when kids get out of school and they go into their four oh
41:22
one case, all they care about is, well, I'm gonna put three
41:24
percent down because that's what they match. I'm like, yeah, but that's
41:30
not what you want to do, right. That stuff's for long terms.
41:34
So this mortgage thing that we're talking about, I hope it works, but
41:39
I'm not history is going to repeat again. It's not gonna work because people
41:45
that don't pay their bills and don't have good credit. Because they get a
41:52
house doesn't mean that they're going to start doing it. And I'm not trying
41:57
to discriminate because there's all different kinds of people, but if they're doing it
42:02
for the Latino and Black community, right, and poorer whites, I mean
42:10
there's poor, I mean not there go race or anything. But then you're
42:15
hurting people in that same race, right that have done the right thing.
42:19
Right, So how are you How is it right to hurt someone that's been
42:23
doing the right thing? But why why are we robbing Peter to payball?
42:27
Right? Like? Government just don't fucking charging fees? Why are you taking
42:31
it from us? Well, because the banks don't make money if they don't
42:35
churn. No, the government, I mean fucking government cover that shit.
42:38
What's sixty dollars that's about that's about forty four cents each of me and you,
42:44
Right, yeah, but I'm just saying out of our taxes. Right,
42:46
But it's like, I don't know. It just frustrates the fuck out
42:51
of me because here I you know, I fucked up when I was young.
42:54
I figured it out on my own, I did my own research,
42:58
I paid for it. I got to where I am now. I still
43:00
have debt, but I've also learned that it's good to have debt. It
43:05
is. And your credit score is really fucking wacky on how they the algorithms
43:09
go about how they determine your score. And I've learned to, you know,
43:15
always keep some kind of debt on your credit cards. Like you can
43:20
have a couple paid off. But I have four credit cards. They all
43:23
have about a thousand dollars debt on them. Uh, summertime, I try
43:28
to pay them all off, leave one with a little, right, and
43:30
but I'll see my credit card, my credit score go down because I have
43:32
if I'm carrying zero, They're just like, oh, he's not a spender.
43:36
Like, I don't know how it all really works well basically with a
43:38
credit card or anything like that, if you and most people do it.
43:44
Did you were telling me when we're talking offline, was that most it used
43:47
to be all cash right at a restaurant, Yeah, basically just a little
43:52
bit of card when they were going yeah, right now, it's exactly absolute.
43:57
It's like two percent you're gonna get in cash. You know, I'm
44:00
in. And so what you have is if you pay off your credit card
44:06
every month, that does work to your advantage, but it doesn't work to
44:10
your advantage if you have two or three credit cards, right, because every
44:15
time you open up a credit a credit account, right, you're gonna drop
44:20
a little bit on your credit card. When they even open up your file,
44:22
you drop right right. That's stupid, stupidest thing in the world.
44:27
Right, too many people are looking at my credit card, right, so
44:30
you must be a bad risk, I mean, really truly. Well,
44:32
I've taken out this is a little not personal information, but I have taken
44:37
out. It's Goldman Sachs Marcus By Goldman Sacks. I've done two personal loans
44:44
with them. This is crazy. I don't know if I'm an anomaly or
44:46
not one. They don't check your credit. Well, they check your credit,
44:51
but there's a way to check it without it going to the bureau or
44:53
something like that. Okay, so they do a non vire credit check.
44:58
And this doesn't make any sense, right, And but this is Goldman Sachs.
45:01
Sure, and don't forget Goldman Zacks got us into the two thousand right
45:06
right right right? Uh. And if you guys are looking for a loan,
45:10
I highly recommend this one. I took ten thousand dollars out like five
45:15
years ago, and I paid off some debt and I was doing a trip
45:22
that doesn't get for some reason, that doesn't even get reported to my to
45:25
my FICO scores. That loan, that loan is not there they don't even
45:30
know about it. Now I pay off my loans quicker than it's due,
45:34
you know. But I'm like I learned my lesson, like when I have
45:37
extra cash, start paying off that shit because the extra cash wall I was
45:42
coming around. It seems to for me anyway. And uh and but they
45:46
have great payment plans, great rates six point nine, five point nine.
45:52
I think I got in the second line having to go and get it into
45:53
calling it right right, you know. So it was approved my needs on
46:00
my account in twenty four hours in my bank. Like I just wasn't like
46:05
it. You know. When I opened a bar in twenty fourteen, no
46:10
longer own it. Uh. I had to take out a couple of personal
46:15
loans for like eight grand each, you know, just to get some money.
46:19
It was like you said it was a colonoscopy. It was fucking I
46:22
mean, it was like it was like going through a mortgage. You know,
46:25
they needed everything and then they needed it twice, you know, and
46:29
I'm just like just for eight grand, Like but well, but that's the
46:32
funny thing. Like I was around when mortgages in the early twos you didn't
46:38
you didn't even have to say how much money you were making right, no
46:44
income verification? Yeah, does that? I mean didn't couldn't somebody think that's
46:49
a pretty stupid idea, idea, But there was a need for it,
46:55
this that we're talking about about, right, what is the need If we're
47:01
going to allow houses to come up for sale and hedge funds and Wall Street
47:07
to buy them to jack up prices, why don't we fix that? Right?
47:15
You know what I mean? I mean do we not? Whether it's
47:17
Republican regime or Democrat regime, we don't have these economists that like people that
47:23
are way smarter than you or me, like kind of be like, not
47:28
a good idea. Look what happened in O eight, you know, not
47:30
a good idea. Right, it's not that long ago. Oh my god,
47:35
I've lived through it, right. I lived through eighty four when I
47:37
thought it would be the worst bond market ever. Then in ninety eight,
47:42
Venezuela and Russia defaulted and the long term cap went out. This isn't the
47:45
first time we bailed somebody out. This is just another way of politically saying
47:53
I got your back. But they're putting a monkey on those people's backs because
48:00
that's what them do all the time Republicans doing, sure they do, but
48:06
the dams are famous for it. Handouts. They love giving them. They
48:09
want the low income people to suck the teat of the government always. That's
48:15
why all the major cities are always the deciding factors, and when Democrats win
48:22
is what I feel. I mean, look at New York City. I
48:23
mean I've been going to the city since I was a little kid, right,
48:25
I mean I can remember, you know when you know, I'm gonna
48:29
be sixty this year. But I think like for my seventh grade, eighth
48:31
grade class trip, we went in to see a Broadway play, you know
48:36
what I mean. And at that point, I was in eighth grade or
48:37
ninth grader. We wanted to go to Time Square and watch the strip club
48:44
not the strip clubs, but the little thing. It was terrible. Then
48:49
we fix it, right, Grand Central almost fell down, Then we fix
48:52
that. Now we're back to who wants to go to New York City?
48:57
Yeah, I mean I liked it when it was clean. I liked it
49:01
when you didn't have to step over someone. I liked it when it was
49:05
safe. Now, if somebody asked me to go into New York City,
49:08
I'm like, well, we're right. I don't think I would do it.
49:13
I haven't gone since COVID. I don't think. I don't think I've
49:15
been down there since then. No, I don't think I have. I
49:19
mean to go ahead, you know, And I was before, right before
49:22
COVID. We went down to uh funk, what's that bar down in the
49:28
Wall Street area Financial district? Or No, no, no, it's it's
49:35
all the way down we ubered. Uh, that's a fun place. Mixed
49:38
or vicoriles is good. That's the two beers, right, that's the black
49:44
and dark, the warm beer. Yeah, they got chicken lit, they
49:45
got chicken that then. Yeah, I went there once and I ordered a
49:49
gin and tonic and almost got thrown out. Yeah. Anyway, we went
49:52
to this bar down and Financial District, the Dead Rabbit. Oh yeah,
49:57
the Dead Rabbit, great fucking bar. Have you ever down on that area?
50:00
And we stayed over that night. We were down in that area.
50:05
We are now walking back up towards Grand Central to take the train back home.
50:09
And yeah, you know, a nice area. Every it's great.
50:14
COVID hits Uh they're now allowed to reopen, so it's you know, summer
50:20
of twenty twenty and I had a friend that had his wife owned a bar
50:24
down in the area. We were just at and like, they came in
50:29
for dinner one night and she was like crying. She's like, they fucking
50:31
smashed my windows out. They fucking you know, did all this crazy shit.
50:35
She doesn't know in the bar anymore. She's she's got out of it.
50:38
I've never understand why do people want to destroyed property where they live.
50:45
Right, we go to award to destroy property eat right, right, don't
50:50
do that, right? I mean, and then they and the people that
50:53
live in the communities they don't want that, but they don't have It's you're
51:01
bringing what you're bringing property value down. You know, the crime rate goes
51:07
up. No one wants to go there anymore. So the so the restaurants,
51:09
the businesses suffer. Like look at what it was it Portland, Oregon
51:14
to close all the all the walmarts or whatever they're doing in San Francisco to
51:19
them, Well, I mean people, look, I mean Chicago, Chicago,
51:22
they're closing they're closing stores. In Chicago. Two teenagers still a car
51:28
with a six month old in it. The six month died. Kids got
51:30
out on a misdemeanor what the problem that we have. I've had four children,
51:38
right, and I still go to this and it's a talk that I
51:44
can have them today when they're twenty nine, twenty six or twenty seven,
51:49
twenty three and twenty one, or when they were young. It's drugs,
51:52
sex, whatever. Every every decision you make, Jeremy, you have a
51:58
consequence. Ye better be able to live with that consequence. But you commit
52:02
a felony and you're out right, how about that good for society? Does
52:09
it send what message? And now it's wrong that you're in Rikers for two
52:15
years because you can't get bail. Okay, but let's try to fix it
52:19
differently than just a revolving you know, crook place to come in and come
52:23
out of. We overthink things. I mean, I'm not a politician.
52:30
I mean I manage people's money. I mean I hopefully I do that real
52:36
well because I care about it. I just don't if the market goes down,
52:38
it affects me. I'm really I'm really helping people with what they want
52:44
to do with generations, with their lives. But you you do what those
52:52
kids did and they get right out with nothing, I mean not even community
52:57
service or that you have to go and paint those people's homes some something something
53:02
Is that okay now, right? I mean apparently it's it all started.
53:07
I swear it all started when that first mom or dad went up to the
53:14
coach and said, why didn't my kid get a trophy? Yeah, well
53:16
he wasn't. He wasn't the worst kid on the team that got better,
53:21
right, and he wasn't the best kid his fatherless homes. Oh, you
53:25
know, it's it's that's something that we have to do, but we just
53:30
put that underneath the carpet. Let's give them. And I'm not saying them
53:36
because I don't want to use the word them. It's because there's people with
53:39
bad credits, all different kinds of demographics. But I thought in America,
53:46
if you did the right thing, you worked hard, and you didn't commit
53:52
felonies, you can have a pretty good line. Now, maybe that's not
53:59
the best way about going around doing it. I don't know what. I
54:02
don't know how that goes, right. It's a polarizing world we live in.
54:07
I mean, they're just I don't want to step into a city like
54:12
I go to Boston a lot. I was just there a couple of times.
54:14
WI Great City. I mean where that whole thing happened in Chicago.
54:21
That was on like Madison half right, that was like where you and I
54:23
would be if we went to go see a Blackhawks game. You know,
54:28
we would have stayed down that area and we would have witnessed all that.
54:31
We don't want the mothers, right, I mean, and you know I've
54:34
been to Baltimore. I've been to Baltimore at at Orioles game Red Sox,
54:38
and I turned a guy to the two guys behind me and I said,
54:43
you know, where should I go after the game? Stayed a couple of
54:45
nights. He said, when you walk out of the stadium, just don't
54:49
go left, just go right. And I'm like, well, why he
54:53
goes If you go left, two things are gonna happen. You're gonna get
54:57
killed, or you're gonna get pulled over by a cop and he's gonna ask
55:00
you what are you doing in this neighborhood? You know? And That's how
55:05
I've always grown up in life, like just stay away from that neighborhood.
55:09
But but that's me living in my own little bubble. And I think now
55:15
that bubble, that bubble, that racial bubble, or that whatever demographic bubble
55:20
is kind of bursting right now. And if I lived in the ghetto quotes,
55:25
I'd want to get out. And I think right now, with what's
55:30
going on in the world, is they want to get out. Like,
55:31
I don't fucking blame him. I'm not saying looting is the right fucking thing
55:36
way about it. There is other avenues to take, but they're probably just
55:39
so fucking fed up with whatever they the only one. Like I can't relate,
55:45
no, we you know not, I cannot relate. Like my best
55:49
friend is black. He's been my best friend since I was in sixth grade.
55:53
Yeah, I mean, he is my brother, right, but I
55:57
can't relate to him, right because he'll tell me christ you're not black,
56:05
right, you know what I mean you need to be reminded of that.
56:08
Well, No, but because I mean, like, you know, he's
56:12
lived in nice places and when he moved to where I used to live in
56:16
Woodbridge, he pulled over. He got pulled over three times in a month,
56:21
yea for not doing anything wrong right while driving, black while driving.
56:25
And I don't understand that. I don't, but I do understand that he's
56:31
worked his entire life to make a better life for his kids, to get
56:36
where he is and to get where he where he is, and there's been
56:38
difficulties with that more than I've had. But how now are we saying do
56:45
everything right and get penalized right? Right? Doesn't make sense to me on
56:51
that. It doesn't. This is I'd love to have you on again and
56:54
just talk about some of this stuff. We got to talk about the Jets
56:58
though. The Jets, Okay, real quickly, it's got to be real
57:00
quick because my battery is really low. We're going to Super Bowl, We're
57:04
going to Rodgers to the Jets. The I didn't look at it yet,
57:07
but I think Vegas is probably around eleven and a half wins. What do
57:10
you think? Oh god, man, I mean last year I was excited
57:15
that I got to watch the game all the way into the fourth quarter for
57:17
most games before they lost. Yeah, so eleven wins would be like,
57:22
I mean, that's that's like true fantasy. I'm not Patriot fans, no,
57:24
I know, I don't. I mean, but eleven wins for me
57:28
as a Jet fan, that's huge. I mean, my youngest son is
57:31
talking about the Super Bowl. I remember when you had a ship Joe Walton
57:37
was your coach. Yes, you guys were ten and one, right,
57:38
and you finished ten and six and missed the playoffs. Yeah, I mean
57:43
I'm old enough that you know I remember watching them win the Super Bowl.
57:47
Yeah, I mean, I mean that's a long time ago. Yeah,
57:51
and there's been great teams and great players. But hopefully this time, you
57:54
know, I like the coach, so hopefully he's a defensive guy, so
57:59
hopefully they well they got will they get in for offensive coordinator the same guy
58:02
that was a lot bay That's how they got right. Yeah, yeah,
58:07
yeah, that's great. But again, as long as I'm able, this
58:10
is how bad it is being a Jet fan. If I can watch more
58:14
than two quarters and they're still in the game, it's exciting because it's been
58:20
so bad for so long. I said up my show yesterday, I'm excited,
58:22
Like I want to see that Jets be an actual rival, like like
58:27
right, like we beat you twice last year and you probably should have won
58:30
both games. We take a guy, I mean we lost in the second
58:34
that each each of the second game was the return, right, the first
58:37
game was then interception, Yeah, and then each at Yeah. Just awful.
58:43
But no, this has been really fun. And hopefully the net Games
58:45
tournament gets some traction. Yeah, that would be great. Will I've been
58:49
promoting it at work because I know I know a lot of people to play,
58:52
so we'll get it nice and filled up for you. Um, thanks
58:54
so much for coming on and enjoy your cookies with Yeah, Kathy's cookie you
59:00
know what, you know what you know. I'm really happy that you brought
59:04
those because I like gifts, you know, and uh, I have a
59:07
lot of people that bring stuff to the show, but uh, you know,
59:10
I want to be a regular thing now. Like you see a lot
59:13
of stuff around me. It's not that people that brought you know. I
59:15
love that. I really appreciate it. And Kathy's cookies are a good g
59:19
Yeah. Absolutely can't go wrong with those. You got enough to bring home
59:22
to your children. I might just keep them here. No, no,
59:24
no, no, Chris, thanks so much, pal. Awesome, awesome
59:30
talking to you. Well, hang out for a second after the show,
59:31
and uh we'll take some pictures and we'll get you out of you all right,
59:35
buddy, thank you. Tomorrow I'll be uh live at um Nautilus Restaurant
59:39
for a little quick quick promo. They're doing their official UM grand opening with
59:45
the ribbon cutting and all that. So I'm gonna be down there talking to
59:47
some the owners, uh Nick and Crystal and some other people that I guess
59:52
the pizza Gavones. They have like the pizza site rating site, kind of
59:58
like a de Portnoy thing. They're gonna be down They're trying the pizza out,
1:00:00
and so I'll try to get those guys on the show as well.
1:00:02
Everyone have a great week and I'll talk to you soon.