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Working from home? We're back in the

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and Yurko. Just ask your smart speaker

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to play ESPN 1000. Thank

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you to O'Connor McKnight. It was an unexpected guest to

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start the show but it's always fun talking to him.

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Yurko, he put a baseball game on for the

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first time. Yeah, let's work with this sweeper. What's

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with this sweeper? What's going on? I

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see 84 miles an hour sweeper. It's so

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good. Thanks to Connor.

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Thank you to Black and Abdallah. I

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can't wait for the sisters to participate when

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the Mother's Day fails. I see the pitch

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comes up slurpy. What the hell is the

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slurpy? We should rename pitches. He

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had a thing about the sweeper the

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other day with Jesse. Oh, did he?

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He was giving Jesse crap about the

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sweeper saying that that's not a pitch.

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Well, what is it? A slider? It's

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a slider that's a little more slow

0:53

moving with more horizontal break, not just

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as sharp of a break. Are you

0:57

stealing cap stuff these days, Yurko? I'd

0:59

have to listen. Peggy,

1:03

hi. Peggy's in front of the car until 10

1:05

o'clock. So the point is I can't listen. Peggy's

1:08

here. My morning is when I get things done.

1:10

I think I think I could have gone. I

1:13

know. The morning is when I get things done.

1:15

I don't care to phone. It's charging up. It's

1:17

charging up. What the heck? What? What?

1:20

What are you? What is on your phone?

1:23

She was on this phone. Excuse me.

1:25

Was that? She's both. What are you

1:27

talking about? Wow.

1:30

Somebody sent you that? She had plenty of

1:32

clothes. No, she had plenty. Well, it looks

1:34

like the old Morgana Morgana. Yeah.

1:36

Yeah. She was a very well endowed

1:38

woman. Well, that's exactly what he had

1:40

on his phone. Not like Morgana.

1:42

No, not like Morgana. But I'm like,

1:45

she was very well endowed. I looked

1:47

over and I was like, I feel

1:50

like I walked in my brother in the bathroom.

1:52

All you got to do. Hey, all you

1:54

got to do. Pastimes at Rich One High.

1:57

Just think about that brother Dan. No,

2:00

no, no, no, please don't. No, don't say that.

2:04

No, let's go there Peggy. What,

2:06

that I didn't place my bet? And I

2:08

said I was going to do it because the only one I had

2:10

anything in common with was... Mystic

2:13

Dan. Mystic Dan because I had a

2:15

brother Dan and then I tried the app and I tried

2:17

it and I couldn't fill... There was too much information I

2:19

had to fill out so I said

2:21

forget it. You're gonna forget it. She quit on the

2:23

newspaper. I don't blame her. I

2:26

cannot believe it because I said the last

2:29

time I bet the Derby was probably Go

2:31

for Gin because I drink gin. Right

2:33

and Go for Gin was a winner. And again I

2:35

would have won. Can I tell you how this is

2:37

a note to anybody who's gonna put an app out

2:39

there that you know you want to get out two

2:41

clicks in a card. Yes. Thank

2:44

you. That's what it's gotta be. It's too

2:46

much information. Two clicks in a card. I agree with you.

2:48

And if it goes beyond two clicks in a card that's

2:50

it. People aren't gonna do it. I'm with you. It's

2:53

gotta be easy. Like signing up for

2:55

the ESPN Chicago Thousand app. Two

2:58

clicks no card. Two clicks no card. Close

3:00

enough. Yeah ESPN 1000. ESPN Chicago. ESPN

3:02

1000 Chicago. It's

3:05

just ESPN Chicago. I type it all in. It

3:08

works. You don't have to type it all in. Why would you type it all

3:10

in if you already have the app? You just have to

3:12

press the app. The point is it's how I tell

3:14

people to sign up. You really tell people? You're making

3:16

this up as you go. No. You're

3:19

telling everybody. He pricks I'm at. He does. And

3:22

I tell women they count twice as much as men believe it or not. Do

3:24

you know, this is no joke. He

3:26

is like PT Barr. What does that mean?

3:28

He tells me. That means in

3:30

the demographic studies that if a woman listens

3:33

to ESPN 1000 she's worth twice

3:35

as much as a man. Seriously?

3:37

Yeah. You didn't know that?

3:39

No I didn't. Well now you both sure.

3:41

When it comes to economic spending and stuff. Yeah. Absolutely.

3:45

Yourco tells when we're at the bar and if Yourco finds out someone does

3:47

it. Like he stands over there. I stand there and they put the

3:49

app. I stand there and they put it in. Like he's like muscle

3:51

in the 50s. I'm

3:53

going to tell you how it works. He's like you're going

3:55

to put it on your phone. One person does it. They

3:57

tell two friends. They tell two friends. Right. So

4:00

on and so on. The next thing you know you got the power

4:02

of exponentiation. That's right. And what do you got? You got 238,000 people,

4:04

you know, on it. That's

4:07

how it works. Good. That's the power

4:09

of... My first idea when

4:12

this thing initially came out was to get the

4:14

Q thing where you could just sign up for

4:16

it at Lollapalooza. Yes. You have our people walking

4:18

around there. Yeah. Just boom.

4:20

Spot this. We give out a $50 prize

4:23

every hour to the new people that sign up.

4:26

I'm an idea, man. It really is. Are you

4:28

a QR code guy? Do you scan the QR

4:30

codes? When I go in, like, you go to

4:32

a restaurant and they've got a thing on there,

4:34

you got to put it on there.

4:36

Yeah, I'll do it for that. I don't do

4:38

it for anything else. To eat? You don't do

4:40

it to the QR code. Will you do it,

4:42

like, to fill out credit card information on the

4:45

QR code? No. Absolutely not. No. Don't trust it.

4:47

Do you do it when, like, on your TV it

4:50

pops up like you want to log in? I don't

4:52

want to do anything from there. No, I don't want

4:54

any QR codes. You don't? If you're... I'll plug in.

4:56

I'll plug all my information in. I don't want nothing.

4:58

Wait a second. Keep it away from me. I already

5:00

got it. If you take your fire stick... I got

5:03

to put a lead blanket on my phone. You know

5:05

what he's doing with his fire stick? I'll tell you

5:07

what he's doing with his fire stick. And it's not

5:09

code for anything else. But he was calling it his

5:11

fire stick. It's not code for anything. Well, before the

5:14

TV fire stick came out. Here's a little memo to

5:16

all of you. Men don't use fire sticks. I

5:19

don't know what that means. I don't know what it means either. I'm

5:21

sure my lover's there. What

5:24

if you transfer your fire stick from one

5:26

TV to another? Just

5:29

be kind of fire stick. All you have to do is

5:31

shoot the QR code. Just sign in.

5:33

Now you're shooting now. I'm a Roku guy shooting from

5:35

the fire stick. I got a Roku on two things.

5:37

Boom. That's what I am. I'm a Roku guy. I'm

5:39

not transferring fire sticks. Well, it's basically the same thing.

5:42

No, it's not. I got this and that and that's

5:44

it. That's it. Two TVs. Well, Roku kind of is

5:46

like a fire stick. I said it's my Roku. It's

5:48

on one machine. Right. And my other Roku is on

5:50

another machine. No, no, no. You're not transferring. What are

5:52

we doing? I'm not transferring anything. Well, even walking around

5:54

with a special stick in my hand. Now, he's

5:57

even going by the waist. That's still not egging

5:59

out. TV on TV.

6:01

Congratulations, you've graduated. Two

6:03

of them are graduating.

6:06

Was there one named journalism? Yes, Jason, please.

6:08

Anyone looking for a young, bright sportscaster? I

6:10

read that the other day. I would love

6:12

for him to get off the family payroll

6:15

and under yours. No, he's

6:18

actually doing great. They just featured him.

6:20

He was the sports director at the

6:22

student TV station. He, you know,

6:24

the podcast that he and I have done

6:26

for the last five years. So yeah, he's

6:29

ready to go. He's, you know, now he's

6:31

finding out what it's like in this business.

6:33

It's the real world now. It's not easy

6:35

getting that first job. It sure isn't. Oh,

6:37

you got that right. That's the probably the

6:40

hardest one is getting that first job. I

6:42

know. What do you mean? I

6:44

got two. I got

6:46

three. Oh, I thought you were saying

6:48

how hard it was for you. Not

6:50

for me. Exactly. Yeah. It's hard. It's

6:52

like, you know, boy, I actually told them at

6:54

Christmas, can you guys make sure your rooms are

6:56

cleaned up? And if you feel like it, why

6:59

don't you pack up your stuff in boxes too?

7:01

Yeah, right. Like get the hell out. And they were

7:03

like, what are you talking about? And I

7:05

said, well, I'm hoping you guys both get jobs

7:08

and you won't and you have to come home and

7:10

you have to be ready. Yes.

7:12

Yeah. But now they're both coming home. Of

7:14

course. Yeah. But the other one, he

7:16

has a job. So the one, the other

7:18

one who's in hospitality, cooking, yeah, Shay at

7:21

Cornell, he will be

7:23

doing the same job that cousin did on

7:25

the bear. Oh, is that right? Like

7:27

he's going to polisher at

7:29

the same restaurant at that. He's going to be

7:32

a polisher at ever. That's pretty great.

7:34

That's, that's a good start. So when I

7:36

asked them, do you polish the silver? That's

7:38

all they do is polish the silver.

7:40

It is tedious. It's horrible. They are

7:42

tough on you. But it's in a

7:45

top restaurant. It's at, yeah. It's gonna be

7:47

better than peeling potatoes all

7:49

day. Yeah. Come on. It's gotta be better

7:51

than that. It's a good way to start.

7:53

I asked Michael Muser, who Tony Muser, former

7:55

bullpen coach for the, the cause. His son

7:57

is one of the owners. Guy.

8:00

He's got a meal managers you got? I'm in South.

8:02

I said he and his and got a job for

8:04

my design and you got some He said i'm just

8:07

gonna let you know. It's gonna stink the

8:09

last time or yeah. But and. Somebody asked

8:11

us it was. Is no miserably.

8:14

They lasted. For.

8:17

Hours and I like the wilderness.

8:19

A four days for hours on

8:21

felony The restaurant. I don't know

8:23

what about Example Up and Spitzer.

8:25

Exact on. He wants to start from the bottom. His

8:27

last old us I want to serve from the bottom.

8:30

He wants eventually get into the. Average is good

8:32

for him so will be calling all of

8:34

our friends at. Southern. Blazer.

8:37

Room breakthrough. Benny goes with the

8:39

help boost start a little a

8:41

bourbon way will together and about

8:43

their would you vote You know

8:45

and do what you should say

8:47

and I might have. We heard

8:49

the other. Since. We're going to

8:51

do pop of restaurants. For their ego

8:53

hop a high rise trust or in. The summer before

8:55

he starts his job and he's going to do

8:58

the cooking and where did you sign up? Some

9:00

people pay the com and it's gonna be filled

9:02

once a month. Or every other I love

9:04

right for him? Yes and v five page

9:06

explain that of resume, pickle, ball and paddle.

9:09

Okay so and paddle. Paddle his platform

9:11

Tennis that has played on a raise

9:13

tennis court and it is screens in

9:15

this on all sides so it's a

9:18

lot more like racquetball. It's played with

9:20

a tennis ball but it's flavor. Basically

9:22

it's a it's a lot like a

9:25

tennis racket. But. It's smaller, sort

9:27

of shorter. ai it is that

9:29

court is a little shorter but

9:31

you can set it off the

9:33

same or it's very athletic. It's.

9:35

A modified very athletic I'd say that

9:37

I've seen. Yes, yes, You play online

9:39

and runway You're right. We play all.

9:41

In the winter like I still play now

9:43

but this is really warm to play because

9:45

the ball flies. You can really get. Hurt

9:47

so and balls of flying. You've gotta

9:49

be careful. Yeah, I ourselves, especially with

9:52

the fire stick out the exact that,

9:54

right? Just ah. Set. All

9:56

is more like a subtle cat.

9:58

So it's more like. It's more

10:01

like a riffle ball. It's more like a

10:03

riffle ball. And

10:06

it's a lot like Batman. You feel like you're

10:09

playing Batman because... You get it hard, it goes

10:11

nowhere. The paddle looks like a ping

10:13

pong paddle, a little bit bigger. And so I

10:15

said it looks like ping pong with a bigger paddle. And the ball is a

10:17

wiffle ball. It's got the holes in it. So you can hit it

10:19

as hard as you want and it's only going to go 15-20 feet.

10:23

It loses its philosophy. And not

10:25

as athletic, which is why a lot of

10:27

elderly people started playing it. And that's how

10:29

it got so popular. But now, everyone I

10:32

know... And the orthopedic surgeons are

10:34

thanking all the old people every

10:36

single day. Achilles injuries. My nephew,

10:38

who is a pro golfer, tore his

10:40

Achilles. How old is he? Uh...30?

10:46

30 years old. I've

10:48

heard two injuries. I've heard the Achilles.

10:51

And also these guys who are uncoordinated

10:53

go backwards. And then they

10:55

trip over themselves and they bang their head. What? Well,

10:58

Ashley, because the surface

11:00

is gritty, it's not like a tennis court. It's

11:03

gritty. And

11:05

so you slip on it, though. And

11:07

especially in warm weather, you

11:09

should never break in Jim's shoes

11:11

in hot weather. Because

11:14

they slide. I could see that. So

11:16

you slide and you put your hands down to break

11:18

a fall. Or you fall backwards. There

11:21

go the elbows. Yeah, like my

11:23

fingers are all messed up. Your

11:26

nails look good, though. I've gnarled my

11:28

fingers playing the platform tennis. I thought that

11:30

was just like riding. I

11:33

did, too. My

11:35

heavens. I like it.

11:39

What'd you say? There's

11:42

nobody like him. There's nobody

11:44

like him. Nothing wrong with a coach.

11:47

He's younger than I am. I'm

11:49

just saying that I got the arthritis in the fingers. I wish

11:51

I was younger. We

11:54

should have celebrated her 60th. I'm being

11:56

nice. We had

11:58

the Magellan family. party.

12:01

Listen, some parties... reality's reality, guys. And your

12:03

lady friend will tell you there's nothing wrong

12:05

with a curved finger. I shouldn't have had

12:07

that built this morning. I mean between the

12:09

two of them, I swear to God. They

12:12

are really like... And she has, but

12:15

she calls me... And then she calls

12:17

me Johnny Thumps. They really are brother

12:19

and sister. I thought

12:21

she'd call you Nuttles. You

12:25

see? You see? She's

12:28

terrible. She wonders why we... She's having a

12:31

come-out right now. I can see the elevator

12:33

again. Ding ding ding ding ding ding. Emergency

12:35

elevator. We were going to have a contact

12:37

who's going to get dumped

12:40

first. They just did counter Peggy. They

12:42

did. He's got a fire pulled out

12:45

there. He's like, go

12:49

down seven levels. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

12:53

Oh my God. So

12:56

does that help explain the difference? And I

12:58

guess I was unaware that some public place,

13:00

some public park space has been used for

13:02

paddle too. Because I said to the guys

13:04

before, paddle, I've only ever seen at a

13:06

club. I said if a couple of people

13:08

like to put in a paddle course... No.

13:10

That's crazy to me. A lot of... Why?

13:13

Why? Because they're

13:15

taking away... How

13:17

about Skevens? There's

13:20

some on the

13:22

west side as well. The western... Oh

13:24

my God. I'm trying to think of

13:26

all the different clubs. Salt Creek. Hinsdale

13:28

Paddle Club. There's a lot of paddle clubs. Can

13:31

I tell you what happened in our area? And

13:33

I'm going to tell you how quickly this goes

13:35

and it fades. Dyer, Indiana. Beautiful

13:37

hamlet of Dyer, Indiana. Right over the

13:39

state line from Wynwood. Well,

13:41

the skate park. Right? Early on

13:43

the action at the skate park and the park.

13:47

Everybody's up there grinding. They're doing their things. They're

13:50

Ollie's. All the great stuff, right? But they had

13:52

the bikes out there. They had the skateboarders out

13:54

there. You know what it is now? A ghost

13:56

town out there. All that thing is

13:58

a white elephant. It just sits there. never

14:00

gets utilized, never gets used. It just

14:02

sits there, it bakes in the sun.

14:05

Nothing. Okay? If they

14:08

didn't do a thing, they'd be this much

14:10

further ahead. But they spent the money,

14:12

they built the skate park, and now it

14:14

just sits there back. Well because you're trying to

14:16

satisfy what people are interested in at that time.

14:18

You want to get them to come and use

14:20

the park floor. You want to satiate a

14:23

few at the cost of everything. That's

14:25

what I don't like. But tennis courts,

14:27

listen, tennis courts for years were

14:30

empty. Yes. And nobody was using

14:32

them. And now all the racquet

14:34

sports are getting popular again, and

14:37

all of the tennis courts are

14:39

being used, and you can put pickle on a

14:41

tennis court. That's fine. Then

14:43

do the existing tennis courts. Carmen doesn't want

14:45

to give up his parking though. Listen, be

14:48

nateful. And Sylvia, it's not only that, if

14:50

you weren't going to eliminate the parking, it's

14:52

fine. But you better have

14:54

a damn good reason. And

14:56

pickleball, I'm sorry. Do you

14:59

know what Carmen's starting? He's starting Friends

15:01

of the Parking lot. Exactly. It's not

15:04

pickleball for spoiled rich people for too much time

15:06

on the head. No!

15:11

Okay. So Carmen, it

15:13

is not a country club

15:15

sport. How can it not be? Pickleball,

15:17

every country club I drive by, I see

15:19

a paddle court. That's the definition of a

15:21

paddle ball. Pickle is played on tennis. Yes,

15:24

it does matter. So if you are going

15:26

to denigrate a group of people, you

15:28

can have protesters. You know what you're talking

15:30

about. You've got all your guys on your

15:32

baseball team. Can we have seen you? It

15:35

was not from all these wealthy, it was from

15:37

older people. It was always older people now. Do

15:39

you want to see it now? I would love it.

15:41

I could tell you right now because it is

15:44

the fastest growing sport.

15:46

Amongst which demographic? Picklers.

15:49

Of all, what do you call

15:51

it? Like leisure activities. There's a lot of kids

15:53

playing pickle. All my pickling's done in the

15:55

summer. I'm telling you, you are going to

15:57

see all those friends of yours. you

16:00

saying attaboy, attaboy, wait till you get back to

16:02

your little suburb. You're gonna have some, you're gonna

16:04

have some protesters. Oh I know, they're gonna get

16:07

upset. You're gonna have the other side of people.

16:09

Oh I know. They're gonna come after you. Double

16:11

bird them. I already know it. I told double

16:13

bird. I said I'm gonna make people upset, call

16:16

City Hall where I live and tell

16:18

them to stop the nonsense. Who's the mayor? And

16:21

if you want to eliminate parking, do something

16:23

that is going to improve the park space

16:25

for our youth. Our youths. Or

16:28

the baseball and softball facilities that

16:31

are substandard. I demand a public hearing. I'm

16:33

going to be covering. I'm going to be

16:35

covering. I demand a public hearing. I demand

16:37

a public hearing. It's gotta be right. Peggy

16:39

sounds equal. So I would like to know,

16:41

why don't you tell me your

16:43

baseball numbers of how

16:45

many kids are playing Little League

16:48

Baseball. Naturally I know it was the highest you've spent it all.

16:51

Naturally. Well, Pickle last

16:53

year had 36.5 million people playing. We

16:57

have children though. People. I'm

16:59

talking about baseball. Yeah, but the park is

17:01

not just for the kids. But Peggy, it

17:03

mostly should be for our youth and for

17:06

families to be able to use it for

17:08

some sort of good. So people can't use,

17:10

they can't jog around. They can't

17:12

use the programs. I don't know, every

17:14

park district I go to has a barn

17:16

dancing. They

17:19

have trips for the elderly. They

17:21

have cooking. They have gymnastics. Are

17:23

you building special facilities for that?

17:26

You are taking away park space to

17:29

build pickleball courts. I can't think of

17:31

a better way to, how will it

17:33

ever be a return on your investment

17:35

ever? Because you paid a pay. You

17:38

paid a pay. Friends of the parking

17:40

lot. Carmen de Falco, spokesperson. You are sounding

17:43

like an old man, Carmen. I'm a little

17:45

man. You're talking about pickleball. He's been doing

17:47

the old man thing for 20 years. New

17:52

studies show that pickleball is the fastest growing

17:54

sport in the U.S. It's not a sport.

17:56

Yes, it is a sport. You leave, Rick.

18:00

people can't move. Now he's more. I said now

18:02

everyone's playing this. He's got a total of people

18:04

who can't move. Checkers. This is a

18:06

good one. It's not a sport. We're all in

18:08

your pickles. It's poor work. We're on the pickle

18:10

people. Call us up. What's the shuttle cock?

18:12

Bad men. Bad men. Is

18:15

that not an Olympic sport? You know how

18:17

many things you mean when it's a beer?

18:19

Pink pong is too. Okay, so

18:22

you want them to get rid of the

18:24

ping pong tables inside the park districts too? Because no

18:26

one's using them. Where are the ping pong tables

18:28

in a park district? Three three two three seven

18:30

seven six. Whose side are you on here? America.

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Run it up. Pickleball.

18:35

I can't think of a bigger waste of time or money

18:37

and it's not a sport. Can you use

18:39

these Loo? Three three two

18:41

three seven seven six. Which side are you on?

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We're gonna pickleball people or the park people.

18:47

It's Hug a Human Day. Anybody

18:50

out there? Call your local

18:52

municipality and throw chess. Pickleball

18:55

courts. Carmen's gonna get beaten up in the

18:57

park. Oh, I know. They're

18:59

all ready. I get that. They're all pissed.

19:01

I know. Yeah, pickleball's awesome.

19:03

You don't play. You don't know.

19:07

Well, they gotta put their teeth back in to complain to

19:09

Carmen. Yeah. See

19:12

you all fast, bitches. Will

19:15

you be in your car listening for this? I'll be in the...

19:18

I'll be up in the other part, but then of course. If

19:20

somebody offends Carmen, he'll call back in. I don't care.

19:22

You call back in. I want to hear what people

19:25

think about this. People love it. They love it. I

19:27

don't think a pickleball court should be built in his

19:30

park. A waste of funds. Are you on the

19:32

crazy train today? Yeah. A

19:34

waste every day. A waste of funds. I don't

19:36

think I'd get this rant today. Why

19:38

can't it not be for everyone? Why can't you

19:40

try to please all demographics? Why does it have...

19:43

Look at you looking around and still be

19:45

like... He only wants all demographics. Like I'm

19:47

a fucking idiot. You're not talking idiots. I

19:49

wouldn't say that. All demographics. I would really

19:51

like to see the breakdown. I'd love it.

19:53

I'd love to see the demographic breakdown of

19:55

the people playing pickleball. Oh boy, the US

19:57

Census Bureau. Right here next to me. I'm

20:01

here for this. This is like

20:03

punter talk, where I just like people

20:05

getting angry and yelling at people, and

20:07

I'm just kind of Switzerland. I'm banning

20:09

the floor hankers. I know they

20:11

like the fact that I was right. I could. The

20:13

phones are ringing. What did I

20:15

miss? Nobody's much the

20:18

fact that I was right. Are you taking

20:20

another victory lap? No, I'll do them all

20:22

day. I know you will. Alright.

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Alright, see you. Thank you and so very much.

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Thank you.