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Um, I thought what we would talk about, and just because I'm a curmudgeon, some things, what uh I get inconvenienced a lot, as you know, around here. As you both, my free chicks, as you both know, I something as small as spoons inconveniences me around this house. That's a story for another day. But what are the things like from 20 years ago that you'd absolutely refuse to tolerate now? Inconveniences from your life 20 years ago that you would not tolerate now.

More like 30 years ago.

Yeah.

Um, I would

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say like waiting for your vacation pictures like to develop and then to any pictures. Like honestly, me now could never do a lot of these things. Like, I don't even know how I functioned. I mean, obviously, because we didn't know what was possible.

Did you guys have photo marts?

Yeah.

The the booth in the parking lots? In the parking lots, yeah. Okay, okay.

Oh no, I don't know what that is. Yeah.

Oh no. Yellow roof. Yellow roof. If you people out there know what the yellow roof is, you know you're getting you're picking your pictures up or dropping them off.

But definitely that would inconvenience me. And another thing, and not like I go to the movies a lot, but remember when you had to call and listen for show times? I and if someone and if somebody started talking, you were like, damn it, was it 1110? Was it 1115? You gotta go to the room. You had to listen to the whole thing over again.

I remember the first time that I looked it up on the internet and was able to see the show times. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Yeah, like I would be nope, not doing, we're not going to the movies. So yeah, if I had to do that.

Yeah, for me, it was you know, figuring out on the front line when I was gonna get a letter and what what Hitler, what Hitler was doing around the world.

Oh my gosh.

Just joking. How about printing out 18 sheets to go somewhere from MapQuest?

Yeah, but even before MapQuest.

Oh, Rand McNally. I mean Rand and McNally got together and they mapped the United States.

I did not use a map ever.

No, me and Ponce de Leon were getting around Vasco D'Gamo walking around the wilderness. I just Lewis and Clark, if you will. I could keep going with Explorers.

John Smith, if you will. How about that?

I don't know who that is.

He was with Pocahontas.

Poke Your Hannes.

Anyways, um, yes, maps. And I would also say, like, do you remember obviously when we had to burn CDs? That's not the inconvenience. Yes, it was inconvenient, but the worst is when you played it back and there was like seven or eight songs that were all jacked.

Yeah.

And then your lime wire would get like corrupt on the song.

Yeah, were you kidding me?

It's so aggregate.

I remember being young, and my parents had this huge like sound system in our computer room because I was the only computer in the house. But it had these two cassette decks. And so while we were listening to the radio, like we would call and request a song, and then the song would come on, and we would press the record button, and you'd have to sit there like and wait for just the right second. I would never and then and if it was all like B 100 in the middle of it.

In the middle of it, yeah, for the next like six months, you're hearing that.

But now a long distance dedication.

And then case opening up the cassettes and even like the CDs to read the lyrics of the song. Yeah.

And even like do you like CDs? No.

Do you want a CDs? No. And even not, okay, this is not that far back. But do you remember when we had to pay per text or when you had to press like a three two two two two? You only had a certain number that you could send.

143.

Could you imagine that now? And that wasn't even that long ago.

Like how inconvenient. I mean, I remember when Blackberries came out and people were like actually texting like full words. Yeah. It was a whole thing. And then, of course, you having to wait until nine o'clock at night before you could make your phone calls because that's when you had your free minutes. No roaming. Oh, no roaming.

Do these have rollover minutes? Yes.

Oh my gosh. When I was in high school, we had nationals. We had nationals in Washington, D.C. And I didn't know what roaming was. And I used my phone the entire time I was in Washington, DC, and my cell phone bill was like a thousand dollars. My parents were so mad.

Nationals for Spelling B or Honor Club. A cheer. Oh, okay. Just want to make sure we got that in there.

Yeah. My brain was not there. How about like taking your your check to the bank and depositing it? But not just that. Because I mean, we still do that sometimes, but when you had to use a deposit slip. Yes.

Yes.

Like I remember because I it'd been a while since I had gone to the bank to deposit anything. And I went up to the lady and I was like, Do you have a deposit slip? And she was like, We don't do those anymore. They don't have those anymore? No, they don't they don't need to use them, I guess.

What about when you deposit cash? Don't you have to like write down how much you just give it to them and then they give you a little receipt back?

But I was like, Okay, because that's what I learned when I first got my like first paycheck. My mom was like, Oh, here's a deposit slip, and this is how you do it. And here's your check register. Check register. Oh gosh.

Oh gosh. That was the worst. There's still people at the grocery store. I will get be I somehow I find them and I am behind them, and they will fill out their check register. Now, I hey, I feel fortunate. I don't have to, but my goodness, I could not be bothered.

I would just go back through my bank statement. Like I'm too trusting, I guess.

I think one of the the biggest inconveniences now that I would say would be waiting on somebody and not knowing where the F they are. Like, because you have no way of getting a hold of them. Because this is us on a daily basis. Like when we need where's our kids, you know, like what's where are you?

I don't really have live tracking of everything.

But it's like you you couldn't. You were just sitting at the mall and you're like, oh, they were supposed to be here at two, and you you can't text them, can't call them and say, like, where the F are you? You know, you're just waiting there, and you're just like, you know, twiddling your thumbs.

One uh one of the a couple a couple big ones for me. Number one encyclopedias.

Oh, the worst.

Yes, having to look do a research paper.

In uh Encyclopedia Britannica.

Yeah, yeah.

Encyclopedia Britannica. They had commercials. Yeah.

We had two sets. We were we were very fortunate.

Yeah, we're very I remember when my daughter was born. I don't know what kind of list I got onto, but these two people came to my house trying to sell it and were like convinced, like convinced me that my daughter would be stupid. If you didn't have I did not buy this set of encyclopedias. And I mean, granted, she was like two. Yeah. And now I don't think she's ever even seen one of those and knows what it is.

Those old commercials.

I bought a whole set for her because my daughter was not gonna be dumb.

What about having to use the yellow pages to find a business?

I missed it. So let me tell you, we were I don't remember where we were, but they had like the newspaper stands and stuff like that, and they had a yellow pages for their city. Tell me why I went through there. Like I was like, oh, this is I remember when we first opened our business, and that was in 99. That's all they had was the yellow pages, and we had to buy a yellow pages ad. It was $500 in 99. Yes, in 1999. It was I remember that specifically. That's like two grand now. And I'm thinking, and people are bitching about Facebook ads. Like this was only if people had the yellow pages, it was only your town. I'm like, it was $500 a month to be listed.

Yeah, so people that aren't Gen X and if you're Gen Alpha and you wonder why all towing companies are AAA towing. Yeah, triple A. I was just about to say that.

My dad was talking about when he was starting his business about calling it Ardvark and having like the AA on there so that his would be listed first under therapy. And I was like, okay, like I didn't get that.

Okay, AA Ron.

A A Ron.

Yeah, I mean, and you know, commercials with no skip button. Oh, so you better be back to the couch by the time the commercials were done, too. Because there's no pause button on that.

Here's that's so funny. Like, I know we're all inconvenienced and we would not go back, but let me tell you, so we have Amazon Prime, right? So you you it's and my daughter comes up to me and she says, Do you think we could get Amazon Prime? So I don't get any commercials, or they don't say commercials anymore. What do they say? Ads. Ads, so we don't get any ads. And I'm like, I already have Amazon Prime, and she's like, Yeah, but you have to get the plus if you want no ads. Prime is just less ads, yeah. So me, she convinced me now. I'm paying a little bit more.

Oh my gosh, $5.99 a month extra.

Extra just so we can have no ads. This is how this is the crack method. They get you introduced to it, get you hooked.

Yeah, because we're going back to commercials now.

Yeah, and now we're hooked on not wanting to watch commercials, and so now they're just up in the game.

Yep.

And now it's 12. I like commercials. I think I'm paying $50 a damn month and stuff. I don't know. I need probably need rocket money.

That's uh that's probably actually not bad. $50 a damn. I bet you it's more than all the stuff we watch.

Talking about television, I remember having to adjust the rabbit ears on my TV in order to get like five different channels on my little dial television that I had in my room because it was like my granny's that she passed down when she actually upgraded one. Uh, but and now it's like every like you don't have a cable bill anymore. Direct TV still exists, but kind of like you have to get the app for it now. Right. It's just the inconvenience of maybe like if you position the satellite if you're really fancy, if you positioned it right, you might be able to get it.

Just the inconvenience of not wanting not getting to watch the show you want to watch right now. Right. Oh, yeah. Like it's Thursday, so we have to watch murder shoe right. Exactly. No, I want to watch what I want to watch right now.

Yeah, on demand.

On demand.

And it's like, oh, how did we what a uh what about the Russian roulette of phone? Like no caller ID. No caller ID. That thing rang, you picked it up.

Could you imagine spam calls now on those? It would be so annoying.

Well, let's just go take it a little bit deeper. Uh Rotary phone, don't miss a number.

Don't miss a number. You're starting over. Just hang up. Just hang up.

Was it a nine or an eight? Damn it.

Damn it. I remembered that. Just so and the thing is, is I I don't consider myself like someone who is bougie or you know, has to have, you know, the best of the best, but convenience because my number one that I would never want to ever do is not have delivery of my Walmart order. Like I am so addicted to that.

Yeah, I calculated how much I spent on DoorDash, and it is embarrassing. It's embarrassing because I'm like, I don't feel like getting up and going. Like, I don't want to be interrupted. I'm in the middle of working. The only time I want to be interrupted is when the food arrives so I can set it next to my computer and keep working. I don't want to stop doing what I'm doing.

I know, I know, girl.

It's just like, okay, then I have to drive 10 minutes down the road. I have to wait in line.

I have to talk to people. And that's the thing. If convenience saves you time, then I'm all about spending money to buy back my time. I agree. So that is why Walmart and and do uh the DoorDash and like Dollar General, whatever it is.

You were not everybody, we were extremely lucky if we got pizza once a week. Yeah. It wasn't like, okay, what do you guys want tonight? And we had all of these options. It was like Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Taco Bell. Right. What do you want? I mean, I remember my granny getting so excited when the Taco Bell came into the Exxon gas station where she lived. Jeez. And now it's like you can literally order a four-course Mexican meal and have it delivered to your house in 30 minutes.

Yeah, Guy knows about that.

Yeah, I do. Uh, one of the things I wonder though, uh, now that we have Wi-Fi and all the waiting rooms, is Highlights magazine out of business? No, I no.

I love get them to Highlight Network. I can find that spoon in that tree like nobody's business.

Yeah.

And if I found it, you know, I'd get it and I'd give it to you because you we know how you like your spoons.

Well, you know, the thing is, uh, I always I I never figured out how Goofus grew up. I know Gallant was great.

Gallant was great.

Goofy, you never knew what was gonna happen to him.

I loved highlights. Oh, one other thing I cannot be like I would never want to be inconvenienced with again is rolling the window down. Like actually cranking it down.

Uh-uh, crank that soldier boy.

No, it dries moods. It dries moods. Agreed.

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Just the tip, quick pickleball wisdom, in and out before you know it. So just the tip comes to you from our coach, Mr. Dave Wilcox. And one of the things that he says is, Big Daddy Dave, you just need to think one more drop. So every shot you should ask yourself, can I make them hit one more difficult ball? And the way I remember this is I don't know if it's from a TV show or like an HGTV or something, but they're like, one more drop.

No, and what is that from? Um the college football show in the mornings where they're like, one more kick. Okay, so anyways, that's how I remember it.

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It's time for pickleback. Yes, yes, yes. Today's guest is a Chicago pickleball coach with a guarantee you almost never hear. You don't pay him unless you're a 101% satisfied. No more 100s out there, 101. He's a type one diabetic, he's sober, and his words not mine. He's full of hot takes. We're gonna get some today. Uh, he said all of it right in our intake form, so we're just gonna let him cook. From Chicago, coach Nick Scalise is with us on the Big Thing Energy Podcast. Thanks so much for being here, Nick.

Of course, guy. I really appreciate you having me and really excited to uh to chat through all things pickleball, fitness, sobriety, nutrition, everything.

And for you all listening at home, podcast Virgin, we Virgin, we are his first one, so we're gonna be very, very gentle with him as we go through this. But man, uh, when you say I've got a lot of hot takes, uh right out of the gate, we've got to know what's one. What's the number one hot take that us rec players need to know?

I think off the cuff, open play is not the Olympics. You're not going pro. You're you you play in the your name's probably Beth or Michael. You play in the suburbs. You're if you win a tournament, maybe you'll make $500. So take a little bit of the intensity on that gas pedal and remember why we all are there for community to have fun, fitness, and just don't take it too seriously because you'll probably rub people the wrong way.

Yeah, you know, we talk about that. Stephanie especially talks about the other co-host here. She talks about that a lot. You know, let what did we all get into this for, right? And uh why are we here? It's all about the community, and let's let's you're right. I mean, okay, great, you got a boomstick. Fantastic, and it sounds great when you hit it if you hit it right, but we don't need $350 paddles out on the court. We don't need your, you know, you're trying out for uh Nike or Reebok or whoever you're trying out for. We're all just here to have fun. Let's dial it back a little bit. I love that. Now, let me get into the coaching side of it right away. Who who's your favorite type of player to coach?

I really enjoy, I would say there's probably two. The first, and I'm actually gonna shoot a video on this today, those play the tennis players transitioning from tennis to pickleball. Because I love that they've kind of fallen on their sword, if you will, and have tried out the dark side. And I love how much power that they can generate on their drives, but I love teaching them that hey, the court's a little bit smaller over here. It's kind of more like ping pong with reaction, and I love teaching them the soft game, like the dinks, the resets, the drops, because when you marry that up with their natural power, they're just gonna be monsters.

Yeah, for sure. And and and it is probably a little bit contrary to what they like to do, is is coming right up to the kitchen, right? You gotta teach them. Yeah, get right up here, and this is where the game is played, is right up here at the kitchen.

Exactly. And it it's kind of counterintuitive because antennas are always back at the baseline, just hammering away as hard as they can. Um, and what I teach them, hey, that's fine to do it once, but then maybe on that fifth shot, hit a little bit of a softer shot, get up to the kitchen, and uh try and win the point that way.

Yeah, absolutely.

Uh, and you had called out, you know, uh yeah, I think the the video you're referencing, I I posted before I could answer your question. Something else I'd love to tell you about is just content creation. I I started I started posting maybe three months ago, and I've been posting every day, and it's been about hot takes, maybe talking heads, you'll recognize the background here. I did call out that toxicity in the the pickleball spaces I saw from a player, a coach, somebody that just loves the game. And unfortunately, it's tethered to what you're rating. And I think that these rating companies definitely are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. There's there's more of a sinister, deeply rated or deeply deep issue with the rating systems, and it's primarily these people that are maybe a little bit more unhappy or miserable in their real life, and they like to get their rating tattooed on their forehead, and then they love to demean others about it, and I cannot stand that.

Yeah, I I'm I'm really there. And I I don't know where it's uh man, maybe you can help me. Where does it start? Is it like when I move from three to three five, or is it from three five to four? I really can't pinpoint that. I know it's not where I am. I'm like a 1.8. Uh if duper, listen, duper, if you're out there, you ever want a solid 1.5 rep, I'm it. But so where I mean, where do you think that starts to bleed over? Where do you think that that tipping point is?

I think it's because I see a lot of players that are primarily recreational. They just do open plays with friends for fitness, for fun. And then I see more of the the tournament bros and gals, and I'd say 90% of these toxic people are people that are men that enter tournaments. And again, it is what it is. I'm just don't shoot the messenger here. And I think it really stems from once they reach that 4.0 level, and at the end of the day, 85% of players that are rated are below that 4.0 threshold. So anybody that thinks they're above that is probably just full of crap. And really, those advanced players, it gets to their heads sometimes. And I've been around higher-rated players that are incredible for the game. They take time out of their day to play with beginners, to play with newer level people. And to me, that means so much more than standing up at the podium with your pedal or with your paddle with that gold medal. So I I think that's right when at that cusp when it starts to become an issue for their ego.

Yeah, I I guess that is, you know, if that's your if that's your goal, right? To podium, to improve, to be go to 5.0 and beyond and and be on a team or something, be an MLP, great. You know, that's that's fantastic. But even, you know, I equate it to like shooting. I'm in law enforcement, I still do a ton of range time. Thank you for. Every time oh my pleasure. Gosh, it's it's so nice to do be able to do it. But when I go out to the range, I still start at the basics. You know, I I don't I don't put a round down range until I've gone through the motions, right? And I like that for the higher level players when they come to the to the two, the two fives and and the threes, and they just want to, you know, bang a little bit and maybe impart some wisdom, right? Even if I'm just watching them how they play, where they put their feet and how they show up on the court. I I I like that. But and and again, uh no nothing taken away from you. If you want to be a 5-0 and above, go ahead. But don't forget number one where you came from and be all high and mighty about it. And don't and and and you know, kind of reach down a little bit too, I think.

Yeah, and I I think I've I have a lot of other opinions about facility owners, facility management. I've been to clubs all over the country, and again, I I notice a lot of that toxicity kind of starts at the top in terms of revenue and profits. So would love to get into some of that as well.

Yeah, let's talk. I saw your video on the facility stuff. So I definitely want to make sure we call that out loud and proud. You know, what what are facilities getting wrong and how can they sort of write that chip a little bit?

Yeah, I've I've had two videos circulate pretty well online talking about facility and club management. And I think that facility owners, number one, I'm calling you out right here. When the pickleball phase exploded maybe two years ago, facilities were significantly overpriced. And these individuals, business owners, thought that just because they got into this fad at the right time and had no experience with the programming or coaching or even playing the game themselves, they thought if they just overpaid Pickler for a franchise fee that they would just start printing money over there. And now we're kind of coming into the right size of the pickleball economy. And if you don't have the right community, the culture, the people there who are the face of your club, your pri your value is gonna significantly decrease and you're gonna be out of business in several months.

Yep. Yeah. Your people are the are who's gonna take you to the next level. If you're especially the rec players, you know, if if you're not catering to that group and feeding them how they need to be fed and figuring out what they need to be fed, then then you're not gonna go for the long haul. And I'm gonna tell I'll I'll tag on to the end of yours. We're not we haven't even seen the peak yet because we haven't hit the Olympics. Wait until we hit the Olympics and you haven't and you haven't built your culture right, you're gonna be left behind.

There's another aspect. So you mentioned the Olympics. I think another untapped potential market in pickleball is youth pickleball. And people are talking about high school scholarships, collegiate scholarship scholarships, and that's starting to get some momentum right now. And I think the awesome part about pickleball is that youth development for the sport is great. However, it's not necessary. Nobody, when they're 12 years old, says, hey guy, when I'm when I'm older, I want to go play professional pickleball. They say, I want to go to the NBA, I want to go to the MLB, I want to be the next Tom Brady in the NFL. The great thing about pickleball, and it's relevant to me as a player and coach, I didn't pick it up until I'm 29. And so the fact that it's so accessible across all different generations, we don't really need that strong of a pipeline because people are gonna find the sport when it works for them in their life.

Yeah. Yeah, and those colleges out there that that adopted Quidditch uh as a sport are gonna need to replace that. You know, I guess the Harry the Harry Potter world is coming back in some aspect, but yeah, let's re let's swap out Quidditch for pickleball and you'll have uh some more athletes showing up to your college.

I actually made a a video. You mentioned Harry Potter and Boomstick, so I had to I have to make the plug. I made a video, I tried the boomstick for the first time maybe two months ago. I know I'm late, but I felt like Lord Voldemort with the elder one, just kind of destroying muggles with it.

Nice. I love that. That's a great analogy. Now let's get on to health because you type one diabetic and you're sober, which is obviously important for your for your diabetes management, but let's talk about both of those, you know, uh, because we I'm I'm guaranteeing you we have some listeners that are type one diabetic. So, you know, how does that help? Or or or is it a detriment in your play at all?

Yeah, absolutely. So a little bit of context about me and my own health, fitness, medical journey. I'm 31 years old right now, gonna be 32, best shape in my life. And I think it's because I have type 1 diabetes. So I've been diagnosed for almost 22 years. Sometimes it feels like a cross, sometimes it feels like a burden. It's a second to second management. It's not like you can just take a pill and go on with the rest of your day. As diabetics, whether you're type one, type two, it feels like you're constantly trying to land a plane, and there's consequences if you're high or if you're low. So it's kind of pick your poison with that. But type one diabetes to me has been a blessing, and having that type of positive outlook has allowed me to be so structured and so I don't want to say rigid, but very structured and disciplined in all aspects of my life. So whether it's work, yeah, with friends, with family, I always like to do things that are gonna benefit the future Nick. It's kind of an ideology that I'll do, whether that's doing the dishes, meal prepping, uh, drilling, putting in the extra hours at work. I always like to be more proactive and I've seen that benefit my health and fitness and nutrition well.

Yeah, because you've had to be so dialed into it, right? And so uh just paying attention to it the whole time. Well, then lean into it, right? And it sounds like that's what you did for it.

Yeah, no, it's it's been a blessing.

And and then let's talk about the sobriety because I I, you know, I guarantee you there's some people listening that, you know, may have struggled with that or are currently struggling with that. And kind of your journey with that kind of talk us through that.

Yeah, I actually posted a video on my Instagram and TikTok maybe a month and a half ago about that. And I was really I was pleasantly surprised with all the positive feedback. I mean, as a as a podcast, a content producer, content creator, I mean, all you do is just get hate online all day. So it was it was it was nice to be vulnerable and kind of have people meet me there positively. So I stopped drinking about three years ago, and I never really thought it was an issue, and it it wasn't. However, when I reflect on it, it was it saved me so much money, it saved me a lot of time, a lot of headache, and I just hated wasted hours and wasted days being hung over. When I drank the night before, I didn't go to the gym the next day. When I started playing pickleball, a lot of people play pickleball in the morning, and I couldn't get out of bed if I was hung over. So it was a detriment to my game and the ability to make friends and to continue on my fitness journey. So I think sobriety is challenging and you have to find it at the right place, at the right time, for the right reasons. And for me, that just triangulated perfectly around my health, fitness, and pickleball.

And did you have a community that kind of put their arms around you and and helped you out with that, or or was it just a solo mission?

So I would say it's somewhere in between. In terms of doing the work, it was all me. I didn't lean on any type of groups or other individuals. I was the only sober person in my friend group and in my family. And obviously, I'll have those bad apples of people that why, you're too good to drink in front of us, or why don't you want to drink with us? What's wrong with you? I definitely got that from some friends in the beginning. And immediately I put up those boundaries and was like, listen, you're not gonna convince me. This is what's best for me, and you do you.

That's awesome. That's awesome. So, Nick, where can people get a hold of you? What's all the social media? Man, you you've got some tremendous videos out there, and I don't want to sleep on that. People and they don't need to sleep on it either. They need to go find you and get some of this in their life. Where do they go?

Yeah, so I'm primarily right now on Instagram and TikTok. So very simple, coach Nick Pickleball. Right now, I've been posting every day. I think I reached my 90-day mark. I post it every day. So a lot of this has been talking head, a lot of this has been drills on courts, a lot of it has been no BS equipment ratings, and then others have been kind of reactions to pickleball, the industry, the business side. So come and check me out on Instagram, TikTok, Coach Nick Pickleball. And I'm not like some of these other creators that won't engage with you or will ignore your comments or your DMs. You know, if you follow me and you're listening to this, I respond to every comment, I respond to every DM because that's how you cultivate a community. I I preach so much about it in Pickleball, but I'm trying to build a community. I'm trying to provide value to people. So if you're gonna comment something ignorant and hateful, don't be surprised when I respond to you and comment on all your posts. And if you respond something positive, I'm gonna do the same thing as well. So I really appreciate it.

Yeah, absolutely. Go find whether you're a franchise, you're a court owner, court manager, wherever you are in that space, you're gonna get something. Rec player, semi-pro, pro, you're gonna get something over there as well. Tons of great content over there. So please go follow Coach Nick for everything. Coach Nick, thanks so much for being on the Big Dink Energy Podcast. It's been awesome.

I really appreciate it, guy. I you definitely took it easy on me for my first podcast, and I'd love to come back and shoot the crap with you guys soon.

Absolutely, man. We're connected now. You're our friend, you're connected to Big Dink Energy, and the sky's the limit for all that kind of stuff. Thanks so much.

Appreciate it, guy.

It's time. Pick six tonight.

Pick 6 ( 1 question and 6 answers)

This is uh where we take one question, each bring two answers, and immediately regret to this segment. Pick six tonight if you're playing along at home, and why wouldn't you be? Things that instantly tell you you're too old for this shit. Yep. Not necessarily things old people can't do, things where your brain or body now goes absolutely effing not.

Okay, well, mine would be sleeping anywhere that's not a bed. Okay. At this point in my life, my body's like, absolutely not.

Okay, I'll piggyback on that one and saying sleeping anywhere without my own pillow. Oh, I have to have my pillow. Gotcha.

For me, it's uh getting up off the floor.

Valid. Uh, I would say being with anybody that says, let's split the check. I'm too old for that shit. Oh, yeah. Let me just pay, or you pay, or just let's move the F on. Like that's how I feel about that. Yeah.

Absolutely not. And I'm too old for it. Is anything that starts after 9 p.m.? I'm tired. We're tired now because this is a technical difficulty.

Oh, gosh.

It's late. Anything with a the like a group chat that has 10 or more people in it. I'm out.

Oh, yes. Group chat or or how about even like a uh a vacation or a trip.

How about a restaurant? More than 10 people.

I know. I don't like being more than 10 people in your life. We're done.

More than 10 people in Walmart, not gonna shop.

That's why we have it delivered so we don't have to people. We're done. I don't want to deal with people.

I don't like you people. Tell us what you've got, the things that instantly tell you're too old for this stuff. Not things that you're too old to do or can't do, but things where your brain or body goes absolutely effing knots. Oh no, news you can use.

News You Can Use

Looking here at the teleprompter, it is news you can use. Do not snooze on news you can use.

Well, do y'all know about wellness darties? What?

Darties.

Wellness darties. No, I've never heard of that. Okay, so apparently a Darty is Apparently. Apparently, a Darty is a day party. And now wellness darties are a thing. Oh instead of getting like shitfaced at brunch, people are doing workout classes, run clubs, matcha, cold plunges. Gross. Basically partying, but like with I do all of that without the workout part. So but here's the part when I found this out, here's what kind of pissed me off. We already do this. So this is what we do on our Tuesdays. Yes, that's so we have you guys call it the four L's? Yes, because it's we lift, lounge, latte, and lock in. Losers. So we work out, we do massage and red light, we get coffee, and then we sit down and we work together. But like they've been doing this, but apparently Gen Z calls it again with their labels. Yes, they're darties.

So yeah, look what we invented. You didn't invent S. You know what I mean?

So are we just okay? So are wellness darties like actual parties, or are we just doing shit during daylight? Like, why is it? I don't know. I don't know. Are young people just making healthy cool again?

No, they're they're not making anything cool again. They're making skibbity, they're they're doing dumb words for things to try to this is stuff we've all been doing. You're now you're just trying to adopt it or or just take it over.

Oh, look how cool we are.

We're doing a darty today.

Oh, we're doing a Darty.

Come with me with that. No, I'm doing a wellness Darty, but you know what? I'll tell you one thing.

I took a Darty this morning.

I knew you were gonna go there.

I knew it.

Because it sounds like it. It does. I was like, what? Anyways, when I did when I figured out what this was, actually, but I could tell you this. I am not buying a 497 wellness darty framework. I can tell you that. Oh my gosh. I told you, just like last week's episode, if you haven't listened to that, we talked about that. This is coming, but apparently they're throwing darties now, wellness darties.

I mean, that would be a kind of fun, like instead of like a birthday party, like let's all go to a wellness retreat and but it's not a wellness retreat.

Take care of ourselves. It's a day party. A day party. So basically, where we used to just go and have mimosas after working out. So now they're having like carrot juice shots. It's a thing. Got it.

Now, thank you.

Anyway, Darty out.

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