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All right. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still, the A4-Mentioned Chase Thomas Come to live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ.

Joining me from Omaha Productions and Rocky Top Insider, we've got the number one Cincinnati Reds fan in all of America. It's right behind him. So you know it's accurate. You know it's true. Jack Foster. Good morning. How are you? I'm doing great, Chase. And, yeah, it's a tough start to the season. The torpedo bad game with Ellie was great. but you you know, outside of that, back-to-back 1-0 losses to the Rangers, not great. But yeah, it's a great. Weather's great. Knoxville. Got some pickleball in this morning. So refreshed and already got some activity going this morning with actually Ryan Shumper. So that was fun. Hold on. you and Ryan were out here playing pickleball this morning here in these Knoxville Streets Thursday morning? Yep. And Sylvia and Caleb Jero. You need to come by, Chase. We need to... Absolutely not. I'm in my... Like, that's a 20-something person activity because when you get your 30s, like, you know, that's like the number one, like, Achilles terror, not to scare all y'all, but like, when you get older, it's like our, we can't,

like those quick movements and you're not really, you're with your planning and all that kind of stuff. I, uh, I have a family member who like tore their Achilles, um, playing pickleball, um, older than me, but yeah, I just, no, pickleball is the, the worst thing possible for my knees

and foot and whole situation.

There's, I just, no, pickleball is the worst thing possible for my knees and foot and whole situation.

There's, I can't.

We had a couple of questionable calls today.

Caleb specifically was very adamant.

A couple of balls had landed in.

They were definitely out.

So we need a ref.

Wait, what are the teams?

Today it was me and Shumper versus Sylvia and Caleb. Now, you have to understand, Sylvia's the best player. Really? Yeah. Ryan played really well. Shumper played really well today. And Caleb was abnormally good. That's why their side won. That's such a backhanded compliment. He was abnormally good. That's the truth. He usually, last time we played, I was his teammate, terrible. Today, he was terrible the first game. Shumper and I won 11 to 1, and then they reel off three straight because Caleb couldn't miss. So, um, it's actually even teams. Every game's good, down to the wire. So that's definitely the assortment we got to do. I could be electric as a ref, though, 100%. Yeah. Like, there could be some really fun stuff here. I could, I would go all out. I might take it very, very seriously. It'd be fun. Yeah, no, it'd be fun. My apartment complex has four pickleball courts.

It's hard to, like, I don't know, you probably don't know us, but, you know, everyone's playing pickleball now. So, if you go to where there's, like, a public park with courts, they're usually always full, like, you have to get lucky to have a port open. but luckily my apartment complex just put four in our little park, like very tiny park we have. And they're good.

Like, they're always, I've never seen anybody there until like us today, obviously.

This is the first time we played there.

So really nice luxury we have here now that we never have to wait.

Wow.

Electric stuff here out of the gate.

Did not realize that the pickleball bug has taken over the Tennessee beat riders.

I've noticed they're all young, though.

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