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Stugotz and Company

Pickleball hustle (w/Sofia Sewing)

Stugotz and Company

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Sports

4.913.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Stugotz is joined by Sofia Sewing, the #1 pickleball player in the world, to talk about her journey from competitive tennis on the WTA Tour to dominating the pickleball scene. As usual, things take a turn as Stugotz pitches his next great con, teaming up with Sofia to hustle unsuspecting players across the country... 80/20 his way, of course.

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0:00.0

Welcome to stupidity, home of the greatest medium mind ever to walk the planet.

0:08.0

Okay, so here's a deal. He's a true icon in every sense of the word.

0:12.7

He's loved and feared more than any being to grace this planet.

0:17.9

There's too gosh, a man with a voice that sounds like Barry White and Beyonce has a Jewish baby.

0:26.2

God himself would pay $39.99 for a cameo.

0:30.9

Fact of the matter is, you are about to embark on a transcendent experience that can only

0:37.4

be described as psychological nudity.

0:40.3

This is Stugas, and this is stupidity.

0:43.4

Here we go, Jim.

0:44.8

Tony!

0:48.5

Sophia Seving is with us here in studio at the Brand Star Studios.

0:52.6

Did I say your last name correctly?

1:14.4

I did. Okay, good. We started off, we were having a little casual conversation. I said, you're the best pickleball player in the world. And you said, well, I'm number one in the APP. What does that mean? Well, there's two different leagues in pickleball. There's PPA and there's APP. So I play APP. I've only been playing APP this year. And then you have the PPA league,

1:20.6

which players are contracted to play. Right. So I decided to go the APP route, which I'm really happy about. So yeah, I'm the number one singles player on APP league. Why do you decide to go that route?

1:25.6

That's the big league, by the way. Whatever league your number one in is the big league. You get it, right? I agree. I just wanted to go that route.

1:33.7

Just because in PPA, you're locked down. You're only allowed to play PPA tournaments, which I

1:40.0

wasn't too fond of. I like to have, you know, the freedom to travel, to play different leagues,

1:45.1

different tournaments. I'm used to that from tennis. So I didn't really want to be locked down

1:49.5

into something that I'm not really sure where they're headed also. So I just like to have the

1:53.4

freedom to do what I want. You know, I had a sad moment over the weekend with pickleball and with

1:58.2

tennis because I went to the tennis facility where I live

2:03.5

and it used to be all tennis courts and they took half the tennis courts out and now it's

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