What Next: Pickleball vs. Everybody

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Pickleball’s exploding popularity isn’t an organic grassroots rise. According to a reporter’s intrepid Freedom of Information Act inquiries, enthusiastic pickleball ambassadors are employing the “USA Pickleball tool kit” and harrying local park departments to elbow out their tennis-and-basketball-playing neighbors. Guest: Jason Koebler, cofounder of 404 Media and host of the 404 Media Podcast, former editor-in-chief of Motherboard. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	New from DurX, 7 different vibrations you'll want to put on repeat.
0:15.0	Now available at boots and at duerX.co. UK. Jason Kebler has a big time job these days as the founder of the news site 404 media.
0:33.5	But in his heart, he's a reporter.
0:36.7	He digs into stories.
0:38.9	He describes himself in his bio
0:40.5	as someone who loves freedom of information act requests and surfing.
0:45.0	I do I do love those things. What have you been foying recently?
0:50.0	So I've been foying a lot about pickleball.
0:56.0	Pickleball.
0:57.0	Yeah, the fights that it's been causing all over the country.
1:01.0	What are you hearing about?
1:02.0	Like how many foias are we talking about here?
1:06.8	For pickleball I filed 25.
1:12.4	25 different cities.
1:14.0	cities.
1:15.0	cities and towns.
1:17.0	At this point, you might have a few questions.
1:22.0	First off, why pickleball? The answer to that has to do with this growing
1:27.6	sports aggressive lobbyists who are tying local governments up in knots.
1:33.0	When he started his research, honestly,
1:35.0	Jason did not know too much about that.
1:38.0	He just knew what was happening down the block.
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