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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, good morning, morning class.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey who's this.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is Sabam, the owner of Paddle Up.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Paddle Up.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Yes, Yes, I heard you and Alan on the All
Cast the other day talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yes, yes, yes, the Yeah. So I did the I did.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I did the All Cast on on Friday night with uh.
It was Alan May, myself and Tarik Elbisher. We had
a guest in the first period, Gary Beman. We had
a guest or in the second period, Peter Bondra, and
then we just held down the four in the third period.
But Peter Bondra and by the way, I have no
idea how I did. I have no clue. I watched
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so little hockey. All we did was talk the whole time.
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
He did great. It was very entertaining.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh well, thank you. That's very kind to you to
say it's my fantasy.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Though.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I sat around for three hours and did nothing but
talk about hockey.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It was the greatest night.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We didn't even really talk that much about hockey, just
stuff going on around hockey. But Alan May was mentioning
to Peter Bondra because Peter Bondra plays a lot of
pickle ball. But Alan May had said, I believe that
he had just come out to see your place in Sterling.
Correct the did he play or did he just come
out there to visit?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He did. He and Alecta both came and played and
had a great time. It was so I'm I'm the
first and only paddle club in the entire area, right
And if you're not familiar with the sport, it's kind
of a cross between tennis and squash of racketball. It's
got this really cool dynamic to it. It's very aesthetic,
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very very fun to look at, fun to watch, fun
to play, and you can play the ball off the walls.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And it's it's a great social community sport. It's played
in doubles two on two, so you need three friends
to play with you. And you know, we're we're we
just opened three weeks ago and we're already building a
community there.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Wait a minute, so you just opened three I wasn't
aware of that because I'll tell you, Sab, we had
talked about paddle I don't even remember a couple of
months ago about how it was kind of I don't
want to say taking over, but it was definitely on
the common was going to grow and grow and grow.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I like the tennis.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Meets racquetball because I don't feel like anybody knows what
squash is.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Sabah, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It is the fastest growing sport in the world. It's
absolutely huge in so It originated in Acapoco in Mexico
in nineteen sixty nine, and it took off in Latin America,
you know, South America, Spain, Argentina or a huge you know,
both those countries play at big time. Spain it's the
number two sport after soccer, oh wow. And it's huge
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in the Middle East. And that's actually where I came
across the sport about four years ago during COVID where
it really had its big boom globally, and came back
home to DC and realized there wasn't a club here
and I couldn't play it. So, you know, established this
business two and a half years ago and it took
me two years to find the place and opened three
weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How has the first three weeks been.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's been great, you know. It's it's a lot of
people who have been waiting for this to come here,
to waiting to play it. People like me who love
the sport, who haven't been able to play it here.
And you know, a lot of Hispanic communities, Arab communities
are coming out the the the challenges in educating people
that it's not pickleball, it's not just another pickleball place. Yeah, right,
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so that's yeah, that's the uphill battle.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The And where is it? It's in Sterling, right.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's in Sterling. I'm right by the north runway of
Dallas Airport right there.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh okay, I mean I know where Dulles is, I
know where Sterling is, and it's and it's even though
it's Pa d e l, it's paddle, it's not padel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So both are acceptible around the world. It's called paddle
in the US, UH to differentiate from platform Senis, which
is sometimes referred to its battle.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
There's been a branding to call it Peddell, which there's
a little bit of a Spanish flavor to it. But
both are acceptable.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I got you, I do.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I love to have the whole class over. Sorry, I'd
love to have the whole class over. Once you know,
all your injuries are healed up in your and your
ankles are okay, come on that that might be a
little bit more important.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'll tell you I would love to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Alan May he was talking about it like he had
so much fun doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's addictive once people try it the first time, they
just the smiles on their faces, and you know, it's
this whole dynamic to this sport that's different than every
other racket sport that you're playing.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Hey, one other thing real quickly, Like I I know
that there is paddle or padel rackets, which obviously I
don't own. I'm assuming if somebody came out there, you
have gear that people can use to try.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Absolutely, We're open from seven am to eleven pm. We
have rental rackets and balls and a whole pro shop
that sells them too.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Dude, that's awesome. Well I hope. Yeah, I'd love to.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Come out there and check it out once I get
out of this goddamn cast.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
The uh but yeah, have you No, I would love
to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Also, I want to say thank you because that means
now I know three people that watch the All Cast
on Friday, So thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Awesome. Yeah, that was great. I love I love listening
to you talk. I love talking about hockey. So that
was great.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah. No, I had a blast. By the way.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Tyler just pulled up. I'm assuming this is this is
saba's website.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Dude, the Places USA dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, Pa, d e l UPA paddle up.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's beautiful, Thank you, thank you so much. It used
to be an indoor ropes facility in a rock climbing gym,
and I had to demolish all of that and and
build this facility. So the challenge in this sport is,
if you're going to build an indoor facility, you need
a big warehouse with high ceilings so that the ball
doesn't hit it on lobs right, and wide enough columns
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spacing to fit these big courts in. There's sixty six
by thirty three feet, So that's the challenge in finding
the space for it. And I was able to find
this location right by Dollhas and we love it. You
love being there.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Good deal, good deal, So I appreciate it. Thank you,
my friend. Hey, you got it, Talk to you later.
That place is nice.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yeah, it looks like really professional, but obviously all levels
of experience are welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
We should go all right, write down Santacon and then
write down paddle.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I remember when we did talk about paddle the clips
of people playing it did look super fun. Sometimes pickleball
doesn't look super fun. This looks, asked Diane. I got
her those, yess how long ago?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It still hasn't used them. Now, I told you my nephews.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Did I want Diane to get addicted to paddle I
want that to be her new thing.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Send your backyard, Diane, Diane, do you want to do
an old cast? Excuse me? I told him I may
do another one. I did. I loved it. I loved it.
Do you want I'll bring you on. You want to
do one, I feel grossly ill prepared for that.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Can't be worse than tark Ill. But sheer, Yeah, I
mean that's not a nice thing to say. I didn't
see it. Sorry, I was watching Georgetown.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
West Virginia, right, but I did see some notes that said,
you you can't wear shorts with the camera a.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Little odd, I'm sorry. I also, you know what I
can't do. I mean, I can't wear pants. You can't
say because of the boots, I can't wear pants. I
didn't see any clips. I didn't see even a still image.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
But a couple people said the amount of leg Elliott
showing is uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I couldn't wear pants. But did they they offer you
like a blanket. I'm not wearing a throat.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
No one like there was wasn't a single PA or
somebody that said, Elliott, like we can see your balls.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You couldn't see my nuts. People made it seem like
you could. I don't think you could.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Also, I couldn't see myself, Like there's so much going
on on the screen. I couldn't see myself. Yeah, like listen,
I don't I don't do TV. I've never done live TV.
So the whole thing is going on, and there's like
four different there's like the main game going on.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I got a goddamn IFB in my ear. At one
point I just started repeating what they were saying in
my IFB.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
The but so I was lost there and then I
can't see myself, So I couldn't see what you can see.
But if my nuts were hanging out, they would have said, Elliott,
we can see ball.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Like I said, I didn't catch it myself. These were
just dms that were sent our way.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh but I did have a blast doing it, you
know what I told Alan May Like, it was fun,
it was great. I had the best time. Honestly, Elliott
sit around to talk hockey for three hours. I was like, Okay,
I could do that, and it's all stuff related. It's
not like I was doing like Joe ban Locker play
by play or something. But you know what I told Alan,
you know whose job I want, not want, but I
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want to be a sub for, like now that I'm in.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Who Al Coke And I was going to guess that, Yeah,
you've said that before.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Who.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
By the way, is that what's not part of the
all cast? And I love Al, but like, I feel
like I could do his job if I.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Did this right.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Three people watched, Well, no more people watch because I
did get the notes about it. Somebody also said, and
again I don't maybe they're kidding around, but it seemed
like they were telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I didn't know where the camera was, no, they said,
of course, Elliott brought up losing his seats the oh
not on purpose.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Alan talked about how they were redoing part of the
He was talking about an old arena and how they
changed the arena around and that he was under the
impression that's what they were doing at Capital One, and
I said, yeah, they are. That's why I'm losing my seats. Oh,
it was so much fun. It was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Did you have makeup for it? The are you?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Are you being a dick? Oh? I'm sirs.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I didn't see any close ups of you or was it?
Was it just like the three shot of you guys.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I had no I had no makeup on, but Allen
has makeup when he does, and so did Tark.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh, so you declined no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Now you watched the two of them sit there and
get makeup, and you were like, I guess they figure
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
No. No, I didn't watch them get made They put
their own makeup on, like Tark puts his own makeup on.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I said to Tark do I need makeup? And
he was like, I use it? And I was like
that was that's a yes, by the way, So I
use it.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
No. So you know what I did in between period
because in between periods like we're not on, we're just
on while the game's on. I went in the bathroom
and I put so much water on my face and
then took paper towels and scrub my face to try
to get rid of oil.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I was like, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, Tark elbaws sheer and and like and Tark tark
is is he's dark complexed, and I wanted to be like,
he's not gonna shine. In the meantime, I got I
got Mount Vesuvius on my nose, which I know is glowing,
and I have so much oil on my face. So
in between periods, I'm throwing water and then and then
Lexi land Destroy comes in and You're like, Okay, well
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you look like a goddamn supermodel. So I just kept
going in and splashing water on my face. But at
one point Tark was like, Hey, I'm gonna go put
my makeup on, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
That was a subtle hint to you do I need makeup?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I want to come with And he goes, well, something,
I don't have makeup, Like he had like a bag
that had his stuff in it, So I don't have
a bag of makeup. It's not like the Caps people
were like hey, or the Monumental people were like, hey,
here's a goodie bag.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Inside is all your makeup? Did you wear makeup when
you did Redline? They would powder me.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Sometimes it's pretty common.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Wait, did Bandra have makeup on? I don't know because
does he have his own bag?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
He got he got there. He got there in like
in at the end of the first period. So he
didn't use my contour brush.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So he didn't go on.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
So he had time like he wore a suit, like
he had a suit on. Alime was dressed up, tark,
look good. I'm wearing shorts and a sweatshirt. But I
couldn't wear pants. I couldn't wear I can't get pants
on over my legs.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You haven't tried like warm ups or like like that
would have like fancy or sweatpants. You think fancier sweatpants
would have looked worse than shorts. It's December.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What did you want me to wear? I can't get
pants on over my cast.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
It was really the graphic nature of the shorts that
I guess I too spread upset people.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, because I'm sitting on a couch. They want you
to be relaxed. You man spread all the time, so
that doesn't surprise me. I don't want to choke my nuts.
And so I mean Gary was on like a zoom thing.
He was zoomed in. Yeah from uh.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I wanted, well, I know where he was, but I
didn't say the but Yeah, Gary was on Zoom and
then Bondra was there.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It was great. I had so much fun. I had
so much fun. So when are you doing it again?
I don't know. I don't know. I think they were
upset that I referred to.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I referred to somebody having skinny legs as it looked
like tampon strings hanging out of their shorts.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You said that you won't be brought back. Yeah, what's
wrong with saying that? That's what it looked like.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
That's Oh geez, Elliott, not script and you're flashing everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Nuts, But it was good. So I told him I'll
bring Diane back next time. Diana'll come in, all right,
Can I get Oh, I have a couple of other
follow up things. Then I'll get to some more calls.
Thanks to all three people. Thank you Sabah for watching
what is the Story out of the Taco Bell in
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Richmond with the couple who was at the drive through
in a wedding gown and a suit.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Oh, I did too, But what's the story.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It's like, they just get married, and.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
It's fun when you see people who clearly have just
been married going out to do very normal things with
the gown and the TUXI though.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh, I don't get me wrong, I loved it, but
I was confused. Was it just like the ceremony was
over and they were hungry?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Did they say what that was?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Or was it?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Somebody somebody speculated that they may have been getting married
there and that the guy work in the drive through
was ordained.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I didn't think that. There's no way that's the case.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Oh, they did take a photo by the sign. I
guess that's possible.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
But I thought they were just like, it's the end
of the night and they were they were starving.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
That's what I'm hoping. So they walked through the drive through.
The pictures you may now live mosque. That's her diet
underscore coke. That's funny, that's great. Have they been identified?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You know what, I don't know. Like I said, I
wonder if someone listening knows who this is, or.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I wonder if they're listening. Oh, they said she was
the Taco Bell of the ball.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I love that. Oh there's another photo. Some people may
at this point know who that is. All right?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
If somebody knows who the Richmond Taco Bell couple, Liz,
please or if you are the Taco Bell couple.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Please, may your future be a Baha blast right on