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All right, as you keep writing, I'm going to transition.
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We have our next speaker, which is me.
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I'm going to do an impromptu speech.
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And the title is going to be Sounds of Fun and Fury.
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Sounds of Fun and Fury.
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Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America.
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It is super fun, very social.
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Anybody can pick it up.
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It's relatively easy to play.
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And it's grown tremendously, over 250% in the last three years.
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Did you know last year?
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50 million people in the United States played pickleball.
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That is about 20% of the US population played this sport.
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But we have fury.
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That is the most annoying sound I can possibly hear.
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This sounds like this is absolute torture.
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This is actually like the staccato of gunfire right outside my house constantly.
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All right.
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So now what we want to do here at Hi-Fi Speakers,
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we want to explain and sometimes we want to demonstrate what we're talking about.
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What is this noise?
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Why is this relevant?
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And can you show it?
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Remember,
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if you're in sales,
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if you're in customer support,
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sometimes it's actually better to demonstrate something as opposed to just talk
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about it.
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The noise level that they're concerned about here is they claim,
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hey,
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this noise level is significant.
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It's 80 decibels.
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80.
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Now, what is 80 decibels?
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What does that mean?
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Well,
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80 decibels,
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they claim,
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hey,
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if you're running a vacuum cleaner or if you're running,
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for example,
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a dishwasher incinerator,
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that's major city,
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major traffic going by.
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A normal conversation might be maybe 30 to 40.
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There are rules and ordinances in place.
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So the city of San Diego has an ordinance that says you cannot exceed more than 65
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decibels over an extended period.
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Newport Beach, it's 55.
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What's been happening is there have been lots of lawsuits.
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In La Jolla,
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HOA was being sued because the HOA decided to set up a pickleball court in a common area.
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Corona Del Mar, same thing.
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Private residents are suing their own HOA for setting up a pickleball court near them.
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Another example, Bobby Ridge Tennis Center, used to be called, it's right up here in Encinitas.
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They originally had only seven tennis courts.
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They transition all of those seven tennis courts into 22 pickleball courts.
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Now, pickleball usually can be played on a tennis court.
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So these clubs were set up usually for tennis.
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And what's different now is that you have, A, you have more people.
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So you have many more courts.
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B, pickleball is mostly played in doubles.
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So you have a lot of people.
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What does this sound like?
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I'm going to show you.
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This is where I should demonstrate.
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I have been advised by our facilities not to hit against the wall.
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So I would love to demonstrate against the wall, but I've been told that it's not.
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This is not a comedy sketch.
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So again, this is a tennis racket.
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You're living here by a tennis court.
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You're kind of interested in this, right?
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You could play singles, you could play doubles, right?
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So this is what's happening is that these tennis courts are being repositioned and
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repurposed for something else.
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This, if you haven't played it, this is my goal.
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So imagine you live right by one
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In summary, these growing court battles are putting so many of these communities in a pickle.
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They have, right now they have about 70,000 pickleball courts.
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They had seven.
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So they had seven.
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Each one of those is four courts.
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Correct.
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So now they have 22 pickleball courts.
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They were sued.
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They actually had to remove, go back to seven pickleball courts.
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Yes.
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So instead of 14 people playing singles, you've got 28 times four.
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Yes.
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7 a.m.
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and they book all the way till 9.30.
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That's the end.
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But there is also the music they were playing.
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Oh, it's super social and there's a lot of drinking.
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Because of the legal restrictions.
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So all of these lawsuits says you cannot have more.
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So what are they doing?
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By the way, they are trying
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change the material on this?
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Can you change the ball?
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Can you do something else?
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But the problem with that is if you play,
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you know you need to hear it so you understand the slice and the spin,
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and there's a lot you can gain from it.
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So lots of legal challenges.
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They sue you in pickleball court.
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It's unbelievable.
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Thank you very much.
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Local residents are suing each other because they want to put a pickleball court in
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their backyard.
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and it's causing all sorts of friction.
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Oh yeah, that's correct.
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But it is the fastest growing sport, and it is fun.
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