Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about some New Jersey residents who are complaining about the noise coming from the Pickleball courts and imagine a group of seniors that hustle the competition.
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00:00It sucks to be old.
00:10The constant all-day pop, pop, pop of pickleball
00:14is causing tension in New Jersey.
00:18I can't take it!
00:20Pickleball!
00:22Pop, pop.
00:24Driving me right to the edge.
00:26Wagon, my man.
00:27The other day I stood on the window seal outside
00:29just looking down.
00:31You're going to do something?
00:32I was going to jump.
00:32You're going to do something about it?
00:34I was going to jump.
00:35You're going to jump.
00:36You're going to end it.
00:37I got a different plan.
00:39Yeah.
00:40Why don't we go down there?
00:42Show them what's up.
00:43And just start beating everyone's ass.
00:45I love that idea.
00:47That'll stop that pop, pop, pop.
00:49Nonsense.
00:50What a dumb game.
00:51Oh, pickleball.
00:53Pickle.
00:53It is the fastest growing sport for seniors.
00:57I think we talked about it before.
00:59We did because we were like, what the hell is it?
01:01We didn't really know what it was.
01:02It's like a combination of ping pong and tennis.
01:05It's like tennis, but with bigger rackets.
01:06Yes.
01:07You know, and a different ball.
01:09Yeah, it's slower.
01:10It's slower, sure.
01:11It's easier.
01:11But it's taken off so much so that the folks in one neighborhood in New Jersey are pissed.
01:18They can't catch a break from these noisy pickleball courts.
01:23I'd love to hear just how noisy they are.
01:25Well, here's the story.
01:27They look into this here.
01:28CBS New York has the details.
01:30Take a listen.
01:31They say it's a combination between tennis and ping pong and badminton.
01:37Members of Ridgewood's pickleball league practiced in a parking lot.
01:40The popular courts were locked on December 31st as the village comes up with a plan to mitigate the sound of the bouncing balls.
01:48Joanne Archer says they normally would be packed with seniors.
01:51It's important during this pandemic to have people be out of their homes and be able to exercise.
02:00It does wonders for our health and well-being.
02:0380-year-old Lillian Blood took lessons through the village and enjoys the safe socialization.
02:09Friends are harder to make at our age.
02:12Adjacent neighbors who would not go on camera have complained about the noise.
02:15Sound barriers were installed last year, and now players are also required to use muted pickleballs.
02:22We play with quiet paddles.
02:24They're known as green paddles.
02:26Mayor Susan Knudsen says the village is trying to find a little bit.
02:29You can barely hear anyway.
02:30Unfortunately for the residents that are living right next to it, it's not necessarily the level of the noise,
02:38but it's the constant all day long just hearing the pop, pop, pop of poor balls all day.
02:46The village is considering only allowing the sale of pickleball badges to Ridgewood residents
02:50to limit the number of playing and modifying court hours.
02:55In Ridgewood, New Jersey, McBagher, CBS 2 News.
02:57By the way, if you want to win pickleball, hit the ball two feet to the left.
03:02Yeah.
03:03It'd be funny to go in there and get full and just dominate.
03:05Yeah, just be like, sorry, that was three steps away.
03:10It looks like you'll never have no chance.
03:11I love the old lady in the background in the pink because she was, like, following the ball.
03:15Oh, yeah.
03:16She's awesome.
03:17Yeah.
03:18She's like, who's going to win this one?
03:20Like, it's the U.S. Open.
03:21My God.
03:22Great play.
03:23I love that.
03:24But it's so slow.
03:26Oh, man.
03:26I love just, like, the color commentary and everything of, like, pickleball.
03:32They got to make it into, like, a Vince Vaughn movie.
03:34They brought out all the heavy hitters.
03:36They brought out one.
03:37The great idea, that cast of dodgeball.
03:40You take them.
03:41They're all older now.
03:42You put them into pickleball.
03:43I'd take Johnny Knoxville.
03:45I'd have Johnny Knoxville and his team versus Vince Vaughn and his team.
03:50Yeah.
03:51My 76-year-old neighbor qualified for the national championship in her age group but couldn't go because she had to have back surgery.
03:58Yeah.
03:59It happens.
04:00It's a terrible injury.
04:02Oh!
04:02Oh, wow.
04:04Oh, God.
04:07Looks like I'm going in your stead.
04:09No, I was going to go to the championship.
04:12It's a career under.
04:13Yep, that's it.
04:14It's a career under.
04:15You're probably going to die.
04:16You'll probably die from that.
04:18I can't breathe.
04:19Although this guy said, don't kid yourself, I was a varsity athlete in high school, fairly active.
04:23I was asked to join a pickleball game a couple years ago at the rec center with 70-plus men and women.
04:29They absolutely whipped my ass, had me running like Forrest Gump chasing that damn ball.
04:34Yeah, it's probably a lot harder than we think.
04:38We hustled you.
04:41Yeah, like, oh, we're old.
04:43Yeah, there's no way we'll be able to beat you.
04:44It's like, oh, here's my, here's my, here's my, I have to take the oxygen mask off before I play.
04:52All right.
04:53And then they, like, pull their pants and, like, it comes up all apart and they've got a sweet uniform on.
05:00Yeah, I hope you're ready.
05:01Yeah.
05:02Hope you're ready to feel totally dominated.
05:04Yeah.
05:05I love the fact that being pickleball hustles.
05:08That's in the movie.
05:10That's in the movie.
05:11That's a great, that's a great.
05:13That is a great.
05:13They look all weak and feeble.
05:15They're barely breathing.
05:17They're hard to walk and then boom.
05:18Right.
05:18Yep.
05:19Someone said when the old folks do the pull-away clothes, it's just more old people clothes than they are.
05:24Yeah, same.
05:24Let's keep the same.
05:25It's the same purple pants.
05:26Yeah, like the tear-away slacks to other slacks.
05:31These are my action slacks.
05:32Yeah.
05:34This one's got some give.
05:38Well, it's taken off and it's pissing people off because of the noise.