Ladies and gentlemen, PicklePod is back! Zane Navratil and Thomas Shields have teamed up to bring you all of the pickleball talk that you can handle. In the debut episode they cover MLP Mesa, a new pickleball reality show and the madness in trying to govern paddle technology. Buckle up for a brand new PicklePod.

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Show Notes:
0:00 Intro
2:25 Takeaways from Major League Pickleball
9:58 MLP is all about energy
11:12 Pickleball meme game is strong
18:11 Prioritizing business decisions or personal relationships on court
22:41 Everybody knows everything in the small pickleball community
25:54 Pickleball reality show for a spot in the Challenger Level
31:07 Did the on-court antics go too far at MLP?
35:41 Pickleball has crossed the line of what is acceptable in tennis
40:26 The new rules and challenge system for MLP
48:35 Ridiculous paddle technology
54:32 A mutual agreement not to challenge paddles