Pickleball Pilot - Dean Matt breaking world records
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Our guest today was featured on local and national news, such as FOX nationally and locally. The Pickleball CHIX talk with the Pickleball PILOT - Dean Matt - known as Muchodeanareo about his world record attempt called the 48 x 48 x 48 Challenge. You'll love this pickleball podcast episode where pickleball pilot, Dean Matt set out to break a record by visiting 48 states in 48 days and play 48 games of pickleball.
You'll love his interesting story - the fabulous people he met along the way - and more!!
Today’s “Word of the Day”
"flight"
Today’s In the Kitchen Cocktail
48 State Bootlegger (in honor of our guest who flew into Minnesota)
Ingredients:
Summer Lakes Bootlegger cocktail mix.
Prairie Organic Gin. Here we made in Princeton, Minnesota
Thank you to our Sponsors Harbor Wine and Spirits and to our Mixologist, RON!
Let's get to know Dean
He started flying since high school, flying has always been a passion and he has had a plane for the last 25 years and recently upgraded to a six passenger plane, it's turbocharged and it will be able to go up to 27,000 feet. So while I have been out west, over the mountains in my other plane, this plane is just much more easier to do it with. So I moved down. My wife and I moved down from the Chicago area about two years ago to Sarasota Florida here. And we moved into a golfing community. We thought we'd be golfing, doing a lot of golfing. We have a little golf cart, but all we use our golf cart for is to go to the pickleball courts.
How did you come up with this idea?
So we started playing pickleball I met a guy who I met a lot of people obviously playing pickleball. And then the guy who was on I said, Hey, Shannon, I always want to go around the country. Now Shannon's a he's a real pilots. He's he manages aircraft for a living and he plays jets and all that stuff. Me I'm just a single engine guy with a couple 1000 hours instrument rated. And so we started planning and he says yeah, I'm going to clear the decks for May. We started this about six months ago. And I did all the logistics I'm retired. So I've been calling people all across the United States,...