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First, Sarah gets you caught up on the weekend’s NWSL playoff action and which teams are headed for the semifinals. Then she talks to Misha and Alex about travel quirks, big blowout wins, and bucket list destinations ahead of some show field trips! And you’re the Slices… but what’s our name? We need your help! 

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Speaker 1

Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're pouring out a Moulson and blocking the US women's national team on social media in honor of Canadian legend Christine Sinclair hell of a career sink. It's Monday, November eleventh, and on today's show, we'll react to the weekend's NWSL quarterfinal matches, announce some upcoming show field trips, and talk travel quirks and peeves. Plus the Hockey Gaze lighted up and Coco Cash is in. It's all coming up right after this

Welcome back, Happy Monday slices. Here's what you need to know today. Let's start with the NWSL, where the semi finals are set following four quarterfinal matchups over the weekend. First, on Friday, the Orlando Pride defeated the visiting Chicago Red Stars four to one, with Barbara Banda scoring abrace and Marta, Yes, the legendary Marta, scoring her first ever NWSL playoff goal

thanks to a penalty in the fifty sixth minute. Now, this dat says a lot more about our Lando than it does about Marta, given that this is the Pride's first NWSL playoff appearance since twenty seventeen, when the Brazilian star joined the team. On Saturday, the Kansas City current

squeaked past North Carolina with a one nil win. You might recall producer Misha's big bold prediction entering the weekend was that Golden Boot winner tem With Chiwinga would record a hat trick in that one, and while that didn't happen, it was, of course Chiwinga who scored the only goal of the game, which came in the eighth minute. After the match, Kansas City head coach blat co Endadovski criticized how other teams have quote targeted Chiwinga this season.

Speaker 2

Take a lessen yeah, I mean, first, in terms of being physical with Timoa, it's something that it wasn't just his game. If you look look at the season, every game, it's they're overly physical against her and it's not fair. It's not fair for Temoa.

Speaker 3

They're targeting her. I mean, they're going directly at her, and I just hope that as we go forward she gets more protection from the referees.

Speaker 1

We'll keep an eye on that. In the Semis. Sunday's doubleheader started with a chippy, physical match between the Washington Spirit and expansion side BAFC. BFC forward Assado Oshwala kicked off the scoring in the eighty second minute, but the Washington Spirit got an answer just four minutes later, a

rocket from defender Tara mickeyawon to tie things up. The Spirits Hal Hirschfeldt sent in a screamer with seconds remaining in regulation, but it dinged off the crossbar, so we got some free soccer in the first period of extra time. A painful own goal from BFC's Capriest did Asco in the ninety sixth minute put the Spirit up two to one, and that score stuck. Spirit get the comeback win and

they advance fun fact about this one. So attendance and Audi field for the Spirit's last home playoff game back on November seventh, twenty twenty one was five thou three seventy nine attendance for this one a sellout nineteen thousand, two hundred and fifteen. After the game at Hay Spirits on Twitter posted that Tara McKeown had to miss her sister's wedding for the game and said she was definitely

not missing it to lose. The final match of the weekend pitted number three got them FC against number six Portland Thorns. Tierna Davidson, picking a great time for her first NWSL goal the season, scoring for got them in the sixty seventh minute, but in the seventy fifth minute Raylan Turner even it up on a beauty of a set piece goal. Olivia Moultrie sent in a perfect ball and Turner sent it in with her head. The nineteen year old Moultrie is the youngest player ever to record

an assist in an NWSL playoff game. So we're all tied up and Rose Lavelle becomes the heroin this one, as her goal in stoppage time put got them up to one and they hung on for the win, keeping their dreams of repeating alive. Lavelle's tally the latest in regulation in an NWSL playoff game ever, an all time got them club attendance record for this one, fifteen and forty people at Red Bull Arena to watch the victory and to witness the final game in the incredible career

of Christine Sinclair. The Canadian legend subbed out in the sixty fourth minute and could only watch as her team lost the heartbreaker. Looking ahead semi final number one will feature got them at Washington next Saturday at twelve pm Eastern. Orlando hosts Kansas City on Sunday. That game will be

two thirty pm Eastern on ABC. They'll be playing for a spot in the NWSL Championship, which will be in Kansas City on Saturday, November twenty third, and Mesh and I are going to be there for the title game and for all the weekend festivities too. Hope to see a lot of slices there. Moving on to tennis, American Cocoa Golf won the WTA Finals over the weekend, defeating China's keenwe Jen in a third set tiebreak. Golf trail by two games twice in the final set, but rallied

back to win her first WTA Finals title. Earlier in the tournament, the twenty year old Golf defeated world number one and number two Arena Sablenka and Egosfontek during her run to the final. After the win, Golf took to Twitter, posting in part Tyler tried to tell y'all with a shrugging emoji, a reference to Grammy winning rapper Tyler the creator, who gave GoF a shout out on his new song thought I Was Dead, in which he raps quote you ain't Coco, Goff, you can't serve me end quote. We

appreciate a man with taste. The rest of Goff's tweet red quote. In all seriousness, I'm so grateful for all the support the last few weeks. Getting to win the last tournament of the season and it also being my second biggest title of my career so far is insane. Wow. WTA Finals Champion end quote. The win earned golf the biggest payout ever for a women's tennis event, four point eight oh five million dollars. Dang, Coco, can we borrow

a dollar? The WTA Finals is the vital individual event on the tennis calendar each year, but we've still got the Billy Jean King Cup next week, an annual team competition, and producer Alex and I will be traveling to Mulaga,

Spain to cover that can't wait. GoF is sitting out of that event unfortunately after a super busy season, but the US will be headlined by world number eight m Navarro and world number ten Danielle Collins to College Hoops, the defending champs and number one team in the Nation. South Carolina is still unblemished early on the game. Cocks picked up a win over number nine NC State on

Sunday seventy one fifty seven. Senior guard to Heena pow Pow led all scores with twenty three points and sophomore guard ma Lesia ful Wiley added eighteen off the bench. The win extend South Carolina streak took forty games, including last season, making the program only the second in NCUBA

history with multiple forty game win streaks. We also got a rematch of the national championship game from way back in two thousand and six over the weekend, with eighteenth ranked Maryland prevailing over number eleven Duke again eighty five to eighty. Kaylene Smichel led the way for the Turps with twenty three points and Chyenne Sellers chipped in seventeen

points and five assists for Brenda Freese's squad. It was the first edition of the rivalry matchup between the teams since the NCAA Sweet sixteen on March twenty eighth of twenty fifteen, but it was their eighty second meeting all time, and both schools now have forty one wins in the

head to head series. We also want to say a huge congratulations to former Stanford head coach Tara Vanderveer, who retired last spring, and ahead of Sunday's home game against Gonzaga, the Cardinal dedicated their home court to Vanderveer, who led the program for thirty eight years and is still the winningest coach in NCAA history, ahead of Yukonton head coach Gino Oriema and former Duke men's basketball coach Mike Shuzhevski.

Un rank Stanford cruise to a victory in that game over Gonzaga, eighty nine fifty eight to hockey or should I say pucks in gaish it. The US women's national team in Canada have been trading blows in the twenty twenty four to twenty five rivalry series, a five game competition. The US took the first game handily on Wednesday, winning seven to two, but Canada answered back, winning game two

on Friday five to four. In an epic shootout. It was tied one to one in the second period and Canada pulled away for a four to one lead thanks to goals from newlyweds Marie Philippe Pulen and Laura Stacey and fellow gay Aaron Ambrose, but Team USA managed an epic comeback, with Hillary Knight scoring the game time with just one minute twenty six seconds left in regulation. Pulan added another in the shootout, with seventeen year old teammate

Chloe Primorano sealing the deal for Canada. Canada technically won the game, but we think Team LGBTQA plus was the real winner in this one. The two rivals met again on Sunday, with Canada pulling out another win to lead the series two games to one. We'll have more on that matchup tomorrow. Finally, shout out to Love Pro Volleyball. The new Women's Professional Volleyball League starts preseason today, with

the regular season getting underway in January. All right, slices, we're going to get into the x's and o's of the NWSL playoffs more tomorrow, but quickly, Mesh. You were actually at the Spirit game yesterday, so tell us about it. Atmosphere vibes, take us to Audifield.

Speaker 4

Well, first of all, sir, that was the most people I've seen in that part of Southwest DC in a very long time. But it was a great, great atmosphere. Everybody had different color terrible.

Speaker 1

Not terrible towels. We don't like the Steelers over here, Riley towels.

Speaker 4

I didn't realize there was going to be a black and lightning kind of situation. My colors for the Washington s beer were always red and blue. I thought that was still the case, and so I've been away for too long. But it was basically a blackout. The stands were full to the brim. There were babies and strollers and grown people acting a fool. Both my parents came with me. It was their first trip to Audiefield, and it was electric. I had to coach them through this

is not quite like basketball. They're not going to score every two seconds. But when that first goal went in, Sarah, that that place you erupted and it was one of the most magical moments I've experienced in a while.

Speaker 1

That's so fun. I love you going with your parents. That's really cool. I want to talk college hoops too, because it's early in the season, which means we're not going to cover every single game, and we're watching a lot of teams just still finding their groove. Also, a lot of cupcake games on the schedule. Right now, early on,

so we're seeing a lot of blowouts. But there are blowouts and then there are SmackDown shall ackings, and USC had one of the latter over the weekend, defeating cal Poly ninety to thirty five the Trojan one on a twenty eight to nothing run in the early minutes of the contest. They finished the quarter leading forty to six. So we're thinking to ourselves as we're watching fifty five point victory, that's got to be the biggest blowout of

this early season right now. Now. A week ago, Grambling State defeated Centenary College one hundred and thirty one to thirty to open up their schedule one hundred and thirty one to thirty. And Grambling actually boasts an even bigger scoring margin, the biggest in NCAA women's basketball history. In January of this year, they defeated the College of Biblical Studies one hundred and fifty nine to eighteen. That is a one hundred and forty one point margin. That is

truly what you call a biblical loss. Sorry, College to Biblical Studies, Misch, you played college ball? Did you play in any blowouts like this? Nothing quite like that.

Speaker 4

In fact, I'm pretty sure we beat a couple of teams by like thirty plus thirty piece them, which was maybe the biggest margin of victory.

Speaker 1

In my college career. But I was on the bench for.

Speaker 4

Both of those games because I was out for the season with an achilles injury, so it wasn't super fun to wow, very boring.

Speaker 1

I just feel bad for teams in those instances. I really don't get excited about breaking records or setting new scoring marks. I'm just like, this isn't really the same sport at this point, so I just feel bad for the other team, unless their team's getting paid a bucket load to show up, Like sometimes in like men's sports, you'll pay a team like two million dollars to show up and get their ass beat, and it's like, all right, fine,

that's going to help the program. I don't think the College of Biblical Studies is getting much help from that beat down, other than you know, learning that the power of prayer isn't going to work for you every time. Alex field hockey in high school. I feel like we had a couple, you know, like six or seven nothing games against some bad teams, but not nearly as many blowouts as on the basketball side, how about you.

Speaker 5

My college team, we were on the receiving and.

Speaker 6

The giving end.

Speaker 1

Oh no, a couple of blowouts.

Speaker 5

On the receiving end my freshman and sophomore year, the giving end my junior year and senior year. And my coach though, had a rule that we could not run up the score beyond eight zero, And honestly, that was harder than just scoring more goals because it was like playing keep away and you felt really bad, And honestly, in retrospect, I think it's sometimes more disrespectful to not score.

Speaker 1

Completely agree, Yeah, don't show bote if you know, if you're really talented and the other team's bad, don't take it all the way up the field solo and then score repeatedly. Use the team play, practice your passing set up, you know, practice your corners, things like that. But don't not shoot and score if it's clear that you could. That's worse for the team that you're playing against. In my opinion, yeah, agree, But it's.

Speaker 4

Like at the end of the day, guys, it's it's a lose lose like for the losing team and the winning team. Sometimes because I can remember, not necessarily in college but in AAU and like travel, we would be given teams to shillakin. Parents want to fight in stands whether we pull back or we keep scoring.

Speaker 1

So you know, that's on those parents though, for not understanding. And I am always of the opinion anytime someone tries to say, oh, well, the reason I tried to fight them or I did this is because I was mad that at the end of the game they were still playing, even though technically and it's like, it's a game you play from the beginning to the end. And as long as you're not like crazy show voting or insanely over the top with it or really rude about it, just

keep playing. Just keep playing the game. Whether you're winning or you're losing. Your responsibility is to play until the buzzer runs out. And when people bitch about that, I'm like, find a new hobby. Sports ain't for you. There's winners, there's losers. Suck it up. That's how I feel about that. But I do feel bad for the losing team. College of Biblical Studies, Like I said, this is a biblical loss.

All right, We're gonna take a quick break. When we come back, sit or stand, hang back or hover all of our travel habits and pet Peeves revealed before our show field trips. It's coming up. We're back and so are you? Love that for us? As we mentioned earlier in the show, we're taking a couple show field trips. Alex and I are headed to Spain to cover the Billie Jean Kingcup, and then I'm gonna meet up with

Misha in Case for the NWSL Championship weekend. Misha and I actually got to hang in Phoenix for WNBA All Star, which is a blast. But Alex and I will be meeting in person for the very first time on foreign soil in Malaga. In Malaga, I'm gonna learn how to say the name of the place we're going before we go there. But let's talk about travel. So, Alex, do you have any quirky travel habits? I can almost guarantee the answer will be yes.

Speaker 6

Oh, of course I do.

Speaker 5

I actually think I have one that's pretty common, but no one talks about it, which is once I get through security, even if I have two hours until my flight and I want to use the bathroom, I want to get food, I have to go see the gate before I do those things.

Speaker 1

Of course, you have to go say hello to your gate, not just because it's like just part of the ritual, but because every once in a while you'll go and it will be like Australia and you're like, wait a minute, that's not right. Let me double check, and like your gate has been moved and you're like, thank god I stopped by to.

Speaker 5

Say hello, right, Or sometimes it says Australia because you got there so far in advance that there is still a flight leaving to Australia before your own flight two hours later.

Speaker 1

That rarely happens to me because I have a perfect setup system where I arrive at the exact correct time and I'm never running a La Holly Row. But I am also never just sitting digging around wasting my time because I've got a system down. Alex, you strike me as someone who would get there a few hours early, just in case.

Speaker 6

I actually like getting there a lot closer.

Speaker 4

Though.

Speaker 5

My TSA pre check ran out recently, and so now I've got to give myself a little bit of extra wiggle ram.

Speaker 1

Wow, that was a shocker, Mesh, you just backed away from the mice. You're so shocked, I feel like Meish is also like, let me, just get there five hours early. I don't want to be stressed about it. I am my father's daughter.

Speaker 4

And what I mean by that is he struck fear in my heart from the age of eleven when I took my first plane ride quote unquote by myself. He was behind me and I didn't realize. Maybe one day I'll tell you that story slices amazing. But I get there two hours early. I cannot.

Speaker 1

I can't. I've never missed a flight. I can't.

Speaker 4

And then the other quirk for me is I'm a severe overpacker. It's so bad. It's really I don't know how many pairs of underwear I'm gonna need for three days, because you don't know what's gonna happen over the.

Speaker 1

Course of those three days with your underwear specifically or just in general. I mean that specifically because you need to be prepared.

Speaker 4

Okay, fair, but definitely there early, and definitely I've got everything you need.

Speaker 5

I once saw a video, I think on Instagram of somebody packing underwear for a trip, and the way that they described it was like, I have never once shpit pants, And when I pack underwear for a trip, I pack as though I'm going to shit my pants every day I am there.

Speaker 1

I mean, you're always better off with too many pairs than yes, very true. Better Also, my husband and I went to a friend's wedding in Italy, and I won't belabor how awful everything was, but essentially there was a thunderstorm. They put the bags on the tarmac. They forgot them on the tarmac. Despite the delay, they sat in the pouring rain. They never made it. On our flight that got changed to a different location. We landed there, it

was late at night. I accidentally hit the skip highways on the Italian language GPS, so we skipped the highways driving to Venice at two in the morning, and we were just going along little town roundabouts passing literal prostitutes at two in the morning. Why is this taking so long? I don't remember this route from last time. Got to Venice, woke up. The alarm system in the hotel was broken for the entire hotel, so nobody got a wake up call. So now it's like three pm Italian time when we

finally wake up. The jeans that I wore on the plane, which were the only pair of pants I had because our luggage didn't make it had a hole in the crotch because it was back when I used to always wear those seven jeans that when they finally blew, it was always right in the crotch. So we had the same underwear we'd been wearing for two and a half full days. I had a hole in my jeans and were in Venice. So my options are either Louis Vuitton or dressed like a fucking gondola guy. Right, so we

have to go buy contact lenses, underwear. I gotta buy bras and they're like, what size are you? In Italian? I'm like, I don't know whatever your grandma hanging out a window wears, because I got big old boobs and you guys are all tiny here. It was a mess

and a disaster. And so now when I fly, if I have to check a bag, which I try my best not to no matter how long I'm gone for, I put in several pairs of underwear and a full ass change of clothes, all of my makeup and toilet trees in the bag with me so that there is no way I land in a foreign country and have to try to buy an entire fleet of makeup and everything else, Especially when I'm going to be in a wedding where my two hundred and fifty dollars teal one

shoulder bridesmaid's dress never arrives, and it said I have to go shopping and find a black dress that looked like I'm someone who's like in mourning for the entirety of my life and refuses to wear color other than black. And then my husband wears, unintentioned the same outfit as all the waiters. So that was a good time.

Speaker 4

Well, I think the moral of that story is I'm right. And also the unwritten rule there with the overpains with you onto the plane. That's also like, I think a thing from back in college because I had teammates who forgot their game shorts or you know, their luggage went missing and have their their uniform and their shoes.

Speaker 1

So hey, yeah, yeah, very folks. My luggage got delayed once flying to a national championship meet for track in high school and with heptathlon, I had five different pairs of shoes, so I end up having to buy a pair of spikes that I then try to wear for all the different events. Cool, very cool, all right, So during the flight, I think we have to take two flights for this one. Al Are you a book person, movie TV show, bine sleep the whole time? What's your vibe?

Speaker 5

I like looking at the map of where we are at all times. I'm a window seat person and I like looking at the map.

Speaker 6

I'm also for eight straight hours.

Speaker 5

Yeah, I like to just make sure we're staying on course nowhere we're going.

Speaker 1

What if you weren't What would be the recourse if the map suddenly went awry and you're like, we're not going to Spain.

Speaker 5

Sometimes when you get on the flight, the system hasn't reset itself. It has a weird old destination in the system, and you're like, hold on, did I just get on the right flight?

Speaker 1

Seems like adding unnecessary stress. Never had that happen to me.

Speaker 5

I also am a movie crier on planes, Like I'll cry at anything on a plane.

Speaker 1

I think it's something with the air in there or the oxygen, because I'm a crier anyway, But on planes, I will lose it. Like I made the mistake. I forgot what the movie Out of Africa was actually about. I don't know if y'all have seen it. It's real old school. But when I was young, we watched it, so and my husband and I went to Africa. I was like, oh, yeah, I'll download Out of Africa. I forget you know what that's about. It is the most

tragic movie. And I didn't have enough napkins or Kleenex on me to stop the flow of liquids oozing from my brain. And literally the flight attendant was walked by like are you okay? And I'm like, napkids, just not bubbling and pouring all over my face. So yeah, I intentionally now avoid any any crying movies because it's too much. There's too many liquids in my face me. She seems to suspect of this.

Speaker 4

I'm not because if we're on a plane, and we're not on a plane, if it's sad, I'm crying, okay, So on.

Speaker 1

A plane it's worse. I promise you it's worse. It maybe it is.

Speaker 4

I'm crying hard regardless, so maybe I just don't notice the degree to which I'm crying harder. But definitely we'll look at the flight tracker. Like Alex said, I love a book on a long flight.

Speaker 1

I love a physical hard copy.

Speaker 4

I could finish a book out of Like if it's you know the circumstances are right, so love that, but definitely allotting at least a third of that flight time to being asleep, because there's no way. I'm also a little bit I've recovered, but I was not a fan of flying at first, not a fan at all. Like I'm talking full blown meltdown. Oh no, hyperventilating, my ears are popping. I think I'm gonna die, Like that was when I was younger. Yeah, so three, yeah, no.

Speaker 1

I I'm now flying so much that I have the system done. Like if you're on the flight that leaves at ten pm, I make myself sleep because that's what you're supposed to be doing. If I'm on the way back and I'm supposed to be awake, I will make myself watch like four straight movies and peel my eyes open so that when I land, I'm tired and I

want to go to bed at the right time. Like I work really hard because especially like going to the World Cup out in Australia, going out to places where it was going to screw up my time a bunch of times in recent months France for Sport Beach, all those like if you come back and you have to hit the ground running immediately with your job, and you're just like dead. It's brutal. So I really try to like follow what the advice is.

Speaker 5

Okay, wait, hold up, I have a super important question for the group. Yeah, this is gonna reveal a lot about our respective personality, so be prepared.

Speaker 6

Do you recline your seat?

Speaker 4

Never I pay for a seat, I'm not reclining it all the way back. I'm not insane because I have teammates or former teammates and friends who are like.

Speaker 1

Six foot plus.

Speaker 4

But I'm reclining it a little bit because my back's not gonna be hurt by the time we stop off this play.

Speaker 1

I'm gonna tell you that much right now. I will maybe do it like an inch if it's a particularly weird seat, but usually I don't. I bring my lumbar support. I also usually pay for a bulkhead or an exit row because I'm so tall that that way, if my legs can stretch out, then my back is okay. If I'm in a regular seat, I might recline it an inch or so because I need figure out how to

get my legs in a position that fits. But at this point, like I almost I don't need to be in business or first class, but I need to pay extra for a bulkhead or an exit because I do have two bulging discs in my back and or her need a disk in my neck, and I'm super tall. So between the three of those, I will get off that plane like basically looking like an origami bird. If I don't like or bird is insane, just fold it up like a bird.

Speaker 4

I will say, though it is imperative that I look at who is sitting behind me as I'm coming up the aisle.

Speaker 1

I will say, I always do that.

Speaker 4

If it is somebody who's tall, then I'm like, you know what, you got it both.

Speaker 1

But the woman directly in front of me on my flight back from wherever the hell I just was, I can't even remember, and she was no taller than five foot three, and she took the Southwest first class seat. This is the seat that doesn't have a chair in front of it. It has like triple the leg room. She's directly in front of me. She goes to set.

I go, oh, are you gonna sit there? She said yes, And I wanted to punch her directly in her tiny face, but I would have had to work so far down because she was so fucking small, and I was like, some self awareness, lady. There's a million other even exit row seats that will be like the equivalent of like a couch for you, and you take that one like, ugh, okay, that is a pet peeve of mine. But my biggest pet peeve in all of travel is the baggage claim.

If everyone takes two steps back, you can all see your bag, and then when you get to it, you take two steps forward, you pick it up and then leave, and everyone's better off for it. If everyone's freaking hugging the carousel for no goddamn reason, you can't see and you can't get your bag, what are people doing? Why does nobody notice this? I notice it?

Speaker 5

And some airports that even try to tape around like stand behind this line. I just think, mm hmm, how better to represent society. I'm gonna stand as close as I need to in order to get what I need instead of us all stepping back and us all getting what we need.

Speaker 1

Mm hmm.

Speaker 4

Meish biggest pet peeve in a similar vein there are some things that I think we should be keeping around from COVID times, And one of those things. Give me my six feet of space. I do not need to feel you breathing down my neck. If I can, if.

Speaker 1

I can physically feel the wind, you're two and down, close back up. Yeah, yeah, I think that's just that's just not traveling. That's life.

Speaker 4

Yeah, generally speaking, but I find that in the airport it happens more often. I don't know what it is, like, maybe everybody's just eager and anxious to get on the plane. I don't know, but that's when I typically find people are I literally can't turn around without smelling with somebody for breakfast.

Speaker 5

You're in boarding group X, and there's stumbody that's still just like, can't wait to be super close to you, even though all the overhead baggage space has gone at that point exactly.

Speaker 1

Uh well, hopefully for all of us we will not have to endure these peeves on our upcoming travels. Obviously, our number one destinations on our bucket list right now are Malaga and Kansas City. But if not for those trips, what would be your number one top destination that you want to go in the world right now?

Speaker 4

Misha, I really really really want to go to Jamaica or Trinidad and Tobago. Okay, those two have been on my bucket list for since I had a bucket list, you know, so fingers crossed on those two, Alex, I.

Speaker 5

Don't have a travel bucket list, and I don't know what that says about me, given that I do like traveling and seeing new places, but I really don't have a list. I am excited though, I have an upcoming trip to Machu Pichu and Peru.

Speaker 6

Pumped for that.

Speaker 1

Oh, that is on my list. Okay. So my bucket list is usually based on things that humans are ruining that I want to get to before they get worse.

Speaker 6

So you want to be part of the getting worse?

Speaker 1

No, I want to no, no, no, I want to respect it and treat it well, but I want to see it before garbage humans make it worse. So grape Beerry Reef was on there, got there, Machu Pichu is up there, Galapagos is up there, and then next ye're finally getting to go to Africa again with my mom this time and she's wanted to go her whole life, but my dad's not super interested, so she's never gone. And I literally was like, that's it, Dad, if you

want to come, great if you don't stay home. But Mom's going so South Africa and Botswana next year, which I'm super pumped about too. All right, now, we got all of our travel vibes put out into the universe for lots of legroom, no one breathing down our next and baggage carousel etiquette. We got to take another break when we come back. Slice wants to call us by our name, But what is it that's next? Welcome back, Slices.

We got a listener email from beth Olhaso, who wrote in last week with the following note, Hey there blank question mark, question work, question mark. If we're the Slices, what do we call you? Three? Collectively? Front Office just wanted to drop a note to say thanks. Media is a dumpster fire right now, so I appreciate that you three are powering through to bring us content that is a beautiful distraction from the shit show we've been living

in for the last thirty six hours. It's hard to function right now for all of us, so I appreciate you powering through for us. Appreciate you. Hope you're getting some decompression time. Snuggle those puppers hard and cats, Alex ill, but we support you, Beth from Sacramento, where we're thrilled to be welcoming our second women's sports team in as many years to the Bay. Go Valk and go BFC. First,

thank you for the kind note, Beth. Also, Alex, any response to that straight that you and your cat's caught.

Speaker 5

As the proud mama of a former straight, Dorothy and I are offended, but we will take it in stride and just enjoy cud a link together.

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My dogs are truly actual full therapists at this point, like the three of them and me have been in a barnacle like symbiotic relationship pretty much ever since Tuesday, so thank you to them. More importantly, Beth actually does make a great point, what is our name? Which brings us to our good game play of the day. We love that you're listening, but we want you to get in the game every day too, so we want to hear from you. What should our little trio, me, Mish

and Alex be called triple espresso? Obviously taken can't have that, but also we're more like an espresso, a latte, and then like a steamed milk, right, Alex, not a lot of sun out there in New Hampshire. I'm cry so I don't know a good game crew top brass, big wigs, brain Trust. Alex suggested the Orange Grove, which feels like we would then be like the parents of the slices, right like the grove. I don't know about that. I know y'all got some ideas, so send them to us.

Good game at wondermedianetwork dot com, leave us a voicemail at eight seven two two oh four fifty seventy, or hit me up on social at Sarah Spain on Twitter slash x. If I'm there for much longer, we'll see about that at Spain two three two three on Insta. And while you're messaging us about our name, if you got any great tips for Malaga Spain, send him our way. Would love those two and don't forget to subscribe, Rate

and review. It's real easy. Watch cleaning out your desk drawer and finding an extra phone charger rating one percent battery life review. I think this is what live in large feels like. An extra phone charger. An extra phone charger empowers you to make any room in your house a phone charging room. That is, until, of course, you need your kitchen charger in the living room, and then it disappears into another drawer. You put it in a purse, and then you forget to move it back. But anyway,

it'll be nice while it lasts another phone charger. Now it's your turn, rate and review. Thanks for listening, slices, We'll see you tomorrow. Good Game, Hockey Gays, Good Game, Coco, You people who crowd the baggage carousel. Good Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network, our producers are

Alex Azzie and Misha Jones. Our executive producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan, and Emily Rudder. Our editors are Emily Rudder, Britney Martinez, Grace Lynch, and Lindsay Cradowell. Production assistant from Lucy Jones and I'm your Host, Sarah Spain. Four

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