Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we can't
Speaker 1: believe it's freaking September already.
Speaker 2: God, and since.
Speaker 1: We're pissed about the summer coming to a close, we're
Speaker 1: taking the day off. Just picture us sitting by the pool,
Speaker 1: drinking a marg watching the Paralympics on a propped up phone.
Speaker 1: It's the dream. But don't you think for one second
Speaker 1: that I'd leave my little slices episode lifts, and today's
Speaker 1: is a good one, a real good one. We have
Speaker 1: a very special group chat with Angel City FC players
Speaker 1: Sidney LaRue and Ali Riley. We survived a flat tire,
Speaker 1: a phone overheating, Sid almost dying from heat stroke. We
Speaker 1: got through it all to bring you amazing conversation about
Speaker 1: their show BFFR, you know, Becking for Real, And we
Speaker 1: talked about a bunch of Angel City stuff the first
Speaker 1: time they met each other. Just so much good stuff
Speaker 1: in this So we're gonna jump straight into that and
Speaker 1: we'll get you caught up on all of the weekend's
Speaker 1: big headlines tomorrow, so stick around. Sid and Ali coming
Speaker 1: up right after this, It's time for an extra special
Speaker 1: group chat where we take the tea from the text
Speaker 1: and put it on the airwaves. Joining us now. She's
Speaker 1: a forward for Angel City FC and a World Cup
Speaker 1: winner and Olympic gold medalist. She was born in Canada,
Speaker 1: a but she chose to play for the Red, White
Speaker 1: and Blue. As a kid, she was a track star
Speaker 1: and the first girl to play baseball with the British
Speaker 1: Columbia Provincial Little League champion Wally All Stars Wallie Whaley.
Speaker 1: She's a former Bruin Wally. She's a former Bruin, a
Speaker 1: mother to the two Keyutus kids, and just a simple
Speaker 1: gal who's not dating her teammate Merrett Matthias no matter
Speaker 1: how much the Internet wants it to be. So it's
Speaker 1: Sidney LaRue, what's up? Said?
Speaker 2: Hello? Hi, thank you for having me? And al of course.
Speaker 1: Yes joining her. A defender and captain for Angel City
Speaker 1: FC and the captain of the Football Ferns, the New
Speaker 1: Zealand national soccer team. She's a former Stanford Cardinal. She's
Speaker 1: played for professional clubs in the US suite, in England
Speaker 1: and Germany. She's a media superstar, the author of a
Speaker 1: plant based cookbook, and she earned my forever respect when
Speaker 1: she painted her name the colors of the rainbow flag
Speaker 1: and trans flag for last year's World Cup and gave
Speaker 1: a big old middle finger to FIFA for not allowing
Speaker 1: captains to wear one love armbands. It's Ali Riley, what's up?
Speaker 2: Ali?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 4: I'm so glad we could make this happen, and thank
Speaker 4: you for the epic introduction.
Speaker 1: So exciting to have you both on. I am literally
Speaker 1: obsessed with your show and I have to start there
Speaker 1: because if someone were to make you describe begin for
Speaker 1: real b FFR to someone who has not yet seen
Speaker 1: it in five words only, Ali, what does it go?
Speaker 5: It is super super unhinged.
Speaker 1: What about you? Sid?
Speaker 3: Chaotic funny? Also, like we talked about real stuff too.
Speaker 3: I know that that's not five words, but yeah, chaotic
Speaker 3: funny to be Yeah, I think unhinged would probably be
Speaker 3: our number one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my word for the year. Unhinged. I've used
Speaker 1: to more this year than any other and I think
Speaker 1: that applies. Whose idea was BFFR.
Speaker 3: Ali, Allie? Yes it was, And I like all of
Speaker 3: the BFFR work.
Speaker 2: All is Alie.
Speaker 3: She is like amazing at what she does and I
Speaker 3: don't even know, like how to set up my phone
Speaker 3: for all the things, and she knows everything, So yes,
Speaker 3: it was her her idea.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I will say that Sid did the or
Speaker 4: she performed as usher for.
Speaker 5: Me for our video when it was raining in pre season,
Speaker 5: and that was definitely a catalyst.
Speaker 4: And I knew Sid and I loved doing silly things
Speaker 4: together and we have for a really long time. But
Speaker 4: when I really saw her her love for being on camera,
Speaker 4: I thought this could be my in right here, and
Speaker 4: also how much people liked it, so we took it
Speaker 4: on the road. We did another video for Valentine's Day,
Speaker 4: which we actually should probably upload the BFFR. It's very
Speaker 4: on brand. And then from there I just started filming
Speaker 4: content and couldn't. It is nothing without Sid, So it
Speaker 4: is just logistically I think I maybe pushed.
Speaker 2: For this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the producer, but you're both very much required
Speaker 1: for the content. And if people haven't seen Sid's usher impression,
Speaker 1: that's an immediate go find. Are you taking submissions for
Speaker 1: videos to use in the open, because we literally just
Speaker 1: spend all of our prep time watching them over and
Speaker 1: over and my producers and I were dying every single time.
Speaker 4: Yes, please, we're we're getting submissions and I just on
Speaker 4: my story, Please send them over. This producer needs ideas,
Speaker 4: but Sid sends me hundreds. It's just a matter of
Speaker 4: sorting through. We have a really good one for the
Speaker 4: next time. It's so funny. Yeah, two soccer ish sport
Speaker 4: related ones and then more just unhinged ones.
Speaker 5: But yeah, send them, send them through, please, Sid.
Speaker 1: You've always been very open, very uncensored, but you're demanding
Speaker 1: that of your teammates in this We've got people wearing
Speaker 1: zip patches, We've got bear butts that are barely covered,
Speaker 1: we've got tampon tails. How are your teammates reacting to
Speaker 1: how looking real the show is?
Speaker 3: I think they love it. I mean I think they
Speaker 3: love it. Al would you say they love it?
Speaker 4: It's we tell they're telling us they love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we do have like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: We have a good group, Like we have an amazing
Speaker 3: locker room, and we also have like fun with our videos,
Speaker 3: so it becomes like something we all laugh about, which
Speaker 3: is funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's interesting to me to watch the Internet
Speaker 1: go from like, oh, we're just learning how to film
Speaker 1: stuff and it has to be really precious to now
Speaker 1: it's like, well, if we're going to film everything, we
Speaker 1: need to stop making it so polished, because that's making
Speaker 1: everyone's brains break. Like it's not good for us to
Speaker 1: see all the fake, constantly made up, constantly perfect. And
Speaker 1: so now we were just like Zip Patch, telling it
Speaker 1: like it is. And that's good. I think that's healthy.
Speaker 1: If we're going to film all of our lives, they
Speaker 1: should look a little more like our lives. I want
Speaker 1: to go back to when you two first met, Allie,
Speaker 1: what was the first thing you remember or thought about
Speaker 1: sid So.
Speaker 4: We talk about this and I think one of our
Speaker 4: first episodes, but I just thought she had to be
Speaker 4: really mean because she played like she was mean.
Speaker 5: She still kind of does.
Speaker 4: I'm just happy to not be on the the other
Speaker 4: team anymore, but you know, and we were joking about how,
Speaker 4: you know, she had all these tattoos and like in college,
Speaker 4: and when we were in college, that was still really like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, someone has they're dangerous, you know, And
Speaker 4: I think we had such we had that competition. I
Speaker 4: was a defender, she was a forward. She was the forward,
Speaker 4: you know, and having to run around after her. So
Speaker 4: we didn't actually have a like personal interaction until years
Speaker 4: later when Cassius was a baby. And yeah, spent time
Speaker 4: to sit and her mom, and I think from there
Speaker 4: I knew that if we ever were on the same team,
Speaker 4: we would be we would be really good friends, and
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be as scared of her.
Speaker 1: Best friends for real. Bfr Yeah, my mom still thinks
Speaker 1: that's what it means.
Speaker 2: We're going to tell her that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine, said what did you first think about Allie?
Speaker 3: So it was back to our UCLA stand for days,
Speaker 3: and I was just I remember like she was so fast,
Speaker 3: and like I was like, the long balls aren't really
Speaker 3: going to work with this back line, and then you know,
Speaker 3: we didn't really. We just like played against each other.
Speaker 3: So we were like competing against each other, just like
Speaker 3: Ali said. But then, yeah, I had to bring Cassius
Speaker 3: on a trip to Sweden, and my mom had Cassius
Speaker 3: I think downstairs in our hotel lobby, and then Ali
Speaker 3: came in and my mom was like, here you go.
Speaker 2: And then I came downstairs and I'm like, oh, hi,
Speaker 2: I feel like chatted a little.
Speaker 1: Bit stranger with my baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna be We're gonna be friends.
Speaker 1: In that episode where you talked about first meeting each other,
Speaker 1: you both also opened up about not really fitting in
Speaker 1: growing up. And I love it when super gorgeous, successful, smart, funny,
Speaker 1: amazing people are honest like that, because I think misfits
Speaker 1: and awkward kids and anyone who doesn't feel like everyone
Speaker 1: around them looks the same need to hear that it
Speaker 1: gets better, and need to hear that it like maybe
Speaker 1: helps you in some ways to learn that as a
Speaker 1: kid and to grow into something. So said, do you
Speaker 1: have a message for anyone who doesn't look like the
Speaker 1: rest of their neighborhood or maybe feels like an outsider
Speaker 1: for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: That it gets better. It always gets better.
Speaker 3: I feel like when I was younger, I'm like, I
Speaker 3: just don't feel like I belong anywhere because I was
Speaker 3: half white, half black. So you're like not really like
Speaker 3: on the other side, and you're not really on that side,
Speaker 3: and you're just like in this gray area that like
Speaker 3: is really hard to understand.
Speaker 2: And also, my mom was a single mom.
Speaker 3: You know, my entire family was white, and so like
Speaker 3: going to like our Christmases.
Speaker 2: And stuff we have like the photos and then.
Speaker 3: There's like little meat and the like white blonde, blue
Speaker 3: eyed family. My mom has brown eyes and brown hair,
Speaker 3: but her siblings do, and so yeah, I just think
Speaker 3: that stay true to who you are always, and like,
Speaker 3: don't try and fit into what you think you're supposed
Speaker 3: to be, because you're supposed to be exactly who you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about you, Alli?
Speaker 4: I think, Oh, first of all, I have so much
Speaker 4: respect for Sid and I look up to her so much,
Speaker 4: and part of her being so open and real, which
Speaker 4: she has done long before BFFR was anything, long before
Speaker 4: we knew each other, I think it shows that it
Speaker 4: does get better, but also how much we and and
Speaker 4: definitely someone like Sid with the platform she has, we
Speaker 4: are fighting to make those communities more open and more
Speaker 4: scenes so people can feel confident that it will get better.
Speaker 5: And some of us are really lucky, maybe.
Speaker 4: Not me and Sid, but you're born in the environment
Speaker 4: that you have when you're young, you have the sense
Speaker 4: of community, and other times you have to find that
Speaker 4: community or that community finds you.
Speaker 5: And sometimes, which is kind of what we're trying to
Speaker 5: do with our show.
Speaker 4: You make your own community with people who, yeah, are
Speaker 4: gonna support each other and help the people who who
Speaker 4: don't feel like they have a community yet, and just
Speaker 4: spread joy and positive energy.
Speaker 5: And be open and honest.
Speaker 4: And open minded and also like not push people away
Speaker 4: and welcome people in if maybe we don't have the
Speaker 4: same the same beliefs, but always, yeah, try to make
Speaker 4: the world a better place. And that's something that I think,
Speaker 4: because of what we've experienced when we are younger are
Speaker 4: we're so passionate about doing that now and we want
Speaker 4: to hopefully have it society be a place where, especially
Speaker 4: in sport and for young women and girls and non
Speaker 4: binary youth, that things are better now than they were
Speaker 4: when we were grown.
Speaker 5: But we know we have to keep pushing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think also differences are embraced way
Speaker 1: more than they used to be. But I still think
Speaker 1: it's tough as a kid to be confident about what
Speaker 1: makes you different, and then you get older and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's actually like the coolest thing about me and the
Speaker 1: thing that makes me stand out and is the best.
Speaker 1: It's just tough to lean into until you get a
Speaker 1: little older. But y'all are doing it well now, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of people looking up to
Speaker 1: and thinking like, Okay, this is going to be good.
Speaker 1: It's all going to work out. Sid you're one of
Speaker 1: the ogs in the soccer game. You came up as
Speaker 1: many different leagues. We're trying to find footing. You played
Speaker 1: for a lot of professional teams. Can you name them
Speaker 1: all in order?
Speaker 2: Yes? So funny story.
Speaker 3: I was the first round first pick to the Atlanta
Speaker 3: Beat and the WPS.
Speaker 2: It folded like a month later, so that was fun.
Speaker 3: I went to Boston. From Boston, I went to Seattle.
Speaker 3: From Seattle, I went on a little short stint to
Speaker 3: Western New York. From Western New York, I went to
Speaker 3: Kansas City. From Kansas City, I went to Orlando, and
Speaker 3: from Orlando I came to Angel City.
Speaker 1: Whoa well done? Well done? I had the white Caps
Speaker 1: and Sounders off the top. Did those count?
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: White Caps, Sounders? Yeah you're right, Okay, right, you got me.
Speaker 1: You were close though. You did well on the last bit, Ali,
Speaker 1: what are your episodes at BFFR was an incredible starting
Speaker 1: out drunk and then hungover chat with two of your
Speaker 1: New Zealand teammates in Paris. It was such a great
Speaker 1: watch and you guys have such a great chemistry together,
Speaker 1: like playing off of each other. But I'm wondering how
Speaker 1: you're doing post games, how you've processed your nerve injury
Speaker 1: keeping you from playing in the games, and then now
Speaker 1: going on to season ending IR for Angel City as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that episode was really funny to do because
Speaker 4: so much of the focus has been on Canada. Understand
Speaker 4: they suffered the consequences of the the punishments that were
Speaker 4: dulled out and having those six points taken away and
Speaker 4: the coach and all.
Speaker 5: It was very scandalous, but it was so funny to
Speaker 5: me that no one was talking to us.
Speaker 1: First.
Speaker 4: There was the really the downside of we were the
Speaker 4: ones who were being spied on, and so there is
Speaker 4: a lot of frustration around. Maybe the consequences didn't help
Speaker 4: New Zealand because Canada did know the game plan, probably
Speaker 4: from watching those two trainings, but nothing we can control.
Speaker 4: But also just the experience of having the drone at
Speaker 4: the training was so funny and weird, And of course
Speaker 4: it was more funny and lighthearted because we had no
Speaker 4: idea that that actually because you're like, ooh, someone's spying
Speaker 4: but like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't actually know that.
Speaker 4: You don't think like it's actually going to be a
Speaker 4: Canadian staff member spying on you. So I just had
Speaker 4: to get there and it was the last day I
Speaker 4: was going to see them, and the tournament was over.
Speaker 4: We didn't want to have any more distractions, so I
Speaker 4: sh I took my chance to interview them when we
Speaker 4: were out on the last night and then the next
Speaker 4: morning when we were all going our separate ways.
Speaker 5: And I think, to answer your question about where I
Speaker 5: am mentally and emotionally, it's been really, really hard. I'm
Speaker 5: still so sad.
Speaker 4: Is it makes me sad to not be able to
Speaker 4: take part in the rest of the season, to not
Speaker 4: know where my future lies with the national team that
Speaker 4: I've spent seventeen years dedicating so much of my life too,
Speaker 4: and I'm really proud of that. And yeah, being in
Speaker 4: the Angel City environment, it brings me so much joy
Speaker 4: being around said you know, she checked in on me
Speaker 4: so much, but to actually be around her in person
Speaker 4: helps me every morning.
Speaker 5: My teammates are so good to me and they keep
Speaker 5: me going.
Speaker 4: But it is only the start of week three of
Speaker 4: doing rehab and it's going to be quite a long road.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm gonna need them more and more, I
Speaker 4: think as the time drags on. But I think having
Speaker 4: these side hustles, which on the one hand, we don't
Speaker 4: want to have to have, you know, it shouldn't be
Speaker 4: a necessity to supplement our incomes, but to have side
Speaker 4: hustles that bring me so much joy, like this project
Speaker 4: and to do something with SID and to be in
Speaker 4: a club that that shares my values and that is
Speaker 4: truly home in every sense of the word both, you know,
Speaker 4: because I'm from here, but everything that it's it's given
Speaker 4: to me and allows me to feel valued and to
Speaker 4: give back to the communities that are important to me.
Speaker 4: So I think, all things considered, or like, I'm as
Speaker 4: good as I possibly could be good when I'm on
Speaker 4: season ending injury and have this nerve injury. And I
Speaker 4: do think this is something I would tell to all
Speaker 4: young players when you have a setback like this, How
Speaker 4: can you fill your cup so that you know one
Speaker 4: day I won't be playing anymore? And that day might
Speaker 4: be soon, hopefully not because of this injury. But I
Speaker 4: feel like I've really put in the work in the
Speaker 4: last ten years five years to be balanced and have
Speaker 4: a full life. And I'm lucky to be here with
Speaker 4: my family and with you know, teammates that feel like
Speaker 4: family as well.
Speaker 5: But I think I am really proud that I have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honed my skills in other areas and found what
Speaker 4: brings me joy beside soccer, which brings me huge joy.
Speaker 4: So that going into this phase, which hopefully won't be
Speaker 4: too long, but you never know, I am at peace
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 1: It's great advice. Have something other than soccer be your
Speaker 1: identities so that when it does eventually go away, you
Speaker 1: you know you have other things to turn to. We
Speaker 1: got to pay some bills. More from Sid and Alley
Speaker 1: coming up right after this, so Sid, I need to
Speaker 1: hear about some rivalries Doom, because we need some good
Speaker 1: rivalries in women's sports. We need the kind of Packers, Bears, Lakers,
Speaker 1: Celtic stuff that gets people fired up or our favorite word,
Speaker 1: maybe a little unhinged about their team. So how legit
Speaker 1: is the Angel City versus Wave rivalry? Like these are
Speaker 1: two recently founded teams, they're both in so cal Is
Speaker 1: there any like real beef that we can get excited
Speaker 1: about there?
Speaker 2: I think like it's a rivalry of course because we're.
Speaker 3: In southern California, but we also have a lot of
Speaker 3: friends on the team. People have left from there and
Speaker 3: come here and like it's all kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would say that it's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a rivalry.
Speaker 3: We're not at like Lakers Clippers situation, but maybe one day.
Speaker 1: I just think, like the I feel the same way
Speaker 1: as a fan of women's sports as I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the participants do, which is like, it's very
Speaker 1: hard to hate each other. It's almost like that awful.
Speaker 1: I hope both teams have fun, which I hate in
Speaker 1: men's sports, but in women's sports, I'm like, but I
Speaker 1: do like have friends on both teams, and I do
Speaker 1: like all of them, which makes it which makes it hard.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the new CBA very exciting.
Speaker 1: A major addition is no trades without player consent, and
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, like said, how important is it for players
Speaker 1: to have agency over where they go and for whom
Speaker 1: they play. I mean, we've seen you be very vocal
Speaker 1: in public about certain coaches that you've played for in
Speaker 1: the past, and this is going to let players decide
Speaker 1: like whether they're happy somewhere and where they want to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's really important.
Speaker 3: You know, from the beginning of the end of USL
Speaker 3: to now, it's changed drastically and there's still a long
Speaker 3: ways to go, but like we're getting there where like
Speaker 3: the players come first, and I think that that's really
Speaker 3: important no matter where you are. Obviously all clubs have
Speaker 3: their own issues, but like we are really trying to
Speaker 3: like protect the players.
Speaker 2: So I think, yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 3: Been a long time coming, but there is still more
Speaker 3: work to be done.
Speaker 1: Ali, what do you think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was in a situation myself at the end
Speaker 5: of my contract in Orlando where because you are owned
Speaker 5: by the league and you can't do anything into one
Speaker 5: contract is up, but once the contract is up, they
Speaker 5: still own you, like to not have that free agency.
Speaker 4: This isn't so much about the trading, but it was
Speaker 4: the worst off season I've ever had, well this one.
Speaker 4: Now being injured might trump that, but I had such
Speaker 4: uncertainty full disclosure. I also froze my eggs and I
Speaker 4: was scared to tell anybody because I couldn't train. And
Speaker 4: now it's like Orlando doesn't want me. But how am
Speaker 4: I going to get to a new team if they
Speaker 4: know that I'm doing this and I am not training
Speaker 4: in the off season, wasn't able to say what the
Speaker 4: salary I would want was because everything was like Orlando
Speaker 4: to Angels City, and it ended up being a pretty
Speaker 4: big mess. My contract, my current contract had gone out,
Speaker 4: so for January I had no insurance, no salary coming in,
Speaker 4: and it was terrifying. It was terrifying. So I think
Speaker 4: the free agency piece for me is a big one,
Speaker 4: and that extends to getting rid of the draft. That
Speaker 4: gives agency an autonomy to those college players who.
Speaker 5: Want to come into the league.
Speaker 4: And it really so important to be able to negotiate
Speaker 4: a salary and choose where you want to go. And
Speaker 4: as more and more markets come in, hopefully players really
Speaker 4: could have opportunities to experience what I am being home
Speaker 4: or closer to home, and sid being at this kind
Speaker 4: of home away from home.
Speaker 5: So I see it being a pretty bright future.
Speaker 4: We still have important things that we want to fight for,
Speaker 4: including the quality of travel like being able to charter flights. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but we'll keep pushing. But this is a huge step.
Speaker 4: And I am so grateful for our Players Association. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, it's scary to think that it's only been
Speaker 4: in place for a few years and that we've only
Speaker 4: had a CBA for a few years.
Speaker 1: A bunch of badasses over there, for sure. Ali. If
Speaker 1: my mathew is correct, which it usually isn't so correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, But you're getting married soon? Yeah
Speaker 1: I am. I am.
Speaker 5: What's the countdown eleventh?
Speaker 4: So it's on my website? How many days? And so
Speaker 4: important the actual event, But yes, I'm It's been really
Speaker 4: fun now because I do have a wedding planner and
Speaker 4: so far I've just agreed to a bunch of things
Speaker 4: but not had to pay any money.
Speaker 5: So I think now it'll probably shift into stress time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have lots of advice for weddings, but I'll
Speaker 1: keep it just to my main piece of advice, which
Speaker 1: is certainly not based on personal experience of any kind.
Speaker 1: But nobody ever says I wish I drank more at
Speaker 1: my wedding, but some people might say it whish I
Speaker 1: drank less. So just something to keep in mind.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, And and need to eat. I've had that.
Speaker 5: It's probably goes on.
Speaker 1: Listen though everyone tells you that, and everyone told me that.
Speaker 1: The problem is I never have problems eating, But I'm
Speaker 1: also never wearing dresses that have boning in them that
Speaker 1: literally works like a corset that prevents you from breathing.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, I can't eat that, I can't
Speaker 1: put anything in there. I can't even take a breath,
Speaker 1: so you don't plan ahead for that, and then the
Speaker 1: day I'd be like, it'll be fine, and then it's probably.
Speaker 4: Why won't go with SIDS old dress because that we
Speaker 4: had back cleavage when we put that on.
Speaker 1: I noticed that also said will you be wearing that
Speaker 1: dress to Ali ceremony?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I should.
Speaker 5: Maybe Sandy, maybe Sandy.
Speaker 2: Should maybe perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody watched that episode. We love a good squeeze
Speaker 1: into your old dress situation and just put your BF
Speaker 1: in your dress. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: But my teammate are are really good?
Speaker 4: Friend Meggie is actually making so not not using SIDS yet.
Speaker 5: It was yes, but yes, she's actually making my dress, so.
Speaker 1: It will be that's so cold.
Speaker 4: She will not have a day off, I guess until
Speaker 4: the wedding because now she has taken on this project.
Speaker 4: But it's so special to have a friend's wedding dress
Speaker 4: she's ever made.
Speaker 1: But I have a good feel pressures on all Right,
Speaker 1: We're running out of time here, so I'm wondering what
Speaker 1: we can expect from future BFFR episodes. Are we going
Speaker 1: to get more teammate deep dives like we did with mayor,
Speaker 1: even though that episode was filmed in June for Pride
Speaker 1: and then actually ran in August. So maybe you've already
Speaker 1: filmed several we just haven't seen them yet. What about
Speaker 1: celebrity owner cameos or deep dives? Like, what can we
Speaker 1: expect moving forward?
Speaker 5: We want them all. Yeah, it's like Pokemon.
Speaker 4: We got to catch them all. We want everyone to
Speaker 4: be on it. We want to ask them all the
Speaker 4: questions did. Dede was a very popular cameo, so and
Speaker 4: she She's like, when am I doing my gay episode?
Speaker 4: So we are extending Pride to all year long, which
Speaker 4: is how it should be. But yeah, she'll be up
Speaker 4: next and said, and I are going to talk about
Speaker 4: the Olympics.
Speaker 5: Love that, more wedding things.
Speaker 4: And I think we're going to open it up to
Speaker 4: another Q and A because that was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: That was really fun So, if I remember correctly, Dede
Speaker 1: was in the first episode where you ask people for
Speaker 1: their X with men and hers with them basically talking
Speaker 1: to her or asking her out.
Speaker 5: Yes, and I want to know about that. I want
Speaker 5: to know more about the men asking her out. She said.
Speaker 4: They asked her out in the men's section of Zara.
Speaker 4: So there's so many follow up questions about the men
Speaker 4: more picking up the signs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should probably go to Zara with yea in time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like get her, get her looking real pretty,
Speaker 1: and then just send her, send her to the tie
Speaker 1: section where she looks like she's picking out ties at suspenders,
Speaker 1: and just see what happens. I am never more flattered
Speaker 1: than when women hit on me. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the same way for like gay women, when men
Speaker 1: hit on them. I'm sure that's more annoying than anything.
Speaker 1: Whenever women hit on me, I'm just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's a million times nicer than men hitting on me.
Speaker 1: Hichil so much better about myself. That's a real reoundation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Merritt said it. She has so many about men,
Speaker 5: and she could not think of one. I know, women,
Speaker 5: I know, I know we are better.
Speaker 1: One time, Mayor said I was a real loss that
Speaker 1: I wasn't a lesbian. And that's the finest compliment I've
Speaker 1: ever gotten in my life. So we're, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: put that on the air just so everybody knows that
Speaker 1: a hot lesbian said that about me once. Okay, hot bye. Actually,
Speaker 1: according to your according to your episode. We've finally narrowed
Speaker 1: in on the description we're using. Okay, we gotta go.
Speaker 1: But the last thing you have to do is called
Speaker 1: fight me. It's where you put an opinion out and
Speaker 1: then the internet fights you on it. This is the
Speaker 1: moment that you have to be for real. You're asking
Speaker 1: everyone else it's so here we go, said the three
Speaker 1: biggest divers in the NWSL.
Speaker 3: Oh ooh, there's a couple.
Speaker 2: There's a couple, but some might be my friends. So
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna okay question.
Speaker 1: No, I'm so sorry. This is the question.
Speaker 2: You know. I'm just a simple gal. I don't want
Speaker 2: any problems. I'll help me out here.
Speaker 5: M okay.
Speaker 4: Well, I feel like this is a safe one because
Speaker 4: we would joke with her about it even.
Speaker 5: When she was on our team.
Speaker 4: I think Savannah McCaskill tries to get every single call.
Speaker 5: From the ref the hands up.
Speaker 4: The refs were specifically like, you gotta tell mcaskill, no
Speaker 4: more hands up.
Speaker 5: No more hands I don't want to see your hands.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh.
Speaker 5: I mean now with the with v R being so,
Speaker 5: I feel like it's a bit tougher.
Speaker 3: Come, I think, okay, especially because we had with each
Speaker 3: other and she can hit me, but I as a defender, yeah,
Speaker 3: she she gets the calls. We have actually quite a
Speaker 3: few defenders in our league bent that love a call.
Speaker 1: Said like a said like a forward. I need a
Speaker 1: lot more. I'm letting y'all off the hook by having
Speaker 1: three combined instead of three each. So we need at
Speaker 1: least one more name.
Speaker 5: Okay, well this is not answering your question.
Speaker 4: But there are the players that we've played with who
Speaker 4: won't go down and that almost again or is this
Speaker 4: more questioning? No, sit, not so much, simone, Charlie Alyssa Thompson.
Speaker 4: They won't go down and they're actually being fouled.
Speaker 1: Aggressively reverse divers three which reverse divers are.
Speaker 2: I've never gone down unless I'm fouled.
Speaker 5: No, I'm saying you should go down and you don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I know because I'm like, no, you're not
Speaker 3: going to hit me like that, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: like find my feat again and then I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't get Yeah, we have talked about this as a team.
Speaker 3: Actually we need to be better with that. We're just
Speaker 3: such honest players and I'm sure.
Speaker 1: You're just simple gals. You're just simple gals who are
Speaker 1: trying to get out of the question by not giving
Speaker 1: me one more name and being freking for real.
Speaker 2: Al you got the last one, I said, the metal one.
Speaker 1: Try what try?
Speaker 5: I'm trying to go, I go, you go divers, Divers.
Speaker 3: I can give you the people who fall, really funny,
Speaker 3: we have a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Know you guys are trying to wease a lot of
Speaker 1: being for real. Let me think we can go embellishers
Speaker 1: if that helps soften the blow.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think specifically who I've played against where
Speaker 4: I'm like, I didn't touch you. Carolyn A couple of times,
Speaker 4: had a couple of sit shoes where I was like,
Speaker 4: come on.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll give you that. Any keepers.
Speaker 2: What about keepers?
Speaker 1: Yeah, safe, same answers here, the one we're.
Speaker 3: Not gonna talk about that. It's gonna get us riled up.
Speaker 3: I'm already sweating from this car. We're not going to
Speaker 3: talk about that.
Speaker 2: But she even knows that, so it works.
Speaker 5: I'm and that's why I'm like, if it works, why
Speaker 5: would you stop?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, we're not calling them out as a negative.
Speaker 1: We're just saying like, congratulations on your effect.
Speaker 5: And bamboozling the referees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I look forward to the Internet detectives finding
Speaker 1: the specific incident about Pino that you're referring to, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll take three point five secs for the
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