WEBVTT - Call Us By Our Name 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:02.960 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're pouring 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.880 out a Moulson and blocking the US women's national team 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.280 on social media in honor of Canadian legend Christine Sinclair 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.680 hell of a career sink. It's Monday, November eleventh, and 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.439 on today's show, we'll react to the weekend's NWSL quarterfinal matches, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.680 announce some upcoming show field trips, and talk travel quirks 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.919 and peeves. Plus the Hockey Gaze lighted up and Coco 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.279 Cash is in. It's all coming up right after this 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.960 Welcome back, Happy Monday slices. Here's what you need to 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.880 know today. Let's start with the NWSL, where the semi 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.680 finals are set following four quarterfinal matchups over the weekend. First, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.720 on Friday, the Orlando Pride defeated the visiting Chicago Red 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.240 Stars four to one, with Barbara Banda scoring abrace and Marta, Yes, 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.600 the legendary Marta, scoring her first ever NWSL playoff goal 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.440 thanks to a penalty in the fifty sixth minute. Now, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.160 this dat says a lot more about our Lando than 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.400 it does about Marta, given that this is the Pride's 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.160 first NWSL playoff appearance since twenty seventeen, when the Brazilian 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.520 star joined the team. On Saturday, the Kansas City current 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.399 squeaked past North Carolina with a one nil win. You 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.120 might recall producer Misha's big bold prediction entering the weekend 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.840 was that Golden Boot winner tem With Chiwinga would record 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.880 a hat trick in that one, and while that didn't happen, 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.479 it was, of course Chiwinga who scored the only goal 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.160 of the game, which came in the eighth minute. After 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.560 the match, Kansas City head coach blat co Endadovski criticized 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.920 how other teams have quote targeted Chiwinga this season. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.840 Take a lessen yeah, I mean, first, in terms of 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.840 being physical with Timoa, it's something that it wasn't just 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.559 his game. If you look look at the season, every game, 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.840 it's they're overly physical against her and it's not fair. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.120 It's not fair for Temoa. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.440 They're targeting her. I mean, they're going directly at her, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.240 and I just hope that as we go forward she 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.480 gets more protection from the referees. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.080 We'll keep an eye on that. In the Semis. Sunday's 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.440 doubleheader started with a chippy, physical match between the Washington 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.880 Spirit and expansion side BAFC. BFC forward Assado Oshwala kicked 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.560 off the scoring in the eighty second minute, but the 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.320 Washington Spirit got an answer just four minutes later, a 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.400 rocket from defender Tara mickeyawon to tie things up. The 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.120 Spirits Hal Hirschfeldt sent in a screamer with seconds remaining 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.040 in regulation, but it dinged off the crossbar, so we 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.920 got some free soccer in the first period of extra time. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:40.280 A painful own goal from BFC's Capriest did Asco in 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.960 the ninety sixth minute put the Spirit up two to one, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.520 and that score stuck. Spirit get the comeback win and 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.280 they advance fun fact about this one. So attendance and 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.239 Audi field for the Spirit's last home playoff game back 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.200 on November seventh, twenty twenty one was five thou three 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.600 seventy nine attendance for this one a sellout nineteen thousand, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.640 two hundred and fifteen. After the game at Hay Spirits 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.160 on Twitter posted that Tara McKeown had to miss her 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.760 sister's wedding for the game and said she was definitely 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.639 not missing it to lose. The final match of the 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.440 weekend pitted number three got them FC against number six 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.800 Portland Thorns. Tierna Davidson, picking a great time for her 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.760 first NWSL goal the season, scoring for got them in 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.440 the sixty seventh minute, but in the seventy fifth minute 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.320 Raylan Turner even it up on a beauty of a 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.120 set piece goal. Olivia Moultrie sent in a perfect ball 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.440 and Turner sent it in with her head. The nineteen 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.720 year old Moultrie is the youngest player ever to record 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.639 an assist in an NWSL playoff game. So we're all 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.560 tied up and Rose Lavelle becomes the heroin this one, 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.080 as her goal in stoppage time put got them up 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.560 to one and they hung on for the win, keeping 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.160 their dreams of repeating alive. Lavelle's tally the latest in 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.040 regulation in an NWSL playoff game ever, an all time 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.440 got them club attendance record for this one, fifteen and 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.920 forty people at Red Bull Arena to watch the victory 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.400 and to witness the final game in the incredible career 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.600 of Christine Sinclair. The Canadian legend subbed out in the 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.200 sixty fourth minute and could only watch as her team 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.200 lost the heartbreaker. Looking ahead semi final number one will 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.400 feature got them at Washington next Saturday at twelve pm Eastern. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.400 Orlando hosts Kansas City on Sunday. That game will be 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.560 two thirty pm Eastern on ABC. They'll be playing for 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.880 a spot in the NWSL Championship, which will be in 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.880 Kansas City on Saturday, November twenty third, and Mesh and 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.360 I are going to be there for the title game 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.120 and for all the weekend festivities too. Hope to see 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.320 a lot of slices there. Moving on to tennis, American 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.200 Cocoa Golf won the WTA Finals over the weekend, defeating 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.840 China's keenwe Jen in a third set tiebreak. Golf trail 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.800 by two games twice in the final set, but rallied 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.919 back to win her first WTA Finals title. Earlier in 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.240 the tournament, the twenty year old Golf defeated world number 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.039 one and number two Arena Sablenka and Egosfontek during her 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.559 run to the final. After the win, Golf took to Twitter, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.520 posting in part Tyler tried to tell y'all with a 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:03.440 shrugging emoji, a reference to Grammy winning rapper Tyler the creator, 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.599 who gave GoF a shout out on his new song 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.080 thought I Was Dead, in which he raps quote you 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.279 ain't Coco, Goff, you can't serve me end quote. We 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.919 appreciate a man with taste. The rest of Goff's tweet 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.360 red quote. In all seriousness, I'm so grateful for all 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.480 the support the last few weeks. Getting to win the 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.880 last tournament of the season and it also being my 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.680 second biggest title of my career so far is insane. Wow. 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.839 WTA Finals Champion end quote. The win earned golf the 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.560 biggest payout ever for a women's tennis event, four point 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.520 eight oh five million dollars. Dang, Coco, can we borrow 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.120 a dollar? The WTA Finals is the vital individual event 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.920 on the tennis calendar each year, but we've still got 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.520 the Billy Jean King Cup next week, an annual team competition, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.560 and producer Alex and I will be traveling to Mulaga, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.000 Spain to cover that can't wait. GoF is sitting out 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.320 of that event unfortunately after a super busy season, but 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.520 the US will be headlined by world number eight m 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.800 Navarro and world number ten Danielle Collins to College Hoops, 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.240 the defending champs and number one team in the Nation. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.840 South Carolina is still unblemished early on the game. Cocks 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.880 picked up a win over number nine NC State on 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.480 Sunday seventy one fifty seven. Senior guard to Heena pow 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.080 Pow led all scores with twenty three points and sophomore 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.800 guard ma Lesia ful Wiley added eighteen off the bench. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.239 The win extend South Carolina streak took forty games, including 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.400 last season, making the program only the second in NCUBA 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.240 history with multiple forty game win streaks. We also got 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.960 a rematch of the national championship game from way back 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.680 in two thousand and six over the weekend, with eighteenth 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:39.480 ranked Maryland prevailing over number eleven Duke again eighty five 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.200 to eighty. Kaylene Smichel led the way for the Turps 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.279 with twenty three points and Chyenne Sellers chipped in seventeen 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.400 points and five assists for Brenda Freese's squad. It was 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.559 the first edition of the rivalry matchup between the teams 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.160 since the NCAA Sweet sixteen on March twenty eighth of 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.760 twenty fifteen, but it was their eighty second meeting all time, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.440 and both schools now have forty one wins in the 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.120 head to head series. We also want to say a 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.640 huge congratulations to former Stanford head coach Tara Vanderveer, who 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.600 retired last spring, and ahead of Sunday's home game against Gonzaga, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.880 the Cardinal dedicated their home court to Vanderveer, who led 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.760 the program for thirty eight years and is still the 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.920 winningest coach in NCAA history, ahead of Yukonton head coach 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.200 Gino Oriema and former Duke men's basketball coach Mike Shuzhevski. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.640 Un rank Stanford cruise to a victory in that game 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:29.040 over Gonzaga, eighty nine fifty eight to hockey or should 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.840 I say pucks in gaish it. The US women's national 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.960 team in Canada have been trading blows in the twenty 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.280 twenty four to twenty five rivalry series, a five game competition. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.120 The US took the first game handily on Wednesday, winning 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.000 seven to two, but Canada answered back, winning game two 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.080 on Friday five to four. In an epic shootout. It 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.800 was tied one to one in the second period and 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.360 Canada pulled away for a four to one lead thanks 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.600 to goals from newlyweds Marie Philippe Pulen and Laura Stacey 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.400 and fellow gay Aaron Ambrose, but Team USA managed an 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.280 epic comeback, with Hillary Knight scoring the game time with 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.440 just one minute twenty six seconds left in regulation. Pulan 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.040 added another in the shootout, with seventeen year old teammate 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:10.600 Chloe Primorano sealing the deal for Canada. Canada technically won 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.600 the game, but we think Team LGBTQA plus was the 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.960 real winner in this one. The two rivals met again 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.320 on Sunday, with Canada pulling out another win to lead 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.240 the series two games to one. We'll have more on 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.480 that matchup tomorrow. Finally, shout out to Love Pro Volleyball. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.960 The new Women's Professional Volleyball League starts preseason today, with 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:33.640 the regular season getting underway in January. All right, slices, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.400 we're going to get into the x's and o's of 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.160 the NWSL playoffs more tomorrow, but quickly, Mesh. You were 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.920 actually at the Spirit game yesterday, so tell us about it. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.240 Atmosphere vibes, take us to Audifield. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.040 Well, first of all, sir, that was the most people 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.800 I've seen in that part of Southwest DC in a 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.240 very long time. But it was a great, great atmosphere. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.359 Everybody had different color terrible. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.120 Not terrible towels. We don't like the Steelers over here, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:00.960 Riley towels. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.680 I didn't realize there was going to be a black 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.240 and lightning kind of situation. My colors for the Washington 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.920 s beer were always red and blue. I thought that 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:09.680 was still the case, and so I've been away for 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.600 too long. But it was basically a blackout. The stands 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.480 were full to the brim. There were babies and strollers 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.439 and grown people acting a fool. Both my parents came 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.880 with me. It was their first trip to Audiefield, and 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.280 it was electric. I had to coach them through this 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.160 is not quite like basketball. They're not going to score 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.080 every two seconds. But when that first goal went in, Sarah, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.120 that that place you erupted and it was one of 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.559 the most magical moments I've experienced in a while. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.240 That's so fun. I love you going with your parents. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.880 That's really cool. I want to talk college hoops too, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.199 because it's early in the season, which means we're not 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.360 going to cover every single game, and we're watching a 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.920 lot of teams just still finding their groove. Also, a 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.480 lot of cupcake games on the schedule. Right now, early on, 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.080 so we're seeing a lot of blowouts. But there are 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:54.520 blowouts and then there are SmackDown shall ackings, and USC 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.480 had one of the latter over the weekend, defeating cal 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.440 Poly ninety to thirty five the Trojan one on a 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.199 twenty eight to nothing run in the early minutes of 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.040 the contest. They finished the quarter leading forty to six. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.480 So we're thinking to ourselves as we're watching fifty five 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.560 point victory, that's got to be the biggest blowout of 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.959 this early season right now. Now. A week ago, Grambling 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.440 State defeated Centenary College one hundred and thirty one to 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.800 thirty to open up their schedule one hundred and thirty 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.160 one to thirty. And Grambling actually boasts an even bigger 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.960 scoring margin, the biggest in NCAA women's basketball history. In 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.960 January of this year, they defeated the College of Biblical 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.520 Studies one hundred and fifty nine to eighteen. That is 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.200 a one hundred and forty one point margin. That is 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.760 truly what you call a biblical loss. Sorry, College to 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.320 Biblical Studies, Misch, you played college ball? Did you play 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.880 in any blowouts like this? Nothing quite like that. 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.920 In fact, I'm pretty sure we beat a couple of 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.480 teams by like thirty plus thirty piece them, which was 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.479 maybe the biggest margin of victory. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.560 In my college career. But I was on the bench for. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.440 Both of those games because I was out for the 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.360 season with an achilles injury, so it wasn't super fun 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.520 to wow, very boring. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.240 I just feel bad for teams in those instances. I 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.800 really don't get excited about breaking records or setting new 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.760 scoring marks. I'm just like, this isn't really the same 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.120 sport at this point, so I just feel bad for 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.160 the other team, unless their team's getting paid a bucket 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.520 load to show up, Like sometimes in like men's sports, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.559 you'll pay a team like two million dollars to show 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.160 up and get their ass beat, and it's like, all right, fine, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.240 that's going to help the program. I don't think the 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.640 College of Biblical Studies is getting much help from that 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.079 beat down, other than you know, learning that the power 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.920 of prayer isn't going to work for you every time. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.200 Alex field hockey in high school. I feel like we 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.559 had a couple, you know, like six or seven nothing 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.280 games against some bad teams, but not nearly as many 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.240 blowouts as on the basketball side, how about you. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.560 My college team, we were on the receiving and. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:57.040 The giving end. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.360 Oh no, a couple of blowouts. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.960 On the receiving end my freshman and sophomore year, the 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.360 giving end my junior year and senior year. And my 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.080 coach though, had a rule that we could not run 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.840 up the score beyond eight zero, And honestly, that was 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.880 harder than just scoring more goals because it was like 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.959 playing keep away and you felt really bad, And honestly, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:23.120 in retrospect, I think it's sometimes more disrespectful to not score. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.160 Completely agree, Yeah, don't show bote if you know, if 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.439 you're really talented and the other team's bad, don't take 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.120 it all the way up the field solo and then 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.240 score repeatedly. Use the team play, practice your passing set up, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.160 you know, practice your corners, things like that. But don't 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.840 not shoot and score if it's clear that you could. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.200 That's worse for the team that you're playing against. In 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.160 my opinion, yeah, agree, But it's. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.240 Like at the end of the day, guys, it's it's 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.400 a lose lose like for the losing team and the 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.880 winning team. Sometimes because I can remember, not necessarily in 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.240 college but in AAU and like travel, we would be 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.439 given teams to shillakin. Parents want to fight in stands 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.400 whether we pull back or we keep scoring. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.800 So you know, that's on those parents though, for not understanding. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.360 And I am always of the opinion anytime someone tries 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.439 to say, oh, well, the reason I tried to fight 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.480 them or I did this is because I was mad 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.760 that at the end of the game they were still playing, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.880 even though technically and it's like, it's a game you 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.280 play from the beginning to the end. And as long 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.440 as you're not like crazy show voting or insanely over 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.600 the top with it or really rude about it, just 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.840 keep playing. Just keep playing the game. Whether you're winning 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.720 or you're losing. Your responsibility is to play until the 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.200 buzzer runs out. And when people bitch about that, I'm like, 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.240 find a new hobby. Sports ain't for you. There's winners, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.840 there's losers. Suck it up. That's how I feel about that. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.640 But I do feel bad for the losing team. College 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.800 of Biblical Studies, Like I said, this is a biblical loss. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.680 All right, We're gonna take a quick break. When we 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.960 come back, sit or stand, hang back or hover all 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.000 of our travel habits and pet Peeves revealed before our 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:07.400 show field trips. It's coming up. We're back and so 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.000 are you? Love that for us? As we mentioned earlier 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.679 in the show, we're taking a couple show field trips. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.400 Alex and I are headed to Spain to cover the 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.440 Billie Jean Kingcup, and then I'm gonna meet up with 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.120 Misha in Case for the NWSL Championship weekend. Misha and 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.480 I actually got to hang in Phoenix for WNBA All Star, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.360 which is a blast. But Alex and I will be 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.760 meeting in person for the very first time on foreign 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:34.320 soil in Malaga. In Malaga, I'm gonna learn how to 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.080 say the name of the place we're going before we 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.560 go there. But let's talk about travel. So, Alex, do 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.120 you have any quirky travel habits? I can almost guarantee 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.400 the answer will be yes. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:44.480 Oh, of course I do. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.040 I actually think I have one that's pretty common, but 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.600 no one talks about it, which is once I get 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.720 through security, even if I have two hours until my 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.800 flight and I want to use the bathroom, I want 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.640 to get food, I have to go see the gate 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:00.640 before I do those things. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.760 Of course, you have to go say hello to your gate, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.600 not just because it's like just part of the ritual, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.720 but because every once in a while you'll go and 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.440 it will be like Australia and you're like, wait a minute, 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.240 that's not right. Let me double check, and like your 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.160 gate has been moved and you're like, thank god I 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:15.800 stopped by to. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:20.520 Say hello, right, Or sometimes it says Australia because you 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.240 got there so far in advance that there is still 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.440 a flight leaving to Australia before your own flight two 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:27.000 hours later. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.600 That rarely happens to me because I have a perfect 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.920 setup system where I arrive at the exact correct time 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.480 and I'm never running a La Holly Row. But I 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.520 am also never just sitting digging around wasting my time 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.640 because I've got a system down. Alex, you strike me 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.120 as someone who would get there a few hours early, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:46.200 just in case. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.680 I actually like getting there a lot closer. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:48.960 Though. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.280 My TSA pre check ran out recently, and so now 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.240 I've got to give myself a little bit of extra 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:54.800 wiggle ram. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.800 Wow, that was a shocker, Mesh, you just backed away 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:02.240 from the mice. You're so shocked, I feel like Meish 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.520 is also like, let me, just get there five hours early. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.680 I don't want to be stressed about it. I am 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.040 my father's daughter. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.200 And what I mean by that is he struck fear 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.680 in my heart from the age of eleven when I 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.400 took my first plane ride quote unquote by myself. He 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.600 was behind me and I didn't realize. Maybe one day 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.160 I'll tell you that story slices amazing. But I get 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.400 there two hours early. I cannot. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.280 I can't. I've never missed a flight. I can't. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.480 And then the other quirk for me is I'm a 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.840 severe overpacker. It's so bad. It's really I don't know 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.440 how many pairs of underwear I'm gonna need for three days, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.160 because you don't know what's gonna happen over the. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.840 Course of those three days with your underwear specifically or 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.800 just in general. I mean that specifically because you need 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:46.480 to be prepared. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.040 Okay, fair, but definitely there early, and definitely I've got 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:50.760 everything you need. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.920 I once saw a video, I think on Instagram of 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.000 somebody packing underwear for a trip, and the way that 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.600 they described it was like, I have never once shpit pants, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.240 And when I pack underwear for a trip, I pack 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.400 as though I'm going to shit my pants every day 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:06.080 I am there. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.160 I mean, you're always better off with too many pairs 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.639 than yes, very true. Better Also, my husband and I 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.679 went to a friend's wedding in Italy, and I won't 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.880 belabor how awful everything was, but essentially there was a thunderstorm. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.280 They put the bags on the tarmac. They forgot them 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.600 on the tarmac. Despite the delay, they sat in the 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.879 pouring rain. They never made it. On our flight that 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.919 got changed to a different location. We landed there, it 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.480 was late at night. I accidentally hit the skip highways 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.920 on the Italian language GPS, so we skipped the highways 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.840 driving to Venice at two in the morning, and we 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.080 were just going along little town roundabouts passing literal prostitutes 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.000 at two in the morning. Why is this taking so long? 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.600 I don't remember this route from last time. Got to Venice, 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.840 woke up. The alarm system in the hotel was broken 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.680 for the entire hotel, so nobody got a wake up call. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.879 So now it's like three pm Italian time when we 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.240 finally wake up. The jeans that I wore on the plane, 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:57.880 which were the only pair of pants I had because 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.520 our luggage didn't make it had a hole in the 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.400 crotch because it was back when I used to always 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.439 wear those seven jeans that when they finally blew, it 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.840 was always right in the crotch. So we had the 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.920 same underwear we'd been wearing for two and a half 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.359 full days. I had a hole in my jeans and 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.960 were in Venice. So my options are either Louis Vuitton 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.439 or dressed like a fucking gondola guy. Right, so we 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.960 have to go buy contact lenses, underwear. I gotta buy 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.840 bras and they're like, what size are you? In Italian? 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.880 I'm like, I don't know whatever your grandma hanging out 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:26.919 a window wears, because I got big old boobs and 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.520 you guys are all tiny here. It was a mess 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.080 and a disaster. And so now when I fly, if 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.000 I have to check a bag, which I try my 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:36.800 best not to no matter how long I'm gone for, 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.840 I put in several pairs of underwear and a full 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.119 ass change of clothes, all of my makeup and toilet 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.240 trees in the bag with me so that there is 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.080 no way I land in a foreign country and have 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.639 to try to buy an entire fleet of makeup and 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.919 everything else, Especially when I'm going to be in a 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.760 wedding where my two hundred and fifty dollars teal one 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.280 shoulder bridesmaid's dress never arrives, and it said I have 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.880 to go shopping and find a black dress that looked 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.199 like I'm someone who's like in mourning for the entirety 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.240 of my life and refuses to wear color other than black. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.399 And then my husband wears, unintentioned the same outfit as 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.800 all the waiters. So that was a good time. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.480 Well, I think the moral of that story is I'm right. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:21.000 And also the unwritten rule there with the overpains with 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.119 you onto the plane. That's also like, I think a 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:25.960 thing from back in college because I had teammates who 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.600 forgot their game shorts or you know, their luggage went 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.200 missing and have their their uniform and their shoes. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.359 So hey, yeah, yeah, very folks. My luggage got delayed 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:40.560