Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're pouring
Speaker 1: out a Moulson and blocking the US women's national team
Speaker 1: on social media in honor of Canadian legend Christine Sinclair
Speaker 1: hell of a career sink. It's Monday, November eleventh, and
Speaker 1: on today's show, we'll react to the weekend's NWSL quarterfinal matches,
Speaker 1: announce some upcoming show field trips, and talk travel quirks
Speaker 1: and peeves. Plus the Hockey Gaze lighted up and Coco
Speaker 1: Cash is in. It's all coming up right after this
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Happy Monday slices. Here's what you need to
Speaker 1: know today. Let's start with the NWSL, where the semi
Speaker 1: finals are set following four quarterfinal matchups over the weekend. First,
Speaker 1: on Friday, the Orlando Pride defeated the visiting Chicago Red
Speaker 1: Stars four to one, with Barbara Banda scoring abrace and Marta, Yes,
Speaker 1: the legendary Marta, scoring her first ever NWSL playoff goal
Speaker 1: thanks to a penalty in the fifty sixth minute. Now,
Speaker 1: this dat says a lot more about our Lando than
Speaker 1: it does about Marta, given that this is the Pride's
Speaker 1: first NWSL playoff appearance since twenty seventeen, when the Brazilian
Speaker 1: star joined the team. On Saturday, the Kansas City current
Speaker 1: squeaked past North Carolina with a one nil win. You
Speaker 1: might recall producer Misha's big bold prediction entering the weekend
Speaker 1: was that Golden Boot winner tem With Chiwinga would record
Speaker 1: a hat trick in that one, and while that didn't happen,
Speaker 1: it was, of course Chiwinga who scored the only goal
Speaker 1: of the game, which came in the eighth minute. After
Speaker 1: the match, Kansas City head coach blat co Endadovski criticized
Speaker 1: how other teams have quote targeted Chiwinga this season.
Speaker 2: Take a lessen yeah, I mean, first, in terms of
Speaker 2: being physical with Timoa, it's something that it wasn't just
Speaker 2: his game. If you look look at the season, every game,
Speaker 2: it's they're overly physical against her and it's not fair.
Speaker 2: It's not fair for Temoa.
Speaker 3: They're targeting her. I mean, they're going directly at her,
Speaker 3: and I just hope that as we go forward she
Speaker 3: gets more protection from the referees.
Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on that. In the Semis. Sunday's
Speaker 1: doubleheader started with a chippy, physical match between the Washington
Speaker 1: Spirit and expansion side BAFC. BFC forward Assado Oshwala kicked
Speaker 1: off the scoring in the eighty second minute, but the
Speaker 1: Washington Spirit got an answer just four minutes later, a
Speaker 1: rocket from defender Tara mickeyawon to tie things up. The
Speaker 1: Spirits Hal Hirschfeldt sent in a screamer with seconds remaining
Speaker 1: in regulation, but it dinged off the crossbar, so we
Speaker 1: got some free soccer in the first period of extra time.
Speaker 1: A painful own goal from BFC's Capriest did Asco in
Speaker 1: the ninety sixth minute put the Spirit up two to one,
Speaker 1: and that score stuck. Spirit get the comeback win and
Speaker 1: they advance fun fact about this one. So attendance and
Speaker 1: Audi field for the Spirit's last home playoff game back
Speaker 1: on November seventh, twenty twenty one was five thou three
Speaker 1: seventy nine attendance for this one a sellout nineteen thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen. After the game at Hay Spirits
Speaker 1: on Twitter posted that Tara McKeown had to miss her
Speaker 1: sister's wedding for the game and said she was definitely
Speaker 1: not missing it to lose. The final match of the
Speaker 1: weekend pitted number three got them FC against number six
Speaker 1: Portland Thorns. Tierna Davidson, picking a great time for her
Speaker 1: first NWSL goal the season, scoring for got them in
Speaker 1: the sixty seventh minute, but in the seventy fifth minute
Speaker 1: Raylan Turner even it up on a beauty of a
Speaker 1: set piece goal. Olivia Moultrie sent in a perfect ball
Speaker 1: and Turner sent it in with her head. The nineteen
Speaker 1: year old Moultrie is the youngest player ever to record
Speaker 1: an assist in an NWSL playoff game. So we're all
Speaker 1: tied up and Rose Lavelle becomes the heroin this one,
Speaker 1: as her goal in stoppage time put got them up
Speaker 1: to one and they hung on for the win, keeping
Speaker 1: their dreams of repeating alive. Lavelle's tally the latest in
Speaker 1: regulation in an NWSL playoff game ever, an all time
Speaker 1: got them club attendance record for this one, fifteen and
Speaker 1: forty people at Red Bull Arena to watch the victory
Speaker 1: and to witness the final game in the incredible career
Speaker 1: of Christine Sinclair. The Canadian legend subbed out in the
Speaker 1: sixty fourth minute and could only watch as her team
Speaker 1: lost the heartbreaker. Looking ahead semi final number one will
Speaker 1: feature got them at Washington next Saturday at twelve pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: Orlando hosts Kansas City on Sunday. That game will be
Speaker 1: two thirty pm Eastern on ABC. They'll be playing for
Speaker 1: a spot in the NWSL Championship, which will be in
Speaker 1: Kansas City on Saturday, November twenty third, and Mesh and
Speaker 1: I are going to be there for the title game
Speaker 1: and for all the weekend festivities too. Hope to see
Speaker 1: a lot of slices there. Moving on to tennis, American
Speaker 1: Cocoa Golf won the WTA Finals over the weekend, defeating
Speaker 1: China's keenwe Jen in a third set tiebreak. Golf trail
Speaker 1: by two games twice in the final set, but rallied
Speaker 1: back to win her first WTA Finals title. Earlier in
Speaker 1: the tournament, the twenty year old Golf defeated world number
Speaker 1: one and number two Arena Sablenka and Egosfontek during her
Speaker 1: run to the final. After the win, Golf took to Twitter,
Speaker 1: posting in part Tyler tried to tell y'all with a
Speaker 1: shrugging emoji, a reference to Grammy winning rapper Tyler the creator,
Speaker 1: who gave GoF a shout out on his new song
Speaker 1: thought I Was Dead, in which he raps quote you
Speaker 1: ain't Coco, Goff, you can't serve me end quote. We
Speaker 1: appreciate a man with taste. The rest of Goff's tweet
Speaker 1: red quote. In all seriousness, I'm so grateful for all
Speaker 1: the support the last few weeks. Getting to win the
Speaker 1: last tournament of the season and it also being my
Speaker 1: second biggest title of my career so far is insane. Wow.
Speaker 1: WTA Finals Champion end quote. The win earned golf the
Speaker 1: biggest payout ever for a women's tennis event, four point
Speaker 1: eight oh five million dollars. Dang, Coco, can we borrow
Speaker 1: a dollar? The WTA Finals is the vital individual event
Speaker 1: on the tennis calendar each year, but we've still got
Speaker 1: the Billy Jean King Cup next week, an annual team competition,
Speaker 1: and producer Alex and I will be traveling to Mulaga,
Speaker 1: Spain to cover that can't wait. GoF is sitting out
Speaker 1: of that event unfortunately after a super busy season, but
Speaker 1: the US will be headlined by world number eight m
Speaker 1: Navarro and world number ten Danielle Collins to College Hoops,
Speaker 1: the defending champs and number one team in the Nation.
Speaker 1: South Carolina is still unblemished early on the game. Cocks
Speaker 1: picked up a win over number nine NC State on
Speaker 1: Sunday seventy one fifty seven. Senior guard to Heena pow
Speaker 1: Pow led all scores with twenty three points and sophomore
Speaker 1: guard ma Lesia ful Wiley added eighteen off the bench.
Speaker 1: The win extend South Carolina streak took forty games, including
Speaker 1: last season, making the program only the second in NCUBA
Speaker 1: history with multiple forty game win streaks. We also got
Speaker 1: a rematch of the national championship game from way back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six over the weekend, with eighteenth
Speaker 1: ranked Maryland prevailing over number eleven Duke again eighty five
Speaker 1: to eighty. Kaylene Smichel led the way for the Turps
Speaker 1: with twenty three points and Chyenne Sellers chipped in seventeen
Speaker 1: points and five assists for Brenda Freese's squad. It was
Speaker 1: the first edition of the rivalry matchup between the teams
Speaker 1: since the NCAA Sweet sixteen on March twenty eighth of
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, but it was their eighty second meeting all time,
Speaker 1: and both schools now have forty one wins in the
Speaker 1: head to head series. We also want to say a
Speaker 1: huge congratulations to former Stanford head coach Tara Vanderveer, who
Speaker 1: retired last spring, and ahead of Sunday's home game against Gonzaga,
Speaker 1: the Cardinal dedicated their home court to Vanderveer, who led
Speaker 1: the program for thirty eight years and is still the
Speaker 1: winningest coach in NCAA history, ahead of Yukonton head coach
Speaker 1: Gino Oriema and former Duke men's basketball coach Mike Shuzhevski.
Speaker 1: Un rank Stanford cruise to a victory in that game
Speaker 1: over Gonzaga, eighty nine fifty eight to hockey or should
Speaker 1: I say pucks in gaish it. The US women's national
Speaker 1: team in Canada have been trading blows in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty five rivalry series, a five game competition.
Speaker 1: The US took the first game handily on Wednesday, winning
Speaker 1: seven to two, but Canada answered back, winning game two
Speaker 1: on Friday five to four. In an epic shootout. It
Speaker 1: was tied one to one in the second period and
Speaker 1: Canada pulled away for a four to one lead thanks
Speaker 1: to goals from newlyweds Marie Philippe Pulen and Laura Stacey
Speaker 1: and fellow gay Aaron Ambrose, but Team USA managed an
Speaker 1: epic comeback, with Hillary Knight scoring the game time with
Speaker 1: just one minute twenty six seconds left in regulation. Pulan
Speaker 1: added another in the shootout, with seventeen year old teammate
Speaker 1: Chloe Primorano sealing the deal for Canada. Canada technically won
Speaker 1: the game, but we think Team LGBTQA plus was the
Speaker 1: real winner in this one. The two rivals met again
Speaker 1: on Sunday, with Canada pulling out another win to lead
Speaker 1: the series two games to one. We'll have more on
Speaker 1: that matchup tomorrow. Finally, shout out to Love Pro Volleyball.
Speaker 1: The new Women's Professional Volleyball League starts preseason today, with
Speaker 1: the regular season getting underway in January. All right, slices,
Speaker 1: we're going to get into the x's and o's of
Speaker 1: the NWSL playoffs more tomorrow, but quickly, Mesh. You were
Speaker 1: actually at the Spirit game yesterday, so tell us about it.
Speaker 1: Atmosphere vibes, take us to Audifield.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, sir, that was the most people
Speaker 4: I've seen in that part of Southwest DC in a
Speaker 4: very long time. But it was a great, great atmosphere.
Speaker 4: Everybody had different color terrible.
Speaker 1: Not terrible towels. We don't like the Steelers over here,
Speaker 1: Riley towels.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize there was going to be a black
Speaker 4: and lightning kind of situation. My colors for the Washington
Speaker 4: s beer were always red and blue. I thought that
Speaker 4: was still the case, and so I've been away for
Speaker 4: too long. But it was basically a blackout. The stands
Speaker 4: were full to the brim. There were babies and strollers
Speaker 4: and grown people acting a fool. Both my parents came
Speaker 4: with me. It was their first trip to Audiefield, and
Speaker 4: it was electric. I had to coach them through this
Speaker 4: is not quite like basketball. They're not going to score
Speaker 4: every two seconds. But when that first goal went in, Sarah,
Speaker 4: that that place you erupted and it was one of
Speaker 4: the most magical moments I've experienced in a while.
Speaker 1: That's so fun. I love you going with your parents.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. I want to talk college hoops too,
Speaker 1: because it's early in the season, which means we're not
Speaker 1: going to cover every single game, and we're watching a
Speaker 1: lot of teams just still finding their groove. Also, a
Speaker 1: lot of cupcake games on the schedule. Right now, early on,
Speaker 1: so we're seeing a lot of blowouts. But there are
Speaker 1: blowouts and then there are SmackDown shall ackings, and USC
Speaker 1: had one of the latter over the weekend, defeating cal
Speaker 1: Poly ninety to thirty five the Trojan one on a
Speaker 1: twenty eight to nothing run in the early minutes of
Speaker 1: the contest. They finished the quarter leading forty to six.
Speaker 1: So we're thinking to ourselves as we're watching fifty five
Speaker 1: point victory, that's got to be the biggest blowout of
Speaker 1: this early season right now. Now. A week ago, Grambling
Speaker 1: State defeated Centenary College one hundred and thirty one to
Speaker 1: thirty to open up their schedule one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: one to thirty. And Grambling actually boasts an even bigger
Speaker 1: scoring margin, the biggest in NCAA women's basketball history. In
Speaker 1: January of this year, they defeated the College of Biblical
Speaker 1: Studies one hundred and fifty nine to eighteen. That is
Speaker 1: a one hundred and forty one point margin. That is
Speaker 1: truly what you call a biblical loss. Sorry, College to
Speaker 1: Biblical Studies, Misch, you played college ball? Did you play
Speaker 1: in any blowouts like this? Nothing quite like that.
Speaker 4: In fact, I'm pretty sure we beat a couple of
Speaker 4: teams by like thirty plus thirty piece them, which was
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: season with an achilles injury, so it wasn't super fun
Speaker 4: to wow, very boring.
Speaker 1: I just feel bad for teams in those instances. I
Speaker 1: really don't get excited about breaking records or setting new
Speaker 1: scoring marks. I'm just like, this isn't really the same
Speaker 1: sport at this point, so I just feel bad for
Speaker 1: the other team, unless their team's getting paid a bucket
Speaker 1: load to show up, Like sometimes in like men's sports,
Speaker 1: you'll pay a team like two million dollars to show
Speaker 1: up and get their ass beat, and it's like, all right, fine,
Speaker 1: that's going to help the program. I don't think the
Speaker 1: College of Biblical Studies is getting much help from that
Speaker 1: beat down, other than you know, learning that the power
Speaker 1: of prayer isn't going to work for you every time.
Speaker 1: Alex field hockey in high school. I feel like we
Speaker 1: had a couple, you know, like six or seven nothing
Speaker 1: games against some bad teams, but not nearly as many
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 5: giving end my junior year and senior year. And my
Speaker 5: coach though, had a rule that we could not run
Speaker 5: up the score beyond eight zero, And honestly, that was
Speaker 5: harder than just scoring more goals because it was like
Speaker 5: playing keep away and you felt really bad, And honestly,
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 1: you're really talented and the other team's bad, don't take
Speaker 1: it all the way up the field solo and then
Speaker 1: score repeatedly. Use the team play, practice your passing set up,
Speaker 1: you know, practice your corners, things like that. But don't
Speaker 1: not shoot and score if it's clear that you could.
Speaker 1: That's worse for the team that you're playing against. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, yeah, agree, But it's.
Speaker 4: Like at the end of the day, guys, it's it's
Speaker 4: a lose lose like for the losing team and the
Speaker 4: winning team. Sometimes because I can remember, not necessarily in
Speaker 4: college but in AAU and like travel, we would be
Speaker 4: given teams to shillakin. Parents want to fight in stands
Speaker 4: whether we pull back or we keep scoring.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's on those parents though, for not understanding.
Speaker 1: And I am always of the opinion anytime someone tries
Speaker 1: to say, oh, well, the reason I tried to fight
Speaker 1: them or I did this is because I was mad
Speaker 1: that at the end of the game they were still playing,
Speaker 1: even though technically and it's like, it's a game you
Speaker 1: play from the beginning to the end. And as long
Speaker 1: as you're not like crazy show voting or insanely over
Speaker 1: the top with it or really rude about it, just
Speaker 1: keep playing. Just keep playing the game. Whether you're winning
Speaker 1: or you're losing. Your responsibility is to play until the
Speaker 1: buzzer runs out. And when people bitch about that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: find a new hobby. Sports ain't for you. There's winners,
Speaker 1: there's losers. Suck it up. That's how I feel about that.
Speaker 1: But I do feel bad for the losing team. College
Speaker 1: of Biblical Studies, Like I said, this is a biblical loss.
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna take a quick break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, sit or stand, hang back or hover all
Speaker 1: of our travel habits and pet Peeves revealed before our
Speaker 1: show field trips. It's coming up. We're back and so
Speaker 1: are you? Love that for us? As we mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, we're taking a couple show field trips.
Speaker 1: Alex and I are headed to Spain to cover the
Speaker 1: Billie Jean Kingcup, and then I'm gonna meet up with
Speaker 1: Misha in Case for the NWSL Championship weekend. Misha and
Speaker 1: I actually got to hang in Phoenix for WNBA All Star,
Speaker 1: which is a blast. But Alex and I will be
Speaker 1: meeting in person for the very first time on foreign
Speaker 1: soil in Malaga. In Malaga, I'm gonna learn how to
Speaker 1: say the name of the place we're going before we
Speaker 1: go there. But let's talk about travel. So, Alex, do
Speaker 1: you have any quirky travel habits? I can almost guarantee
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 5: no one talks about it, which is once I get
Speaker 5: through security, even if I have two hours until my
Speaker 5: flight and I want to use the bathroom, I want
Speaker 5: to get food, I have to go see the gate
Speaker 5: before I do those things.
Speaker 1: Of course, you have to go say hello to your gate,
Speaker 1: not just because it's like just part of the ritual,
Speaker 1: but because every once in a while you'll go and
Speaker 1: it will be like Australia and you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: that's not right. Let me double check, and like your
Speaker 1: gate has been moved and you're like, thank god I
Speaker 1: stopped by to.
Speaker 5: Say hello, right, Or sometimes it says Australia because you
Speaker 5: got there so far in advance that there is still
Speaker 5: a flight leaving to Australia before your own flight two
Speaker 5: hours later.
Speaker 1: That rarely happens to me because I have a perfect
Speaker 1: setup system where I arrive at the exact correct time
Speaker 1: and I'm never running a La Holly Row. But I
Speaker 1: am also never just sitting digging around wasting my time
Speaker 1: because I've got a system down. Alex, you strike me
Speaker 1: as someone who would get there a few hours early,
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 5: I've got to give myself a little bit of extra
Speaker 5: wiggle ram.
Speaker 1: Wow, that was a shocker, Mesh, you just backed away
Speaker 1: from the mice. You're so shocked, I feel like Meish
Speaker 1: is also like, let me, just get there five hours early.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be stressed about it. I am
Speaker 1: my father's daughter.
Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is he struck fear
Speaker 4: in my heart from the age of eleven when I
Speaker 4: took my first plane ride quote unquote by myself. He
Speaker 4: was behind me and I didn't realize. Maybe one day
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that story slices amazing. But I get
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: severe overpacker. It's so bad. It's really I don't know
Speaker 4: how many pairs of underwear I'm gonna need for three days,
Speaker 4: because you don't know what's gonna happen over the.
Speaker 1: Course of those three days with your underwear specifically or
Speaker 1: just in general. I mean that specifically because you need
Speaker 1: to be prepared.
Speaker 4: Okay, fair, but definitely there early, and definitely I've got
Speaker 4: everything you need.
Speaker 5: I once saw a video, I think on Instagram of
Speaker 5: somebody packing underwear for a trip, and the way that
Speaker 5: they described it was like, I have never once shpit pants,
Speaker 5: And when I pack underwear for a trip, I pack
Speaker 5: as though I'm going to shit my pants every day
Speaker 5: I am there.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're always better off with too many pairs
Speaker 1: than yes, very true. Better Also, my husband and I
Speaker 1: went to a friend's wedding in Italy, and I won't
Speaker 1: belabor how awful everything was, but essentially there was a thunderstorm.
Speaker 1: They put the bags on the tarmac. They forgot them
Speaker 1: on the tarmac. Despite the delay, they sat in the
Speaker 1: pouring rain. They never made it. On our flight that
Speaker 1: got changed to a different location. We landed there, it
Speaker 1: was late at night. I accidentally hit the skip highways
Speaker 1: on the Italian language GPS, so we skipped the highways
Speaker 1: driving to Venice at two in the morning, and we
Speaker 1: were just going along little town roundabouts passing literal prostitutes
Speaker 1: at two in the morning. Why is this taking so long?
Speaker 1: I don't remember this route from last time. Got to Venice,
Speaker 1: woke up. The alarm system in the hotel was broken
Speaker 1: for the entire hotel, so nobody got a wake up call.
Speaker 1: So now it's like three pm Italian time when we
Speaker 1: finally wake up. The jeans that I wore on the plane,
Speaker 1: which were the only pair of pants I had because
Speaker 1: our luggage didn't make it had a hole in the
Speaker 1: crotch because it was back when I used to always
Speaker 1: wear those seven jeans that when they finally blew, it
Speaker 1: was always right in the crotch. So we had the
Speaker 1: same underwear we'd been wearing for two and a half
Speaker 1: full days. I had a hole in my jeans and
Speaker 1: were in Venice. So my options are either Louis Vuitton
Speaker 1: or dressed like a fucking gondola guy. Right, so we
Speaker 1: have to go buy contact lenses, underwear. I gotta buy
Speaker 1: bras and they're like, what size are you? In Italian?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know whatever your grandma hanging out
Speaker 1: a window wears, because I got big old boobs and
Speaker 1: you guys are all tiny here. It was a mess
Speaker 1: and a disaster. And so now when I fly, if
Speaker 1: I have to check a bag, which I try my
Speaker 1: best not to no matter how long I'm gone for,
Speaker 1: I put in several pairs of underwear and a full
Speaker 1: ass change of clothes, all of my makeup and toilet
Speaker 1: trees in the bag with me so that there is
Speaker 1: no way I land in a foreign country and have
Speaker 1: to try to buy an entire fleet of makeup and
Speaker 1: everything else, Especially when I'm going to be in a
Speaker 1: wedding where my two hundred and fifty dollars teal one
Speaker 1: shoulder bridesmaid's dress never arrives, and it said I have
Speaker 1: to go shopping and find a black dress that looked
Speaker 1: like I'm someone who's like in mourning for the entirety
Speaker 1: of my life and refuses to wear color other than black.
Speaker 1: And then my husband wears, unintentioned the same outfit as
Speaker 1: all the waiters. So that was a good time.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the moral of that story is I'm right.
Speaker 4: And also the unwritten rule there with the overpains with
Speaker 4: you onto the plane. That's also like, I think a
Speaker 4: thing from back in college because I had teammates who
Speaker 4: forgot their game shorts or you know, their luggage went
Speaker 4: missing and have their their uniform and their shoes.
Speaker 1: So hey, yeah, yeah, very folks. My luggage got delayed
Speaker 1: once flying to a national championship meet for track in
Speaker 1: high school and with heptathlon, I had five different pairs
Speaker 1: of shoes, so I end up having to buy a
Speaker 1: pair of spikes that I then try to wear for
Speaker 1: all the different events. Cool, very cool, all right, So
Speaker 1: during the flight, I think we have to take two
Speaker 1: flights for this one. Al Are you a book person,
Speaker 1: movie TV show, bine sleep the whole time? What's your vibe?
Speaker 5: I like looking at the map of where we are
Speaker 5: at all times. I'm a window seat person and I
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 5: course nowhere we're going.
Speaker 1: What if you weren't What would be the recourse if
Speaker 1: the map suddenly went awry and you're like, we're not
Speaker 1: going to Spain.
Speaker 5: Sometimes when you get on the flight, the system hasn't
Speaker 5: reset itself. It has a weird old destination in the system,
Speaker 5: and you're like, hold on, did I just get on
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 5: cry at anything on a plane.
Speaker 1: I think it's something with the air in there or
Speaker 1: the oxygen, because I'm a crier anyway, But on planes,
Speaker 1: I will lose it. Like I made the mistake. I
Speaker 1: forgot what the movie Out of Africa was actually about.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all have seen it. It's real
Speaker 1: old school. But when I was young, we watched it,
Speaker 1: so and my husband and I went to Africa. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I'll download Out of Africa. I
Speaker 1: forget you know what that's about. It is the most
Speaker 1: tragic movie. And I didn't have enough napkins or Kleenex
Speaker 1: on me to stop the flow of liquids oozing from
Speaker 1: my brain. And literally the flight attendant was walked by
Speaker 1: like are you okay? And I'm like, napkids, just not
Speaker 1: bubbling and pouring all over my face. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: intentionally now avoid any any crying movies because it's too much.
Speaker 1: There's too many liquids in my face me. She seems
Speaker 1: to suspect of this.
Speaker 4: I'm not because if we're on a plane, and we're
Speaker 4: not on a plane, if it's sad, I'm crying, okay,
Speaker 4: So on.
Speaker 1: A plane it's worse. I promise you it's worse. It
Speaker 1: maybe it is.
Speaker 4: I'm crying hard regardless, so maybe I just don't notice
Speaker 4: the degree to which I'm crying harder. But definitely we'll
Speaker 4: look at the flight tracker. Like Alex said, I love
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: you know the circumstances are right, so love that, but
Speaker 4: definitely allotting at least a third of that flight time
Speaker 4: to being asleep, because there's no way. I'm also a
Speaker 4: little bit I've recovered, but I was not a fan
Speaker 4: of flying at first, not a fan at all. Like
Speaker 4: I'm talking full blown meltdown. Oh no, hyperventilating, my ears
Speaker 4: are popping. I think I'm gonna die, Like that was
Speaker 4: when I was younger. Yeah, so three, yeah, no.
Speaker 1: I I'm now flying so much that I have the
Speaker 1: system done. Like if you're on the flight that leaves
Speaker 1: at ten pm, I make myself sleep because that's what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be doing. If I'm on the way
Speaker 1: back and I'm supposed to be awake, I will make
Speaker 1: myself watch like four straight movies and peel my eyes
Speaker 1: open so that when I land, I'm tired and I
Speaker 1: want to go to bed at the right time. Like
Speaker 1: I work really hard because especially like going to the
Speaker 1: World Cup out in Australia, going out to places where
Speaker 1: it was going to screw up my time a bunch
Speaker 1: of times in recent months France for Sport Beach, all
Speaker 1: those like if you come back and you have to
Speaker 1: hit the ground running immediately with your job, and you're
Speaker 1: just like dead. It's brutal. So I really try to
Speaker 1: like follow what the advice is.
Speaker 5: Okay, wait, hold up, I have a super important question
Speaker 5: for the group. Yeah, this is gonna reveal a lot
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 4: all the way back. I'm not insane because I have
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: not gonna be hurt by the time we stop off
Speaker 4: this play.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that much right now. I will
Speaker 1: maybe do it like an inch if it's a particularly
Speaker 1: weird seat, but usually I don't. I bring my lumbar support.
Speaker 1: I also usually pay for a bulkhead or an exit
Speaker 1: row because I'm so tall that that way, if my
Speaker 1: legs can stretch out, then my back is okay. If
Speaker 1: I'm in a regular seat, I might recline it an
Speaker 1: inch or so because I need figure out how to
Speaker 1: get my legs in a position that fits. But at
Speaker 1: this point, like I almost I don't need to be
Speaker 1: in business or first class, but I need to pay
Speaker 1: extra for a bulkhead or an exit because I do
Speaker 1: have two bulging discs in my back and or her
Speaker 1: need a disk in my neck, and I'm super tall.
Speaker 1: So between the three of those, I will get off
Speaker 1: that plane like basically looking like an origami bird. If
Speaker 1: I don't like or bird is insane, just fold it
Speaker 1: up like a bird.
Speaker 4: I will say, though it is imperative that I look
Speaker 4: at who is sitting behind me as I'm coming up
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: know what, you got it both.
Speaker 1: But the woman directly in front of me on my
Speaker 1: flight back from wherever the hell I just was, I
Speaker 1: can't even remember, and she was no taller than five
Speaker 1: foot three, and she took the Southwest first class seat.
Speaker 1: This is the seat that doesn't have a chair in
Speaker 1: front of it. It has like triple the leg room.
Speaker 1: She's directly in front of me. She goes to set.
Speaker 1: I go, oh, are you gonna sit there? She said yes,
Speaker 1: And I wanted to punch her directly in her tiny face,
Speaker 1: but I would have had to work so far down
Speaker 1: because she was so fucking small, and I was like,
Speaker 1: some self awareness, lady. There's a million other even exit
Speaker 1: row seats that will be like the equivalent of like
Speaker 1: a couch for you, and you take that one like, ugh, okay,
Speaker 1: that is a pet peeve of mine. But my biggest
Speaker 1: pet peeve in all of travel is the baggage claim.
Speaker 1: If everyone takes two steps back, you can all see
Speaker 1: your bag, and then when you get to it, you
Speaker 1: take two steps forward, you pick it up and then leave,
Speaker 1: and everyone's better off for it. If everyone's freaking hugging
Speaker 1: the carousel for no goddamn reason, you can't see and
Speaker 1: you can't get your bag, what are people doing? Why
Speaker 1: does nobody notice this? I notice it?
Speaker 5: And some airports that even try to tape around like
Speaker 5: stand behind this line. I just think, mm hmm, how
Speaker 5: better to represent society. I'm gonna stand as close as
Speaker 5: I need to in order to get what I need
Speaker 5: instead of us all stepping back and us all getting
Speaker 5: what we need.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Meish biggest pet peeve in a similar vein there are
Speaker 4: some things that I think we should be keeping around
Speaker 4: from COVID times, And one of those things. Give me
Speaker 4: my six feet of space. I do not need to
Speaker 4: feel you breathing down my neck. If I can, if.
Speaker 1: I can physically feel the wind, you're two and down,
Speaker 1: close back up. Yeah, yeah, I think that's just that's
Speaker 1: just not traveling. That's life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, generally speaking, but I find that in the airport
Speaker 4: it happens more often. I don't know what it is, like,
Speaker 4: maybe everybody's just eager and anxious to get on the plane.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but that's when I typically find people
Speaker 4: are I literally can't turn around without smelling with somebody
Speaker 4: for breakfast.
Speaker 5: You're in boarding group X, and there's stumbody that's still
Speaker 5: just like, can't wait to be super close to you,
Speaker 5: even though all the overhead baggage space has gone at
Speaker 5: that point exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh well, hopefully for all of us we will not
Speaker 1: have to endure these peeves on our upcoming travels. Obviously,
Speaker 1: our number one destinations on our bucket list right now
Speaker 1: are Malaga and Kansas City. But if not for those trips,
Speaker 1: what would be your number one top destination that you
Speaker 1: want to go in the world right now?
Speaker 4: Misha, I really really really want to go to Jamaica
Speaker 4: or Trinidad and Tobago. Okay, those two have been on
Speaker 4: my bucket list for since I had a bucket list,
Speaker 4: you know, so fingers crossed on those two, Alex, I.
Speaker 5: Don't have a travel bucket list, and I don't know
Speaker 5: what that says about me, given that I do like
Speaker 5: traveling and seeing new places, but I really don't have
Speaker 5: a list. I am excited though, I have an upcoming
Speaker 5: trip to Machu Pichu and Peru.
Speaker 6: Pumped for that.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is on my list. Okay. So my bucket
Speaker 1: list is usually based on things that humans are ruining
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 1: respect it and treat it well, but I want to
Speaker 1: see it before garbage humans make it worse. So grape
Speaker 1: Beerry Reef was on there, got there, Machu Pichu is
Speaker 1: up there, Galapagos is up there, and then next ye're
Speaker 1: finally getting to go to Africa again with my mom
Speaker 1: this time and she's wanted to go her whole life,
Speaker 1: but my dad's not super interested, so she's never gone.
Speaker 1: And I literally was like, that's it, Dad, if you
Speaker 1: want to come, great if you don't stay home. But
Speaker 1: Mom's going so South Africa and Botswana next year, which
Speaker 1: I'm super pumped about too. All right, now, we got
Speaker 1: all of our travel vibes put out into the universe
Speaker 1: for lots of legroom, no one breathing down our next
Speaker 1: and baggage carousel etiquette. We got to take another break
Speaker 1: when we come back. Slice wants to call us by
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Speaker 1: We got a listener email from beth Olhaso, who wrote
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Speaker 1: wanted to drop a note to say thanks. Media is
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Speaker 1: a beautiful distraction from the shit show we've been living
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Speaker 5: As the proud mama of a former straight, Dorothy and
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