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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine. It's Monday, April twenty eighth, and

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Speaker 1: that's right. Today's show is our two hundredth episode. What

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Speaker 1: since July seventeenth of last year, and time has literally

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Speaker 1: flown by. We've enjoyed every second that we've spent creating

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Speaker 1: the women's sports hangout you always wanted, cultivating the women's

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Speaker 1: you simply must know about. So today, in honor of

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Speaker 1: the beautiful community we've all built together, we want to

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Speaker 1: celebrate our longtime slices and welcome the new slices, the rookies,

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Speaker 1: might have missed. Our big old Celebrication episode is coming

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Speaker 1: lovely listener, you're called slices, like the orange slices handed

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Speaker 1: out at halftime or at the end of a good game.

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Speaker 1: Get it. And here's a little bit more you might

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Speaker 1: need to know to follow the show. The Everyday Good

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Speaker 1: Game team is Me Mesh and Alex. Mesh is a

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Speaker 1: they're a color commentator for their alum William and Mary,

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Speaker 2: Did you know that Louis is the only sliding sport

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Speaker 1: things somehow tend to come up regularly. Collectively, we're known

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Speaker 1: as Big Citrus. So how did we get that name? Well,

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Speaker 1: Of course, vote early vote often you slices narrowed our

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Speaker 1: good gamers, good Sports and peels, and in episode one

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Speaker 1: better morals than Big Pharma, Big Tech and all those

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Speaker 3: The Slices our end of the year awards, voted on

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Speaker 2: We've got Tits to the turf, volvet to the velodrome,

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Speaker 3: She also added, good game, Big Citrus, Good game, Women's Sports.

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Speaker 1: So you know you're doing it right. And Sandra Robinson

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Speaker 1: welcome back slices. Now here a good game. We do

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Speaker 1: So as we were noodling around that, we thought, how

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Speaker 1: inspires folks to belong to it without relying on toxicity

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Speaker 1: So we wanted to really work to bring people together

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Speaker 1: on the very first show we were already soliciting names

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Speaker 1: for you slices. We knew you would be a huge

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Speaker 1: hearing from you, collaborating with you, and hopefully more and

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Speaker 1: It's genuinely tough to express just how grateful we are.

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Speaker 1: From Slice Joey Maldonado making women's sports schedules so we

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Speaker 1: and your delightful voicemails, it has all been just so incredible.

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Speaker 1: And of course all the folks rock in the good

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Speaker 1: game with Sarah Spain merch, especially the ones I got

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Speaker 1: for that. You are all a mass part of the show.

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Speaker 1: You basically are this show, So we thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for listening. In fact, every show we tell you

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Speaker 1: that we love that you're listening, But we also tell

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Speaker 1: you we want you to get in the game every

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Speaker 1: day too, So slices and seedlings, this is the call

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Speaker 1: We've done a lot of awesome stuff in two hundred episodes,

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Speaker 1: just anyone you think might love our show. If we're

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Speaker 1: going to keep building this Good Game community, we need

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Speaker 1: your help. Also, we're always fielding suggestions for guests and

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Speaker 1: show notes too, and we always tell you this on

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Speaker 1: every episode. Ratings and reviews help our podcast so much,

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Speaker 1: Folks who subscribe rate and review our show, rating five

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Speaker 1: We love a slice you can take direction every show

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Speaker 1: And this podcast has everything smart, questions, funny people, great

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Speaker 1: takes on women's sports and gets me excited to watch

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Speaker 1: new sports and Happy Transfer, who wrote in part no

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Speaker 1: TeX's NYC, who said, in part, thank goodness I found

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Speaker 1: reviewing and spreading the word about the show. Now that's

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Speaker 1: enough fives to drown out that one star. What do

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Speaker 1: you're not sure how, just go to the show's main

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Speaker 1: the stars, and click ratings and reviews. Thanks y'all, and

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Speaker 1: thanks to all of you for listening, whether this was

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Speaker 1: your two hundredth listen or your first. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow when we shine a light on Throttle Therapy with

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Speaker 1: Catherine Legg, one of the other awesome shows on the

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Speaker 1: iHeart Women's Sports Network. We'll be spreading the love for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the week, so make sure you tune

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Speaker 1: in Good Game slices, Good Games Seedlings, you time. Can

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Speaker 1: you just chill for like one second? At this rate,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be on an episode four hundred before we

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Speaker 1: know it. Good Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart

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Speaker 1: Women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.

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Speaker 1: You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network,

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Speaker 1: our producers are Alex Azzie and Misha Jones. Our executive

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Speaker 1: producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan, and Emily Rudder.

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Speaker 1: Our editors are Emily Rutterer, Britney Martinez, and Grace Lynch.

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Speaker 1: Our associate producer is Lucy Jones and I'm Your host

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Speaker 1: Sarah Spain