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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're enjoying

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Speaker 1: a bit of sun on our roof deck, reading the

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Speaker 1: which will definitely include homemade baked bread.

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Speaker 2: That's right, y'all.

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Speaker 1: We're checking off all the new year's intentions during Good

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Speaker 1: Game summer hiatus, a relaxing, feels good.

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Speaker 2: Who to thunk?

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, July seventh, and on today's show, we're skipping

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Speaker 1: the need to know in favor of peeking behind the.

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Speaker 2: Curtain a little bit over at Good Game HQ.

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Speaker 1: Over the past month, we heard from a ton of

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Speaker 1: slices who took our listener survey. Thank you, by the way,

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Speaker 1: because that feedback really helps us out. Today, Big Citrus

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Speaker 1: will convene to answer some of the questions that came

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Speaker 1: out of the survey, consider a few of the ideas

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Speaker 1: that came in, and show you how the mostly vegetarian

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Slices. Alex Bianca, what's up.

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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, how you doing?

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Speaker 4: Happy summer bread?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's so nice.

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Speaker 1: We've enjoyed our break, but We've got some stuff to

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Speaker 1: get to today because there were some really interesting and

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Speaker 1: very cool things that came out of the listener survey.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to some of the you know, suggestions

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Speaker 1: and other feedback, I want to start simple, because there

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Speaker 1: were some questions about us. This trio right here together,

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Speaker 1: the three of us are Big Citrus. Now we're sometimes

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Speaker 1: known as Little Citrus if one of us isn't around,

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Speaker 1: but the trio is Big Citrus, and the og Big

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Speaker 1: Citrus was me Alex and Meish, who was one of

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Speaker 1: the original producers of the show. Mish left thanks Obama.

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Speaker 1: Then Yanka joined the crew back in January, and from

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Speaker 1: time to time we hear from folks that there's confusion

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Speaker 1: around our nickname Big Citrus.

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Speaker 2: Bianca.

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Speaker 1: You arrived mid Citrus, So were you confused when you

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Speaker 5: I arrived mid Squeeze. Yes, I was confused a little bit.

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Speaker 5: And I will say when I was telling people like, oh,

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Speaker 5: was like, I might just have to start and learn

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Speaker 5: and then tell you so.

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Speaker 1: So it had us thinking about the origins of the

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Speaker 1: Alex Meish and I were considering a few different names

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Speaker 1: but we wanted to have a name for ourselves. We

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Speaker 1: were like, are we coach? Are we senior slice? Are

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Speaker 1: we good gamers? Good sports?

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Speaker 2: Peels?

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Speaker 1: Orange blossoms? And we ended up liking the grove the most.

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Speaker 1: But then we started breaking it down and using it

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Speaker 1: The only problem with the grove is is like are

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Speaker 4: Grove where the trees?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I like. Trees and plants, you know,

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Speaker 6: that's my shit. So if I can be a plant,

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Speaker 6: I'll be the plant. And that's a grove. Let me

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Speaker 7: It reminds me of an animal name, you know, like

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Speaker 2: That's real. Yeah, grove.

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Speaker 6: I'm looking at pictures of groves right now that I mean,

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Speaker 7: Well yeah, Well now I'm thinking of like Big Florida

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Speaker 1: We do not want Big Florida Energy. If there's anything

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Speaker 2: Like, big Citrus is the name, y'all? Like, that's it.

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Speaker 1: I know I say that a lot in life, actually

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Speaker 1: Inaugural The Grove, and I feel like maybe that could

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited for that to happen at All Star Weekend.

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Speaker 1: Most listeners said we do a pretty good job of

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Speaker 4: You music to my ears.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's our goal, and it's been our goal since

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure when this is going to happen yet,

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Speaker 2: So I'm on a break. I'm not doing it right now,

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Speaker 1: So I want to dive into more of the feedback

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Speaker 1: we actually make the sausage. Vegetarian for me and Alex,

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Speaker 2: And then you know the meat and.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, that's enough hot dogs for me.

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Speaker 2: Centipede love Bianca.

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Speaker 4: Like, I'm surprised you're a meat.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to try to get every single game

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Speaker 7: Sarah, I have to say, I just looked this email

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Speaker 7: fact that you didn't really like your wedding because you

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Speaker 7: realized that while you were the center of attention, you

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Speaker 7: weren't really able to talk, and I was like that

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Speaker 7: not accurate thing.

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Speaker 2: Not accurate. I loved my wedding.

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Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy walking down the aisle, okay, because I

451
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Speaker 1: don't like being stared at and just like, hey, this

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Speaker 1: is how she looks. She did her best and that's

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Speaker 1: all she came up with. I like to be able

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Speaker 1: to be funny. I want to be funny. I don't

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Speaker 1: want people looking at me. I want people to pay

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Speaker 1: attention to me, to hear what I have to say,

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Speaker 1: not because they're deciding if I pulled off whatever the

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Speaker 1: fram wearing or anything else.

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Speaker 4: You should have live narrated the lockdown the aisle.

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Speaker 3: I mean in my head, I was, trust me, there

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Speaker 3: was a monolog going on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my husband still jokes that my vows got applause

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Speaker 1: and his didn't.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, maybe I do this for a living.

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Speaker 3: Applause for vows. That's amazing.

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Speaker 2: They laughed, they cried, you know. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But so we've got this like balance of the guests

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Speaker 1: and the big citrus, and I think that's something that

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Speaker 1: came up during some of the feedback from the listeners.

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Speaker 1: So let's take a quick break and when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about some of the specific things that some

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Speaker 1: of our slices told us about what they love, what

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Speaker 1: they don't, all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Welcome back slices.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So we were just talking about how we make the

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Speaker 1: show and all the different parts and segments and when

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Speaker 1: we record them, and that brings us to a piece

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Speaker 1: of feedback that we receive from a couple different slices

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Speaker 1: who commented on the timing and frequency of the need

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Speaker 1: to know segments. So one listener wrote, quote, sometimes I

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Speaker 1: get sad when you skip the need to know and

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Speaker 1: get right into the interview. So we mentioned this before,

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Speaker 1: But the reason that we handle the need to know

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Speaker 1: that way, and why it isn't always in every show,

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Speaker 1: is because occasionally we do have to tape in advance

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Speaker 1: if I'm traveling, and the timing of my flights or

488
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Speaker 1: the event that I might be speaking at or attending

489
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Speaker 1: makes it impossible to record on every given day, as

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Speaker 1: opposed to me like sitting in a corner trying to

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Speaker 1: hide and do it and then send it. We just

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Speaker 1: say we're skipping it today and we'll get back to

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Speaker 1: it tomorrow, and we run an interview that We're able

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Speaker 1: to record at a time when I'm available.

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Speaker 2: And we know it.

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Speaker 1: Bums y'all out, But it doesn't happen very often, no, right,

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Speaker 1: Like we're doing pretty well.

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Speaker 4: About once a week. Yeah, And I will say that.

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Speaker 7: Originally, when the idea was proposed, like oh, like we

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Speaker 7: can occasionally skip the need to know in order to

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Speaker 7: better accommodate our schedules.

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Speaker 4: I was against it.

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Speaker 7: I remember being like, no, I think we should do

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Speaker 7: it every day. I'm glad I came around talk about

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Speaker 7: an opinion changed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe I was the one who was like,

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Speaker 1: what if we try to aim for one day a

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Speaker 1: week where we're using that day to book guests and

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Speaker 1: research interview questions and follow the stories so that we're

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Speaker 1: not on the clock of writing the script, creating the

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Speaker 1: need to know, recording the interview.

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Speaker 2: Turning it around and Alex.

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Speaker 1: Was like, Nope, I just don't think we can go

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I totally get it. I just

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Speaker 1: think it might be easier to say nope, And then

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Speaker 1: like a couple weeks down the road to it was like,

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Speaker 1: I think we could revisit that idea.

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Speaker 2: I think we might need that day.

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Speaker 1: We also ask people what would you like to hear

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Speaker 1: more of if there are sports leagues or parts of

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Speaker 1: the women's sports ecosphere that you don't think we cover enough.

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Speaker 1: And this one got a lot of different answers, a

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Speaker 1: lot of super interesting answers.

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Speaker 2: The main takeaway is that you slices do want to

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Speaker 2: learn about.

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Speaker 1: New leagues and sports, and you'd love it if we

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Speaker 1: had more interviews with athletes from a wider array of sports.

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Speaker 1: One respondent, for example, wrote that they'd love more on

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Speaker 1: the smaller leagues, writing quote, it's easy to find news

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Speaker 1: about NWSLWNBA, etc. There are a whole podcasts I subscribe

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Speaker 1: to for those I want to be exposed to new

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Speaker 1: sports slash leagues I wouldn't otherwise ever have known about,

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Speaker 1: or that are super hard to follow on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: Both smaller pro slash semi pro leagues like lacrosse, fobes, rugby,

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Speaker 1: lesser followed sports, disc golf, para, sports, water sports, and

536
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Speaker 1: leagues outside the US. Please cover more outside the US

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Speaker 1: at the very least hit more North American do things

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Speaker 1: like the NSL and league ems.

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Speaker 2: That was interesting to read and I guess not that surprising.

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Speaker 2: What did you guys.

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Speaker 3: Think Oh, I loved hearing that.

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Speaker 5: I was very excited to see a lot of track

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Speaker 5: and field people want to see that.

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Speaker 3: Some people mentioned.

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Speaker 5: Ultra running, and then some people also mentioned extreme or

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Speaker 5: action sports, which we've been doing a good job of,

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Speaker 5: but yeah, let's keep that up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I really loved getting this piece of feedback from

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Speaker 7: listeners because I would love to see us expand our

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Speaker 7: range in terms of what we cover, especially when it

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Speaker 7: comes to athlete interviews. I think one of the favorite

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Speaker 7: episodes that came out of that question was people talking

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Speaker 7: about Page Jones the ski jumper, and just having that

554
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Speaker 7: weird world of ski jumping and suit toping yellow crouching

555
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Speaker 7: machine was fascinating. But one piece I'll add here is

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Speaker 7: that when we're writing up the need to know when

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Speaker 7: it comes to news across different sports, we're typically using

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Speaker 7: a combination of social media, watching games, reading press releases,

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Speaker 7: and then also looking at news stories that have been published.

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Speaker 7: And so there's pretty good coverage of the WNBA, and

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Speaker 7: there's pretty good coverage of the NWSL. But beyond those two,

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Speaker 7: even the PWHL like there is not a lot of coverage,

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Speaker 7: especially on a game by game basis, and we always

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Speaker 7: try to kind of credit the reporters who are out

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Speaker 7: there in the field doing the work, because there are

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Speaker 7: not nearly enough of them. But when it comes to

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Speaker 7: leagues like Women's elite rugby AUSL, the number of resources

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Speaker 7: that we're able to use to be able to tell

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Speaker 7: those stories is just so much smaller. And so I'll

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Speaker 7: turn it around on some of the slices where if

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Speaker 7: you see something in one of those sports that you

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Speaker 7: want us to report on, feel free to send it

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Speaker 7: our way. Like, despite the fact that we are all

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Speaker 7: work full time in women's sports, there is so much

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Speaker 7: in this world of women's sports that there is a

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Speaker 7: chance that we have not seen it ourselves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've talked about this before. Everyone sort of calls

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Speaker 2: women's sports a beat. It is not a beat. It

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Speaker 2: is many, many, many, many beats. I agree with all

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Speaker 2: of that.

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Speaker 1: I love hearing that, and I want to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we do that. I think when we started the show,

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Speaker 1: we were trying to get a feel for what people

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Speaker 1: would be interested, and we understood that there already was

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Speaker 1: not a daily place for the w or the NWSL

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Speaker 1: or even the most established leagues. Like the idea that

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Speaker 1: the W is thirty years old and there still wasn't

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Speaker 1: any daily coverage of any kind in terms of website, podcast, radio,

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Speaker 1: TV felt like such a loss for something that was

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Speaker 1: so established and had such an incredible culture in history

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Speaker 1: and tradition to it.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: Lose sight of the work that's still left to be

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Speaker 1: done when it comes to those dominant, established leagues, while

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Speaker 1: also leaving room for all of the other sports and

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Speaker 1: stories to be told. I think not to pat ourselves

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Speaker 1: on the back, but the way we cover things is

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Speaker 1: different than almost anywhere else, and I want to lend

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Speaker 1: our coverage and our voice and our approach to the

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Speaker 1: things like the w and NWSL where I think it's

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Speaker 1: still needed compared to some of the other ways that

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Speaker 1: people decide to talk about or present their work regarding

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Speaker 1: those leagues. So finding that balance is always, you know,

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Speaker 1: ties in a little bit to like trying to hold

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Speaker 1: two things at once, because people are.

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Speaker 2: Like, we want more of this, and we want.

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Speaker 1: The shows to be thirty to forty minutes at best.

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Speaker 1: Like most people said, thirty to four minutes is the

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Speaker 1: best time. Some people said they'll listen as long as

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Speaker 1: we talk, and for that we say thank you. But

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Speaker 1: it is hard to get everything into the shows. There's

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Speaker 1: just so much to talk about and there are so

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Speaker 1: many interesting people to talk to, So we're always trying

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Speaker 1: to find that balance of can we add a couple

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Speaker 1: more things to need to know without it feeling like

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Speaker 1: it goes on too long, or can we get a

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Speaker 1: couple more questions and with this great guest before we've

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Speaker 1: gone on too long, So something to consider. The other

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Speaker 1: thing that came out of the conversation about guests and

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Speaker 1: things we cover was people who are more sports adjacent

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Speaker 1: and Bianca, I think we're all on board that we

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Speaker 1: want a.

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Speaker 2: Lot more of that.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, this was something that I remember talking to

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Speaker 5: you guys about before I even joined the team. You know,

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Speaker 5: as women's sports becomes a bigger, more diverse business and industry, like,

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Speaker 5: there are so many people who are contributing to that.

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Speaker 3: Whether it's comedians.

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Speaker 5: Or fashion designers, or people behind really good social media

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Speaker 5: content or people creating movies about these athletes. There's so

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Speaker 5: many people who are contributing to the not a moment,

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Speaker 5: but a movement of it all, you know, And I

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Speaker 5: just think that all of them have a story to

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Speaker 5: tell and are adding to it, and I want to

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Speaker 5: hear from them.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 1: If y'all have suggestions, if you see celebrities, musicians, people

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Speaker 1: in fashion, anyone that's intersecting with the women's sports world,

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Speaker 1: whether they're sitting courtside or collabbing on things or creating partnerships,

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Speaker 1: send the more way.

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Speaker 2: In case we haven't seen it, I.

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Speaker 1: Will say we've reached out to a number of them,

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Speaker 1: and some of them have been busy or unable to

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Speaker 1: come on the show yet. And we're still going to

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Speaker 1: work on some of those ones that we're most interested in,

646
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Speaker 1: but tend them our way just in case we don't

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Speaker 1: know that somebody might be a huge women's sports fan

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Speaker 1: and might want to come on the show.

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Speaker 2: We love to hear about that.

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Speaker 4: Taylor Swift toats.

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Speaker 2: We also would love for her to go to some games.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what women's sport would Taylor most be a fan of?

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Speaker 3: If she were to be a fan.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it makes the most sense for her to

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Speaker 1: go to a KC Current game because she's, you know,

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Speaker 1: Travis's friends with Pat Mahomes and he's one of the

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Speaker 1: co owners of the team. She already's used to pop

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Speaker 1: it up at games all over CAC throw a current

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Speaker 1: game in.

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Speaker 5: There, girl, and I mean the Boston Legacy are playing

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Speaker 5: a lot of games in Rhode Island this season, so

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Speaker 5: might as well go there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it, the New York

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Speaker 1: Liberty have played at MSG for two decades and the

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Speaker 1: PWHL has had a game there. So if she wants

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Speaker 1: to revisit her wedding venue allegedly.

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Speaker 4: As of this recording full transparency.

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Speaker 1: Yep, and revisit the memory from the greatest day of

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Speaker 1: her life while simultaneously supporting women's.

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Speaker 2: Sports, that'd be a good place to do it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, moving on, we also ask folks their favorite part

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Speaker 1: of good Game, with the opportunity to select as many

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Speaker 1: answers as desired, so they didn't just have to pick one,

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Speaker 1: they could pick a couple. The most common answer was

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Speaker 1: the need to know is the best, and then Big

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Speaker 1: Citrus conversations got the second highest, which we love, followed

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Speaker 1: by the interviews that we have with guests super interesting.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say, I'm fascinated by that and

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Speaker 1: I love hearing that because I like the extemporaneous, off

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Speaker 1: the cuff conversations that we have with big Citrus about

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Speaker 1: issues in women's sports, and I'm always trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out how much people are interested in that versus a

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Speaker 1: more curated and intentional conversation with an interviewee. Personally, I

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Speaker 1: like listening to shows where the prep is clear and

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Speaker 1: what comes out on air is intentional, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: feeling like I'm listening to people still planning the show

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Speaker 1: while I'm listening.

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Speaker 2: Me too, Me too, I'm like, I don't have time

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Speaker 2: for this shit.

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Speaker 1: Figure out what you're going to talk about before, and

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Speaker 1: then be thoughtful about the conversation. It can be free

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Speaker 1: flowing and not scripted, but but I just want to

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Speaker 1: get something out of that time that I'm spending there,

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Speaker 1: and so for me, interviews are a great way to

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Speaker 1: do that because I've planned the questions and then of

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Speaker 1: course I'm building and reacting to what they're saying, but

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Speaker 1: there's a flow to it, whereas you know, Big Citrus

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Speaker 1: is a lot of like, here's a topic, let's see

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Speaker 1: where it goes.

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Speaker 2: I love that people like them, though.

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Speaker 1: Because I think that our voices and our take on

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Speaker 1: what's going on is just as necessary as hearing from

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Speaker 1: the athletes, the coaches, the GMS, etc. So that's great

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Speaker 1: to know that you guys want even more of those.

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Speaker 5: I think it gets back to what I was talking

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Speaker 5: about daily podcasts being so intimate and like you guys

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Speaker 5: know us and we get to know you through different streams.

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Speaker 5: And I guess for that reason, it doesn't surprise me

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Speaker 5: that people love the Big Citrus because it's just like

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Speaker 5: listening to friends chat shoot the shit.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think it reminds me a little bit.

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Speaker 7: We had Resa Iard on the show last year. She's

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Speaker 7: a friend of mine, and she did the study a

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Speaker 7: few years ago about the number of people who are

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Speaker 7: quote unquote ISO fans who watch women's sports, meaning that

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Speaker 7: they don't really have somebody else to watch with. And

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Speaker 7: I would say I even fall into that category sometimes

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Speaker 7: when it's my friends at home. I love them, but

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Speaker 7: like they're not really into the WNBA or the NWSL.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's one of.

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Speaker 7: The reasons why Big Citrus is so fun, is that

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Speaker 7: it's like, oh, I get to sit down with friends

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Speaker 7: and talk about women's sports. In the case of the slices,

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Speaker 2: Totally agree, Bianca.

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Speaker 1: A couple of people wrote in Some Things Outside of

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Speaker 1: that top three.

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Speaker 3: Though, right, yeah, bunch, and I thought it was great.

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Speaker 5: I totally agree with this person who wrote in and

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Speaker 5: said the good game good Game FU is my favorite.

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Speaker 5: Someone else said, like they listen to just they're waiting

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Speaker 5: to see what the FU is every day.

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Speaker 3: I love that because I too, am interested every day.

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Speaker 5: Someone else said I love when Sarah gets zesty about

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Speaker 5: social happenings and does a little preaching.

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Speaker 1: Sarah, I like that, and I will say so many

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Speaker 1: slices I meet in the wild, that is one of

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Speaker 1: the first things they say, like, thank you for speaking

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Speaker 1: on issues, thank you for calling people out, like we

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Speaker 1: need more of that.

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Speaker 2: So good note to me.

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Speaker 1: Everyone loves my preaching, especially conservative websites.

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Speaker 7: Miserable Sarah spinn gets on our high horse again exactly.

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Speaker 5: And then someone said, insert sport and gay shit, just

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Speaker 5: any any sport, love.

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Speaker 2: It and gay shit. We got plenty of that, any

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Speaker 2: topic and gay shit. Yeah anything and gay shit. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, We've yapped enough today, but I want to

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Speaker 1: zoom out for a second before we close this out

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Speaker 1: and talk about one of the biggest takeaways from the survey,

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Speaker 1: which is that most people have been listening for a

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Speaker 1: real long ass time, like, and most people listen to

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Speaker 1: every episode, and most people listen to the full episode,

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Speaker 1: which I love.

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Speaker 2: And I want to say thank you.

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Speaker 1: And it is a lot of time, like we said,

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Speaker 1: almost five hundred episodes worth, but we hope we make

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Speaker 1: it worth your while and we hope that we've created

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Speaker 1: this ongoing conversation that you're a part of.

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Speaker 2: And we love hearing from you.

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Speaker 1: We love getting your emails and voicemails. We want more

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Speaker 1: of you to chime, and we love the super slices.

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Speaker 1: But if you're someone who's hurd almost every episode and

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Speaker 1: you've never written in, tell us about yourself, like, we

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Speaker 1: want to hear more about who you are. I especially

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Speaker 1: love it when we'll get an email from someone that's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Hall of Fame basketball coach and I love

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Speaker 1: the show and I'm like, oh my god, amazing, or

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Speaker 1: like here's me playing in the very first women's game

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Speaker 1: oh my god.

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Speaker 2: These are the people that have been waiting for this

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Speaker 2: show for decades and it's here now and they're so happy.

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Speaker 2: We want to hear from you.

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Speaker 7: I want to hear from the people who are like me,

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Speaker 7: and by that I mean as a big podcast listener.

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Speaker 7: I can count on one hand, in fact, one finger,

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Speaker 7: the number of times that I have sent in an

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Speaker 7: email to a podcast like letting them know my thoughts,

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Speaker 7: Like I just kind of am like I listen and

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Speaker 7: then keep my thoughts lurking.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to hear from the lurkers.

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Speaker 3: The longtime listeners, first time emailers.

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Speaker 2: Longtime lurkers, first time callers.

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Speaker 1: And then the final question that we asked was if

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Speaker 1: y'all had ideas or feedback for us, whether that was

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Speaker 1: guest recks, segment ideas, that kind of stuff. I had

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Speaker 1: a lot of great ideas. We're going to chase down

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Speaker 1: a lot of them. We're going to try to find

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Speaker 1: a lot of the folks you want to hear from,

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Speaker 1: and we want to share. One response that was particularly nice,

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Speaker 1: a listener wrote, quote, I find that even if I

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Speaker 1: don't like the topic of the show from the title,

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Speaker 1: I still listen and learn something or I'm surprised that

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Speaker 1: I like the interview more than I thought I would

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Speaker 1: love the show, keep kicking ask the show is a

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Speaker 1: bright spot in my day.

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Speaker 2: End quote. First of all, we.

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Speaker 1: Love that and that is our job, right And I

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Speaker 1: say this all the time, is it is our job

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Speaker 1: to take something that you might not even know is

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Speaker 1: interesting and tell you why it is. There are a

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Speaker 1: couple shows that I feel that way about, and I've

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Speaker 1: mentioned this show many times here, But we can do

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Speaker 1: hard things with Glennon Doyle, Amanda Doyle and Abby Wambach,

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Speaker 1: Like there's so many guests that they've had on where

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Speaker 1: I have a little bit of maybe even judgment about

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Speaker 1: them when it starts, and by the end I have

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Speaker 1: such a better understanding of humans and why they are

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Speaker 1: the way they are, and people who are saddled with

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Speaker 1: challenges I don't have, or who see the world differently

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Speaker 1: than I do. And even if by the end I

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Speaker 1: still think we're very different, I move through the world

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Speaker 1: better because I consider all the different ways that you

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Speaker 1: can show up as a human being from hearing all

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Speaker 1: those perspectives. And I feel the same way about the

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Speaker 1: guests and the topics and the people that we talk

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Speaker 1: to here. Not everyone's going to be a grand slam,

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Speaker 1: but I do think that everybody fits into this larger

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Speaker 1: conversation and they're all pieces of this bigger puzzle. We're

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Speaker 1: trying to put together and that has been left untold

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Speaker 1: for way too long. So we really appreciate when we

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Speaker 1: hear that y'all feel the same way. Not sure about

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Speaker 1: this one, Oh my god, that was fascinating. The crotch Machine.

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Speaker 3: Who knew I always come back to the crotch Machine.

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Speaker 7: Well, it reminds me a little bit. I love listening

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Speaker 7: to old school radio in the car because there are

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Speaker 7: so many times where I listen to a story on

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Speaker 7: NPR and I'm like, I never would have clicked on

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Speaker 7: that link, but I am so glad I listened to

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Speaker 7: that just now. And I try to do that with

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Speaker 7: podcasts too, sometimes more successfully than others. But yeah, just

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Speaker 7: like you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover,

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Speaker 7: don't judge a podcast by its title.

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Speaker 4: But we also work really hard coming up with the titles.

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Speaker 1: Do judge it if the title is incurable taint rash.

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Speaker 1: We want you to make sure that you listen to

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Speaker 1: that one. Thank you so much to everyone who took

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Speaker 1: the time to take the survey. It's really truly, genuinely

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Speaker 1: amazing to hear what the show means to you and

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Speaker 1: how it fits into your lives and y'all genuinely gave

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Speaker 1: us some really great feedback, including some constructive feedback, which

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Speaker 1: we welcome.

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Speaker 2: Also want to shout out producer Brad. That's my husband.

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Speaker 2: He listens every.

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Speaker 1: Morning and occasionally lets us know if we've made an error.

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Speaker 1: He does also say some nice things, but most of

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Speaker 1: the time the first text is you're missing ads here

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Speaker 1: or I didn't get credits at the end of this one,

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Speaker 1: So shouts to producer Brad.

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Speaker 2: He's not on the payroll, but I mean he's kind

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Speaker 2: of on the payroll. This is the household income.

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Speaker 1: Most of you decided, by the way, when you took

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Speaker 1: the survey to give us your email so that you

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Speaker 1: could be eligible for the price. So we have used

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Speaker 1: a random number generator to pick a winner. Keep an

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Speaker 1: eye out on your email inbox this week to see

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Speaker 1: if you won. Check your spam two just in case.

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Speaker 4: All right, Thanks Alex, thanks Bean, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, some super fun slice work, Welcome

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Speaker 1: back slices. We love that you're listening, but we want

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Speaker 1: you to get in the game every day too, So

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Speaker 1: here's our good game play of the day. Remember to

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Speaker 1: watch or rewatch bend it like Beckham before the first

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Speaker 1: edition of Big Citrus and Chill, our brand new movie club.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be talking all about the film in

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Speaker 1: next Tuesday's episode, so you've got a week to do

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Speaker 1: your slice work and watch the movie. If you couldn't

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Speaker 1: tell by this entire episode, we love to hear from you,

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Speaker 1: so please hit us up on email Good Game at

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Speaker 1: wondermedianetwork dot com or leave us a voicemail at eight

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Speaker 1: seven two two four fifty seventy. Thanks for listening. We're

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Speaker 1: off tomorrow, but we're back on Thursday with a very

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Speaker 1: special announcement. I think you're going to love it. Hint Hint,

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Speaker 1: Good Game slices who took our listener survey. Good Game

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Speaker 1: Big Citrus producer a daily show with a very small team.

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Speaker 2: You only twenty four hours in a day.

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Speaker 1: The people want more women's sports content and we're trying

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Speaker 1: to keep up. Good Game with Sarah Spain is an

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Speaker 1: iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports

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Speaker 1: and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by

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Speaker 1: Wonder Media Network, our producers are Alex Azzi and Bianca Hillier.

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Speaker 1: Our executive producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan

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