Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're screaming
Speaker 1: I'm a Golden guy before cannonballing into the deep end
Speaker 1: of the pool. We're still on summer break, but Big
Speaker 1: Citrus got you. Today we're bringing you a special episode
Speaker 1: we're calling Summer Squeeze. Consider it our gift to you books, music,
Speaker 1: movies and getaway rex as the day's heat up and
Speaker 1: your office Summer Friday's policy kicks in and don't forget.
Speaker 1: We'll be back to our normal daily schedule next Monday
Speaker 1: with the start of season two. For now, settle in
Speaker 1: as producers Alex and Misha join me for a good old,
Speaker 1: Big Citrus chat about our favorite summer activities and getaways,
Speaker 1: and some reflections on season one of Good Game with
Speaker 1: Sarah Spain that's coming up right after this welcome back slices.
Speaker 1: I'm joined now by producer Misha producer Alex for a
Speaker 1: Big Citrus Summer Squeeze. What's up y'all? Hi? Hello?
Speaker 2: Oh, can't wait for this.
Speaker 1: I know. Let's start with talking a little about season one.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna start by saying my favorite thing about
Speaker 1: season one. Well, I have to do too. I can't
Speaker 1: just say one. My two favorite things about season one
Speaker 1: are number one, how quickly the slices assembled. It felt
Speaker 1: like we had this community within a week or two,
Speaker 1: which was really incredible. People were completely bought in and
Speaker 1: loved what we were doing right away. And number two,
Speaker 1: the words of affirmation from frickin' legends, like having legendary
Speaker 1: female athletes, business women, coaches, just like people who know
Speaker 1: their shit telling us from pretty much day one, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I love this show. This is what we've needed.
Speaker 1: This is so great. We love how you're covering it,
Speaker 1: the shouts for you all and you're producing Everybody raving
Speaker 1: like how is this a daily show? The quality is
Speaker 1: so high for something that gets turned around every day,
Speaker 1: Like I just hearing it from the people that I
Speaker 1: respected and that mattered the most. Like, I think that's
Speaker 1: what stands out to me from season one is it
Speaker 1: felt like we just hit the ground running right away.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I totally feel that. The number of times that I've
Speaker 2: reached out to a guest to be like, hey, can
Speaker 2: we book you on the show, and their responses of course,
Speaker 2: I already listen every day. I'm like I'm a slice
Speaker 2: and they're like, hey, producer Alex, I'm like, I'm used
Speaker 2: to being a nobody.
Speaker 4: And you know who I am and your face that's
Speaker 4: the more wild part because one of my highlights from
Speaker 4: season one was going to that end of USL Championship
Speaker 4: with you, Sarah and going to the media day and
Speaker 4: running into Slice Stacy and having Stacy be like are
Speaker 4: you Producer was like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like you want an autograph?
Speaker 4: Like, I didn't say all that. I didn't say, but
Speaker 4: I'd definitely say that's one of my highlights.
Speaker 3: It was super cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just really excited for season two and for
Speaker 1: all the existing slices to tell everyone they know about
Speaker 1: the show so we can make the community even bigger,
Speaker 1: because that's just it's just been really, really fun. I
Speaker 1: had a friend the other day ask me if I
Speaker 1: if we've basically had my top five guests on, Like
Speaker 1: if I could make a list of the people I
Speaker 1: most want on, And I was like, oh, hell no.
Speaker 1: We got some big fish we still have out in
Speaker 1: the pond. One of them is more of a swimming goat.
Speaker 1: Simone Biles needs to get her ass up on this show.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of folks that we still have on
Speaker 1: our wish list, so plenty to shoot for in season two.
Speaker 2: I just want to need to know where every single
Speaker 2: person that you mentioned in the need to Know is
Speaker 2: friend of the show? Simone Dial, Yeah, i'd been in
Speaker 2: the show, Kitlyn Clark a friend of the show, Asha Wilson.
Speaker 1: Eventually, we're not gonna be able to say that every
Speaker 1: single time because we've had someone on. Friends of the
Speaker 1: show will have to be more selective, or the entire
Speaker 1: script will be made up with friends of the show, or.
Speaker 4: We have a disclaimer at the top that just says
Speaker 4: be aware everyone we're about to talk about on our show.
Speaker 1: Aware everyone is a friend of the show.
Speaker 2: Or it will be like not friend of the show.
Speaker 1: We'll just shout them out when they haven't come on yet.
Speaker 1: What's that phrase, stranger's just a friend you haven't met yet.
Speaker 1: That's that's what our show motto is. Someone who hasn't
Speaker 1: been on the show yet is just a friend of
Speaker 1: the show we haven't had on yet. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: our break y'all. First of all, I'm so proud of
Speaker 1: both of you the amount of work that we put
Speaker 1: into this show. I tried to describe it to someone
Speaker 1: the other day, and I was like, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like trying to do a very short sports center with
Speaker 1: three people. Yeah, Like that's a great like ne to
Speaker 1: know is short, it's not a full half hour an
Speaker 1: hour show, but it's a lot of work. It's the
Speaker 1: team of three to go across every single team, league,
Speaker 1: news outlet, social media. And that's why we do it
Speaker 1: because it doesn't exist anywhere. You literally can't open a website,
Speaker 1: turn on a show, turn on a TV, listen to
Speaker 1: a podcast other than ours, and get the news of
Speaker 1: the day every day. And so it's it's worth it.
Speaker 1: But I'm proud of us, and we deserve this break.
Speaker 4: Do y'all don't know the half we've been going through
Speaker 4: it for y'all, but for you know, like you said,
Speaker 4: the purpose of making sure that this exists somewhere, because
Speaker 4: we all talked about it at the very beginning, how
Speaker 4: frustrating it was for whatever sport to have to go
Speaker 4: scouring and searching, and that's just not the environment we
Speaker 4: want for women's sports.
Speaker 3: The thing we all love that we.
Speaker 4: Want so many more people to love too. We don't
Speaker 4: want it to be hard for them to access what
Speaker 4: we see, and.
Speaker 1: We want to do it right, which I'm not going
Speaker 1: to call it any other shows, but we work really
Speaker 1: hard to make sure we're pronouncing names right, to make
Speaker 1: sure we're getting stats correct, to get the context around things.
Speaker 1: Because it's also really important to be a show that
Speaker 1: proves that you can give the same extreme high quality
Speaker 1: to women's sports as men's sports have been getting for years.
Speaker 1: It's not just about being a fan and a cheerleader.
Speaker 1: It's about giving it journalism and giving it the value
Speaker 1: that we know the games and the players have. I
Speaker 1: also have to shout out some slices helping us in
Speaker 1: that regard. Yes, Joey Malda NATO's calendar remains unparalleled and
Speaker 1: so helpful, and he just did that himself. Patch yourself
Speaker 1: on the back Aaron Ra's spreadsheet of everything we've ever recommended,
Speaker 1: all the sites we've sent people to, the books that
Speaker 1: have been featured on our show. We're going to put
Speaker 1: links to all those in the show notes of this
Speaker 1: episode too, because we need to keep having new listeners
Speaker 1: recognize that that stuff is out there and that they
Speaker 1: can use it, because damn, those are some good slices.
Speaker 1: Super slices for sure.
Speaker 2: We had Lindsay gibbson a couple days ago, and she
Speaker 2: mentioned keeping track of the women's sports calendar is a
Speaker 2: full time job, and that's something that Mish and I
Speaker 2: have honestly kind of struggled with a little bit. How
Speaker 2: do you plan a daily show while also planning for
Speaker 2: a month in advance for also planning oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: the Olympics our next winter. Yeah, the long term short
Speaker 2: term planning of it all. When you have so many
Speaker 2: leagues and teams all happening at the same time. It
Speaker 2: goes back to the same thing, right, Like women's sports
Speaker 2: is treated as a eat. It's not a beat.
Speaker 1: It's not a beat.
Speaker 2: It's forty seven beats.
Speaker 1: It's all the beats. Yeah, yeah, many beats. I just
Speaker 1: did a radio hit this week and the guy was like,
Speaker 1: so good game with Sarah Spain. You know, as someone
Speaker 1: who's not in the women's sports space, is there enough
Speaker 1: content to fill a show every day? And I was like, Bro,
Speaker 1: don't you worry, don't you worry.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna yes stand that though, because there is so
Speaker 2: much content still though that is not being reported on
Speaker 2: the fact that so many WNBA teams don't have a
Speaker 2: full time beat reporter who that is their sole job
Speaker 2: during the season. That means that there are press conferences,
Speaker 2: that there are practices that people aren't going to. And thus,
Speaker 2: you know, we rely on a lot of great sites
Speaker 2: and great reporters for putting the need to know together.
Speaker 2: And so I am sure that there are plenty of
Speaker 2: stories out there that just aren't being told because there
Speaker 2: aren't reporters in the room.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 2: It's not that there's not enough content though, it's just
Speaker 2: that there needs to be more of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I completely agree on that, and we're doing our best.
Speaker 1: But like we keep asking, if there's more you want
Speaker 1: to see of something, if there's more of a certain sport,
Speaker 1: a certain athlete, a certain league, let us know, because
Speaker 1: we also want to make sure we're giving the slices
Speaker 1: what they want. Yeah, speaking to giving people what they want.
Speaker 1: We wanted a break, which is what we're taking. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about some fun summer stuff first, mesh favorite
Speaker 1: summer activities, I mean.
Speaker 3: Playing pickup, playing basketball.
Speaker 4: Though it hurts now definitely that there are people don't
Speaker 4: know this in the DMV area, there are a lot
Speaker 4: of like hidden little beaches in little spots and little cuts.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to give you all the details because
Speaker 4: I would like them to say pretty you.
Speaker 1: Know, pretty empty, Okay, Rick Steves, We're not like putting
Speaker 1: out a guidebook.
Speaker 4: But definitely going to some of those little beaches and
Speaker 4: going on hikes.
Speaker 3: The DMV is an excellent.
Speaker 4: Area for going on a hike, but when it's ninety
Speaker 4: seven degrees, maybe not so. Hoping for some cloudier days
Speaker 4: and cooler days to do that.
Speaker 2: What about you, Ele, I just like existing outside during
Speaker 2: the summer, being able to go outside and not bring
Speaker 2: a sweatshirt or down coat or hat and gloves and
Speaker 2: winter boots. It just feels so freeing. I love walking
Speaker 2: on the beach. I love eating outside at all the restaurants.
Speaker 2: I love my garden. I love having bonfires and having
Speaker 2: friends over. So just trying to spend as much time
Speaker 2: as possible outside while I can.
Speaker 1: That is one thousand percent my answer. Being from Chicago.
Speaker 1: I spend so many weeks in the winter making lists
Speaker 1: of what I want to do when it gets warmer,
Speaker 1: and that when it gets nice out, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I gotta bike along the lakefront and have flat fire
Speaker 1: and have everyone over for like dinner in my backyard
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. So yeah, and I love
Speaker 1: taking There's a park not far from my house. It's
Speaker 1: about an hour round trip, like thirty minutes each way
Speaker 1: to walk the dog there, and then once we're there,
Speaker 1: there's amazing like ponds and lily pads and creatures and
Speaker 1: just it's beautiful. And when it's cold out, I don't
Speaker 1: want to spend an hour just getting there and have
Speaker 1: it be kind of sad looking. But in the summer,
Speaker 1: I just want to spend as much time there and
Speaker 1: go up to my parents' place in Michigan. They've got
Speaker 1: a spot about ninety minutes outside Chicago where we can
Speaker 1: just let the dogs run free and lay in a
Speaker 1: hammock and read a book and you know, do all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So I'm really excited for that, which brings
Speaker 1: me to summer getaways. Do you have favorite summer getaways,
Speaker 1: because I'll give you my answer, which is I try
Speaker 1: not to leave Chicago in the summer. I will if
Speaker 1: there's an amazing like European vacation or some opportunity to
Speaker 1: go do something that's scheduled during the summer, I'll leave.
Speaker 1: But I dig my heels in and I try to
Speaker 1: spend all of July and August if possible in Chicago
Speaker 1: enjoying summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm the exact same way. I don't leave New
Speaker 2: Hampshire during the summer, especially because I can't leave my
Speaker 2: garden for more than two days, Like I'll have way
Speaker 2: too much work to do when those tomato suckers come
Speaker 2: in and getting unwieldy by the time I get home.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I'm gonna put up with the New Hampshire winter,
Speaker 2: then I get the reward that is in New Hampster summer.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. It's funny.
Speaker 4: I love to get away in this area if you
Speaker 4: haven't noticed. And there's actually this company that used to
Speaker 4: be called Getaway House that's actually now called Postcard that
Speaker 4: has these little tiny cabins, and one of them is
Speaker 4: in the Shenandoah Valley, which is about an hour and
Speaker 4: a half from me, So it's kind of a getaway,
Speaker 4: but not really.
Speaker 3: It's not that far.
Speaker 4: And I love love doing those tiny cabins, standing in
Speaker 4: a tiny cabin for a couple of nights.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done a little a frame?
Speaker 3: A little a frame?
Speaker 1: I always dream of staying in an a frame. They
Speaker 1: look so cute. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: It looks like it's a tangle, like yeah, but yes,
Speaker 4: I would love to do that too. But the tiny
Speaker 4: cabins are pretty much the same vibe. But they have
Speaker 4: this one window of them that's like just window, Like
Speaker 4: the entire wall is just window.
Speaker 3: And I love to just be in the forest and in.
Speaker 1: The woods and that sounds magical.
Speaker 4: It's great postcard sponsored.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you that Shannandoah Valley sounds like made
Speaker 1: up to me? Places? Well, okay, So we talked about
Speaker 1: this one time, because y'all like to write in the show.
Speaker 1: When we're talking about places, you'll say down in or
Speaker 1: over in from where you are, and I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: not where I am. And so Alex was telling us
Speaker 1: how Swans are like a big thing in Boston and
Speaker 1: we're like, okay, sure, Like how the part of the
Speaker 1: country you're in, you just like know places and names
Speaker 1: that are like normal, like Shannandoah Valley that sounds like
Speaker 1: fake is part of like a little house on the
Speaker 1: Prairie script like or some like move book I read
Speaker 1: as a kid, like, Oh, we spent our summers in
Speaker 1: the Shenandoa vout it's something fake.
Speaker 4: I can't assure you it's very real.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's like the Ozarks. Yeah, the Ozarks. Those are
Speaker 1: you know, they're real. But where are they?
Speaker 3: That's a great question.
Speaker 1: And where's Martha's vineyard? Is it in New Hampshire?
Speaker 2: No, Martha's been hard to get to. It's off the
Speaker 2: coast of Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: I should know where the Ozarks are though, because I
Speaker 4: hate that show up.
Speaker 1: I love Jason Bateman Highland in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Can I get a little.
Speaker 3: More Google helping?
Speaker 1: Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma?
Speaker 3: Oh? Oh, I did say night.
Speaker 1: I was way off. I thought it was out easy.
Speaker 3: Oh jeez. The more you know, this is.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying. There's just places that people refer to
Speaker 1: that like they go on vacation and stuff, and they
Speaker 1: sound like fake places.
Speaker 2: Like all the islands off of South Carolina. I'm like
Speaker 2: a nag's head.
Speaker 1: What Hilton Head? I used to go to Hilton Head?
Speaker 1: I know that one. Anyway, we've really lost the plot here.
Speaker 1: The point is Alex and I aren't going anywhere, and
Speaker 1: Misha's going to the imaginary land of Genisilvay, which brings
Speaker 1: me to my next topic. Summer is the best season,
Speaker 1: yay or nay?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 4: I was born in the summertime, so how could any
Speaker 4: other time be better?
Speaker 1: Che which reminds me back when you're young, it sucks
Speaker 1: to have a summer birthday because you don't get to
Speaker 1: have a celebration in class. But when you get older,
Speaker 1: there is nothing better than a summer birthday because you
Speaker 1: can throw the killer parties when it's warm out, when
Speaker 1: everybody's got time off. Like my birthday bash. Every year
Speaker 1: is a destination. I have rented out a roller skating
Speaker 1: rink for a Studio fifty four party. I've done a
Speaker 1: full overboard themed boat party. I did a full day
Speaker 1: of Saturday Night Live that included going to Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live museum Harry carries I'm on a boat.
Speaker 1: I have a long string of extremely involved costume parties,
Speaker 1: and in the summer people will show up.
Speaker 2: Also a costume party in the summer versus for Halloween.
Speaker 2: By Halloween, it might be too cold to where you're
Speaker 2: a good costume.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I'll wear it anyway.
Speaker 2: I know you will.
Speaker 1: A well, not anymore now that I'm older, I wear
Speaker 1: Ellie the Elephant costumes, but back in the day, it
Speaker 1: could be zero degrees and I would still have on
Speaker 1: the tiniest sluttiest Halloween costume.
Speaker 4: I get sick every single time I try to do that. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm messing up the original with some sweatpants underneath or something.
Speaker 1: I don't really imagine you putting on the tiniest slutdies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, something with the something with no sleeves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's expand our definition of slutty.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, ye crying sleeves, hilarious without sleeves.
Speaker 1: Oh, we'll look at you. Were you guys summer camp kids?
Speaker 4: Absolute folutely. I was in every camp, every single camp.
Speaker 2: Like day camps or did sleep away like parent trap style, Oh.
Speaker 4: Not like not like going away to stay there camps
Speaker 4: like you have this this gym called the Freedom Center
Speaker 4: that had basketball camps and softball camps and all swimming
Speaker 4: camps and all sorts of stuff where you try to,
Speaker 4: you know, pawn your kids off to camp counselors for
Speaker 4: the day and then pick them up afterwards.
Speaker 3: So that was my vibe, not so much sleep away.
Speaker 3: I wasn't driving with that, I know.
Speaker 1: I wasn't why not you didn't like to leave your parents.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly as an only child. There's some serious attachment
Speaker 4: stuff happening there that I've gotten out of. But at
Speaker 4: that age, it would have been more work to try
Speaker 4: to get me to stay away.
Speaker 1: You know, I did the full parent trap, not only
Speaker 1: like sleep away camp, but my day you still had
Speaker 1: a trunk.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you guys even know about this? Kind of like
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, Sure, that's too young for me.
Speaker 3: Jk Rowling.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm so old. I'm talking original parent trap,
Speaker 1: not the Lindsay Lohan version, the Hailey Mills that I've
Speaker 1: already sung the song from a previous episode. Yeah Let's
Speaker 1: get together. Yeah yeah, Yeah. Anyway, you got a full
Speaker 1: ass trunk. It wasn't even a suitcase, and you just
Speaker 1: filled it with your clothes, your snacks, your books, your whatever.
Speaker 1: And it was like you were going away for years,
Speaker 1: but it was really like two weeks.
Speaker 2: Man. I really wanted to be a summer camp kid.
Speaker 1: Went to horseback riding camp twice. Ooh yeah, horseback riding camp.
Speaker 1: Some camp named after an Indian tribe that I can't
Speaker 1: remember the name of that was in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: And then Misha eventually got older and I had to
Speaker 1: be in every single basketball, field, hockey track, like sports
Speaker 1: became year round for aau and everything.
Speaker 4: When that started up, Oh, it was every other summer
Speaker 4: camp I was.
Speaker 3: I was there.
Speaker 4: We were in the four games a day, somewhere in
Speaker 4: the middle of South Carolina, somewhere in the middle acc
Speaker 4: no ac never shy.
Speaker 1: As like bleachers that your parents had to sit on
Speaker 1: with no back on them.
Speaker 4: The little courts that are put together like puzzle pieces
Speaker 4: that you know, any little edge of it could be
Speaker 4: up and trip you.
Speaker 3: And you know. It was a time though.
Speaker 1: I was getting my ass what by Sean Bradley's sister
Speaker 1: who was like six seven couldn't hit a damn shot
Speaker 1: to save her life, but she would just throw it
Speaker 1: up there, get her own rebound, and then keep shooting
Speaker 1: until she finally me, oh man, those are the days
Speaker 1: we got to take a quick break. More coming up
Speaker 1: after this? All right, what else are you going to
Speaker 1: be doing? Give me some either, Like let's say the
Speaker 1: slices out there have a couple months this summer that
Speaker 1: they want to fill. What are your book TV music recommendations.
Speaker 4: Music I gotta give it to this artist named k
Speaker 4: One okay kwn, their name is stylized, but she's just
Speaker 4: dropped an album. I just dug into it. I'm living
Speaker 4: my very best life. It's given me what I needed
Speaker 4: to give me for the summer. So definitely k One.
Speaker 4: I started watching The Sopranos, so I'm gonna like finish
Speaker 4: the Sopranos. I'm on a mission to like finish all
Speaker 4: the shows that people are like, this is the best
Speaker 4: show in the history of television. I want to finish
Speaker 4: them all so I can actually have a informed opinion
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: Did you watch mad Men yet?
Speaker 3: I haven't.
Speaker 1: That's on my top two for you for that like
Speaker 1: list is.
Speaker 4: Mad Men and Veep and Veep Okay, okay, heard you
Speaker 4: heard you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But the Sopranos, it's interesting, it's of its time, so
Speaker 4: I'm I'm recognizing that very quickly.
Speaker 3: But other recks I would give people.
Speaker 4: I don't know if people want to cry during the summer,
Speaker 4: I can cry any time.
Speaker 1: Of the year.
Speaker 4: So this is us, Like people say it's cheesy, People
Speaker 4: say this that once you get into this is us,
Speaker 4: you're staying in. So I would definitely say that and
Speaker 4: then on Hulu.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really fit the season that we're in.
Speaker 4: But if you haven't seen The Great North on Hulu,
Speaker 4: it's one of my favorite animated shows.
Speaker 3: It's almost as good as Bob's Burgers. Almost.
Speaker 1: And you and your Bob's Burgers, man, I.
Speaker 3: Can pay that ring telling for you right now, thank you.
Speaker 1: What's what's like? Very briefly, very briefly, what's the premise
Speaker 1: of Bob's Burgers. They work at a burger place.
Speaker 3: Bob is the dad, Linda's the mom, three kids.
Speaker 4: They work and live on top of a burger place
Speaker 4: that Bob runs. And it's about all the antics and
Speaker 4: things they get into together.
Speaker 1: Okay, and I can watch it as a vegetarian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's animated. No animals were hurt in the making
Speaker 2: of the show.
Speaker 1: No animals were harm you know what, though, I will
Speaker 1: cry about some damn animated animals too. You could put
Speaker 1: googly eyes on a lamp and I will cry about that.
Speaker 1: Pixar prove to us all you could literally animate a pencil.
Speaker 1: You could animate a piece of poop. If it has
Speaker 1: eyeballs in a mouth and something tragic happens to it,
Speaker 1: I will be crying within minutes.
Speaker 2: So I came across a dead bird the other day.
Speaker 2: I was like, we need to have a funeral for
Speaker 2: the bird, like in the office, Like that's what I
Speaker 2: need for closes this moment.
Speaker 1: That's me. I don't even kill spiders. I trap them
Speaker 1: and bring them outside because I don't want to kill
Speaker 1: them because I feel sad, real softy over here. Alex,
Speaker 1: what are your res.
Speaker 2: Well, Sarah. I am working on your previous assignment of
Speaker 2: watching Friends. I have made it through season one, episode one.
Speaker 1: You Got a Ways to Go?
Speaker 2: The last trink is hard for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's of its time. Yeah, you said
Speaker 1: about the Sobranos, it's an interesting show. I'd be curious
Speaker 1: if I liked it if I started it now. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that you bring the nostalgia of
Speaker 1: when you originally watched it, or even just the memory
Speaker 1: of having seen it already. You know, we all have
Speaker 1: comfort shows that you rewatch when you don't want to
Speaker 1: tax your brain with something new. So when I flip
Speaker 1: it on at like a hotel, usually if it's on,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember this. It's not like ooh,
Speaker 1: let me be thrilled and delighted by this brand new content.
Speaker 1: So it's a different journey for you right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious to see how the journey progresses. I
Speaker 2: do rewatch a lot of stuff, and the reason for that,
Speaker 2: I mean, there are probably a lot of reasons for it.
Speaker 2: But I often am making art while I watch TV,
Speaker 2: and so my hands and eyes are often busy, and
Speaker 2: so it's almost like I'm consuming TV as an audio form,
Speaker 2: and it allows me to rewatch it because then I'll
Speaker 2: sneak up glances and like see things I never saw.
Speaker 2: But it makes it hard to kind of get into
Speaker 2: new shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll use music or podcasts for something that's that involved,
Speaker 1: but I will do rewatches when I need to, like
Speaker 1: go through emails or something, because I don't like watching
Speaker 1: new shows that are really good and missing key points, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, you don't want to turn away for even
Speaker 1: a second of Veep or Girls five EVA or thirty Rock.
Speaker 1: Those are shows that have jokes within jokes within jokes
Speaker 1: within jokes, and you will miss them if you're not
Speaker 1: fully paying attention. And they're so smart that I try
Speaker 1: it to look away. Okay any more Rex al Okay. Books,
Speaker 1: If you haven't read TJ. Klun's The House in the
Speaker 1: Crilliancy Have you there if you read it?
Speaker 3: No, it's on my list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's delightful. You feel better every time you read it.
Speaker 2: The characters are so endearing. It's great as an audiobook too.
Speaker 2: So honestly, anything by TJ. Klune, He's probably been my
Speaker 2: author of the year.
Speaker 1: All Right, we got to get out of here. We've
Speaker 1: given them too many RECs. I have just a couple.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with books. These are really easy. Runs
Speaker 1: in the Family by Sarah Spain. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you ever heard of her. Oh oh, oh, who's that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You should read the book. I know I haven't mentioned
Speaker 1: it at all on the show. I wrote a book,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell everyone about it until I die.
Speaker 1: Please read it, Please order it. There's an audiobook too.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Mish and I both thought that it
Speaker 2: was a book about women's sports until like month four
Speaker 2: working on this podcast, when we thought to be like, Sarah,
Speaker 2: what's your book about?
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, it'd be way cooler if it was in
Speaker 1: terms of like joint promotion. But I contain multitudes. I
Speaker 1: can write about men as well. The Three Lives of
Speaker 1: Kate K by Kate Fagan, oh and The fast Track
Speaker 1: Inside the Surging Business of Women's Sports by Jane McManus,
Speaker 1: the three members of the Trifector releasing a book in
Speaker 1: the same year, all of which are fantastic. You should
Speaker 1: read all of them. Three Lives of Kate K is
Speaker 1: a sapphic mystery thriller, a lot of lesbian love, Hollywood magic, mystery, intrigue,
Speaker 1: and it's written in a very clever way. And of
Speaker 1: course Jane McManus's book The Fast Track is a brilliant
Speaker 1: look at women's sports. So read all of those and
Speaker 1: then music. So I'm going to give a couple musical
Speaker 1: recommendations and hopefully they cover a couple different genres for people.
Speaker 1: The first is my go to, which is sort of
Speaker 1: like indie singer songwriter kind of emo stuff. Camp. If
Speaker 1: you don't know camp with two a's, listen to Camp.
Speaker 1: They will make you very happy, especially just cruising around
Speaker 1: on a summer day or sitting in it, having a
Speaker 1: picnic in a park. I would start with all the
Speaker 1: Debts I Owe and By and By those are two
Speaker 1: songs that if you're not pulled in by those, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you. Mountjoy. I always talk
Speaker 1: about them. They're my friends, and they're the best, and
Speaker 1: they're so so talented, and just a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago they were the tiny little font on the bottom
Speaker 1: of the fest poster, and now they're at the top, headlining,
Speaker 1: and I'm so proud of them, and their new album
Speaker 1: is so good for them. I would start with silver Lining,
Speaker 1: Strangers and Highway Queen, but literally everything by Mountjoy makes
Speaker 1: me so happy, so listen to all of it. And
Speaker 1: then Joy Ola Decunn, whose name I can never say right,
Speaker 1: but I hope I said it right. It's spelled Ola
Speaker 1: d ok u N. I first saw actually at a
Speaker 1: fest with Mountjoy and Camp and she is so talented.
Speaker 1: She's so thoughtful. Her songwriting and the way she writes
Speaker 1: about the world as a black queer woman just so
Speaker 1: talented and has a little bit of like a Tracy
Speaker 1: Chapman esque vibe to her in terms of writing about
Speaker 1: the times, social issues and all the other stuff. And
Speaker 1: then the Dip start with the song Sure Don't Miss You.
Speaker 1: They sound old school, It's like a rhythm funk blues band.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's decades old, but it's current. It's
Speaker 1: so good, So listen to the dip start with sure
Speaker 1: don't miss You, and then Caine Coolto is this extremely
Speaker 1: special and unique like hip hop artist who has an
Speaker 1: incredible like life that started where he was suppressed in
Speaker 1: his queerness and his beliefs because of religion, and then
Speaker 1: his sense come out and he has this song KFC
Speaker 1: Santoria that is the nastiest hook, the most catchy beat.
Speaker 1: I heard it once and I was like, what is
Speaker 1: this and instantly needed to look it up. I haven't
Speaker 1: listened to a ton of his other stuff yet. I've
Speaker 1: just dived in, but I want you to know that
Speaker 1: the song starts with him saying extra crispy, you want
Speaker 1: my thick, deep fried, juicy looking breast wings, thick thighs.
Speaker 1: You want my thick, deep fried, juicy look and breast wings.
Speaker 1: I'm like if a hill billy hick was a big
Speaker 1: booty bitch wearing a little fem fit with which he
Speaker 1: asked shit born a South Florida man, I'm a palm
Speaker 1: beach git, but I was raising Kentucky on some moonshine,
Speaker 1: drink too many ku Klux Kardashians. Koch got that rash again. Oops,
Speaker 1: can't stop scratching it. That shit's viral. That's how the
Speaker 1: song starts. It is oh so good. It is so good.
Speaker 1: As soon as I heard Ku Klux Kardashians, I was like,
Speaker 1: what's happening? It's just you gotta you gotta listen to
Speaker 1: this saga the summer.
Speaker 3: For me, I'm gonna have to Wow. That was Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wait till you hear an actual rapper doing It's really
Speaker 1: gonna blow your mind. All Right, lots to read, watch
Speaker 1: and listen to. We gotta take another quick break when
Speaker 1: we come back. Even though it's summer vacation, you slices
Speaker 1: are still getting some homework. Welcome back, slices. We love
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Speaker 1: back in the day early on when I shared all
Speaker 1: those Taylor Swift Easter eggs? Or what about when we
Speaker 1: used a chime sound effect instead of a pencil scratch
Speaker 1: during the first couple weeks of the Need to Know
Speaker 1: and people universally hated it? Or how about when we
Speaker 1: realized that folks didn't limit their fucking around in finding
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Speaker 1: out people shit pretty much any damn day we want.
Speaker 1: It's been a year, y'all, and now it's time to
Speaker 1: say goodbye. Got a tuck Season one into bed, some nice,
Speaker 1: cool crisp sheets for summer. Can be a little eyemask.
Speaker 1: Good night wait, wait, don't go to sleep yet. Season one.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say goodbye. Let's just do like
Speaker 1: one more Season one episode this week, Just like one more.
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