Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where from now
Speaker 1: on we'll be shouting Rocket Top.
Speaker 2: Whenever we sink a three.
Speaker 1: It's Monday, December sixteenth, and on today's show, Alex, Meish
Speaker 1: and I catch up on a big weekend of life
Speaker 1: and sports. Alex talks Art, Meich talks progress, and some
Speaker 1: slices share their holiday traditions. Plus we'll talk about ours too.
Speaker 1: And it's time for the College Beb's Final Four. It's
Speaker 1: all coming up right after this. Welcome back, slices, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today.
Speaker 2: To volleyball.
Speaker 1: The final four is set Louisville, Pitt, Nebraska, and Penn State.
Speaker 1: We'll meet next weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. Here's how they
Speaker 1: got there. First, up, the hometown team Louisville, the number
Speaker 1: one seeded Cardinals punch their ticket with the three set
Speaker 1: to one win over nine time NCAA champ and second
Speaker 1: seed Stanford. On Saturday, Louisville will meet fellow number one
Speaker 1: seed and acc rival Pitt in the semi finals. This
Speaker 1: will mark the third straight year Louisville and Pitt have
Speaker 1: met in the Ncaattorney. Last year pitt defeated Louisville in
Speaker 1: the Elite eight the year before. Louisville got the w
Speaker 1: in the semifinals. Number one Nebraska also headed back to
Speaker 1: the Final four after.
Speaker 2: They swept Wisconsin on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Penn State earned the final spot with a win over Creighton,
Speaker 1: meaning all four top seeded teams qualified for the Final four.
Speaker 1: Final four gets underway on Thursday with back to back
Speaker 1: semi finals at seven and nine thirty pm Eastern on ESPN.
Speaker 1: National Championship game will be played on Sunday at three
Speaker 1: pm Eastern on ABC. Have you been checking your brackets?
Speaker 1: Producer Alex was in first at one point in the
Speaker 1: good game of Sara Spain Group and I was looking
Speaker 1: real rough, but I'm surging back, So check your brackets
Speaker 1: see where you are.
Speaker 2: There will be some trash talking that will take place.
Speaker 1: To college hoops, Tennessee smashed a wild record on Saturday.
Speaker 1: The Lady Vols recorded thirty three pointers in their one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine to fifty nine win over North
Speaker 1: Carolina Central. Yes, you've heard that correctly, one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty nine to fifty nine. That is an eighty point margin. Now,
Speaker 1: not only is thirty, the NCAA record for most three
Speaker 1: pointers in a game. It's also never been done in
Speaker 1: the WNBA or NBA either. Samara Spencer led the way,
Speaker 1: hitting nine threes, with eight of her teammates also recording
Speaker 1: at least one three. Also in college hoops, we got
Speaker 1: to tip our caps to the twenty fifth ranked Georgia
Speaker 1: Tech team, who pulled off an eighty two seventy six
Speaker 1: upset over number fourteen North Carolina on Sunday in Chapel Hill.
Speaker 1: The wind brings the Yellow Jackets record to eleven and
Speaker 1: oh good for the best start in school history. Head
Speaker 1: coach Nel Fortner squad is one of nine unbeaten Division
Speaker 1: One teams left across the country. So y'all might remember
Speaker 1: last week's conversation about co ed adult sports leagues and
Speaker 1: the etiquette code that we made with Josh Bart and
Speaker 1: Klaan Conahan. While certified slice, Amanda Vaalo had a few
Speaker 1: more suggestions. She emailed in and wrote in part, you
Speaker 1: guys are doing a great job.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge podhead.
Speaker 1: Podhead is what she said, and you've definitely made a
Speaker 1: top spot in my listens. Here are my suggestions if
Speaker 1: anyone is caught man splaining, they are assessed a foul.
Speaker 1: If repeated, this can be upgraded to a flagrant and
Speaker 1: the player can be asked to leave arena or playing
Speaker 1: field immediately. Any jokester with a joke about playing shirts
Speaker 1: versus skins must take a lap. If getting owned by
Speaker 1: a badass woman, don't be lame in fake and injury.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for making my world and the world in
Speaker 1: general a better place.
Speaker 2: Thanks Amanda.
Speaker 1: I was on date like number four with a guy
Speaker 1: once and we were playing one on one basketball at
Speaker 1: the gym and he full on one thousand percent absolutely
Speaker 1: guaranteed faked and angle injury because I was whooping that
Speaker 1: ass not attractive. We also had some friends on social
Speaker 1: that chimed in with their additions to the etiquette code.
Speaker 1: Dave on Blue Sky at DPS nine to five to
Speaker 1: two said, if it's not a piece of advice you
Speaker 1: would give to a male teammate on the bench between shifts,
Speaker 1: slash plays, slash whatever, don't give it to your female
Speaker 1: teammates unless they ask, I would add Doug Dennis on
Speaker 1: Blue Sky set, if a girl kicks your ass, don't
Speaker 1: be a whiss about it.
Speaker 2: Buy her a beverage of her choice.
Speaker 1: Love that addition, after somebody suggested to remember it's just
Speaker 1: a game, Jamie Bartlett on Blue Sky added, my version
Speaker 1: of this is you're not getting a scholarship today, Calm down,
Speaker 1: or there are no scouts out here.
Speaker 2: It works for all genders, big and small. I like
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: Finally, at that kraz On Blue Sky said, having seen
Speaker 1: it happen, don't take it personally if you're guarded or
Speaker 1: matched up with the player of the opposite gender. That
Speaker 1: is so true, especially because you have no idea what
Speaker 1: that person did before they got to you. They might
Speaker 1: be a d one superstar and you're throwing a fit
Speaker 1: about it and you're about to get cooked by the way.
Speaker 1: So thanks for all the thoughts on that. That was
Speaker 1: fun to make with them. It made me miss being
Speaker 1: able to play all that stuff. So if you are
Speaker 1: still capable, if your body is still functioning enough, free
Speaker 1: to play code adult sports, have fun with it, enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I miss it all right. We're gonna take a quick
Speaker 1: break when we come back. The Peals, the Grove Senior slices.
Speaker 1: We're still working on her Navy Hall, still working on this,
Speaker 1: and we're going to figure it out today, along with
Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff coming up next stick around.
Speaker 2: Welcome Back Slices.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you behind the scenes for a minute
Speaker 1: here and tell you that Alex, Mesh and I have
Speaker 1: been all over the globe and back and we have
Speaker 1: not really been together much at all for like a month,
Speaker 1: I want to say, because it was like Spain and
Speaker 1: Alex and I were there, and then it was Kansas
Speaker 1: City and Mesh and I were there, and then.
Speaker 2: Alex went to freaking Machu Pichu. I'm so jealous.
Speaker 1: And then I went to Mirror Ball in Arizona, which
Speaker 1: was a delight.
Speaker 2: And now we're all back.
Speaker 1: Together before we break again for Christmas and New Year's
Speaker 1: and everything. So we wanted to take this opportunity to
Speaker 1: catch up on a bunch of stuff, sports and otherwise.
Speaker 1: And the first thing is, well, really quick, Alex, can
Speaker 1: you give us a highlight from Machu Pichu?
Speaker 2: Because that is like top of my list right now.
Speaker 1: It's actually second's second on my list of where I
Speaker 1: want to go in the world.
Speaker 2: And it just looked magical from your Insta.
Speaker 3: I loved it. I did the Inca trail. My highlight
Speaker 3: was for sure. You wake up early the fourth morning,
Speaker 3: you walk almost in the dark, and then you get
Speaker 3: to the sun gate, which is the first place that
Speaker 3: you can see Machu Pichu from and it's just this beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful view.
Speaker 2: So it was stunning. Highly recommend.
Speaker 1: Okay, I feel like there was also like a babyl
Speaker 1: packet involved, which I was also jealous about.
Speaker 3: Yes, so my hotel hired a babyl paka and I
Speaker 3: guess the baby al pack is caretaker to come to
Speaker 3: the hotel every morning to meet and greet.
Speaker 4: Her name was ben Cheetah. She's eight months old.
Speaker 3: She rides to work in a taxi and she was
Speaker 3: lovely and soft and wore a very cute costume. And
Speaker 3: then a few hours after that, I was outside on
Speaker 3: the streets of Cusco with my friend Kate, and I
Speaker 3: am somebody I have traveled a lot. I know that
Speaker 3: when you get approached at the airport by a rando
Speaker 3: offering you a free or cheap taxi, you say no,
Speaker 3: like I know all the things.
Speaker 4: But across the street.
Speaker 3: From me, I see a woman carrying an even smaller
Speaker 3: baby alpaca and I just light up when I see it,
Speaker 3: and she sees my face and she b lines over
Speaker 3: to me, and before I know it, she hands me
Speaker 3: the baby alpaca and it's like, let me take a
Speaker 3: photo with you and the baby alpaca, and I was like,
Speaker 3: of course, that's what I want. And then as soon
Speaker 3: as she does, she's like, give me money, please, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, of.
Speaker 2: Course, Yeah, she ain't raising that artpacka for free, Alex.
Speaker 2: No she's not.
Speaker 5: No, she's not.
Speaker 3: And I had not had a Taurus mistake like that
Speaker 3: in a very long time.
Speaker 4: But super cute alpaka photo. Zero regrets.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say worth it. I'm gonna say worth it
Speaker 2: on that one. Okay.
Speaker 1: So the other thing I wanted to actually ask you
Speaker 1: about was over the weekend, you did an art show,
Speaker 1: and I don't think we've talked on this show at
Speaker 1: all about your art. So unless people have gone diving
Speaker 1: into your Instagram, which we don't normally list, they might
Speaker 1: not know that you are a very talented and prolific artist.
Speaker 2: So what did you sell? What was on the table?
Speaker 2: How'd you do?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I'm going to back up for one second,
Speaker 3: because this art show was at the Winnemore Center at
Speaker 3: the University of New Hampshire, and this is a building
Speaker 3: I grew up going to, and from the age of
Speaker 3: four until I went to college, I went to almost
Speaker 3: every single unh men's hockey game. Do not worry, I
Speaker 3: talked to my parents all the time about how they
Speaker 3: should have brought me to.
Speaker 4: More women's hockey games. Yep, got it covered.
Speaker 3: But up until probably like the age of six or seven,
Speaker 3: I did not watch the hockey games. I had my
Speaker 3: back to the ice and I did arts and crafts
Speaker 3: the entire game, and one of my parents was always
Speaker 3: on the lookout for flying puck to make sure that
Speaker 3: it wasn't going to bunk me in the.
Speaker 4: Back of the head.
Speaker 3: Eventually I started watching the hockey, but it was very,
Speaker 3: very cool to be back in this same space, to
Speaker 3: essentially be able to see my old seat from down
Speaker 3: on the ice where I was selling my goods. It
Speaker 3: was a super fun show. I make pressed flower lampshades.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite thing to make. I grew all the
Speaker 3: flowers in my garden and then I pressed them and
Speaker 3: I apply them to lamp shade. And as somebody who
Speaker 3: desperately waits for spring every year, they always bring me
Speaker 3: some real nice joy and light in the thing in
Speaker 3: the dark winter months.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: I do love that like full circle moment of your
Speaker 1: sitting in front of your table where the ice would
Speaker 1: be and selling the arts and crafts that you grew
Speaker 1: up starting to learn how to make like in the seats.
Speaker 2: That's really cool.
Speaker 5: I personally love the image of little Alex with their
Speaker 5: back turn to the to the accident. It feels on rare,
Speaker 5: but it also feels adorable. So that's yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: And I just need you guys to know.
Speaker 3: A few months ago, I was also at UNH because
Speaker 3: they hosted the women's Frozen four and I was determined,
Speaker 3: I really want to learn how to knit, because knitting
Speaker 3: is the one craft that you can do and watch
Speaker 3: sports at the same time and like not have your
Speaker 3: attention taken away from it. And so I was like
Speaker 3: in between periods trying to teach myself how to knit,
Speaker 3: but didn't go too well, so we're still working on
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 1: Alex is trying to combine her two loves at once.
Speaker 1: It's not enough to do them separately. They need to
Speaker 1: be done simultaneously. Also, Alex, if you ever write a
Speaker 1: book about becoming like a famous sports analyst slash artist.
Speaker 1: You've got the perfect little early metaphor of the day
Speaker 1: you finally turned around toward the ice and embrace.
Speaker 2: That you could love both crafts and sport. I love that. Well, congrats,
Speaker 2: super fun.
Speaker 1: I'm very jealous every time I have the tiniest opportunity
Speaker 1: to do a craft or get back into art, it
Speaker 1: is so calming and meditative, and I just don't do
Speaker 1: it enough.
Speaker 2: So whenever I see your posts, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, Oh, Alex is out there mixing paints and doing
Speaker 1: cool shit and I'm not doing that at all. Speaking
Speaker 1: of cool shit, meche, I loved your Insta post about
Speaker 1: watching progress in action. You're posting some of your work
Speaker 1: from the Rising Media Stars group that you were a
Speaker 1: part of, and we mentioned it a while back, but
Speaker 1: remind everyone what it is and some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that you've sort of learned over the last couple of months.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love talking about RMS now. So basically, it
Speaker 5: is a nonprofit started by la China Robinson, a world
Speaker 5: class broadcaster. She broadcasted the Olympics like women's basketball for
Speaker 5: all of my life. She's amazing. But a nonprofit basically
Speaker 5: set up to help early career broadcasters looking to get
Speaker 5: into those kind of careers network and learn and connect
Speaker 5: with the people in her network. So a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago, we went back down to Atlanta for the
Speaker 5: second time for like a two day intensive kind of vibe,
Speaker 5: and the first day was covering the Atlanta Falcons versus
Speaker 5: the Chargers game, which was nuts. That was my first
Speaker 5: time ever doing football. I know football, but you know,
Speaker 5: as a spectator, and so it was challenging in that way.
Speaker 5: We had to do six different on camera hits, so
Speaker 5: basically for folks who were not into broadcasts, like thirty
Speaker 5: to forty five second, many stories about an aspect of
Speaker 5: the game or the players, and she threw some surprises
Speaker 5: in there. We had to do the press conference with
Speaker 5: head coach Rohie Morris and Kirk Cousins who threw four
Speaker 5: interceptions or in that game if you were watching it rough.
Speaker 5: So that was the first day, and then the second
Speaker 5: day we had about six hours of classroom sessions with
Speaker 5: everybody from Ros gold On, Woude, Tarico Foster, brasby Amina Hussein,
Speaker 5: who's the head of US Sports at Prime Video. Their
Speaker 5: talent department which is insane to have that kind of connection.
Speaker 5: And then we went to the Hawks game. The Hawks
Speaker 5: played the New Orleans Pelicans, got to meet Swin Cash,
Speaker 5: which everybody else nobody knew why I was so excited.
Speaker 5: We all learned about her beforehand because the China gave
Speaker 5: us an assignment, but as someone who grew up watching her,
Speaker 5: it's stuff like that, Connections like that that this program
Speaker 5: has been able to make for me and for other
Speaker 5: folks and just super exciting. One of the hardest things
Speaker 5: I've ever done, for sure, because I'm My aspirations are
Speaker 5: in play by play and color commentary. So I got
Speaker 5: the headset on and you can't see me for the
Speaker 5: most part, but you know, doing stand ups, being in
Speaker 5: front of the camera, getting used to doing that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff. It's the challenge I wanted it to be
Speaker 5: before I applied. So good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys don't follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 1: They post the most adorable little clips and photos of
Speaker 1: them doing the play by play. And I have promised
Speaker 1: to turn you into a meme and I just haven't
Speaker 1: had time. The aforementioned travels have gotten the way of
Speaker 1: me turning you into a meme. But it's going to
Speaker 1: happen meme worthy content, Yeah, for sure, and you and
Speaker 1: I answer you and I had some good like bonding
Speaker 1: conversations about doing hard stuff and microdosing failure and learning
Speaker 1: how to get into stuff that scares you. So I
Speaker 1: love that you're doing it, and I love that you're
Speaker 1: getting so much out of it. So shouts still a
Speaker 1: China Robinson. She's such a badass and it's helping out.
Speaker 2: The next generation is just so cool.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the next generation, that's the next topic I
Speaker 1: wanted to get into. And you, the three of us
Speaker 1: all like made the migration to Blue Sky around the
Speaker 1: same time, and it was interesting that I still occasionally
Speaker 1: will post on both Twitter and blue Sky, both because
Speaker 1: there are still people that haven't made the move that
Speaker 1: I want to get to, and also like for social
Speaker 1: questions and stuff. I still have so many more followers
Speaker 1: there that I got a lot more back sometimes over
Speaker 1: there than Blue Sky. But this was something I posted
Speaker 1: about this next generation of superstars, and the difference between
Speaker 1: the feedback I got on Blue Sky about what I
Speaker 1: wrote and what I got on Twitter was night and
Speaker 1: day and very illustrative of like what's going on in
Speaker 1: those sites right now.
Speaker 2: But I posted sort of.
Speaker 1: I had been posting about the Notre Dame Yukon game
Speaker 1: as it was going on, and posting about Hanna Hidalgo
Speaker 1: cooking because she was going off, and also that she's
Speaker 1: very entertaining. She did just about every different kind of
Speaker 1: three celebration you can.
Speaker 2: Across the course of that game.
Speaker 1: She was super hyped, she was getting the crowd into it,
Speaker 1: like she is definitely both a playmaker and an entertainer.
Speaker 1: At the end of the game, I just wrote and
Speaker 1: I said nice things about her play throughout. At the
Speaker 1: end of the game, I said kind of just kind
Speaker 1: of mad at Hannah Hidalgo for having problematic opinions and beliefs,
Speaker 1: because I just want to enjoy watching her play so
Speaker 1: bad and it kind of gets in the way. And
Speaker 1: for those who don't remember from previous shows, Hannah reposted
Speaker 1: Candice Owens on in saying that gay marriage is a sin.
Speaker 1: She's also had some other posts allegedly from her father
Speaker 1: who's a pastor, saying similar things.
Speaker 2: And it's especially.
Speaker 1: Complicated and fraught in women's college basketball, where a high
Speaker 1: percentage of players are queer, and the women's sports space
Speaker 1: where fans and players and people who she will be
Speaker 1: working with and playing with and against will probably have
Speaker 1: thoughts on her opinions about their life and their love.
Speaker 1: And that was not to say I hate Hanna Hidalgo,
Speaker 1: and it was not to say she can't grow and evolve,
Speaker 1: and it was not to say that a nineteen year
Speaker 1: old is a finished product. It was just to say
Speaker 1: it gets in the way, like when she's being real swaggy.
Speaker 1: Instead of my usual feeling for extremely swaggy women players,
Speaker 1: where I'm like, yes, I love this, it's tinged with
Speaker 1: like damn it, yeah, Like I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want swaggy from someone with those beliefs about people and
Speaker 1: their love and who they are and their identities.
Speaker 2: It makes me sad instead of wanting to root her on.
Speaker 1: And it's complicated and a lot of people could separate
Speaker 1: those and everybody on Twitter wanted to tell me how
Speaker 1: fucked up and stupid I am forgiven a shit and
Speaker 1: I'm terrible and you're an old lady and she doesn't
Speaker 1: give a fuck about you, and I'm like great, cool,
Speaker 1: And then on Blue Sky, it was almost entirely people
Speaker 1: who were like, totally get it, it's really hard, or
Speaker 1: like I'm a queer woman and I'm trying to watch
Speaker 1: and enjoy and it's really difficult for me to feel
Speaker 1: like that and blah blah blah. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask y'all how you deal with that, because I've always
Speaker 1: been my main thing is obviously people will be able
Speaker 1: to separate or not. But like, let's say I'm listening
Speaker 1: to music from somebody who is no longer with us
Speaker 1: and they were proven later to be problematic, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to go out and buy it. If it's on
Speaker 1: I might still enjoy it, and if it's extreme, like
Speaker 1: r Kelly, I don't even enjoy it anymore because I
Speaker 1: can't not think about it. Right. If it's an athlete
Speaker 1: and they're part of a team, I might still try
Speaker 1: to root for the team and not the athlete in particular,
Speaker 1: because it's a larger thing. And if it's an individual,
Speaker 1: it is difficult for me to root for them in
Speaker 1: the moment that they're playing, because then I'm actively rooting
Speaker 1: for them while knowing.
Speaker 2: That that's who were what they are.
Speaker 1: It feels different for me than like some musician that
Speaker 1: died fifty years ago and you find out that they
Speaker 1: were trash and I've always liked their music. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that sucks. I don't know, and I'm not making equivo.
Speaker 1: I'm not equivocating to get myself off the hook. That's
Speaker 1: just my natural sort of like gut.
Speaker 2: Niche. How do you handle it?
Speaker 5: It's so extremely tough, and you already kind of mentioned
Speaker 5: the caveat that means the most to me, which is
Speaker 5: Hannah Hidalgoes nineteen twenty. And I know from personal experience, right,
Speaker 5: because I believe it or not, Folks, there was a
Speaker 5: point in time where everybody in the world thought I
Speaker 5: was straight and baby that closet was glass, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. Not to say that, not to say
Speaker 5: that it's the same situation for Hannah, because I don't
Speaker 5: know her life or nothing like that. I just say
Speaker 5: that to say that was a product of the things
Speaker 5: that I had heard and taken in and it took
Speaker 5: me a long time to sort through that and make
Speaker 5: truth out of that. And so I say that to say,
Speaker 5: like Hannah hopefully has wnba aspirasus, I feel like that's
Speaker 5: the track. Where's it's safe enough to say we're looking
Speaker 5: at a league of players who are in gay marriages,
Speaker 5: who are getting proposed and hope to be in gay
Speaker 5: marriages and a very fraught time in our country's history
Speaker 5: in terms of you know, queer rights and things. So
Speaker 5: my hope is that she's gonna move on to have
Speaker 5: conversations with people around her that changed kind of her worldview, right,
Speaker 5: that changed the way she feels about things. But that aside,
Speaker 5: if it happens, if it doesn't in this current moment, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's really hard to be like, damn, I freaking love
Speaker 5: it in her dollgoes game like she Caitlin Clark last year,
Speaker 5: Like they said, something on fire inside me as somebody
Speaker 5: who loves the game of basketball to see the level
Speaker 5: of competitiveness and just balls to the wall. I don't
Speaker 5: care what happens. I don't give a about you or
Speaker 5: the rest of your team. That she has in her
Speaker 5: it is very hard to separate that out. But my
Speaker 5: saving grace is that she is a kid, and I
Speaker 5: do have hope for her future that you know, somebody
Speaker 5: will get in her ear and be like, baby girl,
Speaker 5: we know what you've been told, but it's gonna be
Speaker 5: different than the life that you walk. If you end
Speaker 5: up being in the w or what have.
Speaker 3: You Alex, Yeah, I think I want to step back
Speaker 3: for a second because something that I think we probably
Speaker 3: all agree happens a lot in society right now, is
Speaker 3: this villainization of someone at the first sign of something.
Speaker 4: And Hannah reshared.
Speaker 3: A video in which someone else said gay marriage is
Speaker 3: a sin. And I'm not making that distinction to let
Speaker 3: Hannah off the hook or to say that those aren't
Speaker 3: her thoughts, because if she's reposting it, those are probably
Speaker 3: her thoughts what I wish would happen, and I don't
Speaker 3: think has happened. But has anyone asked Hannah about this,
Speaker 3: because I think sometimes what happens is there's not kind
Speaker 3: of this check and balance system that happens in a
Speaker 3: lot of other arenas, right like if a politician or
Speaker 3: other public figure says something that's controversial, usually there is
Speaker 3: a follow up of clay rrifying or asking for more detail.
Speaker 3: And I don't feel like that's happened with her. And
Speaker 3: I think it even gets back to Sarah the conversation
Speaker 3: that you had with Alexa a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: about some of the other complicated topics and just the
Speaker 3: lack of reporters in this space and how much there
Speaker 3: is to cover, So not saying that to let Hannah
Speaker 3: off the hook. I just sometimes worry about what happens
Speaker 3: when we kind of come to conclusions based on one thing.
Speaker 3: That being said, I do think it makes it harder
Speaker 3: to root for her on the court. But am I
Speaker 3: rooting for her to continue to grow and change and develop.
Speaker 1: Off of it, absolutely, and rooting to keep watching her
Speaker 1: be amazing because it's great basketball and I would never
Speaker 1: not want that.
Speaker 2: It's just complicated, it's not as easy. And I completely
Speaker 2: agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think we have similar thoughts about Corbin Albert, and
Speaker 1: I think you can have really thoughtful conversations about how
Speaker 1: when you're a young person and you've been raised with
Speaker 1: a certain belief system, it is very hard to break
Speaker 1: out of your family systems and the expectation and say
Speaker 1: have for your beliefs.
Speaker 2: It is very hard, especially early on when.
Speaker 1: You've just left your family home, to change your mind
Speaker 1: about stuff like that. And that's why it's not that
Speaker 1: I'm mad at her or I dislike her. It's that
Speaker 1: it's hard for me because it makes me sad. I
Speaker 1: want her to be able to evolve her viewpoints and
Speaker 1: hold both things. If she wants to that she can
Speaker 1: be religious and spiritual, and she can believe in other
Speaker 1: people living their own truth and.
Speaker 2: Identity and be happy about it.
Speaker 1: I think your example is very true about sports, Like
Speaker 1: there's people like Sophie Cunningham that continue to confuse a
Speaker 1: lot of people. The Phoenix Mercury player that, according to
Speaker 1: the Internet and lots of allegations, she can't beat the
Speaker 1: rep that she's like a conservative Trump supporting whatever, and
Speaker 1: yet she's like bff with all of her teammates. They
Speaker 1: seem to embrace and love her so much. And how's
Speaker 1: that working? Like what's going on behind the scenes that
Speaker 1: we're not sure of? And I wish we could have
Speaker 1: more open conversations with those players, And you know, maybe that's.
Speaker 2: Part of our responsibility with this shit. Maybe we should
Speaker 2: be having them on and asking them.
Speaker 1: But I think also the reporters that are covering these
Speaker 1: teams regularly and the teams themselves, if there is an
Speaker 1: intention to be more transparent about what's going on, then
Speaker 1: do it. You know, that's been my complaint with Corbin Albert.
Speaker 1: I respect that Emma Hayes wants to do the calling
Speaker 1: in instead of the calling out and work with her.
Speaker 1: But if all of the things she's said have been public,
Speaker 1: then all of the work she's doing can't be private.
Speaker 2: We need to have a little bit of it out.
Speaker 1: For us to see and witness in order to believe
Speaker 1: that there's work going on. And I guarantee you probably
Speaker 1: not as many listeners of our shol though it's possible
Speaker 1: that there are plenty, would be in their heads arguing
Speaker 1: with us about they're allowed to believe whatever they want.
Speaker 2: This isn't about everyone agreeing this is sports.
Speaker 1: But I do think when it's what's at issue is
Speaker 1: people's fundamental rights and who they are. It is very
Speaker 1: difficult for me to reconcile that if I was alongside
Speaker 1: a teammate or someone that I had to work with
Speaker 1: regularly and they did not fundamentally believe that I could
Speaker 1: love who I wanted to love and be who I am,
Speaker 1: it would make it hard.
Speaker 5: That's what it comes down. Yeah, that's what it comes
Speaker 5: down to for me, because the first thing I remember
Speaker 5: when I saw that she had reshared that that posted
Speaker 5: Candice owns, and the first thing I was thinking, is, damn,
Speaker 5: I if she's got a teammate, If she's got a
Speaker 5: coach if she's anybody who's directly in that network who
Speaker 5: saw that post.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: And that's where I say, I hope conversations are being
Speaker 5: right as opposed to just silos. People are continuing to
Speaker 5: stand in their own silos and nothing ever changes. Yeah, tough,
Speaker 5: though tough.
Speaker 1: Okay, we just left that tough conversation for an even
Speaker 1: tougher one.
Speaker 2: You guys, we have to pick our name.
Speaker 1: Putting this off for weeks, we just gotta get We
Speaker 1: just gotta like start to you know, what's the what's
Speaker 1: the saying when you're when you're writing and you have
Speaker 1: to do some tough edits kill your darlings.
Speaker 2: We have to figure out how to kill our darlings.
Speaker 1: Some of these names are cute, some of them are
Speaker 1: close but not quite right. We just got to get
Speaker 1: rid of them. Here are the ones that I think
Speaker 1: we sort of narrowed it down to. Some people want
Speaker 1: to call us coach. It feels it feels right. We're
Speaker 1: telling them good game. At the end, we're handing them
Speaker 1: orange slices. Some of us want us to be senior slices,
Speaker 1: which in my head I keep saying senior slice because
Speaker 1: I picture like a little slice.
Speaker 2: That's that's Spanish speaking.
Speaker 1: But we're not seniors, so it doesn't really make sense,
Speaker 1: and none of you probably want to be just I'm
Speaker 1: the only one that's a senior citizen, so you don't
Speaker 1: want to be known as a senior slice.
Speaker 4: Can we get a discount?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, AARP for orange slices. We got good gamers,
Speaker 1: And when we were naming our slices, we said, we
Speaker 1: don't like gamers. The associations come along with, like the
Speaker 1: video gaming and gamer gait and whatever. We never thought
Speaker 1: that was quite right. We got good sports, which is good.
Speaker 1: We got peels, which is good. We're sort of on
Speaker 1: the outside holding all the slices together. We got orange blossoms,
Speaker 1: which are beautiful and a great smell. We've got the grove,
Speaker 1: which is sort of the headquarters where all the orange
Speaker 1: slices originate. We've got Slice HQ, which is a headquarters
Speaker 1: for the slices. What do we feel and what are
Speaker 1: we thinking? What's standing out to you? I told you
Speaker 1: my choice is the grove. I do like the grove.
Speaker 5: It makes for me a it has to make logical sense,
Speaker 5: and I think that still makes sense with the slices. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the slice has to become whole before it to be okay, fine,
Speaker 5: but grove makes sense. The rest of these flowers are cute.
Speaker 5: I like orange blossoms, but like, ah, it's not an
Speaker 5: I don't know. It doesn't feel sports related enough to me.
Speaker 5: The grove still feels like it could be the name
Speaker 5: of a bar, or like, I don't know, something like
Speaker 5: that senior slice. I'm gonna let you have that one
Speaker 5: old hit. You got it, od good gamers. I do
Speaker 5: feel the same way about that. Gamers leave that alone.
Speaker 2: Appeals to me.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be appeal Like, appeal is something
Speaker 5: that you do to exfoliate. Appeal is something you discard.
Speaker 5: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, appeal is not the part of the I mean,
Speaker 1: you can use an orange rine for recipes, but appeal
Speaker 1: is usually not the part of the orange you're looking for. Yes,
Speaker 1: so it seems like we don't want to be the
Speaker 1: part you pe off in discard.
Speaker 4: But the way you described it, Sarah, you are like,
Speaker 4: we hold all the slices together. That's such a nice.
Speaker 2: But so does the grove.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the grove is where all the slices hang,
Speaker 1: and like where it all originates. Yea, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to ruin the association, but you might be
Speaker 1: thinking that the grove sounds sporty like a sports bar
Speaker 1: because it's the name of ole Miss Tailgates, the tail
Speaker 1: gate at the Grove.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever heard of that.
Speaker 5: But that just sounds like a bar that would exist
Speaker 5: in DC somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it sounds like when we.
Speaker 1: Continue our general worldwide and international takeover, we will have
Speaker 1: grove franchise bars all the world where orange slices come
Speaker 1: together to watch women's sports.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Jenny Winn of the Sports Bra, we're clearly.
Speaker 1: Stealing your idea and then franchising it everywhere. The only
Speaker 1: problem with the grove is is like, are we in
Speaker 1: the grove the grove like we here at the grove
Speaker 1: at the grove, or are we.
Speaker 2: The grove where the trees?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I like. Trees and plants. You know,
Speaker 5: that's my ship. So if I can be a plant,
Speaker 5: I'll be the plant. And that's a grove. Let me
Speaker 5: let's I'm googled.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of an animal name, you know, like
Speaker 3: a pod of dolphins, you know, tree.
Speaker 1: A murder of crows and unkindness of ravens.
Speaker 2: That's real.
Speaker 5: Yeah, grove, I'm looking at pictures of groves right now
Speaker 5: that I mean, you're calming. It's quite. It's quite calming.
Speaker 5: It's quite, it's quite relaxing.
Speaker 1: So are we each individually a grove and are the grove?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well yeah, Well, now I'm thinking of like big Florida
Speaker 3: Energy and like the orange juice industry, and whether or
Speaker 3: not we have fair labor practices and are ethically treating
Speaker 3: our farmers.
Speaker 1: And we do not want Big Florida Energy. If there's
Speaker 1: anything we don't want, it's Big Florida Energy.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, we don't want to be accused of
Speaker 2: being big centrist.
Speaker 5: Oh well, have we met an impasse? Here? Are we?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: I think our brainstorming out loud will perhaps inspire some thoughts,
Speaker 1: and this way we can kick it down the road
Speaker 1: a little bit longer.
Speaker 2: So we're kicking the can down the road.
Speaker 1: We are tentatively hovering around the grove. But if someone
Speaker 1: were to swoop in with like just a no brainer
Speaker 1: that we missed, we will consider it. But we promise
Speaker 1: by the end of this week we will definitively, just
Speaker 1: pick something and stick with it.
Speaker 4: That's it until we change it. We're allowed to change n.
Speaker 2: We change it and evolve, just like Cana Hidalgo.
Speaker 5: We have commitment issues soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, last thing, my fellow growth first grover.
Speaker 4: Now now I already hate it.
Speaker 2: Now we're a muppet. Holiday traditions.
Speaker 1: After the break, we're going to chat about some great
Speaker 1: traditions from our slices. So I want to see if
Speaker 1: either of y'all have holiday traditions around this time of year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So my family, we always put up candles in every window.
Speaker 3: Nice and a few years ago, speaking to arts and crafts,
Speaker 3: I've found these old candles that my grandfather, who I
Speaker 3: never met he died before I was born, had made.
Speaker 3: And you know how, like old wiring, you probably shouldn't
Speaker 3: plug in if you want to prevent fires. Sure, all
Speaker 3: of the wires were like super exposed and dangerous.
Speaker 4: So I learned how to rewire them, and I remade
Speaker 4: these candles so that we.
Speaker 3: Mostly have the new plastic candles, but we do have
Speaker 3: the one old wooden candle that my grandfather made, and
Speaker 3: every year when I see it, it makes me very happy.
Speaker 1: Alex Is full of skills and crafts and abilities that are.
Speaker 3: Just about the time I fix the refrigerator.
Speaker 1: She's an electrician, she's a producer, she's an editor, she's.
Speaker 5: A Crafter's like, you're the personification of that bag that hermione. Nope,
Speaker 5: I don't want to make the Harry Potter reference. Actually
Speaker 5: get leave it alone. But if you know what I'm
Speaker 5: talking about, you know what I'm talking about. I know
Speaker 5: what you're talking about. Traditions. I don't really have a
Speaker 5: lot of them. My family's big on Kwanza, but we
Speaker 5: kind of do it our own way. We don't do
Speaker 5: it during the actual days of Kwanza. It's usually actually
Speaker 5: around the Martin Luther King Junior Holiday, which okay, just
Speaker 5: a little Jones spin on it. But personally, one thing
Speaker 5: that I really do a lot, not even just during
Speaker 5: the end of the year of the holidays, is I'm
Speaker 5: big on writing. I have a journal. I've always had
Speaker 5: a journal. It's how I like to process things. I
Speaker 5: was an only child coming up, so that's kind of
Speaker 5: just how.
Speaker 2: It worked for The journal is my friend.
Speaker 5: My journal is literally my journal and namesake. We were
Speaker 5: locked in a real bad but so towards the end
Speaker 5: of the year, I write down stuff I want to
Speaker 5: let go of. A lot of people probably do this,
Speaker 5: write it all down, sit with it for however long
Speaker 5: I feel like I really need to sit with it.
Speaker 5: And then I burn it in a small controlled fire
Speaker 5: and it.
Speaker 2: Caused by your grandfather's candle. Yeah, but that's I love that.
Speaker 1: When I was just at mirror Ball, I did a
Speaker 1: presentation for all our retreaters about mindfulness and neuroplasticity and
Speaker 1: how you manifest things using actual science, not.
Speaker 5: So time out. Time out. You went on vacation and
Speaker 5: you gave a but.
Speaker 1: It was like a retreat that I was running, so
Speaker 1: it was like a vacation. But I also participated by
Speaker 1: leading this lecture. And I'm really interested in manifestation and
Speaker 1: neural plasticity because people always say, oh, yeah, you asked the.
Speaker 2: Universe for it and then it gives to you when
Speaker 2: you rub your crystals.
Speaker 1: And that's fine if that's your thing. But I'm not
Speaker 1: super woo like that. I like the sciencey side, So
Speaker 1: meish if you ever want to talk offline about both
Speaker 1: the things you want to leave behind and either habit
Speaker 1: changes or things you want to bring into your life
Speaker 1: and the actual science way that you can change your
Speaker 1: habits and behaviors over time. It only takes twenty one
Speaker 1: days to change your thoughts, in only sixty six days
Speaker 1: to make them automatic if you are consistent and committed
Speaker 1: and you use the principles of neuroplasticity.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's off topic. I have many traditions. I'm
Speaker 2: only going to share a couple.
Speaker 5: You guys can't see how how she's smiling right now?
Speaker 1: I know, I just like love Christmas so much, and
Speaker 1: I love traditions, and I'm basically like I never was
Speaker 1: in a sorority because no, thank you, but if I was,
Speaker 1: I would have been social chair. And I'm basically social
Speaker 1: chair for my giant like friend group. And it's just
Speaker 1: a constant stream of me making people wear different outfits
Speaker 1: and go to different things and have the time of
Speaker 1: their lives. As far as I'm concerned, I don't need
Speaker 1: to hear otherwise if they're not having the time of
Speaker 1: their lives. But one of my traditions is our annual
Speaker 1: Christmas tree hunt. So my parents have a place in Michigan,
Speaker 1: about ninety minutes outside Chicago, and every year, usually the
Speaker 1: week after Thanksgiving so people can do Thanksgiving with family,
Speaker 1: we go to this Christmas tree farm. Well, first we
Speaker 1: go to big, like boozy lunch, and then we go
Speaker 1: to this Christmas tree farm and we take a horse
Speaker 1: drawn thing out to the field and you walk around
Speaker 1: and find your tree and cut it down yourself with
Speaker 1: a saw and then bring it back on the horse
Speaker 1: drawn thing and have all the like spice nuts and
Speaker 1: hot chocolate and stuff like that. Then we would usually
Speaker 1: go to a winery or somewhere in town and like
Speaker 1: keep hanging out, come back to my parents' house, have
Speaker 1: a big, huge pot luck where we cooked all sorts
Speaker 1: of things, and then play a bunch of board games
Speaker 1: and sleepover and come back the next day. There was
Speaker 1: a tree hunt running for like I don't even know,
Speaker 1: maybe eleven years. This year I had to take a
Speaker 1: pause because I was out of town. But we're back
Speaker 1: at it next year on the tree hunt. Also, I
Speaker 1: hate late Thanksgiving because it just like slows everything down,
Speaker 1: and then if you wait a week after Thanksgiving, suddenly
Speaker 1: your tree isn't into like December tenth. Okay, my other
Speaker 1: big tradition actually just happened this past weekend. It's called
Speaker 1: Fletch Navidad. This is our annual Christmas party, plus my
Speaker 1: dog Fletch's birthday. He turned thirteen at the end of November,
Speaker 1: so this was the twelfth annual Fletch Navidad. This year's
Speaker 1: theme was Liffletcher die Hard. And every year you can
Speaker 1: wear costumes, you can wear ugly sweaters, you could just
Speaker 1: be festive, and every year people get more and more
Speaker 1: involved because they know that we're going to like bring it.
Speaker 1: So this year, my husband, who's six ' five was
Speaker 1: Elf on a shelf, just a giant ass Elf that
Speaker 1: we were placing in places. And then I was basically
Speaker 1: the Zoe da Chanel Elf from the movie Elf, with
Speaker 1: like the little I.
Speaker 2: Think her name's Dobe or Dobby or whatever.
Speaker 1: Nobody didn't ever really call her by her name, and
Speaker 1: cute little pink and red little Elf outfit. And we
Speaker 1: always have I make a game using these solo cups
Speaker 1: that look like a Christmas tree, and then they have
Speaker 1: tissue paper covering. I mean, you have to come up
Speaker 1: and punch through and whatever's inside you have to do
Speaker 1: or eat or drink or whatever. So a lot of
Speaker 1: times it's mellort shots. That's Chicago this year, there's also
Speaker 1: like some dramatic readings where you had to read like
Speaker 1: one of the famous scenes from like National Lampoon, like
Speaker 1: why is the carpet wet Todd I don't know, Margo
Speaker 1: or things like that. And then we also have a
Speaker 1: dance off with the animatronic Santa that they chances that
Speaker 1: gets real nasty Santa just gets torqued one for twenty
Speaker 1: minutes straight and he never said, Oh, I.
Speaker 5: Thought it was a nasty Santa.
Speaker 4: You're saying people get.
Speaker 2: Nasty with no.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is a nasty Santa by the end
Speaker 1: of it. There's no way he can escape. Oh he
Speaker 1: is complicit and everything that happens to him, I've never
Speaker 1: once seen him stop dancing or walk away, so consensual
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. And then this year I
Speaker 1: also invented another malort related game where I changed all
Speaker 1: the lyrics to Santa claus Is coming to Town to
Speaker 1: Milert Clauses coming to town, and then throughout when I
Speaker 1: handed out pieces of paper to six people who had
Speaker 1: to sing it, and then different parts of the song,
Speaker 1: it would say something that would mean that they had
Speaker 1: to take a Milert shot.
Speaker 2: So I'm a benevolent Milert fairy.
Speaker 1: I'm mostly gentle, but I wouldn't be a real Chicago
Speaker 1: And if I didn't write actual Christmas carols about lort
Speaker 1: and force people to drink it. So those are my
Speaker 1: two main Oh, and I have a third one I
Speaker 1: forgot really quick. So then also a couple of days
Speaker 1: after Christmas, when all the tourists are out of Chicago
Speaker 1: and there's like a million pop up bars and beautifully
Speaker 1: decorated hotels and places, we do holiday day.
Speaker 2: Oh fun.
Speaker 1: Now this is where when all the tourists are gone,
Speaker 1: we do a full day again in sort of festive attire,
Speaker 1: and we go to a handful of different like deck
Speaker 1: pop up bars or other Christmas things. We go curling,
Speaker 1: and then usually start with like a big meal and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then we get to go around the city after
Speaker 1: like most of the tourists are gone and still experience
Speaker 1: the festive joy of the holidays.
Speaker 5: Wow, that was that feels like a so much love
Speaker 5: and work Welcome to my life. That is gonna be
Speaker 5: on my grapestone.
Speaker 4: So much love and work Spain.
Speaker 1: Always tied together pretty much though, I'm like, I'll put
Speaker 1: in the work because it's for love and I love
Speaker 1: bringing people together and having fun.
Speaker 2: So that is why I love the holidays.
Speaker 1: Okay, we gotta take a break, but when we come back,
Speaker 1: Supermarket sweep meets white Elephant. Yes, this is one of
Speaker 1: our favorite traditions from you slices, So stick around, Welcome
Speaker 1: back everybody. As you heard before the break, I love
Speaker 1: the holidays. I'm such a sucker for Christmas, and I
Speaker 1: love seeing all the trees in people's windows. I love
Speaker 1: the music and the decorations. I love how all the
Speaker 1: stores and everything feels so welcoming. And I love to
Speaker 1: hear about all of your unique and special traditions.
Speaker 2: So thanks to all.
Speaker 1: Of you for sending them in, and thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you for responding on social. Here were a few
Speaker 1: of the favorites that I saw so Dana og on
Speaker 1: Blue Sky said, tacky ornament exchange. This year I got
Speaker 1: pickless cage. Yeah, I just want you to know the
Speaker 1: picture is as amazing as you're imagining pickless cage. Tracy
Speaker 1: Lynch on Blue Sky said, I never put names on
Speaker 1: the wrapped presence that appear on Christmas Morning.
Speaker 2: Each GIF tag has a code name.
Speaker 1: I'm the only one with the code and the kids
Speaker 1: try to crack the code. By the time all the
Speaker 1: gifts are opened, I switch the code every year.
Speaker 2: They love it. That's really I love that.
Speaker 1: Tracy brent Sheppard on Blue Sky. In a tradition begun
Speaker 1: the first holiday we spent together, my ex and I
Speaker 1: still call each other late Christmas Eve for our annual
Speaker 1: reading of the David Sedara short story Dinah the Christmas Whore.
Speaker 1: This will be year eighteen and I can almost make
Speaker 1: it through the whole story without breaking. First of all,
Speaker 1: I love this because it's non traditional and now I
Speaker 1: want to go read Dineah the Christmas Horror. But also
Speaker 1: because I love the idea that you've been doing this
Speaker 1: for eighteen years and this is now an X and
Speaker 1: whoever y'all are with now, if you're with, everyone is like,
Speaker 1: oh there they go in the middle of Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: to go call their X and read a short story together.
Speaker 2: You sound healed therapy works.
Speaker 1: I think Kate w on Blue Sky said, we do
Speaker 1: a special pie based friends giving where the entire meal
Speaker 1: is a variety of pies, savory and sweet, so you
Speaker 1: can do dinner pie course followed by dessert pies. Every
Speaker 1: family brings at least two pies, but there's always an
Speaker 1: overachiever with a bonus pie.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. That sounds magical. Please invite me.
Speaker 1: Kate jack Orian and his kids put out and rearranged
Speaker 1: the holiday Gremlins like Elf on a shelf, but with gremlins.
Speaker 1: Mish has no idea what the gremlins are, but me,
Speaker 1: it's a movie, you know. Don't feed them after midnight,
Speaker 1: don't get water on them, etc.
Speaker 2: And so forth.
Speaker 1: Stuart Wexler still gives his fourteen year old son at
Speaker 1: least one unwrapped gift under the tree to prove that
Speaker 1: Santa brought it, which is adorable. My mother still signs
Speaker 1: at least one or two gifts from Santa to my
Speaker 1: sister and me, despite our age, which is adorable.
Speaker 2: Justin Baird on Twitter.
Speaker 1: So when I was a kid, my mom got burned
Speaker 1: out having to host and cook food for both Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and Christmas. So we collectively agreed we'd rather have homemade
Speaker 1: pizzas when we got together for Christmas. So everyone picks
Speaker 1: their toppings and we trade slices. That sounds delightful and
Speaker 1: very Chicago.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Justin at the Vague Queen on Twitter for generations, our
Speaker 1: family has done tree gifts. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we'll go to the Christmas tree and find small gifts
Speaker 1: hidden in the tree and open them over dessert. Many
Speaker 1: family engagements have capped off Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: That is adorable.
Speaker 1: Except one year I was looking inside my tree and
Speaker 1: I saw this weird looking like nest circle thing, and
Speaker 1: I posted it and it turned out it was actually
Speaker 1: a eggsack, and I luckily got it out of the
Speaker 1: house before thousands of tiny little tree spiders hatched in
Speaker 1: my house. So I hope when you're searching your tree
Speaker 1: for little gifts you never find an eggsack instead of
Speaker 1: an engagement ring as song as you don't, that's cute.
Speaker 2: Cute tradition.
Speaker 1: Narcoleptic moth Man says, Christmas Eve, we hand out one
Speaker 1: gift which our pajamas to.
Speaker 2: Wear that night and during Christmas Morning.
Speaker 1: I love this one because I love a matching family
Speaker 1: PJ set and it is very rare that I can
Speaker 1: get my family to do it. But a couple of
Speaker 1: years I did, and I made my dad in his
Speaker 1: seventies wear the same outfit as a two year old,
Speaker 1: and it was so delightful for me and my family's
Speaker 1: all very tall, so they never fit us, and it's
Speaker 1: still very fun and cute.
Speaker 2: So I love that tradition.
Speaker 1: John Robertson from Insta said, my wife's family does and
Speaker 1: has had traditions for years. A Jimmy fallon game night,
Speaker 1: we do drinko eggreu lette, and a lip sync battle
Speaker 1: all on Christmas Eve. And this year my family is
Speaker 1: performing I'm Just Ken and the Bye Bye Bye song
Speaker 1: from the Deadpool versus Wolverine opening scene. People go all out.
Speaker 1: I wish my family would do this. I'm going to
Speaker 1: try to start to convince my family to this. I
Speaker 1: am really the performer of the family shocker. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they would want to, but I used to
Speaker 1: love watching the family dance wars between some of the
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars folks. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember this, Maybe like a decade ago they started to
Speaker 1: go viral where they would do dance wars and like
Speaker 1: send them back to each other via Instagram video.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think my family's going to want to do it,
Speaker 1: but I would like that, so that might be one
Speaker 1: that I steal.
Speaker 2: That's really cute.
Speaker 1: My favorite one of all though, which I'm definitely gonna steal.
Speaker 1: Comes from my friend Aaron Ryder on Instagram, and her
Speaker 1: tradition takes place in a mall or a shopping center.
Speaker 1: So she said, quote, it's a real time white Elephant.
Speaker 2: We get a bit tipsy and people pick numbers.
Speaker 1: The first off of the group goes shopping for twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes with twenty five dollars and comes back with
Speaker 1: things in a bag. The next group shops and then
Speaker 1: it's like white Elephant rules with stealing and such. So
Speaker 1: I say, it's a matchup of white Elephant and shop
Speaker 1: till you drop or supermarket sweep.
Speaker 2: We started it in La at the Grove. It's a sign.
Speaker 1: We started in La at the Grove in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine it was called the Grovy Games, and now
Speaker 1: in Nashville it's the Opry Reindeer Games.
Speaker 2: But you can do it at any shopping area. That
Speaker 2: sounds super fun.
Speaker 1: I love White Elephant, but the idea of the pressure
Speaker 1: of like running around them all trying to find a
Speaker 1: good white Elephant gift and coming back and playing super fun.
Speaker 2: Thanks to everybody for sharing.
Speaker 1: I love, love love hearing about all the ways that
Speaker 1: you get together with friends and family and continue traditions
Speaker 1: or start new traditions. And there are a few in
Speaker 1: there that I might steal. And you, of course are
Speaker 1: welcome to steal Fletch Navidad. Even if you don't have
Speaker 1: a dog named Fletch, you could still do it. As always,
Speaker 1: we love that you're listening, but we want you to
Speaker 1: get in the game every day too. So here's our
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Speaker 1: the end of the year and we would love to
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Speaker 1: out of five gum drops review, what other dessert makes
Speaker 1: you want to pack up a suitcase and move in.
Speaker 1: Unlike every other dessert inspired item out there, it somehow
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how it tastes. Gum drops, after all, are
Speaker 1: reliably disgusting, especially the green ones, and no one wants
Speaker 1: to chomp into some stale gingerbread that's been sitting out
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, especially after the family dog
Speaker 1: has taken a bite actual lived experience here, or the
Speaker 1: family cat has rubbed up against it, leaving behind a
Speaker 1: few stray furs, actual alex.
Speaker 2: Lived experience there.
Speaker 1: All that matters is that it looks delightful, and that's
Speaker 1: enough for us. Shout out to my hobby Brad, who
Speaker 1: last year had an Actual Food Network gingerbread show competitor
Speaker 1: make a perfect gingerbread replica of our house, right down
Speaker 1: to the Christmas decorations on the fence out front and
Speaker 1: a light up tree inside. Plus there were little doghouses
Speaker 1: on the side for our pups and that happened to
Speaker 1: be one of the dogs eight. Anyway, I wanted to
Speaker 1: keep that gingerbread house alive forever. It was such a
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