July 7, 2025 • 30 mins
Big Citrus presents: The Summer Squeeze! Books, music, movie and getaway recs as the days heat up and your office summer Friday policy kicks in. Plus, a look back at Season One of the show, nobody knows where the Ozarks are, and it might be summer break but we’ve still got a little homework for you Slices to do…
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're screaming
I'm a Golden guy before cannonballing into the deep end
of the pool. We're still on summer break, but Big
Citrus got you. Today we're bringing you a special episode
we're calling Summer Squeeze. Consider it our gift to you books, music,
movies and getaway rex as the day's heat up and
(00:22):
your office Summer Friday's policy kicks in and don't forget.
We'll be back to our normal daily schedule next Monday
with the start of season two. For now, settle in
as producers Alex and Misha join me for a good old,
Big Citrus chat about our favorite summer activities and getaways,
and some reflections on season one of Good Game with
Sarah Spain that's coming up right after this welcome back slices.
(00:52):
I'm joined now by producer Misha producer Alex for a
Big Citrus Summer Squeeze. What's up y'all? Hi? Hello?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh, can't wait for this.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I know. Let's start with talking a little about season one.
I'm just gonna start by saying my favorite thing about
season one. Well, I have to do too. I can't
just say one. My two favorite things about season one
are number one, how quickly the slices assembled. It felt
like we had this community within a week or two,
(01:24):
which was really incredible. People were completely bought in and
loved what we were doing right away. And number two,
the words of affirmation from frickin' legends, like having legendary
female athletes, business women, coaches, just like people who know
their shit telling us from pretty much day one, Oh
(01:45):
my god, I love this show. This is what we've needed.
This is so great. We love how you're covering it,
the shouts for you all and you're producing Everybody raving
like how is this a daily show? The quality is
so high for something that gets turned around every day,
Like I just hearing it from the people that I
respected and that mattered the most. Like, I think that's
what stands out to me from season one is it
(02:05):
felt like we just hit the ground running right away.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I totally feel that. The number of times that I've
reached out to a guest to be like, hey, can
we book you on the show, and their responses of course,
I already listen every day. I'm like I'm a slice
and they're like, hey, producer Alex, I'm like, I'm used
to being a nobody.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And you know who I am and your face that's
the more wild part because one of my highlights from
season one was going to that end of USL Championship
with you, Sarah and going to the media day and
running into Slice Stacy and having Stacy be like are
you Producer was like.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, you're like you want an autograph?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Like, I didn't say all that. I didn't say, but
I'd definitely say that's one of my highlights.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It was super cool.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I'm just really excited for season two and for
all the existing slices to tell everyone they know about
the show so we can make the community even bigger,
because that's just it's just been really, really fun. I
had a friend the other day ask me if I
if we've basically had my top five guests on, Like
if I could make a list of the people I
most want on, And I was like, oh, hell no.
(03:12):
We got some big fish we still have out in
the pond. One of them is more of a swimming goat.
Simone Biles needs to get her ass up on this show.
There's a couple of folks that we still have on
our wish list, so plenty to shoot for in season two.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I just want to need to know where every single
person that you mentioned in the need to Know is
friend of the show? Simone Dial, Yeah, i'd been in
the show, Kitlyn Clark a friend of the show, Asha Wilson.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Eventually, we're not gonna be able to say that every
single time because we've had someone on. Friends of the
show will have to be more selective, or the entire
script will be made up with friends of the show, or.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
We have a disclaimer at the top that just says
be aware everyone we're about to talk about on our show.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Aware everyone is a friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Or it will be like not friend of the show.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We'll just shout them out when they haven't come on yet.
What's that phrase, stranger's just a friend you haven't met yet.
That's that's what our show motto is. Someone who hasn't
been on the show yet is just a friend of
the show we haven't had on yet. Let's talk about
our break y'all. First of all, I'm so proud of
both of you the amount of work that we put
(04:20):
into this show. I tried to describe it to someone
the other day, and I was like, it's kind of
like trying to do a very short sports center with
three people. Yeah, Like that's a great like ne to
know is short, it's not a full half hour an
hour show, but it's a lot of work. It's the
team of three to go across every single team, league,
(04:41):
news outlet, social media. And that's why we do it
because it doesn't exist anywhere. You literally can't open a website,
turn on a show, turn on a TV, listen to
a podcast other than ours, and get the news of
the day every day. And so it's it's worth it.
But I'm proud of us, and we deserve this break.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Do y'all don't know the half we've been going through
it for y'all, but for you know, like you said,
the purpose of making sure that this exists somewhere, because
we all talked about it at the very beginning, how
frustrating it was for whatever sport to have to go
scouring and searching, and that's just not the environment we
want for women's sports.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
The thing we all love that we.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Want so many more people to love too. We don't
want it to be hard for them to access what
we see, and.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We want to do it right, which I'm not going
to call it any other shows, but we work really
hard to make sure we're pronouncing names right, to make
sure we're getting stats correct, to get the context around things.
Because it's also really important to be a show that
proves that you can give the same extreme high quality
to women's sports as men's sports have been getting for years.
It's not just about being a fan and a cheerleader.
(05:49):
It's about giving it journalism and giving it the value
that we know the games and the players have. I
also have to shout out some slices helping us in
that regard. Yes, Joey Malda NATO's calendar remains unparalleled and
so helpful, and he just did that himself. Patch yourself
on the back Aaron Ra's spreadsheet of everything we've ever recommended,
(06:12):
all the sites we've sent people to, the books that
have been featured on our show. We're going to put
links to all those in the show notes of this
episode too, because we need to keep having new listeners
recognize that that stuff is out there and that they
can use it, because damn, those are some good slices.
Super slices for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
We had Lindsay gibbson a couple days ago, and she
mentioned keeping track of the women's sports calendar is a
full time job, and that's something that Mish and I
have honestly kind of struggled with a little bit. How
do you plan a daily show while also planning for
a month in advance for also planning oh, by the way,
the Olympics our next winter. Yeah, the long term short
(06:51):
term planning of it all. When you have so many
leagues and teams all happening at the same time. It
goes back to the same thing, right, Like women's sports
is treated as a eat. It's not a beat.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's not a beat.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's forty seven beats.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's all the beats. Yeah, yeah, many beats. I just
did a radio hit this week and the guy was like,
so good game with Sarah Spain. You know, as someone
who's not in the women's sports space, is there enough
content to fill a show every day? And I was like, Bro,
don't you worry, don't you worry.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'm gonna yes stand that though, because there is so
much content still though that is not being reported on
the fact that so many WNBA teams don't have a
full time beat reporter who that is their sole job
during the season. That means that there are press conferences,
that there are practices that people aren't going to. And thus,
(07:44):
you know, we rely on a lot of great sites
and great reporters for putting the need to know together.
And so I am sure that there are plenty of
stories out there that just aren't being told because there
aren't reporters in the room.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's not that there's not enough content though, it's just
that there needs to be more of it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, I completely agree on that, and we're doing our best.
But like we keep asking, if there's more you want
to see of something, if there's more of a certain sport,
a certain athlete, a certain league, let us know, because
we also want to make sure we're giving the slices
what they want. Yeah, speaking to giving people what they want.
We wanted a break, which is what we're taking. So
(08:21):
let's talk about some fun summer stuff first, mesh favorite
summer activities, I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Playing pickup, playing basketball.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Though it hurts now definitely that there are people don't
know this in the DMV area, there are a lot
of like hidden little beaches in little spots and little cuts.
I'm not going to give you all the details because
I would like them to say pretty you.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Know, pretty empty, Okay, Rick Steves, We're not like putting
out a guidebook.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But definitely going to some of those little beaches and
going on hikes.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The DMV is an excellent.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Area for going on a hike, but when it's ninety
seven degrees, maybe not so. Hoping for some cloudier days
and cooler days to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What about you, Ele, I just like existing outside during
the summer, being able to go outside and not bring
a sweatshirt or down coat or hat and gloves and
winter boots. It just feels so freeing. I love walking
on the beach. I love eating outside at all the restaurants.
I love my garden. I love having bonfires and having
(09:25):
friends over. So just trying to spend as much time
as possible outside while I can.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That is one thousand percent my answer. Being from Chicago.
I spend so many weeks in the winter making lists
of what I want to do when it gets warmer,
and that when it gets nice out, I'm like, all right,
I gotta bike along the lakefront and have flat fire
and have everyone over for like dinner in my backyard
(09:53):
and all this other stuff. So yeah, and I love
taking There's a park not far from my house. It's
about an hour round trip, like thirty minutes each way
to walk the dog there, and then once we're there,
there's amazing like ponds and lily pads and creatures and
just it's beautiful. And when it's cold out, I don't
want to spend an hour just getting there and have
(10:14):
it be kind of sad looking. But in the summer,
I just want to spend as much time there and
go up to my parents' place in Michigan. They've got
a spot about ninety minutes outside Chicago where we can
just let the dogs run free and lay in a
hammock and read a book and you know, do all
that stuff. So I'm really excited for that, which brings
me to summer getaways. Do you have favorite summer getaways,
because I'll give you my answer, which is I try
not to leave Chicago in the summer. I will if
(10:37):
there's an amazing like European vacation or some opportunity to
go do something that's scheduled during the summer, I'll leave.
But I dig my heels in and I try to
spend all of July and August if possible in Chicago
enjoying summer.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I'm the exact same way. I don't leave New
Hampshire during the summer, especially because I can't leave my
garden for more than two days, Like I'll have way
too much work to do when those tomato suckers come
in and getting unwieldy by the time I get home.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
If I'm gonna put up with the New Hampshire winter,
then I get the reward that is in New Hampster summer.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That makes sense. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I love to get away in this area if you
haven't noticed. And there's actually this company that used to
be called Getaway House that's actually now called Postcard that
has these little tiny cabins, and one of them is
in the Shenandoah Valley, which is about an hour and
a half from me, So it's kind of a getaway,
but not really.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's not that far.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And I love love doing those tiny cabins, standing in
a tiny cabin for a couple of nights.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Have you ever done a little a frame?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
A little a frame?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I always dream of staying in an a frame. They
look so cute. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It looks like it's a tangle, like yeah, but yes,
I would love to do that too. But the tiny
cabins are pretty much the same vibe. But they have
this one window of them that's like just window, Like
the entire wall is just window.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And I love to just be in the forest and in.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
The woods and that sounds magical.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It's great postcard sponsored.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Can I tell you that Shannandoah Valley sounds like made
up to me? Places? Well, okay, So we talked about
this one time, because y'all like to write in the show.
When we're talking about places, you'll say down in or
over in from where you are, and I'm like, that's
not where I am. And so Alex was telling us
(12:31):
how Swans are like a big thing in Boston and
we're like, okay, sure, Like how the part of the
country you're in, you just like know places and names
that are like normal, like Shannandoah Valley that sounds like
fake is part of like a little house on the
Prairie script like or some like move book I read
(12:52):
as a kid, like, Oh, we spent our summers in
the Shenandoa vout it's something fake.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I can't assure you it's very real.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, it's like the Ozarks. Yeah, the Ozarks. Those are
you know, they're real. But where are they?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And where's Martha's vineyard? Is it in New Hampshire?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No, Martha's been hard to get to. It's off the
coast of Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I should know where the Ozarks are though, because I
hate that show up.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I love Jason Bateman Highland in the United States of America.
Can I get a little.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
More Google helping?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh? Oh, I did say night.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I was way off. I thought it was out easy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Oh jeez. The more you know, this is.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What I'm saying. There's just places that people refer to
that like they go on vacation and stuff, and they
sound like fake places.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Like all the islands off of South Carolina. I'm like
a nag's head.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What Hilton Head? I used to go to Hilton Head?
I know that one. Anyway, we've really lost the plot here.
The point is Alex and I aren't going anywhere, and
Misha's going to the imaginary land of Genisilvay, which brings
me to my next topic. Summer is the best season,
yay or nay?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I was born in the summertime, so how could any
other time be better?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Che which reminds me back when you're young, it sucks
to have a summer birthday because you don't get to
have a celebration in class. But when you get older,
there is nothing better than a summer birthday because you
can throw the killer parties when it's warm out, when
everybody's got time off. Like my birthday bash. Every year
is a destination. I have rented out a roller skating
(14:30):
rink for a Studio fifty four party. I've done a
full overboard themed boat party. I did a full day
of Saturday Night Live that included going to Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger
Saturday Night Live museum Harry carries I'm on a boat.
I have a long string of extremely involved costume parties,
and in the summer people will show up.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Also a costume party in the summer versus for Halloween.
By Halloween, it might be too cold to where you're
a good costume.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, oh, I'll wear it anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I know you will.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
A well, not anymore now that I'm older, I wear
Ellie the Elephant costumes, but back in the day, it
could be zero degrees and I would still have on
the tiniest sluttiest Halloween costume.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I get sick every single time I try to do that. So, yeah,
I'm messing up the original with some sweatpants underneath or something.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I don't really imagine you putting on the tiniest slutdies.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, something with the something with no sleeves.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, let's expand our definition of slutty.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah right, yeah, ye crying sleeves, hilarious without sleeves.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, we'll look at you. Were you guys summer camp kids?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Absolute folutely. I was in every camp, every single camp.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Like day camps or did sleep away like parent trap style, Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Not like not like going away to stay there camps
like you have this this gym called the Freedom Center
that had basketball camps and softball camps and all swimming
camps and all sorts of stuff where you try to,
you know, pawn your kids off to camp counselors for
the day and then pick them up afterwards.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So that was my vibe, not so much sleep away.
I wasn't driving with that, I know.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I wasn't why not you didn't like to leave your parents.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Exactly exactly as an only child. There's some serious attachment
stuff happening there that I've gotten out of. But at
that age, it would have been more work to try
to get me to stay away.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You know, I did the full parent trap, not only
like sleep away camp, but my day you still had
a trunk.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Do you guys even know about this? Kind of like
Harry Potter, Sure, that's too young for me.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Jk Rowling.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
By the way, I'm so old. I'm talking original parent trap,
not the Lindsay Lohan version, the Hailey Mills that I've
already sung the song from a previous episode. Yeah Let's
get together. Yeah yeah, Yeah. Anyway, you got a full
ass trunk. It wasn't even a suitcase, and you just
filled it with your clothes, your snacks, your books, your whatever.
(17:05):
And it was like you were going away for years,
but it was really like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Man. I really wanted to be a summer camp kid.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Went to horseback riding camp twice. Ooh yeah, horseback riding camp.
Some camp named after an Indian tribe that I can't
remember the name of that was in the middle of nowhere.
And then Misha eventually got older and I had to
be in every single basketball, field, hockey track, like sports
became year round for aau and everything.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
When that started up, Oh, it was every other summer
camp I was.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I was there.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
We were in the four games a day, somewhere in
the middle of South Carolina, somewhere in the middle acc
no ac never shy.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
As like bleachers that your parents had to sit on
with no back on them.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
The little courts that are put together like puzzle pieces
that you know, any little edge of it could be
up and trip you.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And you know. It was a time though.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I was getting my ass what by Sean Bradley's sister
who was like six seven couldn't hit a damn shot
to save her life, but she would just throw it
up there, get her own rebound, and then keep shooting
until she finally me, oh man, those are the days
we got to take a quick break. More coming up
after this? All right, what else are you going to
(18:19):
be doing? Give me some either, Like let's say the
slices out there have a couple months this summer that
they want to fill. What are your book TV music recommendations.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Music I gotta give it to this artist named k
One okay kwn, their name is stylized, but she's just
dropped an album. I just dug into it. I'm living
my very best life. It's given me what I needed
to give me for the summer. So definitely k One.
I started watching The Sopranos, so I'm gonna like finish
(18:51):
the Sopranos. I'm on a mission to like finish all
the shows that people are like, this is the best
show in the history of television. I want to finish
them all so I can actually have a informed opinion
about it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Did you watch mad Men yet?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That's on my top two for you for that like
list is.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Mad Men and Veep and Veep Okay, okay, heard you
heard you?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
But the Sopranos, it's interesting, it's of its time, so
I'm I'm recognizing that very quickly.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But other recks I would give people.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I don't know if people want to cry during the summer,
I can cry any time.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Of the year.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
So this is us, Like people say it's cheesy, People
say this that once you get into this is us,
you're staying in. So I would definitely say that and
then on Hulu.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It doesn't really fit the season that we're in.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
But if you haven't seen The Great North on Hulu,
it's one of my favorite animated shows.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It's almost as good as Bob's Burgers. Almost.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And you and your Bob's Burgers, man, I.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Can pay that ring telling for you right now, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
What's what's like? Very briefly, very briefly, what's the premise
of Bob's Burgers. They work at a burger place.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Bob is the dad, Linda's the mom, three kids.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
They work and live on top of a burger place
that Bob runs. And it's about all the antics and
things they get into together.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, and I can watch it as a vegetarian.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it's animated. No animals were hurt in the making
of the show.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No animals were harm you know what, though, I will
cry about some damn animated animals too. You could put
googly eyes on a lamp and I will cry about that.
Pixar prove to us all you could literally animate a pencil.
You could animate a piece of poop. If it has
eyeballs in a mouth and something tragic happens to it,
I will be crying within minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
So I came across a dead bird the other day.
I was like, we need to have a funeral for
the bird, like in the office, Like that's what I
need for closes this moment.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's me. I don't even kill spiders. I trap them
and bring them outside because I don't want to kill
them because I feel sad, real softy over here. Alex,
what are your res.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, Sarah. I am working on your previous assignment of
watching Friends. I have made it through season one, episode one.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You Got a Ways to Go?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
The last trink is hard for me.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, I mean it's of its time. Yeah, you said
about the Sobranos, it's an interesting show. I'd be curious
if I liked it if I started it now. There's
a lot of stuff that you bring the nostalgia of
when you originally watched it, or even just the memory
of having seen it already. You know, we all have
comfort shows that you rewatch when you don't want to
tax your brain with something new. So when I flip
(21:29):
it on at like a hotel, usually if it's on,
I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember this. It's not like ooh,
let me be thrilled and delighted by this brand new content.
So it's a different journey for you right now.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, I'm curious to see how the journey progresses. I
do rewatch a lot of stuff, and the reason for that,
I mean, there are probably a lot of reasons for it.
But I often am making art while I watch TV,
and so my hands and eyes are often busy, and
so it's almost like I'm consuming TV as an audio form,
and it allows me to rewatch it because then I'll
sneak up glances and like see things I never saw.
(21:59):
But it makes it hard to kind of get into
new shows.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, I'll use music or podcasts for something that's that involved,
but I will do rewatches when I need to, like
go through emails or something, because I don't like watching
new shows that are really good and missing key points, like,
for instance, you don't want to turn away for even
a second of Veep or Girls five EVA or thirty Rock.
Those are shows that have jokes within jokes within jokes
(22:24):
within jokes, and you will miss them if you're not
fully paying attention. And they're so smart that I try
it to look away. Okay any more Rex al Okay. Books,
If you haven't read TJ. Klun's The House in the
Crilliancy Have you there if you read it?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No, it's on my list.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, it's delightful. You feel better every time you read it.
The characters are so endearing. It's great as an audiobook too.
So honestly, anything by TJ. Klune, He's probably been my
author of the year.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
All Right, we got to get out of here. We've
given them too many RECs. I have just a couple.
I'm gonna start with books. These are really easy. Runs
in the Family by Sarah Spain. I don't know if
you ever heard of her. Oh oh, oh, who's that?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You should read the book. I know I haven't mentioned
it at all on the show. I wrote a book,
and I'm going to tell everyone about it until I die.
Please read it, Please order it. There's an audiobook too.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm pretty sure Mish and I both thought that it
was a book about women's sports until like month four
working on this podcast, when we thought to be like, Sarah,
what's your book about?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, honestly, it'd be way cooler if it was in
terms of like joint promotion. But I contain multitudes. I
can write about men as well. The Three Lives of
Kate K by Kate Fagan, oh and The fast Track
Inside the Surging Business of Women's Sports by Jane McManus,
the three members of the Trifector releasing a book in
the same year, all of which are fantastic. You should
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read all of them. Three Lives of Kate K is
a sapphic mystery thriller, a lot of lesbian love, Hollywood magic, mystery, intrigue,
and it's written in a very clever way. And of
course Jane McManus's book The Fast Track is a brilliant
look at women's sports. So read all of those and
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then music. So I'm going to give a couple musical
recommendations and hopefully they cover a couple different genres for people.
The first is my go to, which is sort of
like indie singer songwriter kind of emo stuff. Camp. If
you don't know camp with two a's, listen to Camp.
They will make you very happy, especially just cruising around
on a summer day or sitting in it, having a
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picnic in a park. I would start with all the
Debts I Owe and By and By those are two
songs that if you're not pulled in by those, I
don't know what to tell you. Mountjoy. I always talk
about them. They're my friends, and they're the best, and
they're so so talented, and just a couple of years
ago they were the tiny little font on the bottom
of the fest poster, and now they're at the top, headlining,
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and I'm so proud of them, and their new album
is so good for them. I would start with silver Lining,
Strangers and Highway Queen, but literally everything by Mountjoy makes
me so happy, so listen to all of it. And
then Joy Ola Decunn, whose name I can never say right,
but I hope I said it right. It's spelled Ola
d ok u N. I first saw actually at a
fest with Mountjoy and Camp and she is so talented.
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She's so thoughtful. Her songwriting and the way she writes
about the world as a black queer woman just so
talented and has a little bit of like a Tracy
Chapman esque vibe to her in terms of writing about
the times, social issues and all the other stuff. And
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then the Dip start with the song Sure Don't Miss You.
They sound old school, It's like a rhythm funk blues band.
It sounds like it's decades old, but it's current. It's
so good, So listen to the dip start with sure
don't miss You, and then Caine Coolto is this extremely
special and unique like hip hop artist who has an
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incredible like life that started where he was suppressed in
his queerness and his beliefs because of religion, and then
his sense come out and he has this song KFC
Santoria that is the nastiest hook, the most catchy beat.
I heard it once and I was like, what is
this and instantly needed to look it up. I haven't
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listened to a ton of his other stuff yet. I've
just dived in, but I want you to know that
the song starts with him saying extra crispy, you want
my thick, deep fried, juicy looking breast wings, thick thighs.
You want my thick, deep fried, juicy look and breast wings.
I'm like if a hill billy hick was a big
booty bitch wearing a little fem fit with which he
asked shit born a South Florida man, I'm a palm
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beach git, but I was raising Kentucky on some moonshine,
drink too many ku Klux Kardashians. Koch got that rash again. Oops,
can't stop scratching it. That shit's viral. That's how the
song starts. It is oh so good. It is so good.
As soon as I heard Ku Klux Kardashians, I was like,
what's happening? It's just you gotta you gotta listen to
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this saga the summer.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
For me, I'm gonna have to Wow. That was Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Wait till you hear an actual rapper doing It's really
gonna blow your mind. All Right, lots to read, watch
and listen to. We gotta take another quick break when
we come back. Even though it's summer vacation, you slices
are still getting some homework. Welcome back, slices. We love
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that you're listening, but we want you to get in
the game every day too. So here's our good game
play of the day ahead of our season two launch
next week. Please send us your ideas for the show.
What do you love about it or hate? What do
you want more of or less? Are there any guests
you're just dying to hear from. Let us know. Think
of it as your good Game with Sarah Spain summer homework.
Hit us up on email. Good Game at wondermedianetwork dot
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com or leave us a voice spail at eight seven
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rate and review. Come on, it's so easy watch saying
goodbye to Season one, rating twelve out of twelve months
of Good Game, Magic Review. It's time to cueue up
old lang Syne, as the inaugural season of Good Game
with Sarah Spain is officially coming to a close. Remember
(28:21):
back in the day early on when I shared all
those Taylor Swift Easter eggs? Or what about when we
used a chime sound effect instead of a pencil scratch
during the first couple weeks of the Need to Know
and people universally hated it? Or how about when we
realized that folks didn't limit their fucking around in finding
out to Fridays, thus ending the segment around and find
Out Fridays and ushering in a new era of calling
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out people shit pretty much any damn day we want.
It's been a year, y'all, and now it's time to
say goodbye. Got a tuck Season one into bed, some nice,
cool crisp sheets for summer. Can be a little eyemask.
Good night wait, wait, don't go to sleep yet. Season one.
I'm not ready to say goodbye. Let's just do like
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one more Season one episode this week, Just like one more.
Then we'll officially be ready to put season one in
the rear view mirror. Whoof that was close. I'm terrible
at goodbyes. Now it's your turn, y'all rate and review,
Thanks for listening, See you in a couple of days.
Good Game, Season one, Good Game Summer. Break you that
thing where your ice cream starts melting down the sides
(29:25):
of your cone and like all over your hands, But
if you eat it faster, you'll get a brain freeze
chill ice cream literally. Good Game with Sarah Spain is
an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue
Sports and Entertainment. You could find us on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by
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Wonder Media Network, our producers are Alex Azzie and Misha Jones.
Our executive producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan,
and Emily Rudder. Our editors are Emily Rudder, Brittany Martinez,
Grace Lynch, and Gianna Palmer. Our Associate producer is Lucy Jones,
and I'm Your Host Sarah Spain.
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're screaming
I'm a Golden guy before cannonballing into the deep end
of the pool. We're still on summer break, but Big
Citrus got you. Today we're bringing you a special episode
we're calling Summer Squeeze. Consider it our gift to you books, music,
movies and getaway rex as the day's heat up and
(00:22):
your office Summer Friday's policy kicks in and don't forget.
We'll be back to our normal daily schedule next Monday
with the start of season two. For now, settle in
as producers Alex and Misha join me for a good old,
Big Citrus chat about our favorite summer activities and getaways,
and some reflections on season one of Good Game with
Sarah Spain that's coming up right after this welcome back slices.
(00:52):
I'm joined now by producer Misha producer Alex for a
Big Citrus Summer Squeeze. What's up y'all? Hi? Hello?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh, can't wait for this.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I know. Let's start with talking a little about season one.
I'm just gonna start by saying my favorite thing about
season one. Well, I have to do too. I can't
just say one. My two favorite things about season one
are number one, how quickly the slices assembled. It felt
like we had this community within a week or two,
(01:24):
which was really incredible. People were completely bought in and
loved what we were doing right away. And number two,
the words of affirmation from frickin' legends, like having legendary
female athletes, business women, coaches, just like people who know
their shit telling us from pretty much day one, Oh
(01:45):
my god, I love this show. This is what we've needed.
This is so great. We love how you're covering it,
the shouts for you all and you're producing Everybody raving
like how is this a daily show? The quality is
so high for something that gets turned around every day,
Like I just hearing it from the people that I
respected and that mattered the most. Like, I think that's
what stands out to me from season one is it
(02:05):
felt like we just hit the ground running right away.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I totally feel that. The number of times that I've
reached out to a guest to be like, hey, can
we book you on the show, and their responses of course,
I already listen every day. I'm like I'm a slice
and they're like, hey, producer Alex, I'm like, I'm used
to being a nobody.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And you know who I am and your face that's
the more wild part because one of my highlights from
season one was going to that end of USL Championship
with you, Sarah and going to the media day and
running into Slice Stacy and having Stacy be like are
you Producer was like.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, you're like you want an autograph?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Like, I didn't say all that. I didn't say, but
I'd definitely say that's one of my highlights.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It was super cool.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I'm just really excited for season two and for
all the existing slices to tell everyone they know about
the show so we can make the community even bigger,
because that's just it's just been really, really fun. I
had a friend the other day ask me if I
if we've basically had my top five guests on, Like
if I could make a list of the people I
most want on, And I was like, oh, hell no.
(03:12):
We got some big fish we still have out in
the pond. One of them is more of a swimming goat.
Simone Biles needs to get her ass up on this show.
There's a couple of folks that we still have on
our wish list, so plenty to shoot for in season two.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I just want to need to know where every single
person that you mentioned in the need to Know is
friend of the show? Simone Dial, Yeah, i'd been in
the show, Kitlyn Clark a friend of the show, Asha Wilson.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Eventually, we're not gonna be able to say that every
single time because we've had someone on. Friends of the
show will have to be more selective, or the entire
script will be made up with friends of the show, or.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
We have a disclaimer at the top that just says
be aware everyone we're about to talk about on our show.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Aware everyone is a friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Or it will be like not friend of the show.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We'll just shout them out when they haven't come on yet.
What's that phrase, stranger's just a friend you haven't met yet.
That's that's what our show motto is. Someone who hasn't
been on the show yet is just a friend of
the show we haven't had on yet. Let's talk about
our break y'all. First of all, I'm so proud of
both of you the amount of work that we put
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into this show. I tried to describe it to someone
the other day, and I was like, it's kind of
like trying to do a very short sports center with
three people. Yeah, Like that's a great like ne to
know is short, it's not a full half hour an
hour show, but it's a lot of work. It's the
team of three to go across every single team, league,
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news outlet, social media. And that's why we do it
because it doesn't exist anywhere. You literally can't open a website,
turn on a show, turn on a TV, listen to
a podcast other than ours, and get the news of
the day every day. And so it's it's worth it.
But I'm proud of us, and we deserve this break.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Do y'all don't know the half we've been going through
it for y'all, but for you know, like you said,
the purpose of making sure that this exists somewhere, because
we all talked about it at the very beginning, how
frustrating it was for whatever sport to have to go
scouring and searching, and that's just not the environment we
want for women's sports.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
The thing we all love that we.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Want so many more people to love too. We don't
want it to be hard for them to access what
we see, and.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We want to do it right, which I'm not going
to call it any other shows, but we work really
hard to make sure we're pronouncing names right, to make
sure we're getting stats correct, to get the context around things.
Because it's also really important to be a show that
proves that you can give the same extreme high quality
to women's sports as men's sports have been getting for years.
It's not just about being a fan and a cheerleader.
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It's about giving it journalism and giving it the value
that we know the games and the players have. I
also have to shout out some slices helping us in
that regard. Yes, Joey Malda NATO's calendar remains unparalleled and
so helpful, and he just did that himself. Patch yourself
on the back Aaron Ra's spreadsheet of everything we've ever recommended,
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all the sites we've sent people to, the books that
have been featured on our show. We're going to put
links to all those in the show notes of this
episode too, because we need to keep having new listeners
recognize that that stuff is out there and that they
can use it, because damn, those are some good slices.
Super slices for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
We had Lindsay gibbson a couple days ago, and she
mentioned keeping track of the women's sports calendar is a
full time job, and that's something that Mish and I
have honestly kind of struggled with a little bit. How
do you plan a daily show while also planning for
a month in advance for also planning oh, by the way,
the Olympics our next winter. Yeah, the long term short
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term planning of it all. When you have so many
leagues and teams all happening at the same time. It
goes back to the same thing, right, Like women's sports
is treated as a eat. It's not a beat.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's not a beat.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's forty seven beats.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's all the beats. Yeah, yeah, many beats. I just
did a radio hit this week and the guy was like,
so good game with Sarah Spain. You know, as someone
who's not in the women's sports space, is there enough
content to fill a show every day? And I was like, Bro,
don't you worry, don't you worry.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'm gonna yes stand that though, because there is so
much content still though that is not being reported on
the fact that so many WNBA teams don't have a
full time beat reporter who that is their sole job
during the season. That means that there are press conferences,
that there are practices that people aren't going to. And thus,
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you know, we rely on a lot of great sites
and great reporters for putting the need to know together.
And so I am sure that there are plenty of
stories out there that just aren't being told because there
aren't reporters in the room.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's not that there's not enough content though, it's just
that there needs to be more of it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, I completely agree on that, and we're doing our best.
But like we keep asking, if there's more you want
to see of something, if there's more of a certain sport,
a certain athlete, a certain league, let us know, because
we also want to make sure we're giving the slices
what they want. Yeah, speaking to giving people what they want.
We wanted a break, which is what we're taking. So
(08:21):
let's talk about some fun summer stuff first, mesh favorite
summer activities, I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Playing pickup, playing basketball.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Though it hurts now definitely that there are people don't
know this in the DMV area, there are a lot
of like hidden little beaches in little spots and little cuts.
I'm not going to give you all the details because
I would like them to say pretty you.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Know, pretty empty, Okay, Rick Steves, We're not like putting
out a guidebook.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But definitely going to some of those little beaches and
going on hikes.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The DMV is an excellent.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Area for going on a hike, but when it's ninety
seven degrees, maybe not so. Hoping for some cloudier days
and cooler days to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What about you, Ele, I just like existing outside during
the summer, being able to go outside and not bring
a sweatshirt or down coat or hat and gloves and
winter boots. It just feels so freeing. I love walking
on the beach. I love eating outside at all the restaurants.
I love my garden. I love having bonfires and having
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friends over. So just trying to spend as much time
as possible outside while I can.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That is one thousand percent my answer. Being from Chicago.
I spend so many weeks in the winter making lists
of what I want to do when it gets warmer,
and that when it gets nice out, I'm like, all right,
I gotta bike along the lakefront and have flat fire
and have everyone over for like dinner in my backyard
(09:53):
and all this other stuff. So yeah, and I love
taking There's a park not far from my house. It's
about an hour round trip, like thirty minutes each way
to walk the dog there, and then once we're there,
there's amazing like ponds and lily pads and creatures and
just it's beautiful. And when it's cold out, I don't
want to spend an hour just getting there and have
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it be kind of sad looking. But in the summer,
I just want to spend as much time there and
go up to my parents' place in Michigan. They've got
a spot about ninety minutes outside Chicago where we can
just let the dogs run free and lay in a
hammock and read a book and you know, do all
that stuff. So I'm really excited for that, which brings
me to summer getaways. Do you have favorite summer getaways,
because I'll give you my answer, which is I try
not to leave Chicago in the summer. I will if
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there's an amazing like European vacation or some opportunity to
go do something that's scheduled during the summer, I'll leave.
But I dig my heels in and I try to
spend all of July and August if possible in Chicago
enjoying summer.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I'm the exact same way. I don't leave New
Hampshire during the summer, especially because I can't leave my
garden for more than two days, Like I'll have way
too much work to do when those tomato suckers come
in and getting unwieldy by the time I get home.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
If I'm gonna put up with the New Hampshire winter,
then I get the reward that is in New Hampster summer.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That makes sense. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I love to get away in this area if you
haven't noticed. And there's actually this company that used to
be called Getaway House that's actually now called Postcard that
has these little tiny cabins, and one of them is
in the Shenandoah Valley, which is about an hour and
a half from me, So it's kind of a getaway,
but not really.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's not that far.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And I love love doing those tiny cabins, standing in
a tiny cabin for a couple of nights.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Have you ever done a little a frame?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
A little a frame?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I always dream of staying in an a frame. They
look so cute. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It looks like it's a tangle, like yeah, but yes,
I would love to do that too. But the tiny
cabins are pretty much the same vibe. But they have
this one window of them that's like just window, Like
the entire wall is just window.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And I love to just be in the forest and in.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
The woods and that sounds magical.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It's great postcard sponsored.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Can I tell you that Shannandoah Valley sounds like made
up to me? Places? Well, okay, So we talked about
this one time, because y'all like to write in the show.
When we're talking about places, you'll say down in or
over in from where you are, and I'm like, that's
not where I am. And so Alex was telling us
(12:31):
how Swans are like a big thing in Boston and
we're like, okay, sure, Like how the part of the
country you're in, you just like know places and names
that are like normal, like Shannandoah Valley that sounds like
fake is part of like a little house on the
Prairie script like or some like move book I read
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as a kid, like, Oh, we spent our summers in
the Shenandoa vout it's something fake.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I can't assure you it's very real.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, it's like the Ozarks. Yeah, the Ozarks. Those are
you know, they're real. But where are they?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And where's Martha's vineyard? Is it in New Hampshire?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No, Martha's been hard to get to. It's off the
coast of Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I should know where the Ozarks are though, because I
hate that show up.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I love Jason Bateman Highland in the United States of America.
Can I get a little.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
More Google helping?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh? Oh, I did say night.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I was way off. I thought it was out easy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Oh jeez. The more you know, this is.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What I'm saying. There's just places that people refer to
that like they go on vacation and stuff, and they
sound like fake places.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Like all the islands off of South Carolina. I'm like
a nag's head.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What Hilton Head? I used to go to Hilton Head?
I know that one. Anyway, we've really lost the plot here.
The point is Alex and I aren't going anywhere, and
Misha's going to the imaginary land of Genisilvay, which brings
me to my next topic. Summer is the best season,
yay or nay?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I was born in the summertime, so how could any
other time be better?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Che which reminds me back when you're young, it sucks
to have a summer birthday because you don't get to
have a celebration in class. But when you get older,
there is nothing better than a summer birthday because you
can throw the killer parties when it's warm out, when
everybody's got time off. Like my birthday bash. Every year
is a destination. I have rented out a roller skating
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rink for a Studio fifty four party. I've done a
full overboard themed boat party. I did a full day
of Saturday Night Live that included going to Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger
Saturday Night Live museum Harry carries I'm on a boat.
I have a long string of extremely involved costume parties,
and in the summer people will show up.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Also a costume party in the summer versus for Halloween.
By Halloween, it might be too cold to where you're
a good costume.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, oh, I'll wear it anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I know you will.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
A well, not anymore now that I'm older, I wear
Ellie the Elephant costumes, but back in the day, it
could be zero degrees and I would still have on
the tiniest sluttiest Halloween costume.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I get sick every single time I try to do that. So, yeah,
I'm messing up the original with some sweatpants underneath or something.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I don't really imagine you putting on the tiniest slutdies.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, something with the something with no sleeves.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, let's expand our definition of slutty.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah right, yeah, ye crying sleeves, hilarious without sleeves.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, we'll look at you. Were you guys summer camp kids?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Absolute folutely. I was in every camp, every single camp.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Like day camps or did sleep away like parent trap style, Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Not like not like going away to stay there camps
like you have this this gym called the Freedom Center
that had basketball camps and softball camps and all swimming
camps and all sorts of stuff where you try to,
you know, pawn your kids off to camp counselors for
the day and then pick them up afterwards.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So that was my vibe, not so much sleep away.
I wasn't driving with that, I know.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I wasn't why not you didn't like to leave your parents.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Exactly exactly as an only child. There's some serious attachment
stuff happening there that I've gotten out of. But at
that age, it would have been more work to try
to get me to stay away.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You know, I did the full parent trap, not only
like sleep away camp, but my day you still had
a trunk.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Do you guys even know about this? Kind of like
Harry Potter, Sure, that's too young for me.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Jk Rowling.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
By the way, I'm so old. I'm talking original parent trap,
not the Lindsay Lohan version, the Hailey Mills that I've
already sung the song from a previous episode. Yeah Let's
get together. Yeah yeah, Yeah. Anyway, you got a full
ass trunk. It wasn't even a suitcase, and you just
filled it with your clothes, your snacks, your books, your whatever.
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And it was like you were going away for years,
but it was really like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Man. I really wanted to be a summer camp kid.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Went to horseback riding camp twice. Ooh yeah, horseback riding camp.
Some camp named after an Indian tribe that I can't
remember the name of that was in the middle of nowhere.
And then Misha eventually got older and I had to
be in every single basketball, field, hockey track, like sports
became year round for aau and everything.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
When that started up, Oh, it was every other summer
camp I was.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I was there.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
We were in the four games a day, somewhere in
the middle of South Carolina, somewhere in the middle acc
no ac never shy.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
As like bleachers that your parents had to sit on
with no back on them.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
The little courts that are put together like puzzle pieces
that you know, any little edge of it could be
up and trip you.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And you know. It was a time though.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I was getting my ass what by Sean Bradley's sister
who was like six seven couldn't hit a damn shot
to save her life, but she would just throw it
up there, get her own rebound, and then keep shooting
until she finally me, oh man, those are the days
we got to take a quick break. More coming up
after this? All right, what else are you going to
(18:19):
be doing? Give me some either, Like let's say the
slices out there have a couple months this summer that
they want to fill. What are your book TV music recommendations.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Music I gotta give it to this artist named k
One okay kwn, their name is stylized, but she's just
dropped an album. I just dug into it. I'm living
my very best life. It's given me what I needed
to give me for the summer. So definitely k One.
I started watching The Sopranos, so I'm gonna like finish
(18:51):
the Sopranos. I'm on a mission to like finish all
the shows that people are like, this is the best
show in the history of television. I want to finish
them all so I can actually have a informed opinion
about it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Did you watch mad Men yet?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That's on my top two for you for that like
list is.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Mad Men and Veep and Veep Okay, okay, heard you
heard you?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
But the Sopranos, it's interesting, it's of its time, so
I'm I'm recognizing that very quickly.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But other recks I would give people.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I don't know if people want to cry during the summer,
I can cry any time.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Of the year.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
So this is us, Like people say it's cheesy, People
say this that once you get into this is us,
you're staying in. So I would definitely say that and
then on Hulu.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It doesn't really fit the season that we're in.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
But if you haven't seen The Great North on Hulu,
it's one of my favorite animated shows.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It's almost as good as Bob's Burgers. Almost.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And you and your Bob's Burgers, man, I.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Can pay that ring telling for you right now, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
What's what's like? Very briefly, very briefly, what's the premise
of Bob's Burgers. They work at a burger place.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Bob is the dad, Linda's the mom, three kids.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
They work and live on top of a burger place
that Bob runs. And it's about all the antics and
things they get into together.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, and I can watch it as a vegetarian.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it's animated. No animals were hurt in the making
of the show.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No animals were harm you know what, though, I will
cry about some damn animated animals too. You could put
googly eyes on a lamp and I will cry about that.
Pixar prove to us all you could literally animate a pencil.
You could animate a piece of poop. If it has
eyeballs in a mouth and something tragic happens to it,
I will be crying within minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
So I came across a dead bird the other day.
I was like, we need to have a funeral for
the bird, like in the office, Like that's what I
need for closes this moment.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's me. I don't even kill spiders. I trap them
and bring them outside because I don't want to kill
them because I feel sad, real softy over here. Alex,
what are your res.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, Sarah. I am working on your previous assignment of
watching Friends. I have made it through season one, episode one.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You Got a Ways to Go?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
The last trink is hard for me.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, I mean it's of its time. Yeah, you said
about the Sobranos, it's an interesting show. I'd be curious
if I liked it if I started it now. There's
a lot of stuff that you bring the nostalgia of
when you originally watched it, or even just the memory
of having seen it already. You know, we all have
comfort shows that you rewatch when you don't want to
tax your brain with something new. So when I flip
(21:29):
it on at like a hotel, usually if it's on,
I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember this. It's not like ooh,
let me be thrilled and delighted by this brand new content.
So it's a different journey for you right now.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, I'm curious to see how the journey progresses. I
do rewatch a lot of stuff, and the reason for that,
I mean, there are probably a lot of reasons for it.
But I often am making art while I watch TV,
and so my hands and eyes are often busy, and
so it's almost like I'm consuming TV as an audio form,
and it allows me to rewatch it because then I'll
sneak up glances and like see things I never saw.
(21:59):
But it makes it hard to kind of get into
new shows.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, I'll use music or podcasts for something that's that involved,
but I will do rewatches when I need to, like
go through emails or something, because I don't like watching
new shows that are really good and missing key points, like,
for instance, you don't want to turn away for even
a second of Veep or Girls five EVA or thirty Rock.
Those are shows that have jokes within jokes within jokes
(22:24):
within jokes, and you will miss them if you're not
fully paying attention. And they're so smart that I try
it to look away. Okay any more Rex al Okay. Books,
If you haven't read TJ. Klun's The House in the
Crilliancy Have you there if you read it?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No, it's on my list.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, it's delightful. You feel better every time you read it.
The characters are so endearing. It's great as an audiobook too.
So honestly, anything by TJ. Klune, He's probably been my
author of the year.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
All Right, we got to get out of here. We've
given them too many RECs. I have just a couple.
I'm gonna start with books. These are really easy. Runs
in the Family by Sarah Spain. I don't know if
you ever heard of her. Oh oh, oh, who's that?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You should read the book. I know I haven't mentioned
it at all on the show. I wrote a book,
and I'm going to tell everyone about it until I die.
Please read it, Please order it. There's an audiobook too.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm pretty sure Mish and I both thought that it
was a book about women's sports until like month four
working on this podcast, when we thought to be like, Sarah,
what's your book about?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, honestly, it'd be way cooler if it was in
terms of like joint promotion. But I contain multitudes. I
can write about men as well. The Three Lives of
Kate K by Kate Fagan, oh and The fast Track
Inside the Surging Business of Women's Sports by Jane McManus,
the three members of the Trifector releasing a book in
the same year, all of which are fantastic. You should
(23:45):
read all of them. Three Lives of Kate K is
a sapphic mystery thriller, a lot of lesbian love, Hollywood magic, mystery, intrigue,
and it's written in a very clever way. And of
course Jane McManus's book The Fast Track is a brilliant
look at women's sports. So read all of those and
(24:08):
then music. So I'm going to give a couple musical
recommendations and hopefully they cover a couple different genres for people.
The first is my go to, which is sort of
like indie singer songwriter kind of emo stuff. Camp. If
you don't know camp with two a's, listen to Camp.
They will make you very happy, especially just cruising around
on a summer day or sitting in it, having a
(24:28):
picnic in a park. I would start with all the
Debts I Owe and By and By those are two
songs that if you're not pulled in by those, I
don't know what to tell you. Mountjoy. I always talk
about them. They're my friends, and they're the best, and
they're so so talented, and just a couple of years
ago they were the tiny little font on the bottom
of the fest poster, and now they're at the top, headlining,
(24:49):
and I'm so proud of them, and their new album
is so good for them. I would start with silver Lining,
Strangers and Highway Queen, but literally everything by Mountjoy makes
me so happy, so listen to all of it. And
then Joy Ola Decunn, whose name I can never say right,
but I hope I said it right. It's spelled Ola
d ok u N. I first saw actually at a
fest with Mountjoy and Camp and she is so talented.
(25:13):
She's so thoughtful. Her songwriting and the way she writes
about the world as a black queer woman just so
talented and has a little bit of like a Tracy
Chapman esque vibe to her in terms of writing about
the times, social issues and all the other stuff. And
(25:33):
then the Dip start with the song Sure Don't Miss You.
They sound old school, It's like a rhythm funk blues band.
It sounds like it's decades old, but it's current. It's
so good, So listen to the dip start with sure
don't miss You, and then Caine Coolto is this extremely
special and unique like hip hop artist who has an
(25:59):
incredible like life that started where he was suppressed in
his queerness and his beliefs because of religion, and then
his sense come out and he has this song KFC
Santoria that is the nastiest hook, the most catchy beat.
I heard it once and I was like, what is
this and instantly needed to look it up. I haven't
(26:22):
listened to a ton of his other stuff yet. I've
just dived in, but I want you to know that
the song starts with him saying extra crispy, you want
my thick, deep fried, juicy looking breast wings, thick thighs.
You want my thick, deep fried, juicy look and breast wings.
I'm like if a hill billy hick was a big
booty bitch wearing a little fem fit with which he
asked shit born a South Florida man, I'm a palm
(26:43):
beach git, but I was raising Kentucky on some moonshine,
drink too many ku Klux Kardashians. Koch got that rash again. Oops,
can't stop scratching it. That shit's viral. That's how the
song starts. It is oh so good. It is so good.
As soon as I heard Ku Klux Kardashians, I was like,
what's happening? It's just you gotta you gotta listen to
(27:07):
this saga the summer.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
For me, I'm gonna have to Wow. That was Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Wait till you hear an actual rapper doing It's really
gonna blow your mind. All Right, lots to read, watch
and listen to. We gotta take another quick break when
we come back. Even though it's summer vacation, you slices
are still getting some homework. Welcome back, slices. We love
(27:36):
that you're listening, but we want you to get in
the game every day too. So here's our good game
play of the day ahead of our season two launch
next week. Please send us your ideas for the show.
What do you love about it or hate? What do
you want more of or less? Are there any guests
you're just dying to hear from. Let us know. Think
of it as your good Game with Sarah Spain summer homework.
Hit us up on email. Good Game at wondermedianetwork dot
(27:58):
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rate and review. Come on, it's so easy watch saying
goodbye to Season one, rating twelve out of twelve months
of Good Game, Magic Review. It's time to cueue up
old lang Syne, as the inaugural season of Good Game
with Sarah Spain is officially coming to a close. Remember
(28:21):
back in the day early on when I shared all
those Taylor Swift Easter eggs? Or what about when we
used a chime sound effect instead of a pencil scratch
during the first couple weeks of the Need to Know
and people universally hated it? Or how about when we
realized that folks didn't limit their fucking around in finding
out to Fridays, thus ending the segment around and find
Out Fridays and ushering in a new era of calling
(28:42):
out people shit pretty much any damn day we want.
It's been a year, y'all, and now it's time to
say goodbye. Got a tuck Season one into bed, some nice,
cool crisp sheets for summer. Can be a little eyemask.
Good night wait, wait, don't go to sleep yet. Season one.
I'm not ready to say goodbye. Let's just do like
(29:04):
one more Season one episode this week, Just like one more.
Then we'll officially be ready to put season one in
the rear view mirror. Whoof that was close. I'm terrible
at goodbyes. Now it's your turn, y'all rate and review,
Thanks for listening, See you in a couple of days.
Good Game, Season one, Good Game Summer. Break you that
thing where your ice cream starts melting down the sides
(29:25):
of your cone and like all over your hands, But
if you eat it faster, you'll get a brain freeze
chill ice cream literally. Good Game with Sarah Spain is
an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue
Sports and Entertainment. You could find us on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by
(29:45):
Wonder Media Network, our producers are Alex Azzie and Misha Jones.
Our executive producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan,
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