Good Vibes FC: NWSL Playoff Drama!

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Sam Mewis (0:51)

You're listening to the MIB Media Network, and this is The Women's Game. The weather conditions change. It's like not as sunny. It's not as warm. Like the grass is not recovering as well. What am I, a grass consultant? Like I don't know this scientifically.

Lynn Biendl (1:03)

I also am not a grass scientist, but I just think that we need to have some grass consultants out here.

Sam Mewis (1:09)

All right, if you're a grass consultant, call us, leave us a message. I need to know.

Hi everybody, and welcome to Good Vibes FC. I'm Sam Mewis, coming to you from the Women's Game World Headquarters in Vermont.

Lynn Biendl (1:22)

And I'm coming to you, what?

SPEAKER_1 (1:23)

I didn't say my name yet.

Lynn Biendl (1:25)

I'm Livia Andolo, coming to you from Seattle, where it's cold.

Sam Mewis (1:29)

Who is the strange unidentified lady doing the podcast with me? It's like, it's getting chilly here too.

It's like getting to be like the leaves are on the ground now. Like the leaves are no longer the trees, they're on the ground.

Lynn Biendl (1:42)

Same. There's lots of leaves on the ground. The other day, it was a big storm, lots of wind. The trees are leafless.

Sam Mewis (1:49)

Okay, do you want to know my other thing that's been happening?

Lynn Biendl (1:52)

Yeah. You didn't even tell me the one thing.

Sam Mewis (1:54)

All the leaves being on the ground are as a breeding ground for ticks. And so my house is infested with ticks.

Lynn Biendl (2:02)

Ew, Sam.

Sam Mewis (2:03)

Lynn.

Lynn Biendl (2:05)

What do you mean? First of all, you need to go...

Sam Mewis (2:08)

The dogs go out into the yard. They come inside. I search them for ticks. I find ticks crawling on my wrists.

Lynn Biendl (2:14)

You need to get Lyme disease like that.

Sam Mewis (2:16)

I have been searching my own body and both dogs' bodies once an hour.

Lynn Biendl (2:21)

You need to call somebody. You need to call somebody to get that taken care of.

Sam Mewis (2:25)

The dogs take medicine, so even if a tick latches on to them, they'll get killed right away.

Lynn Biendl (2:30)

You need to start taking the medicine.

Sam Mewis (2:31)

I just start taking the dogs.

Lynn Biendl (2:33)

Yeah, start taking the dogs. Cordelia Quattro. This is not a health podcast, so please don't do that.

Sam Mewis (2:39)

Yeah, I am not gonna be taking my dog's tick medicine.

Lynn Biendl (2:42)

But also, can you call an exterminator, like a tick?

Sam Mewis (2:46)

Yeah, Pat wants to call... We have a guy called Mosquito Joe who comes out every once in a while.

Pat wants to call Mosquito Joe. We also probably just need to rake up the leaves.

Lynn Biendl (2:56)

Yeah, that's step one.

Sam Mewis (2:58)

And we have been... We have decided to not let them roam the backyard until we get a few frosts, because we're gonna take them out out front instead of out back.

Lynn Biendl (3:07)

I thought you were gonna say get a few frogs. And I was like, are frogs tick eaters?

Sam Mewis (3:12)

I should look that up, actually. I should find whatever tick predators are and set them loose in my backyard.

Anyways, did you have something that you wanted to share?

Lynn Biendl (3:22)

The only thing I have to share is what I shared with you before is that Lucky has decided to go on a hunger strike. When it comes to me, he only wants to be bottle fed now.

And so I feel like every time I'm trying to feed him, I'm wrestling him, like wrestling a mini alligator who's crying and screaming, who feels like he's probably getting waterboarded and I'm like, all I'm trying to do is feed you.