Hello, it is Meg Leninghan, welcome to full-time and guests who is back with us. Oh my gosh,

oh my gosh. It is Tamara Griffin. Tamara, how are you? Oh, it's so good to be back.

I've missed you guys. I've been good. I have been in Portugal. The last several weeks took advantage

of the NWSL offseason, which really did not feel like an offseason. Nope. But I went on the trip anyway and have been enjoying a lot of good tinned fish,

a lot of fresh oranges, been getting a lot of writing done, a lot of rest.

So it's been good.

It's been good, but I've missed you guys.

I know.

I just feel like, you know, it's, we're in this weird in-between

week, the Challenge Cup has happened, the end of Yselle is starting. We obviously have the

second half of the season preview to get to. But yeah, I mean, I just feel we got to take a beat

and like actually hang out with each other for a minute because I just, I feel like I haven't

seen your face in a month, minus watching the Amazon Prime Video documentary. Obviously, we got your, like,

the fix with Tamara on that. But like, well, what's, what's favorite? Have you seen anything

cool? Are you exploring Portugal? Yeah, it's been a mix. I, I went on this trip because I want to do some writing and the writing is sort of related

to Portugal.

The writing is set here.

And so I have been both locking myself up in my Airbnb and looking out the window at the

water and also trying to get out so I can, you know,

immerse and soak up some of the culture. I've been to actually a good number of soccer games,

a lot of Benfica sporting matches. I saw the Portugal England game, which was amazing and super

rainy. And yeah, I've really enjoyed also the smaller towns. I've been staying in

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