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Well hello there, happy springtime to our dope village, welcome to laughter permitted.

I'm Julia Guglia and with me as always is Lynn Ulzawi.

Hello, Lenni-o. Hi, Julie. I have to say I'm excited for this episode.

Our guest is NFL official Sarah Thomas. We have wanted Sarah Thomas as a guest for a while.

And we knew she would be a good interview. But what we didn't know is how much darn fun she would be.

And it occurred to me while we were interviewing her, she is a good bit of crazy and her like us.

It was such a good time to spend time with her and it was unexpected in a way because when we

see Sarah Thomas on the sideline, she's all business, very stoic. Well, we are here to tell you

she is a blast. One programming note, during most pressing questions, Julie and I had this awesome

bit planned where we both revealed that we had on refs, jerseys and gear. And we did the bit.

Sarah loved it. The only thing is that we forgot that we are a podcast and only do audio and made

no verbal reference to it whatsoever. So in most pressing questions, come.

Imagine us in ref gear and we will also post some pictures on social media so you can get the

visual of that. Okay, let's get to know Sarah Thomas. Shall we? We often talk about wanting to

interview trailblazers on this podcast and well, Sarah takes trailblazing to a whole new galaxy.

After being a successful collegiate basketball player at the University of Mobile and she was

looking to stay involved in sports. Sarah gets into football officiating of all things. She

officiates high school games, gets noticed for her great work and then goes on to make history in 2007

when she became the first woman to officiate a major college football game. She then goes on to

become the first woman to officiate a collegiate bowl game. The first woman hired as a full time

NFL official the first woman to officiate an NFL playoff game. You get the picture. She keeps blazing

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