What is up? And welcome back to another episode of full-time with Meg

Linnehan. I am Tamara Griffin. I am joined by my co-host, Meg,

and I, Meg, have to tell you, after our last episode about the U20 national team, I really

ended up leaning into my auntie era this weekend. I went to see Thames in concert in San Francisco,

which was amazing, but was not prepared to be in like the older

bracket of folks in the audience. But, you know, I'm leaning into it, and I just needed to get

that off my chest because I know that last week's episode touched on a lot of age things that

people tend to feel sensitive about. But how are you doing?

Good.

Yeah.

I mean, I feel like we keep talking about fall and maple things, but it's very much now fall in Vermont.

I did a little hike this week in New Hampshire up in Franconia notch, like peak foliage.

So good.

So yeah, definitely feeling the October vibes I mean like October and WSL it we've got some good stuff happening uh it's it's always a very special

and strange time of year I'll put it that way indeed and I'm very happy for you I'm in

California right now and I think it's probably going to be like 100 degrees today. So I'm still not there yet, but I'm happy you are. And just so everyone knows, Meg has an incredible false sweater to match the vibes. It's true. Forest green with some orange and yellow leaves on it looking spectacular. But yes, I think it's fitting that for some of us,

we can start to lean into the cozy sort of like calming, relaxing vibes right at the time in the

season when the NWSL raises the ceiling on the chaos. It can provide us, which is exactly what

we're going to be talking about today on this

episode. It's all about playoff contenders. I'm talking about Chicago Red Stars, Portland Thorns,

Bay FC, and even Racing Louisville, who technically right now are just outside of playoff contention,

but have been showing us some things that warrant conversation. So we're talking not about the first four teams,

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