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So why should we all agree? It would be boring that way. This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Really enjoyed all of your responses. We got hundreds of them to our question on the last show, which was the toughest job in sports. And I originally thought of this question. It was born through my musings about Doc Rivers and then Jacques Vaughn and different NBA coaches and pro sports coaches in general, where there is no job security and very little stability in the job for more than a handful of guys out there. And then we're just talking to head coaches. Think about coordinators and position coaches and all the other coaches whose jobs are largely wiped out when a head coach gets fired.

Not all of them and not automatically, but a lot of them. So I was thinking, coaching, that's the toughest job in sports. But you all came up with some really incredible answers. And if you haven't seen them, I know Ryan retweeted a bunch of them from our show account, After Hours CBS. I really enjoyed the creativity that you all came up with.

For instance, coaching Aaron Rodgers, the toughest job in sports. That was the submission of one of our Facebookers. If you haven't seen them, they're still online. They're After Hours with Amy Lawrence on Facebook plus our YouTube channel and then our phone number 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4CBS. Yeah, Doc Rivers takes over for Adrian Griffin. And with the two superstars, it's supposed to be smooth sailing, but it's not been. Obviously, you want to win games and obviously you would love to be healthy so you can win games, but something good will come out of all this stuff. We talk about it all the time.

Sometimes you got to go through stuff to get stuff and we're going through it right now. Well, that is certainly true. In the first 10 games under Doc Rivers, since he took over for Adrian Griffin, the Bucks are three and seven. Remember, they were one of the top teams in the league with 30 wins when Griffin was fired.

And now they've seemingly backpedaled. So what gives? We're pleased to welcome Colin Ward Henniger, longtime CBS Sports and CBS Sports HQ NBA insider from the Bay Area, joining us now here on CBS Sports Radio.

Well, let's start there Colin. What is wrong with the Bucks? One thing is that Doc Rivers was brought in to kind of, you know, take over the leadership role and get the players, the superstars, aka Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard on his side.

I don't think a three and seven start is really the way to do that. So I don't know if he's instilling the kind of confidence in those two players and the rest of the group moving forward with a team that is basically championship or bus, and that's why they fired Adrian Griffin. One slightly positive sign for the Milwaukee Bucks is that their defense has improved. It went from 19th before Doc Rivers took over to 12th now in his last 10 games. That's been offset by just horrific offense and really trying to figure out that Damian Lillard, Giannis Antetokounmpo pick and roll, which was supposed to be this absolute deadly weapon.

You could go to it anytime and get a good shot. It just simply hasn't been that. It wasn't that way under Griffin. It hasn't been that way under Doc Rivers. So that is really what he needs to figure out in this final home stretch. I'm kind of blown away by that because as much as a coach can stand there and diagram and dial up pick and roll, it's not that complicated. It's one of the first things that you learn when you play high school basketball. So what is the issue with the two of them who are world-class players?

Yeah, it's a great question. Part of it is buy-in. They haven't been running as many as people thought they would be in terms of the pick and roll. So maybe there's something there with the players themselves. Giannis not wanting to be a screener. Dame wanted to kind of find offense in different ways. But really, it kind of goes back to what Giannis said at the beginning of the season.

He was kind of surprised at the way teams were playing them. So essentially, they're going to blitz Damian Lillard, make him get the ball out of his hands, and then they're going to load up in the paint to make sure Giannis can't have an easy roll to the basket. That leaves players open, but it's their third, fourth, fifth best players on the team.

And those are the guys who are getting the shots. So defenses are basically saying, anyone but you two, if you guys want to beat us, go for it. And I think that Giannis expressed that he was a little surprised that getting shots for Damian Lillard and Giannis himself was that difficult and that they were kind of relying on their support and cast. So you'd think that it would get better as the season went along, but it really hasn't seemed to.

But like you said, this is a simple play. This is what everyone in the NBA runs. So for them, two of the best offensive players we've seen in the last 20 years, to not be able to figure it out, it's a little concerning. At this point, they faded back to third place in the Eastern Conference. It's been cool to see the Cavaliers grow up a little bit and put some pressure on Boston. But as you look at the Eastern Conference, Colin, who is the best challenger to battle Boston down the stretch?

Yeah, that's tough. Boston is just such a good team. It's hard to watch them sometimes because they're so good.

They're boring in certain ways. Cleveland, if they can continue down the path that they're on, they'll be an interesting kind of surprised team. But when you think of Cleveland, you think of their horrible playoff exit in the first round last year where they were just absolutely dominated by the Knicks. And then you think the Knicks, you know, they can get OG and an OB back and everybody's healthy. They've been playing great with him. But do you trust Julius Randall and Jalen Brunson in a playoff series?

Brunson is going to be great on offense, but we saw teams just continually target him on the other end of the floor. So I don't know if the Knicks are there to me. It ultimately comes down to the team that we were talking about the Bucks.

If they could somehow figure this out, they have one of the greatest basketball players on earth that always goes a long way. And then the 76ers. Somehow, Joel Embiid can come back and be relatively healthy heading into the playoffs.

That is an absolute handful. They were playing great before he got injured. So, you know, barring the Miami Heat getting a matchup with the Celtics, because we've obviously seen them be able to just kind of turn things on in the playoffs.

I think if you're just looking at who the worst matchups are, I'd say just Giannis with the Bucks and then Embiid with the 76ers. Typical Heat languishing in seventh place only to turn it up when they get to the postseason with that defense intensity for them. Who's a team that has surprised you in the East? I kind of saw the Pacers thing coming. Like, I thought they were going to be better. I didn't think they were going to be sixth in the Eastern Conference at this point. They are a really fun team to watch.

Tyrese Halliburton got to put on a show in the event that will not be named that took place over the weekend. The way they push the pace, the Pascal Siakam edition, I think is going to be great for them, not just this year, but moving forward because they just don't play any defense whatsoever. So to have a long, rangy, switchable guy, I think that's going to go a long way for them moving forward. You don't want to play this team in the first round. I mean, they're going to put up 130, 140 points a game.

They're not going to play any defense, but if you can't score, if you have an off-shooting night, they could beat you potentially three, four games in a seven-game series. So I've really enjoyed watching the Pacers this year. We're excited to look ahead to the second half, even though it's past the midway point, with CBS Sports Insider Colin Ward-Henniger, who is based in the Bay Area and joins us here after hours on CBS Sports Radio. Let's talk about the big story in the Bay, which is the Warriors, Draymond out, Draymond back, but now they move Klay Thompson to the bench and there's this talk about him becoming the most valuable sixth man in the NBA. What do you think of that move? I love the move. I think that it's probably something that the organization has been thinking about for a long time, but it's just a hard move to pull the trigger on. I mean, this guy, he's going to have a statue outside the arena one day. He is absolutely beloved in the Bay Area.

It's hard to kind of explain to people how much Bay Area fans love this guy. So to see him go to the bench, especially after all that he's been through, the Achilles, the ACL, being called out by national media saying that he's not the same player, the way that he's just been still vulnerable in his press conferences and admitting that he's coming to grips with the fact that he's not the same player that he used to be, he's been dealing with that all season and mentally, Steve Kerr always says that Klay is so hard on himself that when he had bad shooting nights, which he's had a lot of this season, that he just beats himself up and kind of takes himself out of the game. So all this to say, I think the move to the bench will be good for both sides. I think Klay can come in as he did in his first game off the bench since his rookie year, puts up 35 points, just gets hot right away.

That's not going to happen every night, but at least now when he comes in, he doesn't have to think about all this stuff. You can just be our heat check score. If you miss 3-4 in a row, maybe Kerr pulls him to put them in with a different unit, something like that, but the pressure is a little bit off of Klay Thompson. It also allows Brandon Pajemski, the rookie, to enter that starting lineup and the numbers with him in Klay's spot with the rest of those starters has been really, really good for the Warriors. How much does that have to do with the surge? They've won eight of their last 10, though they are still sitting in 10th in the West.

Yeah, it tells you how much ground they needed to make up, right? So they're 8-3 in their last 11 games and really the key to that has been Draymond Green. You mentioned it in and out of the lineup because of suspensions.

We didn't really know whether he was actually going to come back this season. He's just been tremendous since they came back. Steve Kerr put him in as the starting center, which used to be their kind of closing lineup, the desk lineup, whatever you want to call it. Now that's their starting lineup and Kerr says, you know what, the way the NBA has gone, we need to play faster. We need to play smaller.

We need to spread the floor. And that's exactly what Draymond has done. He's done that on offense. And then what he brings defensively, they were 24th in the NBA and defense prior to Draymond's return since he's been back their fifth. So it just tells you everything you need to know about what this guy's bringing. Now, can you trust him to continue his good to walk that line between passion and kind of chaos?

I don't know. As of now, the Warriors, you know, Kerr says, this is the team. This is our team. This is the way we want to play. They've got Chris Paul coming back.

Gary Payton's healthy. It seems like they've got a lot of momentum, but as you said, it's hitting intense. With the teams above them, they're not bad. Like they're not going to just start losing games out of nowhere.

So it's going to be an uphill climb for sure. The top of the West has four teams that are separated by just three games in the standings. Timberwolves down to the defending champion, Nuggets. How much actual separation is there among those four?

Yeah, it's a great question. I think the whole season you just kind of waiting for Minnesota and Oklahoma City to start falling back and they may have it. I mean, Minnesota, they have the best record against teams above 500 in the entire NBA. 23 and 11 have some significant wins over the Clippers, over the Thunder, the teams that are right below them. So with the number one defense in the league, you're just going to win a lot of regular season games because every single night you're going to be in it.

You're not going to get blown out. So I, you know, the Timberwolves have really impressed me this season. The Clippers, I think, are the upside pick where they might not be as concerned with getting that number one seed. But when they get to the playoffs, they're going to be a team that certainly has, you know, championship potential. The Thunder to me are still a little young, but with a player like Shea, Dildas Alexander, I mean, they can go as far as he can take them basically. But ultimately to me, it's the Nuggets. I think that we're going to start to see they kind of, you know, we're pretty bad heading into the All-Star break, but I think they're going to flip that switch, start to see the playoffs coming and really have to get into gear here because they know repeating is going to be much more difficult than it was last season with injuries and different feedings and things like that. Ultimately, I think Denver will probably climb up to that number one spot, but all those teams are very good.

Colin Ward Henninger of CBS Sports.com and CBS Sports HQ with us here after hours on CBS Sports Radio. You can snicker at the championship hangover and yet teams really do have to fight through that. Whether it is complacency or just fatigue from having the season, the previous season stretch on, it definitely does seem to be a challenge for teams, especially those who have not won a championship before.

Yeah, absolutely. And you know, as a Pat Riley, we talked about the disease of more and all that stuff and more shots, more money, you know, more minutes, all those things. And then Denver also, you know, they lost Bruce Brown, which is, he's a big part of their team. They didn't have a deep rotation. So to lose a bench piece like that, who was essentially their backup point guard, they've kind of struggled to fill that role with Reggie Jackson and some of their younger players. So, you know, at the end of the day, do you trust Nicola Jokic and Jamal Murray to perform in the playoffs? Of course, those are two of the best in the game and they play together so well. It's that supporting cast. You're kind of wondering, you know, are they going to be able to step up the way that they did last year?

And how are they going to make up for the departure of Bruce Brown? At this point, it seems unlikely, Colin, that Joel Embiid will repeat as MVP, though he is still leading the league in points per game. Who's trying to wrestle that MVP away from Joel? Yeah, I think at this point Joel Embiid has missed too many games.

It's a 65 game limit. So I think he's officially been ruled out, which is unfortunate because he was having just an absolutely monster season. But as of now, I think, you know, the betting favorite, I believe, is Jokic.

He's always going to be a safe bet. The numbers he puts up, the fact that Denver wins, the on-off numbers with him are just phenomenal. But to me, as of right now, if I was voting, I would say that Shay Gildas-Alexander is the MVP of the NBA.

The narrative is all there. The Oklahoma City Thunder, one of the youngest teams in the league, they were obviously on an upward trajectory, but not expected to contend for the number one seed in the Western Conference. And then what Shay's been able to do, averaging more than 30 points and not shooting a ton of three-pointers, just over three per game, his numbers on an offer are ridiculous. The Thunder averaged 122 points per 100 possessions when he's on the floor, which would basically be the best offense in the history of the NBA.

And when he leaves, that drops down to 111. So you want to talk about value, you want to talk about narrative, you want to talk about a guy who scores a lot, I think Shay Gildas-Alexander would be the MVP for me right now. Could I potentially interest you in Luka Doncic as a dark horse, considering that Dallas is kind of right there attempting to stay out of the play-in tournament. He's got excellent offensive numbers, but he's also averaging nearly nine rebounds a game.

What do you think? You're never going to go wrong with Luka Doncic. Dallas is a hot team right now. Him and Kyrie Irving have played tremendously together. Luka's numbers are off.

They're out of control. You see these things that he puts up and watching his 70-point game against the Hawks and all this stuff. The only question for them has been their record, their record. If you're a seven seed, can you have the MVP on your team? And there's so many guys putting up these kind of mind-boggling stats this year. It's going to be very interesting to see where the voters decide to make the separation. Is it stats?

Is it analytics? Is it the team's record? And there's always the voter fatigue where you say, okay, well, we don't really want to vote for Doncic.

You want some new blood. A guy like Luka, if he can move that team up, they're definitely within striking distance of a five seed, maybe a four seed. If they can have a strong push towards the end of the season, get that in the voters' minds while he's averaging 35, 12, and 12.

I mean, certainly a possibility. Before we let you go, I'm not going to ask about the game, per se, because I really don't care. But I did love the shootout between Sabrina and Steph. Why was that good for the NBA? Oh, it's tremendous.

First of all, it's something new. As we've seen, the dunk contest has lost a lot of steam. The three-point contest is fun.

But to see something that's a head-to-head battle, obviously kind of a battle of the sexes thing. And to show the NBA fans how far the WNBA has progressed. I mean, I know a lot of the NBA writers that I know love the WNBA. A lot of basketball fans love watching the WNBA because of how well those players have done in recent years and how much the game has progressed. So to see that and then to see, obviously, just Steph Curry, the greatest shooter of all time against the greatest shooter in the WNBA right now, I think it's a very interesting proposition. It was by far the highlight for me of All-Star Weekend. And I loved that they said afterwards that, yeah, we should do this every single year, whether or not it's Steph and Sabrina. Maybe it's two other players. Maybe they mix in some more to somehow try to continue that kind of event into the years to come.

I think it's a really good idea. If you can shoot, you can shoot. That had to be my favorite thing that I heard around this three-point competition from Sabrina Ainescu. If you can shoot, you can shoot, period.

That's what I always say at 24 Hour Fitness, but nobody believes me. Colin Ward Heniger is with us from the Bay Area getting set for the stretch run in the NBA. You can find him on Twitter at Colin with one LCBS Sports. Always good to catch up with you. Enjoy the rest of the season. Hopefully we'll talk to you in the playoffs. Great.

Thank you so much for having me. Bay Area represent Colin in the San Francisco Bay Area. And as we were setting up the interview, he was telling us that there's a major buzz about Klay Thompson and how much they love him in the Bay Area, but how bad his shooting has been. He works hard. He loves playing basketball more than anything. He puts so much into it, but at times you wonder if it's also mental, because he cares so much and he wears the disappointment, the failure, and he carries that around like a heavy weight.

And man, you know when your legs are heavy, your shots don't drop. On Twitter, ALawRadio, also on our Facebook page, and then on the phones if you want to reach us, 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4CBS.

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You say that. This is how I know that generationally we don't always accept the truth as the truth. Let's say, when was it? Maybe 10 years ago, one of my producers at the time, Tom and I, we started talking about the Titanic and he was telling me that there is an entire segment of the population that does not believe the Titanic actually happened. Even though there's photos, there's videographic evidence, they now have the incredible sonar technology and advanced photography where they've taken photos of the ship on the ocean floor. And the topographical map, you can see the two parts of the ship very clearly outlined on the floor of the ocean. And yet, and there's artifacts. No, people do not believe it was real. They think it was just a movie.

How is that possible? They had to find the boat somehow. Anyway, I went to a Titanic exhibit when I was in Las Vegas because that's the kind of nerdy thing that Bob and I love. And it's actually parked at the Luxor.

It's like a permanent exhibit at the Luxor. And they have thousands of artifacts, as well as this huge piece of the hull. It's the largest piece of the boat that's ever been pulled up. And they do say that within, I don't remember the exact timeframe, 15 years or so, 20 years, the ship will have completely disintegrated. That there's very little left of it because of the forces of the ocean, not to mention the animals that are on the bottom of the ocean floor, that it's essentially eating away the ship. So they pull up this hull, this piece of the hull. It's probably the entire size of my living room wall. I mean, it's a large piece.

It's got a couple of portholes with the windows that were pressurized and broken, but it's pretty amazing. And as I was walking through there, I'm thinking, how in the world can people think all of this was just made up? They made it up.

People's stories. Space landing too. Right. The space landing as well.

I mean, there's actual video of that. How do you think that's made up? Hollywood.

Right. But not then, not from 1969. It's been around for a really long time.

The video. They didn't have the technology to make that stuff up back then. The moon landing comes to mind, or actually came to mind in the last week and a half, right? Because the Super Bowl, they had to be careful how you talked about it. It was the most watched TV program, TV show, TV program in US history. But it was not the most watched live event, or as they called it, an event. Because that was the moon landing in 1969, where you had the vast majority of American households and American TVs tuned into that. Is there one event in history that you wish you had been alive to see? For me, it is the moon landing. But Ryan, you and I are different ages.

What's one event that you wish you had seen, like that happened in your lifetime that you had seen live? Oh my gosh. I need time for this one. Oh, okay. Fine. You can think about it.

Because... I don't know if I want to go ancient or... Oh, yeah. But how would you have seen an ancient piece of history when you weren't... There were no TVs in ancient history.

Eh, they've been fine. I would have been there. Like, if I could time travel to one time... Oh, gotcha. Okay. All right. You're playing it that way. I was thinking more about like... Like, watch something?

Right. I couldn't have been on the moon to see it, right? Like, there's no way that I would have been on the moon. But I wish I had been alive at the time to be able to just be part of the spectacle and the buzz.

I mean, we know from firsthand accounts as well as from the video itself, but all the books and stories and news accounts that were done leading up to this point, the space race with the USSR and with China, and then of course the actual moon landing itself, and the fact that people... I mean, you had to take a nap in the middle, right? Because they landed on the lunar surface and then they took, I think it was a five or six hour... They were supposed to be napping.

They didn't. But a rest before they could get out of the Apollo and then get on to the surface of the moon. So people at home had to wait five and a half, six hours. And if I remember correctly, it was either late at night or early in the morning. And so you've got kids who are sleeping all over people's houses.

They're waiting, they're begging their parents, make sure you wake us up in time. It wasn't convenient for the vast majority of Americans. And yet, I mean, most of the country was tuned in.

It was an incredible time, and that just would never happen anymore. And the Super Bowls, I get that it's real and it's live, but it's a sporting event, so it's not quite the same thing. What if we do another moon landing?

Do you think as many people will watch? I think that'd be more. Really? Yeah. Okay. If it could be broadcast live. It's the real one, as some people would think.

And the technology and the quality of the video, I bet, would be a lot better. Yes. But to answer your question, is it cheating to say Woodstock, one of them, either 99 or 1969 one? No. Is that your choice of all these significant events in US history or world history? That's your choice?

Well, I'm thinking with the TVs. Okay. Am I gonna really want to see like the Berlin Wall fall? Not really. That was pretty incredible. It's incredible, but I remember it. But I want to watch that.

Not really. You got chills. There was tears and chills. Just knowing, like watching the people exult on top of the wall as it's coming down was phenomenal. Something else that I think, though, so Woodstock is an interesting answer, but something else that I think that I would have wanted to see, and this sounds more, but I don't mean it to be, I just mean more the significance of history is JFK and the coverage of him after a sitting president was actually shot in cold blood on TV, right?

Like today, that would be a movie scene, which I guess it kind of was like that. But just as a news person, so as a journalist, I can't even imagine covering that. Certainly 9-11 was right up there with that same type of an impact where it was gripping and it was tragic and it was devastating and yet you couldn't turn away from the TV. I can't imagine being around the assassination. Just like the security.

They definitely wasn't up to now, especially since all the things happened. So could you imagine being there? Seeing it, hearing it, watching the fallout.

No, cannot. So that's an interesting question. It has nothing to do with sports really unless sports is your answer. But what is one event in either US or world history that you wish you had seen live, whether on TV or in person, but mostly we're kind of thinking of just the coverage and from the TV and radio perspective since that's what we do around here. For me, it's definitely the moon landing. I just can't imagine watching an event with so much of the nation and everyone's gripped with anticipation.

And again, the Super Bowl does not count, though a third of our nation was tuned in for this most recent Super Bowl. But yeah, could you imagine, as Ryan says, there will likely be another moon landing at some point. So wow. But just not the same as 1969 though. Not the same.

But anyway, that's a fun question. On Twitter, ALawRadio, on our Facebook page too, we will get to Shohei Ohtani to be sure. Our phone number 855-212-4227.

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Already getting a bunch of reaction to it. And as a history buff, this is a tough one for me because there are so many events I wish I had been alive to witness, but as I look back on my lifetime and think about the number of historic events, I mean, there are plenty that, man, I'm grateful I didn't miss them. And as much as I say 9-11, of course, hear me, I wish there had never been a 9-11. I'm not telling you that I'm glad it happened because that's ridiculous. But as a journalist, I was early in my career. I had still been working in both the news and sports as a combination. So I was still working as a news anchor and reporter and did sports the other half of the time. And I can clearly remember every last moment in detail of that morning, as many of you can, that Tuesday morning in 2001. And as a journalist, I ended up going into work six or seven hours earlier.

I worked with the rest of my newsroom and none of us wanted to go home. We wanted to continue doing our jobs and really the instincts are to tell people what you know and to try to keep up with breaking news as much as possible. And at the time I was working in Oklahoma City and so there was a different fear around the city there, a different perspective because they had just come through the Murrah Federal bombing. That bombing happened in 1995 and the memorial was dedicated just the year before in Oklahoma City, if I have my dates correct. And so it was one of those kind of trauma inducing moments for a lot of Americans of course, but in Oklahoma City they had just gone through it themselves with domestic terrorism, Timothy McVeigh. And so for them it was all different and it brought back so many fears and anxieties and just memories of that were painful. And so that was my perspective working there.

So yeah, there are a lot of historical events that I've been part of, but thinking back to some of the others that I wish that I had seen in person, number one, or not in person obviously you can't see the moon landing in person, but witnessing it with my own eyes on TV with the rest of the United States of America all anticipating and kind of holding our collective breath because remember there had been some accidents with NASA. There had been some tragedies in the space shuttle program and with this moon landing program and so it was dangerous. We all knew it was dangerous. And just to kind of have to wait through those hours of the rest period while the astronauts were sitting in the lunar module on the moon's surface but weren't getting out.

I mean you wouldn't want to sleep because you'd be afraid that you would miss it. Anyway that had to be incredible. My mom has told me about it and certainly remembers watching it herself.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. So we're talking about historical events. We wish we had been alive to witness whether in person or on TV. And Ryan's perspective is very different from mine and I'm sure many of you have your own perspectives. So if you want to share those you can do it on either Twitter or Facebook. And our phone number is 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4CBS. I will say that I enjoy witnessing sports history as well. First championships or titles. The an achievement that we've never seen before. So many people would point to the asterisk, proverbial asterisk, next to the name of Barry Bonds as he broke the home run record for a single season. But asterisk or not, whether you consider him the home run king or not, I am glad that I witnessed it.

I watched it all the way through with the split perspective and definitely the controversial nature of it. But even going back farther than that and at the time we didn't know that it was steroid induced, but the 1998 home run chase between Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa, you want to talk about buzz. For those of you who remember just two summers ago, Aaron Judge chasing the American League home run record, this was far bigger.

Far bigger. And you had networks stopping their broadcasts or interrupting their broadcasts to show every at bat of Sosa and McGuire and the excitement level over their home run chase and the camaraderie between the two. Now they obviously played in different leagues and they played at different times and so you're not getting them together all the time.

But they were kind of nodding to each other. The whole thing really gripped the sports population here in the United States and as many point to brought people back to baseball following the 94 work stoppage. So there are definitely sporting events that I'm glad I had the chance to witness, but they kind of pale in comparison to history history. I think Damar Hamlin and his cardiac arrest and the way that the world, and not just the sports world, but the way that event gripped the nation and the fact that for two days we were waiting and waiting and waiting with baiting breath to get some type of news about him. I know that there are these moments, lots of natural disasters, lots of tragedies that are induced by humans that we kind of as a nation we come together and we watch for a few hours, maybe a few days, maybe even a week in the wake of say a real terrible mass shooting that claims a lot of lives at schools, that type of thing, churches, grocery stores obviously. So I'm not downplaying those, but there are some moments that stand out in our nation's history above the rest. And these are ones that are put in history books, right? These are ones that people read about or now Google and watch years down the road.

So what are the events that you wish you had witnessed, been alive to witness or witnessed in person? Let's see, a tweet from Komi Los, not glad it happened but the dropping of the A-bomb, that time forever changed the world, right? The atom bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And for those of you who are in the DC area or you ever visit the DC area, they actually have the plane in one of their museums. It's the Udvar-Hazy Museum. It's part of the DC system.

So the, shoot, what's the name of it? Crap, what's the name of the museum system? Yeah, the Smithsonian. It's part of that, but it's out near Dulles Airport.

It's not down on the mall in DC. Anyway, it's incredible because they've got all these planes from significant events going back to various dates in history and so you can actually see the plane that dropped the atom bomb. I mean it's, wow, you stand there, well at least I stood there in awe, in complete awe, to actually, and you're within, well it's maybe six feet away from you, but you could actually reach out if you really wanted to get in trouble.

You could actually reach out and touch it. It's called the Enola Gay and it's right there in that museum. So yeah, there's so many historical events that, gosh, not only shaped our nation, but were impactful in terms of the media coverage and in terms of the news coverage. Tim says on Twitter, I'm a huge American Civil War buff and Gettysburg is my home away from home. I'd definitely go with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, a three-minute speech that would be the most famous in American history. Yeah, how many of us had to memorize that or at least the beginning of it when we were in school? Ryan, can you remember the beginning? Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth a great nation.

I think that's what the beginning is. That's amazing. Let's see, Troy says the end of World War II, everyone is so ecstatic in the film you see. Yeah, you wonder how accurate they are, but there are some of these films that are done about military history and battles that people will tell you are relatively accurate and these days I think there's more and more of a push to bring on historical experts or military experts to make sure they're as accurate as possible. I do love military history and so I do watch a lot of the films or the documentaries made about wars and I can't, it's not like I can do it every week because some of them are really difficult to watch in the stomach, but some of the documentaries have been made about World War I and D-Day and the beaches of Normandy and all of that. Man, they're incredible. These days it feels like documentaries are where it's at though.

Even more than movies that you might see in a theater, it's the documentaries that really drive it home. So on Twitter, ALawRadio, our show, Twitter or on Facebook. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. Three for more details. Hyundai, there's joy in every journey. 2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. For the past 20 years, you've enjoyed the refreshing tropical lime flavor of Mountain Dew Baja Blast. So in celebration of this milestone, we're bringing Baja Blast in stores nationwide. And for a limited time with every purchase of Baja Blast, you can collect coins for a chance to get Baja gear or a Taco Bell deal. 2024 is the year of Baja Blast. In stores now, no purchase necessary.

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