After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

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On the same schedule that I've been on for most of the 12 years that I've been here at CBS Sports Radio. Oh no. Whoopsie. Oh no. That just came out of my mouth without me even thinking about it. Alright.

I actually think you should leave that in the podcast because that was funny. What's the name of our new network? Infinity Sports Network and beyond. Anyway, that completely sidetracked me. Oops. Sorry boss, I guess. To infinity and beyond. See what I mean? Anyway, for most of my 12 years here, I should have just stopped there.

But I'm stopping here. As opposed to last Friday when I was the guinea pig and I was the one who was uttering the words Infinity Sports Radio for the first time. Actually it's not even that.

It's Infinity Sports Network. Clearly in a week I haven't learned much and it hasn't sunk in yet. Oh dear. But the thing is you still know my voice and you still know that it's the same show. Well most of you do.

Some of you still insist that A. You can't hear my show on your network or your station anymore. The number of people that I've heard that. What happened to your show? I don't hear it anymore. Well I didn't work last Thursday night and I didn't work Sunday night so that appears to be part of the problem. People then assumed that I was changing time slots or changing shows or maybe that the new network rebrand meant that Amy was getting fired.

All of those things. But then you talk out of your butts instead of actually doing a little bit of research or googling it. Anyway I'm here. The show is the same. It does have a new shall we call it home base. The rebel base.

We have a new rebel base. But everything else is exactly the same. Including the fact that your host is at times an idiot. But whatevs. You just showed his butt. I just.

No. No one's showing butts. We're not showing butts.

We like big butts and we cannot lie. Anyway. Shoot. The whole last two minutes have just been an exercise in what not to do on the radio. I can't help it.

It's just who I am. We've got four hours and we believe we have many ways in which we will entertain you. Man we're going to run the gamut in terms of the emotions as well. We've got.

Goodness. We've got everything from the inevitable for those Arizona Coyotes hockey fans. To a conversation with the man who's been maybe the most viral voice in sports over the last 24 hours.

Todd Walsh delivered his emotional farewell tribute. To the team who's leaving the desert. On the occasion of the Coyotes last game.

At a little bitty arena that wasn't and hasn't been NHL standards which is part of the problem. And we decided we'd reach out to him. I knew that he would have a ton of media requests and that's the case. He's been maybe the most popular guest on sports radio and TV over the last 24 hours as well.

But he agreed to come on the show from the desert. And we will hear his perspective. His emotional.

And. Probably exhausted perspective. But also the perspective of someone who is wearing two hats as an insider and as a fan. As a guy who travels with the team. But also a guy who has loved this team and this franchise since day one.

That's a lot of emotions to process. And we are thankful that Todd has agreed to join us an hour from now from the desert. I checked out his Twitter. He is a really sweet dog. I bet that she is right now offering some puppy therapy.

I hope that's the case. So Todd Walsh will join us in an hour from the Arizona Coyotes who are soon to be the Salt Lake City Coyotes. The owners of the Utah Jazz have now added to their business portfolio. Ryan and Ashley Smith of Smith Entertainment Group bought the Coyotes and all of the existing assets. So everything.

Kit and Kaboodle for 1.2 billion dollars. And. In doing so. They. Have added to the Salt Lake City pro sports. What pro sports profile pro sports family. And the NHL is on board with this in large part because of what was an unsettling and often frustrating situation in the desert.

I certainly can identify a little bit now not as an adult but as a kid when I was younger a young adult I suppose when the Hartford Whalers. Left. Departed. In what was that flurry of. Teams leaving moving to other places.

Going back and have to go back and look at the date. But if you remember there were a bunch of teams that moved in the span of several years. And even now in New England. People still mourn the Hartford Whalers.

People still. Lament the fact. That they. Moved on to the to be the hurricanes in Raleigh and that goes back to the late 90s. So it's early in my career when the team relocated.

So yeah young adult. And that's not the only franchise. Or its fan base who've gone through this painful process.

So as part of tonight's show. I'd like to ask you either your perspective if you're a fan of a team that's moved or left. To go to quote unquote greener pastures. I think of it in the NFL. The Raiders leaving Oakland and moving to Las Vegas. But it wasn't that long before that we had the two teams. Relocating to L.A. Even though the Chargers weren't that far down the road that was as painful as it comes. So San Diego moving to L.A. at the same time that the Rams were leaving St. Louis and moving back to L.A. We've had what I consider probably the. The most vocal of fan bases. At least in my experience as a talk show host Seattle losing its supersonics. Who had a tradition and a following. And they went to Oklahoma City where.

I mean I was part of the push. When I worked in Oklahoma for four years. All they talked about as sports fans was getting a pro team getting a pro team.

And then when. There was the relocation. Of the pelicans were they pelicans at the time following Hurricane Katrina I don't think so they were the Hornets Hornets.

That's right I cannot keep up with the name changes. When they relocated Oklahoma City got a taste. And desperately wanted a team. And so a businessman in the area purchased the supersonics and moved them and they became the Thunder and I know there are still people who are upset over it. Now in baseball.

Well and not just now in baseball but the Nationals. They were a team that moved. Oakland A's they're stuck in what's been a disastrous cycle of uncertainty and talk about moving and now we know they're leaving for Sacramento.

Will they end up in Las Vegas. And people who work for the team don't have any type of resolution either. I've got a friend who works for the team. She has no idea.

If she's going to Sacramento and what happens beyond that in Vegas. In fact the inclination mean you can imagine all the employees are talking and I don't mean the players obviously all the employees the people who make their living by either working for the team or at the stadium. Many of them suspect that they won't be retained. And that their jobs are lost. So we're thinking about relocations and teams moving and leaving fans in the dust. I mean this goes back obviously decades and decades.

These are one of the some of the more recent ones that I remember and I can identify with. But if you're a fan of a team that moved. I'd like to hear from you but also larger question. What was the either most painful relocation in sports franchise history or the one that made zero sense. It's kind of two questions there but regardless of how you answer it. Painful nonsensical.

It seems like every time this comes up people have to share their perspectives and I appreciate it. It's cathartic to talk about losing a team and how painful it can be. Gosh even since I moved here and took the job with the newly named Infinity Sports Network.

Which you know I need to practice because I'm clearly not getting it right. We've had a bunch of teams leave and it's never easy. Fans feel like they're the last ones to be considered in the equation very often. And I think the harsh reality is. Oh computers about to die energy savers been turned on. I see the hold on everybody talk amongst yourselves. So it's been playing with the cords again. It's OK I got you I got you computer you're about to get some juice hang on here comes some water.

Oh save it I did saved it from certain death and dehydration back to what I was saying. It's it's never easy. It's it's painful and fans feel like they're the last ones to be considered. But the harsh reality is that it's a business and these men women families who own franchises or buy franchises. As long as they get approval from the leagues which you know the leagues are subject to making that approval. The NHL board of governors has.

But the the whole point is that they're allowed to do with their business what they want. And it's too bad because as fans we like to pride ourselves. I'm not sure how accurate it is but we like to pride ourselves on being loyal. And yet we don't generally get that. From a lot of our teams in return and if it makes you feel any better.

The players don't either. Very often when it comes to business versus loyalty. Business versus. Relationship. So very often the business comes first.

The bottom line comes first. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence. You can find me on Twitter.

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The smaller profile photo seems to block out some of the header photo. So we're trying to work on that. I know that my husband's been checking them out too because we've had multiple iterations of them.

To try to figure out which one we like the best. So that's why you're seeing it pop up on the timeline over and over and over again. But don't you worry. It'll be over soon.

We're just trying to figure out again what's the best way to make it fit and to make it work. So thank you for all of your fun comments. I'm glad you liked the photo of me laughing like a hyena.

Just as a general note. That photo was taken several years ago. So it was before I got married. Long before I knew my husband. But many of you are associating it with my joy over being married. My husband appreciates that. But the photo was taken actually before I met him. But you all are very kind.

Thank you so much. Something else that was blowing up our social media over the last, we'll call it 20 hours. Jay, do you have the revelation from Bill Belichick that threw me for a loop? You don't?

Okay, so let me know when you do. Because we teased it for most of our, well, second half of our show last night. And we didn't get to it then because of some other stuff that was going on. In large part, the fact that we started talking about the Arizona Coyotes and their relocation.

But we didn't end up getting to it until the end of the show. And by then a lot of you had started working or were out of your cars or whatever else. So I had people asking me all day long, what did Bill Belichick say that caused you to lose all respect for him? But then I tweeted it and the response has been hysterical. I had no idea that it would be so controversial.

But in fact it was. Also, I had no idea how many of you were missing out by not ever having tried the greatest beverage in the history of the world. Bill Belichick, is it really true? Tell me it's not true.

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. What? What?

We don't have time for that. The responses to my tweet about this have been hysterical. One guy responded with, that explains why he's so cranky all the time. Another guy who is clearly labeled as a Dolphins fan. He's a liar. Don't believe anything he says.

Anyway, really funny stuff as your responses. Although I don't know why Bill Belichick would lie about coffee. But I did retweet it just now. How is it possible that Bill Belichick has never had a cup of coffee in his life? Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Right, I know you say that. And I probably wouldn't have believed it. Except some of you, and I would say it's a very small minority. But some of you are agreeing that you've never had a cup of coffee in your life.

Yeah, I don't, I can't, I don't even know how to process that. I didn't drink coffee until I was 30. Because I don't like the taste of hot coffee. And I definitely don't ever drink it black. Oh my gosh. The Hubs drinks coffee black.

And, no. It stains your cup, like no. Creamer is the best part too. I love coffee. I love the taste of it.

But here's the funny part. I don't like to drink hot coffee. I know a lot of you either, you say you don't like hot beverages. Or you drink it because it's a hot beverage.

So the temperature has something to do with it. I don't, I love the smell of coffee brewed. But I do not like the taste of hot coffee. Instead, I prefer cold, well iced coffee all the time. And now I'm a cold brew snob. And so a lot of times I combine cold brew with the other coffee that's been chilled.

The brewed coffee or cured coffee that's been chilled. Yeah, I cannot drink it without either oat milk or almond milk or regular milk. So I don't drink it black.

And I definitely don't drink it hot. But I can't do this schedule without caffeine. And I certainly can't be drinking soda, jay, twice a day. So instead, and I did that in my 20s. I would drink soda to get me through overnight and late night shifts. But I can't do that anymore because I would have a, well, I'd be living my 700 pound life.

So I can't do that. But I certainly don't know how people can do anything late night and overnight without coffee. Maybe you're just naturally gifted in that department, which blows me away. But also I like coffee. I really enjoy the taste of coffee to the point where sometimes I'll drink deep gaff because I like it. Have you ever had half-caf? Half-caf? I just learned that this exists.

I never knew it was a thing. I saw it in my house in the cabinet. I was like, half-caf? It's half decaf.

You found out because it was in your cabinet in your home? Right. Oh. And I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.

Who in your house is drinking half-caf? I had no idea. It was just in there. You haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet?

Not sure. But now it's me. So it's mine now.

I was like, this is pretty good. Nice. I didn't want a full caffeine, but I didn't want nothing. So half-caf. Perfect. Okay. Interesting. So half-caf does actually have some caffeine to it.

So it's great. And I don't mind drinking decaf when it's like a Saturday night and I just want to taste. I sound like a drug addict. I just want to taste. But actually there are many studies done about the benefits of caffeine in coffee, not in soda because that's different. But the benefits of coffee, because it's got natural antioxidants, but also it's got natural nutrients that are good for you. Not to the point where you get caffeine headaches and you can't operate without the headache.

But yeah, coffee is actually good for you. So anyway, I digress, but I was kind of blown away by the response and the number of you, even though it was maybe only a dozen of you who told me you've never had coffee, but then mostly it's the responses to Bill Belichick, which cracked me up. So you can find me on Twitter, A Law Radio. So on our Facebook page, After Hours with Amy Lawrence, coming up Jim Harbaugh tells you about life in his RV. Josh Allen tells you about life without Stéphane Diggs. Clay Thompson and Steve Kerr talk about a life after this warrior's core. Say it ain't so. And Rory McIlroy talks about life with Liv. Oh, no, no, no, no. Don't start rumors, Amy.

Really I want to know what life is like when one of your favorite sports teams leaves and relocates to another city. And producer Jay has put a post up on our show, Twitter. It's got Tigger.

That's all you need to know. I will share it, but some of you are already answering. We'll put that post up on Facebook as well. Happy almost Friday. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence.

You are listening to the After Hours podcast. Basket here would go a long way for the Lakers. Here is Reeves, dribbling right all the way to the middle. D'Lo for three.

Got it! Huge three for Russell. Puts the Lakers up by four. That's good, and the Lakers are going to escape in New Orleans.

It was much closer than we think it needed to be. Here's McCollum into the front court. Three pointer. No good, and the game is over. Lakers win it, 110 to 106.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. The voice of Jon Ireland on Lakers radio. I'm actually watching this Lakers-Pellicans game, well, watching. It's on the TV in front of me, on NBA TV, and I suspect that it's because the game was so good.

It really was very entertaining. Zion Williamson was a force, a tour de force, until three minutes to go in the game when he injured his hamstring, and he is expected to be out Friday, which is unfortunate because it was so good to see him in his playoff debut. He was everything we wanted until he was hurt and wasn't available, and the Lakers maybe got the extra push they needed because of that.

And so I don't know what would have happened if he'd been out there. I know that the Pelicans had this dramatic comeback, but the Lakers ultimately prevailed with Anthony Davis, LeBron James, and D'Angelo Russell. They had the entire starting five in double figures. That includes Austin Reeves. It was really all hands on deck, and they are healthy. Does that mean we'll see a different series against the Denver Nuggets? I certainly hope so because it was a sweep in last year's Western Conference Finals.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on the Infinity Sports Network. We are already getting your answers to the most painful, nonsensical franchise relocation in sports history. I know, it's so dramatic, but it doesn't have to be the most painful on the planet, just the most painful one to you or the one that you identify with. Which one hurt?

Which one made no sense? Still doesn't make any sense. Still bothers you. I have an old Hartford Whalers t-shirt. I just can't get rid of it.

I love it. But it definitely does bother me still. And it really is a symbol for how powerless fans can be. Not always. There are ways that fans can assert their wishes, their will. But for the most part, the loyalty doesn't run both ways.

I would wish that it does, but it doesn't always. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227.

And on Twitter, A Law Radio, plus our Facebook page. LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers, they want you to know this series has nothing to do with revenge against the defending champions. Thank you for a little bit too much more emphasis on it. This is our first round matchup and we look forward to the postseason. But I haven't been looking forward to the rematch. The game is played, how it's being played, and this is the matchup.

So we look forward to that challenge. Someone posed the question to Lakers coach Darvin Ham on the play-in victory and this idea that they would have been better off had they not beaten the Pelicans. Insane asylum sources say. Just someone that just got out of insane asylum.

Apparently he's not down with the idea. I think that pretty much covers it. So how do the Lakers get the best of a team that cruised past them, rolled over them last spring? We just got to be better all around and then obviously it's a great team we're playing against. They've been in a lot of big games and know what they want to get to late game so we just have to be very disciplined and have our mind into it throughout the course of 48 minutes or however long it takes. It's going to be challenging but the postseason is all about it, it should be. Definitely isn't the same as a year ago. The Lakers as I say are healthier which means that it's not a two-man game in LeBron and AD.

They're less likely to run out of gas. Those two guys are still older, Anthony Davis is always dealing with something but I like the fact that they've got more depth and other guys who can score and when they wanted to they defended very well against the Pelicans. Also they're playing some of their best basketball of the year so I think all of those things matter. The schedule is out for both the Stanley Cup playoffs which begin on Saturday as well as the NBA which still has the two games on Friday night.

Those are the last play-in games, I can't sometimes use all the correct terminology. They will determine the eight seeds and for your trouble for winning a game on Friday night you earn a date with either the Oklahoma City Thunder or the Boston Celtics. You want to talk about trying to avoid a team, I suppose that this is the plight that you put yourself in and you deserve it if you are the eighth seed in the East because we've known for a really long time that the Celtics would be waiting for you as the top seed and the best record in the NBA. So you've got four games on the hard court Saturday and four games on Sunday that we don't have all the matchups for Sunday yet. Again the top seeds in the East and the West won't tip off until Sunday and they're waiting for their opponents.

Mostly I think you've got to try to give those eight seeds a couple of days, not really even 48 hours. The game against the Celtics tips off at one o'clock Eastern time on Sunday which means the winner of Chicago Miami has to travel, number one. Number two we're talking maybe 30 hours of rest time, I mean it's going to be rough.

But again that's the plight you put yourself in. And then the NHL, same thing, Stanley Cup playoffs the puck will drop en fuego on Saturday and Sunday and then Monday is a day off weirdly enough. I don't always understand, it's not even in the NFL Sunday, well NFL Monday I guess, it's not even in NFL Monday so I don't know why you'd avoid that but maybe try to line them up so they go every other. Jay did you just redo the, oh okay, some people had already been answering the question but what? I didn't see any answers on it.

Yeah no I didn't, I did people, maybe not to that but they responded to me to give us some of their most painful, oh yeah they've kind of disappeared now so I think that is the case, we're getting some answers. Anyway I think I saw a few that I'll try to remember but Marco's here, what do you think? Most painful or yeah here we go, Oilers to Tennessee is one, that comes from Hector, Josh is a Browns fan, hardest move, Cleveland to Baltimore for a few years especially after winning a Super Bowl and then Martin says Quebec, Nordiques, moving to Colorado still hurts us in Canada, the rivalry between the Nords, the Nords not the nerds, and the Montreal Canadiens were so passionate so there's a few of them right. Marco what do you think, either made the least sense or the most painful move of sports franchises? The one for me in my lifetime was the Browns moving to Baltimore because that's still, you took a team with a rabid fan base and the way it went down and the way it happened and then the fact that the Browns with everything with the lovable losers and then the Ravens turned into basically one of the model franchises in the NFL with that exact organization and then Cleveland had to start over, luckily they got another team but they started from scratch and it took them a really long time to dig out from that so that one to me kind of stands out, I know the Baltimore Colts early with moving to Indy, moving in the middle of the night, but I'm too young for that to make it personal. That I don't remember, certainly the Browns had to go through a couple of years without football and it was a weird, it didn't make a lot of sense, yeah agreed. Okay so we got a new post up, it's on our show Twitter, at Amy After Hours, also on our Facebook page and some of you are weighing in, maybe it's just your perspective, it can be painful when it's a team that either you grew up watching or you associate with your city a lot of times, and it's not the case always and everywhere, but a lot of times like Marco was mentioning about Cleveland, very often fans identify their city through their sports teams, not to mention the success or failure of their sports teams really affects their mood.

This is why Cleveland's been cranky for a long, just kidding, I love Cleveland, my mom's whole side of the family is from Northeast Ohio so I am allowed to make jokes. And it's not wrong, I mean you wind up, we all do that, with certain teams, especially football because it takes a week before you play again, you can wind up in a bad mood until Thursday, there's times where it just doesn't shake you, you can't shake it and then again the way that happened, the way that went down, I mean I didn't like the Raiders move when they left Oakland the second time, it's hard, you identify, Oakland's going to lose the A's too, they already lost the Warriors, you identify these teams with a certain place. That's three teams in the span of what, five years?

Yeah, roughly. Oh, that's, talk about painful. And I get Oakland's had issues and I understand all that but still, I mean you're talking about the Raiders, one of the iconic franchises in the NFL so it always felt like the Oakland Raiders, that little stint in LA but it felt like the Oakland Raiders and that's gone. The Warriors finally get good and they're gone.

And the A's who were a tremendous franchise for a really long time and even when they stripped it down and built it back up they were still involved and now what it's turned into it's just, it's hard to watch, it really is, it's hard to watch. Agreed. So we've got our phone number 855-212-4227. Speaking of phone numbers, my older friend Marv did decide that he would take Chicago Johnny's number and potentially join him at the pool in Las Vegas.

Nice. I know, I was, good for him. So was that just the number getting from Botch or did he, did Chicago Johnny call in? Johnny did call in. He called in at the top of the second hour so by the time we had talked about it more than once, I think I threw it out there twice, he said, what did he say, he was at the movies?

Oh no he was at a show, he went to see Love, he went to see the Beatles Search a Soleil show because it's ending so that's what he was doing the first time and so then he heard the second time and called up and when we asked him whether or not he was working on Saturday his response was oh no I'll be at the pool but if your friend wants to come hang out at the pool with the wind you can pass along my number and I'll get him in. So we did connect, Chicago Johnny, we connected Chicago Johnny with my friend Marv and even though Marv will be going to the Mob Museum sans Chicago Johnny, he will try to make time at the pool all because of our show which just cracks me up. I love it. Do we get video of that? I don't think I want it.

Do we get a video of that? No, negative Ghost Rider. No?

Absolutely not. Okay. Okay so find our Twitter or our Facebook, let's see, coming up, what do I want to do? Well update on some of the injuries that will affect the NBA Plus moving forward.

Also Jim Harbaugh, he wasn't joking when he said he was going to live in an RV this off seat until his family finds a home, yeah he takes us on a tour of it and everything. I wish we had the video but this is radio so we don't. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence.

You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. I'm not exactly sure why but Zion Williamson just went down the tunnel. He was holding his left thigh, not sure if there's anything to be concerned about there. Maybe he's just going to go stretch it out, hopefully he's coming back. Well Aaron, thanks for the report but that could literally not be worse than what you just reported.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. On the Pelicans Radio Network, Todd Gravannini went on to talk about how frustrated Zion was that he threw down a towel on his way out of the arena to the locker room. So even in that moment appeared to know that something was wrong and now Pelicans coach Willie Green delivering the news and communicating how tough it was to find out that they will not have their star player for Friday night against the Kings.

It was tough news for sure. We all were disappointed and just kind of being there for Z, being supportive, encouraging him as he attacks his rehabilitation and his recovery from it. They have to continue to work on him in the hopes that he can be ready for potentially a first round series or beyond but yeah this is a guy who just scored 40 points for them in the game against the Lakers and was the driving force behind them coming back. He was fearless, he was aggressive, like I said I'm watching the game again and this is everything the Pelicans wanted out of Zion, it's everything fans of basketball have wanted to see from Zion and it happened so perfectly in his playoff debut but now they have to move on without him. The message to the team is that we've faced adversity before and here it is again staring us right in the eyes and this is an opportunity that we can take advantage of.

Well what about Zion himself? He was obviously frustrated when he was leaving the arena, how's he doing now? He's upset, disappointed, so no way around it, it was tough news so like I said we're all just rallying around him and gonna support him as best we can. Willie Green and the Pelicans, part of your Friday night potentially because you've got Pelicans and Kings for the right to be the eight seed and then same thing in the Eastern Conference it's Chicago at Miami, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. You can find us on our show Twitter at Amy After Hours, also our Facebook page, lots of you weighing in about this relocation and the pain that comes with it for the fan bases and the most recent one is the Arizona Coyotes and our guest at the top of the hour is Todd Walsh, his farewell tribute went viral on Wednesday night, we found it on social media that's why we invited him on the show but he ended that five minute video with an emotional story and really kind of perfectly summarized how he feels about the team. I'm going to go back to a story that I love to tell, it's about the Hall of Fame coach, the late great Fred Schuro back in the mid 70s, the head coach of the Broad Street Bullies, the Philadelphia Flyers, he walked into the room before the Stanley Cup clinching game and he walked up on a chalkboard and he wrote this, it's my favorite quote in all of hockey, win today and we walk together forever, think about that, win today and we walk together forever. Well the Coyotes as you know, they never won a cup but we went through a whole heck of a lot together so I'd like to amend that chalkboard with a virtual chalkboard circa 2024 as I got a couple of guys to moonlight, Tom Elster and Josh Coleman who put this together and this is my message to you, Coyote fans who have been there since day one and it's simply this, I hope you'll enjoy this particular last ode to the Coyotes from my own chalkboard because we walk together forever as Coyote fans and that's the story really, that's my chalkboard. Longtime Coyotes broadcaster Todd Walsh who had many fans in tears, some who are already emotionally supercharged as the Coyotes played their final game in the desert they assumed and it became official on Thursday, the sale of the Coyotes to a couple who own the Utah Jazz and will soon be moving this franchise to Salt Lake City. Coming up, Todd Walsh joins us after an exhausting day in which his video has gone viral, his farewell tribute, his emotional words about the Coyotes, they've been viewed a couple million times, we're going to check in with him and see how he's doing and also why did it come to this, this rollercoaster ride? I'm anxious to talk to Todd straight ahead, glad to have you with us, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance, whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue and guess what, now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name your price tool from Progressive, it works just the way it sounds, you tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget, get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates, price and coverage match limited by state law.

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