After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

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I did, for those of you who follow on social media, go relatively dark for the last two weeks. Posted, as I promised, a couple photos from our very first day in Hawaii, which was our trip, our visit to Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona. It was powerful. It was even more impactful being there than seeing the photos and, of course, reading about it, knowing the history there. But the way that the Navy manages the site and manages visits and the way that they treat this burial ground, essentially, with such reverence and just being there and recognizing the history and not just the history, but the impact of the United States.

And its entire trajectory into World War II and everything that changed and the lives that were lost, that was extremely powerful. So I did follow through and I did share a few photos from Pearl Harbor on our first full day in Hawaii. That was on Twitter. I do not have access to our show Facebook page when I'm gone because it's actually Jay's Facebook page. So I can't access it on my phone and I did not have a computer with me. I went two weeks without opening up a computer.

It was amazing. We actually took Bob's iPad or actually it's not an iPad. I take that back. It's a Galaxy, but it's a notepad.

Never opened that up either. So we did have our phones, but we went two weeks without much access to the Internet. So after that I went pretty dark on social. The only thing I did on Twitter while I was gone, a friend of mine and a young woman who's a fellow broadcaster, a sister, I started out as a mentor for her and she's since become a great friend, Jessica Kleinschmidt. She worked for the A's and Awful Announcing. She had interviewed me as part of her podcast, which is called Short and to the Point.

It's for Awful Announcing, that media website. And she had done it before I left and it was getting released while we were on our honeymoon. I promised her that I would share it, which I did, but otherwise I did not go on social for the better part of two weeks, which meant that I had to sift through a lot of your comments when I got back just a few hours ago and was diving into the prep. So first of all, the Hawaii honeymoon was perfect.

Honestly, I don't think I would change one thing. It was unique. It was memorable. It was beautiful, of course. It was full of adventures. Bob and I had a few challenges, some of which I will share, just general travel challenges, but also broken body parts challenges. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. And we wouldn't still wouldn't change a thing probably. I mean, I wish there weren't broken body parts, but otherwise, because of some of the challenges that we went through, it was that much sweeter on our honeymoon. And I realize now why couples take honeymoons right after they're married. And even though we wouldn't change it, we wouldn't give up holidays with our families right after our wedding. We had to move.

It was the NFL playoffs. All the reasons why we postponed the honeymoon, but we understand now how it can make such a huge difference right after the stress of planning a wedding, right after the craziness of, in our case, moving and getting in the same place, the same zip code, the same house for the first time after 10 months of dating. I understand why the honeymoon can be so powerful because you have that time finally to go away and not deal with the stress of, of just life adjustments after planning a wedding.

And so I do understand now, and there's a part of me that thinks, man, the first four months might've been a little smoother because it's been a lot of adjustments for us. But knowing what we know now and having gone through the honeymoon, we're just thankful for the trip of a lifetime and also the generous family and friends who helped us get there. We had asked people not to give us wedding gifts because we were combining two households.

We were already trying to purge and just make our stuff fit into my small house. And so we instead asked our family and friends to give us money to help us get to, it was our honeymoon fun, to help us get to Hawaii. Because for anybody who's been there, who lives there, you know it is extremely expensive. Even if the honeymoon wasn't over, we were coming back because we couldn't afford anymore.

We were out of money. So anyway, I mean, I don't know how people in Hawaii do it where you have a half a gallon of milk that costs 10 bucks in some places. A box of cereal, nine bucks. Coffee, just boring black coffee, two dollars.

But, but that's on the cheaper side. I'm trying to think of some of the other stuff that blew us away. A dozen eggs that cost seven dollars. I mean, it was, it was pretty insane.

That's a lot of money. Yeah, we ended up doing a lot of cooking at our Airbnb. We only went out to dinner once or twice. We did have a few meals out that we really enjoyed. But for the most part, we were trying to save money, but not eating lunch, just doing snacks while you're on the run and then cooking at our Airbnb. We also had breakfast at our Airbnb most of the time. So we're grateful for the people who donated and gifted to us generously to help us get there. That was an awesome way to celebrate being married and just to be on the same schedule for two whole weeks.

That's the first time since we met that we've been on the schedule for two whole weeks. Anyway, I will sprinkle in some stories the rest of this week. I haven't shared a lot of photos, even on Twitter for those of you feeling left out on Facebook. Again, the original photos from Pearl Harbor are really the only ones that I've shared. I don't think it's the show that many people want to hear if all I did was tell stories. Now, some of you would love that, but there are people out there who really want to listen to sports talk as well. So I'll sprinkle, and I'll end up doing some blog posts to share stories.

Maybe toward the end of the week, we can get into a little more of the stories. But I got to say, I came back just in time. Not only did I return for Kaitlyn Clark's pro debut, I watched it. My mom watched her first ever WNBA game. I don't think she can name more than two teams in the WNBA. The fever she would know because of Kaitlyn getting drafted, but she would only know the Connecticut Sun because she watched tonight's game. I'm not kidding. My mom has never watched a WNBA game in her life until tonight.

And producer Jay said the same thing about his mom, right? Oh yeah. Never watched a game before, but she knows Kaitlyn Clark and was tuning to the TV tonight.

I love that. Mom's uniting. So Kaitlyn Clark's pro debut, which was a mixed bag, as you would expect. She's a rookie. I tell you about rookie quarterbacks all the time. They giveth and they taketh away in the NFL.

And it's no different. There's always an adjustment for rookies. At some point, and I'm not saying it's happened now, but at some point rookies hit a wall.

Because they're just not used to the physical and mental pounding and nonstop rigor that you adapt to when you go from being a college student to being a professional. And so Kaitlyn will hit that at some point too. And keep in mind, she did not get a break.

She has not had a break. After a season that broke records in TV viewership and attendance, after a season that made her a household name and then some, she's one of the most famous names in the world right now. Definitely in the sports world. And I understand that David Sheppard, who was hosting the show earlier this week, that he was asking you the question of who was the most famous or I would say most recognizable basketball player on the planet right now.

Again, using my mom as a judge. She knows LeBron. Doesn't like LeBron. Knows Steph Curry. Loves Steph Curry. She knows Klay Thompson. I know she's nervous he's going to leave the Golden State Warriors as well. Did I miss that? He did it, right?

Not yet. Oh, don't say that! So I know that Klay Thompson is also one of her faves. And then Kaitlyn Clark. And she also knows the other former Iowa players. Kate Martin, who did make the Vegas Aces squad.

Other than that, nothing. Those are essentially the players that she knows. She probably knows a few Celtics, maybe. But for the most part, you've got an entire audience for the WNBA right now that is just there for Kaitlyn.

That's it! You've also got people who are there for Angel Reese, of course. Right now, you have to admit that Kaitlyn's there in that top three of most recognizable basketball players in the world. And she did not get a break after carrying that weight on her shoulders, getting back to a Final Four and National Championship. The awards circuit that she did, then the WNBA draft, not even a month later, she's on the court. Making her preseason debut, and now her pro debut with the Indiana Fever. So she may hit a wall earlier than a lot of players. But we will hear from her tonight. The Fever losing her debut, and as I say, it was a mixed bag, it was emotional for her. But she still handles her business extremely well.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on, wait a minute now, wait a minute now! I might have to write myself a note because I left right after we changed the name and the brand of the network. In fact, and I really did not check work email at all for two weeks, but one of our managers, he sends work email to both my personal and my company account.

I think he just wants to make sure that people who don't check their company email will still get what he's sending. Anyway, I did see them pop up, and the first few times it was like, what? What's the Infinity Sports Network?

Oh, okay. Wait a minute, that's us. So it's after hours with Amy Lawrence still, despite the guy on Facebook who's wishing me great success in my next endeavor, whatever that may be. I suppose if you don't know where I've been, considering our business and how every single day there are people who are losing jobs or having their contracts not renewed, I know the NFL network is going through a big transition right now, I can understand why that would be your assumption, but you know what happens when you assume. Anyway, we are the Infinity Sports Network. We are! Anyway, you can count on it like clockwork.

I'm back. It's a Tuesday night into a Wednesday, which means you get to ask Amy anything. So you can send those questions. I don't know if they'll all be about Hawaii. Actually, Jay and I, we owe you a new YouTube video. We probably should do a YouTube video about Hawaii. I was absolutely thinking the same thing. If only I could bring the dolphins along for show and tell. Oh.

I wish. Most amazing moment of my entire adventurous life, outside of getting married and being part of my nieces being born. Seriously, it was epic, Jay. I got to swim with dolphins, multiple dolphins, and one of them kissed me.

As Jay knows, because he has the photographic evidence. I've never seen you happier in a photo. Oh, seriously. My niece said the same thing to me. She's like, the joy on your face.

Your joy. I'm not sure we should compare photos of the day I got married to the day that adults had kissed me. Anyway, it was phenomenal.

It was phenomenal. But I just got totally sidetracked. Anyway, so we should probably do a YouTube video because people are going to want to know about Hawaii. So we'll do a few questions, send them to our show account at Amy After Hours. I was actually kind of worried I wasn't going to remember my password to get into my company email. I only had 133 emails.

Would you like to know how many of those were actually worth reading? Over under four. All right. A little bit over. Oh.

You ready? Yeah. Eleven.

Okay. Eleven that were actually addressed to me that had anything to do with me. I don't know how spam is found into the work email, but it's there.

No, it's there. Not just spam, but stuff that we don't need to read. Stuff that's happening in the building at like two in the afternoon. Yeah.

So the yeah, the email reintegration is always a challenge. We came home from Hawaii on a red eye and neither one of us slept much. Wait till I tell you what I was doing on the plane.

Anyway, we didn't sleep a whole lot. So we land at JFK in New York City, well, out of Long Island, but in New York Airport at 7 10. I've never heard this from a pilot before. They sent us to the wrong gate and the jet bridge won't reach. So we we all J we all sit back down on the plane. No, they made us sit back down every single time. They made us sit back down.

They closed all the bins. We thankfully did not put our seatbelts back on and they moved the plane. So that was kind of crazy. Anyway, we get off the plane by the time we get to our baggage.

It's almost eight o'clock, blah, blah, blah, whatever. A friend thankfully picked us up from JFK. But there were not one, two disabled vehicles between us and and Manhattan. It took us an hour and forty five minutes to go thirty seven miles.

Welcome home. Right. And I thought there was a little bit of traffic in Oahu. Anyway, yeah, thirty seven miles an hour and forty five minutes. So Bob had to go right to work because he was. Yeah, he was planning on this being a workday after two weeks off.

He's in logistics. He had a lot to do. He had hundreds of emails and went through his. So I went ahead and unpacked a little and took a nap.

And then when I got up, it was time to really jump in. One hundred and thirty three emails because I'm not that popular and eleven that I actually needed to read. What is the point of that? That's ridiculous. Way too many. Jay, how many unread emails do you have in your email box right now? I think we're pushing like four thousand.

The last time I saw it, it was like twenty eight hundred. He just doesn't read them. Doesn't delete them.

Doesn't read them. If I just leave them, I don't need them. Why don't you delete them? I don't know. This is something that drives me crazy about Jay. I love Jay dearly, but why do you leave them in your email box?

I don't know. Honestly, I just I just see them and I know I don't need them. So the ones that I need, I know they're there and I click on them and I read them. How can you find anything when there's four thousand unread emails?

If the subject is like all capitals or like junk, you just weed out the junk like visually and I know it's there. Because now at this point to go through all of them, I have to go through four thousand emails. I mean, I thought I'd be calm coming back to work. I'm refreshed.

I'm restored. I'm ready to go until I think about Jay and his four thousand unread emails. Anyway. Probably three in there that are mean something. But you wouldn't know because they're unread. On Twitter at Amy after hours, send your questions for asking me anything. I appreciate your welcome back messages.

They are very kind and also on our Facebook page as well. After hours with Amy Lawrence. Yes, there are new photos. Yes, there's new everything.

Yes, there's a new name. I almost forgot our phone numbers the same. Eight five five two one two four two two seven. In addition to Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever debut. Now, Indiana on the road at the Connecticut Sun. And yes, a lot of these games.

In fact, the majority, the vast majority of her games will be on national TV. While the Fever were away, the Pacers were playing as well on the road. And they were at the Garden where they were hoping to build a lead against the New York Knicks. But the thing about the Knicks is they have this quality to them. They're gritty.

And when they get pushed, they push back. So they have that kind of honestly, they're not all from New York. I'm not sure any of them are from New York, actually. And yet they have that kind of quality about New Yorkers that like, for instance, they walk across the street into oncoming traffic and do not care because they assume that the cars will stop.

Jay, tell me I'm wrong. This is why you start laughing. New Yorkers don't give a crap if they're jaywalking, if the light is green, if it's middle of the night, and they're walking out from in front of a garbage truck. Do you know how many times I've nearly hit pedestrians because I do not see them?

At night, it's a dangerous game. New Yorkers don't give a crap. They just walk out the middle of the street like they own the place. I got to tell you, it's one of my favorite things to do when I'm in Times Square is to walk into the traffic because all the people who are tourists go, oh, my God, he's just walking into the street.

But it's check of nature. You just go. If there's no cars coming, you just go. Well, what about when there are cars coming? They won't hit you.

You're fine. Anyway, New York Knicks basketball, they play in traffic and they do not care. They're willing to gamble and roll the dice because they believe they'll double down on themselves.

And boy, did they, especially on the glass. Also, the and we'll start with this, the defending champion Nuggets have gone from being down 0-2 to up 3-2. What does that say about the Minnesota Timberwolves?

Man alive. They still appear to be a house of cards in the NBA. Nicole Jokic earns his third MVP award in four years. I have no idea why they do it in the middle of the playoffs.

It's so weird. But anyway, he was honored before the game goes out and has another doozy. Timberwolves have no answer for him. Kirk Cousins speaks for the first time since the draft. I was here for that, by the way.

I was here for the draft the first round when the Falcons drafted Michael Penix. Here's what else I came home for. The NFL schedule release.

Yes, believe that I came home for the NFL schedule release. There's a lot of reasons to be interested. There's some really intriguing storylines.

And then from the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, I kind of feel like I came back right at the perfect time in the middle of the second round series in both hoops and hockey. But there's more PGA Championship this weekend as well. And gosh, I don't know that we'll get to it tonight. But the story about Novak Djokovic.

I'd be careful not to say Nicole Jokic. Novak Djokovic, who gets hit by a water bottle and is now admitting how much it bothered him in his next match. How much he was even fearful and worried about this type of thing. All the talk that I always give you. The criticism and the distaste.

Really the frustration with fans who would throw items and objects onto the field to court the ice. This is why. This is why.

Anyway, there's a lot to talk about. Tom Brady. He got roasted apparently.

It wasn't so good for his family. Now he's speaking out about it in Mental Health Month. So we'll try to pack in as much as we possibly can on this edition of the show. But we'll have a few days now.

Send your questions for Ask Amy anything to Twitter or Facebook. I missed you too. I actually did. On Monday. So we left Hawaii on Monday afternoon and got back to New York on Tuesday morning. It's weird, right? You just somehow lose six hours in there.

But we gained him on the way so we're good. Anyway, I actually started to miss radio. And I started talking about it and Bob was like, what is that grin on your face? I really missed work and I said, don't you miss it? I got deadpan. No.

Anyway. But I will say this is going to be a tough one because I've slept at night, right? I've slept night time when it's dark for the last two weeks.

And so I know the transition at some point this energy is going to run out. But I'm happy to be back. I'm glad to hear from you. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the After Hours podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today.

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