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May 30, 2024 5:55 am

After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 2

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The all-new season of The Kardashians is now streaming on Hulu. How do you like me now? I don't think I've ever honestly asked that question, but if I'm being completely truthful, I've thought it many times. Wouldn't it be fun to ask that question? How do you like me now? See, Kirk Cousins had an opportunity there to say how do you like me now? How do you like me now, freaks?

No, it's more fun. I think it's more validating to, in my opinion, to keep quiet and just let people come to the realization all by themselves that they couldn't have been more off base and more incorrect about me and my future. I think back to when I was doing local radio, and granted, I was the epitome of trial and error, meaning I would try stuff that would be epic failure and I'd fall flat on my face and I would make mistakes. I did not know what I was doing. When I first started in sports radio, I'd had very little training. I went to Syracuse, of course, and got my masters there, but for the most part, their premise was if you know TV, you know radio. I knew journalism. I knew how to tell a story. I knew how to write for broadcast. I knew how to fact check and be objective, and those were things I learned in doing news. But when I first started doing a sports talk show, I had no clue what I was doing. And furthermore, I didn't really understand truly the value of preparation and also recognize, I always thought that I was prepared, but didn't really understand the art of preparation and how you've got to be prepared for so much more than just whatever's on your shot sheet, so to speak, whatever you think you're going to talk about that day. I also really didn't know how to talk to people that I couldn't see as opposed to talking at people. And that's an art and a skill that takes practice. For most people, it doesn't come naturally because it's a little bit strange to be sitting in a radio studio and having a conversation with people that you can't see.

And for me, I also have the added element to the added layer to it is I don't think too hard about who's listening to me, because then it would affect not what I say, but how I say it. For instance, if I knew or if I focused on the fact that every night during basketball season, there are coaches, officials, players sometimes who are listening to the show as they're traveling back from their respective road trips. The first time I ever met Sean Grandy, he said to me, 80% of the Celtics traveling party is or are Amy Lawrence fans.

80% is. 80% of the Celtics traveling party is Amy Lawrence fans. That's how he introduced himself to me, meaning we listen to your show. Sometimes the driver is listening to your show on the team bus as we're driving back from the airport. I don't need to be thinking about that. I don't need to be thinking about the fact they're NBA players listening to what I'm saying. Not because that makes me nervous or because I can't handle that pressure.

That's ridiculous. Of course I can. But the idea that, hey, this team is listening while I'm talking about them. That I think is human nature, at least my nature, where it might potentially affect what I say and how I say it. And I need to just be me without thinking, hey, this particular person is listening or could be listening.

So instead, it's the two elements. It's an audience, a large audience made up of humans. And I'm talking to humans, but you're all faceless, nameless humans, except for producer J. He is neither faceless nor nameless. I'm here.

You're here. And I'll admit it's also weird when there's no producer to look at. So even though I don't look at J the entire time, there is another human being, one that I consider a close friend, on the other side of the double pane glass.

It's not like I'm talking to J, but there is at least someone there looking at me. Right. But when you do the show from Syracuse, we don't see each other. Right. Or the two and a half months I did my show from a spare bedroom in my home during COVID.

Right. That was pre you working on the show, but that was also hard. I was sitting into a corner. I was facing a corner in a spare bedroom because that was the best place for the audio because it wasn't then bouncing all over the room. And it was weird.

I couldn't see anyone. I know a lot of shows chose to have a zoom where like a call going at the same time where they could see their producers and hosts. But my internet connection, I was a little nervous. Couldn't support both streaming as well, like streaming the show, broadcasting live as well as streaming on the internet. Shows ran to that issue often. So for that reason, I didn't do both.

And that was a bit of a challenge for sure. So yes, you're nameless and you're faceless. Well, all of you look like producer J. I don't really want to know who is listening or how, meaning I don't need to know all your names and where you come from and how many of you there are.

But here's another funny wrinkle to this whole thing. I get so nervous when I have to address a crowd of people who's looking at me. So I'm actually better talking to people when they're not looking at me. Is that weird? I'm so weird.

Why am I so weird? Well, you had your, in Georgia, you were recently you had to give a speech to a group of people. Right, I gave a keynote address to a group of college students and coaches in the Peach Belt Conference, and it was amazing, but I was far more nervous doing that than what I'm doing right now.

So I can talk to hundreds of thousands of people and during football season, the number gets, it gets into the millions. I can talk to that audience who can't see me with authority and with confidence. But then when, I don't know, three, I'm trying to think how many people were there, 80, 90, maybe 100 people, so 100 young women and coaches are staring at me, it's a completely different thing.

Then I get nervous and I miss, I lose my spot in my notes. Is it like people's facial expressions or? No, I don't know what it is. I just know that when people are staring at me, I feel like a fish out of water, if that makes sense. No, it's, I mean, I don't think, I think I would say the majority of the human population would say they're uncomfortable with public speaking, right? But I talk for a living.

Yeah, I guess, but no one, like you're saying, though, you're not thinking about everyone looking at you. No, I refuse. You've moved past that.

Right. I refuse to consider who's listening to me, a college coach, a high school coach, an athlete. Thankfully, when I do hear from periodically athletes and coaches, and when we have them on the show, very often they're complimentary, which is good.

Because I feel as though earning the respect of an athlete and a coach is great validation for what we do here on the show. But you know, I can be pretty stupid on the show as in goofy and, and we all make mistakes, right? So if someone happens to hear you when you're making a terrible mistake, then it's, it's embarrassing. Sometimes you only get one chance to make an impression. Your first impression can also be your last impression.

So there, so that's why I can't be thinking about and over analyzing every little thing I do wrong. Does that make sense? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Like just calling you fit naceless or whatever. I just said you're nameless and faceless.

I, I make up words all the time. So yeah, it's, it's a, it's a weird like strange dichotomy with me where I don't actually want to talk in front of people. I'm much more comfortable talking to a mass audience where I can't see you.

But not looking into the corner of a wall, but at the same time, I don't actually want to know who you are because it's better for me to do what I do without knowing the specifics of the audience or who is specifically in the audience. I get that. But this is why I love the late nights though, because you do have a lot of people who are in their cars late night traveling in the sports world.

Coaches, the number of coaches that listen to sports radio when they're recruiting and they're driving from place to place. Yeah. Broadcasters too. That's how I connect with a ton of broadcasters because they listen to the show is the beauty of being a network show where we, we take over, we commandeer your local affiliate at night. Yeah. It's, it's funny too. Cause you can't really get away from us.

You go from city to city. There we are again. Oh wait, there we are again. You try Sirius XM. Oh look, there she is again.

Anyway, it's after hours with Amy Lawrence. I know I'm a mess on Twitter, a law radio also on our Facebook page named after the show. We've got that poll that's still up on a scale of one to 10. How much do you miss NFL football? I know a lot of you are much more into college.

That does include my husband. He's much more into college. And also we've thrown out this question, which I think we've kind of flirted with before your favorite sports month.

Cause I think June is a little more of a transitional month. The games get fewer though they take on higher stakes and we're mostly transitioning out of the winter sports to the summer sport of baseball and then on into what is soon to come, which is football. And gosh, maybe it's just me, but looking ahead at this college football season, I know the games are paramount and that's what matters, but as if it wasn't complicated enough before. These lawsuits that, well, these verdicts slash awards that are coming down through the legal system about retroactively paying athletes, compensating them, excuse me, for NIL that they didn't get when they were in school. So this goes all the way back to 2016, the NCAA and the power conferences have to retroactively compensate athletes back to 2016 under the NIL laws. So now the NIL laws are being projected backward to cover.

What is it? 10,000, roughly 10,000 division one athletes. But at the same time, the money is being put aside for them to pay athletes to play the various sports. Now, I don't believe that's going to be as huge a change for some of the non-revenue sports. I mean, there might be a little money in it, a stipend, if you will, for sports like gymnastics, lacrosse, track and field. But when it comes to the major revenue producers, football, college basketball, and that can include the women, think about the money, the kind of money that the Iowa women made this year or the LSU women make.

Gosh, South Carolina, there can be money in that. But also, I think softball, depending on how good the teams are, the Oklahoma softball team, Alabama softball team's been pretty good. Baseball as well as we head toward the College World Series, kind of funny, Jay, I was at the wedding reception on Saturday, and in the corner, one of Bob's family tables, his brother and his brother's kids, and one of them has just graduated from, I believe she went to A&M. Anyway, maybe not A&M, but somewhere in Texas, and she played softball, and she was watching on her phone a baseball game, and I asked her, regional, super regional, and she got really excited that she was having a conversation with someone about college baseball. But yeah, the World Series is on tap pretty soon. That's something else that people love about this time of the year.

So that was neat. It is kind of cool to be in Texas, where you've got different sports that are king, like the college sports, but also NFL. High school football is big in Texas, too, right? Oh yeah, gosh, I used to cover high school football when I lived in Oklahoma.

I worked for a 100,000 watt stick, 100,000 watt station with a 100,000 watt service signal, and it reached the Texas Panhandle, it reached all the way to Oklahoma City, it reached up into southwest Kansas. So we would travel, as I was doing play-by-play for high school football, we would travel around that whole area. I had to learn that eight-on-eight, six-on-six, that kind of stuff. I had to learn some different type of football, and it was interesting.

Definite lifeblood in other parts of the country. Anyway, the month of June doesn't have much football, so if you're jonesing for football and you voted 10 in our latest poll, which you can find on Twitter at Amy After Hours or on our Facebook page, you've got a little ways to go. But there is a lot happening right now.

This feels more of a transitional month for me. We do have potential, by the way, in both the Eastern and Western Conference Finals in the NHL, not so much in the NBA, but in the NHL, Game 7s. We had this discussion a couple weeks ago, better phrase in sports than a Game 7. That, many of you said, is sudden death.

Well, we could end up with both. Sudden death in a Game 7? Oh, the tension.

I can't sit down during moments like that. Even if I have no rooting interest in the team. Jay, might you be able to manage the emotions if the Rangers go to a Game 7 and sudden death, or just a Game 7 in general? Game 7s with the Rangers, I've gotten pretty used to over the last decade or so, so I can handle that, but a Game 7 sudden death, I'm not inviting it. Well, considering how the Rangers and Panthers are playing right now with three straight overtime games, it hasn't happened in more than 20 years. We've had three straight sudden death finishes in a Conference Finals, so there's potential there. To reach the Cup, I mean, does it get any more intense?

I guess to win it, but... Oh, hey, I don't know why I can handle that. Terry is listening in Florida. Terry, welcome to After Hours. Amy, what's up? What's up? You're what's up. I don't know what they're saying about you online, but I know one thing. I really enjoy your show because you're welcome, because you are humble, and that is a very endearing characteristic. You mean because I call myself weird? I am kind of weird.

Hey, you're humble, and that's endearing. But this is what I wanted to talk about. You were talking about your Jones for football, and again, football is my favorite sport, but I've got some questions for you. What's the most popular sport in Canada? The most popular sport in Canada is hockey. Right. What's the most popular sport in Mexico? Football, but the other football.

Right. And internationally, you go soccer, you go basketball, you go tennis, you go to China, and they're talking about the NBA. Why hasn't the National Football League been able to become an international sport? I mean, they tried it in Europe.

It failed. Now they've got a game that's going to be played, I guess, in Brazil this year. This is the one sport that has not really been able to grow overseas like the other sports have. Well, I think there's two reasons for it, and if the NFL has its way, they're even considering putting games in Australia, which I don't even know how you would do that, just because of the travel and the impact of sending teams there.

It would have to be for more than one game in one week. There's all kinds of different formulas they're looking at for games all over the world, so we have not seen the last of it. From Germany to London, now Brazil, as you point out.

But I think there are two reasons. When I travel internationally, and I do humanitarian trips in a lot of Central American and South American countries, not to mention the Caribbean. I've been to Cuba and Ecuador, and I'm trying to think of some of the other places, certainly going over to Africa, and what they tell me is they don't understand American football. So you say football there, and they're referring to soccer.

Well, they're referring to soccer, so you have to say football de Americano. But they don't understand it, and it's because they don't have access to it on TV. So when it comes to their stadiums and they see it, they love it. But if you don't see it all the time, let's be honest, our football is fairly complicated. So if you don't see it all the time, then you don't understand it.

Which means when you are asked about it, or when, you know, there's, well, even, let's just take that off the table. When you're talking about sports that kids play, because you would have to develop young kids to want to play our football. But if they don't see it on TV, they're not going to be excited about playing it, and so how can you start a, like, leagues, development leagues in other countries if people don't know what they're playing and they don't see it on a regular basis? Amy, you're spot on.

Again, I've traveled internationally as well. But you're right, they don't understand. The game does not make sense to them. Like it does here, where we see it all the time, we play it, we're exposed to it. It's our number one sport, without a doubt. I wasn't arguing that.

But again, the sport has had difficulty growing itself overseas, and that's an issue, because that's the only way you're going to get new people. This audience is exhausted, all right? Ooh, no, I disagree with you. I could not disagree with you more. I don't mean that they're exhausted in terms of watching it, but you really can't grow it much more. Why? Because what's a good rating for a Super Bowl? 100 million?

Okay. In a country of 300 million, that means two-thirds are not watching it, okay? So again, the only way you can really grow your sport is internationally.

I'm not sure you can really get new people here. Again, I disagree with you. If you see the trends coming out, so 2020 was the one aberration. If you see the trends for the NFL, there are continually growth in ratings and viewership.

And there are reasons for that. Of course, the NFL made a major push over the last decade to attract female fans, and the league and the popularity among women has grown exponentially. Not to mention, our nation is a melting pot, and so you do have races and cultures and ethnicities that are blended here, which means, as you point out, now, last year's Super Bowl, yes, a third of the country.

I mean, compare that to any other program on TV, and it's out of this world. So the NFL will take that. It's not just the Super Bowl. It's our top playoff games that are also the highest-rated shows on TV every year. So the NFL will take that. But of course, there's more audience to expand. The more people who maybe don't grow up as American or don't grow up, either they emigrate here or their families emigrated here, the more you get people from Hispanic cultures to love the NFL, the more growth there is, the more they will watch the game as well.

And so I disagree. I think you made the point. Two-thirds of our country that didn't watch the Super Bowl, there's a lot of people there that the NFL can still appeal to. You're right, and I agree with you, and I think one of the things that I did not mention is flag football. That is catching on, okay, especially when you're talking about women. That's really growing amongst women, and now I'm in Florida, so the University of Florida now has a girls' flag football team, believe it or not. So they're giving out scholarships for that, but yeah, it can grow there.

So again, I have to kind of give you props for that. Yeah, there's plenty of room for growth, and we're seeing it. The NFL has not yet exhausted, I think, to the migration to streaming as much as it is annoying to a lot of diehard fans who know how they want to get their NFL and consume their football. There are a lot of other people that you can reach just by being on streaming. That's why Netflix, which is primarily scripted programming and dramas and also reality shows, that's why they're kind of tiptoeing into football because there is more money to be made there as well. So I don't think the NFL is quite tapped out yet. But in terms of the international audience, I will say you're right.

They do watch the Super Bowl in how many dozens and dozens of countries around the world. But if you don't have exposure to it on a regular basis, you're not really going to develop an affinity for it. It has been a pleasure talking to you. Thank you, Terry. You go, girl. I appreciate your phone call.

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That's right. Season five of the Kardashians is here. Just when you thought life couldn't get any faster, they're punching it into overdrive. Chris, Courtney, Kim, Chloe, Kendall, and Kylie are back and continue to defy expectations in all their endeavors. So get ready to go behind the glitz and glamour of the most iconic family on television.

The all new season of the Kardashians is now streaming on Hulu. Page, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. You are listening to the After Hours podcast.

You're listening to After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We've had some callers who have outdone themselves in the past couple of weeks. I mean callers from the planet Mars, which makes sense because men are from Mars. I'm not sure how we do it. We attract the personalities.

You know what? I'm going to consider that a compliment. I give you a forum where you can be you and do you, baby. I love your enthusiasm. I think you're the same level of enthusiasm as me so early in the morning. First of all, I just found your show. I love it. I'm blasting my head off all the way home from work. I actually adore you and just love you. You are making me laugh tonight.

You have made this week so much fun for me and I will just keep calling you. This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Overtime. I wish we got paid overtime. Every now and then people will make the comment about how easy this job is because we only work four hours a night.

We show up, talk for four hours, leave. Damn, I wish that was the job. I might take less money if that was the job, actually. I'm afraid from saying my comment.

So there is a definite misconception. However, if we make it sound that easy, great. There's obviously a lot of intensive preparation that we do before we ever show up here at work, not to mention the hours that we put in here in the office before we go on the air. It's sometimes given the limited state of our equipment that actually is harder than you might think.

But I do love that. If we could convince our bosses to pay us hourly, I kind of feel like we'd be in a much better place. What if we could convince them to turn us into hourly employees and then during football season we would make bank? Like time and a half during football season? Yeah, overtime.

Anything over 40 hours per week. We would freaking rake in the dough. You'd have to back up the truck for us.

I'd sign up for that. Me too. Would it be a bag? How big of a bag? The bag. We got a bag. I don't know. The bag.

It would be the bag. When I used to work for an hourly wage at my previous network, they only paid us for the hour on the air. Oh. How much does that suck?

That's awful. So the hourly wage would have to include the time that we were prepping as well. Prep time. Maybe a little per diem. Do you?

Maybe. I don't know. What do you get away with here? Well, not much. It's not like they pay for our cable expenses, our streaming expenses. Hell, they don't even pay for our travel expenses. Twitter.

Las Vegas. Twitter? I don't pay for Twitter. I refuse. Neither do they.

Actually, that's true. I think I'm going to start calling it Twix. Twix? Yeah. Can we call it Twix?

All right. Because there's Twitter and there's X. And Twitter is annoying. It's two syllables. It doesn't always roll right off the tongue.

Find me on Twitter. But Twix is just, first of all, people love Twix. I could eat a Twix right now.

Twix are good. Yes. Except that my husband and I are having a contest to see who can lose 10 pounds the fastest. Now, it can't be 10 pounds. You lose 10 pounds and then you go right back to what you were. Lose 10 pounds the right way, keep it off. So it's a steady progression during the summertime.

How long does it have to stay off for in this competition? I would say that we'll have a celebratory dinner when we get there. Maybe a celebratory dessert.

A Twix? No, that's not enough. We're going to eat some ice cream. But we're doing a weigh-in every couple weeks.

And here's what's really funny. We were, believe it or not, is this weird? We were the same exact weight when we decided to start the contest.

We didn't know that. We just decided, yeah, our first five months of marriage, I'll be completely and utterly honest, we decided after all the work we did to look good for the wedding and the stress of the fall and the winter and all that jazz, the moving, we were just going to enjoy our dessert. So I don't think we put on 10 pounds each, but we've decided nice round number, let's put on 10 pounds. I think each of us probably put on five, six pounds. Okay, fine.

Not a big deal, right? We decided we were not going to be disciplined when it came to desserts. We earned our desserts all the way through the honeymoon. Awesome. Shaved ice, pancakes the size of a small city, just all kinds of delicious foods. All the good stuff. But we decided that we would go ahead and do this journey together, not realizing that when we weighed in, we were the exact same weight.

It makes it easy to track, right? It is. And I'm not going to tell you what that is. After two weeks, we each dropped one pound.

Yes! Now, see, that's how you know it's real. If you don't starve yourself fast, only get rid of water weight, do everything you can. It's like wrestlers who used to wear slicks or trash bags, anything they could to drop weight just so they could make weight. And then right after that, they'd go back to eating whatever they wanted and bulking up. Yeah, it's not healthy.

Right. So we're not doing that. We're doing the healthy way. We're really proud of ourselves because we are not gaining. We've each lost a pound. It's a lost pound, right? It is a lost pound. Someone find the pound we lost. There's a reward for the pound we've lost.

He's gone. Anyway, I don't think we have an actual time, stretch of time where you have to keep the weight off. But the whole idea is this is... Two weeks?

This is supposed to be a relatively permanent, well not permanent, but a relatively stable change, a lifestyle change in that we only now eat desserts after we work out, after a pretty good workout. And it was about being disciplined enough because we had gotten, with all the travel and stuff we'd gotten and me going to Syracuse, I realized in the months of April and May, one week in April and May combined that I was not living out of a bag. And I don't mean a bag with all the money.

I mean a bag with my clothes and my toiletries in it. Because of Syracuse having to be gone and then because of the honeymoon and the trip to Texas for the wedding. And so I'm home. We're home.

No one's going anywhere until early July and this is our time. What do you think? In a month? Can I drop half?

I can drop half in a month. I think so. Are you planning any big runs? Do you have any training? Oh yes.

I've signed up for another half marathon end of September. That'll help. Yes. Right.

Let's hope it doesn't take until the end of September to lose ten pounds because that would stink. No. A month is that easy. Right. Although on our six month anniversary we're still eating cupcakes regardless.

It doesn't matter if that puts the pound right back on. We're still eating cupcakes. You have to, right? They're left over from the wedding. Did I ever bring you one? No. Are you sure?

I haven't tried a wedding cupcake. Are you sure? The red velvet? You had a bunch of options, right? No. You brought me one that Bob had made to try. You brought me one I think that you had. No, no.

My best friend Stephanie and I made them and I probably brought you those. Okay. Yes.

No, you probably wanted Bob's too I feel. A cookie maybe actually. Oh, a cookie. Not a cupcake. Okay.

Yeah. He doesn't make cupcakes. The cupcakes for the wedding were, and we do have photos of them which were kind of fun. They were, shoot, white chocolate coconut in a vanilla cupcake with chocolate ganache filling. And what's the, what's the icing?

Oh, shoot. Buttercream, buttercream frosting. Oh, amazing. Oh, wait, I forgot the raspberry. White chocolate raspberry coconut cupcakes with chocolate ganache filling and buttercream frosting.

What a title. Oh, it was amazing. We created them just for the wedding. And we've saved, we brought home eight of them. So each of our quarter anniversaries, so three months, six months, nine months, and then our one year anniversary, we each get a cupcake. And we're coming up on six months, baby. I like that. You can't break that tradition, right?

No. We're eating the cupcakes. And in fact, this is mostly because of Father's Day. It's his first Father's Day without his dad. So I took off the night of Father's Day just so I can spend with him. But it's also, it's Father's Day on Sunday and our six month anniversary on Monday.

Double special occasion. Yeah. Yeah. I know there's some, it'll be bittersweet, but the cupcakes will be sweet. Oh, definitely sweet. Yes.

So all that to say, regardless of where we are in the diet, we're still eating cupcakes on six month anniversary. I think that's fair. You got a pass for me.

Thank you, Jay. The guy who can't put on weight if he tried. I just tried. Oh, it's not fair.

It's just not fair, I tell you. When was the last time you ever even had to think about your weight? I don't know, but it's not, it's not putting on weight either.

I wish I could eat like a big ass meal and then gain weight, but it just doesn't seem to happen. Jay drinks soda and eats candy every day. Okay, every other day. No, every day is fair.

Eats no vegetables. No. Wow. Family jeans. They're powerful.

They're powerful. All right. Skinny jeans. Don't wear skinny jeans.

Too late. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence coming up. Tom Brady, because we're talking about football, inside of 100 Days Out until he makes his debut. He's still working on his TV persona.

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Member NYSE SIPC. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. One day there's a situation, right? Maybe it's the 49ers, maybe, you know, headed to the playoffs, offense is great.

Patriots could be, Raiders could be, you never know. God forbid somebody goes down, would you pick up that phone? I'm not opposed to it. If they would, I don't know if they're going to let me if I become an owner in the NFL team, but I don't know if, I don't know. I'm always going to be in good shape, always be able to throw the ball. So to come in for a little bit, like MJ coming back, I don't know if they'd let me, but I wouldn't be opposed to it.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Too bad Baker Mayfield has taken over your spot in Tampa. So that one's not available. And he did not become an owner in the NFL, right? There were some hang ups that were taking place. And so that's still not gone through officially.

And I'm not sure what the rules are at this point either. But Tom Brady teasing people. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We were talking about this movie earlier, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and we sort of had the premise right.

I didn't feel great about it, so I went and Googled the official trailer. It wasn't just that she had her mind wiped, essentially a medical procedure. It was not because she wanted to forget everything and only have happy thoughts. It was because the relationship with Jim Carrey had been so painful for her that she wanted to completely erase it from her mind.

Made her life a lot happier because she couldn't remember the pain. And then he goes through the same thing, and the movie's really highly rated. I'm actually going to go back and watch it again. I haven't seen it in a long time.

It was a pretty good movie, and the funny part is they end up finding each other again, which is also humorous. So the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, maybe there are fans out there who would like to forget that Tom Brady ever existed. Maybe it's New England's Patriots fans, and actually we're going to talk about the Patriots coming up next hour with one of our friends, long-time insider and columnist Karen Garigian of MassLive.

She's covering the Celtics too, so a good chance to catch up with her. But maybe there are Patriots fans who'd like to forget Bill Belichick ever existed, except if you don't have those two guys, you don't have the six Super Bowls. Next question. Right. Tom Brady's on to a new adventure, but he does believe that same competitive fire and drive will lend itself to at least a good start in broadcasting, because I know he's taken an attitude that he wants to learn as well, but he thinks that's the whole idea. Because I'm competitive, I'll want to be the best I can be. I think if I want to put effort into something, then naturally I'll be more competitive at it because I'll have invested a little bit of my time, a little bit of my energy into it.

Certainly with the broadcaster, I don't think for me it's about competition. I think for me it's about, did I put everything I could into it, and did I give the fans everything that they tuned in for? And that's really how I'll end up gauging myself. And I'll have to look at myself at the end of every Sunday night going, did I do a good enough job? Did I live up to the belief that Fox had in me?

Did I live up to the expectations of my teammates, Kevin Burkhart and Aaron and Tom and the entire team? That's ultimately how I judge myself in that new role. I like that from Tom Brady, and I would say he's no doubt his toughest critic. I think a lot of driven people are that way. I'm a perfectionist, which I've had to let go of in this job, but I would say the same thing. Regardless of whatever insults are hurled at me from social media, you could never criticize me.

Now, you'll use different, inappropriate language on social, but you could never say anything to me about the radio show that would be tougher than the criticism that I levy on myself or how I beat myself up for mistakes. So I do appreciate that from Tom Brady, that it's his own personal drive and desire to be good that will ultimately determine how much effort he puts into it. And he's already practicing, of course. How do you bring quarterbacks along in the NFL? This is going to be a conversation with so many young QBs in the NFL, with another crop of rookies that will be taking over. And again, we'll talk about the Pats' new QB in Drake May, but Caleb Williams and some of the others who will be taking over. And that's just the latest rookies. Think about the second-year QBs that we're going to have in the league, like a C.J.

Stroud. Even guys like Trevor Lawrence, who have a few years in, they're still relatively young. And there's one prototype that Tom Brady likes for bringing guys along, and he thinks the Packers did it right with Jordan Love. Some of these teams, and you look at Jordan Love, who I was watching some of those clips that you had on before I came on, but he had Aaron Rodgers to watch. That's the best type of training, in my opinion. Watch someone else do it at a very high level, and then try to emulate them with your own personality. Maybe a little bit of the misnomer with the draft is that these players can come in and all of a sudden become this great professional player before they've really had the training and the development.

If that's a snippet of what we're going to get on the air, I'm all about it. Who better to talk about the development of a quarterback than a guy who was unheralded coming out of Michigan? He's a sixth-round draft pick, but once he got his shot, the Patriots never went back.

Until he was injured. Once he got his shot, it was Tom Brady or bust, and it was the best decision the Patriots ever made. It was a seminal decision the Patriots made. Bill Belichick made it. He should get credit for that one. Yeah, that's the kind of analysis we're going to get from Tom Brady. I'm good. I just want to hear how the greatest quarterback of all time sees a game.

If you could explain to me what you see, I don't need you to be anything else but Tom Brady then in the broadcast booth. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Bless you. Hey, have you tried Instacart for spring allergy relief? You can order decongestants, antihistamines, and more through Instacart from stores like CVS, Walgreens, and Costco delivered in as fast as one hour. Because those red, watery eyes need relief now.

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