6-3-24 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 2

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Talk to your pediatrician or visit YVaccines.com brought to you by Merck. If you need a little pick-me-up in the middle of the night, if you're on the east coast central time zone, yeah it's getting late before it's getting early. If you're on the west coast with us or if you're in Alaska and Hawaii, well this is right in your wheelhouse as a night owl. We're glad to have you as we morph from a Sunday June 2nd into a Monday June 3rd. First full week of June is kind of crazy to me but yeah we've got almost the entire week to wait before we tip off the NBA Finals on Thursday which is also the Hub's birthday.

I got a lot of cooking and cleaning and even a pie to make. That's still on the docket between now and Thursday so I'm grateful. Thank you NBA and NHL for clearing the deck for me a little bit so I can focus on household and domestic responsibilities to make sure the Hubs has a great birthday. See I can't tell you what surprise I have for him because he listens to the show and there is no way.

I've managed to keep this surprise for a couple of months now so I cannot, not even a peep, I cannot give even a hint because I'm nervous that he'll figure it out and I keep telling producer Jay, oh my gosh what if I accidentally let it slip? But Jay said to me, just a couple days left you're in the home stretch you can do this. So yeah it's a go big or go home baby and so I'm working on a pretty big surprise. I got a few more details that I have to put in place and then yeah I'm taking Wednesday night off.

So it's the last night off to take before the NBA Finals and of course the Stanley Cup Finals starting Saturday before they get underway. Wanted to just take this one night off to make sure that he has a good birthday and that I can orchestrate the surprise. I'm trying to be very careful about the verbs that I use. I cannot wait to tell you what it is though. When we're back together on Thursday night into Friday morning I promise you, I promise you that I'll finally tell you the surprise and maybe if I'm smart enough or I'm on point I can get a video of him seeing the surprise or reacting to the surprise. That's all I can say. Don't ask me any more questions. I know she's like zip it zip it.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We're glad to launch into a new work week with you. Yes we are on the verge of crowning a pair of champions in both hoops and hockey.

It's about time considering these are winter sports. So you can find me on Twix at ALaw Radio and then also on our Facebook page and the reason I bring that up in this particular moment is because I stumbled upon a couple of numbers that piqued my attention. I thought you might appreciate these. I'm a bit of a tv geek. I think I've mentioned this in the past. I'm big into tv spoilers especially for the shows that I watch and I mostly watch crime dramas and actually it's it's become fewer and fewer shows since I got married just because we watch shows together now. So I have fewer of my own shows.

My DVR is pretty stacked all the time but we enjoy watching Survivor. He's big into some of the Star Wars series now so it's been enjoyable to to watch through those with him but I still have my own crime dramas on my DVR. Things like Chicago PD. Oh gosh the the FBI series. I like FBI International and the the real one or the first one I should say I like NCIS still. So some of those I'm big into.

Oh and I'm trying to think what else that I really love. Oh I love Blue Bloods so I'm really sad that that show is ending in 2024 but I digress. I'm a I'm a tv junkie for not just the fact that it's my business in many cases with sports and watching ratings and viewership trends but also because like I said I have a bunch of dramas that I follow and I love to see spoilers and try to figure out what's going to happen. Anyway I was looking through some of the broadcast numbers so they come up with their official rankings slash summaries of the tv broadcast season that starts in fall of 2023 and ends in spring of 2024. A little bit like the school year so it kind of follows that and as I was looking at the rankings I realized top two most watched tv shows of this last broadcast season football of course. Are you ready for this?

And I did tweet this at ALaw Radio but also put it up on Facebook and I'd love to get your reaction. Sunday Night Football. So Sunday Night Football. So Sunday Night Football on NBC the most watched tv show of the last broadcast season which ended in June of 20 well actually ended in May of 24. It averaged just shy of 20 million viewers per week. That's an enormous audience for a regular season game but that's the case and are you ready for this? Sunday Night Football's ratings were up nine percent from the previous year so tell me again how the NFL is dying. Tell me again how the NFL has maxed out its audience.

No that is not the case. When almost every other show on tv is either barely maintaining ratings or is slipping backward with one big exception being some of the news shows that come in. So Tracker the new Justin Hartley show that's on CBS it launched right after the Super Bowl. It's been a massive hit. We've already binged that whole thing. We loved it. We even watched it some in Hawaii. So that's one show that's got major major push and then still the FBI's the NCIS's that kind of stuff notice the common trend is CBS for a lot of these drama shows but it was Sunday Night Football on NBC the most watched tv show of the last broadcast season up nine percent from the previous year to 19.8 million viewers per week and that does include the playbacks. Now with sports you have fewer playback numbers because most people prefer to watch it live but you do have some people that will catch it maybe they're working they don't see the end because they're sleeping whatever it happens to be there are some viewers that will watch it on on playback so it DVR or what's the other one called it's not DVR there's another one that the technology oh gosh I forgot the name of it but yeah is it TiVo is that still a thing yeah anyway so whatever it is you use to watch playback maybe it's just you go to a streaming service and watch it after the fact 19.8 million viewers second most watched tv show last broadcast season Monday Night Football on ABC 11.7 million weekly viewers now remember Money Night Football has made this transition from ESPN to ABC same company same producers but they they air it on ABC which is the network that's more accessible to a lot of people around the country because it's over the air you can get it with an antenna so yes the top two shows last year Sunday Night Football and Money Night Football and I use the hashtag on Twix cash cow uh-huh it is a cash cow it's the league that every other league wants to be when it grows up so I put that up on both Twix and Facebook I'd love to see your reaction to it football is very healthy and it's not going away anytime soon maybe much to your chagrin now if you break it down I don't know if this is ageist or not but if you break it down to demos the most attractive demo to any type of tv program and this is because of advertisers the more viewers you have in the target demo the target demographic which is 18 it's 18 to 49 mostly because that's where a lot of the money is spent right by by that age group 18 to 49 in that target demo that coveted target demographic Sunday Night Football was up six percent from the year before so you know how often people will point to the average age of baseball for instance it's getting up there now and baseball is desperate to attract more and more younger viewers why well because if you fall in love with baseball when you're 17 18 19 Jay fell in love with baseball when he was a lot younger loves it still watches it if the if baseball hockey the NBA some of these leagues can get viewers and fans at the ground level then if you really fall in love with a sport at that age you're more likely to watch it all the way through if they can hook you at that age well then they can count on you to be part of the fan base as you get older but one of the challenges for baseball and for the NBA now they have a bunch of young viewers the young viewers just don't watch tv which is kind of a different problem is that a lot of the baseball fan base is getting older football too but among the four major pro sports football has the youngest tv viewers if that makes sense so their average age and it doesn't mean there's only young tv viewers but just the average age of the football tv viewer is younger than the other sports which means potentially that people will sign up for new streaming services because a lot of younger people are cutting cable or they never had cable in the first place and they bundle with a bunch of different streaming services so yeah the NFL is looking at these trends and looking at the fact that sunny night football dominated in the 18 to 49 year old demographic so yeah you those are the people that will spend money on streaming so you're more likely to get people to purchase a new streaming service with the NFL than you are with any other sport now here's something interesting nba saturday prime time so that was an abc product it's saturday night it takes over when football is done that was also one of the top shows in the 18 to 49 demo so put it on saturday night make it prime make it prime time kind of appointment tv viewing and you're likely to get more younger viewers though still the nba has a major issue because a lot of its young viewers whether it's late teens college early 20s those people are watching highlights on youtube more than they're actually watching games and adam silver has certainly admitted that so yeah it's pretty cool to see how many times a football show will pop up in the unscripted categories right because we agree on nothing in this country except for the nfl and dogs it's after hours with amy lawrence good to have you with us speaking of football a couple of quarterbacks that we were able to listen to and hear from over the weekend so we'll get to that like josh allen on nfl network and also cj stroud who went on a podcast and ranked his top five qbs and included neither josh allen nor joe burrow it's kind of funny actually and the reaction from the host of the podcast that was probably my favorite part so we don't have the video here but you could go and watch it it's it's hysterical the way that they're looking at him what are you talking about what wait how can you leave this guy out how can you leave this guy out anyway so that was kind of fun we'll do that a little bit later i guess i put the wrong one on oops cj stroud of course the houston texans and their now second year quarterback are all the rage in the league they will not get anybody by surprise in 2024 after winning the afc south in the first year with cj but also with dimiko ryan's who right now is uh yes uh one of the the hottest young coaches even with the mass influx of coaches every single season uh dimiko ryan's was a home run higher for the houston texans so that's pretty cool but i wanted to follow up on a story that we talked about last week and i actually had a few of you that reached out to me about it on social media so i wanted to make sure that i passed this this along uh we had told you about how brandon mcmanus the longtime nfl kicker was accused of sexually assaulting a couple of different flight attendants on a team plane to london and that was when he was with the jaguars he got released by the jags at the end of last season and was picked up by the commanders but after these lawsuits that were filed against mcmanus and against the jaguars alleging this sexual assault the commanders have cut him so he's no longer on a team and keep in mind this comes before any of this is proven before the lawsuit goes to court or is settled whichever comes first the commanders decided it's not worth it to them to see how this plays out we can find another kicker in essence it's not worth it to us after everything they've gone through right so think about what the commanders have gone through over the last we'll say four four or five years just the allegations that have come out about a toxic workplace under the snyder family under daniel snyder the allegations of sexual assault and some of the really creepy slash criminal behavior that women who worked in the franchise and well in the in the facilities and worked for the franchise alleged and you can go back and you can look it up if you want to but things like photos illicit photos of some of the cheerleaders and the way that female employees were spoken to and were treated and that there was a plenty of sexual harassment and even sexual assault that took place and and was under the umbrella of the commanders right so that whole that was part of the toxic workspace that ultimately not only led to daniel snyder being pretty close to being forced to sell the team he really didn't have any other options but also the the whole investigation that the nfl did gosh that then somehow leaked those uh emails from john gruden that resulted in him leaving the raiders but also just the way that they had to completely overhaul their management and their culture so keeping that in mind the commanders want nothing to do with a sexual assault lawsuit against a player that they just signed recently and that they don't need all that much right he hasn't he hasn't taken a snap he's not been out there on the field with the commanders at all and so after hearing this i can understand why they would have an adverse reaction they signed him to a a 3.6 million dollar deal they didn't re-sign joey sly so they thought they were moving on to a better kicker but the commanders you know they were as soon as they found out about the lawsuit they were in touch with the nfl as well as brandon's agent and other than really a statement about how we take allegations of this nature very seriously they decided that this was not what they wanted to be associated with as they're trying to change the narrative around their workplace and their culture and so yeah there were there were lots of different allegations of sexual harassment and the nfl fined the organization 10 million dollars remember all of this then there was a separate individual organization um and so yeah the the commanders are trying to clean house and to have a kicker a kicker on their roster that is now under the shadow of a sexual assault investigation while he was a jaguars team employee mind you while he was on the jaguars team plane that's just not something that they want to be involved in so they ended up cutting him i don't know how quickly he'll get another job just as a side note though and i don't know why anyone would do it but it's there are a couple of high profile cases recently where women have either completely made up or embellished their accusations against nfl well against athletes one of them matt orisa remember he was the bills punter and he was accused of rape at a party that went back to when he was in college and immediately the bills cut him his reputation as you can imagine was tarnished nobody else in the nfl would give him an opportunity and then it's proven he wasn't even at the party when the alleged game rate took place and the the young woman and i don't know how old she is now but the young woman made up a good portion of what she was was alleging but that matt was nowhere near her or that party when it happened and so that's a tough one i i can't imagine just making up something like that um but that was a tough one for matt of course his his career irreversibly impacted and tarnished and obviously interrupted and now he's with the chiefs if i remember correctly so he is on a roster now another one and this one's kind of tough but trevor bauer who was accused by multiple women of choking them during sexual intercourse that whereas the the sex itself was consensual but him taking it too far and assaulting them while they were unconscious there were a couple of different women that came forward now again as it's turned out um the the not only was he not ever criminally charged but the it's been proven that the female at least one of the women the women that first came forward the one that first came forward that she uh embellished incredibly and that what she uh what she accused of him of doing the choking during you know their their sex but that didn't happen and so whether or not uh trevor lawrence trevor lawrence did i say trevor lawrence the first time oh my gosh okay i hope not trevor bauer please forgive me trevor lawrence whether or not trevor bauer ever really he's he's pitched in other countries but whether he's ever back in major league baseball and we know the dodgers wanted nothing to do with him after that happened and that was the players who started that to the point where the the dodgers who'd signed him to this massive deal were well they got out of some of it while he was under investigation but they were more than happy to eat whatever they had to to never have him on the roster again um and so he hasn't pitched in the majors since the very beginning of the 21 season and and again in both these cases the accusers lied and embellished and whatever their motivations were seriously impacted and tarnished the reputations and the careers of these two athletes so it's it's hard to hear something like this for me still and think oh she must be lying because that's not my first reaction but now i'm a little more careful um very very careful to all always use allegedly and this is you know her version of the story and let's wait until uh we hear more because not only is sexual assault very difficult to prove but also there are a couple of high profile cases that need that need to be recalled and need to be mentioned when something like this happens it's not the majority of course but these were two two cases in which the athletes really can never recover there's no going back for them they can't make up those years in the prime of their careers and that earning power um and and how how do you ever take down all of the internet stories about the accusations and that type of thing so yeah it sucks i mean i can't even imagine being in their shoes but also just recognizing that whether it's more prominent or whether we're just more apt to consider it that that these types of accusations are sometimes false and it it makes me so upset that anyone would say those types of things about another human being especially if we're just talking about stupid money maybe it's revenge maybe there's some other motivation but man those are some hefty allegations to level and to put out there if you're just freaking making it up like i it's so hard for me to wrap my brain around all right i know it went a little long there i'd love to hear from me from you excuse me on twitter at a law radio also on our facebook page uh coming up kind of wondering how many canadian hockey fans will be cheering for the oilers now that we finally have a canadian team back in the stanley cup final uh what is the first time since 11 other than the covid year but first final for edmonton since 2006 and there's been no canadian stanley cup champion since montreal in 1993 so this is huge but how does the bulk of canada feel it's kind of it's kind of fun to hear some of the reaction from the oilers players on twix at a law radio and then also on our facebook page it's after this episode is brought to you by 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vaccinate her child i think actually meeting someone who was not vaccinated and now has a lifelong struggle with a childhood disease really cemented for me that it's super important that we as parents continue to vaccinate our children talk to your pediatrician or visit yvaccines.com brought to you by merc or is with amy lawrence you are listening to the after hours podcast quick dish down low the rebound cleared by brown not enough for isaac 15 seconds away from a trip to the final here's the finish two to one Edmonton Sagan tucks it down low Bouchard smacks it around working from what's under wide Jason Robertson three seconds hey this game this series is over this is after hours with Amy Lawrence Jay tells me Rush is the artist and that they are very Canadian as opposed to being sort of Canadian they're very Canadian very Canadian very Canadian it's after hours with Amy Lawrence Jack Michaels is actually not Canadian but he is the voice of the Edmonton Oilers and certainly adopted the team and they've adopted him long time voice there uh with the Oilers and my thanks also to the stars radio network and then panthers too mixing in some of the play-by-play in the wake of a weekend in which we get no game sevens in the NHL at least in the conference finals both of the series ending in six games now the question is out there and I'm wanting to hear from those of you who are hockey fans in the great nation of Canada our friends to the north I don't know how many of the other fan bases are cheering for the Oilers to end the Canadian drought but I do know that every year at this time especially going back now prior to the Oilers breaking through every year in June fans lamenting the fact that it's a drought that continues there will be no Canadian winner of the Stanley Cup last time it was Montreal in 1993 okay so you're talking about decades here haven't had Edmonton in the Stanley Cup finals in 2006 and I don't know how many of the other fan bases will be rooting for the Oilers but according to Zach Hyman as he was going through some of his post-game press responsibilities he was informed that Ottawa at least would be cheering for the Oilers well I don't know if Toronto is cheering for us but it's nice here Ottawa is um listen I mean hockey means so much to Canada and to Canadians and it's been a long time since a Canadian team has won the cup so I mean it would mean a lot to Canadians whether they're fans or not I'm sure some pride over over the Americans but I mean that's pretty cool to hear it's going to be pressure playing in the Stanley Cup final no matter where your team's from so obviously we're a Canadian team we got great Canadian fans and it feels good to maybe unite the country a little bit and have something to to bring people together you know that's what sports is all about is bringing people together and and and you know hopefully we're doing that for Canadians across the country it's been a while for the Edmonton Oilers in the final so Connor McDavid will be in his first Stanley Cup final he and Leon Drysdale they are so much fun to watch if you haven't seen it to this point make sure you check it out Zach Hyman who we heard from first is having an incredible playoff run 14 goals now including a power play goal in the clincher against Dallas but just looking back at the Edmonton history it's it's been a while obviously because they had to go through this rebuild they get Connor McDavid in 2015 and they've been kind of sitting on what is a power keg and needing to needing to maximize their opportunity but yeah you go back to the days of of Wayne Gretzky who's on the NHL desk and I find that really fascinating he was traded and I remember this as a kid he was traded from the Oilers to the LA Kings it was a move that rocked the sport made it rock sports forget just hockey because he got married to an actress and and they wanted to live in LA for her career and so he requested a trade and the Oilers gave him the move that he wanted from Edmonton to LA and that really put the kings on the map in a different way but yeah he left there in 1988 and I'm not going to say that Edmonton hasn't been the same since because they've had some good teams but Connor McDavid puts them front and center in a way that Wayne Gretzky did right he's he's been compared to Wayne in a bunch of different ways and he puts them in that conversation but this will be his first cup final I mean you can't be the great one in the eyes of many sports fans without having won a Stanley Cup so this is his first opportunity Ivan is in Ontario Ivan are you rooting for Edmonton? Good morning and thank you for having me I'm to be honest with you I'm not a no I mean in no way an Oilers fan but just to see the the cup come back to Canada and yeah why not you know I'm a big Leafs fan but you know I'll take it one way or the other at this point um but I got one name to say and I I mean you could disagree or agree with me on this but and I'm not saying he's the one that made it all happen but Corey Perry I don't know what it is but wherever this guy lands always lands in the final somehow I am I not am I like seeing this wrong because when the playoffs started I even said to everybody because I didn't really feel that the Leafs really were strong enough to keep going through but when I looked at Edmonton and I saw Corey Perry and I'm like no way no way is this gonna happen again and sure enough look where he is first player to ever make it on five different teams so make it to the Stanley Cup final on five different teams and he's only got the one cup right now but has a chance to to win a second one with Edmonton I'm just I can't believe it like wherever this guy goes maybe the Leafs need him if you're listening out there Toronto we need Corey Perry I don't care what stage or what level of play we need him this guy is a he's a finalist magnet I like that that's that's a good point a good reference so if nothing else Corey Perry seems to be he seems to be the common denominator but I'm glad to hear you say that even though this isn't your team your maple Leafs that that you'll probably root for them just so that the cup can return to Canada exactly I'll take it in any way shape or form at this point I mean they're a great team I mean they got you know the one player that I kind of miss a lot and I wish Toronto never gave up it was Hyman he was he was somebody that just played every single night to his full potential and I always said he was one of the players I really missed when he left Toronto he was just that he was just that player that gave gave it all you know and yeah I'd be looking at him 50 plus goal scorer just this guy is just incredible and you know what enough ready I hope he takes it with them and uh him and McDavid they deserve it I like that I like that you're putting aside the lines and the loyalties that divide you and you're rooting for a team in the country not just a great story but for Canada to repossess that cup baby we need it back I mean it's been a long time coming because it's nothing but a curse I guess you could call it I don't know or the Bettman curse but it is what it is we'll move forward um we'll let them take it for now and then we'll regain it back hopefully down the road all right well by the way Corey Perry is an Ontario native I don't know if that says anything I know that's the craziest thing I don't know what it is with this guy wherever this guy goes put your money on him that's funny all right Ivan good to talk to you thanks so much for listening thank you have a good have a good evening yeah it'll be interesting to hear what Corey Perry has to say any chance he spoke after I don't know if he did or not I mean he's not obviously he's not obviously a five-time winner he's got one cup but just to have that kind of experience to have gone with so many different teams is is pretty impressive so good for him it's a little bit like who was the basketball player that kept going to all the different Robert Ori he went to with different guys but shoot was it I'm gonna have to look it up I don't want to say the wrong name and have people laugh at me which I guess is pretty standard but there certainly are a couple of NBA players out there that seem to land on a bunch of different teams that have gone to NBA finals so yeah it's good work if you can get it just keep moving around and providing a veteran presence on a team that needs one and yeah they've already got a team this is what LeBron is trying to do right now when he goes to a team and makes it better um but try to hook up with a team that can win a championship before the time runs out another championship before his time runs out so we'll see if he jumps from the Lakers to another franchise to try to do that but again he's a difference maker in a way that Corey Perry I'm not sure you would say that about him but obviously the the experience can be so valuable maybe he's onto something with Perry joining the Leafs maybe maybe he can make that his last stop he's got I mean what is in his late 30s 39 yeah so he's he's definitely getting toward the end I suppose that there'd be a big celebration maybe he would leave maybe he would retire leave or leaf maybe he would leave if this was if this was a Stanley Cup victory for the Oilers all right on Twix at Amy After Hours that's our show account also on our Facebook page I've got those stats up there from Sunday night and Monday night football it's pretty incredible uh the way that they were the top two most watched shows on the 23-24 broadcast season I mean that's that's the power of football and the numbers are pretty incredible too and they continue to grow hey by the way coming up in our final hour we'll check in with our friend John Kincaid who is on 97.5 the fanatic a morning host used to work in Atlanta he and I were colleagues for years he's now a cancer survivor a cancer killer for the third time in his life so he's six months cancer-free again which is amazing and he's going to join us to talk about the Phillies but did you know they are no longer the best team in Major League Baseball that honor belongs to a different team that's on a tear and you'll hear it coming up it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence were you talking about James Jones by the way an NBA maybe oh maybe yeah he just keeps landing on all these teams that go to the NBA finals it was on like seven straight man that sunset is gorgeous grill patio sunset hard to get better than that unless you're browsing Carvana's inventory while you soak it all in oh burger 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happens well with the Yankees on a tear right now they've won five in a row eight of their last ten not only are they staying out in front in the American League East ahead of the Baltimore Orioles by three games but they've also taken over with the best record in major league baseball one right in front of us one more win than the Philadelphia Phillies who've had that honor for a good portion of the season it's after hours with Amy Lawrence and yes for the Yankees it's fun when it's more dramatic and they had a pair of home runs from Juan Soto but four total runs in the ninth inning to rally past the Giants and this was on the road so they end up sweeping the Giants and yeah when you've got some big-time sluggers like Judge and Soto of course you never say die everybody in that dog I was thinking we're gonna do something we're gonna do damage I mean we we all know how capable we are to make damage so we always stay positive I think that comes from everybody where everybody is like right there always thinking positive always thinking that we can do it that's a some savage at bats right there you know savages just wow home runs was it 16 and 17 for Juan Soto now meanwhile Aaron Judge he's a guy that has also played really well in stretches too healthy I think is the most important thing for Aaron Judge he had a couple of stolen bases against the against the San Francisco Giants which was his hometown team or when he was growing up at the Giants were his favorite team as a kid also we saw old friend Blake Snell pitching for the Giants in this one he does have seven strikeouts in his four and two-thirds but also gives up three runs on a handful of hits and three walks so once again it's a mixed bag with Blake Snell and I know it's still relatively early season his ERA nine and a half well that's tremendous he wondered why no one would give him a big deal during the off season nine and a half what if spring training might have helped yeah that too good point this might still be his string his spring training and the Giants are still below or they are below 500 got swept by the Yankees the calls there with Justin Shackle on the Yankees radio network we'll get back to some more baseball again the Phillies have been pacing the league for most of the season and our friend John Kincaid will join us in the final hour but Amanda is waiting in Ontario Amanda how are local hockey fans feeling about the Oilers well I'm not sure about the Oilers I know I am absolutely ecstatic that they won I was born out west and moved to Ontario in grade eight okay everybody wanted us me my brother to be least fans when we moved here and we have been we've been here over 25 years now and we are still tried and true Oilers fans um so it's absolutely wonderful to be able to have them go to the cup because it's been quite a few years I was as a young child um when they've won before so you know it's absolutely oh that was their last final actually they won last in in yeah 90 so it's been forever it has been so it's absolutely wonderful but it's it's so hard to be a fan sometimes when the time difference is like the game ended at like 20 to 11 and my alarm goes off at 2 30 a.m oh is that when you get up for work and it's 2 30 a.m so it's perfect to listen to you but I end up being a little bit tired um in the morning I can imagine but definitely in this far in uh the season it's definitely worth it's worth it over awesome well congratulations I'm glad you stood your ground Amanda and I hope that you enjoyed this tilla cup final good to hear from an Oilers fan and her brother in Ontario so we'll have to see whether or not the fans in that province are likely to root for the Oilers because this could potentially get the cup back to Canada for the first time since 93 it's after hours 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 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