7-2-24 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 4

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Download Thumbtac and start a project today. That's a producer Jay special. I actually think the Dan Campbell and the Mike Tomlin opens are my favorite. I feel like we need to play those before the end of the show because those are producer Jay specials. This is the last hour that Jay and I will do together here on the Infinity Sports Network. He will wrap up the week with vacation, but he will be here tomorrow night on the hump show if you want to reach out to him. I've encouraged him to read our social media since we do not have another show together. He's going to have to search it out, but there are a lot of really kind words, great comments about his creativity and his ideas and just the fun, the jolt of energy he's brought to the show, which I agree with. For Jay and I, this has been such a great collaboration over the past couple years. I always laugh, but I think I've laughed more on the air.

Just the some of the stupid crap we've stumbled into. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that one of Jay's favorite things is after hours drops making fun of Aaron Rodgers or using and incorporating Aaron Rodgers. We definitely have upped our drop game, upped our drop game for people for people who don't know what drops are. I think you should use every single one of our drops this hour if you can figure it out. And the thing is, you have to figure out my timing before you can start using drops. So new producers come in and they aren't real familiar with my pacing, my spaces, my my breaths, my you know kind of awful pregnant pauses. And I say awful only because it makes producers really uncomfortable when I take this big pause and this big breath.

But there's a lot of reasons to do it. Sometimes I'm just trying to figure out what to say next or trying to find a word. But producers are forever getting started with me and then the drops are just the worst timing.

And I'll start talking and here comes someone else talking. Well Jay figured it out really quickly and I didn't have to tell him more than once. I used to tell people all the time, like previous producers, I need more drops, I need more drops. The drops really add another level, another dimension to the show. Well Jay loves drops more than I do and so we've had a blast with the drops.

I think top three favorites would be Mike Tomlin, Aaron Rodgers, shoot. Shoot. I don't think so. Oh no I think so.

And he was really bummed when Aaron's appearances on McAfee went off the rails and also went to a competing network because I didn't want to use them anymore. We have some really great Travis Kelce drops but I feel like we can't go three for three NFL. So Mike Tomlin, Aaron Rodgers. You're missing a big one. Oh am I? Shoot Mike Tomlin, Aaron Rodgers, don't tell me.

Mike Tomlin, Aaron Rodgers. Do you feel like we use this person on a regular basis? Not lately. Oh no well then I recency bias here.

But yes we do use him often. It's a him? Yes.

Okay. Huh is it football? It is football.

It is football. I mean we use a lot of Tom Brady drops. We use a lot of Patrick Mahomes drops.

You're back in the dumpers again. We use a lot of Dan Campbell drops. For sure Campbell and Mike Tomlin are going neck and neck. We just have so many good ones that it's gonna be really hard to convince the next producer we need to use these. Let's go volume green's a big one. Oh we love Dray. There we go Draymond Green's top three. We love Dray and the Hall of Flame and Ask Amy Anything will not be the same without producer Jay either.

So if you've missed it going back to our second hour we did a bunch of our favorite moments working together both on and off the radio and we've got a few more that we're going to share. Jay's already gotten one of his surprise gifts. I made his favorite cookie which I meant to take a photo of. How many of you how many of those have you eaten? Because I might I've eaten two. Oh okay I thought you said three earlier. No that was just kidding. I've just gotten it.

I've eaten two actually. Okay I'm gonna need to take a photo so that I can show people your favorite cookie before you're completely out oh here. We're completely done working together again he'll be tomorrow night I will not be here. I actually have a flight to catch in the middle of the show. Our hump show I'll already be at the airport and there was no way we could get to Houston without taking that early morning flight and did not want to take the risk considering that July 3rd is going to be pretty heavily traveled both through the air and on the ground. I just saw on the news that flights in the New York area right now are all on time and no delays. That's tremendous considering that wasn't the case on the Atlantic seaboard going back to Sunday with all the storms but if you missed it here are the numbers compiled by AAA. Americans on the move for 4th of July roughly 32 million of us will fly to our destination.

That's me got my hand in the air. How many of you will fly to your final destination? 32 million Americans will pass through TSA pre-check well not pre-check that's me TSA check stations. 32 million flying another 66 million Americans will travel by car to their July 4th spot their destination their vacation though here's the kicker many of us once we travel will stay home with family and friends their homes to celebrate July 4th because it's a hell of a lot cheaper to do a barbecue in your backyard or at a park than it is to go out right now. So yes 32 million of us will fly 66 million will travel by car that is roughly 98 million people give or take a few hundred which means about 30 percent of the United States is on the move this week. You've been warned that includes me can you just stay out of my way please all I'm asking is that our flights get to where they're going on time. Want to hear something really cool I said this the these two things you've heard me say before number one if I could have any superpower it would be the ability to fly on planes because I stink at sleeping on a moving vehicle but planes are the worst I cannot no matter how tired I am I cannot sleep on a flight I don't know what it is the noise I even try sunglasses and headphones and it's just it's not I mean it's not comfortable real comfortable. My second thing that I always say about flying is that if I were independently wealthy if I were rich which I'm not I still live essentially paycheck to paycheck we we still live paycheck to paycheck but if I was I would fly first class like that would be the one amenity forget luxury vehicle forget big house I don't need a pool I'd rather go to the beach anyway no I need to fly first class because then I might be able to sleep on planes okay so get this a friend of mine who a really close friend she and her husband came to our wedding they are million milers on united meaning they have flown over a million miles in their lifetimes they try to keep up their platinum status every year they only fly united and they accumulate the miles but they don't use the miles because they want to continue year after year to get that platinum status so other so in other words they they don't use the miles they give them away meaning they offer friends and family the ability to upgrade to first class by using their miles you're a friend or family yes and they did upgrade us to first class so on our way to houston on wednesday morning jay I might be able to sleep on this plane comfortable seat oh my gosh they gave me my choice of breakfast stop is this what it's like to be wealthy you get your choice of breakfast on the flight what'd you pick I picked a greek yogurt with fruit and nuts I'm very excited nice I know it sounds kind of boring but I'm pretty excited anyway we're gonna be eating wedding cake later so yeah this is a treat that I've only maybe experienced twice in my lifetime and once it was because I was going standby and that's the only seat they had left within first class that's awesome that's the way to go yeah so anyway this is going to be pretty amazing that's wednesday morning I won't be here I might though be using the plane's wi-fi to text jay oh my gosh first class I feel like a little kid in a candy store you're sending me photos jealous so that's where I'll be on wednesday morning I will not be able to host the show out the rest of the week we've got family obligations and so for jay and I this is our last show together which is a bummer but I'm excited for jay to find a new direction a new career path where is he going well he's going home first and then he'll figure out what he's doing next it's after hours with Amy Lawrence you can find me on twix at a law radio and also on our facebook page here's the show question and you can certainly weigh in with your sentiments about how producer jay is the best producer we've ever had affirmed but the show question is this who is the most disappointing team in your lifetime I'm asking this question because once again the us men's national team we're talking soccer here has let me down I don't care that it's copa america and it doesn't matter I don't care that team usa doesn't have to qualify for the 2026 world cup as a host nation we are an automatic qualifier which actually may be to our detriment because we need to be participating in tournaments like this that are pressure packed that are on an international stage even though of course we were hosting here in the united states this is embarrassing team usa is out again this time it's in group stage are you kidding me and this is not a knock on panama or oregon but we should be beating these teams on our own soil at arrowhead stadium we should be beating teams that are ranked below us in the world standings although I've come to believe those things mean absolutely nothing you could have a compilation of really talented players but for some reason when team usa gets together on the pitch the identity and the formula are the same I do not know why it is that despite all the talk about being aggressive finding the youngest and the brightest and the best talent putting them through a much stricter and much more exhausting and physically demanding training camp slash qualifying process we've got guys who play for teams all over Europe and yet when they put on the red white and blue it's the same old same old we can talk about the goal that Uruguay scored and the sequence is pretty dramatic actually it's it's funny that fs1 pointed it out during the broadcast you can see fans in the stands now they obviously had the score of the panama Bolivia game that was going on at the same time in Orlando while team usa is in Kansas City with a near full house by the way to arrowhead if you've never been there you've watched it on tv you know it's freaking loud the outlaws and the fans they show up with such great expectation I feel the same way but I almost think we're getting set up now and it's more infuriating and frustrating with the world cup two years away on our own soil this was supposed best and brightest compilation of us talent we've ever seen and may very well be individually but it does not have corporate synergy synergy meaning the sum is greater than the individual parts and the formula itself it's always the same if you watch some of the nations that play for or that nations that play for their cups and it's their year-round sport and so it's not just the best athletes they have in their entire country but a lot of them have been playing since they were teeny now our us players have as well but they spend more time together as teammates than does team usa I'm getting choked up over producer j leaving uh so team usa they've got their training camps they've got their qualifying they've got their other processes where they get together but in these other nations there are far fewer options which means all the best and brightest for the most part play their football or soccer I mean sure you've got guys who play baseball you've got guys who play basketball but usually the best athletes in their entire countries are soccer players and because it's not only their number one sport but really their national pastime they do it all the time they play together more often in more tournaments blah blah blah blah blah but also from the time they're young there's a lot of extra pressure us soccer flies under the radar for the most part except for world cup I'm not even sure no for the women the olympics are a big deal for the men I don't even think so because we failed to ever crash through that glass ceiling and join the elite and yet here is the world cup going to be hosted jointly by Canada Mexico and the United States with the championship in our nation's borders we don't have to qualify which means we could be focusing on other things but as I say I kind of feel like that's a detriment because the pressure is not there remember in 2018 we missed the world cup we didn't qualify I didn't watch soccer for a year I was so disappointed and devastated I know it's my fault I got set up they punked me but what we were told about qualifying for the next world cup the one that happened in 22 just a couple years ago where they did make it out of the group stage they were one of the youngest teams in the world cup Christian Polisic all in Tyler Adams some of the other guys around him best and brightest and yes they did make it to the elimination stage but that's generally what they do in the world cup make it out of group stage make it out of group stage but it's stressful it's never cruise through group stage and get to the elimination rounds nope it's not that why is it always like pulling teeth with this team why is it always so hard for them to get aggressive and generate offense this stagnant stale pack in the middle best guys are playing in the midfield conservative safe boring I don't want to say they're slow because they're not but compared to a lot of the Hispanic nations who fly around like their hair is on fire that's what team USA looks like boring conservative safe playing not to lose now you can complain about the fouls that were called against against Uruguay I almost said Bolivia against Uruguay you can complain about the goal that Uruguay scored on a rebound and you can look at the photo finishes you could look at the still frames on video review and make a case for Uruguay being off sides I don't care here's what I care about three shots on goal you don't get to complain about officials or a possible offsides call when a you don't score and be three shots on goal this is supposed to be one of the best teams in the world and it has three shots on goal I need them to run around with wild abandon now Christian Polisic does that he gets knocked down a bunch I think Steph Curry on the basketball court and guys are taking shots whenever they can Christian's slight not a huge guy Steph Curry same thing the knock on not the knock the the scouting report on Steph has always been if you can body him up if you can wear him out now he's gotten stronger and he's built now for the long haul but when he was a younger player that was the thing running wild hit him a bunch wear him out and he won't be able to hit shots at the end of the game ha joke's on you so Christian Polisic he's a slight guy he gets knocked down a lot Americans are generally really good in terms of fitness they can run all day long and the skills are there I just don't love the style I don't love the identity it seems like it's the same thing for every generation of U.S. soccer not quite good enough wait until you hear Alexi Lalas weigh in on the failure of the U.S. at Copa America again this is not the World Cup it doesn't even matter we're already qualified except we're two years out and this is still the best that they can do that they can do every single goal feels like it takes so much they're not a prolific offensive team as long as I can remember I've been gritting my teeth stressed out watching U.S. soccer for this reason because it's it's never very rarely I won't say never it's very rarely comfortable with them hardly ever I can remember more draws than I can remember wins with this team that's that's what they do they draw they always just draw or they lose and so I came back to U.S. soccer after they fell short of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup after they lost to Trinidad and Tobago are you kidding me I came back a year later believing in the bill of goods that Greg Berhalter and U.S. soccer was selling us but guess what two years out and here's something we've heard before we're gonna re-evaluate everything everything is up for inspection we're gonna go through and decide I mean how many times have we done that U.S. soccer has been under constant scrutiny and evaluation as long as I can remember so what to do well the fans in Kansas City were chanting fire Greg at the end of this game in this loss brutal absolutely brutal what do you have to say for yourself and Team USA Greg bitterly disappointed with the results um we know that we're capable of more and um this tournament we didn't show it it's really as simple as that uh I think that you know you look at the stage that was set uh with the fans in this tournament with a high level of competition in this tournament and um you know we should have done better and you know we'll do a review and figure out what went wrong why it went wrong but I think it's um you know it's an empty feeling right now for sure that's what we're going to take a look at where you know we're all going to do a review of the whole tournament and see where we fell short um you know it's obvious that the Panama game hurt us uh put us put us behind the eight ball and you know I think collectively the staff the players the sporting department you know we need to look at where do we improve how do we do better uh it's not the the aspirations that we have as a group we know it's a talented a talented team um with big potential and we didn't show it in this tournament I feel like I've heard that before that's why it's so frustrating it never changes there are glimmers of hope and then crash we get let down again so this is the most disappointing team of my lifetime one of the most disappointing teams of your lifetimes online at Amy after hours or at a law radio and then our Facebook page too Jay on this note this is going to be our last show on this note are you kidding me disappointment again I can't wait to hear your teams I don't know how you're going to narrow it down actually you're not wrong but also regarding the US men's national team I mean I didn't really expect any different outcome so uh see that's my fault I expect something different so yesterday I mean I didn't expect them to play well and perform that I never do why would I why have they ever shown in my lifetime that they're going to take that next call from mom answer it call silenced instacart knows nothing gets between you and the game that's why they make ordering from your couch easy stock up today and get all your groceries for the week delivered in as fast as 30 minutes without missing a minute of the game you have 47 new voicemails download the app to get free delivery on your first 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or draw and you didn't score at all and panama meanwhile went on to beat bolivia 3-1 so the sequence that they showed on tv was pretty dramatic because it was fairly clear that in the stands people were watching on their phones or getting scoring updates of the panama game so panama goes ahead of bolivia and seconds later team usa gives up the one goal for uruguay on a rebound after a free kick but again no complaining about a call that you think wasn't made or too many fouls when you only generate three shots on goal that's gross it's after hours with amy lawrence alexi lawless who played for team usa in the 90s and of course is a former member of the new england revolution mls champion he's been around for a long time a highly respected opinion and he's kind of had it now you talked about learning from losing okay i think what we have learned over these cycles is that this team is not able to do anything better than is done in the past yeah that that that hurts that hurts to say because that was not what was promised and not what for many we believed was going to happen with this team because if this is as good as it gets it's it's it's not good enough and there's plenty of excuses but they don't matter you know uh you can talk about opportunities well we have players that are playing all over the world talk about playing in europe well the entire team that you saw out there plays in europe so it's not mls's fault you can talk about you know the pathways and the resources that they have no generation has been given more and yet this generation hasn't lived up to that bargain and when it comes to greg burrhalter we heard stu stu holton say it's exactly right you know i know there's a sport in firing coaches since in uh you know in all professional sports uh and i know the knives are out and and they should be because this is not good enough from greg burrhalter and you have to ask yourself with 2026 coming barreling down the pike it's going to come real quick two years away all right we can't afford to waste it we can't afford to be embarrassed and we can't afford to arrive in the summer of 26 with a team that has not progressed that has not evolved and has not improved i'm sure if greg burrhalter was here he would say oh but you don't see what's happening inside i don't give a crap what is happening inside i don't care about the dynamic i don't care how much your players love you i don't care how kumbaya it is all i care about is i see a us men's national team that is better than before and we haven't seen that and that's a problem going forward is that on the players is that on the manager is that on the federation where where are we saying you need to be better well the players certainly need to be better you know but do you think this this generation of players has what it takes like do you think that they have that deep deep inside of them i think there's a i think there's a couple of them i don't i don't think i think they are better soccer players but ultimately i don't think that they're better us men's national team players alexi lawless ready aim fire he's seen enough on fs1 and you hear the voices of clint dempsie captain america a previous generation of soccer and also carly lloyd is sitting right between them so these are some of the best players that team usa has ever seen wear the uniform and they're befuddled and frustrated as well now greg burr halter was hired rehired i should say last year and his contract runs through the upcoming world cup he told us soccer he told fans that they would take a major step forward from where they were last world cup uh qualifying for the elimination stage but losing in that first game which is pretty much standard that's what they do and now here they are losing on their own soil in copa america and not even getting out of the group stage right you could say nothing's riding on it but there's only two years left and it's still the same old same old one more from alexi just because he was asked about the leadership and asked about greg burr halter the summer of 26 is an opportunity it's an opportunity not just for american soccer but you know for the country the country to come together and you need somebody that is going to pull people together and right now and i think greg burr halter because of the fact that he has failed to a certain extent has not given people hope that it is heading in the right direction and so he has become incredibly polarizing and you know that's just the because of the results that have happened if they believe that he is the right person to take us in 2026 that is not going to change there will be continued polarization and i want somebody in there that is going to bring everybody together we all have different opinions and i agree or disagree but ultimately in this lead-up now because you heard him say next two years there really isn't anything out there in terms of real competition this was it so whatever progress is going to be made in the next couple it has to be made by somebody that's going to bring everybody together because when that whistle blows in the summer of 2026 i want everybody in america whether they love soccer or not to say you know what i am on board with this and you need a leader in that position that's going to get the best out of the players and that is going to bring everybody together not divide people alexi lawless fired up on fox sports one fs1 there's more out there lots of discussion post game because a lot of us feel the same way i'm just a bystander not so innocent anymore but just a bystander and it feels like the same old same old he's lived it and this was supposed to be the generation young players the best and brightest and now we're two years out and there's really nothing new nothing new that we can see but also nothing much they can change i mean there's no savior out there in the next two years for the world cup and unless you're going to change leadership but what does that do i mean it takes it takes teams time this is it's a big deal even though it does feel like the world cup is way off in the distance not even a cloud on the horizon but it's a big deal because it's just more of the same so this has been the biggest disappointment in my lifetime as a sports fan round and around and around the mountain we go what's the biggest disappointment of your lifetime as a sports fan that's coming up plus final favorite you can host the best backyard barbecue when you find a professional on angie to make your backyard the best around connect with skilled professionals to get all your home projects done well inside to outside repairs to renovations get started on the angie app or visit angie.com today you can do this when you angie that look around what do you see cars lots of them and guess what they're probably on auto trader whether you're into timeless classics or the latest trends did somebody say solar-powered eco-friendly vegan leather 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six of ten from distance 81 to 58 thompson has a 30 point night down the left side goes the corner here's hendrix he'll pick up fans shoot it it's a back rim mischief down your seven grab by thompson clay right sideline takes a 25-footer money cold hard cash this is after hours with amy lawrence the voice of tim roy on warriors radio neither chris paul nor clay thompson will be part of that golden state backcourt coming up in 24. however chris paul won't be missed clay thompson it's gonna look weird even though they went through two and a half years without him it's not gonna be the same he and steph curry and draymond green have played more than 500 games together in the regular season and the playoffs of course the four titles that they won together match those san antonio spurs tim duncan monu ginobili and tony parker it's some kind of legacy and while he has i hope several good years left three years 50 million dollars to sign with the delis mavericks which actually tells you something the fact that he only got the 50 million for the three years is an indication that the market was not nearly as hot for clay thompson as what he thought but what we're hearing is that he was upset at the warriors and so he was in no way going to give them a hometown discount i mean it's possible that he took less money for these next two years to go to dallas but they did give him a third year and he gets his 50 million guaranteed and there's a lot of chatter about clay and why he's upset feeling like he got disrespected by the franchise according to jason dumas who covers the warriors g league team he's also a host on 95 7 the game in the bay area he said it actually got to be kind of a shadow that hung over the warriors the last three years i know draymond has punched people and got himself suspended on the court in two seasons almost if you allow me to i mean basically i'm telling you this clay has been equally as exhausting behind the scenes it's not as loud it's not as loud because it's not you stomping on someone's chest watched it so if he if he's slamming stuff on the bench and sulking and doing that on the court how do you think it is in practice how do you think it is in the locker room it has been uncomfortable it has it just doesn't come out as loudly as draymond green all of that aside and that may be the case jason dumas who covers the warriors g league on 95 7 the game in the bay area and a couple of other co-hosts there all that may be true but the warriors said they wanted him back they just had not had any fruitful negotiations in quite a while in fact none since the season ended according to the reports and so he takes three years and 50 million dollars to go to the mavericks now last year he shot nearly 39 from three and he still averaged 18 points even coming off the bench for the majority of the season he did start 29 games he's 34 years old there will be shots for him this could be exactly what the mavericks need and after 13 years with golden state they will retire his number 11 he is a part of the best period in that franchise's history and one of the golden stretches for the nba but he was unhappy with his franchise and so they had to accept the fact that he was going to move on it's after hours with amy lawrence you know who else was upset with his franchise oh stephen stamkos but he's found himself a new home in nashville and boy are the predators loading up in nhl free agency now think about it stamkos first in games played for the tampa bay lightning more than a thousand first in points all time for the franchise with more than 1100 he's a champion with them two times stanley cup champion but now will presumably finish his career with the nashville predators and from what he says sounds like there was also some bad blood there when i didn't get approached to sign an extension last summer that that caught me by surprise and it was something that i expressed at training camp and certainly that was probably the start of it the the start of the writing on the wall um you know i didn't quite understand why but you know i i didn't ask too many questions just went about and played hard and didn't let that affect me and you know after the season i knew both sides were going to want to try to get something done and do something that was mutually mutually beneficial for both sides it just felt like you know i was the one that was making a lot of the concessions and um that certainly came into play steven stamkos long time tenured member of the tampa bay lightning and while he does indicate that he was pretty sure this would be playing out the string for the lightning tries to kind of wrap it up and okay we're good we're good whatever you know ill will or feelings i've had throughout this process because those are temporary those are emotional decisions and um you know as time passes those usually go away it's it's remembering the amazing times um growing up in in in that city as an 18 year old kid to where i am now having a family um you know obviously winning you know the fans the city everything is has been first class and those are the things that that you remember you're you're sad it didn't work out maybe the way you wanted to but a new chapter is opening up in in my family's life and and that's something we're excited about so yeah he's got a fresh start and it's clear that he didn't love how this went with the lightning which is unfortunate but the lightning had to make some tough decisions he's obviously older in his career similar to clay not quite the same prestige atop these career charts but still uh clay steven stamkos wearing different uniforms next winter is going to be a bit jarring also jonathan marcheso ends up in nashville too that's a huge one i really like what the predators are doing as well not as big as the other two but just why not yeah pretty exciting um they're going for broke i like it it's after hours with amy lawrence so a lot of the disappointments that we've seen revolve around minnesota vikings dallas cowboys going back to the 90s for sure the jets i'll let jet uh j j jet weigh in if he wants to but the dude you played four snaps i don't want to hear a peep out of you it's totally fun so the jets other teams cleveland browns cleveland indians now guardians though they have high hopes for them there i've seen a bunch of the red sox going back pre 2004 actually 2003 with the aaron boon home run right uh from the yankees trying to think of some of the other really popular answers oh gosh we've got team rory mcelroy how about a huge one i thought of not for me personally but i haven't seen anyone put this the 2001 seattle mariners oh right haven't seen that one they're a more disappointing team in baseball ever yeah i haven't seen that one uh seen some from teams well the cavaliers for sure it seems like every cleveland team pittsburgh pirates has been a really popular answer they've been breaking their our hearts since da da da da so j what about you most disappointing teams in your extended lifetime oh well i have a lot to choose from oh dear okay i mean i have to go with the 2000 uh the 2020 to 2021 brooklyn nets obviously with kd kyrie and hardin well i what were they thinking i was on board at the time i won't lie i can't play monday morning quarterback on that one i was all in on it i mean how could you not be you had a chance to get those three guys a couple of years away and kevin durant wore a 16 instead of a 17 size foot they would have beat the bucks they probably would want a title uh-huh but they didn't so that's the most disappointing season all right so that's j biggest disappointment of his lifetime as a sports fan i think two of my favorites have been the toronto maple leafs just perennially and then the 2007 patriots fans who i forget the fact that you've got six other super bowl rings but the favorite moments the one against the giants that prevented them from having the perfect season the 20 you know people have told me they had the t-shirts printed out ready to go oh sorry i saw one of those ones eli manning david tyree did you really 19 and 0 new york patriots had i should have bought it at the time i didn't that's funny all right so forget that although we'll continue to take your answers on both twix and facebook my favorite few moments with producer j as we wrap up our final show together i'm going with our pumpkin carving i had no idea what was in store for us when we finally were able to get into the pumpkin we stabbed it it cried i nearly cried yeah that was an extraordinary experience that i'll never go through again first time ever carving a pumpkin it's on our youtube channel the reaction from j and i crazy the scream yeah never forget it i would say another incredible experience with producer j has just been the laughter we've laughed over some of the dumbest stuff but our shows have been amazing the dog breed favorite dog breed show when we met matt the musher and we adopted him that's close to number one on my list it's gotta be for the i did a rod so that's my number two was our dog breed show but so much laughter that we've engaged in shows about who even knows what and finally my number one is our video where we play wordle for the first time and we act like complete idiots but it was it was an adrenaline rush like you've never known i'm telling you one of the funnest like 12 minutes i've ever lived in my lifetime was playing that world so those are my faves what about you those were in my face as well one we didn't mention and that actually happened very recently the hot dog debate we had the other day oh yeah that was so funny i thought i mean and also i want to squeeze in one here when we went to cover the ranger's devils game with the with the credentials my first time oh yeah j's cheering in the press box that was kenny albert is right behind us he doesn't care he's cheering away he didn't mind there's a hat 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