Speaker 1: Hey, the folks. You all sent in your questions. We
Speaker 1: have been asking them in part one of the Q
Speaker 1: and A. If you already heard that. If you haven't,
Speaker 1: please check it out. But we're going to start this
Speaker 1: one with the number one question we are told that
Speaker 1: has been asked by you all. And with that, everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. That it's
Speaker 1: not a stress. It's not that difficult. Wonder what the
Speaker 1: question would be? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what would be the question that most people want
Speaker 2: to know the answer to?
Speaker 1: You know, it might be too that might be to one,
Speaker 1: the other might be professional.
Speaker 2: That's true. But on a personal personal note, if you
Speaker 2: can think of what the question would be, I think
Speaker 2: we can all come up with it before Andy actually
Speaker 2: asks it.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna let him do his thing. So Andy
Speaker 1: is a super producer. Andy has been guiding us through
Speaker 1: the questions in part one of the Q and AH.
Speaker 1: He's going to do it for us again in this one.
Speaker 1: So Andy, you go right ahead, all right.
Speaker 3: Number one most asked question, when are you guys going
Speaker 3: to get married?
Speaker 2: It's not if it's when. I like that, wow, you know,
Speaker 2: instead of if it's when. And I actually appreciate that. TJ.
Speaker 2: You told me that I should never propose to you.
Speaker 1: So propose to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Remember we were talking about women proposing to men.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, if I answer this, I feel
Speaker 2: like that'd be kind of in part what me saying
Speaker 2: when I would like to get married.
Speaker 1: Then answer after this set up, Now we all waiting
Speaker 1: to hear this.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't have a date obviously, and we haven't
Speaker 2: even decided what we're going to do.
Speaker 1: But how's that sigh into you proposing to me?
Speaker 2: Because if I said I want to and and I'd
Speaker 2: like to in the fall, that would be like akin
Speaker 2: to me proposing to you.
Speaker 1: So you think the next fall, Why don't you answer
Speaker 1: the question? Yes, let me answer the question win sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later. And I say that based on my
Speaker 1: exclusive conversations with the bride. I say that because it's
Speaker 1: we're we are not trying to figure things out. We
Speaker 1: are not trying to see if we want to be together.
Speaker 1: We're not trying to to kind of, I don't know,
Speaker 1: do a trial run of some kind to see if
Speaker 1: this thing can work. That's not where we are. So
Speaker 1: the decision has been made to spend the life together.
Speaker 1: So I mean the marriage, the wedding. When are you
Speaker 1: guys getting married? That's going to be a byproduct of
Speaker 1: what's happening, and it's just it's coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I I hey.
Speaker 1: Hey, you told me the answer because you were over
Speaker 1: there on some babble about don't try to chime back
Speaker 1: in that.
Speaker 2: Okay, well done. I'm going to leave it with Jay's
Speaker 2: last word. There, we get it. I'll stop talking.
Speaker 3: I feel like, well, this one, I guess is asking
Speaker 3: about the wedding.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well good. Maybe I can say something now, if.
Speaker 3: You decided to get married, would you guys be open
Speaker 3: to doing a podcast from the party?
Speaker 2: No? I mean I think we would do a podcast afterwards, possibly,
Speaker 2: But no, I think we've talked about marriage. We haven't
Speaker 2: talked about a wedding, and there's a difference between the two.
Speaker 1: But you know what, we can start the planning now
Speaker 1: and we will take that off the list. That will
Speaker 1: be one mic and the wedding singer will be using it.
Speaker 1: That's it. No podcast mics, no recorders, no nothing.
Speaker 3: This one is what is the hardest lesson that you
Speaker 3: had to learn.
Speaker 1: To learn in life? In life or recently oh, let's see,
Speaker 1: how would you put that? The hardest lesson that's ti
Speaker 1: we keep learning this lesson, but the idea that this
Speaker 1: too shall pass. I've learned that repeatedly, but for some
Speaker 1: reason I can't get that through my head sometimes to
Speaker 1: help me when I'm going through a new mess, because
Speaker 1: every single mess did pass. We all know this. That's
Speaker 1: a difficult one to learn over and over lessons I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about mistakes, I ain't thinking about mistakes, and I've
Speaker 1: gotten to a place now where I guess I don't
Speaker 1: qualify so many things as mistakes anymore. I qualify them
Speaker 1: as experiences that I had. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard. It's hard to pick just one
Speaker 2: because I have learned so many lessons through my life,
Speaker 2: but especially over these past couple of years. I think
Speaker 2: one of the most important lessons I've learned is if
Speaker 2: you have something to say, say it, or someone else
Speaker 2: will speak for you. And that has and was a
Speaker 2: big mistake that I made in this whole situation. I
Speaker 2: want to feel confident enough to say what I believe
Speaker 2: and what my truth is versus letting someone else tell
Speaker 2: everyone else. Because I've learned the perception becomes reality, and
Speaker 2: that's unfortunate because it isn't reality, and yet it's hard
Speaker 2: to undo it once it's been accepted as such.
Speaker 1: That was really good advice, actually, I like that.
Speaker 3: Uh sorry, going back to marriage on this one, would
Speaker 3: you all want to elope?
Speaker 1: We want to make it as difficult on our family
Speaker 1: and friends as possible. They're going to send invitations to
Speaker 1: like an island in Italy off the coast somewhere, just
Speaker 1: some tiny, tiny little place that you have take a puddle,
Speaker 1: jump over to one island and then you have to
Speaker 1: get on the ferry to go to the next one.
Speaker 1: And that is where the wedding is going to be.
Speaker 1: And we're only going to invite people that have to
Speaker 1: show up, right, they have to. That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, this is all news to me. I
Speaker 2: thought they were gonna ask if we wanted a beach wedding,
Speaker 2: a destination wedding. Oh, okay, we'll wait for that.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess why not just do announce? Okay, would
Speaker 3: you rather do a beach wedding or something else?
Speaker 1: I saw some people. I saw a gay couple on
Speaker 1: the steps of the city hall, not too long ago,
Speaker 1: and it looked great. Yep, it looks kind of awesome.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think you know, anyone who's been married
Speaker 2: more than once, you know, the whole big white dress,
Speaker 2: you know, it's you know. And I don't fault anyone
Speaker 2: for this, but my younger self was in this headspace.
Speaker 2: A lot of people want the wedding right. They want
Speaker 2: the pomp and circumstance that's so exciting, the dress and
Speaker 2: the boutineer and the bouquet and the flowers and the
Speaker 2: I think, once you've been there and done that, and
Speaker 2: we've talked about this before, I want the marriage. I
Speaker 2: want the partnership. I want the relationship, and that's what
Speaker 2: I want more than anything. So this may sound hokey
Speaker 2: and maybe maybe not even believable, but I really don't care.
Speaker 2: I honestly don't care about where we get married, how
Speaker 2: we get married. I might care when we get married eventually,
Speaker 2: but if we get married, and I definitely care if
Speaker 2: but I the details, I really it doesn't it. It
Speaker 2: doesn't even cross my mind. Interesting whatever he wants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Part one was a little easier. Yeah, what is
Speaker 3: your most prized possession?
Speaker 2: And why?
Speaker 1: Oh, prize possession? I don't know. I think if if
Speaker 1: the house was on fire, what would I make sure
Speaker 1: I grab and get out of there? I don't have it.
Speaker 2: You know, you used to say photographs, but now everything's
Speaker 2: in the cloud. You can always buy a new phone,
Speaker 2: and I you know, I think, interestingly, having covered so
Speaker 2: many tragedies in our careers, fires included, I learned, honestly
Speaker 2: through that coverage that everything can turn to dust. And
Speaker 2: the only valued possession I have is and it's is
Speaker 2: my relationships.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. I cannot think of a prize possession.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's stuff that's valuable that I like, that
Speaker 1: I love that I'd hate to see gone. But man,
Speaker 1: if that house was on fire we had to run out,
Speaker 1: what would I grab? My passport and my phone that
Speaker 1: might be it.
Speaker 2: And your chapstick, your cherry chapsick. No, I'm teasing no,
Speaker 2: And I actually your past, my passport and my crazy
Speaker 2: because it's a pain in the butt to have to
Speaker 2: re you know, get all of that reissued.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I actually don't family heirlooms.
Speaker 3: Like jewelry or dazzled roach that you had.
Speaker 1: No we can replace it. Yeah, I mean it is.
Speaker 2: Nice man brooch, but yeah, and I actually think having
Speaker 2: gone through divorce, having had to sell everything, it just
Speaker 2: you realize you get so upset if there's a scratch
Speaker 2: on the table or if your car gets a ding,
Speaker 2: and when you go through enough of life and you've
Speaker 2: had to sell it or get rid of it for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, you realize they're just things. And so the
Speaker 2: only I mean, I genuinely can tell you I don't
Speaker 2: have something I can't live without.
Speaker 3: I don't, all right? Would you rather someone be honest
Speaker 3: and hurt your feelings or lie to protect them?
Speaker 1: This can go both ways, it depends.
Speaker 2: I don't think I can give you a resolute answer
Speaker 2: to that, because it would depend in some instances. Yes,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be the last person to know.
Speaker 2: And if I can do something about it, if I
Speaker 2: can fix it, if I can, if I can make
Speaker 2: it better than I'd want to know. But if it's
Speaker 2: just something that would hurt my feelings, I don't mind
Speaker 2: if you tell a little white lie, because if there's
Speaker 2: nothing that can be gained from telling me this, then yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe ignorance is bliss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm okay with that. And it just depends on
Speaker 1: the situation. Nobody a little we all do it, but
Speaker 1: a little white lie to protect somebody's feelings. We do
Speaker 1: it all the time. Do I want to I don't know.
Speaker 1: You hate the idea of being lied too.
Speaker 2: Or manipulated.
Speaker 1: I think I would always want to know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if what would hurt smoke, what would it be?
Speaker 1: I got DJ that's an ugly sweater that you have on.
Speaker 1: I mean I would rather hear that opinion, go look
Speaker 1: in the mirror a couple more times and deal with
Speaker 1: it instead of walking out, possibly looking like an idiot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always appreciate if there's food in my teeth
Speaker 2: or that kind of thing. I'd like to say, a
Speaker 2: bat in the cave, like, I'd always rather know.
Speaker 3: What are your biggest turn on and turn offs?
Speaker 1: Smoking is the off yours?
Speaker 2: The biggest turn off would just be like basic, like
Speaker 2: someone who isn't as hygienic as I'd like them to be,
Speaker 2: Like if they didn't like, yeah, showering and deodorant and
Speaker 2: all those things. I mean, you laugh, but it's an issue.
Speaker 2: So that would be a huge turn off just to me,
Speaker 2: if someone didn't have the same hygiene practices that I do.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, and turn on. So there I assume they're
Speaker 1: talking about in a relationship or whatnot. Okay, that turn
Speaker 1: on I it's a weird way to This is the
Speaker 1: only way to put it. It's not a matter of
Speaker 1: a feature. But if a woman cannot put on jeans
Speaker 1: and a T shirt, belly up to a bar, order
Speaker 1: a draft beer, and watch an SEC football game, probably
Speaker 1: we're probably not gonna get along.
Speaker 2: Well that's a turn on for you, then its turn on, yes,
Speaker 2: turn yeah, Well wow, we've been doing that for a
Speaker 2: long time together, so it's making sense now. And I'm
Speaker 2: usually in a jeans, jeans and a T shirt. The
Speaker 2: biggest turn on to me is someone who can make
Speaker 2: me laugh. If I can laugh with someone, that is
Speaker 2: a huge turn on. If you're because I think you
Speaker 2: have to be very clever, he's tickling me. You have
Speaker 2: to be very clever, and very intelligent and very you
Speaker 2: have to be observant to be funny. And so when
Speaker 2: you find someone who's truly funny and can make you laugh,
Speaker 2: they have all those other qualities.
Speaker 3: Okay, this one asks what do you wish someone taught
Speaker 3: you a long time.
Speaker 1: Ago that they actually do print lies in newspapers. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that until very recently. I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was a thing. I thought it I had to be
Speaker 1: based on something or a mistake was made or I
Speaker 1: didn't know. And I'm not talking about may I say, newspapers.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a lot of online public online publications.
Speaker 1: I should say I didn't know that it was. It
Speaker 1: just is done like a flaut one hundred percent nothing
Speaker 1: based on just lie can be made up. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. I wish i'd have been taught that very
Speaker 1: early on. And I'm somebody who spent that long in media,
Speaker 1: has been continuous in media that I didn't get that
Speaker 1: about the industry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was shocking going through it because you don't
Speaker 2: know it and you don't realize it until the lies
Speaker 2: are about you, and then you're like, oh wait, I
Speaker 2: actually know for a fact that is not true, and
Speaker 2: yet here it is in print. And we would actually
Speaker 2: end up laughing at some of them because they were
Speaker 2: so like bold face lies with zero, zero attribution or
Speaker 2: anything other than sources.
Speaker 1: So it's weird now, Andy, how we I can read
Speaker 1: something now like it'd like to be the worst thing
Speaker 1: about whoever they're saying is the worst guy, the worst
Speaker 1: woman doing the worst thing that I'll wait on this one.
Speaker 1: Like everything I'm waiting to I just don't believe anything
Speaker 1: almost that I read in these online publications anymore. So
Speaker 1: that's that was a shocker for me, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 2: Something that I wished I had it's learned or can
Speaker 2: you tell me what the question is? Again?
Speaker 3: What do you wish someone taught you a long time ago?
Speaker 2: Someone taught me a long time ago. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: a tough one.
Speaker 1: For me, But I think your mom's going to take
Speaker 1: this personal.
Speaker 2: My mom's sitting right next to me, right because my
Speaker 2: I think to trust that I know best about what
Speaker 2: I need. I think I was much more, especially when
Speaker 2: I was younger, willing to take what someone else said
Speaker 2: I should do, or what you know, some religious doctrines
Speaker 2: said I should do, or I was always looking for
Speaker 2: outside validation, and so I wish that I could have
Speaker 2: been taught in a way that it resonated and I
Speaker 2: believed that I actually know what's best for me. You
Speaker 2: seem confused.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to follow. Yeah, but the question that what
Speaker 1: do you wish you were taught what to.
Speaker 2: Basically that you are the best, you know more about
Speaker 2: yourself than anyone else. It's about about relying on yourself
Speaker 2: and trusting yourself. And maybe people say trust your gut, right,
Speaker 2: But I think I was always very willing to trust
Speaker 2: what someone else said instead of trusting what I thought
Speaker 2: or believed, and I doubted myself. And when I think
Speaker 2: about most of the mistakes I've made in my life,
Speaker 2: it has been because I trusted what someone else said,
Speaker 2: or I put more stock into what someone else said,
Speaker 2: or what something else. You know, something else I read
Speaker 2: said versus what I knew in my gut. And what's
Speaker 2: right for me isn't necessarily right for someone else. So
Speaker 2: and and I don't think I thought that I thought
Speaker 2: there was right wrong, black, white, good, bad. And I
Speaker 2: just I wish that I had learned earlier to truly
Speaker 2: listen to my gut.
Speaker 3: I think this one goes into what you were saying before.
Speaker 3: Do you see the news business differently now, with the
Speaker 3: rise of fake news and Greek distrust and journalism. Has
Speaker 3: that rubbed off on you guys at all?
Speaker 1: Rubbed off? Oh my god? This goes both ways right there.
Speaker 1: In some ways we're glad we're out of it, and
Speaker 1: in other ways we wish we could be right in
Speaker 1: the middle of it to actually have more of an
Speaker 1: impact or say or sway over places that have such
Speaker 1: big as big a reach as they do. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's been difficult for me to watch for
Speaker 1: us Rose, we turn, we do not watch news. We
Speaker 1: don't watch news at all. In the morning. We have
Speaker 1: it on it first when we up at three four
Speaker 1: am and make sure we don't miss headlines, but we
Speaker 1: don't watch news at all. We read our news. So
Speaker 1: but I hate they'd taken some deans and they probably
Speaker 1: will continue to take some deans. And I don't think
Speaker 1: this election cycle helped, and I don't know if the
Speaker 1: next administration is going to help necessarily.
Speaker 2: For media, yeah, yeah, we don't watch morning news. But
Speaker 2: when we do watch news, it's usually following a debate,
Speaker 2: leading up to a debate around the election. So we
Speaker 2: have watched news reacting to the political cycle, for sure.
Speaker 1: And that's almost for sport.
Speaker 2: It is, and that's what it's become because we'll have Fox,
Speaker 2: we'll have CNN, we'll have MSNBC, will have all of
Speaker 2: the the major cable outlets. And it is astounding because
Speaker 2: usually we were in the thick of it, we were
Speaker 2: covering it, we were there on the floor of these
Speaker 2: different arenas covering so to actually be sitting on the
Speaker 2: couch and watching it has been a very unique experience
Speaker 2: for me, and it's been disheartening because you just see
Speaker 2: what's actually going on. We know what happens in newsrooms,
Speaker 2: we know what happens behind the scenes, and it's just
Speaker 2: it's frightening to now see it from a different perspective
Speaker 2: on the couch, but with the knowledge we have about
Speaker 2: how things work. So I have absolutely been disheartened by
Speaker 2: what I've seen, and I think we've actually felt empowered
Speaker 2: in our podcast to be able to try and do
Speaker 2: things in a non partisan way. We can still add perspective,
Speaker 2: we can still have our thoughts, we can still bring
Speaker 2: what we've learned with thirty years in the business without
Speaker 2: having something feel mean spirited. I think I've sometimes we
Speaker 2: have the volume down when we watch this, and seeing
Speaker 2: some broadcasters' facial expressions, the snarkiness, the almost like laughing
Speaker 2: at what's happening. It's been kind of disgusting a lot
Speaker 2: of moments and hard to watch.
Speaker 1: So that's that's where we are. But look, we enjoyed
Speaker 1: what we did, we would have been still a part
Speaker 1: of this whole cycle and a part of this and
Speaker 1: hopefully we could have contributed in a certain way. But
Speaker 1: it's stuff to watch sometimes.
Speaker 3: This is just a question that I have. I've been
Speaker 3: asking you, guys, but did you notice in the changing of,
Speaker 3: like the way the news is reported since twenty sixteen? Like,
Speaker 3: did you see that firsthand when all like election reporting
Speaker 3: was going on. Obviously I've covered several elections, but did
Speaker 3: you see that as being as big as it now
Speaker 3: seems it was in how we report politics?
Speaker 2: I think in twenty sixteen The only thing I can
Speaker 2: speak to specifically is that the news organizations we were
Speaker 2: working news organization we were working with, didn't take it
Speaker 2: very seriously, and they thought it was sport. They thought
Speaker 2: it was more entertainment. And then and they were out
Speaker 2: of touch with how a lot of America means were
Speaker 2: actually really feeling and what they were really thinking and
Speaker 2: how they were actually going to vote. And that was
Speaker 2: called considered a wake up call. And yet it's happened again.
Speaker 2: And actually I feel like, in a weird way, I've
Speaker 2: seen broadcasters double down almost on knowing more than you
Speaker 2: know about yourself. Or thinking they know better than you,
Speaker 2: or thinking that they just have a better idea because
Speaker 2: of their intellect and their perspective and their research. But
Speaker 2: in truth, I don't feel like I feel like sorry
Speaker 2: that broadcasters that I've seen are even further disconnected from
Speaker 2: a lot of Americans than they were in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Look, Trump got people paid. I mean there were news
Speaker 1: organizations beefing up their staff in DC once that dude
Speaker 1: got there, right, And so now I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're getting ready for our whole cycle of this again,
Speaker 1: because people do view it as a circus and you
Speaker 1: go there and you cover and so what are we
Speaker 1: just going to see a constant circus again? I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's to your point you're saying about what we
Speaker 1: saw twenty six It's gotten much worse, I think since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, because people have made careers out of Trump's presidency,
Speaker 1: and there are people who have anchorchairs now and have
Speaker 1: podcast shows, not all kinds of they do because this
Speaker 1: du got to the White House. So it's not gonna
Speaker 1: slow down, unfortunately. So it's and is disheartening.
Speaker 2: It's something to remember and we know this, but news
Speaker 2: is a business. And ratings are how you get paid.
Speaker 2: So consider that when you're looking at your news source,
Speaker 2: it has to be considered. It has to be in
Speaker 2: your mind that it isn't some altruistic thing that I
Speaker 2: think a lot of us got into the business to
Speaker 2: do and to be a part of. And yes, I
Speaker 2: think that's in the hearts of a lot of journalists,
Speaker 2: but the reality is it is a business.
Speaker 3: This person wants to know how much prep do you
Speaker 3: need for the morning run and how early do you
Speaker 3: guys wake up to record it? And what does the
Speaker 3: daily workday prep look like.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that question, thank you whoever wrote that, because
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it's like fifteen twenty minutes that we're
Speaker 2: putting out there. But it is not that. By the scenes.
Speaker 2: We start around noon the day before, collecting headlines. We're
Speaker 2: constantly checking to see what's happening, what's going on. We
Speaker 2: make a list of what our potential stories might be
Speaker 2: throughout the day, and around three or four o'clock we
Speaker 2: start writing stories that we know are almost certainly going
Speaker 2: to make the cut the next morning, and by the
Speaker 2: time we go to bed, we have a pretty significant
Speaker 2: rundown ready to go. And then what time do you
Speaker 2: wake up, babe? Usually by three and my alarm is
Speaker 2: set at four, and we then work for another work
Speaker 2: for another two hours. You work for another three hours
Speaker 2: at making sure we have the right stories and making
Speaker 2: sure that we're writing them the way we'd like to.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we for the first time are the assignment editor,
Speaker 2: the executive producer, the writer, and the talent all in one.
Speaker 2: So there is hours and hours go into the prep.
Speaker 3: All right, what do you love most about working together?
Speaker 3: And what's the hardest thing about working together?
Speaker 2: Knowing who's going to talk first? Now, the thing I
Speaker 2: love most about working with this guy is that.
Speaker 1: What's what is this guy thing you've been doing to
Speaker 1: this guy? This guy with DJ this guy.
Speaker 2: I've always loved communicating. While we're talking, I just feel
Speaker 2: like we're on the same page. We can read each
Speaker 2: other very well, and that's a fun thing to be
Speaker 2: able to have in a partner that I know where
Speaker 2: we're going and what we're doing, so it feels like
Speaker 2: we're kind of yeah, we're teammates. So that's my favorite
Speaker 2: part about working with you is I feel this camaraderie
Speaker 2: and and I trust you, and hopefully you trust me.
Speaker 2: And that creates this I don't want to speak for you,
Speaker 2: but that creates and a really positive, a really positive
Speaker 2: work environment, and that makes it fun to go to vironments.
Speaker 2: It is though, Like honestly, it's funny even if we're
Speaker 2: having issues, when we sit down in front of the
Speaker 2: mic and are looking at each other, it's all gone,
Speaker 2: like it. We're in work mode and we're in like
Speaker 2: partnership mode, and it's I like that good. That's my
Speaker 2: favorite part about working with you.
Speaker 1: Did he say favorite or best and worst part?
Speaker 3: Best and worst?
Speaker 2: Well? I went with the best, So why don't you
Speaker 2: do the best? And I'll be thinking of the worst.
Speaker 1: That's easy. You're my favorite partner I've ever had to
Speaker 1: work with, So I'm working with my favorite person I've
Speaker 1: ever been a co host, co anchor. That's It's that simple.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said it better than me, just more succinctly.
Speaker 2: That's not shocking. Worst part, I think the hardest part
Speaker 2: has been we do operate differently. We were actually just
Speaker 2: talking about this this morning. TJ is very.
Speaker 1: Hard worker, thorough.
Speaker 2: I am task oriented and like to get things done,
Speaker 2: and TJ likes to take his time and really understand detail. Yes,
Speaker 2: so but I think actually it's a good combination, but
Speaker 2: it can be sometimes a little frustrating, probably for you.
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know you were frustrated. I just thought
Speaker 1: we were exchanging ideas at work. No, I the workplace,
Speaker 1: which earlier was a wonderful workplace.
Speaker 2: Do you know what it is? I feel like you
Speaker 2: get frustrated with me.
Speaker 1: I do, of course I do. What what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Of course I do. I'm frustrating with you now, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, okay, So what's the worst part about working with
Speaker 2: me or podcasting with me?
Speaker 1: It is, Yes, it's our our difference in working styles,
Speaker 1: which were easily masked when we worked together at a
Speaker 1: network because we could be in our separate lanes and
Speaker 1: you didn't have to see how I was prepping. I
Speaker 1: didn't see how you were prepping. But we got out
Speaker 1: there to the desk, and we were prepared together in
Speaker 1: different ways. Well, you had to to have to always
Speaker 1: carry you. The way I've been doing has been, it's been.
Speaker 1: It gets tough. I told you I'm not sleeping already.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing great. I was sick recently after the holiday,
Speaker 1: and you know it's Christmas is stressful for me, so
Speaker 1: it's just it gets tough andie and it's lonely in
Speaker 1: the morning, you know, almost hours by myself.
Speaker 2: So my mom is sitting next to me, and she's
Speaker 2: actually concerned that you're being serious. She looked you mild
Speaker 2: to me. Is he joking?
Speaker 1: So it was serious. The majority of it was serious. No,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's my answer.
Speaker 3: Would you rather be able to see ten minutes into
Speaker 3: your future or ten minutes into your past?
Speaker 2: Oh? Into my future?
Speaker 1: What can I bake the ten minutes?
Speaker 2: Ten minutes tick along my last day or something.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see it. Ten minutes in my future?
Speaker 1: You don't know what if the you get hit by bus?
Speaker 2: Do you want to see ten minutes in your past though?
Speaker 1: Why? I asked, and I picked the ten minutes sure,
Speaker 1: because I've had some great ten minutes in my life before.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind viewing. Why would you want to see
Speaker 1: anything in your future?
Speaker 2: You're the one who reads the last page in the book.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you didn't see not my future.
Speaker 1: It's a piece of fiction. How are you comparing that?
Speaker 2: Because you want to see what happens to the No, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, I don't inten no, No, I want my future
Speaker 1: to be unpredictable. Yeah, that's why I would definitely go
Speaker 1: with ten minutes in the past, whatever it maybe.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here's the deal. I actually heard it wrong.
Speaker 2: I thought it was like I could see ten minutes
Speaker 2: from now or I could see ten minutes ago. And
Speaker 2: I was like, why would I want to see ten
Speaker 2: minutes ago? I just lived it. If you're saying I
Speaker 2: could pick any ten minute period, is that what it is?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: It's would you rather be able to see ten minutes
Speaker 3: into your future or ten minutes into your past? I
Speaker 3: mean I'm guessing that you could choose the past.
Speaker 2: Oh. I was just thinking it was like ten minutes
Speaker 2: from now or ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1: I did you know? Okay, I brought that question up
Speaker 1: so very I definitely don't want to relive this.
Speaker 2: Fricking So you're gonna go with future that ten minutes.
Speaker 1: If it ten minutes ago, I'm not doing this again.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right?
Speaker 3: This next question is what personality trait do you value
Speaker 3: in each other and dislike the most?
Speaker 1: No? No, I'm not gonna put my head myself in
Speaker 1: a mindset of trying to find something I don't like
Speaker 1: about you. That's just I just don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: If you want to find something, I think that's fine,
Speaker 1: But I have to look at you and go, what
Speaker 1: do I not like about you? No, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do that, all right?
Speaker 2: What do you like best about me?
Speaker 1: Oh? They said? Personality trait? Is that? Right? There is
Speaker 1: a a Is this a personality trait? There is a
Speaker 1: youthfulness to you and a pep and an enjoyment in
Speaker 1: almost every little small thing that goes on. I think
Speaker 1: that's you know what. We talk about kids all the time.
Speaker 1: We see little girls in there at a certain age
Speaker 1: when you see them bouncing through the airport or doing
Speaker 1: whatever the thing. Then they get to a certain age
Speaker 1: and now they're too cool and not as confident. You're
Speaker 1: that little girl that still has her confidence is bouncing around.
Speaker 1: So I love that about you.
Speaker 2: Oh that's very sweet. My favorite personality trade about you is,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's your quick wit. You just have the
Speaker 2: most amazing things, like just you're so quick on your
Speaker 2: feet and I love it. It makes me laugh, it keeps
Speaker 2: me on my toes. It it just brings the energy
Speaker 2: of the room up. I I love your quick wit.
Speaker 2: You are just You've got some really amazing responses to
Speaker 2: a lot, and and your timing is right. It's like
Speaker 2: spot on.
Speaker 1: She's the one with the quick wit. She is deadly
Speaker 1: with hers. I mean you could be too, really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not usually smiling.
Speaker 2: Well, but that's the wit I prefer.
Speaker 1: But yes, yeah, my mom will cut you down and
Speaker 1: you have no idea. You just got cut down. She's awesome.
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, we got a time of a
Speaker 1: few more.
Speaker 3: I think I've got more questions that works. This one is,
Speaker 3: are you guys still in therapy?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Is the next question? Should we be?
Speaker 2: I mean we never actually went to therapy just guardier Guardier, Yes,
Speaker 2: so he was literally we did it on the air.
Speaker 2: We've actually not gone to a therapist or and not
Speaker 2: saying we won't or we shouldn't, but we have not
Speaker 2: and so we currently are not okay?
Speaker 3: And this one the final question, how has life changed
Speaker 3: from December third, twenty twenty three until now? Are you
Speaker 3: glad you took a year to be silent?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I am not glad we took a year to be silent.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have mind. I wouldn't mind the year being
Speaker 1: silent after we initially spoke correct, right, that's I think
Speaker 1: that's the mistake. I think things have played out now
Speaker 1: and we've learned and here we are, And that year
Speaker 1: of the Year of Silence was a year of folks,
Speaker 1: that was work for us. We were working on family
Speaker 1: and kids and not even that much career, to be honest,
Speaker 1: and getting situated. That was so much going on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes that we couldn't have handled a public life
Speaker 1: at that time.
Speaker 2: Probably that would have been really tough to deal with.
Speaker 2: But yes, I wish that we had spoken. And it
Speaker 2: goes back to the answer to another one of the
Speaker 2: previous questions that I really one of the things I've
Speaker 2: learned is that if you don't speak, someone else will
Speaker 2: speak for you. And so I wish we had released
Speaker 2: our prepared comments or responses to the pictures that were taken.
Speaker 2: I wish that we had said our truths. I wish
Speaker 2: that we had talked about what folks were actually seeing
Speaker 2: versus what they were told they were looking at. And so, yes,
Speaker 2: I wish we had spoken. But I also to think it,
Speaker 2: I don't mind the fact that we went away and
Speaker 2: we took the time to work on our personal lives
Speaker 2: that actually was important and probably necessary, but I wish
Speaker 2: we had spoken first, so we.
Speaker 1: Will be silent any more. We're to the point out
Speaker 1: where again lessons learned. I've always wondered and waited. I
Speaker 1: think it's what's going to be the next thing. And
Speaker 1: to be able now, to be comfortable now, to be
Speaker 1: able to speak and respond to anything, and again, lessons
Speaker 1: learned through it all. But here we are a year later, babe,
Speaker 1: and we are going better than ever actually, and things
Speaker 1: are getting better every day, and the podcast is getting
Speaker 1: better every day, and everything is just going great. So
Speaker 1: this is usually when the rug comes right from Ndy.
Speaker 2: You no, but you know that's part of it. When
Speaker 2: things are good, to worry about them going bad takes
Speaker 2: away from the joy of just actually enjoying, celebrating and
Speaker 2: celebrating this year that we've had, and celebrating the work
Speaker 2: that we've done, and celebrating all of you who are listening.
Speaker 2: We've said this before, but I really I don't think
Speaker 2: a day goes by where we don't have someone come
Speaker 2: up to us on the street and say something kind,
Speaker 2: say they're loving Morning Run, saying they love the podcast,
Speaker 2: saying they love us, saying they wish we were back
Speaker 2: on TV and that has been so wonderful and it
Speaker 2: has absolutely filled our hearts and just having all of
Speaker 2: you who submitted questions, thank you, thank you for caring
Speaker 2: enough to ask a question, Thank you for listening and
Speaker 2: being on this ride with us, and we appreciate more
Speaker 2: of your feedback. We want to hear what you'd like
Speaker 2: to hear from us in this next year and this
Speaker 2: second year of our podcast. You know, what do you
Speaker 2: want to hear? What would you like us to be
Speaker 2: doing differently? And I think that's what's so fun because
Speaker 2: we get to make some of those changes or add
Speaker 2: some things to what we're already doing. And I'm very
Speaker 2: excited about this lap and what we're going to be
Speaker 2: able to do in this second year.
Speaker 1: Well we should think, I mean, there are too many
Speaker 1: folks to think, but we mentioned your mom and your
Speaker 1: dad happened to be in town. Your mom is hanging
Speaker 1: out in the studio with us. But we we do,
Speaker 1: I mean you more so certainly initially, but with your parents.
Speaker 1: Your mom and dad have been great and supportive the
Speaker 1: whole way, and they've been great to me and my
Speaker 1: parents as well have been great along the way.
Speaker 2: They have been so kind and so sweet.
Speaker 1: So Ava and Ali Sabine have been a part of it.
Speaker 1: And our friends are too many to actually name who've
Speaker 1: been a part of the journey. And Emma and Andy
Speaker 1: who have been here with us or every step of
Speaker 1: the way, our producers here in the room with us.
Speaker 1: And Amy Sugarman, good Lord, that crazy lady who was
Speaker 1: crazy enough to say, Hey, you guys need to come
Speaker 1: over here and get off your butts and do this
Speaker 1: podcast with us. And that was at the time. We
Speaker 1: weren't necessarily ready when we first talked to her. And
Speaker 1: now here we are we all this time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we appreciate iHeart and Amy Sugarman jumped with us,
Speaker 2: And yeah, she's crazy energy, but it's positive and it's.
Speaker 1: Supportive, positive energy.
Speaker 2: It's so positive. More please that she is an amazing
Speaker 2: force to be around. And when you think you can't
Speaker 2: or you think you shouldn't, she shows you how you can.
Speaker 2: And I've appreciated that because you get a lot of
Speaker 2: no's in the entertainment industry, but when you get a yes,
Speaker 2: and not just a yes, but a hell yes. And
Speaker 2: that's what Amy Sugarman gave us. That's what iHeart gave us,
Speaker 2: and we are so grateful because this has been the
Speaker 2: perfect platform for us to start over and now we
Speaker 2: get to build on that and that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Nicky, Morgan and Annie, we appreciate you all always. My sister, Tish,
Speaker 1: Charles Chuck wantel without me. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: go through all these folks and the thank yous we have,
Speaker 1: so I want to leave on this note, and Robes,
Speaker 1: you'll know where this came from. I just pulled it up.
Speaker 1: But we were somewhere and I was having a bad morning.
Speaker 1: I think we're about to go on a plane. I said,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna believe this message I just got and
Speaker 1: I didn't ask his permission to use it, so I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say his name, but he's one of
Speaker 1: my NBA guys and hadn't heard from him in a while.
Speaker 1: This came out of the blue, and I think we
Speaker 1: were having a bad morning. I was someone going right
Speaker 1: yes that morning, yes, And this message came out of
Speaker 1: the blue. And this is perfect timing given the one
Speaker 1: year anniversary, and it simply said you made it through
Speaker 1: the storm. Life dealt you a crushing blow and you
Speaker 1: persevered through the really dark times today when you look
Speaker 1: in the mirror, see the champion that you are, have
Speaker 1: a great day and know you are highly thought of
Speaker 1: and respected. That was it that he just almost put
Speaker 1: a button for the past two years for us on
Speaker 1: that day and messages like that. We appreciate it. So
Speaker 1: thank you all so much always for listening. We will
Speaker 1: continue to update you on all that's going on. We
Speaker 1: got plenty to talk about between now at the end
Speaker 1: of the year before we get to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: So maybe I was going to say for Amy Robot,
Speaker 1: but please no, I'm not going to do that because
Speaker 1: that's we talked about. It sounds rude, So you can.
Speaker 2: I don't mind it when you say it. I can
Speaker 2: say for TJ. Holmes, but you can't say for Amy Robot.
Speaker 1: No. Somebody was saying he's trying to speak for her.
Speaker 1: He's taking the whole thing. You know, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 1: Everybody's you should canceled over where everything.
Speaker 2: Days all right? Well? For TJ. Holmes, I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listen.