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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey the folks, it is Sunday, May eleventh. I'm told

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Speaker 2: welcome to a weekend morning run. I'm TJ. Holmes, Amy

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Speaker 2: Robot sitting next to me. Sitting next to me right

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Speaker 2: now in a hotel room in Arkansas, of all places.

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Speaker 2: We had a very special weekend. I had a wedding

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Speaker 2: to go to and it's thank you for being here.

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Speaker 2: Actually it was on my family side.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I feel honored to be a

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Speaker 1: part of it. I love weddings. I love family weddings.

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Speaker 1: I love getting to know your family even more. It

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Speaker 1: makes I don't know, just I feel like these are

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Speaker 1: the moments where you feel more bonded together as a

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Speaker 1: couple and you just really get to know someone's roots.

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Speaker 1: Like I've already met your parents, love your sister. But

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Speaker 1: it's just so fun getting to meet cousins and aunts

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Speaker 1: and uncles and friends of the family. You just it's

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Speaker 1: it's a special time and I appreciate being included.

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Speaker 2: One of the fun things is that some of the

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Speaker 2: folks that you are running into now you're not having

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Speaker 2: to introduce yourself to, like you have some history with

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Speaker 2: so it's cool that my cousin Chardet and certainly my

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Speaker 2: parents and my sister and my niece. Yeah, married, you've

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Speaker 2: spent time with him, so that's fun to see. But

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Speaker 2: the work doesn't stop, is the point we're making. Even

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Speaker 2: on this weekend, we travel with our equipment. So this

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Speaker 2: was something we tried for the first time last weekend

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Speaker 2: and lo and behold, you all responded to it. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna keep it going. We do a quote of

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Speaker 2: the day every single day that we do our morning

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Speaker 2: run newscast podcasts, and we've just kind of collected them.

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Speaker 2: And you're gonna start talking about on Sunday. You said

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Speaker 2: this to me just a moment ago. Sunday is not

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Speaker 2: just a day that people go to church. It's not

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Speaker 2: just about religion religion. It's the day of reflection and absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Is because for me and I think, whether you do

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Speaker 1: it in church, you do it in nature, or you

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Speaker 1: do it in your backyard, you think about the week

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Speaker 1: and what you went through and what you've been through,

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Speaker 1: and then you also start planning what Monday and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the days are going to begin. So it's

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Speaker 1: just this point where where you've had your fun on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and now you reflect back about what you did right,

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Speaker 1: what you did wrong, and what you want to do

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Speaker 1: better in the week. And I feel like these quotes

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Speaker 1: of the day all collectively, when we kind of go

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Speaker 1: a little bit deeper into why we chose them and

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Speaker 1: where they came from, it's just a wonderful way I think,

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Speaker 1: to either end your reflection or start thinking about what

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Speaker 1: you want to change, what you want to be, how

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Speaker 1: you want to live.

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Speaker 2: That's funny. It takes us kind of right into our

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Speaker 2: quote of the day that was that we gave last Monday. Again,

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Speaker 2: we give them at the end of the day. We

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Speaker 2: don't get a chance to go that deep into them

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Speaker 2: and where they came from. So this is an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to do so. But you said, people reflect on Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you've gone out already for the week, going out Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: and I was time to reflect on all you did

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Speaker 2: right and wrong. A lot of what you did wrong

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Speaker 2: might have been on Saturday night. That's true. So this

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Speaker 2: first one on Monday that we use kind of is

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Speaker 2: in line with that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you can't walk with God and run with the devil,

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Speaker 1: and this is from your pastor correct and it makes

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Sometimes you want to act, or

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Speaker 1: at least be as holy and as well behaved as

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Speaker 1: you possibly can, But then you know, you let your

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Speaker 1: guard down, and all of a sudden you're running somewhere

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Speaker 1: you didn't intend to.

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Speaker 2: Some of that. Sometimes, so many folks will say I

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Speaker 2: can do whatever and just ask for forgiveness. That's different, right,

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Speaker 2: if you're making a conscious decision that I can behave poorly.

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Speaker 2: We all make mistakes, We've all screwed up, and we

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Speaker 2: will continue to do so. But you do have a

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Speaker 2: certain segment out there, and there's people we've known before

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Speaker 2: that you really do feel like it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 2: up tomorrow and ask for forgiveness and everything's going to

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Speaker 2: be okay. I don't think that's what the Gospel is.

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Speaker 1: Trying to preach with it, I think, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we've had this Actually funny enough, when we've had a

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Speaker 1: to intention. But I do think it matters. You can

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Speaker 1: still apologize for bad behavior, but your intention should always

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Speaker 1: And of course we all still screw up and do

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Speaker 1: all the things we're trying to avoid. But I do

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Speaker 1: think intention is important, and so that is part of

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Speaker 1: what I think this quote from your pastor refers to.

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Speaker 1: We can all strive to be our best and try

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Speaker 1: to do our best. But if you are operating in

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Speaker 1: another playing field where you think you can do what

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Speaker 1: you want and then just say you're sorry, that's not

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Speaker 1: what this is about. That's not what the intention is

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Speaker 1: for trying to be a better person and live your

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Speaker 1: best life.

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Speaker 2: And this was something my pastor was always good at.

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Speaker 2: I mean he put it kind of in a fun, succinct,

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Speaker 2: yes way, clever way that anybody can understand. You can't

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Speaker 2: walk with God and run with the devil. That was

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Speaker 2: our quote on Monday. On Tuesday, I'm not sure, And

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Speaker 2: then we should let people know as well. Robes during

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Speaker 2: our when we put the rundown together for the morning

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Speaker 2: run is usually the one response before grabbing or plucking

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Speaker 2: the quote of the day out from wherever. We have

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Speaker 2: several different sources, but often one of the biggest sources

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Speaker 2: is a big file of my quotes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this week, this week, I believe I decided to

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Speaker 1: do this Sunday deeper dive into our quotes of the day.

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, I'm gonna do a whole

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Speaker 1: week where I'm just going to go into TJ's file.

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Speaker 1: And when I say a file, he actually has a

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Speaker 1: hallways of Good Morning America, so that every Monday you'd

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Speaker 1: come in. I actually looked forward to it you would

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Speaker 1: we were able to grab all of our stuff out

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Speaker 1: know I lost a lot, and so did you, like genuinely,

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Speaker 1: but you got these quotes, and so I thought, let's

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Speaker 1: just do a whole week of just quotes from TJ's file.

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Speaker 1: So this was the one we used on Tuesday. Worry

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Speaker 1: a misuse of our imagination. And ain't that the truth?

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Speaker 2: Fear? We all have it? I think there are plenty

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Speaker 2: you have to embrace it. We're all going to have.

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Speaker 2: But it's okay to have fear. You have to own it,

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Speaker 2: you have to recognize it, and now what do you

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Speaker 2: do with it? That's fine? So what is worry? This

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Speaker 1: I mean it.

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Speaker 2: So is.

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Speaker 1: Fear actually is important. Fear protects us, Fear keeps us

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Speaker 1: fear can actually be a really good thing to have,

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Speaker 1: I think when it's warranted. The problem is we're fearing

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Speaker 1: stuff that hasn't happened and probably won't ever happen. I

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Speaker 1: to constantly remind myself when I start to worry and

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Speaker 1: But I just try to redirect my mind and say,

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Speaker 1: If you think about it.

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Speaker 2: To this point, I would ask encourage everybody who's listening

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Speaker 2: consider tomorrow the next day if that thing ever comes

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Speaker 2: because you got people coming all the WNG too, and whatever.

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Speaker 1: If you can't be thankful for what you have, at

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Speaker 1: least be thankful for what you've escaped. And this one

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Speaker 1: But a lot of times when we're upset that something

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Speaker 1: didn't happen, or we're upset about something we didn't get.

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Speaker 1: I love reframing that and thinking about how we're thankful

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Speaker 1: because it always happens when you've had a few weeks, months,

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Speaker 1: far worse fate. And again, sometimes these things don't actually

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Speaker 1: land until you've had perspective. But it's an interesting way

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Speaker 2: how we count them usually. Right, Let's look at my blessings.

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Speaker 2: Look at this nice home, look this nice job, Like

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Speaker 2: at these wonderful kids, look at the well. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we think about what we have, and too often we

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Speaker 2: don't think about the blessing also being the thing we

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Speaker 2: got out of that thing you escape. I just love

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Speaker 2: the way he put this and gives it a way

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Speaker 2: to reframe in your mind just the things that are

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Speaker 2: oftentimes like I don't have enough money, or that I

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Speaker 2: didn't get that raise, or I should have more or

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Speaker 2: of this or more of that. Yeah, you want the

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Speaker 2: You remember that one. So it's just a different way

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