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Speaker 1: morning everyone, Welcome to Morning Ron. It is Friday, August
Speaker 1: twenty ninth. I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. And this is the day a
Speaker 2: lot of y'all have been dreading. It's finally here. A
Speaker 2: lot of you folks like cheap goods from overseas. This
Speaker 2: is going to change the way people shop robes because
Speaker 2: that cheap stuff you were getting that you know, you
Speaker 2: got twelve items for seventeen dollars. Yes, that's gonna go
Speaker 2: up dramatically.
Speaker 1: My kids are big fans of those, yes, and they
Speaker 1: might not be so much anymore.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you why this is a day that so
Speaker 2: many of you shoppers have been dreaded. Because, yes, you
Speaker 2: are personally about to get hit with some tariffs. If
Speaker 2: you will, we'll explain. Also, Cracker Barrel can't get this right,
Speaker 2: you know the cracker Barrel controversy. Well, something else has
Speaker 2: come out. Not did they only make a change to
Speaker 2: that logo and then change back. They also made changes
Speaker 2: online robes and some things in particularly like LGBTQ plus
Speaker 2: US and DEEI have disappeared. A disappeared from their website.
Speaker 2: We'll explain what's going on there also this morning. I
Speaker 2: know it might be a name. A lot of folks,
Speaker 2: a lot of our listeners not familiar, don't keep up necessarily.
Speaker 2: You know the big names in sports, but you don't
Speaker 2: know some of the other names. You know who Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Is, I know quarterbacks names.
Speaker 2: Would you know Michael Parson's name immediately on the top
Speaker 2: of your head? Okay, this is all you need to
Speaker 2: know about Michael Parsons. He is now the highest paid
Speaker 2: player in the NFL in history who didn't play quarterback.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's impressed.
Speaker 2: We'll explain why he is such a big deal right now. Also,
Speaker 2: as a reminder, on that phone, on that Apple podcast
Speaker 2: app where you see our page top right corner, a
Speaker 2: little button says follow, Just click that and you can
Speaker 2: get our updates and don't have to go looking for him.
Speaker 2: And there have been plenty of updates, it seems lately,
Speaker 2: ropes with a lot of news.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's been a very busy news cycle and a
Speaker 1: busy day today as well. On the run on this
Speaker 1: Friday morning, we're also going to hear from the parents
Speaker 1: of those two kids who were killed in the mass
Speaker 1: shooting at of Minneapolis Catholic School.
Speaker 2: Also Trump fired her, but Lisa Cook is not going
Speaker 2: out without a fight in court.
Speaker 1: And the state of Florida is on a record setting
Speaker 1: execution spree, and South Carolina is asking the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: to determine who can pee where.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, this is concerning. I wasn't familiar, but
Speaker 2: this is a thing, A flesh eating, potentially deadly flesh
Speaker 2: eating bacterium is causing some concerns because of an increase
Speaker 2: in cases. And this is a bacterium again, flesh eating
Speaker 2: bacterium that you can get from eating oysters. I didn't
Speaker 2: know in the Gulf it's a thing every year, but
Speaker 2: some of the numbers have gone up to the point
Speaker 2: of concerning. And what was the thing you were telling
Speaker 2: me about this week, the flesh eating screwworm or something.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a screwworm out there too. They came
Speaker 1: from Central America that found its way into the States
Speaker 1: with one case I believe in Maryland. But you know,
Speaker 1: my dad always warns again eating oysters in warm waters.
Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons why. So we'll get
Speaker 1: into that story. It is, in fact a cautionary tale
Speaker 1: we begin though our run in Minnesota, where we heard
Speaker 1: yesterday from the parents of the two kids who were
Speaker 1: killed in that attack at a Catholic school mass. Another
Speaker 1: eighteen people were injured when that gunman opened fire through
Speaker 1: a church window Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic School right
Speaker 1: outside of Minneapolis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, an eight year old Fletcher Merkele and ten year
Speaker 2: old Harper Moyski both died. They have now been identified
Speaker 2: in their parents. Both We heard from both sets of
Speaker 2: parents yesterday. Now Fletcher's dad, he actually went before reporters.
Speaker 2: He got in front of cameras and write this statement.
Speaker 2: It was difficult, obviously to hear him go through it,
Speaker 2: but just a couple of things he said. He said
Speaker 2: one quote, yesterday, a coward decided to take our eight
Speaker 2: year old son, Fletcher away from us. Because of their actions,
Speaker 2: we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him,
Speaker 2: play with him, and watch him grow until the wonderful
Speaker 2: young man he was on the path to becoming. That
Speaker 2: last line sucks. Every time somebody loses a you start
Speaker 2: thinking about the graduations, you'll miss the weddings, You'll me
Speaker 2: those kinds of things immediately, And to hear them say
Speaker 2: that he was on the way to becoming this great
Speaker 2: young man. Another line from the dad said, please remember
Speaker 2: Fletcher for the person he was, and not for the
Speaker 2: act that ended his life. Give your kids an extra
Speaker 2: hug and kiss today. How he ended it.
Speaker 1: That brings tears to your eyes for every parent. Harper's
Speaker 1: parents released a statement. They did not go on camera.
Speaker 1: I mean, I cannot even imagine the courage it takes
Speaker 1: to stand there in front of cameras in your worst
Speaker 1: possible moment. But Harper's parents said this in their statement.
Speaker 1: Our hearts are broken, not only as parents, but also
Speaker 1: for Harper's sister, who adored her big sister and is
Speaker 1: grieving an unimaginable loss. As a family, we are shattered
Speaker 1: and words cannot capture the depth of our pain.
Speaker 2: No, I think about it. We talk about parents obviously
Speaker 2: so much, but there are siblings who are going to
Speaker 2: have a very difficult time understanding why the person they
Speaker 2: right that they were sharing a room with, or that's
Speaker 2: down the hall from them, to hear about a little sister. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not something I'd given much thought to.
Speaker 1: That's true. We think about the parents, and her parents
Speaker 1: went on to ask leaders and communities to take meaningful
Speaker 1: steps to address gun violence and the mental health crisis
Speaker 1: in this country. They say change is possible and is
Speaker 1: necessary so that Harper's story does not become yet another
Speaker 1: and a long line of tragedies. That last line is
Speaker 1: so reminiscent of every single parent who has lost a
Speaker 1: child to school shootings. It feels like they say the
Speaker 1: same thing. They don't want another family to suffer the
Speaker 1: way they have, and yet it continues to happen.
Speaker 2: Seems like it always falls on deaf ears. Like you
Speaker 2: have to say, it's almost like obligatory line. We want
Speaker 2: them to do something about gun control 'VOLDI, New Town.
Speaker 2: If babies get gun down and we don't do anything
Speaker 2: about it, then it really the one in Uvoldi when
Speaker 2: you were standing there neck was it the mayor? My good,
Speaker 2: it was the mayor. How many babies died in that shooting?
Speaker 2: And just hours later he still didn't want to heat
Speaker 2: ready to fight you. He was mentioned gun control to me.
Speaker 1: He got very upset when I mentioned gun control in
Speaker 1: the fact that this shooter had mental health issues and
Speaker 1: was still allowed to have access to a gun. He
Speaker 1: refused to acknowledge that that was not an okay thing
Speaker 1: which was infuriating.
Speaker 2: And I again I will this is a good place
Speaker 2: to mention that the police say that these guns that
Speaker 2: were used in this attack were all legally bought by
Speaker 2: this attacker. Now, the other shooting victims are all expected
Speaker 2: to survive, though as of this recording, at least one
Speaker 2: kid was still listed in critical condition. Meanwhile, police continue
Speaker 2: to work through and go through really hundreds of pages
Speaker 2: of writings. This is some really dark and disturbing stuff
Speaker 2: from this shooter. A lot of evidence that was left
Speaker 2: behind they are piecing together, enrolled. It looks like a
Speaker 2: lot of it. He was almost telegraphic telling folks what
Speaker 2: he was going to do. He had plans for the
Speaker 2: school and things he was displaying in these videos, So
Speaker 2: he was telegraphing. And this was all missed.
Speaker 1: And he was an adult, he was twenty three years old.
Speaker 1: But you just got to think, like, where was his mother?
Speaker 1: How did she not see something going on? Right?
Speaker 2: And remember I still been talked about much of the
Speaker 2: debate going back and forth. This was someone who had transitioned,
Speaker 2: that was living, was born Robert and now Robin, and
Speaker 2: that's been a big part of the debate. I should
Speaker 2: say debate, but the rhetoric and the narrative and the
Speaker 2: nastiness going back and forth, people trying to direct so
Speaker 2: much of their hate towards the trans community. Now, because
Speaker 2: of this individual's actions.
Speaker 1: We hope that just there could be lessons learned and
Speaker 1: perhaps not more hate wielded in this unbelievable tragedy. Well,
Speaker 1: next up on the Run, we're going to head to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Where Lisa Cook followed through and yes, she
Speaker 1: has filed a lawsuit against President Trump, who was trying
Speaker 1: to fire her from her role on the Federal Reserve Board.
Speaker 2: Now, Trump said this week he was removing her from
Speaker 2: the board after it was discovered she made false statement
Speaker 2: on a mortgage application, something that Cook is not facing
Speaker 2: an investigation or charges for. She said she will not
Speaker 2: resign or be bullied to resign, but said that she
Speaker 2: would take any questions about her financial history seriously and
Speaker 2: would gather the accurate information to answer any legitimate questions
Speaker 2: and provide the.
Speaker 1: Facts in her suit against the president. She called the
Speaker 1: allegations against her unsubstantiated claims that don't rise to the
Speaker 1: level of being fired for cause, and reminder, there are
Speaker 1: seven governors on the Federal Reserve Board. Trump now has
Speaker 1: three appointees, so if he gets Cook off of the board,
Speaker 1: he would have a majority of the seven and therefore
Speaker 1: one could assume he could get those interest rate cuts
Speaker 1: when he wants them, as he wants that.
Speaker 2: It's wild to think he is the most powerful person
Speaker 2: on the planet right the president of the United States,
Speaker 2: and he is still finding ways to get more power.
Speaker 2: This is supposed to be an independent agency that makes
Speaker 2: decisions that affect the world economy, and wants more power
Speaker 2: and influence over it, and he's damn close to getting it.
Speaker 2: To getting it all right, we continue on the run
Speaker 2: now in the state of South Carolina is asking the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court for permission to ban trans kids from certain bathrooms.
Speaker 2: South Carolina followed an emergency request with the Court yesterday
Speaker 2: asking the state or asking that the state be allowed
Speaker 2: to enforce their law.
Speaker 1: It was passed last year, and this law bans transgender
Speaker 1: kids from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity,
Speaker 1: but an appeals court earlier this month prevented a school
Speaker 1: from enforcing that band after a transgender boy was suspended
Speaker 1: from the school for using the boy's bathroom.
Speaker 2: The kids' parents sued. In its decision, the appeals Court
Speaker 2: wrote that he was quote a fourteen year old student
Speaker 2: who simply wishes to use the bathroom. Doing so is
Speaker 2: a biological necessity. Doing so in restrooms that match his
Speaker 2: gender identity is his right under our precedent. Should know
Speaker 2: in a matter of weeks at the court, the Supreme
Speaker 2: Court is going to take up this case, which would
Speaker 2: be a landmark one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly well, all right. Next up on the run,
Speaker 1: we're going to head to Louisiana, where two people have
Speaker 1: died after contracting a flesh eating bacterium after eating raw oysters.
Speaker 1: The bacterium is called Vibryo vulnificus. It's naturally occurring in
Speaker 1: warm coastal waters and is more common between May and October.
Speaker 2: So it enters the body through an open wound or
Speaker 2: when a person eats raw or undercooked seafood. Now, these
Speaker 2: aren't the first deaths in Louisiana. Two other people have
Speaker 2: also died this year of the same bacterium. It's also
Speaker 2: an unusually active year for the state. On average, the
Speaker 2: state does have seven of these cases per year, and
Speaker 2: on average one death a year.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, if you ever needed more evidence to not
Speaker 1: eat raw seafood in warm waters, that would be it,
Speaker 1: at least during that period of time. So far this year,
Speaker 1: in addition to the four deaths, twenty two people have
Speaker 1: been hospitalized and more eighty percent of those cases actually
Speaker 1: came from open wounds exposed to seawater, not from oysters.
Speaker 1: But once you've been infected, you can become seriously ill
Speaker 1: or even need an amputation within a day or two
Speaker 1: of being exposed. About one in five people infected will die.
Speaker 1: Those are serious numbers. Yeah, and Louisiana isn't the only
Speaker 1: state dealing with the bacterium. So far this year, Florida
Speaker 1: has already reported five deaths and twenty three cases.
Speaker 2: Your dad again, Your dad is a microbiologist, right, This
Speaker 2: has been his life's work to study food, correct illnesses
Speaker 2: and food. And it's the thing he screams at us
Speaker 2: anytime we go to warm water places go south, do
Speaker 2: not eat the oysters they're walking around trying to serve
Speaker 2: you on a styrofoam trade.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's disturbing anyway, but yes, his warning
Speaker 1: is always fresh in my head. Also, you know, analyst
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago had seriously injured her legs.
Speaker 1: She had an open wound and we were near the
Speaker 1: ocean and my dad said, do not go into the water.
Speaker 1: And she was younger, she was crying, please, I just
Speaker 1: want to go. He's like, least you are not going
Speaker 1: in that water. I wouldn't have known to tell her
Speaker 1: she couldn't, but I get it now.
Speaker 2: This is a reminder. This is real and even though
Speaker 2: it's rare, you don't want it one in five something
Speaker 2: that has a twenty percent death rate that you don't
Speaker 2: mess around with that exactly continuing on the run now,
Speaker 2: Maga got mad. So Cracker Barrel scrapped a plan to
Speaker 2: change its logo, but turns out they didn't stop there.
Speaker 2: Cracker Barrel has also scrapped a section of its website
Speaker 2: that specifically referenced LGBTQ Plus and diversity initiatives.
Speaker 1: In particular, they remove their pride page and their DEI
Speaker 1: Belonging Team is now nowhere to be found. As recently
Speaker 1: as this week, the company had a page on its
Speaker 1: website that read, on behalf of Cracker Barrel's LGBTQ Plus
Speaker 1: Alliance and DEI Belonging Team, we want to celebrate you
Speaker 1: for being you. It is our greatest mission to ensure
Speaker 1: that pleasing people means all people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that ain't there no more. You can't find
Speaker 2: that now. That could still be in their hearts, but
Speaker 2: it's not on their website. But the company in a statement,
Speaker 2: explained the changes this way quote. In connection with the
Speaker 2: company's brand work, we have recently made updates to the
Speaker 2: Cracker Barrel website, including adding new content and removing out
Speaker 2: of date content. Several months ago, the company also made
Speaker 2: changes to our business resource groups that now focus on
Speaker 2: sponsorships or events on our corporate giving initiatives, addressing food
Speaker 2: and security, supporting community needs through food, and reducing food waste. Okay,
Speaker 2: the worthy causes early not, Yes.
Speaker 1: They certainly are. Earlier this week, Cracker Barrel announced they
Speaker 1: were abandoning a plan to update its fifty year old logo.
Speaker 1: That updated logo, yes, removed the old man in overalls
Speaker 1: and the barrel, while right wingers went after them for
Speaker 1: trying to be too woke, and in a matter of
Speaker 1: days the company reversed course.
Speaker 2: I believe this is happening Cracker Barel. I don't know
Speaker 2: where its stock is. Remember, plummeted and it lost one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars immediately after the logo. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's bound it now.
Speaker 1: With some of this stuff, well, money talks, and when
Speaker 1: you start to lose massive amounts like that, you can
Speaker 1: see the scramble that has taken place.
Speaker 2: This place. I haven't mentioned I I hated this place
Speaker 2: as a kid. I hated Cracker Barrew. Why. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Like I'm sitting here, I'm not how anything against Cracker Barrew.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, like the kid, my dad used to go,
Speaker 2: he used to like it, but I felt uncomfortable always
Speaker 2: in that setting. Yes, we're from the South, A family
Speaker 2: of four black family walks in.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the scene you see in the record Scratch.
Speaker 2: You walk in, and it was always a record scratch moment.
Speaker 2: And just as a kid, I'm telling you to this day,
Speaker 2: I was always uncomfortable. I hate because my dad loved
Speaker 2: the place.
Speaker 1: And that's when you have to say, trust your gut.
Speaker 1: If you felt that way, there was a ree as
Speaker 1: a child. Wow hate. Don't worry, baby, I've never been,
Speaker 1: don't plan on going, and nothing against it, but we
Speaker 1: don't have them in New York City. Really, I've never
Speaker 1: seen one.
Speaker 2: Continue again. I am not bad mouthing this organization, but
Speaker 2: as a child, I remember that memory as a child,
Speaker 2: just ugh, we gotta go to Cracker Barrel and just
Speaker 2: having to walk into this place where it was uncomfortable
Speaker 2: as a kid all the time. Why it was and
Speaker 2: why I felt that way don't know, but I remember it.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go to Florida. Things have been uncomfortable
Speaker 2: down there for a little while this year because they
Speaker 2: are setting records. I don't know if they're set out
Speaker 2: to set this record road, but it's happened. They're having
Speaker 2: a record year in executions. The state carried out it's
Speaker 2: eleventh of the year last night. Curtis Windham had a
Speaker 2: last minute appeal to the Supreme Court. It was denied
Speaker 2: to it cleared the way for the convicted triple murderer
Speaker 2: to be executed by lethal injection.
Speaker 1: Previously, the most the state had ever executed in one
Speaker 1: year was eight, so they have far surpassed that. That
Speaker 1: was back in twenty fourteen and then in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 1: But guess what, it doesn't stop there at eleven. They
Speaker 1: have another one scheduled in three weeks. By the way,
Speaker 1: there have been thirty executions in this country so far
Speaker 1: this year. That is the most since twenty fourteen. In
Speaker 1: Texas and South Carolina are the next two, but Florida
Speaker 1: is far surpassing them because they only have four each.
Speaker 1: I the way correct, But now, yeah, Florida's gonna be
Speaker 1: at twelve here in a month.
Speaker 2: Well, folks, stay with us here on this Friday morning.
Speaker 2: Ron when we come back. You folks who love to
Speaker 2: buy inexpensive should I say, cheap goods internationally, well your
Speaker 2: shopping game is about to change as up today because
Speaker 2: duty free is over. But it's not gonna be a
Speaker 2: problem for Michael Parsons. Yes, this NFL player can afford
Speaker 2: anything he wants after he just set a record with
Speaker 2: his contract.
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Speaker 2: Let's continue on this Friday morning run now with a
Speaker 2: major change. If you buy sell anything internationally, duty free
Speaker 2: shipping is over today. It's been a century long rule
Speaker 2: called the deminimous Exemption that allows consumers to avoid tariffs
Speaker 2: on goods valued at eight hundred dollars or so.
Speaker 1: Now, as of today, you will be charged whatever tariff
Speaker 1: is in place for that country or the origin of
Speaker 1: the goods, and those goods are going to face even
Speaker 1: tighter customs checks. Bottom line, this is going to be
Speaker 1: a mess for international shipping. Ninety percent of all shipments
Speaker 1: fall under this rule. So if you're used to those
Speaker 1: bargain prices from outlets like Sheen, get ready to pay more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they overwhelming majority of packages from China fall under
Speaker 2: this exemption. Some shipments have already been put on hold
Speaker 2: by some carriers in recent days as they prepared for
Speaker 2: the change that President Trump announced back in July into July.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, last year, by the way, nearly one point
Speaker 1: four billion packages entered America duty free. And so President
Speaker 1: Trump has said the duty free policy has been harmful
Speaker 1: to US businesses and has been abused to smuggle illegal
Speaker 1: drugs into our country. So he's claiming that US businesses
Speaker 1: are going to get more money and that US residents
Speaker 1: are going to be protected. They're going to be safer
Speaker 1: because fewer drugs are going to be coming into the company.
Speaker 2: But you're going to be paying more for your stuff.
Speaker 2: It kind of makes it a US company might be
Speaker 2: more competitive now because you're having to not just pay
Speaker 2: for the cheap good, which you prefer, correct, but this
Speaker 2: huge tarifflem you might go, Ah, the hell with it,
Speaker 2: I'll just buy local.
Speaker 1: That's what the hope is. But we shall see what
Speaker 1: actually ends up being the case. Because several businesses here
Speaker 1: in the United States say when they have to get
Speaker 1: parts or small goods or the items that they need
Speaker 1: for their business here in the United States are going
Speaker 1: to dramatically their profit margins are going to dramatically shrink.
Speaker 2: All right, final leg of our run here, Oh, profit
Speaker 2: margins are going up for this young folllow. We don't
Speaker 2: have to tell you about every big new contract or
Speaker 2: professional athlete signs. There's a bunch of them flying around there.
Speaker 2: We don't usually report on them. This one's record setting,
Speaker 2: and it's worth noting. And this one is a record
Speaker 2: setting highest paid player in the NFL. Now he has
Speaker 2: set a record. The highest paid player ever in the
Speaker 2: NFL who did not throw the ball, is what he is.
Speaker 1: He's not a quarterback, yes, obviously. Yes, we're used to
Speaker 1: seeing quarterbacks get ridiculous contracts because you know their names,
Speaker 1: you know their faces. They're literally the star of the field, yes,
Speaker 1: of course. But defensive ends, how many of those can
Speaker 1: you name?
Speaker 2: Michael Stray.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I love. Stray didn't even really know
Speaker 1: what his position was. I'm gonna be honest here. That's
Speaker 1: just me being fully transparent. But yeah, I could not
Speaker 1: name a defensive end for you.
Speaker 2: You know, Reggie White, you know that name, Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: Maybe okay, all right, well you don't know that one.
Speaker 1: You don't know them. I was speaking the truth. TJ
Speaker 1: defensive end Micah Parsons was signed with the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers after an acrimonious divorce from the Dallas Cowboys. So
Speaker 1: things were tough, things weren't going well.
Speaker 2: But they've been hooting and hollering him and Jerry Jones
Speaker 2: and just pay the man. And he wouldn't pay him
Speaker 2: what the market says he should get. So he gets straighted.
Speaker 2: He goes to Green Bay and immediately he becomes the
Speaker 2: highest paid player ever who's not a quarterback. And what
Speaker 2: does that look like. It's a four year, one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty eight million dollar contract. About one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty of that is guaranteed. Wow. It So no matter
Speaker 2: what he does, he's going to get one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty million, no matter how well he plays, how bad
Speaker 2: he plays, he's gonna get that money. That's unreal. Parsons
Speaker 2: four time Pro bowler. That doesn't sound like a lot,
Speaker 2: but he's only been in the league four years.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: He is young and a stud and has been doing
Speaker 2: it every single year since he came in. He's regarded
Speaker 2: as one of, if not the best defensive player in
Speaker 2: the NFL. Congrats to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, congratulations, that's impressive as hell. How old is he?
Speaker 1: You said he was one of the youngest ones.
Speaker 2: He's Oh yeah, he's only been in the league four years, so.
Speaker 1: Wow, early twenties. Oh who? All right, well, let's get inspired.
Speaker 1: Let's get inspired. Let's give you something to take with
Speaker 1: you throughout the day. That's our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
Speaker 1: but by the moments that take our breath away. That
Speaker 1: is from Maya Angelou. She has so many good ones.
Speaker 1: I actually have to like tell myself, don't put another
Speaker 1: Maya Angelou quote in this week, because you've already done so.
Speaker 1: She has so many incredible quotes. But I loved this
Speaker 1: one and it just is a reminder to be in awe.
Speaker 2: How many I mean, did you think about you? We
Speaker 2: got challenge everybody to take a moment today or think
Speaker 2: about your week. How many times did you allow yourself
Speaker 2: to just have your breath taken away by something that's
Speaker 2: amazing in front of you. I say this to you
Speaker 2: all the time. We live in Lower Manhattan and we
Speaker 2: stop sometimes and look up at the World Trade Tower.
Speaker 2: Now we just look like, damn, that thing is gorgeous.
Speaker 2: It's just unbelievable some of the things that are around
Speaker 2: us that we just walk by and take advantage or
Speaker 2: just assume they'll be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I think sometimes it's just seeing a
Speaker 1: smile on someone's face, or it can be the smallest things,
Speaker 1: the look in your partner's eyes or hugging your child.
Speaker 1: That is something that should take our breath away, that
Speaker 1: we're so lucky to have and to be able to
Speaker 1: be surrounded by. So yeah, it's kind of fun to
Speaker 1: look for those moments. I think it's they're all around us,
Speaker 1: we just have to see them. So life is not
Speaker 1: measured by the number of breaths we take, but by
Speaker 1: the moments that take.
Speaker 2: Our breath away.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Maya Angelou, and thank you for listening. Everyone
Speaker 1: on this Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Y'all have a
Speaker 2: good one. We'll be hanging with you again soon.