Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks. It is Saturday, July nineteenth, and
Speaker 1: we preach, but we ain't practicing. And welcome to this
Speaker 1: Saturday Recovery Run edition of Amy and TJ. I say
Speaker 1: that suppose to practice what you preach. And we started
Speaker 1: doing these recovery run episodes robes because we're trying to
Speaker 1: get people to understand you gotta take a break, you
Speaker 1: gotta do something for yourself, something to look forward to,
Speaker 1: something to recharge. We have failed miserably at that task,
Speaker 1: to the point I struggled to come up with anything
Speaker 1: to talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yes, we started this three weeks ago, four weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and in a way it was hopefully to inspire everyone
Speaker 2: to schedule time for themselves, to schedule times as a couple,
Speaker 2: scheduled times for your personal and just to prioritize it.
Speaker 2: And so we thought by doing this podcast every week,
Speaker 2: we would be doing that very same thing ourselves. We
Speaker 2: would be prioritizing downtime, relaxation, rest. And this week we
Speaker 2: have it's been the worst that we've it's been the
Speaker 2: worst week we've ever had. I feel like I feel
Speaker 2: like all we did was work from three o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning until nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: And that was parenting involved in the middle. There was
Speaker 1: a lot happening. I think I think we messed up.
Speaker 1: I think we launched it when things were going well.
Speaker 1: I think we might have been on vacations.
Speaker 2: Right like this is easy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think that might have been. I think
Speaker 1: we actually were.
Speaker 2: And so now that we're back in the real world
Speaker 2: and grinding, and this is a grind. Anyone who is
Speaker 2: starting up a small business or employed for themselves or
Speaker 2: trying to improve their lives have a side hustle. You
Speaker 2: guys know exactly what we're talking about, and so, yes
Speaker 2: we are. We feel like we work around the clock.
Speaker 2: So I put this in our recovery run script. What
Speaker 2: do we do to recover this week? Almost nothing? That
Speaker 2: was my reaction to that. Now, we tried to go
Speaker 2: see Superman. What happened to that? We actually looked up
Speaker 2: the times, had a date and a plan.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know, but we got too busy to
Speaker 1: do so something happened. We had a few appointments, and
Speaker 1: we absolutely because we wanted to see the movie so
Speaker 1: that we could actually do a an episode of the
Speaker 1: podcast on it. Can't do it because it didn't see
Speaker 1: the movie.
Speaker 2: So we scratched that plan, and then we thought, hey,
Speaker 2: you know what is coming out. I know what you
Speaker 2: did last summer right up a rally horror movie. Let's
Speaker 2: let's try to see that one. And so we looked
Speaker 2: up the times. We actually had an idea when we
Speaker 2: might go, and then life happened, didn't happen, and we
Speaker 2: didn't go.
Speaker 1: And that's something we have been looking forward to that
Speaker 1: movie of a months because we know it's coming out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: anybody who listens to us knows we're horror movie buffs.
Speaker 2: And so so it does seem like we will be
Speaker 2: seeing it later today on Saturday, and if we do,
Speaker 2: we will we will jump on and do an episode
Speaker 2: about it because we want to let y'all know how
Speaker 2: it is, what we thought of it. Just you know,
Speaker 2: we love our horror movies. Now our only downtime that
Speaker 2: I could think of. There are a few, there are
Speaker 2: few and far between. But you you did prioritize watching
Speaker 2: FIFA Women's World Cup this week.
Speaker 1: That was earlier in the week. I think it might
Speaker 1: have been Monday or something. I remember giving you a
Speaker 1: heads up saying, hey, this is coming Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: three o'clock every day quarterfinal game and didn't miss one.
Speaker 1: You haven't all week and they have delivered like crazy
Speaker 1: watching the euro Cup, rooting for women's soccer from countries
Speaker 1: that I ain't from. That has been the fan.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: I even gained a little energy talking about it right
Speaker 1: now because that has been fun.
Speaker 2: So that fueled you. You got to do something you love,
Speaker 2: which is watched sports. I watched two of the three matches,
Speaker 2: and that does remind me that on Wednesday, I did
Speaker 2: go and make some time for myself with an anesthetician
Speaker 2: and I introduced myself to extreme pain with something that
Speaker 2: some person told me that I should do because I'm
Speaker 2: fifty two. It's called Morpheus eight I think anyway. All
Speaker 2: I know is it's super painful, and they tell me
Speaker 2: that my skin will naturally tighten and lift because of
Speaker 2: all the pain that it went through the trauma of
Speaker 2: the Morpheus every run. Yeah, but this was right. But
Speaker 2: this is something I did for myself. I chose pain.
Speaker 2: I chose to introduce pain into my body so that
Speaker 2: I would look more rested and refreshed.
Speaker 1: You look great, baby, really, no, no, no, if even
Speaker 1: if you didn't, I would tell you did what you
Speaker 1: do look great.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Now we got so we should be doing
Speaker 2: more napping, and I actually think they don't. They say
Speaker 2: like a thirty minute nap, a ninety minute nap. That
Speaker 2: is like the holy grail of recovery. How is your
Speaker 2: sleep this week? How is your because this should be
Speaker 2: a part of the recovery run. And we do have
Speaker 2: our aura rings on.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. This is some of the worst
Speaker 1: sleep and I might I might have gotten the lowest
Speaker 1: sleep score I've ever gotten this week. I think it
Speaker 1: was a forty one or something. If you won't familiar
Speaker 1: with the aura of rings and they give you a
Speaker 1: sleep score. But yeah, it's been a rough week of sleep.
Speaker 1: I even feel like I sound you're dragging right now.
Speaker 1: I'm driving a little bit. Yeah, I'm really not sure why. Yes,
Speaker 1: it has been a stressful week. We are we have
Speaker 1: a lot of we're juggling a lot of things right now.
Speaker 1: And yes, there has been an increased load with kids
Speaker 1: in parenting the last few weeks in the summer in particular,
Speaker 1: and that's just what it is.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I remember when my kids were younger
Speaker 2: and back to school would happen in September, but you know,
Speaker 2: the summer was always hectic. What do you do with
Speaker 2: the kids? They're always around, they want your constant attention.
Speaker 2: They're very needy. And I remember Al Roker when back
Speaker 2: to school happened on the Today Show, would saying it's
Speaker 2: the most wonderful time of the year for parents, right
Speaker 2: when kids go back to school. And I thought those
Speaker 2: days were over because my kids are older. Na, they're
Speaker 2: both back in the apartment with us at the age
Speaker 2: of nineteen and twenty two. Now Eva did just we
Speaker 2: hope and think she just got her apartment. She's going
Speaker 2: to be moving to Brooklyn and that's happening actually in
Speaker 2: a month. And I do think it's funny. I love
Speaker 2: my girls, We love our children, but man, it's a
Speaker 2: it tests you. Even when they're older, they still they're needy,
Speaker 2: aren't they.
Speaker 1: Well they're your kids, right, they will always you know,
Speaker 1: no matter what. If I go home right now, they
Speaker 1: say you went back home on my parent You just
Speaker 1: there's an expectation that your parents are going to take
Speaker 1: care of you, and they expect to do it. You
Speaker 1: don't take advantage of it, of course, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: There is something kind of cool and will forever be
Speaker 1: cute about that that when I go home my parents,
Speaker 1: you were there last time with me. They insisted we
Speaker 1: have to cook for you. Yes, you have to come
Speaker 1: over because we have to prepare a meal. We have
Speaker 1: to take care of you.
Speaker 2: Speaking of that, so you have been You are the
Speaker 2: family chef for sure, and I've gotten used to it,
Speaker 2: and you're amazing at it. And now my daughters are
Speaker 2: even like, yeah, TJ's better than you because they grew
Speaker 2: up with my cooking. But you cooked the last three
Speaker 2: nights in a row, and last night I don't think
Speaker 2: we realized both girls were going to come in and
Speaker 2: be as hungry as they were, and you didn't actually
Speaker 2: even get to have much food because everybody ate it
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I've lost weight this summer. No,
Speaker 1: not that I actually have, for I am losing weight
Speaker 1: because I wake up and I don't realize I really
Speaker 1: didn't get to eat dinner. Everything's fine with the girls,
Speaker 1: we all. This is my problem with the girls. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is my problem. Just tell me that you want
Speaker 1: to eat, that's all. Just let me know that I
Speaker 1: have an extra mouth to account for. There's plenty of food.
Speaker 1: I can make it happen, that's all. Just tell me
Speaker 1: you're gonna be back for food. What happens is I
Speaker 1: make dinner for the two of us, and then everybody
Speaker 1: comes in like a tornado. And then next thing you know,
Speaker 1: all the food's gone.
Speaker 2: Like actually, all the food.
Speaker 1: Is got like crazy people. And this is not a
Speaker 1: sit down. Let me give me a plate. They see
Speaker 1: the plate in front of you and they just gobble
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 2: Your food's that good?
Speaker 1: And next thing you know, I haven't eaten. That's happened
Speaker 1: several this week.
Speaker 2: So when we do our morning runs, I always no
Speaker 2: because I can actually hear your stomach growling in the
Speaker 2: morning as we're typing and researching, and I know, I'm like, wow,
Speaker 2: did you not eat last night? Again?
Speaker 1: Just tell me so, like an account for another mouth
Speaker 1: to feet. It's no problem, that's fair.
Speaker 2: We'll do better on that. So there was a first.
Speaker 2: This was at the very beginning of the week. You
Speaker 2: I have been trying for years actually to get you
Speaker 2: to come and either get a foot massage or a
Speaker 2: manny petty with me, and you've always resisted. But I
Speaker 2: think you saw your feet when we were on vacation
Speaker 2: and you looked at me, and you looked at me
Speaker 2: and you said, Okay, I'm gonna get a ped of here.
Speaker 2: You have a like a major callous. It's like a
Speaker 2: really gnarly callous.
Speaker 1: Okay, on the right toe and then on the heel
Speaker 1: on the right foot. It was, what's the best way
Speaker 1: to describe it.
Speaker 2: It looks like the Sahara desert.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Dry and cracking.
Speaker 1: Those two things needed treatment. That's what my problem was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a toe game situation that was.
Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, you actually have very nice tonyails. You're
Speaker 2: very very good about that type of hygiene.
Speaker 1: But I asked, how can I get this take care
Speaker 1: because it was annoying me. So that's what you all recommended, pedicure.
Speaker 1: So here we are talking about recovery run and we're
Speaker 1: talking about taking someone to a salon to be pampered
Speaker 1: with a pedicure. So that sounds like it should be
Speaker 1: a part of.
Speaker 2: Our recovery, right exactly. And that's why I wanted to
Speaker 2: include this because I was thinking to myself, this is
Speaker 2: so fun, Like I love going and getting many petties,
Speaker 2: and I would love to have you come with me.
Speaker 2: I see plenty of men in the salons or the
Speaker 2: spas these days, so it's kind of an accepted thing now,
Speaker 2: so it's cool. He's gonna go. He is gonna love it.
Speaker 2: We go to sit down and you immediately say, no massage.
Speaker 2: I don't want anyone massaging my likes. By the way,
Speaker 2: that's the best part of the pedicure.
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know that. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: foot thing. No, that was a flop thing. Just deal
Speaker 1: with the feet.
Speaker 2: Your feet looked good, but then your legs feel amazing.
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you get the massage?
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't want. I just need. I really didn't
Speaker 1: even want the petticure. I just wanted you to handle
Speaker 1: the callous thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, So here's the funny thing. We go to sit down,
Speaker 2: he's like, will you tell them what I need? Like you,
Speaker 2: you actually didn't even want to directly communicate. Was it
Speaker 2: because you were embarrassed you were there or you didn't
Speaker 2: know what to say?
Speaker 1: No, I didn't understand. There was a menu that looked
Speaker 1: like I was about to eat at Benny Hannah, right.
Speaker 2: Because you can get the elevated extra.
Speaker 1: It was too much. So that's what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: was overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: You want the Spa petticure.
Speaker 1: Oh no, see I didn't know what that meant. So
Speaker 1: you and Savine get some thing.
Speaker 2: We get the green tea spaw pettic I don't know
Speaker 2: what that means.
Speaker 1: See, everybody, you hear what I'm talking about. You didn't
Speaker 1: want to communicate. I didn't know what the green tea.
Speaker 2: So you get like extra moisturizers. And so you said, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want any of the bells and whistles. I
Speaker 2: just want them to do you know.
Speaker 1: The impression of me.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, I thought that was not too bad. I've
Speaker 2: been worse before anyway. So so all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: we're at the SPA and they start putting a mask
Speaker 2: on our legs, onto Bean's legs and on my legs.
Speaker 2: So what's going on? Why are they doing that to
Speaker 2: you guys? And we were laughing and we were trying
Speaker 2: to explain this is a part of the SPA package,
Speaker 2: the Spa pedicure that you opted out of. Were you
Speaker 2: jealous at all?
Speaker 1: But I still don't understand what it's for. Yourl's legs
Speaker 1: just looked weird for a little while, and you got.
Speaker 2: To put on it.
Speaker 1: I don't understand.
Speaker 2: So it's basically to infuse moisture. It's just to make
Speaker 2: your skin more supple.
Speaker 1: Put it on. You want to put that on it,
Speaker 1: Give me a callous mask.
Speaker 2: They have those.
Speaker 1: That's all I need. I swear to you. They just
Speaker 1: would have worked in the two areas you do understaid.
Speaker 2: This is how you your no frills always, like even
Speaker 2: when you go in, like if we go shopping, we
Speaker 2: have to get into the store exactly when it opens.
Speaker 2: We have to have a mission, what are you getting?
Speaker 2: Where is it? And then directly go to check out.
Speaker 1: It's called shopping.
Speaker 2: None again, you're missing the experience and part a recovery
Speaker 2: run is saying like it's not about having a mission
Speaker 2: or a goal. Get the callus off, get the shirt
Speaker 2: I want. It's about like walking in and taking in
Speaker 2: all the beautiful sights and sounds and smells and saying
Speaker 2: what looks beautiful, like yes, that's the store. And then
Speaker 2: even in the nails salon, pick your color, you appreciate
Speaker 2: the pleasing music.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. I didn't pick a color. I
Speaker 1: should have got the color.
Speaker 2: What color would you have put on your tone?
Speaker 1: Something outlandish that would have embarrassed you walking down the
Speaker 1: street with me? Hot pink, that would embarrassed you.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, although I know it's cool now men polish
Speaker 2: their fingernails, even a la hairy styles. Did he start
Speaker 2: that going?
Speaker 1: I think so, it's been going for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not there.
Speaker 2: Seriously, would you do it fingernails?
Speaker 1: No? No, it's just not me.
Speaker 2: Would you rather get a massage in the pedicure or
Speaker 2: paint your toenails?
Speaker 1: A massage and a I don't want any of it.
Speaker 1: And you know why, folks, because we're talking about a
Speaker 1: pedicure at a salon as if it was a positive
Speaker 1: part of the recovery run, when in fact, it was
Speaker 1: probably the worst part of my week.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to our recovery run and what should
Speaker 2: have been Wow, just a relaxing zen experience. TJ going
Speaker 2: to the salon to get a pedicure with his two
Speaker 2: favorite gals, his girlfriend, his daughter. We're all there together.
Speaker 2: It's been a stressful week and TJ is not having
Speaker 2: the experience.
Speaker 1: You were uncomfortable from the jump, I mean from absolute
Speaker 1: jump street. I was so uncomfortable with everything that woman.
Speaker 1: How many times does she have to pull me to
Speaker 1: the side and say move it, oh, and do it.
Speaker 1: It was one point she wrapped my foot in some
Speaker 1: plastic and had it propped up, and I put it
Speaker 1: down in the water. She grabbed.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no, I mean really it was his
Speaker 2: first time. But the funny thing is, so you were
Speaker 2: having a tough time when so they when you especially,
Speaker 2: we specifically asked for callous remover, right, So that's how
Speaker 2: they wrapped it up. Because they're putting an actual callous
Speaker 2: remover gel on your areas, problem areas, and they let
Speaker 2: it treat the area first, and then they take out
Speaker 2: what looks like a cheese grater.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, I love that part. That was fine.
Speaker 2: Well you liked the cheese grader.
Speaker 1: It was just funny.
Speaker 2: I love it. But I thought that was tickling you
Speaker 2: or bothering you.
Speaker 1: Oh it's not.
Speaker 2: Where were you sensitive?
Speaker 1: My feet heel arch toe from the pinky to the everything.
Speaker 1: I don't like my feet being touched. And so she's
Speaker 1: down there. Clip clip, clip, clip clip, every clip was excruciating.
Speaker 2: You said it was like fingernails on a chalk war.
Speaker 1: It was the the worst breaking experience. What's the thing
Speaker 1: where the cuticle thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they push your cuticle down and then they cut it.
Speaker 1: She almost got kicked in the face seven times.
Speaker 2: You looked at me, almost within minutes of the pedicure beginning,
Speaker 2: and you said, never, never again.
Speaker 1: That will never happen again.
Speaker 2: You You were like one and done. And we've been
Speaker 2: Sabina and I have been really pushing this and talking
Speaker 2: it up and saying you're gonna love it. And I
Speaker 2: actually was convinced he's gonna go one time and he's
Speaker 2: gonna say damn. That is good. I wait till we
Speaker 2: go again.
Speaker 1: I said damn, And then is it wrong?
Speaker 2: I always forget the German term when you are finding
Speaker 2: some sort of pleasure in someone else's pain. It's a
Speaker 2: I'll have to look it up, but there is that
Speaker 2: German word. Like when people fall and you laugh. It's
Speaker 2: not like you want somebody to have any harm, but
Speaker 2: there is something funny about someone watching you squirm in
Speaker 2: the pedicure chair. I have to say that I had
Speaker 2: that experience.
Speaker 1: I was laughing like maniacal call that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get the word for you in a second. No,
Speaker 2: it's an actual things. I'll get it. I always forget it.
Speaker 2: It's a very very German word and we don't have
Speaker 2: the equivalent here in the English language. But you think
Speaker 2: it's funny when people fall.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's hilarious. Falls are the best thing ever.
Speaker 1: And I didn't see a lot of that this week
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. But that was my That's the highlight
Speaker 1: of my wheel I did take. I told you it
Speaker 1: was maybe the best ride ever. If anybody's here in
Speaker 1: New York, you know traffic is hell. But on weekend mornings,
Speaker 1: if you're in this city, there's a reason you see
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out riding motorcycles. But I guess
Speaker 1: that's the only time we can actually maneuver our way
Speaker 1: around the city and not be stuck in traffic. You
Speaker 1: can kind of open it up and ride the bike.
Speaker 1: So I do it on the weekend mornings, and I
Speaker 1: I had I caught every light from downtown to Times Square,
Speaker 1: and that just doesn't happen. I started in downtown Manhattan
Speaker 1: and I didn't stop until I got to Times Square.
Speaker 1: That's a good morning.
Speaker 2: That sounds like will Smith character, and I am legend
Speaker 2: when he just can just ride the streets of anyone
Speaker 2: who lives here. Anyone who's been here knows that that
Speaker 2: just doesn't happen. It needs to be six o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: That's where you went apocalyptic. I'm talking about a wonderful ride. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that reminds me of that doomsday movie. Yeah, just TJ
Speaker 1: another light skin Black Brotherhood.
Speaker 2: Right, I was joining that comparison as well.
Speaker 1: Forgive me with my.
Speaker 2: Dog, Yes, but just stay away from Grand Central because
Speaker 2: that was the scariest scene ever. But that's amazing. And
Speaker 2: by the way, while you were telling your wonderful motorcycle
Speaker 2: story of catching all green lights, which that is a
Speaker 2: good feeling, I found the German word for taking pleasure
Speaker 2: in the misfortune of others. It is called shoden freda Florida.
Speaker 2: Oh I did it, and I nailed It's yeah, I did.
Speaker 2: All of my ancestors very proud there with that one.
Speaker 2: Shut in froot freuda shudenfreuda, shudin freude. So shut in
Speaker 2: is harm or damage and freuda is joy. So the
Speaker 2: concept is not unique to German, but people who speak
Speaker 2: English say it a lot because we don't really have
Speaker 2: a word that also explains that.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, what a recovery run. This was this week
Speaker 1: and Savine just walked in. Hey, Savine, she just walked in.
Speaker 1: How would you describe your dad's pedicure experience?
Speaker 2: What did she say?
Speaker 1: You just said bad?
Speaker 2: I thought she was gonna say comical bad. We both
Speaker 2: know you're never coming with us again.
Speaker 1: It's okay, what I You try things you never know
Speaker 1: until you try. But now I know.
Speaker 2: Now you know, never again. And the FIFA World Cup,
Speaker 2: Sorry EuroCup, I said that wrong. There's a World Cup
Speaker 2: and then there's a FIFA euro Cup.
Speaker 1: Correct, the European countries competing, right, that's the women's.
Speaker 2: Go quarterfile finals are next week, semi week.
Speaker 1: I can't get the names off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: but the semi next week. Yeah, we will be on
Speaker 1: top of it for sure.
Speaker 2: We will keep watching that this week as part of
Speaker 2: our recovery. But we are going to do better. We
Speaker 2: hope you did better than us this week, and please
Speaker 2: let us know what you do to relax, what you
Speaker 2: do to unwind. We'll take all the tips we can get,
Speaker 2: but we will check back in with you on our
Speaker 2: recovery run next week and we promise, we promise, we're
Speaker 2: gonna do better. I may be roadblock everyone for on
Speaker 2: behalf of myself and my partner t J. Holmes. We
Speaker 2: hope you have a wonderful weekend. Everybody, Thanks for running
Speaker 2: with us.