Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, it feels like it's been a while.
Speaker 1: We have a lot we want to say and a
Speaker 1: lot we want to share with you right now in
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ, including the fact that
Speaker 1: Roboc and I have been living together full time as
Speaker 1: of two weeks ago. It was not by choice. Also,
Speaker 1: we don't usually respond to headlines related to us, but
Speaker 1: today we need to clear up some bs that's been
Speaker 1: attributed to us. Also, as many as you know, we've
Speaker 1: been training five months for a marathon that's in two
Speaker 1: weeks now. Only one of the two of us might
Speaker 1: end up running that marathon. Also, I am getting my
Speaker 1: it's just an honor to be nominated speech ready in
Speaker 1: anticipation of a humiliating defeat I'm going to suffer at
Speaker 1: the hands of Taylor Swift's boyfriend. Plus in this episode,
Speaker 1: in the past few weeks, we've launched two more episode,
Speaker 1: two more podcasts. We've been really busy. Also, we want
Speaker 1: to invite you to come to see us live on
Speaker 1: stage in Chicago. And finally, I quite literally tossed Robes
Speaker 1: into the arms of another man. But I had a
Speaker 1: very good and a very scary reason for doing so,
Speaker 1: And with that everybody welcome. What are you giggling about?
Speaker 2: Ro because I love so I don't know what your
Speaker 2: intro is before you do it. And the last one
Speaker 2: threw me for a second and I thought he did what?
Speaker 2: And then I laughed because I remember.
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of throwing you, I did literally throw you.
Speaker 1: We will get into that, but that was It was
Speaker 1: scary for a moment there. We laugh about it now,
Speaker 1: but it was a life lesson in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: It was, and it actually had us re evaluating our
Speaker 2: own lives afterwards. That's absolutely the truth. Where you'd think
Speaker 2: you go through enough of life and enough things happened
Speaker 2: that you've you've gotten some good perspective, but man it
Speaker 2: sometimes it just takes a millisecond and new perspective is
Speaker 2: immediately gleaned.
Speaker 1: We got it that. We went from Skinny Wagarita's doche
Speaker 1: and about us split second. So I'll tell you all
Speaker 1: about that, but I want to add we have our
Speaker 1: super producers in the room, Andy and Emma Animal by
Speaker 1: Def Leppard. Do you all know the song They're Youngsters
Speaker 1: Me and Bobby McGhee by Janis Joplin. You'll know that one. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a yes. To Andy. Emma is a no California
Speaker 1: love by Tupac Shakur. Do you all know that song? Yes,
Speaker 1: Emma California done? Okay, I bring those up for what reason? Robot?
Speaker 1: We've had a very difficult cultural back and forth in
Speaker 1: the last few.
Speaker 3: Weeks, last few weeks, how about the last ten years?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, maybe I can't.
Speaker 2: Believe you don't know songs. You can't believe I don't
Speaker 2: know songs. Yes, So I guess we'll start with Animal
Speaker 2: right because we went to go see Finally Speak No Evil,
Speaker 2: so good the twenty twenty four rendition and I and
Speaker 2: we both loved the movie.
Speaker 1: But can we give James McAvoy some James boy.
Speaker 2: I think deserves an Oscar nomination for his portrayal. It
Speaker 2: was creepy and perfect and evil and likable all in one.
Speaker 3: He was a charismatic, scary person, right, but.
Speaker 1: He creeps you out the whole time. You were uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: even though there wasn't horror and gore. You were uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for so much of that movie, and he carries it
Speaker 1: in a way. Look, the reviews weren't great, so we
Speaker 1: even questioned whether or not you've been wanting to go
Speaker 1: for weeks. We finally go. He nailed it. But a
Speaker 1: song comes on in the beginning and you lose your mind,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking around, like, why these white people getting
Speaker 1: excited in the theater.
Speaker 2: Death Leopard was the first concert I went to. I'm
Speaker 2: a huge deaf Leopard fan. And they start out the
Speaker 2: movie playing animal and you looked at me and you said,
Speaker 2: you know this song?
Speaker 3: And I looked at you and said, you don't know
Speaker 3: this song.
Speaker 2: I actually think if y'all heard it, you would say, Okay,
Speaker 2: I know that song, and we can't play it for
Speaker 2: you know, royalties and all the reasons why we can
Speaker 2: never play. But I'm telling you check it out. Really
Speaker 2: don't necessarily know the name of it. If you've listened
Speaker 2: to it, I bet you most.
Speaker 1: People will know that song all right. And me and
Speaker 1: Bobby McGhee, oh classic. No, we're talking about this now
Speaker 1: because we just got word. We're recording this after hearing
Speaker 1: just Chris Christofferson passed away at the age of eighty eight,
Speaker 1: and he actually wrote that song. I was listening to
Speaker 1: it this morning. I went through the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: was waiting on a chorus, a line and did nothing
Speaker 1: sound to familiar.
Speaker 2: Da da da da Da Da da d It's so
Speaker 2: funny because I said, well, wait, have you heard it?
Speaker 2: Because I in my mind you just don't know this title.
Speaker 2: You're like, no, I listened to the whole thing first
Speaker 2: time I ever heard it in my life, which close
Speaker 2: my mind.
Speaker 1: Apa.
Speaker 2: My daughter actually sang that one time at one of
Speaker 2: her concerts, so you know, maybe she'll sing it again.
Speaker 1: I missed that concert, but there.
Speaker 2: Was another one coming up this Thursday.
Speaker 1: So but it held this. We have a long lived
Speaker 1: and to the point we wanted to do an episode
Speaker 1: strictly on music. And you are blown away when I
Speaker 1: tell you I have never heard a song before, to
Speaker 1: the point that I said to you, okay, you didn't
Speaker 1: know California Love by Tupac. Nope, as shocked as you
Speaker 1: were about these other That's how shocked I was about
Speaker 1: you not knowing that song Tupac. And there's tons more.
Speaker 1: We can't think of them now we have a list
Speaker 1: of them. But that was mind blowing. But that was
Speaker 1: Hilarious's always funny, but.
Speaker 2: It continues, like I guarantee you next week we'll have
Speaker 2: more songs. And we can't believe the other one's never
Speaker 2: heard before.
Speaker 1: But we have been Look, we have been extremely It
Speaker 1: has been a crazy busy summer. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we've had a chance or a podcast to just to
Speaker 1: do kind of a debrief, but we have had an
Speaker 1: incredible fun summer. Kids been busy, We have been busy,
Speaker 1: we have been traveling, and in the past few weeks
Speaker 1: here we haven't even got a chance. On this regular
Speaker 1: episode of Amy and TJ got to talk about the
Speaker 1: fact that we just launched two more podcasts in the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. I think the last time we did a
Speaker 2: debrief was when we were wrapping up Rome and we
Speaker 2: did it in a rivaderci and.
Speaker 1: That was fun.
Speaker 2: But I think that's the last time we've actually sat
Speaker 2: down and kind of gone over what's been happening in
Speaker 2: our lives. And yes, so much has been happening that
Speaker 2: we haven't had a chance to do. So Yeah to podcast. First,
Speaker 2: we launched our daily podcast called Morning Run, and we're
Speaker 2: now on our third week of doing it and we're
Speaker 2: getting into the groove. We're still for those of you
Speaker 2: who've been listening, thank you, and we're tweaking it. We're
Speaker 2: listening back and thinking what we can do differently or better.
Speaker 2: And so I would actually encourage anybody to jump on
Speaker 2: our Instagram and let us know if you have any suggestions.
Speaker 1: We mean that really you really would like to hear what.
Speaker 2: You want to know. We're trying to give you all
Speaker 2: a sense of what's happening and what has happened, and
Speaker 2: a little bit of our spin on it, but really
Speaker 2: just get you up to date. So when you're walking
Speaker 2: into your place of work or you're on your run, whatever,
Speaker 2: you feel like you've got a good sense of what's going.
Speaker 3: On in the world.
Speaker 1: Quick, easy and entertaining is what we're going for. But
Speaker 1: that has been it has caused us. I again, we're
Speaker 1: going to get the schedule a little better, but we are.
Speaker 1: We've been getting up at three in the morning, some
Speaker 1: of us later than others to get it all raided
Speaker 1: to rock. And we have been recording that thing essentially
Speaker 1: from the dining table or from the bed, or from
Speaker 1: the couch or from whatever at the house very early
Speaker 1: in the morning. Five am is when we record it, right.
Speaker 2: And we're used to look, this is not this is
Speaker 2: something is in our wheelhouse. We actually love and have
Speaker 2: missed being a part of the headlines and having a
Speaker 2: real a good sense of what's happening in the world.
Speaker 2: But we were used to having a staff, a quite
Speaker 2: large one, and so now it's just the two of us,
Speaker 2: and so we have had to This is a lot
Speaker 2: of work, and we're excited about it, but it's we're
Speaker 2: wearing a lot of hats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but at the same time, we are getting the
Speaker 1: freedom to be how sometimes we were asked not to
Speaker 1: be or to back it off a little bit. This
Speaker 1: is not we're not giving opinions, but we are still
Speaker 1: able to give perspective on in context to things that
Speaker 1: we weren't able to do so necessarily in previous jobs
Speaker 1: we've had. And we're able to do it fairly quickly.
Speaker 1: This is not like we need so many and it's
Speaker 1: or an hour to explain the story. It's boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: And it again, to be in the daily news business,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, is exciting to us. And so yeah, we
Speaker 1: appreciate folks have been checking it out so far.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, I was gonna say it very much
Speaker 2: is and I think one of the cool things that
Speaker 2: we're kind of getting our head around now is look,
Speaker 2: media bias exists. Everyone comes into any sort of story
Speaker 2: with an opinion or an experience. But I have always
Speaker 2: said we all have tried to be as objective as possible.
Speaker 2: The problem is when you choose what to cover. I
Speaker 2: think that's where a lot of bias takes place, where
Speaker 2: you know what you don't cover what you do cover.
Speaker 2: So it's been pretty cool for us to be able
Speaker 2: to make our own rundowns, decide what we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about and what we're not going to talk about.
Speaker 1: And the other podcast, the second one, which has been fun,
Speaker 1: I do part two. Now, this is one where I
Speaker 1: mean it kind of it's right there in the title
Speaker 1: right what it's about. But it's for folks who haven't
Speaker 1: didn't get it right the first time with the didn't
Speaker 1: marry a high school or a college sweetheart thing, worked
Speaker 1: out the pick of fence and the dog and the
Speaker 1: two kids, and it doesn't look like maybe on your
Speaker 1: second marriage, maybe on your third marriage, maybe you had
Speaker 1: some difficulties, and most people have. But this is a
Speaker 1: place in Broges. Please help me with the explanation. Here
Speaker 1: we are going to with the help of a couple
Speaker 1: of other hosts help people find love.
Speaker 2: We are we're doing that, and everyone who is a
Speaker 2: part of this podcast has been down that road or
Speaker 2: is currently walking down that road. So it's called I
Speaker 2: Do Part two, but for some of us it's Part three,
Speaker 2: Part four. You get the point. But we're all in
Speaker 2: it together. And in addition to having our hosts, we
Speaker 2: also have some celebrity mentors. I believe is what we've
Speaker 2: landed on. It was either a.
Speaker 3: Celebrity coach but who's also looking for love.
Speaker 2: And so we have asked listeners to call in, to
Speaker 2: write in, to email in and see if you'd like
Speaker 2: us to help guide you on your journey to find
Speaker 2: the one.
Speaker 1: No, well, not us in particular necessarily. We do have
Speaker 1: some professionals, if you will, I say professional in that
Speaker 1: they have experience in this, and we are the hosts.
Speaker 1: Jenna Kramer and Jenny Garth. Jenny Garth both have their
Speaker 1: own life experiences and they didn't everything wasn't pretty and
Speaker 1: with a bou the first time around, so we are
Speaker 1: all in that position. Jenna Kramer is the other the
Speaker 1: love this girl. She's We've gotten to know her a
Speaker 1: little bit and this is this is a compliment when
Speaker 1: I say that she's nuts and right, she's just my
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. She's just I love this girl.
Speaker 2: In the best way. Posy who wants a boring person
Speaker 2: to host a show with be friends with? I mean, no,
Speaker 2: we're all in this. We're all we're all nuts, Let's
Speaker 2: be honest, We're all certifiable.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why it's working. And but one of our
Speaker 1: first that we had on our first.
Speaker 3: Celebrity Coaches Celebrity Mentor Mentor.
Speaker 1: We had to be introduced to Kelly beIN Simon from the.
Speaker 2: Real Housewives of New York of New.
Speaker 1: York My only my first introduction to her was watching
Speaker 1: the show and watching what was the wet episode, the
Speaker 1: scary Island episode Island. That was the first exposure I
Speaker 1: ever had to Kelly ben Simone. So if you have
Speaker 1: seen that, you would know she's out of her mind. Well,
Speaker 1: she's just in that episode.
Speaker 2: I would just say she says she didn't have a filter.
Speaker 2: That might be the best way to put it, which is,
Speaker 2: I actually appreciate people who don't have filters because you
Speaker 2: know exactly where you stand, and you know exactly where
Speaker 2: you stand with Kelly, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I need filters. I need filters, But what I say,
Speaker 1: I set it up that way to say this. She
Speaker 1: came in here in the studio, she was the most pleasant,
Speaker 1: the light. We had such a good time with her,
Speaker 1: and we will see her again socially, and so she's
Speaker 1: just I just to see the show and to have
Speaker 1: that exposure to her that way the first time. You wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Of course you're going to come to some kind of
Speaker 1: conclusion about her or have some opinion. And then she
Speaker 1: walks in here, and we've been around enough people. We
Speaker 1: weren't being fool she wasn't putting on for us. She
Speaker 1: was being herself, and it was in such contrast necessarily
Speaker 1: to what we saw, and so I appreciated and enjoyed
Speaker 1: the time we got with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she came in and said, Yeah, I get paid
Speaker 2: to speak my mind. I get paid to sometimes be
Speaker 2: the mean girl. I've made a lot of money doing
Speaker 2: what they want from me, and so I am always myself,
Speaker 2: but I know exactly why I'm there and what I'm delivering.
Speaker 2: So I appreciated the real speak.
Speaker 1: So she's going to be a part of But that
Speaker 1: has been fun as well. That's something that's necessarily we
Speaker 1: would normally be doing or think to do something like that,
Speaker 1: But it is it's in our wheelhouse to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: being open about where are your relationships and the mistakes
Speaker 1: you've made, and how it's been and it hasn't been easy,
Speaker 1: and where you are now and finding love and getting
Speaker 1: it right later in life, all those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so I think, and hopefully the goal is
Speaker 2: that other folks out there who have been in that
Speaker 2: exact same position. You don't have to have had your
Speaker 2: relationship woes splashed in headlines to still feel the pain
Speaker 2: and feel the frustration of not getting it right. So yes,
Speaker 2: we hope that you all, or at least some of
Speaker 2: you listeners out there, will join in on the fun
Speaker 2: and up your hearts to possibly you know, I'm hoping
Speaker 2: we can have some pretty awesome matchmaking going on. Maybe
Speaker 2: there could be a wedding or two.
Speaker 1: You want that responsibility, you want that you want, you
Speaker 1: want to love it, but I take it on. But
Speaker 1: do you want it? But it has to work out.
Speaker 1: If things don't worry out, you will feel bad that
Speaker 1: you put these people you try. Well, there it is.
Speaker 1: You said this early on the train. Actually here you
Speaker 1: said that I was like, wow, that's a very good
Speaker 1: point about where we were a year, a year and
Speaker 1: a half ago, thinking the world at end. It will
Speaker 1: never everybody hates us, we'll never be able to work again.
Speaker 1: We're hiding out in our apartments and to the point,
Speaker 1: we are so busy right now that we can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're barely above water without busy. And look we did
Speaker 1: we started up a production company together, which has been
Speaker 1: a part of putting the original podcast together and the
Speaker 1: other podcasts together. But now we're starting to take meetings
Speaker 1: and develop project and be active with that now. And
Speaker 1: it's to your point, Babe, you said it. It's just
Speaker 1: to everybody out there, you think it's the end of
Speaker 1: the world, and it's just not. You got to get
Speaker 1: through whatever storm you're going through.
Speaker 2: You know, you live enough life you will get stuck
Speaker 2: at some point, and it doesn't have to be as
Speaker 2: dramatic necessarily as what happened with us. And please God,
Speaker 2: yes I never wish that upon anybody. But it's always
Speaker 2: this moment where you get this perspective and a year,
Speaker 2: a year and a half, two years of pass and
Speaker 2: you think, where was I even a year ago? And
Speaker 2: look where I am now, and it's always just a
Speaker 2: good reminder to know that you're not going to stay stuck.
Speaker 2: It's going to get better. Things are going to change.
Speaker 2: Change is inevitable, and that's a good thing when you're stuck.
Speaker 2: So yes, I was just thinking about a year ago.
Speaker 2: We were not going out socially, we were not feeling
Speaker 2: comfortable being out and about. We were just getting back
Speaker 2: on social media and a little scared, not a little scared,
Speaker 2: a lot scared to get back out in the public.
Speaker 2: And so I just say, a year later, Wow, I'm
Speaker 2: so happy to be this busy. I'm grateful to be busy,
Speaker 2: and we have a heck of a fall lined up
Speaker 2: and I'm genuinely excited about it, like so excited.
Speaker 1: We will be you folks in Athens. We will be
Speaker 1: on the University of Georgia campus this weekend for a
Speaker 1: game at Robox, alma mater of folks in Fayeville. We
Speaker 1: will both see you there soon as well. We plan
Speaker 1: to be recording to podcasts, a podcasts from each of
Speaker 1: our respective campuses. That's fun. In between, there is a
Speaker 1: marathon we are going to be heading to Chicago to run,
Speaker 1: and then also in October maybe the most meaningful trip
Speaker 1: we are all going is that the end of October.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, see end of October.
Speaker 1: All right. We are all piling up in hen to Spain.
Speaker 2: Yes, TJ, my oldest daughter, Ava, and me all heading
Speaker 2: to Sabilla Seville. And honestly, I'm so excited because I
Speaker 2: didn't want to push TJ in this direction because it violates,
Speaker 2: it breaks some of his travel rules that he has
Speaker 2: put in place. So there is no direct flight, there's
Speaker 2: a long ass layover, and it's going to be a
Speaker 2: full day of travel. We aren't changing rooms when we
Speaker 2: get there. But it's a quick trip, but it's going
Speaker 2: to be a fun one. And I just want to
Speaker 2: say thank you for bending bending your rules.
Speaker 1: All this is all analyse. I assure you, if we
Speaker 1: were going to see Ava, this wouldn't be happening. I'm kidding, Ava,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, Ava, I'm kidding. Okay, just a joke.
Speaker 2: She's happy to be along for the ride. She's fine,
Speaker 2: She's not going to complain at all.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Ava, Ava is the reason that Robike and
Speaker 1: I are living together. We have been a lot of
Speaker 1: people have been asking for a while about our living situation.
Speaker 2: We have.
Speaker 1: Our respective apartments are easily vocable, so we go back
Speaker 1: and forth all the time. But we're together every single day,
Speaker 1: every single night, essentially living together. Yes, okay, but now
Speaker 1: it's beneficial for the last.
Speaker 2: Few weeks it has indeed, because Ava has an apartment
Speaker 2: in the village and it's a little grungy, but it
Speaker 2: should be. It's her first apartment, and it's a sixth
Speaker 2: floor walk up, and it's an old building. And yeah,
Speaker 2: it has a massive roach infestation, like a massive roach
Speaker 2: infestation that we have been trying to battle. I've been
Speaker 2: trying to help her out. We've gotten exterminators multiple times.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many raid camps. Raid cans have
Speaker 2: been purchased. We've got roach motels all over the place.
Speaker 2: It's a small, small apartment if you can just envision this,
Speaker 2: but still she comes in every day. There are dozens
Speaker 2: and dozens of roaches in the roach motel every day,
Speaker 2: and live ones in her bed, et cetera. Anyway, she
Speaker 2: has a hoarter living next door. Guys, if you don't
Speaker 2: know about the squatters, he hasn't played paid rent in
Speaker 2: six years and they can't get him out of the apartment.
Speaker 2: New York City is insane with their squatter laws, and
Speaker 2: they have more rights than people who actually are on
Speaker 2: the lease.
Speaker 3: He's not on the lease.
Speaker 2: I guess he got the apartment from his aunt who died,
Speaker 2: and now they can't get him out and he is
Speaker 2: a hoarder.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a true story about New York laws. Here
Speaker 1: it's if you don't know, go to Netflix and what
Speaker 1: was it? Worst Roommate Ever is a series and there's
Speaker 1: one in there about a squad and explains the laws
Speaker 1: in New York. You cannot get a squatter out. It's
Speaker 1: almost impossible. So what they're dealing with now is the
Speaker 1: building is not a terrible building. They just have a
Speaker 1: terrible neighbor who is hoarding things. And to the point,
Speaker 1: it is so disgusting that you can see, and I'm
Speaker 1: not exaggerating, almost armies of roaches making their way from
Speaker 1: his apartment over to hers. It's that bad.
Speaker 2: They can see the roaches coming underneath, and they've tried
Speaker 2: to stop the door, but they can see them coming
Speaker 2: out of Those things can flatten themselves out.
Speaker 3: They're prehistoric.
Speaker 2: But the worst was when they decided to finally say mom,
Speaker 2: She and her roommate rye, can we come live with you?
Speaker 2: We can't live here anymore. They saw a steady line
Speaker 2: of roaches coming out of his bathroom window, which was
Speaker 2: cracked open an inch and coming straight in through their
Speaker 2: air conditioning units that are in the window. So you
Speaker 2: can't fully seal your window when you have an air
Speaker 2: conditioning unit coming out of it. And that's when they
Speaker 2: just said, we're done. So they are getting a new
Speaker 2: apartment within the building away from this man, this horder.
Speaker 2: But in the meantime, I've got people all in my
Speaker 2: apartment living with me, and so I've just said, hey,
Speaker 2: y'all knock yourselves out. I'll be at TJ's.
Speaker 1: And so we have. We have been living together full time.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, we were are schedule. We could
Speaker 1: go back and forth, but you got people there and
Speaker 1: we're up at five eight. Were recording three? Yes, we're
Speaker 1: up at three, but recording at five am it just
Speaker 1: doesn't work. So we have We've getten a dose of
Speaker 1: living together. So there you go. Put that in the headline.
Speaker 1: Have been living together full time? We have as of
Speaker 1: two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: That's true. Supposedly they're moving out this weekend.
Speaker 1: So we might be living together longer.
Speaker 2: We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Speaker 1: You know, this is what you do for you kids
Speaker 1: that you know, you're excited to be able to help
Speaker 1: them out, and this is what it's for. And it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate to hear what's happening some The broach thing is
Speaker 1: just awful. And now I heard you all talking this morning.
Speaker 1: She wants to bring some stuff over.
Speaker 2: Or what was it, Yeah, she wants to bring her
Speaker 2: bedding over to wash it my apartment in anticipation of
Speaker 2: this move. And I said, girl, do not be bringing
Speaker 2: any roaches over to my place because I have not
Speaker 2: seen one bug in my place and I would like
Speaker 2: to keep it that way. One I'm nervous about.
Speaker 1: That, Okay, you know the Oh god, well, look I
Speaker 1: have Look, I've enjoyed the time and we've had together,
Speaker 1: and it's it's been a little different, but I've liked it.
Speaker 1: I've liked the different type of routine where we know
Speaker 1: where we're going to end up every night, but decide
Speaker 1: instead of having a plan like.
Speaker 2: Your place or mine, well, I don't know, yeah, all
Speaker 2: that back and forth. It's just a foregone conclusion because
Speaker 2: when we're getting up at two three o'clock in the
Speaker 2: morning to record our podcast or to prepare for the podcast.
Speaker 2: That's when they oftentimes are rolling in. So it just
Speaker 2: was not going to work out from a spatial and
Speaker 2: noise level. So it all worked out. And yeah, we're
Speaker 2: getting a little trial run, are we not a trial?
Speaker 1: You know it's been going well. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: I'm trying to complain about something because no, no, you you've
Speaker 1: been at mind plum. I'm trying to think what is
Speaker 1: you know, it's something that the upside. You are better
Speaker 1: at cleaning, making sure the kitchens clean than I am. Right,
Speaker 1: I keep my place clean, but you're on and on
Speaker 1: top of the kitchen. Ah, it's too damn cold at
Speaker 1: night in the bed.
Speaker 2: Oh okay to always been our issue, that's an issue.
Speaker 2: I like things color, You like things warm.
Speaker 1: It's hot, and uh it's it's it's hot for you
Speaker 1: and it's freezing for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all should see us. It's this awful scene to
Speaker 1: where you literally you can look at the bed and
Speaker 1: you see on one side all you see is a
Speaker 1: light skin head and dark hair sticking out with all
Speaker 1: the covers covering them. On the other side. You see
Speaker 1: a butt naked white woman on top.
Speaker 2: Of the covers, on top of the wedding.
Speaker 1: That's how as always sleep.
Speaker 2: It's true. And then yeah, when I'm not high, you
Speaker 2: cannot touch me because I'll get even hotter.
Speaker 1: It's all we struggled cuddling at night because you're like, you.
Speaker 3: Can't last for about oh and a minute.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's so sweet. It's so sweet cuddling it just
Speaker 1: like then.
Speaker 3: And then in my mind, I'm like, oh no, it's happening.
Speaker 3: It's happening. The sweat's coming.
Speaker 2: I can't stop it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But then you panic, you freak yourself out and make
Speaker 1: yourself sweat more. It's not that bad, you just completely
Speaker 1: I can tell you it's happening.
Speaker 2: Point it out, though you'll start wiping like ew ew,
Speaker 2: and then yeah.
Speaker 3: You get me on. I get all more, getting nervous. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't make it stop.
Speaker 1: So that's I would say that's been the issue. Other
Speaker 1: than that, Yeah, we've been good. No, there's nothing else.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: We working well together. Our other thing. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough one here. Baby. We are as we
Speaker 1: sit here, only a couple of weeks out from the
Speaker 1: Chicago Marathon and one of the two of us might
Speaker 1: not be running it, and that one was almost in
Speaker 1: tears this morning after going on what was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a eight mile run. Yeah, we landed on eight
Speaker 1: We're gonna do an eight mile run and I only
Speaker 1: made it one point six.
Speaker 2: Miles, I know. And what we did run yesterday, we
Speaker 2: ran six miles yesterday and you felt pretty good. But
Speaker 2: the reality is you're dealing with some pain in your achilles.
Speaker 2: And I have to say, you have been so on
Speaker 2: top of it. Every day. You're icing, you're heating, you're heating,
Speaker 2: you're icing. You've gone to a foot specialist who's done
Speaker 2: some laser heat therapy. You've done everything you can. You're
Speaker 2: on a steady dose of a leave and advil, and
Speaker 2: it hasn't gotten better.
Speaker 1: O can't get to get right. It's been two months now.
Speaker 1: I cannot get this thing to get right.
Speaker 2: And you skipped like you know everyone and anyone who's
Speaker 2: done a marathon knows it's a pretty specific regimen for
Speaker 2: five months. And you know now that this will be
Speaker 2: my sixth I'm a little I know how to say,
Speaker 2: I don't have to do that, but I can do this,
Speaker 2: and so the long runs are the one thing that
Speaker 2: needs to be constant. So you end up doing a
Speaker 2: bunch of longer runs than even a half marathon, and
Speaker 2: it culminates with a twenty miler you you weren't ready
Speaker 2: to do it. I ended up. This is the first
Speaker 2: time I've ever run a twenty miler by myself. But
Speaker 2: I ended up on Wednesday earlier last week, running it
Speaker 2: on my own, and you thinking, Okay, well, I'll try
Speaker 2: to rest up enough to be able to do it, and.
Speaker 1: I just can't. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if anybody out there, if you
Speaker 1: sounded my voice, if you have any remedy, because I
Speaker 1: have been down to as foot, specially as a foot doctor.
Speaker 1: I've done the heat laser thing on my on my
Speaker 1: achilles but he has a fancy name for it, but
Speaker 1: essentially achilles tendonitis. So dealing with that pain back there
Speaker 1: have a not the inflammation the back of my heel,
Speaker 1: and I just can't get it to go down, and
Speaker 1: I can't get it to just heal up and loosen
Speaker 1: up right. It just can't get it. So it might
Speaker 1: just be pain management he said, he can just get
Speaker 1: me through the marathon. But today was bad enough that
Speaker 1: I had to stop after on one pointy six miles.
Speaker 2: So you don't want to rupture your achilles, obviously, And
Speaker 2: that's the fear. If I mean you did do You
Speaker 2: made it through an eighteen miler, oh yeah, and you
Speaker 2: made it through the fourteen miler. Those are the last
Speaker 2: two big runs before the twenty miler, and you made it,
Speaker 2: but you were in pain. And so the question is
Speaker 2: can you push through the pain and do the marathon
Speaker 2: or do you risk doing permanent damage to your achilles.
Speaker 2: And when you're a runner, to think at your age
Speaker 2: at forty seven that you would have to stop running
Speaker 2: as a pretty scary thought.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. This is the first time my
Speaker 1: body has failed me in my life to where there's
Speaker 1: something you want to do and your body says no,
Speaker 1: you actually cannot do that thing. That's new for me.
Speaker 1: So this is a bad one. I don't know, And
Speaker 1: this will be a game time decision. We will take
Speaker 1: it right up to the last moment to make the
Speaker 1: call to see if I'll be able to run it.
Speaker 1: But I'm supposed to do that, and then new York
Speaker 1: the week three weeks after. I have just we'll figure out.
Speaker 1: It'll be fine.
Speaker 2: You may end up doing one, you may have doing both,
Speaker 2: you may end up doing none. But you put in
Speaker 2: the work and your head's in the right place. I
Speaker 2: applaud you for where you are mentally with all of this,
Speaker 2: because it is frustrating when you put in that much
Speaker 2: work for something and you love doing something so much,
Speaker 2: and it's a big communal fun activity. We've got a
Speaker 2: bunch of people coming to Chicago, all running with us.
Speaker 1: I might be rooting you on at the Chicago Marathon.
Speaker 1: That's just tough.
Speaker 3: I know, I know it's tough.
Speaker 2: And perhaps maybe you save yourself for New York even
Speaker 2: and I root you on in New York and we
Speaker 2: do that. But I'm hoping for the best, and I'm
Speaker 2: hoping you make it well.
Speaker 1: To add now insult to my injury, this was funny.
Speaker 1: Not too long ago, we saw everybody knows. I think
Speaker 1: it's next in November announced the Sexiest Man Alive. But
Speaker 1: they start the voting. It's been going well. I think
Speaker 1: it's ended now, but for a little while. How all
Speaker 1: these subcategories sexiest Athlete Alive, Sexiest race car driver. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Sexiest different categories, different categories, but there is
Speaker 1: a category for sexiest podcaster. Sexiest podcast are alive, And
Speaker 1: I guess it's supposed to be an honor. Rightly. So
Speaker 1: there were only four podcasts that were mentioned in this group,
Speaker 1: but five four podcasts, but four podcasters in the group.
Speaker 1: I was among them. So at this point that I'm speaking,
Speaker 1: you do not you can't vote anymore, not that you
Speaker 1: would vote for me, my suggesting that I'm just making
Speaker 1: the point here, Andy that these were the other podcasters
Speaker 1: that I was up against.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, yes, And by the way, I got my
Speaker 2: vote in the day before voting end in official Did
Speaker 2: you seriously I voted for you?
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't ever know.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even like.
Speaker 1: Going to the voting booth on election day? Did You're
Speaker 1: never going to know?
Speaker 2: For you?
Speaker 3: I voted for you the moment I decided to be
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, So TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes sexiest podcast hosts. Could it be Josh Peck from
Speaker 2: Good Guys, Penn Badgeley from pod Crushed, or the Kelsey
Speaker 2: Brothers from New Heights. So I looked at that group
Speaker 2: and I said, Babe, I love you and you are
Speaker 2: the sexiest man alive to me, But I don't think
Speaker 2: you're going to beat the power of the swifties, who
Speaker 2: will all be voting collectively for the Kelsey brothers. How
Speaker 2: do you You don't even have a shot.
Speaker 1: But how are they the sexiest? That was a little much,
Speaker 1: don't you think.
Speaker 3: Emma, with the power of Taylor's No.
Speaker 1: No, no no. But I'm saying if something that what's going
Speaker 1: to take This is what's going to happen. Somebody's going
Speaker 1: to grab the headline that says Amy Robot says her
Speaker 1: boyfriend TJ. Holmes doesn't have a chance in the hell
Speaker 1: of being the sexiest man.
Speaker 3: You are so right, that's that's.
Speaker 2: Sorry. But yes, because the headlines never come with context ever,
Speaker 2: and the context is you're up against the power of Taylor.
Speaker 1: That what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm just a realist at that point.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could have anybody up against the Kelsey brothers, yes,
Speaker 2: and how they would win because of this power of
Speaker 2: this one?
Speaker 1: How can you vote on them as a collective like
Speaker 1: they're collectively sexy as brothers? What does that even mean?
Speaker 3: Two for the price of one?
Speaker 1: Wait, Okay, so those two are sexier than the one.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, what do we do with this?
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. We had a lot of fun with this,
Speaker 1: but it is. It's one of those let me get
Speaker 1: my it's just an honor to be nominated. But though,
Speaker 1: but anything you lose, that's a tough that's a tough
Speaker 1: one to lose. What what what did you lose?
Speaker 2: The sexiest competition of podcasting? Yeah, the subset, Yes, of
Speaker 2: podcasters who have faces for radio. So all of these
Speaker 2: people have been in front of the camera, they all have.
Speaker 1: But it was fun and it was fun. We had
Speaker 1: fun with that. But yes, I am getting ready for
Speaker 1: my Uh, it's just an honor to be nominated speech. Now, well, I.
Speaker 2: Consider it to be an honor just to be dating you.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 2: So it's like I feel like that as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's trying to make up for that. He has
Speaker 1: no chance in hell comments, right, But we talk about
Speaker 1: the headline. It might be grabbed and we know this,
Speaker 1: and we know this better than most that are walking
Speaker 1: the streets. But we we don't look at headlines. We've
Speaker 1: talked about that plenty here. But we started getting calls
Speaker 1: and texts and emails and in conversation with friends of ours,
Speaker 1: we're giving us a heads out up about headlines that
Speaker 1: were taking place, So headlines that were out there that
Speaker 1: had to do with initially where we used to work,
Speaker 1: and then came headlines about us that we were like, whoa,
Speaker 1: Now we need to speak.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, I think and we've made this very clear,
Speaker 2: but hopefully if you're just hearing this for the first time,
Speaker 2: headlines are not necessarily facts. And anytime you see a
Speaker 2: headline or any kind of story attributed to sources, or
Speaker 2: a source says also probably not something you can take
Speaker 2: literally because it is so ambiguous. It is such a
Speaker 2: gray area, and it is frankly, it's a cloak a
Speaker 2: lot of organizations hide behind to be able to say
Speaker 2: whatever it is they want to say, and there's almost
Speaker 2: always an agenda attached to a headline. But yes, friends
Speaker 2: were coming up saying, oh, I bet you guys love
Speaker 2: the new story that's been out and everyone's republishing, reposting,
Speaker 2: And I said, I don't know what you're talking to,
Speaker 2: no clue, And I will google every now and then,
Speaker 2: especially if we see maybe a paparazzi following us, or
Speaker 2: if I have a bunch of people telling me, Wow,
Speaker 2: there are these headlines out there, this latest one, and
Speaker 2: it dates back I think even to a week or
Speaker 2: two ago, or somehow somebody picked up on sources from
Speaker 2: ABC News saying that perhaps at this point, now nearly
Speaker 2: two years later, they are realizing that they made a
Speaker 2: mistake in letting us go and that they don't have
Speaker 2: the star power to replace one of the main three
Speaker 2: at Good Morning America if that event were to come up,
Speaker 2: if they needed to groom someone, if they were looking
Speaker 2: to just have somebody waiting the wings.
Speaker 1: Let's be clear what she just said saying there's no
Speaker 1: star park or not. Ay, please do not interribute that
Speaker 1: that's not us.
Speaker 2: I am only repeating what I read, which I am saying, huh,
Speaker 2: I you know, you just you. I always question the
Speaker 2: timing of these and I say planted stories, because because
Speaker 2: that's what they are. They're not reporting on something that's happening.
Speaker 2: Someone In almost every case when it comes to insider
Speaker 2: or sources say it is someone who is planting a
Speaker 2: story with a group. And that's what this looked like
Speaker 2: to me now just recently, within the last twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: a day or two now, they've gone on to say
Speaker 2: the story, We have read the story, we have seen
Speaker 2: the story, and that TJ and I, this is what
Speaker 2: these reports say, are saying it's karma, and feel vindicated
Speaker 2: that those words never came out of our mouths, nor
Speaker 2: do we even feel that way at all. In fact,
Speaker 2: we have genuinely said this. We are rooting for our
Speaker 2: former colleagues to be the best they can be. We
Speaker 2: loved so many of the folks who live and work
Speaker 2: at ABC, and it's their lifeblood, it's what they do,
Speaker 2: it's what they love, and we're supporting them. We never
Speaker 2: want to see ABC fail, we never want to see
Speaker 2: them not do well. And so I guess it's just
Speaker 2: a little frustrating then for it to seem as though
Speaker 2: we're saying, you know, haha, or we're even commenting on
Speaker 2: these reports in my opinion, that we're planted with whatever
Speaker 2: organization for some agenda I can't possibly know.
Speaker 1: Well, we just can't say it enough, and it's not
Speaker 1: even a matter of words or feelings being attributed to us.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, I know how you feel about it
Speaker 1: because you and I speak privately and talk about things
Speaker 1: that nobody else will ever know. No matter how close
Speaker 1: a friend is or a parent, there's some things you
Speaker 1: and I talk about that nobody else will ever know.
Speaker 1: There's no point in any private conversation you and I
Speaker 1: have expressed to each other. Ha ha, look at that.
Speaker 1: Who who? There's karma, this vendic nothing, No, because there's
Speaker 1: just how in God's name, anybody out there, ask yourself,
Speaker 1: why and why would you feel good about somebody else's misfortune?
Speaker 1: Why would you ever feel good that even an X
Speaker 1: of yours or somebody who in a relationship with any
Speaker 1: way is not doing so well? Which we have. We
Speaker 1: got friends in that building. We don't need to read
Speaker 1: any headline to get an idea of what's happening in
Speaker 1: the building because we've got plenty of folks and friends
Speaker 1: that we are very close to who continued to talk
Speaker 1: to us about what's going on. You know what, We're
Speaker 1: not gonna do relate to you here on the podcast
Speaker 1: what they're saying to us. But I can assure you
Speaker 1: there is never a moment where you and I have
Speaker 1: ever felt good. We have heard rumblings about what could
Speaker 1: happen to the show we used to be on, Yes
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh no, oh, that would be to God.
Speaker 1: Please wait, that was something we were a part of it.
Speaker 1: We want to see that thing go on forever God.
Speaker 2: I know I took great pride in that show, starting
Speaker 2: it during the pandemic, and it really gave me new
Speaker 2: life in my career, getting to do that show and
Speaker 2: feeling like it's served a valuable purpose, which is rare
Speaker 2: in journalism these days to feel like you actually did
Speaker 2: something that helped someone else. So I take great pride
Speaker 2: and took great pride in starting that show, and then
Speaker 2: when you came on it, it breathed new life and
Speaker 2: it just became what it was and we were proud
Speaker 2: of it. And we don't want to see it go away.
Speaker 2: We don't want to see it do poorly in our absence.
Speaker 2: So I know, look, a human emotion I think could
Speaker 2: be like haha, when you mentioned relationships, Oh see, wish
Speaker 2: bet you wish you hadn't let me go. Now, bet
Speaker 2: you wish you hadn't broken up with me. Now, Look,
Speaker 2: I think those types of feelings serve zero purpose. And
Speaker 2: I think we've made a really I know that you
Speaker 2: and I have talked about and we don't just talk
Speaker 2: the talk, We walk the walk of staying positive. And
Speaker 2: you know, this door closed, but what door is opening
Speaker 2: now that wouldn't have otherwise? And look where we are
Speaker 2: right now. We've got our production company and we're doing
Speaker 2: something we love with each other, and we're getting to
Speaker 2: talk to people who we wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 2: do otherwise in depth in a way we couldn't have otherwise.
Speaker 2: And things are starting to open up and build and
Speaker 2: blossom that would never have happened if things didn't happen
Speaker 2: the way they did. So we do not feel any
Speaker 2: ill will or negativity or any sort of vindication if
Speaker 2: things aren't going well over there. So I just we
Speaker 2: just want to really put that out there that you know,
Speaker 2: yes it hurt, Yes it was hard. Yes it wouldn't
Speaker 2: be what we wanted or what we would have chosen,
Speaker 2: but we're on a different path now and it's a
Speaker 2: beautiful one.
Speaker 1: And that path makes us appreciate ABC News as being
Speaker 1: a part of the journey that we've been on. We
Speaker 1: are rooting. We have deer dear friends, not just colleagues.
Speaker 1: We have dear friends that are still in that building.
Speaker 1: So please don't ever and if you ever see what
Speaker 1: you say sources, and there used to be ones that say, uh,
Speaker 1: friends of the couple or a source close to the couple. O, folks,
Speaker 1: this is very there's what your daughters, my little eleven
Speaker 1: year old Sabine ye, your parents, Nicky Chuck, Charles, Matt Morgan.
Speaker 1: If there is a source that's not any of those
Speaker 1: ten people in our lives, it's not true. And I
Speaker 1: can assure you those ten people are not talking to
Speaker 1: a tablet.
Speaker 2: They are not no are Our circle is a dot
Speaker 2: now yeah, right, so I don't you know sources and
Speaker 2: none of them would tell anybody anything and certainly would
Speaker 2: not be calling up certain magazines.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's just and I hate to, you know,
Speaker 1: I hate being even feel like we are compelled to
Speaker 1: speak on something that's some bs. That's it's one lying,
Speaker 1: completely made up. So I'm not putting it on the
Speaker 1: tabloid that reported it. Possibly they're lying, but it's possible
Speaker 1: they were lied too, but they would know they're lied
Speaker 1: to if it's not nobody's in our circle.
Speaker 2: Nobody's in our circle who would be.
Speaker 1: Possibly say anything about what's going on?
Speaker 2: I feel guessing how they think we feel.
Speaker 1: We don't feel that way. It's not even close of
Speaker 1: any joy to anything. And we don't even want going.
Speaker 1: Gma was long fine long before we got there. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be fine long before are We didn't make the
Speaker 1: difference to that place. We contributed. Sure, we didn't make
Speaker 1: a different So then one way or another Jesus chrime,
Speaker 1: all right, but we did mention. And this this is true, folks.
Speaker 1: I did literally throw Robock into the arms of another man.
Speaker 1: It's I didn't look He've been in New York during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, A lot of folks, a lot of restaurants
Speaker 1: you had to eat outside, the dining outside. So you've
Speaker 1: been to New York. Folks that live here know this.
Speaker 1: All the outdoor dining is set up. They have these
Speaker 1: little station or dining areas, and some of them have
Speaker 1: been I only have How would you describe them?
Speaker 2: Sometimes there are wooden structures made of plywood that have
Speaker 2: been constructed fairly shabbily, but.
Speaker 3: They protect you from wind rain.
Speaker 2: Some of them have heating elements or cooling elements to
Speaker 2: try and help with yeah temperature, but there makeshift kind
Speaker 2: of out house looking.
Speaker 1: Wow, you nailed this description. I was struggling. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're right right where.
Speaker 2: You can eat and drink and be merry and still
Speaker 2: be outside and see the city sidewalks and feel the
Speaker 2: energy of the city. So they're still fun to sit
Speaker 2: out in.
Speaker 1: Every New Yorker knows what you're talking about. But you
Speaker 1: did that was really good, baby, You nail that.
Speaker 2: You're shocked and surprise that my ability to do that
Speaker 2: is actually no.
Speaker 1: Because my inability to do it. Wow, she is really
Speaker 1: nailing this. So Rooves and I go to a restaurant
Speaker 1: we love Edwards here in New York and it's in
Speaker 1: Tribecca is right on Church Street.
Speaker 2: No, it's on West Broadway. I always get that wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we de sign on a Sunday, two of
Speaker 1: us along with Sabine. We're gonna go to lunch. Now,
Speaker 1: we had all kinds of debate about where we're gonna go,
Speaker 1: when we're gonna go. The timing was off. When is
Speaker 1: Sabine coming? You walking here? Now, that was a lot
Speaker 1: of things that were that came to be to get
Speaker 1: us Edwards and we're sitting outside for dying. Now. We
Speaker 1: get there and we're sitting in the table that is
Speaker 1: in the far corner of this outdoor sitting area. So
Speaker 1: a better way to describe it. Let's say, if a
Speaker 1: car was going to hit that structure, we would be
Speaker 1: hit first. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, Because the direction of West Broadway is heading
Speaker 2: south and we were on that southeast corner.
Speaker 1: So we were right there in the line of danger.
Speaker 1: We didn't realize or didn't think about that. You don't
Speaker 1: you just sit outside and eat. So we're going to
Speaker 1: sit at this table. And we had, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: a strange amount of time that we debated where everybody
Speaker 1: was going to sit. I can't remember why, but I
Speaker 1: think it was me who were saying, well, you go there,
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: Why I don't know, but there was a discussion, and
Speaker 2: finally it turned out that you and I had our
Speaker 2: backs to the road. And these structures are out in
Speaker 2: the road where people would park for people would be driving,
Speaker 2: but you're actually taking up a lane. Basically, these structures
Speaker 2: are jutting out. A lot fewer of them because the
Speaker 2: city came down on them, but this is one of
Speaker 2: the ones that is left over from the pandemic. And
Speaker 2: then Sabine was sitting across from us, but you and
Speaker 2: I had our backs to the traffic.
Speaker 1: Coming, so Sabine could see, but there was a little
Speaker 1: barrier she had had to lift up, so she couldn't
Speaker 1: see it clearly, the traffic that was coming. So we're
Speaker 1: sitting there having a good time, enjoying lunch, and our
Speaker 1: back is to the traffic and I hear, well, I
Speaker 1: guess we all hear screeching tires, right, screeching. We start
Speaker 1: to hear this. So by the time you hear the
Speaker 1: screeching tires, then you hear impact. Impact. You hear a
Speaker 1: vehicle crash into another. Now at this point I turn
Speaker 1: and look back, but I have to sit up a
Speaker 1: little bit because of a little barrier to see clearly
Speaker 1: what was coming. And what I saw coming at speed
Speaker 1: was a white mini van with the red cross label
Speaker 1: on the front. This is a true sorry, right Cross.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm not trying to call you all out,
Speaker 1: but this is what was coming at us. So imagine that, folks,
Speaker 1: you are sitting with a piece of plywood as the
Speaker 1: only thing between you and a vehicle coming at speed
Speaker 1: that had just crashed into another parked car that's coming
Speaker 1: at you. So what was the resulting action?
Speaker 2: And you say this as if there was time it
Speaker 2: was as if it was in still motion, but it
Speaker 2: was a split second, and you heard and saw what
Speaker 2: you saw, and you took me and you threw me
Speaker 2: like you threw me as far away from where the
Speaker 2: car would have been coming. And I landed on top
Speaker 2: of this older gentleman who then landed on the floor
Speaker 2: as well, so I was thrown onto him, which caused
Speaker 2: him to fall over. And I'm laying on top of
Speaker 2: a man. And then, by the way, everyone else in
Speaker 2: the restaurant, because hearing this and then seeing our reaction,
Speaker 2: everyone started jumping, like you know, like plates were flying.
Speaker 3: Everybody was run.
Speaker 1: Well, please know everybody, as this is happening, you hear
Speaker 1: glasses breaking, crashing down. Everything is just it is an
Speaker 1: insane scene. I don't realize you're on top of the
Speaker 1: other guy.
Speaker 2: And Sabina, I've got to say she had some quick
Speaker 2: reflexes that she obviously inherited from you, because she jumped
Speaker 2: as well, like she just took off. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was everybody. I was really impressed because I know you
Speaker 2: either is it flight, flight, fight, or freeze. I think
Speaker 2: I froze in that second, but man, I ended up
Speaker 2: flying and.
Speaker 1: Me and my black child know how to fight.
Speaker 3: We do, but it was this akromm.
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry, sir. On top of it, he was like,
Speaker 2: it's okay, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So tables are turned over, bags are everywhere, chairs are
Speaker 1: strewn about. So we just calmed down for a second
Speaker 1: and we walk around to the outside of the sitting
Speaker 1: area and sure enough, and you tell me what you think.
Speaker 1: Think how this She finally was able and it was
Speaker 1: a woman driving this Red Cross van. It was I
Speaker 1: think she had one passenger in there with her. But
Speaker 1: she eventually stopped at how far from that plywood and
Speaker 1: from our backs, which one say it.
Speaker 2: Was one foot?
Speaker 3: I mean, it was scary.
Speaker 2: It was everybody like we were shaking.
Speaker 3: It was a scary. Oh my god. That could have
Speaker 3: been much worse.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if her hitting the car was
Speaker 2: a buffer for her to then to be able to stop.
Speaker 2: But it was actually the chef, the chef of the
Speaker 2: restaurant's car park there, so he came out. But it
Speaker 2: was It was interesting because in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 2: the Red Cross usually comes to the scene of an
Speaker 2: accident or a tragedy or a trauma instead of causing it,
Speaker 2: which is what unfortunately this poor driver did. And I
Speaker 2: don't know that she spoke much English, because never once
Speaker 2: did she come to say everybody, okay, I'm so sorry. Nothing.
Speaker 2: She was just kind of stayed in her vehicle. Maybe
Speaker 2: she was embarrassed. I don't know, but it was. It
Speaker 2: was definitely you know, you live in New York enough
Speaker 2: and enough, thing's good. I've never had anything like that
Speaker 2: happen where you thought, oh my god, I was inches
Speaker 2: away from a very serious and potentially deadly situation and
Speaker 2: I we.
Speaker 1: We went back, but this was a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: We went back.
Speaker 1: We we just to be like, hey guys, it's been
Speaker 1: long enough. Let's just go get this. We like the food,
Speaker 1: let's get it. We like the food. But we sat
Speaker 1: in that same seat, well, it was the only seat open.
Speaker 3: Though it was a beautiful day.
Speaker 2: We thought, you know what, let's go back and let's
Speaker 2: you know, like you know, if you have an accent,
Speaker 2: you get back up on your horse.
Speaker 3: Right, let's just get back on this table. We'll be fine.
Speaker 2: We could not.
Speaker 1: We cannot be horse launch ever.
Speaker 2: You were nervous. The entire every noise, every every visual,
Speaker 2: I mean car that drove by it, it was just like,
Speaker 2: we can't come back here again. You can't sit in
Speaker 2: that seat again. It's just too much.
Speaker 1: After the experience we had. But it made us think
Speaker 1: because that day, so many things had to come in
Speaker 1: to play, and so many things had to go a
Speaker 1: certain way for us to end up in that seat
Speaker 1: at that exact moment. Life is funny that way. I mean,
Speaker 1: so many decisions, little decisions we made, even to go there,
Speaker 1: the time we went there, where we decided to sit
Speaker 1: who we decided to place where in those seats, because
Speaker 1: you know what scared me is that Sabine was supposed
Speaker 1: to sit in the seat that I ended up sitting
Speaker 1: in right on that side. It just it's a weird.
Speaker 2: Life is funny, And if something had gone terribly you
Speaker 2: would be going over those moments in your mind at
Speaker 2: nauseum because you'd think I should have done this, I
Speaker 2: could have done this, Why did we do that? And
Speaker 2: it brought you back to so many moments in your
Speaker 2: life where you rethink and you try to change the
Speaker 2: past by thinking you should have done something differently, when
Speaker 2: in reality, sometimes you just have to accept what happened
Speaker 2: and then make better choices going forward, which means we
Speaker 2: should not sit in that seat again. And I actually
Speaker 2: don't even know that I want to sit in an
Speaker 2: outside structure again, because you feel like the sense of
Speaker 2: invincibility until something like that happens and you think it
Speaker 2: just takes you're Now, I'm trusting that every driver driving
Speaker 2: down those streets in Manhattan is paying attention, isn't you know,
Speaker 2: messing with their phone or changing the channel on their
Speaker 2: you know, on whatever music they're listening to. It takes
Speaker 2: one second to look down to miss and to to
Speaker 2: hit something or someone. And so yes, I I am
Speaker 2: changing my behavior and even trying it again. Making it
Speaker 2: known that we can't sit there peacefully is all I
Speaker 2: need to know that I probably am not going to
Speaker 2: sit out in those structures again.
Speaker 1: That's a one hundred percentury story that them.
Speaker 2: It also made us. These are all the little moments,
Speaker 2: you know, where you just it's again time. We're all
Speaker 2: on borrow time. No one knows what tomorrow brings, and
Speaker 2: it's just another reminder. We kind of really felt it
Speaker 2: that day, and it's continued for us to appreciate what
Speaker 2: you have, appreciate who you're with, tell the people you
Speaker 2: love that you love them. It's just you never know.
Speaker 2: It can take one second and everything changes.
Speaker 1: It was a lesson. It was a lesson, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad I learned it. And that's going to pay off
Speaker 1: for us at some point somewhere else. We're going to
Speaker 1: make a decision based on that experience that's going to
Speaker 1: pay off for us, and we don't even realize how
Speaker 1: it's going to pay off. So we'll see moving forward.
Speaker 1: But we do want you all to know your folks
Speaker 1: in Chicago in the surrounding area, we're going to see
Speaker 1: you only a couple of weeks. Now. I might not
Speaker 1: run the marathon, but I'm still going to be there
Speaker 1: because we're actually going to do a recording of our
Speaker 1: podcast live at the Expo. Yes, at the expos or
Speaker 1: the Chicago Maryland.
Speaker 2: Yes, And it's I had the pleasure of going two
Speaker 2: years ago. And it's this bustling, big fun center where
Speaker 2: everyone's picking up their bibs. You have to get you know,
Speaker 2: some things before you run a race. You have to
Speaker 2: have your number, you have to have your tracking device.
Speaker 1: That happening time.
Speaker 3: It's just really fun.
Speaker 2: So we're going to be there's a stage there we're
Speaker 2: going to be on from four pm. To five pm
Speaker 2: Chicago time, so local time, I guess that's Central time zone.
Speaker 2: We'll be doing a live podcast, So if you happen
Speaker 2: to be in the Chicago area on Friday, October eleventh
Speaker 2: at four pm at the Expo Center where the marathon
Speaker 2: is all taking place or right there, I don't know
Speaker 2: exact I don't know Chicago well enough to say where
Speaker 2: are the Expo Center is, but you can google it
Speaker 2: and find it, and we'd love to see you. We'd
Speaker 2: love to have you swing by, and we hope you
Speaker 2: guys enjoy whatever it is we have to say.
Speaker 3: We haven't figured it out yet, and a lot.
Speaker 2: Of it might have to do with whether or not
Speaker 2: you're running the race or not.
Speaker 1: It will hopefully, I mean, you know I'm going to try.
Speaker 3: I know you're going to try.
Speaker 1: So even as bad as it was today, I had
Speaker 1: to quit in a mile and a half, I would
Speaker 1: keep running if that was marathon day, I know you're
Speaker 1: keeping going. So but we are. This is fun, like
Speaker 1: I say, folks, and you're right. You reminded me of
Speaker 1: it in the on the train right here today, like
Speaker 1: just where we were a while back to now to
Speaker 1: the point like damn, we need a vacation, Like, we're
Speaker 1: so busy and so much going on. It's all the
Speaker 1: exciting stuff.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: It's all stuff that we are choosing to do, yes,
Speaker 1: and not an assignment being handed to us. So it's
Speaker 1: just I love you, baby, and it's been as a
Speaker 1: hell of a journey and it continues, and it's just
Speaker 1: to be sitting here this moment, this day, surviving car
Speaker 1: crashes at restaurants, at a brunch and all the other.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 1: Soon.
Speaker 2: We had a great weekend. We should mention, did you
Speaker 2: want to? We were going to talk about it.
Speaker 3: My birthday was a month ago birthday weekend.
Speaker 1: My gift finally paid off just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this was wonderful birthday celebration. Yes, on
Speaker 1: my birthday August nineteenth, rold took me up with several gifts,
Speaker 1: but one that she gave me and we didn't say
Speaker 1: it at the time concert tickets to one of my
Speaker 1: absolute favorite artists right now, Teddy Swims.
Speaker 3: Teddy Swims, Teddy wo amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh my voice is effortless. How he does that? He
Speaker 1: gets like he gives no effort or energy into that voice,
Speaker 1: belting that out.
Speaker 2: It's so soulful. It's so soulful, Okay, can I say this?
Speaker 2: So I was telling my mom about where we went,
Speaker 2: and she didn't she'd never heard of him before. I
Speaker 2: so Teddy swims. So I sent her one of his
Speaker 2: songs and she wrote back, is he white? Because he's
Speaker 2: so soulful it's actually shocking. You can't imagine this white
Speaker 2: boy is singing the way he is singing. But man,
Speaker 2: he can belt it out and it's just the depth.
Speaker 2: He sings with such depth and it's hard to describe
Speaker 2: until you hear it. But we would urge everybody to
Speaker 2: check him out. He's phenomenal. And the opening act.
Speaker 1: Brilin You on this Country artist Brelin, black guy from
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Amazing voice. Love him, love him. This was
Speaker 1: the best that I want all my birthday gifts now
Speaker 1: to be paid off in a month or two because
Speaker 1: it seems like a constant celebration. But we were in
Speaker 1: an Atlantic city. Someone was interesting, people watching and stuff
Speaker 1: we love watch.
Speaker 3: Oh man, so fun.
Speaker 1: It was great. I am not going we're gonna wrap
Speaker 1: this up because I'm not gonna tell them the story
Speaker 1: about how you embarrassed me more than you probably ever
Speaker 1: embarrassed me at that concert.
Speaker 2: We're gonna save it for another story.
Speaker 1: Let's do it later because it's it's I really want
Speaker 1: to dive deep into that.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I did it. I embarrassed myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately I was at long for the ride. But folks,
Speaker 1: that's it for now. It's been a lot going on.
Speaker 1: We are so so frankly happy, and so that probably
Speaker 1: means somebody's coming for us real soon. But it's been great.
Speaker 1: We hope you all are doing well as well. We
Speaker 1: have a journey to continue with you all with the
Speaker 1: I Do Part two, the daily newscast that we're we're
Speaker 1: doing now with iHeart, and now with that, we're continuing
Speaker 1: with our regular Amy and TJ podcast, And we have
Speaker 1: to say, look, Amy Sugarman and the folks at iHeart,
Speaker 1: thank you. Look there's that needs to be said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you all have believed in us and invested in us,
Speaker 1: in us and encouraged us and supported us along this
Speaker 1: journey as we figure things out. And it's just been
Speaker 1: a great, great, great, great partner to have right now.
Speaker 2: They have been amazing partners professionally and even personally, just
Speaker 2: always there to support us and to help build what
Speaker 2: we're trying to build here. And thank you all. Thank
Speaker 2: you for listening and for keeping up with all the
Speaker 2: podcasts that might be entering into your phone, like another one.
Speaker 2: I think my mom and dad said that to me.
Speaker 2: Every time I look there are more podcasts that I'm
Speaker 2: behind on. I was like, so sorry that I'm inundating
Speaker 2: your life with podcasts.
Speaker 1: We are the Amy and TJ. We are the DJ
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