Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: Hey folks, it is Saturday, June twenty eighth, and are
Speaker 2: you up for a recovery run with us? Welcome to
Speaker 2: this recovery episode of Amy and TJ Rols.
Speaker 3: We decided.
Speaker 2: Hey, we are runners, and in the real running world,
Speaker 2: you run all week and sometimes you have to have
Speaker 2: what's called.
Speaker 3: A recovery run.
Speaker 2: And please do tell the folks what that means.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's actually a definition out there, and I think
Speaker 1: most runners already know it, but for those of you
Speaker 1: who don't, a recovery run is a short, low intensity
Speaker 1: run performed after a strenuous workout to aid in recovery
Speaker 1: and reduce stiffness. Yes, so everyone needs a little recovery run.
Speaker 1: See where we're getting to deal with all of the
Speaker 1: stress your body stiffens with all of the negative news headlines.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a with the run at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the week to.
Speaker 3: Answer the other couple of wars going on.
Speaker 1: Yees correct, And then all of the personal drama and
Speaker 1: trauma we've all probably experienced during the week in parenting
Speaker 1: and relationships and friendships and work, yes.
Speaker 3: Even in Venice. Right now, there's tension.
Speaker 1: For God's sake, life can be hard, and we all
Speaker 1: need a recovery run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we want to keep our runs going with you.
Speaker 2: We have our Monday through Friday in which we of
Speaker 2: course talk all the news headlines, but the hey, let's
Speaker 2: have a recovery run, and we're actually gonna tell you
Speaker 2: all the things, the tools, and really just some randomness
Speaker 2: how we go about and how we've gone about surviving
Speaker 2: some of these very difficult weeks world. Have you got
Speaker 2: kind of a general list there with some of these
Speaker 2: things I did on my own, some you did on
Speaker 2: your own, some of these things we did together. But
Speaker 2: these are the things that helped us get through the week.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So I actually started my week feeling a
Speaker 1: little heavy. I think a lot of folks did, perhaps
Speaker 1: with the news of the world. And I finally, and
Speaker 1: I say finally, picked up one of so many personal
Speaker 1: journals that had been collecting by my night side in
Speaker 1: my night's my night stand, excuse me, right by the
Speaker 1: side of my bed. And you know, people give them
Speaker 1: to you as gifts, and it's such a cool thing,
Speaker 1: and everyone tells you how powerful and transformational journaling can be,
Speaker 1: and so I actually decided to pick up one of
Speaker 1: these journals. You saw it, right, It was read and
Speaker 1: I thought you made fun of it because it said
Speaker 1: follow your dreams. Doesn't that sound like something you would
Speaker 1: make fun of me for exactly? Okay? So there was
Speaker 1: it was the one that was on top. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so I picked it up and I went outside and
Speaker 1: I committed to thirty minutes of writing in this journal
Speaker 1: about what I was feeling, what I had learned, what
Speaker 1: I was learning about myself. And I'm telling you it
Speaker 1: was transformative. I felt lighter, like all the things that
Speaker 1: I was thinking and ruminating about.
Speaker 3: Wait, just getting it out. Are you supposed to go
Speaker 3: back and read.
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't gone back and read it, but getting.
Speaker 3: It out, Okay, that's the point, okay.
Speaker 1: And I think maybe yes, of course, when you get
Speaker 1: past certain points and you can reflect back six months ago,
Speaker 1: a year ago and see how far you've come, that
Speaker 1: also is helpful. But I am telling you my body
Speaker 1: physically felt lighter, my heart was softer, my energy was greater.
Speaker 1: And I know people like duh, but actually try it.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. So that was something I did.
Speaker 3: Nobody's ever given me a journal and say, hey, lets
Speaker 3: try this to.
Speaker 1: Jay your birthday's coming out.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, would you, Oh my god, would you?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? Can you please?
Speaker 1: I'll get you a special pen.
Speaker 3: Can I have a sweet message in the front y?
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll make sure it does.
Speaker 2: Guys and gals are so different. This is how you
Speaker 2: got your piece to start the week.
Speaker 3: Ah, I was outside a night journaled. I was on
Speaker 3: a motorcycle, riding across the state line. I did that,
Speaker 3: you know, I love.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize I didn't tell you I went because
Speaker 2: I leave so early in the morning. I got out,
Speaker 2: hopped on the bike at six am, and I was
Speaker 2: out for a was this a forty five minute probably
Speaker 2: ride from Lower Manhattan to uh up Cross Fort Lee,
Speaker 2: the George Washington Bridge, then up north New Jersey. And
Speaker 2: there's a great state line lookout park up there that
Speaker 2: I've been going to for years. And went out that
Speaker 2: it took a few pictures, enjoyed the view this on
Speaker 2: the bike that morning, nobody.
Speaker 1: Out, So I knew you had ridden your motorcycle, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know you went that far. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a commitment, but that's so cool. I love that you
Speaker 1: did that. I love that you went into nature. How
Speaker 1: did that did that change how you felt?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I went, I rode by nature. I didn't go in
Speaker 2: the nature. I saw it as I sped by. Even
Speaker 2: when I went to the lookout place, you know, I
Speaker 2: just stayed right there on the concrete with the bike,
Speaker 2: looked out at the water a little bit across to
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 3: And I came on back.
Speaker 1: And how did you feel afterwards? Like before you went
Speaker 1: and then after, Oh, it's invigorating.
Speaker 2: And you know, riding a motorcycle is one of the
Speaker 2: few things I compared to rock climbing, and I love
Speaker 2: it because when you're doing it, you cannot have anything
Speaker 2: else on your mind. You have to play such close
Speaker 2: attention on a motorcycle that if you're lost in your
Speaker 2: thoughts somewhere, you're gonna make a mistake. You're gonna miss something.
Speaker 3: So that's why I do. I like it.
Speaker 1: I love that you have that outlet. That's very, very cool,
Speaker 1: And it's good to have outlets without each other because
Speaker 1: we spend so much time together finding something it's rare.
Speaker 1: But this week I also went out with my girlfriends
Speaker 1: to a place that I have loved for over a
Speaker 1: decade that I haven't been back to in I believe
Speaker 1: a year and a half perhaps, But it's a place
Speaker 1: called Marie Chrisis.
Speaker 3: Probably on me. You have a black boyfriend, heterosexual boyfriend.
Speaker 1: It is a gay Broadway singing bar with a piano.
Speaker 1: If you ever come, yeah, you have come with me
Speaker 1: a couple of times. But this is a place in
Speaker 1: the West Village. If you do ever go to New
Speaker 1: York City, I urge you if you love Broadway and
Speaker 1: you love show tunes. This is such a unique and
Speaker 1: spectacular place that's been there the nineteen fifties, and it's
Speaker 1: exactly the same as it was in the nineteen fifties
Speaker 1: as it is now in twenty twenty five, and there's
Speaker 1: a feeling of community. Where else can you go and
Speaker 1: just belt out songs and it doesn't matter how you're singing.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I went there just for two hours.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how you're singing.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, a lot of people are really good in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're really good.
Speaker 3: And they get on to you. If you're not as good,
Speaker 3: and if you don't know.
Speaker 1: Lyrics, just let the really good singers drown you out.
Speaker 1: And it's just a joyful place, and so it was
Speaker 1: an outlet that I had not I hadn't experienced in
Speaker 1: a while. And it really also just it gave me joy,
Speaker 1: and I just I felt changed because of it. When
Speaker 1: you start taking the moment to prioritize fun and especially
Speaker 1: things you've been putting off or what you used to do,
Speaker 1: and you just make time for it. I mean I
Speaker 1: actually was gone because I came back afterwards. I was
Speaker 1: back home at eight pm, eight thirty, but I was
Speaker 1: gone for two hours at the most.
Speaker 3: Right, What was I doing?
Speaker 1: You were chilling at the apartment. Yeah, yeah, you were cool.
Speaker 1: You you texted me on my way and you said,
Speaker 1: babe and joy have fun and you said it in
Speaker 1: all caps, or you wrote it in all caps. But
Speaker 1: I knew that's because you were on your computer. I
Speaker 1: knew you weren't screaming that at me. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: I I came back happier, and that is something to remember.
Speaker 3: That was a fun night, even though we weren't hanging
Speaker 3: out together.
Speaker 1: And then you you experienced some joy through music. What
Speaker 1: happened you Blanco Brown, Blanco Brown that you were we
Speaker 1: were talking about what we each did individually first. That
Speaker 1: gave us some joy.
Speaker 2: You you this gave you joy as well. We did
Speaker 2: this together. But I have I've been on a Blanco
Speaker 2: Brown kick here lately.
Speaker 3: This start.
Speaker 2: If you all don't know Blanco Brown, He's a brother
Speaker 2: from Atlanta who was a country music star and if
Speaker 2: you're the name that's not familiar, got really popular on
Speaker 2: TikTok online with that song get Up do the Cowboy
Speaker 2: Boogie and me that that song?
Speaker 3: But why have I been? What song? It started with?
Speaker 3: What you know what?
Speaker 2: It's a Cane Brown song with Marshmallow. Okay, so that
Speaker 2: song is on a playlist, the playlist runs out and
Speaker 2: it starts just playing similar music. So I'm getting a
Speaker 2: lot of country music with hip hop beats under it.
Speaker 2: And so Blanco Brown came up and I started listening
Speaker 2: to some more of his stuff and now I'm just hooked.
Speaker 2: I've had an almost exclusive Blanco.
Speaker 1: Brown week the Power of Music, And yes.
Speaker 2: I've been blaring that stuff and you don't even know
Speaker 2: what you listen to, but I'm listening to him and
Speaker 2: TI rap under a country beat.
Speaker 1: I'm loving it. That is amazing, And like that is
Speaker 1: one of those things where when you listen to something
Speaker 1: that you love and you find new music AI. That's
Speaker 1: also the power of AI. What did we do before?
Speaker 1: Then when they start playing suggested music that's similar to
Speaker 1: what you like, you discover all sorts of new things.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, we're going to tell you the last two
Speaker 2: things that brought us joy this week. One of them
Speaker 2: we have to apologize to our kids for and the
Speaker 2: other let's just simply say meatballs.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this edition of Amy and TJ, and
Speaker 1: we are taking you on a recovery run with us
Speaker 1: the things we did throughout the week to bring us
Speaker 1: some joy, to cover a little bit from all the
Speaker 1: heaviness that we all experience each and every week. And
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about some of the things
Speaker 1: we did on our own, but there were a couple
Speaker 1: of things that we did and are doing together that
Speaker 1: are bringing us joy. Should we talk about meatballs first?
Speaker 2: We are on others happened. We've been went back Keto
Speaker 2: for I guess maybe six.
Speaker 3: Weeks now, yeah, six weeks. So obviously people understand Keto.
Speaker 3: It's uh, you explain.
Speaker 1: I'll explain Keto because I was I was a Keto
Speaker 1: what do they call it? Ketov angela evangelist, Keto evangelist.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. No, I know, I've tried to
Speaker 1: really not be so annoying, but yes, I went off
Speaker 1: of it for a little while. We're back on it,
Speaker 1: and so yes, we don't really we massively limit our carbs,
Speaker 1: and we're always looking for some delicious fat. It could
Speaker 1: be animal fat, it can be vegetable fat. And we
Speaker 1: got on a meatball kick and so we have we
Speaker 1: have been loving meatballs. You can't have the meatballs with
Speaker 1: the breading, so it's a specific We have to find
Speaker 1: Italian restaurants that do the meatballs with cheese and tomato sauce.
Speaker 3: Let's give our boy credit.
Speaker 1: Perry Club.
Speaker 3: Ferry Club was that.
Speaker 1: West Village, Yes, West Village.
Speaker 2: You all can get to brandon our guy over at
Speaker 2: the Perry Club. Still the best meatball I've ever had
Speaker 2: in my life, Yes, and at that place.
Speaker 1: The problem is it that particular restaurant doesn't open until
Speaker 1: five PM, and that is almost past our bed time
Speaker 1: at this point. So we have to find restaurants at
Speaker 1: least when we're hungry in the middle of the day,
Speaker 1: which is everyone else's end of the day. And we
Speaker 1: we actually stumbled on the meatball shop in Hell's Kitchen
Speaker 1: because Eva, my oldest, was in a play and she
Speaker 1: was she was in an off Broadway play was that night.
Speaker 1: It was that night and it was her first paid
Speaker 1: professional appearance.
Speaker 3: The one with the guy. The kid got the lines.
Speaker 1: Yes, so we didn't know afterwards. We didn't know until afterwards,
Speaker 1: but she, I guess one of them, I don't know who.
Speaker 1: She had a scene with a partner. Someone skipped ahead
Speaker 1: to the end of the scene and then they had
Speaker 1: to kind of backtrack and make stuff up an ad
Speaker 1: lib to get back on track with the script. But
Speaker 1: I didn't notice. Did you notice?
Speaker 2: Yes, because I kept saying always that if he asked
Speaker 2: her one more time, can I take you home?
Speaker 3: I'm going to lose my mind?
Speaker 1: Right? We thought that was weird.
Speaker 2: That tis then we learned he was trying to get
Speaker 2: the scene back on track.
Speaker 1: So yes, this is, yes, this is These are young
Speaker 1: budding artists who are still working out their their craft.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we wouldn't normally probably not ever be in
Speaker 1: the Hell's Kitchen area because we'd stay downtown in at
Speaker 1: ten block radius. But we ended up finding the meatball
Speaker 1: shop and got all sorts of chicken meatballs, veal meatballs.
Speaker 1: We will be back. We will take a trip just
Speaker 1: to go back there. It was so good.
Speaker 2: The special for the day was the jerk chicken meatball.
Speaker 2: I think we didn't get that. But and then they
Speaker 2: were so nice. They allowed us to sit outside and
Speaker 2: stay hang out and have a drink a little longer.
Speaker 3: They were great. But we will be back to that Shoa.
Speaker 1: Yes. And then we found a fantastic place to order
Speaker 1: meatballs in and we went to Parm and we had
Speaker 1: their meatballs, and then we had their meatball Parm. So
Speaker 1: we just can't have the pasta. It's just we had
Speaker 1: a side salad instead, which was lovely. Anyway. So we've
Speaker 1: been on a huge meatball kick and that has brought
Speaker 1: us so much joy. We're out to keep finding all
Speaker 1: the great meatball shops in New York City.
Speaker 3: Okay, the last thing that brought us joy.
Speaker 2: Look, we don't no, we'd never avoid our kids. We
Speaker 2: never get an opportunity to avoid our kids. They always
Speaker 2: need something. So Bean is twelve. Soon as she gets
Speaker 2: out of school, she darts towards wherever we are. Yes
Speaker 2: and Elisa's home for the summer, and Ava is actually
Speaker 2: transitioning to her grown up apartment, if you will. So
Speaker 2: she's hanging staying at the apartment for the summer. So
Speaker 2: we got full house all the time. But they all
Speaker 2: just happen to be out of town this weekend. So
Speaker 2: what did mama and daddy do.
Speaker 1: We booked an airbnb on a lake about an hour
Speaker 1: and change outside of the city, and we are now
Speaker 1: giving ourselves some very much needed alone time. And yes,
Speaker 1: we're together all the time, but we're working and we're
Speaker 1: managing kids. Tej's been saying this to me a lot lately.
Speaker 1: We are parenting entirely too much because at our ages,
Speaker 1: why are we parenting so much? You know, we love
Speaker 1: our kids. In fact, we're about to go on a
Speaker 1: family vacation soon enough, so this is actually, I feel
Speaker 1: like this is really smart. We deserve this, We deserve this.
Speaker 1: So we have four nights where it's just the two
Speaker 1: of us, and honestly, the Wi Fi is spotty. We
Speaker 1: can't really communicate that well with anybody, which we're not
Speaker 1: upset about. And yes, we come back and we pretty
Speaker 1: much go straight into family vacation. So this is a
Speaker 1: little bit indulgent, but my god, it's it's bringing us joy.
Speaker 2: Look, we are blessed to be able to travel and
Speaker 2: keep working as we're doing it.
Speaker 3: But yes, as we do.
Speaker 2: I just saw a pontoon boat go by as we
Speaker 2: were saying, all of that road, but this is great.
Speaker 2: So it is a stressful week for us. We get
Speaker 2: up very early and then we end up working later
Speaker 2: than we should, and we're trying to set better boundaries.
Speaker 2: But we take the moments to laugh about a meatball,
Speaker 2: to take a motorcycle ride, to something journal journal.
Speaker 1: I can't wait till you start journaling.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to make sure I come on here
Speaker 2: and talk about it.
Speaker 3: Maybe read some injuries.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we hope that maybe you take some time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's about prioritizing fun or prioritizing yourself or your relationship,
Speaker 1: and so everybody deserves to go on a recovery run.
Speaker 1: We hope you can find yours this weekend. But thank
Speaker 1: you for listening to us, and have a wonderful Saturday, everybody,