Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2: Hey there, folks, it is Sunday, May the fourth be
Speaker 2: with you, and welcome to this special Sunday edition of
Speaker 2: Morning Run. Robes something I think you more so than me,
Speaker 2: something about our Monday through Friday Morning Run. You've been
Speaker 2: getting a lot of feedback on so we thought we
Speaker 2: try something new here today. But it's our quote of
Speaker 2: the day. We put one at the end of the
Speaker 2: Morning Run every single day, and you have gotten some
Speaker 2: really positive feedback about it.
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 1: I have heard from so many of my friends and
Speaker 1: family members who listen to Morning Run, and a lot
Speaker 1: of times they look forward each and every day to
Speaker 1: the end of Morning Run, which is when we do
Speaker 1: our quote of the day. And so when we have
Speaker 1: ones that are personal or that somehow resonate with one
Speaker 1: of them, I always hear back from them. So it's
Speaker 1: always good to hear that. That is at least the
Speaker 1: feedback I'm getting. One of the favorite arts of Morning
Speaker 1: Run that we end on a positive note, We end
Speaker 1: on something to think about. We end on something that
Speaker 1: you can actually use to change perhaps the course of
Speaker 1: your day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so it's something we keep files and files.
Speaker 2: This is something we've done for years. Literally have stacks
Speaker 2: and stacks of paper with quotes on them, and we
Speaker 2: use them every morning. And look, everybody, you know, just
Speaker 2: a little and some of them I have taken down
Speaker 2: over the years. It doesn't have to be from some
Speaker 2: famous person. Sometimes as a kid walking down the street
Speaker 2: and I just hear something funny, you're cute that I
Speaker 2: want to be reminded of that. Everybody can use I
Speaker 2: get them from everywhere. So what we thought we'd do
Speaker 2: is here on Sunday instead of doing something faith based.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people are thinking about faith
Speaker 2: and spending time with family, but everybody's looking for it.
Speaker 2: A little inspiration on Sunday, right, a little recharge, I
Speaker 2: do think.
Speaker 1: So this is actually technically the first day of the week, right,
Speaker 1: Sunday is still the end of the weekend, but the
Speaker 1: start of a new week. And I do think that's
Speaker 1: a moment to reflect, a moment to think about and be. Basically,
Speaker 1: I feel like to be in intentional for the week
Speaker 1: and sometimes to get a little motivation to say, how
Speaker 1: do I want to start my week, how do I
Speaker 1: want to live my life this week?
Speaker 3: And how do I want to change and do better
Speaker 3: and be better.
Speaker 1: And I do think sometimes looking at quotes and getting
Speaker 1: inspired by other people's experiences and other people's thoughts and
Speaker 1: advice has a big impact on my day. So we
Speaker 1: thought we would kind of reflect on our weekly quotes
Speaker 1: of the day and go a little bit more in depth.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm laughing now, we're going to go through
Speaker 2: the five we had for the week. We were going
Speaker 2: to kind of recap, tell you how we landed on
Speaker 2: them and what they actually mean to us. But I'm
Speaker 2: laughing now. The five quotes for the past week for
Speaker 2: us came from an NFL Hall of Famer and all
Speaker 2: time rapping great, a pop superstar and author, and one
Speaker 2: of the greatest artists of all time. So this is
Speaker 2: a good group.
Speaker 1: They These are people who have not only earned their wisdom,
Speaker 1: but have clearly earned their respect over the centuries, even
Speaker 1: perhaps with people around the world.
Speaker 2: All Right, so we'll start this was the quote on Monday.
Speaker 2: We'll give it to you, and then we'll explain to
Speaker 2: you exactly how we came upon this one. In Robes,
Speaker 2: this was actually one that you plucked out specifically because
Speaker 2: of something that was happening in the news.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Keep going no matter what, you keep moving. I know
Speaker 1: you've heard this before, but life is not a sprint.
Speaker 1: It's a marathon. We go through seasons, darkness and light,
Speaker 1: darkness and light, and we are strengthened by adversity.
Speaker 2: Now all of us could use that. You could read
Speaker 2: it over and over. There's some point in your day
Speaker 2: every single day if you look down, just read that, like,
Speaker 2: all right, I can get through the next fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: At least I got this.
Speaker 2: But this was plugged out because what was big in
Speaker 2: the news all week happened to do with the NFL
Speaker 2: draft and the biggest name in the draft, and most
Speaker 2: talked about what Shadur Sanders. You probably know what he
Speaker 2: went through, but this quote wrote because of that story
Speaker 2: you hunting it down.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is from his father, Dion Sanders, and I
Speaker 1: actually thought that perhaps, you know, we could only hope
Speaker 1: or whish the Dion or Shadur or someone who knows
Speaker 1: them listens to Morning Run and Dion could actually take
Speaker 1: solace in his own words. You know, sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've ever seen something you've written in a
Speaker 1: journal or something you wrote in your diary, and you
Speaker 1: go back, you're like, wow, that was actually really wise
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 2: To inspire yourself.
Speaker 3: Yes, I could lean on my own words.
Speaker 1: So yes, my pipe dream was that maybe Dion could
Speaker 1: lean on his own words. But it actually was cool
Speaker 1: because it worked in the moment with what they were
Speaker 1: going through as a family, but what so many of
Speaker 1: us go through just even yes daily, I loved it.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: And it's so simple. It's really so simple. But thank
Speaker 2: you for that, Deon. That was actually our quote on Monday.
Speaker 2: On Tuesday, you plucked this one out actually from an
Speaker 2: artist you're not that familiar with. You know the name,
Speaker 2: but you don't listen to a lot of the music.
Speaker 2: That's correct. I do play it a lot and you're like,
Speaker 2: who's this? I like this? But you plucked this out
Speaker 2: for a very specific reason as well.
Speaker 1: I did. So you were having a very tough twenty
Speaker 1: four hours and it was little stuff that was just
Speaker 1: building up. It's like, you know, you can have Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes you can have big stuff come at
Speaker 1: you and you you hunker down and you brace yourself
Speaker 1: and you keep going through. But when you're in that
Speaker 1: fight dealing with a bunch of big stuff, and then
Speaker 1: some little stuff happens on top. It's the straw that
Speaker 1: broke the camel's back. There's a reason why they say that.
Speaker 1: It's just it's that one last little thing that just
Speaker 1: is like enough, I can't take it that one more
Speaker 1: negative thing can happen to me, And then it does.
Speaker 1: And that's so no. You know, when you it can
Speaker 1: either happen to you or if it happens to someone
Speaker 1: you love, it affects everybody. And so I felt you're
Speaker 1: the weight of what you were dealing with. And I
Speaker 1: saw this line from Tupac and I just thought this
Speaker 1: is perfect, and we played the song.
Speaker 3: Here's the lyric though, even though you're fed up, you
Speaker 3: gotta keep your head up.
Speaker 2: It's simple Tyler song. You Ree said over and over
Speaker 2: and over in the song. If the style a song
Speaker 2: keep your head up. But it's an oldie, but a
Speaker 2: great one from Tupac is an all time of his.
Speaker 1: And I will say when you saw it, because sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't read the quote of the day until we
Speaker 1: get to it. And when you saw it, I saw
Speaker 1: your face light up and you smiled. It. Really that
Speaker 1: is kind of the one of the points we're trying
Speaker 1: to make with quote.
Speaker 3: Of the day, and even with this podcast, sometimes it.
Speaker 1: Just takes one thought, one thought that shifts your thinking,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you can be in this
Speaker 1: negative pattern or this negative spiral and somebody or someone
Speaker 1: or a quote will remind you that it's going to
Speaker 1: be okay. And everyone gets there and goes there, but
Speaker 1: you can get back up and you can make it
Speaker 1: good again, and it's within your control.
Speaker 3: And I love this lyric.
Speaker 2: All right, well, we appreciate that that was on Tuesday
Speaker 2: from Tupac. Even though you fed up, you got to
Speaker 2: keep your head up. We move now to Wednesday. This
Speaker 2: one is another song lyric, but this one was inspired
Speaker 2: by frankly A hell of a week, a very special week,
Speaker 2: a very fun week, and a very inspirational week for
Speaker 2: us because of someone that's married near and dear toss
Speaker 2: that we got to spend some time with Rachel Platten.
Speaker 1: Yes, Rachel plattin so ten years ago maybe even yeah,
Speaker 1: it was around ten years ago.
Speaker 3: I got to meet Rachel.
Speaker 1: I had just finished my battle with breast cancer and
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to have that battle coincide with
Speaker 1: a song she was writing about her mental health battle,
Speaker 1: but it ended up becoming an anthem for cancer patients
Speaker 1: and cancer survivors around the world.
Speaker 3: Fight Song. So she came on to Good Morning America
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 1: Met her there and she sang that song and tears
Speaker 1: were streaming to my face. And over the years we've
Speaker 1: found ourselves seated next to each other at different galas
Speaker 1: or different dinners. And this girl is just the real deal.
Speaker 1: She is somebody who expresses what she's been through and
Speaker 1: despite all of her success, if you actually go in
Speaker 1: and learn about her story, she spent thirteen years schlepping
Speaker 1: a piano down so waystairs and bringing band equipment into
Speaker 1: different dive bars along Bleaker Street and finally made her
Speaker 1: way and it was that song, Fight Song that got
Speaker 1: her to where she is today. And so yes, we
Speaker 1: were honored to be able to go see her give
Speaker 1: an amazing concert. It was an intimate dinner actually for
Speaker 1: mental health awareness, butse she talks very openly about her
Speaker 1: struggles with postpartum and mental health, and so this was
Speaker 1: the lyric that we use for our quote of the
Speaker 1: Day on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I'm bigger than the bad thoughts, I'm brighter than the
Speaker 2: light they're trying to steal. I won't let the bad
Speaker 2: thoughts take the wheel, and it is this is the song.
Speaker 2: This is the breathe in, Breathe Out one. Right if
Speaker 2: you hear the song, she actually tries to, I guess,
Speaker 2: coach the listener through kind of a meditation, if you will,
Speaker 2: and ask you to breathe in, breathe out. And the
Speaker 2: name of the song is bad thoughts. But we got
Speaker 2: to spend some time. We saw her performed twice this week,
Speaker 2: actually a private dinner and then at a concert. So
Speaker 2: we just adore her and this was very appropriate this week.
Speaker 3: Didn't you think like you've had a panic attack? Right,
Speaker 3: I don't know. You don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that Honestly, I don't think so
Speaker 2: because I'm told I would know it.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I have heard you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've definitely dealt with severe anxiety, and I
Speaker 1: have heard you when you're in those stressful moments breathing.
Speaker 1: You'll breathe in and you'll breathe out, and I can
Speaker 1: hear you. And that is usually the advice for someone
Speaker 1: who's going through I'm not saying you've had one, but
Speaker 1: I have definitely had a few in my life and
Speaker 1: When I hear that song, it is almost like coaching
Speaker 1: somebody through a panic attack. But it's also just a
Speaker 1: gorgeous song. So I'm bigger than the bad thoughts. I'm
Speaker 1: brighter than the light they're trying to steal. I won't
Speaker 1: let the bad thoughts take the wheel.
Speaker 2: We will turn to Thursdays quote. Now, this is one
Speaker 2: I think came out of nowhere. This is one I
Speaker 2: didn't see ahead of time. So okay, No, the Friday
Speaker 2: one is the one that I was upset about because
Speaker 2: I just wasn't in the movie for it. Okay, so
Speaker 2: we'll stick with Thursday. So Thursday's quote, explain please.
Speaker 1: So Thursday was actually May first, which was technically Mental
Speaker 1: Health Awareness. It was the first day of Mental Health
Speaker 1: Awareness Month.
Speaker 3: And so we had just come I think.
Speaker 1: We got two and a half three hours of sleep,
Speaker 1: and so we had just come from the concert that
Speaker 1: was in honor of that day, and so I was
Speaker 1: thinking about what possibly could be.
Speaker 3: A quote in honor of that day.
Speaker 1: And this is all about basically remembering and reminding ourselves
Speaker 1: that we are actually in control of our thoughts, we're
Speaker 1: in control of our reactions.
Speaker 3: And so I just I liked.
Speaker 1: This reminder that we get to choose, and it's from
Speaker 1: a I was actually surprised where it was from Paradise Lost.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was like Subscribe in high school
Speaker 1: by John Milton.
Speaker 3: Did you ever have to read Paradise Loss?
Speaker 2: I don't remember it at all.
Speaker 3: I think maybe I did, but I don't really remember
Speaker 3: any of it.
Speaker 1: It felt like one of those like important novels that
Speaker 1: you're supposed to read when you're in high school.
Speaker 3: But I love this quote.
Speaker 2: The mind is its own place and in itself can
Speaker 2: make heaven of hell, hell of heaven. Ain't that the truth?
Speaker 2: That's about perspective. You could be sitting in the most
Speaker 2: wonderful place with the most wonderful people, doing the most
Speaker 2: wonderful of things, and something in your head is bothering,
Speaker 2: you are getting in your way, and you have everything
Speaker 2: going for you, and you just decide to sometimes just
Speaker 2: nitpick or find the negative and where you are, yes,
Speaker 2: it can mess with you. But the reverse of that,
Speaker 2: when it's all going a ish, when it's all, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're just trying to save our editor from having to
Speaker 2: make an edit. But when it's all going to just
Speaker 2: ish for you, or it seems like or should be right.
Speaker 2: Everything around you is telling you you're in a bad spot,
Speaker 2: and then you see people just smiling, laughing in their
Speaker 2: way through it. I think that's the mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you do get to decide that.
Speaker 1: I think so often we give away our own power
Speaker 1: and a reminder that we do actually get to decide
Speaker 1: how we're going to feel and how we're going to
Speaker 1: react and how we're.
Speaker 3: Going to be.
Speaker 1: So I am in the middle of reading this book
Speaker 1: called You Are or We Are Not Our Thoughts, and
Speaker 1: I loved this because he made a comparison about you
Speaker 1: could be sitting in a coffee shop. It could be
Speaker 1: seventy five degrees and beautiful, and you're sipping your coffee,
Speaker 1: and you could be in the middle of dealing with
Speaker 1: like a threat from work, and your marriage is going
Speaker 1: and you're just your anxiety is up and you're just
Speaker 1: having the worst day ever. And the person next to
Speaker 1: you in the same coffee shop, drinking the same coffee,
Speaker 1: with the same weather and the same noise and the
Speaker 1: same ambiance could be having like the best day of
Speaker 1: their life. The point being is it's what's in your head.
Speaker 1: It's not the experience of where you are and what
Speaker 1: you're witnessing because you're comfortable, You're drinking a warm drink,
Speaker 1: the weather is beautiful, the birds are chirping. There's a
Speaker 1: but you could have two completely different experiences sitting side
Speaker 1: by side with one another based on what is in
Speaker 1: your head and who is in control of what is
Speaker 1: in your head.
Speaker 2: You are Since this is Sunday, we're supposed to be inspirational.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna fight you on this
Speaker 2: issue with if you think not, I don't know, but
Speaker 2: what you said makes perfect. Everybody knows what you just
Speaker 2: said is true. It's just it's a difficult to overcome sometime.
Speaker 2: But the mind can do that for you. Takes a
Speaker 2: little training, takes a little work, and ITSI takes a
Speaker 2: little rest to be able to be up.
Speaker 1: Like that all of the above, and it absolutely takes training,
Speaker 1: and we all still fall back into that dark place.
Speaker 1: But we'll give you the quote one last time just
Speaker 1: for just for you to actually think and consider it.
Speaker 1: The mind is its own place and in itself can
Speaker 1: make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.
Speaker 2: And then we turn to the last one we had
Speaker 2: for the week. On Friday. I'm a little annoyed now, Rose,
Speaker 2: because I'm seeing in the note that the quote we
Speaker 2: used was a paraphrase of the actual quote, and I'm
Speaker 2: seeing the actual quote I like better than the one
Speaker 2: we use. So yeah, this is a great way to
Speaker 2: wrap up this inspirational podcast here is by taking issue
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so that you can leave this podcast annoyed
Speaker 1: instead of inspired.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was hoping would happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the quote on Friday was if you can
Speaker 1: if you can't find inspiration today, be an inspiration.
Speaker 3: And I actually chose this.
Speaker 1: Quote because I got I was getting I was laughing
Speaker 1: at myself. I was getting frustrated because I didn't feel inspired.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find something that I thought spoke to me.
Speaker 1: And then I saw this quote and I laughed out
Speaker 1: loud because I thought, wow, here I am searching for something,
Speaker 1: but I could actually just be something and.
Speaker 2: I liked it. That is in line with the other
Speaker 2: quotes I've heard before, and it makes sense. The hope,
Speaker 2: the one I used plenty of times before was stop
Speaker 2: waiting for somebody else to be the light in the room.
Speaker 2: You be the light. So that's simple. Just be the light.
Speaker 2: This is in line with that, and it makes sense
Speaker 2: you called me again, man. I guess I had a
Speaker 2: rough week of sleep. We partied for two nights, only
Speaker 2: got about two and a half hours of sleep because
Speaker 2: of Rachel Plattin. But I saw his own Friday and
Speaker 2: I just roll my eyes, like, give me a break.
Speaker 2: I did not want to hear this right now, but
Speaker 2: now I see where you got it, and now I
Speaker 2: like it better.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I actually didn't even do a deep dive when
Speaker 1: I put it out there on Friday.
Speaker 3: I just saw that it was unknown.
Speaker 1: And when I knew we were doing this podcast about
Speaker 1: doing a deeper dive into our quotes, I thought, let
Speaker 1: me just see if I can find the source or
Speaker 1: the origin of this quote. And sure enough, it's paraphrased
Speaker 1: from Pablo Picasso. So yes, sometimes things get lost in translation,
Speaker 1: and then sometimes things get changed and moved a little bit.
Speaker 1: And while I obviously liked the outcome of our quote
Speaker 1: of the day, here is what Pablo Picasso actually said
Speaker 1: when translated.
Speaker 2: More specifically, Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Speaker 2: That one is familiar to me. Inspiration exists, but it
Speaker 2: has to find you working. I love that the idea
Speaker 2: that you can't just sit on your butt and expect
Speaker 2: it all to come to you. You got to be
Speaker 2: out there grinding in some way. So I love love
Speaker 2: that quote. I didn't know the two were connected or
Speaker 2: paraphrase in some way, So I guess we get in
Speaker 2: six quotes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know what I think the idea obviously,
Speaker 1: the idea is, yes, if you want to be inspired,
Speaker 1: you know, work hard and things will happen and you'll
Speaker 1: find inspiration and the creativity will come because you're busy
Speaker 1: and you're doing things. And yes, be the creative person,
Speaker 1: Be the person who inspires yourself. And I think all
Speaker 1: of these quotes have a similar theme.
Speaker 3: It's about recognizing in your own power.
Speaker 1: It's about recognizing your own worth, and it's about recognizing
Speaker 1: the impact that you can actually have, not just on
Speaker 1: other people, but on your self.
Speaker 3: We are our own worst enemy, are we not.
Speaker 1: We are personally the reasons why we suffer, and so
Speaker 1: I just think it's a good There are so many
Speaker 1: different ways to say it, and so many different ways
Speaker 1: to resonate with people, but ultimately, it is about recognizing
Speaker 1: your own power.
Speaker 2: And folks, please let us know what you think this
Speaker 2: is something we just wanted to try on a Sunday,
Speaker 2: a little Sunday inspiration, possibly just a recap of the
Speaker 2: quotes of the week that many of you have commented on,
Speaker 2: but we didn't. We don't get to delve into them
Speaker 2: a whole lot on the Monday through Friday run, so
Speaker 2: we thought we'd give these to you one more time,
Speaker 2: so let us know what you think about it. I
Speaker 2: hope you like it, but we give it a shot today.
Speaker 2: We think you know what.
Speaker 1: I think it's great and I would love to actually
Speaker 1: if this works out going forward. How fun would it
Speaker 1: be to create something on social media where we could
Speaker 1: solicit quotes from you all, like we would love to
Speaker 1: hear the things that motivate you. What do you say
Speaker 1: to yourself if you have a mantra or a quote
Speaker 1: you lean on during specific times. We're going to work
Speaker 1: on that because I think that would actually be fun
Speaker 1: to say the quote of the day comes from you know,
Speaker 1: Sarah in Boston, and that would be really cool to
Speaker 1: honestly even, yes, we can say where it's from, but
Speaker 1: I love knowing that it meant something to each of
Speaker 1: you personally. So maybe we will work on that, because
Speaker 1: that would be a fun way to bring some of
Speaker 1: you into our podcast and feel like you're inspiring us
Speaker 1: as much as hopefully we can maybe every now and
Speaker 1: then inspire you.
Speaker 2: All Right, folks, we appreciate you as always well listening.
Speaker 2: We'll see you on the run tomorrow Monday,