Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome
Speaker 1: everyone to this edition of Morning Run.
Speaker 2: It's Sunday, May.
Speaker 1: No, it's not May, and you just told me it's
Speaker 1: June first, and I'm gonna have to get used to that.
Speaker 1: Every month, I have to rethink about which month it is.
Speaker 3: But two seconds ago.
Speaker 4: The very last thing I said to her before we
Speaker 4: started recording, it's June first. You know, it's it's June first,
Speaker 4: the very.
Speaker 1: Last, and then I said, welcome, it's me. It's June,
Speaker 1: June first, a new month. So welcome to this episode
Speaker 1: of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 4: Thank you for that literal demonstration of how you don't
Speaker 4: listen to anything I say.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. All right, well, you know, and we
Speaker 3: talk about this. We love actually our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Every day we give we end our Morning Runs with
Speaker 1: something to inspire you or to get you thinking.
Speaker 2: And Sundays are.
Speaker 1: Such a big day for folks to reflect and to
Speaker 1: be inspired, whether you go to church, sure, you take
Speaker 1: a hike, or whatever it is. So we thought it
Speaker 1: would be a perfect time to go through our quotes
Speaker 1: of the day, and we have a bonus quote for
Speaker 1: you at the end of this podcast, but we'll begin
Speaker 1: with how we started our week with the great King
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley. We had just actually were still in Memphis
Speaker 1: on Monday, so we decided to quote Elvis Presley.
Speaker 2: I love this quote of his.
Speaker 1: You only pass through this life once. You don't come
Speaker 1: back for an encore.
Speaker 4: Deah, take advantage. Don't we all think we got another chance?
Speaker 4: We had a little more time, We have another opportunity.
Speaker 4: We know life is no do we know life is short?
Speaker 1: We just say that, we say that, we don't live it.
Speaker 1: We say we'll do it tomorrow. We'll do that next month,
Speaker 1: We'll do that next year, we'll plan that vacation when
Speaker 1: we have more time or more money. And it's always
Speaker 1: a reminder just sometimes you need that little bit of
Speaker 1: wisdom from somebody who is just It's not anything we
Speaker 1: don't already know, but just especially when you have people
Speaker 1: who you respect to you admire, you love, it's cool
Speaker 1: to hear them remind us all that we need to
Speaker 1: take advantage of the time we have right now.
Speaker 4: And reminder from the guy who said it. He was
Speaker 4: famously known for not giving on cores. Elvis has left
Speaker 4: the building. Y'all can stand here and clap all you want,
Speaker 4: but the brother's gone. So this came from Elvis Presley, Yes,
Speaker 4: where we were on Monday, his hometown of Memphis, hanging
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 1: And he lived a short life, wow, forty two. And
Speaker 1: so it's interesting, you know he's someone who said that,
Speaker 1: and you know he didn't know. No one knows when
Speaker 1: our time comes. But it's a reminder he had a
Speaker 1: very incredible.
Speaker 2: But short life.
Speaker 1: And so it's that in and of itself, is a
Speaker 1: reminder from some island.
Speaker 4: I did not think about the guy who actually said
Speaker 4: had lived a very short life. You don't get an encore.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: He passed away three days before you were born.
Speaker 4: And that was my due date. My mom's due date
Speaker 4: that the doctor gave her was August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4: I will never forget that because I was born then
Speaker 4: three days later. So I always know the anniversary of
Speaker 4: his death. What year are we on, because that is
Speaker 4: the year that I will be turning whatever age. So
Speaker 4: this is the forty eighth year since his passing. That's
Speaker 4: kind of remarkable and that's crazy. But yes, take there
Speaker 4: from Melvis, folks, you only pass through this life once
Speaker 4: you don't come back for an encore, and then Tuesday
Speaker 4: robes you track one down from a favorite artist of mine.
Speaker 4: But of course I had no idea about this quarter.
Speaker 2: For yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1: You know, it makes sense because so many musicians are lyricists,
Speaker 1: their singers and their songwriters and Erica Badu, so of
Speaker 1: course it's not a big stretch to think that they
Speaker 1: would have inspirational things to say. But I hadn't heard
Speaker 1: this before either. This is a good one. In the morning.
Speaker 1: Instead of saying to yourself, I gotta wake up, say
Speaker 1: I get to wake up.
Speaker 2: This is exactly what.
Speaker 1: I try to remind myself when my alarm clock goes
Speaker 1: off at three a m. Monday through Friday. But the
Speaker 1: truth is, it is a privilege to wake up. It
Speaker 1: is if nothing else goes that day, at least you
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to be there and be present for it,
Speaker 1: to learn something, to grow, to experience things. And I
Speaker 1: just think it's a reminder that we can be grateful,
Speaker 1: if for nothing else, for the fact that we woke up.
Speaker 4: Isn't that the first thing that goes right for you
Speaker 4: every day? Yes, the fact that you're awake. Yes, Wow,
Speaker 4: I got another day. That literally is your first blessing
Speaker 4: of every single day, the fact you open your eyes
Speaker 4: and you get to live it. Look people going through
Speaker 4: all kinds of hell and hard times and it might
Speaker 4: be hell for you today and not looking forward to something.
Speaker 4: But geez, isn't that a win that you woke up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Any And isn't so much of life about our attitude.
Speaker 1: It's not what happens, it's not what's good or bad.
Speaker 1: It's how we.
Speaker 2: View it.
Speaker 1: And if you can view things through a positive lens,
Speaker 1: it's a game changer. And I'm someone who I really
Speaker 1: think this is true. If you start off the day
Speaker 1: like that, with that positive attitude, it will change how
Speaker 1: the rest of your day will go. What you think
Speaker 1: is what will be. I really believe that. So I
Speaker 1: love what eric Abadou said. We'll give it to you
Speaker 1: one more time in the morning.
Speaker 4: Instead of saying to yourself, I got to wake up,
Speaker 4: say I get to wake up. Thank you for that,
Speaker 4: miss Erica back dude On Wednesday. Another from this is
Speaker 4: from a self help I say self help author. He
Speaker 4: is probably considered maybe even on some people's Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1: Of self help absolutely Wayne Dyer. If you don't know
Speaker 1: who he is, I urge you to look him up
Speaker 1: because you don't have to agree with everything he says,
Speaker 1: but what he has to say about how to live
Speaker 1: your life better and how to change your attitude about life,
Speaker 1: it's inspirational. I have not read anything by this man
Speaker 1: that I didn't love, but this particular quote he gave
Speaker 1: really really spoke to us. When you judge another, you
Speaker 1: do not define them, You define yourself.
Speaker 2: That is powerful.
Speaker 4: Hey, judgment, that judgment sucked.
Speaker 2: We got We all do it. We all do it.
Speaker 4: You're looking out and people talk about it. It's a
Speaker 4: matter of projecting, right, you're doing that. You're projecting because
Speaker 4: you don't have to deal with the pain that you're
Speaker 4: dealing with inside. And that's why people do that. But
Speaker 4: if we could just stop, we just take a beat.
Speaker 4: It's training, but to stop in that moment and stop
Speaker 4: judging someone, to listen to someone, to understand somebody else's circumstances. Look,
Speaker 4: it took me a long time to get to that
Speaker 4: point too. You hear me. Now, Sometimes get people grace
Speaker 4: and mercy, like do what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 4: Like I give everybody I'm listening, let me hear the
Speaker 4: other side. Well, maybe they this and maybe this happened.
Speaker 4: It takes training, but man, it is it's a better
Speaker 4: way to live.
Speaker 1: You're a defense lawyer's dream juror. I would say that, Oh,
Speaker 1: you don't want me on a jury, Well you do
Speaker 1: if you're the defendant.
Speaker 4: If you're defend Oh whoever it is, you know what,
Speaker 4: they were having a rough day.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give them some grace.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a beat. And you know I would
Speaker 4: be in that jury room just chilling. Y'all yell at me.
Speaker 1: All y'all want you hang a jury and have zero
Speaker 1: you sleep really well that night.
Speaker 3: I really do believe that. I really do believe that.
Speaker 2: But it's true.
Speaker 1: When you start projecting your pain or something you don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with about yourself, and you start making
Speaker 1: fun of other people or judging other people, you are
Speaker 1: losing a bit of your humanity. Because what makes us
Speaker 1: feel whole and good and happy and safe is to
Speaker 1: understand that we're all one.
Speaker 2: We're all a part of each other. We're not separate.
Speaker 1: We're all human beings looking and searching for the same thing.
Speaker 1: And that's belonging and love. And so when we do
Speaker 1: that and we say things about other people or we
Speaker 1: judge other people to make ourselves feel better about what
Speaker 1: we're dealing with, it it's taking something away from us.
Speaker 1: It's not taking away anything from that other person. You're
Speaker 1: harming yourself by doing that. You're lowering yourself for people
Speaker 1: say that's beneath you, and that's truly what it is,
Speaker 1: and I think it's. Look, this is a human experience
Speaker 1: because our egos take over when we're not aware.
Speaker 2: We just want to make.
Speaker 1: Ourselves feel better, and we do that oftentimes by making
Speaker 1: other people look bad. But the truth is we're taking
Speaker 1: away something vital to making us all be better humans.
Speaker 1: And it's just a reminder that when you start to
Speaker 1: go there, your brain starts to go there, your mouth.
Speaker 2: Starts to go there. Catch yourself.
Speaker 1: It's okay, we all do it, but catch yourself and
Speaker 1: stop yourself and think why am I saying this? Why
Speaker 1: do I need to think this or say this?
Speaker 4: Go read the Drum Major Instinct by Martin Luther King
Speaker 4: if you get a chance. I'm only saying that now
Speaker 4: it wasn't the plan. You just said something that he
Speaker 4: hits on and it relates to everybody. You said. The
Speaker 4: only way some people try to make themselves look better
Speaker 4: is to by tearing, by tearing somebody else down. The
Speaker 4: whole idea of a drum major in a band is
Speaker 4: what out front? The one that wants to be seen?
Speaker 4: He said. We all have that in us. We all
Speaker 4: want that our ego, our pride. But how about this,
Speaker 4: What if you want it to be the right hand
Speaker 4: or what if you wanted to be out front and
Speaker 4: be seen because of good works? What if you wanted
Speaker 4: to be out front. It's okay to want the attention,
Speaker 4: but what do you want it for? Is the question
Speaker 4: you have to ask. There's plenty of folks who are
Speaker 4: doing great things out there and getting all kinds of
Speaker 4: attention for the good works they're doing. Be that person.
Speaker 4: So Wayne Dyer take this with you, folks. He said,
Speaker 4: when you judge another, you don't define them, You define yourself.
Speaker 4: That was our Wednesday quote. Then we moved on to
Speaker 4: Thursday four, I think, which was one of my favorite
Speaker 4: robes from our time. A Good Morning America.
Speaker 1: Yes, this was from the file you kept. This was
Speaker 1: one of the printed out quotes you would put on
Speaker 1: your dressing room door every Monday, so we would all
Speaker 1: have some words of wisdom to be inspired by for
Speaker 1: the week.
Speaker 2: This was Thursday's quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Don't confuse movement with progress. Just because you're doing a
Speaker 1: lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.
Speaker 3: This you think from your pas per usual.
Speaker 4: I think so, I think so. But it was just
Speaker 4: so applicable to I mean news at the time, and
Speaker 4: newsrooms that we've all worked in. There were sometimes people
Speaker 4: we've had bosses that didn't like it if you didn't
Speaker 4: stay late or look like like this appearance of doing
Speaker 4: all this stuff to look busy, smoking mirrors. That's all
Speaker 4: it is. You're not getting any more done. You're just
Speaker 4: doing a lot of things poorly sometimes.
Speaker 1: Do you know what That's just reminded me of, Babe,
Speaker 1: Because you were talking about the news business and how
Speaker 1: this applied to that. We like to watch local news
Speaker 1: everywhere we go when we travel to different cities, and
Speaker 1: we were struck and have been struck by local news
Speaker 1: departments because we have been local news reporters who you
Speaker 1: can tell their news director or someone told them move
Speaker 1: while you're talking.
Speaker 2: You need movement. You've got to get people's attention.
Speaker 1: So there's no reason why this reporter should be walking
Speaker 1: or moving, but just to move to look like you're
Speaker 1: doing something important or doing something big, and it's it
Speaker 1: looks ridiculous, by the way, So that actually, like we
Speaker 1: do it all the time, whether it's in front of
Speaker 1: a camera or in front of other people, trying.
Speaker 2: To show that we're doing something.
Speaker 1: But actually, when you're trying to prove something, you might
Speaker 1: not actually be focused on what you should be because
Speaker 1: it's about the optics.
Speaker 2: It's not even.
Speaker 1: About what the intention is or what you're trying to achieve.
Speaker 4: We could say a whole lot more because we spent
Speaker 4: so much time watching local news recently. Every single live shot,
Speaker 4: the reporter stands there and after two seconds, hell, they
Speaker 4: just step away. They do the exact same move we
Speaker 4: were in local news. There was a whole stretch what
Speaker 4: they say the news director, I want you to move,
Speaker 4: but we're seeing it, and I didn't think about it.
Speaker 4: You're so right. That's a very good visual example of
Speaker 4: people in local news trying to look like and they
Speaker 4: have no information.
Speaker 1: Again, and they're telling you we have no information. The
Speaker 1: PIO officer has not told us anything, and yet we
Speaker 1: don't even know if a woman or a man's been killed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're moving, so oh they must know we're be
Speaker 1: doing something because they're moving right now.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: I just thought that was like a visual example of
Speaker 3: what this quote means.
Speaker 4: I didn't know we were going to go there, but yes,
Speaker 4: or boy, that's exactly right. But it was. That's why
Speaker 4: I loved it in the newsroom and putting it up
Speaker 4: to everybody. Just because you don't have to work sixteen
Speaker 4: hour days to prove that you're working hard. We can
Speaker 4: work seven hour days and crush it on the things
Speaker 4: we're doing. I hate this idea that you got to
Speaker 4: be busy, you gotta be moving, you gotta work longer.
Speaker 4: Look at me, I haven't taken a day off in
Speaker 4: six weeks or or whatever it is. Really, that's not impressive.
Speaker 4: That used to be us.
Speaker 2: That just reminded me.
Speaker 1: I literally in my Washington DC newsroom would brag to
Speaker 1: my fellow coworkers that I left fifteen vacation days on
Speaker 1: the table because I was working so hard. Why in
Speaker 1: God's name did I think that was something to brag about.
Speaker 1: I look like a fool, And I have to tell
Speaker 1: you that It's one of the big lessons I learned
Speaker 1: over the years.
Speaker 3: People, if you're listening, take all.
Speaker 2: Your vacation days.
Speaker 1: And some people might be laughing at me, like duh,
Speaker 1: But I do think there are a lot of you
Speaker 1: out there, and there are a lot of overachievers out
Speaker 1: there who actually take some sort of pride in not
Speaker 1: taking vacation days. This speaks to that completely. Don't confuse
Speaker 1: movement with progress. Just because you're doing a lot more
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.
Speaker 4: Or in our Friday quote, again, this was one you
Speaker 4: plucked out. This was a great one. And again, folks
Speaker 4: that don't know, we've talked about this here as we
Speaker 4: put our morning run together every morning we have separate responsibilities.
Speaker 4: You handle the quotes of the day, so allventimes I
Speaker 4: don't see them until I see the rundown while we're
Speaker 4: in the middle of recording. And this was one that
Speaker 4: I saw that I loved, but it threw me off
Speaker 4: because I read it live as we were recording, and
Speaker 4: it spoke to me.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the little things for one day you may look
Speaker 1: back and realize they were the big things. That almost
Speaker 1: makes me want to cry because I think we're so
Speaker 1: focused on doing big things and making sure we have
Speaker 1: a huge accomplishment that that's the big lofty goal. But
Speaker 1: it's all the little things that we do along the
Speaker 1: way that actually really matter, and we forget that, we
Speaker 1: lose sight of that. We only have, you know, one
Speaker 1: big lofty goal, or we want to be known for
Speaker 1: one big thing, and actually it's all the little things
Speaker 1: you do that make up who you are and how
Speaker 1: you treat people and how you treat yourself. Oh.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking of so many scenarios where someone's come up
Speaker 4: to me and say, yeah, a few years ago, yeah
Speaker 4: you know who I was, but you were the kindest
Speaker 4: thing and you stopped and you talked to my kids and.
Speaker 3: That what right?
Speaker 4: I didn't remember that. But we always you just say
Speaker 4: everybody wants to do big things and want to change
Speaker 4: the world. And I always say, sometimes what you do
Speaker 4: can mean the world to one individual, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: It can be a thank you, it can be and
Speaker 1: I love you, that's a smile, it could be I'm
Speaker 1: checking in on you. All the little things that you
Speaker 1: don't even think about can have such a major impact
Speaker 1: on other people and on yourselves, and by the way.
Speaker 1: This came from a man named Robert Brault. And I
Speaker 1: say that because I've never heard of him before. But
Speaker 1: I went and looked. He's an author, and he has
Speaker 1: for someone I have never heard of, whose name I
Speaker 1: have never heard of my life, or even read for
Speaker 1: that matter, has so many incredible quotes. I went to
Speaker 1: go come up with a bonus quote today, and.
Speaker 4: Do we have something for Monday, for tomorrow already a
Speaker 4: quote of the day, because this one is so damn
Speaker 4: good it is.
Speaker 1: But I know we are. We have a plan for
Speaker 1: next week. Actually, we have a plan for next week.
Speaker 1: It's starting on Monday. I guess Sunday is this week.
Speaker 1: I always think Sunday is it's the start of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I always get that wrong.
Speaker 4: Wait, some people do that. I've met some people who've
Speaker 4: done that. Yeah, I feel Sunday is the start of
Speaker 4: the week. Some people think Mondays, I do.
Speaker 1: I always think that Monday's the start of the week.
Speaker 1: But yes, so starting this week today, but on Monday,
Speaker 1: we're going to have a themed quote of the day
Speaker 1: from one person who also has multiple quotes, So I
Speaker 1: think we can use this one as the bonus, right,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure.
Speaker 4: We weren't burning one, because this is a good one.
Speaker 1: It is a good one, but I'm telling you he
Speaker 1: is so many. I'm going to dip back into the
Speaker 1: Robert Bralt vault. I was a poet and didn't know
Speaker 1: it many times, and I'll bring it off.
Speaker 4: I wish, no, I wish we were recording this. I
Speaker 4: just wanted everybody to be able to share in the
Speaker 4: moment you just had with yourself.
Speaker 3: You went visually recording, yes.
Speaker 4: Vault Bralt, poet, No it you were, you were really
Speaker 4: really you were waiting for some help and being amused,
Speaker 4: and I wasn't going to give it to you, but
Speaker 4: you just went ahead and been amused by yourself.
Speaker 3: I can laugh at myself and with myself that one.
Speaker 1: I laughed with myself and at myself with the same Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go, Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: Here's the quote from Robert from his vault. From his vault.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us
Speaker 1: happy because we can't let go of the thing that
Speaker 1: was supposed to and let the.
Speaker 4: Church say, amen, dang, if you can take that is
Speaker 4: one that just some calls we have that don't need
Speaker 4: much explanation, we talk about them and where they came from.
Speaker 4: This is one that if you say this to yourself,
Speaker 4: maybe once before lunch, once after lunch, once at dinner,
Speaker 4: you'll go Holy hell, and you'll look back at your
Speaker 4: life and so many things. Often first thing I went
Speaker 4: to was relationships. Yep, same the first thing I went to,
Speaker 4: But there are plenty of other things. Second thing I
Speaker 4: went to was job. Yes, I Sometimes we can't find
Speaker 4: a thing that will make us happy because we can't
Speaker 4: let go of the thing that was supposed to what
Speaker 4: was supposed to make you happy. Robes five years ago,
Speaker 4: ten years ago, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago, and
Speaker 4: you look back and say, Wow, this is the actual
Speaker 4: thing I wanted to make me happy, and there was
Speaker 4: no way I could have it because I was holding
Speaker 4: on to that thing that I was hoping was going
Speaker 4: to make me happy.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to let go. It's so hard to
Speaker 1: let go and to recognize it. Sometimes that's the only
Speaker 1: way forward, is to leave something behind, to close that
Speaker 1: door and walk through a new one. But that is
Speaker 1: so one of the hardest things to do in life,
Speaker 1: because we all have expectations of what should be and
Speaker 1: when things don't go the way they should go in
Speaker 1: our minds. We hold on to it and try to
Speaker 1: control it and make it and manipulate it so that
Speaker 1: it will be But we can't do that in life.
Speaker 2: And those are part of the lessons when you can look.
Speaker 1: Back and have a little perspective and say, that's exactly
Speaker 1: how it had to happen. And honestly, my biggest regret
Speaker 1: is I wish I had done it sooner. That's usually
Speaker 1: the regret you have, not that you did it, but
Speaker 1: that you would have rather done it sooner.
Speaker 4: But here we are, hopefully exactly where we all are
Speaker 4: supposed to be. So folks, take that with you from
Speaker 4: the Brault vault. Sometimes we can't find a thing that
Speaker 4: will make us happy because we can't let go of
Speaker 4: the thing that was supposed too. And with that, folks,
Speaker 4: I hope you're having a great Sunday. Hopefully one of
Speaker 4: those quotes in there spoke to you and you can
Speaker 4: take it with you. But we always appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Listen, yes, thank you for beginning You're week with us
Speaker 1: on this Sunday.
Speaker 2: We'll see you on the run tomorrow.