August 16, 2025 • 19 mins
This week, Amy and T.J. made a family movie date, rounded up the girls and saw the horror movie “Weapons.” They also made time for daily, morning walks together and are adjusting to a major change in their lives, with both of Amy’s girls flying the coop.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey there, folks, it is Saturday, August sixteenth, and what
did you do this week to give yourself a beat,
give yourself a break, give yourself a little time to recover. Well,
you know what we did. We ran out to see
a horror movie. We also took morning walks. We watched
an amazing thunderstorm. We continued supporting the arts and saw
a show that was way off Broadway. We found chicken
(00:25):
wings in a basement, and we got two kids out
of the house. As of today, welcome to this recovery
run addition of Amy TJ. Robes. As of today, you
are once again officially an empty nester once again. Congratulations,
everybody are in order for it is Amy Robaka.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes, and one one girl is done tuition all paid.
That is a huge, huge, big deal. But yes, she moved.
My oldest Eva moved back in for three months, and
then my youngest was back home from college and so
the three of us girls were in one apartment for
the first time in four years.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I think it went well. I think it was like, uh.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You had a front row seat to all the dynamics
and drama.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, I wish I had nosebleed seats. I didn't want
to close, Yes, but it was it was really rose.
This was a hell of a summer. We made it
through the summer. Today really is the day because uh
and at last left early this week on what Friday, yep, Friday,
and then the other one moved out today on Saturday,
(01:36):
and so that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
She's spending her first night in her first big girl
apartment that big girls paying for all by herself. It's
very exciting. She's in Brooklyn and we can visit, she
can visit. It's healthier that way.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You know. I think a lot of us said as
we became adults, like how far you want to be
from your parents? Right? You want to be far enough
that they can't just hop in the car and run over,
but they need to be close enough that you still
have access to them if you need their help to
cover the kids. That kind of a thing, right. I
think A was now at a healthy distance from us,
(02:12):
given where we're living.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yes, we're and for two people, or for I guess
the two groups of people living in the city, we're
about as far away from each other as we can
get while still being in New York sitting.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's a very good but it was. It was a
fun summer. And yes, you'll have a moment your mom
was telling you you'll have a moment where you get
sad the girls are gone. But I haven't seen no
signs of that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well when I walk by underneath the bench, when you
first walk in and see, I won't see like two
hundred pairs of shoes scattered all over the place, little
droppings of just makeup in boxes and empty glasses and
half eaten bowls of whatever. I'm not going to miss that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I'm trying to think what I you know, I miss
you know as much as I complain about it. And
I do a lot of cooking. Most of the cooking.
All of the cooking, there is something fun and it
makes you feel good when people run in and they
just tear through your food, right right. They don't hop
on my plate, but I make you this full meal
and they come in and just rip through it. Like
(03:18):
that's so annoying when you tell me you wanted food.
But it's cool to have people I don't know to
be parenting in that way. It's because we feel like
our parents that always every time you go home, right,
they want to cook for you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think it'll be really nice to have that balance again.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Though.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Anna Lise will come back for Christmas, Thanksgiving all that stuff,
Ababile visit here and there. But yeah, we're gonna get
used to a very different way of life starting now.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah we just got to Oh so being's about to
be thirteen, so we're gonna have to deal with that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, yeah, we got two kind of just moving up
and out, and then we've got one coming up that
is a whole other can of worms that I have
already lived through. But don't worry, babe, I got you,
been there, done that twice.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The other thing, of course, anybody listened to us for
any period of time knows we are horror not just
horror movie fans. It goes a little farther to a
little bit of an obsession. We are horror movie buffs
for sure. This is one Robes, one of the one
of those rare original horror movies that it's being so
well reviewed. But we couldn't wait to get out and
(04:25):
see weapons.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, we saw weapons. The movie we saw with all
the girls actually was kind of a nice final that's
actually the final time the three girls were together. We
didn't even realize it was kind of a moment, but yeah,
we had to beIN Ava and Analyse and the two
of us. And the movie was as promised it delivered.
It was so well written. The ending I wasn't a
(04:48):
huge fan of, but throughout it I laughed, I jumped.
I was very much leaning forward and waiting for the
next storyline or twist.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The movie was fun.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Kept me on my toes.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That movie was done so well. Everybody knows the premise
at this point, but it starts right off there. All
these kids walked out of the house at the same
time one night. Where did they go? And that is
the mystery. The whole time, they're piecing together and I
didn't know ro if they told the story. And it's
not necessarily episodic, but through different perspectives, So it started
(05:23):
with the vantage point of this person, than that person,
then that person. It was great.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, so you're piecing it together through the lens of
each character and it's pretty cool and eventually the big
reveal happens and it was great. So it was It
was just gory enough, it was just suspenseful enough. It
had you thinking what could be going on, what could
be happening? You were invested in the characters. The acting
(05:49):
was phenomenal. I thought the script was so good. It
was comedic in just the right ways.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh my goodness, the final Oh oh, it's great. So
we don't want it because it's so cute to make
sure and please don't tell anybody if you know what
happens and what the whole storyline is, because it is
worth it. It is incredible. Highly recommend this and Cinners.
That is wonderful to see original stories, not another like
Halloween twenty. This is an original. These are original horror
(06:16):
movies that are doing well. I would love to see
more of this.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It is so fun to see genre that we have
loved for decades, Like I as long as I've been
watching movies, I believe, really truly since second grade, I
have been somewhat and very much so obsessed with horror
movies and to see other people get on board it
becoming more of a mainstream experience and having the creative
folks take that genre to another level. It really has
(06:42):
been elevated significantly since we started watching in the eighties,
the early eighties. So yes, I'm so excited more. Please,
and just it's a fun way. People always think and
how would that be relaxing or how would that be
a recovery to go see a horror movie. But I
feel like I've always described going to horror movie and
enjoying horror movies as safe fear. It's an adrenaline rush,
(07:04):
but you know you're perfectly safe. You're in a movie theater,
you're on your couch, whatever, and yet you're experiencing these
thrills without actually being in danger.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I want to have Conjuring five is coming up, right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yes, September fifth. We cannot wait for that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I am big on that. I don't know. I don't
think this happened until I came to New York. I
am really big on morning walks. And I have dragged you. No,
that's not fair. I didn't drag you with me. You
were a willing participant. But I love getting up in
the morning. And we have done this, really has it
almost been every morning taken a walk.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And this has been the first week. We've done this.
Every now and then on a Sunday morning or a
Saturday morning, you have said to me, Hey, you want
to go take a walk. We don't even have to
have a destination. Let's just get up so we've done
it periodically, but we've never consistently done it. And this week,
for whatever reason, You've just said to me, hey, let's
go for our walk. And so we've kind of become
(07:57):
this old retired couple who gets up in the morning
and walks together. In fact, he actually been We took
a couple of evening walks too, and Annalie's just a
final last little jab in jeer before she left for college,
was actually laughing at us and she was making fun Yes,
She's like, are you eighty? And I was like, whatever,
you wish you could had a best friend to take care.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I didn't know you're not supposed to walk.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, it's kind of what older people do because they
can't do a lot of other highly exertive activities, so
they would walk, which is great for you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It's amazing. In the summer, the best time to be
out in the city, very early in the morning or
in the evening. There's a nice, little cool breeze, it's
still muggy enough. It feels great. Great, it's being a
T shirt and it's quiet on the street. Oh. I
love the way. I didn't know I was doing an
old person thing.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I have enthusiastically jumped up and said yes to each
one of your offers for a walk, and I am
now kind of excited about having that become a thing.
We really is, it's become a thing. And we also
go on our morning runs later when we because we're
still training for a half marathon here in a couple
of weeks, but it's nice to have the walk before
the run.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Actually, you know, speaking of old people and walks, this
isn't gonna help. One of those evening walks we went
on was specifically to go get pecans.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So that's when Anna was really making fun of us.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
At least.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's like, wait, what are you doing? And I said,
we're going on a walks, Like why are you going
on a walk to get pecans? And she burst into laughter,
so she was she was like, I said, we're going
to seven eleven to get pecans. And that's when she
started laughing because usually if you go to a seven
eleven run, you're going to get funions, or you're going
to get some terrible ice cream or some bad thing.
We're like, we're getting pecans, which she just thought the
(09:40):
whole thing was hilarious to her.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But folks, we talked about this as well. We're both
keto went back to its three plus months ago now,
but can't have any sugar. I used to be very
big twizzler person, need candy sweets of some kind, So
no sugars. But a pecan is a low car but
kind of a sweet little snack for me, and those
little bites I love. And I had to have pecans.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's amazing because once you cut sugar out, you start
tasting things that you never considered to be sweet as sweet,
and pecans are among them. Why does this taste like candy?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Now? Pecan says like jolly ranchers.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Anyway, seven to eleven and two other badegas. Somehow we're
all out of pecans, And so we were walking back
and all of a sudden we see this scary basement
establishment but it says atomic Wings.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We see the sign all the time. We've never gone
in there, and if you look at it, it doesn't
look like a real establishment is there.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It actually looks like something out of a movie set
in Chinatown. Like it just you're like, wait, this is
this really an okay place to go down into?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And sure enough, because there's no storefront. If you look
at you just see atomic wings. But you look and
there's just a wall. You actually have to walk down stairs.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
What too make scary lighting. And I'm telling you, there's
no way I would have gone if I hadn't been
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I love this. It reminded me. I TOLDE this was
reminded me of someplace in the South, some places, some
neighborhood joined some restaurants that were set up in people's
kitchen and out back.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It had like cafeteria chairs down there, and it had.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
The smell, the look, the feet. It all felt like
the South to me, not just the South, but the country.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was almost like like outdoor furniture was downstairs and
no one was there except for people coming in to
pick up deliveries.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And they were great.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The wings were amazing. It sounds funny, but some one
of the things you can eat, and I got the
boneless wings, which I love and what I ended up
getting hot, But I was afraid to get They had
atomic what were they they had suicidal?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What was the other nuclear?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Nuclear going? But that scared me. That scared me, so
I went with hot. It was really really good, but
that was unexpected. So yeah, we came back home. With
wings instead of a cons And then Annalice wasn't laughing,
she was excited.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
She joined in, which night was a thunderstorm?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I think that might have all been the same night.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Was it that thunderstorm? Was it? It was? We love
a good thunderstorm. We're from the South, we get them regularly,
but up here not as much, and certainly right over
the city we had and that we were excited about it.
But then again a little scary.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah. I mean, we have a kind of a small
balcony that overlooks Broadway. But the lightning. I have never
seen a lightning storm like this in my twenty plus
years in Manhattan. And it went on for I mean
over an hour, and the sky was just lit up
and the booming of the thunder and then watching people
running with torrential rain, I mean, is it is a
(12:33):
Manhattan moment. It's a New York moment. Because honestly, none
of us were expecting it, so a lot of folks
didn't have umbrellas. We were watching people try to hide
in alcoves from the rain. It was. It was just
beautiful to see and people laughing and running. It was
you know, people, It was a kind of a joyful oddly,
if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But you always have to stop and enjoy the rain
a thunderstorm, it always feels like a cleansing to me.
But they was putting on a show and we had
this front row seat to it at the time here,
but there was crackling to the point that I say, hey,
we should probably get off the balcony.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well. Also a fun fact here, Yes, I am the
child of two parents who've been struck by lightning. And seriously,
my uncle actually died in this fourth of July lightning storm,
so I have all people should be aware. I was
there at the time when it all happened, so yes,
lightning is nothing to mess with. So we did back
off the balcony. Even though we had an overhang, it
felt mostly protected. But you can never be too careful.
(13:29):
So yes, we watched it safely from indoors, but we
left the door open so we could hear the thunder. Oh,
it was sold the.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Hell of a show. But really two highlights of the
week both had to do with your kids. One and
off Broadway show that one of your kids produced, and
the other thing had to do with them both leaving.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Welcome back to your Recovery run on this Saturday morning
run where we're talking about the moments this week that
we took to intentionally recover, relax, enjoy our lives in
the hopes that you'll reflect on your week as well
and maybe intentionally make sure that you make time for
you and for your relationships that matter and put all
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that work and stress aside and really focus on marking
these moments. I think it's important to do so. But
one of those moments came. It was the fourth time
we have seen each and every show that Ava has produced.
It's called Wigs and Wigs. The play is what it's called.
It's an improv comedic show and they have different genres
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each performance they put on. It could be a rom com,
it could be a Western, or it could be a
Who Done It? But Ava came up with the concept
and these actors are all phenomenal and it's just been
a joy to watch each time because every show is different.
And she got some amazing news following her fourth performance,
and I'm just I'm so proud and also at the
(15:10):
same time just actually as a spectator enjoying the hell
of it. So Bean has said, yes, I'll come to
everyone she's been able to make we don't.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Even have to invite her. She's like, oh, yeah, what
tell me to day at the time we have her
at the first show is nine thirty at night. She
was like, yeah, let's do this, but it really look
we wouldn't. We wouldn't. We were enthusiastic about going each time.
And it's again, we were there from concept that we
didn't understand when she said it out loud, and I
(15:40):
hear that so often in the arts in Hollywood when
you talk to a producer from hit shows or whatever,
said yeah, I was turned down seven to four times
because somebody didn't understand how stranger things might work, right, right,
those guys got turned down a ton of times before
they have now this mega hit. And I see what
she's doing now to where we heard a concept.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Like okay, I mean okay, you're getting wigs on actors
and they become different people and it's all improv and
there's no script and that could be huge bust or
it could be a huge blast.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And now we're like, when's your next show exactly?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And the cool thing is someone else thought that too,
And so she just got word that they are now
getting a residency a weekly show off Broadway at the Pit.
It's an iconic comedic improv theater and it's perfect, it's intimate,
it's cool. They're not making hardly any money, but they're
making something. And to get a residency, to get a
(16:33):
permanent gig or at least a fall run is really cool.
So I'm really proud of her and really excited to
go to the next show.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, you should be proud of her. She's got a
big girl pants on these days.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Right at a big girl apartment.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Again, we mentioned that the at the top here this
was the day officially that you are empty nesting again.
Does it as you sit here now, does it feel
like recovery?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think yes. It's a shift in energy and focus.
You know, when your kids are around you, you're always
thinking about what they're doing, how they're doing, where they
are when you can spend time with them, even from
will they be here for dinner or all? To know
now that they have their own schedules and their own
lives and it really has nothing to do with me,
(17:22):
at least for the next couple of months. At first,
it feels a little scary, like, Okay, I just got
to let them do their thing, but I can also
relax and release and be proud of where they are
and give myself a little bit of a break that
I get to take a step back and kind of
look at it like that, How lucky am I to
be able to take a step back that they're taking
(17:44):
their own step forward into the world, and instead of
it being a sad thing or something I'm missing out on,
I can actually just cheer them on and lean into us. Actually,
I love that I'm with someone who I really like
being with and want to be around. I think, sadly,
a lot of folks you find out what your relationships
really like or worth once your kids are gone, because
there's such a focus in such a distraction when they're gone.
(18:06):
If you don't really like the person that you're sharing
your life with, it'll become really evident really soon. Unfortunately,
I think we.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Had the opposite problem. Yeah, because they were there, it
was causing relationship strength. Love you girls kidding, But it's.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
A shift, you know, especially when it's someone else's kids
and they're older, they're assertive, and they have you know,
they're not as compliance perhaps even as younger kids are.
So yeah, it's it's a it's a dance.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It was every time I told them to go in
time out, it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I know they they they love you. They are always
like as TEJ, there is TJ coming, What about me?
You care if I'm there? You care if I'm coming.
But no, I'm looking forward to this. It will be
more peaceful, and I think having some privacy we haven't
had a lot of that is going to be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, folks, whatever you did this week, we certainly hope
you took time to take care of yourself a little bit.
Hope you're having a good weekend. But we always appreciate
you running with us, whether that's Monday through Friday on
the morning run or on Saturday as we get a
quick little recovery run in here. But I always appreciate
you hanging with us. I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Holmes and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great weekend, everybody,
Hey there, folks, it is Saturday, August sixteenth, and what
did you do this week to give yourself a beat,
give yourself a break, give yourself a little time to recover. Well,
you know what we did. We ran out to see
a horror movie. We also took morning walks. We watched
an amazing thunderstorm. We continued supporting the arts and saw
a show that was way off Broadway. We found chicken
(00:25):
wings in a basement, and we got two kids out
of the house. As of today, welcome to this recovery
run addition of Amy TJ. Robes. As of today, you
are once again officially an empty nester once again. Congratulations,
everybody are in order for it is Amy Robaka.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes, and one one girl is done tuition all paid.
That is a huge, huge, big deal. But yes, she moved.
My oldest Eva moved back in for three months, and
then my youngest was back home from college and so
the three of us girls were in one apartment for
the first time in four years.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I think it went well. I think it was like, uh.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You had a front row seat to all the dynamics
and drama.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, I wish I had nosebleed seats. I didn't want
to close, Yes, but it was it was really rose.
This was a hell of a summer. We made it
through the summer. Today really is the day because uh
and at last left early this week on what Friday, yep, Friday,
and then the other one moved out today on Saturday,
(01:36):
and so that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
She's spending her first night in her first big girl
apartment that big girls paying for all by herself. It's
very exciting. She's in Brooklyn and we can visit, she
can visit. It's healthier that way.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You know. I think a lot of us said as
we became adults, like how far you want to be
from your parents? Right? You want to be far enough
that they can't just hop in the car and run over,
but they need to be close enough that you still
have access to them if you need their help to
cover the kids. That kind of a thing, right. I
think A was now at a healthy distance from us,
(02:12):
given where we're living.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yes, we're and for two people, or for I guess
the two groups of people living in the city, we're
about as far away from each other as we can
get while still being in New York sitting.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's a very good but it was. It was a
fun summer. And yes, you'll have a moment your mom
was telling you you'll have a moment where you get
sad the girls are gone. But I haven't seen no
signs of that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well when I walk by underneath the bench, when you
first walk in and see, I won't see like two
hundred pairs of shoes scattered all over the place, little
droppings of just makeup in boxes and empty glasses and
half eaten bowls of whatever. I'm not going to miss that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I'm trying to think what I you know, I miss
you know as much as I complain about it. And
I do a lot of cooking. Most of the cooking.
All of the cooking, there is something fun and it
makes you feel good when people run in and they
just tear through your food, right right. They don't hop
on my plate, but I make you this full meal
and they come in and just rip through it. Like
(03:18):
that's so annoying when you tell me you wanted food.
But it's cool to have people I don't know to
be parenting in that way. It's because we feel like
our parents that always every time you go home, right,
they want to cook for you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think it'll be really nice to have that balance again.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Though.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Anna Lise will come back for Christmas, Thanksgiving all that stuff,
Ababile visit here and there. But yeah, we're gonna get
used to a very different way of life starting now.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah we just got to Oh so being's about to
be thirteen, so we're gonna have to deal with that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, yeah, we got two kind of just moving up
and out, and then we've got one coming up that
is a whole other can of worms that I have
already lived through. But don't worry, babe, I got you,
been there, done that twice.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The other thing, of course, anybody listened to us for
any period of time knows we are horror not just
horror movie fans. It goes a little farther to a
little bit of an obsession. We are horror movie buffs
for sure. This is one Robes, one of the one
of those rare original horror movies that it's being so
well reviewed. But we couldn't wait to get out and
(04:25):
see weapons.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, we saw weapons. The movie we saw with all
the girls actually was kind of a nice final that's
actually the final time the three girls were together. We
didn't even realize it was kind of a moment, but yeah,
we had to beIN Ava and Analyse and the two
of us. And the movie was as promised it delivered.
It was so well written. The ending I wasn't a
(04:48):
huge fan of, but throughout it I laughed, I jumped.
I was very much leaning forward and waiting for the
next storyline or twist.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The movie was fun.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Kept me on my toes.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That movie was done so well. Everybody knows the premise
at this point, but it starts right off there. All
these kids walked out of the house at the same
time one night. Where did they go? And that is
the mystery. The whole time, they're piecing together and I
didn't know ro if they told the story. And it's
not necessarily episodic, but through different perspectives, So it started
(05:23):
with the vantage point of this person, than that person,
then that person. It was great.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, so you're piecing it together through the lens of
each character and it's pretty cool and eventually the big
reveal happens and it was great. So it was It
was just gory enough, it was just suspenseful enough. It
had you thinking what could be going on, what could
be happening? You were invested in the characters. The acting
(05:49):
was phenomenal. I thought the script was so good. It
was comedic in just the right ways.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh my goodness, the final Oh oh, it's great. So
we don't want it because it's so cute to make
sure and please don't tell anybody if you know what
happens and what the whole storyline is, because it is
worth it. It is incredible. Highly recommend this and Cinners.
That is wonderful to see original stories, not another like
Halloween twenty. This is an original. These are original horror
(06:16):
movies that are doing well. I would love to see
more of this.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It is so fun to see genre that we have
loved for decades, Like I as long as I've been
watching movies, I believe, really truly since second grade, I
have been somewhat and very much so obsessed with horror
movies and to see other people get on board it
becoming more of a mainstream experience and having the creative
folks take that genre to another level. It really has
(06:42):
been elevated significantly since we started watching in the eighties,
the early eighties. So yes, I'm so excited more. Please,
and just it's a fun way. People always think and
how would that be relaxing or how would that be
a recovery to go see a horror movie. But I
feel like I've always described going to horror movie and
enjoying horror movies as safe fear. It's an adrenaline rush,
(07:04):
but you know you're perfectly safe. You're in a movie theater,
you're on your couch, whatever, and yet you're experiencing these
thrills without actually being in danger.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I want to have Conjuring five is coming up, right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yes, September fifth. We cannot wait for that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I am big on that. I don't know. I don't
think this happened until I came to New York. I
am really big on morning walks. And I have dragged you. No,
that's not fair. I didn't drag you with me. You
were a willing participant. But I love getting up in
the morning. And we have done this, really has it
almost been every morning taken a walk.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And this has been the first week. We've done this.
Every now and then on a Sunday morning or a
Saturday morning, you have said to me, Hey, you want
to go take a walk. We don't even have to
have a destination. Let's just get up so we've done
it periodically, but we've never consistently done it. And this week,
for whatever reason, You've just said to me, hey, let's
go for our walk. And so we've kind of become
(07:57):
this old retired couple who gets up in the morning
and walks together. In fact, he actually been We took
a couple of evening walks too, and Annalie's just a
final last little jab in jeer before she left for college,
was actually laughing at us and she was making fun Yes,
She's like, are you eighty? And I was like, whatever,
you wish you could had a best friend to take care.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I didn't know you're not supposed to walk.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, it's kind of what older people do because they
can't do a lot of other highly exertive activities, so
they would walk, which is great for you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It's amazing. In the summer, the best time to be
out in the city, very early in the morning or
in the evening. There's a nice, little cool breeze, it's
still muggy enough. It feels great. Great, it's being a
T shirt and it's quiet on the street. Oh. I
love the way. I didn't know I was doing an
old person thing.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I have enthusiastically jumped up and said yes to each
one of your offers for a walk, and I am
now kind of excited about having that become a thing.
We really is, it's become a thing. And we also
go on our morning runs later when we because we're
still training for a half marathon here in a couple
of weeks, but it's nice to have the walk before
the run.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Actually, you know, speaking of old people and walks, this
isn't gonna help. One of those evening walks we went
on was specifically to go get pecans.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So that's when Anna was really making fun of us.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
At least.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's like, wait, what are you doing? And I said,
we're going on a walks, Like why are you going
on a walk to get pecans? And she burst into laughter,
so she was she was like, I said, we're going
to seven eleven to get pecans. And that's when she
started laughing because usually if you go to a seven
eleven run, you're going to get funions, or you're going
to get some terrible ice cream or some bad thing.
We're like, we're getting pecans, which she just thought the
(09:40):
whole thing was hilarious to her.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But folks, we talked about this as well. We're both
keto went back to its three plus months ago now,
but can't have any sugar. I used to be very
big twizzler person, need candy sweets of some kind, So
no sugars. But a pecan is a low car but
kind of a sweet little snack for me, and those
little bites I love. And I had to have pecans.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's amazing because once you cut sugar out, you start
tasting things that you never considered to be sweet as sweet,
and pecans are among them. Why does this taste like candy?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Now? Pecan says like jolly ranchers.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Anyway, seven to eleven and two other badegas. Somehow we're
all out of pecans, And so we were walking back
and all of a sudden we see this scary basement
establishment but it says atomic Wings.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We see the sign all the time. We've never gone
in there, and if you look at it, it doesn't
look like a real establishment is there.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It actually looks like something out of a movie set
in Chinatown. Like it just you're like, wait, this is
this really an okay place to go down into?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And sure enough, because there's no storefront. If you look
at you just see atomic wings. But you look and
there's just a wall. You actually have to walk down stairs.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
What too make scary lighting. And I'm telling you, there's
no way I would have gone if I hadn't been
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I love this. It reminded me. I TOLDE this was
reminded me of someplace in the South, some places, some
neighborhood joined some restaurants that were set up in people's
kitchen and out back.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It had like cafeteria chairs down there, and it had.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
The smell, the look, the feet. It all felt like
the South to me, not just the South, but the country.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was almost like like outdoor furniture was downstairs and
no one was there except for people coming in to
pick up deliveries.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And they were great.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The wings were amazing. It sounds funny, but some one
of the things you can eat, and I got the
boneless wings, which I love and what I ended up
getting hot, But I was afraid to get They had
atomic what were they they had suicidal?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What was the other nuclear?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Nuclear going? But that scared me. That scared me, so
I went with hot. It was really really good, but
that was unexpected. So yeah, we came back home. With
wings instead of a cons And then Annalice wasn't laughing,
she was excited.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
She joined in, which night was a thunderstorm?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I think that might have all been the same night.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Was it that thunderstorm? Was it? It was? We love
a good thunderstorm. We're from the South, we get them regularly,
but up here not as much, and certainly right over
the city we had and that we were excited about it.
But then again a little scary.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah. I mean, we have a kind of a small
balcony that overlooks Broadway. But the lightning. I have never
seen a lightning storm like this in my twenty plus
years in Manhattan. And it went on for I mean
over an hour, and the sky was just lit up
and the booming of the thunder and then watching people
running with torrential rain, I mean, is it is a
(12:33):
Manhattan moment. It's a New York moment. Because honestly, none
of us were expecting it, so a lot of folks
didn't have umbrellas. We were watching people try to hide
in alcoves from the rain. It was. It was just
beautiful to see and people laughing and running. It was
you know, people, It was a kind of a joyful oddly,
if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But you always have to stop and enjoy the rain
a thunderstorm, it always feels like a cleansing to me.
But they was putting on a show and we had
this front row seat to it at the time here,
but there was crackling to the point that I say, hey,
we should probably get off the balcony.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well. Also a fun fact here, Yes, I am the
child of two parents who've been struck by lightning. And seriously,
my uncle actually died in this fourth of July lightning storm,
so I have all people should be aware. I was
there at the time when it all happened, so yes,
lightning is nothing to mess with. So we did back
off the balcony. Even though we had an overhang, it
felt mostly protected. But you can never be too careful.
(13:29):
So yes, we watched it safely from indoors, but we
left the door open so we could hear the thunder. Oh,
it was sold the.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Hell of a show. But really two highlights of the
week both had to do with your kids. One and
off Broadway show that one of your kids produced, and
the other thing had to do with them both leaving.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Welcome back to your Recovery run on this Saturday morning
run where we're talking about the moments this week that
we took to intentionally recover, relax, enjoy our lives in
the hopes that you'll reflect on your week as well
and maybe intentionally make sure that you make time for
you and for your relationships that matter and put all
(14:26):
that work and stress aside and really focus on marking
these moments. I think it's important to do so. But
one of those moments came. It was the fourth time
we have seen each and every show that Ava has produced.
It's called Wigs and Wigs. The play is what it's called.
It's an improv comedic show and they have different genres
(14:48):
each performance they put on. It could be a rom com,
it could be a Western, or it could be a
Who Done It? But Ava came up with the concept
and these actors are all phenomenal and it's just been
a joy to watch each time because every show is different.
And she got some amazing news following her fourth performance,
and I'm just I'm so proud and also at the
(15:10):
same time just actually as a spectator enjoying the hell
of it. So Bean has said, yes, I'll come to
everyone she's been able to make we don't.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Even have to invite her. She's like, oh, yeah, what
tell me to day at the time we have her
at the first show is nine thirty at night. She
was like, yeah, let's do this, but it really look
we wouldn't. We wouldn't. We were enthusiastic about going each time.
And it's again, we were there from concept that we
didn't understand when she said it out loud, and I
(15:40):
hear that so often in the arts in Hollywood when
you talk to a producer from hit shows or whatever,
said yeah, I was turned down seven to four times
because somebody didn't understand how stranger things might work, right, right,
those guys got turned down a ton of times before
they have now this mega hit. And I see what
she's doing now to where we heard a concept.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Like okay, I mean okay, you're getting wigs on actors
and they become different people and it's all improv and
there's no script and that could be huge bust or
it could be a huge blast.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And now we're like, when's your next show exactly?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And the cool thing is someone else thought that too,
And so she just got word that they are now
getting a residency a weekly show off Broadway at the Pit.
It's an iconic comedic improv theater and it's perfect, it's intimate,
it's cool. They're not making hardly any money, but they're
making something. And to get a residency, to get a
(16:33):
permanent gig or at least a fall run is really cool.
So I'm really proud of her and really excited to
go to the next show.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, you should be proud of her. She's got a
big girl pants on these days.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Right at a big girl apartment.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Again, we mentioned that the at the top here this
was the day officially that you are empty nesting again.
Does it as you sit here now, does it feel
like recovery?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think yes. It's a shift in energy and focus.
You know, when your kids are around you, you're always
thinking about what they're doing, how they're doing, where they
are when you can spend time with them, even from
will they be here for dinner or all? To know
now that they have their own schedules and their own
lives and it really has nothing to do with me,
(17:22):
at least for the next couple of months. At first,
it feels a little scary, like, Okay, I just got
to let them do their thing, but I can also
relax and release and be proud of where they are
and give myself a little bit of a break that
I get to take a step back and kind of
look at it like that, How lucky am I to
be able to take a step back that they're taking
(17:44):
their own step forward into the world, and instead of
it being a sad thing or something I'm missing out on,
I can actually just cheer them on and lean into us. Actually,
I love that I'm with someone who I really like
being with and want to be around. I think, sadly,
a lot of folks you find out what your relationships
really like or worth once your kids are gone, because
there's such a focus in such a distraction when they're gone.
(18:06):
If you don't really like the person that you're sharing
your life with, it'll become really evident really soon. Unfortunately,
I think we.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Had the opposite problem. Yeah, because they were there, it
was causing relationship strength. Love you girls kidding, But it's.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
A shift, you know, especially when it's someone else's kids
and they're older, they're assertive, and they have you know,
they're not as compliance perhaps even as younger kids are.
So yeah, it's it's a it's a dance.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It was every time I told them to go in
time out, it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I know they they they love you. They are always
like as TEJ, there is TJ coming, What about me?
You care if I'm there? You care if I'm coming.
But no, I'm looking forward to this. It will be
more peaceful, and I think having some privacy we haven't
had a lot of that is going to be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, folks, whatever you did this week, we certainly hope
you took time to take care of yourself a little bit.
Hope you're having a good weekend. But we always appreciate
you running with us, whether that's Monday through Friday on
the morning run or on Saturday as we get a
quick little recovery run in here. But I always appreciate
you hanging with us. I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Holmes and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great weekend, everybody,
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