August 24, 2025 • 22 mins
Get your week started with some words of wisdom. Hear the weekly wrap of Amy and T.J.’s quotes of the day that will get your week started off with intention and purpose. Plus, a bonus quote from the creator of “The Handmaid’s Tale” that Amy and T.J. say should be in every classroom in America.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome everyone. It is Sunday, August twenty fourth, I mean
me Robank alongside my partner TJ. Holmes, and we are
here for your Sunday Morning Run where we go through
our quotes of the day for the week to get
your Sunday started off with some inspiration. We hope some
of these words of wisdom that we collected over the
(00:22):
week and help start your week off right, or at
least your Sunday off right. Sundays are so often a
day of reflection, a day of worship, so it seemed
like the perfect day to get inspired, and we started
our week off with an unknown. I've been into my
unknowns lately.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Why is that? Why do you want to give people credit?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, I'd like to, and sometimes I actually do quite
a bit of research trying to find out who said
what is And you know, it's funny, it's disputed oftentimes,
so who said it? Eh right, So it's like who
said it first, who said it exactly one way or
the other. So, yes, this was an unknown. But I
like this because so often we're all kind of pursuing
our dreams or trying to go for something and you
(01:03):
get discouraged. I liked this one from an unknown. In
year one, they laugh at you. In year five they
ask how you did it? Hows it going?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Has it happened to you?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm hoping it will. Yes, you know what, Actually it
has it has because I remember, and I don't. I
didn't even know that I uttered this to people. But
apparently when I was in JA school, I told people
that I was going all the way to the network.
That's kind of embarrassing that maybe I was. I think
I was being intentional. I don't know how much I believed,
but yeah, I said it out loud. I wanted to
(01:37):
make it so it took more than five years. But
I remember people saying, damn, you actually did it. They
were shocked. Maybe they weren't asking me how I did it,
But yes, later on journalism, students asking me, how did
you make it to network?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Wait, say the quote again.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It says in year one, they laugh at you. Yeah,
In year five they ask how you did it?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, we put numbers on its right. But sometimes it
doesn't take five years. Sometimes it takes longer. But to
the point I think everybody's experienced that, just doubt, doubters
telling you that you can't do the thing. You are
attempting to do and that's difficult. Man.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Have you had that happen.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Every corner of my life every step of the way,
so in my professional career, every absolutely every step of
the way. So yeah, and it's not like you're trying
to get back or look at me, no, but it
is hard to keep going when people are telling you
you're going to fail or you shouldn't do it, even
(02:36):
well intentioned people.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh oh I oh yes, especially Look, not everybody comes
from I came from a smaller town, or at least
folks who came and stayed where they were raised, and
they looked at me crazy. When I was eleven, I
told my mom I'm going to move to New York
City one day. Everyone thought I was crazy. But it's
one of these quotes that remind you, honestly, you just
(02:59):
have to believe in you. You are the one who
has to say I can do it. You can't wait
for other people to say you can too, because most
people are going to tell you can't. Ain't that the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Because that is probably most people's experience, And that's okay,
But yeah, when that well, you know, when folks project
that experience onto you, it's tough, and to the point
and to the quote right of what we're talking about here,
(03:34):
that it does feel good when people come back later.
You never go and rub it in somebody's face, but
how many times I know it feels sweet, and it
maybe shouldn't feel as sweet, But you run into somebody
down the road two years later, three years, five years,
ten years later, when you both have that nod of acknowledgement.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, I did do that day.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You were wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, they say success is the best revenge. That is
absolutely true. I think I was on a theme from
Monday into Tuesday because this kind of speaks to a
similar way of thinking, in a way of approaching life.
This one comes to us from the great Babe Ruth,
who said, you just can't beat the person who never
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gives up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I remember talking about this in sports growing up in
my life, always competing when you were competing against somebody
who was not as tall, as fast, or strong, or
as athletic, all these things that you know you are
superior in all of these ways, and that person on
(04:51):
the other side just won't come, just won't stop coming
at you. It's annoying as hell, but you never feel
like you can beat them. Even if you win that game,
you still don't feel like you defeated that person because
of how they came at you. So I respect those
folks who just keep coming.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't beat hard work. That is the key to success. Yes,
talent helps, it's a head start, it's a launching point,
but it's the I remember someone telling me, always be
the first person and look, this can only last for
a certain period of time, but I felt I did this.
I did this. Always be the first person in the
newsroom and be the last person to leave. Basically, work
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harder than everybody else, and you'll get where you want
to go. And that is true. So yes, you just
can't beat the person who never gives up.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
My favorite attached to that. I don't know if we've
used it as a quote of the week yet, but
it's one of my favorites. You've heard me recite it
hard work Trump's talent. When talent doesn't work hard enough,
and to the point and to that quote, and you
just said it. You said I worked. You didn't say
(06:02):
I was better at or no more talented than, or
prettier than or anything else. You said how it worked. Folks, Now,
when you are able to outwork somebody and have a
talent advantage, and that is when you reach great heights.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yes, unstoppable. This next quote comes to us from Abraham Lincoln,
who has many, many, many quotes. But I don't know
that I knew he said this. I certainly, and I
actually researched to make sure this was in fact attributable,
attributable to him, because I've never heard this in connection
with him. In the end, it's not the years in
(06:41):
your life that count, it's the life in your years.
It's a simple statement, it's a simple phrase, but man,
it packs a punch.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
What would you prefer? What would you prefer so a long,
moderate life, if you will, short intense, exciting life? And
what is short? And what is long? Even like? Do
you know what would you prefer to have a life
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of moderation, a life of relative peace, or just a
life of constant excitement and adventure. But you know it's
going to get cut short.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You know it's tough to have to choose between the two.
But I would rather have quality over quantity. Quality, and
I do. There's another quote, and I'm trying to I
won't get it exactly right, but it's not how. It's
not how long you live, it's how you live. And
I just I do believe that. I think none of
us know when our time is coming, and we have
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to live as much as we can remember to to
live like time is running out, like time is a
precious gift that we can't count on each and every day.
We don't know that we're going to wake up when
we go to bed at night. We don't know what
the day brings. So I just I fully lean into
this philosophy that we should live as if it's our
(08:10):
last day. I really, I don't. You know. We get
lost sometimes in frustration and in moments, and I have
to kind of bring myself back, But I always do
try to remind myself, you got right now, that's it,
so live What else? What else should we be doing? Worrying, complaining,
being angry, grumpy? No, like that is we got right now.
(08:31):
Enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know, I didn't tell you this this week. I
freaked out. We talked about it, and anybody's been following
us here, you know what was going on last week?
Robes was out for a couple of days, took an
a lease to college for her sophomore year. Moved her
in and I was holding it down doing the our
(08:55):
podcast duties. And I don't remember which day it was.
There was a I didn't know the band. I didn't
know the guitarist Mastadon. You know this band, don't know it? Okay, Well,
there were news reports see the good lead guitarists of
this band had died. Didn't know who he was, Finn.
But I saw it in news coverage and they had
(09:18):
up the year and I assume they had it right,
but it was head nineteen seventy three to twenty twenty five, right,
this is the year of we were birth? Yeah, And
I flipped out because you know, I still say this
to you all the time, we should not travel separately.
(09:39):
And I say this because we you and I have
been through so much to be together that I don't
want to blow it on some bullshit. So I just
don't want to. I just want to make sure we
travel again. When I saw it displayed in that way,
when I saw nineteen seventy three to twenty twenty five,
(10:01):
I totally lost my shit. Wow, totally freaked out.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Is that when you sent me that really sweet text?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'm not sure if you go back and look at
the time. I wonder what time it was that I
sent it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wow, you know, I that's very sweet to hear. And
you haven't told me that until right now. Yeah, but
now that I think about it, if I saw a death,
you know, whenever and someone dies and they put the
year of the birth and the year of their death,
if I saw in nineteen seventy seven and twenty twenty five,
that's to see it. That absolutely would hit me like
a ton of bricks too. But yeah, I mean it's
(10:31):
a reminder anytime. Look, anytime anything tragic happens or tough happens,
I always try to find the silver lining and that
we just all of us are headed in that direction.
So use the time you have now wisely. So in
the end, it's not the years in your life the count.
It is the life in your years. Thank you, mister Lincoln.
All Right, this next one, TJ. I mentioned on a
(10:55):
previous podcast that I listened to all of the podcasts
you did while I was moving itily sin, and so
you took on the role of the quote of the
day for Thursday and Friday of this week, and Thursday
are Thursdays, Yes, Thursdays. This one I got choked up
listening to you read this quote on Thursday, because you
(11:15):
got choked up. You actually were, I mean crying when
you read this quote. What what this was from?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
As I said, Frank, okay, okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You want to talk about judge. For people who don't
know who Judge Frank Caprio is, can you get them
caught up this?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He did a show that was a it was a
local show for a while, and that they essentially just
put a camera in the courtroom and let this judge.
And again this wasn't stage stuff like we're used to
courtroom shows. They just put a camera in the courtroom.
And he's just the star. And the way he dealt
with so many people who came into his court traffic tickets, UH,
(11:54):
speeding tickets, d U I s and things like that.
He just had a level of compassion and and frankly,
he was just had a level of kindness that people
took note of, and they were able to take so
many clips of his put him online of course in
this viral age, and he built this huge following. I
(12:15):
didn't know who he was. Robes we were talking about
this and my twelve year old daughter say, yeah, I
know who he is. She was excited from TikTok, from ticks.
He's eighty eight years old, just passed away last week
from pancreatic cancer, and a twelve year old child is
a fan of his.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You know, it's awesome because she's a fan of him,
because he's a good, kind man who was so authentic.
When people heard him speak, they listened. You know, we're
missing authenticity. Everyone's got a motive, everyone's got an agenda.
This judge did not. His agenda was kindness. And wow,
that's a rarity. And so that's so cool that he
(12:57):
resonated with so many people. So here's the quote you
picked out again, a simple one but powerful. The best
legacy we can leave behind is how we made others
feel choose kindness always. And you you really struggled reading
this because it's so true. And he didn't obviously know
(13:22):
that this would be something we would say when he died,
so this would but think about it. He's gone, and
the legacy he has left behind is how he has
made others feel. How cool is that he became his.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Quote crazy even to what you're saying, The thought that
someone who is broadcasting or talking about him, or like
he has no idea that there is a guy who
didn't know him nor of him necessarily was in tears
telling his story that morning. That's an impact. And I
(13:56):
that morning, I guess that was all in my feels
this point you were gone. Maybe I don't know what's
going on, but I spent so much time of the
morning researching this guy, and everything out of his mouth
brought you to tears. Nothing was sad, but there was
just a It touched you, a compassion, and you have
(14:19):
this warrior for kindness. It's just you don't see that.
And I love it, and it reminds you there are
so many robes. Yes, the loudest and nastiest voices get
the attention, but he's not alone. There's plenty of people
out there like him, and it was nice to be
reminded of that. He had a platform, and I'm glad
he used it the way he did, but there's tons. Yes,
(14:42):
there are more people out there like that than the
ones we give attention.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, we just get this much of the others in
our faces and all of that. All right, So I
can't wait to tell you about what TJ did on
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(16:00):
Morning Run. And when I say TJ dropped the ball,
he actually dribbled the ball. He balanced the ball, Yes
he shot three pointers, Yes he dunked it.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
He talk I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What No, I'm just saying you were a podcast King Warriors.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh you took.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Over when I was taking my youngest back to college,
and so you were literally doing I think you had
it done seven podcasts, like in two days. That is
a significant amount of work.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So and you know what you did. You moved a
child into a new home and put together furniture and
carried things and handled task grab it and took their shopping.
And look, we divided and conquered, but this is still
a partnership, and it was just it felt heavier because
you and I are so used to doing tasks.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Together, correct, and we have our duties, we have our roles.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So we split and had to split, we were forced
to split, and so it felt heavy. So you don't
need to thank me for what I did. I need
to thank you for what you did. We did what
we were supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's right. But what I usually do and I'm supposed
to do, is pick the quote of the day. Oh yeah,
I remembered it on Thursday. But on Friday, you know,
you're putting together this whole podcast. When you're in you're
up since three am. You were up I think till
midnight the night before because you had so. Yes, you forgot,
understandably to pick a quote of the day. And so
(17:26):
we write our scripts out right. So he's written all
the scripts out he's recording this live. We don't edit
any of this. You'll if you if you listen to
the Morning Run every morning, you'll recognize we trip off
and mess up plenty. I even get facts wrong and
names wrong, and then we correct it all the time.
But anyway, the point is, we just live. We just
record this live. We don't We don't go back and
(17:48):
edit it. So you get to the end of the
podcast and you realize you forgot to pick out a
quote of the day. So I'm just saying most people
would think that we would edit it. You just make
it sound all nice. No, you have to just that.
You just had to be like, uh so, yeah, I
know we normally at this time have a quart of
the day. I just gotta be honest with you. I
did not pick the quart of the day. Robes usually
(18:09):
does it, and so on the fly you decided, like,
I gotta come up with something, so you picked a
Bible verse that you know by heart.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Now I'm embarrassed that I know I know several by heart,
but in the moment I didn't want I can't blow
the recording. We don't need to edit and all this stuff.
So I had to just do something. So I don't
know where I got this. I think I actually got
this from my pastor in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's where you get everything at one one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, uh. And you know what, Bishop Dale Bronner, I'm
gonna blame him for this. Yes, of the Bronner brothers
if you use his hair products. But yes, Bishop Dale
bron I'll put this on him. But at some point
I got this. But it always remember first Timothy five
twenty three, drink no longer water, but use a little
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wine for th stomach's sake. I think he gave me
that because he was at some point I was drinking.
You know. The only reason I know who he is
because there was a liquor store I used to go
to in Atlanta, and the woman who used to always
worked at the liquor store said you should come to
my church. And I went to the church. This is
a true store.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That's very funny, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And so that's how I know it. So at some
point with him, maybe he knew I wasn't giving up
the liquor and he gave me that. But yeah, it's
a fun one, but it's what I had off the
top of my head.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, I mean, look, Jesus turned water into wine. He
was a fan, and we're okay with that. And I
love that you did that. It was I actually was
listening to that and I was laughing out loud. But
I appreciated the fact that full transparency here. We don't
try to pretend we're perfect. How about that. But I
did pick out a bonus quote to wrap up this
Sunday Morning run, and this is from Margaret Atwood, So
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any of you Handmaid's Tale fans, she wrote the whole series,
so this is a famed author and yes of Handmaid's
Tale fame. She says, you can't help what you feel,
but you can help how you behave.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You can't know how you feel, but you can help
how you with God.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's good, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Man? That if there was like a universe like I
would if that was a way to get in touch
with every single human being in the United States and
send that message to their phones right now, I would
push that. That is incredible. If you hold onto that.
Put that in your pocket and live by that in
every interaction you would have with another human being.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Whoo right, because it hits everything. Because you're going in
all these self help books, you've been to therapy, they'll
tell you, don't push down your feelings, don't ignore how
you feel. You can't just repress stuff because it's gonna
come back up. It's not gonna go away. You're gonna
develop thorns and you're gonna get all touchy, and people can't.
People are triggering you. So I get it, So I
love this. So she's acknowledging it. Yeah, you're right. You
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can't help how you feel. So feel your feels, but
you can help how you behave. You don't have to
act on them. You can acknowledge them, you can recognize them,
you can be curious about them, but you don't. That's
not an excuse to behave badly. Period. That's on you.
How you react is on you. How you feel fine,
You got to figure out a way how to soothe yourself,
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how to heal yourself, all of that, But it doesn't
mean you project out to other people. I just thought
it was so well put and I this wouldn't this
be great. If this were in every classroom in America,
just have it up there for kids to look at it,
would they get it?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We could put it right next to the Ten Commandments.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, I was just thinking maybe instead of trying to
get that up on school walls states in the South,
why don't we just have Margaret at Woods. You wouldn't
that drive them crazy? Oh my god, Yes, that would
probably not sit well with a lot of folks. But
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I do love this quote. Margaret Atwood, Thank you so much.
I'm gonna say it one more time, third time.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
A charm.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
You can't help what you feel, but you can help
how you behave. And with that, thank you all for
listening to us. We hope that you'll keep listening to us.
Mistakes and all on Morning Run Monday through Friday, and
of course we have a Saturday recovery run and this
is your Sunday Morning Run. So thanks for listening everybody.
I'm Amy Robot alongside TJ. Holmes. Have a great start
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to your week.
Welcome everyone. It is Sunday, August twenty fourth, I mean
me Robank alongside my partner TJ. Holmes, and we are
here for your Sunday Morning Run where we go through
our quotes of the day for the week to get
your Sunday started off with some inspiration. We hope some
of these words of wisdom that we collected over the
(00:22):
week and help start your week off right, or at
least your Sunday off right. Sundays are so often a
day of reflection, a day of worship, so it seemed
like the perfect day to get inspired, and we started
our week off with an unknown. I've been into my
unknowns lately.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Why is that? Why do you want to give people credit?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, I'd like to, and sometimes I actually do quite
a bit of research trying to find out who said
what is And you know, it's funny, it's disputed oftentimes,
so who said it? Eh right, So it's like who
said it first, who said it exactly one way or
the other. So, yes, this was an unknown. But I
like this because so often we're all kind of pursuing
our dreams or trying to go for something and you
(01:03):
get discouraged. I liked this one from an unknown. In
year one, they laugh at you. In year five they
ask how you did it? Hows it going?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Has it happened to you?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm hoping it will. Yes, you know what, Actually it
has it has because I remember, and I don't. I
didn't even know that I uttered this to people. But
apparently when I was in JA school, I told people
that I was going all the way to the network.
That's kind of embarrassing that maybe I was. I think
I was being intentional. I don't know how much I believed,
but yeah, I said it out loud. I wanted to
(01:37):
make it so it took more than five years. But
I remember people saying, damn, you actually did it. They
were shocked. Maybe they weren't asking me how I did it,
But yes, later on journalism, students asking me, how did
you make it to network?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Wait, say the quote again.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It says in year one, they laugh at you. Yeah,
In year five they ask how you did it?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, we put numbers on its right. But sometimes it
doesn't take five years. Sometimes it takes longer. But to
the point I think everybody's experienced that, just doubt, doubters
telling you that you can't do the thing. You are
attempting to do and that's difficult. Man.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Have you had that happen.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Every corner of my life every step of the way,
so in my professional career, every absolutely every step of
the way. So yeah, and it's not like you're trying
to get back or look at me, no, but it
is hard to keep going when people are telling you
you're going to fail or you shouldn't do it, even
(02:36):
well intentioned people.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh oh I oh yes, especially Look, not everybody comes
from I came from a smaller town, or at least
folks who came and stayed where they were raised, and
they looked at me crazy. When I was eleven, I
told my mom I'm going to move to New York
City one day. Everyone thought I was crazy. But it's
one of these quotes that remind you, honestly, you just
(02:59):
have to believe in you. You are the one who
has to say I can do it. You can't wait
for other people to say you can too, because most
people are going to tell you can't. Ain't that the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Because that is probably most people's experience, And that's okay,
But yeah, when that well, you know, when folks project
that experience onto you, it's tough, and to the point
and to the quote right of what we're talking about here,
(03:34):
that it does feel good when people come back later.
You never go and rub it in somebody's face, but
how many times I know it feels sweet, and it
maybe shouldn't feel as sweet, But you run into somebody
down the road two years later, three years, five years,
ten years later, when you both have that nod of acknowledgement.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, I did do that day.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You were wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, they say success is the best revenge. That is
absolutely true. I think I was on a theme from
Monday into Tuesday because this kind of speaks to a
similar way of thinking, in a way of approaching life.
This one comes to us from the great Babe Ruth,
who said, you just can't beat the person who never
(04:26):
gives up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I remember talking about this in sports growing up in
my life, always competing when you were competing against somebody
who was not as tall, as fast, or strong, or
as athletic, all these things that you know you are
superior in all of these ways, and that person on
(04:51):
the other side just won't come, just won't stop coming
at you. It's annoying as hell, but you never feel
like you can beat them. Even if you win that game,
you still don't feel like you defeated that person because
of how they came at you. So I respect those
folks who just keep coming.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't beat hard work. That is the key to success. Yes,
talent helps, it's a head start, it's a launching point,
but it's the I remember someone telling me, always be
the first person and look, this can only last for
a certain period of time, but I felt I did this.
I did this. Always be the first person in the
newsroom and be the last person to leave. Basically, work
(05:32):
harder than everybody else, and you'll get where you want
to go. And that is true. So yes, you just
can't beat the person who never gives up.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
My favorite attached to that. I don't know if we've
used it as a quote of the week yet, but
it's one of my favorites. You've heard me recite it
hard work Trump's talent. When talent doesn't work hard enough,
and to the point and to that quote, and you
just said it. You said I worked. You didn't say
(06:02):
I was better at or no more talented than, or
prettier than or anything else. You said how it worked. Folks, Now,
when you are able to outwork somebody and have a
talent advantage, and that is when you reach great heights.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yes, unstoppable. This next quote comes to us from Abraham Lincoln,
who has many, many, many quotes. But I don't know
that I knew he said this. I certainly, and I
actually researched to make sure this was in fact attributable,
attributable to him, because I've never heard this in connection
with him. In the end, it's not the years in
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your life that count, it's the life in your years.
It's a simple statement, it's a simple phrase, but man,
it packs a punch.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
What would you prefer? What would you prefer so a long,
moderate life, if you will, short intense, exciting life? And
what is short? And what is long? Even like? Do
you know what would you prefer to have a life
(07:11):
of moderation, a life of relative peace, or just a
life of constant excitement and adventure. But you know it's
going to get cut short.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You know it's tough to have to choose between the two.
But I would rather have quality over quantity. Quality, and
I do. There's another quote, and I'm trying to I
won't get it exactly right, but it's not how. It's
not how long you live, it's how you live. And
I just I do believe that. I think none of
us know when our time is coming, and we have
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to live as much as we can remember to to
live like time is running out, like time is a
precious gift that we can't count on each and every day.
We don't know that we're going to wake up when
we go to bed at night. We don't know what
the day brings. So I just I fully lean into
this philosophy that we should live as if it's our
(08:10):
last day. I really, I don't. You know. We get
lost sometimes in frustration and in moments, and I have
to kind of bring myself back, But I always do
try to remind myself, you got right now, that's it,
so live What else? What else should we be doing? Worrying, complaining,
being angry, grumpy? No, like that is we got right now.
(08:31):
Enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know, I didn't tell you this this week. I
freaked out. We talked about it, and anybody's been following
us here, you know what was going on last week?
Robes was out for a couple of days, took an
a lease to college for her sophomore year. Moved her
in and I was holding it down doing the our
(08:55):
podcast duties. And I don't remember which day it was.
There was a I didn't know the band. I didn't
know the guitarist Mastadon. You know this band, don't know it? Okay, Well,
there were news reports see the good lead guitarists of
this band had died. Didn't know who he was, Finn.
But I saw it in news coverage and they had
(09:18):
up the year and I assume they had it right,
but it was head nineteen seventy three to twenty twenty five, right,
this is the year of we were birth? Yeah, And
I flipped out because you know, I still say this
to you all the time, we should not travel separately.
(09:39):
And I say this because we you and I have
been through so much to be together that I don't
want to blow it on some bullshit. So I just
don't want to. I just want to make sure we
travel again. When I saw it displayed in that way,
when I saw nineteen seventy three to twenty twenty five,
(10:01):
I totally lost my shit. Wow, totally freaked out.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Is that when you sent me that really sweet text?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'm not sure if you go back and look at
the time. I wonder what time it was that I
sent it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wow, you know, I that's very sweet to hear. And
you haven't told me that until right now. Yeah, but
now that I think about it, if I saw a death,
you know, whenever and someone dies and they put the
year of the birth and the year of their death,
if I saw in nineteen seventy seven and twenty twenty five,
that's to see it. That absolutely would hit me like
a ton of bricks too. But yeah, I mean it's
(10:31):
a reminder anytime. Look, anytime anything tragic happens or tough happens,
I always try to find the silver lining and that
we just all of us are headed in that direction.
So use the time you have now wisely. So in
the end, it's not the years in your life the count.
It is the life in your years. Thank you, mister Lincoln.
All Right, this next one, TJ. I mentioned on a
(10:55):
previous podcast that I listened to all of the podcasts
you did while I was moving itily sin, and so
you took on the role of the quote of the
day for Thursday and Friday of this week, and Thursday
are Thursdays, Yes, Thursdays. This one I got choked up
listening to you read this quote on Thursday, because you
(11:15):
got choked up. You actually were, I mean crying when
you read this quote. What what this was from?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
As I said, Frank, okay, okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You want to talk about judge. For people who don't
know who Judge Frank Caprio is, can you get them
caught up this?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He did a show that was a it was a
local show for a while, and that they essentially just
put a camera in the courtroom and let this judge.
And again this wasn't stage stuff like we're used to
courtroom shows. They just put a camera in the courtroom.
And he's just the star. And the way he dealt
with so many people who came into his court traffic tickets, UH,
(11:54):
speeding tickets, d U I s and things like that.
He just had a level of compassion and and frankly,
he was just had a level of kindness that people
took note of, and they were able to take so
many clips of his put him online of course in
this viral age, and he built this huge following. I
(12:15):
didn't know who he was. Robes we were talking about
this and my twelve year old daughter say, yeah, I
know who he is. She was excited from TikTok, from ticks.
He's eighty eight years old, just passed away last week
from pancreatic cancer, and a twelve year old child is
a fan of his.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You know, it's awesome because she's a fan of him,
because he's a good, kind man who was so authentic.
When people heard him speak, they listened. You know, we're
missing authenticity. Everyone's got a motive, everyone's got an agenda.
This judge did not. His agenda was kindness. And wow,
that's a rarity. And so that's so cool that he
(12:57):
resonated with so many people. So here's the quote you
picked out again, a simple one but powerful. The best
legacy we can leave behind is how we made others
feel choose kindness always. And you you really struggled reading
this because it's so true. And he didn't obviously know
(13:22):
that this would be something we would say when he died,
so this would but think about it. He's gone, and
the legacy he has left behind is how he has
made others feel. How cool is that he became his.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Quote crazy even to what you're saying, The thought that
someone who is broadcasting or talking about him, or like
he has no idea that there is a guy who
didn't know him nor of him necessarily was in tears
telling his story that morning. That's an impact. And I
(13:56):
that morning, I guess that was all in my feels
this point you were gone. Maybe I don't know what's
going on, but I spent so much time of the
morning researching this guy, and everything out of his mouth
brought you to tears. Nothing was sad, but there was
just a It touched you, a compassion, and you have
(14:19):
this warrior for kindness. It's just you don't see that.
And I love it, and it reminds you there are
so many robes. Yes, the loudest and nastiest voices get
the attention, but he's not alone. There's plenty of people
out there like him, and it was nice to be
reminded of that. He had a platform, and I'm glad
he used it the way he did, but there's tons. Yes,
(14:42):
there are more people out there like that than the
ones we give attention.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, we just get this much of the others in
our faces and all of that. All right, So I
can't wait to tell you about what TJ did on
Friday because he dropped the ball. Before we go to break,
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(16:00):
Morning Run. And when I say TJ dropped the ball,
he actually dribbled the ball. He balanced the ball, Yes
he shot three pointers, Yes he dunked it.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
He talk I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What No, I'm just saying you were a podcast King Warriors.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh you took.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Over when I was taking my youngest back to college,
and so you were literally doing I think you had
it done seven podcasts, like in two days. That is
a significant amount of work.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So and you know what you did. You moved a
child into a new home and put together furniture and
carried things and handled task grab it and took their shopping.
And look, we divided and conquered, but this is still
a partnership, and it was just it felt heavier because
you and I are so used to doing tasks.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Together, correct, and we have our duties, we have our roles.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So we split and had to split, we were forced
to split, and so it felt heavy. So you don't
need to thank me for what I did. I need
to thank you for what you did. We did what
we were supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's right. But what I usually do and I'm supposed
to do, is pick the quote of the day. Oh yeah,
I remembered it on Thursday. But on Friday, you know,
you're putting together this whole podcast. When you're in you're
up since three am. You were up I think till
midnight the night before because you had so. Yes, you forgot,
understandably to pick a quote of the day. And so
(17:26):
we write our scripts out right. So he's written all
the scripts out he's recording this live. We don't edit
any of this. You'll if you if you listen to
the Morning Run every morning, you'll recognize we trip off
and mess up plenty. I even get facts wrong and
names wrong, and then we correct it all the time.
But anyway, the point is, we just live. We just
record this live. We don't We don't go back and
(17:48):
edit it. So you get to the end of the
podcast and you realize you forgot to pick out a
quote of the day. So I'm just saying most people
would think that we would edit it. You just make
it sound all nice. No, you have to just that.
You just had to be like, uh so, yeah, I
know we normally at this time have a quart of
the day. I just gotta be honest with you. I
did not pick the quart of the day. Robes usually
(18:09):
does it, and so on the fly you decided, like,
I gotta come up with something, so you picked a
Bible verse that you know by heart.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Now I'm embarrassed that I know I know several by heart,
but in the moment I didn't want I can't blow
the recording. We don't need to edit and all this stuff.
So I had to just do something. So I don't
know where I got this. I think I actually got
this from my pastor in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's where you get everything at one one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, uh. And you know what, Bishop Dale Bronner, I'm
gonna blame him for this. Yes, of the Bronner brothers
if you use his hair products. But yes, Bishop Dale
bron I'll put this on him. But at some point
I got this. But it always remember first Timothy five
twenty three, drink no longer water, but use a little
(18:59):
wine for th stomach's sake. I think he gave me
that because he was at some point I was drinking.
You know. The only reason I know who he is
because there was a liquor store I used to go
to in Atlanta, and the woman who used to always
worked at the liquor store said you should come to
my church. And I went to the church. This is
a true store.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That's very funny, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And so that's how I know it. So at some
point with him, maybe he knew I wasn't giving up
the liquor and he gave me that. But yeah, it's
a fun one, but it's what I had off the
top of my head.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, I mean, look, Jesus turned water into wine. He
was a fan, and we're okay with that. And I
love that you did that. It was I actually was
listening to that and I was laughing out loud. But
I appreciated the fact that full transparency here. We don't
try to pretend we're perfect. How about that. But I
did pick out a bonus quote to wrap up this
Sunday Morning run, and this is from Margaret Atwood, So
(19:50):
any of you Handmaid's Tale fans, she wrote the whole series,
so this is a famed author and yes of Handmaid's
Tale fame. She says, you can't help what you feel,
but you can help how you behave.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You can't know how you feel, but you can help
how you with God.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's good, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Man? That if there was like a universe like I
would if that was a way to get in touch
with every single human being in the United States and
send that message to their phones right now, I would
push that. That is incredible. If you hold onto that.
Put that in your pocket and live by that in
every interaction you would have with another human being.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Whoo right, because it hits everything. Because you're going in
all these self help books, you've been to therapy, they'll
tell you, don't push down your feelings, don't ignore how
you feel. You can't just repress stuff because it's gonna
come back up. It's not gonna go away. You're gonna
develop thorns and you're gonna get all touchy, and people can't.
People are triggering you. So I get it, So I
love this. So she's acknowledging it. Yeah, you're right. You
(20:56):
can't help how you feel. So feel your feels, but
you can help how you behave. You don't have to
act on them. You can acknowledge them, you can recognize them,
you can be curious about them, but you don't. That's
not an excuse to behave badly. Period. That's on you.
How you react is on you. How you feel fine,
You got to figure out a way how to soothe yourself,
(21:18):
how to heal yourself, all of that, But it doesn't
mean you project out to other people. I just thought
it was so well put and I this wouldn't this
be great. If this were in every classroom in America,
just have it up there for kids to look at it,
would they get it?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We could put it right next to the Ten Commandments.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, I was just thinking maybe instead of trying to
get that up on school walls states in the South,
why don't we just have Margaret at Woods. You wouldn't
that drive them crazy? Oh my god, Yes, that would
probably not sit well with a lot of folks. But
(21:55):
I do love this quote. Margaret Atwood, Thank you so much.
I'm gonna say it one more time, third time.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
A charm.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
You can't help what you feel, but you can help
how you behave. And with that, thank you all for
listening to us. We hope that you'll keep listening to us.
Mistakes and all on Morning Run Monday through Friday, and
of course we have a Saturday recovery run and this
is your Sunday Morning Run. So thanks for listening everybody.
I'm Amy Robot alongside TJ. Holmes. Have a great start
(22:22):
to your week.
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