February 16, 2026 • 8 mins
The life of a shirt and how to know when it's over.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salamon Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So Murphy is traveling again this week, and I see
him right there.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, I'm sitting right here, but I'm willing. I'm about to.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You're about to travel again.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And so you don't know what happened this weekend, saying
I'll bring it into the uh into the home life
of Murphy and Jody. Murphy forgot to drop off his
dry cleaning. He dry c He has his nicer business
shirts dry clean and he forgot to drop them off,
which is fine.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You had a busy week.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And so there's this bag of laundry that needs to
be laundered, and it's nice shirts and he has no
time to get them done, you know, before he travels.
So he picks out two or three shirts that he
wants to you know, travel with and have and I
am responsible for doing them.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
This as my Valentine's a week.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well you lost him, and yes you offered, of course,
well because you had no other there's no other option.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Really, we couldn't find a cleaner that could turn around
that quickly, and so I did offer. And so the
funny thing about it is this, you don't know how delicately.
I handled that because I know how you are about
your business shirts looking a certain way, okay, especially when
you're in a certain company, and you should be.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'm about that too. The way that you show up
and what.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You were wearing and how you wear it says a
million things in the first thirty seconds before you even
say a word in business. Believe, the way you present
yourself matters. It tells somebody a story about you in
the first three seconds of them seeing you. So I'm
all on board for that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So you didn't have to wash the iyem I'm with
stupid T shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How did you know about that? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So it's a couple of really nice shirts of his,
and I didn't do them. All. Everything that's in the
bag I'm going to drop off of the cleaner this week.
But Murphy picked out like three shirts that he definitely
wanted to bring with him and needed to be lunder handled.
So I look them over each one of them really
closely first to make sure there was nothing walky before
I started. And on one of them I saw a
(02:03):
little something wonky. I want to say, you know, me, a.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Little stain.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Prone to the food stains, you know, So I hands,
it's just a natural one I eat. Unfortunately, I have
ruined more shirts that way that stains can't be removed from.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So I treated that one. You shouted it out, I
treated it, and then I washed them by themselves with
nothing else, just in case it would just said there
would be no possibility of cross contamination, and the delicate cycle,
with only a little bit of detergent, took them out,
did not put them in the dryer. I hung them
to dry, inspecting them closely. The one that had something
(02:40):
walking on it, I had to wash it again separately.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I didn't tell you that.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No what who knows? It's usually oil from salad dressing
that flicks on me for some.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Reason, fish or something, you know, everything, a lot of
things are cooked in oil, and rightly so, and so
you know, eating gets messy.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It happens to everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It doesn't just I don't understand why that It can't
actually how those stains stick so intensely, I don't know
they changed the color profile of what the what's in
the shirt, but you know it's true. Some of them
you just can't get out. And I'm not gonna wear
a shirt that's got a stain course.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So anyway, so that one shirt I did wash twice,
and the second time I thought it really came out.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I thought it looked really good.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So I hung it to dry, and then, you know,
on Sunday ironed your shirts for you light iron but
you know, and and I'm sitting there listening to him
start to pack and it took you two seconds ago.
Huh someone on this shirt.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It just kills me. He can see it, that you
could see it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So that's the shirt that you actually you put through
the wash.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I tried to make that look back.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I think that one's going to be a gone er.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Unfortunately, Well like I wear around the house shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah right, yeah, so so but thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was just crazy to me that you you saw
it right away. You know, you're and they do. I
can't do things that the dry cleaner can do. The
dry cleaner would have sent that back, true, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And I don't really I wish I knew why. And
maybe I'm sure somebody's probably got a very simple explanation
for this. But there are shirts that doesn't matter. If
you hand wash them and put them out to dry,
they will they will eventually the collar does something stupid
or whatever. However the dry cleaners treat it right, will
not happen to a shirt my That's that's why I
(04:28):
take more stuff to the dry cleaner than a lot
of people would. They're like, why don't you throw that
in the washer? Well, there's a reason it lasts for
years beyond that, you know, versus trying to if you
throw it in the sink and hand wash it, it's
still not going to And I don't know what that is,
especially like the golf style polo style shirts and those collars,
I don't know what the deal is. I don't know
how they curl up and you know, and get ruined.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And that's what I earned. I ironed them though. You
should be set.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, And so that's why, like in a business setting,
to me, it's it gets obvious over time if you
start to then one too long. Yeah, yeah, and so
And it's not like I'm you know, I'm not like
mister GQ and I'm not all that vain. I just
like to I do believe that there was a book
that John Malloy wrote a long time ago called Dress
for Success. You might have heard of that, And it's
(05:14):
still so a lot of it is probably very dated
today because we're in a lot more casual world. He
was more about the suits and the ties and this, this,
that and the other. But the psychology behind the book
still makes a difference. You absolutely can wear whatever you
want to. It's it's it's your ability to express and
your freedom of expression, and there's nothing wrong with your choices.
What you can't control is what other people are going
(05:37):
to see and determined by that. And so the way
that you do dress in a work setting absolutely is
going to speak something on some on some level, you
know what I'm saying. And so that's why to me,
I want to make sure that it's it's decent looking,
you know, I mean, it doesn't have to be perfect press,
ninety degree edges, that kind of thing, starch all that,
you know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I totally love that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And it's I've enjoyed really in the last several years
with your travel kicking up, I've enjoyed you. You like
me to go shopping with you and we've picked out
some nice stuff, and I see I've seen a confidence
in you with your clothing. In fact, you're very happy
about what you've packed, Like you know, you have this
shirt and that shirt, you know, and I can I
(06:18):
know that that matters because you were asking me some
questions last night when you were putting your packing cubes
in your suitcase, and you were like, you think I
should sorry, Sam, you think I should wear the you know,
blue shirt with the khakis or should I wear the
blue shirt with the jeans? And remember what my answer
was to you, Everything that you're bringing works, So wear
(06:40):
what makes you feel the most confident. That's always the
right answer.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah. I kind of pack like that sometime. You know,
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Wear this one Wednesday Thursday.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But then when you get there and it's like, you
know what, man, I'm going with the jeens today instead
of the khakis.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Not feeling it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But if everything works together, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Right, It's true where what makes you feel most confident?
I can tell you that if I have five shirts
hanging in front of me in my closet thinking planning
for the week, it doesn't matter. I can plan Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
I kind of do that sometimes in my closet. But
on Monday morning or Tuesday morning, if I roll into
that closet and I'm feeling like that one's more confident,
and I have a lunch today that matters, or I
(07:19):
just want to feel a little bit more confident. I
will pick the confident shirt. That's always the correct answer.
What makes you feel best? You know, just wear it
because well I haven't worn it. Well there's a reason
you haven't worn it. You haven't picked it.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I know you just went and bought a whole bunch
of clothes, Murphy. One of the new shirts was not
one of the ones damaged. Huh with the stain?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Oh no, what I but were just some winter more
winter appropriate clothes because I didn't have a whole lot
of those. But no, this is this one is one
that I've had for a minute that just the stain
won't It's.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Not even that bad. It's mild and light. But you
would have if you know it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, and that's why the beacon, if you know.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The talking steam commercial from Ride all those years ago,
I run a Lord. It speaks louder than the I
keep my arm here. No one will nay.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Missed any part of the show. Get it all on
the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salamon Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So Murphy is traveling again this week, and I see
him right there.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, I'm sitting right here, but I'm willing. I'm about to.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You're about to travel again.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And so you don't know what happened this weekend, saying
I'll bring it into the uh into the home life
of Murphy and Jody. Murphy forgot to drop off his
dry cleaning. He dry c He has his nicer business
shirts dry clean and he forgot to drop them off,
which is fine.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You had a busy week.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And so there's this bag of laundry that needs to
be laundered, and it's nice shirts and he has no
time to get them done, you know, before he travels.
So he picks out two or three shirts that he
wants to you know, travel with and have and I
am responsible for doing them.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
This as my Valentine's a week.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well you lost him, and yes you offered, of course,
well because you had no other there's no other option.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Really, we couldn't find a cleaner that could turn around
that quickly, and so I did offer. And so the
funny thing about it is this, you don't know how delicately.
I handled that because I know how you are about
your business shirts looking a certain way, okay, especially when
you're in a certain company, and you should be.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'm about that too. The way that you show up
and what.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You were wearing and how you wear it says a
million things in the first thirty seconds before you even
say a word in business. Believe, the way you present
yourself matters. It tells somebody a story about you in
the first three seconds of them seeing you. So I'm
all on board for that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So you didn't have to wash the iyem I'm with
stupid T shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How did you know about that? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So it's a couple of really nice shirts of his,
and I didn't do them. All. Everything that's in the
bag I'm going to drop off of the cleaner this week.
But Murphy picked out like three shirts that he definitely
wanted to bring with him and needed to be lunder handled.
So I look them over each one of them really
closely first to make sure there was nothing walky before
I started. And on one of them I saw a
(02:03):
little something wonky. I want to say, you know, me, a.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Little stain.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Prone to the food stains, you know, So I hands,
it's just a natural one I eat. Unfortunately, I have
ruined more shirts that way that stains can't be removed from.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So I treated that one. You shouted it out, I
treated it, and then I washed them by themselves with
nothing else, just in case it would just said there
would be no possibility of cross contamination, and the delicate cycle,
with only a little bit of detergent, took them out,
did not put them in the dryer. I hung them
to dry, inspecting them closely. The one that had something
(02:40):
walking on it, I had to wash it again separately.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I didn't tell you that.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No what who knows? It's usually oil from salad dressing
that flicks on me for some.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Reason, fish or something, you know, everything, a lot of
things are cooked in oil, and rightly so, and so
you know, eating gets messy.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It happens to everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It doesn't just I don't understand why that It can't
actually how those stains stick so intensely, I don't know
they changed the color profile of what the what's in
the shirt, but you know it's true. Some of them
you just can't get out. And I'm not gonna wear
a shirt that's got a stain course.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So anyway, so that one shirt I did wash twice,
and the second time I thought it really came out.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I thought it looked really good.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So I hung it to dry, and then, you know,
on Sunday ironed your shirts for you light iron but
you know, and and I'm sitting there listening to him
start to pack and it took you two seconds ago.
Huh someone on this shirt.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It just kills me. He can see it, that you
could see it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So that's the shirt that you actually you put through
the wash.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I tried to make that look back.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I think that one's going to be a gone er.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Unfortunately, Well like I wear around the house shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah right, yeah, so so but thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was just crazy to me that you you saw
it right away. You know, you're and they do. I
can't do things that the dry cleaner can do. The
dry cleaner would have sent that back, true, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And I don't really I wish I knew why. And
maybe I'm sure somebody's probably got a very simple explanation
for this. But there are shirts that doesn't matter. If
you hand wash them and put them out to dry,
they will they will eventually the collar does something stupid
or whatever. However the dry cleaners treat it right, will
not happen to a shirt my That's that's why I
(04:28):
take more stuff to the dry cleaner than a lot
of people would. They're like, why don't you throw that
in the washer? Well, there's a reason it lasts for
years beyond that, you know, versus trying to if you
throw it in the sink and hand wash it, it's
still not going to And I don't know what that is,
especially like the golf style polo style shirts and those collars,
I don't know what the deal is. I don't know
how they curl up and you know, and get ruined.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And that's what I earned. I ironed them though. You
should be set.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, And so that's why, like in a business setting,
to me, it's it gets obvious over time if you
start to then one too long. Yeah, yeah, and so
And it's not like I'm you know, I'm not like
mister GQ and I'm not all that vain. I just
like to I do believe that there was a book
that John Malloy wrote a long time ago called Dress
for Success. You might have heard of that, And it's
(05:14):
still so a lot of it is probably very dated
today because we're in a lot more casual world. He
was more about the suits and the ties and this, this,
that and the other. But the psychology behind the book
still makes a difference. You absolutely can wear whatever you
want to. It's it's it's your ability to express and
your freedom of expression, and there's nothing wrong with your choices.
What you can't control is what other people are going
(05:37):
to see and determined by that. And so the way
that you do dress in a work setting absolutely is
going to speak something on some on some level, you
know what I'm saying. And so that's why to me,
I want to make sure that it's it's decent looking,
you know, I mean, it doesn't have to be perfect press,
ninety degree edges, that kind of thing, starch all that,
you know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I totally love that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And it's I've enjoyed really in the last several years
with your travel kicking up, I've enjoyed you. You like
me to go shopping with you and we've picked out
some nice stuff, and I see I've seen a confidence
in you with your clothing. In fact, you're very happy
about what you've packed, Like you know, you have this
shirt and that shirt, you know, and I can I
(06:18):
know that that matters because you were asking me some
questions last night when you were putting your packing cubes
in your suitcase, and you were like, you think I
should sorry, Sam, you think I should wear the you know,
blue shirt with the khakis or should I wear the
blue shirt with the jeans? And remember what my answer
was to you, Everything that you're bringing works, So wear
(06:40):
what makes you feel the most confident. That's always the
right answer.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah. I kind of pack like that sometime. You know,
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Wear this one Wednesday Thursday.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But then when you get there and it's like, you
know what, man, I'm going with the jeens today instead
of the khakis.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Not feeling it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But if everything works together, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Right, It's true where what makes you feel most confident?
I can tell you that if I have five shirts
hanging in front of me in my closet thinking planning
for the week, it doesn't matter. I can plan Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
I kind of do that sometimes in my closet. But
on Monday morning or Tuesday morning, if I roll into
that closet and I'm feeling like that one's more confident,
and I have a lunch today that matters, or I
(07:19):
just want to feel a little bit more confident. I
will pick the confident shirt. That's always the correct answer.
What makes you feel best? You know, just wear it
because well I haven't worn it. Well there's a reason
you haven't worn it. You haven't picked it.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I know you just went and bought a whole bunch
of clothes, Murphy. One of the new shirts was not
one of the ones damaged. Huh with the stain?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Oh no, what I but were just some winter more
winter appropriate clothes because I didn't have a whole lot
of those. But no, this is this one is one
that I've had for a minute that just the stain
won't It's.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Not even that bad. It's mild and light. But you
would have if you know it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, and that's why the beacon, if you know.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The talking steam commercial from Ride all those years ago,
I run a Lord. It speaks louder than the I
keep my arm here. No one will nay.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Missed any part of the show. Get it all on
the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
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