May 8, 2026 • 31 mins
Things to DO for Mom - instead of things to BUY for her on Mother's Day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Choty Weekend Show podcast, highlighting
some of our favorite moments from this past week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ideas for things you can do for your mom or
with your mom for Mother's Day instead of just something
to get her, Maybe it's not what to get, but
what to do. Okay, this came to me from our
Facebook page. We have a couple of Mother's Day post
up there this week, and I was suggesting, you know,
take her for coffee, you know, take her for a
pedicure or something like that, you know, and Kat said,
(00:30):
I wish I could take my mom for something like that,
but she's a lot older and she really doesn't have fingernails.
She keeps them super short. I'm thinking she doesn't have
fingernails at all, but she just keeps.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Them super short.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The reason that is in my brain because I had
a grandmother, my grandma Thelma, who did not have a
big toe nail.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
She had a big toe with no nail. She had
lost her nail and it never grew back.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well that just sounds like that would hurt, but now
it looked really smooth.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Actually, yeah, how did she lose it? It was a
bad story, That's what I'm saying farm story, farm story
is done very well.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Can you paint them? And she says she's not really
into that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So for anybody who's looking for something to do for
you know, maybe your mother just wants to spend you
to spend time with them, you can bring and show
up with a favorite dessert. They're not going to be
expecting that. Show up with a banana split.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Just make sure she's gonna eat it right away, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You know what their favorite dessert is that's happy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Make a pan of brownies and bring them even warm.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
If she doesn't want to go out to eat, get
it and.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Bring it to you can, yeah, a favorite meal, but
you know, just bring something to her. A fancy coffee.
I know my mom's fancy coffee order. It's very it's
very princess like, and I know it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We know your mom's fancy coffee order. We also know
your mom's favorite lice cream thing. I mean, We've got
a couple of surprise a lot of things that she
likes like that that you could drop on.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm taking her shopping on Saturday though for a little while.
I'm doing my kind of thing on Saturday. But I'm
also spending some of it with her. And I'm taking
her shopping for a certain specific thing that she wants,
and I'm hoping she'll let me buy it for because
she was just you can just come with me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
She's doing that thing your mom.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Does hand You don't need Murphy's help while you're shopping.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He doesn't want to. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You could clean. You could have somebody clean the house
for her. You know, a mom's not going to be
wanting you to show up and clean without her knowing
ahead of time. I do like the manny petty thing,
you know, go have pedicure side by side.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You know, that's something to do.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Would your mom do that with you?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm hoping she would. I think she's very particular and
personal about that. If she wouldn't let me take her,
I was thinking of offering to do one for her, you.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh wow, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
My mom's feet. Sweet Or get her out, get her
around some friends, her peers. If she doesn't do that
very often, that can be good for the soul. You know,
your mom. Some of this won't work, but some of
it might, so good luck. According to Dog Behavioral List,
there are things that dogs wish we knew not to
do to them, like hugging them. Dogs don't like to
(03:04):
be hugged, it feels really Yeah, well it depends on
the dog. I mean, if you've had a dog forever
and they completely trust you, you know, you can probably
hug a dog. But it's not natural to them and
they can feel trapped by it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I was gonna say in the wild, they would probably
feel cornered by that, so right they You don't want
to go up and hug a strange.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Dog instinctually, Yeah, it's not right to them to be hugged.
You know, we, as you always say, Murphy, we humanize them.
They are dogs and everything is about behavior.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I want to say, cuddle up to you and all that.
It becomes a different story.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think you remember Caesar Milan saying this, don't stare
directly at a dog. I know that's funny to you, Sam,
for some reason is that I don't know, don't stare
directly at a dog that can be threatening as well.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, and again I mean this is just mebe reading
between the lines. It's usually only going to be if
it's a dog that doesn't know you that well, because
direct eye contact is always going to be a I'm
focused in on you. I understand that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Right you can. We've all had a pet that you're
trying to ignore.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
He wants to go for a walk and you're not
going to look him in the eye because you got
to do something else.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
As soon as you look him in the eye, it's
over with her.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know you got the focus.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It's eye contact is really.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
One of our boxers that passed away a long time ago.
Ashley was the funniest one because she would try to
look at you and she wouldn't be all excited, and
her eyes would veer to the left.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And this is too much pressure. It was too intimate.
She couldn't look you in the eyes. She look away.
Funny anyway, other things don't reach. This is something we
all do.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Don't reach for their head first to pet. They like
it's apparently it's also it makes them uncomfortable. You know,
that's their head. They'd rather you if you're if it's
a new dog, they'd rather you pet them on the side.
They're the side above their uh shoulders, shoulders almost that arms.
Let them sniff on walks. Dogs wish we knew to
(04:53):
let them sniff on walks. It's actually if you take
a dog on a walk and it's just come on,
come on, get the exercise in. You don't let them
stop and sniff. They can become it's frustrating for them
to not be able to sniff.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's that means the outside of training time, when you're
taking them through trainings and that sort of thing they
need to understand how to walk, that's not the time
to still.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Let them sniff some because it's all about everything about
their world is about smell and then yawning. When dogs
yawn sometimes it doesn't always mean that they're tired. In fact,
most of the time it's like anxiety. It's the way
they release anxiety, according to dog behavioralist.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Sam Scott. Music News, we now have a name and
a release date for Keith Urban's yacht rock album. It
is going to be called Flow State.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yes it is. Have you heard some of this?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You are going to hear some of it in just
a second, so good. June the twelfth is when it's
gonna come out. We've got appearances on there by John
Mayer Little Big Town. It's ten covers of his favorite
yacht rock songs.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And please do it.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Oh yeah, we're gonna get to it. But I gotta
tell you. He was recording new music in the studio.
He asked the producer, He said, hey, can I just
play some of this stuff because you know I like it?
So he'd play a song or two and the producers like, cool,
it's pretty good. You got any more of the right
He goes, oh yeah, I got plenty more. So they
wound up making a whole album for seeing he was
just having fun with. So the songs they've released so far,
(06:20):
we have Summer Breeze.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Make Midkiffer.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Jazz on Murphy. This is gonna be the soundtrack of
our summer.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Just get ready.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I love his voice already, and this is familiar music
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
This is like a massage.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
But wait, there's more. The ten cover songs, but there's
one new song. And he did the new song with
Michael McDonald. Of course, Keith sings it and Michael handles
the chorus.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Here's the chorus, a yacht rock staple for.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A brand new song. It sounds like it could have
come out back in the day.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That new song is called we Go Back, So look
for Flow State June the twelfth.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm so excited Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Coming up this Friday night, we have the Grammy Hall
of Fame gala in which they are inducting a bunch
of albums, rock albums over history. We got a Funkadelic album,
a Tupac's got an album Radiohead, but also Janet Jackson's
Rhythm Nation.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
She's my favorite Jackson and.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
She's gonna be there for it all.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I don't know if she's gonna be performing, but she's
gonna be there for her album to be inducted into
the Grammy Hall of Fame. Good Also, that's gonna be there,
and I think they're gonna perform Hearts Ann and Nancy
Wilson for Dreamboat Annie. That album is going in. It
gave us this hit.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It's a big night. Yeah, it's gonna be a first.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Janet's first appearance in public since the Michael movie.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yes, and you know I.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
People are gonna want to ask her about it, but
she's not gonna want to talk about it because she
didn't want to be in it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, that's all. And look in the documentary. That was
her biggest challenge getting into the music business herself. She
was always in my.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
About discussions of.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Love hearing from you join us anytime. You can text
or call eight seven seven three one zero four. MSJ
can also email, and Wendy has done that. Wendy with
two Eyes wi nd I.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I love that me do love you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I've written in a few times about the lavender oil
on burns or baking at Christmas time. I'm Wendy with
two Eyes. Your show helps me get through the day.
I love listening while getting ready for work. I feel
like I miss some of it sometimes. Then I listened
to the podcast and after.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The show, cool, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Wendy says I recently heard you talking about test taking.
We were for you know, finals and people kids and
students wrapping up semesters. When he says, I had a
professor in college that was always testing our ability to
read directions. Like Murphy experienced. He just had you sign
your name and turn it in one time. Occasionally he
(09:11):
would instruct us somewhere in the body of the test.
It could be anywhere throughout the test to only answer
the even numbered questions or.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Odd one wow.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Then sometimes it was just a straightforward test. You just
never knew when you sat down and started answering what
his test would be like it kept us on our
toes for sure. Yeah, thanks for all you do. You
will never understand how much you're appreciated. Ah, that's from Wendy,
which wise, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know what's tricky about that is it depends on
the type of test. You're not going to peruse the
entire test before you start taking the test is tricky.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And you're not supposed to perfect because the book before
you start reading it either because you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Don't want to, you know, burn all your minutes. Yeah,
but so I don't know what the happy medium is
that means unless the teacher is giving you that specific
instruction at the beginning. You know, be sure to read
all instructions before you begin.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The first time a teacher does a gotcha like that, though,
you're on high alert. The next time as test is
in front of you, you're going to peruse it. Why
am I saying perus so much?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, and you know, and I guess you don't always
want to just sign the back and turn it in
and take a chance. Right.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I thought that's what you said.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, Look, my favorite time for anybody taking a test
this week if your finals. One of my favorite pieces
of advice and we did a whole after the show
podcast on test taking was to if you get stuck
on a question, don't just stay stuck, move on so
you can answer more. You up your odds. Yeah, I'm
(10:46):
doing well on the test, and then go back to it. Yeah,
that was my favorite one, especially.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
When you're on a timed you know it's a time
test and you want to be able to get it
all in.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Thank you again, Wendy, Sam, I think you'll be proud
of me and Murphy. We sort of crashed a wedding
this weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We were hanging out and visiting with friends who were
in from out of town and their friend's daughter was
marrying somebody here and we met them the night before
and we're having dinner and drinks and they're like, why
don't you just come to the reception. We didn't get
invited to the wedding, which is fine, but the reception,
and it was a part eight.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, the plan was really just you know, we knew
that we weren't going to be going to the wedding
part it was a family thing, and then so was
expected to be.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
There mother of the bride though when the mother of
the bride goes, come on, it's gonna be a great party.
We are expecting two hundred something people and we don't
have that many.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
So come on, Oh that's nice, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know, so the first time I've never been to
something like that last minute and it's not really a
crash if you've been invited by the family, but I
felt that way Murphy, like, you know, you're on the
dance floor of people you don't know, and they're like.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
How do you know the bride?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
And somehow it made the cake taste really good too.
The ca know, it's the first time we've met, but
this is delicious.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It kept hand passing pieces of the cake and the
first one was like a regular, you know, delicious white
wedding cake with a raspberry center. And then the second
time around it was like a cinnamon thing, and it's like, wait,
is this the grooms cake. They were like, no, we
don't even have a grooms cake.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
They had a multi layered bride or a every layered
wedding cake.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Every tear of it was a different flavor. It was
really cool, so like, keep it coming. But that was
so much fun to you know what I mean. And
so what I'm going to do now that we're home
and our big weekend is done, I'm going to send
the mother of the bride, that family a thank you
for having us.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, they were great too. I mean, do they
welcome to send like we've known them forever. It was
really something.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But you know, what I kept thinking is like, I've
never done anything like that. But you all, if it's
a big party with a lot of people and there's
a band, which there was, you almost could see how
it could be done.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh, they're not keeping it trash as long as you're
dressed nicely. Yeah, yeah, you know, you know, we're just
passing friends.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You gotta have some knowledge. You have to know of
bride and groom's name, first name at least.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, but you can google anything. What was that contraption
that they had though the people they were pouring lemon drops?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Ice sculpture? Well, yeah, it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Was anice sculpture or was it the shoot?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It was a shoe?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It was yeah, Oh wow, I had it. It was delicious.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
When I was finished up, thought, man, this is probably
not the safest thing to be doing.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I was going to ask them to poor diet coke
down a champ. Didn't do that for me.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mother's Day is this weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh wow, quick boy, I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We're here for for a reminder, Sunday. It is Mother's
Days this weekend. I gotta tell you the most beautiful thing, Murphy.
You don't even know about this. The other night, when Taylor,
our oldest, stopped by the house, I had, you know me,
it was getting close to bad times. I'm like, I'm
gonna go take a shower. She was still at the house.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I knew that I'm in the bathroom, like drying my
hand and all of that, and she goes, Mom, can
I come come see you? I was like, yeah, come on,
come chat.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And I didn't know if we're gonna have some long
chat or some serious convo. And she sat down on
the edge of the bathtub and she was like, so,
what do you want to do for a Mother's Day?
And my heart I was just like, oh, you're thinking ahead.
And I started the mom and me started that thing
that moms do you know, planning and this is what
we can do and let's go see Nana lets And
(14:26):
that stopped myself and said, you know what, you guys
surprise me. You guys figure it out. So I don't
know if she's hit your phone up yet.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
But.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Gonna tell you, no.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I think you didn't remember it was Mother's Day this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
No, I'm joking. Actually I knew she had that conversation
with you and everything nice.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But that is really true, and it depends on where
your mom is in life. For like your mom saying
I miss Judy, she just wants you to spend time
with her, you know, tell her you love her dog.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
She wants you to get a dog, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But moms who are in the thick of it with
small children, doing all the planning, doing all the thinking,
they want a day not to have to think about
that stuff. So don't make mom plan the Mother's Day
get together, you know, do something. Take her and not
something where there's a bunch of clean up at the house,
you know, take her to dinner or brunch or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And then do the whole thing that Jodah used to
do when the girls were at home, go to you know,
mom gets that Saturday to do whatever. Because mom wants
to be with the family on Mother's Day. Yes, but
that's Saturday before disappear.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
When you said you did that thing moms do, I
thought you were going to say, you don't have to
get me anything. I just love you and you love me.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, moms do that today they do mean that as well.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But if you really want to do something for your mom,
you got to think about where she is in motherhood
because just as motherhood.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Changes, so do her wishes and wants.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
On that day, you know, she just wants to know
that you love her and that all that she does
and thinks of for you, which is nonstyle and is constant,
that it's seen and heard and appreciated. Honestly, that's the
best advice I could give you other than that Murphy,
you know where I like to go morning picked me
(16:15):
up time and sometimes to pick me up? Is you
so from Murphysamanjody dot com Stacy has sent an email
I have got to share it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Sit down, boys, buckle up.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Hey guys, I caught the conversation on the Murphy, Sam
and Jody podcast where you were talking about relationships, and
I just wanted to reach out for a minute. There
was something really real about hearing Sam say he knows
his patterns and that he's gotten to a place where
he just doesn't feel like he needs it.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Mean a relationship, Yeah, that kind of honesty is rarely
seen or admitted, and it stuck with me. When I
heard that, it kind of settled something in me. I've
been trying to put words to where I'm at for
a while and I just couldn't quite land it. Then
I heard that, and I thought, well, heck, there it is.
(17:04):
I'm in this same season, is what Stacy said. It
goes on to read for the first time in a
long time, I'm not trying to force something to work
or make something fit just because it's supposed to. I
don't want to settle, and I sure don't want to
doll down who I am or expect someone else to
do the same just to make a relationship look right
on paper. I want to be fully me, and I
(17:27):
want the other person to be fully them. No muting,
no shrinking. No, let's tone that down a little, because
if we can't live life on full volume together, then
what are we even doing. So right now, I'm just
minding my own lane, potholes, flat tires and all that.
I'm figuring myself out, and honestly, I'm kind of liking
(17:48):
the girl I see. And if one day somebody comes along,
yep and takes the whole package. The quirky talks too
much overthinks sassy Stacy, but means well version, then I
might just hop on that wagon. It wraps up. But
I'm fine cruising right where I'm at. If not, I
want to say thank you for saying that out loud.
(18:08):
It meant more to me than you probably know. Happy
single freedom. Well, not you and Murphy, Not you and
Murphy and Joey John Sam, thank you, Stacy.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You Stacy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's definitely a pick me up. And you know the
thing about relationships is they don't have to be all romantic, right,
I mean, it's your friendships. There's so many other relationships
you can have that you can be comfortable in the
space if you don't, right, Sam, have a romantic relationship.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, and Stacy, by the way, wonn't you hit me
up if you're thinking of leaving your lane?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Really?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
We know?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, he knows his pattern, Stacy, and that's one of them.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah. Have you ever had the audacity when you have
hired an uber to ask them to stop anywhere along
the way?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, you can, actually, I think request that in the app.
Actually yeah, I think yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It once on the way home from a speaking engagement.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Did your request in the app or you just asked
the guy?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
No, no, no, no backseat.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I was a lady, she was driving, she was commenting
on my dress. It was like a formal event and
I was starving, and I'm like, if I buy you
some chicken fingers, can you stop for me for some
chicken fingers?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And she did, well, that's smart. The only time I've
done that is I had to have I had to
ask the driver to stop at a hotel to get
my luggage before I was heading back to the airport.
But I mean he was willing to do that because
it was already on the on the right and.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That was part of the drive to the minutes or whatever.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Uber has a new feature they're adding for Uber Uber
Black and Uber Black Suv.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Is that the top tier Murpha So that must Uber
Black I think is because that's guaranteeing you like a
black suv or something like that. It's more limousine, like
I guess.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well. A new feature they're introducing is called Eats for
the Way.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Now, it's only available in a couple of big cities.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Right now, but you're testing it.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
You do your Uber reserve and you got your car coming,
then that you can tap next to it. Add Uber
Eats and order whatever it is and that person will
pick it up for you. And so when they meet you,
they've got your food, get in your car and there's
your croissant and your coffee waiting for you. Wow. Wow,
that's that's pretty clips next level.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
They're doing everything because I think we mentioned this week
a week ago or so in three things to know
that they've also added and maybe not everywhere yet, but
they're partnering with hotels. Also that in the app you
can book your hotel and then they like they know
where you are. But while you're in the city, it's
it can be the app if you're traveling, it can
be the app that you use for food, for rides,
(20:40):
and for booking.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I mean you can see that path, you know. For them,
I don't know that they'll be able to become the
all all in one app or not, but when it
comes to between Uber and Lyft, I mean it's used
so frequently for travelers, it just makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It does like one app for everything, and it was
isn't it so funny that will you always remember the
first time you got in an uber and you felt
like it was weird?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Oh, I thought it was just like, wow, this is
high travel here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think that uber eats and uber combo works great
if especially if like you're late and you don't have
time to stop and eat for a meeting or whatever
advice versa you eat on the way.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
When your kids play sports, you have to know how
important it is. The way that you behave is so
so important. They have done some research and some studies,
and we can all we all have an experience with
it one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Maybe it's just something you've witnessed.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Maybe you've been a child who of a parent who
was over zealous at the ball field or whatever. Kids
largely report the reason that they want to play sports
in the first place is number one, to have fun.
Number two because it's social to be with their friends. Yeah,
that's why they're there. And then what happens is they
see this whole other they see this whole other side
(21:53):
of their parent, and it becomes a thing of oh
my gosh, I'm not good enough, Oh my gosh, I'm
not living up to what they really want, and it's
so sad. It's something we've got to talk about. Our
kids didn't play sports, not many, Murphy. They were theater girls,
and so that was fantastic for us. I don't think
we could have just at the end clapping and here's
some flowers. But I remember signing up to play sports
(22:16):
when I was a kid because I wanted my father.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I knew he would love it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I remember doing it for him and feeling like I
had disappointed him a lot because I could hear him
in the stands.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yes, it's understanding that. Yeah, they're going to put enough
pressure on themselves if they want to do it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah. You saw a lot of this at the ball
field too, sam didn't you coach?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Well, my oldest kids, Sammy was playing baseball. I was
an assistant coach, and you see that and it's heartbreaking.
It feel bad for the kid because the kid is
on it. I mean I saw times where the parent,
the father mainly was yelling at the kid catch the
ball or do stuff like and it's just like, no,
(22:57):
don't let.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Them just play that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
The pressure from parents is what can break their experience
for them, make them not love it and make them
not want it. It happens a lot in soccer, they say,
and basketball is one where they feel the pressure. I
think because it's so close they can hear and see
every little thing.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, not the same as being a little farly removed
on a football field.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I think the main thing here is to remember why
they play. They're playing for social reasons and to have fun.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, they're out there with their friends.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Remember that we've touched on it a little bit for you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And three things to know this week about Spirit Airlines
going away and Murphy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I thought you would find this interesting. It's a business story, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Especially love that I'm the one talking about Murphy loves
to talk business. You know that there's good and bad
news regarding this for the public, for the passenger, for travelers.
The bad news is airfares are going up, and they
were already up, but they're going up in those markets
(23:59):
where Spirit Airlines used to fly, the hubs or whatever
you call it. The airlines who've stepped in, like the
Jet Blue and the United who've stepped in and added
routes and all of that. And see, why do you
think they're going up? Murphy'll know this.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I mean, they're going up because just supply and demand.
I'm guessing not just that you only have so many planes.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Correct, We'll get to the planes, because Spirit Airlines has
like one hundred and forty something planes that are up
for grabs now.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
And they're all yellow.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
The other thing is that Spirit was known as a
low cost carrier, and so let's just pretend you're Jet
Blue or you're You're United. You were competing with them
in a certain hub. You had to keep your prices
lower than you wanted to, lower than you actually could
based on the market right now, based on the price
of jet fuel.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's an interesting whole thing. So they shut down.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So it's like, Okay, now we can run our business
in the way we kind of really wanted to or
need to to stay afloat because we don't have to
compete with Spirit anymore. So that means that some of
the ticket prices will go up in those areas and
that crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, that makes some sense, not cool for us. The
thing about Spirit, though, is Spirit could get pricey if
you actually did the add ons, because you paid for everything.
If you didn't, I mean literally, it was no frills,
you'd get the cheapest price if you weren't carrying luggage,
if you weren't going to do snacks, if you weren't
going to specify seats. You know what I'm saying, the
whole list of ifs. So eventually, I mean you could
(25:23):
you could get your airfare on Spirit to be a
little pricing. Okay, I did know that you got all
the options, Yet.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I never flew on Spirit. Now we have a friend
who did fly once time.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
The whole budget airline thing concerns for me anyway. It's like, really,
you're gonna be able to do this on the cheap huh.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Look thirty thousand feet huh.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Our friend David told me one time he went for
a festival weekend with friends and he flew on Spirit,
like you know, when he was first discovering it, and
he got a very low fair. He said it was
the worst experience though. He's like, he said, I might
as well just saut on the floor.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah, he said.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
He had nothing, no water, nothing, he said, but it
was the lowest airfare of his life.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Anyway, the other airlines will be getting more planes.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It's an attractive fleet, but it's not going to happen quickly.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It's not going to be something that you hear reported
on next Monday, because they're in the bankruptcy process, which,
as we know, takes time. Yeah, Teacher and nurses Appreciation week,
so keep it coming. Eight seven seven three one zero
four MSJ.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
How are you, Mandy.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
We're having a great day. We're on the way to
pick up some bagels for the Sacred Heart teachers to
celebrate them for teacher Appreciation weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, like a like an assortment of bagels or everything
or blueberry what are we talking all of them?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah, we're ahead of the little market in Ocean Springs.
They have homemade traditional bagels over there, so we're getting
a whole spread for the teachers, all the different kinds
of cream, cheeses, and any bagel you could think of
all week long.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
They're spoiled the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
They do deserve it, all right. I love that you're
doing that. So how many are you picking up? Do
you mind me asking how many bagels you're ordering?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Fifty buys?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, Now your car is gonna smell incredible.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah it will.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I'll be a little jealous because I did not order
one from myself.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh yeah, you're gonna have to go back on the
way out and get one.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I should probably, I should have probably ordered one.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Yeah, you know elementary school parents, there's a big joke
they call it May Somber.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Oh yeah, comes around.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Because I was just telling the guys today it's like
a second December.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It is so hectic. I remember it.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
It's like awards ceremonies and class parties and we've got
a piano recital tonight and first Communion is happening this week.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah. And you know what the advice is for May Somber.
It's the same as December.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Let some things go and get as much support as
you can from your partner, from other friends, from teach
like whoever can help you.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Yes, my son Sig is in the car. He wants
to give a shout out to his teacher.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
If that's okay, Hey, sigh, Oh so sweet.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Tell him about your teacher.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
What's her name, Miss bruce Ard. What do you like
about Miss Bruce Ard?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
She encouraging me.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh, she gives great hugs.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I think that's important in elementary school.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah it is. She's been a great teacher for him.
So when we heard your call for you know, wanting
to shout out teachers, I said, let's call him.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
So we just wanted to.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Tell y'all how great she is, so you can give
her a little shout out.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Well, thank you, thanks for calling Mandy. Good to hear
from you, Sig, and shout out to miss Brusar.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Yeah, enjoy the bagels.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Awesome, You'll have a great day.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Thank you you too. We appreciate that. And by the way, teachers,
yesterday's after the show podcast is fully dedicated to you
for Teacher Appreciation Week.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
We did an after the show podcast the other day
and you can go back and find it just search Murphy,
Sam and Jody anywhere you listen to podcasts. It was
last Thursday, Empty Nest Confessions, and where we talked about
we're an empty nest right now. Murphy, I know you
are too, Sam, but you know we may not be
in there forever because I do think our youngest is
(29:18):
going to come home next year for a little while,
so we'll have, you know, a little adjustment again. But
empty nest confessions like what's been hard about it, but
also what I have found to embrace, Like I just
have used this time to take better care of myself,
so much better than I used to when I had
the kids at home and life was just you know,
you're on that roller coaster, and so it can be
(29:41):
a time for you to work on yourself or your
relationship or whatever, so that you can go back and
check out that whole podcast. We really went there. Jessica
sent this. I just listened to this podcast while getting
ready for work. It was exactly what I needed today.
Since it is the beginning of May, I'm getting so
overwhelmed and emotional as both my boys are about to graduate,
(30:04):
one from high school, one from college. My husband and
I will become empty nesters in August, and we definitely
have mixed feelings. So thank you is what Jessica says.
You'll find a way.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
It is, yeah, you do. It's it is how life progresses.
But it is so weird, and I mean, I know
I remember having trouble those first few weeks.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's more quiet.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Although it's very quiet.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It's very quiet.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
There are little subtleties that you notice too, Like one
thing I'll say, just as a mom, however, I leave
the kitchen at night.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Now is how it is it is in the morning,
and it was not that way for years. It was like,
oh I did this and it looks exactly the same.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Right, I've done that, falling back on that on my
whole house. Yeah, I've taken longer to dus, longer to
vacuum because it's like it's just me. I'm good with it,
then I'm good with.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
It, O say.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Rebecca sent this same subject subject matter our podcast and confessions.
Rebecca says for me, after I adjusted to the sudden change,
I embraced the opportunity to discover new opportunities and time
for myself. I think it is important for children to
see that their parents are still developing new interest and
have a full life while still enjoying their adult children.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That is a great point. I didn't even think about that.
That would be so true.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You're always modeling things.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
They're watching you, you know, So if your life is
only about them, where's your identity? This empty nest is
a great time to get back in touch with them.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Look, that's a true statement when it comes to just
a relationship in general between two people, you know what
I'm saying, and with yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, so thank you Jessica and Rebecca. Keep it coming.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Choty Weekend Show podcast, highlighting
some of our favorite moments from this past week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ideas for things you can do for your mom or
with your mom for Mother's Day instead of just something
to get her, Maybe it's not what to get, but
what to do. Okay, this came to me from our
Facebook page. We have a couple of Mother's Day post
up there this week, and I was suggesting, you know,
take her for coffee, you know, take her for a
pedicure or something like that, you know, and Kat said,
(00:30):
I wish I could take my mom for something like that,
but she's a lot older and she really doesn't have fingernails.
She keeps them super short. I'm thinking she doesn't have
fingernails at all, but she just keeps.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Them super short.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The reason that is in my brain because I had
a grandmother, my grandma Thelma, who did not have a
big toe nail.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
She had a big toe with no nail. She had
lost her nail and it never grew back.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well that just sounds like that would hurt, but now
it looked really smooth.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Actually, yeah, how did she lose it? It was a
bad story, That's what I'm saying farm story, farm story
is done very well.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Can you paint them? And she says she's not really
into that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So for anybody who's looking for something to do for
you know, maybe your mother just wants to spend you
to spend time with them, you can bring and show
up with a favorite dessert. They're not going to be
expecting that. Show up with a banana split.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Just make sure she's gonna eat it right away, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You know what their favorite dessert is that's happy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Make a pan of brownies and bring them even warm.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
If she doesn't want to go out to eat, get
it and.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Bring it to you can, yeah, a favorite meal, but
you know, just bring something to her. A fancy coffee.
I know my mom's fancy coffee order. It's very it's
very princess like, and I know it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We know your mom's fancy coffee order. We also know
your mom's favorite lice cream thing. I mean, We've got
a couple of surprise a lot of things that she
likes like that that you could drop on.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm taking her shopping on Saturday though for a little while.
I'm doing my kind of thing on Saturday. But I'm
also spending some of it with her. And I'm taking
her shopping for a certain specific thing that she wants,
and I'm hoping she'll let me buy it for because
she was just you can just come with me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
She's doing that thing your mom.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Does hand You don't need Murphy's help while you're shopping.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He doesn't want to. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You could clean. You could have somebody clean the house
for her. You know, a mom's not going to be
wanting you to show up and clean without her knowing
ahead of time. I do like the manny petty thing,
you know, go have pedicure side by side.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You know, that's something to do.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Would your mom do that with you?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm hoping she would. I think she's very particular and
personal about that. If she wouldn't let me take her,
I was thinking of offering to do one for her, you.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh wow, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
My mom's feet. Sweet Or get her out, get her
around some friends, her peers. If she doesn't do that
very often, that can be good for the soul. You know,
your mom. Some of this won't work, but some of
it might, so good luck. According to Dog Behavioral List,
there are things that dogs wish we knew not to
do to them, like hugging them. Dogs don't like to
(03:04):
be hugged, it feels really Yeah, well it depends on
the dog. I mean, if you've had a dog forever
and they completely trust you, you know, you can probably
hug a dog. But it's not natural to them and
they can feel trapped by it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I was gonna say in the wild, they would probably
feel cornered by that, so right they You don't want
to go up and hug a strange.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Dog instinctually, Yeah, it's not right to them to be hugged.
You know, we, as you always say, Murphy, we humanize them.
They are dogs and everything is about behavior.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I want to say, cuddle up to you and all that.
It becomes a different story.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think you remember Caesar Milan saying this, don't stare
directly at a dog. I know that's funny to you, Sam,
for some reason is that I don't know, don't stare
directly at a dog that can be threatening as well.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, and again I mean this is just mebe reading
between the lines. It's usually only going to be if
it's a dog that doesn't know you that well, because
direct eye contact is always going to be a I'm
focused in on you. I understand that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Right you can. We've all had a pet that you're
trying to ignore.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
He wants to go for a walk and you're not
going to look him in the eye because you got
to do something else.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
As soon as you look him in the eye, it's
over with her.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know you got the focus.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It's eye contact is really.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
One of our boxers that passed away a long time ago.
Ashley was the funniest one because she would try to
look at you and she wouldn't be all excited, and
her eyes would veer to the left.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And this is too much pressure. It was too intimate.
She couldn't look you in the eyes. She look away.
Funny anyway, other things don't reach. This is something we
all do.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Don't reach for their head first to pet. They like
it's apparently it's also it makes them uncomfortable. You know,
that's their head. They'd rather you if you're if it's
a new dog, they'd rather you pet them on the side.
They're the side above their uh shoulders, shoulders almost that arms.
Let them sniff on walks. Dogs wish we knew to
(04:53):
let them sniff on walks. It's actually if you take
a dog on a walk and it's just come on,
come on, get the exercise in. You don't let them
stop and sniff. They can become it's frustrating for them
to not be able to sniff.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's that means the outside of training time, when you're
taking them through trainings and that sort of thing they
need to understand how to walk, that's not the time
to still.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Let them sniff some because it's all about everything about
their world is about smell and then yawning. When dogs
yawn sometimes it doesn't always mean that they're tired. In fact,
most of the time it's like anxiety. It's the way
they release anxiety, according to dog behavioralist.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Sam Scott. Music News, we now have a name and
a release date for Keith Urban's yacht rock album. It
is going to be called Flow State.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yes it is. Have you heard some of this?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You are going to hear some of it in just
a second, so good. June the twelfth is when it's
gonna come out. We've got appearances on there by John
Mayer Little Big Town. It's ten covers of his favorite
yacht rock songs.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And please do it.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Oh yeah, we're gonna get to it. But I gotta
tell you. He was recording new music in the studio.
He asked the producer, He said, hey, can I just
play some of this stuff because you know I like it?
So he'd play a song or two and the producers like, cool,
it's pretty good. You got any more of the right
He goes, oh yeah, I got plenty more. So they
wound up making a whole album for seeing he was
just having fun with. So the songs they've released so far,
(06:20):
we have Summer Breeze.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Make Midkiffer.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Jazz on Murphy. This is gonna be the soundtrack of
our summer.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Just get ready.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I love his voice already, and this is familiar music
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
This is like a massage.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
But wait, there's more. The ten cover songs, but there's
one new song. And he did the new song with
Michael McDonald. Of course, Keith sings it and Michael handles
the chorus.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Here's the chorus, a yacht rock staple for.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A brand new song. It sounds like it could have
come out back in the day.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That new song is called we Go Back, So look
for Flow State June the twelfth.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm so excited Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Coming up this Friday night, we have the Grammy Hall
of Fame gala in which they are inducting a bunch
of albums, rock albums over history. We got a Funkadelic album,
a Tupac's got an album Radiohead, but also Janet Jackson's
Rhythm Nation.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
She's my favorite Jackson and.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
She's gonna be there for it all.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I don't know if she's gonna be performing, but she's
gonna be there for her album to be inducted into
the Grammy Hall of Fame. Good Also, that's gonna be there,
and I think they're gonna perform Hearts Ann and Nancy
Wilson for Dreamboat Annie. That album is going in. It
gave us this hit.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It's a big night. Yeah, it's gonna be a first.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Janet's first appearance in public since the Michael movie.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yes, and you know I.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
People are gonna want to ask her about it, but
she's not gonna want to talk about it because she
didn't want to be in it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, that's all. And look in the documentary. That was
her biggest challenge getting into the music business herself. She
was always in my.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
About discussions of.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Love hearing from you join us anytime. You can text
or call eight seven seven three one zero four. MSJ
can also email, and Wendy has done that. Wendy with
two Eyes wi nd I.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I love that me do love you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I've written in a few times about the lavender oil
on burns or baking at Christmas time. I'm Wendy with
two Eyes. Your show helps me get through the day.
I love listening while getting ready for work. I feel
like I miss some of it sometimes. Then I listened
to the podcast and after.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The show, cool, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Wendy says I recently heard you talking about test taking.
We were for you know, finals and people kids and
students wrapping up semesters. When he says, I had a
professor in college that was always testing our ability to
read directions. Like Murphy experienced. He just had you sign
your name and turn it in one time. Occasionally he
(09:11):
would instruct us somewhere in the body of the test.
It could be anywhere throughout the test to only answer
the even numbered questions or.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Odd one wow.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Then sometimes it was just a straightforward test. You just
never knew when you sat down and started answering what
his test would be like it kept us on our
toes for sure. Yeah, thanks for all you do. You
will never understand how much you're appreciated. Ah, that's from Wendy,
which wise, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know what's tricky about that is it depends on
the type of test. You're not going to peruse the
entire test before you start taking the test is tricky.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And you're not supposed to perfect because the book before
you start reading it either because you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Don't want to, you know, burn all your minutes. Yeah,
but so I don't know what the happy medium is
that means unless the teacher is giving you that specific
instruction at the beginning. You know, be sure to read
all instructions before you begin.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The first time a teacher does a gotcha like that, though,
you're on high alert. The next time as test is
in front of you, you're going to peruse it. Why
am I saying perus so much?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, and you know, and I guess you don't always
want to just sign the back and turn it in
and take a chance. Right.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I thought that's what you said.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, Look, my favorite time for anybody taking a test
this week if your finals. One of my favorite pieces
of advice and we did a whole after the show
podcast on test taking was to if you get stuck
on a question, don't just stay stuck, move on so
you can answer more. You up your odds. Yeah, I'm
(10:46):
doing well on the test, and then go back to it. Yeah,
that was my favorite one, especially.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
When you're on a timed you know it's a time
test and you want to be able to get it
all in.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Thank you again, Wendy, Sam, I think you'll be proud
of me and Murphy. We sort of crashed a wedding
this weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We were hanging out and visiting with friends who were
in from out of town and their friend's daughter was
marrying somebody here and we met them the night before
and we're having dinner and drinks and they're like, why
don't you just come to the reception. We didn't get
invited to the wedding, which is fine, but the reception,
and it was a part eight.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, the plan was really just you know, we knew
that we weren't going to be going to the wedding
part it was a family thing, and then so was
expected to be.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
There mother of the bride though when the mother of
the bride goes, come on, it's gonna be a great party.
We are expecting two hundred something people and we don't
have that many.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
So come on, Oh that's nice, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know, so the first time I've never been to
something like that last minute and it's not really a
crash if you've been invited by the family, but I
felt that way Murphy, like, you know, you're on the
dance floor of people you don't know, and they're like.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
How do you know the bride?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
And somehow it made the cake taste really good too.
The ca know, it's the first time we've met, but
this is delicious.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It kept hand passing pieces of the cake and the
first one was like a regular, you know, delicious white
wedding cake with a raspberry center. And then the second
time around it was like a cinnamon thing, and it's like, wait,
is this the grooms cake. They were like, no, we
don't even have a grooms cake.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
They had a multi layered bride or a every layered
wedding cake.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Every tear of it was a different flavor. It was
really cool, so like, keep it coming. But that was
so much fun to you know what I mean. And
so what I'm going to do now that we're home
and our big weekend is done, I'm going to send
the mother of the bride, that family a thank you
for having us.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, they were great too. I mean, do they
welcome to send like we've known them forever. It was
really something.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But you know, what I kept thinking is like, I've
never done anything like that. But you all, if it's
a big party with a lot of people and there's
a band, which there was, you almost could see how
it could be done.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh, they're not keeping it trash as long as you're
dressed nicely. Yeah, yeah, you know, you know, we're just
passing friends.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You gotta have some knowledge. You have to know of
bride and groom's name, first name at least.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, but you can google anything. What was that contraption
that they had though the people they were pouring lemon drops?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Ice sculpture? Well, yeah, it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Was anice sculpture or was it the shoot?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It was a shoe?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It was yeah, Oh wow, I had it. It was delicious.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
When I was finished up, thought, man, this is probably
not the safest thing to be doing.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I was going to ask them to poor diet coke
down a champ. Didn't do that for me.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mother's Day is this weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh wow, quick boy, I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We're here for for a reminder, Sunday. It is Mother's
Days this weekend. I gotta tell you the most beautiful thing, Murphy.
You don't even know about this. The other night, when Taylor,
our oldest, stopped by the house, I had, you know me,
it was getting close to bad times. I'm like, I'm
gonna go take a shower. She was still at the house.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I knew that I'm in the bathroom, like drying my
hand and all of that, and she goes, Mom, can
I come come see you? I was like, yeah, come on,
come chat.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And I didn't know if we're gonna have some long
chat or some serious convo. And she sat down on
the edge of the bathtub and she was like, so,
what do you want to do for a Mother's Day?
And my heart I was just like, oh, you're thinking ahead.
And I started the mom and me started that thing
that moms do you know, planning and this is what
we can do and let's go see Nana lets And
(14:26):
that stopped myself and said, you know what, you guys
surprise me. You guys figure it out. So I don't
know if she's hit your phone up yet.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
But.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Gonna tell you, no.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I think you didn't remember it was Mother's Day this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
No, I'm joking. Actually I knew she had that conversation
with you and everything nice.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But that is really true, and it depends on where
your mom is in life. For like your mom saying
I miss Judy, she just wants you to spend time
with her, you know, tell her you love her dog.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
She wants you to get a dog, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But moms who are in the thick of it with
small children, doing all the planning, doing all the thinking,
they want a day not to have to think about
that stuff. So don't make mom plan the Mother's Day
get together, you know, do something. Take her and not
something where there's a bunch of clean up at the house,
you know, take her to dinner or brunch or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And then do the whole thing that Jodah used to
do when the girls were at home, go to you know,
mom gets that Saturday to do whatever. Because mom wants
to be with the family on Mother's Day. Yes, but
that's Saturday before disappear.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
When you said you did that thing moms do, I
thought you were going to say, you don't have to
get me anything. I just love you and you love me.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, moms do that today they do mean that as well.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But if you really want to do something for your mom,
you got to think about where she is in motherhood
because just as motherhood.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Changes, so do her wishes and wants.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
On that day, you know, she just wants to know
that you love her and that all that she does
and thinks of for you, which is nonstyle and is constant,
that it's seen and heard and appreciated. Honestly, that's the
best advice I could give you other than that Murphy,
you know where I like to go morning picked me
(16:15):
up time and sometimes to pick me up? Is you
so from Murphysamanjody dot com Stacy has sent an email
I have got to share it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Sit down, boys, buckle up.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Hey guys, I caught the conversation on the Murphy, Sam
and Jody podcast where you were talking about relationships, and
I just wanted to reach out for a minute. There
was something really real about hearing Sam say he knows
his patterns and that he's gotten to a place where
he just doesn't feel like he needs it.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Mean a relationship, Yeah, that kind of honesty is rarely
seen or admitted, and it stuck with me. When I
heard that, it kind of settled something in me. I've
been trying to put words to where I'm at for
a while and I just couldn't quite land it. Then
I heard that, and I thought, well, heck, there it is.
(17:04):
I'm in this same season, is what Stacy said. It
goes on to read for the first time in a
long time, I'm not trying to force something to work
or make something fit just because it's supposed to. I
don't want to settle, and I sure don't want to
doll down who I am or expect someone else to
do the same just to make a relationship look right
on paper. I want to be fully me, and I
(17:27):
want the other person to be fully them. No muting,
no shrinking. No, let's tone that down a little, because
if we can't live life on full volume together, then
what are we even doing. So right now, I'm just
minding my own lane, potholes, flat tires and all that.
I'm figuring myself out, and honestly, I'm kind of liking
(17:48):
the girl I see. And if one day somebody comes along,
yep and takes the whole package. The quirky talks too
much overthinks sassy Stacy, but means well version, then I
might just hop on that wagon. It wraps up. But
I'm fine cruising right where I'm at. If not, I
want to say thank you for saying that out loud.
(18:08):
It meant more to me than you probably know. Happy
single freedom. Well, not you and Murphy, Not you and
Murphy and Joey John Sam, thank you, Stacy.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You Stacy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's definitely a pick me up. And you know the
thing about relationships is they don't have to be all romantic, right,
I mean, it's your friendships. There's so many other relationships
you can have that you can be comfortable in the
space if you don't, right, Sam, have a romantic relationship.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, and Stacy, by the way, wonn't you hit me
up if you're thinking of leaving your lane?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Really?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
We know?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, he knows his pattern, Stacy, and that's one of them.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah. Have you ever had the audacity when you have
hired an uber to ask them to stop anywhere along
the way?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, you can, actually, I think request that in the app.
Actually yeah, I think yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It once on the way home from a speaking engagement.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Did your request in the app or you just asked
the guy?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
No, no, no, no backseat.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I was a lady, she was driving, she was commenting
on my dress. It was like a formal event and
I was starving, and I'm like, if I buy you
some chicken fingers, can you stop for me for some
chicken fingers?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And she did, well, that's smart. The only time I've
done that is I had to have I had to
ask the driver to stop at a hotel to get
my luggage before I was heading back to the airport.
But I mean he was willing to do that because
it was already on the on the right and.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That was part of the drive to the minutes or whatever.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Uber has a new feature they're adding for Uber Uber
Black and Uber Black Suv.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Is that the top tier Murpha So that must Uber
Black I think is because that's guaranteeing you like a
black suv or something like that. It's more limousine, like
I guess.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well. A new feature they're introducing is called Eats for
the Way.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Now, it's only available in a couple of big cities.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Right now, but you're testing it.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
You do your Uber reserve and you got your car coming,
then that you can tap next to it. Add Uber
Eats and order whatever it is and that person will
pick it up for you. And so when they meet you,
they've got your food, get in your car and there's
your croissant and your coffee waiting for you. Wow. Wow,
that's that's pretty clips next level.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
They're doing everything because I think we mentioned this week
a week ago or so in three things to know
that they've also added and maybe not everywhere yet, but
they're partnering with hotels. Also that in the app you
can book your hotel and then they like they know
where you are. But while you're in the city, it's
it can be the app if you're traveling, it can
be the app that you use for food, for rides,
(20:40):
and for booking.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I mean you can see that path, you know. For them,
I don't know that they'll be able to become the
all all in one app or not, but when it
comes to between Uber and Lyft, I mean it's used
so frequently for travelers, it just makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It does like one app for everything, and it was
isn't it so funny that will you always remember the
first time you got in an uber and you felt
like it was weird?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Oh, I thought it was just like, wow, this is
high travel here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think that uber eats and uber combo works great
if especially if like you're late and you don't have
time to stop and eat for a meeting or whatever
advice versa you eat on the way.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
When your kids play sports, you have to know how
important it is. The way that you behave is so
so important. They have done some research and some studies,
and we can all we all have an experience with
it one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Maybe it's just something you've witnessed.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Maybe you've been a child who of a parent who
was over zealous at the ball field or whatever. Kids
largely report the reason that they want to play sports
in the first place is number one, to have fun.
Number two because it's social to be with their friends. Yeah,
that's why they're there. And then what happens is they
see this whole other they see this whole other side
(21:53):
of their parent, and it becomes a thing of oh
my gosh, I'm not good enough, Oh my gosh, I'm
not living up to what they really want, and it's
so sad. It's something we've got to talk about. Our
kids didn't play sports, not many, Murphy. They were theater girls,
and so that was fantastic for us. I don't think
we could have just at the end clapping and here's
some flowers. But I remember signing up to play sports
(22:16):
when I was a kid because I wanted my father.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I knew he would love it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I remember doing it for him and feeling like I
had disappointed him a lot because I could hear him
in the stands.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yes, it's understanding that. Yeah, they're going to put enough
pressure on themselves if they want to do it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah. You saw a lot of this at the ball
field too, sam didn't you coach?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Well, my oldest kids, Sammy was playing baseball. I was
an assistant coach, and you see that and it's heartbreaking.
It feel bad for the kid because the kid is
on it. I mean I saw times where the parent,
the father mainly was yelling at the kid catch the
ball or do stuff like and it's just like, no,
(22:57):
don't let.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Them just play that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
The pressure from parents is what can break their experience
for them, make them not love it and make them
not want it. It happens a lot in soccer, they say,
and basketball is one where they feel the pressure. I
think because it's so close they can hear and see
every little thing.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, not the same as being a little farly removed
on a football field.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I think the main thing here is to remember why
they play. They're playing for social reasons and to have fun.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, they're out there with their friends.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Remember that we've touched on it a little bit for you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And three things to know this week about Spirit Airlines
going away and Murphy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I thought you would find this interesting. It's a business story, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Especially love that I'm the one talking about Murphy loves
to talk business. You know that there's good and bad
news regarding this for the public, for the passenger, for travelers.
The bad news is airfares are going up, and they
were already up, but they're going up in those markets
(23:59):
where Spirit Airlines used to fly, the hubs or whatever
you call it. The airlines who've stepped in, like the
Jet Blue and the United who've stepped in and added
routes and all of that. And see, why do you
think they're going up? Murphy'll know this.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I mean, they're going up because just supply and demand.
I'm guessing not just that you only have so many planes.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Correct, We'll get to the planes, because Spirit Airlines has
like one hundred and forty something planes that are up
for grabs now.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
And they're all yellow.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
The other thing is that Spirit was known as a
low cost carrier, and so let's just pretend you're Jet
Blue or you're You're United. You were competing with them
in a certain hub. You had to keep your prices
lower than you wanted to, lower than you actually could
based on the market right now, based on the price
of jet fuel.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's an interesting whole thing. So they shut down.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So it's like, Okay, now we can run our business
in the way we kind of really wanted to or
need to to stay afloat because we don't have to
compete with Spirit anymore. So that means that some of
the ticket prices will go up in those areas and
that crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, that makes some sense, not cool for us. The
thing about Spirit, though, is Spirit could get pricey if
you actually did the add ons, because you paid for everything.
If you didn't, I mean literally, it was no frills,
you'd get the cheapest price if you weren't carrying luggage,
if you weren't going to do snacks, if you weren't
going to specify seats. You know what I'm saying, the
whole list of ifs. So eventually, I mean you could
(25:23):
you could get your airfare on Spirit to be a
little pricing. Okay, I did know that you got all
the options, Yet.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I never flew on Spirit. Now we have a friend
who did fly once time.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
The whole budget airline thing concerns for me anyway. It's like, really,
you're gonna be able to do this on the cheap huh.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Look thirty thousand feet huh.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Our friend David told me one time he went for
a festival weekend with friends and he flew on Spirit,
like you know, when he was first discovering it, and
he got a very low fair. He said it was
the worst experience though. He's like, he said, I might
as well just saut on the floor.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah, he said.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
He had nothing, no water, nothing, he said, but it
was the lowest airfare of his life.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Anyway, the other airlines will be getting more planes.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It's an attractive fleet, but it's not going to happen quickly.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It's not going to be something that you hear reported
on next Monday, because they're in the bankruptcy process, which,
as we know, takes time. Yeah, Teacher and nurses Appreciation week,
so keep it coming. Eight seven seven three one zero
four MSJ.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
How are you, Mandy.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
We're having a great day. We're on the way to
pick up some bagels for the Sacred Heart teachers to
celebrate them for teacher Appreciation weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, like a like an assortment of bagels or everything
or blueberry what are we talking all of them?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah, we're ahead of the little market in Ocean Springs.
They have homemade traditional bagels over there, so we're getting
a whole spread for the teachers, all the different kinds
of cream, cheeses, and any bagel you could think of
all week long.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
They're spoiled the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
They do deserve it, all right. I love that you're
doing that. So how many are you picking up? Do
you mind me asking how many bagels you're ordering?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Fifty buys?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, Now your car is gonna smell incredible.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah it will.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I'll be a little jealous because I did not order
one from myself.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh yeah, you're gonna have to go back on the
way out and get one.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I should probably, I should have probably ordered one.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Yeah, you know elementary school parents, there's a big joke
they call it May Somber.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Oh yeah, comes around.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Because I was just telling the guys today it's like
a second December.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It is so hectic. I remember it.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
It's like awards ceremonies and class parties and we've got
a piano recital tonight and first Communion is happening this week.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah. And you know what the advice is for May Somber.
It's the same as December.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Let some things go and get as much support as
you can from your partner, from other friends, from teach
like whoever can help you.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Yes, my son Sig is in the car. He wants
to give a shout out to his teacher.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
If that's okay, Hey, sigh, Oh so sweet.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Tell him about your teacher.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
What's her name, Miss bruce Ard. What do you like
about Miss Bruce Ard?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
She encouraging me.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh, she gives great hugs.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I think that's important in elementary school.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah it is. She's been a great teacher for him.
So when we heard your call for you know, wanting
to shout out teachers, I said, let's call him.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
So we just wanted to.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Tell y'all how great she is, so you can give
her a little shout out.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Well, thank you, thanks for calling Mandy. Good to hear
from you, Sig, and shout out to miss Brusar.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Yeah, enjoy the bagels.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Awesome, You'll have a great day.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Thank you you too. We appreciate that. And by the way, teachers,
yesterday's after the show podcast is fully dedicated to you
for Teacher Appreciation Week.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
We did an after the show podcast the other day
and you can go back and find it just search Murphy,
Sam and Jody anywhere you listen to podcasts. It was
last Thursday, Empty Nest Confessions, and where we talked about
we're an empty nest right now. Murphy, I know you
are too, Sam, but you know we may not be
in there forever because I do think our youngest is
(29:18):
going to come home next year for a little while,
so we'll have, you know, a little adjustment again. But
empty nest confessions like what's been hard about it, but
also what I have found to embrace, Like I just
have used this time to take better care of myself,
so much better than I used to when I had
the kids at home and life was just you know,
you're on that roller coaster, and so it can be
(29:41):
a time for you to work on yourself or your
relationship or whatever, so that you can go back and
check out that whole podcast. We really went there. Jessica
sent this. I just listened to this podcast while getting
ready for work. It was exactly what I needed today.
Since it is the beginning of May, I'm getting so
overwhelmed and emotional as both my boys are about to graduate,
(30:04):
one from high school, one from college. My husband and
I will become empty nesters in August, and we definitely
have mixed feelings. So thank you is what Jessica says.
You'll find a way.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
It is, yeah, you do. It's it is how life progresses.
But it is so weird, and I mean, I know
I remember having trouble those first few weeks.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's more quiet.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Although it's very quiet.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It's very quiet.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
There are little subtleties that you notice too, Like one
thing I'll say, just as a mom, however, I leave
the kitchen at night.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Now is how it is it is in the morning,
and it was not that way for years. It was like,
oh I did this and it looks exactly the same.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Right, I've done that, falling back on that on my
whole house. Yeah, I've taken longer to dus, longer to
vacuum because it's like it's just me. I'm good with it,
then I'm good with.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
It, O say.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Rebecca sent this same subject subject matter our podcast and confessions.
Rebecca says for me, after I adjusted to the sudden change,
I embraced the opportunity to discover new opportunities and time
for myself. I think it is important for children to
see that their parents are still developing new interest and
have a full life while still enjoying their adult children.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That is a great point. I didn't even think about that.
That would be so true.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You're always modeling things.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
They're watching you, you know, So if your life is
only about them, where's your identity? This empty nest is
a great time to get back in touch with them.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Look, that's a true statement when it comes to just
a relationship in general between two people, you know what
I'm saying, and with yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, so thank you Jessica and Rebecca. Keep it coming.
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