A listener reveals what Sam's friendly neighborhood waves mean to his mom, who is battling early Alzheimer's, and it moves the whole crew. Jodi confesses to hitting the upper 90s in Murphy's too-responsive car while he worked like Kermit in the passenger seat. Plus, Sam wonders if his Office Depot scissors joke was rude or just a bomb, and we hear the sweet viral story of a Wendy's worker who found a friend by asking to eat lunch on a stranger's porch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Chody Weekend Show podcast, highlighting
some of our favorite moments from this past week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Morning pick me up time.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Now, this one is special and different and beautiful and
it came to Murphy Samonjody dot com. It's an email. Okay, Sam,
this message is for Sam. I love this story and
we're going to read this email. My name is Adam.
My parents live in your neighborhood, and my mother is
always walking her little white dog.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Does this ring a bell?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yes? It does? Okay, see her all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
My mom is suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's
and saying hi to you are getting a big wave
from you is a huge highlight of her day.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
She calls me every time, sometimes several times, and I
can hear the beaming through the phone when she talks
about how friendly you are to her. Thank you immensely
from her kids. We all live out of state and
visit them as much as possible, but knowing people are
showing her kindness when we're not there helps us a lot.
(01:07):
Thank you so much, And that is from Adam.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You sure this was about me being Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I remember, that's what makes an extra special sham.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Didn't you say something about a lady who you wave
to that walks her dog and says she listens to
the show and speaks to you often.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Is it the same lady.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It's the same lady. She's coming to my door to
give us, give me ideas about what we should put
on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, oh okay, but usually.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
If you know, because I walk around the neighborhood now
I'll see her most of the time and wave and
she's got her dog and we talk.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And now you know that it means so much more
than you could ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And that's always true for interaction.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I did not realize that she was in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I mean correct, how could you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, if you don't know her, you don't know that
the behavior is maybe a little different, or maybe it's
not really a little different.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Her family just knows this true story.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
The family knows. I don't, and it doesn't seem like
it to me. Yeah, but my interactions with her are
short and.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Breathe, yes, but they mean a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And that is another example of just be kind, always
be kind, and not judgmental of anyone for any reason,
for any small, little interaction and.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Adam know this.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The reason this is so special and to pick me
up to us too, is because out of all of us,
Sam is the least socially interactive, like he's You're just
more introverted.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You know, outside in the world. You're more to yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He's the least likely to say hi, and I mean
you're kind.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It's just a lot of people don't know it. Because
let's not let that out.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, thank you, Adam.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
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we love to have you eight seven seven three one
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always leave us a voice memo.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Walmart has had quiet hours for almost a year now.
The radio goes off, the lights go down, and it
stays that way. I believe it's from nine until eleven
and then everything comes back up. Okay, hope you guys
have a great day. I just wanted to tell.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We're talking about Sephora having quiet hours across the world now,
and you know it's different hours every day, just like
a two hour block.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Why is that a thing?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Just so I understand it's for those who are neuro divergent. Okay,
it's for those two stimulate autism ADHD. There's a lot
of things that fall under that umbrella, but a lot
of people are finding that it's wonderful for them no
matter what, without you know, ever having any sort of diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That would be peaceful, you know, correct, going to shop
at the library.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
To me, I've never been into one of these stores
when they were in quiet hours that I know of, But.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I've never been in a Walmart quiet.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Let me say, sometime last year, Walmart started slowly but
surely redoing some of the stores.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I was walking across the store.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And I noticed the lighting changed, and I felt like
I was in an apartment store. Walking through the clothing section.
There was a mannequin and it was just subtle, but
enough to go, WHOA Am I in Walmart?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Still?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So it was like different lighting in different parts of
the store.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yes, And I thought, this is lovely.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Why not do this all the time to make these
stores more pleasant to be in?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Wow, you got a lot of Walmarts to do that with.
What I have noticed in a number of Walmarts is
they've changed the acoustics. Okay, and that's something that I
would notice too. It doesn't feel as cavernous in there,
and it's not as so that to me, even if
you don't do quiet hours, right, it makes it a
little bit more comfortable to be in intimate feeling.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, and apparently during quiet hours the lighting goes down
to I mean, I hope you can see everything.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That you need to buy.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But still it is a lovely idea, which it would
be not I used to see that expanded even more
than just two hours per day.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Murphy and I took a road trip this weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I don't know if you were getting emails from him
on Friday afternoon, Sam me, no, but he was working
because we don't normally do this. I don't like to
drive on a road trip. I like to not think
and be in the passenger seat.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And I said, Jody, I've got some work to do. Drive.
She offered, you know, to drive, which was very helpful,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, so he could open up the laptop and get
some work done. And he really was.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
He was over sitting next to me like Kermit with
the type Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I was like, I mean, I was going I couldn't
believe it, Like forty five minutes went by before.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, wow, here's what else went by. So let me
just take you to the truth of the matter. Is
it's not just that I don't like to drive. I
want to be the passenger princess as they called me
and my family. But on paper, Murphy's car is a
much better car than what I normally drive on the
regular Yea, it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is a better car.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, it just is a nicer and it's fine as
newer or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But I don't like driving it.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Why because the car would be awesome to drive.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think way too many bells and whistles for a
girl like me. It does things that I don't understand.
There's a there's a lot of great safety features blah
blah blah, but it also is too.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Blah blah the safety features, Sam, can you believe that
when it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Comes to something like driving and keeping yourself alive on
the road. To me, the less stuff I have to
think about, the more simple, the better.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But what did you have to think about? I mean,
it was really just bo and GOLs and whistles.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But let me get to the point.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
This car is too responsive. Okay, the tiniest movement of
my hand on the steering wheel and we're in the
next lane.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So that scared me.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But but you know what I'm about to tell him, right, Murphy,
I'm about to.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Tell realize how fast you were going.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's so fantastic this car and responsive that I'm just
minding my own on the interstate trying to get us there,
listening to him work like, kermit next to me, are you.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Actually going to admit this publicly?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You have you ever driven something that you didn't realize?
You can't feel how fast.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Your mind because it's so great how fast you're going.
At one point, I don't want anybody to get in trouble.
I don't want to get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But at one point I look down and I was
in the upper nineties, and she.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Screamed, actually, and I didn't know what was going on.
She slowed down. Yeah, it's like, yeah, well, when everybody
else is going that fast around you, you know?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah? Direct message us on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We read and see every single comment and email that
rolls into all the places. So if you want to
be a part of this conversation, it's easy to do.
So let's dig into some emails.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Guys. I got one for you Jody from Murphy Samon
Jody dot Com from Cindy. Hi, Cindy, and this is
about your boyfriend, Doc Champ and what he eats. Well,
Cindy says, Champ will love fresh pet dog food and
it's reasonably priced compared to others.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I haven't met one yet that didn't gobble it up.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's true, that's what we switched him to.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Oh okay, Yeah, she says. It's so much healthier for them,
and it will put a pep in his step too.
Let him revel in the time he has. God love him.
The best is yet to come for Champ.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, thank you for saying that, Cindy. It's true.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Since we started feeding him the fresh dog food in
the mornings and then at night or the rest of
his life, he's getting a little peanut butter treat from me,
pap in his step is putting it lightly.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, in the mornings now he's actually by say, barking,
he talks to us, and he's doing that again. He
wasn't doing that with the dry dog food. Now he's
talking again. I mean until you get that, you know,
gave him.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A reason to rally here, and he when we got
home from our weekend away. He was doing zoomis oh
not love on me more? It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
We were rotating through the chicken. I think is the
least expensive of him. So we're sticking to the chicken.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh he deserves steak, not.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
A ten dollars more of two. He doesn't. I love
him too, Jody.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Only one Champ Murphy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And then Jody had bought one that has ross salmon.
I can't deal with the smell of that one. So
we're sticking to chicken right now.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But Champ in case he's listening. Thank you for that, Cindy, this.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Was for you, Jody from Gary. Hi Gary, So Gary
says that he has oh it just says The Women
novel by Kristin Hannah. I'm not an avid reader. I
would rather wait for a movie. I hear you, Gary's
That's the way I am too. Yeah, this one intrigued me.
Being a Vietnam veteran, I could visualize the things she
was talking about. Great book.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I've not heard of it, Gary, I've had more. I've
had a few friends recommend that book to me. And
she's an author I know well. She wrote The Nightingale,
which I loved and she wrote Winter Garden and a
ton of other books.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She writes a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I just haven't gone there yet because I know she's
a serious writer, and it's a serious story about a
girl who goes over and is like a nurse in Vietnam. Okay,
and not just by herself, but from what I understand,
all the women and what they did over there, you know,
for the troops. So I will get to it. It's
just I'm still busy with another. But I love the recommendation,
(10:20):
and I about other friends recommend that book.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Thank you, Gary, and thank you for your service to Gary.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Aren't you interested to know what valuable things get donated
all the time to like goodwill and thrift stores that
they're saying, wait, pay attention to what you're donating before
you do it if you don't want.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
To lose like a Van Gove that was in the attic.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Art art valuable artwork because you've got a couple of those, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Valuable artwork is on the list. People drop off stuff
without realizing that it's valuable.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Those are usually the stories we hear about those stories.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That's tricky because you don't really know sometimes, especially if
you're like if it belonged to your parents or somebody else,
and you don't know the story behind.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It if you know your parents. To me, it's like
my parents didn't have any valuable All of.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Ours were multiple prints. We would actually be there were
so many TV shows that we would watch and go,
we've got that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's called home interiors. It used to be okay. So
valuable artwork is a couple of ways.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You can use Google lens to tell you what it is,
to give you a and then there's an app. It's
a free app called Magnus in m a g in us.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's like the Shazam of the art world.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It's free and you can shoot a picture of it
and it'll tell you where it came from, who it is,
what it is, and that it's whether it's valuable or not. Man,
try it, I know it's Magnus m a g in us.
And thrift stores all often get this kind and they
use it too. They're like, oh, how do we price this?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Or it maybe never even makes it to the floor.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
The other thing is watches. There are a lot of
brands of watches that really hold their value. And you know,
if Grandpa had seventeen watches and you're like, ah, you know,
if you decide to donate them, all careful, you know,
slow the roll and check it out, you know, a jeweler.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I don't know if smart watches brought watches back in general,
because watches kind of went through a slump there when
everybody moved to phones. But smart watches now, I mean
walk through Walmart now you'll see a whole cassio section
against like, ooh, watches are back.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I mean certain luxury a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm talking about cao donated as being missing jewels. That's
not what I.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Mean, going back to your parents' artwork.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Look, I notice sometimes on people to watches and it's
like they're trying like a GPS or their tracking or
it's a whole thing. I see some people wearing two sometimes.
But yeah, for valuable watches, definitely check those. Another thing
that gets donated is all kinds of jewelry, like check it,
make sure it's really if you just because you think
(12:51):
he or she didn't have any real gold or real silver,
you can check it first, and you should.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
They say check it with a magnet. Yeah, so if
it's real gold, it won't attract it, it won't attract it.
It won't stick gold or silver, but fake jewelry will.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Seems like there's got to be a better way to
check that the magnet test. I need you to tell
me if something I said to a guy at office
Depot the other day could be considered rude, or if
it was a really good joke.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, what was your intention, Sam, a.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Really good joke?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, I'm assuming you're asking, is that, Yeah, if you
didn't get the response you were looking at exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I went to office Depot I had to send something
fat X and the guy printed up the label that
I had and he goes, yeah, I got to cut
this and put it on the box. Yeah, he goes,
there should be some scissors back here somewhere. And so
my line was, I would hope so, since this is
an office supply store.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I would have liked that.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That doesn't mean though, because it also I know you.
I'm always ready for the joke with you. I'm always
recept to it. I should hope so the way you started,
I should hope so could be offensive.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well he found the scissors and turned around, and you know,
he was straight faced when I am about cutting it and
telling me how he had to get it downe Like,
either he didn't hear me or it was like, sorry,
you know, we get office jokes all the time. That
didn't funny.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He probably does get off of supply jokes all the time,
you know. Yeah, but you can apply that to so
many things. Hold on, I need to find the tape,
same jokes from Sam. You know what I mean? Well,
we need to bubble wrap this same joke from Sam.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Well after after he did cut it out to put
it on there, he had to go find the packing tape. Whoa, Yeah,
So I kept my mouth shut on that first. I
was going to say, like I said.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You know, I don't want this to stop you though,
I assume that when and if a joke doesn't land
and you're asking us about it, you're second guessing you're self.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Please don't stop.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, yeah, you know, think about how comedians are constantly
testing their stuff out. By the time we actually see
a concert performance, they have done all of them and
they've eliminated sixty percent of what they were going to do. Right,
So yeah, you should totally continue to float it. See
what happens. It either means he didn't have a sense
of humor at all, correct, you know or you know
he didn't hear you.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I was tired of hearing office deep.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, I'm sorry that it was good though.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
See I'm glad y'all both laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You liked it too, Murphy, Yeah, I think it's funny.
I mean it also works for I need to find
a pen on and on.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Join us anytime eight seven seven three one zero four
ms j or you can send an email to Murphy
samon Jody dot com, which Ashley has done. She says, Hey,
listening to the show recently, Jody, you were talking about
your blood draw with a student flebottomist.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's true. I love a student.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Do my blood draw a flubottomist. I was just making
sure I heard that right, not a student bottomless. She
heard the.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Bottoms square bottom Miss.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
This is my first brain.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Anyway, she stuck me.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I was nervous because I was one of the first
few people. But you know you have to somebody is
the first stick and a second and a third stick.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
True, somebody's always the first, also the last.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But Ashley says, it goes on to read I have
a similar experience.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I had a C section scheduled to have my daughter.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I get into the room to meet the anesthesiologist to
do my epidural. He comes in with a student. We chatted,
then he proceeded to ask me if it was okay
with the student doing it. Oooh. I froze for a moment,
thinking of all the bad things that could happen, like
never walking again. It's not like they're messing with your
spine or anything. So silly me, I said sure, And
(16:50):
this email says, mean, let's face it, let's house are
they going to get experience?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So, needless to say, my daughter turned eleven a few
weeks back and I am walking just and I don't feel.
I did not feel the C section, So it all
went well, Ashley, You're more brave than me. Yeah, I'm
telling you. An epidural is a matt it's a major.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He's practiced on things before a person, So it's not
like it's going to be yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Practicing on things. It's not the same thing as your
one and only spine.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I know sticking a needle in a watermelon is
not the same thing. But I'm sane. I'm sure he
had some kind of experience.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Is the one where they make everybody leave the room
because I don't want you to right.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh my gosh, you are a brave woman, Ashley, and
good I mean, you know, you gave somebody a good experience.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Anyway. I look back now, I'm going back to the email.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I look back now and think, Wow, you were a
complete fool for letting a student do that to you.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Listen to the show every day.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I find myself laughing a lot and find it so
everyday life thinking wow, I am grateful.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I'm not the only one. Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Meeting some of our stuff that's here here, Thank you, Ashley.
I'll never forget that. Email us anytime, take us along
when it's convenient for you. Now that you're going to
be getting in a back to school schedule. You can
listen to the Murphy, Sam and Jody Show podcast anytime anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Take it with you. Just search Murphy, Sam and Jody
anywhere you listen.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You know one thing at the house that I don't do,
and I'm not going to say I'm not allowed to
do it, but I it's self imposed, is decorating. I'm
not the interior decorator. I make no decisions on the
inside of the house by design and Mark.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Sam, yeah it is, it's smart, and I know it's smart.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
But Jody, you say it's smart, I would think you
have a better eye for that stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Okay, she does. I agree with it. And so she
wants to well, for one thing, she wanted to give
me an area that was sort of an uncluttered if
I decided to work in the house and not in
my office, you know, just a clean area. So she
was going to get me this little desk for my
birthday that she had show up. And it's cute. I
like it a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I thought you just got some kind of rolling Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The problem I bought him a desk desk and it
showed up and I didn't know he had ordered already
ordered a little rolling fold away desk.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But it's a fold away, it gets put away. This
is actually just a sweet little kind of it could
pass as a I.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Don't know what the writing desk.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's a writing desk, but you know, it looks nice
in any room, whatever it is. And so Jody got that,
you know, delivered, and both of us trying to decide, well,
in this area, it's kind of a square room. It's
got windows on two sides. Does it look right in
the middle of the room or not? And then Jody's decides, well,
you know, maybe what we do or two chairs instead,
which I agree with, and make.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It a sitting room instead. Now you've got your rolling
desk anyway, so the.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Desk is going to go back. And this is where
I'm going with this is I'm one of those that
and it's dumb. I don't know why my brain works
this way. Kind of don't want to get rid of
the desk. It's like, well, you got it and it
looks good, and I know we don't want it there,
but then are we going to miss it when we
say it somewhere?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
But you have a house full of furniture already. This
is how clutter happens. He's attached to it. It's been
there less than a week.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Has he used it yet?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, you can't use it. We're not buying it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, she won't let me get anywhere near and I
can't even take the stickers off.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
We order the chairs instead, and when they bring the chairs,
they're going to take the desk back. We're not buying
the desk because we agreed visually we don't.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Like their chairs in seat.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's just weird. Yes, you're right. Attachment's the perfect word
for that. Yeah, that happens to me because after a minute,
I'm like, well, but we'll find a way. Maybe we
can buy all of it our credit limits a little.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Did you like a writing desk?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I'm good. I forgot all day yesterday to tell you
about the dog I got this weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Okay, why why are you gusting with me?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, we don't believe you, Sam, because I don't think
you're fully committed to getting a new dog yet.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I've been holding off asking you because you said, after
vacation and after your travels the summer, we're gonna adopt
a new best friend.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, so have you really done it? Well?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I got to watch Jango this weekend, My son's Dog.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You're a trickster trying to trick us?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Are you getting closer to wanting to do that?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
This is kind of this is this is legit. Okay, Yeah,
I did watch Django this weekend. Your son's dog, My
son's dog. I am doing a solo Sam trip one
weekend later on this month, okay, which I have to
talk to hr about that one. But anyway, uh, after
after that one is when, because I'm thinking I'm going
(21:33):
to get all the traveling done before the dog, because
I don't want to get you know, get a dog
and in two weeks into it, take off.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
For three days, right, all that routine.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yea, I understand that completely.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So my next travel would probably be around Christmas time maybe,
so that gives me a good three or four months too.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I want to hear about your process.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Are you going to look online first or are you
gonna go wait and see if you vibe with a dog.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I'm going to look online first because I've been getting
a lot of a follow on Facebook a lot of
the local shelters I know, So I'm going to use
that to start with, and if it doesn't pan out
to anything, then I'll go and look.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I'm going a meeting. One can be a difference maker.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I know. But part of me is afraid to do
that because I've never done it, well, except for because
we got Gus at like a pet event that was out,
you know, a festival type thing. I've never gone to
a shelter and look for a dog and been able
to be able to walk away from all the other
dogs that are looking at you like okay, buddy heart.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Can handle it. Yeah, okay, go volunteer. Go one afternoon
and say I'm here to volunteer. I'll walk dogs and
you can walk several of them. It's good exercise for you,
and you can see which ones you jellous.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It can be even harder for me to walk away
from those dogs.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Really, but you know that you're already there.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And the only way that you're going to know if
you've bond with a dog is to spend some time.
I don't think we ever. Most of our rescues weren't
like the first look. We might have had a few
of them, but we would walk it, you know, and
you can kindah.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, yeah, you're so scared of it, don't be. Your
best friend could be waiting for you, waiting for that walk.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah. Maybe I'll get in about the same time as
my birthday, so we'll have a double birthday and.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It'll be good.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Join the conversation anytime, you know, we mean it eight
seven seven three one zero four MSJ. We also know
it is back to school time. Going to get to
some teacher comments, but first I want to say to students,
To all students, no matter what your age, if you
are starting elementary school, you know this year, or you're
going into high school. It doesn't matter. Don't think of
(23:36):
what you're about to embark on as hard. It might
not be hard for you. It's unfamiliar, you know. That's
that's the way to look at it. I've had to
learn that myself in my life. You know, anytime something
new technical comes our way intimidating, my first thought is
this is intimidating, this is going to be hard, and
I start self doubting. And the truth that I've learned
(23:59):
to say, no, it's just unfamiliar, and once it becomes
familiar to me, I'll be okay. And so that's true
for algebra, that's true for whatever your French, whatever you're
learning that you're a little nervous about. Or maybe the
students are unfamiliar and the teachers are unfamiliar, but in
a few days they won't be.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So remember that back to school time.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I want to say now to the teachers from Messenger,
if you follow us on Instagram, YouTube, all the places
Diana sent sent, thank you for shouting out teachers. It
means a lot considering how challenging our jobs are these days.
I have a seventy mile commute to my school each day.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Always listen to you guys when driving.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Well, thank you. And let's say long commute.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's more than an hour, depending on how fast you're driving.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
All right, Monica, getting ready for my year twenty two,
meeting a teacher, getting ready my classroom is almost ready
to welcome my students.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The new year is always like a fresh start.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah ah, yeah, see that's you don't always think of
it from the teacher's perspective.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
When you're a parent.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You're thinking about your household, your kid, what they're about
to start facing.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
There's so much in it, involved in it, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I wonder if teachers too have that same feeling that
kids have at the start of the year when you
get all new stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh excitement.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah, I got new shoes and the smell of a new.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Backpack whatever it is. I think, So.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Aren't office supplies and school supplies. They're exciting to everybody,
regardless of your age.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And it's because it's a fresh start.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You can start over and be the version of yourself
that you want to be.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's really a blank piece of paper, literally.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, join us anytime, Sam. Regarding your joke, that didn't
land at the office supply place when you made the
joke about them not having scissors.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What was the joke again, Uh, he had to find
some scissors to cut something, and he says, I thought
I had scissors around here, and I said I would
hope so since this is an office supply store, so
it gets funnier every time.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But he didn't laugh.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Okay, I bring I bring it back up because it
reminded me of when we go to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I am.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I've always done this at the doctor's appointments. Well, maybe
not if it's someone else. If it's my child or
my mom and I go to the doctor with her,
I'm not a bucket of laughs.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But when it's for me, I don't know. I just do.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I test the waters with my doctors, you know, and
anybody that comes into the room.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You mean, test the waters with a joke, with a joke.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah, yeah, And but I honestly will say this. Sometimes
it lands, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Usually with the doctors it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Either, because they've heard it and they're about business and
they're not there. They're not they don't they're not walking
in the room to be entertained. So I understand it.
But I think the truth of the matter is when
we're at the doctor's office. He had to tell me
this is true for you too, Sam, I don't really
do it for them. I'm not really doing it to
make them laugh. I'm doing it for myself, a self
(27:00):
comfort thing.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Maybe makes sense, Yeah, yeah, that's part of I mean,
I'm not doing it at the doctor's office to make
him laugh. That's just a side benefit. I'm nervous there's
going to be a shot or something else going on.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So it's like, yeah, I don't know if I do
because every now and then it's not like I try
to go over the top being funny. But I mean,
some of my doctors really do have a great sense
of humor. So one of them, I won't say what
I said, but his response was, well, you warm me.
If it starts to feel good.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
That's all you need is the punchline on that one.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You need to make another report with him.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I came back.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Okay, Doctors, anyway, if you listen this and you work
in the medical world, you know, just know, they're not
necessarily patients are not necessarily looking really to make you chuckle.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It'd be nice if you do it if you don't
find you're not obligated to laugh, But I think it's
a self comfort thing. If somebody's gonna start cracking jokes
they're trying to get themselves through.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, gets you through just about anything, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Thank goodness. And let's talk more about that, doctor Murph.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, morning pick me up time. You may have heard
about this story sort of trending, but I don't want
to break it down for you, especially since we've had
a lot of conversations lately about how tough it can
be to make friends and that there are all these
online apps to help you make friends like bumble bff
and all those things we you know, kind of touched on,
and it's true and our you know, overly tech world
(28:31):
friendship has taken a hit, but it's actually back to
basics to make a friend kindness. Okay, So it's the
story of uh Dara and Abigail, the girl Dara who
worked at who was having a really really bad day.
She works at Wendy's and she was having a very
difficult day at work, just stress, and it was time
for her lunch break, so she got her food, some
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Wendy's food in a bag, and she was going to
walk home to eat it. She doesn't have a car
right now, but it's kind of a long walk home.
She would walk, eat it and then have to go
right back. She was just having a day. So on
the way through the neighborhood to her home, she saw
this house and she was like, man, it would be
nice to just sit down on that front porch and
eat instead and be able to just sit and take
(29:14):
the break. So she decides to be brave and ring
the doorbell camera and ask, yeah, can I help you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I work at the Wendy's right there and I'm on
my break. I didn't want to walk all the way home.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Could I just sit right there and.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Eat my lunch?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's fine, Okay, thank you so much. You can see
that she was nervous.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
She was pacing before she rang the doorbell to even
ask that question. And Dara's you know. The second part
of the story is that after she said yes, you
can sit there and eat it, she almost wanted to
cry just to be allowed to sit there and eat
her lunch. She was just having a day. You can
sometimes have a day where you could just sit down
and cry. So the next day, Abigail goes to the
Wendy's and finds her and they become dear friends. They
(30:02):
are best friends now, and Abigail has started a GoFundMe
for her to get her a car and they've raised
like eight thousand dollars already. And the main part is
that they became friends just because and that that was
the door ring doorbell camera video that Abigail shared and viral.
It's gone viral and now they're friends and it's just lovely.
(30:25):
I'm not saying you should not and ask to eat
on anybody's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Just sharing the story and that
Speaker 3 (30:31):
You know, friendships can sometimes just start with kindness, as
it should
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Chody Weekend Show podcast, highlighting
some of our favorite moments from this past week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Morning pick me up time.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Now, this one is special and different and beautiful and
it came to Murphy Samonjody dot com. It's an email. Okay, Sam,
this message is for Sam. I love this story and
we're going to read this email. My name is Adam.
My parents live in your neighborhood, and my mother is
always walking her little white dog.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Does this ring a bell?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yes? It does? Okay, see her all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
My mom is suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's
and saying hi to you are getting a big wave
from you is a huge highlight of her day.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
She calls me every time, sometimes several times, and I
can hear the beaming through the phone when she talks
about how friendly you are to her. Thank you immensely
from her kids. We all live out of state and
visit them as much as possible, but knowing people are
showing her kindness when we're not there helps us a lot.
(01:07):
Thank you so much, And that is from Adam.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You sure this was about me being Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I remember, that's what makes an extra special sham.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Didn't you say something about a lady who you wave
to that walks her dog and says she listens to
the show and speaks to you often.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Is it the same lady.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It's the same lady. She's coming to my door to
give us, give me ideas about what we should put
on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, oh okay, but usually.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
If you know, because I walk around the neighborhood now
I'll see her most of the time and wave and
she's got her dog and we talk.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And now you know that it means so much more
than you could ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And that's always true for interaction.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I did not realize that she was in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I mean correct, how could you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, if you don't know her, you don't know that
the behavior is maybe a little different, or maybe it's
not really a little different.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Her family just knows this true story.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
The family knows. I don't, and it doesn't seem like
it to me. Yeah, but my interactions with her are
short and.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Breathe, yes, but they mean a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And that is another example of just be kind, always
be kind, and not judgmental of anyone for any reason,
for any small, little interaction and.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Adam know this.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The reason this is so special and to pick me
up to us too, is because out of all of us,
Sam is the least socially interactive, like he's You're just
more introverted.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You know, outside in the world. You're more to yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He's the least likely to say hi, and I mean
you're kind.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It's just a lot of people don't know it. Because
let's not let that out.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, thank you, Adam.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
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Speaker 5 (02:56):
Walmart has had quiet hours for almost a year now.
The radio goes off, the lights go down, and it
stays that way. I believe it's from nine until eleven
and then everything comes back up. Okay, hope you guys
have a great day. I just wanted to tell.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We're talking about Sephora having quiet hours across the world now,
and you know it's different hours every day, just like
a two hour block.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Why is that a thing?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Just so I understand it's for those who are neuro divergent. Okay,
it's for those two stimulate autism ADHD. There's a lot
of things that fall under that umbrella, but a lot
of people are finding that it's wonderful for them no
matter what, without you know, ever having any sort of diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That would be peaceful, you know, correct, going to shop
at the library.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
To me, I've never been into one of these stores
when they were in quiet hours that I know of, But.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I've never been in a Walmart quiet.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Let me say, sometime last year, Walmart started slowly but
surely redoing some of the stores.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I was walking across the store.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And I noticed the lighting changed, and I felt like
I was in an apartment store. Walking through the clothing section.
There was a mannequin and it was just subtle, but
enough to go, WHOA Am I in Walmart?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Still?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So it was like different lighting in different parts of
the store.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yes, And I thought, this is lovely.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Why not do this all the time to make these
stores more pleasant to be in?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Wow, you got a lot of Walmarts to do that with.
What I have noticed in a number of Walmarts is
they've changed the acoustics. Okay, and that's something that I
would notice too. It doesn't feel as cavernous in there,
and it's not as so that to me, even if
you don't do quiet hours, right, it makes it a
little bit more comfortable to be in intimate feeling.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, and apparently during quiet hours the lighting goes down
to I mean, I hope you can see everything.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That you need to buy.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But still it is a lovely idea, which it would
be not I used to see that expanded even more
than just two hours per day.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Murphy and I took a road trip this weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I don't know if you were getting emails from him
on Friday afternoon, Sam me, no, but he was working
because we don't normally do this. I don't like to
drive on a road trip. I like to not think
and be in the passenger seat.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And I said, Jody, I've got some work to do. Drive.
She offered, you know, to drive, which was very helpful,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, so he could open up the laptop and get
some work done. And he really was.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
He was over sitting next to me like Kermit with
the type Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I was like, I mean, I was going I couldn't
believe it, Like forty five minutes went by before.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, wow, here's what else went by. So let me
just take you to the truth of the matter. Is
it's not just that I don't like to drive. I
want to be the passenger princess as they called me
and my family. But on paper, Murphy's car is a
much better car than what I normally drive on the
regular Yea, it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is a better car.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, it just is a nicer and it's fine as
newer or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But I don't like driving it.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Why because the car would be awesome to drive.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think way too many bells and whistles for a
girl like me. It does things that I don't understand.
There's a there's a lot of great safety features blah
blah blah, but it also is too.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Blah blah the safety features, Sam, can you believe that
when it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Comes to something like driving and keeping yourself alive on
the road. To me, the less stuff I have to
think about, the more simple, the better.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But what did you have to think about? I mean,
it was really just bo and GOLs and whistles.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But let me get to the point.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
This car is too responsive. Okay, the tiniest movement of
my hand on the steering wheel and we're in the
next lane.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So that scared me.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But but you know what I'm about to tell him, right, Murphy,
I'm about to.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Tell realize how fast you were going.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's so fantastic this car and responsive that I'm just
minding my own on the interstate trying to get us there,
listening to him work like, kermit next to me, are you.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Actually going to admit this publicly?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You have you ever driven something that you didn't realize?
You can't feel how fast.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Your mind because it's so great how fast you're going.
At one point, I don't want anybody to get in trouble.
I don't want to get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But at one point I look down and I was
in the upper nineties, and she.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Screamed, actually, and I didn't know what was going on.
She slowed down. Yeah, it's like, yeah, well, when everybody
else is going that fast around you, you know?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah? Direct message us on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We read and see every single comment and email that
rolls into all the places. So if you want to
be a part of this conversation, it's easy to do.
So let's dig into some emails.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Guys. I got one for you Jody from Murphy Samon
Jody dot Com from Cindy. Hi, Cindy, and this is
about your boyfriend, Doc Champ and what he eats. Well,
Cindy says, Champ will love fresh pet dog food and
it's reasonably priced compared to others.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I haven't met one yet that didn't gobble it up.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's true, that's what we switched him to.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Oh okay, Yeah, she says. It's so much healthier for them,
and it will put a pep in his step too.
Let him revel in the time he has. God love him.
The best is yet to come for Champ.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, thank you for saying that, Cindy. It's true.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Since we started feeding him the fresh dog food in
the mornings and then at night or the rest of
his life, he's getting a little peanut butter treat from me,
pap in his step is putting it lightly.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, in the mornings now he's actually by say, barking,
he talks to us, and he's doing that again. He
wasn't doing that with the dry dog food. Now he's
talking again. I mean until you get that, you know,
gave him.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A reason to rally here, and he when we got
home from our weekend away. He was doing zoomis oh
not love on me more? It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
We were rotating through the chicken. I think is the
least expensive of him. So we're sticking to the chicken.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh he deserves steak, not.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
A ten dollars more of two. He doesn't. I love
him too, Jody.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Only one Champ Murphy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And then Jody had bought one that has ross salmon.
I can't deal with the smell of that one. So
we're sticking to chicken right now.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But Champ in case he's listening. Thank you for that, Cindy, this.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Was for you, Jody from Gary. Hi Gary, So Gary
says that he has oh it just says The Women
novel by Kristin Hannah. I'm not an avid reader. I
would rather wait for a movie. I hear you, Gary's
That's the way I am too. Yeah, this one intrigued me.
Being a Vietnam veteran, I could visualize the things she
was talking about. Great book.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I've not heard of it, Gary, I've had more. I've
had a few friends recommend that book to me. And
she's an author I know well. She wrote The Nightingale,
which I loved and she wrote Winter Garden and a
ton of other books.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She writes a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I just haven't gone there yet because I know she's
a serious writer, and it's a serious story about a
girl who goes over and is like a nurse in Vietnam. Okay,
and not just by herself, but from what I understand,
all the women and what they did over there, you know,
for the troops. So I will get to it. It's
just I'm still busy with another. But I love the recommendation,
(10:20):
and I about other friends recommend that book.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Thank you, Gary, and thank you for your service to Gary.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Aren't you interested to know what valuable things get donated
all the time to like goodwill and thrift stores that
they're saying, wait, pay attention to what you're donating before
you do it if you don't want.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
To lose like a Van Gove that was in the attic.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Art art valuable artwork because you've got a couple of those, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Valuable artwork is on the list. People drop off stuff
without realizing that it's valuable.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Those are usually the stories we hear about those stories.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That's tricky because you don't really know sometimes, especially if
you're like if it belonged to your parents or somebody else,
and you don't know the story behind.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It if you know your parents. To me, it's like
my parents didn't have any valuable All of.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Ours were multiple prints. We would actually be there were
so many TV shows that we would watch and go,
we've got that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's called home interiors. It used to be okay. So
valuable artwork is a couple of ways.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You can use Google lens to tell you what it is,
to give you a and then there's an app. It's
a free app called Magnus in m a g in us.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's like the Shazam of the art world.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It's free and you can shoot a picture of it
and it'll tell you where it came from, who it is,
what it is, and that it's whether it's valuable or not. Man,
try it, I know it's Magnus m a g in us.
And thrift stores all often get this kind and they
use it too. They're like, oh, how do we price this?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Or it maybe never even makes it to the floor.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
The other thing is watches. There are a lot of
brands of watches that really hold their value. And you know,
if Grandpa had seventeen watches and you're like, ah, you know,
if you decide to donate them, all careful, you know,
slow the roll and check it out, you know, a jeweler.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I don't know if smart watches brought watches back in general,
because watches kind of went through a slump there when
everybody moved to phones. But smart watches now, I mean
walk through Walmart now you'll see a whole cassio section
against like, ooh, watches are back.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I mean certain luxury a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm talking about cao donated as being missing jewels. That's
not what I.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Mean, going back to your parents' artwork.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Look, I notice sometimes on people to watches and it's
like they're trying like a GPS or their tracking or
it's a whole thing. I see some people wearing two sometimes.
But yeah, for valuable watches, definitely check those. Another thing
that gets donated is all kinds of jewelry, like check it,
make sure it's really if you just because you think
(12:51):
he or she didn't have any real gold or real silver,
you can check it first, and you should.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
They say check it with a magnet. Yeah, so if
it's real gold, it won't attract it, it won't attract it.
It won't stick gold or silver, but fake jewelry will.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Seems like there's got to be a better way to
check that the magnet test. I need you to tell
me if something I said to a guy at office
Depot the other day could be considered rude, or if
it was a really good joke.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, what was your intention, Sam, a.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Really good joke?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, I'm assuming you're asking, is that, Yeah, if you
didn't get the response you were looking at exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I went to office Depot I had to send something
fat X and the guy printed up the label that
I had and he goes, yeah, I got to cut
this and put it on the box. Yeah, he goes,
there should be some scissors back here somewhere. And so
my line was, I would hope so, since this is
an office supply store.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I would have liked that.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That doesn't mean though, because it also I know you.
I'm always ready for the joke with you. I'm always
recept to it. I should hope so the way you started,
I should hope so could be offensive.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well he found the scissors and turned around, and you know,
he was straight faced when I am about cutting it and
telling me how he had to get it downe Like,
either he didn't hear me or it was like, sorry,
you know, we get office jokes all the time. That
didn't funny.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He probably does get off of supply jokes all the time,
you know. Yeah, but you can apply that to so
many things. Hold on, I need to find the tape,
same jokes from Sam. You know what I mean? Well,
we need to bubble wrap this same joke from Sam.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Well after after he did cut it out to put
it on there, he had to go find the packing tape. Whoa, Yeah,
So I kept my mouth shut on that first. I
was going to say, like I said.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You know, I don't want this to stop you though,
I assume that when and if a joke doesn't land
and you're asking us about it, you're second guessing you're self.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Please don't stop.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, yeah, you know, think about how comedians are constantly
testing their stuff out. By the time we actually see
a concert performance, they have done all of them and
they've eliminated sixty percent of what they were going to do. Right,
So yeah, you should totally continue to float it. See
what happens. It either means he didn't have a sense
of humor at all, correct, you know or you know
he didn't hear you.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I was tired of hearing office deep.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, I'm sorry that it was good though.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
See I'm glad y'all both laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You liked it too, Murphy, Yeah, I think it's funny.
I mean it also works for I need to find
a pen on and on.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Join us anytime eight seven seven three one zero four
ms j or you can send an email to Murphy
samon Jody dot com, which Ashley has done. She says, Hey,
listening to the show recently, Jody, you were talking about
your blood draw with a student flebottomist.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's true. I love a student.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Do my blood draw a flubottomist. I was just making
sure I heard that right, not a student bottomless. She
heard the.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Bottoms square bottom Miss.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
This is my first brain.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Anyway, she stuck me.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I was nervous because I was one of the first
few people. But you know you have to somebody is
the first stick and a second and a third stick.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
True, somebody's always the first, also the last.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But Ashley says, it goes on to read I have
a similar experience.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I had a C section scheduled to have my daughter.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I get into the room to meet the anesthesiologist to
do my epidural. He comes in with a student. We chatted,
then he proceeded to ask me if it was okay
with the student doing it. Oooh. I froze for a moment,
thinking of all the bad things that could happen, like
never walking again. It's not like they're messing with your
spine or anything. So silly me, I said sure, And
(16:50):
this email says, mean, let's face it, let's house are
they going to get experience?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So, needless to say, my daughter turned eleven a few
weeks back and I am walking just and I don't feel.
I did not feel the C section, So it all
went well, Ashley, You're more brave than me. Yeah, I'm
telling you. An epidural is a matt it's a major.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He's practiced on things before a person, So it's not
like it's going to be yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Practicing on things. It's not the same thing as your
one and only spine.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I know sticking a needle in a watermelon is
not the same thing. But I'm sane. I'm sure he
had some kind of experience.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Is the one where they make everybody leave the room
because I don't want you to right.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh my gosh, you are a brave woman, Ashley, and
good I mean, you know, you gave somebody a good experience.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Anyway. I look back now, I'm going back to the email.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I look back now and think, Wow, you were a
complete fool for letting a student do that to you.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Listen to the show every day.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I find myself laughing a lot and find it so
everyday life thinking wow, I am grateful.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I'm not the only one. Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Meeting some of our stuff that's here here, Thank you, Ashley.
I'll never forget that. Email us anytime, take us along
when it's convenient for you. Now that you're going to
be getting in a back to school schedule. You can
listen to the Murphy, Sam and Jody Show podcast anytime anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Take it with you. Just search Murphy, Sam and Jody
anywhere you listen.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You know one thing at the house that I don't do,
and I'm not going to say I'm not allowed to
do it, but I it's self imposed, is decorating. I'm
not the interior decorator. I make no decisions on the
inside of the house by design and Mark.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Sam, yeah it is, it's smart, and I know it's smart.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
But Jody, you say it's smart, I would think you
have a better eye for that stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Okay, she does. I agree with it. And so she
wants to well, for one thing, she wanted to give
me an area that was sort of an uncluttered if
I decided to work in the house and not in
my office, you know, just a clean area. So she
was going to get me this little desk for my
birthday that she had show up. And it's cute. I
like it a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I thought you just got some kind of rolling Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The problem I bought him a desk desk and it
showed up and I didn't know he had ordered already
ordered a little rolling fold away desk.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But it's a fold away, it gets put away. This
is actually just a sweet little kind of it could
pass as a I.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Don't know what the writing desk.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's a writing desk, but you know, it looks nice
in any room, whatever it is. And so Jody got that,
you know, delivered, and both of us trying to decide, well,
in this area, it's kind of a square room. It's
got windows on two sides. Does it look right in
the middle of the room or not? And then Jody's decides, well,
you know, maybe what we do or two chairs instead,
which I agree with, and make.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It a sitting room instead. Now you've got your rolling
desk anyway, so the.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Desk is going to go back. And this is where
I'm going with this is I'm one of those that
and it's dumb. I don't know why my brain works
this way. Kind of don't want to get rid of
the desk. It's like, well, you got it and it
looks good, and I know we don't want it there,
but then are we going to miss it when we
say it somewhere?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
But you have a house full of furniture already. This
is how clutter happens. He's attached to it. It's been
there less than a week.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Has he used it yet?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, you can't use it. We're not buying it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, she won't let me get anywhere near and I
can't even take the stickers off.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
We order the chairs instead, and when they bring the chairs,
they're going to take the desk back. We're not buying
the desk because we agreed visually we don't.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Like their chairs in seat.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's just weird. Yes, you're right. Attachment's the perfect word
for that. Yeah, that happens to me because after a minute,
I'm like, well, but we'll find a way. Maybe we
can buy all of it our credit limits a little.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Did you like a writing desk?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I'm good. I forgot all day yesterday to tell you
about the dog I got this weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Okay, why why are you gusting with me?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, we don't believe you, Sam, because I don't think
you're fully committed to getting a new dog yet.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I've been holding off asking you because you said, after
vacation and after your travels the summer, we're gonna adopt
a new best friend.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, so have you really done it? Well?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I got to watch Jango this weekend, My son's Dog.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You're a trickster trying to trick us?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Are you getting closer to wanting to do that?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
This is kind of this is this is legit. Okay, Yeah,
I did watch Django this weekend. Your son's dog, My
son's dog. I am doing a solo Sam trip one
weekend later on this month, okay, which I have to
talk to hr about that one. But anyway, uh, after
after that one is when, because I'm thinking I'm going
(21:33):
to get all the traveling done before the dog, because
I don't want to get you know, get a dog
and in two weeks into it, take off.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
For three days, right, all that routine.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yea, I understand that completely.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So my next travel would probably be around Christmas time maybe,
so that gives me a good three or four months too.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I want to hear about your process.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Are you going to look online first or are you
gonna go wait and see if you vibe with a dog.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I'm going to look online first because I've been getting
a lot of a follow on Facebook a lot of
the local shelters I know, So I'm going to use
that to start with, and if it doesn't pan out
to anything, then I'll go and look.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I'm going a meeting. One can be a difference maker.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I know. But part of me is afraid to do
that because I've never done it, well, except for because
we got Gus at like a pet event that was out,
you know, a festival type thing. I've never gone to
a shelter and look for a dog and been able
to be able to walk away from all the other
dogs that are looking at you like okay, buddy heart.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Can handle it. Yeah, okay, go volunteer. Go one afternoon
and say I'm here to volunteer. I'll walk dogs and
you can walk several of them. It's good exercise for you,
and you can see which ones you jellous.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It can be even harder for me to walk away
from those dogs.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Really, but you know that you're already there.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And the only way that you're going to know if
you've bond with a dog is to spend some time.
I don't think we ever. Most of our rescues weren't
like the first look. We might have had a few
of them, but we would walk it, you know, and
you can kindah.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, yeah, you're so scared of it, don't be. Your
best friend could be waiting for you, waiting for that walk.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah. Maybe I'll get in about the same time as
my birthday, so we'll have a double birthday and.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It'll be good.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Join the conversation anytime, you know, we mean it eight
seven seven three one zero four MSJ. We also know
it is back to school time. Going to get to
some teacher comments, but first I want to say to students,
To all students, no matter what your age, if you
are starting elementary school, you know this year, or you're
going into high school. It doesn't matter. Don't think of
(23:36):
what you're about to embark on as hard. It might
not be hard for you. It's unfamiliar, you know. That's
that's the way to look at it. I've had to
learn that myself in my life. You know, anytime something
new technical comes our way intimidating, my first thought is
this is intimidating, this is going to be hard, and
I start self doubting. And the truth that I've learned
(23:59):
to say, no, it's just unfamiliar, and once it becomes
familiar to me, I'll be okay. And so that's true
for algebra, that's true for whatever your French, whatever you're
learning that you're a little nervous about. Or maybe the
students are unfamiliar and the teachers are unfamiliar, but in
a few days they won't be.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So remember that back to school time.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I want to say now to the teachers from Messenger,
if you follow us on Instagram, YouTube, all the places
Diana sent sent, thank you for shouting out teachers. It
means a lot considering how challenging our jobs are these days.
I have a seventy mile commute to my school each day.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Always listen to you guys when driving.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Well, thank you. And let's say long commute.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's more than an hour, depending on how fast you're driving.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
All right, Monica, getting ready for my year twenty two,
meeting a teacher, getting ready my classroom is almost ready
to welcome my students.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The new year is always like a fresh start.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah ah, yeah, see that's you don't always think of
it from the teacher's perspective.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
When you're a parent.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You're thinking about your household, your kid, what they're about
to start facing.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
There's so much in it, involved in it, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I wonder if teachers too have that same feeling that
kids have at the start of the year when you
get all new stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh excitement.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah, I got new shoes and the smell of a new.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Backpack whatever it is. I think, So.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Aren't office supplies and school supplies. They're exciting to everybody,
regardless of your age.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And it's because it's a fresh start.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You can start over and be the version of yourself
that you want to be.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's really a blank piece of paper, literally.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, join us anytime, Sam. Regarding your joke, that didn't
land at the office supply place when you made the
joke about them not having scissors.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What was the joke again, Uh, he had to find
some scissors to cut something, and he says, I thought
I had scissors around here, and I said I would
hope so since this is an office supply store, so
it gets funnier every time.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But he didn't laugh.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Okay, I bring I bring it back up because it
reminded me of when we go to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I am.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I've always done this at the doctor's appointments. Well, maybe
not if it's someone else. If it's my child or
my mom and I go to the doctor with her,
I'm not a bucket of laughs.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But when it's for me, I don't know. I just do.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I test the waters with my doctors, you know, and
anybody that comes into the room.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You mean, test the waters with a joke, with a joke.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah, yeah, And but I honestly will say this. Sometimes
it lands, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Usually with the doctors it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Either, because they've heard it and they're about business and
they're not there. They're not they don't they're not walking
in the room to be entertained. So I understand it.
But I think the truth of the matter is when
we're at the doctor's office. He had to tell me
this is true for you too, Sam, I don't really
do it for them. I'm not really doing it to
make them laugh. I'm doing it for myself, a self
(27:00):
comfort thing.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Maybe makes sense, Yeah, yeah, that's part of I mean,
I'm not doing it at the doctor's office to make
him laugh. That's just a side benefit. I'm nervous there's
going to be a shot or something else going on.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So it's like, yeah, I don't know if I do
because every now and then it's not like I try
to go over the top being funny. But I mean,
some of my doctors really do have a great sense
of humor. So one of them, I won't say what
I said, but his response was, well, you warm me.
If it starts to feel good.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
That's all you need is the punchline on that one.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You need to make another report with him.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I came back.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Okay, Doctors, anyway, if you listen this and you work
in the medical world, you know, just know, they're not
necessarily patients are not necessarily looking really to make you chuckle.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It'd be nice if you do it if you don't
find you're not obligated to laugh, But I think it's
a self comfort thing. If somebody's gonna start cracking jokes
they're trying to get themselves through.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, gets you through just about anything, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Thank goodness. And let's talk more about that, doctor Murph.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, morning pick me up time. You may have heard
about this story sort of trending, but I don't want
to break it down for you, especially since we've had
a lot of conversations lately about how tough it can
be to make friends and that there are all these
online apps to help you make friends like bumble bff
and all those things we you know, kind of touched on,
and it's true and our you know, overly tech world
(28:31):
friendship has taken a hit, but it's actually back to
basics to make a friend kindness. Okay, So it's the
story of uh Dara and Abigail, the girl Dara who
worked at who was having a really really bad day.
She works at Wendy's and she was having a very
difficult day at work, just stress, and it was time
for her lunch break, so she got her food, some
(28:52):
Wendy's food in a bag, and she was going to
walk home to eat it. She doesn't have a car
right now, but it's kind of a long walk home.
She would walk, eat it and then have to go
right back. She was just having a day. So on
the way through the neighborhood to her home, she saw
this house and she was like, man, it would be
nice to just sit down on that front porch and
eat instead and be able to just sit and take
(29:14):
the break. So she decides to be brave and ring
the doorbell camera and ask, yeah, can I help you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I work at the Wendy's right there and I'm on
my break. I didn't want to walk all the way home.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Could I just sit right there and.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Eat my lunch?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's fine, Okay, thank you so much. You can see
that she was nervous.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
She was pacing before she rang the doorbell to even
ask that question. And Dara's you know. The second part
of the story is that after she said yes, you
can sit there and eat it, she almost wanted to
cry just to be allowed to sit there and eat
her lunch. She was just having a day. You can
sometimes have a day where you could just sit down
and cry. So the next day, Abigail goes to the
Wendy's and finds her and they become dear friends. They
(30:02):
are best friends now, and Abigail has started a GoFundMe
for her to get her a car and they've raised
like eight thousand dollars already. And the main part is
that they became friends just because and that that was
the door ring doorbell camera video that Abigail shared and viral.
It's gone viral and now they're friends and it's just lovely.
(30:25):
I'm not saying you should not and ask to eat
on anybody's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Just sharing the story and that
Speaker 3 (30:31):
You know, friendships can sometimes just start with kindness, as
it should
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