November 1, 2018 • 9 mins
Why Sam & Jodi can't relate to Murphy's new obsession.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a Murphy Sammon Jody after the show podcast, And
Jody was teasing me a little bit earlier this morning
about the new vehicle, the new suv. It's it's not new,
it's used. But it's the first vehicle I've bought in
twelve years. Jody and I've been literally both of us
have been driving the same vehicles.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
For a long a time, and so I inherited your
old one, but I'm happy it's like a new thing
to me.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, it's a little smaller suv. Jody was kind of
tired of driving the bus kind of thing with the
kids parking and the bus and that. You know, I
loved that vehicle too, but it had just done its time.
I mean it was it was done. Yeah, So that's
the one that, you know that we moved on. But
I realized something, you know, it's sort of like a
lost art in this and I'm not we're not going
to get into brand names and that kind of stuff
(00:42):
because it's nobody's paying for this, you know, podcast. But
so Jody's uncle is a big enthusiastic uncle. Terry loves vehicles,
and so I can have a conversation with him about
specs on engines and tires and transmission types and those
kind of things. And but that gets I think that's
lost in a lot of people today because you either
(01:03):
know somebody who's a car enthusiast or you don't. And
and I hadn't thought of this, and so I hadn't
been shopping for one and so long. Most of it
I hadn't studied up on. But it always has interested me.
There's an engine thing that I love, There's this type
of transmission that I love, or like all w'ell driving
some things like that. Now I can't I can't get
(01:24):
any like the in depth conversation with the guy down
at the car shop. Yeah, he's when you start talking,
you know, slip differentials and that kind of stuff. Okay,
I get a little lost there. But as far as
like the rest, I think I'm the only one in
the room here that is sort of like an enthusiast
about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, I mean, as far as that goes, the only
thing that really I find that I want to talk
about on cars is like the cool little nifty features
that it had. Well that was the first, So the
previous cars I've had didn't have anything. Yeah, the gadgets.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We had not bought anything recent in a law long time.
So standard features things that are standard now, we were like, wow, this, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's cool. It's like, oh yeah, the government requires that now.
Oh okay, but that's great, you know, I mean those
kind of things. Thank goodness, we're getting it because if
they're talking about self driving cars in the future, you
need lane departure warnings and collision protection and the uh
the blind spot detectors. All those things. Now that some
of them aren't you know, standard fair yet, but they
will be in really short order, right right, important features.
(02:28):
But and I just think back to like my dad,
because maybe this is my dad that kind of I
learned a few things from him. He was all about
the you know, those big block engines. He had a
Ford Mustang. He still has his nineteen sixty six Corvette
Chevrolet Corvette and it's red and you know, I mean
that was a for its time, a serious you know engine.
So I remember him taking good care of that and
(02:50):
the sound of it and all that. So maybe that's
where I developed an appreciation for that, the sound thing.
Just like my dad drives a Harley. You know, he's
got a Harley. I love that sound too.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
In a day where you really need to be green,
you know, fuel conscious and all that kind of stuff.
Although gas prices have gone back down, which is why
the big SUVs all of a sudden you see them
everywhere again, because gas prices are lower than they were
ten years ago or whatever. But so it's not like
I want to waste fuel or anything like that, but
I just like the big engine. Probably comes from my childhood.
(03:21):
I drove that Mustang, that rusty Mustang was my first car,
and I just loved the power of the engine. And
then when we bought the SUV that Jody's now driving,
I had to get the V eight version of it.
I did not want the V six version of it.
And so that's exactly this used car I spent. It
took me four weeks to find it, but you know,
because I shop used is what I was looking for,
and so trying to find the one that you want
(03:43):
used with all the things that you want is tricky.
And I talked myself into the bigger engine. What I
started out looking for was the same kind of suv
that the standard SUV has, got three hundred something horsepower
engine on it and one of our station vehicles is
that kind of you know vehicle, right, It's comfortable to
ride and it's got a very good engine. But when
(04:05):
I found out there's a bigger version, okay, so that's
what I started looking for.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And yeah, and I love that. I remember the day
that you got your new vehicle. I knew to let
my uncle Terry know. I'm like, because that's something you
guys bond on. And you know, my uncle Terry does
that too. He'll he'll start talking to me about cars
and things that they can do. And I don't have
the heart to say I don't care about this, and
(04:31):
I don't I don't really like even you know. And look,
we're married and you talk about your new car a lot,
and there are times I'm like, really, that's interesting, and
I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say. But that's I am
sure that I do the same thing with whatever. I'm
(04:51):
sure I tell you things about jewelry that you could
care less about. So that's life together.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's it's really funny when I see that express because
I get excited at something. They're like, wow, Joe, do
you know what you know, the newer model of this
now has a ten speed transmission nine an eight and
in the room is silent.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well that's great.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's funny you mentioned that about your dad, because I'm
thinking my dad, when did he ever talk about cars?
And it was pretty much never.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Really.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, we had a Ford Falcon when you know, I
was born, and then when he moved up to a Toreno,
and then he had a Volkswagen Bug, like an old
sixties bug we had like in the eighties. But it
was never like, hey, check out this feature, or isn't
this cool? Listen to that engine. Well, it was just
we got a car.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And so he didn't He probably wasn't a mechanic. Then
he didn't do most of the work himself. I think
that's what it was, because you're talking about that time period.
My dad, you know, grew up in the late nineteen
fifties and nineteen sixties, and his dad absolutely and I
guess you didn't have a choice, you know, for my
grandfather's time. You know, you could take it to a mechanic,
but you really needed to learn how to fix all that.
And so I think my dad got that from Skipper,
(05:56):
my grandfather that man could take a part, an engine
and everything and put it back together. That's a lost art,
It's well, it's a lost art. But technology is different.
Everything is so computer driven now. It's much more complex
than it used to be. But I bet you that's
that's what the reason is. Because my dad would get
out there and tinker. I remember him getting under the car,
changing the oil himself and doing all that. So if
you do it, then I guess you have an appreciation.
(06:18):
Right might have.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But my neighbor Cecil, that y'all know, he's like that.
Cecil is not afraid to take apart anything, even if
he has no clue he's never done it before. He'll
take it on the car. And he told me one
time he was putting risers on his truck and I
was like, risers, that must mean it lifts it up. Wow,
that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
To talk to talk.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
His wife is even joked, Oh, you're gonna go help
sat Well, yeah, Sam can't do this. You want to
go help him do that?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah. The little bit that I know would be from
Murphy telling me stuff. And then when I was a
young when I was a girl, young girl and I
was dating, I was a teenager, I had a boyfriend
who was car obsessed and he had a very nice car,
and he told me about it all the time. He
told me stuff all the time, and I tried to
learn it, like I tried to pay attention. And for instance,
(07:08):
he had a turbo engine. I'm like, okay, finally.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What is that that sounds?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What does that even mean? And I think there, I
think he explained to me that it cooled the engine
while the engine was running high something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, he gives it an extra boost of power turbo.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And I don't know why you're looking at me, Joda.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're right there.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Turbo that means fast, right, Well, I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The thing is, this is sort of like if I
was talking to an IT guy. I know enough to
get myself into a place where then I won't understand
the conversation at all. And it's the same way with mechanics.
I know enough about cars to have a basic conversation
about it, but then when they start going I mean,
there are guys enthusiasts that can tell you the size
of the engine of every vehicle made during a certain
time period on the area. Yeah, and and I have
(07:54):
a really just like people can rail it right off
baseball stats or whatever. So I have a real appreciation
for that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But and it's fun to watch you enjoy it. I
really want to like.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
That when I when when I was a teenager, I
bought a car that had a rotary engine. It was
like the early version of Monster or X seven and
I and I will talk to me. If somebody doesn't
know what a rotary engine is, they're like, hey, yeah,
that's great.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Show hands.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I don't know it. I don't know that either.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It was different. They don't. I don't think they even
make that kind of engine anymore. But so it's it's funny.
It didn't occur to me until I started having conversations
to say, wow, we are in a different time in
place now. Either somebody is interested and grew up with
it or they don't care really at all. It just
kind of off, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So when you find that person, it's good to have
talked to him.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So, you know, as long as you crank the car
and it starts, you're happy, right, Joe.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, as long as it gets me.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Around the it works. In the music PLA.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And four wheels, I guess I can appreciate the sound
of this of this engine, now that you've pointed it
out to me, but it's not something I would have
ever gone, Oh wow, he's my man.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I don't think anybody else is either.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Miss any part of the show at Murphy Salmon, Jody
dot com, com cot Co
It's a Murphy Sammon Jody after the show podcast, And
Jody was teasing me a little bit earlier this morning
about the new vehicle, the new suv. It's it's not new,
it's used. But it's the first vehicle I've bought in
twelve years. Jody and I've been literally both of us
have been driving the same vehicles.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
For a long a time, and so I inherited your
old one, but I'm happy it's like a new thing
to me.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, it's a little smaller suv. Jody was kind of
tired of driving the bus kind of thing with the
kids parking and the bus and that. You know, I
loved that vehicle too, but it had just done its time.
I mean it was it was done. Yeah, So that's
the one that, you know that we moved on. But
I realized something, you know, it's sort of like a
lost art in this and I'm not we're not going
to get into brand names and that kind of stuff
(00:42):
because it's nobody's paying for this, you know, podcast. But
so Jody's uncle is a big enthusiastic uncle. Terry loves vehicles,
and so I can have a conversation with him about
specs on engines and tires and transmission types and those
kind of things. And but that gets I think that's
lost in a lot of people today because you either
(01:03):
know somebody who's a car enthusiast or you don't. And
and I hadn't thought of this, and so I hadn't
been shopping for one and so long. Most of it
I hadn't studied up on. But it always has interested me.
There's an engine thing that I love, There's this type
of transmission that I love, or like all w'ell driving
some things like that. Now I can't I can't get
(01:24):
any like the in depth conversation with the guy down
at the car shop. Yeah, he's when you start talking,
you know, slip differentials and that kind of stuff. Okay,
I get a little lost there. But as far as
like the rest, I think I'm the only one in
the room here that is sort of like an enthusiast
about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, I mean, as far as that goes, the only
thing that really I find that I want to talk
about on cars is like the cool little nifty features
that it had. Well that was the first, So the
previous cars I've had didn't have anything. Yeah, the gadgets.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We had not bought anything recent in a law long time.
So standard features things that are standard now, we were like, wow, this, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's cool. It's like, oh yeah, the government requires that now.
Oh okay, but that's great, you know, I mean those
kind of things. Thank goodness, we're getting it because if
they're talking about self driving cars in the future, you
need lane departure warnings and collision protection and the uh
the blind spot detectors. All those things. Now that some
of them aren't you know, standard fair yet, but they
will be in really short order, right right, important features.
(02:28):
But and I just think back to like my dad,
because maybe this is my dad that kind of I
learned a few things from him. He was all about
the you know, those big block engines. He had a
Ford Mustang. He still has his nineteen sixty six Corvette
Chevrolet Corvette and it's red and you know, I mean
that was a for its time, a serious you know engine.
So I remember him taking good care of that and
(02:50):
the sound of it and all that. So maybe that's
where I developed an appreciation for that, the sound thing.
Just like my dad drives a Harley. You know, he's
got a Harley. I love that sound too.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
In a day where you really need to be green,
you know, fuel conscious and all that kind of stuff.
Although gas prices have gone back down, which is why
the big SUVs all of a sudden you see them
everywhere again, because gas prices are lower than they were
ten years ago or whatever. But so it's not like
I want to waste fuel or anything like that, but
I just like the big engine. Probably comes from my childhood.
(03:21):
I drove that Mustang, that rusty Mustang was my first car,
and I just loved the power of the engine. And
then when we bought the SUV that Jody's now driving,
I had to get the V eight version of it.
I did not want the V six version of it.
And so that's exactly this used car I spent. It
took me four weeks to find it, but you know,
because I shop used is what I was looking for,
and so trying to find the one that you want
(03:43):
used with all the things that you want is tricky.
And I talked myself into the bigger engine. What I
started out looking for was the same kind of suv
that the standard SUV has, got three hundred something horsepower
engine on it and one of our station vehicles is
that kind of you know vehicle, right, It's comfortable to
ride and it's got a very good engine. But when
(04:05):
I found out there's a bigger version, okay, so that's
what I started looking for.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And yeah, and I love that. I remember the day
that you got your new vehicle. I knew to let
my uncle Terry know. I'm like, because that's something you
guys bond on. And you know, my uncle Terry does
that too. He'll he'll start talking to me about cars
and things that they can do. And I don't have
the heart to say I don't care about this, and
(04:31):
I don't I don't really like even you know. And look,
we're married and you talk about your new car a lot,
and there are times I'm like, really, that's interesting, and
I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say. But that's I am
sure that I do the same thing with whatever. I'm
(04:51):
sure I tell you things about jewelry that you could
care less about. So that's life together.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's it's really funny when I see that express because
I get excited at something. They're like, wow, Joe, do
you know what you know, the newer model of this
now has a ten speed transmission nine an eight and
in the room is silent.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well that's great.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's funny you mentioned that about your dad, because I'm
thinking my dad, when did he ever talk about cars?
And it was pretty much never.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Really.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, we had a Ford Falcon when you know, I
was born, and then when he moved up to a Toreno,
and then he had a Volkswagen Bug, like an old
sixties bug we had like in the eighties. But it
was never like, hey, check out this feature, or isn't
this cool? Listen to that engine. Well, it was just
we got a car.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And so he didn't He probably wasn't a mechanic. Then
he didn't do most of the work himself. I think
that's what it was, because you're talking about that time period.
My dad, you know, grew up in the late nineteen
fifties and nineteen sixties, and his dad absolutely and I
guess you didn't have a choice, you know, for my
grandfather's time. You know, you could take it to a mechanic,
but you really needed to learn how to fix all that.
And so I think my dad got that from Skipper,
(05:56):
my grandfather that man could take a part, an engine
and everything and put it back together. That's a lost art,
It's well, it's a lost art. But technology is different.
Everything is so computer driven now. It's much more complex
than it used to be. But I bet you that's
that's what the reason is. Because my dad would get
out there and tinker. I remember him getting under the car,
changing the oil himself and doing all that. So if
you do it, then I guess you have an appreciation.
(06:18):
Right might have.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But my neighbor Cecil, that y'all know, he's like that.
Cecil is not afraid to take apart anything, even if
he has no clue he's never done it before. He'll
take it on the car. And he told me one
time he was putting risers on his truck and I
was like, risers, that must mean it lifts it up. Wow,
that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
To talk to talk.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
His wife is even joked, Oh, you're gonna go help
sat Well, yeah, Sam can't do this. You want to
go help him do that?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah. The little bit that I know would be from
Murphy telling me stuff. And then when I was a
young when I was a girl, young girl and I
was dating, I was a teenager, I had a boyfriend
who was car obsessed and he had a very nice car,
and he told me about it all the time. He
told me stuff all the time, and I tried to
learn it, like I tried to pay attention. And for instance,
(07:08):
he had a turbo engine. I'm like, okay, finally.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What is that that sounds?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What does that even mean? And I think there, I
think he explained to me that it cooled the engine
while the engine was running high something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, he gives it an extra boost of power turbo.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And I don't know why you're looking at me, Joda.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're right there.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Turbo that means fast, right, Well, I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The thing is, this is sort of like if I
was talking to an IT guy. I know enough to
get myself into a place where then I won't understand
the conversation at all. And it's the same way with mechanics.
I know enough about cars to have a basic conversation
about it, but then when they start going I mean,
there are guys enthusiasts that can tell you the size
of the engine of every vehicle made during a certain
time period on the area. Yeah, and and I have
(07:54):
a really just like people can rail it right off
baseball stats or whatever. So I have a real appreciation
for that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But and it's fun to watch you enjoy it. I
really want to like.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
That when I when when I was a teenager, I
bought a car that had a rotary engine. It was
like the early version of Monster or X seven and
I and I will talk to me. If somebody doesn't
know what a rotary engine is, they're like, hey, yeah,
that's great.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Show hands.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I don't know it. I don't know that either.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It was different. They don't. I don't think they even
make that kind of engine anymore. But so it's it's funny.
It didn't occur to me until I started having conversations
to say, wow, we are in a different time in
place now. Either somebody is interested and grew up with
it or they don't care really at all. It just
kind of off, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So when you find that person, it's good to have
talked to him.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So, you know, as long as you crank the car
and it starts, you're happy, right, Joe.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, as long as it gets me.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Around the it works. In the music PLA.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And four wheels, I guess I can appreciate the sound
of this of this engine, now that you've pointed it
out to me, but it's not something I would have
ever gone, Oh wow, he's my man.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I don't think anybody else is either.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Miss any part of the show at Murphy Salmon, Jody
dot com, com cot Co
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