June 1, 2026 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Choti after the show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's continue harmless Obsessions here. I think having a harmless
obsession is harmless. It's very human, and it's not just one.
We've asked you to tell us on all of our
socials your harmless obsessions. We shared a few in the
show today, but you can have more than one.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We labeled Sam as a Star Wars and I would
say that's your top one in life, right, probably?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Yeah, because and the way.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You can spot someone's harmless obsession is when they start
talking about it and they can't stop and their eyes
sort of get excited.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I realized about thirty seconds into describing something from Star Wars.
It's like, wait a second, back at it.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Nerding out is what you call it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Murphy does the same when he throws out a hey,
have you ever read the Seven Secrets of Highly Effective Managers?
And he starts doing all these things and it's like, no,
some of that.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But then I also have that, I mean, guilty pleasures obsession.
In the harmless obsession obsessions really kind of become intermingled
with these parts, right of course. So there, I mean,
there's some music that you know, that becomes my you know, obsession.
It's my go to constantly. It's that mor kind of
nineteen fifties kind of ye you know, instrumental stuff. I
(01:15):
don't know why that's such an obsession. It has been
since I was a kid, ever since my grandfather introduced
me to it. But it's a guilty so it's a
guilty pleasure, and it's a harmless obsession.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I walked into the house not long ago.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I had gone shopping or something, and I came home
and Murphy was at home and there was some music playing,
and he let me know right away this is actual
vinyl playing. And I was like, it sounds like a
detective agency from the twenties.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
That's what it sounded like. And he's just loving it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know. But some of these things that are rolling
in on social we have to share because you're getting
very honest about very particular obsessions. This came in on text,
so I don't know who this is. It's just a text,
not a name attached. My harmless obsession is trying to
make friends with crows so that they'll recognize me and
bring me gifts. I have a crow call a feeding
(02:03):
tray and shiny objects to attract them.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So I meaning bring them, bring gifts meaning like little animals.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Or I don't know what that means, I'll bring you junk.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Not animals.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Are the ways that they they I mean, just like
you know.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
They're putting out a tray full of sparkly, shiny things
because the crow is going to take it, and the
crow might bring you back something sparkly and shiny that
it found.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Okay, that cool?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, wow, I guess.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And honestly, whoever sent this, thank you for that. Eight
seven seven three one zero four. MSJ is where you
can text or call us anytime with anything that you
want to jump in that we've discussed on the show.
When I read that, I thought, I have a tiny
obsession with owls. And when I go on my walks
in the evening at sunset, I'm always looking for an owl.
When I hear one, I will just stand there in
(02:51):
the wooded area hoping to see it. Sometimes I see
it and sometimes I do not. Sometimes I hear two
of them and I'm like, Oh, it's a mating season
something going on here.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
What's interesting about Jody's obsessions like that, is you there
are some owl things that you've collected, but you don't
go overboard because you don't like a lot of things
like that. Jody doesn't. There's a line she won't cross.
So we've got an original painting with owls. We've got
the little owl and the kitchen that has the light
in it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
That was a gift.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Phoebe gave me that for Christmas. It's a it's a
light up nightlight owl and it does not But I
wouldn't have like a bunch of coffee cups with owls.
I do not go too far. I would never have
a Game of Thrones room.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
You're right. I keep it in checking that crazy in.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What is it? We have some porcelain owl something I
don't remember where that is shakers.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't think so, I don't know. I do not
go overboard. I don't. I would never have a Nascar
room like your parents had, mar But is still.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
A harmless obsession, right, even if you want to have
a Game of Thrones room, it would be harmless. But yeah,
my parents, my parents had a full on. They put
down the you know, the checkered floor. Yeah, they painted
one wall red and yeah, it might as well have
been a temple to you know, they learn hard.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And they also had a clock. That room roomed every hour.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, and it was harmless and fun to talk about
it was. And what's funny is that that was a couple.
They agreed on that and did that together. That's rare
when it's a couple things so harmless obsessions?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Are you ready to share some more?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That came into Instagram, Facebook and all the places. These
are so spectacular. Someone says, I'm with Murphy all about
the books.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Karen says, decorating for Christmas?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Isn't that cool? I wonder if that means you decorate
all your lamp are your lung.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I know some people that do that, or they'll keep
a designated area that they keep all Christmas, all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Michelle says harmless obsession is eighties cartoons. That's fun, Michelle,
I want to know which one. I'm dying to know
which one. Shelley says her harmless obsession is tiny houses
and property Brothers, and most home improvement shows get sucked
into this. I never watch a home improvement show except
when I'm at the nail salon and.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
It's just on. Yeah, for me, it's in the waiting
room at the doctor's office. It's like, oh, HGTV again,
that's a good safe choice for businesses.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You can see, and I completely understand the tiny house obsession. Yeah,
I don't know what it is about the human condition
that makes us so curious that we like to have things.
We'd like to have our little house on wheels. I
don't know if it's nesting. I don't know what it
is that. You know, it's like your fascination Sam with
vans that have sleeping quarters and a little the kitchen
and that sort of thing. But the tiny house thing,
(05:49):
to me is interesting because it's just it's so different.
It's everything you need in a very compact, you know,
ergonomic whatever you want to call it. Space.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, I can see them.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's almost like it's childlike because when you were little,
a little house or a little play area was a
big deal to you.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I can see visiting them and then wanting one. And
there are a lot of airbnbs that are now tiny houses. Yeah,
that's become a thing for.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
People to experience it that way.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, I wonder tiny houses if it's because all of
our lives are so full of stuff, like we have
houses full size full of stuff. It's like, God, wouldn't
that be nice? Let's see how they do it? Well,
I wouldn't that be nice to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's why when you need to clear your head, you
need pay attention to what space you're trying to do
that in, you know, because the cluttered space will not
give you a clear head.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's functional, it's functional. And there are people, as you know,
we've done a podcast on that, you know before, one
of our you know friends and former co workers. She lives,
you know, and she and her husband in Texas live
in a tiny house and they love their tiny house.
Fund the way, but it reminds me, maybe as a kid,
of playing house. And I'm not trivializing tiny I was
(07:00):
by saying that, but I can remember being so excited
when I was probably seven or eight years old that
we stayed at a motel that had what I call
the little a bathroom area that really wasn't I thought
it was my own little sink area, but I think
it was a tiny like a bar type sink. Maybe
this is what they had in this little area, but
(07:20):
it was like this little nook and it was I
was obsessed with that because it had its own little
sleeping quarters and almost like a mother in law section,
maybe in a motel. It was very different.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And so you were the oldest kid and you got
that and it made you feel. It's all about how
something makes you feel. And that's when you're playing. When
you're a young kid, to have your own little you
get a big box and you make it your house.
There you feel like a grown up. It's all about playing.
So there's something about it. Kimberly says her harmless obsession.
I collect cookbooks. I have about one hundred so far,
(07:55):
and she sent us a picture of it. What is
pictured is just some of what I've unboxed. I have more.
We're just moving into a new home. The book on
the very top is a special meaning. She'll share the
story sometime. That's kind of cool collecting cookbooks. I mean, sham,
that's what.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Your dad did.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yes, he did, and I think my mom still has
most of them. She's passed a few onto me. But
I'm not a cookbook person.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, you don't like to just sometimes sit down and
look through It doesn't mean you.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Have to cook the recipe. Cookbooks can be like coffee
table books.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What's taken me away from cookbooks is TikTok or social?
You know, if I see a recipe on their man?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, what would your dad think of that? It doesn't matter.
You get to be you, Linda says. Houseplants. Oh, you know,
I know that.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
There are a lot of people who get obsessed with
house plants. I have about twelve, and every weekend I'm like,
why do I have all these? I love the way
they look, and I love what they bring to the room,
something alive. I like that trick, that decorating trick of
something living in every room. But I don't really want
anything else to take care of Marfa.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You need to know that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's why I always thought it was interesting that you
just kind of happened into that because you never really
were a plant person when we were first together. In fact,
you never really had confidence in your ability to I
hadn't killed it for you before. But did that start
with your grandmother's alvera?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No, it didn't start with that. I mean I've always
I've always liked a house plant.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I just I want it. I just don't want.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To have to take care of it because I don't
trust my and even even that big beautiful peace lily
that I inherited from your family. That was your your
dad was keeping it alive. It was from his mother's funeral.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was my grandmother's funeral in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Because I have a plant in every room, the family
decided to give me that thing, and it's it's hanging on,
but it's not thriving.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's not thriving, but it's not dead. It's alive and
it's been in for fifteen years. I would say that's
a pretty successful track record of taking care of a plant,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But it's not thrive. You understand, I'm an overachiever. It
needs to thrive, not just live anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean it blooms, isn't considered thriving.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's just not thriving. It doesn't look as good as your.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Dad had it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't know how my dad had it that perfect,
although at the touch he also kept his house kind
of dark.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You're right, we have a lot of light coming in
and there's some scorch marks on the leaves.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It's weird to how plants are so sensitive that some.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Are, and that one does not need a lot of
directs onlight. That's that's a good indoor plant. Okay, let's
get back to some more of these comments of your
harmless obsessions. We read the one from Steven Taylor Swift.
He's obsessed. I love these. Here's some more gardening and
anything plants. And she sent us some of her succulents.
(10:49):
That's when I'm pretty sure I've never I've never tried
a succulent, and I don't need to. Steven said, crime shows.
Harmless obsession is a crime show. Yeah, that's easy. I
think the world is sort of addicted to true crime.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wait back for one second. Succulent isn't an ali vera
plant considered a cuculent, Yes, it is. Yeah, and so
because you're again your grandmother had like them growing growing crazy.
They were everywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, that you can't stop that olive air. Her spirit,
isn't it? And I do have one of those, and
it's doing fine. Shelley says, seven bruise her harmless obsession.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, it's just stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
If you get that franchise nearby, I mean that's another
It's that's an easy one because same, I mean it's
it's just an easy one. Like there's a I crave
the cinnamon roll one.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Lee says, vintage toys.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I just wonder to what degree you take it,
because there's no wrong answer there.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Either either you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Can have like a whole room dedicated to it and
that's your harmles, or you could just nobody.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
No one would be able to guess.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Right, you have a few in the house crinkled around.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Depends on whether your obsession is actually turns into collecting
or if you're just you're them.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I mean, I'm not a collector. You understand that. I've
said that my obsession. If I had to pick one
Game of Thrones, but I don't have stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I had to stop stuff. I had to stop my
obsession of antique radios.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh yeah, you do have a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I have twenty one, but I did. I finally I
stopped doing that five or six years ago. They're cool looking, yeah,
and some of the old wood ones. But what I
really got into were the bake light looking when from
the forties and the fifties and the sixties. Yeah, those
are just neat looking.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, they're cool looking. It's not a whole I'm just
glad you stopped, because I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Know what we would Oh yeah, me too. I mean
I literally woke up one day day and thought, what
am I doing? Why?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You know, it's such a cool thing though, to love something.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Those are at least they're collectible, but they're also artistic.
I mean you can display them. Yeah, you're right, they
do serve a purpose.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah. The bake light stuff has a very retro mid
century modern look to it. You're right. It's snazzy looking,
which is not the same as like the you know,
the whatever you call the old wooden radio that everybody's
used to looking at and that they called an old,
old old one. You know.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
My favorite one is that coral colored one that just
looks so groovy and it's small and it looks like
something you'd see in a cool movie.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
And so we have that, and.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Then the biggest one is a big old wood one
with that shape that we're all seeing, we're all picturing.
And I'll never forget the first time you ever displayed
it in the house. I think I put it at
the front when people would walk in. Yeah, and do
you remember that my grandfather who's passed away now, it
was the first thing he said, Oh like that. He
(13:41):
went and started trying to play with it. To him,
that really he's it spoke to him for us to
have that, and he goes, that must be Murphy's.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yes, yeah, it's definitely Murphy's, I said.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Denise said her harmless obsession is Chai Lattes. Yeah, I mean,
crave it, have it. Diana says, I love Star Wars.
Thank you the only one, Sam, You're certainly not the
only one. Obi says yard Art, and send us some
pictures of stuff that that wasn't a Star Wars fab back,
(14:15):
I said, collecting tay Beanie babies. Oh wow, you see
still that does really go back, Jody says.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Jody with a why says scrapbooking.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know, yeah, I mean I want to say it's
a lost art. I know there were people that still
do that, but it's a it's probably more rare than
it used to be. And it's really cool because I mean,
if it's sitting there and you've got family or friends
that come over and it's on the coffee table and
somebody's going to go through it, there's yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It is cool. I will say my introduction to it
was not good in that it was when our girls
were little, Like I'm the working mom two small children
busy with a career, here with you guys. And I
remember being at this like the preschool when day and
there was a lady, a mom, who said, are you
scrap booking?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And I was like, no, I'm working.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And she said if you're not, if you're not scrapbooking
all this, you're wasting your time. And that was the
message to me. It's like, you're not scrap booking this.
She was trying to get me into her scrap booking
like group, but she got booking for all the kids stuff.
If you're not scrap booking all these moments, you might
as well not be having this.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, we have a big basket full of that, and
you know it's not necessarily organized, but it's in a
basket and so it's there.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm thinking, it's not your way to recruit me, because
that's not very positive. But I also knew that I
didn't think I wanted to do that, to learn how
to do the perfect every little thing. And we've kept things,
and I we've displayed a lot of their art and
stuff like that, but to each his own.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You know, I just did well, that wasn't my bag.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You know, the harmless obsession you can tell by her
excitement like you were a minute ago, that that is
her thing. Yeah, times ten.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And Allison said her harmless obsession, this is fantastic, maybe
the coolest one James Bond movies. That means she's probably
seen every single one knows all that could do the
nerd talk.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, I can recite the dialogue.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, I bet your Dyna who the next James bwand
is going to be?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I wonder if that includes like posters or other
things around the house, it would be James Bond.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Like, yeah, you know, do you have a room?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Does she do her martini shaking that stirred you know,
is driving Martin right?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's continue harmless Obsessions here. I think having a harmless
obsession is harmless. It's very human, and it's not just one.
We've asked you to tell us on all of our
socials your harmless obsessions. We shared a few in the
show today, but you can have more than one.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We labeled Sam as a Star Wars and I would
say that's your top one in life, right, probably?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Yeah, because and the way.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You can spot someone's harmless obsession is when they start
talking about it and they can't stop and their eyes
sort of get excited.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I realized about thirty seconds into describing something from Star Wars.
It's like, wait a second, back at it.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Nerding out is what you call it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Murphy does the same when he throws out a hey,
have you ever read the Seven Secrets of Highly Effective Managers?
And he starts doing all these things and it's like, no,
some of that.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But then I also have that, I mean, guilty pleasures obsession.
In the harmless obsession obsessions really kind of become intermingled
with these parts, right of course. So there, I mean,
there's some music that you know, that becomes my you know, obsession.
It's my go to constantly. It's that mor kind of
nineteen fifties kind of ye you know, instrumental stuff. I
(01:15):
don't know why that's such an obsession. It has been
since I was a kid, ever since my grandfather introduced
me to it. But it's a guilty so it's a
guilty pleasure, and it's a harmless obsession.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I walked into the house not long ago.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I had gone shopping or something, and I came home
and Murphy was at home and there was some music playing,
and he let me know right away this is actual
vinyl playing. And I was like, it sounds like a
detective agency from the twenties.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
That's what it sounded like. And he's just loving it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know. But some of these things that are rolling
in on social we have to share because you're getting
very honest about very particular obsessions. This came in on text,
so I don't know who this is. It's just a text,
not a name attached. My harmless obsession is trying to
make friends with crows so that they'll recognize me and
bring me gifts. I have a crow call a feeding
(02:03):
tray and shiny objects to attract them.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So I meaning bring them, bring gifts meaning like little animals.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Or I don't know what that means, I'll bring you junk.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Not animals.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Are the ways that they they I mean, just like
you know.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
They're putting out a tray full of sparkly, shiny things
because the crow is going to take it, and the
crow might bring you back something sparkly and shiny that
it found.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Okay, that cool?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, wow, I guess.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And honestly, whoever sent this, thank you for that. Eight
seven seven three one zero four. MSJ is where you
can text or call us anytime with anything that you
want to jump in that we've discussed on the show.
When I read that, I thought, I have a tiny
obsession with owls. And when I go on my walks
in the evening at sunset, I'm always looking for an owl.
When I hear one, I will just stand there in
(02:51):
the wooded area hoping to see it. Sometimes I see
it and sometimes I do not. Sometimes I hear two
of them and I'm like, Oh, it's a mating season
something going on here.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
What's interesting about Jody's obsessions like that, is you there
are some owl things that you've collected, but you don't
go overboard because you don't like a lot of things
like that. Jody doesn't. There's a line she won't cross.
So we've got an original painting with owls. We've got
the little owl and the kitchen that has the light
in it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
That was a gift.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Phoebe gave me that for Christmas. It's a it's a
light up nightlight owl and it does not But I
wouldn't have like a bunch of coffee cups with owls.
I do not go too far. I would never have
a Game of Thrones room.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
You're right. I keep it in checking that crazy in.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What is it? We have some porcelain owl something I
don't remember where that is shakers.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't think so, I don't know. I do not
go overboard. I don't. I would never have a Nascar
room like your parents had, mar But is still.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
A harmless obsession, right, even if you want to have
a Game of Thrones room, it would be harmless. But yeah,
my parents, my parents had a full on. They put
down the you know, the checkered floor. Yeah, they painted
one wall red and yeah, it might as well have
been a temple to you know, they learn hard.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And they also had a clock. That room roomed every hour.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, and it was harmless and fun to talk about
it was. And what's funny is that that was a couple.
They agreed on that and did that together. That's rare
when it's a couple things so harmless obsessions?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Are you ready to share some more?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That came into Instagram, Facebook and all the places. These
are so spectacular. Someone says, I'm with Murphy all about
the books.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Karen says, decorating for Christmas?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Isn't that cool? I wonder if that means you decorate
all your lamp are your lung.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I know some people that do that, or they'll keep
a designated area that they keep all Christmas, all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Michelle says harmless obsession is eighties cartoons. That's fun, Michelle,
I want to know which one. I'm dying to know
which one. Shelley says her harmless obsession is tiny houses
and property Brothers, and most home improvement shows get sucked
into this. I never watch a home improvement show except
when I'm at the nail salon and.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
It's just on. Yeah, for me, it's in the waiting
room at the doctor's office. It's like, oh, HGTV again,
that's a good safe choice for businesses.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You can see, and I completely understand the tiny house obsession. Yeah,
I don't know what it is about the human condition
that makes us so curious that we like to have things.
We'd like to have our little house on wheels. I
don't know if it's nesting. I don't know what it
is that. You know, it's like your fascination Sam with
vans that have sleeping quarters and a little the kitchen
and that sort of thing. But the tiny house thing,
(05:49):
to me is interesting because it's just it's so different.
It's everything you need in a very compact, you know,
ergonomic whatever you want to call it. Space.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, I can see them.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's almost like it's childlike because when you were little,
a little house or a little play area was a
big deal to you.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I can see visiting them and then wanting one. And
there are a lot of airbnbs that are now tiny houses. Yeah,
that's become a thing for.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
People to experience it that way.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, I wonder tiny houses if it's because all of
our lives are so full of stuff, like we have
houses full size full of stuff. It's like, God, wouldn't
that be nice? Let's see how they do it? Well,
I wouldn't that be nice to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's why when you need to clear your head, you
need pay attention to what space you're trying to do
that in, you know, because the cluttered space will not
give you a clear head.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's functional, it's functional. And there are people, as you know,
we've done a podcast on that, you know before, one
of our you know friends and former co workers. She lives,
you know, and she and her husband in Texas live
in a tiny house and they love their tiny house.
Fund the way, but it reminds me, maybe as a kid,
of playing house. And I'm not trivializing tiny I was
(07:00):
by saying that, but I can remember being so excited
when I was probably seven or eight years old that
we stayed at a motel that had what I call
the little a bathroom area that really wasn't I thought
it was my own little sink area, but I think
it was a tiny like a bar type sink. Maybe
this is what they had in this little area, but
(07:20):
it was like this little nook and it was I
was obsessed with that because it had its own little
sleeping quarters and almost like a mother in law section,
maybe in a motel. It was very different.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And so you were the oldest kid and you got
that and it made you feel. It's all about how
something makes you feel. And that's when you're playing. When
you're a young kid, to have your own little you
get a big box and you make it your house.
There you feel like a grown up. It's all about playing.
So there's something about it. Kimberly says her harmless obsession.
I collect cookbooks. I have about one hundred so far,
(07:55):
and she sent us a picture of it. What is
pictured is just some of what I've unboxed. I have more.
We're just moving into a new home. The book on
the very top is a special meaning. She'll share the
story sometime. That's kind of cool collecting cookbooks. I mean, sham,
that's what.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Your dad did.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yes, he did, and I think my mom still has
most of them. She's passed a few onto me. But
I'm not a cookbook person.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, you don't like to just sometimes sit down and
look through It doesn't mean you.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Have to cook the recipe. Cookbooks can be like coffee
table books.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What's taken me away from cookbooks is TikTok or social?
You know, if I see a recipe on their man?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, what would your dad think of that? It doesn't matter.
You get to be you, Linda says. Houseplants. Oh, you know,
I know that.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
There are a lot of people who get obsessed with
house plants. I have about twelve, and every weekend I'm like,
why do I have all these? I love the way
they look, and I love what they bring to the room,
something alive. I like that trick, that decorating trick of
something living in every room. But I don't really want
anything else to take care of Marfa.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You need to know that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's why I always thought it was interesting that you
just kind of happened into that because you never really
were a plant person when we were first together. In fact,
you never really had confidence in your ability to I
hadn't killed it for you before. But did that start
with your grandmother's alvera?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No, it didn't start with that. I mean I've always
I've always liked a house plant.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I just I want it. I just don't want.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To have to take care of it because I don't
trust my and even even that big beautiful peace lily
that I inherited from your family. That was your your
dad was keeping it alive. It was from his mother's funeral.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was my grandmother's funeral in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Because I have a plant in every room, the family
decided to give me that thing, and it's it's hanging on,
but it's not thriving.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's not thriving, but it's not dead. It's alive and
it's been in for fifteen years. I would say that's
a pretty successful track record of taking care of a plant,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But it's not thrive. You understand, I'm an overachiever. It
needs to thrive, not just live anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean it blooms, isn't considered thriving.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's just not thriving. It doesn't look as good as your.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Dad had it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't know how my dad had it that perfect,
although at the touch he also kept his house kind
of dark.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You're right, we have a lot of light coming in
and there's some scorch marks on the leaves.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It's weird to how plants are so sensitive that some.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Are, and that one does not need a lot of
directs onlight. That's that's a good indoor plant. Okay, let's
get back to some more of these comments of your
harmless obsessions. We read the one from Steven Taylor Swift.
He's obsessed. I love these. Here's some more gardening and
anything plants. And she sent us some of her succulents.
(10:49):
That's when I'm pretty sure I've never I've never tried
a succulent, and I don't need to. Steven said, crime shows.
Harmless obsession is a crime show. Yeah, that's easy. I
think the world is sort of addicted to true crime.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wait back for one second. Succulent isn't an ali vera
plant considered a cuculent, Yes, it is. Yeah, and so
because you're again your grandmother had like them growing growing crazy.
They were everywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, that you can't stop that olive air. Her spirit,
isn't it? And I do have one of those, and
it's doing fine. Shelley says, seven bruise her harmless obsession.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, it's just stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
If you get that franchise nearby, I mean that's another
It's that's an easy one because same, I mean it's
it's just an easy one. Like there's a I crave
the cinnamon roll one.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Lee says, vintage toys.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I just wonder to what degree you take it,
because there's no wrong answer there.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Either either you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Can have like a whole room dedicated to it and
that's your harmles, or you could just nobody.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
No one would be able to guess.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Right, you have a few in the house crinkled around.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Depends on whether your obsession is actually turns into collecting
or if you're just you're them.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I mean, I'm not a collector. You understand that. I've
said that my obsession. If I had to pick one
Game of Thrones, but I don't have stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I had to stop stuff. I had to stop my
obsession of antique radios.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh yeah, you do have a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I have twenty one, but I did. I finally I
stopped doing that five or six years ago. They're cool looking, yeah,
and some of the old wood ones. But what I
really got into were the bake light looking when from
the forties and the fifties and the sixties. Yeah, those
are just neat looking.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, they're cool looking. It's not a whole I'm just
glad you stopped, because I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Know what we would Oh yeah, me too. I mean
I literally woke up one day day and thought, what
am I doing? Why?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You know, it's such a cool thing though, to love something.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Those are at least they're collectible, but they're also artistic.
I mean you can display them. Yeah, you're right, they
do serve a purpose.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah. The bake light stuff has a very retro mid
century modern look to it. You're right. It's snazzy looking,
which is not the same as like the you know,
the whatever you call the old wooden radio that everybody's
used to looking at and that they called an old,
old old one. You know.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
My favorite one is that coral colored one that just
looks so groovy and it's small and it looks like
something you'd see in a cool movie.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
And so we have that, and.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Then the biggest one is a big old wood one
with that shape that we're all seeing, we're all picturing.
And I'll never forget the first time you ever displayed
it in the house. I think I put it at
the front when people would walk in. Yeah, and do
you remember that my grandfather who's passed away now, it
was the first thing he said, Oh like that. He
(13:41):
went and started trying to play with it. To him,
that really he's it spoke to him for us to
have that, and he goes, that must be Murphy's.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yes, yeah, it's definitely Murphy's, I said.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Denise said her harmless obsession is Chai Lattes. Yeah, I mean,
crave it, have it. Diana says, I love Star Wars.
Thank you the only one, Sam, You're certainly not the
only one. Obi says yard Art, and send us some
pictures of stuff that that wasn't a Star Wars fab back,
(14:15):
I said, collecting tay Beanie babies. Oh wow, you see
still that does really go back, Jody says.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Jody with a why says scrapbooking.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know, yeah, I mean I want to say it's
a lost art. I know there were people that still
do that, but it's a it's probably more rare than
it used to be. And it's really cool because I mean,
if it's sitting there and you've got family or friends
that come over and it's on the coffee table and
somebody's going to go through it, there's yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It is cool. I will say my introduction to it
was not good in that it was when our girls
were little, Like I'm the working mom two small children
busy with a career, here with you guys. And I
remember being at this like the preschool when day and
there was a lady, a mom, who said, are you
scrap booking?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And I was like, no, I'm working.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And she said if you're not, if you're not scrapbooking
all this, you're wasting your time. And that was the
message to me. It's like, you're not scrap booking this.
She was trying to get me into her scrap booking
like group, but she got booking for all the kids stuff.
If you're not scrap booking all these moments, you might
as well not be having this.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, we have a big basket full of that, and
you know it's not necessarily organized, but it's in a
basket and so it's there.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm thinking, it's not your way to recruit me, because
that's not very positive. But I also knew that I
didn't think I wanted to do that, to learn how
to do the perfect every little thing. And we've kept things,
and I we've displayed a lot of their art and
stuff like that, but to each his own.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You know, I just did well, that wasn't my bag.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You know, the harmless obsession you can tell by her
excitement like you were a minute ago, that that is
her thing. Yeah, times ten.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And Allison said her harmless obsession, this is fantastic, maybe
the coolest one James Bond movies. That means she's probably
seen every single one knows all that could do the
nerd talk.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, I can recite the dialogue.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, I bet your Dyna who the next James bwand
is going to be?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I wonder if that includes like posters or other
things around the house, it would be James Bond.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Like, yeah, you know, do you have a room?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Does she do her martini shaking that stirred you know,
is driving Martin right?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh man.
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