February 26, 2020 • 16 mins
Why Murphy's Dad keeps everything. We mean EVERYTHING. 😯
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the after the show podcast Hanging Out with
Us a little bit longer, Sam, We took Murphy's dad
Dane to dinner last night with the whole family.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I saw the family picture. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It was a party of what fifteen was it sixteen something?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I forgot to count.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, And it was really cool because Dane turned seventy seven. Yeah,
and we picked him up. I mean not that he
can't drive, but we like to bring him places whenever.
And it was so cute because when we arrived and
he came out of the front door, he was wearing
his birthday beads.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
He birthday beads.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Somebody gave him a pair of I'm the birthday boy
beads years ago, years ago. Yeah, and he probably hangs
him up in the same little hook in his closet.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I don't know whether, but he is.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's so cute. He walked out like, yep, I am
the birthday boilest go. It was really cute.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's funny you say that because one year for Father's Day,
the kids gave me a ball cap that says best
Dad or number one Dad. Yeah, and I keep it
and every now and then I'll bust it out just
to like mess with him. Yeah, Hey, I'm the number
one dad, don't forget.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, those are.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Fun little gifts. But girl, the girls gave us one,
or gave me one, that says number one dad.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The little I.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Don't even know what is a trophy, but it's made
of porcelain in it and when they bought it, it was
discounted because it had a crack in it. But it's
still one of my favorite things and I keep it around.
What what you need to know, Sam, is that you
actually were at the dinner last night without realizing it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
What did I have it?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's not what you have, but it was delicious.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
But when my dad began opening his presence, the gift
that he got from my sister and my brother in
law is the ring spotlight camera, which is like the
one that you've got.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, they's got two lights on it or the one light.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's got two. I didn't know they had one with one.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I've seen the ones with one light. Yeah, man,
it's awesome. They are bright. Yeah, and I know you
can do this with the nest stuff too, but it's
you know, you can control the light on it if
you want to pop into that camera and look, see
what's going on outside. You can control them, turn the
light on, you can turn the light off, you can
talk through it. Hey, what are you doing? Punk beat it.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's almost become a thing because for his birthdays and
for Christmas now, over the last I don't know, three years,
he's been adding piece by piece to home automation. The
first thing was the ring doorbell, which he got two
or three years ago, and then it became an echo dot,
and then it became the Echo Show, and so slowly
but surely he's getting all these little things. He's living
(02:26):
in that ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Is having fun with it, though at least totally.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, he loves it. Yeah. He'll tell you that he
brings his iPad back to the bedroom at night so
that if the doorbell or something alerts him to something,
he can see what's going on outside. And sometimes it's
just people turning around in the driveway, things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Likes to watch it. I was happy for him to
get that. So will you be the one installing that
or will your sister?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, I offered to do it. They got one for
their house too, and you know they were saying they
would experiment with theirs and then.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Then oh, it is the easiest. Again, not trying to
sell it. But you turn the power off, you hook
the wires up, it's like there's no special wires. It's
just like a regular floodlight. Yeah, you're ready to go.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's nice accomplishment, then.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, it is. And I've changed up so many of
those that if my dad wants to, I'm I'm happy
to do that. He but he still has a couple
of corners of the house where he could use a
few more. Joe, I mean now that I'm thinking about it,
so maybe that won't be the last one.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You got gifts covered for another next two years. Huh.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, you know, he's I find it difficult to buy
for him because he's well.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I say that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I always give him warm stuff. He's cold natured lately,
and when I find some really soft, warm clothing whatever,
I buy it for him, and he always and when
it's cold, I always see him wearing it, like true,
he really he doesn't just put it away. Yeah, you
see him use and wear it. So I always give
(03:54):
him that sort of thing. And I would never buy
something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I wouldn't. That'd be Murphy. Please go buy him something
tech you know something that you think he'd like.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, I think I've been like that for a long
time now, when I maybe when I was in college,
I would buy him CDs because he was starting to
build up his CD collection. See where that got is right,
although he still has him when he still has a
CD player that if he wants to listen to him.
But he's always been sort of he's not an early
adopter for technology. He likes it when it's given to him.
(04:26):
You know, he doesn't really he doesn't go seek it.
So I think this is going to get him hooked.
If I know my dad, he's the type. It's going
to figure out somewhere where you can see everything on
one screen at one time, you know, front, the back,
the everything.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That is fun you can do that. Does he use
his echoes for music? Now?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh, he loves his music.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, see we say that and he tells us that,
but we haven't been in his house when he's using it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, Well, what he will do he actually alternates back
and forth. Because I set him up with this a
while back. I set him up with access to an
Amazon account and I showed him how to do that
and you can share family subscriptions and that sort of thing.
So he shares my library so he actually can go
on and listen to whatever you know, he wants to
that's ours or pre made for it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
She listens to us. Be a smart speaker, I think,
or do they have smart speakers? I know she listens
to us. I don't know if he does.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, but but that I think that's partially responsible for
reintroducing music back into his daily routine because he had
become he was always kind of a TV person, but
since my mother passed, he had not been listening to
a whole lot of music, right, and how he's made
it part of his his daily routine.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Murphy, you have to know this your mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
First house I ever walked into where there were two
TVs going at the same same TV cabinet they.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Had by side, kind of side by side.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, there's one bigger one with whatever you're watching, but
they had I don't know, new c and in our
Fox news on another one always on so they don't
miss anything. It's like, oh, is this a control center
or is this a living room?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And I've never walked into I think it's probably more
of a thing now, I mean depending on And it's
not just TV's but screens everywhere haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So you got your TV and you get your phone, yeah, or.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Like your home Google home unit or whatever. But it's
just it was funny and he still has that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh yeah, what you're describing. My dad was doing picture
and picture long before it existed. He was just doing
it with multiple screens.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
They for some reason they always like to have the
weather channel on at any given moment, and that was
on its own, So that actually was a third screen, remember,
off in the corner.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, and then so with that, and then I think
they had the two side by side, like you're talking about,
next to each other. So, yeah, it was anytime that
I even brought that goes back to it when I
was in high school when I would bring friends over there,
like what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Not just that what was the weather channel though? Just
in case something popped up.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
They just like to know what was going on. It
was one of those if you wanted to know what
was up up, it was on the screen.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That was also an interesting introduction to the family when
I first became a part of the families.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
The whole families. There's still weather fanatics. I mean, I
can ask any question. For some reason, last night when
we were in conversation, Jim Cantore came up and I
couldn't His name was just slipping my mind. I mean,
you've noticed, you know, how you can know somebody forever
and then all of a sudden you just and so
his name, his name was slipping my mind, but it
was It was my nephew Jacob that said, yeah, that's
(07:27):
Jim Cantory. I was waiting next for me to tell
me how many years he's been on the Weather Channel. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Right, I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Also, the first time I ever went to a family
vacation with your family, Murph, and I was outside on
the boat was a beach thing outside on the balcony
in the evening, and I was out there with your mom. Yeah,
and she said she was looking at the sky and
I came out. She goes, hey, Jodie, she goes.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was like one of those little odd moments where
you didn't know what to say to each other. I
was need to her. She goes, do you know much
about cloud formations?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And I was like, actually no, So she taught me
a little thing or two. That's cute.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Another thing that your mom and dad, and your dad
still has in the house. The house is not that
you know, has not changed a lot. He hasn't changed
a lot of stuff up. I know he's really comfortable there.
It's such a sweet, comfortable, cozy house.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It is.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But opposite the TVs.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
On the back wall, there are not one, not two,
but like three clocks on the same wall and at
the same time. Your face, yeah, your face, Sam tells
it all is like the first time I saw three
clocks hanging up.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I'm like, why three clocks.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
It's not like a situation where we're monitoring, you know,
global times around the world. They all had the same
time on them. But I think your mom was just
in love with the clocks. There was a bird one.
There was a NASCAR one.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Legit.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The bird one was one of those chirping ones.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yes, it chirped the bird that it you know, it's
a four o'clock blue jay.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It made the blue jay sound. You got it. And
then there was one there's a third one.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, it's that's the Harley clock.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Harley the birds.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, at the at the top of each hour, it
you know start.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You can hear this throughout the house at midnight, you'll
hear it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Not loud, it's not loud, it's subtle, but it's you know,
it's the first time I've ever seen that too.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You know, at the top of the hour you get
birds and nascars and Harley.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, they used to. That was their Their trick was
to try to get it to set, so they all
went off at the exact same Yeah. But yeah, that's
that is what makes my parents characters. And you know,
my dad is really my dad's really just a very
He's a very simple person. Honestly, when it comes he
just he enjoys his hobbies. So I think those kinds
(09:45):
of things also kind of, for whatever reason, become a hobby.
You know, I am impressed because I didn't know about this.
It's been a couple of months now, but my dad
had decided it was time to donate my mother's clothes,
and and my sister went over there and went through everything,
sorted through everything, and there are a few little things
that she kept, but most of the things that she donated,
(10:08):
and you never know, that's such a personal thing. It
took my grandmother probably fifteen years before she cleaned up
my grandfather's clothes. But now my dad just decided, I
guess that it was time, you know, to move on.
And with that anyway, did.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Jackie tell you about doing that? Did she tell you
about that?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Because she told me specifics about it, like it's one
of those conversations that she and I had. She was like, yeah,
I went yeah. What happened is that after she passed,
Jackie told him, in your own time, you decide when.
But when it's time to go through that or if
you want to get moved, make a space for that
all of her clothing, call me and I'll come do it.
(10:47):
You know, I'm the daughter, she said, I'll come do it,
and so she was a little surprised to get the way.
She told Dane, I'll do it for you when you're ready.
Dane called her up, what a month ago, and She's like, oh,
I'm not ready, But she did say she went and
did it and she found she said.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That she found some.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Clothing with tags still on it, which is you know,
it happens to all of us.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But Jackie said she and she kept a few things.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But she said she also found one or two things
that Jackie had given her with tags still on.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, and that happens too, right.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Did she?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I go through the pockets too, to make sure it
wasn't any you know, twenty dollars bills anywhere, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't know. I didn't ask her that. I didn't
ask her that.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You know, the only time I've ever been exposed to that,
I was sixteen years old when my dad passed away,
I was sixteen years old. I did not go through
his clothing, although there was a closet in the house
that I went to immediately after he died, like after
his funeral, I went straight to that closet to get
a jacket out, and it still smelled like him. And
I'll never forget that experience. But I kept that one.
(11:54):
I actually don't even know where it is anymore, but
because it's been such a long time ago. But I
wasn't in charge hard of doing any of that, you
know what I mean. I don't think my mom was
about letting you.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
They were young, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So I mean, you know, who knows? Did you have
you talked to him about that?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No, I've not talked to him about that yet. And
it's not that anything I've been avoiding that just it
hasn't come up. Maybe the next time I go visit,
I'll ask just to see what he's either done with this.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, right, there's probably a reason for him to clear it.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, he knows that there's there's a ton of stuff
that they he still needs to clean out. Because both
of my parents tended to keep almost everything, you know,
I mean there were Yeah, he's probably got every paycheck
he ever earned from from his first one all the
way through his entire career until he retired. They can't.
I mean, they just kept all the canceled checks and
things like that. Even after my mother finally converted over
(12:46):
to doing everything online, she still kept everything that was
a paper document if they paid something that with a bill.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So they keep them happy for like cover themselves if
something came up, or just no idea.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I think that that's I think this is an example
of what happens when you start doing something and you
make it a habit. You don't question it or change
it later when you don't need to. Right, and there
was a time where you need to keep your written
record of things in case there was a disputeet. I mean,
now you can go online and see who processed the
check or whatever. So it's not really necessary anymore to
(13:20):
keep those kinds of things. So I think they just
never They never changed after that. So there's that kind
of paperwork, and he's got every issue of Flying magazine
that he ever got and stuff like that. Most of
the time, I don't even know where this stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Is kept, right, and we start talking about your mom's closet.
So often when we start visiting with Dane, he'll say, stuff,
I've got that somewhere. I'll have to find it for you,
And I know he means it, and I know he
probably knows about where it would be. I think she
may have been more women typically are more like I
know where something is, you know. But I think that
anything he wants to put his hands on, he'll be
(13:56):
able to. If you asked him for something, he would
be his mission to find it for you. And I
think he could because it's you know, they kept so much,
but it's not like it's a mass at all. Yeah,
it is, it is organized, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
One of my favorite things that he kept was something
that I actually got when I was in my senior
year of high school. There was a bank down the
street that had changed names, and they had they were
throwing their signs away and it's a plastic sign. It
was for their they called their ATM Machine Abbey. So
it was anytime banking benefits you or something like that.
(14:31):
That's what it stood for. So but anyway, it was
in a dumpster. I'm like, you know that would I
wonder if that would be cool to hang in my room.
So I barely could get into the trunk because it's
probably it's probably five feet wide by about four feet tall.
It's not a small sign. And I brought it home
and a friend of mine and I went to home
(14:52):
depot or something like that, bought three fluorescent strips, mounted
them to the wall and hung the sign over it.
And so it was kind of cool. That was my
bedroom sign machine in the bedroom. Yeah, so all these
years later, he's still got that. That's still hanging in
there with the lights behind it, and they work.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
In all the computer room.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
It's kind of it's really funny. It's different. So when
you walk into the house, it's for anybody that's never
been in there, it's an experience. It's it's different, you know,
it's it's a small home. My dad's always been a
very modest person and but but it's it's just got
character in so many different ways because of all the things.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That he's market on the front room.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yes, you're right, exactly clean.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
As a whistle too. Yeah, such a sweet character.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
There's also a Nascar curio cabinet, right, Yeah, die cast
mom come over to Danes one day with us.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
My mom was the one who was really in the Nascar.
My mama is the one that got my dad into it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Interestingly enough, he would like to have you, Sam.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I'm sure Dame would. We had a lovely dinner. It
was really fun, it was and everybody went all out,
like appetizer is the best main course, the desserts, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The first thing, the first thing I noticed about the
picture was everybody was sitting as you know, and with
their family. It was like there was no you know,
the kids didn't all sit together and the adults didn't
all but we meant.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Like I got up and played musical chair so I
could visit at the other end of the table with
Jackie and Christy and Duke. You know. I got up
and moved around a good bit and that was what
was super sweet about it.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Dane.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Let's make it a week long celebration. We missed any
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This is the after the show podcast Hanging Out with
Us a little bit longer, Sam, We took Murphy's dad
Dane to dinner last night with the whole family.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I saw the family picture. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It was a party of what fifteen was it sixteen something?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I forgot to count.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, And it was really cool because Dane turned seventy seven. Yeah,
and we picked him up. I mean not that he
can't drive, but we like to bring him places whenever.
And it was so cute because when we arrived and
he came out of the front door, he was wearing
his birthday beads.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
He birthday beads.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Somebody gave him a pair of I'm the birthday boy
beads years ago, years ago. Yeah, and he probably hangs
him up in the same little hook in his closet.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I don't know whether, but he is.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's so cute. He walked out like, yep, I am
the birthday boilest go. It was really cute.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's funny you say that because one year for Father's Day,
the kids gave me a ball cap that says best
Dad or number one Dad. Yeah, and I keep it
and every now and then I'll bust it out just
to like mess with him. Yeah, Hey, I'm the number
one dad, don't forget.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, those are.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Fun little gifts. But girl, the girls gave us one,
or gave me one, that says number one dad.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The little I.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Don't even know what is a trophy, but it's made
of porcelain in it and when they bought it, it was
discounted because it had a crack in it. But it's
still one of my favorite things and I keep it around.
What what you need to know, Sam, is that you
actually were at the dinner last night without realizing it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
What did I have it?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's not what you have, but it was delicious.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
But when my dad began opening his presence, the gift
that he got from my sister and my brother in
law is the ring spotlight camera, which is like the
one that you've got.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, they's got two lights on it or the one light.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's got two. I didn't know they had one with one.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I've seen the ones with one light. Yeah, man,
it's awesome. They are bright. Yeah, and I know you
can do this with the nest stuff too, but it's
you know, you can control the light on it if
you want to pop into that camera and look, see
what's going on outside. You can control them, turn the
light on, you can turn the light off, you can
talk through it. Hey, what are you doing? Punk beat it.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's almost become a thing because for his birthdays and
for Christmas now, over the last I don't know, three years,
he's been adding piece by piece to home automation. The
first thing was the ring doorbell, which he got two
or three years ago, and then it became an echo dot,
and then it became the Echo Show, and so slowly
but surely he's getting all these little things. He's living
(02:26):
in that ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Is having fun with it, though at least totally.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, he loves it. Yeah. He'll tell you that he
brings his iPad back to the bedroom at night so
that if the doorbell or something alerts him to something,
he can see what's going on outside. And sometimes it's
just people turning around in the driveway, things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Likes to watch it. I was happy for him to
get that. So will you be the one installing that
or will your sister?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, I offered to do it. They got one for
their house too, and you know they were saying they
would experiment with theirs and then.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Then oh, it is the easiest. Again, not trying to
sell it. But you turn the power off, you hook
the wires up, it's like there's no special wires. It's
just like a regular floodlight. Yeah, you're ready to go.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's nice accomplishment, then.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, it is. And I've changed up so many of
those that if my dad wants to, I'm I'm happy
to do that. He but he still has a couple
of corners of the house where he could use a
few more. Joe, I mean now that I'm thinking about it,
so maybe that won't be the last one.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You got gifts covered for another next two years. Huh.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, you know, he's I find it difficult to buy
for him because he's well.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I say that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I always give him warm stuff. He's cold natured lately,
and when I find some really soft, warm clothing whatever,
I buy it for him, and he always and when
it's cold, I always see him wearing it, like true,
he really he doesn't just put it away. Yeah, you
see him use and wear it. So I always give
(03:54):
him that sort of thing. And I would never buy
something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I wouldn't. That'd be Murphy. Please go buy him something
tech you know something that you think he'd like.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, I think I've been like that for a long
time now, when I maybe when I was in college,
I would buy him CDs because he was starting to
build up his CD collection. See where that got is right,
although he still has him when he still has a
CD player that if he wants to listen to him.
But he's always been sort of he's not an early
adopter for technology. He likes it when it's given to him.
(04:26):
You know, he doesn't really he doesn't go seek it.
So I think this is going to get him hooked.
If I know my dad, he's the type. It's going
to figure out somewhere where you can see everything on
one screen at one time, you know, front, the back,
the everything.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That is fun you can do that. Does he use
his echoes for music? Now?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh, he loves his music.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, see we say that and he tells us that,
but we haven't been in his house when he's using it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, Well, what he will do he actually alternates back
and forth. Because I set him up with this a
while back. I set him up with access to an
Amazon account and I showed him how to do that
and you can share family subscriptions and that sort of thing.
So he shares my library so he actually can go
on and listen to whatever you know, he wants to
that's ours or pre made for it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
She listens to us. Be a smart speaker, I think,
or do they have smart speakers? I know she listens
to us. I don't know if he does.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, but but that I think that's partially responsible for
reintroducing music back into his daily routine because he had
become he was always kind of a TV person, but
since my mother passed, he had not been listening to
a whole lot of music, right, and how he's made
it part of his his daily routine.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Murphy, you have to know this your mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
First house I ever walked into where there were two
TVs going at the same same TV cabinet they.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Had by side, kind of side by side.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, there's one bigger one with whatever you're watching, but
they had I don't know, new c and in our
Fox news on another one always on so they don't
miss anything. It's like, oh, is this a control center
or is this a living room?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And I've never walked into I think it's probably more
of a thing now, I mean depending on And it's
not just TV's but screens everywhere haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So you got your TV and you get your phone, yeah, or.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Like your home Google home unit or whatever. But it's
just it was funny and he still has that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh yeah, what you're describing. My dad was doing picture
and picture long before it existed. He was just doing
it with multiple screens.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
They for some reason they always like to have the
weather channel on at any given moment, and that was
on its own, So that actually was a third screen, remember,
off in the corner.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, and then so with that, and then I think
they had the two side by side, like you're talking about,
next to each other. So, yeah, it was anytime that
I even brought that goes back to it when I
was in high school when I would bring friends over there,
like what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Not just that what was the weather channel though? Just
in case something popped up.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
They just like to know what was going on. It
was one of those if you wanted to know what
was up up, it was on the screen.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That was also an interesting introduction to the family when
I first became a part of the families.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
The whole families. There's still weather fanatics. I mean, I
can ask any question. For some reason, last night when
we were in conversation, Jim Cantore came up and I
couldn't His name was just slipping my mind. I mean,
you've noticed, you know, how you can know somebody forever
and then all of a sudden you just and so
his name, his name was slipping my mind, but it
was It was my nephew Jacob that said, yeah, that's
(07:27):
Jim Cantory. I was waiting next for me to tell
me how many years he's been on the Weather Channel. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Right, I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Also, the first time I ever went to a family
vacation with your family, Murph, and I was outside on
the boat was a beach thing outside on the balcony
in the evening, and I was out there with your mom. Yeah,
and she said she was looking at the sky and
I came out. She goes, hey, Jodie, she goes.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was like one of those little odd moments where
you didn't know what to say to each other. I
was need to her. She goes, do you know much
about cloud formations?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And I was like, actually no, So she taught me
a little thing or two. That's cute.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Another thing that your mom and dad, and your dad
still has in the house. The house is not that
you know, has not changed a lot. He hasn't changed
a lot of stuff up. I know he's really comfortable there.
It's such a sweet, comfortable, cozy house.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It is.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But opposite the TVs.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
On the back wall, there are not one, not two,
but like three clocks on the same wall and at
the same time. Your face, yeah, your face, Sam tells
it all is like the first time I saw three
clocks hanging up.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I'm like, why three clocks.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
It's not like a situation where we're monitoring, you know,
global times around the world. They all had the same
time on them. But I think your mom was just
in love with the clocks. There was a bird one.
There was a NASCAR one.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Legit.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The bird one was one of those chirping ones.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yes, it chirped the bird that it you know, it's
a four o'clock blue jay.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It made the blue jay sound. You got it. And
then there was one there's a third one.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, it's that's the Harley clock.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Harley the birds.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, at the at the top of each hour, it
you know start.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You can hear this throughout the house at midnight, you'll
hear it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Not loud, it's not loud, it's subtle, but it's you know,
it's the first time I've ever seen that too.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You know, at the top of the hour you get
birds and nascars and Harley.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, they used to. That was their Their trick was
to try to get it to set, so they all
went off at the exact same Yeah. But yeah, that's
that is what makes my parents characters. And you know,
my dad is really my dad's really just a very
He's a very simple person. Honestly, when it comes he
just he enjoys his hobbies. So I think those kinds
(09:45):
of things also kind of, for whatever reason, become a hobby.
You know, I am impressed because I didn't know about this.
It's been a couple of months now, but my dad
had decided it was time to donate my mother's clothes,
and and my sister went over there and went through everything,
sorted through everything, and there are a few little things
that she kept, but most of the things that she donated,
(10:08):
and you never know, that's such a personal thing. It
took my grandmother probably fifteen years before she cleaned up
my grandfather's clothes. But now my dad just decided, I
guess that it was time, you know, to move on.
And with that anyway, did.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Jackie tell you about doing that? Did she tell you
about that?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Because she told me specifics about it, like it's one
of those conversations that she and I had. She was like, yeah,
I went yeah. What happened is that after she passed,
Jackie told him, in your own time, you decide when.
But when it's time to go through that or if
you want to get moved, make a space for that
all of her clothing, call me and I'll come do it.
(10:47):
You know, I'm the daughter, she said, I'll come do it,
and so she was a little surprised to get the way.
She told Dane, I'll do it for you when you're ready.
Dane called her up, what a month ago, and She's like, oh,
I'm not ready, But she did say she went and
did it and she found she said.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That she found some.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Clothing with tags still on it, which is you know,
it happens to all of us.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But Jackie said she and she kept a few things.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But she said she also found one or two things
that Jackie had given her with tags still on.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, and that happens too, right.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Did she?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I go through the pockets too, to make sure it
wasn't any you know, twenty dollars bills anywhere, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't know. I didn't ask her that. I didn't
ask her that.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You know, the only time I've ever been exposed to that,
I was sixteen years old when my dad passed away,
I was sixteen years old. I did not go through
his clothing, although there was a closet in the house
that I went to immediately after he died, like after
his funeral, I went straight to that closet to get
a jacket out, and it still smelled like him. And
I'll never forget that experience. But I kept that one.
(11:54):
I actually don't even know where it is anymore, but
because it's been such a long time ago. But I
wasn't in charge hard of doing any of that, you
know what I mean. I don't think my mom was
about letting you.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
They were young, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So I mean, you know, who knows? Did you have
you talked to him about that?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No, I've not talked to him about that yet. And
it's not that anything I've been avoiding that just it
hasn't come up. Maybe the next time I go visit,
I'll ask just to see what he's either done with this.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, right, there's probably a reason for him to clear it.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, he knows that there's there's a ton of stuff
that they he still needs to clean out. Because both
of my parents tended to keep almost everything, you know,
I mean there were Yeah, he's probably got every paycheck
he ever earned from from his first one all the
way through his entire career until he retired. They can't.
I mean, they just kept all the canceled checks and
things like that. Even after my mother finally converted over
(12:46):
to doing everything online, she still kept everything that was
a paper document if they paid something that with a bill.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So they keep them happy for like cover themselves if
something came up, or just no idea.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I think that that's I think this is an example
of what happens when you start doing something and you
make it a habit. You don't question it or change
it later when you don't need to. Right, and there
was a time where you need to keep your written
record of things in case there was a disputeet. I mean,
now you can go online and see who processed the
check or whatever. So it's not really necessary anymore to
(13:20):
keep those kinds of things. So I think they just
never They never changed after that. So there's that kind
of paperwork, and he's got every issue of Flying magazine
that he ever got and stuff like that. Most of
the time, I don't even know where this stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Is kept, right, and we start talking about your mom's closet.
So often when we start visiting with Dane, he'll say, stuff,
I've got that somewhere. I'll have to find it for you,
And I know he means it, and I know he
probably knows about where it would be. I think she
may have been more women typically are more like I
know where something is, you know. But I think that
anything he wants to put his hands on, he'll be
(13:56):
able to. If you asked him for something, he would
be his mission to find it for you. And I
think he could because it's you know, they kept so much,
but it's not like it's a mass at all. Yeah,
it is, it is organized, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
One of my favorite things that he kept was something
that I actually got when I was in my senior
year of high school. There was a bank down the
street that had changed names, and they had they were
throwing their signs away and it's a plastic sign. It
was for their they called their ATM Machine Abbey. So
it was anytime banking benefits you or something like that.
(14:31):
That's what it stood for. So but anyway, it was
in a dumpster. I'm like, you know that would I
wonder if that would be cool to hang in my room.
So I barely could get into the trunk because it's
probably it's probably five feet wide by about four feet tall.
It's not a small sign. And I brought it home
and a friend of mine and I went to home
(14:52):
depot or something like that, bought three fluorescent strips, mounted
them to the wall and hung the sign over it.
And so it was kind of cool. That was my
bedroom sign machine in the bedroom. Yeah, so all these
years later, he's still got that. That's still hanging in
there with the lights behind it, and they work.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
In all the computer room.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
It's kind of it's really funny. It's different. So when
you walk into the house, it's for anybody that's never
been in there, it's an experience. It's it's different, you know,
it's it's a small home. My dad's always been a
very modest person and but but it's it's just got
character in so many different ways because of all the things.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That he's market on the front room.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yes, you're right, exactly clean.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
As a whistle too. Yeah, such a sweet character.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
There's also a Nascar curio cabinet, right, Yeah, die cast
mom come over to Danes one day with us.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
My mom was the one who was really in the Nascar.
My mama is the one that got my dad into it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Interestingly enough, he would like to have you, Sam.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I'm sure Dame would. We had a lovely dinner. It
was really fun, it was and everybody went all out,
like appetizer is the best main course, the desserts, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The first thing, the first thing I noticed about the
picture was everybody was sitting as you know, and with
their family. It was like there was no you know,
the kids didn't all sit together and the adults didn't
all but we meant.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Like I got up and played musical chair so I
could visit at the other end of the table with
Jackie and Christy and Duke. You know. I got up
and moved around a good bit and that was what
was super sweet about it.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Dane.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Let's make it a week long celebration. We missed any
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