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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Murphy Salmon Jody after the show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know, Jody, my goal this year is to declutter, unclutter.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah, although you already don't have a lot of clutter.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Do you, Sam, Sam's goal?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, yeah, I do have certain areas that are cluttered
that you know, need to be cleaned out, that I
just hold on to and put it off and put
it off and put it on.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You just don't seem like a clutter guy. You never
really yeah, well you know you Okay, so the only
thing and some would call it clutter, but I've always
thought it was just personality. Is you have props? Yeah,
you have you know, you have visuals, you have like
your patio for example, that collection of just interesting things
to talk about.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Right where he sits, this baby yodas and little rubber
roaches and just junk Murphy.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Some some would say my patio is cluttered. Some would
some would say, but personality.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, I think it's personality. I do.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But I'm specifically on this podcast talking about a certain
long sleeve shirt that I own. Okay, In the process
of uncluttering, you know, you throw away stuff you have
worn in six months, stuff it's too small and quit
hoping you're not going to get back to it, but
do don't you know, we all have that shirt that
(01:18):
you've worn.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
It for a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You can't get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's got a couple holes in it. Yeah, but you
can sleep in it. Yeah, you can chill in it.
If need be an emergency, you can run to the
store in it. Yeah, it's not that bad. I do
that one. I took it off the hangar and I
looked at it and it's like, which.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
One is it? Is it a comfy shirt? I mean
I would know it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's a comfy long sleeve shirt and it's a comfort
color shirt. Nice, And I've had it for about five
or six years. In the past six months it started
hole around the collar hole under the arm. But it's
like you feel like you've worked on it for five
years and you've got it just where you want it.
Sometimes I have shorts like that too, that fray at
the bottom, and it's like, HA, got them just where
(02:00):
I want them, right, And there's that short period that
they're perfect before they really get ratty and you got
tout toss them truth. And so that is the one
thing that I've decided this is not being in the
unclutter pile because this is my comfy shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, keep it for you do y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Do that too, Do y'all have the comfy shirt or
the comfy pants.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I have a comfy shirt that you can't even it's faded, Murphy.
You'll as soon as I describe it, you'll know it's faded,
so faded you can't tell what's on it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's gray.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It's very comfortable, it's so soft, and it's a bon
Jovi T shirt and it's so old, and I've had
it forever and it is so comfortable, and but you
would have to really look hard at it to see
that it's bon Jovi, that it's that faded.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You can't see the bond or the Jovie.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I don't wear it here at work though, because it's
I could well yeah yeah, yeah, bet it's something for home,
right or whatever.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
But you don't see yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean, at some point you're not getting rid of that.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You'll have to get rid of it at some point.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
No, I won't.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
You're not going to wear it into the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, so, by definition, wouldn't wouldn't clutter be something that
you just don't use?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I mean it is clutter. Something just sits there, but
really isn't being you know, used and kept for a
good reason.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So exactly, Oh yeah, I guess because the comfort color
shirt is a good reason.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's comfort yeah for you, so you should keep it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I guess the you know, the reason to get rid
of it is it's full of holes and stuff. You know,
usually when you got ratty clothes, you throw them away
or donate.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Are you wearing it on a run right runway? No?
Then wear it on your pod on the rest of
your clutter.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, you know, one some things that I do have
that some would consider clutter, but I don't want to
get rid of. I still have my Cub Scout uniform.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
That what I know. That's he has a whole other.
Murphy is a whole other. Like if you introduced Murphy
to Marie Condo, she would be like, I need a week.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, but your cub Scout uniform.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Means something to him, Yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's like, you know, I was Little League baseball and
I don't have any of my jerseys anymore, and I
would like to have, you know, one or two jerseys.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Over the years to show the kids. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Look, I was in the Little League. Here's my jersey,
or this is what we used to wear. Yeah, there's
certain things like I have from high school when we
used to wear uniforms with certain pe outfits, and it's like,
I wish I had some of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, I have a shirt that says Daytona Beach because
that was the vacation spot for my family many many
many years ago. And I think I might have been
six or seven years old when I got the shirt.
So to say that it doesn't fit as an understatement,
but that's again, that's one of those it's a happy time.
It's in a box, you know, I mean, and it's
(04:37):
not really looked at very much. But I guess that's
the kind of thing that could be considered clutter. Those
you know, clutter.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Is like a shirt that you bought or somebody gave
you and you never returned and it's got a tag
on it. It was still hanging there. You're never going to
wear it. That's clutter, and I've got one of those
in my closet.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So basically, so clutter is something that is meaningless that
you're holding on to all.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
The yes and relying up your mind and your life
and your spaces.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But there are things that even from my childhood that
I eventually started to get rid of that I just didn't,
you know, need to keep anymore. And I don't think
I have any regrets about some of them. But some
of them were shirts, you know. One of them was
the quote unquote time capsule. I know I've told both
of you about over the years. Joe, have you ever
shown you that time capsule at home?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Isn't not the wrong with a tube of toothpaste in
it it?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, And actually I don't know if I have the
tube of toothpaste. I think I might have finally pitched it.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It started out on ants coming.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, I think it's well. It started out is my
mother's mother's jewelry box. And of course, you know, I
didn't want to call it a jewelry box, so I
made it a time capsule and put things in it
that you know, should be revealed only decades in the future,
which one was a thing of aim toothpaste.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, as you know, the future is not going to
have toothpaste.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, and I do think I have my original Burger
king pipe with the styrofoam ball you're blue in the air,
and it stood in it stayed in place, you know,
and until you ran out of breath.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Here his memorabilia, and then there is clutter, and I'm
gonna have to go with clutter on those.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, you know something from a fast food place that's
clutter as soon as it comes into my car.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm sure somewhere there's a happy Meal collector. Yeah, happy
Meal toys, with all the Happy Meal toys on the planet.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, but do you is that?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That the goal, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So see this opens up a whole other door, which
is when does collecting become clutter if it's something that
you enjoy and it's something you can display. My parents,
for example, you know, my dad, being the Harley fan
that he was, he wrote his Harley my light father
wrote his Harley until he was seventy eight years old,
(06:49):
and every Christmas and every Birthday somebody was giving him
a Harley shirt. So he has an unbelievable collection of
Harley Davidson.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
T shirt and hats. He has hats and hats.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And then there are a lot of people that have
given him the little what do you call the miniature
motorcycles in the box podcasts. Yeah, that kind of stuff,
you know, and so and then some of it's plastic
and some of it's bigger, and some of it's kids toys.
So he's got a lot of that. And as he started, yeah,
he did. He kept it all. So he collected it.
He's displayed most of it. But you know, if it's
(07:23):
something he loved, was that clutter?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Not to him, it wasn't clutter, But for anyone else
it is right And unless you get it to another collector.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
One of our.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Coworkers here, Jeremy, we did a zoom one time and
he did it from his house or whatever. Behind him
was an entire wall of those funkos.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I remember Funko Pop.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Like, you asked him about it on the call, I.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Mean to me, to him, that's like, this is what
I collect, and this is what I like. To me,
looking at that wall, it's like, that's clutter, that's junk there.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, you were only looking at the two two dimension
there on a there are a couple and so I
actually don't know what those are. Those are funkos.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's a little person with a big head and they
it's like as a Walter White one and their game
of thrones ones and it's just like.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
A bobblehead doll.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah kind of, they had cool.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
The head doesn't bobble, but it's like it's not bibblehead.
People do collect them though.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah yeah, Well you see again, if it's something that
you derive enjoyment from, it's not really clutter. So, Jody,
what do I have that I derive enjoyment from at
home that is clutter? Tak the old radio? Well wait, wait, wait,
I thought you said that wasn't clutter. I thought you
said that that was.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It wasn't clutter. It was a few of them.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
But I mean, I was sitting in the family room
the other day and I looked over at my shelf,
our shelf, the big shelf, that's the whole.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Wall that used to have just books and a few
family pictures.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
And I think a shelf should be there should be
stuff on a shelf, but it shouldn't be crammed. There
are twelve radios on that shelf. Now, I want you
to go count them.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's like, oh my god, is that too many?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I think it's too many. But I can't say whether
it's clutter or not. If it matters to you, you know,
if it matters to you. It matters to you, well,
ear rings, and you're not going to say anything to
me about them.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So oh, I know, I know that. Of course you've
got those tucked in a drawer. I've got mine on
the shelf.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
That's the thing he's displaying his in a family area.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Maybe it should be why he rotates three or four
in and out, or if you put a couple up
there to go with all the books and everything and
then put them over here in.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
This part of that.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I would like that, But you're not there when he
breaks breaks them out and goes, this would look good here.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm surprised now I realize there is actually something I
forgot that I left in the family room is not
supposed to be on the shelf in there, one of
those things. But but the rest.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It's like twelve, it's like more than you think it's
in there.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, i'll take it down there. They're all very different.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
You don't know what.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's a losing battle for me, no, no reason why. No,
it's a losing battle for me because he is king.
Dad is king at the house. If I ever say
anything about you know, there's a lot a radio tebe.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Especially be like because she's like him.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
She wants to keep everything's like, it's okay, they're cool.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
She just nobody wants me to you know.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So it's like, I don't even look.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
At it anymore. I don't even think about it anymore.
It makes you happy.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
We can strike a balance on that. I don't want
it to be clutter, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
So so glad you brought this up.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I was just talking about a T shirt that I like,
you know, I mean, there was a time where you
didn't like Frank Sinatra and you came around like him.
Maybe you'll come around to liking the radio. You don't
have a style thing.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
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