A craftsman builds a life: love found, risks taken, and art that keeps evolving

A life can be built like a good house—measure twice, make it sturdy, then add the details that make people smile. We pick up with artist and craftsman Murphy Elliott as he lands in Vancouver, falls in love with Wendy, and turns a city of snow-capped mountains and salty air into a workshop for murals, inventions, and family. From hauling rice bags in ship hulls and learning the streets with paper maps to delivering supplies, painting apartments, and training a Sheltie to perform over a hundred tricks, Murphy shows how craft becomes character when you show up every day.

We walk the coastline of memories that feel almost cinematic: annual bathtub races off Kits Beach, a spur-of-the-moment border run to return to his future wife, and fearless jobs on swaying ladders that tested his nerve. The heart of the conversation lives where making meets meaning—hand-carved board games with moving asteroids, a foldable cardboard spaceship kids could climb into, and a flying-saucer bunk bed concept with a built-in playhouse and workspace. Not every idea reached a factory, but each one shaped a mindset: build for joy, share the result, and let the work teach you. That ethos scales up to murals at Expo ’86, where Murphy painted the GM pavilion and the Ramses exhibit—hieroglyphics included—proving that steady practice opens big doors.

Music threads through the family story. Christopher composes and records multi-instrument tracks that stop local crowds; Samantha adds a graceful voice, guitar, and sharp creative instincts that now power her role at a graphic arts company. We make the case for real listening—vinyl’s warmth over compressed files—and trade music-history gems that younger listeners may have missed. By the end, we hint at what’s next: leaving Canada after nearly three decades, returning to Florida, and sharing new space art across online communities. If you love stories of craftsmanship, creative parenting, Expo ’86 nostalgia, murals, DIY design, and the simple courage to climb one more rung, this chapter delivers.

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Transcript

Welcome Back & Listener Reactions

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Welcome back to part two of my amazing, amazing interview with the one and only Murphy Elliott, the genius. Now, I have my reasons for saying that, and I just have my reasons. This man has accomplished so much, and you heard in part one his story. A lot of you have been listening. Um, as we were talking, Murphy and I were talking before we started the interview, um, how people, you know, can listen, and a lot of people have been listening, you know, on the job, like my job. I work at a hospital, and a lot of people on their breaks, you know, they just you know want things to do. So they they sit there and I didn't have no clue that they were sitting there listening to my interview. And one guy he took his arm, he nudged me the other day. I was like, Why are you nudging me? And he said, and he pointed, and I still didn't know what he was talking about, and then he wrote it down, he said, Your interview is on. And he was listening to the interview that I did with Murphy Elliott um past weekend, and it just made him feel so good. He said it said so many beautiful things in that interview, not just him, but other people. So I'm gonna go ahead and welcome you, my guest, the one and only Murphy Elliott, the artist, the man, he's here, y'all. He's right here again. Good morning, Murphy. Welcome back.

SPEAKER_05 2:46

Well, good morning, Regina, and everybody else that may be listening. Um part, it was when I was a child and grew up and Navy and uh and I think I ended up where I moved to Canada.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Right.

Vancouver Impressions & Meeting Wendy

SPEAKER_05 3:03

Well my best friend that invited me to go to Canada was from Newfoundland. And I'm not I'm not sure if you know about the Newfoundlanders, but they have a a dialect and accent all their own. Oh boy. When I got up to Canada, uh I stayed with him for a while and he had a lot of brothers and sisters and and they all had a heavy Newfoundland accent, and of course they exaggerated it and put me on a bit. I really liked so different. But uh they welcomed me into their house uh with open arms and I stayed there for a little while, but um right away I needed to get a job and get some money. So uh uh being an ex-haler, I went to the shipyard to see if I could find a job to make some money. And I found a job right away working in the hull of uh the big ships that came into port. Uh they put me down in the hull throwing uh big rice bags around. And of course they weighed almost as much as I did. It didn't take long grabbing those uh big uh burlap bags, throwing them around, uh my fingerprints disappeared and by lunchtime I couldn't even pick one up. Oh my son that's really it was a nice start and uh I made enough money to keep gas in my car and uh have some extra spending money food and be able to give a little bit of money to uh the Brian and his family. Ah that's from there I got a job uh uh I wanted to get into architectural uh drafting, like I learned in school, uh, but I was still new and I didn't know the city all that well. So I got a job with uh uh a company that made architectural supplies, and I got a job delivering supplies to all the architectural firms around the city. And that helped me learn who was where and what. Uh that was long before uh GPS.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Uh wow.

SPEAKER_05 5:28

We used the paper map and I learned my way around the city uh fairly quickly so I knew where things were or where the companies were, and I got to meet some of the architects and people in the companies.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Wow. Sounds interesting.

SPEAKER_05 5:48

It was interesting. The city was so big and so beautiful. Oh wow. I I I'd never seen anything on this east coast like that. Uh Vancouver is surrounded by snow capped mountains.

SPEAKER_02 6:03

Right.

SPEAKER_05 6:04

It's absolutely spectacular. Um they have right in the middle of the city is Stanley Park, which is uh like Central Park in New York. I mean it's almost an island that sticks out from the city. And it's it's just fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Boy, sounds beautiful. Sounds like I've only been to Vancouver like maybe twice in my whole t life. Only twice, but always a beautiful place.

SPEAKER_05 6:37

Oh yes, I I fell in love with it.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

And speaking of falling in love Yes, yes, yes, but it's part of so much.

SPEAKER_05 6:47

I love uh That's where and when I met my wife, Wendy. Uh she just arrived in the city. Uh she was born and raised on Texata Island. Now Texeda is a small island in between Vancouver Island and the mainland. And uh she had just arrived. She was just graduated the year before, and she arrived in the city around the same time as I did. And there was a party, Brian and his brothers threw a party and she was there, and that's when we met.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Wow. That's how you met his beautiful wife, everyone. This is the love story part. Oh sorry, I love love stories, uh Marcy. I love to hear about them, read about them, you know.

unknown 7:42

Yeah.

Kits Beach Life & Bathtub Races

SPEAKER_05 7:48

We got an apartment together in a place called Kitsalano Beach. And it was in the city and uh beautiful, beautiful uh beach there. Um actually one year uh out of Kitsalano Beach we had the bathtub races.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 8:09

Tabathtub races, people made boats out of bathtubs and were racing from the Georgia Strait to Vancouver Island and back.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 8:25

Uh and uh race too. We didn't win, but it was sure it was lots of fun.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

It was a real bath bathtub, like the tub you'd take a bath in?

SPEAKER_05 8:35

Yes. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 8:39

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 8:41

And we'd be we would race them across the Georgia Strait and back again. But it was a yearly thing that they did every year, and uh that was the first year I was there and uh it was fun. I had to get involved in that, of course. We made up our we made up our t-shirt so we had our team and uh it was it was just fun.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Um very interesting by the way, boy.

Immigration Hurdles & Settling In

SPEAKER_05 9:10

I had to uh come back to the states to apply to be in Canada legally. So I did that. That took me uh uh about a month and a half uh to get the paperwork. But uh I couldn't wait. Uh I was staying at uh my dad's house in Indiana. And uh I couldn't wait. I had to get back to Wendy, so I left before I got my paper.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Can't you get back to your baby?

SPEAKER_05 9:45

So when the papers came my mother called me and said they're here and I told her to send them up to me. So when the papers arrived I just went back across the border and then came back again and said, Hi, I'm here. Here here's my papers. That was a little underhanded, but they were quite liberal or easy in Canada once back in the day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

Plus you were trying to get back 'cause you're in love.

SPEAKER_05 10:20

Yeah, uh well that was kind of it. I I couldn't stay away any longer and I had to.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

I know, I bet.

Learning the Painting Trade

SPEAKER_05 10:31

So anyhow I did um get a uh another job um with a painting contractor. Uh thought, okay, well now I need to learn what is involved in painting in this city. I like I said, I already had some experience in Delaware before I left painting. And my dad was a painter, although I never spent any time painting with him. I thought if he could do it, I could do it. Uh while I was learning the the painting uh industry in the city, uh Wendy uh went to dental school and she learned how to be a dental assistant.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 11:16

And and then of course we got married. Uh in seventy four uh the two of us got married and uh we got another apartment, uh uh a two bedroom apartment to save money so we could buy a house.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

Right.

SPEAKER_05 11:37

And while we were in that apartment we got our first dog.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

His name was the dog.

SPEAKER_05 11:45

His name was Lord Jemiah La Shelty, and he was a purebred shit for a Sheltie.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 11:54

He was a little fuzzball and he was so smart. He was incredibly smart. Well, I taught him over a hundred different tricks and me. He was amazing. It started out uh he liked the tennis ball and uh I'd show him the ball and tell him sit and that'd be the first trick if he would do it and I'd give him the ball. And then lay down, you know, the all the routine, roll over, and every time I would sit with him, he would know that there was a new trick coming at the end. I'd teach him something new and he would catch on so fast, he was so smart. At one time he and I could even juggle. I had three balls and I'd be juggling it. He grabbed the one and I'd grab it out of his mouth and keep juggling it. But at a certain point he decided that there was just one of the three that he wanted and I would juggle and he would ignore two of them, but that one ball he would grab.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

Well, that's a smart dog.

SPEAKER_05 13:04

Howie knew the difference between the three. I never figured it out because they were so identical, but he was so clever. It was loved him to death. He was a great dog.

Marriage, Saving, and First Home

SPEAKER_01 13:15

Wow, it sounded a very smart uh a genius. Don't take him crazy. A genius dog, a genius dog, too.

SPEAKER_05 13:25

He was quite he was quite clever. Well we sound like it. We did save up our money and we were able to buy our first house uh in seventy-eight and uh Christopher was born in seventy-nine.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 13:46

We said we would wait five years before we had kids, and we did. He was an ornery little guy.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 13:57

He totally fixated on his dad. Everywhere I go, he would follow me. He would he wanted me he didn't want much to do with his mother, he wanted his dad.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Oh Chris.

SPEAKER_05 14:12

He's still like that to today.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Yes, these videos of him painting with you like that p video where you guys are painting together, is like he just write oh my god, you guys are so close. You know, the videos that I see and watch and you guys are so close in those videos where you were painting together. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_05 14:36

Yes, when he was old enough, he was in his summer job, uh he would work with me, of course.

SPEAKER_02 14:43

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 14:44

He he he learned the trade and it worked out well for him as well.

SPEAKER_02 14:49

Alright.

SPEAKER_05 14:50

Yeah, and I did some of my first paintings on canvas. Uh uh and I did one painting uh for a game board I invented a game called Watch Out for the Asteroids.

The Genius Dog and Training Tricks

SPEAKER_01 15:05

And I think I already hold on a second, was that major? Because I think I remembered something like that.

SPEAKER_05 15:12

Uh yes, I carved hand carved out all the pieces and it was uh I had over fifty pieces and I hand painted it all and made the holes and everything and my friends and I played it for a while. It was kind of fun. It was a cross between tickers and and chess. But uh the chance part of it was the asteroids were moving around the board while you were trying to make your moves. So it it was it was quite fun and interesting.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Like I remember that game.

SPEAKER_05 15:48

It it was back uh like I said, uh around the same time Chris was born, 79, 19 1980. But I also invented a cardboard spaceship that uh you could fold and put together and the kids could get inside of it. I had handles on it so they could pick it up and run around and look out the porthole of it. But I painted the outside to look like a ship, and then on the inside I did all the console and everything so it looked like a ship on the inside.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

That sounded like fun right there for the kids.

SPEAKER_05 16:26

It was quite popular. And I had a meeting with um five millionaires from California. It was like the shark tank is on TV now, it was kind of like that. Uh try to get some money to get it produced. But they said they just they couldn't make enough money off of it. They said it was definitely they could make money, but really not enough. They already made so much money and were paying so much taxes, they need to make big profit. So they suggested uh I send it to Japan and get it made. But I never did Whoops. Yeah, I just let it go. I had uh into other things I keep moving along.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

Um that would have been a great thing for the shark tank guys.

SPEAKER_05 17:21

Yeah, well it's it's different times, a different time.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Um yeah, different time.

Christopher’s Arrival and Bond

SPEAKER_05 17:27

I also uh invented at the time or at least designed it since I had uh drafting and architectural skills. I designed a bunk bed for kids, for a kid's room. And what it was is the top bunk bed was a flying saucer. And it had all the console in it with the bed in the middle, but underneath of it I had like a a playroom or a playhouse that you could play in. And then around the outside I had the desk, dressing table, uh, closet for clothes, uh, etcetera. It was like a one piece furniture for your room. You had it in the middle of the room and it had everything you needed. You didn't need any other furniture. Uh that was just another thing I invented. Right. I still have the drawings, but once again, I didn't take it anywhere to get it produced.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Wow. I would have You got these great ideas. Oh my god. So I wanna get anybody else come up with the ideas later because it sounds like a lot of this stuff it just sounds familiar. Hopefully no one's owe the idea or anything.

SPEAKER_05 18:43

Well, I in a lot of cases I don't care if somebody wants to make it. I'd love just to see it made and have kids enjoy it.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:54

That would be nice. At least that's where my head's up. But I got into building remote control airplanes. Oh boy. And I love to build 'em, but when it came to flying I'm uh that's boring. I just love to build things. They were pretty big pretty big airplanes I I built. So once again, so it's important to build them. Uh in about that time period uh I got into bowling. I've been bowling when I was younger, but uh I joined a mixed league of men and women with Wendy and we bowled for quite a few years with some friends. And we really we really, really enjoyed that. We won many trophies. It was amazing.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Oh boy, sound like fun.

SPEAKER_05 19:51

It was, and I also had another team, men's league, and I had uh five of the guys that worked with me. Uh I formed my own team, we were called the Shellackers. But it was Shellackers. It was the men's league and we had lots of fun. Uh the guys were really good at it, and again we won a few trophies.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

I like the name, the Shellacers, the Shella.

Early Art: Game Boards and Toys

SPEAKER_05 20:20

Well uh the name of my company was Generation Two Painting and Decorating. Uh the guys that work with me, I we got since I was dressed in white, all I made all the guys dress in white when we were pros. Um when I hired guys on, I hired 'em uh to teach 'em how to do it so they could go out on their own and do it. And I I paid 'em more than they were worth, of course. But eventually they were earned their pay. They were worth it. Uh several of them did go out on their own. But I had a few guys that were with me for years. They just they weren't didn't want to go out on their own. They enjoyed having them with me and they just stayed with me. Even though I'm I guess. But I did I tried to encourage them to go out and do it on their own, but well, some people just aren't meant to do it on their own. They'd rather, you know, show up punch a clock and do their job.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Yeah, that's that's more e sometimes it's easier to do it that way too. You know, leaving on your own. You you make sure you know you got that little comfort zone when you're under someone else. I can I can understand that.

SPEAKER_05 22:46

Yeah, and another sport that I got into was golf. I really, really enjoyed golf. Um I got really good at it and I did that for a lot of years. And uh even after I moved down to Florida, it played for a while, but it was so hot down here, you know, it's in the summertime. So I finally gave up golf.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

But um So you gave up golf? But you were good at it, you really and did you like golf better than like football and all that? Do you like it better?

SPEAKER_05 23:23

Golf? Yeah, well football, like I said, I I played at Pal Forner, I was a little tiny kid and everybody else got big the next year or so and I didn't. That was the time when what everybody was growing, but I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

Yeah. Yeah.

Big Ideas Not Built: Designs & Beds

SPEAKER_05 23:41

But uh I enjoyed golf. It was a nice sport, but I also enjoyed uh building things. And uh um m my best friend Brian, who took me up there, we uh designed and built an apartment in the basement of his mother's house. We did that together. And uh I built uh a doghouse for Jemia, uh which I put up on uh stilts and I had uh it was beautiful and I had a porch on it, and of course I couldn't just go to work here at dog house I had make it really fancy looking and then I also uh built a a giant shed in the backyard. I put it up on uh stilts and uh there was a big uh tree in the middle of the yard, so I made a ramp that went around the tree and ended up on the the back porch so the kids could get in their little car and they'd get up at the top and ride it around the ramp onto the back porch. So that was fun. And that tree was probably sixty feet tall. I climbed up in the top of it when we lived on the top of a hill.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Can you climb up a tree?

SPEAKER_05 25:05

All the way to the very top, and I left a note I left a note up there for whoever came up afterwards. But we were on the top of the hill in Delta, and you could look out from the top of that tree and see the Fraser River and all the bridges and all the way over to New Westminster and Oh my god, I you climbed that tree. Well, I was never worried about height. Um I did a a job one time on a side hill, and I needed to rent a forty-four foot ladder to reach up. But I put it on it was I had to prop one side of the ladder, and I put the ladder fully extended, and it it there was a porch sticking out, so I had the ladder leading on it, and then ten feet above that, the ladder was just waving in the breeze.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Oh my God.

Building RC Planes, Bowling, and Golf

SPEAKER_05 26:08

But I had to c reach out and paint a peak, and I got all the way up there, the ladder's kind of waving back and forth, and I had a spice grip on the top rung of the ladder. I dipped my brush into paint and I reached back and the top rung turned. Well, how do I Yeah, well my heart was in my throat, but I had a place grip on it.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

That felt like it was way on up there too.

SPEAKER_05 26:39

It was. Uh that was just one of the adventures. I did a lot, a lot of painting.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

Right.

SPEAKER_05 26:46

I was there. Like I said, I did but when I was there I had did over fourteen thousand jobs. Some of them were little tiny jobs and some of them were big jobs. But ever since I very first started, I kept track of every job I did. And numbered each one and very started, and so I knew how many jobs I'd done over the years. And I did some really exciting stuff. But it it's kind of probably boring for most people. Uh I did uh an amazing amount of apartments. And I did a lot of people.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Murphy, let me tell you, you would really be surprised. That's why I think when people listen and listening to these things, and they're hearing and while they're working, and a lot of them are working, and they're listening, or they're sitting at their desk, and some people are just driving along and up and they're listening, and and they they're like, This is interesting. You be your story is not a boring story at all. Everything that you have from from beginning to now, this to to me, and I know not just to me, but this story is so interesting. I mean, I tell you, like when I first started talking to you that that uh but then about a month ago now, I think. The first time you start talking and you start telling your story, I was just sitting there listening, like I can't believe. I mean, I was it I was it's so gripped to the story, believe it or not, you didn't just start talking about it. Yeah, it's maybe like in a minute or something. I was like, Yeah, this man, yeah, I gotta get his story. Because I know what people like to listen to. And I and your story has not been boring from the beginning up until now, I promise you. So I'm just listening there waiting for every every second you can tell me. I'm waiting for it. Believe it or not. You know, it's so interesting. You've never been scared of heights. That's good. I'm scared of heights, I really am. But that's what I've done.

SPEAKER_05 28:54

Lasso'd the cross on the top of a steeple of a church. I lassoed it and climbed up and painted it one-handed, holding on to the rope with the other hand.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Wow.

Crafting Homes, Sheds, and Bold Ladders

SPEAKER_05 29:08

But I did a lot of uh murals over the years. Um uh for I did a lot of like in pools and dolphins on the walls and things like that. Uh my probably my m most interesting was uh 1986, uh Vancouver um uh had the World's Fair, 86 World Fair, Expo eighty six it was called. And I was I was invited to paint a couple of pavilions at the World's Fair. And I did uh the exterior of the GM building and then I did the exterior of the Ramsey's pavilion. And when I was in when I was doing that, they asked me if I would do some uh hieroglyphics on the inside. So they gave me some pictures of hieroglyphics and I did a whole bunch of hieroglyphics on the inside, the Egyptian um displays. And that was fun. That was 1986.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Sound like fun. It sounded like fun. One one thing that's gonna stand out when people hear it, I already know it. But you climbing that tree, boy, I I can already hear the people now. You climbed the tree and I can't wait to post up all the different things that people got to say, because you know, it's quite a few things people you know got to say about the interview so far. And I already know they're gonna be talking about that tree, I just already know it. But um oh my god, you you're so talented.

SPEAKER_05 31:56

The note I left on the top of the tree was kind of funny. I said, if you're up here and reading this note, you're the second one to be up here. I don't know if anybody else climbed that tree.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Who else would climb that tree? Yeah, that'd be the second one. 'Cause you did it first. Oh my god. Oh my god. So what was Chris? Was Chris around all this time when you was climbing trees and stuff? Was he around?

SPEAKER_05 32:23

Oh yes, he w he was quite little. Yes, he was quite little. He he he liked to hide behind things and jump out and scare his dad.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

He got me a few times. So I decided I decided I'd give back at him. And I had a rubber mask I put on and I went around the house to the front door. He was in the living room, and I knocked on the door, and he went and looked out the window, but I was tucked so he couldn't see me. He opened the door and I he started dancing in spot, and he ran over to his mom and started hugging her. So he didn't jump out and hear me anymore after that.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Right. Wow. Oh Chris. I was just wondering where he you know was, you know, because I know he always right there with you, like you said.

Murals and Expo ’86 Pavilions

SPEAKER_05 33:20

So Yes, we did a lot together, everything was he was there with me and I tried to include him to everything. And his mother, you know, was she got him involved in sports and things like that. He reluctantly in most cases. He didn't really want to play the sports, but his mom got him involved in lots of stuff. And the same with his sister, Samantha, but Samantha was born nine years after Chris.

SPEAKER_01 33:53

Oh, I was about to ask about Samantha. Wow.

SPEAKER_05 33:57

Well, I decided we were only having one. And I w Chris was enough. But after nine years his mom talked me into having another one, so we did. And I said, only if it's a girl.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 34:16

Her name is Samantha Jonice.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

Janice?

SPEAKER_05 34:20

Jonies. No. I made that up myself. It's my from my brother Joe. And my sister's name was Chanice. J-U-N-I-C-E.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_05 34:36

Her first name is Samantha. Now I was going to name her Stephanie after my brother Steve. But at the last minute I changed my mind. I decided I like Samantha better.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Samantha's pretty though. It's very pretty. She's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

SPEAKER_05 34:55

Yes. And we have a grandson.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Oh why.

SPEAKER_05 34:59

He's beautiful too. He's 12 years old now, and he's quite artistic as well. And he's doing computer art and computer animations.

unknown 35:09

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 35:10

He's quite clever.

SPEAKER_05 35:11

He's he's a straight A student and he's quite clever. So that's nice.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

What do you expect when you're coming from the top like that? And you got when you got Murphy Elliott. Come on now. Come on now.

SPEAKER_05 35:25

I have to give Samantha credit because she's quite quite intelligent as well, and she was extremely good in school and she's quite intuitive. And the job that she has now, she works for a graphic art company. And uh she ba she's basically running the business now. So she has quite a bit on the ball. I'm quite proud of her as well.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

All right.

Family Stories, Names, and Grandson

SPEAKER_05 35:50

And of course you know my son, he is so musical. He's just talented. I get the I get the privilege of listening to him every day. He would melt most people's faces. Uh playing local with local bands and stuff, they will they will stop and just their jaw drops. Wow. He doesn't play too much in public anymore, and I wish he would, because he is so good.

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Yeah. As I always tell everyone, you hear the you hear the intro to the to the show, and that's Murphy's son playing that music that was created, I believe, about ten years ago. I believe it was.

SPEAKER_05 36:38

He's done so much since. And I like some of his songs better than others, but he writes it all. He does all of the instruments on it, he does everything except the drums. And he uses uh different programs to do the drums. And he has a few friends that are doing drums for him now. But usually he'll write it and send off some music to them and then they'll add a drum track to it.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

Right. And I've heard this song by him and um Samantha, I think it w I believe it was a Jefferson Airplane s uh song.

SPEAKER_05 37:14

I think so. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

It's so beautiful.

SPEAKER_05 37:18

I think he's horribly that one a little bit. My own opinion.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:25

If he hears that, he'll say, What, Dad?

SPEAKER_01 37:29

Well well, Chris, I really, I really like it a lot. I was listening to it and I listened to it one time and then I played it again. I was like, Oh my god, that's one of those Jevis Airplane songs. And it sounds so good and they sound so great together. The voices blend in so perfectly together. I mean that oh my god, it sounds really good. I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_05 37:59

I don't think that was her best.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

Right.

SPEAKER_05 38:02

She has a really pretty voice as well, and she plays the guitar and she drove.

SPEAKER_00 38:07

She plays guitar too?

SPEAKER_05 38:09

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Well Man, Murphy, your kids are s equally as intelligent. This is just amazing.

SPEAKER_05 38:20

Were all you parents out there with young kids? When they were just babies, I put headphones on 'em and put on some music and they were inspired right away. Uh the headphones, you know, bring it alive rather than just listening to it on a podcast or whatnot. When the headphones back then were headphones, not earbuds.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

Yeah, real headphones, yeah. Like the big things you put on your ear. Sometimes people see me with those things in my ear, like, why don't you put your what do you call it? D thing you put in your ear. I have one of those big things on my ear and people they'd be kind of laughing, but I just like what they cover my ear. It just sound like you said, it sounds better to me.

Music at Home: Chris and Samantha

SPEAKER_05 39:05

You know, so that back then we listen to uh LPs, records, and that kind of stuff. And nowadays they're like him three files.

SPEAKER_02 39:17

Right.

SPEAKER_05 39:18

And they lose a lot of the quality, the kids don't realize how alive a lot of the music can be if you have a quality source where it's coming from and not a compressed file on on Spotify or whatever you're listening to. So you kids go out there and get a turntable and some LPs and put it on and listen to some really, really good quality music.

SPEAKER_02 39:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:47

I love generation music that we had. I'm noticing that they're hearing things for the first time. Um that w we grew up with, like the Bee Gees. It's amazing how many of the kids have never heard the Bee Gees.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Yeah, isn't that funny?

SPEAKER_05 40:06

I mean, God, you know when they hear 'em their jaw drops, they go, wow. But so many so many artists back then were really, really good and the kids haven't heard 'em. They don't know about 'em or which is kind of sad.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

I was playing a song one day for a guy by Hart and he he's like the same heart that played for, you know, at the uh Kennedy Center. It's the shit. I played one of their songs from the second album and I played the actual vinyl, and then the guy he couldn't believe it. He's like, I'm gonna go play this more and more. He had never heard the song before. It it's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_05 40:51

I've seen them live in Vancouver uh the same day their first uh record came out.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

Oh really?

SPEAKER_05 41:01

At the time they were doing Eagle covers. So it was interesting. Uh did you know that did you know that Tommy Chong and and no more thinking? Tommy Chong was in a a band with uh Jimi Hendrix. The two of them were in a band uh in Vancouver. Way back in the day. Most people don't know that Tommy John and Jimi Hendrix played together.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

Wow.

unknown 41:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 41:46

Doesn't it show my age now?

SPEAKER_01 41:49

Oh, but it just shows how much history you got as far as like creativity as well, music and all the other stuff, you know, it's w we all need to know this. I mean know some of it, but we all my audience, they if they don't know it, they they're interested. They need to know. I need to know more. I mean your story is interesting, Marcy. You got so much you got so much. I mean, like you said, you told me one day you said, I hope to I hope uh part one and part two is good enough. That's gonna be in part three.

Vinyl vs MP3: The Case for Quality

SPEAKER_05 42:27

Okay, well part three is gonna be uh part three. I'd been in I stayed in Canada for almost thirty years and I loved it. It was absolutely gorgeous. I made many, many friends over the years. But I never spent any time with my dad or my brothers and they were getting old and um not doing so well. So I decided okay, it's time that I packed up everything and moved to Florida where they were. So uh in two thousand and one and it's kinda funny, that the same day the towers were hit by the plane is the day that I was headed back.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 43:17

Uh it's kinda funny 'cause uh they just finished the tower when I moved to Canada. So it was kind of ironic that those two things all happen more or less at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 43:32

Right.

SPEAKER_05 43:33

Anyway, part three uh is I I moved to Florida, coming back to the States and uh that's when uh the the internet took off and I got on the internet and started showing some of my artwork and got involved with Math uh, the National Space Society, Steady Universe, um, the Hubble Telescope site. Oh put my paintings on their sites that they run. I started to get well known for my space art. Right. So that's gonna be part three, and there's a lot of things that happened when I got down here to Florida. So maybe it'll be interesting. We'll let you guys decide if it is or not.

SPEAKER_01 44:24

Well, you know, it's so far so great.

SPEAKER_05 44:28

Well let me say uh good morning and good afternoon to everybody. And stay safe and keep smiling. And thank you so much. We'll see you in part three.

Music History Nuggets & Reflections

SPEAKER_01 44:42

Thank you so much, Murphy. And uh again, uh there's going to be a part three. Now I'm gonna put more links into this um episode. Last time I only put the email, but I will definitely have more links where you can go and check out Murphy's work. I mean, he's got a lot of he's got a vast amount of work. Oh my God. You know, so I will put more links in there than instead of just the email. So when you guys are on a break or whatever you're doing, you have enough time just go and check out his work online. So again, thank you so much for you know allowing me to, you know, tell just some of your story because you got such a great story that it's really hard to just tell it in a podcast. It needs to be a movie because it's such a it's such a it's such a great story. I mean, that's you got a great story here. And then when you talk about your kids, they they're talented too. So this is well, we can all learn something from you starting your life story. You know, we can all learn something from your life story. You're gonna mistake something. Go ahead, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_05 45:55

It's like the continuing saga. Every day, every single day, I'm drawing something new. So you have to stay uh on top of things. And if you check out my Facebook page, you'll see just about every day I post something new for everybody to see.

SPEAKER_03 46:13

Right.

SPEAKER_05 46:14

Like I say ever drawing. Stay safe.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

Yes, and you stay safe too, Murphy, and I truly again thank you so much for for your time. You have a wonderful, wonderful day, and thanks again.

SPEAKER_05 46:31

Thank you, Regina, and I sure appreciate it. Bye for now.

SPEAKER_01 46:36

Bye for now.