Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - A craftsman builds a life: love found, risks taken, and art that keeps evolving

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

Fan MailA 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.Enjoy the conversation? Follow, share with a friend, and leave a short review so more makers and music lovers can find us.Write To Murphy Elliott https://[e-mail] for 🌟  A message from me to all my wonderful  followers.  Please  feel free to share your feedback. Click fan mail and leave me comments.  The end of my showSupport the showContact [e-mail]

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Now, I have my reasons for saying that, and I just got my reasons. This man has accomplished so much, and you heard in part, one, his story. A lot of you have been listening, as we were talking, Murphy and I were talking before we started the interview, how people, you know, can listen. And a lot of people have been listening, you know, on the job, like my job, work at a hospital, and a lot of people on their breaks, you know, they just want things to do. So 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 he nudging me? And he said, and he pointed. And I still didn't know what he was talking about. And he wrote it down. He said, your interview was on. And he was listening to the interview that I did with Murphy Elliott 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 going to 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. Well, good morning, Regina, and everybody else that may be listening.

They heard the first part. It was when I was a child and grew up and Navy. And I think I ended up where I moved to Canada. Right. My best friend that invited me to go to Canada was from Newfoundland. And I'm not sure if you know about the Newfoundlanders, but they have a dialect, an accent all their own. Oh, boy.

When I got up to Canada, I stayed with them for a while, and he had a lot of brothers and sisters, and they all had a heavy Newfoundland accent, and, of course, they exaggerated it and put me on a bit. I really liked it. So different. But they welcomed me into their house with open arms, and I stayed there for a little while,

but right away I needed to get a job. and get some money. So being an ex-sailer, 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 hall of the big ships that came into port. They put me down in the hole, throwing big rice bags around. And, of course, they weighed almost as much as I did. Wow. But you didn't take long grabbing those big burlap bags throwing them around.

My fingerprint disappeared, and by lunchtime I couldn't even pick one up. Oh, my goodness. It was a nice start, and I made enough money to keep gas in my car and have some extra spending money food and be able to give a little bit of money to Brian and his family. From there, I got a job. I wanted to get into architectural drafting like I learned in school, but I was still new and I didn't know the city all that well. So I got a job with 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. That was long before GPS. Oh, fun. We used the paper map, and I learned my way around the city 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. Wow.

Sounds interesting. It was in there. The city was so big and so beautiful. Wow. I'd never seen anything on the East Coast like that. Vancouver is surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Right. And it's absolutely spectacular.

They have right in the middle of the city is Stanley Park, which is like Central Park in New York. It's almost an island. that sticks out from the city. And it's just fantastic. Boy, sounds beautiful. Sounds like, I've only been to Vancouver like maybe twice in my whole life. Only twice, but always a beautiful place.

Oh, yes, I fell in love with it. And speaking of falling in love. Yes, you know, somebody here's part so much. I love That's where And when I met my wife, Wendy She just arrived in the city She was born and raised

On Texeda Island Now Texeda is a small island In between Vancouver Island And the mainland And she had just arrived She was just graduated a year before and she arrived in the city around the same time as I did.

There was a party, Brian and his brothers threw a party and she was there and that's when we met. Wow. I thought you met his beautiful wives, everyone. This is the love story part. I'm sorry. I love love stories.

Marcia, I love to hear about them, read about them, you know. It was in a short period of time. We got an apartment together in a place called Kittalano Beach. And it was in the city and a beautiful, beautiful beach there. Actually, one year out of Kizalano Beach, we had the bathtub races. Wow. The bathtub races, people made boats out of bathtub.

and we're raised across the Georgia Street to Vancouver Island and back. Okay. Brian and his brother and I, we built a bathtub. And we didn't win, but it sure was a lot of fun. There was a real bathtub, like the tub you take a bath thing? Yeah, that's exactly that. Oh, my God. And we would race them across the Georgia Strait and back again.

But it was a yearly thing that they did every year. And that was the first year I was there. And it was fun. I had to get involved in that, of course. Wow. We made up our T-shirt, so we had our team. And it was just fun. Very interesting, by the way.

Boy. I had to come back to the States to apply to be in Canada legally. So I did that. That took me about a month and a half to get the paperwork. But I couldn't wait. I was staying at my dad's house in Indiana. And I couldn't wait. I had to get back to Wendy.

So I left before I got my paper. Gotta get back to your baby. So when the papers came, my mother called me and said they're here, and my daughter sent 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's my papers. Wow.

That was a little underhanded, but they were. quickly, or easy in Canada went back in the day that was early 70s.

But you were trying to get back because you're in love. Yeah, well, that was kind of it. I couldn't stay away

any longer and I had to. I know. Yeah. So anyhow, I did get another job with a painting

contractor. I thought, okay, well, now I need to learn what is involved in painting in this city. Like I said, I already had some experience in Delaware before I loved 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. And while I was learning the painting industry in the city, Wendy went to dental school. And she learned how to be a dental assistant. Oh, boy. And then, of course, we got married. And 74, the two of us got married. And we got another apartment, a two-bedroom apartment, to save money so we could buy a house.

Right. And while we were in that apartment, we got our first dog. Oh, my dog. His name was Lord Jemaiah LaSeltie, and he was a purebred Shetland for Sheltie. Oh, boy. He was a little fuzzball, and he was so smart. He was incredible smart.

Well, I taught him over a hundred different tricks. Oh, man. He was amazing. It started out. He liked it. tennis ball and I'd show him the ball and tell him sit and that'd be the first trick if you would do it and they'd give him the ball and then lay down, you know, 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 joke. I had three balls and I'd be juggling and he'd grab 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 won it. And I would juggle and he would ignore two of them, but that one ball he would grab. Well, that's a smart, John.

How he knew the difference between the three. I never figured it out because they were so identical, but he was so clever. Loved him to death. He was a great dog. Wow. It's not like a very smart. A genius.

Don't take him crazy. A genius dog. A genius dog, too. He was quite clever. Well, he sounds like it. We did save up our money, and we were able to buy her first house. in 78, and Christopher was born in 79. We said we would wait five years before we had kids, and we did.

He was an arnary little guy. Wow. He totally fixated on his dad. Everywhere I go, he would follow me. He wanted me. He didn't much to do with his mother. he wanted his dad. He's going to be with his dad.

Oh, Chris. He's still like that too today. Yeah, these videos of him painting with you, that video where you guys are painting together, it's like he just right, 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. Yes, when he's, He was old enough. He was in his summer job. He would work with me, of course. Wow. He learned the grade, and it worked out well for him as well.

All right. And I did some of my first paintings on canvas. And I did one painting for a game board. I invented a game called Watch Out for the Asteroids. and I think I heard hold on a second was that major because I think I remembered something like that yes I carved hand carved out all the pieces and it was I had over 50 pieces and I hand painted it at all and made the rules and everything and my friends and I played it for a while it was kind of fun it was a cross between tickers and chess but the chat are

of it, the asteroids, or moving around the board while you were trying to make your moves. So it was quite fun and interesting. I can remember that game. It was back, like I said, around the same time Chris was born, 79, 1980. But I also invented a cardboard spaceship that 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. It looked like a ship, and then on the inside I did all the console and everything, so it looked like a ship on the inside. That sounds like fun right there for the kids. It was quite popular. And I had a meeting with five millionaires from California. And it was like the shark tank is on TV now.

It's kind of like that. Right. Or 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 that I'd send it to Japan and get it made.

But I never did. Whoops. You never, you just didn't let, I mean, in other words, you just let it go or you just. Yeah, I just let it go ahead. And there's things I keep moving along. Oh, I bet that would have been a great thing for the shark tank, yeah. Yeah, well, it's different times, a different time. Yeah, different times.

I also invented at the time or at least designed it. since I had drafting and architectural skills, I designed a bunk bed for kids, for kids' rub. And what it was is the top bunk bed was a flying saucer. And he had all the console in it, put the bed in the middle. But underneath of it, I had like a playroom or a playhouse that you could play in. And then around the outside, I had the desk, dressing table, closet for clothes, et cetera.

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. That was just another thing I invented. All right. I still have the drawings, but once again, I didn't pick it anywhere to get it produced.

Wow. You got these great ideas. Oh, my gosh. God. So I wanted to anybody else come up with the ideas later because it sounds like a lot of the stuff, it just sounds familiar. Hopefully no one stole the idea or anything. Well, in a lot of cases, I don't care. Somebody wants to make it.

I'd love just to see it made and have kids enjoy it. Yeah. That would be nice. At least that's where my head to have. But I got into building remote control. airplanes. Oh, boy. And I love to build them, but when it came to flying, I mean, that's boring.

I just love to build things. Airplanes. They were pretty big, pretty big airplanes I built. So once again, it was fun to build them. And about that time period, I got into bowling. I've been bowling when I was younger, but I just, joined a mixed league of men and women with Wendy, and we bowled for quite a few years with some friends.

And we really, really enjoyed that. We won many trophies. It was amazing. Oh, boy. That was like fun. It was, and I also had another team, men's league, and I had five of the guys that worked with me. I formed my own team.

We were called the chalackers, but it was the men's league, and we had lots of fun. The guys were really good at it. Again, we won a few trophies. I like the name, the chelikers, the chelikers. Well, the name of my company was Generation 2 painting and decorating. The guys that were with me, we got, since I always dressed in, white. Oh, I made all the guys dressed in white when we were pros.

When I hired guys on, I hired them to teach them how to do it so they could go out on their own and do it. I paid them more than they were worse, of course. But eventually they were earned their pay.

They were worth it. 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 their living with me and they just stayed with me, even though I tried to keep them out. Great bod. Right bod.

I see. I guess. I'm like a great gosh. But I did. I tried to encourage them to go out and do it on their own, but some people just aren't meant to do it on their own. they would rather, you know, show up, punch a clock and do their job. Yeah, that's more, sometimes it's easier to do it that way too.

You know, being on your own, at least you know you've got that little comfort zone when you're under someone else. I can understand that. You know where I shop? I shop right online, right from the comfort of my own home. At Duna's perception. For the latest in fashion, clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, and so much more. Shop www.dunumusperception.com. Elevate your vision.

Tell them I sent you. Yeah, and another sport that I got into was, golf. I really, really enjoyed golf. I got really good at it, and I did that for a lot of years. And even after I moved down to Florida, it's played for a while, but it was so hot down here, you know, in the summertime. So I probably gave up calls. So you gave up calls, but you were good at it. You really, and did you like dog? I don't like football and all that if you like it better. Yeah, well, football, like I said, I played at Palph Warner.

I was a little tiny kid and everybody else got big the next year or so, and I didn't. That was time when everybody was growing, but I didn't. Yeah. Yeah. But I enjoyed golf. It was a nice sport, but I also enjoyed building things. and my best friend, Brian, who took me up there, we designed and built an apartment in the basement of his mother's house.

We did that together. And I built a dog house for Jemaya, which I put up on stilts, and it was beautiful, and I had a porch on it. And, of course, I couldn't just go to a yard dog house. I make it really fancy booking. And then I also built a giant shed in the backyard. I put it up on stilts, and there was a big tree in the middle of the yard, so I made a wrap that went around the tree and ended up on 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 60 feet tall. I climbed up in the top of it when we lived on the top of a hill. Can you climb up a tree? All the way to the very top. And I left a note up there for whoever. It 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. Oh, my God. You climbed that tree. Well, I was never worried about heights. I did a job one time on a side hill,

and I needed to rent a 44, 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 was a port sticking out, so I had the ladder leading on it, and then 10 feet above that, the ladder was just waving in the breeze. Oh, my God. But I had to reach out and paint a peak, and I got all the way up there,

the ladder is kind of waving back and forth. And I had a slice strip on the top wrong of the ladder. I dipped my brush into paint, and I reached back, and the top wrong turned. Oh, boy. Yeah, well, my heart was in my throat. I had a place for it on. That felt like it was way on up there, too. It was.

It was just one of the adventures. I did a lot, a lot of painting. I was there. Like I said, I did, when I was there, I did over 14,000 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. I had numbered each one and very started. So I knew how many jobs I'd done over the years.

And I did some really exciting stuff. But it's kind of probably boring for most people. I did an amazing amount of apartments. And I did a lot. Murphy, I'll tell you, you would really be surprised. It's what I said 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 they're like, this is interesting. Your story is not a boring story at all. Everything that you have from beginning to now, 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, it's been about a month ago now, I think, the first time you started talking and you start telling you a story, I was just sitting there, listening like, I can believe, I mean, I was so gripped to the story, believe it or not,

you didn't start talking about it. Yeah, it's maybe like in a minute or something. I was like, yeah, this man, yeah, I got to get his story. Because I know what people like to listen to. And your story has not been boring from the beginning up until now, I promise you. So I'm just listening to for every second you can tell me of waiting. for it, believe it or not. You know, it's so interesting.

You've never been scared of heights. It's good. I'm scared of heights. I really am. But that's... I one time... I one time lassoed the cross on the top of a steeple of the church.

I lassoed it and climbed it and painted it one-handed, holding on to the rope with the other hand. Wow. But I did a lot of murals. over the years for, I get a lot of like in pools and dolphins on the walls and things like that. Probably my most interesting was 1986, Vancouver

had the World's Fair, 86 World Fair, Expo 86 it was called. and I was invited to paint a couple of pavilions at the World Fair. And I did the exterior of the GM building. And then I did the exterior of the Ramsey's Pavilion. And when I was doing that, they asked me if I would do some 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 displays. And that was fun.

That was 1986. It sounded like fun. It sounds like fun. The one thing that's going to stand out with people here, I already know it, but you climb me that tree. Boy, I can already hear the people now. You climb that tree. 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 going to be talking about that tree. It just already knows it. But, oh, my God, you're so talented. 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 would climb that tree. Who else would climb that tree?

Yeah, that would be the second one because you did it first. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. So what was Chris? Was Chris around all this time when he was climbing trees himself? Was he around? Oh, yes. He was quite little.

Yes, he was quite little. He liked to hide behind things and jump out and scare his dad. Wow. He got me a few times. So I decided I'd get back at him. And I had a rubber mask I put off. And I went around the house to the front door. He was in the living room.

And I knocked on the door. And he looked out the window, but I was tucked so he couldn't see me. He opened the door and I went, and he started dancing and spot. And he ran over to his mom and started hugging her. So he didn't jump out and hear me anymore after that. Right. Wow. Oh, Chris.

I was just wondering where he, you know, was, you know, because I know he's always right there with you, like he said. So, like, yeah. Hello there. I'm Regina Sworn. Thank you so much for enjoying my podcast, stories, live true stories. people from all walks of life. If you are interested in being a part of my show, my podcast, please write to me at sworn

Regina at email.com. Now, stories from all walks of life means I cover everything. That's religion, politics, everyday life, music. You know, once a point of time, I just covered music, but now I cover everything. So again, contact me at Swerin Regina at gmail.com. And thank you so much for taking out my shows right here at IHeartRadio. Take care. Yes, we did a lot together, everything.

He was there with me. I tried to include him to everything. And his mother, you know, 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. Oh, I was about to ask about Samantha. Wow. Well, I decided we only had it once, and 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. Wow. Her name is Samantha Joanie. Chenice? Joe Nees. I made that up myself. It's from my brother Joe.

And my sister's name was Chenice, J-U-N-I-C-E. Oh, wow. Her first name is Samantha. Now, I was for. going to name her Stephanie after my brother Steve. But at the last minute, I changed my mind. I decided I like Samantha better. That's pretty, though.

It's very pretty. She's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Yes. And we have a grandson. Oh, why? 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 animation. He's quite clever. He's a straight A student, and he's quite clever. So that's nice. 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.

I have to give Samantha credit because she's quite intelligent as well, and she was extremely good in school. And she's quite attentive. And the job that she has now, she works for a graphic part. company. And she's basically running the business now. So she has quite a bit on the

ball. I'm quite proud of her as well. Right. And of course, you know my son. He is so musical. He's just talented. I get the privilege to listen to him every day. He would melt most people's faces playing

local with local bands and stuff. They will stop and just their jaw drops. When he's playing. Great. Wow. He doesn't play too much in public anymore, and I wish he would because he is so good. Yeah.

And I always tell everyone, you hear the intro to the show. That's Murphy's son playing that music that was created, I believe, about 10 years ago. I believe it was. He's done so much sense. And I like some of his songs better than other, but he writes it all. He does all of the instruments on it. He does everything except the drums.

And he uses 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 he'll add a drum track to it. Right. And I've heard this song about him, Samantha, I think it was a Jefferson Airplane song. I think so.

Yes. It's so beautiful. I heard it. I think he said a little bit, in my own opinion. Yeah. If he hears that out there, I don't say, what, Dad? 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.

And I was like, oh my God, this one of those, she was the 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 enjoy it. Well, Panetta can sing really good.

She has a really pretty voice. I don't think that was her best. Right. She had a really pretty voice as well, and she played the guitar. She plays the cartel? Oh, yeah. Man, Murphy, your kids are equally intelligent. This is just amazing.

For all your parents out there with young kids, when they were just babies, I put headphones on them and put on some music, and they are inspired right away. 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. Yeah, real headphones, yeah. Like the big ones 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, do you think you're putting your ear? I have one of those big things on my ear and people are kind of laughing, but I just like for it to cover my ear. It just sounds, like you said, sounds better to me. You know, so.

Back then, we listened to LPs, records, and that kind of stuff. And now, they're like MP3 files. Right. 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 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. Yeah.

I love those. The other generation has learned a lot of the music that we had. I'm noticing that they're hearing things for the first time that we grew up with, like the Bee Gees. It's amazing how many of the kids have never heard the Bee Gees. Yeah, that's that funny? I mean, God. You know, oh, that. When they hear them, their jaw drops, they go, wow.

But so many artists back then were really, really good, and the kids haven't heard them. They don't know about them. We're just kind of sad. I was playing a song, one day, for a guy by heart. And he's like the same heart that played for, you know, at the Kennedy Center

is the show. I played one of their songs from the second album and I played the actual vinyl and the guy, he couldn't believe it. He's like, I'm going to go play this more and more. He had never heard the song before. It's unbelievable.

I've seen them live in Vancouver the same day their first record came out. Oh, really? At the time they were going beetle covers. So

it was interesting. Did you know that Tommy Chong and that's a son and Tommy John

was in a band with Jimmy Hendrick. The two of them were in a band in Vancouver way back in the day. Most people don't know that Tommy John and Jimmy Hendricks played together.

Wow. Okay. Boy, you're doing a lot of music history there. Let me show my age now. No, but it shows how much history you got as far as like creativity as well, music and all the other stuff, you know. We all need to know this.

I mean, know some of it, but we all, my audience, if they don't know it, they're interested. They need to know. I need to know more. I mean, your story is interesting, Murphy.

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 part one and part two is good enough. And that's going to be in part three. Okay, well,

part three is going to be. You know, part three. I've been in, I just stayed in Canada for all. almost 30 years. And I loved it. It was absolutely gorgeous. I had 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 not going so well. So I decided, okay, it's time that I packed up everything and moved to Florida where they were. So in 2001, and it's kind of funny, that's the same day the towers were hit by the plane of the day that I was headed back. Oh, boy. It's kind of funny because they just finished the tower when I moved to Canada.

So it was kind of ironic that those two things will happen more or less at the same. time. Right. Anyway, part three is I moved to Florida, coming back to the States, and that's when the internet took off and I got on the internet and started showing some of my artwork and got involved with the natural space society, steady universe, the Hubble Telescope, site, Paul put my paintings on their sites, etc. I started to get well-known for my space art.

All right. So that's going to be part three, and there's a lot of things that happen when I got down here to Florida. So maybe it'll be interesting. We'll let you guys decide if it is or not. Well, you know, it's so great. Well, let me say 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. Thank you so much, Murphy. And again, there's going to be a part three. And I'm going to put more links into this episode. Last time, I only put the email, but I would 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 would put more links in there than just the email. So when you guys are on your 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 great story.

I mean, you've got a great story here. And then when you talk about your kids, they're talented too. So this is, we can all learn something from your life story. You know, we can all learn something from your life story. You're going to mistake something. Go ahead. I'm sorry. It's like the continuing saga.

Every day, every single day I'm drawing so much. some new. So you have to stay 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. Right. Like I say, everybody's safe. Yes, and you stay safe to Murphy.

And I truly, again, thank you so much for your time. You have a wonderful, wonderful day. And thanks again. Thank you, Regina, and I sure appreciate it. Bye for me. Bye for now. Okay, that concludes another great broadcast. Thank you so much for joining me for Regina Swaring Audio Series.

If you'd like to be a part of this series, please send me an email at Swarind Regina at gmail.com. I want to thank all of my wonderful friends, fans, And yes, but being a part of this show. Most of all, I like to thank the Lord. Until the next time, take care of yourself and be safe.