Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - PART - 3 * One Thing Leads To Another As Murphy Elliott Rebuilds A Life, A Career, And A Legacy

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

Fan MailA cross-country move on the morning of 9/11. A dilapidated mansion that becomes a $7 million showcase. A cosmic art portfolio that lands on NASA and SETI’s radar. We sit down with artist and master painter Murphy Elliott to unwind how steady craft, service, and curiosity can turn upheaval into momentum.Murphy walks us through the early grind of starting over in Florida with no credit score, then proving himself room by room with custom tints, delicate repairs, and ornate column restorations on Tampa’s Bayshore Boulevard. That trust snowballed into a thriving Plant City practice restoring historic homes and teaching a small crew, including his son and future son-in-law. Nights belonged to canvas, where his space paintings—rooted in freehand precision and the “illusion of detail”—found audiences on early social platforms, at Space Day exhibits, and on a National Space Society banner that toured conferences.Recognition scaled from local features to global platforms. NASA showcased ten of his pieces; SETI Universe named him the number one traditional cosmic artist. His “praying soldier” drawing traveled even farther, appearing on Catholic prayer cards for deployed troops and promoting the Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade each year. We also dive into family collaborations at Dinosaur World, intricate plaster and molding work for the Fantasy of Flight Museum, and portraits of golf legends that led Arnold Palmer to sign and sell prints for his children’s hospital. Between milestones, Murphy shares the small habits that compound—drawing daily, embracing tricky restorations, and saying yes to challenges that stretch skill.The conversation turns candid on AI: how it flatters and frustrates, why he doubles down on freehand craft, and where human judgment still matters most. We close on the throughline that powers his story—a 51-year marriage to Wendy, friendships that spark new ventures, and a working mantra that proves itself over decades: one thing leads to another. If you value stories of resilience, mastery, and art that crosses worlds—historic homes, museums, and the stars—this one’s for you.Enjoyed the episode? Follow and subscribe, share with a friend who loves art and design, and leave a review to help more listeners discover the show.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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I am back with my guests, the amazing, wonderful. gifted, talented, greatest. Oh, my God. I'm just trying to think of all the best words I can think of to describe my guest, Murphy Elliott. And I really mean it. He needs no introduction because there are too many introductions to put behind his name.

He's such a great person. And so he's back with me for part three. And, you know, part one was so, it made me cry a little bit, but you know what? There were good tears because his story has been so inspiring to me and my audience. So he's backed again for part three. So welcome, help me welcome, the amazing genius. And genius should be right next to his name. The amazing, wonderful genius, better known as Murphy is.

Welcome back, Murphy. How are you? Well, thank you very much, Regina. That was such an introduction. I mean, I sure appreciate you and that. And I appreciate you allowing me to tell a bit about my story. It's very nice. I don't talk that much, but I'll try to fill everybody in on what's happened. One thing always leads to another. That's what you said. Remember you said, I don't talk about. very much. You got to fill in.

And I thought to myself, oh, he's going to be talking because he got all these things to tell. Your life is so interesting. You don't find many people with the interesting life like you. I mean, you find people they've got alive. But your life is, it's like one adventure after the next. And I'm really serious about this. It's just like, I can't explain it, but I was listening to, it's just like the

godfather the movie. I'm not saying you the godfather or anything, but part one, part two, part three. It's like every single one of those movies are interesting to me. And your life, it kind of remind me of that, not that,

but it just remind me of, it's like it's such an adventure. It's like you're waiting for the next, like, boy, I wonder when you're going to talk about next. You know, like, you know, it's different. You know, my family members, if my family members ask me questions, then that says a lot.

So I am so thankful that you sign none to let me talk to you because I love your story. It just takes me back in time. It's like, oh, my God. So, yeah, sorry, I get started sometimes. I can't stop, but go ahead, Elliot. Go ahead, Murphy. I'm sorry, go ahead, Murphy.

That's funny because my whole life, even when I was in, school. They asked me, is your name Murphy Elliott or Elliot Murphy? I've always gotten that. I'll start talking about when I left Canada and came back down to the state to Florida, which I'd never been to Florida before, but my family was here. And the day that we were headed back, we'd already packed up all her stuff, sold the house and all the other things. It was the same day that the Twin Towers came down. Oh, I remember that. I remember that.

Yes, I think everybody remembers that. Anybody who was alive then anyway. Right. There's so many kids now that haven't witnessed any of that stuff. Yeah, I know. My grandson is 12 and he hasn't. he doesn't know much about anything. Right.

Well, I remember that day. That was, I mean, it started out just like a regular day. It was wonderful day. And then suddenly, and it was sunny here. The sun was shining and everything, but it just took some reason, even though it was shining, it turned dark. Oh, it was that, I don't know. Boy, yeah, I remember that.

Well, we had loaded up a giant U-Haul truck, and Chris and I were headed down driving the truck across country. But Wendy, my wife was going to fly, and they held her up. They wouldn't let her fly down on that day because so much was happening, and she had to wait a few weeks before they would let her come down. Wow. That was kind of strange. But my brother, Joe, and his wife, Sandy, put us up in their house until we could get settled.

Of course, we had nothing. we had to buy a car, I had to find a job, and buy a house. And that wasn't easy because we had no credit score. When I left the States in the 70s, there was no such thing as a credit score. So even though they bought and sold three houses in Canada, they said that didn't count. Wow. Yeah, no credit is. even if you got all your credit, even if you got great credit and then no credit,

it's just bad, it's almost bad credit. Well, that was it. It was difficult to buy a house when you had no credit score. But we did manage eventually. But I found a job in Tampa working with a company with a large crew. And that was different for me because I'd always run my own company and work for myself. So it was a little different working with somebody else. But I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it. And they got a big job in Tampa they were starting. It was a mansion on Bayshore Boulevard. It was a million-dollar house, and it was a really, really old and run down. The Bayshore Boulevard is an exclusive. area in Tampa Bay. But they had eight painters working for them when I was hired on. And in a very short time, the customer requested that the crew do the outside and they

wanted me alone to do the inside work. Wow. So they had any custom tent. I had all my own tenters and everything. and I custom-tinted every room in the house for them. I did all the repairs and everything. And they paid just over a million dollars for it, but it was pretty dilapidated.

But I made it look gorgeous. That was on the inside of the house? Yes, I did every room inside. I did all the kitchen cabinets, everything. I just made it look beautiful. I did do some work on the outside. They had four columns, big tall columns. Oh, my God.

Some ornate designs, but they were all worn away and dilapidated. So I took wood filler and I recreated the columns, the ornate design at the top of them and painted it all out. So they were like brand new again. Wow. matched the paint. A year later, they sold it with $7 million

that house. Seven million? From one million to $7 million after you finished. And just over a year. Oh, my God. That is outstanding. But buying equipment in Hungary

at the local paint store here in Plant City. I impressed the manager, employees, and they recommend me to paint an old house in the historic district in Plant City. So I got my business license in there. I started again. I started painting one after another of the historic houses. My name started getting around pretty fast. I had to hire on a couple of employees, gentlemen. And one of them was Christopher, of course, my son because he had experience. Right. My daughter was.

Well, he'd been working with me since he was in school in the summertime and whenever he could. He had a pretty good experience. But my daughter was dating a young man, Randy Stife. And I asked him how much he was making. And he told me, I said, I'll pay you more than that. want to work for me. And he said, yes, he had no experience, but he wanted to learn, and he was easy to teach. And in a couple years' time, he became a very good painter, which is good.

Even after I gave up painting a few years ago, he's still one of my best friends. You're a good teacher, though. I mean, I can't imagine you're not being a good teacher with all the things that you you know, been due before that time, you're a great teacher. I can just see you as a great teacher. I can see that. I can see that. I have thought a lot of guys how to paint.

A few of them went out on their own, which was, that was the idea to teach them how to do that on their own. Right. Some things that I do, like wood graining, you can watch and be amazed, but that's something that takes a little bit artistic skill, marbalizing. Oh, geez, so many special things. I even invented a few coatings that were amazing. Wow. Really, really, really attractive stuff.

Wow. I mean, you went from not even having a job to everybody doing your name in town. Well, that's it. Once they see my work and I was doing some out. in the historic district. And I didn't usually do a lot of outside work. Right. In Vancouver, I did inside stuff, especially stuff.

But I enjoyed it. I sure wears on you going up and down ladders and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I bet. I bet. And no time at all. I was busy enough that I could at nighttime start painting on canvas again. And after I get done working during the day, I get home and I'd start painting on canvas. And I did a lot of space painting originally, of course.

Right. So how many hours that you think it took you to, like, say, when you're painting inside of the buildings or something? How many hours do you think you were putting in, you know, in a day's time? I really, really enjoyed my work. and I really wasn't paying too much attention to how many hours. Wow. What would usually happen on the job

is you get a certain area done and if it was late enough in the day, you'd say, okay, well, that's enough for today and we'll come back tomorrow and carry on with the next section room, whatever it was. Right. The age work sort of dictated how long

I'd work, but I usually work just before the sun would start to go down. Oh, okay. Wow. When it started getting dark, it was time to call it a day. Dedication. Dedication. It's amazing that it didn't really seem like work. Right. And what you're doing. It doesn't really seem like work.

Yes, that's the famous quotes. Can I ask you a question? Did you make up that quote? That's not your quote, right? I just want to make sure because you haven't given it so much, you know. I'm not that old. I always say, I really enjoy work. I could watch it all day.

Okay. Okay, go patent that, because I'm telling you. So, wow, Murphy. So that's interesting right now. I'm telling you already, you just said something that people are going to be like, well, he took a place that was, like, worn down for a million dollars and turned it into seven million. That's amazing.

Yeah, I really enjoyed that. It took probably four months or so working on that job. More than mine. The customers wouldn't let the others through inside to work on anything. They would only allow me inside. working. And that was a very short period of time.

But I had all my own equipment and everything and I was, you know, totally prepared. I'd only done it a few thousand times. Right. Oh, only a few thousand. Only a few thousand times. I thought I was going to say it on a couple of times. Oh, my God.

That's amazing, Marcy. Oh, my God. After a short period of time, a painting on canvas, doing like space paintings. I had gathered quite a, collection, and I started showing them on mine. Early on, it was like MySpace. You remember MySpace?

Yeah, vaguely, but I remember. I met a few celebrities on there. I became good friends with Paul Lynn. I don't know if you remember Paul Lim. He's not around anymore. Oh, yeah, that guy. What a great sense of humor he had. I just love talking to him.

Yeah. But also local sites like the Tampa artists, the talent database. I was on a site called Wet Paint. Or again, I met a few celebrities. And people started writing poetry about me and about my work when I was on that site. It was interesting. And probably one of the more famous people that I talked to when I was on that site was So, wait a minute.

Mine's going, Frank. I sort of wrote down some of this stuff. Okay, but we'll just keep right on going. I'll remember his name later. Okay. It'll come back to you. It normally comes back later. Oh, I'm sure.

I was on another site called Wet Paint, which suited me really well. Yeah, I've heard of that. Wet paint. I've heard of that. It's not around anymore. I created my own website, and I called it my friends and fans. Then I met quite a few people, made quite a few friends on there, and showed a lot of my work on there. And then, of course, finally I got on to Facebook, which was one of the last ones, and I post, still to this day, I post a lot of my work on there.

Oh, you got a lot too, because you do this every day. Every time I look over at your page, you're something new. I'm like, wow. Well, that's because I'm constantly drawing. I do something new every day. It's rare, but I have quite a collection that I haven't even shown because I don't want to show too many at once. Yeah, oh, my gosh.

So I joined Plant City's Artist Association, and I did some advertising for them. And I was asked to display some of my work at the downtown Bruton Library. And that led to display for the Space Day exhibition. And that led to creating a large banner for the National Space Society, their conference. And they showed that in several cities. They carried that around with them. Wow, that's pretty big. That's pretty big.

Yes, it was a big, big banner. I used my crying robot in that banner. You're crying robot? Yes. My crying robot. He's looking up the window and in the reflection, and you can see the tear coming down in space. And that led me to doing some drawing for their calendar,

the National Space Society calendar, and I did a drawing called Inside Orbital City, where I drew a city that went through, 360 degrees around inside of the asteroid. Right. And that led to doing a drawing of Sally Ride for the internet location. And I'm quite pleased with that. Wow.

And then the whole website picked up that and wrote an article about me and featured six of my paintings. on their website. And any artists. I'm sorry, I'm over here just thinking to myself this story. I love it. I just love it. I'm sorry.

I'm biting in, but I can't help it. I'm like, I'm over here just thinking to myself, like, this man is something else. Well, it's one thing leads to another. It's just amazing how it works. But the NASA website wrote an article about me and displayed 10 of my paintings. And then SETI Universe wrote an article and displayed a lot of my work. And they named me the number one traditional cosmic artist in the world today.

Wow, number one. That was a few years ago. I know. Still. And then I had the local newspapers, the focus magazine, and the Plant City Observer. They did full paid spreads about me and my work. Boy. That's amazing.

I'm just sitting here thinking about how amazing that is. That's a lot of publicity, if you will. Exactly. It's amazing, mercy. Oh, my God. I can take a drink on that. You hear a little noise. I'm taking a drink.

I'm 13. That is amazing. Oh, my God. Who gave me too. My dogs are being quiet. Oh, the dogs are quiet. The cats are quiet right now. They're not keeping any noise to snake on.

After the articles in the local paper, that led to a commission for a local tourist attraction at Dinosaur World. And they added some new additions to their complex. And they asked me to do some painting for them, dinosaurs. And I

drew about 40 prehistoric dinosaurs and other creatures. Oh, man. Christopher helped me paint the background. Oh, really? Chris paints, I mean, He paints too.

I know he Chris paints too? I mean, like, yeah. Okay. Oh, I'm a lot. So he can paint like an artist as well. Oh, my God.

My daughter, Samantha, helped me paint some of the dinosaurs. Here you go, Samantha, you guys. And that was a nice job. That was the first job where I got a chance for both of my kids helped me work, which was really, really nice.

I enjoyed it, and Samantha was just delightful to work with. Right. I drew it all out, and she helped me paint like she did most of the woolly mammoth. She did mostly painting, the woolly mammoth, and that was good. So I went from futuristic painting to prehistoric paintings. Hey, Samantha is historic, you guys. You're listening to Samantha? is his beautiful daughter who's talented as well, gifted as well.

So I just want to throw that in there. And that's about the time period that I did the drawing of the praying soldier. Yeah. It was reviewed by many, many venues all over the world. I was really surprised at how far that drawing reached. Yeah. I told you once before. The Catholic Church used it for prayer cards.

They put two prayers on it, and the soldier on one side. And they gave one to every soldier that was being shipped overseas. So it was quite a problem. And the New York's Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade uses it every year to promote their annual parade. To this day? To this very day? Yes. Every year they use it to provide.

And then I got published in the Forbes magazine. Now, it was a little strange because they used one of my paintings as an April Fool's Day joke. They had one of my paintings, and they offered a holiday destination in space. If you wanted to apply, it was an April Fool's Day joke. Wow. He published in Forbes is quite an honor. And where I shop,

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accessories, and so much more. Shop dot dynamosperception.com Elevate your vision. Tell them I sent you. Wow. Now, Murphy, back to the praying soldier,

that, I believe I remember hearing you say, that was something that you were really proud of. That was you most proud of. And still, I have the original on my wall in my studio. Oh, wow. Wow. And I saw many, many, many prints of it, but the original I still have. Wow.

Did I see that yet? Oh, I want to, is that on your page? Do you have that on your page somewhere? Not at the moment. I think I didn't message you the prayer card, but it's pretty small. Okay. You can buy them online, and the Catholic Church does sell them online. So you know what you want, which is nice.

They use the money for good things. I'm not Catholic, but. Right. That is amazing. I've just, you know, I'm just blown away here. I mean, it's like unbelievable. I mean, your life, you know, it's okay if another person toot your horn. So your life is just, you know, your life is just,

It's so interesting. It's everything you say is like interesting. It's not a dull moment at all. It's just interesting. I mean, just everything you spit out is like so interesting. Oh my God. So. Life is like that.

One thing leads to another. Now, I have a couple friends online. One is Evan Paul Kuceris, and he's Canadian. and Mona Hare, and they both created a musical video of my paintings for YouTube. And you can see them on there. But they are both, I like them both. Yeah, I have to look them up. I have to look them up.

There's a gentleman called David Harris, and he wrote my biography, which is on my Fine Art America site, and he created a documentary. which is on YouTube about my house painting and my artwork and it's a master painter

right I remember watching that yeah yeah I have trouble watching it watching it watching myself oh no yeah

because some people don't like to watch themselves or listen to themselves but it's very interesting I had fun drawing. I did like 50 targets for the gun range, and I had fun drawing them. I did like dinosaurs and all kinds of things that you'd want to shoot.

But I did 50 of them. And I packaged it all up for sale. Why? I'm not sure how he found out about me, but a gentleman named Kermit Weeks commissioned me to do, Sorry, excuse me. Get your water there.

Get your water. He commissioned me to do some work at the Fantasy of Flight Museum. And I did a lot of work in his office. He had up in the ceiling about 15 feet up. He had a huge, huge skylight that had a gold frame around it. But it was made up. of a plaster and painted gold, but it was beginning to fall down. Wow.

So he commissioned me to redo it. So I made all of it have a plaster. I made each individual leaf on it, created the mold, and then created them, and then painted it all gold, and re-indulved it. And it's beautiful. It's like eight foot around. Wow, I bet that is beautiful. And he had me do, in his library, he had me do chevrons, which once again, I created a mold and created the chevrons. And they had five levels on it with each one of different colors.

So I have five different colors. And I made about 200 of them. Wow. And installed them. And in this entryway in the museum, I did the same thing, different colors, but I created Chevrobs. Once again, I made the mold for them and created Chevrobs and painted them, different colors, but I guess I did.

Maybe 150 or so with those for the front room. And then, of course, he had me painting several rooms in the museum, of course. Right. His library and the break room and a few other rooms that were displaying airplanes and stuff. I wanted to do some of the airplanes, but I never got that far. But can I ask you this? I don't know, it may be too personal, but being a painter like you are and an inventor like you are, I was just imagining your house

got to be a very colorful place like really cold just everywhere Is it? I mean it's just Probably a crazy question But I just I don't know it's just in my mind

It's in my head right now I just imagine your house On the inside being a very colorful place Like different beautiful colors Different rooms Different colors Okay my house up in Vancouver We had a floor of

house. And yes, I did all kinds of fancy stuff. But here in Florida, it's kind of average. I have some accident walls and stuff. But I have paintings and drawings on every wall. Wow. Of course, I've drawn every member of the family. Mom and kids, everybody. I've got drawings with all the family members. I don't think there's anybody that I haven't drawn. on a picture of. And like I say, every wall is full of the drawings and paintings.

That's what I was wondering. Right there. You answered it. Oh, my God. I bet that's gorgeous. Well, it keeps inspiring me, especially in my studio because I had paintings

enjoy around my studio and I just look around and I get inspired to do something else. You know, that's kind of the way it is. And, uh, There was a time when I've been golfing since I was in my early 20s.

Okay. I'm not really pro-level, but I got pretty good at golfing. Oh, me. I've drawn a lot of golfers. I've drawn probably eight or nine drawings of Tiger Woods over the years, every since he was a little kid. Yeah, I did see that online. I remember seeing Tiger when he was a little kid.

Right. Nicholson, Arnold Palmer. And Arnold Palmer noticed my drawing. I did of him, and he invited me out to his golf course, the Latrobe golf course. And he bought a draft some of the drawings for me. And he bought a few so that he could find them. That was nice.

Arnold Palmer. He could sell them to raise money for his children's hospital. I was so proud of that. That was really nice of it to do that for me. Yeah. Very nice. I was pretty well wrapping it up with my painting career, but I was nominated or voted in the top 1% endorse for painting

with 200 million subscribers, so that was kind of an honor. Yeah, that is a great honor. That is great. Oh, my God. Did you say million? 200 million subscribers through it. Oh. And they go to me in the top 1%.

That is true. That is spectacular. I've got another friend online. His name is Bill Blair. Now, Bill has played over 200 sci-fi characters. he's in the World Record, book of World Records

to get into it. But he's been on like Star Trek and Babylon 5, Deep Space he's played so many characters and he's become a really good friend of mine online. Right.

Now he's getting it nice when to do a podcast with because I'm sure he's got a lot of stories. Not only did he play a lot of different characters including Frankenstein. But he also worked in the makeup department to help make up some of the characters. Oh, wow. I need to contact him.

He's one of my friends on Facebook. Wow. He's quite interesting. He's done a couple of interviews and stuff, but he's quite in there. He's getting older now and not working with him. Right. But he's a delightful character. Boy, sounds like it.

Sounds like he is. He is. I've done many, many different logos with different companies and fundraisers, such as Save the Animal Society. I've done logos for them. Actually, I had a couple pieces that were published in Russia. I did Yuri Gagarin for his anniversary. Right.

Isaac adds them up. They were published in Russia. They've been published almost everywhere, Australia, South America, of course, England, Europe, the United Kingdom, Germany. I have lots of friends around. I really enjoyed the Russian people. The government has a lot of people about, but the Russian people are wonderful people.

And you realize how delightful they are. Right. Our government is like their government, you know. Right. But Murphy, I don't know about you, but I'm going to get me some more of my little, my minute-made fruit punch right here. So if you hear a little noise in the background, if I'll do it, because I'm posting. So I'm going to take a little drink of my fruit question.

I love that. Last year, I wrote a children's book. A children's book, do you say? Yes. Wow. The tale of two turtles and the terrible tornado. Wow. And it was two little turtles.

A tornado happened and carried one of them away. So now we're trying to get together. So they're walking, trying to find each other, talking all. kinds of animals on the way. And in the end, they finally find each other. But thank you. I didn't see that online, by the way,

too. I didn't see that. What is he? She sent me. I was like, wow. That's very interesting. 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 Swarren, Regina. at gmail.com. And thank you so much for checking out my shows right here at IHeartRadio. Take care. Yeah, well, it's about 50 pages long, and I thought the kids would like it, but I hadn't had it published.

Yeah. I should, but I have. Maybe you will one day, though. Maybe one day. There you go. Maybe one day. So, but I think you said, Chris was a part of that, right? He did something with that too?

You signed? He helped me write it. Just getting reactions from the different animals that the turtles ran into on their way. You know, he helped making it a little humorous in a lot of cases, which was nice. Wow. That's great. I should probably give a shout out to some of the people who wrote poems about me and about my work. Yeah, feel great.

So great. One of my favorite poems is Murphy's Cave of Gold, and I have put that on Facebook a couple of times. But that was Jackie Small, and she's no longer with us, but that is probably one of my favorite. But also, Jackie Ethics wrote several poems. You know, we were right, wrote a few about me and about the praying soldier. Andy Penn and

wrote a few about me which was quite humor Wow Mark Stim wrote a couple of poems as well So I thought I should mention any way to us Very much appreciated

It makes me proud And people know this might work Yeah I always good to give it Like a shout out to like I mean the floor is The floor is open for that You know

And I'm just Oh boy that, I mean, your work, your body of work. As I said in the beginning, I forgot, which I think the last podcast was like, it spans multiple decades, not just like one decade or two, but it goes back. I mean, it just take you all the way back. And when I'm talking to a person, their story, just take me right back to that time. and your story has really taken me each time,

every time you bring up an event in your life, that story just, that whatever you're talking about, it just put me right there. I'm like, it's so interesting. When I was younger, I studied a lot of technical drawings.

I had a degree in architectural drafting. And I would like the technical. end of it, but after I got out of school, I just, I like freehand. You know, a lot of technical drawings I still do, but I do them all freehand. I did a series of robots, and they look technical, but it's just a lot of. A couple weeks ago, I did a bunch of female alien astronauts with spaceships in the background. Yeah, because I think I did see something like that. And in the last couple weeks

I've been doing Halloween witches. Right. That's fun. Yes, and I just did a widge of color, which, again, people accept that they really like that one. Right. I'd rather just throw over a pencil

than add a lot of color. Sometimes I just have to do it. And I was looking at your latest drawings and they're the beautiful. I mean, it's just beautiful. I love the one where the, I think it's like the alien. It's this lady, she's standing out there. She's holding something.

And I love those alien pictures, something about them. They just, oh, I wonder where they ever come to Earth. I'm sure you've heard about the three eye at was such a person. I did that painting back in 2005. I drew it. Or I painted it, actually. back in 2000, I'm a little bit ahead of my time. But I know that I've got a lot of my space paintings.

Once the Hubble came out, it was starting to show things that I'd already painted. Right. I still see it. And I go, wow. Wow. That's amazing. You are ahead of your time, too, because I was thinking about, I don't know how far back the robots go, but I'm thinking you probably came on with the robots before.

Oh, no, I don't think so. My own impression. Like I say, it's the illusion of detail, but if you look really close, hopefully, they're non-functional. Yeah. Well, they look like they're fun, though. I spent years when the Rockam-Sakam robots came out. Wow.

I figured out how to make them more realistic. And I came up with. creating them using piano wire and magnets to be able to, and a joystick to be able to make them bend up, bob weave and all the things to make them more animated. But I used to lay at night thinking about all the details of how to make the shoulder joints and elbows, all that stuff. Wow.

And then I fall asleep. Wow. But then when you wake up, you pick back up on it or you could. the next night, and I did a few drawings, but like I said, again, I never carried it all the way through. And things change. Electronics, I've always thought a mechanical way to do it, and then electronics take over, you know. And nowadays, animation, artificial, CGI, all that, they make it look so easy and so real. Right.

I noticed that the drawings that I've been doing now, I've been drawing. going for my entire life. And I do try to get better at what I do. And I have people that say, oh, that's AI. And I say, well, thank you. AI is getting really good. And I appreciate that. But it's kind of disappointing after spending so many years.

And here AI comes along and boom, a couple minutes, they can't draw what I draw. Yeah. It's a little frustrating. Yeah. I feel the same way about AI. It's like it's okay. It's good in certain aspects. It's all right.

Some people were like, your voice, if I didn't know you'd talk like that, I would think it's AI. It's just like they just came along and just like people can mimic anything. I'm like, I don't know if I liked that too well. But I like some of the things about AI, but not always.

They really don't. And the last few years it has really advanced. but it makes me work harder. Yeah. And the latest thing that's happened is I meant this lady named Regina Sworn. She created a podcast and allowed me to go on it and speak. And it's probably one of the most delightful things that has happened to me in quite a while. Oh.

And I appreciate it very, very much. Well, you are so welcome. It's been a delight. I mean, this might be part three, but this is not part three of us ever, you know, having a conversation again for the audience. Because you don't always come back anytime, anytime, you're welcome back anytime, because your life, your body of work and the things that you've created and over the years, over the decade, decades. Listen good. Not last year, not the year before last, but over the decades. This man, I mean, you need an Oscar, you need an Oscar of life. I'm not going to even say art of life. You need an Oscar of Life.

Hey there, I'm Regina Sorre. I always leave my email in my podcast, but now it's super easy to leave me a message through fan mail. Just press the button and just type away. That easy, guys. So this message is included in every last line of my

podcast. Click fan mail. Send me a message today of your favorite podcast or if you'd just like to send an encouraging word or feedback. I am waiting. Hit that fan mail and I'll get

your message. Thanks a bunch, guys. I've been quite lucky. Every since, I met my wife, my life, everything has gone so well for me and for us, and it's really good. I mentioned earlier, I forgot in the last podcast that when I was in Vancouver, and I did mention it to you earlier, is that my two best friends, Brian, Gale, and his brother, Tony Gale. Brian is the one who talked me and going to Vancouver in the first place. He was a mechanic.

And he saw this broken-down hovercraft. It was built in France, and it had a BMW motorcycle engine in it. Now, what? It's like the airboats here in Florida. Why? Except it had a rubber base of Zodiac, and then it had a spur.

underneath that blew up to make it over. And Brian, he wanted this really badly. But the engine in it, after five minutes of running, the oil would foam up in it and it just wouldn't perform anymore. So we decided to take the whole thing apart. And we got a car engine to put in it. And we re-geared it. Oh, my goodness, did we ever have a lot of fun in that?

Oh, boy. But we could hover off the trailer, cross the parking lot, down the beach, and out into the water. It was fun. It was really fast. You could be 360s on one spot, and even though the water was really rough, we would hover above it and just sail them on so fast, and it was great fun. We spent 13 nights for... several months rebuilding it. And that was just an adventure for a while.

Nothing like those good old days. Brian is the one who talked me into going to Canada, I went to Vancouver. Right. Friends for all those years that I was there. And we're still friends. I don't talk to him as much

as I'd like to. Right. And that's why you met in Canada. That's why you met you the love of your lives. Yes. Now, Wendy, she is from Texada Island, and Texada Island is a small island in between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Right.

To get there from Vancouver, we had to take three ferry rides to get there. Right. And that was exciting. There's a picture over on Facebook. She's sitting there smiling. and such a beautiful picture. We're just sitting there and the big and smile on her face. And I was thinking to myself, wow, that's the woman behind Murphy Elliott.

Yep, yeah, that's the great woman. Wow. She is wonderful. She's wonderful. I love her to death. We've been married 51 years. How many years? 51.

551? 51, yes. and... Oh my God, with a lesson. And we're still in love. Wow. That's the way it's supposed to be, though.

You're supposed to still love that person as if we just got married. Oh, my God, that's so beautiful. 51 years is a very, very long time, so you know that it got to be loved. It doesn't mean it that long. It really doesn't seem like that long at all. It's gone by,

so fast. It's amazing. Wow. But she's supported me all the way. Right. That support means a whole lot. It means a whole lot. Yes. Well, I truly thank you for being a part of this podcast because, you know, once upon a time it was just about musicians, but I wanted to hear other stories.

And your story, never a dull moment. Never. a doll moment with your story. You can sit here and just listen to you. Your voice is so easygoing. It is so relaxed and laid back. It's not too loud. It's not too out.

It's just laid back. Like you just sit there and just listen to it. And I truly appreciate you letting me sharing your story with my audience. Thank you so much, Murphy. Thank you. You're very welcome, and I thank you. And hopefully we got a few more stories left in me.

Oh, yeah, there's going to be more. We are not near done with your story because we cannot be done with your story. Your life is ever evolving, it seems. You know, some stories is like, okay, come back in four years and I'll tell you more. Your story is like one, two, three, four. It's like it keeps going and going and going. One thing leads to another Yes

This is perfect I think we'll end on that notes One thing leads to another Yay Well thank you so much Mercy Oh you know what Yeah go ahead

Go ahead I'm sorry I was going to say Everybody that's listening please Stay safe And keep smiling Yes that's one of the notes We're definitely going to end on but Murphy, is there anywhere, and I'm going to put it in the writer,

but is there anywhere that people can go and check out your body of work, like online or anything like that, that we can tell them? Yes, on my Fine Art America site. Now, I do put the link every once in a while on my Facebook page. And look me up on Facebook. Make a friend request. Yeah. And most time, if you've got something on your page, I can see.

I'll accept it. Right. So there you go. You can't trust everybody. So if you don't have anything on your page, that's kind of suspicious. Yeah, that's probably a fake profile, too. So look them up on the, is it Fine Art America? Fine Art America.

Yes, like I said, it's easier. It's hard. There's so many people on there now. When I first started it on there, it was artists. But now there's digital art and photographs. There's thousands and thousands of people that put photographs that aren't really art. They're just photographs. They're not really artistic, no composition, anything, just photographs.

Right. So it's hard, you know, if you just go there and try to find me. It's not easy like it used to be. Right. Go to my Facebook page. Murphy Elliott.pixels.com. And that'll get you there. That's why America.

Pixels and Twilight Order America is the same. Right. And I'm not going to have like that in the write-up. So if anybody wants to go, and I'm sure you are going to want to go and check him out because he is outstanding. When I say one word, there's not enough. When I say two words, it's not enough.

So genius, though, that's it to you. So thank you so much for being a part of everything. I appreciate it, Regina, and you stay safe, my dear. All right, you too. And we're going to say goodbye on that note. Thank you again for stopping by and listening. That's all I got to say. Thank you so much, Murphy.

You have a wonderful, wonderful day, and I think we're going to say goodbye. Thank you, too, and we'll be talking again soon, I'm sure. All right. Thank you. Okay, bye for now. Bye for now. Okay, that concludes another great broadcast. Thank you so much for joining me for Regina Swaring Audio Series. If you like to be a part of this series, please send me an email at Swarineorgina at gmail.com.

I want to thank all of my wonderful friends, fans, and guests, for 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.