Hello there, my friends, hey, welcome. Welcome to the Pat's Peeps podcast, number 178. I have some interesting information on that, by the way I want to relate to you. I'm looking at my studio windows today, on this, the 23rd day of December 2024, and I can't see a doggone thing out the studio window. You know why? It's not because the window's closed or my beautiful blinds from American River Flooring are closed, but it's dark outside because I'm on vacation and I had my last minute Christmas stuff I had to do today. I think I finally got it all wrapped up and so now I'm home, I'm cozy, it's nighttime, it is 936 to be exact, and this is a. What is this? It's a Monday.
Speaker 1:I love when I lose track of the days when I'm on vacation. That's part of my plan is to lose track of the days. Merry Christmas time. Tomorrow, christmas Eve, I will not. You know, I don't think I'll be doing a. In fact, I know I won't be doing one tomorrow. I don't know, maybe not, maybe you never know tomorrow, maybe, maybe not For certain Christmas, I'd take that, just take that day off, and I know everyone else is.
Speaker 1:I heard a thing today as we talked about my 178th podcast. Two things I want to say about that. Number one, and I mean and I always thank you for listening, a huge thank you I noticed today that this week was my biggest week ever on my podcast, my biggest week ever. It's growing and I just love that so much. I was quite frankly telling some friends and I was quite frankly just so surprised, so happy. You know, it takes a while for things to grow and blossom and you know, to see that many people downloading my podcast really really makes my Christmas.
Speaker 1:And another thing, one thing I learned today about podcasting did you know I didn't know this the average podcast. If you were going to guess how many podcasts like, what is the average number? If someone starts a podcast, how many episodes do you think on average they do? I'll tell you Seven. I said seven, yep, on average Seven. And then they stop and they said this, and I echo this sentiment.
Speaker 1:The reason is is because, of course, as I always say, life gets in the way. You got things to do, challenges to deal with, people have families and such, but the real issue is that it's difficult to do it, to keep it up, particularly like on a daily basis, like I'm trying to do and I love what I do, but to think of content day after day and to do a podcast, it really is a chore man. It's a lot of work. It happens to be work that I love. And for those of you who don't know and I say this every time because we do get new listeners my name is Pat Walsh. I also host the Pat Walsh Show on radio. My radio show is Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 pm on KFPK in Sacramento and it's heard nationally and internationally on the free iHeartRadio app, just like this podcast is. And so you know you have to come up. You come up with content every day. You come up with not just for the podcast but for the, you know in this, for my, in my case, for the radio show too. So but for most people it's a challenge to come up with new content and do it. But here we are at 178 and more downloads than any week since we've started. Here's to you and thank you for that.
Speaker 1:I appreciate that anyone got any figgy pudding this year? Don't they say figgy pudding this year? Don't they say figgy pudding for Christmas? Now, bring me some figgy pudding. Oh, bring me some figgy pudding. Has anyone, just as a random thought. Has anyone ever had figgy pudding? I've never had figgy pudding.
Speaker 1:Quite frankly, I don't want figgy pudding. It doesn't sound like something I'd be a fan of. You know what I think of when don't want figgy pudding. It doesn't sound like something I'd be a fan of. You know what I think of when I think of figgy pudding, I think like with a Fig Newton. I was never a huge fan of the Fig Newton, whatever that mashy figgy stuff they put in that cookie. I mean, if I was desperate for a sweet I might eat that, but like figgy pudding I'm. I told you this is random. I just imagine like a big glop in a bowl of that figgy stuff from a Fig Newton.
Speaker 1:Here is some figgy pudding. No, like fruitcake. I mean, who eats this stuff? People send a fruitcake. I mean who eats this stuff? People send a fruitcake. Now, I mean you can send one of those like it's in a tin. It's like in a tin and you send it. It's like hard as a brick, you know. Hey, thanks for the fruitcake. Yeah, this is going to be delicious. I mean, who likes that stuff? I'll tell you this Darlene with a Y gets a lot of mentions on my podcast. Yeah, this is going to be delicious. I mean, who likes that stuff? I'll tell you this Darlene with a Y gets a lot of mentions on my podcast.
Speaker 1:She's a good friend. She's the president of the Pat Walsh fan group on social media. She makes the only fruitcake that I've ever tried that I like and I only tried it because she made it. And she goes through this special process I don't even, don't even ask me, but, like, takes a long time. And when I say a long time, I think she has to go through this whole process with the fruit. Maybe it takes a month, I don't know. You'd have to ask her. But it's delicious, but it isn't one of these, you know.
Speaker 1:Hey, did you get my fruitcake? Yes, and nor. Here, here it is. Did you get my fruitcake? Yep, I'm about to have this piece here. So figgy pudding I don't need figgy pudding, thank you, they will. They're playing best of on my radio show and I just want to let you know I'll be doing my podcast, though for the most part, with the exception of Christmas Day, we'll be doing the Pat Walsh or, excuse me, the Pat Speeps podcast, as almost every single day, you know, monday through Friday, while I'm off on my radio show From the weekend. Very happy, I'm going to bring it up. Sorry, I got to bring it up.
Speaker 1:My Rams won. Yeah, buddy. Now I know it's not a popular thing to say in this area. Well, I don't even know where you're listening, certainly not in Northern California, where I'm from. It's not popular, but that's okay, I never cared. But the Rams have now won 8 of 10. And Matthew Stafford has 13 and 1. Since he's been with the Rams, 13 and 1 in the month of December. They've won four in a row. They find different ways to win in the freezing temperatures, or in the rain, or in a shootout against Buffalo. Now I don't turn this into a Rams podcast, but that's my team. 49ers lost to Miami this weekend, so the 49ers are done for the year. The Raiders abysmal. Did they win this weekend?
Speaker 1:I don't even. I can't even remember if they won. I paid very little attention to that. Tonight the Packers beat the well who'd they beat tonight the Saints? First shutout of the year, 34 to nothing. So to me, very happy about my football team. And now it looks like they could win the NFC West. I mean, after starting off 1-4, with all those injuries, they could win the NFC West. I mean, after starting off one and four, with all those injuries, they could win the NFC West.
Speaker 1:One of the things I wanted to do on Pats Peeps Podcast 178 is you know, I love the listener content, the things that you guys send to me and I don't always get to it because I get so much, because I get so much and so I can't really get to it all the time. But I thought I would on today's podcast and so I'm going to go down the list of a few people who have sent me some things of interest. We'll see what they are and give you a listen to this. Now. This is perfect. This is from Louise. Louise, merry Christmas, if you're listening to my podcast. Thank you for all of the nice messages and for listening to my show. All the interaction on social media and I mean this with everyone I'm about to mention here who has sent me content. So this is perfect from Louise for Christmas. I'll just play it for you and you'll probably remember this.
Speaker 3:I love this many Christmases ago I went to buy a doll for my son.
Speaker 1:I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man as I rained blows upon him.
Speaker 3:I realized there had to be another way what happened to the doll?
Speaker 1:it was destroyed, but out of that a new holiday was born, a festivus for the rest of us that must have been some kind of doll and at the festivus dinner you gather your family around and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year. And is there a tree? No, instead there's a pole. Requires no decoration.
Speaker 2:I find tinsel distracting this new holiday of yours is scratching me right where I itch.
Speaker 1:Let's do it then Festivus is back.
Speaker 1:I'll get the pole out of the crawlspace. There you go. Classic From Seinfeld, festivus for the rest of us. Thank you very much, louise. As we move on, steve sends me a lot of interesting content. Steve sent me this one here. What is this? This is let's see. Here we go. Let me see Steven, where, where is that? Uh, hmm, maybe it won't play. Now we put just be my luck. Where are you? Okay? Here we are okay.
Speaker 1:This, this is from an interview from Conan O'Brien. This is the legend, the man, the splendid splinter, ted Williams, the great baseball player, talking about and, by the way, rest in peace, ted Williams. You know his head. Remember it's been frozen cryogenically. Remember that. I mean Ted Williams' head. Do you know this? Ted Williams had his head frozen cryogenically, like on Futurama. He's in one of those, his head's in. Anyhow, hi, this is Ted Williams Head, wishing you a Merry Christmas. I'm going to start doing that on my radio show. I'm going to start interviewing Ted Williams' head on certain things. Isn't that funny? You know, you go to Ted Williams' head. I'm sorry, I digress. Here's the great Ted Williams. Rest in peace, sir. Talking about being John Glenn's wingman, here you go from.
Speaker 5:Steve Early early morning, which was going out early before the lights were on and maybe see a truck a little late getting in or some other truck someplace and anything that looked like it was suspicious I hope an enemy truck. This is what you're trying to attack here, right? Well, if they're there, yeah, that's it OK, but Williams and I have to ask you about.
Speaker 1:I'm going to start it over, because you missed the very. You missed the start. Let me try this again. Here we go.
Speaker 6:This you're famous, mr Williams, for taking time off to fight in World War II and then time out of your career to fight in Korea and in Korea. I think not many people know this. You were John Glenn's wingman.
Speaker 5:Isn't that right? I made some flights with John Glenn and I remember the first time I ever flew with him I said we were on an early, early morning which was going out early before the lights were on and maybe see a truck a little late getting in or some other truck someplace and anything that looked like it was suspicious I hope an enemy truck. This is what you're trying to attack here.
Speaker 5:Right, well, if they're there, yeah, that's it okay, but so I'd never flown with John, although I first time I went into the ready room I saw John Glenn and another guy standing in the back and I said I don't know who that guy is. But I said he looks like he is pretty important and he was a major. Then he just had an aura of importance. Yeah, he had the stature and the look and he was just a gung-ho Marine. Do I have that aura, mr Williams?
Speaker 2:No, you want to think about it a little more? Yeah, I want to think about it a long time. Yeah, you were pretty quick with that one.
Speaker 1:Steve. Thank you, steve, I didn't know what was coming there. That's pretty good. Let's see Dolores, our friend Dolores. Merry Christmas, dolores, an outstanding phenomenal what else can I say? Guitarist Dolores is amazing and funny and cool. And Dolores, she sent me this, you know, to be honest, I think it might be more of an ad. I did listen to this one Because I wasn't sure what to make of it. I think it might be more of an ad, but even if it is kind of fun, dolores, thank you, merry Christmas. There was a kid called Johnny kind of fun.
Speaker 4:Dolores, thank you, merry Christmas.
Speaker 6:There was a kid called Johnny. Johnny really wanted for Christmas a MIDI controller, a Piano M keyboard. So Santa bought one for him. But when Santa got the piano M, he was in awe of how cool it is and decided to keep it for himself. And then Johnny was pissed and became a drummer instead delores.
Speaker 1:Thank you, perfect pats. Peeps 178. How are you? Thank you for listening. Thank you for the content. Please keep it. It coming. I like to feature it. Let's see. What else do we have this year from you? Let's go to, let's see, let's see, let's go. Who else sent me some cool stuff here? How about? I mean a lot of you did. Let's try. I just saw it, john. Okay, john sent this to me. Let's see Some of the. Oh, this is pretty quick, this is pretty fast. But okay, I think I'm going to like this, but it's pretty quick by judging looking at the length of it. But here we go, oh wow.
Speaker 2:Do you know why female 49ers fans make the best girlfriends? They never expect to ring anytime soon.
Speaker 1:A 49er fan on an airplane and the flight attendant says this joke. Thank you, flight attendant says this joke. Let's listen again.
Speaker 2:Do you know why female 49ers fans make the best girlfriends? They never expect to ring anytime soon.
Speaker 1:Thank you, john, let's see what else do we have. I'm loving this. By the way, you know what I did? Pat's Peeps 178. I drank my first non-alcoholic beer tonight. I got to tell you. I got a call. I got a message from my cousin, richard, married to my cousin Linda Linda's. My cousin, married to Richard, makes him my cousin. I got a message and he says I'm sorry, I'm smoking this really great cigar. He says, patrick, I got this box at my house and I don't really know what's going on, because it has your name.
Speaker 1:It says it's from Home Depot. It has your name and it's from Home Depot. It has your name. And it came to our address and I'm thinking what on earth? How could that possibly happen? I mean, how could that happen? How could they get my name? I didn't order anything from Home Depot, so how could my name be on a package and end up at your house in Sacramento? That is mysterious for sure, baffling, to be sure. So I had got them a present. I was going to go see them anyhow. So I go down there tonight and sure enough, there's this box and I'm like this is I'm saying you know, this is strange guys now. And they're like this is. I'm saying you know, this is strange, guys. And they're like, yeah, we don't. We thought it was pretty strange too, the whole thing, you know. I said, okay, well, I'm going to open this, so let's open it up, heidor, and I'm looking like wait a minute.
Speaker 1:What a cigar humidor, wait. And then I open it up and it's filled with cigars and a cutter and a cutter and a lighter. And I look up at Richard and Linda and I go wait a minute, I go. You guys must have did this. And they started laughing and they got me hook, line and sinker. Can you imagine that is the sweetest thing. So kind and thoughtful and considerate. And I love surprises. I love when someone surprises me like that. Oh my gosh. And they surprised me. They not only thought of doing that, but they went out of their way to tape up the box, made a fake label, or maybe they didn't make the fake label? No, I don't know where they got the Home Depot. I don't know what they did, but it was so nice. So now I'm trying one of the cigars. So thank you to Richard and Linda.
Speaker 1:And while I was over there they said hey, you want something to drink? Now for me that is yeah, I'd like a cocktail. Sure, give me a beer, sure. They asked if I want a beer. Yeah, betcha, a little Irish whiskey. Sure I have one. They bring me a non-alcoholic beer. I'm like, oh God, I told them. Do you know? I have never in my life tried an alcoholic beer no, o'doul's nothing. So I tried it tonight. It was the first time Anyone had a non-alcoholic beer. You know what it tastes like, and I mean this it tastes like non-alcoholic beer. Seriously, that's what it tasted like non-alcoholic beer. Seriously, that's what it tasted like. It tasted like beer that just didn't have any alcohol in it. So I will say that I actually like the alcohol in my beer. You know, I do actually like the alcohol in my beer.
Speaker 1:You know, I do actually like the alcohol in my beer, so I don't know that I would go back to that. Scott sent me this. It wasn't bad, though. I love this, scott. This is awesome. One of my favorites In terms of underrated guitarists. I would put him at the top of my list. He's in my top favorites. Scott sent me this. It's Robin Trower. Check this out.
Speaker 4:Robin Trower Nations, gonna tumble from the razor's edge First of snow. I promise Rainbow colored lies what you've got beneath the surface. No surprise, it ain't words that will make you.
Speaker 1:My own teacher shall be gone. I appreciate this, Scott, because I've never heard this particular tune and I know most Robin Trower, but let's check it out. I can't wait to hear his guitar guitar solo. Try to fix an answer.
Speaker 4:For those gas to drift. Now take time. Your plates are about to shift. Eating words that will make you Buy your tea to shower. You know I long to eat your shadow.
Speaker 1:Hey shadow electric guitar solo. Oh yes, awesome, scott, thank you. Love that, love that. That was fantastic. Wow. Saw him at concert a few years ago. I've seen him numerous times, always superb.
Speaker 3:Meanwhile, Christmas is my favorite time of year. It goes too quick. But you know, at our house we celebrate Christmas every day and I'll tell you why. Two reasons Number one, we love the Lord Jesus. He was born on Christmas Day. That's why we celebrate. And number two, my sister looks like Burl Ives. And number two, my sister looks like Burl Ives.
Speaker 3:I don't eat good at Christmas, I'll tell you that much. I got a Fitbit on Christmas Eve. I put it on it dialed 911. You know what killed me at Christmas last year, food-wise? The Kentucky Fried Chicken. 12-day Advent Calendar Holy smokes them. Five golden wings had me turtledoving all the way to the bathroom. I guarantee it, I ain't kidding, I could have dropped my pants and dropped a partridge out of a pear tree right there. I guarantee it. Every time I start getting a little too fat at Christmas. So my kids will buy me a Christmas gift to hint around that I'm too fat. You know what they got me last year? A petri dish with flesh-eating bacteria.
Speaker 3:We ran our kids up to the Walmart last year to see the Christmas village up there. We wasn't there more than 10 minutes. Somebody was already running a meth lab out of the gingerbread house. The hell. I mean, I love shopping at Walmart, but, dadgum, that's like a meth maker's paradise in there, ain't it? Walmart's the only store in the world you can go and see somebody buying 16 boxes of cough syrup and some garden hose. Nobody thinks that's weird. You ever shot in Walmart after midnight, Holy smokes, Whoa. They ought to charge a cover charge in there after midnight charging her after midnight.
Speaker 7:We're having a redneck Christmas with traditional possum stew, yeehaw. We're having a redneck Christmas with pork salad and rabbit too, yum yum. Got Paul Newchaw red man and some all brand new spit cup, and I got my wife a new set of retreads for my pickup truck. Ain't he the sweetest thing? Oh, we ain't never seen that reindeer. But we painted the bull's nose red, put a runner under the outhouse and we're using it for a sleigh.
Speaker 7:Tom fool idiots, what are you doing? Sure, I didn't know you were sitting there. Grandpa, merry Christmas. Now you're here. I got you Merry Christmas right here. Come back with that catalog. We're having a redneck Christmas. Tp'd the whole front yard Put big red bows on the hound dogs Turned the lights on in all the cars. I love a redneck Christmas. It's a simple kind of life. You buy one gift and that takes care of your cousin and your wife. I went downtown to see Santa Claus and give a dollar to one of them elves. He goes shorty. So Santa's bringing a man for daughter. After all, she's near about 12. Poor thing she'll be a spinster soon. We're having a redneck Christmas. Hunger stockings on the stove On the stove. Hope Santa brings us big stuff Cause the little stuff falls to the stove, on the stove. Hope Sani brings us big stuff, cause the little stuff falls to the toe, falls to the toe. We's a happy redneck Christmas with homemade moonshine. Eggnog Took a little swig, thought it need more kick, throwed in a little toady frog Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.
Speaker 1:Ray Stevens, larry the Cable Guy, pats Peeps, 178. Yeah, boy, merry Christmas time to you. As I plucked a record out of my rare 45 collection today, I pulled this one out, took a look at it and every time I see this name name it reminds me of a radio story. So I'll just tell you the name of this one, probably a little sooner today, so I can tell the other story. This one is on a blue, a light blue, record label arista records. Pull it out of the sleeve. It is a mint condition, absolutely sparkling, beautiful. Guarantee you never been played. And uh, it's just been sitting on this shelf all of these years and we're gonna play it for you. Uh, this thing's been sitting on the shelf since 1982. If you think about that, I get it counted on my fingers 92, 2000. So you're talking what? 42 years going on. 43 years this thing's been sitting on a shelf. No one has ever pulled it out of the sleeve and said, yeah, let me throw this on a turntable. Until Now.
Speaker 1:This song is the artist's second single released upon his departure from Bang Records to Arista, the first being Cool Night, and the style of this song was reminiscent of such blue-eyed soul groups as Hall Oates, sort of. In that vein, arista felt that some modernization was needed to target an audience whose teenage years had occurred in the 1960s. So they sort of updated the song, which was initially called 55 Love Affair, and they updated it to be 65 Love Affair. Remember it now? Do you remember this song? As Erista pointed out, this artist, I'll just tell you his name, paul Davis. Name Paul Davis. He was only seven years old in the 60s, or I mean in 1955. Too young for a love affair, of course, but was 17 years old in 1965. Perfect for the song. However, even with the title change, the song highlighted many aspects of the 1950s youth culture, including car hops and drive-ins and doo-wop and all of that stuff. This artist, you know, davis' previous hits have been country-oriented, maybe some ballads, but he changed to pop and it worked for him.
Speaker 1:This song and the other song that I was going to tell you about my radio story were recorded at the same time, ranked first and third in terms of this Paul Davis's Hot 100 Peaks. Oh, we had another one too, called I Go Crazy. I go crazy. I used to play that on light 95 895. Davis hated the final song, calling it bubblegum I go crazy, a sellout In spite of its very popular success. He was also discussed, with the commercialization, commercialized result that he opted. He was so discussed, he opted out of his contract with Arista, signed with Razor and Tie Record Company, which he never charted with, never even heard of them. I've never heard of them. So this song released in February of 82. It hit number six for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. In May of 82, spent 20 weeks on the chart and on the billboard in 100 chart and it placed 39 on cash box chart at number 60. This is Paul Davis 65 love affair. Here you go. I was a car hop, you was in the bebop.
Speaker 4:You said doo-wop, giddy-wop, giddy-wop too. All of them changes. You put me through. If I could go back again Well, I know I'd never let you go Back with all my friends To that wonderful Sixty-five love affair. We wasn't getting nowhere, but we didn't care. It was crazy 65 love affair Rocking over, simple and clear. I still can hear, I can hear it. Baby, yeah, well, I acted like a dumb-dumb. You went bad with your pom-poms. We said ooh-la-do, dream-oo-la-do, ooh-wee. Baby, I want you to know If I could go back in time Well, I know, somehow it'd still be mine I wouldn't be so blind to that wonderful Sixty-five love affair. Rockin' Lord was simple and clear. Oh, I still can hear it.
Speaker 1:I can hear, admit I haven't heard this song in a long time. I sure remember it Again. I don't have any license to this music. I'm just exposing it, critiquing it, educating. I'm just exposing it, critiquing it educating.
Speaker 4:Gotta have a reason to play it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, paul Davis had another song. So back in the 90s probably about 92, I would imagine I'm training this guy how to be a radio disc jockey. I was a DJ Light 95 FM, kpay, chico, california all your favorite light hits so we played a demo. Our demographic, I should say, was women 25-54 is our demographics. We played music that fit that demo. I remember at the time, like Wilson Phillips and Heart and Journey and just Michael Bolton and things like that, and this song would get in the mix and I'm teaching the guy how to do radio and I'm teaching him how to back sell.
Speaker 1:Now back sell means you've done a set of music right and you come out like, for instance, that last song right, and you come out like, for instance, that last song, paul Davis. You might say if you played it you'd say, yeah, we heard, uh, rod Stewart, uh, in front of. We started things off that time with Rod Stewart or no, you would go backwards. You'd say, yeah, we just heard Rod Stewart in front of that. It was, you know, the Goo Goo Dolls would name. Prior to that we heard wilson phillips, such and such and such ricky, don't lose that number from steely dan and we started things off that time with um, and then you would give the the song that you played first in the set. I don't even know if radio stations are doing that anymore. I loved when they would do that, because if I heard a song I'd like I want them to back sell it, so I'd know what the song was if I never heard it.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, I'm telling this guy, keith, how to do this. I'd train him, train him and train him and I said okay, you're going to be on your own, you're going to solo. This time he was all nervous Okay, okay, okay. And we had this booth. It and we had this booth. It was only about 10 feet, 12 feet long, very narrow and had sliding glass doors at the back. So I stepped out of the booth behind the glass doors and I watched. I just kept an eye on him and I'm listening to the speaker the speaker above the glass doors and listening to his break and he says something to this effect Well, right there, you heard such and such. In front of that. You know, you know we heard I'm making this a rod stewart heart. In front of that.
Speaker 1:We started things out often. We started things off that time with and he couldn't remember the name of the artist and he goes and we started things up. We started that set off with um, with with. Well, you make the call, remember the nfl? They would do a nfl used to do this commercial for like an ad or whatever. They'd show a play, and then how did it go? And they go, you next, don't you make the call? And he didn't. He couldn't remember the song or the artist. He didn't look at his list. He goes. It's because he forgot. He just goes. You make the call and it was this song, cool Night, by Paul Davis, the same artist that just did 65, love of Love.
Speaker 4:I sometimes wonder why All the flowers had to die.
Speaker 1:I dream about you. And now, it really was commercial, wasn't it?
Speaker 4:And gone.
Speaker 1:Light 95 FM, so. Long.
Speaker 4:Come on over tonight. Come on over, it's gonna be a cool night. Just let me hold you by the firelight. If it don't feel right, you can go. Oh, and the cool night Brings back memories of a good night when this love was not so warm.
Speaker 1:By the way, just to note, you know my record was 65 Love Affair. One side is stereo. The other side of the 45 is mono is stereo. The other side of the 45 is mono. My question is who was looking for a mono version of a song on a 45 in 1982? I mean, I get it when it was the Beatles and the Stones way back. When Tonight come on, over.
Speaker 4:It's gonna be a cool night. Just let me hold you by the firelight. If it don't feel right, you can go home.
Speaker 1:Thank you for tuning in. At the top of the hour we heard um.
Speaker 4:Uh.
Speaker 1:Uh, you make the call Now. That's all I ever think of when I hear this song. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps 178. Have a blessed Christmas. We'll see you after Christmas and before New Year's.