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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep.34 Pat Walsh Discusses Chuckles, Cheers, and Community Shoutouts with a Sports Spin
The podcast celebrates the past with a mini-pod series and a tribute to local businesses. Sports enthusiasts are invited to enjoy lighthearted commentary on the Dodgers' lineup and the NFL's wildcard frenzy. The session explores Sean McVay's coaching prowess and the use of "super" in sports branding. The podcast concludes with a heartfelt request to share the laughter and insights with someone special. Tune in to the Pat Walsh Show for more entertainment.
That is this podcast 34 of Pat's peeps. Welcome to the Pat's peeps podcast. Yep number 34. Boss, number 34. Thank you, how are you? Hey, thanks for, thank you for finding my podcast. However you're doing that, thank you. Are you just picking up your phone and then talking into it and saying, hey, siri, or whatever? Again, find the Pat's peeps podcast. Is it coming to you through the iHeart app? Are you getting it on Spotify? Where are you getting it? I would be interested in knowing. But wherever you're getting it maybe you're getting on Pat's peeps com it is the Pat's peeps podcast. Wherever you're getting it, wherever you're streaming it. I thank you, and you know we've only been doing this what just under, I don't know, just under two months, I think something like that.
Speaker 1:Since it came back from Italy and we have it's catching on, I'm getting all kinds of people saying, pat, I'm really enjoying the show and I thank you for that. Thank you so much from the bottom of my little heart. If you would do me a favor and just let your friends know that you heard a good podcast. I know people always want to. You know they want to say, hey, have you heard this podcast or have you seen this on Netflix. I'd love to be in that group, like if you say, if you just want something lighthearted, like the guy's not a, you know he's not going to get technical on any certain area and tell you how to fix your car or anything like that or how to bowl better or whatever, but we just chat and that's that's the same thing we do on my show.
Speaker 1:I am Pat Walsh, host of the Pat's Peeps podcast and host of the Pat Walsh show, as heard every night, monday through Friday on your iHeart app and at KFBK in Sacramento. So I'm very proud to say that here on this day, january 12th now of 2024, we are doing podcast 34. We did two yesterday as if three hours isn't enough, and then you get it in us another 30 minutes or whatever. But you know, and I'm hoping the length of the podcast are okay. I've had good feedback on that as well. Feels about right to me. But yeah, number 34, and it's a. It's an overcast day today, it's. Last night it was mighty, mighty cold, still not that warm out there, but the rain has stopped. It is overcast. I guess the rain will come in tomorrow, then maybe next week we'll have a little bit of sunshine. So that's where we are as I look out my beautiful studio windows here in the foothills of California.
Speaker 1:I did get an interesting comment from Bill Cabernet Bill I believe it was you who. I was checking some of my messages regarding the podcast and Cabernet Bill, what did you say on here? Something about something to the effect that he likes the evening podcast, like when I do it in the evening trying to find what he had to say, but he likes the ones when, for some reason, when I do it the evening, I'll just cut to the chase and sort of give you a synopsis of what he said. But Cabernet Bill said, I don't know, after Pat gets home, after his broadcast. And he said and he, in the quotation marks, relaxes wink, wink. Thank you, cabernet Bill.
Speaker 1:Apparently there's a different feeling too. I don't know what it is. I don't know what the feeling, the different feeling, is, but I love the feedback, you know. I mean it's meant to be an intimate podcast, obviously, where we're just chatting and I'll be adding new elements as we go along, but that's what we're doing right now, and then we're going to be supporting the local businesses, like I always tell you, hey, and then, as if that isn't enough, my goodness, like Pat, that's. You know what I feel like. Sometimes I tell some, tell some of my friends, I feel like I'm, you know, the Truman Show with Jim Carrey, whereas whole life seemed like it was on like a broadcast. Sometimes I feel that way, just not on TV, I just like the audio waves. Man, I love being on the radio, I love talking.
Speaker 1:I've always loved audio, ever since I was a kid, when my two favorite gifts that I had in life, my two favorite possessions, were my baseball mitt and my cassette recorder, so that I couldn't believe I could have this little cassette recorder. Back in the day, you know, in the 60s and 70s, you hit, play, record and it could record your voice. Man, you combine that with my Ma's record collection that I tell you about all the time. That was, that was a recipe for disaster, you know that was. That was the perfect environment for me just to have this natural appreciation for audio. And so I've got another little thing that where I'm going to be doing it's just one of my mini pods and I'm going to be releasing several of them at once so you can just kind of listen and and it's essentially what I do at the end of each one of my podcasts here, when I pick a record from the collection and I play it at the end of very rare record for my collection, from my 45, so it'll be just like one record at a time that I describe and, you know, just a lot shorter. So be looking for that as well.
Speaker 1:And the small businesses and whatever else we got in the works, which I have. Some things can't wait. We just, you know, sort of work it in as we can. Let's see what else do we have go. Oh, yes, I got a hilarious message message this morning. You know I love my local businesses that I support and Don, who is the owner of American River flooring, and I know many of you have used American River flooring. You've gone in there. They're 8510 Madison Avenue and Fair Oaks and you've mentioned, you know, pat sent me me. That's old school, they used to say that way back when. I say it now because because I want the people to know where they're advertising. You know whether they're advertising dollars have worked or not. If I'm doing a good job, I want people to go in and go. Yeah, pat sent me. I heard him on the radio. Same thing goes here, by the way.
Speaker 1:So, don, they're getting ready to do, they're getting ready to do some work in my home, some more work. I mean, they've literally transformed my home home. So when Don and Jeremy I don't Jeremy just thought about that anyhow, I quickly digress there my mind went elsewhere for a moment, which is really weird, by the way, don. Never mind, never mind, uh, anyhow. So, don, when they're up at my house, they're getting ready to install some new bathroom stuff, like a new tub, new shower, some tile. It's gonna be Just outstanding. I cannot wait. This is going to happen soon and they're going to do some stuff in my kitchen, some backsplash, some of this. You know, this brick looking kind of wall, look that I'm looking for. It's just, they just do a great job, anyhow.
Speaker 1:So he says to me when he called hey, pat, listen, we're looking at your bathroom in there, and Jeremy says he says who works at American River Flooring? He says, listen, you want us to pull that phone out by the toilet and you want to leave that phone there. Now I got a good chuckle out of that because, listen, I did not install a phone by my toilet. There is no phone by the toilet. However, there was a phone jack by the toilet, and so you know it immediately occurred to me. First of all, I said, no, I don't need the phone by the toilet. You can go ahead, you can patch over that, you can paint, do everything you're going to do, make that area as just as spiffy as I know you're going to make it. And it initially occurred to me that and I said this to him and we had a little fun at this.
Speaker 1:I even mentioned on my show, I think you know why do you have a phone by your toilet? I mean, are you on the toilet? Are you using your phone? Hey, how's it going, bob? Or you're taking a leak or something? Hey, julie, how's it going?
Speaker 1:That's my initial thought, coming like and no offense when I say these things, because maybe you do this Like I don't get talking, even on your cell phone. If you're doing your business, I don't need to talk to you while you're doing it. Some moments should be sacred. They should be left to just to yourself, to do your thing. I don't need to be a part of all of that. Just like, I'm not going to call you. I got a little rule I'm not doing that, so don't call me when you're on the toilet or going to the toilet. And so I thought you know, if you're reading a newspaper, jeez, I mean, I know people don't like that You're reading a paper in there. I always thought, jeez, if you're reading a paper in the toilet or a newspaper like a magazine, or you're scrolling on your phone, you need to go to the doctor because something's going on. They should not take that long. You get in there, you get your business done Anyhow. I don't want to go too deep into that Now.
Speaker 1:So Don sends me this message this morning, cracks me up. He's like Pat, listen, I'm at a customer's house right now and the customer she's, she's recording Don, who's sitting on a toilet, fully closed, the clothes, the toilets close. He's just goofing around and he says, yeah, and this lady here, pat, she has a state that you do. She's got a telephone by her toilet. So he picks up the phone and he says so, I'm doing my. So I'm doing my business as the owner of American Refinery while I'm doing my business. You know, very nice, don, thank you.
Speaker 1:So you know I, as I wrap that around my mind and I thought about that initially after we talked about that and I had a little fun with it. The next day it occurred to me. Now this has nothing to do with Don, because it was a fun message and I mean, listen, he, we're all about local business here and that's not a commercial for them. I'm just telling that's how down to earth these people are and they're really good. But you know, if you're looking for flooring and all that, but I'll tell you the phone thing by the toilet.
Speaker 1:I do have a recollection of someone telling me, and this individual is was either a paramedic, I believe, you know a first responder of some kind, and I remember them telling me you know, one of the most common places that we find people who pass out or pass away or who are having issues are on the toilet. And so when that occurred to me after I had a little bit of fun with that, initially I thought you know, maybe you never know, you don't know what was going on maybe in the house, someone who lived here before me my home has been here since 1910, maybe someone needed that, maybe that was a situation, maybe they were afraid of that, maybe they were older, maybe they had an issue of some kind and they needed the phone by the toilet. So, keeping that in mind and rethinking that through. Yes, I had a little giggle about it, we did, I get it and if you and if you do have the phone by the toilet I mean, I don't doubt anyone has a landline by the toilet anymore but even, like I said on the cell phone, please stop. Stop that, unless it's like an emergency situation anyhow. So I just wanted to, that was on my mind, and I wanted to thank Don for his wonderful toilet by the telephone visual by the way, it was a video, thank you. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1:Oh, did to do. Oh, here's the note for you. I just saw sports related. Someone just sent this to me. I hadn't said try to keep up on my teams. This is involving one of my teams, the dreaded Dodgers. For this, for the, for the folks in this area. I know, stop yelling at me, stop it, we're still friends. It's okay. I know you have your team. It doesn't gel with my team. We're good, right? I notice they just got a guy by the name of Jackson Ferris picture by the name of Jackson Ferris and it's interesting, as it was pointed out to me, you know they already have a picture by the name of Walker Bueller. Do you see where I'm going with this? So the Dodgers now have Jackson Ferris and Walker Bueller, leading to the inevitable conclusion the Dodgers now have Ferris Bueller on their team. So, thank you, way to keep making them move. Dodgers appreciate great offseason, thank you, and I don't think either. One of them are Japanese. We have a couple of Japanese free agents that are now part of the Dodgers lineup as well. I am a moto and otani, so. But that's in then. That's, that's just. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Speaker 1:And speaking of a couple more sports things here, number one I am pumped up for this game Sunday night. It is almost like the Super Bowl right now for me, for the Rams Lions. So it's wild card weekend. And hey, nfl, feel free to stop saying super wild card weekend. Where did that come from? Is it super because you're trying to attach it to the Super Bowl to get a bigger audience? Is it super because there's like, maybe you know, is this because it goes into Monday? You've got Saturday, sunday, monday it's super. Isn't that the only place we use the word super anymore? By the way, isn't that the only place like Super Bowl? For some reason, the NFL has clung to super for a long time. How many of us go like you know you're talking to a friend? They go hey, listen, now we'll meet up for a beer and a pizza later on. Well, that's super, that's swell. Hey, that's swell, gang, that's super. Meet you on the mall job like the NFL man. They stuck with super, didn't they? Somehow it's become super wild card weekend. But I'm pumped for the Rams and the Lions.
Speaker 1:I am a devoted, longtime Rams fan is probably some of you know. The Lions have never done anything. So there's the whole storyline. Yeah, you need to hear from me again. Haven't been in the playoffs we all know it in a long time. Some of you weren't even born the last time they were in the playoffs or won the division anyhow. And then, on the other hand, my Rams oh, don't have the worst team this year, it's a rebuilding, whatever.
Speaker 1:Or going back to yesterday's podcast competition, right, the Rams, right, they weren't supposed to do anything, all these youngsters. But when you have Sean McVeigh, when you and I probably repeating myself, and I don't mean to and Matt Stafford, and, and you have cup and and you can draft the way the Rams have draft. And Aaron Donald, listen, you do have a chance and McVeigh makes, and Raheem Morris, who will be a head coach. The dude is fantastic. You look at the attitude of the Rams right now and, listen, I'm biased, yeah, but they're happy they're they're, they're in a good place, they're very young and youthful. Raheem Morris is a good man and so is Sean, but anyhow, going to the lion side, I rooted for them the whole time when they got golf.
Speaker 1:The former Ram and I don't want to hear about this old, the whole story Sean McVeigh said you weren't good enough to be here. Well, listen, I've always rooted for Jared. He was good enough to win big games, like against Kansas City. The people said, well, he wasn't good enough in the Super Bowl. Listen, harkin back. I wish I had a harkening back sound effect. Do I have a harkening back sound effect?
Speaker 1:I might have a harkening back sound effect here. Hold on a second.
Speaker 2:No, that's not it.
Speaker 1:No, it's not it. No, that ain't it. There it is Harkening back. I never get to use those buttons and every I'm gonna forget what I was harkening back about. Harkening my man. Harkening back to that Super Bowl. They had you, who are the two main components for the Rams High Flying offense that year? Todd Gurley, cooper Cup Guess it was not in the Super Bowl. Harkening back Todd Gurley and Cooper Cup, not in the Super Bowl. We had CJ Anderson and Brandon Cook's, not, it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna get into all that so, but I'm looking forward to the game. It's gonna be extremely loud and as far as Jared golf is concerned, I love you, jared, but I do have to say that I believe Stafford's the better quarterback. We'll find out. I mean, whoever wins or loses doesn't mean this quarterback's better than the other one, but Stafford got it done with the Rams and Jared golf. You are no poor man's. Matt Ryan, you're a good dude and I wish you the best, but just not in this game, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:And then Bill Belichick he he parts ways with Patriots. You probably, if you're a football fan, you're sick and tired of hearing about it already, and it's only been since yesterday. I am. I'm tired of it. It's alright enough. You know, this guy was the worst and he's the opposite of Sean McVeigh. To press coverage. Yeah, bill, tell us about the game. You know what happened there in the second quarter when your quarterback, you know he threw the incompletion on the fourth. And Bill Belichick, we're concentrating on the Jets, yeah, but what about? It would be concentrating on the Jets just a crotch. And he got now, yes, you can argue is the greatest football coach ever six Super Bowls. That's a whole little debate I may bring onto my show Tonight. Now, I'll save that for my show, but you know I'm just thinking about that. Bill. A check, or, as it was at Brady, who then leaves the Patriots, wins a Super Bowl with the Bucks.
Speaker 1:Was it a combo? I mean, the team was lousy this year, the Patriots so, mmm, you know, I think about Phil Jackson at the time. Remember he with the bowls and the Lakers. He always had the best players. He had the Jordans and, you know, kobe Bryant, and they had these teams. Was it Phil Jackson that did it? To let the? You know, chaco, neal Horace, grant, scottie Pippen, did they? It was it. Was it Phil Jackson? What was it? The players was the combination in here. That's for another time.
Speaker 1:I don't want to get too much into the sports realm here Today. Anyhow, oh, let's see. Oh, let's see what else.
Speaker 1:Some, a couple of other musical things maybe I think we could get into here just momentarily. One of the things is that I got a lot of feedback from people. Say it, pat, I Will tell you that that obligation album that you played on your show the other night Is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Literally brought me to tears listening to this on your show. So I thought I would just share with you just a couple, just a couple of examples of this, just for fun. So there'll be an artist who's a great artist. They'll be aligned with a producer who just puts the screws to them, shafts them, just like bad finger, bad fingers producer did I mean as people took their own lives. This guy Worked them over so well. The, the guy from fantasy record. It's screwed over Cretan's Clearwater revival and John Fogarty.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of examples. Van Morrison had one of these print at one of these Record execs and he owed them another album and he couldn't stay in this dude and a guy wasn't paying him and he wanted everything to sound like brown-eyed girl. You know Bad ad girls say he wanted everything like that. So he expected another album. So he does a thing called fan Morrison says does a screw you, man, our obligation album. And, and, and, and. There are 31 of these songs and I thought I would play all of them like a minute, minute 12. So I'm a even less than a minute, I think. So he says I'm gonna, you want to put the screws to me? I'm gonna put the screws right back to you. So he does these songs and I thought I would share some of these with you Because people seem to like. Here's one from the album called twist and shake. Here is this is twist and shake. Let's see here, make sure we get it. Here we go.
Speaker 2:Twist and shake. Do the twist to the shake, baby Twist the shake.
Speaker 1:I'll bet if you've never even heard this song, you can probably sing all the words. So all right. So here's twist and shake. Let's listen to shake and roll from the same album. Shake and roll from the van Morrison screw you Obligation album.
Speaker 2:Shake and roll baby all night long yeah, sing it man oh, you can shake.
Speaker 1:All right, here's you can roll. Here's stomp and scream from the same beautiful album stomp and scream. Van Morrison Changes up the tempo a little bit here. Stomp and scream.
Speaker 2:Stomp and scream. Oh baby, stomp and scream.
Speaker 1:It's amazing you can have that much soul, even when he's saying screw you to a record exact.
Speaker 2:Move around. Here is just a little bit scream and holler.
Speaker 1:Follow-up tune to scream and holler is the follow-up tune to Stomp and scream, as you'll find out right here scream and holler, scream and holler.
Speaker 2:Baby, yeah, baby.
Speaker 1:Here's one scream and holler this is the big royalty check. Because I guess he wouldn't get this royalty check. So this is one of my favorites. We're going back to the light 70s brand. This was early 70s. Very. That's Van Morrison from the big screw you obligation album, the big royalty check.
Speaker 2:I'm waiting For my royalty check to come and it still hasn't come yet. It's about a year overdue. I guess it's coming from the big royalty check in the sky. I waited and the mailman Never dropped it in my letterbox.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is kind of a downer song, so we're gonna be in this a minute and 31 seconds.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:I can feel the pain in his voice. But the next one should bring tears to your eyes. This one's called ringworm. Enjoy, let's enjoy ringworm here. Well, I mean not literally the sense.
Speaker 2:I can see better. Look on your face that you've got ringworm. I'm very sorry, but I have to tell you that you've got ringworm.
Speaker 1:Then he had a new album. He was talking about this one thing is gonna be called blow your nose. He was very proud of the new album that is promoting here on the Beautiful tune. This is called again.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'll put it again me long distance blow in your nose.
Speaker 1:Blow in your nose, my friends enjoy.
Speaker 2:Hello A guy. We put an album together. We're relation it next week. Oh awesome. What's it called? It's called blowing your nose. It's got a psychedelic jacket. That's called blowing your nose.
Speaker 1:It's a different song, though, when he puts out the next song and the follow-up to that, which is nose in your blow, which she can imagine means something completely imagine different nose in your blow and Went to time.
Speaker 2:No is in your blow. You're crazy, you go crazy, you're going insane. Yes, yes, thank you Van Morrison.
Speaker 1:ladies and gentlemen, oh, he's got another one on here. One last one, sorry, this is called. This is called I want a Danish. I want a Danish.
Speaker 2:Here we go you want a Danish? No, I just ate. I've just eaten, don't like. I want some bread up front, oh, bread up front. You want a sandwich?
Speaker 1:Have a Danish ladies and gentlemen, van Morrison yeah, van Morrison, thank you, van Beautiful, thank you so much. The screw you obligation album, thank you. As we harken back, he's my harken button one more time and finally, we're just gonna stay in the musical mode, shall we? Just to Finish up on Pat's peeps 34. Happy Friday to you, by the way. Let's do some.
Speaker 1:Let's pull from my 45 collection today. I thought you know what it's a Friday. I'm really in the mood for this. May I please play more than one. I want to play a couple, maybe three, I don't know. Just to give you a little preview of my mini pods that I'm coming up with with my music. So I'm gonna do that today. So let's start here. And I really seem to go to the, to the Gold vein of this particular band when I'm selecting from my 45 collection, I keep going back and I keep finding their records. I think this might be the third time I've put one of their records up here, but I just whatever I pull out, I'm going with.
Speaker 1:So this particular song is a from a 1965 album by this group. The first credit to credit the group with their singer, using their singer in the name along with the former name that they have. They just added the singer's name to it. Now it includes four of the group's top 20 hits Ooh, baby, baby, you'll get it as soon as I say that. Or the tracks of my tears Going to a go-go, my girl is gone, produced by the Miracles lead singer, smokey Robinson, along with Frank Wilson, william Mickey Stevenson.
Speaker 1:This was primarily produced by the Miracles, their lead singer, smokey. Going to a go-go, is our record featuring compositions co-written by Miracles member Smokey Robinson, ronald White, bobby Rogers, pete Moore, marv Tarplin and, a matter of fact, with the sole exception of the song my baby changes like the weather, the whole record was written by the Miracles. Now, this song going to a go-go, it was the Miracles studio. It was their only studio record to chart within the top 10 of the Billboard's top LPs chart. This was. It remained there for 40 weeks, peaked at number eight. The record peaked at number one on Billboard's R&B albums charts in 03 and received a gold record status, ranked number 271 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 500 greatest songs of all time. So let's take a listen to the record. It's a great tune For me. I always remember the Rolling Stones doing the live version from Candlestick Park in 1981, but here it is from the Miracles 1965.
Speaker 2:This is the first time I've seen a song like this. This is the first time I've seen a song like this. This is the first time I've seen a song like this.
Speaker 1:This is the first time I've seen a song like this Going to a go-go, release November 1st of 65, reached number eight on the Billboard top LPs chart. Number one, number one on Billboard's R&B albums chart, the only Miracle Studio LP to chart, like I said, in the top 10. But let's flip this thing over and see what is on the other side of going to a go-go Boy. That is a great tune and I did like the Stones version of it too. But even though I'm a big Stones fan, I do definitely like the Miracles version better. You flip it over. You choosey-bagger, choosey-bagger on the other side. By 1965, you got Smokey. This is a slower one by him, but Smokey Robinson, really the undisputed king of Motown ballads at that time, and this is a nice song.
Speaker 1:Perhaps it was overlooked. Choosey-bagger, I ended up on the flip side of such an energetic dance song like going to a go-go, and so this song choosey-bagger, the B side. But you know what? This one was also a hit, a national hit, reached number 35 on the Billboard R&B chart and, as the song's narrator, lead singer Smokey Robinson, using the play on the old axiom, beggars can't be choosers. This portrays a man who just simply refuses to accept. Just, you know, any girl, beggars can't be choosy. I know that's what the people say. Cashbox described the song as a slow, shuffling lament about a decidedly one man-woman. Here it is choosey-bagger Smokey Robinson in the Miracles 1965.
Speaker 2:This is Beggar for Love. I've turned some love away. Oh, maybe one was true love. I never know which cause. Your love is the only love to make this beggar rich.
Speaker 1:I'm a choosey-bagger choosey-bagger, and you're my choice, baby Choosey-bagger, choosey-bagger, choosey-bagger, it's the Miracles. You know, I think I'm just gonna leave it at that today. I had a couple other ones I was gonna get to, but I think you know, 35 minutes right now is about right where I want to be, so I'm gonna save the other two. You know, I may not even do one tomorrow, I'm just so into it. But it's a Friday. I wanna wish you a happy Friday and I wanna thank you again for listening. It's Pat's Peeps, episode 34. Great tune, choosey-bagger, choosey-bagger. If you'd do me a favor, and, please, if you like the podcast, I'll ask to begin the year as we try to grow an audience so that we can support local businesses eventually Is, just tell your friends that you like the show, if you do. Thank you all right. See you on the radio at the Pal Wall Show tonight.
Speaker 2:Thanks for listening to Pat's Peeps, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, baby, I must and I'll never give up.
