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Ep. 51 Pat's Peeps Revel in 51 Episodes with Bloopers, Local Heroes, and a Vintage Vinyl Music Mashup – Supporting Neighborly Deeds, and the Beats that Define our Shared Journey
Hey Pat's Peeps, we're celebrating our 51st pow-wow together with a heartfelt nod to the 5,000 downloads you've rocketed our way! It's a moment of reflection and gratitude for this wild ride from Northern California's rain-refreshed vistas, right into your earbuds. I'm peeling back the curtain on the podcast's blooper reel and the growth we've experienced, both in spirit and community. From a recording hiccup that'll leave you in stitches to the sunshine after the storm, join me in the highs and lows that have shaped our journey together.
You know that feeling when you bump into someone doing good just 'cause they can? That's Cassie and Liam for you. These two local heroes remind us that a little elbow grease can spruce up more than just our streets—it lifts the whole neighborhood's spirit. As we chat about their initiative, I'll also let you in on the secret sauce that keeps our content fresh and our community thriving. It's not just about keeping things tidy; there's the soulful stroll of unexpected encounters and the quest to bring you engaging stories, all while navigating the ever-changing tides of our lives.
And when the needle drops on a 48-year-old vinyl, you know it's time for our signature music mashup. The tunes that serenade our souls are taking center stage, with a rare groove from the vault and musings on the plight of rock bands in the age of streaming juggernauts. After a serendipitous fan encounter, we foreshadow a chat with a guest who knows a thing or two about giving musicians their due. So slap on those headphones and let's sync up to the rhythm of our shared melody, where the past meets the present and every beat tells a story.
Welcome back to the Pat's Peeps podcast. It's finally number 51. How you doing, hi, how you doing man? It's Patrick on, the host of the Pal Wall Show, heard everywhere, live on your free iHeart app. We're generating from KFB K and Sacramento, but this is different. This is Pat's Peeps and I'm so happy to say this is Pat's Peeps 51. Finally, after a couple of days, which I will explain momentarily, but I want to say a big thank you for tuning in, thank you for continuing to tune in and thank you so very much. I am so grateful to all of you who are not only tuning in but also turning on, if you might say, by turning other people onto the show, because I'm very excited. Just to let you know, this is the 22nd of February 2024.
Speaker 1:Looking at my studio window here into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, the gold rush country man, I love this place. It's so beautiful. Today, finally, some sunshine. It's been raining and raining, which we're blessed to have. The rain, like I always say, thank you, lord for that rain. It's going to help everyone in the state. The state that's spent, of course, you know, facing droughts for years and low lake levels and such. But hey, we're so it's great to have the rain, but, yeah, sunshine is out there. I don't know about you, but it's good for my soul, I'm feeling good and wherever you are listening today, wherever country, whatever state you're listening in, I thank you.
Speaker 1:Okay, because milestone yesterday said 5,000 downloads of my podcast 5,000. Now some of you might go well, talk to me when you got 5 million, and that's fine, that's fair. But here's the thing it has to start somewhere and I can tell you we've only been doing this for like what? December, january, january, it's like three months, about three months, a little over three months, like three and a half months. When I came back from Italy and I announced this, and so, when I think about it, I was so excited when I first, when I saw the first 10 downloads congratulations, you have 10 downloads, wow, 10,. I had nothing. And then 100. And then the next thing, you know, it said hey, you have 2,500 downloads. I was super stoked about that. But as I'm looking at it, that was like two months into this. No one had heard of my podcast. They've heard of my radio show, but the podcast maybe not. I guarantee you they hadn't. So I'm just trying to start it and grow it right with you Much more intimate than my radio show, by the way, which is also intimate, just a little bit different. So what I've noticed then, to get to the 5,000, it's only taken one month versus two months to get to the first 2,500. So it's growing momentum and that's due to you, and I sure appreciate you All right.
Speaker 1:So I definitely want to say that. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and I'll also add to this that you know what Life gets in the way sometimes. You know I'm trying to do a three hour radio show, no excuse. I try to do this as often as I can. I never said every day, but I, quite frankly, I love doing it every single day. Let me try it too, and if I don't, I try to make up with it on the, on the next one. So today, number 51, which, by the way, 50 is a milestone, coinciding with the downloads and all of that. So the number's growing and okay, and if you do the numbers on that 100 per podcast, whatever that's fine, because I remember when I had zero and 10, like I said. So this is positive.
Speaker 1:Now I also want to say that it's been a couple of days and what I do love is I got some like. I had someone say, pat, we love your podcast. My wife and I we look forward to this every day listening. Thank you again. But you haven't done one for a few days, all right. So here's the deal because I'm always honest with you, I'm going to tell you what's going on. Life is going on Without boring you.
Speaker 1:There's another part of this whole Pat's Peeps thing not this podcast, but the Pat's Peeps page, pat'speepscom that you're going to start hearing more about. Where I'm needed to be, I'm needed to take care of some business because I want to help other businesses. So there's that. Then I have meetings, have business meetings and all of this. And then when you add to the fact that yesterday I literally did a 45 minute podcast and made the biggest mistake a mistake I was told I was going to make, but I was told I'd make it like in a first four or five podcasts, took me 51 to do this, but I did a 45 minute podcast yesterday only to realize at the very end of it that I never even hit record.
Speaker 1:So I guess, I was like, really I just did a podcast and I didn't record it, but that's okay.
Speaker 1:Man, I just move on. So that's where we are. So here's what I'm going to tell you is that this one might be a little different. Today, pat's Peeps 51 maybe is going to be a little bit different. So, looking back to Tuesday, the day after we came back from the holiday on president's day, I thought you know, how am I going to get all my stuff done, get my workout in, and how am I going to get the podcast all in one day? And I faced that dilemma before, I think, on one of the previous podcasts. I actually went out, took my walk through this gorgeous neighborhood man and the clouds cleared up on Tuesday a little bit. It wasn't great looking day, but it was much better and I could get out there and walk through these beautiful streets and these roads, these back streets up in the foothills. And so I went ahead and did a podcast was I was walking.
Speaker 1:So part of today's Pat's Peeps 51 will be me going out for a walk, trying to present Pat's Peeps 51 on Tuesday and then yesterday had a big business meeting yesterday. Long story short, not going to bore you with the minutia of that, but again I didn't have no time. So what do I do. I said you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to go ahead and do a podcast driving to my business meetings. So there you go, what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna give you a combo of Tuesday and yesterday, one being on a walk, the other being in my Mustang GT, which, by the way, sorry, gavin, not really, but I've got a. You know, I've got an engine that is a V8 in my GT and it's not one of your little electric cars. No, nothing to get to anyone who drives them, I just like to shove it up. New sums Nevermind. Hey, I'm driving my V8, gavin, so love it or don't, I don't really care, but you're gonna hear the engine noise in the background. So who cares? Who cares?
Speaker 1:And then the walk. You're gonna hear me walk. I'll try, if I do it again, I'll try to be more self aware and conscious that it might make a noise, shuffle them back and forth. But also, when I'm taking my walk, I meet up with a neighbor and her son, and I'd love it if you pay particular attention to that exchange and what's going on there. Okay, in our neighborhood she's literally my neighbor, like three houses down, but I'm talking about up here in the foothills that's. That's quite a ways down. So we have that. So this will be kind of a you know, a mishmash of different days put together for podcast 51.
Speaker 1:And then we'll have music at the end of it as well. So, without further ado, I will take us back to Tuesday. On what was supposed to be the Pat's Peeps 51 podcast. There's this. I can't remember where I just saw this, but it's so true Really made me stop and think.
Speaker 1:Someone I saw this thing said you know, it never gets easier, you just get better. And that kind of stuck with me. What a pause here for a second. Catch my breath. You know it's good Talking about it's never easier. He just gets better, you just get better. Yes, you know that I paused.
Speaker 1:The lady tells me I'm pausing my workout. I'm on one of these Nike run club apps, so every time I decide to pause pausing workout I don't know if you can hear that or not when I get going again those, they'll say resume workout. Anyhow, that's set with me, though. It never gets easier, you just get better. I'm kind of hoping in some facets of my life, as I get going again here, though, it might hear her say that resume workout. There she is. I'm hoping that, for instance, the cardio workout gets a little easier, and if it does, that means I'm getting better. So I think there's a little bit to be said about whether or not it gets easier or not.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping and praying that you know, by going through some of the things I've been going through and taking care of things and all that sort of stuff, that at some point it gets easier that way too. Like you've taken care of a lot of stuff, we all know how that is right. Take care of a lot of stuff and there seems to be more and more and more on your plate. I keep holding faith that at some point that won't be the case and then, indeed, maybe things won't be a little bit easier, time wise too. I'm going through the train trestle right now. There seems to be a boy in the ditch ahead. Not sure what's going on here. We'll find out A lot of doggies out today. Thanks for tuning in to Pat's Peeps.
Speaker 2:Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1:Good, good. What's that now? Oh, you live right over there. Huh, Nice to see you again. I'm Pat. I live right on your neighbor I met a couple of times as I was walking by.
Speaker 2:Okay, what did they do? We just randomly pick up trash, but we just figured people at E McDonald's also drink alcohol.
Speaker 1:And then they throw it here. Yeah, so you're cleaning this up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, are you serious? I've been cleaning that.
Speaker 1:No kidding. Hey, what's your name, buddy? I'm Pat. I'm your neighbor, huh, liam, liam, yeah.
Speaker 2:Liam.
Speaker 1:That is mighty nice of you to do that. We try. I mean, that's nice of both of you to look out for our neighborhood. So people don't care about our neighborhood. Please drive away and throw junk and couches, I know, okay, throw junk up.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow Well, liam, nice to see you again. Pat and Cassie, cassie, yes, nice to see you both again. Oh, I love having great neighbors like you.
Speaker 2:Same. You're an outdoorsy guy. You're walking all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just trying to, you know, just trying to keep my cardio going. You literally just made my podcast. I'm doing my podcast right now. Hi everyone, that's Cassie and Liam doing good things in my neighborhood, which we're not giving away. What neighborhood we live in. I'm just saying these are the kind of neighbors that you want right here. This was unexpected. Liam literally has rubber boots on and he's down in a ditch. What is this? This would be like the little, just a little. What is it? It's like a culvert for the water. Yeah, a little culvert for the water, exactly, yeah, well, hey, god bless you. Thanks for being a good neighbor. It's nice to meet you, nice to see you again, cassie, wow, okay, see, awesome, you just never know. Just never know. Reserving work out, you just never know. So that was what else?
Speaker 1:Oh, let's see here Of course I'll be back back to my radio show tonight. That sounds about right Right there. Okay, so I'm going to cut it out right there. But Cassie and Liam again great to see neighbors out there, proactive, seeing some junk laying around, you know, and going out and really doing something about it. I mean, that's that is a mother who is raising their son, her son. So well, isn't that a song? Isn't that a lyric and a song? What song is that? What is that? I was just saying that that's a lyric and a song. Anyhow, someone will tell me. But she's teaching them the right things to do. She's teaching them how to be responsible and to not be selfish and to go out of their way to do something to better their own neighborhood. I love that. So it was a nice stroll through the neighborhood. I hope you don't mind and you know what.
Speaker 1:Like I say, on the business meeting, I had a business meeting and I'm probably going to repeat this in here and I'm sorry if I do so, and I already set this up. So let's go to the interview or not the interview. Excuse me, but this part of the conversation going to a business meeting, which I'm probably going to repeat again, sorry. So today, patrick here. Well, today is a much more beautiful day in terms of some sunshine. Today is the 21st of February 2024. And after a week or so of a deluge here in our area, which we're blessed to have, the sun is broken through. There are clouds in the sky and once again, I am doing a little location on Cast Today, so yesterday. So I've already explained all of that. Try to run, walk I'm trying to move forward here. Since I did, I don't want to repeat everything. Right, here we go. Try to stay in shape, get my cardio up. So yeah, this is what happens when you're trying to Goofs and grins. Right, well, I came home, did the pod. Yeah, I think I've already repeated all of this. Not really don't want to do this.
Speaker 1:Listening to my podcast, I may not play this part a little bit, but really proud to say that 100 downloads per podcast, yeah, see, so that was yesterday. So you can see I've been trying to say the same thing for the week. You know I've been trying to say that. So that was all my. You know that's what I was discussing yesterday. So I'm just going to leave it at that and explain to you that, again, life happens. We all know that it's the way it is, so I explained it today, so I'm not going to repeat all of that, but thank you.
Speaker 1:And I also wanted to bring up the fact that I ran into a gentleman who he and his wife another gentleman who he and his wife have been listening to the podcast and thank you again for that and they were telling me that one of their favorite parts about the podcast was when we get to the music at the very end, and I enjoy that too. I mean, that is obviously one of my favorite parts of the podcast. And but anyhow, without belaboring the point that I've talked about on previous podcasts my concern over licensing and things I will continue to say this. They said. They said, jesus, we love when you do that, we love that and we, you know, listen, we thank you. We had this discussion and I'm just going to roll with this for now. And there are. I would love to get into this.
Speaker 1:I have a guest on soon. I have an idea for a guest where I want to talk about some ways where artists can get their music out there, get it played and get royalties for it Maybe not in the way that they used to be. Because, let's face it, you have bands that are putting out good music and they're just never going to get any airplay. They're never going to get airplay, particularly if it's things like classic rock bands when I say classic, I even hate to use that term, rock bands, okay, but ones, maybe, that have been around a long time. There are so many. There are so many bands putting out good music, new bands they get nothing, man. There's no airplay because those at the top just simply don't want to. They don't want to deal with Elvis, new music, this good new music. They want to, for whatever reason, ignore rock and it's in its complete nutter BS. So in a future conversation I think I'll have a guest where we I want to talk about that and I have some thoughts about how these artists can get paid. And then you know we can use the music and talk about the music. I mean, I just did it on my show last week with Aaron Lee, the bassist, the Y and T. We just did it. We just did it and I've done it numerous times in the past and I'm going to tell you in in future podcasts here on the Pats Peeps how, if you're an artist, how we can do that, because I'm way into that, I just love the music.
Speaker 1:But I, getting back to the whole conversation I had with this gentleman at the cigar shop, his wife apparently just knows music so well. He's like she's like you man, like she knows this and you know what year it came out, what the artist was and all of this stuff which I thought everyone did. But I've I've come to realize that's just not the case. It's just something that stuck with certain you know, just like anything else. You know, maybe other people, they know movies like Ken Dog Jack, but a dog's movie. I was like I know movies. I glaze over when he starts talking movies, but I just don't know.
Speaker 1:But I'm just going to keep paying homage to these artists, the ones that I pull from my ultra rare 45 collection, my seven inch records, my DJ copies, not even for sale, these records, as I tell you, every time sitting on a shelf and in many cases, and I'll tell you what, I'll tell you how long this one's that I picked out today has, how long it's been sitting on a shelf, I believe. Let me see what the date is here. Okay, so this would have been. I have to count. I'm a radio guy, so you have to count on my fingers. I'm not kidding you. This is so. This is like 48 years. This record has been sitting on a shelf 48 years. No one's played it. So let me make this point about this so kind of my point and how we could get royalties out and and and how this actually benefits artists in certain ways.
Speaker 1:I'm never suggesting that new artists or anyone has put out great music in the past should just have their music taken from them Quite the opposite. But I do find that there's a solution. So the record I'm gonna play one of the records. I might even get the two of them. I'm being honest with you. This, this no one's playing this record. No one's playing it.
Speaker 1:Perhaps when you hear it, you might go, oh jeez, I have heard, I haven't heard that in so many years. Or my parents have that, or my grandparents have that one, because this one's going back a ways. Or you might say, jeez, I've heard that one, just not in a long time. Or I listen to this all the time. You never know. Matter of fact, to be honest with you, if you're on Spotify, which is a whole other thing you want to talk about ripping off artists. Look no further than Spotify. Can you hear the train going by? Can you hear that? I love when the train goes by? Anyhow, train's going by outside my window Anyhow, spotify.
Speaker 1:Before I realized they were ripping off artists, I've done my homework. Since then I there's a little recap at the end of the year. It tells you who you're, what your most listened to songs were and your most listened to artists were for that year. It's kind of as a recap and this artist is number one artist that I listen to, believe it or not. I told someone else that they went. What really? I said, yeah, seriously it is. But again, this is a says right there, not for sale, promotion. It's even got a red like someone used a red felt pin over the promotion part on this particular one Reprise records, white label. It's even has handwriting on it says December 1st, 66, december 1st, my dad's birthday. And yeah, so that's. And not for sale, like I said, reprise records.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna play this record and the point being, is that how you tell me when's the last time you heard it? Have you ever heard it? If you've never heard it and you let's say you like it, you go, or you don't have an opinion one way or the other, but someone might go. I like that. How do I get that? So let's just say that 500 people out of a thousand or whatever, say you know what, I like that or not. 500 out of a thousand, that'd be pretty good odds. Well, even in that case, maybe they would. But let's just say, I don't know. Let's say a hundred out of a thousand, 50 to your lower 50 people heard this and said geez, you know I like that. Can I download that? Because a lot of people into downloading music. Bam, all of a sudden you get downloads. Why? Because you heard it on this podcast. It's not like you were thinking about it.
Speaker 1:I played Roger Miller. You can't roll a skate in a buffalo herd. Who's buying that? But it's a good tune. But it's so obscure now that maybe you hadn't heard it before and maybe like, okay, I wouldn't mind having that, maybe I'll download it. Well, aren't we kind of helping the artist in that way? So there is another way to do this. So I'm gonna play this. I might play two of them, like I said.
Speaker 1:So this song from the Most Listen to Artists from 2023, for yours truly here. This one came out 1966, written by and again, I don't own this. I'm trying to give all. I'm just trying to educate about the music I'm giving all the credits that I can possibly give written by Mac David and Sherman Edwards. Well, you know what? I think I'm gonna get hold on a second. Hold on, you know. Well. Okay, you know what I'm gonna do. Well, let's see, I'm just gonna play it. I'm just gonna play this for you, all right, and I'll tell you why in a moment, but I'm gonna play it for you.
Speaker 1:It is Dean Martin and it's a song called Hold on a second. I have enough hold on. I'm really messing up here. What I've done is I put it on the wrong side. I was very confused. I actually had it on the the B side and I want to play the A side first. Okay, so bear with me through my confusion here. All right, so from Dean Martin, the A side, the featured side, from 1966, this is I'm not the Mary in kind. Tell me what you think of this one. Here we go.
Speaker 2:I go my way alone, free and easy, like a rolling stone. I am strictly on my own. Not to marry in kind. I'm happy being free. No girl gonna put a ring on me. That's how it's gotta be. I'm not the Mary in kind. I've been known to run a mile when they try to lead me down the aisle. So if you want me to stay wild, don't start changing the style. It's always been a plan to stay single, anyway I can. I'm just a happy man. I'm not the Mary in kind, dean.
Speaker 1:Martin from 1966. I'm not the Mary in kind, dean Martin, dino Paul coach. Eddie, I Want to flip it over. I love it. I love the sound of it. That is just typical, just cool sounding rat pack Dean Martin from a certain era. Let's flip it over in the other side. I Like this one too. This is song called let the good times in same Year, 1966.
Speaker 2:I woke up this morning and Out of my shoes, cold north wind, with a howling Ranging, I said blues. Good morning, don't want to fight. Excuse me while I have a smoke if I can't find a light. Oh, oh.
Speaker 1:Dean Martin. That's a cool tune. Let the good times in, man. I don't know. There was just something to say. I think I'm in the wrong era, man, because I would have loved to have been part of that era, that rat pack era. I'm not the Mary in kind, by the way.
Speaker 1:Written by Mack David Sherman Edwards, originally recorded by the King, elvis Presley, in 1961. I am gonna play a second record today, if you don't mind. So, from the same year, 1966. We went with two today. From 1966, much different song though.
Speaker 1:This song is from a garage rock band, a garage rock, you would call it. Recorded by this band September of 65 actually, but released in 66, became a major hit in the US in 66, reach number five on the billboard hot 100 week of April 16th of that year, ranked as the 42nd biggest American hit from 1966. Matter of fact, in Canada the song all reached also reached number five in the weekly charts. So this one did really well. And a little background to this, and contrast with the.
Speaker 1:You know all these American bands that formed in the wake of the, the Beatles and the British invasion, these guys and musicians who became this band. They'd been active in the Cleveland music scene since 58, when 15 year old guitarist and saxophonist Tom King Founded the band as a rhythm and blues combo called the Star Fires, but then by early 65 bands, membership consisted of King and rhythm guitarist Al Austin on lead guitar, which was late. He was later substituted by Bill Bruno Mert Madsen on bass. Jimmy Fox in the drums and Any other screw was under contract with Palmer records. This is on Capital records, the same record label the Beatles were on. Song composed by the band's guitarist, tom King and Jet Kelly, simple, catchy, danceable tune. So going back to 1966, it is the Outsiders. It's a song called Time Won't Let Me. Here you go.
Speaker 2:Can't wait forever to know if you'll be true. Time Won't Let Me.
Speaker 1:Time Won't Let Me 1966, the Outsiders recorded their debut album, fork Capital. Like I said, time Won't Let Me, titled after the hit song Time Won't Let Me Right, okay, and again produced by Tom King. The album included five original songs written by King and by Kelly, released in 1966. And what was the backing tune? Okay, we're going to flip it over. King produced this song as well, along with Tommy Baker, and it was an instrumental in the horn. I should say it was instrumental. Tommy Baker was instrumental in the horn arrangements on the songs that I meant to say Went to become a huge nationwide hit for the group. Let's take a listen to the flip side. This is was it really real? The flip side to the very popular song Time Won't Let Me.
Speaker 2:Again, it's the Outsiders 1966. What did you feel? What did you feel when I kissed you last night? Was it really real? Please tell me, was it really real or were you just passing time?
Speaker 1:The Outsiders promoted their hit single with about a year of nationwide touring. Time Won't Let Me Stated on the national charts for 15 weeks. Band first toured with Paul Revere and the Raiders, and they were Chad and Jeremy, and then were later part of a six week tour of One Night Stands headed by Gene Pitney. Included seven or eight other acts Len Berry, bj Thomas, bobby Goldsboro Watching Scotty Gro. There you go. Was it really real? It was. It was Pat's Peeps Podcast 51. Thank you for putting up with me. I appreciate it very much. See you from Pat's Peeps 52.
