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Ep. 54 Pat Walsh's Trip Down Memory Lane: Laughs, Tunes, and Political Bruises - From Nostalgic Shopping Sprees to The Tubes, Plus a Side of Campaign Controversy
Ever found yourself chuckling over the quirks of life or humming a tune that takes you back to the good ol' days of department stores and Blue Light Specials? Join me, Pat Walsh, as I invite you to share in the laughter and the memories on a walk down Memory Lane from the peaceful Northern California foothills. This episode isn't just a broadcast; it's a personal journey through the sepia-toned aisles of nostalgia, a candid peek behind the curtain of the radio world, and an intimate look at the intersection of music, family, and the shopping experiences that shaped us.
Step into the time machine of our minds as we reminisce about the family trips to Sprouse Reitz and Payless, where the varied merchandise was as intriguing as the stories we made there. But it's not all about the past; let's navigate the choppy seas of today's political advertising with a critical eye on a controversial campaign against Steve Garvey. As we question the role of media in shaping our views, I share a slice of my radio life — including a live plan gone awry and the surprise of a "best of" replay.
Crank up the volume for a musical odyssey with The Tubes, a band that's been the soundtrack to my youth and beyond. Get the inside scoop on their theatrical antics, the accidental beer toss at Prairie Prince, and the deep cuts that still resonate today. So, tune in, kick back, and let's chat about everything from cosmic tunes to political views—it's a rollercoaster ride through the melodies and moments that make life sweet.
Yes sir, yes sir, we're back. We're back to the PatsPeeps podcast. How the heck are you? How are ya? How are ya? Hey, it is a Tuesday. This is PatsPeeps 54. Number 54. I think I'm going to keep track of the number of podcasts until we get to like a hundred and at that point I'm just going to let it roll. You know, it's the PatsPeeps daily podcast, or as often as we can possibly get to it, which is pretty much been daily. But here we are, number 54. Again, a Tuesday. This is the 27th of February 2024.
Speaker 1:Hope you're doing well on this day, wherever you are. Where I am, as I look out my as I always tell you, my beautiful, uh out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, there is sunshine today, still a little bit cold, but warmer than it has been, but it's just again nice to see the sunshine. So wherever you are listening to the PatsPeeps podcast, I greatly appreciate it and I hope you're doing very well on this day. Again, I'm Pat Walsh. I also host the Pat Walsh show, as heard everywhere on your free iHeart app, which is uh Originate. My show originates in Sacramento, kpk, the mighty 50,000 watt flame thrower. So my show seven to 10 PM, and I hope you'll give that a listen to as well.
Speaker 1:Now, speaking of my show, uh, I was off last night on this. Well, it would have been a Monday night. I was off not because I wanted to be off, not because I had something to do. Uh, it was because of unforeseen circumstances, shall we say, and I drove all the way to work, which, just so you know, it's about 40 minutes away, 45 minutes give or take, a few minutes depending on the traffic of the day. So it is quite a commute.
Speaker 1:I choose to live in the foothills because I love living on the property. I love the feeling that I get up here in the foothills. I probably mentioned that numerous times. Yeah, I just like to be surrounded by the pine trees. I get away from the city. I like to hear the frogs and the crickets during the summertime, at night. I just love it. But the payoff is or the tradeoff, I should say is the fact that I have a commute.
Speaker 1:So I commute to work last night, pull up into the parking lot and find out that, well, we're not going to have a show, and what happens is, of course, if there's no show and they're playing the best of or what have you, especially if it's the best of, if it's a fill in, that's cool, but if it's the best of, I mean, that's cool as well. But people think, well, pat's taken a night off for whatever reason. Well, I was not. It had nothing to do with me, other than it's my show. And because the person who, shall we say, was unable to do the show at the last minute wasn't aware of that until the last minute and I got to work. It was too late. So then I got the phone call oh, this person can't work, Great. So so I won't even get into all that. But I so I turned around, went back home and they played the best of I don't know when, the best of, what year it was from, what week it was, from, what month it was from.
Speaker 1:I don't listen, I just, you know, I never listened to my, to myself. I don't listen to my radio show. I don't listen to my podcast. I figure I've done it. I'll put it out there. If you're kind enough to listen, then that's all I really care about. I don't want to hear myself. I don't really care about that. So I wasn't listening last night on the way back on my commute back.
Speaker 1:And then when I got home, you know some people I used to never understand that I would see actors on these television shows Merv Griffin, or you know Mike Douglas, or the late night, you know the, you know David Letterman, or tonight show what have you any of these shows through the years? And the movie star would always say, oh yeah, I never. They ask him do you ever watch movies? They say no, I don't watch them. For the most part they don't watch them. Maybe the debut at the movie theater, you know, when they watch it with a, with the, the debut audience, whatever you call that, test audience or especially invited audience, but for the most part they don't watch themselves and I never understood that, but I do now. You just put it out there and you hope and pray that people will like it, you know, and we'll keep listening or watching.
Speaker 1:And so, because I wasn't listening, I started getting a couple of messages on social media and on my on tech saying that they were playing the same show over in the second hour as they play in the first hour, which I've never heard of and I don't understand. So if that happened, I'm sorry. Like I don't know what's happening right there. It cannot be the hardest thing to do to pull out a show that wasn't just five days ago or last week. I'm not going to mention any names, I'm just saying you got to be able to dig deep, have an archive of this stuff. I'm not the one in charge of that. So when you so, then what happens is then. So then people think, well, pat's taking the night off, and then they hear the same. But then I heard they played one hour and then started the second hour with the same hour. Like they played the hour twice. That's just unacceptable. I don't even know if that's true. I don't know if that happened, but it has nothing to do with me, I'm just telling you Anyhow.
Speaker 1:So it looks like I'll be on the air tonight to be able to do my show. At least I hope so. I'm planning on it. Okay, I am planning on it. So if anyone ever assumes well, pat's just taking another night off Really, I mean, I work all the time Like I leave vacation on the table, but just things happen occasionally, and last night was one of those things. So, but I did get the message that I'm covered. Tonight we have someone who can actually who will be there and things will be good. So I look forward to my show and if you get a chance, like I said, please listen to my the Pat Walsh show on KPK or on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1:I was on when I got some of the messages on Facebook, you know, regarding hey Pat, I don't know what's going on, but they're playing the same hour twice. So I'm on Facebook and social media and I see someone right put up a post and now I have some free time so I thought I'd involve myself in the post on Facebook, a post that said something to the effect. It asked a question like name a name an apartment store from the 70s or 80s that is now out of business. And right away a bunch of them came to mind for me and I started scrolling through just for fun, like, what did people say? What were some of the ones that people had written in there and really jogged my memory? Some good responses, like Montgomery wards, for instance. I mean, like everyone remembers Montgomery wards Department store oh, I just thought of another one.
Speaker 1:So, just like I'm still doing it, just my mind started racing with all of these you know department stores from yesteryear, department stores that some people may not even remember, not even realize that they existed. And one of the ones that came to mind immediately and when I posted this I thought let me go go and share one that I remember Long forgotten department store and to my amazement I, a lot of people didn't even remember this. Anyone remember Sprouse Ritz? Some people called Sprouse Reets Sprouse Reets department store, sprouse Ritz. I was called the Sprouse Ritz, it was probably Sprouse Reets. Anyone remember that? I posted it like what is that? Sprouse Reets? There was the Sprouse Reets. My mom used to go in there.
Speaker 1:All the times I got to go to Sprouse Reets Up in the 72 square station wagon or the 65 rambler with the luggage rack mint green rambler station wagon head up to the Sprouse Ritz or the Ben Franklin. Anyone remember the Ben Franklin department stores? That was another one going way back. Ben Franklin was kind of a. It was like a smaller version of a department store, smaller than like a Montgomery wards. So then my mind's racing like, okay, geez.
Speaker 1:And then they all start coming to me how about Payless? Not Payless shoes, but Payless? There was Payless department store which eventually and I guess maybe Payless shoes kind of, I think Payless may have branched out to the shoe store. I'm not exactly sure, but I think that's what happened. I could be wrong, Maybe they have nothing to do with each other, but I remember Payless department store Sold stereos, they sold TVs, they sold plants, you know, clothing, all of that stuff. Anyone remember that.
Speaker 1:And a lot of times I remember, at least in the Sacramento area where I was growing up, the Payless would be always right next to the Albertsons the Payless grocery store. If anyone remembers Albertsons, remember Allen Hamill Hi everybody, allen Hamill for Albertsons, his wife Suzanne Summers. No, that was that for Alpha Beta. Excuse me, that may have been for Alphabeta, but you know there's another one, alphabeta, but that wasn't really the department store, it was a grocery store, but Payless. I remembered so well.
Speaker 1:And then if you went back, like to the Southgate Shopping Center I grew up in the South area of Sacramento In Southgate Shopping Center there was a grants department store. There was a crests department store, if anyone remembers, those used to go in there and play, yeah, a pinball at one of those stores and I can't remember if it was grants or crests We'd go and smash a penny into a slug and we'd put it in the pinball machine and it rack up like 15 games. Oh sure, we were ripping them off that way, but hey, we were kids and we found a way to get 15 games for free with a slug. I mean you remember that Versus, like one or two games for a quarter, three games for a quarter, whatever, but I just remember that from you. Know you could even throw in the mix.
Speaker 1:Now I hate to say it, but because this one's more recent, but like Kmart, kmart is now a defunct department store, aren't they? I think maybe there's one existing somewhere, which is kind of sad. I mean, kmart was around forever. Attention, kmart shoppers. We'd like to direct your attention to the Blue Light Special. Mama would always go in there before she'd take us to the drive-in movies. She'd load the car up into the station wagon with all of us kids head of the drive-in movies, but first we had to go to Kmart and she'd get these, these coconut-covered marshmallows which I hated them, I just hated it and a gigantic, like a pillowcase-sized bag of popcorn, and then the six kids, we all go to the drive-in pile in the station wagon. God, those great memories. So, as they, they asked about these department stores on the social media, so my mind starts flooding with these memories.
Speaker 1:And then there's the gymco. Remember gymco. I think gymco is now target right, isn't? Didn't target used to be gymco? Not a big target guy anymore due to some of their policies and things they put in place, which is a completely different story. But I think target used to be gymco and I remember the gymco here.
Speaker 1:If you're in the Sacramento area listening over on Broadway, you know, which was the same spot where Edmunds Field was, which is where my dad played professional baseball with the Sacramento Solans, which was the first lighted field sports field on the West Coast. So in the LI, remember that one gymco Mervins. Remember Mervins. There was a department For some reason. Whoever created that ad campaign for Mervins with the ladies tapping on the glass, remember this one Open, open, open. Remember, she's tapping on glass. She's waiting for the store to open, open, open, open. Mervins, mervins. Man, that's long gone and I don't know if this store existed in many other places, but White Front Department store.
Speaker 1:White Front was a department store we used to go to all the time. I remember my mom would go in there and we'd buy records. She'd buy records, she. I knew music so well at a certain age even as, like at eight, nine, 10 years old, we go into White Front.
Speaker 1:I remember one time my mom she didn't care She'd be dancing in the aisles, she didn't care if anyone saw her dancing Big deal. She was outgoing, and not to mention onry no wonder I work at my outgoing and onriness but my mom was certainly that She'd be dancing in the aisle and she'd go Patrick. I remember she was. It was playing boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. She goes Patrick.
Speaker 1:What is this song I'm dancing to right here? What is that they're playing? And I took a listen down, down, down. I said that is probably like nine, maybe 10. I said that's a heard it through the grapevine by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Okay, so she goes into the record department. I want this album you're playing, heard it through the grapevine. What is it, patrick? Creedence Clearwater, creedence, clearwater Revival. And at that point she bought every Creedence Clearwater Revival album in existence. She ended up loving Creedence. So when it comes to Creedence Clearwater Revival, man, I know every album, I know every word of every song, every song which is on which album.
Speaker 1:And I will also say this my favorite, ccr. You know CCR. I'm going way off track, but I don't care. Ccr never had a number one hit, by the way, but I think they had like the most number two hits of anyone, so extremely popular. But my favorite songs by a CCR are the deep, deep cuts. Just a thought keep on chuglin' bootleg. I mean there's just a lot of great, you know, deep cuts from Creedence Clearwater that I really loved. But that always takes me back to White Front, just another department store that is no longer around.
Speaker 1:I may have to bring that up on my show tonight and see what other people have to say, sort of hold back on some of those. But I don't really repeat my show. So I may not do it because, like I don't like to repeat things on my podcast that I'm doing on my show, except for on a certain occasion where it kind of calls for it. So I may not do that. I've got plenty to talk about on my show. Let me get a drink of water here. Let's see.
Speaker 1:You know, I saw this very, I'm gonna say, disturbing. Certainly it is disturbing, though, and I just yes, I guess disturbing is a good word but a real story from Eagles, don Henley. Don see this story about Don Henley. Don Henley is saying that he regrets his cocaine fueled night with a 16 year old prostitute who suffered a seizure. Well, don Henley said he wanted to escape. So you know, don Henley is like the Eagles co-founder, and along with Glenn Fry, of course.
Speaker 1:And on Monday yesterday, don Henley talked very openly about the time he had the cocaine fueled evening. He was busted with a 16 year old prostitute at his home in Los Angeles, said he regretted it, said he still lives with more than four decades later as he took the stay in a Manhattan court. He still lives with it. He said I didn't know he was 76 now, but he's 76. And he was asked about his 1980 arrest is, as he testified in the criminal trial surrounding a scheme involving allegedly stolen handwritten draft lyrics If you heard that story, someone stole the lyrics to Hotel California.
Speaker 1:Talked about that last week, saying that the rock bands break up. That that particular fall made him depressed, amongst other things, prompted him to call a madam to provide him with quote some company as he wanted to forget what was going on, that he wanted to escape the depression that he was in. And he's saying this in the Manhattan Supreme Court. This is after prosecutors asked him about his criminal history. He says so he made a mistake. Called the madam, told him he wanted the company. A few hours later this young woman arrives at his home and, admitting it's a mistake, he told the court that when he invited Rodies to his home to announce the news of the band's breakup on November 20th of 80, it was only known by the Eagles inner circle at that point. So but once the group he's left his home.
Speaker 1:Henley said that this young woman, whom he believed about be about 20, 21 years old, arrived and the two shared intimate details about themselves, including telling him about the Eagles split up. They then did cocaine and he said that they they did that intermittently, began to talk. Throw in some wine, said she asked me if he had any cocaine, said he did. They did some and then Henley testified they went to bed together and did not have any sex. When he got up in the morning here to crash from the bedroom, called 911, realized she was having a seizure and then the fire department shows up and told him that they either had to take her or she could stay in his care, according to what he said in the courtroom, and the authority said at the time that the paramedics arrived to find the girl naked, suffering from an overdose.
Speaker 1:Henley says when a girl woke up later in a day, told her to call for someone to pick her up and when a ride arrived, police were at his door and they arrested him. He was asked by the DA the assistant DA there, aaron uh Gennadis, whether he found the escape that he said he'd been seeking, and Henley admitted he made a poor decision and he continues to live with that to this day, says I regretted I've had to live with for 44 years. I'm still living it, living it today in this courtroom. So he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 81, received probation and a $2,500 fine. And, by the way, interesting to point out here that the media coverage surrounding that incident at that time was reportedly the inspiration for his song dirty laundry. If you remember that song, very popular song that was on his 1982 solo album and he also discussed in a 91 GQ magazine interview. He said that he didn't know the girl was underage until after he was arrested.
Speaker 1:He was the drummer of the Eagles still is, of course, and he was asked about it yesterday in the ongoing trial of the rare books dealer Glenn Horowitz, ex rock and roll Hall of Fame curator Craig in Cianardi and memorabilia seller Edward Kosinski, who are accused of scheming to sell the original documents from when the band worked on their hit 1976 album Hotel California, the song in particular Henley accusing it Sanders, the writer. They never published biography about the band of stealing the lyrics to their hit Hotel California before he sold them to a rare collectors, a collectible sellers in New York City. Sanders has not been charged with anything, no wrongdoing, has not publicly commented on the case. He allegedly sold Henley's notepads to Horowitz for 50 grand in 05, before the dealer then passed off the collection to in Cianardi and Kosinski in 2012. That's according to the prosecutors. So now those three face face charges of conspiracy to possess stolen property and various other offenses, so that's why they are in the jury trial right now.
Speaker 1:Other things I saw. Another thing that caught my attention Watching television. For a minute. I don't get a chance to watch a ton of it, I'm always too busy. Turned it on. I always see something that's going to drive me crazy and what I would say? It drives me crazy really, this one, but it really. It just amazes me when I see it. Let me try to find this for you. So I recorded this off of the TV today, about an hour ago. These commercials, these political commercials this would happen to be about Steve Garvey. This is put out by the Democrats. This is the you know neither, I guess when you don't have anything good to tell people, you have anything good to tout. When you can't say, gee, we are behind this and this is a great thing and you should be voting this way. Instead, you fill your airtime with a negative ad telling us how bad the other guy is. So here is the ad. This is a negative ad regarding Steve Garvey.
Speaker 2:No wonder Steve Garvey wants to block Biden and Pelosi's progressive agenda and supports building Trump's border.
Speaker 1:Did you hear that right there? No wonder Steve Garvey wants to stop Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi's progressive agenda. Boy, would I say. Those words I'm holding up huge, made out of big brass quotation marks.
Speaker 2:Listening no wonder Steve Garvey wants to block Biden and Pelosi's progressive agenda and supports building Trump's border wall. Garvey stands for Trump. Both times he was the best person for the job. I voted for a price.
Speaker 1:Garvey stands for Trump. The way they say it I love. The way they narrate is they don't even you're trying to move a point, you go Garvey stands for Trump. It's Garvey stands for Trump, and this is the way they say it and I love it. He stands oh, he stands for border walls.
Speaker 2:You mean security. No, he's progressive agenda and supports building Trump's border wall.
Speaker 1:No, he supports security for the country using a border wall.
Speaker 2:He stands for Trump. Both times he was the best person for the job.
Speaker 1:And then they take these little clips from some speech. You're not even sure what he was talking about. Of all times, he was the best man for the job. Hell, he could have been talking about his plumber. Oh, mr Garvey, have you had any plugged up sinks? I have. Who did you use? I used Bob Whitman. Why? Because both times he was the best man for the job. But they just take it out of context completely. Maybe he was talking about Trump, but who cares? Who cares? Listen, here you go this person for the job.
Speaker 2:I voted for him, Mr Garvey. I Steve Garvey is too conservative for California. Yes, Steve.
Speaker 1:Garvey will keep illegals out of your state. Steve Garvey is too conservative for California. Steve Garvey was once caught playing baseball in front of children. Steve Garvey is not right for this state. It's unbelievable man. Unbelievable. Just the little music in the background, just the little music in the background is so great, you know. And they're talking about the wall. He's in Pelosi and Biden's progressive agenda and they can't have anything to do with Trump. You know, it's interesting. I love going back, like five years ago maybe it was five years ago or so, maybe longer, maybe six years ago, something like that when you had Trump, nancy Pelosi together in the same room which is just dynamite with Chuck Schumer, who's just such an ass. I'm sorry, this snide and they're all snide. They're all snide and they start talking about the wall and border security.
Speaker 4:It's unbelievable, okay let me ask you this and we're doing this in a very friendly manner it doesn't help for me to take a vote in the house where I will win easily with the Republicans. It doesn't help to take that vote because I'm not gonna get the vote of the Senate I need 10 senators.
Speaker 5:That's the problem.
Speaker 4:You have the White House, you have the Senate, I have the White House.
Speaker 5:The White.
Speaker 4:House is done and the House would give me the vote if I wanted it, but I can't because I need Nancy. I need 10 votes from Chuck.
Speaker 5:Let me say something here. I'm gonna just say one thing. The fact is you do not have the votes in the house.
Speaker 4:Nancy, I do, and we need border security, nancy, nancy, we need border security.
Speaker 1:This is when Trump was threatening to shut down the border if he didn't get border security. And Mike Pence is hilarious. Pence is sitting to be Twitter. So you've got Pelosi on the left and Pence is next, and he's just his fans looking back and forth like it's a tennis match. He never says a word. He looks just like race banin' and Schumer's to the right and he is so smug he won't look at Trump. He is so pissed off. You can tell Securities first of all.
Speaker 4:We need border security. People are pouring into our country, including terrorists. We have terrorists. We've got 10 terrorists over the last very short period of time 10. These are very serious people. Our border agents, all of our law enforcement has been incredible what they've done, but we caught 10 terrorists. These are people that we're looking to do harm. We need the wall. We need more important than anything we need border security, of which the wall is just a piece, but it's important.
Speaker 6:Chuck, did you want to say something? Here's what I want to say. We have a lot of disagreements here. The Washington Post today gave you a whole lot of Pinocchios because they say you constantly misstate how much the wall is built, how much of the wall is built.
Speaker 1:So that's Chuck Schumer's way of saying you're a liar. He puts it off on the Washington Post giving him Pinocchios so he doesn't have to say in front of the press who's standing there, you're a damn liar.
Speaker 6:Trump, don't add on much to there, but that's not the point here. We have a disagreement about the wall, whether it's effective or not. Not on border security, but on the wall. We do not want to shut down the government. You have called 20 times to shut down the government. You say I want to shut down the government. We don't. We want to come to an agreement. If we can't come to an agreement, we have solutions that will pass the House and Senate right now and will not shut down the government, and that's what we're urging you to. Do not threaten to shut down the government.
Speaker 4:Because you don't want to shut down the government, chuck, because you can't get your way, because the last time you shut it down you had killed it.
Speaker 6:Yeah, let me say something, Mr President. You just say my way or we'll shut down the government. We have a proposal that Democrats and Republicans will support these guys.
Speaker 1:Just hate each other. You can just tell they're seething, they hate each other.
Speaker 6:Do a CR that will not shut down the government. We urge you to take it, and if it's not, good border security.
Speaker 4:I won't tell you it is very good border security and if it's not good border security, Very good border security, he says.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile we are literally, they're trying to tell us right now how do we handle the influx of all the people coming into this country that are not being vetted. And this chomp is sitting. It isn't one like Schumer Are you kidding me? And Pelosi. They're going to sit there and tell us whether, oh, this is very effective. It's effective to let people come through unvetted across our boards, flooding through, as we have now fast forwarded five, six years, whatever it's been, and we're seeing the results of this. And now all you hear is that they're going to give gift cards to people in New York who are coming in illegally, somehow by the woke governor there, because there they're going to get the gift cards and if you come in legally, you don't get them, because they're trying to curtail and trying to deal with the influx of these people coming over illegally Security?
Speaker 4:I won't take it. It's what the board. Because when you look at these numbers of the effectiveness of our border security and when you look at the job that we're doing, we're not military.
Speaker 6:You just said it is effective.
Speaker 4:Can I tell you something?
Speaker 6:Yeah, you just said it's effective Without a wall these are only areas where you have the wall.
Speaker 1:Schumer is just such an ass.
Speaker 3:Where you have wall stuff.
Speaker 1:If you're saying Trump is too. That's OK. I mean, look, a lot of people in politics are asses, but Schumer has a particularly yeah any of them, it's effective.
Speaker 4:When you don't have walls, it is not effective. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Let's call a halt to this. We've come in here as the first branch of government, article 1, the legislative branch. We're coming in good faith to negotiate with you about how we can keep the government open.
Speaker 4:We're going to keep it open If we have border security. If we don't have border security, chuck, we're not going to keep it open.
Speaker 6:Let me do we are not going to have border security, and it's the same border. You're bragging about what has been done. We want to do the same thing we did last year this year. That's our proposal. If it's good then, it's good now and it won't shut down the government.
Speaker 4:Chuck, we can build a much bigger section with more money. Let's debate in private OK.
Speaker 5:Yeah, let's debate in private To avoid frankly a fact and we can discuss that.
Speaker 4:We need border security. I think we all agree that we need border security. We do Good, we do See, we get along. Thank you, everybody See.
Speaker 1:We get along. See, we get along. There's a whole lot more to that and you notice, pence hasn't said anything. Pence is an oddball guy, man. I don't know, I'm sure he's a standup man. If you hang out with him, go fishing with him, whatever, he's probably the cool dude. But he's an oddball guy sometimes as he just sits there and watches. Oh man, just a couple of more seconds of this.
Speaker 2:You say border security at the wall. Can you have border security without the wall?
Speaker 4:You need the wall. The wall is a part of border security. You're finding what it means to have border security. Yeah, we need border security. The wall is a part of border security. You can't have very good border security without the wall.
Speaker 5:No, that's just really not true. That is a political promise. Border security is a way to effectively honor our responsibility.
Speaker 1:And the experts say you can do border security. Border security is a way to honor our responsibility, said Nancy Pelosi. And yet look at what's happening right now. Where is it, nancy? Are you honoring your responsibility Seriously? Now, chuck? He's going to chime in real quick, without a wall, which is wasteful and doesn't solve the problem.
Speaker 4:It totally solves the problem, but I don't want to take this. And it's very important.
Speaker 5:Unfortunately, this is spiraled downward. When we came to a place to say how do we meet the needs of American people who have needs? The economy has its people are losing their jobs, the markets in a mood Our members are already, left alone the markets in a mood. It's unemployment that we've had in 50 years 60 people of the Republican Party have lost their offices now because of the transition. People are not at the morale.
Speaker 4:And we've gained in the Senate. Nancy, we've gained in the Senate. Excuse me, did we win the Senate? We won the Senate.
Speaker 6:When the president brags that he won North Dakota in Indiana, he's in real trouble.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah. North Dakota in Indiana. You bunch of chumps, when they brag about you, you're in real trouble. North Dakota in Indiana. Remember that North Dakota in Indiana? That was Chuck Asinine Schumer, I did.
Speaker 4:Let me say this, we did win.
Speaker 1:North.
Speaker 5:Dakota in Indiana. This is the most unfortunate. I'm just going to leave it.
Speaker 1:Oh god what.
Speaker 5:We came here in good faith and we're entering into this kind of a discussion in the public.
Speaker 4:But it's not bad, Nancy.
Speaker 5:No, it's called transparency. I know it's high transparency. We're not stipulating to a set of facts and when we want to have a debate with you about saying we confront some of those facts, we have to.
Speaker 4:You know what we need border security. That's what we're going to be talking about Border security.
Speaker 1:If we there you go, let's see, don't have border security, we'll shut down the government.
Speaker 4:There you go so anyhow, I love it.
Speaker 1:Border security, effectiveness, right, right, very, very nice. I need to cleanse my mind a little bit. I need to cleanse my mind with some music. I'm going to finish the Pat's Beeps 54 off with with some music, like we always do, and today I have, cold from my record collection, a very interesting record, one that goes back a long way with me, in that I came across this group in my teen years and I thought the name of the band was very odd not odd, I mean odd in a kind of a cool way like wow, who names themselves with this name? I never heard anything quite like it and I started listening to them because of their name and the next thing, you know, I am going to their concerts. I know their albums kind of by heart, and this one right here was one of the first ones that I got to know.
Speaker 1:So this band formed in 1972, based out of San Francisco, and they for a long time kind of were very I mean not kind of. They had one of the most amazing stage shows you'd ever seen ever. They went way, way, way out on stage. It was like a big thing to see, very theatrical, and as a 17 year old kid. I'm like dang, this is way different. Then I saw them again, then I saw them again, then I saw them again and the next thing, you know, you fast forward many years and I'm introducing them on stage. I couldn't believe I got to introduce them on stage and then, if you've noticed my show, I accidentally threw a beer accidentally. I don't even know what happened. The beer went out of my hand in a red solo cup into the face of the drummer, prairie Prince, and he was not happy.
Speaker 1:I loved their album, young and Rich, their debut album, which we're going to play a song from right now, and I'm gonna get right to it because I'm running long today. So this is a band that, like I said, had early on they had FM songs that were kind of hits to the FM crowd, but not on big time radio. They were not really a commercial success until after a while when they did become a much bigger commercial success in the 80s. From San Francisco, california to the tubes. And what do you want from life? What do?
Speaker 3:you want from life To kidnap an heiress or threaten her with a knife?
Speaker 1:What do you want from life Born of security?
Speaker 3:To get cable TV and watch it every night. There you sit up and lump in your chair when you sleep. And what do you wear when you're sleeping? What do you want from life? An Indian guru to show you the inner light? What do you want from life? I'm meaningless and I'm a fair with a girl that you met tonight. How can you tell when you're doing all right? Does your bank account swell while you're dreaming at night? How do you know?
Speaker 1:So this is a very unusual song that goes on a long list of things. There at the end, you know a baby's arm holding an apple. You probably aware of all that. What do you want from life? What?
Speaker 3:do you want from life? Come to love and somebody you can trust. So the members of the tubes Rick Edison, vince Welnick.
Speaker 1:Bill Spooner, michael Cotton, bob McIntosh, ray Stiles, mingo Lewis, jane Dornaker and the other two are the same Ray Stiles, mingo Lewis, jane Dornaker, fee Webel. Prairie Prince is the drummer who actually threw the beer in his face. Roger Steen, they had very what would you say, like well, songs like this. They were way different and because they were so out there, I think they were underrated as musicians. Well, you're gonna have this, but if you're an American citizen as we were going back to our previous conversation, american citizens and illegals what do you want from life? Well, this is interesting because you can tell they're gonna have to cut this one short from the album version. To be honest, I didn't even know that this. This is on A&M Records. I didn't even know this was on a 45.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's interesting because on the album version he goes into this whole thing about a baby's arm holding an apple and just a whole variety of things, and he doesn't do it there. Okay, interesting. So he's flipping over and just get right to it. Flipside of this by the tubes is a song called off that same album. It's called Space Baby. Space Baby wrapping up Pants Peeps 54.
Speaker 3:Space Baby you got no planet. Space Baby you got no planet Got no home to give a name.
Speaker 1:Again, I do not own the rights to this music. I am simply trying to promote the music of the band, perhaps even sell a few records downloads for them, and mainly just educate people on the background of their music. And so, with that in mind, space Baby, the tubes, thank you for listening to Pants Peeps 54. Greatly appreciate it. Have a blessed rest of your day. We'll see you for Pants Peeps 55 tomorrow.
