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Ep. 66 Pat's Peeps Reflects on Radio's Charm and the Perils of Fame, Including Stalking Stories, a DJ Burns His Bridge On-Air, Aaron Donald's Exit and Clarence Carter's Soulful Sign-off
As your host, Patrick, I'm wrapping up in the warmth of your messages and support on Pat's Peeps. Venturing past the surface of radio broadcasting, we pay tribute to the titans like Rush Limbaugh and Morton Downey Jr., who've left indelible marks on the industry. We'll also traverse Sacramento's radio landscape, nodding to Tony Cox and Big Jim Hall's indomitable spirits that once energized our local airwaves. And as technology shapes our present, we muse over its impact on radio's intimate charm and the thrilling yet precarious journey towards syndication.
Navigating the darker alleys of fame, I open up about chilling encounters with stalkers that cast long shadows over the glitz of the broadcasting world. Imagine receiving cookies laced not with sugar, but with obsession, or a Secretary's Day celebration taking an eerie turn—such stories peel back the curtain on a host's life and the delicate dance with admirers that sometimes misstep into intrusion. Through these accounts, I'll explore the underbelly of notoriety and the boundaries we draw to protect our peace.
Concluding on a lighter octave, we reminisce on the adrenaline rush of breaking in hits like "Stairway to Heaven" and the mischievous antics that radio days allowed. It's a bittersweet symphony with the news of Aaron Donald's retirement from the Rams, prompting reflections on his legacy and the void he leaves behind. We'll then wade through the soulful melodies of Clarence Carter, letting his tunes resonate as we sign off on Pat's Peeps number 66, always with an invite back into the folds of radio magic and stirring stories.
Yeah, buddy. Hey now, how are you? My friends, it's Patrick and this is Pat's Peeps, number 66. Number 66 in there. Let's continue it on. My friends, Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1:I'm in a good mood. It's a Friday. It's a Friday, the 15th day of March, one month ahead of tax deadline. I hate thinking about that, but it's beautiful, the sun is out. It's a little bit chilly, Probably in the 60s here in Northern California, as I look out my studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, Wherever you happen to be listening from, Thank you, and I'm very happy about the sunshine. I'm happy about the fact that so many of you are now messaging me and saying, Pat, I'm enjoying the Pat's Peeps. Thank you from the bottom of my little old heart. I appreciate that so very much. We're trying to grow the audience, you know, and just every day now I'm hearing from you and it's wonderful. It motivates me every day to do this and obviously I'm enjoying it too. As again, here we are at number 66 here on Pat's Peeps. And you know, last night I'm also the host of the Pat Wall show. If you don't know that already, I like to tell you that on the I Heart Radio app, heard everywhere internationally, nationally and locally on KFBK. And KFBK is in Sacramento, For those of you who don't know that, and KFBK, where I work, is the home of many syndicated radio hosts, the main one that many of you probably know and, again, listen.
Speaker 1:I mean whether you like or dislike the person, I mean it's just the fact that they were very well known. One of the biggest ever, Rush Limbaugh. You know Rush Limbaugh was a KFBK alumni, Spent many years there. That's where he became popular, Worked at other stations, worked some time with the Kansas City Royals prior to that, but when he came to Sacramento Rush Limbaugh became a real star. And there have been others throughout the years Morton Downey Jr, who also and as you recall you know, Rush also had his own national television show at one point. That didn't really last long. I don't think that was Rush's bag really. But Morton Downey Jr if you remember Morton Downey Jr, he had a television show as well. Eventually it was called the Big Mouth the Big Mouth. Did he remember the Big Mouth? Morton Downey Jr? He did. He had a Big Mouth, but he was from KFBK, part of the KFBK alumni Also. Tom Sullivan hey, Tommy, how you doing with Tom? I've known Tom forever, Tom Sullivan, who has his syndicated show. He is from KFBK as well.
Speaker 1:We go way back, you know I mean, but syndication has changed. You know, it seemed like to me they were on the verge of syndicating my show when the pandemic hit and then that threw a monkey ranch on everything and then it never happened. And that's okay Because really, as I mentioned the other day, syndication can change you. But now, really, syndication is through the app, you know, through the iHeart app. It is through my Pat's Peeps podcast, Because I don't, if you're listening in Nebraska, if you're listening wherever the Philippines, we have people who listen in the Philippines. I hear from them all the time I have. We have people who listen in Kuwait. So wherever you are listening, obviously that makes us not only national but international and that really is sort of again the new syndication, Although syndication radio is a very good thing too, but again, as long as it doesn't take away elements of your show.
Speaker 1:That got you to the point of syndication to begin with. You know, talking to people being one of those things, as I mentioned on a previous episode of Pat's Peeps, it's very important to me and there's also the local angle and things. And speaking of the local angle, what I do love about local radio happened last night on my show and I got so much good feedback from my radio show last night I decided, when we went to Sweet Lou Gallagher's Memorial a couple of weeks back, that some of the guys that I saw there, that I have known and listened to forever. One of the guys happens to be really my best, one of my best friends in the world Tony Cox and Tony and Big Jim Hall. These guys are radio legends. By the way, shout out to Bud Crest who does that 70s show, that 70s channel, and Bud is a good radio guy. But last night, you know, in terms of commercial radio, Tony and Big Jim Hall these guys are legendary, particularly in the Sacramento market. Now they've worked in other markets, but keeping it to Sacramento, these guys are legends.
Speaker 1:Tony worked for KROY, K-R-O-Y back in the day when I was a teenager and I listened to KROY and back then, you know, you had a couple of radio stations If you were of a certain age, like junior high school, for instance, elementary school, junior high, the AM Radio man. That was the thing happening back then. And in Sacramento you had a couple of well, three choices really. If you were going to listen to Top 40, you had KROY KFRC, Dr Don Rose. I mentioned him on a show, I think yesterday, when I said we were going to do this. And then we had KNDE Candy, which was kind of an up and comer here in Sacramento. I was always a KROY guy, Although I did get my KNDE leather key chain at the seventh grade dance at James Rudder and I cherished that thing and I still have one of their bumper stickers, by the way. So here are these legends.
Speaker 1:And Big Jim Hall worked at K-R-A-K country memories, Crack country. Can you imagine now having a radio station called Crack Country? I just think about that Crack Country and I grew up listening to that because my mom would be in the 73 Falcon Station wagon taking us six kids through grocery shopping over the LUCKies and thrifties and doing what she does, and we'd have the AM radio and we'd be listening to K-R-A-K and I just grew up with that. Tell them, okay, Paul, and only Louise sent you, would you On a crack corral of country hits. So it was a pleasure to sit there and exchange radio stories with Tony Cox and Big Jim Hall Very entertaining. We got so much good feedback on that. So thank you for that.
Speaker 1:But we started the show off by honoring Stan Atkinson, and Stan Atkinson, who is a long time professional just incredibly professional, talented news anchor really national talent turns 91 coming up soon and they're going to have a special on Stan Atkinson. We talked about it yesterday. Shout out to Tony Lopez, who did a great job, and Tony Lopez, who I mentioned to him last night on my show you're a great man and you do a great job and you've been doing this for a long time as well and he needed to be recognized for that. But I mean, here you have Stan Atkinson getting ready to turn 91. So Tony Lopez interviews him for this show, this special that they are going to be talking about Stan Atkinson's career. And so Big Jim Hall and Tony Cox and myself and Tony Lopez Well, we all had a great time on the show last night honoring Stan who, by the way, sounded terrific. If you heard Stan last night, he sounded fantastic. I mean he really did. And you know what I could tell he was having a good time, Like he was happy to be reminiscing about his career and talking about people like Betty Vasquez and, you know, Gary Gerald, we were just talking to Mike Boyd and going back and talking about all these folks that he used to work with and I really enjoyed those stories and the interaction that we had with Jim and both of Tony's and with Stan Atkinson. And so if you do get a chance, if you are in the Sacramento area, that special is going to be airing tonight on a couple of different stations and so, yeah, if you get a chance, check that out. And you know, Stan Atkinson also started out in radio as a DJ.
Speaker 1:I've done some TV, quite a bit of TV, and I've done a lot of radio and, to be honest, I have always preferred radio to television, Always preferred that. And let me also say, if you did not hear, and, by the way, for a variety of reasons, why I prefer radio theater of the mind. It's like a just like an, just kind of an open palette you can just draw, you can just create in radio. You can do that in TV too. But really commercial TV you really can't. A lot of times in radio you really can't. But that's why I feel so blessed. I have a show where I can do anything I want. It's just unbelievable. What else was I going to say there I kind of switched courses, oh yeah. So if you didn't hear the conversation last night on my radio show, the Pat Wall Show, you know we have podcasts of that as well and you can hear that If you just look for the Pat Wall Show podcasts and go back to last, to last night.
Speaker 1:We started off with Stan Atkinson in the seven o'clock hour and then we tell stories in the eight o'clock hour. Some of the stories we told, particularly with Stan. Then we shifted gears. We talked TV in the first hour, then into the second hour we started talking about radio and man, I love radio stories. I love them, and so you know we're talking about a variety of things. You know people that you have met in radio over the years, and Tony was sharing some great stories and you know. And Big Jim Hall was sharing some great stories and they were talking about things like, you know, having music director meetings on Tuesday mornings and I'm so envious of this. It'd be like were they listened to new songs that just came out and try to decide in the whether or not this is good for the radio station. And he talked about the first time they all sat down. I mean, imagine now listening to Stairway to Heaven, right and all right now by free and just going whoa blown away. Yeah, that's making it on the air, but I mean. So we talked about things like that.
Speaker 1:Plus, then we got off on a tangent because Tony brought it up, about stalkers and one of the strangest, I guess you might say, moments happened on my show last night when we got onto that topic about stalkers. So Tony shares a story about a stalker. Big Jim Hall really didn't have a lot of stalker stories, but I know Tony had more than one. And then he asked me about my any, if I had any, and I do Excuse me, Matter of fact, I had two or three, maybe, maybe more. But and what do I mean by stalker? Well, stalker, radio stalker, someone who excuse me, I'm choking Start talking about stalkers, I start choking up. Let me get a drink of water here, Thank you.
Speaker 1:Stalkers, being someone you know like, just someone who's very obsessed, you know, very obsessed, and they find their ways to let you know that they are obsessed. And so I have been fortunate enough to work in a couple of just like Tony and Big Jim in a variety of a couple is not really a lot of genres for me. I worked in a couple of different, you know, being a sports guy and then currently doing my show, talk radio but I used to be in music radio and you know, in music radio I did six to midnight, monday through Friday, and light 95, kpay in Chico, and the demographics for that radio station were 25, 54 women. And everyone thinks, yeah, men are crazy. I'm telling you something yeah, we might be crazy, we might, but women can be very scary. I'm so sorry, oh my God, but so can the guys. How can a guy, though a guy you just said your demos were 25, 54 women. Well, here's a story I told last night when we got into the so-called stalker stories. Now I'm just going to repeat it for context, because I need to tell you what happened on my show in case you missed it. So I'm talking about. So I got a male stalker and I said this guy actually was a male carrier. I worked in a post office. I don't know if he was a male carrier, but he worked in the post office when I was living in Chico and working at light 95.
Speaker 1:And the warm line would ring and the warm line, as I explained last night, is the. That's the phone line. We have the hotline. If your boss needs to get a hold of you, you'll call the hotline. Maybe you have a friend or someone, or maybe a guest you're going to have on something like that. You have the warm line and then the other lines are for the listeners.
Speaker 1:So the warm line would light up and I don't even know how this guy got this, this, this number. He'd call me. Hey, pat, how you doing? Man, my name is Dave and I love your show. Listen to your show. Oh, hey, thanks a lot, dave. I appreciate that. Yeah, thanks. So he would call and then he would call and they call the next night, call the next night. You know, and I'm working, I can't just be on the phone all the time. It's there, but you can't take advantage of that. So Dave would be calling me and I would be very polite, but I would kind of have to say, yeah, I really got to work here. Sorry about that. Anyway, you'd be fine with that. But as time went on, things began to get you know. They say he's going to go postal. Well, I would start to get calls that were much darker from Dave and he would say things like hey, pat, listen to your show Sitting in a corner in a dark and I'm drinking whiskey and I've got a gun, and they're going to be paying for that. They're paying, they're going to pay for it. You just why? You just wait, they're going to pay for it. They're down at the post office and I'm like, yeah, what the heck are you talking about? Now, in the meantime, dave painted this picture for me, this art of a stingray of all things, and not the car, the fish, the stingray, big framed, and the guy was an artist. Well, I decided, listen, I better be a responsible citizen. So I go into the post office and I start talking to the postmaster general and I said, listen, I have to have a private conversation. We sit as big old, he got a big old desk, like Mr Whoopie on Tennessee Tuxedo, remember, mr Whoopie? Come on in, boys, let me get my 3d BB. So you had a big old desk like Mr Whoopie. I wonder if I, I wonder if you had a trap door in front of you. Push the button, remember those? Like in all the cartoons, the guy would have a trap door. I'd fall into the ground. Anyhow, I digress, I love digressing. But I told the guy so listen, here's what I heard in this. You need to keep this between us. Oh, no problem, patrick, listen between us. No one will ever get wind of this. Okay, so I tell him the whole thing. This guy's threatening, I mean, he's calling me. He's saying this is going to happen. So a couple of days go by. Next thing, you know, phone, warm line. Pick up the phone line, the warm line Guy on the other end it's Dave. Hey, pat, how you doing man? Hey Dave, how's it going? Yeah, it's going real good. Say, listen, hey, hey, you trolled on me. You trolled on me. You came in and you're calling on me. I'm like, oh my God. They literally told his brother that I came in there and told and said I'm just trying to be a good citizen. Look at how they told him everything. I said yeah. So the next thing, you know, I'm hanging up Like hey, man, I got to go. Next thing, you know.
Speaker 1:So that radio station is in this old house. It was out on Kramer Lane in Chico and the when you walk through the front door that was the sales area. There were all of these, like it used to be a big living room or a great room or something. Now it had all of these desks and this is where the sales people would be. Here comes this guy, he's plops his feet up on the desk. No one knows who he is. He's sitting at a desk where there's no one sitting there. People are looking over like who's this dude? And then Larry Scott, our morning guy, decides yeah, who the hell are you? So he comes over and says hey man, can I help you? Yeah, I'm looking for Pat. Well, pat works in the evenings. Yeah, I know, and this is the afternoon before I got there. I'll just wait for him. Yeah, you can't really do that, and dangling from his hip is a weapon. He says yeah, you got to go. So, long story short, larry escorts the guy out and he goes and calls the sheriff.
Speaker 1:I don't know what happened to Dave after that. So I tell this story on the air and suddenly I get a phone call on my show and thank you to this gentleman for a listening to my show and it was a call from Chico, and on my screen it says son of stock. Oh my God, you must be kidding me. You must be kidding me. It's the son of this Dave guy is listening to my show. I'll pick up the phone. He says hey, pat, love your show.
Speaker 1:I'm listening and, as you're telling this story, I'm starting to think this sounds very familiar. Is this like the like the early 90s, or something? I say, yeah, it's exactly right. He says that's my stepdad. Now are you serious? That's my stepdad, so you never know who's listening. And he says, yeah, I had to get out of there, that man was a lunatic. And he says I had that same stingray painting because I gave it back and so I always think about that painting. And he goes yeah, I had that painting, I. And he goes and I and I'm listening to the story. It sounds so familiar. Like, wait a second, this sounds like my stepdad. And he goes. But then you said his name, dave, because I waited to say his name toward till, towards the end of the story. And he says when you said Dave, I knew exactly, and so it was so weird that this goes back in time, early 90s and that this gentleman here knew exactly what I was talking about. Yeah, that that's a true story, but that kind of gave me chills that this guy happened to be listening. Maybe sometime I'll share a couple of other stories where I was talking about something like that from my past and someone was listening and they're like yeah, that's me or that's my dad or my grandpa, that's you know, I've had those stories.
Speaker 1:I had another stalker story, the same radio station, light 95 KPA. Why, chico? All your favorite light hits again 2554 female demo. And we have St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend. Two days Sunday, two days from now, it'll be St Patty's Day. What are my favorite days of the year? What are my favorite days of the year?
Speaker 1:And this gal who really loved my show, my radio show back then, my music show. She became obsessed and she would call and she would write and call and send stuff. And then one time she says, hey, I'd like to bring you some cookies for St Patrick's Day, patrick, is that okay? And I said, sure, now, is it a good idea? Let's go to play Misty for me. Everyone always asks me about play Misty for me. Do you ever give? Give a play Misty for me a moment? That's actually how Tony asked it last night.
Speaker 1:So, in terms of getting food from people, ah, you gotta be, we gotta be, you know, cautious to say the least. I was young still am young, by the way. She gives me these cookies on a tray and a tray had like it was green and they had sham rocks and it was like a teddy bear, it literally like a tray you'd buy at the grocery store to put some cookies on. You know, not even an expensive looking tray or anything. So I get the cookie she gives them to me and make sure to give me my tray back. And I said, oh, okay, I can't remember her name. Okay, no problem. Well, I worked six to midnight, monday through Friday, like I said, but I also worked noon to six on Saturdays.
Speaker 1:Now this radio station on Kramer Lane is out there in the country of ways, in this house, like I said, not, there's no neighbors, and on a Saturday you're on there by myself. There's no one else in the building. You have an AM FM combo, so the AM side's over there. I'm on the FM side I'm on the ear there's a back sliding door. You're in like a galley type of a room, a very narrow short room, and behind you are is a sliding glass door. So your back is to the sliding glass door as you're playing the music on the Denon CD players and you're just kind of talking into a window.
Speaker 1:As they look into the window on this Saturday and I'm by myself and I'm not expecting anyone there, I look up into the window to do my break and as I go to say light 95 FM KPA, wide Chico heads power wall, such your favorite light hits. I look up into the window and when I see a reflection of this woman looking at me in the back through the slider, with the slider open and I, I'm about, I'm about freaked out on my break, I meant what? Oh, like that. It freaking startled me. But I hung together, stayed professional, did the break, turned around, said Hi, how are you? I'm fine.
Speaker 1:It's the woman that gave me the cookies on the tree. Did you like the cookies man? She snuck into the back door of the radio station to do this. All right, the back door which was right outside from the parking lot, through these glass slider, this glass slider. Did you like the cookies? Oh yeah, they were great. The green frosting was super. Really made my seat. Oh, that's good. I'm glad you liked them. Did you bring my tray back, like I asked you to? Now, first of all, hold on. How do I know that she's gonna be showing up on a Saturday sneaking behind me at the booth? I don't know she's gonna do that. So I said, oh no, I didn't bring, I didn't bring your tray. No. And before I could even say I didn't know, you're gonna show up and scare the living. You know what, adam? She begins to attack me in the booth. She's slapping me, she's swinging at me, she's cursing me. You didn't bring my tray. Like, oh my God, fatal attraction, unbelievable, unbelievable. Oh man, I'm getting a. I forgot to turn my phone on.
Speaker 2:I don't usually do that Hold on a second here, I don't want to be distracted.
Speaker 1:Here, I don't want to be distracted. I forgot to turn my do not disturb on. All right, there we go. No distractions right now, so anyhow. So yeah, stalkers, very weird, very freaky. Tell you one more, just one more. I hope you're okay with the stalker stories. So it's Secretary's Day. Secretary's Day is the day when the hard work and secretaries. They deserve something nice. So what would happen is you would have, you would say hi there, light 95 FM, kpi. Listen, secretary's Day is coming up next month. And if you would like some roses delivered to your work from your favorite DJ, then you send in a business card with your name on it and maybe you will be the winner. And then they would get dinner, and I can't remember what everything, what would all the gifts were, but we would bring them flowers. You don't bring me flowers, hey. So I get the card from this woman. Now I wonder if she's listening. Yvonne, Yvonne, not a bad looking woman, by the way, Deal, you're always a great guest.
Speaker 3:You get the people talking.
Speaker 1:Who is that? Now, I don't know what that was all about. Apologize. You know what this is fun. This is. It's kind of like it's. That's what I kind of like about the podcast.
Speaker 3:Anything can happen on the podcast Anything?
Speaker 1:can happen on my show too, but certainly anything can happen on the podcast. But this gal I take a, I take roses to this gal's work, yvonne, and she's a pretty good looking gal. I will say that, nice smile and everything. And so I take it to her and the next thing, you know, she's trying to get a hold of me. She's trying everything she can to get a hold of me. And this is before we had cell phones and all of that.
Speaker 1:And it turns out this woman who couldn't have even been 30 years old, somehow had like five or six kids. And I'm driving to work down Kramer Lane one day and out of the blue, just from the side of the road, she had a big old station wagon I could see it now simulated wood grade and paneling, hiding behind the bushes like in Cognito, and I drive by and it's all of a sudden like Dukes of Hazard, all the kids are fighting in the back of the station wagon. I pull into the parking lot of my radio station. She pulls in behind me, kind of pins me in with a big old station wagon with a simulated wood grain paneling and the kids fighting and she goes. You never called me, you brat, you brat, and she was pinching on me and you brat, and it was so bizarre and I made up some excuse. I try, still try, to be nice, but it's just so strange. It is just the strangest feeling, to be honest, and scary Speaking of radio.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to my stalker story. Thank you so much. I had one lady tell me are you Pat Walsh? It was like 930. I say, yeah, well, I just need to tell you. My son is coming down your way and I think he's tripping on acid and he thinks you're sending secret signals disparaging his sister over the airwaves. I went what Do you want now? Yeah, I'm sorry. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1:And then the group of women. I never forget this. They sounded pretty nice over the air, I'll tell you that. And they would call me hi, pat, hi. There'd be like four or five of them and they'd always tell me they were out in this jacuzzi in Paradise, the beautiful town of Paradise, and they'd be in a jacuzzi. We're listening to your show. We love you, pat. Oh well, thank you, ladies. And they thought they would hung up the phone, but they didn't, and I could sit and listen to their entire conversation while they're bubbling away in the jacuzzi. And let me tell you, ladies, your ladies are naughty. These ladies were not all of you, but boy, oh boy, I heard some stories about and they would be talking about me anyhow and whatever. It's just, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Speaking of crazy, I'm gonna play this for you. This is one of my favorites Speaking of radio. I played this on my show before, but I'm gonna play it anyhow, because this is a guy who just got fed up with things on the radio. Coyote J Calhoun was a DJ and he says you know what? I can't take the playlist, I wanna do some other stuff. Why are we not being creative? So Coyote Calhoun decides he's just gonna go ahead and do his own thing.
Speaker 2:Coyote's Allen. That's the movie Z 102.
Speaker 3:It was my show. I'm the one that really had a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:Peace of mind. I give you a peace of mind right now, ladies and gentlemen. I know that we're playing on Boston. I know that we're playing on Pink Floyd. We're not playing on Death Row, Joe. We're not even playing in the mountain who Mountain Shut up. So, because I love you a little bit more, so because I love me, I know that's my show. I can do what I want. Let me continue and play. Oh for Boston. It's a long version of Long Time. It's been a long time since good music was heard on this radio station. I've got a remedy that tonight.
Speaker 3:Ladies and gentlemen, I feel so good. Oh, I wanna take myself into a hotel room. I feel so good about myself. Z 102 FM. You know, tonight I decided to do whatever I want. Well, because it's my show, I am the king of the city and sometimes you can follow. You're so darn darn. Excuse me, I'm so sorry. You know I am a butthead. I won the butthead award last night. Everybody voted and said it was 93 to 12. They want a coyote to be a butthead. I thank you for your support and I can guarantee you, my pledge to you is continued buttheadedness through the entire year, now 1988. I won't let you down. You're the biggest butthead you've ever seen and believe me, ladies and gentlemen, I can do it. Why? Because I've had a lot of practice being a butthead. I appreciate your support and your best confidence.
Speaker 3:What we're talking about right now is this station's format, which is bugging me. You know what I'm supposed to play next hour. Oh, Madonna, open your heart, Please every breath you take. We haven't heard that song enough, have we? Please every breath you take? How many times do you think we've played that song in the past four years? Probably 5,000 times. My point is, my point is how many times have we played Pink Floyd off their brand new CD? Zero, none. Well, you know I played two or three cuts off the Pink Floyd CD in the past three months. You know how I did it. I sneaked the CD in here and I played it without authority and without permission. Why? Because I knew you wanted to hear it. It sold four million copies. We played nothing off it. That's a good business decision, isn't it? Oh, I can tell, these people are smart. We hire a consultant to tell us hey, don't play that. It sold four million copies. Someone might like it. Keep it off the station. Pink Floyd's my favorite band. We're going to remedy the fact we don't play any Pink Floyd right now.
Speaker 3:Ladies and gentlemen, it's G-102. I'll hold you behind me, Stand behind me, because we have to change. It's all the chronic way and this completely fascist way this radio station is run. I'm sure you agree. You're trying to hear in the same old garbage. Standing down, let's play some. What is that? Thanks, Lyle, I'll eat you down. Wow, Rockin' for the keys now E-T-1-2.
Speaker 3:Ladies and gentlemen, I think my medication is finally on off. I want to do the night as I was showing is, have a real request and dedication show and that one of these hopey ones where I just have put people on the edge of request dumbzogs. Whatever you want to hear, give me a call at 102-395-888 or they're on the number 333-112. Whatever you want to hear, I'm going to play for you. Why? Because I love you very much and in this, my show, I'm going to try to present a show with a little bit of intelligence. For now I said to the same old garbage over and over and over oh, my hotline is ringing. Well, ladies and gentlemen, hotline is ringing. I bet this will be interesting. Let's answer the hotline in the air. Oh, that's going to be fine. I'm calling anybody. Go, Kyle, Hello 2FM. Hello, what the hell are you doing? I'm playing one of my favorite bands, Boston. I'm playing Boston, Steve. A lot of Boston is what I'm doing. Why, it was just on the air. Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Russell, our program director of WCVQ.
Speaker 2:Yes, Steve, we're on the air. Give me off the air now.
Speaker 3:Lighten up, Steve, it's just a bit just a joke.
Speaker 2:Give me off the air now.
Speaker 3:No, I'm not going to get. I'll always play with you. If I take you off the air, then you'll give me a bad time. Why don't you just tell the people since?
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 3:Uh-oh, let's say a lot. Ladies and gentlemen, let's not let that ruin our party. Let's play some more Boston C-102-FM. I know each other Rushing for the C-102-FM, c-102-fm. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. They love me, they're behind me. We can't always play the same thing every night. This station is run by fascist, communist, socialistic programming fatheads. It's an all-catch-22. We play a lot of garbage. We're going to try to balance the garbage for now on. On my show. We're supposed to play it commercial too. Let's do that. Okay, enough of that. I don't really feel like playing commercials. I'm on a roll and feeling hot. I'm really worked out by him. I'm a little woozy. I am seeing double. I think I'm going to faint because. Well, what do you really should do? Ladies and gentlemen, before you continue, it's call Steve Russell back because I really don't want him to be angry at me.
Speaker 3:He is, after all, the program director, and he did sound a little miffed. Hello, paved. Sometimes they take these things so seriously, so I break in the format for one hour. Big deal. We're in ratings right now, so he's hyper. Let me call him.
Speaker 1:That's the thing that ever happened to the station.
Speaker 3:Well, just call Steve and make sure that he's not angry at me. Hello, hello. Who is this? It's Janice Janice, ladies and gentlemen, the lovely wife of Mr Steve Russell. Janice, hello Janice, how are you? I'm fine, thanks. What's your sexual problem? No at all. Let me speak to Steve, please.
Speaker 2:He's not here.
Speaker 3:Where is he?
Speaker 2:He's on his way to the station.
Speaker 3:He's coming here. It's for you, okay. Well, I'll talk to him when he gets here, then, okay, okay, okay, nice, talking to you. Bye, bye, janice, okay.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:We want to play some. Let's play some mountain. He should enjoy this drop. I think Steve will enjoy some mountain. We don't play this either. Here's some mountain. Steve See what else? Who have them? Felix Papallani, leslie Weston Mountain. We don't play any mountain. You believe that? As big as that mountain? A lot of followers in Felix Papallani are fine upstanding gentlemen that I knew personally and I believe it was Shot to Death at a Topless Nightclub. But we should play some mountain because that Mississippi was the number one record in 1970. Did we play it? Shot to Death at a Topless.
Speaker 1:Nightclub.
Speaker 3:You know all the records we don't play, you know, by Led Zeppelin, you know what I mean by Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 3:That is all we play by Led Zeppelin. You know what we play by REM? One song, the one I love. They have seven albums out. We play one song and you know why this happens. It's really not Steve Russell's fault. I know he's driving to the station, probably listening to me. I hope you are listening to what I'm saying right now. They listen closely. Steve, I don't hold you responsible for this. I know you're just a victim. I know you're just a victim. I'm just a victim of this machinery which we call radio. We're all victimized by this monster. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a consultant in Virginia that we pay big money.
Speaker 1:I hate consultants.
Speaker 3:I need more money than anybody in the station makes to send us music lists on what we should play. He tells us what to play and dictates to you what you're going to hear, and he's in Virginia. Here's the music sheet right here. Look what we got. We got Madonna, prince, ue, lewis Sticks. Oh, how adventurous, how adventurous. But Steve is on his way to the station.
Speaker 3:When I'm going to do this, I'm going to leave the microphone on, because when Steve gets here, I want him to stay in his position. I want a man to man to sit down in the chair and tell everybody why we listen to this Jeffrey's boob and why we follow these music sheets and have no leeway what to do. I'll tell you something I got to follow this music sheet, but if the ratings come back and my ratings, my book is bad. You know it's going to get fired. No, not Mr Jeffries, not Mr Russell. Mr Calhoun will be fired.
Speaker 3:So I should have some input into my show and you should have some input. You want to hear something. I should be able to play it. So when Steve gets here, we'll leave the mic on. When he gets here, we'll ask him why we're putting up with this. We know what to do. We've been a radio 10, 15 years. We don't need management to tell us what to do. Ladies and gentlemen, shutting Mike off, ladies and gentlemen, the program director at WZBQ and my friend Steve Russell, I don't shut the mic off.
Speaker 2:Back off.
Speaker 3:You're making it worse. Shut the mic off. The mic stays on. Cut the mic off or you're gone. I cannot believe that this is a big damn deal. Cut the mic off now. The mic stays on. I'm sorry, Cut the mic off. If you come close to the mic, I Back off. Russell, I don't know you. Cut the mic off. The mic stays on. Get it off Now. Now you're making it worse. I'll kill you. Oh, shut up, oh God.
Speaker 1:Are you alright?
Speaker 3:Shut up, cut the mic off. Are you playing the supreme now? No, the mic stays on. Cut the mic off. Don't touch me Back off. Oh my god.
Speaker 1:I love when someone shouts in the mirror hey, should we play the Supremes? Oh my god, that's so funny. Oh gosh, I just love that so much. Oh man, every man. I'll tell you what every radio guy wants to do that it was in music. It's like a dream, it's a fantasy for a radio person to be able to do that and, yeah, it's one of my all time favorites right there.
Speaker 1:Other note today, here on the 15th of March, another one of my all time favorites in a very different way Aaron Donald, the great defensive. Oh my god, Aaron Donald, I'm a rampant. Aaron Donald is Retired. He just restructured his contract. They stood defensive tackle. Aaron Donald took two, three guys at a time to block. This man has retired the Rams man. They are on the verge of looking great this upcoming season. I believe that. But I mean geez. Now Aaron Donald is retiring, Three-time defensive player of the year. This guy is one of the best to ever play the game. You may not be a Rams fan but you have to admit Aaron Donald, one of the best to ever play the game. I was shocked by that. He had just restructured his contract. Today's at enough.
Speaker 1:And I kind of wonder why. I really kind of wonder why I was thinking. You know, perhaps he wants to spend more time with his family, which is what he indicated, and at the same time, maybe he wants to not wreck his body for the future and so that he can have quality time with his family. You know, I don't know what the man's thinking is, but maybe that is it because the guys at the top of his game make no mistake, Aaron Donald is at the top of his game. He's quitting like Barry Sanders did when Barry Sanders was at the top of his game. Aaron Donald is an eight-time pro bowler out of his 10 seasons Eight-time pro bowler. He's definitely going to be in the Hall of Fame saying for 10 years I've been fortunate to play the game of football at the highest level. I'm thankful for the people I've met along the way, the relationships I built and the things I've accomplished with my teammates and individually. Donald, saying this in a statement and thanking both the cities of St Louis and Los Angeles, of course, talked about being, you know, throughout his career giving everything to football, mentally and physically, 365 days a year, dedicated to become the best possible player I could be said and respected the game like no other. I'm blessed to be able to conclude my NFL career with the same franchise, says Donald, the same franchise that drafted me, and not many people that get drafted to a team when a world championship with that team, win the championship on their home field and then retire with that team, he says I do not, I will not take it for granted. I love you, Aaron Donald. I'm a Ram fan, forever, have been, and you are one of the best I've ever seen, without a doubt, 2014 AP defensive rookie of the year, 13th overall pick. I remember exactly when they picked them. I know exactly what I was doing that day. Picked him out of Pittsburgh, had a great 10 year career, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1:Some of my favorite things, favorite memories about Aaron Donald and maybe I'll go into more of this on my show tonight, but I don't want to run long on Pat's peeps 66 year, but a couple of the things I'll share is my favorite memories really about Aaron. Number one is the sack that he had on Jimmy Garoppolo in the NFC championship game to send the Rams to the Super Bowl. That was on the top of the list for me, followed by even though that was the NFC championship against the Niners, followed by his sack at the end of the Super Bowl itself, on Joe Burroughs to end the Super Bowl and give the Rams the Super Bowl victory. One of my favorite memories from last year is when Geno Smith, Seattle Seahawks quarterback, was getting rushed by AD and you hear him loud, loudly over the microphones and on TV go oh my God, because Donald was going to take him out. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:And then one thing that stands out to me and Aaron Donald play that maybe some people might remember. Maybe it's just so long forgotten, but I remember it at the moment so vividly. Oh, and Russell Wilson running for his life Every time the Seahawks would play the Rams. Russell Wilson running for his life because he'd get thrown around like a rag doll. Kirk Cousins same thing by Aaron Donald thrown around like a rag doll.
Speaker 1:But I remember against the 49ers in the 2018 regular season. They were playing in San Francisco and the 49ers handed the ball to Matt Breida If anyone remembers Matt Breida, Matt Breida breaks it through a little hole and he's running. And also he gets smacked by the Rams and AD Donald comes out of the pack with the ball. He's like what the heck he had just literally wasn't a fumble. He had literally ripped the ball out of Breida's hands and if you go back and watch that play, it was absolutely awesome man. He just ripped it right out of his hands. So that's gonna be a tough loss for the Rams.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm certain now that with the draft coming up on the 25th of April, that weekend, the Rams have to be focused on a detackle now. They have to be. I mean, how do you replace a guy like Aaron Donald? So that is on my mind as of today. That is in the news. What else?
Speaker 1:We've had great guests this week. Go back and listen to the Grant Napier interview. If you've not heard that, please give that a listen. We have, you know, so many that I'd love you for you to go back and listen, see what you think. But we have great guests coming up in the next week and I look forward to more guests and I think you're gonna really enjoy it. Hey, let's finish up the Pat's Peeps number 66, as we always do with some music, shall we?
Speaker 1:And when I called this from my 45, my ultra rare 45 collection today, I was really happy to see this one, because I remember when this came out and I remember I really liked this song and it's it. It's it's during a period of time when there was a lot of great soul songs out. You know songs like. You know a lot of songs by like the Shy Lights, the Dramatic, just just a really good like late 60s, early 70s, and so this one song was so different. It came out during this time but I just remember I really liked it and it was very different. So the song is sort of a country soul song that's pretty rare Country soul written by General Johnson and Ron Dunbar and it's best known as the hit in 1970 by this artist and it won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Song, Again written by General Johnson.
Speaker 1:The lead singer of Chairman of the Board. Ron Dunbar worked in A&R and record production at the Invictus Record label. So the song tells a story about a boy raised in poverty in Alabama on a farm way back up in the woods you know what I'm talking about and he had a takeover responsibility for his dying father so he asked to endure extra labor as the oldest son of the family. Now the artist heard the song and said I heard, I heard it on the chairman of the Board LP and I really liked it. But the artist says you know, I had my own ideas about how it should actually be sang or be sung, as he said. And he says it was my idea to make the song sound really natural. Initially he thought that it would be quote degrading for a black man to sing a song, so red land of subjugation. But it was. But he was persuaded to do so by his record producer, Rick Hall. So the artist, Clarence Carter, records the song at the Fame Studios Muscle Shoals in Alabama, released in 1970.
Speaker 1:And this song was a big hit. Went to number one US Cashbox Top 100. Number two on the US Billboard charts, number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Number two on the UK singles chart. On and on and on. It's a song called patches. It's by Clarence Carter. Put it on the 45 for you.
Speaker 2:He did wonders when the times got bad. The little money from the proxy race.
Speaker 1:I just remember as a little boy I really I really liked the song. A ragged version was recorded in late 70 by the 90s, later known as Greyhound. Another version by Canadian country singer Ray Griff reached number 26 on the US country music chart. Again, I do not have a license. I don't own this music. I'm just exposing it to people who may not know or remember this. We're just trying to expose music. I'm not trying to make anything off of this. So we're going to flip this over and see what is on the other side of this one. The other side of this is a song called Say it One More Time. Say it one more time. So let's flip it over. By the way, I don't know if I mentioned it, but it is on Atlantic Records, a red label, Atlantic Records. Let me say here All right, here we go.
Speaker 2:You said you love me. Yeah, and I believe you. So, oh, yes, I did. You said you'd never, you'd never let me go. That's what you told me, girl, I know me to down you, no, no, no, I just like to know what I said. So, if you mean it darling, yeah, say it one more time.
Speaker 1:I like that. Say it one more time, clarence Carter. Hey, thank you so much for listening to Pat's Peeps, number 66. I'm already looking forward to number 67. Have a wonderful weekend. Please spread the word, pat'speepscom and on all your streaming platforms. I hope you'll be mad. Yeah, and you would always be mad. That's what you told me, girl.
