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Ep. 72 Today's Peep- Echoes of Radio Icon Joey Mitchell, Mustangs and Soapbox Derbies, Baseball Season Swings, Political Punditry, and the Enduring Chords of "Garden Party
As the paintbrush strokes transform my home from 'livable green' to 'morning sun', I feel the same sense of renewal in bringing you this week's episode of Pat's Peeps Podcast. We're peeling back the layers of our recent home improvements and the rich memories that they unearth. Join me as I recount the laughter and the legacy left by Joey Mitchell, Sacramento's beloved radio voice, whose spirit still lingers in my freshly rejuvenated abode. You'll hear about the thrilling Mustang test drives and the heart-pounding soapbox derby races that connect with the deeper stories of life's unpredictable races.
The microphone isn't just a tool; it's a witness to history, capturing voices and moments that define generations, celebrating milestones while dispensing nuggets of career wisdom. Ever wondered about the shenanigans that happen off the air? There's a tale of a bumper sticker, Air Force One, and a close call with presidential security that's too good to miss. Plus, we'll tip our caps to the upcoming baseball season with our prediction show, offering insight and entertainment as we swing for the fences in both sports and politics.
Music is the thread that ties together the past and the present, carrying us through times of change. This episode wraps up with a nod to the timeless tune "Garden Party" by Ricky Nelson, exploring its message of authenticity and influence on artists across decades. As I express gratitude to those who've helped rejuvenate my home, I extend the same to you, my listeners, for joining me in this sonic journey. Let's keep supporting local talent and cherishing the tunes and tales that soundtrack our lives.
hello, once again it is the pats peeps podcast. Here we are, number 72, approaching the milestone of 75 podcasts. Unbelievable man, we man, we just keep rolling along. Thanks for tuning in yet again today, on this Wednesday. It's a Wednesday, 27th day of March 2024, and as I look out into my freshly painted and about to be freshly painted studio, here out into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, it sucks, it's raining again. Tired of the rain, man, tired of the rain, but here we are raining and I guess we're expecting some sunshine At least Sunday for Easter. Looks like it's going to clear up by Easter. I don't know, but here we are again. Pat's Peeps Podcast 72.
Speaker 1:In the background, doing painting in my kitchen right now, is Chris, and then Matt is painting in my bathroom right now and Matt just finished painting. I'm just giving you an update every day on my home improvement projects. Super exciting, and I'm hoping to have these things done by easter. Looks like we may have a lot of this done by easter. Uh, so I can then show it off. Let my brother and, like I said, his family coming up for easter and, uh, you know, and then juan from southgate glass came out this morning and nice, super nice guy and came out and put the frame up around my new French doors and that, and he was going to texture it. But there's no need to texture it, see, because I found out about this a few days ago. Someone suggested to me. They said, well, you ought to think about this stuff called what is it? Chris shiplap, shiplap. Thank you, chris Shiplap. Thank you, chris Shiplap. I didn't even hear of this stuff before, but it seemed like it looked really nice and that it would really enhance this one wall around my French doors, and so we've decided to do that or he would have textured, but anyhow. So he was in here today doing a little bit of work, had to repair a wall. But there we are, here we are, we are turning it from.
Speaker 1:What is this paint color which we did this like three years ago? This stuff called livable green. I was telling Chris and Matt again please support local business, please, because Chris and Matt are here from American River Flooring, who literally has been instrumental in transforming my home. I know, I tell you that all the time, but it's really true. So you know we, about three years ago they came out, they painted the outside of my home and then they painted the inside as well and we used a thing called livable green, whatever that means. Ah, you can live with it, I don't know. Or, gee, it sure is so pleasant. You can just live with it every day, I don't know. Or if it's just like, yeah, I guess it's livable. Anyhow, it was very pleasant, it's been pleasant, but things change, you know.
Speaker 1:So the the new things I'm adding to my home, suddenly this color just doesn't seem right. I remember I was telling them right after they painted it, right after they painted it this color, I was also going to get my window coverings done from Nick and Nick of Time, who does the window coverings which are just beautiful, by the way made 100% in the US. And so at one point they had just painted my home on the inside, this quote livable green, but I had no window coverings because Nick took my window coverings down. So suddenly it felt like I was in this fishbowl, like in the middle of a forest, which was kind of creepy. You know, no window coverings, and you're sitting in the room and you have these windows around you and and then this, this green. That suddenly made me feel like I was in kind of a mental asylum or something like you know. It was just bizarre, very uneasy, very uncomfortable feeling until I got everything put in my house, finally, got the window coverings and, you know, threw in all the all the furniture and things in the art and stuff which I'm still working on, by the way, I don't have a whole bunch of art hung up yet, but but that made a difference. And then suddenly, yes, it did become quote, livable green. But now, with all the stuff I've added in here, it's time for a change and we'll see how long I can live with morning sun. I don't know, it looks nice. So far I'm just getting little glimpses of it, but it's hard to tell because it's freaking raining out again. I want to see it with the sun shining. So that's what's happening here at the Walsh compound in the middle of the, in my mystery hut in the foothills of Northern California.
Speaker 1:But again, please support local business American River Flooring, southgate Glass, all the Bridgehaven homes, all the ones that I always, always tell you about, roseville Numismatics and Coin Shop and such, and I always tell you about them on my radio show. It's the Pat Walsh Show, kfbk Newsradio. Thanks for spreading the word, for Pat's Peeps Really appreciate that a lot too. Yesterday or last night on my radio show Uh, yesterday or last night on my radio show, unfortunately I had to break the news that we lost a great community, just a great guy in the community. I was going to say a great radio guy, but Joey Mitchell was not just a great radio guy. He really meant something to the community.
Speaker 1:Joey Mitchell, who was a friend of mine, a colleague and a friend of so many in Sacramento in this area, passed away yesterday and he was on my show not that long ago. I would even say perhaps my show may have been his last radio show that he ever did. I can't say that that's absolutely true, but it may be. My show is the Pat Wall Show on iHeartRadio, heard nationally, internationally on the iHeartRadio app and in Sacramento at KFPK, and so we had Joey in to talk about his career. He had a 51-year career in radio and I remember him sitting there with Mark the Voice Guy, who was also passed on, who was on my show. Jeez, these guys are too young to be leaving the world, but I remember Mark the Voice Guy would throw these great liners over the bumper music. We all remember Mark the Voice Guy, and if you don't, mark the Voice Guy had the most unique job in radio where he would literally say these liners over our rejoin music, our bumper music, coming back from break into the talk show. And Mark would say liners like you know, I may have mentioned some of these yesterday.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I kind of blur the line between my show and the podcast, so I can't remember if I mentioned on my show or the podcast. But you know, mark would do things like this portion of the Pat Wall Show brought to you by Corner Roy Pillows making headlines since 1971. You know great lines like that. Or he would say which still makes me laugh, one of my favorites that he would do he'd say we'd be playing the bumper music. God rest his soul. Mark Du Bois guy and Joey Mitchell my point is, joey would be laughing at these. I remember looking over and he's just busting a gut. Mark Du Bois guy would say this portion of the Powerwall Show brought to you by seaweed Now fish can smoke their cares away. This portion of the Powerwall Show brought to you by Visine we know why your eyes are really red Anyhow, that kind of stuff. And these were good radio guys, great radio guys. And now they're gone. So, joey, 51 years in the business.
Speaker 1:I did tell the story briefly last night on my show, joey and I, they flew us down. I must have the year wrong. I said 2004. It must have been like late 90s. Maybe I will just say this Kenny Irwin, they set us up with these NASCAR drivers. They flew us to the Palm Desert to drive the new Mustangs. So maybe I have the year wrong. Maybe it was 99 Mustangs.
Speaker 1:Well, the point is that Joey Mitchell and myself, armstrong and Getty of the Armstrong and Getty show and a bunch of other folks, they flew us down in these Learjets to the Palm Desert to drive these new Mustangs and the Mustangs that were coming out. And they set us down in these Learjets to the Palm Desert to drive these new Mustangs and the Mustangs were coming out. And they set us up with these NASCAR drivers. And so initially the NASCAR driver would drive the car for us, with us as we're in the passenger seat. And I distinctly remember my driver being Kenny Irwin, who happened to be at one point the rookie of the year in NASCAR and he had driven in all three NASCAR National Touring Series. He had two total victories during that and he's 30 years old, so this would have been, I guess, 98, maybe that we actually went down to drive these Mustangs. But Kenny Irwin was my driver. And right after that and I remember Kenny as he was switching gears on this track, thinking oh my God, I'm going to die. How's he going to downshift around this corner by being a professional race car driver? I was nervous, just like I was when I rode with Mario Andretti at Sonoma, which is an amazing experience. But I mean, this is Kenny Irwin and that was Mario Andretti. It wasn't more than I can't remember how long, not too long after my ride with Kenny Irwin, that Kenny died in injuries. He suffered in a crash during a practice session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and so I always think about Kenny Irwin and the fact that here I had this chance to ride in this car with Kenny Irwin. Rest his soul.
Speaker 1:I kind of got away from Joey there for a second, but Joey was part of all of this. We were having so much fun racing together, me and Joey in these cars, and Armstrong and Getty just having a blast, and then we had these trucks. I remember they put us in these four-wheel drive trucks. We're taking them out in the middle of nowhere God, it was so. And they gave me these leather jackets, these Ford leather jackets, and hats and bags and all of this stuff. They really took care of us. You know, I have another memory of that where they teamed us up the radio guys. They would team us up. So Joey and I went, but at another point they said now driving the yellow Mustang is sports guy, because I was a sports guy then.
Speaker 1:Pat Walsh and Greg Kinn. Now you may know Greg Kinn, greg Kinn of the Greg Kinn Band, who I had seen in concert numerous times up until this point I went, really Greg Kinn, so I've seen this guy in concert and now I'm going to ride in a Mustang with him and race in the desert. And you know he had the song Jeopardy, the breakup song. You know he had some great hits, greg Kin, and then he got into radio. He ended up being a radio guy and I even remember telling him you know what my favorite song is by you? And he goes Jeopardy. I said no, the breakup song, no, I said it's a song called. Do you Remember? And he goes Jeopardy. I said no, the breakup song, no, I said it's a song called. Do you remember he goes wow, you really are a fan. I said, yeah, man, I love that song. If you ever get a chance, check that out. Do you remember? Uh, but anyhow. So my whole point about that is that was just part of the fun when, uh, joey Mitchell and I went down there and Joey and I hung out.
Speaker 1:And there was another time I kind of mentioned this a little bit. I didn't get into quite as much detail on my show, but you know, joey and I also we went to the Soapbox Derby in Loomis, so it's another racing story. I have a couple of racing stories with Joey and here we are in these soapbox cars, these soapbox derby cars, so the kids race in these cars that they build and you go downhill and then as you get down to the end of the hill, it's got a little handbrake in the side of the car. You just pull the handbrake. Well, apparently after my run, before my run I can't really recall the circumstances, it's about 10, 15 years ago now Joey Mitchell goes down in one of these soapbox derby cars and the next thing you hear is the most god-awful scream you ever heard.
Speaker 1:Man, I'm like, oh my god, what is going on? Well, poor Joe, this is brutal man. I mean brutal Joey, forgetting that there was a handbrake in this car. As he gets down to the bottom of the hill, he decides he forgets how do you stop the thing? So, forgetting about the handbrake, he sticks out his foot to try to stop the car. And I'm here to tell you, before he stuck his foot out to try to stop this little soapbox derby car, his foot was pointed the correct direction. His foot was pointed the correct direction After the Flintstone-esque attempt to stop the car with his foot it was pointing in the wrong direction, I'll just leave it that way. And it was brutal. It was a really severe injury. I felt so bad for Joey. I don't know why. That just stands out to me. You know that poor guy, golly man.
Speaker 1:But the thing I really remember about Joey the most is K-R-A-K country memories, because my ma listened to K-R-A-K radio when I was growing up. Man, in the station wagon, in the Ford Falcon station wagon it could be in a 74 Pinto we were listening to K-R-A-K. That's right With Joey. Big Jim Hall, who I've got to know, big Jim actually called me yesterday to tell me that Joey had passed. And when I picked up the phone and Big Jim Hall and Joey these two men worked together for over 40 years. We're talking radio legends in Sacramento and beyond. I mean these are. And Jim called me. Big Jim called me and he was. His voice was quivering and I knew right away what he was going to say.
Speaker 1:And the night before that I had sent Joey a message because I knew he was in ICU and and he was asking for prayers and posts. He literally posted on Facebook hey look, I'm not doing well, I'm in ICU. I have double pneumonia. Hopefully I'll get better. I'd appreciate anyone who has memories or thoughts about me that might want to post it. This man's in ICU thinking about. He's still thinking about radio, still thinking about his career as he's facing a life or death situation.
Speaker 1:That's how much Joey loved radio. That's how much it meant to him. That's how much the memories meant to him. That's how much his fans meant to him and his colleagues. He wanted memories. Can you share memories? Because I'm sure that would make him feel better, at least lift his spirits, as he's in ICU with double pneumonia, as he told me at the time. So I had reached out to him.
Speaker 1:I got home from work a couple nights ago, two nights ago, went back on my messenger hey, joey, I'm still praying for you, man, and I'm just wondering if you have any updates. Never got a response and the next thing you know, again, I was on my way to work yesterday when Big Jim Hall called me to tell me the news. So I just want to share a clip of Joey Mitchell here with you.
Speaker 1:This one happens to be with Marcus Allen, who was a local TV guy who I know very well, marcus Allen, and in the clip he walks into the K-Hits studio, k-hits 105 studio, because, you know, joey worked at K-Hits. He worked at Cool 101, cool 101.5, cool with a K, cool with a C 101.5, cool with a K, cool with a C crack radio, like I said. And so this was Marcus Allen walking in to meet Jennifer Steele, who I always call the real deal. Jennifer Steele, who is also a great radio professional, been around forever in this town you know her, of course, on K Hits for a long time and now the morning show producer at KFBK for Christina Mendonza and Sam Shane. She is the real deal. So here's Marcus Allen walking in to talk to Jennifer and to Joey Mitchell.
Speaker 2:On the way in. I'm like yeah.
Speaker 3:Can I interrupt? Yeah, all right, miss, if you want to introduce yourself to my Facebook audience.
Speaker 2:Jennifer Steele.
Speaker 3:Jennifer, also a radio awesome pioneer. I say pioneer, but you want to introduce yourself to my Facebook audience, jennifer Steele. Jennifer, also a radio awesome pioneer. I say pioneer, but you're so young.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you, here's 50 bucks.
Speaker 3:Oh, by the way, joey just got some lottery tickets. He can break some off for you, so share with me some insight about this guy, who is Joey Mitchell.
Speaker 2:Joey is the most awesome person first of all human being radio legend. He taught me how to be in radio 30 years ago and I there's never been a time in Sacramento that I've been on the air, that he hasn't been on the air. So it's gonna be really weird to not have him on the air. But we wish you all the best, joey thank you.
Speaker 4:It's been a pleasure working with you, and then you came and joined us here, and that's just been so beneficial yeah, it's been great you know, he before you got here he was just talking about how lonely he felt.
Speaker 2:It's the first time he had been in the studio alone yeah, I know well, all this has been working from home, so it's been kind of kind of crazy yeah, any dirt or any fun anecdote you can share about joey oh, joey's a little trickster.
Speaker 3:He's a trickster, that's a great segue, because I do want to talk about something. If you weren't watching on ABC 10 earlier, like again not to mar his otherwise untarnished reputation, but the guy almost got arrested for throwing a bumper sticker on a vehicle. Yeah, what vehicle was that?
Speaker 4:It was Air Force One, okay, air.
Speaker 3:Force One.
Speaker 4:Come on. We were having a wonderful time. We met the President Clinton over at McClellan and we decided let's put a cool 101.1 sticker on Air Force One's fuselage. Well, we thought it was hilarious. The Secret Service didn't Did any handcuffs involved.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Get away from that thing. And they took us and we were on the air live and poor JD Chandler's back at the radio station. You remember JD?
Speaker 2:right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:And all of a sudden he goes. Joey just got arrested.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know where he is.
Speaker 4:If anybody knows where Joey is. Well, when management went to the Secret Service, where they had us along with my co-host Lori West, they explained it was thunt and they promised that the bumper sticker came off easily and they released us with a warning Don't ever do that again.
Speaker 3:Okay, all right, now let's talk about happier times where there weren't handcuffs involved. You got to hang out with Oprah Winfrey and a bond happened almost instantly. Talk about that, she was wonderful.
Speaker 4:We talked for 30 minutes. I mean, my program director was going nuts, play a song, play a song. But we talked and talked because she was going to be here at Community Center doing a special extravaganza. She surprised me from the stage. She said I want you all to meet my new best friend, joey Mitchell. Where are you?
Speaker 3:That's pretty awesome. And then legendary Edward R Murrell, award-winning news anchor, Lester Holt, got his start as an intern where Right here, baby.
Speaker 4:He was Lester, my traffic guy, and drove the traffic vehicle and I'm trying to get him to call. But now that he's a big, big star, he's like Joey what Joey.
Speaker 3:Heatherton Joey, who you got a ton of people. Cindy saying hi. Robin Sork, who is a frequent listener and caller. Nancy says hi. Brett says hi. Brian, shout out to Brian.
Speaker 4:Wow, thank you so much I'm wearing my glasses on TV, sorry.
Speaker 3:Oh, by the way, to those who say, oh, 51 years in the business, he wears a hat all the time because he's bald Boing. Look at that set of hair.
Speaker 4:Look at that guy.
Speaker 1:By the way, I like Marcus Allen saying look at that set of hair. If he had a set of hair, he probably would be bald.
Speaker 3:Any shout-outs you want to make. What do you say to people that are doing a job that they don't know if they're going to be doing in 51 years? What?
Speaker 4:advice. What marching orders do you give humanity at this point? My dad said this to me when I was a little boy and I've made it part of my life Do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life. I've done 51 years in this business because I love it and I can't. To me it feels like 10 years, not 51. So that's the secret?
Speaker 3:Have you plotted this out? Do you know what the last song is that you're going to play on the radio, because music has been such an important part of your career?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm going to play a break format. I'm going to play Frank Sinatra and I did it my way.
Speaker 3:And you did Amen. Joey, I'm proud to call you a friend.
Speaker 2:You're awesome, you're the real deal.
Speaker 3:Thanks for letting us hang out.
Speaker 2:Thanks for coming.
Speaker 1:This is just Marcus Allen, jennifer Steele, joey Mitchell Wonderful, yeah, thank you, jennifer. She's a sweetheart too. You know, joey, and what Joey said in there is absolutely the same exact advice that I have given my nephews, my nieces, anyone young who you know they're a kid and I'll tell them. You know, look, really the secret to me is and sometimes you can do it, sometimes you can't do it I get that. Sometimes you can do it, sometimes you can't do it. I get that.
Speaker 1:But the secret is, if you find something that you love to do, like Joey said, you'll never work a day in your life. That's not necessarily true. It kind of seems that way, because I do love what I'm doing. I love it, I love broadcasting, but that's not to say that it's not work. But you know what? It's work that you enjoy. I wouldn't even be working. I enjoy working, you know. That's why you always know that I'm working. I'm doing the podcast, doing the show. I'm working, just like I know many of you are. But it does really make a difference, you know, if you enjoy what you're doing.
Speaker 1:And obviously Joey, 51 years God rest his soul he enjoyed what he was doing. What a good man, joey, we're all going to miss you, joey and Big Jim and Rick Stewart, those guys when they were on KRAK, that was so homespun to me Even when I was a kid, like you, dear Rick Stewart. Hi there, rick Stewart, this week I'm going to go to Jim Denial's Farmer's Market at Oxnard. I'm going to go get a weed eater out here and I'd be like dang, that sounds so authentic. I want to go. I don't even need a weed eater You're selling me to go get a weed eater, man, I mean, they were so genuine and homespun that if you lived around here you just appreciated that and you got it and you would go. You know you, they inspired me to obviously support these local businesses.
Speaker 1:But uh, but yeah, and in, you know, and and 51 years in radio. You know I was talking to Kitty O'Neill, who I've worked with longer than anyone in my entire life. We were talking a couple of days ago off the air about. You know, kitty has been at this radio station KPK for 40 years and I can tell you that because she said that right there on the air. She's been there 40 years, four decades at one radio station. I've been there for 31 years, which I can't even believe I'm saying that Like almost half my life, like half of my life, I've been at this radio station.
Speaker 1:That is so atypical, I'm telling you. It's so atypical Because generally when you're doing radio you're moving around from city to city to city. I've not done that, I've really only gone. I've only ever worked in two other markets, one being Chico, the other one. I only worked there for one month, september to October 1993 was all I could take. Sorry, kingman, that's all I could take. Hey, hello, shout out to Kingman, salute. But most people, they work in a lot of different markets.
Speaker 1:So when you hear someone working at a radio station or in radio 51 years, that's remarkable. And I will tell you, I pretty much believe that anyone starting in radio right now will not have a 51-year career in radio. Not that radio is going away, but radio is much different than it was when Joey started, when I started, when Kitty started, and I can almost assure you for a fact that you're not going to see radio personalities working at the same station for 40 and 31 years. Those days are gone for a variety of reasons that perhaps I can get into on some future podcast, but those days are over. A lot of the people you hear now are see, that's a whole different thing. Younger people that are just getting started really don't even have their legs in radio just yet, have very little experience. Radio is a much different thing now. So I really find it difficult to believe that in the future you're going to see people working 51 years in this business and certainly 40 or 31 years at the same radio station.
Speaker 1:Speaking of radio, I do want to say this you know, every year for the last this will be the eighth year on the Pat Wall Show, on my show, we do our annual baseball prediction show, and that baseball prediction show will take place tomorrow, as tomorrow is the opening day for Major League Baseball. Greg Vaughn will be on. The former Major Leaguer will be on in our first hour. We'll be talking to Greg about a few things. Sacramento guy, by the way, as our station is in Sacramento, I'm from Sacramento. Wherever you're listening, thank you, by the way, don't have to be local to listen to this podcast or my show, obviously and then we'll do the baseball prediction show right after greg vaughn.
Speaker 1:Now again, this has been eight years we've been doing this and I you know when they say well, I want to brag, but I do, I do, I want it every year. Seven and oh, and I plan on making it eight and oh. So tune in tomorrow night if you get an opportunity for our baseball prediction show. We'll be doing that in the 8 o'clock hour tomorrow night. And yeah, baseball, it's very exciting If you're a baseball fan.
Speaker 1:Baseball opens up tomorrow. The season opens up, so I'm looking forward to that and, of course, this being a political year, you know what I have a really good record I picked, so I'm looking forward to that and, of course, this being a political year, you know what? I have a really good record I picked out today to end the show. You know this being a political year, in case you don't know, we have a big election coming up in November. It's going to get. It's going to get. It's going to be crazy.
Speaker 1:I just predict between now and then it's going to be crazy, as they're trying to convict former president Donald Trump. Let's see if we can convict him. Nothing else has worked, my God, nothing else has worked. The impeachment hasn't worked. Oh, we've tried to, you know. We've tried to oh my gosh, indict him and nothing's worked. What are you going to do? He's gaining steam. He's gaining steam. He has a huge lead. By the way, I did not realize until maybe I did, but I never really thought, I never thought about it until a few days ago.
Speaker 1:But you know, going back to what was it? 1984, I guess 1984, ronald Reagan, this man won 49 states in 1984. 49 states, I mean that is astonishing to think about. They faced Bush, and it was the VP and the President. Reagan faced just token opposition in their third bid. I mean in their bid, excuse me for nomination, of course they were going against Mondale Gary Hart. I mean in their bid, excuse me for nomination, of course they were going against Mondale Gary Hart, jesse Jackson and some other people in the 84 Democratic primaries. Geraldine Ferrara, I remember Geraldine Ferrara was all part of that too, a running mate, but you know, gary Hart.
Speaker 1:But Reagan touted a strong economic recovery from the 70s, what they called stagflation, the early 80s recession, and there was widespread perception that his presidency had overseen a revival of national confidence and prestige. And that's how we felt. And he won a landslide re-election victory. This man carried 500. You can make noise back there? Heck, yeah, they know you're back there. There's Matt back there. How's it going in there. Oh, you should see what he's doing in there. Yeah, don't worry about making noise. So Ronald Reagan won a landslide re-election victory, carried 525 electoral votes, 49 states that's just unbelievable 58.8% of the popular vote. Mondale, on the other hand, won 13 electoral votes from the District of Columbia, which has always voted overwhelmingly Democratic, and his home state of Minnesota. That was it. It was the second largest share of the Electoral College since 1820. So now, with all the crazy stuff and again, I was just thinking about that a couple of days ago, how monumental that really was but now this year, just like in 2016, it's hilarious to me and I'm just letting you know I'm going to talk about this on my show tonight Celebrities who said that they would leave for sure back in 2016 if Trump was elected.
Speaker 1:And guess what? Oh well, look, you're still right here. No, aren't you Like Chelsea Handler? Someone, I guess, thought she's kind of funny, I don't know who, but she said she'd move to Spain if the president, if Trump, became president. You know what? She didn't. Yeah, she didn't move to Spain. Nah, she didn't leave. A lot of people said they would leave. Snoop Dogg said he's out of here. Where are you going to go? Snoop Dogg? Are you going to go to the Netherlands? Where are you going, snoop? Snoop is still smoking, getting high and still hanging out in Cali. So he didn't go anywhere. This is a joke, miley Cyrus, this is a joke, miley Cyrus.
Speaker 1:These are people who vowed to flee the country in 2016 if Trump went over the Republican nominee, I mean, if Trump beat the Democratic nominee, hillary Clinton. But guess what? None of them left, yeah, nope. But guess what? None of them left. Yeah, no, no. There was a bunch of other ones too.
Speaker 1:Cher said she'd move to Jupiter. Remember that, cher. Now she's still hanging around. She's. You know what? I checked on it, I did, I double checked. She's not on Jupiter, nope. So we'll talk about that tonight while they're at it.
Speaker 1:You know Bryan Cranston's another one. He's a Dodger and Ram fan. I'll give him that. Sorry, niner and Giants fans, but politically unbelievable. Barbara Streisand, please, you know, I wish that, like De Niro would go. I wish Bill Maher would take a hike. You know, kathy Griffin, bye-bye, all those people. As far as I'm concerned, take a hike. Follow through Chelsea, whatever her name was. You can do the same Anyhow. So I'm going to bring that up on my show a little bit tonight.
Speaker 1:You know, as I mentioned here, as I do always on the Patch Peeps podcast, we play a record at the end of each podcast and today is a really interesting this one. By the way, the one I picked today is it's the same song on both sides, so it's not going to be a different song on the B side, this will be the same song on both sides. A lot of these records do that, like I've said in the past, but this is one that I always thought was a great tune, used to get played a lot like in, I believe, 1971. I'll double-check that. But I always knew there was a great story behind it and I've known the story really, really, ever since the song came out. And this story this is on Decca Records. It's yellow and it's a mono version on one side and it's stereo on the other. And this is it says June 29th 1972, stamped right on there June 29th 72. I'm going to pull it out of the sleeve. Oh my gosh, it's in pristine condition too. Really looks good, really a nice copy of this. So it's a 1972 song.
Speaker 1:So this came out. They got this record a month before it went out, hit the airwaves, recorded by the artist and the Stone Canyon Band, which will probably give it away to you for the album Garden Party. I'm just going to tell you what it is. Usually I try to keep a little bit of suspense, but this is a story. It's Rick Nelson Garden Party. It was Rick Nelson's last top 40 hit, reached number six on the us billboard pop chart and I remember they played this a lot.
Speaker 1:So in october october 15th to 71, richard nader's rock and roll spectacular volume 7 concert that was given at Madison Square Garden in New York City and the bill included many greats of the early rock era Chuck Berry, bo Diddley, bobby Rydell what a lineup With Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band, listed in the advertisements as the quote special added attraction. So Ricky comes on stage. He was in the current fashion, he had bell bottoms, purple velvet shirt how cool is that? Hair hanging down to his collar, below his collar, down on his shoulders, and he starts playing his older songs like Hello Mary Lou, goodbye Heart, right. Then he plays the Rolling Stones' Country Honk, which is a country version of their song Honky Tonk Woman, honky Tonk Women. And suddenly the crowd begins to boo and Ricky's up there performing and he thinks the booing is because of his music. But there have been reports which said that the booing was caused by police and something that was going on in the back of the audience and a police action going on there. But again, ricky Nelson thought it was directed at him. So he sings another song but then he leaves the building not to appear on stage for the finale that day.
Speaker 1:So Garden Party tells about various people who presented frequently sort of in this oblique manner. You know, yoko brought her walrus part of the song in the line in the song, referring to Yoko and John Lennon with the chorus. But it's all right, now learn my lesson. Well, you see, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself. Remember that line? And another reference in the lyrics Mysterious legendary audience member, mr Hughes, hid in his Dillon shoes, wearing his disguise. That was thought to reference George Harrison. It was his next-door neighbor and a good friend of his at the time and that Harrison used Hughes as his traveling alias. And he hid in Dylan's shoes, referring to an album of Bob Dylan covers that Harrison was planning on recording. Never did so again. This went to number three in the US top 100, number one, easy listening, even Number six hot billboard, hot 100. Number one in Canada, number six in Australia. It's Garden Party, ricky Nelson.
Speaker 5:I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends. A chance to share old memories and play our songs again. To share old memories and play our songs again. When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name, but no one recognized me. I didn't look the same, but it's all right now I learned my lesson. Well, you see, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself. People came from miles around. Everyone was there. When the yokel brought a walrus, there was magic in the air. And over in the corner, much to my surprise, mr Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes, wearing his disguise.
Speaker 1:Ricky Nelson re-recorded this song with the Jordanaires, Elvis Presley's backup singers, in his first 1985 album All my Best. Johnny Lee recorded a cover of this. Dwight Yoakam has performed it. It was even in the soundtrack for the Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. John Fogerty recorded the song with the Eagles. Don Henley, Timothy B Schmidt for the Blue Ridge Rangers. Rides Again album Garden Party. Ricky Nelson, I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you for tuning in today. Thanks to Chris and Matt who are still working on my home, and Juan Southgate Glass. Check them out please. American River Southgate Glass, check them out please. American River Flooring, please check them out. We'll see you for Pat's Peeps, number 73. See you on the radio. I learned my lesson.
Speaker 5:well, you see, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself.
