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Ep. 139 Today's Peep Early Christmas Decor, KFBK Celebrates 102 Years, Serenity in Autumn Chill, P Diddy's Legal Woes and Cuomo's Nursing Home Controversy, Coupon Tech, Unveils Two "Jesse" Tunes
What happens when Christmas decorations come out way too early and political tensions are left behind for an Irish escape? Join us on Pat's Peeps Podcast Episode 139 as we navigate the start of autumn, celebrate KFBK's 102nd birthday, and find humor in the quirkiest of internet videos. You'll hear about my refreshing trip to Ireland and why cooler weather is a reason to smile. And if you need a laugh, stick around for the hilarious "Eat the Cat" song by the Marine Rapper—it’s the perfect antidote to our politically charged times!
Ever wondered how digital coupons could ruin a simple grocery trip? Before we get there, let's first address the serious issues making headlines. We delve into the scandalous news surrounding Sean "P Diddy" Combs, who is currently denied bail under harsh conditions, and Andrew Cuomo's controversial COVID-19 decision impacting nursing homes. Once we've covered these heavy topics, I share my own grocery store struggles with modern technology—because who knew saving a few bucks could be so complicated and frustrating?
Music lovers, this one's for you! Our episode concludes with an exploration of two emotionally rich songs named "Jesse" by Carly Simon and Roberta Flack. Discover the backstory of Carly Simon's chart-topping tune featuring her family and the soulful depth of Roberta Flack's haunting melody about lost love. Spoiler: next episode, we're diving into Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks." Whether you're tuning in to listen or joining the conversation, your presence is much appreciated. As always, I leave you with a captivating song and my wishes for a blessed day.
Hello, there, hello. I'm gonna jump on in to Pat's Peeps podcast number 139.
Speaker 2:How are ya?
Speaker 1:Always my distinct pleasure to be talking with you. Today. It is a Wednesday, it's the 18th day of September. Man, it's flying by Before you know it. You hang in the stockings by the fireplace there waiting for Santa to crawl down the chimney. That's right, not even Halloween. I'm sure they have the Christmas stuff out already. I'll bet you they do. I'll bet you there's places around town where they have the Christmas stuff out on display. I'll bet some of you have seen that. I haven't, yet. I haven't been paying attention to that. I, like you, know some of the joy in Halloween. Before I get to anything, I hope you're doing well. Again, wednesday, and looking at my studio windows today, I'm grateful for some cloud cover, keeping it cooler today. Temperatures are really nice on this Wednesday and boy, that's just a nice thing to come home to, very relaxing. And I am also the host of the Pat Wall Show. Just to let you know, in case some of you don't know, I try to let you know that all the time I have a radio show on KFPK in Sacramento and that's, of course, on your free iHeart app, heard nationally and internationally. By the way. Happy birthday to KFPK.
Speaker 1:I mentioned it on my show last night, 102 years old, this radio station launching the careers of some truly amazing broadcasters, including Rush Limbaugh and, you know, tom Sullivan's, a national guy and Morton Downey Jr way back in the day. But just a lot of great broadcasters have come through this place and, heck, I've been there for, I think, 90 of those years. I mean between me and Kitty, oh, kitty O'Neil, I work with a lot of Irish years. I mean between me and Kitty, kitty, oh, kitty O'Neal, I work with a lot of Irish people Kitty O'Neal, tom Sullivan, kelly Brothers. You know I don't know how that happened, but it's always been like that for many years there at KFBK, anyhow.
Speaker 1:So a couple of things today. Yep, I think I'm over the jet lag, which is awesome. So I'm feeling almost 100% Not quite, but pretty close. I did almost four hours of broadcasting yesterday, including like a what was that? 52 minutes and 30 seconds right here on the Patats Peeps 138. So I am not going that long today. I'm not going to go that long, but I had a lot on my mind yesterday. You know, what's on my mind today is this video. I just saw Anyone see this video, anyone hear this song, like when I was in Ireland. In case you don't know, and I'm sure I know that many of you do, but I just came back from Ireland two nights ago with conservative tours and a great group of folks, as I mentioned.
Speaker 1:But, um, I, one of the things I really enjoyed being away for 10 days total 10 or or 11 days, whatever it was was getting away from the politics, the endless politics and the divisiveness that is just. It's to the point now where, honestly, it's just ridiculous. It's so if people, if we, could only look at ourselves in the mirror and go, really, is this what it's come down to? Okay, all right, we need to get a different perspective. At least that's my feeling about it. So, in that kind of a frantic, chaotic, divisive political year that it is once in a while, I do find some little gems.
Speaker 1:So I I again being in ireland, we did at least I did, and I know most of the people did not see the debate between former president trump and, uh, comma chameleon kamala harris. I know I didn't see the debate, many people did, I did not. I think it was like three or four in the morning, ireland time, whatever it was. Plus, I know the host's agenda, that network. I talk about it many times on my show. It could not be more obvious. And so, anyhow, without me getting really into all that, I didn't miss it.
Speaker 1:Now, sure, curiosity, you know. At breakfast the next morning people were saying, were asking one another hey, did you hear anything about the debate? Well, did you hear anything, you know? And then that was about it, but I didn't miss it, I did not miss the device. And so, like I say, occasionally, something will pop up that just is kind of funny to me, and that happened today.
Speaker 1:Now, you may have already heard this, but I gotta play this. So this has in to me no real political tone, which is why I will play this today. Well, that's not exactly true. If it's the right political tone in my mind, I'll play it, but this is kind of really in the middle, at least in my perception of it. But it's hilarious. Have you heard this? This is the Marine Rapper. Anyone heard of that? Is the Marine rapper? Anyone heard of the Marine rapper? I guess that's the he's either. Maybe he's the one that posted this. I don't want to give him credit, let me see. I don't really want to give him credit for the whole, as they say, kitten caboodle, whatever that means. There is a but, but. Anyhow it's from uh marine the marine rapper, all right, so whatever he posted, it's called uh eat the cat. Have you heard this one here?
Speaker 3:in springfield. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. Eat the cat, eat the cat. They're eating the dogs, they're eating. The point is before I really get into it.
Speaker 1:The point is, before I really get into it, the point is because we didn't watch the debate. I didn't even know any of these quotes from the debate. I'm sure that in context, donald Trump didn't just make that up. Whether you like him or dislike him, my daddy said hmm, if I say something about eating, I can't forget the impersonation. If I just say something about eating cats and dogs, I'll score a lot of points with that angle. So this is totally out of context, which makes it, I guess, maybe better for me.
Speaker 3:In Springfield. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. Eat the cat, eat the cat. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. Eat the cat, eat the cat. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. Eat the cat, eat the cat, eat the cat. They're eating the dogs. Eat the cat, eat the cat eat the cat eat the cat.
Speaker 4:Seeing red, so don't push me. Ain't Donald Trump tryna grab a bite of? Said it with some patience? Somewhere out in Springfield? Women doing cartwheels have you seen Garfield Eat the cat? Have you seen Snowball? This about to snowball? I'm about to go off. I can't let this go on. Miss me like an air ball. Tell me where my cat is coughing up like a hair ball. I gotta tell them. If they even put a fingernail on Santa's little helper to turn him to hamburger, help with somebody, better help him, because I'm going to jail for showing them fellas, helter, skelter. Usually I'm content, but if you touch my dog then I'm turning into John Wick. I'm lit Bird, better drop it. If you touch my pet, then I'm pulling up like CrossFit. They're eating the dog, they're eating the cat.
Speaker 3:Eat the cat, eat the cat. The video is absolutely hilarious Eat the cat, eat the cat.
Speaker 4:Eat the cat. Eat the cat. It's a shame, it's a pity it it's a pity thought overseas where they said hello kitty, but it ain't there. It's right here in your city. When I turn my back now, the cat goes missing. And they hate the cat where my peoples is at. Does anybody know where he flippin' at? Cause I heard they puttin' claws on felines. I'm mad and my cat disappeared, just like Felix the cat. And they hate the cat. Got paid back. Thought she was a goner. But the cat back. If you ain't a pussycat, say drop that cat, Drop that cat, Drop that cat. Eat the cat.
Speaker 3:Got paid back. Thought she was a goner, but the cat came back. If you ain't a pussycat, say drop that cat, drop that cat, drop that cat. They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats. Eat the cat.
Speaker 1:Eat the cat. You have to see the video. I tell you it's really clever. Eat the cat. There you go, eat the cat Anyhow. So yeah, that was new to me. It's spreading like wildfire here, number 18, with a bullet on the Pat's Peeps pod. Yeah, here, number 18, with a bullet on the Pat's Peeps pod, you know? Yeah, yeah, so, but again, I didn't see the initial comment about eating the cat.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, in other news, what a disgusting loser, p Diddy, are you kidding me? How about this dude I mean they're talking about? They busted this dude and what an implorable this guy is, allegedly. And now they put this dude in jail and he just couldn't handle it. Apparently he was complaining about the conditions of the jails. I wasn't in New York, so Diddy denied bail again, sent back to jail. His lawyers describe as horrific to wait trial. Yeah, sean P Diddy, he didn't like the condition of the jail and so so he was looking for bail and they was denied again today. This is a day after the federal judge perhaps you've heard about this in Manhattan remanded him to await trial at a jail in Brooklyn. So this punk was initially denied bail during his arraignment in Manhattan's federal court yesterday and then remanded to jail, different judge now denying his request for bail today. And now they're going to appeal the scumbag man.
Speaker 1:This is a guy who I mean this is being called a serious abuser, a serial abuser, by Assistant DA Attorney Emily Johnson. Talked about that in court yesterday, but anyhow, I don't want to get too deep into this right now, but what a scumbag this guy is. Excuse me. Also, anyone watching the grilling of Andrew Cuomo, anyone watching that man that is good stuff right there. I mean, this man is sitting. This man ought to be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 1:If you're watching that, andrew Cuomo is having to answer some real tough questions and the House panel is asking those questions and they're talking about back in the pandemic 2020, where he mandated that the elderly who were diagnosed with COVID and it goes much deeper would have to be admitted, could not be denied nursing homes, and so they put these infected folks into the nursing homes, and the most susceptible of our society, of course, are the elderly, and especially the elderly who are in nursing homes. Where this can spread, and then the man has the audacity to blame it on the staff. Where this can spread, and then the man has the audacity to blame it on the staff somehow, that the staff brought it in and it spread, not to say that I'm sure there weren't staff at some point that caught COVID. Where did they catch it? Did they catch it out on the streets?
Speaker 1:or did they catch it at home? Or did they catch it while working in the nursing home, where it was mandated that these folks could go if they were infected with COVID? Anyhow, that's going on Riveting stuff there as well. Man, you just really want to check that out if you get an opportunity On the lighter side and this is anyone that go to the grocery store you know you go to the grocery store.
Speaker 1:Now this happened to me today. You go to the grocery store, and it used to be. They just had the old-fashioned coupons and, as a matter of fact, I'm not going to say what store it is. I've been going to the store for many years. Some people think I'm crazy because it's too high priced and it is, but oh well, I've been going there for a variety of reasons. I don't really want to give away the store. It's a very popular store in the Sacramento area and surrounding areas and there are paper coupons. But somehow they've got their paper coupons and then you have your card and you got to put your number in when you get to the cash register and now the thing is for the last couple of years that you have to have an app. So now, in order to get some of these coupons. If you walk up and down the aisles it will say on the tags with clipped coupon. So you know something might be $5.49, but with the clipped coupon it's $3.49, whatever. What does that mean? That means you have to have the app on your phone.
Speaker 1:So now you have to stand in an aisle, like what's the least populated aisle, let's say, let me see what would it be? Um, like where the dog leashes and dog toys and firewood, little fire starters. You know that aisle, so you got to go hide out over there. What other aisle? What's the other most boring aisle? What's the other aisle that's the least? Is it by the bleach? Where is it? Is it by the? Uh, you fell the fish wherever it is, wherever the least popular, because you don't want to be in the middle of everything. I mean, you don't want to go down the soup aisle, the produce aisle, and start figuring out your app.
Speaker 1:So you're on there and then you, then you got to send them the password and some people can't do it, and then you still take your while. Then you're thinking about password. Then you got to go through and then you got to figure out okay, what does this mean. Then you got to learn to navigate the thing. And then you, what does this mean? And then finally, at some point, 10 days, 10 times, after you've gone to the grocery line and you haven't figured it out. And then you complain to the grocery clerk you can't figure it out. And the guys heard it, or the gals heard it a thousand times because they know you can't figure it out. They keep hitting the table and they're like trying to help you and suddenly, one point, you get it. This is the least of my case. Oh, all right, I get it. After the I don't know 10th time, I said, okay, I figured out, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Great, so now you take the time, you go and say, okay, I need this. Bam, okay, you put the little coupon right. So that's what I did today.
Speaker 1:Fast forward to today, and I've learned how to do this. And here's what happens. And I've learned how to do this, and here's what happens it never works. Anyone, anyone, just me, what? So it doesn't work. So I get the stuff.
Speaker 1:I had, like four items, and I'm talking about I don't know a savings of maybe 15 bucks overall. But you know what. It's the principle of it. Okay, my mother, my ma, told me, son, use coupons. She always used coupons. She had a lot of kids and I learned from my mother. So it's the principle I want my $15 off.
Speaker 1:Well, this poor gal, this poor gal working at the clerk and I'm like, yeah, I noticed there. And when you scan the oatmeal, yeah, that didn't come off of there. I noticed when you scanned this, it didn't come off. So does it come off at the end, when I have to put my number in the thing and the machine? Here, I got to put my number in the machine and what a big deal Is that. That, what it happened? I don't know. Oh, yeah, she doesn't know. Yeah, I don't know, maybe it's after that. So, anyway, I put you know, put my number in there, do I put my card in and she's gonna charge me what it says up there.
Speaker 1:I said, well, look, here's my clipped coupons. I'm showing them to her on my phone and no one wants to grab your funky phone. I keep my phone clean, pristine, almost just a weird thing. I just keep it clean, but still, no one wants to grab your phone. And I wasn't trying to hand her my phone, I was simply showing her my coupons had been clipped, to which she said oh yeah, they sure are. I said yeah, because it took me time to do this. So, anyhow, I said, well, I'm not going to pay that when I clearly clipped the coupons. You know, so I'm. You know that needs to come off of there, the price.
Speaker 1:Well, now there's a guy behind me in his basket. This goes on for a while. Now there's another person behind the guy and this literally, and behind me the and you know how this goes. Then the, the line behind me, has now gone through five times. All the people with all the stuff in the baskets gone through, gone through. Meanwhile I've got like eight items. They've gone through bam, and, god bless, the guy behind us. He was super cool, I mean, he was really patient, so nice guy.
Speaker 1:This gal could not figure it out. I know a gentleman who's a manager there, will. I saw him all of a sudden. I said, will, can you come on over? Would you be able to help her? Comes over, bam, bam gets me through. So you get the coupons, you clip the coupons, you sign up and then guess what? It doesn't work, and it's not the first time, it's happened, numerous times. I don't know Any happen to you. I wish I could take phone calls right now like I do on my show. But that's okay. Not here to complain, just here to pass on just the mundane things that happen in life. And that one was today.
Speaker 1:I wanted to get to a little music because, you know, when I went to pull a record from my collection today, from my rare 45s, I pulled a record. This was the strangest thing yet, one of the strangest things since I've been doing the podcast. So I pull one record out Let me take a look at it which is in beautiful condition, yeah, really beautiful condition, I guarantee you this one's never been on a turntable. Promotion says right there on the label, kind of a tan label, not for sale mono version 418. The flip side not for sale. Stereo version, also 418. Warner Brothers. This is well, I'll tell you what it was in a minute. So then, and I'm looking okay, well, I wanted to see what else I had and I see this next record.
Speaker 1:I pull out another record and just so random, this one has this record sleeve has two 45s in it. Let me pull them apart here. A little bit of dust on the edge where it was exposed to the air, but these are pristine. Wow, these are all so beautiful, I need to start showing these somehow to you. I think they're on Atlantic. Okay, it's got a little radio sticker on there September 73 or 9, I'll check in a moment. But there's two records in there, plug Side Stereo and Plug Side Mono, and there's two copies of this. The other one is St and yeah, mono. The stereo side is in light blue, it's on Atlantic Records and the mono side is in red and white. So I'm going to put that back on the sleeve momentarily until we get to this.
Speaker 1:So the thing about that makes it so strange that I pulled these two records today is that the song, the name of the song, is the same. Both of the records I just happened to pluck today, the name of the song is the same. Completely different artists, completely different songs, but the same title. So why not? Let's check them out. Let's check them out, buddy. Let's go to the first one Now.
Speaker 1:The first one is a song written and performed by an American singer and a songwriter that you know very well, produced by Mike Maneri, and the song served as the lead single from this artist's ninth studio album, which is entitled Come Upstairs, and that was in 1980. This particular song became a major critical and commercial success for this artist and, to be honest, I'd forgotten about this song until I explored it and I went oh yes, I know this song, I remember this. They don't play this one enough anymore, but the song became a major critical commercial success for her, remained on the US billboard charts for six months and then later went gold. Her husband at the time well mention who that is in a moment and their daughter, sally, sing backup on this. It's got a little country pop flair maybe to it.
Speaker 1:The song is song is told in first person about the narrator's disdain for her former lover who just moved back to town. Maybe it is the same song, I don't think it is. Maybe it's the same song, I don't know. I'm confused, all right.
Speaker 1:So she vows to have nothing to do because it's kind of the same idea for the song. She vows to have nothing to do because it's kind of the same idea for the song. She vows to have nothing to do with him. Don't let him near me, don't let him touch me, don't let him please me. She asks her friends to remind her of how he has wronged her because she fears she's going to end up letting her guard down again and fall back under his spell. She goes back on her promise to herself to rekindle the romance and then, once she pleads with him to come here, she won't tell a soul and looks for comfort from her friends because they just don't approve. The artist said of the track later on this was a song playing the fact that good intentions go to hell when you're crazy for someone. This is a song called Jesse and it is sung by Carly Simon, who, of course, was married to James Taylor, who again is singing backup on Jesse.
Speaker 2:Oh, mother say a prayer for me. Jesse's back in town. It won't be easy. Don't let him near me. Don't let him near me, don't let him touch me, don't let him please me. Jesse, I won't cut fresh flowers for you, no, jesse, and I won't make the wine cold for you. No, jessie, I won't change the sheets for you. I won't put on cologne. I won't sit by the phone for you. Annie keep reminding me that he cut out my heart like a paper doll. Sally, tell me once again how he set me up, just to see me fall. Jesse, I won't cut fresh flowers for you. No, jessie. I won't make the wine cold for you. No, jessie. I won't change the sheets for you. I won't put on cologne. I won't sit by the phone for you, no, no, no, jessie, quick, come here. I won't tell my soul, not even myself, jessie, that you've come back to me. My friends will all say she's gone again. But how can anyone know what you are to me, that I'm in heaven again because you've come back to?
Speaker 1:me oh Jesse. All right, that is Carly Simon Jesse. Cool to hearly, simon Jessie. Cool to hear James Taylor, her husband and then their daughter Sally, singing in the background like that. So now the other one is also, of course, called Jessie, and this track is from one of this artist's finest albums, some folks would say, I think, and which the it's. That album is known mostly for its title track. I'll keep that secret for just a moment, but it was a smash hit and it's a haunting song too. But anyhow, this artist was a complete unknown when she records excuse me, this song is the haunting one. The other one, not so haunted, this is the one I was talking about that's very haunting when she recorded this song for a movie that if you're in my business now, you'll probably get recorded. This song for a movie that, if you're in my business now, you'll probably get what I'm going for here. If you're in my business, it's a nightmare. It was from a movie in the 70s. I'll even give you another hint, then you'll get it with Clint Eastwood who worked in radio. You know where I'm going.
Speaker 1:That single, which was first time ever I saw your face, yes, roberta Flack singing Jessie. Now, by the way the movie was Play Misty for me, in case you didn't know that. I mean that's a great. I love that movie About a stalker, a radio stalker. A great thriller, a very unusual plot line.
Speaker 1:This guy is an action film, you know. I mean he's a not only is he an action film star, but he plays a great radio guy film star, but he plays a great radio guy and he's in grave physical danger at the hands of this woman, jessica Walter. He plays a DJ in this film and the song is First Time Ever I Saw your Face. Creepy, but wonderful song Anyhow. So this. So there were several singles. A couple years later comes this song, a couple singles off that record and some I've seen comments like oh, this is my absolute favorite song by Roberta Flack and one of the most moving and lost love tunes I've ever heard. And when the Moon is Right is very difficult not to choke up when listening to her version of Jessie or her song Jessie, which I don't think is the same one that Carly Simon sang Jesse come home.
Speaker 5:There's a hole in the place where we lay by the heart all apart. It hangs on my heart and I'm keeping the light on the stairs. No, I'm not scared, I wait for you. Hey, jessie, it's lonely. Come home, wow, wow. All the pictures are fading and shaded in gray, but I still set a place On the table at noon and I'm keeping the light on the stairs. No, I'm not scared, I wait for you. Hey Jesse, it's lonely.
Speaker 1:Come home. I have to say, roberta Flack is the queen of haunting songs. Jessie, you're the spread. Wow. Thank you for listening Pat's Peeps number 139. Again, it's always my pleasure. Hopefully tomorrow I want to get into Astral Weeks and tell you about that. Love to hear you on my radio show, or have you listening to my radio?
Speaker 5:show.
Speaker 1:I should say I'm just taken up by this song here. Have a blessed day. We'll see you on the radio.
