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Ep. 159 Today's Peep Navigates Morning Surprises Including Power Outages, Helicopters Buzzing Over My Home, Buzz Thru Joe's, Burn Piles, and The Archies' Groovy Tunes in Today's Nostalgic Music Love
Ever had your morning coffee plans thwarted by an unexpected power outage? My usual French roast routine took an adventurous twist, sending me to Buzz Thru Joe's in Colfax and away from the usual chains. This episode captures that unexpected morning and explores the charm and unpredictability of life in the Northern California foothills. Listen as I share my mixed emotions about burn days in Placer County, where clearing brush is necessary but nerve-wracking in dry conditions. It's a look at the simple joys and challenges of living close to nature, with helicopters and all.
Switching gears, we take a trip down memory lane with The Archies, celebrating nostalgic tunes like "Sugar, Sugar" and its underrated B-side "Melody Hill." We give a special shout-out to Justine Kinsler, our technical producer who keeps us grooving with her laid-back vibes. With a sprinkle of humor and a dash of music appreciation, this episode is all about the power of groovy tunes and the connections we make through them. So kick back, relax, and let us send you off into the weekend with laughter and good vibes.
welcome to the pats peeps podcast, number 159, been very consistent this week. I think we've done a show every day this week this week. I think we've done a show every day this week. Thank you very much for being a part of that and listening, very grateful.
Speaker 1:Today is a Friday, thank God, and I mean that that it's a Friday. It is the 8th day of November 2024. And I'm looking out my studio window into the beautiful sunshine, slight breeze here in the foothills of court of Northern California. I was really surprised that today, of all days, was a burn day in Placer County. I didn't expect a burn day. What does it mean? It means you can go out there and burn your, your pine needles or your you know your brush and things. I mean we have not had significant rain as of yet a couple days here and there, but really not significant yet. But so I was kind of surprised by that driving down a road because I woke up with no electricity. All right, I'd done this earlier. You love that. I love that I wake up. You know I want to have a cup of coffee, catch up on the news a little bit. You know, whatever and no electricity, go to turn the light on in the bathroom when you wake up? Nothing, but that's okay, that's part of living in the foothills.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to repeat, because meanwhile this morning, good morning, it's Patrick. It's a very strange morning. You hear the helicopter. They have helicopters flying overhead. I'm sitting in my car outside. We've got helicopters right over my house. I expect, I expect to hear this If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? I mean right over me. I mean right over me, looking right at me. I can read the letters on the side of the helicopter. I mean literally right over my head. Why do I feel like hearing Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd right now? So why am I in my car? Well, it's just again.
Speaker 1:I woke up this morning and I woke up this morning and my electricity was off. Helicopters over my home. I couldn't get any coffee, man, you know, because my electricity's out. There's one thing I want to start my day it's my two cups of French roast. So I couldn't do that, so I had to drive up to Colfax to get myself some Java. This morning I went to Buzz Thru Joe's, remember. Please support small business. I'm going to try to make Buzz Thru Joe's one of the Pat's Peeps. I love them. I got myself an everything bagel and a double French roast coffee Because I have to have my coffee to start the day. Now, yeah, there is a Starbucks a couple of buildings down from Buzz through Joe's. There's that helicopter again, but I'd rather go through Buzz through Joe's anytime, so helicopter's flying over the house sitting in my car because my electricity is out for some reason.
Speaker 1:This is one of the things I love about living in the foothills that you just never know when your electricity is going to be out. You get up. All you're asking is to maybe listen to some music or whatever, catch up on the news, have a cup of coffee. Begin your day. Ease into your day Makes it hard to do a podcast or whatever when you don't have a, when you don't have electricity. So I went to get my coffee and I'm still sitting in my car. I thought I'd charge up my phone and start my podcast. You know, in case I don't, I don't get to the podcast, so I don't know when this is going to return my electricity.
Speaker 1:You know, the other weird thing about this morning is that I'm because it's a beautiful sunny day. You know, as I was driving to Buzz through Joe's, I noticed just down the road one of my neighbors had a fire going. I saw smoke rising and I thought, well, what the heck Someone's got a fire. That is truly actually one of the things I do love about living in the foothills I was being a smart aleck earlier, but you know, with the electricity going out. But one of the things I really do love about living in the foothills is the fact you can have a fire. Like you know, you can burn brush and you got to burn your pine needles and branches and things that fall. And I look forward to that every year because what I love to do is listen to music or listen to maybe old classic radio shows Gunsmoke or Dragnet or something like that.
Speaker 1:It's just my little thing Reminds me of my parents. I mean, I don't know, it just does Anyhow. So stand out there and you have a burn pile, right, I love that. But quite frankly, I thought you've got to be kidding me. I mean, as I look around, I mean it's not like it's been. There hasn't been a deluge, it hasn't been raining a lot and everything's pretty dry. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:I guess I didn't realize that they would have a burn day so early. Here in Placer County it's a burn day today and tomorrow. And then, as I continued to drive, there was another guy up the street that had a burn pile going. So I thought, well, I don't know Again, I'm just a little nervous to do that. I like doing it when I can look out and see that everything has kind of been. You know, the rain had been falling and things.
Speaker 1:And again, that's where the little dilemmas is. You know, if you do wait, so because today would be a perfect day, I mean, if it's a burn day, you're not going to get much better than this because again it hasn't been raining a lot. So the stuff you have like pine needles, like you have a big old and I have tons of them, big piles of pine needles that you wake up Now if it's been raining, it's hard to burn those pine needles. What do you have to do? You kind of have to wait for the sun to be out for a while, so some of the pine needles begin to dry out before that you can finally light them. And but today they would light perfectly. So I don't know, maybe, maybe I'll give it a shot. Oh my gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So all that is the makings of a very interesting beginning to my morning Today's a Friday. By the way, I am happy about that. They claim my electricity is going to be on at about 1. So what I'm going to do, what I will look at this as I will look at this as an opportunity to make lemonades out of lemons. I already had some chores to do today, so without electricity, maybe that'll force me to run around and get some of my chores done. By the time I come back I'll have electricity and then I can go about my business.
Speaker 1:So we'll'll see if there's another part to this podcast today. I don't actually know, because I didn't even say what day it was or anything, so I'm not actually sure whether this is going to fit into the podcast. But just in case I didn't say at the beginning, which I think I will, so I'll be repeating myself now as I think this through, here comes the helicopter again. Uh, today is friday, it's november, what is this? Today's november, the 8. 2024. That helicopter's throwing me off again. Here it comes.
Speaker 1:If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding. How can you have any pudding If you don't eat your meat? It is a beautiful day out today, a tad bit warmer. Yeah, I said all that already. So what I think I might do is pick up a rake, yeah, and rake a bunch of these pine needles and then, if I get a heaping pile, then I'll go ahead and burn the pine needles Anyhow. Anything else before we continue? No, well, we'll continue, I guess I'll just say that. Anything else before we continue? No, no, there is, we'll continue, I guess.
Speaker 2:I'll just say that.
Speaker 1:Okay, on the Pat's Beats podcast 159. Yeah, yeah, that's me. That's this morning. Maybe the helicopter was out there, maybe he was, or she was searching, taking a look and seeing. Maybe perhaps who was doing burn piles today, just to kind of take a little peek and make sure everything was okay, to which I would not be able to blame them, by the way. So that's how my morning started off. How was your day today? This is a beautiful day.
Speaker 1:We got a weekend ahead of us, going to be visiting listeners to my radio show tomorrow. I'm excited about that. Always enjoy meeting those of you who listen to my show and, um, I'll be doing that tomorrow. Now I am. By the way, my name is pat walsh. I'm the host of. The pat walsh show is heard, uh, nationally and internationally on your free iheart radio app. You can also hear, of course, my pat pat's peeps there. Perhaps you're listening to my peeps there right now, and thank you. Well, no matter what streaming platform that you're listening to, but the pat walsh show 7 to 10 10, monday through Friday. On KFPK, I host three hours per night. Tonight, we're going to keep it light, as we always love to do on a Friday night. I pretty much love to do that every night.
Speaker 1:To be completely honest with you, you know, today, as I, this will be a little bit shorter of a podcast. Last couple of days it's been a lot longer but I have to do a couple things today. As I mentioned, I never did those errands I was talking about. Somebody go do those. This is life, the mundane things in life. So those of you who are listening right now to the mundane things in life, in my life, whatever, thank you, I just love hanging out with you. I mean, I figure people do this all the time on TV, right, you watch TV.
Speaker 1:It's like I don't know these shows, for instance, where some couple is looking for a home and they're I don't know. They look at three different homes and which one do they like best and they pick it out and they get a realtor. Well, we don't know. They look at three different homes and which one do they like best, and they pick it out and they get a realtor. Well, we don't know them. We don't know the housewives of Orange County, which I don't watch. Or what's that other show with Schnoogie in it, or Shuggy or whatever. Her name is, snorky People from Jersey. I don't watch that. I don't know who these people are.
Speaker 1:So I'm just another person with a podcast and, as I say all the time, all God's children got a podcast. I just happen to have a radio show too and I'm so thankful and I know that my last two or three have been political. But you know what, I can't help it. That was the main thing. But of course you know I'm not a political show, podcast or radio show, but occasionally we do go off on that. We have to do what's. You know we can't ignore certain things, but do go off on that. We have to do what's. You know we can't ignore certain things, but we always love talking music.
Speaker 1:And today when I pulled out my rare record from my rare record collection my 45s take a little drink of water here, ah. I thought, well now this is a good one, this is a good one for a Friday kind of upbeat. I'm not even sure I think I might know this song. I'm not sure. This one has a radio station sticker on it. It's a yellow label and I love it. It's on Kirshner Records, a division of Kirshner Entertainment Corp. Kirshner. So obviously it's obvious to me.
Speaker 1:I think I could be wrong, but I would imagine this is the record producer, don Kirshner. Remember that show? I think I've talked about this before. These would be like the midnight special and there'd be Don Kirshner's rock concert. Remember that? He'd come out. He had like a open shirt, hairy chest medallion, like an open shirt, hairy chest medallion. I'm Don Kushner and this is rock concert. He'd have someone like Gary Wright on Edgar Winter, something like that, something pretty cool. Bowie, it's good, don Kushner. So it's on Kushner Records. It's a yellow record label. There is a radio station sticker, white, that says 1970. It's two separate songs. There's a couple of other radio station stickers on that side too. None on the B side.
Speaker 1:So this band it's not even really. To be honest, it's not really a band. It's an American fictional rock band and I hesitate really to call them rock. Pop is really what they could say rock all they want. But it's pop Featured in the media, produced by the media, related to comics. You know who I'm talking about Best remembered for their appearance in their animated TV series. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Founded by guitarist and vocalist Archie Andrews Does that give it away? Drummer Jughead Jones, bassist Reggie Mantle that's a cool name, reggie Mantle Now batting shortstop Reggie Mantle. Percussionist and vocalist Betty Cooper this should give it away. And keyboardist Veronica Lodge Cooper this should give it away. And keyboardist Veronica Lodge. The music was featured in the series recorded by session musicians, including Ron Dante on lead vocals, tony Wine on duet with backing vocals. The recordings were released as a series of singles and albums that achieved worldwide chart success, and their most successful song became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre, which is exactly what this is. So it's not rock. And this flourished. That genre flourished from 1968 to 1973 or thereabouts. I'm sure that by now you know what I'm talking about here, talking about the Archies, who in 1969, had their biggest hit ever, and when I was a kid I always loved when this song came on the radio Very uplifting. Everyone knows the words this would be a good karaoke tune. Everyone knows the words Sugar. This would be a good karaoke tune.
Speaker 2:Oh honey, honey, you are my candy girl and you got me wanting you Honey.
Speaker 1:Oh sugar, sugar, you are my candy girl and you got me wanting you. I just can't believe the loveliness of love. I mean, how can you be in a bad, a foul mood listening to this song?
Speaker 2:I just can't believe the wonder of this feeling too. I just can't believe the wonder of this feeling too. I just can't believe it's true. I sure got it.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's by the Archies, today's song, but that's not the song I picked out, which I'm glad because I mean that song, by the way, because that's so popular and I like a little deeper cuts, maybe something that not everyone knows. By the way, the B side of that song, by the way, because that's so popular and I like a little deeper cuts, maybe something that not everyone knows, by the way, the b-side of that song is called a song called Melody Hill. Maybe we'll get to that sometime, but that particular song by the Archies, my goodness, I mean you want to talk about popular. Oh, my god, my God, I mean you look down the list. Number six in Argentina, number five in Australia, number one in Austria, belgium, number one, brazil, number one. Canada, top singles. Number one. Denmark. Number one. Germany. Number one, ireland. Number one, malaysia, number two. Mexico went to number one. Number three in the Netherlands, number one in Norway. This is where it went to. Number one Rhodesia, singapore, south Africa, spain, sweden, uk.
Speaker 1:In the US, the Billboard Hot 100. Number one. Baby Cashbox top 100. Number one. That's not to mention all the other places where it was in the top three and the top five. That's how popular that song was Sugar Sugar by the Archies, but again, that's not the one that I chose today. The one that I chose today by the Archies there's a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. Remember because Andy Kim was a part of the Archies. You may remember Andy Kim with this song.
Speaker 2:Ain't it good, ain't it right that you are with me here tonight, music playing, our bodies swaying in time.
Speaker 1:This is a big song, big hit. Rock Me Gently, andy Kim, remember this. And again, I don't have the rights to this music. Just trying to educate, critique and tell people about all this music.
Speaker 2:Rock me gently rock me slowly, take it easy.
Speaker 1:Don't you know that I have never been loved like this before? I haven't heard this song in 40 years and I remember it like I heard it yesterday.
Speaker 2:Rock me gently, rock me slowly, take it easy. Gently, rock me slowly, take it easy. Don't you know that?
Speaker 1:I have never been loved like this before. I'm suddenly on a school bus going to school listening to this. So anyhow, that's Andy Kim, who was recorded by the Archies and it was released in 1969, reached number 10 on the billboard hot 100, number 27 on the US easy listening chart in 69. And then in January of 1970, it went to number one for a week in Canada. I still want to remember that great Canada joke. I'm so sorry. What was it by National Lampoon? What was number one in Canada when Wake Up Little Sus? What was number one in Canada when Wake Up Little Susie was number one in America? The answer I don't know. But six months later it was Wake Up Little Susie. I hope I got that even close. Anyhow, I went to 10 in New Zealand, 15 in South Africa. This is a song called Jingle Jangle by the Archies. Let's see if you remember this one.
Speaker 2:Sing me, sing me, sing me, sing me, sing me. Baby, ooh, la, la, la, la la. Sing me, sing me, sing me. Ever since I met you, I couldn't want you better. I couldn't love you stronger. If I tried it's my true heart I'm showing all rhinos would be growing. You know that it gets longer when I lie, singing la-la-la-la-la-la, Singing, singing, singing La-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Speaker 1:Singing for jingles and all. Anyone remember this particular tune? I don't remember it, but I like it.
Speaker 2:That's some groovy bass Lies.
Speaker 1:I almost feel like I'm watching the cartoon that I remember so well. I always liked Jughead Jughead's. The only other guy other than Goober that wore that hat I don't know what kind of hat that's called Goober and Jughead. So if you wear one of those caps, you're in good company Goober and Jughead. Happy Friday, everybody. It's Pat's Peeps 159. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, let's flip it over here and see what's on the other side. The other side, we will dedicate to anyone out there. The other side, we will dedicate to anyone out there, and I know we have a technical producer on my radio show with this name, so I'll send it out to her. So if your name, we'll flip it over. If your name happens to be Justine, this one goes out to you.
Speaker 2:It's the Archie's Justine. Oh Justine, Don't you just know you're driving me?
Speaker 1:wild. I like this. They're pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I'm loving you. So, whoa, justine, they're pretty cool. Wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1:Man, there's that groovy bass again.
Speaker 2:Justine Kinsler is our technical producer, just to look my way, justine, don't you just know? You're driving me wild, pretty child. You're driving me wild, whoa Justine.
Speaker 1:I wish you a very happy Friday, even to those with helicopters flying over their homes right now. Happy Friday to you. Make sure they're not black. It's probably Trump coming after you. See, already, I think that was Trump Making sure that he's. Oh, never mind.
Speaker 2:Teasing you.
Speaker 1:I was almost politically free on this show until right at that moment. Thank you everyone. Happy Friday, have a great weekend from all of us. That would be me and Dan and John Pat's peeps. See you on the radio.
Speaker 2:Just see, just say, you will Say that you do Love me too. Beeps, see you on the radio.
