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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 169 Today's Peep Declutters Toys and Memorabilia, Finds Joy in Odd Collectibles, Plus Doggie Dilemma, and the "Foundations" of a Late 60's Radio Classic
Ever wonder how a barrel full of monkeys can lead to a heartfelt reflection on letting go? Join me, Pat Walsh, as I navigate the challenging yet humorous adventure of decluttering in the latest episode of Pat's Peeps Podcast. From the beloved toys of my youth to quirky items like a Hillary Clinton nutcracker, I share stories that highlight the joy and nostalgia of collecting oddities that have shaped my experiences. You'll hear about my attempts to balance podcasting and radio hosting, all while grappling with rural living's unique challenges, like my neighbor's dog using my lawn as its personal bathroom.
Step into my studio nestled in the scenic foothills of Northern California, where each item in my eclectic collection has a tale of its own. Relive the whimsical nostalgia of candy bubblegum cigars and Frank Zappa 8-track tapes, and find out why a Ben Franklin action figure sits right alongside a Grateful Dead Beanie Baby. If you’ve ever pondered the personal significance behind seemingly odd memorabilia, this episode is a playful reminder of how cherished items can transport us back in time. Whether you're a fellow collector or just in for a good laugh, there's something delightful waiting for you.
here we are again. We are back. We are back. It is the pats peeps podcast. How are you today, podcast? How are you today? Today's a Tuesday, it's the third day of December, last month of 2024, and it's a beautiful day as I take a look out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, gold country, yukon Cornelius. I love that guy, yukon Cornelius. I love that guy, uconn Cornelius. How are you? Thank you for tuning in to the Pat's Peeps number 169. And, yeah, it's a gorgeous day and hoping you're doing well. Thank you for checking in with us again, much appreciated.
Speaker 1:My name is Pat Walsh, also the host of the Pat Walsh Show. It's heard on the radio on KMPK in Sacramento and then on that 7 to 10 pm Monday through Friday 1530 on the AM dial, 50,000 watt, and 93.1 on the FM dial. So we're simulcast. Also, of course, heard everywhere on your streaming platforms, just like the Pat's Peeps on your free iHeart, spotify, apple and all of them. Please tell a friend. We kind of just talk and we have a little bit of fun and we poke when we need to poke and then we just have fun the rest of the time. You just never know. I will say that today's podcast number 169, will be a wee bit shorter. So, thank you. If you're applauding right now, you're welcome. Okay if you're saying to yourself well, doggone it, I like. You know I like about the length of the podcast. You usually do well that. Thank you for that too. Greatly appreciate that. So here's the reason I need to keep it a little bit shorter again.
Speaker 1:Support local business. I have a couple of business meetings with local businesses today that I'm going to be going to before I go to work. I'm going to go into the studio today. I've been doing some of the shows from home and so, yeah, I need to go meet with these businesses. I'm going to shoot a couple of videos because these are local businesses doing great things and that's why I love telling you about them, them. Okay, we need to really support our local businesses whenever possible and they need to do good things for you too. You know, it's a two way street, obviously, and I can tell you these people that I'm going to visit today. They just do great things, talk about them on my show a radio show all the time, but they've certainly improved my home, helped to renovate that.
Speaker 1:All right, the other things I have to. There's other things that get in the way too, right, because you're doing a show not only a podcast but a radio show and you have other things you have to do. You deal with businesses and you know, and then you have your own stuff, for instance. Here's some of the things I need to do. I've been going to the dump a lot purging. Hopefully the purging will end soon, because I've been doing that for a few years now, getting rid of unneeded stuff. You know and I'm getting to the end here it's a remarkable improvement, but there's still work to do. As they say, I also have an upper room that needs to be cleaned and a shed that needs to be cleaned again and organized, and all of this, the upper room I've been kind of using for storage, because I'm limited on my storage.
Speaker 1:Where I live right now, I'm going to build a garage and do a shop and all this other stuff, but in the meantime, so I'm clearing things out. Right, and long story short, one of the things I'm clearing out, I've got this big bin. Listen to this, hold on. You hear this. It's a big old bin. It's on my American River Flooring luxury vinyl planks. Thank you very much. American River Flooring, 8510.
Speaker 1:Madison Avenue in Fair Oaks, for this beautiful floor. Well, this is a big old plastic bin. For this beautiful floor. Well, this is a big old plastic bin. And with Christmas coming up just 23 days away, 22 days away, you know, I've got this bin of toys. First of all, no man should have this many toys. But over time, you know what. I just collect the stuff because A you know, maybe it was given to me and you know, someone gives you. I'm very sentimental. So if someone gives me something, I just I don't. Was my mic too loud? Hold on, I just realized my mic was way loud. I hope I wasn't too loud to start things off. My mic was way modulated, so I just adjusted that. Perhaps this sounds better now. So if people give me a toy or whatever, I usually save it. That's just the way I am sentimental.
Speaker 1:Hey, charlie, yeah, Pat, remember back in 1982? Remember you gave me that barrel full of monkeys? No, I don't remember that. Well, you did, I did. Yeah, I still have it. Wow, oh, good for you, man. Well, you gave it to me, charlie and heck, consider you a good friend. And, my God, you gave me the barrel full of monkeys. I says man, I can't get rid of that. Have you ever used it? Never, no, never. Notice, the two characters have the same voice, pretty much the same voice. No, I never used it. I never used it. Well, just get rid of it. Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about it. I was influenced, I was motivated, I was inspired.
Speaker 1:Listening to Pat's Peeps podcast, what about who About listening to Pat's Peeps pod? What about who About? What? Pat's Peeps podcast? You moron, oh, what, anyhow. So, anyway, getting rid of the stuff.
Speaker 1:So I've got the toy box out here and I don't even know what's in it. People give me things. I collect them. I mean, it's not like I'm trying to collect them. Honestly, I'm not. You know, sports teams have given me things. I put it in this box. You know, past girlfriends have given me things. I'll put it in the box whatever. So I'm going to delve into this and see what's in it, because I honestly don't know. But it has to go, because I feel like perhaps it's kind of like the Island of Misfit Toys. You know, on Rudolph, hey there, how are you doing? Well, that was a nice little sound. I guess everything's okay. Windows Defender is up, but you know, like the Island of Misfit Toys on Rudolph. These are maybe like the Island of misfit toys on Rudolph. These are maybe like the island of misfit toys, but they're the bin of misfit toys that have been sitting in my upper room for probably a decade, tucked away in the closet. By the way, before I delve into this, I do want to bring one more thing up. I want to bring this up before I delve into my toy box and we'll see what's in there.
Speaker 1:I have this other dilemma. Like my neighbor living up here in the woods, I love it and you know you're cool with your neighbors. Everything's cool, I love it. We've got this unwritten thing where we just, hey, man, that's your space, my space, let's just take care of each other, of our own space, and everything will be groovy, everything will look great, everything will be cool.
Speaker 1:He's got a dog. I love dogs. I miss my dog. He's got a dog. You know the dog. The dog is running to my yard. I mean literally this guy's got like three acres. I have three acres. If the dog wants to run across the easement over there, you know, out into the woods and do its business. You know, take a little whiznoid out there. You know he's got all kinds of room to roam, to go take a leak in the morning.
Speaker 1:But for whatever reason, the dog has chosen my little tiny patch of lawn that I put in right next to my stone path leading directly to my door. It has taken me two or three years now to try to grow this grass to where it is green and it looks good. But now the dog and I can see its little marks, the little paw marks on my property when I go out there in the morning and I've seen the dog, it comes over to my yard and squats, I mean, like peas on the fence. I mean, come on. So now I got to go deal with my neighbor. I got my front door open Maybe you'll hear me See if he's over there. Take a look, I can't tell Waiting for him to come home. So I got to confront the guy right In a nice neighborly fashion. I got to say hey, bro, listen, man, can you kind of look out for your dog? I mean, look what it's done to my lawn. Half of my lawn is brown, for God's sakes. But as soon as he, you know, if the dog doesn't come to this little patch he'll go to cross my driveway to the other patch of grass that I have that I dared grow in the mountains. Just go ruin that as well, fertilize that. So I have to have that conversation with my neighbor and I'm going to do it in a nice neighborly fashion. Okay, I'm going to be yelling or nothing like that, but it needs to happen.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, let me look at this toy box. Okay, again, I don't know what's in here, but I think kids could use this stuff. So I'm going to you know what would be kind of cool I wish I could take like a knapsack or what is that? Like Santa's bag, dress up like Santa. Maybe I can find some kids to give this to. That would be such a joy if I could do that. Today's podcast will be a little shorter, by the way, just letting you know because, like I said, I got to do some stuff. I think I already said that, but I could give this to some kids.
Speaker 1:Let me look in here. Let me see. I'm just going to grab anything at random. I'm not even going to look. What did I grab? This is still in the box.
Speaker 1:What is this? This is a? Oh you know, oh, okay, I had a Dodge Challenger at one point it was a 2012. It was sweet, laser, red hood, scoop, gorgeous car. So this is a. Someone gave me a Dodge Challenger from the Disney store.
Speaker 1:Disney From the Cars movie, rod Rod Redline I guess that's the car's name or whatever. In the background. It's got a little picture in the background. I swear it looks just like the amalfi coast when we went to italy the amalfi coast, so, anyhow. So rod redline.
Speaker 1:Now, okay, this is going to a kid like what am I going to do with this? I'm going to put this on a shelf somewhere, keep it in this box. So, rod redline, all right, it's going to the. It's going in santa's bag for a needy child. I'm going to reach in the bin. I'm not even going to look. Here we go. I'm just going to grab something. What's next? Hold on, all right, this, all right. It's crunch time, america, that's right. Oh, this is a good novelty. This would be good at a white Christmas gift. Oh, look at that White elephant gift exchange. I'm going to keep this for that reason, like if I have any parties to go to this year, I'm going to give this at the White Elephant Gift Exchange. This will be in high demand. It's crunch time, america.
Speaker 1:And then this is in a box no more nuts in the White House 2016, or bust. It is a Hillary nutcracker. So it's Hillary Clinton in a pantsuit, if you can imagine her hands to her side, hear that truck go by, that motorcycle. I'm gonna, uh, maybe post a picture of this, but uh, yeah, it's a hillary clinton nutcracker. Directions get a grip place, nut between legs. Squeeze the new hillary nutcracker 2016. Controversial, proactive, yet handy around the house. The most talked about political products since wealthy 2008. Hillary nutcracker good for all kinds of nuts, including democrats and republicans. Go to hillarynutcrackercom.
Speaker 1:Who, I don't know. Who gave this to me. Thank you very much. I might have to hold on to that, but I don't know. I'll have to think of this. I'll have to think that one over, but that's pretty funny. I'll set that aside.
Speaker 1:Take a picture here's something, wow, wow. How about this? This is amazing. I just found this. That was something I collected. Remember the candy cigarettes? Everyone remembers the candy cigarettes. Well, this is a candy Bubblegum cigar. Anyone remember the bubblegum cigar? The gold what does it say? The gold? Dragon bubblegum cigar the gold what does it say? The gold? Dragon bubblegum cigar Yellow bubblegum cigar. See, that was the gateway for me. My friends, that led to cigars.
Speaker 1:All right, what else we have Reaching into the bin? How random is this? How random is this? It's a Ben Franklin action figure. Where's my kite? Hello, it's Ben Franklin. It's got movable arms, movable legs, and he's got his left hand is pointing with his finger so you can have him pointing up in the air. It's the. It's the Ben Franklin action figure. See, now, my first inclination is to put this up somewhere, like, what am I going to do with it? Though? You know what am I? Hey, is that a Ben Franklin action figure? You got there? Yeah, no man Been looking for one of those. So, anyway, I got that, all right. All right, what do we have here? What next is a? Uh, what is this? This is a personic los angeles dodgers toothbrush. Big League Clean, the Soft Personic LA Dodger toothbrush. I'm looking at the back of it High quality DuPont bristles, and then it's got all your teams. So, whatever you're looking for, they got that for you All right, all right.
Speaker 1:What else do we have in here? Oh, here we go. This is a drumstick. I must have caught this from some band sometime. Be nice to know what band it was that I caught this?
Speaker 1:oh, I can't read the name on it uh, liquid drummer, cooper groove, american hickory, I don't know, I don't know. All right, here we have a someone gave this to me. Uh, you know, pineapple pat some people call me because of my dislike for pineapple pizza. Someone gave me a pineapple. I don't know what you would call it, like a soft pineapple fluffy toy. That's all I can tell you. What do we got here?
Speaker 2:let's see alright, what do we have?
Speaker 1:this is a Beanie Baby. Now, I never saved Beanie Babies, although this is a cool one. I gotta say, probably keep this one, because this is a Gr dead beanie baby and I love the grateful dead. Uh, october 15th, 73 tour memory blah, blah, blah, blah doesn't matter. Liquid, blue, collectible. So it's a beanie baby. It's basically a, a psychedelic-looking one of the dancing bears from the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1:Most of the rock memorabilia. If it's rock memorabilia, I'm going to keep that. All right, what do we got? Speaking of that, here's an 8-track tape. Oh my God, an 8-track tape. Frank Zappa, it's so. The label is so bad I can barely read. Make out what it is Waka, jowaka and Hot Rats. Is that what it is? Waka, jowaka and Hot Rats, frank Zappa, eight-track. Here, kids, you want to oxidize Frank Zappaaka, jowaka tape? Yay, oh, it's also got hot rats. All right, what do we have here?
Speaker 1:This is a bud light, famous among friends beer cozy. It's a cowboy boot, beer Cozy. Yeah, that's got to go. Let's see Holvren's. Oh my gosh. Oh, there's a Bullwinkle tree ornament. Oh, my goodness. Well, bullwinkle's going right up on my tree. I had no idea that I had Bullwinkle tree ornament like that. You know, I've got Rocky up on my tree right now. So Bullwinkle is going to go right up there next to Rocky. Hello, bullwinkle. Now, I can't go on with this forever because there's just so much. Here you go, silly putty, the original silly putty, remember this. Like you could take it and roll it up and you could stretch it, you could bounce it. The thing I remember the best about silly putty I remember you could take like the comic section or you could take something from a newspaper or whatever and you could put the silly putty on there and you press it down onto the picture and you, on the silly putty, remember that.
Speaker 1:Candy cigarettes, vessel and Lucky Lights, candy cigarettes. Oh, here's a couple. There's another drumstick here. Oh, this is the same person, same stick. I don't know. I got someone's drumstick. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1:What is this? This is the potato gun. This my friend shoots harmless potato pellets. Harmless potato pellet gun. Yeah, and I have this. I'm an older guy and I have this. I'm an older guy and I have this. Yeah, oh, you got one of them. Potato pellet guns, I sure do. I've got a broken, grateful, dead bobblehead. All right, it's got to go. Here's a. Oh, this. This is a stuffed piece of pizza, toy Trim a home. It's a pineapple pizza That'll go with the other guy.
Speaker 1:I tell you I got Patrick. This is another Beanie Baby. I guess I didn't collect these. See, someone gave these to me Patrick from SpongeBob Beanie Baby. Some child will appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Here is an ornament that apparently at one time lit up. It's Rudolph and then Hermie that wants to be a dentist, but he's headless. You know what Hermie wants now. I want a head. A head, yes, I have no head, sorry, hermie. Yeah, he's got to go. There goes, hermie. All right.
Speaker 1:Now we have a NBA finals, the finals NBA finals. This is the championship trophy replica from the 2005 NBA finals. If you were to ask me and it's all gold if you were to ask me right now who won the 2005 NBA Finals, first of all, I'd be mystified that you'd ask me that. Second of all, I would have no idea. Here's another pack of cigarettes candy cigarettes, just like dad. Refreshing orange flavor candy cigarettes, all right. Refreshing orange flavor candy cigarettes, all right, let's see.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is nifty. This is something to show you off to your friends. This is the skeleton of a unicorn. It's a unicorn skeleton. What on earth is that? That's that has to go in the kid's bag. So some kid will be absolutely terrified.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, all right, what do we have here? Oh, look at this, now, this is clever. Look at this. So this is a football, All right, it's a football. It's Radio Shack. It's a football, it's radio shack. It's a radio shack football. All right so, and it's a smaller football, but it's like stuffed and it's. And what it is is it's a television remote. So you have the football and you, and within the football, it's got the remote. It's got TV VCR, cbl, I guess, cable power, channel up down, volume up down, mute set, and then it's got your numbers and all your settings fast forward, everything Right there on the football from Radio Shag man.
Speaker 1:You ain't going to find that anywhere, anywhere right now. I might keep that one. I'm not going to keep much of this River Cats plastic like what do you call it? Like a ice cream sundae cap? Some child will appreciate that. Ah, what do we have? Some kind of a weird antique, like a weird antique music box. Very strange, I don't know if it works. What's that? It's a great tune, that's it, all right. Here's a. Oh, I remember this guy. It's like a stress guy. It's a guy with a little tuft of hair on top of his head with gritting his teeth. Calm down now, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Don't stress. Take it easy, relax, calm down now, don't stress.
Speaker 1:I can't believe the battery still works after all of these years it's been in there.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen this in years oh my god, oh brother, hey, take it easy. Ha, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, oh brother, hey, rock them, sock them robots. I've got the red rocker, you know, like Sammy Hagar, I don't know where the rest of it is. I don't see the blue bomber. Oh, what else do we have in here? There's so much stuff in here. Space race, this is the no batteries needed.
Speaker 1:This is my shilling classical pinball games. So this is one of those games like when you're a kid. It's got all the little things where you pull the pin back and you shoot the little steely in there and then it lands either in 500 or 10 or 200, you know the little numbers. Let's see if I can get it. Let's see, of course, I got the 10 of the lowest. Enjoy hours of old-fashioned fun with our classic portable pinball game. Easy to use Just pull the back of the plunger and shoot one of the steel balls up the chute and see if it that sounds painful, and see if it lands in one of the plastic scurrying stops. Some kid will look at that like what? This isn't an Xbox, all right, just a couple more, whatever. What do you have here is a hummingbird Tootsie Roll dispenser. Yes, you must be kidding me. So it's a hummingbird feeder. That still has the tag on it brand new, but for whatever reason, it's filled with Tootsie Rolls. All right, you got me.
Speaker 1:I don't know, let's see, there's an old KFBK mic flag man. That is vintage stuff there. Oh, this is terrifying as can be. That is a terrifying doll right there. Why do I have this? That is creepy. That is a creepy, creepy doll. All right.
Speaker 1:And finally, just for today, let me see oh, here's a. Here's another toothbrush. This is the Peja Stojakovic toothbrush, the original slam dunk toothbrush. So it's Peja Stojakovic in his white King's outfit. It says MVPs and Peja's slamming the ball. But where his hand is where the ball is, that is the toothbrush. Head. Position forward height 6'9", weight, 229,.
Speaker 1:Birth date June 9, 1977, belgrade, yugoslavia, pro since 1998. We encourage all kids to brush with the pros and sport a winning smile. All right. So, some kid, that's a collector's item for you. And finally, here this is a telephone. This is for your cell phone, but it's like the receiver on an old phone, like you would hold the old phone up to your ear and speak into the bottom part and hold the other part to your ear, but you plug this into your cell phone. So you plug this in your cell phone and you look really cool because you're talking from your cell phone, but you're doing it with a wire connected to an old time phone receiver Isn't that nifty. You give that to a kid. They're going to be mystified Like, uh, what is this Dad? What is this? Anyhow, that's just the tip of the iceberg here. All right, it's the tip of the iceberg, I tell you. That's right. Good words to live by Pats Peeps 169. Let's get to the music, because there's so much more in here.
Speaker 1:So this song is written by Mike Diabo. It was released by this group in 1968. Colin Young singing the lead vocals. He had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968. And this is the first of this group's hit that he sang. It went to number one on the Cashbox Top 100. Number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1969. Also number two hit in the United Kingdom. That was for two non-consecutive weeks behind Lily the Pink by the Scaffold. It was quickly certified gold by the IRA for record industry for sales over a million US copies. The song is featured in the 1968 romantic comedy film there's Something About Mary 1998. Pilot episode Truth To Be Told, truth Be Told from the first season of the ABC TV spy drama series Alias, and on and on and on. So this song is a song by the foundations called build me up.
Speaker 2:But if I'm brave, just to let me down and mess me around. And then, worst of all, you never thought that, even when you say you will, but I love you still. I need you More than anyone darling. You know that I have from the start. Thank you, you let me down again, baby. Baby, try to find a little time and I'll make you happy. I'll be home, I'll be beside the home waiting for you. Why do you build me up, buddy, baby, just to let me down, I'd mess me around. And then, worst of all, you never thought, baby, when you say you will, but I love you still. I need you For that. Anyone darling, you know that I have from the start. But I love you still. I need you More than anyone darling. You know that I have from the start.
Speaker 1:So build me a Buttercup, don't break my heart. So this came out on Uni Records. I don't have the license for this. I'm just educating, critiquing and telling people about the music so that I can play it and expose the music To the masses. Uni Records, label Yellow, with it's got little swirls on it, telling people about the music so that I can play it and expose the music to the masses. Uni Records, label yellow, with it's got little swirls on it of purple, blue, green Promotional copy, not for sale. Got that black star on there. For that reason it's got the same song on both sides. I'm waiting for you. Why do you build me a blue blue body? It's got a radio sticker on the label Someone at the station put on there that says they wrote it on with an old felt pen, 1969,.
Speaker 1:So there you go. Thank you for listening Speaking of 1969. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps 169. We'll see you for listening Speaking of 1969,. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps 169. We'll see you for 170 tomorrow and we'll see you on the radio.
