Pat's Peeps Podcast

Ep. 177 Today's Peep Relives the Magic of a 1940s Radio Christmas... well, almost, Finds Unexpected Festive Adventures, Archie Debates Jesus's Birth, A Beatles Surprise, and Serenades You with an Oscar Meyer Weiner Whistle to add some Holiday Cheer!

Pat Walsh
Speaker 1:

hello there, my friends, welcome back to the pats peeps podcast, number 177. It's a friday, happy friday to you. It is the 20th day of December 2024, so five days and counting until Christmas, five golden rings, hello. Looking out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California today, a great day. It was sunny up here this morning. You know, I'm above that fog line, which was beautiful, but now some clouds have set in. It's a little gray out there. Nonetheless, it's a beautiful day. It's not that cold. I don't even have a fire going in my wood stove today. But wherever you are, thank you for tuning in my wood stove today. But wherever you are, thank you for tuning in. I'm very grateful to have you part of the Pat's Beeps podcast and I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas time, got all your Christmas shopping and all that stuff all done, tucked away Everyone's healthy Thought. I'd do a little. As I always say, do a little something different. Today you were going to try to.

Speaker 1:

We'll finish up the week tonight on my radio show, the Pat Walsh Show. As we continue, we finish up with a year in review. You know I have to say this we had best laid plans about doing a live radio show tonight and, just like last year, there's a curveball thrown into the mix. I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull this off because one of our players is not going to be there tonight. So I just don't know what to do about that. I keep promoting it and then we never do it and that's kind of disappointing. It's like the boy that cried wolf. But I promise you we're going to do it. I just don't know if it'll be now or after the first of the year, which is kind of disappointing, I don't know. I kind of like to do that during the holiday time, but you know, if we don't, then it'll be a nice way to begin the year. So yeah, I don't think I've ever heard anyone do that. By the way, do a live. And it's going to be a vintage-style radio show, like a 1940s-style radio show, you know, like where they had Gunsmoke and you know the Whistler and the Shadow Nose and Fibber, mcgee and Molly and all those kind of shows, and we're going to try to replicate that with an original script and do it all live with sound effects. So that's our goal. If we can do it tonight, we will.

Speaker 1:

I'm just not so sure, but today, on 177, I want to keep the Christmas spirit going. I want to say thank you to everyone who's just been so doggone. Nice, you know. I've gotten cookies from Darlene with a while. I've got cookies from Jimmy Irish, jim Bob Williams, and Kathy is his lovely wife gave me cookies last night. So I have all these cookies and, yeah, I'm getting the spiked eggnog. Ken Dogg gave me a bottle of the Irish whiskey last night, the Tullamore Dew, and so everyone is so doggone nice. You know, randy, she sent me a record, two records for Christmas, two Frank Zappa records, which I love we're only in it for the money and Ruben and the Jets. So thank you for those, randy, very thoughtful, and I just wish you a Merry Christmas. And, cece, we're thinking about you. We'll all say prayers for you to hope that you get better into the new year.

Speaker 1:

So, without further ado, you know what I thought I'd do Just goof off, if you don't mind, just kind of goof off. So what I've done I like to goof off is I've just strung together some things that when I think about Christmas, you know, these things come to mind, they put a smile on my face and that's what this is all about. And you know, tonight on my radio show we'll do that same thing. It will be different than this, though probably completely different content on the show tonight. So, uh, hopefully you'll tune in. If you've not listened to my radio show, I would love it if you would do that.

Speaker 1:

By the way, you know, yesterday on the show I did a uh, I did a little test. Where is that? Oh, it's right here. I did a little test. Where is that? Oh, it's right here. I did a little test. Remember yesterday on Pat's Peeps 176? I had the whistle and I need to keep that in mind. I might take this on the air tonight and try it, see if I can do a Christmas tune with this Oscar Mayer whistle and see if someone guesses it and give them some nice, some tickets. But we gave Bill Engvall tickets away last night a four pack and I said on my podcast yesterday like if you can call me on my radio show tonight and tell me what kind of whistle this is, I'll give you four packet tickets to Billing Bowl. And so we did that and we had a bunch of people called up. Thank you, that tells me a lot of people were listening to my podcast and then listening to my show, it warmed my heart for Christmas time.

Speaker 1:

Denise said she got the jingle bells, but that's easy, you know. You know what I mean. I probably wouldn't even be able to replicate it. So this thing, you can't tune this. There's no way. Like, if I go on tonight and try to do the first Noel, it ain't going to work. Let me test it. I kind of I almost did it. All right, I'm going to try that on my show tonight. Would that have been obvious? Or is it just because I said the first Noel that it made it kind of seem obvious? I don't know, we'll see tonight, but I look forward to that tonight, and so we should have a blast on tonight's Pat Wall show. Without further ado, please enjoy our little Christmas get-together, our little Christmas montage put together by myself here on Pats Peeps 177.

Speaker 2:

Here comes Russia. Here comes Russia. Right down Liberal Lane, syria, cuba and Canada are singing words of praise. Tails are lifted, fracking has hit. Gas prices are now through. So jump in bed and cover your head, cause every one of you got doom. Here comes China. Here comes China. Right down liberal lane, north Korea, iran and all their friends are cheering all the way. No alarms are ringing, immigrants singing as they cross your border tonight. So jump in bed and cover.

Speaker 3:

No, you know what I've been thinking about. I thought about, lord, christmas is coming and now I'm a grandmama and I, you know, I'm out making a little money. But when I was a stay-at-home mom, when we first got started out and had little children, I remember thinking, oh my Lord, that little Tyke's kitchen's going to sell out and my husband doesn't like to let go of money until right at the end of Christmas, and I'm like I got to get there. Okay, I'll do something nasty in that big Dodge Ram In that mobile home parking lot, yeah, and then I'll be able to get that Elmo, yeah, yeah, and then I'll be able to get that, elmo, yeah yeah, woo, somebody done been to the Walmart.

Speaker 4:

Man, that's just the stuff I got for Christmas. Well, you cleaned up. What'd you get? Five flannel shirts, four big mud tires, three shotgun shells, two hunting dogs and some parts to a Mustang GT. You foe, you got Jeff. There's 12 days to Christmas.

Speaker 5:

I know that I got it covered. Look over in the corner, that's yours too.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, 12 pack of bud, 11 wrestling tickets, 10 of Copenhagen, 9 years probation, 8 table dancers, 7 packs of Redman, 6 cans of Spam, 4 paddle cans of spam, four big mutters, three shotgun shells, two hunting dogs and some parts to a mustang gt I remember one christmas wasn't too good.

Speaker 6:

It was pretty lousy. I've got a little Christmas story. I'm sorry but it's sad. It'll either break your heart or make you scratch your head.

Speaker 6:

A few years ago on Christmas Eve, santa was at our house. He must have been tired Because he laid down for a minute On our couch. He jumped up in a hurry, checked all his reindeer, flew off into the darkness. They was scratchin' from ear to ear. It was the loudest Christmas we ever had, one we'll never forget Scratchin', itch and combed our hair, and we're not over it yet.

Speaker 6:

Santa Claus don't come to our house anymore. He don't care if we're naughty or nice, we're the ones that gave Santa Claus and all his reindeer lice Days late gettin' back to the North Pole. It took him three or four days. They scratched his nits, must have almost lost her way. Santa claus shaved all his hair off and he shaved his whiskers too. When he shaved the hair off all the reindeer, rudolph, snow, stern blue. It was the lousiest christmas we ever had, one we'll never forget. Scratched and knit, combed our. We're not over it yet. Santa Claus don't come to our house anymore. Don't care if we're naughty or nice. We're the ones who gave Santa Claus and all his reindeer lice.

Speaker 7:

Since this is Aunt Bethany's 80th Christmas, I think she should lead us in the saying of grace.

Speaker 3:

What dear Grace.

Speaker 8:

Grace. She passed away 30 years ago. They want you to say grace. The blessing blessing, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.

Speaker 9:

One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Speaker 8:

Amen, amen, amen.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I love that one. That is a classic from Christmas Vacation. I also love the scene in the Christmas Vacation with Squirrel. Right they see the squirrel and the Christmas tree Squirrel. That is one of my favorite Christmas movies right there. I also particularly enjoy the scene where it is the jelly of the month club, where he gets, instead of getting, his big Christmas bonus so he can put in the Christmas pool I mean the swimming pool right, he ends up getting the. His gift for the year is the Jelly of the Month Club. Unforgettable scene. Hey, this is Pat's Peeps 177. Thank you, thank you for listening. Merry Christmas, merry Christmas. Oh, that's Peeps 177.

Speaker 2:

Oh God.

Speaker 1:

Am I having deja vu right now?

Speaker 2:

I think, I am.

Speaker 1:

I think I put it in here twice for your enjoyment. Hey, did you hear Ken Dog last year? Hope you listened to Ken Dog, as he gave a really good review of the year in movies, what to avoid and his favorite movies of the year. Hopefully that was helpful, my friends.

Speaker 7:

Hello everybody, this is Paul, and I'd just like to thank you all for buying our records during the past year. We know you've been buying them because the sales have been very good. You see, don't know where we'd be without you really, though, in the army perhaps. Oh, we hope you've enjoyed listening to the record as much as we've enjoyed melting them. No, no, no, that's wrong making them. We're in number two studio at the moment at emi, taping this little message for you. Yes, we are, we are indeed. I just thought it'd make. This is the same studio we've used all along since the old days of love me do, many years ago, it seems oh, those are the days well, that's about's about all, I think, except to wish you all a happy Christmas and a very new year.

Speaker 7:

Now I'll pass you over to John John.

Speaker 5:

John, john speaking. Thanks all of you who bought me book. Thank you folks for buying it. It was very handy and there's another one out pretty soon. It says here Hope you buy that too. It'll be the usual rubbish, but it won't cost much. You see, that's the bargain. We're going to strike up. I write them in my spare time. It says here it's been a busy year. Did you write this yourself? No, it's somebody's bad hand-wroter. It's been a busy year, beetle-peetles one way or another, but it's been a great year too. You fans have seen to that Page two. Thanks a lot, folks, and a happy Christmas and a merry goo-year, grimble maybe. And I hand you to George who'll speak to you.

Speaker 11:

NOW. Thank you, john. Thank you, hi there. I'd like to thank all of you for going to see the film Spect. A lot of you saw it more than once. I did, did you so did I? Thanks, anyway, because it makes us very pleased. You know, we had a quiet time making it Actually we didn't. We had a great time making it and we're glad it turned out okay. The next one should be completely different. We start shooting it in February. This time it's going to be in colour. It'll be a big laugh, we hope. Well, we Big laugh.

Speaker 9:

Yeah, it'll be a big laugh.

Speaker 11:

You and Megan, and we may see all of you soon. Hope so. Anyway, all the best in Happy New Year and a happy Christmas. And here's Ringo.

Speaker 12:

Thanks, George Ringo here. Well, the others have thanked you for the discs and John's book and for everything, oh no, for enjoying the film. I'd like to thank you just for being fans. It's been a funny year. You know, One minute we're in England, next we're away. I suspect you're wondering where we've been. Well, beetle people, we've been to Australia and America and New Zealand. Who's dropping that? New Zealand and Australia.

Speaker 3:

And New.

Speaker 12:

Zealand. So much travelling, but you've stayed loyal, haven't you? Anyway, those airport receptions knocked us out, man great. Well, that's about it. From me, I'd just like to say all the best for Christmas and a happy new year.

Speaker 9:

I don't know what I'm talking about. What's about it? Can you wash your body? Can you wash it clean? What can you wash your body? Can you wash your body, can you?

Speaker 10:

wash it clean. What can you wash your body? Can you wash it clean Christmas?

Speaker 9:

Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas One, two, three, four Rockin' around the Christmas tree At the Christmas party. Hop, measles all home. Well, you can see Every couple tries to stop Rockin' around the Christmas tree. Let the Christmas fever break. Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling. You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear voices singing. Let's be jolly. Set the house with lots of hollering. Rocking around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party. Hop, mistletoe hung where you can't see, every couple tries to stop rocking around the Christmas tree. Let the Christmas fever break. Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling. You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear Voices singing. Let's be darling Set the house with lots of hollering.

Speaker 1:

You're listening to Pat's Beats 177. We're just having a little fun today Keeping the spirit of Christmas. Hope you're having a Merry Christmas time, you and yours.

Speaker 9:

You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear Poises singing. Let's be darling. Set the house in lots of holly Rockin' around the Christmas tree. At the Christmas party hall, mistletoe hall, where you can see every couple tries to stop Rockin' around the Christmas tree. Have a happy holiday. Everyone's dancin' merrily in the new old-fashioned way. Everyone's dancin' merrily in the new old-fashioned way.

Speaker 1:

Everyone's dancing merrily in the new, old-fashioned way. Ultra-rare Beatles, right there rocking around the Christmas tree.

Speaker 13:

It's Pat's Peeps 177. Well, God don't have nothing against taking a drink to celebrate his son's birthday, Archie there's no proof that Jesus was God's son.

Speaker 1:

That's fairy tales.

Speaker 13:

Ah, come on, you meat-headed atheist, you Gee. They don't give you a holiday for fairy tales. All over the world, they celebrate the birth of that baby and everybody gets time off from work. Now, if that ain't proof that he's the son of God, then nothing is.

Speaker 10:

Archie, I'm not saying that a philosopher named Jesus didn't live in those days. I'm just saying that there was no proof that he was the son of God. Like I said, it's fairy tales.

Speaker 13:

The Bible ain't fairy tales, they're mean head. The Bible is facts all the way, right from the beginning, when God made the world in seven days six days. Archie seven days now I'm the seventh day he rested well, maybe half a day around checking on what he done. And he made us all one true religion, ain't it Christians? She named after his son, christian.

Speaker 8:

Or Christ for short.

Speaker 13:

I never thought of that. Certainly that's the way it was for a long time. One religion, so they started splitting off into all them other denumerations there, your Catholics, your Presbyterians, lutherans, et cetera, et cetera there, but there's still only one true religion to this day, and that's his religion up there.

Speaker 9:

Yeah, and of course that's the one you belong to, right Arch.

Speaker 13:

I'd be kind of stupid if I didn't, wouldn't I? I tell you, my heart goes out to a lot of guys I know. Yeah, they spend their lives believing. When I'm offshoot religion, you know they're sending their kids to them there, giving them money, running dances for them, and then in the end they get up there and they find out they was fooling around with the wrong one all along.

Speaker 10:

That's sad. You know that matches and wood cause baby, I'm a bad, bad kid government surveillance since I started to walk ain't no telling what I did. I like to think I'm just misunderstood. But you know, I'm just a bad, bad kid. Daddy told mama last christmas eve you know we got a bad, bad kid. He's got a black leather jacket and a real mean streak. I guess he's just a bad, bad kid. He knocked off a Macy's and my uncle's antiques hocked them for 49 quid. He's on a one-way ticket down a dead-end street Cause mama, he's a bad, bad kid. Merry Christmas, jitter was full.

Speaker 1:

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Cheech and Chong.

Speaker 14:

Ma ma mamacita, donde esta Santa Claus? The vato with the bony knees? He's coming down the street with no shoes on his feet and he's going to no, no, that ain't it. Ma ma mamacita. Donde esta Santa Claus? The guy with the hair on his jaws? Hey man, come over here, man, I need some help, man. Yeah, man, I can dig that, like what are you doing, man? I'm trying to write a song about Santa Claus, man, but it's not coming out About who man? About Santa Claus man. You know, santa Claus.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah man I played with those dudes?

Speaker 14:

man, what? Yeah, last year at the Fillmore man, me and the bass player sat in man, oh hey, man, you think Santa Claus is a groove? Huh, no, it's not a groove. Man, would they break up? Man? Oh no, man, it's one guy man, you know he had a red suit on man with black patent leather shoes. You know the guy man. Oh yeah, he's with Motown, ain't he? No, man, he's not man, he's not with Motown man. Well then, he's with Buddha man. Oh man, you don't know who Santa Claus is man yeah well.

Speaker 14:

I'm not from here, man, Like I'm from Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1:

I want to say thank you very much for listening to a little bit of a different episode today, the Pets Peeps episode 177. Less me more of that today. Hope that's okay, because I'm having fun listening. Now again, I have. I don't have the license to any of this stuff. I'm not trying to make money, I'm just trying to expose it, critique it, you know and remember. It brings a smile to my face and hopefully it does yours as well. I love this Zeppelin Yuletide mashup. Hope your Christmas shopping is all done, everything's tucked away, everyone's happy and healthy, and your family, wherever you may be. Christmas tidings to you. Remember, if you want your pudding this Christmas, you gotta eat your meat. How can you eat your pudding if you don't eat your meat? How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat? How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat? I don't know why I was thinking about that, because I'm a goofball, I reckon. Thank you for listening. See you for Pat's Peeps 178. Be blessed and we'll see you on the radio.

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