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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 207 Today's Peep Super Bowl Disillusionment, Elvis Presto's Quirky Halftime Magic, Andy Griffith Classic "What It Was, Was Football" and Mel & Tim's "Backfield In Motion"
Ever felt like the Super Bowl was more about the spectacle than the sport? Join me as I navigate through my post-game grumpiness, pondering the overwhelming hype and the not-so-enthralling ads, all while savoring the joy of family time during my sister-in-law's birthday bash. As I express gratitude for our ever-growing audience, let's chat about how the Super Bowl just isn't what it used to be, reminiscing about commercials and halftime shows that once truly grabbed our attention. And hey, if you're curious about my nightly radio show, I'll give you a little nudge to tune in for more fun and less spectacle.
Travel back with me to the late '80s when the NFL halftime show decided to put a magic spin on things with Elvis Presto and his unforgettable, if not peculiar, performance. Picture an Elvis impersonator, magic tricks, motorcycles, and even pink Cadillacs—all mixed into a surreal musical concoction. It's a trip down memory lane, revisiting a time when a 3D Diet Coke commercial was part of the entertainment package, leaving us with an experience that was as awkward as it was memorable.
Wrap up this nostalgic ride with a look at how sports culture has morphed over the years—from regular attire to team jerseys—and a touch of humor from Andy Griffith's famous monologue, "What It Was, Was Football." We'll go back to 1964 with Elsie Bynum and Linda Martell's lively "Backfield Emotion," a tune that makes you want to dance and embrace the Beatles' era energy. So, if you're in need of some charm, laughter, and a sprinkle of nostalgia, make sure to catch the Pat Wall Show for more engaging content and a dose of happy vibes!
welcome back my friends to the the Pat's Peeps podcast Number 207. Thank you for being a part of it. As I look out into the beautiful foothills of Northern California from my studio. It is a gorgeous day. It's cold outside. Happy 10th day of February 2025, the day after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:I'll just say this I'm going to sound like a grouchy old man today. Not with it at all. Hey, by the way, oh, my goodness, big thank you. I'm going to start right there. I know I always thank you, but I just noticed the numbers on the podcast. Thank you guys. It was the biggest week yet for my podcast. Someone spreading the word, whatever it is, it's catching on, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:I continue to try to grow the podcast, the Pat's Peeps podcast. You know I've been doing this every day, relentless, my friends. But yeah, people, really a lot of people listening to the. You know 206,. Thank you so much for that. I'm kind of you know. Just, I'm seeing the numbers going up by the week. It's just very, very exciting. Please keep spreading the word. It's so, it's so, very important. You know, here's what I'm going to call today's podcast 207. This is I just again. It's the day after the Super Bowl, the Eagles and the Chiefs, and I'm just done with it. Man, oh, hello, hi, how are you? I don't know what that was, but thank you for joining my podcast. I'm just kind of I'm going to sound so bitter, but I'm just I'm so sick of the whole thing, man, the overblown hype. Just you know how much do you know? Now, okay, I admit, if my team were in it which they almost were, I don't mean to sound bitter in that way If my team were in it, yeah, I would be very happy about it, very excited. But I don't know. Even when my team is in it, it's just so over-the-top hyped. Like when the Rams were in it last time when they won the Super Bowl it was a Snoop Dogg and nothing against Snoop Dog, whatever. Like when he was getting high at sofi stadium trying to hide it from the cameras. Anyone see that? Where he snoop, his snoo is, he's snooping down and he's, he's back there, he's trying to get. He's getting loaded off that joint at the stadium. Prior to going on. Anyhow, I look.
Speaker 1:I went to my brothers yesterday my brother and sister-in-law and we got together and hopefully everyone's safe, by the way, from this terrible flu. I was a little nervous about that. But, um, you know, thank you to Steve and Mary. Today, by the way, my sister-in-law Mary's birthday. She is just so sweet, she just couldn't have a better sister-in-law. I've got great sister-in-laws Anyhow. So I went over there so we had snacks and food and all that, and you know wings and all the stuff that people do. That's the best part of the day, my brother, you have to understand.
Speaker 1:See, we don't watch the halftime. Been a long time since I've watched the halftime, and even when actual artists that I enjoy were playing, I don't know, I just don't. I don't need a party at the middle of a game. I know I told you I'm gonna sound like a cranky old man, but it's true, I just don't. I don't need a party at the middle of a game. I know I told you I'm going to sound like a cranky old man, but it's true, I sound like Bill Burr. I agree with Bill Burr in this respect. You know, it's just, I don't need that.
Speaker 1:And all the stupid commercials, look at, I didn't even see any of the commercials. I don't care about the commercials, and so I. You know some people would argue well, maybe you should watch the commercials. So when you go on, you know you could talk about the commercial. I don't care about them, I haven't forever. They're horrible. We know.
Speaker 1:I heard yesterday I haven't heard anything good about the commercials. I heard about some, you know, clydesdale, baby Clydesdale, or whatever, pushing a keg Again. If you go back to the old days when they had the Clydesdales, when you say, bud, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. I love that. Show me the Clydesdales. You show me the Clydesdales. No, but all of this AI stuff I'm hearing about, maybe I will take a look before my show tonight, by the way, pat Wall's show, hosted by myself. I have a radio show. I always like to tell you about that.
Speaker 1:7 to 10 pm, monday through Friday, on KFPK Sacramento 93.1 FM, 1530 am, but also, of course, streaming live everywhere on your free iHeart app, just like this podcast. So I don't. There's two weeks. I get it in football, you know, like all right, they don't do that in hockey, though, for the Stanley Cup, do they? They just keep playing. And hockey's brutal man brutal. So is football. But they get the two weeks so they can get all the hype in and again, unless it's my team, and maybe people are this way of other teams. Maybe if you're a 49er fan, maybe you don't sit there and watch two weeks of hype over the Eagles and the Chiefs. I mean, I doubt you're going to watch that much on the Chiefs. If you're a Raider fan or a Charger fan, you know what I'm saying. Broncos, but it's overhyped. Now that's a party.
Speaker 1:What was up with the halftime? I mean at least I went back and looked. I couldn't even. It's just I don't get it. Man. All the freaking dancers coming out and dancing, I hate that. I just hate it. I hate it. I hate these synchronized dancers, whether it's Britney Spears or Lady Gaga or this stuff. I just Kendrick Lamar, I just cannot stand it.
Speaker 1:I am so old school and don't give me Celine Dion at halftime either. I'm old school man and I'm not saying I want marching bands or I need rock and roll, but I don't know. I don't want any of it. Like, do something for the country, do something I don't know, to celebrate America, not up with people. I don't even know. I don't know. It's just. All I know is I don't like the hype and I don't like the parties anymore and I don't like again.
Speaker 1:I had a good time at my brother and sister-in-law's house and hanging out with my nephew Daniel. That's not what I'm saying. I mean, listen, we hang out all the time, whether it's the Super Bowl or, you know, whether it's August 10th, it doesn't matter, just randomly we'll just hang out. But I don't want it to feel like some weird holiday. It's just too much for me. That's why I like baseball, and thank God, baseball, spring training tomorrow. Baseball tomorrow, baby spring training. I'm so happy about that. The commercials man, I just you know what. Let's go back. Here's one. I bet most people don't remember this. You know everyone always talks about you know? Okay, well, you know they had the old style and it was in New Orleans. And then what's up with the oh God, see, here I go now on this. Come on, can you sing the national anthem? Just sing it. This Come on, can you sing the national anthem? Just sing it. Don't give me your soul take or your rock take. Yes, it was a soul take on it.
Speaker 3:Please, just sing the song, just sing it, god I hate this.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, or you make it soul, or you make it whatever A pop song. It's a song that's supposed to be treated with respect, isn't it? I mean, I'm sure this guy I don't even know who it was I'm sure he was a fine singer. I actually did hear the national anthem, so I can comment on that. But for the most part, if you're at my brother's house, all right, my brother Steve, who I love very much, we're very close. If we are at his house and you're waiting for the game to come on, now, I actually love it. But if you're waiting for the game to come on, what you're going to do is you're going to rock out. You're going to rock out, man. You're going to rock out to bands like well, like Clutch, for instance. Anyone know the band Clutch? I'm thinking about a good song from Clutch. Let's see, let's see. Let me give you one. Oh, this is a good one. All right, clutch, very manly, very masculine-sounding band, clutch, clutch, it's a great tune, by the way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, on a two-way track. Two-way track. Now tell me, holy devil, where you at. There's a woman on the hill In a wide-brimmed hat With a shotgun 44 and a big bloodhound in the back of a jacked up Ford.
Speaker 1:That's what you're going to hear, my brothers. You're going to hear rock and roll, hard stuff, and when the game gets ready to go, and they're getting ready to kick off, then he'll turn the game on. So this is great, man, this is great. I like that. But then at the halftime we're back to it. All right, and I'm talking about cranked up, cranked up, and I'm talking about cranked up, cranked up, and the commercials come on, which I have no interest in, and neither does he. And this is what we're listening to.
Speaker 3:I'll keep rolling on the tote bag. Keep rolling on the tote bag. Yeah, till the day is done.
Speaker 1:I mean, we're just cranking, we're just listening to music, and so we don't really see the halftime, we don't look at the commercials, we crank it up and we rock out and so. And then here's the other thing when, the when, when because President Trump was there. And so Steve and I are very different on this Trump comes out, he's like he's giving, he's flipping the TV off F you mother bleep, and inside I'm just like I love Trump, I love what you're doing. I'm sorry, I love what you're doing. See, I'm not trying to alienate anyone. On my podcast, on my show, it's all freedom of expression, baby. We're listening to music like this, and you know the announcer must have said Donald Trump is in attendance today, but all I hear is this and my brother going.
Speaker 3:F-U-U-B.
Speaker 1:Isn't this cool. But inside I'm yeah, I just. But the thing is I'm not going to get into it with him. I'm not going to argue with him Because I love my brother, I don't know. I think it's best to just kind of stay out of the way, you know. I mean in terms of Keeping politics out of the mix. You got to keep it out of the mix, so I'm not a big fan of it.
Speaker 1:Speaking of halftime, anyone remember? Because, like I said, people talk about, you know up with people and al hurt and all this. But if you go back to this, go back to january 22nd 1989 at joe robbie stadium at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami. It was the bebop bamboozled in 3D. This halftime featured a 1950s theme, an Elvis impersonator and a magic trick. That's right.
Speaker 1:So the NFL was looking to find new producers and ideas for their halftime shows in the years 1988, 1989, and 1990. So the NFL officials they meet with several individuals. Among them is Dan Witkowski is a veteran stage illusionist. He's the owner of the small company magic calm, magic calm, and he did not give them specifics for a show at that's at this particular meeting. He's the owner of the small company Magic Calm and he did not give them specifics for a show at this particular meeting they had, but rather asked for the opportunity to give a formal presentation to them, which was granted. To pique the interest of the league officials, witkowski put a padlock on the leather-bound pitch books that he sent to the member of the league's halftime show selection committee ahead of his presentation see. So, after the presentation, witkowski and his company, they were given the opportunity to then co-produce the 1988 Super Bowl pregame show, sort of as a dry run, in addition to the 1989 halftime show. They'd be in control of that.
Speaker 1:The halftime show created by Bebop Bamboozled decided the show would have a 50s theme. Like I said, the Elvis impersonator who, in this case this is the greatest. I mean, if this isn't a great name for a band, a rock band or whatever, I don't know what is. I'm telling you, if I get a band together, another band together, I may have to call it this. So the show featured an Elvis impersonator dubbed Elvis Presto, played by then solid gold dancer Alex Cole. So two portions of Elvis Presley songs were performed Blue Suede Shoes and Honka, honka, bone and Love and the rest of the show instead featured songs from musicals, among other tunes. Oh, can you imagine? Cole had not originally been the individual cast to impersonate Elvis. Rather, he was the choreographer for the individual who had previously played Elvis on Broadway. But when that individual backs out, this dude, cole was cast in his plays. Oh, yeah, man, I think I could do that man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, I know I could do that man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, I know I'm a choreographer, but that's right, baby, I think I can do Elvis. Man, I'm going to call myself Elvis Presto, baby. The vocals of Elvis Presto were pre-recorded, performed by Jody Lomadeco.
Speaker 1:Now the show featured roughly 2,000 South Florida dancers, south Florida area dancers and performers, among them June Taylor, donald Pippin, who was in charge of the music. June Taylor was a dancer, donald Pippin in charge of the music. A number of magic, magic acts considered by Witkowski. It was decided that the big trip would be a large scale card trick. The number of magic acts considered by Witkowski. It was decided that the big trip would be a large-scale card trick. It featured 102 custom-made Harley Davidson motorcycles, pink Cadillacs and fireworks. There were several screens, including computer-generated 3D images, including, I mean, there's all kinds of stuff, just Diet Coke was part of this. So the event was immediately preceded by a taped introduction by Bob Costas, followed by a 3D Diet Coke commercial.
Speaker 1:The show begins with Elvis Presto hey man, hey man, I want to introduce some magic tricks baby. The show begins with Elvis Presto hey man, hey man, I'm here to do some magic tricks, baby. That's right. That's right. I hope you don't mind Elvis doing a couple of magic tricks man Performance. But I'm not really Elvis. I'm the choreographer for this show, but the performance is MC appearing from inside a jukebox. This is Elvis Presdoe. Various songs were performed during this halftime show. Bob Costas, okay, it's showtime.
Speaker 3:We're going to throw out a magic potion, a magic word or two, and see what happens. Okay, abracadabra.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's Hocus Pocus.
Speaker 3:Albert Icky Woods One.
Speaker 1:And now the hokiest halftime show of all, Brought to you by Earl Shod $29.99. Great job.
Speaker 2:Entertainment present of Super Bowl halftime extravaganza. Can you imagine this?
Speaker 1:How horrible this is. It's literally like Lawrence Welk on steroids.
Speaker 3:Here comes Elvis Presto. Hello baby, oh God.
Speaker 1:Watch the members of Elvis Presto pay attention to halftime to the field as they form a giant peanut butter banana sandwich, Can you? I mean, I was probably so embarrassed watching this crap. I get embarrassed from far away, Like if I'm watching things then I feel like we should all be embarrassed. I'm cringed. This is cringey.
Speaker 3:This is cringey Ugh.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, no, Is he rapping? Oh, my skin just crawled. I think Elvis Presto's doing some early rapage here. Let's listen.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:I got those little hairs standing up on the back of my neck right now. If I had them on my head, they'd be standing up there too. Pick a card. With applause, you gotta pick a card with applause.
Speaker 3:Which card it's gonna be depends on just how loud you clap my friend.
Speaker 1:I think I have literally found something now that is as cringeworthy to watch as Cop Rocks and if you don't know what I'm talking about with Cop Rock, it's Cop Rock. You know? What I need to do is just start a cringeworthy page Cringeworthycom. Listen to the Elvis Presto here. This is brutal.
Speaker 3:One, two, three, four. Now clap for the card that you adore, jack of clubs.
Speaker 1:Three of diamonds. Oh, the people in the audience are just like what is happening here in the stands. You know this is. Another thing that I pay attention to is that it wasn't that long ago when people actually started wearing sports jerseys to the game. If you go back to this, like even 1989, 1989 people are just dressed in their regular clothes. It's not all about the jerseys and the hats and the sweatshirts and all that. King of hearts to have spades. Elvis Presto, ladies and gentlemen, card trick performed. Presto urged the stadium audience to pick one of four cards and applause me to indicate which card the audience has chosen. Oh, that's brutal man, you know, it just is. You know, when I think of football, here's a classic for you. Going back to a classic here on Pat's Peeps 207, what?
Speaker 2:it was was football Last October, I believe it was. We wasn't going to hold a 207,. What it was was football. It was back last October, I believe it was. We wasn't going to hold a tent service.
Speaker 1:What it was was football.
Speaker 2:Andy Griffith classic, it was back last October, I believe it was, we wasn't going to hold a tent service off at this college town and we got there about dinnertime on Saturday and different ones of us thought that we ought to get us a mouthful to eat before that. We set up the tent and so we got off of the truck and followed this little bunch of people through this small little bitty patch of woods there and we come up on a big sign it says get something to eat here. And I went up and got me two hot dogs and a big orange drink, and before that I could take every mouthful of that food. This whole raft of people come up around me and got me to where I couldn't eat nothing up like and I dropped my big orange drink I did. Well, friends, they come in to move and they want so much that I could do but move with them. Well, we comments to go through all kinds of doors and gates and I don't know what all. And I looked up over one of them and it says North Gate. And we kept on going through there and pretty soon we come up on a young boy and he says ticket please. And I says, friend, I don't have a ticket. I don't even know where it is that I'm going. I did. Well, he says, come out as quick as you can. And I says I'll do her, I'll turn right around the first chance I get. Well, we kept on moving through there and pretty soon everybody got where it was that there was a going Because they parted, and I could see pretty good, I could and what I seen was this whole raft of people setting on these two banks and looking at one another across this pretty little green cow pasture.
Speaker 2:Well, there was, and somebody had tucked and drove white lines all over it and drove posties in it and I don't know what all. And I looked down there and I seen five or six convicts, a running up and down and a blowing whistles. There was pretty girls are wearing these little bitty short dresses and a dancing around, and so I sat down and thought I'd see what it was that was gonna happen. I did, and about the time I got set down, good, I looked down there and I seen 30 or 40 men come running out of one end of a great big outhouse down there. Down there, they did, and everybody where I was a-sitting got up and hollered.
Speaker 2:And about that time 30 or 40 come running out of the other end of that outhouse and the other bank full. They got up and hollered and I asked this fellow that was a-sitting beside of me. I says, friend, what is it that they're a-hollering for? Well, he whopped me on the back and he says, buddy, have a drink. Well, I says I believe I will have another big orange. And I got it and sat back down and when I got down there again I seen that them men had got in two little bitty bunches down there. They had railed close together and they voted, they did, they voted and elected one man apiece.
Speaker 2:And them two men come out in the middle of that cow pasture and shook hands like they hadn't seen one another in a long time. And then a convict come over to where there was a standard and he took out a quarter and they come in to odd man right there. They did. Well, after a while I seen what it was, that there's odd man in four. It was that both bunches full of them men wanted this funny looking little pumpkin to play with. They did, and I know, friends, that they couldn't eat it because they kicked it the whole evening and it never busted. But anyhow, what I was telling was that both bunches full wanted that thing and one bunch got it and it made the other bunch just as mad as they could be.
Speaker 2:And, friends, I seen that evening the awfulest fight that I have ever seen in my life I did. They would run at one another and kick one another and throw one another down and stomp on one another and grind their feet in one another and I don't know what all, and just as fast as one of them would get hurt, they'd tote him off and run another number. Well, they'd done that as long as I sat there. But pretty soon this boy that had said ticket, please. He come up to me and he says, friends, you're gonna have to leave Because it is that you don't have a ticket. And I says, well, alright, and I got up and left. And I don't know, friends, to this day what it was that there's a doing down there. But I have studied about it and I think that it's some kindly of a contest when they see which bunch full of them men can take that pumpkin and run from one end of that cow pasture to the other without either getting knocked down or stepping in something.
Speaker 1:Andy Griffith classic. What it was was football part one, part two, on vinyl, pat's Peeps 207. Been a long time maybe since you've heard that one, but been a long time since I've heard that one. Actually, you know, on today's and you know again, I'm so excited Baseball spring training starts tomorrow. But I did want to say, since we're talking football number one, even though, yeah, I'm not really into the halftime and the commercials, I'm into the game. This is what I pay attention to.
Speaker 1:Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles who whacked the Kansas City Chiefs. Yesterday Wasn't even close, it was one-sided. It was extremely boring. Unless you are an Eagles fan. That's the way I feel about it. If you're an Eagles fan, that was one exciting, wonderful, incredible, incredible game. But in the reality, for a lot of people it was just boring because it was just so one-sided. But in the reality, for a lot of people it was just boring because it was just so one-sided. So good for them for dominating the Kansas City Chiefs, who will not, after all, get the three-peat. So nice try though. Congratulations to Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs for being there yet again To end today's podcast 207, I actually didn't pluck a record out of my record collection.
Speaker 1:I just thought of a song and I want to play it, so this is not from one of my records today. This is a song came out in 69. Just made me think about it. Just kind of keep the you know, the flavor of the post Super Bowl flavor here Before we switch over to baseball. This song is sung by a vocal duo and the vocal duo just used their first names. It uses an American football terminology. It uses you don't hear it anymore really, you used to hear it a lot back, way back, way back. But it uses what used to be an American, really football terminology to describe the nature of a relationship between a man and a woman. This made the Cashbox and the Billboard charts the very same year. So, going back to 69.
Speaker 1:The song was released in the US on Bamboo 107. In the US on Bamboo 107. It was reviewed on the September 20th issue of Cashbox Football terminology noted, with the reviewer saying that the football imagery was given a strange and novel twist. The top 40 probability was also noted and the song has nothing to do with the 1964 song with the very same. I forgot about that. Another group that's interesting God, I'd forgotten that had a song by the same name, and that was a Cashbox newcomer, march of 64. The single, they say, did have some potential. Huh, now I want to hear it. I kind of want to see if I can find that. Now Hold on a second here. Let me see if I can find that. Now hold on a second here. Let me see if I can find this. I'd love to hear it let me see bear with me, okay, yeah, no kidding, okay.
Speaker 1:well, it says it had nothing to do with the 1964 hit, so this one was from 69. Let's just play it here for you. Used to be a thing called Backfield in Motion. It's Mel and Tim.
Speaker 3:Backfield in motion. Yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you. Backfield in motion, baby. You know that's against the rules. Offside and holding. Yeah, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, baby. Offside and holding, yeah, holding on to someone else. You know you're cheating baby, faking the vibe. You know you're walking baby. Oh yeah, it's back to you. You're out and I come to it. You're backfield in motion. Yeah, I'm gonna have to be like you. You backfield in motion, baby. You know that's against the rules. First down he started to hit me. Second down I was too blind to see. Third down you know I love you. So Fourth down, baby, I got to let you go my life's up to you and me.
Speaker 1:By the way, that would be Mel Harden and Tim McPherson. Now you will see Just how I felt.
Speaker 3:Well, believe it, baby. You beat me to the punch, honey, but you hit me below the belt and I caught you with your Backfield in motion.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's Backfield in Motion by Mel and Tim, and again, that is, they say it had nothing to do with the 1964 song Backfield Emotion by the girl group the Angelos, which appeared on Tali Records and VJ Records. Elsie Bynum, who was the brother of the lead singer, linda Martell, composed it for them March 14th 1964. So let's listen to their version Backfield Emotion, or with their song Backfield Emotion, backfield Emotion.
Speaker 3:I feel all right. I feel all right Because I got my Backfield Emotions. Oh yeah, I feel all right Because I got my back feeling motion. Oh yeah, back feeling motion, and we can dance all around the floor.
Speaker 1:Oh baby, I got my back feeling motion. Oh, I love it Back feeling motion.
Speaker 3:And we can move like never before. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a little Beatles there, huh, oh, I love that right there.
Speaker 3:We move up, turn around.
Speaker 1:It's the best around town. Ah, little Beatles sound right there. Ah, shake it, shake it, baby. Thank you for listening. How are ya? Happy Monday. Please listen to my radio show, the Pat Wall Show. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps Two-oh-seven.
Speaker 3:Pat Walsh Show. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps 207.
