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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 215 On the Road with Pat: A Unique Podcast Experience, Reflecting on True Friendship, Music from the Past and Supporting Local Business.
Driving while sharing life lessons steeped in friendship and community support
A heartfelt exploration of loyalty, challenges, and the essence of true friendship
Promotion of local businesses and the significance of community ties
Insights into personal stories reflecting on a friendship spanning over three decades
Encouragement for listeners to be there for friends during tough times
A call to action for listeners to visit patspeeps.com for exclusive deals from local businesses
Pat's Peeps 215. Today I'm on the road. This is one of the few, one of my peeps, one of my podcasts that I have done while driving. I'm trying to think if I've done another one while I was driving, I can't really remember Anyhow. But anyhow, today being Tuesday, what is this? The 25th of February in the year 2025, so I'm not looking through my studio window into the beautiful foothills, but rather through the windshield of my Mustang GT, into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, my Mustang GT in the beautiful foothills of Northern California. Well, I'm very happy to say that it is a sunny, beautiful day today, on this Tuesday, I hope you're doing well. I mean, normally I would have the top down if it was, you know, on a day this beautiful, as I'm driving in a convertible here, but I you know there's no possibility you'd be able to hear a single word I'm saying. So I hope you don't mind me doing one from the road today, and I'm going to tell you why I'm doing it from the road.
Speaker 1:See, I'm really taking action with these small businesses. You know I heck, I'm not trying to pester no one. All I'm trying to do is help our community and help you. If you listen to my podcast, get, in some cases, extra and free things, depending on what our businesses have to offer you. I'm asking you if you would please, please. It would mean so much to not just you. I mean, I'm offering this. You don't have to clip coupons or nothing like that. You don't have to put an app on your phone. All we are asking all I'm asking because I've been representing small businesses for years is to please if you would take a couple of minutes and just check out patspeepscom. You'll see our little mall there. Now we have about I don't know, I think maybe 20 businesses or close to that right now, and the idea is that if you're listening and you go to the website patspeepscom, that they have exclusive offers for you only if you're a Pats Peeps member, and all you got to do whether it's olive oil, no matter what it is is to either call them and say hey, I just heard about you on the Pat Walsh podcast, pats Peeps, you know, I know the guy supports local businesses and I understand you have an exclusive deal and all I have to tell you is Pat's peeps, because the businesses will know that you're supporting them and so our local businesses get supported and you get great exclusive deals. So, please, if you would and there's more things on there that we'd love for you to see and coming very soon, as soon as my boy Jim is back in town, which he is now back from Vietnam we are going to put up a store with all kinds of fun stuff up there from my Pat Wall Show I'm the host of the Pat Wall Show, I get KFPK in Sacramento and, of course, iheartmedia, and we're going to put stuff out for Pat's peeps and you're going to love it. So, thank you.
Speaker 1:Okay, I just wanted to get that out of the way. And also, I know I need to just tell you one more thing. We're trying so hard, we're working so hard to do this for everyone. You know my brother Timothy Tim, if you go to AI lending, okay, I'll even put, we're going to put the link up there. But let me just say this people, if you're, if anyone's, looking to buy a home, right, and you're looking for a lender, and let's just say you're shopping around, if you trust me, I ask you to please trust my brother Tim. He's my youngest brother. This man has been successful his whole life. He is the founder, the president, the CEO of AI Lending and what he is going to do will blow everyone else away in terms of the deal they can make for you.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you were going to get a lender anyhow, tim is going to give you at AI lending. He's going to give you your appraisal feedback. No one else is going to do that no one. You get your appraisal feedback and we're going to put you in the hat. 100 people, the first 100 people. We're going to pick a name. Tim will pick a name, or I will, and that name out of the first 100 people that signed with Tim as your lender, we're going to give away a trip or two to travel with us with conservative tours and go to one of these great destinations Italy or Ireland or France, or wherever we might be going.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I got that out of the way. I try not to do that to you all the time. I really that's not what my podcast is going to be, but I we've worked so hard on this since the pandemic, we've been building this PatsPeepscom and tell me what you think, please. These are all local businesses that I have vetted. Friends of mine, people I support that I know are going to treat you right, okay, and we're working to get more businesses. We have people who make candles locally Historic candle shop. We have photographers. We have olive oil. Loyal Miner from Miner's Leaf Winery is going to be up there. They're reopened now, so they're going to be up there. Please at least consider that.
Speaker 1:So today, one of the things I did want to talk about beyond that is you know so I have been in a situation many of you like I don't make a ton of friends in life. It takes me a bit to make an actual, very, very close friend. I have a circle of friends, like probably many of you do. Sometimes people have a gigantic circle of friends. Just, they know everyone, they're friends with everyone. Some people don't have very many friends at all close circle of friends, like many of you, and unfortunately I've lost some of those friends in the last few years that you know, time of life, you start to lose friends and it's very sad. So anyhow, amongst those friends is I have a friend and I'm not going to give away his name here. I love the guy.
Speaker 1:The reason I know this man I've known him since, oh, probably 1981, let's say, yes, it was 1981. I actually met him in. I think he lived in Kankakee, illinois, but I met him in Sioux City, iowa. He lived in Kankakee Illinois, but I met him in Sioux City, iowa. I went to visit my family in 1981. My dad was living back there. My stepmom, my brothers and my sisters were living back there. I was still out here in California. Oh, I love this tunnel. I'm going through this tunnel here in Newcastle. So beautiful on this beautiful day. So, anyhow, I meet this friend through my brother, steve. Steve, this is my good friend, got to know him.
Speaker 1:We immediately bonded over things like well, number one music. Long live rock and roll. Richie Blackmore, rainbow Rising, richie Blackmore, rainbow Rising, richie Blackmore. Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules from Black Sabbath you go right down the line Rose Tattoo, even ACDC, you name it, hard rockin' bands. We hit it off. At the time I met this guy he didn't really have much of an appreciation for anything that was not hard rock. But after getting to know me and me being very eclectic musically, it didn't take this person long to really love and truly appreciate bands like the Stones, or learning about the Beatles and what they were really all about he never really paid attention or the who or just other bands other than Judas Priest or Sabbath or something like that. Then Lizzy, anyhow UFO, which I think he might have already liked UFO, I can't really run. But the point is we hit it off.
Speaker 1:Now they decide, hey, we can't take it anymore here in Iowa. Iowa's a beautiful state. I love Iowa. Would I want to live there? No, not for only one reason the weather. If it weren't for the weather, I might move to Iowa right now, because I love Iowa. The people are wonderful, very down to earth. That's the kind of people I'm always looking for in my life as friends. So as I got to know this person, we became closer and closer as friends. He and my brother, steve, decided you know what to heck with Iowa, we're moving to California, where the sun is shining, like, like it is today here in February, convertible weather. So they move out here. We end up becoming roommates.
Speaker 1:This is when I was working in the olive plant in Orland, california, and I started to dream about radio. And how could I get to radio? It was just a thought. God, I would love to do radio. Man, I'm out there working at this olive plant. I would love to do radio. I'll tell that story someday about how all that happened, but I would dream about it. But this was the 1980s. I was already in my 20s, early 20s. That's when I met Tommy and they moved out here. Well, we become roommates. Tommy needs a job. I'd been at the olive plant there, mooseco's, for a while and I had a little bit of pull. They needed help. So I got Tommy a job at the olive plant in Orland and I ended up working there for five and a half years About five and three quarter years to be more precise and Tommy ended up working there for quite some time.
Speaker 1:Tommy's a hard worker man, funny dude, dang it. I just said his name. I knew I would do that in my story. I knew it. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. So his name's Tommy. I get carried away talking about it.
Speaker 1:Alright, tommy, that's okay. Love the guy. We love each other as friends, we're good buddies. He doesn't mind. I told him anything's kind of fodder for my show. I told him I'd be talking about this. It doesn't really matter. He didn't tell me not to use his name. So, anyhow, tommy, good dude man, strong as a bull, not a big dude though and we go out and play like five yard plunge. I'll explain that game sometime. We'd go out and play like five-yard plunge I'll explain that game sometime. But we became very, very good friends. Now Tommy is. I haven't seen him in a long time. So when you say very, very good friends, sometimes it's been a long time since you've seen a very, very good friend and it's been a while since I've seen Tommy. But we never lose track.
Speaker 1:One thing about me I will say this is if we do become friends, if you and I become good friends and you are in my circle of friends, it's hard to shake me because I will be the most loyal friend that you could ever possibly want in your life. I'm the kind of guy I'm not going to let you give up. I'm going to encourage you. I am going to be there for you. I will call you out of nowhere when you least expect it. Ask Ray in St Louis last week or two weeks ago. He says I looked at my phone. I saw it was you. I said God, look at this guy man, he doesn't forget about us. I'm a loyal, loyal friend.
Speaker 1:Well, when your friends are down, that's when they need you the most. You know, sometimes you get lost in life. Things go awry things happen. It just happens. It's happened to all of us. That's kind of happened in my friend's life right now and he's trying to figure it out. He's looking for answers, just like many of us are. He was unjustly fired from a job years ago, working for a big, well-known company. Shouldn't have been fired. I'm not going to get into the minutia of all of that, but suffice it to say it's their loss. Yes, it's also my friend's loss, it's Tommy's loss, but it's their loss because he was very good. What I'm trying to encourage him right now is to tell his story and talk about a few things which I'm going to keep between he and I right now.
Speaker 1:But the point is, when you get messages of desperation from a friend, as Jay Giles once said, every now and then we do get desperate. Peter Wolfe said that. Peter Wolfe said that when that happens and they're at their lowest point and, as they say to you in a message it's been so long I've been crawling in the dirt these are red flags. When you get a single message at 2.09. While you're sleeping, and that message because you know this person's been struggling with depression and who God knows some other things. But when you get a message at 2.09 am and the message is one word adios. Of course that is a gigantic red flag. How do you interpret that? It's not the best message, certainly concerning so being a concerned friend, and we have been talking now, I would say, for several months since my friend's been going through these, this dilemma. I said call me. I think someone else is using Tommy's phone, because this ain't the Tommy.
Speaker 1:I know I got a little uh, because I've been encouraging with him and I still am, but I had to get a little bit real. I've been encouraging with them and I still am, but I had to get a little bit real with them and I think, maybe, maybe, it worked. We had a nice conversation this morning. I hope I'm going the right way here to my destination. By the way, where am I going? I should have told you that at the beginning. I meant to tell you that at the beginning. I am going to a local business to shoot a video for a local business that I support that does incredibly good work and will give you a great deal. But if you just go in there and you say, pat's peeps, I'm going to American River Flooring, they've changed my home, I'm going to shoot video for them right now. Tell everyone how great these people are family owned, anyhow, support family, support your friends. So I got a little real with Thomas. I say, buddy, listen man. I know you're down and out, but I gave him encouragement. All right, I'm not again.
Speaker 1:I don't want to get into every single thing that I said or that he said, but Tommy has an expert. He's an expert in a certain thing in life. There is something he knows a lot about and I believe that he can enlighten many of us, and so my encouragement to him today, among other things, was hey, I'm sure you never considered this, but perhaps you should consider whether it's through a podcast, whether it's through a YouTube channel and I can help you set it up informing and enlightening many of us. Okay, exposing what you know. This is important for the state of California. California, I'll just put it that way it's one of the main things in the news right now. So any, I mean I'm going to help him with that.
Speaker 1:The bottom line is he didn't. He is again as he said. He's been crawling in that dirt for so long that he just doesn't know what else to do. As I told him, tommy, things happen to everyone in life and when you are in a place in your life where you're stuck and, as you say, crawling, crawling through dirt and that's all you can see, that's all you can see is the dirt, you cannot see another, fresher perspective. You see the dirt because, as you just said, you're crawling through it. So, as a friend, I'm just trying to offer a fresh perspective and I'm not. I would say this is several months of phone calls. I started to feel the light of his soul begin to shine through. In his phone call. I felt him beginning to be a bit more receptive to some different perspectives and ideas, and I hope that's the case different perspectives and ideas, and I hope that's the case. So I guess my point here is if you're a real friend because I know I would want this kind of a friendship Anything could happen at any time to any of us, including me, and I would want someone.
Speaker 1:I'd be a big baby man, I would. But you know what? I've been in tough situations but I've been able to overcome them. You just got to fight harder. I used to box. I used to. When I played hoop man, you'd really have to try to beat me. I'm not bragging, but if I even got down a little bit, a couple points down, if I felt like maybe I was losing, there was something in my mind that would trigger, it would click on and it would allow me to be stronger and triumphant. Perhaps not in every single case, but I can tell you I was down and out at one point in my life. I had nothing, and that's the truth. Now I get to speak to you.
Speaker 1:I'm blessed to have one of the as Rip calls it, the last radio man. I'm one of the last guys to have a local radio show at night in the United States of America, and that takes hard work. It takes overcoming obstacles. It overcomes being told no, you can't do that. All right, you have to conform, you have to be a political show. No, you don't, you don't. So I'm encouraging everyone to, whatever it takes, just kind of be there for your friends. All right, that's it. Tommy's gonna be fine. Love you, tommy. This is what friendship is all about.
Speaker 1:Hey, let's see what's on the 70s channel. All right, my wheelhouse here. I'm not gonna look, since I'm driving, let's turn it on. I'm going to see if I can guess the band God. I hope it isn't really super disco-y. I'm going to see if I can guess the band in a year. All right, I'm not going to look, but here we go. Let me see Five stair steps, five stair steps, ooh, ooh child. Five stair steps, I, five stair steps. I would have won that. I did get that in one second.
Speaker 1:Now, as far as the year, that's going to be a guess, I don't know. I don't know the year, but I'm going to guess by the sound of this song and I'm probably going to get this way wrong. That's okay. I'm going to guess 70 or 71. Watch, I'm not going to get it right. Let me look. Ah, ah, oh, my God, I almost threw him off the road. 70. 1970. I swear to God, I didn't Look at that, I did not cheat. There's just a certain sound. If I don't know the exact year right away, for some reason there's a certain sound where I can kind of detect when that might come out. I'm pretty proud of myself that not only I got that right away, but I guessed the year. Hats peepseps, 215. It's weird not having my theme song or, you know, playing a record at the end, but that's cool. We do what we do.
Speaker 2:Pats Peeps 215.
Speaker 1:I haven't checked my podcast numbers from yesterday, but I did get a lot of feedback from Patch Peep 214 in regards to the hypocrisy of Joy Reid Eliminating our joy. When is it Bayhurst's turn? Sorry, cup of Joe Rachel Maddow. You know, one thing I appreciate is civil discord. Let's see what song comes on next. I want to see if I can guess it. Oh, this is Elton John. Bad Blood, this is with Neil Sedaka. This would have been like oh God, see, I got it right away. What year this is? Again, I promise I'm not looking, I'm going to guess, god, I should know this one. God, it was right around the same time he did the Kiki D. Don't Go Breaking my Heart.
Speaker 2:Bad.
Speaker 1:Blood. I'm going to say I'm going to get it wrong. I'm going to get it wrong. I'm going to say 76. Let me look. Okay, I'm at a stop. Now I can look no 75. Ah, ah, I got it. Remember this song, ba-ba-ba, I like it. Here we go. Here we go. Remember how to do run, do, run, do, do, do, do, run, run. Neil Sedaka. It's actually a Neil Sedaka song, but you hear but Elton John's in it too there they are together.
Speaker 1:Speaking of bad blood, I would have ties into it. I want civil discord, not straight up bigotry and racism. Do run, do run. Did you, did you run? Don't they say that here, here we go. Do run, do run, did you, did you run?
Speaker 2:run Do run do run. Did you? Did you run run Do run do run? Did you? Did you run run Do run do run? Did you? Did you run run Bad blood, bad blood. Do run do run. Did you? Did you run run Do run do run. Did you? Did you run run Do run do run? Did you? Did you run run Bad blood? Here we go.
Speaker 1:So that would have been like the same year, maybe as Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy like Island Girl. Wasn't that the same exact year? Was that 75 or 76? 75, good year for music. You know, what came out in 75 was Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti, Ooh Killer double album. Yeah, Now I want civil discourse. That's all I'm looking for. You know, when you look at someone like Joy and Eliminating Joy, Joy Reid, Joy Behar, when you look at people like this, they are very, very racist and sexist. It's very obvious. And so when Rachel Maddow, it's just unbelievable. And you know, if you cannot have civil discord, then you know we've really lost ourselves. It's supposed to be a give and take right, A conversation, A lot of people are agreeing.
Speaker 1:What did she just say?
Speaker 2:The 70s brings them back to the most vivid memories. Oh yeah, they were in high school.
Speaker 1:That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2:Go get in on our conversations on our phone. Yeah, the 70s music for me and for her for many of you, we were in high school, because we're all friends.
Speaker 1:Brings back these vivid memories. Let's see where they go here.
Speaker 2:And Stevie, I'm Lisa Evans.
Speaker 1:I know people love this Kenny Loggins, stevie Nicks. Is it bad to say I've never been a big Kenny Loggins fan? Yeah, whatever, anyhow, sorry, I know a lot of people like it. All right, well, I am headed to American River Flooring. I look forward to seeing what they have going on over there, presenting that to you, telling you about the great deals. Hey, shout out to Aubrey today. Aubrey, if you're listening, you know how like. You'll call and an operator will be like an 800 number In this case it was T-Mobile and Aubrey took my call. And a lot of times these businesses, they want you to take a survey at the end of the call, right? First of all, I love the name Aubrey. I've loved that ever since, ever since Brad sang the song Aubrey and Aubrey was her name. Remember that song? Anyhow, that was out of tune. I'm sorry, I'm trying to drive and I've got Kenny Loggins playing in the background and Aubrey was her name. Anyhow, aubrey, she was very, very helpful. I told her. Because of that I was going to mention her on my show and on my podcast. Aubrey from T-Mobile, very nice job, all right, I appreciate that very much. So I hope you don't mind me.
Speaker 1:A little shorter podcast today. No record at the end, no theme song. We're going to keep doing what we do. We are trying to make Sacramento a much better community in terms of getting you discounts, I cannot tell you honestly how much it means to me personally, because I do try to do this every single day, or at least almost every single day. Here we're at 215. And personally, what it would mean to me if you would go to these businesses that I have vetted for you and that I have personally asked them to give deals to my listeners. So, patchpeepscom, we got a little mall there. It's pretty fun, man. I think you'll like it.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm trying to stretch this out so I don't have to end with Kenny Loggins. I don't mean any disrespect. Maybe I'll jump to the 80s. Let's go to the 80s. I wonder what's going to play on the 80s. Let's see what the the 80s was. A whole different vibe though, wasn't it? I mean, the 80s was a way different vibe musically, although I did start the conversation talking about the 80s, meeting Tommy and meeting him in 1982. Oh, here you go, 84. The song that David Lee Roth didn't really want him to do. He didn't want Eddie Van Halen playing keyboards. Are you kidding? Are you kidding me, man, keyboards, man. We're a guitar rock band and I agree, by the way. But you can't deny this is their most successful album and probably one of their top songs of all time. Thank you, my friends, for listening. Be safe, Stay healthy, stay with your New Year's resolutions. Please listen to my radio show, the Pat Walsh Show. Please go to patspeepscom. We'll see you for Pats Peeps 260. You got to go get the punches and get the works real.
Speaker 2:I can't you see the city. We were at my back against the wrecking machine. I hate the works that you see. I can't you see what I mean Might as well, jump, jump. Might as well, jump, might as well, jump, jump, might as well, jump.
