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Ep. 220 Today's Peep An Update on My Son Timothy's Passing, Grief, Gratitude and Trying to Understand, Plus Joey Molland the Tragic Story of Badfinger
Join me for a deeply emotional and vulnerable episode as I share a personal story of navigating the complexities of loss and community support. After the sudden passing of my son, Timothy Patrick Walsh, I grapple with the pain and confusion surrounding how fentanyl has shaped so many lives, including ours. This episode not only pays tribute to Timothy, but it also highlights the importance of having a compassionate support system when facing life's darkest moments.
As I share updates and reflections, I also dive into the poignant legacy of Badfinger's Joey Molland, aligning themes of struggle and success while honoring those we've lost. Through discussions about music, heartfelt messages from listeners, and the challenging world of addiction, we tackle profound questions about life, grief, and resilience. Your thoughts and experiences matter; I invite you to engage with us as we journey through this heart-wrenching yet hopeful narrative. Together, we can uplift one another and foster a sense of belonging in the face of adversity. Don't forget to subscribe and share your own stories with us!
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Speaker 1:We're at number 220 today. Number 220. 220. Certainly grateful for you tuning in Thankful, and as I peer out my studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, it's another day where the sun is trying to peek through the clouds and the clouds are trying to obscure the sun, so we're getting a little bit of a mixture of both today. So, wherever you are, I greatly appreciate our ever-growing audience and those of you who are listening and perhaps just discovering my podcast. Here we are at 220 now. Wherever you are are. Thank you, uh, by the way, I'm also, my name is pat walsh and I'm also the host of the pat walsh radio show at kfpk radio in sacramento, 93.1 fm, 15, 30 am and, as I always tell you, streaming live everywhere on your free iheart app app, just like my podcast. It's on all your streaming platforms Apple, spotify, iheart, all of them. So thank you and I kind of you know yesterday was obviously a very, very heavy day, so I kind of wanted to give you an update from what I know heavy day. So I kind of wanted to give you an update from what I know.
Speaker 1:Yesterday on my podcast, 219th podcast, was the toughest one that I have done For those of you who listened and a lot of you did thanks for taking the time to do that. As I mentioned yesterday, I got the news on Sunday, just very abrupt, out of nowhere, out of the blue, that my son, timothy Patrick, had died Timothy Patrick Walsh and it was a shocker to me. I'm still stunned To the point where today I've been dealing. You know, I've had coroner's office calling me and now it's I'm hearing about finding funeral homes and things like that. I I just have to say that you guys are the best, the kindest, most thoughtful people ever on my show last night.
Speaker 1:First of all, I was struggling but I did the show and I held it together. It was difficult because so many people called my show, so many first-time listeners, people saying you know, pat, I've never called a radio show before. You know, pat, I've never called a radio show before. But tonight I felt compelled because people are good, people are very good and nice and kind and caring, and I really felt the compassion and the love last night. I mean, from the time I made the announcement to the. You know, my show is three hours, 7 to 10 pm. From all three hours all I felt was compassion and love and empathy and sympathy. People even telling me jokes to try to lift my mood and such telling me jokes to try to lift my mood and such. And then people who are just reaching out, whether on social media or text messages or calls. I'm getting so many thoughtful messages and if I haven't gotten back to someone, if I haven't gotten back to you, it's only because I've been inundated, because, again, people are very caring. So I just want to mention that, on behalf of my son, on behalf of my family, thank you for the genuine caring and love.
Speaker 1:One of the updates here that I'm getting in Again I don't have 100% clarity yet, but the coroner's office called me so I will share the update with you and that is that it appears that my son died from an overdose Fentanyl. I know that my son was not like he was. It's hard to understand because like he was not the guy he always. He was always the guy that you knew wasn't going to do heroin. I mean, he was in trouble but he wasn't going to do heroin. He wasn't going to geese up or shoot up or do anything like that. So to hear that somehow and to hear that it was fentanyl. It's surreal. It's surreal, it's hard to believe, and I hate to be the guy to be like this, but I don't even know. Where did this come from?
Speaker 1:Fentanyl this is all I've been hearing about for a few years now is fentanyl fentanyl. You know, I hear the Prime Minister of Canada, trudeau, today talking about fentanyl. They've got a fentanyl czar and he's talking about the tariffs that are in place today from our president. One of the things he's talking about is the fentanyl czar. First of all and I'm going to go down the wrong rabbit hole here but he's talking about, oh only so much of this can be attributed to Canada. You know illegal immigration and drugs and all this, but yet we've appointed a fentanyl czar. So there must be something to it. But without getting political which I don't want to do at all, not at all I just don't know about fentanyl.
Speaker 1:You know fentanyl was not something that I grew up talking about. I'm sure many of you did not I'm ignorant when it comes to fentanyl. I admit that when I was growing up, I mean, we knew about mushrooms and doing acid, and you know cocaine and you know pot, and just you know, we knew about meth and there was things that you knew about, even going back before that, when I was a kid, you know, I knew the older kids did things like Black Beauties, which was essentially speed, or they did red second all, or they did you know whatever quaaludes? You know whatever Quaaludes, but you know, and crack was an epidemic for a long time there in the 80s and the 90s, into the 2000s. Maybe it still is. We never talked about fentanyl, and just because we knew about it and just because these drugs were prevalent at the time and all that, that doesn't mean that we were using them. We were just aware that this was going on and, yes, a lot of people were using it. So I just wanted to give you the update of what I knew at this point and I know that an investigator is going to call me back. I guess he or she is an investigator. I don't know what's going to happen from here, but I just wanted to give you an update on what was going on because I know I'm getting asked a lot like what happened. He was 45, by the way, his birthday was coming up March 20th. So thank you, I appreciate your time, I appreciate you checking in with me and again, I am so grateful for all of the thoughts and the kind compliments from every single one of you. I don't know what the next step is in this. Oh well, I guess it's unbelievably talking to the corner again and planning, choosing a funeral home, choosing how all of this is going to go.
Speaker 1:I so badly, kind of want to talk about the Oscars last night, but part of me feels very uncomfortable going off about the wokeness of the Oscars, which I did not watch. Well, I guess it was Sunday night. I just get the highlights anymore but I just don't know if I feel really compelled to go into that right now. The political wokeness of it all. You know we had a caller last night Denise. What a fabulous person. Denise is Denise in Stockton. Thank you. If you're listening right now, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1:It's people like Denise and Sherry and some others that I respect their knowledge of music. I'm a music guy and they know their music and they're just super sweet, wonderful folks who I've had the honor of meeting on numerous occasions and getting to know. The honor of meeting on numerous occasions and getting to know. She indicated to me last night I will just say this about the Oscars and then I'm going to move on from that. I don't mean to be trite during a heavy topic, but she said, she told me, hey, you should watch the part where they had Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1:And right away I'm thinking, uh, adam Sandler, like, if you listen to my show, if you've listened for long enough, there might be a couple of things you know about me. You probably know what teams I like. You know I don't like pineapple on my pizza and, even worse than that, I don't care for the so-called humor of Adam Sandler. And so, denise, god bless you. She says oh, you should have saw that Adam Sandler on and they did this whole thing where he was wearing gym shorts and a hoodie and this and that. And I cringed and I said to her you know, denise, I know you listen to my show and I know you listen to my podcast. Have you never heard me talk about Adam Sandler? She goes oh, um, you know, I know that I, I, I know you like his movies. I do not. I do not. I'm sorry. If you're an Adam Sandler fan, listen. That's what makes the world go around. I don't get it there.
Speaker 1:To me, as I told Denise, there's nothing funny about Adam Sandler To me. To me, the three top three least funny people are supposed to be funny people, and this is in no particular order that I can really think of. Adam Sandler, bobcat Gulfweight and Pauly Shore Can't deal with it, can't, don't know. You know Adam Sandler, okay, so, so I, but you know what what? But because I respect Denise so much, just to show how much I really care about you guys and your opinions, I thought, all right, I'm gonna do something that I don't, that I don't do, and I'll seek out an Adam Sandler bit. I'm gonna, I'm gonna give it a chance. I'm going to go in with an open mind.
Speaker 1:Now, I've seen this guy, adam Sandler and again, if you like him, that's great. Guy's made more money than I'll probably ever make in my lifetime. But I've seen him come on these shows before when he should look decent dressed up. He's got these baggy old sweats and an ugly hoodie and it just looks horrible. Honestly, it looks terrible. Why not just wear your pajamas on TV is the way I feel about it.
Speaker 1:But I watched the segment that she talked about Conan O'Brien calling him out for his look last night and they did this whole bit. It was as if somehow it was impromptu. She talked about Conan O'Brien calling him out for his look last night and they did this whole bit. It was as if somehow it was impromptu. And I will say this with all due respect and love to our friend Denise and to anyone else who thought that was hilarious it was so cringy to me and so horrible. I mean it almost made Saturday the new Saturday Night Live look funny, which is saying a lot to me. It was horrible, awful, embarrassing, cringy. I just, I just couldn't roll with that at all. It was all about him. Let's make it all about Adam Sandler in this moment. Anyhow. I just thought I would comment about that just to get my mind off of Timothy for a second. But that's my take on that segment.
Speaker 1:When I get back on my show tonight, the president is speaking, so I don't know. I think there's going to be a little post-speech thing going on. There might be someone filling in for me tonight. I'm not sure how that's all going to go, so I'm just warning you on that on my radio show if you're a listener. But hey, at least we have the podcast today, right? And, by the way, my show's three hours here. You only have to put up with me for a few minutes. I meant to get this on to my show last night because it was already at such a downer that my son had died, but yet an uplifting show because of all of you. But I meant to bring this up. Joey Mullen passed away as well. Not just my son, but Joey Mullen passed away and Joey in case you don't know who Joey is he was a guitarist with Badfinger. He was 77 years old.
Speaker 1:Badfinger was a band out of the 70s, supremely talented. They were one of the bands that were signed to the Beatles Apple Records label, that were signed to the Beatles' Apple Records label. That's how much the Beatles loved them. They were responsible for some very big hits in the 70s and a lot of people, including myself, feel like they sounded like the Beatles, which, hey, there's probably good reason for that. And Molland was the last to join the band and he's the last survivor of the most famous lineup of that group. His death confirmed today. Speaking of the funeral homes, the funeral director confirming that today.
Speaker 1:So Badfinger in case you don't remember or don't know who they are, they were a quartet that included the singer and guitarist Pete Hamm, bassist Tom Evans, drummer Tom Gibbons, and they were among the first acts signed to Apple after the Beatles launched Apple in 68 and would remain closely associated with the Beatles, which, by the way, was not always. You know, badfinger didn't always appreciate that, but you couldn't help it, especially when you listen to them and especially their producers, who were the Beatles for the most part. Malin grew up near Liverpool's Penny Lane, as a matter of fact, which obviously, as we know, is immortalized in the song Penny Lane by the Beatles, beatles. But their breakout hit was written and produced by Paul McCartney and it was a top 10 single and when you listen to this song, you can hear the Paul McCartney influence all over it. As a matter of fact, like I say, it sounds just like the Beatles, doesn't it? Come and get it. Come and get it. Come and get it 1969.
Speaker 2:If you want it, here it is, come and get it. Make your mind up fast. If you want it, anytime I can give it, but you better hurry cause it may not last. Did I hear you say that there must be a catch? Will you walk away from a fool and his money? If you want it, here it is, come and get it, but you better hurry cause it's going fast.
Speaker 1:That song was actually written and produced by Paul in 1970.
Speaker 2:If you want it? Here it is, come and get it. Make your mind up fast. If you want it, anytime I can give it, but you better hurry cause it may not last. Did I hear you say that there must be a catch? Will you walk away from a fool and his money, sonny? If you want it, here it is, come and get it, but you better hurry cause it's going back, bad Finger had four consecutive worldwide hits from 70 to 72.
Speaker 1:And you can certainly tell the McCartney influence on this song, right, listen to that Fool and his money can certainly tell the McCartney influence on this song, right, listen to that. Yeah, it was a very big hit on the radio all the time, um, and written I say written and produced by Paul McCartney in 1970. And that was their breakout hit. Then another Beatle George Harrison. The late George Harrison produced another Bad Finger album, produced another song, and when you listen to this particular song day after day, you can most certainly hear the George Harrison influence from the guitar, the entire sound.
Speaker 1:Bad Company, I remember finding out about you Every day. My mind is all around you, looking out from my lonely room Day after day. Bring it home, baby, make it soon, I give my love to you. I remember holding you while you sleep. This song, of course, featuring George Harrison's slide guitar Day after day Bring it home, baby, make it soon, I give my love to you. 1971, bad Finger. Now they had these great hits. Here's the slide guitar from George Harrison Very distinctive sound Day After Day, produced by Harrison, featured as Slide, and then this song produced by Apple official Beatles assistant, mal Evans, who also produced another song for them. But you remember this one no Matter what Bad Finger, bad Finger.
Speaker 3:Remember this one no matter what bad finger, no matter what you are, I will always be with you. Doesn't matter what you do, girl who'll go with with you, no matter what you do, I will always be around. Won't you tell me what you found, girl, blue Girl? Won't you Knock down the old grey wall? Be a part of it all. Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do. If you would give me all, I would give it to you. Nothing would be. Nothing would be. Nothing would be, no matter where you go.
Speaker 1:Came out in 1970. There will always be a place. Just a very popular song at the time, extremely popular song. Then they had another song by another great producer, one of the most renowned producers. So you listen to all these hits by Bad Finger. It's hard to imagine that this band. It was a tragic story. How can that be? You have all these great hits, for instance this one, 1972, produced by Todd Rundgren Baby Blue, pat's Peeps 220.
Speaker 3:Guess I got what I deserved. Kept you waiting there too long. My love, All that time without a word. Didn't know you'd think that I'd forget or I'd regret the special love I had for you.
Speaker 1:Baby blue. By the way, joey Molland and his bandmates also appeared on George Harrison's 1971 benefit concert for Bangladesh concert for Bangladesh and they provide the backing on two Beatle members' solo albums Harrison's All Things Must Pass, of course, his three-album set, and John Lennon's Imagine. But this band, badfinger, despite all of these hits, joey Mullen, the last surviving member, passes away. The critics love Badfinger. By the way, mullen remained active well after Badfinger's prime toured until his health began to fail last year, released some solo albums. Is this way up After the Pearl? Be True to Yourself, this band that had all of this great success, the end comes to Apple Records. Badfinger moves over to Warner Brothers, the Apple contract fulfilled, and Badfinger moves over to Warner Brothers, the Apple contract fulfilled. They signed the band to a management contract demanding two albums a year. And their vice president of Badfinger Enterprises tells them I'd have to go into this story very deep. But he says don't sign this deal. Well, he signs the deal and it's a terrible deal. Six weeks after these sessions have been completed, badfinger re-enters the studio. They begin to record material for their first Warner Brothers record, badfinger. The intended title for Love or Money was omitted from the pressings. A long story short. They sign a terrible deal and at some point were even unable to play their own music in concert. Pete Hamm commits suicide, their current album suddenly withdrawn, their follow-up rejected.
Speaker 1:Badfinger spends the early months of 75 trying to figure out how to proceed under this unclear legal situation. Their salary checks didn't clear in 75. April checks never arrived. Panic sets in Arrived. Panic sets in. Ham, who had recently bought a home, whose girlfriend was expecting a child, was devastated. They tried to continue. They tried to. They contacted booking agents, prospective managers, but they were routinely declined because of the restrictive contracts with this guy, pauly. His last name is Pauly and this guy just burned him. So now the band goes downhill. Pete Hamm commits suicide. Stan Pauly they call him a soulless bastard. Hamm wrote a note blame Pauly for much of his despair and his inability to cope with his disappointments in life. Note read Ann, I love you, blair, I love you. I will not be allowed to love and trust anybody. This is better, pete PS. Stan Pauly is a soulless bastard. I will take him with me. Ham died at the age of 27. He too was in the 27 club that we were talking about last week. He had shown some signs of mental illness over the past months. Gibbons remembering that he'd burned cigarettes on his hands and his arms yeah, and then post bad fingers. Just so much went on.
Speaker 1:After that, by 1970, mullen and Evans. They were out of the music business. Mullen, who just passed away at 77, described the dire economic circumstances. Thank God, he said I had guitars. I was able to sell some of that stuff. We were flat broke, passed away at 77, described the dire economic circumstances. Thank God, he said I had guitars. I was able to sell some of that stuff. We were flat broke. That happened to me three times where my wife and I had to sell off everything and go stay with our parents or do whatever. I said. I installed carpeting for a while in Los Angeles stuff like that. You do what you have to do to survive.
Speaker 1:Evans had briefly had jobs insulating pipes, driving a taxi. Collins, another member of the band, had trouble paying his lease on the group's two-room rehearsal studio. So this is a doomed band from the beginning. One of the other songs that Badfinger wrote was a song called Without you, which they had success with. But the song became a much bigger song when it was re-recorded by Harry Nielsen, written by Badfinger, but you'll certainly remember the song Without you.
Speaker 1:No, I can't forget this evening or your face as you were leaving, but I guess that's just the way the story goes and with this song, I'm going to leave this and dedicate this to Joey Molland, to the members of Badfinger and to my son, timothy.
Speaker 4:It shows no, I can't forget tomorrow.
Speaker 1:I know one thing my son, tim, wants me to keep my chin up and be strong for him, which is exactly what I'm going to do. Thank you, my friends, for being my true friends. True friends. I'm very blessed to have you as my friends. You know, I recently talked about my brother, tim Timothy, who owns AI Lending, and I was telling you about the deal he's given my listeners and all that. He's a great brother. He called me this morning and I named my son after my brother, tim. Just wanted to throw that in the mix, tim. I appreciate you calling me this morning. Brother Meant a lot. Love you guys. See you on the radio.
Speaker 4:I met this evening All your faces. You were leaving, but I guess that's just the way the story goes. You always smile, but in your eyes your sorrow shows. Yes, it shows.
