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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 235 Today's Peep "Toys" with the Samsung Washing Machine Song, Car Alarm Symphony, Listener Content including Eric Clapton's Amazing Take on a Classic, Classic TV Commercials, Snowpack, Vin Scully and a #1 Instrumental
Pat Walsh shares his experience at the Oakland A's season opener watch party and his excitement about his upcoming trip to the Italian Riviera, just five days away from recording. He creates a delightful audio journey featuring musical washing machines, car alarms turned into art, and cherished recordings.
• Reflections on meeting Chris Carey (great-grandson of Harry Carey) and other A's organization members
• California snowpack update – currently at 90% of average, which is considered positive news
• Samsung washing machine musical duets featuring violin and piano accompaniments
• Eric Clapton's guitar-only rendition of "Danny Boy" and his artistic reasoning
• Vin Scully's powerful Pearl Harbor memory and storytelling mastery
• Collection of vintage commercials including Green Giant and High Karate
• History of Herb Alpert's "Rise" and its connection to Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize"
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hi there, welcome to the podcast. It's my, my podcast. It's the Pat's Peeps podcast, number 235. 235. How are you, hey? Happy Friday, 28th day of March 2025. Clouds and sun as I look out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California. Thank you for tuning in for another podcast. My name is Pat Walsh, also the host of the Pat Walsh Show at KPK Radio in Sacramento, as heard everywhere on your free iHeart app and across the great land and nationally and internationally. Just like this podcast is right here and nationally and internationally. Just like this podcast is right here.
Speaker 1:And speaking of working it there at KFPK last night, I want to say I had a good time and I want to thank a few people, which includes the A's organization. The A's now in Sacramento and they had a big. We were hunkered down there at a watch party, so we were watching the A's and the Mariners get the season going there in Seattle. Unfortunately, although nice effort, the A's did come up short against the Mariners 42 in the opener of the season. Yesterday, as we talked about, was opening day of baseball season, but I got the broadcast from the public house in downtown Sacramento and there were just a bunch of avid A's fans there and we really had a good time. It was interesting getting to know a lot I mean getting to know just so many people from the organization, including Chris Carey, who was the great-grandson of Harry Carey. The great Cubs, and the Cubs win, cubs win.
Speaker 3:Cubs win.
Speaker 1:That was his great-grandfather. His grandfather Skip Carey, his dad Chip Carey and now Chris Carey, and he says his brother is gosh and I'm sorry I forgot. I apologize that I, his name is brother's name escapes me, but, like he says, his brother's even better than he is. That's what he was telling us last night. So it was a good time, a nice restaurant down there, and I just want to say thank you again for everyone who was involved in that Jensen Rader and K KFPK and Bill White and Mike Murray, just the whole group down there. We had some good food, good company, lots of listeners and just great again, great to know and get to know some of the people from the organization. They'll go at it again tonight and then Monday night we'll be Kitty O'Neill and myself, kitty from KFPK. We'll be out in front of Raley Field. I don't know if we're in front of Raley Field. I said Raley Field. Sutter Health Park used to be known as Raley Field. It's still in my mind that it's still in there, but Sutter Health Park, formerly known as Raley Field, and they've done some upgrades out there. So we'll be taking a look at that on Monday and on Monday and then that's going to be my last show for two weeks because today, being a 28, that means I am now five days I cannot believe it five days from departing for the Italian Riviera. So today I actually started packing. It's just surreal, honestly, that I'm going to be doing this. I mentioned it before. It's just surreal. A little anxiety and a little excitement, it's the way it is. So, yeah, that's what's on my mind.
Speaker 1:Looking at the weather out there, just real quick, it looks like we're going to have plenty of snowpack, which is great. That's always a concern because we always hear about, you know, the droughts and all of that stuff. So the water in California and the Mount Snowpack is just shy. They're saying now of average as we begin spring. We got a winter storm that's coming in this year in Nevada and that's going to offer a boost. They say so. The statewide snowpack measured 90% now of average as of today, and that's just ahead of the anticipated April 1st peak, before the sun begins melting the snow faster than it can accumulate, which will then send the water into the creeks and the streams and the storms will begin to taper off into the spring.
Speaker 1:Andy Reising is the manager of the Department of Water Resources, snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit. That's a very important title he has there, isn't it? And he says that 90% is really pretty good, and he says he's feeling generally positive, and so that is good news. So that's what's to come in terms of the weather, and, yeah, I will be, like I say, at the italian riviera, for I think it's 10 or 11 days, and I will do my very best to continue the podcast as often as I possibly can from over there. Anymore I don't even like missing a day, you know.
Speaker 1:So here on pat's Peeps 235, I, you know I can talk about a bunch of important stuff, but I really don't want to. I just that's important that we have water, right, I mean, that's important. So I thought I'd just get on with it, have a little bit of fun today and start off with some fun stuff from listeners. I've got that, and then I've got some things that I'd like to share. So, without further ado, let me start with this one, because this one just I just was reminded of this before I started my podcast. You know, I'm at my home studio when I'm doing my podcast, versus being at the radio studio during my radio show, the Pat Walsh show. 7 to 10 pm, monday through Friday. But I do do some of those from home as well. I do some of my radio shows from home, just depends on what's going on.
Speaker 1:But sometimes if I forget that I've had something in the wash machine this is what reminded me of it, because I think it was on one of my previous podcasts the last couple of podcasts I'd forgotten that I'd thrown something in the washer and I've got the Samsung washing machine. And as I was doing the podcast I could hear the little you know the Samsung for those of you who have either a Samsung dryer or a washing machine a lot of the. I don't know if it's just Samsung, maybe other appliance makers do this as well but it has this little tune that it plays for you at the end. And so here I am doing my podcast live and I hear in the background this tune. It's the Samsung I don't know washing machine song, I guess. Now, if you know, if you have a Samsung, then you'll know this song. It'll be very familiar to you. But if you don't, here's the song right here. We recorded it Now you get used to that and I don't know if it's annoying or not exactly I'm not sure, but it's supposed to be this pleasant little tune just to let you know that your wash is done right.
Speaker 1:But you get to know that song Dun-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Know that your wash is done right, but you get to know that song. Sometimes that gets to be an earworm in my head. You know it starts going through my head. That replaces the cars for kids tune. Don't even get me started. See, now that one just jogged into my head that one. So anyhow, those two replace each other as earworms in my head. They just keep looping. So anyhow, I thought I would take that and play you. Some of these. These are really great. So here you have a duet with that. Here's a duet with the samsung washing machine, a duet on violin. This is, uh, from bo glark, I don't know who. Here she is.
Speaker 4:I love that. Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 1:How about some other examples? Here you go. This, oh, this is very good. Here's this gentleman. He plays a Franz Schubert piano concerto along with the Samsung washing machine. Here we go.
Speaker 4:Ha ha, ha, ha Ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1:That is Vin. You can't read their names. It's Vin, hetario, something like that. That was a nice job. That was very good. I love how clever let's see here here. Ah, this is good. Here we have.
Speaker 1:You know, the car alarms go off. It drives you crazy used to be. If the car alarm went off, you'd rush out into the parking lot to see if it was your car. Now we're just kind of you know whatever blasé about it, you know. Oh, so the car alarm's going off. I wonder if it's mine, maybe someone else's, probably someone else's. I mean's me being a parking lot, there's an alarm going off. You don't even check it. It's happened before I was. I remember I was at a softball game. I was playing softball, car alarms going off. There's a bunch of cars in the parking lot and you know I'm out there thinking, playing the outfield going. Yeah, yeah, there's a car alarm. As usual, someone's car got bumped or whatever. I go out there, but anyhow, here's a car alarm going off and this guy it seems like this was right around 2020. But anyhow, this guy here, Tony Ann, taking advantage of the car alarm to create some beautiful music Pat's Peeps 235.
Speaker 4:Please enjoy, thank you so Thank you.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, some listener content Isn't that beautiful? Makes that car alarm tolerable. Tony Ann Pulse 4.8 million views on that. Eileen, who just celebrated a birthday, sweet Eileen, or as we like to call her, earlene. Happy birthday, earlene. How you doing Earlene? Earlene sent this to us, eileen, on St Patrick's Day. She says to the leprechaun of my heart four-leaf clover. At some point they'd asked Eric Clapton to do a version of Danny Boy. Eileen sent this to me. Here's Eric talking about that on Pat's Peeps 235. Here we go.
Speaker 5:And I did try to sing it a couple of times and I thought, well, I actually just sounded like a pub singer and actually, in a way, that's fine. But when I wanted to do this for this project, I thought the best way for me to actually present it or to address it was to be as simple and as pure as possible, and that meant just playing it on the guitar with the most amount of finesse that I can bring to it. That's the most respect that I can give to the thing.
Speaker 1:Thank you, oh boy.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 1:It doesn't get much better than that. It's just incredible. I love it. Why not? Thank you, eileen. Beautiful Eric Clapton. Danny Boy, you know yesterday yesterday, as we made a big deal out of it, it was opening day of Major League Baseball and had an opportunity to talk about great announcers. I mentioned in the podcast yesterday Pat's Peeps 234. One of my all-time favorite announcers was Vince Scully, the late, great, iconic announcer for the Dodgers. Here he is recalling a story on Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 2:Our hero of the day was a witness of the devastating Pearl Harbor. That's when Corporal Secchi volunteered for the Army. His unit was the all-Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. It swung on and fouled back, won away.
Speaker 2:Anytime I hear Pearl Harbor, I was 14 when we had Pearl Harbor and there is our distinguished hero. Indeed, when I think about Pearl Harbor, I almost demonically think that's the only time I ever heard distinguished hero. Indeed, when I think about Pearl Harbor, I almost automatically think that's the only time I ever heard my father swear. At 14 I can see I was crawling under the big family radio and I was listening to a football game, the New York Giants football team in the NFL. The count goes to one and two In that game.
Speaker 2:I do remember the only time the great Mel Hine was ever injured was on Pearl Harbor Day, playing for the Giants One to pitch on the way, little number up along first, shoot, picks it up and throws him out. So we have two down and the battle will be up. Well, anyway, as a kid and they interrupted the game and my thought why? Why would they do that? The Giants were on the move and in those days they didn't score much at all Hardly ever passed the ball, and so when they interrupted the football game and they said Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 2:My first thought was that's probably in China, because as a little boy, the Chinese and the Japanese were fighting harbor. My first thought was that's probably in China because as a little boy, the Chinese and the Japanese were fighting and the word Pearl Harbor made me immediately think of Asia and the Asian. Well, I was wrong. But so I went into the kitchen where my mother and dad were having their usual cup of tea at that time of day. Here's up there and he takes ball on.
Speaker 2:And I said to my dad, who had traveled all over the world in the British Navy, and anyway, and I said Where's Pearl Harbor? And he said it's in the Hawaiian Islands. Why? And I said, well, the Japanese just bombed it. And then he let out an expletive which was really shocking because he never swore. And I said, well, the Japanese just bombed it. And then he let out an expletive which was really shocking because he never swore. And then he just simply said that's war. And I remember going back listening to the Giant game, not giving you much of a thought Wow, what a beginning.
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Speaker 1:I really think you'll like it. So I'll pluck this record on my record shelf today. Pats peeps, uh 235. This one is a boy, I bet you. This is brand new. Pull this one out of the record sleeve. I know this is it's so. This is absolutely mint condition record, with the exception of a little dust. I mean, it's been on the shelf for many, many years. White, sort of an off-white label. This is obviously. When I say obviously, it'll give you a hint. This is obviously on A&M Records 19s. It's not obvious to you. I know that because you don't even know what it is. It'll become obvious maybe if you think about A&M Records. Anyhow, I don't know how I meant that. Promotion copy, not for sale. This side is mono and then this side is stereo. The print on the stereo side is in red. The print on the mono side is in red. The print on the mono side is in black.
Speaker 1:A lot of people love this song. It's a great song. I like sort of a different era from this artist, but I love this artist's entire catalog, matter of fact, so much so that I was absolutely honored to not only interview I don't call it really, I shouldn't call it an interview have a wonderful conversation with this extremely influential and powerful artist and executive on my radio show, the Pat Wall Show, but also when I saw him in concert. He invited me backstage and I hung out with him for a good period of time. We had a great conversation, took photos and everything together. It was a real highlight for me to spend some time with this gentleman.
Speaker 1:This song happens to be an instrumental I'll bet some of you already know what it is just by those little hints Written by Andy Armour and Randy Badazz, zz Alpert. This was first recorded in 1979 by this artist, released as a single from this artist's solo album with the same name. This one's number one on the Billboard charts, an instrumental in 1979 going to number one. It's the instrumental sample for Notorious BIG's Hypnotize, which is obviously a very well-known song. It was written by this artist's nephew, randy I've already given away his last name in collaboration with Andy Armour, the A&R rep at A&M Records. Chip Cohen knew Randy and was into funk and disco and he asked Randy to rework this, uh, this particular hit as a funk track.
Speaker 1:I'm getting this all can. I don't want to confuse anyone when I'm trying to be sly here. Um, I should pull up just for the sake of it notorious big, of it, notorious BIG and just to play it hypnotize. I'll play just the instrumental version of it, just to kind of make it easier, just to kind of get the feel for it. So here is Hypnotize. The Notorious BIG Recognize that sample. So yeah, this was a huge song.
Speaker 1:Best recording. Received Grammy Award for the best pop instrumental performance, reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in October of 79, remained in the top position for two weeks and this artist thus became the first artist to reach the top of the Hot 100 with a vocal performance in 1968, as well as an instrumental performance with this song. So I'm just going to give it away. It's Herb Alpert. You know the song that he reached the vocal performance. I love this song.
Speaker 1:I was just a little seven-year-old kid when he did this Guy's In Love With you, which is a Burt Bacharach tune, the great Burt Bacharach he. When they were looking for someone to sing this song, you know, because Herb Alpert, he didn't really sing, he was that. They were the Tijuana Brass, herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, you know the Lonely Bull and all these great songs that they had a taste of honey, a tijuana taxi. But when they had that, when they did the song this guy's in love with you, bert Bacharach says to to Herb Alpert I think you should sing. He said what me, I should sing it. So we sang it and he goes to number one with a vocal performance and an instrumental, first one to ever do that. So here it is. You just heard it, sampled by the Notorious BIG song called Rise on Pat's Peeps 235. Thank you, mm-hmm. Thank you.
Speaker 1:Of course I always have to say that I don't know the rights to this song, the copyrights and all of that Just educating, and I don't really know if I'm actually educating. I use that word Exposing, giving you the background, interrupting, so it's kind of like a bullfight feeling in there with that horn Bullfight combined with disco. Imagine that it's a disco bullfight. All I know is I thank you so much for listening to my Pats Peeps podcast. You know, if you would visit the businesses and I know I ask you to do that All you got to do is just click on PatsPeepscom and just look at the businesses and call them or anything. If you just call them or stop by or say, hey, I heard about you, it would mean so much, honestly, I mean it would really mean a lot, because then they would know that we care about the businesses. Anyhow, thank you, I'm enough of that, but that's what I'm trying to do is to get support for them. Hey, happy Friday. Have a great weekend. All right, I'll see you on the radio.
