Speaker 1: 0:16

by the sound of the music, I assume it is another pats peeps. Hey, pat's Peeps. Hey, I assumed correctly, pat's Peeps. What are we at? 263. 263rd Peep?

Speaker 1: 0:30

Today is a Thursday, staring out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California where the sun is coming in. It's a beautiful spring day, not too hot, it is the perfect spring day. Half of my yard has been weeded. Thank you to jt. Thank you, jt. Half of it done. Now he has hay fever. You know as people do when they're cutting down weeds. And so, jt, back tomorrow. I told him you'll be back on my birthday weed eating and I'm not going to be much help because I'm probably going to be doing. Ah, no problem, no problem, yeah, yes, I hope you're doing well on this Thursday. Yeah, next week I'm looking forward to Strawberry Music Festival.

Speaker 1: 1:20

Talked about that on one of the previous podcasts. I believe this is my 26th Strawberry Music Festival. Four-day festival, just kind of get away from everything, unwind. I love it, although I will be doing podcasts from the music festival as well, because I'll never stop my podcast. By the way, I'm also the host of the Pat Wall Show on KPK Radio in Sacramento, 93.1 FM, 1530 AM, and streaming live everywhere on your free iHeart app.

Speaker 1: 1:50

Speaking of this or speaking of that, I guess I have such exciting news today that just came out of nowhere. You know I'm sitting here debating whether or not to share this with you, but why not? Why not? When I say here on Pat's Peeps 263, that this is big news and exciting? It is some of the more exciting news that I've seen for my business, which I keep wanting to tell you. Please, you know, for this to continue, which I want it to, if you could, just, you know, check out patspeepscom. I mean, heck, we're giving you exclusive deals and all that we're trying to, as I'm always harping on this supporting local business. Well, check this out.

Speaker 1: 2:35

Today I was out at lunch. You know I'm always talking about Darlene with a Y because she's a sweetheart. She took me to lunch today for my birthday. Darling with a Y, because she's a sweetheart. She took me to lunch today for my birthday, and I'm sitting there and I get these messages from my boss at work. Bill Bill is a good man and the first one I get. I was excited about that because I've been wanting to take my radio show on the road, like I've done with my podcast. Whether it's Italy or Ireland or wherever we go, I take the podcast on the road with me. I've been wanting to do that with my radio show. So, in regards to that, I get this first message and he's not going to mind that I share this with you check the state fair for you to do your show from there one day. And I thought, oh great, because it used to be kind of a deal, it was kind of tough to go, maybe do a show on the road somewhere. Now he's all about it, and so am I, to get out and do remote things with my show. That is beautiful. That's exactly what I'm looking forward to Before I even go any further on this. I need to just pause on that just momentarily before I get to this really good news, because I have other good news.

Speaker 1: 3:49

Happy birthday to Dan Knapp, my pal, my, and to Tony Cox, two of my very best friends in the world, celebrating their birthdays today. Dan Knapp, red Hot Media Media Productions. I promise you, if you're listening to me and you're a business and you need a website and you need it for a really good price, like a special deal, red Hot Media Productions, please talk to Dan. It's his birthday today. You don't have to call him today, but you can find him right at our website at Pat's Peeps. He's part of my little dream team that helped me put this together. Happy birthday, danny boy. Oh, danny boy. Tony Cox, legendary radio. Tony Cox used to be on K-R-O-Y and so many other stations. Hi, tony Cox. You know, tony and I have been friends for years and years and it's Tony's birthday. Tony, one of the most talented dudes I know, voiceover guy, just loyal friend. He and his sister Diane and her husband Darcy took us to lunch the other day. Just, thank you so much. Happy birthday to you guys and to Rick, who I miss so much, who was born one day before me in this world and is no longer with us. I miss you, rick. It is his birthday today as well, mine tomorrow, all right. So, because it's mine tomorrow, this was like, really like the greatest birthday gift.

Speaker 1: 5:21

So, the first one check in with a state fair and see if we can do your show there one day.

Speaker 1: 5:25

And I'm thinking, yeah, let's do that. Second message from my boss here on this Thursday, may 15th 2025, pat's Peeps 263. He says we're checking with, we'll let you know. So, in other words, we're checking with the fair, we're going to set it up for me. Then came the best messages of all. Right here, verbatim Now this is my boss at work, can call it a quote Pat's Peeps Gathering at the California State Fair. I didn't even ask them, they came up with this. Do you know what that means? And then, okay, I'm looking. I said what Really? Because then I can go on the air and I can say hey, it's the Pats Peeps gathering at the State Fair and I can invite all of you, I can invite my radio listeners.

Speaker 1: 6:22

And so I got really excited about it. It's a big deal. Kmpk is no joke. Kmpk is the flamethrower 50,000 watt. It is a heritage radio station that I work at and they, you know their signal is enormous. Plus, it's 93.1 FM. Plus they stream everywhere on the iHeart app. So got really excited. I thought, well, this is a beautiful, beautiful opportunity for my business.

Speaker 1: 6:49

Then came the next one. We could do a series of Pats Peeps gathering broadcasts. Something to ponder. I said hell yes, are you kidding me? So what does that do? That? That opens up the door. Like I said, I can imagine promos playing all over the radio stations. It's the Pats, peeps gathering where we invite you, we gather together, you know, and we do a show and we celebrate local.

Speaker 1: 7:22

Oh man, when I say do a show, I've been trying to tell people on my radio show. No, we're not just going to sit there and bore the heck out of you just talking about. Tell me about when you were interested as a plumber. No, not all of that stuff. I mean, you'll know about the businesses, but we do wacky stuff. We keep it fun. We're not doing infomercials, we're just doing a radio show. Big difference I'm doing a radio show like I'm doing right now, but these businesses deserve to have people go and you deserve to get great deals. So why not do this? We'll keep the podcast fun and different, but that's huge news. Oh boy, that's like a birthday present in itself. So thank you to Bill for thinking about that and thank you for the support there at KFBK Radio Much, much appreciated.

Speaker 1: 8:26

Let's see what else do I have today? You know some things I just am so hesitant to talk about. This is probably one of them. No, it is one of them, you know, with my friend's birthdays today, you know mine tomorrow it is. I ponder. This has always been taboo for me to talk about. But whatever you know, I guess I got to call myself an oldster. Now, you know, dwelling on that, this one's hard for me. This one's hard for me, especially when you're talking about a person who feels like, honestly and I mentioned it before I feel like I'm. I still feel like I'm a kid. I mean, I still feel like getting up watching cartoons, getting my baseball mitt, getting on my Schwinn bike tomorrow, you know, not talking about getting shingle shots, geez, nowadays, you know, you're talking with your friends.

Speaker 1: 9:26

Hey, how's it going, man? Oh, good, good, good. What have you been up to? Yeah, just working. Yeah, me too, working. What about the wife? Oh, she's doing good, you know, whatever you meet anyone? No, whatever, you know whatever, whatever the case may be, talk about sports, maybe a little music, what have you?

Speaker 1: 9:51

Pretty soon it drifts into yeah, hey, you want to come over and watch the ball game. Actually, we're going to go to a game on. Let me just give you an example. I'm just making this up, but this would be like a conversation you hear. And now, at my age, uh, yeah, you want to go see the game. On what day is it? Ah, may 21st, may 21st, let me look. Oh geez, you know, getting a hip replacement that day, oh god, oh god, this is one of my favorites too. This is one of my favorites.

Speaker 1: 10:29

I can't tell you how many times this conversation's come up. Oh man, Dreadin' Tuesday, why, what's up? Tuesday? Got a dang colonoscopy? Oh God, yeah, you got to do it. You know, yeah, I know. Now you're talking about colonoscopy. Got a dang colonoscopy? Oh god, yeah, you gotta do it. You know, yeah, I know. Now you're talking about colonoscopies. You think you're gonna talk about that as a 14 year old? No, means you're old. Think you're gonna talk about as a 24 year old? Nope, 34, heck no. But at some point it becomes a part of the guy and then it always gets to the like. But at some point it becomes a part of the car and then it always gets to the like.

Speaker 1: 11:05

You know the worst part. Yes, I know the worst part. It's drinking the stuff the night before. I know, yeah, yeah, I know the whole, all the gory details, whatever. Here's another one man. Did you get your shingle shot? I hear those are really bad. Yeah, no, I got my shingle shot. I hear those are really bad. Yeah, no, I got my shingle shot. You know you gotta get the pneumonia shot. I just pray to god like the old man. Voice doesn't kick in hello, hello.

Speaker 1: 11:48

I, you know, I love the elderly. I just don't want to be elderly. You know, when people start like wanting to walk you, boy scouts want to walk you across the street. Do you need help, sir? No, you, you know. Suddenly you're hitting him over the head with the umbrella, you know, like an old man oh God, artie Johnson or whatever his name on laughing. Very interesting. So anyhow, yeah, I'm just trying to deal with the thought of this birthday, retirement age. Oh my God, it's the one thing you can't stop, father, thank God, by the way. By the way, hey, I count my blessings, but you know what I mean. There's certain I can imagine there's a birthday that we all kind of wrestle with that one Boy. I wish I could wrestle with the turning 30 birthday again. I can't believe I'm going to be 30. I remember contemplating.

Speaker 1: 12:54

I was at Butte College, you know. I didn't even start college until late. I was straight. I was 25 and a half when I decided to go to college. When I started college, you know, and I thought, you know, I didn't really know that much about college. Maybe I go to college. I'll go to this community college. I can do this. You spend a couple of years, get yourself a degree. I didn't know, really, because I never really given it much consideration because of the situation I was in. But, all right, what would an aa degree get you? How do you earn? What's the difference between an aa or or a, b, a or a bs or whatever? I became pretty good at the bs part, by the way. I should have got a degree in the bs part, full of it on pat's peeps 263 on all your streaming. But I, I went to college, changed my life. That's that whole story. And yeah, I mean you know.

Speaker 1: 14:02

And then, you, I kind of drifted off. I started thinking about something else right there and kind of lost my train of thought. Whatever, where was I talking about anyhow? Oh, I kind of drifted off. I started thinking about something else right there and kind of lost my train of thought. Whatever, where was I talking about Anyhow? Oh, age-wise, oh, that's what it was, you know. Because I started thinking about like, okay, I'm doing pretty good at Butte College, I'm doing pretty good, hey, wait a minute, I'm actually good at this.

Speaker 1: 14:25

Then the next thing, you know, I started calculating ahead like, wow, what if I could go to Chico State and go to an actual university and get like and now that I understand the degrees a lot better, what if I could go get a bachelor's degree? Ooh, you know, go do communications, get a bachelor of arts in communications, communication, arts and sciences, which is what I got, with an emphasis on instructional technology and broadcasting. And you know, and so I said, well, let's do it. And I started calculating oh my God, I'll be 30 years old, 30 years old, I'll be old if I do, if I do that. Oh god, little did I know.

Speaker 1: 15:12

That's why I find it so remarkable sometimes, you know, when I hear because you know I'm always about to bring music into any conversation I have. So I find it remarkable that Pink Floyd you know a band that was in their 20s that they could write a song that was written from the perspective of you know someone who was much, much older than that. Then one day you find 10 years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun and to imagine they could write those lyrics without living this entire lifetime to lead them to those thoughts. And here they are, in their 20s. I mean, to me that makes it a masterpiece, it makes it absolutely brilliant and still, of course, I mean at least in my estimation, you know one of the greatest albums of all time. Well, my favorite rock album.

Speaker 2: 16:37

I do not own the licensing to this Pink Floyd, I just love you Trying to expose the music, but listen to the lyrics, sticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way, picking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Speaker 1: 17:40

This just never, ever gets old to me, that is. It just doesn't get any better than that. It's an absolute masterpiece, brilliant Gilmore, kick it in. And yeah, I don't want to get in trouble playing that beautiful, beautiful song. Too much of it. But you get the point.

Speaker 1: 18:11

One of the things I saw the other day and I'm not going to, I can't tie it into like, well, I bet I'm not going to go there, but you do hear this. At the end of so many lives you'll hear this. Not that I'm going anywhere, I'm doing fine. I'm not down about my birthday. I want you to know that. I promise you I'm not down about my birthday. I want you to know that. I promise you I'm not. I'm actually going to enjoy my birthday very much. I'm going to have a good time. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm going to have a great time and I look forward to it. You know it's just kind of hard to believe. Let me get to a certain age.

Speaker 1: 18:42

But the other day took me to lunch. Took well, it was actually Darcy and Diane, his sister took us to lunch. All the birthday fellas there. On the way out of the business, the Yard House downtown Sacramento we ran into this group of gentlemen, the Sacramento Firefighters Pipes and Drums honoring fallen brothers and sisters through traditional Celtic music. You can go to sffpdorg to see them, sffpdorg to see them, pdorg to see them. And I thought that I would give you a little example of this group. Let's see here, let's see if I can do this for you.

Speaker 1: 19:41

After all of that, here we go, here we go here we go, the Sacramento Firefighters Pipes and Drums non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the fallen brothers and sisters through traditional Celtic music. As I mentioned, they travel the country playing at events funerals, graduations, change of command ceremonies, charitable functions, holiday celebrations and they are funded through donations and the band members are sworn active or retired public safety employees from the Sacramento Fire Department. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department. Consumers Fire Department. Contra Costa Fire Department. El Dorado County Fire Protection District. Hayward Fire Department. Pinole Fire Department, monterey, stockton, vacaville, elk Grove my hometown, the police department there. San Francisco, placer County Sheriff's Office. San Ramon FD. Lodi FD. El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.

Speaker 1: 21:30

Thank you for what you do here on Pat's Peeps 263. That was really awesome to see those guys doing that. That stuff always gets me fired up. That, for whatever reason, that stuff really gets me fired up. Speaking of fired up, this will be a shorter podcast today. Pat's Peeps 263. For those of you, breathing a sigh of relief, thank you very much for that. All right, all right. Sometimes I can go on and on, right.

Speaker 1: 22:13

By the way, I'm drinking water today from my hams beer glass vintage. This thing is straight out of the 60s, since 1865. Wow, that's the same year that President Lincoln was assassinated. Ham's Beer, like I said, that's probably mid-60s, this glass right here, speaking of the 60s, I pulled a record from. I plucked a record from my rare record collection today, my rare 45 collection and this came out February 24th 1969. It's a song written by Shel Silverstein, made famous by. Well, I'll hold that back momentarily. The song was recorded live February 24th of 69 at this concert.

Speaker 1: 23:07

The song was recorded live February 24th of 69 at this concert. Performed the song with comical variations on the original performance in December of 69 at Madison Square Garden. The live version of this came to be the biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and it was this artist's only top 10 single in the top 100. He spent this spent three weeks at number two in 1969, held out of the top spot by honky tonk women, by the rolling stones how about that? Some good trivia right there. This track also topping the billboard hot country songs. It topped the easy listening charts that same year and was certified gold august 14th of 69, and I remember this being played on the radio all the time.

Speaker 1: 23:56

Like I mentioned, uh, tony cox, my friend who's having a birthday today, k-r-o-y, they play this song. They'd mix it up with this, you might hear this song and then you might hear something completely different. Like you know, um, you know average white band or something or cool in the gang. Excuse me Now song tells a tale of a young man's quest for revenge on a father who abandoned him you know where I'm going with this Whose only contribution to his entire life was giving him a guitar and naming him Sue. And naming him Sue. Can you imagine a boy named Sue, made famous by the great Johnny Cash from the album Live at San Quentin Prison?

Speaker 3: 24:56

Well, my daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to maw and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now I don't blame him because he run and hid, but the meanest thing that he ever did was, before he left, he went and named me Sue. Well, he must have thought that it was quite a joke and it got a lot of laughs from lots of folks. Seems I had to fight my whole life through. Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I'll tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue. Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean. My fists got hard, my wits got keen, roamed from town to town to hide my shame.

Speaker 1: 25:44

You know, when you think about this song, a boy named Sue Johnny Cash. It has this unusual A-A-B-C-C-B rhyme scheme. It's broken only to mark the midpoint and the end of the song, and the song's performed mostly in the speech-like style, sort of like a talking blues, obviously not singing.

Speaker 3: 26:07

But I made me a vow to the moon and stars I'd search the honky-tonks and bars and kill that man that gave me that awful name. Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July and I'd just hit town and my throat was dry. I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew At an old saloon on a street of mud. There at a table dealing stud such a dirty, mangy dog that named me Sue. Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad from a worn out picture that my mother had had, and I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye. He was big and bent and gray and old and I looked at him and my blood ran cold and I said my name is Sue. How do you do?

Speaker 1: 26:54

so when you're listening to this song I love how it gets worked up. The term son of a bitch, in the line I'm the son of a bitch and name you Sue, was bleeped out in the Johnny Cash version, both on the single and on the San Quentin album. The final line was also edited to remove the word damn. Both the unedited versions are available on various albums, compilations, et cetera. The term son of a bitch was edited, son of a gun or altogether bleeped out With some versions, or in some of the versions it was just altogether bleeped out. I thought I told him.

Speaker 3: 27:31

Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes and he went down but, to my surprise, come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear. Well, I busted a chair right across his teeth and we crashed through the wall and into the street, kicking and a-gouging in the mud and the blood and the beard. I tell you I fought tougher men, but I really can't remember when he kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile. I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss and he went for his gun and I pulled mine first. He stood there looking at me and I saw him smile.

Speaker 1: 28:07

Anyhow. Yeah, I'm going to get to the end of this. I don't want to get anyone upset at me.

Speaker 3: 28:11

I threw down my gun and called him a pawn. He called me a son. Here you go Bit me eye because I'm the All right. Here's that line.

Speaker 1: 28:33

Leaped it right out, didn't they? Yeah, thanks for listening. Have a great Thursday. I'll see you on. The next Pat's Peeps Could be tomorrow, could be the birthday podcast. Happy birthday, tony.

Speaker 3: 28:49

Happy birthday. Dan See you on the radio.