Speaker 1: 0:22

Welcome to the Pats Beefs podcast. I'm just going to jump straight to 269 podcasts. So today, on this Tuesday, may 27, 2025, I posted what is it? 267, 268, and now I will do podcast 269. Enough of you already, walsh. Enough for God's sakes.

Speaker 1: 0:50

Well, the truth is I haven't really been able to post a podcast for the last couple of days. So I'm back. He's back. How are you so nice of you to be listening? I certainly do appreciate that. It is a beautiful day as I look out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California. My festival is over, finally, right, finally over.

Speaker 1: 1:16

And if you did listen to the you know podcasts from the festival, you know you just kind of get sidetracked out of that. I tried to post them every day. I did them every day, got away with the first day where I posted and then you just kind of get off track. I'm gonna do better at that, but nonetheless, there they are and we had a great time. I want to say thank you to my friend Hefe for coming up from Lancaster and Palmdale. I said that on the podcast as well. Yes, and I said this as well, thanking my cousin Nick, my first cousin who came down from Spokane and that's not just a hop, skip and a jump, by the way. So I appreciate you guys very, very, very, very much, as we enjoyed our company, our each other's company over that four days had a great time.

Speaker 1: 2:06

Just by the way, just because I always say this to start the podcast, I'm also. My name is Pat Walsh. I cannot just assume anyone even knows who I am. Maybe you're just stumbling across my podcast. Thank you, by the way, it's a podcast about nothing, I can honestly say, or it's about everything. I don't know. My show is about everything. I think my podcast is pretty much the same. But what I mean about nothing when it comes to podcasting, it's not like I'm not specializing in any area camping or cigars, or wine or TV or whatever it might be. I'm all over the map, just living life doing a podcast, and I enjoy the company and we talk about a variety of things. It's always a great pleasure. You know I won't belabor the point about Stryberg because I've already done that, but I get very relaxed and I think it's extremely important to be relaxed and I think we overlook that sometimes and I think we look as a country. Even we overlook the value of a vacation. I only took one vacation day, but we had somehow Friday and Monday for Memorial Day.

Speaker 1: 3:16

By the way, which brings me to the point of Memorial Day. Memorial Day was yesterday and I certainly want to. You know it's hard sometimes to say I mean for me, happy Memorial Day, you mean well, I mean well when you say it, we all wish each other a happy day, but it's a holiday. So you say, oh, happy Memorial Day. People are barbecuing, they're going to festivals, whatever you know, but this is, of course, is a federal holiday and the real reason is to mourn the us military personnel who died while serving in the united states armed forces. And without those who gave their lives for this country, you know, I wouldn't be celebrating in any meadow, just any music I wanted. I can assure you of that. I can assure you that Any of you know your history understand that for sure. But so Memorial Day, a time for visiting cemeteries, you know, having memorials again, mourning those who gave their lives for this country, died in the line of duty, and uh, you know, kudos and shout out and thank you to all the volunteers who go out of their way to place the american flags on the graves of those military personnel that are in these cemeteries, also, not just in this country, obviously.

Speaker 1: 4:51

I'm always talking about the fact that I'm blessed to be able to have the opportunity to visit other countries and, of course, I just returned again from Italy and when I was there, just outside of Florence, there was the American Military Cemetery. And when I was there, just outside of Florence, there was the American Military Cemetery. The American Military Cemetery had to say it twice, it almost was so much. Anyhow, that's the second time I'd been there and Mark, our liaison, got very emotional. I told the story on a previous podcast. He got very emotional there as he was talking about his family and as when he went, we're sitting on the bus and he never just jumps off by himself and I know I've already told this, but when he thanked the Americans and he got off the bus he was very emotional and went out there and said hi to them. Anyhow, he said God bless the Americans a couple of times. It just gives you that feeling of pride and you see all those crosses.

Speaker 1: 5:53

I've been to Normandy. Many of you have probably perhaps traveled and seen some of these things in France, normandy. I've been to Germany. I've seen death camps, gas chambers, but I've also seen, you know, the eagle's nest. But I've seen a country that is resilient, countries that are resilient you think about the allied forces, anyhow, all of this stuff in observance from Memorial Deck could go on and on. You know, when you've seen it, it just really it hits you. I grew up, just like many of you, you know, watching World War II or history, or World War I or whatever it might be, and of course we're talking about any military service person throughout the history who defended this country. But you know, when you you're there, it's just kind of you feel it, you really are, I don't know. There's some, you see, not just us reacting to what we know about it, but seeing other perspectives, and then, anyhow, yeah, it's, uh, it's an incredible thing and it's very makes you be, it makes you very proud to be an American. You go to Normandy. They love you. If you're an American, believe me, love you. Italy love you.

Speaker 1: 7:21

By the way, the first national observance of Memorial Day occurred May 30th 1868. It was Decoration Day, then observed on May 30th, proclaimed by the Commander-in-Chief, john A Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic to honor the Union soldiers who had died in the American Civil War. The national observance then followed many local observances. This is where they inaugurated between the end of the Civil War and Logan's Declaration. You have certain cities claiming in fact many claiming to be the first to observe this holiday, if you were to look it up. According to some sources, anyhow, the National Cemetery Administration, which is a division of the Department of Veterans Affairs, credits Marianne Williams with originating the idea of strewing the graves of the Civil War soldiers, union and Confederate, with flowers. And then that's according to Wikipedia, but there's several sources that will cite the same thing. And then you have the official recognition as a holiday spread among the states, beginning with New York in 1873, and by 1890, every Union state had adopted this.

Speaker 1: 8:52

The World Wars turned this into a day of remembrance for all of the members of the US military who fought and died in service. In 1968, congress changing its observance to the last day in May, and then in 1971, standardized its name as Memorial Day. By the way, there are two other days that celebrate those who have served or are serving in the US military. That would be Armed Forces Day, that's earlier in May. That's an unofficial US holiday for honoring those currently serving in the armed forces. And then you have, of course, veterans Day, which is November 11th, and that honors all of those who have served in the United States armed forces. So I hope you had a great day off.

Speaker 1: 9:47

I did post some photos from my trip to France Pegasus Bridge, first bridge liberated during D-Day, first house liberated during D-Day. They took that bridge, pegasus Bridge. It was an amazing feeling to stand there to be served by a now elderly woman who, as a young child, used to serve the Allied forces who liberated that bridge and then went on to help to liberate France. I also showed a couple of photos of Pointe du Hoc there at the English Channel. That was at Omaha Beach, right there, normandy, where they bombed the craters into the top of the hill. There Shows the cliffs where the soldiers had to. You know they use those as foxholes and the soldiers climbing the hills and they're using these potato mashers, all this other stuff that we learned over there. So I showed a couple of photos of Pointe du Hoc. What else did I put up there? Oh, right there at, like I say, omaha Beach, at Normandy, a couple of the monuments that are there.

Speaker 1: 11:00

So, yes, very important to mention Labor Day sullivan going to radio here for a second, who is a, has been a colleague of mine for a very long time in radio. That's a very long time when you work with a person, for geez how long we've been 32 years. I've worked with tom sullivan. Now in the last few years tom has been working out of new york doing his radio show. But tom sullivan is going to retire. I'm sure he's set financially. He's a financial guru and I'm sure he'll be doing just fine. You know why not Go out there, live your life. It's fun doing radio. It's fun doing all this. He says he's going to podcast. I don't know where. I don't really have any information on what he's going to be doing or when he's going to be doing the podcast, exactly any details on that. But you know, tom again, I worked many years with Tom Sullivan.

Speaker 1: 12:07

For those of you who listen to Tom, he has the afternoon show at KFPK syndicated from noon to 3 pm On KFPK and you know I have a lot of memories of Tom. I remember one time Ha ha, ha, ha, ha ha. Oh, one just occurred to me. So you have to understand, tom Sullivan, I'm a bit of a goofball. All right, I'm a goofball.

Speaker 1: 12:40

Tom Sullivan is a guy, financially. I was the sports guy for a long time on KFPK and you know I wear old, vintage baseball jerseys to work. What have you? I do dress nice. But Tom, he would come to work because he's a financial guy and he'd be wearing his suit Like he'd be wearing his suit, like he'd be wearing a suit, a black suit or whatever.

Speaker 1: 13:03

And a lot of times when he was in, you know, working here, his segment, his little financial news segment, came just before my sports. So he probably had I don't know two or three minutes. He probably had, I don't know two or three minutes. He probably had, let's say, three minutes. And he'd stand there at the mic, I, tom Sullivan, and they go all right. And now, tom, good morning Tom. How are you? You know, be Amy Lewis or whoever throw in to Tom Sullivan, and oh, good morning Amy, you know. And he'd give his report, financial report, he'd interact with them. He, you know he was. Give his report, financial report, he'd interact with them. He, you know, he was great, that's why he's been on the radio so long.

Speaker 1: 13:44

And then I'd be right behind him and one morning, I it just occurred to me one day when I'm watching sports, that the only occupation perhaps you can think of another, but the only occupation perhaps you can think of another, but the only occupation because you witness this all the time where you can legitimately slap a co-worker on his tuchus is in sports. That's it. Like you don't do that. You cannot do that in any other realm that I'm aware of now. In fact, that's a good topic for tonight to bring that up again. People won't even remember I brought that up years ago. I need to do that, but it's the only okay. Think about it.

Speaker 1: 14:35

Like you're working at I don't know, mervin's, mervin's, open, open, open. How long has Mervin's been? Macy's, whatever. If you're working at Mervin's, congratulations, because they've been closed for like a long, long time. If you're standing there waiting for customers at Mervin's, but like, no matter what you're doing, like you're working a music festival, let's say you're, whatever it is shoe sales. You're working at the Car Wash radio.

Speaker 1: 15:15

You don't walk up to the co-worker and slap them on their ass. Hey, good job, hi, good job, betty. You know, like, especially if you're a guy, you can't slap the woman on the, you can't do it on the derriere, and if you're a dude, you sure don't want to slap the other guy's ass. You know what I mean. Hi, bob, good morning, you know, bob. I was just noticing yesterday you were doing a fine job on that Cheminski file. Oh thanks, Pat. Yeah, right on his ass. You can't do that man. Who's doing that? You think in 23 years my dad's the assistant plant manager at Campbell Soup. Hey, how's it going, jose? Good, good, hey, good job. Right on his ass, no, but in sports, absolutely Slap it all day long.

Speaker 1: 16:10

So, anyhow, my whole point is that, tom Sullivan, I was going to bring this up on my show, so I did so. Tom Sullivan moves to the side, and that's business. I'm Tom Sullivan. Gay, happy, gay, mo, I did so. Tom Sullivan moves to the side, and that's business. I'm Tom Sullivan. Gay, happy, gay Moves to the side. He's, you know, he's got his papers shuffling up his papers there, moving aside, and then the music starts for the sports. Not even a break in between Blah, blah, blah, blah, all right. Well, that takes us to 952, says Amy Lewis or whoever, and Takes us to 952, says Amy Lewis or whoever, and that takes us to sports with the sports guy Pat Walsh.

Speaker 1: 16:46

Now, I just told, then I come on. You know the music's down and I come on. I just told the story. Like I just said, the whole story I just told you in the last couple of minutes.

Speaker 1: 16:56

You can't slap anyone on the derriere when they're doing their job. I said so. Can you imagine? This is live on the air. I said can you imagine? Look at Tom here. Tom just did a fine job doing the financial news.

Speaker 1: 17:12

Is it right for me to slap Tom right there on his tous? To which I proceeded to do just that? I slapped him on his arish, I can tell you I think he's a jockeys guy. Because I felt a line, I whacked him. He turned around in his dark black suit, looked at me wearing my Chico State sweatshirt or God knows what. Like I was crazy, to which Dave and Amy I think we're the morning host started laughing because you know something, it was hilarious. And Tom, I'm sl slacking. I'm doing that.

Speaker 1: 18:05

You know tom's the kind of guy he's the complete opposite of me when it comes to his radio show, tom, you do not venture into his radio studio. Don't go in there, man, if you need something from that studio during that time slot, you best wait. Listen. People are different. They run their show differently. You don't walk into Tom's studio to get whatever it is you left. Maybe Kitty could get away with that, but most people nope, because you would hear about it, he would let you have it, he'd blast you, yeah. So you'd have to time it to where maybe you left the studio, use the restroom, whatever you had to do, you sneak in there, grab something you left in there.

Speaker 1: 18:53

It was always caught that off guard. So I'm going to be honest with you. So I heard about this and then I started noticing that. So me being the sort of uh, what I want to say, uh, I don't know what the right word is being the little brat, being the go ahead, test me guy. Being the in a good, in a fun way I don't mean that serious in a uh, I'm going to just kind of go against the grain. You know what I mean. I would occasionally do that. I'd wait until he'd get into a really heavy topic. I'd walk in and grab my you know my whatever, something I didn't need, just because I needed it. You know what I mean At that moment, the binder with my commercial copy in it or whatever, and he'd look up at you. He never said anything to me, nice guy, one year for christmas I'll never forget.

Speaker 1: 19:55

I come to work early in the morning when I was the sports guy working a split shift at KFPK, and I'm sitting at my desk working, tom Sullivan comes into the building. Good morning Pat. I say good morning Tom. He says I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and he gives me a gift. I said what, tom? Look, I didn't know. I know you didn't know. I said I think you know obviously don't have anything for you. No, I know, I know you didn't know. I said I think you know obviously don't have anything for you. No, I know, I know it's not about that, I just wanted to give you this gift.

Speaker 1: 20:24

And he goes and, by the way, I'll never forget he said this this is years ago. He says, by the way, I think he was single at the time. I don't know, I don't know. I can't imagine you didn't get your wife a gift, right? If you're married, so you must have been single. I mean, isn't that funny? I know he's married now, but I never knew back then. But it doesn't matter. Not relevant to the story. He says you're the only person I got a Christmas gift for this. What? Yep, you're the only one, so I open it up. And how about that?

Speaker 1: 20:58

Tom Sullivan went out of his way to have a bobblehead a porcelain bobblehead made my bobblehead of me wearing a Dodgers hat and a Rams sweatshirt or Rams shirt and I just thought that was the nicest. It was the most thoughtful thing to do, and I don't know why Tom chose me and why he did that, but I'll never forget that and I still have that up on my desk at work. And Tom, thank you. You know. Again, it was very nice and that's been 20 years ago or more. So he and I got along very well.

Speaker 1: 21:48

One day I told him I just thought of this, he's a baseball fan, he's a Yankees fan, I, I'm a Dodger fan. I know, I know, settle down. And I said, tom, you know, I guess you would do the cut-ins on KCRA. By the way, stan Atkinson I need to talk about him tonight passed away, long-time anchor on KCRA. He's been on my radio show. I need to talk about him tonight. Um, anyhow, see, I do that and then I get myself off track.

Speaker 1: 22:32

So Tom would come on KCRA and he would do the financial updates on KCRA as well as KFPK, and he'd wear his suit. And I said, tom, because we were eagerly anticipating the next day being opening day, I said you know what you should do, tom? I said you should wear that. I can't remember if he was wearing it or if he told me about it or whatever, I don't exactly recall. Or he showed me a picture, it doesn't matter, but it was a white T-shirt and it had the big NY for the Yankees.

Speaker 1: 23:06

I said, tomorrow on KCRA on TV, when they throw it to you for the financial report, you should just go and before you get to anything serious, just go. Oh yeah, by the way, first things first. Happy opening day and just open up your nice suit and show that NY logo, which he did, which he did. I thought way to go, tom. And the anchor started laughing oh man, it was great. It was great. They loved it, tom loved it. It went over real well. So you know, tom and Tom was also one of the first guys to do some a couple of liners for my new radio show, pat, congratulations on your new Pat.

Speaker 1: 23:52

Tom Sullivan, congratulations on your new radio show. I know you're going to do well. Here, have some Irish whiskey to toast, that's right, it was just a very nice thing. Going to miss working with you, tom. I'm going to miss your voice on the radio. That's what I'm going to miss. Working with you, tom, I'm going to miss your voice on the radio. That's what I'm going to miss. So as soon as I find out about it you know what I'm going to do I'll get him on my podcast here. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to jot that down. Get him on my podcast. Boom, remember that, let's see. And again, I will talk about Stan Atkinson on my show tonight.

Speaker 1: 24:47

Long-time news anchor. A very sad thing. Golly. Part of my youth gone. That's how it feels. Part of my youth is just gone when I read that Rick Derringer died. Man, you know Rick Derringer, this guy. I grew up with Rick Derringer's music. Big, big fan of Rick Derringer. I'm going to talk a lot about him on my radio show, the Pat Walsh show on KFBK. I hope you'll listen. Did I say that already? 93.1 FM 1530 AM, kfbk in Sacramento, 7 to 10 PM. But Rick Derringer, I mean part of my high school memories. This guy can't believe it. Part of my high school memories, this guy, I can't believe it.

Speaker 1: 26:11

It first took hold. It was an old spring night At the old town hall there was a group Called the Jokers. They were laying it down. You know I'm never gonna Lose that funky sound. Rock and roll. Put your crew Rock and roll. Put your crew, lordy mama, Light my fuse, light my fuse. Rock and roll Back and roll. Drop on out and spread the news. It's getting started buzz about this time of year.

Speaker 1: 26:51

You hear this one on the radio all the time and I remember as 17 years old I went out and bought his new live album and I just loved it, especially the song Sitting by the Pool, but the whole album so good, great live album. You guys are making a lot of noise tonight. This is going to be hot. Woo, thank you. Guitar solo. I remember Rick Derringer. Oh, it's such a great album. I remember Rick Derringer opening for Led Zeppelin. Remember that Led Zeppelin at Sitting by the pool Whoa, sitting by the pool, sitting by the pool, 1977, remember that when Judas Priest got booed offstage that day. It gives me time to think. Sitting by the pool, Talking to a friend oh man, rick Derringer, what a guitarist too. And his work with Johnny and Edgar Winter.

Speaker 1: 29:58

Rick Derringer, 77 years old, passes away. Ah, ah. What a story, by the way. What a story, by the way. So I'll talk more about him. No cause of death, by the way, has been announced, and his career spanned decades.

Speaker 1: 30:27

You know he was a member of the McCoys. He did with Johnny Winter, still Alive and Well. He worked with artists like Steely Dan, alice Cooper, kiss, weird Al, cyndi Lauber and others Rock and Roll, hoochie Coo man. That was again just such a huge part of my youth maybe yours as well. We listened to that all the time. But he first rose to prominence with a song and you know, not many people know this about Rick Derringer, because the song is so different, the style is so different, the style is so different. But this song was went to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 back in 1965 and he eventually joined Johnny Winter in 1969. He shot to fame. He's just 17 years old. He eventually joined Johnny Winter in 1969. He shot to fame he's just 17 years old when his band, the McCoys, recorded this song Again went to number one US Billboard Hot 100.

Speaker 1: 31:40

This was 1965. And that song hang on, sloopy. He was 15 years old, excuse me, 17 years old. Hang on, hang on, sloopy, sloopy. Hang on, hang on. Sloopy, sloopy, hang on. Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town and everybody, yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down. Sloopy, I don't care what your daddy do. Song written by Wes Farrell and Burt Burns Cause you know, snoopy girl, I'm in love with you.

Speaker 1: 32:41

First recorded in 64 by the Vibrations. Hang on, snoopy, hang on. That one went to number 26. Hang on, snoopy, snoopy, hang on. Snoopy wears a red dress yeah, as old as the hill. But when Snoopy wears that red dress, yeah, you know it gives me the chills.

Speaker 1: 33:13

16-year-old leader. I say don't worry, sloopy girl, you belong to me. 16-year-old leader of Rick and the Raiders. Rick Serringer flies to Bell Studios in New York. Records his lead over the Strangelove's, already recorded backing vocals, over the Strange Loves, already recorded backing vocals. They decided to change Rick's group to the McCoys to avoid confusion with another popular band at the time, paul Revere and the Raiders. Rick began using the stage name Rick Derringer. The single was released on Bang Records. Enter the chart August 14, 65. Reached the top spot in October on the second. Thanks for listening to Pat's Peeps 269. See you on the radio. Come on, sloopy Slupe, let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me. Yeah, yeah, come on, slupe, come on, come on. Oh, come on, slupe, come on, come on. Oh, come on, slupe, come on, come on, oh, come on, slupe, come on, come on. Well, it feels so good, come on, come on. Well, it feels so good, come on, come on, you know it feels so good. Come on, come on, shake it, shake it, shake it sloopy. Come on, come on.