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Ep. 279 Today's Peep Presents "Behind the Mic Madness" Radio Rebels and Unexpected Encounters: Journey Through Broadcasting's Wild Side
We dive into the wild world of radio rebels and broadcasting drama, featuring legendary moments when DJs dared to break format and face the consequences.
• Sharing personal encounters with legends like Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, and Larry King
• Examining what happens when social media posts trigger unexpected backlash from former colleagues
• Playing Al Barry's satirical political animation poking fun at politicians and representation
• Featuring the infamous Phil Hendry prank call that puts Larry King against a tearful radio station manager
• Showcasing Coyote J Calhoun's 1988 on-air rebellion against corporate radio formats that ended with him being physically removed from the studio
• Highlighting the tension between artistic expression and commercial programming that has defined radio for decades
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good morning, that's right, it's morning. How are you? This is patrick and this is Pat's Peeps Podcast. We're at number 279 on this Tuesday, 10th day of June. Oh, it's my friend's birthday, my friend Keith's birthday, my longest tenured friend, keith Welch. Happy birthday, keith. Oh my gosh, I gotta get a hold of Keith. I just realized that, keith, I should tell you this. I just thought about that. I should tell you the story of how I met Keith Welch. Anyhow, it is a Tuesday, happy Tuesday. Thank you for being a part of the Pat's Peeps podcast.
Speaker 1:I've got morning voice right now. I'm doing this earlier in the morning than I usually do, as I today, will you know. Actually, I guess I'll be doing two podcasts. I guess I'll be doing two podcasts today One, this one and then the other one. I have a meeting today where I am going to have a conversation. If you recall, way back in one of the previous podcasts I did I don't recall which one I had interviewed two of these charming 100-plus-year-old women because we wanted to hear their stories and they were delightful. So today it's the men's turn. Today I'll be later on interviewing two 100 plus year old men, as I understand it, and then I'll release that podcast tomorrow. This is I'm kind of getting backed up on my podcast, because tomorrow I already have a podcast lined up which will be for that.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I just I have so many podcasts going on. This is 279. By the way, as I peer out my studio window today into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, I can tell you it's going to be a hot day. Very little breeze, slight breeze, but it's warmer today. I like the hot temps. I probably mentioned that a few times. You know me, I'm always trying to do something a little bit different on my podcast, and today is no different.
Speaker 1:Let's see, I had a couple of things I wanted to really get into before I started this one. Geez, see, now I'm gonna forget what it was, what it was, oh, I, oh, just an update. I'm feeling better than I was yesterday. I'm feeling better. Yesterday I was kind of under the weather, so I was not feeling great. I didn't feel, feel terrible, and you know, then it was so don't hey, guess what. There's covid going around again. Well, I don't know what it was. I still don't feel 100 maybe, but I feel good enough to broadcast and that's a very good sign. Well, I don't know what it was. I still don't feel 100% maybe, but I feel good enough to broadcast and that's a very good sign. Let's see what else you know. Oh God, yeah, I'm not even going to get into that. Maybe I'll get into that.
Speaker 1:On my show tonight I was going to say you know, you say something on Facebook. Man, don't ever I never post anything political on Facebook. I'm very neutral, I'm very. I just don't want to get into the fray. I don't want the ugliness on my Facebook page. If I do put anything political on there unless I'm really peeved, by the way, which I was yesterday could have done way, way more than what I actually did, but all I did was simply ask a question. Did Gavin Newsom really say you know, come on, tough guy, come and arrest me, let's get it over with a paraphrasing? That's all I said. Did he say that? And you should see the vitriol, you should see the comments.
Speaker 1:And a former co-worker of mine and if you're listening, you know who you are Former anchor of my radio station I work for, by the way, I'm also the host of the Pat Walsh Show, kfpk Radio in Sacramento, 93.1 FM, 1530 AM. I posted that and then I got a private message from a gentleman who I used to work with for several years and I'm not going to say who it is, necessarily because I didn't tell him. I would say this, I wasn't even really thinking about it. But he comes back at me in a private message with his opinion, which is okay, I don't mind opinions. Heck, you want to be demeaning and you want to talk down to me. That changes things. You know I'll listen to your opinion, but once you start getting demeaning and acting like you know it all and other people don't, that's where I have an issue. All right, someone treating me like I'm stupid, believe me, you do not want to debate me. But if you do, it's the Pat Walsh Show.
Speaker 1:Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 pm, anytime. Anytime, please. You are invited to debate me on this topic that we were talking about today. All right, I'd love it, and then we'll take phone calls to debate me on this topic that we were talking about today. All right, I'd love it, and then we'll take phone calls and we'll see who won the debate.
Speaker 1:I spoke to you, I didn't speak down to you and I didn't preface everything with. Let me say this loud and clear you know, just because you say, let me say, preface everything with let me say this loud and clear you know, just because you say, let me say, preface everything with let me say this loud and clear Look, I like you, dude, but quit coming at me like that. I can hear you, I can read, I can read, let me say this perfectly loud and clear Whoa, okay, okay, clear, whoa, okay. And then and then you get things like you know, uh, in 2020, your fearless leader like what? What are you talking about, bro? Seriously, come on, man, lighten up. Look, if you think it's cool to bash cars and defund police, take over over cities with no consequences and the leadership in your state does zero and they just allow it to happen, that's cool. If that's what you think, vandalizing cities awesome man. That's your opinion. I'd sure hate to you know. Try to persuade you in a different way, other than thinking that criminal activities are okay. Smashing police cars, burning American flags while you're waving your Mexican flags, right, anyhow, dang on it.
Speaker 1:I didn't want to get into that, but I was a little riled up this morning. That's why I took to the mic so early, but I promised myself that I would not get into that I broke my promise. I have a couple of different things I want to get to. Oh, I love this guy al barry or al barry, I guess this is. He capitalizes both the a and the l, so I'm never sure, but I like his animated stuff. I haven't seen this one, but I do like what he does. Here's Al Berry. I guess Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton found the Democratic Party's voice for masculinity. I've not seen it.
Speaker 2:Elizabeth, the problem with the Democratic Party is we've hated men for so long we forgot how to relate to them. Well, if men weren't such dumb pigs, it wouldn't be so hard. And that's Elizabeth Warren. Absolutely right. Men are naturally racist, homophobic and misogynist. It doesn't help that they're influenced by Joe Rogan. That's why we spent millions of dollars finding our own Joe Rogan, so we can communicate with male voters again. Olivia, come in. This is Olivia Giuliana. She's a plus-size queer Latina feminist.
Speaker 2:I guarantee nobody understands men better than she does. My god, she's perfect. Just by looking at her I can tell she's at least three times more man than anyone else and she can definitely speak their language. Oh yes, she understands men very well. Go ahead, olivia Show, elizabeth, hang on.
Speaker 3:Me need catch breath Standing lots of exercise. Men like female otter. Men no want cut-off balls.
Speaker 2:Wow, it's as if I'm talking to a man right now. I suppose this means we'll have to fire other representatives of masculinity. You mean Harry Sisson and David Hogg. I hate to say it, but you're right. If you weigh the options, david and Harry aren't nearly as masculine. Alright, I'll go tell them the bad news. Hi boys, ooh, it's Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, ooh, it's so good to see you, elizabeth. There's no easy way to say this, but you two aren't the masculine authorities. We thought you were, ooh, but I'm 95 pounds of pure man. That's a great point, david. Unfortunately, we found 500 pounds of pure man. See for yourself. Come here, olivia.
Speaker 3:Show David and Harry what you showed me, me need rest, man want hot dog, man want sit in Macy's and eat standing up.
Speaker 1:Oh God, I'm just going to watch that all the time now. I love your animation, al Albury. Whoever you are, I need to find out where you are. I need to get you on my show, brother. That is awesome, man. All right, this one comes.
Speaker 1:So here's where it's going to be a little different today. I'm going to play some long form. I'm going to shut up for a little bit, isn't that great. I'm going to play some long form. One of these, by the way, may be a repeat or might be my first rerun, but it is always so good to revisit. I can't remember if I did it on one of my early, early podcasts, but I probably did. But you know what Never disappoints? It's like listening to a great album again. It never gets old. So that'll be second up on the list. First, though, it comes from Trent, who is one of the of, uh, the folks listening to my podcast or my show, or both. Thank you, by the way, trent. I greatly appreciate this. This is phil hendry prank with larry king. It's kind of actually a prank after Coach Don Shula, who led the 72 Dolphins to an undefeated season. After Don Shula retired, here you go.
Speaker 4:I like it 11-29 at WIOD 6-10, WIOD. The worst talk radio I've ever heard in my life is on WIOD.
Speaker 5:Larry King is with us on line three and I think Larry's in Washington right now. Andy, larry's in Washington. We thought we'd bring Bob in to ask Larry a couple of questions. We were all with interest told about some of the comments made by Mr King to Don Shula over the weekend and of course, don Shula retired last week as head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Bob Green is in studio with us. Larry hello, larry. Hi guys, how are you doing today week as head coach of the miami dolphins? Bob green is in studio with us. Larry hello, larry. Hi guys, how you doing today?
Speaker 4:super, I understand you're you're getting ready to go to los angeles? Yeah, the snow stopped. Uh, after two and a half days of being trapped, it it's all blue skies now, but we got about three feet on the ground, which is, I think, there's a snow absolutely snowing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, every time I try to go to the midwest a lot, every time I try to travel up there, it's like every time New York is shut down, the rest of the country gets shut down.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, everything is shut. I mean, if anyone's listening in Miami and they're flying to the Northeast Larry, how you doing?
Speaker 5:Hi, larry, bob, green Bob, how are you, how you doing today? Fine, I wanted to take over a little segment here of Phil's show. Were and and I mentioned this to you when I called you originally um, first of all, henry barrow sends his regards. Not that I've talked to henry since my man, henry. Henry says he sends his regards, cheryl sends her regards to you.
Speaker 4:That's great. Cheryl's still working there. Yes, she is, my god she'll be.
Speaker 5:She'll get her social security there I'm not going to tell her that. Okay, I'm not going to tell her that god, uh, we, uh, frankly, larry, were a little bit taken aback I guess is the best way to put it by comments you made to Coach Shula on your program. My understanding was it was Friday evening.
Speaker 4:I was taken aback. I had two different friends call me on I think it was one call Thursday night and one call Friday when it was learned that Don was going to retire. And they both said boy, have you heard your old radio station? I said no, I worked there 20 years. We're the only station ever to do the Dolphins. And they said they're creaming them to death. What do you mean? They're a society. School maniacs are calling in and they're saying personal things about them and they're vilifying them. And there's a guy in the morning looking to knock him off he should be out of coaching and he's too old and another guy criticizing the way he looks. So when I heard that from two different people, what I said to don was I heard that the station I worked at and you worked at, because don and I did a show together every day on wiod for right was rapping you and he said he hasn't all he said well, I'm just finishing, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:Then he said he hadn't listened to talk radio in two years, but that he'd heard about it. That's all. So if I'm wrong, tell me why I'm wrong.
Speaker 5:Well, first of all, we were not personally attacking Coach Shula. Certainly we do a talk show here, as you do. We have several. What we did do and any talk show would do, certainly relative to a story of this kind of local import was invite our listeners to call and voice their opinions.
Speaker 4:The host had no personal opinions about the coach.
Speaker 5:Neil Rogers. Quite frankly, if you're speaking of Neil Rogers, or Rick and Suds or any of the shows here, had nothing but the most glowing things to say about Coach Shula in his retirement Now, while he was coaching.
Speaker 4:Hold on hold on hold on. Neil Rogers had something glowing to say about someone.
Speaker 5:Neil was on the day the retirement was announced. Neil said nothing about I'm talking about before the retirement.
Speaker 4:I'm talking about after the retirement. The whole city applauded him.
Speaker 5:I can assure you this, Larry.
Speaker 4:What about before?
Speaker 5:the retirement. All right, I can assure you there was nothing personal in made by Neil Rogers.
Speaker 4:What kind of criticisms?
Speaker 5:were there. That he had his coaching ability begin to slump, that the game perhaps was passing him by, that it was time to make room for a coach and, as you know, the popularity of Jimmy Johnson here is well known.
Speaker 4:I wrote in my column three years ago that Jimmy was going to come and coach Miami and Jimmy told me that in Dallas.
Speaker 5:Phil Koston just says hi too.
Speaker 4:He's in the other studio, Let and Jimmy told me that in Dallas, phil Koston just says hi too, he's in the other studio. Let me say this yes, there's a way you can do it and a way you cannot do it. Now you can encourage callers to vilify. I've been doing this a long time.
Speaker 5:I understand that I started.
Speaker 4:I know that you were with our radio station for many years, yeah, so I know how to can storm up a crowd and the people who told me I have faith in. So you're telling me that Neil Rogers praised him.
Speaker 5:Larry, I would not even bother you, I wouldn't even bother you with a phone call where I'm not talking about after retirement Everybody jumps on the bandwagon that's below.
Speaker 4:I'm talking about before Coach Shula announced his retirement. Were your callers personal or insightful the callers.
Speaker 5:Some of the callers may have been, some may have not.
Speaker 4:When they were, what did you say to?
Speaker 5:them. We got rid of them very quickly, to be perfectly honest with you.
Speaker 4:Many of them were dumped. Your inciting calls were off the air right away.
Speaker 5:They were off the air right away and I apologize to Mr Rogers for his fairness.
Speaker 4:Thank you To the rest of the staff and the two people who told me must have been here and thinking.
Speaker 5:I got to tell you, larry, I take what I do very seriously. Hello, larry, bob's a little emotional, I'm sorry. I take what I do very seriously and to have our radio station vilified, don Nash.
Speaker 4:Now hold on one second, Bob, your station. How long have?
Speaker 5:you been general manager. Get Bob a glass of water or something.
Speaker 4:How long have you been general manager? I've been here since 1992. Okay, I was in Miami two years ago. The worst talk radio I've ever heard in my life was on WIOD.
Speaker 5:The worst you see. It's comments like that that I think are very unfair.
Speaker 4:Do you want an opinion or not? Do you think, neil?
Speaker 5:Rogers is a good talk show host. I think he's the best in the business.
Speaker 4:I think he's the worst I've ever heard.
Speaker 5:I think he's the best in the business.
Speaker 4:If you're crying because Neil Rogers has been vilified, you've got a weird case going on. Larry, could I jump in? Why don't you go on, neil and cry with each other, All right. Larry, could I jump in for a minute? This is insane.
Speaker 5:Well, I've got a general manager here who's crying Bob if you can't handle, heard a worse station, all right I think that's patently unfair of you and I would demand an apology for that statement, for having an opinion, no, for for saying that this is the worst talk radio you've ever heard. You know the influence that you have over people it's the worst talk radio I ever heard I demand an apology for that statement I will not give it to you I demand an apology for that statement.
Speaker 5:I'll ask you again as a gentleman what do you ask me to? To apologize for vilifying a radio station that I put my market soul to Larry's expressing an opinion. Bob Shut up Phil Shut up Phil.
Speaker 4:You can shut your mouth. You're the general manager. You're telling your host to shut up.
Speaker 5:Bob, what I'm asking you to do is to please.
Speaker 4:Hey guys, I don't think when WID written as class.
Speaker 5:Who did you work with? This is an embarrassing thing. Who did you work with? Who did you work with? I worked with Big Wilson. Oh, he was terrible. Goodbye Bob, he was absolutely.
Speaker 4:Wait a second, I'm not going to talk to you no, but wait a second, wait a minute. On behalf of the Big Wilson family, I demand an apology for you. Big Wilson passed away and you called him terrible.
Speaker 5:All right, so the kettle called the pot black. Is that what it is? You come on here, apologize to the Wilson family, all right.
Speaker 4:I apologize. All right now. What do you think of Bill Calder?
Speaker 5:Bill Calder was probably one of the best I ever heard. The great talent. We did loads of things together he was a terrific talent. And, by the way, he was a very close friend of Neil Rogers, is the preeminent radio talent in America today.
Speaker 4:He's the worst talk show host I've ever heard.
Speaker 5:I demand an apology. No, I demand it.
Speaker 4:Bob, bob. We can go back and forth on this, bob.
Speaker 5:You don't even know your own station. On behalf of the Rogers family. Apologize, bob. We can go back and forth with this all the time. What's that crack supposed to mean?
Speaker 4:I apologize. His mother is listening. I apologize. His mother is listening. I apologize to Neil.
Speaker 5:Rogers' wife. What does that crack? Suppose you said his family. I'm talking about his mother.
Speaker 4:He has relatives in this area. I would tell his mother that she raised a son who's a terrible talk show host.
Speaker 5:Bob, either you can go on with this or you can't.
Speaker 4:Bob, you can keep going with this, I'm not going to change my opinion. I can't believe it, bob.
Speaker 5:I can't believe it Well.
Speaker 4:I can't Bob, listen, man, if you want to come on.
Speaker 6:He's like crying over here.
Speaker 5:I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:Well, sorry Bob.
Speaker 5:Hey Larry can I? Just ask you a question here when do you think Coach Shula is going to be going after this? Do you think he's going to?
Speaker 4:I think he's going to be vice president of operations for the Dolphins.
Speaker 5:He's running the team. Yeah, he's going to run the team from that standpoint, but do you think he might want to entertain any other coaching possibilities?
Speaker 4:You know there's a rumor that Baltimore would ask him. I want an apology. Bob shut up. I don't believe he's the general manager.
Speaker 5:You know what, at this point, neither do I. He can't be general manager.
Speaker 4:Are you still owned by cox? Yes, we are owned by cox.
Speaker 5:You know, I do, I do, I do charities for cox every year and have made appearances for the cox people all over the country have you raised money?
Speaker 1:I don't thanks a lot, bob, so anyway, thanks again to trent trent. Awesome, please keep them coming. I definitely appreciate that. I do love the uh listener input. So thank you very much. Anyone who wants to send that stuff, you can private message me on facebook. We've got a pats peeps page, my personal page on facebook as well. Uh, either way, you want to do it.
Speaker 1:By the way, I did meet larry king one time. I'll never forget. I went to the all All-Star game in Anaheim and I met Larry King there. I got in an elevator and, by the way, that just reminded me. That reminded me of something, someone else I met that particular day, which was incredible. I think this was God 2010.
Speaker 1:Went to the All-Star game it seems like it was the same day that George Steinbrenner died but I get in the press elevator to head downstairs to go onto the field prior to the game I have my credential and everything Just got done with the Press dinner and all of that and get in the elevator. And who's in the elevator? Who walks in with me to this day? I can't believe it. Hank Aaron, the great, hank Aaron Hammer and Hank and Frank Robinson two Hall of Famers get in the elevator and you know, usually I'm not starstruck, but I said, excuse me, gentlemen, look, I'm going to get one opportunity to be in the elevator with two of the greatest baseball players of all time. Can I introduce opportunity to be in the elevator with two of the greatest baseball players of all time? Can I introduce myself? Can I shake your hand, which I did. Thank you to those guys.
Speaker 1:And I get downstairs and the door opens and who's sitting right there on his chair is larry life. I was larry king. Let's go to canoga park. Larry king is sitting there and he had to be 90 at the time. It seemed like I don't know. He was old and I met his wife. His wife is standing right there. She had to be again, I have no idea, in her 40s, maybe 50. Stunning, beautiful woman. I'm thinking dang Larry, look at you, man.
Speaker 1:Here's our second thing from today. Uh, again, this could be a. Maybe it's a replay or a rerun. I I always enjoy this. So here on pat's peeps 279, this is kind of like this would be. I love what coyote j calhoun does. He's a Birmingham, alabama DJ and he goes off format, which I did a couple of times when I was in radio I have to admit, they'd always check me on it. But he goes off format. One night in 1988 on the FM hit station WZBQ-FM it's Z-102, everybody, I'm kind of. Anyhow, diverging from the tightly controlled Top 40 format, he begins to play classic rock, current album cuts. He wants to hear Floyd. Good for you. Management, not amused by this, they do not approve and then eventually Coyote is forcibly physically removed from the studio. Everything is recorded live on the air. The thunder of the deep south.
Speaker 6:WCBQ-FM Jasper Birmingham. Wcbq-am.
Speaker 4:Tuscaloosa Z102-FM. Anything else is just a radio station. Oh, that's very nice of you to say something I think you're very much the coyotes howling at the moon. It was my show. I'll do whatever the hell.
Speaker 6:I want Peace of mind. I can have a peace of my mind right now. Ladies and gentlemen. I don't think we play enough Boston. I don't think we play enough Pink Floyd. We don't play enough Death Row Joe. We don't even play any Mountain who, Mountain Shut up. So because I want a little bit more, so because I want me into this mind show, I can do what I want. Let me continue and play Ooh for Boston. It's a long version of Long Times, but a long time since their music was heard on this radio station. We're going to remedy that tonight.
Speaker 6:Ladies and gentlemen, I feel so good, Ooh, I want to take myself into a hotel room. I feel so good, oh, I want to take myself into a hotel room. I feel so good about myself. Z-102 FM. You know, tonight I decided to do whatever I want. Why? Because it's my show. I am the king of the city and sometimes you can fall just so down. Darn, excuse me. I'm so sorry. You know I am a butthead. I won the butthead Award last night. Everybody voted and said it was 93 to 12. They want a coyote to be a butthead. I thank you for your support and I can guarantee you, my pledge to you is continued buttheadedness through the entire year of 1988. I won't let you down. I'll be the biggest butthead you've ever seen. And believe me me, ladies and gentlemen, I can do it. Why? Because I've had a lot of practice being a butthead. I appreciate your support and your votes and confidence.
Speaker 6:We're talking about right now is this station's format which is bugging me. You know what I'm supposed to play next hour. Oh, madonna, open your heart, please. Every breath you take. We haven't heard that song enough, have we? Please every breath you take how? We haven't heard that song enough. Have we Police Every Breath you Take? How many times do you think we've played that song in the past four years? Probably 5,000 times. My point is. My point is how many times have we played Pink Floyd off their brand new CD? Zero, None. Well, you know I've played two or three cuts off the Pink Floyd CD in the past three months. You know how I did it. I sneaked the CD in here and I played it without authority and without permission. Why? Because I knew you wanted to hear it. The CD has sold 4 million copies. We played nothing off it. That's a good business decision, isn't it? Oh, I can tell these people are smart. We hire a consultant to tell us hey, don't play that. It sold 4 million copies. Someone might like it. Keep it off the station. Pink Floyd's my favorite band. I'm going to remedy the fact we don't play any Pink Floyd right now.
Speaker 6:Ladies and gentlemen, it's Z102. I hope you're behind me. Stand behind me, because we have to change this autocratic way and this completely fascist way this radio station is run. I'm sure you agree. You're tired of hearing the same old garbage day in and day out. Let's play some. Try your heat gel Rockin' for the diesel. Seein' what I'm doin'? As I was saying, let's have a real request and dedication show, Not one of these hokey ones where I just put people on the air to request dumb songs. Whatever you want to hear, give me a call at 1-100-239-5888. Or there are other numbers 333-113. Whatever you want to hear, I'm going to play for you. Why? Because I love you very much and this is my show. I'm going to try to present a show with a little bit of intelligence. Garbage over and over and over. Oh, my hotline is ringing. Well, ladies and gentlemen, my hotline is ringing. I bet this will be interesting. Let's answer the hotline in the air. Oh, this will be fun. Shh, don't tell anybody. C-102 FM hello.
Speaker 4:What the hell are you?
Speaker 6:doing. I'm playing. I'm playing one of my favorite bands, boston. I'm playing Boston. Steve, a lot of Boston is what I'm doing. Why Is this on the air? Ladies and gentlemen, steve Russell, our program director of WZBQ.
Speaker 4:Yes, Steve, we're on the air. Get me off the air now.
Speaker 6:Lighten up, Steve, it's just a bit just a joke.
Speaker 4:Get me off the air now.
Speaker 6:No, I'm not going to. If I take you off the air, then you'll give me a bad time. Why don't you just tell the people since? Well, I'll tell you what. Ladies and gentlemen, let's not let that ruin our party. Let's play some more. Boston C-102 FM I don't eat cow poop. Rockin' for the team. C-102 FM. C-102 FM. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. They love me, they're behind me. We can't always play the same thing every night.
Speaker 6:This station is run by fascist, communist, socialistic programming fatheads. It's an all-catch-22. We play a lot of garbage. We're going to try to balance the garbage from now on on my show with some good stuff. We're supposed to play a commercial too. Let's do that. Okay, enough of that. I don't really feel like playing commercials. I'm on a roll, I'm feeling hot, I'm really worked up. I'm a little woozy, I am seeing double. I think I'm going to faint because after let's Well, what we really should do, ladies and gentlemen, before we continue, is call Steve Russell back, because I really don't want him to be angry at me.
Speaker 6:He is, after, after all, the program director, and he did sound a little miffed and a little peeved. Sometimes they take these things so seriously, so I break in the format for one hour. Big deal. We're in ratings right now, so he's hyper. Let me call him. We'll just call Steve and make sure that he's not angry with me. Hello, hello, who is this? It's Janice Janice, ladies and gentlemen, the lovely wife of Mr Steve Russell, janice. Hello, janice, how are you? I'm fine, thanks. You're still having a sexual problem? No, I'm not. Let me speak to Steve, please.
Speaker 4:He's not here.
Speaker 6:Where is he?
Speaker 5:He's on his way to the station.
Speaker 6:He's coming here. Yes, he is, oh, okay. Well, I'll talk to him when he gets here then, okay, okay, okay, nice talking with you. Bye, bye, janice. Okay, I want to play. Let's play some Mountain. You should enjoy this driving. I think Steve will enjoy some Mountain.
Speaker 6:You know we don't play this either. Here's some Mountain. Steve Z102FM. Felix Papalardi, leslie Weston Mountain.
Speaker 6:We don't play any Mountain. Can you believe that as big as that band was, a lot of followers and Felix Papalardi, a fine, upstanding gentleman that I knew personally and I believe he was shot to death at a topless nightclub. But we should play some Mountain because that Mississippi Queen was the number one record in 1970. Do we play it? No, we don't. You know all the records we don't play. You know what we play by Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven, that's it. That is all we play by Led Zeppelin. You know what we play by REM? One song, the one I love. They have seven albums out. We play one song, and you know why this happens.
Speaker 6:It's really not Steve Russell's fault. I know he's driving to the station, probably listening to me. I hope you are listening to what I'm saying right now. Listen closely, steve. I don't hold you responsible for this. I know you're just a victim of this machinery which we call radio. We're all victimized by this monster. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a consultant in Virginia that we pay big money I mean more money than anybody here at the station makes to send us music lists on what we should play. He tells us what to play and dictates to you what you're going to hear, and he's in Virginia. Here's the music sheet, right here. Look what we got. We got Madonna, prince Huey, lewis, styx. Oh, how adventurous, how adventurous. But Steve is on his way to the station.
Speaker 6:What I'm going to do is I'm going to leave the microphone on, because when Steve gets here, I want him to state his position. I want him, man to man, to sit down in the chair and tell everybody why we listen to this Jeffries boob and why we follow these music sheets and have no leeway what to do. I'll tell you something I've got to follow this music sheet, but if the ratings come back and my ratings and my book is bad, you know who's going to get fired. No, not Mr Jeffries, not Mr Russell. Mr Calhoun will be fired. So I should have some input into my show and you should have some input. You want to hear something. I should be able to play it. So when Steve gets it, we'll leave the mic on, and when he gets it we'll ask him why are we putting up with this? We know what to do. We've been a radio 10, 15 years. We don't need management to tell us what to do.
Speaker 6:Ladies and gentlemen, shut the mic off. Ladies and gentlemen, the program director of WZBQ and my friend, steve Russell Hello, steve, shut the mic off. Back off. You're making it worse. Shut the mic off. The mic stays on. Cut the mic off or you're gone. I cannot believe that. This is a big damn deal.
Speaker 3:Cut the mic off now.
Speaker 6:The mic stays on. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:Cut the mic off.
Speaker 6:If you come close to the mic, I Back off right now. Get off of me. You Cut the mic off. Get off. Cut the mic off. The mic stays on. The mic is on. Get it off now. The mic is on. Your mic is on, I'll kill you. Oh Shadow, oh God Shadow, are you alright? Cut the mic off. Am I playing the Supreme Now? Cut the mic off now. You can't get away from me. Don't touch me Back off.
Speaker 1:You're gone, cut the mic off, coyote. Here's one in honor of Sly Stone. Sly bringing the world together, man back then. It's the way it was back then. Rest in peace, sly Stone. That's today's episode of Pat's Peeps, number 279. Thank you for listening and paying attention. Please, please check out patspeepscom. Please check it out. We've got some big things coming up in the very near future, including some gatherings Pat's Peeps gatherings. It's going gonna be awesome. See you on the radio.
