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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 302 Today's Peep Goes Behind the Scenes at Lyon's Restaurant, From Fry Cook to Radio Host, Vampire Killers, Men in Panties, Home Runs and "Farmer John" Another Day In The Life of Pat Walsh
Pat Walsh celebrates reaching 302 podcast episodes while broadcasting from the beautiful foothills of Northern California's gold country, sharing personal stories and current events with his signature authentic style.
• Announcing the first annual Pat's Peeps Gathering at the State Fair in Cal Expo on Tuesday, July 23rd from 7-10 PM at the Save Mart Wine Tent
• Recounting a memorable story from his days as a fry cook at Lion's Restaurant when patrons from The Rocky Horror Picture Show entered in provocative attire
• Sharing the chilling connection to Richard Trenton Chase, the "Sacramento Vampire Killer," who lived near his former coworker
• Criticizing MLB's decision to end the All-Star Game with an unprecedented "swing-off" competition after a 6-6 tie
• Highlighting Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's farewell concert that broke charitable fundraising records with approximately $190 million raised
• Exploring the history of "Farmer John," a 1964 garage rock classic by The Premiers found in his vintage record collection
Join me next Tuesday at the State Fair for our first Pat's Peeps Gathering! I'll be broadcasting live from the Save Mart Wine Tent from 7-10 PM and would love to meet all of you who listen to my radio show and podcast.
welcome my friends to the pats peeps podcast. We are at number 302. I mean, even I can't believe when I say that 302 podcasts and still going strong. It is a Wednesday, july 16th, as I look out the studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, gold country. Hey man, it's a little cooler today, which is nice. It's still sunny, it's still hot, but it is a tad bit cooler wherever you are. Thank you so much for listening to my podcast. By the way, my name is Pat Walsh.
Speaker 1:I'm the host of the Pat Walsh Show, as heard on KFBK News Radio in Sacramento, 93.1 FM and 1530 AM, and I'm definitely noticing more and more of you listening to the podcast, spreading the word. Thank you. I'm getting tons of messages from people and a reminder because I'm very excited about this. I get to meet many of you that listen to either my radio show and yes, since you're listening to my podcast, my podcast and this is going to be the first annual Pats Peeps gathering. This is going to be at the State Fair, at Cal Expo, and we're going to be meeting there next Tuesday. I mentioned that yesterday, but I'm very excited about it. Next Tuesday, 7 to 10 pm, I will be doing my radio show from there. I would love it if you would join us the first ever Pat's Peeps Gathering. We're going to have a blast.
Speaker 2:We are in the wine tent, the Save Mart wine tent all that hype, bringing the laughter, sharing the tales with guests around. You won't find any trails. Tunes, echo, loud stories flow free past beeps podcast tuning tonight. With stories and laughter, everything's right, from sports to we'll share a smile. Pat's got the magic. Stay with us for a while.
Speaker 1:It's going to be perfect being in the same-word wine tent right there, right in the heart of Cal Expo and the State Fair. He covers it all. I'm going to show you how we save all of you money. We're battling inflation.
Speaker 2:Where laughter is king. You how we save all of you money. We're battling inflation. We are going to have good times good vibes out there, so please come out and say hi to me. I want to meet all of you.
Speaker 1:We want to recruit more businesses that we can then turn on to people who listen.
Speaker 2:And then you give them exclusive deals and, man, that is a win-win-win.
Speaker 1:I like your messages. By the way, we got a message from Eileen Said she laughed and laughed. She said I needed a good laugh and I got a great laugh from your Pats Peeps, number 301. And was it 301? I don't know if it was, maybe it was 300. It was the one where I had mentioned I don't even know how it came up came, oh, who was I talking to? About the? Oh, the Ken dog. Oh, someone. I was talking to someone about the Rocky Horror Picture Show and I'd said I'd never seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show must have been Ken dog. Yeah, I've never seen that. And then I kind of, and then I mentioned one of the reasons. I said look, don't hold it against me literally or figuratively, but I want but. But Eileen said she laughed and laughed because I'd mentioned something about guys in panties and I didn't really have a chance to explain that. See, so thank you, eileen. So here's what happened.
Speaker 1:So I'm 18 years old and I'm working as a fry cook, a line cook, at Lion's Restaurant. That's one of the jobs I did before I got into radio many, many years ago. I worked at like truck stops, like the Iron Skillet in Wilsonville, oregon, the Union 76 Truck Plaza in Aurora, oregon. At the Aurora Donald exit, brand new Plaza, I was one of the first cooks there, colony Kitchen. I worked at Colony Kitchen, believe that. And then Lions on Wadden Hill Camino. Like I said, I even had a gentleman the other day say hey, pat, my grandfather knows you, remembered you so well and he loved Lion's Restaurant over at Watanau Camino but he wouldn't go in there unless you were working because he thought you were the best fry cook and I guess I used to make something for his grandfather that he really loved. So that made my heart feel good.
Speaker 1:So one day, you know, you have a dinner rush when you are at a restaurant like that, at a certain time of day People come in, they expect to be fed dinner and then you have the dinner rush and the tickets are wrapped around the ticket wheel. So in other words, the waitresses, or they're taking their orders, they're coming up, they're putting the tickets on the ticket wheel for the cook and you spin that ticket wheel. So in other words, the waitresses, or they're taking their orders, you're coming up, they're putting the tickets on the ticket wheel for the cook and you spin that ticket wheel around and you're looking at it and you're just going, man, you got burgers and tacos and steaks and whatever you're cooking. You're just going at it, man, you're trying to get the orders out quickly. And so one night and this is right when the Rocky Horror Picture Show started I didn't know anything about it, I just knew they were singing. I didn't really know Again, I'm 18. It was new, I didn't know.
Speaker 1:So in the midst of this dinner rush and you can imagine, the restaurant is the noise of the restaurant, forks and hitting plates and you know, waitress, people are talking, it's very busy when all of the sudden a quiet fell over the restaurant, like it just went quiet. Now it might do that today, but for some, you know, I think maybe we're more, uh, used to it. I'm still not used to it, I'll be honest. I'm just being honest, but at this time it went quiet. Now I'm working. All of a sudden I realized it went quiet. Now I'm working. All of a sudden I realized it went quiet. I thought, well, what the heck? And I look up over the counter there and there's standing like four or five guys. Now later I realized what was happening. At the time I had no clue and, I don't think anyone in the restaurant had any clue. So the Rocky Horror Picture Show must have been playing right in that area, country club or wherever. I don't know wherever the theater was, and somewhere within the movie, apparently there are I don't know transsexual. I don't know what they are, but they're men with makeup and panties. So when you can imagine 1978, four or five dudes walking in right in the middle of a dinner rush in nothing but skimpy panties, makeup on it was shocking and everyone had to stop and look, including yours truly, I couldn't believe it. Now, you know, for the last few years we were in this very woke culture. So I don't know, maybe it's or tolerant, more tolerant in terms of things like that, whatever, but that's what it was. That was what the story was.
Speaker 1:You know, also, when I was working there I want to share this, and I may have said this before, I think I probably did, because at least I remember talking about this guy so I'd go to work at the Lions and the other cook would talk to me about this guy. That was so weird. I think I talked about him already, but I'll bring it up again. Maybe so weird. I think I talked about him already, but I'll bring it up again, maybe you missed it.
Speaker 1:So a guy about my age, you go, yeah, man, and he lived in these apartments down there on Marconi and El Camino in that area. He said, man, there's this weird dude and he would tell me stories all the time, like this guy is so weird in our apartment complex. And um, one day he said, man, this guy, people were looking in his window at the apartment complex. I didn't know what was going on. So I walk over there to see what's going on. Well, the curtains there's no curtains hanging on the window.
Speaker 1:You're looking in this guy's apartment, into a living room and the way it was described to me, there was no furniture in the living room and there's a guy sitting in there with a shaved head and this is in the late 70s. Well, this would have been like 79, probably 79, I think 78 or 79. And the guy's rubbing grapefruits or oranges or something like that on his head. I thought what on earth? Anyhow, this guy ends up getting busted. And it was Richard Trenton Chase the vampire, the Sacramento vampire, killer that was doing this. They had no idea. Killer that was doing this. They had no idea. And if you check that guy out. Oh my God, he was truly sick in the head. Delusional, psychopath, schizophrenia, whatever he had I can't really recall top of my head, but I remember that so well because the guy he was telling me about there at Lions all the time ends up being this guy, and his crimes are just too appalling and gruesome for me to even talk about here. Anyhow, that was a couple of memories I have from Lions restaurant, but Eileen brought it up because of the panties, so I wanted to clear all that up.
Speaker 1:Let's see what else do we have. It's such a beautiful day today. Oh, I had the Clark Pest Control out here, ladies and gentlemen, clark Pest Control out here to take care of my ant issue. Hopefully we'll give you an update on that. The ants have been brutal at my home. Oh my God, I can't get rid of these little things. Ah, they're biting me. So thanks again.
Speaker 1:Local business. Clark Pest Control came out here from Auburn. Thank you, thank you, thank you, appreciate that. So, yeah, tuesday night is gonna be our big night the gathering at the State Fair. Thank you, appreciate that. So, yeah, tuesday night is going to be our big night the gathering at the State Fair, 7 pm. Please come out Speaking of local business. Please come out there while we do our show Tuesday night at the Save Mart Wine Tent.
Speaker 1:I want to meet everyone. I want to thank everyone who listens to my show, who listens to my podcast, who goes to these businesses, who contacts these businesses, who uses these local businesses that we support. We are going to have a blast Tuesday night Cal Expo, save Mart Wine Tent. Come out early, as we do my Pat Walsh radio show 7 to 10. You know, I might try to do my podcast at the same time. I've never tried that. I don't know if it's possible, we'll see, but I'm very, very excited about that.
Speaker 1:What else we have going on today? Oh, last night, what a joke. The All-Star Game. What a joke. This Rob Manfred, who's the geez? He's the commissioner of Major League Baseball. Awful, this guy's got to go.
Speaker 1:The National League won the All-Star Game not just in the baseball game, but no way to decide it by an unprecedented home run, derby-like swing off. What on earth? The fly ball off Jonathan Aranda's bat stayed in the park. National Eagles assembled in front of the home plate dugout, jumping for joy. No All-Star game had ever ended like this. Thank goodness, this can't be real. No, I couldn't figure out what was going on. I was working, but I'm looking, I'm like what's happening here? I was checking in on it. No Major League Baseball game had ever ended like this. I mean, this is like this is a wiffle ball stuff. Come on, let's get real with this.
Speaker 1:At Truist Park in Atlanta, national League was up six to nothing. The American League came back in the Midsummer Classic tied it at 6-6. It's bad enough that they have. They place a runner in the extra innings in baseball now rather than making them earn it. But we got to move the game along, got to be shorter, forget about the fact that football's even longer and has longer timeouts. So 6-6 after nine innings. And then, oh, we're going to have a swing off. So you send up like three batters or whatever from each league and then they see who can hit the most home runs and the National League won that 4-3. And the National League won that 4-3. I mean, I don't know what's going on here. It just Kyle Schwarber had three swings, given the National League the victory. Three swings, he had three home runs. Okay, whatever, but that's not how you play. This isn't baseball.
Speaker 3:How much pressure are you feeling? A little bit, I think a little bit's there, but you know this is all fun. The boys are having fun with it and you know, just hoping to get enough to set feet up. Kyle, thanks is all fun, the boys are having fun with it and you know, just hoping to get enough to set Pete up. Kyle, thanks, good luck. This guy's been hitting big home runs his whole career. You go back to the five home runs he hit as a rookie for the Cubs in the postseason.
Speaker 1:So he goes up to the plate, kyle Schwarber goes up to the plate, and this is how the game is going to end.
Speaker 3:Without anybody there there hitting right here is the same thing. There's no outfielders, it's just you and the pitcher trying to launch one early to get within one 40 000 eyes, all burning holes through you, schwarber in the air to center field, headed towards the wall and dead center.
Speaker 1:That's huge for the national all right, so he gets one.
Speaker 3:So there you go. He said if he could get it on his first swing, and he did he gets another oh.
Speaker 2:Swore bombs in the all-star game oh.
Speaker 3:Tied at three, that's MVP material. If he gets a third one right here, that's MVP material. If he gets a third one right here, this guy, if he stopped playing he'll be a softball superstar pretty darn good baseball superstar. They all rallied in the game and now has rallied in the swing. Nl has rallied in the swing of the bat With the hat trick. Look out Chophouse. National League takes the lead 4-3.
Speaker 1:And that's how they won the game. I don't know, it's just very interesting. As a baseball fan, I want to see an actual you know the ending to the game. They actually the way that they play baseball, which isn't that. But okay, whatever, I can't make a big deal out of it. But we all know that Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland because she just couldn't handle the fact that Donald Trump is to blame for everything in the world. Donald Trump was asked about that yesterday. Here's his response on Rosie Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 2:She went on Chris Cuomo so recently. She blames you for the fact that she's overweight, depressed and drunk. What do you say to that? Do you think CBS is going to ever be a guest in five guys' movies? I don't know about Rosie.
Speaker 1:I watch Rosie. Rosie's a mess. She's a mess, but she left our country, which is a good thing, not a bad thing. Meanwhile, on Pat's Peeps 302. Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's farewell show Broke a major record, apparently. Heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath recently saying goodbye to fans with their farewell show Back to the beginning, but they broke a like I say they broke a record there. In doing so, ozzy 76 reunited with his former bandmates Tony Iommi, bill Ward, geezer Butler, for the first time in 20 years, performing some of their biggest hits.
Speaker 1:This was on July 5th in Birmingham. There was a bit of drama. It was a benefit concert Guns N' Roses, metallica, slayer, pantera, smashing Pumpkins Steven Tyler was there from Aerosmith, tom Morello and so many others. Rage raised a massive amount of money for three charities Cure, parkinson's, birmingham Children's Hospital and the Acorn Children's Hospice. It has been revealed that Back to the beginning raised more money than any charity concert since George Harrison's and Ravi Shankar's 1971 concert for Bangladesh, which was popularized by the All-Star Benefit shows. It was, according to Billboard.
Speaker 1:According to the musical director, which in this case was Rage Against the Machine guitarist, tom Morello, this heavy metal concert I love that it was heavy metal raised roughly $190 million in charitable donations, big jump from the $140 million that Morello said the event raised in an earlier event. Of the event raised in an earlier event. According to the statements and its charity partners, the concert, watched by 40,000 ticket holders, 5.8 million individuals online, will distribute funds equally to Birmingham Children's Hospital, acorn Children's Hospital and to cure Parkinson's. So that was a very nice way to go out if you're Black Sabbath in Ozzie. Last organization is dedicated to finding a cure for cure for parkinson's. Which ozzy has the cure cure parkinson's. He's lived with that since 2019. Meanwhile, it is unclear whether the final donation to each charity will be what that'll be to each one, each charity revealing that they were able to raise tens of thousands of pounds in additional donations by raffling off tickets to the show, auctioning off iconic art band photographs donated by Black Sabbath, through individual contributions from fans as they streamed into the concert. So way to go, and while the total amount they're saying cannot be fact-checked just this soon after the event, morello's figure surpasses the amount raised by many of the highest profile charities of all time, and that is again according to Billboard's coverage.
Speaker 1:Over the years, billboard and other media outlets have relied on figures provided by people affiliated with the concerts. You know promoters are not required to publish the total funds raised or how much is dedicated to cover the expenses there. But but good, going back to the beginning earned more than the amount raised by FireAid and FarmAid combined. Fireaid that was a five-long mega concert featured the likes of Billie Eilish, lady Gaga, green Day, and that was in January of this year raised more than $100 million for victims of the LA wildfires. It killed 29, destroyed more than 16,000 homes. That's still unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Live Aid back in 85. July 13th of 85. That was the big anniversary the other day Wow, I didn't even think about that. That was at Wembley Stadium in London. Jfk Stadium in Philly Broadcast live to an estimated 1 billion viewers. Think about that. A billion viewers in 110 countries. Raised about $100 million for famine relief in the countries of Ethiopia and Sudan. But that was a huge number back in 1985. And Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof raised another $10 million for those ravaged by famine before the festival. That was, of course, through the release of Do they Know it's Christmas, which was a single there. The British single featured U2 and Phil Collins. Another $60 million raised for the cause through the release of we Are the World, which was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie which, fortunately, I don't know about you we don't have to hear that song anymore. Ugh, I mean, I like what it did, but yeah, that song would get on my nerves. Willie Nelson's Farm Aid, the music industry's longest-running charity concert, launched in 1985 to support family farmers, has raised more than 80 million dollars over the past 40 years. So good for all of them. Good stuff, good work and, uh, certainly appreciated by so many people. Way to to go out Black Sabbath. Way to go out, ozzy. Way to go out Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 1:Hey, let's look at the 45 I pulled from my record collection today. I'm pretty excited about this one. Because I don't know this one and this is an oldie, I'm going to pull it out of its sleeve here. Uh, white label. This is on what record label? Oh, this is on warner brothers. Okay, there was a sticker on that side over the warner brother label.
Speaker 1:Promotion, not for sale, big letters right thereotion. Not for sale makes this thing super rare. I'm looking at it. I cannot believe how perfect. I always say this, but this thing is just in beautiful condition. I mean, if you disregard the stickers from the radio station. One is a red sticker that says 559. There's another sticker on there from the radio station that says 1964. There's another sticker on there from the radio station that says 1964. So this thing's been sitting there for what? 60? God, I'm terrible at math, that's why I'm in radio. 61 years, 61 years. This record has been sitting on a shelf and it's in perfect condition. It's never been on the on a turntable. Did I get that right? 61 years? If I didn't, I'm certainly going to get. I'm going to hear about that on my radio show, but I've never heard of this.
Speaker 1:This is a song. Let's take a look at this, let's dig into this one. Written by Don Sugarcane Harris and Dewey Terry, first recorded by the two as the American R&B duo of Don and Dewey in 1959. Although the original version of the composition did not receive much attention, it was reinvigorated by the Garage Band. This band, I love it. It's a garage band. I love garage rock like that. Their raving remake of the song was released in 1964. There you go. Song's raw and partying atmosphere was immensely popular. Atmosphere was immensely popular. Reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Speaker 1:Following the group's national success, several additional interpretations of this song were released, making the tune a classic of garage rock. Maybe I've heard it. It's not familiar to me. I like the name of it but it's not familiar. Let's see the original version I'm losing my voice a little bit, pardon me by Don and Dewey penned this song, a simplistic tune about marrying a farmer's daughter. They penned it in 59, early 59. First recorded the original rendition in January of 59. Much more subdued than this version, january of 59. Much more subdued than this version Trumpet instrumentals, a sax solo providing the backdrop to Don and Dewey's vocal harmonies. So again, it was released as a single in February of 59 on specialty records. Didn't receive much attention, failed a chart, much attention Failed to chart Mmm.
Speaker 1:But this version Lawrence Perez on lead guitar, john Perez on drums. This group was established as many garage rock bands, they were practicing in their garage. They had the opportunity to record the song when the mother of the brothers arranged an audition with record producer Billy Cardenas, who was instrumental in promoting several Chicano groups. As Lawrence Perez recalled, cardenas recommended to this group that they cover this song, saying he wanted to do it more East LA style or like Louie Louie type. At the time, louie Louie, that type of rhythm and sound was happening. So he said they tried to base the beat and the sound towards that. As it happens, louie Louie had this song. Like this song, I should say, louis had this song.
Speaker 1:Like this song, I should say, began as a single release by a Los Angeles-based African-American R&B musical act In this case it was Richard Berry Before the Kingsman's classic rendition went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. For the reason that this group's cover was marked by the same kind of unpolished adolescence that garnered national success. So without further ado, we're going to put this on the turntable. This is a song called Farmer John by the Premieres 1964, on Bats Peeps 302. I do know this song, man. I can't believe some of the records I have that I don't even realize. I have Definitely that Louie Louie feel. Louie Louie, oh yeah, we gotta go. Louie Louie, oh yeah, we gotta go. Louie Louie, oh yeah, we gotta go, I dig it.
Speaker 1:Farmer John, let's flip it over. On the other side we have a B-side, this one. It's got writing on it it says 3514, whatever that means, from the radio station, some catalog number, whatever. This one is called Duffy's Blues ¶¶, ¶¶. I'm guessing this one must be an instrumental. I have not heard this one before. With that in mind, as we listen to Duffy's Blues, flip Sorry to Farmer John by the Premieres 1964. Again, please come out. Come out and join us. Think about it next Tuesday. All right, save Mart Wine Tents Come out before 7. Come out and introduce yourself. I want to meet you. Thank you so much for listening to my show, the Pat Walsh Show, and to my Pat's Peeps podcast. It means the world to me and to the businesses and to you that you can save money. I hope it means something to you because you can save money. That's what we're trying to accomplish and have a little fun on the way. Thank you. See you on the radio.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
