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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 303 Today's Peep Loves Saturday Morning Cartoons and Classic Rock
When was the last time a song stopped you in your tracks? For me, it was rediscovering "Death Wish" by The Police—a track I'd heard before but suddenly connected with on a whole new level. This experience perfectly captures the spirit of this special Saturday podcast, where I take you on a journey through musical rediscoveries and childhood touchstones.
After explaining my brief podcast hiatus (blame those mysterious headaches that knocked me flat!), I share my excitement about reuniting with my former bandmates. There's something magical about reconnecting with musicians you've shared a stage with, picking up almost where you left off. We're exploring classic rock, UFO, Zeppelin, and more—finding our sound and rediscovering the joy of playing together.
The heart of this episode dives deep into Saturday morning nostalgia—the sacred ritual of cartoon watching that defined so many of our childhoods. From The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show to Fat Albert, The Banana Splits to The Groovy Ghoulies, these weren't just shows; they were experiences that shaped us. I can still hear my mom's vacuum cleaner drowning out the dialogue, my dad yelling from the other room to turn it off so he could hear ABC's Wide World of Sports.
Music and memories intertwine throughout our lives, creating the soundtracks that define our personal histories. That's why I'm thrilled to invite you to be part of our Pats Peeps community gathering at the California State Fair. Join me Tuesday night at 7 PM at the Save Mart Wine Garden for a live broadcast of the Pat Walsh Show. Let's continue building this community together, sharing stories, raising a glass, and creating new memories to nostalgically revisit someday.
What childhood cartoon theme still lives rent-free in your head? Come tell me in person on Tuesday!
Welcome to the Pats Peeps podcast. Hey, I'm switching up my theme. You know why? Still Sean Moody, johnny Quality, because this is my first Saturday podcast. I believe it is, so I thought I'd do something a little different. Why not? One of the beauties of doing a podcast. I believe it is, so I thought I'd do something a little different. Why not One of the beauties of doing a podcast. I can do whatever like that. How are you? It is a Saturday, patrick, here. Thank you for tuning in to. Well, not tuning in, I'm not in my room.
Speaker 1:I am the host of the Pat Walsh Show, as heard on radio that some of you tune into, and I thank you. Kfbk News Radio, to be precise, in Sacramento, 93.1 FM, 1530 AM, and streaming live everywhere On all of these streaming platforms, including your iHeart platform. But yeah, this is, I think, unless we may have done podcasts from Italy or Ireland or something like that. But in terms of here, I don't think I've ever done a Saturday podcast, but I missed a couple of days, which I'll explain. No biggie. But as I look out my studio window on this Saturday into the beautiful foothills, all manicured, weed-eated foothills in Northern California, all the properties around me, looks nice out, not as hot, thank goodness, still warm. Maybe in the 80s, I don't know, maybe the 90s. I haven't really spent too much time out there today. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, thank you so much. I love Saturday, you know, couple of nights, and I had a great time last night. I'll talk about that, what we're getting ready to do this Tuesday, which I could not be more excited about.
Speaker 1:The last couple of nights, for whatever reason, maybe two out of the last three nights I'm sleeping and I don't know what happened. I rarely get headaches and I feel really bad for anyone who gets migraines or anyone who has to deal with headaches all the time. But three nights ago two, three, four in the morning I realized as I'm sleeping, my head is pounding like a sledgehammer. I don't know what's going on and I realized, uh-oh, something's wrong. This isn't going away.
Speaker 1:It was brutal and it became. It got bad. I got up and I was sick. I didn't know. I thought, oh God, here we go, what's going on with me?
Speaker 1:And so two days ago I was so depleted, even though I had a lot on my plate. I was so depleted I just can't even tell you and it took it out of me. I don't know what hit me. I don't know if it was food poisoning, I just really don't know. But then so then yesterday I was better, still felt a little bit of the after effects, but I was better. I got to go sing with my band, so that was nice. But I had taken a day off and then again last night my head started pounding again. So that's very. That is atypical for me, but I mean it was bad again last night. I didn't get sick or anything, but it was very bad and so hopefully that is just kind of a weird little thing. That'll just stop. If it doesn't, I'll have to get that looked at, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:So that thus the reason that I have not done the podcast for a couple of days. I actually told Irish Jim. I said maybe I'm doing too many podcasts, and right away he goes nope, no, you're not. Keep doing them, because I love listening to them after your show. He listens to them after my show. So thank you guys. I really, really appreciate you sticking with me and listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1:What I'd really love to do, oh gosh, is encourage you to be, as I always do, part of our Pats Peeps community. And just a reminder this is a huge week for me coming up. I can't wait until Tuesday night. By the way, I'm feeling better today, so I just want to throw that in the mix. I'm feeling pretty good today. That's why I'm doing this. So here's what I would love for you to do just to mark your calendar to join my show. We will do the Pat Wall Show live. I've been telling you this. This is going to be from Cal Expo, the State Fair. We'll do it Tuesday night 7 to 10 pm. Show up early. As I said, we have the primo spot out there, as we're going to be in the Save Mart Wine Garden at Cal Expo, right there in the heart of the 2025 California State Fair.
Speaker 1:Kfpk Newsradio. Thank you so much for what you're doing for me. Right now, they are supporting my efforts with Pat's Peeps. I mean it's just incredible that they're doing that and they've gone as far now as to I recorded some promos because they asked me to do that and they're running those in heavy rotation for a couple of days on the stations to promote our gathering. I mean, how cool is that? You have an idea one day how you can help small business. The next thing you know, the biggest radio station in Sacramento, kfbk, a station that's been around for over 100 years, a heritage radio station, 50,000 watt, simulcast AM and FM, the home of Rush Limbaugh came from KFPK. Tom Sullivan, morton, downey, jr. So many big shows came from this station. So for them to be behind my business, pat's Peeps, it is truly an honor. Thank you so much. Let's tilt a glass of wine together at the Samar Wine Tent Tuesday night. Show up sometime before 7 o'clock. Say hi, please, love to see you.
Speaker 1:So you know being a Saturday morning and all oh, by the way, just let me say this Last night, like I say, we had band practice. You know this kind of happened. This band I was with this band a few years ago Probably, I don't know, maybe 12, 13 years ago. We were playing and because of one thing or another you know how bands are there was a little something. Something happened and you know we all went our separate ways. But Scotty Boy reached back out to me and said hey, say, man, I hadn't seen you in a while. How would you like to get together? We're kind of starting to jam again Between the guys that are there. There's no bad blood whatsoever. We really love playing together with something else. Okay, it was just another member way long ago with just something else. I just leave it at that. But we really get along well. So anyhow, I said, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1:So I started going down. I don't know, maybe a couple of months ago, maybe two or three months ago we started going the first time I went down there. I'm just being honest, whoa, this was coming off of 40 days of no cigars. Cigars can affect your voice a little bit. You gotta take care of your voice. I don't smoke them every day anyhow, but it's coming off 40 days not smoking cigars. As I gave them up for lint, my voice was feeling outstanding in terms of broadcasting and when I went out there to sing with these guys, bam, it just hit and they're looking at me like dang man. That sounds good. I was very flattered, but they sounded good, so together. You know I needed a band, they needed a singer, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1:So went there last night. We're kind of working on a set list and we just had such a good time. We kind of gave you an idea what we play. We're huge into ufo man, we love to rock, that's it. We love the freaking classic rock, uh, but we're throw other stuff. We don't play the typical stuff that you always hear over and over. Moany moany, take those old records off the shelf. No, no, no, we do. We're kind of a hard rock, classic rock, but we throw other stuff into the mix UFO, Led Zeppelin, black Crows let's see what else did we do last night. We even did some Jethro, led Zeppelin, black Crows. Let's see what else did we do last night. We even did some Jethro Tull. That was a trip. Anyhow, that's what we're doing, and so it was really nice.
Speaker 1:We're looking for a little direction now, and they actually asked me this. They said, pat, we'd like you to take some direction on this band and kind of help us. What should we play? What do you want to sing? So I am so excited about that right now. I kind of want to expand the sound just a little bit of the band.
Speaker 1:God, I tell you what I am so into this song right now that I, you know, I did a thing recently where they say people don't discover new music after the age of what did they say? 39 or something like that, whatever it was. That may or may not be true. I think that's a bunch of rubbish, because I'm always discovering new music or music that is new to me. It might even be a band that I've heard of a bunch, but for some reason, you know, I just kind of heard them, never really dug deeper into them. I know a ton of their songs. In this case I just got to play this for you because I'm so into it right now. It's the coolest song I've heard in a long time.
Speaker 1:Now I know many of you are probably going to go what Pat? You're, mr Music, and you're just now hearing this song. It's not the first time I've heard this song. Let me clarify that. What I'm saying is that maybe I've heard it, perhaps I didn't pay attention, maybe it was on in the background, it just didn't strike me at the time. It's like oh, I really dig in this. Maybe I just I don't know what it is. You know there's some bands that you're you know again, you know their music, but you don't throw the whole record on. So enough of that. That's the case with this great song.
Speaker 1:I like a lot of tunes by the police. Voices in my head is one of my favorites Walking on the Moon. This is some great songs, but this one, oh my God, I cannot stop listening to this deep cut called Death Wish by the police. I want our band to do this tune. It's so good At least I think it is, you know, I know. I have to say I don't own this music. I probably shouldn't be playing it. Whatever, check that out. Woo. Happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 3:Never thought I'd see the day Playing with my life this way.
Speaker 1:Now, of course, when you go to sing something like that, you're going to kind of sing it in your own style. I'm not staying, I just dig that song. Oh my God, I love it. I bet I've listened to that thing 10 times just in the last two days. I don't know how that came across and I'm like what? How did I not pay more attention to this tune? You know, being Saturday morning and all one of the things that comes to mind for me, I've always loved Saturday. It's always my favorite day of the week Saturday mornings. When I was a kid, maybe like many of you, many of my Saturday mornings in South Sacramento were not only taken up by playing baseball with my brothers and my friends and ran my Schwinn bike down to the park so we can play over the line or 500 or three flies up or runner, or pickle or pepper or whatever. The other thing I loved to do was that's my microphone, by the way, you hear that microphone I got a squeak.
Speaker 1:Can you hear that? And just notice that? My microphone's moaning Saturday, moaning. What I loved about it. Cartoons Come on 1970s, the cartoons on Saturday morning. That was a staple of my childhood, maybe yours too. You had your Scooby-Doos. I mean just all the classics, these cartoons, many of them produced, let's say, by Hanna-Barbera. I always said if my last name were Barbera and I had a daughter, I'd name her Hanna. I mean, how cool of a name, hannah Barbera, dominated by. I mean, this is like CBS, nbc, abc. I was looking for something. I wonder if I found that. Let me see here. I want to see if I can find that. Well, I'll have to look for that. I meant to look that up real quick, but anyhow, so memorable. These cartoons and the theme songs were great. You know, when it comes to Saturday morning cartoons, in my day this was the greatest song you could hear right here.
Speaker 2:The Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Show.
Speaker 3:Oh, mature curtain lights. This is it, the night of nights. No more rehearsing and nursing apart. We know every part by heart. Oh, mature curtain lights.
Speaker 1:Come on. Doesn't that bring back memories? Oh man, that was a good start to the day right there. What heights will you hit? I can smell the pancakes my mom making pancakes, starring the Oscar-winning rabbit.
Speaker 2:Bugs Bunny.
Speaker 3:And also starring my fast-feathered friend the Roadrunner.
Speaker 1:Bugs Bunny. Roadrunner Show Coyotes after you, roadrunner, remember that. This would be kind of a cool song to update into rock style. That would be a fun one to do. Do it like social distortion style.
Speaker 2:Poor little roadrunner. Never bothers anyone Run down the road to 5-E-11-1.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'll add that to our mix. I don't know what my bandmates would think about that. Oh, this is one of my favorites from the 70s. I mean, this is, this is one of my favorites and I don't want to hear nothing about. Oh, it's got Bill Cosby. So what man? This is a great tune. Bill Cosby was funny. Come on now, hey, hey, hey, it is a great tune. Little Cosby was funny. Come on now, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2:It's fine, albert, and I'm gonna sing a song for you and Bill's gonna show you a thing or two. You'll have some fun now with me and all the gang, learning from each other while we do our thing you're not gonna remember too.
Speaker 1:On a saturday, my mom, of course she'd be trying to watch cartoons. She'd break out the vacuum cleaner, start vacuuming. Remember this saturday morning time to clean? Move away for a second mom. I'm watching it, watching fat albert to be vacuuming. You're trying to watch fat albert, mom, mom, could you? Music and fun. Yeah, I can't hear you. Bill mom, could you? I'm trying to watch cartoons. Remember that my dad would be watching ABC's Wide World of Sports on a Saturday. I can hear him now Bernadette, bernadette, turn that vacuum cleaner off. And you remember that back in the day, like if you turned an appliance on the TV would get all staticky. Bernadette, turn it vacuum off. What? Oh?
Speaker 2:I just had a flashback there, one of my favorites growing up, nothing said Saturday morning like this the banana splits.
Speaker 3:Remember that.
Speaker 1:That was a Hanna-Barbera production too, and that was a fictional rock band. It was a fictional rock band and boy we were into this. It was composed of, and I still think this would be so fun If you had three friends you could do this with. On Halloween you'd go get the Banana Splits costumes. So this was four costumed animal characters in red helmets with yellow crests. The costumed hosts are Flegal, who was guitar and vocals, bingo on drums and vocals, drooper on bass and vocals and Snorky on keyboards doing some effects and things. And this ran for 31 episodes and it's still so memorable.
Speaker 1:Nbc on Saturday mornings, september 7, 1968 to September 5, 1970. And then in syndication from 70 to 82. This gets kind of like a live action, you know, cartoon characters getting kind of into all these different situations, you know what. And the costumes, by the way, were constructed by Sid and Marty Croft, who did like witchy poo, who did that HR puff and stuff. I'm sure I'm certain these guys were huffing paint or something because they were high, something was going on because, man, they came up with some shows. I never liked HR Puffin stuff or some of the weird shows that they did, sid and Marty, anyhow. And, by the way, the Banana Splits. It was sponsored by Kellogg's Cereals. They actually did a you know, and then, if you, they do like these wraparounds like they did a little Banana Splits club. It'd feature the adventures of the club members, kind of trying to be like the monkeys in a way.
Speaker 1:Back at that time they had a buggy, like the banana buggy, their own little cars. They had these little custom vehicles driven by each one of the characters they had, like these six-wheel drive all-terrain vehicles. Then they had a bunch of other things like Danger Island, uh-oh jungle. Remember that, like the Danger Island, they had the Arabian Nights, the Three Musketeers. Jan Michael Vincent was in one of those shows. Was that the? I think he was in the Musketeers or whatever.
Speaker 1:The show's live action segment, danger Island. It was a cliffhanger serial. They had oh, what was it? Oh God, what do you call it? Oh geez, oh geez. I can't think of their names now. What's the? I can't think of their names. I'm sorry Anyhow, but there was actually a band that did a rock version of it, supposedly a punk rock version of that theme song the Dickies.
Speaker 1:It's awful, it's awful. I should have left that one alone, I think. Ooh Oof. You know that was kind of loosely based on the Okay, thank you, that's just awful, that's all I could listen to, oh God. But it was kind of based, I don't know, sort of loosely, just like Hee Haw was on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In To me. That's how it seemed to me. I'm trying to think Huckleberry Finn, right, was it Huckleberry Finn? I can never think of that. There's part of the Banana Splits, but there was other ones, some of them, that people barely. By the way, let me just say this too you actually did that song, the banana split song, tra la la song. It was done by david mook and joey levine. Uh, additionally, wiki lancelotti, who, uh, sang many of the other songs, for the show was in that. The theme song was later covered, as I said, in 1979, by that horrible song by the Dickies. Here's one people forgot about. What about the groovy ghoulies? Remember the monsters?
Speaker 3:Everybody shout Come on now, sing. Now. It's time for the ghoulies. Get together. We got jokes for everyone. We laugh the songs in fun, so let's go to the ghoulies get together. They got jokes for everyone, with laughter, songs and fun. So let's go to the ghoulies Get together. Come on, everybody, join the ghoulies. They're gonna do their thing for you. They're kind of strange and they're real funny.
Speaker 1:And you'll be glad I always liked this. It was always the same kind of theme. You know, when I watch this, it's amazing because I really believe the Beatles influenced all of this. I believe the Beatles, with their funny movies and little films that they did, I think that influenced the monkeys. I think it influenced laughing, which I think in turn influenced the Groovy Ghoulies and so many of these other shows, just the way they did this at the time, because you know they're playing instruments Dracula and Wolfman, we're the Wolfie.
Speaker 3:Because it's time for the Groovy Ghoulies show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think the Beatles influenced all of these. Yeah, I think the Beatles influenced all of these. There was another show that came on Gosh, I don't know if I'll be able to find it During the Saturday morning cartoons. It was just, oh gosh, does anyone remember? In the News, in the News, like you'd be watching cartoons and this thing would come up. It would be like a little kid's news segment. I'm trying to find it here. It's going to take me a second. I should have looked for this first. I'm going to fire up my computer. Yeah, here we go. Let me see if this is it here. See if you remember this. Oh, yeah, here you go. Remember this In the news. That little sound right there. I hear that little sound like oh God, I know right what that is. It's 1976.
Speaker 2:In the news an ice skating superstar In the news an ice skating superstar. At the Winter Olympics this year, diane DeLue won a silver medal. Today, diane is working hard on a new kind of skating career.
Speaker 1:In the news. Remember that it would like be in the middle of the cartoons. It's a kid's news show, so they would set it up like that.
Speaker 2:They would go to the sponsor which in this case appears to be Nabisco In the news, is sponsored by Nabisco. You'll find quality in our corner.
Speaker 1:Then they would come back with the story Hi gang After the commercials. Oh, what's this commercial Big?
Speaker 3:Fig here with that great new dance, the Newton.
Speaker 1:Oh, fig Newtons, Hit it Hal. Oh, my God, I haven't seen this in forever Chewy, rich and chewy inside, golden, flaky, tender cakey outside.
Speaker 2:Grab the inside and the outside is a good time Tootin' doing the Big Fig.
Speaker 1:Newton is the freaky Anyhow in the news. Remember that boy? I sure do. Then they had the I don't know, I guess maybe less memorable cartoons, but I really liked him like anyone. Remember the hair bearer bunch man that was so 70s. Saturday morning and it had this um, you know, I can never tell you the names of the guys who were doing the voices, but the voices are so familiar to all the cartoons of that time. The music too.
Speaker 3:Uh-oh, this could be it.
Speaker 1:They're in a zoo All clear east, all clear west. And these are the bears that live in the zoo All clear north.
Speaker 3:All clear in the south of St Ray. Now let's move out. Uh-oh, we're going to have to do a little switcheroo. I just got it spotted. Keep moving. Ooh, ooh, I got him.
Speaker 1:Ooh, ooh, ooh, remember that guy. Ooh, ooh, I got him.
Speaker 2:Mr Peavey. Mr Peavey, I found the way here and those bears have been getting out of the zoo. You sure, Absolutely, I spotted their secret tunnel.
Speaker 3:Come on and get rid of those branches. You look like the moose of the month.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm 14. Well, how old would I have been? Yeah, like 14, 15, 16 years old, I guess. Unbelievable man Speaking when I was 16 years old. I pulled this record off of the shelf today, Came out when I was 16 years old and man is it? With the exception of a little dust right there, boy is it just immaculate. Pull it out of the sleeve here. Incredible shape. Honestly, Capitol Records. Just the edge where the 45 is exposed from out of the sleeve is the only part that's got a little dust on it here. Capitol Records, it's a white label, Got a little star on there, meaning Capitol Records, it's a white label, Got a little star on there meaning that it's a promo. One side is a mono. Oh, both sides are mono. What, that is rare. Both sides are mono. Huh, Wow. There's one thing there's no stickers, but someone stamped it with June 1976. That's right, June of 76. This song played on the radio all the time. I like the song. I would always kind of um.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll explain here in a minute but, but the song uh, written by on the album. I'll give it all away. Well, I'll just tell you this went to number three in the uk and the united states and canada. It was number two. Let's see. Reached the top three in the united kingdom, the united States and Canada. It was number two. Let's see. Reached the top three in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. Number two in the UK. In the US, it went to number three. That makes no sense. Let me see. Let me try to read that again. It reached the top three in the United Kingdom, right, the United States and Canada, all right, oh, I see it was number two in the UK. I see it was number three in the US and a number three pop hit and a number one easy listening hit. See, I was not expecting that. In Canada it went to number three for three weeks on the pop chart and number one for three weeks. Just depends on what chart the MOR, the RPM chart, just depends on which one you're looking at. But it was the single certified goal by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales over a million copies on the single. Now it's America for sales over a million copies on the single. Now it's far surpassed that, not just on the album but on the 45,.
Speaker 1:Certainly the song begins with the sound of a V and E Friedland Maestro, make any sense? Westminster Chime Doorbell and an electromechanical doorbell with a unique vibrato resonating feature. Before the rhythm begins and this is where I would kind of not make fun of the song I don't mean to say when I'd hear it on the radio, not make fun of it, but just like you know, like the song someone brought up on my show the other night by Neil Diamond, shiloh, and I think of the lyrics Shiloh, when I was young you used to call your name when no one else would come. Shiloh, you always came. Well, I mean, how many people you know Shiloh? If you're in a group of people, how many people are named Shiloh? So if you say Shiloh, of course the one person named Shiloh is going to come this way.
Speaker 1:So I'd make fun of this song like that. So not really making fun but just making a point. They would name off several people in the song famous people, friends and relatives of this artist who, without a justified reason, are knocking on the door and they're ringing a bell. So I'd always say like when I hear it all right. Someone's knocking on the door, someone's ringing the bell. Hey, do me a favor, would you open the door? Would you let them in? Paul McCartney in wings, pat's peeps 303.
Speaker 2:Someone knocking at the door. Somebody ringing the bell. Someone's knocking at the door. Somebody's ringing the bell. Do me a favor at the door. Somebody's ringing the bell. Do me a favor, open the door and let them in. Ooh yeah, someone's knocking at the door. Somebody's ringing the bell. Someone's knocking at the door. Somebody's ringing the bell.
Speaker 1:Do me a favor. How about you get off your dead ass and let him in your cell, paul? That's what I would say. That would be my 16-year-old self talking to the radio. Yeah, no problem, paul, let's just get up and let him in. Yeah, no problem, paul, let's just get up and let him in. Great drumming.
Speaker 1:Please come out and visit us at the fair. Drink some wine with us At our official Pats Peeps gathering. Thank you for listening. Yeah, have a great weekend. See you on the radio. Some wine with us at our official Pats Peeps gathering. Thank you for listening. Yeah, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2:See you on the radio.
