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Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 332 Today's Peep Goes Inside the Last Radio Man's World as we Celebrate 12 Years of Authentic Radio, Freedom, Creation, Cursing Cockatoos, Also Pointing Out the Shame of TMZ, all "Brought to you By" and a Lost Gem from Ike & Tina Turner
Twelve years on the air and still fiercely independent. That's the milestone Pat Walsh celebrates in this candid, freewheeling episode that showcases why authentic local radio remains irreplaceable.
Broadcasting from heritage powerhouse KFBK in Sacramento—the same 50,000-watt station that launched Rush Limbaugh's career—Pat proudly carries the torch as possibly "the last local radio talk show host at night in the United States." What makes this achievement remarkable isn't just longevity but the creative freedom he maintains in an increasingly homogenized media landscape.
"Every day that I go in, it's like I have a blank canvas in front of me," Pat reflects, explaining how rare it is to have complete autonomy over content and music in today's corporate radio environment. This freedom allows for the unpredictable mix that defines this episode: political commentary sits alongside breaking economic news about the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut, vintage radio jingles, criticism of TMZ's inappropriate reactions to Charlie Kirk's assassination, and even the unexpected star turn of a cursing cockatoo.
The heart of Pat's approach remains community connection. His ongoing promotion with Roc & Sol Diner offers listeners two-for-one entrees just for saying "Pat's Peeps," creating a three-way win that benefits local business, audience members, and the show itself. This dedication to listener engagement extends to incorporating audience voices and content throughout the broadcast.
The episode culminates with Pat sharing a rare 1961 Ike and Tina Turner recording complete with fascinating background on its production—a moment that perfectly encapsulates the blend of entertainment and information that keeps audiences tuning in after all these years.
Curious about what radio sounds like when personality and authentic connection still matter? Subscribe to Pat's Peeps podcast or catch The Pat Walsh Show live Monday through Friday, 7-10pm on KFBK Radio (93.1 FM/1530 AM).
Welcome, my friends, to the Pats Peeps podcast. 332 podcasts. Appreciate you joining us on a Wednesday, september 17, 2025. Very kind of you to be part of our Pat's Peeps community. You know, what would be awesome is if you would go to Rock and Soul Diner in Sacramento on 10th Street between now and the end of the month, september 30th, and get a free meal. Now, how cool is that, especially when all you have to do is walk in and go hey, pat's Peeps, that's it. Those are the magic words, and you get a free dinner, two-for-one entrees until September 30th, by just uttering those words Pat's Peeps, and it's a win-win-win. So, rock and Soul, by the way, r-o-c and Soul S-O-L Diner okay, they're going to get customers and then you're going to find out just how great they are. You get the free meal and Pat's Peeps, my business. We then get to represent other businesses. You know why? Because it's working, because you're going into the business and you're mentioning our name. That's as easy and you know what. It's free for you. So you really have nothing to lose. So, thank you, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1:All right, and I want to make that very clear. And I want to also tell you that you know I'm the host of the Pat Wall Show was heard on KPK Radio in Sacramento, 7 to 10 pm. Monday through Friday 93.1 FM 1530 AM. Monday through Friday 93.1 FM 1530 AM. As Rip calls me the last radio man, he wants me to write a book the Last Radio man. I just may do that. I'm very proud to say, and I'll just start right here. For those of you who may not know who I am on radio, you know KFBK is a heritage 50,000 watt radio station. It has launched the careers of the likes of Rush Limbaugh, morton Downey Jr, tom Sullivan. I get to be a part of that. So 50,000-watt heritage station, which is really saying something.
Speaker 1:Well, coming up next month here we are September 17th. Coming up October 14th. That is going to be 12 years for my show. 12 years, where's my little button at here? Hold on a second. I get to use my little button every once in a while here. Hold on, let me try this. There we go. Thank you Well. Thank you Well. No, stop it, stop, come on. That's all right. No, no, hold on, wait, hold on you. Thank you so much. 12 years I've been there for 32 years at this radio station and for 12 I used to be the sports guy, but now, for coming up on 12 years, the the host of the pat wall show, and I'll tell you how remarkable that is. Number one I believe we have the last local radio talk show host at night in the united states. Come, come on now. Where's the button again, thank you. Or where's my audience? Can you imagine that? And here's the other thing All the freedom to do whatever I want on my radio show.
Speaker 1:I can tell you this because I've been in radio a long time. You don't get that freedom If you're in music radio. You don't get the freedom anymore to play just whatever you want on music. No, you go through the paperwork, you sign the paper that you played all the songs on the list. You don't get that freedom, no way.
Speaker 1:But in my format, what I do? I get to talk about whatever I want to talk about. That is such a blessing. And I get to play about whatever I want to talk about. That is such a blessing. And I get to play whatever music I want. That is incredibly rare and unique. I mean now, yes, I'm going to talk over it, it's bumper music. It's not like I'm sitting there running a radio station with music but nonetheless I have the ability and the luxury to be able to create Every day. I'm so lucky that I love my job so much Every day that I go in it's like I have a blank canvas in front of me and I get to create on that. By the way, I also love to draw and paint, which is my goals. You're here very soon. I want to do that, but I get to do that.
Speaker 1:And there's been a lot of great hosts in front of me. You've had your Mark Williams. I respect all of them Mark Williams, spencer Hughes, bruce Maiman they were all in this slot. But to hold it down for 12 years, I must say I am very proud of that. But the bottom line is I would not be there without you. And you guys support my local businesses that I tell you about. I'm all about supporting the community, trying to entertain, infotain and inform all of that kind of a hybrid type of thing. But to give you a voice, which a lot of radio shows don't even do that anymore. I want to give you a voice which a lot of radio shows don't even do that anymore. I want to give you your voice. That's one of my favorite parts of doing the show is I get to give you a voice so you can express your opinions. Speaking of expressing opinions, here's a little listener content.
Speaker 2:This is from our friend sean, who always sends me great listener content when you see president trump setting bear traps and then watching the demon rats walk right into them, because that's exactly what happened in Washington DC. The president says let's do something that's really positive and not controversial at all and watch the Democrats, afflicted by TDS, reflexively oppose it. We're going to crack down on violent crime in the nation's capital. And just right on cue. What do the Democrats do? No, leave it alone. We like our violent crime in Washington DC, you tyrant. It's just like Ukraine and Russia. President Trump says we want to end the war. I'm going to sit down with Putin, I'm going to sit down with Zelensky and we're going to end the war. And reflexively. What do the Democrats do? No, keep that war going. More dead people is what we want to see. Trump, you're a tyrant.
Speaker 2:President Trump says we have to do something about the scourge of homelessness, the homeless population filled with addicts and the mentally ill. We're going to get them off of the streets. We're going to put them in shelters. We're going to put them in institutions. We're going to get them off of the streets. We're going to put them in shelters. We're going to put them in institutions. We're going to get them treatment. No, you leave our homeless people alone. We like their drug addiction. We like the crime that they present on the streets. It's just what President Trump said during the State of the Union address no matter what he says, they will reflexively oppose it. They will not stand for something good good, they will not oppose something that is bad. President trump is light years ahead of these people and I think it's an absolute thing of beauty just, uh, one man's opinion.
Speaker 1:Thank you to sean in oklahoma for that. I do appreciate that. Uh, here's something despicable. I'm gonna play for you, you, and then you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to play this, but then I'm going to get to some lighter stuff, okay, so here is something that I find despicable as far as I'm concerned. I am not a guy that's going to watch TMZ, don't care about TMZ, not a gossip guy. How shameful of them, as they're live on television doing a, you know, doing a show that in the background they're scummy. Workers that did this were applauding right exactly when the news broke that charlie kirk had been murdered. You can hear the reaction in the background.
Speaker 3:My guess is we're going to see an image of this guy, possibly in the next 20 minutes. The news conference is scheduled for 3 o'clock in Utah time, which is 2 o'clock Pacific, 5 o'clock Eastern Janet go o'clock pacific, um five o'clock eastern um janet go go.
Speaker 1:That was the moment that they made the announcement charlie kirk had died. Listen again. Listen in the background go go to um.
Speaker 3:So my guess is we're going to.
Speaker 1:Just absolutely pathetic, disgusting, absolutely shameful. Harvey Levin, or whatever his name is. They try to cover it up with this BS.
Speaker 3:We were live streaming all day during this tragedy when something happened in our office. Tragedy when something happened in our office as we were reporting the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there were some people in the back room, away from our news desk here who were watching a car chase liar.
Speaker 1:You're a liar, you're lying. First of all, go back and watch the car chase. I've seen the video in real time where the car chase, where it was at, in the midst of this car chase, when they announced Charlie Kirk died, nothing had happened at that point. That would make anyone applaud. Also, I don't believe, and I could be wrong. I don't know how many of you women applaud for a car chase. I'm sure not a lot, but I'm sure less applaud when they make the announcement that Charlie Kirk was murdered by a coward. Again, here's Harvey covering up the BS.
Speaker 3:And they were laughing, they were clapping and you could hear it out here.
Speaker 1:So they were laughing and clapping at a car chase. Well, well, please, that's all right, honey. They were just laughing and clapping at a car chase, so it's okay, please. Even if that were the truth, even that's despicable. But this goes way beyond.
Speaker 3:And we want to make a couple of things clear. One is that I know these people and they were not laughing, they were not reacting that way.
Speaker 1:Yes, they were. Yes, they were assassinated. Yes, they were not. Yes, they were here. Yes, they were, they did.
Speaker 3:Yes, they were and that being said, we acknowledge that it was horrible timing. Yes, they were, and for that, we are sorry.
Speaker 1:We apologize. We apologize, I get it. You had to hear that and I get why. If you're horrible timing.
Speaker 3:Yes, they were that. We are sorry, sure you are. We apologize get it you had to hear that and I get why. If you're watching the stream, you may have felt that that's what the laughter was about. It was sure you.
Speaker 3:It was not yes, it was but it was horrible timing and, by the way, I get it too and he gets it because we listened as we were talking. You can go back and look on the stream. I actually walked off camera to go back and find out what the hell was going on because it was inappropriate for the laughter at that time. But no one was laughing about the Charlie Kirk tragedy.
Speaker 1:Now I'm not going to blame Harvey himself, but there were people laughing about it. Make no mistake about it. Please quit lying to us. Meanwhile, this news just in Big news on a Wednesday the Fed announcing a quarter point interest rate cut. What it means for you, it's Pat's Peeps 332. See how important that sounded. I do love these old, I love these new sounders. Abc American Contemporary Network. These are great. How do they even make that sound? What is that instrument?
Speaker 4:That's great.
Speaker 1:The Fed announcing quarter point interest rate cut. That's right. That just happened right before I went on here with the podcast. After nine months of staying on the sidelines, federal reserve announced a quarter percentage point cut, likely the first in a series, they say, reductions to usher in lower borrowing rates for consumers. The rate cut is the Fed's first cut since late 2024. It lowers the Fed's benchmark interest rate to a range of 4.4% to 4.25%. Hmm, officials signaling the possibility of two more rate cuts this year. That is good news, I think. Oh, what's this one? Nbc Radio, this just in? Man, they were scary back then, these stations. Have you heard this? How about this one? This one's good, let's listen that one, yes, I love that one. Is that?
Speaker 6:CBS or.
Speaker 1:NBC. Anyhow, today's Pat's Peeps podcast is brought to you by Ralph Williams, aurora North.
Speaker 6:I'm going to take 60 seconds to talk to you about my boss, ralph Williams. Now, everybody who's seen him on television knows he's a great, big, tall son of a bitch and completely bald from front to back. And I want to tell you another thing and, as I said, I only have one minute to say it If you come out here to shop before you buy, you think you ever got fucked before and I'm not going to do that. The way you try to get one of our used cars, get it even home. Now I think the best story of all and it's our top salesman.
Speaker 6:The salesman was describing the car and how perfect condition condition it was and everything. And he says and we stand behind every car we sell. And the man says, well, it might stand behind it, but the question is can you push? Well, I'll guarantee that's exactly what you'll do, son of a bitch home. Now on our 100-day guarantee, you're 4,000 miles. Anything goes on with the motor transmission. We're in. We say you come back and we'll fix it. That's right, but we're going to hold that goddamn car for 100 days until the guarantee. I had that car.
Speaker 1:That's a.
Speaker 6:Plymouth, I think Plymouth Fury. What did he say? What, what? That's what we're talking about New tires, but the factory won't even sell them. We give them for nothing. That's why they're on the automobile. So I'm just giving everybody a warning Before you buy an automobile, make sure you do not drive to 137th and Ravner North in the city of Seattle. Go anyplace else except to that bald-headed son of a bitch.
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Speaker 4:Cockatoo fucking cockatoo. Cockatoo fucking cockatoo. Oh jeez, Cockatoo fucking cockatoo.
Speaker 1:Cockatoo fucking cockatoo. You got to wonder what's going on in that apartment this guy lives in. By the way, he's got that popcorn ceiling. Pat's Peeps, dirk, popcorn King. You got a popcorn ceiling. It's old-fashioned. Get rid of it. Talk to the Popcorn King, get a discount. Patspeepscom Back. To the cursing cockatoo Corn King, get a discount.
Speaker 4:Patspeepscom Back to the cursing cockatoo.
Speaker 1:You know, we should play that music that we had up there. Let's go back to our little, our cool lounge music. I think we should go to the lounge music and then we'll play the. We'll play the cursing cockatoo over that. Let's see what happens here. I have a cockatoo, actually, I have one, it's a cockatoo.
Speaker 4:I have one, I have two, I have three, I have two, I have three, I have four. But but I'm telling you, but I'm sorry, I'm telling you, you're talking about it, I'm talking about it, I didn't. Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh, jeez, oh jeez, oh golly.
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Speaker 1:Here, here and more. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you to sub zero for sponsoring my show. Thank you to this listener who was wanted to remain anonymous. I got these records some time ago and I can't thank the person because she wants to remain anonymous, but she is a uh, a listener to my radio show, a loyal listener, and she sent me these wonderful 45s and I thought you know, let me go ahead and play one of these. These are not from my collection, but they are now, so she sent these to me. Let me pull this one out of the randy. Oh see, I'm not gonna say the last name, but there's a name on that written on it Randy with an I. This is really cool. This is on Sue Records. First time we've had Sue Records here on the show, first time we featured that one.
Speaker 1:This song is and there's two songs here a 1961 hit single for this group artists, whatever they didn't write it. The male in the group did not write it. The male voice is not his. The song is also known for being the first Grammy nomination for this duo. We'll call them a duo, male and female. But the male is not singing and he didn't write it. Like I said the song was actually written by Rose Marie McCoy and John Seneca, with McCoy using the pseudonym James Lee on the original singles copyright. Mccoy was prompted to offer the song to this duo after seeing them perform at the Apollo Theater. The ghost male voice performing the back and forth vocals with the other part of the duo is again not the original person that's supposed to be doing this, but Mickey Baker of the duo Mickey and Sylvia remember them. Mickey and Sylvia Baker also sang backing vocals on the track with Sylvia Robinson and the Iquettes, which should give it away what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Track was a major hit. Went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Rbi R&B sides thinking baseball R&B sides chart Number 14 on the Hot 100 in 1961. This is Ike and Tina Turner and this is gritty man. Just even the sound of it is a very gritty sound, even the recording. It's going to work out fine, pat's Peeps 332.
Speaker 4:Darling.
Speaker 5:Yes, Tina.
Speaker 4:It's time to get next to me, honey, that was my plan from the very beginning. Darling, uh-huh, I never thought that this could be. What do you mean? Oh yeah, your lips set my soul on fire. You fulfill my one desire. Oh, darling, yes, yes, I think it's going to work out fine. It's going to work out fine. I want to tell you something. Ike, ike, uh-huh. I've been to see the preacher man.
Speaker 1:That's cool. I want to tell you something. Ike.
Speaker 4:And he's like uh-huh, and it's not even Ike the preacher man. You must be losing your mind. I started, started what Started, making wedding plans. Oh really, oh yeah, oh yeah. If your love is happy, true, as a love I offer you, oh, darling, yes, yes, I think it's going to work out.
Speaker 1:Fine, it's going to work out fine, let's flip it over because, like I say, this has two sides. The other side of this is won't you forgive me, won't you forgive me? I continue to turn very muddy and very gritty recording and don't you blame it on me.
Speaker 4:Cause I was young and if you miss me Like I missed you.
Speaker 1:You won't stay away. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps, number 332. Wishing you a great rest of your Wednesday and we'll see you on the radio and we'll see you on the radio, thank you.
