Pat's Peeps Podcast

Ep. 339 Today's Peep Brings Cracker Jack Nostalgia, New Music from Robert Plant and his new Band, Tacos, Teeth, Remembering Phil Hartman and the Brother of a Rolling Stone

• Pat Walsh

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Ever had your face go numb at the dentist and then immediately tried to drink hot coffee? On this delightfully meandering Friday episode, I take you along for the ride as I navigate dental misadventures with temporary crowns and strict warnings against anything crunchy or sticky – which naturally leads to a nostalgic dive into the disappointing evolution of Cracker Jack prizes from actual toys to mere QR code stickers.

Music lovers will appreciate the exclusive first listen to Robert Plant's surprising new band, Saving Grace, featuring vocalist Susie Deanne. The legendary Led Zeppelin frontman's voice takes a backseat in this new collaborative project that sounds nothing like his iconic past work. I share my personal regret about the time I spotted Plant in Napa but was too starstruck to introduce myself – a moment of vulnerability many music fans will understand.

Between recounting my participation in a charity taco eating contest with local media personalities and celebrating the comedic genius of the late Phil Hartman through his iconic SNL impressions, this episode captures the joy of Friday conversations among friends. We wrap with perhaps the most unexpected discovery: listening to Cajun-influenced music from Chris Jagger – yes, Mick's brother – whose sound couldn't be further from the Rolling Stones. Join me for this journey through dental woes, nostalgic snacks, rock legends, and hidden musical connections that make life's random moments worth sharing.

SPEAKER_15:

That's right, folks. It's the Friday. Pats peeps podcasts here with that. Applause go thank you. Yeah, you feel the same way. Happy Friday, Junior Pats Peeps, 339. My lips can barely move. What? What are you talking about? What? 26th day of September. 26th day of September 2021. Looking out of my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California. It's another hot one. Well, it's yeah. I see another hot one. Last couple of days it was actually pretty cool. I don't know where are we at in the 90s, maybe the lower 90s, but it is a Friday. Thank you for being there. My name is Pat Walsh, host of the Pat Walsh show, heard on uh Terrestrial Radio, KFBK 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m. Um 7 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. Streaming everywhere on the free iHeart app and all of your apps, just like this podcast is. Now, when I say my lips won't barely move, uh, you know, I listen, my whole life is a is it's just a dental nightmare. So I'm not going to get all graphic about you know what? I look back at my podcast, I look at the numbers of my podcasts. I probably the lowest number I ever got for any of my podcasts was one day when I was talking about the horrors that I had undergone in a uh dental procedure the previous day. Because people don't want to hear about that, it's brutal. Anyhow, so suffice it to say, hey, happy Friday. Wherever you are. So my face is numb. My lips are numb. It's getting a little bit better. Like I had to wait a little while because just a few minutes ago, I don't even I guess I can say my F's. There we go. F's. See? Or my S is. I couldn't say it for a while. F he was doing that. F then I I came home, you know, I thought, well, let me get a cup of coffee. I I it only had one cup. I used to drink two cups. Come home, drink a cup of coffee. You know, this is the wrong move. Can I just tell you a little advice here on Pat's Peeps 399? Like if your lips are numb, don't chew a lot, because I remember one time I chewed the inside of my cheek, too, and that wasn't good. My dentist was telling me about a lady who chewed her lip because it was numb. But I highly suggest I recommend against hot coffee. You know, as the lips are still numb. I thought they were getting better, you know, so I felt confident enough because it'd been a while be sin and I tipped the coffee, and still my bottom lip is like and it just didn't work, so whatever. But you know what? I'm on my way to having everything better, my dental-wise, so whatever. And then when I'm in the dentist office, because so I had to have two crowns replaced, and now the two crowns are temporary. You know, it takes a couple of weeks, they gotta do the mold, they gotta do all that, and then they gotta make the crowns. So I'm gonna have these done two weeks before, uh, thank goodness, before I go to Sicily. But right now I have the temporaries in. And then one thing they'll tell you, Oksana told me this today. She's the dental uh assistant, I guess, is the right word. I hope that's the right word, anyhow. And she told me, okay, Patrick, she says, now whatever you do, again, these are temporaries. Whatever you do, you know, don't eat anything crunchy or sticky. I said, Oh, darn it, I was gonna go to go get a nut-covered uh, you know, caramel apple right after I was done with this. Anyhow. So nothing crunchy and nothing sticky. One thing I'm terrified of right now, and I will not eat because of the dental situation, is popcorn. You know, you're eating popcorn, you get that granny, and we used to call them grannies, that unc un pop kernel, bust your teeth. At least that's my experience. So I don't eat it, even when my teeth are fine. I yeah, occasionally, because I do like popcorn, but but uh yeah, so a couple days ago I had my car worked on. Thanks to Darlene with a wife for giving me a ride up to the shop. I had to drop my car off for a couple of days. She's a great friend. You're a great friend, Darlene. I know you're listening to me right now. And uh anyhow, so at the this place that I take my car to, they do a great job at Pat's Peeps, Auto Vantage. It's Auto Vantage in Auburn. And when they're done, they are so nice, they always leave you of all things a little bag of Cracker Jacks. Now, that's a la that's exactly what she told me not to have was anything sticky, anything crunchy, not the cracker jacks are the crunchy. They used to have peanuts in them back when they cut back on the budget. To me, that was always the best part of the Cracker Jacks. Better than the caramel corn, which I love, and better than the cheap prize that was in there. The prizes used to be kind of okay when you were a kid. Now they're cheap as can be. You know, let's say Gavin Newsom tattoo, whatever. Temporary tattoo. It's like temporary governor. Well, he's been there a while, to be honest. But anyhow, I'm not gonna go down that road. So oddly enough, I had opened that bag of Cracker Jacks last night, not so much to eat it, but to kind of sift through it. To see what the quota was, what the you know, it used to be, what was that the right word? Like what the percentage of peanuts were in a small bag, complimentary bag of Cracker Jacks. It wasn't the box, it's like a little bag. So I poured it into a bowl. What I wasn't expecting that there would be a prize in there, because I just thought those came in the boxes. But there was actually a prize in there. So when I pour this into a bowl, I'll pop the prize. We'll check the prize because I really don't know. I mean, they're so chinsy now. But uh we'll check the prize and see what I got. But do you know in this bag, and again the bag is a little smaller than the uh in the box. Do you know how many peanuts were in this? Three. There was three peanuts, and there was a little like broken piece. Kind of like my tooth. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_11:

What do you want when you gotta eat something? And it's gotta be sweet, and it's gotta be a lot and it can't break your teeth out. What do you want?

SPEAKER_15:

Jack and Jackson. Remember this commercial? I can't remember that guy's name. I love that guy, the actor in that commercial. Jack Gifford, 1967, Jack Gifford.

SPEAKER_11:

What do you get when you open the top? You get a broken tooth and map your lip and turn it over and fill it out.

SPEAKER_15:

You know, when you're a kid, you just mow them down. You just pull out the crack, you just got the box, you rip the lid off, you just pour them in there, man. Shove them in your hand, just jam them in. No worries. Now that I'm a doach.

SPEAKER_11:

What do you get? Lip, back and whip, back and fatty, whack and okay, back and fatty.

SPEAKER_15:

Broken tooth and money.

SPEAKER_11:

Cracker jacks.

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Peanuts and a pies. That's what you get with Cracker Jacks. You know, it's been so long since I've seen that commercial. I mean, literally, forever. I can't even believe that. And I still know the man, the the logo, like we were talking about cigarettes the other day, the the music and the slogans and everything. They stick with you. By the way, I just noticed that Robert Plant has new music out. I thought we'd take a listen to that. I haven't listened to it yet, but I just noticed it when I was getting ready for the show. But before that, let's open the I've got the uh Cracker Jack Prize here on Pat's Peeps$3.99. Let's open it up, see what we got here. Alright, it says Cracker Jack Prize inside arcade, whatever that means. So let's open it. Let's see what it is. This is a unlock classic games. What? Unlock classic games. Oh, it's a sticker. How is that a classic game? It's a sticker of a like a little. It says uh find pick inside, visit crackerjack.com, there's their plug, follow the directions step by step, and then start playing. So man, they're so cheap now. Remember, they used to have toys. They used to have toys inside Cracker Jacks. Let me see what they were. What toys? I'm gonna Google this one. Bing and Cracker Jacks. I had to Google that one. I hadn't thought about that one. Let's uh should I use Bing? Come on, someone tell me. Oh, there used to be, okay, rings. Oh yeah, right. Plastic figurines, paper horns, whistles. I remember the whistles. Expanding fans, miniature books, I remember those too. And decoder rings. Prizes evolving from metal and celluloid trinkets in the early 20th century to safer, more modern plastic prizes, and stickers over time. Yeah, safer, cheaper, is what you really want to say. So, anyhow, hey, let's listen to some Robert Plant new music. Oh, I just I didn't even mean to hit him that time. Little P got excited when I said that. So this is this must have just come out. What is this? Hold up. What is that now? Is that what I was trying to play? I didn't even start anything. Oh, that's it. It just started. I swear I didn't even touch it. Ticket taker. Robert Plant, Pat's Peeps 339.

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Tonight's the night when the waters rise.

SPEAKER_15:

Oh, he's got a duet.

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You grow back in the door. The ticket takes count the man who can afford the art. Susie D'N ticket takers will not board D I A ticket takers a time for five and change an hour. They will count the passers by. They say the sky's a limit, but the sky's about to fall.

SPEAKER_15:

I can barely hear Robert's voice in the mix.

SPEAKER_06:

Down come all the record books, Craig L. They say before he paid that the box affair no pain. But somewhere there's a cabinet with a ticket in the ray.

SPEAKER_15:

I think he was really influenced by Alice and Krause. Remember when they did that, those records together? Robert and Allison.

SPEAKER_07:

What else have you got? I am a ticket taker. And I will be all.

SPEAKER_15:

Hmm. I like it. I don't hear really hear Robert's. Maybe it'll change up in that way. I don't want to get in trouble. I don't want to play too much of his new music. He'll come knocking on my door.

SPEAKER_16:

Patrick Robert here, Robert.

SPEAKER_15:

That's a terrible impersonation of him. Uh let's see. It's his new album. Let's see. Robert Plant unveils Saving Grace with a new band. It's his new band featuring vocalist Susie Deanne. D-I-A-N. Title of the new album, um, available today, the 26th. Debut from Robert with his new assortment of band members. Ollie Jefferson on drums, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player, Matt Worley, and then uh cellist Barney Morse Brown. Let's take another listen. This is uh this is called Soul of a Man. If you're gonna go see Robert Plant thinking you're gonna see Led Zeppelin, you're you're not going to see Led Zeppelin.

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Won't somebody tell me Won't somebody tell me Won't somebody tell me what you want to tell me Won't somebody tell me I'm gonna ask a question please answer if you can Is there anybody's children can tell me? Tell me what is the soul of a man on some see that that can't be Robert singing. I don't hear any if you can look on some.

SPEAKER_15:

Is that Robert's? I like this right here. I like the song actually. Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna check this out. That does not sound like Robert to me. That might be someone else in the band singing, or maybe it's his voice changing, or I don't know. Again, I don't know enough about this record to really uh tell you anything. I just wanted I just saw it, so I wanted to share that with you. I still regret that I didn't say hi to him. I'll always sit with me down there in Napa. When he I went down there specifically for that reason, like I told you, probably heard that on my previous podcast. And there he is, he walks right by me. Like right next to me. We're the only people sitting there, me and my buddy Dave having a beer, having lunch. We went there to maybe run into him and say hi and introduce myself. I couldn't do it. I clammed up, man. He's right there. That's why the only picture I have is me stalking him from behind. Like I couldn't get the nerve up. Isn't that stuff I would never have that problem now? So, anyhow, there you go. New Robert Plant music. You know, uh I've been off the last couple of days of my show. We had technical difficulties on Wednesday, and then I had big uh lunches yesterday. Maybe some of you saw I um was in a taco eating contest at Jim Boy's tacos. I knew I wasn't gonna win. First of all, I was having teeth issues, which I just like I mentioned, I'm getting them fixed now. But I'm just not gonna do that. I I'm gonna try, but I'm not I'm not going to win the contest. Put it that way. I'm just not. That's just not me. But I had a good time. Plus, I love Jim Boy's tacos. I told you that there might be a big, some big news today. It won't be today. We stayed focused on our charities because I want to thank Jim Boys for allowing me and some other media members, Tamara Berg, Marcus Allen, and some others, Judy Farah, to participate in the Jim Boys Taco Eating contest. Then we had to eat a chiro, which I'd never even had a chiro before. Um, I did not win, but I got you know what? They gave me money for my charity, that's what mattered. Here we were at the end of the uh day yesterday. It was oh, hello. No, that's not it. Where were we? No, that's no, maybe I don't have that. Oh no, you know what it was? It was on uh I put you know what it was? I didn't put it on my um I'll tell you where it is. It's right here. I put it on Facebook, so you can see that on Facebook. Patrick here at Am at Jim Boy's Tacos. And it's uh we're having a taco eating contest. I'm never gonna do well in a taco eating contest. Look at this. Look at this. You know who does well in taco eating contests? It was just a big mess. And I said, look at this.

SPEAKER_17:

Marcus, Alan, they're always doing this. Look at this.

SPEAKER_15:

Tamara Berg from Channel 3. She had her all the taco meat off the tacos, and she put it all together on the plate like she was gonna like eat all the tortillas. The tortillas were stacked, like she thought maybe she could eat all the tortillas and then shovel the taco meat down her gulvet, but it didn't seem to work. The secret is they can hurry up and eat the tacos like that.

SPEAKER_17:

Seven tacos, seven tacos. Well, we're gonna eat seven tacos and winds. I will never eat it window. I'm eating tacos.

SPEAKER_16:

What's going on here? What is your technique? Was it the gesture we're gonna eat these and then and then separate the ones?

SPEAKER_17:

I was gonna eat this like a kick to be up and then shovel this in like a kit for the Christmas story. Remember that!

SPEAKER_18:

Here's your opportunity to do that if you'd like to do that right now. Okay.

SPEAKER_15:

I don't know what how he does it, so it's the s now we're talking to Marcus Allen. I wanna see one. So I I even want against this dude. We had like a what was it like a big turkey leg or something or uh at the fair? We had to have a copy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18:

A big what was it? A rib or a rip? We've done it all. I think it was a rib. I feel like I have a beef. Something beef, something beef. Anyhow, you want that too? I know what it is, because I feel intimidated to be next to this guy. Oh yeah, the media! I don't want to blow it in front of him. Congratulations, man. Congratulations to you and talent!

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So, Jim Boys is very generous as they uh donate to our favorite charities again. I didn't win. But you know what? I enjoyed some good tacos, and I'm taking some Jim Boys! Maybe it'll be a Pat's peep.

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What was that? What did I say at the end? Maybe it'll be a Pat's peep? Oh, wouldn't that be nice? Keep your fingers crossed, my friends. That would be huge for Pat's Peeps. We support each other, so I'm I'm keeping my finger. That was I was hoping to tell you that news today, but we'll see. We'll see. Uh the other thing, then all my clients from my radio show that I endorse. Uh and the the other, when I say clients, I'm talking about local businesses. These are businesses in Sacramento that I endorse on my radio show, and then the other clients that the other radio show uh hosts uh represent as well. We had a big get-together yesterday, right after the taco eating contest, to where I went to another restaurant immediately afterwards, Bennett's, which is a local restaurant as well. I love these places. And guess what they had? Tacos. Yay! They had sliders, tacos, they had everything you could want. It was an awesome day. They had these uh blackberry margaritas, which were outstanding. And so I really had an opportunity yesterday to represent not only Pat's Peeps, but my radio show and KFPK and iHeart and meet all of these wonderful people that are all part of this community. And I say thank you to all of you. I wasn't able to go on my show Wednesday night because of technical difficulties we had, and then last night because of, again, these meetings. One of the things I wanted to do, and so tonight I'm gonna catch up. Tonight I'm gonna do some of the things on my show that I intended to do this week, but then I did not get an opportunity to do. On Wednesday, one of the things I wanted to talk about was the fact that it was uh it will it would have been Phil Hartman's birthday. You remember Phil Hartman? He was in what news radio, the TV show. He was, of course, on Saturday Night Live. He was by far, in my estimation, for a while there, uh the most talented member, and in my estimation, in my opinion, still one of the more talented members ever of Saturday Night Live. And I thought it would be fun because I am gonna talk about him on my show tonight. I'll probably talk about him with Ken Dog, but I wanted to play a couple of things here, or at least one thing from Phil Hartman. So let's go back to Saturday Night Live, shall we? I think that Phil Hartman did the best impersonation of Bill Clinton ever. So he'll here's Phil Hartman doing Bill Clinton, who at this time is running for president, and he's visiting a McDonald's on Pat's Peeps 339.

SPEAKER_02:

All right, boys.

SPEAKER_12:

Let's stop in here for a second. I'm a little parked from the jog. Ah, sir. We've only been jogging for three blocks. Besides, Mrs. Clinton asked us not to let you into any more fast food places.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, I just want to mingle with the American people, talk with some real folks, maybe get a diet coke or something. But please, don't tell Mrs. Clinton. Jim, let me tell you something. There's gonna be a whole bunch of things we don't tell, Mrs. Clinton. Fast food is the latest of our words. How are you? Oh, that's an adorable. That means African princess, doesn't it? She certainly is beautiful enough to be a princess. So you're gonna finish these fries. Well, if you're not gonna eat them. Oh, good to meet you. How are we doing over here? Not too shadowy.

SPEAKER_15:

Chris Farley. Kevin Nealin is in the skin, too.

SPEAKER_02:

So you own your own hardware store, huh? Yes, sir. 1972. Well, good for you. You know, we want to create a network of community development banks to lend money to small businesses like yourself. I said your boy doesn't like the pickles. Come on. I'm gonna wake up every morning thinking about you.

SPEAKER_14:

Hi, Mr. President. I'm Kevin O'Brien, manager this morning. I just want to thank you for stopping by.

SPEAKER_15:

Tom Arnold.

SPEAKER_14:

Well, thank you, Kevin.

SPEAKER_02:

You got a real American family place here. Is it too late for Nate McMuffin?

SPEAKER_14:

Well, normally we stop serving breakfast at 11, but for you. Thanks so much. Hey, should I scare up some of the big greasy sausage patties you like? You read my mind. Okay.

SPEAKER_15:

I want to play. I want to talk more about him on the show tonight. One of my favorites, just for a bit. I just gotta do it. Got to, I have to do it. Phil Harbin, unfrozen caveman lawyer.

SPEAKER_01:

One hundred thousand years ago, a caveman was out hunting on the frozen wastes when he slipped and fell into a crevasse. In 1988, he was discovered by some scientists and thawed out. He then went to law school and became Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

SPEAKER_13:

He used to be a caveman, but now he's a lawyer. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

SPEAKER_01:

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SPEAKER_06:

Mr. Key Rock, are you ready to give your summation?

SPEAKER_03:

It's just Key Rock, Your Honor, and yes, I'm ready. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell in some ice and later got thought out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me. Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW and run off into the hills or whatever. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder, did little demons get inside and type it? I don't know. My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know. When a man, like my client, slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million dollars in compensatory damages. And two million dollars in punitive damages. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00:

Kerock's words are just as true now as they were in his time. We give him the full amount.

SPEAKER_01:

This has been Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. Join us next week for another episode.

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I just love the whole premise of it. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. The great Phil Hartman. We'll talk about him on the on the show tonight. The Pat Walsh show. And we're going to finish things off today, not with a record, but Cecilia, listener content. The fabulous Cecilia, who we love. Hi, Cecilia. Thank you for listening. We love ya. Who pointed out to me, and I I don't know how I did not know this, but I didn't. But thanks to Cecilia, who is always sending me incredible content. Cecilia um sends me this. This is well, I'll tell you, I don't know which band necessarily this is. But this is Mick Jagger's brother, Chris Jagger. Did you know he had a band? Did you know he had a band? I know he's got a couple of them. One is called um Slim Chance. There's and there's a the Chris Jagger trio. Anyone know about this? So here is Chris Jagger. Let's take a listen. Real tin and ox with lap Waiting in line for a jab And if in the morning I don't feel so bright I reckon that is singing about waiting in line for a jab She talking about Waiting in line for a jab Real tin an ox with lap Waiting in line for a jab And if in the morning I don't feel so bright I reckon that is gonna be worth What I reckon it's gonna be worth the fight I don't know what he was singing about W here's Chris Jagger Let's listen to this let's listen to this Chris Jagger It's kinda kinda like a cage like a Zydeco feel What come on this can't be his brother is it the city has its sights but the country has far more I lost you shed Say what are you waiting for? Ah wow finish up your drink come along with me where the rocks run down into the silver sea the tide is arriving in there you go Chris Jagger let's knock on train doing like Zydeco or Cajun French now you speak in French like Cajun music down the sand well have a great Friday alright hey I can feel my lips again that means I can do my radio show tonight have a great day have a great week support local business thank you for listening to That Speeps

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