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Zippy-di, dippy, zippy, dip, dipp it-dip it, dip, dip, dit-do. Hey now, good morning, everybody. Welcome, my friends. Hey, how are ya? How are ya? Hey, it's the Pat's Peeps Podcast. And it's a Wednesday, December 17th, 2025. Hope you are doing well. Thank you for tuning into Pat's Peeps number 373 as we keep rolling along. And as I look out the studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, well thing, look, look at that. Look how how things have changed in one day. So, yes, so the last, let's say, seeming like seemingly month, but probably, I don't know, two plus weeks, three weeks. I've been telling you, and you probably notice if you live in the valley, Sacramento Valley, Central Valley, wherever you're listening. In the valley. Down in the valley, it was the fog, right? It wouldn't lift. So this morning, here on this Wednesday, it is uh and up here it's been beautiful and sun sunny. I've had to top down of my convertible, I'm driving around the foothills. I'm enjoying the sunshine. Everyone else is under this velvety cloud, this velvety layer of fog. Well, that's flip-flopped. As I understand it down in the valley, it's bright and sunny today, or at least there's some sunshine, some semblance of sunshine, which I'm sure is a great relief to them. But now it's shifted up. The fog is now up here. It's like I'm in a cloud. But that's okay. It's okay. I take it as I get it. I you know, I just take every day for what it is. I was saying that on my show last night. You know, I'm blessed to have any day there is, bring it on. By the way, speaking of my show, my name is Pat Walsh, the host of the Pat's Peeps, obviously, and then the aptly named Pat Walsh show on radio, KMPK News Radio, 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m. to be precise. And to be even more precise, I'm on Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 PM. And it's been a really uh fun week so far. Last week was a blast. I'm I'm loving being in the uh I mean in kicking it into Christmas mode. There's a lot of cool things to get to in the kind of show that I do, the kind of radio show that I do. In December, I love doing radio in December because in December, of course, you get a couple of you get a little time off. I'm gonna get almost a couple of weeks, but I'm still gonna do my podcast. Um and but you get that time off, which is which is very, very nice. You know, at the same time, I do miss my show when I'm gone. I have to say that. I do miss my show. But I like to uh play things in the month of December that are like the best of the year because I'll be out on vacation as I we get into the new year. I'll be off Christmas to the new year, which I'm sure that some of you of that uh are blessed to have some time off in that in that little time period to enjoy with your friends, family, whatever it might be. So I I love playing the sound bites of the year. It's always interesting to go back and see you know what people said, listen to revisit what people said through the year. I like the crazier sound bites. But and I'm doing that on my show right now. Then you get to incorporate Christmas humor, my friend. Christmas humor music. And I and in my case, I'm not real big on playing the traditional, even though I love you know, some of my favorites are the old classics that I grew up on. I don't know about you, but for me, you know, I grew up in the 60s and 70s, you know, it was like Pericomo. My parents listened, like Pericomo, oh, let's see, uh, you know, Andy Williams, Bean Crosby, Dean Martin, of course. Sinatra, a little bit too, for Christmas. But there was a big there's a wide range of things that we listened to. And but uh but uh but in terms of my show, I try to stay away from the ones you've heard a million times. And I saved him for today. Isn't that wonderful? And I'll explain in a moment as we get moving on here on Pat's Peeps 373. I like the I like the deep cuts, I like stuff, I like dipping into things like doo-wop, like doo-wop stuff that people have never heard for Christmas. Oh, Christmas soul music that people aren't really aware of. You know, that people have never Binky Griptite when God bless Mark the Voice Guy when he was a part of my show. He'd say it in Christmas till you break out the Binky Griptite. You know, most people look at you and be like, uh now? What is that? I'm sorry, what did you say? Binky griptite? Yeah, Binky Griptite. That's one of those I should play it for you. I don't have the record in front of me, but I can certainly play it for you here. Binky. He'd say it's not Christmas until you hear Binky Griptite. A Binky Griptite Christmas, he'd say, here on the Pat Wall Show. And here on Pat's Peeps 373. See if you know what once they get going, tell me what song. If you know your music, tell me what song they're s they are emulating, I guess would be the best word. It's the same tune, it's the they just put in different words to another former number one song. Tell me what you think it is.

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What's going on here? What's that party for?

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Man, what's the matter with you? Don't you know it's Christmas?

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It's every September Israel Christmas, yeah. So Christmas, stay right down to a stone, so Christmas there'll be fun presents for everyone. That is on the couch, I think it's worse.

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You know what song that is? The song was number one in nineteen sixty-eight. Not this one, but the one it's copying. So that's Binky Grip Tight, but if you go back to 1968, I wonder how many of you got this right. Number one song by the fifth dimension, Stone Soul Picnic, was the original, and Binky just took off of that. Here you go.

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And you sur it, and you picnic, oh, and you surrender, and you picnic, come on, come on, and surrender. But stone so big, surrender, but stone so big, and you want to red, yellow, honey, that's a friend, blue shine.

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Red, yellow, honey, that's a present blue shine.

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I am blessed to have uh great listeners and I thank you. Thank you to Joey. Joey, what a nice guy. Joey sent me a gift card. Send me two gift cards. You're so generous, Joey. I'm gonna start calling you Joey Generous. One is a dinner card, the other is for uh told me to go buy myself a new Dodger Championship jersey or jacket. Yeah, Joey. You guys are the best. Stone Soul picnic, fifth dimension, baby. That's right. The fifth dimension number one, 1968. Sorry, I can't tell you the exact month. Right here on Pat's Peeps, 373. I do hope you're having a Stone Soul Christmas. I really do. I've got some um I've got some that's all I just love going deep into the music, like I said, into the Christmas stuff. Let's see, what else do we have? How about let's go. How here's um you know, we were talking today about this, and well, actually what prompted is my sister Michelle, I'm in a group message with my siblings. Then there's five of us. We're always in this group message, and we're you know, just we're funning it, like Queen said. Fun it. And so we'll throw things out there to goof with each other, throw little just comments and things. You know how you do. And my sister, Michelle, today, she she'll take a picture of her radio. She's like, Can you so she and whatever songs on her? She goes, Yeah, have you ever been driving and you're so thinking about something else that you're not really listening to the music that's on the radio as you're just daydreaming about whatever wherever your thoughts are going. And then you suddenly realize that you're listening to this god-awful music. Which which has certainly happened to me. And the song she was listening to was let's see here. Oh, what was it? I hadn't heard it in forever. Uh it was Rex Smith. You take my breath away. Rex Smith. Jeez, what an awful song. Again, I I had totally forgot about this song. So she sends it to us. Listen to those killer keyboards. Wow. I'm pretty sure I tried to erase this one from my any semblance of it from my memory bank until this morning. I think it th though I do think he's trying to take off on Barry Mamelow. Definitely trying to be Barry Mamelow. And now you're Barry Mamelow water be all the videos the best too. I told him you gotta be in deep deep thought to get deep into this song before you refor you realize it. What is happening for God's sake?

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Like what the deep away. Oh, jeez. Sing with him.

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Magic of the sun. I like they do a close-up on his eyes looking into the camera lens. Is he trying to be berry mental? Come on, you know he is. Thank you, Michelle. Ladies and gentlemen, Rex Smith. I hope it's been a while since you've heard him do that. I had to share it with you. So you're welcome, by the way. You're welcome. Which prompted me to ask them. And it's kind of morphed. And I'm gonna do this on my show tonight because I'm trying to keep it light on my show. Talk about politics and such. Sam it! I thought I would ask. Like which song, when it comes on the radio, you're driving down a road, like in this case, like with my sister. Maybe not with my sister. Well, maybe you're writing with my sister. Maybe you're riding with my sister. I don't know. What do I know? You're driving like my sister, you're driving down a road, and the song comes on. I'm not sure what to ask. Like, I can't really ask what song would come on the radio and you'd be into it for just well, I could ask that. Maybe I can ask that too. Like, like you're daydreaming, and the song does it right away. You know the song you've heard it a million times. But it takes you maybe 30, 40 seconds, 45, maybe a minute, before you realize you look at the radio and go, what am I listening to? Click. You know, you turn that dial, man. You can't do it. Can't do it. Like maybe I can ask that category too, like top five. But I don't know if that would be as easy as because I'm trying to narrow it down, but I'll ask, you know, I thought a mix. You know, what do I got to lose? What do I got to lose, right? I can do on a show, I can do it a show, yeah. Um I can ask that, or I can also, and I should say, I can also ask, and what song is it that when it comes on the radio, whether or not you are Day Dreaming, when it comes on the radio, it's got to go. It don't get to click, it's got to go lickety split. Bye-bye. What song comes on? I can think of one advertisement, it's on the radio all the time. I'm not gonna say it. Not gonna say it. Because they advertise my channel. Uh my radio station. But like on every other radio station, it seems like, too. You probably know what I'm talking about, but I'm not gonna say it anyhow. So that prompted me to start thinking about okay, what about me? What songs? And I'm gonna go with these, so these would be the songs that when they come on the radio, again, I got to go. And I'm gonna go from and I have one that might surprise you. Now, some of you, we listen, we can't all obviously agree on music. I don't mean to offend any of you. I love all of you. I don't mean to offend, just an opinion, right? And I'm sure that you might have a song that I go, yeah, you know, that's not so bad. I kind of I don't mind that one. So, but this is a personal thing to me. I'm not saying necessarily, except for maybe a couple of them, that they're the worst songs on earth, because there's probably a lot worse, but for me, they're in this category. So my top five, and I'm gonna go from number five, and I'm probably gonna surprise you because I'm gonna add a sixth in its own little category. But in my top five, this one comes on the radio, I'm turning Whoa, hold up now. Don't jump the gun. I like when he jumped the gun like that. Did you hear what it was? There you go. That's as far as I get. That's it. As soon as I hear that, unless I feel like being Rick rolled for a moment, which is a thing now, being Rick Roll. Ladies and gentlemen, Rick Astlave. It's never gonna give you up. This is Pat Speeps 373. Here's the man who forgot disco died many, many years ago. So we gave it another try. Never gonna give you. Here we go. Here we go. I'm gonna give you the thing. I'm gonna get to the little chorus. Coming in at number four on the uh gotta turn it immediately countdown. Uh this one is one of the creepiest songs. To me, the creep factor on this song is at an extremely high level. Ten out of ten scale. This song is at a ten for creepiness. And when I when it if it ever does come on the radio, you know, it's gotta go. Alright, let's get to it. Playground in my mind. This is We're up in a cloud today. Hope you're having a good Wednesday. Here he is, the creepy guy, Clint Holmes. Here we go.

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When this old world gets me down, and there's no love to be found. I close my eyes and soon I find it. I'm a creepy guy in my mind.

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Where the cheese Sorry to ruin it. Okay, here comes a high creep factor. So he's in his dreams. He's when he's he's dreaming, he's in a playground with the kids. You can listen if you're saying there's no love to be found. Here we go. Listen how creepy this is. Shut up.

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When this old world gets me down. Right. And there's no love to be found. I close my eyes, and soon I find I'm in a playground in my mind. Wow.

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You think this is bad? Here you go. Sing along with this. This is brutal.

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I gotta make it make a shame. I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy. That's what I'm gonna do.

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I cannot believe that someone sat down with a record executive and sold out as a song idea. I can't believe it. Here's another example of that. And they wrote this song, and they're like, hey, listen, if we can just sign this song, man, I'm telling you, this will be gold. Ah, yeah, say, tell us what it's about. What is the song about, say? Well, it's about, okay, it's a it's a love song. All right, good, good. What do you like that, JR? I like that, JB. Um, but it's a song because we've we've looked we've looked at every category of love, you know, man and woman, and mother and uh father and father and son, cat in the cradle, cats in the cradle, and so on and so forth. Um, but we have never done muskrats. Ah, muskrats, it's a good one, JR. Wait, what do you think, JB? Great, JR. Yeah, let's take a listen. Ladies and gentlemen, Captain and Teneal of Bounce Beeves 373. This is it's about muskrats. It's muskrat love.

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Muskrat, muskrat, candle light. When the town ain't when it right evening.

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I would never last this song, this long in this song. I don't care what I was thinking about. There's nothing I could be thinking about that would keep me from turning the station.

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It's pretty pleasing. Muskrat Susie. Muskrat. Do the Jitterbug Muskrat Land and Shill Me. Sam is Suskey.

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Yeah, I mean, you must be kidding me. Moving on to number two. All right, number two, we get to a song that was very popular in the late 70s. 1976, to be exact. That was the bicentennial year. For those of you around, or those of you don't know your history. And everything on TV was about bicentennial. Everything you'd hear about the bicentennial constantly, because I was around. And you'd also hear this song on the radio. And again, this might be one that was some of you go, oh, I I kind of like that one. Well, I didn't then, I did it now, coming in at number two. Pat's peeps 373. Hey, good Wednesday to you. Remember, we got tickets for you this weekend. Go see the Starland vocal band. Ada.

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Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight, gonna grab some afternoon delight. My motto's always been when it's right, it's right, why wait until the middle of a cold dark night when everything's a little clear in the light of day.

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I had no idea what they were talking about back then. I just knew I hated this. But when you listen to what they're talking about, eh baby, you know what I'm saying. Right, so you get a little afternoon, you know.

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Thinking of he's working up an apple time, looking forward to a little afternoon daylight.

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Rubbing sticks and stones together makes me so excited, though. I like the sound of the skyrockets. You know, I could I would tune this song out so quickly that I never really heard the skyrockets in there. The skyrockets in flight. Did you hear that? Here we go again.

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Rubbin sticks and souls together, make the sparks ignite.

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Make the sparks ignite. Here we go, sound effects.

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Hey, afternoon delight.

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Somehow that made the song more interesting. I don't know what. And coming in at number one, if you ever hear me beyond this example, listening to this artist, and I don't mean to offend any of you who think this who thinks and cons considers this to be the most beautiful voice in the world, I apologize. Because I don't really mean to tick you off, and my opinion means nothing. So but honestly, and I don't, and so the other person in this video, so actually I just want I'm gonna pull this one up by this artist, but uh, she is in a video with another artist who I don't know anything about, Anastasia. I'm sorry if you're like, what do you mean you don't know about Anastasia? Well, I don't, it's not my cup of tea. But with a caveat in a moment, this is my number one, I do not want to ever hear. I do not want to see, and I want to be respectful in one way. I heard that she's wasn't doing that well, and hopefully, because I never wish ill will on anyone, I promise you that. Just because I don't like their music and I poke at a bit. I mean, I'm I hope they're healthy so the people that do love the artist can hear them. Okay, or her. But you want to talk about a cringe factor. When Celine Dion does ACDC, it is some of the cringiest, and watching her is even worse. Celine Dion coming at it, number one on the artist, you tune out immediately, Pat's Peach 373. Cringe City Tour, many stop doing that move.

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Stop that!

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Girlfriend! Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. I know I probably made some of you upset. Again, not my intent. This one might even further do that, but it comes on the radio. I don't care if it's pretty much any song by this artist. Completely different genre. This is rock, man. Very popular. Like way, way, way popular. But I cannot listen. I'm already tuned out at that point, right there. As soon as I hear watch, or listen, as soon as I hear this, that's it. I'm off to the next station. Just not a Bon Jovi dude. Thank you for playing along, Bon. Now we're gonna shift it over because it is that time of year, to songs that you hear at Christmas. That you you gotta tune them out. You can't listen to those songs. You can't do it again. You gotta go. I hear the song, come on, I'm out of there. You know what made me think let me backtrack just for a moment. We're we're we're listening to Celine Dion and Anastasia doing ACDC. You shook me all night long. I'm still disturbed by that. So I'm gonna stay on that for a second before I move to the Christmas versions of the songs I turn out immediately. You're on uh the Paths Peeps podcast. Hold on a second, my Pat's Peeps. 373. So here's what I really like. We'll let you I say I really like, let you you be the judge. I can listen to this one. Very creative. This one is called AC Leasey, and this is from Bill McClintock. Nice job, Bill McClintock. AC Leasey, and what we're gonna hear is Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC DC, mashed up with Brenda Lee, AC Leasey. We're gonna hear the mashup between Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Rockin' Around the Christmas tree.

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He's giving you the booth. Give them a badge away, but not this bit. This one you gotta do. But the phone! I'm always home, home with it, own Justin 362, 10 beats, that's the problem with the girl You gotta walk up dealing with the back round That's on the tears, don't stop the phone, I'm gonna go make the social calls of all you will get a sick feeling when you hear Awesome.

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The Christmas tree have a happy holiday.

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Very, very creative. Dirty deeds, rocking around the Christmas tree, transitioning into, well, Christmas music that when it comes on the radio, you have to turn it immediately. And I'm sure that as much as I do love Christmas music because it does get me in the mood like eggnog does, love the eggnog and the Christmas music and the Christmas tree and all of that stuff and all the lights and everything gets me in the Christmas mood. Uh, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to these. I'm sure you have these on your list as well. Not these particular ones. I'm sure that many of you have a list of your own Christmas songs that you can't tolerate. Let's see, how many do I have here? Yes, five. I'll do my top five. These are just the top five that I can think of. Alright. Alright. So at number five, even though I love the artist, you know, what a career. You can't say he doesn't have the perhaps the greatest career maybe in rock and roll history, even certainly way up there. But this song never did it for me. I'm sorry. With the cheap sounding keyboard, it seems like it took an hour to write this song. Paul McCartney, wonderful Christmas time, Pat's Peeps Podcast.

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Right, the spirit's up. We're here tonight. And let's see no simply having a wonderful Christmas time, simply having a wonderful Christmas time The party's on the feelings here on week comes this time of year, simply having a wonderful Christmas time, simply having a wonderful Christmas time. The choir of children sing their song.

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That just doesn't work for me. Alright, coming in number four. This is Band-Aid. And do they know that it's Christmas?

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It's Christmas time. There's no need to be afraid.

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It's so Christmas, so filled with Christmas cheer, isn't it?

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We let it lie and we vanish it.

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And in our world of plenty, we can spread a smile. More your arms around the world. But say a prayer.

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Just a whole assortment of artists.

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Christmas time. It's on but when you're having the fun.

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Duran Duran. What was the other one? Oh, Sting is in there. Phil Collins. Oh God, I can't take that. I'm sorry. Can't do her. Alright, in front of that one, this is a classic that is so well. We're getting to the more annoying ones. Alright. Annoying category. Here we go. Let's see. This would be one that you would always hear on the radio. Or I remember my mother singing this song when I was when we were kids. You know, love you, mom. But never loved this one from Spike Lee.

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That voice. Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, this.

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All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth. See my two front teeth.

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He, if I could only It should be a cartoon, shouldn't it? That should be a cartoon.

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I have my two front teets, and I could wish you Merry Christmas.

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Did they ever make a cartoon out of this, or is this just the song? Because I can see, if I look at it in an old cartoon, you know, if I in my mind think of it as an old cartoon, then it's more tolerable.

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But it seems so long since I could say.

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But to hear a grown man do that is just this. Coming in at number two, can't take this one. Nope.

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Oh, jeez.

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Even as a kid, the cartoon, even that was annoying to me. Even as a little kid, I just thank the Lord above that Adam Sandler doesn't try to cover that song. Coming in at number one, on the songs that I've I gotta turn to radio as soon as I hear the song. Perhaps this is on your top five list, but you've heard it a million times. You hope to never hear it again. But here it is, my friends. That's right. You'll know it, you'll love it, or maybe not.

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Walking home from our house Christmas Eve. You can say there's no such thing as Santa. As for me and grandpa, we believe. She'd been drinking too much eggnog. And we begged her not to go.

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I think I gotta go. I'm gonna leave it at this.

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But she forgot her medication.

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Thank you for listening and putting up with me. I wish you a happy Wednesday.

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When we found her.

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Thank you for listening, Pat's Peeps 373. Enjoy your day. We'll see you on the radio.

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She had hoot prints on her forehead, and incriminating claws marks on her back. Grandma got run over by a reindeer. Walking home from our house, Christmas Eve. You can say there's no such thing as Santa. But as for me and grandpa, we believe.