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Ep. 381 Today's Peep Brings Sunshine, Yodels, And Headlines, We Revisit A Notorious Scandal, Mock A 1959 "Women At Work" Film, A 1970's Pot PSA and Spin A Pristine Copy of a 1981 Classic

• Pat Walsh

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Sunlight hits the studio window and suddenly we’re off on a ride through memory, media, and music—starting with a date plucked from a headlines-in-history calendar and landing squarely on one of the 90s’ most unforgettable sports moments. We revisit the Kerrigan–Harding saga, not to re-litigate it, but to explore how live drama becomes cultural folklore: a blown-out knee, a rink-side plea, a lace gone wrong, and the way a televised crisis can outlast the medals themselves.

From there, we drop the classroom lights and spin the reel. If you remember film day—the clack of the projector, the kid who begged to be light monitor—you’ll feel the time machine kick in. We sample a 1959 workplace short that wears its sexism like a name tag, then jump to gritty 1970s booking-room audio where bravado meets authority. Add an anti-marijuana PSA full of stiff slang and parental panic, and you get a compact tour of how institutions once tried to shape behavior, sometimes with charm, often with cringe. The point isn’t to dunk on the past; it’s to see how messaging, myths, and tone leave fingerprints on how we think now.

To close, we cue a pristine RCA pressing and let a rare Yamaha CP30 sparkle through the opening notes of Hall & Oates’ “You Make My Dreams.” The backstory—blues colliding with Texas swing, a short-lived keyboard crafting an iconic riff—reminds us why certain songs never get old. A great record doesn’t just trigger nostalgia; it anchors us in the tactile reality of gear, sessions, and happy accidents that become timeless hooks.

If you love cultural archaeology—sports lore, vintage films, and the kind of pop songs that still lift a room—this one’s for you. Hit play, share it with a friend who hoards old reels or rare vinyl, and tell us: which artifact would you bring back for a rewatch or a spin? Subscribe, rate, and drop your thoughts so we can pull more gems from the shelves next time.

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I'd like to dedicate this song to Chris Christofferson and Johnny Cash and Billy Swan and Funky Downy Fritz.

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Funky Downy Fritz, man, I missed that guy. How awesome funky Pat How Hey man, how are ya? Welcome back to the Pat's Peeps Podcast. Today we're at 381 podcasts. Heck, even I'm impressed. 381. Just keep mowing them down, buddy. And uh today is a what is it? It's a Wednesday. It's uh January 7th, 2026. Looking out my studio window. Hold on. Oh, there we go. The light with this the sun was in my eyes for Pat's Peeps 381. Sure, nice to see the sunshine. Tell you that. You know what it makes me want to do? I'm glad you asked. Makes me want to yodel. Yeah, that's right. Look at the green moss on the trees. Feels so nice out there. I understand it might be sunshine. It might be sunny here for the next few days. It'd be a nice welcome break because we got all that rain and all the snow up in the mountains. So how are you? Thank you for listening yet again. Today, of course, you know, I've been doing this on my podcast here every day since the new year began because I got this from Christmas, for Christmas, I should say. From Gail. This is the headlines in history. I need to come up with some epic epic music for that. Headlines in history from the New York Times. This is 365 remarkable stories from the Times Archives. What is today? Today is the seventh, as I mentioned. Ah no kidding. All right. You know, I just out of curiosity from yesterday. You know what's uh hold on. Let me see if they did this. You know what is interesting to me, I'll just go back to yesterday. It just occurred to me. It was uh I I mentioned that it was the U.S. Senate opened a$2 million subway line in Washington. Blah, blah, blah. Well the headline was Senate opens fanciest subway the side of Moscow. But you know what they didn't do? They didn't they didn't choose to do in the calendar? They didn't choose to put the January 6th thing. What some people call the insurrection, which I didn't want to get into all that. Don't even get me started on that. But they didn't use that, so I appreciate that. I just that just occurred to me. And I had that on my show last night. By the way, my name is Pat Walsh. I'm the host of the Pat Walsh radio show, KPK Radio. News talk 1530 KFBK. It's old school. 50,000 watt. 7 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. Today, I'm gonna talk about this. I'm gonna go more into this on my show, actually. I love that flexibility. Here I can just go as long or as short as I need to. You can listen as long or as little as you want to. Uh but but I could, you know, sort of touch on this, but go more in depth on the show because I take phone calls on my show, and I hope you'll give it a call, give me a call one of these times. So on this day, January 7, 1994, what happened on that day? I don't know, Pat, I wasn't born yet. Well, if you were born, if you were around, you might remember this after a figure skating practice in Detroit. Nancy Kerrigan, the gold medal favorite in the upcoming Lillehammer Olympics, was smacked in the knee, right above the knee, by a then unknown assailant. And turned out to have been hired by the ex-husband of Miss Kerrigan's rival, Tanya Harding. The guy was hired by Tanya. Remember this? Of course you do. Kerrigan then went on to win the silver lily hammer. Boy, the question would be there is who won the gold? Because I tell you, I'm not a, I'm gonna be honest with you. There's very little that I enjoy watching. I don't know if this makes sense. Less than figure scanning. Sorry, I don't mean to insult anybody. Maybe you don't like baseball. That's cool, whatever floats your boat. But I just don't remember. I'm gonna look that up. I'm gonna go in in depth on tonight's show. Hope you can join us. Yeah, that was a big deal for a long time. I always knew the guy's name. And now I'm spacing off the guy's name. I remember I for years. Oh, oh god, I'll think of his name. I'm drawing a blank. But for years, I I had that in my mind. And people would say, God, how do you remember that? What was the guy's name? Oh the skinny um it was the skinny guy. I think it was a skinny dude. Jeff Galoole! That was her husband, right? Was it the her husband was a skinny dude? Jeff Galoole. Jeff Galulli. The San Francisco tree. Yeah, Jeff Galois. But there was he's not the one. Didn't they hire some dude with a trench coat or something? I can't remember. I'll have to look that up. But I'm pretty sure Jeff Galulli was her husband. That kind of leads into it. I don't know. Because you know, Tanya Harding, she went on to be like a I don't know what you would call her, like. She was always on these shows, like, where they would laugh at videos and talk to people. They'd show a funny video, and then they'd show little clips of like Carrot Top or you know, uh, or uh, or Tanya Harding. Remember that she got into boxing for a bit. Some considered her to be the you know the trailer trailer trash. I don't know. Some did. Didn't she live in a trailer? Hello? Maybe not. I think she did. Remember when she did the the thing with the tie in the skates? She was complaining that sh her shoelace came untied or something. Remember, she started crying. Oh my god. I haven't thought of this in five years. That's right.

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World champion Oksana Bayul in second place in the city. Oksana Bayoule might competition. Arriving with a smile.

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Nancy Kerrigan in Oh yeah, man, I forgot. Jeez, Nancy Kerrigan.

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First place after the technical.

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Man, she had the teeth, you know.

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She seems reasonably relaxed.

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But anyhow, in this one, I think Tonya Martin is like she screwed up and then whenever she started crying gives her skates or something.

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She's still obviously worried about the legs. She should be more worried about the performance, but I guess you can't worry about the performance unless your equipment is ready.

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So a lot of people don't remember that, including me. So that was her coming out on the I don't even know why I'm going off on this tangent. I just, whatever. It's because it's the headlines in history. She reminded me of it. But it's funny that I think most of us remember when she was crying after she messed up during her routine, and then, oh my skate, my lace came undone. But before she came on the ice, she's like, it's not gonna hold me. She actually made note of that. So let's listen again to that. So she's hasn't even come out of the tunnel yet.

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She's gotta hurry. It's not gonna hold me.

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But you would think, and again, I'm no expert on figure skating. Certainly never been backstage, even covering sports when I was doing that. But you would think that she'd be ready. Like the skate would be tied, you know. I don't know, you would consider that, I think, when you're you know, checking your schedule.

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Well, she's still obviously worried about the lace. She should be more worried about the performance, but I guess you can't worry about the performance unless your equipment is ready.

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Alright, so we fast forward in this to the infamous moment, Tanya Harding, 1994 Lillehammer, Pat's Peeps, 381. Because the first minute I think this is already the most figure skating I've watched since then. By the way, uh again, I don't mean to offend anyone.

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Never program three huge jumping passes. The first one, triple lux. She had problems with this in the technical program, reaches back with a right foot, single. She looked at her skate, it looked like she was uncomfortable, and I think she's gonna quit.

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Yeah, she didn't even like I don't even know what happened. She just quit and started crying. Now she comes over, she's talking to the judge or whatever. It's awesome music they're playing. Is that in a gun of vita?

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Whatever.

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Report the problem, and then the referee makes a ruling.

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I've made my ruling. She plops the skate back up there again.

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Diane Rollinson left her coach.

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I'm sure what she's telling them right now is that she tried her best to get out here on time. She threw the lace on, she threw it together, and she did the best she could to get out here.

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Right here.

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In a situation like this, the referee, the judging panel will give her every opportunity to put out her breast performance.

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See her breast performance. There you go. Ladies and gentlemen, Tanya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and most importantly, Jeff Galouli. Anyhow, we won't dwell on that. I just thought that was interesting. Uh, here on Pat's Peeps 381. I I you know, if there's think about random things, here's one thing I was thinking about. Remember back in a day when you would see you'd you'd watch films in school? I always loved when I had film day in school. There'd always be the kid that wanted to be the Mrs. Fonse, can I can I turn out the light? Can I be the light monitor? Yes, Peter, you can be the light monitor. You know, and there was always the kid that somehow knew how to ro how to run the film projector, because so many times the teacher didn't know how. Sometimes they did, but hardly ever. And they'd be always, hey, I can do that. All right, Neil, come up here, and then he'd come up there, or she would come up, and then they they knew how to run the projector. Then they'd start the projector, you hit the lights, the film would be really all old to making that sound. And it always seemed like the film was like 30 or 40 years old, but which back then it was always, you know, just seemed so old. Yeah, just thinking about that today. They have films like Trouble with Women, 1959. They turn it, it'd always be music like this, too. It might be an announcer announcing it old school. The Trouble with Women, starring, yeah. But I love these little intros. Based on material furnished by the Education Training Department, uh Aluminum Company of America. This is, yeah, again, 1959, the Aluminum Company of America. This is the trouble with women.

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No, no, no, Betty, that's wrong. Let me show you again.

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Yeah, Betty.

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All right, and this one here in the right-hand corner. To lock the suite. Now. Now let's try it again.

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Well, there's someone here to see you. Are you, Mr. Bradshaw, performance? Yes. Mr. Donnelly up in personnel said for me to give you this card.

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Oh? Are you sure that's what they said?

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I'll be with you in just a minute. No, no, no.

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Now, a minute is 60 seconds, but I'll be back later to go over this with you, Betty.

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Just in the meantime, do the best you can.

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Yeah, you're being a woman and all. Just do what you can. Just don't tinker with anything.

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Um, just have a seat here. I'll uh I'll be back shortly.

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I love the music. Hi, hi, Bob.

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Bearings inspector. These dumb women. Okay, now, Walt, you've had your little joke. Give her to somebody else. I ask for a man.

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We don't have a man with her qualifications. Seriously, Brad. If you treat her right, she might make you a darn good employee. Yeah, Brad. Treat her right. Get that chip off your shoulder.

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Good being a jerk, Brad.

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What's wrong with her? She's a woman, isn't she? You got a lot of women in your department. What's wrong with one more?

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What's wrong with one more?

SPEAKER_03:

Uh oh. They're good workers. Quick to catch mistakes. Yeah, yeah, but that comes out of books. I work with them, mister. I know what happened. Maybe I've been misinformed. Not so long ago, you sent me a girl by the name of Myrtle Malloy.

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Oh, I knew her.

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I knew Myrtle Malloy. I remember.

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As per her qualifications Myrtle the Girdle.

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I assigned her to an inspection bench.

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Hey, get your inspection bench, Myrtle!

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Myrtle, uh, we're moving you to table number 10.

SPEAKER_07:

Is something wrong, Mr. Bradshaw?

SPEAKER_03:

Well, you're a woman. No, nothing's wrong. We just need this space for something else.

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Well, I sure hate to give it up. It's been a nice place to work. The light's good here, and it's nicely situated right in the middle of things. I just began to feel at home.

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Well, I'm sorry, Myrtle, but table ten will have to be your work area for the time being.

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You must keep you separated from there.

SPEAKER_07:

You mean there's liable to be another change?

SPEAKER_03:

There's always that possibility.

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Yes. We might replace you with a man.

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I certainly hope I'm not moved every time.

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Really get things done.

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With man, no trouble at all. Tell him what you want, and he does it. But with Myrtle, a little move is a big production. Okay, okay. Now wait a minute. You ask me, now let me tell you. You know what I was doing when this new girl came in a few minutes ago?

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Yes? Well, I can't tell you, but probably shouldn't tell you this, but you know.

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Yesterday I spent an hour and a half teaching one of our girls what she needed to know in order to start on the oscilloscope today. All right, let me show the oscilloscope. I don't think the girl we got on it now ever pick it up. So I'll probably have to find somebody else.

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Yeah, but not a lot of people would know the oscilloscope.

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All these things you've been talking about marriage, absenteeism, personality problems. Aren't they really just a part of life? Part of a woman's life, maybe.

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That Brad. He is so silly.

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But I can remember the good old days when there were all men in my department.

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Men, men, men, men, men, men, men. A ship all filled with men. Remember that one?

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Men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men. It's great to be on a ship with men and sail across the sea. Oh, we don't know where we'll end, or it's great to be with men. It's great to be with men. On the ground with arrow. On the ground with arrow.

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A ship are filled with men.

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The man above the man below the gun down on the alley.

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I want guy we cross the alley. One guy we cross the alley. A ship are filled with men.

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Don't ever have to lift the seat. We're men and friends until the end. None of us season night. We sleep in separate beds and blow each other. KFCs and blow each other.

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Men, men, men. A ship are filled with men. Oh, that's a good one. Alright, let's see some drunk people being booked by the cops in the 1970s. Kansas City, Missouri. We'll hear from them now.

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You know something? Why don't you just poke me? That's what I'm trying to do, boy. But you ain't got guess. Well, I'm five, eight and a half. Next time you phone on fat mouth, I'm gonna step in it. Yeah, that's your own business. Your own business. But you you'll you'll uh on one of these days, boy.

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See, back then, you start mouthing off to the cops, you're like you call them a pussy or whatever, punk, like they do now, or even beyond that. You know, they grab you by your shirt and say, You keep talking like that, I'll show you. You know, now it's like they have to put up with it. I'm sorry, Bob. Did you call me that? Yep, listen. Um tell them for a half hour to do something. People don't do it, they curse them out. It's just different.

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One more of those. Do what you want. How tall are you? Five foot eight and a half. Keep your hand on my shirt. How much do you weigh? Yeah, I don't know. How much do you weigh, bro? I'm thinking about uh going to jail. Why the hell don't you put me in jail and forget about it? How much do you weigh? I don't want I don't want no more of this bullshit. How much do you weigh? How does that be?

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See, what also happens is nowadays if you're doing this with the cops and you start to run, they'll hit you with a tape. And you go down. In this case, old drunk boy Roy here is gonna be uh th when he tries to get away from the cop, cop's just gonna toss his arse right to the ground.

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I'm getting tired of this noise.

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They didn't have stun guns or taste.

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They blue? No, hell no. Hey, no better than color. I don't want more. If you want me to treat me, if you want me to treat me. I'll do what you want. I'll do as you want. Okay. As long as you won't. You take your hand over my hand. Right now. Okay. It's okay. Right now. Alright. I'll treat you like a man if you like like one. Come on over here and answer my question. Five seven. I'm over here. I got lucky. What's time?

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Let's get away.

SPEAKER_05:

You wanna get up and act reasonable? Now get up here.

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Hey.

SPEAKER_13:

Hey, I'll tell you, I'll tell you.

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You're down here for creating a public disturbance and screaming like you're doing right now.

SPEAKER_13:

Oh, that's a charge. That's a good charge.

SPEAKER_05:

Now, would you step over there before you were?

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Man, that was my browns, man. She's like a juggalo from the sixties. The seventies.

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You pick me up. What's the day you born in? Pick me up. What state was you born in?

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What did you born? What state was you born in?

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How much did you wear? I I wanna I want a lawyer. I better get this uh uh little old rookie. He ain't nothing but a rookie. Flatfoot!

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So there you go. Randomly on a Wednesday. Drunk people being arrested by the police in Kansas City, Missouri in the 1970s. Thank you. Maybe we'll try to make that irregular here on the Pads and Beeves podcast. Here's one. Here is a vintage educational film, going back to the films here. This is the uh this is an anti-marijuana film from the 1970s. Just take a quick listen.

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Like cloud was going around. Got it somewhere. I don't know where she got it. Nothing's wrong. Hey, Bonnie! Bonnie! Barry, sit down. Where have you been? You're starting to worry. Something goes wrong. Everything. Well, come on, tell us what happened.

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If you couldn't get any, don't worry about it.

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Oh, I got it all right.

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Yes, it's must be Canadian. Don't worry about it.

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Indeed, that's not my problem. As a matter of fact, if I hadn't, I forgot to take them out of my coat pocket. That's how. Boy, I'm dumb to get. But why does she usually go through your pocket? That's just it. She never does. But this morning she was sending a bunch of stuff to the cleanest. I love the music. Jim. And guess what needed cleaning? Your raincoat match. Oh, you were a kidding when you said gloom and do.

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This all happened this morning.

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Well, I was peacefully sleeping.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh-oh.

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Let me tell you, I sure woke up in a hurry when I saw what Mom had in her hand. Bunny?

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Is this your weed?

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What are you doing carrying marijuana around in your pocket? What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about. These were in your coat pocket, and Jim says they're marijuana. Jim says, What? Wait a minute, will you give me a chance to get my eyes open? It's no wonder you can't open your eyes. What do you expect doping yourself up with this rump?

SPEAKER_06:

Hey, you doping us up?

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For Pete's sake, you don't even know what you're talking about. What do you know about pot? Pot? Is that what you call it? Well, you listen to me, young lady. Until this morning I thought marijuana was something to read about in the newspapers, not finding my own home.

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Marijuana was something you read about the newspapers.

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Now you wash your face. Come downstairs as fast as you can. Your father wants to talk to you.

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Mom, do you have any Oreos? How do kids get hold of this stuff anyway? Anyway, all my Oreos. Yeah, but there's a lot of it around now, especially around high schools. What's wrong with the police? Is that against the law? Uh, sure it is, Dad. But it's just like a lot of other things. The police grab one person for selling marijuana, the next day, two others are selling it. There just aren't enough police to opens up the market.

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Why does Bonnie need the police to tell her what's right and what's wrong? Both of you were raised better.

SPEAKER_10:

Well, I bet you're sorry. I've got to drop that stuff off. The cleaner's on my way to Harry's. What's the rush to get the Harry's? Nothing in particular. I told him I'd helped move this car to the back.

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Now, what's the rush to get the Harry's? You know what they're gonna go do at Harry's. They're going over to do bong rips at Harry's. I think they gave up on that bucket of bulls, Harry Singh.

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I wish I'd never asked Jim what they were. Thanks a lot, Big Mouth.

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Look, if you're gonna carry around a pocket full of grass, don't blame me if you get caught.

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That's right. That's gonna be our words for the day. Our final word for the day. Uh if you're gonna carry around a pocket full of grass, then don't complain when you get caught. Okay. Keep that in mind. Some heavy advice here on Pat's peeps. 381 on a Wednesday. Hey, I yanked this record from the rare record shelves today. This is on RCA Records. There are zero stickers on either one, zero markings. Oh my gosh, it is an immaculate condition. One side is a mono, the other side is stereo. Of course, this is a video promo. I mean that is a beautiful condition. With a Jack Russell looking into the Vic Troller. Isn't that what that is? Jack Russell looking into the Victroller. So this song is by an American duo. They had so many hits during the 70s and 80s. This particular song is from their ninth studio album album called Voices. This is from 1980. That was a good year for some records, by the way. But the song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981. This song received 154,000 digital sales between 2008 and 2009. I don't know why they picked that random year. But it sold over 1.8 million copies in the UK as of a couple of years back. Even though it never charted in that country. Came about through a happy accent. Says John, my guitar player, a friend of mine, uh, and myself are Jamie. He says, in the dressing room, and I started playing a Delta Blues, he started playing a Texas swing, we put them together, and all of a sudden into my head popped this song. I don't know why, but I did. And it sounded really cool, and everyone liked it, and it was simple, it was just as simple as that. The other part of this group says on the iconic piano riff that opens the song that the distinctive sound that is generated by a Yamaha C P30. Um, he said in an interview with BBC on the 40th anniversary of the song's release, it's a very unusual edition of a Yamaha C P30. And there were very few of them. Said Daryl, now you know who it is. Very few of them made, and it wasn't out for very long. And then over the years, mine got destroyed, and you just can't duplicate that sound other than with the actual instrument. So I had to search and search until quite recently he said he found one. So the opening rift of this song is on a keyboard, CP30, which is extremely rare, wasn't r uh around for very long at all. Put it on the turntable. This is Holland Oats, you make my dreams come true. Pat's Peeps 381.

unknown:

What I want, you've got that might be hard to handle. But like a flame that burns a candle. A candle feels a flame.

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Okay, yeah, what I got full stock, a full dreams are scatter.

unknown:

Then you pull the ball together. And I have a candle flame. Oh yeah, well while you make a mind dream too.

SPEAKER_13:

Well, well, well you oh yeah, you make a mind dream to you on a night.

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Thank you for listening. Have yourselves a great Wednesday. And we'll see you on the radio.

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And I'll never be the same. Oh yeah, welcome you. You make my dream come true. You well, well, well, you make my dream come true.

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