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Man, I tell you what, Hank, about that old meaning of life, man. It's like this, man. You like a butterfly flapping his wings deep down into the forest, man. It's gonna cause a tree to fall like 5,000 miles away, man. Nobody see it, nobody don't done even happen. You know, you the baby's born into this world and don't got dang friends and got no nothing but to go come in and find out all about them old evil, man.

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Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for tuning in to the Pats Peeps Podcast. Muchos gracias. Pats Peeps 382. This we're back on a Monday. It's Monday. And as I look out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, the sun is shining. It was cold this morning, but perhaps it's warming up just a little bit here on the twelfth day of January 2026. It's about this time where I start to ease off of the Happy New Year, but at this point I'm still going to wish you I'm gonna I'm gonna sort of phase that into happy 2026. A hasp happy and healthy and prosperous 2026. By the way, my name is Pat Walsh, and I am the host of the Pat Walsh Show as heard on KFPK News Radio 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m. and streaming live everywhere on that free iHeart app and all of your uh, you know, wherever you stream, you can get this podcast and of course my radio show, the Pat Walsh show. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Of course, the weekend, what was it? Ba-ba-ba-ba. It was football. It was the wild card round of in the NFL. And the teams are advancing, the teams are falling out. Some pretty good games, kind of with the exception of last night's game. And then we have one more game tonight where the Steelers will be taking on the Texans. But as for yesterday, uh let's see. 14, of course, teams in the NFL have a spot in the postseason. And now that, like I say, is dwindling. The Denver Broncos and the Seahawks had the weekend off, by the way, as they are the top two seeds in the uh AFC and NFC respectively. Remember the Seahawks used to be in the AFC? I don't know why they still seem like an AFC team to me, but nope, there they are in the NFC West. By the way, think about this. As we get well, uh as as I move into this, just something to think about. You know, the 49ers, who they won yesterday, they pulled it out in Philadelphia despite the you know the team being so injured. And then George Kittle unfortunately went out with a uh because I don't root for injuries. I might be a Ram fan, but I do not root for injuries. And Kittle's a good dude. Uh but an Achilles tenant, what a brutal way to end your season. You know, he's being carted off, and he seemed like still in a pretty good mood, despite something that must be so terribly uh painful. But you know, at this point, because they move on, the 49ers, by virtue of their victory yesterday over the Eagles in a hard-fought game. Now they go to Seattle to play the Seahawks, who again had the bye because of the seeding, and the Rams won yesterday, which we'll get more into in a moment. My Rams won. But you know the 49ers are like, come on now, we got to do anything we can because there's two other NFC West foes that are in the mix for the Super Bowl. And where is the Super Bowl being played this year? That's right. At Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, home of the 49ers. So the last thing the 49ers want is to see either the Los Angeles Rams or the Seattle Seahawks win the Super Bowl on their field. So that's what they're fighting for. Not only are they fighting for just trying to win the championship despite all the injuries, they're fighting to prevent two hated rivals from winning the Super Bowl on their field. But here's the thing they have a chance to win it on their home field, much like Tampa Bay, the Buccaneers did what in 2020, followed by the Rams in 2021, winning at home at SoFi in Los Angeles. These so far the only two teams that have ever won at home, won the Super Bowl at home. So you have 12 teams competing in the wild card. Last night, New England defeated the LA Chargers. So New England moves on. Jacksonville, despite a string of victories, just like New England had a string of victories, Jacksonville ends up losing to the Buffalo Bills. So you had the two-seed New England Patriots defeating the seven-seed Chargers. Then you had the six-seed Bills coming away with a win in Jacksonville against the Jags. A six-seed beating a three-seed. Tonight it's the four seed in the EFC. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers going against the number five Houston Texans. Over in the NFC. The Chicago Bears. Despite trailing, what was it in that game? 21-3? And they came back. Beat the Green Bay Packers. So a two-seed beats the seven seed. As I mentioned, the 49ers topped the Eagles to advance. A six-seed over a three-seed. And then my Rams in a close game. Most of these were very close and entertaining games. Although entertaining for me is not freaking out because I think my team's going to lose because they get a punt blocked. But that's what sports is, man. That's what it is. But the Rams at the five-seed beat the four-seed Carolina Panthers. So now that sets up the Broncos against the Bills next week in the AFC divisional round. And then you have number two New England taking on either the Steelers or the Texans in the divisional round. So one of those teams will be representing the Super Bowl for the AFC. Broncos, Bills, Patriots, Steelers, or the Texans. Now, over the NFC. Where does that leave things? That means that the Rams will now take on the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago. While the 49ers travel to Seattle to take on the Seahawks. Great games, but congratulations to um you if your team won. My brother is a Bears fan, my brother Steve, and his wife Mary, my sister-in-law, is a Packer fan. So that must have been delightful to between them. You know, it could be. I mean, think about it. What did I say? I bet you it was somewhere at the beginning, you know, probably week 10, 11, so I don't know how many podcasts ago. We were in the midst of the season. We weren't near the playoffs. But I said that the Rams could end up hosting the 49ers, or vice versa, in the NFC Championship game, and that one of those two teams could play the Super Bowl in San Francisco. I think I predicted that it would be at SoFi Stadium, the championship game. And of course, being biased as I am, despite a gutsy 49er team, and despite the Rams letting the Panthers play him too close, I believe I said the Rams could play the 49ers at SoFi and then perhaps go on to win the Super Bowl at Levi Stadium. I'm not suggesting that's going to work out for sure, obviously, but I did. I said that's a very good possibility. And now look, if the Rams beat the Bears, if the 49ers beat the Seahawks, then guess what happens? The Rams play the 49ers at SoFi. I'm just saying, that prediction is still in the mix. And if these are huge ifs, I admit that. If the Rams were to somehow prevail and play the Super Bowl at Levi Stadium, then that prediction comes true. Of course, with the Rams winning the Super Bowl. But it could be the Niners at home. So, anyhow, congratulations if your team won yesterday. If your team lost, well, sorry, man, I know that sucks. Because we could be next, you could be next if you still have a team in the mix. Anyhow, um another thing I wanted to mention here on Pat's Peeps 382, uh, it was a very it was a bummer weekend, as we used to say. A bummer weekend because I heard the news of the passing of Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead. And for me, um, I am a fan of The Grateful Dead. Some people don't get it, just like my uh, you know, like Frank Zappa, who is another one of my favorites. Maybe some people don't get it, but I do get it. I love it, along with legions of other people who do. And so when I heard, because we already lost Jerry Garcia back in 1995, Phil Lesh. Phil Lesh just passed away. Phil Lesh, the great bass player, um, just passed away. When did he pass away? It was not that long ago. Um yeah, it was October 25th of last year. In my opinion, one of the greatest bass players, Phil Lesh. So you had Jerry gone, Phil Lesh. Of course, you know, if you go back uh within the band and the history of the band, they've lost several people, but Bob Weir. It was like Jerry and Bob were the front of the band. And I mean, I love Grateful Dead so much, The Grateful Dead so much that was it last year, I think um Roe Jimmy was my number one listened to song according to Spotify, and The Dead was my number two listened to band behind Dean Martin. Now think about that. You talk about eclectic music tastes. Dean Martin number one, the Grateful Dead number two. Probably Merle Haggard number three. And when I say Merle Haggard, that takes me back to Bob Weir because you know, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia, just like Steve Perry, maybe and Greg Raleigh of Journey, two different vocal stylings, to, um, but both really good at what they did. And I don't know really how to describe Jerry's sound. I don't know if you'd it was a sweet, innocent, yet he was fit perfectly with kind of spacey and trippy dead songs. I really don't know how to exactly how to describe, but if you're a deadhead, you know what I'm talking about. Um Bob Weir, you know, Bob Weir brought in a different style. Like he brought in country into the band. Marty Robbins, yeah. I love Marty Robbins. He'd bring that style in. And by the way, when you listen to The Grateful Dead, their most popular song of all time, I would argue, certainly one of them, is Trucking, mainly sung by Bob Weir, but then you can hear Bob and Jerry together doing the harmonies. Here you go. There they are together. So you really hear Jerry's voice very prominent right there, but here comes Bob Weir. Listen to Phil Lesh on that bass. Bob Weir has that more, I don't know, almost like a blue-collar sound. I don't know if that's the right word.

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Most of the time it's sitting in the I don't know. One of these days, then they gotta get going. Out of the door and down to the street hole.

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So that's one of the you know the most popular song, I would argue. Touch a gray. They've got some really popular ones. That's probably the most well known. One of my favorite songs by The Grateful Dead came out in 1977. I was listening to this when I heard the news that Elvis died. Estimated profit from Terrapin Station. This is Bob Weir on the vocals.

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My time coming any day. Don't worry, so felt this way.

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God, I'm gonna miss these guys. I'm gonna miss them.

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My time coming. Voice say they tell me where they go. Don't worry about them. Don't worry.

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It just has the perfect voice for the dead. You hear their voice and it just takes me back to dancing in a meadow listening to these guys with other deadheads. I can't consider myself a deadhead per se.

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Like this day, boys to this.

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But a deadhead aficionado and a huge fan, yes.

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Don't worry about me.

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As I mentioned, Bob was a big fan of like the kind of country type of song within the dead. One of my favorite songs by them is me and my uncle. With Bob Weir and the vocals.

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Me and my uncle.

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I just like his sound for some reason. Makes you want to drive across the desert and listen to this. One of my multi-time favorite bass players. Talking about a bottom weird. Co-founded The Grateful Dead. Bob was 78. Literally a cornerstone of California's psychedelic rock. And of course a lot of the offshoots of that as well. He had cancer and lung issues. Only the sense of someone setting off again. Noting that they hope that this legacy and lengthy catalog will live on. Well, it certainly will. Career span more than 60 years. As a matter of fact, Robin the Interruptor and I went and saw The Grateful Dead 60th anniversary here this August. 60th anniversary. With Bob Weir playing and sounding fantastic. His big break was in 1965 with the founding of the dead. Within a few years, they became a force within San Francisco's characteristic counterculture, of course. And their style began to shape rock music. Sort of blended psychedelia type, psychedelic music, drug culture with like these. I like I was trying to say about Jerry, kind of these mystical sounds and I just don't know how you would describe the dead. They're kind of indescribable. Fusing rock and Americana, you know, Jerry knew bluegrass. They didn't really play bluegrass. Bob loved country. They didn't really play country. They morphed all of this stuff into this new thing that can only be described as the Grateful Dead. No one sounds like the Grateful Dead. Fish tries to sound like the Grateful Dead. Fish is a good band. They have a strong following. Probably some of the dead fans follow Fish. I don't know. But they're different. They're considered the Grateful Dead one of the you know one of the pioneers of jam bands. They were inducted into the Rock and Hall of Fame in 1994, back when the Rock and Hall of Fame had some semblance of credibility. The Grammys in 07. Jerry died in 95, like I said. But you had Bob involved in the Dead Company. That's what we saw on the 60th anniversary of the dead and the Golden Gate Park in the University of August. They had their residency of the Las Vegas here in 2024 and again last year. I did not realize this. He was diagnosed with cancer in July. And then just continue to perform. So when we saw him in August, he had just been diagnosed with cancer. I didn't realize that. Another one of the great songs, one of my favorites by The Grateful Dead. With Bob Weir singing it. You can just tell how much he enjoyed this old school country music. Pat's Peeps 382.

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Out in the West Texas town of El Paso. I fell in love with a Mexican girl. High time would find me in the roses, cantina. Music would play and Fellina would whirl. Black of the night were the eyes of Fellina. Bringing into evil while casting a spell. One night a while, the young cowboy came in. While the West Texas we're daring a drink, he was sharing with wicked Velena, the girl that I love. So in anger, my challenge is right for the love of this mid. Down went his hand for the gun that he wore. My challenge was answered in less than a heartbeat. Some young stranger laid dead on the floor.

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Such a different style. Just for a moment for the dead and for Marty Robbins.

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Out through the back door of a road as I ran.

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So yeah. Yeah, that country sound too much a love. I picked a good one, it looked like it could run.

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Just as fast.

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Wow, I'm gonna miss this guy, like I said. Also, um, you go back a few years to hell in a bucket. Another great Bob Weir song from the later part of the catalog. Well, I was drinking last night with a biker And I showed him the picture you said now I'll get to know what you like her She liked the least I could do It's Witt is talking his chopper Up and down your carpeted hole You think the bottom class quapper Nevermind I stumble This one came out on the The Hell in the Bucket came in on the album In the Dark 1987 He enjoyed the ride for sure on the ride Yeah the ride This one also featured Touch of Grey and it brought the band to a wider audience this album a wider audience and this is one of the album's most popular tracks wheeling a sock up at dinner Rest in peace, Bob Weir. We'll talk more about Bob coming up on my radio show tonight. The Pat Wall Show 7 to 10 on KBK Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps Podcast 382 See on the radio The revenue is Captain the Great Lingman know how you look at old nations you create Yeah Z-Red C create You imagine this Champagne V boo Right taste for elegant pride Go in the hell in a bucket baby needs I'm enjoying the ride Lead time to join the ride Yeah least I'm enjoying the ride