Pat's Peeps Podcast

Ep. 383 Today's Peep Sits In For The Pat Walsh Radio Show, My Doctor's Advice for a Younger Body & Mind, Nostalgia is Alive & Well, Award Show Fatigue, and The Show Must Go On

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A dark studio turned into the perfect moment to reset what evenings—and radio—can feel like. After meeting a new doctor and getting candid about slightly elevated triglycerides, we walk through a simple shift that changes everything: finish dinner earlier, let your stomach rest at night, and watch sleep and energy improve. It’s not about a crash diet or guilt; it’s about building a plate with spinach, tomatoes, avocado, olive oil, and letting consistency do the quiet work. If late nights are your norm, there’s still a way forward: create a few hours of space before bed, keep it light, and reach for plain air-popped popcorn only if you must.

From there, we lean into a bigger theme that’s reshaping radio: nostalgia as connection. Gen Z and Millennials aren’t just streaming 80s hits; they’re asking for human voices, imperfect reads, and shows that feel like company instead of content. We talk about warming up production, taking more calls, showing up locally, and keeping a consistent, human tone across the podcast, the airwaves, and social. That’s the real “retro”—a friend at the mic, not a filter on the feed.

We also touch on awards show fatigue and why heavy-handed politics and overlong speeches push viewers away. The antidote isn’t cynicism; it’s making space for warmth, humor, and real conversation. The show must go on, and it does—with a nod to Leo Sayer and Three Dog Night, a salad that actually satisfies, and a reminder that small, earlier choices can make your body feel younger than your calendar says. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who eats late, and leave a quick review to help more people find a human voice in a loud world.

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Welcome to Pets Peeps number 383. That's right, friends. Thank you for checking us out again, or maybe for the first time. My name is Pat Walsh. I'm the host of the Pat Walsh Show. And uh, well, you know what? We are preempted tonight on my radio show, The Pat Walsh Show. KFPK News Radio, 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m., as heard uh every day, Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 p.m., except for tonight. And when I'm on vacation, today is the 13th. Well, figures it's the 13th. 13th day of January, 2026. And uh unfortunately, I am not able to host my show this evening. And thank you to everyone who has been asked, who has asked me. But but people are like, man, are you semi-retired? Because there have been a lot of best of lately. No, I'm not semi-retired. They're having some kind of glitch or technical issues back at the studio. So the engineers and our crack staff are working hard to make sure that those things are remedied and we can resume with live programming tomorrow evening. So I thought I'd put out a Pat's peeps tonight because you know what? I didn't have time during the daytime today. So it's kind of a blessing that I get to do this here this evening as I look at my studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California. I don't see anything but darkness because it's uh 750 p.m. So it's already dark here. It's getting a little chilly. And um today I couldn't do the podcast earlier. I had a doctor's appointment. Essentially, what it was was going to meet my new doctor. I had the same doctor for many years. Then during uh COVID, I mean, he was a really good doctor. And during COVID, he was, I guess, hired as the head of I couldn't really tell you, but some part of the health system here locally through Dignity Health to help tackle the COVID issue back then. And so since then I've shuffled to a couple of doctors, and now I have a really good doctor. I just met him for the first time. I say, Well, how do you know he's good? Well, you're right, but I'm talking about going on, you know, just sort of the first feel I got from the guy and uh that I got from him, and you know, talking to him, and some of the things that he went over with me were were pretty eye-opening. And so I really appreciated that. Um, you know, in terms of my health, I just kind of had a little checkup. Blood pressure slightly elevated, but not bad. He actually said it was good, but I know part of it was slightly elevated. But they attribute that to going into the office. They say that it happens all the time where people come in, particularly when they're meeting a new doctor, and uh you'll get kind of a reading like that. So, but you know, he said some things to me that really, really made sense and made me think about things. And he was so excited to find out that I was a talk show host that when I told him how much I was as a I was appreciating his thoughts and advice and recommendations, he said, Oh, this is perfect because you're a talk show host, and now maybe you'll talk about some of these things. And I said, Oh yeah. Because I'm always talking about how we should get colonoscopies. Oh, is it fun? No. Do you look forward to it? Probably not. I don't. I don't know anyone who does, but I do know this. It's very important to do that. So I have to schedule one of those, but I'm not here to talk about that necessarily. Uh, one of the things that he said, you know, here's part of the issues that I had is that my triglycerides are a little bit high. And that does concern me. And, you know, in talking to him about that, he was naming some of the things. There's five things he said that can kind of contribute to that. Uh you know, eating right, of course, sleeping right. One of the things he mentioned was that these are like oils in your body. They don't really want to, your body doesn't want them in there. You kind of got to figure out a way to get rid of those. And he said one of the attributing factors to high triglyceride counts is eating late at night. And I said, aha. That has to be it because of my schedule. You know, I I go on at 7 p.m., I get off at 10 p.m. There's many times like I'll have to eat at night late, and then I go to bed. And he was telling me that that is what you do not want to do. He said, Really, you don't want to eat after 5 p.m. if you can avoid it. Because your stomach is supposed to be empty through the night. It's not supposed to have to work, it's supposed to relax. He made this analogy about you know, about animals. He said, think about it. All the animals they eat during the day. They don't eat at night. The stomach, again, is supposed to relax in the evening, just like your muscles are. He says, essentially your muscles are at sleep. So he says, the only thing, the only animals that you see that are out night prowling for food that eat at night have these really, you know, big eyes, and they're and they're these nocturnal animals and they're just quite different. And he goes, and that's not us. That's not us. And so he says, eat early in the day. I mean, suppertime, five o'clock. And if you can avoid eating anything after that, great. And eat right. And I told him, I said, you know, this is really great news because I'm trying to eat healthier too at the same time. For instance, last night, and I happen to have a picture of, I took a photo of my food last night to show someone the that uh this the salad that I was making because I thought it was very nutritional, wanted to ask their opinion. I'm not a big avocado guy per se. Yeah, I don't hate them. I have to have a mixed in with things, but I know that that's good for cholesterol. So I made a salad with spinach, just like I'm gonna do here when I'm done. But, you know, now it's late in the day because I've had a busy day, but I still have to eat. So, but it's still pretty early. So I'll have a few hours before I go to bed, but I'm gonna try to do this before, like I like you said, by 5 p.m. But but spinach and tomatoes and um well last night in the salad I had avocado. You know, I cut it up into chunks, and I can tolerate it like that. And I don't load it up, and when I had carrots, just really healthy. And I don't load it up with big thick salad dressing. I have uh balsamic vinegar that I got from Italy, from Tuscany, and I've and um and I have some other really nice balsamic, and then I use olive oil, and he told me that is fantastic. He says, You eat that, you eat it by 5 p.m. And he says, your stomach will be happy. And he goes, then he says to me, you know how you want to, you know how people want to feel younger all the time? They want to feel younger? He goes, I'm gonna tell you how to feel younger. Again, eat by 5 p.m. And you eat that kind of food because your stomach is working at night when it does not need to be. And it's like, oh, okay, well, I guess I have to accept this and deal with this when I'm supposed to be, you know, relaxing, like all the other muscles. But nope, we'll just store this away. And he says, you know, you don't do that, you don't avoid you avoid that. He actually said, if you do feel like you have to have something to eat in the evening, he recommended popcorn that you pop in a uh a popcorn popper, no oil, no salt, no butter, if you have to have something at night. But he said, if you eat foods like that, you know, the avocados and the spinach, and you eat healthy and you eat by 5 p.m., your body will be younger, it will feel younger, you know, your immune system will be thankful because you're feeding it nutrients. And he went on and on and on about all this stuff, and it was really uh something I needed to hear. So I am going to be on a mission to be doing that this year. I'm gonna see if I could do it. You know, what do you have to try? I mean, go towards it, as I say. Go towards it, see if you can do it. So thank you to my new doctor. Really did appreciate that very much. You know, here tonight on Pat's Peeps, where are we at? By the way, I didn't even mention that, I don't think. We're at 383 podcasts. I want to talk a little bit about nostalgia. I was gonna do that on my show tonight. I had a great show worked up for tonight for my radio show. However, since I'm not on the air, I'll do a just give you a little preview of what I was gonna do, and I'll probably do that show tomorrow. As for now, this portion of Pat's Peeps383 is brought to you by speaking of good for you, it's brought to you by beef cigarettes.

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Sort of. An article by John Schombey here on Pat's Peeps three hundred and eighty-three. It's about the appreciation of nostalgia, which I do on my show quite frequently. And as they say, the show must go on. And this article, this uh piece by John Schombey, I found fascinating. He says, What if I told you nostalgia could be your ticket to that elusive under 40 crowd? Sounds backwards, he says, but it's not. Some of the smartest minds in our business, Matt Bailey, Fred Jacobs, Mike McVeigh, have all recently pointed out the same thing. The past isn't, it's not just calling, it's trending. Goes on to say from early Christmas, music surges on the radio to Stranger Things driven 80s revivals to Coca-Cola using its heritage to market the future. They say the message is clear. Gen Z and millennials are driving this, by the way, not boomers. And that flips a lot of long-held radio assumptions right there on their little head. By the way, did you know that the word nostalgia comes from the Greek roots meaning a pain for homecoming? They thought it was a it was an affliction at one point. The pain of missing the past. Believe it or not, it did start as a medical diagnosis for homesick soldiers. Nostalgia evolved into the bittersweet longing for a simpler time, which is exactly what younger listeners are feeling today. It's a very interesting article asking why them. Look at the world in which they've grown up. Nonstop political and cultural tension, digital anxiety, information overload, economic uncertainty, many relationships conducted through screens. Chaos is their normal. And when life feels chaotic, people reach for the things that they feel that makes them feel safe. For instance, you know, things that make them feel safe and stable and familiar. So younger listeners are embracing retro shows. My show is kind of retro in many ways. I like to relive things we had fun doing. Some of those things tie into today. Vinyl Records, for instance. I play this on my podcast all the time. Younger listeners are embracing retro shows, vinyl records, flip phones. They say it's not just the under 40 crowd, it is everyone, according to this piece. But Gen Z and Millennials are leading the way. And this is in radio context. So they tell you about how here's where the PDs, the these would be the program directors, can easily miss the opportunity. They say the answer isn't play more gold, that's lazy nostalgia. The younger listeners want what they want isn't old music, it's an old feeling, the vibe, the atmosphere, the humanity of radio, the way it used to be. He goes on to say, here's a few places to start. Bring back imperfect human production, warmer, more human voiceover talent, imaging that sounds like it was made by a person, not a plug-in. More heart, fewer facts. May I just look, I'm not trying to say, oh, I do this or that, but I'm gonna be honest with you about that. That's exactly my technique. When I do ads, whether it's for my businesses here on Pat's Peeps, please go to patspeeps.com and see what we got going on there. Whether it's my my endorsements for local businesses that I do on my radio show, I try to make I try to make it natural. My show is natural. People always say, they'll tell you, oh yeah, Pat Walsh, he's the same off the air as he is on the air. That's the only way I can be. I can't act on on the radio. I have to be myself. I have to be natural. In terms of voice delivery, I'm trying to be natural. Even though people will tell me quite frequently, you sound like you should be on the radio. When I'm just having a conversation, I'm not trying to talk like that. But I guess when you talk like that a lot, it just kind of seeps into your your daily conversation. But I want it to be made by a person. I want you to feel like you and I are friends and neighbors, because I hope we are friends. We may not know each other, but I would like that. I mean, I would like to be friendly, not a plug-in, as they say. More heart, fewer facts. You know, you can fill a 30 or 60-second ad with facts, but if there's no heart, it doesn't matter. You know, this was the nicest, I'll tell you, it was the nicest email that I'd gotten from anyone in a while. And this was actually from my PD, my boss. I'm gonna share with you because I don't think Bill White, who is my boss, would mind that I share this with you. He wrote an email to me this morning. Says, reading this morning and thought of you. Reading this this morning and thought of you. How you got people to talk about the grateful dead and rock icons. We talked about the grateful dead right yesterday, Bob Weir, last night on my show, too. When Rik when when when rock icons pass, or even when they're still alive and well, we talk about them. Anyhow, he said, reading the, I'll read what he said, and then I'll stop sidetracking myself. Exactly what he said. I was reading this this morning, thought of you. How you got people to talk about the grateful dead and rock icons. Younger people, as you know, are very much into that. Local connections can be made talking about anything which you do. Thank you, boss. Thank you. Because you can make connections, it doesn't have to be about 60 seconds of jamming facts, it doesn't have to be a three-hour radio show or a podcast in this case, where I'm just giving you facts, I'm trying to connect with you on a more human basis. And judging by not just the time spent listening to the TSL on my radio show, not just by that, but by the way people treat me on my show, it's mutual respect. You know, judging by the fact that my podcast numbers are growing all the time, thank you. Judging by the fact that the businesses are doing well, that our Pat's Peeps groups travel together to different countries. It's just amazing. And I thank all of you for that. I wanted you to know that's where that came from. Uh the article continues, by the way. This is a piece by John Shambi. Rebuild real time interaction. Yeah, bring back the phones. That's what I do. Some people they don't even take phone calls. I love hearing from you. I love your calls on my show. I am a local show. I'm a what we call companion radio. I want, I I like the companionship as well. So, yes, bring back the phones. On my show, they never went away. A lot of these other shows, if they did that, they would be literally bringing back the phones. At least and what does that mean? It means you. I value you. Show up in real places again. High schools, local businesses. That's what we do. I'm telling you, we're doing this right, and I'm very proud of that. Go to ball games. Remind people that radio is very alive in their town. I promise you, if you listen to my show, this literally, it's almost like they're describing me and my show. And I don't say that to be egotistical, it's just the truth. Number three, coach talent to be hosts, not content delivery systems. Personality is nostalgia. That is what my show is. It's personality driven. It is nostalgia. Connection is nostalgia. Being a companion is nostalgia. That's all right there in this article at the three spot. It is precisely what I want to do. It is precisely what we do. It's amazing. I never looked at any of these. I never looked this up. I never said, let me look up. Well, years and years ago, I've been doing this going on 13 years of the show. I never looked at it. I said, what can I do to make the listeners feel good? It's just what's in me. That's what pours out into this microphone that you're listening to right now. That's it. That's why I'm talking about it right now. Everything it said right there, and number three, personality is nostalgia, connection is nostalgia, being a companion is nostalgia. Those are the things I strive for. Personality? Yep. I'm not going to sit there and just be, you know, in the news today, more fighting and blah, blah, blah. The Iran contra. We've got the impeachment of blah blah. You know, I'm sick of it, man. Personality. How about some fun? Inject some of that. Connect to you and be a companion. Number four. Carry the vibe onto your digital platforms. That's right. Just like this podcast. That's right. I swear to God, this is amazing to me. A consistent, warm, a consistent, warm tone. A human first presence across the social media and the website. More listener interaction. You know, fewer pics of a table and a tent at a car dealer. Digital doesn't have to feel cold, it can still feel like you. That's right. It actually says telling program directors to go listen to some back-in-the-day air checks for some inspiration. There's a reason they still feel good. You can find a ton of them on YouTube, they said. Old school radio, according to this article, was intimate. It felt like a friend keeping you company. Oh my gosh. I 100% agree with this. This article, thank you to my boss for sending this to me. He knew it when he sent it exactly. This is again, this is what we do. And you know what he says? What the article says. Not only was the old school radio intimate, friend, a friend keeping company, it's what the under 40 crowd is telling us they want and maybe even need right now. And the winning move isn't to go backwards, it is to lean into being radio again. Thank you to John Shombe. Radio Inc. Daily Headlines. I mean, you're absolutely positively right. That made me feel good. You know, this is the place where you get, you know, the local commercials that you love so much. Don't they make you feel good?

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That's peeps. 383. Speaking of nostalgia. Let's put a little nostalgic twist on vanilla ice.

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That's right, my friends. I'll get nostalgic on you. Remember when that remember when TV used to be good?

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Deadly. When I play a dope melody, anything less than the best is a feeling. I've better leave it to your bitter. TV used to be good. Still can be.

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But I noticed that the Golden Globe 2026 was another dismal failure. Viewers fuming over the boring show as A-listers walk out. I didn't watch it. They intertwined too many political statements into these shows, and it really turns a lot of people off. Plus, a lot of these people are not well known. Anyhow, so viewers of the Golden Globes of Brand of the Show Boring claims that some of the celebrities left the event early. Hollywood's award season got underway on Sunday. Comedian Nikki Glazer returning for a second year to host the ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hilton and Beverly Hills. Duh. One battle after another topped the list with a lot of that shot in Sacramento, by the way. Top the list of nominations with nine, took Best Motion Picture Musical Comedy. Uh, and Hamnet won the title of Best Motion Picture Drama. Never heard of it. I don't even know a lot of these people. I'll be straight up with you. Benny Blanco, Dak Shepherd, Kristen Bell, Keegan Michael Key left the ceremony early while some awards were still still being handed out, were still to be handed out. While watching the event from home, some people complain. They say that the show was boring. They took to social media to share their thoughts. By the way, this is on the mirror, this article. One posted on X. This has been one of the most boring Golden Globes I've ever seen. And I've watched him for years. Haven't heard of any of these one name films. Haven't heard of any of these under 30 actors, and they are all as obnoxious as they could possibly be without disappointment. Another tweeting the producers of the Golden Globes, oof, letting speeches run on endlessly. The horrible color commentary, the gambling sponsorship, the odd music choices, the map of the nominees instead of eclipses or even a freaking still bad, bad, bad. Yeah, you know, I say, get that big hook like they used to do in vaudeville or whatever, you know, like the gong show have a big gong. You either gong that thing and get them off that freaking stage, or you get that big white hook and you just pull them off it at some point. Another poster said, Holy F, the Golden Globes announcers are boring as hell and are not at all funny. Anyhow, that goes on and on. I'm not here to bash them, but I gotta tell you, it's just really bad. And then last night, you know, they're wearing these pens as well. That was another thing. Because people just that's the other problem with these shows like this, is that they they're all like I said at the beginning, politics always gets intertwined with this. And so apparently during last night's broadcast, you had several quote air quote celebrities wearing be good ice out pins during this show. Unbelievable. Be good ice out pins, and they want to know why these shows are to do not get good ratings. The ratings are dwindling year after year. These are in honor of Renee Macklin Good, who was killed by the ice agents or ice agent. It's just a tiny sprinkling of celebrities on the red carpet wore these. Ice out and be good. Again, no one wants to see anyone lose their life, and no one wants to see anyone get in their car and not comply with officers and be and put themselves in a dangerous situation and try to run any officers over, and no one wants to see anyone being shot. But I'm not gonna get deep into that. I'm just saying the point is these nominees, these presenters, these guests, I went to say their names, were wearing pins from the ACLU endorsed protest campaign, which was organized by a group of entertainment and industry professionals. Again, air quotes. If they're wondering why their ratings have been going down, well, look no further than that. But the show must go on. Just like tonight, the show must go on. Since I didn't get to do my radio show, the Pat Wall show, I get to do my podcast, my Pat's Peeps podcast. So I thought, why not? Since the show must go on, let's play The Show Must Go On as We Go Out. I didn't pull this one from my record shelf. It's just that I it came to mind when I was thinking the show must go on. You remember that song? It was actually done by two different artists. It was co-written by Leo Sayer. Anyone remember Leo Sayer? Also, it was co-written by Sayer and David Courtney, and first recorded by Sayer. Released in the United Kingdom in 1973, became Leo Sayer's first hit record, reached its chart peak in number two in early 74 in the UK, went to number three in the Irish singles chart in January of 74, and was included by uh on his um on his debut album, Silverbird. Personally, I don't really remember that one as I remember the second version, which because that Leo Sayer, who had some hits here, like Long Tall Glasses, When I Need You, those are big hits in the United States. But that song was not huge in the United States, the show must go on for Leo Sayer, but it was by another band, Three Dog Night. So let me play the Leo Sayer version. The show must go on. Pat's Peeps, 383. How many songs have circus music to start this song? Not many, I'll tell you that. It's circus music. Might wanna feel you might want to edit that bad boy like Three Dumb Knight did. 42 seconds of circus music. The version I know of the show must go on, as I mentioned, was released by Three Dog Night. And that came out in 1974. It was the last of the top 10 hit in the U.S. for Three Dog Night, went to number four in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100, number one on the Cash Box Top 100, as well as in Canada, where it reached number two, also reached number 11 in the Netherlands and number 12 in Germany. So this was a very popular version back in the day. It was on the radio all the time. Three Dog Night, the show must go on. It might go forty-two seconds as well. Thirty-two seconds. I swear, I don't know why, but it uh was released March 16th of 74. Reminded me of wearing platform shoes and bell bottoms. My two-tone platform shoes. They were all the rage in 74. And with that, I thank I say thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps. Hurray, hurry, hurry. Step right up, Pat's Peeps. We'll see you on the radio tomorrow. I hope.

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