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Thank you.

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Once again to the Pats Peeps podcast on what is a beautiful day. The sun is shining. It's a little bit cool, but not bad. And I'm out here doing my thing. I'm out here walking. Because again, like I always say, I gotta keep up the exercise. And sometimes there's just not enough time in the day to get everything in when you're trying to exercise, when you're trying to do all of the errands, run all the errands, do all the chores that one has to do in their daily life. Um, not to mention just work and everything else. The grind, you know, the typical grind. But anyhow, um, I'm out here walking on this beautiful day. It is serene and uh getting ready to walk under the train trestle. It's just so quiet and it's just gorgeous. And today, by the way, let me uh introduce myself. My name is Pat Walsh, host of the Pat Walsh Show on KBK News Radio 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m. and stream it live on your free iHeart app. Of course, my podcast, you can hear it on all of your streaming platforms. We have a traffic congestion suddenly here at the train trestle. Waiting patiently carries all of a sudden this very quiet little intersection became very busy. I never know because you know when I'm out walking, I uh never know whether you can hear my Nike app going talking, resuming workouts because if you stop anymore at all, it pauses, it's just pausing workout, then resuming workout. Alright, what's my train trestle shout out today?

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Alright. Good season, Rams. You gave it your best two years in a row, we were right there. We'll get him next time.

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Oh yeah, still soaking in that Rams loss the other night. I cannot believe it. Still can't believe it. But anyway, I'm not gonna get into that. I've already made my my thoughts known on this. So this is one of those days where as I start my podcast, I'm kind of just car go by. I'm just doing it, I'm just freewheeling it today. No net here on Pat's Peeps 391. I have nothing specific on my mind, no axe to grind, nothing to whine about, uh nothing like that. I've never tried it before where I can just freewheel it off the top of my head here, so I'm gonna do that. Uh I hope that if you have done your, you know, if you made a commitment to yourself here in 2026, no matter what it is, uh, whether it was a New Year's resolution, some kind of a goal, you said I'm gonna get going. I hope you've done that. Here we are at uh like I said, the 27th day of January already. Dang it, just time as flies by. It's just absolutely amazing. One of these days I'm gonna look back and go, yeah, yep, those were the best days right there. Walking and talking to people. Which speaking of that, thank you to so many of you who have been listening to the podcast on a daily basis. I see the audience is growing all the time. I better get out of the road here. You know, hadn't done this for a few days and I was a little afraid to come out here see how my my wind and my heartbeat and everything would be. And really, so far so good. I usually stop back there for a couple of minutes or you know, a couple of seconds. Stop right here real quick, and you know, just pause, make sure my heartbeat's going alright, just keep myself in check and avoid cars like this. Oh boy. So I feel like it's gonna be a good year. I want to make it a good year health-wise. I want to change some things like I've been doing about my diet. Got some calls last night, couple calls about you know, people listening to the podcast after I went to the doctor, and they're like, hey, that was good to hear that, you know, that you change your diet and things like that. And actually inspired a few people, which I thought that was just great. Really? And by the way, that's another thing. I'm getting a lot more people calling my radio show and saying, hey, I'm a Pat's peep. Whether it's a business or whether it's one of you listening. I mean, that's awesome. Yeah, you know how much that means to me. You have the podcast, so you're peeping on the podcast, or you and then you listen to the show and you call in. That means the world to me. Uh so oh, and then someone else also called last night and they said, you know, Pat, and they were referring to my Monday night show, or excuse me, my Friday night show, whatever it was. I think it was Friday night. We were talking about the cold snap that's going on in the United States. And I played a uh weather reporter on a station ABC 7 in Denver. And uh the news anchors, I'm going by the basketball court here because I love this. I want to shoot some hoop. The uh newscasters at ABC 7 in Denver through to the traffic guy. You know how they do, they always make the traffic guy, I mean not the traffic guy, but the weather guy. If it's really snowing or flooding or whatever, they make them go out in the middle of it with their boots on and report live. And so, you know, I play the sound of this weather guy who didn't really appreciate going live from the snow outside and let the anchors know that in a pretty funny way. And so she called a listener called in last night, and she said, Uh, you know, Pat, I was listening last night, I wasn't feeling too good, wasn't sure what was wrong with me. She goes, Then I'm listening to your show, which thank you already for saying that. And she goes, and then you played that weather forecaster, the weather guy, and she said, and then I started laughing. She goes, I started laughing so hard. She goes, after that, I felt good. So uh, you know, for like I told her, you know, if you are listening to my show, first off, I just can't thank you enough. But unlike trying to be divisive and things like so many other shows do, uh, my aim every once in a while is to hopefully make you laugh, use a sense of humor. Hopefully that works. And so to have someone call in so sincere and say, heck, I wasn't feeling that great, and all of a sudden you made me laugh, and it changed my attitude. I mean that was uh something that was music to my ears, to be honest with you. So right now I'm at the park by where I live. If you can imagine, I'm walking around a baseball diamond right now, and this is Americana. You've got the sun shining, it's so gorgeous. The sun is shining over this baseball park. Kids are out here playing. There's nothing like seeing kids playing baseball, man. I just I get it. When I was their age, that's all I wanted to do was go play baseball at the park. If it was a sunny day, I never liked playing on a cold, windy day. I didn't play, I didn't like playing any kind of sports, except for maybe football. Because there were other games like football we can't even say the names of. Remember that? Anyone from my generation? We used to play Smear the Queer. Remember that? Had nothing to do with being queer. It was just a game. We never thought anything like queer, oh what? Oh, that must be gay. No, there's nothing. There was nothing associated with that. It was just a guy who better grab that ball when you throw it on the crown. And you better start running because we're gonna smear you in the mud. But on a nice day, I'm gonna stop here and look at the ballpark real quick. Plus, I got a man and his dog coming up here. I swear I met that guy before. I think I met him on a previous podcast. A lady out here with her dog introduced me to this guy, and he I was wearing a Dodger shirt. And he gave me a really bad time about being a Dodger fan. I should ask him where the Giants finished this year. I remember he was a Giants fan, giving me a bad time. Anyhow, but uh man I used to love coming out and playing baseball, and we'd come out to the baseball diamonds. I remember one time, my friend Brad McNally, hey Brad, if you're out there listening, how you doing, buddy? I was 11, 12 years old. The things we used to do back then, dang, talk about ultra cool. Like we would go over to hit the town, we used to call them the townhouses over on uh Mac Road over by Valley High. Mack Road before you get to Franklin and Mac. And we go over there, and uh I remember one time we wanted a baseball field, we didn't have one, but there was a vacant lot with weeds, so we did it like one step at a time. All the weeds were tall and dry, so we all took big sticks, walked into this field and just shh just knocked all these things. It was so fun, you just wham, wham, wham, those things would come right down. We got them down so far that we borrowed and I'm pretty sure probably ruined Brad McNally's parents' lawnmower by mowing it down, hitting rocks, what have you. We cleared it all out, we made a makeshift backstop, and suddenly we had our own baseball field. Oh sure, their lawnmower may have been ruined, but we had our own baseball field. We used to do that. When we weren't doing that, we'd go into his garage there at the townhouse, and his dad. I remember his dad. Now you have to understand, I haven't seen this man, he's long since passed. Rest in peace. But that was like 1971, maybe 1972. You know, we'd go into his garage, and his dad had a pair of boxing gloves. And we'd go in there and his dad would strap us up into the boxing gloves. Me and Brad be in the garage, and he'd just like, Alright, ready? And he'd ring a bell and we'd just throw down. And he'd stand back there and laugh and referee it, and we just beat up on each other. Man, those were the good old days. Those were the good old days. But that's when we weren't playing baseball. I mean, we could have been out there if we didn't have enough guys, and this happened frequently, if we did not have enough guys to field two teams, and it didn't have to be nine guys necessarily, you might have a couple of buddies in the outfield, maybe someone playing around around the shortstop spot between third and second, and then uh someone probably in the second base spot somewhere between maybe first and third, and you could play, or you could play home run derby, or you could play over the line, or you could play three flies up. Remember that? Three flies up. Someone's up at bat. Whoever catches three flies in the air, they go up to bat next. One of my favorite games was 500, where someone would be at bat, you and your other buddies would be out in the field, like he'd be up at the plate or whatever, or just that way out in the outfield, and you're standing way out there, and he'd hit the ball. And if it was a grounder, if you caught it on one hop, that's 75. If you caught it on two hops, it was 50. And if you caught it on multiple hops, a grounder, it was 25, but if you caught in the air, it was a hundred. And the first person to get to 500 got to go up next. As if that was the biggest treat of the game. To me, the biggest treat of the game was playing the defense. You know, you shove your buddy out of the way or just make the best play. God, I miss it. We could play runner, pickle, you know, base runner. You couldn't play that when you got older because when you're younger, you can make mistakes, pretty much throwing and catching, and so the guy could just steal bases. Talk about getting exercise. The guy in the pickle, the guy in the rundown, you'd be getting all the exercise in the world except for the other guy who would be now chasing the ball if he missed it, the hardball. Or in our case, it'd go, you might miss it, it goes out of the ivy. Now the dude's over there looking for it, and the guy who's in the pickle, he just runs back base to base, base to base to base till he finds it. And pretty soon he's so exhausted he can't run anymore. Then you do bottle caps to see who is up first. Remember bottle caps? Fill the bat in the air, grab it with your hand. The other guy would go his hand and your hand, his hand, and then whoever can cap the top of the bat, the bottle cap, uh, would be up first. So I couldn't pass up a baseball field. And the other thing, going back to basketball, that was the other thing I used to play every single day. Every day when I lived in Chico, I was going to Chico State, we'd go to what we used to call the rock and roll church, it'd be out there on 16th Street in Chico, an outdoor court with asphalt, and I would shoot, it didn't matter. If it was 105 degrees on blacktop, it did not matter. I would be out there in the afternoon, I'd be shooting hoops, man. And if you could, I could I would just wait for someone to come up that wants to play one-on-one. We play one-on-one, and I promise you, I was good, I was hard to beat. And so we uh I'd go out there and play all the time, then eventually during the day, we'd get like a full court game going, we'd have five on five, and I was so limber. I mean, I hate to brag, but man, I could beat a lot of people. If you were in my size range, I'm not, you know, if you're not seven feet tall or whatever, I could pretty much hang with a lot of people. So I guess I am bragging a little bit about that. I remember I beat my brother, my uh not my brother, I beat him too many, many times in a row until he beat me one day and went, Oh my god, I can't believe I beat you! He had never beat me for years. My friend Randy, rest in peace. He was much taller than I am, and uh you know he played high school basketball and such. And I beat him 52 times in a row in one-on-one. God dang it! He'd be so bad. And but that when he beat me in that 53 53rd matchup, he celebrated that literally until the day he passed, a couple of years ago. He'd call me up, generally after a couple of cocktails. Pat, you remember that time? I could not beat you in basketball for nothing. If I came up and played up on you, you'd go around me. If I let you try to go around me, you'd stand there and shoot up a fadeaway or a three-pointer. I couldn't stop it. You'd always hit it. Dang it. But that 53rd game. I got you, man. I couldn't believe it. I had a little bit of a reputation. We should go to the championship. Those are good times, my friend. So I reckon today's peace. 391. I'm reminiscing and avoiding getting hit by a car. Which I'm pretty sure that guy barely saw me just now. Boy, that would be that would be podcast gold, wouldn't it? Oh, so many health whap. What else we got today? On a Tuesday. Oh, I got a lot of response. Uh fun response on Friday's podcast where we went to Each day of the week and associated with least the favorite and then associated that with music. So thanks for everyone not only listening to that, but who also called my show. If you're listening to my podcast and you haven't listened to my show, uh again, it's the Pat Wall Show, KFPK Radio, news radio in Sacramento, Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 p.m. Uh 93.1 Fm, 1530 a.m. Also, just I like to remind you that we have really great Pat's Peeps and Pat Wall Show merchandise. If you go to our website, patzpeeps.com, you will see that right there. We got a little store. You know, you can even find our podcast there. You'll find our businesses there. And you know, I think you'll like it. I'll just say that. See if I can make it all the way to the train trestle here. I was thinking about what record would I was I gonna play today from my ultra-rare record library, my 45 promotional copy, 45 7 inch records. And as I was thinking about it, I remember I pulled out a couple of them yesterday, uh uh, along with the one I was gonna play. And there's one in particular, maybe I'll do that one. It's not upbeat, I don't believe, but it's a real treat if you happen to be a fan of this artist and you just didn't realize that this existed. I'll put it that way. Sometimes, you know, like Bloister Colt would be like soft white underbelly when they played private shows at clubs when they would go around to different cities. So this is an alias of this artist, you might say, that I will play for you. Uh and I would say also that he is in for that genre to me, the king of that genre. He is my favorite of this genre of music. After this train trestle shout out.

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Thank you for listening to Patch Beach 391. Love ya!

SPEAKER_01: 22:37

Alright. So, a little bit without a net today. I'm approaching home. With that in mind, I'm gonna throw back to the studio where Pat is now going to treat us with that record of an artist using an alias here on Pat's Pinch 391. All right, back at the studio. Yes. The record I have pulled from my record shelves today is uh it's actually two, really, when I think about it. Two very famous artists who are going by aliases. Not just one, but two. So, because I featured one of them on a previous uh podcast, I don't remember which one, uh, the previous one that I that I uh that I featured was Luke the Drifter. Luke the Drifter was actually the great Hank Williams, who in my estimation he is one of my favorites of all time, died at 29. This man wrote so many wonderful songs, so many big songs, and tragically died at the age of 29. But during his career, he wanted along with his secular music, he wanted to release some spoken word music, some moralistic narrations, some talking blues, which had been a tradition in country music, and they were still commercially viable in the late 40s. T. Texas Tyler's narration of Deck of Cards, one of the biggest selling records from 1948. Still, though, Hank Williams producer Fred Rose remained dubious. Rose's objection was rooted in commercial logic. Jukebox operators had huge standing orders for Hank Williams records, Hank Williams records. Uh if the recitations were issued under Hank's name, the operators would complain. Virtually all of the operators serviced bars, and the last thing they needed was for someone to punch up a Hank Williams record and get a sermon. So Rose and Hank they settle on a pseudonym Luke the Drifter. And so Luke the Drifter, I'll give you a little taste of Luke the Drifter and his spoken word music. And again, uh I'm a huge fan of Hank Williams Sr. This is called I've Been Down That Road Before, Pat's Peeps 391.

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Now, friends, if you'll just listen to me, you'll get some good hard-earned advice. I don't aim to meddle in your business. I'm just trying to save you an awful price. You see these teeth that I ain't got, and these knots on my bald head. I'll guarantee you, boys, I didn't get them there. A lying home in the bed. Now take the smart elic in any town. Of him, folks won't no part. He acts like his head was only made to hold his ears apart. Now he might not like what I'm about to say, and my words might make him sore, but I'm just trying to be helpful, cause I've been down that road before. To bully folks and play mean tricks was once my pride and joy. Till one day I was told at home, and Mama didn't know her, little boy.

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So that's the spoken word stuff from Luke the Drifter. AKA Hank Williams. This record today that I pulled from the shelf is kind of a cool thing that this artist did. Luke the Drifter Jr. And of course, in real life, who is Hank Williams' son? Hank Williams Jr. released a record as Luke the Drifter Jr. This record that I pulled for myself, I'll pull it out of the sleeve right here. This is a really cool record. Yellow label, really nice condition for this to be in this old special disc jockey record in big letters. Not for sale, big black box, yellow letters, not for sale. So it is Hank Williams Jr. doing Luke the Drifter Jr. So this one is called I Was With Red Foley the Night He Passed Away.

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There'll be peace in the valley for him how we pray.

SPEAKER_01: 27:44

Sounds like Johnny Page had away.

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And we had to get there a little early cause we had a matinee. And when Red first went on stage, it seemed that he moved and talked a little slow.

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Kinda sounds like Colorado Kool-Aid by Johnny Page.

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So soon the afternoon show was over with, and we all went down the street and ate. And we got done eating and came back to do the last show. But to think this would be Red's very last, well, who was to know? And when he went on stage for his umpteenth thousand times, we was all back at the curtains there, just shooting the lines. But when he sang Peace in the Valley, there was such a quiet spill. I know I'll never forget it, and anyone that was there knows. Well, soon the last show was over with, and I went back to the hotel. Red gave me a call. I told him to come on over. I was just staring at the four walls. So he came over to my room. He was just next door there. Lit a cigarette and sat down in a chair. And he started talking about all the worries that a country music singer has. I said, All red, I reckon it's not that bad. He said, Yeah, you're working a lot now, and you'll have them someday. Your dad had 'em and I have 'em, and I guess it's just meant that way. Then he got up, and these are the last words he said. I'm awful tired now, Hank. I've gotta go to bed. And while I lay there sleeping with Red just a few steps away, the angels came and took him to that last golden stage.

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LBP. Thank you for listening, Pat's Peeps. Have a good Tuesday. We'll see you on the radio.

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I was with Red Bowley.