Cold Open And Warm Welcome

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And now Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. Again? Bristol! Wrong hat! I think a seven and a half. Now here's something we hope you'll really like.

Easter Peeps And Studio Life

Giving Up Cigars And Moderation

Mozart Ringtone And Quick Reset

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Indeed, I do. I uh something I hope you'll really like. Or at least you'll put up with. Either way, I'm alright. I just thank you for tuning in. My name is Pat. This is the Pat's Peeps Podcast, Monday, April the 6th, 2026. Hope you're doing well wherever you happen to be listening to this as I look out my studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California. It's an absolutely gorgeous day. Wow. The weather over the last couple of days has been spectacular. If your idea of spectacular is, I don't know, mid-70s. Just a very gentle breeze. Everything is green. Man, I just you just can't ask for better weather, at least in my opinion. Pat's peeps 426 as we forge on. I hope you had a wonderful Easter. What a great Easter. Where's my little peep? My little Easter peep. I got the peeps on the table. I got this peep. I got this little guy here. This is another little peep. You wind this one up and then he walks. I didn't wind him up all the way. He's good. Get a little slow. A little slow. But see, if you wind him up good, let me give him a good wind up here on the past peeps. 426, everybody. Here we go. See what I'm saying? There he goes. Awesome. Then they got the peeps. Right here. Gail gave me the peeps. Thank you. That didn't sound very good. Gail gave me the peeps. Anyhow. Hope you're used to us. Fantastic. Man, I felt good to go to Mass yesterday. Here we are, 426. You know what it means? Mass, Easter went up. Well, it means the resurrection of Jesus Christ, of course. But in a completely uh different note. You know, I gave speaking of Mass and Easter and all that. I probably told you I gave up cigars. What a sacrifice. But yeah, you know, I like my cigars. Good water up here. I was parched. Anyhow, so I gave up cigars. And now Easter is coming on. Here we are. And that means that I can probably have a cigar, right? Yeah. I did it. I did it. I'm very proud of myself. 40, 40 plus days, actually, without a stogie. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna clip this bad boy. Hold on. I'm gonna do it. Now, I'll tell you what, I'll be completely honest with you. Oh, I'm always honest. Well, not always. Maybe. Anyhow. As I uh I know, you know, I know I have friends who smoke cigars every day. Uh some of them smoke several cigars a day. I've never been that guy to be perfectly blunt here. I've uh no, it's not a blunt. I just have no cough whatsoever. You don't inhale cigars, but I have friends who smoke cigars every day. I have friends who smoke three cigars every day. I have friends who smoke more than that. Not me. Love my cigars, but for me, everything except radio and broadcasting is in moderation. I don't know who's calling me. Someone's calling me. Listen to my beautiful ringtone. Isn't that a beautiful? Mozart. This interruption brought to you by Budweiser. For all you do, this buds for you. And by your Northern California Chevy dealer. Stop in and test drive a new Chevy today. You'll be glad you did. I forgot to put my phone on. Don't disturb me. Dang it. On that mode. Let me just do that right now. I usually put this. See, that's why I do that. Let's say uh boom, we'll do that. Okay, so cannot be disturbed. But wasn't that beautiful? Thank you. Wasn't that a beautiful ringtone? Back to what I was saying before I was so gently interrupted by Mozart. Okay, first of all, I clipped a cigar. Oh, this is a good one. You know, honestly, I trust that it's a good one because Scott Robinson, who's the one of the hosts of Beyond the Humador, gave this to me. And he knows the cigars. Greg and Larry and Scott. Listen to their podcast sometimes. He'll he fills in for my show as well, the Pat Wall Show show heard on KPK News Radio 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m. 7 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. I'm gonna try to strike a match.

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I don't know.

The Mystery Whistle Listener Challenge

Spring Cleaning To Clear The Mind

Radio Show Plans And Remembering Mark

Rare Records And Soul Nostalgia

Junior High Memories On AM Radio

Space Oddity And Moon Fever

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Listen, this matchbook is pretty weathered. Yeah, it ain't gonna work. Alright. I'm gonna try it this way. So, anyhow, it's been over 40 days until now. You can't talk into a podcast to smoke a cigar right now. Wow. Honestly, wow. It's been a while. You know, at first you miss it a little bit. You're like, oh yeah, man, I'd like to have a cigar. Next day, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd like to have a cigar. I don't have a humidor. I was saying that my friends smoke either every day or several a day. I don't I don't want to do that. Everything in moderation, that's why I don't have a humidor. Because if I had cigars in a humidor, I would be every day I'd be looking for an excuse to smoke it. Man, that's good. So anyhow, Scott gave me this. It's a Romeo and Julieta. 1875 reserve. You know, I hear everyone who would you know when they say, well, I'm into cigars, they'll always name Romeo and Julieta. I don't really smoke them. I but this is one I was told was really good. It does start really good. So anyhow, but I don't know that I I started missing it. Started out missing it. And then towards the middle, towards the end, I thought, you know, honestly, I don't know. Maybe I don't need a cigar. It's not like I need it. So it all it almost became, it almost got to the point where I didn't even have the desire. I didn't miss it really anymore. I think that's pretty good. I gave it up last year or two. You never know. I might just I don't know. I'm not saying I'm gonna quit, maybe once in a while, but I don't know. Oh, look at this. I found I forgot about this. Hold on. How many things? Let's see. How many things on my desk here? I got peeps, I got this. Anyone out there? Maybe I already did this once on a podcast. Maybe I already did. Either I'm having a real heavy deja vu all of a sudden here. Or maybe I already did this on a podcast. If I did this on a previous podcast, I swear my deja vu is involving Vince from Stockton, my listener, who may have brought this up on my show or I just dreamt this. I don't know. Huh. So I'm gonna play this, I'm gonna do this, and then you tell me what it is on my show. Obviously, it's a whistle. I think I've forgotten this. If I haven't, then I'm having a serious deja. What kind of a whistle? 916-921-1530. Here's what I want to do on Pat's Peeps 326. Here's what I've been doing. Just kind of fill you in on what I've been doing and obsessed with lately, and I'm going to be obsessed with for a couple of weeks still. And that is spring cleaning. I am cleaning inside and outside of my home. I've got all this stuff. I swear I've been trying to do this for years. But when you're a one-man you know, team, you're like trying to get everything done, but it's tough. Do I concentrate outside that needs it or do I concentrate inside? They both need it. So I'm just day after day, man. So I pick one thing, closet, boom, organize, clean, do it. Today, you know, it could be utility room, go do it. Shed, do it. Upper room, I need to move stuff. I need to get things done. There's a lot of stuff that's it's just, oh my God, it is unbelievable. But I but I know there's gonna be the end of the rainbow at some point when it's done. And part of that end of the rainbow is gonna be the freedom that I'm enjoying in my skull. You know, I ain't gonna be thinking about it. It's gonna be gone. All of that, gee, I gotta get that done. Gone. Free. I want to be completely free of bills. Doesn't everyone I want to be completely free of all of that clutter in my brain. Like, Pat, you gotta do this. Taxes, tomorrow I gotta do that. I'd rather clean a toilet than do taxes. I mean, I can't. So it's gonna that's part of the process, though. I keep thinking, well, you know what? I thought I'd get it done early in the year, but I didn't. I always procrastinate on taxes because I don't like it. I know that's terrible. I have this whole philosophy, go towards it. And that ain't that's not go towards it, that's put it off. You know, you got an issue, you got something you gotta do. Go towards it, which is exactly what I'm trying to do. So tomorrow I get that done. That'll be off my plate. Done, right? Frees up your mind. So I've been going and doing everything. I pick one, bam, done. And and so I figure, I don't know, maybe a couple of weeks, who knows? There's always gonna be something to do. But it's the things that clutter your mind. You can't procrastinate, and that's what I'm telling myself. And I can start to really see the results of the hard work. And you know what? It makes you think, it keeps you motivated, you know, it keeps you in shape. You know, you're doing a lot. I'm talking about some hard work, too. So, anyhow, I mean to dwell on that, but spring cleaning, very big to me. And I've been doing it all day today. And all day yesterday. Well, not yesterday, yesterday was Easter, but Saturday for sure. So as I sit and enjoy this cigar, after a very hard day of work, because I also have a show to do. I'm literally, I after as soon as I'm done with this, bam, I gotta produce my show. I hope you'll listen tonight. The Pat Wall show. So if you don't mind, I hope that people that tune into my show enjoy music because I'm always going that route, you know. I also want to say, I think today might be the anniversary. I think I just saw something on Facebook from Denise. This is the three-year anniversary of the passing of Mark the Voice Guy. If so, I'll have to talk about him on my show tonight, that's for sure. But I thought, you know, I I want to play some music. Some people, they don't know music as much, or maybe they don't I love music, so I as I'm cleaning up today, I found I found these records, a stack of records, and I thought, God, that's a good one I could feature on my show. Then I found another one. I said, Oh, yeah, I can play that one. Then I sound like, oh, I can play that one. You know what I mean? So then I found like several. I'm like, well, I'll get I'll line these up for this week. And then I thought about it again. I thought, you know what? Hmm. Maybe I'll just play several of these. I don't know. So with that in mind, yeah, let me do that. I just want to play some of these off of my rare record shelves. This one here, I just love this song. This is the one that really made me want to just listen to music. Again, decluttering my mind. Sometimes music helps. Especially a song like this one. Uh honestly, I just love Philly Groove Records. There's a certain era of music. Sort of to me, the late 60s into the early 70s. And I'm talking about soul music from that era. There's a lot of great music from all genres in that era. But I'm talking about soul in this particular instance. This is on Philly Groove Records. It's kind of a red, reddish-orange label. This is part of that. There was the Shylights and the stylistics, and there's just a lot of bands that Redbone, just a lot of bands I really liked. And this is one of them, the Delphonics. So when I go back in time and I think, man, songs I really liked, didn't I blow your mind this time? Do you remember that? See, now as I'm sitting here thinking about the geez, it just reminds me of so many good songs from that era that I could just go on and on about this, but this is a great one. Co-written by producer Tom Bell, lead singer William Horse. Released as a single in 1969. From their self-titled third album, someone reached number three on the Billboard RB chart, number 10 on the Billboard Hop 100 in 1970. What's the number 22 on a UK singles chart? Number 81 in Australia. Strings and horns. So this is just one of the songs on these records that I found today. Man, I love that song. Anyhow, here's one. This reminds me so much of going to junior high school. This is on Playboy Records. I have two of these records in this sleeve. It's got a stamp on there that says May of 1975. Boy, this is a time in my life. I remember every single song that came out on AM Top 40 radio. Playboy Records, that is so cool. It's an American music trio written by the band member Dan Hamilton. Featured on the trio's third album by the same name in 1975. Remember, if you go back, baby baby fall in love. Remember, Hamilton, Joe, Frank, and Reynolds. This is this song was on the radio, I swear, every hour. K-R-O-Y, KROY weathered. Looks like it's gonna be nice and sunny here in the summer. Hey, don't forget Doobie Brothers tickets this Friday night. Released in nineteen seventy-five, the group's second top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, following 1971's double. This went to number that went to number four. Their only song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also the only pop number one hit for Playboy Records labeled. The song Fallin' Love, also a number one hit on the Billboard Easy Listening chart in the US for one week in 75. And it also went to number 24 on the Billboard's Hot Soul singles chart. Yeah, man, it's just like I'm right back into uh junior high school with that one. This one I found in my record collection. Again, there's two of these records in the uh sleeve, and they're I mean, these are in absolutely immaculate, perfect shape. This is on RCA label, yellow label, not for sale. There's the long version, five minutes and five seconds on one side, and then there's the short version, three minutes and forty nine seconds on the other side. It's got a stamp on there that says January 20th, 1973. So these two records have been sitting on a record shelf. These have never, until this very moment, ever even been pulled out of this record sleeve. They've never been played, and they've been there since 1973. I just think that is really, really cool for whatever. And and this is perfect for what's going on right now with Artemis II as it's circling around the moon. This is by an English singer, Rocker. First released July 69 on Mercury Records as a seven-inch single, opening track of the second studio album, David Bowie. Yes, produced in London. Tale about a fictional astronaut named Major Tom. Title and the subject matter were partly inspired by the film 2001 A Space Odyssey. 1968. Bowie's Feelings of Alienation at that point in his career. It was one of the most musically complex compositions that he'd written up until that point. So it was rushed out as a single to capitalize on Apollo 11 on the moon landing, for the moon landing. Received critical praise. It was used by the BBC as background music during its coverage of the event. It initially sold poorly, but then it reached number five in the UK. It became David Bowie's first and only chart hit for another three years. Then there were reissues. This one I'm holding in my hand, RCA Records. It became Bowie's first U.S. hit in 1972. And his first UK number one hit in 1975. What an epic song, huh? Wow.

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The stars will very different to die.

Classic Rock Finds And Lonely People

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Pats Peeps 426, what a song. This next one in the record that I pulled off the record shelves today, it could go right after that song. If you're listening to a classic rock station, to me, you can play that one and then you can play this one next. Fit perfectly. And again, this has got on one of them, man, these are in absolute immaculate condition, too. I'm pulling out they've never been out of the sleeve. This is December 14th, 1970, I think. Two. These are in perfect condition. One is a white label on both sides. On um what is this? It's got some fancy writing. It's got um stereo, and then the one side is blue, it says stereo, and then the other side is mono white. So I guess this other record, so there's a long version mono, wow. And then here is a short version mono. So these two records together, extremely rare. No one I there can't be many people that have these two records together that have they're in perfect condition. Written by an English progressive rock supergroup. 1970 self-titled debut album written by Greg Lake, Emerson Lake and Palmer. It was written by Greg Lake when he was 12 years old, recorded by the trio using improvised arrangements. And this song contains one of rock music's earliest instances of a Moog synthesizer. Well, a Moog synthesizer solo. It was released as a single 1970, reached the top 20 in the Netherlands. It also charted in the United States and in Canada. It was re-released in '73, charted again in the US and Canada. It was the first song, 12 years old. First song that Greg Lake wrote when his mother bought him a guitar is a song called Lucky Man by Emerson Lakin Palmer.

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And ladies I was scored. Dressed in satin and waiting by the door. What a lucky man he was. What a lucky man he was. They made up his bed.

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Imagine writing this at twelve years old. Released in December of 1970.

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He was led.

Dream Songs And Closing Thanks

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Went to number 48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number 25 in Canada. Number 14 in the Netherlands. Re-released in December of 72. Went to number 51 on the U.S. Hot 100, number 71 in Canada. So this other song is in one that reminds me of also junior high school. This one is on, you see this one all the time, Warner Brothers, written by the husband and wife team of Dan Peake and Catherine Peake. It was a single from this group, 1974, their album Holiday, written as an optimistic answer song to the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby. Dan Peake considered Eleanor Rigby an overwhelming picture of the masses of lost humanity drowning in gray oblivion. He'd recall being uh lacerated on first hearing the lyrics of its chorus. All the lonely people, where do they all come from? Where do they all belong? Eleanor Rigby, right? This song was written within a few weeks of Dan Peak's 1973 marriage to Catherine. This is the band America, a song called Lonely People This is for all lonely people Thinking that life is passing by Don't give a fuck to you Joke on the silver coat and ride that highway in the sky This is for all the same people Faking the lovers let them drive Don't give a fuck to you for the still go never go to you Dan Peak felt like a melancholy lonely person He felt like when he got married that he had finally won Lonely People not automatically earmarked for the holiday album Dan Peak unsuccessfully submitted a demo of the song for John Sebastian to consider recording left American 77 and used to close his concerts with this song with the effect that Jesus is the answer to loneliness. Went to number five on the Billboard Hot 100. The Peak's only credited song Don't Give Up The only one he had that uh reached the chart top ten. It was America's second number one on easy listening. Stay there for a week in February 75. Remember that being on the radio all the time. And finally, here on Pat's Peeps 426, this is a song that I just cannot get out of my head. It's a song originally written by Jeff Lynn. This is on I also have two of these in this record. In this sleeve, I should say. Yellow label and a white label. Doesn't really stipulate that this is oh yeah, a mono. I can't imagine this band doing a mono mix of this song. And stereo. Two brand new, perfect copies of this, written by Jeff Lynn. First released on the band's fourth album. I love the album, El Dorado, September of 74. Song is the second track on the album, follows the El Dorado Overture. It was released in November of the same year as a single, became the band's first top ten single in the United States, went to number nine, helped boost public awareness of the band in the United States. I love the album. I love the song. Jeff Lynn wrote this song partially in response to his father's criticism that he that the previous songs he wrote did not have any tune. Wanted to show that he could write a song with a beautiful melody. Song was about a man who was dreaming, sees the vision of loveliness, and wakes up and finds that he actually is a clerk working in a bank. And so will not be able to act on his dream. Act on your dreams, my friend. You're listening to one of my dreams, having my own podcast, my own radio show, and I thank you for that. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps 426. See you on the radio.