Cold Open And Friday Hello

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And now Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!

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Again!

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Bristol!

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Wrong hat!

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I take a seven and a half!

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Now here's something we hope you'll really like.

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Hey there, welcome! It's Pat's Peeps 478. It's a Friday. That's right, a Friday. Love the Fridays. Hope you Friday's going well. Tenth day of July already, 2026. Looking out my studio windows into my well-groomed area. Right here's look at the foothills of Northern California, the beautiful foothills. Where today it's warm. It's not too warm. It's pleasant. Still haven't turned my air conditioning on, by the way. Thank you. My name is Pat Walsh. I'm the host of the Pat Walsh show, KPK News Radio. 93.1 FM, 15.30 AM.

Listener Laughs And Radio Nerves

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You know, I am getting so many comments. I just got one from Denise. Last night we had a lot of well, the last few nights on my radio show, we have had so much fun. So many callers, and you know, if I when I when I make people laugh, you know, uh that's all I really am looking to do. You know, make people laugh, be informative, what have you. Lighten the mood a little bit sometimes. And uh boy, Denise is like, I literally, what did she say here? I literally could not stop laughing this morning at your show at the rubber monthly comment. Now, before you jump to conclusions, you would have heard, might be out of context, but there was a magazine. It was for the rubber industry. They have centerfolds of things like, you know, rubber bands and hoses. Anyhow. I know you would have had to have been there, but suffice it to say, I have literally, I I bet I got 10 messages from people saying they could not stop laughing. So thank you. By the way, I just got a message just now. We appreciate the call. Call in any time. You know, this is from the producer of Movin' the Change with Pat Kerwin, uh, Pat Kerwin and Kirk Morrison. So I called in and I told them, you know, can I talk about something other than football just real quick? Just reference something, and that is they said, yeah, sure. I said, I do the same thing you do. It says I'm just a radio comment before we get to the football. And that is that uh, you know, I get more anxiety being on hold for someone else's show than I do for hosting my own three-hour show. And they started laughing, which was great. And and they understood it. And they said to me, they go, hey, you know what we should do. We should call into your show sometime and then turn the tables on us to see how we feel calling in. I said, Yeah, sure. Now I thought they were just playing around, but literally right after we hang up, the producer, the technical producer for the show, Robbie, messages or calls me and says, Hey man, why don't you give us your number? The hosts are gonna call in. These are big shot NFL guys, so they're gonna call my show. So they're gonna call my Pat Wall show to talk to me on air, which is really exciting that they actually followed through, and he just sent me another message saying how much they appreciate the call. Call in any time. So they went out of the way to do that. That is really, really nice. Oh boy. Thanks, guys. I had to talk, talk about my Rams fan base and some things. Anyhow, so I don't want to get into

How Cereal Leads To Records

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that. So today, you know, we I was talking with Kitty O'Neill, my longtime colleague there at KFPK News Radio. I mean, long time. We've been together hosting, you know, our shows respectively, uh her the afternoon news, Kitty O'Neill and my show, the Pat Wall Show, from for over three decades. And we do the handoff together, which is something that has um really cultivated an audience. People comment to me about that all the time, to Kitty, how much they enjoy the handoff, which is essentially her handing off her show to me, making that transition to what I'm gonna be doing for the evening. We were talking about cereal when we just talking about random stuff. We're talking about cereal. I heard her mention that she liked eating cereal, and so I was curious curious about that. So I asked her, which leads one thing to another thing to another thing, and instead of going, I thought I would talk about it for a minute in terms of because you know me, I always love music and I love vintage, and I love records, as you know. So I got to thinking about cereal, not oh, what was the favorite cereal and all that, but I but back in the day they used to have records, you know, they would have they would have prizes inside the cereal box, the kids would argue over gonna get the prize, but they would have records sometimes. So you would cut out the cardboard on the back of the cereal box, and then you would play it on a record player, and there's your song. There were various popular artists. I've played one on, I think, many, many podcasts ago, but I kind of quit playing because I have some. I kind of quit playing them because they're so difficult to play, they're so lightweight, and of course, when you're a kid, you cut them out. You know, your scissoring may not be right on the money, and it's hard to get the needle down exactly where it's supposed to be. Some of them are carved up pretty good, and they've seen a lot of damage and a lot of spilled milk, I'm sure, over the years. But so I I thought I would talk about those because I always thought that was the coolest thing ever. And give you the top ten here, right here on Pat's Peeps 478. Thank you. Thank you very much. Pat's Peeps 478 on a Friday. The top 10 serial box records. Now, these are actual records cut right off of the cereal boxes. All right? I'll go down the list and uh play it for you. Right from the cereal box itself. So, we'll start with number 10.

Rock Music Mystery On Cardboard

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Number 10, this came from a box of life serial. Cutout Record came, it was part of a series of three great music mystery games. To play the music mystery game, you would listen to the record for clues, guess the titles, to four songs. The side of the serial box uh had an enter an entry form for the contest. So this is one of the last flexi records to appear on cereal boxes. Uh, this is from 1986.

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Welcome to Life Serial's Rock Music Mystery. Listen to these clues and then pick the right answer from the side panel of the cereal box, and you can become one of over 75,000 winners. Hard rock singer guitarist Joe Walsh has more than one claim to musical fame. In the mid-1970s, he joined the Eagles to perform on one of the all-time best-selling albums, Hotel California. He ran for president in 1979, promising free gas for everyone. Years before that, he achieved rock and roll stardom with a big hit single from his second solo album. Can you name it? The gigantic hit movie. Beverly Hills Cop broke all box office records and was supported by a solid gold soundtrack featuring songs by such artists as the Pointer Sisters and original Eagle Glenn Fry. Bright turned into a sizzling performance on this song. It was featured during the movie's opening scene and inspired a supercharged music video. Can you name it? British folk rocker Al Stewart entered the American spotlight in the mid-70s to sound influenced by Bob Dylan. His first major worldwide hit was the title track taken from his great 1976 album. This song was a fantasy about a young traveler in a North African village and his chance meeting with a mysterious lady. What is the title of this song? In the late 1960s, flower power and hippies were everywhere. Woodstock was just around the corner. But there was also a tougher, more rebellious rock and roll sound at that time. One of its leaders was the group Steppenwolf. They performed a song which is considered to be the first ever heavy metal record and which was featured in the classic movie Easy Rider. Can you name the song? Now, fill in your answers on the side panel of the box, and you may be on your way to winning a prize in Life Serial's Rock Music Mystery. You may enter as often as you wish. However, each entry must be mailed separately. See official rules for details. Competition void were prohibited.

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Now, in listening to that, Life Serial Rock Music Mysteries from 1986, he says Steppenwolf, Born to Be Wild, was considered the first heavy metal song. I've heard other things. I have heard that In a Got It of Ida was the first heavy metal song. I've heard that the first album by Black Sabbath, self-titled album, is the first heavy metal song or an album. So it just depends on who you know who you want to believe on that one. Alright, let's go to number nine.

Wheaties Launches The Cutout Trend

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Number nine, baby, on the cereal boxes cut right off of the cereal box on Pat's Peeps 475. This is the Wheaties Mousketeer record from 1956. These are believed to be the first cut-out records to appear on cereal boxes. Now, how cool is that?

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You know, a first London bridge you've built begins to topple down. Just puckle up and start to whistle. Turn that bell right upside down. Everybody whistle.

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There you go. See you learning how to whistle. Whist uh Wheaties Mousketeer Records. On that one, you also had Mickey Mouse singing the gadget tree. Chippendale performing Ten Little Indians, Donald Duck croning Donald Duck song. Uh the records, by the way, 78 RPM. 78 rotations per minute. Coming in at number eight on our list here from 1977, maybe 78, mm?

Honeycomb Ghost Story Turns Creepy

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Honeycomb ghost stories record. Scaring the serial out of children with a series of ghost story records. Stories including the uh included The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Miser's Gold, and this one here entitled The Hitchhiker Pat's Peeps. 478.

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Not nearly as old as I look. Been that way ever since that night when my hair turned white. Bat night? Well, I was driving home from my dad's up near Ridgewater on this little road that leads to the big highway. It's pretty dark and winding for at least ten miles, fumbly and curving through a forest so thick that the branches keep spraying on the sides of the car like they were trying to keep it from getting away. Suddenly, there's somebody in the road right in front of the car. I jammed on the brakes and stopped just there was this shivering young woman. She had jumped into the middle of the road as if she couldn't stop a car just by holding up her hand. She told me that she'd been in an house with her car. Then she asked me if I drive her home. She looked so cold. I let her in. I even threw my white jacket around her because she was wearing a thin silk dress without even a sweat. We started off. After more turns than you would believe, we pulled up in front of a very tidy little cottage with all of its lights turned on, like a Christmas tree. She just sat there looking all worn out, like she had used up every bit of energy she could spare. Please ring the bell and see if my mother's over, she said. The bell is on the left near the brass hall. I rang the bell, and the lady who answered looked like an older version of my hitchhiker. Before I even had a chance to speak, she said, Don't say a word, just come this way. It all seemed very strange, but I followed her anyway. Up the stairs, down a hall, and into a very pretty room. A girl's room, I could tell. And on a table by the bed there was a picture of a young girl. It was my hidden. Then the woman beckoned me to follow her back downstairs. I followed her down the stairs, out the door, and past the car. There was nobody in it. We walked a little further and came to a little private cemetery with a drill work fence around it. We went in and stopped in front of a grave that looked newer than the others. The woman pointed to the grave and said, My daughter! She was killed in an automobile accident last summer, and every night, someone, some stranger brings her home. I was terrified. I turned away and left her there, but not before I noticed something sticking out from under the gravestone. I ran through the car and broke back home as fast as I could. It wasn't until I was in my own house and in my own bedroom that I discovered that my hair was white. Pure white, the same color as my jacket. That's what was sticking out from under that gravestone. Just like it had been there ever since the grave was first done.

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From a cardboard record right there, Honeycomb Ghost Stories record. Stories told by Wade Denning, a prolific jingle writer at the time. His most famous jingle was a six-note instrumental piece from Maxwell House Coffee, which mimicked the sound of a percolating coffee.

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Listen to the sound of the Maxwell House coffee pot at work.

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Yep, there you go. Maxwell House. Moving on, top ten of the serial box records right there off

Toucan Sam Workout And Teen Pop

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the cardboard. This one, I don't know how kids even listen to it that long because this is a few minutes long. So we will not play the entire thing for you. One of three of Tucan Sam's workout records. Tucan Sam, remember him? Follow my nose, wherever it goes. Available on the back of Fruit Loops Boxes 1983. Yeah, Tucson Sam takes you on a listening safari. Sam is at the big race. And then there's this one here. Mmm, this is the Tucan Sam workout.

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Hello, I'm Tucan Sam. As everyone knows, I follow my nose. It leads me to Fruit Loops, wherever it goes. I love those orange and lemon cherry tastes. So I follow my nose all over the place. I eat a good breakfast. It's only wise. I also get plenty of exercise. With my friends in the jungle, I work out each day. Would you like to join us? Just do what I say.

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Number seven, that's two can't Sam workout goes on and on and on. We'll spare you right there, here on Pat's Peeps 478. Alright, coming in at number six, I have this one. I have this record. This is Bobby Sherman. Thank you. It was a teen hardthrob in the late 60s, early 70s, and in 1970, post serials capitalized on his appeal to the youngins by putting out records of his songs right there on the boxes of multiple cereals, including your honeycomb, uh, the now defunct Cinnamon Raisin brand. Ooh, that would have been good. I remember that. There are four different records available, each with five songs. Each with five songs. That's unbelievable. Usually you get one. Some of them included easy come, easy go, hey Mr. Sun, la la la.

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I'm just a lonely boy in a great big lonely world. Someone like you could make my dreams come true. Then all the mountains I could climb if you just put your hand in mine. There ain't nothing in this world I couldn't do.

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La la la la La la la Yeah. Yeah, buddy. That's right. This way.

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Cartoon Bands And Motown On Boxes

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1969 boxes of sugar sugar crisp. Super sugar crisp, that is, featured sugar sugar, cutouts of the Archie's Records, multiple versions of the Archie's record each, with four songs, included the mega hit sugar sugar. Yet everything's Archie, which I'm gonna play here. Theme song for the animated series, the Archie Show, Archie's Records could also be found on the back of Alpha Bit Serial. I also remember the guy, the little mailman that always hosted Alpha Bits.

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Everything's Archie.

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All the friends are here.

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Meanwhile, in 1970, coming in at number four, the Monkeys TV series had been finished for two years, but repeats of the show are popular at the as part of your Saturday morning programming. The repeats were sponsored by Post. That same year, the cereal company put out monkeys records from the back of their rice crinkles, alphabets, and honeycomb cereals. Three different records, each with four songs on them. Hits on the records included the monkeys theme, I'm not your stepping stone, last train to Clarksville, and I'm a believer.

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And that was for all the kids at Central High, and K Heds. If you enjoy good music and good cereal, here's enough for you to want to miss. Free from those music lovers head fellows. And now for Julian Paul, seven five solvents.

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Also, at number three, you can get the post-serial Jackson 5 Records. Obvious leader in the serial box records post-serials, day in 1970s, early 70s, uh, they had their highest profile records featuring the wildly popular Motown band, the Jackson 5. They appeared on the back of Alphabet, Super Sugar Crisp, Frosted Rice Crinkle Cereals.

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Gimme a gig, gimme a keep.

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Five different sugar bears records available in the back of Select Boxes of Super Sugar Crisp. 1972, baby.

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Nobody else in the world ever made the people this way.

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And coming in at number one, number one on the Serial Box best hits right off the cardboard. 1979

Monsters Go Disco Finale

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record Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Pooh Barry. Sitting around frightfully lonely on a Saturday night when they decide they gotta go to the disco, do a little dancing. You know how they do it. Four-minute adventure. They eventually four minutes on this record. Eventually they win a dance contest. We ain't gonna get into all of it, but Frankenberry's given the nickname Frank and Boogie. Suffice it to say, how cool is that?

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The Monster Serials, Cow Chocula, Frankenberry and Booberry present the Monsters Go Disco. It's Saturday night at Monster Mansion. And our friends Cow Chocula, Frankenberry, and Booberry are sitting around feeling frightfully lonely. Let's join them and see if they find a cure for their Saturday night blues.

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Another Saturday night broll around. Yes, Frankenberry. It's hard to believe that three wild and crazy guys like ourselves sit home alone. Really, Chocula, I'm bored silly sitting here at Monster Mansion. Well, maybe it's because you're a boring, silly monster. I beg your pardon.

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Oh, fellas, what are we going to do to cure our Saturday night blues?

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I've got the answer, Boo Berry. Let's go, disco.

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Disco where? Disco's here, disco's there. No, no, disco dancing. Oh, yes, I can see it now. I'm so light on my feet. I'll boogie all night.

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I'm so handsome. All the girls will hustle with me. After we learn to disco, it's goodbye to sitting home on Saturday nights. We will be the most popular monsters in town. So what are we waiting for?

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Let's go disco. Hey, are you grooving guys, gals, and ghouls? Are you ready to get down and disco? Yeah! Wait a minute, who are you freaking about? I'm Coach Hocula. I'm Frank and Daddy. I'm Boo Berry. And you better get ready to move and groove, you monster head, because it's time for the Graveyard Groove's disco king contest. Disco King contest? Oh, yeah, baby. The best dancer gets to dance all night with the Queen of Disco. Tada, Donna Disco. Dancer?

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Donna Disco? I'll be the king of the disco. Oh, no, I will.

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All right, uh, Booberry, you can help me spin these discs. All right, baby. Now, don't spin them through the air, man. Put them on the record player. Oh, sorry. All right, uh, chalk and Frank, it's time to hustle on to the dance floor now for the disco king contest. Frank and Barry, you're on, baby. Me? What do I do? Just move with the meat. But what sort do you want me to spin, Frank and Barry? Something by my favorite group, the Gravestone Farm. All right, Frank and Boogie. Now get out there, baby, and jump and bump. What are you doing? I'm jumping and bumping. Oh, wow, man. That's a new dance. You are great, Frank and Boogie. Now, you show us your stuff, Down Chocula. Boo, Berry, play something by the spook group. Okay, Chocula. Get down and let it roll. Woo!

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Why are you lying down on the floor and rolling on me? He said to get down and roll!

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Oh, it's fantastic! What a dance! You started a whole new dance, Grade, baby! It's it's Monster Mania! Everybody's moving to Monster Mania!

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There's a new grace sweeping the country. Monstermania!

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Hotter than pop the spooky and hop it! Monstermania! Monstermania!

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Jump up and down and fall on the floor!

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Roll around, get up, and do it some more!

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It's Ponsonania! That's gonna do it for me. Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps 478! Have a great Thursday, uh great Friday, excuse me. See you on the radio.