Ever wonder how a barrel full of monkeys can lead to a heartfelt reflection on letting go? Join me, Pat Walsh, as I navigate the challenging yet humorous adventure of decluttering in the latest episode of Pat's Peeps Podcast. From the beloved toys of my youth to quirky items like a Hillary Clinton nutcracker, I share stories that highlight the joy and nostalgia of collecting oddities that have shaped my experiences. You'll hear about my attempts to balance podcasting and radio hosting, all while grappling with rural living's unique challenges, like my neighbor's dog using my lawn as its personal bathroom.
Step into my studio nestled in the scenic foothills of Northern California, where each item in my eclectic collection has a tale of its own. Relive the whimsical nostalgia of candy bubblegum cigars and Frank Zappa 8-track tapes, and find out why a Ben Franklin action figure sits right alongside a Grateful Dead Beanie Baby. If you’ve ever pondered the personal significance behind seemingly odd memorabilia, this episode is a playful reminder of how cherished items can transport us back in time. Whether you're a fellow collector or just in for a good laugh, there's something delightful waiting for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
here we are again.
We are back.
We are back.
It is the pats peeps podcast.
How are you today, podcast?
How are you today?
Today's a Tuesday, it's thethird day of December, last
month of 2024, and it's abeautiful day as I take a look
out my studio window into thebeautiful foothills of Northern
California, gold country, yukonCornelius.
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I love that guy, yukonCornelius.
I love that guy, uconnCornelius.
How are you?
Thank you for tuning in to thePat's Peeps number 169.
And, yeah, it's a gorgeous dayand hoping you're doing well.
Thank you for checking in withus again, much appreciated.
My name is Pat Walsh, also thehost of the Pat Walsh Show.
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It's heard on the radio on KMPKin Sacramento and then on that
7 to 10 pm Monday through Friday1530 on the AM dial, 50,000
watt, and 93.1 on the FM dial.
So we're simulcast.
Also, of course, heardeverywhere on your streaming
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Please tell a friend.
We kind of just talk and wehave a little bit of fun and we
poke when we need to poke andthen we just have fun the rest
of the time.
You just never know.
I will say that today's podcastnumber 169, will be a wee bit
shorter.
So, thank you.
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If you're applauding right now,you're welcome.
Okay if you're saying toyourself well, doggone it, I
like.
You know I like about thelength of the podcast.
You usually do well that.
Thank you for that too.
Greatly appreciate that.
So here's the reason I need tokeep it a little bit shorter
again.
Support local business.
I have a couple of businessmeetings with local businesses
today that I'm going to be goingto before I go to work.
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I'm going to go into the studiotoday.
I've been doing some of theshows from home and so, yeah, I
need to go meet with thesebusinesses.
I'm going to shoot a couple ofvideos because these are local
businesses doing great thingsand that's why I love telling
you about them, them.
Okay, we need to really supportour local businesses whenever
possible and they need to dogood things for you too.
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You know, it's a two way street, obviously, and I can tell you
these people that I'm going tovisit today.
They just do great things, talkabout them on my show a radio
show all the time, but they'vecertainly improved my home,
helped to renovate that.
All right, the other things Ihave to.
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There's other things that getin the way too, right, because
you're doing a show not only apodcast but a radio show and you
have other things you have todo.
You deal with businesses andyou know, and then you have your
own stuff, for instance.
Here's some of the things Ineed to do.
I've been going to the dump alot purging.
Hopefully the purging will endsoon, because I've been doing
that for a few years now,getting rid of unneeded stuff.
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You know and I'm getting to theend here it's a remarkable
improvement, but there's stillwork to do.
As they say, I also have anupper room that needs to be
cleaned and a shed that needs tobe cleaned again and organized,
and all of this, the upper roomI've been kind of using for
storage, because I'm limited onmy storage.
Where I live right now, I'mgoing to build a garage and do a
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shop and all this other stuff,but in the meantime, so I'm
clearing things out.
Right, and long story short,one of the things I'm clearing
out, I've got this big bin.
Listen to this, hold on.
You hear this.
It's a big old bin.
It's on my American RiverFlooring luxury vinyl planks.
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Thank you very much.
American River Flooring, 8510.
Madison Avenue in Fair Oaks, forthis beautiful floor.
Well, this is a big old plasticbin.
For this beautiful floor.
Well, this is a big old plasticbin.
And with Christmas coming upjust 23 days away, 22 days away,
you know, I've got this bin oftoys.
First of all, no man shouldhave this many toys.
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But over time, you know what.
I just collect the stuffbecause A you know, maybe it was
given to me and you know,someone gives you.
I'm very sentimental.
So if someone gives mesomething, I just I don't.
Was my mic too loud?
Hold on, I just realized my micwas way loud.
I hope I wasn't too loud tostart things off.
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My mic was way modulated, so Ijust adjusted that.
Perhaps this sounds better now.
So if people give me a toy orwhatever, I usually save it.
That's just the way I amsentimental.
Hey, charlie, yeah, Pat,remember back in 1982?
Remember you gave me thatbarrel full of monkeys?
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No, I don't remember that.
Well, you did, I did.
Yeah, I still have it.
Wow, oh, good for you, man.
Well, you gave it to me,charlie and heck, consider you a
good friend.
And, my God, you gave me thebarrel full of monkeys.
I says man, I can't get rid ofthat.
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Have you ever used it?
Never, no, never.
Notice, the two characters havethe same voice, pretty much the
same voice.
No, I never used it.
I never used it.
Well, just get rid of it.
Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking aboutit.
I was influenced, I wasmotivated, I was inspired.
(05:41):
Listening to Pat's Peeps podcast, what about who About listening
to Pat's Peeps pod?
What about who About?
What?
Pat's Peeps podcast?
You moron, oh, what, anyhow.
So, anyway, getting rid of thestuff.
So I've got the toy box out hereand I don't even know what's in
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it.
People give me things.
I collect them.
I mean, it's not like I'mtrying to collect them.
Honestly, I'm not.
You know, sports teams havegiven me things.
I put it in this box.
You know, past girlfriends havegiven me things.
I'll put it in the box whatever.
So I'm going to delve into thisand see what's in it, because I
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honestly don't know.
But it has to go, because Ifeel like perhaps it's kind of
like the Island of Misfit Toys.
You know, on Rudolph, hey there, how are you doing?
Well, that was a nice littlesound.
I guess everything's okay.
Windows Defender is up, but youknow, like the Island of Misfit
Toys on Rudolph.
These are maybe like the Islandof misfit toys on Rudolph.
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These are maybe like the islandof misfit toys, but they're the
bin of misfit toys that havebeen sitting in my upper room
for probably a decade, tuckedaway in the closet.
By the way, before I delve intothis, I do want to bring one
more thing up.
I want to bring this up beforeI delve into my toy box and
we'll see what's in there.
I have this other dilemma.
Like my neighbor living up herein the woods, I love it and you
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know you're cool with yourneighbors.
Everything's cool, I love it.
We've got this unwritten thingwhere we just, hey, man, that's
your space, my space, let's justtake care of each other, of our
own space, and everything willbe groovy, everything will look
great, everything will be cool.
He's got a dog.
I love dogs.
I miss my dog.
He's got a dog.
You know the dog.
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The dog is running to my yard.
I mean literally this guy's gotlike three acres.
I have three acres.
If the dog wants to run acrossthe easement over there, you
know, out into the woods and doits business.
You know, take a littlewhiznoid out there.
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You know he's got all kinds ofroom to roam, to go take a leak
in the morning.
But for whatever reason, the doghas chosen my little tiny patch
of lawn that I put in rightnext to my stone path leading
directly to my door.
It has taken me two or threeyears now to try to grow this
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grass to where it is green andit looks good.
But now the dog and I can seeits little marks, the little paw
marks on my property when I goout there in the morning and
I've seen the dog, it comes overto my yard and squats, I mean,
like peas on the fence.
I mean, come on.
So now I got to go deal with myneighbor.
I got my front door open Maybeyou'll hear me See if he's over
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there.
Take a look, I can't tellWaiting for him to come home.
So I got to confront the guyright In a nice neighborly
fashion.
I got to say hey, bro, listen,man, can you kind of look out
for your dog?
I mean, look what it's done tomy lawn.
Half of my lawn is brown, forGod's sakes.
But as soon as he, you know, ifthe dog doesn't come to this
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little patch he'll go to crossmy driveway to the other patch
of grass that I have that Idared grow in the mountains.
Just go ruin that as well,fertilize that.
So I have to have thatconversation with my neighbor
and I'm going to do it in a niceneighborly fashion.
Okay, I'm going to be yellingor nothing like that, but it
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needs to happen.
So, anyhow, let me look at thistoy box.
Okay, again, I don't knowwhat's in here, but I think kids
could use this stuff.
So I'm going to you know whatwould be kind of cool I wish I
could take like a knapsack orwhat is that?
Like Santa's bag, dress up likeSanta.
Maybe I can find some kids togive this to.
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That would be such a joy if Icould do that.
Today's podcast will be alittle shorter, by the way, just
letting you know because, likeI said, I got to do some stuff.
I think I already said that,but I could give this to some
kids.
Let me look in here.
Let me see.
I'm just going to grab anythingat random.
I'm not even going to look.
What did I grab?
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This is still in the box.
What is this?
This is a?
Oh you know, oh, okay, I had aDodge Challenger at one point it
was a 2012.
It was sweet, laser, red hood,scoop, gorgeous car.
So this is a.
Someone gave me a DodgeChallenger from the Disney store
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.
Disney From the Cars movie, rodRod Redline I guess that's the
car's name or whatever.
In the background.
It's got a little picture inthe background.
I swear it looks just like theamalfi coast when we went to
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italy the amalfi coast, so,anyhow.
So rod redline.
Now, okay, this is going to akid like what am I going to do
with this?
I'm going to put this on ashelf somewhere, keep it in this
box.
So, rod redline, all right,it's going to the.
It's going in santa's bag for aneedy child.
I'm going to reach in the bin.
I'm not even going to look.
Here we go.
I'm just going to grabsomething.
What's next?
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Hold on, all right, this, allright.
It's crunch time, america,that's right.
Oh, this is a good novelty.
This would be good at a whiteChristmas gift.
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Oh, look at that White elephantgift exchange.
I'm going to keep this for thatreason, like if I have any
parties to go to this year, I'mgoing to give this at the White
Elephant Gift Exchange.
This will be in high demand.
It's crunch time, america.
And then this is in a box nomore nuts in the White House
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2016, or bust.
It is a Hillary nutcracker.
So it's Hillary Clinton in apantsuit, if you can imagine her
hands to her side, hear thattruck go by, that motorcycle.
I'm gonna, uh, maybe post apicture of this, but uh, yeah,
it's a hillary clintonnutcracker.
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Directions get a grip place,nut between legs.
Squeeze the new hillarynutcracker 2016.
Controversial, proactive, yethandy around the house.
The most talked about politicalproducts since wealthy 2008.
Hillary nutcracker good for allkinds of nuts, including
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democrats and republicans.
Go to hillarynutcrackercom.
Who, I don't know.
Who gave this to me.
Thank you very much.
I might have to hold on to that, but I don't know.
I'll have to think of this.
I'll have to think that oneover, but that's pretty funny.
I'll set that aside.
Take a picture here's something,wow, wow.
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How about this?
This is amazing.
I just found this.
That was something I collected.
Remember the candy cigarettes?
Everyone remembers the candycigarettes.
Well, this is a candy Bubblegumcigar.
Anyone remember the bubblegumcigar?
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The gold what does it say?
The gold?
Dragon bubblegum cigar the goldwhat does it say?
The gold?
Dragon bubblegum cigar Yellowbubblegum cigar.
See, that was the gateway forme.
My friends, that led to cigars.
All right, what else we haveReaching into the bin?
How random is this?
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How random is this?
It's a Ben Franklin actionfigure.
Where's my kite?
Hello, it's Ben Franklin.
It's got movable arms, movablelegs, and he's got his left hand
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is pointing with his finger soyou can have him pointing up in
the air.
It's the.
It's the Ben Franklin actionfigure.
See, now, my first inclinationis to put this up somewhere,
like, what am I going to do withit?
Though?
You know what am I?
Hey, is that a Ben Franklinaction figure?
You got there?
Yeah, no man Been looking forone of those.
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So, anyway, I got that, allright.
All right, what do we have here?
What next is a?
Uh, what is this?
This is a personic los angelesdodgers toothbrush.
Big League Clean, the SoftPersonic LA Dodger toothbrush.
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I'm looking at the back of itHigh quality DuPont bristles,
and then it's got all your teams.
So, whatever you're looking for, they got that for you All
right, all right.
What else do we have in here?
Oh, here we go.
This is a drumstick.
I must have caught this fromsome band sometime.
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Be nice to know what band itwas that I caught this?
oh, I can't read the name on ituh, liquid drummer, cooper
groove, american hickory, Idon't know, I don't know.
All right, here we have asomeone gave this to me.
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Uh, you know, pineapple patsome people call me because of
my dislike for pineapple pizza.
Someone gave me a pineapple.
I don't know what you wouldcall it, like a soft pineapple
fluffy toy.
That's all I can tell you.
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What do we got here?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
let's see alright, what do we have?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
this is a Beanie Baby .
Now, I never saved BeanieBabies, although this is a cool
one.
I gotta say, probably keep thisone, because this is a Gr dead
beanie baby and I love thegrateful dead.
Uh, october 15th, 73 tourmemory blah, blah, blah, blah
doesn't matter.
Liquid, blue, collectible.
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So it's a beanie baby.
It's basically a, apsychedelic-looking one of the
dancing bears from the GratefulDead.
Most of the rock memorabilia.
If it's rock memorabilia, I'mgoing to keep that.
All right, what do we got?
Speaking of that, here's an8-track tape.
Oh my God, an 8-track tape.
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Frank Zappa, it's so.
The label is so bad I canbarely read.
Make out what it is Waka,jowaka and Hot Rats.
Is that what it is?
Waka, jowaka and Hot Rats,frank Zappa, eight-track.
Here, kids, you want to oxidizeFrank Zappaaka, jowaka tape?
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Yay, oh, it's also got hot rats.
All right, what do we have here?
This is a bud light, famousamong friends beer cozy.
It's a cowboy boot, beer Cozy.
Yeah, that's got to go.
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Let's see Holvren's.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, there's a Bullwinkle treeornament.
Oh, my goodness.
Well, bullwinkle's going rightup on my tree.
I had no idea that I hadBullwinkle tree ornament like
that.
You know, I've got Rocky up onmy tree right now.
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So Bullwinkle is going to goright up there next to Rocky.
Hello, bullwinkle.
Now, I can't go on with thisforever because there's just so
much.
Here you go, silly putty, theoriginal silly putty, remember
this.
Like you could take it and rollit up and you could stretch it,
you could bounce it.
The thing I remember the bestabout silly putty I remember you
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could take like the comicsection or you could take
something from a newspaper orwhatever and you could put the
silly putty on there and youpress it down onto the picture
and you, on the silly putty,remember that.
Candy cigarettes, vessel andLucky Lights, candy cigarettes.
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Oh, here's a couple.
There's another drumstick here.
Oh, this is the same person,same stick.
I don't know.
I got someone's drumstick.
All right, here we go.
What is this?
This is the potato gun.
This my friend shoots harmlesspotato pellets.
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Harmless potato pellet gun.
Yeah, and I have this.
I'm an older guy and I havethis.
I'm an older guy and I havethis.
Yeah, oh, you got one of them.
Potato pellet guns, I sure do.
I've got a broken, grateful,dead bobblehead.
All right, it's got to go.
(19:20):
Here's a.
Oh, this.
This is a stuffed piece ofpizza, toy Trim a home.
It's a pineapple pizza That'llgo with the other guy.
I tell you I got Patrick.
This is another Beanie Baby.
I guess I didn't collect these.
See, someone gave these to mePatrick from SpongeBob Beanie
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Baby.
Some child will appreciate that.
Here is an ornament thatapparently at one time lit up.
It's Rudolph and then Hermiethat wants to be a dentist, but
he's headless.
You know what Hermie wants now.
I want a head.
A head, yes, I have no head,sorry, hermie.
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Yeah, he's got to go.
There goes, hermie.
All right.
Now we have a NBA finals, thefinals NBA finals.
This is the championship trophyreplica from the 2005 NBA
finals.
If you were to ask me and it'sall gold if you were to ask me
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right now who won the 2005 NBAFinals, first of all, I'd be
mystified that you'd ask me that.
Second of all, I would have noidea.
Here's another pack ofcigarettes candy cigarettes,
just like dad.
Refreshing orange flavor candycigarettes, all right.
Refreshing orange flavor candycigarettes, all right, let's see
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.
Oh, this is nifty.
This is something to show youoff to your friends.
This is the skeleton of aunicorn.
It's a unicorn skeleton.
What on earth is that?
That's that has to go in thekid's bag.
So some kid will be absolutelyterrified.
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Oh my God, all right, what do wehave here?
Oh, look at this, now, this isclever.
Look at this.
So this is a football, Allright, it's a football.
It's Radio Shack.
It's a football, it's radioshack.
It's a radio shack football.
All right so, and it's asmaller football, but it's like
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stuffed and it's.
And what it is is it's atelevision remote.
So you have the football andyou, and within the football,
it's got the remote.
It's got TV VCR, cbl, I guess,cable power, channel up down,
volume up down, mute set, andthen it's got your numbers and
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all your settings fast forward,everything Right there on the
football from Radio Shag man.
You ain't going to find thatanywhere, anywhere right now.
I might keep that one.
I'm not going to keep much ofthis River Cats plastic like
what do you call it?
Like a ice cream sundae cap?
Some child will appreciate that.
(22:18):
Ah, what do we have?
Some kind of a weird antique,like a weird antique music box.
Very strange, I don't know ifit works.
What's that?
It's a great tune, that's it,all right.
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Here's a.
Oh, I remember this guy.
It's like a stress guy.
It's a guy with a little tuftof hair on top of his head with
gritting his teeth.
Calm down now, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Don't stress.
Take it easy, relax, calm downnow, don't stress.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I can't believe the battery still works after all of
these years it's been in there.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I haven't seen this in years oh my god, oh brother,
hey, take it easy.
Ha, oh my.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
God, oh brother, hey, rock them, sock them robots.
I've got the red rocker, youknow, like Sammy Hagar, I don't
know where the rest of it is.
I don't see the blue bomber.
Oh, what else do we have inhere?
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There's so much stuff in here.
Space race, this is the nobatteries needed.
This is my shilling classicalpinball games.
So this is one of those gameslike when you're a kid.
It's got all the little thingswhere you pull the pin back and
you shoot the little steely inthere and then it lands either
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in 500 or 10 or 200, you knowthe little numbers.
Let's see if I can get it.
Let's see, of course, I got the10 of the lowest.
Enjoy hours of old-fashionedfun with our classic portable
pinball game.
Easy to use Just pull the backof the plunger and shoot one of
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the steel balls up the chute andsee if it that sounds painful,
and see if it lands in one ofthe plastic scurrying stops.
Some kid will look at that likewhat?
This isn't an Xbox, all right,just a couple more, whatever.
What do you have here is ahummingbird Tootsie Roll
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dispenser.
Yes, you must be kidding me.
So it's a hummingbird feeder.
That still has the tag on itbrand new, but for whatever
reason, it's filled with TootsieRolls.
All right, you got me.
I don't know, let's see, there'san old KFBK mic flag man.
(25:31):
That is vintage stuff there.
Oh, this is terrifying as canbe.
That is a terrifying doll rightthere.
Why do I have this?
That is creepy.
That is a creepy, creepy doll.
All right.
And finally, just for today, letme see oh, here's a.
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Here's another toothbrush.
This is the Peja Stojakovictoothbrush, the original slam
dunk toothbrush.
So it's Peja Stojakovic in hiswhite King's outfit.
It says MVPs and Peja'sslamming the ball.
(26:16):
But where his hand is where theball is, that is the toothbrush
.
Head.
Position forward height 6'9",weight, 229,.
Birth date June 9, 1977,belgrade, yugoslavia, pro since
1998.
We encourage all kids to brushwith the pros and sport a
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winning smile.
All right.
So, some kid, that's acollector's item for you.
And finally, here this is atelephone.
This is for your cell phone,but it's like the receiver on an
old phone, like you would holdthe old phone up to your ear and
speak into the bottom part andhold the other part to your ear,
but you plug this into yourcell phone.
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So you plug this in your cellphone and you look really cool
because you're talking from yourcell phone, but you're doing it
with a wire connected to an oldtime phone receiver Isn't that
nifty.
You give that to a kid.
They're going to be mystifiedLike, uh, what is this Dad?
(27:24):
What is this?
Anyhow, that's just the tip ofthe iceberg here.
All right, it's the tip of theiceberg, I tell you.
That's right.
Good words to live by PatsPeeps 169.
Let's get to the music, becausethere's so much more in here.
So this song is written by MikeDiabo.
(27:45):
It was released by this groupin 1968.
Colin Young singing the leadvocals.
He had replaced Clem Curtisduring 1968.
And this is the first of thisgroup's hit that he sang.
It went to number one on theCashbox Top 100.
(28:06):
Number three on the USBillboard Hot 100 in early 1969.
Also number two hit in theUnited Kingdom.
That was for twonon-consecutive weeks behind
Lily the Pink by the Scaffold.
It was quickly certified goldby the IRA for record industry
(28:28):
for sales over a million UScopies.
The song is featured in the1968 romantic comedy film
there's Something About Mary1998.
Pilot episode Truth To Be Told,truth Be Told from the first
season of the ABC TV spy dramaseries Alias, and on and on and
(28:50):
on.
So this song is a song by thefoundations called build me up.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But if I'm brave, just to let me down and mess me
around.
And then, worst of all, younever thought that, even when
you say you will, but I love youstill.
I need you More than anyonedarling.
(30:00):
You know that I have from thestart.
Thank you, you let me downagain, baby.
Baby, try to find a little timeand I'll make you happy.
I'll be home, I'll be besidethe home waiting for you.
Why do you build me up, buddy,baby, just to let me down, I'd
(30:21):
mess me around.
And then, worst of all, younever thought, baby, when you
say you will, but I love youstill.
I need you For that.
Anyone darling, you know that Ihave from the start.
But I love you still.
I need you More than anyonedarling.
You know that I have from thestart.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So build me a Buttercup, don't break my heart.
So this came out on Uni Records.
I don't have the license forthis.
I'm just educating, critiquingand telling people about the
music so that I can play it andexpose the music To the masses.
Uni Records, label Yellow, withit's got little swirls on it,
telling people about the musicso that I can play it and expose
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the music to the masses.
Uni Records, label yellow, withit's got little swirls on it of
purple, blue, green Promotionalcopy, not for sale.
Got that black star on there.
For that reason it's got thesame song on both sides.
I'm waiting for you.
Why do you build me a blue bluebody?
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It's got a radio sticker on thelabel Someone at the station
put on there that says theywrote it on with an old felt pen
, 1969,.
So there you go.
Thank you for listeningSpeaking of 1969.
Thank you for listening toPat's Peeps 169.
We'll see you for listeningSpeaking of 1969,.
Thank you for listening toPat's Peeps 169.
We'll see you for 170 tomorrowand we'll see you on the radio.
here we are again.
We are back.
We are back.
It is the pats peeps podcast.
How are you today, podcast?
How are you today?
Today's a Tuesday, it's thethird day of December, last
month of 2024, and it's abeautiful day as I take a look
out my studio window into thebeautiful foothills of Northern
California, gold country, yukonCornelius.
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I love that guy, yukonCornelius.
I love that guy, uconnCornelius.
How are you?
Thank you for tuning in to thePat's Peeps number 169.
And, yeah, it's a gorgeous dayand hoping you're doing well.
Thank you for checking in withus again, much appreciated.
My name is Pat Walsh, also thehost of the Pat Walsh Show.
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It's heard on the radio on KMPKin Sacramento and then on that
7 to 10 pm Monday through Friday1530 on the AM dial, 50,000
watt, and 93.1 on the FM dial.
So we're simulcast.
Also, of course, heardeverywhere on your streaming
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Please tell a friend.
We kind of just talk and wehave a little bit of fun and we
poke when we need to poke andthen we just have fun the rest
of the time.
You just never know.
I will say that today's podcastnumber 169, will be a wee bit
shorter.
So, thank you.
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If you're applauding right now,you're welcome.
Okay if you're saying toyourself well, doggone it, I
like.
You know I like about thelength of the podcast.
You usually do well that.
Thank you for that too.
Greatly appreciate that.
So here's the reason I need tokeep it a little bit shorter
again.
Support local business.
I have a couple of businessmeetings with local businesses
today that I'm going to be goingto before I go to work.
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I'm going to go into the studiotoday.
I've been doing some of theshows from home and so, yeah, I
need to go meet with thesebusinesses.
I'm going to shoot a couple ofvideos because these are local
businesses doing great thingsand that's why I love telling
you about them, them.
Okay, we need to really supportour local businesses whenever
possible and they need to dogood things for you too.
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You know, it's a two way street, obviously, and I can tell you
these people that I'm going tovisit today.
They just do great things, talkabout them on my show a radio
show all the time, but they'vecertainly improved my home,
helped to renovate that.
All right, the other things Ihave to.
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There's other things that getin the way too, right, because
you're doing a show not only apodcast but a radio show and you
have other things you have todo.
You deal with businesses andyou know, and then you have your
own stuff, for instance.
Here's some of the things Ineed to do.
I've been going to the dump alot purging.
Hopefully the purging will endsoon, because I've been doing
that for a few years now,getting rid of unneeded stuff.
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You know and I'm getting to theend here it's a remarkable
improvement, but there's stillwork to do.
As they say, I also have anupper room that needs to be
cleaned and a shed that needs tobe cleaned again and organized,
and all of this, the upper roomI've been kind of using for
storage, because I'm limited onmy storage.
Where I live right now, I'mgoing to build a garage and do a
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shop and all this other stuff,but in the meantime, so I'm
clearing things out.
Right, and long story short,one of the things I'm clearing
out, I've got this big bin.
Listen to this, hold on.
You hear this.
It's a big old bin.
It's on my American RiverFlooring luxury vinyl planks.
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Thank you very much.
American River Flooring, 8510.
Madison Avenue in Fair Oaks, forthis beautiful floor.
Well, this is a big old plasticbin.
For this beautiful floor.
Well, this is a big old plasticbin.
And with Christmas coming upjust 23 days away, 22 days away,
you know, I've got this bin oftoys.
First of all, no man shouldhave this many toys.
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But over time, you know what.
I just collect the stuffbecause A you know, maybe it was
given to me and you know,someone gives you.
I'm very sentimental.
So if someone gives mesomething, I just I don't.
Was my mic too loud?
Hold on, I just realized my micwas way loud.
I hope I wasn't too loud tostart things off.
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My mic was way modulated, so Ijust adjusted that.
Perhaps this sounds better now.
So if people give me a toy orwhatever, I usually save it.
That's just the way I amsentimental.
Hey, charlie, yeah, Pat,remember back in 1982?
Remember you gave me thatbarrel full of monkeys?
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No, I don't remember that.
Well, you did, I did.
Yeah, I still have it.
Wow, oh, good for you, man.
Well, you gave it to me,charlie and heck, consider you a
good friend.
And, my God, you gave me thebarrel full of monkeys.
I says man, I can't get rid ofthat.
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Have you ever used it?
Never, no, never.
Notice, the two characters havethe same voice, pretty much the
same voice.
No, I never used it.
I never used it.
Well, just get rid of it.
Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking aboutit.
I was influenced, I wasmotivated, I was inspired.
(05:41):
Listening to Pat's Peeps podcast, what about who About listening
to Pat's Peeps pod?
What about who About?
What?
Pat's Peeps podcast?
You moron, oh, what, anyhow.
So, anyway, getting rid of thestuff.
So I've got the toy box out hereand I don't even know what's in
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it.
People give me things.
I collect them.
I mean, it's not like I'mtrying to collect them.
Honestly, I'm not.
You know, sports teams havegiven me things.
I put it in this box.
You know, past girlfriends havegiven me things.
I'll put it in the box whatever.
So I'm going to delve into thisand see what's in it, because I
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honestly don't know.
But it has to go, because Ifeel like perhaps it's kind of
like the Island of Misfit Toys.
You know, on Rudolph, hey there, how are you doing?
Well, that was a nice littlesound.
I guess everything's okay.
Windows Defender is up, but youknow, like the Island of Misfit
Toys on Rudolph.
These are maybe like the Islandof misfit toys on Rudolph.
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These are maybe like the islandof misfit toys, but they're the
bin of misfit toys that havebeen sitting in my upper room
for probably a decade, tuckedaway in the closet.
By the way, before I delve intothis, I do want to bring one
more thing up.
I want to bring this up beforeI delve into my toy box and
we'll see what's in there.
I have this other dilemma.
Like my neighbor living up herein the woods, I love it and you
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know you're cool with yourneighbors.
Everything's cool, I love it.
We've got this unwritten thingwhere we just, hey, man, that's
your space, my space, let's justtake care of each other, of our
own space, and everything willbe groovy, everything will look
great, everything will be cool.
He's got a dog.
I love dogs.
I miss my dog.
He's got a dog.
You know the dog.
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The dog is running to my yard.
I mean literally this guy's gotlike three acres.
I have three acres.
If the dog wants to run acrossthe easement over there, you
know, out into the woods and doits business.
You know, take a littlewhiznoid out there.
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You know he's got all kinds ofroom to roam, to go take a leak
in the morning.
But for whatever reason, the doghas chosen my little tiny patch
of lawn that I put in rightnext to my stone path leading
directly to my door.
It has taken me two or threeyears now to try to grow this
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grass to where it is green andit looks good.
But now the dog and I can seeits little marks, the little paw
marks on my property when I goout there in the morning and
I've seen the dog, it comes overto my yard and squats, I mean,
like peas on the fence.
I mean, come on.
So now I got to go deal with myneighbor.
I got my front door open Maybeyou'll hear me See if he's over
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there.
Take a look, I can't tellWaiting for him to come home.
So I got to confront the guyright In a nice neighborly
fashion.
I got to say hey, bro, listen,man, can you kind of look out
for your dog?
I mean, look what it's done tomy lawn.
Half of my lawn is brown, forGod's sakes.
But as soon as he, you know, ifthe dog doesn't come to this
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little patch he'll go to crossmy driveway to the other patch
of grass that I have that Idared grow in the mountains.
Just go ruin that as well,fertilize that.
So I have to have thatconversation with my neighbor
and I'm going to do it in a niceneighborly fashion.
Okay, I'm going to be yellingor nothing like that, but it
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needs to happen.
So, anyhow, let me look at thistoy box.
Okay, again, I don't knowwhat's in here, but I think kids
could use this stuff.
So I'm going to you know whatwould be kind of cool I wish I
could take like a knapsack orwhat is that?
Like Santa's bag, dress up likeSanta.
Maybe I can find some kids togive this to.
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That would be such a joy if Icould do that.
Today's podcast will be alittle shorter, by the way, just
letting you know because, likeI said, I got to do some stuff.
I think I already said that,but I could give this to some
kids.
Let me look in here.
Let me see.
I'm just going to grab anythingat random.
I'm not even going to look.
What did I grab?
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This is still in the box.
What is this?
This is a?
Oh you know, oh, okay, I had aDodge Challenger at one point it
was a 2012.
It was sweet, laser, red hood,scoop, gorgeous car.
So this is a.
Someone gave me a DodgeChallenger from the Disney store
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.
Disney From the Cars movie, rodRod Redline I guess that's the
car's name or whatever.
In the background.
It's got a little picture inthe background.
I swear it looks just like theamalfi coast when we went to
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italy the amalfi coast, so,anyhow.
So rod redline.
Now, okay, this is going to akid like what am I going to do
with this?
I'm going to put this on ashelf somewhere, keep it in this
box.
So, rod redline, all right,it's going to the.
It's going in santa's bag for aneedy child.
I'm going to reach in the bin.
I'm not even going to look.
Here we go.
I'm just going to grabsomething.
What's next?
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Hold on, all right, this, allright.
It's crunch time, america,that's right.
Oh, this is a good novelty.
This would be good at a whiteChristmas gift.
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Oh, look at that White elephantgift exchange.
I'm going to keep this for thatreason, like if I have any
parties to go to this year, I'mgoing to give this at the White
Elephant Gift Exchange.
This will be in high demand.
It's crunch time, america.
And then this is in a box nomore nuts in the White House
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2016, or bust.
It is a Hillary nutcracker.
So it's Hillary Clinton in apantsuit, if you can imagine her
hands to her side, hear thattruck go by, that motorcycle.
I'm gonna, uh, maybe post apicture of this, but uh, yeah,
it's a hillary clintonnutcracker.
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Directions get a grip place,nut between legs.
Squeeze the new hillarynutcracker 2016.
Controversial, proactive, yethandy around the house.
The most talked about politicalproducts since wealthy 2008.
Hillary nutcracker good for allkinds of nuts, including
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democrats and republicans.
Go to hillarynutcrackercom.
Who, I don't know.
Who gave this to me.
Thank you very much.
I might have to hold on to that, but I don't know.
I'll have to think of this.
I'll have to think that oneover, but that's pretty funny.
I'll set that aside.
Take a picture here's something,wow, wow.
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How about this?
This is amazing.
I just found this.
That was something I collected.
Remember the candy cigarettes?
Everyone remembers the candycigarettes.
Well, this is a candy Bubblegumcigar.
Anyone remember the bubblegumcigar?
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The gold what does it say?
The gold?
Dragon bubblegum cigar the goldwhat does it say?
The gold?
Dragon bubblegum cigar Yellowbubblegum cigar.
See, that was the gateway forme.
My friends, that led to cigars.
All right, what else we haveReaching into the bin?
How random is this?
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How random is this?
It's a Ben Franklin actionfigure.
Where's my kite?
Hello, it's Ben Franklin.
It's got movable arms, movablelegs, and he's got his left hand
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is pointing with his finger soyou can have him pointing up in
the air.
It's the.
It's the Ben Franklin actionfigure.
See, now, my first inclinationis to put this up somewhere,
like, what am I going to do withit?
Though?
You know what am I?
Hey, is that a Ben Franklinaction figure?
You got there?
Yeah, no man Been looking forone of those.
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So, anyway, I got that, allright.
All right, what do we have here?
What next is a?
Uh, what is this?
This is a personic los angelesdodgers toothbrush.
Big League Clean, the SoftPersonic LA Dodger toothbrush.
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I'm looking at the back of itHigh quality DuPont bristles,
and then it's got all your teams.
So, whatever you're looking for, they got that for you All
right, all right.
What else do we have in here?
Oh, here we go.
This is a drumstick.
I must have caught this fromsome band sometime.
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Be nice to know what band itwas that I caught this?
oh, I can't read the name on ituh, liquid drummer, cooper
groove, american hickory, Idon't know, I don't know.
All right, here we have asomeone gave this to me.
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Uh, you know, pineapple patsome people call me because of
my dislike for pineapple pizza.
Someone gave me a pineapple.
I don't know what you wouldcall it, like a soft pineapple
fluffy toy.
That's all I can tell you.
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What do we got here?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
let's see alright, what do we have?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
this is a Beanie Baby .
Now, I never saved BeanieBabies, although this is a cool
one.
I gotta say, probably keep thisone, because this is a Gr dead
beanie baby and I love thegrateful dead.
Uh, october 15th, 73 tourmemory blah, blah, blah, blah
doesn't matter.
Liquid, blue, collectible.
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So it's a beanie baby.
It's basically a, apsychedelic-looking one of the
dancing bears from the GratefulDead.
Most of the rock memorabilia.
If it's rock memorabilia, I'mgoing to keep that.
All right, what do we got?
Speaking of that, here's an8-track tape.
Oh my God, an 8-track tape.
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Frank Zappa, it's so.
The label is so bad I canbarely read.
Make out what it is Waka,jowaka and Hot Rats.
Is that what it is?
Waka, jowaka and Hot Rats,frank Zappa, eight-track.
Here, kids, you want to oxidizeFrank Zappaaka, jowaka tape?
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Yay, oh, it's also got hot rats.
All right, what do we have here?
This is a bud light, famousamong friends beer cozy.
It's a cowboy boot, beer Cozy.
Yeah, that's got to go.
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Let's see Holvren's.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, there's a Bullwinkle treeornament.
Oh, my goodness.
Well, bullwinkle's going rightup on my tree.
I had no idea that I hadBullwinkle tree ornament like
that.
You know, I've got Rocky up onmy tree right now.
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So Bullwinkle is going to goright up there next to Rocky.
Hello, bullwinkle.
Now, I can't go on with thisforever because there's just so
much.
Here you go, silly putty, theoriginal silly putty, remember
this.
Like you could take it and rollit up and you could stretch it,
you could bounce it.
The thing I remember the bestabout silly putty I remember you
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could take like the comicsection or you could take
something from a newspaper orwhatever and you could put the
silly putty on there and youpress it down onto the picture
and you, on the silly putty,remember that.
Candy cigarettes, vessel andLucky Lights, candy cigarettes.
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Oh, here's a couple.
There's another drumstick here.
Oh, this is the same person,same stick.
I don't know.
I got someone's drumstick.
All right, here we go.
What is this?
This is the potato gun.
This my friend shoots harmlesspotato pellets.
(19:00):
Harmless potato pellet gun.
Yeah, and I have this.
I'm an older guy and I havethis.
I'm an older guy and I havethis.
Yeah, oh, you got one of them.
Potato pellet guns, I sure do.
I've got a broken, grateful,dead bobblehead.
All right, it's got to go.
(19:20):
Here's a.
Oh, this.
This is a stuffed piece ofpizza, toy Trim a home.
It's a pineapple pizza That'llgo with the other guy.
I tell you I got Patrick.
This is another Beanie Baby.
I guess I didn't collect these.
See, someone gave these to mePatrick from SpongeBob Beanie
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Baby.
Some child will appreciate that.
Here is an ornament thatapparently at one time lit up.
It's Rudolph and then Hermiethat wants to be a dentist, but
he's headless.
You know what Hermie wants now.
I want a head.
A head, yes, I have no head,sorry, hermie.
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Yeah, he's got to go.
There goes, hermie.
All right.
Now we have a NBA finals, thefinals NBA finals.
This is the championship trophyreplica from the 2005 NBA
finals.
If you were to ask me and it'sall gold if you were to ask me
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right now who won the 2005 NBAFinals, first of all, I'd be
mystified that you'd ask me that.
Second of all, I would have noidea.
Here's another pack ofcigarettes candy cigarettes,
just like dad.
Refreshing orange flavor candycigarettes, all right.
Refreshing orange flavor candycigarettes, all right, let's see
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.
Oh, this is nifty.
This is something to show youoff to your friends.
This is the skeleton of aunicorn.
It's a unicorn skeleton.
What on earth is that?
That's that has to go in thekid's bag.
So some kid will be absolutelyterrified.
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Oh my God, all right, what do wehave here?
Oh, look at this, now, this isclever.
Look at this.
So this is a football, Allright, it's a football.
It's Radio Shack.
It's a football, it's radioshack.
It's a radio shack football.
All right so, and it's asmaller football, but it's like
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stuffed and it's.
And what it is is it's atelevision remote.
So you have the football andyou, and within the football,
it's got the remote.
It's got TV VCR, cbl, I guess,cable power, channel up down,
volume up down, mute set, andthen it's got your numbers and
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all your settings fast forward,everything Right there on the
football from Radio Shag man.
You ain't going to find thatanywhere, anywhere right now.
I might keep that one.
I'm not going to keep much ofthis River Cats plastic like
what do you call it?
Like a ice cream sundae cap?
Some child will appreciate that.
(22:18):
Ah, what do we have?
Some kind of a weird antique,like a weird antique music box.
Very strange, I don't know ifit works.
What's that?
It's a great tune, that's it,all right.
(22:50):
Here's a.
Oh, I remember this guy.
It's like a stress guy.
It's a guy with a little tuftof hair on top of his head with
gritting his teeth.
Calm down now, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Don't stress.
Take it easy, relax, calm downnow, don't stress.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I can't believe the battery still works after all of
these years it's been in there.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I haven't seen this in years oh my god, oh brother,
hey, take it easy.
Ha, oh my.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
God, oh brother, hey, rock them, sock them robots.
I've got the red rocker, youknow, like Sammy Hagar, I don't
know where the rest of it is.
I don't see the blue bomber.
Oh, what else do we have inhere?
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There's so much stuff in here.
Space race, this is the nobatteries needed.
This is my shilling classicalpinball games.
So this is one of those gameslike when you're a kid.
It's got all the little thingswhere you pull the pin back and
you shoot the little steely inthere and then it lands either
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in 500 or 10 or 200, you knowthe little numbers.
Let's see if I can get it.
Let's see, of course, I got the10 of the lowest.
Enjoy hours of old-fashionedfun with our classic portable
pinball game.
Easy to use Just pull the backof the plunger and shoot one of
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the steel balls up the chute andsee if it that sounds painful,
and see if it lands in one ofthe plastic scurrying stops.
Some kid will look at that likewhat?
This isn't an Xbox, all right,just a couple more, whatever.
What do you have here is ahummingbird Tootsie Roll
(24:56):
dispenser.
Yes, you must be kidding me.
So it's a hummingbird feeder.
That still has the tag on itbrand new, but for whatever
reason, it's filled with TootsieRolls.
All right, you got me.
I don't know, let's see, there'san old KFBK mic flag man.
(25:31):
That is vintage stuff there.
Oh, this is terrifying as canbe.
That is a terrifying doll rightthere.
Why do I have this?
That is creepy.
That is a creepy, creepy doll.
All right.
And finally, just for today, letme see oh, here's a.
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Here's another toothbrush.
This is the Peja Stojakovictoothbrush, the original slam
dunk toothbrush.
So it's Peja Stojakovic in hiswhite King's outfit.
It says MVPs and Peja'sslamming the ball.
(26:16):
But where his hand is where theball is, that is the toothbrush
.
Head.
Position forward height 6'9",weight, 229,.
Birth date June 9, 1977,belgrade, yugoslavia, pro since
1998.
We encourage all kids to brushwith the pros and sport a
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winning smile.
All right.
So, some kid, that's acollector's item for you.
And finally, here this is atelephone.
This is for your cell phone,but it's like the receiver on an
old phone, like you would holdthe old phone up to your ear and
speak into the bottom part andhold the other part to your ear,
but you plug this into yourcell phone.
(27:01):
So you plug this in your cellphone and you look really cool
because you're talking from yourcell phone, but you're doing it
with a wire connected to an oldtime phone receiver Isn't that
nifty.
You give that to a kid.
They're going to be mystifiedLike, uh, what is this Dad?
(27:24):
What is this?
Anyhow, that's just the tip ofthe iceberg here.
All right, it's the tip of theiceberg, I tell you.
That's right.
Good words to live by PatsPeeps 169.
Let's get to the music, becausethere's so much more in here.
So this song is written by MikeDiabo.
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It was released by this groupin 1968.
Colin Young singing the leadvocals.
He had replaced Clem Curtisduring 1968.
And this is the first of thisgroup's hit that he sang.
It went to number one on theCashbox Top 100.
(28:06):
Number three on the USBillboard Hot 100 in early 1969.
Also number two hit in theUnited Kingdom.
That was for twonon-consecutive weeks behind
Lily the Pink by the Scaffold.
It was quickly certified goldby the IRA for record industry
(28:28):
for sales over a million UScopies.
The song is featured in the1968 romantic comedy film
there's Something About Mary1998.
Pilot episode Truth To Be Told,truth Be Told from the first
season of the ABC TV spy dramaseries Alias, and on and on and
(28:50):
on.
So this song is a song by thefoundations called build me up.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But if I'm brave, just to let me down and mess me
around.
And then, worst of all, younever thought that, even when
you say you will, but I love youstill.
I need you More than anyonedarling.
(30:00):
You know that I have from thestart.
Thank you, you let me downagain, baby.
Baby, try to find a little timeand I'll make you happy.
I'll be home, I'll be besidethe home waiting for you.
Why do you build me up, buddy,baby, just to let me down, I'd
(30:21):
mess me around.
And then, worst of all, younever thought, baby, when you
say you will, but I love youstill.
I need you For that.
Anyone darling, you know that Ihave from the start.
But I love you still.
I need you More than anyonedarling.
You know that I have from thestart.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So build me a Buttercup, don't break my heart.
So this came out on Uni Records.
I don't have the license forthis.
I'm just educating, critiquingand telling people about the
music so that I can play it andexpose the music To the masses.
Uni Records, label Yellow, withit's got little swirls on it,
telling people about the musicso that I can play it and expose
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the music to the masses.
Uni Records, label yellow, withit's got little swirls on it of
purple, blue, green Promotionalcopy, not for sale.
Got that black star on there.
For that reason it's got thesame song on both sides.
I'm waiting for you.
Why do you build me a blue bluebody?
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It's got a radio sticker on thelabel Someone at the station
put on there that says theywrote it on with an old felt pen
, 1969,.
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