Why does Miracle Whip exist, and who thought putting it in a carrot-raisin salad was a good idea? These are the burning questions explored in this delightfully random episode that feels like rummaging through the junk drawer of Pat's mind—finding treasures you never knew you needed.
Remember those awkward childhood moments when you'd be at a friend's house, starving, and their mom would make you a sandwich? The anticipation builds as you watch her prepare it, Dionne Warwick playing softly on the kitchen radio. Then disaster strikes: that first bite reveals the unmistakable tang of Miracle Whip instead of mayo. But politeness prevents you from spitting it out, so you soldier through, betrayed by condiments. Pat paints this universal childhood trauma with vivid detail that will have you nodding in recognition.
The episode takes unexpected turns as Pat reveals that Costco will close all 600+ stores on Memorial Day to honor fallen service members. This leads to an appreciation for the company, despite Pat's humorous observations about bulk shopping ("What am I going to do with a gigantic tub of whatever?"). We also learn about forgotten KFC menu items from the 60s and 70s—buckets of chicken gizzards and livers—complete with a helpful explanation of what exactly a gizzard is (the muscular part of a bird's digestive system, in case you were wondering).
The show wraps with Pat sharing two vintage records from his collection: Phil Harris's 1950 novelty hit "The Thing" and The Jimmy Castor Bunch's 1972 classic "Troglodyte," complete with personal memories of his father dancing to the latter. These musical moments perfectly complement the nostalgic journey through food traumas, retail observations, and random thoughts.
Have you ever experienced the Miracle Whip betrayal? What childhood food memories still make you shudder? Share your thoughts and subscribe to catch more of Pat's wonderfully random observations that somehow make perfect sense.
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someday.
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Whatever, whatever man, it's abeautiful day here on this
Tuesday, may 20th, 25, as I lookout my studio window into the
beautiful foothills of NorthernCalifornia where the spectacular
spring of 2025 just continuesSunny, mild, gorgeous.
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I understand it'll get up to 90, though today, but then it
drops right back on down just intime to head to the music
festival.
But thank you for listening.
Wherever you are, appreciateyou being there and tuning in
here.
My name is Pat Walsh.
I'm the host of the Pat WalshRadio Shows.
I always like to tell you onKFBK Newsradio 93.1 FM, 1530 AM,
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So today is just, you know, Ihave just a bunch of things.
It's sort of like a leftoversday here, leftover Tuesday.
I did, by the way, have a lot offun last night on the show man.
We have some great callers onmy radio show and, uh, we just
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uh went off on that BruceSpringsteen rant in the UK where
he was talking his politicalhack rhetoric instead of singing
his music.
And someone had mentioned that.
Heck the guy what plays threehours or whatever, and, uh, for
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a half hour of that or so it'spolitical rhetoric anyhow.
So I thought I would turn thetables on my show last night.
Everyone else else can dowhatever they want to do, but I
turned the tables on my show andI played the Kid Rock bit where
he says that, well, hey, youknow as much as Bruce
Springsteen's cool andeverything, bob Seger would
smoke him any day of the week.
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So I thought I would just stopit there and ask everyone about
that.
And you know, bob Seger, bsversus.
Well, I mean, I don't reallymean BS in a negative way, it's
just Bob Seger versus BruceSpringsteen happens to be in a B
and S Kept coming across myscreen like that all night.
You have a call screener thingright and the call or the
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technical producer Solo.
He puts the names up there andhe was Because it was Bob Seger
against Bruce Springsteen, basedon the Kid Rock thing.
He was saying BS versus BS, nota negative connotation of BS,
by the way, and clearly andoverwhelmingly in my unofficial
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poll it was clearly Bob Seger.
What was the numbers here.
Let me see it was 21-2 at theend of the night in favor of Bob
Seger.
Not sure if Bruce's rant hadanything to do with that or not,
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but we sure did have funtalking about that.
And we also had fun talkingabout the best rock duos ever in
terms of a guitar player and asinger in a band A guitar player
and then the singer in the banda duo.
We had a great time talkingabout that because it was Pete
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Townsend's 80th birthday andsince we got to all of these
things and since we had so manycalls, well, what happened was
I'll just tell you this.
And then Melody hi, melody, Iknow Melody listens to my
podcast.
Thank you, melody.
Who said you know, she asked ifthe Music Monday was a new
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segment on my show or if thatwas a new thing on my show, and
I thought well, you know what Iknow.
Sean, who listens in Oklahoma,has asked me on numerous
occasions to do like a TuesdayTunes or whatever.
But it did end up being a MusicMonday and Melody liked it and
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other people, bruce and someothers weighed in and said yeah,
I like that too.
For whatever reason, everyoneloves talking about music,
including yours truly.
Obviously I probably talk musicmore than any other thing.
So you know I may give that ashot.
A little Music Monday everybodyon the Pat Walsh Show, and you
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know I always have time on thispodcast to do music.
I always find a way, in fact,today, you know, I always pick
out a rare record from mycollection here out a rare
record from my collection here Ihave one of these.
I have two songs because it's aspecial products release, which
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essentially means that it wasdone many years later after the
original came out, and theywould take and pair hit songs,
probably pretty deep hit songs.
One I remember extremely fondlyand I'll explain.
But they would pair them up ona 45, one side and then the
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other side.
So you might get two songs fromcompletely different eras,
which is the case today.
It's, I think, 22 yearsdifference.
I could be wrong, I'll doublecheck that, but I think it's
like 22 years difference.
So yes, I will find a way, asalways, to navigate my way to
music.
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So I thought, because I got intothat music thing yesterday,
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that here on my podcast, on mypeeps, I could do some leftovers
.
These are things that wereintended to be on my show and I
couldn't get to them.
Now, that's not to be on myshow and I couldn't get to them
Now, that's not to say because Idon't generally try to repeat
anything that I do here and I'lldo it here and on my show.
I want to give you a reason tolisten to each and keep them
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However, sometimes there areopportunities to you know, on
the radio show.
Here I can just rant about itOn my radio show.
I can take your phone calls sowe can talk about it and I can
get your opinion.
So I have some leftovers.
So some of this stuff will bethings that I'll talk to you
about.
For instance, like there's acouple of things right here Now.
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These are all over the map, allright here on Pats Peeps 265.
We're all over the map.
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Oh, mark the Voice Guy, for,for instance, here's one.
I'm going to check these off mylist now.
I'll probably do these on myshow tonight so I can take your
call.
Uh, number one.
Now here's a biggie mayo, ormiracle whip.
I ask you now you can't answerme right now, obviously, but I
ask you just like the Twizzler,is the ugly cousin of the red
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vine?
Or the red rope, which isanother cousin, that's like a
second cousin to the red vine.
But the Twizzler, let's face it, the ugly toxic, you know
chemically dependent cousin.
Toxic, you know chemicallydependent cousin.
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But isn't Miracle Whip the samething to mayo, isn't it?
Isn't it the ugly, unwantedkind of black sheep of the
family, the Miracle Whip?
What is that, you know, themiracle whip?
What is that you know?
The miracle to me is thatanyone would eat this trash.
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I remember being a kid and you'dbe over at your friend's house.
I remember John Bandy's houseand you know his mom would be
out in the kitchen wearing theapron, got Dionne Warwick
playing in the background.
Where's my Dionne Warwick?
You can picture the well, ifyou weren't around in the 60s,
well, I guess this would havebeen the 70s anyhow.
But you know she's in thekitchen with the apron on and
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she's making a sandwich and I'mhungry and she's making it for
John.
John, you want a sandwich?
Yes, mother, she's got DionneWarwick on the AM radio in the
kitchen.
What do you want?
Do you want ham?
You want cheese on that?
Yes, mother, patrick, whatabout you?
Would you like a sandwich?
And I'd be too shy and I'd betoo shy, and I'd be too shy Like
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, oh, no, thank you, mrs Bandy.
Oh, patrick, you know you'rehungry and I would be.
I'd be very hungry and uh, butuh, I would be too shy to to to
say yes.
And all of a sudden I'd say yes, and the next thing you know,
she'd be out there making asandwich.
John, would you like?
Hold on.
John, would you like tomatoesand lettuce?
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Sure, mom, that sounds good.
Patrick, yeah, okay, thank you.
I don't even like tomatoes.
That much on the sandwich, butI would get them because it
seemed like it was healthy.
All right, kids.
Okay, she's out there.
She's making a sandwich.
Now my mouth is watering.
I right, kids, she's out there,she's making a sandwich.
Now my mouth is watering.
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I can't wait.
I'm anticipating the sandwich.
I pretended like I wasn'thungry.
She brings it out.
Saliva glands are workingovertime.
Dion's playing in the kitchenon the AM radio on the shelf.
Here you go, boys.
Here's your sandwich.
John, oh, I'm looking at it.
It looks exquisite.
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Oh, I say, put it up to my lips, take a big chomp, and what do
you know?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It's Miracle.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Whip.
Now what do I do?
I don't want to seem like Idon't want to be like offensive,
I just spit her out.
You know, I don't know what todo.
But now I'm chewing the miraclewhip.
It's like some kind of I don'tknow what this stuff is.
It's like you got sugar in itand some I don't even know what.
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Are there eggs in it?
Is it mayo with just sugar?
I don't know what it is, butit's off kilter, it's
off-putting.
Uh, and I'm grimacing and I'mnow I'm stuck.
No, I know, you're in thatposition, right where you like.
You got to tell Mrs Bandy, youknow how do you like the
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sandwiches, boys, that's good,mom.
What about you, pat?
It's really good, oh God, youknow.
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Here's another random thing,remember you'd go to like a
get-together.
It could be a familyget-together or a picnic, maybe
it's a marriage reception thatI'm thinking of a wedding
reception and you go in, ormaybe it's out something even
worse and you get that big bowlwhere someone thought it'd be a
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great idea Thought it'd be agreat idea to get that big bowl
of shredded carrots with raisinand Miracle Whip.
You know what I mean?
That is just hideous.
I don't know who thought ofthat.
And then you're like, oh God,they've got the carrot, raisin,
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miracle Whip, salad, might evenbe mayo, and you're looking at
it do all you do is you see theflies, they're buzzing over this
stuff.
I mean it's bad enough thatsomeone expects you to eat this
stuff.
That's jacked up, man, that'sjacked up when you got the
carrots and the raisins, and Idon't care if it's mayo or
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miracle whip, it's sitting outthere in the sun, you know.
I mean, you've been there,right.
It sitting out there in the sun.
You know what?
I mean, you've been there,right, it's out there in the sun
, doesn't have one of those tentthings over it.
Flies buzzing, all green andbuzzing in this dungeon of
despair.
Frank Zappa, thank you, yeah,that's a whole other thing
Anyhow.
So it's just kind of a randomthing.
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You know I'm going to have to,so it's just kind of a random
thing.
After I said on my show tonightis mayo versus Miracle Whip.
And what is Miracle Whip?
Meanwhile, if you go to Costco,you can get yourself a big old
tub of that stuff, big old, likea huge tub of the Miracle Whip.
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Or you can get a big old tub ofmayo.
You can always get these largeamounts of stuff there at Costco
, right, they've got all of thisstuff.
But you won't be able to get it, my friends, when Costco closes
all of its stores in the US onMay 26th.
That's right, it's true.
Costco will close their on May26th.
That's right, it's true.
Costco will close their doorson May 26th, all of their stores
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.
When you first hear that, I meanpeople are like what?
What are you talking about myCostco card?
I'm a member, it's a good place.
I need to go there, hold up.
They become one of the biggestnames in the membership-only
warehouse club store business,as many of you know.
Remember when they were PriceClub?
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Remember that back in the 70s,was it in the 70s when they were
Price Club?
But today they're huge, like.
They have over 600 Costcostores across the United States.
Um, the biggest number of theCostco locations are in
California, right here inCalifornia, where they have 142
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stores.
That's about 23% of all of theCostco stores in the United
States is here in California.
But if you're looking to go getthat big old tub or whatever it
is at Costco or whatever you'relooking for there, not going to
happen on May 26th they willclose all of their stores, as I
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said that day announcing,they'll do that on the entire
day for Memorial Day, whichtakes place May 26th.
The announcement in line withCostco's tradition of closing
all the stores on major holidaysLabor Day, thanksgiving,
christmas.
So they say, if you're lookingto rush on over to Costco on
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Memorial Day, you try to getthat last minute, those last
minute supplies.
You got the barbecue going.
You're trying to make yourgathering better.
You need to get something there.
Forget about it.
Forget about it.
You better go there before theholiday gets here.
Now I'll tell you this.
Let me finish with what Costcosays before I give you my two
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cents.
Costco says, quote Memorial Dayhonors the sacrifice and the
loss of those who served anddied in the military.
This is according to theWounded Warrior Project.
Veterans Day honors all whohave served in the US military.
Memorial Day, a federal holidayheld the last Monday in May as
the nation's foremost annual dayto mourn and honor its deceased
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servicemen and women, accordingto the National Cemetery
Administration.
And here's Costco, again amembership warehouse club.
They're bringing their membersthe best possible and they are
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very dedicated to this.
They want to give you the bestdeals.
They want to give you excellentbrand name items.
As I mentioned all thelocations, it's very convenient
for a lot of people.
They have a lot of specialtylittle departments and items.
They have some exclusive memberservices.
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So it is designed to give you apleasurable and a little bit of
a discounted shoppingexperience, because we're all
looking for that.
And again, I'll tell you this Iam not a member of Costco
because, quite frankly, nothingagainst Costco, it's just me.
What am I going to do with agigantic tub of whatever?
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You know?
I don't even eat that much,quite honestly.
But all respect to Costco.
I may go get a card, amembership card, based simply on
this.
Again, I might go to Costco andget a few items, maybe dish,
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soap or you know, perhaps youknow I mean there's a variety of
things detergent, I don't know.
I'm going to start listingshopping items I may or may not
need, but you know, batteries.
I need a couple of batteriesright now for my yard enforcer
sprinkler, my motion-detectedsprinkler to keep the deer off
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my property.
And they always trick you up onthe batteries, don't they?
They always trick you up likeyou get just one or two too many
or you get one or two too few,so you always have to buy the
other one.
So then you have a couple oflike one or two left over maybe
where you don't have enough.
That's the whole thing.
But if I were to go to costco Idon't know, maybe I don't know
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how much they are, I'm justguessing let's say, oh heck, I
don't know, 20, 1999, I don'tknow.
And you look at them and you'relike dang, that's a good deal.
But there's like the package isenough to last me through the
next several years.
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And then I've got to find aplace in my refrigerator or
wherever you keep batteries.
But I mean, it's just likeeverything is in bulk.
But much respect I have to sayto Costco for respecting
Memorial Day and deciding.
You know what.
We're going to go ahead andclose our doors.
Way to go.
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Costco.
Pat's Peeps, number 265.
An update on a previous podcast.
I had done a podcast on theJehovah Witnesses showing up to
my door.
If you go back just a fewpodcasts, it's the Golden Rule
podcast.
That's what I think I called it.
When Lori and Lori, theJehovah's Witnesses, showed up
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at my door, they were trying toget me to go to an assembly here
.
I am Catholic.
They want me to go to anassembly.
Here, I am Catholic.
They want me to go to anassembly.
Well, they I don't know, maybethat was, I don't know, three
weeks or a month ago, I can'treally recall something like
that.
Yesterday, out of nowhere, boop, there they are at my door
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again Caught me totally offguard.
Yesterday, it's okay, I was inhere working out and all of a
sudden they're at my door,startled me and so, in other
words, so as I started to talkto them, went out on the front
porch to have a little chat withthem.
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You know, anyhow, there'salways a couple more in the car,
a couple more waiting in thecar, and so I don't like to keep
them there too long.
But I asked them if they'dheard my podcast or my radio
show regarding people knockingat your door.
When the Jehovah Witnesses comeknocking, they said, yeah, we
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listened to it.
I didn't think they would saythat, but they knocking.
They said, yeah, we listened toit.
I didn't think they would saythat, but they did.
They actually listened to myradio show and they thought that
it was very fair.
I asked what they thought aboutit, about my take on.
You know, when people knock atyour door like that Jehovah's
Witnesses and I'm here to saythat they both thought it was
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very respectable and very welldone, which is I was trying to
be respectful.
So, thank you, see, ladies, wetake the time to talk.
Next thing, you know they'relistening to the radio show.
So, lori and Lori, if you'relistening to this podcast, thank
you very much for listening.
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What else we got?
You know what I was.
When I had the party thisweekend this is very random my
sister, stephanie, was here.
We were having a conversationand one of the things that came
up.
And one of the things that cameup was Kentucky Fried Chicken
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KFC.
It used to be called KentuckyFried Chicken and again, I don't
even know how this came up.
Oh, I know, yes, I do.
Somehow we got on the topic offoods that you just can't stand.
Oh, we were talking aboutMiracle Whip.
That's what it was's what itwas.
So it went from miracle whipthat's how I thought about this
topic miracle whip.
And then it went to.
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It went to uh, oh, uh, oh, god,um, well, it went to brussels
sprouts.
Yeah, brussels sprouts, thevirtues or the, the virtue of
brussels sprouts, or vile,hideous weed.
And I'm in the, I'm in thelater.
Uh, I don't want to say camp,but thought of that.
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Then that switched to becauseit's vile.
It's a hideous wild weed.
Not the way I make them.
Oh, yes, it is.
I make them.
Oh, yes, it is.
Anyhow.
That led to the topic of liver,which led to these silly
discussions that we have, where,if you hate the Brussels
sprouts and you hate the liver,and you haven't had either for
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many years, and they were bothput in front of you, what would
you eat?
You got to eat one of them.
What would you eat?
You gotta eat one of them.
What would you eat?
I'll even throw pickled beetson that play.
Like.
Which one would you eat?
Uh, and so the that conversationled to something that Kentucky
Fried Chicken used to do in the60s and 70s, and I remember this
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because my mother and hersister, my aunt Donna from
Canoga Park, when we would govisit my aunt Donna, would take
my mom and they would alwayswant to go to the Kentucky Fried
Chicken and get a bucket ofgizzards.
This is true, a bucket ofgizzards.
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This is true, a bucket ofgizzards.
And as a kid I always thoughtthat is just well grody, as we
used to say, grotesque, gross.
I mean, come on, chickengizzards.
Well, I don't even know what achicken gizzard is, but it
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seemed hideous.
Now, it's true, kentucky FriedChicken.
People are like, well, whatChicken gizzards?
Yeah, that's true, chicken,they used to have a thing.
Now, it was not a big item onthe menu, it wasn't like
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something that was featured,like the chicken or whatever
else the big items on the menu.
But yeah, it would be one ofthese side dishes that you
really barely even knew about.
They offered these and theyoffered fried livers.
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This is only in some markets.
It must have been in the LAarea, canoga Park, and now they
have phased that out.
I'm pretty sure now, uh,they've.
I don't know if they throw themaway or whatever.
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But and I started thinking, like, what is what is a gizzard?
I mean, I hate to say it, doesanyone see this?
I don't know, they look like alittle pair of chicken testes to
me.
It was so disgusting.
And again, by the bucket yougot this, you know some kind of
sauce you're dipping thesethings into.
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I'm like this is chicken, whatit's?
Just so I looked it up.
So a chicken gizzard, it is amuscular part of the avian
digestive system, locatedbetween the crop and the small
intestine.
It is essentially the bird'sstomach responsible for grinding
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and breaking down food,including small pebbles and grit
, as chickens do not have teeth,the gizzard has strong muscles
and they contract to help withdigestion and, for whatever
reason, they used to sell thosein buckets at KFC.
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You could get the family bucket, you could get the gizzard
dinner for a dollar, or youcould get the liver chicken
liver dinner for a buck 25 andyou get that with potatoes,
crackling gravy, coleslaw andhot rolls.
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Just in case you neededsomething different, you know
other than chicken get yourselfa big old bucket of chicken
gizzards or chicken liver.
Just in case you neededsomething different, you know
other than chicken, get yourselfa big old bucket of chicken
gizzards or chicken liver Woof.
Back when it was calledKentucky Fried Chicken, let's
see what else.
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I had all these other randomthings on my mind.
Um, do-do-do-do-do, I waswatching some like police
interrogation videos.
You ever watch these Like crimevideos and then they're in a
police interrogation room.
Is it the police interrogationroom?
Just boy, that is anuncomfortable, creepy-looking
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place.
Perfect for you know, sort ofcornering, without really
cornering these suspects to getthe truth out of them.
And inevitably there's a coupleof things that happen.
One, they always sound likeyeah, we're going to look
through your cell phone.
You know that, right, charlie?
Sure, you're going to give uspermission to look through your
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phone.
Well, come on, let us have it,have it, we're gonna go through
it.
Well, there's, uh, there'ssomething.
There's always some weird crapon their phone, like these
people, what I mean?
Again, again, they're criminals, many of them.
That's why they're in the room,but they've always got some
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weird stuff on their phones Likewhat are you doing in life?
What are you doing in your lifewhere you have a bunch of
creepy, weird stuff on yourphone?
God, I'm looking at my phone,god, I'm looking at my phone.
Like, literally, I've got likepictures of Pats, peeps and
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Italy.
There's an engine, there's aChevy engine.
Honestly, you could go to myphone.
There would never be a creepything on there, text-wise,
picture-wise, video-wise.
But inevitably, these people,they've always got some creepy
thing on their phone, like who'sdoing that?
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Why?
Why are you putting this stuffthere and who's doing it and
where?
Anyhow it?
That just occurred to me.
And then the other thing is thatanytime they have a security
camera, like they'll have asecurity camera from a building
and let's say they're followinga car, they're trying to track a
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car or whatever.
It always seems like thesecurity camera, the footage was
just they mean, the footage wastoo grainy to actually identify
the license plate.
I always wonder where are yougetting these cheap cameras?
Like, why is it that NASA canliterally take a picture of
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Uranus or of Jupiter we can seethe moon of, you know.
We can see Titan, we can seethe rings of Saturn, titan, we
can see the rings of Saturn butwe cannot see the license plate
from a security camera in abusiness.
Why is that?
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When do the security camerasimprove?
It seems like a niche to me.
If you had the right equipment,I guess you can make yourself a
little bit of money, becausenone of these seem to work
correctly.
Come up with one that works andthey go well.
They're a brilliant securitycamera.
It's able to picture it, pickit up perfectly, but nope, it's
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always too grainy Too.
The resolution wasn't goodenough.
I'm like why?
Why even have the thing then?
Is it this?
Is this a cost-related issue?
And if so, then it's kind of awhy even get the thing?
Maybe there's this, you know,maybe you have to compress,
(31:08):
there's this need forcompression if you're doing
large video files, but Ihonestly I can't imagine that
they can't come up with asolution for something like this
to catch more of the criminalsthis way.
Right, what that seems like.
Maybe it's a limitation on howthey're used to maintain it.
Whatever, it's just a randomthought.
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Today's, you know, today, onPat's Peeps 265.
It's really just all randomthoughts, leftovers.
Like I said, it's the leftoverpodcast.
So, uh, I think that's all theleftovers I had.
So I'm going to pull out thisrecord here.
How about that?
Let me see Now this one here.
(31:49):
I don't know if I know thissong.
As I say, this is a kind of aspecial edition where they put
two hit songs on one record.
So you have a song from one erawhich I think.
So let me see, I'm going topull it out of the sleeve here.
Oh my gosh, absolute mintcondition.
This thing's never, ever seenthe light of day, except for
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when it was made.
That's a beautiful record.
It's on RCA, but it's specialproducts, which means it's again
two hit songs they put on onerecord, a reissue.
This is from 1988.
These songs are much older than1988.
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Black label RCA SpecialProducts.
Nowhere here does it say, oh,by the way, produced from master
recordings owned by and withpermission of RCA Inc.
Where here does it say, oh, bythe way, produced from Master
Recordings owned by and withpermission of RCA Inc.
1988, rca Inc.
There's no stickers, there's nowriting, there's no stamps.
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There's nothing on this record.
So I'm going to play this sidefirst, this one again.
I'm not sure if I know this song.
It's a novelty song by CharlesRandolph Graham, released in
1950.
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So this, here it is.
So this came out.
The record is 88, this issue.
But their song was released in1950.
And it received heavy airplay.
So maybe I have heard of it, Idon't know.
Spent 14 weeks on the Billboardcharts.
Melody is derived from theEnglish Bali folk song, the
Chandler's Wife, which itself isa derived medley from an
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earlier English folk song, theLincolnshire Poacher.
The Lincolnshire Poacher Songsrecorded by this artist,
released October 13, 1950.
Originally released as a 78 RPMby RCA Victor, number 20-3968,.
The record first scored theBillboard chart November 17,
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1950.
Eventually peaked at number oneduring its several-month stay.
Wow, it went to number one.
The lyrics are of a firstperson narration describing the
discovery, on a beach of a largewooden box that is floating in
the bay, which the narratorpulls out of the water.
Whatever's in the box is neverrevealed, nor is it called this
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in the lyrics.
When they call for this to benamed, the vocals simply pause
for three percussive knocks.
Narrators overjoyed by thediscovery Blah, blah, blah.
All right, so this is a song byPhil Harris.
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It's called the Thing.
Let's see if we know this one.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
While I was walking down the beach one bright and
sunny day, I saw a great bigwooden box a-atin' in the bay.
I pulled it in and opened it upand, much to my surprise, ooh,
I discovered a right before myeyes.
Ooh, I discovered a rightbefore my eyes.
I picked it up and ran to townas happy as a king.
(35:18):
I took it to a guy I knew who'dbuy most anything.
But this is what he hollered atme as I walked in his shop oh,
get out of here with that BeforeI call a cop.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Oh, get out of here with that Before I call a cop.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I turned around and got right out of running for my
life and then I took it homewith me to give it to my wife.
But this is what she holleredat me as I walked in the door oh
, get out of here with that anddon't come back no more.
Oh, get out of here with thatand don't come back, no more
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1950, phil Harris the Thing PatsPeeps 265.
I wandered all around the townuntil I chanced to meet a hobo
who was looking for a handout onthe street.
He said he'd take most any oldthing.
He was a desperate man, butwhen I showed him he turned
around and ran.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh, when I showed him he turned around and ran All
right, let's flip that over andsee what's on the other side.
The other side is a verymeaningful song for me as I eat
my bucket of chicken gizzardsfrom Costco with dipping in
Miracle Whip.
This song, I believe, came outin I'm going to say 72, 72, 72.
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Let me, I want to guess, yep,72.
I knew it.
This is also so.
This must have been a noveltyre-release in 88.
Because this was a novelty songtoo.
And in the United States itwent to number four on the R&B
chart, number six on theBillboard Hot 100.
Billboard ranked it as thenumber 80 song for 1972, but it
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stands out big time in my mind.
Went to number one in Canadafor two weeks.
July of 72.
Sold over half a million copies.
Certified gold sold over half amillion copies certified gold.
(37:29):
There was a character introducedin this song.
Her and her sisters featured ina couple of other later
follow-up songs by this artist.
I remember the one in 1975, forexample.
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It has also been sampled inhip-hop and in dance music.
So my dad loved this song.
Plus, it said I suck it to you,daddy.
It said right on my dad being asix foot six dude, big old dude
when this song would come on,my dad being a six foot six dude
, big old dude.
When this song would come on,my dad would go I'll sock it to
you, daddy and then he would dothis thing with his arms up
behind his head and as the beatwould go, he would make his b's
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bouncing to the song 1972.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's the Jimmy Castor bunch about a caveman
troglodytes what we're gonna doright here is go back way back
back into time when the onlypeople that existed were
troglodytes, cavemen, cavewomen,neanderthal Troglodytes.
(38:57):
Let's take the average cavemanat home listening to his stereo.
Sometimes he'd get up, try todo his thing.
(39:19):
He'd begin to move Somethinglike this Dance, dance.
When he got tired of dancingalone.
He'd look in the mirror and sayGotta find a woman, gotta find
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a woman, gotta find a woman,gotta find a woman, gotta find a
woman, gotta find a woman.
He'd go down to the lake whereall the girls would be swimming
or washing clothes or something.
He'd look around and just reachin and grab one.
Come here, come here, come here.
He'd grab her by the hair youcan't do that today, fellas,
(40:09):
because I might come off.
You'd have a piece of hair inyour hand.
She'd be swimming away from you.
This one woman just laid there,wet Birth of butt and
frightened and the butt sisters.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
She said move this one woman just laid there, wet
Bertha Butt.
And the Butt Sisters she saidmove, move, move.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
She got up.
She was a big woman, big woman.
Her name was Bertha Bertha Butt.
She's one of the Butt sisters.
He didn't care.
He looked up.
(40:53):
He said Suck it to me, suck itto me, suck it to me, suck it to
me, suck it to me, suck it tome, suck it to me, suck it to me
.
She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, him.
But she didn't like him.
She said I'll sock it to you,daddy.
He said what she said I'll sockit to you, daddy.
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You know what he said.
Right on, he started it all wayback then.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
That's right, brother , I ain't gonna lie to you, tell
you, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
But she said I'll suck it to you, daddy.
He said right on.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Thank you for listening Right on.
That's Peeps 265.
See you on the radio Hot mess,hot mess, hot mess, hot mess.
yeah, hey, now I have to write some lyrics to this
someday.
Pat's peeps 265 hey, now, 265peeps is what we call podcasts.
That's pretty pretty good.
Huh, 265, just keep rolling.
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Whatever, whatever man, it's abeautiful day here on this
Tuesday, may 20th, 25, as I lookout my studio window into the
beautiful foothills of NorthernCalifornia where the spectacular
spring of 2025 just continuesSunny, mild, gorgeous.
(00:47):
I understand it'll get up to 90, though today, but then it
drops right back on down just intime to head to the music
festival.
But thank you for listening.
Wherever you are, appreciateyou being there and tuning in
here.
My name is Pat Walsh.
I'm the host of the Pat WalshRadio Shows.
I always like to tell you onKFBK Newsradio 93.1 FM, 1530 AM,
(01:13):
right there in Sacramento,heard everywhere on all your
streaming platforms, includingyour free iHeart app.
So today is just, you know, Ihave just a bunch of things.
It's sort of like a leftoversday here, leftover Tuesday.
I did, by the way, have a lot offun last night on the show man.
We have some great callers onmy radio show and, uh, we just
(01:36):
uh went off on that BruceSpringsteen rant in the UK where
he was talking his politicalhack rhetoric instead of singing
his music.
And someone had mentioned that.
Heck the guy what plays threehours or whatever, and, uh, for
(01:56):
a half hour of that or so it'spolitical rhetoric anyhow.
So I thought I would turn thetables on my show last night.
Everyone else else can dowhatever they want to do, but I
turned the tables on my show andI played the Kid Rock bit where
he says that, well, hey, youknow as much as Bruce
Springsteen's cool andeverything, bob Seger would
smoke him any day of the week.
(02:17):
So I thought I would just stopit there and ask everyone about
that.
And you know, bob Seger, bsversus.
Well, I mean, I don't reallymean BS in a negative way, it's
just Bob Seger versus BruceSpringsteen happens to be in a B
and S Kept coming across myscreen like that all night.
You have a call screener thingright and the call or the
(02:40):
technical producer Solo.
He puts the names up there andhe was Because it was Bob Seger
against Bruce Springsteen, basedon the Kid Rock thing.
He was saying BS versus BS, nota negative connotation of BS,
by the way, and clearly andoverwhelmingly in my unofficial
(03:02):
poll it was clearly Bob Seger.
What was the numbers here.
Let me see it was 21-2 at theend of the night in favor of Bob
Seger.
Not sure if Bruce's rant hadanything to do with that or not,
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but we sure did have funtalking about that.
And we also had fun talkingabout the best rock duos ever in
terms of a guitar player and asinger in a band A guitar player
and then the singer in the banda duo.
We had a great time talkingabout that because it was Pete
(03:42):
Townsend's 80th birthday andsince we got to all of these
things and since we had so manycalls, well, what happened was
I'll just tell you this.
And then Melody hi, melody, Iknow Melody listens to my
podcast.
Thank you, melody.
Who said you know, she asked ifthe Music Monday was a new
(04:06):
segment on my show or if thatwas a new thing on my show, and
I thought well, you know what Iknow.
Sean, who listens in Oklahoma,has asked me on numerous
occasions to do like a TuesdayTunes or whatever.
But it did end up being a MusicMonday and Melody liked it and
(04:30):
other people, bruce and someothers weighed in and said yeah,
I like that too.
For whatever reason, everyoneloves talking about music,
including yours truly.
Obviously I probably talk musicmore than any other thing.
So you know I may give that ashot.
A little Music Monday everybodyon the Pat Walsh Show, and you
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know I always have time on thispodcast to do music.
I always find a way, in fact,today, you know, I always pick
out a rare record from mycollection here out a rare
record from my collection here Ihave one of these.
I have two songs because it's aspecial products release, which
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essentially means that it wasdone many years later after the
original came out, and theywould take and pair hit songs,
probably pretty deep hit songs.
One I remember extremely fondlyand I'll explain.
But they would pair them up ona 45, one side and then the
(05:32):
other side.
So you might get two songs fromcompletely different eras,
which is the case today.
It's, I think, 22 yearsdifference.
I could be wrong, I'll doublecheck that, but I think it's
like 22 years difference.
So yes, I will find a way, asalways, to navigate my way to
music.
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Yes, so that's it, patspeepscom.
Thank you, countdown is on.
Like I said for the musicfestival A couple of days, we'll
be doing it from there, thepodcast.
So I thought, because I got intothat music thing yesterday,
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that here on my podcast, on mypeeps, I could do some leftovers
.
These are things that wereintended to be on my show and I
couldn't get to them.
Now, that's not to be on myshow and I couldn't get to them
Now, that's not to say because Idon't generally try to repeat
anything that I do here and I'lldo it here and on my show.
I want to give you a reason tolisten to each and keep them
unique.
(06:57):
However, sometimes there areopportunities to you know, on
the radio show.
Here I can just rant about itOn my radio show.
I can take your phone calls sowe can talk about it and I can
get your opinion.
So I have some leftovers.
So some of this stuff will bethings that I'll talk to you
about.
For instance, like there's acouple of things right here Now.
(07:19):
These are all over the map, allright here on Pats Peeps 265.
We're all over the map.
It's random, these areleftovers.
It's our leftovers.
Episode Stuff we couldn't get to, as Mark the Voice Guy used to
say, brought to you by SeaweedNow fish can smoke their cares
away and by Corduroy Pillows,making headlines since 1971.
(07:43):
Oh, mark the Voice Guy, for,for instance, here's one.
I'm going to check these off mylist now.
I'll probably do these on myshow tonight so I can take your
call.
Uh, number one.
Now here's a biggie mayo, ormiracle whip.
I ask you now you can't answerme right now, obviously, but I
ask you just like the Twizzler,is the ugly cousin of the red
(08:07):
vine?
Or the red rope, which isanother cousin, that's like a
second cousin to the red vine.
But the Twizzler, let's face it, the ugly toxic, you know
chemically dependent cousin.
Toxic, you know chemicallydependent cousin.
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But isn't Miracle Whip the samething to mayo, isn't it?
Isn't it the ugly, unwantedkind of black sheep of the
family, the Miracle Whip?
What is that, you know, themiracle whip?
What is that you know?
The miracle to me is thatanyone would eat this trash.
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I remember being a kid and you'dbe over at your friend's house.
I remember John Bandy's houseand you know his mom would be
out in the kitchen wearing theapron, got Dionne Warwick
playing in the background.
Where's my Dionne Warwick?
You can picture the well, ifyou weren't around in the 60s,
well, I guess this would havebeen the 70s anyhow.
But you know she's in thekitchen with the apron on and
(09:21):
she's making a sandwich and I'mhungry and she's making it for
John.
John, you want a sandwich?
Yes, mother, she's got DionneWarwick on the AM radio in the
kitchen.
What do you want?
Do you want ham?
You want cheese on that?
Yes, mother, patrick, whatabout you?
Would you like a sandwich?
And I'd be too shy and I'd betoo shy, and I'd be too shy Like
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, oh, no, thank you, mrs Bandy.
Oh, patrick, you know you'rehungry and I would be.
I'd be very hungry and uh, butuh, I would be too shy to to to
say yes.
And all of a sudden I'd say yes, and the next thing you know,
she'd be out there making asandwich.
John, would you like?
Hold on.
John, would you like tomatoesand lettuce?
(10:10):
Sure, mom, that sounds good.
Patrick, yeah, okay, thank you.
I don't even like tomatoes.
That much on the sandwich, butI would get them because it
seemed like it was healthy.
All right, kids.
Okay, she's out there.
She's making a sandwich.
Now my mouth is watering.
I right, kids, she's out there,she's making a sandwich.
Now my mouth is watering.
(10:30):
I can't wait.
I'm anticipating the sandwich.
I pretended like I wasn'thungry.
She brings it out.
Saliva glands are workingovertime.
Dion's playing in the kitchenon the AM radio on the shelf.
Here you go, boys.
Here's your sandwich.
John, oh, I'm looking at it.
It looks exquisite.
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Oh, I say, put it up to my lips, take a big chomp, and what do
you know?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It's Miracle.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Whip.
Now what do I do?
I don't want to seem like Idon't want to be like offensive,
I just spit her out.
You know, I don't know what todo.
But now I'm chewing the miraclewhip.
It's like some kind of I don'tknow what this stuff is.
It's like you got sugar in itand some I don't even know what.
(11:27):
Are there eggs in it?
Is it mayo with just sugar?
I don't know what it is, butit's off kilter, it's
off-putting.
Uh, and I'm grimacing and I'mnow I'm stuck.
No, I know, you're in thatposition, right where you like.
You got to tell Mrs Bandy, youknow how do you like the
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sandwiches, boys, that's good,mom.
What about you, pat?
It's really good, oh God, youknow.
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Here's another random thing,remember you'd go to like a
get-together.
It could be a familyget-together or a picnic, maybe
it's a marriage reception thatI'm thinking of a wedding
reception and you go in, ormaybe it's out something even
worse and you get that big bowlwhere someone thought it'd be a
(12:36):
great idea Thought it'd be agreat idea to get that big bowl
of shredded carrots with raisinand Miracle Whip.
You know what I mean?
That is just hideous.
I don't know who thought ofthat.
And then you're like, oh God,they've got the carrot, raisin,
(13:00):
miracle Whip, salad, might evenbe mayo, and you're looking at
it do all you do is you see theflies, they're buzzing over this
stuff.
I mean it's bad enough thatsomeone expects you to eat this
stuff.
That's jacked up, man, that'sjacked up when you got the
carrots and the raisins, and Idon't care if it's mayo or
(13:20):
miracle whip, it's sitting outthere in the sun, you know.
I mean, you've been there,right.
It sitting out there in the sun.
You know what?
I mean, you've been there,right, it's out there in the sun
, doesn't have one of those tentthings over it.
Flies buzzing, all green andbuzzing in this dungeon of
despair.
Frank Zappa, thank you, yeah,that's a whole other thing
Anyhow.
So it's just kind of a randomthing.
(13:41):
You know I'm going to have to,so it's just kind of a random
thing.
After I said on my show tonightis mayo versus Miracle Whip.
And what is Miracle Whip?
Meanwhile, if you go to Costco,you can get yourself a big old
tub of that stuff, big old, likea huge tub of the Miracle Whip.
(14:06):
Or you can get a big old tub ofmayo.
You can always get these largeamounts of stuff there at Costco
, right, they've got all of thisstuff.
But you won't be able to get it, my friends, when Costco closes
all of its stores in the US onMay 26th.
That's right, it's true.
Costco will close their on May26th.
That's right, it's true.
Costco will close their doorson May 26th, all of their stores
(14:30):
.
When you first hear that, I meanpeople are like what?
What are you talking about myCostco card?
I'm a member, it's a good place.
I need to go there, hold up.
They become one of the biggestnames in the membership-only
warehouse club store business,as many of you know.
Remember when they were PriceClub?
(14:53):
Remember that back in the 70s,was it in the 70s when they were
Price Club?
But today they're huge, like.
They have over 600 Costcostores across the United States.
Um, the biggest number of theCostco locations are in
California, right here inCalifornia, where they have 142
(15:15):
stores.
That's about 23% of all of theCostco stores in the United
States is here in California.
But if you're looking to go getthat big old tub or whatever it
is at Costco or whatever you'relooking for there, not going to
happen on May 26th they willclose all of their stores, as I
(15:40):
said that day announcing,they'll do that on the entire
day for Memorial Day, whichtakes place May 26th.
The announcement in line withCostco's tradition of closing
all the stores on major holidaysLabor Day, thanksgiving,
christmas.
So they say, if you're lookingto rush on over to Costco on
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Memorial Day, you try to getthat last minute, those last
minute supplies.
You got the barbecue going.
You're trying to make yourgathering better.
You need to get something there.
Forget about it.
Forget about it.
You better go there before theholiday gets here.
Now I'll tell you this.
Let me finish with what Costcosays before I give you my two
(16:25):
cents.
Costco says, quote Memorial Dayhonors the sacrifice and the
loss of those who served anddied in the military.
This is according to theWounded Warrior Project.
Veterans Day honors all whohave served in the US military.
Memorial Day, a federal holidayheld the last Monday in May as
the nation's foremost annual dayto mourn and honor its deceased
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servicemen and women, accordingto the National Cemetery
Administration.
And here's Costco, again amembership warehouse club.
They're bringing their membersthe best possible and they are
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very dedicated to this.
They want to give you the bestdeals.
They want to give you excellentbrand name items.
As I mentioned all thelocations, it's very convenient
for a lot of people.
They have a lot of specialtylittle departments and items.
They have some exclusive memberservices.
(17:32):
So it is designed to give you apleasurable and a little bit of
a discounted shoppingexperience, because we're all
looking for that.
And again, I'll tell you this Iam not a member of Costco
because, quite frankly, nothingagainst Costco, it's just me.
What am I going to do with agigantic tub of whatever?
(17:53):
You know?
I don't even eat that much,quite honestly.
But all respect to Costco.
I may go get a card, amembership card, based simply on
this.
Again, I might go to Costco andget a few items, maybe dish,
(18:16):
soap or you know, perhaps youknow I mean there's a variety of
things detergent, I don't know.
I'm going to start listingshopping items I may or may not
need, but you know, batteries.
I need a couple of batteriesright now for my yard enforcer
sprinkler, my motion-detectedsprinkler to keep the deer off
(18:39):
my property.
And they always trick you up onthe batteries, don't they?
They always trick you up likeyou get just one or two too many
or you get one or two too few,so you always have to buy the
other one.
So then you have a couple oflike one or two left over maybe
where you don't have enough.
That's the whole thing.
But if I were to go to costco Idon't know, maybe I don't know
(19:00):
how much they are, I'm justguessing let's say, oh heck, I
don't know, 20, 1999, I don'tknow.
And you look at them and you'relike dang, that's a good deal.
But there's like the package isenough to last me through the
next several years.
(19:20):
And then I've got to find aplace in my refrigerator or
wherever you keep batteries.
But I mean, it's just likeeverything is in bulk.
But much respect I have to sayto Costco for respecting
Memorial Day and deciding.
You know what.
We're going to go ahead andclose our doors.
Way to go.
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Costco.
Pat's Peeps, number 265.
An update on a previous podcast.
I had done a podcast on theJehovah Witnesses showing up to
my door.
If you go back just a fewpodcasts, it's the Golden Rule
podcast.
That's what I think I called it.
When Lori and Lori, theJehovah's Witnesses, showed up
(20:03):
at my door, they were trying toget me to go to an assembly here
.
I am Catholic.
They want me to go to anassembly.
Here, I am Catholic.
They want me to go to anassembly.
Well, they I don't know, maybethat was, I don't know, three
weeks or a month ago, I can'treally recall something like
that.
Yesterday, out of nowhere, boop, there they are at my door
(20:26):
again Caught me totally offguard.
Yesterday, it's okay, I was inhere working out and all of a
sudden they're at my door,startled me and so, in other
words, so as I started to talkto them, went out on the front
porch to have a little chat withthem.
(20:48):
You know, anyhow, there'salways a couple more in the car,
a couple more waiting in thecar, and so I don't like to keep
them there too long.
But I asked them if they'dheard my podcast or my radio
show regarding people knockingat your door.
When the Jehovah Witnesses comeknocking, they said, yeah, we
(21:10):
listened to it.
I didn't think they would saythat, but they knocking.
They said, yeah, we listened toit.
I didn't think they would saythat, but they did.
They actually listened to myradio show and they thought that
it was very fair.
I asked what they thought aboutit, about my take on.
You know, when people knock atyour door like that Jehovah's
Witnesses and I'm here to saythat they both thought it was
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very respectable and very welldone, which is I was trying to
be respectful.
So, thank you, see, ladies, wetake the time to talk.
Next thing, you know they'relistening to the radio show.
So, lori and Lori, if you'relistening to this podcast, thank
you very much for listening.
(21:51):
What else we got?
You know what I was.
When I had the party thisweekend this is very random my
sister, stephanie, was here.
We were having a conversationand one of the things that came
up.
And one of the things that cameup was Kentucky Fried Chicken
(22:18):
KFC.
It used to be called KentuckyFried Chicken and again, I don't
even know how this came up.
Oh, I know, yes, I do.
Somehow we got on the topic offoods that you just can't stand.
Oh, we were talking aboutMiracle Whip.
That's what it was's what itwas.
So it went from miracle whipthat's how I thought about this
topic miracle whip.
And then it went to.
(22:39):
It went to uh, oh, uh, oh, god,um, well, it went to brussels
sprouts.
Yeah, brussels sprouts, thevirtues or the, the virtue of
brussels sprouts, or vile,hideous weed.
And I'm in the, I'm in thelater.
Uh, I don't want to say camp,but thought of that.
(23:03):
Then that switched to becauseit's vile.
It's a hideous wild weed.
Not the way I make them.
Oh, yes, it is.
I make them.
Oh, yes, it is.
Anyhow.
That led to the topic of liver,which led to these silly
discussions that we have, where,if you hate the Brussels
sprouts and you hate the liver,and you haven't had either for
(23:25):
many years, and they were bothput in front of you, what would
you eat?
You got to eat one of them.
What would you eat?
You gotta eat one of them.
What would you eat?
I'll even throw pickled beetson that play.
Like.
Which one would you eat?
Uh, and so the that conversationled to something that Kentucky
Fried Chicken used to do in the60s and 70s, and I remember this
(23:50):
because my mother and hersister, my aunt Donna from
Canoga Park, when we would govisit my aunt Donna, would take
my mom and they would alwayswant to go to the Kentucky Fried
Chicken and get a bucket ofgizzards.
This is true, a bucket ofgizzards.
(24:15):
This is true, a bucket ofgizzards.
And as a kid I always thoughtthat is just well grody, as we
used to say, grotesque, gross.
I mean, come on, chickengizzards.
Well, I don't even know what achicken gizzard is, but it
(24:35):
seemed hideous.
Now, it's true, kentucky FriedChicken.
People are like, well, whatChicken gizzards?
Yeah, that's true, chicken,they used to have a thing.
Now, it was not a big item onthe menu, it wasn't like
(24:57):
something that was featured,like the chicken or whatever
else the big items on the menu.
But yeah, it would be one ofthese side dishes that you
really barely even knew about.
They offered these and theyoffered fried livers.
(25:20):
This is only in some markets.
It must have been in the LAarea, canoga Park, and now they
have phased that out.
I'm pretty sure now, uh,they've.
I don't know if they throw themaway or whatever.
(25:40):
But and I started thinking, like, what is what is a gizzard?
I mean, I hate to say it, doesanyone see this?
I don't know, they look like alittle pair of chicken testes to
me.
It was so disgusting.
And again, by the bucket yougot this, you know some kind of
sauce you're dipping thesethings into.
(26:02):
I'm like this is chicken, whatit's?
Just so I looked it up.
So a chicken gizzard, it is amuscular part of the avian
digestive system, locatedbetween the crop and the small
intestine.
It is essentially the bird'sstomach responsible for grinding
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and breaking down food,including small pebbles and grit
, as chickens do not have teeth,the gizzard has strong muscles
and they contract to help withdigestion and, for whatever
reason, they used to sell thosein buckets at KFC.
(26:44):
You could get the family bucket, you could get the gizzard
dinner for a dollar, or youcould get the liver chicken
liver dinner for a buck 25 andyou get that with potatoes,
crackling gravy, coleslaw andhot rolls.
(27:05):
Just in case you neededsomething different, you know
other than chicken get yourselfa big old bucket of chicken
gizzards or chicken liver.
Just in case you neededsomething different, you know
other than chicken, get yourselfa big old bucket of chicken
gizzards or chicken liver Woof.
Back when it was calledKentucky Fried Chicken, let's
see what else.
(27:28):
I had all these other randomthings on my mind.
Um, do-do-do-do-do, I waswatching some like police
interrogation videos.
You ever watch these Like crimevideos and then they're in a
police interrogation room.
Is it the police interrogationroom?
Just boy, that is anuncomfortable, creepy-looking
(27:50):
place.
Perfect for you know, sort ofcornering, without really
cornering these suspects to getthe truth out of them.
And inevitably there's a coupleof things that happen.
One, they always sound likeyeah, we're going to look
through your cell phone.
You know that, right, charlie?
Sure, you're going to give uspermission to look through your
(28:11):
phone.
Well, come on, let us have it,have it, we're gonna go through
it.
Well, there's, uh, there'ssomething.
There's always some weird crapon their phone, like these
people, what I mean?
Again, again, they're criminals, many of them.
That's why they're in the room,but they've always got some
(28:35):
weird stuff on their phones Likewhat are you doing in life?
What are you doing in your lifewhere you have a bunch of
creepy, weird stuff on yourphone?
God, I'm looking at my phone,god, I'm looking at my phone.
Like, literally, I've got likepictures of Pats, peeps and
(28:57):
Italy.
There's an engine, there's aChevy engine.
Honestly, you could go to myphone.
There would never be a creepything on there, text-wise,
picture-wise, video-wise.
But inevitably, these people,they've always got some creepy
thing on their phone, like who'sdoing that?
(29:17):
Why?
Why are you putting this stuffthere and who's doing it and
where?
Anyhow it?
That just occurred to me.
And then the other thing is thatanytime they have a security
camera, like they'll have asecurity camera from a building
and let's say they're followinga car, they're trying to track a
(29:38):
car or whatever.
It always seems like thesecurity camera, the footage was
just they mean, the footage wastoo grainy to actually identify
the license plate.
I always wonder where are yougetting these cheap cameras?
Like, why is it that NASA canliterally take a picture of
(30:01):
Uranus or of Jupiter we can seethe moon of, you know.
We can see Titan, we can seethe rings of Saturn, titan, we
can see the rings of Saturn butwe cannot see the license plate
from a security camera in abusiness.
Why is that?
(30:22):
When do the security camerasimprove?
It seems like a niche to me.
If you had the right equipment,I guess you can make yourself a
little bit of money, becausenone of these seem to work
correctly.
Come up with one that works andthey go well.
They're a brilliant securitycamera.
It's able to picture it, pickit up perfectly, but nope, it's
(30:47):
always too grainy Too.
The resolution wasn't goodenough.
I'm like why?
Why even have the thing then?
Is it this?
Is this a cost-related issue?
And if so, then it's kind of awhy even get the thing?
Maybe there's this, you know,maybe you have to compress,
(31:08):
there's this need forcompression if you're doing
large video files, but Ihonestly I can't imagine that
they can't come up with asolution for something like this
to catch more of the criminalsthis way.
Right, what that seems like.
Maybe it's a limitation on howthey're used to maintain it.
Whatever, it's just a randomthought.
(31:28):
Today's, you know, today, onPat's Peeps 265.
It's really just all randomthoughts, leftovers.
Like I said, it's the leftoverpodcast.
So, uh, I think that's all theleftovers I had.
So I'm going to pull out thisrecord here.
How about that?
Let me see Now this one here.
(31:49):
I don't know if I know thissong.
As I say, this is a kind of aspecial edition where they put
two hit songs on one record.
So you have a song from one erawhich I think.
So let me see, I'm going topull it out of the sleeve here.
Oh my gosh, absolute mintcondition.
This thing's never, ever seenthe light of day, except for
(32:11):
when it was made.
That's a beautiful record.
It's on RCA, but it's specialproducts, which means it's again
two hit songs they put on onerecord, a reissue.
This is from 1988.
These songs are much older than1988.
(32:32):
Black label RCA SpecialProducts.
Nowhere here does it say, oh,by the way, produced from master
recordings owned by and withpermission of RCA Inc.
Where here does it say, oh, bythe way, produced from Master
Recordings owned by and withpermission of RCA Inc.
1988, rca Inc.
There's no stickers, there's nowriting, there's no stamps.
(32:54):
There's nothing on this record.
So I'm going to play this sidefirst, this one again.
I'm not sure if I know this song.
It's a novelty song by CharlesRandolph Graham, released in
1950.
(33:15):
So this, here it is.
So this came out.
The record is 88, this issue.
But their song was released in1950.
And it received heavy airplay.
So maybe I have heard of it, Idon't know.
Spent 14 weeks on the Billboardcharts.
Melody is derived from theEnglish Bali folk song, the
Chandler's Wife, which itself isa derived medley from an
(33:35):
earlier English folk song, theLincolnshire Poacher.
The Lincolnshire Poacher Songsrecorded by this artist,
released October 13, 1950.
Originally released as a 78 RPMby RCA Victor, number 20-3968,.
The record first scored theBillboard chart November 17,
(33:56):
1950.
Eventually peaked at number oneduring its several-month stay.
Wow, it went to number one.
The lyrics are of a firstperson narration describing the
discovery, on a beach of a largewooden box that is floating in
the bay, which the narratorpulls out of the water.
Whatever's in the box is neverrevealed, nor is it called this
(34:19):
in the lyrics.
When they call for this to benamed, the vocals simply pause
for three percussive knocks.
Narrators overjoyed by thediscovery Blah, blah, blah.
All right, so this is a song byPhil Harris.
(34:40):
It's called the Thing.
Let's see if we know this one.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
While I was walking down the beach one bright and
sunny day, I saw a great bigwooden box a-atin' in the bay.
I pulled it in and opened it upand, much to my surprise, ooh,
I discovered a right before myeyes.
Ooh, I discovered a rightbefore my eyes.
I picked it up and ran to townas happy as a king.
(35:18):
I took it to a guy I knew who'dbuy most anything.
But this is what he hollered atme as I walked in his shop oh,
get out of here with that BeforeI call a cop.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Oh, get out of here with that Before I call a cop.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I turned around and got right out of running for my
life and then I took it homewith me to give it to my wife.
But this is what she holleredat me as I walked in the door oh
, get out of here with that anddon't come back no more.
Oh, get out of here with thatand don't come back, no more
(35:54):
1950, phil Harris the Thing PatsPeeps 265.
I wandered all around the townuntil I chanced to meet a hobo
who was looking for a handout onthe street.
He said he'd take most any oldthing.
He was a desperate man, butwhen I showed him he turned
around and ran.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh, when I showed him he turned around and ran All
right, let's flip that over andsee what's on the other side.
The other side is a verymeaningful song for me as I eat
my bucket of chicken gizzardsfrom Costco with dipping in
Miracle Whip.
This song, I believe, came outin I'm going to say 72, 72, 72.
(36:46):
Let me, I want to guess, yep,72.
I knew it.
This is also so.
This must have been a noveltyre-release in 88.
Because this was a novelty songtoo.
And in the United States itwent to number four on the R&B
chart, number six on theBillboard Hot 100.
Billboard ranked it as thenumber 80 song for 1972, but it
(37:09):
stands out big time in my mind.
Went to number one in Canadafor two weeks.
July of 72.
Sold over half a million copies.
Certified gold sold over half amillion copies certified gold.
(37:29):
There was a character introducedin this song.
Her and her sisters featured ina couple of other later
follow-up songs by this artist.
I remember the one in 1975, forexample.
(37:51):
It has also been sampled inhip-hop and in dance music.
So my dad loved this song.
Plus, it said I suck it to you,daddy.
It said right on my dad being asix foot six dude, big old dude
when this song would come on,my dad being a six foot six dude
, big old dude.
When this song would come on,my dad would go I'll sock it to
you, daddy and then he would dothis thing with his arms up
behind his head and as the beatwould go, he would make his b's
(38:15):
bouncing to the song 1972.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's the Jimmy Castor bunch about a caveman
troglodytes what we're gonna doright here is go back way back
back into time when the onlypeople that existed were
troglodytes, cavemen, cavewomen,neanderthal Troglodytes.
(38:57):
Let's take the average cavemanat home listening to his stereo.
Sometimes he'd get up, try todo his thing.
(39:19):
He'd begin to move Somethinglike this Dance, dance.
When he got tired of dancingalone.
He'd look in the mirror and sayGotta find a woman, gotta find
(39:42):
a woman, gotta find a woman,gotta find a woman, gotta find a
woman, gotta find a woman.
He'd go down to the lake whereall the girls would be swimming
or washing clothes or something.
He'd look around and just reachin and grab one.
Come here, come here, come here.
He'd grab her by the hair youcan't do that today, fellas,
(40:09):
because I might come off.
You'd have a piece of hair inyour hand.
She'd be swimming away from you.
This one woman just laid there,wet Birth of butt and
frightened and the butt sisters.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
She said move this one woman just laid there, wet
Bertha Butt.
And the Butt Sisters she saidmove, move, move.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
She got up.
She was a big woman, big woman.
Her name was Bertha Bertha Butt.
She's one of the Butt sisters.
He didn't care.
He looked up.
(40:53):
He said Suck it to me, suck itto me, suck it to me, suck it to
me, suck it to me, suck it tome, suck it to me, suck it to me
.
She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, him.
But she didn't like him.
She said I'll sock it to you,daddy.
He said what she said I'll sockit to you, daddy.
(41:17):
You know what he said.
Right on, he started it all wayback then.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
That's right, brother , I ain't gonna lie to you, tell
you, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
But she said I'll suck it to you, daddy.
He said right on.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Thank you for listening Right on.
That's Peeps 265.
See you on the radio Hot mess,hot mess, hot mess, hot mess.
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