Have you ever stopped to consider the quiet power of Wednesday? That overlooked middle child of the week actually carries more historical significance, pop culture references, and practical advantages than you might realize.
Join me on this nostalgia-filled journey as I smoke a cigar and reminisce about the golden age of weekend television. Remember ABC's Wide World of Sports with that iconic introduction? "The thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat." I can still picture those Saturday afternoons with my dad, him nursing a Falstaff beer and Lucky Strike, while we watched in awe as Evel Knievel attempted his death-defying stunts. For a moment in the 1970s, that jumpsuit-wearing daredevil was even cooler than Superman! His slow-motion crash at Caesars Palace might just be the most captivating sports footage ever captured.
But this episode is really a celebration of Wednesday itself. Did you know it was named after Woden, the most important god in the Germanic pantheon? Or that in many Slavic languages, the word for Wednesday literally translates to "middle"? Perhaps most useful of all - research shows bosses are most receptive to requests (like raises or time off) on Wednesdays! We also explore Wednesday's appearances throughout pop culture, from Simon and Garfunkel's "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." to the delightfully macabre Wednesday Addams who stole our hearts.
Before you plan your next weekend, take a moment to appreciate this unsung hero of the workweek. Visit patspeeps.com to check out our expanding mall, with food businesses and special coupons coming soon. And next Wednesday, when you hit that midweek point, remember - you're not just on your way to the weekend; you're experiencing a day with its own rich history and significance.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, you're still putting up with us.
I see how nice of you.
That's very, very nice of you,very considerate.
How nice of you.
That's very, very nice of you,very considerate.
Howdy, happy Wednesday, july30th 2025.
Hope you're doing well.
It's Pat's Peeps Podcast number308.
(00:39):
Looking out the studio windowsinto the beautiful foothills of
Northern California on anotherwacky, weird weather day it is
overcast and yet it is hot, andthen the sun's out.
Sun's out now, but we get someclouds rolling in and suddenly
it's overcast.
So really cool weather, amazing.
I always say it, but this isthe craziest year weather-wise,
(01:00):
the nicest that I can rememberhere in Northern California.
Remember patspeepscom.
Now, I've been thinking aboutthis.
Okay, please, just for a second.
I want to say this I understandthat we're going to add more
businesses here Now.
We're going to add things likefood, like places we can go to
get food.
Right now we have things likeyou know well, if you go, look
at Pats Peeps, you'll see ourmall.
(01:20):
But I want to add more thingsthat are like you can kind of
drive by get food, and maybe youknow donuts, tacos, you know
hamburgers, things like that.
We're giving you coupons.
So be looking for that, becausethat's coming very soon.
Again, we're unveiling this aswe can and we want to give you
more things to choose from whenyou go to the Pats Peeps mall.
Okay, so again trying tosupport local business.
(01:43):
Funny, I'm sitting here today aswe get ready to do the Pat's
Peeps.
I'm smoking a cigar man.
I have cut back on cigars.
I have really cut back.
I always do this.
I think, oh, how cool I canhave a cigar and do my podcast.
It's very difficult to do acigar and podcast at the same
time, just like it is to eat anddo a podcast or a radio show.
(02:06):
By the way, I'm the host of thepat wall show on kfpk radio
sacramento 93.1 fm.
15.
30 am streaming live everywhereon all your iheart app and all
the platforms, just like this is.
And we've had great guests bothon the, on the podcast and on
the radio show.
So thank you to everyone who'slistening.
And you know what?
If you're listening to me rightnow, I just really want you to
(02:30):
know how much I appreciate it.
Okay, as I'm getting ready to dothis, I have my TV on.
I've got to keep my cigar going.
I watch so many things thatremind me of my childhood.
All of a a sudden, as I'mwatching, I mean it's just
youtube and uh, and you know,random things will pop up and
(02:51):
you kind of go down that rabbithole for a minute.
I don't have a lot of free time, but I watch videos and I'm
looking for things that that areinteresting.
You know that I want to talkabout on the show, on the
podcast, here, and so in doingso, random things will pop up
and today, uh, something poppedup.
I'm trying to pull it up rightnow.
I'm buying myself time, uh, butI remember this so well when I
(03:17):
was a kid like it'd be asaturday afternoon we've talked
about this before where maybethere wasn't much on TV, like
your choices were limited.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild KingdomSee Jim as he's up in the tree
fighting the python.
I'll be down here with myinsurance.
We've talked about Morris,taylor and Chico.
But how about this?
If you're of a certain age,you've got to remember this.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety
of sport that's right, thethrill of victory yes
Speaker 1 (03:54):
and the agony of defeat, with the skier biffing
it over the off the ski rampthere the the guy jumping the
barrels.
Athletic competition.
This ice skates, olga Corbett.
I'd be sitting there watchingthat, yes.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Sears.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, uh-huh, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And by Rolaid For acid indigestion, Rolaid.
Rolaid spells relief.
Jim McKay 27 times its weightin excess stomach acid.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's Jim McKay.
Remember he became popularduring that Israeli hostage
crisis at the 72 Olympics.
He covered that.
He became very popular afterthat.
But I remember sitting, youknow you'd be in the living room
on the weekend.
My dad would be sitting theredrinking like a Falstaff,
(04:54):
smoking a Lucky Strike,something like that, watching a
wide world of sports.
And so that popped up on my TV.
I'm like wow, and it was a busjump from Evel Knievel in 1975.
You know, I got to thinkingabout that.
There was no one more popularat the time than Evel Knievel.
He even had like one of those,you know, elvis hey man, I got
(05:16):
my the jumpsuit right.
That dude looks so cool Like helooked cooler than Superman.
He was more cool than Supermanfor a while, more popular.
I'm sorry Superman fans, but Iremember a period of time in the
70s, evel Knievel, superpopular man.
People could not wait to watchwhat he was going to do.
(05:38):
I'm sure that ABC's Wide Worldof Sports signed him to a
lucrative contract.
I mean, think about it.
They had to like hey, man, ifyou're going to do this, do it
live on our show and that way,you know, you make a lot of
money.
It was the biggest show on airreally at the time, especially
on the weekends, and so you'dwatch it.
And I would still contend thatthat slow-mo video when he tried
(06:02):
to jump the fountain at Caesarsin Vegas if that's not the top
sports film of all time, I don'tknow what is Definitely I'd put
that at the top In terms ofmost intriguing and fascinating.
I'd put that at the top Interms of most intriguing and
fascinating.
I'll put that at the top.
Now I might be forgetting aboutsome, but certainly if I even
thought of some more which Icould, Intriguing-wise, I'm not
(06:24):
saying the greatest moments ofall time, I'm just saying the
ones you look at and you go wow,wow, that was pretty incredible
and unusual for sure.
And he's flopping aroundbreaking every bone in his body,
evel Knievel.
Then he tried to jump the SnakeRiver Canyon.
You remember that in the 80s,like the early to mid 80s, and
he did it like that rocket kindof motorcycle thing and I
(06:47):
thought, you know, as they say,jump the shark.
If there was anything any timewhere Evel Knievel, as they say,
jumped the shark, went a littletoo far, became a little
ridiculous.
You know if I might say it wasthat in my opinion and that was
way before jumping the shark wasa thing Before.
(07:09):
Fonzie actually jumped theshark in Happy Days for those of
you who know but it wasn'treally.
It didn't seem like amotorcycle, he didn't make it
Basically, he was in this rocketthing and it just pooped out
there halfway over the canyonand floated down with a
parachute.
Everyone, people couldn't waitfor that.
For Evel Knievel to try to jumpthe Snake River Canyon
(07:36):
Absolutely amazing man.
But Evel Knievel, I, to jumpthe Snake River Canyon
Absolutely amazing man.
But Evil Knievel I mean, yeah,that just again.
That just takes me back to atime as a kid.
That guy was brave man.
Anyhow, happy Wednesday to you.
Everybody Sure appreciate youbeing here.
Guess what day it is?
Oh, no, Guess what day it is,huh, anybody, julie.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Hey, guess what day it is oh, no, guess what day it
is.
Huh, anybody, julie.
Hey, guess what day it is.
Yes, oh, come on, I know youcan hear me.
Yeah, mike, mike, mike, mike,mike.
What day is it?
Mike Leslie, guess what todayis.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's hump day, what?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Ronnie, how happy are folks who save hundreds of
dollars switching to Geico.
I'd say happier than a camel onWednesday Hump.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Day Get happy, get Geico.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Geico, remember that.
Happy Hump Day to ya.
That's right, it's Wednesday,celebrating Wednesday.
I think Wednesday getsoverlooked.
I mean Monday, there's going tobe songs, there's going to be
things, comedians talking aboutMondays, because Monday, monday
blase got to back to work.
(08:38):
Returning to the week, you knowTuesday afternoon, you know the
moody blues, I don't know.
Wednesday Does it get all itsglory.
You know there is Wednesdaymorning 3 am Simon and Garfunkel
.
That's a little Wednesday foryou.
The Pats Peeps 308.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I
love, as she lies here beside me, asleep with the night.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And her hair in the air I'm pretty sure Maybe it's
me, and I certainly could bewrong Reflecting the glow of the
moon.
I've been wrong a lot of times.
I'll admit that I don't thinkthis song says anything about
Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Does it.
She is soft, she is warm, butmy heart remains heavy.
Yeah, that's great.
What day is it?
She is soft, she is warm, butmy heart remains heavy, yeah
that's great.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
What day is it?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And I watch as you burst.
Gently rise, gently fall.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Say Wednesday, say it , say it, for I know with the
first light of dawn.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'll be leaving Wednesday, and tonight will be
all I have left To recall.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh, yes, there's no Wednesday in there.
What about Elvis CostelloWednesday week?
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You can meet and I will follow.
See a chance on cheek to cheek.
You'll remember me tomorrow,bet you won't give a damn about
Wednesday, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Happy Wednesday to you.
Support local businesspatspeepscom.
Thank you very much.
There's always Charles MingusWednesday night prayer meeting.
Happy Wednesday, everybodySpeaking of Wednesday, little
(10:37):
known facts.
Wednesday, my friends, middle ofthe working week and to many of
us the fast approaching weekendis coming Hump Day in America,
smooth sailing from here on outuntil the weekend.
It's often used for fictionalcharacters as well as the name
(11:02):
used by well English footballclubs With ties to gods and
astrology.
Wednesday has some interestingfacts about it.
Named after Woden, the mostimportant god, I am the most
(11:24):
important god.
I look down on you, poseidon,you're weak, you're an aqua boy.
Go ahead, throw a water bottleat me, I dare you.
Woden, most important god inthe German pantheon, associated
with the Norse god, odin,derived from the old English
(11:47):
word Wodenstock Hope.
I said that right.
Wodenstock Hope, I said thatright.
They're associated with theRoman god Mercury.
They used to hang out and party.
Apparently, in Slavic languages,many of them, wednesday
(12:08):
translates to middle the middle.
Oh yeah, I'm at the middle ofmy cigar right now.
Similarly, in Estonian,lithuanian, latvian, mandarin,
chinese, the name for Wednesdaytranslates into third day,
(12:32):
quakers.
They continue to refer toWednesday as the fourth day.
Good morning Job.
Good morning to you, jeremiah.
Happy fourth day to you.
Thank you, job.
According to your survey,bosses are most receptive to
requests from their employees ona Wednesday.
So if you're asking for a payrise or a holiday, make sure you
(12:53):
do it on a Wednesday.
So if you're asking for a payrise or a holiday, make sure you
do it on a Wednesday.
Folks, come on now.
And who could forget this?
My friends on the Addams Family, it is Wednesday that steals
the show.
The daughter.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I'll be a baby.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Many times I know what.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I'm doing that steals the show.
The daughter I want to be ababy Many times.
I know what I'm doing.
I'm coming, come on.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I'm coming, I'll come , please Don't come, no.
And then mommy kissed daddy andthe angel told the stork.
And the stork flew down fromheaven and left a diamond under
a leaf in the cabbage patch, andthe diamond turned into a baby.
Our parents are having a babytoo.
They had sex.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What do we say Now?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Now Alright.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Wednesday.
John Steinbeck's 1945 novelSweet Thursday.
Thursday gets its play too.
The title was said to have beenpreceded by a lousy Wednesday,
see Wednesday, always taking theblame.
In German, the word forWednesday, mittwoch, is the only
(14:19):
day of the week that doesn'tend with tag.
Hey, keep playing, charlie.
What are you doing there,brother?
Stop it.
Oh, you did stop.
What's the stop?
Groovy horn, brother?
Stop it.
Oh, you did stop.
I was going to stop.
Groovy horn, brother.
Of course.
The Wednesday before Easter,known as Holy Wednesday,
sometimes Spy Wednesday, firstday of Lent in the Western
(14:39):
Christian calendar, known as AshWednesday.
Thank you, you just take abreak any time you want, charles
.
Just take a breather any time.
You don't get it.
You just take a break anytimeyou want, charles, just take a
breather anytime you don't getit.
You're playing O-Horn RedWednesday, the name of the
Yazidi Festival celebrated inIraq.
You just take a break there,charles.
It's unbelievable.
(15:04):
The astrological sign forWednesday.
I didn't know it had its ownastrological sign.
I didn't know that.
I'll have to get someone on totalk about that sometime, but it
is, I like that, right there,same as the astrological sign
(15:26):
for the planet Mercury.
And on Wednesday.
I ask you that you check outPat's Peeps?
Would you do that?
If there's something there youneed now check it out, would you
?
Wednesday, may 10th 1797, thefirst US Navy ship, the United
(15:47):
States, was launched.
Thank you for listening to theWednesday edition of the Fats
Peeps podcast, number 308.
Have a beautiful Wednesday andwe'll see you on the radio.
Now he plays, yeah, now youplays.
(16:09):
Yeah, now you play Big finish.
January 29, 1960.
Just before I was born.
Well, you're still putting up with us.
I see how nice of you.
That's very, very nice of you,very considerate.
How nice of you.
That's very, very nice of you,very considerate.
Howdy, happy Wednesday, july30th 2025.
Hope you're doing well.
It's Pat's Peeps Podcast number308.
(00:39):
Looking out the studio windowsinto the beautiful foothills of
Northern California on anotherwacky, weird weather day it is
overcast and yet it is hot, andthen the sun's out.
Sun's out now, but we get someclouds rolling in and suddenly
it's overcast.
So really cool weather, amazing.
I always say it, but this isthe craziest year weather-wise,
(01:00):
the nicest that I can rememberhere in Northern California.
Remember patspeepscom.
Now, I've been thinking aboutthis.
Okay, please, just for a second.
I want to say this I understandthat we're going to add more
businesses here Now.
We're going to add things likefood, like places we can go to
get food.
Right now we have things likeyou know well, if you go, look
at Pats Peeps, you'll see ourmall.
(01:20):
But I want to add more thingsthat are like you can kind of
drive by get food, and maybe youknow donuts, tacos, you know
hamburgers, things like that.
We're giving you coupons.
So be looking for that, becausethat's coming very soon.
Again, we're unveiling this aswe can and we want to give you
more things to choose from whenyou go to the Pats Peeps mall.
Okay, so again trying tosupport local business.
(01:43):
Funny, I'm sitting here today aswe get ready to do the Pat's
Peeps.
I'm smoking a cigar man.
I have cut back on cigars.
I have really cut back.
I always do this.
I think, oh, how cool I canhave a cigar and do my podcast.
It's very difficult to do acigar and podcast at the same
time, just like it is to eat anddo a podcast or a radio show.
(02:06):
By the way, I'm the host of thepat wall show on kfpk radio
sacramento 93.1 fm.
15.
30 am streaming live everywhereon all your iheart app and all
the platforms, just like this is.
And we've had great guests bothon the, on the podcast and on
the radio show.
So thank you to everyone who'slistening.
And you know what?
If you're listening to me rightnow, I just really want you to
(02:30):
know how much I appreciate it.
Okay, as I'm getting ready to dothis, I have my TV on.
I've got to keep my cigar going.
I watch so many things thatremind me of my childhood.
All of a a sudden, as I'mwatching, I mean it's just
youtube and uh, and you know,random things will pop up and
(02:51):
you kind of go down that rabbithole for a minute.
I don't have a lot of free time, but I watch videos and I'm
looking for things that that areinteresting.
You know that I want to talkabout on the show, on the
podcast, here, and so in doingso, random things will pop up
and today, uh, something poppedup.
I'm trying to pull it up rightnow.
I'm buying myself time, uh, butI remember this so well when I
(03:17):
was a kid like it'd be asaturday afternoon we've talked
about this before where maybethere wasn't much on TV, like
your choices were limited.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild KingdomSee Jim as he's up in the tree
fighting the python.
I'll be down here with myinsurance.
We've talked about Morris,taylor and Chico.
But how about this?
If you're of a certain age,you've got to remember this.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety
of sport that's right, thethrill of victory yes
Speaker 1 (03:54):
and the agony of defeat, with the skier biffing
it over the off the ski rampthere the the guy jumping the
barrels.
Athletic competition.
This ice skates, olga Corbett.
I'd be sitting there watchingthat, yes.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Sears.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, uh-huh, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And by Rolaid For acid indigestion, Rolaid.
Rolaid spells relief.
Jim McKay 27 times its weightin excess stomach acid.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's Jim McKay.
Remember he became popularduring that Israeli hostage
crisis at the 72 Olympics.
He covered that.
He became very popular afterthat.
But I remember sitting, youknow you'd be in the living room
on the weekend.
My dad would be sitting theredrinking like a Falstaff,
(04:54):
smoking a Lucky Strike,something like that, watching a
wide world of sports.
And so that popped up on my TV.
I'm like wow, and it was a busjump from Evel Knievel in 1975.
You know, I got to thinkingabout that.
There was no one more popularat the time than Evel Knievel.
He even had like one of those,you know, elvis hey man, I got
(05:16):
my the jumpsuit right.
That dude looks so cool Like helooked cooler than Superman.
He was more cool than Supermanfor a while, more popular.
I'm sorry Superman fans, but Iremember a period of time in the
70s, evel Knievel, superpopular man.
People could not wait to watchwhat he was going to do.
(05:38):
I'm sure that ABC's Wide Worldof Sports signed him to a
lucrative contract.
I mean, think about it.
They had to like hey, man, ifyou're going to do this, do it
live on our show and that way,you know, you make a lot of
money.
It was the biggest show on airreally at the time, especially
on the weekends, and so you'dwatch it.
And I would still contend thatthat slow-mo video when he tried
(06:02):
to jump the fountain at Caesarsin Vegas if that's not the top
sports film of all time, I don'tknow what is Definitely I'd put
that at the top In terms ofmost intriguing and fascinating.
I'd put that at the top Interms of most intriguing and
fascinating.
I'll put that at the top.
Now I might be forgetting aboutsome, but certainly if I even
thought of some more which Icould, Intriguing-wise, I'm not
(06:24):
saying the greatest moments ofall time, I'm just saying the
ones you look at and you go wow,wow, that was pretty incredible
and unusual for sure.
And he's flopping aroundbreaking every bone in his body,
evel Knievel.
Then he tried to jump the SnakeRiver Canyon.
You remember that in the 80s,like the early to mid 80s, and
he did it like that rocket kindof motorcycle thing and I
(06:47):
thought, you know, as they say,jump the shark.
If there was anything any timewhere Evel Knievel, as they say,
jumped the shark, went a littletoo far, became a little
ridiculous.
You know if I might say it wasthat in my opinion and that was
way before jumping the shark wasa thing Before.
(07:09):
Fonzie actually jumped theshark in Happy Days for those of
you who know but it wasn'treally.
It didn't seem like amotorcycle, he didn't make it
Basically, he was in this rocketthing and it just pooped out
there halfway over the canyonand floated down with a
parachute.
Everyone, people couldn't waitfor that.
For Evel Knievel to try to jumpthe Snake River Canyon
(07:36):
Absolutely amazing man.
But Evel Knievel, I, to jumpthe Snake River Canyon
Absolutely amazing man.
But Evil Knievel I mean, yeah,that just again.
That just takes me back to atime as a kid.
That guy was brave man.
Anyhow, happy Wednesday to you.
Everybody Sure appreciate youbeing here.
Guess what day it is?
Oh, no, Guess what day it is,huh, anybody, julie.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Hey, guess what day it is oh, no, guess what day it
is.
Huh, anybody, julie.
Hey, guess what day it is.
Yes, oh, come on, I know youcan hear me.
Yeah, mike, mike, mike, mike,mike.
What day is it?
Mike Leslie, guess what todayis.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's hump day, what?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Ronnie, how happy are folks who save hundreds of
dollars switching to Geico.
I'd say happier than a camel onWednesday Hump.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Day Get happy, get Geico.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Geico, remember that.
Happy Hump Day to ya.
That's right, it's Wednesday,celebrating Wednesday.
I think Wednesday getsoverlooked.
I mean Monday, there's going tobe songs, there's going to be
things, comedians talking aboutMondays, because Monday, monday
blase got to back to work.
(08:38):
Returning to the week, you knowTuesday afternoon, you know the
moody blues, I don't know.
Wednesday Does it get all itsglory.
You know there is Wednesdaymorning 3 am Simon and Garfunkel
.
That's a little Wednesday foryou.
The Pats Peeps 308.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I
love, as she lies here beside me, asleep with the night.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And her hair in the air I'm pretty sure Maybe it's
me, and I certainly could bewrong Reflecting the glow of the
moon.
I've been wrong a lot of times.
I'll admit that I don't thinkthis song says anything about
Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Does it.
She is soft, she is warm, butmy heart remains heavy.
Yeah, that's great.
What day is it?
She is soft, she is warm, butmy heart remains heavy, yeah
that's great.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
What day is it?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And I watch as you burst.
Gently rise, gently fall.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Say Wednesday, say it , say it, for I know with the
first light of dawn.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'll be leaving Wednesday, and tonight will be
all I have left To recall.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh, yes, there's no Wednesday in there.
What about Elvis CostelloWednesday week?
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You can meet and I will follow.
See a chance on cheek to cheek.
You'll remember me tomorrow,bet you won't give a damn about
Wednesday, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Happy Wednesday to you.
Support local businesspatspeepscom.
Thank you very much.
There's always Charles MingusWednesday night prayer meeting.
Happy Wednesday, everybodySpeaking of Wednesday, little
(10:37):
known facts.
Wednesday, my friends, middle ofthe working week and to many of
us the fast approaching weekendis coming Hump Day in America,
smooth sailing from here on outuntil the weekend.
It's often used for fictionalcharacters as well as the name
(11:02):
used by well English footballclubs With ties to gods and
astrology.
Wednesday has some interestingfacts about it.
Named after Woden, the mostimportant god, I am the most
(11:24):
important god.
I look down on you, poseidon,you're weak, you're an aqua boy.
Go ahead, throw a water bottleat me, I dare you.
Woden, most important god inthe German pantheon, associated
with the Norse god, odin,derived from the old English
(11:47):
word Wodenstock Hope.
I said that right.
Wodenstock Hope, I said thatright.
They're associated with theRoman god Mercury.
They used to hang out and party.
Apparently, in Slavic languages,many of them, wednesday
(12:08):
translates to middle the middle.
Oh yeah, I'm at the middle ofmy cigar right now.
Similarly, in Estonian,lithuanian, latvian, mandarin,
chinese, the name for Wednesdaytranslates into third day,
(12:32):
quakers.
They continue to refer toWednesday as the fourth day.
Good morning Job.
Good morning to you, jeremiah.
Happy fourth day to you.
Thank you, job.
According to your survey,bosses are most receptive to
requests from their employees ona Wednesday.
So if you're asking for a payrise or a holiday, make sure you
(12:53):
do it on a Wednesday.
So if you're asking for a payrise or a holiday, make sure you
do it on a Wednesday.
Folks, come on now.
And who could forget this?
My friends on the Addams Family, it is Wednesday that steals
the show.
The daughter.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I'll be a baby.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Many times I know what.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I'm doing that steals the show.
The daughter I want to be ababy Many times.
I know what I'm doing.
I'm coming, come on.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I'm coming, I'll come , please Don't come, no.
And then mommy kissed daddy andthe angel told the stork.
And the stork flew down fromheaven and left a diamond under
a leaf in the cabbage patch, andthe diamond turned into a baby.
Our parents are having a babytoo.
They had sex.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What do we say Now?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Now Alright.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Wednesday.
John Steinbeck's 1945 novelSweet Thursday.
Thursday gets its play too.
The title was said to have beenpreceded by a lousy Wednesday,
see Wednesday, always taking theblame.
In German, the word forWednesday, mittwoch, is the only
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day of the week that doesn'tend with tag.
Hey, keep playing, charlie.
What are you doing there,brother?
Stop it.
Oh, you did stop.
What's the stop?
Groovy horn, brother?
Stop it.
Oh, you did stop.
I was going to stop.
Groovy horn, brother.
Of course.
The Wednesday before Easter,known as Holy Wednesday,
sometimes Spy Wednesday, firstday of Lent in the Western
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Christian calendar, known as AshWednesday.
Thank you, you just take abreak any time you want, charles
.
Just take a breather any time.
You don't get it.
You just take a break anytimeyou want, charles, just take a
breather anytime you don't getit.
You're playing O-Horn RedWednesday, the name of the
Yazidi Festival celebrated inIraq.
You just take a break there,charles.
It's unbelievable.
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The astrological sign forWednesday.
I didn't know it had its ownastrological sign.
I didn't know that.
I'll have to get someone on totalk about that sometime, but it
is, I like that, right there,same as the astrological sign
(15:26):
for the planet Mercury.
And on Wednesday.
I ask you that you check outPat's Peeps?
Would you do that?
If there's something there youneed now check it out, would you
?
Wednesday, may 10th 1797, thefirst US Navy ship, the United
(15:47):
States, was launched.
Thank you for listening to theWednesday edition of the Fats
Peeps podcast, number 308.
Have a beautiful Wednesday andwe'll see you on the radio.
Now he plays, yeah, now youplays.
(16:09):
Yeah, now you play Big finish.
January 29, 1960.
Just before I was born.
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