Pat takes listeners on a morning walk through the Northern California foothills, reflecting on community, media, music, and finding balance during challenging times.
• Local business spotlight on Roc & Sol Diner's two-for-one meal promotion through September 30th
• Thoughts on creating community gatherings at local businesses
• The importance of physical activity and nature for mental health
• Reflections on Johnny Carson's approach to entertainment versus today's late-night hosts
• Personal stories about becoming a Dodgers and Rams fan through family connections
• Music appreciation segment featuring Link Wray's pioneering guitar techniques
• Discussion about how cigarette advertising and smoking habits have changed over time
• Meeting broadcasting legends Vin Scully and Lon Simmons
Support local businesses mentioned in this episode and check out Pat's Peeps merchandise at Patspeeps.com. Join Pat on his radio show on KFBK Sacramento, Monday through Friday, 7-10 PM.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, howdy there, pat's Peeps 333, on the road
again.
Thank you for being here.
Road again.
Thank you for being here.
It is a Thursday, it's agorgeous day.
(00:33):
I am loving the weather.
I woke up this morning as wewoke up this morning, I guess,
depending on where you are, withthese clouds, which is so nice
Still a little sun peekingthrough.
So I can't say I'm staring outmy studio window into the
beautiful foothills, because I'mout here walking in the
beautiful foothills of NorthernCalifornia.
As heck, we're up to our 333rdpodcast.
(00:57):
You know, I'm hoping some of youtake advantage.
I do these every day.
Plus, I do a show.
By the way, I'm the host of thePat Wall Show, as heard on KFPK
Radio in Sacramento, 93.1 FM,1530 AM.
Monday through Friday, 7 to 10PM.
So you know, I do this show andthen I do my three-hour show on
(01:21):
the radio.
I don't know what I can do toencourage you guys.
I keep trying to encourage youguys to try these businesses.
You know, heck, we're givingaway a two-for-one dinner at
Rock and Soul Diner inSacramento and I know some of
(01:41):
you are listening.
It would be so big if you couldgo there and just tell them
Pat's Peeps and then you getthat free meal.
Now here's the thing.
Matt is the owner.
He owns several very nicerestaurants in town.
I hope to have them all asPat's Peeps restaurants.
But we have to show support.
I'm even thinking about havinga gathering there, maybe.
(02:02):
Maybe we could have a lunchgathering, because here's the
update on that it wastwo-for-one dinners.
Now it's two-for-one, anytimeup until September 30th
Two-for-one.
Just go to Rock and Soul Dinerand say Pat's Peeps Two-for-one,
that's all you have to do.
And say Pat's Peeps Two for one, that's all you have to do.
(02:25):
It would mean so much to me, asI need this to be successful
for my businesses and I'mcounting on you.
Heck, we're giving away freestuff.
Everyone says they want to savemoney, including me.
But I might set something upwhen we do like the old flash
mob right, where we just go hey,on this day we're just going to
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go there mass force.
We, like 50 of us, blow themaway.
We should do that with a fewbusinesses.
What do you guys think of thatidea?
That way we can have somegatherings, pats peeps,
gatherings at businesses.
I'd love to meet you.
We get more businesses.
Alright, I've got to hold up,I've got to go to the train
(03:08):
trestle.
There's a big truck comingthrough.
Feels good to get the heartpumping.
All kinds of vehicles comingthrough the train trestle.
This morning, here, this traintrestle if you saw my new?
I just put up a new profilepicture on facebook.
(03:28):
Howdy, that's me standing inthe train trestle.
So, anyhow, guys, guys and gals, please go visit rocket soul
diner or any of the businessesif you're getting ready to buy a
house.
Okay, now I'm going through thetrain Trestle.
(03:49):
Here comes another car.
He's waiting for me here.
There's not a lot of room inhere.
Hold on a second, thank you.
So if you guys, now that you sawyesterday the interest rates
went down, if you are looking tobuy a house, if you trust me,
(04:12):
if you I asked that you wouldtrust my brother there goes the
motorcycle, tim Wall.
She has AI lending the first100 people that say you know
what?
Hey, I got to.
I have to.
You know, I have to get alender.
Anyhow, my brother, tim, myyoungest brother, ai Lending.
That's his business.
We're going to drop the first100 names into a hat.
(04:33):
We're going to pull a luckywinner and that lucky winner is
going to get a trip for two withconservative tours with us
somewhere in Europe, could beItaly, could be Sicily, could be
Germany, austria, could beFrance.
(05:01):
But please, I'm asking you,it's so important that if you
are looking now to get a lender,please I'm encouraging those of
you who are listening to meright now to spread the word AI
lending.
You can see on the Pat's Peepspage his business, and that's my
brother, tim.
Okay, thank you, lord.
You know, this feels I'm goingto stop up here real quick.
(05:22):
Take a little pause.
Oh, I'm going uphill.
Oh, this feels good.
I'm going to stop up here realquick.
Take a little pause.
Oh, I'm going uphill.
Oh, this feels good.
Listen to the rooster in thebackground, see if we can hear
him again.
What's that so funny?
The other day, lynna called myradio show and she was you hear
(05:44):
it back there.
Maybe it's a chicken, I don'tknow, but there's a rooster over
there too.
It's a chicken coop.
Lynette called my radio show.
She was so excited because shesaid Pat, I'm really excited, we
got chickens.
We got a bunch of chickens.
I've always wanted chickens.
I said, oh, that's fantastic.
(06:04):
I'm assuming her and herhusband or whomever, oh yeah,
and we got a rooster.
I said oh well, there you go, arooster, good for you.
And she goes.
You know, we called it.
I said what's that?
We call them the amazing walls.
I started laughing.
I said, well, okay, I am trulyhonored.
(06:28):
In fact, let me crow about that, I am truly honored and
definitely this is the firstthat someone named a critter
after me and the fact that it'sa rooster although a ram would
be pretty cool too.
I said, but excuse me to say toname your rooster Pat Walsh.
(06:52):
She goes no, no, no, no.
It's the amazing Pat Walsh.
Oh God bless you.
I said it before, I'll say itagain.
I said it before, I'll say itagain you have the best radio
audience and peeps audience,podcast audience there is, and
(07:14):
ever growing.
So I'm getting a workout in Twobirds, one stone podcast
workout Plus.
Earlier, thanks to the weatherhowdy, thanks to the weather, I
was able to go outside and dosome yard work.
I mowed a couple of big lawns.
It sounds like someone else isworking outside.
(07:35):
I love that sound from adistance like that, can you hear
that?
I've always loved that sound.
You hear that Ever since I wasa kid.
I loved the sound of guysworking out there on a property,
(07:55):
whether it's with circular sawsor whatever.
It's just the sound of very, Idon't know.
It's Americana to meHard-working people waiting for
the right temperature to get outand start doing some things.
So I got to do that Mowing mylawns.
(08:17):
Oh, here's a guy out here.
He's mowing the baseball fieldwhere I live.
I mean, I don't live at thebaseball field, but right up the
street.
I was going to do some laps.
He's out there keeping thisbeautiful baseball field nice
and groomed.
Oh, I see they put a new net upon the basketball court.
You know, for a while I wasshooting hoops and doing a
podcast, but the net was soraggedy I said, man, I can't
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shoot on this.
Someone came out and put a newone up.
There's a guy mowing the lawn,two guys out there.
So you know, I'll come out andshoot some hoops again.
Oh, you know what this is greatfor, not only for my health, but
(09:08):
for my mind and my soul and myheart.
As you know, we continue tomourn the loss of Charlie Kirk
and I don't want to hear anyonewho's going to give me any
negative stuff about that.
I don't even.
I won't even listen to that,but I won't even go down that
avenue.
I'm just saying that right now,this is a good respite from
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that.
You know you need to get yourmind off of that for a minute,
do things that are healthy foryou, and healthy for your mind
is how I feel.
And so this is really good, notjust again for the physical
aspect, but for my mind and mysoul, my spirit and everything
(09:51):
you know.
Speaking of being a respite, youknow that to me has sort of
been.
I don't want this to soundwrong, but I mean this from the
bottom of my heart.
You know I'm a talk show host.
Like I said, I'm a podcast host.
I wanted to be the respite atthe end of the day and people
tell me that all the time theygo.
You know I'm going to startwalking again here.
(10:14):
I guess I can the guy's overthere now so I can walk, do some
laps, okay.
But they'll say you know, pat,the thing I like about your show
.
I appreciate you guys sayingthis.
You know funny and all thatwhich.
Thank you for saying that.
It's hard to make people laugh,but it's not only that, but it's
informative and you bring upthings that need to be discussed
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in a way that is, you know,civil.
I do try to practice whatCharlie Kirk tried to practice
and did practice, which is civildiscourse, listening to
opinions, not yelling at anyone.
But I take it very seriouslywhen someone says you know,
you're like a cold beer at theend of a long, chaotic, hard day
.
I take that to heart and youknow.
(11:03):
But you have to address theissues when they come up, the
things that people are concernedabout and the world's talking
about.
But it's actually a great nicheto have to have that, to be
(11:25):
that respite and do some otherthings to try to take people
away from that mindset for amoment and provide some laughter
and some levity and some otherangles at looking at things.
You know, and I get that andI've said this before.
But I always talk about the factthat I go back to people like
Johnny Carson, leno too.
(11:47):
Jay Leno rarely did I think Imentioned this yesterday he
rarely did political jokes.
Carson, I mentioned yesterday,did a couple, and then I let you
know that Jimmy Kimmel went onfor seven plus minutes with his
Trump rhetoric, just like SethMeyers.
It's probably worse StephenColbert, all these guys.
Like Seth Meyers is probablyworse Stephen Colbert, all these
guys.
Well, I think Johnny Carsonsums it up beautifully right
(12:15):
here when asked on 60 Minutes byMike Wallace about tackling big
issues during his show.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Do you get sensitive about the fact that people say
he'll never take a seriouscontroversy?
Well, I have an answer to that.
I said now tell me the lasttime that Jack Benny, red
Skelton, any comedian, used hisshow to do serious issues.
That's not what I'm there for,can't they see that?
But you're not.
(12:47):
Do they think that just becauseyou have a tonight show, that
you must deal in serious issues?
That's a danger.
It's a real danger.
Once you start that, you startto get that self-important
feeling.
That's what you say has greatimport and you know, strangely
enough, you could use that showas a forum, you could sway
people, and I don't think youshould as an entertainer.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yep, just another reason why I appreciate it.
Johnny, it's okay to have thatniche, it's okay to be that
person.
Yes, you're going to recognizeit, even the day after September
11th.
Well, not the day after, butthe first broadcast After
September 11th.
I well, not the day after, butthe first broadcast after
September 11th.
(13:27):
I watched Leno's firstbroadcast after September 11th.
Everything very subdued.
Obviously you're a comic, youwant to come out and do a funny
monologue and then you'rewalking that fine line of how do
we recover and mourn and cryfor people who we have lost,
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people we didn't even know, andcry and mourn for this country.
How do we do that and thensomehow bridge that gap back to
some type of a normalcy?
And that takes some doing, thattakes some skill, it takes some
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time.
It's like walking that fineline, because you never want to
seem insensitive.
So you show that you care, thatyou have compassion for people
and humanity.
You know, when you go on a showand then I'm going to drop this
Kimmel thing, there's a bigdifference.
Yes, free speech.
(14:35):
I'm doing it right now.
We all practice it.
It's our fundamental rights tofree speech.
Yeah, jimmy Kimmel's entitledto that.
He is Just like Carson, justlike all these other people.
Seth Meyers, who's a bum, ano-talent bum.
(14:55):
Seth Meyers has never made melaugh.
I refuse to watch that trash.
I didn't know he was like thatthe first few times I watched it
.
Then I realized pretty quicklywhat I was seeing.
But there's a fine line betweencriticizing, using satire which
I love how you doing, man.
(15:16):
Good morning Looks good.
Brother Guys, work hard outhere.
There's a big difference betweenthat exercising your right to
free speech and literallyencouraging and glorifying
murder of innocent people whoare doing what?
(15:36):
Practicing their free speech.
You know who?
When you call people fascistsand Nazis, then you murder a man
who's expressing his freespeech and his freedom.
That's truly what a fascist is.
That's what a Nazi was.
If you played a violin truestory in Nazi Germany and the
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Führer did not appreciate yourmusic, you too would be shot in
the head or neck.
If you wrote a poem he didn'tagree with, you were dead.
You cannot yell fire in acrowded movie theater.
Because you have freedom ofexpression, freedom of speech.
You can't do that.
You cannot yell fire in acrowded movie theater and you
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cannot encourage Maxine Waters,riots, brutality, karen Bass,
you know brutality andlawlessness against law
enforcement officers.
And now these asses yesterdaywant to come up with this
bulls**t about wanting ICE topull their masks off.
(16:49):
It's okay if you let thefreaking criminals run around
with masks on, but, by God, howare you going to target law
enforcement if you can't tellwho they are?
Those scummy kind of despicablepolicies is what is going to
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backfire on them more and moreand more.
So I appreciate Johnny and whathe had to say there.
All these late night shows areso self-righteous and you know
what.
Let me just add this too Ifyou're thinking well, aren't you
doing that right now, pat, onyour podcast?
There's a big difference in myestimation, between being a talk
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show host on the radio andbeing a late night talk host my
job.
I have three hours to talk.
I don't think I'm thatself-righteous and I don't think
I'm all that important.
To be completely honest withyou, I'm really not trying to
(18:07):
influence anyone to do anything.
Well, I take that back.
Here's one thing I am trying toinfluence people to do Again
civil discourse.
You know, if you want to callme and you want to talk and you
disagree with me, we are goodwith that.
I do not reject your calls, wetalk about it and we always have
(18:27):
great discussions.
For the most part, if somethinghappens in this country, you
know the magnitude of shooting aman like Charlie Kirk, or this
woman, this Ukrainian woman whowas butchered that the media
refuses to talk about becauseapparently the victim was black.
I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
(18:49):
You're not even hearing aboutit.
You're not even hearing aboutthis scumbag.
What was it?
14, 11, 17, whatever times theguy was arrested and let go?
We talked to Topol about that.
You're not going to hear aboutthat.
No one cares, apparently.
Jeez, anyhow, thank you, johnny.
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One thing I see on Johnny Carsonsometimes is I see either
Johnny or someone on the showsmoking, or both.
I got to thinking about thattoo, just to change the topic
here, on Pat's Peeps 333.
As we continue to walk and talk, you'd see people smoke on that
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show.
I honestly started thinkinglike I don't remember the last
time that I saw someone smoking,and when I do see someone
smoking, it always catches myattention for some reason, I
don't know why.
Like I'm not even.
I mean, if you want to smoke,that's up to you.
(19:58):
Who am I?
I'm not, hey, that's yourbusiness.
I smoke an occasional cigar I'mon day.
Hey, that's your business.
I smoke an occasional cigar.
I'm on day five of that one Igo about.
You know you don't inhale acigar.
I smoke one about every five orsix days, no big deal, I'm not
puffing in cigarettes all thetime, and in those five or six
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days I'm actually trying to getout here and clean my lungs too
like this.
But it's always I don't seeanyone smoke anymore and it
catches me off guard when I seeit.
It's funny too, because, man, Ithink it was 1972, if I'm not
mistaken that they startedputting, like the Surgeon
General, warnings on the packsof cigarettes.
(20:41):
I might be off a year or two ifyou do your research.
Warnings on the packs ofcigarettes.
I might be off a year or two ifyou do your research In about
that time.
It was also about that timethat Hold on a second.
It's about that time that theystopped being able to show
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cigarette commercials ontelevision.
And yet, if you're of a certainage, it is remarkable to me how
many cigarette commercials wecan remember.
I'd rather fight than switch.
I'd walk a mile for a camel.
Da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da, cometo Marlboro country.
(21:25):
Remember that.
What about Salem?
Remember the menthol cigarettes.
Does anyone remember the jinglefor that?
You can take Salem out of thecountry, but and they go, you
can't take the country out ofSalem.
Remember that.
Remember Lark with a patentedcharcoal filter.
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I remember my grandfather, thesame grandfather that taught me
to be a Dodger fan.
He and my grandma, lornastep-grandma, I guess you might
call her.
They lived in Huntington Parkand Lorna would smoke Bel Airs
and my grandpa would smokeRaleigh's or Viceroy's.
Either Raleigh's or Viceroy,it's either Raleigh's or Viceroy
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.
And oh, there's another one.
I remember You've come a longway, baby right, virginia Slims
for women, ooh Lord, they gotthe Slim cigarettes for the
ladies Much healthier.
But yeah, my grandpa, I thinkhe smoked Raleigh.
And then my grandma,step-grandma, smoked Bel Air and
they'd have these coupons inthe back of the cigarette packs.
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So if you saved up the couponsyou could get something from a
catalog like the old blue chipor green stamps.
And I remember I was 14, and Isaw them doing that They'd smoke
and smoke and smoke.
I said, bill, I saved anothercoupon.
I'd be like, hey, actually, Isaid this to them.
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I go hey, grandpa and grandma,what do you save these coupons
for Iron lungs?
They were smoking so muchthey'd be in an iron lung.
I think my grandpa got a kickout of that.
By the way, me that all thetime.
How did you become a dodger fan, a ram fan?
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I've told that story, thosestories, so many times, but
since we are in baseball andfootball season right now to me
the best time of year for sportsI'll just say that one more
time.
As a kid, my dad told us totake a nap.
I was probably five, maybe six,maybe, he told me, and my two I
only had two brothers at thattime ended up being six of us.
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He told us to take a nap.
Well, I've never liked taking anap and, uh, there must have
been three of us.
I guess my brother, tim, musthave been very I was just
telling you about with AIlending.
He must have been just a littlebaby.
Anyhow, here comes the car asI'm going back through the train
trestle.
So, uh, when he told us to takea nap, I'm going to head
(24:03):
through the train trestle,listen.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, hello Hello.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Hello, hello, go Rams , go Dodgers.
I hope you get that echo.
So when he told us to take anap, I didn't want to.
So I snuck under his tableright next to his recliner where
he would sit and smoke thosecigarettes, watch sports.
And he didn't see me and I hidunder the table and he's't see
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me.
And I hid under the table andhe's watching football and it
was the Rams and the Niners andI was only into baseball at that
time.
But then I saw the team withthe horns on the helmet and
Roman Gabriel, who I had no ideawho that was yet and I saw them
score a touchdown and I got soexcited that I kind of cheered
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and bumped my head on the table.
And my dad leans over and looksunder the table at me and goes
Son, what are you doing underthere?
I don't want to take a nap, Idon't want to watch football.
So he laughed and he let me situp in his lap and inhale that
secondhand smoke and watchfootball.
You know, hell, he didn't.
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They didn't know any betterback then.
They didn't even think aboutthat stuff.
Every house had an ashtray.
All parents mostly did thatback then.
And from that point on.
Then I realized oh, the teamwith the horn on their helmet,
which is the team that I love,which is the first team to ever
put a logo on their helmet.
And then Roman Gabriel, number18, who recently passed, god
(25:39):
bless him.
That's my team, that's it, no.
Looking back, 49ers, or theRaiders, well, I don't live in
Oakland or San Francisco.
Why do I have to like them?
I don't live there, I don'tlive in LA.
I can like the Rams, and thatwas my reasoning, and still is.
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In terms of the Dodgers, mygrandfather, who I was just
talking about, bill Walsh Sr,he'd come home from Reliant
Steel running that pinhead truck.
He drove a pinhead for ReliantSteel in LA and he's a big,
tough Irishman man.
You didn't want to flip him offon the road back then, when
road rage was a thing.
I'm sure he'd get out and dotyou before everyone had a gun.
(26:26):
I don't know that he really didthat, but I don't know.
That could be folklore.
Maybe I'm making that up, butit just seemed like he could do
it Because he didn't put up withno nonsense.
Man, he didn't put up with anynonsense.
So he'd come home from work,he'd sit on that front porch.
He'd change into his jeans andhis white t-shirt Big old,
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freckly arms.
He'd put that AM radio rightnext to him, he'd play solitaire
on the porch and we'd listen toVin Scully and the Dodgers.
And Vin would be doingcommercials for Union 76, dodger
Stadium, chavez Ravine, and forFarmer John link sausage ham.
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And my grandfather man.
His refrigerator was loadedwith Farmer John Wink sausage
ham and my grandfather man.
His refrigerator was loadedwith Farmer John's Patrick.
Yes, grandpa, you want somebreakfast.
You betcha, grandpa, it'sFarmer John's Sausage.
It's good enough for VinceScully, it's good enough for the
horses.
Darn right, grandpa.
(27:30):
So those are the.
That's how I became fans of bothof those teams.
Now, my two favorites on eachone of those teams.
I'll finish it with this, atleast this part of it, this part
of the segment, my favoritepart.
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My favorite Dodgers are TommyLasorda and Vince Scully, who
has never actually played forthe Dodgers they're an outzer
and I always wanted to meetVince Scully may have told this
story before I did meet him.
I met him at the same game thatI was telling you about where I
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met Lon Simmons.
I met, met him at the same gamethat I was telling you about
where I met Lon Simmons.
I met them both at the samegame After I met.
Well, I didn't even tell youabout Lon Simmons.
I told someone else about that,but I'll tell you right now.
First I meet Lon Simmons, I getin the elevator.
It's opening day, at&t Park orPac Bell or whatever they called
it back then Pac Bell andDodgers Giants.
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So everyone's there.
All the sports networks arecovering this because it's the
first day of Pac Bell Park andI'm the last one to get in the
elevator.
It starts to close.
They open it again.
Squeeze me in.
I'm in front front, staring atthe inside of the front door of
the elevator.
Behind me the man sayssomething and when he said that
(28:59):
I went without turning around, Iwent.
Oh my god, vin Scully.
I mean, uh, lon Simmons.
He says how you doing, youngman.
Oh great, mr Snow, don't callme Mr Lawn, okay.
(29:19):
Anyhow, a little bit out ofbreath here.
Just went up a hill.
So I'm back from my walk.
So, uh, we get off the elevatorand I got to tell him my
favorite Lon Simmons story.
(29:39):
And he goes what's that?
And I said I was 15 years old,shooting hoops in my driveway in
Elk Grove, and I said I'mlistening to the radio, the
Dodgers and the Giants.
All I remember is John theCount Montefusco was pitching
for the Giants.
I don't know who was pitchingfor the Dodgers, but during a
(30:00):
promo, during the game, he saysyou know they would do these
little promos during baseballgames.
He was like there's ball one,excuse me.
He says, by the way, there'sball one, excuse me.
He says, by the way, westernairlines now with non-stop
flights to Hawaii.
And then there's a short pause.
(30:21):
Then you hear his paper and youhear him at the desk.
He goes.
Well, hell, I hope so, and tothis day I have gotten such a
good laugh out of that.
And I told that and he said Idon't remember that, but that's
something I would say.
Oh, you said that becauseobviously, if I'm headed from
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California to Hawaii, I don'twant any stops between here and
there.
I just do not want any stopsbetween now and there.
And then later in the day,during a break, during and
between innings, I go in to usethe press bathroom.
They got the press room, theygot food and all of our stuff
(31:04):
where we sit there and plug inour computers, and then they
have the restrooms for the press.
So I go in between innings intothe bathroom and as I'm
standing there at the urinaldoor opens and inside walks
right next to me to the nexturinal, none other than Vin
Scully.
Now I cannot believe this.
So I'm trying not to chuckle,so I wait till I'm done and I go
(31:25):
over to the sink and I'mwashing and then I chuckle
because I can tell he'sfinishing up doing his business
and I said Mr Scully, it'salways been a dream of mine to
say hi to you, shake your handand meet you, because I just
washed my hand.
So he washed his hand and Isaid but little did I ever
realize it was going to beinside the men's room, standing
beside my side, and I made himchuckle, which made me very
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happy and still does to this day.
So I I'm back home, I'm going togo in now and pluck a record
from my rare record shelves andsee what record I come up with,
and we'll do that here on Pat'sPeeps 333.
That was a good workout.
I feel good.
Thank you, pat, for that finecoverage.
(32:09):
We appreciate that back here atthe home base.
You, pat, for that finecoverage.
We appreciate that back here atthe home base seems like you
were feeling pretty good.
Well, I am all right.
Pat's peeps 333 as we continuehere on this thursday.
That was exhilarating.
Before I hop in the show, let meshare music with you and I, you
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know, yesterday I told you theway I had the anonymous listener
, a loyal listener to my radioshow, send me a record Well,
several records, and I sharedone with you yesterday.
I thought I would share anotherone of her records with you, as
she was kind enough to sharethem with me and, by the way you
know, she took very good careof these records.
(32:50):
Share them with me and, by theway you know, she took very good
care of these records.
Uh, one side a little bit more,perhaps a little more worn than
the other.
The other side's pretty niceanyhow.
Um, now these I I'm not sureabout the one song, but it just
seems like it's going to be cooland I don't know.
I I think it might be a cover,but the, but the first side I
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want to play.
I'm so happy that she sent thisto me because, in my estimation
, this dude is one of thecoolest guitarists and does not
get mentioned enough when itcomes to the important guitarist
.
I'll tell you another oneDwayne Eddy would be one that I
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would throw in that mix asextremely important guitarists
the 10, Dick Dale, dwayne Eddy.
There's one period of time atwhich I would include this
artist.
Now this is on a 45, and again,this says Randy.
I know you want to be anonymous, but it says Randy.
So maybe that's still anonymous, randy with an I.
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But this is on Cadence GoldRecords.
So that tells me right awaythis is not an original release,
this is a gold series ofrecords.
They said, well, let us take acouple of songs that had some
popularity and we'll re-releasethese many years later and we'll
put, uh, one of these songs oneach side.
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So there's not necessarily ab-side or not necessarily an a
side on this, but I will tellyou again I think that this
artist is just a badass, if Imay say that.
If I may, this guy, you know,if I were putting soundtracks
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together for really grittymovies, this guy and he has been
used, there's no doubt, in manymovies.
This is an instrumental.
It's an American group releasedin the United States.
Excuse me, pardon me, let meyou know, after a long workout I
need a drink.
(35:02):
Cheers.
By the way, happy Thursday toyou.
It's almost a weekend.
Released in the United StatesMarch 31st of 1958.
It was a single.
And how cool is the name of theB-side?
I got to hear that the Swag.
That's awesome, man.
I got to pull that up.
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The Swag was the B-side.
Okay, I don't know.
That just sounds cool to me.
This guy is cool.
Utilize the techniques ofdistortion, tremolo, which at
this time, was largelyunexplored in rock and roll.
That's why it is another reason, not only his talent, but
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because of that.
So when we talk about pioneerswhen it comes to guitars, I want
to hear this guy's name inthere.
Matter of fact, in 2018, thissong was inducted into the lame
rock and roll hall of fame, butat least even they recognized
how great this was.
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It was a new category forsingles.
Oh, that's a good one.
Let me write that down for myshow Singles.
That should be, should be.
I'm writing.
You can never lose an idea inrock and roll.
I hate the Rock and Roll Hallof Fame.
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I wish they had a real one.
Anyhow, just a thought.
2008,.
It was inducted into theNational Registry by the Library
of Congress.
Link Wray and the Ray man arejust so cool, it's called Rumble
(36:54):
.
Thank you, man.
(37:38):
I just imagine someone smoking,you know, wearing a leather
jacket, old school, get yourhair all greased back.
Pack of cigs in your shirt,sleeve rolled up Pat's Peeps 333
.
Happy Thursday, let's hear it,lord.
(38:26):
All right, rumble link ray andthe rayman.
I don't own the rights to that.
Leave me alone.
Already trying to, I'm tryingto critique and educate people
on the virtues of link, whatever.
I always got to say that stuff,you know.
Now this one, I'm I'm not sureif this is a remake.
Before I, before I look, Ipulled it up, I didn't read it,
(38:49):
but it might be a remake.
Is it a remake of, like a JamesBrown song?
Let me see here.
I could be wrong on this one,but just seems like it was a
remake of someone, so it oh okay.
So the artist did not write thesong, I thought so.
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He recorded a version of it in55.
Another instrumental.
Well, that makes sense for thisrecord.
Blues tune Long and complexhistory dating back to the 40s.
Most famous version recorded byJimmy Forrest, the opening riff
of the song recorded in 1940,that's the Blues Old man, by a
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small group led by Johnny Hodges, sideman for Duke Ellington,
and then Duke himself used thesame riff in 46 in a composition
Happy Go, lucky Local.
Yeah, it wasn't James Brown.
I'm trying to think of the nameLucky Local.
Yeah, it wasn't James Brown.
What's I'm trying to think ofthe name of that James Brown
(39:56):
song?
I was just guessing.
Anyhow, let's listen to it.
This is Ernie England NightTrain.
That's cool, man.
(40:35):
Definitely get that DukeEllington feel Ah, I knew it.
I knew it.
I knew it.
(40:55):
1961, james Brown recorded hisown take on the song.
I knew it Replaced thesaxophone break with a spoken,
shouted list of cities on histour route.
I knew it.
I am so proud of myself I can'tbelieve it.
That version became a hit.
Remains one of his most famous.
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Hey now, yeah, pats, peepsThree, 33.
Also the great Night Train Lane.
Nickname of the legendary NFLHall of Fame defensive back
Night Train Lane.
Nickname of the legendary NFLHall of Fame defensive back
Night Train Lane.
You remember Night Train Lane?
(41:39):
Oh, let's take a listen realquick.
That's cool.
That's cool Night train lane.
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Baby, los Angeles Ram.
That's right, la Rams.
Then he had to go finish thingsoff with the Cardinals and the
Lions, whatever, whatever,whatever, awesome stuff.
Okay, I said I wanted to hearbecause I can't remember for
sure off the top of my head.
But when I read the Swag byLink Wray and his Rayman, I have
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to listen to this.
This is not off of a 45.
I'm just going to pull this oneup because I need to hear it
and I don't have that recordright in front of me.
I hope this is as cool as itseems like it would be.
Here we go.
Oh yeah, woo, instant love.
(42:47):
So simple, so simple, so mean.
This is so cool, I sure.
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Thank you for listening.
I want to wish you a very, veryhappy Thursday.
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merch.
Thank you guys.
See you on the radio.
We'll see you next time.
Well, howdy there, pat's Peeps 333, on the road
again.
Thank you for being here.
Road again.
Thank you for being here.
It is a Thursday, it's agorgeous day.
(00:33):
I am loving the weather.
I woke up this morning as wewoke up this morning, I guess,
depending on where you are, withthese clouds, which is so nice
Still a little sun peekingthrough.
So I can't say I'm staring outmy studio window into the
beautiful foothills, because I'mout here walking in the
beautiful foothills of NorthernCalifornia.
As heck, we're up to our 333rdpodcast.
(00:57):
You know, I'm hoping some of youtake advantage.
I do these every day.
Plus, I do a show.
By the way, I'm the host of thePat Wall Show, as heard on KFPK
Radio in Sacramento, 93.1 FM,1530 AM.
Monday through Friday, 7 to 10PM.
So you know, I do this show andthen I do my three-hour show on
(01:21):
the radio.
I don't know what I can do toencourage you guys.
I keep trying to encourage youguys to try these businesses.
You know, heck, we're givingaway a two-for-one dinner at
Rock and Soul Diner inSacramento and I know some of
(01:41):
you are listening.
It would be so big if you couldgo there and just tell them
Pat's Peeps and then you getthat free meal.
Now here's the thing.
Matt is the owner.
He owns several very nicerestaurants in town.
I hope to have them all asPat's Peeps restaurants.
But we have to show support.
I'm even thinking about havinga gathering there, maybe.
(02:02):
Maybe we could have a lunchgathering, because here's the
update on that it wastwo-for-one dinners.
Now it's two-for-one, anytimeup until September 30th
Two-for-one.
Just go to Rock and Soul Dinerand say Pat's Peeps Two-for-one,
that's all you have to do.
And say Pat's Peeps Two for one, that's all you have to do.
(02:25):
It would mean so much to me, asI need this to be successful
for my businesses and I'mcounting on you.
Heck, we're giving away freestuff.
Everyone says they want to savemoney, including me.
But I might set something upwhen we do like the old flash
mob right, where we just go hey,on this day we're just going to
(02:47):
go there mass force.
We, like 50 of us, blow themaway.
We should do that with a fewbusinesses.
What do you guys think of thatidea?
That way we can have somegatherings, pats peeps,
gatherings at businesses.
I'd love to meet you.
We get more businesses.
Alright, I've got to hold up,I've got to go to the train
(03:08):
trestle.
There's a big truck comingthrough.
Feels good to get the heartpumping.
All kinds of vehicles comingthrough the train trestle.
This morning, here, this traintrestle if you saw my new?
I just put up a new profilepicture on facebook.
(03:28):
Howdy, that's me standing inthe train trestle.
So, anyhow, guys, guys and gals, please go visit rocket soul
diner or any of the businessesif you're getting ready to buy a
house.
Okay, now I'm going through thetrain Trestle.
(03:49):
Here comes another car.
He's waiting for me here.
There's not a lot of room inhere.
Hold on a second, thank you.
So if you guys, now that you sawyesterday the interest rates
went down, if you are looking tobuy a house, if you trust me,
(04:12):
if you I asked that you wouldtrust my brother there goes the
motorcycle, tim Wall.
She has AI lending the first100 people that say you know
what?
Hey, I got to.
I have to.
You know, I have to get alender.
Anyhow, my brother, tim, myyoungest brother, ai Lending.
That's his business.
We're going to drop the first100 names into a hat.
(04:33):
We're going to pull a luckywinner and that lucky winner is
going to get a trip for two withconservative tours with us
somewhere in Europe, could beItaly, could be Sicily, could be
Germany, austria, could beFrance.
(05:01):
But please, I'm asking you,it's so important that if you
are looking now to get a lender,please I'm encouraging those of
you who are listening to meright now to spread the word AI
lending.
You can see on the Pat's Peepspage his business, and that's my
brother, tim.
Okay, thank you, lord.
You know, this feels I'm goingto stop up here real quick.
(05:22):
Take a little pause.
Oh, I'm going uphill.
Oh, this feels good.
I'm going to stop up here realquick.
Take a little pause.
Oh, I'm going uphill.
Oh, this feels good.
Listen to the rooster in thebackground, see if we can hear
him again.
What's that so funny?
The other day, lynna called myradio show and she was you hear
(05:44):
it back there.
Maybe it's a chicken, I don'tknow, but there's a rooster over
there too.
It's a chicken coop.
Lynette called my radio show.
She was so excited because shesaid Pat, I'm really excited, we
got chickens.
We got a bunch of chickens.
I've always wanted chickens.
I said, oh, that's fantastic.
(06:04):
I'm assuming her and herhusband or whomever, oh yeah,
and we got a rooster.
I said oh well, there you go, arooster, good for you.
And she goes.
You know, we called it.
I said what's that?
We call them the amazing walls.
I started laughing.
I said, well, okay, I am trulyhonored.
(06:28):
In fact, let me crow about that, I am truly honored and
definitely this is the firstthat someone named a critter
after me and the fact that it'sa rooster although a ram would
be pretty cool too.
I said, but excuse me to say toname your rooster Pat Walsh.
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She goes no, no, no, no.
It's the amazing Pat Walsh.
Oh God bless you.
I said it before, I'll say itagain.
I said it before, I'll say itagain you have the best radio
audience and peeps audience,podcast audience there is, and
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ever growing.
So I'm getting a workout in Twobirds, one stone podcast
workout Plus.
Earlier, thanks to the weatherhowdy, thanks to the weather, I
was able to go outside and dosome yard work.
I mowed a couple of big lawns.
It sounds like someone else isworking outside.
(07:35):
I love that sound from adistance like that, can you hear
that?
I've always loved that sound.
You hear that Ever since I wasa kid.
I loved the sound of guysworking out there on a property,
(07:55):
whether it's with circular sawsor whatever.
It's just the sound of very, Idon't know.
It's Americana to meHard-working people waiting for
the right temperature to get outand start doing some things.
So I got to do that Mowing mylawns.
(08:17):
Oh, here's a guy out here.
He's mowing the baseball fieldwhere I live.
I mean, I don't live at thebaseball field, but right up the
street.
I was going to do some laps.
He's out there keeping thisbeautiful baseball field nice
and groomed.
Oh, I see they put a new net upon the basketball court.
You know, for a while I wasshooting hoops and doing a
podcast, but the net was soraggedy I said, man, I can't
(08:41):
shoot on this.
Someone came out and put a newone up.
There's a guy mowing the lawn,two guys out there.
So you know, I'll come out andshoot some hoops again.
Oh, you know what this is greatfor, not only for my health, but
(09:08):
for my mind and my soul and myheart.
As you know, we continue tomourn the loss of Charlie Kirk
and I don't want to hear anyonewho's going to give me any
negative stuff about that.
I don't even.
I won't even listen to that,but I won't even go down that
avenue.
I'm just saying that right now,this is a good respite from
(09:30):
that.
You know you need to get yourmind off of that for a minute,
do things that are healthy foryou, and healthy for your mind
is how I feel.
And so this is really good, notjust again for the physical
aspect, but for my mind and mysoul, my spirit and everything
(09:51):
you know.
Speaking of being a respite, youknow that to me has sort of
been.
I don't want this to soundwrong, but I mean this from the
bottom of my heart.
You know I'm a talk show host.
Like I said, I'm a podcast host.
I wanted to be the respite atthe end of the day and people
tell me that all the time theygo.
You know I'm going to startwalking again here.
(10:14):
I guess I can the guy's overthere now so I can walk, do some
laps, okay.
But they'll say you know, pat,the thing I like about your show
.
I appreciate you guys sayingthis.
You know funny and all thatwhich.
Thank you for saying that.
It's hard to make people laugh,but it's not only that, but it's
informative and you bring upthings that need to be discussed
(10:35):
in a way that is, you know,civil.
I do try to practice whatCharlie Kirk tried to practice
and did practice, which is civildiscourse, listening to
opinions, not yelling at anyone.
But I take it very seriouslywhen someone says you know,
you're like a cold beer at theend of a long, chaotic, hard day
.
I take that to heart and youknow.
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But you have to address theissues when they come up, the
things that people are concernedabout and the world's talking
about.
But it's actually a great nicheto have to have that, to be
(11:25):
that respite and do some otherthings to try to take people
away from that mindset for amoment and provide some laughter
and some levity and some otherangles at looking at things.
You know, and I get that andI've said this before.
But I always talk about the factthat I go back to people like
Johnny Carson, leno too.
(11:47):
Jay Leno rarely did I think Imentioned this yesterday he
rarely did political jokes.
Carson, I mentioned yesterday,did a couple, and then I let you
know that Jimmy Kimmel went onfor seven plus minutes with his
Trump rhetoric, just like SethMeyers.
It's probably worse StephenColbert, all these guys.
Like Seth Meyers is probablyworse Stephen Colbert, all these
guys.
Well, I think Johnny Carsonsums it up beautifully right
(12:15):
here when asked on 60 Minutes byMike Wallace about tackling big
issues during his show.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Do you get sensitive about the fact that people say
he'll never take a seriouscontroversy?
Well, I have an answer to that.
I said now tell me the lasttime that Jack Benny, red
Skelton, any comedian, used hisshow to do serious issues.
That's not what I'm there for,can't they see that?
But you're not.
(12:47):
Do they think that just becauseyou have a tonight show, that
you must deal in serious issues?
That's a danger.
It's a real danger.
Once you start that, you startto get that self-important
feeling.
That's what you say has greatimport and you know, strangely
enough, you could use that showas a forum, you could sway
people, and I don't think youshould as an entertainer.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yep, just another reason why I appreciate it.
Johnny, it's okay to have thatniche, it's okay to be that
person.
Yes, you're going to recognizeit, even the day after September
11th.
Well, not the day after, butthe first broadcast After
September 11th.
I well, not the day after, butthe first broadcast after
September 11th.
(13:27):
I watched Leno's firstbroadcast after September 11th.
Everything very subdued.
Obviously you're a comic, youwant to come out and do a funny
monologue and then you'rewalking that fine line of how do
we recover and mourn and cryfor people who we have lost,
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people we didn't even know, andcry and mourn for this country.
How do we do that and thensomehow bridge that gap back to
some type of a normalcy?
And that takes some doing, thattakes some skill, it takes some
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time.
It's like walking that fineline, because you never want to
seem insensitive.
So you show that you care, thatyou have compassion for people
and humanity.
You know, when you go on a showand then I'm going to drop this
Kimmel thing, there's a bigdifference.
Yes, free speech.
(14:35):
I'm doing it right now.
We all practice it.
It's our fundamental rights tofree speech.
Yeah, jimmy Kimmel's entitledto that.
He is Just like Carson, justlike all these other people.
Seth Meyers, who's a bum, ano-talent bum.
(14:55):
Seth Meyers has never made melaugh.
I refuse to watch that trash.
I didn't know he was like thatthe first few times I watched it
.
Then I realized pretty quicklywhat I was seeing.
But there's a fine line betweencriticizing, using satire which
I love how you doing, man.
(15:16):
Good morning Looks good.
Brother Guys, work hard outhere.
There's a big difference betweenthat exercising your right to
free speech and literallyencouraging and glorifying
murder of innocent people whoare doing what?
(15:36):
Practicing their free speech.
You know who?
When you call people fascistsand Nazis, then you murder a man
who's expressing his freespeech and his freedom.
That's truly what a fascist is.
That's what a Nazi was.
If you played a violin truestory in Nazi Germany and the
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Führer did not appreciate yourmusic, you too would be shot in
the head or neck.
If you wrote a poem he didn'tagree with, you were dead.
You cannot yell fire in acrowded movie theater.
Because you have freedom ofexpression, freedom of speech.
You can't do that.
You cannot yell fire in acrowded movie theater and you
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cannot encourage Maxine Waters,riots, brutality, karen Bass,
you know brutality andlawlessness against law
enforcement officers.
And now these asses yesterdaywant to come up with this
bulls**t about wanting ICE topull their masks off.
(16:49):
It's okay if you let thefreaking criminals run around
with masks on, but, by God, howare you going to target law
enforcement if you can't tellwho they are?
Those scummy kind of despicablepolicies is what is going to
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backfire on them more and moreand more.
So I appreciate Johnny and whathe had to say there.
All these late night shows areso self-righteous and you know
what.
Let me just add this too Ifyou're thinking well, aren't you
doing that right now, pat, onyour podcast?
There's a big difference in myestimation, between being a talk
(17:41):
show host on the radio andbeing a late night talk host my
job.
I have three hours to talk.
I don't think I'm thatself-righteous and I don't think
I'm all that important.
To be completely honest withyou, I'm really not trying to
(18:07):
influence anyone to do anything.
Well, I take that back.
Here's one thing I am trying toinfluence people to do Again
civil discourse.
You know, if you want to callme and you want to talk and you
disagree with me, we are goodwith that.
I do not reject your calls, wetalk about it and we always have
(18:27):
great discussions.
For the most part, if somethinghappens in this country, you
know the magnitude of shooting aman like Charlie Kirk, or this
woman, this Ukrainian woman whowas butchered that the media
refuses to talk about becauseapparently the victim was black.
I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
(18:49):
You're not even hearing aboutit.
You're not even hearing aboutthis scumbag.
What was it?
14, 11, 17, whatever times theguy was arrested and let go?
We talked to Topol about that.
You're not going to hear aboutthat.
No one cares, apparently.
Jeez, anyhow, thank you, johnny.
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One thing I see on Johnny Carsonsometimes is I see either
Johnny or someone on the showsmoking, or both.
I got to thinking about thattoo, just to change the topic
here, on Pat's Peeps 333.
As we continue to walk and talk, you'd see people smoke on that
(19:37):
show.
I honestly started thinkinglike I don't remember the last
time that I saw someone smoking,and when I do see someone
smoking, it always catches myattention for some reason, I
don't know why.
Like I'm not even.
I mean, if you want to smoke,that's up to you.
(19:58):
Who am I?
I'm not, hey, that's yourbusiness.
I smoke an occasional cigar I'mon day.
Hey, that's your business.
I smoke an occasional cigar.
I'm on day five of that one Igo about.
You know you don't inhale acigar.
I smoke one about every five orsix days, no big deal, I'm not
puffing in cigarettes all thetime, and in those five or six
(20:21):
days I'm actually trying to getout here and clean my lungs too
like this.
But it's always I don't seeanyone smoke anymore and it
catches me off guard when I seeit.
It's funny too, because, man, Ithink it was 1972, if I'm not
mistaken that they startedputting, like the Surgeon
General, warnings on the packsof cigarettes.
(20:41):
I might be off a year or two ifyou do your research.
Warnings on the packs ofcigarettes.
I might be off a year or two ifyou do your research In about
that time.
It was also about that timethat Hold on a second.
It's about that time that theystopped being able to show
(21:01):
cigarette commercials ontelevision.
And yet, if you're of a certainage, it is remarkable to me how
many cigarette commercials wecan remember.
I'd rather fight than switch.
I'd walk a mile for a camel.
Da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da, cometo Marlboro country.
(21:25):
Remember that.
What about Salem?
Remember the menthol cigarettes.
Does anyone remember the jinglefor that?
You can take Salem out of thecountry, but and they go, you
can't take the country out ofSalem.
Remember that.
Remember Lark with a patentedcharcoal filter.
(21:50):
I remember my grandfather, thesame grandfather that taught me
to be a Dodger fan.
He and my grandma, lornastep-grandma, I guess you might
call her.
They lived in Huntington Parkand Lorna would smoke Bel Airs
and my grandpa would smokeRaleigh's or Viceroy's.
Either Raleigh's or Viceroy,it's either Raleigh's or Viceroy
(22:14):
.
And oh, there's another one.
I remember You've come a longway, baby right, virginia Slims
for women, ooh Lord, they gotthe Slim cigarettes for the
ladies Much healthier.
But yeah, my grandpa, I thinkhe smoked Raleigh.
And then my grandma,step-grandma, smoked Bel Air and
they'd have these coupons inthe back of the cigarette packs.
(22:35):
So if you saved up the couponsyou could get something from a
catalog like the old blue chipor green stamps.
And I remember I was 14, and Isaw them doing that They'd smoke
and smoke and smoke.
I said, bill, I saved anothercoupon.
I'd be like, hey, actually, Isaid this to them.
(22:56):
I go hey, grandpa and grandma,what do you save these coupons
for Iron lungs?
They were smoking so muchthey'd be in an iron lung.
I think my grandpa got a kickout of that.
By the way, me that all thetime.
How did you become a dodger fan, a ram fan?
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I've told that story, thosestories, so many times, but
since we are in baseball andfootball season right now to me
the best time of year for sportsI'll just say that one more
time.
As a kid, my dad told us totake a nap.
I was probably five, maybe six,maybe, he told me, and my two I
only had two brothers at thattime ended up being six of us.
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He told us to take a nap.
Well, I've never liked taking anap and, uh, there must have
been three of us.
I guess my brother, tim, musthave been very I was just
telling you about with AIlending.
He must have been just a littlebaby.
Anyhow, here comes the car asI'm going back through the train
trestle.
So, uh, when he told us to takea nap, I'm going to head
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through the train trestle,listen.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, hello Hello.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Hello, hello, go Rams , go Dodgers.
I hope you get that echo.
So when he told us to take anap, I didn't want to.
So I snuck under his tableright next to his recliner where
he would sit and smoke thosecigarettes, watch sports.
And he didn't see me and I hidunder the table and he's't see
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me.
And I hid under the table andhe's watching football and it
was the Rams and the Niners andI was only into baseball at that
time.
But then I saw the team withthe horns on the helmet and
Roman Gabriel, who I had no ideawho that was yet and I saw them
score a touchdown and I got soexcited that I kind of cheered
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and bumped my head on the table.
And my dad leans over and looksunder the table at me and goes
Son, what are you doing underthere?
I don't want to take a nap, Idon't want to watch football.
So he laughed and he let me situp in his lap and inhale that
secondhand smoke and watchfootball.
You know, hell, he didn't.
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They didn't know any betterback then.
They didn't even think aboutthat stuff.
Every house had an ashtray.
All parents mostly did thatback then.
And from that point on.
Then I realized oh, the teamwith the horn on their helmet,
which is the team that I love,which is the first team to ever
put a logo on their helmet.
And then Roman Gabriel, number18, who recently passed, god
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bless him.
That's my team, that's it, no.
Looking back, 49ers, or theRaiders, well, I don't live in
Oakland or San Francisco.
Why do I have to like them?
I don't live there, I don'tlive in LA.
I can like the Rams, and thatwas my reasoning, and still is.
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In terms of the Dodgers, mygrandfather, who I was just
talking about, bill Walsh Sr,he'd come home from Reliant
Steel running that pinhead truck.
He drove a pinhead for ReliantSteel in LA and he's a big,
tough Irishman man.
You didn't want to flip him offon the road back then, when
road rage was a thing.
I'm sure he'd get out and dotyou before everyone had a gun.
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I don't know that he really didthat, but I don't know.
That could be folklore.
Maybe I'm making that up, butit just seemed like he could do
it Because he didn't put up withno nonsense.
Man, he didn't put up with anynonsense.
So he'd come home from work,he'd sit on that front porch.
He'd change into his jeans andhis white t-shirt Big old,
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freckly arms.
He'd put that AM radio rightnext to him, he'd play solitaire
on the porch and we'd listen toVin Scully and the Dodgers.
And Vin would be doingcommercials for Union 76, dodger
Stadium, chavez Ravine, and forFarmer John link sausage ham.
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And my grandfather man.
His refrigerator was loadedwith Farmer John Wink sausage
ham and my grandfather man.
His refrigerator was loadedwith Farmer John's Patrick.
Yes, grandpa, you want somebreakfast.
You betcha, grandpa, it'sFarmer John's Sausage.
It's good enough for VinceScully, it's good enough for the
horses.
Darn right, grandpa.
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So those are the.
That's how I became fans of bothof those teams.
Now, my two favorites on eachone of those teams.
I'll finish it with this, atleast this part of it, this part
of the segment, my favoritepart.
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My favorite Dodgers are TommyLasorda and Vince Scully, who
has never actually played forthe Dodgers they're an outzer
and I always wanted to meetVince Scully may have told this
story before I did meet him.
I met him at the same game thatI was telling you about where I
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met Lon Simmons.
I met, met him at the same gamethat I was telling you about
where I met Lon Simmons.
I met them both at the samegame After I met.
Well, I didn't even tell youabout Lon Simmons.
I told someone else about that,but I'll tell you right now.
First I meet Lon Simmons, I getin the elevator.
It's opening day, at&t Park orPac Bell or whatever they called
it back then Pac Bell andDodgers Giants.
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So everyone's there.
All the sports networks arecovering this because it's the
first day of Pac Bell Park andI'm the last one to get in the
elevator.
It starts to close.
They open it again.
Squeeze me in.
I'm in front front, staring atthe inside of the front door of
the elevator.
Behind me the man sayssomething and when he said that
(28:59):
I went without turning around, Iwent.
Oh my god, vin Scully.
I mean, uh, lon Simmons.
He says how you doing, youngman.
Oh great, mr Snow, don't callme Mr Lawn, okay.
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Anyhow, a little bit out ofbreath here.
Just went up a hill.
So I'm back from my walk.
So, uh, we get off the elevatorand I got to tell him my
favorite Lon Simmons story.
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And he goes what's that?
And I said I was 15 years old,shooting hoops in my driveway in
Elk Grove, and I said I'mlistening to the radio, the
Dodgers and the Giants.
All I remember is John theCount Montefusco was pitching
for the Giants.
I don't know who was pitchingfor the Dodgers, but during a
(30:00):
promo, during the game, he saysyou know they would do these
little promos during baseballgames.
He was like there's ball one,excuse me.
He says, by the way, there'sball one, excuse me.
He says, by the way, westernairlines now with non-stop
flights to Hawaii.
And then there's a short pause.
(30:21):
Then you hear his paper and youhear him at the desk.
He goes.
Well, hell, I hope so, and tothis day I have gotten such a
good laugh out of that.
And I told that and he said Idon't remember that, but that's
something I would say.
Oh, you said that becauseobviously, if I'm headed from
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California to Hawaii, I don'twant any stops between here and
there.
I just do not want any stopsbetween now and there.
And then later in the day,during a break, during and
between innings, I go in to usethe press bathroom.
They got the press room, theygot food and all of our stuff
(31:04):
where we sit there and plug inour computers, and then they
have the restrooms for the press.
So I go in between innings intothe bathroom and as I'm
standing there at the urinaldoor opens and inside walks
right next to me to the nexturinal, none other than Vin
Scully.
Now I cannot believe this.
So I'm trying not to chuckle,so I wait till I'm done and I go
(31:25):
over to the sink and I'mwashing and then I chuckle
because I can tell he'sfinishing up doing his business
and I said Mr Scully, it'salways been a dream of mine to
say hi to you, shake your handand meet you, because I just
washed my hand.
So he washed his hand and Isaid but little did I ever
realize it was going to beinside the men's room, standing
beside my side, and I made himchuckle, which made me very
(31:48):
happy and still does to this day.
So I I'm back home, I'm going togo in now and pluck a record
from my rare record shelves andsee what record I come up with,
and we'll do that here on Pat'sPeeps 333.
That was a good workout.
I feel good.
Thank you, pat, for that finecoverage.
(32:09):
We appreciate that back here atthe home base.
You, pat, for that finecoverage.
We appreciate that back here atthe home base seems like you
were feeling pretty good.
Well, I am all right.
Pat's peeps 333 as we continuehere on this thursday.
That was exhilarating.
Before I hop in the show, let meshare music with you and I, you
(32:30):
know, yesterday I told you theway I had the anonymous listener
, a loyal listener to my radioshow, send me a record Well,
several records, and I sharedone with you yesterday.
I thought I would share anotherone of her records with you, as
she was kind enough to sharethem with me and, by the way you
know, she took very good careof these records.
(32:50):
Share them with me and, by theway you know, she took very good
care of these records.
Uh, one side a little bit more,perhaps a little more worn than
the other.
The other side's pretty niceanyhow.
Um, now these I I'm not sureabout the one song, but it just
seems like it's going to be cooland I don't know.
I I think it might be a cover,but the, but the first side I
(33:11):
want to play.
I'm so happy that she sent thisto me because, in my estimation
, this dude is one of thecoolest guitarists and does not
get mentioned enough when itcomes to the important guitarist
.
I'll tell you another oneDwayne Eddy would be one that I
(33:32):
would throw in that mix asextremely important guitarists
the 10, Dick Dale, dwayne Eddy.
There's one period of time atwhich I would include this
artist.
Now this is on a 45, and again,this says Randy.
I know you want to be anonymous, but it says Randy.
So maybe that's still anonymous, randy with an I.
(33:54):
But this is on Cadence GoldRecords.
So that tells me right awaythis is not an original release,
this is a gold series ofrecords.
They said, well, let us take acouple of songs that had some
popularity and we'll re-releasethese many years later and we'll
put, uh, one of these songs oneach side.
(34:15):
So there's not necessarily ab-side or not necessarily an a
side on this, but I will tellyou again I think that this
artist is just a badass, if Imay say that.
If I may, this guy, you know,if I were putting soundtracks
(34:40):
together for really grittymovies, this guy and he has been
used, there's no doubt, in manymovies.
This is an instrumental.
It's an American group releasedin the United States.
Excuse me, pardon me, let meyou know, after a long workout I
need a drink.
(35:02):
Cheers.
By the way, happy Thursday toyou.
It's almost a weekend.
Released in the United StatesMarch 31st of 1958.
It was a single.
And how cool is the name of theB-side?
I got to hear that the Swag.
That's awesome, man.
I got to pull that up.
(35:23):
The Swag was the B-side.
Okay, I don't know.
That just sounds cool to me.
This guy is cool.
Utilize the techniques ofdistortion, tremolo, which at
this time, was largelyunexplored in rock and roll.
That's why it is another reason, not only his talent, but
(35:46):
because of that.
So when we talk about pioneerswhen it comes to guitars, I want
to hear this guy's name inthere.
Matter of fact, in 2018, thissong was inducted into the lame
rock and roll hall of fame, butat least even they recognized
how great this was.
(36:07):
It was a new category forsingles.
Oh, that's a good one.
Let me write that down for myshow Singles.
That should be, should be.
I'm writing.
You can never lose an idea inrock and roll.
I hate the Rock and Roll Hallof Fame.
(36:28):
I wish they had a real one.
Anyhow, just a thought.
2008,.
It was inducted into theNational Registry by the Library
of Congress.
Link Wray and the Ray man arejust so cool, it's called Rumble
(36:54):
.
Thank you, man.
(37:38):
I just imagine someone smoking,you know, wearing a leather
jacket, old school, get yourhair all greased back.
Pack of cigs in your shirt,sleeve rolled up Pat's Peeps 333
.
Happy Thursday, let's hear it,lord.
(38:26):
All right, rumble link ray andthe rayman.
I don't own the rights to that.
Leave me alone.
Already trying to, I'm tryingto critique and educate people
on the virtues of link, whatever.
I always got to say that stuff,you know.
Now this one, I'm I'm not sureif this is a remake.
Before I, before I look, Ipulled it up, I didn't read it,
(38:49):
but it might be a remake.
Is it a remake of, like a JamesBrown song?
Let me see here.
I could be wrong on this one,but just seems like it was a
remake of someone, so it oh okay.
So the artist did not write thesong, I thought so.
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He recorded a version of it in55.
Another instrumental.
Well, that makes sense for thisrecord.
Blues tune Long and complexhistory dating back to the 40s.
Most famous version recorded byJimmy Forrest, the opening riff
of the song recorded in 1940,that's the Blues Old man, by a
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small group led by Johnny Hodges, sideman for Duke Ellington,
and then Duke himself used thesame riff in 46 in a composition
Happy Go, lucky Local.
Yeah, it wasn't James Brown.
I'm trying to think of the nameLucky Local.
Yeah, it wasn't James Brown.
What's I'm trying to think ofthe name of that James Brown
(39:56):
song?
I was just guessing.
Anyhow, let's listen to it.
This is Ernie England NightTrain.
That's cool, man.
(40:35):
Definitely get that DukeEllington feel Ah, I knew it.
I knew it.
I knew it.
(40:55):
1961, james Brown recorded hisown take on the song.
I knew it Replaced thesaxophone break with a spoken,
shouted list of cities on histour route.
I knew it.
I am so proud of myself I can'tbelieve it.
That version became a hit.
Remains one of his most famous.
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Hey now, yeah, pats, peepsThree, 33.
Also the great Night Train Lane.
Nickname of the legendary NFLHall of Fame defensive back
Night Train Lane.
Nickname of the legendary NFLHall of Fame defensive back
Night Train Lane.
You remember Night Train Lane?
(41:39):
Oh, let's take a listen realquick.
That's cool.
That's cool Night train lane.
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Baby, los Angeles Ram.
That's right, la Rams.
Then he had to go finish thingsoff with the Cardinals and the
Lions, whatever, whatever,whatever, awesome stuff.
Okay, I said I wanted to hearbecause I can't remember for
sure off the top of my head.
But when I read the Swag byLink Wray and his Rayman, I have
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to listen to this.
This is not off of a 45.
I'm just going to pull this oneup because I need to hear it
and I don't have that recordright in front of me.
I hope this is as cool as itseems like it would be.
Here we go.
Oh yeah, woo, instant love.
(42:47):
So simple, so simple, so mean.
This is so cool, I sure.
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Thank you for listening.
I want to wish you a very, veryhappy Thursday.
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