Plans vanished the moment the phones blew up. We set out to walk you through how a daily show gets made—music cues, topic lists, the dance between light and heavy—and then a Medevac helicopter crashed on Highway 50. What followed was a live pivot: verified details, road closures, the improbable luck of a construction zone, and the kind of bystander courage that makes you stop and breathe. You’ll hear how we balance urgency with empathy while keeping the lines open for a city that needed clarity and a calm voice.
Once the ground steadied, we rewound and opened our notebook. We talk through the real mechanics of building ten shows a week: collecting weekend observations, scoring topics for caller energy, and using “stuff we couldn’t get to” as both a promise and a pressure valve. From Rite Aid closures and the future of Thrifty ice cream to why adults love going all-in on Halloween, we map how a night’s tone gets set—and why it matters for engagement and time spent listening. We dig into Uber’s women-only request option and the trade-offs baked into California’s red-light camera bill, where lower fines, looser identification, and higher collections collide with fairness and oversight.
To keep the ride human, we layer in culture and wonder: rock-world spats for levity, sports quick hits for communal rhythm, and Voyager 1’s improbable radio revival 15 billion miles away for perspective. We also shout out local artists and share merch that celebrates Sacramento staples like Tower Records and Sam’s Hofbrau, because the show lives where the community lives. Hit play for a night that teaches exactly how a talk show breathes under pressure—craft, chaos, callers, and care working in sync. If this resonated, follow, share with a friend, and drop a review telling us which segment stuck with you most.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:18):
Welcome to the uh Pat's Peeps podcast number 344.
This is gonna be one of the uh,I don't know how I would I'm
gonna put this together.
This one will be different.
344 is gonna be a littledifferent.
So it's interesting that um bythe way, it's October 6, 2025.
I'm staring out my studio windowfrom my home studio right now.
(00:41):
It's night time.
It was a beautiful day, but it'snight now.
So things are kind of backwardstoday on the podcast on 344.
So it's just so ironic thattoday I decided that, you know,
people are always asking me, andI was running out of time today
to get a podcast in.
(01:02):
But a lot of times people willask me, man, Pat, how do you get
so many, how do you get ideasfor uh 10 shows a day?
It's between five podcasts andmy five radio shows on the Pat
Wall show.
How do you come up with ideasall the time?
So today I thought, well, maybeI'll take just a few minutes and
I will share with you sort ofbehind the scenes how you come
(01:24):
up with topics, how you kind ofbring things together to create
a show on a daily basis.
I don't want to repeateverything I've already said in
this.
So I so I did it earlier, butthen I was kind of running out
of time.
And I was giving you all ofthese thoughts that I had
tonight about what kind of ashow I was gonna have, some
possible topics, things I'vebeen trying to get to, stuff we
couldn't get to, which you'regonna hear again in a minute.
(01:46):
But the point is I just finishedmy radio show.
See, this is why everything'sbackwards tonight.
Usually my podcast comes upearly in the day, in the
afternoon, but it's backwardstonight because I just finished
my radio show and I do mypodcast before that, and I go, I
(02:07):
started at topics tonight, andman, the phones lit up.
We started talking about rightaid closing, all this all the
right aid stores closing today,and then that led to oh no, now
what's gonna happen to thriftyice cream because right aid
served thrifty ice cream.
So we started talking about thatin high school reunions, and
(02:28):
yeah, we got a bunch of calls.
During these calls, there wasbreaking news.
We just I came across that ahelicopter, a Medevac helicopter
crashed on Highway 50.
(02:48):
You know, when something likethat happens, being that I work
for a a news talk station, whichis a great combination, news
talk, here's the news, and hey,now we talk about the news.
But means how we're on that typeof station.
This was huge news.
It made national news.
And so all of the stuff I'm I'muh that I was telling you
(03:13):
earlier, I didn't do any of ittonight.
The helicopter crashed on theSacramento Freeway.
At least three were criticallyinjured.
Those were the uh the the crewof the Medevac helicopter.
I cannot believe that theydidn't hit any cars on Highway
50, this busy freeway.
The construction zone turned outto be a blessing tonight to get
(03:34):
some of the cars out of there.
I cannot believe that thehelicopter didn't crash and blow
up.
You know, so many times we seefire associated with that didn't
happen.
So again, time to pray for thesepeople.
And 15 good Samaritans summonedby the police and by the fire
department to come and lift thehelicopter off of one of the
crew, apparently, that was inthe helicopter.
(03:58):
And so at this point, yes,officials are investigating
after this medical helicoptercrashed on Highway 50, uh, went
down at 7.10 p.m., eastboundHighway 50 near 59th Street.
Three crew members on board, alltaken to the area hospitals,
(04:18):
critically injured.
According to Justin Sylvia, itwas the Sacramento Fire
Department who did a great job.
Two crew members were located inthe roadway.
One of the crew members wastrapped under the helicopter
when the first unit from thefire department arrived,
according to Sylvia.
Fire captain.
Bystanders offered help, wereable to lift the aircraft off of
(04:39):
the trap crew member.
Then it was completely closeddown, the freeways, according to
the Highway Patrol.
Highway 99, northbound, toHighway 50, eastbound, Highway
51, southbound, to Highway 50,eastbound, shut down.
People stranded in their cars.
(05:01):
So they're investigating it now.
And so, yeah.
I was gonna do a whole differentshow today.
But that never happened.
But now this is what we weretalking about earlier.
(05:22):
So we're going in backwardsorder here today.
We're going backwards on 344,which is okay.
So I started off earlierplaying, so this is my intro.
I so this is the second timeI've done my intro.
But this is what I did earlier.
I didn't have time to play.
So I'll let you take a listen tothis.
(05:44):
And here we are once again.
It is uh it's uh Monday.
Back to work Monday.
It's the Pats Beeps Podcast.
Good morning.
Well, it's actually afternoon.
It's actually afternoon, waylate in the afternoon, to be
perfectly honest.
I don't even know if I should bedoing this.
I mean, it's late.
I'm at the point right now, bythe way, as I look out my studio
(06:08):
window into the beautifulfoothills of Northern
California, where I've beenrunning errands all day.
You know, it's one of those dayswhere you're running errands.
You know, you're runningerrands, and uh you kind of get
backed up time-wise.
And I went out and did my runtoday, which was fantastic.
But uh, it's a beautiful day inthe neighborhood.
(06:28):
A beautiful anyhow, Pat's peeps.
Three well, what are we at?
344.
Is that right?
344 peeps Monday, October the6th, 2025.
And a good Monday to you.
And I come in tonight and I andI started thinking about the
fact that, geez, man, you know,hey, you're cutting into your
(06:51):
producing time for your actualshow.
By the way, I'm the host of thePat Wall Show, KFPK Radio,
Monday through Friday, 7 to 10p.m.
We are coming up in just a fewdays away from our 12th year.
October 14th will be our 12thyear of doing that show.
(07:11):
And as I referenced the otherday, wow, we are now, we well,
now, apparently we have been fora while, the number one show in
Sacramento.
That's right.
It's amazing.
I'm so proud of that.
But so thank you for listeningand for listening to my podcast.
(07:32):
It's because I am so late, Ithought, well, what am I gonna
do?
How am I gonna get two things inat once?
Well, here's what I thought Iwould do today.
How about this for a cleveridea?
How's about I take you throughpeople always ask me, how do you
come up with stuff every day totalk about?
But people say, you know, you'redoing uh you do your show, which
(07:53):
is three hours a day, uh, youknow, and then you do a podcast.
So essentially you're doing 10shows a week.
And uh how do you come up withnew material?
Because they try not toreplicate the shows too much,
and it's just a thing where youlive an everyday life.
You live everyday life, you takenotes, you observe, you know,
you hear news stories thatreally perk your interest.
(08:17):
Really pique your interest.
Is it peak or perk?
I think both, I think both aresufficient.
Either way, it's it'sappropriate.
But yeah, so yeah, and then youget so many topics for the show
that you you get backed up withtopics.
You have so many things.
That's why we used to do thissegment with Mark the Voice Guy
(08:40):
called Stuff We Couldn't Get To.
We'd have little music playingin the background, little musak,
you know, and we'd have all thisstuff that we didn't get to
because we'd give you a lot ofphone calls or what have you.
Uh and so I thought maybe, justmaybe, I could take you through
the process of how do youproduce a show?
(09:00):
How do you do that?
Hmm.
Well, one of the things you dois well, you come up with music,
you have to have bumper music.
And I do the uh every day I dobirthdays for mus for musicians.
And so what do you do?
You you go in, you find the themusicians' birthdays, and I have
a place that I go for that, soI'm always on top of that, and
(09:24):
I'm always playing the bumpermusic of those bands and those
musicians, which is really fun.
So you you know, you get thosekind of things.
Then you take little notes fromthe weekend, and it's just like
little notes, little thoughts,little thought-provoking things,
you know, that just you come upwith random.
Then you, and like I say, thenyou you have news stories, then
what do you do?
(09:44):
Well, then you begin to justkind of piece it all together,
you know.
What and you and you you reallygive a lot of thought to what
would people really like to talkabout?
And there really is that debatein my head.
There used to be, and it kind ofis at some point, at some times,
where do I, at the end of theday, am I going to talk about
something serious or am I gonnatalk about something fun?
(10:07):
Really, I think my show, myradio show, and for the most
part, my podcast is meant forthe latter.
It's meant to be the uh the stirthat the straw that stirs the
drink, the cold beer at the endof the day, the respite from all
everything else.
But again, occasionally, guesswhat?
I get upset, I get all tweakedabout things that people are all
mad about too.
And we got to air that out.
(10:28):
So we're not so we do kind of itall, we do it all, but for the
most part, we try to belighthearted.
So if you're not gonna go in andyou're not gonna just do all of
the big top stories of the day,which a lot of talk show hosts
do, being honest with you, ifyou don't do that, then you have
to look for other things.
What are the other things?
(10:50):
What are the things that arekind of slipping through the
cracks that people aren't reallytalking about?
The things that people mighthave fun with, you know, ask
people.
I always like to do things like,you know, what is your favorite
or what is the best or what isthe worst?
That's always fun too.
And then you have a little listof things.
You know, you have a list or youthrow out whatever it might be.
(11:11):
Best one hid wonders, or, youknow, a band that uh or a song
that everyone likes, but youjust can't stand it.
Whatever it might be, could beit doesn't even have to be
music, it could be whatever.
And people love that.
I love it because it gets yourmind off all the heavy stuff.
It's fun to think about, andthen it's fun to share that with
(11:33):
other listeners and with me, thehost of the show, because I love
hearing it.
And I can't tell you how manytimes you guys will say, Well,
there's there was this song, forinstance, or this movie, or you
know, whatever it might be, andyou should check it out.
And then I check it out.
I'm like, wow, that is really,really good.
So those kind of things.
That's so you throw those intothe mix.
(11:54):
You do you always want to put alittle meat on the bone, as they
say, a little meat on the plate,which lets people know that
you're keeping an eye on all theserious stuff, too, and you have
an opinion on that.
So, in where as we're looking attonight's show, I have some
stuff we didn't get to.
Or like Mark the Voice guy usedto say, God bless him, rest in
peace.
(12:14):
Stuff we couldn't get to,brought to you by Corduroy
Pellows, making headlines since1971.
Or, or what was that?
This portion of the Pat Wallshow, or or stuff we couldn't
get to, brought to you byseaweed.
Now, fish can smoke their caresaway.
Ah, we still love that stuff.
(12:36):
So I'm looking at some things ona Monday.
I don't want it to be a heavyMonday.
Um Halloween spending inAmerica.
I've been trying to get to that.
Like, what are the trends?
How much are we spending?
You wouldn't believe it.
How much money Americans spendon Halloween.
It's amazing, you know, becauseI think we must all have these
(12:59):
fond memories of being kids andtrick-or-treating and the joy of
trick-or-treating and dressingup.
Because I swear Halloween isit's not just for kids anymore.
It's, you know, it is adultslove to dress up and go to these
parties, including me.
Now, I haven't had a chance todo that last couple of years
(13:21):
because I've well, I'm notcomplaining, but I have been out
of the country and I guess theyjust don't celebrate Halloween
as much as we do in Italy as wedo here in America.
But it's amazing.
I mean, people we adults, wejust love dressing up for
Halloween, don't we?
(13:41):
And I like the scary stuff.
One of these days, I'm gonnahave a party.
I always say this, I'm gonnahave a party where you have to
be really scary and terrifyingto get into the party.
I'm an oddball like that.
It's Halloween, man.
Trick or treat, I was a bigger,I was always a bigger fan of the
trick than the treat.
(14:03):
I always like people that wouldmake like haunted houses, or
they'd put a mask on and try toscare you when they open a door.
And that's when I was living inneighborhoods before I moved to
my mystery hut in the in thewoods.
You know, you'd have kids comeup to the door, and guy used to
love messing with them.
You get the best candy, you putit in a big bowl, you sit in
front of the door, you blackenout the house, you put
(14:26):
frightening music on in thebackground, you change the out
uh the porch light from just theuh the regular iridescent light
bulb to um like green or red,and it gives you that real
atmosphere.
And kids will look at you like,is that real?
You know, you don't jump andaround look crazy, you just sit
back in a you know in a chairand you hold that candy in your
(14:48):
hand, that and that really goodcandy, you just don't move.
And they don't know, they cannever tell, whether it's a real
person or whether a dummy.
And then when you just barelymove, you shift, the kids, ah!
The parents don't even want tocome up.
But it's it's all in fun becausewhen I was a kid, you know, I I
(15:12):
there was a guy, we lived inValley High when that was a
brand new Larchmont Homesneighborhood, model homes, and
uh Danny Casey's dad.
I couldn't wait to get to hishouse because I knew Danny
Casey's dad was always gonna bethe guy that tried to scare you
when he opened the door, and hedid a good job of it.
Then the other people around theneighborhood, they'd have they'd
(15:34):
have this little like courtyardthings leading up into their to
their front door, and they wouldmake a little haunted house in
there.
So I love all that.
So we're really into it.
I miss doing that.
Also, here's another thing I'vebeen trying to get.
Maybe, you know what?
Maybe this will my maybe thetheme of my show tonight will be
stuff I've been trying to getto, and just do it the whole
(15:56):
show.
Because I've been trying to getto this one.
Uh, the fact that Uber is now,they have this program called
Women Preferences.
So women will be able to requestUber rides, and they'll be able
to request only women.
This is for only women.
Another thing I wanted to get tothat we haven't is the
(16:18):
California Red Light CameraSystem, which there's a bill now
for the private uh red lightcamera vendors.
They want to eliminate therequirement to identify the
driver, slashing theiroperational costs while letting
them issue more tickets withless oversight.
They want to reduce the amountof the fees when you run a red
light.
Well, why would they do that?
(16:39):
Well, because they think peoplewould then pay.
Because apparently now, ifyou're doing it, the fine the
the fees, the fines are so highthat a lot of people don't even
pay.
And so they're trying to figureout a way to enforce that.
I don't know what I feel aboutthat.
But anyhow, we'll have that onthe show.
Another thing, and this is howfar out it goes, that we stuff
we couldn't get to.
(16:59):
This was in September, lateSeptember, when uh September
24th.
Never got to it.
Phil Hartman's birthday.
I really wanted to talk aboutthe talent that was Phil Hartman
and the tragedy that was PhilHartman and his wife and what
happened.
I know everyone knows about it,but I but you know, I I wanted
to honor him, and you know what?
(17:20):
Maybe I'll include that in theshow tonight.
Here's another one.
And this is what we do toproduce the radio show.
You look through all of thisstuff, what would people
resonate with?
You know, what would people whatwould draw people's attention?
Here's one thing I want to tellyou as I break down the ratings
(17:41):
on my radio show.
I just have to tell you this.
There's a few things I want totell you.
I'm just gonna say it.
So I hope it's okay to revealthis.
We are not only the number oneshow, 7 to 10 p.m., number one,
but we have the longest timespent listening by far.
(18:02):
We double most every other radiostation in Sacramento.
TSL, time spent listening.
I talked, I told you about thata couple of podcasts back.
It was bigger than I evenrealized.
Double most of the stations.
You know, there's a turnover.
It's like a turnover, like tuneout, the tune out.
Who the higher the number, themore people tune out.
I have the lowest tune outnumber on the rating, 7 to 10
(18:24):
p.m.
demos 3564.
It is amazing.
And I think sometimes it'sbecause, you know, if you're on
a music station, you hear asong, eh yeah, I've heard this a
million times, and you flip itover.
On the show, when we talk aboutthings like this, processed
foods harm your body and brain.
It's dinner time.
People want to know more, like,huh?
Or maybe they don't want to knowmore.
(18:44):
Maybe they're like, hey, I'mgetting ready to eat some
Cheetos here.
What are you doing?
And I'm gonna down it with aCoke.
But other people want to hearthat news and they want to hear
why and how that works.
So we have time spent listening.
Thank you.
I might get into that tonight.
Processed foods harm your bodyand brain.
We all knew that.
But you know, to actually readthat, there's a, you know, in
(19:10):
terms of that's reality.
Rock feuds erupting betweenformer member of Pink Floyd and
Black Sabbath.
Beef started last month whenFloyd co-founder Roger Waters,
blah, blah, blah.
We'll get to that tonight.
Stuff we couldn't get to.
Brought to you by Vizine.
(19:30):
We know why your eyes are allare really red.
Thank you, Market Voice Guy.
The Aging Voyager 1 restarted aradio that it hasn't used since
1981, prompted from 15 billionmiles away.
15 billion miles away.
(19:55):
So some of the so those are justsome of the things that we'll
get to on the show.
But that I didn't get to.
Now I'm back to live.
I didn't get as you can tell, Ididn't get to any of these
because of the helicopter crashanyway.
What was I saying?
Some random thoughts from theweekend.
(20:16):
Maybe you recap some of the NFL.
Didn't get to that.
Of course, we have the baseballplayoffs going on right now, so
it's interesting to recap those.
Didn't get to that, but goDodgers.
Hope you had a wonderfulweekend.
Got a chance to relax just alittle bit.
Exactly.
Um, because I am running alittle bit late tonight.
(20:38):
I was.
I'm gonna have to kind of cut itshort.
I hate to say that, but I amgonna have to cut it short a
little bit short just due totime constraints.
So I guess we can consider thislike just a mini pod.
No.
And I hope that in some way itisn't now that just kind of
showed you a little bit behindthe scenes.
(20:59):
There's a lot more to it,including, you know, lining up
guests.
One of the things we love to dois we love to bring in local
artists and local musicians, wesupport local businesses on the
Pat Wall Show, just like we doright here on Pat's Peeps.
Become a Pat's Peep, please.
And by the way, in the nextcouple of days, I've got more
exciting news to share with you.
(21:22):
So by the way, check out ourmerchandise, Pat'sPeeps.com.
We have an awesome Tower Recordshirt, an awesome Sam's Hoffbrow
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(21:42):
Good stuff, just like last monthwith Rock and Soul Diner.
Some good stuff going on withPat's Peeps.
And uh, so yes, we're gonna keepthat in the mix as well.
I'm gonna play this for youbecause I'm gonna play this.
Yay! Play it.
Super excited about what is nexton Pat's Peeps.
Yeah, man.
There'll be a lot of really goodstuff coming your way, I
(22:03):
promise.
So I thought, why not go outwith this tonight?
I usually go into my show withthis.
My theme song to my radio show,She Sells Sanctuary by the
Colts.
You have a great rest of yourMonday, alright?
And we'll see you on the radio.
(22:27):
But we won't talk about any ofthat stuff.
See you tomorrow night.
Like he said on the radio.
Welcome to the uh Pat's Peeps podcast number 344.
This is gonna be one of the uh,I don't know how I would I'm
gonna put this together.
This one will be different.
344 is gonna be a littledifferent.
So it's interesting that um bythe way, it's October 6, 2025.
I'm staring out my studio windowfrom my home studio right now.
(00:41):
It's night time.
It was a beautiful day, but it'snight now.
So things are kind of backwardstoday on the podcast on 344.
So it's just so ironic thattoday I decided that, you know,
people are always asking me, andI was running out of time today
to get a podcast in.
(01:02):
But a lot of times people willask me, man, Pat, how do you get
so many, how do you get ideasfor uh 10 shows a day?
It's between five podcasts andmy five radio shows on the Pat
Wall show.
How do you come up with ideasall the time?
So today I thought, well, maybeI'll take just a few minutes and
I will share with you sort ofbehind the scenes how you come
(01:24):
up with topics, how you kind ofbring things together to create
a show on a daily basis.
I don't want to repeateverything I've already said in
this.
So I so I did it earlier, butthen I was kind of running out
of time.
And I was giving you all ofthese thoughts that I had
tonight about what kind of ashow I was gonna have, some
possible topics, things I'vebeen trying to get to, stuff we
couldn't get to, which you'regonna hear again in a minute.
(01:46):
But the point is I just finishedmy radio show.
See, this is why everything'sbackwards tonight.
Usually my podcast comes upearly in the day, in the
afternoon, but it's backwardstonight because I just finished
my radio show and I do mypodcast before that, and I go, I
(02:07):
started at topics tonight, andman, the phones lit up.
We started talking about rightaid closing, all this all the
right aid stores closing today,and then that led to oh no, now
what's gonna happen to thriftyice cream because right aid
served thrifty ice cream.
So we started talking about thatin high school reunions, and
(02:28):
yeah, we got a bunch of calls.
During these calls, there wasbreaking news.
We just I came across that ahelicopter, a Medevac helicopter
crashed on Highway 50.
(02:48):
You know, when something likethat happens, being that I work
for a a news talk station, whichis a great combination, news
talk, here's the news, and hey,now we talk about the news.
But means how we're on that typeof station.
This was huge news.
It made national news.
And so all of the stuff I'm I'muh that I was telling you
(03:13):
earlier, I didn't do any of ittonight.
The helicopter crashed on theSacramento Freeway.
At least three were criticallyinjured.
Those were the uh the the crewof the Medevac helicopter.
I cannot believe that theydidn't hit any cars on Highway
50, this busy freeway.
The construction zone turned outto be a blessing tonight to get
(03:34):
some of the cars out of there.
I cannot believe that thehelicopter didn't crash and blow
up.
You know, so many times we seefire associated with that didn't
happen.
So again, time to pray for thesepeople.
And 15 good Samaritans summonedby the police and by the fire
department to come and lift thehelicopter off of one of the
crew, apparently, that was inthe helicopter.
(03:58):
And so at this point, yes,officials are investigating
after this medical helicoptercrashed on Highway 50, uh, went
down at 7.10 p.m., eastboundHighway 50 near 59th Street.
Three crew members on board, alltaken to the area hospitals,
(04:18):
critically injured.
According to Justin Sylvia, itwas the Sacramento Fire
Department who did a great job.
Two crew members were located inthe roadway.
One of the crew members wastrapped under the helicopter
when the first unit from thefire department arrived,
according to Sylvia.
Fire captain.
Bystanders offered help, wereable to lift the aircraft off of
(04:39):
the trap crew member.
Then it was completely closeddown, the freeways, according to
the Highway Patrol.
Highway 99, northbound, toHighway 50, eastbound, Highway
51, southbound, to Highway 50,eastbound, shut down.
People stranded in their cars.
(05:01):
So they're investigating it now.
And so, yeah.
I was gonna do a whole differentshow today.
But that never happened.
But now this is what we weretalking about earlier.
(05:22):
So we're going in backwardsorder here today.
We're going backwards on 344,which is okay.
So I started off earlierplaying, so this is my intro.
I so this is the second timeI've done my intro.
But this is what I did earlier.
I didn't have time to play.
So I'll let you take a listen tothis.
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And here we are once again.
It is uh it's uh Monday.
Back to work Monday.
It's the Pats Beeps Podcast.
Good morning.
Well, it's actually afternoon.
It's actually afternoon, waylate in the afternoon, to be
perfectly honest.
I don't even know if I should bedoing this.
I mean, it's late.
I'm at the point right now, bythe way, as I look out my studio
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window into the beautifulfoothills of Northern
California, where I've beenrunning errands all day.
You know, it's one of those dayswhere you're running errands.
You know, you're runningerrands, and uh you kind of get
backed up time-wise.
And I went out and did my runtoday, which was fantastic.
But uh, it's a beautiful day inthe neighborhood.
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A beautiful anyhow, Pat's peeps.
Three well, what are we at?
344.
Is that right?
344 peeps Monday, October the6th, 2025.
And a good Monday to you.
And I come in tonight and I andI started thinking about the
fact that, geez, man, you know,hey, you're cutting into your
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producing time for your actualshow.
By the way, I'm the host of thePat Wall Show, KFPK Radio,
Monday through Friday, 7 to 10p.m.
We are coming up in just a fewdays away from our 12th year.
October 14th will be our 12thyear of doing that show.
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And as I referenced the otherday, wow, we are now, we well,
now, apparently we have been fora while, the number one show in
Sacramento.
That's right.
It's amazing.
I'm so proud of that.
But so thank you for listeningand for listening to my podcast.
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It's because I am so late, Ithought, well, what am I gonna
do?
How am I gonna get two things inat once?
Well, here's what I thought Iwould do today.
How about this for a cleveridea?
How's about I take you throughpeople always ask me, how do you
come up with stuff every day totalk about?
But people say, you know, you'redoing uh you do your show, which
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is three hours a day, uh, youknow, and then you do a podcast.
So essentially you're doing 10shows a week.
And uh how do you come up withnew material?
Because they try not toreplicate the shows too much,
and it's just a thing where youlive an everyday life.
You live everyday life, you takenotes, you observe, you know,
you hear news stories thatreally perk your interest.
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Really pique your interest.
Is it peak or perk?
I think both, I think both aresufficient.
Either way, it's it'sappropriate.
But yeah, so yeah, and then youget so many topics for the show
that you you get backed up withtopics.
You have so many things.
That's why we used to do thissegment with Mark the Voice Guy
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called Stuff We Couldn't Get To.
We'd have little music playingin the background, little musak,
you know, and we'd have all thisstuff that we didn't get to
because we'd give you a lot ofphone calls or what have you.
Uh and so I thought maybe, justmaybe, I could take you through
the process of how do youproduce a show?
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How do you do that?
Hmm.
Well, one of the things you dois well, you come up with music,
you have to have bumper music.
And I do the uh every day I dobirthdays for mus for musicians.
And so what do you do?
You you go in, you find the themusicians' birthdays, and I have
a place that I go for that, soI'm always on top of that, and
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I'm always playing the bumpermusic of those bands and those
musicians, which is really fun.
So you you know, you get thosekind of things.
Then you take little notes fromthe weekend, and it's just like
little notes, little thoughts,little thought-provoking things,
you know, that just you come upwith random.
Then you, and like I say, thenyou you have news stories, then
what do you do?
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Well, then you begin to justkind of piece it all together,
you know.
What and you and you you reallygive a lot of thought to what
would people really like to talkabout?
And there really is that debatein my head.
There used to be, and it kind ofis at some point, at some times,
where do I, at the end of theday, am I going to talk about
something serious or am I gonnatalk about something fun?
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Really, I think my show, myradio show, and for the most
part, my podcast is meant forthe latter.
It's meant to be the uh the stirthat the straw that stirs the
drink, the cold beer at the endof the day, the respite from all
everything else.
But again, occasionally, guesswhat?
I get upset, I get all tweakedabout things that people are all
mad about too.
And we got to air that out.
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So we're not so we do kind of itall, we do it all, but for the
most part, we try to belighthearted.
So if you're not gonna go in andyou're not gonna just do all of
the big top stories of the day,which a lot of talk show hosts
do, being honest with you, ifyou don't do that, then you have
to look for other things.
What are the other things?
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What are the things that arekind of slipping through the
cracks that people aren't reallytalking about?
The things that people mighthave fun with, you know, ask
people.
I always like to do things like,you know, what is your favorite
or what is the best or what isthe worst?
That's always fun too.
And then you have a little listof things.
You know, you have a list or youthrow out whatever it might be.
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Best one hid wonders, or, youknow, a band that uh or a song
that everyone likes, but youjust can't stand it.
Whatever it might be, could beit doesn't even have to be
music, it could be whatever.
And people love that.
I love it because it gets yourmind off all the heavy stuff.
It's fun to think about, andthen it's fun to share that with
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other listeners and with me, thehost of the show, because I love
hearing it.
And I can't tell you how manytimes you guys will say, Well,
there's there was this song, forinstance, or this movie, or you
know, whatever it might be, andyou should check it out.
And then I check it out.
I'm like, wow, that is really,really good.
So those kind of things.
That's so you throw those intothe mix.
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You do you always want to put alittle meat on the bone, as they
say, a little meat on the plate,which lets people know that
you're keeping an eye on all theserious stuff, too, and you have
an opinion on that.
So, in where as we're looking attonight's show, I have some
stuff we didn't get to.
Or like Mark the Voice guy usedto say, God bless him, rest in
peace.
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Stuff we couldn't get to,brought to you by Corduroy
Pellows, making headlines since1971.
Or, or what was that?
This portion of the Pat Wallshow, or or stuff we couldn't
get to, brought to you byseaweed.
Now, fish can smoke their caresaway.
Ah, we still love that stuff.
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So I'm looking at some things ona Monday.
I don't want it to be a heavyMonday.
Um Halloween spending inAmerica.
I've been trying to get to that.
Like, what are the trends?
How much are we spending?
You wouldn't believe it.
How much money Americans spendon Halloween.
It's amazing, you know, becauseI think we must all have these
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fond memories of being kids andtrick-or-treating and the joy of
trick-or-treating and dressingup.
Because I swear Halloween isit's not just for kids anymore.
It's, you know, it is adultslove to dress up and go to these
parties, including me.
Now, I haven't had a chance todo that last couple of years
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because I've well, I'm notcomplaining, but I have been out
of the country and I guess theyjust don't celebrate Halloween
as much as we do in Italy as wedo here in America.
But it's amazing.
I mean, people we adults, wejust love dressing up for
Halloween, don't we?
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And I like the scary stuff.
One of these days, I'm gonnahave a party.
I always say this, I'm gonnahave a party where you have to
be really scary and terrifyingto get into the party.
I'm an oddball like that.
It's Halloween, man.
Trick or treat, I was a bigger,I was always a bigger fan of the
trick than the treat.
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I always like people that wouldmake like haunted houses, or
they'd put a mask on and try toscare you when they open a door.
And that's when I was living inneighborhoods before I moved to
my mystery hut in the in thewoods.
You know, you'd have kids comeup to the door, and guy used to
love messing with them.
You get the best candy, you putit in a big bowl, you sit in
front of the door, you blackenout the house, you put
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frightening music on in thebackground, you change the out
uh the porch light from just theuh the regular iridescent light
bulb to um like green or red,and it gives you that real
atmosphere.
And kids will look at you like,is that real?
You know, you don't jump andaround look crazy, you just sit
back in a you know in a chairand you hold that candy in your
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hand, that and that really goodcandy, you just don't move.
And they don't know, they cannever tell, whether it's a real
person or whether a dummy.
And then when you just barelymove, you shift, the kids, ah!
The parents don't even want tocome up.
But it's it's all in fun becausewhen I was a kid, you know, I I
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there was a guy, we lived inValley High when that was a
brand new Larchmont Homesneighborhood, model homes, and
uh Danny Casey's dad.
I couldn't wait to get to hishouse because I knew Danny
Casey's dad was always gonna bethe guy that tried to scare you
when he opened the door, and hedid a good job of it.
Then the other people around theneighborhood, they'd have they'd
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have this little like courtyardthings leading up into their to
their front door, and they wouldmake a little haunted house in
there.
So I love all that.
So we're really into it.
I miss doing that.
Also, here's another thing I'vebeen trying to get.
Maybe, you know what?
Maybe this will my maybe thetheme of my show tonight will be
stuff I've been trying to getto, and just do it the whole
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show.
Because I've been trying to getto this one.
Uh, the fact that Uber is now,they have this program called
Women Preferences.
So women will be able to requestUber rides, and they'll be able
to request only women.
This is for only women.
Another thing I wanted to get tothat we haven't is the
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California Red Light CameraSystem, which there's a bill now
for the private uh red lightcamera vendors.
They want to eliminate therequirement to identify the
driver, slashing theiroperational costs while letting
them issue more tickets withless oversight.
They want to reduce the amountof the fees when you run a red
light.
Well, why would they do that?
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Well, because they think peoplewould then pay.
Because apparently now, ifyou're doing it, the fine the
the fees, the fines are so highthat a lot of people don't even
pay.
And so they're trying to figureout a way to enforce that.
I don't know what I feel aboutthat.
But anyhow, we'll have that onthe show.
Another thing, and this is howfar out it goes, that we stuff
we couldn't get to.
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This was in September, lateSeptember, when uh September
24th.
Never got to it.
Phil Hartman's birthday.
I really wanted to talk aboutthe talent that was Phil Hartman
and the tragedy that was PhilHartman and his wife and what
happened.
I know everyone knows about it,but I but you know, I I wanted
to honor him, and you know what?
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Maybe I'll include that in theshow tonight.
Here's another one.
And this is what we do toproduce the radio show.
You look through all of thisstuff, what would people
resonate with?
You know, what would people whatwould draw people's attention?
Here's one thing I want to tellyou as I break down the ratings
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on my radio show.
I just have to tell you this.
There's a few things I want totell you.
I'm just gonna say it.
So I hope it's okay to revealthis.
We are not only the number oneshow, 7 to 10 p.m., number one,
but we have the longest timespent listening by far.
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We double most every other radiostation in Sacramento.
TSL, time spent listening.
I talked, I told you about thata couple of podcasts back.
It was bigger than I evenrealized.
Double most of the stations.
You know, there's a turnover.
It's like a turnover, like tuneout, the tune out.
Who the higher the number, themore people tune out.
I have the lowest tune outnumber on the rating, 7 to 10
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p.m.
demos 3564.
It is amazing.
And I think sometimes it'sbecause, you know, if you're on
a music station, you hear asong, eh yeah, I've heard this a
million times, and you flip itover.
On the show, when we talk aboutthings like this, processed
foods harm your body and brain.
It's dinner time.
People want to know more, like,huh?
Or maybe they don't want to knowmore.
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Maybe they're like, hey, I'mgetting ready to eat some
Cheetos here.
What are you doing?
And I'm gonna down it with aCoke.
But other people want to hearthat news and they want to hear
why and how that works.
So we have time spent listening.
Thank you.
I might get into that tonight.
Processed foods harm your bodyand brain.
We all knew that.
But you know, to actually readthat, there's a, you know, in
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terms of that's reality.
Rock feuds erupting betweenformer member of Pink Floyd and
Black Sabbath.
Beef started last month whenFloyd co-founder Roger Waters,
blah, blah, blah.
We'll get to that tonight.
Stuff we couldn't get to.
Brought to you by Vizine.
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We know why your eyes are allare really red.
Thank you, Market Voice Guy.
The Aging Voyager 1 restarted aradio that it hasn't used since
1981, prompted from 15 billionmiles away.
15 billion miles away.
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So some of the so those are justsome of the things that we'll
get to on the show.
But that I didn't get to.
Now I'm back to live.
I didn't get as you can tell, Ididn't get to any of these
because of the helicopter crashanyway.
What was I saying?
Some random thoughts from theweekend.
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Maybe you recap some of the NFL.
Didn't get to that.
Of course, we have the baseballplayoffs going on right now, so
it's interesting to recap those.
Didn't get to that, but goDodgers.
Hope you had a wonderfulweekend.
Got a chance to relax just alittle bit.
Exactly.
Um, because I am running alittle bit late tonight.
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I was.
I'm gonna have to kind of cut itshort.
I hate to say that, but I amgonna have to cut it short a
little bit short just due totime constraints.
So I guess we can consider thislike just a mini pod.
No.
And I hope that in some way itisn't now that just kind of
showed you a little bit behindthe scenes.
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There's a lot more to it,including, you know, lining up
guests.
One of the things we love to dois we love to bring in local
artists and local musicians, wesupport local businesses on the
Pat Wall Show, just like we doright here on Pat's Peeps.
Become a Pat's Peep, please.
And by the way, in the nextcouple of days, I've got more
exciting news to share with you.
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We have an awesome Tower Recordshirt, an awesome Sam's Hoffbrow
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Good stuff, just like last monthwith Rock and Soul Diner.
Some good stuff going on withPat's Peeps.
And uh, so yes, we're gonna keepthat in the mix as well.
I'm gonna play this for youbecause I'm gonna play this.
Yay! Play it.
Super excited about what is nexton Pat's Peeps.
Yeah, man.
There'll be a lot of really goodstuff coming your way, I
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promise.
So I thought, why not go outwith this tonight?
I usually go into my show withthis.
My theme song to my radio show,She Sells Sanctuary by the
Colts.
You have a great rest of yourMonday, alright?
And we'll see you on the radio.
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But we won't talk about any ofthat stuff.
See you tomorrow night.
Like he said on the radio.
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