Pat's Peeps Podcast

Ep. 448 Today's Peep Pops A Top To Schlitz, Why Schlitz Beer is Disappearing, Nostalgia Hits Hard With Memorable Ads & Jingles of Brands "Slip Sliding Away" 20.05.2026 27:26 ↓

Schlitz is disappearing, and it feels weirdly personal. A beer that once dominated bars, ballgames, and TV commercials is being discontinued after 177 years, and we sit with what that says about American business, taste, and memory. We dig into the details behind Pabst Brewing Company putting Schlitz Premium on hiatus, including the final “farewell batch” brewed through Wisconsin Brewing Company u...

Ep. 443 Today's Peep Issues A Fair Warning 08.05.2026 22:16 ↓

Fair Warning turns 45 and it messes with my head, because it still sounds like a band pushing the amps into the red right now. A Michael Anthony clip sent me down the rabbit hole, and once I started thinking about how long 1981 really was, I couldn’t stop.  I trace that feeling back to 1978, when rock music seemed to reboot overnight. Van Halen’s debut hit like nothing else, and The Cars brought a...

Ep. 432 Today's Peep Remembers Having An Awesome Time At An Historic Concert In Sacramento 38 Years Ago, Putting The Passage Of Time In Perspective, What Makes One Concert Stay With You For Decades? And A 420 Twist- Old Weed Was Silly, Then It Got Scary 20.04.2026 26:22 ↓

It’s April 20, and I can’t see 420 on the calendar without thinking about the night Pink Floyd lit up Sacramento. I’m looking out at the Northern California foothills, watching the weather roll in, and it takes me straight back 38 years to Hughes Stadium and a concert day that started with pouring rain and ended under a sky that somehow turned pink right before the band hit. I tell the full story...

Ep. 431 Today's Peep Goes Strictly Commercial: Our Commercial Time Capsule, Spring Cleaning Sparks a Tour of Classic TV Ads, Don't Squeeze the Nostalgia, A Super-Rare Track... Dan The Man Does "High Priced Gasoline" and A Lost Soul Classic From '72 17.04.2026 27:37 ↓

Spring cleaning turns my brain into a jukebox, and today it’s all commercials. While I’m organizing the house and thinking about old-school cleaning products, I end up chasing the bigger question: why do vintage TV commercials and classic jingles stay in our heads longer than most real conversations? Pat’s Peeps 431 becomes a fast, funny nostalgia trip through 1970s advertising, 1960s catchphrases...

Ep. 428 Today's Peep Wishes Ray Stevens A Quick Recovery & Writes A Love Letter To Novelty Songs, We Trace How Dr. Demento Style Radio Turned Weird Songs Into Classics, From Pencil Neck Geek to Who Threw That Ham At Me? And We Play Fish Heads On Purpose 09.04.2026 29:24 ↓

A broken neck at 87 sounds like the end of the story, until it isn’t. That’s where we start tonight, reacting to the news about Ray Stevens and rolling straight into the kind of radio fueled comedy music that made him a legend. I’m fresh off my show, still in that Dr. Demento headspace, and I wanted to keep the dial turned toward the weird, the catchy, and the strangely comforting songs you never...

Ep. 425 Tonight's Peep Stays Up Late On A Midnight Rendezvous: TV Memories from Mastering the Pan Flute, to Trog, Duel, The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder, What Do We Lose When the Night Ends Early 03.04.2026 24:32 ↓

Midnight has a way of turning ordinary TV into lifelong memory, and we leaned all the way into that feeling tonight. After a long day on the radio, we hit record in the quiet hours, realize the date has flipped to April 3rd, and fire off a real-time birthday message to Pat’s sister Michelle. The wood stove is going, the foothills outside the window are pitch black, and the whole vibe says the same...