Pat's Peeps Podcast
Ep. 97 Today's Peep Walks the Historic Normandy Beaches in Honor of D-Day's 80th Anniversary, Explores Dickie Goodman's Musical Legacy on Rare 45s and it's Men vs Woman MMA
What if you could walk in the footsteps of heroes and feel the weight of history beneath your feet? Join me for the 97th episode of Pat's Peeps podcast as we mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Broadcasting from the sunny foothills of Northern California, we'll explore the historic beaches of Normandy, from standing on Omaha Beach to delving into the depths of German bunkers. Through my personal reflections and immersive audio clips, we honor the bravery and sacrifice of American soldiers who played a crucial role in the liberation of Europe during World War II. We'll also bring scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" to life, highlighting the harrowing and heroic moments of Operation Overlord.
But the journey doesn't stop there. We'll step back in time to the unique musical world of Dickie Goodman, a pioneer in the novelty genre. Rediscovering his rare 45s from my collection, we'll chuckle at his clever political satires like "Mr. President" and "Energy Crisis '74," which humorously capture the essence of historical events such as the Watergate scandal and the 1970s energy crisis. Through these nostalgic records, we'll explore how Goodman's creative technique influenced the music industry and left a lasting legacy in political commentary. Tune in for a blend of history, music, and a bit of personal nostalgia, offering a unique perspective on pivotal moments from the past.
What if you could walk in the footsteps of heroes and feel the weight of history beneath your feet? Join me for the 97th episode of Pat's Peeps podcast as we mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Broadcasting from the sunny foothills of Northern California, we'll explore the historic beaches of Normandy, from standing on Omaha Beach to delving into the depths of German bunkers. Through my personal reflections and immersive audio clips, we honor the bravery and sacrifice of American soldiers who played a crucial role in the liberation of Europe during World War II. We'll also bring scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" to life, highlighting the harrowing and heroic moments of Operation Overlord.
But the journey doesn't stop there. We'll step back in time to the unique musical world of Dickie Goodman, a pioneer in the novelty genre. Rediscovering his rare 45s from my collection, we'll chuckle at his clever political satires like "Mr. President" and "Energy Crisis '74," which humorously capture the essence of historical events such as the Watergate scandal and the 1970s energy crisis. Through these nostalgic records, we'll explore how Goodman's creative technique influenced the music industry and left a lasting legacy in political commentary. Tune in for a blend of history, music, and a bit of personal nostalgia, offering a unique perspective on pivotal moments from the past.
Hello, my friends, it is the Pat's Peeps podcast. We are back with Pat's Peeps pod, number 97. Man, we're closing in on 100. I could have had this done a couple of weeks ago. Still on injured reserve, not sure if I'm healing or not healing. Anyhow, I'm not going to get into that again, I'm just saying Trying my best here. 97.
Speaker 1:Hey, maine, this is the sixth day of June, d-day anniversary, unbelievable D-Day anniversary. Today We'll be talking about that. And again on this sixth day of June, looking out my studio windows into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, it is really hot today, very hot here in Northern California, wherever you are listening. Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate that. It's probably going to be 103 today. I would say Maybe something like that, but it's been like that for the last couple of days.
Speaker 1:I love it, I love the heat. But, man, I'm blessed to be inside. Well, I don't really have my air conditioning on. To be honest, I am inside. I don't really use my air conditioning too often. To be honest, I am inside. I don't really use my air conditioning too often because I actually like the heat. Believe it or not, I'm an odd duck when it comes to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, today, by the way, again is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. I've been to Normandy, I've been to all the beaches. I do plan on talking about that extensively on my radio show, which I do, a radio show, the Pat Wall Show, heard Monday through Friday 7 to 10 pm, locally in Sacramento. Of course we're national and really international on our iHeart app, which is free. So if you want to give that a shot, I'd greatly appreciate that. I'm trying to cross-pollinate audiences, you know. So we'll talk about D-Day. I got a bunch of stuff I want to get to today, but also loaded with music today, because I kind of want to start there. I usually wait till the very end. I get a lot of good reactions on my music at the end, playing my 45s, which again just to let any big brother know if you're listening to my podcast.
Speaker 1:By the way, big brother, if you're listening, thank you so much, appreciate that. That's very kind of you. We try not to be offensive. Heck, I don't even curse, except for one time in the last one, anyhow. But these, when I, if I play any of this music, you know, it's only to educate and to just, uh, inform people about these songs that many people aren't even aware of, or if they are aware of, they haven't heard of them forever. And and you never know, perhaps some people you know might even buy the song after hearing this. That's not my intent. I'm just saying, I'm just trying to educate. So I know there's a clause for that, but anyhow, I don't want to dwell on that too long. But as I always tell you, I'll pick these records at random from my rare 45 collection. I have some really interesting 45s and when I pulled today, I just, you know, I kind of blindly I just go okay, right here, because I've got shelves of these things. So when I made today's pull, I got excited Because I don't really know how many people remember this artist and when you talk about this is a very unique artist. And I got so excited a bit when I, when I grabbed the 45, this record that I thought you know because right next to it I saw another one of this artist's records. And then I saw another one of the records when I said you know what? I'm going to do that for a minute today because to me it's very interesting.
Speaker 1:And if you listen to me, you know I love music. I love music, any kind of music. Sorry, remember that song? So this do you know anyone ever heard of? I'm just going to tell you his name Richard Dorian Goodman. Anyone know Richard Dorian Goodman? Perhaps you don't know the name, maybe you know and you would. If you knew anything about Richard Dorian Goodman musically, you would probably know him more as Dickie Goodman. Anyone remember Dickie Goodman? Dickie Goodman was an American artist and I mean he was an artist in a sort of a different sense. So I have what two or three of his 45s right here. I have a couple others I might even share. It depends on how much you want to get into this today or how much I want to get into it.
Speaker 1:But here's a guy who you put out a bunch of singles and the singles become popular, but here's the deal you're never singing on him. He never sings, he doesn't write any lyrics. I mean, he he writes a bit of a script but there's no lyrics to the songs and, by the way, don't say well, they're instrumentals, because they're not instrumentals. So it's a very weird thing. You file this one under novelty the genre of novelty, I would guess. But this was very popular novelty and I'm sure that the good doctor, dr Demento, probably played these at one time or another. I don't recall that, but I can only imagine so. Dickie Goodman I remember this dude when I was a kid because I was so into music and he fascinated me.
Speaker 1:American guy, a record producer, born in Brooklyn, and what Dickie Goodman is best known for was inventing and then using this technique. It was a technique where and I remember it was later used man, I always try to find anyone who remembers the news blimp. Anyone remember the news blimp on radio. They would give like a little story like I don't know marijuana, should it be legal, and they give a little, maybe a little sound bite. Then they would go that's next. There'd be this sound that I can't emulate very well On the news blimp. Anyone remember that? Then they would come back and they would give the story they might be interviewing someone, be just like a little segment. And if they were talking about going with the marijuana theme, for instance, they might say, try to be somewhat serious in that they would say there's been talk of marijuana legalization in the 70s, bob, such and such this advocate, and he would talk and all of a sudden you'd hear, you know, a song about marijuana. And so it was this technique and this is what Dickie Goodman invented, the break-in technique, the early precursor of sampling, if you will.
Speaker 1:So he used brief clips of popular records. So here's what he did he would create the script. Then he would play snippets of the records that were the most popular in that day, that year, for that year, for that year, the top 40, the stuff that was on, you know, kroi and KFRC and KNDE and whatever popular AM top 40 radio station was in your market. So they would take those records and then he would ask questions in record as a narrator and the answers would be supplied by these songs and the answers would be supplied by these songs. So I thought I would share some of these with you, because he has so many different angles. He also wrote and produced some original material getting back to that on the B sides of some of these records he actually did a song called and this is an uplifting tune.
Speaker 1:Everybody I can hear Casey Kasem doing it Next on American Top 40. Well, this is. I got a letter for this one Suicide by Gunshot. Yeah, that's the name of the record, suicide by Gunshot, very uplifting tune. That was December 6th 1989. So this, this is way after I've never heard that one, by the way. Way after he released a lot of the ones that I have, I have heard and I'm very familiar with.
Speaker 1:But to give you a little bit of a background, before I get to the actual record, I thought I'd get to a couple of other things. So in June of 56 so here we are, in June of 2024, goodman creates his first record. It was called Flying Saucer, the Flying Saucer parts one and two, and he co-wrote these tunes with his partner, or this tune with Bill Buchanan, and what it was? This is his earliest work of this sampling and this technique I was telling him about. It was a rewrite of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio show and the recording was subject of a copyright infringement case against Goodman, which is why I preface this with my disclaimer, because they're still doing that.
Speaker 1:But I guarantee you, even that generation in 56, maybe they heard something new. Maybe that's you know, maybe that was new to them, that radio show, the Orson Welles radio show, war of the Worlds, or maybe it was, you know, something they remembered fondly. But either way it had to really hit home with a lot of people. So yeah, flying Saucers, part one and part part two. Subject to the copyright infringement, a case against Goodman, and the court eventually ruled that his sampled mix was considered a parody that's the key a parody, and thus that made it an entirely new work. And so the record, the Flying Saucer, was then officially released under the artist name Buchanan and Goodman and was Goodman's highest charting single. On Billboard peaked at number three.
Speaker 2:We interrupt this record to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed. The flying saucers are real. That was the clatters recording too real. We switch you now to our on the spot reporter downtown come on, baby, let's go downtown, take it away, john cameron cameron uh, this is john cameron, cameron, downtown.
Speaker 3:Pardon me, madam, would you tell our audience what would you do if the saucer were to land? Thank you, and now the thin gentleman there, what I'm gonna do is hard to tell and the gentleman with the guitar. What would you do, sir? Take a walk down the street. Thank you, we return you now.
Speaker 1:All right, there's early Dickie Goodman, obviously Elvis and the platters and the like. I said before, the songs that were popular on radio at the time. But for me I have to fast forward a number of years to when I was growing up, because I wasn't alive when that came out. So when I was growing up Dickie Goodman had, he was tackling all kinds of the issues of the day. One of the issues and here we are in a presidential year. It's going to get exciting, my friends, or it's going to get pathetic I expect both, my friends or it's going to get pathetic, I expect both. Anyhow, being in a presidential year, I recall this song very well and apparently and I'd forgotten about this until just now doing a little bit of a research I'd forgotten about the fact that there was two versions of this, I guess for a couple of different presidents.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, this one, going back in the day, this was 1974. This is May of 1974. And this is the record I have and it's stamped May of 1994, mono on one side. Well, mono on both sides. Actually, I'm going to pull it out of its sleeve. Oh my gosh. I mean I'm here to tell you there's no one's ever played this record. It is absolutely pristine. I'm sure it's never been out of the sleeve until I just now pulled it out to look at it. I mean, can you imagine this thing's been in this record sleeve since May 1974 until I just pulled it out of there? I have a couple of records. This other one's from 1974 as well. Guy had two hit records because he had one in January. I'll get to that one, but let's start with this being in a presidential year and all so going back to 1974 for this one. This is Dickie Goodman. It is a song called Mr President.
Speaker 3:So let's put this on here. The following record will not be heard, so that we may bring you this special report. Ladies and gentlemen the president, here he comes, boogity, boogity. There he comes, boogity, boogity. Mr President, have you any statement to make to the American people? Terry Jackson, in your opinion, who was responsible for all your recent problems? Portions of the White House tapes are missing. Will? You tell us what was really on those tapes?
Speaker 1:He's talking about Watergate. Yeah, 74.
Speaker 3:Mr President, those missing conversations must have been very important. Who were you with my my girl Bill?
Speaker 1:And just who is Jim Stafford? Remember that song? My Girl Bill, my, my girl Bill. I forgot about that one. Remember that song? My bill, like, jim stafford had a bunch of hits and he was always talking about pot, like back. Then he was talking about weed, like wildwood weed, what's it called? Wildwood weed? Um, then he got yeah, what's called? I got stoned and I missed it. Man on the street corner, out and out $100, and my Girl Bill. And you listen to it, my Girl Bill, my, my Girl Bill. And you're thinking what the heck? What is he saying about my Girl Bill? But you have to hear that song to get it in context. That's an in-context song. That's in context, like the 1970 show Three's Company.
Speaker 3:Always my Girl Bill. Mr President, we understand you've been practicing for another line of work. Can you give us an example?
Speaker 1:The entertainer Ah.
Speaker 3:Here with me is the Vice President. How would you sum up the President's current situation? The best thing that ever happened to me, Sir. Many members of Congress started out supporting the president. What is their present position? Everybody's doing a brand new dance now Just arriving from the. Mideast is Henry Kissinger. And, mr Secretary, what did Golda, my ear, have to say about Watergate? Ringo?
Speaker 1:And when you met with the Premier of Russia what was? I just remember all of these songs, man, just like it was yesterday Ooga-chugga, ooga-chugga ooga-chugga, what's that blue suede right the President.
Speaker 3:Again he come he come the president, again, here he comes. Here he comes, ray Stevens. Well, mr President, have you anything further to say to the American people? I won't last a day without you, the carpenters right, we will be unable to continue this special report because the following portions of this record have been erased oh, nice take on Watergate, very nice.
Speaker 1:So that was, mr President. 74 by Dickie Goodman, but he did another one. When one of my favorite presidents was in office, ronald Reagan, dickie Goodman did another song called.
Speaker 3:Mr President, we are here at the White House with President Ronald Reagan and, mr Reagan, how would you now describe your job as president? After an important speech what should you do? Mr President, what advice do you have for the people who travel with you? With me now is First Lady Nancy Reagan. And, mr President, what do you have to say to Mrs Reagan? Tonight's the night. We'll make history. And, mrs Reagan, what is your reply? I can tell you wanna boogie. Just arriving is Secretary of State Alexander Hayes.
Speaker 1:Hey, Al, what is your? Alexander Hayes, remember that as of now, I am in charge here at the White House.
Speaker 3:Basic philosophy for getting ahead in government. While you see a chance, take it. General Haig, what is your relationship with Vice President George Bush? It's all a thing. I have a long-distance phone call from Vice President Bush. Hello, again.
Speaker 1:Hello, anyhow. So there's the. That was the second. There's a lot more to go on that one, but yeah, that was like the second, mr President. And then, going back, just one more here that I have to share, going back to, and this was on Rainy Wednesday Records. Now, that's the first time I'd seen Rainy Wednesday Records. So the other record that I have in my hand is titled and I'll bet you this has never been out of the sleeve either January 1974, called Energy Crisis, energy Crisis 74. You know what? Let's play that one Energy Crisis 74. I was going to save it, maybe until the end of the show, like I always do, but let's put it on right now.
Speaker 3:We are here at the White House for a special report on the energy crisis. Mr president, have you any statement? Mr president, what really caused the energy crisis? Brownsville station how much gas will motorists be allowed? Just enough for the?
Speaker 1:city Stevie, see how many I can name.
Speaker 3:Who do you believe the gas shortage will affect most? Helen?
Speaker 1:Helen Paul.
Speaker 3:McCartney. Mr President, the crisis must be solved. What do you intend to do? Keep on playing those. My Lenny With me now is the head of the Federal Energy Office. Sir, you hold an important position. What are your qualifications? I'm a joker, I'm a smoker.
Speaker 1:I'm a midnight joker, steve Miller, you know I'll play some more of that coming up to finish off the show. But yeah, that was Dickie Goodman. Those records are in mint condition. I just I need to find out what these records are worth. You know, I need to find out. That's a real joy for me to hear those. Just on a personal level, that really takes me back to my childhood. So, dickie Goodman, oh, let's see. What else do we have on the agenda? Agenda 24. Let's see here. Okay, there's a. I got, I got a video.
Speaker 1:Someone said to me two men, one woman, hey, stop it. Now, that's not what I'm talking about. Two women, one man, now, hey, now, no, it's not what you're thinking. Someone sent these to me. I couldn't believe this. So this is. I never heard of this, but I particularly enjoy the commentary. All right, I enjoy the commentary on this. I never heard of this before. I'm gonna play it for you. So apparently there is a sport where a in this case a woman she's a rather large gal, nobody shaming here on the peeps. Uh, two men and in a two-on-one mma handicap match. I don't know what they mean by handicap. So you got a, a grandpa all tatted up by the way a grandpa, his grandson, and they're going to fight a large woman. Now if you're thinking, gee, I can't see it, well, it's a great, a good commentator. And one thing I love about radio and Well, it's a good commentator. And one thing I love about radio and podcasting is it's theater of the mind. So please enjoy Grandpa, grandson Boxing, a Large Woman, all right so boom.
Speaker 2:I've covered some weird fights before, but I don't think there's been a single one as bizarre as this one. A local 75-year-old grandfather and his Tekashi 6'9 fanatic grandson decided to team up in an MMA handicap match against a morbidly obese transgender version of Ben Askren, who's I want to commend the commentator here.
Speaker 1:That's. The most interesting part to me is the guy's comment Mother is this it's the Island Boys versus the redheaded version of Eric Cartman.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what the backstory to this event was, but we're here now.
Speaker 1:Here we go. The punch sound effects are just the greatest. Wait a minute.
Speaker 2:She got hands Within 15 seconds. She put down her grandfather and his grandson. I see why the second generation brother didn't make the trip. She took care of him in the parking lot. Her body built during Thanksgiving and she handing out leftovers Looks like a bad Pokemon choice.
Speaker 1:Turns out, it's not a handicap match because the old time of battling the woman and Parkinsoninson's at the exact same time. We have you surrounded.
Speaker 2:Don't you dare touch me, stand back I need to know what was the island boy's strategy here, because the grandson ain't connect on a punch yet. You're supposed to be young and vibrant. Engage big bertha. What you waiting for it's as if he doesn't even know how to use his controller. Look at this man throwing leg kicks at oxygen. I know she large, but your foot's not gonna get caught in orbit. Attack this woman. Homie just gonna stand by and watch his granddad get his ass whipped. They supposed to be fighting the granddad using scratch attack. He must have been a member of Team Rocket when he was young, might, I add.
Speaker 2:The grandson, the most confusing created character I've ever seen in my life. He's got tattoos like 6ix9ine, hair like Trippie Redd, built like the Island Boys. How many viral failures do you have to grab inspiration from? Granddad in there, looking like he taking a Zumba class Grandson in there looking like he afraid of his own shadow. He the type to relocate to another state when he sees a mosquito. First round goes to transvestite Ben Askren, 4p super size me hands had granddad searching the floor for his pacemaker, legs in the air like his neighbor swindled him into taking a prostate exam in his apartment. Meanwhile his grandson may have tattooed 6ix9ine on his stomach, but he's only doing half the job because he's on his knees, bing down and pledging to feminism while receiving fist of misandry granddad chisel madonna, chisel adonis, I think that's the.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm seeing. Who's commenting he?
Speaker 2:separated his hip in an effort to free his grandson. Little man was in the fetal position by nature, out there looking like captain america before the super soldier serum ain't a dick old man. Into the second round we go, and the grandpappy's still out here moving like he's stepping on hot stones. I don't know if he's having a seizure or trying to do the charleston. That's it. Enough of this. Come here. Her hands are sponsored. Ifa elderly, his dentures gotta be cracked at this point. But why hasn't the grandson engaged yet? I don't understand. She must have a ring presence that rivals that of jiren and broly. They're not even trying to get close. The grandson steadily in retreat trying to get a sneak attack, but granddad steadily getting defeated in his approach. Did they make no adjustments at the conclusion of the first round?
Speaker 1:she's got oh, my goodness, oh my gosh. It's fantastic. I wonder who, honest to God, if you were to actually see this, the guy that not the grandpa, but the grandson is the weakest human being I have ever seen. Previous record went to Anthony Weiner, but now this guy takes the cake His body, shut down His white blood cells.
Speaker 2:Let's see what happens at the end here Not working, but what's killing me is the fact that his body came to a complete stop and when it resumed movement, that's when he hit the deck. Never in my life have I ever seen a more insubordinate equilibrium. And look at the grandson, stare at his grandpappy like what the hell you doing on the ground, and when he resumes, focus on big bertha in front of him, he clearly backing away because he don't want no parts. If the grandson has a job, fire him. He goes to school, expel him.
Speaker 1:He needs oh, thank you, sir, thank you. And then there's another one I saw someone sent me, so this one is completely the opposite. Here's a man taking on okay, maybe you knew about these sports and I just was unaware, I wasn't in the loop A man destroying two women at once. It says so this is an MMA fight, a man versus two women. Let's see how they do here. Okay, go, let's see how they do here.
Speaker 1:So if you're okay, so I'm watching this thing and I'm telling you I don't know who these people are. I don't know who they are, but the two women have absolutely zero chance against this, this fat guy and he's fat. They have zero chance. He's just, it's just, he's like, he's just like a fat guy and he's just, uh, he's owning these two women. I don't know what the point of all that is. I don't know what they're trying to prove there. That is just bizarro. But I do have to give it to the guy for his uh commentary on the on the previous fight there. Uh, whoever sent those to me and I and I again I forgot, I apologize for that. It's it's kind of escaping me at this point. So I apologize. Thank you for that, because I got some good laughs out of that.
Speaker 1:Hey, today is on a much more serious note. Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day and we should all be thinking about D-Day, no matter what you are doing. Stop for a minute and think about it. I'm not telling you what to do, but I'm just thinking that might be a good thing, because I don't believe there was any more greater American heroes ever than those who began to liberate France and liberate Germany and liberate the world, the guys who gave their lives and in going with conservative tours and I've been on five trips now with conservative tours. I'm going to Ireland with them in September. Ken Chase is the owner operator of conservative tours. I'm going to Ireland with them in September. Ken Chase is the owner operator of conservative tours. Been on all of these tours with Ken and Ken's a historian, a matter of fact.
Speaker 1:I will have him on my radio show here this evening to describe the way D-Day went down and the things that went down there which were astonishing to me. To hear some of the things that you don't really see on the History Channel or in World War II documentaries maybe you do, but being there is just different. That's what I'm saying. Maybe they do cover some of these things. Maybe I missed it before I went there, because I have seen a lot of World War II stuff, but things like potato mashers, things like Rupert dolls and just being on the beaches, all of the beaches, being in the German bunkers, looking out at the beaches I have some of the sand from those beaches. I'm sure that many people do and they still say you can find shrapnel not shrapnel but metal. That is everywhere that is there from the D-Day invasion, excuse me.
Speaker 1:And so I feel completely honored to be at the cemeteries there over in Normandy to learn about it, to sit at the Pegasus Bridge in France and know that that house that sits right next to the Pegasus Bridge was the first home liberated in France the first home If it hadn't have been for that bridge it was a crucial capture by the Allied forces. Check into the Pegasus Bridge and the house that was the first liberated house and I believe that was the home that we had. There was this gal that ran that forever served the soldiers and we ate lunch there that day. I hope I have all my facts straight on that. That's to my recollection, but it was overwhelming to be on those beaches. So tonight on my show I'm going to play what Ken Chase had to say, rather than interview him, although we may have him on as well, but you can hear. I recorded what he had to say when we were standing on Omaha Beach so you can hear the wind and you can hear the waves and everything in the background. So I'm hoping to play that on my radio show here this evening.
Speaker 1:For me I just think these are the bravest soldiers, I mean just when you see them. And it was depicted so very well. I thought, at least what I imagined it to be in Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks the landing craft, the Higgins boats. I learned about the Higgins boats. I didn't know about the Higgins boats, but I learned about those. I learned about the hedgehogs, the anti-craft hedgehogs. Well, what is that? If you look at the beach at Normandy, if you're watching Saving Private Ryan and you hear the bullets and the ammunition hitting these metal things, the metal things that are in the water there at the beaches, those are called hedgehogs. They're made from steel girders ordered by Field Marshal Erwin Rommels. So if you hear the sound of that in that movie, if you see that, if you've been there, that's what those are Caissons and mulberries. I learned all about these things in there. That's what those are Cason's and mulberries. I learned all about these things. The way being at Pointe du Hoc was astounding, where the Allied forces began to bomb, essentially almost. I guess you might say maybe I'm wrong, but carpet bomb this area, the English Channel, and seeing these giant craters in the earth and knowing they came from these bombs, what that must have been like 80 years ago. So just to kind of bring it to us again.
Speaker 1:I love the theater of the mind, it's what I said before. I love radio, I love podcasting, because it's always theater of the mind. With that in mind, it's amazing to me not just to even watch but to listen to the storming, the Omaha Beach D-Day landing, from the movie Saving Private Ryan Ryan, excuse me, and knowing that these young men were in these Higgins boats, these landing crafts, kissing their crucifixes, praying, throwing up, scared, some very brave, some just doing their job. But those doors come down and the Germans in those bunkers start up and firing and mowing these guys down. Germans in those bunkers start up and firing and mowing these guys down. Anyhow, I wanted to play just a bit of that audio Theater of the mind. Incredible Saving Private Ryan, omaha Beach D-Day landing.
Speaker 3:I'm going to get you Clear the ramp 30 seconds. I'll be with you. Force right stick, start with side stick, move fast and clear those murder holes. We're gonna see plenty of vehicles, three men, five men to shoot the opportunity, one man to raise the ammo. Stand out of your weapons, keep those actions clear and I'll see you on the beach. Hello, I'm sorry, I'm not going to let you get away with this.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to let to do this again. Come on, weakness, fire Wow.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:Wow, june 6, 1944, allied forces launching Operation Overlord, the codename for the massive Allied invasion of Normandy in France. More than 150,000 troops ending with approximately 20,000 casualties on both sides. And as told those who witnessed one of the most pivotal battles against the Axis forces in the beginning of a prolonged, extremely costly and ultimately successful campaign to liberate Northwest Europe. And so they're commemorating the D-Day 80th anniversary, the greatest amphibious landing in history, the National World War II Museum exploring the epic battle. They've got things going on there I wanted to share. You know, as I think about it, hard to go back to Dickie Goodman after this. So what I would like to share with you is one of the things that happened to commemorate this excuse me, this 80th anniversary. So here's a veteran, 99-year-old veteran who was at Normandy, france, and sang this in honor of the 80th anniversary. Again, 99-year-old veteran who was there that day.
Speaker 2:Oh, god bless America, my home, sweet home.
Speaker 1:Don Graves, 99-year-old veteran there on that day, 99 years old, we're losing those voices. God bless that man Singing that song. God bless America in front of tens of thousands. I tell you, when you go to Normandy, they love the Americans there.
Speaker 2:They love them God bless. America, my home, sweet home.
Speaker 1:He's in that first town, st Mary Gles. I can never say that correctly, but that's where he is and that's where he's singing and that's where we were. It's one of the places we were. I'm so honored to have been there.
Speaker 1:I thank Conservative Tours and Ken Chase for helping to make that happen for me in my life. I'm just going to leave it at that. I flipped it today because I knew I was going to talk about that at the end. It's hard for me to go back and be light-hearted. God bless America, god bless that great generation and God bless you and I appreciate you, great generation, and God bless you and I appreciate you so much. And I want you to know I'm trying to get the podcast out every day. I'll let you know just as an update. I'm not sure if my injury is getting better. I don't think it's getting worse, but it's still there and it's been difficult. But I'm trying and I'll be doing this every day if I can make it happen. All right. So thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps 97. We'll see you on the radio tonight and tomorrow for Pat's Peeps 98.