Ep. 103 Today's Peep Sizzles with Rib Cook-Off Judging, Discovers DNA Wine Lounge thanks to Local Artist Clemon Charles, Dives into Tim Glassburn's Magical Antique Arcade Wonderland "Secret Town Arcade", and we Twang the Golden Hits!

What does it take to be a rib judge at the Placer County Fair? Find out as we celebrate our 103rd episode on Pat's Peeps with a smoky, savory tale from the fairgrounds of Northern California. I share my fourth-time experience evaluating tender, mouthwatering ribs, and why taste, look, and tenderness matter so much. Along the way, I celebrate local heroes like Alfonso from Southgate Glass, whose craftsmanship on my French doors is a testament to the value of supporting small businesses. Plus, you'll hear about my adventures at the DNA Wine Lounge in Granite Bay, soaking in the smooth sounds of Clemon Charles.

But the fun doesn't stop with food and music. This episode also introduces you to the magical world of the Secret Town Arcade, curated by the passionate Tim Glassburn. Imagine rare jukeboxes, antique fortune tellers, and even a greyhound race game—all gems from a bygone era. From quirky Sega gunfight games to a Charlie Chaplin-themed mechanical scene, Tim's incredible collection of vintage arcade machines is a nostalgic treasure trove that must be heard to be believed. Tune in for a captivating exploration of ribs, French doors, and vintage arcade wonders that you won't want to miss!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:12

so we are back with a Pat's Peeps podcast finally. Right, it's about time. Right, come on, pat, get to it, brother, put out some podcasts, be prolific. I'm I'm trying so hard. Thank you for joining us. Pat's Peeps podcast, number 103. That's right, 103. Thanks for chilling in. I'm Pat Walsh. The Pat Walsh Show is heard everywhere, everywhere on your free iHeart app. Kfbk, locally in Sacramento, and, yes, the Peeps podcast. Today, by the way, is the 24th day of June 2024. Willie Mays, number 24th on the twin in the year 24.

Speaker 1: 0:57

Looking out the studio windows in the beautiful foothills of northern California, it's a sunny, somewhat breezy and yet hot day. Not as hot as it was. Woo Lord, has it been hot over the last few days. I mean hot man. Yesterday, just so you know, I posted pictures of this. Yesterday was my fourth time being a judge at the Placer County Fair Rib Cook-Off, which I am so honored to be a part of that. You know they invite, you know, some of the people throughout the community, some political folks and some mayors, and then they got me over there. But I'm getting used to the rib cook-off man. We have some incredible barbecue rib places in this area In Placer County. You guys came out strong yesterday and I do want to say thank you to Tom Andresi and to all the folks there at the Placer County Fair, which is a real slice of Americana, and I'll tell you if you've never been out there. It happens every June and it was hot out there yesterday, I'm not going to lie. But it was also just such a good time and again, I think I mentioned this before, but I remember back when we were able to get together for the first time during a pandemic, after that kind of shifted, and that's the first place I went because that fair was happening that weekend and I remember that being the first place where, at the time, my girlfriend and I could get out and we could talk to people and we didn't have to do the social distancing and all that. But so it was great, very successful.

Speaker 1: 2:33

I do not know who won. I never know who wins. You know because we do the judging. And then you know you go out to the barbecue pit area, that's what I would call it. There's an area with many of the barbecue businesses and you take a plate out there and you have a ticket and then you go out and you try all the ribs and by that time by that time I've had so many ribs like I need a side dish. Someone give me a salad. I mean that's a lot of ribs and ribs are one of my favorite foods. But you go out there and then by the time you kind of eat all the other ribs and you talk to all the business people out there, the restaurant owners and the barbecue owners and all of that. Then you kind of I don't even know what time they pick the winner, but it was tough. Yesterday it was excellent, excellent choices in terms of ribs.

Speaker 1: 3:23

Now, as a rib judge, you go by the taste, number one. You go by the look. The look is the first thing. How do the ribs look? Do they look appealing? Is it appealing to you personally? What is the tenderness like? Now, people always say and I talked about this a little bit on my show but people always say, oh, it fell off the bone. People always say and I talked about this a little bit on my show but people always say, oh, it fell off the bone. You don't want it falling off the bone at a rib cook-off. That works against you. You want to take a bite of that meat. You want to still have it on the bone. So it's the look, the taste and the tenderness is kind of what you're judging on that. So we had a really great time over there and tasty ribs. And again, thank you to everyone over in Placid County.

Speaker 1: 4:07

Hey, there's Alfonso behind me, ladies and gentlemen. There he is Alfonso, the great Alfonso from Southgate Glass. You know I love Southgate Glass and you know they put in these French doors in my home which, by the way, completely transformed my entire house. And so you might ask well, you know, why is Alfonso from Southgate Glass out there if they've already did that? Because there's a little piece. What do we call that trim piece, alfonso? Transition piece, transition piece, so it's a transition piece from my floor going to the door. There was a little gap there and so we're finishing that up. I was kind of deciding what I want.

Speaker 1: 4:44

Alfonso told me Alfonso, you've been working at Southgate Glass 17 years, 17 years, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean you do a fine job, sir, thank you. And he's very polite. The man is so polite. That's why I tell you, that's why I tell you about these businesses. Alfonso comes up here. You know, like they say why wait? Call Southgate. They've been around since 61, just like me, alfonso hadn't been around that long. I don't believe. I think he's been around since 61. I don't know, maybe he has, but he sure does a great job. So listen honestly. And then Don from American River Flooring, who loved Southgate's work, by the way, he came out here last week because I had American River Flooring doing some painting on the trim around one of my doors and on the outside of my new French doors and they complimented Southgate Glass saying, yeah, they do wonderful work and anyhow. So you know they'll be up here tomorrow and then I think at that and they'll be painting the new trim that Alfonso's putting in there.

Speaker 1: 5:50

So please support your local businesses, not to go off on this tangent, but I'm going to just for a second. You know what I'm really excited about is we are getting calls now from businesses Pat I want to be a Pat's peep Melissa Moon Moon Healing I just went over there and then this week I'm going to use her services. I'm about to tell you all about it. And we have Francesca, a bookkeeper we're going to be telling you about. We have Sam, the bug man we're going to tell you about, along with all the other endorsements that I do. So those are Pat's Peeps. Those are different than my radio endorsements. Okay, these are people that I personally vet. I know they do a good job and you're going to get a coupon that's going to turn you on to their businesses and we're going to keep the business local. So stay tuned for that. I know I keep telling you.

Speaker 1: 6:38

But so over the last couple of, over the last week or so besides I'm not going to bore you with all of it over the last week or so, besides I'm not going to bore you with all of it, but besides, you know, I had dental work. I was still getting over the injury, which, to update that, I'm doing much better. Thank God, I'm doing much better. You know, then it was Father's Day. I had planned on doing some things out at the Bluegrass Festival live. Unfortunately, there was a couple of glitches because of my accessibility to internet. It was making it difficult. It was very choppy, so I wasn't able to really do anything out there. We're working on that. Also, I shot another thing last Thursday that I knew you would love, and it was kind of choppy too the internet because I was out in the middle of the forest. I was so out in the middle of the forest that it was a place called Secret Town and I'm going to tell you about that.

Speaker 1: 7:36

By the way, thank you to Rick for listening. Rick paid me a very nice compliment Friday night when I was doing my radio show and he said Pat, I love binge listening to your podcast, pat's Peeps podcast, while I'm out working in the yard and such. So, really thankful. And with 103 podcasts, I guess you can binge listen at this point. So, rick, I appreciate that. Clemon Clemon Charles went and saw him at the new DNA Wine Lounge which is in Granite Bay. I saw Clemon on Saturday night. He was outstanding, and the DNA Wine Lounge, which is a local business in Granite Bay. They were fantastic. Alfonso, you out of here, yeah, say hi to the people. Tell us how great Southgate Glass is.

Speaker 2: 8:22

Hi, it's called Southgate Glass. It people Tell us how great Southgate Glass is. Hi, it's called Southgate Glass, it's the greatest window installers in the world.

Speaker 1: 8:26

Absolutely awesome, alfonso, really nice to meet you and I really appreciate your work, sir. Okay, thank you, that's a pleasure. There he goes, ladies and gentlemen, alfonso, everyone, there he goes. He needs a walk-up song when he comes in here. Nice guy, and you know so. And then I've had people working at my home. It's just been, it's just been. That's just the way it's been.

Speaker 1: 8:52

So what I did want to do for you and I'm going to post this as soon as we're done Maybe I should have done this ahead of time. So I went to. I went to a place called Secret Town Arcade and it's very secretive and it is one of the most impressive arcade museums, if you want to call it that, that I have ever seen, and Tim Glassburn is the owner, and Tim showed me around. I shot a segment in which it just went away. I shot a whole segment on it. It disappeared. I don't know what happened. My phone didn't want it. Again, it came down to issues of internet, what have you? But I do have some of the videos that I want to share with you and I would love for you to see and watch some of these. So I'll play the audio, but I'd love for you to actually see the videos and again, I will post these on Facebook and perhaps even YouTube.

Speaker 1: 9:54

So a couple of things as we enter down. I think this I believe this jukebox, which was enormous, made out of, it was very elaborate, absolutely gorgeous, so unusual. I think there's only a couple of them in the world. Tim may tell us here. This jukebox didn't play records, it was so old. It played rollers, these mini rollers I don't know how to describe them to you these cylinders not shaped like a record, shaped almost like a rolling pin, and there were numerous ones in there and somehow you'd pick the music so and again. The woodwork and all that very elaborate Standing next to it is like a grandmother tells you, reads your mind or your fortune, whatever. Andy, I'm going to play some of this for you. Check this out with Tim. The quality and the craftsmanship is very impressive.

Speaker 2: 10:50

Very impressive, but in a bar setting with a lot of noise these really weren't loud enough, so they didn't catch on.

Speaker 1: 11:01

Right, I could see that.

Speaker 2: 11:03

what a piece just to have in your home, though so about 20 of these known to exist in the world.

Speaker 1: 11:13

They're all museums or private collections you must really have your finger on the pulse of where of this equipment, because to find something where only 20 exist in the world, even that is quite remarkable as far as I'm concerned. Look at this, it's the grandmother predictions.

Speaker 2: 11:30

I don't want to say what my grandmother predicted for me.

Speaker 1: 11:32

She said I'd be a pro baseball player and I wanted to do that for her and for myself. So this is Grandma.

Speaker 2: 11:39

Is it working?

Speaker 1: 11:39

She tells your lucky day and your lucky numbers.

Speaker 2: 11:44

I did something over here your fortune.

Speaker 1: 11:48

Uh-oh, what happened?

Speaker 2: 11:50

Firk, firk, firk, firk firk, firk, firk, there we go. I just wiggled it.

Speaker 1: 11:55

Oh, that is absolutely incredible what I just saw that game.

Speaker 2: 11:59

So this is your classic fortune teller with the wax figure in it.

Speaker 1: 12:09

Wow, it's kind of like that thing on Tom Hanks film.

Speaker 2: 12:14

She's been in there a while. There we go.

Speaker 1: 12:22

The jukebox is so loud and squeaky, isn't it? She waves her hand. It's like 1905, or something like that.

Speaker 2: 12:32

Like she's reading your fortune.

Speaker 1: 12:34

You need to see this on my Facebook page, instagram. I'll put it on TikTok, I'll put it everywhere. You really need to see Grandmother Predictions. I love the music in the background, so is this giving us a prediction? It spit a card out Now and this is based on what? Because you gave it no information. It just saw us, granny saw, and then and then spit out a prediction let's see what else we have.

Speaker 1: 13:08

Okay, here we go. This is a good one here. Let's see, this is the greyhound races, I believe. Two players and a coin returns to the winner.

Speaker 2: 13:18

Oh, fascinating, so you put the two coins in Beautiful.

Speaker 1: 13:24

Again, this is visual and you really need to see it, but this is a greyhound race and you turn these wheels?

Speaker 2: 13:31

Is that one of the?

Speaker 1: 13:32

dogs chasing it. Chase the rabbit Get this Uh-oh. Oh my God, Did you win that one too? I don't know, darlene, with a Y, winning Y was ahead of you Winning Looking model, and this one is the English execution. Well, you can't win them all, so it basically Save this one for those idiots who sprayed Stonehenge yesterday.

Speaker 2: 14:00

So the clock up there looks like it's at 8 o'clock. A bell rings eight times and that's the time that executions happen in England and the priest is giving the last rites. And on the eighth bell, something shocking will happen.

Speaker 1: 14:20

This is incredible. I have to post this. This is. This is so awesome. On the eighth bell oh, I'm so eagerly anticipating. Is that only four dings? Oh yeah, that's amazing, oh Good morning. Right through the trap door.

Speaker 2: 14:48

As macabre as it was. Back in the 20s, execution was a popular theme on working models. English execution for hanging. French execution for guillotine.

Speaker 1: 14:57

Hey, or guillotine, let, or guillotine, let's see. What else do we have here from Tim Glassburn? So I looked inside of the machine that says don't miss this fan dance. And Tim, I took a peek inside and it was a fan dancing. It was a fan, it was an actual fan dancing. It had little dancing legs Unbelievable. You have this unique stuff.

Speaker 2: 15:19

Let's look at this.

Speaker 1: 15:20

I should have little dancing legs Unbelievable. You have this unique stuff.

Speaker 2: 15:22

Let's look at this. I should have started with this.

Speaker 1: 15:25

Because I do a radio show and radiogram I mean look at this.

Speaker 2: 15:28

It's from 1941. And what would happen when you put your penny in? Morse code is running and your radiogram is being transmitted to you somewhere in the world you're tuning in to the Pat Wolf Show what's that?

Speaker 1: 15:48

KFBK and Pat's Peeps on the air. Oh my god, that's the coolest thing.

Speaker 2: 15:55

That's great wow, again I'll post. Oh my God, that's the coolest thing, that's great. I have to run it twice to get a card out of it, wow.

Speaker 1: 16:03

Again. I'll post all these because you have to see them to really appreciate it. Pat, did you play with the radiogram? Pat, did I allow you? Pat?

Speaker 2: 16:14

Pat, it's rare. I have not been able to locate another one of these. You've never seen another one of these. This could be the only one I've searched on the internet. If there's another one that's in someone's collection, it's unknown. Very impressive it says don't put a penny, but all it has is a dime.

Speaker 1: 16:34

So I can't wait to find out what comes out of this machine I want to know Did we already? Discover that I, we all think we really discovered that yeah, it's 10 cents okay, oh, I thought I said oh, I didn't have a dime on me, so this is the bunk. Don't put any money in this machine you're gonna be sorry tam, you're gonna be sorry. You'll probably be able to. That's what the sign says. I'm not that up. It says don't put any money in this machine. You'll be sorry.

Speaker 2: 17:02

What was that? It's really short. I need to adjust the time longer, but it's a skeleton in an outhouse and I think it's reading something.

Speaker 1: 17:13

You are so talented I don't get the joke myself If this guy can actually go into that machine, yep, and adjust the amount of time that you see the skeleton in the outhouse. That is impressive to me.

Speaker 2: 17:29

For more viewers and fortune tellers in the middle of the room. Maybe this one's worth a shot.

Speaker 1: 17:39

Ooh, you'd have to. This room is incredible.

Speaker 2: 17:43

Hold the hand down. All right, it's going to tell you the sex-o-meter.

Speaker 1: 17:49

Oh, sex-o-meter, not another one of those. I just used the orgasmatron.

Speaker 2: 17:57

Let me try that again, don't? All right, try it. It didn't stay lit.

Speaker 1: 18:02

It's a sexual meter. You're putting me on a sexual meter. Of course it didn't stay lit. Oh god, oh boy, here's Darlene playing the secret town arcade.

Speaker 2: 18:22

Oh boy, here's Darlene playing the Genco Secret Town.

Speaker 1: 18:24

Arcade, tim Glassburn and Darlene with a Y, who was so sweet to bring me a sandwich this morning. Boy, you're blessed to have a friend like that. So.

Speaker 2: 18:34

Darlene was there as well.

Speaker 1: 18:36

I did this good the other day. Wait a minute. This is a vintage and I mean vintage basketball game. Oh my God, he's got the old Rick Barry shot. Look at this, the old Rick Barry shot. Look at this guy. He's like a troglodyte. Look at his posture. He's got a bat. It's going to him for some reason, yeah, for some reason. Not operator error or nothing. No, he's like a troglodyte. Look at his posture. He's got a bat. It's going to him for some reason. Not operator error or nothing. No, it's not, it's random.

Speaker 2: 19:10

Oh, score one for the opposing team Beautiful.

Speaker 1: 19:12

Look at this over here. Just by looking at it so far, this is one of my favorites right here so far. I know nothing about it. It's fun though, but I like the Sega gunfight. Look at this.

Speaker 2: 19:26

Look at this and if the cactus is in the way you just Well, there we go.

Speaker 1: 19:36

See, I told you there was glitches. So, yeah, what I'm going to do and I think it would be better after this is just to go ahead and throw these on Facebook so you can actually see these machines, because they're just incredible to see. I've never seen a collection quite like Tim Glassburn's collection. Each one of these are a gem. Each one of these are ultra rare and this man has spent a lifetime collecting them, and perhaps he's going to be giving some private tours. I'll let you know about that. When I was there, that was part of my discussion that I lost for whatever reason, but we were talking about, you know, giving private tours, because once you walk in, you're going to be fascinated. The first floor he's got pinball machines, and I love pinball, but they're even overshadowed by the toys that he has in there.

Speaker 1: 20:28

This guy's got a life-size cowboy. This is like from 1910, I think he said. This is like from 1910, I think he said. It's a life-size cowboy and it's standing behind saloon doors and the doors are closed. He's wearing a black hat, I think a black vest, or something like that. So you walk up in front of it and now you have a machine where you put your coin in and there's a pistol and that's like the holster and you're not allowed to take that holster out. I mean that gun out of the holster until those doors fly open and the gunfighter goes to shoot you. And then it's like who can draw the first? Who's going to win that gun draw? I've never seen anything like it. It is astonishing to see what this man has. There's one thing in there that was so unbelievable that again you really have to see it to believe it. So I will post it.

Speaker 1: 21:29

These old machines that you used to look into and you'd crank it and you would see films, very old films if you cranked it, usually in black and white. So over the years people would go and once those kind of began to go away, people would buy these boxes that these were in, that these you know that these, these I don't know film cameras or whatever you want to call it that they were in. They just took the console I'm trying to figure out how to say that, right, anyhow. So they would take that and it's got a little window in the front and they would create their own theme in there. I'm going to post this. So in this video. Tim is telling me and showing us a video and you're looking in a window. You can't see it. It's black.

Speaker 1: 22:16

Once you put the coin in, the light comes on and it's a scene of Charlie Chaplin and he's sitting on a bench with a woman in a park. On a park bench. Charlie's dressed like Charlie she has a lovely dress on and what is happening is Charlie is very slyly lifting the front of her dress up with his cane and in doing so she doesn't like it, so she hauls off and punches Charlie Chaplin. True, true, here we go, here we go. This is Charlie, charlie and Mabel in the park. Now, what is this? This one looks a little bit different than some of the other ones, right?

Speaker 2: 22:57

This one is from the 1950s. It's not as old as the other one, 1950s and Unknown Maker, and that's supposed to be Charlie Chaplin, and I think Mabel was probably a famous actor Okay, actress. And Charlie's up to no good with his gaming. You're kidding me and she doesn't like it a bit. Gives him a stiff right cross.

Speaker 1: 23:22

I love that one. Oh my god, that's fantastic. He lifts her skirt with his cane and she slugs him. That is incredible.

Speaker 2: 23:34

Another rope pull strength tester.

Speaker 1: 23:38

This one says if you pull the tackers, tall enough, he'll roar Uh-huh. And then Does he roar as loud as that dynamite box out there. No, okay, wow.

Speaker 2: 23:47

And then this from 1930, is a fortune teller that came out just after they invented TV. Okay, what came out just after they invented TV? Okay, and back in 1930, tv was like a little six-inch round screen that was not black and white, it was green and black. And so this is the green ray, is the television ray? What? The mysterious television ray that reads your mind and then, with these electromagnets and that pen hand, writes your fortune with special electronic ink, runs on old special electronic ink.

Speaker 1: 24:27

Yep, as a warning, that ink doesn't dry easily, so don't smudge it so if I stare into the mysterious TV, or whatever you call it, the mystery green ray, it's going to read my mind, yep, and then it runs on.

Speaker 2: 24:38

A lot of these machines are from the UK. They run on the TV or whatever you call it. The mystery, the green ray, mysterious green ray. It's going to read my mind, yep, and then it runs on. A lot of these machines are from the UK. They run on the old British.

Speaker 1: 24:43

God, I'm not sure I want it to read my mind, but okay, all right, I have to stare at it.

Speaker 2: 24:51

Oh, green light.

Speaker 1: 24:53

Oh green light. What am I thinking Mysterious? I have all the cards that are printed out too. It's actually pretty close to reading my mind. Hey, I'm going to head over. I'm very excited to say we have a new business Rehorn RV Parts and Accessories. I'm going to meet with them. Right now. I'm vetting their business, I'm doing their business on my radio show and perhaps there'll be a Pat's Peeps, and so I'm going to go meet with Rehorn RV Parts and Accessories my newest clients. I am so proud to be representing Rehorn, so if you have an RV, go to Rehorn Parts and Accessories. They're on Bell Avenue in Sacramento. Please let them know. Pat sent you.

Speaker 1: 25:36

Before I head out, though, we do what we always do we pull a record from my rare record collection, and I love doing this. So today I pull one out and it turns out. You know I've been doing these top 20 albums. Sean Jeske asked me on Facebook. He challenged me to post the top 20 albums. That helped to change my musical tastes. Okay, this is one that would be on that list. I just happened to pull this one out today. Once I heard this, this one turned me on to people like Ry Cooter, link Wray, dick Dale. It is not surf guitar, by the way. It is not surf, but it is twang guitar. And when I was a kid my mother had this album and I mean I really liked this one. I liked the album. It just resonated with me. For whatever, I thought it was different, I loved the twang to it.

Speaker 1: 27:02

Dwayne Eddy, 1958, on Jamie Records Rebel Rouser. Not for sale. Promotional, thank you. The name of this album was Twanging the Golden Hits.

Speaker 1: 27:53

Dwayne Eddy was an American rock and roll guitar player in the 50s, early 60s. He had a string of hit records like this one produced by Lee Hazelwood, and they were noted for their characteristically twangy guitar sound, including Rebel Rouse. In this one Little horn in there he did Peter Gunn Because they're Young. He sold 12 million records by 1963, and his guitar style not only influenced my musical taste, but it influenced the Shadows, it influenced the Beatles, it influenced Bruce Springsteen he'll tell you that. And Dwayne Eddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008. 2008. By the way, eddie also had a weekly showcase on radio station KCKY and then a slot on a weekly hit parade TV show in Phoenix, where he met Arizona-based disc jockey and songwriter Lee Hazelwood, who produced their single Soda Fountain Girl recorded, released it in 55.

Speaker 1: 29:02

And Eddie wasn't happy with the singing voice, so he devised a technique of playing lead lines on his guitar bass strings to produce that low, that twangy sound instead of singing. I mean, at the age of 19, he'd acquired a 1957 Chet Atkins model Gretsch 6120 guitar from Ziggy's in Phoenix and away he went. Awesome stuff. If you flip it over, there is another song on this one. This one is called Moving and Groovin'. Moving and Groovin' by Dwayne Eddy. So I'm going to flip this one over and see what that one sounds like. Again, this is on Jamie Records promotional copy, not for sale, and it has D Eddy and L Hazelwood written right up there. So let's flip it over and check out. Moving and Grooving by yeah, by Dwayne. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, that's awesome. You can certainly see where these bands got their, how he influenced these bands, including Dick Dale in those Link Wray.

Speaker 1: 30:54

If you want to become a Pats Peeps business, please get a hold of us Please. We will help your business, I promise you. I've had a lot of business meetings with local businesses lately and we're going to support you. So thanks for listening. Pats Peeps number 103. Back tomorrow for 104. © transcript Emily Beynon.