December 26, 2025 • 30 mins
Friday (pt 2 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, John Boy finds out he’s worth more dead than alive.. - We’ll see what Phil McCracken has planned for his New Year’s Resolutions.. - We’ll recap a listener’s letter giving John Boy the idea that we should hire ex-cons.. - Randy has a high level meeting interrupted for a low-level reason.. - Hoyt and Delbert meet an Ape Wrangler.. - Rooster and Road Runner get one more spin for their Mayberry Song.. - and John Boy applies for the role of King in Swaziland…
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, You got the big show on the radio
coming up. You got these just way to join the
Winders only curn Events quiz playing for one American Express
gift card. What are we dealing with? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Over the holidays, donating food to charity gave some people
out in California a real high. And I mean that literally.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
All right, one night, hundred big show. You told free
Line you take Sea, you will win. We'll play next.
(00:44):
Good morning, it is the big show on the radio already.
All these championship teams for John boyd Belly Pep Squad
your own Okay, Willis's quiz, Say yea, Say hey, It's
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Glenn from Murphy, North Carolina. Good morning, Glenn, Morning John
boy in the getting Hey you honey, has everything A
bear in the corner of our wonderful steak this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Just great going out to hit a couple of golf
balls right now?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
All right, may be careful listen to Billy and win
this prize packet. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
A medical marijuana shop in California made headlines over the
holidays by running a canned food drive with a unique twist.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
For every four.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Cans of food donated to the Second Harvest Food bank.
The store gave away a complimentary marijuana cigarette. There was
a limit of three freebies per day per customer. The
shop took in eleven thousand pounds of donations during the
drive and gave out a total of two thousand free
doo Betes, a spokesman for a Second Harvest, says the
weed store only has eight employees, but brought in donations
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that would normally come from a business were thirty or
forty workers.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He says.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The only downside was a the food bank got a
few complaints b the offerer might appear to encourage drug
use or see. Two out of the four donations were
empty Beeferoni cans.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Where's Glenn?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I think I want to take seed?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
John Boy had a boy?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What was a question? Money? God, Glenn, you have one.
I knew you could do it. Buddy, congratulations, Thank you
very much.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You have a good day.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Tom Boy, appreciate you out there. Big shoe contract. This
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is the John Boy and Billy Big Show, the South's
number one exports.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Hello, he his heart. Don't rive on the front of.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That now, man, John Boy been ahead, ain't.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Say you beg on? Hey, no old driving, no talking.
Hea hol looking pervert.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh not much body was new an exciting over in
your neck of the woods.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Wow, Man Debarn went to the Riddle Brothers circus other day.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Riddle Brother's circus. I don't believe I've ever heard of
that one.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It's twenty years smaller traveling circuses. They let up at
that vacant lot next to the walmart, about half a
mile from the house.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But I was not.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Such a mangy looking animals, and I broke down tiltal
War had the sorriest side show you ever seen. The
big attraction was the bearded man.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's second's pretty sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah. See they did bring some excitement to the neighborhood though.
Had this gorilla there He got out of his cage
and went running around here through the.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Trailer park and escaped gorilla through the trailer part.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, they went down the door, turning about to be
on the lookout for it. Uh huh, Well, I, Sir Delbert,
looked out the catching wonder yesterday morning. Shu. There he was.
They're old gorilla sitting in one of them oak trees
right out behind the tool.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Shit. What did he do?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He said, No, no, no, no, de oh he said,
And he went and called upon number of the circus
they will give us. They said, well, don't try to
do anything, just keep a eye on him. We'll send
the Ape rang Glare right over. So about five minutes later,
this beat up all pickup truck with red Old Brothers
circus painted on the pulls up out front. The ape
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rain Glare turns out to be this skinny, wormy looking
fella carrying of duffel bag, and he had this little
bitty chair.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wall wall with him a chihuahwah.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, it looked like a little stoopie, only he wasn't
quite as hearty and rove up.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So what happened, Well, this.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Wrangler feller comes up the door says, I'm here to
pick up the gorilla. Shouldn't be a big deal. Would
you mind giving me a hand? And Debora looked at
to him and says, well, look like y'all might need one.
So I fella reaches in his duffel bag. He pulls
out a sharp stick, a fire handcuffs, and a shotgun.
He hands a shotgun to Debt and says, all right,
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now here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna climb up that
tree and get right under the gorilla, and then they'll
poke him with this here sharp stick. He'll fall out
of the tree, and while he's laying on the ground stunned,
fang Here's gonna subdue him. And Devor says, now, wait
a minute, how's that little bitty dog gonna subdue a
eight hundred pound gorilla. Feller says, well, he wouldn't not
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to look at him, but out there's a highly trained
attack dog. When the gorilla falls out of the tree,
old fang here has been trained to run over and
latch onto his shall we say, private park, that's what
the gorilla is supposed to say. And when Fan grabs him,
the grillattle instinctively put his hand down to cover his nugget.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
When that happens, I'll jump down snap the handcuffs on him. Now,
don't worry me. And fang had done this a bunch
of times before. It'll be a breathe. Deward says, well,
if it's gonna be so easy, what's the shotgun for?
Feller says, well, when I poke the gorilla with that stick,
there's always a chance that he'll grab a hold of
the stick and make me fall out of the tree.
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If that happens, you shoot old fang.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So did it work?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, Fang turned out to be one mean little son
of a gun and the feller givet Devor to brow
sure about the riddle? Brothers ain't franglers school.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
He ain't thinking about changing careers again.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well you never know. Hey, listen, they got run here,
me and Marlon Perkins and picking the gun. Wheah, Well
you tell him, I said, yeah, argument yall came straight
up from.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
John Boy and Billy. Oh wow, this is about ninety
percent less funny than you think it is. Good morning,
we're yelled, dumb right, good morning. He got a big
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jon the radio right now, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome
uncle Buddy. What a crowd, What a crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Look at this Jackie and Taylor. It's so nice to
see you guys again. I'll tell you what when you
go to the beauty polor, it must take three hours
for the estimate.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yo, folks. And here he is, folks.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
He used to keep his kids in the refrigerator to
keep them from getting spoiled.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Morty, shine Blue.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Poor Morty.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
He's been with me for years. Years.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
He could have been big, big, I tell you Morty's
biggest problem. Every time opportunity knocked, he complained about the noise.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I should have gone with the how But he's done
pretty well for himself. You know, he's very careful with
his money, or as I call it, cheap. We went
out to dinner the other night. Morty said, I'll have
the twenty four. The way that says, that's not the
meal number, that's the price. Morty says, in that case,
I'll have the twelve. This guy goes into a supermarket.
He buys a tube of toothpaste, the bottle of PEPSI,
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bag of chips, and a frozen pizza. The checkout girl says, ah,
single hunh. The guy says, yeah, how'd you guess? She says,
you're ugly. So this guy he takes his daughter to
work with him one day. That night, they setting her
on a dinner table. A little girl says to her dad,
you know I saw you with your secretary today. Why
do you call her a doll? The wife shoots him
(08:54):
a look, and the guy he tries to explain. He says, well, ball, honey, honey, listen,
my secretary is a very hard working girl types like
you wouldn't believe. She knows the computer system and she's
very efficient. The little girl thought for a second, and
she said, oh, I thought you called her a doll
because she closed her eyes when you laid it down.
Sad as a drunk at a bar. See there's here's
drunk at a bar and he gets up to go to
(09:16):
the bathroom. A few minutes let everyone hears a blood
turtling scream. A few seconds later, another scream. The bartender
goes to investigate. He says, what's with all the screaming.
You're scaring my customers. The drunk says, listen, I'm just
sitting here on the can, mind of my own business.
But every time I try to flush, someone reaches up
and grabs me. The bartender says, you sitting on the
mop bucket? On the mop buckets?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
All right? One last one job? Are you like this?
When it's broad?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
She goes into one of them country bars. Oh, broad,
I'll point to Billy and he can point to you.
Broad walks into one of them country bars. She sees
this cowboy with his feet propped up on the table.
He has got the biggest feet she has ever seen.
She saw us over and says, so is it true
what they say about men with big feet? An old
(10:05):
hop along noose bomb there says, Uh, yeah, sure is.
Why don't you come over to my place and let
me prove it to you? So she figures, well, why not.
Sure enough, she spends the night with him. The next morning,
she gets dressed and hands him one hundred dollar bill.
The coupboard blushes. He says, hey, nobody ever paid me
for my services before. I'm very flattered. She says, don't
be take this money and buy yourself some boots that fit.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Into the world.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
So long, everybody, Good morning, to make shows on your radio.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Coming up your last chance and join the winners when wait,
team up and play worthy word. But first from daycare
hand kids say the darnedest things. The people who follow
the Lord were called the twelve opossums. The spinal column
is a long bunch of bones. The head sets on
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the top and you set on the bottom. We do
not raise silkworms in the United States because we get
our silk from Rayon. He is a larger worm and
gives more silk. One of the main causes of dust
is janitors, a scalp obeys all to whom obedience is due,
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and respects all duly constipated authorities. One byproduct of raising
cattle is calves. To prevent head calls, use an agonizer
to spray into the nose until it drips into the throat.
The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar. The
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John Boys bakers. The climate is hot as next to
the creator. Yeah, Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose,
but under it were deeply religious feelings. The word trousers
is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the
top and pearl at the bottom. Syntax is all the
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money collected at the church from centers. The blood circulates
through the body by flowing down one leg and up
the other. In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon.
Iron was discovered because someone smelt it, and finally, in
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the middle of the eighteenth century, all the Morons moved
to Utah. Good morning makes Joe is on the radio,
coming up a last chance you did to join the Winters.
Today we'll team up and play wordy word. Hang on
with doo it Next, Good Morning, let's Big Sean already
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with John boyn Billy and Fidlers and Terry Taylor and
Jackie and Andy behind the glass and our brain specialist
this observing wordy word this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Today, Johnny is gonna play against a bowl of lime yellow.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I'm sure I'm hunger.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
About the bad better word, any word, better word, ay word.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
That's been a contestants. We got Greg from Henderson, North Carolina.
Good morning, Greg, Good morning, good morning, and you on
team john boyn Billy who's three and oh? And we
got Ronnie from Johnson City, Tennessee. Good morning, Ronnie, Good morning, Johnny.
All right, and Ronnie, you got Tarry Tator on your side.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
All right, carry t and t that man.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
All right, boys as a pole Perrie, anything goes any
word at all. Greg is going to be me and
you for the first thirty seconds. Are you ready, I'm ready?
All right? Start to clott now, A small cow is a.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Cat?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Uh huh? All right? Are you singing before the ball game?
The national? Uh huh? All right? Give me a blank
of that pie? Cut me off a blank? No another word? Yes, alrighty,
I can't fill my hand. It went blank, yes, alrighty.
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This is where the duty goes down in the uh no,
no more more down further we got a four? Put
them four? Great, good job. All right. Then it looks
like mall Maurice is gonna go becoming Mary's all right?
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Ronnie you ready?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Sure, well you're picking up on that last one? Ready go?
Waist no waistcoats. Here's a manhole on top of it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Sewage?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Every sue what okay? You every morning you read a
what newspaper? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
On on a Christmas tree you put what their little
balls ornament? No?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Uh? Deer has what on top of his head?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Antlers? Uh? You see?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Well look at that mours and uh Ronnie putting up
a five, but finding Billy and Greg you' all got
thirty seconds? Are you ready? Greg? I'm ready and go.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You might have these with a burger, not French fries.
But they're round. They're a circle. No, they're a circle.
It's like something you'd wear on your finger. It's like
something you'd wear on your finger.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Ring.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yep, we'll kind of ringing there you go. All right,
let's see. Uh, there's a big thing in the sky.
Oh it's not half, it's not a quarter. It's a yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right, If you have too much stress, you might
get one of these in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah right, alrighty A three, A total of seven for
Greg and now Tater and Ronnie. The table is set there, Marcy.
For you two will tie, three will win. We've been struggling.
It's what this week to be over. H I hope
you're going to be faced with some hard ones. Let's see.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Okay, So it's a vegetable and it's crunchy and people
usually put peanut butter on it. You lose weight eating it?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Why it's green?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You put him in a bloody mary.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yes, this is a cookie and it's chocolate with a
cream filling. This is like a monkey but he uh,
and keep going it small?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is a you sit on this at a bar. Well,
you three? That would be enough to win. I guess
if handsOn Phil's good enough about cheating in front of
the doctor. I do, we do, I got we don't
finally want one.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He's gonna have a very interesting report on you.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Hanson, Greg dog gone it. If you and Billy hadn't
stumbled all over onion rings with my I had a victory there.
I don't want to blame y'all. I'm sure I had
some part in it, even though I had more y'all did. Yeah,
one more? Is that called the Nile Doc?
Speaker 8 (18:10):
What he's doing now? Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes? Greg, you try again, buddy, Thanks for playing? Yeah
all right, my boy, Thank you all right, man, thank
you very much. You'll play again and win this year.
I feel it. Ronnie, congratulations, buddy.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Thank you very much. Johnny. Let me give a shout.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I go ahead.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Last time I was on, I give a shout to
Barb and Randy.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Jackie said that Peter got jealous.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
So hey, taint, Oh, you didn't have to look at
you mentioned and thinking of me.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You just lit up part of her brain. Coming up
our classic bit of the morning. Let me say, listener,
I wants here war. This was way back where I
left a message playing the Andy Griffith theme on my
mouth guitar and then Rooster and Roadrunner song.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I think it was it was somebody who wanted to
be on the show, and he left you kind of
an audition on your voice.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Ah. Okay, well that's even better. It certainly is. I
do remember, but I'm sure it was great. Not yet,
we have to do our commercials first. Oh good practice
with the harp there, and you look very lovely playing
that hang on the classic bit of the morning's coming
up next? Good morning, got a big show on the radio. Yeah,
(19:48):
we love to hear from you all, longtime Big Show listeners.
Email anybody but me or anybody at the Bigshow dot com.
You're a classic bitter in the morning. All right, now,
time Tanner take us way back for got this in
the mail. Listen this tape, y'all listen to this.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Go ahead, Bran boy, my name is Jerry Queen. When
I'm fixing to play for you, I play entirely with
my mouth, no involved in any kind and uh I
won't play a tune for you and the Griffin thing.
If you like it, maybe you'll have you on the
show one morning.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Here goes.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Ah John boy.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
I hope you like it. I like to meet you sometime,
talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Here's bucking. There's Hambone guys on here. That's good. I'm
sure we got a spot for Jerry here. Man with
that kind of talent. Cant mgne here on the Big Show.
That a boy, Jerry?
Speaker 8 (21:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Rober Andy Griffith theme up? How about roots and the
road Runner? Doing there, Andy Griffith show song.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Go ahead, man, stare at the screen, crazy bloodshot, empty heat,
pop bottles and chicken.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That's fright up and rerun and rerun.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
I just came breakfe there's Andy and me and the.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Gold dan be.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I got a nipping nipping nip in the bus, nipping
nipping nip in the bud. I didn't I eat and
get life and say bout the Barny five nipit nip
nip in the bus. Floyd always says it's a beautiful days.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
The wo wor good.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Time? That was great?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Oh this can jump roll his.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Bottle in hands, but Andy can't get me to just
call the man, howld the man? I got a nipping
nipping nipped in the bud, nipping nipping nippy in the buck.
I ain't got an eating your life. And think about
Barney five and it bitting it bitting it bit in
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the bus.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Now, ernesty bess.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Sure chum of rock and oh be he the bird man,
He sure learn a lot.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
A winking until it's blinking and blinking whispers to nod
that's right, and nod tis Barney.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Then I'm losing and all foul belf you don't need
touch it all. I gotta nipping nip. Yeah, right there,
I hear. I'll never have a life forever, hood on
fearless Fine and.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
It bitten, bitting it in the bus, Oh my Barney,
Oh my Arnie and Ja including lock it and one
bullet Forest Pistol had to keep it in his barkcket
his left shirt.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Episode one seventeen Shopper. It was right shirt. I've heard
about your bullet. I got your bullet right here, man.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
All the other episodes is left shirt hock.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I got a nipping nipping nip is.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Nippen nipping nip is.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Nippy nipping nipp.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Nip nip nipp It is a buck Good morning, everybody,
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got a big show on the radio. Oh man, I'd
love to be a king somewhere. Would it be cool
being a king? Have you looked around people waiting on you?
You're not having to do nothing? How's that changed?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You've got a.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Cape, knaves oath surfs and got bucket loads up.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You've got a special chair. But say, you know, wouldn't
I'd like to watch that coming to America move with
Eddie Murphy. I mean, you know his picture is on
his own money. You've got wipers.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Listen to this story. This happened in Swaziland. More than
fifty thousand bare breasted virgins. Vibe become the King of
Swaziland's thirteenth wife on Monday in a ceremony known as
the Reed Dance.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, now you know these are Swazi lands, right, yeah,
keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, like Nell Carter with less.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Tenth You don't want to say Tyra Banks in the
America's Next Top Model.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's hard to notice a girl's topless when she's got
a plate in her lips. You know there's a picture
that's a nice looking young lady, right then it Jackie,
look at this, I'll rest man. You got a nice smile.
And hey, there's fifty thousand though. You show me fifty
thousand women. I don't care pigg a spot in the
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world you find a good looking okay, Hooters Gastonia, Uh,
fifty thousand of them did if they look like her,
you weren't looking okay, y'all. Quit y'all quit Swazi hayten.
King Masswati, the third sub Sahara, Africa's last absolute monarch,
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wore a leopard skin loincloth as he watched the girls
dressed in little more than beaded mini skirts dance around
the Royal Stadium.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's my big Becca kindy bus yes yes no, yes,
maybe yes no.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
No no no no no, maybe no no no. He's
got his own stadium. So here he is hanging out
in the leopard skin loincloth. Fifty thousand topless virgins dancing around,
and they were singing tributes to the king. So they
sing in dancing and it's getting I took off all
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my claw and the Queen Mother was there too, so
I guess their future mother in law. She is known
as the Great she Elephant. Have you heard the song
they were singing. That's that one. You got a future
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mother in law, the Great she Elephant. King mo Sheety
hanging out there. It's lowly claw. She's got them big
ears and big nose, snaggle tooth, you know. But I
bet they don't have TV, you know, so that's probably
a big thing, you know, saying that's.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
What's keeping you in America.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Swaziland only had the Dish network. Boy, he's there playing
fun things to do.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Jackie get the travel edged on the phone.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I hear a road trip coming up that idiot mobile.
Why do I get the impression this will end with
one of those coconut deals. Maybe about just buddy up
the king, you know, hang out with it, have a
communications director or something like that. They need a better
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press secretary over there, if they well, that's just one.
They're forty nine thousand, nine hundred ninety nine fifty thousand anything.
There's about to be a good She made the paper,
don't you know.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Don't you know?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The guy from the ap spent like most of the
afternoon looking for the prettiest one. Fine, I won't be king.
I won't go there and hang out there. Wasn't gonna
do a top of this dance with yall. But now wait,
I'll get Marty, Marty, I'm all with it.
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coming up. You got these just way to join the
Winders only curn Events quiz playing for one American Express
gift card. What are we dealing with? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Over the holidays, donating food to charity gave some people
out in California a real high. And I mean that literally.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
All right, one night, hundred big show. You told free
Line you take Sea, you will win. We'll play next.
(00:44):
Good morning, it is the big show on the radio already.
All these championship teams for John boyd Belly Pep Squad
your own Okay, Willis's quiz, Say yea, Say hey, It's
(01:10):
Glenn from Murphy, North Carolina. Good morning, Glenn, Morning John
boy in the getting Hey you honey, has everything A
bear in the corner of our wonderful steak this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Just great going out to hit a couple of golf
balls right now?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
All right, may be careful listen to Billy and win
this prize packet. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
A medical marijuana shop in California made headlines over the
holidays by running a canned food drive with a unique twist.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
For every four.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Cans of food donated to the Second Harvest Food bank.
The store gave away a complimentary marijuana cigarette. There was
a limit of three freebies per day per customer. The
shop took in eleven thousand pounds of donations during the
drive and gave out a total of two thousand free
doo Betes, a spokesman for a Second Harvest, says the
weed store only has eight employees, but brought in donations
(01:58):
that would normally come from a business were thirty or
forty workers.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He says.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The only downside was a the food bank got a
few complaints b the offerer might appear to encourage drug
use or see. Two out of the four donations were
empty Beeferoni cans.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Where's Glenn?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I think I want to take seed?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
John Boy had a boy?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What was a question? Money? God, Glenn, you have one.
I knew you could do it. Buddy, congratulations, Thank you
very much.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You have a good day.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Tom Boy, appreciate you out there. Big shoe contract. This
(02:59):
is the John Boy and Billy Big Show, the South's
number one exports.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Hello, he his heart. Don't rive on the front of.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That now, man, John Boy been ahead, ain't.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Say you beg on? Hey, no old driving, no talking.
Hea hol looking pervert.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh not much body was new an exciting over in
your neck of the woods.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Wow, Man Debarn went to the Riddle Brothers circus other day.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Riddle Brother's circus. I don't believe I've ever heard of
that one.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It's twenty years smaller traveling circuses. They let up at
that vacant lot next to the walmart, about half a
mile from the house.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But I was not.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Such a mangy looking animals, and I broke down tiltal
War had the sorriest side show you ever seen. The
big attraction was the bearded man.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's second's pretty sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah. See they did bring some excitement to the neighborhood though.
Had this gorilla there He got out of his cage
and went running around here through the.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Trailer park and escaped gorilla through the trailer part.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, they went down the door, turning about to be
on the lookout for it. Uh huh, Well, I, Sir Delbert,
looked out the catching wonder yesterday morning. Shu. There he was.
They're old gorilla sitting in one of them oak trees
right out behind the tool.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Shit. What did he do?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He said, No, no, no, no, de oh he said,
And he went and called upon number of the circus
they will give us. They said, well, don't try to
do anything, just keep a eye on him. We'll send
the Ape rang Glare right over. So about five minutes later,
this beat up all pickup truck with red Old Brothers
circus painted on the pulls up out front. The ape
(04:49):
rain Glare turns out to be this skinny, wormy looking
fella carrying of duffel bag, and he had this little
bitty chair.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wall wall with him a chihuahwah.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, it looked like a little stoopie, only he wasn't
quite as hearty and rove up.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So what happened, Well, this.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Wrangler feller comes up the door says, I'm here to
pick up the gorilla. Shouldn't be a big deal. Would
you mind giving me a hand? And Debora looked at
to him and says, well, look like y'all might need one.
So I fella reaches in his duffel bag. He pulls
out a sharp stick, a fire handcuffs, and a shotgun.
He hands a shotgun to Debt and says, all right,
(05:25):
now here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna climb up that
tree and get right under the gorilla, and then they'll
poke him with this here sharp stick. He'll fall out
of the tree, and while he's laying on the ground stunned,
fang Here's gonna subdue him. And Devor says, now, wait
a minute, how's that little bitty dog gonna subdue a
eight hundred pound gorilla. Feller says, well, he wouldn't not
(05:46):
to look at him, but out there's a highly trained
attack dog. When the gorilla falls out of the tree,
old fang here has been trained to run over and
latch onto his shall we say, private park, that's what
the gorilla is supposed to say. And when Fan grabs him,
the grillattle instinctively put his hand down to cover his nugget.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
When that happens, I'll jump down snap the handcuffs on him. Now,
don't worry me. And fang had done this a bunch
of times before. It'll be a breathe. Deward says, well,
if it's gonna be so easy, what's the shotgun for?
Feller says, well, when I poke the gorilla with that stick,
there's always a chance that he'll grab a hold of
the stick and make me fall out of the tree.
(06:30):
If that happens, you shoot old fang.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So did it work?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, Fang turned out to be one mean little son
of a gun and the feller givet Devor to brow
sure about the riddle? Brothers ain't franglers school.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
He ain't thinking about changing careers again.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well you never know. Hey, listen, they got run here,
me and Marlon Perkins and picking the gun. Wheah, Well
you tell him, I said, yeah, argument yall came straight
up from.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
John Boy and Billy. Oh wow, this is about ninety
percent less funny than you think it is. Good morning,
we're yelled, dumb right, good morning. He got a big
(07:36):
jon the radio right now, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome
uncle Buddy. What a crowd, What a crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Look at this Jackie and Taylor. It's so nice to
see you guys again. I'll tell you what when you
go to the beauty polor, it must take three hours
for the estimate.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yo, folks. And here he is, folks.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
He used to keep his kids in the refrigerator to
keep them from getting spoiled.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Morty, shine Blue.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Poor Morty.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
He's been with me for years. Years.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
He could have been big, big, I tell you Morty's
biggest problem. Every time opportunity knocked, he complained about the noise.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I should have gone with the how But he's done
pretty well for himself. You know, he's very careful with
his money, or as I call it, cheap. We went
out to dinner the other night. Morty said, I'll have
the twenty four. The way that says, that's not the
meal number, that's the price. Morty says, in that case,
I'll have the twelve. This guy goes into a supermarket.
He buys a tube of toothpaste, the bottle of PEPSI,
(08:34):
bag of chips, and a frozen pizza. The checkout girl says, ah,
single hunh. The guy says, yeah, how'd you guess? She says,
you're ugly. So this guy he takes his daughter to
work with him one day. That night, they setting her
on a dinner table. A little girl says to her dad,
you know I saw you with your secretary today. Why
do you call her a doll? The wife shoots him
(08:54):
a look, and the guy he tries to explain. He says, well, ball, honey, honey, listen,
my secretary is a very hard working girl types like
you wouldn't believe. She knows the computer system and she's
very efficient. The little girl thought for a second, and
she said, oh, I thought you called her a doll
because she closed her eyes when you laid it down.
Sad as a drunk at a bar. See there's here's
drunk at a bar and he gets up to go to
(09:16):
the bathroom. A few minutes let everyone hears a blood
turtling scream. A few seconds later, another scream. The bartender
goes to investigate. He says, what's with all the screaming.
You're scaring my customers. The drunk says, listen, I'm just
sitting here on the can, mind of my own business.
But every time I try to flush, someone reaches up
and grabs me. The bartender says, you sitting on the
mop bucket? On the mop buckets?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
All right? One last one job? Are you like this?
When it's broad?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
She goes into one of them country bars. Oh, broad,
I'll point to Billy and he can point to you.
Broad walks into one of them country bars. She sees
this cowboy with his feet propped up on the table.
He has got the biggest feet she has ever seen.
She saw us over and says, so is it true
what they say about men with big feet? An old
(10:05):
hop along noose bomb there says, Uh, yeah, sure is.
Why don't you come over to my place and let
me prove it to you? So she figures, well, why not.
Sure enough, she spends the night with him. The next morning,
she gets dressed and hands him one hundred dollar bill.
The coupboard blushes. He says, hey, nobody ever paid me
for my services before. I'm very flattered. She says, don't
be take this money and buy yourself some boots that fit.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Into the world.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
So long, everybody, Good morning, to make shows on your radio.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Coming up your last chance and join the winners when wait,
team up and play worthy word. But first from daycare
hand kids say the darnedest things. The people who follow
the Lord were called the twelve opossums. The spinal column
is a long bunch of bones. The head sets on
(11:15):
the top and you set on the bottom. We do
not raise silkworms in the United States because we get
our silk from Rayon. He is a larger worm and
gives more silk. One of the main causes of dust
is janitors, a scalp obeys all to whom obedience is due,
(11:37):
and respects all duly constipated authorities. One byproduct of raising
cattle is calves. To prevent head calls, use an agonizer
to spray into the nose until it drips into the throat.
The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar. The
(12:00):
John Boys bakers. The climate is hot as next to
the creator. Yeah, Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose,
but under it were deeply religious feelings. The word trousers
is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the
top and pearl at the bottom. Syntax is all the
(12:24):
money collected at the church from centers. The blood circulates
through the body by flowing down one leg and up
the other. In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon.
Iron was discovered because someone smelt it, and finally, in
(12:51):
the middle of the eighteenth century, all the Morons moved
to Utah. Good morning makes Joe is on the radio,
coming up a last chance you did to join the Winters.
Today we'll team up and play wordy word. Hang on
with doo it Next, Good Morning, let's Big Sean already
(13:31):
with John boyn Billy and Fidlers and Terry Taylor and
Jackie and Andy behind the glass and our brain specialist
this observing wordy word this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Today, Johnny is gonna play against a bowl of lime yellow.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I'm sure I'm hunger.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
About the bad better word, any word, better word, ay word.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
That's been a contestants. We got Greg from Henderson, North Carolina.
Good morning, Greg, Good morning, good morning, and you on
team john boyn Billy who's three and oh? And we
got Ronnie from Johnson City, Tennessee. Good morning, Ronnie, Good morning, Johnny.
All right, and Ronnie, you got Tarry Tator on your side.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
All right, carry t and t that man.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
All right, boys as a pole Perrie, anything goes any
word at all. Greg is going to be me and
you for the first thirty seconds. Are you ready, I'm ready?
All right? Start to clott now, A small cow is a.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Cat?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Uh huh? All right? Are you singing before the ball game?
The national? Uh huh? All right? Give me a blank
of that pie? Cut me off a blank? No another word? Yes, alrighty,
I can't fill my hand. It went blank, yes, alrighty.
(14:57):
This is where the duty goes down in the uh no,
no more more down further we got a four? Put
them four? Great, good job. All right. Then it looks
like mall Maurice is gonna go becoming Mary's all right?
(15:17):
Ronnie you ready?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Sure, well you're picking up on that last one? Ready go?
Waist no waistcoats. Here's a manhole on top of it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Sewage?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Every sue what okay? You every morning you read a
what newspaper? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
On on a Christmas tree you put what their little
balls ornament? No?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Uh? Deer has what on top of his head?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Antlers? Uh? You see?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Well look at that mours and uh Ronnie putting up
a five, but finding Billy and Greg you' all got
thirty seconds? Are you ready? Greg? I'm ready and go.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You might have these with a burger, not French fries.
But they're round. They're a circle. No, they're a circle.
It's like something you'd wear on your finger. It's like
something you'd wear on your finger.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Ring.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yep, we'll kind of ringing there you go. All right,
let's see. Uh, there's a big thing in the sky.
Oh it's not half, it's not a quarter. It's a yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right, If you have too much stress, you might
get one of these in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah right, alrighty A three, A total of seven for
Greg and now Tater and Ronnie. The table is set there, Marcy.
For you two will tie, three will win. We've been struggling.
It's what this week to be over. H I hope
you're going to be faced with some hard ones. Let's see.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Okay, So it's a vegetable and it's crunchy and people
usually put peanut butter on it. You lose weight eating it?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Why it's green?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You put him in a bloody mary.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yes, this is a cookie and it's chocolate with a
cream filling. This is like a monkey but he uh,
and keep going it small?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is a you sit on this at a bar. Well,
you three? That would be enough to win. I guess
if handsOn Phil's good enough about cheating in front of
the doctor. I do, we do, I got we don't
finally want one.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He's gonna have a very interesting report on you.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Hanson, Greg dog gone it. If you and Billy hadn't
stumbled all over onion rings with my I had a victory there.
I don't want to blame y'all. I'm sure I had
some part in it, even though I had more y'all did. Yeah,
one more? Is that called the Nile Doc?
Speaker 8 (18:10):
What he's doing now? Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes? Greg, you try again, buddy, Thanks for playing? Yeah
all right, my boy, Thank you all right, man, thank
you very much. You'll play again and win this year.
I feel it. Ronnie, congratulations, buddy.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Thank you very much. Johnny. Let me give a shout.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I go ahead.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Last time I was on, I give a shout to
Barb and Randy.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Jackie said that Peter got jealous.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
So hey, taint, Oh, you didn't have to look at
you mentioned and thinking of me.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You just lit up part of her brain. Coming up
our classic bit of the morning. Let me say, listener,
I wants here war. This was way back where I
left a message playing the Andy Griffith theme on my
mouth guitar and then Rooster and Roadrunner song.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I think it was it was somebody who wanted to
be on the show, and he left you kind of
an audition on your voice.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Ah. Okay, well that's even better. It certainly is. I
do remember, but I'm sure it was great. Not yet,
we have to do our commercials first. Oh good practice
with the harp there, and you look very lovely playing
that hang on the classic bit of the morning's coming
up next? Good morning, got a big show on the radio. Yeah,
(19:48):
we love to hear from you all, longtime Big Show listeners.
Email anybody but me or anybody at the Bigshow dot com.
You're a classic bitter in the morning. All right, now,
time Tanner take us way back for got this in
the mail. Listen this tape, y'all listen to this.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Go ahead, Bran boy, my name is Jerry Queen. When
I'm fixing to play for you, I play entirely with
my mouth, no involved in any kind and uh I
won't play a tune for you and the Griffin thing.
If you like it, maybe you'll have you on the
show one morning.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Here goes.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Ah John boy.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
I hope you like it. I like to meet you sometime,
talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Here's bucking. There's Hambone guys on here. That's good. I'm
sure we got a spot for Jerry here. Man with
that kind of talent. Cant mgne here on the Big Show.
That a boy, Jerry?
Speaker 8 (21:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Rober Andy Griffith theme up? How about roots and the
road Runner? Doing there, Andy Griffith show song.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Go ahead, man, stare at the screen, crazy bloodshot, empty heat,
pop bottles and chicken.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That's fright up and rerun and rerun.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
I just came breakfe there's Andy and me and the.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Gold dan be.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I got a nipping nipping nip in the bus, nipping
nipping nip in the bud. I didn't I eat and
get life and say bout the Barny five nipit nip
nip in the bus. Floyd always says it's a beautiful days.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
The wo wor good.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Time? That was great?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Oh this can jump roll his.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Bottle in hands, but Andy can't get me to just
call the man, howld the man? I got a nipping
nipping nipped in the bud, nipping nipping nippy in the buck.
I ain't got an eating your life. And think about
Barney five and it bitting it bitting it bit in
(23:07):
the bus.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Now, ernesty bess.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Sure chum of rock and oh be he the bird man,
He sure learn a lot.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
A winking until it's blinking and blinking whispers to nod
that's right, and nod tis Barney.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Then I'm losing and all foul belf you don't need
touch it all. I gotta nipping nip. Yeah, right there,
I hear. I'll never have a life forever, hood on
fearless Fine and.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
It bitten, bitting it in the bus, Oh my Barney,
Oh my Arnie and Ja including lock it and one
bullet Forest Pistol had to keep it in his barkcket
his left shirt.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Episode one seventeen Shopper. It was right shirt. I've heard
about your bullet. I got your bullet right here, man.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
All the other episodes is left shirt hock.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I got a nipping nipping nip is.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Nippen nipping nip is.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Nippy nipping nipp.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Nip nip nipp It is a buck Good morning, everybody,
(25:18):
got a big show on the radio. Oh man, I'd
love to be a king somewhere. Would it be cool
being a king? Have you looked around people waiting on you?
You're not having to do nothing? How's that changed?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You've got a.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Cape, knaves oath surfs and got bucket loads up.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You've got a special chair. But say, you know, wouldn't
I'd like to watch that coming to America move with
Eddie Murphy. I mean, you know his picture is on
his own money. You've got wipers.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Listen to this story. This happened in Swaziland. More than
fifty thousand bare breasted virgins. Vibe become the King of
Swaziland's thirteenth wife on Monday in a ceremony known as
the Reed Dance.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, now you know these are Swazi lands, right, yeah,
keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, like Nell Carter with less.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Tenth You don't want to say Tyra Banks in the
America's Next Top Model.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's hard to notice a girl's topless when she's got
a plate in her lips. You know there's a picture
that's a nice looking young lady, right then it Jackie,
look at this, I'll rest man. You got a nice smile.
And hey, there's fifty thousand though. You show me fifty
thousand women. I don't care pigg a spot in the
(26:45):
world you find a good looking okay, Hooters Gastonia, Uh,
fifty thousand of them did if they look like her,
you weren't looking okay, y'all. Quit y'all quit Swazi hayten.
King Masswati, the third sub Sahara, Africa's last absolute monarch,
(27:11):
wore a leopard skin loincloth as he watched the girls
dressed in little more than beaded mini skirts dance around
the Royal Stadium.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's my big Becca kindy bus yes yes no, yes,
maybe yes no.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
No no no no no, maybe no no no. He's
got his own stadium. So here he is hanging out
in the leopard skin loincloth. Fifty thousand topless virgins dancing around,
and they were singing tributes to the king. So they
sing in dancing and it's getting I took off all
(27:57):
my claw and the Queen Mother was there too, so
I guess their future mother in law. She is known
as the Great she Elephant. Have you heard the song
they were singing. That's that one. You got a future
(28:23):
mother in law, the Great she Elephant. King mo Sheety
hanging out there. It's lowly claw. She's got them big
ears and big nose, snaggle tooth, you know. But I
bet they don't have TV, you know, so that's probably
a big thing, you know, saying that's.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
What's keeping you in America.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Swaziland only had the Dish network. Boy, he's there playing
fun things to do.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Jackie get the travel edged on the phone.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I hear a road trip coming up that idiot mobile.
Why do I get the impression this will end with
one of those coconut deals. Maybe about just buddy up
the king, you know, hang out with it, have a
communications director or something like that. They need a better
(29:11):
press secretary over there, if they well, that's just one.
They're forty nine thousand, nine hundred ninety nine fifty thousand anything.
There's about to be a good She made the paper,
don't you know.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Don't you know?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The guy from the ap spent like most of the
afternoon looking for the prettiest one. Fine, I won't be king.
I won't go there and hang out there. Wasn't gonna
do a top of this dance with yall. But now wait,
I'll get Marty, Marty, I'm all with it.
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The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.