November 23, 2023 • 48 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The big show is on your radio star of Huey
Lewis in the news.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Huey Lewis in the studio with us.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good morning, Hughie. Oh great man. The microphone ain't working.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's not working. Yeah, there is, there's working out. There's
a button here, says cow.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Watch out, Jackie, reach out and grab you. You gotta
turn your hand to the right. There you go, Taylor.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Good work.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We're getting Taylor. You'll usually we got pork chops and
saut you just don't add on some newspaper out there.
She got up, got you nice white tablecloth, flowers on
the twers and mars. I was gonna tell you he
ate a muffin. Then it was a rubbery thing, isn't it?
But I'm I'm not suing. Oh man, here we thank
(01:06):
you for forgetting up. I know, man, morning come early.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Who says I got up talking to hug somebody? He's
just beating on my microphone.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So huwie, man, let's learn about you history.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You started off playing the harmonica while you were hitch
hiking across Europe?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Is that the deal? Pretty much? Yeah? I took a
year off between high school and college.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I already played harmonica, and I took harmonica because it
kind of fit the image. You know, I had a napsack.
This was nineteen sixty seven, uh huh. And I bummed
around Europe and North Africa and hitchecked by the side
of the road and in Spain, especially in those days
it was Franco Spain, which was a completely different Spain.
And I had long hair, and you know, you could
wait for eight hours to get a ride. So my
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harmonica playing got pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Man, and that was something you're accepted. There's a smart
fella right here in Cornhill University.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, well, I had connect no im. I was a
baseball player in high school and my catcher was a
guy called Dan Nois, and he and I made plans
to go to Corner because his dad was a big
Cornell alumni and a patron and so on, and so
we were going to go together and play ball. But
my old man said, all right, one more thing you
got to do before you go to college, take a
year off and bum around Europe.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Really, man, what my parents let me do, I wouldn't
wouldn't allowed to leave Aliments County.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So so so you were a pitcher.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Lenn that's right. Wow, man, it wasn't very good, but
I mean I was okay.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So, so you come back to America and did you
go back to college or you decided.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I came back to college for five minutes over a
two year period, over a year and a half period,
and I joined bands and played fraternity bands and stuff
for a couple of years. And then this thing has
gone on in San Francisco. You know, there's sixty seven,
this is now, and everything's just kind of exploded in
San Francisco, which is my hometown. And then I just
dropped out of school and went back to San Francisco,
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joined a bluegrass band, originally a big ten piece, kind
of a nutty bluegrass thing we had going, and that
evolved into a band called Clover that I joined for
about five years. We got signed by an English label,
Phonogram Records, who were managed by Dave Robinson and Jake
Riviera who managed Elvis Costello and all that, and so
we lived in England for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
May in fact, we lived in England.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
This is kind of seventy five, just right, seventy five
to seventy eight, seventy seven, and my band, the rhythm
section backed up Elvis on his first record, My Name
Is True, which was our rhythm section on that. And
we toured with Finn Lizzie and Leonard Skinnard and a
bunch of all throughout Europe and Graham Parker and a
Rumor and all that stuff, and made two records, neither
(03:46):
of which did anything is punk hit, you know, right,
And we were long haired, kind of country rock outfit,
and so that didn't happen. But I took a lesson
from the punks in that, although musically I was in
another bag, I envied their stance. They were sort of
thumbing their nose of the record business and singing their
own songs. And we'd been spending years trying to commercialize
(04:07):
our stuff, and I said, you know what, that looks
a lot more fun. So if this band ever breaks up,
I'm going to go back home, surround myself with my
favorite musicians and just play for the hell of it,
which is what we did.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And that's how hul listened News started.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
BYAM and that's what you gotta do. Let that be
a lesson to your kids. That's what did it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Pretty much.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It was an interesting time. I decided I would. After
years of trying to present myself as attractive to record labels,
I figured the hell with that. I'll just do what
I want to do and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So then you were talking about Nick low did he
have a hand in that in your well?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We started this group in San Francisco and I was
offered a club date Monday nights. You know, Monday nights
are dead nights, and so every Monday night they said,
how would you like to run a jam session. I
ran this little jam session every Monday night, and I'd
just call these musicians quietly. I was kind of putting
together a little band on our own and doing some
original stuff. And then I got a call all from
Nick Lowe and Dave Edmonds that they wanted to cut
(05:02):
one of my songs called Bad is Bad, and wanted
me to play harmonica on it. So they said, how
about flying to England to do this, and I said sure. Meanwhile,
our little local Monday night band had got offered some
free studio time because the Monday night thing was taken
off and it was a big night and they so
a studio offered us some free time and for a laugh,
we cut a disco version of Exodus called Exodisco, and
(05:26):
it was pretty funny, and I had it on disc
and it was funny deally. So now I go to
England and I cut my song with Edmunds and Nick Lowe,
and then I play harmonica on another one in Nicoloa's tunes,
and now their record label comes by to hear the
day's stuff and they play them the stuff and we're
else and the record company loves it, and there's kind
of a moment of silence there. I said, you guys,
(05:47):
want to hear something funny, and I put on Exodisco
and the record label loved it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So they offered me a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Singles deal and I signed a singles deal with that,
and they gave me three thousand pounds, which was probably,
you know, five six grand then. And so with that,
I came back and said, guys, I think we got
something going. We made a demo tape of three or
four other tunes, which was the demo tape that attracted
our manager and finally a record label.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But it is tough.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, all the time I'm getting it was tough
back then. It's never an easy time to get a
deal with a record company.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, you know that that's really the hard I mean,
the hardest part of the whole thing is to get
a record countract used to be, you know. I mean,
nowadays you kind of do it yourself because record labels
have I mean, this is part of a much larger discussion,
but the record business has kind of been you know,
absent for a lot of and people are doing it
themselves now. But in those days, you needed a major label,
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you know. So that was the hardest part was to
attract a major.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Lill So, you know, talk to a lot of people,
and it seems like the record companies back then, they
they got you, you know, I mean, they got your
own the stuff where you're able. I mean with many
many of your hiss were you able, like you yourself
to make some good money out there or someone's getting
like the record label.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Frankly, you kind of give the first one away, you know,
and then but then you make new deals and right,
you got to and then you're overpaid. So it's typical
in this business. You're underpaid forever and then then you're overpaid,
you know. And probably ninety five percent of US musicians
are underpaid, maybe maybe ninety nine point ninety us, but
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and the rest are overpaid.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hey joining us right now? Looking is on the line our.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Buddy Paul Forearn, who is doing some touring with you,
and actually he was talking good about you and you
just stopped by.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Good morning, Paul, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
How's everybody do it?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You're doing good, buddy. We got Hughie in here with us, Paul.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I heard that. How you doing?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Huge?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Hey, Paul? Where you at?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
I'm sitting under my carpoord back in two Polo, Mississippi,
dragging a cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Congratulations Paul.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, we get up early over here. Yeah. I
was gonna call and just say hi, man, Hughey. As
I told y'all, he's really helped me a lot this year,
and I just wanted to give him a little shout out.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I don't know, I think that's that's being too gracious, Paul. No,
it's not seen Paul Thorne. You know he helps himself
pretty good.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
So yeah, I know I never did tell y'all, but
when I was a kid, Hughey knows this. But when
I was a kid, I went to a skating rink, uh,
which was against our religion, and I won a Huey
Lewis record and I took it home. I accidentally played
it backwards and it had satanic messages on it. Listen
(08:27):
to this. It was It was that song do you
Believe in Love?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Ye?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And I played it backwards and it said.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Do you believe in Satan?
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Believe he's cool.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Believe in Saytan because he won't you for his barbecue. Yeah.
And ever since then, I started drinking, smoking and cornicating
with women's didn't belong to me.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It was awful for.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It and worse of that, you started writing songs and saying.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I stopped writing God for music, writing song with suggested.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And you helped.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
A serious plug for Paul's new record, which is fantastic.
Is that out yet, Paul?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Yeah, it's been out just a short time.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It's really good, man, It's best work ever and really good.
If you can find it and get it, it's really
really good. And you know, Paul opened for us for
a number of dates, and now everybody is just like
a huge Bawthorn fan. We play your record, by the way,
Paul before we go on stage every night.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Just man, I appreciate that. I appreciate that, like it.
I apologize for busting up in your kool aid without
knowing what the flavor was.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
As Paul, we love you, buddy man with big fans.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's awesome, man.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
And I want to say thanks to you guys and
thanks to huet Man. I just want to say hello man.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All right, Paul, all right, Paul, you have a good day.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Keep in touch man, Okay, buddy, good.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Morning.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The big show is on the radio. Ah Man, I
superhero married man. Our latest episode is coming up next.
That's something man, I remember, old buddy. Y'all know Fred
who married man is than what they're again? Christmas holidays
always the most painful time for the other married man,
didn't did you hear me tell you all that story?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, I needed the Christmas tree and I was in
the mountains. You were poaching, weren't so anyway, teld my
married man. He went out to cut his home and
it was all off. The train took a train up
here in the mountains like ashtro So he gets down
and goes up and then they kid was some kind
of souvenirs.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We get the boy in the snow and his uh
scissor law trying to tell him what to do. But
he didn't have a fridge Muslim, you know, hanging down
to audraage. But anyway, it was still just painful, and.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Uh I love that ending.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I think I saw about married man.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's coming up man.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh yeah, good, h good Saturday morning big shows on
(11:22):
the radio. It's time.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
My readmand. My redman drives around in a menivan god
a wife and some kids. His whole life's onless kids.
Hey there there goes to my read man. How's he feel? Listen, dude,
this poor guy's really screwed hanging on. Buy a bread
(11:52):
cord of milk, loaf of bread. Hang there, there goes
to my readmnd got a gas grill, buys his clothes
at the gap, and he's just about had enough. Followed
this car many band, Mary band friend. The neighborhood married man.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Has nothing life.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I'll let him do what the she says.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It's up about time he grows.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's a screw love you'll.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Find the married nine.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
A story opens on a cold, cloudy Christmas eve. The
winter wind whips around a small bridge over a dark
and icy river. Our hero, married man sits atop the
guardrail with his Powell College buddy, I can't believe your
mini van ran out of gas. I told you the
wife had some last minute errands to run. She must
have just forgotten to go by the service stage.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, all I know is is shead of laughing it
up in the office. Christmas party at the country club.
We're sitting here waiting for somebody to bring us a
can of gas. Of course, it could be worse. At
least this didn't turn out to be another pair of
It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
You know, it's a wonderful life. Jimmy Stewart's getting ready
to kill himself. Clarencey Angel comes by, shows him what
his life would be like if he never was born.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Huh, Well that's not me. I mean, let me tell
you something, College buddy, I already have a wonderful life.
Oh well, excuse me just a minute. Hello, Hi, honey,
what you need me to pick up a can of
cranberry sauce for Christmas dinner? And you called the country club?
(13:32):
They said I wasn't there, and you were wondering where
I was. Well, the mini van kind of ran out
of gas, and College buddy called a friend of his.
He's bringing us some What why was the line busy
when you called just a moment ago? Well, probably because
I let college buddy use my phone to call his friend. Yes,
(13:54):
I know, we only get so many minutes a month.
This was kind of an emergency, honey.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
How did it happen? Well?
Speaker 9 (14:00):
I think you may have forgotten to fill up the
tank when you were out yesterday. No, I think you
were the last one to drive it. Don't you remember?
But well, well you may be right. Yes, it's probably
my fault. Yeah, he's on his way right now. I'm
not really sure. Yeah, I could ask you how long
(14:23):
will it take your friend to get here? About fifteen
more minutes? Probably about fifteen more minutes or so, honey, Yes,
I'll call you when he gets here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Okay, bye. Sorry. So what were we talking about? It's
a wonderful life. Oh yeah, So Jimmy Stewart was in
that huh yeah, he say he was ready to commit
suicide because excuse me again?
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Hello, yes, dear, No, dear, I won't forget the can
of branburry sauce.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Right. What's that?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Mother Fletcher is in town and she's going to be
spending the whole week with us. Well, yes, it is
great news. I'll tell her I look forward to seeing her.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Okay, goodbye. So Jimmy Stewart was, Yeah, Jimmy Stewart was
Damn hello, Yes, honey, what's that?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Mother?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Fletcher wants to know if college buddy's friend could stop
by a convenience store and pick up what. I don't
know if Reesu's makes peanut butter Christmas reads. She's sure
she saw them last year. Well, I guess I could
check into that. Okay, No, college buddy's friend. He really
hasn't had time to get here yet. Hanh Yes, I'll
(15:37):
call you soon.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So suicide huh yeah, he got this idea that, hey,
married man, you're not thinking of jumping off this bridge,
are you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Sometimes I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels here,
you know. I mean, every moment of my life is
laid off for me. She never stopped every hour of
every day. It's always sometimes I feel like I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Hey, guys, I got your gas right here. Hey Randy boy,
we're starting to wonder if you were gonna show up
married man's wife's worried sick.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, sorry, it took so long.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
I had to finish up my annual two hour Merry
Christmas Darling tape to my wife, and all the way
over here I realized, I know, well, I'd already had
the mystery gift lined up, but I didn't have anything
in case she picked the standard gift. Now, granted, she
never picks the standard gift. But what am I gonna
do if I get caught by surprise? You know, I
remember Christmas in eighty seven. That's when I hey, hey guys, Hey,
(16:37):
married man, Hey, Hey, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Put me down?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Feel better?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Well, you know that's the magic of the holiday season.
No matter how little you have, so people have even less.
You know, college buddy, it may not be a wonderful life,
but it could always be worse. From all of us
have to all of you, there, best wishes for a
happy and blessed holiday.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Seasonday man. Look at this, Randy sure had a lot
of stuff in his car. Hey, reci's peanut butter reads.
I didn't know they still made these. Hey, I'll split
the lift with you your own, big man.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You'll find the money.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Give morning.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
The big show is on the radio and holidays. Man
ain't fun to look back have memories. That's kind of
what we do here on the Big Show. I said,
we're looking back. Shay Hey, oh Budd of the Big Show.
I remember this doctor Evil. Yeah, Shay was thankful and
he got a list right here to prove it. So
let's go back into me way. Well huh, y'all lay
(17:53):
who man?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
This morning the Big Show is on the radio. Let's
go back remember our bud, Shay Hey, one season ago
to three?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
How many was it?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Four seasons ago? You really set stuff up for it
if it gets to fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
So thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
What I'm thankful for?
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I'm thankful that Derek Coleman has four years left on
his contract with the Charlotte Hornets, which guarantees me plenty
of material through two thousand and three.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I'm thankful for the presence of humps like.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Cobby Bunny and Heir Lucas, which assures me that I'll
never drop too far on John Boy's top ten list.
I'm thankful I did get my chiloup so I didn't
have to climb through the drive through window at the
Taco Bell. Thankful that I share an office with news
anchor Lee Melvin. Otherwise I'd have no idea what's new
on Home and Garden Television. I'm thankful for the rock
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who continues to deliver the best lines on television period.
I'm still working on how to work Rudy Pooh in
my sportscasts. I'm thankful everybody seems to have forgotten that
I picked Florida to beat Florida State last week.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Here.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
I'm thankful that Randy's not twins. Thankful for the screen
Gems Network. Finally I can watch Square Pegs and the
Facts of Life again.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Where have you gone?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Lisa Welcher?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
I'm thankful while living in a society where a man
can serve jail time for betting on a sport he
was involved in, be banned from his sport for life,
and never admit any wrongdoing despite mountains of evidence against him,
yet still be perceived as a hero and asked about
it on national TV. I'm thankful for a free trip
to Japan next week. Working for this outfit has paid
some dividends. I'm thankful that John Snyder has an official website.
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I'd hate to stumble across second hand bo Duke Information.
I'm thankful the Winston Cup season is over and the
two thousand season doesn't start for thirty six hours. I'm
thankful that even though David Hasselhoff is about to leave,
Baywatch will live on.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Thankful that there was no weekend at Bernie's three.
Speaker 11 (20:29):
I'm thankful that every local station preems regular programming every
time there's a few sprinkles eight counties away. I'm thankful
that Macon moy shows up about as often as the
Redskins defense. Finally, I'm thankful that Jackie named her dog Goldberg.
Now no one thinks that I care about wrestling too much.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Good morning, the Big Show is on the radios. Look
back at one of our former buds, well noise Ziller bud,
former employee. I guess, shay, Hey, I remember we used
to make fun of him because he had a little
list and something like that. Yeah, let's go back to
Christmases ago.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Yes, you know, Christmas a couple of days away. Here
some last minute gift ideas, Big Show style. The John
Boy gas Master two thousand action figure with super Poop
Turbo action discount coupones for Beanie Weenies, John Boy and
Billy grilling saw sold separately. Manufacturer not responsible for stains
(21:49):
or accidental fires. It's the Billy Supercomputer in the shape
of Billy's head on idiot resistant. Guaranteed to be the
most underappreciated Christmas gift.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Of the holiday season. Of next It's the Jackie.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Curry Ho Ho Ho doll. Wind it Up, Let it
Get Busy. Excellent source of second income. Rust resistant belt
clip money changer included for fast transactions. Up next to
Randy Brazil Nervous rag doll. No batteries needed, just add rednecks.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's Robert D.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Rayford's booz It or Lose It kit includes tips on
how to build your nine drinking friends out of their
airplane liquor.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
The Spooky Joe doll.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
With super wretch powers and real back hair.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
My favorite, the Cobby Bunny play figure with unintelligible speech
chip and supercolor change hair legs sold separately. The I'm
Lee Melvin Dammit don The Lee Melvin SmackDown starter said
contempt for all mankind not included. Making Moy's word work
(23:00):
is for suckers. Game golf clubs and two strokes per
whole included.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
No balls.
Speaker 11 (23:09):
General Saddler's Gonko Military action hero Don says the phrases yes,
Sir Bruton and you're absidamtely right. Humpy includes literature to
nine military's knowledge of UFOs, Smarty Marty. The One Man's Party,
Go Go Geisha gift set includes kimono, saki, sushi, scented
massage oils, and a room for one especially designed for
(23:32):
the man who can't score. It's the Big Show listener
Barry Hopson Cloak of Invisibility play sets allows you to.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Go unrecognized for up to nine months.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
It's the Pillar's Acting Buddy dress up doll comes with
John Boys throw away T shirts, and finally, It's the Heir.
Lucas Junior moot set Learn from the Best includes detailed
documentation on how to pass yourself off as Big Show
head right staff of Chinapher and heating and air conditioning
experts dog sold separately.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Good morning, everybody, got the Big Show on your radio?
Urge you to go to the Big Show. That's how
urgent it is. I think you could hear the urgency
in the voice. We urgent.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Urging.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Oh man, funny, she's going, Oh but my list, Oh man,
I forgot what I was urgent.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'll go to the Big Show dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, get a one of a kind Stein from Paddy
Paddy up in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Check those out.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
John Boy and Billy Stein's mugs.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Here.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
It just occurs to me, since you can't type it all, Jackie,
you'll have to since you keep up with the goings
on on such how many mugs has John Boy bought?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Huh, I'm saving up.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I won't make sure everybody gets one's.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm gonna get you all something good this year.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I mean not no, Patty's fine, but go you already have.
I remember I made y'all buy one.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
It's that an idea for a reality show that he
was trying to get off the ground. Buy your own
Christmas press.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right, So congratulations, headphones.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Now we got We've got another hour of this show
to go.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
First of all, Billy Playhouse that's coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Good morning to big.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Shows on the radio.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Let's dude, Welcome to John Boy and Billy Playhouse. Today's
episode Future Shock. As our story opens, retired radio duo
John Boy and Billy meet for their weekly Saturday morning
breakfast at the Doughnut Hut in the year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay, gentlemen, that's too blazed. And two coffees that'll be
four hundred dollars, Holy moly.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And prices just keep going up.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Ion'ty hey, you get unlimited refills. Yell at me, I
got feelings, hape the change, I tell you, Billy, we
should ask a good time ever miss old radio game
and not really a boss man got a little bit
too persnickety there towards the end, started making too many
rules about what we could talk about on the air. First,
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nikked you still grab?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Why was that anyway?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Well? Record?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
It all started back in seven when Randy won that
big sexual harassment lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Again you he spent twenty years sitting now on a
little sucker wrote that down.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Playing business at Jet Power John Boys pre owned Hovercraft
superstores better than ever. I didn't mean to go out there.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
They're almost forty billion in sales last year. Of course,
as it gross not dead.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, what'd you end up with after Texas fifteen hundred dollars?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Luise, don't put that into your mouth. It's dirty, man.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That fat woman over here got a moutholder, don't you
in the butt to match you? She looks kind of familiar.
Can't place her. Sheere got a bunch of young and luise.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Stop that, I say, stop that.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 12 (27:40):
Aren't you talking? Aren't you talking to me? I don't
see no out here? Aren't you talking to me?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I just wonder if you wouldn't raise your voice so much?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
He goes, why excuse me.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I didn't realize you tore such delicate flowers.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, madamages to keep hollering like a band gee right
here in the middle of the restaurant. Dude, you're getting
a little bit nerve racked.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How dare you?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You can't talk to me like that? Don't you know why?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I ain't no, no, ma'am, can't say we do.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Dusty name Jlo mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You're kidding.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You invented Jello, not Jello, your horses. E Jelo?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
What Jelo?
Speaker 8 (28:28):
What Jelo?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I gotta get this hearing a hold on there?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Jlo?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You mean you're Jennifer Lopez, that singer.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
That's right, Poppy Jenny from the block.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Man, I ain't heard nothing about you in years.
Speaker 13 (28:50):
That's because I don't do the show business anymore. I
finally found my true calling in life, being a good
mother to my children. Away, I will kill you.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
How many up you got there?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Name Louise Louise alone?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
H mister Lopez, Am I crazy? Or did you just
say Louise, leave Louise alone?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
No, I said Louise Louise.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Hell you mean you got two kids with the same name.
Speaker 13 (29:23):
Actually, they're all named Louise. There's the youngest, Louise is two.
Then there's four year o Luise, six year old Luise,
eight year old Louise. Tang your ol Luise, the twins
that the other twins, they're fourteen.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
We don't get kind of confused.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
He's not so bad.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, why in the world did you give them all
the same first name?
Speaker 13 (29:48):
It makes it easier when I called them for dinner.
I just go to the door and say Louise summer
time and they all turn running.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I get it. Hey, that's very smart. Yeah, what if
you just want to get one of them to come?
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
In that case, I called them by their last things.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We hope you've enjoyed John Boy and Billy playhouse.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Last I say, I you.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
You, And then again next time when we'll hear krusty
old Mary Kate Olsen say hey, thanks, man, Let me.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Hold it dog.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Good morning, the big shows on the radio.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, ain't on some bad coming up? NeXT's gonna
talk about Superman continue ros. Who was y'all's favorite superheroes
growing up? I learned to read at an early age
because I got tired of people.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Wait, no, no, no, no, really.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
This is true.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
I taught myself to read when I was like four
and a half five years old because I wanted to
be able to read Superman comics.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh yeah, I'm tired of waiting for Grandma to come.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You taught yourself? Yeah, I mean, do you have tapes
or books or anything.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
I just kind of, you know, just figured out the Yeah, yeah,
just figured it out.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Man, When did I learn to read?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
I think it was Tuesday, Tuesday Afternoon. By the way,
A spider Man was always my all time favorite.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Spider Man is your favorite?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I like iron Man for some reason.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Iron Man had it going on.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Iron Man and Thorer were my favorites.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Yeah. Me.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Terry Craigs Bubby Taylor used to wrestle like in Leave
Piles and would always be iron.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Man and who would they be?
Speaker 10 (31:31):
Leaf Man and wrest I guess I always I always
liked Superman because I always wish I could fly Superman.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, you know, well, actually Superman didn't start out flying.
He started off jumping.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
He could leap.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He was leap tall buildings in a single bound. He
was faster than a locomotive, right, faster than a seating bullet, powerful.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
Than a bag of hands.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I talked my yeah, yeah, all right, y'all, let's talk
about Superman.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
We'll do that next.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Hango, good morning, The Big Show is on the radio. Now,
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George Reeves was Superman. He played Superman on TV TV.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Now, now, now did he kill himself? The Superman killed himself?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:42):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
With a gun?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Now, but but but it was but some said that
maybe it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
It was allegedly yeah, that there is evidence that it
might have been a murder instead of a suicide. There
was more than one bullet hole found in the bedroom
and all this stuff. But you know, the traditional story
is Superman killed with a handgun.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
So so how do you do it? Like like he
fired in himself three times and bounce him. Then he
threw the gun at him, so bullets kept bouncing off
and he forgot the duck. He forgot the duck. You
know that was something Superman. You know, Superman stand there
and take bullets bouncing off him. Then the crook would
always when he ran out of bus, he would always
throw the gun at Superman and Superman would duck.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Now now now slipping you you remember when when Superman died?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Right you?
Speaker 7 (33:23):
You?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
You you took a tour or something like that? Is
that the deal?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I saw a tour on television.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
There's a tour on television.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Put you in his hearse and rides you around, showing
you where people died.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Where did Superman die?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Where was you?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Remember that? He was right up over his uh garage?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
His garage?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
What's that footy? His garage.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
So got hurt?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We'll take around point out.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
I think it would be like, you know, in the
mouth of a volcano. She was trying to reverse the
Earth's orbit and he died of a hernie or something
the garage in the rumpus room.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Throw a gun himself from out the duck. Okay, so
did any other people die around us? Some lady died
over here beside the fire hiding. He was pointing that
out too, Lassie could be last month he was yeah.
Last it was cold and she froze in the fire hider.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Anyway, the show almost cost Reeves his life. In nineteen
fifty three, while Reeves was making an appearance as Superman
in Detroit. This is some interesting stuff. Randy producer is
very quick. He came up with this just like that.
A youngster aimed his father's loaded pistol at Reeves while
he was doing an appearance. He wanted to watch bullets
bounce off Superman, he said. George calmly talked the kid
into giving up the gun, but he stopped wearing the
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Superman suit in public, and who can blame him?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
So, but he did.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
He took the bullet out of the gun, gave the
gun back to the kid. The kid threw it at
him and he ducked. Okay. So anyway, so we're talking
about superheroes and superpowers, and you know Superman, of course,
you know one of the main days. Young Man was
really the.
Speaker 9 (35:01):
First costume with a cape type superhero in history. Yeah,
thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
But now, I mean there are so many around, there's
so many new ones around, you know, with neat superpowers.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
Yeah, well, and you think, you know, it sounds easy,
you know Superman, Okay, he was sent to Earth, you know,
before his home planet exploded, and he gets his powers
from the yellow Sun of Earth. Spider Man, he was
bitten by a radioactive spider, so he has the powers
of a spider.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And I see.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
You know, some of these are sound pretty simple, but
you know for every one of those great ideas, there
are some that well, let's say bites just don't make
the cut.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Didn't quite make it. We'll here are the John Win
Billy Big Show research department. We came up with some
that never quite made the superhero list. For example, you've
got one right there, yeah, maintenance man. Now this never
he had the power to fix broken motail air conditioners,
but it never, which is a neat power. But he
doesn't make an exciting comic book. It was in his
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outfit his name over the pocket, you know, it's just
never no cape or anything.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
Well that and that blew his secret identity too, because
his name right over the pocket. And remember the clapper.
The clapper his power was he had the power to
turn off the lights without getting out of bed.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Would have made for some real short adventures. Of course,
you you've heard of the X Men, Yeah, have you
heard this group? Never the ex wives, Oh they never.
They had the power to suck money out of men's
bank account and it was kind of.
Speaker 9 (36:27):
And of course there was David Letterman. He had the
power to suck money out of TV network.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
They schedule up. What about Tidy bowl Man? Now he
was just floating around in the back of them. Not
a whole lot of action on in the back portion
of the of the commos. And then there was mister Cash.
He had the power to get Billy Packard to return
his phone cast.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
And that's not pretty much. So those flight make it,
Thank you very much, will be here all morning.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Good morning, the Big Shows on the radio. All right,
I'm a favorite of all time. Talking about songs. It
HAPs to me from mister Tim Wilson, Tim Wilson and
Ricky ted Wells. Mama's gonna play football next on the
Big Show. Good morning, The Big Show is on the radio.
(37:36):
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without football, little football songs. Tim Wilson.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Ricky tid Well was a great athlete, was.
Speaker 14 (37:44):
A big, strong boy that was quick on his feet.
In every college in the country wanted Ricky on their line.
By one of the scouts, come knocking on Ricky's.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
No worry.
Speaker 14 (37:54):
They didn't want to talk to young rick no more.
When there's always Mama. She's the one they wanted to line.
She was a row bone woman, raised on a farm,
had bear bright tattooed on her forearm.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Mean her and hell and run.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
A forty in four point two.
Speaker 14 (38:12):
She can squat six hundred, bench press five the hands
down me and this homemaker alive. Got a scholarship playing
linebacker at at Rescue's. Yeah, ricketed Wells, Mama's gonna play football.
Her old names Doris, but they gonna call her too tall.
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She's got shoulders and a hind end four foot wide.
Gone to college on a full ride. Doris Toodwell's gonna
play in the n seed of way. She'd wash all
her teammates uniforms, tucked everybody in in the football door.
Cook the game meals, set the Lord's prayer. You're missing
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the jockstrap. She's got a spear. Crawl in the huddle
and call all the plays only one tough enough to
go both ways. Get a mouthful of mud, scarred up knees,
cussing out the coaches, spitting on referees, Rickey did Well.
Mama's gonna play football. Her real named Doors. Everybody calls
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her too tall. They say she's a fine young man,
but she's really not. Rickey's mama was the master of
the cheap shine and on a triple option play she
could ruin your day. She led the team in tackles
in the league in sacks, responsible for killing nine running backs.
(39:35):
But the school's reputation was destroyed. They accused Ricky's mama upsteroids,
Rickety ted Wells mama's home probation, and Bobby Bowden is.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Under an investigation.
Speaker 14 (39:51):
Yeah, they wouldn't leave poor Rickey ted Wells mama alone
said she'd been taking mail hormones. Doris tied Wells go,
We'll be hell the.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
En rick it in Wells Mama looks a lot like
Dom Zimmer.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
The Big Show is on the radio. Before we get
out of here.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
In this Thanksgiving weekend, y'all have a happy Thanksgiving weekend.
Let's be thankful every day of the year. It's just
still of picking out.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
One to do it, all right, how about that ah man,
you might hit a right altitude. Let's bring him in here.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Is Oliver.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Well Well, Well.
Speaker 13 (41:04):
It's that time of year again, when we rejoice in
the opportunity to gather our loved ones together, when we
join thankful hands around a common table, feast on nature's bounty,
and count the Lord's many blessings, to bask in the
glorious sights, the jubilant sounds, and the heavenly smells of
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the holiday season. And if your name is Norman Rockwell,
that is exactly the kind of mythological, picture perfect fantasy
you can expect for the rest.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Of us, poor Slavs.
Speaker 13 (41:42):
It's just our turn to roll out the good trough
and slop that mooching pack of low life otherwise known
as your wife's family and friends. As your guests arrive,
you know longer wonder why there are more suicides around
(42:02):
the holidays. First in are your in laws, knowing the
enemy is half the battle, so you lock the liquor cabinets.
The last thing you need is your wife's old man
getting hammered, stripping down to his threadbare boxes and challenging
(42:26):
you to wrastle. You keep your mother in law busy
for hours simply by asking her how she's feeling. It's
like you've pulled an endless string on a great big
blue head, chatty Kathy on speed. When you've heard enough,
(42:50):
trot out that box of bonbonds stuffed with horse tranquilizers.
With any luck, you won't hear from her till next season.
And speaking of horses, that's not the thunder of mighty hooves.
It's your sister in law coming up the sidewalk. No
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doubt she'll arrive via ups, seeing as it's cheaper than
three or four airline seats. As you gaze at her
broad shoulders, you'll thank Heaven you have double doors as
she barrels breathlessly past you, shaking your homes very foundation.
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Her arrival also signals the moment you've dreaded most of all,
your wife, her sister, and their mother together the reunification
of the unholy trinity. What should be a simple group
hug looks more like unlawful assembly. Within seconds, the small
(44:00):
talk is over and they're making a run at the
snack table. When you caution them not to ruin their appetite,
their hideous laughter makes you break into a cold sweat.
To top it off, here comes sister in law's ex husband.
As you look at his rail thin frame, far set
(44:20):
upon eyes and triangular head. You no longer doubt that
aliens are among us. You don't worry if you'll have
enough food. You know that he'll chain smoke his dinner
with a cool menthol for dessert. Not far behind him
is the rotten fruit of his tattooed loins. The twins,
(44:45):
or as you call them, those damn kids, identical twins
that look nothing like the parents, more like a freakish
genetic cross between Opie the flying monkey from Wizard of
Our and that deliverance kid, complete with matching lazy eyes.
(45:08):
Instinct tells you to frisk them at the door next
you immediately immediately release all of your pets, realizing they'll
stand up better chance in traffic than at the hands
of these junior Jeffrey Dahmas. When your wife suggests you
find something for them to play with, haul out the
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plastic bags and draino. The only thing worse than these
kids is picturing the freakish union that created them. No
doubt one of your wife's single friends will drop by.
As if the mustache wasn't enough. All the glade in
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the house won't kill the vague stench of bo that
surrounds her like an aura, and she'll sit in the
corner picking her toenails, complaining that all the good guys
are already taken. At this point, you've abandoned any attempt
at a festive holiday table setting. You just throw open
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the kitchen door and get out of the way. In
a last ditch effort at civility, you let the ladies
go first. The snapping of bones and the rending of
flesh is something right out of Wild Kingdom. You think
this crew had never seen food before, and by the
time they're done, the kitchen looks like the first three
(46:31):
rows of a Gallagher concert. After you've hosed down the
sight of the massacre, you stumble through your home looking
for a place to rest, but to no avail. The
women folk have taken all available beds as they sleep
off their feeding frenzy. The sound of their snoring is
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like elephants seal mating season. The couch is taken by
alien brother in law, who's finishing his second cut of
Paul Maul's while getting a lap dance from your wife's
stinky friend. Pops is in the basement doing draino shooters
with the twins. You stagger out of the house and
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into the woods, praying for a rabbit animal to put
you out of your misery. But as the sun sets,
it begins to snow. The cold flakes land softly on
your face, melting on your cheeks like an angel's kiss,
waking you to the true spirit of the holidays, forgiveness, understanding,
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and unconditional love. You also realize that with this kind
of weather, no one will be going home, so you
immediately join your.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
Pets in the heavy traffic. Happy holidays and bone.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Apathy bet boxes.
Speaker 9 (47:59):
Here they are all your favorites from four decades of
The Big Show ninety nine since each fifteen for nine
ninety nine. Buy them once, play them anywhere, find your
faves and roll your own playlist. Right now at the
Bigshow dot com. You can order JBMB stuff, T shirts, hats,
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Speaker 1 (48:22):
AI y'all have great rest of your day. We love
you and weaving
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The big show is on your radio star of Huey
Lewis in the news.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Huey Lewis in the studio with us.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good morning, Hughie. Oh great man. The microphone ain't working.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's not working. Yeah, there is, there's working out. There's
a button here, says cow.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Watch out, Jackie, reach out and grab you. You gotta
turn your hand to the right. There you go, Taylor.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Good work.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We're getting Taylor. You'll usually we got pork chops and
saut you just don't add on some newspaper out there.
She got up, got you nice white tablecloth, flowers on
the twers and mars. I was gonna tell you he
ate a muffin. Then it was a rubbery thing, isn't it?
But I'm I'm not suing. Oh man, here we thank
(01:06):
you for forgetting up. I know, man, morning come early.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Who says I got up talking to hug somebody? He's
just beating on my microphone.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So huwie, man, let's learn about you history.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You started off playing the harmonica while you were hitch
hiking across Europe?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Is that the deal? Pretty much? Yeah? I took a
year off between high school and college.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I already played harmonica, and I took harmonica because it
kind of fit the image. You know, I had a napsack.
This was nineteen sixty seven, uh huh. And I bummed
around Europe and North Africa and hitchecked by the side
of the road and in Spain, especially in those days
it was Franco Spain, which was a completely different Spain.
And I had long hair, and you know, you could
wait for eight hours to get a ride. So my
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harmonica playing got pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Man, and that was something you're accepted. There's a smart
fella right here in Cornhill University.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, well, I had connect no im. I was a
baseball player in high school and my catcher was a
guy called Dan Nois, and he and I made plans
to go to Corner because his dad was a big
Cornell alumni and a patron and so on, and so
we were going to go together and play ball. But
my old man said, all right, one more thing you
got to do before you go to college, take a
year off and bum around Europe.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Really, man, what my parents let me do, I wouldn't
wouldn't allowed to leave Aliments County.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So so so you were a pitcher.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Lenn that's right. Wow, man, it wasn't very good, but
I mean I was okay.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So, so you come back to America and did you
go back to college or you decided.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I came back to college for five minutes over a
two year period, over a year and a half period,
and I joined bands and played fraternity bands and stuff
for a couple of years. And then this thing has
gone on in San Francisco. You know, there's sixty seven,
this is now, and everything's just kind of exploded in
San Francisco, which is my hometown. And then I just
dropped out of school and went back to San Francisco,
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joined a bluegrass band, originally a big ten piece, kind
of a nutty bluegrass thing we had going, and that
evolved into a band called Clover that I joined for
about five years. We got signed by an English label,
Phonogram Records, who were managed by Dave Robinson and Jake
Riviera who managed Elvis Costello and all that, and so
we lived in England for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
May in fact, we lived in England.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
This is kind of seventy five, just right, seventy five
to seventy eight, seventy seven, and my band, the rhythm
section backed up Elvis on his first record, My Name
Is True, which was our rhythm section on that. And
we toured with Finn Lizzie and Leonard Skinnard and a
bunch of all throughout Europe and Graham Parker and a
Rumor and all that stuff, and made two records, neither
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of which did anything is punk hit, you know, right,
And we were long haired, kind of country rock outfit,
and so that didn't happen. But I took a lesson
from the punks in that, although musically I was in
another bag, I envied their stance. They were sort of
thumbing their nose of the record business and singing their
own songs. And we'd been spending years trying to commercialize
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our stuff, and I said, you know what, that looks
a lot more fun. So if this band ever breaks up,
I'm going to go back home, surround myself with my
favorite musicians and just play for the hell of it,
which is what we did.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And that's how hul listened News started.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
BYAM and that's what you gotta do. Let that be
a lesson to your kids. That's what did it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Pretty much.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It was an interesting time. I decided I would. After
years of trying to present myself as attractive to record labels,
I figured the hell with that. I'll just do what
I want to do and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So then you were talking about Nick low did he
have a hand in that in your well?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We started this group in San Francisco and I was
offered a club date Monday nights. You know, Monday nights
are dead nights, and so every Monday night they said,
how would you like to run a jam session. I
ran this little jam session every Monday night, and I'd
just call these musicians quietly. I was kind of putting
together a little band on our own and doing some
original stuff. And then I got a call all from
Nick Lowe and Dave Edmonds that they wanted to cut
(05:02):
one of my songs called Bad is Bad, and wanted
me to play harmonica on it. So they said, how
about flying to England to do this, and I said sure. Meanwhile,
our little local Monday night band had got offered some
free studio time because the Monday night thing was taken
off and it was a big night and they so
a studio offered us some free time and for a laugh,
we cut a disco version of Exodus called Exodisco, and
(05:26):
it was pretty funny, and I had it on disc
and it was funny deally. So now I go to
England and I cut my song with Edmunds and Nick Lowe,
and then I play harmonica on another one in Nicoloa's tunes,
and now their record label comes by to hear the
day's stuff and they play them the stuff and we're
else and the record company loves it, and there's kind
of a moment of silence there. I said, you guys,
(05:47):
want to hear something funny, and I put on Exodisco
and the record label loved it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So they offered me a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Singles deal and I signed a singles deal with that,
and they gave me three thousand pounds, which was probably,
you know, five six grand then. And so with that,
I came back and said, guys, I think we got
something going. We made a demo tape of three or
four other tunes, which was the demo tape that attracted
our manager and finally a record label.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But it is tough.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, all the time I'm getting it was tough
back then. It's never an easy time to get a
deal with a record company.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, you know that that's really the hard I mean,
the hardest part of the whole thing is to get
a record countract used to be, you know. I mean,
nowadays you kind of do it yourself because record labels
have I mean, this is part of a much larger discussion,
but the record business has kind of been you know,
absent for a lot of and people are doing it
themselves now. But in those days, you needed a major label,
(06:40):
you know. So that was the hardest part was to
attract a major.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Lill So, you know, talk to a lot of people,
and it seems like the record companies back then, they
they got you, you know, I mean, they got your
own the stuff where you're able. I mean with many
many of your hiss were you able, like you yourself
to make some good money out there or someone's getting
like the record label.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Frankly, you kind of give the first one away, you know,
and then but then you make new deals and right,
you got to and then you're overpaid. So it's typical
in this business. You're underpaid forever and then then you're overpaid,
you know. And probably ninety five percent of US musicians
are underpaid, maybe maybe ninety nine point ninety us, but
(07:21):
and the rest are overpaid.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hey joining us right now? Looking is on the line our.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Buddy Paul Forearn, who is doing some touring with you,
and actually he was talking good about you and you
just stopped by.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Good morning, Paul, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
How's everybody do it?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You're doing good, buddy. We got Hughie in here with us, Paul.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I heard that. How you doing?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Huge?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Hey, Paul? Where you at?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
I'm sitting under my carpoord back in two Polo, Mississippi,
dragging a cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Congratulations Paul.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, we get up early over here. Yeah. I
was gonna call and just say hi, man, Hughey. As
I told y'all, he's really helped me a lot this year,
and I just wanted to give him a little shout out.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I don't know, I think that's that's being too gracious, Paul. No,
it's not seen Paul Thorne. You know he helps himself
pretty good.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
So yeah, I know I never did tell y'all, but
when I was a kid, Hughey knows this. But when
I was a kid, I went to a skating rink, uh,
which was against our religion, and I won a Huey
Lewis record and I took it home. I accidentally played
it backwards and it had satanic messages on it. Listen
(08:27):
to this. It was It was that song do you
Believe in Love?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Ye?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And I played it backwards and it said.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Do you believe in Satan?
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Believe he's cool.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Believe in Saytan because he won't you for his barbecue. Yeah.
And ever since then, I started drinking, smoking and cornicating
with women's didn't belong to me.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It was awful for.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It and worse of that, you started writing songs and saying.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I stopped writing God for music, writing song with suggested.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And you helped.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
A serious plug for Paul's new record, which is fantastic.
Is that out yet, Paul?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Yeah, it's been out just a short time.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It's really good, man, It's best work ever and really good.
If you can find it and get it, it's really
really good. And you know, Paul opened for us for
a number of dates, and now everybody is just like
a huge Bawthorn fan. We play your record, by the way,
Paul before we go on stage every night.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Just man, I appreciate that. I appreciate that, like it.
I apologize for busting up in your kool aid without
knowing what the flavor was.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
As Paul, we love you, buddy man with big fans.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's awesome, man.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
And I want to say thanks to you guys and
thanks to huet Man. I just want to say hello man.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All right, Paul, all right, Paul, you have a good day.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Keep in touch man, Okay, buddy, good.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Morning.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The big show is on the radio. Ah Man, I
superhero married man. Our latest episode is coming up next.
That's something man, I remember, old buddy. Y'all know Fred
who married man is than what they're again? Christmas holidays
always the most painful time for the other married man,
didn't did you hear me tell you all that story?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, I needed the Christmas tree and I was in
the mountains. You were poaching, weren't so anyway, teld my
married man. He went out to cut his home and
it was all off. The train took a train up
here in the mountains like ashtro So he gets down
and goes up and then they kid was some kind
of souvenirs.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We get the boy in the snow and his uh
scissor law trying to tell him what to do. But
he didn't have a fridge Muslim, you know, hanging down
to audraage. But anyway, it was still just painful, and.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Uh I love that ending.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I think I saw about married man.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's coming up man.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh yeah, good, h good Saturday morning big shows on
(11:22):
the radio. It's time.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
My readmand. My redman drives around in a menivan god
a wife and some kids. His whole life's onless kids.
Hey there there goes to my read man. How's he feel? Listen, dude,
this poor guy's really screwed hanging on. Buy a bread
(11:52):
cord of milk, loaf of bread. Hang there, there goes
to my readmnd got a gas grill, buys his clothes
at the gap, and he's just about had enough. Followed
this car many band, Mary band friend. The neighborhood married man.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Has nothing life.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I'll let him do what the she says.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It's up about time he grows.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's a screw love you'll.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Find the married nine.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
A story opens on a cold, cloudy Christmas eve. The
winter wind whips around a small bridge over a dark
and icy river. Our hero, married man sits atop the
guardrail with his Powell College buddy, I can't believe your
mini van ran out of gas. I told you the
wife had some last minute errands to run. She must
have just forgotten to go by the service stage.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, all I know is is shead of laughing it
up in the office. Christmas party at the country club.
We're sitting here waiting for somebody to bring us a
can of gas. Of course, it could be worse. At
least this didn't turn out to be another pair of
It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
You know, it's a wonderful life. Jimmy Stewart's getting ready
to kill himself. Clarencey Angel comes by, shows him what
his life would be like if he never was born.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Huh, Well that's not me. I mean, let me tell
you something, College buddy, I already have a wonderful life.
Oh well, excuse me just a minute. Hello, Hi, honey,
what you need me to pick up a can of
cranberry sauce for Christmas dinner? And you called the country club?
(13:32):
They said I wasn't there, and you were wondering where
I was. Well, the mini van kind of ran out
of gas, and College buddy called a friend of his.
He's bringing us some What why was the line busy
when you called just a moment ago? Well, probably because
I let college buddy use my phone to call his friend. Yes,
(13:54):
I know, we only get so many minutes a month.
This was kind of an emergency, honey.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
How did it happen? Well?
Speaker 9 (14:00):
I think you may have forgotten to fill up the
tank when you were out yesterday. No, I think you
were the last one to drive it. Don't you remember?
But well, well you may be right. Yes, it's probably
my fault. Yeah, he's on his way right now. I'm
not really sure. Yeah, I could ask you how long
(14:23):
will it take your friend to get here? About fifteen
more minutes? Probably about fifteen more minutes or so, honey, Yes,
I'll call you when he gets here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Okay, bye. Sorry. So what were we talking about? It's
a wonderful life. Oh yeah, So Jimmy Stewart was in
that huh yeah, he say he was ready to commit
suicide because excuse me again?
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Hello, yes, dear, No, dear, I won't forget the can
of branburry sauce.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Right. What's that?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Mother Fletcher is in town and she's going to be
spending the whole week with us. Well, yes, it is
great news. I'll tell her I look forward to seeing her.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Okay, goodbye. So Jimmy Stewart was, Yeah, Jimmy Stewart was
Damn hello, Yes, honey, what's that?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Mother?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Fletcher wants to know if college buddy's friend could stop
by a convenience store and pick up what. I don't
know if Reesu's makes peanut butter Christmas reads. She's sure
she saw them last year. Well, I guess I could
check into that. Okay, No, college buddy's friend. He really
hasn't had time to get here yet. Hanh Yes, I'll
(15:37):
call you soon.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So suicide huh yeah, he got this idea that, hey,
married man, you're not thinking of jumping off this bridge,
are you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Sometimes I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels here,
you know. I mean, every moment of my life is
laid off for me. She never stopped every hour of
every day. It's always sometimes I feel like I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Hey, guys, I got your gas right here. Hey Randy boy,
we're starting to wonder if you were gonna show up
married man's wife's worried sick.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, sorry, it took so long.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
I had to finish up my annual two hour Merry
Christmas Darling tape to my wife, and all the way
over here I realized, I know, well, I'd already had
the mystery gift lined up, but I didn't have anything
in case she picked the standard gift. Now, granted, she
never picks the standard gift. But what am I gonna
do if I get caught by surprise? You know, I
remember Christmas in eighty seven. That's when I hey, hey guys, Hey,
(16:37):
married man, Hey, Hey, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Put me down?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Feel better?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Well, you know that's the magic of the holiday season.
No matter how little you have, so people have even less.
You know, college buddy, it may not be a wonderful life,
but it could always be worse. From all of us
have to all of you, there, best wishes for a
happy and blessed holiday.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Seasonday man. Look at this, Randy sure had a lot
of stuff in his car. Hey, reci's peanut butter reads.
I didn't know they still made these. Hey, I'll split
the lift with you your own, big man.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You'll find the money.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Give morning.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
The big show is on the radio and holidays. Man
ain't fun to look back have memories. That's kind of
what we do here on the Big Show. I said,
we're looking back. Shay Hey, oh Budd of the Big Show.
I remember this doctor Evil. Yeah, Shay was thankful and
he got a list right here to prove it. So
let's go back into me way. Well huh, y'all lay
(17:53):
who man?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
This morning the Big Show is on the radio. Let's
go back remember our bud, Shay Hey, one season ago
to three?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
How many was it?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Four seasons ago? You really set stuff up for it
if it gets to fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
So thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
What I'm thankful for?
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I'm thankful that Derek Coleman has four years left on
his contract with the Charlotte Hornets, which guarantees me plenty
of material through two thousand and three.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I'm thankful for the presence of humps like.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Cobby Bunny and Heir Lucas, which assures me that I'll
never drop too far on John Boy's top ten list.
I'm thankful I did get my chiloup so I didn't
have to climb through the drive through window at the
Taco Bell. Thankful that I share an office with news
anchor Lee Melvin. Otherwise I'd have no idea what's new
on Home and Garden Television. I'm thankful for the rock
(19:14):
who continues to deliver the best lines on television period.
I'm still working on how to work Rudy Pooh in
my sportscasts. I'm thankful everybody seems to have forgotten that
I picked Florida to beat Florida State last week.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Here.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
I'm thankful that Randy's not twins. Thankful for the screen
Gems Network. Finally I can watch Square Pegs and the
Facts of Life again.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Where have you gone?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Lisa Welcher?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
I'm thankful while living in a society where a man
can serve jail time for betting on a sport he
was involved in, be banned from his sport for life,
and never admit any wrongdoing despite mountains of evidence against him,
yet still be perceived as a hero and asked about
it on national TV. I'm thankful for a free trip
to Japan next week. Working for this outfit has paid
some dividends. I'm thankful that John Snyder has an official website.
(20:06):
I'd hate to stumble across second hand bo Duke Information.
I'm thankful the Winston Cup season is over and the
two thousand season doesn't start for thirty six hours. I'm
thankful that even though David Hasselhoff is about to leave,
Baywatch will live on.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Thankful that there was no weekend at Bernie's three.
Speaker 11 (20:29):
I'm thankful that every local station preems regular programming every
time there's a few sprinkles eight counties away. I'm thankful
that Macon moy shows up about as often as the
Redskins defense. Finally, I'm thankful that Jackie named her dog Goldberg.
Now no one thinks that I care about wrestling too much.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Good morning, the Big Show is on the radios. Look
back at one of our former buds, well noise Ziller bud,
former employee. I guess, shay, Hey, I remember we used
to make fun of him because he had a little
list and something like that. Yeah, let's go back to
Christmases ago.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Yes, you know, Christmas a couple of days away. Here
some last minute gift ideas, Big Show style. The John
Boy gas Master two thousand action figure with super Poop
Turbo action discount coupones for Beanie Weenies, John Boy and
Billy grilling saw sold separately. Manufacturer not responsible for stains
(21:49):
or accidental fires. It's the Billy Supercomputer in the shape
of Billy's head on idiot resistant. Guaranteed to be the
most underappreciated Christmas gift.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Of the holiday season. Of next It's the Jackie.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Curry Ho Ho Ho doll. Wind it Up, Let it
Get Busy. Excellent source of second income. Rust resistant belt
clip money changer included for fast transactions. Up next to
Randy Brazil Nervous rag doll. No batteries needed, just add rednecks.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's Robert D.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Rayford's booz It or Lose It kit includes tips on
how to build your nine drinking friends out of their
airplane liquor.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
The Spooky Joe doll.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
With super wretch powers and real back hair.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
My favorite, the Cobby Bunny play figure with unintelligible speech
chip and supercolor change hair legs sold separately. The I'm
Lee Melvin Dammit don The Lee Melvin SmackDown starter said
contempt for all mankind not included. Making Moy's word work
(23:00):
is for suckers. Game golf clubs and two strokes per
whole included.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
No balls.
Speaker 11 (23:09):
General Saddler's Gonko Military action hero Don says the phrases yes,
Sir Bruton and you're absidamtely right. Humpy includes literature to
nine military's knowledge of UFOs, Smarty Marty. The One Man's Party,
Go Go Geisha gift set includes kimono, saki, sushi, scented
massage oils, and a room for one especially designed for
(23:32):
the man who can't score. It's the Big Show listener
Barry Hopson Cloak of Invisibility play sets allows you to.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Go unrecognized for up to nine months.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
It's the Pillar's Acting Buddy dress up doll comes with
John Boys throw away T shirts, and finally, It's the Heir.
Lucas Junior moot set Learn from the Best includes detailed
documentation on how to pass yourself off as Big Show
head right staff of Chinapher and heating and air conditioning
experts dog sold separately.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Good morning, everybody, got the Big Show on your radio?
Urge you to go to the Big Show. That's how
urgent it is. I think you could hear the urgency
in the voice. We urgent.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Urging.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Oh man, funny, she's going, Oh but my list, Oh man,
I forgot what I was urgent.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'll go to the Big Show dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, get a one of a kind Stein from Paddy
Paddy up in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Check those out.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
John Boy and Billy Stein's mugs.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Here.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
It just occurs to me, since you can't type it all, Jackie,
you'll have to since you keep up with the goings
on on such how many mugs has John Boy bought?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Huh, I'm saving up.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I won't make sure everybody gets one's.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm gonna get you all something good this year.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I mean not no, Patty's fine, but go you already have.
I remember I made y'all buy one.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
It's that an idea for a reality show that he
was trying to get off the ground. Buy your own
Christmas press.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right, So congratulations, headphones.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Now we got We've got another hour of this show
to go.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
First of all, Billy Playhouse that's coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Good morning to big.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Shows on the radio.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Let's dude, Welcome to John Boy and Billy Playhouse. Today's
episode Future Shock. As our story opens, retired radio duo
John Boy and Billy meet for their weekly Saturday morning
breakfast at the Doughnut Hut in the year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay, gentlemen, that's too blazed. And two coffees that'll be
four hundred dollars, Holy moly.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And prices just keep going up.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Ion'ty hey, you get unlimited refills. Yell at me, I
got feelings, hape the change, I tell you, Billy, we
should ask a good time ever miss old radio game
and not really a boss man got a little bit
too persnickety there towards the end, started making too many
rules about what we could talk about on the air. First,
(26:46):
nikked you still grab?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Why was that anyway?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Well? Record?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
It all started back in seven when Randy won that
big sexual harassment lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Again you he spent twenty years sitting now on a
little sucker wrote that down.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Playing business at Jet Power John Boys pre owned Hovercraft
superstores better than ever. I didn't mean to go out there.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
They're almost forty billion in sales last year. Of course,
as it gross not dead.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, what'd you end up with after Texas fifteen hundred dollars?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Luise, don't put that into your mouth. It's dirty, man.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That fat woman over here got a moutholder, don't you
in the butt to match you? She looks kind of familiar.
Can't place her. Sheere got a bunch of young and luise.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Stop that, I say, stop that.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 12 (27:40):
Aren't you talking? Aren't you talking to me? I don't
see no out here? Aren't you talking to me?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I just wonder if you wouldn't raise your voice so much?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
He goes, why excuse me.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I didn't realize you tore such delicate flowers.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, madamages to keep hollering like a band gee right
here in the middle of the restaurant. Dude, you're getting
a little bit nerve racked.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How dare you?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You can't talk to me like that? Don't you know why?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I ain't no, no, ma'am, can't say we do.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Dusty name Jlo mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You're kidding.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You invented Jello, not Jello, your horses. E Jelo?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
What Jelo?
Speaker 8 (28:28):
What Jelo?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I gotta get this hearing a hold on there?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Jlo?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You mean you're Jennifer Lopez, that singer.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
That's right, Poppy Jenny from the block.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Man, I ain't heard nothing about you in years.
Speaker 13 (28:50):
That's because I don't do the show business anymore. I
finally found my true calling in life, being a good
mother to my children. Away, I will kill you.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
How many up you got there?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Name Louise Louise alone?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
H mister Lopez, Am I crazy? Or did you just
say Louise, leave Louise alone?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
No, I said Louise Louise.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Hell you mean you got two kids with the same name.
Speaker 13 (29:23):
Actually, they're all named Louise. There's the youngest, Louise is two.
Then there's four year o Luise, six year old Luise,
eight year old Louise. Tang your ol Luise, the twins
that the other twins, they're fourteen.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
We don't get kind of confused.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
He's not so bad.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, why in the world did you give them all
the same first name?
Speaker 13 (29:48):
It makes it easier when I called them for dinner.
I just go to the door and say Louise summer
time and they all turn running.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I get it. Hey, that's very smart. Yeah, what if
you just want to get one of them to come?
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
In that case, I called them by their last things.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We hope you've enjoyed John Boy and Billy playhouse.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Last I say, I you.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
You, And then again next time when we'll hear krusty
old Mary Kate Olsen say hey, thanks, man, Let me.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Hold it dog.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Good morning, the big shows on the radio.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, ain't on some bad coming up? NeXT's gonna
talk about Superman continue ros. Who was y'all's favorite superheroes
growing up? I learned to read at an early age
because I got tired of people.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Wait, no, no, no, no, really.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
This is true.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
I taught myself to read when I was like four
and a half five years old because I wanted to
be able to read Superman comics.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh yeah, I'm tired of waiting for Grandma to come.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You taught yourself? Yeah, I mean, do you have tapes
or books or anything.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
I just kind of, you know, just figured out the Yeah, yeah,
just figured it out.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Man, When did I learn to read?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
I think it was Tuesday, Tuesday Afternoon. By the way,
A spider Man was always my all time favorite.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Spider Man is your favorite?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I like iron Man for some reason.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Iron Man had it going on.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Iron Man and Thorer were my favorites.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Yeah. Me.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Terry Craigs Bubby Taylor used to wrestle like in Leave
Piles and would always be iron.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Man and who would they be?
Speaker 10 (31:31):
Leaf Man and wrest I guess I always I always
liked Superman because I always wish I could fly Superman.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, you know, well, actually Superman didn't start out flying.
He started off jumping.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
He could leap.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He was leap tall buildings in a single bound. He
was faster than a locomotive, right, faster than a seating bullet, powerful.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
Than a bag of hands.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I talked my yeah, yeah, all right, y'all, let's talk
about Superman.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
We'll do that next.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Hango, good morning, The Big Show is on the radio. Now,
(32:34):
George Reeves was Superman. He played Superman on TV TV.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Now, now, now did he kill himself? The Superman killed himself?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:42):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
With a gun?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Now, but but but it was but some said that
maybe it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
It was allegedly yeah, that there is evidence that it
might have been a murder instead of a suicide. There
was more than one bullet hole found in the bedroom
and all this stuff. But you know, the traditional story
is Superman killed with a handgun.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
So so how do you do it? Like like he
fired in himself three times and bounce him. Then he
threw the gun at him, so bullets kept bouncing off
and he forgot the duck. He forgot the duck. You
know that was something Superman. You know, Superman stand there
and take bullets bouncing off him. Then the crook would
always when he ran out of bus, he would always
throw the gun at Superman and Superman would duck.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Now now now slipping you you remember when when Superman died?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Right you?
Speaker 7 (33:23):
You?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
You you took a tour or something like that? Is
that the deal?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I saw a tour on television.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
There's a tour on television.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Put you in his hearse and rides you around, showing
you where people died.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Where did Superman die?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Where was you?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Remember that? He was right up over his uh garage?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
His garage?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
What's that footy? His garage.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
So got hurt?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We'll take around point out.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
I think it would be like, you know, in the
mouth of a volcano. She was trying to reverse the
Earth's orbit and he died of a hernie or something
the garage in the rumpus room.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Throw a gun himself from out the duck. Okay, so
did any other people die around us? Some lady died
over here beside the fire hiding. He was pointing that
out too, Lassie could be last month he was yeah.
Last it was cold and she froze in the fire hider.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Anyway, the show almost cost Reeves his life. In nineteen
fifty three, while Reeves was making an appearance as Superman
in Detroit. This is some interesting stuff. Randy producer is
very quick. He came up with this just like that.
A youngster aimed his father's loaded pistol at Reeves while
he was doing an appearance. He wanted to watch bullets
bounce off Superman, he said. George calmly talked the kid
into giving up the gun, but he stopped wearing the
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Superman suit in public, and who can blame him?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
So, but he did.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
He took the bullet out of the gun, gave the
gun back to the kid. The kid threw it at
him and he ducked. Okay. So anyway, so we're talking
about superheroes and superpowers, and you know Superman, of course,
you know one of the main days. Young Man was
really the.
Speaker 9 (35:01):
First costume with a cape type superhero in history. Yeah,
thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
But now, I mean there are so many around, there's
so many new ones around, you know, with neat superpowers.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
Yeah, well, and you think, you know, it sounds easy,
you know Superman, Okay, he was sent to Earth, you know,
before his home planet exploded, and he gets his powers
from the yellow Sun of Earth. Spider Man, he was
bitten by a radioactive spider, so he has the powers
of a spider.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And I see.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
You know, some of these are sound pretty simple, but
you know for every one of those great ideas, there
are some that well, let's say bites just don't make
the cut.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Didn't quite make it. We'll here are the John Win
Billy Big Show research department. We came up with some
that never quite made the superhero list. For example, you've
got one right there, yeah, maintenance man. Now this never
he had the power to fix broken motail air conditioners,
but it never, which is a neat power. But he
doesn't make an exciting comic book. It was in his
(35:54):
outfit his name over the pocket, you know, it's just
never no cape or anything.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
Well that and that blew his secret identity too, because
his name right over the pocket. And remember the clapper.
The clapper his power was he had the power to
turn off the lights without getting out of bed.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Would have made for some real short adventures. Of course,
you you've heard of the X Men, Yeah, have you
heard this group? Never the ex wives, Oh they never.
They had the power to suck money out of men's
bank account and it was kind of.
Speaker 9 (36:27):
And of course there was David Letterman. He had the
power to suck money out of TV network.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
They schedule up. What about Tidy bowl Man? Now he
was just floating around in the back of them. Not
a whole lot of action on in the back portion
of the of the commos. And then there was mister Cash.
He had the power to get Billy Packard to return
his phone cast.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
And that's not pretty much. So those flight make it,
Thank you very much, will be here all morning.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Good morning, the Big Shows on the radio. All right,
I'm a favorite of all time. Talking about songs. It
HAPs to me from mister Tim Wilson, Tim Wilson and
Ricky ted Wells. Mama's gonna play football next on the
Big Show. Good morning, The Big Show is on the radio.
(37:36):
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without football, little football songs. Tim Wilson.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Ricky tid Well was a great athlete, was.
Speaker 14 (37:44):
A big, strong boy that was quick on his feet.
In every college in the country wanted Ricky on their line.
By one of the scouts, come knocking on Ricky's.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
No worry.
Speaker 14 (37:54):
They didn't want to talk to young rick no more.
When there's always Mama. She's the one they wanted to line.
She was a row bone woman, raised on a farm,
had bear bright tattooed on her forearm.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Mean her and hell and run.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
A forty in four point two.
Speaker 14 (38:12):
She can squat six hundred, bench press five the hands
down me and this homemaker alive. Got a scholarship playing
linebacker at at Rescue's. Yeah, ricketed Wells, Mama's gonna play football.
Her old names Doris, but they gonna call her too tall.
(38:32):
She's got shoulders and a hind end four foot wide.
Gone to college on a full ride. Doris Toodwell's gonna
play in the n seed of way. She'd wash all
her teammates uniforms, tucked everybody in in the football door.
Cook the game meals, set the Lord's prayer. You're missing
(38:54):
the jockstrap. She's got a spear. Crawl in the huddle
and call all the plays only one tough enough to
go both ways. Get a mouthful of mud, scarred up knees,
cussing out the coaches, spitting on referees, Rickey did Well.
Mama's gonna play football. Her real named Doors. Everybody calls
(39:14):
her too tall. They say she's a fine young man,
but she's really not. Rickey's mama was the master of
the cheap shine and on a triple option play she
could ruin your day. She led the team in tackles
in the league in sacks, responsible for killing nine running backs.
(39:35):
But the school's reputation was destroyed. They accused Ricky's mama upsteroids,
Rickety ted Wells mama's home probation, and Bobby Bowden is.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Under an investigation.
Speaker 14 (39:51):
Yeah, they wouldn't leave poor Rickey ted Wells mama alone
said she'd been taking mail hormones. Doris tied Wells go,
We'll be hell the.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
En rick it in Wells Mama looks a lot like
Dom Zimmer.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
The Big Show is on the radio. Before we get
out of here.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
In this Thanksgiving weekend, y'all have a happy Thanksgiving weekend.
Let's be thankful every day of the year. It's just
still of picking out.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
One to do it, all right, how about that ah man,
you might hit a right altitude. Let's bring him in here.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Is Oliver.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Well Well, Well.
Speaker 13 (41:04):
It's that time of year again, when we rejoice in
the opportunity to gather our loved ones together, when we
join thankful hands around a common table, feast on nature's bounty,
and count the Lord's many blessings, to bask in the
glorious sights, the jubilant sounds, and the heavenly smells of
(41:28):
the holiday season. And if your name is Norman Rockwell,
that is exactly the kind of mythological, picture perfect fantasy
you can expect for the rest.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Of us, poor Slavs.
Speaker 13 (41:42):
It's just our turn to roll out the good trough
and slop that mooching pack of low life otherwise known
as your wife's family and friends. As your guests arrive,
you know longer wonder why there are more suicides around
(42:02):
the holidays. First in are your in laws, knowing the
enemy is half the battle, so you lock the liquor cabinets.
The last thing you need is your wife's old man
getting hammered, stripping down to his threadbare boxes and challenging
(42:26):
you to wrastle. You keep your mother in law busy
for hours simply by asking her how she's feeling. It's
like you've pulled an endless string on a great big
blue head, chatty Kathy on speed. When you've heard enough,
(42:50):
trot out that box of bonbonds stuffed with horse tranquilizers.
With any luck, you won't hear from her till next season.
And speaking of horses, that's not the thunder of mighty hooves.
It's your sister in law coming up the sidewalk. No
(43:12):
doubt she'll arrive via ups, seeing as it's cheaper than
three or four airline seats. As you gaze at her
broad shoulders, you'll thank Heaven you have double doors as
she barrels breathlessly past you, shaking your homes very foundation.
(43:33):
Her arrival also signals the moment you've dreaded most of all,
your wife, her sister, and their mother together the reunification
of the unholy trinity. What should be a simple group
hug looks more like unlawful assembly. Within seconds, the small
(44:00):
talk is over and they're making a run at the
snack table. When you caution them not to ruin their appetite,
their hideous laughter makes you break into a cold sweat.
To top it off, here comes sister in law's ex husband.
As you look at his rail thin frame, far set
(44:20):
upon eyes and triangular head. You no longer doubt that
aliens are among us. You don't worry if you'll have
enough food. You know that he'll chain smoke his dinner
with a cool menthol for dessert. Not far behind him
is the rotten fruit of his tattooed loins. The twins,
(44:45):
or as you call them, those damn kids, identical twins
that look nothing like the parents, more like a freakish
genetic cross between Opie the flying monkey from Wizard of
Our and that deliverance kid, complete with matching lazy eyes.
(45:08):
Instinct tells you to frisk them at the door next
you immediately immediately release all of your pets, realizing they'll
stand up better chance in traffic than at the hands
of these junior Jeffrey Dahmas. When your wife suggests you
find something for them to play with, haul out the
(45:29):
plastic bags and draino. The only thing worse than these
kids is picturing the freakish union that created them. No
doubt one of your wife's single friends will drop by.
As if the mustache wasn't enough. All the glade in
(45:50):
the house won't kill the vague stench of bo that
surrounds her like an aura, and she'll sit in the
corner picking her toenails, complaining that all the good guys
are already taken. At this point, you've abandoned any attempt
at a festive holiday table setting. You just throw open
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the kitchen door and get out of the way. In
a last ditch effort at civility, you let the ladies
go first. The snapping of bones and the rending of
flesh is something right out of Wild Kingdom. You think
this crew had never seen food before, and by the
time they're done, the kitchen looks like the first three
(46:31):
rows of a Gallagher concert. After you've hosed down the
sight of the massacre, you stumble through your home looking
for a place to rest, but to no avail. The
women folk have taken all available beds as they sleep
off their feeding frenzy. The sound of their snoring is
(46:52):
like elephants seal mating season. The couch is taken by
alien brother in law, who's finishing his second cut of
Paul Maul's while getting a lap dance from your wife's
stinky friend. Pops is in the basement doing draino shooters
with the twins. You stagger out of the house and
(47:16):
into the woods, praying for a rabbit animal to put
you out of your misery. But as the sun sets,
it begins to snow. The cold flakes land softly on
your face, melting on your cheeks like an angel's kiss,
waking you to the true spirit of the holidays, forgiveness, understanding,
(47:37):
and unconditional love. You also realize that with this kind
of weather, no one will be going home, so you
immediately join your.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
Pets in the heavy traffic. Happy holidays and bone.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Apathy bet boxes.
Speaker 9 (47:59):
Here they are all your favorites from four decades of
The Big Show ninety nine since each fifteen for nine
ninety nine. Buy them once, play them anywhere, find your
faves and roll your own playlist. Right now at the
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Speaker 1 (48:22):
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