November 27, 2025 • 48 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good morning the big shows on your radio star of
Huey Lewis in the news. 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 caw.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Watch out, Jackie, reach out and grab you. You gotta
turn your hand to the right. There you go, Taylor,
good work. We're gooding, Tater. You'll usually we got pork
chops and sauce. You just don't add on some newspaper
out there. She got up, got you nice white tablecloth,
flowers on the twers and mars.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I was gonna tell you he ate a muffin and
it was a rubbery thing, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
But I'm I'm not suing. Oh man, here, we.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Thank you for forgetting up. I know, man, morning, come early.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Who says I got up?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Talking to human?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Somebody? He's just beating on my microphone. 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? Is that the deal?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Pretty much? Yeah? I took a year off between high
school and college. I already played harmonica, and I took
harmonica because it kind of fit the image. You know.
I had a knapsack. This was nineteen sixty seven, huh.
And I bummed around Europe and North Africa and hitchecked
by the side of the road and in Spain especially,
and in those days it was Franco Spain, which was
a completely different Spain. And I had long hair, and
(01:49):
you know, you could wait for eight hours to get
a ride. So my harmonica playing got pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Man, And that was something you're accepted. There's a smart
fella right here in Cornhill University.
Speaker 3 (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 Cornwer 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.
I wouldn't allowed to leave Aliments County. So so so
you were a pitcher. Len that's right. Wow, man, it
wasn't very good, but I mean I was okay.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
But you know, so, so you come back to America
and did you go back to college or you decided.
Speaker 3 (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 in 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. So I just dropped
out of school and went back to San Francisco. Joined
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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. May in fact,
(03:24):
we lived in England. 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
(03:45):
made two records, neither of which did anything is punk hit,
you know, 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
(04:06):
to commercialize our stuff, and I said, you know what,
that looks a lot more fun. So if this band
ever breaks up, I'm gonna go back home, surround myself
with my favorite musicians and just play for the hell
of it, which is what we did. And that's how
h would listened.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
News started BYAM and that's what you gotta do. Let
that be a lesson to your kids.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That's what did it. Pretty much. 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 3 (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
just call these musicians and quietly I was kind of
putting together a little band on our own and doing
some original stuff. And then I got a call from
nicke Low and Dave Edmonds that they wanted to cut
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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 saw
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. Deal. And 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,
(05:46):
you guys, want to hear something funny, and I put
on Exodisco and the record label loved it. So they
offered me a singles deal and I signed a singles
deal with that, and they gave me three thousand pounds,
which was probably you know, five six and 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 is the demo
(06:07):
tape that attracted our manager and finally a record.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Lol. Man, it is tough. 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 3 (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 contract. Used to be you know, I mean
nowadays you kind of do it yourself because the 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
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a major label, you know, So that was the hardest part,
was to attract a major.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Lin 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 able, I mean with many
many of your hiss were you able, like you yourself
to make some good money out there or was this
one's getting like.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The record label. 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 then the rest are overpaid.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Hey joining us right now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Look he's on the line, our buddy, Paul Forn, who
is doing some touring with you, and actually he was
talking good about you and you just stopped by.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Good morning, Paul, Good morning, how everybody do it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You're doing good, buddy. We got Hughie in here with us, Paul.
I heard that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
How you doing, Hugh?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Hey, Paul, where you at?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I'm sitting under my carpoard back into Polo, Mississippi, dragging
a cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Congratulations Paul.
Speaker 4 (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 really helped me a lot this year,
and I just wanted to give him a little shout out.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I think that's, uh, that's being too gracious, Paul.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And if you have seen Paul Thorne, you know he
helps himself pretty good.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
So yeah, I know I never did tell y'all, but uh,
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
(08:26):
to this. It was It was that song do you
Believe in Love? And I played it backwards and it said.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Do you believe in Satan?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You believe he's cool.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Believe in Satan because he want you for his barbecue. Yeah.
And ever since then, I started drinking, smoking and cornicating
with women's didn't belong to me. It was awful for
it and.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Worse of that, you started writing songs and saying.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I stopped writing God for music, writing song with suggestion
it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And you helped.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
A serious plug for Paul's new record, which is fantastically
Is that out yet, Paul?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, it's been out just a short time.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it's really good man. It's that's the best
work ever and really good. If you can find it
and get it, it's really really good. We're and you know,
Paul opened for us for a number of dates and
now everybody is just like a huge baw Thorn fan.
We play your record, by the way, Paul before we
go on stage every night.
Speaker 4 (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 4 (09:48):
And I want to say thanks to you guys, and
thanks to huet Man. I just want to say hello man.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
All right, Paul, all right, Paul, you have a good day.
Keep in touch man.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Okay, buddy, good.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Good morning, the big show on the radio. Oh 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 less than what there akin? Christmas
holidays always the most painful time for the other married.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Man, didn't Did you ever 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.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So anyway, tell my married man. He went out to
cut his own and it was off the train. Took
a train up here to the mountains like astro. So
he gets down and goes up and then they kid
was some kind of souvenirs, you know. Get the boy
in the snow and his scissor in law trying to
tell him what to do. But he didn't have a fridge, Muslim,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Hanging down to adrage. But anyway, it was still just painful.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
And uh.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I love that ending.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Anyway. I think I saw about married man. It's coming out.
Oh yeah, good good morning, make shows on the radio.
(11:23):
It's time.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
My readmand. My redman drives around in a minivan.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
God and a wife and some kids.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
His whole life's on the skids.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Hey, there there goes the maried man.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
How's he feel?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Listen, dude, this poor guy's really screw hanging on.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Buy a bread cord of milk, loaf of bread. Hey,
there there goes a married man, got a big gas grill,
buys his.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Clothes at the gap, and he's just about had enough.
Followed this car man, red man, my red man, friendly neighborhood.
Married man for him, has no sing life.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'll let him do what a she says.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
It's a about time he groove.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's a school you.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Don't find the married man.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
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 poll 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 station.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, All I know is I should have laughed it
up in the office Christmas party at the country club.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
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 parody. If
it's a wonderful life, I don't know what you mean.
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. Huh,
well that's not me.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I mean, let me tell you something, College Buddy, I
already have a wonderful life.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh well, excuse me just a minute.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Hello, Hi, honey, what you need me to pick up
a can of cranberry sauce for Christmas dinner? And you
called the country club? 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
(13:44):
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, I know, we only get so
many minutes a month. This was kind of an emergency, honey,
how did it happen?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (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.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Don't you remember?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
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
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. Okay, bye, Sorry.
(14:34):
So what were we talking about? It's a wonderful life.
Oh yeah, So Jimmy Stewart was in that huh yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Say he was ready to commit suicide because excuse me again?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Hello, yes, dear, No, dear, I won't forget the can
of branburry sauce.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Right. What's that?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Mother Fletcher is in town and she's going to be
spending the whole week with us. Well, yes, that is
great news. I'll tell her I look forward to seeing her. Okay, goodbye.
So Jimmy Stewart was.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, Jimmy Stewart was damn hello, Yes, honey, what's that?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (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 Reese'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 2 (15:38):
Goodbye. 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 (15:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (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 something. Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
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 9 (16:13):
Yeah, I'm sorry, it took so long I had to
finish up my annual two hour Merry Christmas Darling tape
to my wife. And only way over here I realized I, well,
I'd already gotten the mystery gift lined up, but I
didn't have anything in case she picked the standard gift.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
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 married man, Hey, Hey, what
are you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Put me down? Feel better?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Well, you all, that's the magic of the holiday season,
no matter how little you have, some 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 season.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Man, Look at this. Randy sure had a lot of
stuff in this car. Hey, reeci's peanut butter reads. I
didn't know they still made these. Hey, I'll splits with
you your own big man. You don't find the money,
no give morning.
Speaker 1 (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. Said, we're
looking back. Shay Hey, oh Budd of the Big Show.
I remember this doctor Evil.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, Shae was thankful and he got a list right
here to prove it. So let's go backing me in
way well, uh y'all lay well man.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Okay, good show, this.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Good morning. The Big Show is on the radio. Let's
go back, remember our Bud, shay Hey, one season ago
to three?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
How many was it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Four seasons ago? You really set stuff up for it
if it gets to fifty. So thank you, gentlemen. What
I'm thankful for.
Speaker 10 (18:35):
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. Thankful for the
presence of humps like Cobby Bunny and Heir Lucas, which
assures me that I'll never drop too far on John Boys'
top ten list. I'm thankful I did get my Cheloupa
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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.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And Garden television.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
I'm thankful for the rock 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 3 (19:23):
Here.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
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 2 (19:35):
Where have you gone, Lisa Welcher.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
I'm thankful will 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. Finally, working for this outfit has
paid some dividends. I'm thankful that John Schnyder has an
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official website. 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. Thankful that there was no weekend
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at Bernie's three. 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
(20:44):
about wrestling too much.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Good on to the Big Show is on the radios.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Look back at one of our former buds, well noise
Ziller budd, former employee. I guess, Shay, Hey, I remember
we used to make fun of him because he had
a little list and something. Yeah, let's go back to
Christmases ago.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
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 was super poot
turbo action discount coupones for Beanie Weenies, John Boy and
Billy Grilling Song sold separately. Manufacturer not responsible for stains
(21:46):
or accidental fires. It's the Billy Supercomputer in the shape
of Billy's head on idiot resistant.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Guaranteed to be the.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Most underappreciated Christmas gift of the holiday season. It's the
Jackie 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 the Randy Brazil Nervous reg doll. No batteries needed,
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just add rednecks. It's Robert d Rayford's booz It or
Lose It kit includes tips on how to build your
nine drinking friends out of their airplane liquor.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The Spooky Joe doll with super wretch powers and real
back hair.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
My favorite the Cobby Bunny play figure with unintelligible speech
chip and supercolor change hair legs.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Sold separately.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
The im Lee Melvin Dammit Don and the Lee Melvin
SmackDown starter said contempt for all mankind not included. Macon
Moy's work is for Suckers, game clubs and two strokes
per whole included.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
No balls.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
General Sadler's Gonko Military action Hero Don says the phrases yes, Sir,
Bruton and you're absidamutely right. Humpy includes literature to nine
military's knowledge of UFOs, Smarty Marty, The One Man's Party,
Go Go Geisha Gift sets includes kimono, saki, sushi, sensored
massage oils, and a room for one, especially designed for
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the man who can't score. It's the Big Show listener
Barry Hopson Cloak of Invisibility play sets allows you to
go unrecognized for up to nine months. It's the Pillar's
Acting Buddy dress up doll comes with John Boys throw
away T shirts.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And finally, It's the Heir.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
Lucas Junior moot set Learn from the Best includes detailed
documentation on how to pass yourself off as Big Show
head writer, staff photographer, and heating and air conditioning ex
pirch Dog sold separately.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
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 ur you, Oh man, come
out bunny, but my list, Oh man, I forgot what
(24:28):
I was urgent. I'll go to the Big Show dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, get a one of a kind Stein from Paddy
Paddy up in the mountains. Check those out John Boy
and Billy Stein's mugs.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Here.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
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 2 (24:53):
Huh, I'm saving up. I won't make sure everybody gets one.
I'm gonna get you out something good this year. I
mean not the Patty's fine, but go you already have.
I remember I made y'all buy one.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
It's that an idea for a reality show that he
was trying to get off the ground. Buy your own
Christmas present?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
All right, So congratulations, headphones. Now we got We've got
another hour of this show to go.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
First of all, Billy Playhouse that's coming up. Good morning
(25:50):
to make shows on the radio. Let's done.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
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 (26:12):
Okay, gentlemen, that's too glazed and two coffees. That'll be
four hundred dollars, Holy moly, and prices just keep going up.
I don't think, Hey, you get unlimited refills. Yell at me,
I got feelings hate to change, I tell you, Billy,
we shure ask a good time ever miss old radio
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game and not really a boss man.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Got a little bit too persnickety there towards the end,
started making too many rules about what we could.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Talk about on the air. First, nikked you still gray?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Why was that anyway?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Well?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Record it all started back in seven when Randy won
that big sexual harassment lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Again you he spent twenty years sitting down up you
little sucker wrote that down. You can plain no business
at jet Power. John Boys pre own hovercraft superstores better
than ever. I didn't mean to go out there. They're
almost forty billion in sales last year. Of course, as
it gross not net. Yeah, what'd you end up with
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after Texas fifteen hundred dollars?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Luise dog? Put that int your mouth? It's dirty, man.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That fat woman over here got a mouthholder, don't you
in the butt to match you? She looks kind of familiar.
Can't place her. Sure, got a bunch of young and Luise.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Stop that, I say, stop that.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (27:36):
Aren't you talking? Aren't you talking to me? I don't see, No,
I don't see. Aren't you talking to me?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I just wonder if you wouldn't raise your voice so
much it goes Excuse.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
Me, I didn't realize you tore such Delica flowers.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well, mamages.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
He keep hollering like a ban gee right here in
the middle of the restaurant day. Dude, you're getting a
little bit nerve racked.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
How dare you?
Speaker 7 (28:06):
You can't talk to me like that? Don't you know why?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I ain't No, no, ma'am can say we do.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Dusty name, Jlo mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You're kidding you and being in Jello not.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Jello your horses. Jelo what Jelo?
Speaker 6 (28:24):
What?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Jelo? I gotta get this hearing a man?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Hold on there, Jlo? You mean you're Jennifer Lopez, that singer.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
That's right, Poppy Jenny from the block.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Man, I ain't heard nothing about you in years.
Speaker 12 (28:47):
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.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Away.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I will kill you. How many you got their name, Louise,
leave Louise alone.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Oh, miss Lopez, Am I crazy? Or did you just
say Louise, leave Louise alone?
Speaker 7 (29:12):
No, I said Louise, Louise out.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You mean you got two kids with the same name.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Actually, there all named Louise. There's the youngest, Louise is two.
Then there's four Euro Luise six year old Luise eight
year old Louise tangyar Oldluise.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
The twins that the other twins, they're fourteen.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
We don't get kind of confused.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
He's not so bad.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Well, why in the world did you give them all
the same first name?
Speaker 12 (29:45):
It makes it easier, But I called it for dinner.
I just go through the door and say Louise summer time,
and they all come running.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I get it. Hey, that's very smart. Yeah, what if
you just want to get one of them to come
that case?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
I called them by their last things.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We hope you've enjoyed John Boy and Billy playhouse.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Last I say, I warn you.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You, And then again next time.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
When we'll hear Krusty Old Mary Kate Olsen say, hey,
bangs man, let me.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Hold the dog.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Good morning the big shows on the radio.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, ain't on some bad coming up next? You
gonna talk about Superman continue ros. Who was y'all's favorite
superheroes growing up?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I learned to read at an early age because I
got tired of people. Wait, no, no, no, no, really.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
This is true. 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 (30:49):
Oh yeah, I'm tired of waiting for Grandma to come.
You taught yourself? Yeah, I mean, do you have tapes
or books or anything. I just kind of, you know,
just yeah, yeah, I just figured it out.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
When did I learn to read?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I think it was Tuesday, Tuesday afternoon. By the way,
A spider Man was always my all time favorite.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Spider Man is your favorite? I like iron Man for
some reason.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Iron Man had it going on iron Man and yeah
me Terry Craigs, Bubby Taylor, we used to wrestle like
in leave Piles.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Not always be iron Man and who would they be?
Leaf Man?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
And I always I always liked Superman because I always
wish I could fly Superman.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah you know, well, actually Superman didn't start out flying.
He started off jumping.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
He could leap.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
He was leap tall buildings in a single bound. He
was faster than a locomotive, right, faster than a seating bullet, powerful.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Than a bag of hands.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I taught myself to read. Yeah, all right, y'all, Well,
let's talk about Superman. We'll do that next.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Hango, good morning, The Big Show is on the radio.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
George Reeves was Superman. He played Superman on TV TV.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Now, now, now did he kill himself? The Superman killed himself?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
With a gun? Wow?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Now, but but but it was but some said that
maybe it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
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 him with a handgun.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So so had you do it?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Like like he fired at himself three times and bounced
him and then he threw the gun at him.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Said, well, let's kept bouncing. He forgot to do he
forgot the do you know that was said about Superman?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You know, Superman is stand there and take bullets bouncing
off and then the Crook would always when he ran
out of bus, he would always throw the gun at
Superman and Superman would duck. Yeah, you know, get it
now now now swipping you. You remember when when Superman died,
right you?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
You?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You? You took a tour or something like that? Is
that the deal? I saw a tour on television. There's
a tour on television that put you in his hearse
and rides you around showing you where people died. Where
did Superman die? Where was you?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Remember that?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
He was right up over his uh garage?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
His garage? What was that? Foy?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
His garage? So I got hurt. We'll take around point
out here, Superman.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
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.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Or something above the garage. In the rumpus room. They
got to throw a gun himself and the duck I
got So did any other people die around there? Some
lady died over here beside the fire hiding something. He
was pointing that out too. It was Lassie. Could be
lasty monk, yeah, lasty. It was cold. She froze in
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the fire. Huh.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Anyway, the show almost cost Reeves his life. In nineteen
fifty three, while Reeves was making an appearance as Superman
in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
This is some interesting stuff. Randy, a producer, is very quick.
He came up with this just like that.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
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
Superman suit in.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Public, and who can blame him?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
So, but he did.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
He took the bullets out of the gun, gave the
gun back to the kid. The kid threw it at
him and he duck. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So anyway, so we're talking about superheroes and superpowers, and
you know Superman, of course, you know, one of the
main stays.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
You know, Man was really the first costume with a
cape type superhero in history.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But now, I mean there are so many around. There's
so many ones around, you know, with neat superpowers.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
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 (35:15):
And I see.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
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, just don't make the cut.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Didn't quite make it. We'll hear the John Win Billy
Big Show research department. We came up with some that
never quite made the superhero list.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
For example, you've got one right there, yeah, maintenance man.
Now this said never he had the power to fix
broken motail air conditioners. But it never, which is a
neat power, but it doesn't make an exciting comic book.
It goes in his outfit, his name over the pocket,
you know, it's just never no cape or anything.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Well that and that blew his secret identity too, because
his name was whatever the pocket. And remember the clapper
Clapper His power was he had the power to turn
off the lights without getting out of bed.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Would have made for some real short adventure. Now, of course,
you you you've heard of the X Men. Yeah, have
you heard this group?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Never?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
The ex Wives, Oh they never, they had the power
to suck money out of men's bank.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Account and it was kind of.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
And of course there was David Letterman. He had the
power to suck money out of TV network man.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
But he's sketching up what about tidy bowl man? Now
he was just floating around in the back of commode.
Not a whole lot of action on the in the
back portion of the of the commode. And then there
was mister Cash. He had the power to get Billy
Packard to return his phonecast.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That's not pretty. So those that's gonna light make it,
thank you very much, will be here all morning. Good morning,
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the big show us on the radio.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without football, little football songs.
Speaker 13 (37:13):
Him, Wilton ricketed Well was a great athlete. Was a big,
strong boy that was quick on his feet. In every
college in the country wanted Ricky on their line. By
when the scouts come knocking on Ricky's don't worry. They
didn't want to talk to young rick no more. When
they saways, Mama, she's the one they wanted to sign.
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She was a role bone woman raised on a farm,
had bear bright tattooed on her forearm. Meaner and hell
and run a forty and four point two. She can
squat six hundred, bench press five the hands down Me
and this homemaker alive. Got a scholarship playing linebacker at Rescue. Yeah,
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ricketed Well, mama's gonna play football. Her old names dars,
but they gonna call her too tall. She's got shoulders
and a hind end four foot wide. Gone to college
on a full ride. Doris Tidwell's gonna play.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
In the n seedy.
Speaker 13 (38:17):
She'd wash all her teammates uniforms, tucked everybody in in
the football door, cook the game, meal, said the Lord's prayer.
Get missing 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 up the coaches, spitting on referees.
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Rickey Todwell, mama's gonna play football. Her real name's Doors.
Everybody calls her too tall. They say she's a fine
young man, but she's really not. Ricky's mama was the
master of the cheek, shine and on a triple option play,
she can ruin your day. She led the team in
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tackles in the league in sacks, responsible for killing nine
running backs, but the school's reputation was destroyed. They accused
Ricky's mama upsteroids, ricketed Wells mama's home probation, and Bobby
Bowden is under an investigation. Yeah, they wouldn't leave poor
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Rickety ted Wells mama alone said she'd been taking male hormones.
Doris ted Wells going to be hell in the field,
ricketed Wells Mama, she looks a lot like gon Zimmer.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Good morning. The Big Show is on the radio before
we get out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
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 one to do it, all right?
Speaker 7 (40:21):
How about that.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Ah man?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You might hit a write out toude. Let's bring him
in here? Is Oliver? Well?
Speaker 12 (40:34):
Well, well, 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
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bask in the glorious sights, the jubilant sounds and the
heavenly of 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 of us,
poor slobs. It's just our turn to roll out the
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good trough and slop that mooching pack of lowlifes otherwise
known as your wife's family and friends. As your guests arrive,
you no longer wonder why there are more suicides around
the holidays. First in are your in laws. Knowing the
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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
you to wrestle. You keep your mother in law busy
(42:05):
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,
trot out that box of bonbonds stuffed with horse tranquilizers.
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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 doubt she'll arrive via ups, seeing as it's cheaper
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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.
Her arrival also signals the moment you've dreaded most of all,
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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
(43:32):
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
(43:52):
upont 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, or,
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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 Oz
and that deliverance kid, complete with matching lazy eyes. Instinct
(44:41):
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 plastic
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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 the
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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 the
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kitchen door and get out of the way. In the
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 rows of a
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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 like elephant's seal mating season.
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The couch is taken by alien brother in law, who's
finishing his second cotton 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 into the woods, praying for
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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 and unconditional love. You
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also realize that with this kind of weather, no one
will be going home, so you immediately join your pets
in the heavy traffic. Happy holidays and bone apiite.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
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Speaker 2 (47:54):
Ahi, y'all, have great rest of your day. We love
you and we mean it.
Good morning the big shows on your radio star of
Huey Lewis in the news. 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 caw.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Watch out, Jackie, reach out and grab you. You gotta
turn your hand to the right. There you go, Taylor,
good work. We're gooding, Tater. You'll usually we got pork
chops and sauce. You just don't add on some newspaper
out there. She got up, got you nice white tablecloth,
flowers on the twers and mars.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I was gonna tell you he ate a muffin and
it was a rubbery thing, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
But I'm I'm not suing. Oh man, here, we.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Thank you for forgetting up. I know, man, morning, come early.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Who says I got up?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Talking to human?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Somebody? He's just beating on my microphone. 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? Is that the deal?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Pretty much? Yeah? I took a year off between high
school and college. I already played harmonica, and I took
harmonica because it kind of fit the image. You know.
I had a knapsack. This was nineteen sixty seven, huh.
And I bummed around Europe and North Africa and hitchecked
by the side of the road and in Spain especially,
and in those days it was Franco Spain, which was
a completely different Spain. And I had long hair, and
(01:49):
you know, you could wait for eight hours to get
a ride. So my harmonica playing got pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Man, And that was something you're accepted. There's a smart
fella right here in Cornhill University.
Speaker 3 (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 Cornwer 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.
I wouldn't allowed to leave Aliments County. So so so
you were a pitcher. Len that's right. Wow, man, it
wasn't very good, but I mean I was okay.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
But you know, so, so you come back to America
and did you go back to college or you decided.
Speaker 3 (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 in 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. So I just dropped
out of school and went back to San Francisco. Joined
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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. May in fact,
(03:24):
we lived in England. 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
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made two records, neither of which did anything is punk hit,
you know, 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
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to commercialize our stuff, and I said, you know what,
that looks a lot more fun. So if this band
ever breaks up, I'm gonna go back home, surround myself
with my favorite musicians and just play for the hell
of it, which is what we did. And that's how
h would listened.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
News started BYAM and that's what you gotta do. Let
that be a lesson to your kids.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That's what did it. Pretty much. 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 3 (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
just call these musicians and quietly I was kind of
putting together a little band on our own and doing
some original stuff. And then I got a call from
nicke Low and Dave Edmonds that they wanted to cut
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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 saw
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. Deal. And 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,
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you guys, want to hear something funny, and I put
on Exodisco and the record label loved it. So they
offered me a singles deal and I signed a singles
deal with that, and they gave me three thousand pounds,
which was probably you know, five six and 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 is the demo
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tape that attracted our manager and finally a record.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Lol. Man, it is tough. 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 3 (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 contract. Used to be you know, I mean
nowadays you kind of do it yourself because the 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
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a major label, you know, So that was the hardest part,
was to attract a major.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Lin 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 able, I mean with many
many of your hiss were you able, like you yourself
to make some good money out there or was this
one's getting like.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The record label. 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 then the rest are overpaid.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Hey joining us right now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Look he's on the line, our buddy, Paul Forn, who
is doing some touring with you, and actually he was
talking good about you and you just stopped by.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Good morning, Paul, Good morning, how everybody do it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You're doing good, buddy. We got Hughie in here with us, Paul.
I heard that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
How you doing, Hugh?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Hey, Paul, where you at?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I'm sitting under my carpoard back into Polo, Mississippi, dragging
a cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Congratulations Paul.
Speaker 4 (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 really helped me a lot this year,
and I just wanted to give him a little shout out.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I think that's, uh, that's being too gracious, Paul.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And if you have seen Paul Thorne, you know he
helps himself pretty good.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
So yeah, I know I never did tell y'all, but uh,
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
(08:26):
to this. It was It was that song do you
Believe in Love? And I played it backwards and it said.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Do you believe in Satan?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You believe he's cool.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Believe in Satan because he want you for his barbecue. Yeah.
And ever since then, I started drinking, smoking and cornicating
with women's didn't belong to me. It was awful for
it and.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Worse of that, you started writing songs and saying.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I stopped writing God for music, writing song with suggestion
it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And you helped.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
A serious plug for Paul's new record, which is fantastically
Is that out yet, Paul?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, it's been out just a short time.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it's really good man. It's that's the best
work ever and really good. If you can find it
and get it, it's really really good. We're and you know,
Paul opened for us for a number of dates and
now everybody is just like a huge baw Thorn fan.
We play your record, by the way, Paul before we
go on stage every night.
Speaker 4 (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 4 (09:48):
And I want to say thanks to you guys, and
thanks to huet Man. I just want to say hello man.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
All right, Paul, all right, Paul, you have a good day.
Keep in touch man.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Okay, buddy, good.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Good morning, the big show on the radio. Oh 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 less than what there akin? Christmas
holidays always the most painful time for the other married.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Man, didn't Did you ever 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.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So anyway, tell my married man. He went out to
cut his own and it was off the train. Took
a train up here to the mountains like astro. So
he gets down and goes up and then they kid
was some kind of souvenirs, you know. Get the boy
in the snow and his scissor in law trying to
tell him what to do. But he didn't have a fridge, Muslim,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Hanging down to adrage. But anyway, it was still just painful.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
And uh.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I love that ending.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Anyway. I think I saw about married man. It's coming out.
Oh yeah, good good morning, make shows on the radio.
(11:23):
It's time.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
My readmand. My redman drives around in a minivan.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
God and a wife and some kids.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
His whole life's on the skids.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Hey, there there goes the maried man.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
How's he feel?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Listen, dude, this poor guy's really screw hanging on.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Buy a bread cord of milk, loaf of bread. Hey,
there there goes a married man, got a big gas grill,
buys his.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Clothes at the gap, and he's just about had enough.
Followed this car man, red man, my red man, friendly neighborhood.
Married man for him, has no sing life.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'll let him do what a she says.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
It's a about time he groove.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's a school you.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Don't find the married man.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
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 poll 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 station.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, All I know is I should have laughed it
up in the office Christmas party at the country club.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
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 parody. If
it's a wonderful life, I don't know what you mean.
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. Huh,
well that's not me.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I mean, let me tell you something, College Buddy, I
already have a wonderful life.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh well, excuse me just a minute.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Hello, Hi, honey, what you need me to pick up
a can of cranberry sauce for Christmas dinner? And you
called the country club? 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
(13:44):
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, I know, we only get so
many minutes a month. This was kind of an emergency, honey,
how did it happen?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (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.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Don't you remember?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
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
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. Okay, bye, Sorry.
(14:34):
So what were we talking about? It's a wonderful life.
Oh yeah, So Jimmy Stewart was in that huh yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Say he was ready to commit suicide because excuse me again?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Hello, yes, dear, No, dear, I won't forget the can
of branburry sauce.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Right. What's that?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Mother Fletcher is in town and she's going to be
spending the whole week with us. Well, yes, that is
great news. I'll tell her I look forward to seeing her. Okay, goodbye.
So Jimmy Stewart was.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, Jimmy Stewart was damn hello, Yes, honey, what's that?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (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 Reese'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 2 (15:38):
Goodbye. 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 (15:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (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 something. Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
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 9 (16:13):
Yeah, I'm sorry, it took so long I had to
finish up my annual two hour Merry Christmas Darling tape
to my wife. And only way over here I realized I, well,
I'd already gotten the mystery gift lined up, but I
didn't have anything in case she picked the standard gift.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
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 married man, Hey, Hey, what
are you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Put me down? Feel better?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Well, you all, that's the magic of the holiday season,
no matter how little you have, some 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 season.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Man, Look at this. Randy sure had a lot of
stuff in this car. Hey, reeci's peanut butter reads. I
didn't know they still made these. Hey, I'll splits with
you your own big man. You don't find the money,
no give morning.
Speaker 1 (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. Said, we're
looking back. Shay Hey, oh Budd of the Big Show.
I remember this doctor Evil.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, Shae was thankful and he got a list right
here to prove it. So let's go backing me in
way well, uh y'all lay well man.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Okay, good show, this.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Good morning. The Big Show is on the radio. Let's
go back, remember our Bud, shay Hey, one season ago
to three?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
How many was it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Four seasons ago? You really set stuff up for it
if it gets to fifty. So thank you, gentlemen. What
I'm thankful for.
Speaker 10 (18:35):
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. Thankful for the
presence of humps like Cobby Bunny and Heir Lucas, which
assures me that I'll never drop too far on John Boys'
top ten list. I'm thankful I did get my Cheloupa
(18:57):
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.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And Garden television.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
I'm thankful for the rock 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 3 (19:23):
Here.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
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 2 (19:35):
Where have you gone, Lisa Welcher.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
I'm thankful will 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. Finally, working for this outfit has
paid some dividends. I'm thankful that John Schnyder has an
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official website. 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. Thankful that there was no weekend
(20:22):
at Bernie's three. 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
(20:44):
about wrestling too much.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Good on to the Big Show is on the radios.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Look back at one of our former buds, well noise
Ziller budd, former employee. I guess, Shay, Hey, I remember
we used to make fun of him because he had
a little list and something. Yeah, let's go back to
Christmases ago.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
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 was super poot
turbo action discount coupones for Beanie Weenies, John Boy and
Billy Grilling Song sold separately. Manufacturer not responsible for stains
(21:46):
or accidental fires. It's the Billy Supercomputer in the shape
of Billy's head on idiot resistant.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Guaranteed to be the.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Most underappreciated Christmas gift of the holiday season. It's the
Jackie 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 the Randy Brazil Nervous reg doll. No batteries needed,
(22:17):
just add rednecks. It's Robert d Rayford's booz It or
Lose It kit includes tips on how to build your
nine drinking friends out of their airplane liquor.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The Spooky Joe doll with super wretch powers and real
back hair.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
My favorite the Cobby Bunny play figure with unintelligible speech
chip and supercolor change hair legs.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Sold separately.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
The im Lee Melvin Dammit Don and the Lee Melvin
SmackDown starter said contempt for all mankind not included. Macon
Moy's work is for Suckers, game clubs and two strokes
per whole included.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
No balls.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
General Sadler's Gonko Military action Hero Don says the phrases yes, Sir,
Bruton and you're absidamutely right. Humpy includes literature to nine
military's knowledge of UFOs, Smarty Marty, The One Man's Party,
Go Go Geisha Gift sets includes kimono, saki, sushi, sensored
massage oils, and a room for one, especially designed for
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the man who can't score. It's the Big Show listener
Barry Hopson Cloak of Invisibility play sets allows you to
go unrecognized for up to nine months. It's the Pillar's
Acting Buddy dress up doll comes with John Boys throw
away T shirts.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And finally, It's the Heir.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
Lucas Junior moot set Learn from the Best includes detailed
documentation on how to pass yourself off as Big Show
head writer, staff photographer, and heating and air conditioning ex
pirch Dog sold separately.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
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 ur you, Oh man, come
out bunny, but my list, Oh man, I forgot what
(24:28):
I was urgent. I'll go to the Big Show dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, get a one of a kind Stein from Paddy
Paddy up in the mountains. Check those out John Boy
and Billy Stein's mugs.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Here.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
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 2 (24:53):
Huh, I'm saving up. I won't make sure everybody gets one.
I'm gonna get you out something good this year. I
mean not the Patty's fine, but go you already have.
I remember I made y'all buy one.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
It's that an idea for a reality show that he
was trying to get off the ground. Buy your own
Christmas present?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
All right, So congratulations, headphones. Now we got We've got
another hour of this show to go.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
First of all, Billy Playhouse that's coming up. Good morning
(25:50):
to make shows on the radio. Let's done.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
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 (26:12):
Okay, gentlemen, that's too glazed and two coffees. That'll be
four hundred dollars, Holy moly, and prices just keep going up.
I don't think, Hey, you get unlimited refills. Yell at me,
I got feelings hate to change, I tell you, Billy,
we shure ask a good time ever miss old radio
(26:33):
game and not really a boss man.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Got a little bit too persnickety there towards the end,
started making too many rules about what we could.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Talk about on the air. First, nikked you still gray?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Why was that anyway?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Well?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Record it all started back in seven when Randy won
that big sexual harassment lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Again you he spent twenty years sitting down up you
little sucker wrote that down. You can plain no business
at jet Power. John Boys pre own hovercraft superstores better
than ever. I didn't mean to go out there. They're
almost forty billion in sales last year. Of course, as
it gross not net. Yeah, what'd you end up with
(27:13):
after Texas fifteen hundred dollars?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Luise dog? Put that int your mouth? It's dirty, man.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That fat woman over here got a mouthholder, don't you
in the butt to match you? She looks kind of familiar.
Can't place her. Sure, got a bunch of young and Luise.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Stop that, I say, stop that.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (27:36):
Aren't you talking? Aren't you talking to me? I don't see, No,
I don't see. Aren't you talking to me?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I just wonder if you wouldn't raise your voice so
much it goes Excuse.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
Me, I didn't realize you tore such Delica flowers.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well, mamages.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
He keep hollering like a ban gee right here in
the middle of the restaurant day. Dude, you're getting a
little bit nerve racked.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
How dare you?
Speaker 7 (28:06):
You can't talk to me like that? Don't you know why?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I ain't No, no, ma'am can say we do.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Dusty name, Jlo mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You're kidding you and being in Jello not.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Jello your horses. Jelo what Jelo?
Speaker 6 (28:24):
What?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Jelo? I gotta get this hearing a man?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Hold on there, Jlo? You mean you're Jennifer Lopez, that singer.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
That's right, Poppy Jenny from the block.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Man, I ain't heard nothing about you in years.
Speaker 12 (28:47):
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.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Away.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I will kill you. How many you got their name, Louise,
leave Louise alone.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Oh, miss Lopez, Am I crazy? Or did you just
say Louise, leave Louise alone?
Speaker 7 (29:12):
No, I said Louise, Louise out.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You mean you got two kids with the same name.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Actually, there all named Louise. There's the youngest, Louise is two.
Then there's four Euro Luise six year old Luise eight
year old Louise tangyar Oldluise.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
The twins that the other twins, they're fourteen.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
We don't get kind of confused.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
He's not so bad.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Well, why in the world did you give them all
the same first name?
Speaker 12 (29:45):
It makes it easier, But I called it for dinner.
I just go through the door and say Louise summer time,
and they all come running.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I get it. Hey, that's very smart. Yeah, what if
you just want to get one of them to come
that case?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
I called them by their last things.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We hope you've enjoyed John Boy and Billy playhouse.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Last I say, I warn you.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You, And then again next time.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
When we'll hear Krusty Old Mary Kate Olsen say, hey,
bangs man, let me.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Hold the dog.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Good morning the big shows on the radio.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, ain't on some bad coming up next? You
gonna talk about Superman continue ros. Who was y'all's favorite
superheroes growing up?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I learned to read at an early age because I
got tired of people. Wait, no, no, no, no, really.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
This is true. 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 (30:49):
Oh yeah, I'm tired of waiting for Grandma to come.
You taught yourself? Yeah, I mean, do you have tapes
or books or anything. I just kind of, you know,
just yeah, yeah, I just figured it out.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
When did I learn to read?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I think it was Tuesday, Tuesday afternoon. By the way,
A spider Man was always my all time favorite.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Spider Man is your favorite? I like iron Man for
some reason.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Iron Man had it going on iron Man and yeah
me Terry Craigs, Bubby Taylor, we used to wrestle like
in leave Piles.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Not always be iron Man and who would they be?
Leaf Man?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
And I always I always liked Superman because I always
wish I could fly Superman.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah you know, well, actually Superman didn't start out flying.
He started off jumping.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
He could leap.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
He was leap tall buildings in a single bound. He
was faster than a locomotive, right, faster than a seating bullet, powerful.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Than a bag of hands.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I taught myself to read. Yeah, all right, y'all, Well,
let's talk about Superman. We'll do that next.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Hango, good morning, The Big Show is on the radio.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
George Reeves was Superman. He played Superman on TV TV.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Now, now, now did he kill himself? The Superman killed himself?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
With a gun? Wow?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Now, but but but it was but some said that
maybe it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
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 him with a handgun.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So so had you do it?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Like like he fired at himself three times and bounced
him and then he threw the gun at him.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Said, well, let's kept bouncing. He forgot to do he
forgot the do you know that was said about Superman?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You know, Superman is stand there and take bullets bouncing
off and then the Crook would always when he ran
out of bus, he would always throw the gun at
Superman and Superman would duck. Yeah, you know, get it
now now now swipping you. You remember when when Superman died,
right you?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
You?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You? You took a tour or something like that? Is
that the deal? I saw a tour on television. There's
a tour on television that put you in his hearse
and rides you around showing you where people died. Where
did Superman die? Where was you?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Remember that?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
He was right up over his uh garage?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
His garage? What was that? Foy?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
His garage? So I got hurt. We'll take around point
out here, Superman.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
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.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Or something above the garage. In the rumpus room. They
got to throw a gun himself and the duck I
got So did any other people die around there? Some
lady died over here beside the fire hiding something. He
was pointing that out too. It was Lassie. Could be
lasty monk, yeah, lasty. It was cold. She froze in
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the fire. Huh.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Anyway, the show almost cost Reeves his life. In nineteen
fifty three, while Reeves was making an appearance as Superman
in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
This is some interesting stuff. Randy, a producer, is very quick.
He came up with this just like that.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
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
Superman suit in.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Public, and who can blame him?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
So, but he did.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
He took the bullets out of the gun, gave the
gun back to the kid. The kid threw it at
him and he duck. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So anyway, so we're talking about superheroes and superpowers, and
you know Superman, of course, you know, one of the
main stays.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
You know, Man was really the first costume with a
cape type superhero in history.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But now, I mean there are so many around. There's
so many ones around, you know, with neat superpowers.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
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 (35:15):
And I see.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
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, just don't make the cut.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Didn't quite make it. We'll hear the John Win Billy
Big Show research department. We came up with some that
never quite made the superhero list.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
For example, you've got one right there, yeah, maintenance man.
Now this said never he had the power to fix
broken motail air conditioners. But it never, which is a
neat power, but it doesn't make an exciting comic book.
It goes in his outfit, his name over the pocket,
you know, it's just never no cape or anything.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Well that and that blew his secret identity too, because
his name was whatever the pocket. And remember the clapper
Clapper His power was he had the power to turn
off the lights without getting out of bed.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Would have made for some real short adventure. Now, of course,
you you you've heard of the X Men. Yeah, have
you heard this group?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Never?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
The ex Wives, Oh they never, they had the power
to suck money out of men's bank.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Account and it was kind of.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
And of course there was David Letterman. He had the
power to suck money out of TV network man.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
But he's sketching up what about tidy bowl man? Now
he was just floating around in the back of commode.
Not a whole lot of action on the in the
back portion of the of the commode. And then there
was mister Cash. He had the power to get Billy
Packard to return his phonecast.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That's not pretty. So those that's gonna light make it,
thank you very much, will be here all morning. Good morning,
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the big show us on the radio.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without football, little football songs.
Speaker 13 (37:13):
Him, Wilton ricketed Well was a great athlete. Was a big,
strong boy that was quick on his feet. In every
college in the country wanted Ricky on their line. By
when the scouts come knocking on Ricky's don't worry. They
didn't want to talk to young rick no more. When
they saways, Mama, she's the one they wanted to sign.
(37:34):
She was a role bone woman raised on a farm,
had bear bright tattooed on her forearm. Meaner and hell
and run a forty and four point two. She can
squat six hundred, bench press five the hands down Me
and this homemaker alive. Got a scholarship playing linebacker at Rescue. Yeah,
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ricketed Well, mama's gonna play football. Her old names dars,
but they gonna call her too tall. She's got shoulders
and a hind end four foot wide. Gone to college
on a full ride. Doris Tidwell's gonna play.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
In the n seedy.
Speaker 13 (38:17):
She'd wash all her teammates uniforms, tucked everybody in in
the football door, cook the game, meal, said the Lord's prayer.
Get missing 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 up the coaches, spitting on referees.
(38:39):
Rickey Todwell, mama's gonna play football. Her real name's Doors.
Everybody calls her too tall. They say she's a fine
young man, but she's really not. Ricky's mama was the
master of the cheek, shine and on a triple option play,
she can ruin your day. She led the team in
(39:03):
tackles in the league in sacks, responsible for killing nine
running backs, but the school's reputation was destroyed. They accused
Ricky's mama upsteroids, ricketed Wells mama's home probation, and Bobby
Bowden is under an investigation. Yeah, they wouldn't leave poor
(39:25):
Rickety ted Wells mama alone said she'd been taking male hormones.
Doris ted Wells going to be hell in the field,
ricketed Wells Mama, she looks a lot like gon Zimmer.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Good morning. The Big Show is on the radio before
we get out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
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 one to do it, all right?
Speaker 7 (40:21):
How about that.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Ah man?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You might hit a write out toude. Let's bring him
in here? Is Oliver? Well?
Speaker 12 (40:34):
Well, well, 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
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bask in the glorious sights, the jubilant sounds and the
heavenly of 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 of us,
poor slobs. It's just our turn to roll out the
(41:16):
good trough and slop that mooching pack of lowlifes otherwise
known as your wife's family and friends. As your guests arrive,
you no longer wonder why there are more suicides around
the holidays. First in are your in laws. Knowing the
(41:42):
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
you to wrestle. You keep your mother in law busy
(42:05):
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,
trot out that box of bonbonds stuffed with horse tranquilizers.
(42:28):
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 doubt she'll arrive via ups, seeing as it's cheaper
(42:48):
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.
Her arrival also signals the moment you've dreaded most of all,
(43:10):
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
(43:32):
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
(43:52):
upont 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, or,
(44:17):
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 Oz
and that deliverance kid, complete with matching lazy eyes. Instinct
(44:41):
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 plastic
(45:02):
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 the
(45:23):
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 the
(45:43):
kitchen door and get out of the way. In the
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 rows of a
(46:04):
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 like elephant's seal mating season.
(46:27):
The couch is taken by alien brother in law, who's
finishing his second cotton 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 into the woods, praying for
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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 and unconditional love. You
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also realize that with this kind of weather, no one
will be going home, so you immediately join your pets
in the heavy traffic. Happy holidays and bone apiite.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Bet boxes.
Speaker 5 (47:31):
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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 Big Show
dot Com. You can order JBMB stuff, T shirts, hats,
and we don't know what all by calling Donnie at
the Big Show Warehouse. The number is eight hundred and
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Speaker 2 (47:54):
Ahi, y'all, have great rest of your day. We love
you and we mean it.
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