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December 13, 2023 41 mins

Wednesday (pt 1 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Robert Earl Keen performs his Holiday favorite, “Merry Christmas From the Family”.. - Jeff Pillars delivers this year’s Christmas Pillars of Truth.. - Hoyt and The Junior Nation Band sing, “Drinking Around the Christmas Tree”.. - Mr. Pop-In - well - Pops-In.. - and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What go now, go now? Okay, good morning Stan Higgins.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Here.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Nothing makes my day like a chance to pipe in
on John Boy and Billy here in the big show.
But I don't come here just to see them. I'm
not a gay. I come here for the eye Candy, Babs,
Jackie and Fader and Thaddy's got a sweet tooth?

Speaker 4 (00:21):
How is that.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Dog a doodle doo?

Speaker 6 (00:58):
Up?

Speaker 5 (00:58):
And Adam? It is instead December the thirteenth. How about that?
Less than two weeks away from Christmas? And look at
the fuzzy little big show elves.

Speaker 7 (01:12):
Okay, there's only one right now, but the rest of
them will be in it a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Oh, I've learned a delegate.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, we've got happy, dopey, grumpy, sneezy orbs. Yeah. Oh
good December to thirteenth, See what's happenings we get closer
to Christmas. National Violin Day. I don't know that has
anything to do with Christmas. The little violin boy in
the stable.

Speaker 8 (01:37):
Speaking of violins, have you been to a shopping center? No,
and that's true, But seeing somebody playing an electric violin
over a pa and asking for money, it's a scam.
They aren't even playing the violin. They're just you know, panamizing.
It's thinking that. It's big scam nationwide and it always

(01:58):
picks up around the holiday.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Have you seen something around here? Yes? Yes, okay, what
do you say anything to that?

Speaker 9 (02:07):
I gave him some money.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
I'm an idiot. Well yeah, kid beside him? I know.
And it is so awful that can you request something?
At least.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
There are plenty of people on you.

Speaker 10 (02:21):
He's going to reserve judgment.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, no, because it might be better than like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
They do not have to play at all.

Speaker 9 (02:30):
Brandy's right.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
It is a scam and dumb me after I get oh,
hey baby, here get you something for Christmas, got in
the car and went, oh he got me.

Speaker 9 (02:39):
It's so pretty though herb isn't it?

Speaker 5 (02:41):
It was a kid. It's for the kid.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Thank You soundtrack. You can buy the CD.

Speaker 9 (02:46):
You ever played the violin? Did it very well?

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah? I keep an eye off of that National co
Co Day unless you want to shoot that down.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Just because I tell you, But it doesn't mean an.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Advocate for it. National Day of the Horse all ride
horses don't do it today is rent them commemorates the
birth of the National Guards as well. So salute to
the National Guard. You get a chance today. All right, Gus,
we're doing good. We got three days, an instant saved up.

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get ten percent off. Listen up, win you some right here.
December thirteenth, It was nineteen twenty eight the clip on
tie was introduced and saved me from ever having a
tie one until later in life. Nineteen eighty five, singer
Phil Collins made his acting debut on US TV as

(04:26):
a drug dealer on Miami Vice and one of my
proudest moments in radio. Remember that room where I started that.
Phil Collins used to play Ernest t Bass on the
Maybarre on Andy Griffith Show.

Speaker 10 (04:39):
You mean the rumor that I started. Then you've adopted
as your own ever since that?

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Yeah, I know. Is it wound up in Parade magazine
right right?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Yeah that was you at first? Yeah, I remember. Yeah, well,
I've been treating it like my own only year.

Speaker 10 (04:54):
I remember reading that one morning, going this is it.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
I've peaked.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
Right now, I got a grade magazine.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Well, since we're like joined at the hip, can I
just celebrate it too.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
You might as well say, yes, he's gonna do it.

Speaker 11 (05:09):
Right.

Speaker 8 (05:10):
Well, you think he mentioned he's not going to remember
this conversation a year for.

Speaker 10 (05:13):
Forty three years.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
You don't think I know.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
That that's true.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Come now, looking back on it, I remember because right
after you said that, at first I looked at him.

Speaker 12 (05:24):
I said, wow, this looks like something I'd come up with,
and then suddenly that's what it became. Yeah, awesome, all right,
So Phil Collins, there you go.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
In the eighties, the TV shows. And finally, ninety eight,
a Belgian horticulturist introduced a skirt made of living grass.
How did that work? Well, it was a little heavy,
so you think my bridges fall down on my little butt.
The designer recommended watering the skirt once a day and
mowing it once a month.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
He's going to try that with your butt.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Shut up. Alright. So there's our three car categories. Okay,
we got them. One eight hundred Big shows. You're toe
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(06:32):
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Speaker 13 (06:50):
I look in.

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Upburst.

Speaker 11 (06:53):
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up and guest time you love the best time.

Speaker 14 (07:17):
You have a big shirt.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Let's say hey to Brian from o'calla, Florida.

Speaker 10 (07:26):
We have shot her Drian a drive.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Hey Brian, good.

Speaker 15 (07:35):
Morning, Hey, good morning, y'all.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Hey man, we're good. Glad you got in here. First name, Brian.
Let's get youet happy herd prize back once we walk
you through these three categories quickly though. Are you ready?
I'm ready in five seconds. Three places where you wear
a tie? Ready go?

Speaker 13 (07:58):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (07:59):
Church, work, job, interview, Hey, here.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
You go at the muzzard and now Brian kind of
go over two? Three eighties TV shows ready to go.

Speaker 16 (08:13):
Family Times, Cheers and Miami Vice.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
You made it all right. That was a hard one.
Here you go for the win, Brian. Three kinds of
skirts were ready to go.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
Mini skirt to two and a killed.

Speaker 17 (08:31):
Good and there you go.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Good work, Brian, Happy heard price back head down Old California. Congratulations,
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
I appreciate it all.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Right, buddy, Hang on Botom of the Hour and top
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(09:37):
radio head toward Christmas Time, A Big show exclusive Christmas.

Speaker 7 (09:43):
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It's John Boys chronic lyricosist Christmas Special hark the Hairy
Angels singing.

Speaker 17 (09:52):
You better watch up, You better not cry, better not pile.
I'm telling your wife. Sign Claus is going to town.
It's bacon and lips, chicken and Rice. Come to find
out he's naughty, all right, Santa Claus is going to town.

Speaker 18 (10:18):
It's these two when you're sleeping and those when you're away.
He knows if you're in bed for good, So be
good for good, Miss Blake.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
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Police snack me down as.

Speaker 10 (10:42):
Only John Boy would do.

Speaker 19 (10:44):
The polease snack me down.

Speaker 17 (10:46):
So get up.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
I'm going to leave, sweetheart.

Speaker 20 (10:50):
I'm gonna left through a merry Christmas. I'm gonna left
through a merry Christmas. I'm gonna left through a merry
Christmas from about a oh my.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
He may not quite know the words, but he's definitely
got the Christmas spirit. Mule tie never sounded like this,
Dag dolls.

Speaker 19 (11:14):
With balls and Harley's falling on a log.

Speaker 18 (11:18):
And Underdog ten Seasonto, Big.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Trolley, Falling on a Log and.

Speaker 19 (11:25):
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Rall, the ancient low Side Barrel.

Speaker 11 (11:40):
Log, No.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
No, No World, Warnies, Walkses.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
Don't miss John Boys Chronically, Ricosa's Christmas Special.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
We went through a Merry Christmas.

Speaker 19 (12:08):
We went through a Merry Chris must We went through
a merry Christmas and I had made two beers. We
went through a Merry Christmas. We went through a merry Christmas.
We went through a merry Christmas, and I.

Speaker 10 (12:21):
Had made two beers.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Good Tidy, Sweet Dreams to you and your kid.

Speaker 19 (12:27):
Get tidy for Christmas if you having two beers.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Park the Hairy Angels sing Christmas Eve at ate on
the only networked this desperate for programming, Fox Family.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Channel, Good Wednesday Morning Big Shows on the Radio, Today's

(13:09):
Big Show.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Top ten list the top ten worst Christmas toy ideas
of the year. Number ten, rock 'em sock 'em Room Buzz,
number nine, has.

Speaker 10 (13:22):
Bro's Super I Poker Outer.

Speaker 7 (13:27):
Number eight, Larry the Cable Guys, Netflix Password Cracker, Number seven,
Tony Hawk's incredibly painful nutshots for PlayStation five. Number six,
The Debt lap shrimped on the Barbie Playhouse Number five,

(13:49):
The Taylor Swiffer Number four, Bob the builder that hires illegal.

Speaker 10 (13:57):
Mexicans to save money.

Speaker 7 (14:01):
Number three, The George Foreman Lean mean Home Colonoscophy this
year number two, My Little Pony cag and the worst
toy of the year, Angry Hungry Hippo.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yao morning, Rednecks.

Speaker 10 (14:28):
This is your pompotus of love.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
I turna enjoying the hell out of my retirement, drinking liquor,
eating Vinies, and when I get to Jones in for
a crack and a go with it, I tune into
John Boy and Billy on the Big Show.

Speaker 21 (14:45):
If why I done lost my appetite for crackers.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Good morning, it's a big shaw on the radio. We're
onna do your Wednesday, December to thirteen, head toward the
well next last weekend for Christmas, not counting Christmas Weekend.
It was on the Monday this year.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Book Oh lordies negotiating.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
With the calendars.

Speaker 10 (15:39):
It's like something kind of a weird legal disclaivery.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
I have to think about it. Probably be the last
weekend for the parties, but maybe not. I mean, you
know that might as Stark.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
I just want to play my Chipmunk song. I don't
need to do it. It doesn't matter the day, what
your party is awesome, body go for it. Here we go.
Okay you chip monks.

Speaker 10 (16:02):
Are you ready to sing?

Speaker 5 (16:03):
Simon? Okay, Theodore, you've bet Alvin?

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Alvin album Christmas Less last time is time for wisky
wine and.

Speaker 16 (16:20):
Cost by Christmas Bash, watch the bust, get good and
smashed time.

Speaker 22 (16:30):
Marty with the twist, grawl plan new Raise.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Johnny Weeks, dear Christmas, go all right?

Speaker 7 (16:49):
That was great, Simon, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Hey another cockdown?

Speaker 10 (16:53):
Don't mind if I do nice singing?

Speaker 5 (16:55):
Theodore?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Thanks dude?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Are you trying to cram it?

Speaker 10 (16:58):
Alvin?

Speaker 7 (16:59):
I think you've had enough to drink Alvin album albun
not in the punch bowl?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh wow, that's excessive.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
What a trash out.

Speaker 22 (17:08):
Let's get us over with Gamis springs, SCRAMs, christmascals, christmascals.

Speaker 10 (17:38):
Come on, dude, I don't pick up some squirrels.

Speaker 13 (17:40):
Yeah, I could use a little tail anything as flows Mynny.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
You're an animal, you know that.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
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We'll play more than minutes right now. It's Tiber tater
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Speaker 9 (18:23):
Think you know, hold your plan, Hold your.

Speaker 13 (18:24):
Plus sad news out of Los Angeles.

Speaker 9 (18:29):
Ryan O'Neill passed away over the weekend.

Speaker 13 (18:31):
Ryan O'Neill O'Neil, he was in the He was Oscar
nominated in Love Story.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
From that, he was in What's Up?

Speaker 15 (18:39):
Doc?

Speaker 14 (18:40):
And Pete.

Speaker 10 (18:40):
He praised the TV show back in the sixty.

Speaker 13 (18:43):
In Paper Moon with his daughter, Yeah check in the
seventies there So no cause of depth has been given.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in twenty twelve, and
a decade after that, I mean, excuse me. That was
a decade after he had been diagnosed with chronic leukemia.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (19:00):
He passed at the age of eighty two. Norman Lear
also passed away last week by.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Creator of All in the Family, A lot of.

Speaker 13 (19:08):
Them, the Jeffersons made good times one day at a
time years old.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yes, how about it now?

Speaker 8 (19:17):
All of the network stations did some sort of tribute
that I missed, but they they ran a a static
card all at the same time in honor of him.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
But I I missed it.

Speaker 13 (19:30):
David Pierce in the news he opted out of the
Fraser revival. As you know, he said that he didn't
do it because he's like you didn't say I don't
ever want to do that again. It wasn't the reason
why he didn't join.

Speaker 9 (19:45):
I don't want to do it again. I never want
to do it again, just that he wanted to do
other things.

Speaker 13 (19:53):
He had just started a show on TV called Julia,
and he was working on a musical and he had
another musical book for doing.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
End does they sing or dance?

Speaker 13 (20:03):
Just like.

Speaker 9 (20:06):
I imagine you might have had a singing role in
the music.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
I can't do your show.

Speaker 9 (20:09):
I'm a play Well, that's what he said.

Speaker 13 (20:11):
He didn't want to commit to a show and then
not be able to do his other stuff, he said,
Plus they didn't really need him the show had moved
on from those characters and they had all new characters,
and he said, they're all great, so you don't need Niles,
he said. The Golden Globe nominations are in for the
twenty twenty four Golden Globes. Nicholas Cage has gotten a nomination.

Speaker 9 (20:35):
He's up for Best.

Speaker 13 (20:36):
Actor in a Musical or Company for Dream Scenario or
Scenario Scenario. Barbie and the TV show Succession have also
been nominated with nine nominations. Apiece Oppenheimer had eight nomination
Or has eight nominations. Killers of the Flower Moon and
the Emma Stone movie Poor Things both have seven nominations,

(21:00):
and Emma has two personally for that. She's nominated for
both Poor Things and TV drama The Curse.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
How many of those have you seen?

Speaker 5 (21:08):
John, Not a one?

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Really? How many of them have you heard of?

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Maybe one?

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (21:13):
Me too?

Speaker 9 (21:15):
You gotta watch TV, eh.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Right? The ones that everybody liked.

Speaker 9 (21:23):
TV and them.

Speaker 13 (21:24):
Well, they're looking for a host. No, one has not
been scheduled yet. Yes, they asked Chris Rock, is.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
That right to be the host?

Speaker 13 (21:31):
To sound to maybe ask him to do another Awards show?
But yeah, they asked Chris Rock, he said no. Other
people that have allegedly said no is Ali Wong and
the trio Will Arnette, Sean Hayes and Jason Bateman podcast.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
That would be worth watching, just to watch those. Now
they're gonna give it to Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 10 (21:53):
Probably, I hear David Hyde Pierce's.

Speaker 13 (21:58):
Retired NFL player Rob Gronkowski is going to return to
the football field. He gonna sing the national as the
kickoff of the college bowl games UH starts this Saturday.
L A Bowl is hosted by Gronk. Naturally, he has
picked himself to sing the national anthem ahead of the
game between Boise State and u C l A UH.

Speaker 9 (22:18):
But he won't be alone.

Speaker 13 (22:19):
The new Directions Veterans choir will harmonize and if when
he forgets, I mean if he forgets the words that
they'll be there to help him cover up, coordinate.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
He can sing along with Megan excuses for him forgetting
the words before he started.

Speaker 9 (22:40):
Got backup, so he's a smart man.

Speaker 13 (22:42):
Miley Cyrus looks like she's gonna book a deal for
a long term residency. She's looking at the Madison Square
Garden or the Steer in Las.

Speaker 9 (22:51):
Vegas like that's bringing cool. I can't wait to go.
I don't think it's gonna be fine, and then travel.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Around pretty cool again residents in Vegas. I did know
they did Madison Square Guarden. How does that work?

Speaker 23 (23:07):
They do?

Speaker 7 (23:08):
Yes, it's the same idea book every weekend.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Billy told, did it?

Speaker 9 (23:11):
You know a lot of people get, oh good, she precious?

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Thank you dad, you're going We're already.

Speaker 13 (23:21):
Gold Time Magazine, twenty twenty three.

Speaker 9 (23:27):
Percent of the year is that I.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Have no idea? Taylor Swift, Yes, oh Taylor.

Speaker 13 (23:36):
Spotify has dubbed her twenty twenty three Global Artists of Year.
Fores magazine identified Taylor as only the second billionaire to
earn their fortune solely on music and performances.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
That tour has now crossed a billion dollars and it's
not anywhere near being over yet now like April or something.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
Couldn't she pay all? A couple of refs? How do
you know she has? And the way that game is
and you wouldn't know anything about that but later.

Speaker 13 (24:03):
And speaking of her boyfriends, has she made him more
popular than he had made himself?

Speaker 9 (24:08):
I don't know, but Jucky you think.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
Ask the Swifties.

Speaker 13 (24:12):
But a game warning Jersey has recently sold for thirty
seven thousand dollars at an auction, and.

Speaker 9 (24:18):
The experts girls, I don't know. I don't know, but
he's sure.

Speaker 13 (24:23):
If Jersey wore back in twenty nineteen, they did win
the game.

Speaker 9 (24:26):
He did do very well in the game.

Speaker 13 (24:28):
But a lot of people believe that it's the you know,
the touch of the Taylor swift.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
According to TMZ, Sean Hayes said, I'm gonna wear it
when I'm doing a play.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, and she had a birthday. I don't know whether
it was today or yesterday sometime. Let's sell it somewhere.
She's about thirty fourty four. Yeah, Kelsey Travis his popular
as that's all right, thank you very much. Well, let's
get us a winner. Let's play John Boy Jeopardy review

(25:00):
yesterday's question. We found out, according to the United Nations
Food and Agricultural Organization, pork is by far the most
widely eating meat in the world. That's word, noting the
nearly seventy five percent of the world's population eats meat
from this animal on a regular basis.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Goat.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Goat's very popular around the world. All right, Today's John
Boy Jeopardy Mathematically speaking, the unique shape of this popular
snack food is called a hyperbolic paraboloid.

Speaker 7 (25:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, what is the meat in a macrib?

Speaker 5 (25:37):
I'll have the hyperbolic parable, oh twice? All right, what
you all got? One eight undred big show toll free
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(26:12):
It's a big showing. The radio humming. Do your Homeday
day Summer the thirteenth will come on. Let's play Yes Live.
I'll cross on my RICKI its young Chap.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
And now your host reminding you they're only hand no where,
Sin had.

Speaker 10 (26:33):
No shopping days to a Christmas peece.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
John Boy like that as I had. Kevin out of Greenville,
South Carolina. Good morning, Kevin, Good morning, John Boy.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Billy did a Randay.

Speaker 14 (26:50):
Okay, how's everybody?

Speaker 5 (26:52):
Man?

Speaker 14 (26:52):
We are so good.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
The old Buddy Jurgen was just in the studio. He
worked down at roq hat A green at Carolina. Were
you'll listening to the Big show, give Jay bird shout out.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
I wouldn't call it work.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Yeah, well, I Kevin, glad you made it in here.
Buddy got the first shot at today's question. Mathematically speaking,
the unique shape of this popular snack food is called
a hyperbolic paraboloid or something like that. Yeah, I got earlier.

Speaker 14 (27:26):
Well, of course it is, tom Boy.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
How long do you have to practice that one?

Speaker 5 (27:29):
This is not really the second time? Yeah, I tell
them pretty much.

Speaker 15 (27:35):
English major.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Well I didn't actually go to college.

Speaker 10 (27:41):
High school.

Speaker 17 (27:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (27:44):
No.

Speaker 15 (27:44):
What I'm thinking is English was a major thing for you, Jo.

Speaker 13 (27:48):
It still is?

Speaker 15 (27:48):
It still is?

Speaker 10 (27:49):
Yes, one of the biggest things in his life.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Made it to the North Carolina Radio Hall of Fame
with that.

Speaker 23 (27:56):
That's how.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
People all right, well, I see you later, Buddydohn boy,
how do you wait?

Speaker 14 (28:05):
I got a guess on it.

Speaker 15 (28:07):
This one's got me stung because I wasn't good mathematically either. Right,
So I'm thinking, John Boy, what do you think popul
Let's go with Twizzlers?

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Okay, Twinzlers? All right, and you might be on the
some Let's see, is it Twinzlers? Oh no, never mind,
he was so convincing you went with.

Speaker 8 (28:34):
I thought you really might have been right because he
did that long set up to his inter people who
google it my life.

Speaker 15 (28:41):
Everybody thinks I win, And.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Well, Kevin, we appreciate you playing and glad to have
you listening there, buddy, you have a merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Hey, can I give a shout out?

Speaker 5 (28:53):
The more she can.

Speaker 15 (28:55):
I want to give a shout out to John Boy
and Billy. I've been listening to y'all since you were
on the way over there on the right side of
the radio dial, probably thirty some years ago. And uh,
y'all are a big deal to me. I once delivered
flowers to John Boy's wife when he lived off Park Road.
I was just a young fella. He said, I come
to the door with the flowers. John Boy, come down

(29:18):
the steps going read the card.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
I want to see what I said.

Speaker 10 (29:23):
Well, you definitely got the right house.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
Yes I did, I knew.

Speaker 15 (29:26):
I appreciate y'all. Thank you for making us laugh every morning, gentlemen.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Thank you, Kevin. That's awesome, buddy, good store.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Did you ever find out who sent her flowers?

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Thank you, Kevin. Let's go to Jeffrey. He's in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Good morning, Jeffrey party, John Boy, how y'all going, Hey man,
you will you are good? All right? So, Jeffrey, it
was not Twizzlers. What popular snack food you think is
the old hyperbolic pair of boloy.

Speaker 10 (30:00):
He says it different every time.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
That's why it's ungoglable.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
I'm pretty sure it ain't nicotine nuggets, so it's gotta
be Pringle.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
You said, Oh, you say it's Pringles potato chips. Let's see.
I'm not a good yess man. Money Jeffrey, you've got
the big old red Max prize back heading over to
Chambersburg for you, buddy.

Speaker 15 (30:32):
Roger right, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Merry Christmas, y'all.

Speaker 14 (30:36):
Thanks for what you do.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Thank you, Jeffrey, Merry Christmas, you buddy. You hang on
our little lift jacket, Gonna hook you up. Bottom of
the hour, top of your news. Right on the other side,
Robert Old King Christmas Song as recorded in a big
shoe studio. You got it. Good morning. It's a big

(31:35):
show on the radio. Headed towards Christmas time. Robert Earl
keene I boy these Texas z on at started a
ay lifelong relationship with R. E.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
K and the Big Show.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
Good grief, this is a good old days to go back.
Remember how old I turn? On my birthday when my
first thing with Robert Earl at the Neighborhood Theater sixty eight,

(32:11):
memories come flooding back. Let's go back to when we
recorded Robert Earl's Christmas tune right here in the Big Show.

Speaker 14 (32:19):
Okay, Robert, hey, would you could you the big moment?

Speaker 5 (32:24):
This is so cool like you.

Speaker 14 (32:27):
Everybody said cheap.

Speaker 23 (32:36):
Mom got drunk, and that got drunk.

Speaker 14 (32:40):
At a Christmas party.

Speaker 23 (32:44):
We were drinking champagne, punching homemade ag.

Speaker 14 (32:50):
Now, little sister brought a new boyfriend. He was a
meg acain. We didn't know what to think of him.

Speaker 23 (33:03):
Tell his sign police norvid a hot police novin.

Speaker 14 (33:16):
Brother Ken brought his kids with him, the three from
his first.

Speaker 23 (33:22):
Wife, Lynn, and the two identical twins from his second.

Speaker 14 (33:28):
Wife, marrying them.

Speaker 23 (33:33):
Of course, he brought his new wife, Kay, who talks
all about a.

Speaker 14 (33:41):
Chain smoking while the stereo place. No no, well the
first no.

Speaker 11 (33:53):
Oh no love it.

Speaker 14 (33:57):
Saw the turkey turned the ball game on.

Speaker 23 (34:01):
Mixed Margarita is when the Eggnog's gone.

Speaker 14 (34:05):
Send somebody to the quick pack store.

Speaker 23 (34:09):
We need some ic and and extension cord, a can
of beand in and some bad rice, a box.

Speaker 14 (34:18):
Of tampons, some marbar lines.

Speaker 23 (34:21):
Pellelujah, everybody say cheese.

Speaker 14 (34:25):
Merry Christmas. From the fam.

Speaker 23 (34:37):
Fred and Rita drove from harlow Gin. I can't remember
how I'm kin to them, but when they're trying to
plug their motor home in the blue eye Christmas Lie
cousin David, that just what went wrong. So we all

(34:58):
waited out on our front along. He threw a breaker
and the lines came on and.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
We sang side nine on silent line.

Speaker 14 (35:12):
Oh, holy.

Speaker 23 (35:18):
Called the turkey turned the ball game on myke Gloody Mary's.
Because we all want warm, send somebody to the stop
and go. We need some Celerihanna can fake snow, a
bag of lemons and some dance.

Speaker 14 (35:36):
Spries a bunch of tampons.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Some say long lines.

Speaker 14 (35:42):
Hallelujah.

Speaker 23 (35:43):
Everybody say cheez Merry Christmas from the Famme.

Speaker 24 (35:57):
For lice, snow, good wnes the morning day seven, your thirteenth,

(36:34):
twenty twenty three Christmas season, would bet you I boies
and teasol.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
See wizards and winter if you would like to look
that up right now, let's all gather around, turn it down,
because it's time for the Pillars of truth. Here's Jeff Pillars, buddy.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
I was gonna do a bit, but we're so close
to Christmas and I didn't have a Christmas story ready,
But I have a story that to me in real life,
and I wanted to tell you but once I wanted
to tell for almost five years. Now I think it's
message is important, maybe now more than ever. So I
was on my way home from the show. I had
to stop for carrots for the horse, and I don't
know why, but I stopped at a store that I
usually don't stop at. It was just spur of the moment.

(37:17):
I quickly grabbed the carrots I needed. I went to
check out. A young, very pretty, light skinned black girl
dressed in scrubs stepped in line behind me. She had
two cans of cream of mushroom soup. You could see
that she had a lot on her mind. There was
an air of profound sadness about her, but I couldn't
put my finger on it. So I decided to make
small talk see if I could get a smile out

(37:39):
of her. I said, boy, you're just like me. In
the middle of cooking something, you realize you forgot that
one single ingredient you really needed. She forced a smile.
She said, this is my dinner for the next two nights.
So I went right back with nothing wrong with that.
I love mushroom soup. She looked near tears. Her lower
lip quivered. I had to do something. I turned to

(38:02):
the cashier and I said, can you hold this for
just for a moment. I need to take my girlfriend's shopping.
I turned to the girl and I said, come on,
come with me. She was caught off guard. I turned
my cart around and headed back into the store. I
turned back, I said, come on, I haven't got a
lot of time.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
And what was a very stupid move. I grabbed her
by the wrist and dragged her along, but she didn't
scream or resist. She appeared to be in a bit
of shock.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Why are you doing this?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
She asked, Why do you care? I replied, man. We
flew through the store. It was like with that shopping show,
remember that where they used to go run to anily
at thirty seconds.

Speaker 11 (38:38):
It was like that.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
It seemed like seconds, but we surely were in there
for thirty minutes at least. We got everything stuff I
don't even buy for myself, fruits and vegetables. We got bread,
we got pasta, meats, lots of meat, steaks, chops, seafood.
Then we hit the frozen foods. I threw some ice
cream and a couple of frozen pies on top. We
wrapped up. We went back to check out. By this

(38:59):
time I had her laughing. I went to buy a
can of beans and I went, nah, and I.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Put them back.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
You'll, you know, pull my finger bit her face beamed.
The total was right around seventy dollars. Now, in today's money,
that would probably be over one hundred. I'm not a
rich guy. I really didn't have an extra seventy bucks
to throw around, but she needed it. I grabbed my
two bag of carrots and started for the door.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
She ran over to me. What's your name? I grabbed
her by the little pills of her coat and I
pulled her close to me. I'm Batman. She smiled and said,
can I hug you?

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Batman?

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I said, well, of course, I better get something out
of this. She hugged me desperately, and I could hear
it start to cry. I had to get out of
there before I did the same hang in there, kid,
and off I went. Now fast forward nine months, same scenario,
leaving the show, stopping for carrots on the way home,
and while I was walking down the aisle, I heard

(39:59):
someone say, hey, Batman.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
It was her.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
We both laughed and hugged each other. Her situation had
greatly improved. She was even engaged. She introduced me to him.
I've heard a lot about you, Batman. We chatted and laughed,
and before I left, they both hugged me. Eh, it's
good to be Batman.

Speaker 12 (40:20):
Now.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
If a fat, old, washed up B movie actor like
me can be Batman, so can you. You don't have
to go looking for someone to help. They will present
themselves when you least expect it. I guarantee it, and
you will know your paths crossed for a reason. Help them.
It doesn't have to be money, a smile, a kind word.
Some people just need somebody to listen. You'll know what

(40:42):
to do, and when you do it, please email or
write to me and tell me your story. The world
needs these stories. The world needs you. You just don't
know it, but you will. I wish all of you
the merriest of Christmases, and as always, thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Oh good morning, dollars. That's your old granny clump. You
know the best way to start your day. I don't
buy that crap, but a balanced breakfast. Listening to John
Boy Billy on The Big Show is low in fact
and high in fun. And who the hell can't get
behind that, Ol'patrick, It's time for my spongebath.

Speaker 13 (41:27):
Whoa
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