The John Boy & Billy Big Show

The John Boy & Billy Big Show

Paired together in the fall of 1980, John Boy & Billy are now celebrating their fourth decade together, dominating mornings with their antics and love of good old-fashioned fun. Johnny “John Boy” Isley and Billy James were at the forefront of the modern wave of radio syndication when they launched the John Boy & Billy Radio Network in 1993, eventually adding more than 100-affiliates nationwide. Their guests include everyone from comedians to sports celebrities to television and motion picture stars. The program’s availability on the internet has made John Boy & Billy fans out of listeners as far away as Israel and Australia. The duo’s enthusiastic support of US military personnel regularly brings emails and fan letters from service men and women stationed throughout the world.

Episodes

December 8, 2025 53 mins

Monday (pt 1 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, it’s another Mini Movie Monday - today we’re working our way through the Holiday Classic, “A Christmas Carl” - featuring Carl Childers from the Millsburg Nervous Hospital.. - Oliver shares his feelings on the many personalities of John Boy - and focuses on his least favorite, the Christmastime John Boy.. - Dr. Elmo performs a parody of himself ...

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Monday (pt 2 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, it’s another Mini Movie Monday - today we’re working our way through the Holiday Classic, “A Christmas Carl” - featuring Carl Childers from the Millsburg Nervous Hospital.. - Oliver shares his feelings on the many personalities of John Boy - and focuses on his least favorite, the Christmastime John Boy.. - Dr. Elmo performs a parody of himself ...

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Friday (pt 1 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we officially kick off our Christmas Season with Porky Pig’s Blue Christmas - and his other favorite Christmas Songs.. - We’ll talk with Mr. Rock’n Roll Christmas, Gary Ho-Ho-Hoey.. - The Not Ready for Drive Time Players have a brand new script for the Playhouse entitled, “Wanna Bet?”.. - Robert Earl Keen checks in as he and the boys are ...

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Friday (pt 2 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we officially kick off our Christmas Season with Porky Pig’s Blue Christmas - and his other favorite Christmas Songs.. - We’ll talk with Mr. Rock’n Roll Christmas, Gary Ho-Ho-Hoey.. - The Not Ready for Drive Time Players have a brand new script for the Playhouse entitled, “Wanna Bet?”.. - Robert Earl Keen checks in as he and the boys are ...

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Thursday (pt 1 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Jeff Pillars ticks off the Top 10 things that tick him off.. - We’ll play the song that first introduced us to Robert Earl Keen in the late ’90’s - “Merry Christmas from the Family”.. - We’ve got a brand new round-up of stupid criminals in our annual Holiday Edition of Dumb Crook News.. - One of Santa’s Elves hits Open Mic N...

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Thursday (pt 2 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Jeff Pillars ticks off the Top 10 things that tick him off.. - We’ll play the song that first introduced us to Robert Earl Keen in the late ’90’s - “Merry Christmas from the Family”.. - We’ve got a brand new round-up of stupid criminals in our annual Holiday Edition of Dumb Crook News.. - One of Santa’s Elves hits Open Mic N...

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Wednesday (pt 2 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ll hear from the Christmas Chipmunks - now that they’ve reached legal drinking age.. - Tater updates us on the celebrity news with this weeks Tatertainment report.. - J.D.’s 24-Hour Stores is having their annual Christmas Blowout Sale.. - Redneck Joan Jet sings Billy’s all-time favorite Christmas song, “I Love Santa Claus”.. -...

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Wednesday (pt 1 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ll hear from the Christmas Chipmunks - now that they’ve reached legal drinking age.. - Tater updates us on the celebrity news with this weeks Tatertainment report.. - J.D.’s 24-Hour Stores is having their annual Christmas Blowout Sale.. - Redneck Joan Jet sings Billy’s all-time favorite Christmas song, “I Love Santa Claus”.. -...

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Tuesday (pt 2 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ll dust off our some of our favorite Christmas Classics beginning with the Boulder Boys “Christmas Balls”.. - Sean Connery and Mr. Sulu reenact scenes from “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” and “It’s a Wonderful Life”.. - Rev. Billy Ray takes the pulpit and comes down hard on “Satan Claus”.. - Gary Busey t...

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Tuesday (pt 1 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ll dust off our some of our favorite Christmas Classics beginning with the Boulder Boys “Christmas Balls”.. - Sean Connery and Mr. Sulu reenact scenes from “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” and “It’s a Wonderful Life”.. - Rev. Billy Ray takes the pulpit and comes down hard on “Satan Claus”.. - Gary Busey t...

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Monday (pt 1 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Marvin teams up with Hoyt for a song about Black Friday - then goes on a tangent about the name assigned to the day.. - Randy has some cautionary Cyber Monday advice to avoid getting scammed while you are shopping online today.. - Gary Busey makes his post Halloween entry into his diary.. - We’ll fill a request for a Playhouse.. - and we’ll wrap up with Ca...

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Monday (pt 2 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Marvin teams up with Hoyt for a song about Black Friday - then goes on a tangent about the name assigned to the day.. - Randy has some cautionary Cyber Monday advice to avoid getting scammed while you are shopping online today.. - Gary Busey makes his post Halloween entry into his diary.. - We’ll fill a request for a Playhouse.. - and we’ll wrap up with Ca...

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November 28, 2025 43 mins

Friday (pt 2 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ve pieced together today’s Encore Edition Show from parts and pieces of numerous shows recovered from a resurrected hard drive from loooong ago - the end result is awesome, but we’re giving our Mailbag Singers a real workout as we replay some of our favorite Listener Letters.. - some bad - some good - but all funny!.. - plus you’ll hear a co...

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November 28, 2025 40 mins

Friday (pt 1 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ve pieced together today’s Encore Edition Show from parts and pieces of numerous shows recovered from a resurrected hard drive from loooong ago - the end result is awesome, but we’re giving our Mailbag Singers a real workout as we replay some of our favorite Listener Letters.. - some bad - some good - but all funny!.. - plus you’ll hear a co...

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Thursday (pt 2 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ve got a special Thanksgiving Day show for you from our archives. - This show was rescued from a dead backup drive from years ago - Unfortunately, we couldn’t retrieve the time/date stamps so we have no idea what year it originally aired.. - Regardless, we’re still serving up leftovers BEFORE Thanksgiving! - Another first! - Pass the gravy and e...

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Thursday (pt 1 of 2): On today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we’ve got a special Thanksgiving Day show for you from our archives. - This show was rescued from a dead backup drive from years ago - Unfortunately, we couldn’t retrieve the time/date stamps so we have no idea what year it originally aired.. - Regardless, we’re still serving up leftovers BEFORE Thanksgiving! - Another first! - Pass the gravy and e...

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Wednesday (pt 1 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we pull out one of our favorite Thanksgiving bits, “Unknown History: The First Thanksgiving” - featuring Clyde the Camel.. - Astronerd - or as he now wants to be known - “Jokenerd” - workshops some material he plans to use at his “Dad Conference” gig.. - Mark Packer covers the wacky college sports scene with his Souther Fried Foo...

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Wednesday (pt 2 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, we pull out one of our favorite Thanksgiving bits, “Unknown History: The First Thanksgiving” - featuring Clyde the Camel.. - Astronerd - or as he now wants to be known - “Jokenerd” - workshops some material he plans to use at his “Dad Conference” gig.. - Mark Packer covers the wacky college sports scene with his Souther Fried Foo...

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Tuesday (pt 1 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Tater has her weekly roundup of What to Watch.. - Col. Brewster stops by and drops his latest work of poetry on us.. - Carl Childers gets a work release from the nervous hospital and shares his version of the story of the first Thanksgiving.. - We venture deep into the cellar of our massive archives and resurface a copy of one of our earliest Playhouse performances, ...

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Tuesday (pt 2 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Tater has her weekly roundup of What to Watch.. - Col. Brewster stops by and drops his latest work of poetry on us.. - Carl Childers gets a work release from the nervous hospital and shares his version of the story of the first Thanksgiving.. - We venture deep into the cellar of our massive archives and resurface a copy of one of our earliest Playhouse performances, ...

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