Hill Billy Jon Radio Show
The Hillbilly Jon Radio Show is where common sense meets the microphone. Broadcasting from Southwestern Pennsylvania, Jon takes on politics, culture, media spin, and the stories the establishment would rather you ignore.
No talking points.
No script readers. Just real conversations with candidates, business owners, whistleblowers, and everyday Americans who still believe in grit, faith, and freedom.
If you are tired of the noise and ready for straight talk, you are in the right place.
Episodes
41 episodes
The Real Cost Of Gas
Gas is expensive, but the part that really makes people furious is the feeling that the system is built to take more and explain less. We start with Pennsylvania’s sky-high gas tax and quickly get into the bigger question: when politicians coll...
Pennsylvania’s Death Tax
Pennsylvania can feel like a place where you get taxed coming and going and then somehow taxed again after you’re gone. We get into that hard truth head-on, starting with the inheritance tax that can bite families at the worst possible time, tu...
Take Back The Party
We make the case that Pennsylvania’s Republican Party is built by working people, not insiders, and we argue it is time to hand power back to the grassroots. Larry Dougherty joins us to explain why he is running for State GOP committeeman in Fa...
Faith, Freedom, And The Constitution
If you’ve ever looked at politics and thought, “How did we get this far off track?”, this conversation goes straight to the foundation. We sit down with John Diamond, a field representative for the John Birch Society, to talk about faith, freed...
How A 250-Year Family Farm Feeds A Community
George Washington’s name is everywhere, but it hits different when the story lives on a real front porch you can still stand on. We sit down with Mark Cook to trace the living history of Cook Farm in Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsyl...
A Senate Candidate’s Plan To Cut Waste And Lower Costs
They tried to keep our guest off the ballot, and the fight ended up in court. That alone tells you something about how high the stakes are in Pennsylvania politics right now. I sit down with Al Buckton, a Pennsylvania State Senate candidate, to...
We The People
“Be on your guard, stand firm, be courageous, and be strong” sets the tone, and then we get practical fast. I’m John Marietta, joined by Bud Cook, and we talk about what service looks like when the calls are real, the paperwork is endless, and ...
Voter Dollars For Real Power
We dig into why big money donors have become the real constituents in American politics and why voters feel shut out of decisions that shape their lives. We lay out a specific fix called voter dollars that aims to make voters the donors and pul...
Reason Together: A Libertarian Case For School Choice And Lower Taxes In Pennsylvania
Voters keep getting told to “pick a side,” but the ballot belongs to you, not party insiders. We open with a simple challenge: reason together, stop shouting, and let candidates speak in their own words. That’s why we sit down with John Thomas,...
Fayette County Landowners Fight A 190 Foot Power Line Plan
They’re talking about “resiliency” and “economic development,” but what we’re hearing on the ground in Southern Fayette County sounds like something else entirely: a massive high voltage transmission line pushed forward while the people who liv...
Grassroots Republicans Explain Pennsylvania State Committee Power
Patriotism isn’t something you buy at a store or slap on a bumper sticker. We start with a faith-forward challenge: if freedom is real, it should show up as truth, courage, humility, justice, and repentance, not pride and performance. That mess...
Fay-Penn Exposed Part 3
We draw a hard line against secrecy in Fayette County and lay out why NDAs and closed-door deals break public trust. We connect the FAYPEN scandal to insider patterns, political influence, and a concrete plan to publish documents and push inves...
Fay-Penn Exposed Part 2
We follow a paper trail that we say points to insider benefits inside Fayette County’s economic development world, even as the wider county struggles. We push for outside oversight, urge listeners to check the documents themselves, and argue th...
Fay-Penn Exposed Part 1
Something smells wrong when public money keeps flowing and regular people keep falling behind. We’re looking straight at Fayette County, Pennsylvania and asking the questions that make powerful people uncomfortable: where do public grants and e...
Why A Pennsylvania Ballot Challenge Collapsed On Basic Legal Service Rules
A ballot fight can sound like pure politics until you see what actually decides it: procedure. We walk through a Pennsylvania election challenge where the outcome hinges on one unglamorous legal requirement, proper service. If you do not serve ...
How Party Insiders Try To Decide Elections Before Voters Do
They don’t want to beat you at the ballot box, they want to erase your choices before you ever vote. That’s the charge we dig into from right here in Fayette County, where local politics shows how power really works when petitions, courts, and ...
Voters Hold The Power When Party Bosses Stop Listening
A courthouse can feel far away until it starts touching your wallet. I’m John Marietta, and I’m sounding the alarm on what I see as Fayette County politics drifting into backroom habits, bigger budgets, and taxpayer costs that never get a clear...
The Tax Collector Reality
Your property tax bill can feel personal, but the person collecting it usually has the least power over what you owe. We sit down with Mary Grace Butello, a Dunbar Township tax collector with more than two decades on the job, to separate tax po...
America Can Stop Paying For Everyone Else’s Wars
The moment regular people decide they’re done being treated like an afterthought, politics changes fast. We start with a straight talk challenge to government that shields itself with bloated budgets, hush-hush NDAs, and insider protection, and...
From War Stories To A Rally In Pennsylvania With Ted Cruz
We call for a local revival rooted in faith, gratitude to the military, and community action, then welcome guest Chris Morolo to share an event with Ted Cruz and a powerful WWII family story that shapes his civic work. We examine today’s politi...
When Economic Development Becomes A Closed Door
A plain envelope on the porch. Lawsuits and 990s inside. And a blunt question: why would public officials sign NDAs to sit on the board of a nonprofit that doles out economic development loans? We take you through the claims surrounding the Fay...
Remember The Alamo, Remember Your Vote
A date carved in history becomes a mirror for our moment. We draw a straight line from March 6, 1836 to the choices facing every county today, asking what it means to cross the line for liberty when pressure tells you to sit down and stay quiet...
How Real Patriots Fight Corruption And Build Back Local Power
What happens when the people who dig the ditches, run the lines, and raise the next generation decide they’re done with closed doors and whispered deals? We take you inside Southwestern Pennsylvania’s grassroots revolt against party gatekeeping...
What Happens When Accountability Meets A Closed Door
Ever been told your question is “not for this room”? We shine a bright light on how public forums can be curated to mute dissent, and why that undermines trust in county government. John, Melanie, and guest Donnie—a veteran and longtime local a...
If Government Spent My Money Like This, I’d Ask For A Receipt
Jon Marietta and Guests Al Buchtan and Bud Cook discussing Politics, what's going on across Pennsylvania, taxes, budgets, casino money, recent public reports on Charleroi from Independent Journalist, Standing for we the People, Save Ameri...