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We talk through a hard election result without self-pity, focusing on why getting back up matters more than one bad night of returns. We also lay out what grassroots campaigning teaches you about money, turnout, and the

Hosted by Jon Marietta · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 43 episodes
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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.
Jon Marietta hosts Hill Billy Jon Radio Show, a news show with 43 episodes published.

We talk through a hard election result without self-pity, focusing on why getting back up matters more than one bad night of returns. We also lay out what grassroots campaigning teaches you about money, turnout, and the

Politics gets weird when yard signs vanish overnight and someone tries to hack your ads right as momentum hits. We’re Hillbilly John Marietta and PA State Senate candidate Al Buckton, and we talk candidly about what the

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 questio

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

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 Stat

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

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,

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 St

“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 pa

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 v

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 si

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

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 an

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

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

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: wher

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 servi

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

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 cost

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
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