Jay and Gary Show

#20: August 21

When Jay Pearce was in the hospital in August 2024, when it was becoming clear that he didn’t have long to live, family and friends came to visit and share a little time. Literally dozens of them from around Illinois and beyond. When he did finally pass, one year ago today, 4:20 AM on August 21, his closest family and friends were at his bedside. One year later, family and a few of those friends got together on Zoom and live on YouTube for this episode of the Jay and Gary Show. Jay’s wife Melisse, daughter Sara, brother Gary and hius wife Cyndi, and friends Margie and Wade Roberts and Jay Hedblade chat about Jay’s life and career, listen to some recordings from the 70s and 90s, talk about radio back in the day, and just miss him. Jay’s son Dale was missing, down with a bug, or “as sick as I’ve ever been” as he put it on a family chat. If you knew Jay well or even just a little… or just discovered us on the podcast, you’re welcome to evesdrop on the conversation. As always, feel fee to slide around the timeline, drop in and out, listen to as much as you want and then go. Just like it was on the radio.

#18: Turn This Pod Around, You F***ing Girl

It’s Sara, Cyndi and Gary this time. A little Parenting (for a potty-mouth little Jay), some school and job dissection, then we see who remembers the ‘most memorable song’ each year for the past 100 years, in a YouTube Takedown Marathon.

#17 Freedom to Shut Up

Dale and Gary yak about the First Amendment. At the end, Gary talks about his car ‘crash’ (and new car).

#16 Ain't Nobody's Happy

(Almost) on the 1st anniversary of the Jay and Gary Show, we're back. And we're pretty upset at the way Trump is tearing the country apart, piece by piece. Gary is joined by Jay's kids, Dale and Sara, and his wife Cyndi. And we carry on. #16 Ain't Nobody's Happy 😣

#15: No Simple Podcast

Jay's son Dale and daughter Sara join Gary to restart the Jay and Gary Show. Our conversation is general up to the about the one-hour mark, when we 'begin the show' and talk about the time between Jay's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and his death (May to August 2024). It gets a little raw. We expect to continue the show in one form or another, perhaps every couple of weeks. Jay and Gary were ‘building this plane as we were flying it’ up to Jay’s death. That’s where we pick it up and carry on. Pleae consider donating to the Jay H. Pearce Memorial Scholarship fund at Southern Illinios University: https://give.siu.edu/jay-h-pearce-memorial-scholarship [https://give.siu.edu/jay-h-pearce-memorial-scholarship]