Latest / Billy & Lisa in the Morning / Ben Mezrich + You're Choice Of Actors
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- 0:00Speaker 1: From the Planet Fitness Kiss one O eight Studios. We're
- 0:04Speaker 1: back with a Billy and Lisa in the morning.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody, Welcome back to the show on a
- 0:08Speaker 2: Tuesday morning. Today is July seventh. It's justin Billy and
- 0:12Speaker 2: Lisa and let's sound so fun.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Yeah, here's to come.
- 0:22Speaker 4: What an introduction never gets tired, does it.
- 0:25Speaker 5: We've got Juliana Richards in studio and she's a trapeze
- 0:30Speaker 5: artist in the Ringling Brothers.
- 0:32Speaker 6: Yes, the greatest party on Earth. Yeah, it's really fun show.
- 0:36Speaker 6: You definitely don't want to miss it.
- 0:37Speaker 5: Now I want to be right. Is it trapeze artist?
- 0:40Speaker 5: Is it flyer? Is it aerialist? Which the proper title?
- 0:44Speaker 7: All of those would apply.
- 0:46Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, I do flying trapez on the show.
- 0:50Speaker 7: Sometimes do a little bit of aerial work.
- 0:53Speaker 6: I started as an aera list and now I mainly
- 0:55Speaker 6: do flying trapezes.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Do you ever get scared?
- 0:57Speaker 7: Absolutely?
- 0:59Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 0:59Speaker 6: It never actually gets completely comfortable to be flying between
- 1:04Speaker 6: thirty and forty feet in the air.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:06Speaker 5: They throw you mid it to another person waiting, and
- 1:10Speaker 5: by the way, that person is on a moving swing.
- 1:13Speaker 6: Yep.
- 1:14Speaker 7: Absolutely yeah.
- 1:15Speaker 6: So I think we're all a little bit of an
- 1:17Speaker 6: adrenaline junkies. So I can admit that about myself, but
- 1:23Speaker 6: also your fitness level right comes into.
- 1:25Speaker 5: Play at least you can't believe the minute justin manor
- 1:28Speaker 5: how many push ups can you do it?
- 1:29Speaker 2: How many pull ups can you do? You want to
- 1:30Speaker 2: have a contest.
- 1:31Speaker 3: I'm like, where is the Polish.
- 1:33Speaker 6: I'm open to having a contact, and it seems like
- 1:36Speaker 6: they don't have a pollupar hair, so convenient for them
- 1:39Speaker 6: push ups.
- 1:41Speaker 7: Honestly, I don't.
- 1:42Speaker 6: Know my max out number of push ups. That would
- 1:45Speaker 6: be a discovery if we did that this morning.
- 1:47Speaker 4: But okay, we this may go down.
- 1:50Speaker 3: It's like ten.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Good. Yeah, well I went. I went to the circus
- 1:55Speaker 2: this past weekend and again I asked. We had a
- 1:56Speaker 2: great time, brought our family. For me, the highlight was
- 1:59Speaker 2: the trapeze. You saw Juliana in action. It was unbelievable,
- 2:03Speaker 2: Like my jaw was on the floor the entire time.
- 2:06Speaker 2: It's cool to watch, but also when you understand the
- 2:08Speaker 2: strength that it takes to be able to do to
- 2:10Speaker 2: do that, and my heart was just beating like afraid,
- 2:13Speaker 2: like I think you're going to drop them.
- 2:15Speaker 8: You know, have you.
- 2:16Speaker 5: Ever fallen like you get thrown and you get to
- 2:19Speaker 5: the other side and there's no one there.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Happens.
- 2:21Speaker 6: I mean, we're all human, that's why there's a night.
- 2:25Speaker 6: It's flying trapezes, so it's really high level and we
- 2:27Speaker 6: don't always complete our trigs.
- 2:29Speaker 1: So when you were little, is this something you always
- 2:31Speaker 1: love to do, like gymnastics, tumbling like all that kind
- 2:33Speaker 1: of stuff, or is it later in life.
- 2:35Speaker 6: I was a dancer growing up, and even from when
- 2:37Speaker 6: I was three years old, I started waking my mom
- 2:40Speaker 6: up in the morning asking.
- 2:41Speaker 7: Her, Mom, is today a dancing day.
- 2:44Speaker 6: At the time, I only went to class once a week,
- 2:47Speaker 6: so she was like quickly put me in more classes.
- 2:50Speaker 7: So I had never seen the circus.
- 2:53Speaker 6: Though my family wasn't a circus going family, I always
- 2:57Speaker 6: wanted to be a dancer. But fun enough, my favorite
- 3:01Speaker 6: movie to watch on VHS was Mickey Goes to the
- 3:04Speaker 6: Circus when he visited Wringling Brothers. So it's funny later
- 3:10Speaker 6: because I never thought about being a part of the
- 3:11Speaker 6: circus myself. But when I became into aerial arts and
- 3:15Speaker 6: then eventually trapeze and into the circus, I thought back, like, huh,
- 3:19Speaker 6: I was addicted to that movie when I was younger,
- 3:22Speaker 6: So I think it's always been in there somewhere.
- 3:25Speaker 5: So I'm guessing behind the scenes, as you're being tossed
- 3:28Speaker 5: and thrown in the air between partners, you folks really
- 3:33Speaker 5: must be getting along behind the scenes, that's the idea. Yeah,
- 3:37Speaker 5: you don't want to have an argument and then get
- 3:39Speaker 5: up on the trapez Yeah.
- 3:40Speaker 6: Catch The dynamics are important, and keeping a good peaceful
- 3:46Speaker 6: team dynamic is really important to all of us. And
- 3:48Speaker 6: I'm lucky to say that we have such a good
- 3:51Speaker 6: team and we all love each other and work together
- 3:54Speaker 6: really nicely. So, yeah, we have to rely on each
- 3:57Speaker 6: other with our lives up there. You know, we're doing
- 3:59Speaker 6: something that's inherently a bit dangerous, so it's really important
- 4:03Speaker 6: to trust each other.
- 4:04Speaker 5: But everybody grew up with the circus is there's still
- 4:07Speaker 5: a circus train. It used to dock right behind the garden.
- 4:11Speaker 6: It still lives in pieces in people's backyards all over
- 4:15Speaker 6: the USA. But but it's a memo. But it's a
- 4:18Speaker 6: different showing. Yes, it's yeah, we travel differently now.
- 4:23Speaker 4: And you have a robotic dog in the show.
- 4:25Speaker 7: Yes, we do Bailey circuit he dances.
- 4:28Speaker 2: I saw, that's right. You went to the show I
- 4:29Speaker 2: went forgetting. Yeah, he's really cool.
- 4:31Speaker 3: And you were talking about that. The music too.
- 4:33Speaker 2: The music's great. It's a dance vibe. It's great for kids.
- 4:36Speaker 2: I mean, my children were dancing the entire time. So
- 4:38Speaker 2: they have a DJ that literally walks around with a
- 4:41Speaker 2: turntable attached to his waist. Oh really, see what I mean.
- 4:44Speaker 2: It's very creative.
- 4:45Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that because the music
- 4:48Speaker 6: is such a fun part of the show and it
- 4:50Speaker 6: really guides the audience through the whole thing, and you
- 4:53Speaker 6: do feel like you want to gee up and dancing
- 4:55Speaker 6: the whole time.
- 4:55Speaker 4: And you're in the city for at least a week right.
- 4:58Speaker 5: In fact, you leave and you go to DC Center
- 5:00Speaker 5: and morester, but you get to spend much time in
- 5:02Speaker 5: the city and check it out.
- 5:03Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 5:03Speaker 6: Absolutely, we get to travel around see around this city.
- 5:07Speaker 6: Especially was nice because we've been here for two weekends,
- 5:09Speaker 6: so we had a little bit of extra time to
- 5:12Speaker 6: go out and see the city, which the weather was cooperative.
- 5:16Speaker 7: At least a couple of days of that time. But
- 5:19Speaker 7: that's something that.
- 5:20Speaker 6: I love about the lifestyle is being able to go
- 5:22Speaker 6: around adventure and see all the different cities in the
- 5:25Speaker 6: USA and have experiences with my friends.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Well you're from Tampa, Florida. Does the circus get to Tampa?
- 5:32Speaker 7: Yeah? We opened in Tampa.
- 5:33Speaker 6: Wow. Actually, so that was a high pressure weekend.
- 5:38Speaker 2: To get everybody tickets.
- 5:39Speaker 7: Right, yep, Yeah, everybody got tickets.
- 5:41Speaker 6: That's also a circus hub where a lot of circus
- 5:45Speaker 6: people live and retire. So not only was it friends
- 5:48Speaker 6: and family of mine from all different times of my life,
- 5:52Speaker 6: also circus people, and it was like a big reunion.
- 5:56Speaker 2: It was another part of the circus. Oh that was
- 5:59Speaker 2: kind of mind blown to me. The contortionist, Oh yeah,
- 6:03Speaker 2: what is he? She's It's unbelievable what she did?
- 6:07Speaker 3: Is that real? Like double joyn in?
- 6:09Speaker 6: Absolutely she's trained her whole life to be able to
- 6:12Speaker 6: bend in half like that. And I mean she's something else.
- 6:15Speaker 6: I think she started with rhythmic gymnastics and evolved from there.
- 6:21Speaker 6: But yeah, she she practices all the time, and you know,
- 6:24Speaker 6: she's she's bending a half. Anytime I see her at work,
- 6:28Speaker 6: she's stretching, you.
- 6:29Speaker 5: Know, just for the hell of it, Like she's she's
- 6:31Speaker 5: not in a show. She just does it during the day.
- 6:34Speaker 6: I mean, I think that kind of skill, there's a
- 6:38Speaker 6: lot of upkeep, and she stretches all the time.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Did you see your video? It just blew me away.
- 6:46Speaker 5: Go over her head like a scorpion and then stands
- 6:49Speaker 5: up again.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 6:50Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys should see her warm up. She's amazing.
- 6:54Speaker 2: Wow.
- 6:54Speaker 4: Do you have to rehearse every day if there's a
- 6:56Speaker 4: night show?
- 6:57Speaker 6: I'm ideally the more practice is, the easier your job is.
- 7:03Speaker 6: We don't get to practice all the time because we
- 7:05Speaker 6: perform a lot, and so when we take our rigging
- 7:09Speaker 6: down and move to the next city, obviously we don't
- 7:11Speaker 6: have access to our rig those days. So that's when
- 7:13Speaker 6: we usually do cross training and we go to the
- 7:15Speaker 6: gym and we do other kinds of workouts.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Didn't you start in the rigging department?
- 7:21Speaker 4: I did?
- 7:21Speaker 2: I think I read that.
- 7:22Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 7:24Speaker 6: When I started flying trapeze, it was a job to
- 7:27Speaker 6: work flying trupees rigs. I was an area list originally,
- 7:31Speaker 6: and then the teacher of the school I was attending
- 7:34Speaker 6: at the time wanted to buy a flying trapeze, and
- 7:37Speaker 6: so she asked me. She literally told me, I know
- 7:41Speaker 6: you don't know what you're doing with your life. Would
- 7:43Speaker 6: you want to learn how to work a flying trapeze?
- 7:45Speaker 6: Rig so that you could work for me. I want
- 7:48Speaker 6: to buy a flying trapeze, and I said sure, why not,
- 7:51Speaker 6: not really knowing at all what I was saying yes to.
- 7:55Speaker 6: And then one thing led to another. I started working
- 7:58Speaker 6: at trapeze schools. So, for example, if you wanted to
- 8:01Speaker 6: come try the flying trapeze, I would be a person
- 8:03Speaker 6: there saying, Okay, you're going to put your safety belt on,
- 8:06Speaker 6: you're going to put the safety ropes, you're going to
- 8:08Speaker 6: climb up the ladder, You're going to stand on the
- 8:09Speaker 6: board like this, grab what two hands, then jump off,
- 8:12Speaker 6: and I was the one there facilitating your experience.
- 8:15Speaker 2: There's a trapeze school.
- 8:16Speaker 6: There's tons of trapeze schools, really, yes, And these trapeze
- 8:21Speaker 6: rigs exist in resorts and stuff like that, like all
- 8:24Speaker 6: inclusive resorts where there's lots of activities for their hotel
- 8:27Speaker 6: guests and things like that. So that's sometimes people's first
- 8:33Speaker 6: job or introduction to the trapeze, and then that gives
- 8:36Speaker 6: you access to a trapeze rig so you can practice yourself.
- 8:40Speaker 6: So that's how I ended up getting a little bit
- 8:42Speaker 6: addicted to the challenge of flying trapezes, starting to train
- 8:45Speaker 6: it myself. A little bit by a little bit, and
- 8:48Speaker 6: then eventually getting to a point that I could perform
- 8:52Speaker 6: a little bit.
- 8:53Speaker 7: Then I got a job that the instructors.
- 8:55Speaker 6: Perform once a month, so it was incremental from there.
- 8:59Speaker 6: And otherwise truppies is a pretty expensive hobby.
- 9:02Speaker 5: Well buy the whole rig, right, it's a lot of
- 9:05Speaker 5: metal bars and like.
- 9:07Speaker 6: Yeah, I would have to really to be able to
- 9:09Speaker 6: get in as a workers to have access to a
- 9:13Speaker 6: rig first, because otherwise, as a college student working several
- 9:17Speaker 6: jobs to make ends meet, I wouldn't have been able
- 9:19Speaker 6: to afford it.
- 9:20Speaker 5: Well, you would have been a great cheerleader, you know,
- 9:22Speaker 5: you could be the person up top what do they
- 9:24Speaker 5: call them, one on top LEAs or on top of
- 9:26Speaker 5: the pyramids.
- 9:26Speaker 3: They do a lot of tumbling.
- 9:27Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of Yeah.
- 9:29Speaker 6: No, I definitely have cheered a lot of people on
- 9:32Speaker 6: to jump off of buying tuppes board. Even know being
- 9:35Speaker 6: a psychiatrist that you didn't expect is an aspect of
- 9:38Speaker 6: your job. But you know, it's really scary on the
- 9:41Speaker 6: board and sometimes people need extra help or sometimes people will.
- 9:45Speaker 7: Get on the board and chicken out.
- 9:46Speaker 6: Wow, And so it's it's really experienced for anyone that
- 9:49Speaker 6: goes up here for the first time.
- 9:51Speaker 1: From the Planet Fitness Kiss one a Wait Studios. We're
- 9:55Speaker 1: back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
- 9:58Speaker 2: Hey guys, good morning, just In here Billy Lisa on
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- 10:27Speaker 10: And Justin We're all super excited for Noahkhan to return
- 10:30Speaker 10: to Fenway Park, but he is equally as excited. He
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- 10:55Speaker 2: So good luck with that. And in the studio right now,
- 10:57Speaker 2: our old friend Ben Measick has a new book out.
- 11:00Speaker 2: It's called Checkmate. You were in here a few days ago.
- 11:02Speaker 9: To remember that, I've actually been in the lobby for
- 11:05Speaker 9: the past week. Yeah, I don't know.
- 11:06Speaker 5: I don't know, but a lot has happened since you
- 11:09Speaker 5: were here last week, because all of a sudden, everybody's
- 11:12Speaker 5: writing about your book, calling it the read of the century.
- 11:15Speaker 5: And so now you walk in with a brand new shirt,
- 11:18Speaker 5: you're clean shaven, and you have.
- 11:20Speaker 3: A new aircut.
- 11:21Speaker 11: I'm trying to Yeah, no, it's way for I've been
- 11:24Speaker 11: circling you guys.
- 11:25Speaker 9: You know, I'm like, you're fan club. No, no, I'm
- 11:27Speaker 9: really excited.
- 11:27Speaker 11: The book comes out today and it's been getting some
- 11:30Speaker 11: great pre buds. It's just something you always wanted.
- 11:33Speaker 5: Well, Katie Couric mentioned you and said you googled your
- 11:36Speaker 5: Way or something.
- 11:37Speaker 3: She said, I will read it.
- 11:38Speaker 1: She goes, I accidentally found one of the best stories
- 11:42Speaker 1: of my career and it was about chess. And she's
- 11:44Speaker 1: talking about your book Checkmate.
- 11:46Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, it's really fun. Yeah, I found this story,
- 11:49Speaker 11: and normally people are pitching me things, but this was
- 11:53Speaker 11: kind of the first time where I was just in
- 11:55Speaker 11: between books Dumb Money, the movie had just come out,
- 11:57Speaker 11: and I was googling and I found my way to
- 12:02Speaker 11: this crazy scam story.
- 12:04Speaker 5: So I know you're one of the greatest writers on
- 12:06Speaker 5: the planet, right, we know that, and we're good friends. Yeah,
- 12:10Speaker 5: but how much of the fascination with this book do
- 12:13Speaker 5: you think is the chess and how much is the beads?
- 12:17Speaker 9: Yeah, the anal beads. No, listen, I want to make
- 12:19Speaker 9: this clear.
- 12:20Speaker 11: My my younger brother read that Katie Couric Carl and
- 12:22Speaker 11: she goes, he goes. I didn't realize that you found
- 12:24Speaker 11: this book by googling Angle.
- 12:27Speaker 6: I was not.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Found.
- 12:30Speaker 2: I was good.
- 12:31Speaker 5: Yeah, we found the story, didn't one of your kids
- 12:33Speaker 5: ask your mom on the show?
- 12:34Speaker 12: Last week?
- 12:35Speaker 11: I was on the show and a bunch of kids
- 12:36Speaker 11: at Noon South are like, Hey, is your you're talking
- 12:39Speaker 11: about I'm talking about I'm talking about Checkmate. So what
- 12:46Speaker 11: happened was I was looking into scams and scandals. I
- 12:49Speaker 11: think the reason that this story got so big did
- 12:53Speaker 11: happen to do with that viral tweet that's crazy, which
- 12:56Speaker 11: I hunted down, you know, which I think is one
- 12:58Speaker 11: of my proudest journalists. You meant to find where the
- 13:01Speaker 11: anal beat side of this story came from. But Checkmate
- 13:04Speaker 11: is really a scandal about two people, one the greatest
- 13:07Speaker 11: chess player in history and one this you know kid
- 13:10Speaker 11: who's trashing.
- 13:10Speaker 9: Hotel rooms and and he may or may not have cheated.
- 13:14Speaker 11: But yes, I do think the reason the story went
- 13:16Speaker 11: so viral is because we live in a time now
- 13:18Speaker 11: where you live in an attention economy and nothing gets
- 13:22Speaker 11: more attention on the internet than something.
- 13:23Speaker 3: That headline was all we had to read on the air.
- 13:26Speaker 3: I remember it very.
- 13:27Speaker 9: Clearly about anal Beats.
- 13:30Speaker 11: There was something about chess and a beads, and I
- 13:32Speaker 11: was absolutely shocked when you guys said that, because I
- 13:35Speaker 11: have no clue what you're talking about.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Ben, I gotta ask you and be honest
- 13:41Speaker 2: with us.
- 13:42Speaker 5: Okay, have you been approached by an anal bead company?
- 13:48Speaker 9: I thought you're gonna ask something else.
- 13:49Speaker 11: No, I have not been anything to do with that.
- 13:54Speaker 9: No, No, I haven't.
- 13:55Speaker 11: But listen, my my emails are always open. If I'm
- 14:00Speaker 11: you're not saying no, like the writing business is tough.
- 14:02Speaker 11: You're hard to sell books in this environment, so you
- 14:05Speaker 11: gotta do what you can. But no, everyone, yeah, yeah,
- 14:11Speaker 11: But anyways, it's it's a really fun story. And I
- 14:15Speaker 11: get to hang out with a lot of chess masters,
- 14:17Speaker 11: which are a whole different breed of.
- 14:19Speaker 1: People, right, Like you actually spoke with all of the
- 14:22Speaker 1: lead characters in this story, right, Yeah.
- 14:24Speaker 11: I spent a year hanging out with Magnus Carlson and
- 14:27Speaker 11: Hans Nieman.
- 14:28Speaker 9: And all of these gms and the chess dot com people.
- 14:31Speaker 11: Tanya and I went to Paris and watched Magnus and
- 14:34Speaker 11: Hans have a rematch in an arena across the street
- 14:36Speaker 11: from the Louver, and it's like, it's it's a it's
- 14:39Speaker 11: a it's these.
- 14:40Speaker 9: Prodigies blow my mind.
- 14:41Speaker 12: You know.
- 14:41Speaker 11: They say there are only prodigies in music and math
- 14:46Speaker 11: and chess, and it's people who are three years old
- 14:49Speaker 11: can like put together a lego built, you know for
- 14:52Speaker 11: someone who's eighteen and just have this weird mathematical mind.
- 14:55Speaker 11: And so I got to spend about a year hanging
- 14:57Speaker 11: out with these people and and it blew my mind.
- 14:59Speaker 11: They just what they're able to do with the put
- 15:01Speaker 11: on a blindfeld and play ten people in chess at once.
- 15:04Speaker 11: And yeah, and now I'm doing events with these guys,
- 15:08Speaker 11: so I'm doing events all over the place. They'll be
- 15:09Speaker 11: at Brookline Booksmith next week on the ninth and we
- 15:13Speaker 11: have a Chess International Master coming in and it's really cool.
- 15:16Speaker 11: It's gonna be a really really fun thing, so hopefully
- 15:18Speaker 11: people will come out.
- 15:19Speaker 5: Now, are you any better at chess the results of
- 15:22Speaker 5: your project?
- 15:23Speaker 11: No, I'm horrible chess. I'm really not. I haven't like
- 15:26Speaker 11: memorized all the openings and things like that, and i
- 15:29Speaker 11: know a little bit about chess, but I'm not like
- 15:31Speaker 11: at a level where I've studied it and the people
- 15:33Speaker 11: who get really good study it.
- 15:35Speaker 9: But thestics, this statistics are amazing.
- 15:39Speaker 11: Six hundred million people play chess, and they say seven
- 15:42Speaker 11: out of ten people on Earth have played a game
- 15:45Speaker 11: of chess, which is kind of insane. And online chess exploded.
- 15:50Speaker 11: Everyone has a chess dot com account. And this story
- 15:53Speaker 11: is about how chess dot com became this billion dollar company.
- 15:56Speaker 9: It was just two kids in a dorm room who.
- 15:58Speaker 11: Just were like, you know, we should put is online
- 16:00Speaker 11: basically and turn it into Everyone laughed at them.
- 16:03Speaker 9: Everyone thought it was ridiculous.
- 16:05Speaker 11: You know, when he told his friends that he was
- 16:06Speaker 11: going to do chess dot com, they thought he said
- 16:08Speaker 11: cheese dot com and they.
- 16:09Speaker 9: Thought, oh, that's a great idea, chee dot com. He's like, no,
- 16:11Speaker 9: chess dot com.
- 16:12Speaker 11: And it just kind of grew from there, and then
- 16:14Speaker 11: this scandal actually made chess dot com much bigger. It
- 16:19Speaker 11: threw one hundred million people into chess because it was
- 16:22Speaker 11: such a big kind of viral sensation scandal.
- 16:25Speaker 5: You walked in to the studio and said to me
- 16:28Speaker 5: and to Lisa that this afternoon, you have a zoom
- 16:32Speaker 5: call with Casey Affleck, one of the greatest actors.
- 16:35Speaker 2: I do. I do.
- 16:36Speaker 11: That's about another book I wrote back back in the
- 16:39Speaker 11: past called Sex on the Moon, and Casey's I'm talking
- 16:42Speaker 11: to I was blown away. It's funny because Casey didn't
- 16:45Speaker 11: know I guess he didn't know I was a Boston guy.
- 16:48Speaker 9: And I get on the phone with him and he's like.
- 16:49Speaker 11: But you're a Boston guy, and then he starts talking
- 16:52Speaker 11: about all the Boston guys.
- 16:53Speaker 9: I Crisince John K. Yeah, they all hang out. So
- 16:57Speaker 9: I'm trying to get the into that group, you know.
- 16:59Speaker 9: But I'm not cool enough. I feel like I'm like
- 17:01Speaker 9: i'd be like screech running around the back.
- 17:04Speaker 11: But like there's a lot of cool Mark Wahlberg, there's
- 17:07Speaker 11: so many cool Boston. Oh yeah, so I've been trying
- 17:10Speaker 11: to worm my way in with the Boston actors.
- 17:12Speaker 2: You would have been a great screech now that I
- 17:14Speaker 2: used to hang out with.
- 17:15Speaker 9: He's hanging with Dennis Lahyanes. You know, Dennis Laynes.
- 17:18Speaker 11: Like, I love Dennis, but I was way too wean,
- 17:20Speaker 11: Like I felt like I'm not cool enough to hang
- 17:22Speaker 11: out with that guy.
- 17:25Speaker 9: There's me the whole time. He's like, let's go to
- 17:27Speaker 9: South Southie.
- 17:28Speaker 4: I don't know your brand new shirt?
- 17:33Speaker 9: This is Alan Ruleeau was wonderful.
- 17:35Speaker 2: It's aware.
- 17:37Speaker 9: No, but like, uh, you know Tanya dresses me.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Of course i'd be in sweatpants.
- 17:42Speaker 5: Okay, So you come in with this whole new look
- 17:44Speaker 5: to it, right, the fresh air cut tonight.
- 17:47Speaker 11: If you go, you're gonna see why I was the
- 17:52Speaker 11: sexiest bachelor in America.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Oh it wasn't you know. Here's my question.
- 17:57Speaker 5: So you get into all these accolades, you know, everybody's
- 18:00Speaker 5: writing about you, you know, summer.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's saying it's.
- 18:03Speaker 5: The book of the year, So do you run out
- 18:07Speaker 5: and get yourself something with the new findings?
- 18:10Speaker 11: So to spey, I go to people, I get the
- 18:13Speaker 11: Linda's Budget factory, and I sit with that.
- 18:17Speaker 9: I mean, no, I don't. I don't. I'm first of all,
- 18:20Speaker 9: the next.
- 18:20Speaker 11: Two weeks you're just doing book tour, so you're just
- 18:22Speaker 11: going from event and TV show and things like that.
- 18:24Speaker 9: So I don't really do much until that all ends.
- 18:26Speaker 4: But I don't know.
- 18:28Speaker 9: The book business is a tough business.
- 18:30Speaker 11: It's never like you're never done and you're never like, oh,
- 18:33Speaker 11: I succeeded.
- 18:34Speaker 2: But what's the top thing on your bucket list? Your
- 18:36Speaker 2: wish was that you want to do?
- 18:38Speaker 11: Oh gosh, you know it's funny. Tanya likes to do stuff.
- 18:42Speaker 11: I don't like to do anything. I reached this point
- 18:45Speaker 11: in my life where, yeah, I know you do safaris
- 18:47Speaker 11: and stuff. I don't want any more experiences Like.
- 18:49Speaker 9: Everyone's like, I'm like, I think I've had.
- 18:51Speaker 11: Enough experience in my room and factory and watch a
- 18:55Speaker 11: movie to experience anything anymore. Maybe I'm reclusive, but I
- 19:01Speaker 11: like going out. Tanya will drag me out places and
- 19:04Speaker 11: it's really fun. But I don't I don't have like
- 19:06Speaker 11: I don't want to go see the mountain gorilla or
- 19:09Speaker 11: like I know.
- 19:13Speaker 2: Gorilla.
- 19:13Speaker 9: So I'm working on this project with the.
- 19:15Speaker 11: A and K founder Africanbi and Ken Jeffrey Kent's memoir,
- 19:19Speaker 11: and he keeps calling me. He's like, do you want
- 19:21Speaker 11: to let's go see the mountain gorilla. I'm like the
- 19:23Speaker 11: mountain gorilla. I'll go to like Disney Safari Ride and
- 19:29Speaker 11: there's a mountain gorilla right there.
- 19:31Speaker 9: I can't go out in the woods. I would be dying.
- 19:35Speaker 9: I would be dying.
- 19:37Speaker 3: A lot of bugspread bugs.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Bugs are as big as our dogs.
- 19:41Speaker 9: Like I be bottled water when I go to Miami.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Okay, I can't.
- 19:44Speaker 9: I can't overseas.
- 19:46Speaker 11: But I'm I'm, I'm I'm excited to like write the
- 19:49Speaker 11: next project.
- 19:50Speaker 9: It's honestly my thing.
- 19:51Speaker 11: It's like I'm already writing the next book.
- 19:56Speaker 5: We are in a funny conversation behind the scenes this morning,
- 19:58Speaker 5: I think it started or this week, like who would
- 20:01Speaker 5: we want to be in a movie or TV show
- 20:04Speaker 5: with if we had the opportunity.
- 20:08Speaker 2: So let's start with you.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Okay, So on the male side, you know that I
- 20:13Speaker 1: love Jason Bateman, like love love love Jason Bateman.
- 20:17Speaker 3: I think he would be hilarious to work with.
- 20:19Speaker 1: I also would pick Matt Damon just because everything Matt
- 20:24Speaker 1: Damon touches is amazing. So I'd want to be in
- 20:27Speaker 1: a really good movie and if he's like my leading man,
- 20:29Speaker 1: that would be amazing. Now on the female side, I'd
- 20:32Speaker 1: love to either work with Zendeya it would be awesome
- 20:36Speaker 1: or Emily Blunt.
- 20:38Speaker 3: I think she's.
- 20:39Speaker 1: Good in everything she's in, So those would be my choices.
- 20:43Speaker 5: Okay, I've got a great one. But Riley actually gave
- 20:47Speaker 5: me this idea. This would be awesome. Justin think about
- 20:49Speaker 5: this for a minute. If I'm in a movie or
- 20:52Speaker 5: a program, a Netflix movie something, it's me Ben Affleck
- 20:56Speaker 5: and Matt Damon, three kids from Cambridge.
- 20:58Speaker 3: Oh, I like that. Up, how we both picked Matt Damon.
- 21:01Speaker 2: I would have picked him either way.
- 21:03Speaker 4: But this storyline I think would be kind of cool.
- 21:05Speaker 5: And maybe Lenny Clark, also from Cambridge, as a cameo,
- 21:08Speaker 5: like a walk on.
- 21:10Speaker 2: I think that'd be a fun project. It's funny because
- 21:12Speaker 2: I was gonna pick Ben. Yeah, there you go.
- 21:15Speaker 3: Yeah, A big fan of Ben Wavelength.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the town. It's one of my favorite movies.
- 21:21Speaker 2: I love all of his movies, Changing Lanes, Buddy. Yeah,
- 21:24Speaker 2: and uh, you know he's from Boston guy, so that
- 21:26Speaker 2: plays into it too. But I do think that Ben
- 21:28Speaker 2: is a great actor. What about a female who would
- 21:31Speaker 2: you like to start with?
- 21:32Speaker 5: Like, and this is too like a drama or something
- 21:35Speaker 5: involving love scenes.
- 21:37Speaker 2: Oh, if they're sex scenes involved, I mean I wouldn't
- 21:40Speaker 2: say no to Sidney Sweeney.
- 21:42Speaker 3: Oh there we go, Okay.
- 21:46Speaker 4: Being honest, she's a little big up top for me.
- 21:49Speaker 2: It would scare.
- 21:52Speaker 3: I know you and I I thought you were a
- 21:56Speaker 3: boob guy.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Oh me, oh no, really no, But we learned yesterday
- 22:02Speaker 2: that thongs scare Billy and now big women they frightened me.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Hold on, Bill, you know what it is. We've talked
- 22:13Speaker 2: about this before. Where Billy grew up in Cambridge, all
- 22:17Speaker 2: of the women had giant breasts.
- 22:19Speaker 5: It was I don't know where that just came from.
- 22:23Speaker 5: So you're thinking about the Portuguese neighborhood. I grew up
- 22:26Speaker 5: in what's her name?
- 22:27Speaker 3: Lois?
- 22:28Speaker 2: Okay, Lewis. No, Lois was my brother's girlfriend. Is this
- 22:35Speaker 2: not Bill's voice? Is this not Bill's voice? But there
- 22:38Speaker 2: were a lot of big brusted girls in the neighborhood,
- 22:42Speaker 2: So that's probably where that com.
- 22:43Speaker 5: We're coming in from the Old Country.
- 22:47Speaker 2: I would not turned down.
- 22:49Speaker 5: I wouldn't turn down a superhero movie with Margot Robbie.
- 22:53Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's fabulous.
- 22:55Speaker 4: Yeah, she's like a reporter or something.
- 22:58Speaker 3: Yeah, I can totally see that.
- 23:00Speaker 2: You'd want Harley Quinn Margot Robbie, not Wolf of Wall
- 23:03Speaker 2: Street Margo Robbie.
- 23:05Speaker 5: Oh, I'd take either one, but I'd be the reporter
- 23:07Speaker 5: who somehow ends up in an affair with Margaret Robbie's character.
- 23:13Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, I knew this would get weird. Producer Raby,
- 23:18Speaker 2: if you want to chime in on this conversation, Oh yeah,
- 23:19Speaker 2: she's got she's got a good one.
- 23:21Speaker 3: I feel like Lisa will agree with this.
- 23:22Speaker 10: I would love to be in something with Timothy Shallome because, like,
- 23:25Speaker 10: immediately it's a good project, but it could be like
- 23:28Speaker 10: range from something serious to something funny.
- 23:31Speaker 4: And if they've hired Timothy Chalome, you're right, it's a
- 23:33Speaker 4: good project.
- 23:34Speaker 10: Yeah, and he can help carry me because I probably
- 23:36Speaker 10: won't be the best actress, but he's so good that
- 23:39Speaker 10: it's like kind of okay.
- 23:40Speaker 7: If that makes sense.
- 23:41Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he also takes us very serious.
- 23:44Speaker 3: Who would you want to be in a sex scene with?
- 23:46Speaker 10: Well, it would be Timothy right okay, oh yeah, see
- 23:50Speaker 10: you never talked about a sex scene.
- 23:51Speaker 3: It would have to be Alexander Sarascar.
- 23:54Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
- 23:55Speaker 3: He was in Big Little Lives. Yeah, yeah, he's yeah, he's.
- 23:58Speaker 2: He's got it. Yeah, he got it. He was in
- 24:02Speaker 2: True Blood too, Yeah, that's where I remember him from.
- 24:05Speaker 3: He just he just hosted SNL too, like too.
- 24:08Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, just and do you have a female lead?
- 24:12Speaker 2: Did you mention? Yeah, the Sydney Sweeney all right, yeah. Oh,
- 24:15Speaker 2: I mean.
- 24:16Speaker 5: I'm surprised Riley didn't go with the hated Rivalry guys.
- 24:18Speaker 10: Actually I thought about that right after I said Timothy.
- 24:21Speaker 3: I was like, wait a second, that was like.
- 24:22Speaker 10: The missed opportunity to be like Connor and Hudson. Hey,
- 24:27Speaker 10: yeah he did Rivalry season two.
- 24:29Speaker 3: Cast me as something.
- 24:30Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a fun topic.
- 24:33Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we can have a lot of fun
- 24:35Speaker 4: with this.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Let's open it up.
- 24:36Speaker 5: Okay, everybody, it's the Big Friday Show. This is exactly
- 24:39Speaker 5: the kind of story we want to talk about on
- 24:40Speaker 5: a Friday, right.
- 24:41Speaker 2: I would like to have fun on Fridays. Why not,
- 24:43Speaker 2: it's the weekend. So eight seven seven six one seven
- 24:45Speaker 2: one eight so you can leave a talk back on
- 24:47Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Joined the conversation. It's fun. You know what,
- 24:51Speaker 2: what actor or actress would you want to be in
- 24:53Speaker 2: a movie with? You can choose a drama, a sex scene,
- 24:56Speaker 2: whatever you want. Can I change mine? Yeah? Go ahead?
- 24:59Speaker 2: Okay for a female.
- 25:03Speaker 1: Now it's topic time for the Billy and Lisa.
- 25:07Speaker 3: In the Morning.
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- 25:21Speaker 5: a funny topic. We're talking about our dream movie or
- 25:24Speaker 5: TV show. Who would like to start in it with?
- 25:28Speaker 5: I just thought of another one a long time. I
- 25:30Speaker 5: always have a tough time thinking about a Hollywood crush
- 25:32Speaker 5: lease yeah, And.
- 25:33Speaker 2: It suddenly hit me.
- 25:34Speaker 5: I had a long time Hollywood crush on Kate Beckhams Sale,
- 25:37Speaker 5: Yes you did, yeah time.
- 25:39Speaker 2: Who is in the news this morning? Boy? Yes, I
- 25:42Speaker 2: almost gave you this story. Looking going on? She wiped
- 25:47Speaker 2: her Instagram. Oh yes, she had some troubling posts and
- 25:52Speaker 2: then she wiped her entire ig and now they're worried.
- 25:54Speaker 2: It's a story on TMZ.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Well, don't you remember she was posting from a hospital
- 25:59Speaker 1: bed because she was not feeling well and they weren't
- 26:02Speaker 1: really sure what that meant.
- 26:04Speaker 4: Like a few minutes ago, seemed like a handful.
- 26:07Speaker 3: Didn't she date Davidson briefly?
- 26:10Speaker 4: Yes, well he dated everybody though.
- 26:12Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
- 26:13Speaker 2: Okay, So she's been posting stories on her ig packed
- 26:16Speaker 2: with screenshots of Google searchers about hitting cameras, privacy violations
- 26:21Speaker 2: inside homes, legal consequences, cyber stocking, and abuse related topics.
- 26:26Speaker 2: And then she took everything down. So there's genuine concern
- 26:29Speaker 2: here for your girl. Yeah.
- 26:30Speaker 5: Her best roll I thought was Aviator with the Leonardo DiCaprio.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Okay, she was very good in that, Thank you, she said, So, yeah,
- 26:39Speaker 2: anyone else.
- 26:40Speaker 4: Bill Captain, Mike yea Billy for sure.
- 26:43Speaker 2: I thought you'd either.
- 26:44Speaker 5: Pick Melissa Tormy or Drew Barrymore as your co star
- 26:48Speaker 5: in a movie or series. Maybe if it's a horror movie.
- 26:52Speaker 5: You know, Mars Tomey thing Marissa Tomey. She came in
- 26:55Speaker 5: here one day. When I tell you, she was the
- 26:58Speaker 5: crankiest person I think I've ever met.
- 27:00Speaker 3: Well, she came in for the Wrestler.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Yeah, for that movie. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
- 27:06Speaker 2: Matt God furious. He wanted to kick her out of
- 27:09Speaker 2: the studio.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Well, because we didn't see the movie before she came in,
- 27:13Speaker 1: and she was really upset that we hadn't seen it,
- 27:16Speaker 1: and then she kind of just flipped out.
- 27:19Speaker 2: On the air.
- 27:20Speaker 4: She just seems like an angry person.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Yeah, Marissatoma, she does like Baldman.
- 27:25Speaker 5: Apparently this Mars loves funny, quirky Baldman.
- 27:29Speaker 13: Not for not for you, Bill, Okay, for my movie,
- 27:33Speaker 13: it would definitely be with Idris Alba and the sex
- 27:38Speaker 13: scene most definitely with him.
- 27:42Speaker 9: Oh yeah.
- 27:45Speaker 5: Every year they say he's going to be the new
- 27:46Speaker 5: James Bond and it never happens.
- 27:49Speaker 4: Every single year, it's gonna be Alba.
- 27:52Speaker 2: No, remember he called into our show. Yeah you guys
- 27:55Speaker 2: remember that good guy? Yeah, yeah, I know what that
- 27:58Speaker 2: was for.
- 27:59Speaker 5: They mentioned it so many years, year after year, that
- 28:01Speaker 5: even he got sick of it.
- 28:02Speaker 2: He said, let me alone with the James Bond thing. Okay, Well,
- 28:05Speaker 2: He was in the show called The Wire, which is
- 28:08Speaker 2: my favorite show of all time. He played stringer Bell. Yeah.
- 28:12Speaker 2: Remember he called in. He was all about Lisa. Lisaid,
- 28:14Speaker 2: please to give me a seat the next because Lisa
- 28:17Speaker 2: couldn't make it in and that's offering you a movie role.
- 28:20Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
- 28:23Speaker 3: There, I'm sure amazing every day.
- 28:26Speaker 2: Yeah oh yeah. He was supposed to command and then
- 28:28Speaker 2: he called.
- 28:30Speaker 5: So Lisa, let me get this straight into one of
- 28:33Speaker 5: the hottest guys on the planet.
- 28:35Speaker 2: He's like reaching out to you, walk through a movie
- 28:37Speaker 2: with you. I love that he was actually he was
- 28:41Speaker 2: actually yeah, well Lisa.
- 28:44Speaker 4: Please give me the next n Okay.
- 28:47Speaker 2: A fun fact about this radio program you're listening to
- 28:50Speaker 2: right now, Idris Elbow was our first guest, pretty right. Yeah.
- 28:56Speaker 2: He came on to wish ess congratulations on your new show.
- 29:00Speaker 5: Oh okay, all right, Hollywood Royalty, wishing us best.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Yes, let's go to Selene on the line and be good. Hey, Selene,
- 29:09Speaker 2: what have you got for us? Make it hot?
- 29:11Speaker 5: Hi?
- 29:12Speaker 1: Good morning.
- 29:13Speaker 13: If I was in a movie or TV show, I
- 29:15Speaker 13: would want to co star with Vin' Spawn and Charlie Day.
- 29:20Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Charlie Day's funny. I just saw him he
- 29:22Speaker 2: was in Boston for his liquor brand. Yeah.
- 29:25Speaker 5: Yeah, Vince Vaughn I think is one of the funniest
- 29:27Speaker 5: people on the planet. He had one mistake. He did
- 29:30Speaker 5: a dramatic TV series that just bombed.
- 29:34Speaker 4: He played a cop. I'm like, man, this is not
- 29:36Speaker 4: your gig.
- 29:37Speaker 2: No, he's more funny. I love it. Yeah, he's better
- 29:42Speaker 2: when he's funny. It looked pretty good to the real
- 29:44Speaker 2: could good for speed or for comfort? What'd you do
- 29:46Speaker 2: with the motor boat? You play the motor boat? Your
- 29:50Speaker 2: motor boat inside of it that you hope sailor.
- 29:52Speaker 12: Youth Adam Tandler obviously and ironically enough, his sister is
- 30:00Speaker 12: my dentist. I'm on my way to the dentist right
- 30:04Speaker 12: now for us.
- 30:06Speaker 1: No way, sister's a dentist, Yes, in New Hampshire.
- 30:10Speaker 2: I believe we've gotten talkbacks about that before.
- 30:13Speaker 5: Oh, when you get to the dentist office, if you
- 30:15Speaker 5: can get his sister to give us a buzz on
- 30:17Speaker 5: the billy at least some morning show.
- 30:18Speaker 2: I tried before. I don't think she wants any part
- 30:21Speaker 2: of that. Oh, she wants you to have good teeth.
- 30:23Speaker 5: Oh and by the way, you know that movie project
- 30:25Speaker 5: I'm doing with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
- 30:28Speaker 2: Yes, I want Adam Sandler too. Okay, okay, what about Wahlburg?
- 30:33Speaker 2: Isn't he your buddy? Yeah, let's get Mark.
- 30:35Speaker 3: Wahlberg in there cameo.
- 30:37Speaker 5: Here we go, baby, and then the new kids can
- 30:40Speaker 5: step in the scene.
- 30:41Speaker 2: You know them too?
- 30:42Speaker 3: Wow, it's happy Gilmore three.
- 30:45Speaker 5: Yeah, Bobby Brown has a cameo.
- 30:48Speaker 8: I would love to star in a movie with anyone,
- 30:50Speaker 8: but I think I've narrowed it down to my top
- 30:52Speaker 8: two people. I mean, there'd be like a lot more, obviously,
- 30:55Speaker 8: I wish, but I think the top two people I'd
- 30:57Speaker 8: love to be in a movie with is Mellis McCarthy
- 31:00Speaker 8: is one, and Will Ferrell is another one.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Yeah, Will Farrell, Oh my god, Melissa McCarthy, I would
- 31:05Speaker 1: love that.
- 31:06Speaker 3: That's a good choice. Hilarious, hilarious, very funny.
- 31:10Speaker 9: Good morning guys, especially Billy.
- 31:13Speaker 2: You know he was gonna show up, show up.
- 31:15Speaker 9: And guys, what are you trying to do today with
- 31:17Speaker 9: this topic? You're driving me nuts, you know, I can't resist.
- 31:20Speaker 2: And look, if it's.
- 31:21Speaker 9: Gotta be one guy, it's gonna be a sex scene
- 31:24Speaker 9: and do it's gonna be the toast of the town
- 31:27Speaker 9: of Boston. Baby Billy freaking Costa.
- 31:30Speaker 3: Hell, okay, you can have a cameo in your movie.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Bill, I'll give him a cameo. Yeahs out of nowhere. Yeah,
- 31:44Speaker 2: he'll show up in the credits.
- 31:45Speaker 6: Hell, guys.
- 31:50Speaker 2: In the credits that will say, oh yeah, you know, yeah,
- 31:53Speaker 2: that's perfect.
- 31:54Speaker 9: Happy Friday.
- 31:54Speaker 3: This is Kim. I have a great idea for Billy.
- 31:57Speaker 2: You could start in a.
- 31:58Speaker 12: Horror movie Attack of the Giant Breasted Women, and it
- 32:03Speaker 12: could start Billy Dolly Partton Moorgana, The Kissing Banded.
- 32:07Speaker 3: I think it would be a great hit.
- 32:09Speaker 2: I mean head