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Best Of Billy & Lisa: Splitting The Bill + Olivia Rodrigo's Festival · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's the best of Billy and Lisa in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Saturday. It's Labor Day weekend, so let's start it
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  Speaker 3: off right with the best of Billy and Lisa in
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  Speaker 3: the morning.
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  Speaker 4: I'm producer Riley.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to count the top five moments of the
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  Speaker 3: week down for you. So let's start with Alston Christmas
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  Speaker 3: because that happened this week. Everybody is coming back to school.
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  Speaker 3: People are moving in and out of apartments.
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  Speaker 4: And this is kind of.
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  Speaker 3: A PSA, actually. Don't take stuff off the street. This
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  Speaker 3: is the number five moment.
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  Speaker 5: College is a big deal because we are a giant
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  Speaker 5: college town.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 7: And people are moving out of summer apartments and leaving
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  Speaker 7: their stuff out on the sidewalk.
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  Speaker 8: They just don't want to take it with them. So
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  Speaker 8: they leave it on the street and then the trash
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  Speaker 8: pickers come.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And, you know, they're warning people. I think they do
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  Speaker 8: every year.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 8: It's the same thing every year. The trucks on Star
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  Speaker 8: Road Drive and the Alston Brighton Christmas, all the free stuff.
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  Speaker 8: But that that was the question that we asked. Have
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  Speaker 8: you ever found anything anything cool? Like in a dumpster or,
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  Speaker 8: you know, on the side of the street. Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 5: So I pick up stuff.
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  Speaker 8: If I see something.
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  Speaker 6: Cool on the side of the road, I will pick
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  Speaker 6: it up.
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  Speaker 9: Watch it, obviously.
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  Speaker 6: But coolest thing I ever did.
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  Speaker 8: Was went dumpster diving behind HomeGoods.
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  Speaker 6: And I found this whole terrarium.
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  Speaker 5: That you can put plants in that only one pane
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  Speaker 5: of glass was missing.
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  Speaker 10: And then I found a Swarovski crystal candle holder.
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  Speaker 8: OK, this is next level.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Once you're climbing into a dumpster, although I can understand
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  Speaker 5: it to some degree, if it's a giant retail outlet,
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  Speaker 5: you never know what you're.
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  Speaker 8: Going to find. Sometimes this is like a hobby.
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  Speaker 7: People like to find stuff and like, you know, recreate it,
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  Speaker 7: paint it, make it their own.
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  Speaker 8: So people like to thrift. They do. I understand that.
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  Speaker 8: I would not crawl into a dumpster.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 5: Well, do you have to travel around with like a
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  Speaker 5: step stool or something ready to go in case you
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  Speaker 5: see a dumpster?
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  Speaker 8: So you can get up and climb over? You know
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  Speaker 8: what my big fear is? My big fear is if
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  Speaker 8: you climb into a dumpster and then the truck comes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 8: No, that happened, you know. I know it did happen.
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  Speaker 8: It happened. There was somebody in the dumpster.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, God, that's awful. Were they sleeping in the dumpster?
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  Speaker 8: I think they were sleeping. Oh, my God. And then
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  Speaker 8: there's a mashing.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that is terrifying.
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  Speaker 5: There's no stopping the hydraulic mash.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 13: In my house has been thrifted or found on the
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  Speaker 13: side of the road or I did steal a whole
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  Speaker 13: dining room set from a hotel when I moved out.
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  Speaker 13: So it doesn't hurt to get different furniture from different places.
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  Speaker 13: Sometimes it works out. I still have everything.
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  Speaker 8: It's great. Hold on. There you go. How do you
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  Speaker 8: steal a dining room set from a hotel?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, if there's a dining room set, that
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  Speaker 5: means you're in a high-end suite.
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  Speaker 8: Because the hotel room doesn't have a dining room. Well,
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  Speaker 8: she wheeled it out somehow. Whoa. What, like a back staircase?
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  Speaker 8: That's amazing. I love that story.
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  Speaker 4: She threw it over the balcony, right?
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  Speaker 8: I'm telling you, people love free stuff. They do this
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  Speaker 8: every day. They're searching for free stuff, thrifting, looking for
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  Speaker 8: stuff on the side of the roads. I want to
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  Speaker 8: know how many people that don't live in and around
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  Speaker 8: Boston travel to Austin Brighton.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, right.
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  Speaker 8: To do that. To find stuff.
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  Speaker 13: So my mom loves to refinish furniture.
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  Speaker 11: So anytime she'll see like a piece of furniture on
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  Speaker 11: the side of the road, I live outside of Boston,
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  Speaker 11: but anytime she'll see one that like looks in good condition,
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  Speaker 11: she'll take it home and like refinish it and paint
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  Speaker 11: it and all that. But one time I found this
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  Speaker 11: speaker on the side of the road, and I was like,
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  Speaker 11: there's no way it's going to work.
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  Speaker 8: They also had a really.
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  Speaker 11: Cool poker table. It just would not fit my car,
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  Speaker 11: so I didn't take it. But the speaker didn't have
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  Speaker 11: a charger, and I was like, you know what?
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  Speaker 8: It's not going to work. Turned it on. It worked.
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  Speaker 11: I was like, I'm taking this bad boy home and
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  Speaker 11: charged it.
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  Speaker 8: It worked.
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  Speaker 11: And then I found out it was like worth $ 200.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Like a Bluetooth speaker or something?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I do get it.
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  Speaker 8: The electronics I do get.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like if I saw a nice stereo or
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  Speaker 8: something on the side of the road, I might be
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  Speaker 8: tempted to take it.
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  Speaker 5: But chances are if they put it on the side
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  Speaker 5: of the road, it probably doesn't work.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 8: But that one did.
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  Speaker 12: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes the kids just can't fit it in their luggage
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  Speaker 8: or don't want to ship it back to where they're from.
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  Speaker 8: And also, like I mentioned earlier, it depends on, you know,
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  Speaker 8: what area. We're looking at stuff on the street. What
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  Speaker 8: are some good towns, you know?
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  Speaker 14: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 12: I'm out from Winthrop. And regarding the free stuff out
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  Speaker 12: on the street, honestly, I've been living here for six
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  Speaker 12: years now. And the best part about it is having
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  Speaker 12: all the free furniture available to you all around Winthrop.
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  Speaker 12: I think it definitely depends on where you live. But
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  Speaker 12: Winthrop is definitely a really good spot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we put a lot of kids' toys out.
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  Speaker 7: You know, things like sand and water tables and all
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  Speaker 7: that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you can take it home and wash it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can.
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  Speaker 8: Right, Bill? I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 8: You know, a cleaner can only do so much.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I think that might have been our
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  Speaker 5: very first call from Winthrop ever.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I lived in Winthrop for a few years.
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  Speaker 8: We've gotten calls from Winthrop before. We have?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: It's a beautiful little beach town, by the way. Winthrop's
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  Speaker 8: not like Pepperell. You know?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 8: Producer Riley, where did you say you went to college?
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  Speaker 6: UNH. Hmm.
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  Speaker 15: Reason number one why I would never take used fabric furniture.
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  Speaker 15: When I went to UNH, we went to the football
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  Speaker 15: house one time, and the smell was so bad.
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  Speaker 8: A few days later, they.
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  Speaker 15: Found a dead chipmunk in the couch, squished, that someone
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  Speaker 15: had accidentally sat on and killed.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's disgusting.
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  Speaker 8: It's the football house.
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  Speaker 4: Come on now.
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  Speaker 8: Riley wasn't in the football house, I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, those houses, the off-campus. I remember when I moved
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  Speaker 8: my son.
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  Speaker 5: Dylan into Endicott as a freshman, he was in an
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  Speaker 5: off-campus house.
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  Speaker 8: No, sophomore year. This house, when I tell you, had
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  Speaker 8: a tilt to it. And I mean, the cabinets in
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  Speaker 8: the kitchen.
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  Speaker 5: Were plywood, like thin, thin, like they bent and curved
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  Speaker 5: and everything was.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm like, this is crazy. And yet every room
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  Speaker 8: had a fireplace.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. It was bizarre. I'm getting more more messages in
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  Speaker 8: here about Winthrop. Apparently, Winthrop's a hot spot.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Stuff on the side of the road. OK. You would not, Bill.
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  Speaker 8: You said that earlier, right? No, I'm not picking something up. No,
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  Speaker 8: you're definitely not.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, morning crew. I'm using hell. Justin just asked
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  Speaker 9: Billy if he has ever picked up from the corner or.
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  Speaker 8: From the sidewalk.
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  Speaker 14: And he's like, and Billy's like, never.
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  Speaker 8: Never.
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  Speaker 9: Of course. He's like the most high maintenance person we
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  Speaker 9: know from Boston.
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  Speaker 3: And the number four moment of the week goes to
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  Speaker 3: Billy having the time of his life at the aquarium.
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  Speaker 8: A little story time.
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  Speaker 5: Some of you listening may or may not know that
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  Speaker 5: I have a couple of TV shows, Dining Playbook and
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  Speaker 5: Meet Boston, both of which are on Nessun, your Boston
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  Speaker 5: Bruins and Red Sox station. And they air Saturday mornings
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  Speaker 5: and Sunday nights. And Meet Boston is a show that
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  Speaker 5: basically takes you places and shows you things in and
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  Speaker 5: around the beautiful city of Boston you may not have
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  Speaker 5: been aware of.
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  Speaker 8: It's hosted by you and Jenny Johnson.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: And you have influencers in and around Boston that take
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  Speaker 8: you to different places.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: It's all about the culture, the architecture, the education, everything
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  Speaker 5: about Boston.
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  Speaker 8: Food, everything.
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  Speaker 5: So yesterday, as part of the shoot, Jenny and I
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  Speaker 5: went to the New England Aquarium. Now, I had been
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  Speaker 5: to the New England Aquarium. I've been to events at
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  Speaker 5: the New England Aquarium. It's a beautiful place. If you haven't.
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  Speaker 8: Been to the New England Aquarium in a while, you
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  Speaker 8: really need to go back. Now, how long had it
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  Speaker 8: been since you've been to the aquarium? Oh, several years.
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  Speaker 8: Many years. Several years. You might remember, Lisa, a while ago,
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  Speaker 8: producer Riley had said that her dream date was to
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  Speaker 8: go to the aquarium. And you kind of shaded her
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  Speaker 8: a little bit, but now you're walking it back once
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  Speaker 8: going back there. Oh, be careful.
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  Speaker 4: It's a fabulous place.
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  Speaker 8: No, you weren't criticizing the aquarium. You just thought it
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  Speaker 8: was kind of.
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  Speaker 4: You were questioning it.
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  Speaker 8: You said that was lame. As your life's wish, it
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  Speaker 8: just seemed a little short.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe I want to get a kiss from a
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  Speaker 3: seal like you did.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, God, you have no idea. Yeah, you had quite
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  Speaker 8: the day. Yeah, they have the harbor seals.
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  Speaker 5: When you're entering the New England Aquarium, they're on the left,
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of people will gather at the glass windows,
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  Speaker 5: and you can see through, and you see the harbor
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  Speaker 5: seals swimming around, and they pop their heads up and everything.
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  Speaker 5: And they'll literally come over to the glass and say hello, and.
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  Speaker 8: It's so cool. So Jenny and I got a... OK,
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  Speaker 8: go ahead. Jenny and I got a behind the scenes thing.
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  Speaker 5: You can pay for that separate of your ticket where
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  Speaker 5: they bring you inside the tank, not in the water,
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  Speaker 5: but you're literally standing there and they'll do things with
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  Speaker 5: the seals for you.
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  Speaker 8: Like, for instance.
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  Speaker 5: One particular seal. Trumpet is her name and she's 41
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  Speaker 5: years old.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, my God. So she came in as part of
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  Speaker 8: the demonstration.
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  Speaker 5: And you have to understand, Jenny and I are there
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  Speaker 5: with the specialist right at the aquarium. And she had
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  Speaker 5: all kinds of things she had to do with the seals.
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  Speaker 5: And she would have them come over one by one
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  Speaker 5: and do their things. And she she brushed the teeth
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  Speaker 5: of the sail, just sticks her head up and opens
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  Speaker 5: her mouth and The toothpaste and the brush.
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  Speaker 8: That's so cool. I'm like six inches away from Trumpet
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  Speaker 8: the seal, who was gorgeous. These animals are gorgeous. There
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  Speaker 8: she is. Is Trumpet a male or a female? It's
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  Speaker 8: a seal.
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  Speaker 5: It's a she, and she's 41 years old.
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  Speaker 14: How?
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  Speaker 8: Are her teeth? Her teeth were beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, they're taken such good care of. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: everything from the barracuda to the shark. There's a tank
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  Speaker 5: with over 600 animals or species in it, including shark, stingray.
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  Speaker 5: And there was I'm not I'll get back to Trump
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  Speaker 5: at the seal in a second. But there's a puffer fish, right,
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  Speaker 5: which are awesome. And I swear to God, the puffer
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  Speaker 5: fish was following me as I walked around the circular tank.
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  Speaker 5: And then I'd look in the next window. And the
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  Speaker 5: puffer fish would have its face right up to the glass.
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  Speaker 5: It almost looked like a bulldog in the water, like
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  Speaker 5: just looking at me and eyeballing me. And if I moved,
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  Speaker 5: the fish moved with me to the next section. It
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  Speaker 5: was so cool. But anyway, Trumpet, the seal, came up
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  Speaker 5: and she set it up where the trumpet came out
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  Speaker 5: of the water and leaned in. And kissed me on
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  Speaker 5: the cheek. And I have a video of it. You
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  Speaker 5: can go to my Instagram.
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: The Billy Costa.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Lisa. The Billy Costa. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a video of Trumpet kissing me and came
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  Speaker 5: in to kiss me a second time and also kissed
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  Speaker 5: Jenny Johnson on the face and.
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  Speaker 8: Also high-fived me. The seal can high five? Came out
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  Speaker 8: of the water and high fived me. So you felt
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  Speaker 8: completely safe? Oh, yeah. What do you think? The seal
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  Speaker 8: is going to devour me? No, I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: you're in there. No, they're very friendly creatures. Okay. Take
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  Speaker 8: it easy. You know what else? They can swim really
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  Speaker 8: fast and they don't have any arms.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're all muscle.
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  Speaker 5: It's all their tail fin and like real fat. And
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  Speaker 5: then they roll around. Trumpet the seal also played dead.
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  Speaker 5: Just like rolled on her back.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, she sounds so much fun.
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  Speaker 8: She's like a dolphin. Oh, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she is like a dolphin.
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  Speaker 8: You have to get to.
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  Speaker 5: The aquarium to see these seals or see anything, the stingray.
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  Speaker 5: And what else did she do?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, and when I was leaving, I'm not making this up,
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  Speaker 8: I waved. I see a trumpet and she waved. She
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  Speaker 8: got her fin up and waved at me.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 16: No.
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  Speaker 8: Trumpet is her name. Yeah. Oh, Myrtle the Turtle is magnificent. Myrtle,
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  Speaker 8: I believe, is 56 or 55 years old.
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  Speaker 5: She's been there since the day the aquarium opened over
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  Speaker 5: 50 years and just majestically beautiful.
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  Speaker 8: Yes. Almost as big as this studio room. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 8: remember floats around. I remember Myrtle the Turtle. From elementary
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  Speaker 8: school going on field trips. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that amazing, the longevity of turtles?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, they live to be 100 years old or more.
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  Speaker 4: They do, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And she still looks beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're so well taken care of, like you said.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Did you kiss Myrtle?
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  Speaker 5: No, because she was in the— oh, that's another story. There
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  Speaker 5: was an opportunity for me to get in the tank,
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  Speaker 5: you know, because I'm a certified diver. They were going
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  Speaker 5: to let me go in the tank, the big, giant tank,
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  Speaker 5: and scuba dive around.
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  Speaker 8: Wait, what's in the tank?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, 600 fish from shark.
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  Speaker 8: To stingray to myrtle to turtles.
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  Speaker 4: So why didn't you do it?
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  Speaker 5: Because there was a miscommunication. I had told my producer, Nicole,
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  Speaker 5: I said, make sure you let them know I'm a
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  Speaker 5: certified diver. I've been for over 30 years. And if
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  Speaker 5: there's an opportunity, I'd like to get in the tank.
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  Speaker 5: Because I know Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry from Aerosmith
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  Speaker 5: once went in the tank.
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  Speaker 8: With the tanks on and everything. So I know you
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  Speaker 8: can make it happen. That's so cool. Um, but it
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  Speaker 8: didn't get to them that I was certified. Cause when
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  Speaker 8: I got there, I said, well, am I going in?
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  Speaker 8: And they said, yeah, you have to be certified. Well,
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  Speaker 8: I am. Uh, when's the episode drop? Do you know?
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  Speaker 8: Is that a producer question? That's a producer question. I
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  Speaker 8: think it's like September 18th. Okay. So soon. They have
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  Speaker 8: to edit. Um, yeah, but we were all over.
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  Speaker 5: The aquarium and the people that the scientists there and the, uh,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know this was a title, an aquarist.
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  Speaker 8: I did not know that either. And the penguins. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: you saw the penguins? Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 5: And there was a whole thing going on with the
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  Speaker 5: penguins where they were cleaning the penguins area, which is large.
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  Speaker 5: And I just love that they're dressed for a wedding
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  Speaker 5: 24 hours a day.
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  Speaker 4: I went to a wedding there.
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  Speaker 8: I knew it. Hold on. Hold on.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, you can have a wedding there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you can.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: I went to one there.
• 14:14
  Speaker 8: It was amazing. You can have a private event. It's really,
• 14:18
  Speaker 8: you've got to get there. Do you want to apologize
• 14:20
  Speaker 8: now or later to producer Riley?
• 14:22
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 14:23
  Speaker 8: Well, she said it was her life's dream.
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: I didn't say that.
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: Yes, you did.
• 14:28
  Speaker 16: No, I didn't.
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: Do you want me to get you a pass for
• 14:31
  Speaker 8: the aquarium?
• 14:31
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 14:32
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: I want a kiss from a seal.
• 14:34
  Speaker 8: I want Trump.
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: I'm going to make some calls and I'm going to
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: try to see if you can get into the seal tank.
• 14:40
  Speaker 8: And play with trumpet.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: I love knowing Bill.
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: Let him know, Riley.
• 14:42
  Speaker 9: Riley, I'm loving your input today and your sassiness.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: You go, Riley.
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: You let him know. Back off, okay, Riley? I'm going
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: to get you back off. He's all excited about Myrtle
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: the turtle. Myrtle the turtle saying, keep it groovy.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: It's the number three moment. And we had somebody need
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: some advice from Billy, Lisa and Justin. which we love
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: to give out. So they hit us up on the Talkback, Mike.
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: Good morning, morning crew.
• 15:15
  Speaker 10: I have a specific question for Lisa, the queen of protocol.
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: If you go out to eat with three or four couples,
• 15:21
  Speaker 10: but one of the people is ordering $ 150 bottles of
• 15:24
  Speaker 10: wine and expensive appetizers, but then they insist that you, oh, please.
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: You have to try the oysters. You have to try
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: this wine.
• 15:32
  Speaker 10: But then when the bill comes, do you have to
• 15:34
  Speaker 10: pay a king's ransom because they're indulgent?
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: Do lisa what would you.
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: Do princess of protocol help me.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: Lisa okay this has happened to me on several occasions
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: it's awkward it's weird shame on the couple right you're
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: gonna talk about them after by the way right how
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: could they absolutely do that okay so in in my
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: case you just suck it up and and we split
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: the bill okay but that's not i have to say
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: that's probably not the right thing to do the better
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: thing to do is moving forward is set expectations when
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: you sit down tell the server You're taking separate checks.
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: Get ahead of it.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Get ahead of it. That's like the easiest, most effective
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: thing you can do.
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: And it like it takes care of all of that,
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: that weirdness at the end of the night when the
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: bill comes, because you've had like a great night.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: But it's like, you know, is that the expectation?
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: I have another idea.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: If you're one of those couples that's going to order
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: a very expensive bottle of wine and you're going out
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: to dinner with a group, don't go out to dinner
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: with a group.
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: Go out to dinner on your own. Have as much
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: expensive wine as you want. But when you're with a group,
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: it's inappropriate to order. I'm just saying. Exactly. Just saying.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: Just have group mentality. Think about the other people that
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: are with you. Yes.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: Okay. So in my case, I don't drink. If I
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: go out with a group. Other people drink, which is fine.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: Then the bill comes and I've been put in situations
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: where they want to split the bill. But, you know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: I had like a chicken parm and a seltzer water,
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: you know, so my bill is 30 bucks. And then
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: with the drinks and everything, it'll equal out to paying
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: 80 bucks. And so I have just paid it. I've
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: split the bill. I did not speak up. But here's
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: the thing. If it happens one time, you know, OK,
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: if it happens again, then I need to get ahead
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: of it, like Lisa said, or say something.
• 17:22
  Speaker 12: But.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: I've never said anything because I don't want to be
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: a cheapskate.
• 17:25
  Speaker 14: You don't.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Well, it makes no sense to split the bill. You
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: didn't have the expensive one. It's just inappropriate. Don't do
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: it if you're with a group. Follow-up question for you, Justin.
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: What if you're on a cheat day and you're eating
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: like five entrees and you're with a group?
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: I want to order a lot of food. Yeah. I'm
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: trying to think if that has happened, but I feel
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: like I would not think that is fair and I'd
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: say something.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Or a separate check.
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: Separate checks or pay extra, you know. Meanwhile, you've got
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: producer Riley who says that she's speaking up no matter what.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I just think it's important that if I didn't eat something,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have to pay for it. And I don't
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: care if that makes me sound cheap. Like I agree
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: with Lisa. I'm very pro splitting the check. I understand
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: if there's like a ton of people, then it gets
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: kind of complicated for like wait staff.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: And that's annoying.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: But if somebody is.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Ordering more, I don't understand why they can just they
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: can put their card down and I'll say I can
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Venmo you. I will look at the bill and tally
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: up what I got. I don't care if I look cheap.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you something else about the person that's ordering
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: the expensive, expensive bottle of wine with a group dinner.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: That's always the same person who's taking it upon himself
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: or herself to order apps for the table. How about
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: how about I order what I'd like? How about you
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: order your app and we'll order ours?
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: How's that? I have to agree with you. They're the
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: same type of person. They step right in and do that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: I hope you don't mind. I'm going to order for
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: the rest of the time.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: What?
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: First of all, what was your name again?
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't remember meeting you before, and now you're
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: choosing my meal.
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: And then you're paying for apps that you didn't want.
• 19:05
  Speaker 14: Exactly.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Did you eat?
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Hi, Justin.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: This is Phaedra. This situation happened to me over the weekend.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I was out to dinner with my niece and my
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: sister-in-law and two other women before a concert, and I
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: just nicely asked the waitress for my check separately. I'm
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a vegetarian, so I don't eat the appetizers, and I'm
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: in sobriety. I don't drink. And it took me almost
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: four years to finally get a separate check, but I
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: did it. And you know what?
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: It worked out great, and no.
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: One was offended.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: They completely understood.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: So speak up. Yes, I agree with that talkbacker.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because we also don't want to make non-drinkers feel uncomfortable.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, just make it right. It's not that difficult
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: to think.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, do the right thing. But, man, this has struck
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: a chord, that's for sure.
• 19:50
  Speaker 16: Okay, so I am on the side that I do
• 19:53
  Speaker 16: like to have a cocktail or two. But I totally
• 19:57
  Speaker 16: agree because sometimes I just find myself like in the
• 19:59
  Speaker 16: mood for a chicken Caesar, right? But then I'm with
• 20:02
  Speaker 16: people that are ordering the five appetizers, the lobster, you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 16: they're ordering dessert and dessert drinks. So then I find
• 20:08
  Speaker 16: myself sort of bumping up my order. Like, all right,
• 20:11
  Speaker 16: I guess I'll get the steak and take it home
• 20:13
  Speaker 16: if I'm paying for everybody else anyway. I hate it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: It's so awkward. I agree with her there. When you
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: think about it, the lobster is the original one, right? Yeah. Yes,
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: I love the baked stuffed lobster.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Everybody at the table is like, what?
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: That was the original. Oh, God, she's still going, this one. Oh,
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: she's really worked up.
• 20:36
  Speaker 16: Because sometimes I really just want a chicken Caesar salad.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: It has nothing to do with being a cheapskate. And
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I feel I don't like either way.
• 20:45
  Speaker 16: I love that you brought this up for topic time
• 20:47
  Speaker 16: because it's so awkward. I also used to work in
• 20:50
  Speaker 16: the service industry, so I also hate separate checks sometimes.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: So I don't know.
• 20:56
  Speaker 16: I wish I could be brave like producer Riley. I
• 20:59
  Speaker 16: wish I could be brave and not feel cheap. I
• 21:02
  Speaker 16: end up just ordering more food.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I have to say I'm glad she brought.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Up the server aspect of it because I'd love to
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: hear from a server and how they feel if there's
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: like a group of eight people and there's four separate
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: checks and it's just like so much work.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: On a busy Saturday night, no less. It's a lot
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: of work.
• 21:15
  Speaker 18: Regarding the separate checks issue, as somebody who's worked in
• 21:19
  Speaker 18: the restaurant industry, that is one way to aggravate a server.
• 21:23
  Speaker 18: You sit down with a table of ten people and
• 21:25
  Speaker 18: you need ten separate checks. People need to work on
• 21:28
  Speaker 18: things before they get to the restaurant. As a server
• 21:31
  Speaker 18: that's busy, you don't have time.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: For all that. It's true.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: That's the other side of it. So what's the answer, though?
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: One person charges and everybody else Venmo's?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I've been in that situation, too.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: That's one, yeah.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Yep, where one card goes down and then you're responsible
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: for getting the money.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: But hold on, Lisa. Then you risk, because this has
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: happened to us, the one person who doesn't Venmo. Oh, yeah,
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: and you don't want to ask. And you feel weird, like, hey,
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: let me get that money.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Right, and it happens, and it's awkward.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and then you lose out. Is this girl still going?
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: Is she still going?
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: And the other thing is, it's always seafood. And I
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: don't even eat seafood. It's like, let's get the oysters,
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: the calamari, and the beef cheeks. And I'm like, beef cheeks?
• 22:11
  Speaker 16: I just wanted a chicken Caesar and a nice glass
• 22:13
  Speaker 16: of Chablis.
• 22:16
  Speaker 19: Beef cheeks.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I can totally relate with her because I'm not a
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: big eater.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the expensive bottle of wine person is definitely getting
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: three orders of beef cheeks.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: And everybody else is like, honey, what are beef cheeks?
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: That's what I was thinking. Oh, man.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Welcome back into The Best of Billy and Lisa in
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: the Morning. I'm producer Riley counting down the top five
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: moments of the week with you. Just a couple minutes ago,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: we were talking about splitting the bill. Somebody left us
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: a talkback saying they needed some advice. What do you
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: do when you're at a restaurant with some friends and
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: somebody orders a really expensive meal that you just didn't eat?
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: What do you do? Do you split the bill still?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Do you ask for separate checks? We had a really
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: heated debate about this.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: So you're out at dinner and somebody at the table,
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: it's a group dinner, right? Somebody at the table takes
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: it upon himself or herself to order a very expensive
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: bottle of wine.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: What do you do?
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Or very expensive appetizers and stuff that people don't want.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: And usually all of that. Right. And now you're sitting there,
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: who pays for what?
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Do you speak up and risk sounding cheap? Do you
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: just pay it? What do you do in that moment?
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: I have a couple of.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Friends that do it. They order an expensive bottle of wine,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: but they end up actually picking up the entire tab.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: You could just tell them no. We were out to
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: dinner one time at the Red Rock in Swampscott. This
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: one guy that was with us.
• 23:43
  Speaker 13: He tried to order a $ 200 bottle.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Of wine, and we immediately shut it down. We were like, nope,
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: no thank you. That's good. Yeah, you could do that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: I didn't know you could do that. No, you're not
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: ordering an extension.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: It depends on the group.
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: Well, I think the right thing would be like, hey, okay,
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: if you're going to order that, you're paying for it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: And say it, like, I'm taking care of this.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: Correct. Correct.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I went to a bachelorette in Seaport a couple of
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: years ago with probably 10 other girls and I wasn't drinking.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: So I literally just had water at lunch and maybe
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: a couple of chips that were, you know, put on
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the table. I ended up paying over $ 50 for that
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: water because they decided to get pitchers of drinks with
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: their food.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Striking a chord here.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Lisa, you had an experience where you had a bunch
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: of women and you paid the tab, but then had
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: to chase everybody for the Venmo.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Well, it was a mom's night out. So there were
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: 25 women. So I split it with another mom, like
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: just because you cannot have 25 checks. And then you
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: ask everyone to Venmo you a certain amount of money.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: So you just hope everybody does the right thing. But
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: then there's always somebody who forgets.
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: And sometimes it's if they're drinking. You know, they're like, oh,
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: I'll do it later. It just kind of slips their mind.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: And then you put in the position, do you say something?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I couldn't say anything.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Because it makes you the bad guy all the time.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: You know what producer Riley would do? She'd send a
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: Venmo request. She would send something. I know.
• 25:13
  Speaker 16: I know she would.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: Riley, wait a minute. You would what? Venmo requests them?
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Like, be like, hey, you owe me money.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Send me $ 15.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: The Venmo request alerts them. She's right. I got to
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: be more like her.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: I know, but I can't sometimes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Well, you just send it. There you go. Hey, where's
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: my money? And then they look at it, and they
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: have to send the money through Venmo.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: True.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: You'd feel weird doing it, but then once you got
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: the money, you'd be glad you did.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: Honestly, it's the right thing to do, and I have
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: to say they'll respect you for doing it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Well, when it comes to splitting the bill, here's a
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: hot tip.
• 25:42
  Speaker 17: Take a sip.
• 25:43
  Speaker 19: It's Cindy from Alden. I'm talking about splitting the bill.
• 25:47
  Speaker 19: I have a friend group of seven girls. We just
• 25:50
  Speaker 19: went to New York City for Harry Styles, and we
• 25:53
  Speaker 19: had to split, like, ten bills from eating.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: Use Split app.
• 25:59
  Speaker 19: You get to take a picture of the receipt, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 19: then everyone gets to go on their phone and specifically
• 26:05
  Speaker 19: click what they ordered, and it calculates tip and tax.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's way above my pay grade. What do you mean? Like, what?
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Take a picture of the bill and then click off
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: the things you had?
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: Using the app. And total them up? Yeah, I like
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: that idea.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I think it's brilliant.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Don't you?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: You pay for your stuff. It's a good way to
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: kind of not have controversy.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: It's completely equitable. And then you can go out again
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: as a group.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: Clearly, if they're making an app, it's a real problem. True.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: For people.
• 26:39
  Speaker 14: I don't drink, so this happens to me a lot.
• 26:42
  Speaker 14: What I started doing is ordering the most expensive thing
• 26:44
  Speaker 14: on the menu.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: So if I have to.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Pay for their drinks, they have to pay for my lobster.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: There's that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: That's a good point, man. I love this topic. I'm
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: just going to eat alone from now on. Thank you
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: to everyone that's chiming in on this. I'm looking at
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: about 300 talkbacks that have things to say about it,
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: so we appreciate that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 14: I can't even say this in 30 seconds. This recently
• 27:06
  Speaker 14: happened to us. We had gone out to dinner with
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: a large group of people, and we tried to split
• 27:12
  Speaker 14: the check. The waitress wouldn't let us. The other couple ordered...
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: Lobster rolls. We split nachos. Fine. But when the bill came,
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: everybody wanted to split the bill evenly. I ended up
• 27:24
  Speaker 14: spending $ 250 on not a lot of food. Poor thing.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: This is the number one moment for a good reason.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: We had Kaylee Reeds in studio. She's a local girl
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: with an Etsy store and got invited to Olivia Rodrigo's
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Daisy Chain Fields Festival this past weekend. She told us
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: all about it and she even got to meet Olivia.
• 27:47
  Speaker 17: Kaylee Reeds started out during COVID just trying to pass time.
• 27:51
  Speaker 17: Now she'll be one of 10 women-owned businesses at Olivia
• 27:54
  Speaker 17: Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields Festival. Rodrigo hand-selected 10 women-run Etsy
• 28:00
  Speaker 17: shops to be vendors at the sold-out show, and Kaylee
• 28:03
  Speaker 17: Reeds is one of them.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Kaylee Reeds was, yes, at the festival with Olivia Rodrigo,
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: an invite from Olivia Rodrigo, and now she's in studio.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Hey, Kaylee.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Hi, how's it going?
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: This is so cool.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: This is like a dream. It's a dream for all
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: of us that you're here.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: It's definitely a dream for me.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Now, when you were leaving, we had you on the
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: show by phone when you were heading to the festival
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: on the West Coast.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: And I said, I think you're going to meet Olivia
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Rodrigo in person. And did you?
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I did meet Olivia Rodrigo.
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: And she touched one of your.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Bookmarks, right? She did. And was that bookmark sold?
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: It was sold. I don't know who has it, but
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: somebody has a bookmark that Olivia Rodrigo touched.
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: You should have mocked up the price.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: I know, right?
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: So how did it work? She came out into the field,
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: so to speak, and came right over to your booth?
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, on setup day, she came up to each of
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: our booths. She shook our hand. She said hi. It
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: was very quick, but then we took a photo together.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: She was so cool. She was down to earth. It
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: was really fun.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: And I noticed you're wearing your Daisy Chains merch.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: Of course, yes.
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you got to go there. Did you load up
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: on the merch?
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I got this and a sweatshirt and some other swag.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: So tell us about the day.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: What was the crowd like during the Etsy part of it?
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: It was crazy. It was nonstop. I didn't have like
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: a second to do anything really all day. It was
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: just like, there were people at my booth nonstop. Um,
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: we did get to close up shop when chapel Roan
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: went on, so I got to see Chapel Roan, and
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: then obviously we saw Olivia's set, so it was really cool.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: There's a lot of different people there, mostly women, but
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: it was a really cool energy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Now, did you bring a helper or something?
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: Yes, my husband came with me, and so... At the festival,
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: they were allowed to pick their tassel color and a
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: charm to go with it. So I would put the
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: tassel on and then I'd pass it to him and
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: he'd put the charm on and I'd cash them out.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: Now, if you don't mind my asking, how did you
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: do business wise?
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: I did really good.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: Really good.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was I was very happy, but I was
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: more there for the experience and just like getting to
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: know everybody else and just being part of. everything that
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: she had going with the whole festival.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: So do you know how she found you?
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: I still don't know how she found me.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Because she handpicked every single one of the women selling things.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: And just 10 of you in the country.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I still don't know. The meeting was very
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: brief and I blacked out a little bit, so I
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: didn't think to ask her.
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: You didn't ask her? I didn't. By the way, how
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: did you find my bookmarks?
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: Well, she obviously likes daisies and you have a lot
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: of daisies on your bookmarks.
• 30:47
  Speaker 16: I do.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: So my guess is she went into Etsy and she
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: typed in daisy and my bookmarks came up. That's That's
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: what I'm going with.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: Now, the bookmarks are beautiful. I got to ask you
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: a behind the scenes question. What kind of glue are
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: you using? Because I can't seem to glue anything.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: There's no glue involved. Oh, it's they are laminated. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: if you take it out of that plastic there, all
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: they are is they're in between a laminate sheet and
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: they just go through a laminator.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Now, you were kind enough to bring some in. And
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: like Lisa said, there are daisies. Did you do the
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: daisies on purpose for the festival or are there always daisies?
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: There's usually daisies, but these ones were actually specifically co-designed
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: with Olivia Rodrigo. So when Etsy reached out, there was
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: a whole mood board that she had like built up
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: and the daisies were involved, the colors that were involved
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: in there, the stickers and the kind of like millennial
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: feel were all in her mood board. And then we
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: kind of designed it together. So I decided to do
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: the daisy chain with the daisies.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Now, did you develop friendships with the other chosen 10?
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: We've been talking on Instagram since the launch, but meeting
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: each other in person was really cool.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: We're talking to Kaylee Ridge, one of 10 female owners
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: in the country chosen by Olivia Rodrigo to come to
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: the festival.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Kaylee, this started this this project during covid and now
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: has turned into this amazing thing. But it started out
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: as just a hobby, right? Yeah.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: So I'm actually a full-time wedding photographer. So when COVID hit,
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: all of our weddings canceled or rescheduled. And I was like, okay, well,
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: usually I'm editing 24-7. So what am I going to
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: do with all my time? And I'm a big reader.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: So I was reading a lot. And then I saw
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: something online with a similar type bookmark. And I was like,
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: I can try and make that. And then it just
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: kind of grew from there.
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: Right, because it was Kaylee underscore reads is a throwback to,
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: it's like a bookstagram thing that you started.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: So we're trying to.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: Get her to come to Lisa's book club and sell
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: at the Jodi Pico event at Big Night Live.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: Is that a done deal yet?
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: I think it is.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: I would love to be there, yes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, she will be there selling her bookmarks.
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: I have the bookmarks she brought for each of us.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 33:00
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: Can I use this? Is that okay?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Well, they're so beautiful.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're meant to be used.
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's much better than what I do now,
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: which is I fold the page.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's what I do. Or I use the book cover. Actually,
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: I have a book club and I don't even have
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: a bookmark.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: So this is my very first bookmark.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: And I am so happy that it's from you.
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: And you say you did well at the festival.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: So are you still getting orders related to the festival?
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I got another, like, I don't know,
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: 40 orders just within that day, and they're still rolling
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: in today.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: And can you do custom work?
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: Obviously, you did it for Olivia, but if, like, a
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: company wants something custom, that would be kind of fun, right?
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I actually have a whole custom listing on my Etsy,
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: so people can actually choose, like, whatever flowers they want.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: I can put names in them. A lot of people do, like,
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: their birth.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Flower, so.
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: Lisa's Book Club, Bookmarks.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: We're going to do one.
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: We're going to do one.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying. Now, you mentioned you were a wedding photographer.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Are you back in business now that COVID's over?
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah. You must be good because you're very good
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: with this.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're back in business. We actually had a wedding
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: on the festival day. So my business partner and best
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: friend since first grade. So she took it over. with
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: one of my best friends from college. They took it over.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: They did an amazing job.
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: It was a great wedding. Yeah.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: But talk about an unbelievable acknowledgement of what you do,
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: you know, your artistry, so to speak, to be acknowledged
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: and brought to the festival in California by one of
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: the biggest stars in the planet.
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: That's amazing.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah. It's still hard to believe. Even after being there,
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: it was amazing. Even meeting her, like I said, when
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: she touched my bookmark, I was like, how is Olivia
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: Rodrigo touching one of my bookmarks?
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: Somebody out there has that bookmark and they don't even
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: know it.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: How can people get a hold of you?
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: So I'm at Kaylee underscore reads on Instagram or you
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: can search Kaylee reads on Etsy.
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: And wedding-wise, how can they book you for a wedding?
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: That is K & L Photography, LLC. We're based out
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: Kaylee Reeds, thanks for coming in.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 35:06
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• 35:08
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• 35:11
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• 35:19
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