Latest / Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show / HAPPY NEW YEAR...
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, friends, It's been a long long time. Some would
- 0:03Speaker 1: say an eternity, but we are back. I am back
- 0:07Speaker 1: on the after Show. Hi, everybody, Happy New Year. I
- 0:09Speaker 1: hope your holiday was fantastic. God, the last after Show
- 0:13Speaker 1: was I don't even know, more than two weeks ago,
- 0:17Speaker 1: maybe even three weeks ago. I don't know. December is
- 0:20Speaker 1: just so crazy here at the radio station. But it's
- 0:23Speaker 1: all over, man. We got through it all. Had a
- 0:25Speaker 1: beautiful two week vacation. I missed you guys so much.
- 0:28Speaker 1: There were a couple of times during the vaca where
- 0:31Speaker 1: I thought to myself, I should just get equipment at
- 0:34Speaker 1: home and I could record an after show from my house.
- 0:37Speaker 1: It's actually something I might do in twenty twenty six,
- 0:40Speaker 1: you know, like I could talk to my wife. My wife,
- 0:43Speaker 1: if I'm at home, she would join the after show.
- 0:45Speaker 1: I think maybe some of my crazy friends too. I
- 0:48Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see what happens, but it's good to
- 0:50Speaker 1: be back. I hope everybody had some time off enjoyed
- 0:53Speaker 1: the holidays. I know I did. I love Christmas, I
- 0:56Speaker 1: love New Year's, I love love the holidays. I know
- 0:59Speaker 1: people get stressed up about it, but I don't know
- 1:02Speaker 1: it's you know, my past I spent a lot of
- 1:04Speaker 1: holidays not around my family, so you know, I really
- 1:07Speaker 1: cherish everyone that I can, even when my kids drive
- 1:10Speaker 1: me crazy, which trust me, keeping my son busy for
- 1:13Speaker 1: two weeks was not an easy feat. We'll go over
- 1:16Speaker 1: some of that on this podcast as we catch up.
- 1:19Speaker 1: I did take some notes. This might be the first
- 1:21Speaker 1: time ever because it's been so long and so much
- 1:24Speaker 1: has happened in my life. And you know, if you care,
- 1:26Speaker 1: if you listen to this podcast, if you care about
- 1:28Speaker 1: the Billy and Lisa Show, then you know I'm going
- 1:30Speaker 1: to share about some of these things that I did
- 1:34Speaker 1: while I was off. And I want to start with
- 1:36Speaker 1: this one because this was a very special moment. I
- 1:39Speaker 1: did post a video. It did get a lot of views,
- 1:42Speaker 1: which I'm happy about. It's the my wife's gift before
- 1:45Speaker 1: Christmas with her best friend Katie. I don't know how
- 1:49Speaker 1: we pulled this thing off, but it was. God. It
- 1:53Speaker 1: was like one of the most impactful moments one of
- 1:56Speaker 1: in our marriage because my wife is not easily surprised
- 1:59Speaker 1: at all, So the fact that we were able to
- 2:02Speaker 1: do this, to plan this for a month, I don't
- 2:05Speaker 1: think I talked about this. I may have alluded to
- 2:07Speaker 1: it on the After Show, but basically, her best friend
- 2:10Speaker 1: Katie moved to North Carolina earlier this year. She's been
- 2:14Speaker 1: down there and they you know, they're best friends. They text,
- 2:16Speaker 1: they talk, they have each other's locations on their phones.
- 2:19Speaker 1: So that was an issue too, because you know, Jen
- 2:23Speaker 1: will check her location for fun all the time, and
- 2:26Speaker 1: if she was on her way up here driving then
- 2:28Speaker 1: the surprise would be ruined. So she ended up turning
- 2:32Speaker 1: the location off. So we started this around Thanksgiving. Katie
- 2:35Speaker 1: had the idea, Hey, I'm thinking about driving up at
- 2:37Speaker 1: sixteen hours and seeing Jen. And then I said, why
- 2:41Speaker 1: don't we surprise her and I will tell her we're
- 2:45Speaker 1: booking a hotel for her and I before Christmas, kind
- 2:47Speaker 1: of like a pre holiday gift. But then you'll come
- 2:51Speaker 1: in surprise and it'll be YouTube that go out to
- 2:54Speaker 1: dinner and hotel and all that stuff. Because if you're
- 2:57Speaker 1: a mom, you can identify with this. All my wife
- 3:00Speaker 1: really wants is like time to herself, right, Like the
- 3:03Speaker 1: children are all over her more so than me. They
- 3:06Speaker 1: want mom NonStop. You know, if we're in the house
- 3:09Speaker 1: and my son is sitting right next to me, he'll
- 3:11Speaker 1: yell out to my wife in the other room to
- 3:13Speaker 1: get him something. You know, same thing with my daughter.
- 3:15Speaker 1: So she just wants time away from the kids, if
- 3:18Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So the plan was set.
- 3:22Speaker 1: She was gonna drive up on the Thursday before Christmas.
- 3:26Speaker 1: So the week before Christmas, on that Thursday, she was
- 3:29Speaker 1: gonna drive up, and then she was gonna spend a
- 3:31Speaker 1: day or two with her family in hiding with her
- 3:34Speaker 1: location off, and then Saturday morning we were gonna get
- 3:38Speaker 1: up and around noon I went to the gym, came home,
- 3:40Speaker 1: and then we started packing. So my wife got her
- 3:44Speaker 1: nails done, she got waxed, she got she started packing
- 3:48Speaker 1: her bag. I'm fake packing my bag and she was
- 3:51Speaker 1: gonna come around twelve. So it was tough because my
- 3:54Speaker 1: wife's itching to get out of there. So she's like,
- 3:57Speaker 1: why don't we leave right now? Like my momie is
- 4:00Speaker 1: gonna watch the kids. Why don't we just leave? And
- 4:02Speaker 1: I'm like, no, she, you know, she wants to wait
- 4:05Speaker 1: until one o'clock. For whatever reason. I had to go
- 4:07Speaker 1: downstairs tell Nannie one o'clock, tell her we can't leave
- 4:10Speaker 1: till one o'clock. So we're in there, bags are packed.
- 4:13Speaker 1: My bags in the living room. Her bag's in the
- 4:15Speaker 1: living room. Katie's like five minutes away. I'm like okay.
- 4:19Speaker 1: So then I had to get my wife into the
- 4:21Speaker 1: front the back of the house because if the kids
- 4:24Speaker 1: or her were in the front, then they would see
- 4:26Speaker 1: Katie pull up. Okay, So we had to get to
- 4:29Speaker 1: the back of the house while Katie pulls into the
- 4:31Speaker 1: driveway and alongside the house, so if you're walking towards
- 4:35Speaker 1: the front living room, you would not see her car.
- 4:38Speaker 1: And then also we have ring cameras, so I had
- 4:41Speaker 1: to have Katie duck down under the camera because I
- 4:44Speaker 1: knew and she did. My wife would look at the
- 4:47Speaker 1: ring camera on the fridge, so she's five a couple
- 4:51Speaker 1: of minutes away. I say to my wife, Hey, I
- 4:53Speaker 1: want to show you in the family this jelly roll
- 4:55Speaker 1: clip from an interview podcast he did on Joe Rogan
- 4:59Speaker 1: and it's that we played it on the show. It's
- 5:01Speaker 1: him talking about or being surprised about being in the
- 5:04Speaker 1: grand opry. It's like a real emotional moment. So I
- 5:08Speaker 1: pull it up and Jen goes, I saw this. I go, right,
- 5:10Speaker 1: but Abel hasn't, and I want him to see this,
- 5:12Speaker 1: and she's like okay. So we're all sitting there watching it,
- 5:16Speaker 1: and you know, I have my phone kind of down
- 5:18Speaker 1: behind my side with the ring camera. I see Katie pullin,
- 5:21Speaker 1: I see her creep up the stairs, and then once
- 5:24Speaker 1: she's in place in front of the door, I'm like, okay,
- 5:28Speaker 1: I pause it. I go shoot Jen, there's a Christmas
- 5:31Speaker 1: gift I got for you that I want you to
- 5:33Speaker 1: open before we go. It came early. I'd like you
- 5:36Speaker 1: to open it. And she looks at me, like, what
- 5:37Speaker 1: are you talking about. I'm like, it's on the front porch.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Do you want to get it. I think it's be
- 5:41Speaker 1: a good surprise, something you can open and maybe use
- 5:45Speaker 1: at the hotel tonight. So she's like, what the fuck
- 5:47Speaker 1: are you talking about? So she starts walking towards the
- 5:50Speaker 1: front of the house, and as predicted, she stopped at
- 5:54Speaker 1: the fridge and clicked the camera and she couldn't see anything.
- 5:57Speaker 1: There was no package and there was no person or
- 5:59Speaker 1: anything because Katie was duck down. And then you could
- 6:02Speaker 1: see this video by the way on the Instagram, and
- 6:04Speaker 1: then she I was recording on my metaglasses and then
- 6:06Speaker 1: she went down and then there was Katie and she
- 6:09Speaker 1: was completely surprised, and you know, I said, we're not going.
- 6:14Speaker 1: I said, this good news and bad news. The bad
- 6:17Speaker 1: news is we're not going to the hotel tonight. The
- 6:20Speaker 1: good news is you and Katie are And it was
- 6:23Speaker 1: very emotional. She had the best time. I got her
- 6:26Speaker 1: dinner reservations at her favorite restaurant, which is Black and
- 6:29Speaker 1: Blue in Burlington, right across from the Burlington Mall. So
- 6:32Speaker 1: she went. Her friend Kerrie joined as well. The three
- 6:34Speaker 1: of them are all kind of best friends. They went
- 6:37Speaker 1: to dinner, they went to the casino, did a little
- 6:40Speaker 1: bit of gambling, and then they went back to the
- 6:42Speaker 1: hotel and she was just texting me NonStop, like I
- 6:44Speaker 1: cannot believe you did this, Like this is one of
- 6:46Speaker 1: the most amazing things. And I don't know, man, I'm
- 6:49Speaker 1: not the best, best husband. You know, I think I'm
- 6:51Speaker 1: a good husband, but you know, I make mistakes. I
- 6:53Speaker 1: fall short all the time. But you know, moments like
- 6:56Speaker 1: this make me proud, you know, to be a loving
- 7:00Speaker 1: husband and somebody that you know cares about my wife
- 7:02Speaker 1: and she deserves it all in more, I'll just say that.
- 7:04Speaker 1: But so that was really cool. That was a really
- 7:07Speaker 1: really cool moment. You can see the video again on
- 7:10Speaker 1: my Instagram. So Christmas went really great. The kids got
- 7:14Speaker 1: their stuff. We didn't get them as much many things
- 7:17Speaker 1: because the surprise was a Ruba. We have We're going
- 7:20Speaker 1: to a Ruba in March hopefully, I mean good thing.
- 7:23Speaker 1: We're not going this week. That's a disaster. People can't
- 7:25Speaker 1: even fly out. But we are going in March. And
- 7:28Speaker 1: so that was their big gift. But you know some
- 7:31Speaker 1: of the other gifts. I got my wife something she
- 7:35Speaker 1: wanted a hair dryer. I got her a Starlight calendar,
- 7:38Speaker 1: which is kind of a digital calendar. And then I
- 7:42Speaker 1: got her a little bit sappy hair. But I got
- 7:46Speaker 1: her this book that says it's it's called thirty Reasons
- 7:50Speaker 1: Why I Love You, and then each page there's a
- 7:54Speaker 1: title and then the page is blank, like with notepads,
- 7:58Speaker 1: so it'll say I love you the most when you
- 8:01Speaker 1: and then you fill in the answer. So I did that.
- 8:04Speaker 1: I filled up the whole thing and gave that to her.
- 8:07Speaker 1: That was good. She cried. And then I got her
- 8:10Speaker 1: also this this drinking kind of adult game called Sip
- 8:14Speaker 1: or Sin, even though we don't drink, but I thought
- 8:16Speaker 1: it would be cool for like a night out if
- 8:18Speaker 1: we got a hotel somewhere. It's kind of like dirty
- 8:20Speaker 1: things that you play as a couple, you know. I
- 8:23Speaker 1: think one of them was, you know, if you pull
- 8:25Speaker 1: this card, you have to twirk on my face, just
- 8:27Speaker 1: like silly things, but kind of sexual too. So I
- 8:30Speaker 1: just she had both gifts. She was like crying from
- 8:33Speaker 1: the book and then she had this Sipperson drinking game
- 8:36Speaker 1: thing and She's like, what the fuck is this? And
- 8:38Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, I'm all over the place.
- 8:41Speaker 1: So that was cool. She got me slippers, which I
- 8:45Speaker 1: really really really loved, and like some other small things
- 8:49Speaker 1: that I liked. But the family came over. It was
- 8:51Speaker 1: a great Christmas Eve, great low key Christmas. Also during
- 8:55Speaker 1: the break, you know, I did a lot of working out.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Shout out to drive and stay in New Hampshire. That's
- 8:59Speaker 1: my spot. I've kind of moved away from you know,
- 9:03Speaker 1: traditional weightlifting and more into longevity cardio fitness, and they
- 9:08Speaker 1: have classes there which I really really like, a lot
- 9:11Speaker 1: of circuit training, a lot of high rocks training, so
- 9:14Speaker 1: that was really good. I was able to get up
- 9:16Speaker 1: every morning go there high intensity and you know high
- 9:19Speaker 1: rocks that kind of training is like you know, sled poles,
- 9:22Speaker 1: sled pushes, burpies, broad jumps, biking. You know, it's some
- 9:27Speaker 1: weightlifting too. But I think I found a new love
- 9:29Speaker 1: there because I mentioned on the show today my shoulders
- 9:32Speaker 1: messed up. So you know, I'm trying to getting away
- 9:34Speaker 1: from the you know, back in biceps day. Today's just stay.
- 9:39Speaker 1: You know, I really am trying to improve my cardio
- 9:41Speaker 1: fitness and you know, look, and I'm not trying to
- 9:43Speaker 1: be like this jacked guy. I just want to be
- 9:45Speaker 1: in shape, you know, And I feel like I'm chasing
- 9:49Speaker 1: this body building goal when I have no you know,
- 9:52Speaker 1: plan to step on stage or do anything like that.
- 9:55Speaker 1: I just want to be fit. I want to be
- 9:56Speaker 1: healthy and I want to be here for a long time.
- 9:58Speaker 1: So you know, I do a lot of things to
- 10:00Speaker 1: support that. You know. I do ice bass every day,
- 10:02Speaker 1: I do saunas every single night. I monitor my sleep,
- 10:06Speaker 1: you know, things like that. I'm always trying to improve.
- 10:09Speaker 1: I guess performance, you know, if you will. So a
- 10:12Speaker 1: couple of other things I went did did during the vacation.
- 10:15Speaker 1: I saw the Mentalist at the Chevalier Theater. That was
- 10:19Speaker 1: a friggin moment. Okay, shout out to the Chevalier. I
- 10:23Speaker 1: was able to go with my friend Adam. We met
- 10:26Speaker 1: the mentalist Oz Perlman. Before the show. We had a
- 10:30Speaker 1: small group with us. They put us in these groups
- 10:31Speaker 1: of like four to six people, so we came in.
- 10:34Speaker 1: I talked to O's for a while about Billy's Sun,
- 10:36Speaker 1: Chris Costa, and we took pictures. And then there was
- 10:40Speaker 1: a little girl there ten years old who was a
- 10:41Speaker 1: big fan. So he was able to do his mentalist
- 10:44Speaker 1: thing to her, which was really cool. I did post
- 10:47Speaker 1: a video of it, it was on my stories, but
- 10:49Speaker 1: basically it was a quick thing. He just told it
- 10:50Speaker 1: to think of a number between one and one hundred,
- 10:53Speaker 1: and he was able to guess it. He wrote it
- 10:55Speaker 1: down on a piece of paper. But during the show, okay,
- 10:59Speaker 1: he was doing a amazing things. Okay, And I guess
- 11:02Speaker 1: the argument would be that when he has crowd participation
- 11:07Speaker 1: in these things, is he paying these people? Are they
- 11:11Speaker 1: paid actors? Are they working for him? But let me
- 11:14Speaker 1: know what you think about this. He had five people
- 11:17Speaker 1: stand up from the audience and he asked them to
- 11:19Speaker 1: think about a celebrity, dead or alive, who you would
- 11:23Speaker 1: want to have dinner with. So the first three he
- 11:25Speaker 1: was able to guess right off the bat. He kind
- 11:27Speaker 1: of asked a couple of questions, now, mind you, Like
- 11:30Speaker 1: one of the women was, you know, Susan from Somerville.
- 11:34Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, there's no way she's working with
- 11:37Speaker 1: the mentalists. But he was able to get the first three.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Then there were two people left and he goes, I'm
- 11:43Speaker 1: gonna up the ante here. I already did the you know,
- 11:46Speaker 1: the first three, I guessed it, but I want to
- 11:49Speaker 1: really blow your minds. So he gave whiteboards, these little
- 11:53Speaker 1: whiteboards to the last two people with a marker, and
- 11:56Speaker 1: he told them to write down the celebrity on the board,
- 11:58Speaker 1: but like keep it close to them so no, but
- 12:00Speaker 1: he could see it. So they both did it. And
- 12:02Speaker 1: then he said, I'm gonna have somebody in the audience
- 12:05Speaker 1: come up and guess who the celebrities are. I'm not
- 12:08Speaker 1: gonna do it, They're gonna do it. So he pulls
- 12:11Speaker 1: out a frisbee from his little like, you know, drawer
- 12:15Speaker 1: of goodies, and it's a flimsy Amazon frisbee that literally
- 12:19Speaker 1: could go anywhere in the crowd. He threw it and
- 12:22Speaker 1: it went right in front of me, but like it
- 12:24Speaker 1: flew all around the chevalier and almost ended on one guy.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Then it like bounced off him and landed on this
- 12:31Speaker 1: one kid that was like kind of right in front
- 12:33Speaker 1: of me to the right. So this kid gets up,
- 12:36Speaker 1: walks on stage and he says to him, Okay, you're
- 12:39Speaker 1: gonna guess the celebrities. You're gonna close your eyes and
- 12:42Speaker 1: you're gonna cover your ears. He said, I'm gonna touch
- 12:45Speaker 1: you on your back and it's gonna come in your mind.
- 12:47Speaker 1: You're gonna say the name. And I'm like, there's no
- 12:50Speaker 1: frigging way, And sure enough, the first woman he does it.
- 12:55Speaker 1: He touches the guy's back, you know, he has his
- 12:57Speaker 1: eyes covered, his ears plugged, touches his back, he goes
- 13:01Speaker 1: say the name, and he says Rachel Maddow. So then
- 13:04Speaker 1: the woman he says, turn your sign around. Sure enough,
- 13:07Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow. And he did the same thing for the
- 13:10Speaker 1: next For the last guy, which was Julius Caesar, celebrity
- 13:13Speaker 1: he would want to have dinner with. Okay, how the
- 13:16Speaker 1: hell does he do that? Now he did a bunch
- 13:18Speaker 1: of other things. I'm not even gonna go over at all.
- 13:20Speaker 1: But when the show was done, the guy was right
- 13:23Speaker 1: in front of me. So my friend Adam and I
- 13:25Speaker 1: literally grabbed the dude and I'm like, hey, come on,
- 13:27Speaker 1: can I ask you a question? He goes, yeah, you
- 13:30Speaker 1: are you working with this guy? I know you probably
- 13:32Speaker 1: can't tell him whatever, and he goes, dude, no, he goes,
- 13:36Speaker 1: he had to have He goes, I don't know how
- 13:38Speaker 1: to explain it, but I heard a voice in my head.
- 13:41Speaker 1: It sounded like a computer voice. So I don't know
- 13:43Speaker 1: if he had a device or something, but when he
- 13:45Speaker 1: touched me, there was a voice that came into my
- 13:48Speaker 1: head that said the name and I just said, you
- 13:50Speaker 1: know what they said to me essentially, So I don't
- 13:53Speaker 1: know what kind of tricks he has. But my friend
- 13:57Speaker 1: thinks that he was able to put the thought into
- 13:58Speaker 1: his head, but he clearly said that he heard a
- 14:01Speaker 1: computer voice. But either way, however he does it, it's
- 14:04Speaker 1: really really cool. So that was a warm up show
- 14:06Speaker 1: for O's. I was talking to him about a backstage.
- 14:08Speaker 1: It was like a warm up test show and it
- 14:11Speaker 1: went really well. I mean, all the Wilbert people were
- 14:15Speaker 1: Bill Blumenrch who owns the Wilburt Andrew shout out to
- 14:17Speaker 1: him too. He was there. It was a big hit.
- 14:20Speaker 1: So I would expect a nationwide tour and if he does,
- 14:23Speaker 1: I would go. I would go again. Also on the vacation,
- 14:26Speaker 1: I went to Kill Tony, which is a comedy show
- 14:28Speaker 1: at the Box Center, which was good. It was Kill
- 14:31Speaker 1: Tony's kind of this live show where Tony Hingecliffe and
- 14:37Speaker 1: all his friends are up on stage and they bring
- 14:39Speaker 1: people up from the audience. They have a one minute
- 14:41Speaker 1: to do their best comedy bit and then they either
- 14:43Speaker 1: roast them or they praise them. And there's been a
- 14:46Speaker 1: bunch of comedians that have kind of gotten famous from
- 14:49Speaker 1: being on Kill Tony, and they had their own tour.
- 14:52Speaker 1: I was mistaken. I thought that it was Kill Tony.
- 14:56Speaker 1: I thought that it was the actual show Kill Tony,
- 14:59Speaker 1: and it wasn't. So months ago, Ernie Bach, who's a
- 15:03Speaker 1: good friend of Billy's and a good friend of the
- 15:04Speaker 1: radio station, he calls in, you know, through his at home.
- 15:08Speaker 1: He has a studio, Ernie Back, and so he calls
- 15:11Speaker 1: in every week. Billion I talked to him, and I
- 15:13Speaker 1: have this joke with Ernie that once a year I'll
- 15:16Speaker 1: ask him for a favor, which is tickets to a
- 15:19Speaker 1: Box Center show and he's super cool about it. So
- 15:21Speaker 1: I said Ernie, my one asked, this year has come up?
- 15:25Speaker 1: He said, no problem, what is it? I said, kill Tony?
- 15:27Speaker 1: He said cool. Literally three days later tickets showed up
- 15:30Speaker 1: at my house. So shout out to Ernie Baak. He's
- 15:32Speaker 1: super nice guy. But when I got the tickets and
- 15:36Speaker 1: they got closer to the show, I started looking up
- 15:38Speaker 1: the show more and it's called The Killers of kill Tony,
- 15:41Speaker 1: not kill Tony. It was still fantastic, super funny, super edgy.
- 15:45Speaker 1: We had a great time. I went with three of
- 15:47Speaker 1: my friends. We went to Post nineteen seventeen. Would shout
- 15:50Speaker 1: out to them. By the way we went. We paid
- 15:53Speaker 1: there wasn't like a I know they advertised a lot
- 15:55Speaker 1: on kiss went to wait, but I didn't have any
- 15:56Speaker 1: gift cards or anything. I had gone there previously and
- 16:00Speaker 1: loved it, so I brought my friends back. So shout
- 16:02Speaker 1: out to them, Jason Karen and his wife. It really
- 16:05Speaker 1: is fucking amazing restaurant. They have reading Ann Lexington. But
- 16:09Speaker 1: I went twice during the vacation, so that was the
- 16:12Speaker 1: second time. But we went there and then we went
- 16:14Speaker 1: to the show. Got there a little bit late and
- 16:17Speaker 1: when you get tickets from Ernie back he has the
- 16:20Speaker 1: buck suite, right, so I thought the box suite just
- 16:24Speaker 1: meant the seats. They're on the second level, right along
- 16:26Speaker 1: the side. They're always like private, they're always mostly empty
- 16:30Speaker 1: when I've gone, only like they're the tickets that Ernie
- 16:32Speaker 1: gives away, essentially. So we go in there. I show
- 16:36Speaker 1: the tickets to the person. They're like, oh, you're on
- 16:39Speaker 1: the box suite. So they sit us down. The show
- 16:41Speaker 1: is already going on. We're watching the show for about
- 16:43Speaker 1: ten minutes and then I get a tap on my
- 16:45Speaker 1: shoulder and it's the woman the usher who I forget
- 16:48Speaker 1: her name. She was so nice and she's excuse me,
- 16:50Speaker 1: can I see your tickets again? So she looked at
- 16:53Speaker 1: them and she goes, you're actually in the front row
- 16:56Speaker 1: down there. I'm like really, and she goes, yes, I
- 16:59Speaker 1: can take you down there. But do you know that
- 17:02Speaker 1: there's this sweet rate here that you can use that
- 17:05Speaker 1: has an open bar, desserts, bathroom, a really nice lounge furniture.
- 17:12Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I had no idea. She goes, come on,
- 17:14Speaker 1: let me show you. So my friends and I go
- 17:16Speaker 1: into this like private suite and there was nobody else
- 17:19Speaker 1: there up there, so it was just us. So she
- 17:21Speaker 1: brings us in there during the show and she goes
- 17:23Speaker 1: all this alcohol, regular drinks, full bar, all these desserts, bathroom.
- 17:29Speaker 1: I mean, it was fucking incredible. My friends were like,
- 17:32Speaker 1: holy shit, you actually are cool tonight. You know what,
- 17:35Speaker 1: Justin tonight you're cool because every other day it's like,
- 17:38Speaker 1: oh cool, Justin works on the radio and whatever. Like
- 17:40Speaker 1: they don't care. They that's the thing. They don't care
- 17:43Speaker 1: what I do and you know who I meet or whatever.
- 17:45Speaker 1: They just love me for me. That's why they're my
- 17:47Speaker 1: close friends. But let me tell you that night of
- 17:49Speaker 1: Kill Tony, they were mind blown. So a couple of
- 17:52Speaker 1: my friends do drink. They're like normal or whatever. So
- 17:55Speaker 1: they had their drinks and then my mother friend and
- 17:57Speaker 1: I had some coed diepepsies. We brought them up and
- 18:00Speaker 1: we sat and watched the rest of the show and
- 18:02Speaker 1: it was just fantastic. So I don't know, I share
- 18:05Speaker 1: those things, not never, just I want to be very
- 18:09Speaker 1: clear about something when I share things like that. And
- 18:11Speaker 1: I don't need to say this because people that really
- 18:15Speaker 1: know me from listening to the show or know me
- 18:17Speaker 1: in real life know that I don't ever say these
- 18:19Speaker 1: things to flex on anybody or to like, look at me,
- 18:21Speaker 1: look at me. I'm super grateful for everything, and listen.
- 18:24Speaker 1: I asked Ernie Book for tickets one time a year.
- 18:26Speaker 1: It's kind of this running joke that we had. And
- 18:28Speaker 1: so what was the other Oh, Shane Gillis was last
- 18:31Speaker 1: year or the year before. Some years I didn't even
- 18:32Speaker 1: ask him. You know, it's just I don't like asking
- 18:34Speaker 1: for things like that. But it was super nice of
- 18:36Speaker 1: him to do that. And now I know for twenty
- 18:38Speaker 1: twenty six, if there's a show coming to the Box Center,
- 18:40Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in the box suite. So that's pretty cool.
- 18:42Speaker 1: So that was great. Also, my family and I went
- 18:45Speaker 1: to Great Wolf Lodge Foxwoods. It just opened. I don't
- 18:50Speaker 1: know in the last year we've gone to Fitchburg. My
- 18:53Speaker 1: kids love it and it was really really nice. I
- 18:57Speaker 1: was kind of like, oh, man, like we're on vacation
- 19:00Speaker 1: in packed the kids in the car. But let me
- 19:03Speaker 1: tell you it's it's great. It was great. We stayed
- 19:05Speaker 1: in a room and had a bunk beds in it.
- 19:07Speaker 1: The water park was amazing. They had zip lines. I
- 19:09Speaker 1: did that. I posted some pictures of me ziplining, they
- 19:13Speaker 1: went outdoor hot tub and then yeah, it's connected to Foxwoods,
- 19:16Speaker 1: which is which is cool. I'm not a big gambler.
- 19:19Speaker 1: I talked about this during the show. But there's something
- 19:21Speaker 1: really really funny hat happened. I'll share that in a second.
- 19:24Speaker 1: But so we were at Great Wolf. We spent the
- 19:27Speaker 1: day there. We drove down in the morning early. You
- 19:30Speaker 1: couldn't check into the afternoon, but you could use the
- 19:31Speaker 1: water park. So we went in and brought a change
- 19:33Speaker 1: of clothes. They have all the slides and everything. My
- 19:36Speaker 1: kids just they love it so much. So we went
- 19:38Speaker 1: there and then we kind of did the arcade. They
- 19:41Speaker 1: have all the games, and then we got our room
- 19:45Speaker 1: and then that night we went to the casino. We
- 19:46Speaker 1: went to dinner at Guy's Guy Fieri's place, which was good.
- 19:50Speaker 1: It's right in the middle of Foxwoods. Like, my son
- 19:53Speaker 1: was blown away because we're walking through and there's all
- 19:55Speaker 1: these you know, slot machines everywhere, and he doesn't understand
- 19:59Speaker 1: that he's eight years old. He can't play them. And
- 20:01Speaker 1: I get it, like they look like you want to
- 20:03Speaker 1: play them, the slots, you know. So there's a thing
- 20:08Speaker 1: with my wife and I in slot machines in gambling.
- 20:12Speaker 2: Right.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Neither of us are big gamblers. And this is actually
- 20:15Speaker 1: an interesting thing because when you talk about addictions, right,
- 20:19Speaker 1: obviously my wife and I struggle with drug addiction, right,
- 20:23Speaker 1: So addictions come in many different forms, right, And gambling
- 20:28Speaker 1: is roped in along with drugs and alcohol and sex
- 20:31Speaker 1: and you know, all those things kind of you know,
- 20:34Speaker 1: the disease of addiction is all encompassing, right, But when
- 20:37Speaker 1: it comes to gambling, we're just like, we don't really
- 20:40Speaker 1: like losing money. I guess if you say so. We
- 20:43Speaker 1: have a rule whenever we do go to casinos, which
- 20:45Speaker 1: isn't that often, we take out two hundred dollars and
- 20:48Speaker 1: then we just play and then once the money is
- 20:50Speaker 1: run out, then we leave. We don't take more money out.
- 20:54Speaker 1: It's just a fun thing. My wife plays the lowest
- 20:57Speaker 1: bet possible, right, like a quarter or fifty cents, because
- 21:01Speaker 1: she's there for fun. She wants to keep pressing the
- 21:03Speaker 1: button and she's hoping to win. But you know, she
- 21:06Speaker 1: makes her money least, she stretches it out, whereas I
- 21:09Speaker 1: I do dollar bets sometimes five dollar bets, three dollar bets,
- 21:13Speaker 1: because I feel like that pays more and She's always like,
- 21:16Speaker 1: you're an idiot, Like we're here for fun, Like if
- 21:18Speaker 1: you win, you win, who cares. It's about playing, it's
- 21:21Speaker 1: the time spending. And I'm like no. So we're in
- 21:24Speaker 1: the casino, and obviously we have kids with us, so
- 21:26Speaker 1: we can't gamble at the same time. So first her
- 21:30Speaker 1: and her friend Brooke. Our friend Brooke went off and
- 21:33Speaker 1: gambled for like, you know, thirty minutes or whatever. Well,
- 21:35Speaker 1: my friend Alan watched, and I watched the kids, and
- 21:38Speaker 1: then we ate dinner. They didn't win. They came back
- 21:39Speaker 1: lost their money, so we eat dinner. So after they're like,
- 21:42Speaker 1: now you guys go, So I take two hundred dollars
- 21:44Speaker 1: from the ATM, and Jen's like talking mad shit. She's like,
- 21:48Speaker 1: don't worry, he'll be back in ten minutes, five minutes.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Maybe he does these big bets. He's gonna win all
- 21:53Speaker 1: this money, but it just goes quick. I don't know
- 21:55Speaker 1: why he does that. This is what she's saying to Brook.
- 21:58Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I walk over to a machine with
- 22:01Speaker 1: my friend Alan. I put one hundred dollars in, I
- 22:04Speaker 1: do one dollar bets. I press it once, I press
- 22:07Speaker 1: it twice, I press it the third time, five hundred
- 22:11Speaker 1: dollars win. Okay, Now I'm like riding high. I'm like, okay,
- 22:15Speaker 1: what's the plan now? So I took out two hundred dollars.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Now I had five hundred dollars. So I thought to myself,
- 22:23Speaker 1: I still have one hundred. I can gamble two hundred
- 22:27Speaker 1: more dollars. If I lose it, I'll walk away with
- 22:29Speaker 1: three plus thee hundred that I have. And that means
- 22:32Speaker 1: I doubled my money. So that's what I did. I
- 22:34Speaker 1: started doing five dollar bets and just blew, you know,
- 22:38Speaker 1: I was hoping to win big. I blew through the
- 22:40Speaker 1: other two hundred and then I cashed out. I went
- 22:42Speaker 1: over and got the cash and I had four hundred
- 22:44Speaker 1: dollars and I walked back up to my wife and
- 22:46Speaker 1: I'm like, Hi, you doing win now? She's like, no way.
- 22:49Speaker 1: So that was an interesting moment there. So I doubled
- 22:52Speaker 1: my money there. So yeah, that was New Year's Day.
- 22:55Speaker 1: We went to Great Wolf. We came back just the
- 22:58Speaker 1: next day on Friday, and then this past weekend we
- 23:00Speaker 1: were just chilling. I was anxious to get back man,
- 23:03Speaker 1: anxious to get back to work. I do very, very
- 23:05Speaker 1: well with routine. I don't know if that's from being institutionalized.
- 23:10Speaker 1: It may be. I don't know, but you know, the
- 23:13Speaker 1: first week of vacation is great, it's relaxing, unwinding. But
- 23:16Speaker 1: by the second week, and I know a lot of
- 23:18Speaker 1: you feel this way, it's like, what day is it.
- 23:23Speaker 1: I'm itching to kind of get back to work. I
- 23:24Speaker 1: don't want to get up early again. But I don't know.
- 23:27Speaker 1: I was so happy when when I got up this morning.
- 23:29Speaker 1: I mean, I'm lucky. I have a job that I love,
- 23:32Speaker 1: you know, I love coming to work. And there were
- 23:34Speaker 1: so many moments during the vacation where I'd see a
- 23:36Speaker 1: story online or on the news or wherever, and I'm like, damn,
- 23:39Speaker 1: I wish we were in to talk about that, you know,
- 23:41Speaker 1: some of the drama with the Patriots or just anything.
- 23:44Speaker 2: You know.
- 23:45Speaker 1: I see these stories and I'm like, oh man, we
- 23:46Speaker 1: would be covering that story. So I don't know. It's
- 23:49Speaker 1: going to be back. It's a brand new year. I
- 23:51Speaker 1: hope big things are going to be happening for the
- 23:52Speaker 1: after show again. You know, guests will be coming in.
- 23:56Speaker 1: Power of Recovery is coming back next Tuesday, So please
- 23:59Speaker 1: get your question in. You can always leave talkbacks for me.
- 24:02Speaker 1: I will get them any time of day. You have
- 24:04Speaker 1: to be listening on the iHeart app, though you can
- 24:06Speaker 1: listen anywhere, but you have to be listening on the
- 24:08Speaker 1: iHeart app to leave it.
- 24:10Speaker 2: Talk about hi again. I just tried to leave a
- 24:13Speaker 2: callback a message. I just wanted to continue telling justin
- 24:17Speaker 2: how much I think you are the greatest. You're so inspirational.
- 24:25Speaker 2: Your interview with Maria back over a year ago with wonderful.
- 24:29Speaker 2: I recorded it but lost it when we had issues
- 24:35Speaker 2: with Verizon. All right, I'm going to continue.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I don't know about the greatest.
- 24:41Speaker 1: It's nice to hear those things, but I do appreciate
- 24:43Speaker 1: you that saying that. And yeah, that Maria Stefinals interview
- 24:47Speaker 1: from Channel five that was actually one year as of
- 24:50Speaker 1: last November. I did send a note to Mariasdefinals, just
- 24:54Speaker 1: thanking her again, wishing her happy holidays. Like that video
- 24:58Speaker 1: like changed my life in a good way, you know,
- 25:02Speaker 1: like putting it all out there, putting my life and
- 25:03Speaker 1: my history out there. Because I talk about that stuff
- 25:06Speaker 1: on the radio, but not as in detail. But in
- 25:09Speaker 1: that video I kind of was raw, unfiltered, like this
- 25:13Speaker 1: is my history, this is where I come from, and
- 25:16Speaker 1: this is where I am now. So that's on my
- 25:17Speaker 1: Instagram by the way, at Justin Beasy. It's pinned at
- 25:20Speaker 1: the top so you can watch it.
- 25:22Speaker 2: That.
- 25:22Speaker 1: That was quite the moment. So thank you for those words.
- 25:25Speaker 1: And yeah, you can leave talkbacks at any time. I
- 25:28Speaker 1: love hearing from you guys. Also, we have a new
- 25:31Speaker 1: phone number on the show and a new phone screener.
- 25:35Speaker 1: I want to clear this up a little bit. The
- 25:38Speaker 1: new phone screener, her name is Katie. So when the
- 25:41Speaker 1: changes were made last year when when he was let go,
- 25:44Speaker 1: they eliminated that position. So I want to clear this
- 25:46Speaker 1: up because I did get some messages about this. So
- 25:49Speaker 1: when that change happened, which sucks, we know I've talked
- 25:52Speaker 1: endlessly about it. But when that happened, they eliminated that position.
- 25:56Speaker 1: That's what they told us. So Producer Riley is running
- 26:00Speaker 1: the equipment. She's not talking on the show. The show
- 26:03Speaker 1: is Billy, Lisa and Justin. That's the show that's left.
- 26:06Speaker 1: We might go to Riley on different things, but she's
- 26:08Speaker 1: not a fourth mic. That position was eliminated. But by
- 26:12Speaker 1: bringing Riley in to now run the board and run
- 26:14Speaker 1: the show like off the air that left a phone
- 26:18Speaker 1: position open, so I was answering the phones while live
- 26:21Speaker 1: on air, Riley was running out of the room, so
- 26:24Speaker 1: it was important to get somebody in there to answer
- 26:27Speaker 1: the phones, and we were lucky enough to find Katie.
- 26:30Speaker 1: And Katie is our new phone screener. She's very lovely.
- 26:33Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll bring her on the after show at
- 26:35Speaker 1: some point so you can meet her. She lives in Cambridge.
- 26:38Speaker 1: I don't really know a ton about her, but she's
- 26:39Speaker 1: super nice, super willing to learn, which we love. So
- 26:42Speaker 1: we welcome her to the Billy and Lisa Show. But
- 26:44Speaker 1: just to clear that up, like people, oh my god,
- 26:47Speaker 1: you know, which is understandable. I listen. Any outrage that
- 26:49Speaker 1: anybody has about anything that happens, I do understand because
- 26:52Speaker 1: it shows that you care, that you care about this
- 26:56Speaker 1: what we have here, So that means a lot to me.
- 26:58Speaker 1: But just no, like that's what was told to us,
- 27:01Speaker 1: right Like, we work for a company and they said listen,
- 27:03Speaker 1: this is being eliminated, and so that's that voice is
- 27:07Speaker 1: no longer here. I don't know if that's going to
- 27:08Speaker 1: change ever, I have no idea, but as of right now,
- 27:11Speaker 1: that's what's happening. So there you go. Wow, I've been
- 27:14Speaker 1: talking for twenty seven minutes. I can't believe it. Well,
- 27:16Speaker 1: I told you I had a lot to talk about,
- 27:18Speaker 1: and there was still some stuff on my list that
- 27:20Speaker 1: I did not get to. I bought a car, right,
- 27:23Speaker 1: I got a car, which was very cool. I trade
- 27:26Speaker 1: my car in every two years because I don't want
- 27:28Speaker 1: to put work into it. And I believe that a car,
- 27:31Speaker 1: my car is very important because I get up at
- 27:33Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning, I have to drive into work,
- 27:36Speaker 1: I have some small children. There's a lot of reasons there.
- 27:38Speaker 1: So you know, there's two different schools of thought there.
- 27:40Speaker 1: You could get a car and pay it off as
- 27:42Speaker 1: quick as possible, but by the time I pay it off,
- 27:46Speaker 1: then I'm at you know, one hundred thousand miles. You know,
- 27:48Speaker 1: I put thirty to thirty five thousand miles a year
- 27:51Speaker 1: on a car, so a lease is out of the question.
- 27:53Speaker 1: Or I would lease. So yes, I'll pay the car off,
- 27:57Speaker 1: but by then I'm over one hundred thousand miles. Now
- 27:59Speaker 1: I'm putting all this work into it. Things could go wrong,
- 28:02Speaker 1: and you know the cars in the shop, so to me,
- 28:05Speaker 1: it's worth spending a little bit of extra money to
- 28:08Speaker 1: trade the car in every couple of years. So I
- 28:11Speaker 1: wanted a specific new car, and you know, shout out
- 28:14Speaker 1: to Kevin at Highline Auto and sail into Hampshire right
- 28:17Speaker 1: down the street from my house. Now, you know, I'd
- 28:19Speaker 1: always gone to other places like McGovern or, you know
- 28:22Speaker 1: herb Chambers, just like Dale which are great, but you know,
- 28:25Speaker 1: he was recommended that he could maybe find the car
- 28:27Speaker 1: that I was looking for. So I went into Kevin,
- 28:29Speaker 1: don't know him, didn't know anything about him, just walked
- 28:31Speaker 1: in and said hey, I'm looking for a car and
- 28:33Speaker 1: he was like booda doo. Found the car in New York.
- 28:36Speaker 1: That was on the Monday of Christmas week. Found it
- 28:39Speaker 1: on Monday, punched the numbers in, said okay, I'll buy
- 28:42Speaker 1: your car for this much and this will be your
- 28:44Speaker 1: new monthly payment. And the math was math and so
- 28:47Speaker 1: what does that mean? That means to me? When I
- 28:50Speaker 1: think about money that goes out every month, I think
- 28:53Speaker 1: about like, okay, how much is it going to more
- 28:55Speaker 1: is it going to cost me in insurance, in registration
- 28:58Speaker 1: and per month? And so when I put all those
- 29:01Speaker 1: numbers in and figured it out, the math was mathing right,
- 29:04Speaker 1: This little boy math there and it worked out, so
- 29:07Speaker 1: I got the car. It got shipped on Monday that day,
- 29:11Speaker 1: was here on Wednesday, so I was able to get
- 29:13Speaker 1: the car Christmas Eve. It's beautiful. I love it, love it,
- 29:16Speaker 1: love it so much. So I don't know, man, just
- 29:18Speaker 1: good things. It's all good things going into the New
- 29:21Speaker 1: Year's It stays a positive mindset. It stays doing the
- 29:25Speaker 1: right thing right. That's the biggest thing for me. Staying
- 29:30Speaker 1: clean is obviously always number one, but after like you know,
- 29:33Speaker 1: the first several years that stopped being really said, it's
- 29:36Speaker 1: more like just implied, right, that's always going to be
- 29:39Speaker 1: number one. Everything else is number two, three, four, and five.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Stay clean, staying in recovery, staying helping people, staying helping
- 29:47Speaker 1: myself and working on myself will always be number one.
- 29:51Speaker 1: But after that, it's like, yeah, do the right thing right,
- 29:54Speaker 1: keep showing up for my family, for my job, treat
- 29:57Speaker 1: people good, you know, all that stuff I will continue
- 30:01Speaker 1: to do. But yes, staying clean is number one. So
- 30:04Speaker 1: I hope everything as well in your life. If you're
- 30:06Speaker 1: going through stuff, I understand, I know that my turn
- 30:09Speaker 1: is coming. All of our turns are coming. We had
- 30:12Speaker 1: a call her on the show this morning whose sister
- 30:14Speaker 1: is going through chemo. So is it a happy New
- 30:17Speaker 1: Year for her? I don't know, probably not. One of
- 30:21Speaker 1: my close friends is going through chemo right now. He's
- 30:24Speaker 1: forty four years old. He has colon cancer. So he's
- 30:27Speaker 1: at Mass General. He's a just finished chemo. Now. He
- 30:31Speaker 1: takes a month off and then goes into radiation. But
- 30:34Speaker 1: it's very very scary, very scary, some of the stuff
- 30:37Speaker 1: that he tells me. He was one of the guys
- 30:38Speaker 1: that went to kill Tony with me. I love him
- 30:41Speaker 1: so much, and you know, we're at dinner and he's
- 30:43Speaker 1: talking about, like in detail about what going through chemo is, like,
- 30:48Speaker 1: you know, and I don't even I can't even explain it, man,
- 30:53Speaker 1: you know, just the forgetfulness, the you know, dysentery orientated,
- 31:00Speaker 1: just you know, message you up and he's battling through.
- 31:04Speaker 1: So hopefully he'll be okay. So if you're going through
- 31:06Speaker 1: things in the New Year, you can get through it, man.
- 31:11Speaker 2: You know.
- 31:11Speaker 1: I always believe that as long as we're still breathing,
- 31:13Speaker 1: we have a shot. Right. That's That's one of the
- 31:16Speaker 1: things that was told to me early in recovery. As
- 31:17Speaker 1: long as you're justin you're still breathing. Yes, you just
- 31:20Speaker 1: came off the street. You have nothing, You are homeless, penniless,
- 31:24Speaker 1: your family won't talk to you. You have warrants for
- 31:26Speaker 1: your arrest. But you know what, you are still fucking breathing.
- 31:29Speaker 1: And as long as that is happening, you have a
- 31:31Speaker 1: chance and you can build up from there. So I
- 31:34Speaker 1: want to say happy New Year to you all. Don't
- 31:36Speaker 1: forget the new number on the show eight seven seven
- 31:39Speaker 1: six one seven one one eight. The old number nine
- 31:42Speaker 1: to three one still does work for a little while,
- 31:45Speaker 1: but we are transitioning out because that technology that that
- 31:48Speaker 1: phone number used is way outdated. That's why we were
- 31:52Speaker 1: getting dropped calls and all that stuff. So we got
- 31:54Speaker 1: a brand new number eight seven seven six one seven
- 31:57Speaker 1: one one o eight. That's the number to call. But
- 31:59Speaker 1: as always, you canna gave talkbacks at any time on
- 32:01Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app and again only on the iHeart app
- 32:04Speaker 1: listening to the after show for the after show, you
- 32:07Speaker 1: got it. I love you guys so much. I can't
- 32:10Speaker 1: wait to talk to you, can't wait to hear from
- 32:11Speaker 1: you tomorrow. I'll grab somebody on here because I don't know. Man,
- 32:15Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to myself. Every single day,
- 32:17Speaker 1: thirty two minutes of talking to myself. Can you believe it?
- 32:20Speaker 1: We'll talk tomorrow. Peace,