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Classic Moment: Donnie Wahlberg · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Donnie, you there.
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  Speaker 2: I am here, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Now I got to ask you, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Well, today I'm in Toronto. Tomorrow i'll be
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago. And I just last night I was in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been doing a lot of shooting in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't know if you were still in town shooting.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to start Donnie with an apology. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: because it may have come across it, I was bugging
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  Speaker 1: you to come on the show. And you have to understand, Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: every time your name comes up, and it comes up
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  Speaker 1: almost every day because you're doing so much and traveling
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  Speaker 1: so much, they immediately say, hey, why don't you just
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  Speaker 1: call your buddy, Donnie Walburn. Right, So I'm pressure, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I still think it's an honor. I still take it
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  Speaker 2: as an honor. It's still an amazing treat. And I
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  Speaker 2: will never look at you as being a bother Billy.
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  Speaker 2: You've always been good to me and the Guy and
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  Speaker 2: the new kids, and you were one of the first
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  Speaker 2: people in any position of radio or anything that treated
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  Speaker 2: us with respect and love in that city. And it
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  Speaker 2: will always mean the world to me that you call
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  Speaker 2: me and text me and check in to come on
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  Speaker 2: the show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I really appreciate that, Donnie, and your family has
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  Speaker 1: really been good to us. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: even realize this, but Jenny Johnson and I have a cookbook,
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  Speaker 1: and your brother Mark did the forward to the book.
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  Speaker 2: Well to see now I have a problem, yeah, hope, see.
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  Speaker 1: You know you have early morning sound to your voice.
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  Speaker 1: Are you in bed right now, Donnie?
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  Speaker 2: I actually just got out of the bed because I
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  Speaker 2: think our phone's breaking up a little, so I'm moving
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  Speaker 2: to a different part of the apartment. Yeah. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was a big It was a big week filming in Boston,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean we filmed on the Green Monster. We
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  Speaker 2: filmed in the Boston Common, on the waterfront and Charlestown.
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  Speaker 2: We were everywhere, and I was yelling doing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stop, please stop, please loud volume. So my voice
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  Speaker 2: is a little beat up this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Now I got to ask you. Did you and Jenny
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  Speaker 1: FaceTime each other overnight?
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  Speaker 2: We did? In fact, she's not only did we FaceTime.
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  Speaker 2: I had to hang up on her to take this
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  Speaker 2: call with you, But I was okay doing it because
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  Speaker 2: she's actually gonna come meet me for the weekend. We
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  Speaker 2: have the weekend together.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I think you have a Wallburger in Toronto,
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  Speaker 1: do you?
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  Speaker 2: We do? We have one. Well, it's actually in the airport,
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  Speaker 2: so I can only really pop in there if I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking a trip. Yeah, but other words that that's the
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  Speaker 2: one up here. So I try to go to Wallburgers
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  Speaker 2: once in a while. You know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: go too much because it could be problematic for me.
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  Speaker 2: I try to stay in really good shape. I don't
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  Speaker 2: work out at like three am, like my brother Mark,
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  Speaker 2: but I work out and eat really well and stay fit.
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  Speaker 2: Wahlburger is like my weekly treat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I gotta tell you, Donnie, you look really good.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think I've ever said this to
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  Speaker 1: another man, but the other day me and Lisa were
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  Speaker 1: talking here in the studio, and I think you should
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  Speaker 1: take this as a compliment. You're a dilf. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: for the record, Donnie, I do too.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's you know, you know, Billy, we've always
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  Speaker 2: shared that with each other. Uh, only only professionally, but
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  Speaker 2: I think you've always been a look for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Donnie, are you saying that I'm a dilf?
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  Speaker 2: A dad? I'd like to know.
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  Speaker 1: You went to the Red Sox game the other night
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  Speaker 1: and they wasted no time finding you with the cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Can you play that justin?
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  Speaker 3: All right, that's Donny Wahlberg, who is a Boston native
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  Speaker 3: and is wearing a Mets long sleeve tea. I would
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  Speaker 3: imagine that that pains him. However, he is here at
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  Speaker 3: Fenway Park. They are shooting an episode of the TV
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  Speaker 3: drama Blue Bloods. He's an NYPD detective Danny Reagan Boston
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  Speaker 3: Blue Rather So, Welcome to Fenway, Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: Did it pain you to put the Mets jersey on?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? But whenever I see these posts or people talking
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  Speaker 2: about it, they all say, I bet you he put
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  Speaker 2: in this contract that he wouldn't have to wear the Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: And that is true. I didn't put it in my contract.
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  Speaker 2: I just proclaimed it. The first day. I said, listen,
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  Speaker 2: Danny is a New Yorker, He's going to Boston. I
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  Speaker 2: will not be a Yankee fan. And that's it. It
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  Speaker 2: did pain me. I was literally running around up there
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  Speaker 2: on the Green Monster like covering my chest so like
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  Speaker 2: all the real fans, because we were surrounded by extras.
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  Speaker 2: But once I got past them, all the real fans
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  Speaker 2: were like, what are you doing? You know, But the
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  Speaker 2: best part about the clip is that the family and
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  Speaker 2: friends in the clip put a Red Sox jersey on
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  Speaker 2: Danny at the end of the scenes end of an episode,
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  Speaker 2: and it was really sweet and really fun. It did
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  Speaker 2: pain me, but I loved every second of filming the
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  Speaker 2: scene because I knew the end was going to be
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  Speaker 2: worth the torture that I had to go through. We're
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  Speaker 2: in the Mets jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: How would you compare it doing this show that's been
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  Speaker 1: off of Boston Blue to Blue Blood?
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, you know, it's It's wow. That's a heavy
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  Speaker 2: question because Blue Blood's was, you know, in many ways,
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  Speaker 2: I was sort of responsibility free in some ways. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean that in an arrogant way or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that. I was playing a New Yorker. I'm playing
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  Speaker 2: in New Yorker and I'm a Bostonian, so I got
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  Speaker 2: to have fun with that and got to really dive
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  Speaker 2: into that character and just be you know, crazy and
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  Speaker 2: really over the top with it. But now I'm in Boston,
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  Speaker 2: I feel a great responsibility to, you know, respect the
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  Speaker 2: city of Boston. While portraying a New Yorker and it's
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  Speaker 2: a delicate tight rope to walk. And of course, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the family and Tom Selleck and the entire cast were
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  Speaker 2: you know, my friends, and we're very close and so
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  Speaker 2: this is a new world. Of course, going to stay
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  Speaker 2: connected with the old characters, and they'll be popping up
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  Speaker 2: from time to tell good Yeah, guest appearances, Oh absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, we have. The first episode is going to
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  Speaker 2: blow people's minds. I think people are going to be like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, Like there's some twists and turns in
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  Speaker 2: the first episode, and then we're going to continue that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we want to pay respect and honor Blue Bloods,
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  Speaker 2: but also you know there are then there thousands and
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  Speaker 2: thousands of police families in America and we want to
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  Speaker 2: tell some of those stories too, And we want to
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  Speaker 2: let Danny explore, you know, be a fish out of water.
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  Speaker 2: And what better place to throw in New Yorker than
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  Speaker 2: the middle of Boston. And you know, I got to
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  Speaker 2: experience that fourteen years on Blue Bloods as a Boston
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  Speaker 2: only and in the middle of New York. So this
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  Speaker 2: will be a fun turk.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a question from a listener I think
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  Speaker 1: about the show.
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  Speaker 4: I was just wondering how long are they filming this
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  Speaker 4: show in Boston? And like did it start filming like
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  Speaker 4: yesterday or because I know they're filming like yesterday or
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  Speaker 4: two days ago at Fenway and like in the Commons,
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  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure I saw like tiktoks, like how long
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  Speaker 4: are they going to be filming there for? Because I'd
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  Speaker 4: love to see them.
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  Speaker 2: Film I think we'll be filming in Boston a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So here's the thing with you know, people think it's
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  Speaker 2: a personal choice or something that like I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to film in Boston. I had the best time in
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  Speaker 2: my life filming in Boston. I have the best time
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  Speaker 2: in my life every time I go to Boston. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking to you, Billy, because you're my friend and you're
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  Speaker 2: from Boston. The TV and the industry has really been
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  Speaker 2: beat up from COVID and the strike, and I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot. You know, CBS, for example, used to make
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  Speaker 2: like twenty shows a year. They're making two this year,
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  Speaker 2: new shows, and I'm on one of them. And it's
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  Speaker 2: really dire straits financially, you know, in the industry. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm really fortunate to be making a show. I'm really
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  Speaker 2: fortunate to be able to go to Boston and work
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  Speaker 2: at all. But you know, when I initially was offered
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  Speaker 2: a job, I said, we got to go to Boston.
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  Speaker 2: They said, we can't afford it. It's basically thirty cents
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  Speaker 2: on a dollar to film in Canada right now, compared
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  Speaker 2: to you know, eighty cents on a dollar, ninety cents
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  Speaker 2: on a dollar even with tax player. But I said,
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  Speaker 2: we have to go to Boston. I can't not go
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  Speaker 2: to Boston. So the plan right now is to do
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  Speaker 2: the interiors up here and go to Boston every couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks and do what we did and put a
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  Speaker 2: crew together, a Boston crew, and go down and film
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  Speaker 2: all over the city. And you know, you can't fake
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  Speaker 2: what Boston looks like. And you know, we're bringing Boston
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  Speaker 2: actors up here to guests in the shows, and we're
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  Speaker 2: doing everything we can, and hopefully, in success, we can
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  Speaker 2: be in Boston more. That's the goal is, let's compromise
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  Speaker 2: to get the show made. We'll work outside and do
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  Speaker 2: exteriors in Boston, and then you know, in success, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: we can come down there and be there full time.
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  Speaker 2: That would be a dream of all dreams.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're busy up there in Toronto. I wish
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  Speaker 1: you nothing but love. Just know that Boston loves you, Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: and you're doing a great job. We're proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: Billy, thank you, thank you Boston, thank you everyone there
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  Speaker 2: at Kiss and honestly that we grew up there down
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  Speaker 2: there in Boston filming. It would be really hard to
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  Speaker 2: be there full time because I probably took forty six
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  Speaker 2: thousand selfies in just a few days. The duck boats
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  Speaker 2: kept driving by, going done they pictures with all the
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  Speaker 2: duck boats. It was the most fun. But I could see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and the crew was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: the city loves you. And I was like overwhelmed. Every
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  Speaker 2: now and Thenain the director would look at me and go, okay, Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta say no to Sully and Timmy and Obi.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go