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Ben Mezrich's New Book Has Already Been Sold As A Movie · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, so welcome back. So yeah, I spent a
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  Speaker 1: few days in the Azores of the homeland, if you will. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just fantastic. So the end result is
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  Speaker 1: now we have two vouchers for round trip airfare to
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  Speaker 1: the Azores on Azores Airlines. Uh. And we'll take a
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  Speaker 1: caller twenty five and caller twenty five. You will need
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  Speaker 1: the keyword, and the keyword is going to be doubles.
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  Speaker 1: No doubles, doubles yep. Running with the bulls man. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: was I up close with the bulls? Oh boy. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you can book connect flight on Azors
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  Speaker 1: Airlines dot pt or contact your local travel agent. This
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  Speaker 1: is really really cool. Yeah, I it is coming.
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  Speaker 2: You get round trip airfare to the Azores.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: If you follow Billy Costa on Instagram, Billy posted a
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  Speaker 2: ton of great content.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just go through it all, especially if you
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  Speaker 1: win these passes for the flight. I go through all
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  Speaker 1: of the posts and you'll get a Yeah, you'll definitely
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  Speaker 1: get a feel for the Azores. Tors Serah was our life.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about taking the boys there this summer.
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  Speaker 1: You would love it. All the beaches you can go to,
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  Speaker 1: the beach there and you're the only one on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a small, private little cove and you just
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  Speaker 1: lay down a towel, go swimming, and then you're on
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  Speaker 1: your own.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so volcanoes. You can visit the volcanoes, the
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  Speaker 1: caves and the farmland. It's just so much history.
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  Speaker 3: Even do karaoke Good Morning Morning Show. I was just wondering.
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  Speaker 4: I am a karaoke singer, but I was wondering what
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  Speaker 4: Billy sang that night?
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  Speaker 3: What was the song?
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  Speaker 1: I decided, because I was the only one in the
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  Speaker 1: room from Boston, all let me do a Sweet Caroline.
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  Speaker 1: I know it sounds lame, but at the moment, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we gave you all the recommendations on this show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you didn't choose any of them. And here's the
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  Speaker 2: other thing.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, you know, I host giant events all
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  Speaker 1: the time, right, and it's not a problem. I don't
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  Speaker 1: get nervous at all. I was very nervous about doing karaoke.
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  Speaker 1: Michelle had to talk me into what. I had to
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  Speaker 1: have a second drink before I'd even consider it. And
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  Speaker 1: so I chose Sweet Caroline.
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  Speaker 2: You did great.
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  Speaker 1: And here's something I noticed about karaoke. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people who regularly go to karaoke, like they
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  Speaker 1: do it. It's like a part of their life. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that woman that just left the talk back, yes she
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  Speaker 1: does it. The thing I found interesting very few of
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  Speaker 1: them can actually sing.
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  Speaker 2: I know, well that's the fun part.
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  Speaker 1: No, Like, they sound really bad.
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  Speaker 3: You're not really supposed to like take this serious.
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  Speaker 1: What these people do? They even dress the part. They
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  Speaker 1: come in and they sit and wait until they're turn
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  Speaker 1: and cue and then they get up and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, somebody turn it off.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you know, all right?
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  Speaker 2: Do I play the clips?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 5: Do? I?
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  Speaker 1: Wait?
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  Speaker 2: I have a million clips of bills?
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't sing like that. Here we go, bill
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  Speaker 1: touching me up, touching you? Yeah we go. The whole
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  Speaker 1: place is out. Who would have expected the whole place
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  Speaker 1: to be on their feet in the middle of thers.
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  Speaker 3: That was a good choice, I say, yeah, that was
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  Speaker 3: a good one.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good choice.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else in the room even spoke English, right, so
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  Speaker 1: college how they knew that college twenty five that gets
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  Speaker 1: these vouchers a round trip airfare to the asors could
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  Speaker 1: go to that karaoke bar oh. I'll tell them specifically
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  Speaker 1: where to go. I'll give them restaurant ideas and tips
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  Speaker 1: and places to tour.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why don't you tell Rachel she's online too, Hey, Rachel, Hello.
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  Speaker 6: Billy, Rachel, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: You're college twenty five?
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  Speaker 6: On no way then on my list for so long.
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  Speaker 6: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that. You're from Merrimack. I went to Merrimack College.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, in north but yeah, but you're going.
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  Speaker 1: To need you need the keyword and what is the keyword?
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you get it right?
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  Speaker 7: Double doubles.
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  Speaker 2: You're the bulls, Rachel?
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  Speaker 1: Rachel? You are? Are you going to try to get
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  Speaker 1: there this summer? Summertimes beautiful there.
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  Speaker 6: Whenever my husband can get off work. But we will
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  Speaker 6: definitely be getting there early.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the hydragens, hydrangs will be out.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me to call it.
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  Speaker 6: Tell me, yeah, Bill, you're gonna have to give us
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  Speaker 6: those recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you and't me. We're planning this whole thing. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you where to stay, where to go, where
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  Speaker 1: to eat, all of it. But good for you, Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: but go this summer, Okay.
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  Speaker 7: I will try.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, big lug of a husband. Of yours.
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  Speaker 2: You're going, Wow, thank you, Rachel. I know, tell him
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  Speaker 2: to take some vacation time. I know that we don't know
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  Speaker 2: what his job is. I know, I know that's true.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big deal. It's a big prize to win. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations Rachel. Look at that Bill comes back from
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  Speaker 2: the Azores, gives a trip to the A's or see
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  Speaker 2: what happens on this show.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, incredible news every time for real.
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  Speaker 7: Or fake headlines, refreshing news.
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  Speaker 3: With the Bill Lisa on kids Away.
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  Speaker 2: So the realer fake headline segment has really taken on
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  Speaker 2: a life of its own. I am now getting submissions every.
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  Speaker 4: Day from ours, So are they trying to stump us both?
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting real stories and fake headlines that I want
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  Speaker 2: to use, and you know what, I'm throwing them in. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I get the real ones and the fake. First one
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  Speaker 2: headline reel or fake Billy and Lisa. A woman gave
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  Speaker 2: birth to a baby boy in a Brooklyn courtroom during
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  Speaker 2: her arraignment? Did I make that up? Could that have happened?
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  Speaker 1: I think this happened.
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  Speaker 4: I think it could have definitely happened. Yes, on this
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  Speaker 4: Babies come when they want to come.
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  Speaker 1: Yes is the word.
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  Speaker 2: I know, you really can't usually control it, right. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: a really sad story from being honest. A woman gave
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  Speaker 2: birth to a baby boy in a Brooklyn courtroom. She
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  Speaker 2: was being arraigned on drug possession charges, and many people
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  Speaker 2: are not happy because they claim she was handcuffed while
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  Speaker 2: giving birth.
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  Speaker 8: Oh that's maybe was unfortunately not delivered by the officer.
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  Speaker 8: The officer took her pants off and removed the baby,
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  Speaker 8: who was hanging in the like she completed delivery with
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  Speaker 8: her hands behind her back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that poor woman was.
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  Speaker 7: Going on in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: So much wrong with that.
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  Speaker 3: That poor woman, she's in labor.
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  Speaker 1: What is she going to do?
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  Speaker 7: Escape?
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  Speaker 2: I guess she maybe could.
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  Speaker 1: When you're going to have all over her.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they just pulled their pants down and took the baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is oh man, I feel like there's a lawsuit
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  Speaker 2: brow in here or a reality show.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope the baby's okay.
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  Speaker 2: As far as I know, the baby is okay. But
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  Speaker 2: that's a real story. Wow, All right, now headline here.
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  Speaker 2: Pickleball players arrested for being too aggressive and slamming pickleballs
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  Speaker 2: in people's faces.
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  Speaker 1: Totally real. I've witnessed this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: Pickleball is a crazy land going rail on this lease?
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  Speaker 1: You agree, agree?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of our listeners, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Listen witness mayhem on a pickle ball court.
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  Speaker 2: No, there is actual mayhem. And you know what, this
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  Speaker 2: story could happen at some point. That specific headline is
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  Speaker 2: not real. Bill's got the pickleball thing. He's got this game.
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  Speaker 2: He invented pickled pickleball. Oh he discovered it. Remember that that.
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  Speaker 2: He's all angry.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, you can't step. That's the kitchen. No,
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  Speaker 1: you were in the kitchen. You're in the kitchen, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like rules, that's say the score. Shut No, they're
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  Speaker 1: viral pickleball players, and it's usually the loudest ones that
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  Speaker 1: can't play right.
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  Speaker 2: They're awful in the game. Can I be honest about something?
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  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 2: Billy was the first person I ever heard talk about pickleball.
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  Speaker 2: He came back from Florida and he was talking about
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  Speaker 2: this new game called pickleball. This is probably I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know ten years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I instantly became a member of the place where they
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  Speaker 1: have the pickleball US Open is down the street from
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  Speaker 1: where we are down there in Naples. Yeah, they have
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  Speaker 1: fifty two courts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they just built one near my house, right around
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  Speaker 2: the corner. Oh there you great, click baby, All right,
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  Speaker 2: next headline here, real or fake man breaks toothpick snapping
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  Speaker 2: world record while on a Disney cruise.
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  Speaker 3: So I think I saw this story.
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  Speaker 2: Oh thank you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Bill, you agree?
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm with you? So she saw.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So this guy goes on a Disney cruise with
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  Speaker 2: his family and he's a world record guy. He tries
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  Speaker 2: to break all these records. So he tried to break
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  Speaker 2: the most cocktail sticks in a minute. I believe he succeeded.
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  Speaker 9: This was supposed to be a family vacation, but somehow
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  Speaker 9: I ended up putting on a show. We want to
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  Speaker 9: fifteen day Disney cruise in the middle of the Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: I should probably break a world record.
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  Speaker 9: I'd already broken the one minute cocktails stick a record before,
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  Speaker 9: so I.
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  Speaker 7: Knew the technique.
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  Speaker 1: There were passengers.
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  Speaker 9: Watching, I had timers, witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: The ship had its own juggler. Even he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: help me out. We counted it down, three, two, one goat,
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  Speaker 1: and I went.
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  Speaker 9: I started snapping as fast as I could, trying to
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  Speaker 9: stand rhythm stick. After stick after stick for the full minute.
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  Speaker 9: When it ended, I had snapped eighty four. The previous
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  Speaker 9: record was fifty eight. My name is David Rush, and
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  Speaker 9: I try to break a world record every week.
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  Speaker 1: Who's a juggler on a cruise. Don't you want to
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  Speaker 1: meet that person?
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  Speaker 2: I like jugglers? Yeah, because I can't juggle. I can
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  Speaker 2: only do two. I can't just walk around the whole
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  Speaker 2: ship while people are eating. When you entertaining, got a
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  Speaker 2: cup and down the aisle fun eighty four sticks? He did?
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  Speaker 2: Good for him? All right? One more here, guys finished
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  Speaker 2: strong bill back from the Azores, fresh for the show.
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  Speaker 2: The headline reads, the dog called Sir jumps a lot
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  Speaker 2: enters a high jump competition. Is that real?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Did it?
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  Speaker 7: Me?
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  Speaker 2: For one of our listeners? Make up?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think on this list?
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  Speaker 3: Sir jump a lot?
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  Speaker 2: Sir jumps a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go real. Do you want to go real?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go real?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, going real? I believe in Sir jumps a lot. Yeah, good,
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  Speaker 2: there we go. I can't even read it. There's a
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  Speaker 2: dog named Sir jumps a lot. He entered a super
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  Speaker 2: dog's jumping competition. Now set the scene for you. The
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  Speaker 2: dogs have to run towards an obstacle that is stacked
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  Speaker 2: with ten plastic poles and they have to jump over
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  Speaker 2: the poles. Okay, So this dog, sir jumps a lot,
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  Speaker 2: went for his shot. It didn't go well. He crashed
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  Speaker 2: into the poles. He needs to change his name.
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  Speaker 1: He jumping the retriever in Ontario.
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  Speaker 9: I'm here to show you what he can do, because
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  Speaker 9: makes some noise jumps.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and that's the end of his career. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the end of it.
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  Speaker 4: You know what that was like when Crazy Lake's CONTI
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  Speaker 4: was beat by you in that doughnut hole.
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  Speaker 2: One of the proudest moments of my trying life.
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  Speaker 1: He was choking on his first bite.
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  Speaker 2: And then he entered the competition and the winner ate
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  Speaker 2: like a hundred of these giant munchkins.
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  Speaker 1: He ate like twenty Wow. Speaking of jumping, I have
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  Speaker 1: a hot tip. While I was in the Age Hordes,
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  Speaker 1: I started following this Lauren Jumps person. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: seen her? No? Yeah, who's that? She has a jump rope,
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  Speaker 1: but like it's real fast and like does it to
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  Speaker 1: a different song every time she posts. Okay, Lauren jumps, Lauren,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta follow it. On. It's fascinating. What check out?
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  Speaker 3: Do you like the Dutch?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? God, she does the quadruple dot hits. It's like believe,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how she does it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, what are you coming up in entertainment?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know, Billy and Lisa.
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  Speaker 4: Now the entertainment updates with the Billy pops up one await.
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  Speaker 1: So for about two weeks we had our talk back
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  Speaker 1: for Olivia Robrigo tickets going on two weeks. That means
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  Speaker 1: a lot of happy winners. This is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most in demand concerts there is. And just announced she's
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  Speaker 1: releasing the second song now off the new album. This
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  Speaker 1: second song is gonna be gonna be called The Cure.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna come out this coming Friday. Oh, new music Friday, justin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have it here and kiss want to wait for sure? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't heard it yet, so we don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: going to sound like. But again she said it's her
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  Speaker 1: favorite song on the album. Okay. First single, of course,
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  Speaker 1: was called drop Dead. All right, and her show's in
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  Speaker 1: Boston October fifteen, seventeenth and eighteenth, huge shows, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I mean those those shows sold out so fast, but
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot a lucky winners on Kiss. Meantime,
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  Speaker 1: just in Selena Gomez is going to start in an
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  Speaker 1: as yet although you might have the title now leads Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I do sorr. Are you in the middle of a sneeze?
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  Speaker 3: Sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's an X rated movie. For Selena Gomez it.
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  Speaker 4: Is, which is kind of strange because yesterday we were
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  Speaker 4: talking about how she doesn't allow her husband to talk
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  Speaker 4: about their sex life. But anyway, this movie is starring
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  Speaker 4: Michael Fassbender, who we love, Cate Blanchette, and it's called
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  Speaker 4: The Origin of the World.
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  Speaker 2: So is it a porn movie? What is X rated?
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know what X rated means these days
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  Speaker 4: because what's on like streaming services back in the day
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  Speaker 4: would have been considered close to X rated.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it definitely means nudity, right.
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  Speaker 2: So X rayer refers to content that is explicit in
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  Speaker 2: sexual nature, graphic violence, or strong vulgarity.
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  Speaker 3: You can find on Euphoria.
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  Speaker 2: I know they got full frontals on that, right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Euphoria got really Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning everyone, and welcome back Bill.
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  Speaker 5: So over the weekend I was able to catch up
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  Speaker 5: on Euphoria, and I was able to.
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  Speaker 7: View the beatdown scene after the wedding.
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  Speaker 3: That Bill was so enthralled with.
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  Speaker 10: I am delighted to let him know that there's actually
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  Speaker 10: a second follow up beat down, so something to look
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  Speaker 10: forward to if he hasn't been able to check that
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  Speaker 10: out yet.
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  Speaker 1: I did see the beginnings of what's going to be
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  Speaker 1: another severe beatdown. They took another toe of Jacobi. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this leg breaker keeps taking toes from He just walks
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  Speaker 1: in and snaps the toe off. Yeah. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: you got to get into Euphoria.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm so late on it. I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: At least I'm shocked. I'm telling you, you know I
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  Speaker 1: love it. It's just crazy Jacob Alordie. So I can't
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  Speaker 1: even believe he's walking after the first beat down. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he died in the first beat He watched.
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  Speaker 3: Me now and he hit his head pretty hard falling
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  Speaker 3: down the stairs. Oh, I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: When he came back, I'm like, whoa, he's alive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you showed me the scene. I watched that scene
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  Speaker 2: with Billy, and all I remember is Jacob's getting beat
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  Speaker 2: down in Sydney. Sweety's just screaming crying. Well she took
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  Speaker 2: a face. Yeah, but it's an awesome scene.
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  Speaker 1: Something going on with Harry Styles and his tour releast,
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  Speaker 1: we know he's doing thirty nines in Madison Square Garden
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  Speaker 1: maybe even more by now. But in amsterdamn there complaining.
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  Speaker 3: Right, so he launched it last weekend. I guess.
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  Speaker 4: The stage is really really big, and there are some
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  Speaker 4: places where the visibility isn't as good as it should be.
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  Speaker 4: It's very open and free flowing, that's what they're explaining
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  Speaker 4: the experience to be.
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  Speaker 3: Harry just kind of runs around.
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  Speaker 4: It's like he's like on this giant catwalk and he
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  Speaker 4: just keeps running around by himself. It looks a little strange,
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  Speaker 4: but they're saying that they're going to actually look at
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  Speaker 4: some of those zones where you can't see much it's
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  Speaker 4: an obstruct view and fix them.
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  Speaker 1: You think he designed it that way because he's a marathon.
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  Speaker 4: Run I think so that's what I got marathon vibes
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  Speaker 4: when I saw him rushing around the stage.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it really is massive. If you haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: it looking up, it takes up the whole floor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, some of the stages go up and down,
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  Speaker 2: so if you're on the floor on one side, you
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: can't see him on the other side. They watch money,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: they spent it for those tickes. I can't even imagine.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: So by the time it gets to the New York
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: shows they probably will have fixed it.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Probably, so if they have least you could try to
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: go for the floor seats. That's true, you know what
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'll have to throw my bra on stage, okay.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: And you'll have plenty of places to throw it, you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: if you're along the runway, like just there's Harry again, Harry.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Do they throw their underwear?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: And Harry they do?
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, they do?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: And Drake too. That was a big thing on the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Drake tour.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he would actually pick them up. Yeah.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: One next. I gotta go to producer Riley on this
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: next one because a couple of surprises, the fact that
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the boy man why Don't We still exists and the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: fact that for some reason, producer Riley is a die
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: hard Why Don't We? Fan? And again I didn't even
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: know they still existed, so somebody tried to kill one
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: of the kids.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Well, they actually broke up, so they don't really exist anymore. Okay,
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: But one of the guys, Jack Avery, who was a
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: member of Why Don't We, was in. He has a
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: kid with a another woman who he is not involved
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: with anymore, but they were having a custody battle a
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: couple of years ago. Sure, and the FBI had to
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: get involved because she tried to hire a hitman to
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: kill him and she just got arrested. She's it looks
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: like it's like twenty five to life.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Oh sure, yeah County.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but poor guy like and his kid is in
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: the middle of it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an ugly situation.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: It's like next level ugly.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I met these kids at the Kids conc
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: so you were there at least backstage, and it didn't
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: seem like any one of them need to be killed that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: They're super cool. They've done our kiss concerts, Our jingle Balls,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Mikey V. They slept at Mikey V's house. What Yeah,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: when they came in, Mikey was friends with them and
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: they ended up hanging out partying at Mikey's house. This girl, maybe.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Mikey better be careful are They're be coming after him next?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: And I think Mikey V safe, right, I Mean, I
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: don't know what happened at the party. That's kind of
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: No one really talks about that, but sound you don't
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: really hear much. No, you hear mikey V and party.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Something's going on, but we don't know what it is.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you're hear a little bit.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: You know, nobody ever elaborates, right, right, It's like rumblings exactly.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: It's more like theater of the mind when it comes
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: to Mike. You hear a little thing and you let
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: your mind decide. Yeah, so I wonder if Jack was
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: one of the kids. It must have been you know what, Yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That's Jack.
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: Jack.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: So the Jonas brothers are teaming up with us with
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: iHeart Radio actually our podcast division, and they're starting a podcast.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It's going to be called what justin? Hey Jonas, Hey Jonas,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: because they want you to reach out to them and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: ask them questions or advice anything you want to do. Right,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You've got it right there.
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: Justin Hey Kevin and Nick, and we would like you
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: to leave a message or ask you some questions or
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: if you have comments, but hopefully nothing is related the story.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: It sounds weird, you know, tell us some tea coming
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: from the Jonahs.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: That just doesn't you don't like that, Bill I die for.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I have a question, Yeah, Jonas brothers, do you know
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: do you have any inside information on what happened at
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: mikey V's house with Why don't we? Yeah, let us know.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I'm dying, dying, I die.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: For a cup of tea. For all we know, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Jonas brothers could have been at one of my Key's parties.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Actually, maybe that's so rough now maybe, although I think
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: they were all married.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, I love this next story because
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a Polish truck driver. Why they had to single them
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: out as Polish? You know, at least you're Polish. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: know it could have been like an ancestor of yours.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think so.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Polish truck driver is in jail.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: This doesn't make any sense to me.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: For smuggling eight million dollars worth of the cocaine in
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a shipment of Kim Kardashian's skins products.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Well, you probably thought they wouldn't look there, right.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that's the whole idea of smuggling. You want
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: to be inconspicuous, you know what I mean?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Polish?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe he stopped for a bowl of borsch
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: on his way to the drop off. You know, you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: can never know I made that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I made that for you.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: You sure didn't. By the way, it was a really
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: good bosh it. I just love saying the word borsh.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, this Polish guy got thirteen years.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: But I wonder what happens to all the skims merchandise.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: They probably they scarred it, Yeah, I think, yeah.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: They want to be clear, Kim had no involved Oh no, yeah, she.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Was not involved with the Polish guy.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Now did you know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: That statistically American, Indian and Polish man are the best lovers.
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: By the way, my name is Jill. What's yours, Flying
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Cloud Kowalski, Nice to meet you.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Borsched, which is what It's a potato soup.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: No, it's like.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: A broth like pieces of meat. You kind of build
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: your own soup beats.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Sounds delicious.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: It was good.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I'm loving this story. So the Housewives of Rhode Island.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Now keep in mind Rich and Rosie two of the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: key players in this new Housewives show. We're both interns
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: on this show and for a long time, and Rich
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and Rosie are now married and thus they she's the housewife.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And I saw some clips while I was away in
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the Azores and Rosie's becoming the lead character.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: She had a big fight on this week's episode with
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: another girl.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they like cat fights and it's over.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: That was our topic. I know you weren't here, Bill,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: That was our topic yesterday, the dumbest thing you've gotten
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: mad about, because they were fighting over the square footage
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: of Rosie and Rich's house.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: In Rhode Island, whether it was eight thousand square feet
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: or five thousand square feet.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry Rich has an eight thousand.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Square feet home. Actually no he doesn't.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: It's five. It's one thousand right now.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: But is it an actual house of theirs or is
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: it just the house they use it?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: They bought a house which is a thousand square feet
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: now doing an addition, basically another house attached that was
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: supposed to be eight thousand, but it's apparently it's five thousand,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: And they fought about The girl was kind of making
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: fun of Rosie and Rich in their new house, and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: it got really bad. She called her a slam pig.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: So that's the talking point this week. She was on
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Andy Cohen as well as Rich on what this word is?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: It's a Boston term. Yeah, no one around the country
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: knew what it meant. Oh really, slam pig.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and that's something if you call someone a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: slam pig, that's something you can really never take back. No, no, no,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: definitely not. That's registered. Yeah, slam pigg that don't fly straight.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So Rosie and Rich are coming into the show. They've
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: got clearance from the shows. It's ninety nine percent yes.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And weren't they on with Andy Cohen?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Rich was the guest bartender.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, Hey, Knicks took Game one from the Cabs
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  Speaker 4: In us from the planet Fitness gets one of eight studios.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: We're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Thay, guys, welcome back. In this next segment we affectionately
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: call meet the Mesick Ben Mezrick is here with his
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: beautiful wife Tanya, and they're just back from New York.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So you had a late night as well last night.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: But your new book is Checkmate, and what we have
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: now is a bonus Lisa's book Club segment on the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Billy and Lisa Morning Show.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Let's go, Welcome Ben, Welcome Tanya. But we have a
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: big announcement because your book, Checkmate, actually comes out on
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: June second, and that is the date of our book club.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we're launching the book at your book club. So
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: I hope people come out. It's going to be really fun.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: I haven't had a book in a little while, so
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: this is exciting for me. And Checkmate. I think it's
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: just one of these really cool stories that you know
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: a little about, but now you can know really what happened.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: So yeah, So Checkmate is the story about the biggest
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: cheating scandal in the history of chess. Magnus Carlson, who
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: is like the Mozart of chess. He's like the greatest
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: player in history, hadn't lost a match in two years.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: He sits down to play this nineteen year old American
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: kid whose name is Hans Neeman, who's known as the
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: bad boy of chess. It's like, I know it's chess, right,
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: He's like trashing hotel chess, trash hotel rooms. He's like,
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: he's like, you know, really crazy. He sits down, he's
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: not even paying attention, he's chewing gum, and he destroys
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Magnus during the match, and Magnus thinks, you know, this
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: is bizarre and then accuses him of cheating. And it
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: turns into this billion dollar scandal because chess dot com,
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: which is the giant organization, you know, it's grown from
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: two kids in a dorm room to being this multi
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: billion dollar company. They are about to buy Magnus Carlson
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: as their face. So they end up putting out a
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: report trying to prove that Hans Nemann had cheated, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: then Hans ends up suing them for one hundred million dollars.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: And so it's this crazy kind of story about did
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: this kid cheat or not? And is there you know,
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: this scandal, is there cheating going on all over high
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: level chess. It's about prodigies and these kids who kind
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: of explode out of New Year. Suddenly there's like a
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: twelve year old sitting there and he's brilliant and he
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: can beat anybody. And then Magnus Carlson, who is kind
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: of an icon in that he is now, you know,
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: the greatest in history, but any twelve year old with
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: an iPhone can actually beat him now because of AI.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: So it's it carries. There's a lot in this story.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of levels to it, but it's basically
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: just a thriller set in this chest.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But isn't the biggest part of the cheating how he was?
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so what made the scandal famous was the fact
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: that he may or may not have used a anal
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: beads to cheat. That was the story and it kind
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: of exploded. But you know, one of my proudest moments
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: as a journalist is I tracked down the anal beads,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: not the actual anal beads, but I tracked down where
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: that came from and how that became part of the story.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: There's this dude in Liverpool who is a train He
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: takes tickets on the train and he is an Internet troll.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: That's what he does every night. He comes home and
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: he sits on the couch and he tries to figure
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: out how to make something go viral. And he was
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: the source of the anal bead part of this story.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: And I don't think you know there was a Netflix dock.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: Nobody else tracked this douche down, and so I was
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: very proud that I was able to find the guy
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: who came up with the anal beads and why it
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: became such a big part of the story. So there's
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: a chapter in the book in Liverpool where we actually
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: see the generation of the anal beads.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Part of the story.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: True, it's all true. Yes, I mean, it's not true
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: that he used anal beads. It's true that this dude
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: is the reason why everyone associated that with Hans Niemann.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm totally confused about the anal beads and chess.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: How the heck do you win a game of chess
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: by using anal beads? Yeah, I'll tell you.
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: I guess I'm just.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Naive to this kind of thing.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: But unless they help them, relax, maybe that's why he
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: beat them.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: No, So the idea is that at high level chess,
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: these grand masters they only need they don't need help
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: through the whole game. They only need like one or
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: two moves, And so the way you cheat at chess
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: is you have some sort of device on you and
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: somebody who's watching the game, So you need an accomplice
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: and they just signal you. And so the idea is,
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: you know, anything that could vibrate that you would feel,
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: So these are vibrating anal beats is the idea. But
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: anything that someone could send you a signal. So you're
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: playing the game and there's, you know, a move, somebody
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: signals you whether you've made the right move or what
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: the next move is. And so basically there's been a
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: lot of cheating in chess over the years. Bones exactly
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: that was mine.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: That was mine, But as a professional journalist, you must
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: have had to try.
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: I know, but I did not try it. But I
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: will say there's a scene in the book where the
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: guys from chess dot com decide they're going to investigate
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: how one would cheat, and so they got a hold
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: of every device one would need to try and cheat.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: Now they whether they tried that particular method or not,
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: you have to read the book, but they definitely tried.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: I mean, there have been people who've used you know, ear,
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: something in your ear is the most likely thing you
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: get something deep in your ear, and people use that
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: for cheating in school all the time. So now there's
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: ones there and I've looked into this, there's like tiny
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: ones that go deep in your ear that there's just
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: impossible to find, even with a wand or anything like that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: And you just need one accomplice. And because the match
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: itself was live streamed and there was no delay, it
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: would be very easy for someone to signal someone in
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: the room checks now. So now because of this, and
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: you know, and and and some places have better scary
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: than other places. They basically make you go in nude.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: You know, they wand you They have all these different
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: detectors on. They frisked everybody. You know, one cheating incident happened.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: The guy would keep going to the bathroom and he
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: actually had a like in The Godfather, he had something
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: hidden above and it was like his phone, so he
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: could run in and they memorize the board, then they
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: run in and put it in or things like that.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Did you say they're playing naked, now, No they're not,
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: but they they're very close. They get very you know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: for sting Hans and even famously after the match was like,
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: I'll play him naked anytime, and of course, was like
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: a that would be the next phase of it. But
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: like you know, the cheating is is it's an existential
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: dilemma in chest because if you sit down and you
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: think the other guys may be cheating, then you're not,
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: you know, playing the way you would normally play. And
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: what's really fascinating is cheating online. You know, Hans has
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: admitted to cheating online many, many times. And the first
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: time he got caught cheating online, the person he was
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: cheating with was also cheating, so it was really like
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: two compus. He's playing each other. But whether he cheated
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: or not over the board and that's what they call it,
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: where you're sitting in a room facing somebody. That's the
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: big question at the center of it. And you know
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: people have cheated in various ways over time. But the
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: actual match itself is fascinating because you know, I have
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: video of it. I found secret video of the actual
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: match where he's playing Magnus and he's not acting normal.
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's definitely like barely paying attention. He's chewing gum,
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: he's and there's a photographer who wanted to get a
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: photo of him blowing a bubble while he beat Magnus,
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: and as the photographer came close to the thing, Magnus
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: thought the photographer was maybe signaling him and got up
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: and said something the photographer. So it was a very
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: tense kind of game at the center of this God.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I always thought this was such a SOPHISTI.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: No, there's a scene where he actually is playing someone
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: and the person thinks he's cheating, reaches over and grabs
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: the gag and breaks the head off of the piece,
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: and then they go out into the parking lot. I
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: mean there's scenes you know of very because these people
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: are also a bit strange. I mean, if you meet
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: high level chess players, they're unique people, I think, is
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: the way to put it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Well, every last time you were in you said that
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: you write books now because they're linked to TV or
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: movie deals.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Is this Yeah, So it's Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Nathan Fielder is directing. Yeah, Emma is producing and Nathan
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: is directing and writing, and it's in the development phase
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: right now. So I sold it as a movie before
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: a book. I basically, I write a proposal treatment for
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: a story and then you know, take it out to
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: Hollywood and they picked it up to develop it, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: then I went and wrote the book. So it's going
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: to be a big movie with a twenty four.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the going rate these days for like taking
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: your book and turning it into a movie? Like, what's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: your asking?
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: What my asking? Christ?
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: You know, whatever they want to give me is fine,
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: you know, yeah, sure, I mean we have a very
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: high burn rate. Or like a small internet company over here,
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: if you say the Tanya shoes, it's a very expensive lifestyle. No,
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: I it's every project is different and Hollywood shifts every
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: you know minute right now, so you never know what's
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: hot or what's not. You take out a proposal. If
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: everyone's excited about it, you can get a lot. If
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: nobody's excited about it, you don't end up getting.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Very much at all.
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: So it really depends on the story, on the big
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: names that get involved. If there's like a big actor.
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: Normally nowadays you need like a director, an a list actor,
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: and a screenwriter all wanting to do the project for
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: a project to get made, So you spend a lot
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: of time on the phone with actors and stuff trying
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: to find someone who wants to attach themselves to the project.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And as much as you can you want them to
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: keep your story.
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: Well, you know that's that's important, but it's not, it's not.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I don't really care.
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: No, you know, as a writer, what you walk Just
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: give me my check.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: We did a book once, the Children's Wok Tania and
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: I and the and the person called and said, do
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: you mind if we change the main character, Charlie and
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: make him a girl? And we were like, you could
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: make him a rooster.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: As longer going to make the show.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: I don't care, but I mean with you know, the
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: only power you have as an author is who you
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: sell it to. Once a Ron Howard or someone that
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: gets on the project, you're gonna be pretty secondary. Like
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: on the Social Network set. You know, it was David
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: Fincher and Aaron Sorkin and and then me in the
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: corner at the bar. It's not like I got to say,
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: oh that's not right. But they do ask your advice.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: You know, you're on set, but you're not like you
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: have no power. So your power is the story. And
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: then you sell them the story and they discuss it
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: with you, but you know they'll they'll change it how
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: they want. But if you if you sell it to
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: really good people who are super smart, then the project
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: will look really good.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Wow, what's your biggest success story?
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: I mean, The Social Network was a movie that was
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: and the sequels coming out this October. The companion, it's
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: called The Social Reckoning, comes out October ninth, so we'll
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: have this sequel coming out. The Social Network was just
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: one of those movies that was like transcend And you know,
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: we were at the Oscars and we ended up at
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: an after party and I'm sitting there and I remember
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: it was like Nicole Kidman and you're sitting next to
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: whoever that guy that she was married to, the country star.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: And then I noticed the person right in front of me,
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: and it was Molly Ringwald and I.
• 35:14
  Speaker 12: Was like like the eighties dream of I'm sitting there
• 35:18
  Speaker 12: and and I was holding a Tran Resnor's oscar because
• 35:23
  Speaker 12: he had handed to me because he didn't want to
• 35:24
  Speaker 12: carrying around the party.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: So she's like, oh, congratulations, I didn't win this, but
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: I was like, thank you. I think bringing Down the
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: House as a book about the MIT Blackjack team was
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: the one that put me on the map and kind
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: of changed my life. And to write that story, you know,
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: I was strapping hundreds of thousands dollars on my body
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: and going to Vegas every weekend as part of the
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: Blackjack team. Well that's I met you guys a little
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: bit before that, Yeah, which I guess my real success
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: was being on the Sexiest Bachelor in America pageant, because
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: that's why I came into your.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Show justin I don't even know if you know this story,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the story of how we met Ben Mezrek and why
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: way do you hear there? So you went to a
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: legitimate it was.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: It was Fox Television and they were it was the
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: team that had done Do You Want to Marry a Millionaire?
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: And they were doing a male pageant show called the
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: Sexiest Bachelor in America. It was on Fox Television and
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: they I was picked in mister Massachusetts, which you look
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: at me is quite.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Shocking, as sexy as your warp and I don't see
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: you in the pageant.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: Was playing victim. What happened was was reading with like
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: Glamour magazine magazine and she saw an ad.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: So this submitted a video.
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: It was really funny because they wanted someone who was
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: like bookish from Massachusetts. And so it was a month
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: before and I was like, I'm going to get in shape.
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: So I never really worked out. So I started working
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: at working out and then I get to Vegas and
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: every other person was a male model. Nobody even had
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: buttons on their I went straight to the stage Ellie
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: and got like, and you're like the pale people in
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: the audience, like, what's wrong with mister Massachusetts. He looks
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: like he's dying. And they called me screaks the whole time.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I was like, screech.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: And there was one other guy with glasses, and so
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: I go up and I'm like, oh, you're the other
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: guy with glasses and he's like, oh, these aren't real.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Lenses and they were open.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: I was like, all right, I'm not going to win
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: this WI.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I know we're meeting the mess right exactly.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: But yeah, it's it's a wild I mean, I haven't
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: found like a story like Checkmate, I think since bringing
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: down the House, which is good, a scam scheme, which
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: is really really fun to write. But I've been fortunate.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: I've found living in Boston stories you know, they come
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: through here, and so a lot of the stories I've written.
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: Dumb Money was last year or two years ago about
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: the game stuff story and these things just explode out
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: of nowhere.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: And so this book comes out the same thing you're
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: doing Lisa's.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Book calling launching it at the Newberry.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Lisa's done so much for books.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: It's been absolutely with you.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was the first, I guess, and now we're
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: launching my new book with you, which I'm very excited about.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: So I hope people come out because, uh, it's so fun.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: What you're doing for books is you know, books is
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: a it's a tough industry. People. You walk into an
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: airplane and no one's got a book anymore. You remember
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: when people read books on airplanes, and so it's incredible
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: that you've got people reading and people love it and
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: and events live events are really fun, fun and I'm
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: happy to do my pageant walk at your.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: The Newberry has got it. Also, I'm for you on
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: my shirt.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: There'll be no buttons on my shirt. And all the
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: guys were oiling backstage. That's right, they were oiling.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: It was awesome.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Lisa like, okay, so go to my Instagram Lisa Donovan
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: went Away.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: The link is there, click it.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: They're literally there are only a few tickets left and
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: then it's on the Kiss went Away Instagram too, so
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: and then we'll put.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: It on bends.
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, guy, I love seeing you guys.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: This is a great this is really good book.
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: I just pictured all the kids to the show.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Mom kids want to wait into the morning, wrap up
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: on Billy and Lisa in the morning.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Runawait this morning?
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: What do you know?
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Always having fun. Well, we spent some time with Ben Mazick.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: He was great, really good to have a book here.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: He brought to have my copy. I made sure Ben
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Mezick checkmate. Yes in the book club. The link is
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: open right.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: It is June second at the Newberry Hotel. They do
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: such a good job there. So this bench just has
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: so many great stories.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: He told some of them if you missed it to
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: be on the podcast.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: But yeah, love that.
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: So I just wanted to say, with Ben being on
• 39:23
  Speaker 11: the show, I actually met Ben at cold Spring Park
• 39:28
  Speaker 11: with his pugs. I am a pug owner and I
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: have a pug named Butters, and he has two pugs
• 39:33
  Speaker 11: that also have food names, and it was really really
• 39:37
  Speaker 11: a pleasure to see them waddling around together. So I
• 39:40
  Speaker 11: just wanted to add that fun fact. Nothing to do
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: with books, but pugs are the best.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, their dogs are great.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't know he had a couple of buggers.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: He does, and they have food name running around the house.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, shout out to Ben Mezick. Also this
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: morning we gave away some vouchers for Azors Airlines.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: That was cool.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Billy just came back from the Azores. So we gave
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: some round train vouchers out to Rachel. I believe her
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: name was Congratulations. She was called her twenty five. She
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: wasn't that excited, though. I don't know what's up with that.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good trip, though, you know, I.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Just gotta ask, what is it with the lack of
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: enthusiasm when people win prizes. This woman was literally just like, oh,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: it's been on my bucket list, thanks Billy Man. I'd
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: be jumping out of my chair and I'd be yelling
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: at them and thinking sweet Caroline too. I mean, come on, guys,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: a little bit more enthusiasm. Come on, come on, Billy's back.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: The show's in full swing. Let's go, let's get going.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I think people just get nervous.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we don't blame them for that. Yeah, you know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: it's a live radio. We put them on the spot.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I know there, I know she was excited. Yeah, but
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: we did like the screaming.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, screaming is good, or at least who