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July 7, 2026 32 mins

This episode of the morning show is a wild ride, featuring a trapeze artist who's not afraid of heights, a bestselling author who's got a story to tell, and a hilarious conversation about who we'd want to star in a movie with.

Today's episode is a fun and eclectic mix of topics, from the world of circus arts to the world of literature and Hollywood. Our guest, Juliana Richards, is a trapeze artist who's been flying high for years, and she shares her story of how she got started and what it takes to be a part of the circus. Meanwhile, bestselling author Ben Affleck is in the studio, talking about his new book "Checkmate" and the fascinating story behind it. And in a fun segment, the hosts and their producer discuss who they'd want to star in a movie with - the possibilities are endless!

One of the highlights of the episode is Juliana's story of how she got into the circus and what it takes to be a trapeze artist. She talks about the physical and mental challenges of her job, and how she's learned to trust her fellow performers. Ben Affleck's conversation is also a must-listen, as he shares the story behind his book and the research he did to write it. And in the segment about movie roles, the hosts and producer have some hilarious opinions on who they'd want to star in a movie with - from Vin Diesel to Mark Wahlberg.

If you're looking for a fun and entertaining episode that's a little bit different, this is the one for you. Tune in to hear the full conversation and find out who our hosts and producer would want to star in a movie with.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one O eight Studios. We're
back with a Billy and Lisa in the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, everybody, Welcome back to the show on a
Tuesday morning. Today is July seventh. It's justin Billy and
Lisa and let's sound so fun.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, here's to come.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
What an introduction never gets tired, does it.

Speaker 5 (00:25):
We've got Juliana Richards in studio and she's a trapeze
artist in the Ringling Brothers.

Speaker 6 (00:32):
Yes, the greatest party on Earth. Yeah, it's really fun show.
You definitely don't want to miss it.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Now I want to be right. Is it trapeze artist?
Is it flyer? Is it aerialist? Which the proper title?

Speaker 7 (00:44):
All of those would apply.

Speaker 6 (00:46):
Yeah, yes, I do flying trapez on the show.

Speaker 7 (00:50):
Sometimes do a little bit of aerial work.

Speaker 6 (00:53):
I started as an aera list and now I mainly
do flying trapezes.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Do you ever get scared?

Speaker 7 (00:57):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (00:59):
It never actually gets completely comfortable to be flying between
thirty and forty feet in the air.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
They throw you mid it to another person waiting, and
by the way, that person is on a moving swing.

Speaker 6 (01:13):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:14):
Absolutely yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
So I think we're all a little bit of an
adrenaline junkies. So I can admit that about myself, but
also your fitness level right comes into.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Play at least you can't believe the minute justin manor
how many push ups can you do it?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
How many pull ups can you do? You want to
have a contest.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm like, where is the Polish.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
I'm open to having a contact, and it seems like
they don't have a pollupar hair, so convenient for them
push ups.

Speaker 7 (01:41):
Honestly, I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
Know my max out number of push ups. That would
be a discovery if we did that this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
But okay, we this may go down.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's like ten.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Good. Yeah, well I went. I went to the circus
this past weekend and again I asked. We had a
great time, brought our family. For me, the highlight was
the trapeze. You saw Juliana in action. It was unbelievable,
Like my jaw was on the floor the entire time.
It's cool to watch, but also when you understand the
strength that it takes to be able to do to
do that, and my heart was just beating like afraid,

(02:13):
like I think you're going to drop them.

Speaker 8 (02:15):
You know, have you.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
Ever fallen like you get thrown and you get to
the other side and there's no one there.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Happens.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
I mean, we're all human, that's why there's a night.
It's flying trapezes, so it's really high level and we
don't always complete our trigs.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
So when you were little, is this something you always
love to do, like gymnastics, tumbling like all that kind
of stuff, or is it later in life.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
I was a dancer growing up, and even from when
I was three years old, I started waking my mom
up in the morning asking.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
Her, Mom, is today a dancing day.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
At the time, I only went to class once a week,
so she was like quickly put me in more classes.

Speaker 7 (02:50):
So I had never seen the circus.

Speaker 6 (02:53):
Though my family wasn't a circus going family, I always
wanted to be a dancer. But fun enough, my favorite
movie to watch on VHS was Mickey Goes to the
Circus when he visited Wringling Brothers. So it's funny later
because I never thought about being a part of the
circus myself. But when I became into aerial arts and

(03:15):
then eventually trapeze and into the circus, I thought back, like, huh,
I was addicted to that movie when I was younger,
So I think it's always been in there somewhere.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
So I'm guessing behind the scenes, as you're being tossed
and thrown in the air between partners, you folks really
must be getting along behind the scenes, that's the idea. Yeah,
you don't want to have an argument and then get
up on the trapez Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
Catch The dynamics are important, and keeping a good peaceful
team dynamic is really important to all of us. And
I'm lucky to say that we have such a good
team and we all love each other and work together
really nicely. So, yeah, we have to rely on each
other with our lives up there. You know, we're doing
something that's inherently a bit dangerous, so it's really important

(04:03):
to trust each other.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
But everybody grew up with the circus is there's still
a circus train. It used to dock right behind the garden.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
It still lives in pieces in people's backyards all over
the USA. But but it's a memo. But it's a
different showing. Yes, it's yeah, we travel differently now.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
And you have a robotic dog in the show.

Speaker 7 (04:25):
Yes, we do Bailey circuit he dances.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I saw, that's right. You went to the show I
went forgetting. Yeah, he's really cool.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
And you were talking about that. The music too.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
The music's great. It's a dance vibe. It's great for kids.
I mean, my children were dancing the entire time. So
they have a DJ that literally walks around with a
turntable attached to his waist. Oh really, see what I mean.
It's very creative.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that because the music
is such a fun part of the show and it
really guides the audience through the whole thing, and you
do feel like you want to gee up and dancing
the whole time.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
And you're in the city for at least a week right.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
In fact, you leave and you go to DC Center
and morester, but you get to spend much time in
the city and check it out.

Speaker 9 (05:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
Absolutely, we get to travel around see around this city.
Especially was nice because we've been here for two weekends,
so we had a little bit of extra time to
go out and see the city, which the weather was cooperative.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
At least a couple of days of that time. But
that's something that.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
I love about the lifestyle is being able to go
around adventure and see all the different cities in the
USA and have experiences with my friends.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Well you're from Tampa, Florida. Does the circus get to Tampa?

Speaker 7 (05:32):
Yeah? We opened in Tampa.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Wow. Actually, so that was a high pressure weekend.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
To get everybody tickets.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
Right, yep, Yeah, everybody got tickets.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
That's also a circus hub where a lot of circus
people live and retire. So not only was it friends
and family of mine from all different times of my life,
also circus people, and it was like a big reunion.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was another part of the circus. Oh that was
kind of mind blown to me. The contortionist, Oh yeah,
what is he? She's It's unbelievable what she did?

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Is that real? Like double joyn in?

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Absolutely she's trained her whole life to be able to
bend in half like that. And I mean she's something else.
I think she started with rhythmic gymnastics and evolved from there.
But yeah, she she practices all the time, and you know,
she's she's bending a half. Anytime I see her at work,
she's stretching, you.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Know, just for the hell of it, Like she's she's
not in a show. She just does it during the day.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
I mean, I think that kind of skill, there's a
lot of upkeep, and she stretches all the time.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Did you see your video? It just blew me away.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Go over her head like a scorpion and then stands
up again.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
Yeah, you guys should see her warm up. She's amazing.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Do you have to rehearse every day if there's a
night show?

Speaker 6 (06:57):
I'm ideally the more practice is, the easier your job is.
We don't get to practice all the time because we
perform a lot, and so when we take our rigging
down and move to the next city, obviously we don't
have access to our rig those days. So that's when
we usually do cross training and we go to the
gym and we do other kinds of workouts.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Didn't you start in the rigging department?

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I did?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think I read that.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
When I started flying trapeze, it was a job to
work flying trupees rigs. I was an area list originally,
and then the teacher of the school I was attending
at the time wanted to buy a flying trapeze, and
so she asked me. She literally told me, I know
you don't know what you're doing with your life. Would
you want to learn how to work a flying trapeze?

(07:45):
Rig so that you could work for me. I want
to buy a flying trapeze, and I said sure, why not,
not really knowing at all what I was saying yes to.
And then one thing led to another. I started working
at trapeze schools. So, for example, if you wanted to
come try the flying trapeze, I would be a person
there saying, Okay, you're going to put your safety belt on,

(08:06):
you're going to put the safety ropes, you're going to
climb up the ladder, You're going to stand on the
board like this, grab what two hands, then jump off,
and I was the one there facilitating your experience.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
There's a trapeze school.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
There's tons of trapeze schools, really, yes, And these trapeze
rigs exist in resorts and stuff like that, like all
inclusive resorts where there's lots of activities for their hotel
guests and things like that. So that's sometimes people's first
job or introduction to the trapeze, and then that gives

(08:36):
you access to a trapeze rig so you can practice yourself.
So that's how I ended up getting a little bit
addicted to the challenge of flying trapezes, starting to train
it myself. A little bit by a little bit, and
then eventually getting to a point that I could perform
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Then I got a job that the instructors.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Perform once a month, so it was incremental from there.
And otherwise truppies is a pretty expensive hobby.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Well buy the whole rig, right, it's a lot of
metal bars and like.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Yeah, I would have to really to be able to
get in as a workers to have access to a
rig first, because otherwise, as a college student working several
jobs to make ends meet, I wouldn't have been able
to afford it.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Well, you would have been a great cheerleader, you know,
you could be the person up top what do they
call them, one on top LEAs or on top of
the pyramids.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
They do a lot of tumbling.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yeah, there's a lot of Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
No, I definitely have cheered a lot of people on
to jump off of buying tuppes board. Even know being
a psychiatrist that you didn't expect is an aspect of
your job. But you know, it's really scary on the
board and sometimes people need extra help or sometimes people will.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
Get on the board and chicken out.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
Wow, And so it's it's really experienced for anyone that
goes up here for the first time.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one a Wait Studios. We're
back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Hey guys, good morning, just In here Billy Lisa on
a Tuesday morning. Noahkhn Fenway Tonight the first of four
sold out shows, and we are giving away last minute
tickets via the talkback Mike. It's the Noah Khn Test.
Here's how it works. You gotta be streaming Kiss want
to wait on the iHeartRadio at The longer you stream,
the more chances you have to win. Because every time

(10:19):
we play a Noah con song, you want to leave
a talkback. You want to give us a reason why
we should pick you to be at the show. That's
how you win.

Speaker 10 (10:27):
And Justin We're all super excited for Noahkhan to return
to Fenway Park, but he is equally as excited. He
posted a hype video on his Instagram last night in
preparation for Fenway Night One.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
See that many be together at once. It's like clinging
every word And you know a song about Moston is
on England, in New England, in a place that means
a lot to any New Englander. It's an honor. It's
a feeling of like really lasting feeling of that, dude,
So good luck with that. And in the studio right now,
our old friend Ben Measick has a new book out.

(11:00):
It's called Checkmate. You were in here a few days ago.

Speaker 9 (11:02):
To remember that, I've actually been in the lobby for
the past week. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
I don't know, but a lot has happened since you
were here last week, because all of a sudden, everybody's
writing about your book, calling it the read of the century.
And so now you walk in with a brand new shirt,
you're clean shaven, and you have.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
A new aircut.

Speaker 11 (11:21):
I'm trying to Yeah, no, it's way for I've been
circling you guys.

Speaker 9 (11:25):
You know, I'm like, you're fan club. No, no, I'm
really excited.

Speaker 11 (11:27):
The book comes out today and it's been getting some
great pre buds. It's just something you always wanted.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, Katie Couric mentioned you and said you googled your
Way or something.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
She said, I will read it.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
She goes, I accidentally found one of the best stories
of my career and it was about chess. And she's
talking about your book Checkmate.

Speaker 11 (11:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's really fun. Yeah, I found this story,
and normally people are pitching me things, but this was
kind of the first time where I was just in
between books Dumb Money, the movie had just come out,
and I was googling and I found my way to
this crazy scam story.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
So I know you're one of the greatest writers on
the planet, right, we know that, and we're good friends. Yeah,
but how much of the fascination with this book do
you think is the chess and how much is the beads?

Speaker 9 (12:17):
Yeah, the anal beads. No, listen, I want to make
this clear.

Speaker 11 (12:20):
My my younger brother read that Katie Couric Carl and
she goes, he goes. I didn't realize that you found
this book by googling Angle.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
I was not.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Found.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I was good.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yeah, we found the story, didn't one of your kids
ask your mom on the show?

Speaker 12 (12:34):
Last week?

Speaker 11 (12:35):
I was on the show and a bunch of kids
at Noon South are like, Hey, is your you're talking
about I'm talking about I'm talking about Checkmate. So what
happened was I was looking into scams and scandals. I
think the reason that this story got so big did
happen to do with that viral tweet that's crazy, which

(12:56):
I hunted down, you know, which I think is one
of my proudest journalists. You meant to find where the
anal beat side of this story came from. But Checkmate
is really a scandal about two people, one the greatest
chess player in history and one this you know kid
who's trashing.

Speaker 9 (13:10):
Hotel rooms and and he may or may not have cheated.

Speaker 11 (13:14):
But yes, I do think the reason the story went
so viral is because we live in a time now
where you live in an attention economy and nothing gets
more attention on the internet than something.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
That headline was all we had to read on the air.
I remember it very.

Speaker 9 (13:27):
Clearly about anal Beats.

Speaker 11 (13:30):
There was something about chess and a beads, and I
was absolutely shocked when you guys said that, because I
have no clue what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, no, Ben, I gotta ask you and be honest
with us.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Okay, have you been approached by an anal bead company?

Speaker 9 (13:48):
I thought you're gonna ask something else.

Speaker 11 (13:49):
No, I have not been anything to do with that.

Speaker 9 (13:54):
No, No, I haven't.

Speaker 11 (13:55):
But listen, my my emails are always open. If I'm
you're not saying no, like the writing business is tough.
You're hard to sell books in this environment, so you
gotta do what you can. But no, everyone, yeah, yeah,
But anyways, it's it's a really fun story. And I
get to hang out with a lot of chess masters,

(14:17):
which are a whole different breed of.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
People, right, Like you actually spoke with all of the
lead characters in this story, right, Yeah.

Speaker 11 (14:24):
I spent a year hanging out with Magnus Carlson and
Hans Nieman.

Speaker 9 (14:28):
And all of these gms and the chess dot com people.

Speaker 11 (14:31):
Tanya and I went to Paris and watched Magnus and
Hans have a rematch in an arena across the street
from the Louver, and it's like, it's it's a it's
a it's these.

Speaker 9 (14:40):
Prodigies blow my mind.

Speaker 12 (14:41):
You know.

Speaker 11 (14:41):
They say there are only prodigies in music and math
and chess, and it's people who are three years old
can like put together a lego built, you know for
someone who's eighteen and just have this weird mathematical mind.
And so I got to spend about a year hanging
out with these people and and it blew my mind.
They just what they're able to do with the put

(15:01):
on a blindfeld and play ten people in chess at once.
And yeah, and now I'm doing events with these guys,
so I'm doing events all over the place. They'll be
at Brookline Booksmith next week on the ninth and we
have a Chess International Master coming in and it's really cool.
It's gonna be a really really fun thing, so hopefully
people will come out.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Now, are you any better at chess the results of
your project?

Speaker 11 (15:23):
No, I'm horrible chess. I'm really not. I haven't like
memorized all the openings and things like that, and i
know a little bit about chess, but I'm not like
at a level where I've studied it and the people
who get really good study it.

Speaker 9 (15:35):
But thestics, this statistics are amazing.

Speaker 11 (15:39):
Six hundred million people play chess, and they say seven
out of ten people on Earth have played a game
of chess, which is kind of insane. And online chess exploded.
Everyone has a chess dot com account. And this story
is about how chess dot com became this billion dollar company.

Speaker 9 (15:56):
It was just two kids in a dorm room who.

Speaker 11 (15:58):
Just were like, you know, we should put is online
basically and turn it into Everyone laughed at them.

Speaker 9 (16:03):
Everyone thought it was ridiculous.

Speaker 11 (16:05):
You know, when he told his friends that he was
going to do chess dot com, they thought he said
cheese dot com and they.

Speaker 9 (16:09):
Thought, oh, that's a great idea, chee dot com. He's like, no,
chess dot com.

Speaker 11 (16:12):
And it just kind of grew from there, and then
this scandal actually made chess dot com much bigger. It
threw one hundred million people into chess because it was
such a big kind of viral sensation scandal.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
You walked in to the studio and said to me
and to Lisa that this afternoon, you have a zoom
call with Casey Affleck, one of the greatest actors.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
I do. I do.

Speaker 11 (16:36):
That's about another book I wrote back back in the
past called Sex on the Moon, and Casey's I'm talking
to I was blown away. It's funny because Casey didn't
know I guess he didn't know I was a Boston guy.

Speaker 9 (16:48):
And I get on the phone with him and he's like.

Speaker 11 (16:49):
But you're a Boston guy, and then he starts talking
about all the Boston guys.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
I Crisince John K. Yeah, they all hang out. So
I'm trying to get the into that group, you know.
But I'm not cool enough. I feel like I'm like
i'd be like screech running around the back.

Speaker 11 (17:04):
But like there's a lot of cool Mark Wahlberg, there's
so many cool Boston. Oh yeah, so I've been trying
to worm my way in with the Boston actors.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
You would have been a great screech now that I
used to hang out with.

Speaker 9 (17:15):
He's hanging with Dennis Lahyanes. You know, Dennis Laynes.

Speaker 11 (17:18):
Like, I love Dennis, but I was way too wean,
Like I felt like I'm not cool enough to hang
out with that guy.

Speaker 9 (17:25):
There's me the whole time. He's like, let's go to
South Southie.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
I don't know your brand new shirt?

Speaker 9 (17:33):
This is Alan Ruleeau was wonderful.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's aware.

Speaker 9 (17:37):
No, but like, uh, you know Tanya dresses me.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Of course i'd be in sweatpants.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
Okay, So you come in with this whole new look
to it, right, the fresh air cut tonight.

Speaker 11 (17:47):
If you go, you're gonna see why I was the
sexiest bachelor in America.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh it wasn't you know. Here's my question.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
So you get into all these accolades, you know, everybody's
writing about you, you know, summer.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, everybody's saying it's.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
The book of the year, So do you run out
and get yourself something with the new findings?

Speaker 11 (18:10):
So to spey, I go to people, I get the
Linda's Budget factory, and I sit with that.

Speaker 9 (18:17):
I mean, no, I don't. I don't. I'm first of all,
the next.

Speaker 11 (18:20):
Two weeks you're just doing book tour, so you're just
going from event and TV show and things like that.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
So I don't really do much until that all ends.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
But I don't know.

Speaker 9 (18:28):
The book business is a tough business.

Speaker 11 (18:30):
It's never like you're never done and you're never like, oh,
I succeeded.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
But what's the top thing on your bucket list? Your
wish was that you want to do?

Speaker 11 (18:38):
Oh gosh, you know it's funny. Tanya likes to do stuff.
I don't like to do anything. I reached this point
in my life where, yeah, I know you do safaris
and stuff. I don't want any more experiences Like.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
Everyone's like, I'm like, I think I've had.

Speaker 11 (18:51):
Enough experience in my room and factory and watch a
movie to experience anything anymore. Maybe I'm reclusive, but I
like going out. Tanya will drag me out places and
it's really fun. But I don't I don't have like
I don't want to go see the mountain gorilla or
like I know.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Gorilla.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
So I'm working on this project with the.

Speaker 11 (19:15):
A and K founder Africanbi and Ken Jeffrey Kent's memoir,
and he keeps calling me. He's like, do you want
to let's go see the mountain gorilla. I'm like the
mountain gorilla. I'll go to like Disney Safari Ride and
there's a mountain gorilla right there.

Speaker 9 (19:31):
I can't go out in the woods. I would be dying.
I would be dying.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
A lot of bugspread bugs.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Bugs are as big as our dogs.

Speaker 9 (19:41):
Like I be bottled water when I go to Miami.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Okay, I can't.

Speaker 9 (19:44):
I can't overseas.

Speaker 11 (19:46):
But I'm I'm, I'm I'm excited to like write the
next project.

Speaker 9 (19:50):
It's honestly my thing.

Speaker 11 (19:51):
It's like I'm already writing the next book.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
We are in a funny conversation behind the scenes this morning,
I think it started or this week, like who would
we want to be in a movie or TV show
with if we had the opportunity.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
So let's start with you.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, So on the male side, you know that I
love Jason Bateman, like love love love Jason Bateman.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I think he would be hilarious to work with.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
I also would pick Matt Damon just because everything Matt
Damon touches is amazing. So I'd want to be in
a really good movie and if he's like my leading man,
that would be amazing. Now on the female side, I'd
love to either work with Zendeya it would be awesome
or Emily Blunt.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
I think she's.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Good in everything she's in, So those would be my choices.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Okay, I've got a great one. But Riley actually gave
me this idea. This would be awesome. Justin think about
this for a minute. If I'm in a movie or
a program, a Netflix movie something, it's me Ben Affleck
and Matt Damon, three kids from Cambridge.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh, I like that. Up, how we both picked Matt Damon.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
I would have picked him either way.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
But this storyline I think would be kind of cool.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
And maybe Lenny Clark, also from Cambridge, as a cameo,
like a walk on.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I think that'd be a fun project. It's funny because
I was gonna pick Ben. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, A big fan of Ben Wavelength.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, I love the town. It's one of my favorite movies.
I love all of his movies, Changing Lanes, Buddy. Yeah,
and uh, you know he's from Boston guy, so that
plays into it too. But I do think that Ben
is a great actor. What about a female who would
you like to start with?

Speaker 5 (21:32):
Like, and this is too like a drama or something
involving love scenes.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh, if they're sex scenes involved, I mean I wouldn't
say no to Sidney Sweeney.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Oh there we go, Okay.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Being honest, she's a little big up top for me.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
It would scare.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
I know you and I I thought you were a
boob guy.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh me, oh no, really no, But we learned yesterday
that thongs scare Billy and now big women they frightened me.
Hold on, Bill, you know what it is. We've talked
about this before. Where Billy grew up in Cambridge, all
of the women had giant breasts.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
It was I don't know where that just came from.
So you're thinking about the Portuguese neighborhood. I grew up
in what's her name?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Lois?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Okay, Lewis. No, Lois was my brother's girlfriend. Is this
not Bill's voice? Is this not Bill's voice? But there
were a lot of big brusted girls in the neighborhood,
So that's probably where that com.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
We're coming in from the Old Country.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
I would not turned down.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
I wouldn't turn down a superhero movie with Margot Robbie.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Oh yeah, she's fabulous.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Yeah, she's like a reporter or something.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, I can totally see that.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
You'd want Harley Quinn Margot Robbie, not Wolf of Wall
Street Margo Robbie.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Oh, I'd take either one, but I'd be the reporter
who somehow ends up in an affair with Margaret Robbie's character.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Okay, okay, yeah, I knew this would get weird. Producer Raby,
if you want to chime in on this conversation, Oh yeah,
she's got she's got a good one.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
I feel like Lisa will agree with this.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
I would love to be in something with Timothy Shallome because, like,
immediately it's a good project, but it could be like
range from something serious to something funny.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
And if they've hired Timothy Chalome, you're right, it's a
good project.

Speaker 10 (23:34):
Yeah, and he can help carry me because I probably
won't be the best actress, but he's so good that
it's like kind of okay.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
If that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah. Yeah, he also takes us very serious.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Who would you want to be in a sex scene with?

Speaker 10 (23:46):
Well, it would be Timothy right okay, oh yeah, see
you never talked about a sex scene.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
It would have to be Alexander Sarascar.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
He was in Big Little Lives. Yeah, yeah, he's yeah, he's.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
He's got it. Yeah, he got it. He was in
True Blood too, Yeah, that's where I remember him from.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
He just he just hosted SNL too, like too.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, just and do you have a female lead?

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Did you mention? Yeah, the Sydney Sweeney all right, yeah. Oh,
I mean.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
I'm surprised Riley didn't go with the hated Rivalry guys.

Speaker 10 (24:18):
Actually I thought about that right after I said Timothy.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I was like, wait a second, that was like.

Speaker 10 (24:22):
The missed opportunity to be like Connor and Hudson. Hey,
yeah he did Rivalry season two.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Cast me as something.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, that's a fun topic.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, I think we can have a lot of fun
with this.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Let's open it up.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Okay, everybody, it's the Big Friday Show. This is exactly
the kind of story we want to talk about on
a Friday, right.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I would like to have fun on Fridays. Why not,
it's the weekend. So eight seven seven six one seven
one eight so you can leave a talk back on
the iHeartRadio app. Joined the conversation. It's fun. You know what,
what actor or actress would you want to be in
a movie with? You can choose a drama, a sex scene,
whatever you want. Can I change mine? Yeah? Go ahead?
Okay for a female.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Now it's topic time for the Billy and Lisa.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
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TV show. Who would like to start in it with?
I just thought of another one a long time. I
always have a tough time thinking about a Hollywood crush
lease yeah, And.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
It suddenly hit me.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
I had a long time Hollywood crush on Kate Beckhams Sale,
Yes you did, yeah time.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Who is in the news this morning? Boy? Yes, I
almost gave you this story. Looking going on? She wiped
her Instagram. Oh yes, she had some troubling posts and
then she wiped her entire ig and now they're worried.
It's a story on TMZ.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, don't you remember she was posting from a hospital
bed because she was not feeling well and they weren't
really sure what that meant.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Like a few minutes ago, seemed like a handful.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Didn't she date Davidson briefly?

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yes, well he dated everybody though.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Okay, So she's been posting stories on her ig packed
with screenshots of Google searchers about hitting cameras, privacy violations
inside homes, legal consequences, cyber stocking, and abuse related topics.
And then she took everything down. So there's genuine concern
here for your girl. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Her best roll I thought was Aviator with the Leonardo DiCaprio.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Okay, she was very good in that, Thank you, she said, So, yeah,
anyone else.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Bill Captain, Mike yea Billy for sure.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
I thought you'd either.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Pick Melissa Tormy or Drew Barrymore as your co star
in a movie or series. Maybe if it's a horror movie.
You know, Mars Tomey thing Marissa Tomey. She came in
here one day. When I tell you, she was the
crankiest person I think I've ever met.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well, she came in for the Wrestler.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, for that movie. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Matt God furious. He wanted to kick her out of
the studio.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, because we didn't see the movie before she came in,
and she was really upset that we hadn't seen it,
and then she kind of just flipped out.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
On the air.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
She just seems like an angry person.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, Marissatoma, she does like Baldman.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Apparently this Mars loves funny, quirky Baldman.

Speaker 13 (27:29):
Not for not for you, Bill, Okay, for my movie,
it would definitely be with Idris Alba and the sex
scene most definitely with him.

Speaker 9 (27:42):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:45):
Every year they say he's going to be the new
James Bond and it never happens.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
Every single year, it's gonna be Alba.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, remember he called into our show. Yeah you guys
remember that good guy? Yeah, yeah, I know what that
was for.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
They mentioned it so many years, year after year, that
even he got sick of it.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
He said, let me alone with the James Bond thing. Okay, Well,
He was in the show called The Wire, which is
my favorite show of all time. He played stringer Bell. Yeah.
Remember he called in. He was all about Lisa. Lisaid,
please to give me a seat the next because Lisa
couldn't make it in and that's offering you a movie role.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
There, I'm sure amazing every day.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah oh yeah. He was supposed to command and then
he called.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
So Lisa, let me get this straight into one of
the hottest guys on the planet.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
He's like reaching out to you, walk through a movie
with you. I love that he was actually he was
actually yeah, well Lisa.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Please give me the next n Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
A fun fact about this radio program you're listening to
right now, Idris Elbow was our first guest, pretty right. Yeah.
He came on to wish ess congratulations on your new show.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
Oh okay, all right, Hollywood Royalty, wishing us best.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yes, let's go to Selene on the line and be good. Hey, Selene,
what have you got for us? Make it hot?

Speaker 5 (29:11):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Good morning.

Speaker 13 (29:13):
If I was in a movie or TV show, I
would want to co star with Vin' Spawn and Charlie Day.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Oh yeah, Charlie Day's funny. I just saw him he
was in Boston for his liquor brand. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
Yeah, Vince Vaughn I think is one of the funniest
people on the planet. He had one mistake. He did
a dramatic TV series that just bombed.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
He played a cop. I'm like, man, this is not
your gig.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
No, he's more funny. I love it. Yeah, he's better
when he's funny. It looked pretty good to the real
could good for speed or for comfort? What'd you do
with the motor boat? You play the motor boat? Your
motor boat inside of it that you hope sailor.

Speaker 12 (29:52):
Youth Adam Tandler obviously and ironically enough, his sister is
my dentist. I'm on my way to the dentist right
now for us.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
No way, sister's a dentist, Yes, in New Hampshire.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I believe we've gotten talkbacks about that before.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
Oh, when you get to the dentist office, if you
can get his sister to give us a buzz on
the billy at least some morning show.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
I tried before. I don't think she wants any part
of that. Oh, she wants you to have good teeth.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Oh and by the way, you know that movie project
I'm doing with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yes, I want Adam Sandler too. Okay, okay, what about Wahlburg?
Isn't he your buddy? Yeah, let's get Mark.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Wahlberg in there cameo.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Here we go, baby, and then the new kids can
step in the scene.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
You know them too?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Wow, it's happy Gilmore three.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Yeah, Bobby Brown has a cameo.

Speaker 8 (30:48):
I would love to star in a movie with anyone,
but I think I've narrowed it down to my top
two people. I mean, there'd be like a lot more, obviously,
I wish, but I think the top two people I'd
love to be in a movie with is Mellis McCarthy
is one, and Will Ferrell is another one.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, Will Farrell, Oh my god, Melissa McCarthy, I would
love that.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
That's a good choice. Hilarious, hilarious, very funny.

Speaker 9 (31:10):
Good morning guys, especially Billy.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
You know he was gonna show up, show up.

Speaker 9 (31:15):
And guys, what are you trying to do today with
this topic? You're driving me nuts, you know, I can't resist.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
And look, if it's.

Speaker 9 (31:21):
Gotta be one guy, it's gonna be a sex scene
and do it's gonna be the toast of the town
of Boston. Baby Billy freaking Costa.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Hell, okay, you can have a cameo in your movie.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Bill, I'll give him a cameo. Yeahs out of nowhere. Yeah,
he'll show up in the credits.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Hell, guys.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
In the credits that will say, oh yeah, you know, yeah,
that's perfect.

Speaker 9 (31:54):
Happy Friday.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
This is Kim. I have a great idea for Billy.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
You could start in a.

Speaker 12 (31:58):
Horror movie Attack of the Giant Breasted Women, and it
could start Billy Dolly Partton Moorgana, The Kissing Banded.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
I think it would be a great hit.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I mean head
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