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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's the Best a billion Lisa in the Morning, Happy Saturday.
It looks like we are back to the rain, but
that's okay. It might be a good break from the heat. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
and I'm going to be counting down the top five
moments of the week with you. Let's get right into it.
You know that Billy's the food guy, so when Boston
Magazine released their Best of twenty twenty five list, we
(00:23):
had to break it down.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So every year this has been going on for decades,
Boston Magazine comes out with the annual best of issue
and Lisa and I are sitting looking at it right now.
We're going to run over some of the winners and
you can be the judge. We'll open up the phones
and the talkbacks to people if they want to criticize
or degree.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Right, because there's so many different categories, so you might
have your favorite that wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm gonna start with the best neighborhood restaurant the Seaport
District of Boston, and I totally agree with this one.
They gave it to Woods Hill Pier four. Kristin Katy.
She does an amazing job there. The outdoor seating area
is easily the best in aus and most of what
she serves comes from her own farm in New Hampshire,
like a three hundred acre farm. And by the way,
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her new place, same location, same building called the Block.
They're taking reservations. It's going to open up in about
a week.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So now cannot wait for this opening.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Christen's amazing, And you're right, that's the best neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I like this one because you're actually your son Chris
on Meet Boston and it's my mother's cutlets.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yes, viral opening, try to try it.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Best viral opening. It's Nick Verano's newest sandwich shops right on.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hanover Street in the North End. And yeah, my son
Chris did a Hubster segment for Meat Boston on it
and everybody's just raving about it. Shout out to Davio's Steakhouse.
They were acknowledged our buddy Steve d Filipo, as they
should be in terms of a steakhouse. And I was
just this past Friday night, Michelle and I had dinner
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at Prima in Charlestown, which is a beautiful restaurant, but
they've got this room in the back called the Rose
Room where you can have a private event or anything.
It's like unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Wait, what was that labeled as best.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Private dining room? Okay, so they've got the giant restaurant
with a huge wrap around bar, but then in the
back of the restaurant you entered this private room. You
can go there anytime, but people can also rent the
room for a private event. So shout out to Prima
in Charlestown. That's Prima.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So best steakhouse went to Grill twenty three. Now, there
are a lot of steakhouses out there, so you might
have your favorite. We want to hear from you. But
Girl twenty three obviously is amazing. They've a great wine list.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, people ask me over the years, I always say
Girl twenty three. You got to go to a Girl
twenty three. First steak in Boston, Although, like you say,
there are so many awesome steakhouses, so many. You know
what was acknowledged rare a Encore Boston Harper, which is
a Michael Schlaud place, and they've got a great burger there.
I got best burger. Yeah, you were rare.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, what else you got best barbecue Sweet Cheeks Q
Tiffany Faison. Yeah, and again, there are a lot of
barbecue places, So if you've got your fave, we want
to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
But she does a great job.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
They gave her best lobstroll. I like this because you
pass it all the time. It's over by the Boston
Harbor Hotel James Hocking Company.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I've never been.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, it's very casual. You can grab and go or
they have an outdoor seating and you're right on Boston Harbor.
So yeah, it's good that they were acknowledged.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Best new bar, got extra dirty Cocktail Club. It's on
Commercial Street.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Never heard of.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna get over there. And what do they get?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It got best new bar in the North End?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Did I see the Tasty Burger on there?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Billy? Yes, I don't know if I have it right?
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Right? All right?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
What do they get?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I am assuming best burger, a fast food burger with a.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Flair, maybe tastiest. Of course, Winnie goes to the best
fast best burger.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, well that's me.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I love that's why.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, then you should try the steak Tips. They are
a legend for like fifty years. New Bridge Cafe up the.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Dude, my favorite. Oh my god, are they on the list?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yes, they are best steak Tips.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I have to mention best Pizza. Oh Square Deli?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, I haven't tried that Square Where is Where is that?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Is that in Boston?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I think it's a square.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
See, that's a hot category because we're going to open
it up seven. Everybody's got what's your best.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
In Boston or the surrounding area?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah. Also a cool place Duave in Boston. Duav means
two avenues, which is comm Ab and mass Ave and
it's right on the corner there. They've got a huge
wine tower. But they were chosen for best French restaurant.
So congratulations to Duave.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Delhi is in ever Okaya on the street. Oh oh
whoam so?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
You can be outside of Boston coage in the Boston
city limits obviously?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (04:48):
Absolutely, Yeah, this is amazing. The Square Deli won Best Pizza.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, and it's right in Malden.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
We need to try it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Can we send out now?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
They're probably not eleven there. We're gonna have to arrange
another day.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
It's right on Broadway, so it's right down the street.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Congratulations to award winning chef Jody Adams or new restaurant
La Padrona, which is in the Raffles Hotel, got the
best Italian restaurant. Wow, that's a tough category in Boston.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Jody does such a good job.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's a beautiful restaurant at the Raffles Hotel La Padrona.
Congratulations Jody.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
When I saw this list, because it's online today, this
this whole list. When I saw all the other restaurants,
I thought, wow, this is good for us.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Billy is the food guy.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, when are you gonna be happy with this one?
Best fried Chicken We're hot chicks Boston. Oh I've never been. Yeah,
well there you go.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I'll have to hit that in Tasy Berger At the
same time.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Best dinner in a show Grace by Nia. Oh yeah
we got that's a big night.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I went out one night on double date with the
Rockets and uh yeah, you grab a table. It's old school.
They have a band, a jazz band, right on stage.
They're playing all night. You sit, you grab a table,
you talk, you have some fun.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
That's a big night place.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, So congratulations to Grace Binia, A nice job.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Congratulations to all these restaurants.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Yeah, the Kendon microphone, no one ever knows when he's
talking into the Candon microphone.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Nobody cares about what restaurants you're going to? Are you
having dinner every way you travel? Oh, if you've been
to this restaurant, shut the fuck up. I'm on vacation.
I'm not going to any restaurants. Okay, I'm going to
get a slice of pizza down at the Marina phone.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, let's get straight into the number four moment. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
and I'm going to count down the best moments for you.
So we discussed the Boston Magazine best of a list,
gave you our opinions, but then we asked you guys.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
To wait in. So let's hear what you guys thought.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Best restaurant in Boston.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
It's near like it's the Aquarium, not too far from
like Quincy Market.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's called the Granary.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
Guys, if you haven't been there, you have to go.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So good.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
What's your good drinks?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The Burger's amazing, handcup fries like everything, They're super good.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Highly recommend my friend Kelly actually owns that place.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, what's the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It's the Glenn Group, the Black Rose.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Is that the Granary Tavern?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, okay, yep, it's really see I'm.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Taking notes here because my wife's birthday is next week.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Oh a lot, these are good.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Idea Yeah, Contessa, is you know on top of the
Newbury Hotel beautiful named best sky high scene, which makes sense.
It is, I think the best rooftop location in the city.
It's on top of the Newberry Hotel. But we like
this street.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Grill, got the street bar drink, that's our favorite.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Yeah yeah, oh, look who's on the phone.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Make a South End? Of course? Is going to pick
a South End? Good morning, Mayor, I'm I live.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I love being live.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Your so keep it clean?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Oh great, great, Okay, you didn't mention ice cream.
Speaker 12 (08:05):
The best place for homemade ice cream is Pecos in
the South End.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yes, to die for, very good.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, it's hop rather get some homemade ice creams.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All due respect. Do you ever get out of the
South End?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (08:23):
I do.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I go to Peetown and one time I was in Newton.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I went to a pool party in Newton and leased
this neighborhood I get out of casially.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, well that's good to know. That's good to know.
All right, I have another.
Speaker 12 (08:37):
I have one more good one.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
The best fish tacos.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
Go to Club Cafe, of course, and for the best
apple martini.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Another plug for Club Cafe.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think they must have a stool at the bar
with your name on it, like one of those brass
plate you know, on the back of the stool. This
is the Mayor of the South End stool.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
No, it's a little it's a little bank cat.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Come and join me.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Okay, okay, you.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Know what he's ours. He really is.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
There's a lot of radio morning radio shows in Boston,
but only we have the Mayor of the South End.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
I got to say my best Boston food definitely the
Greek Hero right across from Fenway or like a block
away from Fenway. It's got to be some of the
best Lamb Hero I have ever had in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Nice.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know what else I got to give a shout
out to if you're in the Fenway Park area is
a Joko at the Verb Hotel. Uh. If you like
good Asian food, and they've got a really cool thing.
They call the It's like a challenge where you spin
the wheel and it and it's sushi, but it's the
wasabi challenge where they one of them is hidden with
like five times.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Was so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We play a game at the table.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
You can't play that.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I would die.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We had the Tate McCrae listening party at Ever Remember.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That we did.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh that's really cool boutique hotel.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh yeah, and it's like the biggest rock and roll
museum in the lobby of the hotel. So it's a
very cool place anyway, Joco. All right.
Speaker 12 (10:08):
I live in East Cambridge and I walked to a
local restaurant called Mononymye Grill and they've got.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
The best burger I've ever had and the best.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Sweet potato fries.
Speaker 12 (10:19):
Oh yeah, it's on the Arlington Cambridge line. Anatomy Grill,
great place.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Speaking of Cambridge, there's a big festival in Cambridge that
was going to happen today. It's called Cambridge Taste. It
used to be called the Taste of Cambridge. For some
reason they changed came about I'm sure. Well it must
have hurt someone's feelings or something, so now it's called
Cambridge Taste and it was supposed to happen today, but
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because of the heat, they moved it to tomorrow, five
thirty to seven thirty on the Sydney Street. I think
it's called University Park. There'll be thirty or forty restaurants.
There are some great restaurants in Cambridge. Harvest is going
to be there. Oh, let's not forget barbecue with our
buddy Andy Husbands in Smoke Shop. They'll be featured at
Cambridge Taste tomorrow as well. So it's moved to tomorrow
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because they.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, I'm looking at all the restaurants here. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Harvest Crazy Julia.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Is an Italian restaurant in Cambridge.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's very good, very good restaurant. But Puritan and Company
also a great restaurant. Yeah, there'll be at least thirty
restaurants there.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Will you be attending?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Quite possibly. It's like two blocks from where I grew
up as a little boy.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Oh you could take a stroll around the old neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh yeah, all right, good morning guys.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
My favorite pizza places is Chapoli's and then Regina is
in the North End.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Can't the original Regina. Yeah, it's it's unlike all the
other Regina pizza, the original is like amazing.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Those are that's interesting.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
That's two different types of pizza, right, obviously you have
Reginas and then Tripoli's is beach pizza.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What's beach pizza?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Sweet sauce beach pizza?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, really, I have never heard beach pizza.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh yeah, that a North short thing. It must be interesting,
you know, you know, beach pizza.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
There's bar pizza versus beach pizza.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Each pieces of square pizza has a sice of prevalon
on top of it.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
A lot of people call it bakery pizza. If it's square,
it's basically Sicilian Sicilian. Yeah, but then people call it
bakery pizza because bakeries always would sell it in the
old neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, and they have a sweet sauce.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
My all time favorite restaurant, I haven't heard you guys
mention it yet is Strah Love the food, great atmosphere,
Yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
That's a classic. It's been here forever, just.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Celebrated like thirty or forty years. It's as good now
as it was as busy.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
They have the best, they're the best pizza. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
That's a good that's a really good restaurant. Maybe for
Jen's birthday. Oh yeah, what is it called Special Occasion
stra It's on Columbus.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Right, yeah, okay, doctor Sean. Thea's right up stairs.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Oh he does your friend he.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Wanted you to how everyone that boy? Do we love
having Ben Mesick just one call away.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Hey, it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
counting down the top five moments of the week with you.
We're already at number three, and with the new Social
Network movie coming out, we had to talk to Ben Mezik,
who wrote the book that the movie was originally based
off of.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Good Morning Ben.
Speaker 14 (13:19):
Hey, Good morning Billy.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Now? Ben? First things first, you were the very first
person on Lisa Dunnovan's book Club, and now it's international.
Speaker 14 (13:29):
It's amazing. Listen, it's the best book club in America
for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I love it, Ben, help launch it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So yeah, Oh, she's all over the country now, she's
going to Tampa, She's going everywhere.
Speaker 14 (13:39):
I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah. So I got to ask you, Ben, when there's
a sequel, do you get another hit?
Speaker 14 (13:47):
As in what.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Paycheck?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
I do get a check.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, of course you do.
Speaker 14 (13:54):
You know, I get accredation. You know, it has to
say something about the story based on or something thing
like that, and you know they are. It is being
pushed as a sequel, even though it's going to be
take place I think about fifteen years later. But it's uh, yeah,
I'm I'm as involved as as you know. One who
created the first one would.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Be yeah, oh yeah, wait a minute, did you write
the sequel?
Speaker 10 (14:20):
No?
Speaker 14 (14:21):
So basically, Aaron, you know, has been trying to figure
this out and crack this story for a while, and
he and I go back and forth, and I knew
he was working. I knew kind of the direction he
was going. But it's not No, I did not write
a book or anything. And so it's really it's Aaron's
script and he's directing. So it's going to be hit ballgame,
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but it's going to be related to the social network.
I think as much as Sony can relate it, just
because that was such a cultural moment, I think you
would say, so, yeah, it's it's his own story, but
it's based on true events and it will have you know,
I hope Jesse will be back. I can't imagine it
with a different Mark Zuckerberg. So you know, it'll be
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the same characters really the way we drew them. So
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It isn't so much has happened. Oh god, yeah, so
much to talk about.
Speaker 14 (15:13):
Listen, you can you can pretty much blame Facebook for
everything the world.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, I think what happened with Facebook after the movie,
the social network, it just blew up.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
Blew up. When we wrote that. When that movie came out,
you know, Facebook was a little thing. It hadn't iPod yet.
Mark was not the new Mark you see now.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It was even a little thing on the Harvard campus.
I mean, you know, nobody knew that.
Speaker 14 (15:36):
Nobody knew about it and uh, and so it's such
a it became such a big company afterwards. That was
like its origin story. It's like the Marvel universe. That
was like the origin story of Wolverine. And now we
can see the Avengers assemble.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
It really changed, it changed the world.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 14 (15:52):
Think it did. And uh and now now we'll see
what he does with it. But I think it's going
to be much more about you know, where does that go?
Like the Mark wants to rule the world and change
the world. And then he really did. Yeah, and then
a lot of sort of I mean, you could look
at it negative or positively, but I think knowing Aaron,
it'll be It'll be somewhat dark and funny at the
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same time.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You know, Justin brought up a good point the other day.
Do you think the sequel is going to include Zuckerberg's
like UFC fighting and jiu jitsu.
Speaker 14 (16:23):
And now he's transformed, He's transformed into this like you know,
you're gonna have to work out all the time and
wear a necklace and his hair, and yeah, I think
it will. But I think to some extent it probably
you know a little bit of the transformation of someone
from like a robotic nerd to who we see today.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Now, aren't you close enough to Jesse Eisenberg at this
point or even justin Timberlake you just give them a
call and ask him, So, are you going to be
in the sequel or not?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Yeah? I know, Jesse.
Speaker 14 (16:52):
I haven't kept up with Justin. That would have been cool,
but no, Jesse and I have kept up because I'm
doing this movie be with the Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder.
I think I talked about last time and Jesse is
friends with them.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So I've kept up with him.
Speaker 14 (17:08):
He's he's brilliant. I think he's just a genius. I mean,
I could ask him, but I think it's easier just
I mean, it'll it'll come out. I'm sure he's trying
to figure out you know, I'm sure. Listen, how can
he not come back? It's the best role ever, and
I'm sure he'll come back. That would be my guest.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Do you know the timing of this, like when they
are slating press, Oh.
Speaker 14 (17:28):
Yeah, this is all happening. We're in they're in casting
and and they've already I mean, this is this is
a thing, you know, it's it's actually I would bet
they're filming by the fall. That would be my guest
at the end of the summer. So I bet this
comes out next year.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That it would be great. Ben, I'm thinking of you.
You know, it'd be great. You could talk to your
buddy Aaron. I don't think I didn't notice you call
him by a first Nay and.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Not just Darren.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It would be awesome if they go. You got them
to give you a cameo in the movie. I mean,
you wrote the book that created the movie. At least
deserve a cameo.
Speaker 14 (18:02):
I mean, listen, I'm I'm with you, Billy, I really,
I really, Well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Maybe they can have Chess beat the spit out of
you in the movie.
Speaker 14 (18:11):
Yeah, a good realistic scene at this point. You know,
I can reprise my role as sexiest bachelor from that
to bring that back. Yeah, you know what, Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Plug your new book. It's coming out right at the
beginning of twenty twenty second.
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Well it's it's it's coming out in the spring of
next year. But it's the Chess scandal, the cheating scandal
with Magnus Carlton and Hans Neman, which was this big
cheating scandal and chess and it's all about Yes, sorry.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You already booked for the book. Book.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
He's booked for the bookleb okay.
Speaker 14 (18:51):
Yeah, man, a lot of fun. And that's a Nathan
Fielder movie. Nathan Fielder is writing and directing. If you
know his work, I'm sure there'll be a lot of
anal beads in it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Only thanks a lot, Ben Good.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
It's been a while since we went down in the DMS. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
counting down the Top five moments of the week with you.
We're already at number two and this one's good.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But let's set the scene. Winny, you got a DM
and somebody's telling you a story about a horrible job interview.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Yeah, so we have a listener and he was going
for a server interview. So keep this in mind. It's
just become a server for the summer.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
I won't say where it is, but it's a entertainment
slash restaurant type of vibe, so you can play games
and then you can also eat while you're there.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
So it's a hiring event that they had on Monday,
and they say, allow for like two hours for this event.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
It's going to be multiple people. You know, you have
to probably wait to be interviewed.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
They said, okay, job fair. It's almostly a job fair. Okay,
he gets there. There's forty people.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
They split it into two groups of twenty and twenty
and they start doing icebreaker games.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
So they do icebreakers and then they bring him in
for his own interview.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
They sent it timer for a minute and thirty seconds,
asked him one question, he answered it, and they dismissed him.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
He's like, okay, he walks out, and they go back
doing more.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Icebreaker interview like icebreakers with groups, not with the people
hiring you, with you, with the other servers for this job.
Four hours go by of them playing icebreaker games, circle games, all.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
To be a server for the summer.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
At this place.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
What's an icebreaker game?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Like?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Oh two trierson a lie like oh okay, you know
or oh my, you know too fast? Party games? Yeah,
party games, yeah, okay, okay. Then at ten o'clock, okay,
he got there at five thirty. At ten pm, they
have the audacity to say, we're all set with interviews
and we'd like to end the night with a dance party.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
And they turned on the upid shuffle.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Oh no, not a shuffle.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
They did forty applicants.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yes, for one jobs a server. This is a lot.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Did you have to dance where you carried the food?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Of course it's the shovel.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Wow, that's so bizarre.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yep, and that and that was the end of the
get it?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
He said.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
He was absolutely beside himself. So I said, did you
get the job? He said.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
I sent a message saying please resend my application. I
do not feel as if my time or the other
applicans time was respected and the company's goals do not
align with mine.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Do we know what place?
Speaker 13 (21:27):
This one?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I know exactly where is?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
He told me.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
I'm not going to say it on air, I'll tell
you we know the place. Yes, yes, but it's an
entertainment slash restaurant vibe.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah yeah? Is it what I'm thinking?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I don't know what you're thinking. I'm not going to
go there right now.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I have a connection to my family.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, No, this is the highest I think I know
which place it is.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
It's the craziest place to have a four hour icebreaker
games and then with a quage shuffle.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That's the strangest thing.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And it was a complete waste of time.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
But I have one question. Did they tell them that
they were to be doing this for four or five hours?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
They said allowed for two hours.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Okay, yeah, that's that's outrageous.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Lisa, didn't you have a job interview to be a
can Can girl or something in Tea West?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I was a Sun Sun girl on the beach.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was like, what does that entail?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I was like a cocktail waitress on the beach. I
had to wear a bathing suit, at the Casa Marina.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Yeah, but for the interview.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Maybe for the interview.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, yeah, I was creepy.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I got the job.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But all right, here we are number one moment. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning.
And what started as us talking bad job interviews kind
of spiraled when we got Uncle Mark on the phone.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Good morning Mark, Good morning. You guys going it's going okay.
We have to imagine you've had some strange job interviews, Mark, Yes,
we do.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
We have a lot of them in the old red
Garter where it's always harder in the garden.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh, there it is. Yeah, so that's the strip joint.
Now what are the general requirements there on Mark, Well,
you know.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
You take a look at the girl, and you know
we hire all shapes and sizes because not one size sick.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So you know, yeah, I had I had a feeling,
Uncle Mark, this was going to take a weird turn.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
There's no discrimination there, no no at all.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, just just bringing in you.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Know what people like, man, You know, one guy likes
one thing and somebody likes something else. So we got
to make sure everybody's happy.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You want to have it to be well rounded.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
That's a good business model.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, they're around to get it well round.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Okay, Uncle Mark, I was I was thinking, maybe we're
talked more about the restaurant. Now a typical job interview
for the restaurant.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Well, that's just if we can Martin, you know, and
you know that's mart and the skills. That's a whole
different thing from in the garter. Now you're skills and
dances a whole different things. In the garter, you look
for a girl that knows how to use the pole.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Okay, all you want to be good with the pole?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Your audition for that?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Like, yeah, yeah, we have auditions. Yeah, you come in,
you got to see the manager and you do a
dance there and you do the pole, and then we
go from there to maybe going down there and show
me your money maker different money makers. Yeah, you have machine.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I think you need.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
That.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, take a look at the.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Maybe we should have screamed that call on.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah a lot about it. Yeah, a couple of minutes,
but it is about weird and bad and it's just
awful job interviews.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Wait, isn't that called amateur night? That isn't that what
they do there? I think they're coming. Yeah, let's just
move on.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Hey you guys, But Club Daisy.
Speaker 12 (25:17):
So, prior to owning a daycare, which I do now,
I was a recruiter for twenty.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Years and I asked this gentleman, you know back in
the day, what's your favorite book?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Because I was like stuck for questions.
Speaker 12 (25:31):
He looked at me, dead in the face, and he
says a profile of all American serial killers.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I was like, okay, interview over.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, that's strange.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Think you like, yeah, okay, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
The thing about job interviews is, you know, some people
have anxieties and fears and they get nervous, you know,
and then they say crazy things.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't remember ever being on a job interview.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Well you've been at the same job for many, many
many Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
My job interview here, I had a wrap what Yeah, yeah,
it was stupid.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Let's visit that. No, we don't need to do that,
hall no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
So I have my internship which I got hired through,
and that she only hired me because she liked my name.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
And then I had to audition.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
I had an audition or interview for the street team,
which was like our you know, it's our event staff.
You go out, you know the kids in college, they
go out and they do all the cool events. And
they had the older street teamers interview you and they're like.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What would you do?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
How would you entertain the crowd? So I just you know,
I took the mic and I entertained the road.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Wow, and you got the job.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
And here I am and they never interviewed me again.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
You know what's funny. I do have the audio of that.
If you do you need, absolutely, do we want to
hear that?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Okay, I got on the mic.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
This is tight.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Do you have that?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The whitest trap I think I've ever heard?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Yeah? Is uncle Mark still on the phone?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Call back uncle Mark? He said it's time to go.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
We had to move on the.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
GM machine comment.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I think we were trying to.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
He could have you removed.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I like, I love Uncle Mark. I want to talk
to him all day, but unfortunately we're PG. Thirteen.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Well let's make sure he's not upset.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, okay, uncle Mark's still there.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Buddy, I'm still we apologize on behalf.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Of your niece Melissa's show. When he is as rude
as rude.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I woke him up basically, yeah, I was up.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Okay, we're talking about I guess.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It was a cutoff point. Yeah, yeah, Uncle Mark, did
you know that your niece, uh Lisa had to put
on a bathing.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Can remember I got the job as the sun Sun
girl at the Cossa Marina like years ago.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
There?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a source of product for
the family.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
H Uncle Martin. We're gonna say goodbye, Winnie. Don't hang
up now. We're saying goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
We love you, Bye, Mark, we love you.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
You're good good Thanks buddy, money maker, Yeah, shake him,
money maker.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Guess when I wait?
Speaker 11 (28:34):
I'm calling to tell you about the weirdest job interview
I ever had. I was twenty one years old. I
was living in Miami, and I applied for a job
at TGI Fridays. And I sat down to have an
interview and the manager said, tell me your best joke. Puzzled,
but I told him a knock knock joke. Then he
proceeded to lick his finger and stick it in my
(28:55):
ear and said, what Willie, you have the job?
Speaker 8 (28:59):
What?
Speaker 14 (28:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
God?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
So gross?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
That's like a yeah, is.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yo?
Speaker 6 (29:05):
When we decided on doing this topic today, I thought
it would be go good. I didn't know it was
gonna go this good.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
All right, Well that's gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
For the Top five Moments of the week, it's producer
Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning. And in
case you missed it, on Friday, we had a major
announcement regarding the Mega Match Game. We are now upping
the play count, so there's now five chances to play
per day seven, ten, eight, ten, twelve, ten, three, ten,
and four ten. There's still so much on the board
(29:33):
you gotta tune in, but for now, The Kiss Top
thirty Countdown is coming up next with Billy and Justin.
Tons of new songs. We got that new Ed Sheeran,
new Alex Warren. You gotta stay foot. Have a good one, guys,
It's the Best a billion Lisa in the Morning, Happy Saturday.
It looks like we are back to the rain, but
that's okay. It might be a good break from the heat. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
and I'm going to be counting down the top five
moments of the week with you. Let's get right into it.
You know that Billy's the food guy, so when Boston
Magazine released their Best of twenty twenty five list, we
(00:23):
had to break it down.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So every year this has been going on for decades,
Boston Magazine comes out with the annual best of issue
and Lisa and I are sitting looking at it right now.
We're going to run over some of the winners and
you can be the judge. We'll open up the phones
and the talkbacks to people if they want to criticize
or degree.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Right, because there's so many different categories, so you might
have your favorite that wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm gonna start with the best neighborhood restaurant the Seaport
District of Boston, and I totally agree with this one.
They gave it to Woods Hill Pier four. Kristin Katy.
She does an amazing job there. The outdoor seating area
is easily the best in aus and most of what
she serves comes from her own farm in New Hampshire,
like a three hundred acre farm. And by the way,
(01:06):
her new place, same location, same building called the Block.
They're taking reservations. It's going to open up in about
a week.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So now cannot wait for this opening.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Christen's amazing, And you're right, that's the best neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I like this one because you're actually your son Chris
on Meet Boston and it's my mother's cutlets.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yes, viral opening, try to try it.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Best viral opening. It's Nick Verano's newest sandwich shops right on.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hanover Street in the North End. And yeah, my son
Chris did a Hubster segment for Meat Boston on it
and everybody's just raving about it. Shout out to Davio's Steakhouse.
They were acknowledged our buddy Steve d Filipo, as they
should be in terms of a steakhouse. And I was
just this past Friday night, Michelle and I had dinner
(01:52):
at Prima in Charlestown, which is a beautiful restaurant, but
they've got this room in the back called the Rose
Room where you can have a private event or anything.
It's like unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Wait, what was that labeled as best.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Private dining room? Okay, so they've got the giant restaurant
with a huge wrap around bar, but then in the
back of the restaurant you entered this private room. You
can go there anytime, but people can also rent the
room for a private event. So shout out to Prima
in Charlestown. That's Prima.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So best steakhouse went to Grill twenty three. Now, there
are a lot of steakhouses out there, so you might
have your favorite. We want to hear from you. But
Girl twenty three obviously is amazing. They've a great wine list.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, people ask me over the years, I always say
Girl twenty three. You got to go to a Girl
twenty three. First steak in Boston, Although, like you say,
there are so many awesome steakhouses, so many. You know
what was acknowledged rare a Encore Boston Harper, which is
a Michael Schlaud place, and they've got a great burger there.
I got best burger. Yeah, you were rare.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, what else you got best barbecue Sweet Cheeks Q
Tiffany Faison. Yeah, and again, there are a lot of
barbecue places, So if you've got your fave, we want
to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
But she does a great job.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
They gave her best lobstroll. I like this because you
pass it all the time. It's over by the Boston
Harbor Hotel James Hocking Company.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I've never been.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, it's very casual. You can grab and go or
they have an outdoor seating and you're right on Boston Harbor.
So yeah, it's good that they were acknowledged.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Best new bar, got extra dirty Cocktail Club. It's on
Commercial Street.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Never heard of.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna get over there. And what do they get?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It got best new bar in the North End?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Did I see the Tasty Burger on there?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Billy? Yes, I don't know if I have it right?
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Right? All right?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
What do they get?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I am assuming best burger, a fast food burger with a.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Flair, maybe tastiest. Of course, Winnie goes to the best
fast best burger.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, well that's me.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I love that's why.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, then you should try the steak Tips. They are
a legend for like fifty years. New Bridge Cafe up the.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Dude, my favorite. Oh my god, are they on the list?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yes, they are best steak Tips.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I have to mention best Pizza. Oh Square Deli?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, I haven't tried that Square Where is Where is that?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Is that in Boston?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I think it's a square.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
See, that's a hot category because we're going to open
it up seven. Everybody's got what's your best.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
In Boston or the surrounding area?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah. Also a cool place Duave in Boston. Duav means
two avenues, which is comm Ab and mass Ave and
it's right on the corner there. They've got a huge
wine tower. But they were chosen for best French restaurant.
So congratulations to Duave.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Delhi is in ever Okaya on the street. Oh oh
whoam so?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
You can be outside of Boston coage in the Boston
city limits obviously?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (04:48):
Absolutely, Yeah, this is amazing. The Square Deli won Best Pizza.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, and it's right in Malden.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
We need to try it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Can we send out now?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
They're probably not eleven there. We're gonna have to arrange
another day.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
It's right on Broadway, so it's right down the street.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Congratulations to award winning chef Jody Adams or new restaurant
La Padrona, which is in the Raffles Hotel, got the
best Italian restaurant. Wow, that's a tough category in Boston.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Jody does such a good job.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's a beautiful restaurant at the Raffles Hotel La Padrona.
Congratulations Jody.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
When I saw this list, because it's online today, this
this whole list. When I saw all the other restaurants,
I thought, wow, this is good for us.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Billy is the food guy.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, when are you gonna be happy with this one?
Best fried Chicken We're hot chicks Boston. Oh I've never been. Yeah,
well there you go.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I'll have to hit that in Tasy Berger At the
same time.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Best dinner in a show Grace by Nia. Oh yeah
we got that's a big night.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I went out one night on double date with the
Rockets and uh yeah, you grab a table. It's old school.
They have a band, a jazz band, right on stage.
They're playing all night. You sit, you grab a table,
you talk, you have some fun.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
That's a big night place.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, So congratulations to Grace Binia, A nice job.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Congratulations to all these restaurants.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Yeah, the Kendon microphone, no one ever knows when he's
talking into the Candon microphone.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Nobody cares about what restaurants you're going to? Are you
having dinner every way you travel? Oh, if you've been
to this restaurant, shut the fuck up. I'm on vacation.
I'm not going to any restaurants. Okay, I'm going to
get a slice of pizza down at the Marina phone.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, let's get straight into the number four moment. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
and I'm going to count down the best moments for you.
So we discussed the Boston Magazine best of a list,
gave you our opinions, but then we asked you guys.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
To wait in. So let's hear what you guys thought.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Best restaurant in Boston.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
It's near like it's the Aquarium, not too far from
like Quincy Market.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's called the Granary.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
Guys, if you haven't been there, you have to go.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So good.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
What's your good drinks?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The Burger's amazing, handcup fries like everything, They're super good.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Highly recommend my friend Kelly actually owns that place.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, what's the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It's the Glenn Group, the Black Rose.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Is that the Granary Tavern?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, okay, yep, it's really see I'm.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Taking notes here because my wife's birthday is next week.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Oh a lot, these are good.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Idea Yeah, Contessa, is you know on top of the
Newbury Hotel beautiful named best sky high scene, which makes sense.
It is, I think the best rooftop location in the city.
It's on top of the Newberry Hotel. But we like
this street.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Grill, got the street bar drink, that's our favorite.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Yeah yeah, oh, look who's on the phone.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Make a South End? Of course? Is going to pick
a South End? Good morning, Mayor, I'm I live.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I love being live.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Your so keep it clean?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Oh great, great, Okay, you didn't mention ice cream.
Speaker 12 (08:05):
The best place for homemade ice cream is Pecos in
the South End.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yes, to die for, very good.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, it's hop rather get some homemade ice creams.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All due respect. Do you ever get out of the
South End?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (08:23):
I do.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I go to Peetown and one time I was in Newton.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I went to a pool party in Newton and leased
this neighborhood I get out of casially.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, well that's good to know. That's good to know.
All right, I have another.
Speaker 12 (08:37):
I have one more good one.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
The best fish tacos.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
Go to Club Cafe, of course, and for the best
apple martini.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Another plug for Club Cafe.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think they must have a stool at the bar
with your name on it, like one of those brass
plate you know, on the back of the stool. This
is the Mayor of the South End stool.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
No, it's a little it's a little bank cat.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Come and join me.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Okay, okay, you.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Know what he's ours. He really is.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
There's a lot of radio morning radio shows in Boston,
but only we have the Mayor of the South End.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
I got to say my best Boston food definitely the
Greek Hero right across from Fenway or like a block
away from Fenway. It's got to be some of the
best Lamb Hero I have ever had in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Nice.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know what else I got to give a shout
out to if you're in the Fenway Park area is
a Joko at the Verb Hotel. Uh. If you like
good Asian food, and they've got a really cool thing.
They call the It's like a challenge where you spin
the wheel and it and it's sushi, but it's the
wasabi challenge where they one of them is hidden with
like five times.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Was so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We play a game at the table.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
You can't play that.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I would die.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We had the Tate McCrae listening party at Ever Remember.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That we did.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh that's really cool boutique hotel.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh yeah, and it's like the biggest rock and roll
museum in the lobby of the hotel. So it's a
very cool place anyway, Joco. All right.
Speaker 12 (10:08):
I live in East Cambridge and I walked to a
local restaurant called Mononymye Grill and they've got.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
The best burger I've ever had and the best.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Sweet potato fries.
Speaker 12 (10:19):
Oh yeah, it's on the Arlington Cambridge line. Anatomy Grill,
great place.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Speaking of Cambridge, there's a big festival in Cambridge that
was going to happen today. It's called Cambridge Taste. It
used to be called the Taste of Cambridge. For some
reason they changed came about I'm sure. Well it must
have hurt someone's feelings or something, so now it's called
Cambridge Taste and it was supposed to happen today, but
(10:47):
because of the heat, they moved it to tomorrow, five
thirty to seven thirty on the Sydney Street. I think
it's called University Park. There'll be thirty or forty restaurants.
There are some great restaurants in Cambridge. Harvest is going
to be there. Oh, let's not forget barbecue with our
buddy Andy Husbands in Smoke Shop. They'll be featured at
Cambridge Taste tomorrow as well. So it's moved to tomorrow
(11:08):
because they.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, I'm looking at all the restaurants here. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Harvest Crazy Julia.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Is an Italian restaurant in Cambridge.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's very good, very good restaurant. But Puritan and Company
also a great restaurant. Yeah, there'll be at least thirty
restaurants there.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Will you be attending?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Quite possibly. It's like two blocks from where I grew
up as a little boy.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Oh you could take a stroll around the old neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh yeah, all right, good morning guys.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
My favorite pizza places is Chapoli's and then Regina is
in the North End.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Can't the original Regina. Yeah, it's it's unlike all the
other Regina pizza, the original is like amazing.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Those are that's interesting.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
That's two different types of pizza, right, obviously you have
Reginas and then Tripoli's is beach pizza.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What's beach pizza?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Sweet sauce beach pizza?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, really, I have never heard beach pizza.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh yeah, that a North short thing. It must be interesting,
you know, you know, beach pizza.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
There's bar pizza versus beach pizza.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Each pieces of square pizza has a sice of prevalon
on top of it.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
A lot of people call it bakery pizza. If it's square,
it's basically Sicilian Sicilian. Yeah, but then people call it
bakery pizza because bakeries always would sell it in the
old neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, and they have a sweet sauce.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
My all time favorite restaurant, I haven't heard you guys
mention it yet is Strah Love the food, great atmosphere,
Yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
That's a classic. It's been here forever, just.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Celebrated like thirty or forty years. It's as good now
as it was as busy.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
They have the best, they're the best pizza. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
That's a good that's a really good restaurant. Maybe for
Jen's birthday. Oh yeah, what is it called Special Occasion
stra It's on Columbus.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Right, yeah, okay, doctor Sean. Thea's right up stairs.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Oh he does your friend he.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Wanted you to how everyone that boy? Do we love
having Ben Mesick just one call away.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Hey, it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
counting down the top five moments of the week with you.
We're already at number three, and with the new Social
Network movie coming out, we had to talk to Ben Mezik,
who wrote the book that the movie was originally based
off of.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Good Morning Ben.
Speaker 14 (13:19):
Hey, Good morning Billy.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Now? Ben? First things first, you were the very first
person on Lisa Dunnovan's book Club, and now it's international.
Speaker 14 (13:29):
It's amazing. Listen, it's the best book club in America
for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I love it, Ben, help launch it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So yeah, Oh, she's all over the country now, she's
going to Tampa, She's going everywhere.
Speaker 14 (13:39):
I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah. So I got to ask you, Ben, when there's
a sequel, do you get another hit?
Speaker 14 (13:47):
As in what.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Paycheck?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
I do get a check.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, of course you do.
Speaker 14 (13:54):
You know, I get accredation. You know, it has to
say something about the story based on or something thing
like that, and you know they are. It is being
pushed as a sequel, even though it's going to be
take place I think about fifteen years later. But it's uh, yeah,
I'm I'm as involved as as you know. One who
created the first one would.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Be yeah, oh yeah, wait a minute, did you write
the sequel?
Speaker 10 (14:20):
No?
Speaker 14 (14:21):
So basically, Aaron, you know, has been trying to figure
this out and crack this story for a while, and
he and I go back and forth, and I knew
he was working. I knew kind of the direction he
was going. But it's not No, I did not write
a book or anything. And so it's really it's Aaron's
script and he's directing. So it's going to be hit ballgame,
(14:42):
but it's going to be related to the social network.
I think as much as Sony can relate it, just
because that was such a cultural moment, I think you
would say, so, yeah, it's it's his own story, but
it's based on true events and it will have you know,
I hope Jesse will be back. I can't imagine it
with a different Mark Zuckerberg. So you know, it'll be
(15:05):
the same characters really the way we drew them. So
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It isn't so much has happened. Oh god, yeah, so
much to talk about.
Speaker 14 (15:13):
Listen, you can you can pretty much blame Facebook for
everything the world.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, I think what happened with Facebook after the movie,
the social network, it just blew up.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
Blew up. When we wrote that. When that movie came out,
you know, Facebook was a little thing. It hadn't iPod yet.
Mark was not the new Mark you see now.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It was even a little thing on the Harvard campus.
I mean, you know, nobody knew that.
Speaker 14 (15:36):
Nobody knew about it and uh, and so it's such
a it became such a big company afterwards. That was
like its origin story. It's like the Marvel universe. That
was like the origin story of Wolverine. And now we
can see the Avengers assemble.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
It really changed, it changed the world.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 14 (15:52):
Think it did. And uh and now now we'll see
what he does with it. But I think it's going
to be much more about you know, where does that go?
Like the Mark wants to rule the world and change
the world. And then he really did. Yeah, and then
a lot of sort of I mean, you could look
at it negative or positively, but I think knowing Aaron,
it'll be It'll be somewhat dark and funny at the
(16:13):
same time.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You know, Justin brought up a good point the other day.
Do you think the sequel is going to include Zuckerberg's
like UFC fighting and jiu jitsu.
Speaker 14 (16:23):
And now he's transformed, He's transformed into this like you know,
you're gonna have to work out all the time and
wear a necklace and his hair, and yeah, I think
it will. But I think to some extent it probably
you know a little bit of the transformation of someone
from like a robotic nerd to who we see today.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Now, aren't you close enough to Jesse Eisenberg at this
point or even justin Timberlake you just give them a
call and ask him, So, are you going to be
in the sequel or not?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Yeah? I know, Jesse.
Speaker 14 (16:52):
I haven't kept up with Justin. That would have been cool,
but no, Jesse and I have kept up because I'm
doing this movie be with the Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder.
I think I talked about last time and Jesse is
friends with them.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So I've kept up with him.
Speaker 14 (17:08):
He's he's brilliant. I think he's just a genius. I mean,
I could ask him, but I think it's easier just
I mean, it'll it'll come out. I'm sure he's trying
to figure out you know, I'm sure. Listen, how can
he not come back? It's the best role ever, and
I'm sure he'll come back. That would be my guest.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Do you know the timing of this, like when they
are slating press, Oh.
Speaker 14 (17:28):
Yeah, this is all happening. We're in they're in casting
and and they've already I mean, this is this is
a thing, you know, it's it's actually I would bet
they're filming by the fall. That would be my guest
at the end of the summer. So I bet this
comes out next year.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That it would be great. Ben, I'm thinking of you.
You know, it'd be great. You could talk to your
buddy Aaron. I don't think I didn't notice you call
him by a first Nay and.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Not just Darren.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It would be awesome if they go. You got them
to give you a cameo in the movie. I mean,
you wrote the book that created the movie. At least
deserve a cameo.
Speaker 14 (18:02):
I mean, listen, I'm I'm with you, Billy, I really,
I really, Well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Maybe they can have Chess beat the spit out of
you in the movie.
Speaker 14 (18:11):
Yeah, a good realistic scene at this point. You know,
I can reprise my role as sexiest bachelor from that
to bring that back. Yeah, you know what, Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Plug your new book. It's coming out right at the
beginning of twenty twenty second.
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Well it's it's it's coming out in the spring of
next year. But it's the Chess scandal, the cheating scandal
with Magnus Carlton and Hans Neman, which was this big
cheating scandal and chess and it's all about Yes, sorry.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You already booked for the book. Book.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
He's booked for the bookleb okay.
Speaker 14 (18:51):
Yeah, man, a lot of fun. And that's a Nathan
Fielder movie. Nathan Fielder is writing and directing. If you
know his work, I'm sure there'll be a lot of
anal beads in it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Only thanks a lot, Ben Good.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
It's been a while since we went down in the DMS. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
counting down the Top five moments of the week with you.
We're already at number two and this one's good.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But let's set the scene. Winny, you got a DM
and somebody's telling you a story about a horrible job interview.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Yeah, so we have a listener and he was going
for a server interview. So keep this in mind. It's
just become a server for the summer.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
I won't say where it is, but it's a entertainment
slash restaurant type of vibe, so you can play games
and then you can also eat while you're there.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
So it's a hiring event that they had on Monday,
and they say, allow for like two hours for this event.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
It's going to be multiple people. You know, you have
to probably wait to be interviewed.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
They said, okay, job fair. It's almostly a job fair. Okay,
he gets there. There's forty people.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
They split it into two groups of twenty and twenty
and they start doing icebreaker games.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
So they do icebreakers and then they bring him in
for his own interview.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
They sent it timer for a minute and thirty seconds,
asked him one question, he answered it, and they dismissed him.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
He's like, okay, he walks out, and they go back
doing more.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Icebreaker interview like icebreakers with groups, not with the people
hiring you, with you, with the other servers for this job.
Four hours go by of them playing icebreaker games, circle games, all.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
To be a server for the summer.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
At this place.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
What's an icebreaker game?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Like?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Oh two trierson a lie like oh okay, you know
or oh my, you know too fast? Party games? Yeah,
party games, yeah, okay, okay. Then at ten o'clock, okay,
he got there at five thirty. At ten pm, they
have the audacity to say, we're all set with interviews
and we'd like to end the night with a dance party.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
And they turned on the upid shuffle.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Oh no, not a shuffle.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
They did forty applicants.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yes, for one jobs a server. This is a lot.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Did you have to dance where you carried the food?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Of course it's the shovel.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Wow, that's so bizarre.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yep, and that and that was the end of the
get it?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
He said.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
He was absolutely beside himself. So I said, did you
get the job? He said.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
I sent a message saying please resend my application. I
do not feel as if my time or the other
applicans time was respected and the company's goals do not
align with mine.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Do we know what place?
Speaker 13 (21:27):
This one?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I know exactly where is?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
He told me.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
I'm not going to say it on air, I'll tell
you we know the place. Yes, yes, but it's an
entertainment slash restaurant vibe.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah yeah? Is it what I'm thinking?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I don't know what you're thinking. I'm not going to
go there right now.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I have a connection to my family.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
No, No, this is the highest I think I know
which place it is.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
It's the craziest place to have a four hour icebreaker
games and then with a quage shuffle.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That's the strangest thing.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And it was a complete waste of time.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
But I have one question. Did they tell them that
they were to be doing this for four or five hours?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
They said allowed for two hours.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Okay, yeah, that's that's outrageous.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Lisa, didn't you have a job interview to be a
can Can girl or something in Tea West?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I was a Sun Sun girl on the beach.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was like, what does that entail?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I was like a cocktail waitress on the beach. I
had to wear a bathing suit, at the Casa Marina.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Yeah, but for the interview.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Maybe for the interview.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, yeah, I was creepy.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I got the job.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But all right, here we are number one moment. Hey,
it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning.
And what started as us talking bad job interviews kind
of spiraled when we got Uncle Mark on the phone.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Good morning Mark, Good morning. You guys going it's going okay.
We have to imagine you've had some strange job interviews, Mark, Yes,
we do.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
We have a lot of them in the old red
Garter where it's always harder in the garden.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh, there it is. Yeah, so that's the strip joint.
Now what are the general requirements there on Mark, Well,
you know.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
You take a look at the girl, and you know
we hire all shapes and sizes because not one size sick.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So you know, yeah, I had I had a feeling,
Uncle Mark, this was going to take a weird turn.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
There's no discrimination there, no no at all.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, just just bringing in you.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Know what people like, man, You know, one guy likes
one thing and somebody likes something else. So we got
to make sure everybody's happy.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You want to have it to be well rounded.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
That's a good business model.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, they're around to get it well round.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Okay, Uncle Mark, I was I was thinking, maybe we're
talked more about the restaurant. Now a typical job interview
for the restaurant.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Well, that's just if we can Martin, you know, and
you know that's mart and the skills. That's a whole
different thing from in the garter. Now you're skills and
dances a whole different things. In the garter, you look
for a girl that knows how to use the pole.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Okay, all you want to be good with the pole?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Your audition for that?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Like, yeah, yeah, we have auditions. Yeah, you come in,
you got to see the manager and you do a
dance there and you do the pole, and then we
go from there to maybe going down there and show
me your money maker different money makers. Yeah, you have machine.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I think you need.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
That.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, take a look at the.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Maybe we should have screamed that call on.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah a lot about it. Yeah, a couple of minutes,
but it is about weird and bad and it's just
awful job interviews.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Wait, isn't that called amateur night? That isn't that what
they do there? I think they're coming. Yeah, let's just
move on.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Hey you guys, But Club Daisy.
Speaker 12 (25:17):
So, prior to owning a daycare, which I do now,
I was a recruiter for twenty.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Years and I asked this gentleman, you know back in
the day, what's your favorite book?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Because I was like stuck for questions.
Speaker 12 (25:31):
He looked at me, dead in the face, and he
says a profile of all American serial killers.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I was like, okay, interview over.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, that's strange.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Think you like, yeah, okay, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
The thing about job interviews is, you know, some people
have anxieties and fears and they get nervous, you know,
and then they say crazy things.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't remember ever being on a job interview.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Well you've been at the same job for many, many
many Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
My job interview here, I had a wrap what Yeah, yeah,
it was stupid.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Let's visit that. No, we don't need to do that,
hall no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
So I have my internship which I got hired through,
and that she only hired me because she liked my name.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
And then I had to audition.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
I had an audition or interview for the street team,
which was like our you know, it's our event staff.
You go out, you know the kids in college, they
go out and they do all the cool events. And
they had the older street teamers interview you and they're like.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What would you do?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
How would you entertain the crowd? So I just you know,
I took the mic and I entertained the road.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Wow, and you got the job.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
And here I am and they never interviewed me again.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
You know what's funny. I do have the audio of that.
If you do you need, absolutely, do we want to
hear that?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Okay, I got on the mic.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
This is tight.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Do you have that?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The whitest trap I think I've ever heard?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Yeah? Is uncle Mark still on the phone?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Call back uncle Mark? He said it's time to go.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
We had to move on the.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
GM machine comment.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I think we were trying to.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
He could have you removed.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I like, I love Uncle Mark. I want to talk
to him all day, but unfortunately we're PG. Thirteen.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Well let's make sure he's not upset.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, okay, uncle Mark's still there.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Buddy, I'm still we apologize on behalf.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Of your niece Melissa's show. When he is as rude
as rude.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I woke him up basically, yeah, I was up.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Okay, we're talking about I guess.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It was a cutoff point. Yeah, yeah, Uncle Mark, did
you know that your niece, uh Lisa had to put
on a bathing.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Can remember I got the job as the sun Sun
girl at the Cossa Marina like years ago.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
There?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a source of product for
the family.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
H Uncle Martin. We're gonna say goodbye, Winnie. Don't hang
up now. We're saying goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
We love you, Bye, Mark, we love you.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
You're good good Thanks buddy, money maker, Yeah, shake him,
money maker.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Guess when I wait?
Speaker 11 (28:34):
I'm calling to tell you about the weirdest job interview
I ever had. I was twenty one years old. I
was living in Miami, and I applied for a job
at TGI Fridays. And I sat down to have an
interview and the manager said, tell me your best joke. Puzzled,
but I told him a knock knock joke. Then he
proceeded to lick his finger and stick it in my
(28:55):
ear and said, what Willie, you have the job?
Speaker 8 (28:59):
What?
Speaker 14 (28:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
God?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
So gross?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
That's like a yeah, is.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yo?
Speaker 6 (29:05):
When we decided on doing this topic today, I thought
it would be go good. I didn't know it was
gonna go this good.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
All right, Well that's gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
For the Top five Moments of the week, it's producer
Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning. And in
case you missed it, on Friday, we had a major
announcement regarding the Mega Match Game. We are now upping
the play count, so there's now five chances to play
per day seven, ten, eight, ten, twelve, ten, three, ten,
and four ten. There's still so much on the board
(29:33):
you gotta tune in, but for now, The Kiss Top
thirty Countdown is coming up next with Billy and Justin.
Tons of new songs. We got that new Ed Sheeran,
new Alex Warren. You gotta stay foot. Have a good one, guys,
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