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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wait, it's the best avilion Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey guys, Happy Saturday. Welcome into the Top five Moments
of the week. It's producer Riley and I'm going to
be counting them down for you, as I'm sure a
lot of you guys know. I am a massive swift
ye and Taylor Swift has announced her newest album, The
Life of a Showgirl, and I.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Am so excited. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
So a Taylor Swift, you might argue, took over the
world last night. It was our first podcast appearance ever,
was on the Kelsey Brothers podcast, her first interview, by
the way, since twenty twenty three, and the official album
announcement happened last night.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
This is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
It comes out October third.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
And this album is about what was going on behind
the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which
was so exuberant and electric and vibrant.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
When you think of it, how do you record a
whole album while you're on a tour as big as
the Era's tour. How do you even do that as
a human being?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, she explained it in the podcast.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
She would do three nights and then she'd have three
days off and she would fly to Sweden and record
and then come back amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's her twelfth album, twelve songs, No More, No Less.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I wanted to do an album that was so focused
on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together
like a perfect puzzle. That these twelve songs for my
twelfth album. Its just I feel like we achieved that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And the title track of the album, Life of.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A show Girl, is going to have a very special guest.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Can you do a drummer?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Last track track twelve, the title track The Life of
a show Girl featuring Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh, we'll add that to the list.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh boy, I love that Jason Kelsey is more excited
than anyone.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
He's so pumped.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I love that he was in his basement filming the
episode with his peloton in the back of is this perfect?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Like her relationship with Travis, she said it started with
them exchanging friendship bracelets and just you know, she said
that she hoped that he wasn't crazy because he's the
guy that she was writing all her songs about, like honestly,
like it's so touching and seeing the way that they
were holding each other during the podcast, like her arm
(02:38):
was like underneath his and at one point he was
rubbing her hand.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I loved the whole.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Thing she actually talked about. Yeah, the early days, don't forget.
He showed up at Arrowhead Stadium at Taylor's concert and
he thought, Hey, it's my home stadium. I can get
anywhere I want. He was actually turned away.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Check this out.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
This kind of felt more like I was in an
eighties John Hughes movie and he was just like standing
outside of my window with a boombox, just being.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Like, I want to date you.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, do you want to day with me?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I made your frenchure prices.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Do you want to day me outside and meet me?
Just meet me?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
What sounds like if this guy isn't crazy, which is
a big if. This is sort of what I've been
writing songs about wanting to happen.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
To me since I was yeah, a teenager.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, And I was sitting there at the Airs tour
listening to every single one of those songs like she
I know she wants me to do?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Do you remember when that story broke?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
When he showed up at the concert, he had the
Taylor Bryce wots on and he was looking to me, Taylor.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Everybody was buzzing about it, and I gotta be honest
with you.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
From the beginning, I thought it was all staged, possibly
a deal for the NFL. But this relationship has really
turned into something special.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, he knew the elevator girl at the Arrow had
SA Stadium obviously, and so he thought he was just
going to take the elevator down to her dressing and
they turned them away.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Like what.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
She also talked about her fight to get her catalog
back and why it was so important to her.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I wanted because this is my handwritten diary entries from
my whole life. These are the songs I wrote about
every phase of my life. This is my photography, my
music video is most of which I funded. You know,
my artwork, everything that I've ever done is in this catalog.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
She got pretty emotional too, talking about how it was
great to have Travis in her life when she was
going through all of that.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's a pretty incredible story. But October third is the date.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's when the album comes out, and as expected, Max
Martin produces the album.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
The record I made with my mentor, Max Martin and Shellback,
and this the three of us have made some of
my favorite songs I've ever done before.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Which ones if you don't lend me asking?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, there were my main collaborators on the Red album
we did.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We are never getting back together.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I know you were trouble twenty two, Uh shake it off,
Blank Space Style, Wildest Dream Ready ready for it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So that's that's the energy we're going with.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yes, yeah, we've made We've made songs that I'm so proud.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Of and those are all kiss one Who songs. Yes,
they're all though, all my favorite songs. Yep, yeah, good
for us. It was.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It was a great podcast and it really is a
great story. And when you think of it, she couldn't
possibly have chosen a better partner for the title track,
Sabrina Coppenter Right.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now, the two of them, I think, how how do
you get a better pairing?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Right?
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I hope they dropped that soon. I want to hear it. Yeah,
can we just take a note.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
What I took from this was how Google Gaga Travis
is for her, Like she said big words and he
was like did you hear her say that?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Oh my god?
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Like she was ever vessence, Like he was literally is
so into this big words.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, I like at the beginning, and they said, you
know you're a big fan. You say of this podcast,
what are your favorite segments? And she was ready. She
went into the favorite segments that new hides down. She's
an actual listener.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So you know how, I've always been convinced that the
next thing is going to be Taylor doing the super
Bowl halftime show. How about Taylor and Sabrina doing the show.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I said that this morning off the air, that would
be the most ultimate super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It comes to Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
We have a new list coming at you, guys.
Speaker 10 (06:19):
Listen up.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Hey, it's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the
Morning counting down the top five moments of the week
with you and Yeah, we had a list that talked
about the sexiest hobbies and there's one on here that
made Lisa really perk up.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's number four.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So if you guy out there listening right now, you're
probably wondering what does a woman want and not want
in the man, And I think you've got a list.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Lisa, Yeah, and you're not going to believe what tops
the list. I actually love this list and you'll know
why in two seconds. So it's conducted by date Psychology,
and they create a list of seventy four hobbies.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Okay, the hobby.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
That came in at ninety eight point two percent of
all women say that reading is the most impressive and
most attractive hobby women find in men.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So what you're saying is guys only have to do
is carry a book around wherever they go.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, that's the start.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Or be well read.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I thought that was so cool. And
then coming in right behind it was learning a foreign language,
playing an instrument, cooking this one I don't get woodworking,
Oh yeah, carpinger back and like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You know what, there's a guy. There was a guy
yesterday at my house building the chicken coop extension. He
was out there all day banging and you know, building
the thing.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You know, yeah, that is cool, very manly. Was hot?
Maybe I don't know. Okay, by the way, I just
wanted to mention here, I don't do anything on this list,
not one.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
Well, you know what, there's time to start, right, all right.
So the least attractive, all right, is gambling, porn, clubbing, crypto, debating, cosplay.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Is that like playing dress up?
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Well, yeah, i'd be like anime like you like, or
like conventions and we're like, you know, anime stuff, or
just do.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
A few of those. No, I do not porn movies.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Do you play dress up?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh wait a minute, wait at no dress alide to our.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Listeners, there is no dress up going on.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Okay, comic books not high on the list, which I
can kind of see too. And like pot marijuana, yeah, smoking,
I don't mind.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
If someone does it occasionally or like on a weekend,
but if you have to smoke every date to like exist,
I can't see you.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I do more on the least attractive list than I
do one the most attractive. Yeah, well, what's what do
you do?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I thought you gave up porn.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, no, I didn't say porn was on there. Porn
is on there?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, No, I know. You know, once in a while,
Bill getting the recommendations horn Hub and Hamster. You broat
those down.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
I know.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I do like crypto. I some cryptocurrency that I did
that I do. Yeah, I'm not a big gambler, but
I'll gamble, you know, I'll go to the casino. Yeah,
but I get zero on the most attractive, most sexiest list.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
I actually think if you're a good crypto person and
you know what you're doing, that's not unattractive if you're
putting it in the right places.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
At least the reading was number one, number one. What
was second?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
It was learning a foreign language? Foreign language and playing
an instrument.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah. I played drums. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Banging the desk doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Okay, I'm gonna accompablish Billy is actually a good drummer. Yeah.
Also on the most attractive list is blacksmithing.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Yeah, that's I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Blacksmith Well, that's very far up north, isn't. That's putting
horseshoes on a horse.
Speaker 13 (09:47):
You know, it's weird.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
What's on this list is swimming as being one of
the most attractive things gardening.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, so you were at camp. You were a shark.
I was a shark in some accounts. Yeah, I started
as a guppy and as being a shock. That's how
they rated your Yeah abilities.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Okay, I've saved a couple of lives in the water,
so yeah, okay, so justin you and I have a.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Couple on that list. No, on which list swimming is good?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Yeah, Okay, I don't doing laps on like Olympic sized pool,
are you.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, I'm not, I mean not how to swim a
good swimmer, but I'm not. I don't know. Is that competitively?
I don't know what does that mean? It's very vague, weird.
I agree, it's getting up in the morning and doing laps.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
What you're not doing, either of you?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh? Good point. Yeah. I do see makeup on the
least attractive lists for women. And Bill I know Bill?
Sometimes you okay.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You do wear me up. I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I haven't even worn makeup on TV for fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Everybody, but go get your makeup bag.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
There's stay away on my producer Riley the Kendon microphone.
No one ever knows when he's talking the microphone only
the way I looked at So, what do you want
me to do? I didn't know. If you some place
(11:08):
I could go?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, Well, are you just looking for bass and roots?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, lots of TV stations I know, well, the TV
stations for years had makeup people in studio for us.
All she kept doing throughout the entire week and was
put more makeup on my face.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I needed a chisel to get it off, okay that
you're on a microphone there asking me for makeup.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Hey, guys, welcome into the top five moments of the week.
It's producer Riley from Billy and Lisa in the Morning,
and I'm going to be counting them down for you.
Let's get right into number three because just a second ago,
we were talking about a new list that described the
sexiest hobbies that you can have. And you'll never guess
what was top in this list.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So, Lisa, I think it was last week there was
a story about.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The reading books and dating apps, and now they've got
list of the most attractive thing in a guy and
reading is number one.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Yeah, so book clubs are now becoming like the new
dating apps. That was the story last week, and then
this story came out. There was a survey conducted by
Date Philosophy seventy five hobbies that women find attractive in men,
and reading came out on top of ninety eight percent.
The number one thing is reading a guy, reading and
knowing foreign languages and playing an instrument.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Wow, can you give me a book recommendation.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Lise, I can actually the book an Author's coming September eighth,
All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker, I think
you would really like it. It's a thriller, so I
would highly recommend that book for you.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Isn't Chris Whittaker famous, Like, yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
He's it was like the book of the Year last
year and he's coming to my book club all the
way from London's okay, that's dawn.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
When I start reading the book, do I then carry
the book with me everywhere we go so people know
I'm reading yep. Yeah. Because I'm zero on the sexy list,
I do none of them. No, I think this is
good for you. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
The most attractive thing man can do is to open
the car door for a woman.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I agree, that's nice. Not necessary, but it's nice.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's old school. But you know what if you still
do it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
If I did that for Michelle, she would look at
me like.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
What my wife doing? My wife too?
Speaker 13 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah. But then if you're a guy on the other
other side of it, if you're a guy, can give
it the door the girl the door test. Yeah, you
know the door test. Yeah, Winny and Lisa to give
it a door test.
Speaker 14 (13:29):
Before we get out of the car. You lock both
doors you get out of the car, you walk over
to her, You bring her over to the car, You
take out the key, put in the lock, open the
door for and you let her get in. Then you
close the door far and you walk around the back
of the car and you look.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Through the rear window.
Speaker 14 (13:46):
If she doesn't reach over, looked up that bun for
you so you can get in. That means she's a
selfish broad and all you see is the tip of
the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You've bumped it.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
You bump the first Well, now it's just a button.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
But yeah, I'm gonna test my wife, Michelle.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I'm gonna let me get the door for you, honey,
for the car, just to see her reaction.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
She'll probably be like, you have the button, Press the button,
Press the button. I would say.
Speaker 12 (14:12):
One of the most sexiest things that a man can
do is bring you coffee in bed. I'm a lucky
gal because I got coffee brought to me at six
point thirty this morning. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Let's see, we can't do that justin because we were
out of the house so early in the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
On the weekends, I get up first and I make
coffee and then she's sleeping, but I set it all
up for her or it's ready as soon as she
comes home. That's nice. I have to start doing the
guys weekend.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Do you guys ever do cooking? Do you ever cook?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We never cook?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Really because that's up on the list too, that's in
the top five.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
A guy who cooks. Yeah, because I got my weird
diet thing. But I got to make a change. Maybe
when she goes start cooking. The laundry. I do all
the laundry yeah, yeah, and the dishes. I do the
laundry all right. That's not on the list at all,
but I like it. Thank you. Do you find that
a little bit sexy?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I think it's helpful.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, that's a k walking around folding laundry?
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Well, actually, yesterday.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I think people like that.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Actually, I do laundry a lot and do the laundry,
that's all. There's a running joke in mind, how a
load in the machine right now? Me too. There's a
running joke in my house where if you can't find Dad,
he's either stretching on the floor or he's folding laundry.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Wow, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, how sexy? Am I? God?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
So?
Speaker 15 (15:35):
Actually gardening can be pretty sexy. You have to check
out Garden with Johnny j O n n Y. He
has a Facebook and an Instagram and he definitely makes
gardening entertaining, sexy and funny.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay, I'm on Garden with Johnny's Instagram right now. You
got to see this. He looks like a model. Okay,
guy at least. Look that's why I like it.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
He's just like mister T.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Sure, Johnny's not doing the gardening. He's got producers that
do it behind this.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Also, he's a firefighter. Like that's hot.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
He's a firefighter who gardens, who looks at the gym
probably three hours a day.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You're never going to date a guy who's a firefighter
doing gardening.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
No, I have a boyfriend and he's in the gym,
but he doesn't garden, or if he's not a firefighter.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, it looks like he does do the gardening. But
he looks like a literally like a male model. Yea,
oh my god. His video has got some millions and
millions of use. What's funny? I got to tell you
about this?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You know, I do some manly things, and you find
this hard to believe, But on the boat, I fix
stuff a lot, and I'm always making sure I make
sure that Michelle knows I fixed it.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
The fact that you just said, you know, I did
do some manly things.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
No, but every time I fix something big, like I
fixed it, I'm thinking she's going to be impressed.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
She's like whatever, I don't care. No, she doesn't care. Nope.
Speaker 13 (17:02):
I know guy who works on motorcycles and cars for fun,
like taking these apart, putting some new things on. And
for some reason, that is the most like the sexiest
thing to me. I don't know what it is, maybe
like the thought of him like working in like a
shop or something, but it's so hot to me. If
you know that stuff.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Yeah, a guy who can fix things is really hot.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah, I fix things.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Belle doesn't find it to be hot at all. It's
just like, yeah, whatever, you want to hear something funny.
So I have four wheelers at my house, and so
when I de started to buy them, I don't know
what I'm doing, but I would pretend that I was
fixing them, so i'd be under it with the wrench
and moving things.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But same as Michelle. That's that's why they get along.
So well, Okay, go fix something else. Then yeah, she
doesn't care now because when it comes down to it,
a lot of the manly things in the house my
wife does.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, she's very hands on with isn't she building the
chicken house? She helping. But I helped to yesterday. I
helped hold the wire up and staple all the mesh wire.
It's pretty much done.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
So you and Billy are the same person.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
I helped.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I did it.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, I grab you want to hear the truth. So
she was stapling the staples into the wire mesh thing
and after a while her hands started to cramp up
because it's like it's a lot of pressure on the
shore again. So then I stepped in.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Two left.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
I think the sexiest thing a man could wear it
was a tool belt.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Just walk in the bedroom, tool belt, nothing else on.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh have you done that? Just I have? I have not.
I know you and Jen have certain costumes, Yeah they do.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Yeah, but it's more you like to watch her in costumes.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Why is this on the radio? No, I don't talk
about it on the radio.
Speaker 12 (19:00):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Strangely, I think it's incredibly hot.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Uh as a woman in scrubs, Yes right, yes, Michelle wears.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Them to work sometimes and I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
and my wife's a nurse, you're coming home and those I.
Speaker 16 (19:14):
Think the sexiest thing a man can do.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
It's not liar cheap. Yes, I never one. Yeah, that's
the hottest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, that pretty much sums up.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
If you can get that right, then.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
That's what I personally find very attractive is when my
husband takes charge of our date night, makes all the plans,
tells me how to dress, whether it's casual or dressing,
and does it all.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You know, we love when people leave talkbacks asking for
our opinion because most of the time it gets turned
into topic time. Hey, it's producer Riley from Billy and
Lisa in the morning, and I'm counting down the top
five moments of the week with you. Let's get right
into number or too, because that's exactly what happened. Somebody
left us a talk back asking what weird excuses we've
used when we're late.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
I have a question for you, guys, what is the
dumbest excuse you've given to being late to work?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yesterday?
Speaker 8 (20:17):
I was late for work by five minutes and I
messaged my boss. Let's saying I was stuck in a
dunkin Donuts line and I couldn't get out because it's
there was no way to like move around the traffic. Yeah,
I heard myself after, and it sounds stupid.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I have to say that I've been stuck in one
of those lines, So I don't think it sounds stupid
at all, because you can't go anywhere. There's two people
in front of you in three and back and it's
one lane, you can't get out, and if they take
too long to make the orders, like you could be late.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yeah, but you're still late exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But now I don't think you're a supervisor or boss cares. Yeah,
you're in line at duncan. Isn't it funny that our first,
you know, thought is to lie instead of it?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
And I just feel like, yeah, I was, I was
running late.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I got up and overslept.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, when you think of all the lies you've told
over the years just about getting.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
To work, well, when he was, you know, unally late
one time and she told some lie and then we
found out that her boyfriend had come over at like
one in the morning and she was busy.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
This is not the truth. He came over at nine okay,
and I didn't. I just said I had a slow starch.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I didn't lie. No, we always know when your boyfriend clothed. Well, again,
that's that's a situation there, like just be honest. But
you feel silly when you oversleep or something dumb happens,
you want to make up a lie. Like one time
when I was younger, I had a job and I
was going to be late, and one of my friends
had a mom that was kind of younger and wanted
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to be like one of us. Yeah, that mom. She
would buy alcohol for oh all the job, pretending to
be my mom my. Wow, that's like the next level. Yes,
but everything about him is next noticed. What ever happened?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I went to prep school. I did a PG year
at New Prep and Cambridge, and it was an old
school administration run by the Benchamal family and they were
harbored alumnus and anyway, at a certain time in the morning,
they would lock the doors to every part of the
building so that when you got there, if you were late,
you had to go in the front door, and his desk,
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the president's desk, was right inside the front door of
the lobby. I was late almost every other day, and
I would always.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Have a story. But I'll remember the final one.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I came in and said, oh, Costa, what now, I said,
You're not going to believe this.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I know I've told you some stories before, but this
is real.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
You know my bedroom, you know, our flat is on
the third floor of a triple decker, and I have
a window right next to my bed, and my alarm
clock sits on the window sill. And it was a
hot night, and you know what, do you know when
I rolled over something in the middle of the night,
I knocked the alarm clock out the window. So when
the clock, when the alarm went off, it was three
(23:00):
stories down. I couldn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Everyone surprise it went off.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Okay, Costy, you know what, Just come in anytime you
want from now on, just keep walking right by my desk.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I've heard enough stories from me. Yeah you are, mister story.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I have a story.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I was actually called in sick to work when I
was working in pr and I was so embarrassed by
the reason. I had gotten such a bad sunburn that
I was like, I can't tell them that I can't
come into work because I have a sunburn. It was
so embarrassing. I just said I was sick, but it
was like I was like bright red.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It was horrible.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
It was so embarrassing, Like how could I let myself
do that?
Speaker 12 (23:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
We should have had justin Frend's mother calling. I can
find her if anyone needs she's probably no, she's probably dead. Yeah,
it's like Kate in Line one, she's in Holbrook. All right,
Kate and Holbrook. Good morning? How you Nolan?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I'm good?
Speaker 10 (23:50):
How are you?
Speaker 17 (23:51):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Give us one.
Speaker 17 (23:54):
So last year on Binko Demayo, I was due to
be at work at seven pm, and at about six
twenty before I was due to leave my house, a
turkey crashed through my front window and there was glass
all over my living room. So I couldn't possibly leave
my husband to clean all that up, So I called
in because a turkey flew through my windows.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
And it happened to a friend of mine too recently. Really,
oh yeah, crazy turkeys.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
But at least you didn't have to make up a story.
You had a legitimate reason.
Speaker 17 (24:26):
It was just it was a wacky one. This it's
not one you hear Mary often.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, I had the turkey makeout it flew It.
Speaker 17 (24:33):
Kind of ran around my house for a little while,
and then my husband was able to sort of shutter
it towards the door and throw it out the front door.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Shoo shoo.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
That's a crazy story.
Speaker 16 (24:42):
Yeah, not that I called in with an excuse for
being late, because I never called.
Speaker 13 (24:47):
I just was late. But I would be late for.
Speaker 16 (24:50):
Doing farmtown on Facebook.
Speaker 13 (24:53):
Back in the day.
Speaker 16 (24:54):
I had to harvest my crops and go to town,
get hired, and go harvest somebody's pineapples or something like that.
So sometimes I would be late for work because of
town on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's a game.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
That's a game. Oh yeah, you're like a fake farmer
like Facebook.
Speaker 11 (25:11):
You know.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
That's where candy Crush started. Candy crsh started a.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Facebook game and now it's an app. But yeah, so
they have all those Facebook games.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Do you still play candy Crush now?
Speaker 9 (25:19):
I deleted like a year ago because you guys were
yelling at me during that it.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Was commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
To day, you know, as a middle child myself, this
one meant a lot to me. Hey, it's producer Riley
from Billy and Lisa in the Morning counting down the
top five moments of the week with you, and this
one is number one for a good reason. This week
we celebrated National middle Child's Day. If you didn't know that,
that was a day not a lot of people did.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Today is National middle Child Day, and appropriately it won't
get any attention.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I mean, who knows. It could be National Middle School
Day too, you never know. But we're celebrating National middle
Child Day. And our good friend Bruce Hopman is on
the phone. He's the founder at International Middle Child Union.
Bruce you there, Oh, I'm here, Okay, Bruce. We had
some fun with you last year on this day. And
(26:23):
first of all, the International Middle Child Union, what is it?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And what do we do with it?
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Okay? So the Union was formed because the irony of
being given a holiday, middle Child Day that nobody pays
attention to, was just too great to bear. And I
felt like this must stop. They're giving us this holiday,
let's try to get some attention to it. So that
is the mission of the International Middle Child's Day. I
do everything I can every year to try to weise
(26:51):
awareness for it. Clearly not working. Nobody knows his middle
Child Day. Plus we've got all these like thank you
Taylor Swift, thank you for announcing, and you're it's like
not enough of a you know, today's National Julian for
I Day. It's like we have to compete with other
days today. We don't get that to ourselves. We have
(27:12):
to share that. I was I'm watching the news last
week and going on and on about National Chicken Wing
Day and like, you know, yeah, not enough for meat.
A lot of work. But but but that's not even
the point. Chicken rings get more and more attention than
the middle children. So this is my this is my
(27:32):
mission to raise awareness.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Can I ask you a question? Can you make a
living with this?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Absolutely? Absolutely not? Absolutely not. This is this is a passion,
This is this is I feel like I could make
the world a better place if I could just get
a little more attentions than middle children, at least on
National Middle Child Say. That's why today, of course all
my social media feeds at Midkid Union, I'm playing Name
(28:00):
that middle child. Every hour on the hour, we're asking
a question. You know, it's a trivia game. Can you
identify this middle child? And every hour and a half
hour the answer, So all day long you could be
thinking about middle children. What a great what a great
way to spend the day.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You know, this is getting very sad.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
I got to tell you at the end of Middle
Child today, it's there's a lot of you know, it's
a it's a sad time, ye sad time. But I'm trying,
you know, And you guys, thank you so much for
helping get the word out.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I think we're the only one. We're so supportive helping
you every year get the word out.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
But I got to ask, middle child syndrome does it exist?
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Well, I think this is living proof it exists, right,
I mean, who else like, yeah, yeah, but of course
the firstborns and I forget what the makeup of the
crew there is. We have firstborn, we have any middle children?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
First born? Yes, I am so.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I think I think subconsciously, I think the firstborns and
the last borns they're a little possessive of all the
attention they got, right like, they like that. They don't
want to share it with the middle children. And by
the way, in a family, if you're not the firstborn
or last born, you're a middle child. So in a
family four, there's like two middle children. In a family
of five, there's three middle children. So the first one
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is that the last thing they want is to share
that attention well interestingly enough, so try to keep it away.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, Lisa, who's sitting right here with me, happens to
be a first child, and she didn't get any attention.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
They skipped right over.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah you know what.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Also at my blog smack that blog dot com, there's
a whole post there've got middle child energy. You can
be a firstborn, but be given off middle child energy.
If you ever felt left out, left alone, or left behind. Yes,
you know what it feels like to be a middle child.
You know, so middle child syndrome is really it's also
like a state of mind. You could be a firstborn
and fear God. I don't know why, after getting attention
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and all, how you could end up feeling that way.
But uh, we're welcome, Welcome to the union. Sign on up.
We're glad to have as many members as we can have.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
On Bruce's LinkedIn here. He's his political party, a middle
child Party, the founder.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Of Look, I know a thing or two about meaningless titles.
I'm the founder of the International Middle Child Union. I'm
I'm the founding father of the middle Child Party. I'm
also the commissioner of Middle League Baseball, so.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I well, you know, I'm flattered, Bruce, that we are
literally the only people that pay attention to.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
You every year.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
True, I am touched. I am touched by by how
gracious you're being towards the middle child. This is not
something a middle child is used to. As a matter
of fact, at any point, I expect the rug to
be pulled out. This is all a big gag. We're
not even on air, and you're just like trying to,
you know, appease a middle child.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well, we're giving you the attention you never got from
your mom and dad.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
This is this is true. This is true, and and
and I don't and I clearly don't know how to
handle it, but I again appreciative. Get the word out there.
I don't want to have to do this every year.
You know, I love talking to you guys. But it
wouldn't it be great if one year everybody just knows
it's middle child.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Then yeah, would be fine not talking to you. But
but we like talking to you when we do both.
But I should mention that, uh, Bill Gates was.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
A middle child.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Bill Gates was a middle You don't don't ruin the
trivia game here, don't win the trivia game. It might
be one of it might be one of the quests.
I don't want to spoil it right now, We've got questions.
This is going up from eight in the morning till midnight,
every hour, and you know, so Bill Gates might be
in there.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Where do we play the game? Where do we go?
Speaker 7 (31:46):
You can so on on Twitter, on on Instagram and
on threads at Midkid Union and the question will be
popping up every hour, and the answer we'll be popping
up every hand.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I oh no, I'm going to play.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, don't you have a strange podcast name? What's the
name of your podcast?
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Pay no attention to this podcast? It worked, It really worked,
It really worked. Noid attention.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So yeah, no, I.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Should have said, it's not a suggestion, it's just a
funny title. It's not a it's not the directions. Were listening.
But you know, Bruce, have it.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
This is interesting.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
There's a good chance we lost thousands of listeners having
you on, But that's okay with us.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
It's a middle child's day.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
It makes sense.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
One day you lose a few thousand listeners, what's the
big deal?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, what's the big deal? We'll get more back? What Bruce?
We love you, but We're hungry. We got to go
Wayne's Baby.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, that's going to do it for the top five
moments of the week again, it's producer Riley from Billy
and Lisa in the Morning.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Thanks for hanging with me.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
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This is a hot show. They are going to be
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Speaker 1 (33:00):
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Something to look forward to. But coming up next is
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