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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one Away Studios.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning on
Hits eight.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hey, guys, welcome back. It's a Thursday, it's January ninth.
It's biting cold of the teens. Overnight. We may get
a couple of snowflourries this morning, not a big deal.
But it's going to be warmer tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Right this exactly, it'll be in the upper thirties.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We had the car giveaway a chance or earlier this morning.
Nobody got back to us within fifteen minutes, so we'll
do it again at two ten. I still can't believe
we're giving away a free car and tickets to all
the biggest concerts of twenty twenty five. That's insane. But yeah,
another shot at two ten. We've talked a lot about
the fires in southern California. Let's go live now to
our sister day station KISS in Los Angeles and our
(00:44):
buddy Jojo. Good morning, Jojo, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
How are you guys? Doing you good?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
We're doing fine. How about you? How are you doing?
You're in the thick of it, dude.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We by the way, before you can get to that,
did you say it was warming up. It's getting in
to the low thirties.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, that's what I've said. We'll take it.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
That's that's warming up.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's a big deal here, John, Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
But yeah, I mean it's oddly enough. I would love
I'd love to be with you guys right now. It's
it's just I mean, not to jump all into the
deep end of the madness, but it's been. It's you
guys have been to La I'm sure La is a
It's a great spot, you know, and beautiful, not not
at the moment some areas you know right now it's honestly,
and you've heard this phrase probably on the news, and
(01:30):
it's in some areas it's a war zone. It's just everything,
everything changed in a matter of two days. It's just
it's insanity.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, it's interesting, Jojo. Earlier this morning, I said, what
do we have to complain about? It's cold, it's windy,
Southern California is burning. Where are you, Jojo, in relation
to everything, whether it's Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Santa Monica, where
are you situated right now?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I live in a in an area called Santa Clarita,
which is a little north you know of the Palisades
in the LA area. It takes me, you know, without traffic,
it would take me about twenty minutes to get to Burbank,
which is where we work at. With traffic, you're talking
you know, hours, but I'm about you know, say a
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half hour north of the Burbank area, you know, say
half hour north of Pacific Palisades in Santa Monica and
Malibu and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
But the crazy thing is when you know, if we've
had family call us up from outside of you know,
outside of California. Some I know Dina, my wife, Fina
has family in the Boston area too, and they'll call up.
They'll say, how how how's the fire? And the response
is which one there's there's there's so many. I mean,
just for the most part is the Pacific Palisades fire.
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And maybe if the thing and we've we've had a
lot of fires in LA and some in California over
the years, but something about this this moment is just different.
I think because the winds. The winds were crazy. I
think it was Tuesday when I was lead. I was
leaving the studio in Burbank, and you know, you have
to hold your car kind of on the road. There
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was this big metal pan just flew through the air.
I'm dodging metal pans, and trees are down and power
lights are and that's even before the real heavy part
of the fires kicked in. Uh. And but the thing
that's crazy is all of them are happening at once
and then you see on the news the Palisades fire. Yeah,
and the car they were a lot of the people
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were trying to get out of there and they had
to abandon their cars. So they left their cars, you know,
basically in the road and so and what they had
to do was bulldoze the cars out of them. Did
you guys see that clipping?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Absolutely? Yeah, So that was crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We've never seen that. That's that's the thing that kind
of started the whole thing off.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So, in terms of where you're situated, whether it's be
where you live or where you're working with the radio show,
have you been evacuated? Have you had any evacuation orders
either where you live or where you work.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I one thing, like, I live in Santa Clarita. The
fires that have got, you know, close to us. There's
a fire called the Hurst Fire h U R S
T which is in the Seeneye Valley area.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And since since the Hearst the Hearst fire is still gone.
I don't know how many acres it's uh, it's covered
at this point. But there's a two fires that have
popped up kind of around it. One called the Lydia Fire,
which is in acting. Uh. And they have you know,
it's a little bit more rural area. They have like
I were called, there's a gentle barn. I don't know
if you guys have general barns out there, but where
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they take care of all the animals, kind of a
place for like cows and pigs. You see. Well they
really they just you know, recuperate them. That that barn
is out there. And acting daughter had aur Burthday party
out there years ago. I don't know if it's okay
or not. But that's over there. Then they have a
fire called the Divide Fire, which is kind of in
between those two. So those three fires, but in particular
the Hurst one Tuesday was it Tuesday? N Idea today?
(04:55):
Well the other night we were the days a kind
of all you know, jumbling together. Uh. We were we
were watching the hears fire and you get these alerts.
We're on this app. What's the app called. It's called
Old Watch Duty. That's a great you guys want to
follow it, but watch it? Yeah, uh, and that app
you basically you know, it'll it'll kind of highlight your
(05:17):
area and then I'll let you know if you're in
like a level two which means to get ready, or
a level three go. And we were at were we
thought we were about to get the level twos because
it was coming our our direction. Then it switches directions.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So you know, well, do you do you have certain
things packed up and ready to go if you get
the order?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, man, yeah we do. Uh, you know, the go bags.
Everybody's talking about the go bags. But basically we've we've
got our car packed up, gassed up, packed up, We've
got you know, water in there, We've got blankets and whatnot.
And then of course you have your important papers and
your phones and laptops and chargers and clothes and medication,
have any pets and all that, you know, but our
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car is basically packed up and ready to go just
in case. I think at the moment, like right now,
well we seem to be good. We just checked a
few minutes ago. But these things, these fires pop up. Yeah,
you know so quick. I mean, did you guys hear
about the Hollywood Hills fire which kicked in last night.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's the sixth fire, right, is that a studio city?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Well that one. No studio city was after that one.
But these two happened lately. And I don't know if
it's number six or so. I don't know how many
fires at this point, but there was a fire in
the Hollywood Hills called the Sunset Fire, which happened I'm
on the year between three and seven. I right about
five thirty or so or six o'clock, we get the
alert that the Hollywood Hills fire is starting to happen
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right around Runyon Canyon, where a lot of people go jog.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And and the roads up there,
if you guys have been up in the Hollywood Hills,
they're super narrow. And if you go visit somebody up there,
like I got some friends in the in the area
over there, if you're going up the hill and all
of a sudden somebody's coming down the hill, you kind
of have to scoot over. So yeah, so everybody fits. Well,
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we we send this alert down and everybody, I mean
get out. It happened so quick. Normally you have a
little time to pack up, you know, you would think,
but it happened quick. So everybody starts. I mean, this
is my what I'm picturing in my head. People are
coming down a bit of a traffic jam or a lot.
It's so much congestion. Then the the you know, the
fire trucks and the emergency vehicles trying to get up.
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It was just chaos. Luckily, I think they got that
one handled for the most part. Everybody got out safe.
I don't think I heard of any any injuries, of
major injuries. And then, you know, I get to that
I'm sitting at the house. Finally I'm like, oh, God,
take a didn't trying to take a breather. Then that
Studio City fire which you're talking about, kicks in, called
the sun Swept fire, which is one of the streets
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up there, and the houses, a couple of houses burned,
you know, and Sisny who does our morning seacret, Yeah, yeah,
she she had to she had to take off. Her
house is not too far from there, so she had
to bail out of there and go stay with her
her in law's house, in her brother's house.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Jojoe, let me.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Ask you something. What are you giving out to your
listeners later today in terms of information, how they can
reach out, how they can help, how they can donate.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Basically kind of what I just told you. Right now,
we're we're in the mode of just giving out information
as quick as possible. I mean, I guess the major
thing is get the go bags ready. You know, these
apps are super handy, uh, the the watch Study app,
the fire dot ca A dot gov. There's another website
called called a Project Genesis g E N A S
(08:37):
y S dot com and basically you put in your
zip code to tell you kind of what your level
of your area is at a couple of you know,
helpful things, you know. But uh, there's a lot of
ways to I mean we'll start, you know, pumping on
information on our on our Instagram, you know, like you
can donate here, you can do this, do that. But
the main thing right now is just information information, information.
And you guys, I think I think I heard you
(08:57):
guys say that your studios, the Planet Fitness studio, Is
that correct?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, yeah, Planet Fitness. They've they've made you know, uh,
they it's pretty pretty awesome. What they've done. They have
basically offered all their Planet Fitness locations in the LA area.
You don't have to have a membership, You just come in.
You have access to the locker rooms, to the showers.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That we should get the word out of here. Any
gyms that have showers available and no people down there
in Los Angeles, they can hook up with the gym
down there. But Jojo, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, unless those gyms have been affected by the fire,
of course, and everything else. Planet Fitness is coming through.
But guys, I appreciate it. I've never been to Boston.
Can you Can you believe that I have never? One
of these days I want to come visit you guys
and hang out and see what see what it's like
in Boston.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You know what, Come in anytime. You can stay at
Lisa Dvan's house. Jojo, I have a good show this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Thanks Buddy oh Man crazy anyway, we'll move on where
it stories up next, but a feel good where it's.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Kids one of weight with the Billy and Lisa's weird stories.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So police in Saskatchewan, Canada, when you try and say that.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I just released the most unusual.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
These are the weirdest nine to one one calls they
had last year.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Number five, an individual called nine one one to report
that somebody had thrown their ice cream on the ground.
Number four, the caller advised that their cat was being
made to them.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Number three, nine one one dispatchers received a call for
a person having trouble with their washing machine.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Number two, an individual called nine one one asking for
help on a math equation as they didn't want to
fail their test in the.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Morning, and the number one call.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Nine one one dispatchers received a call from an individual
reporting that their tambourine.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Was taken from a party they were at.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now right, I think we talked about the math problem
one in weird stories earlier in the year, and that
the person.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Actually tried to help the kid, which I thought was
really sweet.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But I guess the missus said nine o one can
carry a fine of up to fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh yeah, serious business, serious business.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
My son called nine to one one recently because K
in the neighborhood called him a bad name, so the
police showed up to my door. Yeah, but they were
super cool. Not what it's for. Justin a couple of
minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
You said some of the weird stories that we feel
good stories, and I've got one right here. This guy
fifty years old had been going to a bakery in
Chicago for a long long time. It's called give Me
Some Sugar, and he really loved the woman that was
in the bakery and owned the bakery. Her name was Leonor. Well,
this guy, as it turns out, was adopted as a baby,
and he randomly took a DNA test and it turns
(11:39):
out Leonor, the bakery owner, is his mother.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
From the bakery line. Because I wasn't sure you know
who he was or anything.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Give me some sugar, pops up. I didn't order anything.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
I'm thinking I got why I like miss Leonore right, yeah, like,
oh my goodness, noah.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
No, are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Now?
Speaker 10 (12:04):
I started saying, oh the why is cracking thing? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got somebody to blame for that.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Now we are so much alike. It is crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
This world is.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Full people that don't do good things, you know, And
it just so happens that my mother is a pillar
of the community.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I can't explain it. It almost feels like I have
never been away from him.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They were drawn to each other.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, that's like next level. They should make a movie
out of that.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Probably will that is the next one.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
That is a movie.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Some stories right themselves.
Speaker 11 (12:39):
Seriously speaking of stories righting themselves. So this comes out
of my hometown of Quinsey. An ex official. This is
a comical story. His name's Thomas Clasby. He was ahead
of Like the Elder Services for twenty five years between
ninety nine and twenty twenty four. He just April was
when he stopped working there. Now, beginning in twenty nineteen,
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he started using our taxpayers dollars for personal expenses, justin
please help me out with the list so I don't
have to read it.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Prosecutors say he paid a music studio nearly nine thousand
dollars to record himself singing for his wife and others.
He spent nearly five thousand dollars in taxpayer money for
bourbon steak tips and sixteen hundred dollars for a framed
self portrait. Klasby is also accused of hiring a friend's
company with city funds for forty thousand dollars money. Prosecutors
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say the friend shared with Klasby in cash.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah, he paid forty grand to this company. And they
didn't give it back.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
They sent him a check.
Speaker 11 (13:39):
The guy cashed the check and then met him in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Yeah,
and like framing him on the Masspike to give him
the money.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
So he paid sixteen hundred dollars for a selfie. Now
a portrait self?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Was it like a painted you know?
Speaker 11 (13:53):
It was a week very official signature, mounted and frame
self portrait.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
It doesn't say that it was painted or not.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
This is the weirdest list of items I think I've
ever read.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
If you look at the guy, he looks like he
would be into this stuff. And also forty to it.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
A prius like Toyota Prius.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
The environment, So that's good.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
One add onto the story, which is my favorite Steve
Cooper on Channel seven, he's our favorite guy.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
He gets right up in their faces when they come
out of court. Harry was yesterday with the microphone in
the guy's face doing steak tips on the city's money.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I don't need to say today, well, we just want.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
To get your side of the story. Oh, my god,
is the best.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Oh I cannot this is comical.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
This list is our regents.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Whinny, you're getting way too much joy out of this
story being from Quinsy.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
You know what, it seems like it's on brand right now.
I've been looking at it.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
All right, finally let's go to the Oh you have
you have an extra one?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Oh my god, she cut you off. You always have
a bonus.
Speaker 11 (14:55):
He didn't always have a bonus. All right, go ahead,
do your bonus. Do your bonus of the music to
your bonus.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I know I'm in a different room winning, but you
don't have to forget that I'm here.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
I remember that you're there. Your bonus.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
This UK college has a new class to teach young
gen Zers how to use the telephone.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
That's sad.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
So gen Zers are dealing with something called telephone telephonobia.
Which did I say that right? Nope, telephonophobia, saying that
one telephonia, No tele a fauna phobia, telephonophobia. Yeah. The
symptoms include nausea, increased heart rate, shortness of breath, dizziness,
muscular tension, all because they have to make a phone call.
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So there's an actual college class to kind of walk
them through it.
Speaker 11 (15:39):
That's sad though, that they have so much anxiety about
a phone call.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Well, they grew up not using the phone to call
people everything, sex, social media. Yeah, isn't that crazy? Not Bill, though,
he's an old school Hello, every single day three o'clock
I pick up the phone.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He called you every day every day.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Radio stations, Yeah, Hello, did I.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Entertainment is coming up next to We've got a lot
to talk about a little bit on the southern California fires,
but also also the podcast Awards. The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards
nominees are out and we've got them for you. That's
coming up next time by Lisa. I love the story, Lisa. No,
(16:27):
and any time you want to do with you busy
right now. They're very busy right now. I don't think
they have time to go ball them with us. Okay,
you want to squeeze in a talkback justin before we
hit entertainment. No, we're gonna go right to entertainment.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Let's go Wow, the entertainment update with the Billy Collstead.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Okay, we have to address the wildfires in southern California.
We're talking about it all morning. But anywhere you go
yesterday or this morning, whatever channel, whatever network, whatever broadcast
you were watching, it was all the wild fires all
the time, I mean constantly, And why not this is
an incredible situation. So far, the death toll is at five,
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expected to climb. Entire neighborhoods completely wiped out. Close to
two hundred thousand people evacuated to to flee their homes
just leave everything behind. In some cases they left their
cars behind and Lista. That became a problem because the
cars were in the way. The fire darts couldn't get through.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
They brought bulldozers. Bulldozers. I can't even speak this.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Wearing bulldozers in and to just move them out of
the way. I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
And that was yesterday when actor Steve Guttenberg was encouraging people, Look,
if you're going to leave the cars at leaf leave
leave your keys in the cars so we can move them.
The late night shows immediately last night addressed it.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Everybody before we start the show.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
I just want to say that our heart's go to
everyone in Los Angeles right now dealing with the massive
wildfires out there. You see the footage on TV and
it's just surreal. We have so many friends who've been affected.
We just hope that everyone stay safe, including all the
firefighters and everyone else trying to cataint it.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Stay safe. We love you, Ellen willis to night.
Speaker 13 (18:02):
Before we kick things off, we just want to send
our love to everybody in the Los Angeles area in
California right now who are dealing with wildfires. You know,
A great many people who work at the show have
friends and family who live there. A great many of
you watching have friends and family who live there, or
you live there, you know. And the scenes we're seeing
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on television are obviously harrowing, and there are no real
words that I can share other than that we are
thinking about you, and we are hoping for your safety.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, tough time finding words. Jamie Lee Curtis was on
Founum Longtime Roads in it describing what she's seen.
Speaker 14 (18:37):
It's just a catastrophe in southern California. Obviously, there have
been horrific fires in many places. This is literally where
I live, everything, the market, I shop in, the schools,
my kids go to friends.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Many many, many, many.
Speaker 14 (18:54):
Many friends now have lost their homes.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
So it is it's a really awful situation. I am obviously.
Speaker 14 (19:03):
Going to go home first thing tomorrow and be with
my family and try to help my friends.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Complete blocks of homes, complete blocks of businesses are completely gone,
flattened just gone.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Just everything gone flat empty. It's just incredible video to watch.
A Kimmel show, by the way, was canceled yesterday, so
were some of the daytime talk shows. Lisa, you were
in touch with Mel Robbins.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Because we have a big event coming up, and I
was on the phone with her assistant. They're actually in
LA right now. They were supposed to do the Jennifer
Hudson's show, the E Show. They all got canceled.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And Carolyn Kepnis, who's coming in to do your book
Club or has done your book Club.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
She created the U series for Netflix. Yeah, she lives
out in LA. She evacuated, so now she's back here.
She flew in last night at midnight, so we're going
to check in with her at nine ten.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Oh my god. Just a crazy situation. We'll talk more
about it throughout the morning, but keep in mind, these
are full families who now have no homes. When we
had Jojo from our Kiss station in Los Ange a
few minutes ago on the show, he said Planet Fitness
gyms were offering their locations because well, they have space,
and more importantly, they have showers and an escape from
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the smoke and the fumes. And the fire and the flames.
It's just an incredible thing. I was watching it all day,
well into the night last night.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah, and the scary thing is it's ongoing. It's not
contained contained. Let me get much worse. Yeah, you know,
it's just awful.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
I don't know what the solution is for this. I
don't know if they have one.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Actor Jane Woods. I've been a longtime fan of his.
He was all over the new stations yesterday his home
completely burned down. He got extremely emotional by what he's witnessed.
Speaker 15 (20:39):
The smoke arms in our house alerted our phones.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
That are our house.
Speaker 15 (20:44):
We had just renovated for three years and had just
finally moved into about three months ago. You know, all
the smoke alarms are going also hard hardly a good sign.
So I'm not sure, but it wouldn't make any different
because you know, the whole streets burned down.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Legend right there.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
I just looked him u because I wasn't sure movies.
I just didn't know. He's one of those guys. I
just didn't know his name.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
He's been Yeah, he's been in so many movies. My
favorite was Casino. Oh yeah, he played the creepy boyfriend
of Sharon Stone. He usually took a yeah, so good.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
So many good movies, James Woods said. Anyway, they're all
dealing with it. And there's a long list of celebrities
whose homes have been wiped out. Mandy Moore, Ben Affleck,
Steven Spielberg, Billy Crystal, Fergie's house I guess very early
this morning burned down, Jennifer Aniston, Paris Hilton. All of
the celebrities either burned out or definitely evacuated. And the
(21:40):
number of people evacuated is over two hundred thousand now.
And by the way, the fires are still burning. In fact,
most of the fires, and there are six of them now,
most of them are still zero percent contained. I've never
even heard that in a fire or even a wildfire,
that it's zero percent contained. Keep in mind, during the
(22:00):
highlight of it all yesterday, the winds were so strong
they hit one hundred miles an hour, which helped few
the fires and spread the fires. So it was hurricane wins.
So they couldn't attack the fires by air. You know,
usually the planes will fill up with water and dump
the water down on the wildfires. They couldn't even do that. Yesterday,
a lot of stuff canceled, the Critics Choice Awards, postponed
(22:21):
Oscar nominations that were supposed to happen. Those have been
delayed now, so there's a lot of pivoting going on
in Los Angeles. And again right after nine o'clock we'll
talk with Carolyn Kepnis. She invented the show you and
she left Los Angeles last night and flew here to Boston.
I want to mention the iHeart Podcast Awards. They're coming
(22:42):
in March, and the list of nominees her Podcast of
the Year is out and they include Normal Gossip, three
Giggly Squad, Call Her Daddy. I think we saw that coming, yep.
And I was looking for the after show podcast on
some morning show.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Is justin do we not knowing?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
How did we get snubbed?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's okay, Well there's always next year.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
There's always next year. We do, you know, Whning and
I do this little after show podcast. It's a little
companion piece and we're proud of it.
Speaker 9 (23:14):
It does quite well, I will say.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
It does quite well.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
Does that show nationally Weird recognized but apparently not in
the awards?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well, Okay, the voting is open at Iheartpodcast Awards dot
com and the voting will run through February sixteenth. I
know Boston Calling went on sale yesterday. Do we know
if it's sold out?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Well, the thing about them is they never really they
don't really sell out like that that week.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
You have time to get there. It's so big.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Well it's a three day event, you know, so I
think there are some tickets left.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yes, The New England Boat Show is still going on
in Boston. Didn't sell out, not that I know, Okay,
but it's here all week. It'll be here through Sunday.
I spent two or three hours there yesterday. They've gotten
more than five hundred boats to check out. They've got
all kinds of activities to bring the whole family.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Speaking of it, it's a great take.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Kids under twelve are free. Oh that's perfect, justin you
could go. You know what they have least you like
you can actually paddle board yoga. Oh I love that
they have a giant pool there and you can paddle
board yoga. You can do it.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
It's really an amazing Yeah. I don't bring my son
to events like that, but thank you anyway for the offer.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Why don't you bring your son to events like that?
Speaker 9 (24:23):
Have you met his son?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, no, he's you know, he'll be interested for a
little while, but then I'll drive all the way down
and you know who walked through. But then he kind
of loses interests.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Well, the one thing you don't have up there in
your New Hampshire estate is a jet ski.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Nope, we do not.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
They have a lot of jet skis for sale at
that time.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I have to say, it's like instant summer. When you
walk in there, you just feel like, Okay, this isn't
that bad.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
We'll get through winter.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
It's a dopamine hit.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It is a lot of football coming up this weekend. Saturday,
you've got two games. You've got the Chargers and the
Texans at four point thirty, Steelers and the Ravens. It's
a good game eight o'clock Saturday night. And then Sunday
three games Broncos and the Bills one o'clock, Packers and
Eagles for thirty, Commanders and Bucks at eight fifteen Sunday night.
(25:08):
And then Monday night you've got the Vikings and the Rams.
Wild card playoff weekend. Wow, that's a lot of the
Wildcard and don't forget the college semi final playoffs are
still going on or going on this week, so lot
to talk about, A lot going on. And I know
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Speaker 1 (25:29):
Leads, Yes, they are. We're so excited to have them.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
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Speaker 2 (25:34):
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Speaker 9 (25:57):
Cold huh.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
So we're back with Villy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Kis welcome back, everybody, like well everybody else with fit
a certain amount of time with the wildfires in southern California.
And a friend of the Billy and Lisa Morning Show
is a Caroline Kepnist who invented or wrote the show
You that we all loved, but also lives out there
in the California, in the Los Angeles area, and flew
(26:25):
out of there to Boston last night. Caroline you there,
I'm here.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Hi, Billy, Hi, Lisa, Hi.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Thanks for joining us and doing this.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
How are you?
Speaker 8 (26:35):
Thank you? It's like my therapy. Yeah, I mean to Field,
I'm okay. But to think of all the people, all
the animals, like just so much destruction ongoing everywhere. It's
like my friend Frankie said that fire has no manners,
you know, like it's going to do anything at any moment.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, sorry about that was a technical glitch.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Good like, it's not another problem, right, Well.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Describe some of what you say I saw before leaving
Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
I was down the street in my neighborhood. I have
a wonderful neighborhood, and the power went out, like we
all knew, and the wind's blowing and it feels far away,
and then you know, it turns from having that feeling
of like almost like when you're in a blackout and
a snowstorm, into like, oh right, like this isn't the
sort of thing that's predictable, and then you could feel
something change and people are driving very scary, and that
(27:24):
was terrifying for people trying to get home. It's hard
to cross the street as a pedestrian. You feel the
panic everywhere, and then in the morning, like you can
smell it and see it. Where I was and on
the way to Lax, it was the eeriest time I've
ever had going there where the roads were just empty,
and I've never seen Lax that empty, and it was
just so sad, you know, like I to fight out
(27:45):
so many people are you know, someone who knows someone
who just lost their home or their neighbor just lost
their home, And I don't know. I mean, it was
just like absolute like panic. And I go back to
that word wild because it does feel so wild and
so out of control.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You know where you were, Caroline, were you evacuated?
Speaker 8 (28:04):
No, But once I was on the flight the evacuation,
like the the areas moved and it got close to
where I am, but not to where I am, but
enough that, like I think it was like when I
saw that studio city fire, I'm like, oh my god,
Like that's like you just start thinking of everyone you know,
and yeah, it's it's just it's it's just like beyond terrible.
(28:25):
But in my direct neighborhood. I think that's the strange
thing about the world, right that, Like it's like when
you see those you know, scenes of after tornadoes and
one person gets it and one person doesn't because you're driving,
and like I did not see the flames in the air,
but you can you can feel them, you know. And
then to hear friends, like in other places saying, oh, yeah,
we've got embers over here. It's yeah, Like it just
(28:48):
just terrible, right.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
They're like complete blocks gone, and then you walk a
little bit, you know, over to one side and their
house is still there and there's like no rhyme or
reason to it.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
Yes exactly. And then to imagine then to I mean,
I do know a couple of people with it. Their
homes are gone, and I think that's just it's just
got to be the most bizarre, Like you like powerless situation,
you know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
When you hear the words from officials, leave and leave
everything behind, just get out and get I saw video
footage of people living there and you could see through
their windows as they were standing in their kitchen or
their living room, you could see these furious flames that
were literally about twenty or thirty feet right outside their window.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
I saw that too, and that I can't relate. I'm
a like, get out, get out person, you know, like
it's tough, like it's horrible, but like it's stuff. And
then and then when you see how the firemen are,
you know, working so hard in the water, and like
all the need for people to get places you really
need to get to them, like please just do what
they say to do, you know, not for your own life.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, when you decided to leave, did you pack up
certain things you knew you had to have just in
case it spread to your area?
Speaker 8 (30:00):
Didn't do that? Like it just I had planned to
go anyway. I had a family situation, and I was
so concerned about other people, Like I think that's part
of the California, Like how just how spread out it
is that like I felt impossible to think that way
about my own stuff. Does that make sense? Like I
just got like I was like, I'm just taking what
I need, Like I'm just going to think that it's
(30:20):
not going to come here in all likelihood, I live
in a very condensed area. I mean, you know, you know,
those thoughts are hard to break through, right, And then
I remember being on a plane like, oh right, in
theory this is wildfire. It could and I didn't do that.
So yeah, fortunate. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
On another topic, Lease, is Caroline coming back to your
book club again?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
She is?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Well the U season five is coming this year. It's
definitely coming on Netflix, right Caroline.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, so I will be back. Yeah,
we are go to celebrate this.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Season five is closing out the Joe Goldberg years.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh my god, we're going to be saying goodbye.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Do we have to worry about Joe? I don't know, Caroline,
can you give us any secrets?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I mean we're on the air right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I was trying to trip you up there.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
But isn't Jenna, isn't Jenna? Or take it back though
she'll be in it.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
I mean that sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah yeah, but no, but Caroline, in all seriousness, you
will be coming back with us in sometime in May
for another book club.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
So yes, absolutely, very exciting.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Well Caroline, welcome back to Boston, and best of luck
to you and your family and your loved ones and
your friends and I hope they all make it out
of okay.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
Thank you so much, guys, Thank you, Yes and LAFD
needs everyone to help you.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
That's for sure. That's for sure. Thanks again. Be safe.
It's amazing when you talk to people who just left it.
She was there last night.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It's so eerie.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Yeah, there's a lot of video and pictures of people
flying out in the in the you know, taking video
of the fires from the planes.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
Yeah, Hey, are you surprised that planes can get out?
I know, I'm actually surprised that they can get out.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
They're getting out with the like how can they see? Yeah,
I don't know about like right now. Yea, yeah, you know,
yesterday and last night.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
There was one guy saw the footage you may have
seen the same one justin of a guy that was
flying into lax over the fires and everything, and for
the first time when you look down outside the window
and the plane, it was freakish. Yeah whatd it look like?
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah? God, really terrible, just like a crazy day. But
have we been getting talkbacks and calls on it all
morning long. We'll have some of the talkbacks about the
fires and the talkback leftovers.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
Next Kiss your Mind, Lisa, Kiss Boy.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
We had talkback overload this morning on the show. Justin
you got to have some leftovers in there.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Noah the cabby here. Uh.
Speaker 16 (32:53):
The out of the six months I've spent in La
the last few years, the majority of that was in
the palace. It's right near the Riviera golf course. And
I did find out the folks I sit for are okay.
Husband and wife. They have ten animals, four dogs, six cats,
and even a turtle. They don't know if their house
is okay, but they are all okay somehow, the animals,
(33:17):
so that's good for now. We will see.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
They had ten animals, a lot of animals.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
That's always one of the first things I think about.
What about the animals.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Yeah, they have a turtle. No, you don't see a
lot of pet turtles, you really don't.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
I wonder if it's like the one who's got hundred
years old, you know, they lived to like one hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I read that there's a vet in La right now
that's rounding up all of the animals that were left
behind and he's putting them in a shelter situation.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
I'd love to get him on.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, the pets are Yeah, I was thinking about the pets.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
I'm sorry, but there is no way that I would
be leaving my dog and two cats in my home
as there's fire all around. Like I would shove them
in my car, there would be a spot. They're part
of the family, They're for babies. It's like leaving them
in a hurricane tied to a I'm just like these
(34:07):
poor people.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
What to Oh, my prayers, thoughts, love everything, go.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Out to them.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I swear I'd take Titus and throw them over my neck.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Absolutely, you know, just take them where over we're going.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
How do you leave even when you're broken shoulder?
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Whatever it takes, ever it.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Takes, well, you may have Michelle carrying, well, you messed
up your shoulder again. It's trying to save Titus, you
know last year, absolutely remember that.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, yeah, he fell in the ocean.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Another topic on the show this morning once again. Other
billiyon Lisa sweatshirts. They're still coming for these sweatshirts. Lisa
gottas all custom hoodies for Christmas. We have some leftovers
we're gonna give away and everybody wants a piece of
these things.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Guys, for the sweatshirts, you just need to have a
trivia contest.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Who knows Billy and Lisa and Justin and Winnie the best.
Speaker 13 (34:53):
That's all you gotta.
Speaker 10 (34:53):
Do, and then whoever wins gets a sweatshirt and then
come up with another contest.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
But you know what, like it should be about you
guys and what you guys want to do.
Speaker 9 (35:02):
That's what it should be. Yeah, I like that idea.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Yeah, I know the show. That's a possibility.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I could go with that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Somebody d I mean that I should raffle one off
at one of the book club events for charity for
raising a reader.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
So to do that, that's perfect. I'm being hit up
by people in my life. Just this morning, my plumber
and my cousin both texted me telling me I need
to give the plumber. Alan the plumber.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
I mean, he's the official plumber our Show. He's the
official plumber Our Show.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
He is. He is, although Billy won't have him do
work at his house because why because he was a
former criminal.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Oh come on, wait a minute, I never said that.
If I have a plumbing issue, I'm going to call.
Speaker 11 (35:39):
It is he's such a he said, he's a white
collar crime guy. You are a criminal too, And now
you're sitting there looking down on Alan, Well, because he
didn't do the white collar crimes like you did, which.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I got that. You got to stop bringing it up.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
Oh sorry, you know when he was younger, in his
younger years, brother too.
Speaker 9 (35:59):
Yeah, Frank down in Florida.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Okay, can we move on please, Boston calling. Tickets are
on sale now. We kind of did a whole thing
on the lineup the other day, Dave Matthews band doing
the third night, and we talked all about the Dave
Matthews Band fans, what they're called. And then we had
the woman in Phoenix. Yes, that's flying in she listened
to the show to see Dave Matthews. Well, she got
her tickets.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Hey guys, it's Samantha from Phoenix calling back, Dave Matthew
super fan.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I did get my tickets.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
I'll be VIP on Sunday night to see my favorite band.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
You had asked if we have like a name for
our fan base, and I don't really think that we do,
mostly just DMB fan.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
We do have a fan club. It's called the Warehouse.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
And yes, I haven't met tons of friends in all
my travels over the years, and it is.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
It's really a great community.
Speaker 9 (36:47):
So hope you enjoy well.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
She say that she went to over a thousand shows
hundred crazy, one hundred and ten.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
Wow, this will be one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
But that's a good point, the fact that they're so
community based but they don't have an I think.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
We should come up with them for them, the Davies.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
I like the dummies. That was a good one.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
I said dummies, not to make fun of them, but
it's d MB is those stickers you see on cars.
So some people call dummies. I don't know, let's go
on the dummies.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
They seem like earthy, crunchy people like they've seen. They
smoke a lot of weed.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Yeah, well their fans probably go and get stoned. Yeah,
that's what they do. So anyway, I'll do it for
the leftovers. I have plenty more here, so always make
sure you leave them. Join the show. You never know
when I'll play one back. Coming up next, we'll have
the wrap up. We'll look back at what you missed
in the show, and more importantly, well you can catch
up on with the podcast that's next.