October 10, 2025 • 30 mins
The Billy & Lisa Show cover a whole bunch of topics during today’s show including Uncle Mark, Donnie Wahlberg and random jobs we’ve had! Listen to Billy & Lisa weekdays from 6-10AM on Kiss 108!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Planet Fitness Kids one of the studios. We're
back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So if you're new to the Villy Lisa Show, Lisa
Donovan has an uncle Mark. He lives in Key West
and he lives in Maine. He's become a character on
our show. We love him so much. He's actually in
Maine now and coming down to Boston for some family
celebrations with Lisa Donovan and her family. So you know,
he had to check in with Uncle Mark and see
what the hell he's up to.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Uncle Mark.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hey there, Ben boy, how you doing there? Lisa? Yere?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We go?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Man, so up here looking here on the ocean eer
looking to get down there to oh Boston.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, so, Uncle Mark, I gotta ask you something. Who
has a bigger spread up there in in Maine? Is
it the Bush family or you?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We're a crows fly from the boat. I'd say we're
pretty close to both of them. But oh yeah, this
has got a big spread there. And old Kenny.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, you get yourself a peninsula, do you?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'll sit in the helicopter down you come on, Mark.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't know if you realize this, but the few
times you've called into the show. You have developed a
big fan base with the Billy and Lisa Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, I didn't know that, but I appreciate that. I
really love Boston Aian, the people around Boston. They're just great,
great people. Man. I'm even an undercover Patriots fan cultics.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had justin you have some talkbacks
for ukmore.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
So excited to hear that Uncle Mac is coming up
for the weekend, and I hope you guys get him
into the studio and talk with him and just hear
his like Shenanigan stories. I'm very exciting Uncle Max for president.
I love that guy.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Oh, boy, Mark for president.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So I appreciate that. Vice mayor us for a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well I was gonna go there, so yeah, I know
you ran for vice mayor. Did you win that election?
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I had one that was at a point of position
that I was there for twelve years. He's the vice mayor.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
But you did run for office because I remember seeing
the video campaign that one. Yeah, you lost that one.
Any plans on that one can't win them all. Now
you're got to run for office up there in Maine.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh, I'm just on the download here. Let's me tell you,
I'm so loaded. I'm lower than Dirt.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Mark. I got to ask you when you're when you
leave Key West? Uh, who keeps an eye on the
ladies in the in the cathouse?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, I've got a good crew down there. I got
a couple of the guys that been with me a
while and they do a good job. I got to
tell you, I'm I'm blessed to have a good crew
down there.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And Mark, we have a lot of people calling in
all the time saying, Hey, you know what, I'm going
to Key West for a vacation. I know uncle Mark
has a place there, so walk us through it. What's
your biggest place in Key West?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh? Well, the Red Guarter's big. We've got probably have
one of the greatest on the East coast of America
rock and roll venues with our house band, the Dirtbags,
unbelievable band. And of course the upstairs is the dance
club and that's huge, and we're actually getting ready to
add on to the property. We're putting in the bar.
(03:17):
If any of your customer or your regular listeners have
been out there to Amsterdam, there's a real famous bar
called the Old Sailor. So we're gonna put the new
bar in downstairs called the Old Sailor, right next to
what's called Captain Tony's. And we're gonna make the upstairs
even bigger and put new bathrooms in. So we're really
looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh, they must be excited about the new bathroom.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
So, but Rex is still there too, right, Mark, Rex
is always Rex is always Rix is there?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, Rix has always been there for some years now. Yeah,
everybody goes.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, absolutely, So describe the menu. What kind of food
you're offering up there in Key West.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
We got pizza cup baroni pizza.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
It's it simple, It's not a restaurant, it's a bar.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Simple that it's a good thing. When you got a
little bulls on you to slice spy Andre, you go.
Speaker 10 (04:08):
Nothing better going.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I saw rather Red Garter Mark's placed there on TV.
They were on the TLC network. Really, yeah, it was featured.
They one of the two of the people on this
reality show. I forget what show it was, maybe you know, Mark, No.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I can't at this time recall, but yeah, we got
you know, we a lot of people that come through
the doors.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's what it was. Yeah, Mark, I didn't think the
cameras were allowed in the Red Garter.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We do how do you say a I don't know
the word I want to use, but a click down
version of it? Version Yeah, yeah, yeah PG.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Now, Mark, we've got a couple of celebrations here for
you know, Max and for Riley Dunnovan. I know you're
coming in for the big event. You're going to be
flying private.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah. Oh yeah, I got the chumpter chumpters out there
on the pad now I'm getting ready to he low down. Yeah.
I got to tell you, I'm very, very proud of
Max and Riley, two young men and doing a great job. Great.
You know, Max was up here the other day. I
took him to lunch, and I can't tell you how
proud of I am or that boy. He was just
(05:25):
a real good young man. Make sure have a lot
of faith in the younger people of today.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Yeah, and he really loves you. So that was so
nice that you got.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Great lunch, good good good guard man. He's turning into
be a hell of a young man. I see him
there at eighteen, and I think to myself, when I
was eighteen and running around down in Port Lauderdale, in
that area.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'm not going to ask any follow up stories.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You don't want to know. Mark, middle seventies. You remember
the middle seventies.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, you do so, markt To celebrate the celebrations,
we might be doing some dancing. How are you king?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm ready. I've been doing some more exercises. I've
been doing touches and.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
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Speaker 10 (06:20):
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Speaker 6 (06:23):
Up?
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Everybody, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
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Speaker 11 (06:42):
Nine, three one one one aweight. You will need the keyword,
and the keyword is Donnie, because Donnie Wahlberg all over
Boston filming his TV show, and what do you know,
he's on the phone right now.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Donnie, you there, I am here, Billy.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Now I gotta ask you, where are you?
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Oh gosh, Well, today I'm in Toronto. Tomorrow I'll be
in Chicago. And I g just last night I was
in Boston.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you've been doing a lot of shooting in Boston,
so I didn't know if you were still in town shooting.
And I want to start Donnie with an apology. Okay, well,
because it may have come across it, I was bugging
you to come on the show. And you have to understand, Donnie,
every time your name comes up, and it comes up
(07:32):
almost every day because you're doing so much and traveling
so much, they immediately say, hey, why don't you just
call your buddy Donnie Waalburg. Right, So I'm pressure, buddy.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I still think it's an honor. I still take it
as an honor. It's still an amazing treat. And I
will never look at you as being a bother Billy.
You've always been good to me and the guys and
the new kids, and you were one of the first
people in any position of radio or anything that treat
us with respect and love in that city. And it
will always mean the world to me that you call
(08:04):
me and text me and check in to come on
the show.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, I really appreciate that, Donnie, and your family has
really been good to us. I don't know if you
even realize this, but Jenny Johnson and I have a cookbook,
and your brother Mark did the forward to the book.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Well to see now I have a problem, yeah, hope, see.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You know you have early morning sound to your voice.
Are you in bed right now, Donnie?
Speaker 8 (08:35):
I actually just got out of the bed because I
think our phone's breaking up a little, so I'm moving
to a different part of the apartment.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Yeah, it was a big It was a big week
filming in Boston, and I mean we filmed on the
Green Monster. We filmed in Boston Common and in the
Waterfront and Charlestown. We were everywhere, and I was yelling
doing a lot of stop, please stop, please loud volume.
So my voice is a little beat up this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Now I got to ask you. Did you and Jenny
FaceTime each other overnight?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We did?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
In fact, she's not only did we face time. I
had to hang up on her to take this call
with you. But I was okay doing it because she's
actually gonna come meet me for the weekend. We're on
the weekend together, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well, I think you have a Wallburger in Toronto, do you?
Speaker 8 (09:27):
We do? We have one? Well, it's actually in the airport,
so I can only really pop in there if I'm
taking a trip. Yeah, But other words, that's the one
up here. So I try to go to Wallburger's once
in a while. You know, I don't want to go
too much because it could be problematic for me. I
try to stay in really good shape. I don't work
(09:48):
out at like three am, like my brother Mark, but
I work out and eat really well and stay fit.
So Wallburgers is like my weekly treat.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I gotta tell you, Donnie, you look really In fact,
I don't think I've ever said this to another man,
but the other day me and Lisa were talking here
in the studio, and I think you should take this
as a compliment. You're a dilfo. Yeah, And for the record, Donnie,
(10:18):
I do too. You know.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
It's you know, you know, Billy, we've always shared that
with each other. Uh, only only professionally, but I think
you've always been a look for yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Wait a minute, Donnie, are you saying that I'm a dilf?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
I'd like to know.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You went to the Red Sox game the other night
and they wasted no time finding you with the cameras.
Can you play that justin?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
All right?
Speaker 12 (10:45):
That's Donny Wahlberg, who is a Boston native and is
wearing a Mets longsleeve tea. I would imagine that that
pains him. However, he is here at Fenway Park. They
are shooting an episode of the TV drama Blue Blood
season Detective Danny Reagan Boston Blue Rather so, Welcome to
Fenway Donnie.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Did it pain you to put the Mets jersey on?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
But whenever I see these posts or people talking about it,
they all say, I bet you he put in this
contract that he wouldn't have to wear the Yankees, And
that is true. I didn't put it in my contract.
I just proclaimed it the first day. I said, listen,
Danny is a New Yorker, He's going to Boston. I
will not be a Yankee fan. And that's it. It
(11:30):
did pain me. I was literally running around up there
on the Green Monster like covering my chest so like
all the real fans, because we were surrounded by extras.
But once I got past them, all the real fans
were like, what are you doing? You know, But the
best part about the clip is that the family and
friends in the clip put a Red Sox jersey on
Danny at the end of the scenes end of an
(11:51):
episode and it was really sweet and really fun and
it did pain me, but I loved every second of
filming the scene because I knew the end was going
to be worth the torture that I had to go through.
We're in the Mets jerseys.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
How would you compare it doing this show to spin
off of Boston Blue to Blue Bloods.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Oh well, you know, it's it's wow. That's a heavy question,
because Blue Bloods was, you know, in many ways, I
was sort of responsibility free in some ways. And don't
I don't mean that in an arrogant way or anything
like that. I was playing a New Yorker. I'm playing
in New Yorker and I'm a Bostonian, so I got
to have fun with that and got to really dive
(12:28):
into that character and just be you know, crazy and
really over the top with it. But now I'm in Boston,
I feel a great responsibility to, you know, respect the
city of Boston. While portraying a New Yorker and it's
a delicate tight rope to walk. And of course, you know,
the family and Tom Selleck and the entire cast were
(12:49):
you know, my friends, and we're very close and so
this is a new world. Of course, going to stay
connected with the old characters, and they'll be popping up
from time to.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tell me good guest appearances.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Oh absolutely, Oh yeah, we have. The first episode is
going to blow people's minds. I think people are going
to be like, oh my god, Like there's some twists
and turns in the first episode, and then we're going
to continue that. You know, we want to pay respect
and honor Blue Bloods, but also you know there are
ben there thousands and thousands of police families in America
(13:22):
and we want to tell some of those stories too,
And we want to let Danny explore, you know, be
a fish out of water. And what better place to
throw in New Yorker than the middle of Boston. And
you know, I got to experience that fourteen years on
Blue Bloods as a Boston only and in the middle
of New York. So this will be a fun turn.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And we have a question from a listener and think
about the show.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
I was just wondering how long are they filming this
show in Boston? And like did it start filming like
yesterday or because I know they're filming like yesterday or
two days ago at Fenway and like in the Commons,
I'm pretty sure I saw like tiktoks, like how long
are they going to be filming there for?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Because I'd love to see them.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Film I think we'll be filming in Boston a lot.
So here's the thing with you know, people think it's
a personal choice or something that like I didn't want
to film in Boston. I had the best time in
my life filming in Boston. I have the best time
in my life every time I go to Boston. I'm
talking to you, Billy, because you're my friend and you're
from Boston. The TV and the industry has really been
(14:20):
beat up from COVID and the strike, and I think
a lot. You know, CBS, for example, used to make
like twenty shows a year. They're making two this year,
new shows, and I'm on one of them. And it's
really dire straits financially, you know, in the industry. So
I'm really fortunate to be making a show. I'm really
fortunate to be able to go to Boston and work
(14:40):
at all. But you know, when I initially was offered
a job, I said, we got to go to Boston.
They said, we can't afford it. It's basically thirty cents
on a dollar to film in Canada right now, compared
to you know, eighty cents on a dollar, ninety cents
on a dollar even with tax plates. And but I said,
we have to go to Boston. I can't not go
to Boston. So the plan right now is to do
(15:01):
the interiors up here and go to Boston every couple
of weeks and do what we did, and put a
crew together, a Boston crew, and go down and film
all over the city. And you know, you can't fake
what Boston looks like. And you know, we're bringing Boston
actors up here to guests in the shows, and we're
doing everything we can, and hopefully, in success, we can
(15:23):
be in Boston more. That's the goal is, let's compromise
to get the show made. We'll work outside and do
exteriors in Boston, and then you know, in success, perhaps
we can come down there and be there full time.
That would be a dream of all dreams.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So I know you're busy up there in Toronto. I
wish you nothing but love. Just know that Boston loves you, Donnie,
and you're doing a great job.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
We're proud of you, Billy, thank you, thank you, Boston,
thank you everyone there, kiss and honestly that we grew
up there down there in Boston filming is it would
be really hard to be there full time because I
probably took forty six thousand selfies in just a few days.
The duck boats kept driving by, going dot it to
(16:05):
take pictures boats. It was the most fun. But I
could see, you know, and the crew was like, oh
my god, the city loves you. And I was like overwhelmed.
Every now and then a director would look at me
and go, okay, Donnie, you gotta say no to Sully
and Timmy and.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We got mikey v in studio right now, who, of
course can be heard every afternoon on Kiss one O
Wait with his brother Frankie and Gianna.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
Make sure you check them out. You know, typically hear
him in the mornings. But mikey Vee wears many hats.
He's obviously on the radio, he's on the air, he's
a DJ, he does real estate. I mean the guy
has so many jobs, but it wasn't always like that.
And that's the funny thing about Mikey. He's got quite
the backstory, especially when it comes to jobs. You want
to highlight a couple of those forums. I think it
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goes back to to do anything that made money at
one point. And you never believe this, you know what
my jim is. Yes, Gymnastics Little Kids is one of
Route nine in framing him. Where I grew up, I
was a my gym teacher. So if you had like
your eight year old birthday party and the kids doing
a little fake backflip around triangle foam, I'm like the
teacher that's like, all Ben, you're.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Back, And how did that happen?
Speaker 11 (17:15):
I think I randomly met the owner of my gym
when I was young, and she's like, oh, do you
want a job. I'm like, I'll take a job. And
then I started going there and I started working there.
I started like helping our kids. But remember I went
to college to be a teacher, so I've always liked
being around kid. I went to stoneholl College, all right,
and I studied math education, so like I always at
that point, and I probably thought I was gonna be
(17:35):
a teacher, and I love that job.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
But I'm numerous ones.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
And weren't you like a football player too?
Speaker 10 (17:40):
I played football in high school.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You had like the athletic part of it.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
Wait a minute, hold on, hold on, hold on. So
your goal was to be a teacher and not work
on the radio. Yes, I've did that before. So I
went to college. I went to Stonehill College, studied mathematics
and secondary education, and I would want to be a
math teacher. And like my dream was like a math
teacher and then maybe DJA the they're like DJ like
the after school events, and then it kind of snowball
(18:04):
a little. So you've always kind of been into the
music and the DJing always been.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
It was like sixteen years old, siteen years old, I
was d Daniel.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So my daughter is in gymnastics, she's almost she's three
and a half. So you're telling me that you were
one of the people at the gym. I was helping
her do like the little tumbling pole vaulting.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
And could you imagine though Jema had mikey Vas a
gymnastics teacher back in the day.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
That's crazy. Are you good at math?
Speaker 11 (18:27):
I'm very good at math. I mean, really, that's my
I'm not good at reading or writing this.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
We put them to the test. Least I'll go for it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Right.
Speaker 14 (18:33):
It was pimping for three girls. Price is sixty five
dollars for each trick? How many tricks will each girl
have to turn so Dwayne can pay for his eight
hundred dollars per day?
Speaker 10 (18:46):
I don't want to answer that.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
You want to have.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
That was Caculus class.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
You also were a teacher too, Yeah, well I taught
Hebrew school. Okay, I guess both those have to go
around teaching, which I originally wanted to do when teachers
like changed the world.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But my mom uh still.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Is a Hebrew schol teacher and a special ed preschool teacher.
But when I was younger, she was a hebrewskl teacher
at Benetaura and Sudbury. So I was like her assistant
Hebrew school teacher. So that's what I did, like even
like at the end of high school and like throughout
high school, did that. And then she's also a severely
special ad teacher, so she would I would assist her
(19:23):
in the summers when I was.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
In college as an assistant teacher there too. Interesting story. Yeah,
at least all right, I've.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Got some weird ones. So I cleaned condos in the Poconos. Yeah,
when I was yeah crazy, Oh no, it was the
most disgusting job of all time. Like the way people
leave hotel rooms and condos is just like next level
the bathroom, just like exploding baby powder everywhere and just
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really nasty stuff.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
So I have to say that was my worst job.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I've also been a lifeguard at a resort pool in
the Poconos, and I made muffin at a place in
Wellesley when I was in college.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
It was a summer job.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I had to get up at five o'clock in the
morning and go in and make the muffins.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Those are three very different jobs, a lifeguard, a cleaner,
and a muffin I A.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Yeah, I ended up like I ended up while I
turned twenty one and I didn't show up one day
and then he fired me.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I didn't make the muff at the day muffin man,
muffin guy.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Yeah, yeah, because it was like my twenty first birthday
and I went out with all my friends and I
forgot to tell him, and then I overslept and then
so there were no muffins.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
The town was an outrageff for breakfast.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
There's nothing like a blueberry muffin.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
I have to tell you though, because I I had
like the big mixers and stuff like that, and I
was making like morning glory muffins and all this stuff
and just oh yeah, it was a disaster because one
thing I'm known for, it's my muffin.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I had a weird first job.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So it's actually kind of ironic because my first job,
I was basically a snitch, which you know, if you
know my story, I kind of went down a darker
road where that's obviously, you know, not what you're supposed
to do. Yeah, when I was twelve years old, I
looked older than I was, and there was a family
friend who worked for the health department in a local city,
(21:12):
and she asked my mom if I would help out
on the weekend. And basically what she would do is
drive me around to these different stores in this city
and send me into the convenience store and try to
buy cigarettes. Oh my oh, because eighteen Yes, when I
was older, I looked kind of like sixteen maybe seventeen.
So I would go in and I would say, can
(21:33):
I get to pack them? Alboroughs and most times they
would say, let me see ID but sometimes they would
sell them. And so then I'd walk out with the
cigarettes and hand them to this woman and then she
would go right in and write them a little a
citation and find them.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
So what if I say, give me an idea, what
are you're saying, Oh, I forgot it? Yeah, I would
say I don't have one, and I would walk out.
I'd say, oh, sorry, I don't have it and walk out.
And then at that point in your life, did you
get it like excited when you like got them, when
they like left, you buy cigarettes and.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
You're like, oh, I got another one?
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Or do you feel it was like you were working undercover?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I guess so yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
And then you know, soon after that, I turned to
a life of crime and I left that part out
though I didn't let people know that part.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
About me, but I didn't know. I wanted the money.
She paid me fifty bucks. That's a lot for a
twelve year old.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
Yeah, I paid fifty dollars a day. Even if you
caught her. It didn't catch them. Yeah, so most times
they wouldn't. But then some stores they would sell them
to me, which you know, shame on them. Y shame
on them. So wow, that's crazy. Yeah, we all start somewhere.
We didn't just come in and, you know, start working
on radio. No, at least I was in a snitch though.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
No snitches.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
What does that?
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Snitches get?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Snitches get stitches, rats get bats. Hey, I own it
all right. That's the only time I didn't know any better.
I just wanted the fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Now it's topic time with the Billy and Lisa in
the morning.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:44):
The topic for today weird random jobs that you've had
a couple of minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I shared mine. When I was twelve years old, I
worked for the health department. You used to send me
into stores to see if they would sell me cigarettes
and then find them if they did. I looked a
little older than I was. I'll just say that anyway.
Let's go to Amy online one in Boston.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Oh, Hello, Hi, good morning.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
What do you got Amy?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
So I was a runner for Corn for three days
as they were kicking off their tour around the band,
Yes the band. I was driving around Dave the drummer
and his bodyguard Lok, who had hell bound. That kind
of goes along with tattoos that you guys had. The
(23:28):
other day, hell bound on his neck and I almost
killed them the day.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
How did you get hooked up with them?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I used to work in the hotel industry, and I
worked a lot with the entertainment industry, and I just
I somehow got caught up in a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
So I have a lot of a lot of good stories.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I got to watch the show. I got to watch
the show from from the stage that night. She was
totally the safest place in the venue.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh yeah, because of the mashpits at the show, right,
people running around smashing each other.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Oh yeah, that's crazy. Oh good one, Amy, Thank you
so much for the callow corn. That's a corn show.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I have not I actually have really not going to.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Mash pit, but it was. It was pretty wild.
Speaker 15 (24:20):
I was really ambitious. When I was a teen, I
took on a random job from Craigslist once where I
ended up in a car with this guy going to
upstate New York to actually replace computers at a school.
I never went back, but I definitely learned a good
life lesson that time.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Well, this segment is good because there likely are people
listening that are in a job like they don't want
to be in true you know, maybe they're just starting
out and they have dreams of maybe doing something different,
and this is like a lesson that you can do it.
Another audo one that I had to remember. Circuit cities. Yeah, yeah,
there was one right up the street here. Oh yeah,
is that a best fine? I know exactly where it is,
(25:03):
but it's next to the home depot. But growing up,
there was one of Natick I think it was a
Route nine And I used to install car audio, so
like I remember that. So I became like popped in
out your radio or wanted new speakers in your car,
like remote car starters or like subwarfers. Like I was
a guy in the bay in the back that was
installing car audio, and I still remember on my very
like or one of my first days. I was young
(25:23):
until I was sixteen seventies. I was kind of learning
and going at the same time. But I always knew
a little bit about electrical work. At one point, my boss,
who was like a younger guy at that point too,
he was like, hey, go in the back, we need
a flex capacitor. And I didn't want to say I
didn't know what a fuck capacitor was. So I'm on
the back looking everywhere for a fuck capassador. I can't
find that.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
I can't find it, obviously, das from Back to the Future.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
It's a fake thing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But that hour.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
I spent this hour because you know, you don't want
to met your boss when you're young. You're like, right, like, oh,
until I should probably know what a fox. I'm like
you no, like, I can't google its. I'lmost like look
at through every little speaker. I'm like, what what the
fux capacitor?
Speaker 10 (26:01):
That reminds me.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I used to work at Friendlies as a as a
line cook, and we used to mess with new employees
on their first day and we'd send them back to
get the sprinkle maker, so they'd be down there looking in.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The back room.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And then they come back and I can't find Circuit City.
Speaker 11 (26:16):
It's funny. You used to used to install car stereos
and I used to steal them. Let's go, let's go
to Carry online one seas in towns. Good morning carry Hi, right,
Hi got a weird job for us?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (26:32):
I was you know that show Undercover Boss that show, Well,
I was. I was like an undercover client and I
would go into assisted living facilities and scope out the
competition for other assisted living facilities to try to get
like the dirt on what they were doing. It was
actually pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
This is a so competitive, Yeah, who would hire you
for that?
Speaker 16 (26:56):
I found it on Craigslist. I thought it was Yeah,
I thought it was mystery shopping is what it said.
And I was like, all right, I love to shop. Yeah,
And then when I get into it, it was yeah.
You'd go in and I had to record them, and
you know, they'd walk around and tour you in the
facility and you'd have to kind of you know, like
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take notes and you know, and then get back to
them on you know, just how the facility looked, cleanliness,
you know, whether the patient looked like they were taken
care of. It was just, yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It was weird interesting.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
About job and that is why, Yeah, it was an
undercover interesting Well, Kerry, thank you, thank you for the call,
Thank you for joining the show.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 17 (27:36):
My first job, I lied about my age. I was
only twelve years old and I was a scorekeeper for bowling.
They used to have wax paper and wax pencils that
you keep score, So I kept score for a pro
bowling tour. I want to do your professional bowler till
(27:58):
I saw how they lived.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
That changed my career.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
I bet interesting gig? Yeah, what do you score with
this one? Okay?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Strike?
Speaker 15 (28:10):
The best random job I ever had was in college
when I worked at the New York City Parks Department.
I was the one who wrote a lot of the
speeches when they opened things like the Highline Park.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I had a lot of good park jokes.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
He wrote the speech.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Oh that's pretty cool.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
I'd be pretty smart, well educated.
Speaker 11 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, I guess so you don't want me writing
your speech now?
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Me neither, although I did.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I did take a class, a speech writing class in college,
and I was kind of I got kind of good
at it.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
Still, that's a tough job.
Speaker 18 (28:39):
What up More and Crew and Mike e V Noah
Caddy here. During COVID, I ended up helping out with
the zoom classes for the Sloan Business School at mit
On Campus. So that was pretty cool, felt very important
and smart and don't forget In high school, I was
over in Lexington at the Hayden Skating Rink as a
locker room attendant, basically making sure middle school children didn't
(29:01):
fight while they were getting dressed for swimming and undressed.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It was awkward.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yeah, that is kind of weird. No other caddies interesting, dude.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, he's he's a regular talkbacker my dad, I've heard
of him. Yeah, and he's a he caddies around the country.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Travels the world, patting for people, and then he was
he was teaching business classes.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Am I t I guess caddies for Riley? No, we
want to go. We need to get them together.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Well, he needs to kind of work up to that.
Oh you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's or no work to Riley. I'm just saying, let's
go to Erica online one. She's in Hopkinson.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
What up, Erica?
Speaker 19 (29:35):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
We're wonderful. You got a random weird job for us.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yes.
Speaker 19 (29:41):
I used to work at Putnam Pantry and dan for
standing now on Root one, so I had If you
ever saw a Easter bunny standing on the side of
Root one waving at you, that would have been me.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Oh my god, I love that.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Oh my god, you were the Easter bunny.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 19 (29:58):
But luckily no one could see me, so that was
a good part.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Yeah, it is that costume really hot?
Speaker 19 (30:04):
Right, and the obviously i'm newing on when Easter fell.
It was either you were okay or you were sweating, right,
From the Planet Fitness Kids one of the studios. We're
back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So if you're new to the Villy Lisa Show, Lisa
Donovan has an uncle Mark. He lives in Key West
and he lives in Maine. He's become a character on
our show. We love him so much. He's actually in
Maine now and coming down to Boston for some family
celebrations with Lisa Donovan and her family. So you know,
he had to check in with Uncle Mark and see
what the hell he's up to.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Uncle Mark.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hey there, Ben boy, how you doing there? Lisa? Yere?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We go?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Man, so up here looking here on the ocean eer
looking to get down there to oh Boston.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, so, Uncle Mark, I gotta ask you something. Who
has a bigger spread up there in in Maine? Is
it the Bush family or you?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We're a crows fly from the boat. I'd say we're
pretty close to both of them. But oh yeah, this
has got a big spread there. And old Kenny.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, you get yourself a peninsula, do you?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'll sit in the helicopter down you come on, Mark.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't know if you realize this, but the few
times you've called into the show. You have developed a
big fan base with the Billy and Lisa Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, I didn't know that, but I appreciate that. I
really love Boston Aian, the people around Boston. They're just great,
great people. Man. I'm even an undercover Patriots fan cultics.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had justin you have some talkbacks
for ukmore.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
So excited to hear that Uncle Mac is coming up
for the weekend, and I hope you guys get him
into the studio and talk with him and just hear
his like Shenanigan stories. I'm very exciting Uncle Max for president.
I love that guy.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Oh, boy, Mark for president.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So I appreciate that. Vice mayor us for a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well I was gonna go there, so yeah, I know
you ran for vice mayor. Did you win that election?
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I had one that was at a point of position
that I was there for twelve years. He's the vice mayor.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
But you did run for office because I remember seeing
the video campaign that one. Yeah, you lost that one.
Any plans on that one can't win them all. Now
you're got to run for office up there in Maine.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh, I'm just on the download here. Let's me tell you,
I'm so loaded. I'm lower than Dirt.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Mark. I got to ask you when you're when you
leave Key West? Uh, who keeps an eye on the
ladies in the in the cathouse?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, I've got a good crew down there. I got
a couple of the guys that been with me a
while and they do a good job. I got to
tell you, I'm I'm blessed to have a good crew
down there.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And Mark, we have a lot of people calling in
all the time saying, Hey, you know what, I'm going
to Key West for a vacation. I know uncle Mark
has a place there, so walk us through it. What's
your biggest place in Key West?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh? Well, the Red Guarter's big. We've got probably have
one of the greatest on the East coast of America
rock and roll venues with our house band, the Dirtbags,
unbelievable band. And of course the upstairs is the dance
club and that's huge, and we're actually getting ready to
add on to the property. We're putting in the bar.
(03:17):
If any of your customer or your regular listeners have
been out there to Amsterdam, there's a real famous bar
called the Old Sailor. So we're gonna put the new
bar in downstairs called the Old Sailor, right next to
what's called Captain Tony's. And we're gonna make the upstairs
even bigger and put new bathrooms in. So we're really
looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh, they must be excited about the new bathroom.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
So, but Rex is still there too, right, Mark, Rex
is always Rex is always Rix is there?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, Rix has always been there for some years now. Yeah,
everybody goes.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, absolutely, So describe the menu. What kind of food
you're offering up there in Key West.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
We got pizza cup baroni pizza.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
It's it simple, It's not a restaurant, it's a bar.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Simple that it's a good thing. When you got a
little bulls on you to slice spy Andre, you go.
Speaker 10 (04:08):
Nothing better going.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I saw rather Red Garter Mark's placed there on TV.
They were on the TLC network. Really, yeah, it was featured.
They one of the two of the people on this
reality show. I forget what show it was, maybe you know, Mark, No.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I can't at this time recall, but yeah, we got
you know, we a lot of people that come through
the doors.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's what it was. Yeah, Mark, I didn't think the
cameras were allowed in the Red Garter.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We do how do you say a I don't know
the word I want to use, but a click down
version of it? Version Yeah, yeah, yeah PG.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Now, Mark, we've got a couple of celebrations here for
you know, Max and for Riley Dunnovan. I know you're
coming in for the big event. You're going to be
flying private.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah. Oh yeah, I got the chumpter chumpters out there
on the pad now I'm getting ready to he low down. Yeah.
I got to tell you, I'm very, very proud of
Max and Riley, two young men and doing a great job. Great.
You know, Max was up here the other day. I
took him to lunch, and I can't tell you how
proud of I am or that boy. He was just
(05:25):
a real good young man. Make sure have a lot
of faith in the younger people of today.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Yeah, and he really loves you. So that was so
nice that you got.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Great lunch, good good good guard man. He's turning into
be a hell of a young man. I see him
there at eighteen, and I think to myself, when I
was eighteen and running around down in Port Lauderdale, in
that area.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'm not going to ask any follow up stories.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You don't want to know. Mark, middle seventies. You remember
the middle seventies.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, you do so, markt To celebrate the celebrations,
we might be doing some dancing. How are you king?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm ready. I've been doing some more exercises. I've
been doing touches and.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Everything from the Planet Fitness, Kiss One Away Studios. We're
back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
Let's give away some jingle ball tickets. Why don't we win?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Up?
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Everybody, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It is the Billy and Lisa Show, and yes, I
have a pair of sold out jingle ball tickets, presented
by Capitol One and starring the man Ed Sharon and
an amazing lineup. The show happens December fourteenth. If you
want to win, if you want to be in the
TV garden, all you have to do is be called
her twenty five right now at six one seven.
Speaker 11 (06:42):
Nine, three one one one aweight. You will need the keyword,
and the keyword is Donnie, because Donnie Wahlberg all over
Boston filming his TV show, and what do you know,
he's on the phone right now.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Donnie, you there, I am here, Billy.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Now I gotta ask you, where are you?
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Oh gosh, Well, today I'm in Toronto. Tomorrow I'll be
in Chicago. And I g just last night I was
in Boston.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you've been doing a lot of shooting in Boston,
so I didn't know if you were still in town shooting.
And I want to start Donnie with an apology. Okay, well,
because it may have come across it, I was bugging
you to come on the show. And you have to understand, Donnie,
every time your name comes up, and it comes up
(07:32):
almost every day because you're doing so much and traveling
so much, they immediately say, hey, why don't you just
call your buddy Donnie Waalburg. Right, So I'm pressure, buddy.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I still think it's an honor. I still take it
as an honor. It's still an amazing treat. And I
will never look at you as being a bother Billy.
You've always been good to me and the guys and
the new kids, and you were one of the first
people in any position of radio or anything that treat
us with respect and love in that city. And it
will always mean the world to me that you call
(08:04):
me and text me and check in to come on
the show.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, I really appreciate that, Donnie, and your family has
really been good to us. I don't know if you
even realize this, but Jenny Johnson and I have a cookbook,
and your brother Mark did the forward to the book.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Well to see now I have a problem, yeah, hope, see.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You know you have early morning sound to your voice.
Are you in bed right now, Donnie?
Speaker 8 (08:35):
I actually just got out of the bed because I
think our phone's breaking up a little, so I'm moving
to a different part of the apartment.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Yeah, it was a big It was a big week
filming in Boston, and I mean we filmed on the
Green Monster. We filmed in Boston Common and in the
Waterfront and Charlestown. We were everywhere, and I was yelling
doing a lot of stop, please stop, please loud volume.
So my voice is a little beat up this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Now I got to ask you. Did you and Jenny
FaceTime each other overnight?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We did?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
In fact, she's not only did we face time. I
had to hang up on her to take this call
with you. But I was okay doing it because she's
actually gonna come meet me for the weekend. We're on
the weekend together, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well, I think you have a Wallburger in Toronto, do you?
Speaker 8 (09:27):
We do? We have one? Well, it's actually in the airport,
so I can only really pop in there if I'm
taking a trip. Yeah, But other words, that's the one
up here. So I try to go to Wallburger's once
in a while. You know, I don't want to go
too much because it could be problematic for me. I
try to stay in really good shape. I don't work
(09:48):
out at like three am, like my brother Mark, but
I work out and eat really well and stay fit.
So Wallburgers is like my weekly treat.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I gotta tell you, Donnie, you look really In fact,
I don't think I've ever said this to another man,
but the other day me and Lisa were talking here
in the studio, and I think you should take this
as a compliment. You're a dilfo. Yeah, And for the record, Donnie,
(10:18):
I do too. You know.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
It's you know, you know, Billy, we've always shared that
with each other. Uh, only only professionally, but I think
you've always been a look for yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Wait a minute, Donnie, are you saying that I'm a dilf?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
I'd like to know.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You went to the Red Sox game the other night
and they wasted no time finding you with the cameras.
Can you play that justin?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
All right?
Speaker 12 (10:45):
That's Donny Wahlberg, who is a Boston native and is
wearing a Mets longsleeve tea. I would imagine that that
pains him. However, he is here at Fenway Park. They
are shooting an episode of the TV drama Blue Blood
season Detective Danny Reagan Boston Blue Rather so, Welcome to
Fenway Donnie.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Did it pain you to put the Mets jersey on?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
But whenever I see these posts or people talking about it,
they all say, I bet you he put in this
contract that he wouldn't have to wear the Yankees, And
that is true. I didn't put it in my contract.
I just proclaimed it the first day. I said, listen,
Danny is a New Yorker, He's going to Boston. I
will not be a Yankee fan. And that's it. It
(11:30):
did pain me. I was literally running around up there
on the Green Monster like covering my chest so like
all the real fans, because we were surrounded by extras.
But once I got past them, all the real fans
were like, what are you doing? You know, But the
best part about the clip is that the family and
friends in the clip put a Red Sox jersey on
Danny at the end of the scenes end of an
(11:51):
episode and it was really sweet and really fun and
it did pain me, but I loved every second of
filming the scene because I knew the end was going
to be worth the torture that I had to go through.
We're in the Mets jerseys.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
How would you compare it doing this show to spin
off of Boston Blue to Blue Bloods.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Oh well, you know, it's it's wow. That's a heavy question,
because Blue Bloods was, you know, in many ways, I
was sort of responsibility free in some ways. And don't
I don't mean that in an arrogant way or anything
like that. I was playing a New Yorker. I'm playing
in New Yorker and I'm a Bostonian, so I got
to have fun with that and got to really dive
(12:28):
into that character and just be you know, crazy and
really over the top with it. But now I'm in Boston,
I feel a great responsibility to, you know, respect the
city of Boston. While portraying a New Yorker and it's
a delicate tight rope to walk. And of course, you know,
the family and Tom Selleck and the entire cast were
(12:49):
you know, my friends, and we're very close and so
this is a new world. Of course, going to stay
connected with the old characters, and they'll be popping up
from time to.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tell me good guest appearances.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Oh absolutely, Oh yeah, we have. The first episode is
going to blow people's minds. I think people are going
to be like, oh my god, Like there's some twists
and turns in the first episode, and then we're going
to continue that. You know, we want to pay respect
and honor Blue Bloods, but also you know there are
ben there thousands and thousands of police families in America
(13:22):
and we want to tell some of those stories too,
And we want to let Danny explore, you know, be
a fish out of water. And what better place to
throw in New Yorker than the middle of Boston. And
you know, I got to experience that fourteen years on
Blue Bloods as a Boston only and in the middle
of New York. So this will be a fun turn.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And we have a question from a listener and think
about the show.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
I was just wondering how long are they filming this
show in Boston? And like did it start filming like
yesterday or because I know they're filming like yesterday or
two days ago at Fenway and like in the Commons,
I'm pretty sure I saw like tiktoks, like how long
are they going to be filming there for?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Because I'd love to see them.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Film I think we'll be filming in Boston a lot.
So here's the thing with you know, people think it's
a personal choice or something that like I didn't want
to film in Boston. I had the best time in
my life filming in Boston. I have the best time
in my life every time I go to Boston. I'm
talking to you, Billy, because you're my friend and you're
from Boston. The TV and the industry has really been
(14:20):
beat up from COVID and the strike, and I think
a lot. You know, CBS, for example, used to make
like twenty shows a year. They're making two this year,
new shows, and I'm on one of them. And it's
really dire straits financially, you know, in the industry. So
I'm really fortunate to be making a show. I'm really
fortunate to be able to go to Boston and work
(14:40):
at all. But you know, when I initially was offered
a job, I said, we got to go to Boston.
They said, we can't afford it. It's basically thirty cents
on a dollar to film in Canada right now, compared
to you know, eighty cents on a dollar, ninety cents
on a dollar even with tax plates. And but I said,
we have to go to Boston. I can't not go
to Boston. So the plan right now is to do
(15:01):
the interiors up here and go to Boston every couple
of weeks and do what we did, and put a
crew together, a Boston crew, and go down and film
all over the city. And you know, you can't fake
what Boston looks like. And you know, we're bringing Boston
actors up here to guests in the shows, and we're
doing everything we can, and hopefully, in success, we can
(15:23):
be in Boston more. That's the goal is, let's compromise
to get the show made. We'll work outside and do
exteriors in Boston, and then you know, in success, perhaps
we can come down there and be there full time.
That would be a dream of all dreams.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So I know you're busy up there in Toronto. I
wish you nothing but love. Just know that Boston loves you, Donnie,
and you're doing a great job.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
We're proud of you, Billy, thank you, thank you, Boston,
thank you everyone there, kiss and honestly that we grew
up there down there in Boston filming is it would
be really hard to be there full time because I
probably took forty six thousand selfies in just a few days.
The duck boats kept driving by, going dot it to
(16:05):
take pictures boats. It was the most fun. But I
could see, you know, and the crew was like, oh
my god, the city loves you. And I was like overwhelmed.
Every now and then a director would look at me
and go, okay, Donnie, you gotta say no to Sully
and Timmy and.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We got mikey v in studio right now, who, of
course can be heard every afternoon on Kiss one O
Wait with his brother Frankie and Gianna.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
Make sure you check them out. You know, typically hear
him in the mornings. But mikey Vee wears many hats.
He's obviously on the radio, he's on the air, he's
a DJ, he does real estate. I mean the guy
has so many jobs, but it wasn't always like that.
And that's the funny thing about Mikey. He's got quite
the backstory, especially when it comes to jobs. You want
to highlight a couple of those forums. I think it
(16:52):
goes back to to do anything that made money at
one point. And you never believe this, you know what
my jim is. Yes, Gymnastics Little Kids is one of
Route nine in framing him. Where I grew up, I
was a my gym teacher. So if you had like
your eight year old birthday party and the kids doing
a little fake backflip around triangle foam, I'm like the
teacher that's like, all Ben, you're.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Back, And how did that happen?
Speaker 11 (17:15):
I think I randomly met the owner of my gym
when I was young, and she's like, oh, do you
want a job. I'm like, I'll take a job. And
then I started going there and I started working there.
I started like helping our kids. But remember I went
to college to be a teacher, so I've always liked
being around kid. I went to stoneholl College, all right,
and I studied math education, so like I always at
that point, and I probably thought I was gonna be
(17:35):
a teacher, and I love that job.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
But I'm numerous ones.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
And weren't you like a football player too?
Speaker 10 (17:40):
I played football in high school.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You had like the athletic part of it.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
Wait a minute, hold on, hold on, hold on. So
your goal was to be a teacher and not work
on the radio. Yes, I've did that before. So I
went to college. I went to Stonehill College, studied mathematics
and secondary education, and I would want to be a
math teacher. And like my dream was like a math
teacher and then maybe DJA the they're like DJ like
the after school events, and then it kind of snowball
(18:04):
a little. So you've always kind of been into the
music and the DJing always been.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
It was like sixteen years old, siteen years old, I
was d Daniel.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So my daughter is in gymnastics, she's almost she's three
and a half. So you're telling me that you were
one of the people at the gym. I was helping
her do like the little tumbling pole vaulting.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
And could you imagine though Jema had mikey Vas a
gymnastics teacher back in the day.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
That's crazy. Are you good at math?
Speaker 11 (18:27):
I'm very good at math. I mean, really, that's my
I'm not good at reading or writing this.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
We put them to the test. Least I'll go for it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Right.
Speaker 14 (18:33):
It was pimping for three girls. Price is sixty five
dollars for each trick? How many tricks will each girl
have to turn so Dwayne can pay for his eight
hundred dollars per day?
Speaker 10 (18:46):
I don't want to answer that.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
You want to have.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
That was Caculus class.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
You also were a teacher too, Yeah, well I taught
Hebrew school. Okay, I guess both those have to go
around teaching, which I originally wanted to do when teachers
like changed the world.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But my mom uh still.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Is a Hebrew schol teacher and a special ed preschool teacher.
But when I was younger, she was a hebrewskl teacher
at Benetaura and Sudbury. So I was like her assistant
Hebrew school teacher. So that's what I did, like even
like at the end of high school and like throughout
high school, did that. And then she's also a severely
special ad teacher, so she would I would assist her
(19:23):
in the summers when I was.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
In college as an assistant teacher there too. Interesting story. Yeah,
at least all right, I've.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Got some weird ones. So I cleaned condos in the Poconos. Yeah,
when I was yeah crazy, Oh no, it was the
most disgusting job of all time. Like the way people
leave hotel rooms and condos is just like next level
the bathroom, just like exploding baby powder everywhere and just
(19:51):
really nasty stuff.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
So I have to say that was my worst job.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
I've also been a lifeguard at a resort pool in
the Poconos, and I made muffin at a place in
Wellesley when I was in college.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
It was a summer job.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I had to get up at five o'clock in the
morning and go in and make the muffins.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Those are three very different jobs, a lifeguard, a cleaner,
and a muffin I A.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Yeah, I ended up like I ended up while I
turned twenty one and I didn't show up one day
and then he fired me.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I didn't make the muff at the day muffin man,
muffin guy.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Yeah, yeah, because it was like my twenty first birthday
and I went out with all my friends and I
forgot to tell him, and then I overslept and then
so there were no muffins.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
The town was an outrageff for breakfast.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
There's nothing like a blueberry muffin.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
I have to tell you though, because I I had
like the big mixers and stuff like that, and I
was making like morning glory muffins and all this stuff
and just oh yeah, it was a disaster because one
thing I'm known for, it's my muffin.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I had a weird first job.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So it's actually kind of ironic because my first job,
I was basically a snitch, which you know, if you
know my story, I kind of went down a darker
road where that's obviously, you know, not what you're supposed
to do. Yeah, when I was twelve years old, I
looked older than I was, and there was a family
friend who worked for the health department in a local city,
(21:12):
and she asked my mom if I would help out
on the weekend. And basically what she would do is
drive me around to these different stores in this city
and send me into the convenience store and try to
buy cigarettes. Oh my oh, because eighteen Yes, when I
was older, I looked kind of like sixteen maybe seventeen.
So I would go in and I would say, can
(21:33):
I get to pack them? Alboroughs and most times they
would say, let me see ID but sometimes they would
sell them. And so then I'd walk out with the
cigarettes and hand them to this woman and then she
would go right in and write them a little a
citation and find them.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
So what if I say, give me an idea, what
are you're saying, Oh, I forgot it? Yeah, I would
say I don't have one, and I would walk out.
I'd say, oh, sorry, I don't have it and walk out.
And then at that point in your life, did you
get it like excited when you like got them, when
they like left, you buy cigarettes and.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
You're like, oh, I got another one?
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Or do you feel it was like you were working undercover?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I guess so yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
And then you know, soon after that, I turned to
a life of crime and I left that part out
though I didn't let people know that part.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
About me, but I didn't know. I wanted the money.
She paid me fifty bucks. That's a lot for a
twelve year old.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
Yeah, I paid fifty dollars a day. Even if you
caught her. It didn't catch them. Yeah, so most times
they wouldn't. But then some stores they would sell them
to me, which you know, shame on them. Y shame
on them. So wow, that's crazy. Yeah, we all start somewhere.
We didn't just come in and, you know, start working
on radio. No, at least I was in a snitch though.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
No snitches.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
What does that?
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Snitches get?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Snitches get stitches, rats get bats. Hey, I own it
all right. That's the only time I didn't know any better.
I just wanted the fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Now it's topic time with the Billy and Lisa in
the morning.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:44):
The topic for today weird random jobs that you've had
a couple of minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I shared mine. When I was twelve years old, I
worked for the health department. You used to send me
into stores to see if they would sell me cigarettes
and then find them if they did. I looked a
little older than I was. I'll just say that anyway.
Let's go to Amy online one in Boston.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Oh, Hello, Hi, good morning.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
What do you got Amy?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
So I was a runner for Corn for three days
as they were kicking off their tour around the band,
Yes the band. I was driving around Dave the drummer
and his bodyguard Lok, who had hell bound. That kind
of goes along with tattoos that you guys had. The
(23:28):
other day, hell bound on his neck and I almost
killed them the day.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
How did you get hooked up with them?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I used to work in the hotel industry, and I
worked a lot with the entertainment industry, and I just
I somehow got caught up in a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
So I have a lot of a lot of good stories.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I got to watch the show. I got to watch
the show from from the stage that night. She was
totally the safest place in the venue.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh yeah, because of the mashpits at the show, right,
people running around smashing each other.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Oh yeah, that's crazy. Oh good one, Amy, Thank you
so much for the callow corn. That's a corn show.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I have not I actually have really not going to.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Mash pit, but it was. It was pretty wild.
Speaker 15 (24:20):
I was really ambitious. When I was a teen, I
took on a random job from Craigslist once where I
ended up in a car with this guy going to
upstate New York to actually replace computers at a school.
I never went back, but I definitely learned a good
life lesson that time.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Well, this segment is good because there likely are people
listening that are in a job like they don't want
to be in true you know, maybe they're just starting
out and they have dreams of maybe doing something different,
and this is like a lesson that you can do it.
Another audo one that I had to remember. Circuit cities. Yeah, yeah,
there was one right up the street here. Oh yeah,
is that a best fine? I know exactly where it is,
(25:03):
but it's next to the home depot. But growing up,
there was one of Natick I think it was a
Route nine And I used to install car audio, so
like I remember that. So I became like popped in
out your radio or wanted new speakers in your car,
like remote car starters or like subwarfers. Like I was
a guy in the bay in the back that was
installing car audio, and I still remember on my very
like or one of my first days. I was young
(25:23):
until I was sixteen seventies. I was kind of learning
and going at the same time. But I always knew
a little bit about electrical work. At one point, my boss,
who was like a younger guy at that point too,
he was like, hey, go in the back, we need
a flex capacitor. And I didn't want to say I
didn't know what a fuck capacitor was. So I'm on
the back looking everywhere for a fuck capassador. I can't
find that.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
I can't find it, obviously, das from Back to the Future.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
It's a fake thing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But that hour.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
I spent this hour because you know, you don't want
to met your boss when you're young. You're like, right, like, oh,
until I should probably know what a fox. I'm like
you no, like, I can't google its. I'lmost like look
at through every little speaker. I'm like, what what the
fux capacitor?
Speaker 10 (26:01):
That reminds me.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I used to work at Friendlies as a as a
line cook, and we used to mess with new employees
on their first day and we'd send them back to
get the sprinkle maker, so they'd be down there looking in.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The back room.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And then they come back and I can't find Circuit City.
Speaker 11 (26:16):
It's funny. You used to used to install car stereos
and I used to steal them. Let's go, let's go
to Carry online one seas in towns. Good morning carry Hi, right,
Hi got a weird job for us?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (26:32):
I was you know that show Undercover Boss that show, Well,
I was. I was like an undercover client and I
would go into assisted living facilities and scope out the
competition for other assisted living facilities to try to get
like the dirt on what they were doing. It was
actually pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
This is a so competitive, Yeah, who would hire you
for that?
Speaker 16 (26:56):
I found it on Craigslist. I thought it was Yeah,
I thought it was mystery shopping is what it said.
And I was like, all right, I love to shop. Yeah,
And then when I get into it, it was yeah.
You'd go in and I had to record them, and
you know, they'd walk around and tour you in the
facility and you'd have to kind of you know, like
(27:17):
take notes and you know, and then get back to
them on you know, just how the facility looked, cleanliness,
you know, whether the patient looked like they were taken
care of. It was just, yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It was weird interesting.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
About job and that is why, Yeah, it was an
undercover interesting Well, Kerry, thank you, thank you for the call,
Thank you for joining the show.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 17 (27:36):
My first job, I lied about my age. I was
only twelve years old and I was a scorekeeper for bowling.
They used to have wax paper and wax pencils that
you keep score, So I kept score for a pro
bowling tour. I want to do your professional bowler till
(27:58):
I saw how they lived.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
That changed my career.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
I bet interesting gig? Yeah, what do you score with
this one? Okay?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Strike?
Speaker 15 (28:10):
The best random job I ever had was in college
when I worked at the New York City Parks Department.
I was the one who wrote a lot of the
speeches when they opened things like the Highline Park.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I had a lot of good park jokes.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
He wrote the speech.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Oh that's pretty cool.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
I'd be pretty smart, well educated.
Speaker 11 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, I guess so you don't want me writing
your speech now?
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Me neither, although I did.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I did take a class, a speech writing class in college,
and I was kind of I got kind of good
at it.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
Still, that's a tough job.
Speaker 18 (28:39):
What up More and Crew and Mike e V Noah
Caddy here. During COVID, I ended up helping out with
the zoom classes for the Sloan Business School at mit
On Campus. So that was pretty cool, felt very important
and smart and don't forget In high school, I was
over in Lexington at the Hayden Skating Rink as a
locker room attendant, basically making sure middle school children didn't
(29:01):
fight while they were getting dressed for swimming and undressed.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
It was awkward.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yeah, that is kind of weird. No other caddies interesting, dude.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, he's he's a regular talkbacker my dad, I've heard
of him. Yeah, and he's a he caddies around the country.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Travels the world, patting for people, and then he was
he was teaching business classes.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Am I t I guess caddies for Riley? No, we
want to go. We need to get them together.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Well, he needs to kind of work up to that.
Oh you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's or no work to Riley. I'm just saying, let's
go to Erica online one. She's in Hopkinson.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
What up, Erica?
Speaker 19 (29:35):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
We're wonderful. You got a random weird job for us.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yes.
Speaker 19 (29:41):
I used to work at Putnam Pantry and dan for
standing now on Root one, so I had If you
ever saw a Easter bunny standing on the side of
Root one waving at you, that would have been me.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Oh my god, I love that.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Oh my god, you were the Easter bunny.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 19 (29:58):
But luckily no one could see me, so that was
a good part.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Yeah, it is that costume really hot?
Speaker 19 (30:04):
Right, and the obviously i'm newing on when Easter fell.
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