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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now best morning show in Boston, Billy and Lisa in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's just a great start to my day on kids.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, welcome in everybody. It's the Billy and Lisa Morning Show.
Good morning Lisa, Good morning Bill, Billy. The top of
the morning too. Y Oh, it is cold this morning,
mid thirties when I left the house.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's officially winter North Country. Twenty seven degrees.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah, they call that blustery.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah. Ohn. And you know as soon as you wake
up and look outside you see the frost, you know
it's going to be cold.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And I was almost late today. I was down the
street at the Starbucks trying to get one of the
Barrista cups. The line was too long at three thirty
this morning for the cups. You guys on this no oh,
this is a big story. The Barrista holiday cups launched
at Starbucks yesterday. Yeah, and there's massive outrage because they
sold out. People can't get them. They're like Teddy Bears,
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a cup that you drink out us.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You wanted one. It was a joke, but that's cute.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I would like to get one, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It seems like every month we have another cup that
takes over the world. Remember the Stanley cups? How they
doing that?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You guys got one of those too, right?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We got the Stanley cup. My wife got lucky in Target.
But people are lining up at two am for these cups, really,
and they're not getting them, and people are outraged. Well,
there's a conspiracy now that the Starbucks employees are hoarding
the cups stealing them. Oh yeah, I said, I woke
up at four point thirty. The Starbucks isn't too far
from my house, and I was there by four forty.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
It's because these Starbucks people reserved the cups for themselves
and then reserved the only two that were for customers
for their friends.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Can you are you allowed to do that as a
company employee?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I would think not. If anyone has gotten one of
these cups, though, let us know, leave us a talk back.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Justin I need to know this about you. You one
of the grown men out there that's outraged over a cup.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I am not. I'm just reporting the news.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Or do you get the cup and then resell it
on eBay?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I think that's what people are doing. They're twenty nine
to ninety five, So if I'm just saying, if I
were to drive by a Starbucks. There wasn't a line,
and I went in and I was able to get
the cup. I would buy it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Okay, you just solicited for people to call in or
send a talk back if they're getting a cup or
if they have a cup. Right, I need someone to
call in or send you a talk back if they're
one of the people who will pay more for the cup.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Of course they're going to pay more for the cup.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
There's a market for it, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I think you can double the price of the cup
and you could easily.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Sell It's actually pretty cool. It's a little Teddy bear
with a green Starbucks hat on it, and you drink,
you drink from the cap.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh, it sounds cute.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I can't even Okay, I've got a cabinet in our
kitchen that probably has fifty different versions of cups and
coffee cups. I'm might start selling them outside the building
and I run.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
In that cabinet with all the different cups. You probably
always use the same cup, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The cup I use all the time is the one
Justin gave me for Christmas last year when he weighed
five hundred pounds. Yeah, yeah, I got a head cup.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, I got that a Christmas for you last year.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It was a wonderful gift. I drink coffee every.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Morning to makes you happy every time you have a
cup of joke.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I guess you could probably sell that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
On eBay too.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Ooh, could sell anything.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'm taking offers anybody out there that wants to buy
Justin's fat Head cup, I'm open to it. Okay. See
here I am thinking this morning, Lisa and I have
in a conversation that the big story of the morning
are the delays and cancelations at airports all across the country.
People's travel plans are being screwed. And by the way,
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it's going to get worse with Thanksgiving right around the corner.
How did I know? How did we know least that
the cups are the bigger story?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't know. But why can't they get it together?
Why can't Congress get it together? All they do is
there's the point fingers at each other. Yeah, well it's
the Democrats. What's the Republicans? Just open the government. Yeah,
here's the deal. You're going to get me going now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Congress's only job, right is to run the government and
keep it open. That's the only job they have right
The problem right now is all they do is politicians
as point fingers at each other and make fun of
each other and yell at each other. They're never actually
doing the job.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
But their constituents are the ones that are suffering.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That's right. And they're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Something is getting paid.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Do you think a member of Congress is going to
miss a flight. No, they'll make a phone call and
they'll have a private plane pick them up in five minutes. Yea,
to do your job.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, that's another thing you can join the show about. Yes,
you have holiday plans? Have you been affected yet? I
mean it just went into place at Logan, But holidays
coming up, Man, a lot of people are going to
be traveling. Oh, man, Bill, Bill is supposed to go
away for Thanksgiving. That's not how I know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's shot. That's not happening. We're not leaving the ground
unless I hire the blimp or something. Is the Goodyear
blimp for hire?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's be a long trip to Goodyear blimp. I have
to very loud.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It's very loud.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, when you're on board, it's very loud.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
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We're back with the Villy and Lisa in the Morning
and on.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
A Friday morning, The Billiyon and Lisa Morning Show. What
you just heard is a world's premiere Katy Perry's new
song band aids all about broken heart. You think it's
a song about Orlando Big It's yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I think it's her song about their breakup. I actually
really like that song.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's a good jam.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I actually like it too. The hook's pretty good. Yeah, yeah,
it's good.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Her last album, so is Orlando Bloom Katy Perry's kid Leroy.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I don't know about that. You made like thirty breakups songs.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
She had Russell Brand.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
All you need in the music world right now is
a breakup and heartbreak.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I can't wait for the Justin Trudeau breakup song.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay, We've got a pair of tickets for the completely
sold out jingle Ball. We need Caller twenty five right now.
And the keyword this hour is gonna be a Grammy six, one, seven, eight.
Let's go Lisa Now.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The Entertainment updates with a Billy constat On, Kiss.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And Reminder, we are standing by at Grammy nominations will
be coming down at eleven o'clock this morning. Meantime, Comics
Come Home is tomorrow night at the TD Gardens, some
of the top comics in the world on one stage
in one night and coming up at nine ten this morning. Lease,
we have front row seats for Comics Come Home.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
This is gonna be a view for someone that you
usually don't get and you'll probably be part of the show.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yes, yeah, be ready to be a target. When Bobby
Kelly takes the stage.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's gonna be a gift and a curse, absolutely, because
you're gonna get You're gonna get something, but in a
fun way.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Totally really what I'm like that?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah? Okay, that guy? Is that your mom or your daughter?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is that your side for your wife?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay? First trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic dropped yesterday,
forty million views in just a couple of hours. We've
got a clip, the tracks are made, the songs are ready.
Oh my, this is your story onto your past you
(07:32):
want to be.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's the future.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's what people want. Q. Can you laund the lights
from you please? Okay? But remember in here keep those
feet still.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
My man, this is.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Here.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
When is it coming out? When can we see this.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Twenty twenty six Yeah, April of next year.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Okay, not too far away, not.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Too far I have a full body children, me too.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I want to wake up and have it be April
twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
There's nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It sounds just like them. It is his nephew.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, man, so many hits, Okay, so many hits.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah. His real life nephew is Michael. Yeah, in the
biopic called Michael Miles Teller, isn't it. And he's one
of the producers I guess of it. I just hope
they don't mess it up.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
These can go either way. The biopicks that can be
either really great or kind of We're kind of right,
like the Bruce the Bruce one. Yeah, I didn't do
that one bomb. I didn't see it, so I can't
say that it was good or not. But didn't do good.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But here's the thing. The Michael biopick has to live
up to. All of the footage in video that you
can see any time you want of Michael Jackson, all
of it is just phenomenal. Yeah. So it's going to
be interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah good, it's gonna be humiliating.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
It was the most humiliating ordeal of my life.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Well, the trailer was good.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
The trailer is always good though, right, they always reduced
them very well.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, it's a scale.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Was the nephew who plays Michael in this biopic? Was
he wearing a prosthetic nose?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh? Probably, let's hope so I would think so.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Yeah, goodness, So, Lisa, did you know fun fact about
Billy Costa, your co host there that he was in
the house for this moment right here with Michael Jackson.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
You guys, I got to tell you this. When what
I'm trying to hear and it feels like somebody's fists
is pushing to my ears, It's really very difficult.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I know you mean well so, but it's I'm.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Trying to adjust to the ear, the inner ears, okay,
with the love, with the love l ov like money fishes.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You were there a second. You were there for the
rehearsal of the tour.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, it was a rehearsal that he did at the
Grammys or the American Music A Warrants if I remember correctly.
But the bottom line is I shook Michael Jackson's hand. Yeah,
at an after the Grammy's party.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Did you talk to him? Did he speak just like say,
did he say hey.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
He seems he seems very or he seemed very shy?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Uh? Oh, extremely Okay, I got to tell this story again.
So it was an after the Grammys party. It was
in a ballroom, you know, one of the hotels in
Los Angeles, and packed house, and at one point I
was there as a guest of Sonny Joe White because
I was broadcasting from there, and Sonny Joe White, who
by the way, invented kiss one away, uh, the biggest
promoter or rather program director in the world. So I'm
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standing there with Sonny, you know, having a drink or whatever,
and all of a sudden, the crowd in the middle
of the ballroom opened up to a lane. There was
a free lane, and walking across the dance floor was
Michael Jackson and his security. He was walking over to
say hi to Sonny Joe White because he knew how
powerful Sonny Joe White was and how much Sonny Joe
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did for his music. It was a magical moment.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, but I could have the fifth thing confused with
the Grammy party and the rehearsal for the Grammys or
American Music Awards. And I met Michael and I shook
his hand. That's all on.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, wow, you're the only one around here.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
When for sure I was thinking about that video of
him when he goes You can see this on YouTube,
when he goes to the supermarket. He had them close
it down so he can go in and shop, like
for grocery one of those food I mean close or
groceries or whatever, so he could feel normal. He had
never gone into a store by himself and shopped.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It wasn't easy being Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, looking forward to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Meantime, the first trailer for Ed Sheeran's One Shot dropped yesterday.
This is where Ed spends an entire day or one
hour in New York City roaming around. It's no edits
at all for the entire hour. He goes in the bars,
the subways, uh, those double decker buses in New York City.
We have a clip from The Trader.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Missed one Shot right, thanks, we're filming this one Shot
comes as special if.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I think, will be it super lovely?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait m it's amazing.
(12:44):
One hour Yeah, constantly running film.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, no, edits just like adolescens. Same thing. No, edits
one hour?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Is it the same people that didn't have at Okay,
same guy.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Remember we talked about it. He was doing something in
New York City, but no one knew what it was.
He had cameras. He was running around the streets of
Hell's Kitchen, in and out of bars on rooftop.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Righty was performing outside.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was for this one shot comes out to November
twenty first, and Ed Sharon is going to be roaming
around Boston next month. He's hosting our headlining our jingle
Ball December fourteenth. Let's go to call the twenty five
year away the tickets. It's Caitlyn, Caitlin and Pembroke. It's you.
I'm so excited. I bet you are.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
We've been trying for years to win the ticket.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Wow, well you've got the tickets.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
If you have the keyword, the keyword is Grammy.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Grammys is the keyword. So Caitlin, we're going to see
you at jingle Ball. Oh and by the way, you
qualify for the grand prize, the one hundred and eight
thousand dollars Jackpop. But do not hang up. Okay, you'll
talk to producer Riley.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yes, sir Lacy, you had a big book club event
last night.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I did Marissa Meltzer. She wrote it Girls, the Jane
Burkin biography. She was in town from New York. We
were at the Newbury Hotel and it was our last
book club of the year. So in Boston. I have
one more in Florida that I'm doing with Marissa. She
at Berch Lane in Boca. But yeah, so we were
at the Newbery when I think ninety plus sellers Dental
Partners of Boston and ninety Yeah, it was just josin Maine.
(14:18):
It was just amazing and we're going to have some
sound from it in your Entertainment report at eight forty.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So another big night out with Lisa's book club fancy pants.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
And I have to tell you. You know that Jane
Burkin was a singer and she had a number one
song in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yes, of the burn Bags.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yes, she was an actress, singer. Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
One thing doesn't work out, you just try another, you know.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
She was.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yeah, she had her hands in a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Hey, Sidney Sweeney's new movie Christie hits theaters today. She
plays professional boxer Christy Martin. Turns out Sidney Sweeney has
been fighting since she was a little kid.
Speaker 10 (14:57):
So, because I grew up playing a lot of sports
and soccer, baseball, when I started going back and forth
to LA, it was hard to be on a team sport.
So my parents were like, let's find something and my
friends were kickboxing, and I.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Tried it and I fell in love with it.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Wow, it's like a superpower.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
It's pretty cool. Wow, I would love to see you
kick someone's ass.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
You can.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And by the way, she lives in Idaho, right next
door to her grandmother.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
My grandma's my neighbor.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You lived next to your grandma, I do, how did
that work out?
Speaker 10 (15:32):
So my family have been living on this lake for
like five generations. So my grandma was born and raised
in this house, and then she had my mom in
the house, and then I grew up in the house,
and the properties have all kind of been next to
each other as all the siblings and her parents my
great grandparents were her neighbor, and when I was born,
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they passed away and they sold the property to another couple.
So growing up, we would run across the backyard to
my other cousin and three years ago I walked up
and I knocked on the door and I said, I
want to buy back my great grandma's house.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
And they say like, no, go away, little girl. No, no.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
See.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
I think that they're very happy that I did, because
they would always say, oh my god, this whole family,
they're always running a mook. And so I call it
camp run a mook.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh wow, Yeah. Do the Sweeneys run a mook. We
run a mook. She's been dating, running amok with the
scooter Braun in New York, making out on Central Park
this week, justin. We have time to get some new
music in. Maybe one. Can you get one in? I'm
begging to keep one real quick.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Hillary Duff is back new music. Hillary Duff has been
I don't know how many years. Lease hasn't been since
new music, maybe ten fifteen years. Anyway, she's back. New song.
It's called Mature. She looks great too, she does, yeah, yeah,
she she. I was looking at some of her pictures
on her social media. She looks really good, like.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
All brought her out when he was doing those things.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (17:23):
Dad, Come on, Michael, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Stop your press, Billy and Lisa.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
By the way, if you have a flight booked, we
have real travel trouble for passengers in.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Boston and beyond as those FAA ordered flight cuts are
being enforced.
Speaker 11 (17:39):
We've already seen dozens of flights be canceled at Logan Airport.
WBC's on a Miler is live there this morning. With
the impact on travelers on it, this could get bad, I'd.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Say, no, boy, could become completely chaotic. I mean thousands
of flights being canceled and or delayed. And I'm talking
to out across the country. But Logan is one of
the target airports of like forty or so airports across
the country. They're going to really feel the pinch lates.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
It's it's about four percent of flights leaving Logan right now.
It's not affecting international travel yet, but yeah, so just
check you know, check with your airline because they're gonna
deal with you directly.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I know erman E is a little crazy because Delta
flies out of Terminal E and they're one of the airlines.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And Jet Blue. They actually had someone on the news
this morning, a guy that his flight had been canceled,
but then he was rebooked.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So can you imagine if the shutdown is not solved
when Thanksgiving comes, one of the biggest travel weekends of
the entire year.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, they are rebooking. They are if your flight is canceled,
but it's gonna keep getting worse. I mean, Sean Duffy,
he's not making things better the transportation.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
So no, you will see mass chaos.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
You will see mass flight delays, you'll see mass cancelations,
and you may see us close certain parts of the
airspace because we just cannot manage it because we don't
have theer traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Okay, justin They will rebook you, but the rebooked flight
probably won't get off the ground. You'll find out that
that one's going to be canceled. It's an ongoing thing.
I mean, it's just gonna ripple. It's a rippling effect
going across all airlines all over the country.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, meantime, you know, you have to see that meme
of the spider Man's that point at each other. It's
like three or four of them. They're all pointing at
each other. Yeah, that's what this is they're doing in Congress. Yeah, No,
it's your fault. What's your fault? Well, we could open
the government if you didn't do this. Just get it
together and open it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well, I know there is a vote in the Senate
finally today, and they've changed a few things on the
proposed bills that both sides weren't agreeing on, and they
may have something today that enough people in Washington, d c.
Agree to and then they can open the government.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You are our scheduled to go away, right, Billy for
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving weekend? Yes, okay, so that's in jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Okay. Did you have to say that with a smile?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No, I didn't smile. No, you weren't smiling. You had
a bit of a smirk there. Well, if it were me,
you would wish the worst for me.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, yeah, because it's good for the show.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
See what I mean exactly, it's good for the show.
Oh my god, here's a pilot right here. He doesn't
make us feel better either.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
Folks working for for no money is just obscene that
they've got to be at the top of their game.
Airlines make a fast majority of their their annual revenue
around Thanksgiving and the holidays, and this is just going
to be an absolute train wreck.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, So Congress, like, these are your constituents, right, and
it's I feel like it's not going to affect them
at all.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Right, Oh, they'll be fine. They're not even going to work, right,
you know, they're still getting and they're getting paid.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
They're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, they won't pass a bill that pays essential workers
or pays air traffic controllers. That's the reason for all
these cants. Like the Transportation secretary that spoke a couple
of seconds ago, he's trying to take the pressure off
the air traffic controllers that are going in without pay
still and it's been going on for thirty eight days.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Yeah, it's a new record no pay yet. I have
a friend that works for Social Security. He's showing up
to work every day, has not gone a paycheck. Yeah,
two paychecks now he hasn't got Here's.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
The question I have, if you continue to go to
work and you don't get paid. Will you get the
back pay once yeah, once they open it up as well,
you get all your pay So you're going in hoping
you're going to get the money you're going in for. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
And I do know that there are a lot of
banks and credit card companies and that are taking all
of this into consideration when they're dealing with for bills,
for dealing with payments right now.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, Oh I don't have to pay my bills.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No, you do. You are working, right, I mean you
are getting paid. But also the holidays are coming up,
oh yes, miss right your families? Yeah? Are you gonna
buy the gifts? Yeah? I'm just saying yeah, this is crazy.
So what we want to know is have you been affected?
Do you have a trip coming up?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I want going to the airport right now?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah? Or are you at Logan Airport right now? Or
you've already been canceled your plans have been crushed.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Now it's topic time for the Billy and Lisa in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's arguably the biggest story in the entire country of
this morning, with cancelations and delays at airlines all over
the country, with the government still shut down entering its
thirty eighth day today. People not getting paid for jobs
that are already going to do, including air traffic controllers,
and now they're trying to take some of the pressure
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off those air traffic controllers who are actually going to
work and not getting paid. Let's go to Amber. She's
in Marlborough. Amber. What's your story morning.
Speaker 14 (22:53):
I have a five and six year old. We're supposed
to fly out of Delta Logan tomorrow, six thirty in
the morning. I am so stressed. It's an understatement. I
got six letters from Delta yesterday, six femails saying watch
out for changes, watch out for changes. I'm watching, but
I don't want to get stranded with kids at the airport.
That's gonna suck.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, yeah, totally.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
God, that's not a good sign that they're sending you
this many messages that kind of screams we're going to
have problems, and what do you schedule? The flyout Amber?
Speaker 14 (23:25):
Six thirty in the morning tomorrow, full family, me and
my two little ones.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And then, by the way, getting there is one thing.
Getting home is yet another.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Yeah. I might get stuck in North Carolina. My work
won't be happy about that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, at least to be warmer in North Carolina than
it is here. Yeah, well, good luck and keep us posted. Amber,
Thank you, I will all right, thanks for listening to
my worst nightmare.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
The good news is that she could runt a car
and drive home. Yeah, worst case scenario.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Dude, you think rented cars are going to be very availed.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, I know you're right.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The rippling effects. Yeah, the kids are a pain, even
when your flight's on time. Yeah, at the airport, kids
running around, it's a snack after snack after snat and
then you.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Run out of em and m's oh guys, just I
used to just like throw candy at the kids. Anything
they want, just here, just it's just whatever.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yes, at one point when you're at the airport and
they're crawling all over the floors, yelling and screaming, right,
is anything you want? Yeah? Here, it's one hundred dollars bill,
go anywhere you want. Just leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, have all the candy you want.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
That eating.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
And if you're listening out there and you've got kids,
you know exactly what we're talking about. Totally.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 15 (24:44):
My honeymoon. We're leaving the week of Thanksgiving. We're flying internationally.
Who I really hope this doesn't start to affect international
flights because that that would that would stink.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, so far international flights are okay, although flying internationally
out of Boston you've got to fly out of Terminal E,
and Terminal E is going to be a little crazy
because Delta Airlines flies out of Terminal E, and Delta
is canceling a lot of flights.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
But if it keeps going, then eventually international flights will
be affected, rippling effect.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Like Li said, well, let's hope that they pull themselves
together in Washington today.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I'll tell you one thing. If international flights aren't affected,
I'm going to cancel my Thanksgiving weekend in Naples, Florida,
and I'm going to fly international. I'll go somewhere Portugal.
Sound it, Yeah, I love it. It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
It is't of like a short flight too.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Portugal's much shorter than you think. It's like four hours, ten.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
To fifteen minutes shorter than going to California.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
There you go, Italy.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'll go to Italy, go to the weekend.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh man beats hanging around the airport waiting for them
to say, yeah, we got your flight at four in
the morning tomorrow and then you wait until four in
the morning, sleeping on the floor and they tell you
that's likes canceled.
Speaker 16 (26:02):
Yep, good morning everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I love that you.
Speaker 16 (26:05):
Guys are finally talking a little bit of politics. I
know you guys try to stay very neutral. My husband
works for the FAA and is currently not getting paid.
He used to work at Boston Center, which is a
national New Hampshire, but we have this moved to Florida,
and it's just it already was chaos prior to the shutdown,
and now it's just amplified and I feel awful for
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all of these employees.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And she's right. We don't do a lot of politics
on this show, but when it's a story that's affecting
all of our listeners, because our listeners would like to
think of as our extended family, we like to have
a discussion, right this we do.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
We like to include them. What's going on with them?
Where are they? How is it affecting them?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah? And listen. We don't do politics because there's no winning.
It's a losing battle. Oh you're going to isolate one
side or the other. This is about just getting it
getting it together. Yeah, coming to an agreement opening the
government so that people can get to where they want
to go.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Your only job in Congress, no matter what sign you're on,
your only job is to keep the government open.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah. Can I ask a question though, Yeah, Elon Musk
all to be a trillionaire you are. Couldn't he pay people?
I mean, it's a.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Valid question, valid question. It's funny you bring up the
pay raise at Tesla. I broke it down. It's if
he makes it to a trillion dollars, okay, which it
looks like he will because he got the contract he
wanted a Tesla. We're talking about forty dollars every second
for eight hundred years.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Okay, Yeah, I shout out to listener Jared. He also
said that Elon Musk could buy the country of Switzerland
entirely and then still have one hundred million dollars. Why
can't Elon? I mean, that's his money, but he could
fund something. Come on, Elon.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Hey, it's Sarah Formaine. And on Friday the twenty first,
we are leaving for Paris for Thanksgiving, and I swear
to God if our flight is in any way, shape
or form delayed, canceled or messed up in this trip
gets messed up.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Can't say what I will do because I don't want
to be arrested. But let's just say Logan Airport might
not be standing anymore if my flight is canceled.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You've got to be careful with the threats with the
airport because they take it very I know what she's getting.
But boy, Thanksgiving in Paris.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Yeah, that sounds great, that's really nice.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
I know people that don't even show up to work
when they're getting paid.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
So I can't imagine all the people that aren't showing
up to work because they're.
Speaker 13 (28:41):
Not getting paid, Like people already do that when they
are getting paid.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
So scary.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That is scary. Let's go to Jackie and Beverly online one.
Hey Jackie and Beverly, good morning.
Speaker 16 (28:54):
Hey Billy, if you're going to go over to portragal
or Italy, you might get stuck over there if.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You can't get back over here with their traffic controllers. Yeah,
very good point, very good point.
Speaker 17 (29:03):
What that'd be a good idea, though.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know my biggest fear when I'm traveling far away
is getting home. You know once you're there you're having fun,
but you just don't want anything to go wrong so
you can't get home. I love my little family here.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Although if you got stuck in Portugal, it would be
good for the show. Oh god, yeah, you'd.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Be calling it every five minutes. Please help me. I'm
still in the point.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
That would be great. Let's go to Rob in Boston
line too.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
How much of Inguisi can I eat? Let's online too? Hey, Rob?
What's up?
Speaker 17 (29:35):
Good morning? All just a point of reference. When the
air traffic controllers aren't there, it doesn't matter if you're
flying domestically or internationally. If you if they're not going
to let the plane go out, they're not going to
let one go to Florida. They're not going to let
one go to the Azores or anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
But for some reason, Rob, they keep saying international flights
have not been affected.
Speaker 17 (29:59):
Well, they're not being affected when they can land. So
if you're flying out of Boston going to Florida and
the Florida flights are delayed, then you are having a
problem getting into Florida.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Right.
Speaker 17 (30:11):
But if if Boston air traffic control is shut.
Speaker 14 (30:15):
Down, you're not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You're on your bicycle.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Okay, Rob, thanks for the upbeat news. No, Rob, thank
you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you for listening. Okay,
who's up next? Rebecca? Good morning? What's your story?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Good morning. So I'm currently doing Jepane's twenty five challenge,
which is to hit twenty five destinations by the end.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Of the year.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I started back in August and I hit fifteen last night,
I mean last weekend, so I pretty much have a
flight every single weekend, so there's really no wiggle room
for me.
Speaker 15 (30:52):
Wo.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Wait, where are these delays?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah? And what's the payout? Like, what do you get
if you hit the twenty five city?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
What's in it for you?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
So you get twenty five years Mosaic status, which is
if you use the credit card, that's you have to
spend fifty thousand dollars a year in order to get
that for one year. And then you also get three
hundred and fifty thousand Jet Blue coints.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
So it's a Jet Blue thing.
Speaker 17 (31:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
So it's for their twenty five year anniversary. They started
the challenge back in July. I started it in August.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, you've been to fifteen places, where have you been.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
I last weekend was Memphis, Tennessee. I went to Marcus Vineyard,
I did Nantucket, I did Coats and head Tampa. Where
else I did Atlanta, I did a bunch of places. Wow, yeah,
which is great. I loved all my vacations. There are
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a few just like travel days that I've done where
I literally just hop on a flight, hop off, and
then hop back onto the same plane.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Okay, and when you hit mosaic, you won't have to
pay for luggage carras.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
There's a lot that I won't have to pay for.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, here's the thing. You you're in the first group
to be called to get on the plane.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
But mosaic.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Most people now are Mosasaiah.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Saying that he's mosaic.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Well, Mosaica thory now yeah, oh what mosaic level three?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Level three? Okay. Wow, you you're a busy body, Rebecca.
Well you can be just like Billy Costa. Hopefully you
will get it.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Let's go to Kristian Christian, Good morning. What's your story
this morning?
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Hi, good morning. I just got furloughed due to the
government shutdown because they're they're not funding programs that are
so important like head start.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh yeah, Wow, that's it. I worked for a Headstart
as a kid, a summer job. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
We did a lot with head Start when I was
a kid too. Yeah, Dad did his office. Yeah, that's
this is this is a problem.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Is a fabulous program.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Fabulous.
Speaker 15 (33:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
All over the country, programs are not getting funded right now. Yeah,
a lot of a lot of people are. It's different
than all the people that are working, you know, for
FA and Social Security. They're going to get their paycheck.
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
So I'm up when the government reopens, and hopefully it'll
be today. Do you get your job back?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Yes, I will get my job back, but I will
not get the the money that was lost.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, we're sorry. We're sorry, but good luck and hopefully
you get the job back. That's a bad situation.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, there's other things affected besides the flights. Snap benefits.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It's hard, you know, although the President's been ordered by
a federal judge in Rhode Island to pay full SNAP
benefits starting today.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah. I saw it firsthand at a food pantry. You know,
they usually did three hundred three hundred in a day,
yea thousand, oh yeah, family.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
They're tripling and they do it every day. People go
they need their food, they need their products.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Crazy.
Speaker 15 (34:06):
My mother in law is flying in to visit today,
and I really.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Hope she doesn't get stuck here because.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
They don't feel bad. I'm stuck with mine every single
day