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August 28, 2025 35 mins
The juror who became part of Karen Reads defense team, Victoria George, joins us in studio to officially say how she did it! Sean Stellato shares where he was when Tommy DeVito was acquired to the Patriots! Listen to Billy & Lisa weekdays from 6-10AM on Kiss 108!   
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, we've got a pair of tickets. See Benson Boone.
Benson Boone coming to town. That's a big show. I
understand his staging is really creative.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
As we say, what it supposally looks like, Sure, it's
a problem. Well it supposedly looks like a Peanuts like
a unit.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, okay from an area of area.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, I'm into each his own.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
If you're on the balcony for the show way up top,
it might look.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
A little weird. Okay, so call it twenty five Benson Boone. Okay,
you'll need a keyword. The keyword is flip. You know
he does the flip off the piano. Flip is the keyword.
That's easy. You have talkbacks justin good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
This is Kim. I guess I'm now going by chubby Toe's.
That's what Winnie has dubbed me. I'm so bummed I
can't go to the book club tonight. It sounds amazing.
I already had tickets for Gronk and Julian Edelman at
MGM tonight, And with my newfound confidence with Winny dubbing
my feet not so bad, I'm gonna with strappy sandals
be a total tohn Yno world, Who would you pick?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Jules Gronk?

Speaker 5 (01:03):
All right, of course, I guess fantasy wise.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, oh definitely Julian Edelman.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, I knew that.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
You would person I think he has a funny personality.
I think he's cute, and he's a lot bigger and taller.
Julian's too short. Like, I don't know what you say.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Let's go, let's do this, okay, for what it's worth,
I would go with Julian.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh good, I'm glad we didn't ask. Oh yeah, I
found myself wondering. You know, how weird is that?

Speaker 6 (01:38):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Who would I go? Yeah? Oh my god, all right,
the total toho.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
She came to my wine tasting.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, she was amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
She was so funny. And she let me see her
feet that she always said looks like so bad. And
I looked at them and they weren't bad at all.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
They were just chubby, dribbling around.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
They are painted, they weren't crusty or anything like that.

Speaker 7 (02:02):
Yeah, that she was amazing. That ninety plus dollars people
came to my house and she came with I think
with her sisters are hilarious, hilarious, hilarious.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Can I can I just give an update that I
forgot to give after the p town trip that Billy
and I took last week. I did get messages asking
me about this. Yeah, and I did forget about it.
But we talked about your wife's feet. You talked extensively
about how beautiful they are.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, we made the joke that I'm going on the
boat and I'll take a look. Right, Yes, did you
I did, secretly. I just took a peek. She was
sitting right next to me. I just want to say,
beautiful feet. Yeah, they're nice feet. Beautiful feet. Yeah, and
that's all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Does that means she's a to hoh, Michelle a total
to ho?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, yeah, let's go to Kelly online.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, let's definitely go to Kelly. Kelly, you're calling twenty five.
Do you have a keyword?

Speaker 7 (02:52):
Slip?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Flip?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
She got it flip.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
All right, So Kelly, now you've got a pair of
takeing Steve Benson boone. What a show he's putting on? Yeah?
Do you know his entire tour sold out in nine minutes.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
I heard that yesterday.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, okay, you got to hold on. You get to
talk to producer Riley. She'll tell you how to get
the tickets, how to get to the show for Benson Boone. Okay,
thank you so much, Billy and Lisa.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
All morning.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, this is going to be so cool. I'm very
excited about the guests we have in studio right now.
Her name is Victoria Brophy George. Now we've done a
certain amount on the Karen Reid trial on the billion
leased some morning show. We weren't obsessed. Well maybe we were,
but Victoria Brophy George was on the jury for the
first trial and then somehow landed on Karen's legal team

(03:42):
for the second trial. And good morning Victoria.

Speaker 9 (03:45):
Good morning everyone.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Now I must say at the outset, I'm a little
intimidated by your presence. Yeah, because I'm reading up on
you graduate Phillips Academy, Princeton University, Cume loud A, Northeastern
University Law School. You are so over educated for me, Like,
I'm just terrified.

Speaker 7 (04:04):
But I also have to say, you're the mother of
four children under the age of six. Yeah, I like
that to me is like even more otherworldly.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (04:13):
I was just about to say that was that's all
much harder than.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Any of the education and you gotta set a.

Speaker 9 (04:19):
Twins, Yes, identical twin boys, got it.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
They need a new term for a personality type A
something else, something like it's crazy. But I got to know,
how did you land on the legal team for trial?

Speaker 9 (04:36):
To So I was an alternature, but I was friends
with some of the deliberating jurors. I heard what happened
in the deliberation room to some degree, and I so
I had reached out to the legal team after the
first after the outcome of the first trial, Uh, just
to give them my feedback and let them know what happened,
and just we kind of kept talking, gave them some

(05:00):
feedback on strategy and what I thought the jury maybe
didn't understand what they could do better, et cetera. One
thing led to another. I made a joke that's essentially
how this all started, a joke like has it ever
joined a legal team in a retrial? And the rest
is kind of history.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Wow, So everybody wants to know what's Karen really like.

Speaker 9 (05:20):
I mean, she's a very strong and she's an intense person,
and I think she's incredibly strong, and I think that
she's done an amazing job getting through all this and Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (05:32):
That's what David Ynetti said when he came in this
past week. Yeah, he said she was like another lord,
the integral part of what you all did.

Speaker 9 (05:40):
Yeah, she's very smart, and I think it's rare to
have a client who's as smart and invested it as
she is.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
You know, it was just learned earlier this morning that
actress Elizabeth Banks is going to play Karen Reid in
a new series for Prime Video. Who do you think
she'd play you?

Speaker 9 (05:58):
I mean, I'm a very piece of this puzzle.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
We don't think so, because you did that and everything
else that you do.

Speaker 9 (06:06):
I mean, why not Taylor Swift? I mean she's everywhere.
I love Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
We do too.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
But you're a bona fide listener of this radio show.

Speaker 9 (06:16):
I am wow since I was in middle school.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Wow, all that intelligence and you listen to us. That's
so impressive.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
So I remember Victoria. She used to communicate with us
all the time, and then I didn't realize it, but
she just kind of went away about three years ago,
and I didn't I had no idea that she was
on the Jerry or anything. But I didn't realize all
that until she reached back out now, so she couldn't
listen because she was on the jury in the first trial,
she couldn't communicate any of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, you said off the air we were talking before
you came in the studio, that you missed the two
months she couldn't listen to us because you were with
the jury.

Speaker 9 (06:52):
I did. Yeah, I was really very strict about the rules.
It made me very nervous. At one point even reported
myself for seeing a billboil. So I did not watch
the news, I did not listen to the radio. I
stayed very very much to the rules.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
In terms of the trial and your job with Trial
number two, what was your responsibility? Did you have a
specialty that was your assignment specifically?

Speaker 9 (07:17):
So I can't really speak to a lot of like
the strategy and all though those kinds of things. I mean,
my primary role was kind of to be brought in
as a jury consultant, and otherwise it was mostly behind
the scenes.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Really, I think you're understating it. I think you were
much more valuable to the team.

Speaker 7 (07:33):
The thing that I love hearing about and again with
David Andetti and Alan Jackson is that they were open.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
They talked to a lot of people.

Speaker 7 (07:42):
They you know, you reached out to them and they responded,
and I feel like it made for a really good
sort of second trial team, don't you think.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (07:51):
I mean, I think it's rare to get the kind
of access to the jury that perhaps the defense got here, right,
and I think that was definitely helpful. I mean, jury
jury's and jury selection are so fascinating to me. I've
actually been on three juries at this point. Really see,
I'm hoping at some point to maybe like segue to
some of jury consulting. Yeah, but I'm a little busy
at the moment.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
We're talking to Victoria and Brophy George, who was a
jura on Karen Read's first trial and became a member
of the illegal team in the second trial. Do you
stay in touch with Karen so? I have not.

Speaker 9 (08:22):
I actually don't represent her anymore, similar to what David said,
But you know, I wish her all the best and
I'm very happy with the outcome in June.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Call me crazy. Isn't Karen Reid possibly going to be
in this building today?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
She's doing Howikar at two o'clock with Alan Jackson. It's
going to be her first real interview after being found
not guilty, Well.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
You want to hang around Victoria and just get on
the hall and make it a threesome, so to speak,
you Alan and Karen.

Speaker 9 (08:50):
Yeah, I don't know anything about that specifically, but I
mean I'm glad. I mean, I'm glad to hear that
she's she's speaking. I think she's really well positioned to
help in the criminal justice reforms. I mean, I think
the outcome in her case is good, but I think
that there's a lot more work that needs to be done.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
So David Yanetti, we had him on Monday, and he
talked about the moment when she was found not guilty
and he actually cried. So can you talk about what
your reaction was when the verdict came down.

Speaker 9 (09:16):
I was just so thrilled and relieved. I mean, I
think ever since the first trial ended and the way
that it did, I was just like kept hoping that
things would resolve. I hoped that maybe they wouldn't pursue
the charges again, especially once it became clear that perhaps
the jury really had been unanimous to acquit and didn't
understand the rules, and it just seemed like the Norfolk
County District Attorney discontinued to double down, hiring new prosecutors,

(09:40):
and the more it just kept going that way, I
got more and more disillusioned. And that's where I got
to the point where I felt like I had to
help in a more meaningful way.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Did you cry at the verdict? I believe I did. Actually, yeah, yeah.
You mentioned you were an alternate juror in the first trial.
I always wondered about the mindset of an alternate Is
it frustrating to be in on a case, especially one
that big, and not be in the actual room, so
to speak?

Speaker 9 (10:07):
Yes, it definitely is, And it's even worse when you
find out after that they misunderstood aspects of the law,
perhaps that maybe you could have helped yeah with oh yeah, yeah,
it seemed like the reasonable doubt they didn't fully understand it,
which I think has been kind of out there at
this point.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
How did your family deal with so much time away?

Speaker 9 (10:30):
So my husband is basically an angel, as is my
mother in law, who basically moved out here for two
months when I was a juror, and then she was
here with I mean, the twins were like three months
old for this trial.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Right, But you were pregnant for the first trial, right, Yes,
just pregnant.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Was just pregnant.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
I have a question because you know that could be
a reason for you to say I can't do it.
I have kids, I have you know I'm pregnant. You
could have easily asked to be dismissed from being and
you're the first time. Is there a reason why you
felt the need to not do you have a reason
that you couldn't do it.

Speaker 9 (11:02):
So I think lawyers in particular, like we need to
believe in this jury system and do the right thing.
And if you are able to serve on the jury,
and unless you have a meaningful conflict, I guess you
need to try. And I had clerked or not clerk
interned for a federal judge, and he was not he
was not very pleased when lawyers were trying to get

(11:23):
out of jury duty. And I feel like I learned
a lot from that. And I just felt like I
didn't know much about the case. I knew that it
was going to be hard for them to find jurors,
and if we could make it work, then I should
try to make it work.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
And you all became celebrities. What was it like walking
into the courthouse every day and everybody shouting your names
and waving well.

Speaker 9 (11:43):
So they we had like a special place that we
entered from. But it was definitely a very different experience
than the other one day trials that I had been
a juror on. This was certainly a much more intense experience.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Wow, wow, we in case right now.

Speaker 9 (12:01):
No, I'm actually I'm staying home with our kids.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
She's got her hands fall and in summer, summer is long. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, you know there's a phrase. Boy. You know she's
got a handful. Boy do you have you have two
hands full? I mean wow, yeah, I need some extra arms.
So two twins, while twins too, and all four children
under six?

Speaker 8 (12:24):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Superhero. Yeah, you're a superhero.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
And all I know is if I get in trouble again,
god forbid, I know who I'm calling for, A lawyer.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
It's such a good lawyer. Yeah. By tomorrow morning, you're
going to be working in Alaska. Yes, so dressed warm.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's Liva and we're back with Billy and Lisa in
the morning.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
I'm not reading a morning person, but if I got
to wake up early, might as well get a good
laugh on kiss one away. Now the entertainment update with
a Billy concept.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, so tomorrow is a new music Friday on the
Billy and Lisa Morning Show, and justin you will definitely
have some of the clips from Sabrina Carpenter's new album.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, it drops at midnight. A couple hours after that,
I'll go through it and hopefully I will share it
with all of you.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
And we'll be playing songs from the new Sabrina album
all day on the Kiss tomorrow and Sabrina talks about
what we can expect.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
It is not for the pro clutchures. The album is
not for any pro clutures. But I also think that
even pearl clutchers can listen to an album like that
in their own solitude and find something that makes them
smirk and chuckle to themselves. I think that's the thing
is sometimes people hear the lyrics that are really bold
and they go, I don't want to sing this in

(13:42):
front of other people. It's like it's almost too it's TMI.
But I think about being at a concert with you. However,
many young women I see in the front row that
are screaming at the top of their LUNs with their
best friends, and you can go like, oh, we can
all like sigh of relief, like this is just fun
and that's.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
All it has to be.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's why we love her. I have a question, what's
a pearl clutter?

Speaker 7 (14:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's someone that yeah, like you offended.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, yeah, we're not.

Speaker 7 (14:09):
We're not pearl clutters here at all. I do have
a set of pearls that I do wear, but I
clutch them. I don't clutch them.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah yeah you had pearls. Yeah you do too.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, it's a derogatory who pretends to be more shocked
than that?

Speaker 6 (14:24):
Right?

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Right?

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Right?

Speaker 7 (14:25):
Right?

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, it's like rage.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Oh you can't say that.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
Yeah. Yeah, I love Sabrine. I love how like quirky
and funny and irreverent she can be.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, it's funny you say that because I was looking
up at the big screen here in the studio she
was being interviewed on CBS, and without the audio on,
I'm saying to myself, well, that doesn't seem like a
typical Sabrina copping to interview.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
It was very serious, Yeah, very serious sit down because.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
She's usually fun and funny and yeah, so tomorrow the
new album, yep, it is not for the pearl clutters. Hey,
we get it. A few minutes ago, we had a
Victoria on the show. She was the Jura from the
first Karen Reid trial who joined the second trial as
a member of Karen Reid's legal team, and just announced, well,

(15:10):
Lisa Dunovan actually gave me the story. We know who's
gonna play Karen Reid in a new series.

Speaker 7 (15:14):
Right, So this is not the one that Karen Reid
is producing with Alan Jackson. This is an Amazon Prime
series that Elizabeth Banks from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. You may know
her from The Hunger Games. She was Fie and the
Hunger Games. She was just in The Better Sister with
Jessica bial which is out right now.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
David E.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
Kelly will also produce. He did Boston Legal and Ali McBeal.
So this is like a really great group of people
that are producing. This show is on Prime, Big Project,
Big project.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Elizabeth Banks. Wasn't she in that Vegas movie with Nicholas Cage?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
I think so?

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Leaving last bit, Yesabeth.

Speaker 7 (15:47):
Elizabeth Shoe like I said Dianner, Elizabeth from Massachusetts?

Speaker 8 (15:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
I know, you mix them up, always confusing the elizabeths
Elizabeth Uh. Patriots yesterday signed quarterback Tommy DeVito as a
backup there we go. Hell Tommy, his agent is Sean
Stillado from Salem, Massachusetts, and he's going to be calling
into the show. We had him in studio last time

(16:15):
we talked about character.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Hey hey, Sean, tell me hey from not the right Tommy.
But I mean yeah, Billy actually already saw Tommy. He
just got signed yesterday. Billy already saw Tommy DeVito.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Tommy old dressed up, all growing up and doing it town.
Come here, hey, Billy, how are how you don't I
haven't seen. Here's the funny thing. When Tommy DeVito first
hit the scene with the Giants, by the way, he
had a couple of good games.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
He had a good little run. He's a good player.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
But the announcers in the broadcast booth would just comment
on this guy who was standing on the sidelines like
in a black suit, like he was on his way
to a mob meeting. He even had the mob ad on.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah that's how he drives.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah. Yeah, And he's the magic of Salem, Massachusetts and
is calling into the show at nine ten this morning. Okay, Tommy, Okay, okay.
Taylor Swift still dominating Buzz story Land. The numbers are staggering.
The engagement announcement the other day has over fourteen million

(17:22):
likes so far. Taylor's engagement dress apparently crashed the ralph
To Rend's sight least.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's so rafflareen. It was like an off the rock dress.

Speaker 7 (17:30):
It was like three hundred and ninety eight dollars still
available on their website. It was on sale for like
three hundred and nineteen dollars. But yeah after the photo
like it just yeah, it's sold out immediately, and.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Good for her.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
A very approachable, very affordable dress and very pretty too.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
So swifties everywhere can buy the dress.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
While they did, Philly, you and I are in the
same tax bracket because I would never buy a three
hundred dollars dress.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
I mean we're talking Taylor Swift here. She Philly was like,
very I.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Think that was just bust it. What's that? There's a lot.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
There's always a range, right, everybody has a range.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'm just saying, well, it's sold out in minutes. Yeah,
people are in your tax bracket. Yeah. So Travis is dad,
Ed is doing most of the talking about the actual engagement,
what was said and how it went down.

Speaker 10 (18:21):
He made a nice little flour garden around the gazebo.
You got her out there, Jenery, so let's go out
and have a glass of wine. And she got out
there and they got out there and that's when that's
when he asked her news beautiful.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, Jason Kelsey is really excited. I mean he's over
the top with this thing. This is going to be
a fun family.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
Oh and I love that Donna Kelcey changed her Facebook
photo to Travis when he was in grade school and.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Taylor, Oh cute, really so cute.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, Flavor Flav. I guess he's a friend of Taylor somehow.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, he's always at the award shows hanging out with Aaron.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
I don't know how close they are, but he definitely
knows her and she does love him.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well. He wants to officiate the wedding. My girl Taylor
is engaged. My boy. I'm stoked. I can't wait for
the wedding. Not only that, but when y'all get married,
let your boy Flavor Flav be the officiator. I would
love to officiate the wedding. You know what I say it.
You know it's gonna be okay, you know it's going

(19:28):
to be extremely embarrassing if he's not even invited to
the wedding.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (19:32):
The page six from the post is reporting that it's
going to be more of a casual, intimate affair, so.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
O, I don't think Flavor Flavor is going to be there.
I don't see it. Meantime, a Taylor fan found an
old interview clip where the interviewer actually jokes about Taylor
not getting married until she's thirty five.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Easick is where I'm always going to be personal.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
I don't hold anything back in that.

Speaker 7 (19:55):
So we're not going to find out until you're married
and your mom's here, so mom not allow to.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
I told she's thirty five and not.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
So it works.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
No, it's otty late your life.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
And now Taylor is thirty five and she is getting married.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I love Selena Gomez.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
I was so cute because they're both engaged at the
same time in the vesties and they were like posting
yesterday about that and it.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Was really sweet.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yees. So this Selena Gomez Benny Blanco wedding should be
happening soon because they just did the Bachelor Bachelorette parties
or this September.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeh Britin a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Wow. Speaking of Taylor, by the numbers, we all know
number thirteen is her favorite. It's starting to get out
of control with the numbers in the hints. Anyway, don't forget.
She appeared on Kelsey's podcast to August thirteenth, right. She
and Travis announced the engagement thirteen days later on August
twenty sixth. That's thirty nine days thirteen times three thirty

(20:52):
nine and the albums set to drop October third, and
the instagram came out one o'clock in the afternoon, which
in military time is thirteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
This is almost as confusing as our topic time the
twenty three and ancestry.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Oh and one more one o'clock also looks like one hundred,
which happens to be the sum of Kelsey's jersey number
eighty seven and Taylor's favorite number thirteen. Okay, did a
little deep dive there, Thanks Bell. I could never have
lived without that information. Well, I get a lot of
swifties who are fans of mine, close friends of mine, pons.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Speaking of numbers, how much was the dressed?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I was in the threes.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
It was three three. Michael Bivens, we've got the Big
Friday show Tomorrow morning. Michael Bivens is going to be
calling in because I want to remind everybody that's Saturday.
This coming Saturday is New Edition Day in the City
of Boston. Big Day. Yeah, he'll be on eight fifteen

(21:49):
tomorrow morning. That is cool. It'll be calling in from
La too, so that's early for him.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, we'll play some bell bit provoke.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
You know. It's and we're brought to you by the
Xfinity store. Oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I was going to say, I haven't love we love Exfinity.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
We love Exfinity. He had you the right one, I did.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's what you handed me. No, it's okay, A little
behind the scenes mixed up here. Do you have the
sponsor or not?

Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'm gonna guess it's the ninety nine restaurant it is.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
I can't That's why I don't have I was just
there last year.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Here's another one I have notable. Uh, the last Lobster
Lover's Weekend of the summer is here. It's this weekend.
You want to go into the Nines this Friday through
Monday enjoy their famous colossal or hot buttered lobster roll
with a free three course meal upgrade. It's your last
chance for a great deal on lobster. You gotta love

(22:40):
the Nines and there, Hey, Harry's coming up. Nine ten. Hey,
look at the Veto.

Speaker 11 (22:45):
Who is this guy he's talking to? Okay, Look, whatever
you need, I got you. I'll take care of it,
all right.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Come on, hey, that's that's his agent.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Of course, that's his agent. Come on, Toto's agent.

Speaker 11 (22:56):
What's in the what's in the bag? What's in the bat?
What's in the bag?

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Cutlass? Some cutlets were later? You know, it looks like mom.
Who's like?

Speaker 11 (23:04):
It looks like Johnny Fontaine from The Gossip.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Nine ten John.

Speaker 6 (23:08):
Stillado from the Planet Fitness Kiss one away Studios.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, we're back with the Villy and Lisa in the morning.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Hey, sports fans, you may have missed this yesterday, but
the Patriots signed quarterback Tommy DeVito yesterday picked them up
on Yeah, he picked them up on waivers from the Giants.
And don't forget his agent is Sean Stolato from Salem, Massachusetts,
and he had this viral moment with the Manning Brothers
last year.

Speaker 11 (23:37):
Look at the Vito. Who is this guy he's talking to? Okay, look,
whatever you need, I got you. I'll take care of it,
all right.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Come on, Hey, that's that's his agent. Of course, that's
his agent. Come on, Tommy DeVito's agent. What's in the back?
What's in the back? What's in the back? What's in
the back? Cutlass some cutlors later, you know.

Speaker 11 (23:56):
It looks like mom, looks like it looks like Johnny
Fontaine from them.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
And we've got Sean Stillado on the phone. Sean one question,
what was in the bag? You know what?

Speaker 12 (24:08):
And a good Italian will never disclose grandma's secret sauce.
I did have a book for John Tish, but it's funny.
I ran into Eli a couple of times at the
Robinhood event in Manhattan and I disclosed that. And then
we did a little collab with the Red Bulls earlier,
I say, late summer, which was fun.

Speaker 8 (24:27):
But he's a great dude.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I got to ask you, Sean, where were you What
were you doing when you got the call on the
veto yesterday?

Speaker 8 (24:36):
It was the best twentieth anniversary gift I could have gone.
I was actually with my wife in Salem on Derby
Wharf having a little salad and I was on the lab.
I was, you know, he got cut. I went to
work in h Tuesday, I mean Monday, all the way
into you know, Tuesday, late late morning, and then I said, hey,

(24:57):
I got a We wouldn't find out anything if he
was going to get clean to one o'clock. So I
have a video of me on the beach. You know,
I let out kind of a rod Tisdale screamed Jerry,
you know, thought he was looking at me like I
have not. My wife got it on camera, which was great.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Wow. So that's a big day for you as the agent.
You have other clients though, too, right, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
I do. I got to start in safety for the
Miami Dolphins. He Fatu Melifano, Massachusetts Grafton Boy third round pick,
Chris Manherts the year twelve with the Giants, Andrew Depoller,
all Pro long snapper. He was kind of my, my, my,
h what is it? Fish from Jerry Maguire, my first
born and then I've got Yeah, I got guys in

(25:43):
probably about ten different markets. Super excited for Tommy though homecoming.
This is it's almost surreal. Having fourteen players that won
Super Bowls and having a great relationship with the organization.
It's It's been a lot of fun to kind of
witness this happen.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
So did you get calls on any other clients? Yesterday?
It was roster day, Yeah it was.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
You know, eleven hundred and eighty four players had to
be caught by four pm yesterday and I was able
to place a couple of guys back, which was good.
But it was definitely a bloodbath on Monday. And you know,
these guys put so much time and effort and energy
and it's their dream and me being the bridge for
that dream, it hurts my heart. But we were able to,

(26:26):
you know, crawl from the abyss. And you know, I
was on the phone with the Patriots multiple times and
the coach Rabel to Elliot Wolf and they were great,
And yeah, it all worked out. Yet my other guys
are placed and they're happy. And a couple of practice
squads which look at you, one play away from being
on the active roster.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
I got to tell you something, Sean Tommy DeVito lit
up the Patriots last week. He had three touchdown passes.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
You know, Tommy's that good and that's a testament to
his work ethic and going into year three, I think,
you know, Phil Simms at best, you know, off the
strength is give him credit for that.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
So a lot of people ring mind, Oh yeah, you're
breaking up. Are you moving around Sean because your phone
has gone up?

Speaker 8 (27:12):
Oh nope? Can you hear me better?

Speaker 6 (27:14):
Now?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know what this de Vito son. You can get
yourself a better phone.

Speaker 8 (27:17):
I'm kidding mobile, I mean, come on, can you step up?
I got to go seet my own deal. But he
did play really well against the Patriots, and I think
that's something. Look, he was the first first quarterback to
beat Bill Belichick. This almost happened two years ago, and
you know, obviously we couldn't reach, you know, something that
was palatable, and he stayed in uh New York, and

(27:40):
now they got to give it to the Patriots. They
saw the value in him and being have an opportunity,
you know. Josh McDaniels, coach McDaniels, I mean he was
great with Brady in terms of developing him and uh,
a lot of other great quarterbacks. Coach Rabel, who's a
players coach. I mean, obviously they're the ownership group, Uh,
the Patriot way. I'm really excited for the young man.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
You know, there was a lot of talk about Tommy
DeVito playing for the Giants when he lived right up
the street and it was a very cool story. Uh
what are his parents thinking about him coming into England,
coming here to play for the Patriots.

Speaker 8 (28:12):
Mom has already started making coutlets, freezing them for his
for his freezer. Uh, it's the trade. But there, you know,
they're super excited. Dad told me five times he loved
me last night. They're going to be up here a lot.
They'll be up here opening game against the Raiders, and
you know it's about a four hour ride, probably a
little less. His dad got a heavy foot, but uh,
you know.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
He's he's in town now. And what you're saying is
not for a nutting billy, but his dad's got a
heavy book, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
Yeah, mister the Beato, And you know, he obviously grabbed
my cheek. He gave me the kiss that was heard
of felt around the world. He's they're a great family
and they've got so much passion and sitting with them
and just the excitement last Thursday night seeing what he
did was great, you know, And that's a position and
look at a lot of a lot of organizations did
it and you know, it's tough from being in my

(29:02):
shoes watching some of these guys get you know, trace
FIfF round picks for certain quarterbacks and guys getting selected.
But at the end of the day, he's right where
he belongs. And yeah, there was a lot of tears
shit in New York's fall yesterday. Yeah with him, leave him.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
And the good news for Tommy is, you know, coming here.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
If he runs out of his mother's cutlets, he can
hit my mother's cutlets in the North End.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
You know I've been Yeah, we've been exchanging a little Instagram,
so hopefully there's going to be some ofer collab there.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh yeah, that's an automatic collab my mother's cutlets, Nikki
Verano and uh and and the Devido family, and you're
be part of the deal. Shot.

Speaker 8 (29:40):
Yeah, I guess we got to get cutlets on the
menu a gellette, right.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh absolutely, you got to. Well, you know what, it's
a perfect time for my mother's cutlets and from the
North End to put a place at Patriot Place. I'm
just saying, I agree, we got to do it.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
We got to try those cutlets at Billy. I think
we got to bring you guys down there as well.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Let's do it, uh, Sean. We're happy for you. Our
congratulations both to you and Tommy and to Tommy's family,
and we look forward to Tommy arriving uh here for
your New England Patriots. Thanks Sean, Thank you guys, all
the best.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
You too, Tommy, Billy A Lisa every morning.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Wait, well Justin it's time for leftovers.

Speaker 13 (30:19):
Hey, guys, calling from the South Shore. I just wanted
to say I saw some local celebrities this past week.
I saw Justin can't be last Friday with family, and
then I saw David Jannetti yesterday. And then I happened
to see Ashley from Jamming at my pool.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
So who's not.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
From Jamming was swimming in this woman's pool. She must
know her. Well, she was at a pool and saw her.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, they're on vacation this week.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, they're on vacation.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, but that is weird, right David Gannetti, we had
him on Monday, and then yeah, I was at Canopy
last weekend.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's weird.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
I live in Salem, New Hampshire, and that was at
my first time this summer at Canoby. It's a good
time there. It's very cool, really good for the kids.
So I think we're gonna do like a season pass
next year, you know, so you just pay once, you know,
one fee, and then you can go again and again.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Oh, they gi'd be like a fob or something. I
guess I don't. I don't go on like them, you
know them, but we all know you don't like rides.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
I don't like them either.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Would you go on the roller coasters? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (31:27):
I would, yeah, I mean, like because you have kids.
So if my if someone asked, if a kid asked
me to go, I would go.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
No, I go in the little tea cup things that spin,
you know. They have a legit roller coaster there, legit. Yeah,
they have a couple. They have a couple and they
have the log, the log and that comes down.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
I actually like that.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't like going upside down.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I don't either.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, So it's it's embarrassing because my son, who's eight,
you know, he'll he knows now, not even to ask.
He'll just go on the roller coasters. And then I'm on, like,
you know, the tea cups with my daughter.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, and don't think I have the one where you
slowly climb up a pole in your seats and the three.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Fall but the one at Canopy is great because it's
not too high.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
It's it's I think it's more kids.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah, kid friendly, not for me.

Speaker 8 (32:16):
Not for me.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I'm so like you, like, I'll just I'll do the teacups.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah, I don't either.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
The little like the little Dumbo ride.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, it kind of goes up a little bit and
then comes down.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
God, what happened? You don't go there? Great for the kids.
I'm just saying that.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
Kids want to Wait, it's the morning wrap up on
Billy and Lisa in the Morning.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh man, wait, do we even start? What a crazy
show this has been. Let's start with our topic time,
which is it was about ancestry dot com DNA tests.
One of our listeners gave us an update on tracking
down her sperm donor father and her sister's sperm donor
father as well. So that led to our topic time
about that very topic and some confusing calls from our listeners.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
My dad got a call from my brother who's my
half brother, and he's like, I think my cousin is
your daughter.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I mean, we couldn't even wrap our heads around it.
I mean even our listeners were confused, like what I
am your father's brothers, nephew's, cousin's former roommate.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Which I make ess absolutely nothing.

Speaker 8 (33:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Shout out to listener Steve for the heads up on
that spaceball's drop there. But yeah, a lot of calls,
a lot of talkbacks on this.

Speaker 14 (33:29):
Hey guys, Chris from Conquered here, big fan, love you all.
Billy got some news for you. After a lot of research,
I've discovered that you are actually the dad you are
my father, And you know, it's a long weekend.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
I could use a little extra walking.

Speaker 8 (33:49):
Around you guys.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, wrong with a little walking around. Never heard from
Uncle Bill. Also this morning, the juror from the first
Karen Reid trial who then joined the defense team for
Karen Reid, was in studio. She's a listener of the show.
Her name is Victoria. She is way smarter than all
of us put together. But we had her in here
and she explained how it happened. How do you go
from a jury to a defense team.

Speaker 9 (34:17):
So I'd reached out to the legal team after the
outcome of the first trial just to give them my
feedback and let them know what happened. I gave them
some feedback on strategy and what I thought the jury
maybe didn't understand what they could do better, et cetera.
One thing led to another. I made a joke like,
hasider ever joined a legal team in a retrial? And
the rest is kind of history.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, she joined the defense team and they got a
knock guilty verdict. Wow, what an amazing story. So that's
really good. You make sure you check out that on
the podcast. And finally, Tommy Devido Tommy Cutlets claimed off
waivers by the Patriots. He's coming to Boston and his
agent Sean Stillato from Salem, Massachusetts. We've had him on
before and he kind of breaks down getting the news

(34:58):
yesterday while he was out with his wife.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
I have a video of me on the beach. You know,
I let I'll kind of a Rod Tisdale, screamed Jerry.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
You know he is kind of like our own Jerry McGuire.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's quite the character. So welcome to Boston, Tommy, Davido.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
And well have Benson Boone tickets tomorrow morning. Oh and
Michael Bibbins from New Edition is going to join us.
It's a New Edition Day in Boston this coming Saturday.
We gotta go
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