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October 31, 2025 31 mins
The Billy & Lisa Show cover a whole bunch of topics during today’s show including our Halloween costumes and Jesse Eisenberg's amazing kidney donation.  Listen to Billy & Lisa weekdays from 6-10AM on Kiss 108!   
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now best morning show in Boston.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Billy and Lisa in the morning. It's just a great
start to my day on Kids Unaway.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Halloween is the greatest holiday in the world.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's the Halloween way. It's what the holiday is all about.
The spooky goblins, creepy crawlers, hocus pocus, meet the neighbors
you don't want to see again on any other day.
After all, you can't spell Halloween without hello.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Book the billion is some morning show. It is Halloween
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
A lot of hocus pocus going on here.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh man, we're all dressed up and ready to go
for Halloween twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
But Lisa just said it off the air.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
I have never been into dressing up, but I'm dressed
up for the Billy and Lisa show this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
I love that Michelle is making you dress up now,
your beautiful wife, because you hate it it for years
and now you're all in.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
Yeah, you want to describe for the American people what
you're dressed as.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Okay, well, I wanted to put the rest of my
costume on, but then I couldn't put my headphones on,
so I had to throw it on the floor. So
I had a hat with a net, and I'm dressed
in Safari wear and I was the mosquito wrangler at
the Wicked Night Ball last Saturday at the Salem Waterfront Hotel.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So I figured, you know what, let's make use of
the outfit. So that's me.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
But more importantly, yesterday we told you that Lisa and
Justin were going to be dressing together as a team
couples cost them right, And we asked everybody out there listening, listen,
send us some dms, give us some guesses. What do
you think Lisa and Justin are dressing for for Halloween

(01:47):
twenty twenty five? And you've got some justin?

Speaker 7 (01:49):
All right, I'm putting in my vote for Lisa and
Justin's couple's costume. I think Jordaan and Bill Belichick is
a little too like obvious, but.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
If it's that clocket.

Speaker 7 (02:05):
My other guest is Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I think you guys pulled.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
That off, all right, i'd be Tommy Lee. Are you
doing just fun next year? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Well they Bill Belichick and Jordan you considered that we did?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it was on the list.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
I'm kind of off the Belichick thing though, Yeah, rather
be Tommy Lee.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
I agree, and I think I agree with the talkbacker
I was a little too obvious.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
And we also considered or you two also considered Travis
and Taylor and we thought that was a little done.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
Yeah, that was one of the guesses too.

Speaker 8 (02:35):
Okay, Justin, here's my guest for your couple's costume with Lisa,
and I'm hoping I'm right. I think you guys are
gonna go as Taylor's Weston Travis Kelsey because with her
new album and him the Chiefs finally winning and doing something,
I feel like that would be a good couple for
you guys and you could pull that off easy, hope.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm right now.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You considered it, considered, Yeah, it was on the list.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
Yeah, there was several different options here.

Speaker 9 (03:01):
Him Justin, Hi, Lisa, I'm gonna guess your costumes for Halloween.
I'm guessing Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau. I think you're
going to look fabulous. I can't wait to see and
hear all about it.

Speaker 10 (03:18):
Happy Halloween.

Speaker 11 (03:19):
Boo.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, I think Lisa could pull off Katie Perry. You
couldn't be nerdy enough for Justin to wear a wig,
a suit and a wig. Yeah, yeah, that would rod Yeah, yeah,
that wouldn't work.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Guys, good morning.

Speaker 8 (03:37):
I think your Halloween costume today is going to be Hilario.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
That would have been good too from Spain.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
For Hillary.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah, I hit a tree.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I had a big fat tree. He's not dressing up
this year.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
No, we we decided on something else.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh man, did we ever?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah? This was actually Lisa's idea because we had this
story yesterday dictionary dot COM's word of the year, which
is and I am her.

Speaker 12 (04:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
We came in six seven guys.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, it's pretty easy costume when you think of it.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
But clever, right, very clever, very clever.

Speaker 12 (04:24):
Okay, here's my guest with the couple's costume for Lisa
and Justin. You're going to be the number six and
the number seven.

Speaker 13 (04:32):
What that's my guess?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, she got it, she got it.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
So we'll have producer Riley track her down and give.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Her amazing good for you talk backer.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
How did she see that coming?

Speaker 6 (04:43):
I know we talked a lot about six seven this week,
we did, so maybe that's why.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
But yeah, you can see the picture on Lisa's instagram
in my instagrams Lisa Donovan one to eight and not
just a beasy We took a couple's costume. Pick and Bill,
we need to get a picture of you too.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Okay, we'll do a group shot. I tried to put
the hat on. Now I'm rolling over it on the floor.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's it's just see what I mean. The costume thing
never works for me.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
Also, Lease, he's in my studio before the show complaining
how hot it is. Look what he's wearing.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Giant like flannel jacket like lined too, by the way,
with more flannel.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
Let's take a pick and take the jacket off.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
In terms of Halloween twenty twenty five and trick or
treats for later today, the.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Sun is going to be out. It's going to be
very windy.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
They're talking about like forty mile an hour gusts at
times even later today.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
A while trick or treating, the wind advisory is up.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
We're going to have to move the the donut bobbing
for donuts game inside.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, they're going to play off the strength.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Do you want to know something, It's a mandatory work
day for the entire staff every department because it's Halloween.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I've never heard of that.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
That's crazy. Yeah, because no one comes in on Fridays, right, Yeah,
and they wanted to have the big costume whatever whatever ravaganza.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
They having a Halloween buffet.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yes, yes, it's being catered.

Speaker 6 (06:12):
Oh and some good prizes for the costumes too.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Not that we're going to enter, are we we should enter?

Speaker 6 (06:16):
You want to enter?

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Of course you should. You want to be shugged.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Again, Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I want to to shrink alive. They will so ignore
the two of the old it's actually fun.

Speaker 14 (06:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
We won't get one vote.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
Not one now, Producer Riley, we'll vote for us.

Speaker 12 (06:30):
You know.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
I feel like we should add a category like a
People's Choice award.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
For this thing, right and maybe have like our listeners vote.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Okay, now you're begging for the aboard. I know it's
going to happen. It shut you out every year, but
now it's getting put a little.

Speaker 14 (06:44):
Desperate from the Planet Fitness Kiss one A eight Studios.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
We're back with a Billy and Lisa in the morning.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Okay, we've got a pair of jingle Ball tickets right now.
I need to call her twenty five at six one seven,
nine three one one eight. We will have a keyword
and you will need it when you call in, and
the keyword is organ.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Organ is the keyword six one seven nine three one
one one eight.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Lisa, Now the Entertainment Update with a Billy constat on kiss.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Gotta tell you never would have expected this to be
my lead story in the Entertainment Report this morning, but
it is. Actor Jesse Eisenberg is donating his kidney to
a stranger. He calls it a no brainer and talked
about it on the Today Show.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'm actually donating my kidney in six weeks. I really am.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 14 (07:39):
What.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, I don't know what I got like bitten by
the blood donation?

Speaker 12 (07:43):
Bo?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, I love.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
It's a jump up.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm doing an altruistic donation mid December.

Speaker 14 (07:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
One of my best friends had a kidney transplant. So really,
I like respect that so much. Oh yeah, I'm so
excited to do it.

Speaker 8 (07:54):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I didn't see that coming.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
I was, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll actually bring it
out tables and chairs.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I just have so much blood in me and I
feel like I should spill it.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, we didn't see it coming in.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah, but it was kind of interesting that he never
told them. He just kind of like dropped it. There
are over ninety thousand people on the transplant list for
kidneys alone right now.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
But it begs the question, and I will ask all
of you, Lisa, would you donate a kidney to a stranger?

Speaker 5 (08:28):
That's a good question. I've never thought about it before.
I think I would have to think.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
About it longer.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
I definitely did question.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, I definitely would donate one to a family member.
How about a front one hundred percent? Yeap, potentially, yeah,
justin how about you?

Speaker 6 (08:43):
I will answer that question at seven twenty five because
I want to hear from the people and hear what
they have to say. I have my opinion. I want
to hear theirs, so leave me to talk back. Yeah,
we'll give us a call seven to twenty five. We'll talk.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's a good topic.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
Well, it's a loaded question, right, I mean, it's the
ultimate one of the ultimate forms of service. It is, Yeah,
especially to a stranger.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It isn't.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
And going back to Jesse, he said that he's been
thinking about doing this for over ten years. Wow, he's
had it in the back of his mind. That he
wanted to do something like this, his altruistic donation.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
You know you're driving down ninety three that there was
one last week a billboard of a man.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, yeah, a kidney.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
They're in desperate need of kidneys.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
So the question is would you and you can send
your talk back to right now to you right justin.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
Yeah, on the iHeart app. I think everyone knows how
to do it. If you don't, just download the iHeart app.
It's free. You pull up bus kiss want to wait,
tap the microphone, join the conversations.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
That easy list.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
So let me ask you another question. When was the
last time you washed your hair?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
This morning?

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (09:44):
So little up?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
It does look fabulous.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Okay, how long have you gone the longest you've gone
without washing?

Speaker 15 (09:52):
Well?

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Can I gull you? Okay, I guess Okay, I don't
think you've gone longer than a week.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, I've never gone longer than the week.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
I would say, like on average, it's like four or
five days you're not supposed to wash your hair, but
like once or twice a week.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I do it like twice a day sometimes, but
I'm desperately dry.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
That's well, it's actually counterintuitive because you're washing so much
that it's making you dryer.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, oh I know, Yeah, I just can't stop. It's
an illness.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yes, we know.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well I ask you the question because are you ready
for this? Cardi B says she hasn't washed her hair
in three months.

Speaker 16 (10:32):
I got oiled down my scout because Tomora, I'm gonna
do my real hair. I'm gonna wash it. Then around Wednesday,
I'm upgrading. I'm not even gonna front. I haven't washed
my hair like two months. Matter of fact, I'm lying,
probably like three months. I probably got old type of
roach eggs, mosquito eggs, everything in this bitch right here.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
She's so pure.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
That's a good thing. Bill's dressed up as a mosquito hunter.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, I am.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
I've got my mosquito swatter with me. Sure this morning
swapped them. That's like a long time. Three months, that's
a long time mosquito is in there.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Didn't start to smell, Lisa.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think so, Yes, I would think so after a while.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Maybe that was Jalen Brown's problem and stuff going on
up there.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
Well, there was a story. They said it wasn't true,
but there was an initial story that Stefan Diggs her
boyfriend broke up with her prior to them being together
now because her BBL stunk. Oh, that was a story
in the news that her fake act hold on. Yeah,
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
The Brazilian but had a smell.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
Yeah, that he didn't like the smell of the BBL.
It was a story. We don't know if it's truing.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
They all are, yeah stories, and they're covered by you,
bill including this one. Billie Eilish was given Innovator of
the Year award by The Wall Street Journal this week,
and she used her speech to call on rich people,
specific billionaires, to give their money away, do good things
with it.

Speaker 14 (12:03):
Love you all, but there's a few people in here
that have a lot more money than me. And uh,
if you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate,
but yeah, give your money away.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Shorty's I'll dare you be a billionaire.

Speaker 6 (12:23):
Mark Zuckerberg was right in front of her.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
He's the only one that didn't collap. Yeah, he was pissed. Well,
you know what he says.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I know you've done your homework and so you know
that money isn't a big part of my life. But
at the moment I could find on do Auburn Street,
take the Phoenix Club and turn it into my Ping
Pong room.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
I love that movie Eurybuddy Dead, right, our Buddy Dead.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, yeah, the Social Network one of the greatest movies
of all.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Time, absolutely, Ben Mazrek yep.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
So my question to that is, I do agree with
helping others, right if you especially a lot have a
lot of money. But how do we know that he
is not giving money?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 15 (13:00):
Saw.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Did you know there aren't a lot of billionaires in
that room that aren't giving a lot of money?

Speaker 6 (13:04):
That would be my question.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:06):
Yeah, but she did donate eleven million dollars from her tour. Yeah,
that's good. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
And by the way, if you're so inclined, now would
be a great time to give. With the government shutdown
in full effect and food assistance programs about to run
out at midnight tonight, can.

Speaker 6 (13:22):
I give a quick shout out?

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (13:24):
So I was with Pentucket Bank, that's my bank yesterday.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
They do amazing things in the community. They invited me
out to a food bank in haverl Yeah, to help
hand out food. So think about this on a regular
day that they do this This is this food bank, right,
they feed two to three hundred families. Yeah, yesterday, the
day that we were there, Yeah, over eight hundred.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, the crowds are tripling.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
It's because of the snap running out, runs.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Out at midnight tonight.

Speaker 14 (13:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
I did the American Red Cross Food Pantry, the Boston
Food Pantry last week for.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
The TV show.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Fifteen hundred families every morning for three hours from nine
until noon. Fifteen hundred families go there. And that's before
this shutdown and the threat of shutting things down. It's
an incredible thing. Anyway, we move on. The first full
Trader for season five Stranger Things dropped yesterday.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
This isn't like one of your campaigns.

Speaker 17 (14:18):
You don't get to write the end ding lock this SI.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
He's going to end our world.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
And it's not gonna stop.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
First four episodes, Lisa, I know you're a huge fan.
Drop November twenty sixth.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
Cannot wait. So it's gonna be We already have the
planned out, it planned out for Thanksgiving. We're going to
go to Thanksgiving and eat at my wife's aunt's house
and then we're coming home and binging my son.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
And I Wow. Yeah, so you're a big.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
Fan, huge and it's really the first show that my
son and I have watched together. Oh good, So it's monumental.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
The latest from Jamaica and the hurricane devastation. How about
this for an number, seventy of Jamaica is still without power,
total devastation and spots. Sean Paul, He's coming to our
jingle Ball December fourteenth. I hope he can still make
it to jingle Ball, but he's there and he's calling
on people.

Speaker 17 (15:13):
To help my island. Jamaica is going through a tough
time right now.

Speaker 11 (15:18):
Hurricane Malissa's caused a lot of damage. People are misplaced,
people are hurt, people are without any help right now.
So I'm asking all of my funds from your heart
to give.

Speaker 17 (15:36):
Anything it can. I'm not a whole smile.

Speaker 11 (15:40):
I will go towards helping people and die I need.
I've teened up with food for the Port Jamaica to
help give some relief to the people who leed it
the most. Right now, I myself, I went to my everything.

Speaker 17 (16:02):
Up to fifty thousand US dollars that you give, so.

Speaker 11 (16:09):
Together we can help to make a difference on help
to give to the people.

Speaker 17 (16:15):
Right and know who need it.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, he's stuck in the middle.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
But all right there it is absolutely unbearable to look
at the video down there. And don't forget as many
as fifty people have died across the Caribbean.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
I mean, it's just what a horrible song. By the way,
why not take a winner.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
We've got jingle Ball tickets right now for College twenty
five and Christian for Malden.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
That is you, Hi, Christian? You with us? Where'd you go?

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah? Hello?

Speaker 7 (16:45):
Hi?

Speaker 6 (16:45):
All right, I'm plugging your phone.

Speaker 10 (16:47):
Okay, if my phone almost sighed, I had to plug
it in and.

Speaker 13 (16:50):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, you got in just in time. You need a keyword,
it's organ. Organ is the keyword. So hold on.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
You've got a pair of tickets for jingle Ball, but
tell her what she qualifies for Liz.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
One hundred and eight thousand dollars and for front row
tickets to jingle Ball.

Speaker 10 (17:08):
I am so tomorrow's my birthday.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Well, happy birthday and happy Halloween. But don't hang up much.
Don't hang up. You're going to talk to producer Riley
and we'll see you were jingle Ball and good luck
on the on the jackpot and By the way, we'll
have another pair of jingle ball tickets, another shot at
the one hundred and eight thousand coming up at eight
ten this morning. Oh and by the way, iHeart has
just been named exclusive audio partner for next year's Winter

(17:34):
Olympic Games, the twenty twenty six Games going to be
held in Italy.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
You go in last. You're a big skier, You're ski bunny.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
I would love to go.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
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Speaker 3 (18:16):
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, inventive.

Speaker 18 (18:20):
Facebook, Billy and Lisa every morning just went to wait,
so actor Jesse Eisenberg surprising the Today Show telling them
point blank, I'm giving a kidney to a stranger.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Here he was, I'm actually doing even my kidney in
six weeks.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
I really am. Yes, Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 12 (18:37):
What.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, I don't know why I got like bitten by
the blood donation.

Speaker 14 (18:41):
Bo.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
I'm doing an altruistic donation mid December.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Yeah, one of my best friends had a kidney transplant,
so really, I like respect that so much.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh yeah, I'm so excited to do it.

Speaker 11 (18:52):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I didn't see that coming.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I was just going to conceal, bring it out tables
and chairs.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, I just have so much blood in me and
I feel like I should spill it.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Begs the question have you received an organ from somebody else?
Are you giving an organ to somebody else? Have you
given an organ to somebody else? Let's start with Diane
as she's on the phone. Diane, you got a kidney from.

Speaker 19 (19:18):
Who a man named Brian was? It was actually he
was tragically lost his life and he's only twenty five
years old. And you know, I'm very grateful. My husband
unfortunately waiting for a kidney for a different illness, but
he ended up passing last year. Oh I'm sorry, he
developed another illness that made him ineligible. But you know, people,

(19:41):
so many people don't donate. They very kidneys, and I
just want to say, like, you know, you can really
save a life. My life changed so much after having
a transplant.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
How are you feeling, Diane.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I'm good.

Speaker 19 (19:54):
It's been almost eight years and you know, no issue.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
So well that's a good shot. Thank you for your
all and keep going.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
She's right, you can, you can, you know, make arrangements
for yourself.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
You can go on the list, right right.

Speaker 15 (20:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
The stranger thing is crazy. I mean, obviously I think
we all would donate to a loved one, right they
needed it, sure, but like a complete stranger. That's like
the ultimate form of giving, yes, giving a piece of yourself,
you know. And it makes you think of the Selena
Gomez story. You know, Selena Gomez got a kidney from
her friend, her best friend, and then they had a
falling out.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, and we ever find out what the falling out
was about.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Rumors, I will say the friend Francilla was not invited
to the wedding. Oh yeah, so the rumor was that
she gave her the kidney she donated to Selena, and
then Selena started smoking and drinking. That's what they said,
but there's been no confirmation, right, she hasn't confirmed that
that's true. But and then a couple of years ago,
she did an interview where she said that Taylor. Selena

(20:52):
said that Taylor was her only friend in the industry,
which was kind of cold.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
So, yeah, I'm thinking, once somebody gives you an organ,
you forgive anything for the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
That person could do anything wrong.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
You're deeply connected.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
Once you give a kidney, you can't do things like smoke,
cigarettes or even drink. I don't believe you have to.
You have to change your lifestyle.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Once you've given up a kidney, yeah, or.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Gotten one too. Yeah yeah wow. Let's go to Erin
online one.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Hey Aaron, good morning.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
Good morning. This is Aaron from Billy's Sunset cruise that
stayed at the docks.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh yeah, hi, Eron, how are you? We still had fun?

Speaker 10 (21:29):
Didn't we?

Speaker 6 (21:30):
We totally did, right Erin, So you want a big
prize of a sunset cruise on Billy's boat, but we
never left the dock at the marina.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's me, Oh, yeah, because the weather. It was the weather.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
Right right, anyway, what's up, Eric.

Speaker 10 (21:47):
Yes, it was so my husband did have a transplant.
We had talked about it a little bit, but it
did start with an anonymous doner. So the way that
it works is was a gentleman that decided he had
seen a friend go through the situation where they needed
a kidney, and he decided he wanted to donate. And
there's a program that we had done through Mass General

(22:10):
that they identify a donor for you. And if you
end up getting into a program where someone he anonymously
started it by kicking it off and donating the kidney,
and then your person donates a kidney that's a better
match for that person, and you get a kidney from
somebody else and you don't necessarily know where it's coming

(22:33):
from or who it's coming from. The Mass General step
this up for us. It was a fifty two person swap.
All started with an anonymous donor, and there were people
that were kidneys were traveling across the country back across
people that needed them. They were able to step this up.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Was it a long wait?

Speaker 10 (22:54):
Luckily for us because of the way that the program worked,
and how long he had not been feeling good. It
didn't seem like a long wait for us, but it
could have been much worse.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Well, that's a great story. Thank you very much for
checking in. And I'm sorry but the bad weather we
couldn't have taken the boat off the dock that day.
I'm just saying, let's go to a Julie. Now, Julie,
did you donate a kidney or you're about to No.

Speaker 12 (23:19):
I donated a kidney almost eight years ago, and.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
To a stranger.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
That's so incredible.

Speaker 12 (23:26):
Yeah, I did. It's it's a lovely story. And I
just wanted prefaces by saying that there is a one
percent chance that anything will ever happen to me. I
have been healthy related nothing related to my kidney has
ever happened. I think it's really important for people to
know that and be aware of that. I almost want

(23:47):
to cry hearing these stories of the woman with that passed.
You know, it's such a simple, as weird as it sounds,
it's such a simple gift to give, and I have
a lifelong friend, end a family. I came so much
from it, and it was simple. It was from a
story I saw online and it was through a foundation

(24:09):
and I said, oh, I'll just you know, fill out
the application and then my life kind of went to
you know, in the toilet as far as my marriage.
And I was really really struggling in my life. And
so I went forward with you know, testing my blood
and they called me within weeks and said.

Speaker 15 (24:28):
You're her match.

Speaker 12 (24:29):
And I'm like what. So I traveled back and forth
to Presbyterian Hospital and I donated my kidney and it
was the longtime assistant from Barbara Corkoran.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (24:41):
So we went on Rachel Ray and to just you know,
share the story. Yeah, it was. It was amazing, and
it just it helped me. It's almost like she saved
my life too, because I was going through something so
terrible and it lifted me up and said, I'm not dying.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
She is very great.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Before you go, I got to ask you physically, did
you feel anything different after giving your kidney?

Speaker 12 (25:07):
You know what, it was probably one of the easiest
procedures I've ever been through. I went on Rachel Ray
a week to the day I donated. I was walking
perfectly fine, and I've been you know, I've been fine.
I encourage anybody anybody to do it.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, good for you, you are a saint.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
But thank you for the call, thank you for joining
the show. Let's go to Amelia. She also donated a kidney.
Good morning, Amelia, good morning a stranger.

Speaker 20 (25:36):
Guys, Yeah, to a stranger. I saw his ad on
Facebook and it turned out to be like a friend
of a friend and he was seeking a kidney, and
a lot of people, like six thousand people of your
guy because they don't get a kidney. So I definitely
encourage people, at least at the very least put it
be a defeastoner like I you put it on your
your license if you pass away. Yeah, you can still drink.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yoh, you can still drink.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
You can drink and everything.

Speaker 7 (26:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (26:05):
I still have a glass of wine every now and then,
absolutely moderately.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah yeah, well, good for you again that you are
a saint.

Speaker 17 (26:14):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Now it's topic time for the Billy and Lisa in the.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Morning, and we started a topic.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Jesse Eisenberg, great actor, by the way, the social network Are.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
You kidding me?

Speaker 4 (26:26):
He announced on the Today Show this week that he's
giving a kidney to an absolute stranger, and it got
us wondering, like would we do that? Apparently a lot
of people have because we broke it open a few
minutes ago, and the phones.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Have been crazy, the talk clacks are crazy.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
So I think all three of us are the saying,
so we would donate to a loved one. Yeah, I'm
not sure about a stranger.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
And also upon my death as an organ donor, that's
a very big deal.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Make sure you know, Yeah, I'm an organ donor.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah, I'm a donor. I've got the heart on my license. Yea, yeah,
take it all.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah at that point, yeah, you text them all.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
I don't know the condition of them, but yeah, oh
I'm sure several of mine would be rejected.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
But well, let's go back to the phone. Sean is
coming in from a Londonderry, New Hampshire. Sean, your thoughts,
What would you do?

Speaker 21 (27:15):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (27:15):
I have had multiple family members actually donate kidneys to
save other family members, so I would absolutely do it
if I got the chance.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Would you do it for a stranger?

Speaker 13 (27:26):
I probably would?

Speaker 1 (27:28):
So you'd put yourself on a list.

Speaker 13 (27:32):
Yes, I would. I also work in an intensive care
unit and we see the gift of life happen often
and it changes lives for so many people, and I
think it's really important for people to understand that. You know,
putting it on your license can be very important. So

(27:53):
you know, when your family is having to make that decision,
they kind of already know what you want.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
And if you're working in ICU makes sense so much.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
That's an interesting Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Yeah, yeah. Those videos of you know, organ donors after
they pass and they wheel them out and then all
the staff and families are out kind of watching over them,
got to get chills.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Even said, yeah, you know, it's uh, you got some
talk backs in there.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Brother.

Speaker 21 (28:17):
I would donate my kidney to a stranger if I could. Unfortunately,
I have a genetic kidney disease and nobody wants my kidneys.
But I'll eventually need a transplant, and my community relies
on people being organ donors and generous people donating to strangers.
Waitlists for organs are years and sometimes loved ones aren't

(28:38):
a match, so we rely on people being organ donors
living or death.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, oh boy, now I feel bad what you have
done to me.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
Justin we'll put yourself on a list. I don't know
the condition of your kidney. I'm sure it's fine.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, you're healthy.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
I think I'm in pretty good conditioned.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Okay, well what I guess what if it's like a
twenty one year old person, kid, would they take your kidney?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Does the age thing matter?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
So now you want to get on that road. I
might not be good enough to give my kidney to
a stranger.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Now he's saying that you would have to give it
to somebody who is a similar age.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
But we don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
We don't know the answer.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, whatever age, I am of a very young version
of it.

Speaker 6 (29:20):
You are actually you're you're on good health so that
you could be better, even better.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
I mean, you guys told me I am. I have
nothing to base it on, but just saying, oh, this
is Seabrook, New Hampshire.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Let's go to Laura. Good morning, Laura, good morning. What
are your thoughts on this?

Speaker 15 (29:38):
Well, my daughter received a living kidney donor at the
age of she was eighteen at the time, seventeen when
she was diagnosed with kidney failure. So absolutely, I would
say put your name on this if you are not
willing to be a living donor a deceased dona. There

(30:01):
are thousands and thousands of people ninety thousand within the
US that are needing a kidney, and that's kidney alone.
So it's super important that people become aware and I
appreciate you doing this talk on this this morning. I
know another sixteen year old that's waiting for a kidney

(30:23):
right now within Massachusetts and she's doing dialysis every day.
And there are so many people that need a kidney.

Speaker 10 (30:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (30:33):
What people aren't aware of is if you do donate
a kidney, you go to and you ever need a
kidney later on, you will go to the top of
the list.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Oh I didn't know that. Well yes, wow, Well, thank
you for the call and thank you for the information.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
All right, Bill, Well care up.

Speaker 10 (30:54):
Bill.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
I'm harvesting one of your kidneys to sell on the
black market to this show.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'm short, but help, I'm sure
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