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July 17, 2026 36 mins

This episode is a wild ride, folks! We've got a governor on the phone, a traffic cone from Scotland, and a whole lot of excitement in the air. You won't want to miss this conversation that's all about making ticket prices fair for everyone.

This episode is all about the latest news in Massachusetts, where the governor is taking action to stop scalpers and make ticket prices more affordable for fans. We're talking about a new bill that's all about fairness and making sure people don't have to break the bank to see their favorite artists perform. But that's not all - we've also got a special guest, a traffic cone from Scotland that's been making waves around the city. This cone has been on quite the adventure, and we're excited to share its story with you.

The governor joins us to talk about the new bill and why it's so important to her. We also chat with the traffic cone's owners, who share their hilarious story of how they got the cone to Boston and all the fun they've had with it. And, of course, we've got some great music to share with you, including a sneak peek at the new album from Gracie Abrams.

So, if you're ready to hear all about the latest news in Massachusetts and the adventures of a very special traffic cone, tune in to this episode. We've got a great conversation, some amazing music, and a whole lot of fun.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, and that was a brand new song off Gracie
Abrams brand new album. She actually hosted her album release
party right here on the Kiss whnawait last night. She's
coming to the TD Garden Boston March first and second
of next year. And if Governor mar Heal he has
her way, you're not going to be paying through the
nose for Gracie Abrams tickets. We've got the Governor on

(00:22):
the phone. Good morning, Madam Governor.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good morning, Billy.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I gotta tell you how you doing. We're doing good.
I got to tell you on behalf of concert lovers,
music lovers, sports fans, everybody, a large thank you for
getting involved in the scalping in the resale market yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh you're welcome, you know. I mean, look, we all
love music, we love going to see shows, we love
seeing our favorite artists. You know, whether it's a small venue.
I mean, I grew up as a conto with just
advance of beach casinos seeing shows when I was younger,
to the amazing venues we have in Boston and Massachusetts.
This is just about making sure that people don't have

(01:04):
to continue to like pul their hair out, go online,
wait forever you know, never be able to buy the
tickets and have that experience, or if they buy the tickets,
I mean, they've just gouged so much. And you shouldn't
have to, you know, pay a month's rent or moorgage
your home to see some of these artists. Right, So
it's just about fairness, and I want to change that

(01:25):
for folks in Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Have you ever been gouged yourself for a ticket a
sporting event or a concert?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I mean yeah, I mean I think all of us
have paid more than we'd liked to write and because
you want to see you know, you want to see
a show, you want to see your artist. I've never
had the experience that I know some people have, which
I'm also looking to ban, which is ghost ticketing, speculative ticketing.
I mean we've heard, you know recently, for example, the
World Cup. We've also seen some of the other shows.

(01:55):
Right you go online, you think you've bought the ticket,
and then you show up at the venue only to
find out the ticket was never transferred, it never really existed.
So you know, it's just fraud. It's predatory, and I
think what we're doing by proposing a cap on resale
value at one hundred and ten percent, So you pay

(02:17):
one hundred dollars a ticket for one hundred dollars, it
can only be resold for one hundred and ten dollars. Okay.
And the service these which also really get you also
are going to be capped at just ten percent. So
you know, these things I think should help and you know,

(02:38):
make a difference in terms of just making tickets more
available to you know, regular folks, because right now it's
it's all private equity companies that run these major sale operations,
right and you know, it's only a lot of times
it's just super wealthy or people who are paying way
more than you know, they can probably afford to get

(03:01):
to a lot of these shows, and we've got to
change that.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
It's kind of cool that you partnered with Noah Khan.
You know, I saw the red phone sitting there when
you started the press conference and I said, somebody's going
to be calling in to the governor. That was very cool.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, he is really cool. I mean, I'm a huge
Noah Khan fan. I love what he's done, especially around
mental health. He's a New England hero, right and you know,
we just we love his music, We love who he
is as a person. And one of the things that
I became aware of is that he's been this champion
for artists and for fans on this issue of ticket reselling.

(03:40):
And so he was in town last week, you know,
first Fantastic four Nights at Fenway, and we talked to
his team and talked to him, and you know, I
thought we could do something about this because he's been
talking about it, and so I said, let's go for it.
Let's let's make sure we take action here in Massachusetts.
And yeah, he's super guy and as I say, great

(04:03):
for fans and also great for artists. Yes, yes, well
technic artists, and I think that's important too.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
And it's nice that you named it the Great Divide
to Act. So what's next for the bill? Uh?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
So look, as governor, I file this bill and then
I will work with the legislature and you know, folks
can can let it be known that they think this
is a good idea, and we'll look to get this,
get this done and have you sign it into law
and you know, implement it as soon as possible. So, yes,
I love Gracie Abrams when she comes. I want more
people to year remarks.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right, yeah, well, you know, we'll see what we can
do to get you some Gracy Abrams tickets. Listen, since
we have you. Uh, this has been an incredible couple
of months here in Massachusetts and in the Boston area,
between the World Cup and Sale Boston, which just finished
a couple of days ago. On a personal level, for

(05:01):
you as governor, what are your favorite memories from those experiences?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, no Scotland, no party, right, guys in kelts running
all over the city, drinking us out of our beer,
putting cones everywhere. I think the majesty of the tall ships.
For people who don't know, these are ships that come
from over fifty countries around the world. There are ships
that are a couple hundred years old. Even they sail

(05:28):
into Boston Harbor, they're on display with their crews. You've
seen a lot of sailors in downtown Boston if you're
walking around lately, and it's just a great chance, you know,
it was just really beautiful to see that image of
these ships coming into the harbor. I also think for

(05:49):
those who didn't see it, go back and even check
out the video. Are Boston Pops celebration on the Esplanage.
I thought, fantastic. Not just the fireworks, not just the
pops were performers. We also had a drone show incredible,
it was super cool. And you know, these are just
some of the some of the things. But I think
more than anything, Massachusetts showed who we are. Oh yeah,

(06:13):
you know, high energy. It was fun, it was safe. Look,
as governor, I care a lot about public safety and
public transit. Everything worked really well, right. We had trains
down and back to Gillette that worked super well. We
had you know, really safe experiences in Boston around the
state celebrating World Cup. And what I loved was to

(06:34):
see people hanging out with one another, right, Bostonians, people
from Massachusetts with people from all over the world, different cultures,
like having fun and you know, we need that joy, right,
Like we need that vibe and that energy. And it
was a chance to remember who we are and what
Massachusetts also brings to the world, Like this is who
we are, this is the kind of people we are.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I love that you said that because I remember a
specific moment. I was walking in the streets of Boston
with my wife Michelle. It was a beautiful weekend and
the Scots were in and the vikings were in and
the streets were crowded with people, and it just felt
so good. It just seemed like it put a smile
on everybody's face.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
It did. And then we were able to do some
things that you know, I want to support permanently, extending
bar hours right for bars and restaurants, allowing people you
know to be in certain outside areas right with outdoor
bar space, or you know, block space on streets. And
you know, these are good innovations. You know, I think,

(07:36):
look life hard, right, Like I'm working every day to
try to lower housing costs, lower healthcare cost lower gas
and electric bills. Right, it's my job as governor and
to try to drive our economy and creat jobs. And
also you know, it's important that we find opportunities for
people to have fun and enjoy life, you know, here
in Greater Boston, in our state, and you know it's important.

(07:57):
It's important as well.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, you had a special visitor yesterday, you got to
meet the traffic cone from Scotland.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I've yeah, you know, I'm used to welcoming like we'ign
dignitaries and head of states and all this thing. But
the other day, in fact, got to welcome an orange
traffic cone. It's the Logan Airport. Now. This, of course
was a cone that was presented to me in the
Mare by these couple of guys from Scotland and they're

(08:27):
taking this cone from Scotland around the state. I think
they'll be up the Statehouse today, iconic cone and had
a tracking device you can actually follow us all. Yeah,
the tone has gone, so I think they'll be by
to see me later. But you know, it's just what
was cool is they loved Boston so much in Massachusetts,

(08:48):
and I think we loved the Scots and I think
there's going to be a lot of tourism back and
forth over the years to come. We also raised the Scottish.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Flag, yes at the airport.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, because you know, I didn't know this, but they
pointed out and they came here on jobs that we
did not yet became flags from like all over. But
he had not yet hung a Scottish slack.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
So I think it was Geo's interviews with the Influencer
that you're going to get it out yep, wow.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, yeah, And the cone's coming in here a governor
next hour, The cone is coming into the studio lot.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, Oh my god, you're gonna love Andrew and Danny.
Those guys are hilarious.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I hope they leave the Cone. If they leave the Cone,
I'll make you a promise. Okay, mar if they leave
the Cone, we will give it to you because you've
got a lot of beautiful stuff in your office and
you can add the Cone to your collection.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, I okay, I'm not going to Okay, you need to.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Be Billy.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
One more thing before you leave. I want to rewind
the tape for a minute. Did you say that you
were a waitress at the Hampton Beach Casino.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, you know that. You know the casino.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh, I know it. Well, I used to sneak into
a lot of concerts there when I was under age.
I'm just saying, I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Love this job. I love this job and I and
I really love that job. Yeah. I went to their
high school college actually neil In Law School is a
great place at the Beach Casino just over the border
in New Hampshire. A lot of shows, a lot of
great artists. I saw you know working there, And you
know it's just I love live music, you know, I

(10:28):
love our I love live theater, right, and I want
to continue to support with tax credits and other things,
you know, ways we can drive our cultural economy. Support
our musicians, support our artists, support our our venues.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's it's really important for our quality of life, right
and for who we are. We want to be able
to be out and enjoy those things. So well, that's
the true story. I used to wear a little less
black miniskirt and.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
That you are always cool to me, madam governor. But
now you're even cooler than you were before.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Before you go, Governor, we do have a talk back
for you here. I know your time is precious.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
But hi, warn crew, good morning, love you all. George
from Walpole here.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I'm a lawyer.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
I was just listening to the governor heally talking about
you know, the ticketmaster and stuff, and she mentioned something
really really important I want to highlight.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
She fid the legislation.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
But everybody who supports his caused needs to call their
legislative delegation, their senators, their representatives to pass the bill.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
There you go, Governor.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Awesome, George. George is right on.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah. Well it's a great place, isn't it more.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, hey, it is. I'm proud of our state. I'm
proud of our people, right, you know. And we got
our challenges for sure, and I'm trying to work on
them every day. But no place i'd rather live than
be in Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
You're actually on your way to a very cool event
right now, right.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Boston Celtics legend Bob Coosey, he's been with us for
over seventy years. We are naming a highway overpath for
him in Worcester. Why because he lives in Worcester. He
played at holy Cross before he played at the Celtics,
and Bob Coosey is a legendary point guard. Point guard
statistic is the assist right passing the ball, moving it around.

(12:25):
So I thought it was appropriate. You know, Bill Russell's
got his bridge, Bob Toosey's going to have his pass.
It's a way to honor a legend and a great
man and a great person. So I'm going to see
my friend Bob, and we've become good friends over the years,
and happy that Massachusetts is honoring Bob Toosey today.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Madam Governor, thank you so much for taking out a
few minutes for the Billy and Lisa Morning Show. Have
a great day down there.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
All right.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Have a great day and great weecod guys, take care.

Speaker 8 (12:53):
BA Now the entertainment update with a Billy Godsays on kids.

Speaker 9 (12:59):
You know we all say it's a big Friday show, right,
it has been a big Friday show.

Speaker 10 (13:03):
We Governor Collin, we have a bone coming in.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh that's right, the Scots are coming in with the
Cone and the Kills. That's happening in a few minutes.
Oh my god, what a crazy And then last night
we had Gracie Abrams hosting her album release party right
here on the Kiss Wanna Wait, And she also managed
to go on The Fallon Show last night, and she's
all worked up about the new album.

Speaker 10 (13:26):
I feel stoked.

Speaker 11 (13:28):
It's been nice to be back with the crew and
band and to kind of just yeah, reunite and the
people that I made this with I respect and admire
so much. So it feels like a nice little celebration
of all the work that went into it.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, the album came out at midnight last night. We're
playing songs from the album all day. Do you have
a favo ate least?

Speaker 10 (13:48):
We're stoked. I actually like.

Speaker 9 (13:53):
I do like Hit the Wall, I do like Daughter
from Hell, I like like sort of the meeting behind it.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
How about you for Douce Sororiety, do you have a
fave already?

Speaker 11 (14:02):
I also really like I like Hit the Wall a lot,
but I haven't listened to it enough to like really
have a favorite yet.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay, And don't forget the Ariana Grande shows are next week.
She's taking over the city. She's got three shows in
one week at TD Garden. Am I allowed to say
now that the Billy and Lisa Morning Show is going
to be broadcasting Thursday? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (14:22):
We announced it.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, Okay. I just always want to be sure because
I get the look and the wave from you, right.

Speaker 9 (14:27):
But if we have a lot of people listening, probably
you know right now who maybe didn't hear the announcement.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
That's true. We're going live at the God Not Play
doing live. That's going to be next Thursday, the first
show five to seven, The Billion Lisa Show will be
broadcasting live on Kiss On and Weight. That means, if
you're going to the show, come by. Even if you're
not going to the show, come by, great food, great drinks,
and us.

Speaker 10 (14:48):
We're fun, hang out with us.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
And if you're going to the show, you get to
get maybe some chicken tenders. They've got fabulous pizza there.
Now you've filled your belly if you enjoyed yourself with us,
and then you go in for the big show.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
And the best part is when you walk out play
it's right there at the entrance to the garden. Yeah,
and skip the lines, skip the escalator, you know what.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Just saying okay and don't forget Yeah, talk back for tickets.
When you hear an ariana Grande song on kids, and
that could happen at any minute, you just send us
a talk back and you qualify as a winner for
tickets for one of her shows next week. Man meantime, Well,

(15:26):
I'm excited because we had the governor on the show
and I wasn't expecting it. The Governor's in a motorcade
heading to a large event and she picks up a
phone and calls to Billy and Lisa Morning Show. I
get excited. She did something very cool yesterday. She launched
a new bill. It's called The Great Divide Bill, and
it's a take on Noah Khan because she knows, she
realizes Noah Khan has been one of those artists out

(15:46):
there who's trying to fight the scalpers and the gougers
in the resale market and try to bring ticket prices
down again. And it was a press conference yesterday. Noah
Khan actually facetimed the governor and the press conference, and
the governor called into us this morning talking about the bill.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
This is just about making sure that people don't have
to continue to like hold their hair out, go online,
wait forever, you know, never be able to buy the
tickets and have that experience. Or if they buy the tickets,
I mean, they've just gouged so much and you shouldn't
have to, you know, pay a month's rent or moorriage
your home to see some of these artists. Right, It's

(16:22):
just about fairness and I want to change that for
folks in Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
And that was cool. She was on her way to
another event this morning honoring Bob Coosey, one of the
all time great Celtic legends. They're naming a bridge after
Bob Coosey.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
That was cool. That was a really cool moment. And
she also talked about Nola Khan and how she parted
with him.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
You know, I was in town last week, you know,
very fantastic four nights at Fenway and we talked to
his team and talked to him, and you know, I
thought we could do something about this because he's been
talking about it, and so I said, let's go for it.
Let's make sure we take action here in Massachusetts. And yeah,
he's super guy.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, and she also met the scone, the traffic cone
that came here from Scotland. Well, she's coming in here.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
Yeah, the cone's coming in. The scots are coming in
at nine ten, So just after nine o'clock they'll be here.
But she mentioned then they're going to see her, yes,
later on right, that's what she said.

Speaker 12 (17:14):
She did.

Speaker 10 (17:14):
They're going to stop by the state House.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, so that'll be a second visit in forty eight
hours because they went to her office. She met them,
she met the cone, took a picture with the cone. Yeah,
and they're bringing it back by.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
The way, our sister stationed the bull one on one
seventh the bowl, Jess and Crue messaged me asking me
to have the cone and the Scotts take a picture
down at the bowl in front of the bowl, you
know logo. I don't know what to respond. Lease, should
I respond that Billy is boycotting the bull or not?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Just leave it? Alone because they left me on Red right.
All I wanted was a pair of tickets to see Whody.
It's for my wife, it's her favorite act. Yeah, it's okay,
we just didn't respond. We're going to get the picture
for them.

Speaker 10 (17:51):
Yeah, well let's do it. Yeah, team, Yeah, we can't
be spiteful.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah. But the big news the Cone is contract with
the Scotts, and we have a other questions to ask them.
And don't forget. The World Cup final is Sunday three o'clock. Meantime,
another big event this weekend. The Odyssey movie is in theaters,
already expected to do it at least one hundred million.
Matt Damon, of course, is the star. He's still making
the rounds. He's doing the interview circa this time seth

(18:17):
Myers and he talked about the animals in the movie.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
The animals are all very, very real.

Speaker 13 (18:22):
In fact, when we first went into Zeus's cave, you know,
I'd even hearing about it, and Chris and hoytser cinematographer,
were there. And I walk into the mouth of the
cave and they're way down in the middle of it,
and Chris goes, Matt, come here, come here, and I
go kind of jogging down.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
I'm like, hey what, and he goes, smell.

Speaker 13 (18:40):
So I smell and he go and I go like,
yeah what, and he goes, this is the best. This
place is gonna smell for two weeks. He goes, we
got forty sheep coming in. And sure enough, the forty
sheep came in.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
And the cave.

Speaker 14 (18:52):
It took two weeks to shoot the caves.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, it was I think of about two weeks. Wow,
there anyone here have tickets to the movie already.

Speaker 10 (18:59):
I want to go see it today night.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, how about you justin you're going to know again?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Not?

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Yeah, I think next weekend I'm going to go.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Producer Roley, I've looked.

Speaker 11 (19:06):
I want to go with my brother, and he's kind
of busy this weekend, so we might go on Monday.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, you go everywhere with your brother.

Speaker 10 (19:12):
We're good friends.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
He's your brother.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
She brought's Noa Khan.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh that's right. That was a big night. Oh yeah, Noah,
met Noah Noah. Savannah Guthrie announcing yesterday she's taking a
three week break from the Today Show to film her
new word game show. It's based on Wordle Do World
as you were.

Speaker 9 (19:34):
A fan of I do wordle. I try and do
it every day. Sometimes I mess, but yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay. It was a scary incident on the set yes
of the Today Show yesterday. Some guy managed to crash
the set and uh, it was pretty scary and he
lunched at Craig Melvin, the host. Here's TMZ on the story.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Scary incident and a lot of people at the Today
Show right now I think ding Craig Melvin and others
or demanding answers.

Speaker 14 (20:03):
How did this happen?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
And how did somebody seemingly get so far past security
and get to an area that really was it was
a restricted area where you would think you were safe,
but obviously that wasn't the case this morning for Craig Melbourne.
So to directly answer the question, it sounds like what
was said was the N word at Craig Melvin as
this guy, by the way, tried to lunge at him.
Is the way the story has been now described to us.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Pretty crazy. I guess he was looking for Al Roker. Yeah,
and he ran into Craig Melvin.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah. Wow, very very racist too. Oh yeah, crazy incident.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
What did Al Roker do. I thought everyone loved Al Roker.
I know it's the nicest guy ever.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Who's that angry at Al Roker?

Speaker 4 (20:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Screw you, Lisa. These security guards already been fired.

Speaker 9 (20:46):
Yes, yes, they have him on camera, noticing that they
really weren't paying attention.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh boy, he sped right by. Oh boy. This is
a very cool story. Remember Adam Sandler. He officiated the
Travis and Taylor and apparently went right to Nantucket from there.
And here's where it gets very cool. He called the
police in Nantucket asking where he can get a pickup
game of basketball.

Speaker 12 (21:11):
Hi, I'm visiting your island right now, and I was
wondering if you could answer a question. I like to
play bat claw. There any outdoor courts where people play?

Speaker 10 (21:22):
And he played and they answered and he showed up.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah. I saw the video of him playing with perfect strangers.
He just hops on the court. I'm in, Hey, you're in.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
That's what he does.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah. World Cup Final is Sunday at three o clock
Spain and Argentina. There will be a watch party on
City Hall Plaza and it will be crazy. And there's
actually a match tomorrow for third place that'll be between
France and England Red Sox are back home after the
All Star Break. They've got a double header today out

(21:52):
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road games in a row right prior to the All
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(22:13):
love the Knives and there you go. So for all
the doubters out there, stuff it.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
Lisa Kiss one O eight, Oh yeah, the Scuts nine,
all two of them are in the Billion Lisa Studios
right now, and they brought the Cone with them.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Danny and Andy, welcome into the Billy and Lisa Show.

Speaker 14 (22:40):
Oh thanks for having us.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's amazing. Justin hit the No Scotland, No Army, and
you guys were jumping immediately immediately.

Speaker 14 (22:49):
It's good for the soul of that song. It's good
for the soul.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Really. There are so many layers to this story. With
the Cone, the traffic cone, First of all, on the plane,
we were talking off the air in the minute and
I saw the first post of the Cone making its
way to Boston. I'm thinking, who bought the seat on
the plane? Now the Cone flew first class, right.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
It did Delta sworders out in that one.

Speaker 15 (23:12):
Yeah, they put the Corn in first class. We're getting
used to this because the conon seems to go first
class everywhere. Oh, everyone puts us in the coach. So yeah,
we were in coach and the Corn.

Speaker 14 (23:21):
Was in first class.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
And it doesn't hurt you guys that you're with the
Cone because the Cone is a star of the show.

Speaker 5 (23:27):
Yeah, we're going to accept but nothing without the Cone. Actually,
we walk into the room and.

Speaker 14 (23:30):
Everybody goes, the CON's here.

Speaker 10 (23:33):
Do you my god, do you sleep with it at night?

Speaker 14 (23:35):
And then yeah, well it kind of comes in. It
stays in my room.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Usually it's on the floor.

Speaker 15 (23:39):
Actually, yeah, I've been sleeping in the bath and the
So yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
You know, it's so funny a couple of minutes ago
what you said, because jokingly on the show a couple
of days ago, when we realized you guys are coming
in and the Cone, we didn't know at that point
whether or not the Cone was coming, and I jokingly said, well,
Cone's not coming, who are they?

Speaker 14 (24:02):
Yeah, exactly. I mean we are nothing without the Cone.

Speaker 15 (24:06):
I've actually been carrying it on my hip all around
Boston and I feel like it's a child now, It's
like a second child.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Now justin You may not be aware of this, but
Lisa and I were talking off the year with Janny
and Andy and this is one of the funniest part
of this thing with the Cone. You guys all the
way from Scotland, but you were not a part of
the Tartan Army during the World Cup. You weren't even here.

Speaker 15 (24:29):
No, so we were watching on our feed from Scotland.
So I run a creative agency in Scotland and I
was sitting in every single video on my feed, was like, Giovannie, you.

Speaker 14 (24:39):
Know, it's all the army.

Speaker 15 (24:41):
Yeah, And everyone was like having so much fun and
there was so much joy emitting from my phone and
I was like, I watched every one of my friends
going I'm going to Boston.

Speaker 14 (24:49):
I'm going to Boston. I'm going to Boston.

Speaker 15 (24:51):
And so I phoned Danny and I said, like, we
need to figure out how to get to Boston. So
next minute we got this cone and we got a
famous artist in Scotland called Rob Johnson, and I said,
could you doodle all these little things on the cone?
And we took the cone to the Chamber of Commerce,
the chief executive of the Chamber of Commerce in Glasgow,
and we asked him could you sign this cone? And

(25:13):
we made this really funny video and it went like
I don't know, like one point five million views.

Speaker 10 (25:18):
Wow, and then you and then you contacted Governor Heally.

Speaker 14 (25:22):
Well they reached out to us.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Oh, yeah, to the governor because we're hearing that into football, soccer,
that's what I was going to get Rugby Andrew Magic.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
And they said, we don't even like soccer.

Speaker 14 (25:39):
Well neither. It was like we've just grown up.

Speaker 15 (25:41):
Like I was played in bands when I was young.
I'm a close up magician. I'm a creative guy. So
I've just never like my brother and my dad were
into football and soccer, but I've never been into But
what's been amazing and what's really come out of this
is that it's been so much more than the football. Actually,
it's the joy that's come out of it, and that's
what's been and this we're trying to lean into Yeah,
I mean that's.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
The message of the Code really, it's all about connection.
It's about humans coming together with humor and love and openness,
and that's why we're raising money to bring awareness around
mental health as well. So there's a really strong meaning
for this cone. It's way more than gimmick or something
to do with football.

Speaker 10 (26:17):
And you can follow the cone, right you guys.

Speaker 15 (26:18):
Oh yeah, here, there's a tracker in that cone and
if you go to Bostoncone dot com you can track
it all over Boston. So we've been taking to all
the all the best parts of Boston and there's been
people coming finding us and yeah, everywhere we go, you
can see on a on a map on Boston Code
dot com where this cone is.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
If the magic of the World Cup, and it was
magical with Scotland here in England here and you know
Norway and the Vikings and everybody was happy for two
or three weeks. It was a beautiful time in the city.
And if it weren't that, you guys probably wouldn't exist.
The fact that you guys can fly from Scotland on
your own with a traffic cone and restaurants because you're

(26:59):
with the cone. How many bars have you been to?

Speaker 14 (27:01):
Oh, we've been to them all. Which ones haven't we
been to?

Speaker 2 (27:05):
You?

Speaker 10 (27:05):
Guys have an event at the Dublin aer right is
big news.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah, this is the no Scotland no after parties is
after the World Cup. Fine, and we're holding an exclusive
event of the Dubliner.

Speaker 14 (27:15):
Yeah, at the Dubliner.

Speaker 15 (27:16):
So it's going to be a bring your own cone party,
so everyone to get in, you have to have a cone.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
A traffic cone.

Speaker 15 (27:22):
Well, it could be a traffic cone, it could got
a cone hat, it could be a tiny cone just
it could be a nice cream cone. It's just whatever
kind of cone con.

Speaker 14 (27:31):
You have to bring a cone. And it's going to
be a ticketed event.

Speaker 15 (27:33):
We're just working on the final details of how much
that will be to come in. But all the profits
and all the proceeds will be going to two mental
health charities.

Speaker 14 (27:40):
So one of them is here in Boston.

Speaker 15 (27:42):
It's Massachusetts Association for Mental Health and then its counterpart
in Scotland, which is Scotland Action for Mental Health. So
we're going to be selling tickets on the website Bostoncone
dot com and we're going to be announcing it on
social But this is the exclusive you guys have just.

Speaker 14 (27:57):
Yeah, that's the big news.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Big news of course with the morning show. Aren't you
going to a watch party with may Or Wool Yeah?

Speaker 5 (28:04):
Oh yeah, we're gonna have to sit through the whole
football match.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Do you even know how they score the game?

Speaker 5 (28:13):
In the whole goal?

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (28:14):
In the thing, I think, Yeah, it's gonna be great.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
You got to put the ball in the net. Yeah
that's just so you know, they have to put the
ball so you know, you don't know who the big
stars are.

Speaker 15 (28:25):
Or yeah, well we know a bit about it, but yeah,
the Mayor's gonna explain that to us.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yeah, exclaimed side to it as well.

Speaker 14 (28:30):
Yeah yeah, I'm hoping.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
So just know the time goes up, it does not
go down.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, the time is very confusing with the game.

Speaker 14 (28:39):
Yeah football ninety minutes?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yea very Do you mind my asking? Is you Danny
or I'm Danny? Danny?

Speaker 14 (28:45):
Is that a real that's a real mustard?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Wow?

Speaker 10 (28:48):
I put a lot of time and eff kind of
hair too.

Speaker 14 (28:53):
Yeah yeah, I mean no, I think I'm right.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
I'm ready to go for the shave because I'm just
being wearing the coat on his head this time.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (29:01):
Yeah, he's he's the brawl and on the breteens behind
this thing. So this is kind of just working.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
I mean this with the utmost respect. It really looks
like a fake mustache and justin you.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
Gotta come in and you can see it. It's perfect.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
And that's a compliment.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yeah. Well MacGuffin said, you're kind of giving a little
bit of Tom Selik and I was like, staying forever.

Speaker 10 (29:22):
Now meets Benson Boone.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, it looks like the mask you put on.

Speaker 14 (29:35):
This is awesome on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I'm telling you, we are so impressed with you guys
who are doing It's such a creative idea and the
fact that you could pull it off the way you did.
You got free plane tickets from Delta, you're visiting with
the mayor, visiting with the governor, you're hitting the bars
and restaurants, and you're just giving people in the Boston
area a really fun time and again raising money for
a great cause too.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Yeah, it's been great. You know the best thing about
the is everywhere we go people say we're so happy
to see you, and then the conversation stuff. It's the cone.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, who are you without the cone. See what I mean.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
But if you catch on socials, we've got this amazing
psychotherapist with us as well, who's having these conversations with
people asking about the mental superpowers and people are opening up,
they're smiling, just so much joy associated with this. Now,
So do we get to sign the cone? And they
give me the shoppie and that's all of us. But
Ry Ray, you've got to sign the cone too, and
justin you've got to come in. You get to sign
the cone. Absolutely, I already picked my spot on the cone.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
So yeah, let's do it. But you're the cone passer,
so if you can pass the cone around? And isn't
that heavy? Did it actually come off one of the
streets of scott.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
We rescued this from the Cairn Cones and the Highlands.
Actually it was a wild cone and when I aged
to wrangle it down and then bring it here broken.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's a rescue You bought a broken.

Speaker 10 (30:55):
What I think we can find another?

Speaker 14 (30:58):
Okay on the inside, Yeah you guys.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
I'm signing on the outside.

Speaker 10 (31:06):
No, you go first, Billy.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
I know Billy's big into rescue dogs. He has two
rescue dogs. This is a rescue cone. Oh yeah, it's perfect.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Want to bring the cone back and we'll do a
fundraiser for rescuing dogs. And I'm kidding a spot. It's
right between the T and the Y.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
And there we go. So the cone has all kinds
of drawings on a soccer ball stars really the square
Room Hearts we.

Speaker 14 (31:33):
Went on the doc tours.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
There, there we go.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Now Billy Costs the signature and Lisa.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Donovan, yeah, justin you got to commit and sign Yeah,
I'll sign it after make this part of a matter
of public record. All right, now we go and uh
Riley you can sign it as well. I don't want
to take you away from the boarder the buttons. This
is a ceremony much like the governor. Anyway, guys, have
a great time. Where are we going to see you
for the big fundraiser? Oh?

Speaker 5 (31:58):
Out the Dublin. Are you guys that Sunday? Are you
guys coming?

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Of course? We are?

Speaker 10 (32:02):
What time seven to ten?

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah? All right?

Speaker 14 (32:06):
Enjoy the How long are you staying till Monday?

Speaker 12 (32:08):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Enjoy the weekend. It's gonna be a great weekend. The
final is on Sunday at three o'clock. There's a watch
party on City Hall Plaza with the mayor. You guys
will probably be there.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yeah, we're there with her to be there.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
All right. Thanks for coming in and thanks for breathing.

Speaker 14 (32:20):
Thank you for thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Thank you. Don't forget Bostoncone dot com track the call. Yeah,
and on there right now. You'll see it's right here.
I kiss went to wait.

Speaker 9 (32:28):
Kiss one awaits the morning wrap up on Billy and
Lisa in the Morning.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Well every week, Billy says, it's the big Friday show.
Today was big.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
It was enormous.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Yeah, lots going on. First and foremost, the Governor mar
Heay checked into the show to talk about the new
legislation she's trying to get past, which basically stop scalpers. Right,
people that gouge tickets put a cap on it of
only ten percent. That means if you pay two hundred
dollars for a ticket, it can only be resold for
two hundred and ten dollars or two hundred and twenty dollars. Yeah, so,

(33:00):
t so that's pretty cool if she called in and
talk about it.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
This is just about making sure that people don't have
to continue to like hold their hair out, go online
wait forever, you know, never be able to buy the
tickets and have that experience, or if they buy the tickets,
I mean they've just gouged so much and you shouldn't
have to, you know, pay a month's rent or moorriage
your home to see some of these artists. Right, It's

(33:23):
just about fairness and I want to change that for
folks in Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Good for her, very cool. She had a big press
conference yesterday. I Noah Khan actually facetimed in he's a
part of it. The bill is called the Great Divide, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Its in hell last week, you know, very fantastic four
nights at Fenway, and we talked to his team and
talked to him, and you know, I thought we could
do something about this because he's been talking about it,
and so I said, let's go for it. Let's make
sure we take action here in Massachusetts. And yeah, he's
a super guy.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
I love the governor. You know why because she goes
to these CONTs, She goes to everything in and around
the city. She was meeting with the Cone and the
Scotland guys yesterday.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
I know we had the Cone guys in earlier this hour.
We'll post a picture up. I have the Cone on
my head. I'm a conehead. I guess we signed the cone.
It was it was really really cool.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
You don't want to know where that cone has been and.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
I was thinking that as my head was in the
cone then traveled from Scotland, has been everywhere.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Oh man, the.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Poop, the poop virus is probably going.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
To hit me.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Oh I didn't even Yeah, I don't know. Anyway. The
bill inspired our topic time, what's the most you've paid
for a concert? Overpaid for a concert sporting event. You
know who had to check in on this. That would
be Jeff the.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
Crow, Jeff back from the tour seven hundred for.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
The semi final tickets. I thought that was a great
deal consider what happened. Peace Imara, all right, Aymar.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
That's Jeff, our World Cup traveler. Yeah, so he's paying
extra money than face value, got those tickets.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
What's Jeff do?

Speaker 4 (35:06):
No, no one knows. You know what he does? He
goes to World Cup games. Yeah, wow, that's pretty much it.

Speaker 8 (35:11):
I paid almost five hundred dollars to see Zach Bryan
at Royale back in twenty twenty one. I think so
it was right before he was getting really big, but
he was big enough that it was sold out.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
And really hard to get tickets.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
So oh five hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Zach Brian did Royal.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, he was on the rise. That's what you do now.
He does stadiums now. He's massive, massive, real quick. Tomorrow
I will be in Manchester, New Hampshire Ashley Furniture with
Jonathan Knight from the New Kids, so you can have
a meet and greet with him. I'll be there with
the Kiss One to Wait Street team. We're gonna be
giving out Olivia Dean tickets. But the whole event is
actually furniture is incredible. They're gonna have music, giveaways, games, activities,

(35:55):
bring the family.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'm bringing Mind and Justin's squads will be on display.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Okay, yes they will. The events from twelve to four.
I'll be there from three to five. Jonathan Knight from
the New Kids is a free and greet from four
to five.

Speaker 10 (36:07):
He's amazing.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Yeah, so come shop and meet Jonathan Knight.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's so cool.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
And finally, the Ariana Grande talk back.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
For tickets still going on.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
When we play an Ariana song, leave it talkback that's
how you win. So you got to be listening on
the iHeart app I can promise you right now that
within the next ten minutes an Ariana Grande song will play. Yes,
how's that?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
And when we leave you for the weekend, We're always
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