August 20, 2025 • 38 mins
We celebrated national middle child day. We debated what items get stolen the most and Justin gave some parental advice! Listen to Billy & Lisa weekdays from 6-10AM on Kiss 108!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one o eight Studios.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're back with a Billy and Lisa in the morning
on Kiss.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
One o eight.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Hey, good morning friends, Justin here, welcome back to the
Billy and Lisa Show. It's about that time. We have
a pair of Jonas Brothers tickets for this weekend. They're
gonna be at Fenway. I'll take call it twenty five.
But there's also a grand prize involved. A producer Riley
in the studio with me right now. Riley, what's the
grand prize?
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Well, Justin, the grand prize is a pair of tickets
to see the Joe bros.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
In the second row.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Hand it's a night at Encore, all right, six one seven, nine,
three one one one oh eight. If you call it
twenty five, you'll win the tickets and qualify for that
grand prize. But Producer Riley, while I have you here.
A couple of weeks ago, it was Middle Child Day.
This is a national day we did not really know about.
But you got the call from this guy Bruce, who
runs the organization for Middle Child Day.
Speaker 7 (00:52):
What'd you think when you got the call?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Well, Justin, as a middle child myself, I felt like
we had to be bringing attention to this day. It
is the forgot and Day, and you know I didn't
want to be forgotten.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
I could never forget you. Producer Riley, Happy middle Child Day.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
Today is National middle Child Day, and appropriately it won't.
Speaker 9 (01:13):
Get any attention.
Speaker 10 (01:16):
I mean, who knows it could be National Middle School
Day too, you never know. But we're celebrating National middle
Child Day. And our good friend Bruce Hoptman is on
the phone. He's the founder at International Middle Child Union.
Speaker 9 (01:30):
Bruce you there, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm here.
Speaker 10 (01:33):
Okay, Bruce. We had some fun with you last year
on this day. And first of all, the International Middle
Child Union, what is it?
Speaker 9 (01:41):
And what do we do with it?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay? So the Union was formed because the irony of
being given a holiday, middle Child Day that nobody pays
attention to, was just too great to bear. And I
felt like this must stop. They're giving us this holiday,
let's try to get some attention or so that is
the mission of the International Middle Child's Day. I do
everything I can every year to try to wais awareness
(02:06):
for it clearly not working. Nobody knows his middle child.
Plus we've got all these just start like thank you,
Taylor Swift, thank you for announcing your It's like not
enough of a you know, today's National Julian Dry Days,
Like we have to compete with other days today. We
don't get that to ourselves. We have to share that.
(02:27):
I was, I'm watching the news last week and going
on and on about National Chicken Wing Day, and like,
you know, yeah, not enough for meat. A lot of work.
But but but that's not even the point. Chicken wings
get more, more attention in the middle children. So this
is my this is my mission to raise awareness.
Speaker 9 (02:48):
Can I ask you a question, Can you make a
living with this?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Absolutely? Absolutely not, absolutely not. This is this is a passion,
This is a this is I feel like I could
make the world a better place if I could just
get a little more attention to the middle children, at
least on National Middle Child Say. That's why today, of
course all my social media feeds at Midkid Union, I'm
playing Name that middle child. Every hour on the hour,
(03:17):
we're asking the question. You know, it's a trivia game.
Can you identify this middle child? And every hour and
a half hour the answer, So all day long you
could be thinking about middle children. What a great what
a great way to spend.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
The day, you know, this is getting very sad.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I gotta tell you, at the end of middle Child
to day, it's there's a lot of you know, it's
it's a sad time, bad time. But I'm trying, you know,
And you guys, thank you so much for helping get
the word out. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
I think we're the only one. We're so supportive helping
you every year get the word out.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
But I got to ask, middle child syndrome does it exist?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well, I think this is living proof it exists, right,
I me and who else like, yeah, yeah, But of
course the firstborns and the I forget what the makeup
of the crew there is. We have firstborn, we have.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Any middle children?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
First born?
Speaker 11 (04:11):
Yes, I am right.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So I think I think subconsciously, I think the firstborns
and the last borns they're a little possessive of all
the attention they got, right, Like, they like that. They
don't want to share it with the middle children. And
by the way, in the middle in a family, if
you're not the firstborn or last born, you're a middle child.
So in a family of four, there's like two middle children.
In a family of five, there's three middle children. So
(04:35):
the firstbornes that the last thing they want is to
share that attention well interestingly enough, why to keep it away?
Speaker 10 (04:42):
Yeah, Lisa, who's sitting right here with me, happens to
be a first child, and she didn't get any attention.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
They skipped right over.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Also at my blog smackdblog dot com, there's a whole
post there about middle child energy. You can be a
firstborn but be given off a middle child energy. If
you ever felt left out, left alone, or left behind, Yes,
you know what it feels like to be a middle child.
You know, so, middle child syndrome is really it's also
like a state of mind. You could be a first
born and stare.
Speaker 12 (05:11):
Guy.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I don't know why, after getting attention and all, how
you could end up feeling that way. But uh, we're welcome,
you know what. Welcome to the union. Smile on up. Well,
we're glad to have as many members.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
As we can have.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
On Bruce's LinkedIn hair. He's his political party and Middle
Child Party, the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Founder of Look, I know a thing or two about
meaningless titles. I'm the founder of the International Middle Child Union.
I'm I'm the founding father of the Middle Child Party.
I'm also the commissioner of Middle League Baseball. So I middleag.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Well, you know, I'm flattered, Bruce, that we are literally
the only people that pay attention.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
To you ever here true.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I am touched. I am touched by by how gracious
you're being towards the middle child. This is not something
a middle child is used to it. As a matter
of fact, at any point, I expect the rug to
be pulled out. This is all a big gag. We're
not even on air, and you're just like trying to,
you know, appease a middle child.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Well, we're giving you the attention you never got from
your mom and dad.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
This is this is true, This is true.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
And I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I don't and I clearly don't know how to
handle it, but I again appreciative. Get the word out there.
I don't want to have to do this every year.
You know. I love talking to you guys. But it
wouldn't it be great if one year everybody just knows
it's middle Child's Day.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Yeah, it would be fine not talking to you, but
but we like talking to you when we do both.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
But I should mention that, uh, Bill Gates was a
middle child.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Bill Gates was a mile you don't don't ruin the
trivia game here, don't ruin the trivia game. It might
be one of it might be one of the questions.
I don't want to spoil it right now, We've got questions.
This is going up from eight in the morning till midnight,
every hour, and you know, so Bill Gates might be
in there.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Do you play the game?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Do we go so on on Twitter, on on Instagram
and on threads at midkid Union, and the question will
be popping up every hour, and you'll be popping up
every half.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Oh, I'm gonna play.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Yeah, don't you have a strange podcast name? What's the
name of your podcast?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Pay no attention to this podcast?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
Its way it worked.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It really worked. It really worked. No one paid attention.
So no, I should have said, it's not a suggestion.
It's just a funny title. It's not a it's not
directions for listening. But you know, Bruce, they have it.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
This is interesting.
Speaker 10 (07:38):
There's a good chance we lost thousands of listeners having
you on, But that's okay with us.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's middle Child's Day.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
One day you lose a few thousand listeners. What's the
big deal?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Yeah, what's the big deal. We'll get more back.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Bruce, we love you, but we're hungry. We gotta go
Wayne's Baby Kiss one O eight they guys.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Producer Riley, you're going to give away those don'ts go
the tickets? Hey Michelle, good morning. You are collar twenty five.
Speaker 13 (08:03):
Oh my god, that one.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I am huge.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Jonah's brothers fan.
Speaker 14 (08:06):
I saw them when they originally came with Demi.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Lovado and I've been trying to win these tickets, so
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh my god, congratulations. Do you know who you're gonna bring?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (08:18):
My daughter wants to go, but also my husband.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I might bring him. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Tough choice.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Well, we are going to be giving away the grand
prize at four to ten with the v Bros.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
On Friday, so stay.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Tuned for that.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Hey, this is Iona Granday and we're back with the
Billy and Lisa in the Morning on Kisuna A.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Hey, Mary, So, tipping culture is way out of control.
We talked about it on this show all the time.
Good morning, everybody, welcome back. It is the Billy and
Lisa Show with myself, justin Billy, Lisa, Winnie and Yeah,
whether it's tipping for takeout when you don't want to,
or the little iPad that they spin around and ask
you to tip on. We cover all bases here on
this show. But Lisa, you're looking at a list of
(08:57):
the worst tippers by state.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
In two are in New England. Is that serious?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
This is not good for US, folks.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Okay, So number one, the worst state is California.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
That makes sense because they make minimum.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Highroning state comes in, yep, just cheap.
Speaker 16 (09:14):
No, but California they get a full hourly wage. Yeah,
so people probably like, why am I tipping any So.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The average tip there is just seventeen point eight percent,
and they have the lowest generosity score in the country.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
You never want to be had, the lowest.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
General in California. They make fifteen dollars hour.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Yeah they do.
Speaker 13 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Okay, so number two is the state of Washington. I
don't really think much about Washington's now. Number three is okay,
let's it's Connecticut.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Interesting cheates in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, very very interesting. And number four is drum roll please, Massachusetts.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Oh we are in the top five.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
That's not good.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
That's not good.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
And you know it could get worse when no tax
on tips starts January first. A lot of people, when
I bring that up to them at dinner or something,
they immediately say, oh, I'm going right to fifteen percent.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Yeah, I don't get that.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I don't either want.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
To tip the same me too, Yeah, especially if they
do a great job.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Okay, do you want to hear what state ranks in
one of the best?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Oh, West Virginia really?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Yep, that actually is pretty shocking.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
That shocks me.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Wow, twenty and Kentucky is right behind them with twenty
point seven percent.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
I wouldn't have expected either of those places.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Isn't West Virginia one of the poorest?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yes, yeah, yeah, but they're generous yep.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
What's the south right technic? Its technically not really.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Southern hospital, high income, high cost states look the worst.
Speaker 16 (10:48):
Maybe you were so stressed out with everything else we
can't afford to tip twenty five percent.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
You know what's funny about I like to think of
myself as a very generous tip or I overtip a lot.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
It's good to.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Michelle won't even let me sign a check now at
a restaurant because I tipped so much.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Does she tip twenty percent?
Speaker 9 (11:07):
She tips normal phase right around twenty percent. Yeah, nevertheless,
but she actually just grabs the bill from me.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Is she a tip less now person?
Speaker 17 (11:14):
Though?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Is she going to tip less because of this?
Speaker 10 (11:17):
If I had to guess without asking her point blank,
I would think she'll go to fifteen.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Oh really, I'm going to stay at twenty.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Me too. It's I think it's the right thing.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
It's the right thing to do. I was a server, Like,
you get it, right, I get it?
Speaker 10 (11:32):
Like, yeah, they say if you have spent any time
in the hospitality world or in the you know, service industry,
you're always going to be a good tipper because you
were there.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Yeah, and you lived it.
Speaker 17 (11:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
I'm more judging now than I was before I was
a server.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
I see you as a very cheap tea.
Speaker 16 (11:49):
No, I'm like, no, We've talked throughout this. I started
twenty percent. If you sucked, you get eighteen.
Speaker 11 (11:53):
If you're good, you get twenty two or twenty five.
Speaker 16 (11:56):
But I now know what it's like and when I
can if you're actually really busy, or if you just
are not attentive, then that's where excuse because there's a
difference between being attentively in the weeds or.
Speaker 11 (12:08):
There's different that you just don't care about your tables.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Yeah, but see that's not how the way people see it.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
Like, I think could be the worst waiter on Earth, right,
but if you cheap it out on the tip, they're
gonna blame you. They're just gonna say you're They wouldn't
dawn on them that they did a horrible job.
Speaker 11 (12:26):
I don't know. Yeah, maybe I guess if you're I
don't know.
Speaker 16 (12:29):
As a server, I always did really well because I
was a good server, so I didn't really had an issue.
Speaker 11 (12:33):
It always works out anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So what you're saying is if you give less than that,
they're not going to get it anyway, because they're not
going to take responsibility.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
They will never do well.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
I'm just saying more often than not, they're not going
to take the responsibility they expect their tip.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
See what I do is I tip twenty percent if
they're bad, right, and then if they're really good, and
they'll go up twenty five thirty.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
Yeah, somewhere I'm about to say that.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Twenty is the baseline for me.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Yeah, I don't go less than twenty percent. I just don't.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I don't either.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
What's a the bucket chew. What does it do to that?
Speaker 9 (13:02):
It adds up.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
I'm saying.
Speaker 16 (13:04):
I'm saying, like, if you are really were not good,
why am I tipping you twenty percent?
Speaker 11 (13:08):
If you did not care about me? That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I just don't want them to judge me.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
They're gonna judge you, That's what I'm saying. They're gonna
judge you.
Speaker 16 (13:15):
I'm judging you off of your bad work ethic, so
judge me back.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
See when he's also one of those people that sends
food back, I would never send that. I don't care
if it was burned to a crisp right, I don't
even not sending it back. I'm gonna sit there with
my burn to a crisp steak, yeah right, and just
and tip the same. It wasn't her fault, she didn't
cook it. Sarah, what do you think about this old
tipping thing?
Speaker 18 (13:40):
Good morning, it's getting ridiculous. The other night Lumineer's concert,
buying a fifty dollars T shirt at the concession stand
and the guy automatically hits ten percent.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Oh see, that's something I probably would not tip on.
If I'm buying merchant.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Now, I would never tip on that no, no.
Speaker 18 (13:57):
Right, automatically one of us paid it, one of us
student and as they're walking away, he says to the person,
thank you to you and not see you.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Oh so wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
When you bought a T shirt they spun the iPad around.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Never heard that before.
Speaker 18 (14:13):
No, they didn't even do that.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
So it was right in front of you.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Tap and he literally.
Speaker 15 (14:17):
Just pushed the button for ten percent.
Speaker 16 (14:19):
WHOA, that's fine book to their lease depending.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
On what you got, and the shirt's probably.
Speaker 13 (14:24):
Eighty A shirt was fifty dollars, yes, got.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
That feels illegal?
Speaker 9 (14:29):
It does, right, Isn't that weird?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
It would never dawn on me to tip if I'm
in the merchandise store, I'm buying a shirt.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
If you go to and get a shirt or a jacket,
you don't tip.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, no, right, I have to be sitting down with
getting service. The tip, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 16 (14:47):
I mean, like a dollar at the ice cream stand
or like the coffee shop is one.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
Thing, okay, keep your dollar, okay, because they're talking about you.
If you drop a single doll yeah, but if.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
It's based on the amount of the bill.
Speaker 16 (14:58):
The other day, I tipped one twenty five at the
ice cream stand the girl.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
But thank you so much. You're welcome so much.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
Well, if there are coins, you say, keep the change.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
Yeah, I'll be the bills.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I have tipped that ice cream places though, because they
usually college kids.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, ye, skipping that ice cream.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
I was annoying. I asked for a cop after in
a bottle of water. I was annoying you what Bill?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
You know what she said.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Boy, you're waking up with Billy and Lisa in the
morning on Kiss Await.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
Enjoy your coffee.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
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Speaker 14 (15:54):
My husband asked to go out every single night. Sometimes
he wants to go play pool, sometimes he wants to
stop at the casinos. Sometimes he just wants to drive around.
And I believe him. I believe he says where he's going,
but he stays out late and it's every single night.
I don't feel like he did this when we were dating.
And I get it, Okay, I'm bored at night too,
(16:15):
I'm exhausted.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
We got two little kids.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
I get it.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
But I hate that he does that.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
And he says that he is not going to change that.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
So I need to know.
Speaker 14 (16:24):
Am I being unreasonable because I can see like one
night a week being fine, but like when you're parents
to young children, I feel like even one night a
week is a lot.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 14 (16:37):
I am also not a very social person.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Is it possible he's not cheating?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well, I guess he says that he's not.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Well of course, right right now?
Speaker 16 (16:47):
Right, Like, I mean, you cannot be cheating and still
be like betraying your spouse, right Like, it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
He's being selfish. He's wanting like a lot of me time.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Well yeah, and it's it's a partnership or it's supposed
to be, right, I mean with young kids.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Well, yeah, you stay with the kids. I'm going out
every night.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah, every night.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
That's unacceptable. It's a big deal in my marriage. We
have two small children. It's a big deal to.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Go out one night.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Oh yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Big deal, Like we got to make plans and you know,
there's a conversation. But every single night, And how does
she allow that to happen? Oh yeah, well it's on her.
I mean it shouldn't be happening. And yeah, I mean
it's wrong.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Yeah, so she's putting the kids to bed.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
Oh yeah, she's doing it all. I think that's part
of the frustration. That's what's causing all the frustration.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Like where are you going? We have a job here,
we have kids.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I mean, look, it's important to have your to have
me time, right, That's important sure in relationships and in parenting,
but every single night when you have two small kids.
I'm just trying to imagine the conversation between my wife
and I.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
When I try to say there wouldn't be she would
just tell you to stay home or right.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
She said, don't come back, or don't come back right,
or get out I want to go play pool, or
just punch you.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
In the face.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
For this woman, I really do.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Even this morning, we've been texted, well since last night
and this morning we've been texting because she's going out
Friday night, so she it's like, hey, can I go
out Friday night?
Speaker 7 (18:14):
What's the plan with kids? We talk about it. Yeah,
that's what it's all about.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Well, I mean, you get a lot of me time,
but it's usually around the house, you know, between your
ice plunges and your gym workouts.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And lord, it's when the kids are in school, are
in daycare. Yes, that's the me time.
Speaker 10 (18:29):
So you do your job as apparent, and then you
find a metime yes, around.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Don't you often want us time?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's the other thing too, I don't think you want
It's like, okay, it's fine if you don't want to
be around the kids, but like, what about the.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Two of us? Is like if I think that's over, Yeah,
this guy, that's over in his brain, but not hers.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
No, she got a step up, right, Yeah, she has
to say something else.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
The fact that she's saying that openly public quickly, and
he's still not getting it.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Regarding the woman whose husband goes out every single night
to do stuff while she's at home with two little kids,
I wish she had provided some context. Was he doing
this when the first.
Speaker 17 (19:15):
Child was born?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Who's this been going on for a number of years?
Or is this more recent behavior, because more recent behavior
would seem to suggest something like an affair or something
has changed.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Curious.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
She did allude to that. She said that he didn't
do it when they were dating, right, So I'm not
sure what the first kid versus the second kid, but
she kind of alludes that it's kind of more recent behavior.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
This is this guy's in crisis. He's in crisis right now.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
And she also said she doesn't think he's cheating. She
doesn't think he's lying, But what does she think he's
doing and why?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And by the way, if he were, which we hope
that he's not, but if he were cheating, and she
asked him, are you cheating, of course.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
He's going to say no. Courts, right, Yeah, that's how
it goes, you know.
Speaker 19 (20:00):
Not on her, It is on her partner for disrespecting
her so much. Fine, maybe she could have stronger boundaries,
but it sounds like she's trying to actet that and
he's absolutely disregarding it.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
So she's not crazy.
Speaker 19 (20:18):
He is being a jerk, and it is absolutely betrayal
even if he's not cheating.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah, right, she neither.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
She needs to like lay it down like this is unacceptable.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
And then if he still does it then.
Speaker 16 (20:32):
Well, he did say I'm not going to stop. Yeah,
he said, I'm not I'm not going to stop.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
She asked him if you could have another right, yeah,
but if you could have either the husband or the
wife on this show right now, which would you prefer?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I would want the husband.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I want to pepper him with questions like what's where?
Where do you where do you see this going? Like
how do you see this helping your family situation? How
do you see this helping your marriage?
Speaker 10 (20:59):
And does he not ever say, hey, let's you make
arrangements for the kids and go someplace together.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Let's go drive around together.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
You know, like the old fashioned like a date night
once a week, something like you do it with Jen
right at least one one night a week.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
You want to go out just you and I mean
as much as we can, but it's tough when you
have two small kids. Yeah, And if we have him on,
then we can have Winny follow him around and cold
play him.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
I would like to if that's what he's doing.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
But this is my thing.
Speaker 16 (21:21):
Right if she should start beating him to it, she
should go out before he.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Goes out, leave him with the kids, like to sneak
out before he can.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Get get out.
Speaker 16 (21:28):
Yes, like, let him see how it feels he left
and along with two kids.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah, or lock the.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
Door, let him go to the casino, then change.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
The locks, locks the door.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I think he can stay if he doesn't want to
be home, he can go do whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But he doesn't have a bad to sleep it anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Yeah, that's that's could happen.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
What he's doing is beyond old school. I mean it's
almost barbaric.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah, leaving the old lady home with the two kids. Yes,
while he's out gallivanting.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I'm going out. It's troubling a little bit.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
So I was married to a jerk like that. Do
not say that that's on her, because if he wants
to go, he's gonna go, no matter how many times
she says don't.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. This is a problem for her
right now.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
She should follow Whinnie's advice and just go before he goes.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Or like the other talkbacker said, just lock the door,
change the mock.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
You could do that.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It sounds like that he's not open to having conversations
though about this, because you know she did say he's refusing.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, yeah, he's dug in he.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Just never should have started a family.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Or what happens is you start a family and you
have kids and it becomes too much yep to handle.
Freedom gets taken away and.
Speaker 16 (22:40):
Said publicly he understands deadbeat dads more now than ever.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
That was a controversial statement that I made, but I
stand by it. My wife cannot believe I said that
on the air. But you have to think about what
I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
That's hard.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Before you have kids, you think like dead beat dads,
I could never do that. How do people run out
on their children? And then you have kids and you
understand the loss of free him and you understand dead
be dads. They're just they're cowards, but you understand where
the mentality comes from.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I feel like normally be the opposite. It'd be like
it'd be like, oh, I could never leave my kids.
I don't know how you could do it. Justin's like, nope,
I'm running away.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I'll running away. I'm standing on business.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
From the Planet Fitness Kids One Away Studios.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
We're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Hey, everybody, good morning, Justin here, welcome back. It is
the final hour of that Billy and Lisa show. Justin Winnie, Billy,
and of course our Queen Lisa.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
What do you got?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Last week, I was having a discussion with Billy and
producer Riley, and Billy was sharing stories from his past
about how he used to steal water from Target and
other things like batteries.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
You put in the bottom of the carriage. But now
they have cameras.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So then producer Riley chimed in and she's like, She's like,
I know this girl that likes to steal lipstick and
lip gloss from like Sephora or Target. So we found
a list of the most commonly stolen retail products. Okay,
Number one on the list is makeup.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
I blame.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Number one from Target is lip gloss or lipstick.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
That's the number one thing stolen.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Because it's small. Exactly you conceal.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
It, Yep, you can conceal it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
The next thing is clothing, easy to do, alcohol, and
then electronics.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
With clothing, do people still do that thing where you
put the clothes on under your clothes.
Speaker 11 (24:26):
I'm sure that there's plenty of ways to do it.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
In the dressing room.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
You bring two of them, yeah, and they also have
those little things on them though.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You don't know like the people that are doing this,
especially Billy, like you don't ever worry about getting caught,
like you're a public figure.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
Well, he has his plan.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
What's the plan about?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah, I have her here.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Yes, I intentionally try to steal a case of water
every time I go to the market.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
I put it at the bottom of the carriage, assuming
they're not going to see it. Okay, the water thing.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
I was just testing the cashier and then if if
you didn't see the water at the bottom and bottom
of the carriage, I would turn her into the manager.
Speaker 17 (25:05):
I got to.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Say, what about the batteries recently?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Okay, there are two things.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Okay, you're admitting to a crime.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Here, So now I don't do it anymore. My brother
and I we've had nothing growing up.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
Less my mother stole at the local store all the
time because we had forty years. It's okay, because it's
just the thing that crosses your mind when you're in
But I will say, if I were to steal anything
right now, it would be either razor blades, although now
they keep them locked up smart they are locked up yet.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
And the other thing is batteries.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
It bugs me how expensive batteries are, and they don't
last very long.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
You kid, there are chargeo batteries.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
No, that's a different game. You know, you just want
batteries to put them in the light is fresh.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Well, I've never stolen anything.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
That's a lot in your life.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
No, I've never stolen any case.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
You shouldn't steal. You just shouldn't. It's just not the
right thing.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
It's just like I.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Really the fact I think you're still doing nothing.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
When my brother and I were very young, and my
friend Doukie, who's been in here many times childhood, buddy, yeah,
we stole a lot. I mean we should have been
put in prison.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
I feel like I've accidentally stole a lot.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 16 (26:17):
But like you when you're like doing self checkout and
you forget like the milk or something that was like
at the bottom or behind something, and then you walk
out and you realize, oh, I didn't scan that, but
you're not gonna go.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Back, And I think, no, no, no, she's just trying
to justify the theft. You knew you were stealing it.
Speaker 16 (26:32):
No, But I'm saying there's been times that genuinely like, oh, shoot,
that was in the cart and I forgot to scan it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
See I don't think that that's as bad as like
what Billy was doing.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
You plot like you want.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Yeah, well, now you saying, Justin that when you're at
the supermarket, never in your life have you ever purposely
left a small item like in the corner of the carriage.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Hoping it gets past. Well, we have too.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Justin has two lives.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Not recently. Yeah, I know I was, by the way.
You know, even when I was younger, I was not
a good thief. I got caught the story got caught. Yeah,
you robbed a store and went to person thief.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Yeah, see, I didn't do that, although I did when
I was young.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
The only between you and Justin and that Justin got caught.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Yeah, well should I be proud? No.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Target is getting rid of the self checkout because of
the amount of theft. They're losing so much money, so
they're going to be gone the self check Yeah.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
See that was a new find for me because Home
Depot has it too. But now I notice they have
supervisors in the area at home Depot.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well I find that interesting because they've got like eight
self checkouts at Target and there's always a line to
do it.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
So the fact that they're going to like not have
it anymore is so interesting.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I always thought they were baiting me with the self checkout,
so I said, the hell would them?
Speaker 9 (27:50):
You know, every once in a while an item doesn't get.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
SPA, but I always assume that everything's tagged with like
a security No batteries.
Speaker 16 (27:58):
Now, for instance, like a lot of the looking at
Target is not tagged.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
I mean the tank, like the higher price. I'm like
a ten dollars tak top. They're not tagged.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
And you see the tag, you know it's tagged. And
what's not tagged, Yeah, batteries just slided in.
Speaker 16 (28:10):
Actually, Bill, you did God's work because now they're getting
jobs back at Target.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
I love this high real people.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
This week there had to be six different supervisors roaming
around the self checkouts.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
M Oh well, this is gonna be a good topic
hit come the.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Thiefs talking about stealing.
Speaker 17 (28:28):
I just have to say that I too will try
to steal something from.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Stay market basket, even if it's.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
A pack of gump because I'm always like, I spend
enough money here that I think I deserve.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I don't agree with Okay, I don't. It's like it's
calm man, you steal, it's going to come back now.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
I get to tell you a great story.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
You see, he is such a beet.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
It just crossed my mind.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
This is when I was in college at Murramack.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
There was a shopping center like right around the corner,
right off the highway at Merrimack. So me and my
two roommates, he's got to the supermarket and have a challenge.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
You know, who could walk out with the most value?
Speaker 15 (29:13):
Right?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
And you know we would stuff things like you know,
ground beef and you know the frozen shrimp really good.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
That would drive the value up.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
And to see who could walk out with the motes.
And I'll never forget it. My roommate came walking down
the aisle. I had already gone through checkout. My roommate
came walking down the aisle with a giant limp like
he had a wooden leg.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
He had an entire mop down his.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
High value and he made it out. But he also
had burger meat and ribbies and everything else.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
But it was the mop or the broomstick.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
And he said, who wants to steal my.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
I had for the dorm.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Kiss.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It's a Wednesday morning, Hey guys, justin here. A couple
of minutes ago we were talking about the most stolen
items from stores. And I want to preface this by
saying it is not the right thing to do to steal,
never the right thing, because karma comes and when you
steal usually comes back to bite you. Anyway, Chris is
online one, Chris, have you stolen stuff?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Be honest, No, I haven't.
Speaker 13 (30:30):
The opposite. This happened to me at Target recently. I
was shopping with my daughter for college. So we had
a ton of things in the basket and on the
bottom we had laid something out and we paid for it.
We paid, we left, and I realized we hadn't paid
for the thing on the toto of the rack, and
so my daughter said, oh, well, we just spent all
that money, and I just kind of hesitated for a second.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I was like, no, that's not right.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
Like we have to bring it back and pay for it.
So I did, because I was thinking, Okay, one, what's
the lesson I'm teaching her? And two it's bad tarma
if you steel in my mind.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Okay, Chris, you know why your daughter didn't want to
go back in because she had stolen something.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
It was probably under her that was under her shirt.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
Not no, but I like you.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Yeah, I would go back in and pay for it.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Okay, it's just bad parma man if you do that.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
So oh god, okay, well, goody, good one, Chris. Let's
go to Mark. He's calling in from Stoke and go
ahead and Mark. What have you got for us?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (31:31):
So back in the day, it was a whole shopping
cage of food from shopping shops.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
So you just walked out with the whole carriage.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Uh no, I actually found uh what I thought at
the time was a creative idea at self checkout. You
can turn the boy shops so it doesn't tell you
what items that you would scam.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Oh I didn't.
Speaker 12 (31:58):
You could just you could just go to thought look
up and hit bananas, which is like the cheapest thing
in there, and just spaying everything in bananas.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
Okay, we're not looking to give anyone any ideas.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Okay, I really appreciate it, but yeah, okay, a full carriage.
Speaker 9 (32:16):
Now Nicky's calling for Manchester, New Hampshire. Hey, Nikki, what
have you got?
Speaker 13 (32:22):
Hey?
Speaker 20 (32:23):
There, So I accidentally stole a whole double stroller from
Baby's r Us when they were still open.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
Well that's what.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
How did you accidentally steal how did that happen?
Speaker 20 (32:34):
Totally full of it, But I was I had pregnancy brain.
I was pregnant with twins, and I had all this
stuff in the top, and I had that huge box
shoved underneath, and they were getting ready to close, and
they were rushing us out, and I paid for everything
in the top and I got all the way out
to the car and I was like, oh my god,
it was like four hundred dollars. So I went back
to the door and I'm like waving at them, and They're.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Like, we're closed, We're closed.
Speaker 18 (32:58):
So I was like, uh, all right.
Speaker 16 (33:00):
So what do I what do I do?
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Really nice stroller?
Speaker 9 (33:07):
You did your best?
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Yes you did.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
You know they wouldn't let you in. It's not your fall.
Let's go to Jen next, Jen, have you stolen something?
Speaker 12 (33:15):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Good morning, good morning?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 15 (33:19):
Actually, so, when I was in high school, my best
friend worked at Tayliff's Shoestland. They were cheap shoes anyway,
but I had my whole locker in high school was
full of new shoes because she knew it size my
foot was. So I would go and visit her at work.
I would take the shoes that I had on my feet.
(33:40):
I put those in a box and put the new
shoes on my feet and walk out. But then once
she knew my size, I would just go to school
and she put all new shoes. My locker was full
of shoes.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Oh that sounds so much like something I did. Yeah,
that's you know what, that's a juicy one.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Oh yeah, I will say that a lot of people
are calling and about doing the right thing.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (34:05):
On accidental last year at Target, I needed a vacuum
and I went to self checkout and I bought it,
which I thought I bought it, but it didn't skin.
I got home and I looked at the receipt. I
freaked out. I went back and I toldal Lyady, I'm
so sorry, and she said, why did you even bring
it back? She's like, you'll want to never been caught.
But I didn't end up paying for it.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
Oh that was nice.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
That's doing the right thing. It's what I always advised.
But yeah, sure, do the right thing. Yeah sure, I'm
not lying. I put two or three towels and four
face clocks every time I stayed at a hotel in
my gym bag because I used the face clock in
the towel so watched my boat.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
It's just no shame I did last week. Yeah, I
know you did, and yes we did. Mention target is
getting rid of the self checkout. Wow, what a time
of people liked. Yeah, that's probably for the.
Speaker 14 (34:54):
Best igets getting rid of those cameras because you know,
you think you're having a.
Speaker 17 (34:58):
Good day and you take a look and look like
a troll. I don't know what's wrong those cameras.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
It's like, it looks like you fell out of the
ugly tree and didn't miss a branch.
Speaker 17 (35:10):
And d U.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Austin it's Satan McCrae and you're waking up with Billy
and Lisa in the morning on Kiss one.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Owahy Lisa, I wrap things up on this Wednesday morning.
Thank you so much for listening everybody. We do it
every single morning six to ten am on Kiss Want
to Wait. You can always check out the podcast, which
we post right after the show.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
You'd find Matt on the iHeartRadio app. Just search Billy
and Lisa in the morning three ten. This afternoon, the
v Bros and Gianna have your next shot at Jonas Brothers. Tickets.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
They'll be at Fenway this weekend. You'll also qualify for
that grand prize seats right up front. And of course
we'll be back tomorrow morning, eight ten with more Jonas
Brothers tickets.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
It's been a crazy show.
Speaker 9 (35:51):
Justin you've got a story you want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Well, yesterday I was at home, you know, sitting on
my couch after work, a little tired, and you know,
I have a credit card that I use for pretty
much everything, for the miles, you know, Capitol one card,
and so I had longed on to check something. I'm
not good about checking my transactions. I should be better
about that, Yeah, for fraud, right, So I open it
up and I'm looking and I see.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
All these charges on them.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Ak.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Yeah, but this is I know you might remember last
year I gave all my money away. Yes, that was
my debit card, but this is my credit card. So
I see all these charges that are pending, like six
of them, and it says Xbox.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
Oh it's your son, Okay.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
So then I'm like, I'm confused, and I start to
scroll down a little bit to cryor transactions, and it
was unbelievable. So now I'm like, my son's in school,
and so he plays Xbox obviously, sure, so I call Xbox.
I'm on the phone with them. I'm chatting online trying
to figure it. They're trying to help me. They can't
figure it. I was a whole thing. Turns out he
(36:54):
was my card. I had put on his game for
a ten dollars subscription so he.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Could play with his friends.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
And so that means when he goes to buy they're
called v bucks on fortnight, he just he just was
just buying.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
Them that much.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
How much were we talking here?
Speaker 6 (37:10):
I really don't want to say, say it was it
like a thousand.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Dollars around them? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Yeah, it's parse.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Some of the charges they will not Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
Wow, you know I never used to Yeah, here's the
best part.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Can I just best part? Okay, So it's my I.
I talked to my son. I didn't yell at him.
I didn't say he was in trouble. I should have
known better.
Speaker 11 (37:36):
He didn't.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I mean, when he when he goes to buy them,
it doesn't say like here's your card. Automatically you press
the button and boom, you know. So when he got home,
I explained that to him, and he was very understanding,
and he was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and he goes,
hold on a second, Dad, I'm gonna make this right.
And he walks into the other room and comes back
with his wallet that he has, and he opens his
(37:58):
wallet and he takes out the two dolls and he
goes here.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Dad, I like that.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
He gave you everything he had.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
That's the whole two bucks.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
So it's just a warning for parents out there if
they play video games, don't have your card on there.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Yeah, the same thing happened to us a long Yeah.
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one o eight Studios.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're back with a Billy and Lisa in the morning
on Kiss.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
One o eight.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Hey, good morning friends, Justin here, welcome back to the
Billy and Lisa Show. It's about that time. We have
a pair of Jonas Brothers tickets for this weekend. They're
gonna be at Fenway. I'll take call it twenty five.
But there's also a grand prize involved. A producer Riley
in the studio with me right now. Riley, what's the
grand prize?
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Well, Justin, the grand prize is a pair of tickets
to see the Joe bros.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
In the second row.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Hand it's a night at Encore, all right, six one seven, nine,
three one one one oh eight. If you call it
twenty five, you'll win the tickets and qualify for that
grand prize. But Producer Riley, while I have you here.
A couple of weeks ago, it was Middle Child Day.
This is a national day we did not really know about.
But you got the call from this guy Bruce, who
runs the organization for Middle Child Day.
Speaker 7 (00:52):
What'd you think when you got the call?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Well, Justin, as a middle child myself, I felt like
we had to be bringing attention to this day. It
is the forgot and Day, and you know I didn't
want to be forgotten.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
I could never forget you. Producer Riley, Happy middle Child Day.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
Today is National middle Child Day, and appropriately it won't.
Speaker 9 (01:13):
Get any attention.
Speaker 10 (01:16):
I mean, who knows it could be National Middle School
Day too, you never know. But we're celebrating National middle
Child Day. And our good friend Bruce Hoptman is on
the phone. He's the founder at International Middle Child Union.
Speaker 9 (01:30):
Bruce you there, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm here.
Speaker 10 (01:33):
Okay, Bruce. We had some fun with you last year
on this day. And first of all, the International Middle
Child Union, what is it?
Speaker 9 (01:41):
And what do we do with it?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay? So the Union was formed because the irony of
being given a holiday, middle Child Day that nobody pays
attention to, was just too great to bear. And I
felt like this must stop. They're giving us this holiday,
let's try to get some attention or so that is
the mission of the International Middle Child's Day. I do
everything I can every year to try to wais awareness
(02:06):
for it clearly not working. Nobody knows his middle child.
Plus we've got all these just start like thank you,
Taylor Swift, thank you for announcing your It's like not
enough of a you know, today's National Julian Dry Days,
Like we have to compete with other days today. We
don't get that to ourselves. We have to share that.
(02:27):
I was, I'm watching the news last week and going
on and on about National Chicken Wing Day, and like,
you know, yeah, not enough for meat. A lot of work.
But but but that's not even the point. Chicken wings
get more, more attention in the middle children. So this
is my this is my mission to raise awareness.
Speaker 9 (02:48):
Can I ask you a question, Can you make a
living with this?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Absolutely? Absolutely not, absolutely not. This is this is a passion,
This is a this is I feel like I could
make the world a better place if I could just
get a little more attention to the middle children, at
least on National Middle Child Say. That's why today, of
course all my social media feeds at Midkid Union, I'm
playing Name that middle child. Every hour on the hour,
(03:17):
we're asking the question. You know, it's a trivia game.
Can you identify this middle child? And every hour and
a half hour the answer, So all day long you
could be thinking about middle children. What a great what
a great way to spend.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
The day, you know, this is getting very sad.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I gotta tell you, at the end of middle Child
to day, it's there's a lot of you know, it's
it's a sad time, bad time. But I'm trying, you know,
And you guys, thank you so much for helping get
the word out. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
I think we're the only one. We're so supportive helping
you every year get the word out.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
But I got to ask, middle child syndrome does it exist?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well, I think this is living proof it exists, right,
I me and who else like, yeah, yeah, But of
course the firstborns and the I forget what the makeup
of the crew there is. We have firstborn, we have.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Any middle children?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
First born?
Speaker 11 (04:11):
Yes, I am right.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So I think I think subconsciously, I think the firstborns
and the last borns they're a little possessive of all
the attention they got, right, Like, they like that. They
don't want to share it with the middle children. And
by the way, in the middle in a family, if
you're not the firstborn or last born, you're a middle child.
So in a family of four, there's like two middle children.
In a family of five, there's three middle children. So
(04:35):
the firstbornes that the last thing they want is to
share that attention well interestingly enough, why to keep it away?
Speaker 10 (04:42):
Yeah, Lisa, who's sitting right here with me, happens to
be a first child, and she didn't get any attention.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
They skipped right over.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Also at my blog smackdblog dot com, there's a whole
post there about middle child energy. You can be a
firstborn but be given off a middle child energy. If
you ever felt left out, left alone, or left behind, Yes,
you know what it feels like to be a middle child.
You know, so, middle child syndrome is really it's also
like a state of mind. You could be a first
born and stare.
Speaker 12 (05:11):
Guy.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I don't know why, after getting attention and all, how
you could end up feeling that way. But uh, we're welcome,
you know what. Welcome to the union. Smile on up. Well,
we're glad to have as many members.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
As we can have.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
On Bruce's LinkedIn hair. He's his political party and Middle
Child Party, the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Founder of Look, I know a thing or two about
meaningless titles. I'm the founder of the International Middle Child Union.
I'm I'm the founding father of the Middle Child Party.
I'm also the commissioner of Middle League Baseball. So I middleag.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Well, you know, I'm flattered, Bruce, that we are literally
the only people that pay attention.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
To you ever here true.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I am touched. I am touched by by how gracious
you're being towards the middle child. This is not something
a middle child is used to it. As a matter
of fact, at any point, I expect the rug to
be pulled out. This is all a big gag. We're
not even on air, and you're just like trying to,
you know, appease a middle child.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Well, we're giving you the attention you never got from
your mom and dad.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
This is this is true, This is true.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
And I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I don't and I clearly don't know how to
handle it, but I again appreciative. Get the word out there.
I don't want to have to do this every year.
You know. I love talking to you guys. But it
wouldn't it be great if one year everybody just knows
it's middle Child's Day.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Yeah, it would be fine not talking to you, but
but we like talking to you when we do both.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
But I should mention that, uh, Bill Gates was a
middle child.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Bill Gates was a mile you don't don't ruin the
trivia game here, don't ruin the trivia game. It might
be one of it might be one of the questions.
I don't want to spoil it right now, We've got questions.
This is going up from eight in the morning till midnight,
every hour, and you know, so Bill Gates might be
in there.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Do you play the game?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Do we go so on on Twitter, on on Instagram
and on threads at midkid Union, and the question will
be popping up every hour, and you'll be popping up
every half.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Oh, I'm gonna play.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Yeah, don't you have a strange podcast name? What's the
name of your podcast?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Pay no attention to this podcast?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
Its way it worked.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It really worked. It really worked. No one paid attention.
So no, I should have said, it's not a suggestion.
It's just a funny title. It's not a it's not
directions for listening. But you know, Bruce, they have it.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
This is interesting.
Speaker 10 (07:38):
There's a good chance we lost thousands of listeners having
you on, But that's okay with us.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's middle Child's Day.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
One day you lose a few thousand listeners. What's the
big deal?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Yeah, what's the big deal. We'll get more back.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Bruce, we love you, but we're hungry. We gotta go
Wayne's Baby Kiss one O eight they guys.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Producer Riley, you're going to give away those don'ts go
the tickets? Hey Michelle, good morning. You are collar twenty five.
Speaker 13 (08:03):
Oh my god, that one.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I am huge.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Jonah's brothers fan.
Speaker 14 (08:06):
I saw them when they originally came with Demi.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Lovado and I've been trying to win these tickets, so
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh my god, congratulations. Do you know who you're gonna bring?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (08:18):
My daughter wants to go, but also my husband.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I might bring him. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Tough choice.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Well, we are going to be giving away the grand
prize at four to ten with the v Bros.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
On Friday, so stay.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Tuned for that.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Hey, this is Iona Granday and we're back with the
Billy and Lisa in the Morning on Kisuna A.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Hey, Mary, So, tipping culture is way out of control.
We talked about it on this show all the time.
Good morning, everybody, welcome back. It is the Billy and
Lisa Show with myself, justin Billy, Lisa, Winnie and Yeah,
whether it's tipping for takeout when you don't want to,
or the little iPad that they spin around and ask
you to tip on. We cover all bases here on
this show. But Lisa, you're looking at a list of
(08:57):
the worst tippers by state.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
In two are in New England. Is that serious?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
This is not good for US, folks.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Okay, So number one, the worst state is California.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
That makes sense because they make minimum.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Highroning state comes in, yep, just cheap.
Speaker 16 (09:14):
No, but California they get a full hourly wage. Yeah,
so people probably like, why am I tipping any So.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The average tip there is just seventeen point eight percent,
and they have the lowest generosity score in the country.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
You never want to be had, the lowest.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
General in California. They make fifteen dollars hour.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Yeah they do.
Speaker 13 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Okay, so number two is the state of Washington. I
don't really think much about Washington's now. Number three is okay,
let's it's Connecticut.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Interesting cheates in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, very very interesting. And number four is drum roll please, Massachusetts.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Oh we are in the top five.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
That's not good.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
That's not good.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
And you know it could get worse when no tax
on tips starts January first. A lot of people, when
I bring that up to them at dinner or something,
they immediately say, oh, I'm going right to fifteen percent.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Yeah, I don't get that.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I don't either want.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
To tip the same me too, Yeah, especially if they
do a great job.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Okay, do you want to hear what state ranks in
one of the best?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Oh, West Virginia really?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Yep, that actually is pretty shocking.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
That shocks me.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Wow, twenty and Kentucky is right behind them with twenty
point seven percent.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
I wouldn't have expected either of those places.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Isn't West Virginia one of the poorest?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yes, yeah, yeah, but they're generous yep.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
What's the south right technic? Its technically not really.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Southern hospital, high income, high cost states look the worst.
Speaker 16 (10:48):
Maybe you were so stressed out with everything else we
can't afford to tip twenty five percent.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
You know what's funny about I like to think of
myself as a very generous tip or I overtip a lot.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
It's good to.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Michelle won't even let me sign a check now at
a restaurant because I tipped so much.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Does she tip twenty percent?
Speaker 9 (11:07):
She tips normal phase right around twenty percent. Yeah, nevertheless,
but she actually just grabs the bill from me.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Is she a tip less now person?
Speaker 17 (11:14):
Though?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Is she going to tip less because of this?
Speaker 10 (11:17):
If I had to guess without asking her point blank,
I would think she'll go to fifteen.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Oh really, I'm going to stay at twenty.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Me too. It's I think it's the right thing.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
It's the right thing to do. I was a server, Like,
you get it, right, I get it?
Speaker 10 (11:32):
Like, yeah, they say if you have spent any time
in the hospitality world or in the you know, service industry,
you're always going to be a good tipper because you
were there.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Yeah, and you lived it.
Speaker 17 (11:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
I'm more judging now than I was before I was
a server.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
I see you as a very cheap tea.
Speaker 16 (11:49):
No, I'm like, no, We've talked throughout this. I started
twenty percent. If you sucked, you get eighteen.
Speaker 11 (11:53):
If you're good, you get twenty two or twenty five.
Speaker 16 (11:56):
But I now know what it's like and when I
can if you're actually really busy, or if you just
are not attentive, then that's where excuse because there's a
difference between being attentively in the weeds or.
Speaker 11 (12:08):
There's different that you just don't care about your tables.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Yeah, but see that's not how the way people see it.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
Like, I think could be the worst waiter on Earth, right,
but if you cheap it out on the tip, they're
gonna blame you. They're just gonna say you're They wouldn't
dawn on them that they did a horrible job.
Speaker 11 (12:26):
I don't know. Yeah, maybe I guess if you're I
don't know.
Speaker 16 (12:29):
As a server, I always did really well because I
was a good server, so I didn't really had an issue.
Speaker 11 (12:33):
It always works out anyways.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So what you're saying is if you give less than that,
they're not going to get it anyway, because they're not
going to take responsibility.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
They will never do well.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
I'm just saying more often than not, they're not going
to take the responsibility they expect their tip.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
See what I do is I tip twenty percent if
they're bad, right, and then if they're really good, and
they'll go up twenty five thirty.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
Yeah, somewhere I'm about to say that.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Twenty is the baseline for me.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Yeah, I don't go less than twenty percent. I just don't.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I don't either.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
What's a the bucket chew. What does it do to that?
Speaker 9 (13:02):
It adds up.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
I'm saying.
Speaker 16 (13:04):
I'm saying, like, if you are really were not good,
why am I tipping you twenty percent?
Speaker 11 (13:08):
If you did not care about me? That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I just don't want them to judge me.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
They're gonna judge you, That's what I'm saying. They're gonna
judge you.
Speaker 16 (13:15):
I'm judging you off of your bad work ethic, so
judge me back.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
See when he's also one of those people that sends
food back, I would never send that. I don't care
if it was burned to a crisp right, I don't
even not sending it back. I'm gonna sit there with
my burn to a crisp steak, yeah right, and just
and tip the same. It wasn't her fault, she didn't
cook it. Sarah, what do you think about this old
tipping thing?
Speaker 18 (13:40):
Good morning, it's getting ridiculous. The other night Lumineer's concert,
buying a fifty dollars T shirt at the concession stand
and the guy automatically hits ten percent.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Oh see, that's something I probably would not tip on.
If I'm buying merchant.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Now, I would never tip on that no, no.
Speaker 18 (13:57):
Right, automatically one of us paid it, one of us
student and as they're walking away, he says to the person,
thank you to you and not see you.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Oh so wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
When you bought a T shirt they spun the iPad around.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Never heard that before.
Speaker 18 (14:13):
No, they didn't even do that.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
So it was right in front of you.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Tap and he literally.
Speaker 15 (14:17):
Just pushed the button for ten percent.
Speaker 16 (14:19):
WHOA, that's fine book to their lease depending.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
On what you got, and the shirt's probably.
Speaker 13 (14:24):
Eighty A shirt was fifty dollars, yes, got.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
That feels illegal?
Speaker 9 (14:29):
It does, right, Isn't that weird?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
It would never dawn on me to tip if I'm
in the merchandise store, I'm buying a shirt.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
If you go to and get a shirt or a jacket,
you don't tip.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, no, right, I have to be sitting down with
getting service. The tip, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 16 (14:47):
I mean, like a dollar at the ice cream stand
or like the coffee shop is one.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
Thing, okay, keep your dollar, okay, because they're talking about you.
If you drop a single doll yeah, but if.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
It's based on the amount of the bill.
Speaker 16 (14:58):
The other day, I tipped one twenty five at the
ice cream stand the girl.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
But thank you so much. You're welcome so much.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
Well, if there are coins, you say, keep the change.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
Yeah, I'll be the bills.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I have tipped that ice cream places though, because they
usually college kids.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, ye, skipping that ice cream.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
I was annoying. I asked for a cop after in
a bottle of water. I was annoying you what Bill?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
You know what she said.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Boy, you're waking up with Billy and Lisa in the
morning on Kiss Await.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
Enjoy your coffee.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
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Speaker 14 (15:54):
My husband asked to go out every single night. Sometimes
he wants to go play pool, sometimes he wants to
stop at the casinos. Sometimes he just wants to drive around.
And I believe him. I believe he says where he's going,
but he stays out late and it's every single night.
I don't feel like he did this when we were dating.
And I get it, Okay, I'm bored at night too,
(16:15):
I'm exhausted.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
We got two little kids.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
I get it.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
But I hate that he does that.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
And he says that he is not going to change that.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
So I need to know.
Speaker 14 (16:24):
Am I being unreasonable because I can see like one
night a week being fine, but like when you're parents
to young children, I feel like even one night a
week is a lot.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 14 (16:37):
I am also not a very social person.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Is it possible he's not cheating?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well, I guess he says that he's not.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Well of course, right right now?
Speaker 16 (16:47):
Right, Like, I mean, you cannot be cheating and still
be like betraying your spouse, right Like, it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
He's being selfish. He's wanting like a lot of me time.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Well yeah, and it's it's a partnership or it's supposed
to be, right, I mean with young kids.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Well, yeah, you stay with the kids. I'm going out
every night.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah, every night.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
That's unacceptable. It's a big deal in my marriage. We
have two small children. It's a big deal to.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Go out one night.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Oh yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Big deal, Like we got to make plans and you know,
there's a conversation. But every single night, And how does
she allow that to happen? Oh yeah, well it's on her.
I mean it shouldn't be happening. And yeah, I mean
it's wrong.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Yeah, so she's putting the kids to bed.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
Oh yeah, she's doing it all. I think that's part
of the frustration. That's what's causing all the frustration.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Like where are you going? We have a job here,
we have kids.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I mean, look, it's important to have your to have
me time, right, That's important sure in relationships and in parenting,
but every single night when you have two small kids.
I'm just trying to imagine the conversation between my wife
and I.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
When I try to say there wouldn't be she would
just tell you to stay home or right.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
She said, don't come back, or don't come back right,
or get out I want to go play pool, or
just punch you.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
In the face.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
For this woman, I really do.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Even this morning, we've been texted, well since last night
and this morning we've been texting because she's going out
Friday night, so she it's like, hey, can I go
out Friday night?
Speaker 7 (18:14):
What's the plan with kids? We talk about it. Yeah,
that's what it's all about.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Well, I mean, you get a lot of me time,
but it's usually around the house, you know, between your
ice plunges and your gym workouts.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And lord, it's when the kids are in school, are
in daycare. Yes, that's the me time.
Speaker 10 (18:29):
So you do your job as apparent, and then you
find a metime yes, around.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Don't you often want us time?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's the other thing too, I don't think you want
It's like, okay, it's fine if you don't want to
be around the kids, but like, what about the.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Two of us? Is like if I think that's over, Yeah,
this guy, that's over in his brain, but not hers.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
No, she got a step up, right, Yeah, she has
to say something else.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
The fact that she's saying that openly public quickly, and
he's still not getting it.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Regarding the woman whose husband goes out every single night
to do stuff while she's at home with two little kids,
I wish she had provided some context. Was he doing
this when the first.
Speaker 17 (19:15):
Child was born?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Who's this been going on for a number of years?
Or is this more recent behavior, because more recent behavior
would seem to suggest something like an affair or something
has changed.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Curious.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
She did allude to that. She said that he didn't
do it when they were dating, right, So I'm not
sure what the first kid versus the second kid, but
she kind of alludes that it's kind of more recent behavior.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
This is this guy's in crisis. He's in crisis right now.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
And she also said she doesn't think he's cheating. She
doesn't think he's lying, But what does she think he's
doing and why?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And by the way, if he were, which we hope
that he's not, but if he were cheating, and she
asked him, are you cheating, of course.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
He's going to say no. Courts, right, Yeah, that's how
it goes, you know.
Speaker 19 (20:00):
Not on her, It is on her partner for disrespecting
her so much. Fine, maybe she could have stronger boundaries,
but it sounds like she's trying to actet that and
he's absolutely disregarding it.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
So she's not crazy.
Speaker 19 (20:18):
He is being a jerk, and it is absolutely betrayal
even if he's not cheating.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah, right, she neither.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
She needs to like lay it down like this is unacceptable.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
And then if he still does it then.
Speaker 16 (20:32):
Well, he did say I'm not going to stop. Yeah,
he said, I'm not I'm not going to stop.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
She asked him if you could have another right, yeah,
but if you could have either the husband or the
wife on this show right now, which would you prefer?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I would want the husband.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I want to pepper him with questions like what's where?
Where do you where do you see this going? Like
how do you see this helping your family situation? How
do you see this helping your marriage?
Speaker 10 (20:59):
And does he not ever say, hey, let's you make
arrangements for the kids and go someplace together.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Let's go drive around together.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
You know, like the old fashioned like a date night
once a week, something like you do it with Jen
right at least one one night a week.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
You want to go out just you and I mean
as much as we can, but it's tough when you
have two small kids. Yeah, And if we have him on,
then we can have Winny follow him around and cold
play him.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
I would like to if that's what he's doing.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
But this is my thing.
Speaker 16 (21:21):
Right if she should start beating him to it, she
should go out before he.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Goes out, leave him with the kids, like to sneak
out before he can.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Get get out.
Speaker 16 (21:28):
Yes, like, let him see how it feels he left
and along with two kids.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah, or lock the.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
Door, let him go to the casino, then change.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
The locks, locks the door.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I think he can stay if he doesn't want to
be home, he can go do whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But he doesn't have a bad to sleep it anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Yeah, that's that's could happen.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
What he's doing is beyond old school. I mean it's
almost barbaric.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah, leaving the old lady home with the two kids. Yes,
while he's out gallivanting.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I'm going out. It's troubling a little bit.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
So I was married to a jerk like that. Do
not say that that's on her, because if he wants
to go, he's gonna go, no matter how many times
she says don't.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. This is a problem for her
right now.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
She should follow Whinnie's advice and just go before he goes.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Or like the other talkbacker said, just lock the door,
change the mock.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
You could do that.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It sounds like that he's not open to having conversations
though about this, because you know she did say he's refusing.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, yeah, he's dug in he.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Just never should have started a family.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Or what happens is you start a family and you
have kids and it becomes too much yep to handle.
Freedom gets taken away and.
Speaker 16 (22:40):
Said publicly he understands deadbeat dads more now than ever.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
That was a controversial statement that I made, but I
stand by it. My wife cannot believe I said that
on the air. But you have to think about what
I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
That's hard.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Before you have kids, you think like dead beat dads,
I could never do that. How do people run out
on their children? And then you have kids and you
understand the loss of free him and you understand dead
be dads. They're just they're cowards, but you understand where
the mentality comes from.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I feel like normally be the opposite. It'd be like
it'd be like, oh, I could never leave my kids.
I don't know how you could do it. Justin's like, nope,
I'm running away.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I'll running away. I'm standing on business.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
From the Planet Fitness Kids One Away Studios.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
We're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Hey, everybody, good morning, Justin here, welcome back. It is
the final hour of that Billy and Lisa show. Justin Winnie, Billy,
and of course our Queen Lisa.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
What do you got?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Last week, I was having a discussion with Billy and
producer Riley, and Billy was sharing stories from his past
about how he used to steal water from Target and
other things like batteries.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
You put in the bottom of the carriage. But now
they have cameras.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So then producer Riley chimed in and she's like, She's like,
I know this girl that likes to steal lipstick and
lip gloss from like Sephora or Target. So we found
a list of the most commonly stolen retail products. Okay,
Number one on the list is makeup.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
I blame.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Number one from Target is lip gloss or lipstick.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
That's the number one thing stolen.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Because it's small. Exactly you conceal.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
It, Yep, you can conceal it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
The next thing is clothing, easy to do, alcohol, and
then electronics.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
With clothing, do people still do that thing where you
put the clothes on under your clothes.
Speaker 11 (24:26):
I'm sure that there's plenty of ways to do it.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
In the dressing room.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
You bring two of them, yeah, and they also have
those little things on them though.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You don't know like the people that are doing this,
especially Billy, like you don't ever worry about getting caught,
like you're a public figure.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
Well, he has his plan.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
What's the plan about?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah, I have her here.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Yes, I intentionally try to steal a case of water
every time I go to the market.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
I put it at the bottom of the carriage, assuming
they're not going to see it. Okay, the water thing.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
I was just testing the cashier and then if if
you didn't see the water at the bottom and bottom
of the carriage, I would turn her into the manager.
Speaker 17 (25:05):
I got to.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Say, what about the batteries recently?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Okay, there are two things.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Okay, you're admitting to a crime.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Here, So now I don't do it anymore. My brother
and I we've had nothing growing up.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
Less my mother stole at the local store all the
time because we had forty years. It's okay, because it's
just the thing that crosses your mind when you're in
But I will say, if I were to steal anything
right now, it would be either razor blades, although now
they keep them locked up smart they are locked up yet.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
And the other thing is batteries.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
It bugs me how expensive batteries are, and they don't
last very long.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
You kid, there are chargeo batteries.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
No, that's a different game. You know, you just want
batteries to put them in the light is fresh.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Well, I've never stolen anything.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
That's a lot in your life.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
No, I've never stolen any case.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
You shouldn't steal. You just shouldn't. It's just not the
right thing.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
It's just like I.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Really the fact I think you're still doing nothing.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
When my brother and I were very young, and my
friend Doukie, who's been in here many times childhood, buddy, yeah,
we stole a lot. I mean we should have been
put in prison.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
I feel like I've accidentally stole a lot.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 16 (26:17):
But like you when you're like doing self checkout and
you forget like the milk or something that was like
at the bottom or behind something, and then you walk
out and you realize, oh, I didn't scan that, but
you're not gonna go.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Back, And I think, no, no, no, she's just trying
to justify the theft. You knew you were stealing it.
Speaker 16 (26:32):
No, But I'm saying there's been times that genuinely like, oh, shoot,
that was in the cart and I forgot to scan it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
See I don't think that that's as bad as like
what Billy was doing.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
You plot like you want.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Yeah, well, now you saying, Justin that when you're at
the supermarket, never in your life have you ever purposely
left a small item like in the corner of the carriage.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Hoping it gets past. Well, we have too.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Justin has two lives.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Not recently. Yeah, I know I was, by the way.
You know, even when I was younger, I was not
a good thief. I got caught the story got caught. Yeah,
you robbed a store and went to person thief.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Yeah, see, I didn't do that, although I did when
I was young.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
The only between you and Justin and that Justin got caught.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Yeah, well should I be proud? No.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Target is getting rid of the self checkout because of
the amount of theft. They're losing so much money, so
they're going to be gone the self check Yeah.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
See that was a new find for me because Home
Depot has it too. But now I notice they have
supervisors in the area at home Depot.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well I find that interesting because they've got like eight
self checkouts at Target and there's always a line to
do it.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
So the fact that they're going to like not have
it anymore is so interesting.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I always thought they were baiting me with the self checkout,
so I said, the hell would them?
Speaker 9 (27:50):
You know, every once in a while an item doesn't get.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
SPA, but I always assume that everything's tagged with like
a security No batteries.
Speaker 16 (27:58):
Now, for instance, like a lot of the looking at
Target is not tagged.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
I mean the tank, like the higher price. I'm like
a ten dollars tak top. They're not tagged.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
And you see the tag, you know it's tagged. And
what's not tagged, Yeah, batteries just slided in.
Speaker 16 (28:10):
Actually, Bill, you did God's work because now they're getting
jobs back at Target.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
I love this high real people.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
This week there had to be six different supervisors roaming
around the self checkouts.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
M Oh well, this is gonna be a good topic
hit come the.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Thiefs talking about stealing.
Speaker 17 (28:28):
I just have to say that I too will try
to steal something from.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Stay market basket, even if it's.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
A pack of gump because I'm always like, I spend
enough money here that I think I deserve.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I don't agree with Okay, I don't. It's like it's
calm man, you steal, it's going to come back now.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
I get to tell you a great story.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
You see, he is such a beet.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
It just crossed my mind.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
This is when I was in college at Murramack.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
There was a shopping center like right around the corner,
right off the highway at Merrimack. So me and my
two roommates, he's got to the supermarket and have a challenge.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
You know, who could walk out with the most value?
Speaker 15 (29:13):
Right?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
And you know we would stuff things like you know,
ground beef and you know the frozen shrimp really good.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
That would drive the value up.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
And to see who could walk out with the motes.
And I'll never forget it. My roommate came walking down
the aisle. I had already gone through checkout. My roommate
came walking down the aisle with a giant limp like
he had a wooden leg.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
He had an entire mop down his.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
High value and he made it out. But he also
had burger meat and ribbies and everything else.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
But it was the mop or the broomstick.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
And he said, who wants to steal my.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
I had for the dorm.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Kiss.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It's a Wednesday morning, Hey guys, justin here. A couple
of minutes ago we were talking about the most stolen
items from stores. And I want to preface this by
saying it is not the right thing to do to steal,
never the right thing, because karma comes and when you
steal usually comes back to bite you. Anyway, Chris is
online one, Chris, have you stolen stuff?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Be honest, No, I haven't.
Speaker 13 (30:30):
The opposite. This happened to me at Target recently. I
was shopping with my daughter for college. So we had
a ton of things in the basket and on the
bottom we had laid something out and we paid for it.
We paid, we left, and I realized we hadn't paid
for the thing on the toto of the rack, and
so my daughter said, oh, well, we just spent all
that money, and I just kind of hesitated for a second.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I was like, no, that's not right.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
Like we have to bring it back and pay for it.
So I did, because I was thinking, Okay, one, what's
the lesson I'm teaching her? And two it's bad tarma
if you steel in my mind.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Okay, Chris, you know why your daughter didn't want to
go back in because she had stolen something.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
It was probably under her that was under her shirt.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
Not no, but I like you.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Yeah, I would go back in and pay for it.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Okay, it's just bad parma man if you do that.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
So oh god, okay, well, goody, good one, Chris. Let's
go to Mark. He's calling in from Stoke and go
ahead and Mark. What have you got for us?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (31:31):
So back in the day, it was a whole shopping
cage of food from shopping shops.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
So you just walked out with the whole carriage.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Uh no, I actually found uh what I thought at
the time was a creative idea at self checkout. You
can turn the boy shops so it doesn't tell you
what items that you would scam.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Oh I didn't.
Speaker 12 (31:58):
You could just you could just go to thought look
up and hit bananas, which is like the cheapest thing
in there, and just spaying everything in bananas.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
Okay, we're not looking to give anyone any ideas.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Okay, I really appreciate it, but yeah, okay, a full carriage.
Speaker 9 (32:16):
Now Nicky's calling for Manchester, New Hampshire. Hey, Nikki, what
have you got?
Speaker 13 (32:22):
Hey?
Speaker 20 (32:23):
There, So I accidentally stole a whole double stroller from
Baby's r Us when they were still open.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
Well that's what.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
How did you accidentally steal how did that happen?
Speaker 20 (32:34):
Totally full of it, But I was I had pregnancy brain.
I was pregnant with twins, and I had all this
stuff in the top, and I had that huge box
shoved underneath, and they were getting ready to close, and
they were rushing us out, and I paid for everything
in the top and I got all the way out
to the car and I was like, oh my god,
it was like four hundred dollars. So I went back
to the door and I'm like waving at them, and They're.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Like, we're closed, We're closed.
Speaker 18 (32:58):
So I was like, uh, all right.
Speaker 16 (33:00):
So what do I what do I do?
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Really nice stroller?
Speaker 9 (33:07):
You did your best?
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Yes you did.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
You know they wouldn't let you in. It's not your fall.
Let's go to Jen next, Jen, have you stolen something?
Speaker 12 (33:15):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Good morning, good morning?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 15 (33:19):
Actually, so, when I was in high school, my best
friend worked at Tayliff's Shoestland. They were cheap shoes anyway,
but I had my whole locker in high school was
full of new shoes because she knew it size my
foot was. So I would go and visit her at work.
I would take the shoes that I had on my feet.
(33:40):
I put those in a box and put the new
shoes on my feet and walk out. But then once
she knew my size, I would just go to school
and she put all new shoes. My locker was full
of shoes.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Oh that sounds so much like something I did. Yeah,
that's you know what, that's a juicy one.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Oh yeah, I will say that a lot of people
are calling and about doing the right thing.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (34:05):
On accidental last year at Target, I needed a vacuum
and I went to self checkout and I bought it,
which I thought I bought it, but it didn't skin.
I got home and I looked at the receipt. I
freaked out. I went back and I toldal Lyady, I'm
so sorry, and she said, why did you even bring
it back? She's like, you'll want to never been caught.
But I didn't end up paying for it.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
Oh that was nice.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
That's doing the right thing. It's what I always advised.
But yeah, sure, do the right thing. Yeah sure, I'm
not lying. I put two or three towels and four
face clocks every time I stayed at a hotel in
my gym bag because I used the face clock in
the towel so watched my boat.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
It's just no shame I did last week. Yeah, I
know you did, and yes we did. Mention target is
getting rid of the self checkout. Wow, what a time
of people liked. Yeah, that's probably for the.
Speaker 14 (34:54):
Best igets getting rid of those cameras because you know,
you think you're having a.
Speaker 17 (34:58):
Good day and you take a look and look like
a troll. I don't know what's wrong those cameras.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
It's like, it looks like you fell out of the
ugly tree and didn't miss a branch.
Speaker 17 (35:10):
And d U.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Austin it's Satan McCrae and you're waking up with Billy
and Lisa in the morning on Kiss one.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Owahy Lisa, I wrap things up on this Wednesday morning.
Thank you so much for listening everybody. We do it
every single morning six to ten am on Kiss Want
to Wait. You can always check out the podcast, which
we post right after the show.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
You'd find Matt on the iHeartRadio app. Just search Billy
and Lisa in the morning three ten. This afternoon, the
v Bros and Gianna have your next shot at Jonas Brothers. Tickets.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
They'll be at Fenway this weekend. You'll also qualify for
that grand prize seats right up front. And of course
we'll be back tomorrow morning, eight ten with more Jonas
Brothers tickets.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
It's been a crazy show.
Speaker 9 (35:51):
Justin you've got a story you want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Well, yesterday I was at home, you know, sitting on
my couch after work, a little tired, and you know,
I have a credit card that I use for pretty
much everything, for the miles, you know, Capitol one card,
and so I had longed on to check something. I'm
not good about checking my transactions. I should be better
about that, Yeah, for fraud, right, So I open it
up and I'm looking and I see.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
All these charges on them.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Ak.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Yeah, but this is I know you might remember last
year I gave all my money away. Yes, that was
my debit card, but this is my credit card. So
I see all these charges that are pending, like six
of them, and it says Xbox.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
Oh it's your son, Okay.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
So then I'm like, I'm confused, and I start to
scroll down a little bit to cryor transactions, and it
was unbelievable. So now I'm like, my son's in school,
and so he plays Xbox obviously, sure, so I call Xbox.
I'm on the phone with them. I'm chatting online trying
to figure it. They're trying to help me. They can't
figure it. I was a whole thing. Turns out he
(36:54):
was my card. I had put on his game for
a ten dollars subscription so he.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Could play with his friends.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
And so that means when he goes to buy they're
called v bucks on fortnight, he just he just was
just buying.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
Them that much.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
How much were we talking here?
Speaker 6 (37:10):
I really don't want to say, say it was it
like a thousand.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Dollars around them? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Yeah, it's parse.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Some of the charges they will not Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
Wow, you know I never used to Yeah, here's the
best part.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Can I just best part? Okay, So it's my I.
I talked to my son. I didn't yell at him.
I didn't say he was in trouble. I should have
known better.
Speaker 11 (37:36):
He didn't.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I mean, when he when he goes to buy them,
it doesn't say like here's your card. Automatically you press
the button and boom, you know. So when he got home,
I explained that to him, and he was very understanding,
and he was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and he goes,
hold on a second, Dad, I'm gonna make this right.
And he walks into the other room and comes back
with his wallet that he has, and he opens his
(37:58):
wallet and he takes out the two dolls and he
goes here.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Dad, I like that.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
He gave you everything he had.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
That's the whole two bucks.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
So it's just a warning for parents out there if
they play video games, don't have your card on there.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Yeah, the same thing happened to us a long Yeah.
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