July 6, 2026 • 38 mins
This episode of the Billy and Lisa in the morning show is a wild ride, folks. The hosts dive into a topic that's got everyone talking - the emergency exit row on a plane. You know, the seats where you pay extra for the extra legroom, but also take on a whole lot of responsibility. But what exactly does that responsibility entail? The hosts are scratching their heads, and we're right there with them.
In this episode, Billy and Lisa explore the often-overlooked world of emergency exit row etiquette. They're joined by a flight attendant, Dana, who sheds some light on the expectations of passengers in these seats. But it turns out, it's not just about opening the door and letting people out. There's a lot more to it than that. The hosts also share some hilarious stories about their own experiences with summer jobs, from mowing lawns to working at a resort.
But back to the plane, where things get serious. The hosts discuss the importance of being able to read, understand, and communicate instructions in English, as well as the physical demands of opening the door and assisting passengers. And let's just say, it's not as simple as it seems. They also talk about the FAA regulations and the expectations of passengers in emergency exit rows.
So, if you're curious about what it means to be an emergency exit row passenger, tune in to this episode of Billy and Lisa in the morning. They'll have you laughing and thinking, and maybe even rethinking your next flight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, best morning show in Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Billy and Lisa in the morning. It's just a great
start to my day.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
On good morning everybody. Welcome to the Billion Lisa Show
on a Monday morning. I'm justin Billy Lisa, and we
are ready to get the show started, the big Monday
Show right, as Billy likes to say, don't forget it
is Noah Con week. His first show, first of four,
is tomorrow night at Fenway. We are giving away tickets
to the show. Is All you have to do is
(00:28):
leave a talkback on the iHeart app when you hear
a Noah Con song. What's that mean? Well, you gotta
download the iHeartRadio app. You gotta listen to kiss want
to wait? You got to press the red microphone button
on the app and leave a talkback, leave a message
for us saying why you should be at the show,
and that's how you win. It's that easy. But I
want to start the show this morning, Billy and Lisa
(00:48):
with a question to both of you. I saw a
young kid in my neighborhood cutting grass for other people.
He was going around asking people if they wanted to
hire him to mow their grass. And there he was
with a lawnmower. He must have been I don't even know,
maybe fifteen sixteen years old, just crushing it. And it
got me thinking about summer jobs, some that I have had.
(01:09):
But what about you, Bill, Let's start with you. Any
crazy summer jobs. I have a couple I can throw in.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Okay, Yeah, I once had a summer job. You know,
historical Walden Pond and concert Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's famous, right, Walden Pond. Well, they had a summer program.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Where you could have a job. It's one of those
ones you had to know somebody or so, I don't know,
I still have them. So you would go there in
the morning and you worked the pond. You basically walked
through the woods of Walden Pond, cleaning up and picking
up and you know whatever, right do I strike? He
was a clean up and pick up guy. No, I mean,
I've got OCD when it comes to me, not so
(01:48):
much otherwise.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So this became a no show job. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
A buddy of mine, Sal who ended up in the
mom went to Vegas. He was my next door neighbor.
He also had the summer job. He had a car
I didn't, so he would drive me to Walden Pond
at eight in the morning and a corvette and we
would go. We would sign in and leave for the
whole day and come back at four o'clock and sign up.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So would you pretend like you were in the woods
the whole day.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I never saw the link Walden Pond. I never even
show it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Dude, they never got. They never got.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The show came automatically every week. In fact, that was
the best way.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
When you go back Friday afternoon, check, sign in, and
then leave.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, it was a no show.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Lenny Clark had a no show at City Hall and
Camber if you want to put that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He's very public about it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
He was supposed to be a janet I he'd show
up and sign and then go back in the afternoon
and sign up.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I've heard about the no show jobs.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, and then I had the one at Industrial Steel Company.
It was a summer job when I was in college,
and I almost lost my arm. Remember I got stuck
in the giant droll press and it was pulling my
arm out of my body.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What I wouldn't give imagine.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'd be like still sleep like a sleeve with nothing
in it built. That was a summer job. Man never
went back after that day, I was like three four
weeks into the gig.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
They put me at this big machine. You're not a machine,
no training, Like instantly emergency sirens.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Are going off and I'm dangling from the machine. So anyway,
they're on my summer job.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well I had.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I I'm from Pennsylvania, So I cleaned condos one summer
in the Polkados at a resort. It was the most
disgusting job I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Now with these wealthy people or.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Just like like resort condos, like you'd go to like
you know, in the summer, what'd you find. It's disgusting,
Like people would just leave, like you know, like people
used to be into like talcum powder, remember like powder.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They would just leave powder everywhere, all over the bathroom
like it was.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Everywhere, and then like you'd have to clean like the
tub and that was so gross and it was so gross,
like I can't even believe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I did it, but I did it. And then I was.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Also like movie dirty dancing was the bolk Nose.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Maybe close by, but and then I was a lifeguard
at the same resort. Oh yes, So I'd take off
my cleaning clothes and I put my bathing suit on
you sure?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Did any boy ever pretend they were drowning so they'd
get multiple sand lot?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
No they did not, No, they did not.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I ended up just like sitting on the you know,
the little thing and twirling my whistle.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
As yeah, with the whistle.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah, I would twirl the whistle because there was nothing
going on.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Right, wait, so you never had to save anything.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I never had to do anything. I would just literally
just sit there twirling.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The whistle with the bathing suit red.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, it was a little what's that little cross looking thing?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, life guard symbol. There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I was always at the ready. I was like prepared,
but nothing ever happened.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, Well when you go to like places that have
a lazy river and you know, into a water parks
like Great Wolf Lodge, the lifeguards walk ferociously around.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Well that because you could lose a kid that place.
I remember to wax there like five boys. I was
scared to death that one of them would drown. Like
I was literally like panicked. Yeah we'd lose one.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
They should do a good job and they get pay
yeah too, always whistling.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Did you have a summer job justin see everybody's going
and it always has a story.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's like historical that you have a bad.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Summer job all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah. Yeah, So, I mean I've shared this before, but
you know, my mom, my mom's best friend worked for
the health department. So when I was twelve years old,
I looked older than I was, So they asked me
to go out with them and go to convenience.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Stores or any stores that sell cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And they'd pull up and I'd walk in and try
to buy a pack of cigarettes. And if they sold
them to it to me, the kid. I'd go out,
and then she would go in and she'd write them
a citation.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You were a snitch.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, that was my first job.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh wow, of all people, you were a snitch.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I mean, I paid fifty for a couple of hours.
Why wouldn't I?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I didn't care. I was twelve years old. Were you
gigantic at that time?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I wasn't like fat fat, but I was a bigger
kid and I looked older. Yeah, which is it's ironic
because then I ended up going into a life of
you know, crime, like crime. Yeah, And I ended up
feeling bad because some of these stores were like mom
and pop stores, bodegas. So I go in and be like,
can I have a pack of mab borroough? Most, I'd
(06:18):
say ninety percent said can I see idsus? Some of
them were like.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And they slipped through there you go Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I'd walk out and then she'd walk in with a
thousand dollars fine or whatever it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Was, Oh boy, which could shut them down. Pause. Like
a lot of those people they didn't have a thousand
dollars to throw away.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I mean, dude, it's illegal to sell cigarettes to a kid,
especially a twelve year old, right, I mean I didn't
look eighteen. I meant it might have looked fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Did you ever buy liquor for kids standing outside?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No? But I used to. We used to wait for
other people to buy liquor for us all the time.
Excuse me, can you buy us a case of beer?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh my god, yeah I did that once. You bought it?
Are you not?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, I was gonna say you didn't buy it for kids?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, I had a baby face. Really, I wasn't fooling anyone.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay, did you have fake id's?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't remember. Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Used to buy fake id's at the Mystic Mall and
Chelsea twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Five buy them there.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Ye, not anymore, it's not there anymore, but there was
a little booth where you could buy fake id's twenty
five bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Wow. Yeah, summer jobs are awesome. You know why could
you never forget them? No?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You were really hard to Yeah, producer, I was telling
me about hers off all.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Well, I worked three summers at Canny Lake Park in
my hometown of Sown in Hampshire. We go this is
this is a really great summer job because I worked
operating rides. But my very first day there was fourth
of July and it was hot as heck and I
sweat through the shorts that I was wearing because they
were like a light khaki and it literally looks like
(07:49):
I pet my pants on my very first day. And
we had a red polo that was tucked into the shorts.
You couldn't wear it untucked, so there was no way
to hide the fact that I was sweating. Oh my where,
oh boy, like down my legs.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Every I'll never forget it.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
No great job, but like that first day, I was like,
I can never come.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Back, so I need to ask.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So so, with no experience whatsoever, they would have you
operate a ride.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Well, there was a lot of training. Actually, I'm like
your job where you had no training.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, if you saw this machine I was almost maimed,
you wouldn't. I never went back. I didn't even go
get my check.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I mean that's telling not to hey, I have nightmares
about it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one o eight Studios, we're
back with the Villy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
My wife, Michelle, and I walked in the news last
night and there were kind of a couple of airline
news stories are to have a buzz, right, because you've
got the flight of seventeen Americans.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Flying to Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
From the cruise line that had the virus outbreak, the
rat virus outbreak. So that's an airline story, right. They
landed in Nebraska this morning and they're being quarantined now.
So there's one story.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And the other story that was in the news was
the guy that climbed the fence.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
And was walking across the runway and got hit by
a passenger jet sucked up into the turbine. So now
we're thinking airlines, right. We're sitting there watching the news,
two airline related stories in a row, and my wife
turns to me and she says, hey, you know how
(09:28):
we always when we fly, we tend to get extra
leg room if it's available, and very often the extra
leg room puts us in the emergency row. Okay, And
I always fly next to the window. That's where I
like to be. I like to look down as we're
taking off, And so that means that I am the
(09:49):
immediate person connected to the emergency door. And it's a
big thing because before the plane takes off, the flight attendant,
it's their job. They have to come over and get
a verbal response from you. They'll say, just need to
ask you are you ready and willing to assist passengers
(10:10):
in the case.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Of an emergency? And of course you say yes, right,
And all of a sudden, what right? Because what Chelle said,
what does that mean? Like does that mean? I always
thought it was?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Am I ready to open the door in the case
of emergency? And then the inflatable slide goes out, right.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And then off you go.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
But we're wondering, are they actually expecting me to help
passengers off the plane while it's on fire.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
That's a good question because that seat generally you pay
for so right, right, and then they ask you for
money right.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So they ask you these questions like are you prepared
to do this?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
And of course you say yes because you don't want
your seat to be moved.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But are they asking you if you're prepared to die?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I have an answer here if you like it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What's the answer, bill?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Passenger seated and emergency exit rows are acquired by federal
regulations to assist flight crews during an evacuation. By accepting
these seats, you agree to perform specific physical duties what
help guide other passengers to safety.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Now okay, hold on, now you need to picture this going.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
We're in a row where I'm at the window, Michelle
is to my right, and there's another passenger to her right,
so there are three of us when and if I
open the door, which I'm perfectly willing to. Okay, but
that's it. We well, we're in the way of passengers desperate.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
To get off the burning plane.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
So it makes no sense to me because there's no
way on God's Earth that I've volunteered to remain on
the plane with the flames going for the entire fuselage.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's not what I agreed to. First of all, I
paid extra.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
So there's saying I'm paying extra to risk my life
for those I've never met in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Basically, but Lisa, he did agree to do that. When
you say yes verbally, by the way.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I thought it meant open the door. Now I'm always
looking every time I get on board. I read the
thing against it, okay, and that lever needs to come
down and that one needs to come across.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So I know how to open the door.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
But i want to tell everybody, Okay, if you happen
to be on board the flight with me and I'm
in the emergency row, yes, I'm very capable of opening
the door. I think I'll be one of the best
door openers ever. Right, I'm prepared to open the door,
but you need to know in advance. I'm the first
(12:42):
one off that plane. I might let my wife go first.
It depends on the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, there's assisting for Bill.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Bill's going down the slide.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'll probably grab Michelle's arm and we'll both slide down
together and then we're just run lives.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'm never looking back.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Because Billy thinks that he's like getting out of your way,
so he's doing you a favor.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
In Africa, he left his wife behind. There was an
animal possible animal attack that was about to happen in
the safari and he ran away and left.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Had a live show once.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I remember there were some cows that were charging the
live show like area.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You guys got out of there before all of our
listeners did.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The cows got spooked we're in a tent, started charging us, and.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I climbed over people like everybody, like children. I was
out out.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Oh god, Let's see what this fight attendant has to
say about this.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
If you're seated in an emergency exit carry yer, you're
expected to help in case of an emergency and assist
in evacuation. That means listening carefully to the safety briefing.
When the flight attendant comes to you do.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That, Bill, You listen to the safety briefing.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I know it by heart.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Okay, good.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Second, listening to the demo can not emphasize this enough.
Listener to the demo, guys, please. And also, you have
to be physically and mentally capable to help and operate
the exit.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, I think the mental part is the issue.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Well, you're physically able, but you're not mentally prepared to
help anyone but yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He meets the whole criteria.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Listen, I'm willing to keep my hand on the lever
for the entire flight.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Right the door, I got it. Come, that's gonna swing open.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're going first.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You'll never see my ass again.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Think about how crazy this is.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We're in the way of everybody getting off the plane.
We're standing at the door.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
But you're supposed to stand there and help the other things.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
You're supposed to, Like if there's squeezing elderly woman, you're
supposed to hold her by the arm and get her
onto the slide.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Someone else can do that, Or a kid.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
What if a little kid.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You paid extra money to be first? Off?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Well, at least he's honest.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, okay, here's the requirements. Okay, you got to be
fifteen years old. Meet that criteria. Mobility you must have
full strength, dexterity, and mobility in both arms, hands, and legs.
You have all that?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I sit, they're practicing.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah. Comprehension. You must be able to read, understand, and
orally communicate instructions in English.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Okay, I can do that.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
And finally, independence you must be able to perform tasks
without the assistance of another person. So you meet all
of these what.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
How am I in a position to give instructions?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Like they never tell you what the instructions they do,
the saying to strangers, Hey, come on over here, No,
I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Bill. It doesn't mean just letting people help people off
the plane. It means people that to get their masks,
you know the demo that they give.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
That yes, this day, I don't know how that damn
mask is down. And I never pay attention to that
part I'm putting it on Like I always get confused
with the straps.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
There's always a strapped to pull. I can do the
life jacket.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, that's under the seat, right.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
But again, I'm not standing in a burning plane and
helping three hundred people off before I get off.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And I paid more than anyone else.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I'm paying extra for the right to want burn to
help people.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You got to help people.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Boy, this is not for you, Bill.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
No, my wife had to post a question. I've been
perplexed ever since.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I know he brought up this morning. He was like,
I can't step thinking about this wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I'm so concerned about it. I can't I have to
fly to the azeors this week.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Are you sitting in.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
That row.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Emergency?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You better hope there's not a real emergency.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I know is if there's a real emergency, I hope
I don't see Billy Costa anywhere near me because I
know I'm going down.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one O eight Studios.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We're back with Billy and Lisa in the market.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
So the Nola Khan talked back for tickets content is
going on right now. Noah Khan kicks off his four
sold out shows at Fenway tomorrow night. We have tickets
to give away via the talkback mike, So you gotta
be listening to the Kiss want to wait on the
iHeartRadio app. Leave but talkback. That's that red microphone button
and please your case. Why should we give you tickets
(17:19):
to see Noa Khan? Last minute? And that's gonna happen
all week long. There's four shows and we have tickets
to give away, so leave those talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I don't think it's a secret to anyone.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Lisa that on the Billion Lisa Morning Show, it's about
the music.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I mean, it's really always been about the music.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think Madonna had a quote that said just that
the Billion Lisa Morning Show. It's about the music. It's
always about the music. Okay, thank you, Bill and Justin
does his new music segment. We're always talking about songs,
breaking down songs, talking about the lyrics, and also.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Like behind the scenes here, like when we're in songs,
we sometimes sit here and like sing and dance to
like whatever we're playing.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, like a line like what good is booty if
the booty can't.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Find the beat? I think that got us really talking
about lyrics.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And last.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I've said that to my wife about a million times she's.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Walking by in the living roof.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
The bottom line is with music, there are always the lines,
one singular lyric that sticks with you, like.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
For instance, back that ass up. You know what I mean?
It never goes away. It's a classic.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That's Bills. That's a Bill thing. Just like saying.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
That that lyric No no, because it's just one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I remember we were at a company party.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Or something, one of our Christmas parties or kiss concert
preparty and.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They can't DJ came on with the song back that.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't even know if the song was called that,
it's called it is, Yeah, And Lisa and Matt Segal's
wife Mary Anne.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
We're backing that ass up on the dance floor. I'll
never forget that moment.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I missed that party.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I remember like it was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That songwriting right there. Well, a lot of people wonder
I get asked this question a lot is with the
music right working working at a radio station, do you
listen to the music when it's on? Do we listen
to the music? The answer is yeah, unless we're talking
and you know, discussing the show. Yeah, the music is on, Yeah,
we can hear it. And that's kind of how we
discovered the Booty find the beat for Bruno Mons. Yeah
(19:35):
like that. Now I have something that's gonna blow your mind.
Oh boy, talking about song lyrics. Okay, so you know
the on the Monster, Eminem and Rihanna, Yes, in the
in the chorus, there's a part. I'm gonna play it
for you right here. I'm gonna let me play it first,
and I'm gonna ask all three of you what you
think Rihanna is saying on this part of The Monster,
(19:55):
You're ready and you think I'm crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well that's not fair.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well that's not fair.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Producer Riley Yep, I agree, that's not fair.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That is incorrect. What she's not saying it saying. She's
saying it's nothing new. What I'll explain, BB Rexa wrote
that song for Rihanna, and BB actually explained everybody says
it wrong. She's not saying that.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
You think I'm crazy, Well, that's nothing new, and everybody
always thinks, well, that's not fair. It's not that's nothing
new because it's like, well that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Well that's nothing new, right, listen to it again, Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's nothing then?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, come on, come on man, do you hear it?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I thought it was the same until I heard that.
That's a mister.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
She's kind of saying, you ain't seen nothing yet. If
you think I'm crazy, that's nothing right and new?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Isn't that what she's using me?
Speaker 11 (21:09):
Bill, I'm well, that's nothing new, and everybody always thinks,
well that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It's not that's nothing new because it's like, well that's nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Who was that talking?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
There was Rexa who wrote the song.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That was nice the way she explained it.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I like that. Yeah, that's a misheard lyric, which is
kind of a separate topic, but still it's Those are
iconic lyrics. Another one is the Lady Gaga for what's
the name of the song? Oh god, just dance at
the beginning, like, what is she saying here?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
She's saying red wine, red Wine?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Right, but she's not High Morning crew. This is Liz
from Andover. I'm just calling to let you know that
Red One on Lady Gaga's song was actually the first
producer to pick up her music. He is a Swedish
Moroccan music producer and he had a label named Red One.
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So that's why she said that.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
At the beginning of it, she.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Shouts him out, red One.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I thought it was red Wine.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, it's Red One.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Okay, we know we're taking you behind the music. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Another one, which we've covered on this show is the
ludicrous line in the song. Yeah, Billy loves this one. Now,
that is songwriting.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
One day, we were listening in our headphones and I go.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, the same thing as the Bruno Mars. We were
just sitting here and it was playing.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And yeah, what good is booty boy? Can't find the beat?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yeah, there's a good one in home Wrecker, the new
somber song we're playing and it starts out you hit
me like a drunk cigarette to.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
The opening line, Yeah it is, yeah, and then there's
talk dirty to me.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Uh huh, Well we'll cover that when Darula comes in.
Here's another whole story.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know, every so often we hit on a story
and it comes out of nowhere and it becomes epic.
I don't know what got us started. I think my
wife Michelle turned to me the other night she says, hey,
you know how we always book extra legroom on a flight,
and typically not always, but most of the time. If
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you get your extra leg room, a lot of time,
it's the emergency row.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's the exit row.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Just before takeoff, a flight attendant will come over, okay
because there are emergency seats on the left and emergency
seats on the right, and she'll check with all six
people and you need to answer verbally. She'll say, are
you ready, willing and able to assist people in the
case of an emergency.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's required by the FAA. Mean, it's like, yeah, they
have to.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And all you do is sure.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You can't nod your head. You have to verbally say yes.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You need to verbally answer me.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So it got us to thinking, like, what exactly did
we sign up for every single time we fly because
what does that mean? And I've always assumed that I'm
not even kidding. They just wanted me to open the
door if there's an emergency. So I've always focused on
the door. But something hit me when I got home
last night. You're putting hundreds of people's lives in your
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hand if you're sitting at the door as I always do. Right,
shouldn't she at least demonstrate the door opening because there
are a lot of latches and leaving.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I don't think anyone sitting in this studio right now
would know how to open up the airplane door.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I think it says it on the latch regardless.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
I know, but during an emergency, are you really going
to be able to read the instructions?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
It's true, instantly in panic mode, you're gonna grab the
wrong latch or end up locking the door for life.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well what if there's smoke in the cockpit? Like, what
if you can't see it?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I don't know the fuselage, Bill says, right, I just
we talked about this yesterday. Billy was ranting about it,
saying he would save nobody. Maybe his wife, is what
he said. Maybe his wife in case of an emergency,
but our listeners pointed out that a very similar thing
happened in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiastic Yes, Ah,
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Larry David. Yes, So basically, Billy is Larry David.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I can't really siting by the emergency. Don't exit. I
think you better get someone else.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Okay, so we're about three minutes away from wheels up,
so you need to just stay put.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Understand, I can't be sitting here. If something happens, I can't.
We won't be able to get out.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Calm down, Okay, I cannot do it.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I will pat it, we will go down.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
All we need to know is that you're willing to
assist passengers in the event of a non traditional landing.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I cannot be of any help whatsoever in any kind
of non traditional landing or any traditional landing.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Did you read the brocher?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I can't read that, buchore. It's Chinese. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
It's just an expression, but I don't know you you
look maybe, I'm.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Sure is it the seat? Are you just scared to
find I.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Choke under pressure in any kind of game basketball, if
I was on the foul line.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And towards like the last five minutes of the game.
I would miss the entire rim.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
I coudn't even hit the rim because I was choking, choking.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Sir, how did I get you a drink?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Would like them along? So basically, Billy, you're Larry David.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah, basically I'm glad you played that because she says
a non traditional landing. Now, think about the level of
panic that's everybody on the plane goes into just by
getting up to get your overhead when the plane stops
at the hangar, right, Imagine if they come on and
they announce, excuse me, brace for impact, we're gonna have
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a non traditional landing. What level of panic do you
think is going to get into that plane? And now
you're opening the door and everybody's depending on you. I'm
gonna I'm afraid I'm gonna jam the door now like
nobody gets out.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It is funny, And all Billy wants is extra legrom Yeah,
that's all he wants.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And don't you pay extra for it?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You certainly do.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Then do you have this next level of responsibility that
I don't think anyone really wants?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
No, No, dude, you're Larry.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I am the immediate person connected to the emergency door.
Are they actually expecting me to help passengers off the
plane while it's on fire.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
There's no way on God's Earth that.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
I've volunteered to remain on the plane with the flames
going through the entire fuselage.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
I want to tell everybody I'm very capable of opening
the door.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I think I'll be one of the best door openers ever.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
But you need to know in advance. I'm the first one.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Off that plane, and I might let my wife go
fre You'll never see my ass again.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm paying extra for the right to burn.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You're on that slide first thing, like you're getting out
out of everyone else off.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Like a blur.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I actually said to Michelle last night, I said, Honey,
I actually think i'd let you go first.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, but you don't know until the moment comes. It's true,
that's when you will meet the real.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Self, Yes, the panic self.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, you don't know. You see how people get crazy.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Think about how crazy people get just at the gate,
before you even get down the ramp to the plane, right,
they're all standing right there at the flight attendant, and
yet it's not their time to go.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I just still don't understand why they're asking passengers to
take on this level of responsibility.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It's a big deal, it really is. I'm kind of
with Bill here, you.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Know, it's a stupid system.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Well, if God forbid something happens, you're right, the panic's
going to set in and then all that responsibility is
just on you.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Well, look, emergency happens, there's plenty a room for the
flight attendant to come down and open the door, although
everybody's going to be up and killing each other the
minute they cite an emergency, killing each other.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Well, there are three areas that you can't sit there
if you're under fifteen, or responsible for someone under fifteen,
not meeting the mobility requirements necessary, or you're not unable
to read, speak or understand English well enough to follow
the instructions.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Oh you meet all those requirements, Bill, Yes you do.
Speaker 12 (29:26):
Hey, it's Sarah from Maine and listening to Billy talk
about not wanting to help people if something happens to
the plane reminds me of the episode of Seinfeld where
George is at this kid's birthday party and there's smoke,
we start feeling fire fire, and he pushes everyone out
of the way as he runs out of the party
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ahead of all the women and children.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You need to.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
Play that clip because that is Billy. Billy is George Castanza.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well, Larry David is George Costanza. Yeah, that's based on
Larry David's very similar. But I remember that episode.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It was an inn.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
You've never seen the You've never seen the episode. George
is pushing after all the kids out of the way.
That's you, Bill.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, I'm just saying I don't need that response.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
They need to explain it more. What they're expecting of you. Again,
I always thought, sure, I'll open the door, whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Go away.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I think that's what everyone says. They just want to
be left alone.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
But now the flight attendant is putting a lot on
your plate.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yes, well, if anyone has an answer to this, we'd
love to hear it. Yeah, you can give us a
call right now eight seven seven six one seven one
one eight. That's eight seven seven six one seven one
one eight. Or you can leave a talk back and
tell us are you like Bill or would you be
a hero?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I'm not escorting people. We know that's well, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
We know.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
I don't care if you are ninety five years old.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
I am out of here.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
I'm over the top, like, yeah, yes, ma'am, I am
more than capable.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Now it's Topic Time with a Billy and Lisa in
the morning.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
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Speaker 1 (31:27):
So we got a hot topic.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
It started yesterday it continues to spill into the show
this morning. We're talking about when you're flying you want
the extra leg room, you end up in the emergency
row flight attendant comes up says are you okay physically
able to open the door or assist passengers.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
In the case of emergency?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
And I'm always in the emergency role, sitting at that door,
and I just don't know what they're really asking of me.
So we've got Dana on the phone and she's a
flight attendant.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Good morning, Dana, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
So what are our responsibilities when you come over?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And we have to verbally say yes, I got this.
Speaker 13 (32:07):
Okay, So we're basically asking you, are you willing and
able to open that door and assist passengers? Out in
case of an emergency. Here's the safety briefing card for
further instruction.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Okay, hold on, Dana, assist passengers. How you mean I
paid extra for the extra leg room and I'm last
one off the ship.
Speaker 13 (32:33):
You're not the last one. But you need to open
that door and start the evacuation. Okay, you need to
open it. There's not enough picture. Two hundred people on
the airplane and there's four flight attempts. We need your
help data.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
How easy is it to open up the door?
Speaker 13 (32:53):
If you read the right, there we go.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I told you, I told you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, But in a moment, it's a panic.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
You're not reading the car like it's First of all,
we got three people sitting in that row right. Hypothetically,
I'm at the door on the window seat. If if
I open the door, we're in the way. How are
we assisting people? They can't get through my aisle.
Speaker 13 (33:22):
Technically you're throwing the door open, and as the passengers
come down the aisle, you're gently helping them out the door.
We have a thing in the airline industry. Got my bag,
got my purse, get out of my way. I'm going first,
and I know that would be you billy.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
I okay, okay, I am at that door the minute
it cracks open.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
But what you're telling me is I'm spending extra money.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Stuck on the money thing.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well to be the last one to survive.
Speaker 13 (33:53):
We don't have to be the last one. But what
I've always found interesting, and you know we've brought this
up before and safety training, when you're sitting in the
exit row, you get pre cocktails, so the people that
are drink on the plane, well, extra legroom on the
airline I work for means you get free cocktails. So
basically we're feeding your alcohol and we're saying make sure
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you help with the responsibility.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
What that airline do you work for?
Speaker 4 (34:22):
You'll be drunk because no one's ever offered me a drink.
By the way, I get free on Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I agree that you've never been something.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
If we've ever purchased that ticket, you've never been offered
like if you're asking, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
So now you're drunk trying to open the door.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Exactly, That's what Dana is saying. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
At least you you'll go drunk, you just fall out.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
But if they're like if they're like, having you work
for the airline, wouldn't this seat be less money?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Like right now, I'm a first responder, Like Dana, still there.
Speaker 13 (34:54):
That there are other seats on the airplane that are
not next to the window, you know, like on Jet Blue,
they're like the first four or five rows. Yeah, a
really nice leg room. That's not my airline, but you
do not have to sit next to you they exit.
The problem is these people, when the plane is going down,
are going to be so concerned about their bags and
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personal items that when they get up, no one's getting
off the plane. Japan Airline, I think it was a
couple years ago, evacuated an airplane with like two hundred
and fifty people in ninety seconds. Okay, these people listen,
they know the planes on fire. The stupid Americans are
going to be grabbing their bag, getting their kids. Make
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sure they have the air pop.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, first of all, leave the bags.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Okay, the plane is on fire, you leave the bags.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Just get off the plane. Dana, I gotta tell you, Oh.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
By the way, you mentioned those first three or four
rows on Jet Blue. Do yourself a favor. Don't take
the first row. You think you're doing yourself a favor.
There's no leg room in the first row, and you
don't have a place to put your carry on.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Dane, I have one more question for you.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
How often do you have to move someone's seat if
they're in the exit row and they decline the opportunity
to help other people?
Speaker 13 (36:13):
You know, normally they shake their head. But you're right,
we do need a verbal yes, we need a verbal yes.
But I've had people in the exit row who are
under fifteen years old. You know, sometimes the agents make mistakes.
Absolutely not. We cannot have some ten year old sitting there.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
True.
Speaker 13 (36:29):
You can't have a person with you can't have a
person with a cane or you know, crutches, which has
happened before too. I said, we cannot sit you here.
I am so sorry, but we're going to find you
another seat. It has to be someone. I'll be honest.
When I'm doing the safety demo and putting my oxygen
mask on and showing you the safety card, I am
looking around trying to find the biggest guys on the
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airplane that are going to help me when we are
going down in a ball of slaves. Because at the
end of the day, people we act differently during emergencies,
they do.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
They act differently. Go they act differently.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
When the plane pulls up to the terminal, everybody's up.
They're killing each other to get their bag. So, but
let me ask you something. What do you think the
percentage of people that say, yes, I can handle this
in the emergency row. I'm telling you the strong percentage
they're out that door the minuted cracks open?
Speaker 13 (37:27):
Oh absolutely. Do you remember the flight in Denver where
they were all standing on the wing? You know, you
see all these people standing on the wing. They just
want to get out. You really have to think about it.
The plane's on fire. You don't want to go stand
on the wing. You want to go out the door
that has the best area for safety. Dan, Yeah, people
are crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Are you able to tell us where they are? Line
you're working? Because I'm totally into the free time.
Speaker 13 (37:52):
No, but I have been flying for twenty five years.
I'm very worst in all this. I would say about
half the people that sit there are not qualified. You
look at them. There is no way that eighty two
year old woman is opening the exit door and helping
all these people out. So you just hope for the best.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
But there's a little irony there that you're deputizing people
to be responsible for hundreds of lives on the plane
while you're.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Serving free drinks.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Development, that's development.
Speaker 14 (38:25):
YEA hold that pulled up. First of all, now you're saying, one,
you want me to be the last off the plane,
the first person with the responsibility to getting everyone off there.
Second of all, you're telling me you're gonna be feeding
me cocktails the whole time.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
So I'm supposed to be cocked in to open this door. Yeah,
you already know.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
I'm smashing the window and I'm flatting myself out.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, I'm gonna start working harder the gym
Wow, best morning show in Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Billy and Lisa in the morning. It's just a great
start to my day.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
On good morning everybody. Welcome to the Billion Lisa Show
on a Monday morning. I'm justin Billy Lisa, and we
are ready to get the show started, the big Monday
Show right, as Billy likes to say, don't forget it
is Noah Con week. His first show, first of four,
is tomorrow night at Fenway. We are giving away tickets
to the show. Is All you have to do is
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leave a talkback on the iHeart app when you hear
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to wait? You got to press the red microphone button
on the app and leave a talkback, leave a message
for us saying why you should be at the show,
and that's how you win. It's that easy. But I
want to start the show this morning, Billy and Lisa
(00:48):
with a question to both of you. I saw a
young kid in my neighborhood cutting grass for other people.
He was going around asking people if they wanted to
hire him to mow their grass. And there he was
with a lawnmower. He must have been I don't even know,
maybe fifteen sixteen years old, just crushing it. And it
got me thinking about summer jobs, some that I have had.
(01:09):
But what about you, Bill, Let's start with you. Any
crazy summer jobs. I have a couple I can throw in.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Okay, Yeah, I once had a summer job. You know,
historical Walden Pond and concert Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's famous, right, Walden Pond. Well, they had a summer program.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Where you could have a job. It's one of those
ones you had to know somebody or so, I don't know,
I still have them. So you would go there in
the morning and you worked the pond. You basically walked
through the woods of Walden Pond, cleaning up and picking
up and you know whatever, right do I strike? He
was a clean up and pick up guy. No, I mean,
I've got OCD when it comes to me, not so
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much otherwise.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So this became a no show job. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
A buddy of mine, Sal who ended up in the
mom went to Vegas. He was my next door neighbor.
He also had the summer job. He had a car
I didn't, so he would drive me to Walden Pond
at eight in the morning and a corvette and we
would go. We would sign in and leave for the
whole day and come back at four o'clock and sign up.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So would you pretend like you were in the woods
the whole day.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I never saw the link Walden Pond. I never even
show it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Dude, they never got. They never got.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The show came automatically every week. In fact, that was
the best way.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
When you go back Friday afternoon, check, sign in, and
then leave.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, it was a no show.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Lenny Clark had a no show at City Hall and
Camber if you want to put that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He's very public about it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
He was supposed to be a janet I he'd show
up and sign and then go back in the afternoon
and sign up.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I've heard about the no show jobs.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, and then I had the one at Industrial Steel Company.
It was a summer job when I was in college,
and I almost lost my arm. Remember I got stuck
in the giant droll press and it was pulling my
arm out of my body.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What I wouldn't give imagine.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'd be like still sleep like a sleeve with nothing
in it built. That was a summer job. Man never
went back after that day, I was like three four
weeks into the gig.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
They put me at this big machine. You're not a machine,
no training, Like instantly emergency sirens.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Are going off and I'm dangling from the machine. So anyway,
they're on my summer job.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well I had.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I I'm from Pennsylvania, So I cleaned condos one summer
in the Polkados at a resort. It was the most
disgusting job I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Now with these wealthy people or.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Just like like resort condos, like you'd go to like
you know, in the summer, what'd you find. It's disgusting,
Like people would just leave, like you know, like people
used to be into like talcum powder, remember like powder.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They would just leave powder everywhere, all over the bathroom
like it was.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Everywhere, and then like you'd have to clean like the
tub and that was so gross and it was so gross,
like I can't even believe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I did it, but I did it. And then I was.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Also like movie dirty dancing was the bolk Nose.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Maybe close by, but and then I was a lifeguard
at the same resort. Oh yes, So I'd take off
my cleaning clothes and I put my bathing suit on
you sure?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Did any boy ever pretend they were drowning so they'd
get multiple sand lot?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
No they did not, No, they did not.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I ended up just like sitting on the you know,
the little thing and twirling my whistle.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
As yeah, with the whistle.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah, I would twirl the whistle because there was nothing
going on.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Right, wait, so you never had to save anything.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I never had to do anything. I would just literally
just sit there twirling.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The whistle with the bathing suit red.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, it was a little what's that little cross looking thing?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, life guard symbol. There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I was always at the ready. I was like prepared,
but nothing ever happened.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, Well when you go to like places that have
a lazy river and you know, into a water parks
like Great Wolf Lodge, the lifeguards walk ferociously around.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Well that because you could lose a kid that place.
I remember to wax there like five boys. I was
scared to death that one of them would drown. Like
I was literally like panicked. Yeah we'd lose one.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
They should do a good job and they get pay
yeah too, always whistling.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Did you have a summer job justin see everybody's going
and it always has a story.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's like historical that you have a bad.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Summer job all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah. Yeah, So, I mean I've shared this before, but
you know, my mom, my mom's best friend worked for
the health department. So when I was twelve years old,
I looked older than I was, So they asked me
to go out with them and go to convenience.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Stores or any stores that sell cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And they'd pull up and I'd walk in and try
to buy a pack of cigarettes. And if they sold
them to it to me, the kid. I'd go out,
and then she would go in and she'd write them
a citation.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You were a snitch.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, that was my first job.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh wow, of all people, you were a snitch.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I mean, I paid fifty for a couple of hours.
Why wouldn't I?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I didn't care. I was twelve years old. Were you
gigantic at that time?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I wasn't like fat fat, but I was a bigger
kid and I looked older. Yeah, which is it's ironic
because then I ended up going into a life of
you know, crime, like crime. Yeah, And I ended up
feeling bad because some of these stores were like mom
and pop stores, bodegas. So I go in and be like,
can I have a pack of mab borroough? Most, I'd
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say ninety percent said can I see idsus? Some of
them were like.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And they slipped through there you go Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I'd walk out and then she'd walk in with a
thousand dollars fine or whatever it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Was, Oh boy, which could shut them down. Pause. Like
a lot of those people they didn't have a thousand
dollars to throw away.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I mean, dude, it's illegal to sell cigarettes to a kid,
especially a twelve year old, right, I mean I didn't
look eighteen. I meant it might have looked fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Did you ever buy liquor for kids standing outside?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No? But I used to. We used to wait for
other people to buy liquor for us all the time.
Excuse me, can you buy us a case of beer?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh my god, yeah I did that once. You bought it?
Are you not?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, I was gonna say you didn't buy it for kids?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, I had a baby face. Really, I wasn't fooling anyone.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay, did you have fake id's?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't remember. Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Used to buy fake id's at the Mystic Mall and
Chelsea twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Five buy them there.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Ye, not anymore, it's not there anymore, but there was
a little booth where you could buy fake id's twenty
five bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Wow. Yeah, summer jobs are awesome. You know why could
you never forget them? No?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You were really hard to Yeah, producer, I was telling
me about hers off all.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Well, I worked three summers at Canny Lake Park in
my hometown of Sown in Hampshire. We go this is
this is a really great summer job because I worked
operating rides. But my very first day there was fourth
of July and it was hot as heck and I
sweat through the shorts that I was wearing because they
were like a light khaki and it literally looks like
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I pet my pants on my very first day. And
we had a red polo that was tucked into the shorts.
You couldn't wear it untucked, so there was no way
to hide the fact that I was sweating. Oh my where,
oh boy, like down my legs.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Every I'll never forget it.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
No great job, but like that first day, I was like,
I can never come.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Back, so I need to ask.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So so, with no experience whatsoever, they would have you
operate a ride.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Well, there was a lot of training. Actually, I'm like
your job where you had no training.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, if you saw this machine I was almost maimed,
you wouldn't. I never went back. I didn't even go
get my check.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I mean that's telling not to hey, I have nightmares
about it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one o eight Studios, we're
back with the Villy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
My wife, Michelle, and I walked in the news last
night and there were kind of a couple of airline
news stories are to have a buzz, right, because you've
got the flight of seventeen Americans.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Flying to Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
From the cruise line that had the virus outbreak, the
rat virus outbreak. So that's an airline story, right. They
landed in Nebraska this morning and they're being quarantined now.
So there's one story.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And the other story that was in the news was
the guy that climbed the fence.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
And was walking across the runway and got hit by
a passenger jet sucked up into the turbine. So now
we're thinking airlines, right. We're sitting there watching the news,
two airline related stories in a row, and my wife
turns to me and she says, hey, you know how
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we always when we fly, we tend to get extra
leg room if it's available, and very often the extra
leg room puts us in the emergency row. Okay, And
I always fly next to the window. That's where I
like to be. I like to look down as we're
taking off, And so that means that I am the
(09:49):
immediate person connected to the emergency door. And it's a
big thing because before the plane takes off, the flight attendant,
it's their job. They have to come over and get
a verbal response from you. They'll say, just need to
ask you are you ready and willing to assist passengers
(10:10):
in the case.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Of an emergency? And of course you say yes, right,
And all of a sudden, what right? Because what Chelle said,
what does that mean? Like does that mean? I always
thought it was?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Am I ready to open the door in the case
of emergency? And then the inflatable slide goes out, right.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And then off you go.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
But we're wondering, are they actually expecting me to help
passengers off the plane while it's on fire.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
That's a good question because that seat generally you pay
for so right, right, and then they ask you for
money right.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So they ask you these questions like are you prepared
to do this?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
And of course you say yes because you don't want
your seat to be moved.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But are they asking you if you're prepared to die?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I have an answer here if you like it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What's the answer, bill?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Passenger seated and emergency exit rows are acquired by federal
regulations to assist flight crews during an evacuation. By accepting
these seats, you agree to perform specific physical duties what
help guide other passengers to safety.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Now okay, hold on, now you need to picture this going.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
We're in a row where I'm at the window, Michelle
is to my right, and there's another passenger to her right,
so there are three of us when and if I
open the door, which I'm perfectly willing to. Okay, but
that's it. We well, we're in the way of passengers desperate.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
To get off the burning plane.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
So it makes no sense to me because there's no
way on God's Earth that I've volunteered to remain on
the plane with the flames going for the entire fuselage.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's not what I agreed to. First of all, I
paid extra.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
So there's saying I'm paying extra to risk my life
for those I've never met in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Basically, but Lisa, he did agree to do that. When
you say yes verbally, by the way.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I thought it meant open the door. Now I'm always
looking every time I get on board. I read the
thing against it, okay, and that lever needs to come
down and that one needs to come across.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So I know how to open the door.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
But i want to tell everybody, Okay, if you happen
to be on board the flight with me and I'm
in the emergency row, yes, I'm very capable of opening
the door. I think I'll be one of the best
door openers ever. Right, I'm prepared to open the door,
but you need to know in advance. I'm the first
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one off that plane. I might let my wife go first.
It depends on the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, there's assisting for Bill.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Bill's going down the slide.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'll probably grab Michelle's arm and we'll both slide down
together and then we're just run lives.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'm never looking back.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Because Billy thinks that he's like getting out of your way,
so he's doing you a favor.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
In Africa, he left his wife behind. There was an
animal possible animal attack that was about to happen in
the safari and he ran away and left.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Had a live show once.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I remember there were some cows that were charging the
live show like area.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You guys got out of there before all of our
listeners did.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The cows got spooked we're in a tent, started charging us, and.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I climbed over people like everybody, like children. I was
out out.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Oh god, Let's see what this fight attendant has to
say about this.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
If you're seated in an emergency exit carry yer, you're
expected to help in case of an emergency and assist
in evacuation. That means listening carefully to the safety briefing.
When the flight attendant comes to you do.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That, Bill, You listen to the safety briefing.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I know it by heart.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Okay, good.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Second, listening to the demo can not emphasize this enough.
Listener to the demo, guys, please. And also, you have
to be physically and mentally capable to help and operate
the exit.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, I think the mental part is the issue.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Well, you're physically able, but you're not mentally prepared to
help anyone but yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He meets the whole criteria.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Listen, I'm willing to keep my hand on the lever
for the entire flight.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Right the door, I got it. Come, that's gonna swing open.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're going first.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You'll never see my ass again.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Think about how crazy this is.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We're in the way of everybody getting off the plane.
We're standing at the door.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
But you're supposed to stand there and help the other things.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
You're supposed to, Like if there's squeezing elderly woman, you're
supposed to hold her by the arm and get her
onto the slide.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Someone else can do that, Or a kid.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
What if a little kid.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You paid extra money to be first? Off?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Well, at least he's honest.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, okay, here's the requirements. Okay, you got to be
fifteen years old. Meet that criteria. Mobility you must have
full strength, dexterity, and mobility in both arms, hands, and legs.
You have all that?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I sit, they're practicing.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah. Comprehension. You must be able to read, understand, and
orally communicate instructions in English.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Okay, I can do that.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
And finally, independence you must be able to perform tasks
without the assistance of another person. So you meet all
of these what.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
How am I in a position to give instructions?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Like they never tell you what the instructions they do,
the saying to strangers, Hey, come on over here, No,
I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Bill. It doesn't mean just letting people help people off
the plane. It means people that to get their masks,
you know the demo that they give.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
That yes, this day, I don't know how that damn
mask is down. And I never pay attention to that
part I'm putting it on Like I always get confused
with the straps.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
There's always a strapped to pull. I can do the
life jacket.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, that's under the seat, right.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
But again, I'm not standing in a burning plane and
helping three hundred people off before I get off.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And I paid more than anyone else.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I'm paying extra for the right to want burn to
help people.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You got to help people.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Boy, this is not for you, Bill.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
No, my wife had to post a question. I've been
perplexed ever since.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I know he brought up this morning. He was like,
I can't step thinking about this wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I'm so concerned about it. I can't I have to
fly to the azeors this week.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Are you sitting in.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
That row.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Emergency?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You better hope there's not a real emergency.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I know is if there's a real emergency, I hope
I don't see Billy Costa anywhere near me because I
know I'm going down.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
From the Planet Fitness Kiss one O eight Studios.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We're back with Billy and Lisa in the market.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
So the Nola Khan talked back for tickets content is
going on right now. Noah Khan kicks off his four
sold out shows at Fenway tomorrow night. We have tickets
to give away via the talkback mike, So you gotta
be listening to the Kiss want to wait on the
iHeartRadio app. Leave but talkback. That's that red microphone button
and please your case. Why should we give you tickets
(17:19):
to see Noa Khan? Last minute? And that's gonna happen
all week long. There's four shows and we have tickets
to give away, so leave those talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I don't think it's a secret to anyone.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Lisa that on the Billion Lisa Morning Show, it's about
the music.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I mean, it's really always been about the music.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think Madonna had a quote that said just that
the Billion Lisa Morning Show. It's about the music. It's
always about the music. Okay, thank you, Bill and Justin
does his new music segment. We're always talking about songs,
breaking down songs, talking about the lyrics, and also.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Like behind the scenes here, like when we're in songs,
we sometimes sit here and like sing and dance to
like whatever we're playing.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, like a line like what good is booty if
the booty can't.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Find the beat? I think that got us really talking
about lyrics.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And last.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I've said that to my wife about a million times she's.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Walking by in the living roof.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
The bottom line is with music, there are always the lines,
one singular lyric that sticks with you, like.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
For instance, back that ass up. You know what I mean?
It never goes away. It's a classic.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That's Bills. That's a Bill thing. Just like saying.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
That that lyric No no, because it's just one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I remember we were at a company party.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Or something, one of our Christmas parties or kiss concert
preparty and.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They can't DJ came on with the song back that.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't even know if the song was called that,
it's called it is, Yeah, And Lisa and Matt Segal's
wife Mary Anne.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
We're backing that ass up on the dance floor. I'll
never forget that moment.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I missed that party.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I remember like it was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That songwriting right there. Well, a lot of people wonder
I get asked this question a lot is with the
music right working working at a radio station, do you
listen to the music when it's on? Do we listen
to the music? The answer is yeah, unless we're talking
and you know, discussing the show. Yeah, the music is on, Yeah,
we can hear it. And that's kind of how we
discovered the Booty find the beat for Bruno Mons. Yeah
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like that. Now I have something that's gonna blow your mind.
Oh boy, talking about song lyrics. Okay, so you know
the on the Monster, Eminem and Rihanna, Yes, in the
in the chorus, there's a part. I'm gonna play it
for you right here. I'm gonna let me play it first,
and I'm gonna ask all three of you what you
think Rihanna is saying on this part of The Monster,
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You're ready and you think I'm crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well that's not fair.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well that's not fair.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Producer Riley Yep, I agree, that's not fair.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That is incorrect. What she's not saying it saying. She's
saying it's nothing new. What I'll explain, BB Rexa wrote
that song for Rihanna, and BB actually explained everybody says
it wrong. She's not saying that.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
You think I'm crazy, Well, that's nothing new, and everybody
always thinks, well, that's not fair. It's not that's nothing
new because it's like, well that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Well that's nothing new, right, listen to it again, Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's nothing then?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, come on, come on man, do you hear it?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I thought it was the same until I heard that.
That's a mister.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
She's kind of saying, you ain't seen nothing yet. If
you think I'm crazy, that's nothing right and new?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Isn't that what she's using me?
Speaker 11 (21:09):
Bill, I'm well, that's nothing new, and everybody always thinks,
well that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It's not that's nothing new because it's like, well that's nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Who was that talking?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
There was Rexa who wrote the song.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That was nice the way she explained it.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I like that. Yeah, that's a misheard lyric, which is
kind of a separate topic, but still it's Those are
iconic lyrics. Another one is the Lady Gaga for what's
the name of the song? Oh god, just dance at
the beginning, like, what is she saying here?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
She's saying red wine, red Wine?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Right, but she's not High Morning crew. This is Liz
from Andover. I'm just calling to let you know that
Red One on Lady Gaga's song was actually the first
producer to pick up her music. He is a Swedish
Moroccan music producer and he had a label named Red One.
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So that's why she said that.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
At the beginning of it, she.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Shouts him out, red One.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I thought it was red Wine.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, it's Red One.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Okay, we know we're taking you behind the music. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Another one, which we've covered on this show is the
ludicrous line in the song. Yeah, Billy loves this one. Now,
that is songwriting.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
One day, we were listening in our headphones and I go.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, the same thing as the Bruno Mars. We were
just sitting here and it was playing.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And yeah, what good is booty boy? Can't find the beat?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yeah, there's a good one in home Wrecker, the new
somber song we're playing and it starts out you hit
me like a drunk cigarette to.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
The opening line, Yeah it is, yeah, and then there's
talk dirty to me.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Uh huh, Well we'll cover that when Darula comes in.
Here's another whole story.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know, every so often we hit on a story
and it comes out of nowhere and it becomes epic.
I don't know what got us started. I think my
wife Michelle turned to me the other night she says, hey,
you know how we always book extra legroom on a flight,
and typically not always, but most of the time. If
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you get your extra leg room, a lot of time,
it's the emergency row.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's the exit row.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Just before takeoff, a flight attendant will come over, okay
because there are emergency seats on the left and emergency
seats on the right, and she'll check with all six
people and you need to answer verbally. She'll say, are
you ready, willing and able to assist people in the
case of an emergency.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's required by the FAA. Mean, it's like, yeah, they
have to.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And all you do is sure.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You can't nod your head. You have to verbally say yes.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You need to verbally answer me.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So it got us to thinking, like, what exactly did
we sign up for every single time we fly because
what does that mean? And I've always assumed that I'm
not even kidding. They just wanted me to open the
door if there's an emergency. So I've always focused on
the door. But something hit me when I got home
last night. You're putting hundreds of people's lives in your
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hand if you're sitting at the door as I always do. Right,
shouldn't she at least demonstrate the door opening because there
are a lot of latches and leaving.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I don't think anyone sitting in this studio right now
would know how to open up the airplane door.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I think it says it on the latch regardless.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
I know, but during an emergency, are you really going
to be able to read the instructions?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
It's true, instantly in panic mode, you're gonna grab the
wrong latch or end up locking the door for life.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well what if there's smoke in the cockpit? Like, what
if you can't see it?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I don't know the fuselage, Bill says, right, I just
we talked about this yesterday. Billy was ranting about it,
saying he would save nobody. Maybe his wife, is what
he said. Maybe his wife in case of an emergency,
but our listeners pointed out that a very similar thing
happened in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiastic Yes, Ah,
(25:28):
Larry David. Yes, So basically, Billy is Larry David.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I can't really siting by the emergency. Don't exit. I
think you better get someone else.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Okay, so we're about three minutes away from wheels up,
so you need to just stay put.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Understand, I can't be sitting here. If something happens, I can't.
We won't be able to get out.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Calm down, Okay, I cannot do it.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I will pat it, we will go down.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
All we need to know is that you're willing to
assist passengers in the event of a non traditional landing.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I cannot be of any help whatsoever in any kind
of non traditional landing or any traditional landing.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Did you read the brocher?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I can't read that, buchore. It's Chinese. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
It's just an expression, but I don't know you you
look maybe, I'm.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Sure is it the seat? Are you just scared to
find I.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Choke under pressure in any kind of game basketball, if
I was on the foul line.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And towards like the last five minutes of the game.
I would miss the entire rim.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
I coudn't even hit the rim because I was choking, choking.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Sir, how did I get you a drink?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Would like them along? So basically, Billy, you're Larry David.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah, basically I'm glad you played that because she says
a non traditional landing. Now, think about the level of
panic that's everybody on the plane goes into just by
getting up to get your overhead when the plane stops
at the hangar, right, Imagine if they come on and
they announce, excuse me, brace for impact, we're gonna have
(26:46):
a non traditional landing. What level of panic do you
think is going to get into that plane? And now
you're opening the door and everybody's depending on you. I'm
gonna I'm afraid I'm gonna jam the door now like
nobody gets out.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It is funny, And all Billy wants is extra legrom Yeah,
that's all he wants.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And don't you pay extra for it?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You certainly do.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Then do you have this next level of responsibility that
I don't think anyone really wants?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
No, No, dude, you're Larry.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I am the immediate person connected to the emergency door.
Are they actually expecting me to help passengers off the
plane while it's on fire.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
There's no way on God's Earth that.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
I've volunteered to remain on the plane with the flames
going through the entire fuselage.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
I want to tell everybody I'm very capable of opening
the door.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I think I'll be one of the best door openers ever.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
But you need to know in advance. I'm the first one.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Off that plane, and I might let my wife go
fre You'll never see my ass again.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm paying extra for the right to burn.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You're on that slide first thing, like you're getting out
out of everyone else off.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Like a blur.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I actually said to Michelle last night, I said, Honey,
I actually think i'd let you go first.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, but you don't know until the moment comes. It's true,
that's when you will meet the real.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Self, Yes, the panic self.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, you don't know. You see how people get crazy.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Think about how crazy people get just at the gate,
before you even get down the ramp to the plane, right,
they're all standing right there at the flight attendant, and
yet it's not their time to go.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I just still don't understand why they're asking passengers to
take on this level of responsibility.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It's a big deal, it really is. I'm kind of
with Bill here, you.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Know, it's a stupid system.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Well, if God forbid something happens, you're right, the panic's
going to set in and then all that responsibility is
just on you.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Well, look, emergency happens, there's plenty a room for the
flight attendant to come down and open the door, although
everybody's going to be up and killing each other the
minute they cite an emergency, killing each other.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Well, there are three areas that you can't sit there
if you're under fifteen, or responsible for someone under fifteen,
not meeting the mobility requirements necessary, or you're not unable
to read, speak or understand English well enough to follow
the instructions.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Oh you meet all those requirements, Bill, Yes you do.
Speaker 12 (29:26):
Hey, it's Sarah from Maine and listening to Billy talk
about not wanting to help people if something happens to
the plane reminds me of the episode of Seinfeld where
George is at this kid's birthday party and there's smoke,
we start feeling fire fire, and he pushes everyone out
of the way as he runs out of the party
(29:47):
ahead of all the women and children.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You need to.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
Play that clip because that is Billy. Billy is George Castanza.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well, Larry David is George Costanza. Yeah, that's based on
Larry David's very similar. But I remember that episode.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It was an inn.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
You've never seen the You've never seen the episode. George
is pushing after all the kids out of the way.
That's you, Bill.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, I'm just saying I don't need that response.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
They need to explain it more. What they're expecting of you. Again,
I always thought, sure, I'll open the door, whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Go away.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I think that's what everyone says. They just want to
be left alone.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
But now the flight attendant is putting a lot on
your plate.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yes, well, if anyone has an answer to this, we'd
love to hear it. Yeah, you can give us a
call right now eight seven seven six one seven one
one eight. That's eight seven seven six one seven one
one eight. Or you can leave a talk back and
tell us are you like Bill or would you be
a hero?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I'm not escorting people. We know that's well, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
We know.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
I don't care if you are ninety five years old.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
I am out of here.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
I'm over the top, like, yeah, yes, ma'am, I am
more than capable.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Now it's Topic Time with a Billy and Lisa in
the morning.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Topic Time presented by a Catches Law Group, New England's
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Speaker 1 (31:27):
So we got a hot topic.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
It started yesterday it continues to spill into the show
this morning. We're talking about when you're flying you want
the extra leg room, you end up in the emergency
row flight attendant comes up says are you okay physically
able to open the door or assist passengers.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
In the case of emergency?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
And I'm always in the emergency role, sitting at that door,
and I just don't know what they're really asking of me.
So we've got Dana on the phone and she's a
flight attendant.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Good morning, Dana, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
So what are our responsibilities when you come over?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And we have to verbally say yes, I got this.
Speaker 13 (32:07):
Okay, So we're basically asking you, are you willing and
able to open that door and assist passengers? Out in
case of an emergency. Here's the safety briefing card for
further instruction.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Okay, hold on, Dana, assist passengers. How you mean I
paid extra for the extra leg room and I'm last
one off the ship.
Speaker 13 (32:33):
You're not the last one. But you need to open
that door and start the evacuation. Okay, you need to
open it. There's not enough picture. Two hundred people on
the airplane and there's four flight attempts. We need your
help data.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
How easy is it to open up the door?
Speaker 13 (32:53):
If you read the right, there we go.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I told you, I told you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, But in a moment, it's a panic.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
You're not reading the car like it's First of all,
we got three people sitting in that row right. Hypothetically,
I'm at the door on the window seat. If if
I open the door, we're in the way. How are
we assisting people? They can't get through my aisle.
Speaker 13 (33:22):
Technically you're throwing the door open, and as the passengers
come down the aisle, you're gently helping them out the door.
We have a thing in the airline industry. Got my bag,
got my purse, get out of my way. I'm going first,
and I know that would be you billy.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
I okay, okay, I am at that door the minute
it cracks open.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
But what you're telling me is I'm spending extra money.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Stuck on the money thing.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well to be the last one to survive.
Speaker 13 (33:53):
We don't have to be the last one. But what
I've always found interesting, and you know we've brought this
up before and safety training, when you're sitting in the
exit row, you get pre cocktails, so the people that
are drink on the plane, well, extra legroom on the
airline I work for means you get free cocktails. So
basically we're feeding your alcohol and we're saying make sure
(34:16):
you help with the responsibility.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
What that airline do you work for?
Speaker 4 (34:22):
You'll be drunk because no one's ever offered me a drink.
By the way, I get free on Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I agree that you've never been something.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
If we've ever purchased that ticket, you've never been offered
like if you're asking, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
So now you're drunk trying to open the door.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Exactly, That's what Dana is saying. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
At least you you'll go drunk, you just fall out.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
But if they're like if they're like, having you work
for the airline, wouldn't this seat be less money?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Like right now, I'm a first responder, Like Dana, still there.
Speaker 13 (34:54):
That there are other seats on the airplane that are
not next to the window, you know, like on Jet Blue,
they're like the first four or five rows. Yeah, a
really nice leg room. That's not my airline, but you
do not have to sit next to you they exit.
The problem is these people, when the plane is going down,
are going to be so concerned about their bags and
(35:14):
personal items that when they get up, no one's getting
off the plane. Japan Airline, I think it was a
couple years ago, evacuated an airplane with like two hundred
and fifty people in ninety seconds. Okay, these people listen,
they know the planes on fire. The stupid Americans are
going to be grabbing their bag, getting their kids. Make
(35:36):
sure they have the air pop.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, first of all, leave the bags.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Okay, the plane is on fire, you leave the bags.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Just get off the plane. Dana, I gotta tell you, Oh.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
By the way, you mentioned those first three or four
rows on Jet Blue. Do yourself a favor. Don't take
the first row. You think you're doing yourself a favor.
There's no leg room in the first row, and you
don't have a place to put your carry on.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Dane, I have one more question for you.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
How often do you have to move someone's seat if
they're in the exit row and they decline the opportunity
to help other people?
Speaker 13 (36:13):
You know, normally they shake their head. But you're right,
we do need a verbal yes, we need a verbal yes.
But I've had people in the exit row who are
under fifteen years old. You know, sometimes the agents make mistakes.
Absolutely not. We cannot have some ten year old sitting there.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
True.
Speaker 13 (36:29):
You can't have a person with you can't have a
person with a cane or you know, crutches, which has
happened before too. I said, we cannot sit you here.
I am so sorry, but we're going to find you
another seat. It has to be someone. I'll be honest.
When I'm doing the safety demo and putting my oxygen
mask on and showing you the safety card, I am
looking around trying to find the biggest guys on the
(36:52):
airplane that are going to help me when we are
going down in a ball of slaves. Because at the
end of the day, people we act differently during emergencies,
they do.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
They act differently. Go they act differently.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
When the plane pulls up to the terminal, everybody's up.
They're killing each other to get their bag. So, but
let me ask you something. What do you think the
percentage of people that say, yes, I can handle this
in the emergency row. I'm telling you the strong percentage
they're out that door the minuted cracks open?
Speaker 13 (37:27):
Oh absolutely. Do you remember the flight in Denver where
they were all standing on the wing? You know, you
see all these people standing on the wing. They just
want to get out. You really have to think about it.
The plane's on fire. You don't want to go stand
on the wing. You want to go out the door
that has the best area for safety. Dan, Yeah, people
are crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Are you able to tell us where they are? Line
you're working? Because I'm totally into the free time.
Speaker 13 (37:52):
No, but I have been flying for twenty five years.
I'm very worst in all this. I would say about
half the people that sit there are not qualified. You
look at them. There is no way that eighty two
year old woman is opening the exit door and helping
all these people out. So you just hope for the best.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
But there's a little irony there that you're deputizing people
to be responsible for hundreds of lives on the plane
while you're.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Serving free drinks.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Development, that's development.
Speaker 14 (38:25):
YEA hold that pulled up. First of all, now you're saying, one,
you want me to be the last off the plane,
the first person with the responsibility to getting everyone off there.
Second of all, you're telling me you're gonna be feeding
me cocktails the whole time.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
So I'm supposed to be cocked in to open this door. Yeah,
you already know.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
I'm smashing the window and I'm flatting myself out.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, I'm gonna start working harder the gym
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