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Speaker 1 (00:00):
See now Billy and Lee's top twenty five moments of
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay, they say, here we go. We do this every year.
We take a look back at the year and choose
what we think were the twenty five hottest, biggest moments
of the year.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the show.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Yes, I love doing this because we had so many moments,
but these are the most special ones.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
So you remember Joey McIntyre of the New Kids. He
decided he wanted to do a solo tour. So he
called me one day said, Billy, I'm hoping you can
help me out the solo tour. I'm on the tour
of the country, possibly the world by myself.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Any chance we can drop by the studio and.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
Talk about it.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
So he came into the studio and we got to
talk about a.

Speaker 6 (00:41):
Bunch of different things, including his brand new single, and
we played a little prank. Well, I played a little
bit of a prank on Joey McIntyre, which he might
still be mad at me about.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Really, I don't remember the prank.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
Well you're gonna remember right now. Number twenty five.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Joey McIntyre, what's up, I'm home. You certainly have officially home.

Speaker 7 (01:02):
I'm on the on the air with you, Billy, and.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
A lot of people don't realize this, but you still
have a home here in Massachusetts. Are we allowed to
say where?

Speaker 8 (01:14):
Whatever?

Speaker 7 (01:14):
I'm not too precious about it.

Speaker 9 (01:16):
It's uh, it's it's where the Pilgrims first. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I uh. Donnie found a place there years ago, and
then I stayed at his place, and then I discovered
it because growing up in JP.

Speaker 7 (01:33):
You know, it was like, yeah, Plymouth on the way
to on the way to.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
The cage, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Who stays at Plymouth?

Speaker 8 (01:39):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:40):
But everybody does not.

Speaker 7 (01:42):
Yeah, it's a it's a it's a gem, and it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
And and now do you have like blockheads gathering outside
the house?

Speaker 10 (01:49):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:49):
I might, yeah, the shoes, you know, he's home. Everybody
scret out. No, it's nice.

Speaker 9 (01:55):
I mean, I think, you know, as as our amazing
you know, it's hard to call them fans because they're
family at this point with us for so long. But
you know, fame or whatever the hell you call it is,
is that a good place because I get to do
what I love to do and people aren't sitting outside
my house, you know, so it's a it's a it's

(02:17):
a sweet thing.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
And you're launching a solo project, which has to be terrifying.

Speaker 9 (02:24):
Well, I enjoy. I enjoy the spotlight, I think. So
I'm not afraid of, you know, not sharing the spotlight.
But I think, you know, throughout the years, you know,
making my own music is important. I mean, I have
this beautiful, amazing ride called Nukas on the Block or
you know, and it's such a part of me and

(02:45):
the five of us are so lucky and obviously this
town has done nothing but embrace us all these years.
But you know, to have my own thing and to
carve my own path and have my autonomy is very
very important, so I can balance that. So my new
album Freedom, it's just like something that was important to do,
and to make a whole album is a big commitment.
But I did it and it's exciting to be out

(03:07):
and and share it.

Speaker 7 (03:09):
And yeah, so here I am.

Speaker 8 (03:11):
Well.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
The first single off the album is called Freedom. We
have a clip here. Wow, it's like a giant production. Yeah. No,
I want to get to the bottom of something.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Justin is the executive producer of this radio program.

Speaker 8 (03:35):
No just that.

Speaker 7 (03:36):
No, I listen. To know me is to love me.

Speaker 9 (03:38):
But I heard a clip of you guys so graciously
playing the record, but it was sped up a little bit,
you know what I mean? And I was I was
wondering if if if I was hearing things. So you
just didn't think the original tempo was fast.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I think if I think that your imagination, because if
it was sped up, Justin would have had to speed
it up.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, you know we're going to launch an investigation. You know,
I got people we're gonna get sued for off during
your product.

Speaker 9 (04:06):
I got people, you know, on both sides of the
law that are going.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
To take a look Justin.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Did we speed it up?

Speaker 6 (04:12):
Well, it is radio and everything.

Speaker 11 (04:15):
I'm not crazy because he does another thing.

Speaker 9 (04:17):
I'm the crazy I'm the crazy artist who you know?
You know, Yes, it goes over everything with the fine.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
No, it's not like we were looking at I should
be very grateful that he even put it on the cliff. No,
we weren't looking a safe time. Yeah. I think it
just worked better for the format. Okay, I think that's
what we did, right, Justin?

Speaker 7 (04:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, it wasn't fascinough.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay, It's not a bad idea to take criticism once
in a while.

Speaker 9 (04:45):
You're the superstar in the world sign of an adult
and I'm trying to get there.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
But so I gotta ask you, because when Kendrick Lamar
did the Super Bowl halftime a couple of weeks ago,
somehow it was announced that the New Kids on the
Blog did the very first pop super Bowl halftime show?
Is that true?

Speaker 7 (05:06):
They're they're giving us credit for that.

Speaker 9 (05:09):
I think we were the first act to be like
the guest act at the Super Bowl. Obviously they always had,
you know, performances, but yes, we were the first pop
back to perform at the Super Bowl in ninety I
guess it was ninety one earlier.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Whitney Houston, that was That was when Whitney Houston is
that she's saying.

Speaker 11 (05:27):
I think it was bro it was.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
It was a long time ago, the best anthem of
all time.

Speaker 9 (05:36):
I'm yes, I remember that anthem, but I know the
amber being Yeah, it was, I mean, that was not
so time, but we were literally, you know, that was
like Taylor Swift Lever level.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Game, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, you guys, at one point, what was it like
being on the Super Bowl stage.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
I don't remember forgot, you know what for Super Bowl.

Speaker 9 (06:00):
When we looked at it, I mean, are you we
were we were still at the time it was we
were still you know, I think teenagers at the at
the height of it was Mickey, it was us and
like Disney. So you got to remember we were like teenagers.
So did we want to be dancing along you know,
Mickey and many not necessarily?

Speaker 7 (06:20):
Would it be the performance we would do now?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
No, but wait a minute.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
You performed with Mickey and Minnie?

Speaker 9 (06:27):
Yeah a minute, Yeah it was.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
It was.

Speaker 7 (06:35):
Yeah, so it was. It had a Disney flare too.

Speaker 9 (06:38):
And again even though we were you know, we had
a huge following of the Disney generation or demo.

Speaker 7 (06:47):
It was, yeah, it was.

Speaker 9 (06:48):
It was at a time where again it was there
was a lot going on.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
I think.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Here with Mickey and Minny, you guys have to be
excited some big ceremonies here today.

Speaker 8 (06:59):
Oh yeah, just.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
So I was before the New Kids, how well is that?

Speaker 8 (07:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (07:07):
Yeah, But I traveled the world with you guys. I
did part of Scotland. I remember us came over to
Scotland too. You went, you know, international with us.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, like they had me in People magazine as the
guy with new kids, and I thought it sounded a
little creepy. Yeah, but but it was quite a trip. No,
it was good. I do remember this.

Speaker 12 (07:35):
You didn't die, No, I swear maybe a little, you
know the hair, Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I remember when
you got When we arrived in you know, England, in Scotland,
it was like the arrival of the Beatles for the
first time to America.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I mean, tens of thousands of people at the airport.
And did you ever fear for your life?

Speaker 7 (07:58):
I think once in Korea.

Speaker 9 (08:00):
We came into Korea once and the authorities didn't want
to believe us that it was going to be crazy,
and literally we had to get just picture like any
baggage claim area with like four thousand screaming people wanting.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
To get at you. And yeah there was there was
from time to time.

Speaker 9 (08:18):
It was a little crazy, but you know, we were
teenagers with lots of energy.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
So you and I everybody were staying at the hotel
right there in downtown Edinburgh, Scotland, and there were constantly
thousands of fans outside the hotel. Yeah, you had to
go on a special entrance. It was great, but it
must have been nice.

Speaker 9 (08:36):
I guess, you know, back then, I don't know how
they found out about everything, but like there was just
one place. So instead of I guess social media where
you're all over the world, there was when they found out.
Everybody went to that one place, you know what I mean,
the hotel, the car, whatever it was.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
And yeah it was you know that.

Speaker 9 (08:58):
What makes it sweet is that you know, we still
have what we have with our fans and and you know,
so we can look back at that madness but still
enjoy what we have and still get to act like
teenagers and rock stars.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
But everything in between is a little bit more and
more chill now.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
And now you have a Vegas residency. Is that started June?

Speaker 7 (09:19):
That starts June.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
We at the Dolby Theater, the MGM Theater, and we're
just starting to gear up.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
You know.

Speaker 9 (09:26):
It's to have all the bells and whistles and sit
down at a theater like that and create a show.
I mean, we'd love to to create something different every time,
and we've been able to have fun and pull it
off and surprise our fans, and to do that in
Vegas is going to be amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
If I was a pop star, I can't imagine anything
better than a Vegas residency. You don't have to go anywhere,
you don't have to get on a tour bus or
an airplane, you don't have to set up and break down.
You just take the elevator down right.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
To that point.

Speaker 9 (09:56):
Our last tour this summer, we almost died, so we
learned we hadn't done outside shows and forever. It was
literally like ninety five degrees on the stage across America,
like every night, and you know, of course our fans
were hanging in there with us, but we were drenched
every night. So to go to one place, like you said,
with air conditioning, it's it's gonna be nice. But I

(10:19):
can't believe we still had something on the table. You know,
Las Vegas was still on the table. We've been able
to do so many things and mix it up, and
we're very, very excited, So it's going to be good.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Were you really eleven years old when you're saying, please
don't go, girl, No, I was fourteen when I when
I recorded it. Just take you back right, let's go,
don't sweat it up.

Speaker 8 (10:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
That's Billy and Lisa's top twenty five moments of twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Kids, what we so at least we have this guy
Matt Sure that works down the hall a WBZ. He
does a fabulous job with his social media. He has
he's great stories, beautiful editing, funny stories, entertaining story. But
he came in one day with a guest.

Speaker 11 (11:03):
He did.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
This is a guest Richard aka Maria Christina False Eyelashes,
who by the way, works like three jobs, two of
which are at the South Shore Plaza my mall.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
So shre tracked him down to tracked him down.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
Yeah, so he did a video on this guy and
then no, the video wasn't about him. He was in
the video. And then there was such a demand from
people to get a full video on Richard. Yeah, and
so he did and it went super viral, and that's
why we had them in. Remember Richard Maria Christina False
Eyelashes aka joke only number twenty three.

Speaker 13 (11:35):
Remember Richard aka Maria Castina falls Eyelashes Levinki servin touch
but totally destroyed.

Speaker 14 (11:40):
I met him over the summer where he was working
at the mall, and the internet fell in love. But
as we quickly learned, Maria Christina false Eyelashes hadn't seen
the drag stage in thirty years.

Speaker 15 (11:55):
For two main reasons. One Richard's dad disapproved, and two
he had to work three jobs.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
To put his niece and nephew through school.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Do you have a social life?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
No on in the mall?

Speaker 13 (12:04):
First I don't know where, and then second, nobody invite me.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay, So that video got four million views in its match.
Here our buddy who works right down the hall at
WBZ News Radio.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
How did you find Richard Matt?

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, so this was an amazing story.

Speaker 15 (12:24):
So I do this series where I show up in
random towns around Massachusetts and try to find something cool,
zero prep. It's sort of people have called it unhinged chronicle.
That's what I do.

Speaker 8 (12:33):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
So I show up and just find whoever I meet
on the street.

Speaker 15 (12:37):
And I had met this amazing woman, Trina, who said
she was going to take me shopping at the mall.
We went to the South Shore Plaza and there at
Air Apostle was this guy, Richard who is cracking jokes
and ending every single joke with joke only that that's
his catchphrase.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
And and so that was a very small part of
that video, but it took off.

Speaker 15 (12:58):
People were watching, like, I need more of this guy.
Who is this guy? So I met with Richard again.
We did a whole profile as you just heard. I
found out from that interview that he had never had
a night out since moving here to the US because
he was working three jobs to put his niece and
nephew through school. So we took him for a night
at Jacques Cabaret, the drag club in Boston, of course,

(13:18):
and the drag queens fell in love with him too,
and they said, you got to come.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Perform for us.

Speaker 15 (13:22):
Because Richard had this whole drag persna back in the
Philippines that he had to put behind. His dad wasn't
super into the whole drag thing, so he kind of,
you know, left that bag, but like he wanted to
bring that back, and the queens wanted to make that happen.
So just last week we had Richard at two drag
brunches and Maynard absolutely packed house at this humongous venue.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Hundreds of people.

Speaker 15 (13:45):
Drove all the way from New Hampshire and Rhode Island
to come out and see the return of Maria Christina
false eyelashes and Richard or.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Maria Christino Welcome to the billion Lisa Morning Show field.
This is your first time ever in a radio studio.

Speaker 13 (14:00):
This is my first time.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, I got to tell you something.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
So when Matt met you at Arab hostel, that's only
one of three jobs you currently work, right, Yeah, and
you do it to support your niece and nephew in
the Philippines.

Speaker 13 (14:14):
In the Philippines because I fail of them is on
callage and then the other one is high school. So
I need to support them like a monthly for their
tuition fee and sending money and of course uh for
their food, for their you know, for books and everything uniforms.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
This is when was the last time you yourself was
in the Philippines.

Speaker 13 (14:39):
So I was like two years ago that was in
the Philippines.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
So by way of this video with Matt, who, by
the way, you do an incredible job.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Matt, thanks, incredible job.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I understand you're getting some offers from some big time people.

Speaker 10 (14:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't want to blow your cover here.

Speaker 15 (14:55):
I'm just saying it doesn't get bigger than billions in
the morning.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Come back.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
So, Richard, how are your niece and nephew doing.

Speaker 13 (15:05):
They're doing They're doing good. Actually, the two of them
already graduated last June. One is magna cum laude and
the other one is cum claude. Yeah, and then yeah,
and then I have two more so from from preschool
to elementary to high school and college. And the one
who support them for their school wow, because I need

(15:27):
to give them, you know, a better life in the
near future.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
So, so when you did the drag brunches, the two
or three drive brunches, were you paid?

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Uh? Yeah, Jackson, the mail.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
I'm taking the mail.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
So will you continue doing it now or can you?
Because you're working three sometimes for jobs.

Speaker 13 (15:48):
I love to and I like it, but the thing is,
first I don't drive, and then I need to produce
all those gowns, dresses, weeks and makeups is not Yeah,
it's not cheap.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
So I saw the video of you performing. Where did
all those?

Speaker 13 (16:07):
So actually all of those I got sponsored from Matt
of course.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
He's the most connected man.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
By the way.

Speaker 15 (16:16):
We got to give us some credits.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Is he ready?

Speaker 15 (16:19):
She's a local drag performer and icon who brought the
whole wardrobe and did your whole makeup thing all for free.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
She woke up like super early in.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
The morning to come do it too, which was amazing.

Speaker 13 (16:28):
But he's the one who talked to them, so too easy.
And Chanel show me describe Richard.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Is it okay if I call you Richard?

Speaker 13 (16:36):
Yeah, okay, you can call me Richard Maria what okay?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Describe what it felt like taking the stage?

Speaker 13 (16:45):
Ah, taking the stage first of all, and so nervous.
So that's why the first word I say is welcome.

Speaker 16 (16:53):
To waldmart nervously wartb Yeah, I'd like to work one
might before but they didn't call.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
They haven't called yet.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
No, okay, all.

Speaker 13 (17:09):
Right, so I want to uh to see the faces
of you know, the the audience, like laughing. That is
my nervous So before I started to sing or make jokes.
So I always say making jokes even in the in
the store, you know, in all my friends.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
But to be clear, if if people listening would like
to meet you, You've got three jobs in the same block.
You're in the South sial Mall. Where where are the
three jobs?

Speaker 13 (17:37):
So my first job is in I work from home
from mass General Brighams. I work in the building and
the collateral.

Speaker 11 (17:47):
It's really very nice though, right yeah.

Speaker 13 (17:50):
So I worked there for almost like thirteen years.

Speaker 7 (17:53):
Okay, yeah.

Speaker 13 (17:55):
And then the second is in air Postal in South
Shore Mall.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
That be where you met Matt.

Speaker 13 (18:01):
Yeah. So I met Matt when he asked me, what's
your name by day by night.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Because you work around the clock.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah. But that's the thing though, was like, I never
heard that before. He's like, by day, I'm Richard Lunar
and by.

Speaker 13 (18:14):
Night it's Maria Carisino. Faull's eyel actual has never been kissed,
never been touched, but totally destroyed.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Have you really never been never been touched? Never mind forget?
But you also work at Express?

Speaker 13 (18:30):
Yeah, I work in Express two days.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
So people probably came into these stores, walk right by
you and didn't know you were a big star.

Speaker 13 (18:37):
Now I'm shy they're asking, oh, Maria, Maria I saw,
and then mister Joe only that's what they call me
sometimes and take pictures. I'm shy because I'm not used
to it. But I'm very thankful to them because you know,
they search effort to come to the shore see me.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
So now, Matt. A lot of famous people reached down
after seeing the video, right.

Speaker 15 (18:59):
Yeah, it's kind of insane just watching like Chrissy Tigue
and Kelly Osbourne Cassie, like all these huge names liking
the posts and stuff, and some of them even following
to me too, like half the cast of SNL from
the nineties, like I actually Rachel, Rachel.

Speaker 10 (19:17):
For real?

Speaker 5 (19:17):
I remember? Yes, yeah, and so it's cool.

Speaker 15 (19:23):
And then a certain big, huge TV talk show host
has also reached out about possibly having Richard on.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Can I say who, Yeah, go for it, Kelly Clarkson Show. Yeah, Richard,
you don't watch TV, right, so you're not familiar with Kelly.
I'm telling you the best thing you can do. I
wish I could go on the Kelly clarks so much
fun by far, she's got the best daytime talk show
and she's such a tremendous talent.

Speaker 13 (19:47):
I hope, I pray.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (19:49):
Yeah, it's weirding the way the whole process works. Like
he had to send like an audition tape. They're like, oh,
you like your viral video, now film another one and
send it to us.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
What did that?

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:57):
I know, I think Richard. Start a drive go fund
me for Richard. Let's send him to the Kelly Clarkson Show.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Kelly clar.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Now that's Billy and Lisa's Top twenty five moments of
twenty twenty five on.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Kids, What do We?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Jui said, it's kind of strange having a morning show
because we're in here very early and very often most
days we do have live guests coming in studio, and
we're always wondering are they gonna make it on time?

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Do they allow for morning show traffic? Things like that?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
And Darryl from DMC was in town and was scheduled
to come.

Speaker 11 (20:33):
In exactly so run DMC.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Darryl came in hot and he brought in his new
cookie line and also shared some amazing moments about how
they made Walk This Way with aerosmath.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Andy was late number twenty two.

Speaker 11 (20:47):
Come on here we are.

Speaker 10 (20:49):
Hi must Let's fire baby, rocket time.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Let's go.

Speaker 10 (21:00):
Daryl.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 5 (21:01):
What're you doing good? What's that name? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Poor Stone?

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Look at you with your ac D see all day.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
By the way, I don't think I ever said this
to another man face to face.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Daryl Man, you are jacked.

Speaker 13 (21:17):
I am.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, you're looking good.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
I feel good.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, I feel good.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
I eat a lot of cookies.

Speaker 11 (21:23):
Yeah, you just hand it as d MC coolest cookies
in the universe.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Daryl makes cookies. That's for DMC stamps. Also, that is
so cool. Coolest cookies in a universe.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Now, is it a healthy cookie?

Speaker 10 (21:37):
I mean, yes, it's a regular cookie, but it's no preservatives.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Oh yeah, I'm not saying.

Speaker 10 (21:42):
This because they might.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
They're the best tasting cookies ever.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Can I read? The comment on the back is that, Okay,
I'm always involved with doing things around families, children, communities,
and just like my music, cookies connected us all and
that couldn't be more.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
They really do.

Speaker 11 (22:02):
They make everyone happy.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Mind coffee.

Speaker 11 (22:07):
Packaging too, to say we're going to have.

Speaker 10 (22:10):
Vegan gluten free to a protein cooking gems.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Don't feel the need to bring the vegan ones in.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Okay, great, giving me your honest.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oh it's loaded with chocolate chilly. Oh yeah, you're not
cutting corners on the loaded damn good cook.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
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Speaker 2 (22:35):
Endorsement, It definitely is.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
I'm get this out.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
From November to January.

Speaker 10 (22:42):
First, from during the holidays only from November to January. First,
we have the Christmas in Hollis Christmas cookie. This is
sugar cookie.

Speaker 11 (22:54):
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Speaker 10 (22:55):
To d m C ed Ashcookies dot com and I'm
also on Amazon right, non.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Lyon right, really good.

Speaker 10 (23:04):
I eat like eight pecks.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, if you're bringing a.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Coffee with you, I mean it is the morning all.

Speaker 10 (23:09):
Well, actually have Daryl makes coffee too, order it from
Able plays coffee in Montclan.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
DMG.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yeah, makes coffee, down mixing cookies. Have a common company.

Speaker 10 (23:23):
I do comic books that do all a comic cond
downs comics. I'm gonna do down mixed chocolate.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, I got a lot going on d
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Speaker 2 (23:31):
Darl You know that would be something else you bring
any more?

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Yeah, we got some more. Everybody say that this okay?

Speaker 10 (23:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah? And graduate music.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Okay, that's the congratulations. You got the key to the
City of Boston yesterday.

Speaker 10 (23:49):
Yes, it was really cool for a really good reason.
Working with Tony V Yeah from Boston, Woody G from
Boston in a good friend of mine, Simon Kirk from
Free and Bad Company. We're doing a musical about sobriety

(24:11):
and recovery an addiction.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, and you've got an event tonight.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I tell people where to go, but it's already sold out.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Of course, can tell him anyway.

Speaker 10 (24:19):
They can't come and stand out sun and we might let.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Him well, I know you partner with our buddy Ernie
Mark Jr.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
And have you been to this place?

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Noticed? My first time.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Our showroom is where it's happening.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, it's like a city of classic car It's really beautiful.

Speaker 10 (24:38):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
I got another idea.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Me and Ernie b is going to do Daryl makes
Call the Go. I'm going to get that. I just
want okay us three.

Speaker 10 (24:48):
Wow, we're going to put out a car way better
than Tesla's Adele and bm W combined.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Daryl Makes Cars. You know you didn't mention Tommy Hamilton
from Tom Harrilsmith, my friend from Errol's nice guy.

Speaker 10 (25:03):
Oo. We changed the world when run DMC did Walk
this Way.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
We got it for you right here.

Speaker 10 (25:10):
Let me shut out the tom the bomb melting.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah, those guys are so so cool.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
And take us back to that moment when that was
all put together between you and Era.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
It was groundbreaking. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (25:27):
Originally me and Running Chay was just gonna steal I
mean sample, He's just.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Gonna steal I mean sample them music. Yeah, and it
was gonna be their music.

Speaker 10 (25:37):
You know, the drums and the guitar in a loop
and me and Ron was gonna be rhyming because it
was eighty We came out in eighty three, so it's
eighty six, now eighty four. We did rock Box. See
Walk this Way wasn't the first rock rap record.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
It's a tongue twister.

Speaker 10 (25:53):
The first rock rap record was rock Box, which was
the first rap video on MTV four. Then in eighty
five we did an album called The King of Rock.
We did a video for MTV with Larry Budd Melman,
Oh yeah him shit at the front door of a
rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum that didn't even

(26:14):
exist yet because it didn't start till eighty six. And
remember Larry Budd was, you guys can't come in here,
this is a rock and roll museum.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
And then we went in a ruined Larry Mudd.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Now yeah.

Speaker 10 (26:25):
So then on we was gonna sample their music, and
I remember that it was gonna be there being I
would be like, I'm DMC in a place to be
been roming on a mic since eighty three.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
I'm the best MC in history. They will never be
in MC better than me.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
And then Run was supposed to going out DJ run
here to get it done.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Typical run the MC stuff.

Speaker 10 (26:46):
We was working with a producer named Rick Rubin, O time, Yeah,
and Rick Coles.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
You know how Rick talks, Hey, guys, you should do
the wreck it over.

Speaker 10 (26:56):
So Me and Run was thinking from a limited hip
hop PERSPECTI we're gonna sample it, We're gonna rhyme on it.
But Rick said, no, do it over the way the
band originally did it. So at first Me and Run
was again said jam Master.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Jay rest in peace.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
He was like, Yo, that's a great idea.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Whatever whatever.

Speaker 10 (27:13):
So while Me and Run was learning the song the
way Aerosmith easily did it, Rick did something phenomenal. He
called Boston when Aerosmith was here. You know, I take
compound working on that album with dude looks like a
lady you. They was already doing it, but there was
no way for them to come back. Like my joke is,

(27:35):
they could have made a record with God, Jesus and
Moses and nobody would have cared. So Rick caused them
and says this, Hey, guys, my name is Rick Rubin,
I know you know who Run DMC is. We want
to do your record over? Do you want to do it?
So they was like, what, who's this?

Speaker 5 (27:51):
My name is Rick.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Rubh and I know you know who run DMC is.

Speaker 10 (27:55):
We want to do your radio and Steve and Joe
and the bed was say.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yo, so where we love?

Speaker 3 (28:00):
What did you and Arrowsmith perform it together live?

Speaker 5 (28:04):
The first time? Oh?

Speaker 10 (28:07):
Man, I don't even remember, yeah, but I remember his
hip to add to that, so they was with it.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
It was cool.

Speaker 10 (28:15):
But Rick did something else phenomenal. He put us in
the studio with him together now. And the reason why
this is important is, you know hip hop didn't create anything,
It recreated everything.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
So the typical mode.

Speaker 10 (28:29):
Of operation was to sample somebody's else's music and rhyme
over it. So Rick said, no, dude, to record over
the way they did it. But it was brilliant that
Rick put us with them because put it like this,
the version your heir, would it just the virgin your
hand now wouldn't have been that virgin.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
It would have just been met Me and Ryan.

Speaker 10 (28:49):
Doing it and we would be sitting here just going, oh,
I remember your sample that respect, But the fact that
we did.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
It with them.

Speaker 10 (28:57):
I've been around the world everywhere since eighty six.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
I could go to somewhere I've never been Tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (29:03):
If people say this DMC don't you know when Steven
Tyler took that Mike's stand and knocked down that wall
that was separating.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Middle in the video, it didn't just happen in the video.
That happened in the world.

Speaker 10 (29:13):
So by us coming together to you know you was
channel surfit. Oh yeah, like, what the hell is Aerosmith
doing with RUNDIOC and our fans who you know? We
know rock beats from Sampo's and all the music we stole.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
When they got on MTV, they was like, what.

Speaker 10 (29:28):
The hell is rundi MC doing with the Rolling Stone?

Speaker 8 (29:30):
There you go?

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now, ma's to Billy and Lisa's top twenty five romans
of twenty twenty five on Kids One Way.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Hey, ay, so welcome back.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
We're sitting here counting down the twenty five.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
But what we thought were the twenty five best or
biggest moments on The Billy and Lisa Show for the
year twenty At twenty five and Lisa, we're always really
focused on Justin's home life because well, you know, he's
got young children.

Speaker 11 (29:57):
And stuff happens with young chill.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Yeah, young children, leaves and credit cards.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yes, your son Abel wrapped up your credit card.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
And I never got the money back. So this is
a PSA for all parents out there.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
Be careful number twenty.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
One, justin you've got a story you want to talk about.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
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 used for pretty
much everything for the miles, yeah, you know, Capital 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.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
Right.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
Oh, So I open it up and I'm looking and
I see all these charges on them.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
Again.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Okay, 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 chargers that are pending, like
six of them, and it says Xbox.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Oh it's your son.

Speaker 11 (30:52):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
So then I'm like, I'm confused, and I start to
scroll down a little bit to pryor 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 they're trying to help me, they can't figure

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it out. Was a whole thing. Turns out he was
my card. I had put on his game for a
ten dollars subscription so he could play like with his friends.
And so that means when he goes to buy they're
called v bucks on fort night.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yeah, he just he just was just buying.

Speaker 8 (31:29):
Them that much.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah how much were you talking here?

Speaker 5 (31:32):
I really don't want to say.

Speaker 11 (31:33):
Say it was it like a thousand dollars around them?

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Yeah, it's parent.

Speaker 11 (31:42):
Are they going to reverse some of the.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Charges they will not?

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Wow, you know I never used to.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Yeah, here's the best part. 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 8 (31:58):
He didn't.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
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

(32:19):
wallet and he takes out the two dollars wallet and
he goes here, Dad.

Speaker 11 (32:26):
I like that he gave you everything he had.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
That's the whole two bucks.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
So it's just a warning for parents out there if
they play video games, don't have your card on there.

Speaker 11 (32:36):
Yeah, the same thing happened to us a long yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Also a heads up check your transactions because last year
I've never really looked at transactions a lot, and last
year I happened to look, and I think it was
my MX card and there were like thirty to forty
Uber chargers in a row, like like a string of
Uber chargers, thousands of dollars and it wasn't me, and
it was all in San Francisco, and I'm like, I
guess that must be what office, And you know, I called.

(33:03):
All I did was call AMEX. Luckily it was the
Annex card and they wiped it out. That's the good news.
But the bad news I saw it on my credit report.
So I still got hit on my credit report because
of Uber falsely or like crookedly charging.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Me b bucks fortnite thousand evens. There was it was around there.
It was, you know, twenty five dollars. It was averaging
about one hundred dollars the day, a day, going back,
you know, several days.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Oh god, well, I'm glad you caught it.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Luckily I looked. So that's the PSA for today. Make
sure you check your transfer, can pull the plug on it.

Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
I took my card off and he was very understanding
of that.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, did you keep the two bucks?

Speaker 6 (33:43):
I gave him the two bucks.

Speaker 10 (33:45):
Dad.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Now back to billion Lisa's top twenty five moments of
twenty twenty five on Kiss one O eight.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Pay guys, welcome in, and we have a special moment
of twenty twenty five. It's when Jay Shetty called in
from the j Shetty Podcast. He was doing a show
in Boston is on purpose tour. But the backstory of
how we got Jay was that he and Mel Robbins,
who did My book Club, share the same publicist in
La so I got to know her publicist, and then

(34:16):
her publicist, Nicole called me and said, Hey, Jay would
love to come on the show to promote his tour
stop in Boston.

Speaker 11 (34:23):
So we had a great conversation, right Billy.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Absolutely, And by the way, it was in the middle
of a world tour and decided to drop by the
Billion Lisa Show number twenty, Jay Sheddy, good to have
you on the show.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
This is so cool.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Global bestselling author, award winning podcast host, chief Purpose Officer
of Calm, purpose driven entrepreneur, fifty million followers, and you
finally made it to the billion Lisa Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
This officially put you over the top.

Speaker 8 (34:49):
Jay, I'm so great to meet you both. Thanks for
having me.

Speaker 11 (34:53):
Well, we're happy you're coming to Boston.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
So what can people expect, you know, with your on
Purpose tour when you come to the Box Center, you're
saying there are going to be some surprise guests.

Speaker 8 (35:02):
Yes, I'm so excited. I'm going to be bringing my
podcast for a live in person experience. I'll be interviewing
a very special guest for the audience. We'll be doing
a Q and A session so people can ask me questions,
the audience questions. I'll be leading us all in a
meditation and so it's going to be a truly memorable
evening and I can't wait for people to come out.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Can you tell us who these surprise people might be.

Speaker 8 (35:25):
Jay, it might be coming out shortly, we may it's
definitely someone who's known for being in Boston. Let's say that.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Ah, But then again, if you told us it wouldn't
be a surprise guest anymore.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
What did Jake?

Speaker 8 (35:35):
Exactly exactly? But I promise it'll be worth it.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I got to tell you, Jay, there's so many people
I've told over the past week that Lisa and I
were going to be talking to Jay Sheddy.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
They were overwhelmed.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Their immediate reaction was, Oh, my god, I love him
so much.

Speaker 8 (35:49):
Oh I love that. That makes me so happy, and
send my love to them.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Please, I shall, I shall. Now I'm looking at a
long list of other major celebrities that you've had on,
everybody from Kobe Bryant to j Lo, will Smith, Solena Gomez,
and Benny Blanco. I thought was a wonderful, wonderful interview Jay.

Speaker 8 (36:08):
Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, they're the best. It
was incredible to have such a beautiful conversation with both
of them. And it was amazing to see people all
over the internet talk about positive masculinity and healthy love.
And I think it's made everyone hopeful to find real
love again, which is beautiful.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Jay, You've been producing content for like ten years. You've
been helping people navigate this crazy world that we live in.
Why do you think people are craving all of these
types of conversations.

Speaker 8 (36:36):
I think lives, just if we're honest's got harder for everyone.
It's difficult. It's challenging, whether that be work, whether it
be outside of work, whether it be family. I think
people have more stress in their lives. People are busier,
they have less help, and so I think it's a
time when people are really seeking and I think also
at the same time, there's a great appetite for wanting
to build habits and improve their lives and improve their

(36:59):
sleep and improve the quality of their relationships, which, by
the way, I believe are all good things because if
we make a difference when things are easy and things
are a bit better for us, then things become better
for us in the long term. So I think it's
amazing that people are opening up to all of these ideas,
whether it's through podcast, books, live events, and everything else.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Jane, let me ask you this, these are crazy times
right now. We keep hearing the word seeing the word anxiety.
People are very anxious. They're very nervous between inflation and
tariffs and the cost of things for your house, for
your home, for your family. If we were in a
session right now and we were telling you we were anxious,

(37:41):
we were freaked out, what would you tell us?

Speaker 8 (37:44):
The first thing I'd say is that's normal, and that's natural.
It's not a weakness. It's normal right now to feel anxiety.
It's natural to feel anxiety, and I think we need
to stop feeling like there's something wrong with us. If
we feel it, we almost think there's some glitch, or
there's some mistake we made, or that it's not meant

(38:04):
to happen. I think that's what's meant to happen. If
things are uncertain, we will feel anxiety. What I would
say is that in times of uncertainty, we often look
for certainty to feel stable. But instead of looking for certainty,
we should look for service. Look for opportunities to help
someone else, look for opportunities to make someone else's day.

(38:25):
Sometimes you'll relieve your anxiety quicker by trying to help
someone else than you will by trying to solve your own.
And so I think we will find a lot more
meaning and a lot more connection if we help others
more than even trying to solve our own anxiety.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
I know that you talk a lot about the practice
of meditation, and I keep telling Billy that he needs.

Speaker 11 (38:43):
To meditate, But why should we all be doing it?

Speaker 8 (38:48):
Well, I think it's because of what we just spoke about.
There's such a newfound, you know, origination of stress through
so many things, whether it's you wake up in the
morning and you spill your coffee, or you know, you
get to work and you're already fifteen minutes late because
of the traffic, or you get to a meeting and
you realize there's a task that's been incomplete. I think

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there's so many moments in the day that creates trust.
So what we need is a practice that helps us
balance that out. We need a practice to bring us
back into feeling centered, and meditation does just that. So
what I often recommend to people is, if you're feeling stressed,
you're feeling like you're out of alignment today, breed out
for longer than you breathe in. So breathe in for

(39:28):
accounterfeit all and breed out for more than four If
you exhale for longer than you inhale. It relaxes your
body and mind. Again, when your breath gets shallow and
your breath gets quicker, you want to deepen it and
slow it down.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
That's what I've been doing wrong. I'm breathing in.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
The wrong direction.

Speaker 11 (39:45):
You're a shallow breather.

Speaker 10 (39:48):
Jay.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
If you don't mind, I want to read a couple
of your quotes and have you elaborate on you.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
If you don't mind, I love this one.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
The longer you stay on the wrong train, the more
expensive it is to get home.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Please elaborate.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
Yes, I shared that the other day. It's not one
of mine. It's someone that I shared earlier this week.
But no, I love that quote. It's I think for
so many of us we feel we maybe got on
the wrong job, or for so many of us, we
feel we got into the wrong relationship. And I think
a lot of us are scared of leaving something that
feels bad because we're scared of the unknown. But the

(40:23):
reality is, if we stay on that train for too long,
if we stay in that relationship for too long, with
that job for too long, it actually becomes harder to
find our way back. So it's never too late. To quit.
It's never too late to pause. It's never too late
to stop. It's important to do that as soon as
you feel you can. So I try to encourage people
to not put this pressure on themselves to push something

(40:45):
or force something to work if it's not serving them.

Speaker 11 (40:47):
Do you have a favorite book?

Speaker 4 (40:48):
I know you have two books out, but do you
have a favorite book that you always go back to?

Speaker 8 (40:52):
Oh that's a great question. One of my favorite books
of all time is probably Thinking Fast and Slow by
Daniel Carman. It's a brilliant, brilliant book, really breaks down
how the mind works, how the mind tricks us, how
our thoughts work. I love that book.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Jay, you spent three years as among you were meditating
eight hours a day, and then you realize there are
a lot of similarities between that world and the digital world.

Speaker 8 (41:19):
How so well I found the connection between what I
was learning and I was thinking, Wow, this would really
help people that I grew up with, and you know,
my generation and then every generation that's now living in
the digital world. I find that if you're living in
a constant digital landscape with a screen in front of you,
having practices and habits that allow you to detox and

(41:40):
disconnect or even more important, and so I'm grateful that
I've now been able to feed the fruits of that labor,
because you know, just around ten years ago it is
just an idea, and now I've seen the impact of it.
It gives me even more confidence that these tools that
are thousands of years old are actually so practical and impactful.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Still meditating eight hours a day, are you, Jane?

Speaker 8 (42:02):
Not even close?

Speaker 5 (42:03):
Not even close.

Speaker 8 (42:05):
It's nowhere near. I don't think I could. Uh, I
don't think I could hack that with my with my schedule,
but I do go back to the monastery every January
with my wife to do that. So we do go
back and start a yeah there, which is one of
our favorite things to do.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
Every time your name comes up, Jay, everyone says, oh,
my God, I love him so much, But they also say, God,
he has the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen.

Speaker 11 (42:27):
Do you hear how many times a day do you
hear that?

Speaker 8 (42:30):
I hear it often. I'm very grateful for it, but
I can't take any credit for them, because I didn't
do anything for them. So it's it's one of those
Cat twenty two situations where yeah, it's like what do
you do when you didn't end them or take credit
for them? So yeah, I'm grateful.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
So they're not contacts.

Speaker 8 (42:47):
Definitely, definitely, No, I am kidding you.

Speaker 10 (42:53):
Jay.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
I know you're I know you're coming to Boston.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Have you been here much?

Speaker 8 (42:58):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (42:59):
I have?

Speaker 8 (42:59):
Yeah, I actual performed at the Wang Theater I believe
two years ago as well. So I've been before. I've
told it before. I've always loved coming to Boston and
excited to be there again soon.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
So how can people find you? You're here May fifteenth?
Where should they go to get tickets?

Speaker 8 (43:13):
Yes, I'll be at the Wane Theaters in May fifteenth.
Head to Jay Chetti dot me forward slash Tour tickets.
It's Jay Sheetty dot me Forward slash Tour and the.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Wing Center Wane Theater rather is a beautiful venue. As
you know, you've done it before, which is why you're
coming back and doing it again.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Jay.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
We can't thank you enough for giving us the time.
I know you're really busy. Oh my god, fifteenth, can
you give up a few of your followers send them
our way on just fifty million, Jay, I love it now.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Mack to Billy and Lisa's top twenty five Moments of
twenty twenty five on Kids.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
What We So, here's the deal when you're doing a
live morning radio show traffically, so who knows better than
you was always a factor.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
On the show, always it changing. And there was a
story that happened live one morning about steroid party bus
that got stuck and people were listening, and this woman's
party planner was listening to the show and.

Speaker 11 (44:09):
Had the bride call in.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
And if you don't know exactly what star Rod means.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Here in the Boston area, Storro Drive has a bunch
of overpasses, and if you're driving a truck or a bus,
you have to be very aware of how much height
you have for your truck or a bus.

Speaker 11 (44:27):
And this one didn't.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
He messed up Number nineteen.

Speaker 17 (44:30):
Well, a bride and a groom had a pretty good
laugh about a minor wedding day mishappened Boston recently, and
of course it was all caught on camera. The newly
weds and the wedding party were riding a party bus
interception with the bus got stuck under a low overpass
on the city's store Drive. The groovesman his expression, they're
set at all and that's so common in Boston. There's

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actually a name for it.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
It's called getting Store Road.

Speaker 17 (44:56):
The couple says that the miner bumping the road is
a true sign there me to be together.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
We have the bride on the phone. Her name is
Vartny and she's calling in from Watertown. Good morning, Vartny,
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
This is so funny.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
So we're talking about the story and you were listening
and what do you know there you are.

Speaker 18 (45:15):
Well, I actually happened. I wasn't listening. My planner was listening.
Shout out to Taylor from Charlestown, who also listens to
your show and loves you. So Taylor called me and
she's like, you need to call them immediately.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Vartany how dare you not be listening to this morning show?

Speaker 5 (45:32):
How dare you?

Speaker 18 (45:33):
I grew up listening to it with my mom. So
this is this is incredible.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Well, first of all, congratulations to you and your husband.

Speaker 18 (45:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Okay, so walk us through it. You had just tied
the knot and you were going from the church to
the party, the reception, so to speak.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
What happened.

Speaker 18 (45:56):
Yeah, So we got married at Saint James Armenian Church
in Watertown and we got on the party bus to
head to Venezia where a reception was and the party
I mean, we're having a good time in the back
of the party bus and dancing, having a good time,
ready to continue the good time, and then there was

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a glass over the top of the party bus. So
we kind of looked up and we're like, oh, we're
on sterro drive, like what, like, this isn't this isn't good.
He should not have come this way. And my maid
of honor happened to be recording the video just because
she's like what is everyone looking at? Because she's not

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from the area, She's from California, so she's like everyone's
kind of like bracing for impact, like what is going on?
And that's when we passed the chains that were hanging
down because there's like clearance, sure warnings basically, and so
he passed that or he must have hit the chains,
I don't know. The music was blasting and then he

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inched closer, slowing down towards the bridge, where he did
in fact scrape.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
The top of the bus.

Speaker 18 (47:11):
And that's when everyone's shocked. We're all looking around, like
what is going to happen right now? He stopped, and
then we all sat down because we're like, okay, what
if someone rear ends us right now, Like this could
turn into a very chaotic real quick. And he was
able to reverse off of Sorrow onto the exit ramp.

(47:36):
By some miracle. We were all safe. We didn't need
a police detail, and it all ended very happily. But
in the moment, I was extremely shocked and panicked. And
if you did watch the actual video recording my I

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turn to my husband and he's like pumping everyone up
like his mo o. He's like, nothing's going to stop us.
We're going to have an incredible time. This is going
to be the best night ever. And it really was.
And we got to our wedding a couple of minutes late,
and I mean no one at our wedding venue even

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knew that it happened, because we didn't even talk about it.
It was just like a funny story on the party bus.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Well, you gotta love your husband though he stepped in
and took charge. Well, first of all, what's his name,
Stephen Akean Steven, Good.

Speaker 5 (48:33):
Job, buddy.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
So you must be sitting there saying, boy, I think
I got the right guy.

Speaker 18 (48:38):
Yes, definitely, definitely, he's the he's the calm to my
to my crazy.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Now, so everything you get to the reception, I'm sure
that was the buzz story for a while, right, Oh
my god, we almost didn't make it. We hit a bridge.

Speaker 18 (48:52):
We didn't even talk about it. Actually, like we were
so ready to party and have a good time. It
was just like one like glimpse of like the entire
day and we just danced the night away.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Yeah, good for you guys, because so many people would
let it ruin their day, you know, and you guys
just forged ahead and you had a great time. Was
there a honeymoon?

Speaker 18 (49:15):
We went to the Cape for a couple of days,
like true Bostonians. But we do have a trip that
we're working on planning right now in a couple a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Well great, well, you know what.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Congratulations, that's a great story, especially the way you all
handle it and give our love to your husband.

Speaker 18 (49:36):
Thank you. I know he wanted to be on that.
He's at work in a meeting, so on.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
The job again, doing the right thing. This guy