October 9, 2025 • 30 mins
The Billy & Lisa Show cover a whole bunch of topics during today’s show including Ben Mezrich checking in, repeating vacations and lies our parents have told us! Listen to Billy & Lisa weekdays from 6-10AM on Kiss 108!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now this morning show in Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's just a great start to my day on kids
one weight.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the Billy and Lisa Show. Thank
you so much for listening, for tuning us in. We
appreciate it so much. It's the Thursday morning, October ninth,
Gonna be cool today. Tempts only in the upper fifties.
We started the week in the eighties. Man, New England
never ceases to amaze me. All right, coming up on
the show this morning, we have your soul Doll jingle
(00:30):
Ball tickets seven ten and a ten. At nine ten,
we have tickets to the Bruins home opener tonight against
the Blackhawks. Yes, the Bruins are back. But guys, in
the meantime, I'm gonna kick out the show like this
Ben Mesick, who we love. He's written so many books
that were turned into movies, including The Social Network that
was one of my favorite movies of all time. Well,
(00:52):
they are making a sequel, so Billy, we got Ben
on the phone to break it all down.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Good morning, Ben, Hey, good morning Billy. Are you good now? Ben?
First things first, you were the very first person on
Lisa Dunnevan's book Club, and now it's international.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's amazing. Listen, it's the best book club in America
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Ben, help launch it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So yeah, oh she's all over the country. Now, she's
going to Tampa, She's going everywhere.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah. Uh so I got to ask you, Ben, when
there's a sequel, do you get another.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Hit as in what book check? I do get a check?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, of course you do.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You know, I get accredation. You know, it has to
say something about the story based on or something like that,
and you know they are it is being pushed as
a sequel, even though it's going to be take place
I think about fifteen years later. But it's uh yeah,
I'm I'm as involved as as you know, one who
created the first one would be good.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well wait a minute, did you write
the sequel?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No? So basically, Aaron, you know, has been trying to
figure this out and crack this story for a while,
and he and I go back and forth, and I
knew he was working. I knew kind of the direction
he was going. But it's not No, I did not
write a book or anything. And so it's really it's
Aaron's script and he's directing, so it's going to be
(02:18):
hit ballgame, but it's going to be related to the
social network, I think as much as Sony can relate it.
Just because that was such a cultural moment, I think
you would say, so, yeah, it's it's his own story,
but it's based on true events and it will have
you know, I hope Jesse will be back. I can't
imagine it with a different Mark Zuckerberg. So you know,
(02:41):
it'll be the same characters really the way we drew them.
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
And so much has happened, Oh god, yeah, so much
to talk about.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Listen, you can you can pretty much blame Facebook for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, think what happened with Facebook after the movie, The
social network. It just blew up, blew up.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
When we wrote that. When that movie came out, you know,
Facebook was a little thing. It hadn't ip o' yet.
Mark was not the new Mark you see now.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It was even a little thing on the Harvard campus.
I mean, you know, nobody knew.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
About nobody knew about it, and uh, and so it's
such a it became such a big company afterwards. That
was like its origin story. It's like the Marvel Universe
that was like the origin story of Wolverine and now
we can see the Avengers assemble.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It really changed, it changed the world.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, I think it did. And uh and now
now we'll see what he does with it. But I
think it's going to be much more about you know,
where does that go, Like the Mark wants to rule
the world and change the world and then he really did. Yeah,
and then a lot of sort of I mean, you
could look at it negative or positively, but I think
knowing Aaron, it'll be it'll be somewhat dark and funny
(03:50):
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know, Justin brought up a good point the other day.
Do you think the sequel is going to include Zuckerberg's
like UFC fighting and ju jiu jitsu and.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
He's transformed, He's transformed into this like you know, he's
gonna have to work out all the time and wear
a necklace and his hair And yeah, I think it will.
But I think to some extent it probably you know
a little bit of the transformation of someone from like
a robotic nerd to who we see today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now, aren't you close enough to Jesse Eisenberg at this point,
or even Justin Timberlake to just give them a call
and ask him, So, are you going to be in
the sequel or not?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, I know, Jesse. I haven't kept up with Justin.
That would have been cool, but no, Jesse and I
have kept up because I'm doing this movie with the
Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder. I think I talked about
last time, and Jesse is friends with them, so I've
kept up with him. He's he's brilliant. I think he's
just as genius. I mean, I could ask him, but
(04:49):
I think it's easier just I mean it, it'll come out.
I'm sure he's trying to figure out you know, I'm
sure listen, how can he not come back? It's the
best role ever, and I'm sure I'll come back.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
That would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Do you know the timing of this, like when they're slating, Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, this is all happen. We're in they're in casting
and and they've already I mean, this is this is
the thing, you know, it's it's actually I would bet
they're filming.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
By the fall.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
That would be my guest at Bari in the summer,
So I bet this comes out next year.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That would be great, Ben, I'm thinking of you. You know,
it'd be great you could talk to your buddy Aaron.
I don't think I didn't notice you call him by
a first name and not just Aaron. It would be
awesome if they you got them to give you a
cameo in the movie. I mean, you wrote the book
that created the movie. You woul at least deserve a cameo.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I mean, listen, I'm I'm with you, Billy, I really,
I really, well, maybe they can have berger that beat
the spit out of you in the movie, a good
realistic scene. At this point, you know, I can reprise
my role as sexiest bachelor from.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah you know what?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Where's are?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
From this and in Fitness Kiss one O eight Studios.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Morning, everybody, Welcome back to the Billy and Lisa Show.
I'm justin on a Monday morning. So Billy Costa, if
you don't know, has three sons, Chris, Alex, and Dylan.
Would like to check in with them every once in
a while to see what they're up to. Obviously, his
oldest son, Chris has a partnership with Tom Brady. That's
card Vault by Tom Brady. But Alex the middle child,
he lives an interesting life. Well, for example, you've been
(06:27):
in the south of France for about a month now, Alex,
are you there?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I'm here?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, how many weeks has it been? I've kind of
lost track.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
It's a two week vacation the Europe amazing.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Week.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
And also there's still a lot of controversy about which
location the White Lotus is gonna be at. True, a
lot of people are saying it might be in the
in the franki alf location, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So what you're saying is on behalf of the Billy
and Lisa Morning Show. You've done your research.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
We've done a little bit of research. I mean, we
were five days out from going to Hotel the cap
when they started talking about on social media that White
Lotus might have filmed there. So you know, obviously that's
kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, But you did stay at the Hotel du comp
that they suggest the White Lotus will be shot at, right.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yes, I indeed did.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Was there any kind of a buzz there, like people
talking about hated you here, the White Lotus.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Is going to be shooting a little bit. I mean
they play it cool, but yeah, we were talking to
the concierge one night and I mentioned it and then
they all started laughing. They've definitely been gossiping behind.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Doors and talking about whether or not it might happen.
I'm kind of curious, Alex, as my middle son, what
is it that you were visiting the concierge for.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
We were just looking into some transport services the a
where the Monty Carlo, and trying to get some reservations
lined up during our stay.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Here is your kid, Bill.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It really is amazing. Did you hear him throwing around
a Monte Carlo.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Take advantage of the amenities?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Of course you do, yeah, Alex, real quick, don't let
him give you crap. Right, We went to the Four
Seasons for a luncheon, a work luncheon. Once it was
freezing cold in the winter. We all did the valet.
When we came out, it was about two degrees out,
and the concierge guy comes over to us, skips by
all of us and goes, mister Costa, your car is
right here up front.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Everyone else is far away. That's where he got this from.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
We know, think for a second, if you've think for
a second, I let any of this insanity from my father,
you know, bleed it. Where do you think I got
it from? He's been to all of these places long time?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Did you? You're not a gambler like your brother Chris.
But did you go to the casino at all? I did?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I went to the casino last night. I'm a big
Games Bond guy. So that was like a bucket listing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
For wat What does that even mean? You're a big
James Bond guy like one.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I'm a big James Bond fan. I'm a fan of
the James Bond movies, especially the ones of Daniel Craig.
And even though Monty Carlo wasn't featured in those ones,
I'm just I don't know home about James Bond guy
that Mony Carlos.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Here's your song?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
So what did you? What did you wear?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
You have to go see Tony AND's TikTok. You just
posted a TikTok a us in Monte Carlo.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I have to seck you guys up.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I want to see what you guys are wearing.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So, yeah, you have to dress up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah. So besides your affinity for nothing but five star
hotels around the world. Are you a big casino guy, Like,
what's your game of choice?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
This is my son.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
I'm finding all this out now, so I am. I'm
less as you already said. So it's fair game because
you said at first, I'm less of a degenerate gambler
than my older brother Chris Cos founder of card Ball
by Tom Brady. Sure, but you know, I do like
to play a little bit, so black jackson my my favorite.
I'll play a little crap sometimes. But we were kind
(10:02):
of in it out last night. I didn't want to
forture my wife, you know, and have her stand over
my shoulder while I lose more of our.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Money at the blackjack. Well, the truth is a little
bit yeah, yeah, I don't worry about it. You've got
plenty so the uh so, the truth is that your
older brother, Chris uh is a big time gambler, and
as it happens, what are the odds he actually gambles
for a living now with card vault. That's a form
of gambling, right.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Way, I guess you could say that, and it's you know,
it's sports and it's all into its wines.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, it's more trading. It's more trading than.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I have to. I have to practice some restraint when
it comes to the joking about my brother in the gambling,
because he likes to remind me that my best man
speech at his wedding I basically just ripped into him
and roasted him for twenty minutes. Well, it was in
front of his new in laws, and so I have
to practice and restraints.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Hey, you know one more thing before I let Ago.
I know you're getting on a flight from the south
of France. One more thing.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I want to Barcelona.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Hold on, Oh that's right, he's not done. He's going
to Barcelona today. I forgot. This is crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Go ahead, you gotta hurry it along.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Okay, I forgot to tell you guys. He also flies
first class.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh that's not surprising.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Oh my god's business my business class.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Where are you staying in Barcelona?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
We're staying at the Soho House in Barcelona.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, you know what, we're just just t I think
is there right now?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Well, it was just it was more cost efficient than
flying direct home from from the a couple of nights
and we'll fly home from day all right.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Well, you know who you're talking to right.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
From the planet Fitness Kiss one of eight Studios.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
We're back with the Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Hey guys, good morning, Welcome back. Billy and Lisa show
is on. It's a Thursday morning, October ninth, and I'm
sitting on a pair of sold out jingle Ball tickets
starring Ed Sharon. The show is coming up December fourteenth
at the TD Garden. You can't buy these tickets, you
can only win them with us, and I have a
pair for you. Six one, seven, nine, three one one one.
Oh wait, we'll take caller twenty five. You will need
(12:18):
a keyword, and that keyword is vacation, right Bill.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So, Lisa, you're looking at a report that suggests most
of us tend to go back to the same place
all the time for vacation.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Well, we were talking about this off the air because
we plan our vacations in advance, and one in three
Americans are embracing reweat traveling, which means that they'll go
back to the same place over and over again.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
God, I fail this right.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well, you keep going back to a Ruba, Justine.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I just we went once and I loved it with
my wife, and now we're planning the next family vacation,
and we're literally at odds on this because I'm stuck
on Aruba and my wife is like, there's so many
other places that we can go other all inclusives Punta Khan,
that Cancun. But I'm like scared because in Aruba, I
know what it is, I'm comfortable, the weather is good.
(13:08):
I don't want to waste, not waste, but spend all
this money on a place and then have a nightmare vacation.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, I get the things on Aruba, but first of all,
it's a giant destination for Bostonians. Okay, a lot of
Bostonians go there. But the one thing about Aruba is
you know one hundred percent you're getting perfect.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's the thing you want to share thing.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
If you have one week, you want to know that
the weather's going to be good, and that's one of
the places where it's almost guaranteed right, and you know
what you're going to get. But you're not alone because
fifty two percent say that they it's because it's they're familiar,
they're comfortable with the destination. They know what to expect,
especially with young children, Like you've got a lot of
stuff you're bringing, you bring a pack and play a stroller.
So you want to know like where, you know, like
(13:47):
I want to know the place I'm going and.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
What it's going to be, like fifty two percent of that.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Then they said scenery, traditions, family with friends was forty percent.
Even the food scene played a role in people going
back over and over again to the same spot.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's funny I go back and forth because part of
me wants to go to a different place every time
I'm on vacation. But when I really started thinking about
it this morning, when I saw Lisa's report, Mike, well,
wait a minute. Every winter we go to Saint John. Yes,
every summer we go to the vineyard with the boat.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Like, well, we go to Mexico, like every chance we.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Get Well, you have a house in Mexico. You know
what everything there is?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
But again it's like comfort and familiarity, right, so you
guys are the same way and weather.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, somewhere new just feels unfamiliar and it makes me nervous,
especially you're spending a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's a gamble, right, You're spending a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, so I totally get this, but yeah, we're trying
to plan a vacation from March, and we're kind of
at odds on it. You know, where do we go?
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Like?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You know, I like a roo bar she likes.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, my wife Michelle is weird because she would always say, no,
I don't want to go we went last year, I'm
not going to the same place. I want to go
someplace different all the time. Now she weirdly just wants
to go to Africa.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Well that's her spot. Why Well, because she feels comfort,
like it's comfort she really believes in multiple lives. Yes,
she's convinced that she was a member of a tribe
of Africa in another live. Yeah, it pulls her in.
She loves She loves Africa for that reason. I'm the
same way with Iceland. I've been now twice. I'd love
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to go back again.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
There's like something you feel something there that you in another.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I don't know, not necessarily, but it's like it's comforting
and I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
We're going back to Africa next front.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I know that's coming up. I don't know if people realize.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I can't even believe it's that close.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Less than a week from now. Next You're Live from Africa,
Part of Africa. Are you going to Zimbabwe?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Is it the same? Are you going to be in
the Love Treehouse?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yes? For one night?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Okay, so people that don't remember last year Bill was
in this love Shack beautiful treehouse.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Are you guys are going back to the same place.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
We're going to the same area, but we're going to
two different places. But then we're ending up in a
place called the Hide. The Hide, oh god, and that's
where well, the Treehouse is near the Highe. They take
you like a forty five minute drive outside of the camp.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What an amazing experience.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, the treehouse is bizarre. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
If you go to Billy's Instagram and kind of scroll
down to last year, you can kind of relive all
those moments in Africa.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, and I've got a video from inside the Treehouse.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So you're one of three Americans embracing repeat traveling.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, I know, but I wouldn't tell my wife. I
don't really want to go back.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
You always say that, and then when he's there, the
most magical experience.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, you love it every time you go.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh yeah, and we got we even got you the
the Meta glasses, the Ray Bann glasses. Yeah, so you
can record in case God forbid.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Can you imagine if I've got the meta glasses right
and I'm shooting video and a lion charges at me,
I mean, and starts tearing me limb from limb. You
don't have it on video.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, I'd be on Inside Edition.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Follow a board and they'll say they'll give me the
warning before they play the video. You might find this
video upsetting.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Yeah, I love Billy and Lisa kiss one way.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Hey guys, good morning, Welcome back to the show. So
the other night I was doom scrolling, which by the way,
I do way too much. I'm sure you do too,
and I came across a real I'm a woman talking
about all the lies that our parents told us. In
every single one I felt like was a lie that
my mother or father told me. This was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
If you touch that toad, you will get warps.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
You keep popping your fingers like that, you're gonna have
arth rives by the time you're thirty after eating. You
gotta wait thirty minutes before you swim, or you're gonna drown.
If you swallow that gumnal thing in your stomach for
seven years. If you jump a pinion, from the top
of the building. It will hit someone and kill them.
Don't sit that close to the TV to ruin your eyesight.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
If you swallow that watermelon seed, you're gonna grow one
in your belly. If you talk to strangers on that.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Ai M you will get kidneys.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Y'all better turn off those lights back there.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's illegal and we will crash and die. Where did
they get them, I don't know their parents.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, I mean, let's start with the light on the car.
So I actually just learned that was not illegal last year.
You mean the ceiling light in the back when you're driving.
Because we were in the car with my family and
you know, my son had the light on the back.
I told him to shut it off and then he
said no, and I said no, we can get pulled over.
And then Jen later on said, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, it's not I know. My parents never told me that.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
They just said it was like hard to drive if
you were the person driving with the back light on. Sure,
But like the knuckle cracking, that was a huge one.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
That was told to me. Huge that was told to me.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, the frog in the war was definitely one of
the big ones. When I was a kid, Yes, And
the other one was if you make that face, it's
going to stay that way.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And what about reading in the dark, that it hurt
your eyes?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yes, yeah, I grew up my whole life not reading
in dark places. I always made sure to have good light.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
At least did you tell these to any of your
kids when they were growing up?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The reading in the dark, I still do.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
The gum I do that it takes seven years to
like digest, So.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's not true. That's it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
And then the knuckle cracking, I actually always thought it
was real, but now I'm finding out that it's not.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I have a few people in my life that crack
their knuckles all the time, and I'm silently thinking, oh,
they're not gonna be able to move their fingers in
about five years.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, I don't think it's true.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That wasn't true either.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, the funny face one was if you cross your
eyes to cross my eyes as a joke, and they said,
you know, I think they went as far to say
one time that if I was crossing my eyes and
somebody hit me, or if there was a sudden like
you know, a jolt, Yeah, some kind of jolt, then
it would stick forever.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And what about sneezing with your eyes open?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Okay, I never heard that what happened because I sneeze
a lot? No.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I always heard like, you would die if you like,
that's why you have to like, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Can you though, can you sneeze with your eyes open?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I don't know. I think you're supposed to.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Really, what if your eye pops right out? I don't know.
I mean that's a lot of force, Like a really
good sneeze, there's a lot of force.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So I'm looking at chatch epet now. So gum passes
through your digestive system within two or three days.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And I always heard back to sneezing, I always heard
that every time you sneeze, your heart skips a beat?
Is that another made up line? That one?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
What about peeing in the pool different color? Yes? So
is there not a product that you can put in
the pool to make the pee turn a different color?
I don't know. I don't think there is. It's a
complete myth.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's crazy crazy.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I remember my parents would always say like, oh, that
place is closed, Like, oh, it's that, you know, it's
like that doesn't open.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, some other ones that weren't on that list. Are
that drinking coffee stunt your growth? If you're a kid?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Nodding her head.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Over there on the board, so she she's heard that one.
That is not true. That's not true.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I had one as a kid that never came true.
Thank god. My father there would always say, I'll give
you something to cry about. Luckily.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
How about the ice cream trucks play music only when
they're out of ice cream?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
That is the most vicious lie.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I never heard of that one. That's why would they
play the music if they don't have any ice cream
to sow?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, but that's the myth. Like they say, so the parents.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Won't give you the money for the ice cream. Ice cream,
that's why he's playing the song. I love that one.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
That's a great one. Actually, over the weekend, the ice
cream truck was near near my house and my son
herd it comes running outside, wanted me to drive him
to chase the ice cream. Oh yeah, I'm like they
always come out the worst time, Yes, the worst time.
Another one's eating carrots will let you see in the dark,
because kids don't eat vegetables.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, I was always told carrots will improve your eyes.
I don't I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Okay, here's the one that I totally remember.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Storks deliver baby.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Oh yeah, you quickly figure out that.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Yeah, I know, but I have to say, for like
a brief moment in time, I actually.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Believed, Yeah, mom's in the hospital, but the stork's gonna
bring your baby sister or brother.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Ah wait, back to the cash. So carrots are good
for your ie health, won't give you super powers where
you can see in the dark.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Now it's topic time with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Okay, So we had a conversation a couple of minutes
ago about lines our parents told us throughout the generations,
and Lisa, during the break, you came up with a
new one.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Okay, this only has to do with you.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And you used to come in and say that you
would tell your children when they were at the circus
with you that during intermission that the show was over.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh yes, I remember this, Come on.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's over. Yeah, you have no idea. I used this
everything from Disney on Ice to the rodeo to the circus,
any of those events. When intermission came and the lights
went on, I would say, come on, we got to
go we get to beat the crowd, and I said,
we can grab a souvenir before they run out. On
the way out, you know, I'd definitely take them in
(23:02):
the store, grabbed the souvenir. I said, come on, we'll
never get out of the parking lot. We'll get it hurt.
They never knew, Yeah, never knew, never knew that it
was only half.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
There was there was a second half.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think one of the first events that I took
my son to when he was probably two or three,
was I think Disney on Ice. Yeah, and you told
me that before we went he has a hot tip. Yeah,
because nothing's going to change in the second half.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's just more people skating around and animals skating around.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
That's true. Oh god, so many lives.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The circus stays the same second half.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I saw reel over the weekend and it was all
the lies your parents told you, and I checked every
single box. I believe all these were true.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Parents when we were young used to tell us when
they were eating lobsters that they were eating bugs, so
we wouldn't want them.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow, that's creative. Well aren't they kind of like bugs? See?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, no, not the bugs of the sea.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, but I know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
No, they used to be a long time ago. They were,
they were, They weren't a delicacy. They were given to
the pole in prison.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, in prison, and then the galleys rowing the ships. Yes,
you know, the slaves. For lack of a better word,
they would give them lobster, and then lobster.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Became they're scavengers basically.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
What it is now. Yeah, they are scavengers. Just keep
in mind when you're having the lobster. Everything they eat
is off the is off the bottom. Yes, their bottom feeder.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
They are.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
They are right expense, it's odd when you think of it.
Expensive body, Oh my, and they keep getting more and
more expensive. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
My mom always said that if you had the shower
on while it was thundering and lightning out that.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
You would get struck by lightning.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
So I still, at twenty eight years old, will not
take a shower if there's a storm.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh my god. My parents used to tell me that one.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I never heard that one. Yeah, and the pool was
a big one.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They want using water right, well, yeah, the waterway, what
are you doing in there?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, you guys remember that when we were younger, they
would say if you had a dream and you died
in your dream, that you would die in real life.
I think I remember that, but I think it was
other kids that told me that, not my parents. Yeah,
that's a little morbid for your parents to tell you,
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
But one of them was.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
About coffee, that if you drink coffee as a kid,
it will stunt your growth.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
As a parent, I still use the coffee will stunt
your growth. My toddler's always trying to take a sip
in my coffee, and I told him he'd shrink down
like ant man if he takes a s up in
my coffee, and he still believes it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It's so crazy, Like we teach our kids not to lie,
but then we kind of tell them lies.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And there are so many more. I'm racking my brain
that my parents would tell me a lot of them
related to school or I mean, there are so many.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, you just want your kids to listen and do
what do what you tell them to do, and when
they won't, you gotta you gotta do what you gotta do.
Let's go to Selene online too.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
All right, Selene, you're online too. Good morning. Add to
the list. Selene. Hello Selene. All right, Selene dropped off.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Like that name. That's a good name.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
That is a nice name. You don't meet a lot
of Selene's, you know. Yeah, Selene, we'll try to get
you on the second. Sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
So I love dogs. My dad doesn't. And a big lie.
He would tell me when I was a kid, is
dead while I pet a dog. If I get the
eye booger of a dog and then rub it, then
rub my eyes, I would see black and white forever,
or I would get like blind. So that's a big lie.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
See now we're just just completely making stuff up here.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I've never heard anything even resembling that one.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Never heard that. There was one of the lists about
sneezing with your eyes open. I kind of was speculating,
I don't think you can sneeze with your eyes open.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I actually learned this from the college class ones.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You physically can't sneeze with your eyes open because it's
a reflex that your eyes auto metically closed.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, I believe that well.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I always was told that your heart skips a beat
when you sneeze, and I have sneezing jags in the morning, so.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
You know, my heart skips a beat just regularly. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I have like an rhythm.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Wasn't there a song my heart skips a there is?
I think I have the same thing, which there's a
name for it. Really, Yeah, because I had an e KG.
They thought something was wrong and they said it was that,
and they said, it's no big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It's not. Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
What pill. No, wasn't there something about warts frogs? Yeah?
They came from frogs? Yeah, frogs.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
I used to have actually a reoccurring nightmare about swallowing
a watermelon seed and being brushed into the hospital because
my stomach was going to explode from the watermelon road
in my stomach.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I'm telling you, I was full of fear as a
kid when I heard these things.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Mine was swallowing gum, like never swallow gum.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, that it was really bad for you. Just sits
and the more that you you swallowed, the more would
pile up.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yes, And we found proof to the contry right with
the gum swallowing.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's a few days. It's a few days that sits
in your stomach and then it passes through.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Good morning, crew. This is not one that was told
to me, but something that. I used to tell my kids.
I would tell them when we were at the beach
if they found a sand dollar and we put it
on the dashboard of the car, it would turned into
a real dollar. Kept them busy forever, and it only
cost me a few bucks.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I love that walk the beach. Let's go to Selene.
I think she's back online to.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Hey Selene, Hi, good morning, Hey we got you. Give
us a good one.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
So when I was.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Little, I was told if you pick your nose and
ate year boogers, it would make worms grow in.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah I never heard that one, buters so gross?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What's he doing now?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
The hospital getting a worm removed? Chrissy's online one and
can't and Chrissy, you're on the air.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Go ahead, Chrissy, Chrissy.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
All right, Chrissy is not on the air. Okay, let's
go to Nina in Weymouth. Line three.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
All right, we'll try that one, line three. Nina you there. Okay,
we're having trouble with the phones.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, what's the deal with the phones today? That's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, don't do anything because something else might happen. Okay,
we won't, we won't.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
I remember when we wouldn't finish all the food on
our plate at a time, our parents would always say,
you have to eat all of your food. There's children
starving in Africa, and thinking about it today, I'm like, well,
what was were you supposed to do? Send them what
we didn't finish.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
My parents say, that's that's me.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, well, it's about wasting food, it's having right.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That was sort of the moral of but they wanted
to guilt you. Right, young children and you're starving in Africa,
you got to eat those carrots.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Meanwhile, you know, unfortunately there's starving kids everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Really, it's about food wasting.
Now this morning show in Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's just a great start to my day on kids
one weight.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the Billy and Lisa Show. Thank
you so much for listening, for tuning us in. We
appreciate it so much. It's the Thursday morning, October ninth,
Gonna be cool today. Tempts only in the upper fifties.
We started the week in the eighties. Man, New England
never ceases to amaze me. All right, coming up on
the show this morning, we have your soul Doll jingle
(00:30):
Ball tickets seven ten and a ten. At nine ten,
we have tickets to the Bruins home opener tonight against
the Blackhawks. Yes, the Bruins are back. But guys, in
the meantime, I'm gonna kick out the show like this
Ben Mesick, who we love. He's written so many books
that were turned into movies, including The Social Network that
was one of my favorite movies of all time. Well,
(00:52):
they are making a sequel, so Billy, we got Ben
on the phone to break it all down.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Good morning, Ben, Hey, good morning Billy. Are you good now? Ben?
First things first, you were the very first person on
Lisa Dunnevan's book Club, and now it's international.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's amazing. Listen, it's the best book club in America
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Ben, help launch it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So yeah, oh she's all over the country. Now, she's
going to Tampa, She's going everywhere.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah. Uh so I got to ask you, Ben, when
there's a sequel, do you get another.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Hit as in what book check? I do get a check?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, of course you do.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You know, I get accredation. You know, it has to
say something about the story based on or something like that,
and you know they are it is being pushed as
a sequel, even though it's going to be take place
I think about fifteen years later. But it's uh yeah,
I'm I'm as involved as as you know, one who
created the first one would be good.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well wait a minute, did you write
the sequel?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No? So basically, Aaron, you know, has been trying to
figure this out and crack this story for a while,
and he and I go back and forth, and I
knew he was working. I knew kind of the direction
he was going. But it's not No, I did not
write a book or anything. And so it's really it's
Aaron's script and he's directing, so it's going to be
(02:18):
hit ballgame, but it's going to be related to the
social network, I think as much as Sony can relate it.
Just because that was such a cultural moment, I think
you would say, so, yeah, it's it's his own story,
but it's based on true events and it will have
you know, I hope Jesse will be back. I can't
imagine it with a different Mark Zuckerberg. So you know,
(02:41):
it'll be the same characters really the way we drew them.
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
And so much has happened, Oh god, yeah, so much
to talk about.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Listen, you can you can pretty much blame Facebook for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, think what happened with Facebook after the movie, The
social network. It just blew up, blew up.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
When we wrote that. When that movie came out, you know,
Facebook was a little thing. It hadn't ip o' yet.
Mark was not the new Mark you see now.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It was even a little thing on the Harvard campus.
I mean, you know, nobody knew.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
About nobody knew about it, and uh, and so it's
such a it became such a big company afterwards. That
was like its origin story. It's like the Marvel Universe
that was like the origin story of Wolverine and now
we can see the Avengers assemble.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It really changed, it changed the world.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, I think it did. And uh and now
now we'll see what he does with it. But I
think it's going to be much more about you know,
where does that go, Like the Mark wants to rule
the world and change the world and then he really did. Yeah,
and then a lot of sort of I mean, you
could look at it negative or positively, but I think
knowing Aaron, it'll be it'll be somewhat dark and funny
(03:50):
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know, Justin brought up a good point the other day.
Do you think the sequel is going to include Zuckerberg's
like UFC fighting and ju jiu jitsu and.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
He's transformed, He's transformed into this like you know, he's
gonna have to work out all the time and wear
a necklace and his hair And yeah, I think it will.
But I think to some extent it probably you know
a little bit of the transformation of someone from like
a robotic nerd to who we see today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now, aren't you close enough to Jesse Eisenberg at this point,
or even Justin Timberlake to just give them a call
and ask him, So, are you going to be in
the sequel or not?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, I know, Jesse. I haven't kept up with Justin.
That would have been cool, but no, Jesse and I
have kept up because I'm doing this movie with the
Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder. I think I talked about
last time, and Jesse is friends with them, so I've
kept up with him. He's he's brilliant. I think he's
just as genius. I mean, I could ask him, but
(04:49):
I think it's easier just I mean it, it'll come out.
I'm sure he's trying to figure out you know, I'm
sure listen, how can he not come back? It's the
best role ever, and I'm sure I'll come back.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
That would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Do you know the timing of this, like when they're slating, Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, this is all happen. We're in they're in casting
and and they've already I mean, this is this is
the thing, you know, it's it's actually I would bet
they're filming.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
By the fall.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
That would be my guest at Bari in the summer,
So I bet this comes out next year.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That would be great, Ben, I'm thinking of you. You know,
it'd be great you could talk to your buddy Aaron.
I don't think I didn't notice you call him by
a first name and not just Aaron. It would be
awesome if they you got them to give you a
cameo in the movie. I mean, you wrote the book
that created the movie. You woul at least deserve a cameo.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I mean, listen, I'm I'm with you, Billy, I really,
I really, well, maybe they can have berger that beat
the spit out of you in the movie, a good
realistic scene. At this point, you know, I can reprise
my role as sexiest bachelor from.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah you know what?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Where's are?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
From this and in Fitness Kiss one O eight Studios.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Morning, everybody, Welcome back to the Billy and Lisa Show.
I'm justin on a Monday morning. So Billy Costa, if
you don't know, has three sons, Chris, Alex, and Dylan.
Would like to check in with them every once in
a while to see what they're up to. Obviously, his
oldest son, Chris has a partnership with Tom Brady. That's
card Vault by Tom Brady. But Alex the middle child,
he lives an interesting life. Well, for example, you've been
(06:27):
in the south of France for about a month now, Alex,
are you there?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I'm here?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, how many weeks has it been? I've kind of
lost track.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
It's a two week vacation the Europe amazing.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Week.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
And also there's still a lot of controversy about which
location the White Lotus is gonna be at. True, a
lot of people are saying it might be in the
in the franki alf location, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So what you're saying is on behalf of the Billy
and Lisa Morning Show. You've done your research.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
We've done a little bit of research. I mean, we
were five days out from going to Hotel the cap
when they started talking about on social media that White
Lotus might have filmed there. So you know, obviously that's
kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, But you did stay at the Hotel du comp
that they suggest the White Lotus will be shot at, right.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yes, I indeed did.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Was there any kind of a buzz there, like people
talking about hated you here, the White Lotus.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Is going to be shooting a little bit. I mean
they play it cool, but yeah, we were talking to
the concierge one night and I mentioned it and then
they all started laughing. They've definitely been gossiping behind.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Doors and talking about whether or not it might happen.
I'm kind of curious, Alex, as my middle son, what
is it that you were visiting the concierge for.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
We were just looking into some transport services the a
where the Monty Carlo, and trying to get some reservations
lined up during our stay.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Here is your kid, Bill.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It really is amazing. Did you hear him throwing around
a Monte Carlo.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Take advantage of the amenities?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Of course you do, yeah, Alex, real quick, don't let
him give you crap. Right, We went to the Four
Seasons for a luncheon, a work luncheon. Once it was
freezing cold in the winter. We all did the valet.
When we came out, it was about two degrees out,
and the concierge guy comes over to us, skips by
all of us and goes, mister Costa, your car is
right here up front.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Everyone else is far away. That's where he got this from.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
We know, think for a second, if you've think for
a second, I let any of this insanity from my father,
you know, bleed it. Where do you think I got
it from? He's been to all of these places long time?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Did you? You're not a gambler like your brother Chris.
But did you go to the casino at all? I did?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I went to the casino last night. I'm a big
Games Bond guy. So that was like a bucket listing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
For wat What does that even mean? You're a big
James Bond guy like one.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I'm a big James Bond fan. I'm a fan of
the James Bond movies, especially the ones of Daniel Craig.
And even though Monty Carlo wasn't featured in those ones,
I'm just I don't know home about James Bond guy
that Mony Carlos.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Here's your song?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
So what did you? What did you wear?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
You have to go see Tony AND's TikTok. You just
posted a TikTok a us in Monte Carlo.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I have to seck you guys up.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I want to see what you guys are wearing.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So, yeah, you have to dress up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah. So besides your affinity for nothing but five star
hotels around the world. Are you a big casino guy, Like,
what's your game of choice?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
This is my son.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
I'm finding all this out now, so I am. I'm
less as you already said. So it's fair game because
you said at first, I'm less of a degenerate gambler
than my older brother Chris Cos founder of card Ball
by Tom Brady. Sure, but you know, I do like
to play a little bit, so black jackson my my favorite.
I'll play a little crap sometimes. But we were kind
(10:02):
of in it out last night. I didn't want to
forture my wife, you know, and have her stand over
my shoulder while I lose more of our.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Money at the blackjack. Well, the truth is a little
bit yeah, yeah, I don't worry about it. You've got
plenty so the uh so, the truth is that your
older brother, Chris uh is a big time gambler, and
as it happens, what are the odds he actually gambles
for a living now with card vault. That's a form
of gambling, right.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Way, I guess you could say that, and it's you know,
it's sports and it's all into its wines.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, it's more trading. It's more trading than.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I have to. I have to practice some restraint when
it comes to the joking about my brother in the gambling,
because he likes to remind me that my best man
speech at his wedding I basically just ripped into him
and roasted him for twenty minutes. Well, it was in
front of his new in laws, and so I have
to practice and restraints.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Hey, you know one more thing before I let Ago.
I know you're getting on a flight from the south
of France. One more thing.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I want to Barcelona.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Hold on, Oh that's right, he's not done. He's going
to Barcelona today. I forgot. This is crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Go ahead, you gotta hurry it along.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Okay, I forgot to tell you guys. He also flies
first class.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh that's not surprising.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Oh my god's business my business class.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Where are you staying in Barcelona?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
We're staying at the Soho House in Barcelona.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, you know what, we're just just t I think
is there right now?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Well, it was just it was more cost efficient than
flying direct home from from the a couple of nights
and we'll fly home from day all right.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Well, you know who you're talking to right.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
From the planet Fitness Kiss one of eight Studios.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
We're back with the Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Hey guys, good morning, Welcome back. Billy and Lisa show
is on. It's a Thursday morning, October ninth, and I'm
sitting on a pair of sold out jingle Ball tickets
starring Ed Sharon. The show is coming up December fourteenth
at the TD Garden. You can't buy these tickets, you
can only win them with us, and I have a
pair for you. Six one, seven, nine, three one one one.
Oh wait, we'll take caller twenty five. You will need
(12:18):
a keyword, and that keyword is vacation, right Bill.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So, Lisa, you're looking at a report that suggests most
of us tend to go back to the same place
all the time for vacation.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Well, we were talking about this off the air because
we plan our vacations in advance, and one in three
Americans are embracing reweat traveling, which means that they'll go
back to the same place over and over again.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
God, I fail this right.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well, you keep going back to a Ruba, Justine.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I just we went once and I loved it with
my wife, and now we're planning the next family vacation,
and we're literally at odds on this because I'm stuck
on Aruba and my wife is like, there's so many
other places that we can go other all inclusives Punta Khan,
that Cancun. But I'm like scared because in Aruba, I
know what it is, I'm comfortable, the weather is good.
(13:08):
I don't want to waste, not waste, but spend all
this money on a place and then have a nightmare vacation.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, I get the things on Aruba, but first of all,
it's a giant destination for Bostonians. Okay, a lot of
Bostonians go there. But the one thing about Aruba is
you know one hundred percent you're getting perfect.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's the thing you want to share thing.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
If you have one week, you want to know that
the weather's going to be good, and that's one of
the places where it's almost guaranteed right, and you know
what you're going to get. But you're not alone because
fifty two percent say that they it's because it's they're familiar,
they're comfortable with the destination. They know what to expect,
especially with young children, Like you've got a lot of
stuff you're bringing, you bring a pack and play a stroller.
So you want to know like where, you know, like
(13:47):
I want to know the place I'm going and.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
What it's going to be, like fifty two percent of that.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Then they said scenery, traditions, family with friends was forty percent.
Even the food scene played a role in people going
back over and over again to the same spot.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's funny I go back and forth because part of
me wants to go to a different place every time
I'm on vacation. But when I really started thinking about
it this morning, when I saw Lisa's report, Mike, well,
wait a minute. Every winter we go to Saint John. Yes,
every summer we go to the vineyard with the boat.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Like, well, we go to Mexico, like every chance we.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Get Well, you have a house in Mexico. You know
what everything there is?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
But again it's like comfort and familiarity, right, so you
guys are the same way and weather.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, somewhere new just feels unfamiliar and it makes me nervous,
especially you're spending a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's a gamble, right, You're spending a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, so I totally get this, but yeah, we're trying
to plan a vacation from March, and we're kind of
at odds on it. You know, where do we go?
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Like?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You know, I like a roo bar she likes.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, my wife Michelle is weird because she would always say, no,
I don't want to go we went last year, I'm
not going to the same place. I want to go
someplace different all the time. Now she weirdly just wants
to go to Africa.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Well that's her spot. Why Well, because she feels comfort,
like it's comfort she really believes in multiple lives. Yes,
she's convinced that she was a member of a tribe
of Africa in another live. Yeah, it pulls her in.
She loves She loves Africa for that reason. I'm the
same way with Iceland. I've been now twice. I'd love
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to go back again.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
There's like something you feel something there that you in another.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I don't know, not necessarily, but it's like it's comforting
and I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
We're going back to Africa next front.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I know that's coming up. I don't know if people realize.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I can't even believe it's that close.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Less than a week from now. Next You're Live from Africa,
Part of Africa. Are you going to Zimbabwe?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Is it the same? Are you going to be in
the Love Treehouse?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yes? For one night?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Okay, so people that don't remember last year Bill was
in this love Shack beautiful treehouse.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Are you guys are going back to the same place.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
We're going to the same area, but we're going to
two different places. But then we're ending up in a
place called the Hide. The Hide, oh god, and that's
where well, the Treehouse is near the Highe. They take
you like a forty five minute drive outside of the camp.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What an amazing experience.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, the treehouse is bizarre. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
If you go to Billy's Instagram and kind of scroll
down to last year, you can kind of relive all
those moments in Africa.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, and I've got a video from inside the Treehouse.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So you're one of three Americans embracing repeat traveling.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, I know, but I wouldn't tell my wife. I
don't really want to go back.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
You always say that, and then when he's there, the
most magical experience.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, you love it every time you go.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh yeah, and we got we even got you the
the Meta glasses, the Ray Bann glasses. Yeah, so you
can record in case God forbid.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Can you imagine if I've got the meta glasses right
and I'm shooting video and a lion charges at me,
I mean, and starts tearing me limb from limb. You
don't have it on video.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, I'd be on Inside Edition.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Follow a board and they'll say they'll give me the
warning before they play the video. You might find this
video upsetting.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Yeah, I love Billy and Lisa kiss one way.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Hey guys, good morning, Welcome back to the show. So
the other night I was doom scrolling, which by the way,
I do way too much. I'm sure you do too,
and I came across a real I'm a woman talking
about all the lies that our parents told us. In
every single one I felt like was a lie that
my mother or father told me. This was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
If you touch that toad, you will get warps.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
You keep popping your fingers like that, you're gonna have
arth rives by the time you're thirty after eating. You
gotta wait thirty minutes before you swim, or you're gonna drown.
If you swallow that gumnal thing in your stomach for
seven years. If you jump a pinion, from the top
of the building. It will hit someone and kill them.
Don't sit that close to the TV to ruin your eyesight.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
If you swallow that watermelon seed, you're gonna grow one
in your belly. If you talk to strangers on that.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Ai M you will get kidneys.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Y'all better turn off those lights back there.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's illegal and we will crash and die. Where did
they get them, I don't know their parents.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, I mean, let's start with the light on the car.
So I actually just learned that was not illegal last year.
You mean the ceiling light in the back when you're driving.
Because we were in the car with my family and
you know, my son had the light on the back.
I told him to shut it off and then he
said no, and I said no, we can get pulled over.
And then Jen later on said, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, it's not I know. My parents never told me that.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
They just said it was like hard to drive if
you were the person driving with the back light on. Sure,
But like the knuckle cracking, that was a huge one.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
That was told to me. Huge that was told to me.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, the frog in the war was definitely one of
the big ones. When I was a kid, Yes, And
the other one was if you make that face, it's
going to stay that way.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And what about reading in the dark, that it hurt
your eyes?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yes, yeah, I grew up my whole life not reading
in dark places. I always made sure to have good light.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
At least did you tell these to any of your
kids when they were growing up?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The reading in the dark, I still do.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
The gum I do that it takes seven years to
like digest, So.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's not true. That's it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
And then the knuckle cracking, I actually always thought it
was real, but now I'm finding out that it's not.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I have a few people in my life that crack
their knuckles all the time, and I'm silently thinking, oh,
they're not gonna be able to move their fingers in
about five years.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, I don't think it's true.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That wasn't true either.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, the funny face one was if you cross your
eyes to cross my eyes as a joke, and they said,
you know, I think they went as far to say
one time that if I was crossing my eyes and
somebody hit me, or if there was a sudden like
you know, a jolt, Yeah, some kind of jolt, then
it would stick forever.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And what about sneezing with your eyes open?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Okay, I never heard that what happened because I sneeze
a lot? No.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I always heard like, you would die if you like,
that's why you have to like, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Can you though, can you sneeze with your eyes open?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I don't know. I think you're supposed to.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Really, what if your eye pops right out? I don't know.
I mean that's a lot of force, Like a really
good sneeze, there's a lot of force.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So I'm looking at chatch epet now. So gum passes
through your digestive system within two or three days.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And I always heard back to sneezing, I always heard
that every time you sneeze, your heart skips a beat?
Is that another made up line? That one?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
What about peeing in the pool different color? Yes? So
is there not a product that you can put in
the pool to make the pee turn a different color?
I don't know. I don't think there is. It's a
complete myth.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's crazy crazy.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I remember my parents would always say like, oh, that
place is closed, Like, oh, it's that, you know, it's
like that doesn't open.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, some other ones that weren't on that list. Are
that drinking coffee stunt your growth? If you're a kid?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Nodding her head.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Over there on the board, so she she's heard that one.
That is not true. That's not true.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I had one as a kid that never came true.
Thank god. My father there would always say, I'll give
you something to cry about. Luckily.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
How about the ice cream trucks play music only when
they're out of ice cream?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
That is the most vicious lie.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I never heard of that one. That's why would they
play the music if they don't have any ice cream
to sow?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, but that's the myth. Like they say, so the parents.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Won't give you the money for the ice cream. Ice cream,
that's why he's playing the song. I love that one.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
That's a great one. Actually, over the weekend, the ice
cream truck was near near my house and my son
herd it comes running outside, wanted me to drive him
to chase the ice cream. Oh yeah, I'm like they
always come out the worst time, Yes, the worst time.
Another one's eating carrots will let you see in the dark,
because kids don't eat vegetables.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, I was always told carrots will improve your eyes.
I don't I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Okay, here's the one that I totally remember.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Storks deliver baby.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Oh yeah, you quickly figure out that.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Yeah, I know, but I have to say, for like
a brief moment in time, I actually.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Believed, Yeah, mom's in the hospital, but the stork's gonna
bring your baby sister or brother.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Ah wait, back to the cash. So carrots are good
for your ie health, won't give you super powers where
you can see in the dark.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Now it's topic time with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Okay, So we had a conversation a couple of minutes
ago about lines our parents told us throughout the generations,
and Lisa, during the break, you came up with a
new one.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Okay, this only has to do with you.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And you used to come in and say that you
would tell your children when they were at the circus
with you that during intermission that the show was over.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh yes, I remember this, Come on.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's over. Yeah, you have no idea. I used this
everything from Disney on Ice to the rodeo to the circus,
any of those events. When intermission came and the lights
went on, I would say, come on, we got to
go we get to beat the crowd, and I said,
we can grab a souvenir before they run out. On
the way out, you know, I'd definitely take them in
(23:02):
the store, grabbed the souvenir. I said, come on, we'll
never get out of the parking lot. We'll get it hurt.
They never knew, Yeah, never knew, never knew that it
was only half.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
There was there was a second half.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think one of the first events that I took
my son to when he was probably two or three,
was I think Disney on Ice. Yeah, and you told
me that before we went he has a hot tip. Yeah,
because nothing's going to change in the second half.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's just more people skating around and animals skating around.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
That's true. Oh god, so many lives.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The circus stays the same second half.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I saw reel over the weekend and it was all
the lies your parents told you, and I checked every
single box. I believe all these were true.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Parents when we were young used to tell us when
they were eating lobsters that they were eating bugs, so
we wouldn't want them.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow, that's creative. Well aren't they kind of like bugs? See?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, no, not the bugs of the sea.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, but I know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
No, they used to be a long time ago. They were,
they were, They weren't a delicacy. They were given to
the pole in prison.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, in prison, and then the galleys rowing the ships. Yes,
you know, the slaves. For lack of a better word,
they would give them lobster, and then lobster.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Became they're scavengers basically.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
What it is now. Yeah, they are scavengers. Just keep
in mind when you're having the lobster. Everything they eat
is off the is off the bottom. Yes, their bottom feeder.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
They are.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
They are right expense, it's odd when you think of it.
Expensive body, Oh my, and they keep getting more and
more expensive. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
My mom always said that if you had the shower
on while it was thundering and lightning out that.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
You would get struck by lightning.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
So I still, at twenty eight years old, will not
take a shower if there's a storm.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh my god. My parents used to tell me that one.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I never heard that one. Yeah, and the pool was
a big one.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They want using water right, well, yeah, the waterway, what
are you doing in there?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, you guys remember that when we were younger, they
would say if you had a dream and you died
in your dream, that you would die in real life.
I think I remember that, but I think it was
other kids that told me that, not my parents. Yeah,
that's a little morbid for your parents to tell you,
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
But one of them was.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
About coffee, that if you drink coffee as a kid,
it will stunt your growth.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
As a parent, I still use the coffee will stunt
your growth. My toddler's always trying to take a sip
in my coffee, and I told him he'd shrink down
like ant man if he takes a s up in
my coffee, and he still believes it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It's so crazy, Like we teach our kids not to lie,
but then we kind of tell them lies.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And there are so many more. I'm racking my brain
that my parents would tell me a lot of them
related to school or I mean, there are so many.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, you just want your kids to listen and do
what do what you tell them to do, and when
they won't, you gotta you gotta do what you gotta do.
Let's go to Selene online too.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
All right, Selene, you're online too. Good morning. Add to
the list. Selene. Hello Selene. All right, Selene dropped off.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Like that name. That's a good name.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
That is a nice name. You don't meet a lot
of Selene's, you know. Yeah, Selene, we'll try to get
you on the second. Sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
So I love dogs. My dad doesn't. And a big lie.
He would tell me when I was a kid, is
dead while I pet a dog. If I get the
eye booger of a dog and then rub it, then
rub my eyes, I would see black and white forever,
or I would get like blind. So that's a big lie.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
See now we're just just completely making stuff up here.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I've never heard anything even resembling that one.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Never heard that. There was one of the lists about
sneezing with your eyes open. I kind of was speculating,
I don't think you can sneeze with your eyes open.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I actually learned this from the college class ones.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You physically can't sneeze with your eyes open because it's
a reflex that your eyes auto metically closed.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, I believe that well.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I always was told that your heart skips a beat
when you sneeze, and I have sneezing jags in the morning, so.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
You know, my heart skips a beat just regularly. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I have like an rhythm.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Wasn't there a song my heart skips a there is?
I think I have the same thing, which there's a
name for it. Really, Yeah, because I had an e KG.
They thought something was wrong and they said it was that,
and they said, it's no big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
It's not. Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
What pill. No, wasn't there something about warts frogs? Yeah?
They came from frogs? Yeah, frogs.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
I used to have actually a reoccurring nightmare about swallowing
a watermelon seed and being brushed into the hospital because
my stomach was going to explode from the watermelon road
in my stomach.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I'm telling you, I was full of fear as a
kid when I heard these things.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Mine was swallowing gum, like never swallow gum.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, that it was really bad for you. Just sits
and the more that you you swallowed, the more would
pile up.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yes, And we found proof to the contry right with
the gum swallowing.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's a few days. It's a few days that sits
in your stomach and then it passes through.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Good morning, crew. This is not one that was told
to me, but something that. I used to tell my kids.
I would tell them when we were at the beach
if they found a sand dollar and we put it
on the dashboard of the car, it would turned into
a real dollar. Kept them busy forever, and it only
cost me a few bucks.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I love that walk the beach. Let's go to Selene.
I think she's back online to.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Hey Selene, Hi, good morning, Hey we got you. Give
us a good one.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
So when I was.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Little, I was told if you pick your nose and
ate year boogers, it would make worms grow in.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah I never heard that one, buters so gross?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What's he doing now?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
The hospital getting a worm removed? Chrissy's online one and
can't and Chrissy, you're on the air.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Go ahead, Chrissy, Chrissy.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
All right, Chrissy is not on the air. Okay, let's
go to Nina in Weymouth. Line three.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
All right, we'll try that one, line three. Nina you there. Okay,
we're having trouble with the phones.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, what's the deal with the phones today? That's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, don't do anything because something else might happen. Okay,
we won't, we won't.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
I remember when we wouldn't finish all the food on
our plate at a time, our parents would always say,
you have to eat all of your food. There's children
starving in Africa, and thinking about it today, I'm like, well,
what was were you supposed to do? Send them what
we didn't finish.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
My parents say, that's that's me.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, well, it's about wasting food, it's having right.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That was sort of the moral of but they wanted
to guilt you. Right, young children and you're starving in Africa,
you got to eat those carrots.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Meanwhile, you know, unfortunately there's starving kids everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Really, it's about food wasting.
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