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October 23, 2025 • 9 mins
Nothing like a day off!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Here we go after show and I'm looking at Bill Costa.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Can I add this to my resume? Now?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
The after show with Justin you can. It's a long
resume that you have. I don't know how you do it.
All It's okay. I like doing this, you know something.
I was telling somebody this in my house on Sunday,
you know, because you know, sometimes I like to poke
fun at you and we have each other don't really
it's fun. But I really had a new appreciation for

(00:29):
what you do when I shot your TV show.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
All right, you co hosted a show this past summer.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Like we do this radio show, which is a lot
of work. We get up early, it's a lot of work.
Then you leave and you shoot TV all day. You
have to drive to where you're going, oh yeah, set
up the cameras and then be the host and be
entertaining and then drive home.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
And usually every episode, whether it's Dining Playbook or Meet
Boston by the Way on Nisson Saturday mornings at nine
and nine thirty, back to back. But whenever I was
shooting an episode, it's multiple locations.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
You have to shoot, you have to create the segment,
do the piece and then strike the set, pack everything up,
and the crew takes it to the next location, finds
a parking space, and then they have to carry it
in reset. We do a segment at that location, break
it down, pack it up, move to the third location.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Usually four times every episode.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
God, oh yeah, yeah, I it's new appreciation for what
you do. And think about this too. There is a
whole group or audience of people that don't listen to
the radio show. Don't listen to you on the radio show,
just watch you on TV. That's what they know you as.
That's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
And by the way, if you're one of those people,
I just want to let you know. Yes, we're on
every morning from six to ten. That's right on Kissingawait,
And you can listen on the podcast. You can listen
to us all over the world.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes, seven days a week a podcast goes up, you know.
So Monday through Friday is the show. Saturday Morning Riley
producer Riley hosts the Best of the Week. She took
that over from me.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, I've got to listen to that.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, it's good. And she's on live on the show
from eight to nine Saturday mornings, and then Sunday is
like a best of moments, like a classic billion Lisa
Show moment. And then and then Riley does the five
to six am every day before us go producer Ry. Well,
she's been doing it. I did it for so long
and I'm like enough, this is how I got my

(02:23):
foot in the door, this is how I got on
the air, Like, I need to focus on other things.
So that's it.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Can I ask you a question about your life?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
This RV, this camper thing, you think you're going to
end up with it? I think I think you will
already own it.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
And she hasn't enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well this listeners dming her about a camper that they
have up in New Hampshire. She'll need my final approval
and I don't think I'm going to give it to her.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Listen, I really believe she thinks she needs your final approval.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I think so she loves me enough to let me
have the final decision.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Have you seen this campra that somebody wants to give you?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
It actually is beautiful. It's not it's not a fixer upper.
It's actually nice.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
The one I saw in a picture you.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Sent, No, not at all. No, it's it's actually nice.
I don't know how much they want for it, but
I'm just not a camper guy. Man.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
You know, I've never been a camper guy.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know. When my boys, although I will say this,
at one point in your life, you're going to start
thinking about, Hey, wouldn't it be cool to take the
kids in an RV and you go to like the
Grand Canyon and all that. So other words, you'd fly
to the West coast, rent the RV there. You don't
have to, you don't want to drive it across country,
rent the RV there, and then just tool around.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
For a week.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I would do something like.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I thought about that seriously for years and when my
boys were growing up, and.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I regret to this day that I didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, you are a big boat. You are a big boater.
So when they're camping on the water, right, So I'm
sure a lot of your vacations were spent on the boat.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
So I brought up the TV thing Bill, because today
typically you have your food show, but you don't. You're
on DZ Food for thought. So I mentioned that Bill's
the busiest guy I know. Yeah, how about this picture?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
This?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Okay? So a day like today, he does not have TV,
and you don't have the food show, after the radio.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Show Nobody Busy and news radio.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
So Bill considers this a day off.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know, I'm not even eating.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
You can ask my wife Michelle, if all I have
in the day is the morning show. My brain thinks
of it as a day off. That's crazy, because you know,
the Morning Show, we just have a ball.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
What do we do?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
We laugh, We make people laugh for a living, and
we change in, you know, information, some of it valuable
and important, some of it nonsensical and funny. Right, you know,
we like to provide an escape with the billion Lisa
the morning show in the morning, so you know, coming
in early, I like the early hours. You know, those
are my favorite hours of the day typically. So if
I'm just coming in for the Billy and Lisa show

(04:49):
on Kiss, it's a day off.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay. So what's in the agenda for your big day off?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Nothing? Okay, I'm going to pick up Titus. He's a
good boy.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, he's the best.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm going to pick up Titus.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Give me Shell a break because a lot of days,
you know, she's just home all day with Titus and
walking him and whatever. So I'm gonna pick him up.
We're gonna go to the boat to a couple of projects.
You know, fall you got certain jobs you want to
do on the boat. So we're just gonna hang out.
Maybe go have some lunch somewhere outside, like at Pier.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Six, okay, oh with the tentacles.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, with the giant octopus tentacles hanging over the walls.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, so that'll do.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
And then I'll go home, and I think Michelle has
a Latin dance tonight, Salsa dance at home, and oh
with Amari Travis. Travis, she'll dance downstairs. We have our
own gymnasium downstairs. She'll dance, and Titus and I will
have a party. I'll make myself a cosmo. Yeah, I'll
give him a couple of surprise streets. And there's my

(05:44):
day and night.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
There's your day out.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh and by the way, I'm all in on nineteen
twenty three. You gotta watch the show.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I know, I'm so behind that.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
That means you have to.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Watch the Yellow Watch rat and then the eighteen eighty
three or whatever it was, and now the nineteen twenty three.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, it gets crazy.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh yeah, I know, I know, I'm way behind on that.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
A lot of threesomes.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
All right, I'm all in now the Old West, Oh yeah, right,
I'm all in. I'm all in. Well they had you know,
they had like prostitution and stuff. Oh, way back to them,
and that goes back especially during Prohibition.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, because the booze was illegal and so was everything else.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
And Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren are in. Oh and
one of the young girl you watched A Landman with.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Billy Bob Thorpe.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I watched the first season.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know, the wife and the daughter the annoying did
not like them, No, nobody did.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
But the girl who played the daughter is in nineteen
twenty three.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh yeah, she's kind of hot.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
And I think one of the women from Hunting Wives,
oh is in nineteen.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I didn't watch that one Hunting Wives. I didn't want
my wife watched it. I was kind of late on it.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
You didn't. You should have watched it with you, I know,
I know, dude, I know, showtime, I.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Know, but we have different TV watching schedules because they
got a show you.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Need to watch together and then you know it's.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Showtime, showtime. Yeah, yeah, all right, Well you'll have a
great day on the boat there in Chilestown.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, can't wait.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Fun fact, when I go to your boat, I drive
through Chilestown and I drive right by the projects.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh yeah, the Massive project.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, and I spent some time there. That's in those projects. Oh,
that's where I used to cop drugs. There was a
period in my life where I used to Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
There, please, I have to drive through there every morning.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh good, this is years ago. This is this I've
been clean a long time.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
By the way, they knocked two or three of them
down and built a brand new one right in the
middle of all the others. And I guess the plan
is eventually, uh, to knock all of them down and
rebuild them. These beautiful places for these folks to live.
I mean, it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, they went so beautiful when I was there, when
I was running running through there project.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, actually the last time we went, we drove by there.
Jen and I when we went to Peetown, we were
driving by and then it was it's quite romantic. We
were sharing stories with each other about times when each
of us were there. Oh yeah, she was, Yeah, when
she was running around that's where you you know, you
got some stuff there. Actually, one time, this is the
story I shared with her. One time, a friend of

(08:12):
mine stole a TV from somewhere and it was one
of those like it was a flat screen but it
still had kind of had the back. It wasn't a fi.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, they weren't. They weren't flat versions weren't really flat.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
So he wanted to bring it to the projects in
Charlestown to fence it for a bag of drugs. Okay,
So we're in Malden and he asked me to join
him and he would like hook me up and I
go okay, and I go over there, and he couldn't
carry it himself. So we carried the TV to Malden Station,
onto the Orange Line down to Bunker Hill, got off

(08:47):
and carried this TV into the projects in Charlestown to
sell it.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Did you have a fence or you just went We.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Had a fence. Never made it to the fence because
the police were there and they just see these two
like drug addicts carrying a TV.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
The TV from somebody, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
So they ended up arresting my friend because he had warrants,
and they let me go and I'm like, I don't
know they did. Whose TV is this? I'm like, I
don't know, it's his TV. They took him, and they took.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
The TV, and you brought it on the train.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
On the train, you should have seen us carrying this
stupid thing. So those are the fun stories driving through Chilestown.
But all right, Bill, well, thank you for joining the
after show. It only takes a few minutes of your time.
It's a lot of fun. Have a great day off,
and tomorrow is Friday in the weekend, which I'm really
excited about. Enjoy.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I planned you
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