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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome into the After Show podcast. This is
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justin here but by myself, well not really. Billy Costa
just stepped into the building. Billy, two days in a
row in the after show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What's going on, bro?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
What do you want some of this bonus money that
we get?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, I had a question for you actually concerning the
Billy and Lisa Morning Show. This is the after show,
right it is. I'm not pleased with this little relationship
you've got going on with producer.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Riley, the work relationship.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, because the way it's affecting me and my needs. So, folks,
if you're listening by now, you probably know that the
main studio is there, and I'm in there with Lisa
and producer Riley and Justin I can see through a
giant pane of glass in his studio where he creates
all the magic for the Billy and Lisa Morning Show. Now,
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every studio pretty much has a pretty good sized TV screen,
flat screen.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
As do I.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You've got one right over my shoulder here, and I
can't help but notice that yours is on, yes, and
it's always on.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Very important.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, so this morning during the show, Now, I always
like to have the TV on in the studio in
the event heaven forbid. You know, we always have it
on one of the national networks, and in case something
happens in the news, something big, and we're on it. Okay.
So I turned Riley this morning and said, hey, could
you snap on the TV. I want to make sure
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if there's something going on, we're on top of it
right away. And she picks up the remote, pretending to
care about what I just asked her. Okay, And as
soon as I walked out the door, she put the
remote down and called you and snitched on me and said,
Billy wants the TV on. I know you don't want
the TV on. I don't get what your thing is
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about my TV. When you've got your own on during
the show. I'm fine. I don't get distracted. You know.
One time I think over the years I did, and
you've turned it on me. He said, no, turn it off.
Do not allow him to have his TV on.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Okay, are you done?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Not quite, but go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay. Have you ever heard the phrase proud dad moment?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Of course, I've had plenty of them.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's what this is for me. That producer Riley did
what she did makes me so proud because I banned
the TV from the studio because it does distract you.
So what happens is, yes, if breaking news happens, that's fine.
But you wanted fucking Kelly and Mark on?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, no, no, no, no, okay, I'll take any station
I didn't want. The only reason I wanted Kelly and
Mark on is because we were talking about Donnie Wahlberg
and his new show launches on CBSWBZ TV four tomorrow night,
and it's Boston Blue. It's all about Boston, and Donnie
is going to be coming back on our show. So
I just wanted to see if he was on. I
could come in here and say to you, by the way,
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justin Donnie is on the Mark and Kelly show right now.
If you want to listen to what he has to say.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, I would say, don't get mad at producer Riley.
She's doing what I asked to do. No, she's doing
She's helping me. She has a lot on her plate.
She's obviously filling a big role, trying to run all
the equipment, and she knows the role. There's no TV
in the studio because for people that are listening Okay.
When the show is going on and the TV is on,
Billy will be talking and then you can see his
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attention drift to the TV, which is okay because Billy
is a professional and you've been doing this for how
many years? Right? The problem, and listeners will know this
because it's happened several times, is in the middle of
a conversation the TV, something will interest you and you'll
be like, we'll be talking about, you know, servers and restaurants, right,
conversation right, and then all of a sudden you go,
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the hell is Joy Bear wearing on the view whatever
the fuck her name is. That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Okay, But here's my main problem. First of all, it
is the Billy and list the morning show a b
producer Riley, Like, what else is she deciding? My back
with you?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Anything that I asked her to do to make the
show run smoothly. I have the TV on so if
there's breaking news, I will see it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But when am I a priority?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Your a priority? Your prairies iss.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Been better if Riley had said to me, oh, Justin
really doesn't want the TV on in the studio. I mean,
you are the executive producer a program right, Instead, she
chose to watch me walk out the door and then
get on the phone with you.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well she came in to me even worse. Yes, so
now she's talking behind my back.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, she just didn't know what to do. She came
in and she said you shouldn't come in and say, hey,
I gotta tell you this, Like, she cas, what do
I do here? He wants the TV on? I know
you don't allow the TV And I said, absolutely not.
I will handle it. And I said to you, dude,
there's no TV. It's distracting.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You're acting like my dad.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well you gotta like you.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No, you're gonna eat your vegetables before you get up
away from the table. By the way, are you eating
my vegetables?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I eat those before I eat anything else.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Perfect, okay, perfect?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What if we settled here?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No, we can come to a compromise. I will allow
the TV on during the show, but one time, if
you get distracted while we're alive, it goes off. Okay,
I'm so you're parent here. Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You want me to pay a fee if I get caught?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, no money.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I don't want your money.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't. Well, actually, you can give the money to
Riley because lord no, she makes ten dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Okay, anytime I violate, yes, I will give Riley ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Perfect, A little cheap there for someone.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
All your mistake. It's like ten bucks put a price on.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
When days time you had a ten dollar bill in
your pocket.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Okay, I'll give her a twenty perfect Okay every time
I violate.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, okay, this is that's good.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now I have to pay to be on the job.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, you need to pay attention, and I no, you do.
The thing is I'm giving you shit, but people don't
understand how much you do. Right, we're talking news or entertainment,
you're hosting, you're reading live commercial. There's a lot. The
last thing we need is a TV on to distract
you even more. That's what I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So now I have to go home and decide is
it worth twenty dollars a violation to Okay, give her
the producer Riley, and she's worth playing herself now she's
an apology, would be not.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now she's doing the podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's why you're familiar with the song Backstabber.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I'd play the song, but we're not allowed to play
music on the podcast. Okay, they shut that down. By
the way, that's what Riley's doing right now because the
podcast can't have music. Even the billiing Lisa one, so she.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Has to remove any and all music that we featured.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
On the Imagine Imagine. Yeah, God bless her because we the
radio pays for the music, so we can play whatever
we want on the air, but on the podcast it's not.
Now it's fifty dollars it should be. Yeah, you know what,
let's just leave the TV. That's why, you know, we
obviously the winning situation is happening. We did the podcast yesterday.
People are very appreciative of that, so you know, we
do our best.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And by the way, for the record, I spoke with
Winnie on the phone yesterday.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I did take a lengthy conversation. Uh, and we're fine.
She totally understands it. It's like, I mean, we all
feel bad. I mean, in the course of our lives,
we've all lost a job. It sucks. It's nothing worse.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It does. It does, And I get this is my
thing on it, right. I get the anger because there
have shows that I have loved that have changed and
I was upset about it. Oh yeah, and I understand. Okay,
I can even understand the lashing out. Right, you're mad,
you leave a comment, Oh, you leave a talk back? Right,
I see them all. I read all the comments. I
wish I was like Billy, Billy doesn't read anything.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Well, I just not to listen to comments because they're
always angry and they're looking for you to respond to that.
And you know, when he's a dear friend of mine,
I would rather keep my thoughts and my comments to myself. Yeah,
between me and when.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I read them all. I see them. I said
this yesterday. They don't bother me. The only one that
bothered me was a thing about my drug addiction. Yeah,
that's crazy, what are you doing? I see it can
be crazy, Like it can be crazy. But here's the
one thing that I kind of am starting to have
a problem with. If you listen to the show and
you loved Winnie and loved all of us together, because
that seems to be the thing, right, there were four
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of us together, right, so you took one person out,
so they're upset, okay, but it's the need to say
I am never listening to your show again. I understand
the anger, but what does that say about the three
of us and the work that we put in on
the show.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The fact that we are friends of Winny's.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Right, It's like, you know, okay, if that's your decision,
that's okay. But it's the need to tell me. It's
to tell me in the talk packs like Justin, it
is messed up what they did to Winnie. I am
never listening again.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Wow. So that means none of us meant anything.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
They're punishing us for it when we didn't have anything
to do with it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
And that's the part that gets me, like, it's not
as if, you know, it's not as if. First of all,
I was in talk about surprises, I was in Africa.
I had no idea until I was on the phone
with you. Yeah, and you you hung up on me,
and I'm like standing there in the bush with the
phone in my hand. I said, Justin just cut me off.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, I said, holy shit.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And I know that came after it, because then I
had to text you and say, O, yeah, dude, you're
scaring me. Well and then ten minutes later, holy shit,
and I'm like what happened. So that's how much of
a surprise it was to us, And you need to
understand this is a giant company, okay, a giant corporation.
It came down from headquarters. None of us has the
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power to call headquarters and say what are you doing?
We can't there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And there's like what are some of these people are
leaving like talkbacks over and over again. Yeah, and some
of them will say like, you're not protesting enough, you're
not speaking up enough. Hey, they didn't ask us. I
just did it. And then afterwards, like I remember, I
said to him like did it have to be done? Yes?
It did. Okay, So you know I called Winnie, you know,
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talking to Annie. We're upset with you know, she's crying
where like what the hell? And then the show continues
on it sucks and.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All we can do is stand side by side with
Winnie and help her as much as we can to
land her next gig. And you know what, she could
very likely be rehired by this company. They made it clear,
yes you're definitely rehirable. But this is a wave of
cutbacks that are going through the country, the company nationwide.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It is YEP.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I just wanted to thank you guys for making that
after show podcast using your words in your time to
explain what happened, because everybody likes to hear that and
get an explanation. And Winnie will miss you. We already do.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I talked to her at length yesterday, well throughout the
whole thing, and too she seems to me in good spirits,
I mean, as best you can be, you know. I
think she's going to be just fine.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh god, will she ever?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Because I said to her yesterday, I go, Winnie, I
know you're like nervous and scared, but who loves money
more than you. She's gonna make that money on after It. Yeah,
And by the way, it would be fool I think
it would be foolish for someone else in Boston another
media company pick her up. It's on the Globe on
Boston dot Com the story. Yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
She knows it and she'll work it because that's what
she's great.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Absolutely absolutely well, Bill, thank you so much for two
days of the after Show. I know you have a
food television show, I mean a radio show.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, God, food for Thought by the way, Sunday nights
on WBZ News Radio at six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
God, it's like, what don't you do like my my
Pentucket bank. Who is my bank? Right? I work with
them here at the radio station. Hit me up yesterday. Hey,
we're gonna be at this north Shore event. They're honoring
Billy Costa there next week, then a woman. We're way
to work today. I'm busy and I hear come to
the Box Center celebration this Sunday hosted by Billy cost Yeah,
it's their one.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Hundred year anniversary at the Box Center. So I get
to see Ernie Bach. I'll be introducing him on stage.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's kind of cool, awesome, awesome. We'll get ready for
your food radio show and everyone else. I can't promise that.
Then after show tomorrow, we're busy. We got stuff to do.
But next week the big Friday show. Yeah, maybe we'll
get Lisa on. May we get some some surprise guests on.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And well it's haircut day for you.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It is eleven o'clock. Thank you. That's a winning thing.
That's a winning would say every Thursday. She knew, thank you, Bill. God,
you just need you to have a piece of winning
right therech turn the TV off. You know what. We're
gonna get Riley on next week to get her side
of the story. So everyone else have a great day
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