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October 16, 2025 • 12 mins
This can't be real - two days in a row of Uncle Bill?!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome into the After Show podcast. This is

(00:03):
justin here but by myself, well not really. Billy Costa
just stepped into the building. Billy, two days in a
row on the After Show.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Bro?

Speaker 4 (00:11):
What are you doing? Man? What do you want some
of this bonus money that we get?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
No, I had a question for you actually concerning the
billion Lisa Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the after Show, right it is.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm not pleased with this little relationship you've got going
on with producer.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Riley, the work relationship.

Speaker 3 (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,

(00:52):
every studio pretty much has a pretty good sized TV screen,
flat screen, as do I. 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 4 (01:06):
Very important.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Okay, so this morning during the show, Now, I always
like to have.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
The TV on in the studio in the event heaven forbid.
You know, we always have.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
It on one of the national networks, and in case
something happens in the news, something big, and we're on it.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
So I turned Riley this morning and said, hey, could
you snap on the TV? I want to make sure
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,

(01:45):
Billy wants the TV on. I know you don't want
the TV on. I don't get what your thing is
about my TV. When you've got your own on during
the show.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm fine. I don't get distracted.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
One time, I think over the years, I did, and
you've turned it on me.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
He said, no, turn it off. Do not allow him
to have his TV on.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Okay, are you done?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Not quite, but go ahead, Okay. Have you ever heard
the phrase proud dad moment?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Of course, I've had plenty of those.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
That's what this is for me.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
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, with
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.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
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.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's Boston Blue.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's all about Boston, and Donnie is going to be
coming back on our show.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So I just wanted to see if he was on.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I could come in here and say to you, by
the way, justin Donnie is on the Mark and Kelly
show right now.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
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

(03:17):
attention drift to the TV, which is okay because Billy
is a professional and you've been doing this for how
many years?

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Right?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
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, the hell
is joy Bear wearing on the view.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Whatever the fuck her name is.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's what you do, Okay, But here's my main problem.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
First of all, it is the Billy and list the
morning show a b producer Riley, Like, what else is
she deciding?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
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 4 (04:10):
You're a priority?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Your prairie is has 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
of this program. Right, Instead, she chose to watch me
walk out the door and then get on the phone
with you.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah. Well she came in to me even worse.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yes, so now she's talking behind my back.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, she just didn't know what to do.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
She came in and she says you shouldn't come in
and say, hey, I gotta tell you this, Like she cares.
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 3 (04:53):
Well you gotta like you know you're gonna eat your
vegetables before you get up away from the table.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
By the way, are you eating my vegetables?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
I eat throws before I eat anything else. Perfect, okay, perfect,
what if we settled here? 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 live,
it goes off.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
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 4 (05:21):
No, no money.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
I don't want your money.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't want well, actually, you can give the money
to Riley because lord, no, she makes ten dollars an hour.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Okay, anytime I violate, yes, I will give Riley ten dollars.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Perfect, A little cheap there for someone a mistake.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's like ten bucks put a price on when the
as the time you got a ten dollar bill in
your pocket.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Okay, I'll give her a twenty perfect Okay every time.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I violate, Yeah, okay, this is that's good. Now I
have to pay to be on the job.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, you need to pay attention and because 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 3 (06:08):
So now I have to go home and decide is
it worth twenty dollars a violation to Okay, give her
producer Riley and she's working herself now she's an apology
would be not.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Now she's doing the podcast.

Speaker 3 (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 rule.
By the way, that's what Riley's doing right now because
the podcast can't have music.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Even the billiing Lisa one, so she.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Has to remove any and all music that we featured.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
On the Imagine Imagine.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
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.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Now it's fifty dollars it should be. Yeah, you know what,
let's just leave the TV.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's why, you know, 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 5 (07:05):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (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.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
It sucks. It does nothing worse.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
It does, it does. And I get this is my
thing on it, right.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
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 3 (07:39):
Well. I choose 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.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, between me and when.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, I read them all. I see them to 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

(08:13):
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.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
That's okay, But it's the need to tell me.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
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 4 (08:48):
They're punishing us for when we didn't have anything to
do with it.

Speaker 3 (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.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I said, Justin just cut me off.

Speaker 4 (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, yeah, dude, you're scaring me.
Well I just hang up and then ten.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
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 power to call headquarters and say what
are you doing? We can't there's.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Nothing we can do, 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,
they just did it. And then afterwards, like I remember,
I said to him like did it have to be done?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yes? It did.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Okay, So you know I called Winnie, you know, talking
to Whennie we're upset with you know, she's crying wherever sat,
like what the hell? And then the show continues on.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
It sucks and 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 you're definitely rehirable. But this is a
wave of cutbacks that are going through the country, the
company nationwide.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
It is yep.

Speaker 5 (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 4 (10:35):
Yeah, 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.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
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. Well, 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.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
It's on the Globe on Boston dot Com the story.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, you know, and 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 3 (11:14):
Yeah, God food for Thought by the way, Sunday nights
on WBZ News Radio at six o'clock.

Speaker 4 (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 moment, we're going
to work today.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I'm busy and I hear come to the Box Center
celebration this Sunday hosted by Billy cost Yeah, it's their.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
One hundred year anniversary at the Box Center. So I
get to see Ernie Bach. I'll be introducing him on stage.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's kind of.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
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 MAB. We get some some surprise guests on
and well it's haircut day for you. It is eleven o'clock.
Thank you, that's a winny thing. That's a winning would
say every Thursday. She knew, thank you, Bill. God, you

(12:07):
just need me to have a piece of winny right there.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Ry you snitch, turn the TV off?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
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 by
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