Billy & Lisa in the Morning
Winnie Was Late Today, What's Her Excuse?
The Billy & Lisa crew cover a whole bunch of topics during today’s show, and we kicked it all off by talking about Billy’s annoying dream and the women calling the Red Sox game yesterday! Then, we talked about the scary and tragic collapse in Iceland! Winnie was in fact late to work today so we decided to take a talk backers suggestion and talk about the worst excuses to use to get out of work for Topic Time. Listen to Billy & Lisa Weekdays From 6-10AM on Kiss 108 on the iHeartRadio app!
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This morning show in Boston. Billy and Lisa in the morning. It's just a great start to my day. On KISS 108. Well, good morning everybody. And a happy Tuesday to you, the entire team here, ready to go. Billy here. Lisa here. Justin here. Winnie here. There's producer Riley in the Command Center. So, I didn't get a drop of rain yesterday and I was ready for the severe storms that were going to kill us all. Well, you're lucky because there are a lot of people who got them. My son was stuck like going over the born bridge like during that massive storm. He actually pulled over to the side of the road. Yeah, that was the danger zone. Yeah, it was really bad. He couldn't see anything. Wow. And the flooding, the Cape and the South Coast. You know what the South Coast is? I do know. New Bedford. We got rain in Milton, but we didn't get like the severe storms that they all got. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't get much to Salem, New Hampshire, and I took down all the tents too. Yeah, we did too. So, yeah. And there was nothing the sun was on. It went south. What do you mean when you say all the tents? Do you have a campsite? No, I have multiple, you know, tables with the... Can't be. The can't be. Oh, like umbrellas. Yeah, the umbrellas. Yeah. Yeah, we took ours down too. And nothing. Yeah, you want to tie things down. I was worried though. I was worried for my son driving and that. Oh, yeah. I was really worried. Look at the right thing that we pulled over. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, the Cape and the South Coast got hit hard. Yeah. What's today going to be like least? Nice. Just nice, warm, mix of sun and clouds, 80s. And then back to hot and humid tomorrow. Yep. Okay. And Labor Day weekend's coming up this weekend. Mm-hmm. And of course, 900 million people are going to be traveling. We're already hearing that. Thursday is the busiest travel day of the Labor Day weekend. So you've got to brace yourself for that. What's going on? Lisa, you've got a big book club event tomorrow night. Yeah, that's happening. Where's it happening? Johnson, Maine. And you're all coming. Six o'clock. Erin Gates is the special author guest. She's from Boston. Uh-huh. So it'll be fun. Can anybody still get in? If you want to go just DM me. I have my own personal guest list going. But it's going to be a packed house. So we'll have a great night. Yeah, the entire morning show. If need be, you can just have us sit outside the actual store. Well, it is a furniture store. So there are a lot of places to sit. [LAUGHTER] Well, that's convenient. Exactly. Yeah, so it's actually bought furniture there. I know. It's a great store. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. So it's six to eight, right? It's six to eight, yeah. So what time does the, is it the reception cocktail thing? Like from six to six forty-five. Yeah. That's where you mingle. You mix and mingle. Exactly. And 90 plus sellers will be pouring their delicious wine for us. Oh. And they're rosé persecco. Absolutely. Yeah. I want to ask everybody if you've ever experienced this because it tends to happen to me a lot. Okay? Have you ever fallen asleep at night and somehow through the entire night you have a soundtrack playing in your head? [MUSIC] And I'm not even kidding. He's been talking about this since four AM. It happens to me during the day. Like I've been walking around singing the Morgan Wallen Post Malone song. I had some golf like all day, but not when I go to sleep. It leaves me. Well, last night, and again, this happens all the time and pretty frequently this particular song is in my head as I'm sleeping. Oh, you've had multiple dreams with the same song? Yes. You know what the song is? Don't stop believing by journey. Don't stop. What on earth? Like where does that come from? It's a good song. You're a dreamer, Bill. I mean, I got up. I was in the shower and the song was still in my head. So what happens is I listen now. It's still there. Well, what happens to me is, and I'm sure it happens to you guys, if I'm on, you know, social media or on my phone before I go to bed, the last song that I hear sometimes will end up in my dream and I'll wake up singing that song. Wow. Did you hear that song at all yesterday? Not to my knowledge. Oh, you're a strange fellow. When that song was big, did it become a song of summer? I don't know, Bill. You're the only one that was. Oh, good point. Alive. Yeah. That's not true. I asked that question because we are asking everybody to vote the songs of summer. Right? That's going on right now. We kicked it off yesterday. Yeah. It's on the Kiss Instagram. It's on the pin post. You can go there. And in the comments are all the songs, and then you vote by liking which one you think is going to be the song of summer. Yeah. I think it's going pretty well. Well, for some it is. For others, not so much. Some songs got no votes or one vote. Really? I'm looking around and looking right now. Of course. Of course. What the song of summer is, we called it months ago. Yeah. So the two top ones are espresso, of course, not one. And then chapel, round, good luck, babe. We love them. I love them. Yeah. Let's look at some of the losers, though. Poor Teddy swims. Yeah, because it's not. Look at one like. It's a good song, but it's not like singing summer. Okay. Like I don't know. Yeah. It's going to have kind of a happy sound to it. Young, young Tommy Richmond, million dollar baby. One like. Wow. And do a leap. Do a leap has two songs. One illusion got six, it has six so far, and Houdini has three so far. You know, I think that is. She's put out the same song 87 times. Yeah. Pretty much. You know what I mean? There's no one track, but I feel like if you're not into her, then you're not into it. Well, she should have had the song of summer last year, right? With the Barbie movie song. She might have did. She did. Yeah. Okay. So anyway, where do people go to vote? The kids want to wait. Instagram. Instagram. That's the very first post. You cannot miss it. Oh, wow, though. That is the top three here. I think probably our top three now. I think so. Yeah. So for those of you that have not voted, go vote now and then we'll update it. Just after eight o'clock this morning and I've got a movie people should watch. I landed on a movie completely by surprise yesterday, vanished into the night. What? What? Like where? No, it's not a creepy movie. I know what you're thinking. It was on Netflix. It's on Netflix. Yeah. Okay. Vansished into the night. You won't know any of the actors or actresses or maybe you will. I didn't, but a really, really good movie. It took me by surprise. Okay. There's a hot tip for you, but we're coming up on entertainment. We have a lot to talk about, not the least of which is your Boston Red Sox on the good news for the first time ever history made women broadcasters in the Red Sox booth last night. And you went to the game last night and Dylan tell us. That was pretty funny. Wow. Look at you. Did you get that Riley Riley's looking at what does she mean? Actually, I think one of the girls was named Riley, right? Oh, yeah. Not our Riley. Can't hear us. Because remember her. Oh, work. She wasn't fit. She's in silent. Yeah. She's not being nobody fixed. That's a real big story behind the air. It's a big story. Yeah. She's producing a show that she cannot hear. Yeah. Imagine that. It's a super power. Yeah. That's amazing how she does it. It's like it's telepathic. I still really believe they don't know where on the air. Yeah. I'm telling you, I'm not even kidding when I say that. Anyway, entertainment is up next. And bye. From the Planet Fitness Kids 108 Studios, we're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning on his 108. Hey guys, welcome back and happy Tuesday. So something happened to be yesterday and I felt the need to immediately call Lisa. You know, I do TV in the New England area. And so we're shooting an episode of the show, by the way, Dining Playbork on Ness and Saturday mornings at nine, Sunday nights at nine. You know, it suddenly hit me a couple of weeks ago. You know, I haven't worn TV makeup in well over 10 years. It's just, who cares? You're so handsome. You don't need it. I mean, no, it's just who cares. And then suddenly I decided, I don't know, somebody talked me into buying this little makeup thing. So he got his face done. He got his colors done. Yeah. So I stopped at the house yesterday when I left here because we were going to shoot some promos for the show, too, for the new season. And so I said, Hey, you know what? I'll go home and I'll put on like a suit, you know. So I go home and I said, Oh, you know what? Let me get that little makeup thing out that I got. So I start using the makeup and I like puts some of the makes it like lipstick and the base of my hand in the palm of my hand. And then I'm like doing it. As I add to hell with it, well, I forgot the makeup was still in the palm of my hand. So I put this suit on, by the way, this was a very expensive suit. I put the suit on. I get in the car and the grease makeup was all over the suit. Like, I mean, it was all over the suit and nothing would be a wet towel. Nothing butged it. So then Billy goes, where do you think that suit is right now, Donna? You win the trash? The dumpster. Yeah, very expensive suit. Wow. Go to the dry cleaner. No, because I just felt so angry at myself that I felt like I needed to be punished. So I said, you know what? I'm putting it in the dumpster. So now somebody's going to go win the dumpster and say, Hey, look at this, what dumpsters I'm going to get some lucky person will get it. Yeah. I'm sure it's been picked up. You win the makeup. Oh man. It was three days. I was so angry. And then I went upstairs and put another suit on and I come back down in the car and I forgot that the makeup was also all over my phone. And now it's like staying in another suit. Well, it's been horrible. It's been a while, right? Yeah. It's been a while. But shout out to Lisa Donovan. Donovan for helping you out with the makeup. The candid microphone. No one ever knows when he's talking into the candid microphone. I don't like the way I look now. What do you want me to do? I didn't know if you knew some place I could go. Yeah. Well, are you just looking for bass and rouge? Whatever. I don't know. Well, TV stations. I know. Well, the TV stations for years had makeup people in studio for us. All she kept doing throughout the entire weekend was put more makeup on my face. I needed a chisel to get it off. But at the end of my phone. Now the entertainment update with the billy cost of Earth to you have that. That was a private conversation with Lisa. Not anymore. Ah, seven, ten this morning. We've got Billy Eilish tickets. All you need to do is be call a twenty five and know the key word and you'll get the tickets. And don't forget we're asking everybody to vote on the songs of summer. Twenty twenty four. Go to the kiss one oh eight Instagram page to vote. Okay, because you really want to vote. It's time to vote. Voting is the most important part of being an American got a vote you get out there and vote songs of summer NFL having to cut the rosters down Patriots in fact cut 14 players yesterday. More expected to be cut by four o'clock today as the court of it back fight continues down it to Gillette stadium by the way Carrie Underwood has the new theme song for Sunday night football. We got. It sounds like the same song from last year. But when she go back in studio with a new dress, you know what she puts put on some new makeup. Yeah, I'm by the way Carrie Underwood has a Vegas residency starting in October. I know you love Vegas one eight Vegas. So history was made out at Fenway Park last night. Women handled the play by play for parts of the game out at Fenway Riley pay and Emma Tiedemann from the Portland Sea dogs calling some of the. Oh, this one drilled into center field. Locker Fido turns that one is gone. Sharon Jeran demolishes a two run blast to dense center fields and the socks within two in the bottom of the eight. Fantastic job. Nicely done. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Talk long enough. First time ever women did some of the play by play out at Fenway Park. Red Sox, by the way, have lost five games in a row. They're crumbling. Not a good time for slop. No. No. I don't think it's looking very good now for that wild card. Well, if you're feeling lucky, though, Jordan is still doing that furniture deal where you can buy. Okay. The world series. You get free furniture. Okay. What's the deal? That if they win, you get your furniture for free. Yeah. If you win the World Series, they're not even going to be a wild card. Yeah, I think you need to save your money because they're paying that furniture bill. Yeah. And they still do the kids eat free after they win. Oh, Ryan, I remember when I worked at 99, they won like every. We would go. Yeah. I'm like, Oh my God. Another one. Oh, it was. We used to go all the time when they were really hot. Yeah. Because kids eat free. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's take advantage of the Jordan seal of no 99, of course, when the boys were little at the server. No, you get the ice cream sandwich. Yeah. We take them home. Yeah. They have ice cream sandwiches. For dessert. For dessert. The kids. Yeah. What do you get when you go down? I get a salad. You have to go to the 99. Everybody has a party. You get a salad. But then the kids get the big tatock. It's delicious. What's on the menu for you, Winnie? Oh, golfing for wings every time. I can bathe in it. The wangs. Wangs, baby. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. This is a strange story. You have some information on this list. Mariah Carey says her mom and her sister died on the same day this past weekend. Yeah. There's not a whole lot out there as to what happened to her sister, Alison Carey, and her mother, Patricia. But I know that Alison has been sick for a while. She's in her early sixties. Mm-hmm. So, you know, it could just be, you know, a complication to not being well. I don't know about the mother. The mother was 87. Oh, right. So, but it's just the timing of it is so strange. I wish them, you know, the best. The way she said it, she said in a tragic turn of events. Right. You know, it wasn't like, oh, they were both sick or what I felt like it was. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. They're not saying. Yeah. Wasn't Mariah feuding with her sister? She was. Yeah. Yeah, they were a strange sister. Suitor. Yeah. For millions. Oh, my. Because of the book or the memoir. Some money or something. Sean Kingston and his mom. Speaking of moms. I'm guessing you've seen the video. Oh, yeah. Oh, right. Sean Kingston and his mom had to appear in court yesterday on the fraud charges. They were buying all kinds of luxury items and just not paying for them. And we've got a clip reporters caught them running from the courthouse and we've got them. Oh, and it looks ridiculous. Running like that, man. Come on. Come on. Put that up. Wait. Sean Kingston really hasn't been the same since he slammed in and went cement wall with the Jetski. No, no. Never recovered. That was like the end. Yeah. You know what else he was doing to get this jewelry? He was promising the business that Justin Bieber would promote their their friend. It's crazy. Because they did a song literally what like 10, 12 years ago and they were cool. They had to hang out a lot. Yeah. They actually got together backstage at a jingle ball. I think Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber were both in the lineup and they talked backstage and the next thing you know, they had a collaboration out, which was pretty cool. OJ's kids are having jewelry made from his ashes. Cremation jewelry. That's like a popular thing now. It is. I don't know. I was watching this thing interview about ashes and cremating and they were saying a lot of times you don't even, you don't even know who's ashes. Yeah. Oh, it's a mix of ashes. Yeah. They get mixed up. Oh, you have to. I think you have to pay more for them to be along. They're done by it. Yeah. Otherwise they do it with other people. So most of the time your earn is a combination of other people's ashes. Especially with dogs. It could be. With animals? That's a big thing, you know. Please don't tell me that. I know. I know I start. Bailey and Bessie's ashes at home. Did you pay extra? Uh, not to my knowledge, but it was a whole thing. You're not really offered the opportunity to play extra. We just did what they told us to do for Nicholas. I need to know more about this. Is this real? Oh, yeah. There's a loosey. All ashes I have at home. You have loosey and lucky things. It could be a combination. Yeah. But we love all dogs. We do. So we have a piece. We have a couple dogs with you. Bill's got a whole dog pound in there. He does. He's good. Now that I think of it, I have multiple earns at home. Yeah. But you know what? It's okay. It's about the memory. It's not necessarily about that. Of course it's true. Because you walk by and you give them a thought. That's right. You know. Uh, so we've been talking a lot about Channing Tatum. Haven't we? You have. You have. Here's us. We haven't talked about Channing Tatum in years. It's just you. Uh, well, because he's hanging out with Taylor Swift now. Was he at the big party in Rhode Island? I think he was. He was there. They're saying he was there, but he wasn't photographed. Yeah, I didn't say any pictures. That's what I read. The movie came out last weekend, Blink twice. And here's the story with him. He says he hates doing laundry so much that he bought an entire year's worth of clothing. He can't pay for a laundry service. He just does. There's wash and phone places that'll exist where you didn't want to. Okay. By the way, the wash and fold I remember is being one of the best deals on earth. It is. But yeah, here's Channing. I had one year that I called the year the Fresh White Tea. And I don't think I did laundry all year that year. And I just wore white t-shirts that I just bought. I get like two wears out of this week. This is gonna be good. The year the Fresh White Tea, '90 and under 2000. No, he's getting a little weird. Not very green. Oh, well, he did say that was 2000. Oh, okay. So long time. Yeah. Yeah, I had a friend that used to buy brand new socks every single day. Right. I remember you saying that. Yeah. Yeah. And then he would donate the socks though. Oh, that's good. He would donate his used socks to his body. It was only warm once. He just liked the feeling of putting on a clean pair of socks. There you go. It is a good feeling. Yeah. Shout out to Channing Tatum. I would love for him to do my laundry. We are, I'm feeling very giddy this one. I really are. I had a lot going on. It's the makeup everybody's emotions are running high. We're brought to my Boston vision. Are you tired of fumbling for the glasses wrestling with the contact lenses? Say goodbye to blurry vision and say hello to clarity with the LASIK surgery from Boston vision. The team at Boston vision is really the place where the pros go to get their LASIK, including our own head coach. They're doing the Patriots. Gerard Mayo. He's now 2020. Thanks to his LASIK. So why wait book a free no obligation evaluation today at Boston vision.com and tell them coach Mayo sent you. It's a 300 bucks off your procedure. And there you go. Yeah. What up? This show. Thanks to AKA. Mr. My space. And I'm hanging with Billy Costa. From the Planet Fitness Kiss 108 studios, we're back with a Billy and Lisa in the morning on Kiss 108. Yeah, we're back and we've got tickets for Billy Eilish. Right now, caller 25 at 617-931-1108, you're going to need the key word and the key word to produce a rally is going to be collapsed. Police in Iceland called off a search today for two tours that they thought were missing after an ice cave collapsed killing one tours. Now they say they have accounted for everyone in the group. When the cave collapsed, one person was killed, another seriously injured both Americans. Authorities say 23 people were in that tour group. At first, they thought it was 25. Police say there was misleading information about how many people were on the trip. They concluded it was just a mistake in recording. Now you ask yourself, boy, why are they focused on the ice collapse in Iceland? Well, as it turns out, that specific tour in Iceland, the Donovan family was going on and they canceled on you last month. It's a super jeep tour and you go to the ice caves. That's what you do. It's a big tourist thing. A lot of people do it. I told the story. Back a few weeks ago that ours had been just sort of quickly canceled and they said it was because of dangerous gas levels. Sure. And you drove two and a half hours just to get there. You drive from Reykjavik many hours to get to this place because you have to do the glaciers. That's where the glaciers are. So when I saw this story and my husband saw this story, I literally had a sick feeling in my stomach because we were walking on glaciers. We ended up finding another glacier to sort of walk on ourselves. And I have to tell you, at one point, one of the guides coming down from the mountain, the Glacier Mountain, said to us, "You guys are in a really dangerous area. You need to get off of there." So I'm telling you, one American died on the way. And his girlfriend. And this could have been the Donovan's. Absolutely. It just collapsed right underneath their feet. And Justin, let me ask you something. If there is one person that you know that would fall victim to a glacier collapse, who would it be? Hi. This is Tim from Milton. Oh my God. That's Lisa. We talked about it when we were on it. Tim said, "Can you imagine?" Yeah. And you don't even realize it because it's covered in this black. It looks like dirt. So you think you're walking on ground, but you're not. You're actually walking on solid ice. So this same exact tour that people were just killed in Iceland was the exact tour. You drove two and a half hours to get to when they canceled it. Never Jeep a tour of the ice caves. Oh, Iceland's really beautiful, but a dangerous place. You hit the volcanoes. Yeah. Glacious collapsing. Well, they call it the living land, that's what they say. And things can happen. It's a living and breathing. By the way, somebody asked me the other day, "Did you guys ever confront the volcano? Did you get close to the volcano or see that?" We did. We saw the lava from the fissure. It's more of a fissure that erupts underneath the ground. And it really closed off the whole road to the, like, going to a town near the Blue Lagoon. And we definitely saw all of that black, like, charred, you know, lava. Sure. Mm-hmm. So you were facing death in the entire vacation? Yeah, it was. It's a magnificent place, but obviously very dangerous sometimes. Very dangerous. Yeah. Let's go to Christine. Hey, Christine, where are you calling from? Oh, hi. Good morning. I'm actually calling from Hampstead, New Hampshire. Well, that's right next to me and tell them to Hampshire. Yes. Well, Christine, you got to get over to Justin's house. Everybody from New Hampshire goes there. I mean, it's open to everybody. My best. Yeah. Yeah. Come on over. He's got bouncy houses and tents and swimming pools and toys and blow up swans. He's got it all. But Christine, I need a cold board. Do you have one? Sure. It is collapsed. Collapse. Yeah. Yeah. So, Christine, that's good. Now you got tickets for Billie Eilish. This is very exciting. You got to hold on and is Riley able to speak with her? Yes. Our producer, Riley, can take care of that. Okay, good. Her studio is broken. It's offline. It's offline right now. It's almost like she's being held prisoner in there because she can't communicate with anyone. Well, she can see us. So, I kind of, like, I text her or, like, sign to her, but she can't hear the show. You know what the best part is? So, this is a whole thing behind the scenes. I know I listen to this. Don't care. Don't forget to management and said we need this fix. She's producing our show. And you know what their solution was? To put her in a studio on the other side of the building. Yeah. Which she can't even see the show that they're producing. Yeah. That was their answer. Well, you know, they're doing what they can. Crazy. Anyway, coming up next, we're going to let one of our listeners pick the topic of the day. This might be a first, and we encourage your participation. That's next. Billie and Lisa. I don't know if you guys take topics, suggestions anymore, but I got a good one that I should think you will go viral about. I know I have a very, very long list of them from my brother's work and some from my work. But a topic of most insane, crazy excuses of either why you're late to work or can't make it to work that day. Because I don't know what's been going on lately, but people have had the most insanely stupid excuses. That's actually a good topic. It is a good one. It is a good one. That's funny enough, I have this list here of the most believable excuses for pulling a sicky, you know, when you call it sick, we'll run through these now. So a number one is the vomiting bug. That's obvious. Yeah. You know, I got a stomach bug. Throwing up. Number two is a virus, which is similar to the to the vomiting bug. Three. Oh, period cramps. Yep. That's real. Would you say that though? I mean, some women get very very bad. Oh, I know. But would you say something else? Or would you say that? I would say it. I would tell you. I mean, but I'm thinking I'm telling you guys. I would tell you guys. Winnie tells us every time she has her period and she walks in and blurts it out. Yeah. We know every month when it's her time. Yeah. I think I would just say I had tummy troubles. I wouldn't be specific. Yeah. There you go. But I got tummy troubles enough to skip work. Okay. Depending on what they are, yes, because if you have to go to the bathroom or if you're throwing up, you want to want to get that to somebody, and too, like for us, we're sitting in a studio. Like we don't, we can't leave you to the bathroom. I barely get to pee some days. I usually come in any in all conditions. Yeah. We're talking about normal people. Right. We have a weird job. Number four, with food poisoning, that's, you know, yeah, yeah. Five, a migraine, I have a headache. Some people really suffer with migraines like they do. They do. They can't even get out of bed. That's true. Lady Gaga. Six, this happened to me actually recently, a burst water pipe. But do you skip work? That's it. They're saying that's a believable excuse. Okay. Seven. This is disgusting. Lice. Oh my. Well, the kids bring it home. That's how you get it. The kids bring it home. And if you're calling with a lice excuse, they don't want you to come again. Not at all. And finally, number eight, urinary tract infection. Well, that's, oh, UTI. Yeah. Yeah. Not again. That feels like. Yeah. That's excruciating. Yeah. I'm going to get it more than that, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. That's a legitimate excuse. Yeah. Have you ever used an excuse bill to call in sick? Not that I can remember if I did, maybe a long time ago. I have to say, when I was working in PR, and this was actually a true story, it wasn't an excuse. It actually happened to me and I'm completely embarrassed. I got so sunburned one time, we were living in Quincy and I was laying in my backyard that I legitimately could not go to work the next day because I was in so much pain. I'm still embarrassed to this day because of that. And you told them that. I told them. I said, I can't come to work. I literally can't put clothes on. I was burned down to the bone. Yeah. It was awful. Wow. So that was a legit, legit. Yeah. Yeah. But stupid and embarrassing. Yeah. That's like saying, I spent too much time at the beach yesterday, so I can't come to work. Or I got so wasted last night. I can't wake up. Yeah. For a lot of people, sometimes it's like over partying, especially on a Monday, right? Can be hard too. I remember, you know, years ago, anytime that I ever called in sick, I would have someone else calling for me because I felt like that was more believable. You detached himself from me from the lie. Yeah. Yeah. I involved a family member. I remember your mommy call. I remember having my mom. Yeah. I worked at OPEC Steakhouse. Oh, you guys. I was a French fry guy. Oh, yeah. I had to go in in the morning with the potatoes and put them in the little device and I legit just make French fries all day long. Where was that? It was at OPEC Steakhouse. So you worked at Outback and Friendly's? Yeah. So your career was a line cook. Yeah. Yeah. Outback was quick, though. I ended up losing the job because I faked a fall and they caught me and it was just, it was bad. You know what's funny about that, though? In a lot of movies, you'll see the guy who was in prison and is now a line cook. It's very common. But then the current crooks all go to truck them out of working so they can come do another job. Yeah. It's a common job. Yeah. That's why I worked there. I have another list here of the least believable excuses for calling calling. Oh, here we go. These are the ones I want. Okay. So number one, my hamster died. Oh, yeah. Pet illness. Yeah. Come on. You know what I'd say if I were the boss, you know what? Just come in and get your check. Yeah. Yeah. You're done here. Oh, my grandmother died. But only if you've used it more than once three dropped a can of beans on my big toe. I think it's broken. I did that once. I dropped a can of food on my big toe on my second toe. Still doesn't still not right. Yeah, toes are tough. Doesn't grow back. Those are tough. Yeah. My girlfriend, wife, boyfriend bit me in a rather delicate place. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Five, I have had a hair dye disaster. That would happen to Billy. I feel like. Okay. Sometimes you put a little dye in the hair. Maybe you'd have a little mishap. I told you that. Well, it's well, it's it's widely known. Six, the dog ate my shoes. Yeah. That's old school. And finally, the only shoes you want. Right. That's the bigger problem. Yeah. It's on the list here. Old fish has had babies and I need to babysit them. Yeah. Okay. That's okay. These are ridiculous. You don't work here anymore. These are excuses that have been used, by the way. Wow. Yeah. So that's why we're talking about it for a topic. You know what one I would never accept as a boss, you know, because it's too common when they say, oh, my alarm didn't go off. But you know what? Stay home. Well, speaking of which, okay, we had a little mishap this morning, which actually fits why we chose this topic from this listening. Oh. Our own Winnie. The clock did not go off this morning. She used that as an excuse. It was true. I wasn't lying. I fell asleep in the couch last night. I woke up at like 1230 or one. I had my alarm set and I was like, oh, no, listen, listen, listen to this. Okay. So I couldn't fall back to sleep. It was like that one to three window where I'm like, I need to just get up because if I fall back to sleep, I'm not. So my first alarm for like three 30, it goes to like four 15. So I set an extra alarm knowing I was going to sleep through the other alarms, but I set it for four 30 p.m. Oh, God. I always do that. Yeah. Yeah. Because I was half as free. Yeah. And I woke up at five. I will go back at five 12. Just do us a favor. Never use that. Yeah, because it's an alarm clock. It's your fault. It is my fault. Just say you needed more sleep. I did. I feel actually feel pretty better yet. Just don't come in. Just wait a minute, sending you on a free. That was my bad. Sorry. All right. Topic time is coming up next 617 931 1108. Join the conversation. What's the craziest excuse you've used or heard for someone calling and sick? You can call us or leave a talk back on the iHeart app when you're listening. Hit that red microphone and join the conversation. Topic time is next. And we got the topic from a listener this time around. We're looking for the best and worst excuses to get out of work or to be late for work. We had some good ones earlier this morning. But now let's go to the phones and Donna, what have you got for us? Well, it's a number of years ago and a woman actually called in sick because she had flat Oh, and she admitted that. Wow. Oh, like raging farts? She didn't give me details. Oh. She wanted gas. It's kind of like, what do you say to that, right? That's a boss. Actually, that's goofy, but I think that's legit. I don't want you coming in. Yeah, but that's the same thing with stomach things too, right? Anything stomach-related? Do you want them coming in? I guess. But if the stomach things are showing themselves in the form of farts, it's a little constant. If I was a boss, I would say, why don't you come in and just, you know, just keep away from us. Just think up the whole building. No, I mean that happens. I mean, I would probably just say I have stomach issues. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like stomach pain. Yeah. So this topic actually came from one of our listeners. She sent in a talk back as a suggestion, which we do encourage, and now she wants to introduce herself. She's all excited. We use our topics. Oh, okay. I can probably introduce myself. I'm going to call myself TalkBacker AP. But I was the one who left the talk back about the moonshine wedding story yesterday, and I am also the talk backer who we used for. They get to pick the topic. And let's just say I'm a little hyped. I'll keep them coming. Thank you. Love you guys. Thank you. All right. So we thank her for this topic about flatulence. No, no, no. She came up with a topic about excuses for being late. Yeah, okay. Yeah, about being late, you know, calling in a sicky, you know, but what happens when like something crazy happens and you have to call in sick, but it's true, but it doesn't sound believable. We're talking about stupid reasons for being late or missing work. I was late once, luckily, not that late, but I woke up an hour after my alarm went off to find out that my cat was laying on top of my phone, muffling the alarm. So I didn't hear it. Luckily, my boss is nice and she just laughed at me. Oh, when he's too bad, he didn't have a cat. He couldn't use that. I never want a cat, especially one that's going to be my bad. No, thank you. But one of the most legitimate excuses for being late is if like your car breaks down on the way to work or flat time. Absolutely. There's nothing you can do. You're you're there. Your car can't move and you're on a highway. Yeah. Yeah, at least. But never use the excuse that there was a lot of traffic. Oh, no. Or you can't use it here because we have the traffic in front of Lisa. Not only that, but I always hate when people say, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm late. There was traffic, there's always traffic. You plan on it. Another thing, if you're going to if you're going to say you're late for work and you call in ahead of time, never be late and show up with a dunk's coffee. All right. See, at that point, we'll do that. Yeah. You're already late. Yeah. I'm not going to lie. I thought about it today, but I was like, no. Oh, if you would have showed up with Dunce. I know. Good morning. So a friend of mine. He is a policeman. I'm not going to tell them I was out drinking too much. Well, he didn't. He didn't. I'm just saying in general, never do that. If you're a cop, it's just not responsible. Let's go to Carla next. Carla, where you calling from, Carla? Brimfield. Oh, my gosh. Brimfield. Yeah. Like the art. The art nantics. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like a stone scroll. Like a stone scroll. That's how. And be honest, Carla, that's really all that goes on in that town, right? Like, once that closes down, I'll accept that. My health. I'm just kidding. Yeah. All right. Oh, OK. So going back many years ago, I was in a different marriage, and it wasn't really that good of a marriage. I always just, I was always late to work because he wouldn't let me go to work sometimes. And I came up with a lot of stuff. But this particular night, because I was a nurse, it was like 11 o'clock trying to get to work. And there were two horses blocking my car. So literally, I couldn't get to work. So literally, one was in, I lived in the country. So I called in, but I was always calling in late to work. And this particular, I was telling the truth. Everything else was all the other times, I was making up stories, and this particular time, it was like, you know, so fast forward, whenever, you know, when, you know, years later, when I got out of that marriage, and somebody came up to me and said, you know, all those excuses and everything like that. But the best one was the horses. And I said, no, that was the truth. Yeah. Now, she said her husband wouldn't let her go to work. No, I think that sounds abusive. I just think it was a bad situation. Yeah. OK. So let's go to Demi. Demi, you're up next. Give us a good one. Hi. Good morning. I heard you say that car excuses are a bad excuse or a good excuse for calling out. I was really short staffed in my office, and one of my sales persons, people called and said, my car's overheating. I need to get a toe. And I said, OK, let me know, you know, when you get there and everything's OK. He's like, yeah, it's going to take a while for them to look at it so I can't come in. And I was in a panic because I didn't have anybody in the office. So I sent him an Uber. He told him he couldn't call out that day. He had to come in. Yeah. When I said car excuse. He was OK with it. Yeah. The car excuse is good if you're going to be late, but I don't think you need to bang out the entire day, you know, get the car towed and go to work. What's next? A chalk back. I have plenty of phone calls. Oh, good. You have to go to Justifers. I'm waiting. OK. Producer Riley is candy captain there. Oh, right. I forgot. Oh, here you go. Here you go. All right. Kim. I got the call from someone. I actually called them because they didn't show up. And they told me they forgot. They had to work, which wouldn't have been weird if they were part-time, but they worked Monday through Friday. It was a Tuesday. Five years they were working Monday through Friday and they forgot they were supposed to work. Wow. That's a good one. Yeah. I appreciate the honesty though. Yeah, I would give them an award for that one. Yeah, honesty is the best policy, as they say. Yeah. I remember years ago when I was in prep school, you know, I would always show up late and they would lock the building at a certain time. So one man you had to enter through the front door, which brought you right by the president's desk. And I came in and said, "I'm sorry. I live on the third floor. My alarm clock fell out the window. I couldn't hear it." When it was going off down on the ground, he said, "Get away from me." Go to class. Yeah. Let's go to April. April, you're up next. Oh, my God. Transient story. It wasn't calling out of work, I was at work. And my great-grandmother called me all out of breath to tell me that she couldn't catch the E-Muse. So she was in the E-Muse pen. I don't know why, but I had to go home and find E-Muse. I'm sorry. You had to find one of the E-Muse. Which she had E-Muse? Yeah. Do you live on a farm? My family is very colorful and my uncle lived next door and he brought home E-Muse one day. So I don't know why my grandmother was in there because there was chickens and goats and E-Muse. Wow. But wait, it gets worse. So not only did I have to leave work and tell them, I needed to go catch an E-Muse. We lost one. So I had to call the police and tell them I lost a six-foot bird. E-Muse. An E-Muse on the run. Did you ever find it? We did find it. But it was like Sergeant Joe Friday that was like, "Yeah, you need to call animal control." And I'm like, "I did. They didn't answer." Somebody was watching E-Muse. Yeah. It's large. It's like an ostrich. It's six feet. Is it yellow? I was like, "Oh, my God. They're going to be fabulous because they think I'm crazy." Boy. Well, thank you. That was an old reference, Captain Joe Friday. No idea what that is. That was from the TV show from the '50s, the FBI or something. Animals can cause you to be late. That's for sure. So I used to work for an Amazon as a dispatcher and one time one of my employees called me and he said that they were going to be late to work because there was currently a bear chewing on his back tire. And it was kind of unbelievable to me until about ten minutes later he sends me a video, a ring video of a bear literally chewing on the back of his tire. [laughter]