Billy & Lisa in the Morning

A Great Game And Good Jobs

We are on vacation, but don't you worry Justin has put together a great show full of some amazing segments we have done! We started the morning hot by talking to a NASCAR driver then chatting about... syphilis? We also played a streaming game and talked summer jobs! Listen to Billy & Lisa Weekdays From 6-10AM on Kiss 108 on the iHeartRadio app!

Duration:: 39m
Broadcast on:: 10 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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It wasn't to us either, but he's a professional NASCAR driver who actually grew up around this area. He's doing big things. And he dropped by, had a big race he had in New Hampshire and turns out he's got a history with our own Billy Costa. Cas Gralla is in studio with us. He is a NASCAR driver. Cas, welcome to the studio. Oh, thanks for having me. I just want to say this is so cool because I grew up going to school at Worcester Academy, driving every day, listening to your morning show my whole life. So this is very cool to be on with you guys. Now, you just mentioned Worcester Academy, right? OK, so I want to start. We're going to get to the drive in the NASCAR and everything else. And all of your sponsors, I love that with the shirts all sponsored. But when you were, I think, 10 years old, I had a show called TV Diner, preceded dining playbook. And, you know, it was a food restaurant show. And occasionally we would offer up fundraisers, charity fundraisers, the opportunity to come on our TV show, go to a restaurant and review that restaurant. And as a very young Cas, you came on the show. We've got a clip, playing. All right, I'm excited. Our Chevrolet Diner for a day is a Cas Gralla. Good to see you, Cas. How are you? Good, Harry. And I know we said to the Eastern Standard and Boston, and you're on assignment and everything. But I'm much more interested. Somebody just told me that you're like a national champion race car driver. I am. And how old are you? 13 years old. How does that happen? You just start when you're really young. I started when I was four racing go-karts and worked my way up the ranks. OK. That's the coolest thing ever. All right. And you were a foodie. That's why your parents paid handsomely for this experience, right? Yeah, I was a foodie. I am a foodie. Absolutely love good food. So nowadays, that means I have to love working out equally as much to balance. Oh, yeah. Well, you probably have to work out to drive these cars, right? Yeah, you absolutely do. You absolutely do. You know, it can be 130, 140 degrees in the car during the summer. For three and a half hours in the work that we're doing in there, steering the pedals. We don't have electronic assists like your street car would have. So the force that we push with our leg is the force that the brakes clamp on the car mechanically. So yeah, these things are very physical. You know what I'm going to recommend, Cass? Ice baths after the drive. We do that. We do that. Yeah. They're already on it. Now, you're in fact the youngest driver to make the NASCAR playoff-- and I think that was, I guess, in 2017. So how old were you then? Do the math? I was 18 years old. Yeah. And I had just graduated with Sir Academy. I had enrolled in college at Georgia Tech for engineering, and I won Daytona. Wow. Became the youngest winner ever. All done. You won the Daytona 500? Well, it was the Daytona 250 at that time. I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. So now I'm in the Cup Series. That's the Daytona 500. At that time, I was in the Truck Series, two levels down. But won that race and got into the playoffs. So I ended up deferring from college a year, defer to another year, defer to another year. At this point, college is kind of on the back burner for me, and I'm chasing this-- chasing a stream and racing that I've always had. That's so cool. And you're living in New Hampshire? No. Living in North Carolina now. Okay. Yeah, that's the hotbed. That's kind of like Nashville is for country music artists. Oh, yeah. They don't even allow you in town unless you drive a race car. It's so gross. You don't think that on the road there, I'm telling you. So I asked Kaz off the air. I said, so how do you drive normally like in a normal car? And what did you like? Well, I said, honestly, I'm pretty slow and boring on the road because-- Really? Yeah. Well, I get that pent up energy out on the weekend. So I guess I don't have that urge to go fast on the road. I get that out. Well, in the real world, what kind of car do you drive? Right now, I drive a Toyota Tacoma because last year I drove to Toyota, but I just made the switch this year to be with Ford. So working on getting a Ford personal vehicle. F-150 or something? Something, yeah. You get a pickup. You're a race car. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Totally. I mean, you walked in the testosterone levels just blew up inside the studio. And his sponsor is Meat and Bone, and the fuck is Queen Bone. I know. It's so good. Now, what kind of car do you drive for NASCAR? I drive a Ford Mustang. Of course. Yep, that's right. Like, what brand, I think, what model Mustang is it like the-- It's the Ford Mustang Dark Horse this year, yeah, a new model. Wow. What I ask you, you see, producer Riley, through the glass there, she's a huge F1 fan. Like, she's got a crush on 10 of the drivers. What's the difference between F1 besides the look of the car? Yeah, the look of the car, the way you have to drive it. But the main difference is the majority of our tracks are ovals. And those guys race only on road courses. Yeah. So that's going to be your main difference. So the driving style is a little bit different, the drivers go through. And because of that, because of the difference in the cars and the tracks, you don't see a lot of crossover. There have been some guys in history that have done one and then the other. But for the most part, you kind of grow up like I did in the stock car lane versus in the open wheel lane, and that kind of becomes your specialty. So it's hard to cross over between the two. Have you ever been in a crash? I've been in-- Oh, when the car flips like several times? I've been lucky, not gone-- I don't know if this is wood, but I have not gone upside down before. Oh, OK. Hoping to keep it that way. Have you ever burst into flames? I don't think that I've burst into flames. I don't think so. Trying to get a history here. How did your family deal with this hobby that turned into a career, right? I think my mom loses years off her life pretty often. But no, they've been super supportive of it. They've loved it since I was young. My dad used to race cars before I was born and when I was really young, so it's something they're familiar with. It's in your blood. It is totally new. Yeah. Now, you were-- you reviewed a restaurant on my show, so you were a foodie at 13 years old. Obviously, that's why your parents paid so much money for a good cause. Are you still a foodie? I am. I am still a foodie. And luckily, I've got the perfect sponsor for it now. I was going to say, what is your own bone? They are high, high quality meats that you can order online and have shipped directly to you. See what I mean? I've got testosterone. It's an online butcher shop. That's right. That's right. Yeah. And it is so good. They feed us well at the racetrack. So we're taking care of. So this is high end meat is your sponsor. Yeah. Yeah. You know, just any meat, really. Literally any cut of meat you can add. So you go to meat and bone online and you can order food and it comes to you? That's right. They ship it right to your door. That's a minute. What's it like in the pit? In the pit, you know, it's actually cool to see the pit stops up close because our pit stops. They might not be as fast as Formula One, but that's because we've got less people and they're having to jack the car up manually on each side. So we'll change four tires in nine to 10 seconds. A really good one might even be less than nine seconds. So are you married or in a relationship? I have a girlfriend. I'm not married. Yes. Because that's got to be one of the best pickup lines at a bar. Why so? What do you do? Well, I'm a NASCAR driver. Oh, totally. You don't understand? That Navy seal. Yes. You're like right up there with Navy seal. That's so cool. Now when you go out, social media, where they're meeting bone gate? No. Oh, gosh. No. It's kids. 108. And we're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning. So check it out. If you're single dating, live your best life out in these streets, please listen up to this next segment. And from all of us on the Billy and Lisa show, please be safe. So a little behind the scenes here in terms of the operational part of this radio program. We come in very early in the morning and we do a lot of show prep. Now that's not to say that we script the show. It's still very unscripted as a show. But we do come up with certain topics for the show that we think are important. And some of the topics come from Lisa, some from me, some from Winnie, and some from Justin. So Justin this morning, while we were huddling in his studio, came up with this story and he thought it was important that we address it on the show for the sake of our listeners. And they hear it is. Sifless cases are at the highest levels in 70 years. It is an alarming trend. It's not a joke. I mean, we're going to make a joke of it because that's what we do, but they really are. It's true. 100% true. They be where? Yeah. They're saying Sifless numbers are at the highest number that they've seen in more than 70 years. Now, interesting thing about this report. They don't tell you why. Right. Cause that was my next question. Why? Well, it goes on to say that sexually transmitted infections or STIs in the US are showing no signs of slowing. So other transmitted diseases as well are very much on the rise, but none even close to Sifless. Could it be because of COVID that people are just back out like they're just like, like, it's like, you know, they're not being safe. Right. They're just they're back out. Not being safe. So those two things combined because we were so we were feeling so unsafe for so long and now they just want to go out and enjoy life. Well, I find the report interesting because Sifless has never come up in a conversation outside of this building. Really? It's not to say we've discussed Sifless here. It's just, you know, like they say 70 years, more than 70 years. Well, I mean, I've been tested for it. I've never had it. Really? But I've been tested for it. It's pretty common, especially from men. The probability of acquiring Sifless during a man's life is one in 10. Wow. One in 10. Now, why do you go in and be tested for Sifless? You should listen, if you're a single, if you, you should be getting tested regularly. Yeah. Every time you go to the dock, like you're yearly checkup, if you go for, go get tested. Yeah. Yeah. They usually offer it. They say, Hey, do you want to be tested for STDs? You say, Yeah. See, that's never come up at my physicals. Well, I think should we, you want to check for Sifless? There it is. Like, okay, Doc, why? Yeah. Well, no, I think if you're actively dating and you're. Yeah. I mean, I was engaging in, you know, risky behavior, so it was important that I would get tested. Sure. Yeah. I ask you, like, are you dating? Are you sexually active? Yeah. And when you tell them, you're sexually active. Multiple partners. Do you have multiple partners? And then like, do you want to get, and then like your other blood work? Oh, like I'll throw in the SDS. Yeah. Yeah. You think it could be part of what they say are the new, the growing trends among younger people in terms of sex and so forth? I actually, I actually think it's, I don't think it's just younger, I think it's older people too. Oh, the nursing home has the most SDS out there. Okay. It's true. No, wait a minute, the nursing homes have the highest rates of syphilis. Well, you know that, you know, the place called the villages that we'll talk about in Florida. That place. I read in over the last few years that that's a, a hotspot. And there's a retirement place. Right. There's, because I think at that point you're 60s or 70s, you're knowing there's no chance of pregnancy. Right. Yeah. You can get in where you feel like it. Yeah. Multiple partners. We're gonna get in trouble. We're in trouble. Listen, listen, all I'm saying is that it's not just young people. It's not just young. It's not. No. It's, it's everyone. Obviously if it's, it's the, it's been the worst in 70 years. Yeah. That's crazy. That's a large group of people. And just to clear our name with the bosses, this is a legitimate story that comes to us from ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Jen Ashton. Absolutely. Sifla's has many nicknames, pox, luis, bad blood, sif, haircut, and old Joe. Now, listen, I were talking off air. Right. Even let's say, for instance, this is true. It is true. that they renamed it after all these. Doesn't it sound like very world warish? It's yeah, it's old. It's old Joe. Oh Joe. You know what I mean? I'm also gonorrhea. I mean, it's it's just not a pretty word. Yeah, it's a civil war. I actually think it's important to keep these words sounding so gross because no one wants to get it. Scary. Like we don't want to call it something pretty. Right. This is very scary. It doesn't like it sounds like oh you don't want that. Yeah, they both sound gross. This and gonorrhea are just two of a long list of communicable diseases. Yeah, like chlamydia, like, oh yeah, that's the worst one. But of the three, I think that's the milder form, right? Chlamydia. Yeah. Yeah, as opposed to, you know, syphilis. But that's a scary word too. Like who comes up with these words. Right. We're trying to deter people from getting them. Exactly. I think it's very important for people for us to talk about this. And I also want to tell young women that it's not just the guys responsibility to keep it safe. You need to be the one to vocalize that it's important and to also if you need to have a stash. Right. And don't don't. Yeah. Ever think that you should do. You should not say something exactly to offend someone else. Always say something. Take care of yourself. Yes. All you have to just say is one word. And if the guy doesn't want to protect you or himself, then that's a red flag. I'm sorry. Yeah. It is. You better be safe. I'm sorry. So this has been a public service and else. from the Billion Lisa Morning Show. - Condoms, condoms, condoms. - Yeah, when I was younger, here we go, I had a little situation going on. - Well you have this. - No, no, no, no, that's a different thing. - That's another one. - Yeah, I had a situation. - That's another one. - Because I engaged in unsafe behavior. So I can be the one to tell you, it's better to be safe than sorry. Listen to what Winnie said. - Yes. - So I had a situation and I went to my mom, I was a teenager, and my mom said, oh my God, well I have to bring you in to get looked at. So she brought me in to Mass General, the infectious disease unit that my aunt ran. So I had to go and see my aunt. - And she had to walk down there? - And you met your mom's twin sister? - Yeah, my mom's twin sister. And she had to examine me. - She went down there and saw-- - You weren't, you know what, you weren't good hands. (laughing) - I guess so, I was like, I'm sorry auntie. (laughing) - By the way, I'm not bragging, but I've never been afflicted. - Well, that's good Bill, right? - That's good, you're proud of that. - A lot of it is luck though. - You know why I did the right thing, right? - No, you didn't. - Yes, I did. - You lucked out, a lot of it is luck. - You lucked out. - So if you're engaging in unprotected sex and you have not had any issues, you're just lucky. - Your luck may run out. - Exactly, wrap that rascal. - Exactly. - You could be coming for your bill. - Oh Joe. - We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is helping meet rising demand, and we're working to do it responsibly. Our next-gen tankless facilities reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of our operations by more than 90% compared to our older designs. Working to provide Colorado with energy that's affordable, reliable, and ever cleaner. So everyone can get to where they want to be. - You've arrived. - That's energy in progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. - From the Planet Fitness Kids 108 studios, going back with a billy and Lisa in the morning on Kids 108. My post below is coming to Fenway Park, September 18th. He's doing his country show. His country album comes out next month. It's gonna be a great show. If you wanna be in the house, you can call me right now, 617-931-1108. I have a pair of tickets. Producer Riley has got you, she'll take call at 25. In the meantime, it was recently National Streaming Day. If you watch a lot of TV on Netflix and Hulu and all that, you might know the sounders that play at the beginning. So let's do a little fun game, all right? I'm gonna start with you, Lisa. - Netflix? - Yeah. - Okay. - Yeah, I knew that one too. - That's all the game. - Yeah, that's all it is. - That's all I knew. - Yeah, that's all it is. - I'm on the board. - You're on the board with a point. - Wow, see that? Of course you got it right. - Now, Billie, you come in every single day watching all these different TV shows, right? I don't know how you do, how you don't have the time to film a TV show and have a radio show. - Yeah. - But you do, so you should do well here. What network is this? (dramatic music) - I know you've heard it. - Peacock? - Ooh. - Anyone want to steal? - Can I hear it again? - Yeah. (dramatic music) - Max. - Hulu. (dramatic music) - It is Hulu. (dramatic music) Yeah, you don't get the point there though. - That's fine. - That's fine, yeah. But okay, good steal, Winnie. - I think, yeah, that's good. - Yeah, speaking of Winnie, you stream a lot of TV too as well, right? - Yes. - All right, what network is this? (dramatic music) - That's Peacock. - What's the answer? - Peacock or MVC? (buzzer) Sit down. - What is it? - It's Paramount. - Oh, I was gonna say, yeah. - Paramount Plus. See, they kind of all sound similar twice. You basically just guess, guess a network, you know? - Now, is the Paramount and the Paramount plus the same? - Yes, yeah. - Okay, that's the same one. All right, round two here. Lisa, you're the only one with a point. Can you get two here? What network is this? (dramatic music) - Oh, is that NVC? (buzzer) Anyone wanna steal? - I know it. - Yeah, you know it. Of course, you watch it probably every single day. - To be. - No, that's not true. (laughing) - I wanna hear it one more time, so our listeners can hear it. - Okay, here we go. So this is for National Streaming Day. What network is this sounder from? (dramatic music) - Oh. - Oh my God. - I just say they happen to me when I heard this. I'm like, I know this. - Showtime? - It's Max. - Oh, it's real Max. - He's real Max. - I said Max, you're weird, does that count? - No, absolutely not, Bill. - Oh, this is really frustrating. - It's really frustrating. (laughing) - But it's a cool game. I'm like, oh, okay. - Yeah. - All right. - All right, you know what? It is a cool game, and that's all that matters. - Yeah, we're just flying for fun. - Here we go. What network is this? (dramatic music) - Tubi. (laughing) - Tubi, not Tubi. (buzzer buzzes) - Maybe a heads up. Tubi is not on this list. (laughing) - Well, Gee, thanks for the warning after the fact. - It's fine. Anyone want to steal? - Is it Amazon? - Yes, that's right, Lisa! - Wow! - Wow, look at you. - Look at you. - Go, girl! - Very good. Wow, okay. Here we go, Winnie. - God, this is a bloodbath. - Winnie, I know you watched this network right here, so you should get this one. (dramatic music) - What the hell? - Oh, is it Disney? - It's not Disney. - Oh, I think I know it. - You know I watched this network. - Wait again. - Why do you know? I watched it on it. - Okay, I'm not giving you specifics. That would give it away. That's a trick question. Hold on, Bill. Keep thinking there, Winnie. - One more time, let's go. Stars? - No. Nothing? That would be Apple TV Plus. - Oh! - Oh! - Oh, God, we all watch it. - Oh, and that was good. That was a good one. We all watch it. - God, this game sucks. - Yeah, what? Okay. All right. - You know, what's easy for you in there? You don't have to answer it. - Okay, but you have to get upset. It's fine. Final round, which is the toughest round right here. So this one is hard. - The other one's for easy? - Yeah, we got zero so far. - With points, I think. Lisa has two. All right, here we go. Lisa has two. All right, here we go. Lisa has two. All right, here we go. Lisa has two. All right, here we go. Lisa has two. All right, here we go. Lisa has two. All right, here we go. Calk, nope, it is peacock. - The little feather at the end got gave it away. - Oh, I had the little bit of a, but they all sound similar. It's crazy. All right, Winnie, you're on the board with a point. Billy, here we go. What network is this? I know you watch it. Do not say two of me. Do not say two of me. (laughing) - Is it Fox? - It is not Fox. - Oh. - It's already been said, actually. - Oh. - Yeah. - You are. - Oh. - It's time now. - No. (buzzing) - Take off. Someone get right down the answer. - Boo-boo. - No, it's Disney Plus. - Disney Plus. - Oh. - Disney Plus. - Like I watch Disney Plus. - Yeah. Anyway, last one right here. Winnie, for National Streaming Day, if you get this right, you will tie Lisa. - Okay. - So it'll end in a tie. Let's see if you can get this one. What network is this sounder from "Listen Close"? - What the hell? - They really do all sound the same. - They do. It's crazy. - I'm running out of networks. - You're not gonna get it, so. - To be. (laughing) - Hey, this is Rianne. - No! - We're back with Billy and Lisa in the morning. - One kiss, one a week. - So when you're young, maybe early 20s, summertime comes, not just about having fun. It's about those weird summer jobs. What up, everybody? It's Justin here. And yeah, this came from a weird summer job out of Wisconsin. I don't know if it gets much weirder than this. - For the 108th year, one of America's last and most famous male boats has set sail on Wisconsin's Lake Geneva. Once again, the US male boats, Wallworth, will deploy its small army of teenagers to jump off a moving boat, deliver mail to appear, and then try to jump back on the boat, which, by the way, will keep going if you don't make it. Now this may seem a lot more strenuous than, say, scooping ice cream, but this week, dozens of teenagers still showed up to compete for these four coveted spots. So if you don't make it back on the boat, do you lose your job? - I'm not sure, but the boat keeps going. - Yeah. - So the video's incredible. - So you're hoping for a long dock? - Yes. - So you jump off, do the mail, and you still have time to run up the dock and jump back on board. - Yeah, and the trials are hilarious. I mean, the kids are just missing the boat. It looks very dangerous. - Yeah, I think you're gonna have to, like, jump in the water at some point and swim to the boat, right, if you miss it. - I think they might come get you on the way back. You know what I mean? They mail it and they have to come back to it. - Or do you get docked pay for the time you spent idly on the dock? - I don't know. - You're asking questions? Oh no, the answer to, but it just is a crazy weird summer job. - It is so crazy. - And it does beg the question, what was your weirdest or worst summer job? - Ooh, you got one? - Well, who wants to go first? Do you really want me to go for? No, Lisa, you have a good one about the Poconos. - Okay, so I've had many summer jobs. I mean, I've been a waitress at a Chinese food restaurant at an ice cream shop. I was a lifeguard at a resort pool in the Poconos, but my worst summer job was cleaning condos at a resort in the Poconos one summer. - It was the worst part of it. - It was like, you know that showed dirtiest jobs? - Yeah. - It was disgusting. You're cleaning people's, the bathrooms, like the stuff that you find in resort bathrooms is just, it was so gross, I will never forget it, ever. - So people are that gross? - Yes. - I have a question for you. So having gone through that, are you now extra aware or do you clean up more when you stay places? - I do, I make sure that I gather all the towels and I put them in one area. I clean up before we leave. And then you should always leave a tip. - Yeah. That would be a good segment to talk to people who work in these hotels and resorts. - Oh yeah. - About the things that they find. - Ooh, let's do that down the road. - I just remember that someone was really into baby powder and there was baby powder all over the bathroom. - Are you sure it was baby powder and cotton cocaine? (laughing) - So when Justin asked me earlier this morning about my worst summer job, I think it has to be the summer right before I went to Merrimack. I wanted to earn some extra money and I got a summer job in steel construction. The company was industrial steel and Cambridge. I didn't know what I was doing. I go into this giant flat, right? And all they have are these giant machines that cut rods of steel and, you know, sulfur burning and torches and welding and like it was terrifying. And out of nowhere with no experience at all, they put me on this machine. It was, if you can imagine it, a giant bit press, like a drill. - Okay. - Like a giant bit that comes down from the machine and drills holes in these sheets of metal. And I've got to be there kind of brushing away the shards of metal that come off the bit. - So your hand has to go near where the drill bit is coming down. You have to wear gloves because the bits are very sharp. - This is so not for you. - Oh, no, I-- - This doesn't match. - No. - They put me on this machine. It was like, what? So I'm terrified. So now here goes the bit. And it could have been my first day and I'm brushing away the particles of metal and the glove got caught around the bit and the bit kept turning. - Oh my God. - And it pulled my arm. - Oh my God, you mentioned it. - It was wrapped around like a boa constrictor around the bit as it continued to turn. It was going to pull my arm out of my body. I literally had the smarts to reach up. I knew there was a on/off button coming above me and I kind of felt around. And as it was at the end of the pull, the next thing going was my shoulder and I hit the stop button, but it doesn't stop. It slows down gradually. So it's still yanking at my body. By this time I'm up to my neck in the bit. - You would have been missing an arm. - I had to be taken to the hospital. - You would have been? - Yeah, I tore tendons in my forearm. I was, I didn't even care about the injury. I was so terrified that I was going to be killed. - I would never go back. - Never went back even to get my check. They called me like two weeks later to check on me. They said, "Hey, do you want your check?" I said, "I don't even want the check." Keep the money 'cause the check will represent death to me. - Dude, that's a horror scene. That is a scene I've never forgotten it. - Wow, that's bad. Wow, I also shattered a guy's foot one day 'cause I was operating an overhead crane with a giant heavens. - I think you were in construction sites too. - No, I dropped it right on the guy's foot. - Oh my God, geez. - Who's next? - I did construction too in college. - Oh, you built, wait, you built a bench? - I built a bench in Dorchester at the hockey rink right on like where Morrissey meets Galvin. - Oh yeah, I know right? - It's still there, right? - It's still there, and then I, this was amazing. They were redoing like one of the high schools and they needed someone just to clean and mop, and they paid me 53 total hours an hour to Swiffer this school, right? And I didn't know what I'm calling them. I'm like, do I use a mop? Do I use this? And she's like, you're making like all this money to do nothing, and they thought I was the best thing ever 'cause I would just come and sleep and all the construction guys were like, "Oh, thanks for helping." I'm like, "Oh, no problem." Most money I've ever seen in a summer. - With a change? - Oh my God, I was just cleaning up 'cause if they didn't pay me, they had to pay like the janitors, like all this time and a half. So I was just like paying out them. Oh my God, it was, I made-- - 53 bucks, wow. - Yeah, Justin, what was yours, the stick and pick? - No, no, that was later in life. No, and I was, yeah, I was 14, going into summer. My parents, my dad said I needed the job, I was getting in trouble. So he hooked me up with this guy who does floors. The guy picked me up seven o'clock in the morning, opened a cooler on the back seat. He said, "You want a beer?" He said, "Sure." So we started drinking, going to work. And I won't name the place for obvious reasons, but we had to go and rip up a rug that a double murder had occurred two weeks prior. - I know the murder. - It was blood soaked. And so my first job at 14 years old was to rip up a blood soaked rug. - And it was a famous local murder. - Yeah, yeah, and then for lunch, we hit the strip club. - Wow. - Oh, 14. - What was in the same building? - Yeah, with the matinee show too. - Oh, all right. That was quite a summer job. He's 108. - What is the topic? - Today we're going to be talking about - Billy and Lisa present topic time. - Talk amongst yourself topic time. - The topic for topic time, the weirdest or worst summer job you ever had. JP, talk to me. What have you got? - Hey, how you doing? I did a job one summer after high school. I was working for an electron beam corporation and what my job was, they had a small room, five-inch pallet floor, and we used to have to spray a chemical. I mean, my best friend, his father was a senior vice president at Hamilton standards, so we worked for subdivision of them. And so we would be in a pallet room, pressure testing land mines. - Oh, my God. - And what happened? - Whoa, these are live land mines? - Yes, exactly. Pressure testing them, and we used to have to spray a red chemical that you couldn't be in the room for more than 15 minutes. 'Cause what it would do is it would start making you lightheaded and laughing, and we would get to a point that they'd have a seal on the door and a lawn would go off if we're in the longer than 15 minutes. After 20 minutes, you would die in the room. - They would, they gave us to kids to do? - How much do you paid? - We're paid well, this is back in the '80s. I'm almost 60 years old, so this is back when we really have seatbelts in cars, and so-- - Were you in some sort of a-- - Really? - Well, what would happen is we would get extremely light. I mean, we'd be in there laughing, and it just completely makes you laugh. - They got high, they're getting high off this road. - Were you in a bomb-resistant suit or something, like the Hurt Locker, or like what? (laughing) The alarms would go off, and they'd have to open the door and pull us out of the room, 'cause we would just-- Oh, we were just playing catch with them, and oh, it's crazy. - Oh my gosh. - That might be one of the weirdest. - That's crazy. - Okay, so right away you go to the top of the list. - I love the '80s. - Oh, glad I didn't go back for you. - Oh, yeah, imagine! Pressure testing landmines. - I love them with kids. - Hold on, Ian, Ian, they're getting high, while doing so. - Did his parents know, God, I had so many more of that, that's great. - Let's go to Steve from Olive and Steve. Give me a good one, let's go. - Hey, how are you? Okay, back in 1988, I used to work for the Fiesta Show's Carnival. - Yeah. - So, and I'm a normal person, so to work, so we used to travel around from revered, of rock in the city, all around the state of math, and I mean, I've seen everything from stabbings at Brockton Bay, to having breakfast with the bearded lady. - Oh, wow! - That's a claim to fame. - Okay. - The actual bearded, now was the beard real, or did they paste it on, like, for just for the show? - As far as I knew, it was real. As far as the monkey boy, I don't know if the fur was real on him. - So, that's when they had what they called the freak shows, right? - Yeah. - Oh, I couldn't have made a lot of money back there. - That's not a lot anymore. - I paid a lot of money to get rid of my beard. - Yeah, you could grow a full beard. You could have been in a carny. - Good, good. - Can I ask Steve a question? - Yeah, go ahead. - Steve, you there? - Oh, my God. - Steve, okay. Do they test the rides every time they go to a new place, or maybe daily to make sure they're functioning and safe? - I worked for the game where you roll the golf ball up in the horses race across the board. - Oh, I love you. - But if you saw those guys in the morning, I wouldn't put anything past them, and I questioned it myself. - Yeah. - Do they drug test you if you're working the rides? - I don't think they did. - I do not drug test it. I worked there because my brother had worked there, and that's the only reason my parents trusted the family because I was in their wedding. - And didn't you have to sleep like in the trucks or something? - The the owners that I was with were very wealthy, so we had they had a trailer that was like back in, you know, the late 80s was almost like a mansion, so it wasn't like one of those easy ones you see now. - Yeah. - So you worked the games. What's the easiest game to win at one of these carnivals? - Okay. Okay, it is that it is the golf ball game. When you roll the ball up to get the horse to jump across, the idea is to just get it in the very first hole 'cause the ball comes back so fast that by the time you're trying to get it in the red to get the horse to jump three times, the ball goes around 10 to 12 seconds. When you could have got the ball back three or four times already by just going to the very first hole at the end of the day. - But they fix the games, right? - I don't know. They're just, then it's not easy to play it. 'Cause you used to have to throw the ball at the dummies on the shelf or something, but I think the dummies were nailed to the shelf. (laughing) - Well, or the ring toss, the ring toss tube, yeah. - Let's go to Kelly next. Kelly, you're from Boston. What have you got for us? - Hi, guys. So now compared to these two, I don't know if this is so great. This is also an 80s situation. High school, city of Boston job called the red shirt. I don't know if you've heard any of this. - No. - So you go around, you clean up, whatever. They send you around in a truck and you just sweep up, but then it turns into picking up roadkill. - Oh, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. - That's gross. - Okay. - So, you know, at first, you're in high school. You're like a girl in high school. You're like, and they're like, oh, yeah, you're gonna go get this like the cat. I'm like, how long-- - Where do you put it, though, after you pick it up? - Oh, dear God, you put it in the back of a truck? You put it in the back of the truck. - Oh, sometimes they just cork it up. - Yeah. - Yeah, what about skunks, what about skunks, Kelly? Do you have to pick up skunks? - You know what? Let me think about this. I don't remember skunk, but it was horrible. It was like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm going into the garage now. - That's okay, thank you for calling. - And then she goes to the garage. Let's go to Michaela, she's from Needham, Michaela. Give us a good one. - Hi, so can you hear me? - Yeah, go ahead. - Okay, so in college, I was looking for a summer job, and I found this summer camp with students that were coming over from China, and it was a sleep away camp out in Western Mass. And so when I got there, I was kind of hired on as the person to teach them a little bit of English, but it turns out they spoke zero English, and it was essentially a silent retreat for maybe the entire time. - Wow, so there's nothing you could do, 'cause they couldn't understand the word you said. - There was nothing, we just looked at each other. - Did you try to teach them any English? - I did, but they didn't even know, hello, how are you? - It was just full Chinese. - There's one of your people now. - So you'd look at each other, and then you'd look at the clock, all day, the minute's going by. Good one, good one. Mike is in Lowell, Mike, you have a story for us. Worst job. - Worst job, I worked at Deer Island as a janitor, and one of the fact that Deer Island is a waste water storage plant. It smells so bad. And I had to take a bus, I mean, a ferry, the South Boston ferry to get there. - Oh yeah. - 'Cause I didn't live in the town, you had to take the ferry over, and that's the only way to get in and out of there. - So you weren't there when it was the present, you were there when they made it at the water treatment facility. - Yeah, water treatment, smells so bad. - Mm, yeah, I'm sure. Well, it worked though, those giant milk bottles cleaned up Boston Harbor Beach. - Sure, my dad actually worked on that project. - Really? - Yeah. - One of the dirtiest bodies of water in the country, now one of the cleaners. - So true. - I think you get used to the smell. One of my best friend, Zeb, he worked for the city, the sewer department. - Yeah. - One of his job is going into those sewers and dealing with that, you know, that smelly, you know. - Does he have a mask on? - He wears a mask and everything, but he has some real horror stories of, you know, some burst pipes. - Ooh, yeah, that's a mask. - That's a mask. - You know, yeah, it's a real job. - Yeah, it is. - It's a dirty job, man. - Do you ever do time at your island? - No, that was before your time. - I know, that was a long time ago. - You didn't even have running water, there'd be a buckets. - You're doing good. - Oh my God. Like I bought here, the weirdest summer job I ever had. I was a kid and living in Portland, Maine, and I shucked oysters at this big oyster house on the waterfront. And it was just me being like 16 or something and shucking oysters, which I lasted one day. And I'm surrounded by all these old ladies that would shuck them like nobody's business. 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