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Billified: The Bill Moran Podcast

Billified: The Bill Moran Podcast

Billified is a free daily podcast hosted by 30 year radio personality Bill Moran. Bill shares his thoughts on current events, politics, relationships and welcomes a wide range of guests, all uncensored!

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Show overview

Billified: The Bill Moran Podcast has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 976 episodes, alongside 108 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to over 1300 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h and 1h 41m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language Comedy show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 months ago, with 73 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 378 episodes published. Published by Bill Moran.

Episodes
976
Running
2022–2026 · 4y
Median length
1h 28m
Cadence
Near-daily

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Billified is a free daily podcast hosted by 30 year radio personality Bill Moran. Bill shares his thoughts on current events, politics, relationships and welcomes a wide range of guests, all uncensored!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

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S1 Ep 992Nobody Joins an Orgasm Cult...Until They Do

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This one starts wild… and somehow gets even more real.A headline about an “orgasm cult” sounds like a joke—until you realize it isn’t. Bill, Kevin, Laura, and Mark dig into the uncomfortable truth behind it: nobody signs up for something insane on Day One. It starts with belonging, trust, and a slow drift that doesn’t feel weird… until it is.From cult psychology to everyday “this is just how we do things here” behavior, the table breaks down how influence, vulnerability, and groupthink can pull anyone further than they ever thought they’d go.Then it flips—are women actually better investigators in relationships than the FBI? Bill’s been saying it for 20 years: look for patterns. Laura leans into intuition, Kevin brings the real-life lens, and Mark… well… Mark is surprisingly fine with being mistaken for gay.Plus: Bill’s ongoing battle with authority, Kevin delivers an all-time Name That Tune, and yes… there’s a new winner.It’s funny, a little uncomfortable, and way more relatable than you want it to be.Because nobody joins a cult…they just keep saying yes.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Apr 3, 20261h 34m

S1 Ep 991Billified Bite Sized - Nobody Joins an Orgasm Cult… Until They Do

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This one starts wild… and somehow gets even more real.A headline about an “orgasm cult” sounds like a joke—until you realize it isn’t. Bill, Kevin, Laura, and Mark dig into the uncomfortable truth behind it: nobody signs up for something insane on Day One. It starts with belonging, trust, and a slow drift that doesn’t feel weird… until it is.From cult psychology to everyday “this is just how we do things here” behavior, the table breaks down how influence, vulnerability, and groupthink can pull anyone further than they ever thought they’d go.Then it flips—are women actually better investigators in relationships than the FBI? Bill’s been saying it for 20 years: look for patterns. Laura leans into intuition, Kevin brings the real-life lens, and Mark… well… Mark is surprisingly fine with being mistaken for gay.Plus: Bill’s ongoing battle with authority, Kevin delivers an all-time Name That Tune, and yes… there’s a new winner.It’s funny, a little uncomfortable, and way more relatable than you want it to be.Because nobody joins a cult…they just keep saying yes.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Apr 3, 202641 min

S1 Ep 990The Black Eye & The Home Alone House

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Bill welcomes Laura—and her boyfriend Joe—into the studio… and let’s just say, this one goes places.What starts as a casual intro turns into a real, unfiltered look at who Joe is, what makes him tick, and exactly what Laura saw that made her say, yeah… this is my guy. From politics to personal growth, you hear how they challenge each other, learn from each other, and somehow make it all work.Joe opens up about the first time he walked into Laura’s house—and why it gave serious Home Alone mansion vibes. And because it’s Laura… things take a turn into the deeply personal, including a story involving a mysterious black eye that you’re not going to see coming.Funny, vulnerable, a little chaotic—and completely real.This is the kind of conversation Billified was built on.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Apr 1, 20261h 22m

S1 Ep 989Billified Bite sized - The Black Eye & The Home Alone House

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Bill welcomes Laura—and her boyfriend Joe—into the studio… and let’s just say, this one goes places.What starts as a casual intro turns into a real, unfiltered look at who Joe is, what makes him tick, and exactly what Laura saw that made her say, yeah… this is my guy. From politics to personal growth, you hear how they challenge each other, learn from each other, and somehow make it all work.Joe opens up about the first time he walked into Laura’s house—and why it gave serious Home Alone mansion vibes. And because it’s Laura… things take a turn into the deeply personal, including a story involving a mysterious black eye that you’re not going to see coming.Funny, vulnerable, a little chaotic—and completely real.This is the kind of conversation Billified was built on.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Apr 1, 202630 min

S1 Ep 988Tiger, Farts & Doug: How Much Is Too Much?

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This one goes everywhere—and somehow lands.Bill kicks it off with Tiger Woods’ latest crash and DUI situation… and instead of piling on, asks the uncomfortable question: how has this not happened more often? A life under a microscope, pain meds, pressure, and the reality that sometimes the story isn’t as clean as we want it to be.Then it takes a turn. A pastor claiming his… flatulence heals people. Yes, really. It sounds insane—until Bill flips it: when life gets hard enough, hope gets louder than logic. And suddenly it’s not that ridiculous anymore… or at least not that simple.In the middle of it all—Doug.His cat dies. Bill tries (and struggles) to be respectful. Doug, 55, single, losing weight, dealing with car issues that have sidelined his Uber life… and still showing up with humor.From strip club DJ stories to real-life “what now?” moments, this episode lives in that messy space between funny and real.Because whether it’s Tiger, a pastor, or Doug…everyone has a line. Most of us just don’t know where it is yet.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 30, 20261h 48m

S1 Ep 987Tiger, Farts & Doug: How Much Is Too Much? (CONDENSED)

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This one goes everywhere—and somehow lands.Bill kicks it off with Tiger Woods’ latest crash and DUI situation… and instead of piling on, asks the uncomfortable question: how has this not happened more often? A life under a microscope, pain meds, pressure, and the reality that sometimes the story isn’t as clean as we want it to be.Then it takes a turn. A pastor claiming his… flatulence heals people. Yes, really. It sounds insane—until Bill flips it: when life gets hard enough, hope gets louder than logic. And suddenly it’s not that ridiculous anymore… or at least not that simple.In the middle of it all—Doug.His cat dies. Bill tries (and struggles) to be respectful. Doug, 55, single, losing weight, dealing with car issues that have sidelined his Uber life… and still showing up with humor.From strip club DJ stories to real-life “what now?” moments, this episode lives in that messy space between funny and real.Because whether it’s Tiger, a pastor, or Doug…everyone has a line. Most of us just don’t know where it is yet.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 30, 202648 min

S1 Ep 986We Hear You - Why We Can't Separate a Point From a Person Anymore

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What happens when a listener pushes back on something said on the podcast about Trump voters? Bill Moran reads the message on air and responds, getting into why political conversations in America keep going nowhere, why we stop asking what the actual point is and go straight to which side you're on, and what authenticity actually means when we keep throwing that word around constantly.It starts with a thing Between Bill's son and a tutor that did not go the way it was supposed to, and Bill needed to get it off his mind before anything else. That makes the crew realize something. Are they the 'Modern Family' of the Podcast world? The three of them represent every friend group: Dan, who optimizes everything and is trying to live to 112. Kevin, who is trying to survive until Tuesday. And Bill, who opened the fridge five minutes ago and cannot remember why.Then Bill shares something that happened in his mental health counseling program. He volunteered to lead a group when nobody else stepped up, built the whole thing around a boxing metaphor, closed it with a line that is now becoming a t-shirt, and got the best feedback of his academic career from a professor who does not hand that out easily.Then Bill brought up the privilege walk, which finally led him to the listener letter. Have we completely lost the ability to separate a point from a person?And last but not least, Kevin revives an old classic game that Bill never had a chance of winning. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 27, 20261h 36m

S1 Ep 985We Hear You - Why We Can't Separate a Point From a Person Anymore CONDENSED

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What happens when a listener pushes back on something said on the podcast about Trump voters? Bill Moran reads the message on air and responds, getting into why political conversations in America keep going nowhere, why we stop asking what the actual point is and go straight to which side you're on, and what authenticity actually means when we keep throwing that word around constantly.It starts with a thing Between Bill's son and a tutor that did not go the way it was supposed to, and Bill needed to get it off his mind before anything else. That makes the crew realize something. Are they the 'Modern Family' of the Podcast world? The three of them represent every friend group: Dan, who optimizes everything and is trying to live to 112. Kevin, who is trying to survive until Tuesday. And Bill, who opened the fridge five minutes ago and cannot remember why.Then Bill shares something that happened in his mental health counseling program. He volunteered to lead a group when nobody else stepped up, built the whole thing around a boxing metaphor, closed it with a line that is now becoming a t-shirt, and got the best feedback of his academic career from a professor who does not hand that out easily.Then Bill brought up the privilege walk, which finally led him to the listener letter. Have we completely lost the ability to separate a point from a person?And last but not least, Kevin revives an old classic game that Bill never had a chance of winning. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 27, 202648 min

S1 Ep 984The Internet Will Pay for Anything

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Laura is back. And apparently so is drama!The episode opens with the recent plane crash at LaGuardia Airport. Bill saw a local news crew go outside the airport the morning after to ask people how they feel about flying. If you didn't see the news the night before, you woke up fine, and then Channel 10 fixed that for you! Bill HATES when they do that. You were living in bliss, you did not need the Xanax that is now mandatory for your next flight. But we live in a world that feeds off that. Bill then brings up Robert Mueller and Donald Trump's choice words about him after his death. Bill has complicated feelings, not about Mueller specifically, but about the handful of people any of us could name who, if they left this earth tomorrow, we wouldn't exactly be crying into our coffee. He wouldn't post about it. But he knows some! The crew gets into what that says about all of us, about Trump specifically, and about the difference between what you feel, what you say out loud, and what you decide to put on the internet.Then of course there's the surgeon with the gun room, the hockey coach with the BDSM situation, and even their own Laura, who as a home organizer has walked into things you don't want to know about. And the question underneath all of it: when it comes to the people we let into our lives, do we want someone good or do we want the best person for the job? These aren't always the same answer.A News story out of Daytona has the crew pondering the age old question; What's classy if you're rich and trashy if you're poor? The tattoo sleeve on a lawyer versus the homemade one you got in highschool from that one artsy kid? Minimalism? Speaking a second language? And finally we discuss a cornhole player in some trouble and a Florida woman who found a very creative side hustle involving an Airbnb and a coffee maker, that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, the internet will pay for absolutely anything. Kevin's music game is back, and Bill loses.... badly. Lovely day.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 25, 20261h 41m

S1 Ep 983The Internet Will Pay for Anything CONDENSED

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Laura is back. And apparently so is drama!The episode opens with the recent plane crash at LaGuardia Airport. Bill saw a local news crew go outside the airport the morning after to ask people how they feel about flying. If you didn't see the news the night before, you woke up fine, and then Channel 10 fixed that for you! Bill HATES when they do that. You were living in bliss, you did not need the Xanax that is now mandatory for your next flight. But we live in a world that feeds off that. Bill then brings up Robert Mueller and Donald Trump's choice words about him after his death. Bill has complicated feelings, not about Mueller specifically, but about the handful of people any of us could name who, if they left this earth tomorrow, we wouldn't exactly be crying into our coffee. He wouldn't post about it. But he knows some! The crew gets into what that says about all of us, about Trump specifically, and about the difference between what you feel, what you say out loud, and what you decide to put on the internet.Then of course there's the surgeon with the gun room, the hockey coach with the BDSM situation, and even their own Laura, who as a home organizer has walked into things you don't want to know about. And the question underneath all of it: when it comes to the people we let into our lives, do we want someone good or do we want the best person for the job? These aren't always the same answer.A News story out of Daytona has the crew pondering the age old question; What's classy if you're rich and trashy if you're poor? The tattoo sleeve on a lawyer versus the homemade one you got in highschool from that one artsy kid? Minimalism? Speaking a second language? And finally we discuss a cornhole player in some trouble and a Florida woman who found a very creative side hustle involving an Airbnb and a coffee maker, that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, the internet will pay for absolutely anything. Kevin's music game is back, and Bill loses.... badly. Lovely day.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 25, 202644 min

S1 Ep 982If I Make It to 16…

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Mercedes Vasquez Simmons doesn’t just talk about change… she walks into it swinging.Monroe County legislator. Boxing promoter. Former beauty queen. And if you’ve been anywhere near Bill’s Facebook lately—you’ve seen her in the streets doing the work.But this isn’t politics as usual.She came back to Rochester for one reason: family.Her mother—a civil rights fighter who helped Puerto Ricans gain the right to vote—set the tone.Father Tracy—community pillar—showed her what service actually looks like.Both gone now… but their mission? Still very much alive.And here’s where it hits:When kids are saying, “If I make it to 16…”That’s not attitude. That’s not disrespect.That’s hopelessness.Mercedes tells a story about taking kids out of the city—North Clinton, Joseph Ave, Hudson—just to get them out for a day.One kid looks around and says:“Ms… can I tell you something? We don’t hear sirens out here.”Let that sit for a second.This is about more than policy.This is about who gets seen… and who gets saved.She’s now running for New York State Assembly (137th District)…and she’s not coming quietly.She’s coming in swinging.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 23, 20261h 12m

S1 Ep 981If I Make It to 16…CONDENSED

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Mercedes Vasquez Simmons doesn’t just talk about change… she walks into it swinging.Monroe County legislator. Boxing promoter. Former beauty queen. And if you’ve been anywhere near Bill’s Facebook lately—you’ve seen her in the streets doing the work.But this isn’t politics as usual.She came back to Rochester for one reason: family.Her mother—a civil rights fighter who helped Puerto Ricans gain the right to vote—set the tone.Father Tracy—community pillar—showed her what service actually looks like.Both gone now… but their mission? Still very much alive.And here’s where it hits:When kids are saying, “If I make it to 16…”That’s not attitude. That’s not disrespect.That’s hopelessness.Mercedes tells a story about taking kids out of the city—North Clinton, Joseph Ave, Hudson—just to get them out for a day.One kid looks around and says:“Ms… can I tell you something? We don’t hear sirens out here.”Let that sit for a second.This is about more than policy.This is about who gets seen… and who gets saved.She’s now running for New York State Assembly (137th District)…and she’s not coming quietly.She’s coming in swinging.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 23, 202639 min

S1 Ep 980Am I Losing My Mind… or Is This Just Another Day

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At what point does “busy” turn into “yo… something’s off”?We’re talking full-blown everyday chaos: losing keys that are literally on your body, ordering ONE banana like a psychopath, and screaming“CALL IT!” while your phone watches you suffer. Is it stress? Overload? Or just having 47 tabs open in your brain and no idea who’s playing the music? Then we pivot… because while we’re spiraling over produce, there’s a woman in a tiara out here running a $10M Ponzi scheme out of a Vegas suite. Yeah. From dad brain to double lives—this episode rides the line between “we’re fine” and “we might not be fine.” Realte to it and enjoy! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 20, 20261h 20m

S1 Ep 979Am I Losing It...or Is This Just Another Day CONDENSED

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At what point does “busy” turn into “yo… something’s off”?We’re talking full-blown everyday chaos: losing keys that are literally on your body, ordering ONE banana like a psychopath, and screaming“CALL IT!” while your phone watches you suffer. Is it stress? Overload? Or just having 47 tabs open in your brain and no idea who’s playing the music? Then we pivot… because while we’re spiraling over produce, there’s a woman in a tiara out here running a $10M Ponzi scheme out of a Vegas suite. Yeah. From dad brain to double lives—this episode rides the line between “we’re fine” and “we might not be fine.” Realte to it and enjoy! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 20, 202642 min

S1 Ep 978Billified Gets Wild - Midlife Script Flip, Alien DNA & Unfiltered Truths

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Bill, Mark, and Laura are all in the studio and nobody came to play it safe.It starts with a simple question about complimenting someone and spirals immediately into a full examination of the unwritten rules nobody gives you when you're young. Bill calls it winging it through the first half of life. You follow the script, get the job, marry the person, buy the house, and then somewhere around 40 or 50 you look up and go, wait, whose script was this anyway?Bill opens up about losing his radio job, the accusation, the lawyers, the retired Supreme Court judge on the law office steps, and why he walked away from the lawsuit. Mark got engaged at 24 with a ring that may or may not have come from a gumball machine. Laura says she married the first good guy she dated and spent years cultivating the appearance of the perfect white picket fence life, while actually feeling completely empty inside. All three of them ended up somewhere they never planned to be. But none of them would change it.Then aliens invade the podcast. They're already here? Are they on their way? Laura thinks all this teasing from the Government about 'releasing the info' is just another play for capitalism. You've dooms-day prepped already? Protect your butthole from anal probes- only $19.95!. Bill then tells the crew a wild theory: we already have alien DNA. Aliens have been here since the beginning and they found Neanderthals to be extremely fine, so they rizzed the hell out of them. "Forget the wheel, let's head off to your cave for a little Peaches and Herb time"So of course the conversation turned to secret fantasies, a local teacher's sexy side-hustle, and a photo that ended up as someone's phone background that absolutely should not have. Mark also formally requests a snack cupboard. Bill agrees.Enjoy it all!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 18, 20261h 20m

S1 Ep 977Billified Gets Wild - Midlife Script Flip, Alien DNA & Unfiltered Truths CONDENSED

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Bill, Mark, and Laura are all in the studio and nobody came to play it safe.It starts with a simple question about complimenting someone and spirals immediately into a full examination of the unwritten rules nobody gives you when you're young. Bill calls it winging it through the first half of life. You follow the script, get the job, marry the person, buy the house, and then somewhere around 40 or 50 you look up and go, wait, whose script was this anyway?Bill opens up about losing his radio job, the accusation, the lawyers, the retired Supreme Court judge on the law office steps, and why he walked away from the lawsuit. Mark got engaged at 24 with a ring that may or may not have come from a gumball machine. Laura says she married the first good guy she dated and spent years cultivating the appearance of the perfect white picket fence life, while actually feeling completely empty inside. All three of them ended up somewhere they never planned to be. But none of them would change it.Then aliens invade the podcast. They're already here? Are they on their way? Laura thinks all this teasing from the Government about 'releasing the info' is just another play for capitalism. You've dooms-day prepped already? Protect your butthole from anal probes- only $19.95!. Bill then tells the crew a wild theory: we already have alien DNA. Aliens have been here since the beginning and they found Neanderthals to be extremely fine, so they rizzed the hell out of them. "Forget the wheel, let's head off to your cave for a little Peaches and Herb time"So of course the conversation turned to secret fantasies, a local teacher's sexy side-hustle, and a photo that ended up as someone's phone background that absolutely should not have. Mark also formally requests a snack cupboard. Bill agrees.Enjoy it all!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 18, 202639 min

S1 Ep 976100 Deviled Eggs, Cindy Crawford’s 3-Hour Morning, & Wayne County’s ‘Major Hands’ Scandal

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A listener has issued a formal challenge: Doug must eat 100 deviled eggs on the podcast. Doug is not ruling it out. He has lost 26 pounds, credits deviled eggs as a core part of his diet, and has already changed his dating app profile picture to deviled eggs. The responses have been mixed. A 54-year-old match wrote back that she is allergic to eggs. A 79-year-old wrote back that she loves deviled eggs because she does not have to put her teeth in. Bill is rooting for the 79-year-old.The episode records on St. Patrick's Weekend, and Bill arrives in the worst mood of the calendar year. The tech refuses to cooperate, the cameras will not connect, and Bill spent twenty minutes tearing his house apart looking for his car keys before discovering they were in his own pocket the entire time. He gets into it eventually and the limericks come out.Cindy Crawford's morning routine went viral and the crew has thoughts. Two and a half hours of Bible app, dry brushing, red light therapy, apple cider vinegar, barefoot grounding, jacuzzi, Pilates, and trampoline work every single day. Bill's question is not whether that is excessive. His question is why success has become something people mock instead of study. The conversation gets into wealth resentment, the tax the rich argument, and whether any of it actually helps anyone.The back half lands on a local story out of Wayne County. A 66-year-old technology teacher known by the nickname Major Hands has been federally charged with running prostitution parties out of his home in Macedon for several years. He organized them through email, set a cover charge, and sent guests parking instructions so the neighbors would not notice. Bill's take is genuinely curious rather than outraged. Gambling was illegal. Weed was illegal. Alcohol was illegal. If all parties are consenting adults making their own choices, where exactly is the crime? Doug and Bill work through it honestly.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 16, 20261h 19m

S1 Ep 975100 Deviled Eggs, Cindy Crawford’s 3-Hour Morning, & Wayne County’s ‘Major Hands’ Scandal CONDENSED

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A listener has issued a formal challenge: Doug must eat 100 deviled eggs on the podcast. Doug is not ruling it out. He has lost 26 pounds, credits deviled eggs as a core part of his diet, and has already changed his dating app profile picture to deviled eggs. The responses have been mixed. A 54-year-old match wrote back that she is allergic to eggs. A 79-year-old wrote back that she loves deviled eggs because she does not have to put her teeth in. Bill is rooting for the 79-year-old.The episode records on St. Patrick's Weekend, and Bill arrives in the worst mood of the calendar year. The tech refuses to cooperate, the cameras will not connect, and Bill spent twenty minutes tearing his house apart looking for his car keys before discovering they were in his own pocket the entire time. He gets into it eventually and the limericks come out.Cindy Crawford's morning routine went viral and the crew has thoughts. Two and a half hours of Bible app, dry brushing, red light therapy, apple cider vinegar, barefoot grounding, jacuzzi, Pilates, and trampoline work every single day. Bill's question is not whether that is excessive. His question is why success has become something people mock instead of study. The conversation gets into wealth resentment, the tax the rich argument, and whether any of it actually helps anyone.The back half lands on a local story out of Wayne County. A 66-year-old technology teacher known by the nickname Major Hands has been federally charged with running prostitution parties out of his home in Macedon for several years. He organized them through email, set a cover charge, and sent guests parking instructions so the neighbors would not notice. Bill's take is genuinely curious rather than outraged. Gambling was illegal. Weed was illegal. Alcohol was illegal. If all parties are consenting adults making their own choices, where exactly is the crime? Doug and Bill work through it honestly.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 16, 202636 min

S1 Ep 974Dr. Dan & Humanity’s Red Flags

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The episode kicks off with a listener question for Dr. Dan, which is what Bill is calling him now. A loyal listener wants to know whether Dan told him to buy the red or blue Wegmans fiber pills. Dan corrects the record with full authority: TopCare green cap fiber powder, not pills. Skip the Metamucil. Grab flaxseed if you're on a budget. Bill points out that somewhere in Rochester, a gastroenterologist who spent twelve years in medical school is sitting in his office while Dan from Billified is the guy people are calling for gut advice.But that's the thing about confidence. Bill makes the observation that when someone speaks with enough authority, we just buy it. Dan jumps on that with the perfect example: John Ratzenberger bombing his audition for Norm on Cheers, turning around on his way out the door, and pitching a bar know-it-all into existence on the spot. Cliff Clavin was born because one guy spoke with total conviction. Dan owns it: he is the Billified Cliff Clavin. Whether he knows what he's talking about or not, he says it like he does, and that's enough. Bill takes it further, pointing out that the internet has turned this into an epidemic. Confident voices become gospel, and nobody checks the receipts.That gets Bill thinking about all the little behaviors that make you quietly take a step back from someone, which becomes the topic du jour. The Red Flags of Humanity. Not relationship red flags. Human red flags. Bill has a list and it just keeps growing: the dashboard tchotchke museum, the selfie industrial complex, duck lips, the person who is always busy, #girldad, and of course, clapping when a plane lands. Dan adds his own, including a woman he once dated whose house was wall to wall photos of exclusively herself.The conversation then opens up into what it actually takes to believe something happened. Bam Adebayo just dropped 83 points and people saw it! But there are people who still don't believe Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 in a game because the only evidence is a guy holding a piece of paper. Or what about how David Wells supposedly partied all night before throwing a perfect game? Or Lawrence Taylor showing up at Phil Simms' house at 6am on game day to borrow golf shoes, then going out and dominating! We have actual footage of the moon landing and people still call it a fake! At what point did cynicism get confused with intelligence?From there it's cancel culture, the COVID vaccine debate, and whether political division has gone too far to recover from, before closing out with an old radio bit coming back from the dead. Maybe not the resurrection we were hoping for, but we'll work on it.Hear all of it and enjoy!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 13, 20261h 33m

S1 Ep 973Dr. Dan & Humanity’s Red Flags CONDENSED

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The episode kicks off with a listener question for Dr. Dan, which is what Bill is calling him now. A loyal listener wants to know whether Dan told him to buy the red or blue Wegmans fiber pills. Dan corrects the record with full authority: TopCare green cap fiber powder, not pills. Skip the Metamucil. Grab flaxseed if you're on a budget. Bill points out that somewhere in Rochester, a gastroenterologist who spent twelve years in medical school is sitting in his office while Dan from Billified is the guy people are calling for gut advice.But that's the thing about confidence. Bill makes the observation that when someone speaks with enough authority, we just buy it. Dan jumps on that with the perfect example: John Ratzenberger bombing his audition for Norm on Cheers, turning around on his way out the door, and pitching a bar know-it-all into existence on the spot. Cliff Clavin was born because one guy spoke with total conviction. Dan owns it: he is the Billified Cliff Clavin. Whether he knows what he's talking about or not, he says it like he does, and that's enough. Bill takes it further, pointing out that the internet has turned this into an epidemic. Confident voices become gospel, and nobody checks the receipts.That gets Bill thinking about all the little behaviors that make you quietly take a step back from someone, which becomes the topic du jour. The Red Flags of Humanity. Not relationship red flags. Human red flags. Bill has a list and it just keeps growing: the dashboard tchotchke museum, the selfie industrial complex, duck lips, the person who is always busy, #girldad, and of course, clapping when a plane lands. Dan adds his own, including a woman he once dated whose house was wall to wall photos of exclusively herself.The conversation then opens up into what it actually takes to believe something happened. Bam Adebayo just dropped 83 points and people saw it! But there are people who still don't believe Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 in a game because the only evidence is a guy holding a piece of paper. Or what about how David Wells supposedly partied all night before throwing a perfect game? Or Lawrence Taylor showing up at Phil Simms' house at 6am on game day to borrow golf shoes, then going out and dominating! We have actual footage of the moon landing and people still call it a fake! At what point did cynicism get confused with intelligence?From there it's cancel culture, the COVID vaccine debate, and whether political division has gone too far to recover from, before closing out with an old radio bit coming back from the dead. Maybe not the resurrection we were hoping for, but we'll work on it.Hear all of it and enjoy!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.

Mar 13, 202643 min
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