The Crowded Hour

Today on The Crowded Hour, the Danimal joins the show to discuss his tested recipe for a perfect day, what growing up Irish Catholic does to your brain, and why he's always able live in a contended now.

In a special, chaotic episode of The Crowded Hour, Billy is joined by five high school friends for a messy roundtable with many questions, and not a lot of answers.

We have an extra-Crowded Hour today with our guest Evan Nance, which went way over time because I had many new questions; because Evan is a newer friend so we had some nuts and bolts to cover; and because after the mics went off, Evan remembered something he really wanted to discuss (and I remembered an experiment I wanted to try) so we hit record again and kept going. So please keep listening after the music starts at the end. And know that while my experiment did not quite work as planned on the air, it did work later. Don't want to spoil it any further. Onward.

The elegant and effervescent Dianne Parisi joins The Crowded Hour to discuss growing up in a family of nine kids, why "food shopping" is the correct term, and why she secretly wants to live in an RV on the road.

Jonny Maybe joins The Crowded Hour to talk about finding magic where you live, his love affair with the desert, and his deep fear that I'm going to discuss all the people we mutually dislike.

Gloucester Hall-of-Famer Jillian LaFlam joins The Crowded Hour to grace us with her beloved blend of naughty and nice.

Kevin Phoenix joins The Crowded Hour to talk about the importance of play, being an older dad, and how to be a dicklomat.

Mark Chardavoyne joins the Crowded Hour today to discuss how he's never liked me, the many times I've nearly died by his side, and the intricacies of bad 90s fashion in Boston. Mahk!

P.S. I have no idea why the audio from the movie Friday did not come through, but I don't know how to fix it. It's amazing I can make any of this crap work.

The incomparable Joanne Mercaldi talks about surviving a horrific boat wreck in Greece, which celebrity could benefit from a punch in the mouth, and reveals a shocking story she has kept secret for more than 20 years.

Plus rubbing. Lots of rubbing.

Join us on the inaugural episode of The Crowded Hour to hear Kara Gallagher discuss such light topics as the reasons she left the Mormon Church and the last time she pooped her pants. We all do it.