S1E1106 - The Talk We’re Not Having With Boys

Bill turns 55, celebrates with an Irish whiskey birthday shot from a Rolling Stones bottle, and proves that getting older does not automatically mean becoming more responsible. But beneath the birthday chaos, questionable decisions, and usual Billified nonsense is one of the show’s most important conversations.

Are we clearly teaching boys what consent actually means—or are we allowing pornography, social media, locker-room mythology, and trial-and-error to do the teaching for us?

Consent cannot simply mean, “She didn’t say no.” Young men need honest guidance about boundaries, pressure, intoxication, changing someone’s mind, reading uncertainty, and understa...