Don't Forget To Disco
ill-advised by Bill Nighy
EYEPOD Studios
5.0 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Bill answers your questions on choosing the right pair of glasses, assimilating into Japanese culture, salsa dancing and the best way to enjoy scones.
This episode's playlist is called 'Don't Forget To Disco';
- Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up - Barry White
- It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) Pts.1&2 - The Isley Brothers
- What' Cha Gonna Do For Me - Chaka Khan
- Wish I Didn’t Miss You - Angie Stone
- Runaway - by Nuyorican Soul, India
You can find the playlist here
The book of the episode is Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. |
| 0:05.9 | This is Bill Nye, and this is ill-advised by Bill Nye, and we're ready for questions, and we've had questions from all over the world. |
| 0:13.2 | And I can absolutely promise you that I will say nothing of any import. |
| 0:17.6 | And if you at any point suspect me of profundity or wisdom call it cab this is a podcast for people |
| 0:25.7 | who panic when the doorbell goes once i reached an age where people might ask me for advice |
| 0:32.3 | the reassuring thing became clear which is that they never take it, which is a very, very good thing and should |
| 0:39.4 | extend to this podcast. So don't feel any pressure, because I know more than you do, really |
| 0:46.2 | know how to proceed. My advanced age in no way guarantees a sophisticated worldview. |
| 0:52.9 | I just want to make that clear. I think that's enough |
| 0:56.2 | disclaimers from me. Let's hear some questions. Hello, Bill. This is Trees from Washington. |
| 1:05.2 | I was wondering, how on earth do I pick the right glasses frames for me? From what I see, you seem to |
| 1:10.7 | know. Thank you for your help. Well what I see, you seem to know. |
| 1:11.6 | Thank you for your help. |
| 1:13.5 | Well, Therese, I'm not sure I know the answer to that any more than I'm sure I know the answer to anything. |
| 1:19.4 | But the first time I bought glasses, the girls in the shop basically made the decision for me. |
| 1:26.8 | I went to Cutler & Gross, reaching out for sponsorship |
| 1:29.8 | in London town, and they put on some big black glasses. They put them on me, and they said, |
| 1:37.6 | those are glasses that say, I wear glasses and I don't care, which didn't particularly persuade me. |
| 1:43.4 | I had no idea, because I could barely see at the time. So it was quite difficult to know which ones to choose because I couldn't really see myself clearly in the mirror. But then I got into glasses because you can hide behind glasses and you can live behind glasses. And even though I don't need to wear glasses all the time, |
| 2:01.6 | I wear glasses all the time because I just think I'm going to look marginally better with glasses |
| 2:07.2 | on than I do without. Then you have that embarrassing thing where you take your glasses off and |
| 2:12.8 | someone says, you look so different without your glasses. And you go, yeah, that's why I wear the glasses so I don't know |
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