Groovemelikeout
ill-advised by Bill Nighy
EYEPOD Studios
5.0 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Bill answers your questions on dealing with the heat, social batteries and being bored.
This episode's playlist is called 'Groovemelikeout' and it includes:
‘Hook Me Up’ by Johnny “Guitar” Watson
‘Ain’t That Peculiar’ by Marvin Gaye
‘I Love Every Little Thing About You’ by Stevie Wonder
‘Be Thankful For What You’ve Got - Live’ by Orgone
‘Crystal Clear’ by Pharrell Williams
Link to Spotify playlist here
Link to Apple Music playlist here
The book of the episode is by Joan Didion and is called 'Where I Was From'
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. |
| 0:06.1 | This is Bill Nye welcoming you to ill-advised by Bill Nye, the podcast for people who don't get out much |
| 0:12.5 | and can't handle it when they do. It's a refuge for the clumsy and the awkward. If you are |
| 0:18.1 | socially adept and enjoy healthy relationships, there's nothing for you here. |
| 0:22.4 | I will attempt to answer your questions without actually making things worse. |
| 0:27.3 | I was very moved and, you know, touched that so many people sent so many questions in. |
| 0:34.5 | It'll take me probably longer than I'm going to live to answer them all, but we're |
| 0:39.3 | going to start right now, so let's hear one. Hello there, Bell. My name is Will. I am based in |
| 0:47.5 | East London. I have a question for you, and that is related to my marriage next year in Tuscany. I am very much looking forward to it. |
| 0:57.5 | The venue is fantastic. I very much love my fiancé. So so far, so good. But I am, unfortunately, |
| 1:06.8 | but a pasty Englishman and very ill-suited to high temperatures. and by that I mean anything above 25 degrees, I'm afraid to say. |
| 1:15.7 | My question is, how can I ensure that I exude the sophisticated and relaxed and demure vibe or aura that I intend to have at my wedding while battling this fiendishly high heat. My fiance is very |
| 1:29.5 | lucky she does not have that problem. Any advice on this would be gratefully received. Thank you, Bill. |
| 1:35.3 | You are my only hope. Well, Will, I feel you, as I think Generation Y used to say, I feel you. |
| 1:49.1 | I also, being largely Irish, have a problem with anything above 25 degrees. I'm not built for that, and I've never had a sun tan in my life. I once went |
| 1:56.4 | septic in the sun. I fell asleep on a beach, and I had open sores over my body for the whole |
| 2:03.2 | of the holiday and my friends in inverted commas at night in the barn where we were living they would |
| 2:09.2 | wait till I'd got into the sleeping bag very tentatively you can imagine and then they would roll me |
| 2:15.7 | around the barn floor for a laugh and while I screamed |
| 2:20.1 | in pain. That's as near as I ever got to any kind of sun, sun, whatever you call it, sun tan. It was more a kind of pink. |
| 2:30.8 | It was like the surface of the moon. I mean, my back was like, it was just horrendous. So I |
| 2:36.1 | understand where you're coming from. This is not going to happen to you, Will. Calm down. |
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