Highbrow and intellectual
What's Your Problem With Nick Abbot and Carol McGiffin
Global
4.7 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Carol says she's not as sipper, Nick believes her, and they help with publishing a poem and with sitting properly.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | You know, I keep feeling as though I should be doing something. |
| 0:14.0 | I think maybe it's because I was doing something every day for a long, long time over, |
| 0:19.1 | well, it felt like a long time over Christmas. |
| 0:21.2 | And then after the Christmas stint finished, then I had to madly work on the book |
| 0:28.3 | that's just come out because it had to come out very, very early in the year because, you know, |
| 0:34.2 | there's no point trying to sell something that was about last year in summer. |
| 0:39.2 | And so it was like every day, it was like doing, which is unusual for me. |
| 0:43.8 | You can, you can appreciate that. |
| 0:46.6 | You know, we don't have five days a week where we have to be up at a certain time and go and do and do and do. |
| 0:53.9 | So since that stopped and the book came out and it's like all of this sort of work just |
| 0:59.5 | disappeared, this sort of not cloud exactly, but this sort of shadow of work. |
| 1:05.0 | I've been feeling like, shouldn't I be doing something? |
| 1:08.7 | You get that feeling like Like, you always think, |
| 1:15.2 | I feel I've not done something, |
| 1:17.0 | but I can't remember what it is. |
| 1:18.0 | But there isn't anything. |
| 1:20.5 | No, I don't get that feeling. |
| 1:25.3 | I quite love the idea of not having anything to do. |
| 1:27.0 | And it doesn't happen very often. |
| 1:47.1 | But when it does, God, I make the most of it. Do you? I don't sort of think, oh, God, I should be doing something? I'm not one of those people. Some people do. They're just not very good at doing nothing. You're good at doing nothing. Oh, God, I could do nothing as an Olympic sport. Well, exactly, me too, which is why, |
| 1:53.6 | I mean, I'm never really busy unless it's, I don't know, end of year or tax or God knows what, |
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