Just Go Limp
ill-advised by Bill Nighy
EYEPOD Studios
5.0 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Bill is back to tackle the pressing subjects of polishing shoes, escaping parties and how to pronounce expresso, sorry espresso.
This episode's playlist is called ‘I’ll Hold Your Coat...’ :
- ‘Breakfast Can Wait’ by Prince
- ‘Talkin’ to Myself’ by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
- ‘Louie Louie’ by Iggy Pop
- ‘Seventeen’ by Sjowgren
- ‘Blue Jean’ by David Bowie
You can find the playlist on Spotify here
And on Apple Music here
The book of the episode is ‘Oh What A Paradise It Seems’ by John Cheever
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. |
| 0:05.6 | This is ill-advised by Bill Nye. I am Bill Nye. And I'm going to take the opportunity to use this |
| 0:10.8 | introduction to make an announcement. And the announcement is that I've retired from a few things. |
| 0:16.5 | I've retired, don't panic, from Zoom. |
| 0:23.0 | I don't care who you are. |
| 0:25.4 | We're never going to meet on Zoom again. |
| 0:29.2 | I've also retired, obviously, from FaceTime, |
| 0:32.5 | and I've retired from lunch. |
| 0:46.3 | Not all lunches, because there will be exceptions I expect, but I've retired from ever talking about work whilst my mouth is full, basically. |
| 0:51.1 | So I'm never going to eat and talk professionally ever again. |
| 0:56.6 | And I don't really want to have lunch because it's like a soft bomb in the middle of your day. |
| 0:58.2 | And then it's 3.45. |
| 1:00.8 | And what you're going to do now? |
| 1:02.6 | And you've spoiled your dinner. |
| 1:04.7 | So lunch is over, as far as I'm concerned. |
| 1:08.4 | But the big one is that I've retired from stress. It's just over. |
| 1:16.0 | I've had enough of it throughout my life like everybody and it's time to call a halt to it. |
| 1:22.8 | So I am formally retiring from stress. So if you're going to bring pain of any kind, forget about it. |
| 1:31.1 | Because I am no longer prepared to be a part of it. |
| 1:34.8 | So that's the big announcement. |
| 1:37.1 | So thank you very much for listening. |
| 1:39.3 | I don't normally hijack the podcast in order to talk about personal matters. |
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