Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. Welcome to Illadvised by Bill Nye and the clue is in the title. This is a podcast for people who don't get out much and can't handle it when they do. It's a refuge for the clumsy and the awkward. I'm no longer really that clumsy and not often awkward, but I did use to help them out

when they were busy. And I still do on occasion. If you're socially adept, unlike I was,

and enjoy healthy relationships, there's a laugh, there's nothing for you here. My credentials are

that as someone who got

almost everything precisely wrong in early times, I might be useful and act as some kind of

deterrent. Really, this is an invitation to squander time. If I start talking intelligently

about relationships, for instance, call a cab because you know you're in the company of an idiot.

So I have nothing really to tell you.

But I will try and answer certain questions without actually making things worse.

And thank you, everyone, for taking this seriously and actually sending in questions

because we have more than I will live long enough

to answer which is encouraging you know I mean you know you get to my age and you might know

a little bit about some things like maybe I don't know parking or gardening mind you just for the

record I'm no good at either of those things. I was a motorist

for a brief period. There are people left alive who remember my motoring career. And if you

mention my name and driving in the same sentence, when they finish laughing, they'll tell you about it.

Because it was, it wasn't catastrophic, but it was laughable.

So I could never park.

I'd drive miles to find somewhere where you didn't actually have to park.

You could just leave the car.

And gardening remains a mystery to me, although, you know, I've heard great things about it.

So here goes.

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