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Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. This is Bill Nye at ill advised by Bill Nye and I'm here to answer questions without actually making things worse. It's a refuge here for the clumsy and the awkward. And if you're socially adept and enjoy healthy relationships, there's nothing for you here. If you enjoy long, leisurely four or five course lunches in the Mediterranean countryside at the edge of the sea with intelligent and engaging people around you, there's nothing for you here. This is a podcast for people who shower in the dark. I actually did shower in the dark, but I'm over that now. But there was a period where I would turn the lights out because I didn't want any further information about my body. And the information wasn't getting any better, so why risk it? And I was interviewed in New York by New York magazine, and the guy was talking about embarrassing things, about stuff that I couldn't quite. I mean, he was a perfectly nice person, but he was referring to me in a way that I wasn't familiar with. In other words, he was saying nice things about me, which I found obviously unforgivable. And then, so I told him, I said, listen, you're talking to somebody who showers in the dark. And the headline was, he showers in the dark. So, you know, be careful what you say to journalists. So this is our season finale, but don't panic, should you feel inclined to panic, because you can hear us all summer if you get to the back room. The back room is what we call the bonus feature, which you can subscribe to. And thank you to everyone who has already subscribed because it's just marvelous that you've all made it back there. And we're working on all kinds of stuff to put into the back room. There's Extra features coming. We are. We're present all summer if you want to join. It's really important to just search Patreon pat r o n.com ill advised by Bill Nye all the information you need is in the show notes, so we'll see you there. But for the last time this season, let's hear some questions.
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Hi, Bill. My name is Robin and I live in Malmo, the south of Sweden. But I'm originally from Essex. I'm an Essex boy. I suffer from earworms. Bits of songs, usually horrible ones that wriggle around in your head relentlessly, you know, and they're there when you go to sleep at night, waking up in the morning, and you hope that they're gone, but no, still there. So my question is actually four pronged. First, do you suffer from these at all? Secondly, how do you deal with them if you do? Thirdly, what is the song that you would most like to have as an earworm? And lastly, what is the song that you would find most irritating to have an earworm?
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Thank you, Robin. I don't suffer from earworms. I'm not quite relaxed about the expression earworms. It's unsettling. So I might try and find something else. But I don't suffer so much. But I have the same experience. And the trouble is that it turns out I know the first two lines of lots and lots of songs, and then I don't know the third or the fourth or the fifth. So what I've done lately is I've learned a whole song. So I give myself a project where I learn a whole song. And that's my project for the day. And I have it on my phone and I get the lyrics up and I just. Throughout the day when I'm walking around, I commit the song to memory. And that way I've got a job and I've got something to achieve. And I know the whole song and it's satisfying. Cause I like to sing. I like to sing under my breath just as you're walking around. The ones that you know, they change. There are certain ones that have persisted. There's a Pete Townsend song called the Kids Are All Right, which goes, I don't mind other guys dancing with my girl, that's fine, because I know them all pretty well. But I know sometimes I must get out of the light Better leave her behind where the kids are all right And I know the second verse as well, but I won't put you through it. The other song I've committed to memory and I think is a perfect song. And I may have spoken about this before, and I think it certainly must be on one of the playlists. On Ill Advised is a Randy Newman song called Guilty. I urge you to take a listen. Beautiful chords and a completely successful lyric. Other ones are. You're going to make me lonesome when you go by Bob Dylan. I've seen love go by my door. It's never been this close before Never been so easy or so slow. I've been shooting in the dark too long. When something isn't right, it's wrong. You're gonna make me learn some. When you go. That's just. There are four other verses and they're all pretty good, so I don't resist them. I sometimes try to preempt an earworm by choosing a song for the day. Get down on it is another one which always makes me laugh. I don't know anything, actually. I've never learned this song, but it's the only line I know from the song, which is get down on it. And I do it sometimes in a. Because I work in different accents. So, you know, a bit like get down on it, you know, or do it in Irish or something. Or do it very posh. Get down on it, you know, kind of thing. Come on, baby. It always makes me laugh, but I'll have to learn that song because I quite like that song. There's a James Brown song called out of Sight, and it's got a couplet in it, which is, you've got a stately figure, mama, which keeps me uptight, which always makes me laugh because it's so stupid. But it's also very satisfying. And I do sing out of Sight by James Brown. There are others. The only one that I would kind of not really what you might call relate to is Misty by Johnny Mathis. I get misty just holding her hand, that thing, which is a perfectly respectable song, but it's not the kind of thing I would normally listen to. Those are my. I'm going to find some other way of saying earworm, but if anyone has any ideas, please send them in. And as long as they don't contain the word worm, we'll consider them. We've googled and ear candy is an alternative. Let me know what you think about that. It's got to be better than worm. Also, because of your question, Robin, you have. I'm trying to avoid. To use another banned word. Hang on, I'll just consult the permissions committee. Won't be a moment. The lion's busy. But they'll be with us in a minute. Yeah. Apparently another exception can be made. Your question has triggered. Oh, my God. He used the word triggered. I know it's a banned word, but we did ask for an exception to be made and it was permitted. It's triggered an idea, which is that we should have an ear candy playlist. So I'm going to compile some of the songs that drive me crazy in a good way that I've lived with all my life or long periods of my life. And you can hear it later in this episode. Just look in the show notes and then you can refer to Spotify.
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Hello, my name is Ogn and I'm from Lithuania and I recently started university in Spain, which is a completely foreign country to me. And so I was wondering if you had any tips of making it feel more like home and. And just any kind of tips you have for someone that's starting university. Thank you.
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Ugene. Hello. It's a good question. I travel quite a lot and I used to go a lot to Los Angeles, where I didn't know anyone in the beginning and it was quite a foreign city to me. I remember on a couple of jobs, on one job I bought, in the days of CDs, I bought the complete works of the Rolling Stones to take with me. I think music has played a big part in me acclimatizing to places. And I took the complete works of the Rolling Stones, which was handy because I had a five hour makeup to make me look like a vampire who'd been asleep for a thousand years and been rendered bloodless with tubes coming out of my back, which was a very, very complex and elaborate and quite painful process. So we played the complete works of the Rolling Stones while that was happening. I also used to take the poems of Harold Pinter, which seemed to me the most English thing in the world. That's the other thing about the Rolling Stones. I don't get particularly homesick. I did, I think, say on one podcast that when there was a trend for piling food on top of itself and putting in the menu on a bed of. Whenever I saw on a bed of. In a menu, it made me instantly homesick. I just wanted to go home. But apart from that, I don't mind being wherever I am. I don't really pay much attention because I'm working and, you know, and I'm kind of used to it. But I think music would help a great deal. I know that the Rolling Stones are basically or originally interpreters of black American music, but there's something about them which is very, very English for me, as are Harold Pinter's poems. And I used to carry his poems as a kind of. As a sort of charm against foreignness. Not that I felt besieged or anything, but they did make me feel like I was at home. I christen every trailer I'm in. I go, I work in trailers. You know, on every job you get a caravan. And I christen everyone with Goat's Head Soup by the Rolling Stones. One of the great albums, usually with, I think, the third track, second or third track, a hundred years ago, largely entirely because it mentions my daughter's name. I play music in the car. Play music now. You can carry a speaker. It's easy. Or you can Bluetooth in the car, I Bluetooth in the hotel room, in the car, in the trailer, everywhere. And that controls the environment to some degree. Other than that, I suppose if I wanted to be irritating, I would suggest that you just embrace Spain and learn the language as much as you can. And forget Lithuania for a while. There must be a Lithuanian equivalent of Marmite, so you could take that, or you could just introduce yourself to Marmite. If you get really lonely, call us. We're always here. Hello, Bill. I have a question inspired by a family connection. My dear friend Phil, your cousin, was one of my earliest schoolmates when my family lived in England for four years before we returned to Australia.
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However, the prospect of local school reunions are somewhat daunting. Thank you. Deirdre Reardon, Melbourne. Deirdre. Yeah? Avoid them. I mean, why risk it, really? It's like the connection was then. I don't know the answer to this any better than you do, Deirdre. I have friends from school. I have one friend that's known me since I was 5, and we text probably every day. We live in different countries, but we've managed to stay in touch and stay substantially in each other's lives. And what's great about it is that he has the context, he knows everything, and he can also remember everything, which I can't. I have a terrible memory. Like, for instance, he. He. He said to me once on the telephone, do you remember that time we were pulled by the police on Battersea Bridge and we were wearing kilts and tam o shantas, and I said, brendan, don't make shit up. He said, you Must remember we spent the night in the police station. I tried to outrun the police, like Brendan was always trying. We were always trying to outrun the police. And it wasn't hard to get pulled in those days because you looked funny and you looked funny in a kind of Frontline way. Now everybody looks kind of funny, or lots of people look funny, and people are used to people looking funny. But in those days, it was kind of radical and you could be mistaken for everything. We used to be called in the popular papers. We would be called a threat to the very fabric of society. And I sometimes say to Brendan, do you remember Brennan, when we were a threat to the very fabric of society? And Brennan says, yes. And we look into the middle distance like old threats do, and we meditate on our youth. But I don't remember anything about wearing a kilt. And I don't remember. I remember wearing a kilt, but not in a car trying to outrun the police on Battersea Bridge. And I don't remember going to the police station. You'd think you'd remember going to the police station, wouldn't you? But I. It's gone. I've forgotten some of the biggest events in my life and. And Brendan is my memory, because he remembers absolutely everything. And I don't understand why he does, and I don't. My dad used to say, when we were sitting around at night, my dad would say, I wish I had a memory. And I think, how can you not have a memory? Well, I know now it's not hard. You just have to be your father's son.
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Hi, Bill. What I would like to respectfully ask is to. Whether it is, in your opinion, still appropriate to offer a firm but not squeezing, handshake to men and ladies, and in some cases, a polite kiss on the cheek of ladies that are known to us. This was taught to us upon greeting and saying goodbye. Should this still be encouraged or now deemed as inappropriate. Kind regards, Martin Hood.
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Thank you, Martin. Hello to Brisbane. No, I don't think it's inappropriate. I think you can shake hands. I don't think you want to kiss anybody on the cheek unless you've slept with them, basically, or they're your mother. And even then, when I used to try and kiss my mother on the cheek, she would always pull back quite stridently, as if, you know, what are you doing? So I gave it up. But I. Yeah, I have a particular problem, which is I have Jupiter and contracture in both hands, which means that my small fingers rest in my palm all of the time. So when I shake anybody's hand, it's like I'm sending a message. And I have got into trouble over the years. There was a girl years ago when my finger had just started to bend because I wasn't born like that. It's a gradual bending of the little fingers over time. And before it was really conspicuous, I had a crush on a girl at work. And I didn't trouble her with it, obviously, but it was big and I was mad about it. And I met her that evening at work. And then the following morning in the corridor, she was walking by and I said, good morning. And she said, if you ever try and hear that shit with me again, I'm going to fucking have you. And I'm only cursing because she did listeners and I didn't know what she was talking about and she just stormed off. And then about a month later maybe I got a letter from her saying, dear Bill, I'm so, so sorry, but when I was a schoolgirl in Leeds, that meant, do you want to go around the back of the bike shed? And you think, oh, so I look like someone who might say or indicate that they want to take you around the back of the bike shed. You know, I must have shaken her hand the night before and she thought that I was my pinky in her palm in order to send that message. So I have to be really careful. And it's dull because I have to spend the first eight minutes explaining my condition to people that I meet for the first time, which is not the greatest way to kickstart the conversation. So I have a problem in that area. But I kind of blazon it through a lot of the time now. But I always have to say, if I shake a girl's hand, I don't know about shaking girls hands. I think you should wait until they extend their hand. I think that's the rule. Or rather than you instigate shaking a woman's hand, that's my view. I don't know. But with men, yeah, why not shake their hand? It's a nice thing to do. And now it's time for what might be your favorite thing about the whole of the Ill Advised by Bill Nye podcast. It certainly is reflected in the number of people that have contributed to this feature. And the feature is the Banned Word list. And I can't believe that we haven't got a name for the banned word list feature yet. Maybe you have some ideas. The first word. This episode has never troubled me at all because I've never Heard it in my life and I'm even now finding it difficult to believe that anyone has ever used it. But the word means a skirt with shorts underneath. And the word is squat, which seriously, I've never. I'm finding it difficult to believe. I think someone's invented a word just to get it banned. I don't think anyone's ever said the word scort in anybody's life, but maybe they have. They have. Oh, sorry. Alice Williams, my fabulous producer, she has heard someone say scort. It's now been brought to my attention that there is another word which is a spork, which is an implement, which is a fork head at one end and a spoon head at the other end, and that's called a spork. I don't have any particularly strong feelings about spork, but you may have. So let me know. Let me know if you want me to ban spork. And you need never hear it again. This is an expression that somebody wants banned and it's either yeah, no or no, yeah. It's exceedingly irritating, says the person who sent this in. When a speaker responds by starting with either yeah, no or no, yeah, like that. It's gone. It went in front of the Permissions Committee, albeit that they're fictional and they endorsed the ban. So gone. The next one is baby girl, which is described here as the biggest ick ever, when someone is referring to their girlfriend and not actually a baby girl as baby girl. So that's gone. That's now banned from the English language and indeed any other language. Here's another one, which I'm all for. It's just. I think they just wear out and then they just become exhausting to listen to. And this is one that's become exhausting and the expression is it's all good, which is, I think, in Americanism. I haven't. I don't object to it on the grounds that it's an Americanism, but I think that's where it came from. And I think it's hung around for a while and I think it's, you know, it's hung around long enough. So that is now banned forever from the English language. You can administer on the spot fines for all of these expressions once they've been officially banned, as endorsed by the Permissions Committee and myself. You are at liberty to deliver reprimands and to demand on the spot fines. This is worrying. I've never heard of it in my life, but claggy, apparently, is a word, as in, I'm so sorry. The source is a bit claggy, which this reader, this listener rather, says my mum uses frequently. Just as you are putting a mouthful of perfectly good food in your mouth, I can't read the rest because it includes the word globus, and I'm not sure what that means to I don't want to be a part of it. And now it's time for this week's playlist and as promised to Robin and his question about songs that you compulsively hum or sing as you go about your day. And indeed, the playlist is called songs that like hound me, because I like putting the word like in between stuff. And as well as the songs I've already mentioned, which was Pete Townsend song the Kids are all right for the who, which has been with me for, I don't know, half my life in my brain and you're gonna make me lonesome when you go and all the other songs from Blood on the Tracks, that Bob Dylan album and Guilty by Randy Newman. In addition to those three, there's also a song by the band called when you Awake, which is almost the song that haunts me the most when I do neurotically launch into a song for one reason or the other, either because I'm, you know, anxious or because I'm jubilant, which isn't that often, but is this one, the first line of which is Holy told me there's a fork in the road so I walked on down the road a mile and went to the house that raised a smile and I've sung that ever since, you know, before this century. I heard it through the grapevine was a song I learned all the way through because the only bit I knew was I know a man ain't supposed to cry but these tears I can't keep inside and I didn't know anything more of it and then I'd have to sing the chorus. So now I do. I did once know, I'm not sure if I still do all the words till I heard it through the great crime. Then take some time out for love, which is a little known early, early Isley Brothers tune, which I discovered somewhere a million years ago. And we used to play it at the Stop Making Love club above the Co Op in Caterham High street when I was in charge of tune selection and dancing, because I used to have to go on the floor and dance in the hope that somebody else might dance with me. And then Bob Dylan's I threw it all Away, which is a kind of perfect country song, which he Just, you know, produced after he stopped being the kind of artist that we'd known him as for the first four or five years. And then he. He kind of became a country artist briefly. And then there's a song which I just like the title, apart from anything, and it's very catchy. And it's called Any Major Dude Will Tell You. Incidentally, I think. Dude, you can hear how uncomfortable I am saying it. I think it should go on the band list, but with a. With a caveat. I've never used that word in my life. But I think it's correct that it's okay for people under 20. But anyone over 20 that says dude, you know, they always go that, you know, like, dude, you know, at the beginning of a sentence they'll say, dude, what the. You know, like that. And I. It just make. It goes through me like. Like a knife. Anyway, that's by Steely Dan, which is, I think you'll agree, a compulsive little number. And then Nancy with the Laughing Face by Frank Sinatra, which is by no means a favorite song or a favorite Frank Sinatra song, but it has been one that is just lodged in my brain. And I know a little known pop fact about that song which will get you five points in any pub quiz, which is the lyrics were written by Phil Silvers. And, you know, I am aware that 98 of the people listening won't know who Phil Silvers is. Phil Silvers used to have a show called. I don't know what the show was called, but his character was called Sergeant Bilco. B I L K O. If you want to check it out in black and white. It'll make you laugh. Anyway, he wrote probably the only song he ever wrote. And he wrote Nancy with a Laughing Face, which is about Nancy Sinatra. And her father used to sing it. And I always remember. Take Betty Grable, l' Amour and Turner. She makes my heart wait for it A charcoal burner Picture a tomboy in lace and then you has Nancy with the laughing face. She takes the winter and makes it summer but wait for it. Summer could take some lessons from her. It's great writing. And then another Frank Sinatra song, which I learned all the way through just so that I wouldn't have to always sing It Happened in Monterey A long time ago it happened in Monterey in old Mexico and then stopped there Now I know that I can continue to stars and steal Guitars and luscious lips as red as wine Stole somebody's heart and I'm afraid that it was mine See I Know the other verse as well. So those are the songs that haunt me and hound me currently. They come and they go, but those are definitely. Those are. They're lifers. They've been with me for most of my life and I'm not ashamed to say it. And you can find a link to the list in the show notes which will lead you to Spotify and Apple Music. This week's book is by James Baldwin, and it's called the Fire Next Time. A friend of mine told me that he had heard of a man who, when he read this book, bought hundreds of copies and drove all over America, depositing them in mobile libraries, schools and all over America because he thought that every American, with the emphasis on white Americans, should read this book. This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here and the root of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were thus expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity and in as many ways as possible that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence. You were expected to make peace with mediocrity wherever you have turned. James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do and how you could do it and where you could live and whom you could marry. I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this. And I hear them saying you exaggerate. They do not know Harlem, and I do so do you. Take no one's word for anything, including mine, but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity and fear. So there you go. That's about the size of it now. I say so myself. And we are now at the end of season two. Who knew? We are going to have a kind of competition where it's more like a raffle and we're going to put names into a hat and the winner or the winners will receive a copy of one of the books that I recommended over the two seasons and it will be personally signed for them. So that's something you could get involved in if you wish. That'll all be in what we like to call the back room on our subscriber channel on Patreon. There will be exclusive bonus content, new features, and early access to new episodes, merchandise and events. Make sure you sign up online first to avoid the Apple fees and then download it later. All the information you need is in the show Notes. Thank you for listening. Thank you for all your questions and for your contributions to other features. I'll see you on the street, as it were, on September 3rd. I even know that. But obviously I'll be seeing you in the back room. And remember, always remember. It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice. Bye bye everybody. Bye bye. Ill Advised by Bill Nigh is produced by Alice Williams and Chiara Gregory with assistant production by Angelique Somers pronounced Somas and Charlotte Ross pronounced Ross R O S S and it's an ipod Studios Production.
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Episode: He Showers In The Dark (Season Finale)
Host: Bill Nighy (EYEPOD Studios)
Release Date: May 21, 2026
In the season finale of ill-advised by Bill Nighy, Bill creates a comforting haven for society’s self-confessed awkward, introspective, and clumsy souls. As always, he offers empathetic, gently humorous advice to listener dilemmas, often sidestepping anything that might make matters worse but always leaving listeners feeling less alone. This episode is laced with reflections on the joys and perils of nostalgia, social mores, music, and the solace of turning ordinary quirks into communal in-jokes.
Key segments include musings on “earworms,” advice for settling into new places, thoughts on school reunions, the politics of handshakes and kisses, and the beloved “Banned Words” feature, plus this week’s recommended book and playlist.
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Bill sets the scene: “If you enjoy healthy relationships, there’s nothing for you here. …This is a podcast for people who shower in the dark.”
He humorously recounts his own phase of literally showering in darkness to avoid seeing his body, a story that inadvertently produced the New York Magazine headline:
“So, you know, be careful what you say to journalists.”
Listeners are reassured the show’s “back room” (Patreon) will remain open with bonus content all summer—"so don't panic, should you feel inclined to panic".
Caller: Robin from Malmö, Sweden
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“If anyone has any ideas, please send them in. As long as they don’t contain the word ‘worm’, we’ll consider them.” ([09:00])
Caller: Ogn, from Lithuania, recently in Spain
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Caller: Deirdre Reardon, Melbourne
[15:03]
[15:15]
“He said to me once on the telephone, ‘Do you remember that time we were pulled by the police on Battersea Bridge and we were wearing kilts and tam o’shanters?’... I don’t remember going to the police station. You’d think you’d remember going to the police station, wouldn’t you?” ([16:04])
Caller: Martin Hood, Brisbane
[17:56]
[18:22]
“I think you should wait until they extend their hand. I think that’s the rule. Or rather than you instigate shaking a woman’s hand…”
[19:25 – 24:00]
Bill introduces the always-popular list of words and phrases listeners want “banned.” The process is overseen by the whimsically fictional "Permissions Committee.”
This week's additions:
Findings:
[24:30 – 28:00]
A special playlist inspired by Robin’s question:
Notable quote:
“Anyone over 20 that says ‘dude’… it goes through me like a knife.” ([26:45])
[29:49]
“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason…”
[32:30]
Announcement: End of Season 2.
Upcoming raffle for personally signed recommended books (details in Patreon "back room").
Emphasis on ongoing bonus content, early access, and a welcoming “back room” community.
Final sign-off aphorism:
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to be nice.” ([33:24])
Bill Nighy’s delivery is gentle, dryly comic, self-deprecating, and quietly reassuring—every bit a refuge for “the clumsy and the awkward.” Listeners are included as co-conspirators in life’s minor mishaps, with advice that is thoughtful but never didactic, always tinged with British wit, and delight in the oddities of everyday living.
Summary Prepared for Listeners New and Old:
If you crave a podcast where earnest questions are met with quirky charm and music is both a solace and an in-joke, sit down, stay loose, and remember: it’s important to be nice.