He's Well Tonk
4/16/202626 min
Masculine flowers, imposter syndrome and making small talk in your socks are some of the topics in this episode.
This episode's playlist is called 'Sure There’s Shame In My Eyes But I Still function' and includes:
Morning Show - Iggy Pop
Maxine - Donald Fagen
Desire - Boz Scaggs
Roster - Jazmine Sullivan
Better Days - Le-Andria Johnson
Twinkle - Hether
You can find a link to the playlist on Spotify here
Or on Apple Music here
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First 90 secondsBill Nighy· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. Welcome to Ill Advised by Bill Nighy, and the clue is in the title. This is a podcast for people who don't get out much, and when they do, they want to turn back time. It's a refuge for the clumsy and the awkward. Really, this is an invitation to squander time. I will try and answer certain questions without actually making things worse. The thing you must... You don't have to know anything, but, um, the thing I would, I'd just like to make clear is that I don't know anything about the questions before they're sprung on me, and I just react to them as they happen live, as it were, in the studio. And also, the other thing is that I don't remember anything that I've said just because I've got a really bad memory. The other day I had, because I want to re- you know, recommend books, I'd got about five books that I thought would be good to recommend, and I ran them past my producer, Alice Williams, and she said, "You've already done that one, and you've already done that one, and you've already done that one, and you've already done that one, and you've already done that one." So there were five books I'd forgotten. Anyway, that, the point is, I never remember anything I've said on the, on the podcast. And a friend of mine texted me the other day and said that he thought that I was the only other person he'd ever come across who realized or had noted that innuendo