He Showers In The Dark
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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. And 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 I, 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.
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Hi Bill, my name is Robin and I live in Malmö, 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 and 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 as an earworm 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, you know, 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 because 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 Townshend song called The Kids Are Alright, 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 that I have 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,
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