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In this latest episode, Will writes a love letter to Ernest Hemingway while questioning the people who post motivational quotes on their social media profiles. With a little help from Sandra Bullock and Charles Manson, Will ponders the effectiveness of staying silent, and creating art for the sake of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a while but Will is back with his most absurd episode yet. Why would somebody choose to have an orange for a head? What happens when you squeeze an orange really hard? Would you peel an orange for your partner just to make their life a little easier? There's a lot of talk about oranges, but this is Nothing Important Happened Today, so it's obviously not about oranges at all... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A painting in a Chicago art gallery once saved Bill Murray's life. Usain Bolt once ran a distance of 100m faster than any human has in the history of the Earth. And Stephen Bartlett once drank a couple of glasses of wine that wiped out half of his week and almost ruined his life. But the real issue here is that we are getting so bogged down with staying alive for as long as we can that we have forgotten to live in the moments we have. This week, Will talks about how drinking and screwing up can be beneficial to the soul, even if you forget to add a spoonful of creatine to your breakfast protein shake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something a little different this week as Will links up with former co-host SJ Watson for a special episode of Let's Get Lit where they interview musician Kristin Hersh about what it is to live a creative life. They share a drink whilst talking about the trials of the music industry machine, taking your kids on the road, and being shot at. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Everything that is wrong in your life is your fault.' Some more strong and positive words of encouragement to help you get happy from your favourite writer, thinker and whisky drinker, Will Carver. This week, Will looks at a study that suggests the unhappiest time in a person's life is when they hit the grand old age of 47, and why this is a warning sign for author Anna Bailey and laughable for world champion rower...Anna Bailey. He also got around to reading The Alchemist, after having it sit on a shelf for two decades. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Boston Red Sox baseball team, the resurrection of Christ, and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. This week, Will is talking about making a comeback. Everyone loves a good Cinderella story but how are we going to make a comeback in the future if we are not making an impact in the present? How can we succeed if we are not being allowed to fail? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will is back! And he's bored of the attention that people are getting for living in the extremes of opinion. He's been away doing some things he can't talk about, while thinking about bean soup, dead friends, and how we can all make a little difference to the world by realising that it's not all about us. Oh, and here is a video of a bean soup recipe: https://tinyurl.com/436caywb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The importance of the words we use, the latest season of Married at First Sight UK, and how to manifest your destiny. Subjects that shouldn't really go together but that's why you come to this podcast. Throw in some Jim Carrey, trauma, and equal pay, and you've got just another episode of Nothing Important Happened Today, the podcast that thinks the little things are worth thinking about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something a little different this week as Will links up with former co-host SJ Watson for a special episode of Let's Get Lit where they interview actor Brendan Patricks about what it is to live a creative life. They share a drink whilst talking about craft, struggles, magic and the joys of working at Blockbuster Video. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He's back! And he's been thinking about stuff. In the first episode of a new season, Will talks about stupidity. He considers the best way to gain a following and build an audience, and whether it's really worth it to lean to one side or be controversial for the sake of it. How do we get from the place we are at now, to the place that we really want to be? And why are smart people are so annoyingly stupid? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's award season in the book world and Will has one he would like to give out to a book reviewer. This episode, thoughts turn towards political correctness and context. Who are the guardians of morality? When is the right time to discuss tough subjects? How can we use comedy to make a serious point? And why is there not a wanky writers' association? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the publication day of Will's new novel, Kill Them With Kindness, he talks about tolerance and intolerance. How a specific tomato can change its sex and how Pope Francis was right about the world. Lot's of topics are covered in this episode after having a short break: The 1995 Rugby World Cup, the Suffragette movement, civil rights and the joys of attending an all-boys school. Take a trip through time as we discover why the first picture of lightning tells us just how grateful we all should be and why we should try to do a little more than we do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An accidental cross-country running champion and pre-school iPad screen time lead Will on a voyage to California where he is watching Joni Mitchell in concert, meeting with film executives and finding out how he can get himself a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. All while asking the simple question: are we getting what we deserve? It's time to talk about nothing important. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will inadvertently plugs his new book, Kill Them With Kindness, while discussing the pandemic, his fear of death, and love for Warren Zeavon and Nick Cave. He also shares the opening chapter to a half-novel he wrote years ago about a boy who dies for one day every year on his birthday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will celebrates the birthdays of Burt Bacharach, Homer Simpson and Dorothy Hodgkin, while examining our growing need for external validation. Add in some Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King and the John Birch Society, and you get the usual mess of topics that eventually come around to the simple fact that what the world needs, now, is love, sweet love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.