S2, Ep8 How to Fail: David Baddiel
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Physical Discomfort of Untruth
I feel deeply uncomfortable about misleading people in any way. I think it's something to do with my mother, who was very extremely giving of herself and her life. But what she gave was never entirely true. And as a child, that probably led to some discomfort with that. My mom was always trying to tell you about principally this sort of big affair that she'd had with a golfing memorabilia salesman. As time went on, it became clear to me that she was self dramatizing and fantasizing about a lot of that. That made me at least have a reaction, which was, I don't know where I am unless the absolute truth is constantly available to me.
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