What Most People Think

Lockdown, Lockdown, Lockdown, Lockdown, Lockdown, Last Week.

Hello, and welcome to episode 112 of What Most People Think.

Hope you've had a good week.

I had a busy old week last week. I don't know if people would have might see me on Have I Got News for you, which was eventually postponed and went out Monday night at 1035. So it's sitting there on Eye Player. And thanks for the feedback and stuff. Obviously, you know, the patrons, they're like, we didn't see enough of Jeff, which is, I feel like that in life, fucking generally. Do you know what I mean? I always feel like they could be a bit more Jeff, but obviously they've got a lot of different things that they've got to get into the show. And I was assured that for a debut, I got a decent amount of gear in, but if you want to see a bit more Jeff, this sounds like a pitch for an only fans account, is that you

can watch the Have I Got a Bit More News for You, where you'll see some other stuff, what I said.

We have a guest here, a co-host, another person coming back on the show for the third time

or one, which means they're upgraded to a co-host. Welcome back, Chris Snowden.

Hello, Jeff. Lovely to be upgraded. Thanks very much.

I mean, upgraded is a sort of a way of saying more responsibility and still no money, I suppose.

In this instance, yes, but I'm going to consider it that I'm a first-class passenger on this podcast.

Yeah, yeah, you're part of BA's executive club. You've got a number of reward points that won't actually translate into anything tangible. Yeah, I was on a flight last week for the first time in about two years. Wait a minute. How was it? Not that pleasant, really. It was full. I'll tell you that. I mean, a lot of the flights obviously are cancelled now, so they're going out from sort of one a day to most places to like two a week or something I had to change in Frankfurt I was going to Croatia yeah and you just got to wear a mask the whole time you know and I'm not a massive mask hater but that's mainly because I hardly ever have to wear them but when you actually have to wear them for in this case like seven hours you know because you're going to wear them as as soon as you get in the airport it's probably the only kind of thing you do where everyone genuinely

wears a mask it's not like going on the tube where yeah well it's that's that one and three now

well we all know that the authority the consequences for acting up on a plane are just that bit

that bit higher there's a sort of a multiplier isn't there on a plane if you take the piss nearly bit higher. There's a sort of a multiplier, isn't there,

on a plane if you take the piss? Nearly everybody obeys the rules, don't they, on flights? Even if they're naturally on ruler, you do get the odd case, of course we read about in the papers, people trying to open the door in mid-air and stuff like that. But you have to be very drunk. I guess a lot of the time you just don't know what country you're flying over.

So if that country happens to be a particularly don't know what country you're flying over.

So if that country happens to be a particularly punitive, like if you're flying over Belarus. Belarus, yeah. You don't want to be taking a piss over Belarus. I mean, we mentioned just briefly then, Maas. So one of the main reasons we're going to chat today, and this will come a bit later in the show, is about kind of COVID, you know, what happens next.

We see this constant talk about the numbers and there's people obsessing from both sides for their usual outcome. So we will get into the weeds. Is it weeds or reeds? We're going to get into something of that. I just want there's a couple things that quickly I wanted to catch up with you on. I was talking about this with some of the other day. Petrol crisis, remember that? That short-lived, wasn't it? That was an interesting little period in British public life. I mean, first of the one thing is that it has generally gone back to normal in most places, as you say, was a bit more acute in the South southeast. I do slightly miss the euphoric rush of finding petrol.

I mean, there's always, it was like, you know,

when you found paracetamol back in lockdown one,

just a feeling of accomplishment, you know,

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