149: Trains, Blame and Naughty Comedians

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Solo show this week as we take a deep dive into the rail strikes and reformed 'firm' member Mick Lynch.

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0:00.0	What most impulse.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to episode of what most people think.
0:19.5	My God, I wasondon yesterday and did i
0:23.8	walk some steps jesus cross no trains no tubes hardly any cabs available and the only
0:29.7	prick it turns out not to cancel his four working engagements in london that day i i walked a lot
0:36.1	i walked a lot here's a quick game. Do you think I did
0:38.6	higher or lower than 20,000 steps? Higher. It is higher. Do you think it was higher or lower than
0:44.7	25,000 steps? Higher. Do you think it was higher than it was 27,000 steps? 27,000 steps in a
0:53.0	single day. And you'd think that I'd sort of think, well, that's good for the old health, isn't that's good for the weight? I'll take the win there for my BMI. Not this guy, had two dinners. Had two dinners. The first dinner, I was Impreso, and I won't lie, it's a bit fancy. I had a seafood risotto.
1:11.7	It was really nice. Risotto, whenever you have it, you go, that's actually really pleasant. But then I did a gig and I thought, I've earned this. So I went and had a KFC. I went out of KFC. Because I've got to maintain my weight at a certain level. Once you hit middle age, you know, my wife is in very good shape. but if I get in the
1:08.3	sort of ripped hench form
1:10.4	that I no doubt
1:11.0	that's going to put pressure on her
1:12.4	and I'm sorry I'm not laid you know my wife is in very good shape but if i get in the the sort of ripped hench form
1:29.0	that i'm no doubt could that's going to put pressure on her and i'm sorry i'm not going to do that
1:32.3	to my wife um so yeah maybe the the rmts mick lynch maybe his project is to is to get me
1:39.5	beach body ready uh by the way Mick lynch a lot of you would have seen him over the news
1:44.6	and we will be
1:46.1	talking about, obviously, about the rail strikes. But Mick Lynch has got to be new rhyming slang for feeling the pinch. I was feeling the old Mick Lynch. I was feeling the Mick eventually. You know, God, I've been feeling the Mickey this month. and so we'll be talking mainly about that today also there's a story in the press that a comedian
1:45.5	uh God, I've been feeling the Mickey this month. And so we'll be talking mainly about that today.
2:01.6	Also, there's a story in the press that a comedian, Joe Lysett, was investigated by the police for a joke in his current tour show.
2:10.0	And they've concluded their investigation and no further charges.
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