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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

150: AYESHA HAZARIKA

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Audioboom

Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

After our usual catch-up, I speak to broadcaster, political commentator and former comedian / special adviser Ayesha Hazarika MBE.  Ayesha is spot on with her analysis of current politics, but her inside stories working under Blair, Brown & Miliband are unmissable.  Support the Podcast, keep it weekly & AD-FREE https://www.patreon.com/geoffnorcott?fan_landing=true 2022 Edinburgh Fringe tickets livenation.uk/puvz30rmxK4 Order my BOOK amzn.to/2TNsKOU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 150 of what most people think and it's the 150 guys, it's

0:21.0

the 150 others.

0:22.0

This was cricket, I'd be raising my bat to the barmy army, salute in the barmy army

0:26.8

and totally focused on getting to the double hundred because this is a podcast which lands

0:31.9

weekly, you know, that's quite a thing isn't it?

0:34.1

I think since the pandemic I haven't missed a single week since COVID, sometimes under

0:38.4

huge family pressure, you know, sometimes, I mean, I've doubled a big myself up, but

0:42.3

sometimes, yeah, I've got up at 6 a.m. to do it, you know, sometimes I've been in here

0:46.5

while the family are in bed just chatting shit, chatting shit to keep us all entertained

0:51.8

and keep me out of having to pay for therapy because it is therapy for me.

0:54.8

So this is a podcast, it's also a podcast without advertising fully funded by my amazing

0:59.9

page in community, a podcast which is willing to say things that sometimes they wouldn't

1:04.9

say in comedy.

1:05.9

Like for example, I don't know if you saw this week, the Halifax, they've done a social

1:09.8

media thing where they've shown that they're staff now, I've got name tags with pronouns

1:14.4

on, right?

1:15.4

And the problem with this is, I mean, obviously it's just another piece of corporate

1:19.3

virtue signaling, but the name on the name tag is Gemma and under it, it said,

1:24.8

she, her, a lot of this kind of thing feels like being back doing English in year eight,

1:30.6

you know, but all of us thought we were done with pronouns, didn't we?

1:33.7

But I don't know, there's been another sort of sting in the tail when it comes to trying

1:36.6

to work out what that word means and I do think when they study this point in history,

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