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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

150: AYESHA HAZARIKA

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Comedy

4.61.7K 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. 

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0:00.0

What most impulse.

0:14.5

Hello and welcome to episode 150 of what most people think.

0:18.9

And it's the 150 guys.

0:23.8

It's the 150 up. If this was cricket cricket i'd be raising my bat to the barmy army saluting the barmy army but totally focused on getting to the double

0:29.6

hundred uh because this is a podcast which lands 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 uh since covid sometimes under huge family pressure. You know what I mean? Sometimes, I mean, I don't want to big myself up, but sometimes, yeah, I've got up at 6am to do it. You know, sometimes I've been in here while the family you're in bed, just chatting shit, chatting shit to keep us all entertained and keep me out of having to pay for therapy because it is therapy

0:54.4

for me. So this is a podcast. It's also a podcast without advertising, fully funded by my

0:59.4

amazing Patreon community, a podcast which is willing to say things that sometimes they

1:04.7

wouldn't say in comedy. Like for example, I don't know if you saw this week, the Halifax,

1:09.1

they've done a social media thing where they've shown that

1:12.0

their staff now, I've got name tags with pronouns on, right? And the problem with this is, I mean,

1:17.5

obviously it's just another piece of corporate virtue signaling, but the name on the name tag is

1:22.3

Gemma. And under it, it said she, her. A lot of this kind of thing feels like being back doing English in year eight, you know? All of us thought we were done with pronouns, didn't we? Oh no, there's been another sort of sting in the tail when it comes to trying to work out what that word means. And I do think when they study this point in history, you know, in future, they'll go, fucking hell, there's a lot of

1:45.0

problems, but they had a lot of time to talk about words, didn't they? They spent a lot of time

1:48.7

on words. And just the dumbest thing, and people have rightly picked them up on this, is that one of

1:53.1

the clues as to that person's probable pronouns is the name Gemma. And whether or not that person looks like a woman you know no i don't mean that

2:03.9

you know i also including that people that are transitioning that you might think certain aspects

2:10.4

of their sort of biological appearance of masculine but you know they've got long hair uh they might

2:16.1

have makeup on you know there's clues that we've always fucking used. But, oh, no, the Halifax, they got a little name tag. And I know, look, you know, people on my side of things get accused of. But what does it matter? Jeff, you know, why are you getting annoyed? It's just stupid. It's just really fucking stupid. Anyway, since last week, a lot has happened.

2:34.9

There have been the by-election defeats. By-elections. That was only, what, last week? These were big defeats. But Boris, I don't know, Giza just made a Teflon? It just bounces off of him, doesn't it? You know, like when you first get a frying pan and things just slip, it just slips off of this fucker. and before you know it he's jumping on a plane he's fist bumping Zelensky

2:33.7

that'll be his new thing slip it just slips off of this fucker and before you know it he's jumping on a plane he's fist bumping zolensky that'll be his new thing wouldn't it just every he's in trouble he's like all right fire up the aircraft let's go to ukraine again fuck yeah i guess i'll have to get the flax jacket i've had another old party gates back oh shit where can we go next? Any other good war zones, lads?

3:08.1

Any other good war zones?

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