Hello and welcome to what most people think just a quick cold opening as they say in the business.

I've got Simon Evans as a guest this week. Simon was ended up being a bit later into London than

he thought so. He was on the move so there might be a little bit of background noise but don't

be a sound queen about it. All right just stick with it as ever. Simon's got loads of brilliant

insights so let's get into it for this week's episode of what most people think.

Hello and welcome to episode 167 or what most people think. You're speaking to me. You're listening

to me. I'm a very proud man this morning. A bit of a hero got up and the smoke alarms were beeping

you know and they need a new battery. Now that's one of those things that you could let you could

let slide for a couple of days even just hope it would go away but no by eight a.m. I'd been

up the co-op. I've got three of those little square batteries. I was up on chairs and I'd

yeah calm down ladies because already taken. I know this is the kind of thing people don't realise.

This is the kind of thing that women want is men who fix and build. What a bold

preposition to start the show and also on which to bring in our guest returning co-host big

friend of the show is Simon Evans. Welcome back to the show. Very I feel kind of seen by that

introduction Jeff. That's a major point of contention in our house. How many what she calls man

jobs my wife does. I mean are you are you not are you not weighing in as much as you should be?

I'm afraid I probably am falling short on that. I did take the smoke alarm down recently and I

did buy the new nine volt battery for it and I did insert it into the smoke alarm unit but the

actual smoke alarm unit remains on the kitchen surface. Yeah that I mean it is getting them

but getting them back I mean God this is a way to start an old fart episode. I mean if there was

if there was any chance that this was this was a week where I managed to snuggle some younger sort

of trendy maybe even female listeners. I think for female listeners over a certain age they'll

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