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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

176: EP 176 - JON HOLMES

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Comedy

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

I have random rant about Communism and wonder whether the RMT are losing public support.

Then it's a fantastic & funny chat with Jon Holmes, covering areas as wide as how he got the biggest radio fine in Offcom history and issues of class and diversity of voice in comedy. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What most impulse?

0:04.0

Hello and welcome to episode of what most people think.

0:19.0

And it's cold, isn't it? It isn't it cold isn't it have you ever thought

0:24.2

you know when people say those weird rhetorical things to you have you ever thought of just

0:27.4

being a spoiler and going nah that really piss them off isn't it it's cold in it

0:31.8

no not really this time he was about right you know it's not cold well hasn't december come

0:37.2

around quick no no it hasn't. Aren't young people rude today? No, they're not actually. There are a lot of things. They aren't rude. If anything, they're too fucking nice, you know. That's why I was getting comfortable whenever they serve your food and they go, enjoy. What would you mean, enjoy it? What have you put in my food? But anyway, welcome to what most people think. If this is the first time you're listening or you're just getting into the podcast, it is a weekly topical comedy slash interviews. It takes a lot of forms, right? So thank you for the people to stick with this ever-changing format. And we explore the socio-political areas which are left underserved, shall we say,

1:13.5

by the rest of comedy. Not that it's an echo chamber. We have people from across the spectrum last

1:18.9

week. We had Catherine Ryan on. And this week we got John Holmes. I think John might be a lefty,

1:24.1

actually, but he's one of these, you know, these mad fucking lefties that is happy to talk to people from all sides of defence.

1:30.8

And John's got an incredible career to talk about, coming at things from a different part of the industry.

1:35.8

You know, he started off doing, you know, he made radio his goal.

1:39.0

He didn't come out from stand-up originally.

1:42.1

And he's been involved in some interesting stuff, some controversties.

1:45.1

You're going to want to hear about him getting the biggest fine and commercial radio ever.

1:50.2

And he's also involved in creating comedy on the radio, which is trying to get different voices in it.

1:57.4

And he speaks in a fascinating and funny way about the issues of class and diversity

2:02.2

in comedy just just just a great bloke to listen to really enjoyed the chat before i chat with him

2:08.8

and also um i've got to talk about the rail strikes and whether the rmt are they slowly

2:14.3

losing the room all day because i've had a lot of support the rmts so i'm to quickly do that before we get into the into the chat with john we've got a couple of

2:21.1

things to catch up on uh David domain David domain is back he's fine uh he's uh domain talking

2:27.1

points he sent them all through to me and he going back to the Catherine Ryan episode and

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