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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

188: EP 188 - DARREN MCGARVEY

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Comedy

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

First up we have a quick catch up about the week gone and little Rishi's big deal. 

Then I speak to Scottish rapper, activist and writer Darren McGarvey. Darren comes at things from a very different angle to me on a political level, but communicates with such clarity I defy anyone not to take away something from this. 

His analogy about the SNP using nationalism like a 'performance enhancing drug' is the best i've heard. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What most impulse?

0:04.2

Hello, well, what most people think. Well, well, well, well, well, little Rishi, got his little deal, hasn't he? The Windsor Framework. The Windsor Framework. It sounds like a shitty sequel to the Thomas Crown Affair, doesn't it? Pierce Brosnan. I'm in the wrong film. So, yeah, Little Rishi got his little deal. And this is what most people think. This is a topical comedy show weekly that's willing to say, well done to the PM.

0:42.3

Well, good old Rishi.

0:44.0

Slap him on his back, not too hard because he's only little.

0:47.4

But yeah, I know, I'm just being annoying to lefties and remainers.

0:51.0

I understand that they might be triggered by this.

0:55.4

And obviously the line that the government had been selling saying, well, look, they're in both

1:00.1

the single market and the British single market. I can understand why that's problematic for them.

1:04.6

But I will say this, they did say a deal couldn't be done. And by most people's estimations,

1:08.9

and in terms of what's available, this is a pretty decent deal. So we'll be talking about that. But it's a guest episode this week. We've got Darren McGarvey on the show, who is a Scottish rapper and to older listeners, that is a thing. That is a thing. He's also a writer and sort of social commenter, activist. You know, there's a lot of things that he does. And he's had two books out. I want a poverty safari and these social distance between us, which are really interesting comments on kind of class and the relationship with politics. And I thought, you know, we've had a lot of comedians on the show of late. We haven't had, like, a sort of social commenter on for a while. And the thing with

1:44.3

Darren is a lot of his views are what you call hard left, but they're kind of like sort of

1:48.6

militant ideas but communicated without any militancy. So I think just in terms of even being,

1:54.4

you know, somebody who loves coherent ideas or words that are communicated beautifully. This

1:59.2

interview is really, you know, one to listen to at times,

2:01.8

you know, quite a serious chat, but also just, just so much to take away from it. And also,

2:06.4

it was interesting at the end that me and Darren both share similar views on how we feel

2:10.7

when going to expensive hotels. Domain talking point from last week's episode. So do remember

2:16.1

the Boy's Gone Wild episode. Some of you, I know some of you don't tend to listen to the solo ones, but you might have seen that title and thought, where's one of these fucking Norcott going off on his own for 40 minutes, but it looks like an hour this week. No, they were actually a comedy duo of fine young men who are producing comedy content, and they are sort of in their mid-20s. And it was, again, it was an interesting chat because it was the first chat I've had across a couple of generations and it was really interesting to find, you know, lads from their generation that were sort of into stoicism and was sort of against some of the namby-pambi nature of what's seen to characterize gen z.

2:51.2

So do go back and have a listen to that one. Domain talking point. Domain talking point. We're talking about sitcoms from the last 10 years that have done really well. David concurs that Fleabag was a contender. Derry Girls, of course, which had 3 million viewers. That's a very fair point. and it was the most watched show in Narnayr,

2:49.9

since modern records began and since become a Netflix smash. Yeah, I mean, I watched the first series that quite enjoyed it, but then I kind of lost track with it. So maybe I need to get back on that. And we're talking about when I do my advertising for the tour. I'll always get a lot of people kind of coming up going,

3:25.7

Glasgow doesn't they want you, your Tory shit.

3:29.5

Or Newcastle as well, that's been the one this week going,

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