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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

34: EP 34 - English Patriotism & Gotcha Journalists

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Comedy

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I'm fully back on the attack. Against the numpties who always make the same point about St George. Against the journalists who seem to be more keen on gotchas than playing a constructive role in a crisis. And against a disturbing new trend in modern bingo.

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0:00.0

What most people think.

0:04.9

Lockdown,

0:05.9

Lockdown, lockdown,

0:06.5

lockdown,

0:07.6

What Most People Feel.

0:14.2

Hello and welcome to episode 34 of What Most People Think.

0:17.5

How are you doing, away?

0:18.9

We're halfway into this who knows how

0:21.8

how are you living like this that is that's the question I don't know the answer to

0:26.6

anymore can you cope with much more of this higher you your hero sitting there getting

0:31.5

there getting fat you know eating loads of more take away than you would drinking more

0:35.7

than you you would I mean as war stories go this isn't going to be one to compete with your grandparents. Let's just get that out of the way that what the sacrifice. I mean, people talk about this as a war. They say politicians are having a good war. Journalists are having a good war. This isn't a war, okay? Because we're not allowed metaphors anymore are we because you know when they said

0:54.4

you know the left when Boris said that when his supporters were saying that Boris was a fighter

0:58.8

they said well you shouldn't say that you know you shouldn't say Boris is a fighter you say all right

1:03.4

okay Boris is battling no we shouldn't say it's battling because that implies people that don't get

1:07.1

through it aren't battling you go what the fuck else you're supposed to say about having coronavirus in?

1:13.4

What are you supposed to say, well, he's experiencing coronavirus?

1:17.0

I reserve the right to inject some sort of,

1:20.1

some sort of hero narrative into my view of how people are coping with the disease itself.

1:30.3

I don't know, Matt. I have been, i've realized that i shout too much on zoom i don't know if it's the process of uh of doing this kind of thing

1:35.7

of trying to get myself heard but i shout way too much on zoom i'm pretty sure i did one of a zoom house

1:40.0

party the other night and i was largely muted at the times either that or people just stopped

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