What Most People Think

Lockdown, Lockdown, Lockdown, Lockdown,

Lockdown, Lockdown, What Most People Think

Hello and welcome to episode 73 of what most people think.

EIA, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Up the vaccination table we go.

Unfortunately, we are also top of another table, which is slightly less prestigious, which

is the deaths per million people.

That is not silverware that you want to bring home, you know, but what's odd this week,

I suppose, and we will be speaking about this later in the show, is that people can't seem to accept that we've done all right in vaccinations, that you could be doing very badly on one thing and all right on another thing. So we will be speaking about pessimism in the show. We'll also be having a good look at Trump's inauguration, whether or not politics should be in dancing on ice and a bit of men's mental health. Speaking of men's mental health, I don't know about how exciting your life is right now. But the other day, this is the kind of depths that I've plumbed, is that there was flooding at the end of my road. I was happy. I was happy. And this isn't to denigrate the experience of our friends in the North Bar. I was happy because it meant I had to go into town another way. I thought, man, the drive into town is normally three minutes, was now, I'm looking at 12 minutes in the car, mate. Do you know what I mean? That's long enough to get a coffee. You know what I mean? I'm seeing different sides on the way in there. Fuck me. It's sad. It's sad. You know what's odd as well about about the flooding there where I live, right? The old people, you barely see them out around here. But the moment there's flooding there out, it's like a fucking tourist trap for them. It's kind of like just some weird sort of geriatric schaden Freud. They come from miles around. I'm going to set up a little Eccles cake stand there.

I'm going to, one way of making money during this lockdown. So yeah, look, at the moment,

we're still in our houses, but it's good to have your company. I'm glad that you picked my

podcast. Just a quick shout out to the patrons. Now, this podcast is supported by Patreon community, you know, because we all got to have communities in 2021. The Patreon community, they identify as patrons. And it helps keep it weekly and ad free. It used to be a biweekly, not that kind of buy. And importantly, ad free, which means that over the last few months, I've been out of knock back a few advertisers because I'd rather keep it pure, guys. You know what I mean? All these left wingers cashing in with their adverts. You've heard them on the podcast, right? It's so weird. There's a certain kind of advert that you get on a podcast, isn't it? It's just always like, I said this before, the shitbox or crankathon. You know what I mean? Like just some new, some new app where you can, where you can track just how many times you crack one out. They should incorporate that into your iPhone health data. You know what I mean? It just, it senses the vibrations going, oh, you haven't had a, you're feeling stress, you haven't cracked one out for three.

Anyway, this has gone down a weird rabbit hole.

But yeah, the patrons keep it weekly and ad free. And I read out new patrons. We have Gav Poole. Gav Poole, man. I'm just trying to work out, Gav, what your nickname would be. The Poolester, poolie. Swimmy, they call you Swimmy, maybe.

Got a guy called Graham Hobbins.

It just sounds like made up.

That just sounds made up. Paulie. Swimmy. They call you swimming, maybe. Got a guy called Graham Hobbins. Just sounds like

made up. That just sounds made up. Graham Hobbins. Actually, in terms of the made up names,

I've got this conspiracy theory that patrons are just making up names. I got a letter because I took

the piss out of a guy a couple of weeks ago called Ian Ghiblet. And it turns out Ian Ghiblet, he's, well, he wrote me a letter and said, anyway, I wanted to talk to you about my surname. You said it sounded made up. It's actually French. Oh, what, that makes it better, does it? Now you know you're French. I'm just going to take the piss out. But, of course, you're very sophisticated. and it should be pronounced Sheebley. Ian Sheeblay.

Look, I'll give you a little life hint Ian don't say that down the pub do

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