87: (Feat. Athena Kugblenu) Cancel Culcha!

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

First up we catch up on the big Boris did he say it / didn't he / does anyone really care?

Then it's a chat with sharp minded and brilliant comic and thinker Athena Kugblenu. She's done a show about cancel culture for Radio 4 and, while we're coming at it from different political angles, we found plenty of common ground. Then we close by revealing exactly how YouGov panels work....

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0:00.0	What Most People Think
0:04.6	Lockdown
0:05.5	Lockdown
0:06.6	Lockdown
0:07.6	Lockdown
0:09.9	What Most People
0:13.2	Hello and welcome to
0:15.9	Episode 87 of what most people think
0:19.3	Just so you know guys I have to say there are leaked recordings of me saying something about people who unsubscribe from my podcast.
0:27.7	Look, what I said was, if people who are unsubscribing from my podcast, let the bodies pile high in their thousands.
0:34.2	I would just like to say, for the record, I did not say this.
0:38.5	What I said was,
0:44.7	I hope that they are eaten by rabid dogs. Okay, just to clear that up, just to clear that up.
0:50.6	How's your week being? How is your week be? Mine has been good. I watched football on Sunday,
0:55.7	the Carabal Cup final, which is almost like a metaphor for bad football, right?
1:01.3	But we spoke last week about the effect of the lack of fans on the level of interest in the game.
1:03.1	And there were fans there, man.
1:07.2	And simply having fans there made it mildly interesting.
1:09.0	It was like, oh, there's a bit of jeopardy back. And I suddenly realized that the difference between doing football in stadiums without fans is a bit like doing comedy on Zoom gigs versus
1:16.3	real gigs. You know, like the Zoom gigs have a value, but, you know, there's something about
1:21.5	the jeopardy of 500 people at the Ipswich Corn Exchange when you miss a six-yard sitter joke on Jeremy Corbyn. That pressure to get that
1:29.7	right has its value. And on that note, there was a VIP new material gig just this week. Just,
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