BREAKING NEWS #29 - Rachel's Growing Pains

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Following Rachel's big speech about growth I get into the reeds of Labour on their knees begging the City to like them. I discuss whether she should in fact go for four runways, why Labour politicians shouldn't try to sound like Trump & why Reeves Vs Sadiq is like Alien Vs Predator. Watch my STAND-UP SPECIAL 'Basic Bloke' on ITVX: https://www.itv.com/watch/geoff-norcott:-basic-bloke/10a6363a0001B/10a6363a0001 Order the PAPERBACK EDITION of my book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Bloke-Decoded-Everything-explained/dp/1800961308/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= JOIN the Podcast Patreon and receive each episode early, AD-FREE & with bonus content https://www.patreon.com/geoffnorcott?fan_landing=true Join my MAILING LIST for priority Tour booking & special offers https://signup.ymlp.com/xgyueuwbgmgb Watch my COMEDY SPECIAL on YouTube https://youtu.be/YaxhuZGtDLs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What Most Impulse?
0:04.1	Hello and welcome. is it still January?
0:22.3	It is still January.
0:23.2	The most January.
0:26.1	Isn't this the most January of all the Januaries?
0:28.7	And the other thing about January is why is it?
0:30.1	Why is it 31 days?
0:35.4	Why are we awarding 31 days to objectively the worst month of the year?
0:37.4	Let's just take a... Poor old June, right? June, February rightly, in my view, has 28 days. Okay, it's cold, it's not much going on, Valentine's Day, nothing going on. 28 days for you. January gets 31. All right, what we need to do is we need to take a day off the end of January and give it a June give it to June June has proved itself
0:54.4	as a month year in year out it's got good branding it's got good brand awareness give it to
1:00.9	but I hope you're well I hope you're well it's a breaking news episode because by the way
1:06.2	I haven't mentioned the point of the show for a while we have a lot of new listeners so this is what
1:09.7	most people think this is sort of talking about political news sometimes cultural news from the point of the show for a while. We have a lot of new listeners. So this is what most people think. This is sort of talking about political news, sometimes cultural news from a point
1:14.9	of view of, well, you know, I can no longer claim to speak for the majority, but what we try
1:19.6	and do is deal in the world of usual and normal responses to world news. So sometimes they might
1:26.0	skew one way, sometimes they might skew the other,
1:28.1	like most human beings. And I was watching PMQs. I'm recording this Thursday at 11am, and I was
1:35.0	watching PMQs yesterday. And I think, I think that Kemi Baderach is doing better, because she's
1:41.2	sort of picking one subject and sticking to it. And that's sort of a noiseama the longer it goes he starts fluffing his words more and he gets annoyed and
1:48.3	he he's almost grasping for the cliches too quickly the old Stama bingo card of 14 years 40
1:55.3	22 billion i'm not going to take any lectures i'm not going to know he's never taken any
2:00.5	lectures oh care from anybody was he like that university sat down okay I'm not going to take any lectures. I'm not going to know what he's never taken any lectures.
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