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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

BREAKING NEWS #30 - Reform Keep Storming

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

One of those mad news weeks, so here's a breaking news ep. I discuss Starmer being accused of breaking lockdown rules, the economy shrinking, Reform rising, the SNP having to deny a plan to ban cats and Donald Trump creating about eighteen headlines a minute. 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? Hello and welcome to this breaking news edition of what most people think.

0:19.2

And it's a breaking news week because my god my god i mean

0:22.0

donald's back and the news keeps coming but also i want this to be a uk-focused podcast so there's also

0:26.8

things that happen domestically that i want to catch up on but i won't lie it it's also a big day

0:30.7

for me today because the times radio show friday night with norkot starts uh tonight 7 till 10pm on Times radio.

0:38.3

And I just want to tell you, rather than just keep promo in it, let me tell you

0:41.4

a funny story in the hope that this will help remind you to watch it tonight.

0:45.7

So I did an interview with The Times with Dominic Maxwell, who's the lead sort of comedy

0:50.5

critic for the Times.

0:51.7

And he's quite rare in the world of comedy, is that he likes comedy. I know that might sort of comedy critic for the times. And he's quite rare in the world of comedy. He likes comedy.

0:56.4

I know that might sort of sound like that's surprising.

1:00.4

But believe me, in the world of comedy reviewing,

1:03.7

quite a few of them aren't that fond of comedy,

1:06.0

or certainly not comedy that's broadly liked.

1:08.8

So it's good to sit and chat with him and the piece went up in the Times and, you know,

1:12.4

I was very happy with it and stuff.

1:13.8

But obviously the Times, the people that write the headlines, they're these smart people

1:19.0

that they just know what in this interview can we take and make a headline and just get people

1:25.1

looking at it, which is ultimately the aim of the game.

1:28.0

And so in the interview, I was talking about, you know,

1:30.5

the whole basic bloke principle and the idea being that, you know,

1:34.3

in a world of comedy, you know, and I've said this on the podcast many times,

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