BREAKING NEWS #40 - Trade Deal / Call Me Donald

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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Comedy, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Following the historic trade deal with the US that isn't a trade deal, I look into the facts and weirdness of the announcement. From Keir constantly calling him 'Donald' to whether it'll mean anything good for Britain. I also ask why Trump seems to be surprised that Britain has anything good going for it and why they did the whole thing on a Sky call from 2002. CATCH ME ON MY TOUR ‘Basic Bloke 2: There’s No Bloke Without Fire’. Book tickets here: https://www.livenation.co.uk/geoff-norcott-tickets-adp1252793 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 people think.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to this breaking news episode of what most people think.
0:19.2	And what a week.
0:20.8	I mean literally yesterday, right?
0:22.8	I'm recording this on Thursday at 10 a.m.
0:25.9	And literally yesterday alone, there was just so much news.
0:30.0	There was a new pope.
0:31.5	There was an interest rate cut.
0:33.2	There was Kirstama.
0:35.5	Appearing on a shit video link at the White House to co-announce a trade deal
0:41.2	with the USA. And that's going to be the main subject of today. But just first things first,
0:46.3	how many times can one man say, Donald, in the space of three minutes? It was just so weird.
0:52.5	I found it so odd. Just kept going, I'd like to say to you, Donald. It's like, you know, when like you meet your father-in-law and you go, oh, Mr. Smith, and he's like, oh, call me, call me Ken. You're like, okay, Ken. And then you just say Ken repeatedly for the rest of your life. It was just, ugh, it was a bit on the thirsty side.
1:12.4	So we're going to get into the reeds of the trade deal with the US. Well, it's a trade deal. When it's a trade deal, not a trade deal. Well, when Donald Trump says it's a trade deal, so I'm going to try and work out. If it's a good thing, I want it to be a good thing. I don't want this Labour government to fail because we're all going to be a lot poorer.
1:27.6	But there are certainly legitimate reservations. And I am, I should tell you, I'm recording this from a travel lodge. Now, normally if I stay in London, I would stay at Travelodge Farrandon. Very good travelodge. Immediately, I sound like I'm talking like Trump there. Very good travel lodge. But this one, I've gone up market. Yeah, I've treated myself.
1:47.1	I've
1:45.1	gone up market yeah I've treated myself I've thrown a few quitted it and I'm staying at travel
1:49.6	lodge Covent Garden it's it's just it's just a cut above the rest you know the bar is open
1:53.6	till four yes you're paying and you know brace yourselves you're paying around the 140
1:58.7	pound mark which I know is a lot of money I I mean, Jesus Christ, like other hotels in this area are like,
2:06.0	I like 270 quid.
2:07.5	But to me, this, you know, in a relative sense, this is expensive.
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