EP 114 - Cancel Culture, The 'Myth' that keeps on Mything

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Geoff Norcot / Keep It Light Media

Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Plenty to talk about this week. We talk about the shocking sacking of Terry Gilliam for the usual reason: stuff that he said which some delicate flowers found upsetting. We also talk Facist chicken packaging and how the hell you slow down once you've been busy.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 114 of what most people think. How are you? I hope you enjoyed
0:22.4	Halloween. I don't know what that means now. As become more of a thing isn't it? Dressing
0:26.7	your kids up as zombies and and the undead that's yeah I'm sure sure that's completely normal
0:32.9	but fucking autumn shit the weather's terrible it's something to do isn't it and I hope you
0:36.8	notice now that the new theme tune is bedded in it's bedded in I only I mean let's be honest
0:42.0	it only took me six months to sort it out but I hope you're liking that and we've had a little tweak
0:46.4	up of some of the other stings and jingles I don't know why you give a shit about any of this stuff
0:51.6	I hope you enjoyed COP26 and I was very excited for a lot of people I think the main takeaway
0:58.0	from COP26 is that no one gives that much of a toss today I mean they I was looking at the BBC
1:03.7	news every day and there's the BBC top stories this is an interesting way given what the podcast
1:09.6	is about what most people think is where you know public opinion really is versus where
1:15.0	established media sources and perhaps kind of liberal metropolitan elites or whatever kind of
1:19.9	cliche you want to call them where they lie and the COP stories never featured in the top 10
1:26.4	and it was plastered over the BBC website every single day and every day the top news story
1:32.4	on BBC News would be something like man rescued from paddle boat I mean it's just even if the paddle boat
1:39.6	accident was sort of caused by a global warming I still think that the public was struggling to give
1:44.4	a toss it just you know I know look there'll be a lot of you listening to all think about a climate
1:48.7	Jeff it's important and just it's just hard it's just hard for people to care and then and one
1:54.2	of the things that I find interesting is this the way it's presented is as though we've suddenly gone
2:00.0	oh yeah this is something we need to do something about I remember all this stuff when I was a kid
2:04.4	at school we were talking about the environment and deforestation you know I always remember that
2:09.6	there was that famous stat about an area of trees being deforested the size of whales it was
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