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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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A brilliant chat this week with Eshaan Akbar. Eshaan shares his fascinating background and sheds some interesting light on why so many British Asians lean to the Right. We also talk about the Channel 4 decision and I do so many dodgy accents this may be the last you hear from me.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 136 of what most people think and why I've just finished |
0:20.0 | the interview with today's guest and I just want to say straight up front I think you're |
0:24.0 | going to like this one man it's the guest today is Eshan Akbar one of the reasons I |
0:28.5 | wanted Eshan on the show with some of you would have seen him on a kind of like |
0:33.2 | Frankie Boyle show and QI and things like that and Mock the Week is a new |
0:38.0 | that he came from a different sort of political background to a lot of |
0:43.0 | comedians and he certainly he's just got so I don't normally launch in straight |
0:47.0 | away at the top of the show with stuff about the guest but he's got so many |
0:50.2 | interesting things to say on politics money and race and I think he just he's |
0:54.9 | perfect for this show in that it is what most people think it's those mainstream |
0:58.5 | views that can sometimes seem fucking radical in the context of the show so |
1:02.8 | that will be coming up shortly and thank you to all the people that came out on |
1:06.1 | the road to see me last week on Thursday started in Bilston, Bilston near |
1:11.9 | Wolverhampton and look I don't look every everywhere has its merits and |
1:16.2 | certainly I liked Bilston it was the first place that I've parked up in a |
1:21.4 | while where I felt like I had to run to the fucking venue you know there was |
1:25.4 | there's some lads on BMX's that they kindly offered to look after my car for |
1:29.7 | me and I sort of that's wow community minded is that I said you know what lads |
1:34.5 | I think the car will be all right but I thank you for your for your civic |
1:37.7 | spirit and I fully came back to the car expecting it to be scratched up but |
1:41.4 | I think that they just looked at my modest 2015 CRB for a thought you know |
1:46.4 | maybe the geezer's got his own issues financially I was in Friday I was in |
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