4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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After our usual catch-up, I speak to broadcaster, political commentator and former comedian / special adviser Ayesha Hazarika MBE.
Ayesha is spot on with her analysis of current politics, but her inside stories working under Blair, Brown & Miliband are unmissable.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 150 of what most people think and it's the 150 guys, it's |
0:21.0 | the 150 others. |
0:22.0 | This was cricket, I'd be raising my bat to the barmy army, salute in the barmy army |
0:26.8 | and totally focused on getting to the double hundred because this is a podcast which lands |
0:31.9 | weekly, you know, that's quite a thing isn't it? |
0:34.1 | I think since the pandemic I haven't missed a single week since COVID, sometimes under |
0:38.4 | huge family pressure, you know, sometimes, I mean, I've doubled a big myself up, but |
0:42.3 | sometimes, yeah, I've got up at 6 a.m. to do it, you know, sometimes I've been in here |
0:46.5 | while the family are in bed just chatting shit, chatting shit to keep us all entertained |
0:51.8 | and keep me out of having to pay for therapy because it is therapy for me. |
0:54.8 | So this is a podcast, it's also a podcast without advertising fully funded by my amazing |
0:59.9 | page in community, a podcast which is willing to say things that sometimes they wouldn't |
1:04.9 | say in comedy. |
1:05.9 | Like for example, I don't know if you saw this week, the Halifax, they've done a social |
1:09.8 | media thing where they've shown that they're staff now, I've got name tags with pronouns |
1:14.4 | on, right? |
1:15.4 | And the problem with this is, I mean, obviously it's just another piece of corporate |
1:19.3 | virtue signaling, but the name on the name tag is Gemma and under it, it said, |
1:24.8 | she, her, a lot of this kind of thing feels like being back doing English in year eight, |
1:30.6 | you know, but all of us thought we were done with pronouns, didn't we? |
1:33.7 | But I don't know, there's been another sort of sting in the tail when it comes to trying |
1:36.6 | to work out what that word means and I do think when they study this point in history, |
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