What Most People Think.

Welcome to this week's What Most People think.

Thank you very much for joining me.

I'm recovering from a day rave that I went to on Friday. I went to the Junction 2 festival. So you can hear, why are you laughing at that, Francis Foster? Straight away. It's a day rave. Those two words that should never be put together, mate. Fun, Ron, Day, Rave. Fair. I'm with you on Fun Run, but I just want to say to order what most people thinkers, the WMPTers, I met quite a few there and you wouldn't believe it, Francis, but there's quite a lot of people of my generation that, well, we like to still go to dance music events, but be in bed by 10pm. I think that is your brand, Geoffrey. I hope you're not scoffing at the idea that people touching 50 should enjoy themselves, Francis. Or what should we do with our leisure time if we can't do that? I don't know. You should potter about the garden like our parents did. Yeah, I think that's the answer, isn't it? That is the answer. That's sort of the answer that I was looking for. You haven't given me a better option there. But the great thing was, Friday was back. I've got a decent night's sleep, had Saturday to recover, watching the test cricket, although that's fucking tedious. And yes, Monday I'm feeling pretty sparky. How are you feeling today, mate? I'm feeling all right, mate. Well, good. I'm always feel good when I'm talking to you, Geoffrey. when it starts off right and then we just tend to tear each other down like bickering siblings from South London. But I should time check here because it is 3 o'clock. So we'll just tease the subjects that we're talking about. And we're going to talk about the online safety bill, which came in on Friday. So this was a piece of legislation passed by the Tories. And you might

have noticed that you've had aged verification checks, among other things. We're going to talk about

that. Also, while we're sort of getting ready to record this, Donald Trump has been doing one of

those anxiety-inducing press conferences with Keir Stama. Not anxiety-inducing for me, because

I found it highly entertaining, but Stama looked like he was holding in a gnarly shit the whole time. So I'm just going to, I know Francis has been busy, but I'm going to hit him with some of the big headlines from that. And there's also Jewish comics. The two comics, Jewish comics have been banned from the Edinburgh Fringe, and yes, the fringe is doing its cancely thing again.

And, well, the people that have banned them said it's not because they're Jewish,

but we will get into exactly what's gone on there.

And, well, I mean, you can probably guess that me and Francis are not massively fans of people,

being cancelled from anything for anything.

And then just finally, we were supposed to be talking about Francis Foster's new book, but apparently we're

not Francis. No, mate. No, we're not. Is there a story to tell here? There's a little bit of a story.

Let's tease it here and say that if you want the full story, well, I can't give the full story for a legal reason. You can in the patron only. Yeah, but I will be able to be, I will be able to be more fulsome, shall we say. Is it because you're Jewish as well, is it, is it a hat trick of due cancellations in the comedy world? Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, they just looked to me and they went, there is no way this man isn't Jewish. Let's get rid of his book. Well, it sounds like we can be more candid in the patron-only section, so we'll do it there. Okay, speaking of patrons, new patrons, remember, if you get, if you are a patron, you get the podcast early ad-free and with bonus content, it might be juicy bonus content this week, I don't know, or it might just be the... It was not a pun. Well, it would be not juicy, juicy? Or it might just be they looked at Francis's book and thought it was shit. But we will find out, we will find out in the patron only, but you get all these benefits, you get all this kind of extra material. And also when you become a patron, you get your name read out and we take the piss as well. So the first one is Paul Milne. Paul Milne. You relate to Seamus Milne? Jeremy Corbyn's, does Jeremy Corbyn even have a right-hand man? Surely it would only be left-hand men? No, well, he's got a right-hand woman, hasn't it? Who is the wonderfully named Zara Sultana. So have they got a name for their party? Because they sort of soft launch last week, and they had a website that said your party.com. And everyone went, oh, it's called your party. And they went, no, it's not called that. They're like, well, why, what are you fucking? Because they already had a bungled launch where Zara Sultanah launched it. And Corbyn said, we're not ready yet. And now they've done a launch where people thought they knew the name. And that's not the name. It's going really well. It's going really well.

Who would have thought the far left, Jeffrey, wouldn't be able to organise a piss up in the brewery? My favourite name for it is what someone called it on Twitter, which is Jezbollah. Jezbollah. I mean, that's funny. That's a good name. Do you know what? I actually think that would get, The people that like that would really like that.

They're claiming that they've got half a million sign-ups so far, but I don't know if they've had to commit any money. I think what they have is half a million email addresses, which could be a global number, or we could be taking the piss here, mate. This could be Reform Jezbollah is the big fight at the next election. But

Paul Miel, maybe you're a part of that movement. We've got one other patron, Alan McDuff. I mean,

I think we had a name last week that just sounded like one of those kind of names that's so

Scottish, it might be a bit racist. Alan McDuff, oh, that could be South London slang for

Puff, when people used to call it Puff. Yeah, it could be, or it could be a reference to the Scottish play, McDuff, who, as we all know, killed a murder. Well, he didn't murder. We arguably murdered him. Murdered Macbeth or killed Macbeth at the end of the play. Mcduff was from his mother's room on timely ripped.

You're a former English teacher, Geoffrey. You will know that quote. Well, you started off well. I thought, here we go. We've got a fucking Macbeth expert here. And then he killed him, didn't kill him, might have killed him, might have known him, was in the play, wasn't in the play. all got a bit vague there, I'll be honest,

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