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Pod Save the UK

Matt Hancock vs The Grim Reaper

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Matt Hancock fails to win over bereaved families at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, as they turn their backs on him while another confronts him dressed as the grim reaper. Nish and Coco get to grips with ‘greedflation’ as MPs question supermarket bosses about their huge salaries. Plus Coco questions why Labour has an all-white all-male line up of candidates for the upcoming by-elections. And Nish is disheartened by a report that finds cricket is racist, sexist and elitist - the “full fruit machine” of prejudice! We continue ‘Chat Shit Get Banged’, our campaign to stop politicians lying, with the help of John Humphrys, former presenter of Radio 4’s Today programme. The man once labelled the BBC’s ‘Rottweiler in chief’ reflects on his 33 years holding politicians to account, including memorable encounters with Boris Johnson and Margaret Thatcher.

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0:00.0

This week we're saving the UK from Matt Hancock's excuses from overpaid supermarket bosses,

0:29.8

all white, all male by-election candidates, and from cricket.

0:34.9

And bringing us hope, John Humphries, once the BBC's scariest political interviewer is here to

0:39.7

teach us some of the tricks of the trade. So a bit of a mad week, isn't it, Nish? I mean,

0:48.0

you've been in Glastonbury thinking about Rick Asley and his smith cover. Meanwhile, on the outside,

0:55.1

I've been thinking about Russia and the hot dog to mercenary pipeline as exemplified by

1:00.9

Yevgeny Progoshin. It was weird being a Glastonbury and sort of feeling in the background

1:06.5

going, is Russia about to be subject to a hot dog coup? Also, it was one of those things where

1:13.7

you sort of look at it and go, well, there's no good end to this situation. You know, like,

1:18.6

Progoshin does not seem like the best gentleman in the world. Putin, as we know, is not the

1:24.8

best gentleman. And you sort of go, this is an absolute alien versus predator, whoever wins

1:29.6

we lose situation. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it was quite a sinister background to an otherwise

1:34.8

wonderful weekend. So when you got out of your tin and you walked past the hot dog stand,

1:40.2

how did it change things for you? Apart from the potential spectra of the

1:44.7

collapse of Russia, it was a, and a guy with the private army getting access to nuclear weapons,

1:51.1

Glastonbury was crying. I'll tell you, I'll tell you where people really don't want to have

1:57.6

their buzz killed by me talking about serious world events. Glastonbury. That's the last thing.

2:03.2

Someone on MDMA does not want to hear about, you know, mercenaries getting their hands on

2:07.7

nuclear weapons. You've seen that meme, haven't you, of the guy in the club talking into the girls

2:12.2

is? Yeah, that was me to everyone in Glastonbury. You just whispering, Yevgeny Progoshin,

2:16.8

it's less of people trying to vibe. Yeah, it was a, we're very, very deeply

2:23.3

strange news story happening in the background. Otherwise, Glastonbury was wonderful. I had a great

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