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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

STARMER UNDER THE MICROSCOPE - with Francis Foster

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Geoff Norcott

Comedy, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Francis returns for this week's episode as we ponder whether Keir Starmer will be able to escape questions over china and income tax (or whether he had any positive role in the middle-east whatsoever). Then we discuss whether younger women, fuelled by Tik-tok, have become actively hostile to men (or to put it more bluntly 'do birds hate blokes?')
In the Patreon only section we respond to Lenny Henry's call for slavery reparations, but end up talking about unusual first names.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What Most Impulse?

0:04.0

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of what most people think and I am in such touring mode.

0:19.2

I'm currently in the middle of like, what, 13 shows in 16 days. I am in such touring mode. I'm currently in the middle of like what

0:20.9

13 shows in 16 days. I'm in such full touring mode that if you cut me, I bleed Traveloge.

0:27.7

I bleed it and I love it. But I am keeping up with the news and there's a lot of news to

0:32.3

discuss today and doing that with me is Francis Foster. Welcome back to the show, Francis.

1:10.9

No, it's always a pleasure to be on it, mate. Love it. Okay. We've started well there. We haven't given each other shit yet. So I'm going to ask you, how do you keep up with the news? Is it, do you colouring books or do you mainly look at the pictures? What are you talking? How long has it taken? It's literally been 40 seconds, and you've already got in a nasty little jab. I'm a guest on your show, mate. I bet you don't do this. How about when Catherine Ryan comes on? You don't make a joke about coloring books with her, do you? No. Well, no, because I respect her. So, that's unbelievable. It's a genuine question.

1:17.8

I am interesting because obviously you are one half of one of the planet's biggest podcast, you know, dealing with areas of political discourse and stuff.

1:21.1

So how, genuine question, how do you keep up the news?

1:22.6

What's your feed, bro?

1:24.0

What's my feed?

1:26.8

I tend to, I follow, I read three newspapers.

1:28.2

One is the Times because it has a more centrist bent to it. One is the telegraph, which is more right leaning. I think that's

1:34.0

fair to say. And then I also read The Guardian and Twitter. It sort of leans right there for a guy

1:40.5

that's always said, I'm actually left wing. That sounds, you're centre right, mate. You're like me. You're a boring centrist ad. That's what you are. No, mate. I'm dangerous and exciting. Yeah, we've got a lot to discuss newswise. There's stuff happening. We're recording this at half 11. So it's always worth saying that when there's the prospect of Donald Trump saying anything about anything.

2:01.6

But before we get on to telling you what's going to be in this week's show, I've got a new item, Francis.

2:06.2

As you might know from my social media, I get really annoyed about things being expensive.

2:10.5

And I've had a few posts recently that have gone really viral.

2:13.6

So like anything in the world of comedy, you lean in to go with a fish you're biting, right?

2:38.8

Yeah. What works. Piss take prices. Piss take prices. I've got one for you. I was at Aberdeen Airport on Saturday morning, 500-millimeter bottle of Sprite. What do you think it cost? What do you think it costs? Aberdeen Airport. I'm going for £3.25. $39. Shame on you, W.H. Smith. Shame on you.

2:42.1

We're naming and we're shaming. So this is a new item. I'm pretty excited about it.

2:54.1

Because, you know, this podcast is called what most people think. And I like to, it's about what matters to people, not just what the viewpoints are. I think people are pissed off with prices. So you can email what most people think UK at gmail.com,

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