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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

THE PROBLEM WITH ED MILIBAND - Featuring Simon Evans

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Geoff Norcott

Comedy, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Simon Evans returns this week, on blistering form as we get our teeth into Ed Miliband's precarious career, Zach Polanski's loose grip on economics and Prince Andrew's creative relationship with the truth. I also provide a happy epilogue for the 'Aldershot Debacle' and - in the Patron only - we discuss how silly AI clips might subvert our democracy!

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0:00.0

What most impulse.

0:13.7

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of what most people think and I am speaking to you in the aftermath of the order shot

0:21.3

pilot so if you didn't listen to my breaking news episode I'm to try and drum up some

0:25.5

extra sales for all the shot I counterintuitively went online and just slated

0:30.1

order shot in a way that I thought was fairly tongue-in-cheek but this prompted

0:33.2

quite a vicious TikTok pylon at one point but happy epilogue is that somehow it did actually shift quite a few more tickets than

0:42.9

as usual.

0:43.6

So it's sort of kind of worked.

0:46.2

And I'm going to bring in Simon Evans here.

0:48.6

Simon, first up, thanks for stepping in a short notice for the show.

0:52.6

And also, rage bait. It turns out it's

0:55.8

devastatingly effective. Have you ever rage baited? No, I don't know that I have quite the

1:00.6

clout. I don't know if you must be borderline on managing to do that, you know, to...

1:05.7

Well, no, on TikTok, nothing I'd done for a long time had done literally fucking anything,

1:10.4

like literally

1:10.9

embarrassingly low numbers.

1:12.7

And then I just managed to find the sort of order shot ultras.

1:18.7

And there were a couple of semi-credible threats of violence in there.

1:22.4

But yeah, pylons, you know, wherever they happen.

1:25.1

And I realize we've started off by talking about online and sometimes

1:27.6

people moan about that. But it is a sort of weird distraction, isn't it? You're trying to be a normal

1:32.4

person in the real world, which is what matters. And then you have to say to your wife,

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