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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

TRUMP VS THE BBC - Feat. Rachel Fairburn

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Geoff Norcott

Comedy, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The lovely Rachel Fairburn returns this week and we get into how the hell the BBC ended up on the wrong side of a fake news argument with Donald. Then it's another beeb scandal as Have I Got News For You airs not one, but two C-bombs! In the Patreon only I get Rachel's view on rising misandry and women who are gutted about giving birth to boys.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this episode.

0:13.7

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of what most people think and it is all about the BBC this week.

0:19.3

BBC in crisis.

0:23.7

Bebe on the block. Beb probably starting war with America. I don't know. Rachel Fairburn, welcome to the show. Where are you at

0:29.6

the moment? I'm in Manchester. You're in Manchester. Have you been out on the streets? Is everyone

0:34.0

talking about the crisis at the BBC? It's all I'm hearing. It's all I am hearing. In the bookies, in Poundland. It's just people are just shaking their heads of what's happened. I mean, jumped straight into it because it is such a big story. And in a way, refreshing not to talk about labour. But some people have said, well, you're only talking about labor. Well, they have been the story for quite a while. But we're going to have a good old chat about what's going on at BBC, but also from that distance of we're not in the news. Like, the people in the news industry, do they realize, like, the degree to which they give a shit about it, most other people don't? Yeah, that's a good point. But I do think this is a national scandal. Well, I mean, the thing is we're going to talk about this, the way that they edited, this panorama show. And I mean, first up, how are you giving Donald Trump a moral victory on truth? It's fucking quite an achievement. I mean, it really is, it really is sort of impressive, but also there was another

1:29.0

beep in the mud scandal on Friday when Have I Got News for you, had two incidents, Rachel,

1:34.1

of the C word.

1:36.2

Disgrace.

1:37.3

Where's the decency?

1:38.9

So we're going to talk in the second section about that, but also about the things that

1:43.3

still have the power to offend, really. I mean, it kind of changes over time. And it's almost refreshing in a way to have an old-fashioned taste and decency issue. That's what this is, right? It takes you back, didn't it, Rachel? You know, I'm going to sound quite prudish, you know, because I, sometimes I found myself tutting at things on the TV. I'm like, that's inappropriate or, like, things that are shown at certain times. Like, you flip through all the channels and I've saw two people really getting off with each other on something. I was like, no, I'm like, this is like 4 o'clock. Why is this on TV?

2:36.3

Was it Bargain Hunt? They just done a really good deal and David Dickinson got involved. Is he still alive? I don't know. He is still alive. Don't worry. We're going to talk about that. We're also getting a patron only. Now, we've had a little trend, Rachel. I'm keeping an eye. I like to keep an eye on things I think are going to be a big story soon.

2:34.5

We've talked about little trend, Rachel. I'm keeping an eye. I like to keep an eye in things I think are going to be a big story soon. And we talked about the rise of misandry in young

2:39.3

women, right? Young women, like actively being hostile towards young men. And the article that I mentioned

2:44.5

last week with Vittorio about, is it embarrassing to have a boyfriend? Kind of got picked up by the BBC

2:49.5

news page.

2:52.0

And it sort of creating a discussion about how young women feel about men.

2:56.2

So I thought, having discussed it with two male comics, it might be a good idea maybe to get

3:00.0

a female perspective.

3:01.3

And the piss take prices thing has really been taken off.

3:05.1

So hopefully you've got a piss take price in a second.

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