What The F*** Is Going On...? With Mark Steel Episode 20

What The F Is Going On? with Mark Steel

Carousel Studios

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.7 • 888 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Mark is joined by Esther Manito and Elliot Steel as he tries to make sense of world events, from Owen Paterson's brave work on behalf the Corrupt community, to racism in Yorkshire cricket, and Greta Thunberg swearing at COP26. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think the people of this country have had enough of experts.
0:03.0	The science has changed.
0:05.0	If you count the legal votes, I easily will.
0:07.0	It is time to get it.
0:10.0	This candle smells like my vagina.
0:13.0	It's supposed to be up here.
0:15.0	I should be breaking the screw on the other side of the ocean.
0:18.0	What the fuck is going on?
0:22.1	Part of the Acast Creator Network.
0:24.8	Hello, I'm Mark Still.
0:27.3	Welcome to episode 20 of my podcast, but I'm still asking the question,
0:33.2	what the fuck is going on?
0:37.4	Aren't we cruel? Owen Patterson was an MP who tried What the fuck is going on?
0:39.0	Aren't we cruel?
0:42.5	Owen Patterson was an MP who tried his hardest.
0:46.8	It's true he was trying his hardest for a company that slipped him 8,000 pounds a month to use his position as an MP to make them rich, but he was making an effort.
0:50.7	And that's the main thing.
0:52.2	We complain that our MPs don't work hard enough,
0:55.6	and then we moan if they spend 20 extra hours a week working at being corrupt. We can't make up
1:00.5	our minds what we want. Patterson was working for a company called Randox, and they paid him
1:06.1	£100,000 a year, and by complete coincidence, they won a 500 million pounds contract to provide the
1:13.1	COVID tests. He might as well have been honest about it and said he'd say anything if he was given
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