Graham Linehan on His Arrest Over "Dangerous" Posts, and Media Refusing to Cover Brutal Charlotte Murder, with Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke | Ep 1143
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For the first time ever, The Megyn Kelly Show is going on the road this fall! Join us on our first 10 stops across the country for live shows featuring your favorite all-star guests, including Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, the guys from The Daily Wire, Eric Trump Jr., Piers Morgan, James Woods, and many, many more.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
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I'm so excited about this. Megyn Kelly Live kicks off in October. We're going to be making 10 stops
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James Woods, Glenn Greenwald, our National Review favorites, and many, many more. We've got some
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California, are used to living in a town or a state or whatever where they're in a minority, and it still
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Um, anyway, please check it out, megankelly.com. Okay, and speaking of all that, I mean, really,
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this is the perfect guest to begin with on that front, because we start with an incredible story
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out of the UK and a Megyn Kelly show exclusive. Last week, Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan was
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arrested at Heathrow Airport by five armed officers over three tweets. Yes, three posts on X.
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Three, regarding the transgender issue, got him arrested by five armed officers before he even
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got into London. He was still at Heathrow. He hadn't really stepped a foot out of the airport,
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and they treated this man like he was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed touching down in the UK. Now,
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Graham's best known for his creation of the hit comedy series Father Ted. Many Americans may not be
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All right, it's been a listening audience. It's classic, irreverent British humor.
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This thing was, to say it was a hit is to understate, you know, that's like saying,
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well, you know, Friends was a hit. Yeah, this was a huge hit. And he did very well and he's
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very well known. And instead of most public figures who are too cowardly to, once they've
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made their money and made their name, ever speak out on an issue as controversial as the trans
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issue, Graham did. In fact, he was an early advocate for sanity on this issue. And it has
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happened, it has come at great cost to him, this, this courage of his. It's ridiculous how much he's
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lost just because of his willingness to speak truth on this issue. He's been fighting back
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against the trans madness for years, notwithstanding the suffering it's caused in his, not just
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professional, but his personal life as well. All the way up to now, his freedom being endangered
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and still says he will not be silenced. He joins me now for his first on-camera interview
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gone. You'll thank me. Graham, welcome. Hi, Megan. Thank you very much. It's an honor to have you here.
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Let's just start before we get to the absurdity of what happened at Heathrow with what made you speak
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out about this issue early on because you really were pretty early in the battle. And, you know,
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like I said, it was not without risk when you were, it was with more risk when you first started
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speaking about it. Oh, yeah. It was instant. I was canceled instantly. I shared an article that was,
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you know, very compassionate and about both sides of the debate written by a brilliant woman over here
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called Heather Brunskill Evans. And I actually shared it when I was in my hospital bed. And I
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think possibly because I was coming out of a operation and I was a bit giddy on morphine.
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And I remember thinking to myself, why am I so scared to get into this debate? You know,
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it's clearly correct. And I sent off of that article. And within moments, the first response,
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one of the first responses that came back was, I wish the cancer had won, you know. So that
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continued. First of all, it was basically, you know, the shock troops of the internet piling in,
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doing edited screenshots of my tweets that made it look like I was saying different things,
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sometimes making up things entirely. There was a Photoshop of a fake apology that I sent to the
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Women of Mumsnet, which is a popular website over here, a feminist website or woman's website.
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And they did a fake Photoshop of me apologizing for sending people dick pics. So this was like
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constant. And it just kept happening. And but the thing is, I thought the message was so important
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that, you know, women need single sex bases. I thought that was very obvious. Women need fair
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sports. I thought that was very obvious. Men shouldn't be in women's prisons. I thought that
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was very obvious. And children shouldn't be mutilated and sterilized in gender clinics.
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And I genuinely thought that all my friends would come rallying to my side, all the people,
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all the friendships I've made over my whole career. And not a single person stood up for me.
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So I started to be targeted by actually a very small group of trans identified men,
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one of whom is a convicted sex offender who sexually assaulted a boy when he was 14 years old.
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And these men have the police wrapped around their fingers, not just me who's been arrested.
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There has been, you know, several dozens of women arrested in the UK over the last eight years.
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And again, these women are suffering in silence because no one with any authority will stand up
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to them. You know, Keir Starmer came into power saying that he would end the culture wars,
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but he hasn't. He's just hidden from, hid from them. So as a result, women are being called into court,
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put into cells. And, and, you know, the, the police over here are basically working for trans activists
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and trans, I want to make it very clear. I'm not talking about trans identified people. There's a lot
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of people who are trans identified who are very good, very decent. Uh, some of them are confused.
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Uh, some of them are just gender nonconforming. Um, but, uh, trans activists without wanting to put
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too much of a gloss on it are the scum of the earth. They really are. They are the absolute worst.
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Yeah. They are 100% bullies and nine times out of 10 it's men. I mean, 99% of them are men,
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uh, masquerading as women who want to bully. And usually it's women. They want to bully women
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right out of their spaces and their rights. And to, to infrequently have we had really active men
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standing up for us too. So it's, it's amazing. You know, I mean, billboard Chris is one of them.
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Matt Walsh is one of them. You're one of them, you know, the ones who do it and do it loud.
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We recognize, we see, and it's wonderful. It's great. And I think most women who are involved
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in this fight really appreciate it. Not that we wouldn't do it without men, but there've been
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some men who have been truly heroic and not lying down for this shit. And you're one of them.
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And honestly, in the UK, it's even more rare because you don't have the free speech protections
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that we have here. And in general, the UK is closer to Canada. You know, it just has,
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like, it just seems to me as a country, they're much more willing to go along with this woke
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bullshit than they should be. And, uh, you know, we've seen it time and time again, but you're not
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like that. Obviously we have to mention she's not a man, but JK Rowling has been totally fearless
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from the very beginning on all of this. And she's been defending you in the wake of this absurd arrest.
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So you, you not only did not have your colleagues stand by you, you lost your marriage. Um, your
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health went downhill. I mean, I don't want to skip right over that because when you invite this kind
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of stress and harassment, and I do use that word harassment as a legal matter, you've been legally
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harassed by these trans activists. Um, it comes at a physical and personal cost that people too
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frequently glossed by. Can you speak to it a bit? Well, yeah, I mean, uh, the, the person I mentioned
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earlier, the sex offender, he, he released my home address online when I was, when I was still at the
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family home, which absolutely, you know, terrified my wife. And even recently, oh, actually that's,
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sorry, that's to do with my current trial. I can't, I can't talk about my current trial,
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but, um, they released our family address, uh, um, at home because I used, you know, as the writer of
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Father Ted, I was fairly well liked. So neither of us thought we had to be careful, uh, with our
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online footprint. But of course, when it flipped and I became public enemy number one, all the things
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that we put online, uh, were kind of, uh, uh, rifled through by trans activists for anything they could
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use against me. And the first thing was my address. Uh, then they started calling the police on me and
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the police came to our home one morning, one Sunday morning, which really upset my wife. Um,
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and, um, it was, uh, since then it's been, you know, never ending. It's, uh, I've been visited by
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the police, I think three times now, not including the arrest. Um, yeah. Oh yeah. They came to my home.
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Uh, uh, uh, no, is it three times? Yeah. Once at my home, once at a flat and, uh, uh, once in London
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and, you know, I moved from Norwich to London when, when, when I got separated and, um, uh, and yeah,
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and I've never been out of litigation in this whole fight. I'm constantly being sued. I'm being sued
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at the moment by, by a particularly rabid trans activist named David Paisley, who's a C-list actor
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who, uh, who, you know, has, has been involved in some appalling harassment of women. And it's just
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constant. I'm never not on edge in, in my, in the, in the country I moved to. I I'm Irish, but I moved
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to the UK, uh, in the early mid nineties. And, um, I'm just always on edge now here because I never know
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if I'm going to be arrested or, uh, or attacked in the street or whatever it happens to be. Because
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as you know, trans activists, apart from anything else, are very violent and very volatile. So, um,
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it's, it's, it's just not a fun place for me anymore. So that's why I eventually moved to Arizona.
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But, you know, you, you said something at one point that really resonated with me, which was you
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have a daughter and we kind of throw that out sometimes. Like I'm speaking for my daughter
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because she can't speak up for herself, you know, when our, when our daughters are young in particular,
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but this, this really is that you said, um, the quote was, um, let's see.
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Okay. I don't want my daughter to go into college and have a male bodied person whose story she
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doesn't know in the toilet with her. She cannot object to it. So I had to take the fight on for
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her. Now that the, the sentence she cannot object to it is true in a number of ways, right? Sometimes
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they're too little to actually be able to object. And sometimes they're old enough to actually form
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the words, but the social cost to a minor girl whose life is in front of her, who still hasn't
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gotten her first job or into college is enormous. I mean, it's next to impossible for these girls to
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actually speak out about it, which is why we see so many of them fewer and fewer these days are more
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are saying something, but still the vast majority don't standing there like hostages on their sports
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teams. When the enormous male joins the basketball team and they, they look like, sure, I'm fine with
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it. Trans rights are human rights. And that is so right. If, if those of us who are fully grown
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employed and have established ourselves in one way, shape or form, don't take the risk for them.
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No one will. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. And when you, and when you look at all these, uh, all these
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young girls in sports teams in America, they've learned the lesson that most adults do not care
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about women or girls. And in fact, they will put the, the, the, uh, desires of men over the safety of
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women. I, I find that I think this, the trans movement is the greatest insult, uh, that women have
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ever faced. And as to what you, to what you were saying earlier, the other thing about the trans
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movement, excuse me, the other thing about the trans movement is women all, all through it, get a
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terrible deal from it. You know, if a man transitions, he just has to put a dress on and, and say, I'm
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trans. And suddenly everyone thinks he's trans. But when, when women do it, they get double mastectomies,
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they get, uh, they get, uh, sterilized, you know, they get, they come out of it with their health
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absolutely destroyed. Yeah. You know, I don't know whether you ever saw, but there was a
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heartbreaking, um, you know, uh, front, front seat video done by a woman. And, you know, he,
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she looks like a balding 40 year old man, you know, because the testosterone has just wreaked havoc,
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uh, with, with her system. And she thought she was going to turn into a young man. But in fact,
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what people don't realize about testosterone and women is that every single woman who is on
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testosterone will go into early menopause, you know, and that brings with it. That's right.
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Yeah. That brings with it threat of dementia, uh, increased threat of a heart attack is another
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thing that these women have to face. And I don't know if you notice, have you ever seen Ellen or Ellen
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stroke Elliot page speak? Um, you'll notice she has that little kind of kazoo voice. That's because
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her vocal cords have been swollen by the testosterone and her slender female neck is not
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able for it. So that's why you'll see a lot of these trans men have the same voice.
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I did not know that, but no trans person ever lands the voice. The voice is a dead giveaway. Even
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the ones who can arguably pass as soon as they start speaking, it's so obvious and it's
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so uncomfortable. It's, it's genuinely jarring because even if they've managed to fool you,
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suddenly you're like, okay, I know what this is and it's a fraud. And I don't know actually
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whether I'm dealing with a dangerous person or not, because there is a high rate of violence with
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some of these people. And on top of that, there's also a very high number of these male to female,
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in other words, men pretending to be women, trans people who are autogynophiles who are in the
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middle of not gender confusion, but a sexual fetish who want to get off on putting by putting
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on a dress next to your daughter or mine or me. And we have a society, both yours and mine still
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that say, shut up and take it like a good girl, be nice about it. Or there's something wrong with
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you or you Graham trying to stand up for your daughter. You're something wrong with you. You're
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a bully deviant who, who hates trans people and hates people who are different as opposed to
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someone who cares about safety and appropriate boundaries. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, people
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call me a monomaniacal on this, you know, but I would, I would, uh, first of all, I challenge anyone
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not to be monomaniacal, uh, about an issue when it's been used to destroy your life and career. Um,
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but the other thing is how can people not be monomaniacal about a, uh, a thing which damages
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children, you know, which puts women in danger. Yes. The Scottish, the Scottish, I mean, we still
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have men in women's prisons, both here and in the U S and it's an absolutely disgraceful ongoing
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situation. And I, and I just find it extraordinary that something as clearly wrong as that. I heard one
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statistic, which might be of interest to your viewers, apparently like, I can't remember it's
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every time I say the number, it doesn't sound right because it's so high, but it is really high.
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Let's say it's over 80%, but I am minimizing it. Um, 80% of women or over 80% of women in prisons,
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uh, have blunt force trauma to the head caused by a partner at some point. So these, these,
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and also these women are not in for serious crimes. They're in for petty theft. They're in for all,
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you know, those kinds of, and all, also there's, there's often a man behind these crimes. So these
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women are, are, are far more vulnerable than the male prison population. And they are being housed
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with not just men, but some of the worst men in the world, you know, Lisa, Lisa Nandy over here.
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Predators. Yeah. And the test of whether they're real trans or not is whether you get raped.
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That's the trans test. You know, if you, if you get raped, they're not a real trans person,
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but if you don't get raped, Oh, they are a real trans person. That's the transit. That's the
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transactivist argument, you know? So women are the actual, uh, actual Guinea pigs in this, uh,
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social experiment, you know, and it's, it's going to go. I don't know if, if, if I don't know how
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long it's going to go on if people don't start speaking up.
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No, the, the, the whole thing about like people, why aren't you outraged? It reminds me very much
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of the bumper sticker that was all over the U S when George W. Bush was president and we had invaded
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Iraq and we had two wars going. Um, obviously the Afghanistan one was brought upon us by Osama bin
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Laden, but Iraq was very controversial. And the liberals used to ride around with bumper stickers
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that read, if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. And that's how I feel about this
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issue. If you are not outraged, you're not paying attention. You point out about what the girls have
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to go through. I mean, the entire forearm is missing on these young girls missing. It's been
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gutted down to the bone as these derelict, disgusting, malpracticing everyday surgeons in
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quote, mutilate their arms to try to create a fake phallus for these girls. Nine out of 10 of whom
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are just upset. Mom and dad got divorced or have acne and normal, you know, puberty reluctance.
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Or just the, just the uncomfortableness that comes from going through the change of your body
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into a woman. It's insane. What we're doing. It's truly insane. So you, you find the courage
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to speak up eventually your wife and you break up over all this stress. And as you, I think
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sagely said, it's, it's not, you didn't have any problems in your marriage, but when you add
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all these other layers of stress to an already stressed marriage, it's going to fracture.
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It just is. So you lose your wife. You, you then lose your career. You guys were in the midst of
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trying to take father Ted to the stage as a musical. And it was going swimmingly. You actually had some
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big names signing on. You were doing like rehearsals. You had songs, you had a great ending. And the one
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thing you thought was that your colleagues would stand by you. And yet.
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Yeah. They just, they just, uh, one day I came down to, um, London for what I thought was a meeting
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about the show. And, uh, the, uh, the guy who runs hat trick who produced father Ted, uh, he told me that, uh,
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they wouldn't do it if I was involved and they offered me 200,000 pounds to walk away. Um, and, um, uh,
00:24:48.780
I remember I argued with him. I said, I said, you know, this is too important for me to stop talking
00:24:54.700
about. I said, young girls are being, are being, uh, uh, mutilated and sterilized in gender clinics.
00:25:00.660
And he shouted at me, I don't care, you know? So, um, that's what I was up against. And,
00:25:07.600
you know, I expected at least my co-writers, uh, Neil Hannan, who I've been friends with for most of my
00:25:14.460
life, Arthur Matthews, who I've been friends with for most of my life to stand up for me and, um,
00:25:19.840
and say, no, Graham's not a big, not a bigot. Of course, women need single sex spaces. Of course,
00:25:24.380
they need fair sports. And I begged them to, I begged them to, but they never did. They never,
00:25:29.360
they just refused to refuse point blank. So, um, you know, I, I, and, and that was kind of the story
00:25:36.660
with all my friends, you know, not a single one stood, stood by me. I went out to dinner with them
00:25:40.880
and I just asked them to please say something, anything that just, that just makes it sound
00:25:46.100
like I'm not insane. Cause one of the problems with this, Megan is, is just, um, people don't
00:25:50.860
believe you. People don't believe it's happening because they can't, they can't take on the fact
00:25:55.840
that the entire of society is lying to them over here in the UK. The BBC has been lying by omission
00:26:03.280
about this subject for the last eight years. Yes. You know, and the woman, I don't know,
00:26:07.960
I sent you a video of my, I went on to, I was ambushed on news night by Sarah Smith, um, uh,
00:26:15.260
who, who basically just made it all about my, uh, uh, the way I, I, I conducted myself online
00:26:20.980
again. Uh, you know, of course I was angry, you know, I was, I was furious all the time
00:26:26.580
because you're missing the issue. They're missing the issue. And, and Sarah Smith is now the head
00:26:31.860
of, uh, BBC, uh, North America. And I always worry when I see, when I see Americans taking
00:26:38.040
on these very, very left wing attitudes on Palestine and on the trans issue, I, I do wonder
00:26:45.720
how much of it is because a lot of liberals over there are sort of Anglophiles, you know,
00:26:50.240
which is very, which is very, very nice of them, but, but they, they take papers like the
00:26:55.240
Guardian too seriously, uh, channels like the BBC too seriously. And all these institutions
00:27:00.500
have been completely captured. It's like a war has been fought without a battle, without
00:27:05.860
a bullet fired. And all these, all these lunatics now have their feet under the table and are
00:27:11.760
doing everything they can to, to continue to confuse the British public about what's going
00:27:16.840
With that, what you said is exactly true. We're talking about rhetorical bullets. And by that
00:27:21.220
we mean truth. The, the, the, our side let these trans activists take over. They changed
00:27:29.620
laws in the UK and here in the United States. All like all these blue States in America have
00:27:37.080
a legal mandate to let boys who say their girls use the girls bathroom. And in many cases be
00:27:46.140
on the girls sports team. And in many cases mandate the use of whatever preferred pronoun
00:27:52.460
that kid has. And in New York city, for example, where we used to live mandates teachers to keep
00:27:59.060
it a secret from the parents. If the child says, don't tell my parents. So now you're encouraging
00:28:04.280
grooming behavior, secrets between minors and adults who are supposed to be supervising them
00:28:10.500
during the day, excluding the pair. I mean, it's true insanity. And our side laid down, took a nap
00:28:16.620
and said, don't pay any attention to this or you're a bigot. And that's, we fired no rhetorical
00:28:21.020
bullets. We, we kept our mouths shut. If anything, we said, Oh, good for you. Okay. Good for you.
00:28:27.620
Right. Because in the beginning, some people were lying. Like Malcolm Gladwell recently came out and
00:28:32.980
said he knew it was bullshit and he lied. Um, I think most of us are on the field where I was
00:28:39.020
in the initial days of these things, which was, I don't want to be a bully. And I saw trans people
00:28:46.100
as an extension of LGB. And it was like, okay, you know, this is something they're grappling with a
00:28:52.480
legit issue. We shouldn't bully them. And it just turned out to be something very, very different
00:28:58.640
than that. And I think now we're seeing what's real. And if you don't have the courage now, I have
00:29:03.040
no time for you. I mean, if you don't speak up now, there's something wrong with you. Okay. Which
00:29:08.560
leads me back to your story, Graham. So you, you don't let up. You've lost your wife. You've lost your
00:29:14.060
colleagues. You lost this play, this musical, which didn't happen, even though you could have really
00:29:18.620
used the money and you're still going. You're, you're not shutting up. You're like a dog with a
00:29:24.520
bone and you send out three totally benign tweets, posts on X. I mean, I read them to the audience
00:29:34.400
when you got arrested, but I'm going to reread them for today's audience. They were all in April,
00:29:39.000
April 19th. One was, it showed a picture of a trans rights rally with the caption,
00:29:43.200
a photo you can smell. One was same day in reply to that picture and follow-up. You wrote,
00:29:49.900
I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck them. And then April 20th, the next day you posted,
00:29:58.300
if a trans identified male is in a female only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act.
00:30:05.300
Make a scene, call the cops. And if all else fails, punch him in the balls. And these are the tweets
00:30:12.700
that led to what happened to you last week. So you were in Arizona, you've been living in Arizona,
00:30:20.060
but you had to go back to the UK because you're in this legal dispute with this trans activist as a
00:30:25.800
male pretending to be a female who you may not be able to say anything about it, but I can.
00:30:30.600
So this guy got in your face with this video camera at one of these events and seemed to be
00:30:37.880
following you around and seemed to be invading your privacy and your space. And you flicked the
00:30:43.260
phone out of the way and said something to him. And now he's suing you claiming, oh, he damaged my
00:30:48.900
phone and damaged me and whatever. These trans activists, in my opinion, are absolute fucking
00:30:54.580
lunatics. And the closer they come to you, the more you should run. I don't blame you for not wanting
00:30:59.800
to be within the same arm space as this person, but that'll play out in the UK courts, however it plays
00:31:04.380
out. It's not, it's really not why you're here. You went over there because you had to in connection
00:31:09.280
with that case. You, you landed Heathrow. Were you expecting any sort of problem?
00:31:16.540
Well, uh, when you said I hardly got out of the airport, I didn't get out of the plane,
00:31:21.600
you know, the plane land. Yeah. Yeah. The plane landed. Well, I got out of the plane. I took a step
00:31:26.600
out of the plane, but the plane landed. And, um, uh, you know, people were told to stay in their seats.
00:31:33.280
And I thought something was, was up, you know, uh, uh, in terms of, you know, just some normal
00:31:39.580
airport problem. And then, um, they called my name out, you know, and as soon as they called my
00:31:45.760
name, I, I sort of started to realize, I started, I sort of knew what was happening because, you know,
00:31:50.980
it's, it's kind of what I was, it's something I expect to be honest. I expect to be arrested by the
00:31:56.020
police because they follow every single complaint. But here's the thing. I was on my way back for a
00:32:01.020
trial. Now they must've known that. So they, I think did it deliberately. And the way it works
00:32:06.680
over here, when you're arrested for, you know, free speech tweeting crimes is they just put you
00:32:12.520
in a cell for as long as they can. So I was in a cell for something like 12 hours. Um, and it's,
00:32:18.220
that's the punishment. We, we have a phrase over here among, you know, GC, gender critical and
00:32:23.560
feminist, uh, in feminist circles. Um, the process is the punishment. And, uh, for eight
00:32:30.480
years, you know, women have been put through this process. Some of them have suffered far
00:32:35.120
more than me. And, uh, it's, you know, the, the British police are just willing participants.
00:32:40.920
I did think it was funny that, um, that the first thing all these Arizonian people saw when
00:32:47.160
the plane landed was a comedy writer being arrested for tweets. It was the most perfect and appropriate
00:32:53.160
welcome to the UK they could have got really, you know, but, uh, but yeah, so they, they brought me
00:32:58.880
out and I, I, uh, they said, we want to speak to you. And I've been met by the police before at
00:33:05.940
airports. I was met by the police in New Zealand and they were very kind, sweet to me. And they just
00:33:10.260
wanted to know my movement so, so that, uh, they could provide, uh, uh, an unmarked car just to keep
00:33:16.940
an eye on things, um, in case trans activists, uh, uh, uh, uh, were a problem. But so I, I didn't
00:33:24.060
immediately, uh, think they were going to arrest me, but they did ask me, they said, can we go
00:33:30.480
somewhere private to speak? So we went down this kind of tunnel and through a doorway and they stood
00:33:36.660
around me and he said, your passport is on a wanted list or something, or it was flagged up or
00:33:43.240
something. And, uh, you're being arrested for, uh, uh, you know, a tweet. He only thought it was
00:33:49.780
one, I think it was the one about, um, punch him in the balls. And, and I went a bit nuts because
00:33:56.040
I just couldn't believe it. Uh, you know, they tried to, they were even going to handcuff me
00:34:00.460
because I was so out of control. And I said, you're not, you're not going to put fucking cuffs
00:34:04.620
on me for defending women's rights. And finally, they, they very kindly, I think, because I don't
00:34:10.720
think, I don't blame the police for this. You know, the police don't believe any of this. The
00:34:14.240
police, unfortunately are, are just, I mean, you know, the old phrase, they're just following orders.
00:34:20.320
Um, and they have no idea what's going on. They don't understand this issue. And so they're just
00:34:25.420
doing what they're told. So like, I calmed down. I started to get on quite well with the, with the
00:34:31.000
officers, but then I, and then I was taken into a van, uh, because, because I asked them, please don't
00:34:37.200
march me through the airport, you know? So they brought a van around on the, uh, tarmac or
00:34:42.500
whatever you call it. Uh, and, uh, and I went to it and, and I thought, oh, at least I'm, at least
00:34:47.620
this is a bit, you know, civilized. And then I saw that I was going to be put in a, like a little
00:34:52.560
white kind of corner of the van where you have to sit like this and you can't stretch out your legs.
00:34:58.240
And, and I just thought, holy shit, they're really going to do this, you know? Um, and then that just
00:35:04.220
began a night of being processed, uh, going into my cell. Luckily I was exhausted from the flight
00:35:11.740
because I could never sleep on planes. So I slept in the cell and that killed a few hours. But I
00:35:17.340
genuinely think the reason I was, I was kept was, was, you know, processes to punishment. They just
00:35:23.360
wanted to make me frightened of tweeting, of speaking my mind, you know? And that's what they've been doing.
00:35:31.280
Who ordered it? Do we know? I think it was a mid-level person. I don't think it was anyone
00:35:36.700
big. Uh, I, I don't know really. Um, but when you say the police aren't to blame,
00:35:42.460
who is to blame? Oh yeah. Well, you know, whoever ordered it is to blame. I'm talking about the,
00:35:48.020
the, the, you know, rank and file, uh, the, the, whoever ordered it is just an idiot. You know,
00:35:54.360
I mean, this is, this is blown back in their face so much better than I could ever have hoped.
00:35:59.600
And it's been good. It's been, yeah, it's been fantastic over here. I'm getting thumbs up from
00:36:04.580
cabbies and I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm getting lots of little secret smiles from people. Um, it's been
00:36:10.840
wonderful, you know, and they just, as that's the thing about trans activists, they always,
00:36:16.240
always overreach, you know? Uh, yes. And when, when they overreach, that's when, uh, you know,
00:36:22.540
people start to sit up and take notice. Yeah. In my opinion, it's because they're crazy.
00:36:26.940
They're crazy. They're not able to accurately gauge the situation and weigh risks and rewards.
00:36:34.440
They are delusional. And so they think they're going to get a different outcome than they are.
00:36:39.200
And it's because in part of the discussion we had where we rolled over and went to sleep for all
00:36:44.060
those years. And they're used to Americans and English, uh, citizens doing that and people
00:36:48.740
throughout the UK, and we're not doing that anymore. So it's very frustrating to them and it's
00:36:53.520
leading to their own bad behavior and terrible results. So in a way, you know, you're a
00:36:58.180
sacrificial lamb, Graham, but thank you because we need that. I mean, easy for me to say, but we do
00:37:04.300
need that. So what, by the way, you're lucky because here in the United States, there's a very high
00:37:09.060
likelihood you would have been subjected to a strip search. So let's be glad it doesn't sound like
00:37:12.600
you had to go through that, but were they armed? I think that would have been, yeah, no, I think they
00:37:19.000
would have been, that would have been more punishment for them, uh, if I'd been strip searched. Uh, yeah,
00:37:23.960
they were armed, but, but, but, but, but, but I, but, but I must, I actually must make it clear. It was
00:37:28.680
very disturbing to see armed police officers, but it is normal for Heathrow officers to be armed. Okay.
00:37:34.920
Simply. But they had like a one cop per limb and then an extra for like your head to keep your mouth
00:37:40.460
shut, I guess, like five on one. Uh, like, ah, truly like you were some sort of terrorist is how it
00:37:46.800
sounds to me. So they take you to the jail and then you wound up having heart problems, like your
00:37:51.320
blood pressure soared. You were under a lot of stress. You wound up having to get referred for
00:37:55.840
medical help. So this is just further evidence of the level of stress. This is, this does not come
00:38:01.680
without stress for you. You know, like it doesn't come without stress for anybody. Honestly, like I,
00:38:08.760
I know a lot of people in media who are very outspoken on a lot of issues and people who my audience
00:38:15.620
would think don't stress out. Like they, whatever, they keep coveting controversy. And I am here to
00:38:21.260
tell you, they do stress out. They get stressed. They just refuse to back down. Like there's just
00:38:27.080
a certain kind of person that just says, I don't care. Like I will take it. And that's what you're
00:38:31.780
going through from the sound of it. We do have some video of the arrest. Um, it was posted via the
00:38:36.340
sun. Let's watch a little bit of it here in Sot 4. It's all.
00:38:40.220
It's alleged that on the 19th of April 2025. It's alleged that on April 19th, you published a post
00:38:45.860
action. On the grounds of sexual orientation. I can't tell you what the post was, he says.
00:39:43.320
Well, I recorded it, you know, uh, I luckily had the, had the, uh, uh, you know, gumption to,
00:39:52.040
uh, press record on my favorite transcription app. Um, and, uh, yeah, you know, I, I only wish
00:39:58.620
the sound had been better and people had heard more of it, you know, but, uh, again, uh, you know,
00:40:03.560
when I said, I'll sue you all, it would have been very strange for me to sue the five cops who
00:40:08.560
picked me up, but I was, I was sort of, you know, I was so angry. I, I couldn't think straight,
00:40:14.120
you know? Um, but, uh, but I am suing them now. I'm suing the police. Um, and, uh, for wrongful
00:40:21.040
arrest. And, uh, I think something imprisonment, wrongful imprisonment or something like that.
00:40:27.620
False imprisonment. Excuse me. Yes. And, uh, uh, yeah, this is just going to, they, the brilliant
00:40:34.920
thing is they were trying to silence me, but I think what might've happened is that I'm going
00:40:39.640
to make them very nervous about arresting people for this type of thing in the future.
00:40:48.620
Well, because you showed up to your court hearing in one of, like I mentioned billboard Chris,
00:40:54.020
who's a hero, and he's constantly wearing these billboards. It's like, like the sandwich boards,
00:40:58.020
the one in the front and the one in the back speaking up for women. And that's how you showed
00:41:02.160
up to your court hearing. There's right. Is it your court hearing?
00:41:06.060
The front of it reads, there's no such thing as a transgender child on the front. Where,
00:41:11.980
Uh, that was outside the magistrate's court. That was a friend of mine. Who's I think his
00:41:15.800
name is Chris, who, who actually has those boards and Oh no, it's not Chris. It couldn't
00:41:20.260
be Chris. It's someone else. Steve, I think. Uh, and he, um, does the same, he's been influenced
00:41:25.860
by billboard Chris to do the same thing. And just like billboard Chris, he gets punched
00:41:30.140
and water thrown over him and, uh, all sorts of things by people who think they're good
00:41:35.120
people. You know, it's, uh, he's very, he's very brave, very brave. But I, but I just grabbed
00:41:41.520
this thing and put it up. No, but that's good. What do you mean? You don't want to even take
00:41:45.760
credit for doing that. That's a brave thing to do when you are being arrested and punished
00:41:49.500
for speech. You double down on the exact same speech. So here's the thing that's really
00:41:55.000
to keep, it's very important to keep reminding people of the issues. They keep trying to focus
00:42:00.040
on, you know, my, my conduct, my behavior, which has been influenced by everything I've
00:42:05.520
been through. So I, so I always trying to break through that and say, no, this is about
00:42:10.500
kids being sterilized and mutilated. This is about men in women's prisons and sports. You
00:42:15.080
know, this is an incredibly important issue and everyone should be paying attention to
00:42:19.340
it. My speech about the problem is not the problem. The problem is the problem. Address
00:42:26.060
that deal with that. So here, the ultimate irony of this whole thing is that in the UK,
00:42:32.020
they are letting child rapists go free. They're letting them out without bail. They're letting
00:42:40.460
them out without prison time. They are letting JK Rowling, who I mentioned a moment ago, get harassed
00:42:49.020
with daily death and rape threats. Kick them in the balls is the most controversial thing you
00:42:56.460
said. And you're a comedy writer that JK Rowling. Here's just a sampling. I mean, we, we pulled just
00:43:02.700
a few just cause we were kind of curious. I'm just going to read for some of the audience. What
00:43:06.540
just a quick search brought up for JK Rowling, bitch, I'll kill you. Kill JK Rowling. I'll kill JK
00:43:13.660
Rowling myself. I'm going to kill you. He's somebody says the JK stands for just kill you. I'm going to
00:43:18.940
euthanize your old ass. I wish you two very nice pipe bombs in your mailbox. I like the idea of
00:43:25.720
bombs when only I don't mail them to people I despise. Take note. A pipe bomb would be too kind.
00:43:30.880
Okay. Forgive me JK for reading those out loud, but the point is nothing, nothing. Where are those
00:43:36.000
people not arrested? She's subjected to this daily. And those five cops don't show up to arrest those
00:43:42.700
people. But you've got one benign tweet about if somebody goes into your daughter's space,
00:43:47.200
who's a male and won't get out, kick them in the balls and five cops are on you, Graham. So what's
00:43:54.440
Well, I, you know, I mean, those, most of those accounts are anonymous, you know,
00:43:59.060
there may even be far fewer of these, of these people than we think. And they're just using
00:44:04.620
multiple accounts. There's also a lot of kids who think it's their, their civil rights cause of this
00:44:11.180
generation. And kids speak in very intemperate ways and say disgusting things without realizing
00:44:17.140
what the person at the other end of it is facing. But it's always had that kind of imbalance. You
00:44:24.400
know, the people who are standing up against it tend to be tend to put their faces behind their
00:44:28.400
opinions. The people who are against it don't put their faces to their opinions. And also they never
00:44:33.280
even share their opinions. We're constantly asking questions like, what does trans mean? You know,
00:44:38.440
it used to mean transsexual, but now it seems to mean transsexual, transvestite and everything in
00:44:43.300
between. You know, they cannot answer these questions. They cannot engage in debate. And
00:44:48.380
because they can't engage in debate, their only tools are smears, violence, you know, legal threats.
00:44:57.340
They have nothing. They have nothing. This whole movement is based on nothing. It's a complete
00:45:04.480
mass delusion. It's a lie. So social, social contagion. What's going to happen to you now?
00:45:09.440
Right. What, what's going to happen to you? Are, are you on paper? Are you facing prison time for
00:45:14.360
this? If, if you get convicted, are you facing a trial? No, it's, it's, I, well, you know, whatever,
00:45:20.740
you know, if we get a bad result, we're going to appeal. Um, uh, and it's, we'll just go through it
00:45:26.520
all again. And again, the process is the punishment, you know, but do you have to go through a criminal
00:45:30.420
trial now? No, uh, no. Uh, the last thing, we're still actually in the current trial. I'm very
00:45:36.980
nervous about saying too much about it, but we, but we've got one day left on it. With the trans
00:45:40.880
activist who's coming after you for the phone. Yes. And I have to come back at the end of October
00:45:46.100
for that, you know, which really annoys me because I don't, I don't, at the moment, I don't really like
00:45:50.240
being in this country. You know, I feel like I'm a target and, um, you know, but I have to do it.
00:45:56.080
So I'm going to do it. And I'm, and I'm, I'm, I'm completely, uh, you know, I have no doubts
00:46:03.140
about anything I've done in this fight. You know, I have, uh, you know, any, any, like those three
00:46:08.860
tweets they picked, two of them were, two of them weren't my best, you know, uh, just, just angry.
00:46:15.200
Exactly. Angry. But, you know, that's what you're mad about. You weren't your most clever self.
00:46:19.900
Exactly. Exactly. And they, that's another thing they do is they cherry pick things that make you look
00:46:24.360
bad, you know, but the, the tweet about, uh, punching a man in the balls. If he comes into
00:46:30.220
your, uh, into a female only space, it is a violent and abusive act for a man to go into a woman's space
00:46:35.900
and any man, no matter how they identify who wants to do that is highly suspect, you know? So, um, uh,
00:46:44.280
I, I stand by everything I've said. I stand by everything I've done. It's always been as a result
00:46:49.560
of, if I've ever done anything, uh, uh, less than optimal, it's because I've been harassed to the
00:46:55.900
point of insanity sometimes, you know? Well, if you, if you can't, if you're not going to have a
00:46:59.940
trial, what does that mean? Are these just misdemeanor charges that you can plead to or, well, how does
00:47:05.300
this wrap up if not through a trial? It's, it's magistrate's court. So there's one more, there's one
00:47:10.960
more, uh, day of where, where we'll be bringing in more witnesses and then the... No, no, not, not the act,
00:47:16.560
not, not the trans activist case. The, the charges against you. Oh, you mean, oh, the latest one.
00:47:20.700
Oh, I don't think, I, I, I mean, they would be insane to pursue it. I'd say they're going to
00:47:26.640
drop the charges pretty quick. You know, they may, you know, I, I can't imagine they, they won't drop
00:47:32.460
the charges. Um, but if they do, it'll just be another chance for me to have a platform to try and
00:47:40.200
tell people what's going on, to try and stop gender. Like, you know, Wes Streeting over here is
00:47:46.000
talking about doing a kind of experiment or I don't know how you, uh, test on, on, on whether
00:47:51.900
puberty blockers are safe. We know they're not safe. We, all the data is in and WPATH, the
00:47:57.740
organization that sets all these protocols is a bunch of lunatics. I don't, I know you follow
00:48:03.840
Redux, Megan, but they, they discovered that WPATH on their website were linking to a site called
00:48:11.860
the eunuch archives and the eunuch archives is like a repository of short, short pornographic
00:48:18.600
stories about, sorry, short pornographic stories about castration. Okay. Something like 4,000 stories
00:48:29.080
or 40%, I can't remember what it was, were tagged minor. That is so disturbing. So that means that the
00:48:37.840
people who, who are setting up these protocols and they're, these protocols are all over the world
00:48:42.960
are also linking to a site that, that, uh, is for men who are aroused by the idea of children
00:48:49.460
cutting their, uh, penises off. It's, it's, that's WPATH.
00:48:53.840
Like you say, it's, it's hard to actually understand unless you live it, unless you're really
00:48:59.520
neck deep in it and you see how sick this is. I only have a minute left, Graham. What, what's
00:49:05.280
going to happen? Is the UK coming to its senses? I thought with the closing of Tavistock, with the
00:49:09.580
Cass report, it was coming to its senses. I now have greater doubts.
00:49:15.020
Yeah. Well, I don't know. I mean, this, we always knew, I think it's, it's coming to an end. The
00:49:20.520
trans movement is coming to an end. And we always knew that the last trashings would be the hardest
00:49:25.920
on people that they would be, they would become, um, you know, more vicious. Uh, they would
00:49:31.600
overreach more. Uh, and so it's come to pass, you know, they're, they're just trying everything
00:49:36.460
they can. Um, I'm just going to keep on tweeting and keep on doing my, my, my, I, I, I'm sort
00:49:43.540
of now a journalist and I, I have a sub stack that I, I keep up and I'm just going to keep
00:49:48.180
doing that until I'm sure it's not just dead, but buried. And the earth has been salted, you
00:49:53.560
know, this is because they tried to shut you up when they arrested you too, saying
00:49:57.040
you couldn't tweet about the case. That's now off and you're allowed to talk about it.
00:50:00.460
That's why you're here. Oh, but I got a very funny thing. I can tell you, Megan, that's
00:50:04.260
very short. Sorry. They told me, they told me not to contact the victims. That's a, that's
00:50:10.520
a condition of my bail. The victims. There's no victims. There's no victims. There's no one
00:50:17.400
mentioned in the tweets. Yes, exactly. Ridiculous, Graham. Listen, we're going to continue
00:50:21.980
watching it. And all of us here in American media are very interested in this, in particular
00:50:26.600
in the digital world. And the digital world is very powerful and we're watching. And you
00:50:31.680
know, I, I go on TV in the UK all the time and I'm certainly not going to shut up about
00:50:36.340
this. They need to lay off of you. This is outrageous. We'll continue following it. Graham,
00:50:40.440
thank you for your courage. Everybody support Graham by buying his book. It's called Tough
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Love National Review. Guys, welcome back. I'm going to get to the biggest news story of the day,
00:52:22.960
which is the murder of this poor Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina in one second. But I
00:52:28.520
just got to ask you, I'll start with you, Charlie, because I know you posted a piece on NR for this
00:52:32.440
about the Graham Linehan story. And actually, before I do, I want to tell the audience that
00:52:37.420
he told us during the break that he's lost how many thousands of subscribers? A couple hundred
00:52:45.620
thousand subscribers, or not subscribers, but followers on his X account since he was arrested.
00:52:51.580
These are woke leftist, I think, UK residents who are abandoning Graham because they didn't realize
00:52:57.360
that he was pro-women's rights. And so go follow him. It's at G. Linner, L-I-N-N-E-R,
00:53:06.420
at G. Linner, L-I-N-N-E-R, so that we can make up the difference because he should not suffer
00:53:11.340
in any way, shape, or form as a result of doing this. Charlie, can you believe this nonsense?
00:53:19.000
Yes and no. Can I just say something very quickly, Megan, about Graham Linehan? Obviously,
00:53:23.000
we're talking here about the ordeal he just went through and the views that he's expressed and so
00:53:28.140
on. But this sometimes gets lost. He is a genius. When I was a kid, he wrote this comedy series
00:53:35.020
called Big Train. There's two seasons of it. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. He wrote
00:53:39.400
The IT Crowd. He wrote Black Books. Obviously, he wrote Father Ted. This is a guy, it wasn't just that
00:53:44.200
he threw away a career. He threw away the career to stand up for this. I mean, this is a man who is one
00:53:51.340
of the funniest men in the history of British comedy. And I think maybe sometimes Americans,
00:53:55.580
they wouldn't know that because the shows were often only on in England. But he is unbelievably
00:54:01.920
talented. Someone who I grew up, you know, his name was on every great show that was on TV.
00:54:08.340
Anyhow, well, yes and no. Yes, I can believe it because Britain has bad free speech laws and no
00:54:17.120
First Amendment. And there have been an increasing number of examples of this sort of illiberalism
00:54:22.700
over the years. I've written a lot about them since I moved to the United States. No, in that this one
00:54:28.680
felt a little bit different to me. It was not the product of a cop making a mistake in the heat of the
00:54:35.320
moment or misinterpreting the law or overreacting. Some of the worst excesses we've seen have been that
00:54:41.880
this was premeditated. This is deliberate. You can't arrest someone at an airport by mistake. Five people
00:54:47.820
showed up. They knew he was going to be there. They orchestrated this with IATA and the airline and the
00:54:52.780
Heathrow Authority. You can't do this without a lot of planning. And in that respect, it felt to me Soviet.
00:55:00.620
That was what you would expect out of the Soviet Union if somebody flies in and then they're arrested for
00:55:05.920
comments that they've made at a prior point. You know, historically, there are stupid arrests in
00:55:13.300
Britain. When I was at Oxford, there was a guy who was arrested for telling a police officer his horse
00:55:17.620
was gay. There's a guy who was arrested for singing kung fu fighting when an Asian person was in the
00:55:25.360
audience. There have been examples of people on the street who have been arrested for preaching the
00:55:31.700
Old Testament and Muslims who've been arrested for preaching from the Koran. And these generally
00:55:38.460
involve a police officer who has an agenda or who makes a mistake. But that's not what happened to
00:55:43.340
it. This had to come up from relatively high up in the Metropolitan Police Authority and has to have
00:55:51.540
been discussed and debated and then executed. And that's where it felt to me unbelievable.
00:55:56.900
Mm hmm. It is these most. I mean, I realize we're on here all the time, the three of us
00:56:01.660
and you guys at NR on your own talking about the erosion of free speech in America too often
00:56:06.900
at too many turns. And yet, thank God, Rich, we have the First Amendment because truly like this could
00:56:14.160
not happen here with impunity. This would be this would be such a national firestorm if they if the
00:56:19.180
cops actually arrested one of the three of us, let's say, for tweets like he posted totally anodyne,
00:56:25.300
benign tweets. Yeah, totally. I was thinking exactly the same thing. Thank God for George
00:56:30.740
Mason and the Bill of Rights. And those founders who thought the structure of the Constitution was
00:56:34.840
enough to protect our liberties were wrong. You need to write it in there in black and white.
00:56:39.300
And that's why we've seen backsliding, certainly in the culture of free speech. We can't we can't go
00:56:43.160
there. Not as long as we have a First Amendment, a Supreme Court that's committed to it. I don't know
00:56:48.820
this guy's work because I'm I'm an American, but I was just struck what a self-effacing, charming,
00:56:53.600
thoughtful guy. And it's so dystopian, right? If George Orwell had written this in a novel, you know,
00:57:00.840
40 or 50 years ago, no, that's not going to happen. That can never happen here in England in the cradle
00:57:06.460
of liberty. You know, all our liberties actually have their roots in English thought and practices.
00:57:12.520
They're going to they're going to do this. They're going to arrest this guy like he's an arms dealer
00:57:16.640
coming off the plane because of some tweets they don't like. And sure, as he said, you know,
00:57:21.400
punch him in the balls isn't maybe it's not most charming or clever tweet, but he's positing a
00:57:27.300
situation where where this biological male is harassing people or ogling women in the dressing
00:57:31.800
room. And it's not incitement. It's not anywhere close to incitement. Not anywhere close. Yes.
00:57:36.260
This is really disturbing. Yeah. I mean, such grace. I know notwithstanding the enormous personal
00:57:42.960
toll. I mean, everyone abandoned him, his cowardly colleagues. Nobody, nobody has stood by him,
00:57:50.040
which is why I'm very glad he's moved to the United States like Charlie. And I hope he eventually
00:57:54.960
becomes an American citizen and enjoys the full fruit and flower of the First Amendment or what's
00:58:00.600
left of it after those of us who have been defending it continue our battles. OK, let's let's keep going
00:58:06.840
because there is a huge story out of North Carolina today. I want to bring the audience up to speed on
00:58:11.260
the facts around it. So something terrible happened in Charlotte, North Carolina. Undoubtedly,
00:58:16.440
most of the audience has heard about it now, because if you're listening to this show, you're
00:58:20.880
you have the right news sources. It's it's something that happened a couple of weeks ago,
00:58:26.640
but it just hit the press. You wouldn't know anything about it if you solely read or watch
00:58:30.920
legacy media outlets. OK, nothing. The young woman's name is Irina Zorutska. And this young woman
00:58:38.300
was 23 years old. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and she came to the United States in 2022 with her
00:58:44.920
family trying to seek a better life. They were they were fleeing the war that Vladimir Putin
00:58:50.320
unleashed on the Ukraine. And she was murdered here in Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22nd
00:58:57.280
on her way home from a job she had obtained at a local pizzeria. Now, this woman is absolutely
00:59:02.000
stunning. She is she looks like Marilyn Monroe to me. She could have been modeling. She could have
00:59:07.100
been doing anything to make money. But she took a job at a local pizzeria and was showing up doing
00:59:12.280
shift work just trying to pay her bills and make her way in the United States quietly and without
00:59:17.860
much fanfare. And then this past Friday, surveillance video was released showing her being stabbed to
00:59:25.000
death by a man with a long criminal rap sheet and multiple encounters with the criminal justice system.
00:59:34.720
That video was released to local news outlets. We're going to walk you through it and the timeline
00:59:39.580
of how things unfolded. The suspect's name is DeCarlos Brown Jr. He's 34. Listening audience,
00:59:45.920
we're showing the video here. He's in a red hoodie sweatshirt. He's a black man with long black dreads.
00:59:51.040
He was on the train first sitting with no one in front of him, next to him or behind him. He is not
00:59:57.340
seen on the video having any interaction with any other riders just sitting alone, but looking a little
01:00:02.480
agitated at times. At the next stop, Zoritska boards the train. She is a white woman with blonde hair and
01:00:09.020
she's in her pizzeria uniform wearing a baseball cap. She sits in the row right in front of Brown.
01:00:14.440
She has her phone with her and headphones in her ears. Just a side note, honestly, like in today's
01:00:20.140
day and age, it's dangerous to have the headphones in and not know what's going on behind you. I'm
01:00:24.400
sorry to say that I'm not blaming her in any way, of course, but just as a safety measure, just don't
01:00:28.880
do that. You just don't know. You know, I'm sorry, but there's too much crime in America right now
01:00:33.480
to do that. Keep your ears open so you know what's happening about you. Unfortunately,
01:00:37.660
that's our reality. She's minding her own business. There's no interaction between the
01:00:42.020
two of them whatsoever. They ride along for another four minutes with nothing happening.
01:00:46.760
Then at 9.50 PM, Brown is seen reaching into his hoodie, pulling out a pocket knife, a small
01:00:53.360
pocket knife. This is zoomed in video courtesy of the local CBS outlet. You're seeing him unfold
01:00:58.680
it. And you see him unfolding the knife, but no one notices a thing out of nowhere. Truly,
01:01:05.700
it seems like it's out of nowhere. Brown then stands up. He pulls his arm back as far as it
01:01:10.600
can go to gain force. And from behind with the young woman, completely unaware of what was
01:01:16.800
about to happen to her. He begins stabbing her, including three times, at least once directly
01:01:24.140
into the neck. She did not stand a chance. She had no opportunity to defend herself. She clearly
01:01:29.660
had no idea she was in danger at all. According to a local reporter who saw the full footage,
01:01:35.700
Zarutska immediately grabs her neck and looks as at the suspect as he walks away. The local news
01:01:43.200
outlets, which received the video from the transit authority did not release to the public the moment
01:01:47.720
of the attack or what happens in this section immediately after, which honestly, I don't
01:01:55.660
understand. It's not their job to protect us from the facts. If you want to say, you know,
01:02:01.580
we on the CBS evening news, aren't going to show you the exact moment of violence. That's an editorial
01:02:06.140
call. But for all of the news outlets to not release it at all is strange to me. It's an incident
01:02:13.060
that happened and the specifics of it may matter. And we actually had our, had a hard time at getting
01:02:19.600
our hands on the full video. Now it's unclear if riders around the victim even noticed or saw the
01:02:25.860
knifing. Again, everyone's on their phones. No one's paying attention. And most of these people
01:02:29.940
appear to have headphones on. I get it. You want to zone out. You don't want people talking to you.
01:02:35.120
You kind of want to like do your own thing, but it's truly a safety measure to have your headphones
01:02:39.140
off and be able to listen and hear what's going on around you and these public transit vehicles.
01:02:45.820
The local CBS affiliate reports one passenger did react. Others followed, but we don't see exactly
01:02:50.780
how it unfolded. The reaction. We are shown Brown's actions after the attack. Now the whole thing goes
01:02:57.420
down in 30 seconds. So this has got to be not long after he walks up to a train door. You see blood
01:03:02.560
dripping onto the floor, apparently from the knife, which is still on him. Some riders noticed the blood,
01:03:08.260
but it appears they really have no idea that an attack just happened. Brown then takes off the
01:03:13.100
red hoodie. He appears to wrap the bloody knife up inside the hoodie. And Brown is then shown leaving
01:03:18.460
the train. Per local CBS, he left the train again about 30 seconds after the knife attack. That's how
01:03:24.820
quickly this whole thing went down. And seconds after Brown leaves the train, you do hear someone far
01:03:29.780
off in the background scream, oh my God, and scream the F word. Here's that moment.
01:03:38.260
I mean, it certainly sounds like somebody's found the victim. Someone did call law enforcement
01:03:54.760
Spectrum News in Charlotte reporting transit security guards were on the train at the time of the attack,
01:04:01.260
but in the car just ahead of Zeritska's when she was attacked. Brown was arrested a short time later.
01:04:09.860
You're not going to be surprised to hear the guys got 14 previous court cases in Mecklenburg County,
01:04:15.380
which includes Charlotte. He was sent to prison in 2015 for robbery with a dangerous weapon,
01:04:20.040
but was released a year early in 2020. This past January, he was arrested for misuse of the 911 system.
01:04:28.700
And here's where things get interesting. During that incident, Brown told police he had
01:04:33.200
man-made material inside his body that was controlling him. Per the ABC local outlet in
01:04:39.940
Charlotte, a magistrate judge allowed Brown to be released from jail without paying anything
01:04:46.420
on the written promise that he would show up to his next court appearance. Then in July,
01:04:51.900
another judge ordered a mental health evaluation. But again,
01:04:55.140
he was allowed to be out on the streets. He clearly was not right in the head. And you had
01:05:01.620
not one but two judges recently, a month before the murder. Send him back out there. Go ahead,
01:05:08.740
right back out there. There are so many angles to this story. It's an absolute disgrace
01:05:13.900
that the national media remains silent about this. Political news outlet Axios even has the gall to
01:05:21.440
blame MAGA Republicans for covering it. They're upset about the numerous surveillance cameras in
01:05:28.660
America now that happened to catch these incidents so that the MAGA Republicans can turn them into an
01:05:34.040
issue. That's what they see this story about. I mean, guys, Rich and Charlie remain with me.
01:05:39.840
There's just no question in my mind, the story for the media is about many uncomfortable narratives that
01:05:45.880
they'd rather not touch. Chief among them, a black man hacked to death, a young, beautiful,
01:05:53.380
white, blonde woman right on camera. And they don't want to touch it because that plays into a
01:06:00.920
narrative with which they're very uncomfortable, Rich. Yeah, absolutely. So the media has had two
01:06:05.900
modes here so far. First, ignore the story. Second, blame conservatives for paying attention
01:06:10.720
to the story. And we just shouldn't look through these at these crime stories through a racialized
01:06:15.540
lens and only pay attention if it's a white perpetrator, alleged perpetrator and a black
01:06:20.760
victim and ignore them if it's reverse. That's perverse. It's wrong. It's un-American. And by the
01:06:26.820
way, where was the Daniel Penny in this train, right? The New York City spent all these resources
01:06:33.060
trying to nail that guy to the wall for doing the right thing and stopping potentially something like
01:06:38.160
this happening. And the Charlotte mayor has been a disgrace in what she said. She's emphasized,
01:06:44.300
she said, we can't arrest our way out of this and we need more mental health services. So this guy
01:06:48.940
was clearly a schizophrenic and was allowed to walk the street and be homeless and menace people and
01:06:57.220
then commit this act of homicide. The mental health service should have been arresting him, putting in
01:07:02.740
jail, ascertaining he had mental health problems, then sending him to an institution where he's not
01:07:08.840
released until he's either taking his meds and or it's ascertained he's okay and can be in the
01:07:14.180
community again. You cannot let seriously mentally ill people just wander the streets. It's terrible for
01:07:19.020
them. It's terrible for public order. And in these rare cases like this, it is a dire threat to other
01:07:24.620
individuals. And I'll just add, the mother seems to have done the right thing. As many families like
01:07:29.220
this with untreated schizophrenics, they don't know what to do. You know, their son or daughter is
01:07:34.200
moldering away in the basement. They go to sleep at night hoping their son or daughter won't stab
01:07:38.920
them in their beds. It's happened to create deeds, by the way, a politician in Virginia several years
01:07:43.460
ago, untreated son with mental illness. So they have a choice. You know, do they just go along with it?
01:07:50.460
Do they kick the person out of the house? That's what the mother did here. Do they make up a story to
01:07:54.280
try to get the police come and arrest them and hope they'll get no help? And it's because for the last
01:07:58.840
50 or 60 years, we decided to empty the institutions and we don't have the right to say when someone's
01:08:04.360
crazy, we don't have the right to tell them you have to take your meds. And we don't have the right
01:08:08.160
to tell them, no, you're not sleeping on the streets. You're not wandering subway cars. We lost
01:08:13.780
that social self-confidence. And I despair. Megan, this is the same set of circumstance. Every single
01:08:20.980
subway shover in New York City, it happens again and again and again. And I just despair of when we'll
01:08:27.500
actually get it and do something about it. Yeah, no, I've said many times in the wake of
01:08:32.720
these school shootings, and I'll say it again here, we need more facilities to which loving parents
01:08:39.920
would willingly send their children to have them committed, even an adult child like this guy was.
01:08:45.660
We need some of the money we're shipping to God knows where or spending on God knows what here.
01:08:50.920
Some of the savings maybe from Doge could be redirected to build such a facility to which a loving
01:08:56.980
parent would willingly send their child. Because even if we loosen the spigot on
01:09:02.360
institutionalization, it's not going to help if it's basically a hardcore jail that a loving parent
01:09:10.100
would say, well, I don't want him to go there. I know he's going to wind up dead there. But if we
01:09:14.320
can build a facility that is large part jail, but also mental health institution that's not completely
01:09:19.740
awful, we'll have more parents calling it and shipping it there. And I do think taxpayers would
01:09:25.360
pay for this. I really do. Did that mother want him homeless on the streets? No, it's because
01:09:30.800
there's no alternative. So she kicked him out of the house. And apparently he had also assaulted
01:09:34.700
his sister. So this is just a terrible situation. We know the solution. You know, we just need the
01:09:40.160
will to do it. It always follows that pattern. Charlie, Rich mentions the mayor, the Charlotte
01:09:46.980
mayor. And very interestingly, this woman's name is, it's basically Vile. Her name is Vile.
01:09:53.300
Vile. It's Vi Lyles. That's her name, Vi Lyles. So I'm just going to call her Vile,
01:09:59.140
because that's what she is based on this response she's given. She's a Democrat. She's been mayor
01:10:03.140
since 2017. She last won re-election with 68% of the vote. And this is the statement she released
01:10:08.900
right after the attack. She did not use the victim's name, even though it was out there. It wasn't like
01:10:13.820
a matter of privacy. The parents knew, everybody knew she'd been killed. It happened on August 22nd.
01:10:18.160
First and foremost, my thoughts and prayers go out to the young woman's family and friends.
01:10:23.140
While I do not know the specifics of the man's medical record, what I have come to understand
01:10:26.800
is that he long struggled, he has long struggled with mental health and appears to have suffered
01:10:31.040
a crisis. This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome. Tragic incidents like these should force
01:10:39.020
us to look at what we are doing across our community to address root causes. She sounds like Joe Biden
01:10:46.700
trying to solve, quote unquote, the immigration problem by addressing root causes, which is just
01:10:52.900
a dodge for doing absolutely nothing at all. We will never arrest our way out. Issues such as
01:11:00.360
homelessness and mental health. We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and
01:11:06.560
mental health. I want to be clear that I'm not villainizing those who struggle with their mental
01:11:11.280
health. What's the matter with this woman? Vile, vile. That's not the issue. Or those who are
01:11:18.000
unhoused. Mental health disease is just that, a disease like any other that needs to be treated with
01:11:24.060
the same compassion, diligence, and commitment as cancer or heart disease. Our community must work
01:11:30.240
to address the underlying issue of access to mental health care. Charlie, please help me. Please help
01:11:36.960
vile. All right. Well, where to start? So I agree with everything that you both said on mental health,
01:11:44.940
but I would note that the cases that people bring up in opposition to the position that you both
01:11:52.540
outlined usually involve somebody who's quite clearly crazy but hasn't really done anything.
01:11:59.100
This person had. We don't need to get even to the mental health question because this person had been
01:12:05.980
arrested for breaking and entering, for robbery with a firearm, for possession of a firearm as a felon,
01:12:14.040
for assault, for material threats. So that side question of who is crazy and who gets to decide
01:12:22.640
doesn't need to be reached here. The person should have been charged and convicted of other violent crimes.
01:12:31.840
The idea, as a result, that we can't arrest our way out of this is preposterous. That's precisely what
01:12:39.820
we literally should have done in this case. That's what should have happened in North Carolina. We should
01:12:45.680
have arrested our way out of this murder. That person should not have been free. Now, the mayor,
01:12:54.620
vile, as you put it, reminds me, you know that scene in the Truman Show where Truman's wife starts
01:13:05.720
doing a commercial, essentially, and he says, who are you talking to? What are you talking about?
01:13:11.720
It's so incongruous to the moment. I don't know why she's saying those things in response to this case.
01:13:19.500
It's utterly incongruous. It almost feels like she's a hostage. Like she, as a result of political
01:13:27.360
affiliations or sort of ideological brainwashing, is mandated to spew this garbage about not villainizing
01:13:37.360
this person or understanding we need to look at root causes or wanting to spend more money on
01:13:43.140
mental health or the unhoused. That is not what is important here. And if she or progressives or
01:13:51.420
Democrats in general think that this view is held only by so-called MAGA Republicans, they're out of
01:13:58.180
their minds. There are two groups here. There are groups who are obsessed with this strange language,
01:14:05.040
the language that you just echoed. And then there is everyone else. This is not left, right,
01:14:13.140
this is not conservative, progressive. This is not Democrat, Republican, Northern, Southern,
01:14:18.320
whatever. This is every single person. And then the weirdos. This is a pre-political question.
01:14:26.280
There is just not a person I know in the real world. And I know a lot of people who would respond
01:14:33.420
to this in the way that this mayor did. It is just utterly bizarre. So yes, we can arrest our way out of
01:14:40.620
this happening. Yes, we can judge and villainize the person who did this. Yes, she ought to reflect,
01:14:48.960
as she acknowledged, on what there is to learn here. But no, it is not that we need to look at
01:14:55.180
the root causes here. That is meaningless nonsense. We need to take very seriously people who cause chaos
01:15:02.880
crime in our cities. And look, as you know, I haven't been on your show a few times, I am procedurally
01:15:08.860
a small l liberal on criminal justice questions. I think it is very important that at the investigation
01:15:15.460
and arrest and trial stages, that we follow the Constitution and the law to the letter. I love
01:15:22.020
presumption of innocence and the whole suite of American, they're not innovations, but they were
01:15:29.280
written down, which was an innovation. What I do not like is that bleeding over into doing nothing
01:15:35.420
about crime. They're not inconsistent, you can have a perfectly constitutional response to serious,
01:15:42.400
especially violent crime, and proper sentencing, and deal with these people and lock them away
01:15:48.180
from the public. And what I worry about, Megan, aside from the obvious, which is that these things
01:15:53.040
will keep happening, is that the public won't put up with this. So if you don't do your job as a
01:15:58.680
government, which is what's happened here, and if you don't respond to this in the way that you
01:16:02.720
should, which is what's happened here, Americans will start to lose interest in those constitutional
01:16:07.520
niceties. They won't care about it, because they're going to really take an interest in their family and
01:16:12.860
their friends being safe on buses and in the streets or anywhere. So if we want to preserve all
01:16:18.020
the stuff that I like, and I really think we should, we also have to get serious about sentencing.
01:16:23.260
We also have to get serious about not releasing people once we've arrested them for violent crime
01:16:27.960
without a charge, because otherwise people will take it into their own hands. And frankly,
01:16:32.960
that's the logical response. So I'm totally outraged by this.
01:16:39.360
To hear this mayor's reaction suggests she just doesn't get it, Rich. I mean, and she is a loon.
01:16:45.560
The New York Post this morning had a piece up writing about how there have been a bunch of
01:16:50.500
GoFundMes for the defendant here, which GoFundMe, thankfully, is taking down. But here's
01:16:57.060
some of the justification by those who started the GoFundMes on why they're doing it. Quote,
01:17:03.580
while what happened on the blue line was a tragedy, what we mustn't lose sight of is the fact that
01:17:08.460
DeClarus Brown Jr. was failed categorically by the judicial system and the mental health services of
01:17:16.040
North Carolina. And as such is not entirely to blame for what happened, one page claimed.
01:17:22.000
The caption underneath his picture reads, raise funds to stop the injustice against DeClarus
01:17:28.940
Brown Jr., the injustice against him. So that now they're having to knock these down like a
01:17:35.700
whack-a-mole. And I'll give you one more. OK, it's it's not just absolute loons. It's some people who
01:17:42.640
are respected on the left, like Nicole Hannah-Jones, who tweets out the following or post the following
01:17:48.380
on Blue Sky, which, by the way, is is really struggling. The train stabbing in Charlotte was
01:17:55.280
awful. It's no more awful than schoolchildren being shot down in a church. Journalists should
01:18:02.600
not allow ourselves to become tools of propaganda. If Charlotte is a product of policies, then so was
01:18:10.740
Minneapolis. Outrage should not drive our coverage. She went on how we cover crime at a time when
01:18:18.200
crime is being used as a pretext to occupy American cities with the U.S. military is critical.
01:18:25.840
Do we report the news or drive it? So she doesn't want to focus on what happened in Charlotte because
01:18:32.820
she thinks mega Republicans are going to use it as an excuse for Trump to drop the National Guard
01:18:38.940
in Charlotte. And I have to say, if I'm I'm a white woman with blonde hair like the woman who was killed,
01:18:45.320
if I were walking around Charlotte right now, I think I'd say that's fine with me. I wish my
01:18:50.280
governor would ask for the help so that we could have additional safety and security forces here.
01:18:55.320
Yeah, absolutely. That's clearly the politics of it. And look, she contradicts herself right at the
01:19:00.900
beginning. If these things are equally awful and terrible, then we should we should focus on both.
01:19:05.760
Right. But she doesn't want to because she fears focusing on one, this this crime and this light
01:19:11.580
light rail car will lead to results she doesn't like, namely federal forces who might deal with
01:19:16.760
the problem. Right. So, you know, I think that the governor would need to call on on Trump to send
01:19:22.100
the National Guard there. But what you said, Megan, really struck me. I didn't say that. Don't wear your
01:19:27.980
headphones, you know, your earbuds on a train. It's if that's the mindset. And a lot of people are going
01:19:34.300
to have that mindset. This this just goes to it doesn't matter whether I don't know, crime is is
01:19:40.180
declining on this commuter trains down 10 percent or whatever numbers they come up with. If you have
01:19:44.420
to think about it, this is a this is a serious public issue. No one should have to go through that
01:19:49.580
thought process. I have to be hyper aware of everything that's happening on this train. And I
01:19:56.160
can't even listen to something else because I might be stabbed in the neck. That's awful. It should
01:20:00.560
be denounced by everyone. Everyone should want to do their utmost to stop it. And just just final
01:20:05.260
point. Most of the people who are responsible for most of the crime are known to authorities as a
01:20:10.840
matter of public will, whether you're going to deal with them or not. Gangbangers, none of them
01:20:15.440
all of a sudden one day just become a gangbanger. Right. They're guilty of all sorts of fences and
01:20:20.480
assaults and violent crimes before they start murdering people, arrest them and lock them up and
01:20:25.740
you keep them in jail. And you know what? They can't harm anyone in the general population. Same here.
01:20:30.560
Same case here with people who are deranged and have these criminal tendencies. It's a long,
01:20:35.980
long, long rap sheet. And just everyone passed them along and said, oh, he's going to get treatment
01:20:40.100
or, you know, agree to do this or that. No one actually took the effort to say, no, we need we
01:20:46.220
know all we need to know. We have the rap sheet. You're either staying in jail or you're going to
01:20:50.600
some other form of confinement. Again, it's just a matter of public will. The media had something.
01:20:56.920
Well, let me just make this point and then, yes, but the media has been absolutely disgusting in
01:21:01.000
the way they've ignored the story. As of Sunday, there was zero coverage on the AP, PBS, New York
01:21:06.980
Times, NPR, CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC. Zero. Zero. I mean, I hardly need to remind you of the
01:21:14.140
coverage we had after George Floyd was was killed by Derek Chauvin. And let's face it. This is a
01:21:20.820
pattern. You know, look what happened down in Texas with Carmelo Anthony, the black defendant who who
01:21:27.680
killed a young white boy who is in high school. Same attempted blackout. They did not want to
01:21:33.820
discuss it because race is first and foremost. And yet, if you switched it, if this guy it's the
01:21:39.780
South. So if this guy, this killer were a white guy who was wearing a MAGA hat, killing a black
01:21:46.600
woman who had fled oppression from some other country, can you imagine this would be George
01:21:53.900
Floyd all over again? It would be it would be everywhere. They won't cover it because it's
01:22:00.040
black on white crime. In particular, a beautiful, young, blonde, white woman. That's the last person
01:22:06.180
the left wants to feel sorry for. Literally the last last, even though she's from Ukraine, which
01:22:10.980
normally would engender some sympathy from them. I mean, the irony, of course, the iron is the young
01:22:15.500
woman fleeing her possible death in Ukraine. She was worried about getting murdered by Russians.
01:22:19.880
So she got murdered by an American loon on a train car who was killed as a result of American policy.
01:22:26.620
Let's face it directly as a result of American policy. So it's the race thing. But then on top
01:22:32.260
of it, they do not want to talk about a homeless, mentally deranged man committing crime, Charles,
01:22:40.020
because they have no solution, no real solution for that. So instead, we get the Axios article for Mark
01:22:44.520
Caputo talking about MAGA influencers drawing repeated attention to violent attacks after the
01:22:50.980
rising number of surveillance cameras has made them more accessible, quote, has become a big accelerant
01:22:58.400
in these cases. The cameras are creating the crime, are they, rather than capturing it?
01:23:06.840
Nicole Hannah-Jones, you quoted her. That makes me crazy. And it ties in to the Axios piece as well,
01:23:14.260
because what she's trying to do there is intimate that there is a double standard in the way that
01:23:21.980
so-called MAGA Republicans or conservatives in general look at these two cases, when actually
01:23:27.000
the only double standard is on the left and in the mainstream press. So you have this guy in
01:23:34.020
Charlotte who murders this lady. If conservatives had responded to it by saying, now it's time to
01:23:40.540
ban knives, then Nicole Hannah-Jones would have a point. But they didn't. No one said that. No one
01:23:46.580
said it was the knife that did it, which is the same as the shooting in Minnesota, where conservatives
01:23:51.000
said, no, no, the problem was not the gun. What did conservatives think the problem was in Minnesota,
01:23:56.580
and in fact, in Charlotte? People who were mentally ill, not being treated. Now, I don't think in
01:24:03.020
Minnesota, the perpetrator was on the police's radar in quite the way that the guy was in Charlotte.
01:24:10.240
But had he been, there would have been no double standard in the reaction. The argument would have
01:24:14.300
been exactly the same. Can we do something about this, please? Not can we take away people's weapons,
01:24:20.620
not can we take away people's constitutional rights. But the problem is the person who did it,
01:24:26.320
and the authorities' unwillingness or refusal or inability to deal with that. So actually,
01:24:31.880
the only double standard left is that in one case, we got wall-to-wall coverage. Well, until
01:24:38.020
the perpetrator in Minnesota turned out to be someone the press wished it had not been.
01:24:43.120
And in the other case, it was covered up completely. It's not conservatives who have done anything here
01:24:48.980
other than said, could we please talk about this crime? Could we please talk about the victim
01:24:55.440
as if she matters and not the guy who did it? So that is so cheap. It is actually, it's just so
01:25:02.580
offensive to have it pinned on the people who noticed that this happened. And again, blaming cameras,
01:25:10.080
I mean, it's good that we have cameras that are catching crimes. If the implication is that prior
01:25:15.000
to the cameras, lots more crimes happened on public transport around the country, but we didn't know
01:25:19.580
about it, then God bless the cameras. We finally at least have a way of working out how much crime
01:25:28.000
It's weird, Rich. I don't remember them lamenting like police body cams after George Floyd was dead.
01:25:33.820
I don't remember them saying, oh, the problem is we caught it on camera. Not, you know,
01:25:37.520
trust us, crime is way down in Minneapolis. You're just being misled by those damn cameras that the
01:25:43.020
cops happen to be wearing. But this Mark Caputo, he didn't write that article then.
01:25:46.240
Now he writes about how the video is easily shared or leaked and can instantly pollinate across social
01:25:52.160
media. Again, had no problem when that happened after George Floyd and going on as follows just
01:25:57.640
because he wanted to make it into a MAGA issue as opposed to what it is, all the issues we've been
01:26:02.520
discussing. Yeah, I think it's a public service that this video is out, right? I mean, video is
01:26:07.420
incredibly powerful. We knew about the story. The story had been reported that it happened, but it
01:26:11.560
doesn't hit anyone the same way as actually seeing what occurred in real time on the video.
01:26:18.140
I mean, it's like a horror movie, right? It's unfathomable. So I don't know why we'd want to
01:26:23.740
suppress the video. Maybe you don't show the most gruesome parts, but I think all of it should be
01:26:29.120
available for news outlets to make that decision. And just one last thing on social services and root
01:26:34.140
causes on this, Megan, people who say that must have never known anyone who has a serious mental
01:26:40.320
illness. Because this guy in Charlotte, you could have given him a free $10,000 a month luxury
01:26:46.920
apartment in downtown Charlotte with a high rise on the 19th floor, and he wouldn't have lived there,
01:26:52.820
right? He would have thought it was a plot and he was being controlled by radio waves, and he would
01:26:56.380
have wandered the streets and gone on the trains and harassed people and committed crime. Because he's
01:27:02.100
out of his mind. He needs to be told what to do until he gets help. So it's so weird that progressives
01:27:08.940
have such a tendency to mandate things and be coercive, except for in two areas, right? Locking up
01:27:16.220
criminals and making sure that mentally ill people aren't unhoused. And that's the other thing. They
01:27:21.820
let them walk the streets and then they become part of this privileged group. The unhoused are supposedly
01:27:26.500
victims that you can't do anything about. It's just insane. Well, here's the capper, okay? Because
01:27:32.780
he made that bizarre 911 call over the summer, and it was obvious that this was a lunatic, right? I mean,
01:27:39.840
I've got man-made material inside my body that's controlling me as I eat, walk, and talk, according
01:27:44.920
to an affidavit that was filed in support of charges. And so in July of 2025, after that charge was
01:27:52.120
brought against him, his lawyer raised the question of his mental capacity to stand trial.
01:27:58.180
And there was a court-ordered forensic evaluation pending at the time of the incident. His mother
01:28:02.220
said he's got schizophrenia and that she tried to get him help. The local ABC affiliate reports that
01:28:07.660
the judge, Roy Wiggins, ordered a mental health evaluation, but allowed Brown to be out on the
01:28:14.980
streets while it was conducted, in the pendency of that evaluation and the trial. Notwithstanding his
01:28:21.200
long criminal history, the 14 arrests, the bizarre phone call, he sent him back out to go murder that
01:28:26.600
girl. I'm sorry. That's what he did. And now, and now, that's the same judge who has this case,
01:28:33.880
the first-degree murder case, that's just been brought against DeCarlos Brown. And guess what?
01:28:39.640
He denied bond. He denied bond after the victim's family pleaded for him to remain in jail. But that
01:28:45.980
is unbelievable. And right now, Brown's lawyer is saying he's going to file a motion for a mental
01:28:49.580
health evaluation of his competency to see if he can stand trial because of his long history of
01:28:53.940
mental health issues. They're considering an insanity defense. I mean, that is just chef's
01:28:57.760
kiss. Chef's kiss. He's in front of this same judge for mental health issues. The judge says,
01:29:04.000
oh, we'll evaluate. But go out and do whatever you want to do while we evaluate. What if we find
01:29:09.960
you're an insane lunatic who's not safe to be out there? Oh, well, I guess that's Irina's problem.
01:29:14.000
And now that he's committed first-degree murder, snuffing out this 22-year-old life with everything
01:29:18.580
in front of her, now we're going to hold you without bond because, you know, geez, you seem
01:29:23.480
like a danger. And of course, the final cherry on top, the defense will be insanity. He's not
01:29:29.760
competent to stand trial. It's like, no wonder people are getting murdered. One final point before we take
01:29:35.280
a quick break. So as you guys may know, I had some serious security problems when I was relatively new
01:29:41.360
into television. And I mean, we always have to worry about it, but like there was some active
01:29:45.500
issues early on. And the guards who were with me did tell me, number one, never have those headphones
01:29:53.160
on. You know, back then it was not yet AirPods, but never have those headphones out when you're on
01:29:58.800
public transportation or walking down the sidewalk. You need your ears. Like you'll hear the danger
01:30:04.360
before you'll see the danger in a lot of cases. And secondly, they said, don't walk looking at your
01:30:10.120
phone. Do not walk down the sidewalk or to your car in a parking garage looking at your phone
01:30:16.700
because you just never know. These are modern day distractions that could potentially prove unsafe.
01:30:22.800
And I agree with you, Rich. It's unfortunate that we have to think like that, but young women in
01:30:26.180
particular are very used to being the subjects of men's anger and violence. They just are, you know,
01:30:32.680
like we walked down the street at night in DC in a way that you guys, you know, not in all
01:30:37.860
circumstances would walk down. And so we're used to having to take these precautions.
01:30:42.580
I, part of me feels like this poor girl was from Ukraine. I don't know. Maybe she trusted too much
01:30:47.220
in the United States of America. I don't think we deserved her trust. I'm very sorry for her family.
01:30:53.060
Working at a pizza place, right? Kind of first rung up in, you know, making a career in America,
01:30:59.160
doing all the right, right things. And yeah, it's not, not from what we know, like leeching off the
01:31:05.160
system, you know, coming here, getting a job, humbling herself. I mean, look at her beautiful
01:31:09.840
face. Truly. She could have been on the cover of a thousand magazines. She's spectacular looking,
01:31:14.940
but there she is in a pizza parlor working hard. The, the, the pizza parlor put out a beautiful
01:31:21.320
statement on her behalf saying she was the nicest person. She was so kind to everybody. They have a
01:31:24.860
candle burning there in her memory. And instead this cretin who murdered her is the one whose name
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Well, that's like kind of in Charlie's backyard, but that's a, that's a hike for you, Rich.
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I appreciate both of you. I can't move in Atlanta, Megan, either. The second I show up there,
01:36:23.880
people say to me, you're Charles Cook. And I say, oh, you're on the Megyn Kelly show.
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We've got a lot of fans down there. Trust me. I see the numbers. We have to end it. We've had like a
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serious show, but we have to end it on baseball because this happens to be, I think, one of the
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greatest loves of our friend, Rich Lowry here, Charlie. I hear him talk about it all the time.
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He does like preseason openers. He watches like the practices. He watches the games before anybody's
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there. Like the man loves baseball. Baseball controversy in the news. I'm becoming a regular
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sports commentator between the US Open and the NFL and now this. And everybody must have seen this
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online over the weekend. It was at a Philadelphia Eagles game against the Marlins. Sorry. Eagles were
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the other day. They also played in my defense. This is the Phillies. That's the baseball team.
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And, um, the Phillies hit a home run and the ball went into the stands and the ball landed kind of in
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front of this group of people, but there was a scrum to grab it. And the guy in the red shirt,
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this dad ran over, he got it. He goes back and gives it to his kid. An angry Karen lady comes over,
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starts yelling at him. And you can hear her yelling here. Let's, let's play this out.
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And he gave it back. He took it out of his son's mitt and gave it to the, to you took it from me
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lady. So your verdict on who's right and who's wrong here. Rich is what? Oh, she's clearly in the
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wrong. So the basic rule is foul ball home run adults involved. It's a scrum, right? And, and it's,
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it's just a fight to the finish until someone secures the ball and holds it up. Then it's,
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then it's their, their ball. But the other rules are, if there's a kid involved in the scrum
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and you're aware of it as adult, you back off because you want the kid to get it. And if you catch a
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ball and it's not like, you know, Aaron judges, 500th career home run or something, you know,
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sell for $500,000. You take the photo with it. You're happy. Then you toss it to the nearest kid
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walking, thinking because a seat, a ball landed in your vicinity, it's yours. And then going and
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confronting a father who got it for his kid is so outlandish. It's this, this, uh, this just isn't
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done. I haven't ever seen anything like this, uh, before now, look, I don't think her life should be
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ruined over it. I don't like the sleuthing to try to identify her and get her fired for a job or
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whatever. No one's found her yet. She's probably walking around Philadelphia and Mets paraphernalia
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right now to, to, to maintain her deep cover. But her, her conduct was terrible and inexcusable.
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All right. What do we think Charlie of this incident? And what do we think some, some are
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giving the dad a hard time for giving the ball back for taking the ball from the sun and giving it
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to the angry Karen? Yeah. It's just so unusual, isn't it? To find an intemperate sports fan from
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Philadelphia for the first time this has ever happened. Exactly. I don't know. I'm in two
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minds. I've read both sides of this. On the one hand, I do agree that it's a good opportunity to
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teach a lesson about how people can be unreasonable. And he realized she was going to make the rest of
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his and his son's evening a nightmare. And he did get rewarded for it. Ultimately, I think he went and
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he got a signed bat because the team felt bad for him. On the other hand, knowing myself, I think I
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may have very calmly explained that there was no way in hell she was getting that baseball back from my
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son because my son would have been so happy to have it. And once it had been handed over to him,
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I think I would probably have refused. So I don't like the condemnations of this guy in either
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direction. It's difficult to know what you do in that scenario. But me personally, knowing how
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obstinate I am, I think I would have told her very politely to take a hike. Yeah. Maybe we would
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have heard like bollocks or something like that. Charlie in the stands. I think no condemnation for
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the dad. You're right. That's an awkward situation. But I do think it's like a moment to ask yourself,
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what should I do in that situation? And I don't think you give the ball back. I think you say,
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lady, take a hike. It was a scrum, every man or woman for themselves. And now my kids got it. Go
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deal. Now, Rich, another interesting angle is some people online were saying, back when I was a kid,
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if you didn't get the ball because someone acted like a Karen, that was the end of it. And you learned
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that life has disappointments and shitty people and move on. Now we often see this like they're going to
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have a parade in the child's honor. He's going to get a bat. He's going to go. He's going to have
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a Philly spend the summer with him teaching in baseball. You know, like what do you make of the
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team making good kind of in an over the top way? Yeah, I don't mind that so much. I think it's
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great that Harrison Bader hit the home run, signed the bat for him. All that's appropriate. I don't
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know about further things in the kids' favor, but this really, it shouldn't be a national story. I mean,
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it's just interesting and fun, but this is the kind of thing before the era of cell phones. It would
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have happened and people in that section would have known about it. Or maybe, you know, maybe
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the TV broadcast picks up on it, but it's, it's a bad thing to happen. Unfortunate. Everyone moves
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on. But now, you know, it's a national obsession. And again, she needs to, she needs to hide her
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identity because, because she really could get fired or personally destroyed over this. She may be a
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terrible person for all I know, or it may just have been a bad moment, but I think it's, it's better
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if everyone just kind of moves on and says, go Yankees. I like, I like, it says, go Yankees. I like the rules.
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Like when there's a kid involved, you lose, you cede to the kid, period. That should be ingrained
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in everybody's head naturally, but some Karens need to be reminded. Guys. Great to see you. What
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