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- September 26, 2022
"Women Have Been Scammed" - Esther Krakue
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 11 minutes
Words per Minute
226.59227
Word Count
16,095
Sentence Count
1,098
Misogynist Sentences
102
Hate Speech Sentences
68
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We don't really have a frank conversation
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because we don't understand the stratifications
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when it comes to sort of race and identity
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and culture and class.
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And they can't seem to get their heads around the fact
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that maybe these people think differently to them.
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Because they're not interested.
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They genuinely don't care.
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I often say that the most socially conservative people
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in this country are ethnic minorities.
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But that's not a conversation they're willing to have.
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But you, a white woman, are happy to say
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that it's not real diversity
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because she doesn't think the things
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that you think she should think.
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And that is so offensive on so many levels.
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But this kind of person goes to bed at night
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feeling good about herself.
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She thinks, yep, I've put the world to right.
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I'm now at a point that if you have people like that
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running the country,
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every time you see someone who's not white or male or straight,
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you know to some extent they're a diversity hire.
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And it's actually damaging the mindsets of these people.
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I never want to feel like a diversity hire
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because it's so offensive.
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I'd rather just go back home.
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I'd rather go back home and struggle with everyone else
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because that, for me, that's not meritocracy.
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That's an insult to my hard work.
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If you look at the single motherhood rate
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in sort of black African communities, it's about 40%.
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In black Caribbean communities, it's about 62%.
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That's a 22% disparity.
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I mean, the single motherhood rate
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in the Indian communities is 6%, right?
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How many sort of primarily Indian-based gangs
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do you see around the country?
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I mean, unless they're about to...
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There's gangs of accountants.
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Yeah, well, yeah.
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Unless they're bursting out into song every two minutes.
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Like, you just, you don't see that.
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I have a huge respect for Indian
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and sort of South Asian communities in this country
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because I think they get it.
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And I think sort of, even black African families
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that are, you know, Christian or Muslim
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but keep their family intact,
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I don't think they understand
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how much of a credit they are to the society
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and how much really they are holding Britain together.
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Hello and welcome to Trigonometry.
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I'm Francis Foster.
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I'm Constantine Kisson.
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And this is a show for you
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if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
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Our brilliant guest today is a writer,
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broadcaster and political commentator, Esther Craker.
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Welcome to Trigonometry.
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Thank you for having me.
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Yeah, it's great to have you on.
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It's been a long time coming.
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I know.
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So we're big fans of yours.
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You do great stuff.
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For those people who don't know who you are,
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tell everybody who are you,
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how are you, where you are.
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What has been your journey through life
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that brings you to be sitting here talking to us?
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Well, I'm, well, I'm Esther.
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I'm a writer and a broadcaster,
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but I'm also someone who makes a lot of noise on Twitter.
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That's probably why you see me.
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I'll get into these moments
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where I have to rant about something
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and that gets me in a lot of trouble.
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But I moved to the UK when I was 14 from Ghana
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and it was mostly just for an education.
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I was here throughout secondary school and university.
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I studied politics and French at the University of Bristol.
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And I just started working after uni,
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got a normal job,
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but I was always very politically conscious.
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It was something I was very passionate about.
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I debated all through school and uni.
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So I was always the kind of person
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that liked to sort of engage with people intellectually.
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And how I do what I do now,
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I got involved with a student grassroots organization
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called Turning Point UK,
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which is the UK version of Turning Point US.
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And it was very much focused on kind of
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having some sort of conservative outlet
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for students and young people,
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because I obviously, you know,
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in higher education, that's not really a thing.
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And so I started doing videos for them.
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I started doing interviews.
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And I just,
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I felt like I had to be part of a conversation
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because I noticed things had shifted,
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you know, from when I moved here in 2010.
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And I never felt like my race was now a political statement
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to sort of post Brexit, BLM, all that.
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And I felt like, wow, being black is now,
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I have responsibilities.
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And I just think this is very weird, right?
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Because I have other responsibilities.
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I'm trying to live my life.
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So, but it was something I was very passionate about.
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I mean, I worked in sales after school,
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so after uni.
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So I would, you know,
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be making 70, 80 call calls a day
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and then I'll just run and go
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and do a Turning Point video or do interviews.
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So it was very much,
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I was never really in it for anything
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other than just pure passion.
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And that kind of snowballed.
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So I thought I was tweeting at the wall
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and then people started paying attention.
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But that's basically how it happened.
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I think one of the moments that I realised
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things needed to sort of shift was
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I was, I had a friend at uni that,
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and, you know, I was really proud of getting to Bristol.
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Like when my mum dropped me off,
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she was like, ha, you know, she got three A's.
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And I was like, mum, you're embarrassing me.
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But I wasn't, I was like really happy.
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And I was like, you know, I've worked really hard.
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I'm very aware that people back home
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don't have the same opportunities that I have.
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So I have to work really hard here
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and make something of myself
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because I've been given the opportunity,
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which in and of itself is a blessing.
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And I had a friend say to me,
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don't you get offended
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when people really ask you where you're from?
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And I'm like, do I look Welsh to anyone?
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Like who looks at me and just thinks
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this girl is like from the Scottish Highlands?
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Clearly my ancestors come from a hot place.
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But she thought I should have been offended.
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And she was like, you know,
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it must be really hard for you as a black woman.
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And I was like, are you mad?
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Do you know how much I've worked to get here?
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Like, what do you mean?
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Why would you automatically assume?
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I'm assuming it was hard for you as well
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because you had to study to get the grades
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to, you know, be where you are.
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I would never assume that was difficult for you
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for whatever reason, right?
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I just think, you know,
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she just got down and got on with it.
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So that kind of was one of my awakening moments.
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I became more conscious to the fact
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that people put certain things on me
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just because of what they saw.
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And I was like, that's a problem.
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And we have a really weird relationship
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with race in this country.
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Yeah.
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As someone who came from Ghana at the age of 14,
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just explain to me and explain to us
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and the viewer and the listener
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why it's weird in this country.
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Because sometimes it's difficult for us to grasp.
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I think, I mean, it's even weirder in the US.
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Every time, I actually,
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the most racist abuse I get
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are from some black Americans just abusing me,
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just calling me all kinds of nigger and coon.
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I'm like, wait, what?
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I don't even know.
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You know where we said you could say anything?
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No, but I think in this country,
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we don't really have a frank conversation
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because we don't understand the stratifications
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when it comes to sort of race and identity
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and culture and class.
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So for instance, I always have to point out
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that sort of a black African
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is different from a black Caribbean person.
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And if you look at sort of statistics
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with regard to education, housing,
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all these sorts of things,
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you can see clear disparities.
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That should mean that you don't group everyone together.
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I mean, I hate the term BAME, right?
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But it should mean that if you're going
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to have those conversations,
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you should have an honest conversation
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with the facts right in front of you.
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Because I think the people
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that try and engage in these conversations,
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the vast majority really are not interested.
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They're just trying to virtue signal and say,
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oh, but you know,
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you should acknowledge a black person's lack of privilege
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or white privilege or whatever.
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And I just think it's not that simple.
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So when I moved here,
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I didn't really,
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I mean, I always say to the credit of the UK,
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I was very comfortable.
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I felt very welcome.
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I never had any sort of instances of racism
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or anything like that.
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And I tell people that I don't say that
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because I don't think there's not racism in the world.
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I say that as someone who comes from a family
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that's well-traveled.
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My dad's been to Switzerland,
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he's been to China,
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he's been to Malaysia,
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and my family's been all over the place.
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And they would say the worst instances
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of racism they face are places like China,
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for instance.
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We don't have those conversations.
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So I always say that,
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you know, the UK was very welcoming to me.
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I really appreciated having come here
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because I met people
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that I wouldn't have otherwise met.
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And I was never made to feel like,
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you know, there was an impediment.
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It just, they just said,
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get down, get the work done,
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and you will succeed.
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And that attitude changed
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around sort of 2016, 2017.
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And I was like, this is weird.
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I don't really like this
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because I actually had a conversation
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with my friend yesterday
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and she's mixed race,
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but she looks, you know, black.
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And she was saying, you know,
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I'm doing really well in my career,
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but I'm constantly petrified
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that I'm a diversity hire.
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And I've had so many conversations like this
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with people, you know, from my background.
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And if you, when you know
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that something about Africans
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is we just, we just want to work.
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We just want the opportunity
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to prove ourselves.
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That's it.
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We're not obsessed with race
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and all of that.
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And that's not to say that,
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you know, we don't know
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whether racism exists or not,
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but we understand the difference, right?
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We're coming from a place
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where people can't even dream
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of the opportunity we have.
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We just want to work
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and we just want to prove ourselves.
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And she was saying that
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because she has that obsession,
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now when she sees someone getting hired,
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that's clearly a diversity hire.
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She's even harsher on them.
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She's like, ma'am,
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don't leave your house with your bonnet on
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for goodness sake, you know,
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put on some clothes,
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wear a dress well, you know,
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because we're like, okay,
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if this is going to be the case,
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then don't make us look ridiculous.
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But I don't even,
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I don't think that's progress
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because I was telling her,
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I was like, you know,
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I've had eye surgery before.
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I didn't really care
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that the person performing eye surgery
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was a white man
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or a Taiwanese woman.
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I just wanted them to do a good job.
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And I think people that push
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these sort of diversity quotes
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and all of that
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don't have real problems in life
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because when, you know,
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it's shit hits the fan,
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you don't care who's sort of behind the,
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in the cockpit of a plane
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that's about to crash, right?
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You just want the best person
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that can make sure you don't crash.
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Well, that's why I really enjoy
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your commentary, Esther,
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because, you know,
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Francis, obviously his background,
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his family being from Venezuela,
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me being first generation immigrant.
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And when I look at what you say,
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I don't think conservative
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or left wing or whatever.
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I just think you talk,
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you just say a lot of the things
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that most people think
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that are quite common sense.
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Yeah.
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But you're allowed to say them
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in a way most,
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many people don't feel able to.
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This is the thing.
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Because you're a person
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of global majority.
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I'm a person of colour
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as opposed to a person.
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What is the opposite
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of a person of colour?
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A person of no colour?
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Yeah.
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I just, I, anyway.
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A gammon.
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Or a beige.
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I don't know, transparent.
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But I get that
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and it makes me really sad
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because I'm like,
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why are you comfortable
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being neutered in your own country?
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But then I understand it as well
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because, you know,
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when they have families
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that depend on them,
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they have jobs, all of that,
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they don't want to
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sort of put their foot in it.
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But I find it really funny
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that people call me conservative.
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I mean, I am.
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I'm conservative here
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and I'm liberal in Ghana.
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Right.
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Which is hilarious to me.
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Like, my parents think,
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oh, you know,
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she's just as normal.
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She's a bit, you know, lefty.
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I'm really not.
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I'm so just,
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I don't care.
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But that's interesting
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that because I say things
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that most people think
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is just common sense.
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I'm a super conservative,
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super right wing.
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And I am conservative
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in some of my views,
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but I just don't think,
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I think to attribute
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my social commentary
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to just conservatism is weird
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because most people,
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I mean, my friend
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I was talking about,
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she's pretty left wing.
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You know,
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she thinks exactly the same.
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She got,
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she was at work the other day
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and they were like,
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babe, you know,
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it's Black History Month
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next month.
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And she was like,
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oh, for goodness sake.
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And, you know,
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she was just like,
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oh, she expected it.
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Right.
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what now?
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It's really interesting
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because there's this
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perception in this country
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as well,
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that if you're an ethnic
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minority in this country,
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you're going to be
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liberal and left.
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They can't seem to get
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their head around the fact,
00:12:03.160
like my mum,
00:12:03.940
who is South American,
00:12:05.480
you know,
00:12:06.420
Christian,
00:12:07.260
conservative.
00:12:08.760
And they can't seem
00:12:10.300
to get their heads
00:12:10.980
around the fact
00:12:11.560
that maybe these people
00:12:13.060
think differently to them.
00:12:14.920
Because they're not interested.
00:12:15.840
They generally don't care.
00:12:17.100
I often say that
00:12:18.080
the most socially conservative
00:12:19.240
people in this country
00:12:20.120
are ethnic minorities,
00:12:20.980
but that's not a conversation
00:12:22.580
they're willing to have.
00:12:23.540
No question.
00:12:23.980
And, you know,
00:12:24.700
I even,
00:12:25.040
this is why I draw the difference
00:12:26.340
between black Africans
00:12:27.100
and sort of black Caribbeans
00:12:28.100
because I say,
00:12:28.660
you know,
00:12:28.860
if you look at the single
00:12:29.780
motherhood rate
00:12:30.580
in sort of black African
00:12:31.960
communities,
00:12:32.300
it's about 40%.
00:12:33.060
In black Caribbean communities,
00:12:34.260
it's about 62%.
00:12:35.180
That's a 22% disparity.
00:12:37.260
If you look at sort of
00:12:37.880
cultural sort of norms
00:12:39.960
in those communities,
00:12:40.620
they're different.
00:12:41.180
If you look at education attainment,
00:12:42.760
you know,
00:12:43.060
black Africans tend to do better
00:12:44.100
than black Caribbeans.
00:12:44.980
There's so many differences
00:12:46.660
within communities,
00:12:47.800
even sort of Indian communities
00:12:48.920
to Bangladeshi,
00:12:49.600
to Pakistani,
00:12:50.040
that if you really want
00:12:51.420
to have that conversation,
00:12:52.360
you need to acknowledge
00:12:52.960
those facts.
00:12:53.580
But people that,
00:12:54.540
you know,
00:12:55.200
are not interested,
00:12:56.020
but just want to virtue signal
00:12:56.980
and show that they're good people,
00:12:58.140
they just sort of belt the same,
00:12:59.600
oh,
00:12:59.840
if you're like Joe Biden,
00:13:01.020
if you don't vote for me,
00:13:01.660
you ain't black.
00:13:02.560
And I actually had this instance
00:13:04.460
which really,
00:13:05.180
really annoyed me.
00:13:06.120
And if you know me,
00:13:06.620
I don't get angry easily at all.
00:13:08.020
I'm like,
00:13:08.760
you know,
00:13:09.320
I'm a puppy.
00:13:10.540
But I had this lady
00:13:11.500
that I'd been on a show with before
00:13:13.740
and she's lovely.
00:13:14.900
And I didn't attribute,
00:13:16.180
when I met her,
00:13:16.660
any malice to her.
00:13:17.400
I didn't think,
00:13:17.780
and I don't attribute any malice
00:13:18.860
to anyone I have sort of conversations
00:13:20.120
or debates with
00:13:20.760
because maybe I'm naive,
00:13:21.920
but I don't think most people
00:13:22.880
want to blow up the earth
00:13:23.680
or are horrible.
00:13:25.220
But she said,
00:13:27.080
during the conservative leadership race,
00:13:28.880
which unfortunately is still going on,
00:13:31.320
that...
00:13:31.520
By the time this goes out,
00:13:32.500
it will be over.
00:13:33.320
We already know who's going to win.
00:13:34.540
Yeah, exactly.
00:13:35.100
But anyway.
00:13:35.700
But she said that,
00:13:37.580
she was talking about
00:13:38.920
sort of Kemi Badenoch
00:13:39.760
and all those people
00:13:40.300
and she said,
00:13:40.700
it's not real diversity
00:13:41.760
if she's using her power
00:13:43.220
to oppress people.
00:13:44.100
Some shit, right?
00:13:45.900
And I was like,
00:13:46.820
why not give me
00:13:47.400
a good Negro handbook then, ma'am?
00:13:49.380
And she was like,
00:13:49.960
you know that's not what I meant.
00:13:51.060
I was like,
00:13:51.240
no, no, no, no, no.
00:13:52.360
That is so offensive,
00:13:53.600
it's not even funny.
00:13:54.460
There are people in this country
00:13:55.500
that don't care
00:13:56.220
what Kemi Badenoch looks like,
00:13:57.340
but they want this woman
00:13:58.000
to be prime minister.
00:13:58.780
She's made it to the point
00:13:59.580
where she can even contest the leadership.
00:14:01.160
That in and of itself
00:14:01.940
is an achievement.
00:14:02.600
But you,
00:14:03.100
a white woman,
00:14:03.700
are happy to say
00:14:04.420
that it's not real diversity
00:14:05.340
because she doesn't think
00:14:06.040
the things that you think
00:14:06.760
she should think.
00:14:07.700
And that is so offensive
00:14:08.960
on so many levels.
00:14:09.840
But this kind of person
00:14:11.020
goes to bed at night
00:14:11.780
feeling good about herself.
00:14:12.960
She thinks,
00:14:13.700
yep, I've, you know,
00:14:14.640
I've put the world to right.
00:14:15.780
And I'm just like,
00:14:16.680
you complete cow.
00:14:17.920
How dare you?
00:14:19.180
And if you know anything
00:14:19.980
about sort of Nigerians
00:14:21.060
in particular,
00:14:21.840
they're very,
00:14:22.540
they're very proud of themselves
00:14:23.920
and they work really hard.
00:14:25.100
They really,
00:14:25.660
and I really admire them for that.
00:14:27.520
And I just think someone,
00:14:29.100
her parents are probably
00:14:30.180
extremely proud of her
00:14:31.100
because they think
00:14:31.460
she's worked really hard.
00:14:32.300
She's gotten to the point
00:14:32.980
of notoriety
00:14:34.160
where people in this country
00:14:35.120
know of who she is
00:14:35.920
and admire her politics
00:14:36.820
to the point that they want
00:14:37.440
her to lead this country.
00:14:38.460
And you have this dumb cow
00:14:40.100
and she is a lovely lady,
00:14:41.580
but in that moment
00:14:42.380
she was a complete bitch.
00:14:43.560
To saying that it's not real diversity
00:14:45.380
because she doesn't think
00:14:46.460
the things that you should think.
00:14:47.500
And you have to really
00:14:48.260
think about that.
00:14:49.020
There's no way you can get around
00:14:50.140
the fact that that's just
00:14:51.080
racist and horrible.
00:14:52.720
And that really,
00:14:53.860
that really,
00:14:54.500
really did my head in
00:14:55.260
because I'm now at a point
00:14:56.960
that if you have people like that
00:14:58.120
running the country,
00:14:59.240
every time you see someone
00:15:00.240
who's not white
00:15:00.960
or male or straight,
00:15:02.320
you know to some extent
00:15:03.180
they're a diversity hire
00:15:04.080
and it's actually damaging
00:15:05.240
the mindsets of these people.
00:15:06.760
I never want to feel
00:15:07.780
like a diversity hire
00:15:08.740
because it's so offensive.
00:15:09.880
I'd rather just go back home.
00:15:10.840
I'd rather go back home
00:15:11.840
and struggle with everyone else
00:15:12.760
because that, for me,
00:15:13.640
that's not meritocracy.
00:15:14.640
That's an insult
00:15:16.000
to my hard work.
00:15:17.820
No, I totally get it, Esther.
00:15:18.920
And you bring up
00:15:19.780
the Tory election thing
00:15:22.740
and, you know,
00:15:23.380
a list trust is going to win.
00:15:24.500
Yeah.
00:15:24.780
Everybody knows this.
00:15:25.760
And I was saying throughout
00:15:27.980
when Boris Johnson
00:15:29.000
was having all his
00:15:30.040
different problems
00:15:31.100
and party gate
00:15:31.980
and he said this
00:15:32.980
and did this
00:15:33.580
and did that
00:15:34.060
and whatever,
00:15:34.380
I was like,
00:15:35.180
I think he should resign
00:15:37.000
but I don't want him to.
00:15:38.300
And what I meant by that
00:15:39.180
is the stuff he had done
00:15:40.740
is the sort of stuff
00:15:41.880
that a prime minister
00:15:42.760
should resign over
00:15:43.740
cumulatively.
00:15:45.300
But I always said
00:15:46.520
you're not going to get
00:15:47.800
somebody who's better.
00:15:49.840
And you've made that point.
00:15:51.120
I think you turned,
00:15:52.160
you know,
00:15:52.400
you were critical of Boris
00:15:53.400
pretty early on.
00:15:54.280
Yeah.
00:15:54.640
I think more like
00:15:55.340
sort of last year,
00:15:56.720
early last year.
00:15:57.300
But equally,
00:15:58.540
we've ended up
00:15:59.220
in a position where,
00:16:00.600
I mean,
00:16:00.980
if the three candidates
00:16:02.020
were on the ballot,
00:16:03.140
I think you'd probably
00:16:04.400
go with Boris.
00:16:05.660
Probably, yeah.
00:16:06.440
I mean,
00:16:06.880
there is a section
00:16:07.960
of the Conservative Party
00:16:08.820
that actually want him back
00:16:09.660
because they just think
00:16:10.280
what's happened is ridiculous.
00:16:11.900
And I've often said
00:16:13.280
he's sort of the victim of,
00:16:14.940
he is the architect
00:16:16.080
of his own demise.
00:16:17.100
Yeah, completely.
00:16:17.860
Because he had everything.
00:16:18.760
He literally had everything going.
00:16:20.580
But one of,
00:16:22.360
who was it?
00:16:23.520
Gove?
00:16:24.340
Gove.
00:16:24.880
Yeah,
00:16:25.120
he was one of the few people
00:16:27.020
very early on
00:16:27.680
that had noticed
00:16:28.700
Boris's sort of
00:16:29.580
character defects
00:16:30.320
and said,
00:16:31.240
this is not the man
00:16:31.980
you want to be,
00:16:32.480
Prime Minister.
00:16:33.200
He's too big picture.
00:16:34.140
He's not good with detail.
00:16:35.220
He's all over the place.
00:16:36.480
And he will take himself down.
00:16:37.980
And he saw it early on.
00:16:38.900
And for the reputation
00:16:40.320
that Gove got in Westminster
00:16:41.980
for being a snake
00:16:42.780
and not loyal and stuff,
00:16:43.760
but he was spot on.
00:16:44.900
And you never really hear people
00:16:46.100
kind of defending Michael Gove
00:16:47.720
because it's not very fashionable.
00:16:49.180
But he was right.
00:16:50.660
And it's,
00:16:51.360
I said from the beginning,
00:16:53.320
Boris's strategy was off.
00:16:54.440
Because one,
00:16:54.960
he surrounded himself
00:16:55.920
with sycophantic
00:16:56.640
halfwits.
00:16:57.780
And two,
00:16:58.880
he didn't have a real vision
00:17:01.000
for this country
00:17:01.640
at the level of detail.
00:17:03.000
Yeah,
00:17:03.280
get Brexit done.
00:17:04.520
Yeah,
00:17:04.740
get Brexit,
00:17:05.240
level up.
00:17:05.660
What the hell is level up?
00:17:06.740
Where?
00:17:07.620
And,
00:17:08.020
you know,
00:17:08.680
the people that were supposed
00:17:09.760
to get that job done
00:17:10.540
were,
00:17:11.120
sorry,
00:17:11.560
they were not up to scratch.
00:17:12.700
I mean,
00:17:12.920
the fact that Nadine Dorries
00:17:13.960
is in our cabinet
00:17:14.640
will forever be the biggest joke
00:17:15.920
of British history.
00:17:17.200
I mean,
00:17:17.720
it's ridiculous.
00:17:18.520
But he took himself down
00:17:20.240
because he didn't understand
00:17:21.500
how politics works.
00:17:22.140
But I also think
00:17:22.780
it's a blessing in disguise
00:17:23.760
because I've long
00:17:24.700
been very disillusioned
00:17:26.260
by our political system.
00:17:27.620
I think that there's so many,
00:17:29.620
there's so much wrong
00:17:30.360
with the political party system
00:17:31.580
that we really need
00:17:33.100
a bit more diversity.
00:17:34.400
We don't know
00:17:34.660
what the Lib Dems stand for.
00:17:35.960
Sir Ed Davey
00:17:36.580
is a complete joke.
00:17:37.880
The Labour Party,
00:17:38.760
I mean,
00:17:38.980
I understand what Keir Starmer
00:17:39.880
is trying to do now
00:17:40.540
because he's accepted
00:17:41.220
he's never going to be
00:17:41.860
that big bombastic personality.
00:17:43.780
So he's kind of going
00:17:44.860
down a John Major strategy
00:17:46.760
and making the party
00:17:47.640
more palatable
00:17:48.240
as opposed to him
00:17:51.120
being a standout character
00:17:52.220
like Boris was.
00:17:53.300
And the Conservative Party,
00:17:55.040
they're, I think,
00:17:55.900
trying to rein it back
00:17:56.860
and just focus
00:17:58.220
on their core voters
00:17:59.780
and the people they can win
00:18:01.000
and not really focus
00:18:02.000
on like a catch-all strategy
00:18:03.580
which wouldn't work.
00:18:04.600
And this is what happens
00:18:05.560
when you actually try
00:18:06.320
and understand
00:18:06.780
the nature of politics.
00:18:07.920
You don't think people
00:18:08.600
in the Red Wall
00:18:09.080
traditionally would vote
00:18:09.860
for Tory anyway.
00:18:10.600
So you're not going to try
00:18:11.460
and sort of appeal
00:18:12.720
to them in that way.
00:18:13.440
And it's just common sense politics.
00:18:15.000
But I think we really need
00:18:16.920
a change in this country.
00:18:17.940
I think our political system
00:18:19.020
is a bit broken.
00:18:20.220
I think there are a lot of people,
00:18:21.260
especially young people,
00:18:21.960
that just don't care anymore
00:18:22.940
because what's the point?
00:18:24.220
I mean, two-thirds of seats
00:18:25.260
in this country
00:18:26.920
are safe seats anyway.
00:18:28.160
So really,
00:18:28.960
if you wanted to make a change,
00:18:30.000
how are you going to do it?
00:18:31.540
And the party system
00:18:32.320
is not the mechanism
00:18:32.960
to do it now.
00:18:33.840
I agree with you.
00:18:34.560
The problem you're going to get, though,
00:18:35.860
is I don't think
00:18:36.560
the party system will change
00:18:37.800
because the two major parties
00:18:39.260
have a stake in not changing.
00:18:41.560
Yeah, they have a vested interest
00:18:42.680
in keeping it that way.
00:18:43.960
And so if we focus
00:18:45.040
on where we are
00:18:45.880
and what we actually have,
00:18:47.540
you've got rid of Boris Johnson
00:18:49.620
and you're going to replace him
00:18:51.180
with Liz Truss.
00:18:52.560
Yeah.
00:18:53.800
No, I mean,
00:18:54.780
no offense to Liz Truss,
00:18:55.940
but, you know,
00:18:56.840
I don't think
00:18:57.500
that in the Kremlin
00:18:58.360
they're shaking in their boot.
00:19:00.480
Do you know what I mean?
00:19:00.940
Did you see that?
00:19:01.640
She did an interview
00:19:02.380
and she got like
00:19:02.980
Russian geography wrong.
00:19:04.140
I just thought, oh.
00:19:04.920
When she was foreign secretary,
00:19:06.360
by the way.
00:19:06.700
Yes.
00:19:07.120
Right.
00:19:07.300
Anyway, but I said,
00:19:09.580
and actually I was about
00:19:10.280
to do a show
00:19:10.740
and my dad texted me saying,
00:19:11.880
do you think Rishi
00:19:12.320
can become prime minister?
00:19:13.180
I was like,
00:19:13.780
no, dad,
00:19:15.040
why are you messaging me this?
00:19:16.080
And he was like,
00:19:16.280
oh, I think Liz Truss is ugly.
00:19:17.360
I don't want her to become prime minister.
00:19:18.140
I was like,
00:19:18.420
you can't say
00:19:20.560
you don't want someone
00:19:21.260
to be prime minister
00:19:22.000
because you think she's a minger.
00:19:23.440
That's not how this works.
00:19:25.540
But you know what?
00:19:26.820
Liz Truss needs to accept
00:19:28.220
a few things.
00:19:29.080
One,
00:19:29.440
I think the first thing
00:19:30.120
she needs to do
00:19:30.620
is level with this country.
00:19:31.660
She needs to give a big speech
00:19:32.660
where she levels.
00:19:33.380
Look,
00:19:33.820
this energy crisis
00:19:34.500
is not going away anytime soon.
00:19:35.500
This is not a six month problem.
00:19:37.220
This is sort of
00:19:38.080
at least a three to five year problem.
00:19:39.260
Well, you're right.
00:19:40.000
Sorry to interrupt
00:19:40.860
just very quickly.
00:19:41.880
We were watching back
00:19:43.160
an interview we did
00:19:43.920
with Nigel Farage
00:19:44.920
earlier this year.
00:19:46.360
That's what we do
00:19:46.920
with our spare time.
00:19:48.240
Naturally.
00:19:49.180
He's lovely, actually.
00:19:50.520
He's a really funny guy
00:19:51.420
to interview.
00:19:52.340
So he's a great person
00:19:54.180
to interview.
00:19:54.680
Absolutely.
00:19:55.240
And one of the things,
00:19:56.000
it was recorded
00:19:57.140
like a week before
00:19:58.920
the war in Ukraine,
00:19:59.760
I think.
00:20:00.140
It was just as it was
00:20:00.900
about to happen.
00:20:01.320
It was a prophetic.
00:20:02.280
And he was saying
00:20:03.340
people don't know
00:20:05.060
what's coming.
00:20:05.780
And he was talking
00:20:06.460
about the energy bills.
00:20:07.520
This was before
00:20:08.160
the war in Ukraine.
00:20:09.020
So this attempt
00:20:10.120
to pretend
00:20:10.740
that this is all
00:20:11.440
about Ukraine,
00:20:12.480
complete nonsense.
00:20:13.260
Anyway, carry on.
00:20:13.480
No, but it's true.
00:20:14.520
And I mean,
00:20:14.780
there's a clip
00:20:15.560
of Trump going viral
00:20:16.860
when he warned
00:20:17.740
that Germany's
00:20:18.980
dependence on
00:20:20.580
Russian energy
00:20:21.720
is a problem.
00:20:22.940
And he was laughed
00:20:23.880
out of the room.
00:20:24.340
I was like,
00:20:24.580
well, he may be orange,
00:20:26.160
but he does say
00:20:26.760
some things are on point
00:20:27.800
sometimes.
00:20:29.040
What was I even saying?
00:20:29.840
Yeah, but Liz Truss
00:20:30.520
needs to level
00:20:30.960
with the country.
00:20:31.540
That's the first thing.
00:20:32.000
The energy crisis
00:20:32.640
isn't going away.
00:20:33.540
But it's not going away.
00:20:34.620
And this is the thing.
00:20:35.220
She needs to be very honest
00:20:36.520
with this country.
00:20:37.180
And I know an honest politician,
00:20:38.480
that's a paradox.
00:20:39.980
But it's true.
00:20:40.860
And she also,
00:20:41.500
her team are core
00:20:42.580
because one of the biggest
00:20:43.600
failings of Boris
00:20:44.300
was his team.
00:20:45.340
He didn't have anyone
00:20:46.080
around him
00:20:46.600
that really kept him
00:20:47.300
in check,
00:20:47.680
that were honest with him,
00:20:48.440
that had the capabilities
00:20:49.800
that you needed to.
00:20:50.680
Someone like Gove
00:20:51.400
should have been
00:20:51.840
Boris's right-hand man.
00:20:52.860
And I know that sounds weird
00:20:53.740
because he didn't even think
00:20:54.640
he should have been
00:20:55.020
prime minister in the first place.
00:20:56.240
But if he had the humility
00:20:57.340
to temper himself
00:20:58.300
and not go down
00:20:59.180
the Chris Whitty route
00:21:00.160
or silencing people
00:21:01.420
that had questions
00:21:02.100
over lockdown
00:21:02.540
and all of that,
00:21:03.320
he would have still been here
00:21:04.400
with all his flaws.
00:21:07.260
So her team is also
00:21:08.340
really important in this trust.
00:21:09.400
But I also think
00:21:10.020
she needs to go back
00:21:11.220
to the basics.
00:21:12.280
She's from a very liberal
00:21:13.680
wing of conservatism.
00:21:15.180
So she's not the traditional,
00:21:16.280
I mean,
00:21:16.460
they don't really talk
00:21:17.080
about social conservatism,
00:21:18.200
right?
00:21:18.280
It's not in fashion.
00:21:19.500
You don't hear
00:21:20.280
any conservative politician
00:21:21.580
other than Jacob Rees-Mong
00:21:22.940
but that's because
00:21:23.300
he has like six kids.
00:21:24.300
You never really hear them
00:21:25.140
talking about,
00:21:25.900
you know,
00:21:26.120
get married,
00:21:26.760
stay married,
00:21:27.300
have kids,
00:21:28.260
you know,
00:21:28.440
have a traditional
00:21:29.200
family structure.
00:21:30.240
Gender rules
00:21:30.620
are not necessarily
00:21:31.180
a bad thing.
00:21:32.400
You know,
00:21:33.180
actual things that keep
00:21:34.240
the social fabric
00:21:34.820
of this country together,
00:21:35.880
you never really hear
00:21:36.540
them talking about it.
00:21:37.260
And I think actually
00:21:38.060
that's a mistake
00:21:38.760
because you're probably
00:21:39.840
going to get a lot of votes
00:21:40.760
from sort of traditional
00:21:41.560
Indian communities
00:21:42.260
by doing that
00:21:42.920
because you're talking
00:21:43.780
about things
00:21:44.200
that no one's talking about
00:21:44.980
but that's really fundamental
00:21:46.280
to this country.
00:21:47.720
So that's,
00:21:48.260
I think that's kind of
00:21:49.060
where she needs to go.
00:21:49.660
She needs to move,
00:21:51.000
she needs to have
00:21:51.440
social conservatism
00:21:52.160
on the agenda
00:21:52.720
but she also needs
00:21:53.980
to have,
00:21:56.020
I suppose,
00:21:56.560
a real commitment
00:21:57.440
to actual conservatism,
00:21:58.980
sort of fiscal discipline.
00:21:59.900
We need to know
00:22:00.220
what that looks like
00:22:00.760
because what I suspect
00:22:01.580
is going to happen
00:22:02.340
is she's going to unveil
00:22:03.320
the largest sort of
00:22:04.380
assistance package
00:22:05.060
this country's ever seen
00:22:05.940
and my generation,
00:22:07.600
people at least 25 and over,
00:22:09.480
25 and,
00:22:10.140
between 25 and 50
00:22:11.060
are going to be like,
00:22:11.640
ah,
00:22:12.100
I'm going to pay for this.
00:22:13.620
How exactly is this going to work?
00:22:15.060
Because I don't really want
00:22:15.660
to see my taxes going up
00:22:16.660
and if you act crazy,
00:22:17.720
I will move.
00:22:18.960
And that's a problem as well
00:22:20.080
because we're not having
00:22:20.680
enough kids
00:22:21.180
and people my age
00:22:22.780
should be having kids,
00:22:23.700
should be having a home
00:22:24.980
to put the kids in
00:22:25.940
and we're not really,
00:22:27.600
we don't really see
00:22:28.400
how that's possible.
00:22:29.860
So I think she really
00:22:31.120
has a big task ahead of her.
00:22:32.460
I'm not going to set
00:22:33.240
the bar too high
00:22:33.940
because I think that's a problem
00:22:34.880
we have in our politics.
00:22:36.140
The state has expanded so much
00:22:37.620
that there's so many things
00:22:38.640
that comes under
00:22:39.100
the state's remit
00:22:39.700
that you don't expect
00:22:40.360
them to do it properly
00:22:41.100
but it's fodder for people
00:22:42.860
to continually whinge
00:22:43.820
and bitch and whine.
00:22:45.300
And it's like,
00:22:45.740
look,
00:22:46.040
I don't really care
00:22:47.020
whether you think
00:22:48.340
pavements should have
00:22:49.580
rainbow flags painted on them
00:22:50.840
but I would actually like
00:22:52.100
for burglary to be solved
00:22:53.300
or for people to stop
00:22:54.860
stabbing each other.
00:22:55.580
I'd actually like basic policing
00:22:56.960
of this country to work.
00:22:57.940
You're right,
00:22:58.320
Esther,
00:22:58.500
you're a social conservative.
00:23:00.660
It's not even that,
00:23:02.080
I mean,
00:23:02.680
the solicitor strike
00:23:03.640
is in a few days,
00:23:04.920
the criminal barrister strike
00:23:05.940
and I just think
00:23:06.420
this is a disaster, right?
00:23:07.640
And this is happening
00:23:08.360
in a country
00:23:09.680
that's been under
00:23:10.260
conservative leadership
00:23:10.960
for 12 years.
00:23:11.940
How could you possibly
00:23:12.900
let this arm
00:23:13.860
of our justice system
00:23:15.580
fall to the point where,
00:23:16.740
you know,
00:23:16.920
I think since 2006,
00:23:18.640
criminal barristers,
00:23:19.520
they've seen a 26% decrease
00:23:21.520
in real pay.
00:23:23.100
That is a disaster, right?
00:23:24.960
Because these are people
00:23:25.640
that are defending
00:23:26.180
the people that don't have
00:23:26.820
the means to defend themselves.
00:23:27.660
That's a critical part
00:23:28.460
of our judicial system
00:23:29.520
and they've just let that
00:23:30.320
fall by the wayside
00:23:31.100
and I think this is unimaginable
00:23:34.000
and that's since 2006.
00:23:35.240
So we're talking
00:23:35.820
sort of mid-Blair era as well.
00:23:37.840
This is not just something
00:23:38.500
on the conservatives
00:23:39.040
but they've kind of seen it
00:23:40.220
and just kicked the can
00:23:41.280
down the road.
00:23:42.820
Esther,
00:23:43.300
and what does it mean
00:23:43.900
to you to be a conservative?
00:23:45.480
What does that actually mean?
00:23:46.980
Well,
00:23:47.180
it depends where I am.
00:23:48.600
If I was in the US,
00:23:49.920
I'd be like,
00:23:50.240
I'm probably bang in the middle
00:23:51.340
because I probably,
00:23:53.100
you know,
00:23:53.440
don't want to be walking around
00:23:54.860
with guns in Walmart,
00:23:56.180
which I've seen,
00:23:56.860
but I'm also like,
00:23:57.520
not obviously a leftist crazy.
00:23:58.760
I think being a conservative
00:23:59.880
means having some sort
00:24:02.760
of commitment
00:24:03.220
to a decent society
00:24:06.380
and understanding
00:24:07.420
what makes a society work.
00:24:08.900
So I think when I talk
00:24:09.580
about conservatism,
00:24:10.500
I don't necessarily
00:24:11.080
just talk about economic policy,
00:24:12.640
which I think I'm
00:24:13.560
probably more libertarian on
00:24:15.260
than strictly conservative.
00:24:17.440
For me,
00:24:18.000
it's more about family
00:24:18.780
and social structure
00:24:19.580
because I think
00:24:20.400
that's so important
00:24:21.160
and I don't think
00:24:21.640
we talk about that enough.
00:24:22.560
Like,
00:24:22.720
I was having a conversation
00:24:23.520
with someone who was saying,
00:24:24.680
oh,
00:24:24.780
I can't get a mortgage
00:24:25.480
and I can't buy a home
00:24:26.360
and I said something crazy.
00:24:27.580
I was like,
00:24:27.640
have you thought
00:24:27.960
about getting married?
00:24:28.660
He's like,
00:24:28.920
well,
00:24:29.040
why would I do that?
00:24:29.700
I was like,
00:24:29.820
well,
00:24:30.000
it's two incomes.
00:24:30.960
You know,
00:24:31.440
your wagon is stitched theirs.
00:24:33.060
They're legally obligated
00:24:33.820
to like you.
00:24:36.220
That might be one solution.
00:24:37.820
But I just think,
00:24:38.560
you know,
00:24:38.720
there are loads of single people,
00:24:40.160
single young people
00:24:40.800
that are working in London
00:24:41.600
that are wondering
00:24:42.060
how they're going to get
00:24:42.620
on the housing market.
00:24:43.420
But that's really
00:24:44.080
a very tangible solution.
00:24:45.520
But there's so many mechanisms
00:24:46.520
that go around with that.
00:24:47.720
I find it really funny,
00:24:48.680
fascinating,
00:24:50.000
the rise of the red pill
00:24:51.120
and the manosphere space
00:24:52.200
and stuff.
00:24:53.160
And I look at it
00:24:54.320
because I was talking
00:24:54.800
to my friend later.
00:24:55.440
I was like,
00:24:55.680
babe,
00:24:56.320
I grew up in Ghana.
00:24:58.140
I've had a front row seat
00:24:59.160
to these sort of
00:25:00.240
intersexual dynamics
00:25:01.080
since I was born.
00:25:03.140
But these are the things...
00:25:04.080
Wait, how do you mean?
00:25:05.540
I mean,
00:25:06.680
anyone with common sense
00:25:07.720
knows that
00:25:08.400
like a lot of the things
00:25:09.160
that they're saying
00:25:09.560
is obviously true.
00:25:10.580
Like men liking younger women,
00:25:11.780
it's because they're misogynists.
00:25:12.860
I was like,
00:25:13.080
look,
00:25:13.380
let me tell you a conversation.
00:25:15.480
Let me tell you
00:25:16.120
a conversation I had.
00:25:17.000
So I was talking
00:25:17.620
to this guy who's,
00:25:18.740
I think he's a Mason.
00:25:19.500
He works with my dad
00:25:20.560
and he's Muslim.
00:25:22.080
He's from the northern part
00:25:22.920
of Ghana.
00:25:23.840
And he was saying,
00:25:24.400
oh, you know,
00:25:25.020
Kukwa,
00:25:25.360
that's my Ghana name.
00:25:26.400
Kukwa,
00:25:26.820
I'm looking for a second wife.
00:25:27.960
I was like,
00:25:28.100
oh, why?
00:25:28.620
It's the current wife doing it.
00:25:29.420
I said,
00:25:29.520
no, you know,
00:25:29.900
I just want to add
00:25:30.520
the second wife.
00:25:30.940
Okay, cool.
00:25:31.420
What are your criteria?
00:25:32.320
And he's like,
00:25:32.860
you know,
00:25:33.040
I want someone,
00:25:33.620
she has to be at least 30
00:25:34.560
and I want her to have
00:25:35.640
at least just one child.
00:25:36.640
And I said,
00:25:36.880
oh, okay, why?
00:25:37.560
I was like,
00:25:37.760
because I don't have
00:25:38.240
that much money
00:25:39.060
for her bride price.
00:25:40.060
So he knows
00:25:41.220
that he can't afford
00:25:42.860
a premium,
00:25:44.020
like 20 something,
00:25:45.120
hot,
00:25:45.660
single,
00:25:46.260
young,
00:25:46.680
childless woman.
00:25:47.460
Do you know what I mean?
00:25:48.400
But this is basic
00:25:49.620
intersexual dynamics.
00:25:50.580
And he was like,
00:25:50.980
but she has to be attractive.
00:25:52.000
She can't have a big stomach.
00:25:53.040
He was telling me
00:25:53.700
all his criteria.
00:25:54.860
But I'm like,
00:25:55.680
and the Red Bull space
00:25:56.660
talks about all these things.
00:25:57.660
I'm like,
00:25:58.180
dude,
00:25:58.740
everyone knows this.
00:26:00.020
Everyone knows
00:26:00.720
if you're younger,
00:26:01.860
hotter,
00:26:02.900
sort of more feminine,
00:26:03.980
you come from a good family,
00:26:05.220
you're not a headache
00:26:05.920
to be around
00:26:06.400
and stuff like that.
00:26:07.120
Really,
00:26:07.700
you're...
00:26:09.020
The bride price goes up.
00:26:10.240
Exactly.
00:26:10.820
The bride price
00:26:11.460
is the version of
00:26:12.060
market value or whatever.
00:26:13.260
But it's true.
00:26:14.560
And I can't believe
00:26:15.800
how many videos
00:26:16.660
that are online
00:26:17.740
where guys are effectively
00:26:18.740
learning how to be men
00:26:19.660
off the internet.
00:26:20.860
And then me and my brother
00:26:22.020
are just there like,
00:26:23.140
really?
00:26:24.360
Are you joking?
00:26:26.120
Like,
00:26:26.680
men having...
00:26:27.560
Men wanting younger,
00:26:28.920
hotter women
00:26:29.380
or having more than
00:26:30.760
like a side chick
00:26:31.380
or whatever.
00:26:31.840
And it's just like,
00:26:32.240
oh, no.
00:26:32.900
And I'm like,
00:26:33.380
babe.
00:26:34.480
Do you think as a society
00:26:36.180
we've just gone nuts
00:26:37.280
when you compare...
00:26:39.060
I'm really upset.
00:26:40.480
I get really upset
00:26:41.080
when I see
00:26:41.600
like very intelligent people
00:26:42.640
talking about gender pronouns.
00:26:44.060
I'm not going to lie.
00:26:44.900
It really upsets me
00:26:45.660
because I just think
00:26:46.100
society is going to look back
00:26:47.120
20 years from now
00:26:47.840
and think we should have
00:26:48.760
employed these brilliant minds
00:26:50.080
to something better
00:26:50.940
like furthering humanity
00:26:51.940
instead of going on talk shows
00:26:53.460
and arguing
00:26:53.920
what the hell a woman is.
00:26:55.380
And I call my dad
00:26:56.320
and he's like,
00:26:56.560
what's going on there?
00:26:57.520
And I'm like,
00:26:58.080
they don't know
00:26:58.640
what a woman is.
00:26:59.580
It's crazy.
00:27:00.860
I'm like,
00:27:01.220
can I come home?
00:27:02.200
This is absolute insanity.
00:27:04.520
And it's just,
00:27:05.240
I think we are really
00:27:06.720
sort of sacrificing
00:27:07.540
brilliant minds
00:27:08.460
at the altar
00:27:08.880
of this bullshit.
00:27:09.520
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00:27:11.920
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00:27:14.600
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00:27:21.480
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00:27:23.940
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00:27:25.620
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00:27:37.440
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00:27:39.280
It's an interesting point.
00:27:43.060
You talk about gender roles
00:27:44.180
and stuff like that
00:27:44.880
and I almost always agree
00:27:46.140
with the stuff
00:27:46.680
that you say about it.
00:27:47.520
Almost always.
00:27:48.220
Almost always, yeah.
00:27:48.980
Because you make
00:27:49.540
a tremendous amount of sense.
00:27:51.060
Yet here you are,
00:27:52.480
a confident young woman
00:27:53.680
who earns a living,
00:27:55.220
who's not married
00:27:56.000
as far as I know, right?
00:27:57.900
So how do,
00:27:59.880
and there'll be lots of
00:28:00.720
other young women like you.
00:28:01.980
Some of them
00:28:02.600
will be watching this.
00:28:03.420
Probably not many.
00:28:04.280
No, not many.
00:28:05.000
But we've seen
00:28:05.520
the demographics, mate.
00:28:06.600
Really?
00:28:06.960
What's the demographics split?
00:28:08.140
Well, see,
00:28:09.240
this is where...
00:28:10.280
White, male, and angry.
00:28:11.300
No.
00:28:11.520
Okay.
00:28:11.920
No, he's not.
00:28:13.060
He's such a fucking idiot.
00:28:16.460
Face palm.
00:28:18.440
Unbelievable.
00:28:19.180
No, the thing is,
00:28:20.000
I don't trust online statistics
00:28:21.460
because women often
00:28:22.540
don't want to identify
00:28:23.420
themselves online.
00:28:24.560
So, but it skews
00:28:25.900
towards the male side,
00:28:27.060
definitely.
00:28:27.920
And that's YouTube in general.
00:28:29.060
YouTube in general, right?
00:28:29.660
But anyway,
00:28:30.980
so there'll be other young women
00:28:32.360
out there.
00:28:33.600
Yeah.
00:28:33.920
I suspect there are out there,
00:28:35.560
right?
00:28:35.980
You're sounding so much
00:28:36.960
like a dad.
00:28:37.900
Well, I am a dad, mate.
00:28:38.820
Yeah.
00:28:39.080
That's what I am.
00:28:40.000
Who are in your position as well.
00:28:42.620
They want to have a career.
00:28:44.180
They want to make a good living,
00:28:45.440
like all of that.
00:28:46.740
So, hasn't the world changed?
00:28:50.080
The world has changed,
00:28:51.460
but I think
00:28:52.120
your personal life
00:28:54.620
is like your mini kingdom, right?
00:28:56.220
I always said that a home
00:28:57.420
with a mother and father,
00:28:59.120
kids,
00:28:59.400
it's a small kingdom, right?
00:29:00.460
A man's house is his castle
00:29:01.440
and I genuinely believe that.
00:29:03.020
And I look to my parents
00:29:04.840
because one,
00:29:05.740
there's no one I admire
00:29:06.880
more than my dad, basically.
00:29:08.780
And I think,
00:29:09.660
I really hold a lot of,
00:29:13.080
I think there's a lot of value
00:29:14.140
in the wisdom of the past.
00:29:15.260
So, looking to previous generations
00:29:16.440
and seeing what they got right.
00:29:17.960
I don't necessarily think
00:29:19.300
women being in the workforce
00:29:20.180
is a bad thing.
00:29:21.040
I think the scale
00:29:21.620
at which was done
00:29:22.760
really stagnated wages
00:29:24.180
and I think it was just
00:29:24.820
to benefit big corporations.
00:29:27.160
And I do think
00:29:28.240
that is a problem,
00:29:29.000
but I always say
00:29:30.840
I'm not necessarily a career girl,
00:29:31.900
but I would get bored
00:29:32.680
just not doing anything else
00:29:34.040
other than just childcare.
00:29:35.200
Like I would read
00:29:36.200
and do stuff
00:29:36.760
that stimulated my mind,
00:29:38.240
but that's not necessarily,
00:29:39.440
that doesn't mean
00:29:39.880
that I have sort of career ambitions.
00:29:41.640
Like I want to be a CEO.
00:29:42.680
I'm not built for that.
00:29:44.100
Everyone who knows me knows
00:29:45.200
Esther gets really excited
00:29:46.540
when she discovers
00:29:47.160
a new recipe
00:29:47.680
she wants to try on you.
00:29:48.820
That is my thing.
00:29:49.820
I love like cooking
00:29:50.840
and taking care of people.
00:29:52.220
And I just think
00:29:53.000
most women are just built.
00:29:54.840
We flourish when we have
00:29:56.340
good, healthy,
00:29:57.320
functioning relationships.
00:29:58.300
I think that's what
00:29:58.880
we really want.
00:29:59.900
I don't think we necessarily
00:30:00.820
want to be,
00:30:01.260
most women don't necessarily
00:30:02.080
want to be CEO
00:30:02.700
or have the stress
00:30:03.420
of those high-flying caress.
00:30:04.380
I'm sorry.
00:30:05.200
I can't do all that
00:30:06.020
and look hot.
00:30:06.640
That's just too much work.
00:30:07.840
No, that's just too much work.
00:30:10.060
No, I'm sorry.
00:30:11.940
But I think, you know,
00:30:12.800
the issue,
00:30:14.120
I think there's a lot of,
00:30:15.280
the issues on both sides.
00:30:16.220
I think men and women
00:30:16.900
these days have a lot of,
00:30:19.040
they don't understand
00:30:19.920
what each other want
00:30:20.660
and I don't think
00:30:21.500
they have the humility
00:30:22.300
to look for it.
00:30:23.760
So I often say like
00:30:24.900
with my ex,
00:30:25.620
I'll be like,
00:30:26.340
what was it like being with me?
00:30:27.680
And, you know,
00:30:28.160
I generally want to know
00:30:29.240
and they have nothing
00:30:29.880
but positive stuff to say.
00:30:30.800
So I don't sit there
00:30:31.300
and freak out and be like,
00:30:32.180
oh God, I'm horrible.
00:30:33.340
I'm crazy.
00:30:33.940
I'm just, you know,
00:30:34.840
and I talked to my dad as well.
00:30:35.800
I was like, you know,
00:30:36.160
it just hasn't happened yet
00:30:37.020
and you don't want to,
00:30:39.000
who you marry,
00:30:39.820
especially in this day and age
00:30:40.560
where men and women
00:30:41.280
don't need each other
00:30:42.100
in the economic sense,
00:30:43.000
the strict economic sense
00:30:43.820
where like the man
00:30:44.440
had to go out and work
00:30:45.440
and the woman had no choice
00:30:46.680
but to be married to him.
00:30:48.040
You form,
00:30:48.620
your bond
00:30:49.340
and the nature
00:30:50.060
of your relationship evolves.
00:30:51.220
But that's not a bad thing.
00:30:51.940
That's actually better
00:30:52.540
because you know,
00:30:52.920
people are choosing
00:30:53.460
to stay together
00:30:54.180
as opposed to having
00:30:55.080
no choice
00:30:56.640
but to be coupled together.
00:30:58.240
My dad also says,
00:30:59.020
choose someone expensive.
00:31:02.540
Expensive.
00:31:03.160
Expensive.
00:31:03.560
He was like,
00:31:03.780
I don't bring a broke man
00:31:04.560
to my house.
00:31:04.980
He's actually said that
00:31:07.420
to me and my brother.
00:31:09.280
So his analysis
00:31:10.720
is very interesting.
00:31:11.940
But I just think
00:31:12.700
it takes a lot of humility
00:31:13.900
on both sides
00:31:14.820
and kind of looking
00:31:15.680
at yourself objectively
00:31:17.400
which most people can't do.
00:31:18.920
I often say,
00:31:19.700
surround yourself with people
00:31:20.500
that can be brutally honest
00:31:21.540
with you.
00:31:21.860
My friends can roast me for filth
00:31:23.040
and they thoroughly enjoy it.
00:31:24.100
But I know it's not coming
00:31:25.120
from a place of malice
00:31:26.140
or from a place
00:31:27.100
of just negativity
00:31:28.160
or jealousy.
00:31:29.820
And yeah,
00:31:30.520
I do think,
00:31:31.320
you know,
00:31:31.580
dynamics have changed
00:31:32.460
but it's,
00:31:33.080
if you are constantly
00:31:33.920
working on being better
00:31:34.940
and surrounding yourself
00:31:35.780
with better people,
00:31:36.840
better caliber people,
00:31:37.780
you can't fail.
00:31:38.620
It's impossible.
00:31:39.540
It's an interesting point
00:31:40.400
you made particularly
00:31:41.160
at the beginning
00:31:41.900
of that statement there,
00:31:43.820
Esther,
00:31:43.960
because I think
00:31:45.080
what you're hinting at
00:31:46.280
really is something,
00:31:47.580
like my wife
00:31:48.240
is a big fan
00:31:48.920
of John Gray
00:31:49.600
who wrote
00:31:50.180
Men Are From Mars,
00:31:50.860
Women Are From Venus
00:31:51.900
and we've had him
00:31:52.880
on the show
00:31:53.380
and one of the things
00:31:56.120
that she sort of learned
00:31:57.220
over the time
00:31:58.160
that we've been together
00:31:59.520
is she can do many things
00:32:02.420
but there are certain things
00:32:04.120
that make her happy
00:32:04.920
and certain things
00:32:05.560
that don't.
00:32:06.260
And I'm starting to see
00:32:08.460
like we had Louise Perry
00:32:09.600
on the show
00:32:10.300
to talk about it.
00:32:11.640
She tweeted this clip today
00:32:13.120
where it's like an actor,
00:32:15.280
I think,
00:32:15.720
there's like a pink
00:32:17.900
or a blue-haired woman
00:32:19.220
from 2022
00:32:20.480
talking to her
00:32:22.160
in the 1950s
00:32:23.660
and telling her
00:32:24.420
like what her brilliant
00:32:25.340
future life will be like.
00:32:27.040
And it's like
00:32:27.800
you're going to go to work
00:32:28.680
and do the home cooking
00:32:29.860
and the cleaning
00:32:30.540
and the...
00:32:31.040
Oh no.
00:32:31.600
And basically...
00:32:33.280
Oh, I think not.
00:32:34.340
Right.
00:32:35.000
And I think
00:32:36.260
quite a lot of people,
00:32:37.840
particularly women,
00:32:38.680
are starting to realise
00:32:39.860
that this idea
00:32:41.260
of having everything
00:32:42.320
really wasn't...
00:32:44.300
At the same time.
00:32:45.560
At the same time
00:32:46.440
really wasn't
00:32:47.480
what it was made out to be.
00:32:48.360
Yeah, it's a scam.
00:32:49.200
We've been scammed
00:32:49.980
but this is the thing.
00:32:50.920
I think, again,
00:32:51.460
I say this is a uniquely
00:32:52.300
Western phenomenon
00:32:53.100
because I think
00:32:54.320
when I go to other parts
00:32:55.040
of the world
00:32:55.320
we're just very real
00:32:56.140
with ourselves
00:32:56.740
and we're just very honest.
00:32:58.280
I don't have...
00:32:58.840
I mean,
00:32:59.380
if you look at my friendship group,
00:33:00.520
all my friends
00:33:01.180
kind of are similar to me,
00:33:02.600
sort of privately educated.
00:33:03.620
They're not...
00:33:04.280
They're from all over the place.
00:33:05.080
Japanese, Kenyan, Indian.
00:33:07.040
But our family structure,
00:33:08.400
our family setup,
00:33:09.000
if you look at our lives,
00:33:09.680
they look exactly the same.
00:33:11.080
Right?
00:33:11.260
And we're exactly
00:33:12.120
the same kinds of people
00:33:13.480
in terms of
00:33:14.220
how we see our future.
00:33:15.940
One of my best friends,
00:33:16.700
she has three degrees
00:33:17.380
from Warwick, Bristol,
00:33:18.620
very educated.
00:33:20.720
You would see her
00:33:21.380
as the quintessentially career girl.
00:33:22.760
Oh no,
00:33:23.340
she's happy to...
00:33:24.560
When she cooks for me,
00:33:25.160
she's really happy.
00:33:26.000
She has this little
00:33:26.500
white puff dog.
00:33:28.060
You know,
00:33:28.240
she loves being in a relationship.
00:33:29.220
She loves taking care of people.
00:33:30.780
It doesn't matter
00:33:31.440
sort of how far you go up
00:33:32.800
the sort of education hierarchy
00:33:34.080
or the attainment hierarchy.
00:33:36.480
Women fundamentally,
00:33:37.880
across the board,
00:33:38.540
generally are the same.
00:33:39.860
Right?
00:33:40.040
We value our relationships more.
00:33:41.840
We value sort of
00:33:42.860
building with a man more
00:33:44.460
and letting a man lead
00:33:45.960
in certain aspects.
00:33:47.180
My brother's only
00:33:47.660
three years younger than me.
00:33:48.680
When we go out together,
00:33:49.620
he just naturally takes the lead.
00:33:51.240
And I'm technically
00:33:51.840
his older sister,
00:33:52.460
but I'm like,
00:33:53.260
you know,
00:33:53.680
what do you want to have for dinner?
00:33:54.900
Or...
00:33:55.860
We just fall into this role
00:33:57.780
because I know he's more competent.
00:33:59.220
I know he's calmer.
00:33:59.840
I know if he's six foot,
00:34:01.420
if I can't reach something,
00:34:02.300
he'll just get it.
00:34:03.020
I don't do any DIY.
00:34:04.240
I fundamentally refuse.
00:34:05.400
I don't take out the bins.
00:34:06.620
I don't do any of that.
00:34:07.780
Right?
00:34:07.900
And we weren't taught that.
00:34:08.760
We grew up in Ghana
00:34:10.620
and then we moved here.
00:34:11.500
But it's just something
00:34:12.080
that we've naturally fallen into.
00:34:13.400
I always say
00:34:14.000
when I see someone,
00:34:14.820
a guy with his pronouns
00:34:16.120
or his bio,
00:34:16.840
or he says he's a feminist,
00:34:18.000
I'm like, bye.
00:34:19.040
I'm just not interested
00:34:20.660
because I'm not...
00:34:22.760
The kind of woman I am
00:34:24.620
will not fit you fundamentally.
00:34:27.060
And I often say,
00:34:28.700
and my friends say this as well,
00:34:29.800
Leah gets a little shit
00:34:30.900
for saying this,
00:34:31.440
but I don't want to be
00:34:33.280
in a leadership position
00:34:34.080
in my relationship.
00:34:34.940
I just don't want to.
00:34:36.140
I don't care for it.
00:34:37.120
I love being in a support world
00:34:38.080
because I think I'm best suited
00:34:39.660
to do that.
00:34:40.420
I would love to be a mother.
00:34:41.360
I love sort of taking care of a home
00:34:42.840
and I buy fresh flowers
00:34:44.280
for the house every week.
00:34:45.160
It's ridiculous.
00:34:45.900
It's stupid.
00:34:46.440
You come and see these bouquets
00:34:48.040
in front of my house,
00:34:48.800
but it makes me happy.
00:34:50.000
And I love that.
00:34:50.880
And I love how it brightens a room
00:34:52.980
and lifts the ambience in a place.
00:34:55.840
That's just how I am.
00:34:56.940
And I think most women
00:34:57.920
are built that way.
00:34:58.540
That's why the beauty industry
00:34:59.440
is a trillion dollar industry, right?
00:35:01.580
Beauty and sort of appearance
00:35:03.380
and relationships
00:35:04.080
and all these things
00:35:04.580
matter to us women
00:35:05.360
a lot more than men.
00:35:07.300
Why is it so controversial
00:35:08.340
to say that?
00:35:09.340
Why is it a lot of people
00:35:11.040
don't want to admit this,
00:35:12.480
particularly women?
00:35:13.340
Like if you were a man
00:35:14.540
saying what you just said,
00:35:15.680
you'd literally be Andrew Tate.
00:35:17.420
Yeah.
00:35:17.820
Literally.
00:35:18.060
Oh yeah, I would be, yeah.
00:35:19.240
You know what I mean?
00:35:20.040
People ask me what my opinion of him is
00:35:21.700
and I say, oh yeah, he's great.
00:35:22.620
He's really nice.
00:35:23.180
And I know people that know him
00:35:24.180
and they've only said
00:35:25.040
positive things about him.
00:35:26.000
And I just think,
00:35:26.480
I don't hang around with idiots.
00:35:27.480
Everyone I keep in my circle,
00:35:28.780
I really respect
00:35:29.880
and I really hold the opinion
00:35:31.620
in high regard.
00:35:32.460
And they're like, he's great.
00:35:33.220
He's lovely.
00:35:33.760
He's polite.
00:35:34.420
He's, you know.
00:35:35.660
But you know what I mean?
00:35:36.380
The way society
00:35:37.220
would view a man saying that.
00:35:38.460
Because they're not real
00:35:39.140
with themselves.
00:35:39.860
This is the thing.
00:35:40.760
And the people that have dominated
00:35:42.100
the conversation
00:35:42.820
are people from a very sort of narrow,
00:35:45.780
with a very narrow viewpoint
00:35:46.820
on this issue.
00:35:47.940
It's obvious.
00:35:48.660
It is very obvious.
00:35:49.860
Anyone, even parents
00:35:50.980
can tell the difference
00:35:52.000
between their son and their daughter.
00:35:53.140
My room has been pink
00:35:54.320
since I could remember.
00:35:55.780
Everyone comes into my room
00:35:56.760
and is like, everything is pink.
00:35:57.900
I'm like, yeah, my mom decorated it.
00:35:59.180
The curtains are pink.
00:36:00.300
The bed, I only have pink bed sheets.
00:36:02.160
The walls are pink.
00:36:03.960
And it's always been,
00:36:05.040
I have princess stickers.
00:36:06.140
Even when I go home to Ghana,
00:36:07.120
they're still there.
00:36:07.980
Disney princess stickers.
00:36:09.640
But people just don't want
00:36:11.580
to be real with themselves.
00:36:12.240
And I think the conversation
00:36:13.060
has been so taken over
00:36:14.920
by people of a very narrow viewpoint.
00:36:17.320
No woman wants a very effeminate man
00:36:19.700
who doesn't like to lead.
00:36:20.660
No man wants to feel like
00:36:21.680
a bitch in his own home.
00:36:23.080
You know, and even to this day,
00:36:24.460
and I don't think it's oppressive, right?
00:36:25.680
I'll ask my mom,
00:36:26.400
oh, can we do this?
00:36:27.100
And she's like, okay,
00:36:27.640
let me ask your dad.
00:36:28.720
That's what the hierarchy looks like.
00:36:30.360
Like he's always worked.
00:36:31.180
She's always been the support system.
00:36:32.240
She doesn't feel oppressed.
00:36:32.960
My mom is nothing.
00:36:33.800
She's definitely not a pushover.
00:36:36.240
But the people that have dominated
00:36:38.120
the conversation like,
00:36:39.100
oh, women don't want to do this.
00:36:40.220
You know what women don't want to do?
00:36:41.180
Women don't want to work
00:36:42.040
60 hours a week
00:36:42.840
and then come home,
00:36:43.460
have to take care of the kids
00:36:44.280
and then still have to sleep
00:36:45.440
with their husband at night.
00:36:46.300
We don't want to do that.
00:36:47.080
I'm sorry.
00:36:47.720
I want to look hot.
00:36:48.760
I want to shit on my husband.
00:36:50.780
I want to have kids.
00:36:51.600
I want to make sure my family
00:36:52.560
and whole my life.
00:36:53.220
And then everything extra
00:36:54.000
is a bonus.
00:36:54.640
It's a blessing.
00:36:55.480
I want to make sure my community
00:36:56.780
and me and my husband's kingdom
00:36:58.240
is together
00:36:58.940
before I do all the extras
00:37:00.320
and call myself a boss bitch
00:37:02.100
or whatever.
00:37:02.820
But isn't the problem though
00:37:06.140
is that that isn't really affordable
00:37:08.880
for the vast majority of women?
00:37:10.460
I think it is.
00:37:12.040
I think when you say affordable
00:37:13.420
as in like getting a house
00:37:14.320
and kids.
00:37:14.760
Getting a house,
00:37:15.460
getting kids.
00:37:16.020
Kids are expensive.
00:37:16.900
Housing is...
00:37:17.840
People have made kids expensive.
00:37:19.960
Either that
00:37:20.640
or the way I grew up
00:37:21.500
has influenced me a lot
00:37:22.860
because if I have a kid,
00:37:24.940
first of all,
00:37:26.240
you're eating...
00:37:27.060
Okay, let me not.
00:37:27.920
Let me measure the house.
00:37:29.200
I don't think kids need
00:37:30.380
to be expensive, right?
00:37:31.620
In my background,
00:37:33.720
you know,
00:37:33.940
it's very normal
00:37:34.420
that when you have kids
00:37:35.260
after they grow to a certain age,
00:37:36.420
you give the kids clothes
00:37:37.180
to your cousin
00:37:37.760
who's just had a kid
00:37:38.600
or whatever.
00:37:39.800
In terms of...
00:37:40.300
You share resources
00:37:41.000
because it's a kid, right?
00:37:42.360
I don't want to see
00:37:43.320
any Burberry tags
00:37:44.300
on a kid's clothes.
00:37:45.120
It's Primark,
00:37:45.700
Primark and Poundland.
00:37:48.120
Really,
00:37:48.680
kids cost,
00:37:49.300
I think maintenance
00:37:49.880
should be as minimal
00:37:50.760
as possible
00:37:51.240
because one,
00:37:51.680
they'll grow up,
00:37:52.080
two,
00:37:52.180
they won't remember it.
00:37:52.920
And if you want to spend
00:37:53.520
anything on kids,
00:37:54.300
it should be more experiences.
00:37:55.040
I should have married,
00:37:55.840
estimate.
00:37:57.100
Honestly.
00:37:57.620
Because my son
00:37:58.340
is pretty expensive right now,
00:37:59.820
let me tell you.
00:38:00.440
I would wear...
00:38:00.880
I don't care.
00:38:01.360
I mean,
00:38:01.540
I like nice stuff.
00:38:02.280
I'm not going to lie.
00:38:02.820
I would wear like
00:38:03.540
the nicer stuff
00:38:04.300
and carry like
00:38:04.800
a three grand bag
00:38:05.940
or whatever.
00:38:06.380
My kid is wearing Primark
00:38:07.440
to the day they die.
00:38:08.720
And I can...
00:38:09.520
I will attest to that
00:38:10.540
because probably up
00:38:11.780
until a couple of years ago,
00:38:12.560
I was wearing Primark.
00:38:13.600
If my parents paid for it,
00:38:14.940
it was either M&S on sale
00:38:16.240
or Primark.
00:38:17.200
And my mum would be like,
00:38:17.700
you don't need anything else.
00:38:18.980
Like,
00:38:19.160
what do you fundamentally need?
00:38:20.140
We feed you,
00:38:20.800
we clothe you,
00:38:21.440
your education is important
00:38:25.040
but I think also the structure,
00:38:26.660
the way my parents structured
00:38:27.480
the home is,
00:38:28.500
they are at the top.
00:38:29.340
It's a pyramid.
00:38:30.040
If they and their marriage
00:38:31.200
is not solid,
00:38:31.900
if their kingdom is not solid,
00:38:33.260
the kids will suffer.
00:38:34.460
So they need to make sure
00:38:35.120
that they're okay,
00:38:35.760
their relationship is up top.
00:38:36.860
And then the kids benefit
00:38:37.740
from that structure.
00:38:38.760
It doesn't have to come from money.
00:38:39.940
I mean,
00:38:40.340
if my parents went,
00:38:41.700
and I don't want to picture this
00:38:42.560
because I'd make me want
00:38:43.080
to boil my eyes in bleach,
00:38:44.080
but they went skinny to pink
00:38:44.920
and Bora Bora.
00:38:45.920
I'm happy for them now
00:38:47.000
because I know that
00:38:47.600
they were doing it
00:38:48.200
to keep the house together
00:38:49.080
because they're nourishing
00:38:50.460
and they're fortifying
00:38:51.220
their marriage
00:38:51.680
for the benefit of everyone
00:38:52.640
and not just us,
00:38:53.360
the kids,
00:38:53.700
but the community at large,
00:38:54.920
the small kingdoms
00:38:55.660
within the big kingdom,
00:38:57.300
which is society.
00:38:58.420
And that's broken up now
00:38:59.820
because we don't really
00:39:00.700
want to talk about that.
00:39:01.480
We don't really want
00:39:02.380
to talk about what men want.
00:39:03.260
And I think men have got
00:39:03.920
a raw deal more than women,
00:39:05.880
actually.
00:39:06.280
Why?
00:39:07.000
I went on my brother,
00:39:07.960
because my brother,
00:39:08.480
he's in a relationship now,
00:39:09.320
but I went on his dating app
00:39:10.300
and I was like,
00:39:10.720
whew,
00:39:11.320
this is sad.
00:39:13.320
He's got one,
00:39:13.980
one's like two stone overweight.
00:39:16.080
You have one with blue hair.
00:39:17.260
Someone's got a,
00:39:17.860
like a bull ring.
00:39:18.720
You know that thing they use?
00:39:19.780
Okay.
00:39:20.020
I don't know why
00:39:20.500
that's a fashion now,
00:39:21.240
but when I was a kid,
00:39:22.860
the only cows had that thing
00:39:23.840
in their nose.
00:39:24.120
You know,
00:39:24.640
I always have the same reaction.
00:39:26.220
Yeah,
00:39:26.480
I'm just like,
00:39:27.240
for what reason?
00:39:28.260
Like why?
00:39:28.660
My cousin had,
00:39:29.200
I was like,
00:39:29.400
put that shit in your face.
00:39:30.980
She's not allowed
00:39:31.540
to wear around me.
00:39:32.660
But I was looking at
00:39:33.780
sort of the girls going
00:39:35.260
and I was like,
00:39:35.820
wow.
00:39:36.100
And then like 1920,
00:39:37.860
you're beautiful.
00:39:38.800
You're intelligent.
00:39:39.660
Speak well.
00:39:40.280
You come from a good home.
00:39:41.360
You're blessed.
00:39:42.020
You have food on.
00:39:42.860
You go to the fridge
00:39:43.860
and there's food in there,
00:39:44.620
right?
00:39:44.740
You're not starving.
00:39:45.520
You live in a home.
00:39:46.120
You live in the UK.
00:39:46.860
You live in the fifth
00:39:47.400
most developed country
00:39:48.100
in the world.
00:39:48.900
Be effervescent.
00:39:49.880
Be happy.
00:39:50.380
Be light.
00:39:51.380
You know,
00:39:51.540
don't be a raging bitch
00:39:52.500
constantly complaining
00:39:53.200
about microaggressions.
00:39:54.900
But I just think,
00:39:56.520
ew,
00:39:57.400
like why?
00:39:58.300
But I don't have that
00:39:59.340
necessarily much of a problem
00:40:00.240
because one,
00:40:00.740
I date older,
00:40:01.540
I'll be honest.
00:40:02.000
But also I think men,
00:40:03.440
when they're clued up,
00:40:04.220
they get clued up properly.
00:40:05.240
Like they know
00:40:05.800
not to do certain things
00:40:06.980
because it's just unattractive
00:40:08.120
and they have a harder time.
00:40:09.040
So I think they have
00:40:09.600
to invest more in themselves
00:40:10.800
to even attract any women
00:40:12.220
as opposed to women
00:40:13.000
that can be,
00:40:14.220
look like a complete wildebeest
00:40:15.360
and there's still someone
00:40:16.360
that wants to sleep with her.
00:40:18.100
Hey Francis,
00:40:19.440
if you were a member
00:40:20.420
of the public,
00:40:21.180
would you like the opportunity
00:40:22.320
to ask incredible guests
00:40:24.280
like Bill Burr,
00:40:25.600
Jordan Peterson,
00:40:26.820
Sam Harris,
00:40:27.860
Adam Carolla,
00:40:28.720
Brett Weinstein,
00:40:29.820
John Barnes,
00:40:30.960
Douglas Murray,
00:40:32.100
Nigel Farage
00:40:32.900
and Lionel Shriver
00:40:33.840
your own questions?
00:40:35.200
You bet I would.
00:40:36.600
And what do you think
00:40:37.680
the best way
00:40:38.460
to do that would be?
00:40:39.780
Er,
00:40:40.060
probably stalking, mate.
00:40:41.300
You'd have to corner them
00:40:42.460
in the supermarket,
00:40:44.140
probably run near like
00:40:45.320
the sort of frozen food aisles
00:40:46.960
and then just bark questions
00:40:48.800
at them before they can escape.
00:40:50.880
Not the American ones
00:40:52.080
as they have guns.
00:40:53.600
And you'd have to be
00:40:54.300
extra careful with the females
00:40:55.720
as that's how I got in trouble
00:40:57.640
last time.
00:40:59.040
Can you really imagine
00:40:59.720
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00:41:00.820
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00:41:02.220
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See you there, guys.
00:42:36.820
Esther,
00:42:37.200
do you think we have
00:42:37.760
a fundamental problem
00:42:38.760
in our society
00:42:39.540
where we're not honest
00:42:41.080
with one another?
00:42:41.900
Yes.
00:42:42.340
And I think the people
00:42:43.040
that are monopolising
00:42:43.700
the conversation
00:42:44.280
have too much power
00:42:46.300
and I think
00:42:47.080
they make it easy
00:42:48.260
for people
00:42:49.700
to be
00:42:50.300
villainised.
00:42:52.520
Right.
00:42:52.720
That's the problem.
00:42:53.720
What I'm saying now
00:42:54.400
shouldn't be controversial.
00:42:55.100
A lot of what Anu Tate says
00:42:56.120
shouldn't be controversial.
00:42:57.240
A lot of what people
00:42:57.820
in my kind of space,
00:42:59.500
I suppose,
00:43:00.120
conservative, liberal,
00:43:01.120
the basics,
00:43:01.920
fundamentals about
00:43:02.520
intersexual dynamics,
00:43:03.580
it shouldn't be controversial.
00:43:05.200
But we're out here
00:43:06.620
having debates,
00:43:07.880
news articles saying,
00:43:09.000
do parents need
00:43:10.080
to get married
00:43:10.660
or do children
00:43:12.080
need to be
00:43:13.200
with married parents
00:43:13.980
for the success
00:43:15.120
of the home?
00:43:15.500
I'm like,
00:43:15.760
well, yes.
00:43:16.740
Why do you even need
00:43:17.560
to ask that question?
00:43:18.360
But it's kind of trying
00:43:19.040
to normalise this idea
00:43:19.920
that anything goes.
00:43:21.220
Right.
00:43:21.460
And the evidence
00:43:22.140
is very clear
00:43:23.060
on what the consequences
00:43:24.960
are for children
00:43:25.740
growing up
00:43:26.420
outside a family home
00:43:27.800
versus two parents,
00:43:30.040
what the consequences are.
00:43:31.780
But we've got to a point,
00:43:33.060
like I think Francis
00:43:34.000
is getting at,
00:43:34.680
where being honest
00:43:35.500
about these issues
00:43:36.240
is, like you say,
00:43:38.360
liable to get you punished,
00:43:40.600
right?
00:43:40.920
Now we're not just
00:43:41.740
being dishonest,
00:43:42.380
we're lying.
00:43:43.260
So there will be,
00:43:44.320
you have,
00:43:45.020
there's this section online
00:43:46.300
that really does my head in
00:43:47.340
and they're like,
00:43:47.660
oh, they became a delinquent
00:43:49.280
because they were poor.
00:43:50.560
And I really fundamentally
00:43:51.440
disagree with that
00:43:52.080
because I don't think
00:43:52.780
being lower, middle,
00:43:55.300
or whatever,
00:43:55.880
not being wealthy
00:43:56.640
means that you're going
00:43:57.760
to go down
00:43:58.140
a life of crime.
00:43:58.720
Because I was like,
00:43:59.060
well, if that was the case,
00:43:59.900
then most of the undeveloped,
00:44:01.040
well, the developing world
00:44:02.580
would be ungovernable,
00:44:03.900
right?
00:44:04.560
In Ghana, for instance,
00:44:05.240
I feel very safe, right?
00:44:06.360
People are not very wealthy,
00:44:07.500
but there's a family structure there
00:44:08.800
because there's
00:44:09.520
an authority hierarchy.
00:44:10.880
You know,
00:44:11.180
if you go and steal from someone
00:44:12.140
and someone finds out
00:44:12.860
your dad is going to
00:44:13.520
whoop your ass,
00:44:14.780
like he will beat you up
00:44:16.060
and you will be disciplined,
00:44:17.440
right?
00:44:17.880
The social fabric is such
00:44:19.320
that you instill morals
00:44:20.660
in people without having
00:44:21.560
it come down to,
00:44:22.740
oh, you know,
00:44:23.320
it's because that person
00:44:24.720
is poor,
00:44:26.300
not the fact that
00:44:27.040
they didn't come from
00:44:27.500
a two-parent household
00:44:28.180
with a solid authority structure
00:44:29.400
that teaches them
00:44:30.220
right from wrong.
00:44:30.980
That is more valuable
00:44:31.980
than investing in the police,
00:44:33.500
frankly.
00:44:34.400
And it's more valuable
00:44:35.020
over generations.
00:44:35.660
Such a good point.
00:44:36.700
See,
00:44:37.060
we obviously have covered
00:44:38.640
the issue of,
00:44:39.380
you know,
00:44:39.840
absent fathers
00:44:40.860
and all of that
00:44:41.760
quite a bit.
00:44:42.800
But the way you put it there
00:44:44.220
is actually makes
00:44:46.000
a tremendous amount of sense,
00:44:47.680
which is,
00:44:48.500
you know,
00:44:50.300
if you are able
00:44:51.740
to guide society
00:44:52.900
towards having
00:44:53.720
more family stability,
00:44:55.120
then the amount of money
00:44:56.100
you then end up having
00:44:57.100
to spend on the
00:44:57.780
criminal justice system,
00:44:59.040
the police,
00:45:00.080
the prisons,
00:45:01.320
the...
00:45:01.700
Foster care,
00:45:02.180
all of that.
00:45:02.600
It just,
00:45:02.920
it tanks.
00:45:03.820
And,
00:45:04.280
but this,
00:45:04.640
this is the thing.
00:45:05.200
So I often say that
00:45:06.380
one of the reasons
00:45:07.220
why I behave the way
00:45:08.500
I do in public
00:45:08.960
and I carry myself
00:45:09.600
the way I do
00:45:09.940
and my brother does
00:45:10.620
is because
00:45:11.040
it's not just me.
00:45:12.440
I have a family
00:45:13.220
that are saying,
00:45:14.480
Kukwa,
00:45:14.720
you're representing us.
00:45:15.560
Do you know what I mean?
00:45:16.440
I come from this home.
00:45:17.640
I come from a home.
00:45:18.780
Behave like you come
00:45:19.480
from a home,
00:45:19.940
like you were raised properly.
00:45:21.200
So for instance,
00:45:21.720
I was like,
00:45:22.120
you know,
00:45:22.400
I didn't go to carnival
00:45:23.180
because I was doing some work,
00:45:24.500
but I was like,
00:45:24.760
if I go to carnival
00:45:25.440
and someone tries to bend me
00:45:26.560
over and dagger me,
00:45:27.380
hell no.
00:45:27.980
Ew.
00:45:28.440
Why am I going to have
00:45:29.180
a picture of me being daggered
00:45:30.240
and like a rug floating
00:45:31.820
on the internet?
00:45:32.280
My parents would kill me,
00:45:33.700
right?
00:45:33.940
Or leaving my house
00:45:34.760
in a bonnet,
00:45:35.760
dressing gown and slippers.
00:45:37.320
That is,
00:45:37.920
that's not,
00:45:38.540
it's not just the fact
00:45:39.260
that I would feel embarrassed,
00:45:40.020
but I'm like,
00:45:40.520
God,
00:45:40.820
my parents invested so much
00:45:42.120
to raise me in a certain way.
00:45:43.540
And I'm going out there
00:45:44.160
to disgrace myself
00:45:45.080
and embarrass myself.
00:45:45.920
And it's the same with my brother.
00:45:46.940
He would never sort of go out
00:45:48.300
in public,
00:45:49.180
I don't know,
00:45:50.460
dressed like a hoodlum
00:45:51.600
and think,
00:45:52.480
yeah,
00:45:52.640
he's a bad man today.
00:45:53.780
Because first of all,
00:45:54.640
I wouldn't let him
00:45:55.000
out of the house.
00:45:55.480
I'd be like,
00:45:55.620
hey,
00:45:56.160
young man.
00:45:57.360
I will handcuff you
00:45:58.400
to the radiator
00:45:58.940
unless you change.
00:46:00.280
But you know,
00:46:00.960
but there's,
00:46:01.800
that is how you,
00:46:02.700
you keep a society intact.
00:46:03.920
When people know
00:46:04.660
that they come from somewhere,
00:46:05.680
that they have a responsibility
00:46:06.440
on their shoulder
00:46:07.120
and they,
00:46:08.500
the way that they behave matters,
00:46:09.640
not just outside of themselves
00:46:11.080
or the immediate
00:46:11.960
consequences,
00:46:12.620
but as part of a bigger structure.
00:46:14.420
That's how you keep things together.
00:46:15.440
Not sort of investing
00:46:16.700
more in the police
00:46:17.360
or telling people
00:46:18.220
everything,
00:46:18.920
anything goes,
00:46:19.640
be yourself.
00:46:20.500
But also,
00:46:21.240
you know,
00:46:21.420
why has crime gone up?
00:46:22.600
Well,
00:46:22.780
we need to just put more money
00:46:23.820
into the police.
00:46:24.180
There will never be enough
00:46:24.920
police officers
00:46:25.680
to kind of keep society in check.
00:46:28.780
A large part of that
00:46:29.460
comes from the home
00:46:30.080
and how people are raised.
00:46:32.000
And I think that's
00:46:32.720
what makes the difference.
00:46:34.240
It is.
00:46:35.060
Look,
00:46:35.820
I was a former teacher,
00:46:36.860
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:46:37.760
But you saw the kids
00:46:38.760
who had trouble,
00:46:40.380
were focusing
00:46:40.980
or concentrating
00:46:41.880
or got in trouble at school
00:46:43.520
and you were like,
00:46:44.040
no, dad,
00:46:44.560
dad isn't at home.
00:46:45.420
Dad's walked out.
00:46:46.620
Yeah.
00:46:46.820
It's very simple.
00:46:48.500
I mean,
00:46:48.700
the single motherhood rate
00:46:49.660
in the Indian community
00:46:50.280
is 6%, right?
00:46:51.860
How many
00:46:52.500
sort of primarily
00:46:53.280
Indian-based gangs
00:46:54.160
do you see around the country?
00:46:55.680
I mean,
00:46:56.520
unless they're bursting out
00:46:59.720
into song every two minutes.
00:47:00.540
Like,
00:47:00.780
you just,
00:47:01.140
you don't see that.
00:47:01.820
I have a huge respect
00:47:03.200
for Indian and South Asian communities
00:47:04.920
in this country
00:47:05.420
because I think they get it.
00:47:07.260
And I think sort of,
00:47:08.220
even black African families
00:47:09.340
that are,
00:47:09.840
you know,
00:47:10.460
Christian or Muslim
00:47:11.080
but keep their family intact,
00:47:12.500
I don't think they understand
00:47:13.520
how much of a credit
00:47:14.260
they are to the society
00:47:15.160
and how much really
00:47:15.840
they are holding Britain together.
00:47:18.500
Esther,
00:47:18.800
so,
00:47:19.280
I think you're making
00:47:20.600
really good points.
00:47:21.420
Sorry to interrupt.
00:47:22.100
I just,
00:47:22.580
every time we have this conversation,
00:47:24.100
what I wonder is,
00:47:25.660
how do we change this?
00:47:27.180
How do we improve this?
00:47:28.260
How do we make these things better?
00:47:29.620
Now,
00:47:29.820
obviously,
00:47:30.440
you making the point
00:47:31.920
is important.
00:47:33.040
You saying what you think
00:47:34.160
is important
00:47:34.640
and that's why
00:47:35.960
we wanted to have you on
00:47:37.000
because I think your voice
00:47:37.880
is valuable
00:47:38.340
and so does Francis
00:47:39.080
and so do many
00:47:40.100
of the people watching.
00:47:41.400
But what are some of the steps
00:47:42.840
that we can take
00:47:43.940
as a society
00:47:44.620
to get us
00:47:45.540
to an understanding?
00:47:47.780
Because this is one,
00:47:48.380
when Francis asked you
00:47:49.140
about conservatism,
00:47:50.020
really,
00:47:50.440
I think at the core
00:47:51.220
of what you are talking about
00:47:52.580
is family,
00:47:54.200
family structure
00:47:55.180
and an appreciation
00:47:57.120
that just because
00:47:58.320
you may not have
00:47:59.360
right in the second
00:48:00.240
a super logical explanation
00:48:01.700
of why some things
00:48:02.460
work for thousands of years,
00:48:03.840
maybe it's not necessarily
00:48:05.120
the right thing
00:48:05.740
to throw it out of the window,
00:48:07.180
right?
00:48:07.520
So that's where
00:48:08.360
you're coming from.
00:48:09.420
But how do we get more people?
00:48:11.240
And this is where I come back
00:48:12.240
to the housing crisis,
00:48:13.300
right?
00:48:13.900
Because I agree with you.
00:48:16.540
I really do.
00:48:17.820
But I think many people
00:48:19.220
would recognize also
00:48:20.380
that we do have a situation
00:48:21.960
where it's so difficult
00:48:23.060
for young people
00:48:23.740
to pair up,
00:48:24.580
to get together,
00:48:25.660
to have kids.
00:48:26.560
I hear you,
00:48:27.480
kids don't have to be expensive.
00:48:29.280
But I think that's the first point,
00:48:30.500
the pairing up bit.
00:48:31.400
That's what we need.
00:48:32.380
So I think one
00:48:33.880
is to be an example yourself.
00:48:35.720
So I think I would feel
00:48:36.720
like a bit of a hypocrite
00:48:37.420
if I'm in my 40s
00:48:38.200
and like never married,
00:48:39.420
never had kids
00:48:39.920
or divorced or whatever.
00:48:40.820
I think personal responsibility
00:48:43.340
is huge for me personally.
00:48:44.940
And I place a huge responsibility
00:48:46.160
on myself and how I behave
00:48:47.400
because I have to stick
00:48:49.320
to the morals and values
00:48:50.400
that I espouse
00:48:51.160
to show people
00:48:52.440
that it is possible.
00:48:53.200
So for me,
00:48:54.320
I aspire to that
00:48:55.500
sort of ideal
00:48:56.400
of marriage and kids
00:48:57.620
and being a good wife
00:48:59.000
and staying together
00:48:59.660
and all of that.
00:49:00.420
And understanding that
00:49:01.320
marriage is not always
00:49:01.920
going to be easy.
00:49:02.540
I'll have to lean on
00:49:03.220
my parents a lot
00:49:03.760
because I'm like,
00:49:04.480
he left the toilet seat up again.
00:49:06.760
You know,
00:49:07.220
I have to sort of...
00:49:08.080
I pray for you
00:49:08.860
that is the smallest
00:49:09.580
of the problems in marriage.
00:49:10.620
But, you know,
00:49:13.040
lean on sort of
00:49:13.700
the established wisdom
00:49:14.520
to be able to get
00:49:15.360
through my life.
00:49:15.800
So one is be an example yourself.
00:49:17.240
You're going to talk about that.
00:49:18.220
Try and aspire for that yourself.
00:49:20.560
But also,
00:49:21.280
I think we should normalize
00:49:22.820
certain common sense things
00:49:24.480
like a man typically
00:49:26.360
doesn't want a woman
00:49:27.780
that's vulgar,
00:49:28.680
tattered up,
00:49:29.500
blue hair,
00:49:30.360
overweight,
00:49:31.440
you know,
00:49:31.680
not feminine,
00:49:32.520
doesn't have a set,
00:49:33.360
doesn't want kids,
00:49:34.340
all these things.
00:49:35.040
We should normalize that.
00:49:36.000
Like, you know,
00:49:36.820
saying,
00:49:37.400
telling people that
00:49:38.180
because they're not attracted
00:49:39.060
to trans women,
00:49:39.640
they're bigoted
00:49:40.200
is quite ridiculous, right?
00:49:42.460
We should normalize
00:49:43.480
traditional family values
00:49:45.080
and traditional roles
00:49:45.980
and we should stop shaming
00:49:46.920
or making women feel like
00:49:48.720
if they don't want
00:49:49.520
to have a massive career
00:49:50.580
or if they want to stay home
00:49:51.260
and take care of their kids
00:49:52.360
and they have to, you know,
00:49:53.900
struggle a little bit
00:49:54.780
in the beginning,
00:49:55.580
that that's fine.
00:49:56.600
Will they not be a part of you?
00:49:57.740
Like, you go,
00:49:58.940
I've had this successful TV career.
00:50:01.080
I've been on all these amazing shows
00:50:02.800
like Trigonometry.
00:50:04.040
Like, I've done all this cool stuff
00:50:05.780
and now I'm just a housewife.
00:50:08.540
I don't think I'll ever be
00:50:09.540
just a housewife.
00:50:10.240
I mean, I also pole dance.
00:50:13.240
So I'd be quite an interesting wife
00:50:15.400
but I do other things as well
00:50:16.580
because for me,
00:50:17.280
it's just feeling like
00:50:18.500
I'm being stimulated enough
00:50:19.620
mentally and physically.
00:50:21.200
So I'll always find an...
00:50:22.200
But the status stuff
00:50:22.780
you're not bothered about.
00:50:23.780
No, I'm not bothered.
00:50:24.700
I mean, to what end?
00:50:25.600
Like, what does it do for me?
00:50:27.280
So far as I'm influencing people
00:50:28.680
in the right way
00:50:29.360
and I'm being an inspiration,
00:50:30.360
I think I'm doing my job.
00:50:31.540
I'm happy, right?
00:50:32.520
If I have kids
00:50:34.000
and I'm taking care of them
00:50:34.640
and I'm in a happy marriage
00:50:35.480
and I'm an inspiration to people,
00:50:37.140
that's me doing my job.
00:50:38.540
Right?
00:50:38.800
And I think everything else
00:50:39.620
is just an extra
00:50:40.240
and it's a blessing.
00:50:41.280
But I think looking to yourself
00:50:42.480
and how you structure your life
00:50:43.500
is the first thing.
00:50:44.100
You can't, you know,
00:50:45.180
you can't put the world to rights
00:50:46.180
if your life is completely out of whack.
00:50:48.040
That's ridiculous.
00:50:49.160
But I also think, you know,
00:50:50.220
pushing more socially
00:50:51.340
conservative politicians.
00:50:52.900
I think the fact that childcare
00:50:54.100
is subsidized
00:50:54.900
in terms of sort of actual daycares
00:50:56.720
but stay-at-home mothers aren't
00:50:58.240
is a complete shambles.
00:50:59.960
And I think that flies in the face
00:51:01.380
of everything we want to achieve.
00:51:02.400
And the fact that it's
00:51:02.880
a conservative government
00:51:03.640
that hasn't even appreciated this fact
00:51:05.580
is disheartening.
00:51:06.980
But that's, on a political level,
00:51:08.620
that's how I'd say
00:51:09.220
we'd get to grips with that.
00:51:10.920
On a personal level,
00:51:11.640
live your life as you say
00:51:12.700
other people should live their lives
00:51:13.800
and have strict standards for yourself.
00:51:15.920
On a societal level,
00:51:16.720
we need to just get real.
00:51:18.020
We need to make male-female dynamics,
00:51:20.640
traditional roles popular again
00:51:22.320
and stop, you know,
00:51:24.040
when a woman says,
00:51:25.180
actually, I want to stay at home
00:51:26.840
and raise kids
00:51:27.420
or I love cooking for my husband
00:51:28.480
or whatever,
00:51:28.900
let's stop demonizing her.
00:51:30.000
Let's praise her.
00:51:30.740
And let's have,
00:51:32.840
let's do a bit more shaming.
00:51:34.120
Let's have that.
00:51:35.300
I absolutely believe
00:51:37.440
in shaming women
00:51:38.040
that leave their houses
00:51:38.800
in a bonnet
00:51:39.440
or you leave your house
00:51:40.540
and you're like...
00:51:40.780
What's a bonnet?
00:51:42.080
It's a black girl thing.
00:51:43.260
Like, you know,
00:51:43.600
it's kind of just
00:51:44.240
to keep your hair intact
00:51:45.020
while you sleep.
00:51:45.840
You wear it at home.
00:51:46.820
Yeah.
00:51:47.340
You know,
00:51:47.680
it's something you wear in your house.
00:51:49.800
What you wear at home
00:51:50.760
and what you wear into the public
00:51:51.720
sends a message, right?
00:51:52.880
Dress decently,
00:51:53.900
don't look like a tramp,
00:51:54.880
throw away your Crocs.
00:51:56.140
You know,
00:51:56.740
I'm absolutely here for it.
00:51:58.760
I believe in shaming,
00:51:59.720
but I have the same standards
00:52:00.840
for men, right?
00:52:01.800
Dress well,
00:52:02.300
they're holes in your trousers.
00:52:03.260
Why?
00:52:04.200
You know,
00:52:04.880
speak properly,
00:52:05.880
open the doors for women,
00:52:06.840
be a gentleman
00:52:07.460
because then she will treat,
00:52:08.560
she will treat you
00:52:09.160
like the lady she is, right?
00:52:10.580
And she will be kind
00:52:11.300
and caring towards you
00:52:12.240
and feminine.
00:52:13.160
I think if you live your life
00:52:14.540
that way,
00:52:15.300
you are,
00:52:15.700
you are sending a positive
00:52:16.560
and powerful message
00:52:17.460
and we need to do
00:52:18.300
a bit more shaming
00:52:18.920
because,
00:52:19.960
and I don't really care,
00:52:20.880
but you can see that
00:52:21.580
from my Twitter feed.
00:52:22.600
The fact that someone told me
00:52:24.140
they're obese
00:52:24.660
because they're poor
00:52:25.500
and I was like,
00:52:26.400
how did you get the food
00:52:27.760
if you're poor?
00:52:28.760
But isn't there also
00:52:31.180
like with that,
00:52:31.980
I mean,
00:52:32.240
there is a certain level,
00:52:33.660
like the food
00:52:34.600
that you're going to be able
00:52:35.420
to afford
00:52:35.900
is not high quality.
00:52:37.080
I don't buy that.
00:52:38.340
You don't buy that?
00:52:38.720
I don't buy that
00:52:39.300
and I have a friend,
00:52:40.200
Ricky Gleeson,
00:52:40.800
who did an experiment
00:52:41.540
on Twitter
00:52:42.020
because he said
00:52:42.480
he was broke
00:52:42.900
for most of his life
00:52:43.640
and he was also
00:52:44.400
a heroin addict
00:52:45.000
for most of his young adult life
00:52:46.460
and he's never been overweight.
00:52:48.000
Well, I mean,
00:52:48.300
heroin does have that effect.
00:52:49.620
It's an appetite suppression.
00:52:50.940
The thing is,
00:52:51.240
he's never been
00:52:52.140
in a situation
00:52:53.440
where he's had plenty
00:52:54.580
or even moderate amounts.
00:52:55.440
He's always been
00:52:56.140
very, very poor
00:52:56.840
and he was like,
00:52:58.320
you know,
00:52:58.820
it's about the choices you make.
00:53:00.880
Yes,
00:53:01.260
fast processed food is cheap
00:53:03.000
but so is the basics
00:53:04.460
that you need.
00:53:05.460
My brother is always like,
00:53:06.500
Kukwa,
00:53:06.740
why are there so many sardines
00:53:07.600
in this house?
00:53:08.120
Like,
00:53:08.560
bitch,
00:53:08.760
because that's 40p
00:53:09.480
and it's very healthy
00:53:11.280
and it's very good for you
00:53:12.220
and I don't need to spend money
00:53:14.480
on sort of McDonald's
00:53:16.100
which is five pounds
00:53:16.860
when I can buy 40p sardines,
00:53:19.400
buy some yams
00:53:20.260
or potatoes,
00:53:20.960
mash it together,
00:53:21.980
you know,
00:53:22.260
have some sauce
00:53:23.140
or something on the side
00:53:23.920
and eat it
00:53:24.240
and be very happy.
00:53:25.320
I cook for myself.
00:53:26.500
I buy the bare minimum
00:53:27.740
and I'm good,
00:53:28.600
right?
00:53:29.200
I don't think necessarily
00:53:30.300
because you're poor,
00:53:31.560
you have to be fat.
00:53:32.520
I just think it's
00:53:32.980
and also exercise is free.
00:53:35.100
The reason why I live
00:53:36.660
the way that I do
00:53:37.200
is one,
00:53:37.560
because obviously I pull down
00:53:38.300
and you have to be very fit
00:53:39.100
and I'm always up and down a pole
00:53:40.280
and I always have to go to osteopaths
00:53:41.720
and physio and all of that
00:53:42.820
but it's also because
00:53:43.780
it's mind and body.
00:53:45.280
If I'm fit
00:53:46.020
and I know I'm taking care of my body,
00:53:47.780
I feel better.
00:53:49.220
I'm more positive.
00:53:50.220
I'm happier towards people.
00:53:51.380
I'm more encouraging.
00:53:52.560
Me taking care of myself
00:53:53.600
and me putting in the work
00:53:55.060
to improve minor aspects of my life
00:53:57.220
is a net positive on society
00:53:58.920
because when people meet me,
00:54:00.340
I try and make their day better.
00:54:01.880
I try and, you know,
00:54:03.380
just make them happier
00:54:04.280
even if I make them smile,
00:54:05.300
even if I tell a joke,
00:54:06.800
you know,
00:54:07.400
and that's because
00:54:08.180
I'm in the state of mind
00:54:10.340
and body
00:54:10.760
to be able to have
00:54:11.500
a positive impact on society.
00:54:12.960
It's not just the fact
00:54:13.760
that people are obese, right?
00:54:15.420
A lot of those obese people
00:54:16.520
are on antidepressants.
00:54:17.680
A lot of those people
00:54:18.180
have negative sort of ideas
00:54:20.200
of themselves
00:54:20.740
and their negative view
00:54:21.800
of the world.
00:54:22.440
It's a downhill,
00:54:23.600
it's a downward slope
00:54:24.420
and I don't think people
00:54:25.460
understand how damaging it is.
00:54:26.860
Yeah, I don't think they do.
00:54:28.700
So I want to come back
00:54:29.500
to what you said about childcare
00:54:31.420
because it's an interesting point,
00:54:33.140
I think,
00:54:33.660
about the trap
00:54:35.740
that we do find ourselves
00:54:37.260
in to some extent
00:54:38.060
because from a government perspective,
00:54:41.000
subsidizing women
00:54:42.500
to stay at home with their kids
00:54:43.820
from an economic perspective.
00:54:45.620
Would be suicidal.
00:54:46.500
Absolutely terrible idea.
00:54:47.800
And this is the trap.
00:54:49.360
Once you, you know,
00:54:51.340
rightly open up the workforce
00:54:52.780
to women who want to work,
00:54:55.640
you've doubled the size
00:54:56.880
of the workforce
00:54:57.500
and nearly doubled.
00:54:58.260
You've stagnated wages.
00:54:59.720
Yeah, of course,
00:55:00.540
it has a massive effect
00:55:01.400
on downward pressure on wages,
00:55:03.220
but the economy is growing
00:55:04.880
and the economy must be growing.
00:55:06.980
The economy must always be growing.
00:55:08.000
A lot of the metrics they use
00:55:09.020
are vanity metrics, right?
00:55:10.060
They're talking about trade
00:55:11.000
and all of that.
00:55:11.480
And I'm like,
00:55:12.120
okay, it's trade,
00:55:12.860
but you're buying mostly
00:55:13.920
from other countries.
00:55:14.700
What are you actually producing?
00:55:15.640
Right.
00:55:16.040
The UK doesn't produce anything.
00:55:17.180
So this is what I'm getting at, right?
00:55:18.700
So because we have,
00:55:20.260
one of our first interviews
00:55:21.360
with an economist
00:55:22.060
called David Pilling
00:55:22.820
who talked about how GDP
00:55:23.900
is a completely useless measure
00:55:25.340
of a country's economic well-being.
00:55:28.100
But my point is,
00:55:29.400
if you encourage
00:55:30.460
some of the socially conservative policies
00:55:32.340
that you are talking about,
00:55:34.000
you are then taking women
00:55:35.380
back out of the workforce
00:55:36.780
and suddenly the economy
00:55:38.400
is not growing anymore
00:55:39.360
and we can't have that,
00:55:40.300
can we, Esther?
00:55:40.900
Not necessarily.
00:55:41.620
You force the economy to change.
00:55:43.180
You force the economy to restructure.
00:55:44.540
You force investment
00:55:45.240
to go where it needs to go.
00:55:46.860
You know,
00:55:47.080
you can't have it just,
00:55:48.020
because the thing is,
00:55:48.580
the jobs most women are doing
00:55:49.640
are not favourable jobs anyway.
00:55:50.960
Most women don't want to do
00:55:51.780
the kind of jobs
00:55:52.280
that they're doing now
00:55:52.900
in a cubicle,
00:55:54.600
you know,
00:55:54.860
office administrator
00:55:56.120
or whatever, right?
00:55:57.000
So it's not like you're taking away
00:55:57.880
high-flying jobs
00:55:58.620
in the first place.
00:55:59.620
But also,
00:56:00.200
I think that it's a societal benefit,
00:56:02.360
right?
00:56:02.760
It's not like the money is going,
00:56:03.840
you need to conjure the money up.
00:56:05.080
Move the money from childcare,
00:56:06.720
from these sort of
00:56:07.860
childcare institutions
00:56:08.580
to stay-at-home parents
00:56:10.180
because you're fortifying
00:56:11.440
the society's social structure.
00:56:13.300
It's better for the kids
00:56:15.040
to actually live
00:56:15.920
in that sort of environment
00:56:16.620
where they have
00:56:17.280
a primary caregiver
00:56:18.120
and they have that attention,
00:56:19.520
but they're also sort of
00:56:20.260
going to be around other kids
00:56:21.180
and all of that.
00:56:22.120
But also,
00:56:23.360
it forces the economy
00:56:24.740
to restructure
00:56:25.440
and that's what we need.
00:56:26.580
I mean,
00:56:26.900
I've said since the 1970s around,
00:56:29.280
most Western economies
00:56:30.140
have atrophied,
00:56:31.300
right?
00:56:31.600
People say like,
00:56:32.420
sort of Trump's rise
00:56:33.720
was the fact that he said
00:56:34.300
we're going to get
00:56:34.720
all the jobs back from China.
00:56:35.740
Actually,
00:56:36.500
moving production eastwards
00:56:37.640
is what saved a lot of the jobs
00:56:38.820
in Western countries
00:56:39.920
because,
00:56:41.040
no,
00:56:41.240
that's the truth
00:56:42.040
because these economies
00:56:43.120
were atrophying
00:56:43.800
in the 60s and 70s.
00:56:45.220
We weren't investing
00:56:46.040
in the right places.
00:56:47.140
I said the UK
00:56:47.680
doesn't produce anything
00:56:48.420
but we have the second largest
00:56:49.500
services industry
00:56:50.360
only,
00:56:50.840
you know,
00:56:51.320
second to the US,
00:56:52.200
right?
00:56:52.620
These are things
00:56:53.140
we need to invest in.
00:56:53.840
We need to invest
00:56:54.280
in high growth,
00:56:55.380
high tech industries
00:56:56.300
where it doesn't,
00:56:57.860
it's not because women
00:56:58.560
are not there
00:56:59.060
doing the menial jobs
00:56:59.820
they don't want to do anyway
00:57:00.660
that,
00:57:01.200
you know,
00:57:01.540
the society is tanking
00:57:02.720
or the economy is crumbling
00:57:03.680
or whatever.
00:57:04.120
That's a myth.
00:57:04.980
That's a fallacy.
00:57:06.040
And also,
00:57:06.720
a lot of the metrics
00:57:07.780
that they use
00:57:08.380
to measure growth
00:57:09.780
and success,
00:57:10.400
they're vanity metrics,
00:57:11.600
right?
00:57:11.900
Is your society a success
00:57:13.080
when,
00:57:13.500
you know,
00:57:14.820
homes are crumbling?
00:57:16.240
When kids are not growing up
00:57:17.380
in two-parent homes?
00:57:18.920
Is your society a success
00:57:19.840
when,
00:57:20.180
you know,
00:57:20.680
crime rates are through the roof
00:57:21.660
because people haven't been taught
00:57:22.740
proper discipline at home?
00:57:23.980
They haven't received
00:57:24.600
a backhand ever.
00:57:26.020
No,
00:57:26.220
I'm serious.
00:57:26.860
That's the thing.
00:57:27.740
These are vanity metrics
00:57:29.440
that they're using
00:57:30.120
because at the end of the day
00:57:31.060
it benefits
00:57:31.560
multinational corporations.
00:57:33.520
That's the long and short of it.
00:57:35.780
It doesn't benefit anyone
00:57:36.940
for women to be out of the home
00:57:38.700
and not taking care
00:57:39.640
of their families,
00:57:40.320
for family structures
00:57:41.500
to be crumbling.
00:57:42.840
And the perfect example
00:57:43.840
is the Indian community
00:57:44.700
in this country,
00:57:45.980
right?
00:57:46.180
It's a perfect example.
00:57:47.800
And I just,
00:57:48.960
I don't understand
00:57:49.620
why we've fallen into this,
00:57:50.960
we've bought this lie
00:57:51.860
that you have to
00:57:53.540
keep things as a status quo
00:57:55.240
or else everything
00:57:55.700
will come crumbling down.
00:57:56.580
No,
00:57:56.740
you have to force change,
00:57:57.580
you have to force innovation.
00:57:58.640
It's the same argument
00:57:59.280
I say with the EU,
00:58:00.160
you know,
00:58:00.540
there's no such thing
00:58:01.100
as free trade in the EU.
00:58:02.160
The EU is the largest
00:58:02.780
protectionist block
00:58:03.540
on the planet,
00:58:04.500
right?
00:58:05.060
And because of that
00:58:05.800
a lot of companies,
00:58:06.580
it's stagnated a lot of companies
00:58:07.840
ability to invest
00:58:08.660
in innovation
00:58:09.280
and to improve
00:58:10.080
and to compete
00:58:10.580
on the world stage
00:58:11.120
because they don't really
00:58:11.660
need to compete
00:58:12.160
on the world stage.
00:58:12.880
They have this closed market
00:58:13.900
of people
00:58:14.280
with a certain level
00:58:14.920
of income
00:58:15.220
that can buy
00:58:15.640
their goods and services.
00:58:16.340
They get the cheap
00:58:17.020
sort of raw materials
00:58:18.080
from China or the East
00:58:19.460
and then they just
00:58:20.040
keep ticking along.
00:58:20.840
And I'm like,
00:58:21.140
that's not how you grow.
00:58:22.620
That's not proper
00:58:23.500
progress,
00:58:25.140
right?
00:58:25.300
It's stagnation.
00:58:26.560
So I think
00:58:27.140
it's a complete fallacy.
00:58:29.040
It's such a good point
00:58:30.240
because it does feel now
00:58:31.620
like we're working
00:58:32.580
against our own
00:58:33.520
self-interest.
00:58:34.700
And if you look
00:58:35.380
at a lot of people's lives,
00:58:37.340
they would say
00:58:37.900
that they're not happy,
00:58:38.880
they're not fulfilled
00:58:39.660
and they're doing something
00:58:41.480
simply because
00:58:42.440
they have to do it.
00:58:44.360
I mean,
00:58:44.900
and I'm really happy.
00:58:46.040
One thing I am optimistic
00:58:47.900
about is the rise
00:58:48.760
of the Manus Fear of Space
00:58:50.200
to an extent.
00:58:51.020
I mean,
00:58:51.240
there are a bunch
00:58:51.580
of con artists there.
00:58:52.220
But I think
00:58:52.500
the fact that we've been
00:58:53.320
having real conversations
00:58:54.340
about what men
00:58:55.300
and women really want,
00:58:57.160
at least that's a guide
00:58:58.000
in the right direction.
00:58:59.080
So if you think,
00:58:59.860
right,
00:58:59.980
I'm not going to buy
00:59:00.500
the bullshit that I've been
00:59:01.300
sold about being a boss babe
00:59:02.480
or, you know,
00:59:03.840
a guy that sleeps his weight.
00:59:05.340
What is a boss babe?
00:59:06.260
I'm getting old.
00:59:06.760
This is crap on Instagram.
00:59:07.800
I keep saying,
00:59:08.320
I'm a boss babe.
00:59:09.200
I'm like,
00:59:09.400
hey,
00:59:09.780
leave me alone.
00:59:10.520
I don't want to hear that crap.
00:59:11.580
Like,
00:59:11.780
I don't need to prove myself
00:59:12.900
to anyone.
00:59:13.400
But it's part of this idea
00:59:14.680
like Hollywood movies
00:59:15.940
where like a five foot,
00:59:18.080
five foot five woman
00:59:19.480
just like destroys
00:59:20.680
10 massive guys
00:59:21.960
in a fistfire.
00:59:23.300
I'm going to get to that actually
00:59:24.140
because I watched a film
00:59:25.040
from Netflix
00:59:25.540
and it's actually traumatized.
00:59:27.280
But the thing is,
00:59:28.860
the fact that we're having
00:59:29.620
this conversation
00:59:30.360
about what men
00:59:30.960
and women really want,
00:59:32.140
that's a step
00:59:32.640
in the right direction.
00:59:33.620
Because if you choose,
00:59:34.840
if you have that information
00:59:35.620
and you choose to ignore
00:59:36.360
and you still choose to go
00:59:37.260
in the way that you want to,
00:59:39.180
fine.
00:59:39.720
But I think by 2030,
00:59:40.860
women,
00:59:41.300
half of women over 30
00:59:42.080
are going to be single
00:59:42.660
and unmarried.
00:59:43.680
So it's going downhill
00:59:45.420
pretty fast.
00:59:46.140
And I don't know
00:59:47.240
if I'm allowed to say this,
00:59:48.020
but men that are clued up
00:59:49.600
and are realizing this
00:59:51.100
are not going for
00:59:51.720
those kinds of women.
00:59:52.800
And I've actually,
00:59:54.140
I don't know if I'm allowed
00:59:54.760
to say this.
00:59:55.220
In my experience,
00:59:55.860
I've had loads of guys saying,
00:59:57.160
oh, I actually don't date
00:59:57.840
white British women
00:59:58.440
because the family values
00:59:59.360
are out of whack.
00:59:59.860
They're not feminine.
01:00:00.400
They don't stay feminine
01:00:01.120
for very long.
01:00:01.720
They're just fit for like
01:00:02.680
five, ten years
01:00:03.340
and then it goes downhill
01:00:04.100
and stuff like that.
01:00:04.800
So I have people saying,
01:00:05.620
oh, you know,
01:00:05.900
I want a traditional
01:00:06.420
African woman.
01:00:07.000
I'm like,
01:00:07.840
what exactly do you mean?
01:00:10.820
Because are you going to call me
01:00:11.740
your chocolate Beyonce?
01:00:12.720
Because I've had that.
01:00:13.380
I've had that in France
01:00:14.240
and I'm like not here for it again.
01:00:16.500
You know,
01:00:16.920
I think the fact that
01:00:17.580
we're having those conversations
01:00:18.560
are a step in the right direction.
01:00:19.560
Also, Hollywood is to blame.
01:00:21.380
Hollywood is to blame.
01:00:22.460
When I see these miniature women
01:00:24.020
that are like five foot five,
01:00:25.820
and I'm five foot five,
01:00:26.580
I live in heels
01:00:27.180
because I'm so short.
01:00:28.620
And I see them
01:00:29.880
in the superhero films
01:00:30.620
and like they're beating up
01:00:31.420
these men
01:00:31.820
or they're boss babes.
01:00:32.840
I just think,
01:00:33.800
but why?
01:00:34.720
Because it's a lie.
01:00:36.220
I couldn't,
01:00:36.700
I literally couldn't
01:00:37.400
beat up anything.
01:00:38.520
Why have you,
01:00:40.020
and it's these films
01:00:40.980
that come out
01:00:41.440
and they're just glorifying
01:00:42.280
from obscurity
01:00:43.000
and these women
01:00:44.100
just acting really unfeminine.
01:00:46.360
And I watched this film
01:00:47.540
the other day,
01:00:47.960
which is,
01:00:48.240
look,
01:00:49.140
I know I have
01:00:50.260
a bad taste in films.
01:00:51.340
I enjoy Fast and Furious
01:00:52.540
and romantic comedies.
01:00:53.740
I like my entertainment low IQ.
01:00:55.320
So really anything
01:00:56.020
Netflix puts out
01:00:56.840
shouldn't be that bad.
01:00:58.140
This was the worst film
01:00:59.040
I'd ever seen.
01:01:00.020
And it's because
01:01:00.500
within 10 minutes
01:01:01.140
of watching it,
01:01:01.860
this girl,
01:01:02.600
this young girl,
01:01:03.400
nice waitress,
01:01:04.020
was accusing this guy
01:01:04.960
of casual misogyny.
01:01:06.060
I was like,
01:01:06.360
okay,
01:01:06.940
well,
01:01:07.280
we've set the standard there.
01:01:08.680
And then halfway
01:01:09.220
through the film,
01:01:10.120
it zooms out of her flat
01:01:11.320
and there are four flags
01:01:12.240
hanging out of her flat.
01:01:13.460
And one is a BLM flag,
01:01:14.780
one is an LGBT flag,
01:01:16.480
another bullshit flag.
01:01:17.660
And I just think,
01:01:18.800
they're not even subtle
01:01:19.520
with the messaging.
01:01:20.380
So they really want you
01:01:21.460
to know that they don't
01:01:22.360
approve of certain lifestyles
01:01:23.620
and they want you to aspire
01:01:25.400
to be that boss babe
01:01:26.580
and that if you don't have
01:01:27.880
a sort of a certain image
01:01:30.000
or persona,
01:01:30.500
you're dull.
01:01:31.660
And I'm like,
01:01:32.080
I don't think anyone
01:01:32.620
would ever meet me
01:01:33.180
and think I'm dull,
01:01:34.320
right?
01:01:34.660
And I don't have to prove
01:01:35.480
myself to anyone
01:01:36.260
in terms of how intelligent I am.
01:01:37.900
But I want to take care of a man,
01:01:39.920
right?
01:01:40.020
I want to take care of my family.
01:01:41.160
I'm a really good cook.
01:01:42.520
I come from,
01:01:43.300
and I'm basically like my mother,
01:01:44.720
right?
01:01:44.900
My mother never,
01:01:45.680
she wouldn't even let me
01:01:46.180
leave the house dressed
01:01:46.800
a certain way.
01:01:47.280
I've never seen her look raggedy.
01:01:49.400
My mom came to a parent-teacher
01:01:50.680
meeting when I was in school here
01:01:51.940
and someone was like,
01:01:52.520
oh, your mother is such a diva.
01:01:53.600
I was like, no.
01:01:54.760
She's a woman.
01:01:58.040
You know what I mean?
01:01:59.860
That's all I know.
01:02:00.980
And I'm so grateful
01:02:01.860
that I've been insulated
01:02:02.800
in that way
01:02:03.380
because now I see,
01:02:04.540
like I swiped through
01:02:05.080
my brother's dating.
01:02:05.780
I was like,
01:02:06.060
he's like,
01:02:07.140
why are you swiping left
01:02:07.840
on all of them?
01:02:08.200
I was like,
01:02:08.340
because they're awful
01:02:09.320
and I would never let you
01:02:10.460
bring any of them
01:02:11.040
to this house.
01:02:11.640
It's a funny point
01:02:13.880
you make about
01:02:14.660
the manosphere
01:02:16.020
and how men
01:02:16.940
who are clued up
01:02:17.660
aren't doing that.
01:02:18.460
People are often saying to me,
01:02:19.680
well, you've just had a baby boy.
01:02:21.320
It's not a good time
01:02:22.140
to be a man, is it?
01:02:23.540
And I'm like,
01:02:24.180
it's a fucking great time
01:02:25.160
to be a man
01:02:25.720
as long as you recognize
01:02:27.520
the bullshit
01:02:28.200
and ignore it, right?
01:02:29.420
Exactly.
01:02:29.960
And if you are prepared
01:02:31.200
to remain a man
01:02:32.460
while all of this is happening,
01:02:34.360
there are plenty of women
01:02:35.300
out there
01:02:35.760
who are also not
01:02:36.760
into the bullshit.
01:02:37.640
And part of it is
01:02:38.800
that, you know,
01:02:40.060
at a basic level,
01:02:41.120
you can change
01:02:42.180
the software
01:02:43.280
but the hardware
01:02:44.060
is the same.
01:02:44.680
And it's been there
01:02:45.600
for thousands,
01:02:46.340
tens of thousands of years.
01:02:47.240
It's not going anywhere.
01:02:48.200
You can try to change
01:02:49.320
the software.
01:02:50.020
You can put all the
01:02:50.760
crappy updates in there
01:02:51.800
that you want.
01:02:52.580
The hardware is the hardware.
01:02:53.960
And at the end of the day,
01:02:55.140
most women eventually
01:02:56.200
want a man to settle down
01:02:57.540
with,
01:02:57.760
to have kids with.
01:02:58.740
They may want to work
01:02:59.600
or not.
01:02:59.920
That's a different issue.
01:03:01.300
At least do something
01:03:02.460
they enjoy, right?
01:03:03.300
Not like sort of
01:03:04.220
office administration.
01:03:05.820
But I also think,
01:03:07.140
you know,
01:03:07.380
and I'll probably touch
01:03:09.060
on the point of humility,
01:03:10.200
right?
01:03:10.400
Because other than the humility
01:03:11.240
to know what each other wants,
01:03:12.620
also the humility
01:03:13.180
to be honest with yourself.
01:03:14.620
Like I think a lot of women
01:03:15.580
have really,
01:03:16.200
really,
01:03:16.380
really high standards.
01:03:17.360
And I say this as like
01:03:18.280
a self-identified princess.
01:03:20.620
My dad calls me,
01:03:21.460
hello princess,
01:03:22.160
like daddy.
01:03:23.720
And I know this about myself.
01:03:25.540
But I also think,
01:03:26.840
I don't think it's reason,
01:03:28.220
like everything is,
01:03:29.100
they're trade-offs.
01:03:29.840
Everything is a trade-off,
01:03:30.580
right?
01:03:30.720
You might want a guy
01:03:31.560
who's established
01:03:32.120
and older and rich.
01:03:33.140
But you know,
01:03:33.440
he comes with a lot of baggage
01:03:34.340
because to get that established
01:03:35.440
and, you know,
01:03:36.180
rich and whatever,
01:03:37.400
you know,
01:03:37.580
he's had to deal with a lot.
01:03:39.200
His patient worse than,
01:03:40.700
he kind of wants a woman
01:03:41.360
that looks a certain way.
01:03:42.540
If you're not in the age bracket
01:03:43.900
that he wants,
01:03:44.480
too bad.
01:03:45.080
Maybe you waited too long.
01:03:46.080
Just get real with yourself.
01:03:47.300
Just be honest.
01:03:47.940
And it's fine.
01:03:48.800
Because at the end of the day,
01:03:49.620
what you're looking for
01:03:50.660
is stability
01:03:52.920
and to build something
01:03:54.100
that really matters.
01:03:54.900
Not going for this glossy
01:03:56.000
kind of Ken,
01:03:57.040
perfect Ken doll
01:03:57.700
that you can flash to the world.
01:03:59.000
I don't think that really matters.
01:04:00.400
And as someone,
01:04:00.880
my dad is very successful,
01:04:02.260
but he's really had to grind.
01:04:03.920
Whenever I tell him about,
01:04:04.820
like,
01:04:04.880
oh,
01:04:04.980
I went on a date with this guy,
01:04:05.920
he'd be like,
01:04:06.300
is he focused?
01:04:07.160
He doesn't ask me
01:04:07.920
what car did he bring
01:04:08.980
or how did he dress?
01:04:10.180
He obviously doesn't want
01:04:11.380
some hobbit in his house.
01:04:13.080
But the point is,
01:04:14.080
he would just say,
01:04:14.620
is he focused?
01:04:15.420
Because he knows
01:04:16.100
that's something
01:04:16.480
that I can work with.
01:04:17.320
Because he knows me exactly.
01:04:18.260
He was like,
01:04:18.500
look,
01:04:18.660
Kukwa,
01:04:18.880
you're very intelligent,
01:04:20.540
you're very feminine,
01:04:21.120
you're very all this,
01:04:21.840
but you need someone
01:04:23.100
that is on that wavelength.
01:04:24.840
Because if you want to build
01:04:26.320
with a man like that,
01:04:26.900
you need a man
01:04:27.420
who's looking for that woman
01:04:28.980
to build with.
01:04:30.440
You can't put a sort of
01:04:31.800
square peg in a round hole.
01:04:32.740
It doesn't fit.
01:04:33.360
It just needs to go together.
01:04:35.680
Focus is such an attractive quality
01:04:37.520
in a man,
01:04:38.100
particularly,
01:04:38.700
because that's the currency
01:04:41.420
of masculinity
01:04:42.600
is doing stuff.
01:04:44.020
Drive and focus
01:04:44.500
and discipline
01:04:45.260
and consistency.
01:04:46.380
And I think one of the things,
01:04:47.680
I mean,
01:04:48.160
when I was,
01:04:49.260
one of my exes used to say,
01:04:50.640
you never bother me.
01:04:51.460
And I was like,
01:04:52.060
why?
01:04:52.420
I was like,
01:04:52.600
I've been quiet for this.
01:04:53.640
I'm like,
01:04:53.780
well,
01:04:53.900
I'm assuming you're working.
01:04:54.760
You're doing something busy.
01:04:56.140
And he was like,
01:04:56.520
why do you think like that?
01:04:57.360
I was like,
01:04:57.640
because that's what my dad does,
01:04:58.780
right?
01:04:59.140
I don't always spend time
01:05:00.260
with my dad.
01:05:00.760
I haven't seen my dad
01:05:01.420
since December 2020
01:05:02.420
because of the pandemic,
01:05:03.160
but I know he's working.
01:05:05.520
And then he'll send me messages
01:05:06.300
of a project he's finished
01:05:07.140
and I'm like,
01:05:07.660
yay,
01:05:08.340
my daddy's a,
01:05:09.000
you know?
01:05:09.460
And I praise him
01:05:10.580
and he knows I'm very,
01:05:11.280
very proud of him.
01:05:12.380
But he also knows
01:05:13.200
that he's raised me
01:05:13.860
to know that the kind
01:05:14.440
of man you want
01:05:15.020
is not going to be sitting around
01:05:15.980
always having time for you.
01:05:17.580
He's not going to message you 24-7.
01:05:19.400
You need to be,
01:05:20.100
you need to understand that.
01:05:21.140
You need to be able
01:05:21.580
to keep yourself busy.
01:05:22.740
That's why I'm the kind of person
01:05:23.680
that loves to learn new things
01:05:24.800
and always do things.
01:05:25.660
I'm crazy enough
01:05:26.200
to be spinning on a pole
01:05:27.040
in my underwear.
01:05:28.460
But it's fun for me
01:05:29.240
and it's a net positive
01:05:31.300
for everyone
01:05:31.900
because I'm taking care of myself
01:05:33.540
to the best of my ability
01:05:34.360
to know that I'm enough for you
01:05:35.720
and I can be what you need.
01:05:37.100
And on a societal level as well,
01:05:38.520
I'm a positive influence.
01:05:39.680
And I think everyone
01:05:40.260
should have that mindset.
01:05:41.180
You need to have strict standards
01:05:42.080
with yourself.
01:05:43.340
Yeah, completely agree.
01:05:45.060
But Esther,
01:05:45.640
it's been an absolute pleasure.
01:05:47.220
Thank you so much
01:05:48.140
for coming in.
01:05:49.100
The last question
01:05:49.980
we always ask is
01:05:50.820
Before our locals' questions.
01:05:51.740
Before our locals' questions
01:05:52.980
is what's the one thing
01:05:54.880
we're not talking about
01:05:56.080
as a society
01:05:57.140
that we really should be?
01:05:58.220
And obviously,
01:05:59.040
the question is
01:06:00.260
who makes a better jollof rice?
01:06:02.380
Nigeria.
01:06:02.920
Ah!
01:06:03.740
You don't need to ask.
01:06:04.440
It's obviously gone in.
01:06:05.660
And I say this as a fantastic cook.
01:06:07.160
I actually taught my Nigerian ex
01:06:08.460
how to cook jollof.
01:06:09.260
So he's accepted it.
01:06:10.880
Really?
01:06:11.220
Yes.
01:06:11.540
I taught him at uni
01:06:12.760
and I used to make it
01:06:13.920
and he's like,
01:06:14.220
can you show me
01:06:14.760
in case you dump me?
01:06:15.480
I was like, okay.
01:06:16.800
And I showed him
01:06:18.580
and I was like,
01:06:18.940
no, it's legit.
01:06:19.420
I actually probably
01:06:19.940
talked him out
01:06:20.320
how to cook properly.
01:06:21.620
And then she dumped him anyway.
01:06:23.300
Well, he had to go back home.
01:06:24.800
But one of the things
01:06:25.560
I think...
01:06:25.860
It sounds better
01:06:26.580
you saying that
01:06:27.800
than me saying that.
01:06:28.700
You had to go back home.
01:06:29.540
I've never slag off my ex.
01:06:30.740
Yeah, I know.
01:06:31.820
He pissed off his dad.
01:06:32.720
No, I never slag off.
01:06:33.800
That's another thing.
01:06:34.720
A woman or anyone
01:06:35.580
that slags off their exes run
01:06:36.860
because there's no personal
01:06:38.480
responsibility there.
01:06:39.240
You chose them.
01:06:40.400
I think one thing
01:06:41.220
we're not talking about enough
01:06:42.300
that we should be talking about
01:06:43.400
is probably abortion.
01:06:44.920
I know that's really heavy.
01:06:46.200
But I really,
01:06:48.300
I really, really hate
01:06:49.580
the attitude
01:06:50.020
that we have towards it.
01:06:51.120
Like, it's just
01:06:51.740
a black or white issue.
01:06:53.640
I watched this comedian.
01:06:54.720
I don't remember who it was,
01:06:55.500
but she was like,
01:06:56.000
it's my body.
01:06:56.500
My chair was like,
01:06:56.920
no, at that point,
01:06:57.560
it's not your body.
01:06:58.540
It's an apartment.
01:06:59.480
You're sharing with a co-tenant,
01:07:01.140
which I thought was really funny.
01:07:02.600
But I think,
01:07:03.400
regardless of what side
01:07:04.540
you lean on,
01:07:05.080
I don't like this idea
01:07:06.460
that we make it
01:07:08.700
not a moral issue.
01:07:09.620
It's clearly a moral issue,
01:07:10.660
right?
01:07:11.420
Because what's growing inside you
01:07:12.960
is not a chair.
01:07:14.260
But at the same time as well,
01:07:15.620
there are circumstances
01:07:16.260
like a woman being raped
01:07:17.360
or being underage
01:07:18.180
that it's like,
01:07:18.740
well, you know,
01:07:19.940
it's really sad,
01:07:21.420
but that line is very divided.
01:07:23.500
And I think the fact
01:07:24.680
that contraception
01:07:25.480
is free and readily available
01:07:26.440
in the UK
01:07:26.940
and one in four pregnancies
01:07:28.480
are aborted
01:07:29.400
by young women
01:07:30.640
that really,
01:07:31.240
50 years ago
01:07:32.320
would have been married
01:07:32.920
in a family
01:07:33.460
and having those children.
01:07:34.640
I think it's a huge
01:07:35.400
blight in society.
01:07:36.360
And I think when we're
01:07:36.880
at the point now
01:07:37.520
where people are really
01:07:38.480
just not having kids
01:07:39.300
because they can't afford a home
01:07:41.400
or all the basic things,
01:07:42.640
I think it's suicidal
01:07:44.440
that we're not really
01:07:45.480
having constructive conversations
01:07:46.560
about that
01:07:47.060
because there's so many issues
01:07:48.720
that I have
01:07:49.200
around how we talk about abortion.
01:07:50.580
And I admire the Americans
01:07:51.560
as passionate as they are
01:07:52.560
for at least recognizing
01:07:53.720
that it's a moral issue,
01:07:55.320
at least in the middle ground,
01:07:56.400
not on the fringe ends
01:07:57.320
where there's like,
01:07:57.880
it's just a polyp
01:07:58.640
or, you know,
01:07:59.880
it's murder
01:08:00.560
on the other side.
01:08:01.500
Do you know what I mean?
01:08:02.540
We've had great conversations
01:08:04.060
on this show
01:08:04.900
with Anne Furedi
01:08:06.300
and Dr. Callum Miller
01:08:07.960
from the both pro
01:08:09.500
and anti side.
01:08:11.700
But I think actually
01:08:12.700
it comes back
01:08:13.320
to the very good point
01:08:14.220
that you made earlier
01:08:14.920
in this conversation
01:08:15.600
which is
01:08:16.100
I actually don't know
01:08:18.000
that we would need
01:08:19.480
to talk abortion
01:08:20.240
quite as much
01:08:20.980
as I think we do need
01:08:21.920
to talk about it now
01:08:22.820
if some of the family stuff
01:08:25.100
that you were talking about earlier
01:08:26.400
was in a different place.
01:08:27.640
Yeah, absolutely.
01:08:28.520
And just,
01:08:28.960
I think
01:08:29.520
that's one of the biggest problems
01:08:32.320
that we face
01:08:32.840
I don't think people understand
01:08:33.960
and I don't know
01:08:34.940
to be honest
01:08:35.460
I don't know the extent
01:08:36.100
to which my profile
01:08:36.780
is going to grow
01:08:37.360
or to the extent
01:08:38.380
to which my voice
01:08:39.840
regarding societal issues
01:08:41.660
in this country
01:08:42.600
will grow enough
01:08:43.600
but if it does
01:08:44.720
and I'm really hoping
01:08:45.460
I'm blessed it will
01:08:46.200
that's something
01:08:47.040
I really want to talk about
01:08:48.460
but I also want to reflect
01:08:49.800
that in my own life.
01:08:51.000
I don't want to just be
01:08:51.560
that kind of person
01:08:52.040
that's harping on about it.
01:08:53.100
One, I've seen it.
01:08:53.900
I've grown up in that family.
01:08:54.920
I've seen the benefits of it
01:08:55.680
but also
01:08:56.040
I want my life to imitate that
01:08:57.460
and I want people
01:08:58.200
to see that as possible
01:08:59.120
and I just want men and women
01:09:00.800
to be better
01:09:01.340
particularly women
01:09:03.380
because I think
01:09:04.520
we've been fed so many lies.
01:09:06.900
Well, a great note to end on.
01:09:08.840
Esther, thank you so much
01:09:09.720
for coming on the show.
01:09:10.840
Really pleasure to chat with you.
01:09:12.520
Really great pleasure
01:09:13.260
to chat with you.
01:09:14.360
We're going to ask you
01:09:15.040
a couple of questions
01:09:15.860
from our locals
01:09:16.920
but in the meantime
01:09:17.480
where can people find you
01:09:18.580
and follow your work?
01:09:19.280
If you dare, on Twitter.
01:09:22.520
If you're bold enough
01:09:23.900
Esther K underscore K
01:09:25.560
I'm on Twitter.
01:09:26.720
I do a lot of work for Talk
01:09:27.780
so you can see me
01:09:28.540
on Piers Morgan's show
01:09:29.380
Uncensored
01:09:29.900
Piers Morgan Uncensored
01:09:30.880
or The Talk
01:09:31.960
which is a panel show
01:09:32.780
on Talk TV
01:09:33.460
but I also write for
01:09:35.660
the Daily Mail
01:09:36.160
and the Daily Express as well.
01:09:37.400
So, all over.
01:09:38.060
Fantastic.
01:09:38.660
Thanks for coming on.
01:09:39.580
Thank you for watching
01:09:40.520
and listening.
01:09:41.220
We will see you very soon
01:09:42.420
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01:09:44.420
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Take care
01:09:53.180
and see you soon guys.
01:09:55.840
And I have a lot to say
01:09:56.900
about kind of
01:09:57.500
the dinghies
01:09:58.580
and people that are
01:09:59.220
coming across the channel
01:09:59.940
because I actually
01:10:00.760
and I say I have
01:10:01.560
a really personal experience
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with someone
01:10:02.780
who did that trip
01:10:05.080
across the Mediterranean
01:10:05.700
but he's in Italy now.
01:10:07.000
Well Esther
01:10:07.520
I know we've got
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