James O’Brien - Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast  

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I remember my dad telling me when they got their first tv when he was a kid, he came downstairs the next morning and didn't know how to work it or anything, and somehow had the bright idea that maybe you're supposed to pour water into it. So he did. And wrecked it 😆🤣

No that would be Maajid Nawaz

Nope Nick Abbott

James O'Brien is the bile...no-one insults the ordinary man quite like JOB.....

@@mc.8391 If the ordinary man rings up a national radio station to talk absolute drivel then he deserves to be insulted. What you really mean is that you agree with the bigots and morons that he squashes like bugs.

I'm glad it's not just me 😉

Jaine Dutton he’s had at least two of those on this very podcast.

people will always find offence when they are unhappy

It's sad because we shouldn't need to say it. With most subjects I would agree with the statement that things should be open for debate but we have to draw a line before debate starts doing people real harm. This is especially important to consider when transphobes use debate as a tool to try and hammer people out of existence. Trans people exist and our lives are non optional. Our rights and treatment should be considered as sacrosanct and immutable as a cis person.

@@abigailmurray5897 I don't think the "trans debate" is about whether society should treat them with respect and dignity - it's a given that all humans should be treated that way. The debate, as I see it, is whether society should change / depart from established "norms", and if so to what extent. Our society is incredibly sexist in many ways (e.g. prisons, sentencing, divorce laws, toilets, schools, sport), and how it can work in terms of accommodating transgender people better needs careful consideration. Knee jerk reactions in the name of not wanting to offend is stupid and offensive to everyone except the beneficiaries.

I completely get why his comment would cause frustration, and I could be wrong, but I'm not sure the debate he's talking about is whether or not trans people exist and deserve rights. There's always grey areas, many trans people define themselves differently and lots of people approach gender differently and I think it's more about understanding that and identifying which social norms are harmful and which aren't. That's not a simple task and of course needs discussing. People debate what coffee to have in their office, people debate what colour to wear to a wedding. Debates aren't always critical or judgemental.

& Rats .

Peter JF He is interesting to listen to, he is a thinker and fair. I appreciate having him on air when there are so many liars and fools trying to manipulate us for the worse.

@@rmason4358 well said, he is not perfect but he is very good and just. If he asks you for facts and you just give him your feelings he will tell you off/ or correct you instead of patronising you and allowing you to talk what may very be emotionally driven rubbish; or just plain ignorance. In this generations where alternative information and rubbish seems to dominate over reality in most of the mainstream media, we need people like James who focuses on truth and calls out on people's bs. His book is a collection of his experiences mainly on his radio show over the years, very quaint. But like I said he isnt perfect, just as his hero Christopher Hitchens, he has flaws, so be sure to observe his oppositions so that your conclusions are more informed.

O Brien is a despicable person, he constantly talks over people who have a different viewpoint to him.

@Keith Panton Like he doesn't talk absolute bollocks himself?

They were a mistake 20 years ago, they are a crime now.

Mark you don’t need to use the word ‘of’ after the word ‘myriad’. It’s ‘myriad issues’. And that’s my grammar Nazi work done for the day. Cheers.

@@mattgreek1066 Thank you Matt.

Mark my absolute pleasure. And thank YOU for not calling me a cunt.

Mostly I seem to be saying that I hate my baby in this series, so not sure that would work out.

@@MT-kx2uc His parties end at 0:00:00

That's it, I knew it was a David. If I remember correctly I think he came back to voice the second talkie toaster.

and James OB comes on at 8:34

Not with my link - www.beer52.com/rhlstp

Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro.

For why ? I still remember his appearance on This Is Your Life - there were members of the general public who had more interesinting lives and annecdotes.

@@SamLowryDZ-015 He really is a dead-eyed Palpatine twat.

@@SamLowryDZ-015 This is your life was heavily edited. You must know this, no one is that stupid. Obviously TIYL isn't going to keep the sexual stories, any accidental admissions to crimes or anything that might get them into trouble. Also it is/was a TV show. It has to be cut down to fit into a time slot. You judge comedians by the shit gameshows they present, don't you? Not at all aware that they have to make a living.

@@abegarfield7031 wtf are you going on about no one mentioned game shows or anything else you are ranting about.

Heh, so are you an O Brien fan aswell?, hard to judge from your comment.

Biddllibip!🤪

yes when people abuse their own platform to call for the censorship of others - that sounds like bully territory to me.

Nooooo richard leaves him alone..

I missed the bit where he advocated removing human rights phypory.

37:00 You lied. He didn't do that at all. Shame on you.

36:56 James O'Brien: "The trans debate is quite frightening at the moment, because you're not allowed to think... I don't know what to make of all of the issues attendant on 'trans' at the moment but I don't know where you're allowed to go in Britain at the moment in a public space to have a conversation about that..." 37:40 Richard saying (regarding trans and similar issues) "... it needs to be debated..." 37:45 James "It really does." Replace "trans" with any other marginalised group and you end up sounding like a literal fascist. If someone in the US, following the current trend of blaming Soros for running a secret globalist conspiracy and other anti-Semitic nonsense, says "the Jew debate is quite frightening", for example? Or a few years ago when people were arguing against gay marriage people were saying "The gay (marriage) debate is quite frightening", and even now people make similar points about whether it's OK to not demonise gay people in schools, again "the gay debate is quite frightening". Or even, to pick another thing that's actually current in both the US and UK, "the immigrant debate is quite frightening". Debating fascist and bigoted views only provides air time to those views, and trying to paint them as anything other than abhorrent doesn't help. Which both James and Richard know because at about 40:00 they mock the BBC for not calling out an authoritarian (fascist) and presenting them as "uncomfortable truths". They even specifically say that: 40:48 James "There are things that define you as a fascist, and, you know the kind of weaponised persecution of minorities is one of the biggest giveaways." At about 41:00 James decries the idea that you can have a spectrum of facts. At about 42:30 they start to talk about understanding facts and having experts weigh in - but the experts have and there is no "debate", trans people are the gender they say they are. They knock people who debate climate change, and decry the attempt to have "balance". At about 45:00 James calls out mysteriously funded institutes and groups (about Climate Change). It wold be remiss if I didn't point out the funding for most of the anti-trans rhetoric, sorry, "debate", is from Right Wing religious groups in the US who want to use trans issues as the wedge to then attack the rest of the LGBT+ groups, and roll back abortion rights. And that's the hypocrisy. Needing a debate about trans issues, but calling out persecution of minorities as a bad thing. Needing a debate about trans issues, but calling out pointless debate when the science is clear. Needing a debate about trans issues, whilst criticising mysteriously funded lobby groups who are pushing an agenda. Why do I consider trans one of the warning signs of the persecution of minorities? Because trans people have been one of the first to get persecuted, even under one of the worst fascist/authoritarian/bigoted/horrific regime. Regimes go after trans people to test the water before going after other groups: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft#Transgender_pioneers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era hornet.com/stories/nazi-trans-movement-burned/

@@phyphor Your understanding of words seems to be seriously damaged phyphory. Maybe you think debate is persecution. I think you just hate people not agreeing with you eagerly enough.

​@@phyphor You demonstrate his claim to be correct, by your responding to a vanilla remark with utterly hysterical bullshit. It would not be "literal fascist" for someone to say "the gun debate is quite frightening at the moment, because you're not allowed to think" because the gun-toting libertarian nutters genuinely do condemn any rational discussion they espy with bruxistic vigour. In just the same way as you do when your apparent superstitious belief in gender isn't treated with the same delusional reverence as the belief that 'just add guns' is a solution to gun crime. I think you lied about him, because you don't want to admit that you don't care about intersex people, yourself. People with sex dysmorphia are just pawns in a sexuality-denying genderist fantasy, to people like you - and that is very worth discussing - how people become as mangled as you are. And this statement from you indicates that quite clearly: "Regimes go after trans people to test the water before going after other groups". Superstition was not invented in 2018 - it has been around for millennia - whereas sex changes have only existed since the 20th century. The "horrific regime[s]" to which you refer predate transexuality, and so could not have 'tested the water' on people who did not exist at the time! You are not a hero - you are just another bigot, trying to censor cricitism of their pet fantasy - akin to one of the delusional callers who phone in to his programme, thinking they're going to 'put an end to this silly debate' and 'make common sense prevail'. And then they say something that's obviously unsupportable like "Regimes go after trans people to test the water". That's not how progress works. That's how pointless, destructive censorship works.

Guessing Infowars is your homepage

Why can't you not watch others? You must be exhausted.

Thanks for letting us know...

Are you self-censoring? Wish I could do that, unfortunately you can't get away from the far right angle from the MSM these days. I swear Nigel Farage is on TV more than anyone in the parties with actual seats.

Why? Because you don't agree with facts?

because he's intelligent ? concise , and usually correct . or is it because your a brexiteer

@@pauloliver1842 Nope, the fact he's all for censorship... they shut down one person next they could go for him but boo hoo then right... nah.

​@@pauloliver1842 Richard is goregous regardless of how he voted in the referendum.

James is far too thoughtful and considerate to be considered likeable, far too human, totally understand your thinking. Sadness shall follow. If you have an hour, his final podcast with Unfiltered is wonderful, you'd hate it.

Only for the type of cunts who name themselves after a shit drink.

Nope, just stop them from commenting. It's my page and if people break my rules or are unnecessarily rude then I will delete their comments. Set up your own page and you can say what you like.

Lol.... Because of JOB? Pathetic....

You always publicly wing and cry when confronted with opinions you don't like?