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The Owen Jones Podcast

24. Piers Morgan on coronavirus, "the culture war", and egg emojis

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's fair to say that me and Piers Morgan disagree on a fair amount, although many lefties used to yelling at him when he's on our TV screens have found themselves retweeting him holding the government to account for its catastrophic handling of the pandemic.


We have a long chat about trans rights, "cancel culture", and Google removing an egg from a salad emoji.


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0:00.0

Hey hey, Owen Jones, welcome to the podcast. Today, Pierce Morgan. Now, I have definitely

0:17.2

had quite a few bannies, including on air with Pierce Morgan over the years. So there's

0:23.4

quite a lot to talk about because actually, people like me who really did have a big problem

0:27.7

with Pierce Morgan for a long time knew the world had turned upside down when we started

0:32.4

cheering him on during the first phase of the pandemic, because a lot of the media failed to do

0:39.6

their job. They failed to take on the government holding to account for the calamity, which

0:45.1

has been unleashed and has led to one of the worst deaths on earth in Pierce Morgan is willing

0:49.2

to stand up to them. But we do have our differences. Now, there's a bit of controversy over this

0:55.5

interview and that is over the issue of trans rights, which me and Pierce strongly disagree.

1:02.0

And the controversy was that were neither of us trans and the common parlance for that is we're

1:09.0

not, which I work with cisgendered. And a lot of people were kind of upset, understandably,

1:17.1

that me a cisgendered guy decided to spend a significant chunk of this interview

1:24.6

arguing about a minority of which I'm not part with Pierce Morgan. And I recognise that I'm

1:30.2

I'm genuinely sorry about that. And definitely, I would approach it differently.

1:38.7

We don't just talk about trans rights in this interview. We talk about a lot of other things,

1:46.6

but it's just worth me just pointing that out. A bit of housekeeping. The new podcast is offering

1:51.6

an alternative to the right remedier, taking on an injustice, having some fun. If you want to support

1:57.0

us as we do more and more, either use a support function, but really, really grateful for all that

2:02.7

support or patron.com forward slash oven Jones 84. And then you can be a regular supporter and have

2:08.4

a say over what we do, who we talk about. Please give us five thousand it's just helps get the

2:14.4

message across and subscribe. After all that, here's the chat.

2:21.6

Pierce, what I'm actually on a hello. Do you actually mean the table? The tables have well

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