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🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Leo Kearse is a comedian, writer and a YouTuber.
I brought Leo on to discuss the most important news stories of the last few weeks. Real hard hitting stuff today like why JK Rowling has been written out of the new Fantastic Beasts trailer, how Sainsbury's are signalling their virtue by telling shoppers that they're racist on Twitter, why Jessie from Little Mix has been accused of appropriating black culture because she has ginger curly hair, how Nicki Minaj is rehabilitating people's personal brands over Instagram Live, why Leo got involved in a debate about censorship in comedy which descended into the historic oppression of women's football and much more...
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Leo Kirsch, he's a comedian, |
0:06.2 | writer and a YouTuber. I brought Leo on to discuss the most important news stories of |
0:11.5 | the last few weeks. Real hard-hitting stuff today, like why J.K. Rowling had been written |
0:16.5 | out of the new Fantastic Beasts trailer, how Saint Breeze signaling their virtue by telling |
0:21.4 | shoppers that their racist on Twitter, why Jesse from Little Mix has been accused of |
0:25.9 | appropriating black culture because she has ginger curly hair, how Nicki Minaj is rehabilitating |
0:31.3 | people's personal brands over Instagram live, why Leo got involved in the debate about |
0:35.8 | censorship and comedy, which descended into the historic oppression of women's football, |
0:41.3 | and much more. Hope that you had a good Christmas, hope that you have survived time at home |
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