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The Big Ben Show

Free Speech Under Attack: From Charlotte to the UK | The Big Ben Show

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Ben opens with the Charlotte light-rail killing of Irina Zyrutska, why legacy outlets tried to look away, and what that says about free speech, crime policy, and who gets to control the narrative. He connects the story to the broader fight over platform power and speech. Ben asks where we’d be without X’s openness and a political climate less tolerant of censorship. Winston Marshall, former Mumford and Sons Bandmember, then joins to unpack Britain’s speech crackdown. They also tackle immigration tensions and the long, ugly history of grooming gangs that elites don’t want discussed, plus whether AI can ever replace the soul in music. Finally, Rob Bluey of The Daily Signal, breaks down how the press room now includes voices from legacy outlets long kept out. He and Ben dig into a family-first policy focus from the right (marriage, birthrates, fixing perverse incentives). They also take stock of Trump’s second term so far: a harder border stance cheered by conservatives, with economic risks still looming. Ben closes with a sports-media rant: ESPN’s RedZone “short ads” morph into 45-second overlays that block live cut-ins. Ben argues it undercuts the entire product and he foreshadows a pricey ad-free upsell. DROP A COMMENT:  How do you feel about RedZone adding commercials?  🎙Listen and SUBSCRIBE for more candid conversations on speech, culture, media power, and politics. Find the full audio show wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3fRPRZRNC9O7S8u40CSk2D Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-ben-show/id1556479134  Follow The Big Ben Show on all social platforms: X: https://x.com/BigBenShowFox  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigbenshowfox?igsh=bW82Mnk3cTQ5Yjkx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, boys and girls, we are back with another edition of the big ben show i'm your host

0:41.4

ben dominic you can follow me on x at b dominic and follow the show at big ben show fox we thank you

0:48.2

for listening we hope that you'll subscribe wherever you get your podcast and rate and review us we appreciate

0:53.4

all the comments that

0:54.5

you've been leaving on our YouTube in particular. And I want to talk to you today about free

1:00.9

speech and about crime. We saw this horrible incident, something that has obviously taken over the

1:07.4

airwaves. I don't know if you've had the opportunity to see the full and

1:12.5

unedited footage. If you haven't, it's kind of unavoidable if you're on X of seeing it of the

1:18.7

terrible murder of Arena Zarutka in this terrible event in Charlotte where a crazy person who did not know her attacked her on a light

1:29.8

rail train. We see the horrible event play out in front of us and the and the fear in her eyes.

1:36.6

If you've seen the unedited footage and, you know, obviously it's something that you have to

1:41.2

really steal yourself for. I know it made my wife sick when she saw it.

1:46.2

And it's terrible, obviously, that something like this would happen. What's more terrible, of course,

1:50.6

is that this is a situation that could have been avoided. But given that, as so many random

1:56.0

murderers are, this was someone who was known to police, who was known to law enforcement, who had had multiple

2:01.9

run-ins over the years, and whatever level of mental illness he had had been clearly

2:07.8

someone who was on the radar of the type of law enforcement services and even the social

2:13.0

services that Democrats claim to espouse as solutions for these problems. It's the kind of murder that you hate for so many different reasons.

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