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TRIGGERnometry

The Truth About Free Speech: TRIGGERnometry Highlights

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Season 2 is fast approaching. In the meantime, we've curated some of our favourite bits of conversation around a given subject from the recent first season. It's great for us at this time of year to look back at how the look and sound of the show has steadily improved in 6 months. Bring on 2019! In light of recent events we are focusing on Free Speech this week. On this subject we've picked out conversations with: - Brendan O'Neill - Peter Tatchell - Claire Fox - Geoff Norcott - Tom Slater Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/trigger... https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you hear that?

0:05.0

It might sound like nothing to you,

0:07.0

but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy.

0:11.0

At EDF, we're busy generating more British zero carbon

0:14.8

electricity than anyone to help keep future energy costs down for everyone and

0:19.0

help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. Sound good to you? Find out more about our

0:24.8

zero carbon generation at EDF Energy.com slash helping Britain. Well, free speech has been ebbing away on college campuses, of course, for many years.

0:41.2

Now, colleges seem increasingly able to take a joke. of course

0:43.4

and able to take a joke literally. Constant Kissen is a comedian.

0:46.8

He's the host of the YouTube show Trigger-Nometry.

0:49.4

He was recently invited to perform at a college in London, but the group that invited him

0:53.7

asked that he sign a contract promising not to engage in any way in quote racism,

0:58.7

sexism, classism, ageism, abelism, homophobia, homophobia, homophobia, xenophobia, xenophobia, bifobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-religious, what's a long list?

1:09.0

What was he supposed to joke about?

1:10.0

Well, we've asked him to come on tonight to tell us, Mr. Kisson, thank you very much for coming on.

1:14.3

First, is that real?

1:16.3

Did you make up that list?

1:17.3

Is this a comedy bet?

1:19.0

No, it's not.

1:19.8

It's been very good for my comedy.

1:21.2

But actually, if you go further into the contract, they also demanded that all jokes must be respectful and kind, which I think really takes the biscuit.

1:30.0

And as you know, I was born in the Soviet Union and this really getting this

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