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The Rich Zeoli Show

Writer/Comedian Arrested in London Over “Anti-Trans” Social Media Posts

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:00pm- Dr. Wilfred Reilly—Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University & Author of “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss writer/comedian Graham Linehan being arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport over “anti-trans” posts he made to social media. Should Americans be concerned that free speech restrictions might make their way across the pond? Plus, Malcolm Gladwell reaches his “Tipping Point” with biological males competing in women’s sports. 4:30pm- From the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order officially renaming the “Department of Defense” to the “Department of War.”

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:15.8

And the UK is like North Korea, arresting comedians for jokes with armed police.

0:22.8

Here to talk about it with us is the author of the book, Lies, My Liberal Teacher, told me.

0:28.1

Dr. Wilfred Riley, what's up, my man? How are you? How's school going so far?

0:34.4

I'm doing well. I'm doing well. School doing well school's going great actually nice all right

0:39.9

you're on campus right now actually picking up some door dash well i don't want to keep you

0:45.4

in way of hot food if you got to eat while we're talking go for it that's a way 201 that's me

0:50.9

i think okay cool yeah no i'm uh yeah i'm right here we're. We're working on a couple things at once, but how's life going for you?

0:58.0

Oh, it's great, man.

0:59.0

I am excited about the fact that we are, we're living in a time right now where comedians get arrested for telling jokes in the UK.

1:09.0

It's really positive for the future of society.

1:13.2

Yeah, that's actually pretty crazy.

1:15.0

I know the guy, Graham Linehan, who got arrested for his series of tweets,

1:20.4

and they were all the most mundane, imaginable things.

1:25.8

Yeah, I mean, one of them was, one of them was, I can smell this crowd pointing at a bunch of protesters around trans rights.

1:34.9

I mean, another one was him talking about what to do if you see some of the opposite sex of your bathroom.

1:39.8

He's not really, he's not really threatening anybody or anything like that.

1:43.2

But in Britain, they have a really complex hate speech law, apparently, where if you speak

1:48.5

ill of any sort of large, protected group, which includes men that believe they are women,

1:54.2

which includes any racial minority, so on down the line, you can be charged.

1:58.5

So about 3,000 people, I think it's 3,000 people a month, actually,

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