Writer/Comedian Arrested in London Over “Anti-Trans” Social Media Posts
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osperity Private Wealth. |
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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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