Piers Morgan
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And we now get millions of views for our content on almost pretty much everything. And sometimes we get real poppers like Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian comedian, political activist. 22 million people watch that. The real-life stalker from Martha, alleged stalker from Baby Reindeer. Again, 16, 17 million people watch that on our YouTube channel. We've never got anything like that on any television.
And we've exercised it a few times where people don't get invited back if they're too dumb. Because nobody wants to hear dumb people debating serious topics. We do a lot of serious debates, whether it's American election debates, whether it's Ukraine-Russia, whether it's Israel mass war, P. Diddy scandal, whatever it may be. You need smart people.
And we've exercised it a few times where people don't get invited back if they're too dumb. Because nobody wants to hear dumb people debating serious topics. We do a lot of serious debates, whether it's American election debates, whether it's Ukraine-Russia, whether it's Israel mass war, P. Diddy scandal, whatever it may be. You need smart people.
And we've exercised it a few times where people don't get invited back if they're too dumb. Because nobody wants to hear dumb people debating serious topics. We do a lot of serious debates, whether it's American election debates, whether it's Ukraine-Russia, whether it's Israel mass war, P. Diddy scandal, whatever it may be. You need smart people.
And that's my criteria for booking guests for the debates. But also, I want to balance it out. I want to have equal numbers on both sides, smart, debating it. And when you get it right, it's magic. Because there's very few places in the world doing that. I mean, we're pretty the only ones in the YouTube space who don't have an ideological position.
And that's my criteria for booking guests for the debates. But also, I want to balance it out. I want to have equal numbers on both sides, smart, debating it. And when you get it right, it's magic. Because there's very few places in the world doing that. I mean, we're pretty the only ones in the YouTube space who don't have an ideological position.
And that's my criteria for booking guests for the debates. But also, I want to balance it out. I want to have equal numbers on both sides, smart, debating it. And when you get it right, it's magic. Because there's very few places in the world doing that. I mean, we're pretty the only ones in the YouTube space who don't have an ideological position.
If you look at people I really admire in the space, people like Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly, and others, they obviously come at it from an unashamedly conservative bias. I don't. Similarly, on the left, Mehdi Hassan and others come at it. Cenk Uygur, although he's beginning to move quite rapidly, I've noticed, to the dark side, as he would put it. But they're from the left.
If you look at people I really admire in the space, people like Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly, and others, they obviously come at it from an unashamedly conservative bias. I don't. Similarly, on the left, Mehdi Hassan and others come at it. Cenk Uygur, although he's beginning to move quite rapidly, I've noticed, to the dark side, as he would put it. But they're from the left.
If you look at people I really admire in the space, people like Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly, and others, they obviously come at it from an unashamedly conservative bias. I don't. Similarly, on the left, Mehdi Hassan and others come at it. Cenk Uygur, although he's beginning to move quite rapidly, I've noticed, to the dark side, as he would put it. But they're from the left.
I'm in the middle, genuinely in the middle. People could not position me into Republican or Democrat or here Conservative or Labour. I don't position myself in that way. I see myself foremost as a journalist. And what I like now is I can literally act as a journalist to everybody. Just when they say something, fact check it in real time, ask them the right questions.
I'm in the middle, genuinely in the middle. People could not position me into Republican or Democrat or here Conservative or Labour. I don't position myself in that way. I see myself foremost as a journalist. And what I like now is I can literally act as a journalist to everybody. Just when they say something, fact check it in real time, ask them the right questions.
I'm in the middle, genuinely in the middle. People could not position me into Republican or Democrat or here Conservative or Labour. I don't position myself in that way. I see myself foremost as a journalist. And what I like now is I can literally act as a journalist to everybody. Just when they say something, fact check it in real time, ask them the right questions.
you know, challenge everybody equally. And I think people learn a lot from those kind of debates. I do. I literally, my favorite debate is at the end of 90 minutes. I go, do you know something? I've really learned a lot today. You might all have different slants on what you've been telling me, but I've learned a lot of basic information about this.
you know, challenge everybody equally. And I think people learn a lot from those kind of debates. I do. I literally, my favorite debate is at the end of 90 minutes. I go, do you know something? I've really learned a lot today. You might all have different slants on what you've been telling me, but I've learned a lot of basic information about this.
you know, challenge everybody equally. And I think people learn a lot from those kind of debates. I do. I literally, my favorite debate is at the end of 90 minutes. I go, do you know something? I've really learned a lot today. You might all have different slants on what you've been telling me, but I've learned a lot of basic information about this.
I love a good argument. I can tell. You're a more nuanced, calmer environment, which, again, I also really like as well. Occasionally, I will do that with people. But as a rule of thumb, I like a good old heated knockabout debate.
I love a good argument. I can tell. You're a more nuanced, calmer environment, which, again, I also really like as well. Occasionally, I will do that with people. But as a rule of thumb, I like a good old heated knockabout debate.
I love a good argument. I can tell. You're a more nuanced, calmer environment, which, again, I also really like as well. Occasionally, I will do that with people. But as a rule of thumb, I like a good old heated knockabout debate.
You've got to listen to what you're being told by the other side. You can't have a blindly implacable view of anything. I respect, for example, the Israel-Hamas war. The people I've had on are most respected, have been able to concede. If you're on the Palestinian side, for example, and I am to a large degree supportive of a lot of what they say about the way Palestinians have been treated.