The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Niagara Falls "Controversy" - January 12, 2026
13 Jan 2026
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Chapter 2: What is the No Trousers Tube Ride and why is it significant?
Hello and welcome. It's the show where you'll learn something, but be stupider for it. Emphasis on the stupider because in about 10 minutes time, I am going to incite an international incident, or at least try. There is an American travel writer who visited both the Canadian and US side of Niagara Falls. In her writing, she says the US side is better.
Now, she was pretty polite and complimented the Canadian side too, but that doesn't matter. On the show, in 10 minutes time, I'm going to have her and the mayor of the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. And I'm going to demand an apology. This should be fun.
Chapter 3: What controversy arises between the Canadian and US sides of Niagara Falls?
You're not going to want to miss it. Then after that, it's the learn something portion of the show. Had a long, stressful day at work? Go ahead, kick back, watch some TV. It might actually help you, I promise. Why?
Well, halfway through the hour, the new scientific paper you'll learn about that says relaxing on the couch and zoning out in front of a screen might be exactly what you need to avoid burning out at work. Now that's some of what we'll cover on tonight's program. There will be more, but for now, let's dive in.
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Chapter 4: How can watching TV help with stress recovery after work?
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And in pantsless, or as the UK people say, trouserless tube news, we have foreign correspondent Tony Five to talk about an annual no trousers tube ride that is going on in London. He reports live from the scene of the comfort of his bedroom where he probably isn't wearing trousers. Tony, welcome to the show.
Good day, David. Good day, friends in North America, Canada, and everywhere north of the Atlantic. How are you, dear boy?
I am doing well. I'm just looking at photos from this No Trousers Too Bright.
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It looks like a good time. David, you know you're not allowed to look at those websites when you're working, my friend. But yes.
i think you guys over there would call it a pantless subway ride here in the uk it's called a trouserless tube ride my friend in fact weirdly this tradition which is one year where everybody meets up and it's organized i guess online and they take their trousers off now there are rules you can't wear thongs or little tiny underwear or anything so sexually provocative it has to be sort of you know underwear full-on underwear like imagine bridget jones big ugly granny pants
or like wire fronts and stuff, and you board the underground like everything is normal. Just literally, you just go on your day with no trousers on.
So this isn't as salacious as the worldwide naked bike ride where people are in fact fully nude. No. However, you're on your own bike seat when you're doing that. I think it would be very rude, unless you brought a towel to engage in a fully nude subway ride.
Notwithstanding the fact that the London coppers would come with their billy clubs and their like yellow stripy outfits and they would probably beat you down.
Absolutely. There is something innately British about a middle class, bald white man with a trouser suit without the trousers. So a full on shirt, tie, blazer, leather briefcase, financial times, but just with no trousers. It's something so beautiful, so British. It happens every year. Weirdly, this whole thing started in New York.
Did it? I guess they would have called it a pantsless train ride. I don't know why they call the subway the train because there's also a train station in New York.
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Chapter 6: What are the reasons behind high anxiety levels in Gen Z?
And guess what they call the things that depart from there? Trains. That's exactly right. But regardless, I didn't know it started in New York. I should get in on the action, but I'm bringing a towel because I'm not sitting on those subway seats having skin to seat contact. No way I would do that.
lovingly it was organized by the stiff upper lip society originally but they uh they sort of stopped getting sort of participating to it about 2023 about three years ago um and they said oh it's run its course it's something that they've stopped doing so one of their own members one of the peoples who was a trouserless decided to continue it so yeah and i think it was like a a
various cities used to have it. I know New York had it and maybe other sort of large cities had it, but London has kind of kept it going. It's like they've kept sort of the Zoom going.
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Are Londoners divided on this? How do you feel about it? What are some of the arguments that people in the UK might make for and against it?
I think the hygiene thing is a big one because it happens on a Sunday where most people are taking their children down to London to see like museums and like funfairs and shopping. I do think it's quite odd. And I think it's more of a of a giggle, a titter rather than titillation.
So it's more of a like a little bit of a laugh and a giggle rather than anything sort of crazy or dangerous or anything like that. But most Londoners would just like we're so polite here in the UK. We would just maybe offer them our trousers.
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I feel like in New York, if someone was wearing underwear on the train, no one would even look. You would know the tourists on the train because they would be the ones staring. You get people in insane costumes.
Correct. I've been on your subway. In fact, I would be surprised that most people on a subway ride wear underwear.
No comment whether I do or don't, but I do have trousers on. Who knows what's going on under there? But yeah, I just, I feel like, and in one of the stations, I think it's like West 4th Station, a guy dresses up in a rat costume with an oversized stuffy pizza. And he like runs around the platform grabbing the pizza, pretending to be like a pizza rat.
And the New Yorkers don't even look at the guy. It's only the tourists who are like taking photos and going, oh my God, it's the pizza rat guy.
I mean, for those who have listened to this show consistently when I've been on, when I was in New York and on the subway, I had two guys just get on a train, rapping with a huge boom box and absolutely filling the whole subway train with music, dancing in between people. And honest to God, you could think that the rest of the commuters were a different planet. Yeah. They did not move.
Their eyes didn't move. They were looking directly ahead. And like you said, I was the Tories because I was staring at them, clapping away. And then they started singing at me. It was amazing. Yeah, they want your money, Tony.
Did you give them a buck?
No, but I think it's the fact that every New Yorker doesn't want to interact. But once I started to interact, then they all sort of joined in. So it was pretty cool in the end.
I saw a good short form video of like a woman in Times Square being like, there's so many tourists here. Here's how you can tell if there's New Yorkers around. And then she starts screaming crazy stuff at the top of her lungs. And then she zooms into somebody who doesn't look and she's like, that's a New Yorker. And then she zooms into a tourist, like staring at her horrified.
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