Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You're all touchy about Grenfell Tower. You're a good Catholic boy, aren't you? Yes. Masturbating. I'm trying to stop that. How's that going?
Chapter 2: What does comedian James McCann say about being poor in America?
Not great. You've got to take back America. I believe in you.
Take back America?
Yeah.
Chapter 3: How does James McCann view the concept of net-zero policies?
I'm not an Enoch Powell supporter.
He was gay. What do you mean Enoch Powell was gay? I mean he was a gay man who did gay things. He was married to a woman his entire life.
Of course. No married man could participate in homosex. I love gay people.
Chapter 4: What insights does James McCann provide on the British Empire?
Big fan. Obviously the gay stuff has to stop, but as people, some of the best.
So, you're in Austin?
No, that's not going to work. Sounds like people hate freedom on this podcast.
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Chapter 5: Why does James McCann believe the Church of England is collapsing?
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Chapter 6: What are James McCann's thoughts on immigration and Enoch Powell?
It's an honor and a privilege to be here.
You said that way too fast. Yeah, I was ready. Thank you for having me on.
Yeah, it's great to have you on.
Yeah, I'm not going to get arrested in the UK from being on this show. Are you planning to go to the UK? One day. Well, then you don't know. I went last year. It wasn't that bad. I thought you could get away with more things than I thought I could get away with. You're all touchy about Grenfell Tower.
Chapter 7: How does James McCann critique violence in American movies?
Yeah, a little bit. Like really, every strata of society doesn't want to talk about Grenfell Tower.
Yeah.
And did you try and make jokes about this? Yeah, I did. I did a good five on Grenfell Tower. How did that go? Like a tower on fire.
Chapter 8: What does Zohran Mamdani contribute to the conversation?
No, it's really like a national... It's not clear from the UK media from abroad that that has stayed with the UK people. But boy, you will think about it a lot. No one wants to talk about it. You said it's like the N-word. It really takes the air out of a room. Did you do that as well? Did you do that? No, I left that one out. The Grenfell Tower, I wanted to talk about immensely.
What is comedy but finding where the crack is in someone's... You find where the difficult, you know, the points in the body politic that have to be unspooled. And that's yours, I think. Really? Talking about all the mosques, that was fine. A lot of mosques. Really? That's interesting. People were happy to talk about the mosques. Compared to Grenfell Tower, wow.
They wanted to talk about the towers on those mosques. Those beautiful mosques. I did keep calling them beautiful mosques. That might have helped. That might have eased it. And what did you think of London when you were there? You said it wasn't that bad. What were you expecting and what was the reality? Thought it would be like Peckham over the whole thing.
But it was really just localized to Peckham. And Peckham, by the way, great. Love Peckham. Peckhamplex, beautiful. I did go to the convenience store where you can buy a knife next to a ski mask. What do you call them here? What do you call them in the UK? A face covering. Not that kind of face covering. No, ski mask. Yeah. Yeah, balaclava. Balaclavas next to the knives behind the counter.
It's a convenience store. It's too convenient. You should have to go to two shops if you're going to murder people. But it was, I mean, it's beautiful. Great chicken. You guys don't like KFC over there. You look down on it. You've got proper chicken places. I wouldn't say we've got proper chicken places. We just- Oh, you've got the finest, finest chicken. We've got PFC.
We've got all the knockoffs.
What does P stand for? Probably. Peckham Fried Chicken. That's it. It's a great brand.
It might be Pakistani. But the important thing is it's a great country and you're on the way back.
Yeah? Maybe. Not so sure. But you're here in the US. You're Aussie originally, right? Yeah. How did that happen?
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