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The hosts dissect Meghan Markle's claims about a mysterious police detective and the letter accusing Thomas Markle of abuse. They argue that official records do not support her timeline and question why she cut ties with her father.
As shame engulfs Meghan Markle, cops remain skeptical as to why she kept the secret of the allegations against her father for so long.The difficult Duchess is haunted by mounting questions over the veracity of her version of events in a murky saga that British police are finding increasingly hard to believe.Did a London detective really tell Prince Harry's wife to keep a lid on the shocking accusation that Thomas Markle was a serious child sex offender?Was Megan instructed, as she insists, not to say a word while the investigation into her dad's alleged crimes continued?No.According to sources at the Metropolitan Police, where they can find not a shred of evidence to confirm her lady ship's unlikely story, the mysterious detective, who is reported to have shown mortified Megan a damning letter condemning Mr.Markle has not been traced, and senior officers have privately concluded that his identity will never be established.
Worse, they doubt that he even exists.Is this guy a phantom of the Duchess's imagination?An invention to create a plausible excuse for the extraordinary wall of silence she has maintained for at least seven years.As insiders have confided, it is frankly inconceivable that at the UK's police HQ, New Scotland Yard, they would have no record whatsoever of a meeting with a prominent member of the royal family who at that time was arguablythe most talked about woman on the planet.Any interaction with the recently married partner of the sixth in line to the throne would be a highly sensitive matter automatically referred to London's then chief constable Dame Cresa Dick.Well, there ain't nothing like a dame and this dame knew nothing.Nor did any other cops all the way down the chain of command.In turn, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, Charles, and the rest of the royals were also blissfully unaware of the fabled pivotal appointment with the law that, if we accept her torid tale of woe, must have changed Megan's life forever.
It was the eight-page letter written by Thomas Markle's first wife, Roslin Loveless, chronicling his alleged lust for underage girls that the Duchess of Sussex asserts destroyed her relationship with the doting dad she once adored.She recalls that the elusive detective showed the incendary correspondence to her in 2018, soon after her fairy tale Windsor wedding.Cops say it was 2019.Either way, why was it then that a year later in 2020, her lawyers told the court in her privacy action that it was the Mail on Sunday's fault that she felt compelled to sever ties with Thomas because hehanded over her personal notes to him, which the newspaper promptly published.So according to that narrative as relayed under oath to a judge, the grim spectre of her father's alleged nefarious proclivities was not the reason she cut him off.Where the actual truth lies in this tangled web is anyone's guess, but it seems only logical to deduce that once again we have hit the all too familiar roadblock of Megan's truth.
Not to be confused with the truth.It was against this beusing backdrop that the devastated duchess headed to Brussels with Harry to bang the drum of their campaign to protect children from online harm.with brave and courageous virtually printed on her perfectly painted pain expression.Our heroine was, we were informed, too fragile to deliver her planned joint speech with Harry.In California speak, she was apparently in an emotional space as she struggled to process Mr.Markle's appearance in a Florida court charged with a sickening pedophile crime.But oh the fortitude as marvelous Meg stoically still attended the unveiling of a memorial to kids killed by internet horror.She certainly showed a great deal of strength enduring her half-wit husband's excruciating address at the European Parliament as he baselessly accused social media bosses of banning their own children from their sites while callously letting other people's children enter
the sinister cyber danger zone.Did he have an iota of proof for this?Of course he didn't.But that's how old ginger nuts rolls.Meanwhile, cynics are convinced that throughout this faux royal clown show, actress Megan was putting on a powerhouse performance, milking the sorted situation for all it was worth in a calculated bid to turn herself into a figure of sympathy.Poor me.Poor me.Yeah, Meg.Poor you.suddenly shattered by vile allegations you've known all about since 2019, maybe longer.Does the devious duchess deserve an Oscar?You decide.As she was theatrically choking back the tears she would not at that stage have learned of the latest ludicrous chapter in her dad's downhill slide.In the early hours of the morning, 1:45 a.m.to be precise, Thomas Markle tried to cut off the electronic ankle tag he was ordered to wear after being released on bail.
As a result, the 82year-old former Hollywood lighting engineer was rearrested and banged up in jail.Amid this scarcely credible scandal, King Charles and his regal clan are wondering how the hell they ever came to be humiliatingly linked to a low rent lot like the Marl.Gee, who could be to blame?Step forward, hopeless Harry.Yeah, that's right.The dim juke strikes again.Yes, Samara.What the hell has he gotten the royal family into?I mean, if you're speaking about Harry, he's gotten into a very tricky situation with the family that he's married into.And we're talking about Thomas Markle Senior.Well, that's a whole other thing.
I'm talking about Harry because he's the one who married Megan.Therefore, our royal family are now inextricably linked to the lowest rent family in America.
Yeah.I mean, it really is a sort of sideshow.And it's pretty insane when you think about it.You've got him trying to I mean them both trying to be
There he is.By the way, there's there's Thomas Markle respplendant in his orange prison uniforms.
Suits you out.
Yeah.So, I mean,
he does.He looks like the casting couch evil guy.
They've given Harry enough rope and he's angled himself and the royal family cuz they give him the leeway because of all the troubles that he had.So, they sort of let him get away with stuff and they didn't do the due diligence and this is the mess they find themselves in.Yeah.Well, there he is handcuffed.This was uh last week when he was first arrested at the Florida CA care home from which he is now banned.Yes.Uh I mean quite why the FBI put handcuffs on it.
Did they think with his one leg he was going to hop away or something?
Well, with his other leg he managed to chop off the ankle bracelet, didn't he?So, um I I mean, of course, these are all allegations against him.But you're right, which he denies.We should stress
which he absolutely denies.But going back to the letter um that Megan, you know, did or didn't receive and whichever officer presented it to her, it is really murky as you say in the monologue.Kev, I think that there's a lot of questions that are going unanswered here um about what Megan knew.
Yeah.I mean, there's no way that her her chronology, her version of events just does not stack up.Uh this is a woman who at the time was the most talked about woman in the world.She was she just married the sixth in line to the throne.Uh she was the daughter-in-law of the future king because it was the queen was still around then.So that was Prince Charles then.
Yes.you know, to to be someone like that to be called to a meeting with a Scotland Yard a London detective, a police detective, you know, and be shown this letter that would have gone all the way to thetop.All the way to the top.Now, no one uh in the senior ranks of the British police, of the London police, has any record of this whatsoever.Dame Cresa Dick who was at the time our number one copper the most senior copper in the land doesn't know a thing about it and all the way down the chain of the command no other cop knows aboutthis even lower ranked uh senior cops never heard of this that is simply not plausible
well it's the entire Met police against one woman's narrative isn't it and I think I'm going to side with the conglomerate here I think it's interesting Because when the police are saying there's no record of meeting, is thatbecause they haven't been able to identify the individual or because there was never a meeting in the first place?
Exactly.
Well, the the thing is, as uh Samura alludes to there, uh Ash, this is at the heart of this Well, I'm going to call it a mystery, but uh it's becoming a little clearer by the day.the fact that Scotland Yard that senior cops cannot trace.Yeah.This mysterious detective, they have no idea who it is.Uh to the extent I mean I've spoken to coppers and they now I know that privately Scotland Yard, the HQ of British police, they believe this officer does not exist.So that somehow or other there may be elements of Megan's story that that are true, but not all of it is true.She's an opportunist, isn't she, Kevin?She's shoehorned this and she thought, "Oh, this is brilliant.I can shoehorn this into my narrative and it fits."Thinking we would would be that stupid and believe her truth.
You know what I mean?We know what's going on.
Yeah.And she also said, "Samara, you know, she's when when this first emerged, now you know why I cut my father off.Now you know."Well, as I said in 2020, I think it was when she sued the Mail on Sunday newspaper here in London be for because the Mail on Saturday, Thomas Markle Senior, gave that newspaper, he has a close relationship withtheir American editor, woman called Caroline Graham.He gave that newspaper the private notes that Megan had written to him, you know, complaining about him dealing with the paparazzi and all of that and the tabloids.Uh, the Mail on Sunday promptly published those letters and she sued them for privacy and in that case her lawyers told the court that it was the newspaper fault that her relationship with her father was destroyed.Well, she's now saying no, that it was destroyed because of the letter from Rosalyn Loveless some years before.
Uh, now, so on oath a court was told that's why she doesn't speak, that's why she cut ties with her dad.But there seems to be a different story.
I mean, it's sort of like make it make sense.I think the Marle family in general are a torid bunch.And I think that unfortunately the way that Megan has acted throughout this whole process, be it that maybe her reasons are that she is ashamed of her family in general.You know, even then though she is she she absolutely put the Daily Mail, she drew them into this court case.She blamed the paparazzi and now of course the story is different.So it is absolutely in within the Daily Mail's right to go after this.It's the Daily Mail sort of group as it were.Important to stress that these letters were published in the Daily Mail's sister Sunday paper, the Mail on Sunday.
The discussion shifts to Meghan and Harry's Brussels appearance and their campaign against online harm, which the hosts frame as performative. They also revisit Thomas Markle's arrest and the wider family drama surrounding the Sussexes.
I spoke to our royal guru, Kinsey Scoffield, earlier in the week about this very matter, and here's what she had to say.
It's my opinion that Harry and Megan's version of events evolve based on what benefits them.And for the last seven years, we've heard that Megan felt a sense of betrayal from her father for collaborating with the paparazzi in 2018 leading up to her wedding to Prince Harry and his insistence on continuing to talkto the media.And if you go back and look at her 2020 Daily Mail case, you know, she says she points the blame at the Daily Mail for wreaking havoc on her relationship with her father and and creating these issues betweenher and her father.That's in 2020 where on the record she says it's the Daily Mail.She doesn't say it's a letter from Roslin Loveless that indicates her father could be a potential predator.Um, she says it's these paparazzi shots and her father's relationship with the media and his inability.
She she refers to him as a victim and says he's being manipulated by the media.Now, if I think my father is a a potential predator, I'm not painting him as a victim in any courtroom or or anywhere.And so Harry and Megan, in my opinion, their stories evolve based on what their needs are at the time.And I don't think that they're uh they've been completely honest and upfront with us about this incident.And I think we should be more aggressive in demanding answers versus giving them a platform in Brussels to pretend that they are these big advocates for protecting children.
Kinsey's right.I mean, these two, both of them, particularly Megan, they do seem to change their narrative according to whatever is going on at the moment, don't they?
Yeah.I mean, I'm actually ready to be sympathetic to Megan in this story, but unfortunately, I can't be when I don't know where the truth lies, to be honest.I mean, Ash, isn't it it's I mean, it's confusing.
Well, I changed the tune.Do you remember when Harry says, "Oh, what you talking about?We weren't.We didn't say anyone was racist when we, you know, we had it all on on, you know, they they literally
Yeah, that's right.That's a really good point.After they accused the royal family of being racist, they said Harry said, "We did no such thing."Yeah, you did.Yeah, you did.It's on tape, you know.
Yeah, but of course he didn't include it in spare.He didn't He hasn't mentioned it since.I think Megan just sort of came out with it during that Oprah interview and and you should have seen the look on his face when she said it.He was a bit like, whoa, we're going there.
That's right.Yeah, I always remember that.I think that was the moment when uh he realized with this woman, I'm crossing the Rubicon.There is no way back.She's really going for it.He he had a face like, "Am I really sitting here talking to Oprah?My wife is accusing my relatives and my dad of being racist."Yeah, Harry.It
was a bit like the curtsy moment, wasn't it, when he looked at her in that way as well.
Yeah.But yeah, that was another moment when she mocked the royals or or the tradition of curtsying the queen.He looked pretty shocked by that.But uh yeah, there's a lot of water under the bridge since then.Uh, I also uh spoke to Kinsey about the letter issue.Kinsey makes no bones about it.You know, this is the letter from Roslin Loveless, no longer with us, by the way.She died not so long ago, uh, accusing Thomas Markle of being a serial child sex abuser.Uh, in terms of how she got to see this and whether the police told her to be quiet about it and this mysterious detective, Kinsey makes no bones about it.She thinks Megan is lying.Here's Kins.
Go back and just look at what she was doing in 2019 when she claims that she is now aware of this incident or this letter.She's guest editing Vogue.She's at Wimbledon complaining that that spectators are taking her photo and she's creating a fuss about the people around her taking because she's there in a private capacity.You know, she's interviewing Michelle Obama.Um she's doing a documentary with ITV.She's living her best life and she doesn't seem like somebody that is distraught and you know she's too emotional now to now to speak but in 2019 she showed up to Wimbledon.She showed up to to be the guest editor of Vogue.You know she's alleges that she's shocked by these allegations in 2019.yet she's everywhere enjoying having her photo taken and enjoying this newfound celebrity that you know she she's lucked into by marrying Prince Harry.
I think we need to look at patterns and stop listening to what these people are saying because I don't know how truthful they are.
She's known about it for seven or eight years.I mean, how can she be fragile and emotionally shocked?
Yeah,
Kinsey makes such a good point there about the conflicting timelines and I think she's spot on.I think I mean it's interesting.You know, Megan was well enough to go leave the children wherever whichever country they're living in right now, put a bunch of makeup on, stride up to the back room in Brussels where this was had.It wasn't actually in the European Parliament.I think it's important to note it was in a a rented room on the side.It was at the European Union.Yeah, it was at but it wasn't.It wasn't in the show.And and be there for Harry to then deliver a speech that was very confected and clearly he knew nothing really about what he was saying.There are reports that that speech was done potentially by a robot.We don't know.It was just on a a Substack that I read.
But I think it's um it's just the issue is it's all theater for them.That's the problem here.And I think that you could see that very clearly with Megan's EU performance.
Yeah, indeed that speech.But in that speech, I said in my model, there's an outrageous allegation where he said, "We all know, everyone knows," he said that social media bosses ban their own children uh from their sites, but callously allow other people'schildren to enter the cyber danger zone.You know, we don't all know that.Nor does Harry.That's an extreme.It's an extraordinary well is more than that.It's a baseless very serious accusation.Uh he shouldn't be doing that.
Um and he began the speech by saying I'm not here as an expert or a politician.I'm here as a father.Well, why are you making a speech then?If you're not an expert, why are you making a speech?It's it's all ridiculous.But uh let's have a look at an excerpt from that magnificent piece of princely oretry.
Can we ask you to be the godfather of the coalition of all the parliamentarians worldwide?You help us to have the spirit to continue the fight.Harry could be the godfather of the EU.Uh would that be the fourth in the Godfather series of movies?Godfather 4 starring Ginger Nuts.I mean, what the hell's that about?
Yeah, it's ridiculous.It was pretty sickly how they were fawning over him over there.And also, I mean, this is the issue when you don't have the apparatus of the royal family surrounding you.Comments like that actually are quite controversial if you really think about it and Britain's relationship with the EU, etc.And I think Harry just looked like he didn't want to be there.I mean, I would start with maybe take your own children off social media if you're going to go and preach about it.
Stop using them.Yeah, just stop using them to sell random pots of jam on the internet.Maybe they could begin there.I mean, the hypocrisy is off the charts with this couple.
No self-awareness.
Zero self-awareness.And also, I mean, God, the mind boggles.You've got a D-list actress and ginger nuts, as you say, trying to inform EU policy.They were literally fawning over him, saying that they want him to be an advisory council uh to the EU.Really?I mean, this is a guy who struggled to finish his A levels.
Yeah, he couldn't.And failed his helicopter pilot test.He couldn't advise anyone how to tie their shoelaces on account if he doesn't know himself.I spoke to royal biographer Angela Levan and you mention uh Megan being an actress.Well, um Angela's in no doubt that that pained expression, you know, very fragile but bravely attending that Brussels event.Anyway, uh she just said she was acting.It was phony.Uh take it away, Angela Leven.
Megan always has to be the person who's the extra wonderful mating amazing person who feels so bad that she's things have gone out of line, you know?I mean, it's all sort of phony.I was very cross when I watched her um about a woman who some of 15 had had killed himself because he was taken a picture of him in the in the nude and he just felt he couldn't copewith it.So he killed himself.And Megan, she stood up just as this woman was walking in,
opened her mouth, arms, went up to her, hung, hugged her, hug her and stroked her back and put her back around.And you think, come on.You know, this is phony as can be.If she can do that, she could have done anything there.But she didn't want to because she wanted to be more of the sort of star.
Absolutely.And unfortunately, that's kind of what the her whole last 10 years have been.And I think that kind of goes to the root cause of what's going on here with Megan.I was just watching her on uh Master Chef Australia a couple nights ago just for some research.and she was talking about this kindred childhood that she had in uh California with her mom going to the organic food market and going and buying her uh food and cooking it up in the kitchen which then conflictswith her Netflix I was a latch key kid with TV dinners which then conflicts with uh my father raised me which then conflicts with my mother was the single parent I'm just saying I'm like the timeline she's gotthis the delusions of grandeur when it comes to her own life and her childhood and Unfortunately, that reality has been punctured massively by these allegations against her father.
And we don't see I don't see someone with elegance and grace walking up to the European Parliament.I see someone who has deep trauma and issues that she hasn't addressed.
Yeah.What she's upset about right now uh is not the revelations because they're not about her father because they're not revelations to her.What she's uh upset about is that the remnants of her allegedly glamorous image, as you say, have been punctured, destroyed.In fact, she doesn't like that.Uh but also, Angela Leven uh mentioned what we've been talking about.Uh why I if the police told her not to say anything, this this mysterious elusive uh possibly non-existent detective told her don't say anything cuz her story is I wanted to go public.No, you didn't.Uh but the detective said don't say anything because that might affect our investigation.Well, Angela asks the perfectly valid question.Why did she never follow up on that?I mean, if after 3 months, 6 months, a year, nothing's happened, you'd have thought she might have got in touch with fragile cops and saying, "What's happening with that investigation into my father?"
Here's Angela putting that point.
I don't even know if she told Harry.I think she wanted to protect herself and that's why she wouldn't do it.And the the to say that um I I allowed them to carry on.They wanted to carry on and do it.Well, if you were going to be doing this, you would want to know every week at least uh what was happening, what was happening, and speak to them, go there, you know, and and try and sort it out.She didn't.She just left it.
Well, uh it's not only uh observers and commentators who uh cast their opinions on how Megan treated her father, also her half brother, Thomas Markle Jr., uh he has his very strong views about this.Watch this.
He just doesn't deserve to be treated this way.I mean, how heartless and cold could you be?I mean, like I said, if it wasn't if it wasn't for my dad, Megan wouldn't even be here, you know?And and what's really disturbing is the other day he told me Megan told him that he was just a sperm donor.
This is the Marle family for you, you know.Then you got Samantha, her half sister, who uh has been going hell for leather to say there's no way my father's got dementia.He's got a very sharp mind.He's very much at the races.Well, why then, Samantha, did he book into a care home specifically, especially for dementia sufferers.Uh and uh maybe uh he his dementia was the reason he cut off his electronic tag in the middle of the night.Well, make it make sense though because it's a very convenient time to be diagnosed with dementia.
I'll tell you Samantha who says that he's innocent.So, it doesn't make sense either way.I can make that saga.The the electronic tag makes sense when he was in court uh last Friday uh in Florida charged with possessing child sex material images.Uh the judge says, "You got to hand in your passport."And he said, "I just can't find it.of I can't find it.So the judge said, "All right, fair enough."So think about it.You a few days later, there he is soaring off his electronic tag.
1 a.m.
Maybe he had his passport.He was he was going to make a run for it on his one leg.He was going to flee the country.Anyway, I'll leave that one hanging in the air.And let's go to our first bad ad.
The segment opens with a brief ad break and then turns to Russell Brand's conviction and his past relationships, especially with Katy Perry. The hosts criticize his behavior, discuss his treatment of partners, and note Perry's reported plans to tell her story.
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The actor, comedian, YouTuber, born again Bible basher Russell Brand has been jailed for 10 and a half years.Found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault using his star power uh to uh abuse women in the most terrible way.Uh now uh but long before that uh Russell Brand, you know, remember this about Russell Brand.I mean, apart from all the other annoying things about him, he's a stage school kid.Yeah.You know, he always wanted to be famous.He wanted to be a sta on the stage, you know.Uh and here he is in his very first TV role uh in uh a trai an old uh TV series here in Britain called The Bill.All about the cops because we call cops the bill.Uh so this is Russell Brand's first ever TV role.Billy case.
What do you want?
Detective Chief Inspector Meadows.I'm arresting you for GBH.
GB what?
The fight two nights ago on the Jasmine Allen.You left a man for dead.I
was never there.
We'll talk about it at the station.You nicked.You don't have to say anything unless you wish to do so.But what you do say maybe giving in evidence.
He just told you he wasn't even there.
Good rehearsal for his real life drama.Yeah.Was a reenactment.But we need to talk about Russell Bran and Katie Perry.Uh they got married in India.Yeah.
Uh, in 2010 after a whirlwind romance and Katy Perry, now she's never really spoken about it, but it's very clear it was the darkest phase of her life.Uh, when they went to the Oscars, uh, what he couldn't take, the little to the little tosser, the jealous little tosser, was the fact that she was a much bigger star than him.She never went to he never went to her concerts because he hated the fact there would be 100,000 people idolizing her.He hated it.Uh and when they went to the Oscars, obviously in the States, they're all interested in what the big American pop star Katie Perry might have to say.Uh but Russell Brown was having none of that.Watch this.
Oh, this is morning television.This is morning in England.
So listen, who are you happy to see win?Um uh uh no he's actually hilarious.
I'm glad you find a butt.
Speechless.Usually I'm the like bubbly and I'm just like, "Oh my god, you're so funny.I can't believe it.Have a lovely night."I know you're being pulled away back left and center.# Orcs.So he's holding up a sign saying, "Obey,
you know, and everywhere they went, he always assumed that it was him that people wanted to talk to.He was a minnow compared to her."And that is why that marriage fell apart.
The mask slips every now and then.You could see there the disdain in his face, couldn't you?
Well, I think the fury the fury everyone was massive.I mean, it was it kind of like the 2010 Hollywood couple.You've got the sugary pop star and the letharia of I don't know, maniac that is Russell Brand.And it was it is really interesting how it's gone very badly and now we're hearing about it.And it's not just um Katy Perry, it's other partners of his.Jamaima Khan Goldsmith, which won't be as known in the US, but she was another quite famous uh woman that dated him,
had to get the police.She said he got him from her home uh and uh at a concert just before she was due to do a big concert.Poor Katy Perry after 14 months of this very dark marriage.There's even a report that at one stage Katie was in the room when Russell Bran was assaulting another woman.It's really, really dark stuff.Uh, and at one point she after 14 months of this terrible marriage,
uh, she received a text from him saying the marriage
years.
Yeah.Saying the marriage was over.And she was about to go on stage and she burst into tears.It's on film, sobbing away.and uh an aid comes in and says, "Katie, you know, you you if you need to cancel the show, everyone will understand.You can do that or you can go up there uh and the show must go on."And she went up and she went up onto the stage through the stage as they do, you know.So, she came up and you can see her coming up and she's in floods of tears and then brilliantly.What what a what a trooper.Just as she gets to the stage, she goes,
"Yeah."
She comes up and she delivered a great performance.But that's how he treated her.He dumped her by text.Just And he knew she was about to
She dodged a bullet there, though, didn't she?
She said that she No, not for 14 months.
She did say that she knew some very dark things that she couldn't say.Um, and I guess now we kind of know the halftruth there, but they never spoke again after that text message.And Russell was asked about it on Megan Callie's podcast and she was like, "Oh, Katie claims that you never spoke to her after you texted her."And he was like, "No, I never spoke to her again."So he confirmed it and he claims that he is still in touch with her parents who she's completely estranged from, but they're Bible lovers, so that's why he's friends with them.I mean, he's just such a sort of two-faced lying piece of, you know.
Yeah, he he really is.And uh at a concert, I think it was in Britain in Blenhan, uh you know, Katie joked with the audience uh that uh well, put it this way.Her wish came true uh last week when he was sent to jail for 10 and a half years.Watch this.
Oh, this is a good one.I just saw my ex.I hope my ex isn't here.
He should be in jail.
He should be in jail.Well, Katie, don't worry.He is now.Now, Katy Perry has never really spoke about it.I think she was very very pained about it because uh apparently, you know, she she was distressed.She when he never came to her concerts, he wouldn't she wouldn't see him for days on end.Uh and it was really painful for her.She's never spoken about it.But now she is apparently set to make a documentary and to tell the story of this terrible marriage to this terrible man that she endured.uh for 14 turbulent months.
That will be massive, won't it?
It will be.It will be.And he he deserves it.I think for her it'll be Carthus.It's time to clear the air.
Well, yeah.She's got bad taste in men, though.I mean, she's dating Justin Trudeau at the moment.
I didn't want to make that joke.Really?I didn't want to make that.Well, she thought that was
Okay.No, he's clearly
She thought that was bad.She was Justin Trudeau.Now, I'm going to take the lawyer's in my ear.Justin Trudeau uh is not a sex offender.
He's super hot.I was always like, apart from his politics, I'd totally date Justin Trudeau.
Uh would you would you date it?Would you date him?
I'll give it a go.
Yeah.Yeah.
Russell on the other hand, this little uh sex addict from Essex.Uh I don't know how he managed to date so many powerful women.and Laura Brand, his wife.I mean, I was looking back on videos of the dynamic between them and she looks, in my opinion, like a woman who is quite sort of downtrodden by him.
She's she's she's brainwashed.Stockholm syndrome.Yeah.
She's being brainwashed into believing everything he ever said, which is basically usually a fact.
Feel sorry for him.
He lied and lied and lied.And by the way, I don't buy this Christianity crap.He's he's not converted.It's all a lie.
He's a bit like Jesus though, isn't he?Look.
Yeah.Yeah.Really is.Yeah.Right.Uh yeah, I hope I hope his Christianity helps him behind bars.Uh right, let's move on.
Ash delivers a comic news flash about a chimpanzee fed by drone during flooding in Florida. The hosts joke about the story, the presentation, and the absurdity of the segment before moving on.
And of course, uh he's looking flash in his hat.It's time now for the Flash Ash news flash.Before we get there, why are you wearing a hat this week?
Well, because you know, you insist that I wear a tie to be flash.I forgot the tie.I have an emergency hat for such cases.
You have an emergency hat in case you forget your
My tie.Yeah.restored here.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wonderful world of Ash Gold.Uh, now it's time for the Flash Ash news flash.What have you got for us this week?
I'm ready for you.Uh, hello.I'm Flash Ash and welcome to Flash Ash's news flashash with me, Flash Ash.And it's another animal special cuz you know, we know Kev loves animals.He won't even eat them.He'll eat fish, though.He doesn't care about them.Um, hungry chimpanzee fed by drone after floodwaters cut him off from keepers.A chimp was fed by drones after flooding in Florida cut him off from the sanctuary staff.Caleb, a 38-y old chimp, so quite, you know, um, middle age.He was isolated.
A middle-aged chimp.
A middle-aged chimp.He would have been going a bit gray.Not a pension.Like my not a pensioner.
No, not quite.Well, I don't know.Chimps live quite a long time.He was left isolated at the safe the chimps facility in Fort Pierce when it was overwhelmed by flood waters.A nonprofit which cares for chimps rescued.Basically, they
not the point.The point is that
they drop bananas and a blanket.
So, they used a drone.
He's not going to know.He's going to go, "What's a blanket?What's all this?"He won't blankets.
I mean, he's probably not going to go, "Oh, look, it's a drone."But they they got the food in the water.A banana is stereotyping them.You know, he's just a monkey.Don't mean he just bananas.
Really the issue here, is it?
Well, give him a burger.And what's the blanket?
I just like bananas.I like that stereotyping them.Just cuz they're a chim ate bananas.
Give them some food they don't like.
Oh, I'm a chimp.I ate bananas.I know.
It is a bit stereotyping.Give them a burger.
So, what they should have maybe given him sushi or something?They could be sophisticated.No one likes sushi.
Stereotyping a chimp.Anyway, here's to that zoo and the brilliant idea to help that chimp to keep that chimp alive using a drone.I think it's a fabulous morph.That's a fabulous flash.Ash news flash.Well done.Thanks, man.
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Welcome back.This is part four, the final section of this wonderful edition of What Just Happened?And it is time of course for viewers questions when you send in your queries and I try to answer them and to help me in this endeavor.As always, I'm assisted by my glamorous assistant Samara Gil.What's the first question, Samara?
Netflix refused to remove a Russell Brand special.In the show, the convicted rapist made a disgusting joke about his wife and daughter.So, the question is, should this be pulled or do you believe in free speech?Kev,
I believe that Netflix should have the right to do whatever they want with this documentary.Certainly, it was under discussion.We're not quite sure whether or not in the event they finally did pull this or they will be pulling it, but for a while they certainly were refusing to pull this.
And I guess they thought it was a freedom of speech issue.And certainly I agree that if they want to leave a show up starring a convicted rapist who's just got 10 and a half years in jail, that's up to them.uh in terms of the disgusting joke about his wife and daughter, again, up to them.Uh but uh I would imagine that the fate of that documentary or that show, if they haven't yet pulled it, I can't imagine that it will remain in their catalog for that long, would you think, Samara?
Yeah, I wouldn't think so.I mean, I I they should probably pull it, but disgusting joke about his wife and daughter.Okay.I mean, you can go back into YouTube and find pretty much everything he's ever said, which pretty much all of it that came out of his mouth was disgusting.
They're also still got the Cent Trinians film on, which I think is a bit unsavory being it's all loads of school girls and Russell Brand.
Yeah, they should probably pull that, too.
But they've got an open secret documentary about him coming out.I think it's Friday, so they're obviously doing something.
Yeah.So, they're going to do a number on Russell Brand.Uh but yeah, if they want to leave, you know, Cent Trinians and all his other films and this show in which he made a disgusting joke, they want to leave that on their cat catalog.Do I believe they should be able to?Yeah, I do.I don't like sort of saying, "Pull that down.Ban that, ban that."I think it would be a mistake on Netflix's part to leave it there, but it's up to them.Uh that's where I stand on that.Let's go to the second question.Uh, the British government wants to ban teenagers under 16 from Spotify, Lego Play, and YouTube Kids.Have they gone too far?
Way too far.I am sick of this.I'm sick of this.Don't let anybody under 16 anywhere near social media, anywhere near Spotify, Lego Play, YouTube, Kids, for God's sake.This is supposed to be a country.This is supposed to be a western world where we have freedom of speech, freedom of expression, uh freedom of activity.I don't want all these rules and regulations.I don't want these laws clamping down on anybody's freedom to do anything to be honest with you.So, uh has the British government gone too far?Yeah.Yet again, it has gone way too far into dictatorial tyranny.No, thank you very much.That's my answer to that.Let's move on.
A judge has allowed Donald Trump's 10 billion defamation case against the BBC to proceed.He criticized the BBC for playing fast and loose with the facts.Could he actually win?
Could he actually win?He is going to win.This is an open and shut case for God's sake.
He might not get the full amount, but that he wants, but he normally settles for a few million.He's done it with lots of news uh channels before, and he'll do it again.They'll have to settle.
Yeah.Yeah, I mean this what happened was the BBC, our state broadcaster here in Britain that we are required by law to give £180 a year to if you want to watch the BBC that is which frankly fewer andfewer people do.It's such a load of rubbish, useless dramas, non-comdies, uh inaccurate bias news.Forget it.Waste of space.Uh but you know we know the story that Panorama the BBC's flagship news documentary show current affairs uh program uh ran this documentary in which they do doctorred videotape of Donald Trump making a speech after he lost theelection in 2020.uh they made it look as if he was addressing the crowd and telling uh people to storm Capitol Hill uh and in effect uh cause insurrection and revolution.He was doing no such thing.Quite the reverse in fact.Uh the BBC has admitted they did this and they've admitted that was a that was wrong and they've they've apologized for it.
So it's an open and shut case that he wins the he wins this.Uh but the BBC, their lawyers, the BBC so hates Donald Trump in its wokery and its left-wing uh condition uh that it just thinks you can't possibly liel this man.You cannot defame him.
They said it was a mistake.It wasn't a mistake.It was a lie.
It wasn't a mistake.They they admit it was deliberate that someone did it.
They said they got it wrong.
Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.But but their case is basically Donald Trump is the antichrist.You cannot defame the Antichrist.Well, he's the president of the United States of America, the democratically elected, most powerful man on the face of the planet.Let me tell you, BBC lawyers, you can defame that kind of guy pretty damned easily in your case.So, uh, what happened this week in a Florida court, the BBC went, "Oh, you got to strike this out.You got to strike this out.Uh, no, this case can't go on."Uh the judge said it can go on.And furthermore, I find in Mr.Trump's favor that the BBC here acted with malice against him.That's really serious.That means Donald Trump is winning.He's winning hands down.He hailed this as a huge victory against the BBC and he's right.And Samara, the BBC have got to get real about this.
It's a ridiculous defense.Uh, as Ash quite rightly says, down the line there's a compromise to be made.Uh, it's going to cost the BBC a hell of a lot of money.Uh, but Trump has got a long track record of suing news or organizations, television programs.In the end, he usually wins.He'll take a compromise deal and an apology.That's what the BBC have got to get real about, isn't it?Well, I think it's I mean, we've seen that it's so serious that Tim Davies and others, Deborah, whatever her name was, had to step down.Uh, it it was very serious at the time.And I think that that's because they know that
Deborah Fernes, wasn't it?
Deborah Turness.Yeah, exactly.I think that they know that there's going to be hell and lots of pounds to pay when Trump's lawyers get involved.
It's not just that as well, is it?I mean, it will be a very big tarnish on the reputation of BBC.proves that they lie, which is, you know, for them.
As Samara brilliant, we know they do.Anyway,
as Samara brilliantly points out, this this travesty, this calamity of what Panorama did, this this kind of deliberate splicing together of videotape uh to make it look as if Donald Trump, having lost the election, was calling for arevolution, stormed Capitol Hill.He did no such thing.That resulted in the director general, the boss of all the BBC, uh, Tim Davyy, and the head of news, Deborah Turners, having to resign.They had to quit their serious jobs.Both of them earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.This is massive.And the BBC is going to lose.C.Could he actually win?No, he will win.
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