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Tucker Carlson
Whatever happened to Britain or the UK or England or whatever they're calling it, we can't even agree on what it's called. But England, the England that if you're over 50, you grew up learning about, the England that controlled the world, the England that ran the largest empire in human history at the end of World War I. Britain, which is an island in a pretty unhospitable climate, controlled literally a quarter of the Earth's surface. And not controlled in the way the United States controls the rest of the world with an implied threat or with economic ties through trade, but actually controlled with administrators and people sitting at desks with eyeshades counting things like actually controlled a quarter of the Earth's surface. Way more than Rome, way more than the Mongols, way more than anybody ever or maybe in the future ever. Britain was the most powerful country in the history of the world. And then 25 years later, it was this kind of sad, soggy welfare state, which is to some extent what it still is, except maybe even a little bit worse. What happened? Well, there are a couple levels on which to think about this. First, it's just geopolitical and I guess they spent a lot of money in these wars and the ruling half the class of Eaton 1910, was killed in the trenches or whatever. You can think of a lot of different ways to explain what happened to Britain. The fact remains, however, they won the two biggest wars in human history. They won and yet they're still greatly diminished and to some extent humiliated. It's like, what is that? So again, the first can be described, the first explanation can be described in economic terms. Well, the United States took over. The British Empire just moved west to its child, the US they just transferred the power and a lot of the gold to this new country which had its systems and some of its customs. Okay, but there's something kind of deeper, actually. If that were the whole story, then Britain would still be recognizably Britain. The English people would still be recognizably English. They would just be not in charge anymore. They would have less money and less power, but the country would be by any conventional measurement, thriving. Just not running the Bahamas and Hong Kong, you know, Pakistan. But that's not what's happened. Actually. After winning the two biggest wars in human history, Britain has shrunken, not just physically, but in some way that's hard to describe. It's culture has changed, some might say has been destroyed, and it's become something completely different. And what is that? And by the way, why does it matter? What it is? Well, it matters because what's happened to Britain, to England, is also happening to many countries in the west, certainly its heirs, the Anglosphere. And that specifically would be Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Ireland. It's happening to those countries, but it's also happening to the rest of Western Europe, all at the same time. A bunch of different profound, never seen before phenomenon are happening to all of those countries and again, including ours here in the United States. So it's worth understanding what has happened to Britain. So maybe the best image that describes it is the one that we're about to show you. And in case there's no context in the tape, what you're watching is a woman being arrested outside of an abortion clinic. And keep in mind as you watch this, she's not being arrested for throwing a firebomb, a petrol bomb through the window of this abortion clinic in the UK or even for obstructing access to this abortion clinic. No, she's being arrested and taken to jail for praying outside the abortion clinic. Watch this.
Piers Morgan
Before I ask you any questions about what's going on today, I have to caution you, which is just your rights.
Tucker Carlson
Which is your not have to say anything.
Piers Morgan
It may harm your defense if you do not mention one question, something that you later are in court. Anything you do, certainly. What are you here for today, physically?
Tucker Carlson
I'm just standing here. Okay.
Piers Morgan
Why here of all places? I know you don't live nearby, but this is an abortion something.
Tucker Carlson
Okay.
Piers Morgan
That's why you're still you standing here, part of the protest? No.
Tucker Carlson
Are you praying? I might be praying in my head. So I'll ask you once more.
Piers Morgan
Will you voluntarily come with us now to the police station for me to ask you some questions about today and for the days where there are allegations that you've broken protection? If I've got a choice, then no. Okay, well, then you're under arrest.
Tucker Carlson
A plan.
Piers Morgan
Suspicion of failing to comply with the.
Tucker Carlson
Public spaces protection order. So what is that? It's hard to argue that if your government is arresting people for praying that you're watching a political phenomenon. Because, of course, praying is not simply a nonviolent act. It's not even a physical act. It can't possibly, at least in secular terms, affect outcomes or harm anyone. Praying for people can never be a crime. But it is a crime in Great Britain. Literally a crime. And the woman you saw is not the only person who's been arrested for doing it. So clearly we're watching a spiritual phenomenon here. I mean, there's sort of no arguing it once you see things like that. But what is that spiritual phenomenon and what are its effects on the people of this country? And before we go farther, we should just say that if you visit the UK as it's now called, or London, its capital and completely dominant city, the first thing you'll notice is it's actually pretty nice. London is. The nice parts of London are as nice or maybe even nicer than any city in the United States. Certainly nicer than any city in Canada or Australia. Much nicer, actually. It's a great city filled with lots of happy people. But broadly speaking, this country has changed really, really dramatically. And it's changed in ways that are recognizable. And here's what you recognize. The people of Great Britain are going through a series of crises and they're all internal. Drug use, alcohol use. Their appearance has changed. People are no longer as well kept. The streets, the landscape is not tidy anymore. It's got lots of litter and graffiti in some places. And to technocrats, these are not meaningful measures of anything. Who cares if you've got graffiti? Does that affect gdp? Well, maybe, maybe not. But it's definitely a reflection of how people feel about themselves. People with self respect do not tolerate public displays of disorder or filth or graffiti or litter because they care about themselves and their family and they understand intuitively, as every human being does, that once you allow chaos and filth in your immediate environment, you are diminished. So you just don't allow that and no healthy society does. But all through the west, these are not just features, they're defining features. All Western cities are filled with litter and graffiti and people who look like they didn't bother to get dressed this morning but are instead wearing their pajamas in Walmart. It's not just in your town, it's everywhere in what we refer to as the West. The point that underlies all of this is a really obvious one, that too few people say, this is the behavior of a defeated people. This is what it looks like when you lose. This is what it looks like when you're on your way out to be replaced by somebody else. This is what it looks like to be an American Indian. Now, one thing nobody in the United States ever says about the American Indians, except in the kind of pro forma white guilt way, is these weren't just impressive people. And no, they didn't write the Constitution before we did. These were some of the most impressive people, most self reliant, most dignified breed. Any account of early American settlers, people who are pushing west who came into contact with Indians and yes, were often scalped and forced to eat their own genitals and roasted over open fires. I mean, these were cruel people. But even the people who were in danger of being murdered by them respected them. Because the indigenous Americans had a great deal of self respect. They had what we call dignity. And now, hundreds of years later, the opposite is true. The poorest people in the United States are American Indians. Why? Because the federal government hasn't given them enough. The federal government is completely in charge of the indigenous economy in the United States and has been for over 100 years and it hasn't worked. American Indians are still the poorest. Why? Because the Iroquois and the Navajo weren't impressive? No, they were the most impressive. Again, read the account of anyone who dealt with them. Even people who were dodging their arrows thought they were amazing people. Because they were. And now they are by many measures the saddest people in the United States. Why is that? Some inherent genetic predisposition to patheticness. They couldn't deal with modernity. Well, they probably could. They were defeated. They were defeated. And in some deep, the deepest way, they wound up destroying themselves. And it's not unique to them. That's the point. And just to be completely clear, all of this is observed with a great deal of sympathy, not scorn. No one's mocking the American Indians. Everyone should feel bad about it for real. Again, not in a sense silly white girl guilty way, but in a real way. These are amazing people. Greatly diminished. And the reason it's worth remembering is the same thing is happening to the West. So the beauty of Thanksgiving is that it celebrates real food. I mean, at the core of the holiday is actual food, not synthetic garbage. The kind that is almost irresistible. So wouldn't it be nice if the country embraced if all of us embraced actual food during the rest of the year? Ditching your standard and truly disgusting American chip brands for chips that aren't terrible for you, that have have only three ingredients. That would be Vandy Crisps. That'd be a great place to start. Vandy is about reviving real food. The kind your grandparents ate. And they look pretty svelte despite the camels they smoked. Why? Because they ate food that wasn't filled with garbage. And in this case, vanity crisps. Three ingredients, pesticide free potatoes, sea salt and 100% grass fed beef towel. 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They're the victims of it in a way that again, is hard to measure and sometimes hard to notice, but totally real. So you walk through this city, London, and it's been completely transformed by immigration. Completely. And the numbers are really, really clear. A hundred years ago was 100% European white. Now it's less than 40%. Okay, that's massive. Unprecedented demographic change. Got it. And the immigrant areas are absolutely poorer than the traditionally white English areas. Absolutely. There's just no question about it. But wealth as measured by the government is not the only measurement, actually. And this is true in the United States too. Lots of immigrants who have a lot less money than the native population seem a lot more balanced and happy, both because this is a huge upgrade for them just in terms of like annual income and standard of living. But it's more than that. They're not defeated. They don't hate themselves. And if you have traditional nationalist opinions in the United States, I can confirm this personally. You're never going to be stopped on the street and screamed at by some Guatemalan who's like, you are racist for having your views on immigration. No, they'll probably agree with you. Actually, the only people who ever get mad at you are the people who already hate themselves. And that's always famously some private equity wife or somebody who should be happy about how things are going. Cuz they're in the portion of the population that's benefiting from it. They're not happy, they're angry. What is that? That exact same thing is going on in this country. Exact. And it's part of a very recognizable syndrome and it's the most destructive of all history is Just filled with examples of people who get invaded and clubbed to death and have their women stolen from them. And they're fine. They're fine. It's the people who feel defeated inside who no longer exist. And that is happening to the west, and it's measurable. What other society hates its own national symbols? It's only happening in the West. Only in Great Britain. This is coming to be true in the United States. It's already true in Canada and Australia. What other country finds it embarrassing to fly their national flag? What are you saying? If that embarrasses you, you don't hate the flag, you hate yourself. And it's obvious, because people who have dignity, self respect, who believe in their own civilization want to continue it. How do you do that? By talking about it a lot? No, by continuing it through reproduction. No one is preventing the west from reproducing. And people have come up with these conspiracy theories like, oh, they're doing it. They're doing. No, we're doing it to ourselves. What else is abortion? Is that empowering for women? Of course not. That's absurd. Anyone who believes that is an idiot. Abortion is the way to stop people from reproducing. So is birth control, by the way.
Piers Morgan
Of course.
Tucker Carlson
So is convincing people that their dumb job is more important than having kids. It's not. It never will be. Any person who can get clarity for a second will recognize that it's only about stopping you from having more of you. And is there anything that's a clearer, crystal clear representation of how you feel about yourself than how you feel about having kids? And by the way, it's not just because they're selfish and they want to go on vacation and don't want to pay for children, or they're worried about how much it might cost. Notice that none of these impoverished immigrants living on SNAP and housing subsidies. They don't seem worried about it at all. Because they know it'll be fine, by the way. Most of the time, it will be fine. They're having kids when much more affluent natives are not. Because they believe in themselves and their culture, their civilization. They'd like to see it continue. It's the most basic of all human desires. So here in Great Britain, which has about a 40% abortion rate, 40% of all conceived children are killed. Who's doing that? It's not the immigrants, because they don't hate themselves. They're not defeated, they're ascendant. And so they can see the future. They know that they may not live to experience it. But they're still fully human. And they know you plant the tree not because you can bask in its shade, but because your grandchildren will. This is the most obvious of all human instincts and the most basic. But the native population in Britain is not debating abortion because it's not even a debate here. Everyone agrees it's just an affirmative.
Piers Morgan
Good.
Tucker Carlson
Of course, to eliminate your own people. Absolutely. And again, no one's making them do this. They've decided to do that themselves. But now their most enthusiastic campaign is for state sponsored suicide. They've already done this in Canada. It'll come to the United States. What is that? That's an entire people saying, we should exit the stage. Our time is done. It's over. Let's go. Someone else will take our place. Not the first time that's ever happened. This is what defeated people do. This is what happens when you break people inside. And maybe it'll just reach its terminus. Maybe there's no way to stop it. The great replacement theory. Yeah, a theory. Okay. No, it's the realest thing there is. And it's happening not because unseen hands are orchestrating it, though clearly they are, but because the native peoples of all these countries are participating in it enthusiastically and then enforcing its rules against anyone who questions it. So in Great Britain, if you were to say, wait, what the hell is this? This looks nothing like the country I grew up in. Guess who's gonna arrest you? Your fellow Britons. The ones whose great grandparents lived here. The whites. They're the ones enforcing this. They're the ones totally determined to eliminate themselves. Hate to brag, but we're pretty confident this show is the most vehemently pro dog podcast you're ever gonna see. We can take or leave some people, but dogs are non negotiable. They are the best. They really are our best friends. And so for that reason, we're thrilled to have a new partner called Dutch Pet. It's the fastest growing pet telehealth service. Dutch.com is on a mission to create what you need, what you actually need. Affordable quality veterinary care anytime, no matter where you are. They will get your dog or cat what you need immortal immediately. It's offering an exclusive discount. Dutch is for our listeners. You get 50 bucks off your vet care per year. Visit dutch.comtucker to learn more. Use the code tucker for $50 off. That is an unlimited vet visit. 82 a year. 82 bucks a year. We actually use this. Dutch has vets who can handle any pet under any Circumstance in a 10 minute call. It's pretty amazing actually. You never have to leave your house. You don't have to throw the dog in the truck. No wasted time waiting for appointments, no wasted money on clinics or visit fees, unlimited visits and follow ups for no extra cost, plus free shipping on all products for up to five pets. It sounds amazing, like it couldn't be real, but it actually is real. Visit dutch.comtucker to learn more. Use the code TUCKER for 50 bucks off your veterinary care per year, your dogs, your cats and your wallet will thank you. So it's with these questions in mind that we decided to sit down with Piers Morgan. Piers Morgan is someone we've known for a long time, cable news host, had a debate with him last year, ran into him in an elevator in the Middle east and decided to sit down and had a really spirited and interesting conversation with him in which I attacked his country with the fury of someone who secretly loves the country and hates what it's become. And so we're back here in his hometown and decided to have this conversation. And it follows in just a second. But before it begins, just want to be super clear about something. Piers Morgan is clearly wedded, has decided to remain wedded to the neoliberal version of the world where you're not allowed to say certain things and you have to repeat certain pieties and it's all pretty embarrassing, obviously. But in fairness, Piers Morgan has single handedly done more for free speech which is disappearing in Great Britain than any other Britain. He has done more for free speech than any other person in this entire country. Just want to say this out loud because it's absolutely true. And he's done it the old fashioned way by allowing other people onto his platform, onto his show to debate people who have no other venue to say what they think. And you may disagree with 50% and agree with the other 50%, it doesn't even matter. That debate, the real debate about issues that really matter, that nobody else in this country is allowed to talk about are taking place at scale on Piers Morgan's show. So if you watch this and you think Piers Morgan has no idea what side is up, why is he defending the indefensible? Keep in mind that here, and this is an authoritarian country where disagreement is no longer allowed, you go to jail for it by the thousands. People go to jail for it every year. He alone is keeping it open. So God bless Piers Morgan with that. Here's Piers Morgan. Piers, thanks for doing this. Welcome, taking time.
Piers Morgan
Welcome to my city, which I've been.
Tucker Carlson
So mean to including in a conversation with you last winter in the Middle east. And I'm attacking Great Britain. And I just want to apologize and tell you the truth about how I feel, which is I think that English culture and civilization is the highest level ever achieved by man in history. I really believe that everything about it. It's religion, it's language, it's literature. We've. American societies never produce literature, I'm embarrassed to say, like what the Brits produced. And so it was out of sadness and frustration and a sense of connection to your civilization that I went on the rant about how much I hate it. But it was. It was. It was hate born of frustrated love and concern.
Piers Morgan
I'm just amazed you hear a life I didn't think you get.
Tucker Carlson
Well, they're so passive now, and everyone's like, bisexual. What are they going to do to me? Nothing.
Piers Morgan
But.
Tucker Carlson
But I just want to add. And I know you love it. You're a product of it. What is it? How would you describe English cultures?
Piers Morgan
I. I would say it's not as bad as many Americans think it is, and it's not as good as many people here, when they launch impassioned defenses of our country and our culture and the way things have gone, would like to pretend it is. It's kind of somewhere in the middle. There's definitely been a significant change in the fabric of the country, in the makeup of the country, in the types of people who've come here, the volume of people who've come here. That's obviously had an effect on what this country is now. The. The debate to be had is whether this has been in totality, a force for good or bad. And I took your views, your strident views about it when we met in. In Saudi, and I pushed back quite hard because I live here half of the year, at least most of that time in London. It's always been a very multicultural city. There's no doubt about that. And I don't walk the streets as Tommy Robinson.
Tucker Carlson
It has not always been a multicultural. I actually pulled the numbers. It is not in my life. Very recent. Yeah, it might be right after you were born.
Piers Morgan
In my lifetime. I was born in the mid-60s. But, you know, the way Tommy. Tommy Robinson, who has a big following in America, the way he talks about it is not something I recognize. Having said that, as I've always said about him, there are issues that he's raised which are perfectly legitimate. The biggest one is population. You know, in the 50s, we had a population of just under 50 million people. And a lot of the infrastructure, like the National Health Service, the nhs, once lauded as the greatest health system in the world, now has to do with a population of nearly 70 million. That is a dramatic increase in the volume of people in this country. And the simple truth right now is our public services are creaking at the seams and. And in some cases, like the nhs, pretty well at breaking point. And that is why there is so much agitation about the simultaneous ongoing issues with immigration, both illegal, with this ridiculous farce of these small boats popping up on the south coast from a channel from France all the time, when the weather's good, they just stream in hundreds, sometimes thousands a week illegally into the country. But also legal migration. And how we've abjectly mishandled that since really the turn of the century. You can chart it back to the Tony Blair years, when they pretty well opened the gates to everyone in Eastern Europe. Way too many people came in way too fast. And then after that, there's just been a complete lack of any form of control. And we now have a situation where they've had to try and put the brakes on legal migration coming in. Because two years ago we had a net migration in this country of nearly a million people. Now, it's not racist, as some people are trying to brand it, to say that that is alarming. A country like ours, if you don't have an effective border, if you have 50, 60,000 people a year coming in as they are illegally on these boats, and then you have a net migration of legal migrants coming in of nearly a million people, the already crumbling infrastructure is going to come under, obviously, enormously higher pressure. So it's been a series of governments left and right, I have to say, starting with the Blair government, with what they did with Eastern Europe, and then coming forward to successive Conservative governments and now the current Labour government, all of whom, in my opinion, have handled this so badly that inevitably we now have a lot of people in the country going, what the hell is going on?
Tucker Carlson
I wonder, though. I mean, everything you said is so clearly true. And it was Tony Blair, really the lowest, probably tied with Boris, but really one of the worst prime ministers, leaders of any country ever. But I wonder. I often hear people say, well, it's about the NHS National Health Service, it's about the roads, it's about, you know, NHS is like a very new creation. It's a post war creation. It was never going to work. It's never worked anywhere. The Brits were so kind of pathetically proud of it. But it was the whole thing, it did work. But for a time. They always worked for a time.
Piers Morgan
By the way, if you, if you walk out of here and you fall over and you break your leg, you'll get treatment quickly, it's great.
Tucker Carlson
But the health outcomes were never, were never better than the United States. It didn't actually, didn't actually work, but whatever. You could argue about the cost of it, but what's so sad is that for your whole life you've been told that what is Britain? What is this project about? It's about the National Health Service that's kind of aiming a little low. Like, who cares about some bureaucratic structure. What about England? What about the culture? Like, so in my mind, as a PG Wodehouse reader, lifelong self restraint, duty, courage, patriotism, rooted in your religious faith, Our Lord the King, a phrase that was common until recently, all of that seems to be gone.
Piers Morgan
Well, we're still a very majority Christian country, right? Still 40% of the country are Christians, right? That's a fact. So when I hear American, whatever that.
Tucker Carlson
Means, I mean, it means get arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic. That's not a Christian country, that's a pagan.
Piers Morgan
There are, there are, nearly 50% of the country identify as Christian. The, the more concerning thing for those who have faith is that nearly 40% now have no religious belief whatsoever. Right, Right. Then we have a lot of other religions. There's a slight amplification of, for example, the number of Muslims in the country. There are nearly 4 million Muslims in the country and that represents about 6% of the population. But 43 or 4% of the population are still Christian. So I do think again that the over amplification of the Islam problem, as people put it, or the Muslim problem has been massively overstated.
Tucker Carlson
Well, that's an opinion obviously. Hate the Muslims. No, I, I, we know where that's coming from.
Piers Morgan
I don't like it, I hate it. In my high street alone in West London, most of the businesses would have Muslim employees there.
Tucker Carlson
But also, how is hate the Muslims better than hate the Christians or hate the Jews? No, it's the same.
Piers Morgan
And I've heard you, I've heard you say, and this is the point I come from, hatred is hatred is hatred.
Tucker Carlson
I totally agree.
Piers Morgan
It doesn't matter who you're hating. The moment you're in the hate game, then I think you're losing whatever argument is you're trying to have.
Tucker Carlson
I totally agree. But moving off from hate and getting back to the world I live in, which is fear and distrust and gut level loathing. It's the secular people who are the problem. I've never had an argument with a Muslim, with an actual Muslim. I'm from Bangladesh, I'm a Muslim. We probably agree on a lot. It's the secular self hating whites that stand up from the table and leave when I'm meeting with them here. Just saying. And that's true in my country too. But, but leave that aside. I mean just sort of wonder. And so I'm not hating on the Muslims at all. Bad Muslims or bad everybody. I just think a country is more than its bureaucratic systems and certainly more than the nhs, which I will never think is impressive. Sorry. Or your metric system, which is.
Piers Morgan
Do you think you're wrong about that?
Tucker Carlson
Maybe I.
Piers Morgan
You're not wrong about the state of it now. I mean, I'll give an example. What wouldn't have happened in the 60s and 70s with NHS is what happened to my. Both my parents recently. So my mother had a heart attack, right. And ended up being put on a trolley in an accident and emergency unit. But out on the corridor with 30 other people on trolleys. It was Dickensian. This was like a third world country. Oh yeah. And she got hardly any treatment at all while she was there. Now when she eventually got up and this is the apex of the NHS for me, laid bare when she eventually got into the heart unit, she got incredible treatment on the nhs. Didn't cost her anything. She got fixed up and repaired. Turned out she had a blocked artery and she was home in 48 hours. Was great. My father broke six ribs recently. Again the same story. Just kept waiting on trolleys and so on. This is going on all the time because it cannot deal with the volume.
Tucker Carlson
We have the same problem in our country. All the community hospitals are closing. Right. And our emergency rooms are unusable because of illegal immigration generation. I agree with you completely. I'm just saying if you have a country whose main source of pride is. It's like health care system.
Piers Morgan
I don't think it is. I, I really.
Tucker Carlson
Because in the 50 years I've been coming here, no matter what you say, they're like, have you heard about our health care system? It's like, I thought you were about the greater glory of God and like subduing the world for civilization and the English language and our literature.
Piers Morgan
I certainly think we're about. Listen, we'd certainly. I checked a few stats on the way here.
Tucker Carlson
Yeah.
Piers Morgan
Oh, my bad. Bet you put up in the.
Tucker Carlson
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Piers Morgan
For example, we bat way above our strength in things like music. Okay. Of the eight biggest selling artists in music history, I think I'm right in saying that five of them have come from.
Tucker Carlson
I believe that. Yeah.
Piers Morgan
Beatles to Elton John.
Tucker Carlson
They're very musical people, as we often say.
Piers Morgan
We're a very artistic people. We're a very scientific people.
Tucker Carlson
Yes.
Piers Morgan
We lead the world. Actually. A lot of our universities are in the top 10 in the world. So comparative to our size, which is about a sixth of the size of the United States, maybe between maybe fifth and sixth. But comparative to our size, we continue in many areas to bat above our population strength.
Tucker Carlson
The Brits in the Middle east, in Dubai specifically, are like one of the engines of the economy. They're amazing people. I'm actually one of them half. So I agree. You'll never get me to say the Brits aren't unusual.
Piers Morgan
The qualities you cited, funny enough, that does resonate with me. We have lost a lot of the qualities, I think collectively as a country, which did make this country great.
Tucker Carlson
That's what I'm saying.
Piers Morgan
Yeah. But I agree with you about that because I do think that it's become a bad thing to be patriotic about our country. There's a huge war about waving the Union Jack flag. I never see that war raging in the same way in America. Right. There's a lot of. I mean, I'll give an example, but it will.
Tucker Carlson
That's why, that's why I'm doing this interview. Well, it may.
Piers Morgan
Well, yeah, it was very interesting when I did Celebrity Apprentice it's where I met Donald Trump. And this is back in, you know, 2008. And the. The organization that I raised money for, because it's a charitable thing you had to have a charity, was the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, and they had a base down in San Antonio. So I went down there, and I remember distinctly coming off the plane and seeing a load of people with flags, and I couldn't work out what was happening. I knew it wasn't for me, American flags. And it turned out that they were there greeting every single serviceman and woman who came off the planes from whichever war zone they come from, because there was a big center there, a lot of military service people living in San Antonio, but a lot of them also been treated for serious injuries and so on. And they were just applauding and thanking them for their service as they came off these planes. You'd never see that anywhere in the UK that just doesn't exist as a concept to do that. I was very struck by that. And, you know, I do think America generally is a lot more proudly patriotic than we've become. We've become almost ashamed of being British in a way that I don't like. I think we should be prouder of ourselves and prouder of what we've achieved and prouder of what we could be. But one of the reasons why people don't feel that pride, I think, is because we've had a succession of what I would say are pretty hopeless politicians. Well, maybe you haven't dragged us into a place where people don't like it.
Tucker Carlson
I get it. But maybe you got those politicians because the people hate themselves.
Piers Morgan
I don't think we hate ourselves, but we're just really. You know, I think we've had a shockingly mediocre tier of politicians.
Tucker Carlson
But, I mean, the sort of increase in British masochism, which has famously been part of your sexual retinue for centuries, can be more. No, that's just true, as you well know. I don't know.
Piers Morgan
Americans love a bit of spanking.
Tucker Carlson
No, not in the boarding school way. But anyway, whatever. The point is, that has increased dramatically since the Second World War. And I have done a couple segments on the Second World War that have been very kind of shallow and not even really talking about the details or whatever. You're a Holocaust. Obviously, I'm not, whatever that means. Hitler killed a ton of Jews. That's terrible. So that's been a diversion, really, that specific conversation from a much more important, broader conversation about what that war did to the west, and I think it's totally objectively fair to say the west, by specifically, by which I mean your country, which is really the seat of the west, has been in decline since the war. So like, what is that? Do you know?
Piers Morgan
I mean, I wouldn't say it's been inclined since the war. There's a lot of recovery after the war. It was a devastating war. I mean, you know, one of the most extraordinary aspects of that war is that Winston Churchill, who many people here to this day believe pretty well single handedly rallied the morale of the people here to help us defeat the Nazis, albeit with obviously America's help, that he, in the end, at the end of the war, he got thrown out of office because so many people came back to, to a really bad lifestyle in a lot of impoverishment, a lot of, you know, homelessness and so on. Well, maybe.
Tucker Carlson
Were there other reasons, like.
Piers Morgan
No, no, it was, that was why they took it out.
Tucker Carlson
Did Germany attack you first? Is that what happened?
Piers Morgan
What do you mean?
Tucker Carlson
Did Germany attack Britain? Is that how you got into war with Germany?
Piers Morgan
Germany attacked Poland.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, but not the uk?
Piers Morgan
No.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, okay.
Piers Morgan
Because that, that they wanted.
Tucker Carlson
So you voluntarily joined the war?
Piers Morgan
Yes.
Tucker Carlson
Okay, right. Not defending Hitler, of course, but it's just a fact that you weren't attacked. So when you say that Churchill saved Britain. Well, Britain got into the war voluntarily.
Piers Morgan
Well, voluntarily. Well, one of our neighboring European countries was attacked and it was quite clear, it was quite clear that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis wanted to take over Europe. This was an existential threat to Europe and therefore to the uk. So.
Tucker Carlson
So you're arguing that he would have come for the UK 100. Even though I think it's very naive to your politicians. And he. And there's like not one person who was saying that in 1939 to Neville Chamberlain wasn't.
Piers Morgan
Because he totally misread what was going on. Winston Churchill completely read correctly what was going on and came out of the wilderness to actually come and save us. I think without him.
Tucker Carlson
I think you signed a treaty with Poland that locked you into a course of action that destroyed your country. I'm just saying.
Piers Morgan
You don't honestly think the Nazis would have stopped a Poland?
Tucker Carlson
I have no idea. I'm just saying. Yes, you do.
Piers Morgan
Duncan, come on.
Tucker Carlson
Look, I'm just going by what contemporaneous sources said. I have no idea. Hitler invaded Russia, so obviously that's deranged and incredibly destructive. So I don't know is the truth he was focused on communism. No one doubts that this was Not a communist country. But I'm just saying Britain voluntarily joined the war. It was a war that you were not involved in and you got in. But my question is, why did it destroy Britain? I don't understand. As the victor destroyed.
Piers Morgan
You didn't destroy Britain.
Tucker Carlson
Well, look outside. Look outside in the City of London.
Piers Morgan
Hang on. There's Tower Bridge. It's the Tower of London. Magnificent.
Tucker Carlson
Well, it changed. It changed London.
Piers Morgan
Why do you look at this and see a wrecked country? I don't.
Tucker Carlson
Well, I don't see an English country. So we're in the City of London now.
Piers Morgan
What do you mean there? What do you mean by that?
Tucker Carlson
It's not. Well, people whose ancestors built Stonehenge are not here anymore. So the city of London is 36% white. And that's happened in the last, I don't know, 40 years.
Piers Morgan
But. But England is about 70% white.
Tucker Carlson
England. Okay, well, it was. It was 99%. 1945.
Piers Morgan
Okay, so we've evolved.
Tucker Carlson
But you're on the way to becoming the minority in the country. So no one wants to say that. I think you can get arrested for saying that here.
Piers Morgan
Well, it's a.
Tucker Carlson
White supremacy. The indigenous population of the country.
Piers Morgan
It's a statistical fact that I think by 2,100 we will be a minority white country.
Tucker Carlson
2063, as of today.
Piers Morgan
Well, I've read a bit later, but.
Tucker Carlson
These are dynamic numbers, so they change.
Piers Morgan
Here's my question for you. So what?
Tucker Carlson
Well, let me refer to the beginning of our conversation when you said that the people who live in a country define the character of that country. And then you said, yes, all the things for which we were famous and in which we had pride, like our stoicism, our concern for others, our tidiness. The cleanest country in the world. Now, it's pretty filthy. All those things change when you get new people moving. There. You said that. I mean, you're the racist, not me. So I'm just using. I'm using the parameters that you said. And I'm saying.
Piers Morgan
I did not say that. That was down to.
Tucker Carlson
No, you didn't say you didn't.
Piers Morgan
White people coming to the country.
Tucker Carlson
Well, that's who lives.
Piers Morgan
I don't believe that.
Tucker Carlson
No, but that's what you said. You said.
Piers Morgan
I said there was creaking pressure on public services.
Tucker Carlson
No, no, no.
Piers Morgan
Increased.
Tucker Carlson
But she also maybe foolishly admitted the truth. You could get arrested for this. So I know the stakes are high, but you said that when the people who live in a country change, so does the culture, which Is like the most obvious. It's like when it rains out, it gets wet. That's not a controversial observation, but it's illegal here because it is true. And my only point is not against. I've already said I like the Bangladeshis better than I like the liberal whites in your country a lot more. They've never yelled at me. I'm not attacking them. I'm just saying the things that made Britain Britain, England. England. Is there still an England? I have no idea. Those are going away because there are different people living here. And if you think that those are good things, in the same way that the Swedes or the Chinese or the people in Burundi and Chad, they like, like their culture. It's their ancestors culture. And now it's gone. And like, why can't we say that's bad?
Piers Morgan
Well, because you may think it's bad, it's good. I love living in a very multicultural.
Tucker Carlson
But you're rich. I mean, you're rich and you go to the white parts of London, they're exactly the same as they were when I was a child. I mean, coming here for 50 years, they're exactly the same. What neighbor I'm saying is exactly which.
Piers Morgan
Do you think is a white part of London?
Tucker Carlson
I'm not going to tell you.
Piers Morgan
Oh, that's a little test for you. Which, which area of London do you think is white?
Tucker Carlson
The one I'm staying in right now. The one where my relatives live.
Piers Morgan
Where?
Tucker Carlson
I'm not gonna say, no, you don't.
Piers Morgan
Want to say because you know that I'll immediately say, come on, there's loads of non white people living there.
Tucker Carlson
There's no, by the way, I'm not against non whites.
Piers Morgan
There's no exclusively white area of there's dollars.
Tucker Carlson
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Piers Morgan
But you're clear, you're inferring that the more.
Tucker Carlson
I'm not inferring anything.
Piers Morgan
You're referring. The more multicultural that Britain has become in terms of other ethnicities coming to live here, then the worse it's got. And I'm saying those two things.
Tucker Carlson
I'm saying the worst, in my view.
Piers Morgan
Are not automatically linked. There are lots of white people who behave very badly in this country.
Tucker Carlson
Well, I've met them and they yell at me. So, yes, just for the fifth time, I have more in common with the sincerely religious Pakistani cab driver than I do with anyone who works at the Times of London. That is just a fact. I don't like those people. I don't want to eat with them. And they're white. So. All true. All I'm saying is the qualities that made Britain the greatest country in the world were linked directly to the people who live here. And so, of course, by definition, multicultural means less of some cultures because there's dilution of the dominant culture. And you've conceded that there are lots.
Piers Morgan
Of people who are non white who've been born and raised in this country, who've contributed, contributed brilliantly.
Tucker Carlson
I would never deny that success of.
Piers Morgan
This country who've risen to the top positions in top industries, whether it's music.
Tucker Carlson
So defensive. I'm not attacking the non whites. Well, because you're worried about getting arrested. I get it.
Piers Morgan
And by the way, about being arrested.
Tucker Carlson
When they rush in the door with no guns.
Piers Morgan
They might. As they know you're here.
Tucker Carlson
Probably.
Piers Morgan
I'm not worried about.
Tucker Carlson
I got hassled at your airport again. And always.
Piers Morgan
Well, for being Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson
You know, we don't know. It's just. It's the AI, I guess.
Piers Morgan
But no, wait, I love that. What happened to you?
Tucker Carlson
You know, I was like, go see the attendant. And by the way, the attendant was some Pakistani woman. Who's like, oh, we're so glad you're here. Which I don't think I would have gotten from the liberal white lady. So again, once again, I'm not attacking anyone on the basis of their race.
Piers Morgan
But you're saying that our culture has changed because we've had other cultures come here. Your position.
Tucker Carlson
Well, it's not my position, it's a fact. And you just said it at the beginning.
Piers Morgan
I think. I think so.
Tucker Carlson
It's better. So what about British culture? Didn't you like and has been improved by new cultures?
Piers Morgan
Oh, not.
Tucker Carlson
Well, tell me, what didn't you like before? What are you glad is gone from the Britain you grew up in?
Piers Morgan
Let me tell you, if you came to London in the 50s and 60s, the food was crap. Absolute crap.
Tucker Carlson
Well, it was that way in the 80s when I was inedible.
Piers Morgan
Right now we have some of the best gastronomy.
Tucker Carlson
Amazing. Some of the most expensive, too. I wonder, is everyone eating there?
Piers Morgan
No, I can take.
Tucker Carlson
I paid $1,000 for dinner plates.
Piers Morgan
You're a wealthy leading a very wealthy lifestyle.
Tucker Carlson
Holy.
Piers Morgan
Come with me to Brick Lane, come with me to Brixton. I'll give you a proper meal. I love it.
Tucker Carlson
You and I will go to the tough parts of town and eat street food.
Piers Morgan
But I can give you a great.
Tucker Carlson
But are you really saying the food.
Piers Morgan
I'll take you to the top Endo market, right? You come with me. If you want to risk death walking up to Porto Bello market, I'll take you and give you some street food and you'll spend.
Tucker Carlson
I've been to Porto Bello market and by the way, point of fact, I'm quite popular there. I will say that in Notting Hill. I feel no fear at all in Notting Hill. Yeah. I will eat. Oh, man, I.
Piers Morgan
They're so liberal.
Tucker Carlson
Don't. Don't even get me going.
Piers Morgan
Even I get a hard time up there.
Tucker Carlson
I think they secretly love me because they know that they've been naughty. But whatever my theories aside, here's my point. What about British culture? Apart from the boiled menu, which was repulsive, do you think, but the national character. Let me say it again. Tidiness, self restraint, selflessness. Courage, fairness.
Piers Morgan
Yeah.
Tucker Carlson
The British system was imported around the world on the basis of one concept, fairness. It comes from the Magna Carta.
Piers Morgan
I think a lot of.
Tucker Carlson
Has this become a fairer society? It's become completely unfair. You put fucking Julian Assange in prison for years without charges because the CIA told you to.
Piers Morgan
We have had a massive rising issue with the suppression of free speech, which is a fairness issue, but that has nothing to do with ethnicity or.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, really? So what does it have to do with, do you think?
Piers Morgan
It has to do with a very ridiculously draconian view of what? Free speech.
Tucker Carlson
But where does that come from? You've never had that, of course, but those are attitudes that grow from the population, or else you would have a revolution. This is the country that invented wrong.
Piers Morgan
The population does not want this suppression of free speech.
Tucker Carlson
They may not, but they keep voting for the fascists every time. Whether it's Boris. Whether it's Boris or whether it's Boris. No, he's a buffoon. It doesn't mean he's not an authoritarian.
Piers Morgan
He wants. It's funny you mentioned the word buffoon, so I wanted.
Tucker Carlson
Well, I mean, that's axiomatic. Doesn't how many children he has to tell you why?
Piers Morgan
No, because I once. I once interviewed him for GQ and I said, Boris, this is 2008. 9. I said, Boris, I've always thought that lurking beneath the buffoon exterior lies a sharp, calculating political mind that wants to be Prime Minister. He wasn't even a sort of politician at the time. He looked at me and he said, well, biz, you must consider the. The possibility that lurking beneath the buffoon exterior is an actual buffoon. True. So he was right.
Tucker Carlson
No, he was totally.
Piers Morgan
I can't say we weren't warned, but.
Tucker Carlson
The point is, look, it's not like.
Piers Morgan
He'S not a fascist, though. Boris Johnson. He's an authoritarian, but it diminishes the word fascist. When you say that about people, I get annoyed.
Tucker Carlson
Well, what is fascism, actually? I mean, we're. We, meaning the collective west, meaning the Allies, meaning Roosevelt and Churchill, meaning America and its cousins in the uk, were fighting against an authoritarian system. It wasn't just about race hate, it was about full control of a population. We were arguing against that and fighting against. Of course, we were also funding it when we sent money to Stalin, but whatever, it was never fully consistent. But that's what we tell ourselves. And now that's what you have. There were three times as many people arrested in the UK last year for speech crimes as were arrested in Putin's Russia. And you have half the population. So this is much more authoritarian than Putin's Russia.
Piers Morgan
Oh, it's not.
Tucker Carlson
How is it not?
Piers Morgan
That's ridiculous.
Tucker Carlson
If you have three times as many arrests for speech crimes, it's more authoritarian.
Piers Morgan
I've not seen that stat. If that is true, it's because we have been so appalling in protecting free speech.
Tucker Carlson
Well, you're appalling, I'm not. No debate there. But I'm just saying, as a ma. Like, how do you define authoritarian?
Piers Morgan
The idea that we are living here in a more authoritarian state than Russia, if you're.
Tucker Carlson
No, not. Come on. Those are the numbers.
Piers Morgan
You don't believe that.
Tucker Carlson
Look, I believe in science. I believe in science.
Piers Morgan
England is more authoritarian than Russia.
Tucker Carlson
I think you're more likely to be arrested for a speech crime in Great Britain. Indeed, three times as likely.
Piers Morgan
What would happen if you criticize, if you went on the airwaves here tonight?
Tucker Carlson
I'm an American. They're not going to mess with me.
Piers Morgan
But if you went on the airwaves here tonight and you start abusing and hammering and mocking and criticizing our Prime Minister, which, by the way, many people are doing. I'll give you a question. If you did that, what would happen to you?
Tucker Carlson
Nothing.
Piers Morgan
Exactly.
Tucker Carlson
But what if I said I thought gay sex was disgusting, should be illegal.
Piers Morgan
And if you went.
Tucker Carlson
Hold on, hold on, that's nothing, Prime Minister. How about, I'm opposed to sodomy? How's that?
Piers Morgan
I haven't finished my question. And if you went to Moscow and you went on the airwaves and you did that about Putin, what would happen?
Tucker Carlson
You'd be in trouble.
Piers Morgan
Right, so there's a difference. No, because that's an authoritarian state.
Tucker Carlson
No, no, that's a straightforward.
Piers Morgan
This one is not. That's a straightforward democracy.
Tucker Carlson
No, this is global homo.
Piers Morgan
That is. This is.
Tucker Carlson
No, no, this is.
Piers Morgan
It's global homo.
Tucker Carlson
It is. It's global homo. This is what you mean. I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you. This is a concept that you need to understand. This is the. Yes, you do. This is the authoritarianism of the present and future. And it's not. It's the feline, passive aggressive female version that doesn't tell you what it is. They don't march into your town in jack boots and put a rifle against your face and tell you. They do that in mike for sure. It's much more straightforward.
Piers Morgan
And they kill you.
Tucker Carlson
It's a song.
Piers Morgan
And you fall off a building suddenly.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, you kill tons of people. You kill tons of people.
Piers Morgan
I don't disagree.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, yeah, you do.
Piers Morgan
A lot.
Tucker Carlson
Yeah, right. So let's, let's stop with the killing people. Because you kill tons of people. But as you well know, because you know the people who do it and I do too. No, I'm saying there's something more offensive about an authoritarianism that will not admit what it is. So instead, people are arrested here and thrown into jail. And I've. I've been to Belmarsh Prison. It's awful.
Piers Morgan
I've been there.
Tucker Carlson
It's awful.
Piers Morgan
It is.
Tucker Carlson
But you walk in and there are all these signs about Trans Acceptance Week. It is fascism wrapped in the Human Rights Campaign rainbow logo. It's not any different from what we were fighting against. It's arresting you for saying something they don't want.
Piers Morgan
They certainly believe. This has been my big criticism of the woke Left. I wrote this book called Woke is Dead, which is more an aspiration than a reality at the moment. But the point I was making was that the woke left became in the end like the very fascists they profess to hate most. They literally behaved like fascists. Anyone that deviated from their worldview.
Tucker Carlson
I don't want you to devalue the term.
Piers Morgan
No, no, I'm not. I'm explaining. I'm explaining the hypocrisy of the left.
Tucker Carlson
No, I get it.
Piers Morgan
Which I think we could probably agree with, is if you start to behave like the very people you claim you hate most, you are a brazen hypocrite.
Tucker Carlson
It's not just the left. It's the right thing, unfortunately.
Piers Morgan
I agree. Some of the right thing as well. I agree. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy, isn't it? Wherever you see it. And I do think that this. The way I would categorize what's happened here is successive governments, right and left, have pandered to a weird sentiment driven by very vocal but small numbers of people that we have to start getting into the suppressing free speech business. And it's been a catastrophic failure, which has diminished this country. But why we're beginning to see is the coming out of that. And I'll give an example when Graham Linehan. The comedian. Yeah, the Father Ted. Genius, right? And he decided to take on this whole trans issue head on and bit like J.K. rowling. He got shamed, vilified, canceled. He lost everything, lost his family, he lost his jobs, he lost everything, became unemployable, completely canceled. And he did some jokes on X back in April and they were. Yeah, they were just like harmless, right? He talked about a trans woman coming into a. Into a woman's space.
Tucker Carlson
Harmless to you as a non trans person, but genocidal to the trans community.
Piers Morgan
Which again, is ridiculous. So he, he did a joke about a trans woman coming into a woman's space. And he said, what, you just kick him in the balls? Right. It was a joke. It was an even knuckle joke. If you're oversensitive, you go, ooh. Most people just laughed and took it for what it was, kind of joke that wouldn't even be considered remotely controversial 10 years ago, when he arrived at Heathrow Airport, several months later, he was arrested by five armed police officers and taken off to the cells. And I just found that utterly shocking. So I'm not pretending there's not been a massive problem about free speech. But what was interesting and encouraging was the public backlash, hence my book titled Woke is Dead. The public backlash was so ferocious that within a week, the police said, we're not going to prosecute Lenhan. And actually they said further, we're never going to prosecute anyone for this kind of thing again. That was a moment when I went, we're finally getting a bit of stuff.
Tucker Carlson
But that's not so the trans thing is absurd. It's so absurd that, like, it's easy for people to say that's absurd. What's actually happening here, as I think you know, is a society is being changed by its leaders against the will of the population. The population hates it. They've always hated it. No population wants radical demographic change. None. And so it's been so profound since 1997 under Tony Blair, that you're not allowed to note that your country is being taken from you.
Piers Morgan
Okay?
Tucker Carlson
So you can criticize trainees all you want. You cannot criticize Israel, as you know, you're not allowed to criticize demographic change, and you can't criticize the rest of the fabled LGBT community. And if you don't believe me, listen to this story, which is, like, it's unbelievable. This is from the Daily Mail, which is, like, kind of a ridiculous publication.
Piers Morgan
But I, I love the Daily Mail.
Tucker Carlson
I do, too. I, I. There's a lot about it I like, but, I mean, it's, like, absurd, but anyway. Elizabeth Kinney from Tranmere. Have you read about this?
Piers Morgan
Go on.
Tucker Carlson
She's a mother of four, I think. She's a nurse, and she gets beaten up by her boyfriend. He beats her up. She goes to the hospital, and she texts someone, a buddy of hers, a friend of hers, a girlfriend of hers, and describes the man who beat her up, who and sent her to the hospital as a, quote, faggot, faggot. And she's arrested and convicted of a hate crime. The guy who beat her up is not arrested or convicted. And then she goes through this whole kabuki, which is now required, where she prostrates herself before the judge.
Piers Morgan
I'm sorry.
Tucker Carlson
It was not a homophobic rant, by the way. You're allowed to be homophobic if you want. In a free country, you can have any view you want. But no, because she used the word faggot, she's arrested and the guy who punched her in the face was not. That story tells you everything.
Piers Morgan
Well, I don't know that story if it's exactly.
Tucker Carlson
Daily Mail baby.
Piers Morgan
Okay?
Tucker Carlson
Pictures of her and everything.
Piers Morgan
I'm not doubting it. I'm just saying I need to look into it. But if that is how you've told it, obviously it's ridiculous.
Tucker Carlson
Would you say the word faggot on camera?
Piers Morgan
No.
Tucker Carlson
Why?
Piers Morgan
Because I.
Tucker Carlson
You don't want to get arrested, do you?
Piers Morgan
Doesn't want to be arrested because it's so harmful to people.
Tucker Carlson
No.
Piers Morgan
No.
Tucker Carlson
Is it like gay bashing? What's wrong with that?
Piers Morgan
Actually, my whole issue with the whole trans debate, for example, is you don't need to slide into actually saying derogatory stuff about trans people to make the point that women's rights should be protected. You don't need to.
Tucker Carlson
Well, I agree.
Piers Morgan
So. So what?
Tucker Carlson
I don't believe it's a magic word.
Piers Morgan
I don't believe in needlessly sneering.
Tucker Carlson
I'm not smearing anybody. I just think.
Piers Morgan
Would you use that word faggot?
Tucker Carlson
Yeah, I just did. Faggot. Faggot.
Piers Morgan
Okay, but. But why?
Tucker Carlson
And I'm using it because you're not allowed to. Because you're allowed to. Go ahead. I don't want to say I love gay people. Faggot.
Piers Morgan
I'm allowed to. I just choose not to.
Tucker Carlson
This chick just got arrested for it and convicted. So that doesn't have a chilling effect on your ability to.
Piers Morgan
There are people watching this who will be offended by the use of the word chick.
Tucker Carlson
I surely will. I'm not anti gay. I never have been. I can use any fucking word I want.
Piers Morgan
Offended by the use of the word chick.
Tucker Carlson
Check. Okay.
Piers Morgan
What a dare you be so sexy comparing women to chicks.
Tucker Carlson
How about this? Let my life, the way that I actually live and treat. Treat people be the testament to my heart. That's how I feel. Right. And if I've mistreated someone.
Piers Morgan
I don't believe. I don't. You correct me if I'm wrong. I don't believe you would call a gay person a to their face.
Tucker Carlson
Not in a mean way. By the way, the only people I ever hear use the word are gay.
Piers Morgan
Right.
Tucker Carlson
Ever. Just like the only people you ever hear, they use the N word are black.
Piers Morgan
Right.
Tucker Carlson
Period.
Piers Morgan
Right.
Tucker Carlson
So if you spend any time around gays. And I have spent a lot of time around gays who, of course, I work in television. I mean, half our staff was gay. And they're great people and they're the only ones who ever said faggot, he's a faggot. I'd be like, ah, I have no need to say the word. Actually it's kind of an ugly word to be totally.
Piers Morgan
You know the argument they use which is.
Tucker Carlson
Well, they don't use it. They use the word constantly. I've worked with them my whole life.
Piers Morgan
Well, I wrote a column, for example, about the use of.
Tucker Carlson
But I'm not allowed to use it, but you are. I don't play those games.
Piers Morgan
Listen, I'm going to make a point. I wrote a, I wrote a column for the Mail actually about the use of the N word. And the Washington Post had a huge report on this and said that every day on Twitter, as it was then, the N word was used half a million times, but almost exclusively by young African American men. So it's cool. Well, they, they would argue and I understood the argument. Yeah, it's that they've reclaimed that word.
Tucker Carlson
I don't believe in universal rights either. I think certain standards should apply to certain people based on their blood and. But don't apply to everybody.
Piers Morgan
What do you mean?
Tucker Carlson
I mean, that's what you're saying. The standards have to be absolute or they're not standard.
Piers Morgan
I was about to make my argument.
Tucker Carlson
Sorry, you're getting me so wound up.
Piers Morgan
No, no, but I actually made the point in the column that I don't think that works. I don't think you reclaim it. What you actually do is you empower genuine racists to say, well, if they're using that word, I'm going to use it. And so I felt it was an entirely self defeating reclamation of that offensive word. I would say the same to gay people. If you constantly use the F word in your own.
Tucker Carlson
What's the F word?
Piers Morgan
You know what? We've just been saying it. If you want to keep saying it, you keep saying it. I'm not going to keep saying it's.
Tucker Carlson
Worse than fuck, isn't it?
Piers Morgan
To a gay person. From a straight person.
Tucker Carlson
Yes, from a straight person, but not from the gay person.
Piers Morgan
That's my point. I don't shu.
Tucker Carlson
I thought we.
Piers Morgan
I understand the reclamation argument that they put up that if they Reclamation. That they're reclaiming the word and they're disempowering it.
Tucker Carlson
It's fine, I don't care. I think that's kind of amusing, actually.
Piers Morgan
I just don't think it works. I think the more these words get used, then the more.
Tucker Carlson
But is it really about words? I guess that's kind of what I'm saying.
Piers Morgan
I think it empowers people who are genuinely racist or homophobic to then use those words.
Tucker Carlson
Okay, they're genuinely racist or homophobic. I don't care. Why don't you pick up the trash, okay? That's kind of how I feel. And stop letting people from countries where they can't speak English come to your country by the millions. Like, don't the material things matter? Don't the actual things matter? Your father lying on a cot in a public hospital.
Piers Morgan
I do think that people, when they come to a country, should try and learn the language, of course.
Tucker Carlson
But no. But what? I'm not. Again, I'm not attacking anybody. I'm just saying the whole debate about what words are allowed and by whom is first of all insane. Because again, standards mean nothing unless they apply to everyone. Because we believe in human rights, not group rights or ethnic rights. We're against that because we're against the Nazis. Right? So there's that. But it's also a distraction from what actually matters. If your dad is spending hours, I'm sure he was a Britney. Spent his whole life here paying taxes and that's what he gets. It's like we should be having.
Piers Morgan
It's completely unacceptable.
Tucker Carlson
But it is acceptable. That's the problem. Instead we're arresting that girl for saying faggot.
Piers Morgan
Well, the two things.
Tucker Carlson
Or as we say here, the F word.
Piers Morgan
Yeah, like I said, I don't know that story. I'll look into it. But I do.
Tucker Carlson
If that is like a faggot user to you. She looks too nice.
Piers Morgan
Come on, behave yourself.
Tucker Carlson
No, I can't.
Piers Morgan
I know you can't.
Tucker Carlson
They're making me want to say that because it's so outrageous that you would arrest someone for a word.
Piers Morgan
I agree.
Tucker Carlson
And like we actually have to put ourselves at risk to say I agree?
Piers Morgan
Yeah, I agree with you.
Tucker Carlson
Well, then help me now. Let's. Let's do. Let's. Let's have a moment of self liberation.
Piers Morgan
I think you'll be unhappy.
Tucker Carlson
Hold my hand. Hold my hand. We're going to say faggot together. You ready?
Piers Morgan
No, we're not.
Tucker Carlson
Do you say gay and retard? Huh? Do you say Gay and retard.
Piers Morgan
I say gay. I wouldn't use the R word.
Tucker Carlson
I wouldn't.
Piers Morgan
I personally wouldn't.
Tucker Carlson
Are you?
Piers Morgan
My choice, by the way.
Tucker Carlson
You think it should be legal to abort a Down syndrome baby.
Piers Morgan
I am exercising my free speech right not to use that word.
Tucker Carlson
I totally agree. I actually don't use the N word ever because I think it's ugly. I just don't like.
Piers Morgan
So by your own petard you're being.
Tucker Carlson
I kind of agree. I'm not even. I'm mostly making fun to make a point. I actually think that we should not kill people because they have down syndrome. I think they're beautiful people and I think when you get to heaven it'll probably be filled with people with down syndrome because they are pure in spirit and I'm not joking even a tiny bit. I really believe that. But people who think it's okay to genocide everyone with down syndrome through that alpha feta protein test are lecturing me because I'm using the word retard. It's like maybe we're missing the real argument. That's all I'm saying. Does that make sense?
Piers Morgan
It does. Although I'm pro a woman's right to choose what to do with her body.
Tucker Carlson
Including and bear in mind aborting someone because he's retarded.
Piers Morgan
Well, in this country, to be clear, abortion's a very settled issue.
Tucker Carlson
George Galloway doesn't believe in it.
Piers Morgan
Well, I know, but honestly, it's not a contentious issue in America. I know in America it's a ferociously contentious issue. It is simply not one in this country.
Tucker Carlson
Maybe that's part of the problem.
Piers Morgan
I think it's a problem at all.
Tucker Carlson
Who's having the abortions here?
Piers Morgan
Well, a lot of people have abortions here, right?
Tucker Carlson
It's pretty overwhelmingly though, people whose grandparents lived here. Have you ever noticed that?
Piers Morgan
Because people who what?
Tucker Carlson
It's the native population having the abortions. It's not immigrants not having a ton of abortions. And if you look at the numbers, I don't know the demographic, but that's true everywhere. And I just a deeper issue. So like what is the loss of the will to live? Why if you're not have and you're a huge exception to this. I know you've procreated, as have I. God bless us both. But a lot of native born Brits do not have many children, if any. It's also true in the United States. It's especially true in Canada.
Piers Morgan
Well, I think this is becoming a massive issue and Elon Musk has been right about this.
Tucker Carlson
Yes.
Piers Morgan
The biggest problem is not, as we all assumed, overpopulation in the world, but underpopulation, because a lot of people now, especially as the changing way society has gone, with many more women working and so on, that the number of children that are being born actually in places like the UK and the US is reducing quite markedly projected for the next 50 years. And you're seeing in some countries in Asia, for example, it's getting catastrophically low very fast. And this is going to be a massive South Korea. Yeah, it's going to be huge.
Tucker Carlson
There will be no South Koreans in 100 years, only be North Koreans. What does that tell you?
Piers Morgan
Well, it's not a good moment.
Tucker Carlson
No, but where's that? I totally agree with you and with Elon. And again, I feel like we've all done our part to reverse that trend, but I feel like we spend no time asking why is this?
Piers Morgan
Well, don't you think it's as simple in most cases as the changing work practice? If you went in 1950s.
Tucker Carlson
That's part of it, yeah.
Piers Morgan
1950S, in the UK, most women didn't work. Now, when women go out to work a lot more, they probably don't have the time to have three, four, five children.
Tucker Carlson
There's no doubt they can't afford it. Child care is very expensive in the United States. It's more expensive than I think, any other expense. But for young people with children, of course, you're right. But there's also something a little bit deeper than that. It's like, it used to be just axiomatic that reproducing was not just your duty, but your greatest joy. That was the way you create the next generation, continuing your civilization. And that has died since the Second World War. And not just in the.
Piers Morgan
No, no, I think it's in the world. But.
Tucker Carlson
Yeah, so. But that is like a profound change.
Piers Morgan
What is inarguable, actually. I mean, look, like I said, the population here has gone from 50 million to 70 million since the 50s. The really worrying graph is what happens in the next 50 years.
Tucker Carlson
No, but that growth in population has been almost exclusively from immigration and true in the United States and Canada is just like a completely different country. Nothing like that has ever happened in the history of the world. Why is this happening?
Piers Morgan
Well, in terms of people traveling around.
Tucker Carlson
No, in terms of people deciding not to pass on their genes, committing mass suicide. Because that's what that is.
Piers Morgan
Well, yeah.
Tucker Carlson
Our families lived in this village for 2000, since the beginning of recorded history. In this country, unlike mine, you have a native population.
Piers Morgan
Just because no one, no one could.
Tucker Carlson
You're the Cherokee of this island.
Piers Morgan
Okay, I don't give you a history lesson, but 100 years ago, you know, we. Everyone traveled by horse and cart. There was no airplane. You couldn't leave the country, you couldn't go to other places. But rather like tribes 2000 years ago who used to literally just sit in their little area or wherever it may be, eventually they ventured out. And so evolution, I'm for that.
Tucker Carlson
I'm not. I would never argue against that. But once I flew here, actually.
Piers Morgan
Of course. So once you're able to do that, obviously people are going to go exploring. They're going to want to try and live in other places. The question then becomes, how enriching or damaging or both, and in what levels is an influx of people from other ethnicities, other cultures, other countries? I would say, on balance, London in particular has been almost a template, actually, for tolerance and cohesion and multiculturalism at its best.
Tucker Carlson
The stabbings you're talking about.
Piers Morgan
Well, let's talk about the stabbings. The murder rate in London, do you know what it is compared to any major city in America?
Tucker Carlson
Probably much lower. I would think it's a way lower testosterone level here. I mean, you can feel it, too. That's true every time.
Piers Morgan
Oh, I'm aware.
Tucker Carlson
That's aware. But look, I'm not.
Piers Morgan
You have the worst murder rates.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, I know. And by the way, we always have, which is interesting. And there are a lot of factors for that, and it's one of the saddest things in my country. I would never defend.
Piers Morgan
The murder rate in London, for example. I checked before I came and saw.
Tucker Carlson
You because I thought you think London's a better city than it was 40 years ago, 50 years ago.
Piers Morgan
Well, statistically, the murder rate has actually been plummeting in London.
Tucker Carlson
Do you know any?
Piers Morgan
I'm good. I'll tell you the problem in London. What we really need in London.
Tucker Carlson
Wait, do you think it's a better city than it was 40 years ago? For real? Yeah. You think City Khan's better than what you had before?
Piers Morgan
I think Sadiq Khan is somebody who's wondering two more terms after his first, because actually he's not done as bad a job as people say.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, that's an issue.
Piers Morgan
Nor has he done as well. No, nor has he done as good a job as. As he would like you to believe. But certainly in things like tackling murder, I give him credit in tackling things like the clean air where some of the boroughs here were the most polluted.
Tucker Carlson
You have no factories, you don't make anything. How? All you do is banking. How could there be dirty air? What are you even talking about? There's no man manufacturing, you lost. Automotive, you lost. Aerospace, you lost. You lost everything. Steel, it's clean air. Because people are idle. They're delivering food to people who work at banks.
Piers Morgan
There is more. There is more traffic now in London than there was even four years ago, I'm sure. Right?
Tucker Carlson
It's called tourism.
Piers Morgan
So my borough, Kenton and Chelsea, for example, 1 in 12 people. There was a big study on this a few years ago. One in 12 people were dying from pollution related illness. Right. I had a lot of issues which I thought were allergy issues. Eventually I was told, right, here's what you should do. Check your air quality app every morning when it's really high. Don't go out and shut the windows. Secondly, get air purifying machines in your house for the rooms you use. I did both. Guess what? I've had no problems since and I didn't have any allergies.
Tucker Carlson
Well, that's amazing. And all it cost was the total destruction of your economy. So. Well, why do you think the air was polluted before? Because people were burning.
Piers Morgan
Economy has not been destroyed. We're still one of the biggest economies in the world.
Tucker Carlson
What is the economy here? What's it based on?
Piers Morgan
What do you mean?
Tucker Carlson
Like what? What's the British economy? I say, I look at the economy of, I don't know, Wales in 1900 and it's like, it's coal. They mines, they did coal. People burn it. That's what their economy is. Look at the economy of Sheffield or Birmingham 100 years ago. Of course, it was steelmaking. What's the economy?
Piers Morgan
A lot of manufacturing in the uk A little bit.
Tucker Carlson
But as a percentage, your percentage of.
Piers Morgan
Manufacturing would be a lot less.
Tucker Carlson
A lot less. It's almost nonexistent.
Piers Morgan
Yeah.
Tucker Carlson
Right.
Piers Morgan
So we still have one of the biggest economies in the world now, but.
Tucker Carlson
What is that economy based on?
Piers Morgan
1, a lot of things.
Tucker Carlson
Okay, what's the main one?
Piers Morgan
Well, I'm just sitting. There's a lot of manufacturing.
Tucker Carlson
That's the main one.
Piers Morgan
Well, there's a lot of technology stuff going on. There's a lot of scientific stuff going on. All sorts of industries.
Tucker Carlson
You haven't, you haven't mentioned the biggest one by far.
Piers Morgan
Oh, God.
Tucker Carlson
Was lending money to people. It's banking.
Piers Morgan
Banking? Yeah. Okay.
Tucker Carlson
That's number. We're in the city of London Right now, how many things are being made in the city of London other than debt?
Piers Morgan
It's one of the financial hubs of the world. We're right in the city here.
Tucker Carlson
I know we're sitting in the city of London right now. Run by City Khan.
Piers Morgan
Right. But again, it's not as bad as people think it's.
Tucker Carlson
But hold on, is that really an economy? If your economy is real estate, that's. London's other big economic center is buying and selling and leasing pieces of property again and again to different people. Nothing's being created.
Piers Morgan
But that's not true. We are creating things here. A lot of things. Like what? There's a lot of money.
Tucker Carlson
Okay, yeah, there's a lot of. Of course there's a lot of money. Because people around the world stash their money here. Because it's a system based on fairness.
Piers Morgan
There's a lot of manufacturing. Not as much as there was 80 years.
Tucker Carlson
How much is in London, man? Your biggest city? The diamonds.
Piers Morgan
Percentages.
Tucker Carlson
So we have to check pretty much. Unless you're talking about like burritos being manufactured or whatever, I don't think there's really any.
Piers Morgan
The bigger problem for us is not what economy we're doing, it's how we manage the economy.
Tucker Carlson
So it doesn't matter where the money comes from?
Piers Morgan
It does. But successive governments have dragged us to a place where we have almost zero growth. Growth. Without growth, you can't have a successful, thriving country.
Tucker Carlson
That's not true. Have you been to Japan? It's like the most successful, thriving country in the world. It has had no growth for a long. Not real growth. And we've gotten these lectures from the bankers for like 30 years. Japan is dying. Ever go to Japan? You get their four year old girls in the subway alone. There's not one speck of litter in all of Tokyo. And it's one of the biggest cities in the world. 12 million. It's an incredible society. It's the opposite of New York, London, Baltimore, Detroit. It's incredible. I know you've been there and I know you've had these naughty, forbidden thoughts like wait a second, I thought we dropped a bomb on them. How are they so great?
Piers Morgan
No, no, no. I like going to Tokyo.
Tucker Carlson
No growth. How'd they do that with no growth? I was assured by libertarian economics if we had no growth, things would be bad. Well, look at this.
Piers Morgan
I like going to Japan, but I wouldn't swap it for London.
Tucker Carlson
Right, Fair. You're, you're English. That's kind of the point. Right? This Is your homeland.
Piers Morgan
I genuinely do love London. No.
Tucker Carlson
I bet you do.
Piers Morgan
When I lived in America full time, I really missed a lot of the.
Tucker Carlson
I hope so. This is where your ancestors are from. I get it. That's the whole point. That's the whole argument I'm making. It matters where you're from. The culture really matters. It's not about growth. It's not about any of this crap. It's about, do I. Am I on the same page with my neighbor? Do we have something in common? Do we have the same gut instincts about things? Those are the most important questions there are.
Piers Morgan
But economic prosperity raises all the ships.
Tucker Carlson
Is that. Has that been true here?
Piers Morgan
It should be true.
Tucker Carlson
Is there more poverty in London now than there was 40 years ago?
Piers Morgan
There's more child poverty. Yes, I know the child poverty rate is worse here than it is in America.
Tucker Carlson
A lot worse.
Piers Morgan
General poverty.
Tucker Carlson
So how is this so great? Even though they have.
Piers Morgan
General poverty rate is actually lower than it is in America. But child poverty specifically, is there anything.
Tucker Carlson
That matters other than child poverty? Not really. So, look, I'm not slagging on. I love your country. I really thought a lot about this since I was so mean during that conversation. I was just wounded because I feel like the destruction of Britain has effects on our entire Anglo civilization.
Piers Morgan
Do you actually look out and see a destroyed country?
Tucker Carlson
No, it's just beautiful. I mean, this is. Again, this is the rich part of town.
Piers Morgan
I could take you to Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff. I could take you to.
Tucker Carlson
How they doing?
Piers Morgan
They're all doing great. Much better than you think, Honestly, Tucker, you'll walk around, you'll see the pubs packed, the restaurants packed, the theaters packed. You'll see people having a great time. Go out on a Friday night in London. Go to the Devonshire in Soho, the best Irish pub in town. Four deep in the streets, everyone having a great time. 20,000 pints of Guinness being sold every week.
Tucker Carlson
I could say that there are so many things about London I really like. I've been here three days again, visiting relatives.
Piers Morgan
Who have you genuinely threatened. Walking around?
Tucker Carlson
No, not at all. Again, what's. Who's going to do anything? Pakistanis are all super nice to me and the whites are all kind of craving and sad. No, you're totally safe here, man. It's not that at all. It's just that it's dirty.
Piers Morgan
It's what?
Tucker Carlson
It's dirty.
Piers Morgan
Come on. American cities aren't any cleaner than London.
Tucker Carlson
They're dirtier. They're dirtier. And it's one of the great tragedies and I can't get anyone to care.
Piers Morgan
I agree.
Tucker Carlson
Nobody cares.
Piers Morgan
I agree.
Tucker Carlson
So that to me, if I went to your bedroom right now, Sorry, I'm not going. I'm not going. Especially after the whole faggot thing. It's like I'm uncomfortable. I got it, I got it, I got it. And you said you were so liberal. But. But if I went to your house unannounced, I bet I would find it tidy and clean. And I bet I would find that it's because you have a housekeeper. I don't even know if you do, but because you care, because you have self respect, right? That's why you shave.
Piers Morgan
But I agree with that part. I think the self respect part. I totally agree with you. We've lost that. We've lost the. I think the British were legendary for our politeness, our manners. That has gone. We've really.
Tucker Carlson
Dude, that's everything.
Piers Morgan
No, but I totally agree with you. So when you talk about the cultural stuff that I really regret that has gone out of fashion, if you like it is things like that. It's things like, you know, a British person used to speak well and open doors for women and things like that. Now that's frowned upon, right? The kind of screaming radical feminists have made it almost a taboo thing. Young men in particular do not know how to behave when I'm out with them. I noticed they don't stand up when women walk into a room or to a table. They don't open doors for themselves because they've been conditioned to think this might be toxic masculinity and all this. That kind of stuff really worries me.
Tucker Carlson
Do you ever wonder where it comes from? Because I know the answer, but I'm going to.
Piers Morgan
Well, you're going to say it's multiculturalism, but a lot of the other cultures that have come here actually have far more politeness.
Tucker Carlson
I agree in that. I agree completely.
Piers Morgan
So that's the.
Tucker Carlson
Yeah, that's exactly my point is that the cost is to the invaded. You're being invaded. You already said there are boats showing up uninvited. That's called an invasion. It's happened a lot through history. And it's the people who are conquered, who are vanquished, who suffer. The immigrants all seem kind of happy. It's better than Bangalore, you know, or wherever.
Piers Morgan
Don't feel conquered.
Tucker Carlson
Well, you. But you are, though. I mean, people are showing up in boats in your country. No, I don't know what to do about them. Well, how about sink them.
Piers Morgan
To put it in. To put it in perspective.
Tucker Carlson
Lord Nelson would put up.
Piers Morgan
Put it in perspective. The last five years, we've had about 200,000 people come over our southern border. In the last five years in America, until Donald Trump got a grip of it. You have apparently 10 million come over the southern border.
Tucker Carlson
Oh, more.
Piers Morgan
Right. So I'm afraid there is no comparison.
Tucker Carlson
Why?
Piers Morgan
Why? We have a little problem. You had a gigantic problem.
Tucker Carlson
Let me add an amen, as we say in the black church, that I totally agree. And that's why Britain is so interesting, because for two reasons. One, the people who are being invaded and replaced are the native population. They're the Iroquois of the British Isles. They've been here forever. Their ancestors bones were at Stonehenge. There's no debate about that, though. They pretend otherwise, but that's just a fact. So eliminating indigenous populations is, like, kind of a sin, I thought. But it's happening here and in Ireland and in Scotland and in Wales. A b.
Piers Morgan
Hang on. They're not being eliminated.
Tucker Carlson
Of course they are. Look at the birth rates. What are their birth rates?
Piers Morgan
That's not an elimination.
Tucker Carlson
Of course it is. Over time it is.
Piers Morgan
That is people taking a decision about their own lives and not having enough children or as many as they used to have.
Tucker Carlson
Well, a.
Piers Morgan
Elimination, a process.
Tucker Carlson
No one forced out a limit.
Piers Morgan
That was forcing them.
Tucker Carlson
No.
Piers Morgan
No one's telling the white population of this country you can't have more than one child.
Tucker Carlson
Well, that's kind of the point that I'm making.
Piers Morgan
But they're not the.
Tucker Carlson
If. Well, whatever they're doing, I mean, they're. They're certainly encouraging. They're aggressively. They're aggressively encouraging homosexuality. Use the F word and you go to jail. No. What is that? If you want to know who's in charge, who can't you criticize? You can't use the word faggot. What?
Piers Morgan
No one's aggressively encouraging homosexuality.
Tucker Carlson
Jail for using a naughty word about gays? Dude, they're not encouraging it. What do you think that is?
Piers Morgan
What's wrong with homosexuality?
Tucker Carlson
Well, if you encourage it and the rate goes up, people have fewer kids. I don't know. Did you do biology?
Piers Morgan
Just to be clear, the rate, most gay people don't have kids.
Tucker Carlson
That's the point I'm making. So if all of a sudden you have more people being gay, which you do a lot.
Piers Morgan
No, you don't. People don't pretend to be gay.
Tucker Carlson
Do you have the Internet?
Piers Morgan
Huh?
Tucker Carlson
I don't know. I'm not saying they're Pretending? I'm saying they've got way more.
Piers Morgan
You're gay, right?
Tucker Carlson
Well, you know, we used to say that. But you don't think so? Well, I used to think that, but all of a sudden you're.
Piers Morgan
I think lots of people put in their hand up saying they're trans. That's a different issue. Oh, it's totally different.
Tucker Carlson
It's not part of the continuum. It's not like gender isn't real. I can pretend. But maybe it's this.
Piers Morgan
If you're gay, you're gay.
Tucker Carlson
Well, you know, we were told that and I believed a lot of things.
Piers Morgan
Do you not believe that?
Tucker Carlson
Well, it's. It's demonstrably not true. Because science tells us people are making it up. I don't think they're making it up at all.
Piers Morgan
What's your point?
Tucker Carlson
I think that you can be moved in that direction through propaganda and pornography.
Piers Morgan
Oh, come on.
Tucker Carlson
Well then, then, then how do you explain.
Piers Morgan
Is there anything that would make. Well then, could I make you gay?
Tucker Carlson
How hard do you want to try?
Piers Morgan
Not hard, I can tell you.
Tucker Carlson
That's the spirit, Piers. There's a limit. Even an open minded man like you, you kind of hate the gays.
Piers Morgan
Could I make you.
Tucker Carlson
I make a little gay joke and you're like, oh, I'm not gonna be gay. Oh no.
Piers Morgan
Why are you using a gay slur? That's fine.
Tucker Carlson
Well, first of all, the context matters, as I've told you. I mean, that's like coffee table conversation between the gays I work with at Fox Faggot. So if it's okay with them, it's okay with me. It's just, it's sort of like. It's sort of like racism. Only the white upset about it.
Piers Morgan
People can be persuaded to be gay.
Tucker Carlson
Well then why don't you explain the twofold or threefold increase in self identified homosexuals in the United States?
Piers Morgan
I can. They used to be repressed, used to be illegal in this country till the mid-60s. You literally went to jail.
Tucker Carlson
So all three.
Piers Morgan
Hang on, hang on. You literally were put in a prison cell if you were openly homicidal.
Tucker Carlson
That was more here, actually. You guys did Oscar Wilde. We didn't.
Piers Morgan
But you also shocking.
Tucker Carlson
Yeah, it was terrible. You ruled the world at the time and now you're a joke dependent on foreknown banks and you think that's because everyone's gay. So it's like a great trade.
Piers Morgan
So allowing. Allowing gay people to be openly gay.
Tucker Carlson
Is what is why we recognize masculinity is the Fastest way to servitude. Ask any Pakistani. That's why I like the Pakistani. You talk to a Pakistani cab driver and you're like, why are you gay? And they will start laughing because they've watched the video and they're like, I'm not gay, I'm a man. Ask a single Britain, why are you gay? They're like, well, I'm not gay, but it would be okay if I was. And it's like, there's no masculine self respect at all.
Piers Morgan
You're sounding quite homophobic.
Tucker Carlson
I'm not afraid of gays at all. I'm just asking actually think they really.
Piers Morgan
Exist by the sound of it.
Tucker Carlson
Well, they exist.
Piers Morgan
No, but are they real? Is their sexuality genuinely.
Tucker Carlson
Are they sleeping with dudes? Yeah, big time.
Piers Morgan
Well, and women, Are they attracted to.
Tucker Carlson
Members of the lesbian thing is way overblown.
Piers Morgan
Actually, there are a lot of lesbians.
Tucker Carlson
How many?
Piers Morgan
I haven't counted this conversation, not recently.
Tucker Carlson
This is so great. You're gonna get so fucking arrested after this. It's gonna be unbelievable.
Piers Morgan
No one's arresting me. Okay, no one's arresting me. But I'm just curious whether you think.
Tucker Carlson
The gay people actually are gay or.
Piers Morgan
Whether you think they've been somehow turned.
Tucker Carlson
For the third time. I think it's completely sincere. Completely sincere. The question. Not saying I have a problem with it. I'm merely saying you get fewer children where more people are gay.
Piers Morgan
You don't.
Tucker Carlson
Well, actually you do.
Piers Morgan
People aren't gay, just more people are.
Tucker Carlson
You don't get gay. Hold on. You don't get fewer people. Stop.
Piers Morgan
Okay.
Tucker Carlson
Was it like 30% of the population always, like in Roman times? About 30%, would you say?
Piers Morgan
I'm just saying.
Tucker Carlson
No, it was like, this is.
Piers Morgan
The falling birth rates have nothing to do with if you have more people.
Tucker Carlson
If you have more gays, do you have fewer children?
Piers Morgan
We don't have more gays.
Tucker Carlson
We have got way more gays.
Piers Morgan
No, no, we have more people who are not afraid to say they're gay.
Tucker Carlson
You're letting their freak flag fly.
Piers Morgan
They are actually gay, Tucker. They just haven't been able to admit it.
Tucker Carlson
So why isn't that the case, like in Asia?
Piers Morgan
What do you mean?
Tucker Carlson
I don't think there's no Asian country. And they're not all like putting gays in jail. Malaysia might be. Korea's. Not South Korea. Why? Why is their self described homosexuality rate so much lower than yours? Japan same.
Piers Morgan
Because culturally it is not a thing.
Tucker Carlson
So it's genetic? You think it's genetic?
Piers Morgan
No, it's cultural.
Tucker Carlson
No, no. People become gay at the last World Cup. But how do people become gay?
Piers Morgan
Let me give you. The World cup is coming.
Tucker Carlson
We're talking about soccer.
Piers Morgan
I'm telling you.
Tucker Carlson
Why don't we talk about the gay thing?
Piers Morgan
I'm telling you why.
Tucker Carlson
How they become gay. Why are you gay?
Piers Morgan
One in four countries in the last World cup actually outlaw being homosexual. It's criminal offense. Do you think that's right?
Tucker Carlson
I don't care.
Piers Morgan
We should care. Okay. I really care.
Tucker Carlson
You've got people arrested for using the word faggot. That's who I feel sorry for. This ch from Britain.
Piers Morgan
So do you. So, right. So you feel very exercised about that.
Tucker Carlson
She's in Great Britain. She's not in some primitive theocracy.
Piers Morgan
Are you not as exercised about people being arrested and putting in prison cell for their sexuality if they're gay? Why don't you feel as angry about that?
Tucker Carlson
Because it's not my culture, it's not my country. It's not.
Piers Morgan
Come on.
Tucker Carlson
I'm not for arresting any. I'm for arresting.
Piers Morgan
Very few people should be arrested for their sexuality.
Tucker Carlson
Of course not.
Piers Morgan
So you agree with me.
Tucker Carlson
You're talk about. Okay, I will not as of also a talk show host. You're not going to get me off my path. And my path leads to this question. How do people become gay?
Piers Morgan
Why they don't become gay.
Tucker Carlson
What are they born gay?
Piers Morgan
Yes.
Tucker Carlson
How does that work?
Piers Morgan
They're born gay. How? They have a sexual attraction.
Tucker Carlson
No, no, I understand. The manifestations. The symptoms.
Piers Morgan
The symptoms.
Tucker Carlson
The symptoms. The symptoms. My symptoms of my home.
Piers Morgan
They're born gay.
Tucker Carlson
Okay, so that means it's.
Piers Morgan
You may not want to.
Tucker Carlson
No, no, that means that. No, no. I'm just asking how it works. So there's a gay gene.
Piers Morgan
You said you worked with lots of gay.
Tucker Carlson
Hold on, hold on.
Piers Morgan
There's a gay gas station with actual gay people. Yeah.
Tucker Carlson
A lot of them say I got molested. That's why I'm gay. In fact, a really good friend of mine who's gay said I got molested. That's why I'm gay.
Piers Morgan
People are gay because they got molested?
Tucker Carlson
No, I don't think that. But I am wondering. I don't know the answer, but I was.
Piers Morgan
I would say the absolute majority of gay people are gay because they are actually attracted to members of their own sex.
Tucker Carlson
No, no, no. But again, that's a manifestation.
Piers Morgan
That's a natural thing.
Tucker Carlson
You're not. Let's. Let's just do signs for 30 seconds. Of course. You're right. That's the definition of gay. I'm attracted to someone of my same sex.
Piers Morgan
Do you believe that?
Tucker Carlson
Do I believe that they're attracted to people from their own sex?
Piers Morgan
Yes.
Tucker Carlson
Well, obviously they have sex with them. Okay, so that's what attracts them to.
Piers Morgan
So what's the big deal? Why'd you care?
Tucker Carlson
My question. Because the self reported incidence of it has risen. So we were told 30 years ago. And I have a good memory, it's about 10%. But the actual self reported rate, because people will be mercilessly listen, listen, listen, listen.
Piers Morgan
Then.
Tucker Carlson
But the self reported rate was like 5%. Then it's 10%. Now it's like 30%. So my question is, were they all born that way? 30% of a population is born homosexual as an evolutionary matter. You tell me how that works. How do you reproduce?
Piers Morgan
It's not 30% of the population in the United States.
Tucker Carlson
In a lot of places it is 30%.
Piers Morgan
It's not here, not 30%.
Tucker Carlson
It's way higher here based on the vibe.
Piers Morgan
What is way higher is the number of people compared to. But where does it come from 30 years ago?
Tucker Carlson
Is it genetic?
Piers Morgan
And where's the 30 years ago? Gay people were persecuted.
Tucker Carlson
I know, I've heard the story.
Piers Morgan
No, they were.
Tucker Carlson
We were commemorating Stonewall the other day at my house. You know I'm on board with all of this stuff. Yeah, the candlelight vigil. We always do it. Every year, every February 9th, we. I arrest my kids in this kind of mock Stonewall thing.
Piers Morgan
What would you do if one of.
Tucker Carlson
Your kids, they say, I just want to be free and then I unlock the hang house.
Piers Morgan
What happens if one of your kids says they're gay?
Tucker Carlson
I love my kids no matter what. I love my kids no matter what they do. They're my children.
Piers Morgan
Would you think someone had turned them into a gay person? Would you accept them as answers?
Tucker Carlson
I'm a journalist, so I actually wonder what the real answer is. Not the bullshit propaganda answer.
Piers Morgan
What would you say to them?
Tucker Carlson
I don't know. That's why I'm asking you. You say people are born gay. You don't want to answer because you don't have an answer, because you know the answer's shit.
Piers Morgan
No, my answer's correct.
Tucker Carlson
That they're born that way.
Piers Morgan
They're born gay.
Tucker Carlson
Then is there a gene for it? And you know there isn't. So tell me a gene. It's the code that determines your physical and emotional characteristics. You have blue eyes because you have a gene for blue eyes. If someone is gay, then there should be a gene that we can isolate and say it's the gay gene. And scientists have been looking for the gay gene for a long time. And my question is, where is it? I'm waiting on my gay gene. I ordered a gay gene and it hasn't arrived yet. So wait, where's my gay gene?
Piers Morgan
Musta be like you might be.
Tucker Carlson
Yeah, I'm waiting for my gay gene. And if there isn't a gay gene that is totally within bounds. It's not homophobia, it's not hate. I don't wanna arrest people in Liberia or whatever the hell you're talking about. I just wanna know what is this? And no one will answer the question. And I don't know why. It's weird, right? Why can't we have a non emotional conversation with why are you gay? As they say in Nigeria, why are you gay? And no one will answer it.
Piers Morgan
Well, in Nigeria it's a criminal offense to be gay.
Tucker Carlson
I don't know.
Piers Morgan
You think there aren't gay people in Nigeria? Of course there are.
Tucker Carlson
I haven't been there in a while.
Piers Morgan
Of course there are gay people in Nigeria.
Tucker Carlson
Where does it come from? But they can't admit and you can't answer the question because if they admit.
Piers Morgan
They'Re gay, they get put in prison. That can't be right. Right? You're a gay guy putting someone in.
Tucker Carlson
Prison because he says he's gay. Of course I'm against that. I mean, please.
Piers Morgan
Not because he says he's g. But.
Tucker Carlson
Point is, an extreme third world. You guys don't bring Nigerians here, do you?
Piers Morgan
We have a lot of Nigerians here.
Tucker Carlson
What, you import gay haters into your country? I thought you were for the gays. No, I'm serious. Why would you import. You're just telling me that the Nigerians are bad. You said you basically hate Nigerians.
Piers Morgan
As you know, there are lots of countries around the world with different laws to hear different.
Tucker Carlson
But why would you import them if you love the gays, why would you import people?
Piers Morgan
Because when they come here, they have to abide by our laws. That's how it works.
Tucker Carlson
And your values? So what are those values?
Piers Morgan
No, actually you don't have to come here with our values.
Tucker Carlson
Oh.
Piers Morgan
You have to come here and abide by our laws.
Tucker Carlson
And your laws include not using the word faggot? That's against the law.
Piers Morgan
I just think, why would you do that and just be offensive for the sake of it?
Tucker Carlson
I totally agree with you. I never use that word. I'm just being honest. I never use that word ever. I think it's maybe the first time I used it since the 80s. But it's not a matter of custom, it's a matter of law. Because this woman, mother of four, wind up in prison for it. So if that's going to be the law, it's obviously like the most important. It's so important to you that people not insult gays in any way. You can insult straights, you can insult.
Piers Morgan
Guys as much as you like.
Tucker Carlson
Well, no, you can't. You get arrested and go to jail.
Piers Morgan
No, that's. So I'm going to look into it. But as I said to you, I'm.
Tucker Carlson
Going to hand it to you right here. Here it is.
Piers Morgan
I don't think people should be arrested for using words like that. I agree.
Tucker Carlson
There should be social disapproval.
Piers Morgan
You should be allowed to be hateful under freedom of speech.
Tucker Carlson
Amen. I totally agree.
Piers Morgan
You know, they're not actually inciting violence against people, which is a different thing.
Tucker Carlson
I agree.
Piers Morgan
We should agree. If I say go and stab Tucker Carlson and he's staying at this hotel.
Tucker Carlson
Right now, I agree.
Piers Morgan
It's a criminal offense.
Tucker Carlson
Totally agree.
Piers Morgan
There's already a law and statute in both our countries for that.
Tucker Carlson
So I can tell that we were both born in the 1960s because we totally agree on the underlying human right, which is the core human right, which is the right to conscience and self expression. And both of us are on exactly the same page. Where I lose you is your whole world is crumbling around you. I'm worried that's going to happen in my country, which is why I'm hassling you.
Piers Morgan
My whole world's greatest. In fact, it couldn't be better.
Tucker Carlson
The restaurants are better. I totally get it. That's what matters.
Piers Morgan
If I'd known you were in town yesterday, I'd have taken you to the Emirates Stadium to watch my football team, Arsenal, beat our North London rival. It was the most joyous, magnificent experience imaginable. You would have seen a multicultural crowd roaring as one.
Tucker Carlson
It's incredible.
Piers Morgan
Jews, Muslims, white, black, love it gay, love it straight, all joined as one.
Tucker Carlson
As Arsenal fans, it's what the church used to be. Except they charge you admission. I get it. I know what, bread and circus.
Piers Morgan
Actually, the church used to charge you admission in the old.
Tucker Carlson
Well, we, we had Martin Luther for that and we would fix them. And Henry VIII played along, so God bless you for that. But here's the point.
Piers Morgan
No, but here's my point. If I took you to the Devonshire for A pint of Guinness. You'd love it. To Arsenal. To a massive multicultural fans. You'd love it. 60,000 people, no trouble, no aggravation.
Tucker Carlson
I'm here voluntarily. I love it. I just don't want it to. It evaporate.
Piers Morgan
It's not evaporating. Okay.
Tucker Carlson
Why aren't you more panicked that thousands of people? Thousands, by their own admission. The admission of the. Of the British government. Arrested every year for saying words, not threats. Words.
Piers Morgan
I am. I've expressed.
Tucker Carlson
So why doesn't someone try to overthrow the government? I don't understand. How can they treat you like slaves?
Piers Morgan
They carry on down that road.
Tucker Carlson
Well, they are carrying it on. It's thousands a year and it's getting more.
Piers Morgan
And they will be voted out of office. Yes.
Tucker Carlson
Is that what Winston Churchill would say? I think Winston Churchill said, even if a strong man tries to take Poland, a country we've got nothing to do with, it's not even close to here. We're going to risk the lives of our citizens to liberate Poland.
Piers Morgan
Poland is closer to here than your home is to New York.
Tucker Carlson
Yes, that's true. That's true.
Piers Morgan
So it's all relative. So if.
Tucker Carlson
Well, it's a tiny little Lego Europe. I get it.
Piers Morgan
If Maine got attacked, would you expect people in New York?
Tucker Carlson
Poland has nothing to do with Maine got attacked.
Piers Morgan
Would you expect people in New York to help you?
Tucker Carlson
It's the same country.
Piers Morgan
Okay, but you're actually kind of a big distinction.
Tucker Carlson
My country is quite large.
Piers Morgan
We were part of Europe. The same continent you were not part of.
Tucker Carlson
I call bullshit on that. Really? In 1940, you were not part of Europe.
Piers Morgan
You don't think? Well, of course. You were definitely not part of the continent of Europe.
Tucker Carlson
You are not on the continent if you're an island dude off the continent separated by a body of water. Do you know what it's called between you and France? It's called the English Channel.
Piers Morgan
I know what it is.
Tucker Carlson
You are not part of Europe. That is not true. My ancestors lived here. You are not part. You were England. France was considered exotic and crazy. That's where the prostitutes and the cheese eaters lived. It's only the brainwashing of Tony Blair and all these technocrats since who have convinced you you're European. You're way better than European. You're an ancient Germanic Celtic people who ruled the world. Do you remember that? In your wooden ships? Anyway, but the point is the point. No, I'm serious.
Piers Morgan
He do talk some crap sometimes. No, it's.
Tucker Carlson
Anyway, it's Totally real. Come on with the mask from Maine White Pines. But the point is, your country went to war to preserve human rights in another country you had nothing to do with. But human rights are evaporating in your own country. And it's cool because you have soccer games with foreigners at them and good burrata. And I'm just saying maybe something about the heroic British spirit has been diminished with time. That's all I'm saying.
Piers Morgan
But there's a very lovely, quaint notion being built up in the United States driven by people like Tommy Robinson here.
Tucker Carlson
Who's Tommy Robinson?
Piers Morgan
You know Tommy Robinson.
Tucker Carlson
He seems like a fraud to me.
Piers Morgan
Well, he's not even Tommy Robinson. His name's Stephen Yaxley. It's not even his real name. He's also convicted of multiple crimes, thuggery, fraud.
Tucker Carlson
I don't even know anything about him, but he doesn't seem like he's that integrated.
Piers Morgan
We would call him a little shit stirrer. Right.
Tucker Carlson
However, the real people here, the actual British.
Piers Morgan
So this idea that. That he's driven, that we're on the verge of some sort of civil war here. Do you feel that when you walk around?
Tucker Carlson
No, because that's my point. You're so passive.
Piers Morgan
We're not passive.
Tucker Carlson
They take your human rights away and you're like, oh, defending Ukraine is so important. We're so proud to have defended Poland's territorial integrity 80 years ago. It's like, great. I'm so glad.
Piers Morgan
I'm very proud of that, apparently.
Tucker Carlson
But it's all a kind of displacement where you're taking your own frustrations with yourselves and your own cowardice and sort of living in this Walter Mitty world where like, no, actually, we're brave. We're going to defend Ukraine. It's like, what about defend yourselves against the monsters? Defending Ukraine, it's like, eighth on the list. Defend yourself, defend your human rights. They can't put you in jail for saying naughty words, period.
Piers Morgan
I agree.
Tucker Carlson
So march on the Capitol. Get these people out. Scare them. Yeah. Do to them what you did to the Germans in Poland, which you would like to do to the Russians in Ukraine.
Piers Morgan
But the way it works in Ukraine, we are a democratic society with a democratic government.
Tucker Carlson
How is it democratic? Nobody wants to.
Piers Morgan
If a government overreaches, and I think on free speech, they've lost the plot. If they do, they will get, I can guarantee you, voted out of.
Tucker Carlson
When was the last time Britain's voted for millions of foreigners to come to their country?
Piers Morgan
Well, you don't. You vote for a government well, you.
Tucker Carlson
Don'T ever vote for that. So the biggest thing that's ever happened in your history, nobody voted for people.
Piers Morgan
Flag up what their policies are going to be. But actually what it's been is a systematic failure to control our borders. Going back, I would say 25 years. That's really what's happened.
Tucker Carlson
Just all I'm saying is it doesn't seem democratic. It doesn't seem that's what the people want at all.
Piers Morgan
I agree. It's now become a massive issue. And the big issue actually is because they put a lot of these so called asylum seekers and many of them are not the economic seekers who want a better life. And I don't blame them. It's a great country to come to. But a lot of them are being put in really nice quality hotels and they're. While they're being processed sometimes for two years, three years, they're living a very comfortable, luxurious life in neighborhoods where there is real abject poverty. And that is what is causing a lot of unrest. And I get that. And I have great sympathy with the people who live in those areas who are really struggling to feed their kids, who are seeing these people coming in on the boats illegally and being put in fancy hotels. That has to stop. And you also have to process these people a lot quicker for their sake and for the country's. Are you a genuine asylum seeker? I never want this country to be a place that rejects genuine asylum seekers.
Tucker Carlson
Why?
Piers Morgan
Well, because actually I believe that we have a duty to take care of people who are genuinely.
Tucker Carlson
How about your own people?
Piers Morgan
What about fleeing war torn countries where we started the war?
Tucker Carlson
What about people stop starting war. You're doing it again.
Piers Morgan
Okay, but one of us opposed the Iraq war at the time and it wasn't you.
Tucker Carlson
I've been atoning for it ever since. I was one of the worst offenders.
Piers Morgan
Campaign here against the Iraq war. Cost me my job. In the end. I led the.
Tucker Carlson
Good for you.
Piers Morgan
I led a front page assault on that.
Tucker Carlson
You should stick with that. You should stick with that.
Piers Morgan
Well, I, I take a lot of. I like to look at each war in isolation. Well, I do.
Tucker Carlson
I get it. I get it. Piers Morgan, I know you've got a job. You've been so gracious in defending your country.
Piers Morgan
By the way, I meant to start with this. Until today, I had no idea that you appeared on Dancing with the Stars.
Tucker Carlson
I didn't. That's AI.
Piers Morgan
Somebody tweeted the clip today with two friends of mine, Lane Goodman, sadly no longer with us. Bruno Tonioli. Ripping you a new one, of course, for your dancing. I gotta.
Tucker Carlson
I don't really think their attacks had much to do with my appearance.
Piers Morgan
You are many stars.
Tucker Carlson
I'm just suspecting.
Piers Morgan
Well, you are many. Well, I gotta be. There was a point you didn't really do much dancing and as Bruno put it, the problem started when you actually danced. You know, honestly, has your dancing improved?
Tucker Carlson
My dancing is pretty good. I have a little trouble taking instruction. But you know, I would just say what they always say when the nude pictures are the porno tape emerge years later. I was young and I needed the money. Okay. Pierce Morgan, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for spending all this time.
Piers Morgan
Welcome to my.
Tucker Carlson
Great to see you. It is. It is a lovely country, actually. I just have to say that.
Piers Morgan
Go and have a walk out there. Go and have a pint in the Devonshire. I'll take you to the next Arsenal game. You'll love it.
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This episode of The Tucker Carlson Show is a wide-ranging, provocatively candid discussion on the decline and transformation of British culture, society, and values, using free speech—and its supposed erosion in the UK—as both focus and metaphor. Tucker engages Piers Morgan in a spirited debate that fundamentally tests the boundaries of speech, cultural taboo, and national identity. The conversation also traverses themes of immigration, demographic change, national pride, and the meaning of cultural continuity in modern Britain and the broader West.
Notable Quote:
“The behavior of a defeated people… This is what it looks like when you're on your way out, to be replaced by somebody else.” – Tucker Carlson ([07:32])
Notable Exchange:
Piers Morgan: “Here's my question for you. So what [if whites become a minority]?”
Tucker Carlson: “By definition, multicultural means less of some cultures because there's dilution of the dominant culture.” ([39:10]–[43:30])
Memorable Moment:
“Young men in particular do not know how to behave… They don't open doors for themselves because they've been conditioned to think this might be toxic masculinity… That kind of stuff really worries me.” – Piers Morgan ([73:55])
Notable Exchange:
Tucker Carlson: “There were three times as many people arrested in the UK last year for speech crimes as were arrested in Putin's Russia.” ([48:17])
Piers Morgan: “I don't think people should be arrested for using words like that. [...] You should be allowed to be hateful under freedom of speech.” ([86:32]–[86:41])
"What happened?... They won the two biggest wars in human history. They won, and yet they're still greatly diminished and to some extent humiliated. It's like, what is that?” — Tucker Carlson ([00:00])
"If your government is arresting people for praying that you're watching a political phenomenon... Praying for people can never be a crime. But it is a crime in Great Britain." — Tucker Carlson ([05:00])
"Would you use that word faggot?"
"Yeah, I just did. Faggot. Faggot." — Tucker Carlson ([55:49])
“I'm not worried about being arrested.” — Piers Morgan ([43:48])
“You'll get so fucking arrested after this. It's going to be unbelievable.” — Tucker Carlson ([79:15])
"Your biggest city… How many things are being made in the City of London other than debt?" — Tucker Carlson ([68:19])
“The qualities that made Britain the greatest country in the world were linked directly to the people who live here. And so, of course, by definition, multicultural means less of some cultures…” — Tucker Carlson ([43:30])
"Young men in particular do not know how to behave… because they've been conditioned to think this might be toxic masculinity… That kind of stuff really worries me." — Piers Morgan ([73:55])
"There's also something a little bit deeper... It used to be just axiomatic that reproducing was not just your duty, but your greatest joy. That was the way you create the next generation, continuing your civilization. And that has died since the Second World War." — Tucker Carlson ([63:26])
"You should be allowed to be hateful under freedom of speech." — Piers Morgan ([86:41]) "Amen. I totally agree." — Tucker Carlson ([86:42])
| Time | Topic | |-------|------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00 | Tucker’s opening: British decline, spiritual & political | | 04:10 | Abortion clinic arrest: symbol of free speech suppression | | 21:22 | Interview with Piers Morgan begins | | 23:16 | Piers: Immigration, NHS, public services under strain | | 32:49 | Loss of British pride & traditional values | | 39:10 | Demographic change and national character discussion | | 48:17 | Tucker: UK arrests more for speech than Russia | | 51:26 | Graham Linehan case, public blowback on woke policing | | 55:09 | Tucker tests slur taboos on air | | 62:19 | Declining birth rates--Elon Musk’s warning | | 73:08 | Manners, respect, influence of “toxic masculinity” talk | | 81:12 | Are people “born” gay, or not–nature v. nurture debate | | 86:41 | Agreement on “hateful” speech deserving legal protection |
This episode is a vigorous stress test of Britain’s—and the Western world’s—capacity (and willingness) for free speech, national self-confidence, and the ability to sustain its own cultural values against waves of demographic, ideological, and legal transformation.
Tucker and Piers challenge each other with sincerity and wit, revealing their shared alarm at the legal policing of language, even as they disagree sharply on the meaning and value of multiculturalism, the “real” British character, and the nature of modern identity. Ultimately, the episode is an unfiltered meditation on the future of the West: are these changes mere evolution, or evidence of an irreversible decline?