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UK Catch-up: Princesses and Pogroms (Premium E258)

You’ve heard more than your fill of terrible news in America. So you should take a break by hearing some terrible news from a nation more experienced in empire death. 

UK Correspondent Annie Kelly returns from maternity leave to explain the most significant recent outbreaks of British brainworms. 

First we meet the online community of obsessive “Royal Watchers,” which spawned conspiracy theories to explain the mysterious but brief absence of Princess Kate Middleton from public life. Then to reaffirm our commitment to brutal tonal shifts, Annie tells of Twitter-amplified misinformation about a teenage triple murder suspect which helped to fuel race riots. It’s an awful tale, but also usefully illustrative of how Elon Musk likes to moderate his social media platform.  

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UK Catch-up: Princesses and Pogroms (Premium E258) UK Catch-up: Princesses and Pogroms (Premium E258)

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Belfast mentioned 🦅 Something darkly funny about a violent mob getting a bit lost in an area called “the holy lands” on their racist march. What is this? The 11-13th century?

John Osborne

If I had to use a clip to demonstrate insanity, that ending clip would be it.

Elle BelAnge

Biden and the dems lost the election because of its genocide. Kamala would gave won Michigan Also a 4th invasion of lebanon didn't help....it's like the dems were willing to lose to protect an apartheid state that massacres people

Ruth Kiszka

Did it work? They always prefer the English flag over the Union flag

Ruth Kiszka

Who knew supporting a genocide and calling 20 year Olds in tents nazis wasn't a winning strategy. She should have picked shapiro as her VP if she planned on hanging with Liz cheney 24/7....

Ruth Kiszka

Agree with the proof of life comment. The silence is making all of this feel so much worse. Please come back, even if it's just to say y'all've given up. Especially worried about Julian just returning ... ☹️

kat henderson

Guys we need Proof of Life… since election. And maybe Q will really die this time since they Won

F

I'd be willing to host the podcast to help THEM cope at this point. They are not our emotional support parasocials! Take your time guys, you've gotten us this far in coping, we'll be fine. Thanks!

Irina Krier

Hey Folks, Dermot Cosgrove Just a point on Liv’s question to Annie about the make up of the anti immigrant protest in Belfast. It was almost exclusively from the Protestant Ulster Loyalist community. It was organised and orchestrated by members of the UDA, Ulster Defence Association, and their militarised wing the UVF, Ulster Volunteer Force. When I say “almost” it’s because some assholes from an anti-immigrant protest in Dublin “Coolock Says No” travelled up to Belfast for the protest and were widely photographed along Protestant extremists. This ended with them being branded traitors and pretty much the collapse of the Coolock protest. It also exposed the links between the Coolock organisers and the UDA who are both involved in drug trafficking. There was a whole program aired in Ireland on it. Also, Catholic in Ireland is only really a community identifying term as someone from the Nationalist side. Nationalist as in united Ireland not white nationalists. It’s the same as our Republican and US Republican. Irish Catholics regard US and UK Catholics as weirdo dorks with more in common with US Protestants.

Dermot Cosgrove

Julian finally snapped

Damien R.

By Tulsi Gabbard?

F

Maybe they've been assassinated

Damien R.

Specifically a Perverts episode 🤢

Kayley Häxan

Or one better, I'd love an episode on the theory about Melania being Trump's dom lol

Kayley Häxan

How do we still not have a post election Episode to help us cope and laugh???????? 😿

F

Annie done drank a Stonehenge druids potion and fell asleep for nine months

Samwell Ganges

In addition to the other points about "Protecting our children" being sus, I would add that it's partly made sus by the fact that it inherently implies that the people who will see this AREN'T interested in protecting children.

Matthew Steele

Finally! Got to listen. Awesome show, just commenting to say that I’m glad to hear Annie is back 😄. She always gives fantastic analysis, with an English accent. Super cool, (Jake is right about that 😆). We apparently need much more info on the manosphere

C’mon

Would love to hear discussion of the fake Kate Middleton stuff vis-a-vis the fake Melania speculation

Erin Marie

Came here to comment exactly this! Would love to see some coverage on blueAnon; it’s fkn wild.

smolcaddy

Thomas Crooks... the least Chinese man of all time

Schwartz666

You ok?

Schwartz666

Good show again. Jake's voice work is always fun. Good lad, Jakey!

Tim Mullin

BlueAnon rising, baby! Let's fuckin go

Schwartz666

Annie's back, but conspicuously her cat hasn't been heard from in months! #AnniesCatDungeon

Schwartz666

It’s always the ears that ensnares the deep state - the ears NEVER lie

Eric Quirk

I read the chat before listening and I’d like to add my compliments to Jake’s 🇬🇧 accent work. Also, I love Julian but it always tickles me to hear someone else pick up the comments he may have made. Welcome back Annie!! Knitting a giant 🇺🇸 flag with a lizard person in the center for our favorite baby

Shivvy

The “protect the children” dog whistle Annie was talking about, is so popular because it’s the ultimate say what u want with zero ability to refute it card. What, you don’t wanna protect children? How dare you.

Bongwater Jones

You know that corner? I’d say we turned it. Well done, Patriots.

Joseph

Thank you, I will definitely check it out 😎 Covid will never be the threat it was, though, even if people are still getting sick from its various hybrids. Vaccinations and heroic efforts by the medical community assured that. When RFK Jr becomes the “Ministry of Health” under Trump, nothing will be the same. “Burn it all down” is apparently what America wants. Covid is still a factor… it will keep affecting us, but no one except scientists will know or even try to understand the complexities. Even calling it “Covid related” guarantees that MAGA (the America we live in now) will attack. Most who should listen, will tune out. Welcome to the future.

C’mon

"after COVID" COVID is now. Watch Lola Germs' video Why Is Everyone More Sick?

hhhhhm

Flag shagging is on the uptick in the UK too the past decade or so too. I hate it

hhhhhm

I'm going to hell, newspapers today are all pictures of Kate at rememberence yesterday and my first thought was ooh, that's actually her.

Helen McCallum

Yeah I mean she's great, I just wish she'd keep her clips to 5-10 seconds at most. This was a good episode though, only one long clip of brain rotting tik tokkers talking

Rolling Existence

Oh no, was Princess Kate's cancer caused by overindulging listening to Annie's podcasts?

Snickerdoodle

So happy to have Annie back on the show!

Sian Watson

Or rocks get thrown if they don't see front-facing "allegiance" of those flags, could go either way. But tbh is mostly Americans who maintain loud flag fetishisation - most Brits don't care for it, even the racists ones.

Overzealous Euthanasiast

I'm an American living in the UK and it's been... Fun... This year. One thing you may get a kick from is that the local shops in my area owned by foreign or minority groups put HUGE Union flags in their windows in August like "Dare your to attack your own flag, shit heads" because to smash it up they'd have to throw rocks at their own national flag

Coleen Monroe

Keir Starmer wishes he sounded like Jake's impression. In reality he sounds like an even whinier, more nasal Alan Partridge. Real "geography teacher trying to control an unruly classroom" energy.

Fiddypea

Anyone following the growing liberal election theft conspiracy threads? Wild, and predictable, to see stop the steal language bubbling up.

Joelio

Welcome to the Overton Window.

John Brandkamp

I get it. You wish that you could indulge more deeply in the dulcet tones of Annie Kelly. I also wish she would never stop speaking.

Brent

Congrats on having the new national baby

Ben Thelen

Is this like the majority of Annie episodes where there are way too many extremely long clips of insane people talking? I rarely make it through any of her episodes because I feel like I'm getting brain cancer, instead of summarizing the insane ramblings of the crazy people she's talking about, she just lets them go on and on and on in extended clips.

Rolling Existence

Annie is back! <3

Tom

Ok

Michael Young

Nope, Colbert is the opposite of Opus Dei. He's a liberal Catholic. To the extent that he's joked that he's worried about getting excommunicated.

Eddy Wyn

So a long time ago

Michael Young

Yes he is I’m pretty positive its Opus Dei I know its super conservative and I read the article when he was doing the Colbert Report

Michael Young

Annie, I hope you are recovering well. Hard lonely work, but you sound strong. I’m picturing the nicest, cutest and smartest baby that has ever lived. Love to this baby and to you.

Toni Scott

She’s nice on the ears, d’y’know?

No Relation to Henry

He’s Catholic, but I don’t think he’s unironically in Opus Dei, is he?

No Relation to Henry

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Greg Fouts

So far I’ve only read the show notes … my immediate thought was…. This wasn’t the death of an empire. It’s a change of hands. It’s now an Oligarchy. Look at all the adorable Billionaires in his cabinet. People voted for money … not democracy. However hopefully we believed that we could have a real one. I gave people more credit. Maybe I’m stupid and wrong, who knows. Also, not only Gaza matters. Ukraine is a canary in a coal mine. It also matters. My heart is breaking for Ukraine too. The economy really IS great. YES there are problems (before and after Covid) but we had it better than we understood, because it’s not based on the price of eggs (which went down but no one noticed 😆). However, if they implement even a few of Trumps plans, the great economy he inherited won’t last But the serfdom will be fat and happy while Republicans reveal their endgame. As of this mornings news, it will be as outlined in their 2025 project. A good example of how it will slowly unfold is Putins takeover of Russia… it’s a mafia state now. La Cosa Nostra is only cool on TV. Anyway, I won’t wax on with doom and gloom… no one can argue a hypothetical for long before people just roll their eyes.

C’mon

Jake’s best British accent is undoubtedly when he’s doing Michael Flynn, based on the late Scottish beefcake, Sir Sean Connery.

monkey

D'yaknow?

Jack Shields

Jake's British accent isn't too bad, occasionally leans Australian but you can't have everything. He's clearly watched a few Statham movies in his time.

David Hamilton-Smith

The British Punisher is Judge Dredd, which I could totally see British chuds appropriating without irony.

Alex

I can't imagine having to flee a country ravaged by civil war to set up a new life and open a business only to have it burned down by a mob of dipshits because they saw something racist on social media. This one was a real downer.

Aram J. French

Remember to reserve your place in line for a free med-bed folks!

NewTooshFatoosh

Little late to the party, but that opening song is a banger.

Round the world

Welcome back Annie! It’s been fun pretending that the UK is completely fine and actually more normal than the US for the last 6+ months while you were gone. Oh well! I’m very excited and concerned for all the ways you are going to disabuse me of that notion…

infinitygaze

"Influencers" are the new, fifth horseman of the Apocalypse. He rides a horse wrapped in digital camo.

bigphoton

Thanks for this! No rush but would love an episode on how republicans captured mom groups and health/wellness influencers with RFK Jr and “MAHA” 🤢 (which I should’ve seen coming but had no idea until countless people I follow unexpectedly started celebrating Trump’s win)

Sarah

It’s a Populist International.

Liam Harte

Human pets is spot on. Congrats on your baby annie!

monsara deliciosa

British punisher is just judge dredd

HonestEd

Yes. I think it also shows how difficult the PR imperative makes it for many people to be honest about things. The most straightforward approach would’ve been to announce that Kate was undergoing treatment, and ask everyone to leave her alone to recover. Not that that would’ve solved everything, but it would’ve avoided much of the mess that transpired. For a slew of reasons, though, such a move hardly ever seems to be among the options.

Liam Harte

It's still kinda crazy to hear UK conservative politicians now parrot actual 2015 gamergate "talking points" and words. Though tbh is somewhat inevitable when your party's only political platform is based on obstructionism, deflection and scapegoating: what else is there to do when people catch on to your old tricks eh?

Overzealous Euthanasiast

Given the links between right-wing populist movements worldwide, these terms get circulated from one country to another, presumably depending on the traction they gather. To mention another one, British right-wingers now talk about “wokism” as much as American ones.

Liam Harte

Honestly Jake's British accent work has always been good and has a bit of fun and nuance. Like he seems to go a bit posh when needed, a bit working classs when needed, or a bit northern when needed. Compare that with Julian's Dick van Dyke version...

Wallace E. Ponk

That outro was a crazy ride.

Peter

Not sure it got mentioned, but the 'two tier policing' meme - while it's not new - was mainstreamed in the UK in an op ed by the then Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She accused the Met Police of being soft on pro-Palestine demonstrators, which is thoroughly insane and on brand for her.

Matthew Hull

1. Jake's british accent has gotten slightly better. 2. Please take care of yourselves, QAA hosts. We need you more than ever in the next couple of years

Lindymizer

I love listening to her. Not just the accent, the voice, the humour, the language she uses. Such a pleasure.

Grindizer

The national BAYbyy is back! with a baby of her own! Congratulations 🎉 I already like this episode I haven't even seen it yet 😁

Grindizer

I second Julian's virtual take.

The Real Barry Gumboots

My take on the kate stuff is that it was a massive fumble on the part of the royals' PR team. They never should have posted or responded to anything, and imo it was crazy fucked up of them to either A. have Kate write an apology for the mother's day photo, or B. write an apology on her behalf. Either way, thus completely throwing her under the bus WHILE she was actively dealing with her recovery and cancer prognosis.

Blandine

Annie! Congratulations on the baby. My babies are nearly 20, enjoy it!

Helen McCallum

Colbert is a Opus Dei Catholic

Michael Young

I know this tars me as a sicko but I have been really looking forward to Annie breaking down the riots

Declan Kennedy

Welcome back Annie!! Sorry everything burnt to the ground!!!!

Andrew Cook

Jake, Annie, and Liv is a helluva vibe

MJ Hicks

also fuck yeah annie is back. feel kinda weird calling her mommy now

ev

the thing about ai paranoia infecting photo analysis is totally where we're headed. I took one of those ai vs. real tests the other day. Almost all the ones I got wrong were false ai positives (I didnt identify any ai photos real but I tagged several real photos as ai). Its only going to contribute to more baking and an ever more schizophrenic grasp of reality

Brad Plumb

Me too!! I am saving it for tonight with a nice bottle of McLaren Vale Shiraz.

Prue

Annie's accent is so soothing and other non substantive comments

Brad Plumb

liv agar

ev

The term "mass deportation" has been around for while, am almost certain, it wasn't just invented for trump's campaign

Overzealous Euthanasiast

Jesus, I laughed out loud hard at Jake's British accent when it cut in.

Brent Baker

Surely the soothing voice of UK Correspondent Annie Kelly will fix me

Storky

Liv Agarrrr

Sister Motoko

Liv Agar

Alex Anderson

Annie Kelly is here to save us 🥹💕

Jess C

The National Baby reborn!

Jason Edmiston

Oh hell yes. Thank you guys so much, this is just what I needed tonight.

Melissa Hudson

Tbh was kinda avoiding the aching despair of UK news cos the US teased a moment of change for a bit. Seeing as that's all thrown down the shitter now ...I'm sorry aching despair, I didn't mean those nasty things I said, that was old me - could you ever forgive? Oh how I've almost missed you!

Overzealous Euthanasiast

I have literally been waiting for Annie Kelly’s episode on Kate Middleton conspiracy theories for most of the year. Words cannot express how much this means to me.

Samantha Miller

Thanks for that, I've been deliberately avoiding the terrible US news and the mostly bad takes on it.

Robert Sebastian

thank god an Annie episode is just what I need!!! I have missed you so much

Lydia

Oh good, something uplifting this week

Kingfisher

First

Harold DJDROPDEAD


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