Rogan warns he’d get arrested hosting podcast in UK due to speech laws

Podcast giant Joe Rogan said Wednesday he would likely be arrested if he tried to host his show from the United Kingdom.

For crises ranging from grooming gangs to arresting people for online speech, the UK is often held up by US critics as a shining example of a liberal government that restricts free speech and lets violent criminals run rampant. Guest and fellow podcaster Chris Williamson, who recently moved from the UK to the US, spoke on “The Joe Rogan Experience” about a study claiming that the UK is the second most miserable country in the world.

“It can’t just be the weather,” Rogan said.

“Maybe it’s the Online Safety Bill,” Williamson joked, referring to the UK’s Online Safety Act which many critics say is a nightmare for free speech.

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Joe Rogan has frequently criticized speech laws in the UK and lamented that he would likely be arrested if he tried to operate his podcast from there. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

“Maybe,” Rogan agreed. “It would make me depressed. I would be so depressed if I lived in England right now. I’d be like, ‘I’m f—–, like legitimately f—–.'”

“Imagine if I broadcast this podcast the exact same way from England,” Rogan offered. “I was arrested. I saw them – they arrested a teacher because he refused to refer to one of his students as a ‘they’ and that was like his second offense. And so they arrested him for not recognizing a singular plural.”

“I don’t like fucking in the UK because I feel like I’m moving up the ladder after leaving there,” Williamson lamented. “But it’s just that I don’t know how many more ways you can deal with plants over and over again.”

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The UK has been rocked by protests over the past decade as citizens oppose mass immigration and censorship. (Christophe Furlong/Getty Images)

Williamson added that the UK appears to be operating on borrowed time and nostalgia, and that it may look back years from now with shame on some of its current policies.

He recalled the appalling treatment of mathematician Alan Turing for being gay, even though he played a crucial role for the Allies during World War II by helping to crack German codes, as well as the posthumous apology he received from the British government.

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London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has been condemned by Americans after he threatened to punish people in other countries and extradite them to the UK for their speeches on UK politics. (News from the sky)

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