Drunken Peasants
Drunken Peasants (DP) is a left wing American social, popular culture, and political commentary podcast that started in January, 2014. The podcast was originally hosted by the mononymous Ben (aka. Benpai), TJ Kirk, Scotty Kirk. Paul Parkey, Jr. (aka. PaulsEgo) became the fourth host in 2016. As of February 2018, the podcast is hosted by Ben and William Berry (aka. Billy the Fridge), along with a rotating lineup of guest hosts. The podcast predominantly features the hosts commenting on video clips from the Internet, with YouTube videos from other YouTubers often being featured. The podcast gained attention after  a video clip in which the podcast's hosts questioned media personality Milo Yiannopoulos resulted in the latter being accused of supporting pedophilia and hebephilia. History. "Drunken Peasants" podcast originally aired in 2014 as the "No Bullshit Podcast". The show was co-created by Ben and TJ Kirk (known on YouTube as "The Amazing Atheist"). For the first +20 episodes the show did not have video but instead included only the voices of the hosts as they did the show. The podcast also used guest hosts, with TJ Kirk's production support staffer and younger brother Scotty Kirk eventually becoming  a full-time host. YouTuber Paul Parkey (known as PaulsEgo) became the fourth member of the podcast's permanent staff in 2016. In 2017 Billy the Fridge became the fifth regular host. As of December 2019, the podcast had produced 660 episodes. TJ Kirk announced the end of the Drunken Peasants on December 29, 2017 via his own YouTube channel and Twitter. On January 31, 2018, TJ Kirk announced that the show would continue with hosts Ben and Billy The Fridge. TJ Kirk, Scotty Kirk, and Paul Parkey have since then moved on to create a podcast of their own  called Deep Fat Fried. Milo Yiannopoulos. In January, 2016, media personality Milo Yiannopoulos was a guest of the show. During the 3-hour long episode Yiannopoulos said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can "happen perfectly consensually", as some children are sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults. In February 2017 the politically conservative blog "The Reagan Battalion" posted on Twitter a segment of the "Drunken Peasants" episode. Following widespread criticism of Yiannopoulos's comments, he was removed from his position as a speaker at the Conservative Political Action  Conference. In an interview with TJ Kirk on "The Joe Rogan Experience", host Joe Rogan remarked to TJ Kirk that "Your podcast was the big podcast that kind of sunk Milo", to which Kirk commented that he had known what he had gotten himself into by inviting Yiannopoulos on the podcast, while also stating that the podcasts's impact on Yiannopoulos had been unintentional. Format. Generally, "Drunken Peasants" episodes are anywhere from two to three hours in length. In December 2017, the podcast announced that future episodes would air on Mondays and Thursdays. In June 2018, the podcast instead announced  that going forward their shows would be on Tuesdays and Saturdays. "The Drunken Peasants" is primarily a social and political commentary podcast. Video clips and news articles were often shown, with commentary made by the podcast's hosts towards said media taking up the majority of an episode's run-time. Episodes are typically divided into segments, such as "Troll or Not a Troll", in which the hosts determine whether or not a content creator is an internet troll; "Feminist Slam Poetry", in which the hosts criticize feminist poems; "The Information Segment", in which a random article from Wikipedia was  read; "DP Action News", in which clips or articles from mainstream news outlets are discussed; "Crazy People", in which videos of content creators are viewed and critiqued, this segment has subsequiently split into two distinct segments "Oddities" being reserved for crazy people the hosts like and "Antagonisms" for crazy people the hosts dislike; "Cutting the Fat", in which old, usually poorly-made videos of the hosts were viewed and mocked; and "The Individual Brett Keane Segment Situation", in which videos or articles written by a born again Christian YouTuber named Brett Keane are mocked.