Shut down, it was quite serious and my wife was told that theyd very rarely see people who have this amount of illness in the hospital and perhaps prepare for the worst, maybe they could have saved a bit of a foot. But my surgeon said , you are better off surgeon said, you are better off having them off because you can have prosthetics and youll walk far better than having a partial foot. Im hoping people might give me the benefit of the doubt and say, that mans been a fighter for himself. Hes damn well going to fight for me. Im going to give him my support. The bourbonic mp. Bionic mp is what i want to be. And for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its time for headliners. Headliners. Thank you. Sofia. Hello and welcome to headliners. Your run through the next days newspapers with three comedians. Im leo kearse and tonight im joined by steve and alan from the mash report and louis shaffer, whose mash report would you say the carbohydrates in mashed potato will kill you. 7 how mashed potato will kill you . How are you both doing . Are you both doing . I appreciate the blast from the past as well. Thats it was a long while ago. I had that career. Yeah, those were the i had hair. Yeah but it was something. At least youve been on the tv. Ive got a focus. Youre on it now. Tv right at this instant. Tv right at this instant. Lewis, what more do you want . I want to be on. I want to be on the bbc. I want to be on the bbc. Well, good luck with that. Yeah. Hurry up. Well, it still exists anyway. Lets have a quick look at wednesdays front pages. The daily mail leads with nightmare at 37,000ft. The telegraph has. Ive lost my hands and feet to sepsis, says mp. The guardian leads with alarm over big increase in under 40s with diabetes. The times has make fewer arrests to help jails. Police told the i has brit charged with spying for china found dead in maidenhead park and the daily star has rats. An apology and those were your headunes. An apology and those were your headlines. And lets have a headlines. And lets have a closer look at those front pages, starting with the daily mail. Steve, theyve got nightmare at 37,000ft. This is a tragic story. Im sure many people have seen the pictures or the video of the plane that suddenly drops because of turbulence. This is a british grandfather who died on the storm lashed passenger jet. The storm lashed passengerjet. It says here and its thought that he had a heart attack, although other people on there also received the trauma of being hit by the plane as they fly up to see some of the injuries as well. This was the Singapore Airlines who was making its way out of heathrow. And it just it just shows how frail we humans are and we put ourselves in these situations. I suppose flying is its not what we were evolved for, is it . So it seems like we are tiny in comparison. A little bit of turbulence comes along and it can just do this to us. It also makes me realise the next time im on a plane and they say, keep your seatbelt on during sitting down and you think, yeah right, whatever. I think ive learnt a lesson from this. I think im going to keep the belt on. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the turbulence must have come on quite quickly, louis, because i mean, i saw a video from it and, you know, suddenly everything just hits the ceiling, drinks, you know, somebodys walking down the down the aisle. Yeah. What are they what are they supposed to say to people . You know, were not going to have this happen. They cant say it because but it happens. And people like you say, it just shows how frail humans are. No, it just shows how amazing we are. Were putting aeroplanes in the sky that are flying 37,000ft. And this is this is news because it doesnt happen very often. I dont know what more do you want from these people, but it goes wrong. And it was a it was a boeing plane. Of course, boeing have been under theres been a lot of scrutiny of boeing recently because theyve had a lot of accidents. But i guess this cant be they cant be blamed on the plane. The door stayed on. If theres one take home message from this story, the doors were still attached when it landed. Half of all planes that are flying are probably boeing planes, so give those guys a break, okay . I also buy boeing. Sometimes i also buy boeing. Sometimes theyre actually boeing. Thats why its called boeing because thats how they make planes. Okay, moving on to the guardian lewis. What have they got in the front cover . Has the guardian says alarm over big increase in under 40 with diabetes. This is like this is news that people have got that everybodys getting diabetes. What is diabetes. Its diabetes. What is diabetes. Its i didnt even i did i almost had you i got you calling this a non story. This is i looked at this and thought, of course theyre giving it to lewis. This is going to be right up your street. It is right up my street. And i know exactly, but theyre saying its caused by people eating bad food. What is bad food . Fat fat is an essential. You need fat. Ive not said that in here. Theyre blaming on sugar. Look on the bottom. Look on the bottom. Yeah, sugars got to get a people are people are becoming fat. People are much more. Theres much more prevalence of obesity than there used to be. And thats causing thats driving diabetes. Diabetes. No, thats not what theyre saying. Theyre saying we adverts for cheapo unhealthy food. The foods that on our shelves that are increasingly high in fat, salt and sugar. Yeah. So stuff like salted caramel ice cream i mean you can hardly youre going to tell me thats healthy. Im not going to eat it. But that does because i cant eat two because youll eat too much of it. You can eat any of anything or you need fat. You dont necessarily need that much salt and you dont need any sugan salt and you dont need any sugar. We can produce our own sugan sugar. We can produce our own sugar, but its not going to i, im im saying this. Im saying this comes from the Diabetes Research uk. Research uk. Theyre not attacking your steaks though. You can calm down that kind of fat. Its when they inject fatty things. Inject sugarin inject fatty things. Inject sugar in things. Yeah. Put some sugar in things. Yeah. Put some sugar on top, some salt on top and then go. There you go. No thats what they are doing. Louis. You had you had diabetes or you were pre diabetic. I was at 5. 9 when in this country, 6. 0 kwasi is youre basically basically diabetic. Basically basically diabetic. And now im 5. 8, right . No, im saying they are attacking meat because theyre saying fat is no good. Theyre saying salt is no good. Theyre saying salt is no good. Its saying sugar is no good. Added do not say added. Added do not say added. Read the thing right there. Yeah didnt you just yell at me before the show . Maybe you could read some of the articles increasingly high in fat, salt and sugar. Yeah. Theres something to be fat in all of those three. Its not your steak. Calm down. They let you. They let you eat your steak . No theyre not. Theyre against eating steak because its got high. I guess the sort of traditional diet advice that comes from our bigwigs and quangos has been , like lewis quangos has been, like lewis says, its been to eat lots of carbohydrates , lots of carbohydrates, lots of vegetables, seed oils and eat a tiny amount of steak because it will give you diabetes. Yeah, well , they will say that. Well, they will say that. But that was the main story in the 80s, wasnt it, when everyone was like, eat less fat, to be less fat because it was a simpler system . We didnt understand how sugar works. But since the 2000, since atkins was a thing, remember those days weve known the roles of sugar and that theyre bad as well . Ill admit at the moment, this is something you could. You were saying this, this is this. This is like saying this. I read the atkins book in the 2000. You know what you did, but the rest of the people still dont believe this thing. And even and even people like diabetes uk, which i would never trust for any information. But do you think also part of the problem is that weve now got a Permissive Society that says, oh, fat is beautiful, you should be, you know, if you want to be fat, youd be fat. You know, goblin mode. You know, maybe we need to bring back shame. At the moment, were trying to stop fat shaming. And maybe its the one thing keeping people from getting diabetes. The problem is, though, when shamed fat people feel upset, they go home and eat more. So they go home and eat more. So i think thats the problem. And im not saying that in a, you know, thats thats my response. If i have a bad gig on the way back, i will buy chocolate and i dont use my club card because i dont use my club card because i dont want it on my permanent record. So, yeah, well, i just dont think you can sugar coat the message to them because then delete it as well. I dont agree with you. No, i dont think thats what it is, what i think, what the problem, why people are fat today is because, were eating bad food. Yeah, too much sugar , too yeah, too much sugar, too much, too much, too much nonsense. Were eating too much food. Okay, were moving on. Weve got the eye. Steve. What have they got in the cover . Brit charged with spying for china. Found dead in maidenhead park. Its amazing how two things can happen without any link between them. This is who would have thought this . So, six days after he appeared in court, we covered the story here. Of the three people that we talked about who were accused of spying for china, this, matthew trickett, he stood out from the rest. He looked, different. And rest. He looked, different. And he was deep undercover. If this is a chinese spies put it this way. Because youre saying he wasnt chinese. He wasnt chinese. He was a white guy from england. Now hes a dead one. Now hes a dead one. Thats the takeaway from this story. Yeah, but the people that say takeaway, its not our audience for this story. The people who are watching this, steve, its like 11 00 at night. Try to keep things simple. So this guy is dead. It says of unknown causes. The cause might have been being a spy. Just saying. Yeah. Just saying. Yeah. I mean, its we have seen before spies being killed. Although he did tell two separate custody sergeants that he was. He would kill himself. So this this could just be a tragic suicide from a man who saw that, you know, this, the problems he was he was in is, you know, ending his career. The truth is. Is that china . The truth is. Is that china . I hate to say it because they love a lot of lovely people. And i like their food, but theyre theyre britains enemy. Theyre theyre britains enemy. Theyre the worlds enemy. They want to be the number one country in the world. And the problem with china is, is that theyre on the way down and nobody even knows it. And theyve got a theyve got a cult mentality with xi, the president there, jinping. And hes, hes hes on the way down. And this is what they do when theyre on the way down. They like russia did this for years and spies and william, weve seen, you know, Chinese Secret Service agents harassing people, openly harassing people evenin people, openly harassing people even in the centre of london and, you know, been implicated and, you know, been implicated and involved in assassinations in other countries. So its not beyond the realms of possibility that this is the long arm of xi jinping. I would say that thats what this is, which is, i hate to say it. I know people are watching. Im not that interested in this kind of stuff. Okay, well, youre on the right show then. But no carbs. No the entire story. Theres lots of stuff thats interesting , but. But chinese interesting, but. But Chinese People killing chinese spies. People killing chinese spies. But its in our. Its our land. This is exactly what happened with the novichok thing. The salisbury thing. Its shocking that it happens in the uk. Yeah, and the uk cant protect its borders not only from not only from, you know, people who want to come over in small boats, but also from any malicious , outside interference, malicious, outside interference, you know, any russian or chinese agents that want to come over and assassinate people on our, on our soil. Its. Well, so what are we going to do about it . I mean, who what are we going to what what is britain going to do about it . Britain needs to stand up and fight for itself. Yeah, well, weve said said that before. Anyway, lets finish with the daily star. Lewis, what have they got on the cover . Oh well good news. Oh well good news. Rats and apology. Justice for rodents. This is this is the star, which is fantastic newspaper. Ive been reading it more and more. Its, its a 95 piece, so its not that expensive, but it says basically after 676 years of taking the blame for the bubonic plague , blame for the bubonic plague, theyre saying it isnt the rats. Its. What are these . What rats. Its. What are these . What do they call humans for . Humans . Its fleas on humans. Its fleas on humans. I dont think whatever it was, i a few years ago, they were blaming gerbils. Yeah. Yeah. So now theyre theyre blaming head lice. Before that, they were blaming rats. I mean, this is this has gone through more origin stories than the covid virus. I dont think they were blaming the rats back then, rebooting that this newspaper every single day. Every single day. It says proud to live animals and my word. They mean it today. Dont they . Theyre taking the rat side. Yeah. Thats quite the leap. But its believable as well because whilst rats were around, we also werent that much of a clean species at the time. I watch things like time. I watch things like britain. Its a bit of a tangent, but watch bridgerton, whatever. Cleaning of teeth wasnt around, people wouldnt have snogged like that. Yeah, have snogged like that. Yeah, thats because were not clean. Unless you really go to town. Were not a clean animal. Thats not true. I have ive got a feeling bridgerton isnt the most historically accurate , the most historically accurate, depiction of. And it is. And it is. Its supposed to be so thats wrong. And the truth is, is that people didnt brush their teeth back then. They didnt need to brush their teeth because they ate a very low carb diet. If you dont eat carbs, you dont eat the brush, your teeth, your teeth. I do not brush my teeth, okay . Not a dentist does not brush his teeth. Thats the front pages dealt with. But coming up, the bbc is in hot water over an obituary. Weve got racist bees. And europe finally decides to close its welcome back to headliners. Im leo kirsten. Im still here with leo kirsten. Im still here with Steve N Allen and Louis Schaefer. And we are hosting a night with the headliners live. Its stand up. Its not this show. And you can join us for this evening of stand up comedy with andrew doyle, simon evans, josh howie and me, leo kearse. For more information, scan the qr code on screen or visit gbnews. Com. And now back to the show. Weve got the guardian with news of compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal. I think theyre still going to be some bad blood, though. Steve. Yeah, in fact, the blood victims could get compensation payments of over 2. 5 million. Terms and conditions apply. One of them is theyve still got to be alive, which is part of why this is so bad. So well go through the details. I mean, what they cant get is rid of the diseases. Is the whole point about perspective. How much is this money worth . It seems like a big figure. This was announced the day after the damning report that blamed the nhs, and the government called them culpable. Culpable is not quite covering it though, because culpable makes you think, oh, that mistake was their fault. Yeah, but then wheres the word that describes the cover up . The managing to kick this down the road, the not even wanting to have an inquiry and when you know what youve done shortens peoples lives. Waiting is the peoples lives. Waiting is the biggest crime because i mean, theyre already thousands whove died. It wont be receiving money if you now if you die between now and the compensation being paid out, it will be left to your estate. Oh, thatll cheer up. None of this makes up for it. And the. I think the impressive thing here is that itv one didnt have to do a drama about it. They actually finally got around to it. Maybe there is some hope for this nation. Payments of £210,000 will be made pretty soon to try and get the ball rolling on this, because of how long itll take. Follows up a £100,000. But there was a story in yesterdays papers which, you know, this not the job of this show about a guy who received some, some blood, got hiv, passed it to his pregnant wife within a couple of years of that point, all three were dead. Oh, my god. So 2. 5 million gunshot wounds means no gunshot wounds. You know what, steve . You know, you the way youre sounding it, just you. We. This story is so deep. And what the way theyre presenting it as if its a done deal. The fact is, we dont know how. First of all, Everybody Knows that blood is bad. Other peoples blood is bad. Other peoples blood is bad. But the. But what these people have done is so much, well, no blood can save peoples lives. My life. My life was saved by a blood transfusion. I cant remember, like nine pints or something. It was ridiculous because it was coming out. They had to keep pumping it back into me. Yeah, but the you know, now or then that was in the 90s. They screened it and they made sure the infected blood inquiry, they were getting blood from america that they knew, you know, because in america you get paid for your blood. So you know, heroin addicts, people like that, sell their blood. But obviously theyre more likely to have diseases such as hepatitis, blood can say, listen, let me finish my point. While i, while im thinking of it now, blood can save peoples lives. Yeah, but at the peoples lives. Yeah, but at the same time, its super dangerous to be doing all this. What . This report shows the unbelievable faith that people have in the nhs and in mainstream, in mainstream medicine. I dont think its faith if youre a haemophiliac, its not about faith, its about needing. The fact is that the people who who needed help, they needed a blood transfusion. They were definitely sick people. Okay. Yeah, some of them died from this and i agree with you. But some of them, some of them just said, you know, haemophilia is not an instant death sentence. Yeah. Sometimes, death sentence. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, it was, the case that the diseases they got were far worse than the diseases they were being treated for. We dont know that. I mean, we dont know that. I mean, we do know. We do know that. We do know it. Yeah. All right, look, can i just defend this . Because this. Ive gotten off on a really bad. This is the. This is my worst show ive ever done. You opened with blood is bad for you. Is blood is bad for you. And an emergency. It has to be done. Yeah. Its not good. You know what it takes . I dont want your blood put into me. I regularly donate just because it makes me more pious. Yeah and. And thats exactly right. But the truth is, is that theres a deep belief in, like, this little germ theory that hiv causes disease, that that hepatitis c is caused by one kind of virus. Its i dont i dont belie