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  • Pianist Brendan Kavanagh, AKA Dr. K, was entertaining crowds at Saint Pancras Station in London on the public piano, there, he was approached by a group of flag-waving Chinese onlookers, they demanded that he stop filming.

  • In a shocking twist, the police, they seemed to back the tourists and today the piano has been mysteriously cordoned off. All very mysterious.

  • It was quite bizarre.

  • Dr. K, you join me now.

  • I watched the whole video to get a proper context for this.

  • You're just minding your own business.

  • You're playing beautiful piano as you do.

  • You're a very talented guy. - Thank you.

  • People are enjoying it and your stick is they come over and interact with you and it's great. Very harmless and fun.

  • And this is you in action, I mean fantastic.

  • But then this Chinese people in the background with their, with their flags come over and sort of believe they have the right to stop you filming and doing what you're doing.

  • Just have a listen to what happened.

  • This is all right, we are protecting and that's it.

  • But I don't understand. - Image right.

  • We are protecting our own image right.

  • You're not sharing. -But we're in public. - Yeah, excatly.

  • We're in a free country. - That's true.

  • We're not in communist China, you know? - Oh, sorry, this is racist now.

  • No, we're not in communist China. We're in a free country.

  • It doesn't matter. - Show me the Chinese flag. - Why you're touching her?

  • Stop touching her.

  • Don't touch her.

  • Please do not touch her.

  • Please.

  • You are not the same age.

  • Please do not touch her.

  • Don't touch her.

  • It was totally bizarre.

  • You got very angry at that guy.

  • But I also thought the policewoman who came over to you, I didn't like what she was doing either, which was almost acquiescing to this.

  • Well, absolutely.

  • She completely took the side of the Chinese because they mentioned the r word, racist.

  • She melted like a jelly. -And nothing you said was racist at all.

  • Well, I think, I think she said her beef with me was that I said we're not in China now and she found that an extremely offensive phrase because she said that would hurt the feelings of the Chinese around the piano and you can hear her whispering, "You can't say that."

  • And I said, "What?"

  • And she said, "You can't say we're not in China now."

  • I said, "That's a factual statement."

  • And I think when the police deal with these politically correct issues, they're all over the place because they think they to offend someone.

  • And so she took it out on me.

  • She thought she was, I suppose virtue signaling to her masters and, but she didn't... - The irony is they were filming themselves. Some kind of commercial.

  • And they were also filming me. It's been pointed out if you actually watch the video.

  • There's a guy in a gimbal from the CCP group that was there who was constantly filming me, one of the girl was filming me,

  • but they said I wasn't allowed to film them and that I needed to delete my footage because they had a disclaimer that no one was allowed to film them in the station.

  • Bizarre.

  • What's, it's really a nerve.

  • Over 6 million people have now watched this online.

  • You probably never had a reaction quite like this.

  • Well, no.

  • And also I've got to tell you, just before I came in Piers, I've just had a phone call.

  • The video is on the verge of being taken down by YouTube because I've had a second strike against it.

  • So someone does not want this video to be taken, uh, doesn't want this video to be there.

  • It's about to be taken down.

  • So, if anyone's watching this, please download it and if the video disappears, obviously pressure has been put on YouTube.

  • What does it tell you about where we are with free speech in the world?

  • Ah, well, this whole thing was a mini parable about the value of free speech.

  • It was a spontaneous live stream.

  • We were attempted to be shut down.

  • But in the end, free speech prevailed.

  • And I think that's why it's got such a lot of traction around the world because where do you see free speech prevailing in a little mini drama?

  • And that's what happened.

  • They walked away free speech prevail, but now they want to take the video down.

  • The video is on the verge of being taken down. Please, if you're watching this, download the video and if the video gets taken down, let's kick up a stink.

  • How did the police end up with you over the whole thing?

  • They called the--there was about five of them and one of the, one of the group went and got the police and said that "We've got here a violent thug who is threatening us and is calling us communists.

  • And we feel threatened and he also needs to delete his footage."

  • And the police lady immediately took their side and she gave me quite a hard time.

  • She told me I couldn't say things, she said to stop filming.

  • No, I watched it.

  • I was, I couldn't understand what she was doing.

  • I knew what she was doing but I don't understand why. - I couldn't understand it either Piers, you know.

  • Have you been back since to play the piano?

  • Uh, no, my friend, Terry, I've got a good friend, my friend Terry Miles, God bless him, He was there today.

  • He's a fantastic YouTuber.

  • He was there today.

  • And there was even a protest today supporting the piano and me in Saint Pancras, "Free the Piano." Terry was there today.

  • The piano's back and I think the...- When are you back there?

  • I don't know if I should say, Piers. - Yes, you should.

  • Do you think I should go back, advise me. - Absouletly.

  • Would you come with me? - What about tomorrow morning?

  • You reckon? - Of course, you'll be a superstar now, you bigger crowd than Elton John, who I think I think donated the piano.

  • He did and Elton's team is being contacted by the Daily Express to give a comment on the fact that the piano was shut off.

  • But when they heard that they actually released the piano, so it's back in use again.

  • But... - When are you going back? Come on. Give me a scoop.

  • Piers, Piers, Piers.

  • I don't know if I can... -It's free speech.

  • Spit it out, man.

  • I might go on Friday.

  • What kind of time are people in town?

  • Piers, Piers, Piers.

  • You're stirring this up, man.

  • You're stirring this up. - Anyone from the Communist Party in China is watching this.

  • Look. - I can't tell you when he's performing, but it's Friday.

  • MI5 have told me to keep a low profile. I'm only joking, but look, I may be there on Friday but I, you know, it's a sensitive situation.

  • The police, British transport police have freaked out, Saint Pancras have freaked out, but people have...

  • You know what? They should all just calm down and recognize we live, last time I checked, in a free democratic country and you are allowed to play the piano where you played it many times.

  • We're gonna leave it there.

  • Great to see you Brendan, all the best.

  • Thank you.

  • That's it from me.

  • Whatever you up to, keep it unsensored, especially from the Communist in China.

Pianist Brendan Kavanagh, AKA Dr. K, was entertaining crowds at Saint Pancras Station in London on the public piano, there, he was approached by a group of flag-waving Chinese onlookers, they demanded that he stop filming.

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