Drunken Peasants podcast originally aired in 2014 as the No Bullshit Podcast. The show was co-created by Ben and TJ Kirk. 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 Kirk's production support staffer and younger brother Scotty Kirk eventually becoming a full-time host. YouTuber Paul Parkey 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. Kirk announced the end of the Drunken Peasants on December 29, 2017 via his own YouTube channel and Twitter. On January 31, 2018, Kirk announced that the show would continue with hosts Ben and Billy The Fridge.
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 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; 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.
