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S1 Ep 120Alisa Childers: The Dangers of Progressive Christianity
This is the Babylon Bee Interview show. In this episode of the Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Alisa Childers. Alisa Childers first gained fame by being in the Christian Pop band, ZOEgirl. Alisa has since moved on from music into becoming a Christian Apologist with her own podcast and her debut book, Another Gospel?, available wherever you find books. Alisa's apologist story began when she discovered her Pastor was a self proclaimed "Hopeful Agnostic" thus leading her on a journey of discovering historic Christianity and the true meaning of rap core. Ethan and Kyle receive all the CCM back stories including that of the mysterious Carman. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans. Topics Discussed Alisa's logo design explanation What is Historic Christianity? Origin of ZOEgirl Alisa's Crisis of Faith Hopeful Agnostic Pastor Journey towards becoming an Apologist Defining Progressive Christianity Ways Progressive Christianity is infiltrating the Evangelical Church Subscriber Portion Cool Stories Newsboys food habits Ending up on Aerosmith's bus Altar call with Journey ZOEgirl name Origin Rapcore 10 Questions G.K. Chesterton Babylon Bee Altar Call

S1 Ep 119The Left Makes Enemies List/Pandemic Is Over/The Sacred Texts News Show 11.13.2020
This is the Babylon Bee Weekly News Podcast for the week of 11/13/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like the pandemic being officially over now that Biden is President-elect, Biden's secret list of cabinet picks getting leaked by The Babylon Bee, and the party against fascism, the Democrats, are creating a giant list of enemies because that always ends well. Also, The Bee's big 'covfefe' table book The Sacred Texts of The Babylon Bee Volume 1 is finally hitting the streets and we have weird news and glorious hate mail! Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans Introduction Kyle and Ethan talk about why Kyle looked like a hobo last week, vacuum haircut devices as seen on Wayne's World, the brand new The Sacred Texts Of The Babylon Bee Volume 1 available now and whether or not to accept the election results. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules Starter Set Tomb of Annihilation Tomb of the Serpent Kings Ethan likes Bear in the Back Seat by Kim Delozier and Carolyn Jourdan. Weird News "Bigot" has been given a new dictionary definition (NTB) Oxford English Dictionary's definition of 'bigot' now reads: "A person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group." It no longer reads: "A person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions." Woman arrested for pretending to be FBI agent and demanding free Chick-fil-A. She even talked into her shirt like she was calling backup. (NTB) Authorities said Ragsdale kept up the ruse even as she was being arrested Thursday, at one point pretending to talk into a radio supposedly hidden under her shirt and urging the FBI to send someone to her aid, according to The Polk County Standard Journal, citing police. She also claimed her credentials were electronic-only when officers asked to see identification. Can FBI agents demand chick-fil-a? Russian scientists discover huge walrus haulout in Arctic circle What the heck is a haulout - is it pronounced "haloot!" which is another word for Walrus dance party There were 3,000 walruses found in Russia The animals are believed to be going further and further south as scientists believe their habitats are warming and melting due to climate change Is John Bolton among them? How is he doing? "Hey, Siri … How old is the president?" Her answer might shock (and infuriate) you (NTB) For some period of time, Siri would tell you how old Kamala Harris is… not Donald Trump or even presumptive President-elect Joe Biden Kyle tried it and it worked 100 Year Old Disc Golf Player Breaks Guinness Record With Long Throw At age 90 set a World Record when he lobbed a disc at a distance of 189 feet At age 100 threw a disc 189 feet for the over 100 age bracket Shinn said he is proud of his world record, but he feels like he can beat it again Indian man builds 9-foot-long marker pen for Guinness\\\\\\\ record This one is just to piss Kyle off. Parrot returns to British Owner speaking Spanish - four years after disappearing Nigel, a grey African Parrot, flew away from his home in California in 2010, but was returned to his British owner, Darren Chick, after he was discovered in Torrance, California. The bird's British accent is gone, replace by fluent Spanish and someone called "Larry" King of West African Tribe returns to gardening job in Canada Eric Manu became royalty when his 67 year old uncle, Dat, passed away last year He moved back to British Columbia, he has returned to landscaping and gardening in the town in a bid to raise cash for his 6,000 strong tribe Manu hopes to improve healthcare with all the money he raises Stories of the Week Story 1 Pandemic Officially Over Summary: After almost a year of suffering under a devastating killer pandemic, America was relieved to learn that the pandemic is officially over after they saw huge crowds of people smashed together celebrating Biden's apparent electoral win. You still can't go to church or go to a funeral, but hey! People were celebrating in the streets in mass crowds when major news like the AP and others declared Joe Biden the President-elect on Saturday 11/7. Scientists predict if Trump manages to flip the results COVID will return with a vengeance Story 2We at The Babylon Bee have acquired a top-secret list of Biden's cabinet picks. Here they are. Story 3 The political party vocally opposed to fascism, the Democrats, have begun creating lists of undesirables AOC's tweet The Trump Accountability Project "Remember what they did," the group's sparse website declares. "We should not allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience: Those who elected him. Those

S1 Ep 118Austin Petersen: Secular Pro-Life Dude Bro Interview
This is the Babylon Bee Interview show. In this episode of the Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Austin Petersen. Austin Petersen ran for President in the 2016 election with the Libertarian Party and is the founder and chief editor for The Libertarian Republic Website. He is described as a secular dude bro that is Pro life and finds more in common with many Christian Conservatives than those in his own party. Kyle and Ethan test Austin on his Libertarian views, especially in terms of Trump policies, Ferret ownership, and how often he prays to the Libertarian father, Ron Paul. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans. This episode is brought to you by Faithful Counseling. Get 10% off your first month. Topics Discussed Election Day How many times does Austin show reverence toward Ron Paul? Why Petersen voted for Trump Major difference between Dems and Republicans Conservatism is about losing slowly The Two kinds of libertarians Libertarian view on Ferret ownership Are Libertarians Eating babies? Secular argument toward Pro life Creation of incubation chambers Secular journey for Petersen Why Petersen prefers Christian Conservative to Atheists Communists Not speaking up is much worse Libertarian Government future is not good Senator Mike Lee Libertarians take on a social justice warrior perspective Subscriber Portion Problem with Petersen's Wiki page Living in a dumpster behind a quick drip Being a dude bro Most Garbage Libertarian website Why Petersen can't fit in to any political party 10 questions Good Kick fight story

S1 Ep 117The Babylon Bee Election Special News Show 11.6.2020
This is The Babylon Bee News Podcast for the week of 11/6/2020. In this Election 2020 special, your hosts Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicolle do a recap of all of our Election 2020 coverage which turned out to be fake news you could trust after all. They fondly remember all the absurd moments of the primaries and general election and try to bring some sanity to your election week craziness. We make politics way too important as G.K. Chesterton teaches us in this most excellent Election Podcast Special. Also, will you be our RBG? Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans This episode is brought to you by Small Group The Movie. Introduction Kyle voted for the first time and is haggard and tired. Ethan wrote a song to bring us all together: Be my RBG. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Star Wars Squadrons. Ethan likes Monster DC Sniper. Weird news Costco pulls coconut milk after report on forced monkey labor A PETA investigation accused Thai growers, who supply the coconuts for coconut milk such as the Chaokoh brand, of forcing monkeys to work as coconut pickers. Costco has stopped selling coconut milk derived from those producers, reports USA Today. Seems inefficient. Can't you just put a big snipper on a stick and get them down? PETA says some of the monkeys are driven insane. Off-duty Nevada officer dressed as 'Star Wars' Stormtrooper stops suspected drunken driver An off-duty state trooper wearing a "Star Wars" costume while returning home from a Halloween party prevented a suspected drunken driver from entering a Las Vegas freeway in the wrong direction. Indian doctor duped into buying 'Aladdin's lamp' for $93,000 Police in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state have arrested two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an "Aladdin's lamp" for $93,000 that they promised would bring wealth and good fortune. Dr Laeek Khan approached police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh after he realised the lamp did not have any magical powers, as described in the popular folk tale about Aladdin and his wish-granting genie that appears when it is rubbed. California kayakers end up in mouth of humpback whale Two kayakers escaped uninjured when they briefly ended up in the mouth of a humpback whale that surfaced beneath them. Seance live streamed from British manor breaks Guinness record Babylon Bee Election Coverage: 2020 Election Roundup: The Insane Democratic Primary Trump Vs Biden: The Babylon Bee's Top Articles From The 2020 Election Topic of the Week Kyle and Ethan read a portion of Chesterton's What's Right with the World Hate Mail We get chewed out by a retired Army guy for our coverage of Mitch McConnel's recent encounter with a plastic six-pack ring. Love Mail We get some crude love mail that we can appreciate. Subscriber Lounge Kyle and Ethan talk about politics being made to be more important than it is, discontent, prigs, and oligarchs as they continue reading from G.K. Chesterton.

S1 Ep 116Jonah Goldberg On Why He Has Distaste for Gandhi and Trump: Jonah Goldberg Interview
This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode of the Babylon bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Jonah Goldberg. Jonah Goldberg is the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute and a Fellow at the National Review Institute. In 2019, he left a role as Senior Editor of National Review magazine after a 21-year stint with the publication to start a new venture. He has been a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2005 and a nationally syndicated columnist since 2000. He hosts the popular podcast The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg. His most recent book, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy, was also a New York Times bestseller in 2018.

S1 Ep 115California Cancels Thanksgiving, but keeps BLM Protests/ACB Orders Handmaid's Outfits, and Democrats Propose More Coyotes News Show 10.30.2020
This is The Babylon Bee Weekly News Show for the week of 10/30/2020. In this Spooky episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the Babylon Bee being mentioned at the Senate hearings and the week's top stories like another amazing Guinness World Record that Kyle gets so excited about, ACB ordering all Nation's Women to Wear Handmaid's Outfits, Democrats Proposing to stop Coyotes by distracting them with Decoy Roadrunners, and after Thanksgiving being banned, Californians turning to Turkey Barbecues in Honor of Black Lives Matter. Kyle and Ethan also share their favorite Horror Movies, TV Shows, and Books all in time for you to enjoy them before Halloween. Tune in for more weird news, cool stories, a trip to the mailbag and, of course, glorious hate mail. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans. This episode is brought to you by Small Group The Movie. Introduction Kyle and Ethan joke about Jack Dorsey dressing as a homeless man during his remote senate hearings and being referenced at the Senate hearings. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Geeks Under Grace Ethan likes Flor De Selva cigars Weird News World's longest gum wrapper chain created by 70 year old retired teacher He began the feat back in 1965, which is when Gum chains were quite popular Gary's record breaking chain came in at a mind boggling 106,810 ft. Gary says as someone with no special skills that he has to do a lot of hard work in order to succeed in getting a world record Woman allegedly posed as prosecutor, dropped charges against herself Lisa Landon used the state's electronic system to drop the charges and submitted fake documents in three separate criminal cases last year. A forensic examiner who was supposed to perform a competency evaluation on her, noticed the charges were dropped. Landon also falsified a judge's decision to waive a filing fee and faked an order in a child custody case involving her child and a family member Police ID pastor accused of urinating on female Delta passenger: 'He peed on me!' According to the passenger named Alicia Beverly, told police she woke up on the plane around 2:45am to find a man urinating on her. After Beverly yelled 'He peed on me,' the Pastor said "I peed on her, I thought I was going to the bathroom" 'Big Pile' of eels dumped in NYC park; impact not yet known After dumping the eels in the lake, the man walked away, explaining to bystanders that "I just want to save lives" New York has a long history of people releasing animals. In 1890, Shakespeare enthusiasts released a flock of 60 European starlings(birds) that destroyed crops and snarl jet engines California billionaire Bill Gross accused of blaring 'Gilligan's Island' theme song on loop at his neighbor Gross was frustrated that he was forced by the city to take down a series of lighting and netting that blocked the neighbors view. The neighbor told Gross to turn the music down and he responded "Peace on all fronts or we'll just have nightly concerts big boy" Prescription drugs reported in children's Halloween candy after California event At a trunk or treat where kids would get candy through their windows, Police reported that a mother called after she found a resealable plastic bag with four blue pills and a white tablet in her child's bag of candy Recommended to parents to go through their children's candy piece by piece before they eat any of it Headless horseman brings music, double-takes to Concord, MA Man rides bicycle with no hands playing guitar while in a headless horseman costume Bicyclist says he has started to play the trumpet instead of the guitar on some days He has fallen, he said, but no serious falls as the headless horseman though Story 1 Newly Sworn-In ACB Immediately Orders All Nation's Women To Wear Handmaid's Outfit Summary:WASHINGTON, D.C.—After being sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett immediately issued a decree that all women are to wear red handmaid's outfits for the rest of their lives. "Execute papal order 66," she said, her eyes glowing red. "Implement the theocratic state." ACB was confirmed on a party line vote in the Senate 52-48 with only one Republican Susan Collins voting NO. 'No': Graham Shuts Down Democrats' Attempts to Delay ACB Vote Graham says that after what they did to Kavanaugh he is a changed man and didn't seem to have any tolerance for what they were trying to do. Democrat Harry Reid got rid of the rule requiring a supermajority to end debate over a nominee in 2013 so these narrow votes are able to get through. Story 2 Democrats Propose Stopping Coyotes By Distracting Them With Decoy Roadrunners Summary: After Trump brought attention to the coyote epidemic at the southern border during the debates, Democrats on Twitter are offering unique solutions to the problem, such as setting up decoy roadrunners to di

S1 Ep 114Doug Wilson Talks Worshipers Being Arrested/Sex Robots/Postmillennialism
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Doug Wilson. Doug is a pastor, author of over 90 books, most recently of Ride, Sally, Ride, and the host of Man Rampant. His church got in the news recently for a non-socially distanced, unmasked Psalm Sing in Moscow, Idaho that landed several members of their church in jail. They talk about what happened at the Psalm Sing, churches disengaging with the culture and politics, and why a Christian would write a book about sex robots. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans. This episode is brought to you by Faithful Counseling. Get 10% off your first month. Topics Discussed: The Moscow Psalm Sing The Doug Wilson Cult and complex in Moscow The Fight, Laugh, Feast network Churches being politically active and engaging the culture or not Churches meeting or not because of COVID-19 Partisan politics- is it a sin to vote for Joe Biden? Dead people voting Controversy surrounding Doug Wilson Slavery, William Wilberforce Revolution vs. Reformation as means of change, applying this to abortion Postmillennialism in the year 2020 Mark of the Beast going on facemasks Writing books about sex robots like Ride, Sally, Ride Appropriateness of lewd, shocking things in Christian art Subscriber Portion What the heck is Federal Vision? Doug Wilson's respectful relationship and debate with atheist Christopher Hitchens The Ten Questions Doug tells an awesome fistfight story Kyle and Ethan de-convert Doug Wilson Kyle and Ethan Post-Show

S1 Ep 113Trump Tweets The Bee/Jordan Peterson Returns/Facebook Kills Comedy News Show 10.23.2020
This is The Babylon Bee Weekly News Show for the week of 10/23/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's top stories like President Trump tweeting out a Babylon Bee story, Jordan Peterson returning with the 12 Rules For Life on stone tablets, and how Facebook is murdering comedy. The Babylon Bee also has some updated and more realistic travel posters to America's big cities. Tune in for more weird news, cool stories, a trip to the mailbag and, of course, glorious hate mail. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans. This episode is brought to you by Small Group The Movie. Introduction Kyle and Ethan joke about our recent spat with Mark Zuckerberg and dive into the weekly news. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes the 2018 video game Celeste. Ethan likes I survived... Weird News Space Station air leak repaired with help from floating tea leaves There was a slow air leak in a transfer chamber on the space station that suddenly got worse Astronauts broke open a tea bag to watch the leaves float toward where the leak was so they could use tape to seal it. 'Breathable Bacon' face mask gives wearers the aroma of bacon A U.S. company is offering fans of breakfast meats the chance to enjoy the scent of sizzling pork anytime they want with a bacon-scented face mask. Hormel said the Black Label Breathable Bacon mask uses the "the latest in bacon-smell technology" to give the wearer the experience of smelling bacon anytime they don the protection accessory. Do they make a soy version? Naked teen taken into custody after damaging business, covering himself in ranch dressing and crashing car. Sheriffs responded to a call at 3:30am and found a naked 17 year old man who was under the influence of a substance The man had covered himself in ranch dressing and damaged property inside the business He ran outside and drove off. Didn't get far and crashed into a pillar. He must do penance by covering himself in CFA sauce Tennessee teenager's homemade fusion reactor lands Guinness record the world's youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion after officials verified that he built his own nuclear fusion reactor at his family's home and successfully used it in his final hours of being 12 years old. Tony Stark? Blindfolded man smashes 50 coconuts around another man's body An Indian martial artist showed off his strength and precision when he donned a blindfold and smashed 50 coconuts that were arranged around the body of another man. They were given a Guinness World Record The men, Rakesh B and Prabhakar Reddy P, were awarded the Guinness record for most coconuts smashed around a person blindfolded in 1 minute. Kyle would like to protest these absolutely ridiculous records What's next? Most toothpicks covered in Crisco fit into a microwave? Story 1 Check Out These Eight Beautiful Travel Posters For America's Democrat-Controlled Cities Summary: U.S.—With people leaving Democrat cities in droves, mayors and city councils are hoping to fill them back up again -- with tourists! Maybe it's time to give these cities a second chance. Check out these beautiful tourism posters from Democrat-controlled cities around the country! Read the posters and the punchline, keep it tight, video version will display the posters Story 2 Trump Shares Babylon Bee Article, Thousands Accept Jesus Into Their Hearts Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thousands around the world are forsaking their sins and receiving Christ this week after Trump shared an article from The Babylon Bee. The Babylon Bee is widely known as the most Christian website ever created. In fact, it is so insanely Christian that a single share on social media has the power to instantly save hundreds of souls. According to sources, Trump was ignorant of this fact before sharing the article. USA TODAY: Trump tweets satirical news story: What is Babylon Bee and is it 'fake news'? The knowingly fake story came from Babylon Bee, a satire site with a conservative bent, and claimed, in jest, that Twitter was shutting down its platform to prevent the spread of negative news about Democratic nominee Joe Biden. "Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this," Trump tweeted. Also mentioned: Video of Trump being normal guy at church in Las Vegas. Story 3 Jordan Peterson Returns To Find Americans Worshiping Golden Statue Of Karl Marx, Breaks 12 Rules For Life In Anger Summary: After a year-long excursion into the belly of the beast, Dr. Jordan Peterson emerged this week and was dismayed to find millions of Americans worshipping at the altar of a golden Karl Marx statue. Overtaken with righteous anger, he smashed his stone tablets containing 12 Rules for Life into tiny pieces. Jordan Peterson seems to be back posting to his YouTube channel a video e

S1 Ep 112The Tolkien And Lewis Bromance: The Diana Glyer Interview
Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Diana Glyer, author of Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings.. She has spent 40 years combing through archives, studying old manuscripts, and is considered a leading expert on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Her scholarship, her teaching, and her work as an artist all circle back to one common theme: creativity thrives in community. Kyle and Ethan talk to Dr. Glyer about Tolkien, Lewis, and the creativity that can happen in a community like The Inklings. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans Topics Discussed Who were The Inklings? How does Creativity thrive in community? Tom Bombadil and the quiet "homely home" portions of LOTR Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy "There are no dentists in Mordor" Tolkien caused C.S. Lewis to throw Narnia in the trash at one point Differences between C.S. Lewis and Tolkien The Chronicles Of Narnia C.S. Lewis' journey to faith and Tolkien's consistent prayer for his friend G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man influencing Lewis What was going on in the third book of Lewis' Space Trilogy? Humans being sub-creators, Mythopoeia How much pipe weed did the Inklings go through? What is a Bandersnatch? Artists need brutally honest criticism to be better Diana likes our Decaf Condemned As Heresy mugs and Mt. Writemore mugs in our store Subscriber Portion Which of these modern writers make it into The Inklings or have been promptly kicked out? The Chronicles of Narnia movies How well did Christopher Tolkien manage to expand his father's work? Amazon's Lord of the Rings series gets the Game of Thrones treatment The Hobbit movies Drama and conflicts in The Inklings Dyson is the Yoko of the group The Ten Questions

S1 Ep 111Merriam-Webster Gaslighting/Orange Ball Worship/What Voters Deserve News Show 10.16.2020
This is the Babylon Bee Weekly News Podcast for the week of 10/16/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like ACB using a crucifix to defend herself from the Senate, Los Angeles allowing a large religious gathering after the Lakers win, and Biden telling voters they don't deserve to know if he will enact a glorious communist utopia if elected. Kyle and Ethan also talk about the angry comments on the New York Times piece on The Babylon Bee and how dictionaries now are engaging in gaslighting the populace. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans. Introduction Welcome to The Babylon Bee where we talk about the news and have an animation playlist on YouTube... Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Stephen King's On Writing. Ethan likes Gran Torino. Weird News Herd of charging cows in England kill second man in month Police are looking for witnesses to help with the investigation in who's causing the charging cows Thai hotel seeks deal with guest facing jail over bad reviews Thailand's criminal defamation and computer crimes acts, he could be fined up to 100,000 baht ($3,200) as well as facing jail time. Reviewer said he was mad about a 500 baht ($16) corkage fee Reporter confronts aggressive raccoon outside White House The incident was not the first confrontation between the media and racoons at the White House. Reporter quoted "Frickin' raccoons, man. God, again! This is the second time! Jesus...It always comes around right around when I'm about to go on TV...get! Ex-jail employees charged for playing 'Baby Shark' on repeat Jail employees forced inmates to stand handcuffed for hours and listen to "Baby Shark" on repeat Stories of the Week Story 1 Democrats Hiss In Terror As ACB Pulls Out Crucifix Summary: Amy Coney Barrett has eloquently defended herself through the Senate confirmation hearings this morning. But as Dems grew increasingly vicious, she was forced to turn to desperate measures. After several hours of hearings, Barrett pulled out a large crucifix and held it aloft. A light shone from the heavens, and the Democrats knew they were defeated. ACB took questions beginning Monday from the Senate about her judicial philosophy of originalism and how she would decide on cases related to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and Roe V Wade. "I've made no commitment to anyone, not in this Senate, not over in the White House, about how I would decide any case," said Judge Amy Coney Barrett "I'm not willing to make a deal, not with this committee, not with the President." Sen. Mazie Hirono asks ACB "since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?" @Erikrosalesnews tweeted: What is so amazing, Judge Amy Coney Barrett is testifying with only a small note pad and a pencil. She is a former law professor who is often correcting Senators on the details of the cases headed to the Supreme Court. She is schooling lawmakers. When she was confirmed as a Federal judge 3 years ago, Sen. Diane Feinstein said, "The dogma lives loudly with you." The new Dem talking point is to scream loudly about Court Packing which nominating ACB is not. Here's Dan Rather to illustrate. Story 2 L.A. Mayor Allows Large Religious Gathering Outside Staples Center Summary: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, having opposed large religious gatherings in his city for the past 7 months, has suddenly reversed course, allowing a large worship service to take place in the streets of the city last night. Despite the ban on religious gatherings, the worshipers came together to honor their god, LeBron James, in a spontaneous outpouring of love and praise. Worshipers in this religion, rather than singing songs or saying prayers, topple cars and throw things at the police. Mayor Garcetti and Governor Gavin Newsom have famously been harassing churches that try to meet in defiance of the social distancing rules like Grace Community Church and John MacArthur They seemingly have no problem with BLM/ANTIFA marches and now everyone massing in the streets to celebrate the Lakers winning the NBA championship Did anyone watch it? There's no salvaging these awful NBA Finals ratings Story 3 Biden: 'I Won't Reveal Whether I Plan On Abolishing The Constitution And Establishing A Glorious Communist Utopia Until After I'm Elected' Summary: Joe Biden was asked yet again today if he plans to abolish the Constitution, overthrow Congress, dismiss the Supreme Court, and set up a Communist regime to take their place. Once again, Biden refused to answer the question, saying voters will find out whether he plans to seize the means of production and institute a one-party rule, U.S.S.R.-style. "Look, if I tell you whether or not I plan to institute a new Comm

S1 Ep 110Greg Koukl Talks Owning Atheist Celebrities/Converting Lady Gaga/20th Century Horrors
Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan welcome back Christian apologist Greg Koukl of Stand To Reason. He is the author of Tactics and The Story of Reality. They analyze celebrity quotes about God and religion, discuss the horrors of the 20th century world wars, and reveal how Greg would convert Lady Gaga in 30 seconds using his tactics. They also get into the concept of "wokeness" and how awful a lot of modern worship songs really are. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans. Topics Discussed The Greg Koukl Vs. Deepak Chopra faceoff Celebrity quotes about God (Woody Allen, Penn Jillette, Ricky Gervais, H.P. Lovecraft, Lady Gaga) Running the Gauntlet Douglas Axe's book Undeniable The Strawman Fallacy Religion causing more war than atheism? Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler Indoctrination and reading non-Christian books Illiberal bullying and bludgeoning Christian schools excluding non-Christians 'Practical suicide' (Being what you condemn) "LGBTQ Christians" Converting Lady Gaga in 30 seconds using Tactics Critical Race Theory infiltrating the church Intersectionality and social justice Greg's book Tactics Greg's book The Story of Reality Subscriber Portion Stephen Colbert and atheists/agnostics Jordan Peterson's tactics on this interview On not being good enough or virtuous enough to become a Christian? What the Bible says about "wokeness" Subscriber-submitted questions Is God's love reckless? And other thoughts on modern worship songs Miscellaneous heresies The Ten Questions

S1 Ep 109Get Dead Soon/Fact Checks/Bee Kid Pitches News Show 10.9.2020
This is the Babylon Bee Weekly News Podcast for the week of 10/9/2020. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like Democrats hoping Trump "gets dead soon" after coming down with coronavirus, USA Today keeping the internet safe from satire, and Bee kids sending The Babylon Bee their best headline pitches. Kyle and Ethan also talk about murderous witches, Satanic billboards, and fat bears and get a chance to speak with filmmaker Matt Chastain about his new movie Small Group. Introduction Kyle hatches a scheme to fly across the country to be with his family and Kyle and Ethan discuss how kids age a parent. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes his son's YouTube channel Punk Rock Kid Ethan likes Brian Regan Weird News Teen secures record for world's longest female legs She is from Texas, 17 years old, 6'10" and has the longest legs record but not tallest woman (who happens to be 7'3" from Russia) Taller than Doug TenNapel Palm tree takes trimmer for wild ride high over the ground A tree trimmer in California went for a wild ride on a tall palm tree when cutting the fronds free caused the tree trunk to whip upright from a bent-over position. Man puts 125 scoops on an ice cream cone for world record The 125 scoops were balanced on a single waffle cone US jails man who bought Lamborghini with government loan He took out a 1.6 million dollar loan from the government for coronavirus lockdown aid and got noticed when he spent 200 grand on the car. Accused Killer Convinced Her Tinder Date to Join Murderous Coven of Witches The couple accused of fatally strangling 24-year-old Sydney Loofe after wooing her on a dating app allegedly convinced at least one other Tinder date that they controlled a coven of witches who gained their powers by killing people. "To get your power, you have to breathe in their last breath," a witness, referred to on the stand as A.H., testified Satanic Temple Sues Billboard Company for Declining Abortion 'Religious Ritual' Advertisements They're trying to argue their religious freedom demands their right to an abortion and are suing the billboard company for religious discrimination for not putting up their billboard Fat Bear Week 2020 crowns chunkster "Earl of Avoirdupois" as fattest bear Each week people had to vote between two bears on who they think is the fattest in a bracket The winner was 1400 pounds roughly Kindergarten teacher gets fired for tattooing his eyeballs black Kindergarten teacher has spent 450 hours under the tattoo gun and still teaches ages 6 and up. Check out the picture! Stories of the Week Story 1 Trump's Hospital Room Flooded With 'Get Dead Soon' Cards From Democrats Summary: It's been a trying time for the country and President Donald Trump as he has been stuck at Walter Reed Medical Center trying to get better. Keeping Trump company is a flood of cards from Democrats wishing him to "Get dead soon." "I hope you die!", "You deserve this!", and "I want you to die and go to hell -- Russian hell!" read some of the cards sent by poor-wishers, cards that now decorate the president's room. Such cards have become so popular that Hallmark has added a "For Sick Presidents You Don't Like" section, including some humorous ones where a cartoon cat dances on Trump's grave. Trump got COVID, so did a bunch of people at the White House. Media seemed pretty pumped that the President could die on Friday when it was announced that he has contracted the virus Trump walked himself to the helicopter on the White House lawn to go to the hospital "out of an abundance of caution" He posted several photos and videos over the weekend showing him working and thanking his supporters. Internet conspiracies went nuts about reflections on the table in the photos, the timestamps in the exif data, Trump seemingly signing a blank piece of paper i.e. "He staged these photos! He's not working or he doesn't have COVID!" The Media and bluecheck types seemed to either think Trump was faking COVID or was covering up how bad his situation was. Trump rode around in an SUV to thank gathered supporters and wave Trump was released from the hospital Monday. Story 2 Governor Whitmer Refuses To Throw Ring Of Power Back Into Fires Of Mount Doom Summary: In legal news, a Michigan Supreme Court has ordered Governor Gretchen Whitmer to throw the Ring of Power, which she has wielded to enact tyrannical coronavirus restrictions upon her citizens, back into the fires of Mount Doom. "Nooo! Not my precious!" Whitmer screamed as the state Supreme Court handed down the order to destroy the Ring. "Nasty, nasty Constitution! We don't likes it! Nasty, fat Founding Fathers!" She turned and left. The court ruled 4-3 that Whitmer's decision to declare a state of emergency without approval from state legislators was unconstitutional She could declare a state of emergency but must

S1 Ep 108Kevin Sorbo Talks Being A Conservative Christian in Hollywood
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show. Be sure to check out The Babylon Bee YouTube Channel for more podcasts, podcast shorts, animation, and more. In this episode, Kyle and Ethan talk to Kevin Sorbo. An outspoken actor, producer, and director, Kevin is perhaps best known for playing Hercules and, in Christian circles, for playing the angry atheist professor in God's Not Dead. Kevin and his wife Sam have a new book together called True Faith: Embracing Adversity to Live in God's Light. Kyle and Ethan talk to Kevin about how he found true strength after suffering a stroke, married the Golden Hind, and now works to make movies that aren't just for Christian audiences, but for everyone. Topics Discussed Golfing with Donald Trump and Jesse Ventura Hercules being the top show on television Having a stroke and going from Hercules to mere mortal Kull The Conqueror Don't go to Dr. Die or Dr. Slaughter Writing True Strength and becoming a speaker Kissing stunt doubles Conservative, Christian heterosexual and looking for work in Hollywood Protect the sea turtle eggs, abort the fetuses? Kevin is working on a new show The World According To Billy Potwin Making movies that aren't just for one audience Sorbo's other recent work: Let There Be Light, What If…, God's Not Dead, Miracle In East Texas Mask politics ANTIFA Marrying the Golden Hind Disappointed! Hercules crew working on LOTR Bad TV props True Faith Subscriber Portion Kevin Sorbo gives more juicy Hollywood stories What not to call your wife when she's pregnant Before The Wrath Kyle and Ethan pitch Kevin Sorbo on some Christian movies that must be made Walking Tall: Lone Justice and Walking Tall: The Payback Hollywood regrets and frustrations The Ten Questions To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 107Dumpster Fire Debate/ACB Blood Cult/Smart People Don't Pay Taxes News Show 10.2.2020
This is the Babylon Bee Weekly News Podcast for the week of 10/2/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like it being revealed by the corporate press that Amy Coney Barrett is part of some weird religious cult that drinks blood, the nation's libertarians cheering Trump's smart avoidance of Federal theft, and a state without electricity now demanding everyone buy an electric car. Kyle and Ethan also react to the dumpster fire that is our nation's presidential debate. Buckle your Chesterbelts, it's another Babylon Bee News Show. Introduction Ethan wants face foam and Kyle visited Texas for The Texan's Night With The Babylon Bee. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Stryper - Even the Devil Believes. Ethan likes BREAKDOWN with Kurt Russell. Weird News Coronavirus: Half a million sharks may be killed for virus vaccine Romanian mayor wins landslide re-election two weeks after death Bear with three legs steals Diet Coke from Florida garage Turkey crashes through window into Virginia home Couple win $100,100 in two-day lottery winning streak Man died from eating excessive amounts of black licorice Bengal govt releases obit for its 'alive and healthy' minister Stories of the Week Story 1 CNN Reports Amy Coney Barrett Attended Bizarre Ceremony Where She Ate Flesh, Drank Blood Of Jewish Guy Summary: In a disturbing new report, CNN has revealed the bizarre practices of the strange cult Amy Coney Berrett belongs to. Known to some as "Christendom," it features many ancient rituals that were recorded by undercover CNN journalists at a strange stone building on Sunday where the ceremonies were held. Secret cameras showed Amy Coney Barrett kneeling before a priest-type figure as he recited some kind of incantation in a dead tongue. The priest then held up a round wafer and a goblet of red liquid which he announced to be the true body and blood of a Jewish rabbi who died 2000 years ago.They then brought a newborn baby to a basin of water and attempted to drown it. Both Are In The Same Church, But Media Love Joe Biden's Faith And Hate Amy Coney Barrett's She has 7 children, 2 adopted Haitan children. Some people call that potentially problematic like Director Of Antiracist Research @ Boston University Ibram X. Kendi (TIME lists him in the top 100 most influential ppl…) saying White colonizers 'adopted' blacks and 'civilized' them to use as props.. She belongs to a charismatic Catholic church called "People of Praise" Newsweek published and then "corrected" a headline stating that her church inspired The Handmaid's Tale What options do Dems have? They don't have the votes and there might be backlash if they are seen as attacking successful bright mother of 7 Story 2 Libertarian Voters Flock To Trump After Learning He Avoided Paying Taxes Summary: Trump is polling high among an unexpected group: libertarians, who were energized and drawn to Trump's cause after the New York Times revealed that he paid as little as $750 in federal taxes some years. The NYT published last Sunday twenty years of back tax returns after some anonymous bureaucrat leaked it showing "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance" Within 4 hours Biden had a video ad attack the info contained in the leak It is illegal for the IRS to leak the personal tax returns of any individual. The Times is guarding its sources closely. Trump bragged in 2016 at debates that he paid the least amount of taxes that he legally could. "That makes me smart," he said in a debate with Hillary. Story 3 State With No Electricity Orders Everyone To Drive Cars That Run On Electricity Summary: California, a state with no electricity, has ordered everyone to drive cars that run on electricity. Well, how dya like that California to ban all new gas-powered cars by 2035 under order by Gov. Gavin Newsom This doesn't require a bill to be passed into law??? Gavin just decided this? School House Rock was a lie! Topic of the Week: Biden-Trump Debate Reaction Kyle and Ethan laugh and then cry a little when reacting to the first debate between Trump and Biden. Hate Mail Tony wants to know why it is our mission to spread misinformation and lies in this pandemic apocalyptic time and we also get accused of being "proud boy lovers". Love Mail The people demand more animation and weird Bible stories. Subscriber Portion Kyle and Ethan talk muppets for some reason and answer an email from Holly about Kyle being such a rebel with his non-voting. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 106Seamus Coughlin Talks Shapiro Impressions/Catholicism/Crazy Libertarians
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode, Kyle and Ethan speak with Seamus Coughlin, who is the man behind FreedomToons and also an animator, writer, director, editor, and uncanny Ben Shapiro impersonator. Today, Seamus produces entertaining animated content for a number of outlets, and a good deal of his work can be found on the FreedomToons YouTube channel and the Foundation for Economic Education series Common Sense Soapbox with Seamus Coughlin. They talk about arson being bad, punching the Pope, and being as libertarian as the Catholic church allows. This episode is brought to you by Faithful Counseling. Go to faithfulcounseling.com/babylonbee for 10% off your first month. Topics Discussed Introduction to FreedomToons: Ben Shapiro Thanksgiving Seamus does an excellent Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson impersonation Being as libertarian as the Roman Catholic church allows Roman Catholic teaching on mortal and venial sins (doing drugs, punching Pope) On not doing PopeToons and guarding ourselves from crossing the line The bizarre defense of arson How Seamus got into animation to begin with Being politically homeless Bernie Sanders giving the Establishment what they want Jordan Peterson tells us who would win between Donald Trump and a lobster Churchill wasn't antifascist enough Ethan recommends Jonah Goldberg's The Tyranny of Clichés The need for art in the right-of-center political sphere The creativity crunch that produced Right Wing Agitators Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes Explicitly Christian art vs. implicit themes and bad Christian art Subscriber Portion On being a Russian bot YouTube's relationship with conservative creators Weird google search results Russia and China Abortion so nobody lives in poverty The Rubin Report PragerU is not a real university South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy Snopes attacking The Babylon Bee and the pros and cons of internet fact checkers The Ten Questions To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 105LeBron In Lace/1619 Project/Demons And Ghosts News Show 9.25.2020
This is the Babylon Bee Weekly News Podcast for the week of 9/25/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like the NBA's heartwarming tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Donald Trump ordering all the nation's schools to show the movie 'Top Gun' daily instead of 1619 Project materials, and how 95% of evangelicals don't believe in God, the Bible, or Jesus. Kyle and Ethan also talk to demon and ghost investigator Billy Hallowell about demon possessions, infestations, and what happens when you use that Ouija board. Billy Hallowell's new book is available now: Playing with Fire: A Modern Investigation into Demons, Exorcism, and Ghosts. This episode is brought to you by Faithful Counseling. Go to faithfulcounseling.com/babylonbee for 10% off your first month. Introduction Kyle got kicked off Twitter for being a bot apparently and the guys and report live from Moscow. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes the Dune audiobook Ethan likes Scythian (the band). Weird News Trump or Biden? Peruvian shamans try to predict U.S. election winner Belgian city finds its former mayor's heart in a fountain D.C. police wanted to use a HEAT RAY on protesters! (NTB) German soccer team loses 37-0 after social distancing on the field (NTB) Watch: Man spotted wearing live snake as a mask on city bus Stories of the Week Story 1: NBA Players Wear Special Lace Collars To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg Summary: NBA players are honoring the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week by wearing pretty lace collars just like Notorious RBG used to wear Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer She became known as a leftist icon and dubbed The Notorious RBG by a law student (like the rapper The Notorious B.I.G.) Bill Clinton nominated her to SCOTUS 1993 (Bill was elected with 43% of popular vote in 1992) She became known as a liberal wing of the court and argued for gender equality and women's "rights" Her death is right up on the election, leftist celebrities and media types like Reza Azlan are doubling down on threatening to burn everything down to the ground if the Republicans "ram" through a judge Romney said he would not block the vote and would vote based on the merits of the nominee, and that Trump as President can constitutionally nominate and the Senate can give advice and consent. This comes amid calls of hypocrisy since in 2016 the Republican led Senate blocked a vote on Merrick Garland nominated by Barack Obama. Trump has promised to nominate a woman. Because that's important for some reason. Lefty types on Twitter seem to think this article was real. Really. Story 2 Trump Orders Schools To Replace Anti-American Curriculum With Daily Viewings Of 'Top Gun' Summary: In what many are calling the most popular Executive Order of all time, President Trump has ordered public schools to stop teaching anti-American history classes, replacing them all with daily viewings of Top Gun. Trump issued an executive order to stop federal agencies from using Critical Race Theory in their training materials and two weeks later says he will issue an Executive Order to fight critical race theory and 1619 project style curriculum in local schools across the nation Trump Launches 'Patriotic Education' Commission, Calls 1619 Project 'Ideological Poison' Trump's executive order was met with fierce backlash from commentators, who recognized it as authoritarian; New York Times opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo tweeted, "Kim Jong Un wasn't writing him love letters, it was an instructional manual." Culturally, this is one of the more important things Trump has done Story 3 Survey Finds 95% Of Evangelicals Don't Believe In God, Bible, Jesus Summary: A new study has found that 95% of evangelicals don't believe in God, the Bible, or Jesus. Ligonier released their annual 'State Of Theology" polling data and it's not looking good: What do Americans believe about God, salvation, ethics, and the Bible? Ligonier Ministries and LifeWay Research partnered to find out. 51% of US adults and 32% of evangelicals say "Jesus was a good teacher, but was not God" 63% US Adults/46% of evangelicals believe God accepts the worship of all religions 55%U.S. Adults/56% of evangelicals believe "Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God" 59% US adults/51% evangelicals agree with "The Holy Spirit is a force, but not a personal being." 46% evangelicals agree with "Worshiping alone or with one's family is a valid replacement for regularly attending church. 31% evangelicals agree with, "Churches must provide entertaining worship services if they want to be effective." 24% evangelicals agree with, "Gender identity is a matter of choice." 18% evangelicals agree with, "The Bible's condemnation of homosexual behavior doesn't apply today." Topic of the Week: Billy Hallowell's Playing with Fire: A Modern Investigation into Demons, Exorcism, and Ghosts The w

S1 Ep 104Michael Malice Talks Cuties/Conspiracy Theories/Boomercons
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan welcome back again The Bee's favorite anarchist troll: Michael Malice, the author of Dear Reader and The New Right and host of "YOUR WELCOME" and Night Shade. They discuss the new Netflix movie that sexualizes children, which conspiracy theories are aging better than others, and how the depravity and malfeasance of the corporate press is without cessation. You can get more Michael Malice on YouTube, Twitter and Locals. You can catch Michael's previous appearances on The Babylon Bee Podcast here and here. Topics Discussed The sexualization of children, 'Cuties', and the "enemy class (Mainstream figures defending Cuties) Power elites caught up in the Epstein scandal Conspiracy theories like QAnon, PizzaGate, RussiaGate and all the other Gates Public schools/homeschooling People who collect jars of urine Going back to cassette tapes over CDs The case of Breonna Taylor and the ethics of No Knock style raids Meth in energy drinks and drug cartel leaders not names "El Guapo" Ethan solves the prison overcrowding problem The Crossfit CEO situation We all need the space suits from Aliens with light up helmets going forward Government overreach to do anything to solve a problem and not worry about the unintended consequences Internet search engines and mainstream press making it impossible to find alternative views American propaganda using celebrities like the cringe New York PSA Jim Gaffigan's twitter rant about Trump Donating to Biden's campaign for the comedy Conservatives, libertarians, conservatarians, and the essence of the boomercon Subscriber Portion George W Bush was not a Jr. Anarchist cliches Underground libertarian parties Why did Christ have to die? "Losers and suckers" of World War I? Edibles Going to war against Japan in World War II Appealing to standards of objective morality The NEW Ten Questions and they're a bit more intense Also mentioned: Our Birthday Present To Michael Malice. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 103Puppy Murder/Threatening Riots/Weird Bible Stories News Show 9.18.2020
This is the Babylon Bee Weekly News Podcast for the week of 9/18/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like how Netflix is putting out films to show how bad something is by having actors do that thing, Democrats are threatening chaos and death if they don't get their way in November, and a woman is marrying a tree. Kyle and Ethan do a rundown of the most weird stories of the Bible and come up with great band names like Stabbing Eglon. Introduction Welcome to The Babylon Bee, the only podcast on the internet where two pasty white guys tell you what they think about politics. Kyle has a church visit horror story. Stuff That's Good Kyle LOVES They Shall Not Grow Old - 2018 documentary by Peter Jackson featuring restored and colorized footage of World War I. No narrator, no framing, no commentary, just audio of actual World War I vets over the footage. Very few historical details, just the soldiers' experiences. An incredibly moving film. Ethan likes Norm MacDonald's Based On a True Story Audiobook. BEARS WANT TO KILL YOU IS BACK Weird News Zoo's sloths appear to kiss on camera in first encounter Watch: Bear nudges Massachusetts man napping by backyard pool Man beats his own record after sitting in tub of ice for over two hours Man breaks into home and poops in dishwasher 'Tropical' bird turns out to be a seagull someone dyed electric blue Mum-of-two who married a tree celebrates their first wedding anniversary Virginia man gets permission to be buried in Juicy Fruit-themed casket Stories of the Week New Netflix Movie Actually Murders Puppies To Teach That Murdering Puppies Is Bad Democrats Reveal They Have Planted Dynamite All Around Nation And Will Blow It Up If Biden Isn't Elected Summary: Democrats are offering their most persuasive case yet for Biden's election claiming that 'A Vote for Trump is a vote for more violence'. They said if Biden is not elected president they will detonate a series of explosives and millions will die. From Shadi Hamid at the Atlantic "A loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because Trump will destroy America (he can't), but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles that cities including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle have seen in recent months. For this reason, strictly law-and-order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning—even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him." Academy Strips 'Schindler's List' Of Best Picture Award Due To Lack Of Diversity Summary: Schindler's List is considered to be one of the greatest films about the holocaust and man's ability to do good in the midst of evil-- well until now. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently ruled that films without representation from LGBTQ+ characters, people of color, and other oppressed groups would not be eligible to win Oscars. Sorry Schindler's List! According to The Academy's new Best Picture rules—which go into full effect in 2024—films must meet at least two of four new standards that stipulate roles both onscreen and behind the scenes be filled by people from underrepresented groups, including race, women, LGBTQ and people with cognitive or physical disabilities, including the deaf and hard of hearing. Who says they decide what the best picture is? "You can't be the best unless you follow our rules" sounds like playground talk. Among the critics was actress Kirstie Alley, who didn't mince words: "The new RULES to qualify for 'best picture' are dictatorial…anti-artist…Hollywood you're swinging so far left you're bumping into your own a**." It's almost as if the racists are suggesting the criteria for best picture should be that it was a picture and it was the best one. Movies are one of the great ways to see into another culture and understand them better. Cultures should get their own films. Topic of the Week: Weird Bible Stories There are a ton of beautiful, inspiring stories in the Bible. We all know about those ones. But there's also a lot of weird stuff. Some nasty stuff too. The Bible shows us a true picture of reality, including the sad and horrific stuff, as well as the bizarre stuff no one can explain. Why do you think we shy away from telling these stories? Why do you think they're in the Bible? Jael and the Tent stake (Judges 4:9-22) Elisha and the she-bears (2 Kings 2:23-24) Balam's talking donkey (Numbers 22:21-39) Stabbing Eglon (Judges 3:12-30) Ezekiel baking bread over poo (Ezekiel 4:9) God tells prophet Hosea to marry the prostitute Gomer (Hosea 1) Nebuchadnezzar cursed to eat grass for 7 years (Daniel 4) Elijah mocking the prophets of Ba'al- "Maybe your god is on the toilet!" (1 Kings 18) Guy who fell asleep during a sermon and fell out the window (Acts 20:7-12) Actually did a Bee article about this Paul resurrected him! Jesus

S1 Ep 102Sam Sorbo Talks Home Education/15-Passenger Vans and Denim Jumpers/Public School Failures
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode, Kyle and Ethan talk to Sam Sorbo, who is a major advocate for home education in a time when many people are starting to look at it as an alternative in an age of virtual schooling, pandemic lockdowns, and kindergartners doing 2 hour zoom meetings. Her books include They're Your Kids: An Inspirational Journey From Self- Doubter To Home School Advocate and Teach From Love: A School Year Devotional For Families. Her new book, with her husband Kevin, is True Faith: Embracing Adversity to Live in God's Light. She is also the host of The Sam Sorbo Podcast. Topics Discussed Public schools not serving our kids Virtual schooling and pandemic lockdowns Parents ceding authority to the school Children lecturing parents The purpose of education Education as daycare School doesn't take 7-½ hours a day What about college? Does college tuition make sense? Teachers concerned about parents getting in the way with their "racism" and backwards views Aren't homeschoolers weird? Bullies teaching kids not to bully and in our culture nowadays bullying seems to be fine anyway Common core math and the 1619 Project "Homeschooling is not 'school at home.' It is the education of your child. They are two different beasts." To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 101Anonymous Sources/Demon Bread/Weird Christian Videos News Show 9.11.2020
This is The Babylon Bee Weekly News Show for the week of 9/11/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like California's progressive green energy grid leading the nation in brownouts, anonymous sources totally confirming that Trump punched a baby, and a man blowing up his house in an attempt to swat a fly. Kyle and Ethan also dig into the video archives to find really weird videos from Christian music and educational programming to talk about how weird they are. For example, why is that loaf of bread talking to us? Intro Kyle and Ethan discuss September 11 and Frank J. Fleming's Superego: Fathom Audible release. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes the video game Fall Guys. Ethan likes a Youtube Channel called Corridor Crew. Weird News Beer made with whale testicle and sheep dung among exhibits at 'disgusting' booze museum The Swedish museum says people can be "very desperate to get drunk" and in such a situation become "quite inventive" Other gross brews: wine fermented in a prison toilet, a spit-fermented cornmeal beer from Peru, a Ugandan gin made from fermented bananas, and an ancient Korean beverage fermented from children's faeces and rice, which was thought to be medicinal in the past. There is also a strong Scottish brew served from the mouth of a taxidermied squirrel. Anheuser-Busch's non-alcoholic 'Dog Brew' quickly sells out Why not feed the dogs the whale testicle beer Doctors pull 4ft snake from woman's throat after it slithered in as she slept Doctors remove 15lb ball of hair from teenager's stomach Residents rescue donkey with plastic chair stuck around its head Goat hops into deputy's car, chews on civil papers, head butts officer Man, 80, blows up his kitchen while trying to swat a fly Stories of the Week Governor Newsom Claims Rolling Blackouts Are To Show Support For Black Lives Matter Summary: California has been experiencing blackouts across the state. While many thought the blackouts were due to poor planning and unrealistic green energy requirements, Governor Gavin Newsom clarified that he ordered the blackouts as a powerful display supporting BLM. CA passed AB-32 in 2006 which basically says the state should be half green energy by 2025. CA currently is about 30% powered by wind and solar (mostly solar) During heatwaves there is no wind, and at night there is no sun, so at night, CA loses nearly 30% of its energy. SCIENCE! 'Humans Are Basically Good,' Says Man Who Has Never Met A 3-Year-Old Summary: Local man Chad Bruner says he believes all humans are born good, that altruism is man's natural state, and that it is society and parenting that corrupts them. Incidentally, Bruner had no younger siblings, no kids of his own, not even any nephews or nieces or even some neighbor kids. When asked 'Have you ever even met a three year old once in your life?" he answered no. Anonymous White House Source Claims Trump Punched A Baby Summary: According to an anonymous source in the White House, President Trump shocked aides and other staffers last year when he lost his temper and punched a baby in the face. The Atlantic published a piece saying that Trump called the dead soldiers in a war "losers." When [John] McCain died, in August 2018, Trump told his senior staff, according to three sources with direct knowledge of this event, 'We're not going to support that loser's funeral,' and he became furious, according to witnesses, when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. 'What the f--- are we doing that for? Guy was a f---ing loser,' the president told aides." Trump and many from the White House staff have forcibly denied the allegations published in The Atlantic on Thursday, alleging, according to four unnamed sources, that the president referred to dead soldiers buried at the Aisne-Marne American cemetery near Paris as "suckers" and that the land was "filled with losers" during his visit to France in 2018. People present came out and said it didn't happen, including our favorite walrus, John Bolton. Topic of the Week The Babylon Bee Writers React to Weird Christian Videos Jesus is a Friend of Mine Third Eagle of the Apocalypse The Renewed Mind Is The Key Carman - A Witch's Invitation Creepy bread loaf at minute 1:50 Hate Mail Young earth creationists send in some hate over our recent interview and some guy wrote us to make sure we knew that Trump did not punch that baby. Subscriber Portion Calvin H. sent in audio and wants to know from Kyle what a libertarian America would look like and the guys tell more stories about crazy stuff that neighbors and family friends have done to them. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 100A.L. Van Den Herik Talks Female Apologists/Riding Dinosaurs/Arguments For Faith
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to A. L. Van Den Herik who is the author of a new book called The Shortest Leap: The Rational Underpinnings of Faith in Jesus. This is a great dialogue about the historical, rational, and scientific arguments for Christianity and how a person decides to become a Christian.They discuss whether a woman can write an apologetics book, break Ethan's brain with Einstein's law of relativity, and trigger Kyle with old earth arguments. Topics Discussed C.S. Lewis and apologetics Women writers on the Christian book scene Allyson's conversion from hardcore atheist & leftist to Christianity Tarantula wasps and rabbits eating their own poop Dinosaurs are cool God's wisdom in how he has revealed Himself Time dilation & light speed travel or how the movie Interstellar maybe backs up the days of the Genesis creation account Were all of her professors at Stanford and Berkley like Kevin Sorbo's character in God's Not Dead? The Noah's Ark story and did people ride dinosaurs? Do people decide to be a Christian through pure reason? "Christians" that don't believe in God Pagan creation, flood and resurrection myths Parenting tips while working on big projects Working for Rush Limbaugh The Ten Questions To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 99Jetpacks Over LAX/Karate Moves In Church/Rejected Bee Headlines News Show 9.4.2020
This is The Babylon Bee News Show for the week of 9/4/2020. This episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast is brought to you by Faithful Counseling.Go to faithfulcounseling.com/babylonbee and get 10% off your first month! In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's big stories like a mysterious man with a jetpack spooking airline pilots approaching LAX, people are being karate chopped in the throat at church now, and wild bears are becoming regular customers at a convenience store. Kyle and Ethan also talk about rejected Babylon Bee headlines that for one reason or another didn't make the cut. Also, Kyle and Ethan got turned into a cartoon and President Trump retweeted The Babylon Bee. Introduction Bee Fan Zander sent us an awesome animation of Kyle's origin story, where Kyle discovered he had super satirical powers, and we moved to a new office! Stuff That's Good Kyle: HOPE Coffee Ethan: The Monster Engine Weird News Not The Bee has hit the ground running and will definitely be our go-to place for harvesting weird real news from now on . A lady got throat-chopped by another lady in a Catholic church service and I have so many questions (NTB) This weird looking sheep just sold for half a million (NTB) 3-year-old gets tangled in kite, literally goes flying 100 feet into the air 2 airline pilots report seeing "a guy in a jetpack" flying next to them above LAX Bears make repeated visits to California convenience store Two large pythons crash through man's kitchen ceiling Stories of the Week Large Turnout At Memorial For Hans Gruber Who Was Thrown From A Building By A Police Officer Summary: A huge crowd turned out Sunday for the memorial service of a victim of extreme police violence, Hans Gruber. Gruber was thrown from the top floor of Nakatomi Plaza by New York police officer John McClane, which many consider one of the most excessive uses of force ever witnessed. McClane was not even in his jurisdiction at the time of the crime. Biden: 'If You Thought The Republican Convention Was Good, Just Wait 'Til We Have Our Convention!' Summary: Joe Biden conceded today that the Republican Convention was "alright," "pretty inspiring, to be honest," and "a real gas." But also said the Democratic Convention is going to be "even better" in a conversation with a department store mannequin. It was unclear how Biden got into the department store, as it's been out of business since 2013. Aides located him after they put out a Silver Alert and coaxed him into a windowless van by writing "FREE HAIR" on the side. They were then able to transport him safely back to the basement for storage until the election. Trump retweeted us 14 Mostly Accurate CNN Headlines From The Last 6,000 Years Of Human History Summary: CNN has been there from the beginning, always running toward the important stories and absolutely never covering them up. We went through CNN's archives and dug up these 14 headlines they published while covering some of the most significant events of human history. They are truly a bastion of truth and honesty in journalism. Topic of the Week Babylon Bee Headlines We Never Published Hate Mail We encounter another Susan out in the wild. Subscriber Portion Kyle and Ethan lead subscribers on a tour our new office, talk about their plans for growth and where things have come, They also read some more of Ethan's and Kyle's very first headlines from the early days. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 98Andrew Klavan Talks Violence In Storytelling/Becoming Christian/Movies Ruining Movies
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Andrew Klavan an author, screenwriter, essayist, and host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. They discuss whether good storytelling requires sex & violence, movies that ruined entire movie genres, and going from secular Jew to Christian at age 49. Kyle and Ethan pitch their best movie remake ideas and they talk shop with a fellow satirist. Topics Discussed Edgar Awards are ugly Writing scripts for Hollywood Going full skinhead and entering conservative media Ruining a perfectly good headline [SATIRE] A secular Jew becoming a Christian at age 49 Kyle and Ethan pitch movie ideas to Klavan that are in dire need of a remake Movies that ruined movies On the necessity of putting sex, cursing & violence in stories Stephen King's twitter feed Behind-the-scenes Ben Shapiro stories Church shopping during lockdown Andrew judges some our subscriber satirical headline pitches The Ten Questions

S1 Ep 97Jerry Falwell Jr./Netflix Pervs/Top 10 Comedies News Show 8.28.2020
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's big stories like the news surrounding Jerry Falwell Jr., Netflix trying to normalize pedophilia before celebrities get outed by Ghislaine Maxwell, and how flatulence during lockdown may be leading to a rise in elder abuse. They also do a rundown of their top ten comedy movies of all time, read some hate mail, and talk about infant baptism and lame church websites. Intro We are in The Babylon Bee Autonomous Zone and Ethan has a milestone birthday today! Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Legend of Korra. Ethan likes the Richard Jewell movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Weird News Florida woman arrested after beating her father for his flatulence Colombian authorities on Tuesday arrested two Florida fugitives who are accused of selling toxic bleach as a fake coronavirus cure. Jerry Falwell Jr. officially resigns as Liberty University president, university confirms Woman, 21, posted for sale as joke wasn't funny, say RCMP in B.C. Neighbour's note demands mum limits toddler's time outside as he annoys her dogs Netherlands fights 'wild peeing' with hemp-filled public urinals Bear wanders into California grocery store, steals bag of chips Stealthy thieves steal 330-pound safe from ninja museum Stories of the Week Story 1 Hollywood Elites Rush To Normalize Pedophilia Before They're All Outed By Ghislaine Maxwell Summary: With Epstein's infamous assistant Ghislaine Maxwell awaiting trial and testimony in prison, many celebrities, politicians, and entertainment industry elites are rushing to make pedophilia generally acceptable before they're outed as patrons of Epstein's notorious island. Story 2 California Ends Exploitation Of Workers For Good By Banning All Jobs Summary: California has claimed victory over the horrible abuse and exploitation of workers at the hands of evil employers with a new bill, AB666, which will make it a crime to work for a living. Story 3 Gen Xers Decide To Split Off From Rest Of Society And Form A Utopia That's All Relaxed And Cool And, You Know, Whatever Summary: After years being stuck between the lame boomers and the extra millennials, Generation X has finally decided to do the sensible thing and split off from the rest of society and make a utopia that will be all relaxed and chill and not get worked up over everything. Topic of the Week Kyle and Ethan talk about their Top 10 Comedy Movies Of All Time Hate Mail We encounter a Susan and somebody keeps commenting on the podcast telling us to quit podcasting and go back to being funny. Subscriber Portion Mailbag: Kyle, Ethan, and Producer Dan answer an audio question from subscriber Clarence Thomas Aquinas about infant baptism. He says he only listens to ⅔ of the episodes though. Kyle and Ethan also tackle a question about a church's online presence. Also Mentioned: The R.C. Sproul vs. John MacArthur debate on infant baptism.

S1 Ep 96Doctor David Fisher On Surviving COVID/Masks/Keeping Mom Out Of A Nursing Home
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Dr. David Fisher, one of The Babylon Bee's longest-tenured writers going back to the Adam Ford days when The Bee was still funny. David Fisher is a physician with Doctors Making Housecalls in Durham, NC and is board certified in family medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care. He is the author of How to Keep Mom (and Yourself) Out of a Nursing Home: Seven Keys to Keeping Your Independence. They talk about the politics and science of COVID, the myths and censorship surrounding a certain medicine that shall not be named, and how to exercise your fart holders. Topics Discussed Is COVID a hoax? Do masks do anything? What is the deal with the drug that can't be named (the H word)? Doc is recovering from COVID Any thoughts on that video of "medical doctors" that is going around? Banned by Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube Health impacts of the lockdown Visiting loved ones in the hospital How to keep your mom and yourself out of a nursing home Laughter is good medicine Subscriber Portion "Doc Savage" answers The Babylon Bee subscriber questions that were submitted to us and not screened at all. Also mentioned: Archaeologists Discover Prophet Daniel's Weight Loss Diary Report: Baptists' Impressive Life Expectancy Linked To Casserole Consumption Church Service Canceled After Guitar Cable Identifies As Female Joel Osteen Launches Line Of Pastoral Wear: 'Sheep's Clothing'

S1 Ep 95Twitter-Gate/Trump Stamps/Students For Life News Show 8.21.2020
This is The Babylon Bee Weekly News Show for the week of 8/21/2020. Watch or listen to this episode on our podcast page, where subscribers can find full length episodes, or over on our YouTube channel. Subscribe using your favorite podcast platform here. In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like Twitter "accidentally" suspending the Babylon Bee for the web's darkest 90 minutes, the humble Postal Service being the focus of all the nation's fire and fury, and how students got arrested for the peaceful protest with sidewalk chalk outside a Planned Parenthood. Kristan Hawkins, President for Students For Life, talks to The Babylon Bee and silliness ensues. Show Outline Introduction Stuff That's Good Kyle likes The Peanut Butter Falcon. Ethan likes: The Last Narc on Amazon Prime. Weird News Mum's disbelief after returning home to find naughty puppy had eaten her savings Beer company accidentally names itself after pubic hair Factory malfunction causes chocolate rain in Switzerland Cow surprises beach-goers by emerging from the sea Newlyweds shamed for wedding cake that looks like 'burnt mutilated cow flesh' Woman catches Amazon driver mid-squat pooing in her garden Stories of the Week Story 1 Twitter Apologizes After Intern Accidentally Sets Coffee On 'Destroy All Conservatives' Button Summary: A large number of conservative and satirical Twitter accounts that criticize the left were shut down yesterday in what CEO Jack Dorsey says was, "a totally honest mistake." Dorsey claims an intern set their coffee on a button labeled, 'Destroy All Conservatives,' which is located in the commons area near the coffee machine and easy to miss if you're not paying attention. A growing trend of non-woke satirists getting suspended like Titania McGrath and others. The Babylon Bee twitter account was down for 90 minutes. Kyle and Dan had to verify their accounts to log back in. Twitter says they are sorry: Meanwhile, "Drag Queen Story Hour" posts tweet deemed pedophilic, locks account after pushback This only seems to be happening in one direction against non-leftists or the non-woke Story 2 Brilliant Trump Puts Himself On All Postage Stamps, Forcing Democrats To Push For Abolishing USPS Summary: Sources are reporting that Trump has dealt a killer blow in his ongoing war against his sworn enemy, the United States Postal Service. In a move of sheer, mind-blowing brilliance, Trump directed the Post Office to put his face on every single stamp, forcing the Democrats to reverse course and abolish the institution once and for all. Story 3 Oops! Public School Teacher Forgets To Remove Antifa Mask Before Logging On For Class Summary: Parents are raising concerns after a teacher opened her Monday morning online class in full Antifa riot gear. According to witnesses, Willow Maven, a local first-grade teacher and prolific scarf knitter, began teaching her online class, not realizing she was still wearing a black ski mask and a leather jacket emblazoned with an Antifa logo. Prophecy fulfilled A thread where teachers talk about their concern over parents being able to listen in to what they actually teach kids Topic of the Week Kyle and Ethan talk to Kristan Hawkins who is the president for the nation's largest youth pro-life organization: Students For Life. Hate Mail We get some hate from someone who seems to think we are mocking John MacArthur. Subscriber Portion Kyle and Ethan continue their conversation with Kristen Hawkins and get into the stuff they couldn't say in front of the paywall. Crazy stories, many more Flowerbeds, and the Ten Questions. Sorry, freeloaders! To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 94Phil Johnson Talks Grace Community Church's "Peaceful Protest"/Wokeness/John MacArthur's Emoji Game
In this episode, Kyle and Ethan talk to Phil Johnson who is the executive director of Grace to You. He has been closely associated with John MacArthur since 1981 and edits most of Pastor MacArthur's major books. Phil also founded several popular websites, including The Spurgeon Archive, The Hall of Church History, and the Pyromaniacs blog. He is an ordained elder and pastor at Grace Community Church, which is in the news recently for its decision to meet on the Lord's Day for worship in defiance of California orders to socially distance. Topics Discussed Grace Community Church deciding to meet on Sunday in a "peaceful protest" Response to critics of opening the church Pot is essential, church is not Does John MacArthur read The Babylon Bee? Emoji game is strong for J-Mac Gavin Newsom and his nefarious schemes Spurgeon and smoking a good cigar to the glory of God Baptists hate alcohol though The emergent church, wokeness, and the Young, Restless, Reformed Subscriber Portion Inside scoop on John MacArthur including several stories that are unbelievable like getting into an altercation with a cultist and driving over to a house to stop an adulterous act Kyle dropping out of The Master's College Charismatic chaos and how people keep rushing the stage at GCC. The Ten Questions! Also mentioned: Phil Johnson gave a message exploring the history of "Calvinism" Also: Phil Johnson's Po-Motivators. To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 93VP Kamala/Atheist Arguments/Bats and Boars News Show 8.14.2020
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's biggest stories like Biden picking Kamala Harris as his running mate, irrefutable atheist arguments that will have you running out to buy a sophisticated trilby hat, and how bored boars and bats are attacking naked Germans and libertarians. This episode is brought to you by The Compromised Church by Frederick A. Herschelman. Exploring issues like the prosperity gospel, the entertainment-centered, seeker-sensitive church, and the importance of lay believers and pastors alike remaining biblically faithful in a time when we're being pressured to compromise our beliefs, The Compromised Church is a timely exposé of the complacency in American Christianity today. Show Outline Introduction Stuff That's Good Kyle likes HBO's Chernobyl. Ethan likes Jubilee - Middle Ground on YouTube. Weird News Naked German man chases down feral hog that stole his laptop World's last Blockbuster video store listed on Airbnb Wild boar leads police on hours-long chase through city Researchers teaching robots to write a stage play in Czech Republic Domino's New Zealand pulls promotion giving free pizzas to 'Karens' Australian pub bans emus for 'bad behavior' Libertarian Presidential Nominee Jo Jorgensen Bitten by Bat | Time Woman who gouged out eyes while on meth receives prosthetic eyeballs Stories of the Week Story 1 Chicago Mayor Drives Past Looters To Arrest 7-Year-Old Having A Birthday Party Summary: The mayor of Chicago made headlines this week when she heroically drove her car toward a group of pillaging looters, then swerved past them to arrest a 7-year old having a birthday party. Story 2 Biden Campaign Warns That For Debate Biden Will Need A Mask That Completely Conceals His Face And He Might Sound Different Summary: The Biden Campaign has said they are open to debating Donald Trump however they have warned the press that Joe Biden will need to wear a mask that completely conceals his face and that his voice might sound different Story 3 10 Irrefutable Atheist Arguments That Will Explode Your Feeble Christian Brain Summary: Go ahead and order that fedora or trilby. Topic of the Week Kamala Harris chosen as Joe Biden's running mate RIP Kamala was trending on Twitter Whats the point of a VP anyway? What the left said about her then vs now Tulsi Gabbard torpedoed her on her criminal justice record What Kamala said about Joe Biden vs now Kamala Harris gun ownership Kamala Harris on abortion Hate Mail We get a very confusing message leading us to wonder who at the Democratic National Committee runs the Department of Approved Jokes. Subscriber Portion Mailbag! We get a video question from our buddy Cameron! To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 92Steve Reiter Talks Loved Ones Dying Alone/Arbitrary Lockdown Rules/Reclaiming Our Human Dignity
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to good friend of The Babylon Bee: Steve Reiter. Steve is the host of the Holy Smokes Podcast, which is about a friendship movement of cigar smoking Christians. Steve and his sons were kept apart from his sick wife for several weeks due to the inhumane policy of no visitors whatsoever for hospitalized patients during the pandemic. Steve's wife ended up dying alone. Since then, Steve has founded the Never Alone Project to pass legislation to make sure this doesn't happen again to anyone else ever again. Warning: this episode is a hard story to hear, but, Kyle, Ethan, and Steve are able to find joy and laughter in their fellowship together despite hard times. Read Steve's full story in this piece on The Federalist. In addition to checking out the Never Alone Project, there's a Change.org petition that you can sign. Topics Discussed Steve tells the story of his wife's health and long stay in the hospital alone due to arbitrary rules Our humanity being being both physical and spiritual Steve's efforts in Colorado on a bill to force the issue of at least one screened visitor per day The failure of government and hospital administration at every step leading up to this Steve's advice for anyone stuck in this situation Steve is the host of Holy Smokes Podcast, so he talks a bit about that Steve worked for Dr. James Dobson at Focus On The Family and Ethan seems to have him confused for someone else The Ten Questions

S1 Ep 91That Story Show Crossover! Zombies From Jesus/Gas In Church/Defending Skeletons
In this special crossover episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan welcome the guys from That Story Show: James Kennison and John Steinklauber! This episode is filled with stories about misplacing children, skeletons, bombs, zombies from Jesus, casting out demons, and the wacky things that 4-year-olds do. In the subscriber portion, we finally get Ethan's disgusting pizza story and read some of our own subscriber submissions! Stories Discussed 4 year old antics Christians that aren't being a good witness on the road with their massive JESUS bumper stickers There are some things the GOODWILL guys will NOT take When zombies interrupt worship and romance Autobot transforming piano tuners An Innocent bomb threat In defence of skeletons Cookie Jerky The quarterly casting out of the demons What's wrong with The Smurfs? Sandy Patty Farting in church Subscriber Portion Ethan's disgusting pizza story The Babylon Bee Subscriber submissions The Ten Questions!

S1 Ep 90Brett & Erin Kunkle Talk Equipping The Next Generation/Youth Ministry Antics/Crushing Monks
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to Brett and Erin Kunkle who founded and lead MAVEN, which is an organization that exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ. They talk about how we need to update the flannelgraphs, prompt the next generation to ask why they believe what they believe, and help youth groups equip the next generation with worldview knowledge, apologetics, and deep theology. They also discuss discernment in how G-rated movies are probably rotting your kid's brain with cultural messages, screen time restrictions, and wacky youth group games and pranks that would probably land you in court nowadays. There's also sage marriage advice from Erin in the subscriber portion. Topics Discussed Brett and Erin Kunkle lead up a group called MAVEN which is a movement of students who know truth, pursue goodness and create beauty. Flannelgraphs being updated for modern sunday school lessons Parenting and youth ministry challenges Teaching the Why and not just the What Catechisms and deepening our relationship with God just be knowing who He is Prompting the "Why?" questions as a parent, instead of waiting for them Teaching kids to crush the monks with facts and logic Blue-haired ladies on TikTok indoctrinating teenagers Screen time restrictions for kids Youth groups can be more than pizza and games Intergenerational church experiences Eating bugs for the kingdom and handling dead animals G-rated movies are rotting your kid's brains Narrating life for your kids to help them see what's going on around them Subscriber Portion Holy Smokes Marrying a single parent with kids The Ten Questions

S1 Ep 89Doug TenNapel Guest-hosts! Christian Art In Hollywood / Mythical Riots / Gavin the Grinch - News Show 7.31.2020
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan are joined by good friend Doug TenNapel to talk about the week's big stories like John MacArthur standing up to the real-life grinch, the government favoring Caesar's palace over Calvary Chapel, and conservatives being gaslit to believe in the riots being real. Doug TenNapel also talks about Christian art in Hollywood. This episode might be our most flower-bedded yet. In the subscriber portion, Kyle, Ethan, and Doug spill on behind-the-scenes stuff writing and showrunning VeggieTales, take a question from a subscriber on Christians using discernment on what media to enjoy, and have Doug undergo the ten questions!

S1 Ep 88Interview Show: Dan Crenshaw Talks Eyepatches/Mob Democracy/Unscientific Lockdowns
Kyle and Ethan talk to Representative Dan Crenshaw. He is the representative for Texas' second congressional district and the author of Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage. They discuss the importance of knowing a good eyepatch guy, the difference between a democracy and a republic, and try to decide what was more chaotic: Afghanistan or CHAZ? Watch or listen to this episode on our podcast page, where subscribers can find full length episodes, or over on our YouTube channel. Subscribe using your favorite podcast platform here. Don't forget to pre-order the new Babylon Bee coffee table book! Topics Discussed Glass eyes bearing secret symbols Knowing a good eye patch guy Cancel culture Democracy Vs Republic Democrats, Republicans, and tribalistic partisanship CHAZ or Afghanistan The politicization of COVID-19 Federal Secret Police on American streets? The Ten Questions To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 87News Show: Mask Pollution/Nick Cannon/Bee Prophecies Fulfilled
This is The Babylon Bee Weekly News Show for the week of 7/24/2020. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's big stories like Nick Cannon informing us all about the rotten savage mountain people in our midst, humanity deciding producing masks was more important than sustaining the earth, and all of the times the Babylon Bee has successfully predicted the future through its prophetic ministry. In the subscriber portion, Kyle and Ethan discover a way to eat an entire civilization in a few bites and answer voicemails from subscribers. Show Outline Introduction Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Pandemic Hot Zone. Ethan likes Jason Brubaker. Also mentioned: Ethan Nicolle, Jason Brubaker and Doug TenNapel once did a podcast. Weird News Swarm of flying ants spreads across London, Kent and Sussex Man unearths 'witch bottle' with teeth inside - but is urged to 'put it back' Frustrated in lockdown? Send your scream to Iceland. Wait, what? Man throws 19 chopsticks into archery target for\Guinness record Sea gull rescued with face mask wrapped around legs Stories of the Week Story 1 Walmart Now Requires All Shoppers To Wear Pants Summary: In a move that's being called "unprecedented tyranny," Walmart is now requiring all shoppers to wear pants in their stores. But really, Walmart told everyone to wear masks in their stores. Shout out to Jimmy Humphrey for submitting the headline idea Story 2 Nick Cannon Quits 'Masked Singer': 'I Need To See A Person's Skin Color Before I Pass Judgment' Summary: Nick Cannon has stepped down from his position as host of The Masked Singer, saying he doesn't know how to judge someone's singing voice without first seeing the color of their skin. The move comes just days after Cannon totally owned white people on his podcast, calling them "sick animals," and "rotten little mountain people." Hey, that last part is mostly true! Cannon was fired by ViacomCBS for crazy anti-white, anti-semitic comments. Though he was not fired by Masked Singer. Adam Ford seems to have started the controversy with this tweet: https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/1283087941271801861 Story 3 10 Safety Tips For Going Back To Church Topic of the Week Fulfilled Babylon Bee Prophecies Hate Mail We are serenaded by someone who doesn't like what we do. Give his video some likes and positive comments. The world would be a better place if people who disagreed with each other created stuff instead of destroying stuff. Subscriber Portion: Mailbag and CHIRPS A subscriber mailed The Bee some bug chips. And two other subscribers sent The Bee audio questions, so Kyle and Ethan dive into the mailbag! To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 86Kira Davis talks White Guilt, JK Rowling, and COVID Christianity
This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show. Kyle and Ethan welcome back Kira Davis! They discuss how white people are making black people feel awkward in an effort to stamp out racism, J.K. Rowling and the TERF wars, and how the rules of Quidditch make no sense to our resident expert on games, Kyle Mann. Topics Discussed White people making black people feel awkward to stamp out racism Accepting doughnuts from strangers Poisoned Halloween candy Black people who support Donald Trump COVID lockdowns and civil disobedience Churches trying to navigate the lockdowns and being a voice in the community The Walking Dead and creepy horror movies J.K. Rowling and TERF wars Sexuality, social contagion, and making life-changing decisions at age 12 Looking for identity in brands and labels Old tweets coming back to haunt people The rules of Quidditch don't make sense to Kyle Enjoying entertainment without agreeing with all of the creator's personal ideologies Christians in Hollywood and Kira's unhealthy obsession with celebrity culture Subscriber Portion The Ten Questions Kira tells an insane story involving a spider in her garage To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 85Bully Culture, Bible Adventures, and Boogaloo Skunks
This is the Babylon Bee weekly news podcast special episode for 7/17/2020. In this week's episode of the Babylon Bee podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's big stories like Christian knockoffs of secular products being bad, people on the right side of history who are on the wrong side of God, boogaloo skunks, and how are current culture is just the free market of people's fists meeting other people's faces. Show Outline Introduction Welcome to The Babylon Bee podcast with your hosts Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicolle, the two funnymen behind a lot of the stuff you read on The Babylon Bee. They're not as funny here as they are when they write satire, so get used to disappointment. Stuff That's Good Stuff that's good update: Kyle is finishing up Avatar The Last Airbender and it's amazing Kyle likes Journey to the Center of the Earth Ethan likes Blood Father Weird News Dog left 'looking like alpaca' after biting pet groomer halfway through haircut Shopper spotted using paper bag as face covering - and others have used knickers Family found man declared 'dead' still alive after breaking into hospital morgue Pizza Shop Owner Thwarts Robbery By Tossing Pie At Suspect Sealed copy of 'Super Mario Bros.' auctioned for a record $114,000 Mysterious 'vampire-slaying kit' including pistol and knife up for auction Stories of the Week Story 1 Man On Right Side Of History Surprised To Find He Still Went To Hell Summary: A local progressive was very careful to only advocate for the most progressive politics and be an activist for all the popular new social justice causes. So, since he was so clearly on the right side of history, he was very surprised to find after he died that he still went to hell. Story 2 Op-Ed: There's No Such Thing As Bully Culture, It's Just My Fist's Free Market Response To Your Stupid Face, Dweeb Summary: Local lunch money thief and wedgie specialist Biff O'Doyle wrote in a recent op-ed that Bully Culture is not real -quote- 'It's just my fist's free-market response to your stupid face, dweeb' -end quote tory 3 Here's What's Problematic With Each Of The NFL's 32 Team Names Well, the PC police have come for the Redskins. But we at The Babylon Bee feel they did not go far enough. There is white supremacy and racism everywhere in the NFL, with every single team in the league having some kind of offensive stereotype in their name. We hereby call on every team in the league to change their name for the following reasons. Topic of the Week Why is Christian stuff so bad? Bee article: If You Like Secular Things, Try These Christian Alternatives That Are Almost As Good Why is Christian stuff so bad? Hate Mail We get a reponse to a sponsored newsletter blast speaking out against antifa and get accused of being Christo-fascists. Subscriber Portion Kyle and Ethan dive into the mailbag! Bonus weird news filled with projectile penguin poop Also mentioned: Ethan Nicolle's awesome animated music video Lunaractive-Mission To The Moon To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 84The Woke Cult: The James Lindsay Interview
This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show. In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk to James Lindsay, one of the actors involved with the Greivance Study Papers affair in which they got a bunch of peer-reviewed papers published by inserting woke language into stuff they just made up. They talk about the cult of wokeness, its ideology and its tactics, and also about how the landscape of Christianity is kind of like Narnia to an atheist. Lindsay's latest book with Helen Pluckrose is Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody and is available for pre-order. Topics Discussed The State of academia and the workplace White fragility Brown fragility White neurosis and the 'racial cray-cray' Minoritized Building a bullet train to the bad old times Woke-ism as a new or replacement religion and its parallels with cults NewDiscourses.com and James' ever-changing encyclopedia of work terminology Finding identities that unify everyone in religion (supernaturally) or nationally or in humanity (naturally) vs. fracturing over identity groups that must speak "authentically" or else get cancelled Politically black vs racially black? Why does BLM want to eliminate the western nuclear family? The academic origins of intersectionality, critical theory, etc. Traditional theory and critical theory- the normative vision and seeking out problematics Wokeness from false consciousness Atheists and Christians are friends now? The left eating itself- the fracturing of critical theory and trans/queer theory and post-colonial theory- Subscriber Portion Quizzing James Lindsay on woke terms in his encyclopedia Critical theory meets the church i.e. Emerging Church 2.0 (More institutionally powerful and worse) The Ten Questions To watch or listen to the full podcast, become a subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans.

S1 Ep 83Birthday Party On Mars
This is the Babylon Bee weekly news podcast special episode for 7/10/2020. Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann and Creative Director Ethan Nicolle are joined by The Babylon Bee Senior Writer Frank J. Fleming to talk about the week's big stories. Frank has a new book Superego: Fathom which is a sequel to Superego. They talk about the week's big stories like Kanye West declaring a run for the Presidency, how modern Americans are definitely morally superior to slaveowners from 200 years ago, and why a Russian grandmother was caught smearing poo on playground swings. They also talk about how the rich and the powerful can say whatever they want and then in the subscriber portion talk about all of Frank's problematic writings. Show Outline Introduction Kyle and Ethan come down from their high of celebrating freedom by almost blowing themselves up and letting their kids play with fire. Weird News Driver fights off snake with just a knife and seatbelt while speeding at 76mph Germany goes nuts over sausage vending machines Alligator with missing limbs shows up on Florida family's porch Escaped pigs cause traffic chaos on Virginia highway Cat falls asleep in washing machine and miraculously survives 12-minute cycle Woman, 90, caught smearing 'poo' on children's swings in bizarre protest Stomach-churning footage shows an elderly woman smearing what appears to human faeces on a children's swing she wants removed. Gavin Newsom could do this. Layering the skateparks with excrement. Married woman, 32, used doctored baby scans bought on eBay to fool her 18-year-old lover into thinking he was the father of her child and let his family bring the boy up as one of their own Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Robot Jox. Ethan likes The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Chesterton. Frank likes Hamilton. Stories of the Week Story 1 - Kanye West Seizes Opportunity To Be Most Rational, Coherent Presidential Candidate Summary: Noticing a lack of rational, coherent, sane presidential candidates, Kanye West announced this weekend that he will be running for president. The move surprised everyone who hasn't been paying attention to 2020 at all so far. The real story: Kanye West actually announced his presidential run -- though it's not clear if he can actually still run. The Forbes interview Story 2 - Nation That Kills 3,000 Babies A Day Feels Morally Superior To Slaveowners From 200 Years Ago Summary: Leftists who support killing 3,000 babies a day were trying to virtue-signal but quickly ran into a problem: there's no one alive to whom they can feel morally superior. So, the movement was forced to look to people from 200 years ago to find someone they could somewhat credibly criticize for moral failings: slave owners What is it about humanity that makes us think the sins of other ages are so much worse than the sins of our age? Most people go with the crowd, how do you know you would not? It is like Chesteron's picture of the cad who climbs up to the top of a castle turret then kicks down all ladders that got him there. Real abolitionists who paid the price at the time Story 3 - New App Reminds You To Look Up From Your Phone To Check If Your Kids Are Still Alive Summary: The tech world is abuzz after the announcement of a new smartphone app that could save millions of lives. The new app, called Kid-Alyve, will remind parents to look up from their phones every so often to confirm that their children are still breathing. -Parenting is crazy Topic of the Week Cancel Culture / Harper's Letter Hate Mail LOVE MAIL Subscriber Portion Bonus Frank Stories And The Ten Questions Story 1 Innovative New Process Turns Vegetables into Meat by Feeding Them to Cows Story 2 Superman Criticized for Unrealistic Portrayal of Journalist as Heroic Story 3 Retraction: Those Kids We Accused Of Holding A KKK Rally Were Actually Just Playing Duck, Duck, Goose

S1 Ep 82Christian In Portland: The Drew Dyck Interview
This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show. Editor-in-chief Kyle Man and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk to Drew Dyck about whether criminals are real, being saved from a life of stealing deodorant, and invading Canada. Drew is an acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers and a contributing editor at CTPastors.com, a Christianity Today publication for church leaders. He's the author of Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science, Yawning at Tigers: You Can't Tame God, So Stop Trying, and Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Church…and how to Bring Them Back. Topics Discussed Sending your book ideas to Drew Arguing with people on Twitter about abolishing the police and whether criminals are a thing Spicing up your testimony by stealing deodorant Milk in a bag The weirdest thing about Canada Portland is stuck in the 90s/Portlandia On the difference between a beat poet and a slam poet When bookstores were a thing Christian stores bestselling "Jesus junk" Where ANTIFA will set up their gulags God isn't safe but he's good, like Aslan Self-control in everything but buying Drew's books Mental illness in the church Remembering the Emerging Church movement What's better: fur babies or actual babies Writers retreats never help On not psychologizing your opponents The Ten Questions To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 81The Suicide Of Thought
This is the Babylon Bee weekly news podcast special episode for 7/3/2020. This episode is brought to you by Faithful Counseling. Bee listeners get 10% off! In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk about the week's big stories like a man being fined £450 for provocative intestinal wind, the fallen world we live in where The Princess Bride is possibly being remade, and how doctors are recommending we keep opening up and closing the economy until we all go insane. In the main topic, they read G.K. Chesterton's ideas on the suicide of thought. In the subscriber portion, Kyle and Ethan dive in into the mail bag, talk about their years in ministry, and bring in producer Dan so that they all can answer the ten questions. Show Outline Introduction Kyle and Ethan return from the warm, sunny beaches of Florida to churn out another podcast. We have an update on the 'Best of the Bee' book. Weird News Broody mother goose has taken 47 babies under her wing - and they're so cute "This phenomenon is known as a gang brood" Man falls through floor of home, plunges down 30-foot well Pair hired for man's broom sexual fantasy turn up in bedroom at wrong address with machetes In fart news: Man fined £450 for 'provocative' fart in front of police officers Newton's recipe for 'toad vomit lozenges' up for auction Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Dead Cells the video game. Ethan likes WACO on Netflix. Stories of the Week Story 1 Equality At Last: Disney Confirms Winnie The Pooh Will Now Be Voiced By An Actual Bear Summary: In order to ensure that voice actors only portray characters they actually look like, Disney announced this week that Winnie the Pooh will now be voiced by an actual bear. The real story: Several voice actors have stopped voicing characters that are not the same race they are. The Simpsons, Big Mouth, American Dad, Cleveland Show. Story 2 Doctors Recommend Locking Down And Reopening Repeatedly Until Everyone Has Nervous Breakdown Summary: A survey of leading physicians unanimously agreed that the best response to COVID-19 is for the government to lock everything down, then reopen, then lock down again, then reopen again and to just keep doing that until everyone completely loses their minds. Story 3 Merciful God Vows To End Humanity Before 'The Princess Bride' Can Be Remade Summary: Upon rumors of a remake of The Princess Bride, a spokesperson for the Almighty God confirmed that He will end the world in fire before He would ever allow that to happen. Topic of the Week Kyle and Ethan read a portion of G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy on the suicide of thought and discuss its relevance in our times of constant revolutionary agitation. Hate Mail Someone went to home depot and bought a whole bunch of flowerbeds. Subscriber Portion Kyle and Ethan dive into the mail bag, talk about their years in ministry, and have producer Dan join them to answer the ten questions. Subscribers, get to know the Bee boys.

S1 Ep 80Growing Up Hinn: The Costi Hinn Interview
Editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk to Costi Hinn, nephew of notorious faith healer Benny Hinn. After leaving that ministry behind, Costi Hinn is now a pastor at Redeemer Bible Church in Gilbert, Arizona. He is the author of God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel. They talk about Costi's childhood living large like a Kardashian, learning about a different gospel from a pink study bible, and what goes on behind the scenes of a prominent prosperity gospel ministry. Topics Discussed Going straight into the deep end of Calvinism because of a pink MacArthur study bible A day in the life of Benny Hinn- what's it like to have a personal duster? On growing up as a Hinn was a Kardashian lifestyle The prosperity gospel vs the Biblical gospel On batting 0.068 slaying people in the spirit and only "healing" one guy What went on behind the scenes at these healing events? Not raising a hand against the Lord's Anointed, even if they happen to be creeps just claiming to have the anointing On whether prosperity health-and-wealth healers sincerely believe their own message or if they just cashing in On Benny Hinn's occasional "repentance" on the prosperity gospel New wave prosperity preachers and the old generals The Ten Questions See also: Benny Hinn is my uncle, but Prosperity Gospel is not for me A few Babylon Bee articles on Benny Hinn: Benny Hinn Holds Healing Service In Full Hazmat Suit Benny Hinn Loses Control Of Powers, Sends Audience Member Soaring Hundreds Of Feet Into Air Benny Hinn Spends Another Long Day At Children's Hospital Healing Kids Benny Hinn Attempts Jedi Mind Trick On IRS Agents Investigating His Ministry Benny Hinn Miraculously Removes Lump From Woman's Purse Benny Hinn Added To 'Smash Bros.' Roster Benny Hinn Masterfully Knocks Down Audience Members Arranged In Notoriously Difficult 7–10 Split I Honestly Can Not Believe I'm Still Getting Away With This To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 79Cops, Kanye, And Candace With Kira Davis
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle welcome guest host Kira Davis who is editor-at-large at RedState. They talk about the difference between protesting and rioting, some problems Kira sees with the approach of Candace Owens, and how we need to have a reality show where everyone gets stuck in an elevator with someone they hate until we achieve world peace. In the subscriber portion, Kyle, Ethan, and Kira talk about Black Lives Matter (as an organization and as a movement), where peace is found in this world, how Kanye is buying up Wyoming, serial killers, sending kids off to college, and that Trump photo-op with the Bible. Kira can be regularly heard on her podcast Just Listen To Yourself. Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Get a Sneak Peak! Send your emails to [email protected] and maybe we will answer you in our next Mailbag segment! Show Outline Introduction Kyle, Ethan, and Kira talk about the weird "pacman" masks that allow the coronavirus conscious person to eat out at their favorite restaurant and how Kyle has never seen a Tarantino movie. Main Topics Kira Davis has some disagreements with Candace Owens. Kira Davis responds to Ethan's 13 year old daughter on issues of social justice, race, and protests. Paid-subscriber portion Black Lives Matter Trump Photo Op Also mentioned on the podcast: Just Listen To Yourself With Kira Davis- Episode 37- Black Lives Matter To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 78Civil War, Socialism, And The Simpsons: The Dinesh D'Souza Interview
Kyle and Ethan talk to Dinesh D'Souza. He has been called a far right provocateur and is a filmmaker and the author of several books, most recently United States of Socialism. They talk about socialism, identity politics, and whether or not it's okay to laugh at Apu. Watch or listen to this episode on our podcast page, where subscribers can find full length episodes, or over on our YouTube channel. Subscribe using your favorite podcast platform here. Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Get a Sneak Peak! Topics Discussed Dinesh gives a rundown on the new socialists What's the difference between identity socialism and classic socialism? Socialists abandoning the working class The decline of Christianity in the culture and the rise of a new religion in the Left Virtue signalling versus actual virtue Debating libs vs debating atheists Dinesh's new book and what it's all about Is it okay to laugh at Apu? Defending morphing Abraham Lincoln's face into Donald Trump's Dating Ann Coulter Paid-subscriber portion The Ten Questions To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 77Flashlights And Duct Tape With Brent Mann
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan celebrate the one year anniversary of the show and welcome Kyle's dad, Brent, for Father's Day. They talk shop about duct tape, flashlights, initialisms, rocket science, and dad hacks. They also dive into the week's news stories. Kyle and Ethan enlighten Brent on what CHAZ or CHOP is, and then discuss Elon Musk's quest to occupy Mars, and an aerospace engineer's perspective on seeing God in creation. Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Get a Sneak Peak! Send your emails to [email protected] and maybe we will answer you in our next Mailbag segment! Show Outline Introduction Today on The Babylon Bee Podcast, we welcome Brent Mann, Kyle's dad. It's Father's Day and we celebrate the Babylon Bee Podcast's one year anniversary! Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ethan likes Rifftrax. Brent likes Columbo. Remember Columbo? Weird News Mum renovating home finds 'clever' tip from previous owner under old wallpaper Florida man fist-fights alligator to save dog Deer runs into Black Lives Matter protest in New Jersey, seriously injuring woman Teen fell into coma after having bubble tea twice a day for a month South Carolina police seek couple accused of holding Pizza Hut manager at gunpoint, stealing Pepsi German police: Petty thief fled supermarket, forgot his son Story 1 Trump Enacts Tariffs, Travel Ban On CHAZ Summary: Trump has announced a new set of tariffs and a travel ban on CHAZ, escalating the trade war between the United States and the fledgling nation-state. The real story: An "autonomous zone" or Occupy Protest and sprung up in Seattle complete with warlords, speech codes, segregated gardens, calls for foreign aid from its capitalist neighbors, and brutal community policing tactics. Story 2 Study: Average Father Spends 97% Of Time Running Around House Turning Lights Off Summary: A new study of fatherhood in America found that the average dad spends up to 97% of his time running around the house turning off lights that the rest of the family left on. The real story: Kyle's dad has an ingenious solution to teach your kids to not leave the lights on. Topic of the Week It's Father's Day! Kyle, Ethan, and aerospace engineer Brent (Kyle's Dad) talk about all sorts of stuff like dad jokes, initialisms and acronyms, Brent's work on the Space Shuttle program, Elon Musk's amazing space feats, and a few of Brent's fatherly quirks like how he carries a really old cell phone in a ziplock bag. Hate Mail A recent article made some very overworked and stressed booksellers very angry. Subscriber Portion Ethan and Brent talk bladder blabber when Kyle leaves the room, and then they continue going through Brent's box of stuff he brought in, and finish by talking about more dad hacks and stories, including the time when Brent acted out a scene from The Bourne Identity to chase down a bicycle thief. Also mentioned on the podcast: Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creator by Hugh Ross To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 76Fly Fornication And Other Puritan Names: The Dustin Benge & Nate Pickowicz Interview
Things get downright puritanical when Kyle and Ethan talk to Nate Pickowicz and Dustin Benge about their new book The American Puritans. Dustin is Provost and lecturer and Union School of Theology and Nate is pastor of Harvest Bible Church. Dustin and Nate talk about the inspiration that they draw today from the lives of these men and women and their religious movement in church history while Kyle and Ethan try to figure out why someone would name their kid 'If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned' and whether it's true that Puritans invented tablecloths to cover up scandalous table legs. Topics Discussed The difference between Puritans and Pilgrims Puritan theology: Are sinners in the hands of an angry God? Myth or fact: Puritan edition Puritans' favorite alcoholic beverage Some church history of the Puritans in England and in America Strange Puritan names like 'Praise-God' and 'Fly Fornication' People walking stark naked through church and cutting off Quaker ears Some of the Puritans highlighted in their new book The American Puritans Kyle and Ethan provoke some baptist answers to The Ten Questions in the Subscriber Portion! To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 75Not All Cops
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk about the biggest stories of the week like how religious gathers and pretending to be protests so they can meet, our recent feud over putting Trump in an AWANA vest, and how all of a sudden defunding the police became a national talking point. Detective Dan from Small Town Dicks joins Kyle and Ethan to talk all about it. In the subscriber portion, subscribers get to listen to Kyle and Ethan continue their conversation with Detective Dan! Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Get a Sneak Peak! Send your emails to [email protected] and maybe we will answer you in our next Mailbag segment! Show Outline Introduction Kyle's dad burns podcasts onto CDs and Ethan diagnoses depression in dads stemming from how children handle blu ray discs. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes O.C. Supertones album For the Glory Ethan likes Mac Smith's Scurry. This News Is Weird Man charged with assault after thrown pickle hits Vermont highway worker Peruvian mayor poses as corpse to avoid arrest for flouting coronavirus lockdown, reports say Ocean Just as Gross as You Thought: Filled with Mucus Doctors remove mobile phone charger from man's bladde Crayola launches skin tone crayons so 'all kids can colour themselves Seagull flies into woman's house and vomits on her kitchen counter Stories of the Week Story 1 Clever Churchgoers Avoid Arrest By Disguising Themselves As Rioters Summary: Many churches still aren't gathering in person but several congregations came up with a clever way to avoid arrest for gathering against government orders: disguising themselves as rioters. The real story: Governments seemed to be going hard after churches and other things deemed non-essential, but anything related to protesting was fine. Originally a satire of how apparently COVID wasn't a concern for anything related to the protest. A thousand medical experts signed an open letter supporting public gathering for protests stating that "white supremacy contributes to COVID and is a lethal public health issue" Churches were/are still fighting to open and trying to comply with lots of extra rules they needed to follow such as limited capacity, masks, no physical contact, some were saying no communion elements, no singing. A prophecy fulfilled. A group of Hasidic youth in NYC put up a George Floyd sign so that they could not be shut down by the cops for their religious gathering. Story 2 Trump Shows Off Completed Awana Vest Summary: President Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are firing Bible photo ops back and forth, as you would expect politicians to be doing at a time like this. But Trump won the contest of Bible knowledge by showing off his completed Awana Sparks vest. The real story: Trump decided to walk across the street from the White House to the Episcopalian church St. John's ("The church of the Presidents") which rioters had set on fire the night before. He did this as a show of resolve against the lawlessness which would lead to the burning of churches. He drew criticism for supposedly using police to drive away protestors with "teargas" for the photo op and for the way he stood in front of the church and held up the Bible like it was a political prop. We decided to poke fun of the pandering-ness and the Bible being used as a prop by Trump and then Pelosi and then Cuomo all suddenly being experts on the Bible in all these weird public events quoting verses and making the Bible agree with their side We put an AWANA vest on Trump, which prompted an email from AWANA communications chief asking us to immediately pull it down as it was "beyond satire" and how they didn't want their vest to be on Donald Trump. They threatened to sue us if we didn't comply. Seth put AWANA on blast on Twitter We learned Monday that they would NOT be pursuing a lawsuit Kyle's Awana stories! Ethan just hated Awana Story 3 Los Angeles Police To Undergo Intensive Socially Conscious Slam Poetry Training Summary: As public demand for comprehensive police reform grows, the LAPD is leading the way by training its officers in socially conscious slam poetry. The Real Story: BLM protests are demanding #DefundThePolice… the details are vague but it sounds like they want to get rid of the police altogether in some instances. Marriane Williamson has a great tweet about the ex-cops starting ISIS. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was publicly mocked and shamed at a protest when he refused to say he would abolish the police.. Here is his walk of shame. "Go Home Jacob!" "Shame! Shame!" The Minneapolis city council just voted 9-3 vowing to DISBAND their city police department and council president Lisa Bender told crowds that these 9 members were "committed to ending the city's relationship with the police force and "to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe." Has this been done anywhere before? Camden,

S1 Ep 74Liberty For Lil' Ones: The Connor Boyack Interview
Kyle and Ethan talk to Connor Boyack! Connor Boyack is president and founder of the Libertas Institute. He is best known for writing the Tuttle Twins series of books, which focus on introducing kids to the ideas of liberty and the free market. Kyle and Ethan talk about weed-smoking Mormons, how many wives a man can have in an anarchist utopia, and pouring libertarian fertilizer on the saplings rather than trying to save the old, diseased statist trees. Topics Discussed What are the Tuttle Twins series of books about What is Libertarianism all about and what on earth is the deal with the Libertarian Party Does a libertarian Mormon smoke weed? Indoctrinating children with foreign ideas like "liberty" and introducing them to books by dead white guys Isn't it a bad idea to teach children about liberty since as parents we want to tell them what to do? How many wives would each man be allowed to have in a libertarian utopia? The polygamy case, where children were taken from their parents, that Connor worked on The ten questions! To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 73The Cheesecake Of Justice
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk about the biggest stories of the week like our cities burning down, the most righteous heroes of the riots, SpaceX scrubbing a launch because of a nosy Karen, and all our politicians suddenly became Bible experts overnight. Be sure to stick around for the main topic where two white guys decide to talk about critical race theory in the church and society, because why not? In the subscriber portion, subscribers get to listen to Kyle and Ethan dive headfirst into the mailbag and talk about even more stories! Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Get a Sneak Peak! Send your emails to [email protected] and maybe we will answer you in our next Mailbag segment! Show Outline Introduction We are out of quarantine and into curfew, but at least we have new swag for the office. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Brave Ollie Possum: the audio book. Ethan likes his own Spotify playlist: Every Song Is Perfect. This News Is Weird 'The bird is free': India 'releases Pakistani pigeon held on spying charges' Knocking on Florida couple's door were two alligators fighting Monkeys attack lab worker, steal COVID-19 blood test samples Turtle crashes through windshield on Georgia highway Scientists say they went 'cuckoo' due to laughing gas from penguin poo Five-year-old pulled over by cops on his way to buy a Lamborghini Stories of the Week Story 1 Powerful: Protesters Spell Out 'Love' With Burning Homes And Businesses Summary: In a powerful display of love and tolerance, peaceful protesters in Minneapolis burned several city blocks so the fire would read "LOVE" from the air. Wow. Such love. Much peace. The real story: Riots have engulfed the country. It seems like overnight COVID-19 disappeared and were replaced with absolute mayhem everywhere. The riots are over the wrongful death of George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer who had his knee on his neck for nine minutes. (We'll discuss more in the main topic.) Top 10 heroes of the riots Somehow Chris Matthews and Chris Hanson both make an appearance Story 2 SpaceX Launch Scrubbed After Local Karen Calls The Cops Summary: SpaceX had tried to launch a rocket but was forced to scrub the launch after a local Karen called the cops, reporting that people were outside doing things and she did not like it. The real story: If ever there were a good time to leave Earth… SpaceX did have a scrubbed launch but then launched for real later in the week. Its module successfully docked with the ISS. Story 3 Trump, Pelosi Face Off In Intense Game Of Bible Jeopardy Topic of the Week Critical Race Theory in the church / racial divides in church culture There have been some strange reactions in the Evangelical world to this whole situation. Some funny/interesting reactions from inside and outside the church: Matt Walsh posted a video of white people kneeling to black people: https://twitter.com/mattwalshblog/status/1267507181689192448? Dean of Union Seminary: "What has alienated America from its very soul, thereby virtually normalizing violence against Black lives? Answer: whiteness itself." (link and soundbyte) NBA Announcer fired for tweeting "All lives matter" (link) CRU (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) is holding segregated prayer meetings (link) NBA reporter cheers on burning down of low income housing but then calls rioters "animals" when they come around his neighborhood. There is a blueprint for racial reconciliation being adopted by many in the evangelical Christian world that seems to come from something called Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory. So what is it? Yearning for justice points us to objective reality in Jesus Christ Hate Mail A man is concerned our story on the Constitution dying from coronavirus may cause confusion. Paid-subscriber portion Mailbag! Kyle and Ethan answer some fair criticism about The Babylon Bee's coverage of Joe Biden. Story 1 Oh No! The Scientist Gavin Newsom Has Been Listening To Is Actually A Bunch Of Raccoons Stuffed In A Lab Coat Summary: Gavin Newsom has been listening to scientists throughout the pandemic, but it turns out the main scientist he was listening to is actually a bunch of raccoons in a lab coat. Sad! Are we not listening to SCIENCE! Anymore now that there are progressive crowds out and about? Story 2 Archaeologists Unearth Galilean Coffee Shop Where Jesus Held Small Group Summary: Archaeologists have found one of the coolest Bible landmarks: the coffee shop in Galilee where Jesus and His disciples would hold their weekly small groups. How would Jesus's small group have been? Small groups: yay or nay? What's wrong with a good old-fashioned Bible study? Where's the coolest place for a small group to hang out? Small group horror stories Subscribers, send us small group stories! To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 72Save The Babies: The Lila Rose Interview
Kyle and Ethan talk to pro-life activist Lila Rose from Live Action about opposition to her organization, politicians gaslighting, and fostering a culture of life. Watch Kyle and Ethan get owned by facts and logic and be told their jokes are bad. You can listen to Lila Rose on her new podcast: The Lila Rose Show! The Lila Rose Show explores questions about relationships, work, health, identity, purpose, and faith, with political and cultural commentary. Also follow Live Action on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Topics Discussed Lila has a new podcast to promote How did Live Action get started Taking on Anti-Abortion "Lies" Parenting challenges like when one child makes themself vomit all over the kitchen from scarfing down hot chocolate packets while you are attempting to have the smaller toddler have their nap time. Pranking Planned Parenthood Deciding on what is the funniest dog When they lit up WTC One Pink to celebrate the new abortion bill in New York state that allows late third trimester abortions Politicians gaslighting about how sacred life is despite their policies Kyle and Ethan get jabbed at for their Protestantism in the subscriber portion when they ask Lila The Ten Questions. To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans

S1 Ep 71Worship Song Generator
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk about the biggest stories of the week like how we now have an awesome worship song generator on the website now. Subscribers sent us their unsolicited recordings and they were so good we had to share. Kyle and Ethan bring in a guitar and try their hand at randomly generated worship songs. Also, Biden can now decide people's race and gender, Florida violates the laws of SCIENCE by not killing more of their citizens, and social media is cracking down on misleading avatars. In the subscriber portion, subscribers get to listen to Kyle and Ethan go to the mailbag and answer some great questions from you, the subscribers. Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Get a Sneak Peak! Send your emails to [email protected] and maybe we will answer you in our next Mailbag segment! Show Outline Introduction There's been an issue with the subscriber length podcast on downloader apps. If you are having trouble getting the full episode try deleting the URL and re-adding it. Frank Fleming has a new book Superego: Fathom. Buy it! Kyle reached the end of YouTube and Ethan got locked in a park. Stuff That's Good Kyle likes American Gospel: Christ Alone which is a sobering, layman's-level look at the prosperity gospel and how it has spread through the American church and beyond. Now available on Netflix. Ethan likes Parry Gripp if you want your small kids to get good songs stuck in your head instead of bad songs. This News Is Weird Woman refuses to go on family walks after they invent disgusting 'poop tag' game There is nothing more humiliating than carrying warm dog poop around Boy, 9, cries after mum surprises him with first McDonald's since lockdown 'Hitler's Alligator' Dies In Moscow Zoo At The Age Of 84 Boy, 6, Cracks Open Robbery Case By Reeling In Sunken Safe From Lake Robot dog herds sheep in New Zealand We finally get robots and this is what we do with them? Who wanted to replace dogs? Kitten with two faces born in Oregon barn A dog's dream or nightmare? Grizzly bear with white fur caught on camera in Canada It's called a polar bear duh Stories of the Week Story 1 Biden: 'If You Don't Let Me Sniff Your Hair, You Ain't A Woman' Summary: In a recent interview with a female reporter, Joe Biden suddenly lashed out, shouting, "Listen, if you don't let me sniff your hair, you ain't a woman!" The real story: Speaking to Charlamagne tha God last Friday, Joe Biden said, "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." Biden is not alone among our political class in making wacky statements. Also mentioned: Ancestry.com Revokes Genealogies Of African Americans Who Don't Support Biden Also also mentioned: To Save Time, The Babylon Bee Will Now Just Republish Everything Biden Says Verbatim Story 2 Florida Ruled To Be In Violation Of Science For Not Having More People Die Summary: Science says Florida should have seen skyrocketing deaths from COVID-19, but instead Florida has not seen anywhere near the number of problems faced by states like New York and New Jersey. Because of this a judge has ruled the state to be in violation of Science. The real story: Governor Ron DeSantis was getting slammed in the media for a cautious, "lax" approach to the crisis, with people predicting a huge number of deaths in Florida. This disaster never happened. DeSantis focused his approach on the most vulnerable, like nursing homes, while other states like New York locked the elderly in with COVID-19 patients and restricted low-risk populations severely. People criticized him for opening beaches saying doom was sure to follow a few weeks later -- but this did not happen. Florida: 2,200 deaths / 21,000,000 people New York: 23,000 deaths / 19,500,000 people How does Andrew Cuomo do such a bad job managing this thing and get away with it while Florida gets slammed while doing a great job? The politicization of this virus is unfortunate. It doesn't feel like other national crises we've faced where we all band together against the big, bad threat -- it feels like we're hoping our political foes lose big time no matter the cost in human lives. Story 3 Facebook To Begin Fact-Checking Misleading Avatars Summary: Facebook announced today the social network will now be displaying a fact-check notice atop avatars that are an inaccurate portrayal of the user. The real story: Facebook recently launched customizable avatars similar to Bitmojis and Apple's Memojis. They tend to look nothing like the people creating them, whether intentionally or not. Ethan is offended that they do not have truly obese options The avatars are very trans-friendly in that you can mix male/female body types, whatever you want. Kyle feels his avatar is fairly accurate though they didn't have his misaligned tooth or his quarantine neck beard. What's the deal with avatars anyway? I guess it's fun to see w