Gun Rallies, Gulags, And MLK: Week Of 1/22/20 Podcast
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle discuss this week's stories like the media hyping up a white nationalist rally which turned out to be a peaceful gun rights protest, a Bernie Sanders staffer getting caught preaching the benefits of gulags, and Nancy Pelosi catching flack for handing out commemorative pens to celebrate a somber day of impeachment. In the subscriber portion, Kyle, Ethan and producer Dan discuss the deaths of Christopher Tolkien, the death of Rush lyricist and master drummer Neil Peart, and talk about how much money a gang of known criminals is telling you they want to take from you. Doug TenNapel, a friend of the Bee, has a new Earthworm Jim Kickstarter. Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Show Outline Introduction - Kyle and Ethan talk about Ethan's proficiency with a mandolin slicer, hilarious Amazon reviews, and how Disneyland is getting old for Kyle's kids. Kyle tells Ethan he is as beautiful and perfect as a Trump phone call. Story 1 - Media Offers Thoughts And Prayers That Someone Would Start Some Violence At Gun Rights Rally VA government is considering several gun control measures such as: a return to Virginia's one-handgun-per-month purchase policy; red flag laws; and universal background checks for all gun sales except those among immediate family members, through inheritance or antiques. Big media and blue checkmarks hyped up the protest rally as a "white nationalist rally" and militias and insurrectionists who were going to be threatening. See Ben Collins' now-deleted tweet or this montage of CNN and MSNBC for example. "They're not coming to peacefully protest. They are coming to intimidate and cause harm," Gov Northam said declaring a state of emergency and banning all carrying of guns in the capital square. 22,000 gun rights activists showed up and finished peacefully. They even cleaned up after themselves. People were openly and legally carrying firearms, including AR-style rifles, outside the gun-free Capitol Square. Story 2 - Bernie Sanders Clarifies His Gulags Will Be Democratic Gulags Project Veritas (James O'Keefe, a conservative political activist) releases undercover video of one of Bernie Sanders' "top tier Iowa organizer" Staffer Kyle Jurek saying cities [will] burn" if President Donald Trump is re-elected, "free education" policies to "teach you how to not be a "flowerbed"-ing nazi."; 'There is a reason Stalin had Gulags'; 'Expect violent reaction' for speech. If Bernie doesn't get nomination "Milwaukee will burn"... Project Veritas says they have more clips of more people too. The video has millions of views, almost zero coverage in mainstream media, and zero comment from Sanders campaign. Story 3 - Pelosi Releases Limited-Edition Replica Of Dentures Worn During Trump Impeachment 'They claim it's a somber, serious occasion they're heartbroken over...and then they pass out impeachment-signing pens with special cases.' The pens look like they are especially engraved, with gold, and were brought out on silver platters of some kind. Hate Mail - We got a special flowerbed-filled hate mail this week that trashed us and our audience. Topic of the Week - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Race MLK Jr was the most visible spokesperson for civil rights through non-violent protest movements inspired by Mohatma Ghandi/India Independence. 1955 organized Montgomery bus protest after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Fought against desegregation and for voter's rights In 1963 March on Washington gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech In 1964 won the nobel peace prize. Was investigated and spied on by the government for his supposed communist sympathies Assassinated in Memphis, TN in 1968. Joe Carter of TGC has 9 things you need to know about him. Dr. Robert Gagnon points out some of the controvery in modern evangelical circles regarding whether we should we praise King while condemning Trump. Is MLK cancelled? Conservatives and leftists both try to make MLK Jr supports their views on social justice, economics, or affirmative action. What does the Bible say about race? What did MLK's speech actually say ( we read from lengethier sections) "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." "Unearned suffering is redemptive." Ethan also mentions Man's Search For Meaning What are some principles we can apply to the race issue to cut through the noise Balancing caring for the oppressed and not pushing victim narrative Who gains from all the racial conflict? Who Ioses if the outrage stops. Paid-subscriber portion Story 1 - Peter Jackson To Honor Christopher Tolkien With 578-Film Adaptation Of 'The Silmarillion' Christopher Tolkien died at age 95 this past week. Anything Middle Earth that came out after JRRT published LOTR is because of his son Christopher's editing and publishing them. Peter Jackson made 3 whole movies out of the children's book The Hobbit for some reason. Christopher didn't like the LOTR movies (action movies for teenagers) He edited and posthumously published his father's work on The Silmarillion, Children of Húrin, Fall of Gondolin, Beren and Lúthien, and much more. Story 2 - Warning: Gang Of Known Criminals Holds Meeting To Discuss How Much Of Your Money To Steal National Review has a list of all their spending plans in the context of national debt hitting $28 Trillion by end of decade before their ideas are put in place. Democrats try to say the costs are offset by savings elsewhere Taking all of these proposals together, Democrats would increase federal spending by around $40 trillion over the next ten years. To put that in perspective, the federal government will take in approximately $3.3 trillion in taxes this year and spend $4.1 trillion this year. Story 3 - Church Drummers To Play 70-Minute Solos In Honor Of Neil Peart This Sunday Rush lyricist and master drummer Neil Peart died at age 67 this past week. Become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans
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When it comes to hilarious jokes, we are the 99%.
You're listening to the Babylon B with your hosts, Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicole.
I am not sure what that means.
I don't really.
99%.
Did you write that?
I might have written that one.
I don't know.
One of those literature.
Would you rather be the 1% because you're the rich joke maker?
Was that when you're late nights?
You're on your phone.
When I write them on the cigar, I write them thinking this is a brainstorm.
Kyle will look over the he will reject some of these, so I'm just going to go loose.
And then they just end up all going to Dave and they use them all.
So I'm like the Hollywood producer that's sitting there with his feet on the desk.
I'm like, yeah, that's great.
Ship it.
Garbage.
Garbage.
Crap, crap.
That one's pretty good.
Yeah.
Not bad.
So yeah, we are the 99%.
Yeah.
And welcome to the Babbomby podcast.
I'm Kyle Mann, and this is my beautiful, perfect host, Ethan Nicole.
Wow, thank you.
Never been called beautiful and perfect.
That's like President Trump's phone calls.
They're beautiful and perfect.
So that's what's true.
If you were a phone call, you would be a phone call to leave Ukraine.
I'm not sure if you're a embodiment of a Trump phone call.
Yeah, a Trump call to Ukraine.
Wow.
Thank you.
Ukraine is weird.
Cheering up.
All right.
So what are we doing here?
Well, we're talking as podcasts.
So if there's any silence, then people are like, oh, is it over?
I guess I'm going to turn it off now.
Yeah, we're in our new format.
This is our second episode in our new format where we break the show up.
And we have a cool interview this week on the interview show.
Yeah, we just got off the line with Miguel Alexander.
Yeah.
We'll get into that in the show that's actually his show, but it's pretty cool.
It's about this guy.
Yeah, he was in a hostage situation and we talk about it and kind of, it's pretty neat.
So he has a great.
We actually don't talk much.
Yeah, one of our least episodes.
We don't have anything to have.
We're just like, go ahead.
He's an amazing storyteller.
And anyway, we'll be looking for that on Friday, I believe.
Yeah.
So, but this week, anything happened to you this week?
This week, my big event is probably that I cut the tip of my finger off with a mandolin slicer.
So what is a mandolin slicer?
It slices tomatoes thin.
So you kind of go like back and forth and it slices off like a sliver of tomato.
And then my finger was too low and it took off.
This is my first time using a mandolin slicer.
And I didn't realize there's a little thing you put on top of the potato to protect your hand.
I just got down.
I was just an idiot.
I was too, I got home.
When I get home from work, I immediately start making dinner because I'm just like, it's been established I am the dinner maker.
My wife has been actually making more lately, but it happened after having our last kid.
It's like, all right, I'll be making dinner because you got a new newborn baby to deal with.
And so I just kind of like in this rush because we had ham cooking and I just started cutting this.
I'm like, oh, cool.
New potato slicer I haven't used yet that wife got at like a thrift store.
And then blood everywhere.
How would you rate your experience with the mandolin slicer?
Once I got the hang of it, it's great.
I like when people go on Amazon and they're my fault.
When people go on Amazon and they rate products.
And it's something like that, they'll say, sliced my finger.
Yeah.
Clearly, it was your fault.
Two stars.
There are some amazingly hilarious Amazon videos.
But now I think people are doing it ironically.
Possibly.
And it's just not as fun.
Yeah.
How about you?
It was better when.
Are you intact?
It was pure.
Am I intact?
Did something happen?
Physically?
Did something happen to me that?
Yeah, I don't know.
You have any good stories this week?
Do I have any good stories from this week?
I mean, technically, we record this right at the beginning of the week, so the week has only begun.
So we did, you know, we've been going to Disneyland.
A lot.
So Friday, my wife's like, it was like five o'clock.
It has to have emotional damage.
It was five o'clock and she's like, Do you guys want to go to Disneyland?
Five o'clock?
In the evening.
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, sometimes we do it at an evening because it's done with work.
You just go for a few hours.
Wow.
And she's like, and everybody, like all the boys were just like, meh.
We tapped him out on the place on the oldest boy.
Was like, we've been going there a lot.
Yeah.
And I'm like, let's calm down.
So I tried to drum up some interest, but I wasn't able to.
So I just had a quiet weekend at home, you know, playing board games and video games and having a lot of fun.
So doing some writing, doing some personal writing, trying to do some projects.
Writing in your diary?
Writing in my dear diary.
Today, Ethan made fun of me.
And it was very sad.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
You are perfect and beautiful.
Thank you.
Before we get to our stories, we want to remind you that we have the new Babylon B best of book coming out.
Oh, yeah.
And it's a pre-order.
Make sure you guys know that if you order it, it's still not going to get there for a while.
We have this giant pre-order button, and people are clicking on it and then sending us a message saying, where's the book?
Yeah.
I don't understand.
Pre-order means it's not out yet.
You're getting first in line.
Yeah.
So we should have some previews maybe to show you soon because we're going to be about done with the first draft pretty soon here.
And then it's got to do.
There's a bunch of stuff to print a book.
We've got to edit it and do all that stuff.
It's going to be beautiful.
So check it out on our site, shop.babylonb.com.
And also we had Doug Tanaplan a while back, the guy that made Earthworm Jim.
And more importantly, did the Five Iron Frenzy album come?
Yeah, Five Iron French.
Yeah, you guys can listen to that episode.
But he, I actually got my Earthworm Jim because I, you know, I supported his Kickstarter, and it's the craziest package I've ever gotten from a Kickstarter.
Like, there's art all over the cardboard box.
The books are these massive, like, full color.
I've seen people post on social their cards and stickers, and like, it's just awesome.
Like, so if you're into like a getting a cool box of stuff, and if you have any interest in Earthworm Jim or just cool art books, there's not, I've never seen anything better.
It's really cool.
So he just started it a second round.
It's up right now.
It's like a second printing.
Are they doing anything new in there?
He has the new print that comes with it.
But it really is kind of a second chance for people who miss the first round to get to get them.
So if you're curious about that, check it out.
We'll put the link in the show notes.
Groovy.
Groovy.
Now stories of the week.
Should we get into our weekly stories?
Am I as perfect and beautiful as a Trump phone call?
I wouldn't go that far.
Sad.
Every week there are stories.
These are some of them.
Story number one.
Media offers thoughts and prayers that someone would start some violence at the gun rights rally.
So the Virginia government is considering some gun control proposals.
I always thought of Virginia as like super redneck, but I guess not.
Oh, that's West Virginia.
They're different states, right?
My favorite part of this podcast is just letting Ethan keep talking.
Whenever I start going, he just stares at me.
That's Virginia.
That's Virginia.
There's another state in Virginia, isn't it?
I already learned that recently.
I was like, wait, what?
West Virginia and the story?
Are there states in America?
What happened?
Where are they?
Just go on and on.
So yeah, I guess there's a bunch of anger because they're considering these crazy, you know, they didn't make it as crazy as California in terms of gun control.
Red flag laws, one handgun per month purchase policy.
One a month.
It's like a subscription.
The Netflix handgun.
You can get a box.
It's like a loot crate.
The loot crate.
The handgun.
The chute crate.
One a month.
So they had a big rally at the Capitol on Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
And the media was kind of hyping it up as like this was going to be major violence.
They do this a lot when there's a big gun protest.
I think because they just can't wrap their heads around all these guns are in one place and nobody is shooting them.
Yeah.
Like if you just get them all together, it's just going to be this black hole of evil or something going off like popcorn kernels.
Microwave popcorn.
So Governor Ralph Northam said they're not coming to peacefully protest.
They are coming to intimidate and cause harm.
Wow.
These are your constituents, right?
Like he's supposed to be trying to get these people to vote for him.
Yeah.
He just thinks it.
Because a lot of people showed up, right?
There's a lot of people.
A ton of people.
It was in the tens of thousands, if I remember right.
Dan can save a picture of that.
Dan, our Snopes representative here can fact check us.
Okay.
Is that what Dan's new title is?
Snopes.
Official Babylon B fact Checker.
Yeah, so the whole thing finished up peacefully.
There was videos of them cleaning up their trash.
There was all this talk that this is a white supremacist rally.
They were trying to compare it to Charlottesville.
Yeah, the big Unite the Right rally that ended in some violence.
And yeah, people were cleaning up their trash.
There were minorities that were marching with them.
And I think people didn't know what to make of it.
Yeah.
A lot of it wasn't fit in the narrative, huh?
There definitely was a palpable disappointment in some crowds when nothing materialized.
Yeah.
Yeah, so MSN News is saying 6,000 people were cheering speeches in the Capitol Square.
Gotcha.
I thought it was more like 10,000 plus.
You round up.
It's because I watch FAL News.
Fox News.
I get it.
I get it.
I speak French.
Faux.
Fau news.
Faux.
Faux news.
Is it faux?
Faux, yeah.
Oh, I guess faux.
I would say faux.
Fau?
You do?
Faux.
Wait, faux.
After you're making fun of my geography.
Fau.
You pronounce F-A-U-X.
If we talked a lot less, if we talked a lot less, we would seem a lot less dumb.
Well, I guess that's the thing about doing a podcast is that you say things out loud that you won't be read.
That you never say.
That's just in the fenced in area of the school.
Oh, yeah.
There's probably more than that in the street.
Gotcha.
Thank you, Snopes.
As usual, another failure of human estimation.
The crowd size at this rally for projectile weapons was 22,000 mortal life forms.
How do you say faux pas then?
I guess I do say faux pas.
So maybe I've always said faux.
You say faux pass?
I've always said phau.
I've always said phau.
How do you say hors d'oeuvres?
How do you say Vietnamese soup?
Pho.
Pho.
Yeah.
Even though it's spelled pho.
Yeah, it's weird.
So this is another one of those stories where we had the expectation of what was going to happen and the media portrayal.
Like the Joker.
And then I was also thinking of, I think on the last episode, we were talking about Iran.
Oh, yeah.
And how the media portrayal was, this is it.
This is World War III.
And it's just completely the exact opposite.
Yeah.
Same thing here.
This is major violence.
Disappointed.
People are going to be shooting up the Joker movie.
I finally saw Joker, by the way.
Oh, really?
Have you seen it yet?
No.
It's pretty good.
I don't know.
It got a ton of opposite sounds.
It never gets me.
Whenever somebody, like, they say it's pretty good.
Like, okay, we're not going to see it.
I guess.
I don't want to come away from movies.
I guess you got a bunch of the Oscar nods.
And I was kind of like, okay, that got some Oscar nods.
It didn't seem.
I don't know.
It didn't really fit in the Batman universe either because it's like in the 70s and he's already an old guy.
And so I didn't.
Weird.
I'm a Batman purist.
Sad.
How about the next story?
What do you think?
Sure.
Bernie Sanders clarifies.
Wait, how do you say this word gulag or gulag?
Snopes.
Bernie said gulag.
Okay.
Bernie Sanders clarifies his gulags will, it feels like gulags.
Bernie Sanders clarifies his gulags will be Democratic gulags.
I just went in both.
The G is pronounced like in Spanish.
Gulag.
If you say it like a soldier guy, Russian soldier or whatever.
Gulag.
Gulag.
It has to be authentic.
Okay.
His gulags will be Democratic gulags.
The joke here being.
That headline has been thoroughly destroyed.
Butchered.
And so an undercover video came out.
this is the same group that did the Planned Parenthood.
Yeah, I did a lot of all those different, these are the groups.
Why are these guys not getting Veritas?
Veritas.
are they not getting like pulitzers for this because they're just they're fabricating all this somehow but that's still That still amazed me that they videotaped people saying we're going to sell these human body parts and nothing came of it.
They still managed to somehow frame the story that it's all made up and that they're just taking their words out of context.
It's a full clip of a person saying we sell baby body parts.
Yeah.
Well, they said, well, the footage has been edited and manipulated.
Edited.
I'm like, I'm watching it.
It hasn't been edited.
It hasn't been manipulated.
I'm watching it.
We know it edited.
They're telling you this is not what you are seeing with your eyes.
Doctored.
Yeah.
Are they putting voices on?
Are they using some kind of Snapchat filter?
Yeah.
Well, you could tell they were using a Snapchat filter because the Planned Parenthood lady looked like a dog.
Whenever she opened her mouth, a giant tongue rolled out.
The big snout.
So James O'Keefe, it's his group, and they did an under, they found they released an undercover video of one of Bernie Sanders' staffers saying that cities will burn if President Trump is re-elected.
And they said they need to do re-education and free education policies to teach you how not to be a flower-bedding Nazi.
There is a reason Stalin had gulags.
It's insane.
Like everything that you would caricature a person, a Bernie supporter, you can't go as far as this guy went.
I believe we actually have some.
Do we have a clip?
Yeah.
A pre-flowerbedded audio clip.
So if Trump gets re-elected, what?
Flowerbed.
Cities burn.
The only thing that fascists understand is violence.
So the only way that you can confront them is with violence.
If Bernie doesn't, if it, if they take Bernie from us, then we have nothing else left to lose.
Guys like that.
What are we going to do with them?
Gulag.
There's a reason Joseph Stalin had gulags, right?
And actually, gulags were a lot better than what the CIA has told us that they were.
People were actually paid a living wage in Gulags.
They have found people visiting.
They're better in America.
Gulags were actually meant for re-education.
So unlike working at McDonald's, gulags will pay you a living wage.
They're paid a living wage.
They're living the American dream, the gulags.
You probably had free health care, too.
Yeah, better healthcare.
At least everything was equal.
Everything was equally miserable.
They're probably very green.
Yeah.
Energy efficient.
Yeah, low waste.
Very low waste.
There were a lot of plastic straws being wasted.
The electricity was always going out.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it is amazing to me kind of what you were saying that this is the conservative caricature of your uncle who watches Fox News says, ah, they're going to throw everybody in gulags.
And you're like, come on, chill out.
Well, it's almost like what in the last story they were caricaturing gun owners as like they were going, oh, they're all going to be a bunch of white supremacist KKK members that just open fire with their trigger finger itchy trigger fingers and crazy racists.
And then, you know, that's a caricature, but then your caricature of these guys would be this, and that's what he's saying.
The worst things you can imagine.
Could it be worse?
Defending Stalin?
Yeah, so I guess they had a the Bernie Sanders campaign had a tweet up where they showed the picture of this guy, and it was like, it's one of our top staffers.
Oh, geez.
And then they deleted it.
And they haven't responded to this at all.
I'm not sure.
No one says no.
No response.
And this hasn't been in the media, too.
That's one thing.
It's kind of old.
It's kind of old news relatively.
Because this is like last week or whatever.
In the news cycle, it's kind of old news.
We wanted to make sure it was heard on our show because it's not.
The mainstream media is just completely ignoring it.
Right.
Yeah.
And on the one hand, you can say that any campaign is going to attract some crazies.
Yeah.
You know, but it seemed like there were multiple clips where multiple things were being said.
And again, it doesn't seem like he was a low-level, just rando.
That's what the kids say now.
Rando.
Yeah.
It saves a lot of time.
Yeah.
That one is a long letter to have to add to the words.
Anything else to say about this one?
I'm curious about the other clips they got because they said they got more.
Like, what would be, I'm curious what the right-wing equivalent of this would be.
Yeah, what would that?
That would be like Jasper Cletus and White Hoods and hanging out.
But it would have to be someone.
Crosses, right?
Like on the Trump campaign.
Yeah.
Like a guy.
He's high up.
High up in the Trump campaign going.
And he's like, the KKK had it right.
You know, burning crosses, it wasn't as bad as the FBI made it.
The CIA made it out so far.
He's like, yeah, the CIA lied about Gulags.
They're pretty nice.
The slaves had a living wage back then.
They paid him a living wage.
Roof over their heads.
Oh, man.
This is all satirical.
Satirical.
You know, I can't wait till this podcast gets big enough.
We probably have to wait until we get into video.
Yeah, then our face is coming up soon.
But you know, the Daily Wire, they have, I forget who it is.
Yeah, they got people that just watch them like hawks.
It's Vox, or it's not Vox, it's the Media Matters or something.
And their whole job, like one guy's whole job is just to watch all Daily Wire shows and pull out clips that make them look bad or whatever.
Wow.
He's probably their most loyal viewer.
Yeah.
This guy.
I know many of them.
This raging leftist that has to watch Daily Wire for a job.
So we can't wait till we have a fan like that.
Maybe someday.
One can dream.
One can only dream.
All right.
Story number three.
Pelosi releases limit Pelosi releases limited edition replica of dentures worn during Trump impeachment.
I remember I saw this story before it came out is in the drafts folder and I was like, what the heck?
You think goes, Kyle's finally lost.
Well, no, because this is a common experience for me.
I'll see a story in the drafts folder knowing it's not out yet.
And then it'll come out and I'll look and it'll have like an insane amount of shares.
And I'll be like, so confused.
It's always.
Kyle has the heart.
He gets it.
He gets you, people.
I'm giving all of our fans a figurative side hug.
And I know I am in touch with them.
No, but you also usually don't know the story of the family.
Yeah, I didn't know there was a story underlying this.
So the story underlying this was that Nancy Pelosi had custom pens made to sign this serious and somber impeachment thing.
That is funny.
That's like brought out a wedding and you make custom mints or something.
Liberty chocolate mints with your picture on them.
Yeah, everybody who participated in the impeachment got a mason jar.
You have a little ribbon on it.
A little candy cane.
Or like a little, what are those crunchy sticks with chocolate inside?
Crunchy stick.
Kit Kat bars?
No, wait, that's the reverse.
They're cute.
They had like a swirled stick with chocolate inside.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know what they're called.
Kind of like a cinnamon stick looking thing, but it's not.
The thin-rolled wafer chocolate-filled cookies manufactured by pepperage farms are called pirouettes.
They have no practical purpose other than to give the human species diabetes, hastening their inevitable extinction.
I'm glad that when I got married, I got married before the whole craft wedding thing.
Oh, yeah.
Like the custom craft wedding thing was popular.
Yeah, we have mason jars.
Mason jars.
You have to have the custom giveaways for every guest.
We didn't do that.
Just for the kids.
We did country club.
You know.
Of course you did, you Republican.
He's not a Republican.
We did Country Club.
We had the dinner.
We had the ceremony.
You know, it was just normal.
It's like tennis rackets.
I don't know.
Country girls imagine when she got the tennis rackets and little alligators on their colored shirts.
Well, country club is like golfing.
Oh.
Okay.
I guess it was a golf club.
I'm part of the 99%, so I don't know anything about country clubs.
The 99%.
Yeah.
Still don't get it.
Dan had something similar.
Dan had a normal wedding.
so you had a normal wedding or were you like uh it was a shotgun we're gonna We're getting into wedding.
weddings i was just curious you know because we're talking about there's a place called the christmas house out here and yeah i know where it is Yeah, we did that.
That was nice.
Yeah, it was pretty nice.
I really liked that.
That's big enough for a wedding.
I didn't know that they do weddings stuff there.
Yeah, they do weddings there.
Yeah, there's a dance floor in the whole backyard area.
We did the whole wedding there.
Cool.
This is cool.
Yeah, we avoided the barn wedding.
Anyway, I don't even remember what we're talking about.
Pelosi's dentures.
Pelosi's dentures.
Are we assuming she really wears dentures?
I believe she does, and that's why when she gives these when she gives her little press conferences that she does, you always see her do this weird thing with her mouth.
Yeah.
And she does.
She looks like she puts herself together before she comes out.
Yeah.
She locks her jaw into place.
She's Ezma from The Emperor's Nick Groove.
Which is a Disney film.
Yes, it is.
It was a good one.
So this impeachment thing, they were saying this is very somber.
And I loved the moment when they declared him impeached and Pelosi slams the gavel.
And you hear the cheers start to rise up.
Did you see this?
No, I did not.
In the house, she was like, you know, he is, you know, or whatever.
I declare it's impeached.
She slams the thing.
And everybody starts to cheer and she goes, she like gives the cut it out.
Oh.
Article one is adopted.
The question is our adoption of Article 2.
She like glares over at where the Democrats are sitting and she like does the cut it out symbol.
Stop throwing confessions.
Like, kids?
I have had it up to here with you.
We're on TV.
Oh, that brings up another funny article that Frank wrote, which was the somber impeachment ceremony concludes with the impeachment dancers and the impeachment dancers.
Something like they're like 80, or like a 90s Disney channel dance.
I grew up on Nicky Mouse Club.
Sorry, continue.
It's pronounced Mickey Moose.
Klube.
Klube.
Yeah, so, you know, if you want to make your impeachment look somber and very serious, maybe don't bring out the souvenir pins on the silver platter.
The custom-made.
The custom-made signature pens.
Is there like a little picture of Trump getting owned on there?
It's one of those novelty pens where Trump's head is on the top, and you click it down, you know, his eyes tangent.
And his tongue comes out or something.
But now you can probably buy them on eBay for like 10 grand.
So actually, I wonder.
Let's check on eBay and see.
eBay, Nancy Pelosi, pin.
Ah, fake.
Fake knockoff.
On eBay, it says fake president.
Did they admit it?
Yeah, it says fake.
What about dentures?
Are there dentures on there?
No, it's just like a warning from eBay saying there will be fake pens.
Look out for fake Nancy Pelosi pens.
Maybe you got to wait a while for them to go up in value before you can sell them.
Yeah.
Got to collect them all.
All right.
You get ready for this topic of the week, guys.
Let's do it.
And now, the Babylon Bees topic of the week.
Well, this week it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and because we're insane, we're actually going to talk about it.
Because that's the weird world we live in.
As white males, we're not allowed to talk about this stuff.
And so we're going to do it.
We're so rebellious.
We're going to attempt to have a conversation about Martin Luther King Jr.
And all this racial stuff.
So.
Yeah.
And the name of this episode is all this racial stuff.
All this racial stuff.
So let's just start off with.
I mean, you know, I think there's some, everybody hears about Martin Luther King Jr. all the time.
We hear the few words of his speech.
I thought it'd be interesting to actually get into some of the actual words of his speech that we don't always hear.
We just talk about all these ideas and kind of where we're at right now with the way that people handle controversial things and where they were at then and the words he said.
So he was the most visible spokesperson for civil rights through nonviolent protest movements inspired by Mahatma Gandhi.
And in 1955, organized Montgomery bus protest after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
I will say that Martin Luther King Jr., when I was growing up in school and such, maybe this is different like in the South.
I don't know.
I've heard that, you know, the different states' education systems, they teach things differently.
But it was definitely like he was probably the most revered.
Yeah.
You know, he would be up there with like George Washington in terms of...
It's almost unhuman, how he's revealed.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Elementary school, they don't say like, well, you know, it's a complex individual.
And there's, you know, they're just like, this is a guy that you honor and respect.
Yeah.
And I think there is a lot to honor and respect, as we'll talk about.
Yeah.
I just thought it was interesting that he is kind of put up there as one of those heroes.
And being in California, maybe that's just over here.
Yeah, who knows?
I don't know.
He was investigated and spied on by the government.
I'm just going through random facts here for his communist sympathies.
So that's a random fact that's a little from the other side.
They don't teach us that in California.
California.
As we say.
Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
And there's some interesting things he said in his speech that I'm curious how they would fly today.
Yeah, so let's read a couple of excerpts here.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
Agree or disagree?
Hard agree.
But yeah, you see that throughout his, you know, if you read the entire speech, he has a lot of reverence for the founding of the country and what they set up.
And he basically makes a case that they set up what a man is or what a human is and that we are made in the image of God and there are consequences for that idea and that they will play out.
He had faith that those things would play out.
Everybody would be considered a man for any human being.
And he said, I have a dream.
This is probably the most famous line from it and kind of controversial these days.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Cancel.
Yeah.
Yeah, I am really curious what he would make of the way things are now.
He seemed to have an optimism running through this.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a real optimism through it.
Also found interesting his, you know, what he says about violence.
And I'm just, this is a bit longer chunk, but I found this part interesting.
Something I must say to my people who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Cancel.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.
Antipha, listen, that's he's talking to you.
Yeah, it actually says antipha.
Yeah, and he says antipha right there.
He yells it.
Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
Soul force.
That sounds like an anime.
Yeah, it sounds like some music's going to start there.
Soul Force 5.
The marvelous new.
It's nice to hear a little MLK commentary.
The marvelous new militancy, which has engulfed the Negro, can I say Negro?
Community must not lead us to distrust all white people.
For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.
Martin Luther King Jr. is canceled.
Is that your tweet?
That was my tweet with the clappy hand.
I never know.
Are they clapping on the words or are they clapping after the words?
Like if you were to read it, is it?
Martin Luther King Jr. is canceled.
It seems like it'd be hard to hear your word if you're clapping over it.
It sounds like you're bleeping yourself.
The rhythm is weird to go Martin Luther King.
I feel like I'm like on hoe down like trying to.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Yeah, who talks like that with a clap while they're talking?
I wonder if he clapped on every word of his speech.
There's video.
He didn't.
There's video.
He didn't.
Fact check.
False.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.
Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Yeah, that's the line I found most interesting there is the idea that unearned suffering is redemptive.
And he says, let us not swallow in the valley of despair.
Imagine those words.
That's a huge theme in Victor Frankel's book, The Man's Search for Meaning.
The people that could find that in unearned suffering that there is meaning were the ones who survived If they serve, you know, if, you know, obviously there's people that just were killed, but the people that held on and well, but cope the best that had that concept that you can actually find meaning in your trials and in your suffering.
And that seems like a really foreign way of thinking in these days where we're pretty much just looking for vengeance and some form of justice, but it has to be at the expense of somebody else.
I'm just sitting here thinking about that.
Doesn't make for a very good radio.
Oh, yeah.
Good thinking.
This is the Kyle thinking portion.
This is the Kyle thinking part.
Yeah, you know, and that's what Jesus told us: that in this world, we will have suffering, we will have trials, we will have tribulations and troubles.
So I think there's an element where we have to accept that this is a fallen world, that we are going to encounter systemic issues that we cannot fix.
Yeah.
And I think the two responses, the two main responses we can have to that are extreme anger, you know, or we can have not accepting it really, but making peace with that and saying, I'm going to allow this to grow me.
Yeah.
Now it's your turn to think.
The frustrating thing about this whole topic is it does feel like that the left has held it hostage.
I mean, like, yeah, well, even what you were saying before, like a couple of white guys talking about race.
Yeah, we're not allowed to.
Like, this is probably an illegal podcast.
That's one reason we're talking so slowly and carefully.
Yeah, there's a sense where, oh, I say something wrong.
Yeah.
And I acknowledge that I don't have the experiences that black people have.
Yeah.
Totally.
I've never been mistaken for a black person.
That's good.
I don't know where to go after your jokes.
I think there's a sense where people will take their one experience and say, oh, it applies to everybody.
I personally have never been pulled over by the cops for being black.
Yeah.
So it doesn't happen.
Or even like me.
I was raised pretty poor.
My mom was poverty level.
We lived in low-income housing that the government, the churches brought us boxes of food.
She couldn't afford ear infection medicine, so she had to use other means.
That was in the subscriber portion, but make that public knowledge.
My mom peed my ears.
But yeah, but even that, I can't, you know, I still can't say I had an experience of a black kid in our culture.
It's just still different.
I can understand what it looks like to be poor.
Not saying that black people are poor.
Not saying all black people are poor.
Everything you say, you can't know.
I'm not saying that.
But where are we going with this?
I don't know.
I think it's good.
Keep it up.
We're struggling through it.
It's good to struggle through it.
I think what I was trying to get at is that the left language of this capitalized in such a almost like a scheming way that you can't say anything else.
It's like they settle up.
So anything else you say that doesn't fit the narrative that they've set up makes you sound racist.
Right.
You know, like a lot of just the systemic racism stuff, like you either have to fully accept that it's all there and it's all happening.
There's this huge conspiracy of racism going on.
If you deny any amount of it, or even just say maybe it's not the best thing to focus on or anything, anything alternate to that, you are, oh, what are you siding with the KKK?
Yes.
I am.
Or at least that's how it feels.
Yeah.
And I think it's unhealthy to tell somebody that there's a huge conspiracy of people that are going to just, you know, want to ruin your life and that you're living a victim of this.
And it just seems like a bad message to give people.
As opposed to what Martin Luther King was saying here.
Yeah.
And I think can we at the same time hold like racism is bad and racism exists?
Yeah.
Racism is a real problem that our society faces and there are racist people that exist that are out there.
We can say that without necessarily buying into like this whole intersectional framework of oppression and that every part of our society is touched and tainted and owned by racism.
I can acknowledge those two things at the same time.
Things are not as bad as you think as the left seems to think that they are.
But I can say, yes, there are real problems that we face.
Or and even if I just agree that they're and I don't, but if I really, you know, okay, I completely agree.
Racism, the problem is as bad as you say it is.
My disagreement, a lot of it comes down to the solutions that they're proposing.
Like, you know, a lot of the solutions that, or even if they are solutions, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of solutions being offered.
It's reactions.
A lot of it's eye for an eye kind of stuff.
It's just a lot of situations where it feels like they'd be happier if the racism got reversed rather than, you know, you'd think like the goal would be to get to a point where none of the, we can say this isn't such a scary topic to talk about.
We can, we found a place where it's like, it's so in the past.
Yeah.
It's just comfortable now.
But it doesn't seem like anybody wants to get there.
Well, and maybe that is the awkwardness of it.
It's like even when we were reading through this information about him OK Jr. I mean, I'm looking at the dates, you know, assassinated in 1968.
Like that was not that long ago.
Yeah.
Like my parents probably remember.
Yeah.
You know, they would have been in elementary school or whatever remember when it happened.
Like that's, it's not that far away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's weird.
I mean, it things, it seems like the progression of race in my lifetime, it almost seems like it went, like it felt like it was really kind of, I don't think it felt like it was solved or anything, but like it was, it's gotten worse as I've gotten older.
That's the weird thing.
Like the discussions.
The discussions and the outrage.
I wonder if it's gotten worse or if it's like social media amplification.
I think, yeah, it's probably that.
And I think that it's the easiest thing to create outrage about, especially social media, virtue signaling, all that kind of stuff, you know, and for the media to use.
I think that's another thing to consider in all this.
I think that I think we all have to think about who gains from this outrage and from all this kind of stuff.
I think it's probably the media driving it.
Well, maybe that's also evidence that as a society, it's like there are very few actual racists or a lot fewer than we expect.
Like maybe there are people who have some racial biases that are undetected and just simmering beneath the surface.
There probably are some prejudices that a lot of people have that they don't even, they're not aware of.
But whenever somebody gets called out for racism, it's like universally on the left and right.
Yeah, if it's actual evidence, real racism.
Everybody is against that.
But that's the weird position we're in right now.
It's like there's a ton of people who believe that Donald Trump and anybody who supports him is part of the KKK.
And they're saying, like, this is fact.
Like, this is I don't even know how to get around that.
Like, I don't know what to do with that.
Racist in chief.
Yeah.
I thought they had some clever one.
It must not have been racist in chief.
They had some, they had white supremacist in chief.
They said something.
There was some.
It was clever?
It wasn't clever, but it was one of those things they say on social media where it's like it starts with the same letter or something.
So let's talk a little bit about Martin Luther King Jr.
And I think one of the struggles we have is that we all want, because he is such a revered figure, we all want him to agree with us.
We all want, you know, like we all want his, we want to use his, especially his, I have a dream speech, but all his works and everything to support our take on race.
And I think probably the reality is a lot more complex than that.
I mean, also, you know, we know that there's some issues with his personal life.
There were some other things.
And some people make a lot of that and some people make little of that.
I kind of think like God uses flawed people.
You know, we can go back to Martin Luther and John Calvin.
And, you know, we pretty much everyone in the Bible.
Every character in the Bible, except for one.
That one.
That one.
Is Jesus.
That's curious.
I thought it was Job.
No, not Job.
He came close.
He got close, but right up until the end, and then he starts yelling at God.
And that's not good.
I love that.
Anyway, okay, never mind.
I'm talking about Job.
Anyway, I like when Job starts yelling at God and then God goes, shut up.
He says, listen up.
I'm going to talk to you now.
I would have been expecting that.
Shut your mouth.
Pity the fool.
All right.
So, yeah, so I don't know what place that necessarily has in this conversation, but I do know that we'll just talk about the Gospel Coalition through their Martin Luther King 50th anniversary.
I believe it was the 50th anniversary of his death a couple years ago.
It must have been because it was 2018.
And a lot of evangelicals were upset that they did something about MLK because he did have a lot of these personal issues and possibly some heresies that he believed and stuff.
I think that's a legitimate concern, you know, to say like, why are we holding a conference honoring this guy?
Especially when you look at the hypocrisy of, you know, it's not okay for you to vote for Trump.
He has personal issues.
Yeah.
But we're going to honor this guy because, you know, we agree with these points that he made about race.
I think it's a legitimate concern.
But I do think that we can honor Martin Luther King's ideas, many of them, and not necessarily endorse wholesale everything that he did.
Again, that's the problem with cancel culture.
We look at people and we judge them by one tweet they made, or we judge them by what they believed 10 years ago or personal feelings, you know, instead of saying, well, people can grow and change.
And people, flawed people can have good ideas, you know.
Yeah.
Mike dropped.
So the content of his character.
I'm kind of saying that we should judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
And I came up with that on the spot.
Wow.
Yeah.
I mean, ideas need to be able to stand on their own and they're true or they're not true.
Whoever they're coming from.
Or mostly true.
Or mostly false.
Right.
Or labeled satire.
Or they are morally true, even if they're factually untrue.
So I'm curious, have you ever had an experience that you would say was like where you met like an actual cold-blooded racist?
I've met people that kind of make racist jokes, but I mean, you know, they're just kind of just being shocking.
I think that's probably, you know, I came from a small redneck town in Oregon.
So I think the closest ever was we were on tour and we were going through Wyoming, I think, and some guys on the side of the road, they all had shaved heads and they all had the tattoo that signifies white power.
I think it's like a spider web or some kind of thing.
I don't know.
My buddy was with us, who's a Malaysian.
He's way more aware of that.
He's like, those guys are skinheads, man.
But they were overall kind to us.
They look a little freaky.
I believe I remember in high school, I think it was, that it was the first time I met someone that I think we were driving in his car or something, and he goes by and he was mad at the way someone was driving and he yells the N-word, you know, and they were black or whatever.
And I never like, I kind of was aware what the word was, but then just like hearing someone say it, I'm just like, you know, just that shocking moment.
Like, though, there are people actually.
Yeah.
Because I guess I was kind of in that bubble where I didn't really know that people actually.
I guess I had heard racist jokes, you know.
Yeah, actually, I was actually at a cigar shop just not too long ago, and there were some drunk guys sitting out front, and they kept making these N-word jokes out very loud.
And there was a black woman right inside the shop.
And she immediately came out and told them, shut up.
And they listened.
But it was thick in the air.
It was like, you know.
Wow.
That's the weird thing is like, it's characterized like it's normal or something.
But like when somebody does it.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
There is the societal standard that we all kind of like, you know, you know that that's not okay, right?
Like it is kind of shocking.
Maybe it's different elsewhere.
I don't know.
That has been my experience, though.
Yeah, I know my friend Doug, who talked about Earth Ring Jim Guy, he filmed a low-budget movie in West Virginia in a small town that like, and this is back in like the 80s or early 90s, I think.
And he said it was an eye-opener for him where it was way more accepted to be outwardly racist, KKK, all that stuff.
He said the weird thing is that they even had that there were black people that lived in the town and they always had this attitude like, well, you're not like one of them.
You're not one of the.
So they have an idea of what black people are like.
And they think that this guy is the exception.
So I don't know how that was interesting.
I have a friend who's a pastor too who moved to the South recently.
And that was a weird thing where it was controversial that he was going to marry a black and white couple in his church.
He couldn't believe that that was even an issue.
Oh, it was a controversial.
Wow.
Wow.
So it's still out there.
Well, let's talk a little bit about solutions.
What can people do to combat racism?
And I mean, how are things going to change?
It is still an issue.
It's still out there.
What is our responsibility?
I don't know.
I feel like there's a lot of condemnation of churches.
If your church doesn't have enough of minorities, well, you need to reach out and you need to diversify.
I don't necessarily think it's a problem.
Like if you live in an area that's mostly white, if your church happens to be mostly white, like that's kind of black church.
Well, and that's the other side of it, right?
It's because the black church, it's its own thing.
I don't necessarily know if that should be the case.
Like, I would love if people just went to the nearest Christian church.
Yeah.
Didn't even really see it.
But I know that that will get me canceled to say, oh, I don't see color.
Because that's and I don't know that that's really something you should say.
I think buying into that whole sale is a little one-dimensional statement.
But yeah, so I remember at one point I was like thinking, man, I've never had friends who are only all my friends have always been white.
And then I was like in my 20s and I realized like, wait, my two best friends growing up in Coos Bay, one was Malaysian, one was Mexican.
I hadn't thought of them as those races until I moved down here where it's way more of a big issue.
I don't know.
Not saying it.
And the weird thing is, like racial humor was like huge with those guys.
Like it was just non-stop.
Like they loved making.
So we almost made these jokes together about each other's race.
We had a guy who was Filipino with us, so we was making dog-eating jokes with him.
He was making them, you know, the Malaysian friend.
He was making his middle name was Bin Hashim.
So he had like Bin Laden.
So we were making terrorist jokes with him.
And I stayed Mexican.
Filipino family for a little for a little, I stayed with the Filipino family for like a short-term mission strip.
And they always threatened to eat the dog.
You know, they did it like kind of as a joke on themselves.
But the dog would like jump up on the couch and like, oh, we're going to cook you.
We're going to cook you.
Get down.
I was just like, whoa, you know, but it was.
I kind of think it's fun when you have a group that's like mixed race, you know, your friends hanging out.
Yeah.
And it's like when I had friends like that would make fun of me for being white.
It's like endearing.
You're thinking, yeah, I'm the white guy.
Yeah, he would call us a white devil jokingly all this time.
But internalized.
That's how when you can become, I mean, you're really comfortable with somebody, you can just make those jokes and it's so freeing and it's hilarious.
There's no end to how funny it can be.
Like we laughed our heads off.
That's something I feel like this, I don't know if we call it legalism or this like trying to create this tense environment for everybody.
It's almost like trying to kill any chance of that existing, which to me is like kind of sad.
It's sad that we're going to, you know, that my relationship, there's something wrong with my relationship with two of my best friends in life, you know, my friends Adam and Anthony, that like somehow we were wrong to do that.
It's almost just silly.
It's silly to even think it was.
To create an environment where we would just never go down their path.
I don't think that's the right path.
I think the right path is to head down, is head in that direction where we can all laugh about it and get kind of get it behind us, you know?
Yeah.
Did you say that because you're a privileged white guy?
Yeah.
I guess so.
Educate yourself.
But why is it so like why is dwelling on this stuff?
Unless you think there's a, I think that's the divider.
Some people think there's a systemic thing that has to be rooted out.
Like it's almost like a conspiracy theory, right?
And that's what they think needs to be dealt with.
Is that why we have to keep dwelling on it?
Racist in every bush type.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think there's a distinction when we talk about actual solutions.
You know, you're talking about the systemic thing.
I think we can all say racism is bad.
There is some systemic racism.
And when we talk about solutions, though, I think we can believe that and not say, well, the chain, the solution for this is financial actions on the part of the government.
Yeah.
More laws, more regulations, or even speech goes.
Yeah.
Speech codes.
Or even leaving the government out of it.
Like you were saying, making a more tense atmosphere where you cannot say certain things socially.
I don't know that that's the solution.
And I think I can believe that that's not the solution and believe that racism is a problem.
Personally, I believe the answer is the gospel.
This is where the music starts playing.
We're all created in the image of God.
The organ comes in.
Martin Luther King, that was one of his basic ideas.
We're all created in the image of God.
We come from the same, I don't know, how few people is straight out of the arc, right?
That's the idea from the Bible.
And ultimately from the same two people.
Yeah.
There's Adam, and then there was Eve.
Oh, yeah.
So there'd be two.
Adam and that lady.
Adam and that lady.
Adam and Adam's wife.
Yeah.
Mrs. Adam.
It's weird.
You think you were like, I'm a Christian and a patriot, and we don't need none of them black people around here.
Like, how do you balance that with the fact that your Bible says that you both came from the exact same two people?
Yeah.
So, yeah, there is something fundamentally different about the Christian approach to race because we believe that every single one of us is an image bearer of God and how you treat them is representative of how you mean it's like spitting on a painting of God if you insult somebody for their race or whatever.
So there's something fundamentally different about that.
I believe that we are all brothers and sisters, you know, versus, I mean, I guess the Darwinian view, we're kind of brothers and sisters, right?
We're brothers and sisters with everything.
But still, yeah, there's nothing unique about it, and there's no imprint of God.
We're brothers and sisters with dust.
With space dust.
With some feces.
Some primate that evolved.
We're brothers and sisters with everything.
There's nothing we're not.
So you and Platypi are brothers and sisters.
That's right.
Fascinating.
That's the conclusion of the matter.
Yeah.
We've got more material and running a time here.
So solved.
Martin Luther King Jr. race.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel like the spiritual.
Preach the gospel, love the Lord, love your fellow man is created in the image of God.
I do feel like it's that simple.
I mean, yeah, and I know we're running out of time, but that is controversial.
Like that is, that would get you canceled in certain circles to say, well, just treat the races that you know, the people that you know of different races, treat them like image bearers of God.
Like that's the solution.
And if everybody did that, we would be in a much better place.
And that goes for you too, listeners.
Evil redneck people.
You people.
I wonder if we have any evil races.
Yeah, we got some guys sitting around a little rubber grill with their MAGA hats on, Confederate flags everywhere.
Yeah, they were cheering all the way up until that point.
What the heck?
They're currently writing their, this is why I unsubscribe from the Bible on D iTunes review.
Email.
Unsubscribe me from your newspaper.
Democrats.
Demon Crats.
All right, let's move on to hate.
Let's get the hate mail.
I really miss Adam Ford.
All right, here's an email.
Is this from one of those guys?
Probably.
We have to do some flower bedding here.
Yeah.
You ready, Dan?
Okay.
This is from a guy whose name is Joe Mama.
Wow.
I wonder what nationality that last name is.
Mama?
Italian, maybe?
Mama.
All right, Joe, here's what he says.
You guys are a complete joke.
Hillary said she would sleep on it to recharge her lizard brain.
Just making flowerbed up to appease your bumpkin audience and soliciting funds to fight snopes.
LOL.
LOL.
Anyone who believes your content is a flowerbed.
Flowerbed.
Aren't you intelligent fooling them?
Kings of the flowerbed.
I wish I could say that one word, but I don't think it's appropriate.
It's a word for an intellectually challenged person.
So, yes.
So we are the kings of the.
I know Norman Donald was on a show and he was trying to not say that word, the R word.
And so he kept saying Down syndrome instead?
And then he got even more trouble for that.
He's like, no, you'd have to have Down syndrome or something like that.
If I thought that I would think that.
I like how in his mind that fixes the joke.
You know, that he'd already gotten in trouble for what he'd said about Roseanne and Louis C. Case.
He's trying out.
He'd have to have Down syndrome to think that I would believe that.
And then he just got himself in even deeper hot water.
Oh, that's hilarious.
I love Norm McDonald.
He's the best.
Followed me on Twitter recently.
That's a big achievement for me.
He hasn't answered any DMs, though.
All right, everyone listening, Norm.
Well, thank you for listening, everybody, including Norm McDonald and Cletus in Alabama, gathered around the grill with the MAGA hats.
Please forgive us for destroying your worldview.
Yeah.
Thank you all.
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