Twitter-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
In a world of fake news, we bring you up-to-the-minute factual inaccuracy and a heavy dose of moral truth with your hosts, Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicole.
This is the Babylon B. Fake news you can trust.
Welcome, everybody, to the Babylon B. I'm Kyle Mann.
I'm Ethan Nicole.
And this is a high-energy podcast.
Two guys who are amped up, not on drugs, but on Jesus.
And we talk about the news.
That's right.
We take you the news, the latest news, and then we retalk about it.
We re-talk about it.
Did you say re-talk about it?
We almost said read it.
We don't just read it.
We talk about reading it.
And then we give you like news.
We give you like a giant wall of books here.
This is a giant wall of books because our custom subscribers, and I think that's.
This is like a weird Laurel and Hardy bit where you're like sitting here signing books as I just stare at you.
Because I wasn't with the B when this book was made, so we're on a little bit of a time crunch today.
And I told Dan, every time I'm supposed to sign books, I procrastinate and it takes me forever.
And we are in need.
So famous.
We are in need of.
You have to wave blowing on it.
Because it gets all when you close it, it gets all inky on the.
That's true.
Is it a wet marker?
No, but sometimes it gets smudges.
Anyway, our custom subscribers get a signed copy of How to Be a Perfect Christian, the Babylon B book.
Yeah, and what is this?
So this is.
Is this the work of Twitter?
This is the work of Twitter, yes.
We got suspended on Twitter, and we had an outpouring of support from subscribers.
New subscribers.
Like 10 minutes.
We got suspended for like an hour and a half.
Oh.
Felt like 10 minutes.
Yeah.
And everybody rallied around us, which was awesome.
Yeah, it was crazy.
I was very impressed.
And there was a bunch of other satirical accounts that got shut down.
And I think some of them aren't even back yet.
I know Titania McGrath took a while.
She just came back.
I think she just came back.
But she actually had an offending tweet that they didn't like.
And I saw it.
I wasn't.
I mean, satire was clearly not anything, any hate speech or anything.
For us, it was just, you guys are spam.
It seemed like that they had some kind of an automated filter that hit us, but it was only hitting like conservative satire accounts.
So it was bizarre.
Is there left satire counts?
There's got to be CNN.
CNN, that's true.
Didn't Dan's like, stop, stop.
But we'll talk about the Twitter thing in a bit.
But yeah, thank you, supporters, because now I have to sign 100 books.
Oh, it's a hard life.
This is the humble brag.
Oh, man, my wrist hurts from signing.
We have a new book coming.
You guys have heard about it.
Yeah, this is actually the old book, which is still going out to subscribers.
I wonder if we'll get the new book.
I'll start going out.
So if this book is like a pocket knife, the new book is a giant machete.
Yeah.
It's this giant coffee table, beautiful, embossed, debossed, embossed, again, gold foil, bookmark, glorious full crypto.
The book printer told us it was the most beautiful book they've ever done.
Yeah.
And they do a lot of shit.
And they do the earthworm gym books, which are beautiful.
Yeah.
They told us we want to make a giant Bible-looking book, so we're going all out on this thing.
Yeah, so this was original satire that we wrote that was like a field guide to going to church for the first time.
How do you find a church?
How do you go church shopping?
So the one that we're working on is a compilation of all of our stuff.
The sacred text.
Like 400 articles.
What was it?
350 articles, something like that from the first almost 300 pages.
Redone Photoshops, absolutely beautiful.
Glorious.
Anyway, let's move on.
We're going to go on to stuff that's good.
But now, this week's edition of Stuff That's Good.
So, Kyle, what's good?
I don't know.
My wrist is hurting here.
It's hard to think.
Do you need a wrist massage?
Sure.
Weird.
You don't like this comedy, but we thought it would be funny for the video.
I don't care.
I wonder if I can get through them all.
If they're all comments longer.
Although we did pre-record the topic of the week.
So, yeah.
Yeah, so we won't have that time to sign.
My stuff that's good.
I watched a movie this week.
I think it was on Amazon Prime for free.
You know, if you subscribe to Amazon Prime called The Peanut Butter Falcon.
It got a little bit of attention when it came out like last year-ish.
And we're hearing about it.
It's just awesome.
Moving is Shila Buff.
Shy LaBeouf, who's LaBeouf.
I don't know how you say it.
I said Shia LaBeouf.
The Bouff?
I don't know.
But is it the one where he's an actor?
Or he's a kid actor?
He's always an actor.
Yeah, he's always an actor.
But the one it's about, it's like his life story.
No, he's like a redneck crab fisherman or lobster fisherman or something.
And he's down on his luck.
And he was like a drunk driver who, you know, he messed up his life real bad and he's down on his luck.
And then there's a young man, like early 20s with Down syndrome that the state has kind of failed and he's fallen through the cracks.
And he ended up, he ends up having to live at a retirement home.
And so like nobody pays attention to him and whatever.
But his dream is to become a pro wrestler.
So he breaks out of the.
Oh, that's cool.
He breaks out of the retirement home.
He greases the bars and slips through.
So is he super old if he's in a retirement home?
No, the state, that's the only place the state had to put him.
And I wonder if that really happens.
I don't know.
I didn't really look into it.
So he's with all these old people and this, you know, and they're all like telling him, live your dream, be a wrestler.
Yeah.
So he goes on this road trip and then the Shia LaBeouf character's on the run too and they end up joining.
It's kind of a Mark Twain sort of, they build a raft and float down the river to get to it's a little fantastic like it's obviously over the top.
But it was just great.
And you know, so many movies that, you know, don't really have a pro-life message to this one was very like, you know, all human life is valuable.
And, you know, that's a big part of the whole pro-life thing is, you know, we do believe people with Down syndrome are valuable and just have just as much value as you and me.
And in fact, sometimes they're a lot happier than we are.
Totally.
You know, and there's a lot to be learned from people with Down syndrome.
So it was fantastic.
If you could go out on Twitter and just see certain people and there's a button where it's like, please replace this Twitter account with someone with Down syndrome.
There would be a lot of face.
Yeah.
Almost everybody.
Happier, more positive, just a better outlook on life in general.
I would switch myself with somebody on Down syndrome.
Be a better father.
Yeah.
Okay, mine is not so uplifting and nice.
Huge warning.
It's like really graphic and dark and like this is very unfortunate.
It's very murdery.
It is an Amazon Prime TrueCrime series that just came out.
The Last Narc.
It's about the drug cartel people.
Who's the big one?
Not the, I'm blanking out on the guy's name.
I guess I can.
Who's like one of the big drug guys?
Not Carlos Medcia.
Not Carlos Medcia.
John Leguizamo?
No, not him.
Come on.
Harold.
So you don't know who this is about?
Pablo Escobar.
It's the other one, not Escobar.
The other big one.
Chapo.
El Chapo.
El Chapo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
See, it came back.
Joaquin Guzman.
Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.
Yeah, yeah.
So, okay.
So, this story, it's been a while since I watched it, but I was like, I got to talk about this.
They interviewed these guys that were like his bodyguards and worked for him, and they're basically part of a lot of like documentary.
Some of the worst stuff that happened there, and the whole story of what really happened to this FBI, I think it was FBI or CIA agent who was captured, tortured, murdered.
And they're really like, it's really emotional, like they're coming clean about the worst things they've ever done in their life.
And it's very like, it's just amazing to see these guys letting it off, even though they know like they've spent their life afraid of being murdered or killed or their family.
How long ago was all the in the 80s or whatever during the biggest guys now?
Yeah, they're old guys now, but they're intense.
Like, this is one guy there, it's all pent up, but uh, it's just yeah, it's it's the drug cartel, so it's pretty bad that some of the stuff that happens in there.
It's uh doesn't have a pro-life message, it's not it's pro-life in the sense that torturing and murdering people is pretty horrible, so we should do the opposite of that a stunning and brave message.
Yes, if you're into those crime stories and stuff, it's just it was pretty good.
I thought what is with there's a huge fascination with all the drug stuff now.
I don't know if it was Breaking Bad that brought that into the maybe, but like Narcos came out, and that was Narcos.
I was into that till I didn't get all the way through it.
I feel like I saw four or five of these shows come out.
I think what's just fascinating about it is that you don't really know the like extent.
Like, these guys have they bury huge amounts of money in the jungle, they just find places they have so much money they don't know what to do with it.
They're burying like money that like this, you can live in it like the size of a house, just piles and piles of cash.
They're trying to figure out what to do with all this freaking money they're making from drugs, and they're just they live like kings in the whole old chat, uh, what's his name, Escobar.
That guy, he lived in like a he had multiple castles or giant mansions and homes, and uh, and even when he was supposedly like in prison, he basically they let him like live in his home and just party all the time.
And anyway, you can watch that on here.
He was just on house arrest, like in this case, yeah, like a house arrest, but there's and he still had all his bodyguards, he had all these women everywhere, drugs, everything.
And he would walk around the streets and just hand out piles of money to everybody to make everybody like him.
That's just like it's like a cartoon world, like uh, except for a lot of murder and serious death.
But well, there is a lot of that in cartoons, yeah, but they they they bounce back generally literally sometimes, literally, it's called the squash and stretch.
Is that the animation term?
It's a principle in animation, squash, and then you walk you stretch a little bit, especially me.
Doug Denapel was talking about the principles of animation, how vegetales didn't follow it.
So, maybe that's what they didn't like going.
I don't know, they were very stiff because they were the old, it was old through the world.
It's gotten better, but yeah, there was technical limitation, yeah.
So, anyway, watch the last that was a long time.
We don't need these long stuff that's good and peanut butter falcon, yeah.
Weird news, this news is weird.
Mom's disbelief after returning home to find naughty puppy had eaten her savings.
That's a weird headline.
Mum's this is British, the British like weird news more than Americans because I find all the best weird news on British websites.
So, mom's disbelief.
You have to say it like in yeah, but it's just structured funny.
Anyway, so this mom was surprised to find that this puppy had eaten all of her money.
Yes, he's like, Oh, I disbelieve this.
She got home and had 100 English pounds.
Now, I did the math, so you don't have to.
Actually, I just searched on Google.
It's about $132.
So it's not her life-saving.
Well, maybe it is, but she's just.
Could be.
He's pretty poor, maybe.
Or maybe that's a lot of money over there.
Most Americans don't have anything.
No, poor.
Everything's really expensive.
I bet $132 buys you like a hard-boiled egg and a sausage lunch.
132 pounds.
It'll buy you like a half of a shepherd's pie.
It's 100 English pounds, which equals about $132.
Gotcha.
But things are expensive over there.
Yeah.
A shepherd's pie.
Maybe a shepherd's pie carrying case.
Which is common there.
But she kept it in like a vase.
I always wonder how these stories get out.
Like, does she call the local news?
Does she call a reporter and say, yeah, that's a good question.
My naughty puppies ain't surrounded or something or whatever.
Oh, yeah.
That's what a lot of these are.
Yeah, I do get the feel that a lot of journalists just go on Reddit and they're like, sir, you know, what's on the front page of Reddit?
This is crazy.
Yeah.
Or no.
This is bloody wild.
That's what they think because they're British.
Oh, oi, oi, oi, oi!
Get La Roy!
Hey, Nigel!
Are they Australian?
It's a, you know, yeah, I get you.
There's a spectrum.
So what happened with this beer company?
There's a beer company that accidentally named itself.
Can we say this on the air?
Well, why don't you just use a euphemism?
But it's fine.
Doctors say this.
Well, let's think.
Okay, so if you're listening to a podcast and your kids are in the car, kids are in the car.
And this word comes up, do you go and reach for the dial or not?
Do you?
Yeah, I don't know.
It depends who you are and what you care about.
All right, I'll try better.
I'll try to be euphemistic.
Beer company accidentally names itself after the hair that is not on your head or your face or anywhere.
Your arms or your legs.
It's the hair that when you need to get bikini wax.
It's the hair down there.
The hair down there.
That works.
It's the hair down there.
That sounds like a name of an art art film.
See, the problem is that the kids are listening to the podcast.
Now they're more curious.
This is now tantalizing.
It's the hair kids will one day have.
Hey, mom and dad, what are Kyle and Ethan talking about?
It's called public hair if you take out the L.
It's the opposite of public hair.
So this Hell's Basement brewery in Alberta, so we're Canada, started in marketing Huru Huru.
Huru Huru.
A New Zealand craft ale.
Like Maori?
You know, Maori, you seen those guys?
I went to New Zealand.
They're the guys that make psycho faces to scare their enemies.
So they're like, okay, so like natives.
Like that.
You find any excuse to make that face on this podcast.
They do it seriously, though.
Like, they try to freak you out.
So they were trying to pick a word that meant feather or fur in Maori?
Right.
Maori.
That sounds like a talk show.
But yeah, so apparently that's kind of the lesser and common way for that word to be used.
The most common way for that word to be used is to mean the hair down there.
So they found out that they named their beer that.
It's probably an IPA.
Am I right?
That's a perfect.
Yeah, that's actually a perfect name for IPA.
Factory malfunction causes chocolate rain in Switzerland.
I just wanted you to say chocolate rain.
Chocolate rain.
A little chocolate rain.
It's not what it sounds like.
It's the name of my rap side project.
A Swiss candy company confirmed a malfunction in a factory ventilation system caused cocoa powder to rain down on the surrounding area.
So people probably at first were like, why is everything brown?
So this is like who was the first one brave enough to taste it.
This is like the old book, Clyde with a Chance of Meatballs.
Is it?
Yeah.
But there's chocolate ring on that.
It was like, you know, donuts rolling down the street.
And they turned it into that movie.
Yeah, yeah.
Which is called Cloud of the Chancellor.
Which has the same name, but has not the does not have the same pot.
Surprisingly.
You got to add a lot of stuff in movies.
Yeah, because the book is like a 30-page children's book.
Yeah.
Like Fantastic Mr. Florida.
And she's like, oh, there's stuff running from the sky.
That's the whole book.
They're like, oh, there's actually a weather machine that made this stuff rain down.
And the main character is a scientist who's estranged from his father.
We could probably turn any book into that just using that.
Like you explain what happens to the machine, and then you say it was a stranger by his father.
Cow.
Cow surprises beachgoers by emerging from the sea.
Majestic sea cow.
They see a couple horns poking up.
What the heck?
Just the slow motion with the water.
Yeah.
Was it a mercow?
Mer cow pup.
Mer cow.
They say the cow had been stranded on a nearby island when high tides came in and apparently decided to return to the mainland.
Just was like, all right, I'm swimming.
So I'm trying to picture the beachgoers all sitting there.
They're all frolicking, and all of a sudden, here comes a cow.
You think that's how they talk?
I don't know.
Not the beachgoers, the cow.
Yeah.
They always seem more nervous to me that you're making a very authoritative cow.
Yeah.
They don't go, Moo!
Well, maybe the majestic sea cow does.
That's much better.
And then what if a whole herd followed him out?
Yeah, I'll come out.
Our time has come.
This is like a Spielberg moment.
Some 90s movie.
The flight of the sea cow.
Last flight of the sea cow.
And it was invented by a machine by a scientist.
He was estranged from his father.
Newlyweds shamed for wedding cake that looks like burnt, mutilated cow flesh.
Are they shamed?
Were they really shamed?
They were shamed by their friends and everybody, like, because so I guess they're trying to do this rustic look.
It's supposed to look like leather.
You know, leather looks.
It looks horrible, right?
So it looks like if you, well, I guess this rustic wedding thing is going on.
Can I read this?
Well, some said it resembled a crusty infected nipple.
Male nipple.
You can talk about male nipples.
And others say it looked like a Lance Boyle.
It's just this big giant horrifying wound on the cake.
And it just looks like, yeah, it looks like.
Like, if you're just seeing, I see what they were going for, but.
Have you watched any of those plastic surgery shows?
Yeah, yeah, I haven't, but I know what you're talking about.
Yeah.
And the dad got this leather valve cut open and then they sew it all back together.
And that's what the cake looks like.
The funny thing about it is I can't critique the execution.
If you're trying to make it, if you're trying to make a cake that looks like branded leather, you did a great job.
Yeah, but why do you want that?
But why?
What's the Jurassic Park thing we spent so long asking if we could that we forgot to ask why we should or something like that?
I butchered it.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, the rustic wedding thing has gotten too far.
We have to have weddings in barns with mason jars and chalkboards and bride wearing cowboy boots and the shiplapping of the bride and groom.
It's a ceremony now that they do.
And now our cakes are, yeah, this is ridiculous.
Oh, yeah, they're trying to get all rustic and backwardsy.
That's what I see this as a symptom of chic.
The rustic.
Shabby chic.
Rust chic.
They don't want a white button cake.
The one that looks like it's made of wood and then they kind of slightly brushed white chalk-like paint on it.
All right, final one.
This one's my favorite, and I'm sorry because some people aren't going to like it.
Woman catches Amazon driver mid-squat pooing in her garden.
Pooing sounds like a British word.
Is this another British pooing?
Yep.
I think.
I should read the headlines and just guess where they're from.
This one's worth reading the actual text of the story.
So here I go.
Yeah, read it out loud.
There's an actual photo.
She got her phone out and took pictures.
You can see this guy doing it if you guys go to the link.
Oh, I guess actually, I guess Dan.
He doesn't show anything, so Dan can put the picture.
Here's the picture.
NHS counselor Sharon Smith, 53, said she was cooking in her kitchen when a van pulled up outside her home.
A man ran from the vehicle towards her garden, and she followed him, suspecting he could be stealing some wood.
One of those wood thieves.
But the mum of two caught the man mid-squat defecating on her property among the trees and promptly called the police.
Hey, coppers, there's a man squatting in my garden.
Sharon said he even asked what her problem was.
So he's pooing and he's like, what's your problem?
And got aggressive as he tried to leave.
I'm taking the right spot here.
You're interrupting me.
She said.
Are these quotes or did you make that up?
I made that up.
She said, this is real.
I asked what the heck he was doing and he would just remain pooing.
That rhymed.
Whilst asking me what my problem was.
The cheek of it.
She said that the cheek of it.
The cheek of it.
Okay, and this is her, still her talking.
He messed with the wrong.
I can't do it.
I go into like a New Jersey accent when I try to do British.
Just think like Courtney or something.
Courtney, he messed with the wrong woman.
I'm a blue belt and taekwondo.
And the anger and rage.
Now I'm going, I'm going Scottish.
And the anger and rage he saw was enough to put the fit of God into him.
That's definitely Scottish.
I love it.
She's like, I got taekwondo and I'm going to take out this guy poop in my garden.
You pooed in the wrong garden, mate.
Now she's Australian.
I made it clear I was calling the police if he...
I'm not doing the accent.
I made it clear I was calling the police.
If he moved, he'd regret it.
He emerged from the bush quite aggressive, but I was angrier than him, so I kept him here to my husband, and then the police arrived.
She said, Amazon driver, the Amazon driver went on to deliver a parcel with potentially traces of excrement to one of her neighbors in Nut Hall, Nottingham.
So this is the most British story.
Police attended the scene and questioned the delivery driver who claimed he was desperate for the toilet.
He said he was not feeling well and did not realize the grounds were part of a private garden.
Anyway, I think it kind of gets a...
I thought this was just an ordinary run-of-the-mill garden that I could poo in, not a private garden.
Have you ever, so you had to go to the bathroom so bad you just went like you pull over and just went in the nearest bush?
I've peed like that, but not pooed.
Yeah, not pooed.
I haven't pooed.
Hey, Dan, you were an Amazon driver for a smart.
Yeah, Amazon driver.
Right before this job.
Do you have any good poo stories?
Dan?
I don't know.
Well, I'm just wondering, can you relate to this?
Oh, absolutely.
Because you got it, because it's pretty intense, right?
Big time contract.
Like the Amazon drivers, they're on a 10-hour shift, and it's like you have to work as fast as you can for that entire 10 hours.
There should be a toilet in the driver's seat of those things.
And the thing is, you'll get sent to an area where you have no ability.
You're just in a bunch of houses or commercial buildings, and you have no.
Yeah, it's rough for those guys.
I went, so I had to go to the bathroom.
I was just in a neighborhood in the middle of the night, and I just had to go.
I was like trying to find to get out of the neighborhood and find the city again.
And finally, I was just like, I found a spot that didn't have a real stop, no big streetlight or anything.
The people didn't look like they were home, no lights on.
And I just pulled up next to some bushes and hoped no cars came.
And I just started going.
And it was really freeing.
I felt like I felt very brave after I did it.
Like suddenly I was like, that is now an option I can take.
My world is bigger.
Did you feel connected with your primitive ancestors?
Yeah, I felt like freedom.
Like I wanted to ride on an eagle.
You rip off your shirt.
I can pee.
I rip my pants open.
I can pee if I want to.
I can leave my friends behind.
Because your friends don't.
So, well, are we ready to do some real news from the Babylon B?
I'm ready.
All right.
Every week there are stories.
These are some of them.
Once you're done signing.
That scribbling sound you hear.
The whole tower.
You better get on now.
Subscribers can get your signed book signed by Kyle Mann.
The whole tower just fell over down here.
So there's a huge mess of books.
Sorry.
Okay.
First story.
Twitter apologizes after intern accidentally sets coffee on destroy all conservatives button.
Oh, I'm not supposed to read that.
Supposed to read the subject.
That's okay.
More details here.
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 common area near the coffee machine.
And it's easy to miss if you're not paying attention.
Oops.
Oops.
Honest mistake.
Is that the classic?
Why did we even make that button?
Why do we even have that button?
So there was actually some suspensions this week, though.
Yeah.
So we talked about that.
Some other accounts.
I saw Titania or Andrew Doyle post screenshots of all these different accounts that were parodies of woke students or woke teachers or woke this or what that.
Jarvis DuPont.
She, I think.
She?
I think that's her.
I think Jarvis DuPont's preferred pronoun is she, I think.
So we got an email.
Hello, your account, the Babylon B has been suspended for violating the Twitter rules for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam.
So we spent some time, me and Seth, trying to click through and figure out what it was accusing us.
And it said basically that we use multiple accounts to promote the account.
And it's like one of those things where someone will create 100 accounts and then keep retweeting each other to seem bigger.
And it was like, what is this even?
So we couldn't figure out.
If like you.
Right.
That's the bizarre thing is like Ben Shapiro retweets the Daily Wire or Daily Wire retweets Ben Shapiro.
Right.
Is that technically that violates their rules based on what we were reading?
Because you and Dan's accounts got.
Yeah, and I got locked out of my personal account.
And Dan got locked out of his account, which is strange.
But I don't think anybody else connected with us did.
And me and Dan don't interact with the official account that much compared with like Seth.
Yeah, Seth's always repeating himself.
He'll retweet himself on there more.
The only thing I could think of is that it'll mention me and you in the tweets about the podcast.
It's true, but I didn't get, I'm fine.
And you didn't get knocked for it, so I don't know.
Maybe because I'm verified.
I think the most concerning thing was just that there was kind of an appeals process, but it was very opaque.
And we couldn't really tell what we were supposed to do to get our account back.
You just, you know, you can just all of a sudden knock you out and you don't have access to your 500,000 followers or whatever.
Yeah, that was the scariest part when we came.
Well, even, I mean, yeah, it's scary to be the idea to be completely deleted.
But even when we came back and realized they could take all our followers if they want to, because it was like 500 for a minute there.
Yeah.
I guess they, I didn't know it takes time to propagate back to.
Yeah, that was the thing.
Looked like they deleted our followers.
Yeah.
But I guess that's always how it does, how it happens.
But so the amazing thing that kind of happened out of that is we not only got back our 550-ish thousand followers, where are we at now?
Close to 650.
So we almost gained, we gained a lot of money.
I think we gained about 100,000 followers out of it.
And a lot of subscribers, a lot of people that were sending in their support.
He trended.
Babylon B trended.
He was actually top trending on Twitter, which is to be on that top list is like huge.
Yeah, during an election.
I don't know if we've ever trended before.
Maybe during Snopesgate, but last summer.
Oh, yeah, I remember that.
I do think I remember it.
We were probably trending during Snopesgate.
Snopesgate.
But yeah, I don't know.
I hesitate to be the kind of guy who's like, this is absolute censorship and they're trying to knock the conservatives.
But then if it gets us so many subscribers.
But it does, you know, it does seem.
The one thing to me is it does seem it only ever happens one direction.
Yeah.
Like you never hear like.
But do we really pay attention?
You never hear like, oh, we accidentally banned CNN.
You know, oops.
Oops.
We banned The Onion.
Like they would be so careful not to ban some like trans activist account or something.
Analog to us on the left.
Is it the onion?
Is that they're much bigger than we are.
Yeah, I mean the onion.
Small comedy.
The onion would be the closest comparison.
Content-wise, but like size-wise.
Because we have like 500,000 followers.
They have like millions, right?
Yeah, but we're comparable in traffic.
Traffic tricks.
Yeah.
We actually, I know a lot of our posts do a lot better.
Who knows?
But yeah, they're just such an institution because they've been around for so long.
It definitely feels like we're not even in their league.
I never compare my numbers like that.
Well, they've been around so much longer.
So meanwhile, Drag Queen Story Hour posts a tweet where they say love knows no age.
I saw that.
That's the creepiest thing you can say on the world.
And they didn't plan it.
They didn't get banned or anything, right?
Yeah, but they closed their own account down.
Because everybody was slamming them.
Yeah.
Why would you say that?
Like, what could be the other reason?
Oh, no, we didn't mean that.
Love knows no age.
That's what it was.
Love knows no age.
I believe that's what they said.
Let me make sure.
That's very enambla.
The drag queen story hour UK Twitter account recently posted a tweet that many users deemed pedophilic.
The group subsequently deleted the tweet and locked their account after pushback.
Drag Queen Story Hour is a group that organizes events at public libraries, which adult men dressed as women drag queens read stories to small children.
The controversial tweet read, Love has no age, exclamation point, which many Twitter users noted, similar to sentiments expressed by pedophiles who maintain that their sexual attraction to children is not immoral and identify themselves maps, a minor attracted person.
I'm a map, I'm a map, I'm a map.
No, don't do that.
No, don't, don't say that.
In that context, their song, I'm a map.
Wow, I never made that connection.
I didn't know maps existed.
I don't think anybody on planet Earth ever made that connection.
But I think that about a lot of connections that you make Ethan, that's why I'm here okay, so maps, let's get back on track.
Speaking of maps uh anyway, it does feel like.
It does feel like someone like that can pose.
They can go as far left as they want, all the way up.
Insane, you know.
Murder, president Trump and commies, and communism is great.
Yeah, I guess that's like my thing.
What were they really trying to do?
Like, what was the reason?
What was going on?
That, like, because all these accounts went down at once.
Yeah.
So it's almost like someone there was like, let's just work on a destroy conservatives button.
Yeah.
It doesn't hit it yet.
And then, oops, we hit it.
It definitely felt like, yeah, maybe it was an accident.
Yeah, I know.
But it definitely feels like they have systems in place where they're identifying certain accounts as problematic.
There's something where they're working on an algorithm.
Yeah.
In a little science lab and they're playing around connecting wires together.
I don't know.
I don't know how it works over there.
That's how programming.
And then all of a sudden, the blue light comes on, the red lights flinking.
Someone hit the button, prematurely destroyed the took them down.
We weren't ready yet.
We weren't going to do that until phase three.
Yeah.
They said to be ready.
Anyway, thank you if you subscribe to the Babylon B because of this.
And we're like, we're like blown away.
And it really does help us.
It really does safeguard what we're doing.
Because if we were to just get immediately kicked off Facebook and Twitter and we would have no traffic.
It would really be a huge blow.
So it was just amazing to see the outpouring.
It really made me feel good that people like what we're doing.
And we never do this.
We really should because every YouTube channel does it.
If you like our show, subscribe and share and hit the like button.
We never do that.
Yeah, I know.
I watch YouTube videos and they all do it throughout.
It's got to be a reason.
Like every five minutes.
Yeah, there's got to be because people forget, I guess, because you're just watching, like, drooling and like.
Hey, you stop what you're doing.
Yeah.
Hit pause.
Click the subscribe button.
Hit the like.
Click on it.
One thing about our YouTube presence is that we it's our weakest presence right now because we just don't have well, we launched the channel really late and we don't really, yeah, we don't have a big audience here.
A lot of our videos get watched on Facebook and stuff.
So it really is down to our YouTube viewers to help us kind of spread the word and get the YouTube videos shared.
Thanks, YouTube viewers.
Thank you.
Subscribe.
All right.
Smash that like button.
Yo, smash that like button if you like what we're doing.
And we'll stream some Fortnite or something.
Story two.
Brill.
Oh, almost did it.
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.
Trump stamp.
We've joked a lot about Trump stamp.
Yeah, the Trump stamp.
But we thought it was a tattoo on your lower back.
Yeah.
But it's not that.
It's a postage stamp.
Postage stamp.
With Trump's face on it.
Greatest president ever.
Is that what it says on there?
Yeah.
This was submitted to us by a subscriber, I think.
We played with the headline a bit, but it was submitted.
The original idea was submitted by the subscriber.
So what's going on with this?
What is this mail thing?
Because I'm like, I'm almost lost.
I was hoping you knew.
You understand it?
It was like one day everything was fine.
The birds were chirping and rainbows and butterflies fluttering by.
It was great.
And then all of a sudden, I just rage the postal surround.
So there's this huge conspiracy theory that Trump is trying to destroy the post office from within.
Well, because Trump thinks, says that mail-in voting is unreliable.
Right.
Which there's truth to that, correct?
There is truth to that.
I think.
I mean, I don't know.
People die.
They get like all these.
It's easy to manipulate.
Yeah.
Or it's easy for us to get lost.
The question of how big of an impact the problems with mail-in voting would have is a legitimate one.
It could be a very small percentage of votes that had problems with them.
Because even in electronic voting or punching the chads, you have controversy with it.
But people think that it's orders of magnitude worse with mail-in voting.
And it might be.
It might not actually affect anything because it'd be a small percentage of votes that would be affected.
I don't know if it's that big a deal or not.
But it is weird that we can go out in the streets and protest but not go to the polling place.
Yeah.
So it's like, why is the or you can go to Ralph's?
So, so maybe, yeah, I mean, we can grocery shop, we can go, we can poll.
That's what Dr. Fauci said.
Fauci.
Yeah, he said, oh, I don't see no reason.
You can't go to the poll and get it.
The line just stays far apart.
Wear your mask.
So it feels to me almost like that there was this conspiracy theory on the right, you know, that or no, yeah, on the right that mail-in voting is going to destroy everything and whatever.
Yeah, like the left wants it because they can like manipulate it.
Yeah, this is why the left wants mail-in voting.
Yeah.
I think that's their conspiracy.
And it's so weird to me that they're pushing it so hard.
The mail-in voting.
Because it is weird.
It's like.
Yeah, the left.
Yeah.
Now they're like talking like the postal service is one of the great American institutions.
Yeah.
I grew up and I remember the smell of the paper in the mailbox.
Mailman smiling at me in the morning.
Even though they've never mailed a letter in the last like 10 years.
See, that's the thing.
Trump can make the most accepted statement, most innocuous statement.
Yeah.
You know, the post office is slow.
You know, and it's like, oh, I've never seen anything faster than the post office.
Post office is an American fastest cheetah, which is the fastest land animal on the planet.
It's like a liger with a cheetah with one of those boat motor in the back of it.
And just you stuff a bunch of meth in his mouth, put on the motor, and boom, boom, fast.
Tasmanian devil.
So all of a sudden, I just saw these memes going around on the left.
It's just like, the post office is our last, the last bastion, the last stand against fascism.
You know, it's just like, what?
I don't.
This is such a stupid thing to even find out.
Well, then there's all these pictures going around of mailboxes with lock boxes on them.
Yeah.
On the front of that.
I saw that.
Who shared that Rex Chapman?
Oh, they're all over.
I don't know who that is.
Somebody used to be famous, maybe.
And people are really freaking out.
What are they doing?
This is Nazism.
Yeah.
Which they just never noticed them before, right?
Like they've been locking them for years.
Yeah.
There's still a hole in the back to put your mail in to prevent theft.
It's to keep theft.
People sticking their arms down there or whatever.
And so I guess it's been a thing for, I don't know, a decade or more, at least since the Obama administration, that they would remove USPS boxes that weren't being used as much.
Right.
Because the more email we use, the less mailbox we need to take it on.
Because letter mailing numbers have been down for years.
So I saw that the postal general, whatever, postal grandmaster general postal guy said something about how they're just going to kind of stop all the changes until the election because every time they move a mailbox or anything, everybody freaks out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I thought it was so funny because it kind of debunks the whole thing.
Yeah.
Because he's like, oh, fun.
Yeah, we'll stop it.
Yeah.
But also, can you imagine getting rid of all the mailboxes?
Like, they're everywhere.
Like, that would be quite an undertaking.
To get rid of every mailbox, every mailbox.
Right.
Well, I guess if you could just murder all the police, not the police, murder all the mailmen and women.
Did you see that guy that was sitting out by his mailbox with like a gun or something?
I don't know if he had a gun or if he just had like signs or something, but he was like blocking off his mailbox.
And it's like, not on my watch, Trump.
You're not taking my USBS box.
It's just like.
And then there's all these other mailing services.
I don't.
It's a little silly.
I don't have the energy to care about this.
Yeah.
Let's move on.
Let's move on.
Story number three.
Parents are raising concerns after a teacher opened her Monday morning online class in full Antifa riot gear.
According to witnesses, Will O'Mavin, 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 jacket emblazoned with an Antifa logo.
Wow.
Sad.
Okay, class, she began.
Are we going to read the whole thing?
I just liked it up there.
Okay, well, I figured we could read it, but I was just going to keep.
Okay, class, she began.
Today we're going to review the alphabet.
Repeat after me.
A is for anti-fascist.
B is for burning down symbols of oppression.
C is for communism, the only compassionate system of government where everyone is equal.
Good job.
Ms. Maven was about to recite the letter D is for Drumf, the bad orange man, when she realized that she was wearing her Antifa gear still.
And she cut the video feed.
Wow.
Why do you hate teachers so much, Carl?
I don't know.
I love teachers.
So there was an actual public school teachers, okay?
I'm a product of the public school system.
My stepmother is a great public school teacher.
So I think when we make fun of teachers, we're making fun of a small but vocal and potentially dangerous minority of teachers.
Right.
Yeah, because there's different kinds of people that become teachers, right?
Yeah.
There's people that actually care about children.
That's the minority.
Maybe that's true.
I don't know.
Or actually, no.
I think a lot of them care about children, but then you have the subsets of they want to turn them all into little soldiers or whatever.
Yeah.
They want to change the world in their image.
Or they think so highly of themselves that they think they ought to be above people.
Those are the people who freak me out.
Yeah, did you see that thread?
I don't remember.
We talked about it on here.
Matt Walsh ended up sharing it where the teachers were talking about how they're worried now that the videos are going into the homes that parents are going to see them see what they're teaching.
See what they're actually teaching?
Yeah, and they were saying, like, what if parents interfere and don't make it a safe space for the children to express their gender identity, you know, and all this?
Or you just hear how dumb it is.
Like, I was listening to my kindergartner on her online class for like two hours, and it's just like just reading nursery rhymes.
Like, I could do that.
Yeah, the whole time, like, I could do this, and it'd be way more fun because she's not staring at a computer.
The weirdness of, you know, you can hear someone's brother yelling at her and the other one of the one of the Zoom, you know, stuff going on.
Well, maybe that's what's going to happen.
All these parents are going to go, hey, wait a minute.
Yeah, we could do this.
I could do this.
That's nothing magical.
Well, that's exactly what happened with you guys, kind of.
Not that we can do this, but this is absolutely bizarre, and we're going to go into homeschooling.
Yeah.
Yep.
So this is actually a prophecy fulfilled.
Oh, yeah.
Because the next day after we posted this article, this guy, Elijah Schaefer, posted something that someone sent him.
It was a screenshot of this girl's teacher.
And it says, and she's wearing this I can't breathe shirt, teaching her students about racial injustice and fixing the corrupt system.
Supposedly an LAUSD teacher.
Does it have any effect on the I can't breathe that George Floyd was saying it even when like they were like trying to put him in the car?
He was saying I can't breathe.
He's saying it like the whole time.
He wasn't just saying that.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm not going to touch that with back away.
Delete that.
Ethan always trying to construct.
He's trying to get some trouble.
A thread where teachers talk about their concerns over parents.
Oh, yeah, we were probably talking about that.
Although with the George Floyd thing, I did think it was funny that they were doing like kneeling.
They were taking a knee to protest.
We might have talked about that.
That's weird, yeah.
It's like you're doing the thing that the police officer did.
Yeah.
Like taking a knee.
I like the like, like, we're going to abolish the police so then the guy's not a cop anymore.
But then like they want him to go to prison.
Do they also want to like get rid of prison?
So then he's going to get out of prison.
But like, how are you going to?
What?
And who are you going to?
What's going to happen?
Oh, look.
Joel was writing our notes and he actually put that That thread I was talking about about the teachers that were worried.
Yeah.
Matthew RK said this fall virtual class discussions will have many potential spectators, parents, siblings in the room.
We'll never be quite sure who's overhearing this discourse.
What does this do for equity inclusion work?
How much have students depended on the somewhat secure barriers of our physical classrooms to encourage vulnerability?
How many of us have installed some version of what happens here stays here to help this?
That's scary.
Yeah.
While conversations about race are in my wheelhouse and remain a concern in this know-wall's environment, I am most intrigued by the damage that helicopter snowplow parents can do in honest conversations about gender sexuality.
And while conservative parents are my chief concern, I know that the damage can come from the left too.
If we're engaged in the messy work of destabilizing a kid's racism or homophobia or transphobia, how much do we want their classmates and parents piling on?
Wow.
That's kind of frightening.
And again, this is Twitter.
Twitter amplifies the worst people on the internet.
Yeah.
You're the teacher.
Twitter.
Twitter.
Remember, people, before you get all freaked out and angsty, that Twitter amplifies the worst people on the internet.
I always have to remind myself this because I'm like, oh, I can't believe how horrible this opinion is.
It's got hundreds of retweets.
I'm like, oh, wait, these are the worst people on the face of the planet.
Not this guy's.
There's a lot of people.
But there's a lot of bad opinions on them.
Right.
Anyway.
I guess there was like a thing saying that the FBI said that the most common job among Antifa is teachers.
But I guess it was apparently debunked.
It was debunked.
Okay.
So we're fair.
We retract our article.
There's got to be some.
That's not what it was based on.
We were joking about this woman with I Can't Breathe shirt.
No, we weren't.
That was prophecy fulfilled.
No, it was prophecy fulfilled.
I don't know.
I was just trying to figure out.
I was like, is this a known joke that teachers are antifa?
We were trying to nail the joke about like the about this virtual learning thing.
Actually, specifically, it was that threat that kind of did it for me.
It was like these parents are saying, oh, man, what are we going to do?
We got a virtual school and we're trying to indoctrinate your kids.
And now you're going to be involved.
The weird thing to me is how these intellectual types are drawn to mobs throwing cocktails, burning police cars.
Do you hear about, I think we missed talking about this, but they're like the lawyers.
Yeah, yeah.
They like firebombed a police car.
Yeah.
And they got all these charges against them.
And then there's all these like, everyone's like, this is such injustice because I guess their minimum sentence is like 37 years, something crazy.
Which is, that's an intense sentence, but I still have a really hard time feeling this hire for him.
Well, we don't have the tweet here, but the bizarre thing was that reporter that tweeted this out about these two lawyers that threw the Molotov cocktail into the car or whatever.
And he was like, these two smart guys, normal guys, just man or a woman.
Oh, man, just got caught up in the wrong place in the wrong time.
Ended up firebombing a police car.
Molotov cocktail landed in their hand.
Like, oh, that's hot.
That's fire.
I didn't have that in my hand.
I'll throw it in the cop car.
Oops.
Ah, fate has changed.
I mean, I think about myself and all the times I walk by a cock car.
And in different circumstances, if there had been a Molotov cocktail in my hand and I had thrown it, I could have been in prison too.
Could have been you.
It could have been me.
It could have been any one of us.
We are all Je-Sui lawyers.
That's what they always say when like you're unified with France or something.
Like something bad happens to France.
Jesus.
I've never heard that.
I am Paris.
I think when the, what's his name?
Hebdo, when he, when the J-Suis, Paris, or whatever.
J. Suis lawyers.
Yeah, I don't get it.
I don't can't imagine being a lawyer.
That's a big brain vomit of a lot of things just coming up in my head right now.
Anyway, we've moved, yes.
Okay.
So good job, T. Do you feel bad for those lawyers?
No, not at all.
0% bad feeling.
To some, I mean, that's a long time.
It's a long time.
Yeah.
I guess just general human impact.
But they're also lawyers.
They're probably nowhere better to be equipped than fight.
You think that you're going to represent yourselves?
Maybe.
I don't think anybody represents themselves.
Psychos do.
That only happens in the movies when they're like.
No, psychos do.
Are you sure you don't want counseling?
All the serial killer type guys.
It's not sociopath type guys.
I always see them with lawyers.
No?
Well, they try to force them to have lawyers and they keep wanting to not, and they finally just, they hate their lawyers.
But I think, yeah, a bunch of those guys, serial killer guys, they'd end up, and they just make it worse.
They just make it way worse.
Yeah, of course.
You narcissistic type guys, which is what a lot of those guys are.
They can't stand other people talking for them.
That makes sense.
Well, topic of the week.
During an interview this week, we're talking to Kristen Hawkins, president of Students for Life, pro-life organization for students.
Life for students, students for life.
We were trying to get Jane Falcon from Students for Death, but she couldn't come on, so went with the other.
Yeah.
And she also thinks that we're racist.
Yeah, because she loves death.
Because she loves death.
And we love life.
What's happening?
But this is an interesting conversation.
We weren't sure what we were in for.
She was really funny.
I think the best stuff's probably going to be in the subscriber portion personally, but it was a fun chat.
It was good.
So enjoy.
You enjoy.
Treat yourself.
And we'll see after.
After.
And now, the Babylon Bee's topic of the week.
Hello, Babylon Bee listeners.
Ah.
Hi.
Our clothes have changed.
Our clothes have changed because we're recording this on a different day.
Yeah.
Its main topic today is students for life abortion.
This is going well.
The topic you've been waiting for.
The topic you've been waiting that you never talk about.
You never hear about.
That's the hard thing.
We don't want to just not talk about abortion, but it does feel like one of those things that it feels like you just have the flashcards of all the arguments everybody's.
Talking points.
My body, my choice.
Yeah.
And then you respond with.
Life is sacred.
And then I respond with.
Anyway, this is the same thing.
This is Kristen Hawkins responds with.
What's your flashcard, Kristen Hawkins?
Abortion is violence, and it's the greatest human rights threat our world faces.
Silence is violence.
Try to keep it to three, four words, please.
Yeah, flashcard.
Yeah.
We're talking flashcard size here.
Yeah, because that's the air you breathe, right?
The abortion debate.
Or do you get into the debate anymore very much?
You know, it's hard because, to be honest with you, they don't really like to debate.
I actually just did a debate, which I didn't know was the debate, with an abortionist and a pro-choice theologian for a med school group, a Christian med school group in New York State at CUNY a couple weeks ago.
And that was really fun, but it was a Christian event, so I wasn't allowed to debate.
I had to be nice and allow for discussion.
So I had to allow them to say their ridiculous things.
And then I had to wait, you know, a good amount of time to then call them on their flower bed.
So that was a little difficult for me, but it was fun.
Huh.
Yeah, you get a, I assume students for life.
When I think of students, especially, are we talking like college students?
We're talking college, med, law, high school, and even some middle school students now.
Okay.
Yeah.
But especially college age, I don't think.
I think not so much for life.
And also like really angry about it.
They don't ones that are anti-are very passionate, right?
Sure, absolutely.
Yeah, we're definitely the pro-lifers are way more vocal than the pro-abortion students.
Overall, with the polling we've done and the conversations we have on campus, and we had like 225,000 conversations last year with students about abortion.
Overall, they don't like abortion, so they're not going to pull themselves as pro-life, but and they would call themselves more pro-choice, but then they don't actually know what pro-choice is.
And the majority of them would say they don't like abortion, they wouldn't have an abortion, but they're not comfortable being in the pro-life camp.
So it's actually for us, it's more of a brand issue.
Gotcha.
Yeah, it's amazing how many people I think even would just dial the laws back, right?
To like, but we're in this the culture is so extreme right now.
Jump way over here, over here.
Mainly, I was asking that question because I wanted to hear any crazy stories where people are like, hey, you pro-lifers, and they throw like a bucket of blood at you or something.
We, you know, we get crazy stories.
We, you know, ever since President Trump was elected, actually, you can see us statistically increase, you know, in the number of vandalizations and the lawsuits we've had to wage on campuses.
But, you know, as things get closer to the election, it's going to get more intense.
Actually, my last campus I was on a high school, a college campus right before coronavirus struck and shut us down, I was at Cal Poly and I actually had my first parade against me.
And I had this big banner behind me and it said, make abortion illegal again.
And I went before my evening speech and the goal was to drum up some interest in my speech that night because normally, you know, kids don't want to, no one wants to talk about abortion.
So you kind of have to like bait people into coming.
And so I had this banner and I was just walking to people trying to have a conversation with them about abortion.
We were filming it.
But then, yeah, they came out and had this like whole protest and surrounded me and had their chance.
And I had about two hours worth of dialogue and people screaming in my face and calling me every name in the book.
But it was actually a lot of fun and it raised us a lot of money.
So it worked out really well for me.
Have you ever had a brick thrown at you?
No.
I mean, we had students praying actually during the coronavirus out in Bellingham, Washington, who had a mysterious substance thrown on them.
It got pretty hairy.
They were leading the 40 Days for Life effort.
And the substance was hairy or the situation was hairy.
The situation was very scary.
They had several people.
I told you hairy.
Sorry.
Yeah, we had one student got punched in the face.
They had a Satanist come, start screaming, Hail Satan, from her car.
And then she ended up like cyberbullying them for two months.
And then they threw some substance on them.
We had to call the police and they had to investigate.
It was probably the most intense activism we've ever seen from the pro-abortion movement.
And this was, you know, in March during kind of the coronavirus shutdowns and all of those things.
I think it's important.
And I kind of have a challenge sometimes of not telling all these horrible stories because I don't want to have folks not get involved in the pro-life movement because we need more people to be willing to speak out and be courageous.
But then it's important to tell them because it one, it helps us drive supporters and say, hey, like come support this, these students.
Like we need to empower them and give them the resources we need.
And it also gets actually, there's a certain segment of people who go, oh my gosh, this is like, this is crazy.
I do need to actually stand up and say something.
So I kind of, I try not to dwell on the negative too much because overall, the positive is what we see is what is that we're winning.
Yes, there are those insane, crazy stories that we that we sadly have.
So, what does students for life do?
Like, what's it actually look like when you guys all get together?
Sure.
I assume there's like meetings or whatever.
Just what's the, what is it?
Potlucks?
Potlucks, yeah, you know it.
Um, no, we started about 15 years ago.
This is my 15th year.
We modeled the organization off of a political campaign of going to campuses and not waiting for pro-life students to find us, but finding them and helping them start chapters.
So, we serve about 1,250 chapters in all 50 states.
And we work with, so we've got about 50 full-time folks spread out across the country in all the regions.
And we work with those students for life chapters to either start new groups or to mentor and support our existing ones to host events.
So, they're hosting educational events on their campus because we know this is the generation.
I mean, this is the age group that's most targeted by the abortion industry for business, their predatory business.
And so, they're trying to change the minds of their peers, but at the same time, they're also trying to help women who are right there in crisis on their campus.
So, they're attempting to change policies.
So, we have a program called Pregnant on Campus, and that, you know, that's a huge thing of what our Students for Life groups do is actually try to change the policies on our college campuses, even our Christian campuses, to support pregnant parenting women and men.
So, no one ever feels like they have to choose between the life of their child and their education.
All right.
So, you guys want to like make college students be pro-life that weren't?
You want to like convert people absolutely to the position.
So, I mean, have you get what are some good success stories you guys have with them?
Yeah, like crazy pink-haired lady.
Pink-haired lady, it's like, uh, kill all the babies.
And then now they're like, save the baby.
And actually, we have a lot of those folks who end up working for us, the folks that convert who are the hardcore pro-abortion atheist students who came into the pro-life movement, who are challenged, met somebody on their campus who started having a conversation with them.
We kind of have an evangelical model of, you know, it's the strategy is belong, believe, behave on campuses, where we want to invite students in.
And you don't have to agree with us to come to our club meetings or to our events, but we want to invite you in.
We want you to hopefully give the pro-life movement a second look.
Because as I mentioned earlier, there is a certain, even in the evangelical Christian world, you have this like certain like, I don't know if I want to be associated with those pro-lifers.
And so, we have to invite people in to give a second look because once we know people start to form and have a relationship with a pro-lifer in their life, they're probably going to be a lot more likely to actually listen to the words that come out of their mouth.
So, we do have a lot of great conversions over the years of pro-choice young people that we've met on campus who then later become the president of the group and then sometimes end up working for us.
So, there's a lot of fun stories out there.
What about you?
Did you have a conversion story to the pro-life side or were you always?
I was raised with in a pro-life home.
I, you know, I started working at a pregnancy center.
I was asked to volunteer at a women's center when I was 15 from a woman at my church.
And I didn't really know it was a pro-life crisis pregnancy center.
And if you would have asked me then how it was an abortion, I would have been like, well, you know, I think it's wrong, but in certain cases, like this case or this case.
So I was pretty much mushy middle is how we identify kind of pro-choice.
But then I walked into that pregnancy center and really got to meet the women who were directly facing this issue and really meet women, especially who had gone through one or two abortions previously and how really learning firsthand how it didn't actually take them out of poverty.
It didn't solve that problem.
It didn't end the abusive relationship that they were in.
It only exacerbated it and in a lot of cases prolonged those issues that they were having.
So that was the summer when I was 15 where I just remember, you know, going, oh my gosh, like, why aren't we talking about this at my church?
Why aren't we talking about this at my school?
Like, this big thing is happening.
Like, thousands of people are dying every single day.
Yet, no one I know is actually talking about we need to do something about this.
The strange argument that a child being born poor means they shouldn't live.
That seems to be the, I guess you were just talking about, you know, their life is so much better if they just didn't have the kid.
It's never said that.
It's just so many poor people have children and they're fine.
I grew up poor, very poor, low-income housing.
My dad was homeless.
You know, my mom could have aborted us.
She probably would have, you know, gotten to follow her dancing career or whatever she's trying to do.
But she would have won an Academy Award.
Yeah, maybe she should have won an Academy Award.
She could have a Golden Globe, you know.
And we would have been like, oh, so glad you killed us, mom.
Thank you.
But what would you say is the most convincing argument that brings people over to your side?
I guess that's where that would lead you for students, especially for the pink haired girl.
You have to put yourself more into a mindset of a liberal leaning college student.
So it's actually very hard for me to do because I'm a very politically conservative person.
So that's why I actually have a lot of political liberals on my staff who are the, they're the best converters that I have.
These are people who can talk and they're processing the same way as somebody else on campus does.
And they convince them, I think, at a higher, and I can, I know this from our stats, from our conversions, they have higher conversion statistics than our conservatives on staff because they speak their language.
What we're really finding is that on campuses, we talk a lot about violence and we talk about human rights and how this is unjust.
This isn't fair, that these are members of our family, our human family, that science can't deny, right?
Science is definitive that these pre-born children are human beings.
We know that they're alive.
Now, granted, I hear stupid arguments all day long with people saying they're not, it's not a human.
It's not alive.
And those are just scientifically inaccurate statements, right?
So if you, if you're talking to a thinking person, they have to agree with you that it's a, that what's inside of his or her mother is a human being and it is alive, and that if abortionist is successful I mean, think about this way if an abortionist only knows success, if a heart that was beating is now stopped that's what happens in every single abortion a beating heart stops and it's a violent act, it's not a natural act.
And that's what really gets a lot of students thinking, because they get it right.
They've seen the ultrasounds of their brothers and sisters.
They, they know what's inside.
There was actually a really great article in the Guardian Last month.
I mean, it's a pro-choice, very pro-choice-leaning British newspaper.
And they were actually blaming the state of disarray in the pro-abortion movement because of Planned Parenthood's outdated rhetoric because they're still trying to use this.
It's a blob of tissue.
Yeah.
You know, abortion is like having a tooth removed.
Like, it doesn't make sense.
To a thinking young person, they're like, we all know abortion is greater than that.
So talking about violence, talking about justice and fairness, talking about discrimination.
We're going to have this conversation about black lives mattering, which they absolutely do.
Well, then, if you believe all black lives matter, then pre-born black lives matter have to matter, right?
And then that really gets a conversation going.
Yeah, I keep hearing this thing: people that want to abolish the police.
They're like, the police were started to track down slaves, so we should abolish them.
Well, then, how about Planned Parenthood?
That started up to bring down the number of the black people in the community.
So get rid of it.
Yeah, we tried to paint that in the streets of DC and then tried to chalk it.
And two of our students just got arrested for that two weeks ago.
And now I'm trying to do billboards with Planned Parenthood's founders' own statement.
And I can't find a national billboard company who will allow me to buy billboards.
Now, we can force Christian cake makers to bake cakes for weddings they don't support, but we can't force a billboard company to print a factual statement of Planned Parenthood's founder saying we don't want word to get out that what we want to do is exterminate the Negro population.
It's complete insanity, but that's what I'm currently dealing with.
Try to get it on a cake.
You said Negro in quotes, right?
That's a great point.
I should just start ordering that on cakes.
I'm writing that down right now.
I'm crazy enough just to do it, just FYI.
Deliver it to people and charge for it.
Hey, would you like to have a cake that has Margaret Sanger's own words on it?
And then we'll deliver them to Planned Parenthood.
That's yeah, deliver it to people that work in the industry.
Just so you know, read it before you have a slice.
Otherwise, it won't make a lot of sense.
I'm totally doing that.
It's done.
It's happening.
You could do videos.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was great.
That was great.
I did good there.
So you should ask something.
No, I was just thinking, you know, because I love it.
I get to this.
I get to this point, you know, when you discuss this topic and it's like, and it's just the, it's just, it's the flashcards thing.
It's the one side says it's about women's rights and how dare you violate women's rights.
You know, the other side says, well, it's a human, you know, it's, and they're having two completely different conversations.
So when you hit that impasse, I mean, so you're saying that like bringing up the science and pointing out that, you know, this is actually a human that does that work?
I mean, for me, it's always been seems what she's saying is like there's trigger words right now: violence, injustice, unfairness.
Those are much bigger words than unscience-y.
Think about all the are you mansplaining her answers?
No, my thing, I'm trying to mansplain to you.
Are you mansplaining to me?
I don't even get manslaying.
Don't worry about it.
I'm saying that I think what she's saying is the generation right now.
Because think about all the transgender speak.
You can throw all the science you want at them.
If a person says they're a woman, they're a woman because they feel that.
And you got to go with it, right?
And justice, fairness, these are the things people care right now.
It's not fair.
Yep.
So I have to say fairness.
It's childish.
Fairness does not exist.
So I just go up and say justice.
To your point, you will have, like, if I'm doing an event on the campus and during the QA, you'll have somebody come up and like, it's women's rights.
It's women's rights.
And so you've got to change that conversation and say, and say, okay, absolutely, I believe a woman has autonomy over her body.
However, every right that you have has certain limits.
And then I actually try to find common ground with them of saying, well, do you think like two of my children have cystic fibrosis?
We do not go anywhere near cigarette smoke ever.
Like if they smell it anywhere, they're like, what is that smell, right?
Do you think it's okay?
for you to smoke up in a pulmonary ward of a hospital.
It's your body.
You're choosing to put potentially cancer causing drugs into your system.
But do you think you really have the absolute right to do whatever you want with your body, no matter what's going to, how it's going to affect other people's bodies?
No, no one actually believes that.
Now, I have found some people who on campuses will argue for like absolutely anything as long as it's opposite as I am.
But in the process, that my point then is I just try to get a biggest crowd of people around me watching the conversation just to prove my point because it shows just how illogical and how unwilling they are to consider another side.
So it actually wins more.
They win more people over than I do.
So I think it's, you got to, when you're talking about the woman's right to her body, and that always comes up because that's their flashcard.
I think you have to ask them how far they're willing to go in their extremism because nobody I know who, you know, is well-meaning believes that their body really can be used to the detriment of other people's bodies.
And so it always comes down to what is it?
Because what they're saying is, I can do what I want because it's not human and it has no value.
I have more value than it does.
But what is it?
What does abortion actually do?
And so the entire premise of the pro-life movement and every time you do any debate about abortion in the pro-life movement, you're always trying to have to get that discussion back to the very basic question of what is it?
Yeah.
You have to have a philosophy to even, to really debate it.
And then we try to avoid that culturally.
We try to avoid having any kind of philosophy.
We just want to go, what is expedient?
What is going to get the job done?
What's easiest?
What's going to solve the immediate problems?
And it doesn't work when you try to, these are the things that bring it about.
You have to have a philosophy.
What is life?
What is an individual?
I was always curious.
People who are pro-choice believe that the fetus, which just means baby, let's be honest, is a part of their body, right?
Until it comes out, it's as if it's like a thumbnail or whatever.
Can a woman go and get their fetus pierced?
And go to the body piercing shop and be like, hey, can I get a sweet ring gauge fetus piercing?
Some people might actually try.
Can they?
It's just a body part, right?
Any other body part.
You can perform surgery in utero.
I mean, they're correct spine bifida.
Yeah, they'd have to have some.
You could pierce a child, right?
Yeah.
But it's not a child.
Wouldn't that be ethical?
Let's use a trigger word.
Did that human person give consent for their body?
Because look at the argument right now that they're saying about circumcision, right?
When you circumcise your son, you're not giving your son's consent to his own body by circumcising him when he's two days old.
I mean, there's like a legitimate huge sense against male circumcision because of that.
So people should be allowed to decide if they would have wanted to be aborted at a certain age of consent.
Yeah, there you go.
And then you can do it.
Which is kind of how it is retroactively.
For normal people to live.
Do you find that people come over to your side like more gradually?
Or is it like instant light bulb?
Oh my gosh, I never thought about this.
Or is it like a mind blown?
I would say it's definitely a scale.
When I talk about, and we're doing some messaging testing right now and trying to convert these mushy middle women, which is, I think, the hardest audience, the people who say abortion is wrong, I don't like it, but I wouldn't tell my friend not to.
It's, it just makes me want to like bang my head against the desk because obviously you don't get that it's wrong.
Because if you really got it, you would tell people not to do it, just like you would tell your friend not to abuse their child, right?
You wouldn't say, well, I can't abuse my child, but what's right for me?
You know, maybe it's different for you.
It's, oh, it drives me up all.
So we're doing like this $500,000 research study on it right now.
And I see it very linear where it is.
There is the extreme abortion whenever, wherever, taxpayer funded all nine months and maybe even afterbirth.
That's the Democratic Party's actual platform on abortion, just FYI.
And then there's people like me, abortion never.
There's no reason ever for abortion.
And I definitely see it being our line.
We have kids that I've met who've come to our national events, our conferences, and they'll say, well, I still think abortion should be legal in cases of rape.
And I say, really?
You do?
And then we start having this conversation with them.
But the thing is, I'm not really that worried about them because at that point, they've already bought in.
They're already belonging.
And it just takes a little bit longer because that is a harder position to take.
It is, I mean, you have to be philosophically consistent, but that's a hard position to have to defend.
And so it definitely is, I think, a spectrum.
And that's, I mean, that's what we're doing right now this fall on campus is of asking students to take a quiz of where do you actually stand?
Because you might call yourself pro-choice, and I'm not going to debate your label, whatever label you want to give yourself, which you probably have like 15 of them.
But let's just figure out like, where do you actually stand on this issue?
Because the majority of people, vast majority of them, they don't even know how extreme our abortion laws are in our country.
The fact that Roe v. Wade and its companion case won't allow abortion all nine months.
Like I was an NPR a couple months ago and this OBGYN called in, started yelling at me because I'm not a doctor, so I can't talk about this and was debating me that abortion isn't legal in all nine months.
And I was like, naming off abortionists.
I'm like, go to Google, type in Leroy Carhartt, and like type in William Hearn.
Like these are abortionists that commit abortions up into and sometimes in the ninth month.
But people don't, it's so horrific.
Most people do not believe it's actually true.
Yeah.
What are the numbers on that?
Like, I remember when I was looking into it, a lot of states don't say explicitly that you can get an abortion up to nine months.
But if a doctor gives you a reason, then you can.
And there's a lot of doctors, it seems, that are pretty liberal with that.
Yeah.
They can give you any reason they want, right?
11 to 12,000 abortions a year are committed on babies 21 weeks and older.
So these are children that we know can survive outside of the womb.
You know, I had an intern who was born at 21 weeks and five days.
And these are children that science proves definitively can.
It's a young intern.
Yeah.
Yes.
But yeah, no, it was, you're talking about 11 to 12,000 children a year that are aborted after 21 weeks in our country.
So it does, it absolutely does happen.
And, you know, like if you think about children like mine, my two children, two of my children who have CF, 90% of children who are diagnosed in utero cystic fibrosis are aborted.
And this would be something the doctors would say, oh, it's totally, you know, this is acceptable because you're going to eliminate all of this, this suffering.
And it's that misplaced compassion of eliminate the sufferer and not their suffering.
Let's say our listeners are like, hmm, students for life.
Yeah.
Sounds, what if you're not a student?
Maybe you still want to be for life.
So how can they, how can they help your cause?
Yeah, you can sign up and get updates on what we're doing.
We are like the largest pro-life grassroots activism group.
So we've got these 1,250 chapters.
We also have chapters in cities called Pro-Life Future.
And those are people for outside of college.
So we have a lot of young professionals, late 20s, early 30s.
You can join that.
So you can go to studentsforlife.org, sign up, or go to pro-lifefuture.org.
We also have a 501c4 sister organization, Students for Life Action.
So we're knocking on doors, getting folks, calling voters, educating them.
That's studentsforlifeaction.org.
And you can follow us.
I have a podcast, explicitly pro-life on iTunes, Spotify, all those fun places as well.
And what if they hate you?
What can they do to you know what?
Then listen to the podcast and maybe you'll hate me a little less.
I can't guarantee it.
I am very comfortable that not everyone's going to like me.
I'm okay with that.
I know who's image on me, though.
It's okay.
Is there a lot of swearing in it?
Yeah, a little bit, but not so much because we do have a lot of older listeners.
So we did call explicitly pro-life because my staff didn't think I could get through a whole podcast without slipping up at least once.
But I've been pretty good lately.
Can you say a cuss word right now so we can bleep it?
Do you want me to curse you to bleep?
Just say anyone you want, even a mild one.
We'll bleep it because we like to.
Okay.
A constant thought that goes through my head is what the flower bed they think.
Oh, geez.
You went right for it.
I don't ever use that one on the podcast.
Is it turned word?
So unchristian.
Wow.
Sad.
You fell for it.
You know, that's a thing that I am always striving.
I know, Christian, is you're always messing up and you are always falling short of the glory of God.
So I'm comfortable in what I need to work on.
How about that?
I feel like we're tempting Jesus in the desert right now.
Just say the cuss word and all this will be yours.
You fell for it.
Gosh.
You want to bleep it.
I think it'll be actually pretty funny to hear myself bleep.
I've never gotten bleeped before.
We don't get a bleep.
Well, we do a different thing.
You'll hear.
We put a fake word in.
Yeah, we put it kind of like, you know the old cable shows, or they'd make a cable version of a movie and they'd just change, have a voice actor do a different word over it.
That just make me sad.
I can't have a voice actor that comes over and says, usually, says Flower Bed.
It's usually the word.
We have other words too, but that's the popular one, especially for the F word.
Well, I was gonna end this interview just now, but I just looked up your Twitter and you've got a picture of you standing next to Mike Pence oh, hanging out with old Pence.
I suddenly became more interesting to you.
I like it.
Do you have any cool Mike Pence stories?
He's great.
I love Mike Pence.
I lived in Washington DC for about 10 years and I don't really trust most politicians.
I don't really like most politicians.
Now that I go into DC I wanted to get out of DC as fast as possible.
But I really do love our vice president.
He's an amazing human being.
We've done roundtables with him, With our pro-life students.
He just, he really is, he is the real deal, which is so rare when you meet a politician who's absolutely the real deal.
I've become pretty close with his daughter, Charlotte.
Charlie is, and she's fantastic.
She's actually working on a project with us right now on chemical abortion.
And it's just, you can just tell with, you know, when you meet someone and then you meet their family.
Yeah.
So I'm a, I'm a, like, I do kind of fangirl.
Actually, behind me, I have like, I think two or three pictures of Mike Pence.
But I got Dave Matthews and then Mike Pence.
So there you go.
Dave is right here.
He's right here.
He's always, he's always in front.
I'm going to convert him.
He's the one person that I need to convert and then I can retire from the pro-life movement.
So if Trump died, like you would be sad, but kind of a blessing in disguise.
Yeah.
You know, you said chemical abortion.
I just, people that are like pro-choice are generally like, hey, you got to like know on GMO.
You got to be all that doesn't make sense.
You got to eat vegan.
I can't believe it's not meat, burgers, blah, blah, blah.
And they're like, and also boil fetuses and horrible chemicals.
Yeah.
No, chemical abortion is like, it's the drug sweeping the country.
The abortion industry has been.
How's that fit?
They've been like, they literally just sued during COVID that women shouldn't have to go in and get a blood test or an ultrasound or all these things that the FDA recommends for women to ingest.
It's called, it's chemical abortion.
These are chemical drugs that induce abortion.
And then they tell you the way you do, it's cheaper for them because they don't have to pay for the disposal of the body.
So they tell her to sit on the toilet, flush, and don't look.
So we also sometimes call them toilet bowl abortions.
But that's like their new thing.
It saves them a ton of money.
But that's, it's something that we need to be talking about more as Christians and pro-lifers as to why these drugs are, you know, they are abortions.
They use these words like, we're just inducing a miscarriage and you're going to go home and have your miscarriage, which is like the biggest freaking insult to any woman or man who suffered a miscarriage of a child they desperately wanted to say that, oh, it's just a miscarriage.
That's all it is.
Yeah, I guess it's a big deal.
It's so insulting.
So insulting.
So we're talking a lot about that.
I mean, to your point, I actually use on campuses, we have a display called Green Sex, and we actually talk about something called natural family planning because all of these hippies and holistic liberals, they all are about what you said, the impossible burger and eating vegan and all this.
But then literally what they do every single day when they wake up is ingest an artificial hormone and birth control pills and put it in their bodies for decades.
And that we know has long-term lasting effects that like literally changes the way your brain works and who you're sexually attracted to.
But you can't have a discussion about that because that's that's women need birth control and they need abortion in order to be free and in order to achieve what men have achieved, which is the most sexist thing I've ever heard, but I hear it all the time.
You ever think that the United States and the West in general is just a giant pagan sex cult?
We just don't want to admit it.
It's it's it's do you ever think that Kristen?
It's getting back.
I don't know.
That's where they'll compromise, right?
All the compromises come down to free sex.
Oh, you know, like the thing that gets people, there's always like one statement I'll throw out in the room just to like make everybody in the room get really angry with me when I'm speaking on campuses.
And it used to be that there, I would say, well, there's only two genders and like everybody would lose that.
Pterodactyl.
Now, I say on campus is, well, if you're having sex, you have to understand, if you're having heterosexual sex, you have to understand that you are consenting to the fact that you may create a unique whole living human being that's never existed before and will never exist again.
And their minds are blown because no, consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy.
I'm like, but wait a minute, you understand how biology works.
And if you're having, I'm not saying homosexual sex, but I'm saying heterosexual sex, you realize what could happen.
And that freaks them out.
They get so angry because they're saying, no, that's totally different.
Well, no, that's just being an adult and accepting that every action you take has consequences.
Yeah.
Just like the chocolate cake I had today for lunch is consequences that my blood sugar is crashing right now.
But yeah.
Yeah, this ridiculous analogy that no one would ever think of where there's like a cliff and they're like, okay, if you jump off that cliff, there's a whole universe down there that you are going to be responsible for when you land in it, which is amazing, but you just need to count the cost of like, it's a whole life-changing world.
So be careful.
And then they're like, you know what?
I'm going to get some people.
We're just going to wrestle a bunch on the edge of this cliff, but we don't want to fall down there.
We just want to wrestling on this cliff's really fun.
But then what's the abortion around?
Like a parent?
Abortion.
Oh, yeah.
I guess abortion would be just drop a bomb down there, blow up the universe.
Well, they actually, though, they actually referred to abortion as a parachute.
So Lady Parts Justice League, which just had to change their name because it wasn't inclusive enough to people who think that they're women, but they don't have lady parts who can't get abortion.
So they just changed themselves.
Now they're abortion AF, abortion all access front, or you know what AF stands for.
You don't bleed me again.
What does AF stand for?
No, because you're going to chastise.
We have a lot of homeschooled listeners.
They don't know what it stands for.
I'm just trying to inform them.
Well, for their official title, it's abortion access front, but AF stands for, you know what?
I'm not going to say that.
You're your kingdom of the world.
All the kingdoms of the world will be yours.
As fully.
Absolutely fully.
At the fullest.
I feel like we should have a lot of people.
I have an anti-abortion AF shirt this summer.
Yeah, she's fine.
I wear it when I'm in San Francisco.
She'll be good at the table.
We can just go a little bit longer and put it in the subscriber portion because it's a free subscriber portion.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you have a little bit more time or how is time again?
No, I'm good.
Sweet.
Good job, Kristen.
You talk good.
You're a good talker.
Great talker.
You're a great talker.
And we're going to continue that.
Talking about good talking thing.
We talk good more in the subscriber stuff portion.
Are we going to do hate mail?
Yeah, but I just wanted to like say, because it's transitioning out.
Right, right.
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
Yeah.
10 questions and everything.
All right.
it's time for hate mail i really miss adam ford i was confused by this hate mail As always, I think the kind of.
What were they referring to?
Because it feels like we're like.
Well, I'll just let you read it for me.
Well, I think, okay, let's read it and then we'll talk.
Okay.
Complain.
Shame on you for your stupidity in mocking Pastor John MacArthur.
You obviously thought you were funny, but you are pathetic and immature.
These are terrible times.
And Pastor MacArthur is being a true example of salt and light.
And you are disgusting.
You would be smart to take example from the life he has lived and from his efforts to be encouraging during this strife our nation is experiencing.
Instead, you make a play at idiotic jest.
Almost got Shakespearean at the end there.
Idiotic jests.
Make a play at an idiotic jest.
Forsooth, you make play at idiotic jest.
What is she talking about?
Because we're like, you're like a MacArthur sycophant.
Sycophant.
Stand.
If it weren't wrong to worship him, I would.
If it weren't wrong to worship MacArthur, I would worship him.
Like every MacArthur story is always like, MacArthur is Braveheart, or MacArthur is elbow dropping somebody or MacArthur is like Leonidas.
At best, almost God will make fun of him and his opponents or whatever at the same time.
Like the first MacArthur article we ever did was that he builds a wall to keep the charismatics out of his church.
So it's like comparing him to Trump, but doing like, because he's an anti-charismatic.
So it's kind of poking fun at his like anti-charismatic bent.
But where do we make fun of.
But it's something that MacArthur fans would be like, hey, that's funny.
Yeah.
At the same time.
It's kind of like the Trump.
Maybe not this one.
But not this fan.
Yeah, I don't know.
Because nothing we do, like especially lately with all the MacArthur stuff and they've all been like, Newsom's Satan.
Yeah, we all make him in a Newsome.
MacArthur's like Moses.
I'm really curious what story she's referring to.
Leading Grace Community Church to the promised land.
Should have like looked back.
Go down, MacArthur.
Let my people go.
I just watched that video again the other.
Or let my people go thing.
Yeah, and I was like, man, it feels like we made this so long ago.
How long ago was it?
It was a few months ago, right?
But it's just like crazy that we're still in the middle of lockdown and everything.
That's still going on.
I feel like we were so far into it then.
So dumb.
If you guys haven't seen our Go Down, Donald Go Down on the YouTube channel.
Donald.
We did a song.
So anyway, I'm sorry, Annette, who sent us that email.
I'm sorry.
We weren't really making fun of MacArthur.
We like him.
If you haven't noticed, we like him.
And we actually got a lot of people angry at us for talking to Phil Johnson and supporting the church for opening up.
Oh, yeah.
People were mad at us.
I don't know.
John MacArthur calls down fire from heaven to consume prophets of Newsom.
That was one of the most recent.
That's good.
You see, he's like a prophet bringing down fire from heaven.
Comparing him to Elijah.
That's a pretty good thing to compare to.
Pretty good.
We said Newsome sneaks into the church to steal all the hymnals.
So that was a sequel to our Newsom B and the Grinch.
Timing-wise, that seems like that could be it.
I don't know.
Maybe they think that we are being pro-Newsom or something.
I don't know.
You know what?
Maybe it is.
Sometimes in the copy, we'll make a joke about they don't believe in miracles or, which isn't exactly true, but about them being cessationists.
So maybe they like read the copy and said, hey, wait a minute.
This joke's making fun of MacArthur.
Outraged Governor Newsom orders furnace to be heated seven times if John MacArthur will not bow before him or whatever.
So maybe they just saw the Photoshop of MacArthur sitting in flame.
Which is funny because his face is just very straight and solemn as he burns.
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