Jerry Falwell Jr./Netflix Pervs/Top 10 Comedies News Show 8.28.2020
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk about the week's big stories like the news surrounding Jerry Falwell Jr., Netflix trying to normalize pedophilia before celebrities get outed by Ghislaine Maxwell, and how flatulence during lockdown may be leading to a rise in elder abuse. They also do a rundown of their top ten comedy movies of all time, read some hate mail, and talk about infant baptism and lame church websites. Intro We are in The Babylon Bee Autonomous Zone and Ethan has a milestone birthday today! Stuff That's Good Kyle likes Legend of Korra. Ethan likes the Richard Jewell movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Weird News Florida woman arrested after beating her father for his flatulence Colombian authorities on Tuesday arrested two Florida fugitives who are accused of selling toxic bleach as a fake coronavirus cure. Jerry Falwell Jr. officially resigns as Liberty University president, university confirms Woman, 21, posted for sale as joke wasn't funny, say RCMP in B.C. Neighbour's note demands mum limits toddler's time outside as he annoys her dogs Netherlands fights 'wild peeing' with hemp-filled public urinals Bear wanders into California grocery store, steals bag of chips Stealthy thieves steal 330-pound safe from ninja museum Stories of the Week Story 1 Hollywood Elites Rush To Normalize Pedophilia Before They're All Outed By Ghislaine Maxwell Summary: With Epstein's infamous assistant Ghislaine Maxwell awaiting trial and testimony in prison, many celebrities, politicians, and entertainment industry elites are rushing to make pedophilia generally acceptable before they're outed as patrons of Epstein's notorious island. Story 2 California Ends Exploitation Of Workers For Good By Banning All Jobs Summary: California has claimed victory over the horrible abuse and exploitation of workers at the hands of evil employers with a new bill, AB666, which will make it a crime to work for a living. Story 3 Gen Xers Decide To Split Off From Rest Of Society And Form A Utopia That's All Relaxed And Cool And, You Know, Whatever Summary: After years being stuck between the lame boomers and the extra millennials, Generation X has finally decided to do the sensible thing and split off from the rest of society and make a utopia that will be all relaxed and chill and not get worked up over everything. Topic of the Week Kyle and Ethan talk about their Top 10 Comedy Movies Of All Time Hate Mail We encounter a Susan and somebody keeps commenting on the podcast telling us to quit podcasting and go back to being funny. Subscriber Portion Mailbag: Kyle, Ethan, and Producer Dan answer an audio question from subscriber Clarence Thomas Aquinas about infant baptism. He says he only listens to ⅔ of the episodes though. Kyle and Ethan also tackle a question about a church's online presence. Also Mentioned: The R.C. Sproul vs. John MacArthur debate on infant baptism.
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.
Yes, welcome everyone to the Babylon B Autonomous Zone.
I am your warlord, Kyle.
And I am your part assistant to the regional warlord Ethan Nicole.
And yeah, here we are.
We're talking about stuff that's happening.
And guess what's happening today?
Something very important.
What?
Ethan turns 40.
Not today, today.
As you're listening to this, the days of me being 30 are over.
But the days of me being 40 have just begun.
I don't fear 40 like a lot of people.
A lot of people have like nervous breakdowns and kill themselves.
The 1980s.
So you're like, you're kind of tail in of Gen X. Yep.
But not tail-tail in.
Just kind of like in the middle, late middle of Gen X. We'll talk about Gen X. There are some people that say 1980 is not Gen X. Really?
Because I thought it was like 85 was the end of Gen X.
Yeah, I think I tend to think of myself as Gen X.
But my brother was born in 85, and I don't think of him as Gen X at all.
He's millennial.
I think it has to do with the age that you were when the internet came out.
Hmm.
Yeah, so millennial.
I like distinctly remember the internet.
I'm in like late high school when it becomes a thing.
Yeah.
Which is crazy now looking back.
It's like my dad tells me, oh, I remember when they got these things called a TV.
Yeah.
And they had three channels.
And he's like, I remember back when they had three kinds of cars.
That's how he talks.
That's how old people talk.
Yeah.
And the world is better for it.
Thank you, old people.
And you, Ethan, now old people.
Now old.
Is that over the hill?
I thought 50 is over the hill.
You're dragging the average age of the Babylon B writers up.
There's some old 40 guys, right?
Yeah, Doc Fisher's older than you.
Doc Fisher.
I just think Frank is Frank 40 or is he Frank?
Okay.
That's it, though.
Everybody else is young.
I know.
Relatively speaking.
He seems older, but he's not.
No, he's younger than you are.
Yeah, he's younger.
Sad.
Well, guys, this episode may be a little compressed.
We're going to have to talk like Ben Shapiro the whole time so we can get everything in because I got to go to a new office.
We're getting our new office and I have to go do the walkthrough.
Yeah.
And we just spent like two hours with Greg Cochle.
Yeah.
Which is incredible.
That's going to be a great episode.
So let's dive right in.
We're going to go stuff that's good.
But now, this week's edition of stuff that's good.
Kyle, what anime do you like?
What anime do I like?
I don't like any anime.
It's always like gross every time.
I don't know.
This is like atheist anime.
I tried watching the Castlevania anime on Netflix and it was like gross.
It was just gross from the first episode.
That guy, the writer of it, it's very, yeah.
He's always gross.
Yeah.
So anyway, no, I don't like it.
Legend of Korra is what I'm going to talk about.
That's anime, right?
It's not anime because it's American.
It's an American program.
It's definitely styled after anime.
But there's no like weird monsters or tentacles.
That's not what I was going to say.
It's not about like a girl at school, going to high school and finding out she has supernatural powers.
Oh, yeah.
But anyway, so this is a sequel to Avatar the Last Airbender, which I oh, it is?
Yeah.
I don't know that.
Which I just finished and loved.
And me and the boys started watching Legend of Korra.
We're about halfway through.
It's excellent.
I had heard some people say it wasn't nearly as good as the first one.
It isn't as good as the first one because nothing really is.
But it's kind of cool.
They basically move everything from like this ancient kind of Asian society to like a modern city.
Like they've just developed stuff.
So it's like set in the 1910s kind of era of our world, but it's not our world.
It's their world.
With that kind of technology level.
And it makes it interesting.
It's more low fantasy, but it's a lot of fun.
The animation is great.
Even better than the first show because, you know, it's like 10 years later.
They learn some new techniques and stuff.
It's a little smoother.
But it's awesome.
I did hear there was a, they did a little bit of LGBTQ stuff in the very last episode, just throwing in there like, eh, look at this.
Same-sex kiss to make headlines or whatever.
Yeah.
But I hear it has nothing to do with the rest of the episode.
So I'm just going to have the remote ready.
You can't even watch it.
I'll gunsling it.
Well, I got my young boys watching movie.
Can you vidangel that?
Or no?
I'm sure you can.
Whatever it is.
VidAngel is definitely the one you're talking about.
Okay.
All right.
So, Legend of Korra, it's excellent so far.
I'll let you know if that changes.
I just watched randomly.
I was watching, there's a movie called Richard Jewell.
Have you heard of that?
No.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, who always makes good movies generally.
This is a true story about this guy named Richard Jewell, believe it or not, who was a security guard.
He always wanted to be a cop.
One of these guys kind of lives with his mom.
He's into guns and stuff, but he always kind of had this dream of being a cop, but he was just kind of like a mall cop kind of guy.
People, kind of like a Paul Blart, guys that people kind of make fun of.
True story, he was a security guard at this concert in the 90s in Georgia during the Olympics.
There's a big concert going on, and he happens to find a bag under a bench.
And so he calls, gets all the cops around and says, we got to check this bag.
It could be a bomb.
Everybody's like, come on, man.
You're mall cop, whatever.
But they finally get somebody to look at it, and it is a bomb.
They clear out as much as they can, and it goes off.
And only two people die.
But if everyone had been crowded around that bomb, who knows how many?
The other thing that happened is the bomb tipped over when they were checking it.
If it had been set the way it was meant to, it would have had a much bigger radius.
So anyway, the story is about, at first, he's this big hero, unassuming security guard guy finds bomb, and then they start going, what if he planted it?
And the FBI starts thinking he's, that's his profile of this, the white extremist.
And so the whole movie is about a loner trying to make a loner trying to make a name for himself.
The media runs with that.
And so they get just like destroyed, hammered by the media and the FBI, playing games with them.
And it just really shows this, like, the insanity of our media and the way that we create these.
It's just so messed up, what they did to his life.
And then they, of course, later found it.
No, he didn't do it.
So anyway, it's a great movie.
Totally worth watching.
Awesome.
This is on Netflix.
I saw this on HBO.
I have the HBO.
I'm going to ask if I could borrow your Netflix login.
Oh.
Watch it.
You borrow my Amazon.
I've got an Amazon.
Okay.
So, all right, cool.
Richard Jewell.
This has been stuff that's good.
This news is weird.
All right, Rapid Fire.
We got to Rapid Fire this weird news.
Florida woman arrested after beating her father for his flatulence.
I'm not laughing because it's not funny.
Because elder abuse is real, and it's actually a crazy issue.
I have to get more detail.
Elder abuse, he was 59.
She's 40.
He's 59.
It's not like he's as ancient.
I can't imagine having a parent that close to me in age.
My dad was.
Okay, so I'm going to turn 40.
I was born when my dad was 40, so I'm finally going to hit the age that my dad was when I was born.
I can't imagine that.
And I'm like, well, he has one daughter older than me.
She was arrested at home near Tan.
It's Florida, of course.
Police were called to the home just after 2 a.m.
She's trying to sleep.
A heated argument ensued between the pair with the verbal altercation allegedly quickly turning physical.
She punched her father numerous times in the face.
Where's the flatulence?
The attack left the victim left eye.
She was incensed by his excessive flatulence inside their home.
Dude, his flatulence while she was trying to sleep.
Stop farting.
Basically.
Bam, bam, bam.
Sad.
Well, just talk it out, guys.
You know, punch each other for Colombian authorities on Tuesday arrested two Florida fugitives who are accused of selling toxic bleach as a fake coronavirus cure.
This is like a wild Florida.
This is like a wild story.
Yeah, it's another Florida.
I guess these guys have been at this for years or something.
Why was it Columbian authorities?
Because they fled to Columbia.
Oh, they fled to Columbia.
They're selling a cure in Columbia?
No, I think they were selling it in Florida.
In Florida.
They were shipping their Miracle Mineral Solution or MMS to customers across Columbia, the U.S., and Africa.
And it's this bizarre story.
You got to actually go in and read the story.
So I looked this up.
Maybe we'll have a link to it or whatever.
But because he did this whole thing by pretending to be this church.
He's like, we're the non-religious church.
And like, that's how they guarded their toxic bleach shipping activities.
There's a good movie.
Netflix show idea in here.
Wow.
Yeah.
People must have been dying, right?
So they've long marketed this as a miracle cure-all for other disease and disorders, including Alzheimer's, autism, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and HIV.
So I guess they've been selling this for a long time, and now they said, no, it actually creates coronavirus, too.
So I don't know whether this is an actual headline or something.
I just typed this in.
Okay.
This is Kyle's headline.
After taking a photo with a pregnant woman with his pants undone on a yacht, Jerry Fowlwell Jr.
Exposes being cool with a bizarre sexual affair his wife was having with a pool boy.
Lol, you read lol like a gen X guy lol lol, and you're so like, reluctant to say it.
I hate it.
Yeah, so we could have covered this in Babylon Beast stories or something, but I figured it fit weird news.
So he likes watching his experiencing his wife in relations with a pool boy.
That's real, that's the current story.
Wow, that's strange.
That's not giving conservatives or Christians a good name.
I would say not.
I would say that does not excuse me.
That's like.
So that's playing it as some weird stereotypes.
It was one of those stories that just got weirder and weirder because there was the picture of him.
Did you see the picture of a few weeks ago?
He's like got his pants in button, he's got a beer or something and he's on this yacht with this dick, with her midriff exposed, and he's like which anybody else you'd be like?
Oh, it's just normal, that's spring break or something.
Yeah, it's normal, dude, if you know the rules of liberty university well, just being like a public Christian, but like the standards that are supposed to be held right.
Sure, there's a lot of flip red flags there?
Well yeah, a lot of understatements here.
Woman 21 posted for sale as joke wasn't funny.
So someone in her family, Actually, posted her for sale.
This has happened before.
I've read these news stories before where people will say, you know, boy, if you don't pick up your sell you to the black market, I'm going to sell you.
And then they'll list them on eBay.
Like as a joke or like punishment, look, you're listed on eBay.
Just, you know, fake, but then they'll get arrested.
You should probably not do that.
Yeah.
So why was she posted for sale?
Did it say I didn't?
They just found the on the thing.
They're like, hey, you can't sell people.
It's not even funny.
Yeah.
So it was a joke.
Yeah.
And she's like, they're like, sorry, kidding.
Just kidding.
Neighbor's note demands mom limits toddlers' time outside as he annoys her dogs.
What I like about this one is the note from the neighbor.
This lady is clearly one of those people that prioritizes dogs over human life to like a like an extent that is almost like unfathomable to a normal person.
Read the note.
What is it?
So, dear neighbor, you just moved into this neighborhood a year ago, and I wanted to give you time to correct this problem on your own.
Very nice.
Because the kid's been noisy and generous.
That's the problem, yeah.
The toddler, which anybody is a toddler.
But you're apparently too inconsiderate to do so.
Every day this week, when weather has been nice and windows are open, you proceed to let your small child run free in your backyard and laugh and giggle and carry on without end.
This is very disruptive for my two dogs and my bird, who sits next to the window and like to look into the yard.
Perhaps you could ask him to tone it down a bit or at least limit his outside time to 15 to 20 minutes a day so my dogs can be outside without seeing him running around.
If this kind of behavior persists, all caps, I will call the police.
This is bizarre, man.
Bizarre.
Like you want someone to keep their toddler indoors for all but 15 to 20 minutes a day on a nice day.
And she thinks that's reasonable because her parrot needs to look out the window.
And clearly, this person does not have kids.
Has never had a kid.
Has never watched a kid.
Never understand.
And she probably thinks it's like having two dogs and a parrot.
It's pretty easy.
You just got to let them out.
You just put them on a leash, stick them in their little kennel.
Bring them back in.
You just offer them a little steak.
Wow.
Netherlands fights wild peeing with hemp-filled public urinals.
Yeah, so these are not a urinal in a bathroom.
If you click the picture, you can see there's a urinal out on the street with like hemp plants in it because they have these problems of people just peeing out in the open in public.
In the Netherlands.
So they're just like, oh, we'll just put urinals out here.
They're filled with hemp?
What's hemp?
What's the point of that?
I don't get what the hemp is just to be organic or something, I guess.
It's hemp.
Pretty much if you put hemp on something, then people are like, oh, okay.
It's good for the environment or something.
So the inventor of the green pea urinals.
He can do anything.
Like, I just cut this man's head off with a hemp knife.
Oh.
So good for you.
This guy, the inventor of the green pea urinals.
The green pea.
Said this.
The result was there was a 50% reduction in wild peeing.
Wild.
Wild pee.
That was a great success.
So there's like, you know, normal peeing.
Respectable peeing.
Just peeing with your, you know, your shoulders back and your chest out up straight like Jordan Peterson peeing.
Jordan Person tells you to.
And then there's the wild peeing, which I imagine is like Nick Nolte after an insane night of, you know, cutting his face off and replacing it with John Travolta's face.
You alright?
Yeah.
You shouldn't be doing that.
You're 40 now.
Yeah, I'm getting too old for this.
Getting too old for this.
Yeah, wild peeing.
So the urinal somehow, maybe that's the hemp, the hemp calms them down.
This guy's walking up.
He's like, I'm going to take the wildest pee this side of the Mississippi.
And all of a sudden, the hemp fumes.
He's like, bro.
He just takes like a nice, respectable urination.
Urination.
Bear wanders into California grocery store, steals a bag of chips.
I mean, I really.
Yeah.
Have you ever stolen anything from a grocery store?
You ever heard a little rebel?
No, I wasn't.
I used to steal when I was a freshman in high school.
They had like the 12 packs of soda out front in stacks, like outside the store.
And like, I would like rip one open and pull a can out and just like, yeah, bro, it's my, I just stole a soda.
It was like the 25 cent sodas, you know, Safeway Select.
Yeah.
And one time I stole the whole 12 pack.
The guy with a mullet caught me that runs a store.
They like dragged me out in there in front of everybody and said, you can never come in here again.
We're going to take your picture.
And the weird thing is, I don't think my mom was contacted.
I think she did find out.
I can't remember, but I remember being like, yeah, I'm done with stealing.
This sucks.
Good thing you got caught early.
Yeah.
My wife says that they used to steal stuff at the 7-Eleven by they would get the big Slurpee and stuff candy bars inside of it.
And then you go pay for the Slurpee.
Oh, it was Tostitos, the kind of chips the bear got.
It's a good advertisement.
This feels like a Tostito's Super Bowl commercial.
Yeah, I love the bear just walks in, grabs a bag of Tustita.
Hold it up to the camera.
Yeah.
He should have got some salsa or something, though.
Yeah.
Dumb bear.
Bears are idiots.
Stealthy thieves steal 330 pound safe from ninja museum.
This has to be a huge embarrassment to the ninja community that these thieves are able to sneak in and steal a 330 pound safe right from out from under their noses.
So I don't know if the Ninja museum has ninjas in it or if it's run by ninjas or where are the ninjas?
Just remembering ninjas?
Are they gone now, dedicated to the history and practices of ninjas?
But is anybody there still a ninja?
Or is there any ninjas in the glass cases you wouldn't know they're hiding well, obviously.
Obviously there's not just revealed.
There are no ninjas.
There was ten thousand dollars in the safe.
Yeah, that seems like a lot of work for ten thousand dollars to split up between how many guys.
I feel like the days of like that cool bank robbery where you bust in, take the money, are they're gone like you just do it online.
Now you do.
Why, of all museums, the Ninja museum?
Why don't go to like the the Bakery?
YOU Museum Museum OF Knitting or something, something that like is more you know.
You just don't want to risk that they they might have ninjas there.
They have their little gangster meeting.
It's like I got a new job for us.
Yeah, all right boys, holds up, puts the plant on the wall.
The Ninja museum, did they expect?
Maybe they expected something way cooler in the safe?
Oh yeah, we're gonna crack that baby open.
There's gonna be like a jeweled dragon head with jewel eyes that like, when you like rub it, everybody immediately gets ninja powers.
Yeah, possessed by the spirit of the emperor, the Susetsuken kung fu tribe.
It was just money.
Which is from Double Dragon?
Oh.
Yeah, I knew that.
All right.
That news is pretty weird, but let's do some satirical news.
Let's do it.
Every week, there are stories.
These are some of them.
With Epstein's infamous assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell, awaiting trial and testimony in prison, many celebrities, politicians, and entertainment industry elites are rushing to make pedophilia generally acceptable before they're outed as patrons of Epstein's Centorious Island.
So they're trying to.
Get on it, writers.
Get in here.
We need to make some, just write me up some pitches.
The culture's right here on pedophilia.
We got to move that origin window, right?
Got to move the window.
Yeah.
Make it acceptable.
Pedophilia's down at about a zero.
We need it up at about an eight.
It's like we need the broke back mountain of kids.
The, the, was broke back, what'd you call it?
Foothill.
Like, what's the big cultural thing that changed the view of the culture?
Like, you look back on.
For like same-sex marriage.
Yeah, or for whatever.
Or racism.
Queer eye for the straight guy.
What was the show, Will and Grace?
Yeah.
So we need like Will and I'm not going to say anything.
Yeah, nothing you say could be good.
So Netflix came under fire this week for the promotion and release of Cuties.
Cuties.
Which is a French film.
It's kind of interesting.
I was looking into it, and I guess this movie wasn't supposed to.
It wasn't like saying, you know, sexualization of young girls is awesome.
Yeah.
It was trying to say that it's bad.
Right.
But in the process, they hired 11-year-old girls as actresses and had them dance and all these like provocative.
And then Netflix really came under fire because they put up this crazy poster of them all like twerking.
Yeah.
Is that twerking?
Twerking?
Twerking's on your butts going up and down.
Okay, I'm not going to do that.
I would rather you didn't.
So, you know, if you're going to make a movie that criticizes the hypersexualization of young girls, you could probably do it without hypersexualizing young girls.
They have my sympathy because it's the hard thing.
It's like, if you're going to tell a story against something, you have to depict it.
Like, if you're going to tell a movie about slavery, you have to depict some slavery.
So it's weird.
But you're not actually enslaving the actors when you do it.
Right.
So the problem is if you try to do that, you're going to have to do the sexual stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because that's what you're criticizing.
That's what you're trying to criticize.
This is what I call the Hunger Games problem.
Maybe you should do a documentary on that one.
Yeah.
So that's why I call the Hunger Games problem because the Hunger Games, I love the books.
Movies were okay.
But the problem was that they're trying to say that violence and the glorification of violence and like everybody watching violence and rooting for your guy is bad.
Well, how do you make a movie about it?
You have these teenagers actually killing each other.
Well, not actually.
You're rooting.
Yeah.
And you're rooting.
You start rooting for the characters.
Yep.
So it's hard to do it without supporting the very thing you're trying to.
So you canceled Netflix.
I did cancel Netflix.
Because I'm sensitive.
Snowflake about pedophilia.
My wife's been watching.
What's she been watching?
Little Fires Everywhere.
And yeah, it's a very woke.
You can tell it's supposed to be.
It feels like it's almost like trying to indoctrinate the middle-class white lady into being more woke.
And I just, I find it really weird how often and how freely Hollywood depicts high school sexual intercourse.
Yeah.
All the time.
neck like it's so normal and it's just like that would be like you could have that How is that not childborn?
Like, what?
Like, that you have these high school actors supposed to be.
They don't show them like, I guess, but they still.
Oh, that looked even depend?
Depict nudity.
Depect some nettedity.
Sure, the actor is actually 18, but they're.
Depicting.
They're supposed to be showing a high school actor.
I just don't get it.
Obviously, the people making these are like older people.
So I just can't imagine being the guy who's like in his 30s or 40s.
Like, all right, let's do another scene with the 15 and 16 year old.
It's kind of creepy when you think about that.
Incredibly creepy.
Someone sitting behind the camera filming this for these shows.
And do it again.
Another take.
And even if they think that's how kids are, like, why are we?
They're always the ones worried about normalizing.
It feels like the philosophy of Hollywood is what we put on TV normalizes.
Right?
And so why are they like bent on normalizing that?
It makes me feel very dubious of their intentions.
It's bizarre.
So yeah.
Ghislaine.
How do I say Ghislaine?
I don't know.
Ghislaine.
I don't know if that's correct.
She's going to, she's got a list.
I wouldn't feel bad if I mispronounced your name.
Yeah, that's so bad.
So, well, story two.
Story number two.
California has claimed victory over the horrible abuse and exploitation of workers at the hands of evil employers with a new bill, AB666, which will make it a crime to work for a living.
Nice.
Back to you, Kyle.
No more working long hours.
No more not getting overtime.
No more getting ripped off.
No more hating your boss.
No more sexual harassment in the workplace.
It's all gone.
It's all gone.
Solved.
It's actually like barely satire.
Just barely.
This is actually what they did with the gig economy with AB5.
Lorena Gonzalez's bill.
I don't know.
Lorena!
So Lyft is being forced to stop all operations in California.
Yeah, and by the time this podcast comes out, I don't know if they will or not because it keeps going back and forth with injunctions and orders and blah, blah, blah.
And the course.
Is it just the Uber has more money or something?
They can like.
No, I don't know what the Uber status in California is.
But I think Uber and Lyft, both of their status in the future in California is being jeopardized by this.
I believe both of them are looking to shut down.
But I know Lyft was the recent one where they said we're shutting down on Friday.
And then they got some injunction relief to take another week or two.
So I don't know when this comes out.
We may be in a hellscape by the time this comes out with no Uber or Lyft.
I love Uber, man.
Yeah, I use Uber all the time.
I never used to take a taxi.
I thought it was weird to rent a car to go here to here.
And then Uber came out and I was like, oh, I can just go here.
Touch it.
It's 10 bucks.
Great.
You know, it's just seemed.
I don't know.
I feel like there's a weird disconnect the people here that think that every single job of any kind, no matter what it is, has to pay a living wage, has to provide health insurance.
It's like, do you not live in a reality where most homes, not every single person in that home has to have a living wage?
There's kids in the home, teenagers, that just need some extra income so they can learn how to work.
There's maybe the wife or the husband isn't the main income person.
They just want to make some extra money.
Whatever it is, the idea that every single job has to be living wage seems to me to be like it's from disconnect from a person who's grown up giving everything to them.
Like, is it privilege that leads someone to think that?
Because they look at, oh, it would be so terrible to work for that little amount of money.
I mean, I grew up working all jobs like that.
I started out paper routes.
My mom worked tons of jobs like that.
So you think this comes from a place of like bratty rich kids becoming part of the business?
Just because they can't ever imagine living, in their mind, it'd be so horrible.
It'd be the same as being homeless or something to not earn a living wage.
At least, because to them, that's the least everybody should have, right?
Yeah.
Because they got so much more than that.
Although, who is it that said that the actual minimum wage is always zero?
Yeah.
Because once these minimum wage laws pass, you lose the jobs and now you're donating it.
Yeah, I don't know.
And then also, it's one of those loaded terms, living wage.
So if you're against it, what do you want?
The dying wage?
I like the wage that kills people.
He's very clever at painting things in terms.
The murder wage.
I like the murder wage.
Yeah, so that's like they're doing a debate on CNN and they have the pro-living wage person and the anti-living wage person.
Yeah.
For the living wage.
And now for the murder wage, we turn cheese.
And living wage is different for everybody.
Yeah.
It's so frustrating.
So what was your chief, the lowest paying job you ever had?
Besides Babylon B. Hmm.
I did Chris.
I mean, I had a store for seven bucks and $6.50 an hour.
I mean, I did paper out for like years.
It's a quarter.
Like they gave you a quarter.
Don't spend a dollar.
You got a sack on both sides, you're carrying around little papers.
Yeah.
It wasn't much money because I started doing when I was like 10.
So I did probably 10 till pretty much until almost as close as to when I could get a job in high school at 15.
I got my first job as a dishwasher.
I think minimum wage was around like $4.75 at that time.
Yeah, it was right around it.
It wasn't $5 yet.
It was almost $5, I think.
I wonder, did all this whole movement, the anti-gig economy thing, did that come from Uber drivers?
Like, were they upset?
And they're like, we need to protest to get all these benefits.
Probably some.
Or did it come from the top, like you said, these politicians that are pushing it because they're pro-union or something?
There's probably some, and there's probably, I imagine there's Uber drivers that say that, but they don't think about what that actually means.
We need to ask Kira Davis.
She's big on this.
She's really big on this.
We should talk to her about this.
Yeah.
Darn.
Didn't think of it.
All right.
Well, are we ready for our next story?
I guess so.
Feels so rushed, but I mean.
It is so rushed.
Well, there's a quote I got here about it.
Let's read that.
Opponents point out that under a new regime, no longer will freelancers be able to make their own hours.
That's something you don't think about.
Avoid nasty supervisors.
Take on projects of their choice rather than being assigned tasks they prefer to avoid and work multiple jobs at the same time if that's what you want to do.
Like some people actually are fine.
They want to do that.
Nor could they earn extra income in times of financial emergency and have the convenience of flexible work hours while in school raising a family.
Which, yeah, for instance, you have a job and you're like, we're not quite cutting it.
I just, I could do some Uber this week and even it out.
But you can't do that.
You have to.
I don't know.
Yeah, it's stupid.
My wife did the Uber Eats thing for a while.
And it was just, it wasn't something she wanted to raise a ton of money to.
Steal a fry now and then?
Yeah, of course.
Sneeze and things.
You take one slice of pizza and you even it all back out.
We had an Uber East driver that pulled up and he was like, he still had the drink in his cup holder.
And then I was like, oh, you forgot the drink.
He's like, oh, oh, you want it?
And we're like, yes.
What did you drink from it?
Like, he was all disappointed that we didn't just say, just keep the drink.
Sad.
But no, my wife did the Uber East thing, and it was like, she wasn't trying to support the whole family.
She didn't need a full-time job.
It was like she dropped the kids off at school and she's like, well, I got a couple hours.
Yeah.
So earn a little money to get her nails did.
I think the big thing is they hate to see people working for low amounts of money and then this company making all this money.
It's the injustice.
I don't know.
Is Uber and Lyft even profitable?
I heard somewhere that they were like, it's a loss-leading thing that they're trying to build up to make a profit in the future, to sell the company in the future.
Like a lot of those tech startups do.
I don't know.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't.
Interesting.
Next story.
After years being stuck between the lame boomers and the extra millennials and the extra millennials, Generation X has finally decided to do the sensible thing and split off from the rest of society and make a utopia that will be all relaxed and chill and not get worked up over everything.
You know, whatever.
Are you feels like move to the are you going to move to the Gen X utopia?
Are you just like, eh, whatever?
I don't see Gen X this way at all.
Really?
This is a Frank Hedler.
Frank Filomi.
And I guess Frank is Gen X.
He is.
It's weird.
It's weird because people never say Gen X.
It's always boomer or millennial.
So my theory is we've just ignored the term Gen X.
And if you lean more boomer and you're Gen X, you get called Boomer.
If you lean more Millennial, you get called Millennial.
Well, I know they're both kind of just derogatory terms at this point.
That's true.
If you're more old-fashioned, you're a boomer.
But that does kind of support this idea because the Gen X is like, fine, whatever.
Boomer, cool.
Millennial, whatever.
There's no pride in.
I thought it was just the idea.
I thought that the idea of this article was the Gen X is just kind of like, eh, whatever.
Who cares about all this stuff?
Well, it's true, though.
Because if you're like, hey, most of my Gen X friends are like, no, maybe half.
There's a lot of woke ones still.
That's the thing is they're divided.
Some lean more old school and some.
So maybe that's it.
The Gen X is kind of like an empty, soulless.
Because they were all this.
All we cared about was like suicide and Kirk Cobain and suicide was cool.
All we cared about was Kirk Cobain and suicide.
No, we thought suicide was cool because he didn't.
Yeah.
So we'd all like, yeah, like cutting stuff.
Or wear like a cool shirt with like a something, make everybody feel like you're really depressed.
Does it?
But it was cool.
Does it make any sense, though, to classify an entire group of people based on you guys were born in this 25-year period?
Yeah, that's true.
And also a lot of Gen Xers weren't Kirk Cobain, right?
Well, I guess they still had.
Yeah, Pearl Jam.
I was young, but they were older.
But yeah, Pearl Jam, Kirk Cobain.
Yeah, I don't know.
The generation thing has always eluded me.
And like that.
I guess I always tend to see, I tend towards the individualistic and look like everybody's an individual.
But I guess there are these large societal forces that pull people this way or that way, depending on the culture.
Yeah, I do find generations to be such an overgeneralization that they're hardly worth talking about most of the time.
But there's definitely impacts.
There's definitely an impact that having the internet invented has on human beings of some kind.
So you wouldn't move to the Gen X society.
But I also think I've heard it said that the age of your parents has a lot to do with how you fit into that.
That's probably very true.
My parents are very much older than a lot of my friends' parents.
That's probably why I'm a little more old-fashioned.
Spencer Goodman, one of the organizers of the new utopia, said, Hey guys, I don't want to make a big deal out of it, but you guys want to make our own country?
And all the other Gen Xers kind of shrugged and said, whatever, which is exactly the kind of energy we want.
In this new nation, only people from Generation X will be allowed.
There will be no more screaming about daily outrages, as everyone is just going to be chill and maybe listen to some Nirvana while they do their jobs or whatever.
As for the ideology of the country, they say any politics are fine as no one gets all worked up about it.
This relaxed utopia is already said to be a million times better than the constant shrieking of regular society.
The inhabitants are already describing it as, eh, it's okay.
I guess my problem is that I associate Gen Xers with where I'm from, Portland.
And Portland and Seattle are very Gen X.
I mean, that's like Portlandia when they say it's as if the world got stuck in the 90s and just stayed there.
Like we look at where Portland's headed right now, like what's happening in Portland.
So that would be the Gen X.
I don't think that's mostly teenagers.
When I watch those videos, they're older.
Do you think a Gen X is like doing these protests?
There's a lot of Gen X. They're not all young, right?
If you look at them, there's a lot of older people in that.
They're not old, not old, but like in the late 30s and stuff.
Are we systematically dismantling Frank's?
And then they set up, they laid the groundwork for Portland's been pretty messed up for a while.
This is just sort of the outpouring of that.
It seems to me.
When I live there, I was like, I don't know how this place is holding together.
These people are ridiculous.
Somehow.
At some point, they're just going to start burning everything, I think.
I didn't say that, but it makes sense.
You see the madness in the streets in Portland, you go, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
Because they're ridiculous.
That's about all.
Yeah.
So you look at the burning and you go, yeah.
Because I used to always walk around and go, there are so many ridiculous people in this city that have such a messed up view of everything.
And I don't know how they like they don't even know how to run their own lives.
Like they can't even pay their own bills.
They're walking around like they're like, you know, 38 with a skateboard or whatever, wallet chain, and like talking about how the world should be changed.
I'm like, what?
And then I'm like, how is it?
Like, is it just, are we just lucky that the people that are like running companies and government in Portland are not those people?
Because there's a ton of them here.
And now it's like, oh, okay, no, yeah.
Portland's messed up.
Generation X destroyed.
I won't shoot it.
I'm no fan of my own generation.
So Dan doesn't have to do any work.
All right, we're going to go to our topic of the week.
We're going to count down our favorite comedies.
Do you have them ranked?
You're supposed to.
No, I didn't rank them.
I'm not ranking.
I hate ranking.
All right.
Well, we're just going to talk about our 10 favorite comedies.
You're going to find out some great comedy movies.
Yeah.
Except mine are more basic.
All right, let's do it.
And now, the Babylon Bees topic of the week.
All right.
Well, here's our 10 favorite comedy movies.
I could be about a bonus one or two.
I'm only solid on about half of these.
Wow.
Well, I like all of them, but I'm saying that I could be convinced to change some out.
I'm sure they'll find some I forgot about.
I know there's some I forgot about.
So all right.
I just thought of one.
Dang it.
I'm going to open with Top Secret.
Oh, yeah.
I was going to put that on there.
1984 movie starring Val Kilmer.
It's one of those guys.
Made by the airplane guys.
One of those screwball comedies with all the weird visual gags.
Yeah, gags that were expensive for a really dumb.
You can pull off this one little thing.
There's a scene where the guy's sitting there with his feet up on the desk and he's doing this.
And you can see his shoes.
And then he stands up and his shoes are still there.
There's just shoes on his desk.
Yeah.
You know, it's just a single one.
Looks like there's a phone in the foreground ringing.
Yeah.
And the guy walks up to it and it actually is just a massive phone.
It's actually a giant phone.
That's so much work.
Because I've been on, even just when I worked in VeggieTales, you have a joke that's going to cost money.
Yeah.
You have a whole room of people staring at you.
So you have to have the guys at the very top.
That'd be amazing to have that kind of power.
Yeah.
To be like, this is my stupid dad joke.
And you're all we're hiring contractors.
So top secret, it's kind of a hidden gem, but it didn't do as well as an airplane or anything.
It was a couple of little gross things.
Just assume that for all these companies.
Yeah.
Top secret.
Except for Duck Soup, Marx Brothers.
Better Time.
Is this Marxist?
The Marx.
Not Marx, not that Marx.
I might check this one out.
I've never seen any Marks Brothers.
This is one of my favorite.
It's probably my favorite Marks Brothers movie, but it's also because it was my first got into the Marx Brothers.
It was the first ones I saw.
Are they talkies?
Yeah.
They talk.
This one, they are in a country called Fredonia.
And I can't remember exactly how it works.
I should just look up this synopsis.
But they basically make this idiot Groucho Marx the ruler.
I can't remember the excuse for it, but then they end up going to war and he's just this buffoon that's trying to lead a whole country.
And it's kind of one of those things, kind of like the producers or whatever.
They kind of put an idiot in charge to try to pull something off and it all falls apart.
But the amazing, the dancing, the singing, the talent that these guys have.
There's so many visual gags and it's such simpler comedy because they can't do it.
But it's also like for its time, insanely produced, like amazing, huge song and dance numbers with all these people.
But also just the gags.
There's just so many little gags.
Even in every line, it's very well thought out.
It's a different kind of comedy than the shock comedy that we're used to.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm going to mention that thing you do, which is kind of kind of part comedy, part that's a dramedy.
It's a, yeah, I wouldn't even call it drama, maybe a little bit.
It's just your classic rags to riches success story type thing, right?
Okay.
Musical, some good songs.
I remember laughing during it.
That thing you do is probably, well, I probably see it more as funny because it is the most quoted movie in my family.
Oh, really?
We just have all the random lines, the lines you don't even wouldn't even think of as funny.
Table 19, your pizza's ready, you know, all that.
Like, it doesn't, it's just dumb.
Okay.
But it's highly recommended.
It's a really well done.
Of all the movies where there's like a band that gets their song picked up and they get famous and then, you know, they find out fame isn't all it's cracked up to be.
That's my favorite one.
Well written, well acted, well cast.
That thing you do.
City Lights, Charlie Chaplin.
I don't know if I'm going to have seen any of yours, man.
City Lights is like a very special movie.
If you haven't seen a Chaplin film, it's the first one to see.
It's very romantic, too.
It's hilarious.
Is it a talkie?
It is not.
I'm going to have to ask this about all your stuff.
This one is not a talkie.
This is purely mimed.
But it's a beautiful story.
Charlie Chapman plays a homeless guy, a tramp.
He finds this woman who I can't remember.
She's a flower girl.
And he falls in love with her.
But he wants to convince her that he's a rich guy.
So he finds ways to make it sound.
He's miming what a rich man would do so that she's convinced that she's interacting with a rich guy.
So the whole story is about him trying to find a way to live up to this.
And then there's some, I don't know, I don't give it the ending.
It's very, it's one of the best endings, but it has all these things.
He's in the boxing ring.
Just great physical comedy.
And when you watch it, you go, oh, all of these jokes have been stolen.
They say, hey, there's Charlie Chaplin guy who stole all these jokes.
Yeah.
But it's also just a really good.
I cried.
It's a great, it's one of the best.
All right.
Well, my movie is a talkie.
It has sound and it has color.
And it's called UHF starring Weirdo.
And starring and written by Weird Al.
Yeah.
Maybe directed by, I don't know.
But fantastic.
Another weird screwball early 90s, late 80s movie.
It's basically like Weird Al had all these parody ideas in his head.
Yeah.
Of not just parodying songs, but wanting to parody TV shows.
So he came up with the weakest narrative excuse to do that.
Yeah, it's just a vehicle.
Oh, I guess I inherited a TV station or something.
But here's all this program.
Here's all these parodies.
Some great parodies like Conan the Librarian who slices you in half if you're late with your books.
His Rambo parody is great where he gets shot at and he chews in the bullets up and spits them back.
And some great physical jokes.
And Weird Al is just hilarious.
The amazing thing to me about that is a lot of times comedies from that period, my kids don't, they're lost, you know.
My kids didn't get it.
Oh, really?
My kids were dying laughing on UHF.
Like, I've never seen them laugh so hard.
They were crying.
But they were already Weird Alfans.
Are your kids Weird L fans?
No, although they did like, I just showed them Trapped in the Drive-Thru.
Okay.
And they're like saying, This is so dumb, Dad.
But they're going the whole time.
Shaolin Soccer.
You ever seen that?
I don't even know.
I don't even know about it.
So Steven Chow, he did, which I also want to put this on there.
Kung Fu Hustle.
You ever seen that?
Yes, I have.
Okay.
So he did.
This is a movie for Kung Fu Hustle.
And it's about a soccer team who learns Shaolin Kung Fu to play soccer.
And it's like anime soccer, basically.
It's insane.
It's just, it's one of the most bonkers movies.
And it just keeps delivering.
It has some of those bizarre jokes that are like, you know, Asian humor is hard to like, what?
It's so weird.
So it has a lot of those moments where it's just funny because it's weird, but then also just massive kicks so hard that the entire soccer field is being plowed up and men are being thrown.
And Steven Chow, the director, is so good at that, like human looney tunes type stuff.
If you've seen Kung Fu Hustle, there's some great stuff on that too.
But Kung Fu Hustle was much more violent.
All right, my next one is Best in Show.
You're going to hear several Christopher Guest movies on my list because I love the dry mockumentary style.
That was like a revelation for me: this, like, I was watching these movies.
And if you, any comedies that are written for kids are very written down, and it's like the punchline.
And, you know, they look at you, do you get the joke?
And so for Best in Show, it was just this, like, they would comment on things and have these characters that would just go on and on.
And you're like, there's no punchline.
There's no punchline.
But it's funny.
I've only seen that one of those once and I was not prepared.
Really?
I need to try again.
Have you seen Best in Show?
I believe.
Okay, so here's the context of Best and I watched Best in Show.
A girl who I was in love with, who I believed was going to be the woman I would marry one day.
Her ex-boyfriend came to town suddenly out of nowhere.
And like things.
Everything turned into a crazy Ethan Story.
Things kind of got an Ethan Story animation intro.
We have to create it.
He's never boring.
He's never dull.
It's story time with Ethan Nickel.
Yeah, our stories.
Tell us a lot about the Urus.
Something kind of got rekindled there.
And he, so then, of course, I hate this guy and everything about him.
He brings a movie to our house, my house.
Best in Show.
Like, this is hilarious.
Let's all have a movie night and watch this.
So I'm sitting there, and this is how I watch Best in Show.
So it's never going to be redeeped for you.
Yeah, and I just watched it, and nobody laughed the whole thing.
We nobody get it.
We didn't get because we're so used to like Tommy Boy or whatever.
So Fred Willard.
And nobody liked him because we all liked her and they all wanted him to be with her.
So it was like, this guy's an idiot.
Fred Willard is amazing in this movie.
He just died, right?
Yeah.
Man, he just died in me.
Fred Willard's amazing.
He does the commentary on the as the dog has come up, but he knows nothing about dog shows.
So he's like that color commentator in sports that's like saying things that don't make any sense.
So I think at one time it's all quiet and they're like, oh, these are amazing dogs.
And he says something like, you know, in some countries, they eat dogs.
And it's just dead beat, no laughter, you know, because that's not how they do it.
And I about died.
So Best in Show.
Where did I leave off?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So I'm just, I'm throwing this in as a trilogy.
I am a huge Edgar Wright fan.
Hot Fuzz, World's End, Sean of the Dead.
To me, that is some of the greatest comedies of our time.
Especially Hot Fuzz.
The first time you see it, you're like, that was okay.
But if you watch it again, you realize you missed like half the jokes.
He works in like callbacks and all this subtle stuff.
They are so amazingly crafted and they're so fun.
I like Sean of the Dead.
I didn't get Hot Fuzz.
Need to give it another go.
Gotta watch it again.
It's so good.
I bought an HD DVC World.
No, I don't even know what the hell.
We have to have a movie night.
I bought an HD DVD picture.
I try to have movie nights show up.
I bought HD DVD player because I invested in the right technology, not stupid Blu-ray.
Who knows what that is?
And the movie I got with it was Hot Fuzz.
I love Hot Fuzz.
I was like, oh, yeah.
I really want to see this.
And I didn't get it.
And I think I had a brand new TV, my first HD TV, and it was too quiet.
It had some built-in speakers.
I couldn't hear what they were saying.
And they're talking British.
Oh, you got to hear it.
Yeah.
I tried again.
So, what best in show is to you, hot fuzz is to me.
I'll give it another shot.
Airplane.
This almost goes without saying.
I don't need to talk about it very much.
It started that genre on Airplane.
If you haven't seen it, it's worth it.
Unless you're homeschooled, and then don't watch it.
Blues Brothers.
I love the Blues Brothers.
Blues Brothers, what I like about it is it's just like super chaotic and over the top.
It's like a car chase.
They're almost the movie.
More and more people are chasing them down, wanting to kill them throughout the movie.
So at one point, they have all these cops chasing them.
They got the KKK chasing them.
They got all these people, rednecks.
Everybody wants these guys dead.
And then it all culminates in this concert where everybody's like showing up to murder him.
But just if you just watch the car chase scenes in the mall and stuff, like on Blues Brothers, the cops are chasing them down.
The cars are just crashing through everything.
It's almost like a satire of a car chase.
But the amount of money they must have spent, it's just insane.
But yeah, Blues Brothers.
Blues Brothers.
I've seen two out of your seven so far and only heard of like half of them.
So I'm doing well.
All right.
The rest of mine are pretty well.
We're into my top five now.
I ranked mine.
You didn't.
Yeah, I didn't rank.
Dumb and Dumber.
Yeah, I should have put that on there.
I kept the obvious ones off.
I know.
I'm more, I'm basic.
And to me, Dumb and Dumber, it was maybe next to that.
I think you do my most quoted movie as a kid.
Yeah, I think for most of us, it shaped a generation.
I have my good friend Michael, he and I still communicate exclusively in Dumb and Dumber quotes.
And it holds up still.
I watched it recently with my kids and they were dying laughing.
It's a funny movie.
So Dumb and Dumber.
It's inappropriate stuff.
It got really bad reviews when it came out, if I remember right.
It's so funny.
I didn't understand it because it's so funny.
So good.
Jim Carrey's best movie.
Except maybe Truman Show.
I put this one on there because I wish more comedies like it were made.
Tropic Thunder.
It's an action comedy.
I wish there was more comedies that were in that space, rather.
It's always like, yeah, it's expensive and risky.
But I love that genre.
They're all going to get pulled.
It's really like the last.
Yeah, Tropic Hunter is going to get pulled at some point because of Robert Downey Jr.'s blackface.
Isn't that the weird thing?
Is it wasn't the whole point that it's criticizing?
Yeah.
Because when he did it, it was bold.
It was like, it was already taboo.
That was 2008, right?
Yeah.
And so now I'm just waiting for the day.
I've never seen it.
It's a great movie, but it is an R, it's an R for sure.
Just assume that these are all inappropriate.
Yeah.
Nice Christian podcast.
The Princess Bride.
Again.
I'll just delete that from my list.
Very, very basic, but a masterpiece.
One my kids didn't get so much.
Yeah, my kids had a tough time with that one too.
People will say that this is just nostalgia, but I didn't see this till very late high school.
And everybody was already, oh, you gotta watch Princess Bride.
And I watched it and I just absolutely fell in love.
And Prince of Bride.
I mean, great movie.
Not just a great comedy.
Great way of life.
I don't know.
Well, this is one that must be mentioned.
And the book is great too.
Groundhog Day.
Ooh, I almost put that on my list.
It's not just one of the best comedies, one of the best movies ever written, I think.
One of the best scripts.
It's one of those rare comedies that's funny and kind of has a point.
And it's just narratively very well crafted.
It's just one of those.
If you have not seen it, see it.
Just go see it.
Just do it.
Bill Murray.
Bill Murray at his best.
I always love the line.
I can never find it when I Google for the clip.
But the line where he's, the lady asks if he wants to talk about the weather.
Like, oh, what does she say every morning?
Like, I hear there's a blizzard coming in.
And he's a weather guy.
He just rattles off.
Like, actually, there's a cold front moving in from the south and blah, blah.
And he gets this whole thing.
And then he says, Did you really want to talk about the weather or were you just making chit-chat?
Because he's a huge jerk.
Yeah.
That concept of like actually trying to talk about the weather with a weather guy always got me.
Number three for me, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
It should be number one for me, probably, but I wanted to be controversial.
I figured you'd have it on there.
Yeah.
Rented it on VHS at Blockbuster at a friend's house, clock down.
And the credits, you know, I'm crying, laughing at the credits.
Changed my life.
I got to watch it again.
It's been so long.
I don't even know if I ever saw the whole thing.
My kids loved it when I showed it to them.
I skipped the naughty girls in the castle scene or whatever.
Okay.
But they loved it.
The Black Knight was a particular success with them because that physical comedy of all his arms are chopped off and he still wants to fight.
Okay, this one comes with a big pre-warning that it is like, I don't think there's any sex or nudity in it, but it is like horrible language.
Very bad language because it's a movie about freestyle rapping.
This is my one movie that's like really recent.
A mile.
It's called Bodied.
It's kind of in the realm of it.
Yeah, I've told you about it.
It's a YouTube movie.
They got the rights to it or whatever.
So you can watch it on YouTube if you have an account, I think, or pay.
But yeah, it's about freestyle rap, but it's about how politically incorrect that scene is.
And you have this very, this college white kid who's trying to, he's fascinated by it, but he has this super woke girlfriend.
So it really kind of takes on wokeism from within wokeism in an interesting way because it's the black community.
And it's all, I don't know, it's fascinating.
It's about cancel culture.
It's about all that kind of stuff.
And so it's not only really funny, but it's kind of important.
And it's just fascinating.
There's some honesty to it.
And it's just really well done and completely different.
It's a very different movie.
I think, I don't know if it could have been made in any other way than kind of the online streaming model where you can make stuff a little different, a little more out of the box.
My wife loves movies about rap.
Yeah, I keep telling you, she would love it.
I'm going to suggest it for tonight's movie.
She would love it.
Okay.
Just make sure the kids can't hear it.
We're going to vid Angela.
That's going to be five minutes long.
Yeah.
All right.
My number two is this is Spinal Tap.
This is the second Christopher Guest movie I've mentioned.
Rob Reiner, too, who is absolutely psychotic on Twitter now.
But I will not let that taint my opinions of his movies because.
Him and his dad and his dad died recently, right?
Is that his dad?
I don't know.
Carl Reiner.
Oh, okay.
The Reiner that just died.
I didn't know that.
Recently.
Every tweet was about Trump.
He's just obsessed.
It's crazy.
So this is Spinal Tap was the satirical movie that showed me that satire is best when you appreciate and understand the subject that you're satirizing.
So that's why.
Because it's clear that they don't hate heavy metal.
They're making fun of heavy metal because they love heavy metal.
Right.
So this is Spinal Tab.
A lot of F-bombs, but.
Yeah.
My roommate used to watch it on repeat.
Yeah.
It's so good.
I don't know if I've ever watched it from beginning to end.
I just kept catching moments of it.
Yeah.
So once again, this isn't in order for me.
I just through this one.
I'm doing an arucas.
I'm bad.
I can't order things.
But I was amazed by Paddington 2.
You've mentioned this before.
I thought it was just so well done.
There's so many amazing comedy bits in it.
And you like Bears.
And the physical comedy, they already have all these special effects.
They don't have to.
If you watch most kids' movies and they have special effects, they don't have to go the extra mile to figure out this whole physical comedy bit that incorporates the environment and all this stuff.
I just thought it was so well done.
Hilarious.
Have you ever heard of some old British, funky British comedy show, super off-beat and quirky, kind of a punk rock British comedy show?
These guys are behind the Paddington movies.
That's why they're a little out of the box for they're really well done.
All right.
And no warnings on that one.
You can watch that one, the whole family.
It's the first one.
Crownhog Day, kind of.
There's a little bit of Princess Bride, maybe.
Shout out and soccer is pretty safe.
Uh, some moments.
Uh, there's a little bit safe.
Fairly clean, UHF.
Shout out soccer.
You should get the dubbed version.
Oh.
All right, my number one movie is A Mighty Wind, another Christopher Guest.
This one I actually liked better than Spinal Tap because it was a little more subtle.
They're making fun of folk music.
I grew up with my parents blasting John Denver in our car all the time, and we hated it.
But we also loved it.
The songs are fun to sing along to.
They start to get catchy.
And now if I pick up a guitar, I'm either going to pick out a Switchfoot song or I'm going to play John Denver because that's just so.
There's a line in there where the guys, one of the singers says something like, there was abuse in my childhood.
And he goes, but it was mostly musical in nature.
Because his parents made him listen to folk music.
And so that was kind of like, I don't know.
But it's very dry.
Absolutely no punchlines.
Even drier than the other movies I mentioned, Spinal Tap and Best of Show.
But I love it.
It's clear.
And there's almost a touching moment at the end where you see these old characters that used to be famous.
You know, kind of how sad and funny that is that they're trying to be, you know, successful folk singers in the modern era or whatever.
But there's almost a touching moment at the end.
And I always appreciate that in a comedy.
So that's my favorite comedic film.
What's your last one?
Oh, I think I can ride.
I watch 10.
I don't know.
Was that 10 for me?
Oh, it might have been.
Did you go first or did I go first?
Oh, you know, I deleted a couple off because you mentioned them already.
Okay.
So I'd say one of your other ones.
Okay.
Uhf or UHF or Princess Bride.
Okay.
Well, guys, if you want chaplain films and if you want to be as funny as the Babylon B writers, watch all these movies.
Yeah.
I guess.
Or just if you like good movies, if you like funny movies.
Funny movies.
Let's go on to hate mail.
I miss Adam Ford.
All right.
We have two hate mails today.
This is from someone named PK.
You know what that means?
Pastor's kid?
I'm guessing.
I don't know.
In the Christian circles, you know, PK means Pastor's Kid, right?
Yes.
That's where his name is.
Or Promise Keepers.
Peter Kraft.
What?
So this doesn't.
This doesn't actually qualify as hate mail.
Okay.
But I thought it was a really funny email.
So we emailed and said, I think we had an email that said something like, Would you like to subscribe to the Babylon B?
I don't know, one of those pitches.
Give us your money.
And he says, Dear Babylon B editor, I appreciate you reaching out to me to show your interest in moving us to the next level in our relationship.
Sadly, I have commitment issues, and I'm still not entirely sure I can entertain something as serious as $8.34 a month for an entire year.
I realize it is cheaper than a Starbucks date, but I don't do those either.
I'll continue to ponder this dilemma and your gracious offer.
But rest assured, it's not you.
I made a long-term commitment once before, and all I had to show for it was a really funky hairdo and a pair of combat boots.
On the other hand, I did get to blow up a lot of flowerbed, so it wasn't all bad.
Kindly, PK.
Funky hairdo and the pair of combat boots.
Can you figure out that means?
He signed up for the military.
Oh, oh, yeah, the funky hair.
I was thinking like a flock of seagulls haircut or something.
I think this person put more thought into the $5 a month or $8 a month Babylon B subscription for huh?
I don't know.
Well, it must be $100.
Oh, if you break up $100 or $100 over a year, maybe for the premium subscription.
Hey, PK, we do have cheaper subscription options, $5 a month.
Yeah.
Throwing it out there.
So I just thought that was funny.
Commitment issues his whole life because he signed up for the military.
Now he can't subscribe to the Babylon Bee.
All right.
So we got one from Susan.
Is it Susan?
Or is her name Karen?
Am I right?
This site used to be clever and fun to read, but the swiftness with which it has degenerated into juvenile garbage is astounding.
It's pretty standard handmail.
Yeah, that's pretty normal.
I've been seeing underneath our podcasts on YouTube.
There's a guy, I think it's maybe the same guy who keeps doing quit podcasts and go back to being funny.
I don't like this podcast on my feed.
Yeah.
Used to be funny.
Just tell jokes, Jester.
Like, is it as long as we podcast, then no longer is the satire funny?
It ruins the jokes.
It retroactively ruins the jokes for him.
I like it like we're juggling.
Yeah.
And we're like, you know, I also have some thoughts.
And they're like, keep juggling.
Yeah.
Get back to juggling.
Okay.
All right.
We are going to move into our subscriber portion, maybe, because we're going to have to find some time to figure something out to do it because I got to go to a walkthrough of our office.
Freeloaders, you're getting thrown out of the plane.
Goodbye.
Right out of the helicopter into the ocean like a commie.
Hope you remembered your parachutes.
Or not.
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