On The Babylon Bee Weekly, Kyle and Ethan talk about heroes of the faith like the kid-punching pastor and the man who showed worship teams everywhere how to play the drums. They talk about G.K. Chesterton's argument in defense of the family. Kyle is also subjected to the next ten questions in our exclusive subscriber lounge. Intro: About the YouTube channel Heroes of the Faith 1 Oceans Metal Drummer: https://youtu.be/POwayWGeQAU Coffin Preacher: https://youtu.be/5OImocOKy4I Kid punching pastor: https://youtu.be/Q19qRUBj-ic Chesterton In Defense Of The Family: Chesterton starts talking about how people claim to travel the world in order to experience humanity when they are really leaving it in this chapter of Heretics: On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family. SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE LOUNGE: Kyle answers second ten questions
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Hello, listeners.
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I'm Kyle Mann, huge baseball fan.
Huge.
And Ethan Nicole, also a huge sports fan.
Huge.
Just huge.
What is the last professional sports game that you attended, sir?
We went to, I don't know if it's not professional.
It was some kind of game in the range of.
I don't think I've ever been to an actual professional sports game.
You mean like you went to see the Quakes?
It wasn't the Quakes.
What was it?
I can't remember what sport it was.
It might have been basketball.
I can't remember.
It was in some kind of a...
You don't know what sport it was?
It was at like Citizens Bank Arena or whatever.
But I think it was like a high school or college team.
Yeah.
It might have been soccer.
I don't know.
Do they do that inside of that arena?
I don't know.
Sometimes, I guess, but not like official.
I can't remember why we went.
We got some tickets or something from the school and it was like something to support the pet band that my daughter was in or something like that.
I can't remember.
You buy the ticket and it supports them.
So everybody has to go.
We did it, huh?
I got to buy like $9 nachos or whatever.
We did a hockey game there once.
They have the minor league team.
Is that?
No, I don't know.
Well, was there ice?
Very vague.
I just remember not wanting to be there the whole time.
So there's no ice that I remember.
That doesn't narrow it down at all.
You not wanting to be there.
Linking basketball.
Okay.
We're leaning basketball.
Yeah.
Sorry, that was a non-story.
Oh, it's great.
We get to know the real Ethan Nicole.
No, but we're canceling the MLB, so I'm going to take off my hat and we'll burn it later.
It's weird to me when you have one hat on, but two hats is too much.
I just kept adding them.
I couldn't decide which one I wanted to wear for the podcast, but now I've got my make satire grade again hat.
Much better.
These are available in our store.
Yeah, makes sense.
There you go.
And so it's a shirt.
I'm just covered in branded content today.
Oh, and if you're listening, you don't know what we're talking about, and that's very sad.
So you should go to our YouTube channel.
Yeah, you can see the merch that we're advertising.
You can see the giant tower of hats on my head.
But we've expanded into a lot of video content.
This is something that we've kind of had a dream to do for a long time at the Babylon Bee.
We have some sketches up there.
We have animation.
We do these news desks where we kind of report the news satirically, little sketches like that.
Lots of clips from the podcast.
You get to see our beautiful faces.
Yeah, I figured, I mean, a lot of you guys just listen to this on iTunes or whatever.
If you haven't stopped by the YouTube channel, it's been quite an adventure around here.
Every week it's something new.
We did a toy commercial and we're setting up like a little diorama on the floor with like jungle leaves and stuff.
And Dan's painting some J.I. Joe's hair to look like Mike Pence.
And you, and we have some great, we have a great behind-the-scenes video of that one for subscribers.
You can see me biffing it on a chair.
I think we got some video of Dan painting.
Oh, he's painting Mike Pence's hair.
Lovely.
Very delicately.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whispering things to him.
It was weird.
But yeah, like the other day we're trying to figure out how are we going to give Brandon like you know sawed off limbs.
Like he's good.
So it's in a Jeopardy sketch where he doesn't have hands and we couldn't figure it out.
So finally they got little baguettes and stuck it inside of his sleeves.
And that's his nubs.
Yeah.
And the weird thing for me is that I work so much on the written content on the site that I'm not always 100% involved in what's going on in the video.
So I see these messages going back and forth.
And someone says something about, I got the arm stub baguettes.
And that's all I saw.
And I was just like, I don't know.
Whatever.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
And then, yeah, I came in one day and I walked through and they have an entire like volcanic dinosaur land set up on the floor.
Like, are you just playing with toys?
Because they said they were filming that GI Pat commercial.
Yeah, so it's been fun.
It's been fun making stuff and having bringing people out like Trevor and other friends of ours that are working.
Kira's been on some of them doing some green screen.
Yeah.
Brandon, we got our new guy Brandon on, who has been a lifelong fan of the podcast.
And he sent us this video.
We shouldn't tell people that because then they'll try.
He sent us an amazing professional quality level video saying he wants to work on video with us.
And we're like, yes.
And it was very embarrassing because we're like, hey, this guy filmed us in his garage and it looks a billion times better.
And that's why you may have noticed if you're watching the show, it looks much better now.
Though I don't know when the show will air.
Particularly, you may have noticed things have gotten better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm really impressed with these guys when they're working on the videos because it comes out so fast.
Like that CIA hostage video.
I mean, it was like the same day we wrote the article.
Yeah.
Our writer, our writer, sends us a message and he's like, he had a pseudonym on one of the one video we put credits on, the Christmas video.
What do I call him?
Ehrlich.
I can't remember.
Ehrlich something.
We'll call him Ehrlich.
So Ehrlich, he comes in, he writes like a script right there, moments before we film.
So the scripts are like, they're cranked out fast.
Yeah.
He's a machine.
Yeah.
He's hugely famous in Hollywood.
Massive.
Yeah.
Does all the writing for a certain show with?
I'm not going to say it's The Simpsons.
It's not The Simpsons.
But did you see that?
There's that doc that interview with that Simpsons writer that everybody's like, I guess he's some recluse.
Yeah, I read it.
And then somebody posted, I didn't read it, but I saw a guy that I follow, a left-wing writer, and he goes, I regret to inform you guys that that really good interview with that really good Simpsons writer, the guy is a conservative.
Really?
Yeah.
That's the word on the street.
It's ever dead straight serious.
He was dead.
Yeah, he was serious.
So this show feels weird to you.
We're recording some shows from when you know these are placeholder shows.
Not placeholder, but for anytime in case we're not around.
So this is a we're trying to make everything in this episode something that could be worth listening to anytime, even a million years from now.
Yeah.
Extremely timely.
And we're doing it on a Friday, which is a day we never podcast.
And we're both like, feels weird.
Most of our stuff feels like, I don't know.
Some of our stuff feels like when you watched a Saturday Night Live sketch from 15 years ago.
And it's, what are they telling you about?
Who's that guy?
You know, like versus the ones that they do that are super timeless.
So, we're trying to do the super timeless stuff right now in our Friday energy.
And it's Friday, and we're tired.
But here we are.
All right, so we're going to do some heroes of the faith.
Let's look at some heroes of the faith here.
And now it's time for this week's Heroes of the Faith.
So, we got three heroes of the faith.
These are all on YouTube.
Yeah, this is a relatively new segment for us where we review just very famous people that have really impacted Christianity in a great way.
And who will be with us for all time?
So, here we go.
This is the ocean's heavy metal drummer.
Keep my eyes above the days when oceans rock.
Getting really into it.
I'm really worshiping now.
Something's missing, though.
Drums.
They need drums.
I need the percussion to come in about now.
And you.
I like how the woman is trying to stay in the spirit right now.
You are mine.
You can see the guy.
He's just like headbanging.
Absolutely.
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
Destroyed.
Oh.
Spirit is here.
Just that satisfaction.
Uh-oh.
Does it keep going?
He's coming back.
Listen for that double bass pedal.
Just going hard in the paint on those comms, man.
He's like, Corn.
Corn meets Amy Graham.
Do you remember the story of your turn?
This guy wasn't.
He filled in.
I heard that they.
Did you watch the interview or did I pull down parts of it?
Yeah.
We just make up a story.
Yeah, I heard they called him in last minute and he's used to fun heavy miles.
Yeah.
Keep my hands.
So he's a metal drummer.
If it wasn't clear from the playing.
Yeah.
So this is a classic Christian video, you know, maybe older than the internet itself, but if you've never seen it.
He's so into it, though.
All right, so I hadn't seen this one other than this next one yet, but Kyle introduced me to this.
How old is this one?
This is relatively recently, I think.
At least I hadn't seen it until recently.
So this is a pastor who's giving a moving illustration.
Sermon illustrations.
Any pastor who's ever used an object lesson, you know, it can go horribly wrong.
And you got to know that go on him.
And let's see this inspiring message and see what we can get out of it.
Okay.
So this is what God has done.
He has taken our greatest enemy.
Isn't that cool?
Yeah, it is cool.
He has taken our greatest enemy, death.
What has he done with me into thinking you're never going to be able to?
I'm going to add that.
I think someone added that.
Unless the rapture comes, this might come as a shock to you, but the Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die.
You are going to die.
Great new three.
And that brings us to certain element of anxiety.
But although we're going to experience a time, it's the remix, I guess.
Okay, they remixed it.
There you go.
So for the audio listeners, this pastor gets into a coffin, standing up, like on its feet, and closes the lid.
Pulls himself in there like too commonly.
It just slowly tilts to the side until he completely falls over.
He still has the mic on inside of us.
The little, oops, that's the best part.
I love when he got the idea, like, what'd he do?
Is he at his church meeting?
He's like, anybody got any access to some coffins?
How to get the coffin?
I'm thinking coffin.
Can they build the coffin?
Is that a real coffin?
It doesn't look like a real coffin.
So they had the guy, they're like, anybody good with wood working?
They had a woodworking guy building.
Okay, can you build me a coffin?
I love how ready people in church are to do stuff like this.
I'll build you a coffin.
I'll build your coffin real good.
That's going to speak to millions.
Or it was left over like as a VBS prop or something.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Interview with a vampire VBS.
I just wanted to go to like, you know, Game of Thrones VBS.
Breaking bad VBS.
All right.
So that was classic.
Sorry.
Okay, wait.
So our next one is a pastor who tells a story, who, in his mind, this story is a very touching, moving story about something he did.
And how he brought a young man back to the Lord.
Yeah.
And this is, to me, this is very Mark Driscoll, like trying to make Christianity macho again.
Yeah.
So let's see.
Let's see how this pastor makes Christianity macho again.
What did he do to give the giant testosterone injection?
The youth back to the Lord with testosterone shots.
And a giant syringe.
Young man in Calgary.
His name was Ben.
And I was running a youth.
I was there for a few years.
And he was just, he was a nice kid, but he was one of those kids that was always just, he's a real smart Alec.
Who just was a bright kid, which didn't help things, right?
Made him more dangerous.
And we were outside one day, youth group, and he was just trying to push my buttons.
And he was just, you know, kind of not taking the Lord serious.
And I walked over to him and I went, bam!
I punched him in the chest as hard as I, I crumpled the kid.
I just crumpled him.
And I said, I leaned over and I said, Ben, when are you going to stop playing games with God?
I led that man to the Lord right there.
There's times that that might be needed.
So the kid is like, I'll pray anything, man.
Just don't hurt me.
Do you think that was a sincere confession of faith or was it like, just please don't punch me?
I came to stirnum in and blood was spraying all over the wall.
He's gasping for air.
His last words were, I accept Jesus.
The Lord.
Lord and Savior.
Call it ambulance.
He crumpled him.
I wish that there was a camera on the audience's face when he said that.
What?
I love how he says, I crumpled him.
I know you say, like, I don't know.
I don't know if that's a common phrase.
He's doubled over in pain.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But it feels like if you're bragging to your friends about a street fight or something.
Man, I totally crumpled the guy.
Ragdawled that son of a, yeah.
He straight bodied him.
It's just like, oh, gosh.
Yeah, but that was that macho phase.
Like Mark Driscoll would say stuff like that.
Like, not that he punched kids.
Yeah.
That was like Wild at Heart came out and everyone's like, yeah, men punch each other.
Yeah.
And they eat raw elk meat and drink blood.
Yeah.
They're different than women.
Shoot bears in the woods.
They run into a cave and punch a bear in the face and accept the consequences of that.
Yeah.
Naked.
And then meanwhile, the women's Bible study is like.
How does that make you feel?
You're God's special princess.
I thought that thing was over, that whole like women's Bible studies being like, you're God's special little princess or whatever.
You're the daughter of the king, man.
Not man.
Woman.
Woman.
And baby factory.
I just saw at the church we've been going to, a little flyer.
Women's tea on Saturday or whatever.
You're a princess of the king or whatever.
You know, like God.
Not that it's not true.
I mean, there's an element there.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, another week, another more heroes of the faith.
So thank God for these amazing witnesses.
All right, we're going to dive into some G.K. Chesterton here.
G.K. Chesterton.
Now, this is an essay.
Have you read this essay?
I believe heretics.
I believe I might have.
Okay.
That's the good stuff.
I can't remember if I was there for that week.
I don't know.
I think you were.
Maybe you fall off.
Yeah.
So this is one of the ones that the first ones I read that kind of stuck with me.
And this is because I was living in.
I just moved to Portland from my small town in Oregon.
And I thought I was moving to expand my horizons and expand my mind.
And people are going to be bigger and more open-minded.
And I had kind of become very disappointed by moving to the big city and finding people were a lot more narrow.
And then, so he really kind of expands on that here.
And he's mainly responding to the idea of his time that, you know, if you really want to expand your horizons and experience humanity, you need to travel the world and all this kind of stuff and go live in the big city.
So let's dive in.
We can kind of go between paragraphs and kind of comment if we want, but this is one of my favorite points he makes about it.
It's about the family itself and about living in a small town, small communities.
So I'll start.
I'll read the first paragraph.
Selection from heretics.
Here we go.
Heretics.
It's on certain modern writers and the institution of the family is the title of the chapter.
If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known.
And by the way, this is an excerpt.
This is jumping in later in the chapter.
And it is a whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives.
First, he invents modern hygiene and goes to Margate.
Then he invents some modern culture and goes to Florence.
Then he invents modern imperialism and goes to Timbuktu.
He goes to the fantastic borders of the earth.
He pretends to shoot tigers.
He almost rides on a camel.
And in all this, he is still essentially fleeing from the street in which he was born.
And of this flight, he is always ready with his own explanation.
He says he is fleeing from his street because it is dull.
He is lying.
He is really fleeing from his street because it is a great deal too exciting.
It is because it is exacting.
It is exacting because it is alive.
He can visit Venice because to him, the Venetians are only Venetians.
The people in his own street are men.
He can stare at the Chinese because for him, the Chinese are a passive thing to be stared at.
If he stares at the old lady in the next garden, she becomes active.
He is forced to flee, in short, from the too stimulating society of his equals.
Of free men, perverse, personal, deliberately different from himself.
The street in Brixton is too glowing and overpowering.
I love the idea of staring at the old lady across the street.
She can react to you.
He has to soothe and quiet himself among tigers and vultures, camels and crocodiles.
These creatures are indeed very different from himself, but they do not put their shape or color or custom into a decisive intellectual competition with his own.
They do not seek to destroy his principles and assert their own.
The stranger monsters of the suburban street do seek to do this.
The camel does not contort his features into a fine sneer because Mr. Robinson has not got a hump.
The cultured gentleman at number five does exhibit a sneer because Robinson has not got a dado.
I don't know what a dado is, honestly.
The vulture will not roar with laughter because a man does not fly, but the major at number nine will roar with laughter because a man does not smoke.
The complaint we commonly have to make of our neighbors is that they will not, as we express it, mind their own business.
We do not really mean that they will not mind their own business.
If our neighbors did not mind their own business, they would be asked abruptly for their rent and would rapidly cease to be our neighbors.
What we really mean when we say that they cannot mind their own business is something much deeper.
We do not dislike them because they have so little force and fire that they cannot be interested in themselves in themselves.
We dislike them because they have so much force and fire that they can be interested in us as well.
What we dread about our neighbors, in short, is not the narrowness of their horizon, but their superb tendency to broaden it.
And all aversions to ordinary humanity have this general character.
They are not aversions to its feebleness, as is pretended, but to its energy.
The misanthropes pretend that they despise humanity for its weakness.
As a matter of fact, they hate it for its strength.
All right, so how much weed was Chesterton on when he wrote that?
I actually, man, okay, so we threw this show together, and I must admit there's a paragraph I thought was in there that it was not.
Are you going to grab it?
I'm trying to find it, but uh the modern writers who have suggested in a more or less open manner that the family is a bad institution have generally confined themselves to suggesting with much sharpness, bitterness, or pathos that perhaps the family is not always very congenial.
Of course, the family is a good institution because it is uncongenial.
It is wholesome precisely because it contains so many divergencies and varieties.
It is, as the sentimentalists say, like a little kingdom, and like most other little kingdoms, is generally in a state of something resembling anarchy.
It is exactly because our brother George is not interested in our religious difficulties, but is interested in the Trocadero restaurant, that the family has some of the bracing qualities of the Commonwealth.
It is precisely because our Uncle Henry does not approve of the theatrical ambitions of our sister Sarah that the family is like humanity.
The men and the women who, for the good reasons and the bad, revolt against the family are, for good reasons and bad, simply revolting against mankind.
Aunt Elizabeth is unreasonable like mankind.
Papa is excitable like mankind.
Our youngest brother is mischievous like mankind.
Grandpa is stupid like the world.
He is old like the world.
Those who wish rightly or wrongly to step out of all this do definitely wish to step into a narrower world.
They are dismayed and terrified by the largeness and variety of the family.
Sarah wishes to find a world wholly consisting of private theatricals.
George wishes to think the Trocadero restaurant a cosmos.
I do not say for a moment that the flight to this narrower life may not be the right thing for the individual any more than I say the same thing about flight into a monastery.
But I do say that anything is bad and artificial which tends to make these people succumb to the strange delusion that they are stepping into a world which is actually larger and more varied than their own.
The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down into any house at random and get on as well as possible with the people inside.
And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.
And that's one of my favorite illustrations.
On the day you were born is as if you just were dropped into a random chimney and stuck with whoever's in there.
Get along with these people.
I think that I always go back to this when family life's stressing me out or, you know, you just think It can feel like the day-to-day is exhausting or, you know, mundane or repetitive, but there's no real escape or there's no in the reality of things, there's nothing,
there really is nothing better than the people in your life that God has given you.
I think that's the hard thing to, I mean, unless you have somebody horribly abusive, but sure.
But these are all things that have been put in your life.
And I think the main thing that, especially that I took away from this, was when I moved to the big city and I started hanging out with comic artists, you know, because where I live, there's no comic artists.
And there's a huge community of them.
When I moved to Portland, they were like carbon copies of each other.
They all thought the same.
They all talked the same.
They all agreed on everything.
And it was like this tiny club, a very narrow club.
And that's one thing he says in this, the city is designed for narrowness.
You go there so you can find a bunch of people that really think the very specific way that you do.
So you don't have to come up against things.
And when I lived in this small town, I'd have breakfast with this old man and had neighbors who were older.
And you don't get to be so picky about the people that are in your life.
Yeah.
And I think Chesterton, you know, would say that it's so much easier to romanticize things that are distant and exotic and go on an adventure to Timbuktu or whatever.
Yeah.
You're not really experiencing humanity by pointing and looking at.
Yeah.
So this fake, like you're just in a museum or something and looking at things versus actually being in it and living as part of humanity.
And even like in a bigger city where there may be a lot of different cultures that live there, they all kind of stick together.
They don't, they don't, like, you know, you don't experience there.
You stick with your little culture.
Yeah.
I don't know.
And it's not that he's not making the point that moving to the city is bad.
He's saying don't be delusional and think that you're expanding your horizons and becoming this like, you know, he says that the main, one of the main inspirations for running away from the, from the town, the small town, from the, the home, from the family is a fear of mankind, not a love of it.
That's the main delusion he's arguing against.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He just talks about how people are fleeing the street of their childhood for their entire life.
And we have this romantic idea of like, I was in a small town and I'm going to go off to Hollywood and get rich and famous or experience the world.
And, you know, it's kind of a common trope in entertainment.
And he's saying you don't actually know why you're fleeing that or the reason you're fleeing it is you're looking for something that was already there.
You don't want to be confronted.
Yeah.
You're safe when you're that.
Yeah, when you're that, because even the idea of that explorer, that's what always cracks me up when you see like left-wing news stations will do documentaries or something where it seems like they're trying to be open-minded and talk about Trump voters or people in the communities on the right.
I think Sarah Silverman had some things like that where she goes.
Finding America or whatever it was.
But they act like they're like on National Geographic and they're just like, you know, they're just studying the animal channel, animal planet.
They're at Denny's and like, look at that.
So they're like Republican in his native habitat.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's kind of how you take in humanity when you're a traveler.
It's not, you're not living in the midst of them and being one of them.
And that's the human experience is to live in the because that's what changes you and really makes you face all your all of us have stuff to be worked out.
And if you can't be in a relationship with people and come up against that stuff, there's no growth.
You just get to be the same immature, obnoxious person you are.
Just keep moving and going to different places and feeling good about yourself.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that like marriage or having a family makes you better or makes you holier.
It doesn't make you like automatically.
But it does expose.
You're going to go one way or another.
It's up to you what you're going to do with it.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And kids, your patients.
Yeah.
It does.
And if you are willing to go on that adventure, then you will be broadened.
I mean, because the amount of love and frustration and anger and joy that you can experience as a parent is so much bigger than outside of being a parent.
Yeah.
Unless you're just too scared.
Then you'll run away.
Yeah.
And I think it is scary.
It's scary to like be broadened that much.
It's frightening.
Yeah.
And Chesterton just makes that point when he talks about how it's not a passive observing of your family like it would be in the, you know, it's a when you talk to your neighbor or you say hi to your neighbor, they can start asking about your life.
And there's a vulnerability there.
Or your wife.
Or your wife.
Yeah.
She knows all your flaws.
Yeah.
Well.
All right.
Well.
So there you go.
That's your heretics.
And I don't know if this will be out by the time this comes out, but I'm actually, for people that are interested in reading in Chesterton, I went ahead and made a book of my 14 favorite essays to introduce you to Chesterton.
I put little introductions at the beginning of each chapter.
I put footnotes everywhere something strange is brought up.
And I even broke up the big paragraphs.
And they're my, people ask me all the time, like, if you want to read Chesterton, what should I read?
And I'm always like, well, every book is kind of difficult to start with.
But he's an essayist, like as a, he's a master essayist.
And a lot of his books are just a collection of essays.
So I always cobble together a bunch of essays and I reread these.
So I decided to go ahead and just throw a book together.
And it'll be out at some point.
It's called Chesterton's Gateway.
It's pretty much done.
I'm doing the artwork for the cover and stuff right now.
That'd be awesome.
I'll put it on Amazon.
Is it going to be just ebook or are you going to get a print?
I'll do ebook and I'll do the Amazon print-on-demand thing.
Cool.
So I'll try to keep the price down on it and just make it a, you know, something for Chesterton, you know, potential.
I call it Chesterton's Gateway because Chesterton's gate, you know, like a gateway drug for people that want to get hooked on GKC.
I always thought it was Chesterton's fence.
It is he says gate in the passage.
So there's gates on fences.
It works.
It works.
Yeah, sure.
Sure.
Why not?
It's the gateway drug to Chesterton's.
Exactly.
Before you're a complete addict and you're injecting yourself with Chesterton quints all day long, lying in the gutter.
Blue, crystal blue Chesterton.
Muttering about the madman and stuff.
And cheese.
Yeah.
All right.
Is that our show?
That was a show.
We don't have anything else for you today because this is a short episode.
This is a short episode, I think.
I don't even know how short it's been.
A little special.
Yeah.
Babylon Bee special.
But subscribers, you're going to get a little more in the subscriber portion.
We're going to go on the subscriber lounge and we have a bonus set of 10 questions.
Is it 10 or 12?
10.
We have a bonus set of 10 questions.
And I don't think Ethan and I have ever answered them.
Yeah, sorry.
I'm not going to answer them.
I think I'll answer them in this one.
Yeah.
And then in a future episode, Ethan will answer them.
I'm glad you were with us for this, you know, chilled out episode of The Babylon Bee.
It's nice.
Nice.
See you later.
Goodbye.
Go read some Chesterton.
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