THE BEE WEEKLY: Bear Pool Party and "Bake The Cake, You Bigot!"
On this episode of The Bee Weekly, Kyle and Ethan are joined by Trevor Andersen to talk about bears crashing a pool party, atheists finding Jesus, and what blue checks are doing for Pride Month. Kyle and Ethan also talk to Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop about the cost of his faith and his fight for religious liberty. Intro Trevor Andersen joins Kyle and Ethan to guest host. Upcoming Interview Next interview will be Buddy Brown of YouTube fame. Get it a day early if you're a paid subscriber. We Read Comments From Our Different Platforms Gaple comments on our John Cena article and we get a compliment on our upgraded equipment. Weird News Suspects Break Into Storage Unit, Steal Boxes Of Little Debbie Snack Cakes Mercedes Tumbles Off Jack, Kills Suspected Catalytic Converter Thief Ontario Principal Removed After Twice Wearing Hair Of Student As A Wig Flight From India To US Diverted After Crew Finds Bat In Business Class Backlash As Skin-Coloured "equality stamps" In Spain Priced Differently Video Shows Teen Girl Shoving Huge Bear Over Fence To Save Her Dogs Seven Bears Crash High School Pool Party In Tennessee Man Breaks Guinness World Record For World's Tallest Spike Mohawk Faithful Counseling Get 10% off your first month using this link. Segment 1 Kyle and Ethan Take a Test on the Trinity as seen on Challies.com Segment 2 Real Stuff Blue Checks Say (and other happenings on social media) Segment 3 Kyle and Ethan talk to Jack Phillips from Masterpiece Cakeshop Hate Mail Eve didn't like our rainbow logo. Subscriber Portion Subsriber Headlines of the Week Subscriber Email Question/ Love Mail Bonus 10 Questions We learn even more about Trevor!
Me and Trevor, I forgot his name for a second, are going to talk about your book.
Oh, please do.
And we're going to talk about how great it is.
I said shut up.
And we're going to talk about how great it is.
Brave Ollie Possum.
We're just going to shower you with praise.
It's fantastic.
Because this is an amazing book.
It really is.
It reminds me a lot of the – it's got a lot of the essence of the Roald Dahl story.
Yes.
Fairy Road Doll, C.S. Lewis, Narnia stuff, but sillier.
Right.
Just the right amount of scary, I think.
Yeah, just like a pinch of scary.
Like a little, you know, dusting, if you will.
Right.
Like the way white people use seasonings.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
And what Frank Fleming said about his kid.
And a slathering of mayonnaise, which in the mayonnaise is fun, like animal humor.
I love the drawings.
Shut up, Ethan.
And it teaches your kids to be brave, which is the best part.
It feels like a Disney movie in book form before Disney got all woke and weird.
And get ready when you get this book to make your kids lasagna because they're going to be hungry.
They're going to be hungry for some lasagna.
Hey, there's cool drawings in there, too.
I was just reminded by myself.
Many, many.
And there are lots of cool drawings that Ethan Nicole did himself.
Ethan, now you can talk.
Is there anything you want to add about this amazing book?
It's the most, I've never been more proud of a thing that I've made than Brave Ollie Possum.
It's a completely sincere project.
I'm not a children's book writer.
It's just something I had to make, and I love it.
You can go to axebearstore.com.
Yeah, if you want to get directly from me.
He'll do like a drawing.
You can pay for a drawing and a nerd.
They're all come signed if you get it from me.
You can sign or Amazon or from Canon Press, the publisher.
Or from Audible.
And Audible as the read by Ethan Nicole version.
Brave Ollie Possum.
You guys check it out right now.
The B weekly.
How do we evolve into everybody shouting?
No, no.
I was trying to go for a harmony at the last second.
The Bee Weekly.
That would be hilarious if we just said it and did that part in a three-part harmony.
Well, it cuts into Austin saying weekly.
I know.
So here we know.
We're all saying it.
Hey, guys, this Tuesday, we've got an interview coming up with Buddy Brown of YouTube fame.
That was fun.
He's a country singer who sits on the back of his truck bed and country music.
And my favorite part of that one is we pitched him a bunch of woke country song ideas.
And there were a couple.
We almost killed him with one.
He doubled over and said he needed to go.
He had to walk away kind of camera.
And he leaves the room.
He said, he almost killed me because he was like sick or something.
And he started hacking.
So check it out on this podcast feed or on YouTube if you're on YouTube.
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Oh, yeah.
Gary said, you have done a great job with the visual, with the background, out of focus and lighting.
Very warm coloration, very clear.
However, I'm now thinking I don't need to see what's happening over there so well with the smoking jacket and shorts combo.
That's a reference to our subscriber.
The subscriber portion we put on the smoking jackets.
Yeah, and it is, I mean, it's summer here in California and it's hot lately.
And also we have to turn off the air conditioning when we record because it's loud.
Also, the smoking jackets are very warm.
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They're thick, fancy velvet.
All of our cool body coolness is coming in through our legs, which are bare.
And it's funny because I think I made a comment last time we were recording, and I said, it looks like I'm not wearing any pants.
Yeah, it's strange.
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Wait, no, it's probably not Nick King.
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We could add an option to have everything blurred down below the wizard.
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Sorry for the scarring for life stuff.
All right.
Now, YouTube comment of the week.
We put a community post up: John Cena to undergo experimental spine implant surgery.
So the John Cena story.
Can somebody like fill it?
I kind of missed it.
I know he kind of cowered to China or something.
He's in the Fast and Furious movie F9 or Fast Nine or I don't know.
Whatever number they're on.
Whatever number they're on.
And he referred to Taiwan as a country, which China does not like.
They don't like that.
They say it's a province of China.
That's ours.
What are you talking about?
That's my toy.
And so he did like a deep, heartfelt apology.
And he looks, you know, you think of John Cena as like the image of a man, like muscular restaurants.
Elbow dropping and body splashing from the top rope.
From the top rope.
And he just looks like this defeated, like, hi, China.
I'm so sorry that I referred to.
And he did it all in Mandarin.
And he did it in Mandarin.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
I saw that.
I didn't see the video.
Okay, so the comment from Gapel, it's their name.
Great name.
And just like that, John Cena was deceased, never to return.
Cause of death, the bee roasted him into oblivion.
Oh, man.
Patting ourselves on the back.
Oh, yeah.
Feels good.
Feels good.
Thanks, Gapel.
Gapel.
Sounds like an insult.
Man, that guy, you finished talking to somebody and say goodbye, walk out of the room.
That guy was a gapel.
Serious gapel.
What a gapel.
Let's do some weird news.
This news is weird.
Suspects break into storage units, steal boxes of little Debbie snack cakes.
They carried off an undisclosed number of boxes of little Debbie snack cakes.
Right.
Investigators suspect that this could be connected to a New Year's Day heist where some bandits stole eight cases of bag donuts, three cases of strawberry shortcakes, two cases of zebra cake rolls, three cases of Susie cues, two cases of unicorn cakes, and two cases of birthday cakes.
What disturbs me is they didn't get nutty bars.
I would have gotten all nutty bars.
Gross.
No nutty bars.
Yeah, I like nutty bars.
They're the best.
You don't like the nutty bars?
I don't.
And you guys are wrong for liking.
Peanut buttery.
If Nutty Bars wants to endorse this show, we will sell our soul favorite.
So do you think it's falling?
Like they went, man, that was great last time.
We're out of snacks.
We need to go hit that again.
This is like a Yogi Bear thing or something.
I don't know.
Doesn't he do that?
Go around and steal little picnic baskets.
Yeah, I mean, it's not like you're going to be able to move those very well.
Steal dresses.
Because if you do this, how are you going to sell them?
I'm not going to buy snack cakes from a dude on the street.
He's like, hey, man, he wants some little Debbie's.
It's probably like that storage show where they crack open a storage unit and figure out what's inside and what they're going to be able to do with it and how much money they're going to make.
Oh, Storage Wars.
Yeah, is that what it is?
Storage Wars?
I've never actually seen it, but I know about it.
So I'm thinking they just cracked open a shipping container and they're like, come on, bee jewelry or something.
Big money.
And they're like, oh, it's snacks.
Well, I guess we get to eat well for a while.
Yeah, we got something.
Something.
How bummed out would you be if you did it twice in a row and both times snack cake?
Again!
No!
This prompts so many questions.
Like, why is someone storing a bunch of little Debbie snacks in a storage unit?
Oh, it's a storage unit.
Yeah, it's a storage unit.
I was thinking a shipping container.
Yeah.
Like someone storing all their valuables and they put their little Debbie.
A dad who got sick of forgetting birthday cakes for his kids, and he's just like, I'll get them for the next 20 years.
Yeah, it's the shelf life of little Debbie's.
I assume they last a long time.
Yeah.
But even like Twinkies, they say last forever and they don't.
No.
Like you open them one a few years later and it is, you know, not good.
We once did a practical joke at Young Life where we sucked all the cream out of Twinkies and filled them with mayonnaise and then had a Twinkie eating contest.
And it was guys versus girls.
And of course, the girls, once they realized it was full of mayonnaise, like just stopped and the guys of the town ate all of them.
But I was one of the two guys that sucked all this cream out.
And I thought I'd eat it all, but I got like three or four.
Like, I got in.
Okay.
But yeah, we were injecting mayonnaise.
Suck them out.
Like a straw in that.
Okay.
Okay.
It must have been a lot of fun.
You suck it out and then spit it out.
Yeah.
Eventually.
Sure.
Eventually.
Everyone else stops and you're like, I won the longest.
Yeah.
I went the longest consuming it.
Mercedes tumbles off Jack, kills suspected catalytic converter thief.
So that's like the worst part of the car to steal.
So I guess he had it up on a jack.
He's stealing the catalytic converter off of it.
And then it just went and then got him.
That's like, I mean, if you're going to steal something from a Mercedes, the catalytic converter is not that exciting a thing to steal.
Yeah, what do you mean?
Why?
Why that specific part?
So he can pass an emissions test.
Was he just starting?
Is he going to get other parts too?
Or is that?
They're probably easiest to get off of a car, you know, because you just cut them off.
Yeah, I imagine they're not cheap for a Mercedes, but still, that's like...
I'm Googling, you know, three, four hundred bucks.
It could be a security feature of Mercedes.
If anybody's trying to steal something, it crushes it.
Warning.
With new thief crushing features.
You've got to turn that off if you're a mechanic.
There's a special key.
Yeah, whoa, whoa, Hank.
Don't go down there before you turn it off.
Turn off the thief crusher.
It actually bounces up and down repeatedly until the guy stops moving.
Hey, you know, that's a whole hobby, the lowrider thing.
You can take those things.
A lot of money.
Yeah, the hydraulics.
Yeah, the hydraulics.
Yeah.
If you can figure out how to get your Mercedes to do that for free, that'd be great.
Or was it the Jack that's the hero in this situation?
The Jack is always the hero.
The Jack, just little underdog hero of the story.
The little Jack is like, this guy's stealing parts.
Not today.
And he threw a car at him.
Took the law into his own hands.
He had that strength that a mother gets when a child is pinned down by the car and the jack is like, I'm throwing a car at this guy.
I don't stand for thievery.
The jack would just have to, it wouldn't have to get really strong.
It would just have to like break.
You just lean over or break.
It says it tilted over.
I personally am against vigilante justice, even if it's by a heroic jack.
Here's to you, Jack.
Jack.
Ontario principal removed after twice wearing hair of a student as a wig.
Why?
I mean, why once?
It's in, well, it's in London, Ontario.
They have a very strict two-strike policy about wearing students' hair.
Wearing students' hair.
So from what, okay, so there was a school assembly and there was a fundraiser for a student who was battling cancer.
The students were shaving their heads to support the student to raise money for her.
And the principal wore the hair at that point, but then he wore it six months later at Halloween, dressing up as his costume was the student who had shaved his head for that.
I think the big issue here is that he's a white guy and the student was black.
Oh, is that the buried the lead here?
Is that the yeah?
But why was the wig made?
At what point did they go, let's make a wig out of this guy's hair?
I mean, have you seen the picture?
It's really nice.
It's good.
Is it a nice set of hair?
Yeah, it's good hair, man.
And why does he own it?
I'm looking at the story that they posted of it, and it's like when our school principal kept the shaved hair of a student for months and taped them to his head for Halloween.
So he just kept it, he scooped it up and yeah, so you can see kind of the problematic nature of this.
Right.
He shows up and they're like, isn't that Bob's hair?
And the students just kind of.
How'd this student?
I want the students' reaction to this.
Well, they posted an Instagram story about it.
So is it that you're not allowed to wear the hair of somebody of a different race?
I assume that's against the rules.
Because isn't a lot of weave hair or hair extensions come from Asia?
Oh, doesn't?
I don't know.
So if you wear hair.
You're an expert in weaves.
I am.
Absolutely.
What's yours made of?
You're too big.
Mine is mostly badger.
That's my beard.
My beard's made from bare hair.
Oh, okay.
Obviously.
Flight from India to U.S. diverted after crew finds bat in business class.
It's a weird thing reading these headlines when your head has to catch up with what your mouth is doing.
Did he buy a ticket?
That seems rude.
I love that.
Yeah, she's walking around with caviar?
Cafiar?
And then all of a sudden it looks down.
The little bat looks up at her.
How's it going?
Reading this stock market newspaper.
Drinking a flute of champagne.
He's like, COVID really took off.
I'm doing well.
Yeah, I could see why this would cause some concern with everything that we've just been through in the last COVID bat.
Is that what it was?
That's why he can afford it.
Is there one COVID bat or do they all have some COVID?
I don't know how it works.
Is it like Salmonella with chicken?
Yeah, there's probably like an original guy.
Okay.
There was an original bat.
In a lab.
Yeah.
The one COVID bat.
Yeah.
But I think it's kind of weak that they had to divert their flight because if there's a bat in the plane, like, why don't they just put it in a box or like throw a coat onto it or something and just be like, all right, we'll keep going.
I assume they're thinking to.
Just make a soup out of it.
They're going to stop somewhere.
Let's stop somewhere that hasn't had a big hit of COVID.
We'll drop it there.
No one were.
Or just throw it out the window.
Nobody freak out.
We've taken care of the bat.
In unrelated news, there's now soup being served for everybody and coach.
I was once at a friend's house and she had this big, like a big fake, like a log cabin style nice house.
And a bat had gotten in.
And she had one of those vacuum systems that goes throughout the whole house.
You just plug the vacuum hose into the wall in different places.
And so that was like, she just started chasing the bat around with the hose.
And she got up on a ladder and she finally got his and like went in and got stuck in the hose.
That's all I got.
That's my story.
That's a whole bad story.
But they could do that.
They got vacuum cleaners on planes, maybe?
I don't know.
Probably.
I mean, the whole thing is kind of like you open something and everything gets sucked out of it, right?
The whole thing is a giant vacuum.
Yeah.
So you just crack the door a little bit.
Everybody hold on, crack the door a little bit.
You might lose your laptops if you don't put them away.
And then all of a sudden the bat, shh, gone.
That's a good idea.
That scene in Black Sheep where there was the bat in the cabin.
Yeah.
And then they tried to trap it in the refrigerator, but they were like, oh, that's moths.
The light would go to light.
Is it my turn?
Yes.
Yes.
Take a shot every time one of us says, is it my turn?
Backlash as skin-colored equality stamps in Spain priced differently with lighter tones worth more than darker ones.
So the whole point was it was, you know, anniversary of George Floyd's death.
They want to make equality stamps that would send a message against racial inequality.
But the stamps, they're priced differently with the lightest colors costing $160 and the darkest costing 0.70, whatever that symbol is.
You know, you think that's Euros.
Euros.
And you think this might just be like, oh, a coincidence or no one noticed it.
But like the post that they put up announcing them, it like clearly shows like white one.
Oh, they're pre-priced.
It wasn't like the value change.
It was like, are these?
Like, look at this.
Like, nobody looked at the social media post and was like, you know what?
This looks bad.
Okay.
Are these postal stamps or do you just are they like rubber stamps?
Where do you like stamp collection?
Do you stamp them on people or do you put them on?
The postage stamps.
Okay.
I'm just thinking what like you transferred.
Oh, I see.
Like you stamp people, like label people with these.
Yeah, like you're about this tone.
Yeah, if you want to ship a person.
Well, no, just yeah, you stamp there.
Yeah, I don't know what you do.
How much to ship a bat?
I'm thinking.
I don't know what to add to that.
Yeah, so from the very beginning, it was.
What were they thinking?
They tried.
They're trying to help everybody with equality.
We're good at catching this stuff.
If you guys need any consultants for your social media, we're right here.
I personally think they've solved it.
Equality is.
Or they could at least gone the other way, make the really dark stamps really super expensive.
That would have been fine, probably.
It's oddly true.
Yeah.
That would have been fine.
That would have been fine.
Still racist.
Well, yeah, but good racist.
Oh, right.
Probably the liberals were all mad about this.
And then if they'd done it that way, then the Daily Wire would be running a piece.
I can't believe this.
And Matt Walsh would be shouting about it for hours.
We love you, Matt.
Here it shows teen girl shoving huge bear over a fence to save her dogs.
Oh, wow.
Have you guys seen any of it?
I mean, I got sent it 6,000 times.
Yeah.
If you guys ever see any good bear content, send it to Ethan.
At least twice in case he doesn't see it.
He doesn't see it the first time.
Send follow-up emails saying, just check me.
Did you get my last email?
I don't feel bad for you, though.
No, that's fine.
You built your whole brand on this.
This is on you.
You get sent headlines.
I get headlines all the time.
I get both.
It's the curse of fame.
It's rough.
I'm trying to look at the video here.
So you guys have seen this?
Oh, yeah.
So the bear's climbing across the top of a fence, and dogs are barking at it.
I'm watching.
She just went for it.
He just ran at the bear, shoved it off the fence, and grabbed her down.
Oh, wow.
You know what?
I think Frank Fleming needs to come in and give his commentary on women fighting bears.
She would be one of the people in that survey that said I could take a bear.
And she could.
She obviously did.
We were making fun of the women who said they could beat bears, but we were.
She's still alive that have the bears.
I'm sure they're planning backlash.
So the way to beat a bear is to get it to walk across a balance beam.
Right.
And while it's doing that, push it off.
Yes, with this equilibrium.
Yeah.
But it would have been nice if there was a pit of lava on the other side or something.
Oh, yeah.
Because it was just temporary.
Yeah.
Well, badgers.
Seven bears crash high school pool party in Tennessee.
More bears.
Bear news.
Today in bear news.
Seven bears, too.
Seven bears showed up.
So mama bear, papa bear.
So it was like Mormon bears because I had a ton of kids.
Oh, okay.
And a bunch of mama bears.
Snow.
Someone in the seven bears.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
A bunch of mama bears.
The obvious joke, man.
Oh, wow.
This is quite.
So, yeah, they just had to leave their pool party, and the bears took over.
They're getting in the water.
They're getting in the sauna.
They're eating the nachos.
They're playing volleyball.
They should have called that girl that pushed the bear over the.
Yeah.
She can do like a vigilante bear removal service.
She just charges in.
She thinks she could take out seven.
Precariously balancing.
Wait till they're all balancing on the diving board.
They're all on the diving board.
You double bounce them.
You gotta double bounce them.
That's the trick.
Oh, hey, Kyle.
Man breaks in this world record for world's tallest spike mohawk.
Yeah, beat that one, Kyle.
Oh, I got sent this one.
Now that I have come out against world records, people just send me this stuff all the time.
Much like Ethan and the Bears.
I should have gone with Bears.
I should have made my thing money.
All about money.
I love everybody says that.
Money enthusiasts.
I think Fiverr on Frenzy said that about their blue comb song.
Oh, yeah, you should have written it like about a dollar.
I lost my cigars, and some people, a few people, have sent me cigars.
Thank you.
Oh, I, yeah, I, I, my thing is board games.
We had a fan that sent me a giant like $300 box set of Warhammer 40K miniatures.
Oh, wow.
Thanks, Justin.
Mine is rare coins.
Okay.
Rare gold doubloons.
I'm a huge artifact coin enthusiast.
All right.
Well, so, yeah, tall mohawk.
Good job.
He had previously had the record with his 42.5 inches tall mohawk, and he just went back in and he's like, well, no one else has grown a tall mohawk in the time that I still continue to grow my mohawk.
I am going to create a flowchart of is this a legitimate world record or not.
And one of the, I don't haven't figured it all out, but one of them is: can you just decide to break this record right now at this moment?
This one you can't.
That's what I'm saying.
So this makes me, but it's also not like anybody could do it.
Anybody could do it.
You just don't want to do it.
He's kind of like that long fingernails guy.
Yeah, long fingernails guy.
I guess.
Who wants to live like that?
But I assume he can put his hair into some kind of giant man bun when he's not showing off his mohawk.
So it's not even that big.
So he should have to wear the mohawk like year-round and do everyday things with it.
Very much agree.
And if he's going to break the same record with the same mohawk, I think that that shouldn't be allowed.
I think that he should have to shave it and grow it.
He's going to do it again.
A separate mohawk.
Because he's out ahead of everybody forever.
Yeah.
But yeah, he should have to live with it.
He should have to drive with it with his hair through the sunroof.
Yes.
And anytime he turns his head, his car swerves around.
Or the woman with whoever has the longest hair record, they should just get some gel, put their hair up in a mohawk, and kick this guy's butt.
Oh, you got to use Super Glue.
Who has the world's longest hair?
Yeah.
So they could get this.
That's two records they could do.
Right there.
I'm not going to.
And then they could do some shaving and get the world's longest mullet.
They got a lot of things they could do.
That's true.
The world's longest ponytail.
There you go.
The world's longest pigtails.
Chi Chi Ping from China.
Her hair is 18 feet long.
Oh, yeah.
She'd wipe the floor at this guy.
World's longest hair bra.
There you go.
Hair bra?
That's what they're wrong.
That's what they do in like when you see Adam and Eve and all the old movies.
Oh, yeah.
They just cover her hair.
It's just growing over.
Never heard the phrase hair bra.
Oh, really?
I thought that's what John the Baptist wore.
Yeah, a hair bra.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Hey, so there's a quiz on challenges.com that I think it's, yeah, I don't know.
It's a link to a quiz about the Trinity.
So we decided we're going to take it on the air and see how me and Ethan do to see if we're going to get into heaven or not.
Yeah.
All right.
Am I proctoring this test?
Yeah.
Okay.
What score gets you into heaven?
You're the Steve Harvey of this.
I've always wanted to be Steve Harvey.
I think I'm going to say 27.
27 gets you into heaven.
Yep.
Okay.
27 into heaven.
Did you make that?
Did you choose that one because it rhymed?
Yep.
Okay.
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27 into heaven.
Let's see if we can make it.
All right.
Buckle your Trinity belts.
Okay.
First question.
True or false?
There is one God.
True.
True.
Okay.
Oh, it says, it tells you the results right there, right after.
So, yes, true.
All right.
True or false.
The three persons in the Godhead have always related to one another as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Ready?
Have always related to each other?
Three, two, one.
True.
Okay, that one's true.
Dang it.
That is true.
God is one.
I was thinking before English was invented, they probably didn't use those words.
Right?
They didn't always say that.
It's just the concept, not the word.
This is all semantics.
You can't win on semantics here.
The father has the whole fullness of God's being in himself.
True or false?
True.
True.
Did you say true?
No, true.
True.
That is true.
Okay, the Father is eternal.
True or false?
True.
True.
That is true.
The Father is not the Son.
True or father.
True.
True.
The Father is the Holy Spirit.
False.
False.
Did you say he didn't say it?
I got carried away.
I almost said true.
Oh, you look at it.
From a certain point of view.
They're all heretical point of view.
They're all each other.
The Son is half human and half divine.
False.
False.
That is false.
Extra points if you can tell me the name of that heresy.
Half-ism.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I forgot it.
In his humility, the Son is subordinate to the Father, true or false.
In his humanity, the Son is subordinate to the Father.
Excuse me.
True. True.
Good guess, guys.
The Son came into being at the time of his incarnation.
True or false?
False.
I almost said true, so I guess I'll go with true when I know I'm wrong.
False.
The Son was active in creation.
Oh, yeah.
I was thinking, like, well, he's a baby.
It's asking if he was created.
If he was there before.
Was Jesus created?
Right.
Yeah.
The son is not the father.
True.
Okay.
Okay.
You hit me with a giant nod first, Ethan.
Get this right.
Don't make us look bad.
We're the Babylon B. All right.
The Holy Spirit is a force.
A force?
Like the force with a capital letter?
No, a force.
Like centripetal force or like it comes into this place and transforms, shakes these walls.
Yeah, I don't know what it means by force.
Holy Spirit.
You are welcome.
Are you just going to say true for fun?
Wait, this is the Holy Spirit is a force.
Is a force.
False.
Michael, I know it's false, but I'm saying true for the fun of it.
Okay, false.
The Holy Spirit is a Holy Spirit is a person, not a force.
The Son and the Spirit are subordinate to the Father in their essence or nature.
What was that?
We got the Dan groan.
It's not a groan, it's like a moan.
I'll say true, false.
Okay, it is false.
See the Athanasian Creed.
Did I just become oh, wait, Ethan?
Go see the Athanasian Creed.
Am I like an Aryan now or something?
Or agnostic, or I don't know what these guys think.
Athanasius would like to speak to you in his office.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three different names for the one person of God as he displays his work in three distinct roles, true or false.
They're not just names, though.
There's more of a distinction than they're three persons, right?
So false.
False.
Correct.
False.
He reasoned that up, man.
I really noodled that one out there.
That was good.
A right understanding of the Trinity is vital to right worship of God, true or false.
True.
I mean, you got to say true.
What do you have to say?
Nah.
Nah.
Even though.
Yeah, true.
We're going to say true.
Of course.
It's like false.
Of course that's true.
Because then you're otherwise you're worshiping a false God.
And what is that?
Idolatry.
That's what it is.
Sorry.
A right understanding of the Trinity is vital to a right understanding of redemption, true or false.
True.
Let's just say true.
He's got to say true.
They're not going to be like, you're not going to be like, yeah, no, it's true.
This is true.
We did this whole quiz, but it's not actually important.
We cannot confidently derive the doctrine of the Trinity from the biblical text, true or false.
We cannot confidently?
We cannot confidently.
Yes, that the Bible is good.
True or false?
Yeah, the word Trinity is not in the Bible.
However, the doctrine is a fisher.
Yes.
All right.
Great job.
That's it.
How do we do, Patrick?
He's tallying it up.
It's taken a while.
Ethan missed, let's see here.
Yeah, Kyle and all of them.
Ethan missed, I think, six.
Six?
I got six wrong?
Wow.
That's not too bad.
Jeez.
What is that on a test, though?
That's like a 20.
That's like 80%.
Yeah.
It's a B. 82% or something.
Above average.
You just missed excommunication.
So congratulations.
Anybody keep working?
Anybody see and above gets into the kingdom?
C's get degrees.
That's right.
All right, everyone.
Well, you can check out that quiz somewhere on the internet.
Challies.com.
Tim Charlie's.
Tim Challeys is a guy's name.
Yeah.
Charlie's.com has it.
Just on the Trinity.
We'll have a link.
Real things that Blue Checks say.
All right.
Real stuff Blue Checks Say and Other Happenings on Social Media.
Semi-regular segment where we look at stupid things people say on social media.
So here we go.
Yeah.
And we raise an eyebrow to them.
And we look at them and we smirk.
We smirk condescendingly.
And what's the word that they love?
Snark.
Oh, yeah.
Get rid of some conservative snark right now.
Yeah, a little snark.
Okay, okay, gang.
So the U.S.
The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, which is a Catholic thing in the Vatican, right?
Celebrated Pride Month by hanging a pride flag on display during the month of June.
And they were so proud about their pride flag that they hung up in the Vatican that they posted it on social media.
Look how brave we are.
I don't know what's Holy Sea.
It's like the Vatican, right?
Okay.
I don't know, Catholic.
It's spelled C-E-E-F-C-C-E.
That's what's like C, like as in vision.
Yeah, it sounds like some kind of goggles you put on and you, you know, it is the women in bikinis suddenly be wearing cardigan sweaters.
It is the Pope's jurisdiction.
Modesty glasses.
Modesty goggles.
Okay, so now we're going to have a 33-question quiz on the Holy See.
Are you ready?
So people were pointing out the funniness.
What's that called?
Humor of the fact that they would hang this up here.
But the embassies in the Middle Eastern countries were not hanging up.
They weren't.
Okay, so this is in the not.
Look how brave we are.
Yeah.
Speaking out against these Christians because they won't throw us off.
We're so brave for doing something socially acceptable in an area where it's socially acceptable.
I didn't see it on here, but did you guys see all the corporations that they're finding that are changing their logos to pride flags, except in their Middle Eastern?
Yes.
Bethesda.
I saw the video.
Bethesda and the Bethesda, the video game developer.
It's like in the UK, pride logo.
In the US, Pride logo.
In Canada, Pride logo.
And it's like Bethesda Middle East.
It just black and white.
Depressing.
It's a depressing square.
And there's a bunch of them that people were pulling up that we're getting this week.
They have a different flag there.
It's like, we stand against the gays.
Just wonderful.
Well, then, yeah, we got another company here, Chevron, bravely standing against culture.
This month marks 30 years since the founding of our Pride Network.
Celebrate?
30 years?
To celebrate, we're holding a series of joyful events to highlight intersectionality and honor our personal identities and experiences to make each one of us unique.
Chevron Pride.
Is that an ad?
Giving gay people gas for 30 years.
I know that it's a horse that we've beat to death.
Yes.
But when Chevron's on your side, you're not part of this.
Big oil.
I stand with big oil.
That will never not be funny to me.
There's this one.
The New York Times featured a terrorist poster boy as one of the Palestinian children recently killed in Gaza.
So children died.
That's sad.
But New York Times.
Published a front page story on it.
And the guy's literally a poster child.
Like he was on a poster.
Yeah.
Like a Hamas terrorist poster or something.
Yeah, so then later on, they tried to.
A recruitment poster, like sign up.
And he's right there, like, yeah.
Yeah, so then later on, they tweet about it.
So they put him on the front page of the New York Times.
And later on, they like put up a clarifying.
It's not even like really clarifying tweet.
They just say, hey, some more information has come out about this guy.
He's being claimed by a militant group as a member, by the way.
Just like the Zacharon Hamas.
I don't know.
I don't know how much I believe this story.
It says 69 children were killed.
And I don't believe that number.
Just because it's like a troll thing.
Yeah, they're trolling us.
69.
What's the significance of 69?
It's when marshmallow, turnip, and they porpoises.
And then they're going to hacksaw, marshmallow, and then they flowerbed.
And you porpoises.
And it goes donkey.
And then all the turnip gets marshmallow.
You learn something new every day.
Merry Christmas.
A 17.
Oh, wait, no.
Oh, atheists in Kenya Society.
This is my favorite thing that happened this week.
So they have a society in Kenya of atheists that all get together.
There's some higher ups there than are the high prominent atheists.
Yeah, they are.
One of them.
They meet once a week in the morning, Sunday morning.
Sing some songs about they don't like.
They take some communion and spit it out angrily.
And they have science lectures.
Yeah.
And worship songs.
Nothing is funnier to me than a group of atheists, like an organized group of atheists that meet regularly.
That's a thing, though.
Have you seen that?
They have atheist churches where they get together and they're like, ha ha, we're doing all these rituals.
It's just so funny.
I'm sorry.
I interrupted.
No, well, except for the actual point of the story.
So one of their top leaders stepped down because he has found Jesus.
Well, and the funniest part about it is that this isn't like a news story that's covering this.
They announced it.
They straight up announced their L on social media.
It makes me remember it's like a, I love this.
It's a cultural thing.
I don't think an American atheist society would do this.
No.
Because this is this evening, regretfully, our secretary, Mr. Seth Mahiga, made the decision to resign from his position as secretary of our society.
Seth's reason for resigning is that he has found Jesus Christ and is no longer interested in promoting atheism in Kenya.
I like that they had to tag that in at the end.
He's become a Christian and he's interested in promoting.
Maybe he like, what if he became a Christian but was still interested?
Yeah, why can't he try to convince him to walk and chew guns at the same time?
We wish Seth all the best in his newfound relationship with Jesus Christ.
We thank him for having served the society with dedication over the last one and a half years.
And then they posted a video of him giving his testimony.
And I thought this was satire because I was reading it and I'm like, oh, it's a joke.
I thought this was supposed to be satire.
I thought this was supposed to be satire.
When did you guys start doing real news?
But they post a video of him giving his testimony in church and it says, video, former atheist and Kenya secretary Seth Mahiga in church today accepting Jesus Christ and announcing his resignation.
Surreal.
Surreal.
And it's very, I mean, it's like, it's an uplifting church service thing.
He's impassioned, right?
Well, I really like the comments section on the first post.
Yeah.
Because the atheists there.
There's this one.
Here we go.
It says, where exactly did he find Jesus?
Only place possible.
In his head.
Edgy.
Edgy.
Oh, that evidence and facts.
Magic sky, Jaddy.
Reason.
So we had another good one.
This was Lara Lara.
Lara?
Lara Hogan.
And she's, I guess she's probably a journalist because whatever she said is stupid.
And she says, a teeny tiny inclusive language thing I've tried to get better at this past year is avoiding Northern Hemisphere-specific seasonal language.
Like instead of this summer, I say the months that I mean or just Q3.
Because it might be that season for me, but not that season for everybody.
Why would anybody ever be offended by that?
Yeah, I don't understand.
And you know, a lot of, there were a lot of people tweeting just like the logical conclusion of what this would be.
But I think Kyle had the best one.
Kyle, Captain America, Q1 Soldier.
I'm having to figure out what each one is.
Okay, Winter Soldier.
Winter Soldier.
Q2 Breakers.
Q2 Breakers.
Spring breakers.
That one took me a long time to figure out, actually.
Schools out for Q3.
That's the more sensitive Alice Cooper.
And the rising Q4 of the third round.
Oh, that one took me the longest.
It just shouldn't have.
Well, because he wasn't actually talking about the season in that one.
He saved it for the last one.
Usually it's the rule of three in comedy, but Kyle is a rule breaker.
So respectful.
A respectful bully would like trip a kid and be like, have a nice break.
See you next Q4.
Just in case.
I don't want to offend you.
Just in case you're not in the Northern Hemisphere exclusive.
There's a good CNN one.
Oh, good old CNN.
Oh, yeah.
Did you guys see this, what they tweeted?
Yes.
About the fish.
Yeah.
This is like supposed to be a big dunk on Christianity.
Like, Bible false, owned.
Checkmate, Christians.
Ancient Judeans ate non-kosher fish at a time when it was thought to have been prohibited in the Bible.
What?
What?
According to a new song.
No.
The Bible must have been written later.
And it's like.
Have you ever read the book of Judges or anything in the Old Testament at all?
Name a time in scripture where the Israelites followed the law.
Yeah, I think it would more like debunk the Bible if you found all this evidence.
Yeah, they followed it exactly.
You're like, my faith is in shambles now.
Remember, God told them to have that year of Jubilee?
You ever hear about that?
Or you ever read about them actually doing it in the Bible?
I guess not.
No.
Is there anything else to do of them doing it?
I guess I don't know.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Hey, guys.
Father's Day is coming up quick.
You know what Fathers like?
They like us.
And swag.
Swag.
You put those things together.
They like hats.
You have the perfect Father's Day gift.
I'm a father.
You are?
You are.
Yeah, you were a father.
You never wear hats.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Look at it.
That's not selling it, is it?
No, it looks great.
You look good in it.
It looks really good.
Yeah, that might be the first hat that ever looked good on.
I've never seen you in a hat.
Oh, yeah.
Wear it sideways.
Good.
Cock it.
Yeah.
Look at the quality of this shirt.
It smells new.
There's hardly any sweat shirt.
Yeah, we got lots of Babylon B shirts, swag.
We have some Father's Days.
We have some Father's Day stuff.
We have the Father's shirt.
We have the new one we got.
We have the Dad shirt.
We have a shirt that says Dad, but then we crossed it out because we realized that was insensitive.
It says non-birthing parental unit.
World's best.
So get that one.
And we've got the I identify as vaccinated shirt, very popular among fathers this year.
And you can get this shirt that says celebrating the one-year anniversary of two weeks to flatten the curve.
Oh, yeah.
Very exciting.
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If you are a Babylon B premium subscriber, you have a discount code in your inbox.
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And by the way, it's like 50-50 shot.
It'll get there by Father's Day.
It's too late.
But fathers are cool.
Yeah, dads don't care.
Dads don't care.
Can I tag on another product that is very good for Father's Day?
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Bears Want to Kill You?
The Ultimate Father's Day book.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
It's out.
I got it.
I got still.
I have about one or 200 hardcovers left.
The slip case.
They're very nice and fancy, but you can get it from me.
You can get it signed.
I'll throw in.
You can get from my site, axebearstore.com, or the soft covers on Amazon.
You can get it.
Either way, I send it to you.
Yeah, it's perfect for reading like a normal person or on the toilet like a dad.
Yeah, it's a good toilet book.
Hey, my phone is ringing.
Is it cake?
That was supposed to be the Android sound.
Do you guys need me to leave for this?
What?
Yeah.
Can you just head out?
Because we're going to talk to Jack Phillips, who is the masterpiece cake shop owner.
Yeah.
Famous for like constantly getting sued because people come into his cake shop and they're like, hey, bake me a cake that shows Ronald Reagan with devil horns.
Yeah, make me a super gay cake.
With rainbows coming out of his butt.
Yeah.
And he won't.
And he's like, no, I'm not going to do that.
And then sued.
And then, you know, and all the Supreme Court.
So we talked to him.
We talked him about, you know, Yankee's got a book coming out, but he talked about all his exploits of being targeted by the cake.
He's caters.
He's cake guy.
Here he is.
K guy.
All right.
We are now talking to Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop.
And he was sued again and again, right?
How many times have you been sued now, Mr. Phillips?
We just had a trial last March, the end of March, in our third Masterpiece 3, our third lawsuit.
Wow.
So you spend more time baking cakes or getting sued?
Plenty of time doing both.
Okay.
All right.
Does that affect your cake making ability when you're having to constantly go to court?
Well, it has affected us in a number of ways going to court.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled against us initially that I had to stop, that I had to start making wedding cakes for everybody who came in, regardless of what the wedding cake was, whether it was a heterosexual couple or a homosexual couple.
And I wouldn't be able to even help decide the design on that.
So if they wanted a cake with an adult theme or anything like that, I'd be required to do it and give up that free speech aspect of my business.
And so that was a decision that we made that was fairly costly.
Yeah.
And you guys won in the Supreme Court against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
And it was that same day that you then had a call about doing a transgender cake or something?
It was actually the day that the court announced that they were going to hear our case.
Okay.
That's pretty momentous decision right there.
And it was a chaotic, crazy day.
Lots of press, lots of friends, lots of family coming by.
And in the midst of all that confusion, yeah, an attorney here in Colorado called us up and requested that we would create a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside.
And those colors were to celebrate a gender transition and changing from man to woman.
So we explained to this, it's actually an attorney, and we explained to this attorney that that's not a cake we could create because of the message involved in that.
And I couldn't express that message, but we'd be glad to serve this attorney anything else in our shop or make other custom work.
So it was that very day that the court announced it started the ball rolling for Masterpiece 2 and now Masterpiece 3.
Wow.
So I mean, you look back on the day that you, I mean, it all starts with one small decision, you know, like right the first cake you were asked to do.
Do you look back on that day and go, man, I wish I just went ahead and did the cake?
Or are you glad?
Howdy, are you glad that you buckled down and did it?
And here you are.
Before we opened up the shop back in 1993 and the years previous to that as we were planning it, my wife and I would sit down and we would discuss what the cake shop would look like, you know, what kind of things we would sell and which kind of cakes we would design and not design.
And on that list would be cakes to celebrate Halloween or cakes that would be anti-American or cakes that were racist or cakes that would insult people.
And it didn't matter who that person was.
You know, if it was somebody who identified as LGBT, we wouldn't create a cake like that.
But we also decided way back then in 93, 92, 91, that we wouldn't design cakes to celebrate same-sex weddings.
So we had drawn those lines a long time ago.
And this wasn't the first cake that we turned away.
We turned away, you know, many Halloween cakes through the years or even adult-themed cakes and different things.
But when this one came up, we already had practiced in trying to defend our faith and say, I'm sorry, that's a cake that we can't create because of our faith and our relationship to Jesus Christ.
We didn't get that far in this conversation, but we were prepared for this kind of conversation right from the start.
Yeah.
What's the status of the current lawsuit with the gender transition cake?
We had our trial, I say, back in March.
It was like a four-day trial.
My wife was called to the witness stand.
My daughter was.
It was all done via Zoom, like this with his chambers.
And we were with our attorneys, and it was difficult to watch.
You know, I'm have to sit there with my hands folded on the table pretty much because there was a camera on me and make sure that I'm not, you know, coaching my wife or my daughters or giving their answers.
And while the prosecution is basically trying to destroy your testimony and your credibility and your character, but then to watch my wife and my daughter both, you know, answer the questions thoughtfully and carefully and compellingly.
And so we went through all of that and the examination, the cross-examination, and now we're just waiting for the judge to announce a decision on that.
It could come today or tomorrow or June or July.
There's not a timeline.
Have you ever tried to sway anybody in court by offering secretly offering them free cake?
No, but I throw all nine.
Too much respect for our court system.
I think we have a wonderful legal system, court system.
He's not a lawyer and he cannot offer legitimate legal advice.
Just so disregard everything he says.
Okay.
What's the evidence that any of these people I've only heard these mostly about your story through conversation with other people talking about it?
And I know that there's, I've heard that there's evidence that you're being targeted, that it seems like a lot of these people are, there's cake shops everywhere around where you are.
They could easily go somewhere else.
They're targeting you.
They figured out that they could get you and they just won't leave you alone.
Yeah, there is a wonderful cake shop right across the street from us.
In our Supreme Court briefs and documents, we noted that there are 67 bakeries in Denver, not only that will create a cake for a same-sex wedding, they advertise that they will.
And so there's no shortage of bakeries around that would give these two men their request.
In fact, they ended up with a cake that was designed with rainbow layers in the cake when you cut into it, and it was given to them for free.
So there was no shortage.
Yeah, and it might be good for me to jump in here and give a little bit of background about Jack's most recent cake, most recent case, I should say.
Well, cake works too.
Cake case, it's all the same thing at this point, right?
But you mentioned how activists have been basically using laws to harass people like Jack.
And that's exactly what happened in this most recent litigation.
This attorney called Jack on the exact same day that the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear Jack's first case.
And the custom cake was to be blue and pink and to celebrate a gender transition.
But it wasn't the first time that this attorney called Jack.
This attorney contacted Jack back in 2012, calling him a bigot and a hypocrite, and then called again on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear Jack's case.
And then this attorney called back again a couple of months later to request a custom cake depicting Satan smoking marijuana.
So what we're seeing is that activists are using the justice system, using laws to try to punish people they disagree with.
And it's just harassment.
Jack, did you make the Satan joint cake?
No, that's obviously a cake that we couldn't create.
That's a message that wouldn't design for anybody.
So, no, we've turned away cakes in the end of our building here.
There's a store that sells marijuana paraphernalia, those kind of things.
And they requested that we create marijuana-shaped cookies to celebrate April 20th, the day that marijuana was legalized here and to celebrate that.
So that's another kind of thing that we have to decline.
But people request those.
And, you know, when we tell them no, usually it just goes away.
Or in the case of David and Charlie, the two men that came in, we didn't have a chance to discuss it.
I wish we could have, but 20 seconds later, they were gone and we were off to the court.
What about Satan getting punched in the face when you do that cake?
No.
What?
I'm just checking where the trying to figure out.
We got to find the line.
Where's the line?
There's a lot of hypothetical cakes that you can come up with.
So they've all been thrown in.
Is Satan smoking a joint the weirdest request you've ever gotten?
You know, it's one of the weirdest.
One of the weirdest.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've had some really graphically violent cakes that people have asked me to create, you know, testing us.
And trying to test you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So will you do this or that?
Like, depends on the message.
No, that's a message I can't promote.
Can't express it.
Did you get a lot of support from like friends and family when you decided to take a stand or were people coming out of the woodwork and telling you, don't do it.
Just bake the cake, man.
Both ways.
We had a ton of people, you know, friends that would say you should make the cake.
And, you know, it's drawn our family closer together.
But one surprising source of support was a radio station where it was doing their broadcast from our shop all day back in like 2013.
And the first person to come in that morning, five o'clock in the morning, introduced himself, says, my name's Mike Jones, and I'm a gay man.
Hi, Mike.
I'm Jack.
What can I do for you?
We talked and he came back later on in the day and then he's been back again since.
And I've since learned that this man was a former gay activist and he wanted to see who this man is who won't serve a gay couple.
But we've since become friends.
And when we had our third trial back in March, he testified on our behalf, you know, to show that, you know, I serve everybody.
I just can't express every message people ask me to.
So that was one of the more unique aspects of the public's support or not towards us.
Yeah, I mean, it's so bizarre that we're in this place where it should be so obvious that a person can express whatever opinion they do or do not want to express.
And it feels like you're just being the one who's being made an example of, but there's this whole movement where we want there are people that want this to be to change, where speech is policed, I guess, is the best way to put it.
And every American should have the right to live and work according to their conscience without fear of punishment from the government.
You know, creative professionals like myself should have the right to say, I can't express that message.
Can we something else out?
But fortunately, like ADF has been there right from the start, you know, four days after David and Charlie stormed out of my shop.
ADF was there to help with legal assistance and guidance.
And a lot of people don't know this, but ADF does all their work for their clients pro bono, meaning they've never charged me a dime.
But it's not free.
It's cost a lot of money and a lot of hours and a lot of work.
And we're grateful for God providing that aspect of this.
A lot of your life, hours of your life, years of your life.
Yeah, it's been almost nine years now.
Wow.
Wow, nine.
Holy nine years ago.
Yeah.
Jeez.
That's wild.
Did you bake ADF a cake?
We've had some different things with ADF.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
He's not at liberty to say.
So you wrote a book.
Oh, yeah.
A book.
The cost of my faith.
How a decision in my cake shop took me to the Supreme Court.
You want to tell us a little bit about that?
Yeah.
My first thought when I was approached with the idea of writing a book, The Cost of My Faith, was, you know, that might not be a bad idea.
I'm not a writer.
I'm an artist, but had some help and writing it turned out to be quite a good deal of fun.
But when I first thought about doing it, it's like, yeah, I want my kids, my grandkids to know, you know, what happened that day?
What's the truth?
Because it's difficult to find, you know, truthful stories online.
You can find any story you want.
So I wanted to put it in writing.
But then I realized what a platform I have.
Know that hopefully many people will read this book and have an understanding of what happened.
You know, did I serve everybody?
I just couldn't create this cake and how I paired my love of art growing up.
That was something I always loved to do: draw and paint and color and sculpt and high school classes and all taking all the classes that I could in the art room.
And then needing a job and ending up in a job working at a bakery that a large wholesale bakery, large place with conveyor rails full of donuts and things like that, that a man lived across the street from me owned.
And just joining those two loves together and knowing that someday I would open my own bakery.
And then this bakery owner bought out another bakery and brought in cake decorators.
And I had never seen that.
And so I knew right then what my future was.
I was going to open my own shop and I would use cake as a canvas and I would create custom artwork on cakes to help people celebrate ideas.
And I even knew what my cake shop would be called.
It would be Masterpiece Cake Shop because Masterpiece says art and cake shop says cakes.
So you wouldn't come in looking for a loaf of bread or a pie and hopefully we'd be able to celebrate that way.
In fact, shortly after we opened, I have an article hanging up on the wall in the store that a local newspaper wrote about us in our grand opening and all said, walking into masterpiece cake shop was like walking into an art gallery of cakes and bingo.
That's what I want to do, art and cake.
And obviously have you had any issues with um?
You know, obviously you have a store on a street yeah, a place people can find, and there's all this anger online.
Are you having?
Do you have to have like SWAT team that guard your store?
Like how bad is it?
People show.
There have been protests.
We've had four protests outside the store and we've had, you know, the store vandalized and different things.
You know hateful phone calls.
I tell about one story in the cost of my faith where a man called me up one morning and said, I'm on my way to your shop.
I've got a gun.
Oh geez wow, now I'm gonna come and blow your head off, which I know where.
I'm going, not afraid to go, but my daughter was here and my three-year-old granddaughter.
I didn't want them to be around, so you go hide in the back while I call the police and the police came and tried to trace the call.
That never could.
But that story is written in the cost of my faith and just different things like that.
But we've had so much other good support.
You know people realize that these liberties, these freedoms that we cherish, are important and if they go away they're not coming back.
So do our best to explain some of those important things in the cost of my faith as well.
Does it feel like the?
You know, because I know that a lot of these issues it feel that there's a, there's a group of people that are very on the side of you know, which seems like irrational, that you need to force cake makers to do whatever message you tell them to do, which they would not want to do if they were supposed to make pro-life cakes or whatever.
Uh, but in in your general just experience of real people in real life, do you feel like it's overwhelmingly the common people see things the way you do that people should have this freedom?
You know I I can't speak for everybody, but we've had so much support from just people that come by the shop you know way outnumbering the, the people who are against us.
But we still have a fight ahead of us and we're still willing to uh, draw those lines and stay on this side of the line and and, as you know, pray that god gives us the strength and the wisdom to know what to do and when to do it or not to do and when not to do it.
Guys, I think you bring up a really good point there.
You know, the same principle that we're advocating for in court that protects Jack is the same principle that would protect, for example, an LGBT website designer.
You know, that person should not be forced by the government to create websites for a church promoting traditional marriage.
The government shouldn't have that kind of power.
In the same way, the government shouldn't force Jack Phillips to create custom cakes expressing messages that go against his core beliefs.
So, in this way, the principle we want and that we're advocating for in courts protects everyone.
Right.
It even protects the two men that sued me the first time and the person suing me this time around.
Those rights are going to be valuable to them someday, and we hope to keep them.
It seems mind-numbingly obvious that that's the way things should be.
I don't even know how it's so bizarre.
Yeah, well, all right.
Well, thanks for joining us, Mr. Phillips.
Your book is out now.
So, everyone, check that out, The Cost of My Faith.
Available in cake shops everywhere.
If you ever need a satirical article written about you, we're the guys to do that.
So, we'll do it for you.
You've read about us a couple of times.
Yeah, we have.
So, Pro Bono, we'll do Pro Bono work for you.
The last one about the two lines of people, that was funny.
Awesome.
This is your article.
He read it.
We just request a Babylon B cake.
Yeah.
Does that go against your conscience?
It's not something I could ship to you.
I didn't know where you're calling.
So we have to come.
We have to come out there.
All right.
Welcome you to my shop, just like I welcome and serve everybody.
All right, perfect.
All right.
Thanks a lot, Jack.
Our pleasure.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for joining us.
Thank you, lawyer man.
Thanks, lawyer man.
Thanks, Lawyer.
See you again.
Thank you.
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We changed our logo momentarily, briefly, temporarily for one day to Rainbow Bee.
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Because it was remembering no way of the rainbow.
And this lady did not get it.
Eve.
Classic Eve.
Classic Eve.
Can anyone do an Eve voice?
Probably.
You guys do good common voices.
If the B is going to be using gay pride colors all month, then I'm going.
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I forgot how to talk for a second.
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Virtue signaling not going to support anyone that shows favoritism to one group over another.
I'm sick of it all.
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I'm going to log in and find out.
Check.
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I did it wrong.
If the bee is going to be using gay pride colors all month, then I'm going to block them.
I'm sick of virtue signaling.
Not going to support anyone that shows favoritism to one group over another.
I'm sick of all of it.
Sounds like a British guy.
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That's my mad hatter.
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She still follows us.
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Is the logo still up?
Because last year we did all month, I think.
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This was satire.
Was it satire?
She got us.
Are you sure?
No.
What's your evidence, sir?
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