THE BEE WEEKLY: Punk Rock Nature and the Roller Coaster of Doom
Kyle and Ethan are joined this week by political commentator Bill Whittle to talk about blue checks on Twitter calling conservatives the American Taliban, weird news of the week like Japanese death rides, and a nature documentary series that doesn't hate God called The Riot and the Dance! Be sure to check out Bill Whittle's website and show called The Right Angle. First, the guys tackle this week's weird news like a Japanese roller coaster that is breaking people's necks, a Kentucky school with a furry problem, and a Texas father that strips down to his underwear to prove a point. Mountain Dew Flamin' Hot is out now, kids are pledging allegiance to the pride flag, and some cows go through the McDonald's Drive-Thru. China doesn't want their kids wasting their time playing video games and a video game Guinness World Record was also broken. Kyle and Ethan then talk to N.D. Wilson about his new nature documentary, The Riot and the Dance, which doesn't hate the fact that God created everything. You will want to tune in to this episode for what could be the greatest hate mail ever. Kyle, Ethan and Bill read some bonus hate mail and the top subscriber-submitted headlines of the week in the subscriber lounge. Then Bill Whittle answers the Ten Questions.
Because it's been a week since you've heard us last.
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Hey, hey.
How you doing, Bill?
He's the legend, the seasoned legend of conservatism, the precursor of, I always thought of you as sort of the Gandalf version of Ben Shapiro.
Thank you.
I'll throw the razor away.
And yeah, it makes me wonder what the Gandalf version of Ben Shapiro would really look like.
Like the Gandalf to Shapiro.
I don't know.
He's the Hobbit.
Shapiro Hobbit.
I get it.
Anyway, thank you.
It's always nice to be known as the most ancient member of any group that I'm at a party to.
You did call him seasoned.
Why?
Seasoned.
And an ancient wizard.
Yeah, I mean, I just remember watching Bill Whittle videos.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
When I started, you know, when I started doing this, we had these, you know, we had these wet clay things and we poked little shark sticks into them and then we baked them and we sent those out on horseback.
And that was really the first blogs that I was a part of when I was a kid.
Twitter was actually sending birds out.
Yeah, the targets people.
Yeah.
I personally think you're very young and hip.
Well, thank you.
Much cooler than that.
We're in real trouble.
Thank you.
He's here anyway.
Yeah, and by the way, I just want to tell you guys, it's just so impressive.
For those of you at home, I mean, this is enormous, beautiful glass-fronted skyscraper overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
You guys have the top three floors and are planning to expand and stuff.
We saw just rows and rows of fact checkers and editors down there to make sure that everything that goes out is.
One of the floors is just bean bags and pillows for pillow fights.
Jelly beans.
We have a cigar smoking floor.
We've got a lot of fun.
It really looks great.
Racquetball.
And the water slide between the floors too really adds a lot of sense of playfulness.
It's actually a vodka slide.
Pretty cool.
Pure vodka.
Yeah.
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I think you have something in your beard.
Oh, yeah?
All right.
Yeah.
Oh, it just fell.
It fell out.
It looks like a Cheeto or something.
Well, it's now somewhere down here.
Yeah, it fell on the bounced off and went down.
That was his wedding Cheeto, though.
I mean, you know, that's not something you just casually throw away.
It's probably bacon jerky.
Because I've just been chowing down on bacon jerky all morning.
I guess they couldn't see it on camera.
But when you first think of bacon jerky, you go, bacon jerky?
Yeah, I'm not a fan, really.
I love bacon, but I don't like bacon jerky.
It's not crispy.
That's the only piece that you really miss.
Anything that degrades the essential baconness of bacon is pretty near communism, really, when you get right down to it.
It does mess with the ontological identity of bacon, which is sad.
And it feels weird keeping bacon out, like sitting out.
Yeah, it just feels like it should be refrigerated or eaten immediately.
Yes, that's right.
There's not nearly enough bacon respect shown in this country.
It's one of the major problems we have.
I'm serious.
This is like you can, you can, you can really tell who's on the team by things like how they treat their bacon.
Or a lot of times we do speaking events.
I'd go to a speaking event and we start them with a Pledge of Allegiance, and that's in case any progressives are in the audience.
And you say the pledge, and they just burst into flames, you know, and this big whole sulfurous smell comes out, and they just go back into the gates of hell where they came from.
Well, it's another reason I like you more than Ben Shapiro is because you're pro-bacon.
So there you go.
Yes, he's very observant.
Very observant Jew.
He might like it.
He just doesn't need it.
I wonder if he's ever had it.
That is the biggest test that God gave to the people of Israel.
True, you know, make the case.
That's why Christianity exists in the first place, really.
It's access to bacon.
That's true.
It is our biggest talking point, for sure.
It's our number one.
It's our number one sales lead.
He's tricked somebody eating bacon.
It's what we use to get people into the store.
It's a bait and switch kind of thing.
Hey, before we get rolling, we also wanted to give a shout out to the Caffeinated Theology podcast and coffee roasters.
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He sent us some nice coffee beans.
We got another good stuff.
I saw the coasters laying around.
So thanks, Jason.
Check out the Caffeinated Theology podcast and roasters.
It's a podcast and roaster.
Do they roast it on the podcast?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Checking out kids these days, man.
Hey, let's do some weird news.
This news is weird.
Japanese theme park shuts down roller coaster because it was breaking people's necks.
And backs.
And backs.
Also backs.
Okay, but how is it otherwise?
Is it a good ride?
Yeah, but it was fun.
It's like cars, you know.
It's called the Dodo Donanpa.
Doda.
Dododon Pa.
Dodon Pa.
Does that translate to the neck breaker?
Maybe you should.
You know, you get on the reason you get on a roller coaster is to be frightened.
I mean, that's why you're paying the people, and it probably adds to the frissant of excitement to see bodies being hauled off of the cars that you're about to get into, you know?
Yeah, it's like they're hauling them off and the owner of the parks right there.
And they're like, you said you were just going to scare him.
He's like, look pretty scared to me.
Did you guys ever see the euthanasia roller coaster?
Youth in Asia or youth in the case?
No, no, no.
This story is about euthanasia.
I'm talking about euthanasia.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, some guy came.
I'm not making this up.
He came up with something called the euthanasia roller coaster, which he thought was a humane way to kill people, not making up the single.
Yeah.
Thing goes up like this incredible distance that it does this flat dive and then it gets into a series of concentric circles that get smaller and smaller and smaller.
And you pull like 20 Gs or something for a minute and a half.
And then when you come off, you're dead.
Wow.
Well, if you're going to do that.
That's one way to go.
I mean, I guess, you know, you might as well have some fun.
My favorite old people in a roller coaster story.
Have I told this?
My grandparents.
So I was actually my dad's mom and her mom.
So great, great, my great-great-grandmother.
They're at Disneyland, and they heard there's a nice train ride you can take around Disneyland.
It's a nice slow, leisurely thing.
So they found this train ride and they got in line, and it was actually the not, it's not them, is it the Matterhorn?
What's the one that has like the train roller coaster?
Thunder Mountain.
Thunder Mountain.
So they got on Thunder Mountain by accident.
And my frail 90-something-year-old grandmother just comes off just nearly euthanized.
She didn't break her neck, though.
I grew up in Miami, and there was a theme park between Miami and Fort Lauderdale called Pirates World.
And they had a ride, I think it might have been called the steeplechase, but basically imagine like a like a merry-go-round horse on a rail.
And it does this incredible dips and turns.
And there's no protection, no seatbelts, nothing.
You just hold on to the neck of that horse.
And I think 40 to 50 people were killed finally.
And now the owners are in jail.
It's been bulldozed over.
But it was like this thing was like this legendary kind of thing.
And it's like, you know, you must be this stupid to ride this.
But it was really genuinely terrifying.
It's like an extreme Mary Poppins experience.
Yeah.
Just imagine a roller coaster with no restraining bar and no seatbelts and just a handle.
And you pretty much got the idea.
Wow.
We were tougher back in those days.
That's why so many of us have failed to survive.
I'm fascinated by unsafe roller coaster rides from back in the day.
Yeah.
Because wasn't there that park that was up like in New Jersey that had 11 Adventure Land or something?
Something like that.
Yeah.
And I think at some point they made an enclosed water slide that had a loop in it.
Oh, really?
People were just getting stuck in the loop every time.
So they eventually built a trap door where they'd climb up there and open it.
No, they had, and they had like a kind of a luge kind of a thing, a luge kind of thing on like a concrete track.
And if you didn't hit the brakes just right, you'd just go sailing into oblivion.
But it was New Jersey, and life is cheap there.
And it stayed open for, like, I think it's open for like 20 years.
Yeah, something like that.
Just color.
There's documentaries on it.
It's fascinating.
Yeah.
The dodon pa can hurtle from standstill to 112 miles per hour within 1.56 seconds.
That's frankly a rocket slide.
That sounds like about how fast Chuck Norris's hands go and he breaks one's neck.
He probably goes faster.
You got to think.
Yeah, true.
1.1.
Yeah, that's 1.5.
Probably Chuck Norris is probably the guy at the ride who pushes it.
You know, just gives it a little flick and off it goes.
Yeah, I don't know.
The Japanese and suicide have this weird relationship.
Well, they're not dead though.
They just got their neck broken.
Well, you make a fine point.
I suppose on second thought, I will get on the ride.
But according to the story, it says a FujiQ Highland is known for its memorable advertising plea last year when it reopened with the new pandemic-related instructions, quote, please scream inside your heart.
That's my favorite.
I assure you that all of the people who have died on your ride or come close to death were screaming inside their heart as loud as they can.
But at least they weren't spreading viruses because that could be dangerous.
That sounds like a good lyric.
Scream inside your heart.
All right, you wanted the story too, Bill?
Yeah, yeah.
High school in Kentucky is having a furry problem.
Kids are showing up to school dressed and acting like cats.
And the reason I wanted to talk about this is because if you had like an entire high school, it's probably four, five, six hundred people, and they're all looking at these people dressed like cats, that's the biggest audience that the movie Cats has ever had.
You know what I mean?
You've got like an entire high school there, and they're out pulling this thing that costs like $85 million.
This Cats movie was seen by 17 people or something.
Yeah, you know, we did a segment a long time ago on the furries, and we caught a lot of furry grief over it, actually.
You know, the furry monsters.
They're an easily offended bunch.
They are.
They are an easily offended bunch.
It's almost like they're sensitive about this or something.
It's hard to take a seriously too because they're talking in this like rainbow cat outfit and they're like scolding you on YouTube.
One of my favorite guys on the internet, internet historian, talked about this furry convention.
It was like FurCon 15 or something.
And it was just nothing.
It was nothing but rape and nitrous oxide capsules.
I mean, they just completely trashed the place.
They trashed the place so badly that there's not a hotel anywhere within like a 700-mile radius that's going to have anything to do with guys.
We want to come in costume and dress up like foxes and stuff.
It's like, no thanks.
They need kennels.
Yeah.
Weird things happen when you're wearing a mask, you know, when nobody can see you.
You just get a little nutty.
But it was not just a catastrophe.
It was like a disgusting catastrophe.
Yeah.
We won't get too more detailed on that one.
No problem.
Do you think wearing a furry helmet or mask or whatever counts?
Like when you're on an airplane?
I do.
They'll accept that.
I do.
And I think if you wore two of them, you'd be twice as safe.
Yeah, okay.
You have to be like a smaller animal and then a bigger animal.
That'd be the idea, yeah.
The funny thing about this is like there were weird kids like this at high school.
There's always weird kids at high school.
There's only like two or three of them, and they're in the group.
You're like, oh, yeah, those are those kids who dress up like cats.
They're weird.
But for this to be this much of a problem, were they.
I actually kind of like this to me.
To be honest with you, seriously, I'm kind of on their side.
It just sounds like kind of a group kind of a rebellion against authority.
We're going to lock us up and make us cover our faces.
Okay.
We'll all come in as cats.
It says that I like this.
They quote this concerned grandmother.
Well, all grandmothers are concerned.
That's a little redundant.
She was talking to the local news and she says, apparently, from what I understand, they're called furries.
They identify with animals.
They hiss and scratch at you if they don't like something you're doing.
And there are other activities that they engage in that would make her far more concerned than that.
Yeah.
But like I said, I just think somehow the idea of like a thousand kids showing up at school in furry costumes is just kind of like, you know, it's like the Boston tea party.
And it's all cats.
Yeah.
They're probably keeping the mouse cosplayer problem under control, though, right?
That's true.
Mouse furries.
And that's been a problem since I was in high school.
Yeah.
So we're going to bring in the dog cosplayers now.
That's right.
And then we'll have the cartoon triumvirate.
It will all be complete.
You'll have your mouse being chased by your cat, your cat being chased by your dog.
Now I'm saying the cat players with a big mallet running around.
They need like a dog catcher cosplayer, and that's not going to catch on.
Exactly.
They're not that funny.
Dogs with big mallets to come in and kiss.
They actually showed that, by the way.
You know, I grew up with the original Tom and Jerry's, and they are unspeakably, what's the word I'm looking for?
Gory.
It really is.
Yeah, it's classic.
Yeah.
Hey, a Texas father stripped down to his underwear at a school board meeting because he was trying to prove a point about face masks being important.
I don't think he's applying the face mask in the correct manner if he has to undress in front of a committee.
I don't think he's got that thing adjusted just right.
You know, usually you can make the case for against face masks without having to take all your clothes off.
Where is he?
Sometimes they just people like to do that.
Like PETA really likes doing that, right?
Like they want to make a point, they just get a bunch of naked girls.
It's true.
But this is a naked dad guy.
But they're kind of naked progressives, and it's not the same thing, if you've noticed.
Do you ever see the pictures of those protesters?
Well, PETA, I think they cheat.
They get all these hot models.
Really?
Yeah.
But then, yeah, that's like the free the nipple.
Yeah.
A lot of those.
Yeah.
I'm going to have to re-examine PETA.
You need to do a little research.
Yeah, I guess I'm behind the times.
I like that.
I can see where this guy was going.
Like, he's like, oh, so, you know, if you think that a dress code can't stop you from wearing a mask, well, what about like, well, it requires shirts.
He's like, yeah, I don't work.
I don't like wearing this jacket.
And he probably feels like he's making this inspiring speech and just wearing this shirt.
What about pants?
I wonder at what point he realizes, like, oh, wait, maybe I'm taking this too far.
I don't know.
Did he ever?
He says that people in the audience both cheered and booed, and it's kind of like, there's your litmus test.
You know, the Americans are cheering, and all of the cowardly, weakling communists are put your clothes back on.
Again, this kind of thing, I just love this kind of thing.
To me, it's just so American.
Although I have to say, Florida man is taking over the entire country.
Did you get the Mountain Dew one, Kyle?
All right.
You're a Mountain Dew guy.
Hey, Mountain Dew just released a flaming hot version, flaming hot Mountain Dew.
So this is a break.
It's not good.
It doesn't sound good.
We should have gotten some.
Did we not think to order this?
We'll put it on the list in stores now.
It sounds like you're just drinking carbonated hot sauce.
And I love hot stuff, you know me.
It's available.
I don't want to drink it.
It's available exclusively through the Mountain Dew online store, so we can order it.
Mountain Dew made the mistake of, I don't know, five, six, seven years ago, they had this contest to name their new Apple Facebook.
Oh, yeah.
Did you hear about this?
So they open it up to the public.
We're going to let the public decide what the new Mountain Dew flavor is.
And the overwhelming vote by far was Hitler Did Nothing Wrong.
That was the name of the Mountain Dew flavor that won in a landslide.
And then they apparently renewed on their challenge and then ended up naming it Mountain Dew Apple or something.
So I guess they learned their lesson.
Yeah, it's ever since Bodhi McBoatface.
I don't know why people keep insisting on doing these online polls.
It's like what was Bodhi McBoatface?
They were voting to name some research vessel in England.
Royal Navy, yeah.
And the winner was Bodhi McBoatface.
It's just in one of those inspiring moments in internet culture.
It's easy for you guys to laugh.
It was a Royal Navy ship, and I served on HMS McBoatface, and I take a little umbrage at your dismissal of our fine fighting vessel.
It would be funny if they named military vessels using polls.
The greatest joke I ever heard on The Simpsons was I think they were stuck in Australia and they were trying to get them out and the Army or Navy guys were saying, how do we get them out?
And one guy said, do we have any ships in the area?
And another guy said, we only have the USS Walter Mondale, but that's a laundry ship.
And I just thought the idea of a laundry ship is just for Walter Mondale.
I just thought it was just absolutely brilliant.
Did he like Money Laundry or something?
We've written much satire about Walter Mondale.
Yeah, well, laundry ship is, laundry ship's not exactly like, you know, the pride of the Navy.
Oh, so the real ship.
No, it's not a real ship.
It's not real.
No, it's just, they tried to think, they tried to think of the most worthless.
What is the most worthless thing we can invent a ship to do?
And one of them is a laundry ship.
Explain who Walter Mondale was.
Like we're five.
Walter Mondale.
Was it Carter?
Was it Jimmy Carter?
Well, back in the time when I was in high school, Jimmy Carter, he was a president.
Small boy, as I recall, he was a feisty little dude.
And he came from Georgia, and he had a vice president named Walter Mondale, although we didn't call him that.
We called him Walkingbird.
Yes.
I was born in 80.
So he was a vice president under Carter, and he ran against Mr. Reagan in 84 and came within 5,000 votes of being the only person to not win anything.
The entire guy in the landslide.
The electoral map was red except for, I want to say, Minnesota or something.
And 5,000 votes would have done it there, too.
Good job.
So that's why they named a laundry ship after him.
Our audience is disgusted with us for not knowing this stuff.
And for watching The Simpsons.
Okay, so here we go.
This California teacher took her classroom's American flag down, and now her kids pledge allegiance to the Pride flag.
You know, I guess that's probably fair.
Hundreds of thousands, probably millions of people died defending the American flag, and you got the Gay Pride flag.
You got people, I've seen it.
I've seen, I've been to West Hollywood.
I've seen people going down with, you know, with glitter overdoses.
I've seen people wearing pants that were so tight that they lost circulations in their legs and had to be evacuated by helicopter.
And I think, you know, I think when you weigh the sacrifices made by both sides for both flags, you could make a pretty good case for it.
Well, and both have a very clear idea of what they stand for.
Right.
Yeah.
What do you say to that?
I mean, really.
What do you say to that?
My favorite thing is it keeps saying, so it says at some point in 2020, she removed the flag that she found uncomfortable, the American flag, and packed it away.
She has no idea where it is, and that makes her giggle.
And then it says later, sure, students still stand for the pledge, but they don't have a flag, so they're just like, oh, let's do the pride flag.
And this makes her giggle.
Everything makes her giggle.
I think there's too much giggling going on in American schools right now, especially among the teachers, honestly.
I think people like that, I don't want any harm to come to them, but I do want them to be someplace where all of a sudden it's like, no, if the U.S. military doesn't show up, you're going to be taken out and stoned to death or something like that, you know?
Like I say, I don't want him to get hurt.
I just want him to appreciate what it means.
Yeah, have some respect for something a little bigger than yourself.
Yeah, didn't our embassy in Afghanistan flew the gay pride flag a few weeks before this orderly withdrawal that we've all been watching with such keen interest.
I don't know what we're trying to say.
How naive do you have to be?
I mean, if you really want to get the Taliban to really just ammo up and say, that's it, they're leaving.
Flying the gay pride flag over the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan is not the way I would do it.
Oh, here's what a Wisconsin man spotted waiting in McDonald's drive-thru in his sedan with three young cows in the back seat.
It's not a nice way to describe young ladies who made three daughters.
Oh, really?
Hilda, Glenda, and Bertha.
A Wisconsin woman said she was in line at McDonald's drive-thru when she spotted what she initially thought was just a fake cow in the backseat of a car.
Then she said she got on her phone to record the video.
Yeah, it was just another one of those fake cow waiting.
This guy must run like a dairy farmer.
He's making a sign.
But then she noticed it was moving and it was very much real.
And the cow belonged to a man named Bernie.
He said he just purchased it from a fair.
He's just making a pit stop for some food.
So you're just taking them to see their parents.
Too far.
It's probably Bernie Sanders.
And he probably didn't purchase it.
He probably talked him out of it.
He took his portion of their cows.
This is the thing I love.
It's not that she was amazed to see a cow in the back seat.
It's that it was a live cow.
You know, we get that so often here, the cow phenomenon.
Well, it is, you know.
The video is pretty funny, though.
Is it properly buckled in or anything?
All right, here's one.
China has now banned everyone under 18 from playing video games except for 8 to 9 p.m. on the weekends.
That's not going to have too much effect because we all know most video game players are 65 or older.
So it's one hour a week?
One hour?
What they can't do on a weekend?
One hour for the weekends, so two hours a week.
Oh, so two hours only.
So Saturday and Sunday.
It says three hours a week, so I don't know how that works.
So maybe they can't be Friday.
It's Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
You can go to China looks like.
I don't know.
I don't know if Gavin knows.
We got some couple guys, Brandon and Gavin.
If you really want to start a revolution, honestly.
I'm serious now.
If you really, really, really want to alienate the youth of your country, that would be a pretty good start.
Pretty good start.
No video games.
I mean, that's stricter than any parent I know.
I don't know anybody who only lets their parents play video games for an hour a day on the weekend.
Me neither.
And the weekend's the time to let them play all day.
Yeah, we make them get off video games one hour a day on the weekends.
Yeah, exactly.
Number one, how are you going to enforce that?
And well, as they say in the article, a lot of games are online now.
They just basically just shut off the internet.
They're just going to be playing like Pong and stuff.
Yeah, this is actually going to be good because they'll stop playing crappy games like Fort Fashion and they'll start playing Dr. Mario.
Right.
There you go.
Yeah, they're not going to just not play video games.
And they're certainly not going to sit around grumbling about the state that took their video game away all the time.
You'd want these people to be either playing video games or out there planting the red flag.
I don't think you want them just sitting around discussing how awful it is that we're not playing video games right now.
Right.
Okay, so we've got one more exciting weird news story.
In other video game news.
And this is in other video game news.
A video game projected on a Las Vegas tower broke two Guinness records.
Ooh, what are they?
I'm excited to find out.
The project screen, it doesn't say size.
Okay, so projected screen size was one.
And the projected screen measured 46,733.65 square feet.
So that's the largest, I guess, projected video game screen.
More than doubling the previous record.
Yeah, the other display involved 1.6 million lumens of light, setting a new record for the largest number of lumens.
That's a lot of light.
Lumen created by the strangely enough.
I did a segment where I was asked to come and be the resident expert on the invention of the light bulb, about which I knew nothing.
But that never slows me down.
So I did a little bit of research, and it turns out that a candle puts out 12 and a half lumens, and that a 100-watt incandescent bulb is about 1,600 lumens.
So that's going to be 1,000 times brighter than a 100-watt bulb.
Wow.
You can get a suntan on something.
Oh, my God.
I know we had an expert here on lumens.
Lumen expert.
So it's on the side of this hotel.
I'd be pretty mad if I was staying in a hotel and there were blasted billions of lumens at my window.
Xbox.
Or no, PlayStation game?
I don't know.
Xbox.
I don't know.
Xbox.
This was like a publicity stunt for this game.
A Battle Royale game from Movie.
We're helping them.
We're not saying what game is.
We didn't say it.
So, you know, use your imagination.
Hey, let's look at some stupid stuff that people said on the internet this week.
Real things that blue checks say.
Okay, so I want to jump on this one.
Arno, Arnie, Arnie Duncan on Twitter says he's got a check mark next to his name.
Yeah, these are all blue checks.
Yeah, have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindset and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul Airport and the anti-mask and anti-vex people here?
They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.
I think people with left-wing politics ought to stay out of the humor business.
Is that a joke?
No.
No, yeah, well, it's a subtle joke.
So I saw a meme today, and here's what it was: a picture of the Titanic, and there's a little text bubble, and it says, you can't make us wear our mask, our life jackets.
And the person who said it, you know, was saying, this is just what it's like.
It's just exactly what it's like.
It's like somebody on the Titanic refusing to wear a life jacket.
And I looked at this and I thought to myself, every single person that went into the water wearing a life jacket died.
All of them, every single one of them who wore a life jacket died.
The only people that survived were people that got into the lifeboat.
So here's a guy saying, oh, see, you idiots, you idiots, you should all be wearing life jackets.
And if we did, we'd all be dead in the water just like the rest of those people.
This is the thing I love about these people.
They just think they're so sure.
They're so sure about themselves, you know?
But yeah, I saw this.
Yeah, you should wear a life jacket.
What's the matter with you?
Well, everybody on the Titanic World War I died.
But I'm curious what he means by people that anti-maskers blow themselves up.
Yeah, like he's trying to draw this analogy.
They both blow themselves up, tie bombs on themselves.
Inflict harms on those around them.
If you talk about a guy blowing himself up, you don't need to then add, he inflicts harm on those around him.
That's kind of important.
When they say blow themselves up, I think they're talking about like puffing themselves up with pride or something.
I don't know.
No, but really.
I think it was that deep.
I thought maybe they're just sneezing or something.
I wouldn't give them that much credit.
No, you're right.
Well, sneezing.
Let themselves get sick.
So is sneezing the same thing as bombs under your own.
Yeah, it's the same.
It's like a suicide bomb.
That's exactly right.
If you don't wear a mask out in public in a park, that's exactly morally equivalent to blowing yourself up and killing 70 people.
Right.
It's just, yeah, it's quicker.
The bomb's quicker, more efficient.
Yeah.
And you can strap it to other people.
Women.
And it becomes a homicide bomb.
Yeah, that's, you know, this is the more this moral equivalence is just, it's like, yeah, it's exactly the same thing.
They're just exactly the same thing.
Go back to being dumb.
Well, this isn't the only comparison between anti-Massacres and Muslim terrorists we got.
Cyro Rao.
It is wild.
This is a huge own.
Watch this.
It is wild watching white Americans freak out about Muslim terrorists while they buy hot dogs and ice cream for white terrorists here themselves.
Owned.
Owned.
Who?
Opponed.
I don't know.
Is there like a story?
Who hot dogs and ice cream?
Who are they buying?
Oh, they buy it.
Was there a specific story she's referring to?
Is this just like a themselves?
Is that like if you like say like, oh, the Mexicans love eating burritos and stuff?
This fails on so many levels and ice cream.
It's not beautiful.
On the first level, the first level it feels on is it's not funny.
And the second level it feels on is it doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, exactly.
And even if it was a great own, you wouldn't need to like explain it in parentheses.
Yeah.
It's them.
Yeah.
They're the terrorists.
I know.
Yeah, if your joke has an explainer and a potential.
This is like a meta, meta.
It's not even a reflection on anything because there's nothing to reflect on.
It's just tone, right?
It's just pure tone.
There's nothing here that makes any sense other than that sense of moral outrage by people who don't understand that neither hot dogs or ice cream contain a tremendous explosive potential as far as I'm concerned.
And so they write this kind of stuff just so they can just so they can get that tone out.
This makes me feel like they don't know about terrorists, like they don't actually know what they are.
I've never seen the videos.
It feels like it's way different than eating hot dogs.
They throw people off roofs.
You say you don't like terrorists, and yet you go to a baseball game.
Yeah, you buy white people hot dogs and ice cream.
It's like, what?
I just don't even see the connection.
Yeah, that's right.
You just bought your daughter an ice cream cone?
Have you ever had a hot dog with ice cream on it?
Might be good.
Try it.
It sounds like it'd be okay.
Yeah.
So Ned Price, who is the spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, tweeted this: The Taliban needs to meet its commitments and obligations in Afghanistan on freedom of travel, respecting basic rights of the people, upholding its commitments on counterterrorism, not carrying out reprisal violence against those who stayed, and forming an inclusive government.
And if I were the Taliban, my reply to this would be, or what?
I figured it'd just be like or what?
Sit calm laughter.
No, really.
Or what?
What are you going to do?
Or what?
Yeah, exactly.
That's really it.
I mean, this is the kind of thing you say when you know when you, this is the kind of thing you say when you bring the army into the country.
Yeah.
You know, when you're just, when you're just walking out with your tail between your legs and you're just turning around lecturing these people, you better do this.
And if it's me, or what?
What are you going to do?
Yeah, you have a strange view of your ability to influence, well, the Taliban.
And this is from the State Department.
This idea that our partners in peace, the Taliban, all these things are in their head.
They just need to honor them.
Didn't you read the contract that you signed?
We did read the contract that we signed.
We signed it with infidels, and we think it's absurd.
And there's just no excuse for this kind of thing.
Hey, we're going to take off.
Could you just sign this quick commitment to counterterrorism for us?
Right, yeah, sure.
Absolutely.
And just keep your eyes on Twitter because we'll tweet some more guidelines, more stuff where you're going to do some guidelines.
And if you start killing people and murdering folk singers, then you can expect many strongly worded letters in the future.
And I mean the immediate future.
We will get out the tweets.
We'll tweet some fire tweets.
John Pavlovitz says, Watching the Taliban gloating in the presidential palace sure gave me major January 6th deja vu.
Again, did they see both?
I don't know if they saw both.
Exactly the same thing.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Yeah, so exactly the same.
Yeah, exactly the same.
Exactly the same.
John, I just, I would just, see, John's the kind of guy that I would deep dig into, deep dig into my pockets for, and send him a first-class round-trip airfare to Kabul, staying at the nicest hotel there, you know, the one that's got the electricity running for three or four hours a day.
I'd really, these people need to spend a little time in the world, you know?
Because these guys like John are the kind of guy that thinks that, you know, this whole war on terror was just a big mistake.
If we could have only just had a, you know, gotten in a hot tub with Osama bin Laden, had a couple of nice Chardonnays, we could have worked it all out.
You know, it was probably just a disagreement about something.
You know, it's, I don't know what to say in the face of such raging stupid.
Yeah.
Hey, David French tweeted something.
David French.
David French says when evangelicals pursue the freedom to make their neighbors sick, they violate the social compact and undermine their moral standing in politics, law, and culture.
Christian libertinism thus becomes a long-term threat to religious liberty itself.
How having liberty is bad for liberty.
The op-ed by David French.
So is that so?
Is Frank's article inspired by this?
I think so.
The freedom.
Was that the we didn't hear that?
We have a Babylon B op-ed that says, your freedom is not more important than my fear of your freedom.
There you go.
That's really what it comes down to, though.
Because basically he's saying, okay, you're in a common area, right?
You could do what you want to in your own house.
You want to kill your own kids by not wearing a mask.
That's your business.
But when you come out in public and you make your neighbors sick, we violate the social compact.
And, you know, here's the thing, guys.
I looked at the fatality statistics for this.
And you know how you could really actually help how wearing masks really could save lives?
Here in California, for those of you who live in the United States or elsewhere, in California, we have a law currently where if I go into a restaurant, you have to wear a mask.
Then when you sit down, you have to wear your mask.
You take your mask off, have a bite of food, put your mask back on, chew.
Repeat as necessary.
But if you really wanted to save lives, what you would have to do is you could go into the restaurant with the mask off, but when they put the food in front of you, that's when you have to put the mask on because people die from heart disease, diabetes, obesity-related diseases.
If you really want to stop people from killing themselves, you should make them wear the mask when they're about to eat.
But this kind of thing is, I don't know.
Well, we did cover that one.
Remember those locking teeth things that prevent you from opening your mouth?
Oh, yeah, these can't blow those.
Yeah.
What?
The locks are jaws.
It's like these magnetic jawlocks.
It's supposed to be a diet.
It's a diet plan that makes it.
So all you can do is barely open your lips.
You can only suck things like straw smoothies.
Yeah.
And you talk like a ventriloquist.
Well, this is hitting us.
I mean, we talked about this last week.
My wife came on, and we're still, she's still hitting roadblocks.
My wife had a bad reaction to the first shot.
She's a nurse, so she has to get it in California to keep her job.
She was up for it.
She's got a lot of issues, so she was a little nervous about it, but it all seemed to go well.
And then she had this crazy heart rate and all this stuff and went to the ER for like six hours.
She just really is scared to take that second shot.
And it seems like it should be her freedom to not do it.
And then she's even got doctors saying they'll sign a form saying she doesn't have to take the second one.
And like her administration is saying we won't take any exemptions.
There's so many roadblocks because it's so political.
Nobody wants to be the guy saying that's fine if you don't take the vaccine.
So it's just autonomy and common sense are out the window.
And that's what freaks me out about this topic.
Like I get the general, yeah, we should all get vaccinated and should be safer.
Like I get, I get the spirit of that, but to it cuts out the real life cases of people that know their own bodies and turning anybody who has an issue with the vaccine into a conspiracy theorist is a little bit unfair.
But when your government, at least parts of the government, are telling you that even if you're, because I've heard this, even if you've had the disease and survived it and you have natural immunity, which is the standard that you measure vaccines against, you still need to get the vaccine.
When you hear things like this, you think there's something bigger going on here.
And maybe stupidity, that's the likely candidate, but maybe not.
All of these things they say that just in utter defiance of common sense make people suspicious.
And they've had, what, 550 days now to destroy everybody's trust in everything?
I used to think the CDC was, they were great.
They're keeping us safe and stuff.
And my opinion has fallen significantly since.
Well, hey, speaking to the CDC, you want to read that next tweet from them?
Sure.
From the CDC.
Are you using hashtag inclusive language, CDC's health equity guiding principles for inclusive communication shares preferred terms and language?
There are 12 or 13 words and no meaning whatsoever.
Equity guiding principles for inclusive communication shares preferred terms and language.
I think what they're trying to say is we use woke language here.
I think it's a long list.
Yeah, and by the way, I am a little ticked off that you guys didn't even ask me about my pronouns when I came in.
Just said, good to meet you.
My wife's out in the room.
It's all automatically a him, a he.
Well, we do have a superpower where we can guess people's pronouns just by looking at them.
We have like 99.9% accuracy.
We're pretty good.
I see.
I did a if I had a superpower, because that's superheroes is an improv game, you know.
And I was doing that once and I said, my superpower is the ability to read tire pressure from a distance.
I just thought that would be an awesome superpower.
You could just stand there on the road.
I think you really have that.
No, no, no, no.
You just stand on the road and you just immediately look at cars and immediately tell what their tire pressure was.
Just think of all the things you could do with that.
Okay, one thing.
i need just one what's one thing you could do with it maybe maybe when you're filling up your tires maybe i those i mean you could get chips pressure gauges at the gas station are terrible Maybe I chose badly when they offered me a choice of superpowers.
So like they say, don't say disabled, say people with disabilities.
Or don't say smoker, say people who smoke.
Is that really?
Really?
Yeah, they say it's better to say it's a lot of it's just saying people who.
I always like the replacements are always like this long sentence.
Yeah.
Like instead of just saying like an overweight guy, it's like a person with preference for larger food amounts.
And that's exactly right.
You know, it's like it sounds so robotic.
You can't say underserved.
This is people who are underserved by mental health, behavior, health resources.
Instead of referring to people as like blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, whites, refer to them as people who identify with more than one race, people of more than one race, persons of multiple races.
Hello, person of American Indian and or Alaska native person slash communities slash populations descent.
It's just can you ask what person from an associated African community with, you know, look, when they throw all this stuff together, this is the way that stupid people try to sound smart, right?
They just try to string all the big words they can together into a sentence and put as many possible letters and syllables into something.
But, you know, complicating things is easy.
Making them simple is hard.
I didn't know.
MSM, men who have sex with men, MSM.
Really?
That's a good one.
That was a mainstream.
Yeah, I thought that was a mainstream.
No, it's no.
Probably works in both cases.
So David Rothkoff tweeted something.
Okay.
He says, I always like to hear a good Rothkopf tweet.
The Taliban, all of them together, plus every al-Qaeda fighter in the world, do not pose the threat to the United States that Trump or Trumpist extremists do.
Let's maintain our perspective.
Yeah, you're doing a great job maintaining your perspective there, David.
White knuckle our crazy perspective.
Oh, God.
You know, when you go through the security lines at LAX, they've got this flag on the wall, TSA flag, and it's composed of the names of all the 3,000 people that died on 9-11 as a result of Trump extremists flying airplanes into buildings.
And when you see that list of names, this kind of thing is not just dumb.
It's just offensive.
And so therefore, I want him silenced.
I want him silenced.
I want him absolutely can't.
No.
You're allowed to be a donkey.
It's okay, fine.
I don't care.
But you don't have to be so good at it.
That's the right thing.
That should have been in the Constitution.
Like, the Bill of Rights should have had an amendment that says every American has the right to be a donkey.
Yes.
I think that's basically the first thing.
Take it as right.
But we need an explicit one.
So who's this?
Is this Betty Bowers?
What happened to Ashley Babbitt was so unfair.
She was given special treatment when so many of her fellow domestic terrorists deserved the same fate.
She just wishes more people got shot on people that wonder if she's single.
You know, this is.
That might be unfair because I don't know if she has a blue check.
Oh, so we can't.
Yeah.
Well.
We should get her one.
Yeah.
She's trying to get one with this one.
Just the fact that Susan could write that, you know?
She does have like 300,000 followers.
Imagine saying that about somebody who got shot at like a Black Lives Matter rally or something.
Yeah.
Oh.
That's why they didn't shoot more of them.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm sure there's some.
I'm sure we got some people in the comments that are willing to go there.
Hey.
Hey, psychos.
Hey, Vice.
So almost all these tweets have been deleted after they went up.
This is one.
Vice posted a story.
While many vets are being outed as far-right extremists, one branch keeps popping up when it comes to neo-Nazis, the United States Marine Corps.
Do you know what day they posted this?
Wasn't this?
It was the day that 13 American Marines died.
It was on that day.
Nice work, Weiss.
Yeah, nice work.
I also saw that Vice just had a bunch of layoffs.
You hate to see it.
You just hate to see it.
Hey, Todd Starnes tweeted something.
This guy's coming from the other side politically, right?
I don't know, Todd Starnes.
Yeah, I love how we're reading all these dumb leftist tweets.
Yeah, we got to get one in there from the other side.
Maybe Todd was sitting there like, we really just, we've had a real lack of dumb tweets on the right lately.
And he just goes all full on, just warm on Rambo here.
For every American who is killed, a city in Afghanistan should be wiped off the face of the earth.
It's like a little far, I think.
It's like a little on the far side, maybe.
Slightly.
Slightly, yeah.
Do they have cities in Afghanistan?
I don't know.
Is it villages?
Villages, whatever.
They have a couple of people.
I'm sure they got some cities, right?
I don't know.
But, you know, maybe tone it down a little bit.
A little bit.
You know, just pull it back.
Ring it in a bit.
For every American who was killed, a hummus stand or something.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So here's Glenn Kessler who says, new hashtag fact checker.
No, the Taliban did not seize $83 billion of U.S. weapons.
Yeah, so the great part about this one is WAPO fact-checked this claim.
So you have to read into the text to find out.
Nope, they didn't.
It's not true.
They did not seize $83 billion.
That is a flat-out lie.
And you go dig through the article at the end.
It's like, yeah, they actually just seized $65 billion.
What lengths will conservatives go to to distort the truth and invert reality?
All right, we got one more.
This is Occupy Democrats, who's always good for a laugh.
Real rivals to the Babylon B when it comes to hilarious satire.
And they wrote this: Breaking news: The Pentagon announces that it believes that ISIS carried out today's explosives attack near Kabul Airport.
Trump claimed to have defeated ISIS over a dozen times.
Retweet if you think that Trump is a lying idiot.
Yeah, that's.
They'd have a point if he was president now.
Yeah, I love that it just.
We now know it was ISIS K.
Oh, it was ASIS K.
Yeah.
That's the Delta variant.
He never claimed to defeat them.
That's the variant.
Yeah.
I love how they can always connect everything back to Trump.
No matter how time is that.
Trump?
I don't know.
Yes.
I mean, what do you say to this guy other than, well, when he was president, they were gone.
And now seven months later, they're back.
What does that tell you?
Tells them nothing because they can't add.
They have no idea what cause and effect means.
But, you know, Occupy Democrats.
Hey, we're going to talk to Andy Wilson now.
Andy Wilson is a filmmaker, does all kinds of cool little cartoons and videos and stuff.
And this one, he's doing a documentary, Riot and the Dance.
Yeah.
It's kind of like, you know, those nature documentaries are like the, you know, the South American red-throated macaque or whatever.
And then it goes through this whole idea of how they think it evolved from this and that and that and that and that.
And it's like, it's all meaningless.
This one actually kind of acknowledges the beauty of God and nature and goes from this perspective that it's a creation rather than a huge accident.
Yeah, pretty cool.
Let's talk to Andy Wilson.
Welcome, Nate.
Thanks for joining us today.
You just got back from Australia filming a bunch of crazy stuff, maybe?
Or no?
Really?
You write a kangaroo?
I haven't done Australia yet.
No, okay.
Oh.
Recently, Africa, but not Australia.
Oh, wow.
I knew it started with an A, though.
So you got the Riot in the Dance things.
This is kind of cool.
So if you guys don't know about the Riot in the Dance, it's a documentary about nature, but you know how you're talking to our listeners right now.
You know how you watch a documentary and it's like, oh, look at all this beautiful stuff.
And this is incredibly complex.
And then it goes, and it was all completely by accident, by the way.
It's a complete mistake of random particles falling down a giant staircase.
It's like that, except they cut out those random parts and they say, actually, this was created by God.
Which is pretty cool.
Which I'm interested.
Like, do you get into like crazy things like the tarantula hawk?
That's one of my favorite things.
We get into a number of weird things, but the tarantula hawk is one of the best for sure.
They're just out there.
But there are so many.
I mean, there are so many just impossibly complex, bizarre creatures.
And one of the things that you discover first when you really get out there is that God has a bizarre sense of humor.
He's beyond any creativity we could ever come up with.
Just wild, like wild sense of humor, but also plays rough and really likes beetles.
So, I mean, there's more beetles than there are any other thing on this planet.
The beetles of this world outweigh us.
They outbite us.
They bite us more than we bite them.
There's more weight belongs to the beetles.
Wait, there's more weight in beetles than in humans on this planet.
Easily.
My cow.
Easily.
That's a lot.
Yeah, they're definitely winning.
But I think the real motivation behind The Riot and the Dance was the fact that the worldview of only 7% of the population, atheist and agnostic, is only about 7%.
But the worldview of that 7% controls 100% of all nature documentaries.
And on top of that, it's not just atheist-agnostic.
It's all chaos.
It's all meaninglessness.
It's not just that.
It's also anti-man, wildly leftist.
Like it always has an agenda.
Everything is agenda-driven.
Everything's political.
They shoot things really beautifully, but then they just lecture you and scold you and talk about how pointless it all is and how you're still at fault for ruining it.
It's just a bummer.
It's like going to the most depressing Sunday school ever.
The Sunday school of meaninglessness.
Yeah.
Are you trying to say we're not ruining it?
I am trying to say we're not ruining it.
Yes.
Oh, man.
Okay.
Let's dig into that.
But that's not what the documentaries are about.
Oh, okay.
Sorry.
But the documentaries are a celebration of creation.
That's all they are.
We're having the party.
We're at the barbecue.
Like, we want to be the people having more fun, having more fun getting out there celebrating and like a guilt-free exploration of this amazing museum of creatures that God has made.
Yeah, that's really cool.
I mean, I enjoy Carl Sagan's Cosmos series and Planet Earth and all that, but it's funny.
You know, you have to watch it and you watch it with your kids.
You're like, that part, don't listen to that part, or you have to fast forward.
But it is cool because you're not trying to make like planet Earth the Christian knockoff, right?
Like you're trying to do something new.
We're trying to do something a lot more punk rock than that.
So we want dance that's like moshing.
Yeah, exactly.
There's a little bit riot, a little bit dance.
We aren't trying to pretend like humans aren't involved.
I mean, if you came across a starving polar bear cub, would you just sit there and film it while it died?
Or would you, if you really cared, would you throw it a steak?
Like, what's the you solve the problem?
Like, what's the situation?
We have no problem catching stuff, messing with stuff.
When we had a spectacled cobra in Sri Lanka, you know, we were having fun with that thing.
I mean, it was wild.
We started hanging water balloons in front of it, getting it to chase water balloons.
Like, we're going to have fun.
We have the scientific credibility through Gordon, you know, Dr. Gordon Wilson, the host.
And we're also trying to have a party.
Like, we're trying to take families and kids out to really have fun in creation where we're, what we're supposed to do.
It's not like we want to pave the planet.
We love the planet.
We think it was given to mankind to take care of by a designer, but we're not a bunch of political leftists.
We're not anti-fossil fuels, and we're not going to watch an animal as an opportunity to be anti-fossil fuels.
Like this is about the animal.
What all is involved?
I mean, How do you know that there's like a snake about to eat a mouse somewhere?
Yeah, that's what I was wondering about.
How does that, yeah?
Yeah, it's uh so far because we have such a smaller budget, like minuscule budget compared to BBC and Disney Nature and all that kind of stuff.
Uh, what we do is we go, we go to those places where we know there are animals and then we see what God gives us.
That's kind of it.
Now, we do kind of push our luck a little bit.
I mean, I did swim with sharks off of Oahu without a cage where they just told us, like, okay, this is where there's an interstate of sharks, like this trench, like sharks are just constantly swimming.
So, we went three miles off the coast, put on snorkel masks, and hopped in with cameras just to like see what we saw.
And we were immediately circled by 30 sharks that were just like swirling around and ramming the camera lenses.
And I mean, it was, I've never, I didn't know that your adrenaline could peak that much and that it could peak that much for that long.
Like, I was in the water for three hours with 30, like a ton of sharks coming through.
And to peak your adrenaline and then to stay there for three hours is incredible.
So, that's kind of, and so far, it's always worked.
I mean, we went to the Monterey Bay to try to find humpback whales and it wasn't in sea.
We weren't in the right season, but we only had a couple of days we could do it and only one day on the water.
And so, we went down there and like, sure enough, we got some of the best whale breach footage anybody's ever gotten.
You know, it's like just we showed up and so did the whales.
So, so far, we cheat by being friends with God.
You know, it's like our opposition, they're friends with all the researchers who have all the tagged animals.
So, they go to some country in Africa and say, Hey, do you have the tracking data on that, you know, that pride of lions?
And here's the tracking data.
You can just show up and film it.
We don't get that.
We don't have those hookups, but we do have the hookup with the one who made all the animals.
And so far, he's sent all the right ones to show up.
So, it's worked out great to date.
It's like when Jesus told them to cast the net on the other side of the water, he's like, film on the other side of the boat, and the whales will come.
Something like that.
So, swimming with sharks, is that like aquatic snake handling?
Sort of like a yeah, sort of.
I mean, I would say that was a per that was the best example of like funny leftism versus realism, you know, that I've ever experienced.
Where we're getting out there, and there's the first biologist is explaining to us sharks are actually really friendly.
Like, they're really friendly.
Man kills more sharks than sharks kill of men.
Like, it was all this like bleeding heart sadness about sharks, right?
Very bleeding heart.
And then, the next guy, as soon as that was done, said, Okay, so here are the rules: like, don't wiggle your fingers, don't extend your arms.
Like, if you drop your camera, do not reach for it.
That's the sharks now.
If you reach for it, they'll compete with you, they're going to hit you.
You know, like this is, and it got real fast.
But then he, then he told us something really weird, which was if a shark is coming at you, make aggressive eye contact and it will go away.
Exactly.
Make the ugly face.
Okay.
The bizarre thing is that actually works.
It actually works.
Make aggressive eye contact with a shark underwater, even through goggles.
So you got your shit.
That's what I was wondering.
Amazing they can even see with those eyes of theirs.
Yeah, it just peels off.
You make eye contact, they take off.
It's super weird.
And it's kind of awesome.
But kicking one is like kicking a log.
They're really, really hard, muscled, amazing.
Now I need to see like the snake handling churches.
You need to see like Benny Hinn be like, the Lord will protect me and jump into a shark tank.
We did a little snake handling.
This is true.
We've done a fair amount of snake handling, but not as like a spiritual demonstration, more as a biological demonstration.
You could do that.
There's that new show, what is it called?
Kings of Pain, where they just get hit by multiple different things, horrible bites.
That guy isn't.
Do that in the Christian version of that.
Yeah, perfect.
You have to constantly rotate.
You have to constantly rotate hosts because they'll all be dying.
If you get into the reptile world, you don't last very long.
They survived.
They're not doing the ones that kill you instantly.
Yeah, they're just doing the really painful ones.
Yeah, just pain.
Yeah.
So what can people do to help make this a reality?
I mean, what's the budget you're shooting for for something like this to make it into a multi-series documentary?
Well, we're looking to do 5 million in the first season.
And if we can do 5 million the first season, that gets us nine to 10 episodes.
It gets us all around the world.
We finally hit Australia.
Yeah.
We're going to keep doing this.
These are like half hour episodes.
We're going underwater, you know, on land.
We all got, it's been a blast so far.
Like the early production has been fantastic.
But they can go to Angel, Angel Studios, our distribution partner on this, angel.com slash riot and support us.
The thing that's the coolest about what Angel Studios does and this model is that we're not looking, it's not a Kickstarter.
We're not giving a bunch of money to Kickstarter first.
We're not just asking for donations.
What we're doing is we're selling ownership in the series.
So instead of selling ownership to a studio like Netflix or selling ownership to Disney or selling ownership to any traditional studio, we're selling ownership to the crowd, selling ownership to the actual viewers.
So they can go invest at angel.com slash riot.
And we're selling off a stake in the film.
So as the series, in the films, the series, as the series is successful, people actually recoup.
They actually can make, they can actually make money.
So you can support it, but it's not just a gift.
You're not just giving us money.
You're actually buying a stake in this project because you believe in it.
This is a multi-multi-billion dollar industry.
And it is really bizarre that it's made entirely for a very small slice of the population.
There's a very small slice of the population that thinks everything's just randomness.
Everything's chaos.
Everything's meaningless.
But that's where all the docs go.
So we're actually trying to make a series for Christian families and for the majority of the population who actually think that this was designed.
You know, there's a lot of artistry.
There's artistry.
There's also comedy.
There's a ton of comedy and a ton of joy out there.
So angel.com slash riot.
That's where you can help us out the most.
I want the random chance supporters to make their documentary with random chance.
Just randomly slap footage together and hopefully.
They did.
It's a Jackson Pollock painting.
It's as close as you can get.
You know, it's just the suicide of an artist, basically.
It's bizarre.
But yeah, it'd be nice if they would do that, if they would throw away the engineering of their cameras, throw away the engineering of the helicopters, the drones, just shake a bag of gears and see what happens.
Perfect.
Well, you need millions of years, though.
Yeah, millions of years.
You'd have to do it now and then release the documentary.
Yeah, like 50 million.
Kickstarter date way out there.
Yeah.
Good point.
Cool.
All right.
Well, watch the riot and the dance.
We're going to be able to watch the current two movies that are out.
You can go, actually, you can go to riotthedance.com.
Okay.
But if you go to angel.com slash riot, it'll have all the resources.
You can watch the pilot episode for free.
That's where we swim with sharks.
So that footage of the sharks is in that pilot episode that's out but angel.com slash riot now.
And all those resources will be there.
Cool.
Awesome.
All right.
Sounds good.
Well, thanks a lot.
Indeed.
Thanks for having me, guys.
Yeah, thanks for coming on, Nate.
Till next time.
Cheers.
Till next time.
Wow, that was a smart gentleman.
Oh, yeah.
What a fun.
Bright young lad.
Fine scholar.
What do you think, Bill?
I thought he was terrific.
Just absolutely wonderful.
Hey, we're going to do some hate mail now.
Let's do that.
I already miss Adam Ford.
We have, we got a wonderful, this.
This might be my favorite fun one.
Hate mail that we've ever received.
This is from someone named James.
We sent out an email saying, hey, everybody, Facebook has been suppressing our posts and just letting our followers know that what Facebook's been doing.
And he was not super happy with that.
So here was his response.
Dear Seth, in scare quotes, just in case Seth was lying about his name being Seth.
I don't have a Facebook news feed.
Your presumptuous nature for such crap is enough for me to abandon your garbage altogether.
And playing the victim hand is even lower, you shekel sniveling shyster.
He's kind of outing himself as anti-Semitic.
A little anti-Semitic.
There is no way in heck that I would ever subscribe to your trash.
So take your soy boy style man bun and money begging off my email inbox immediately.
So now he goes to Laurie Lightfoot.
So he writes the word unsubscribe in bold and underlined many, many times.
Unsubscribe.
Did I say subscribe?
Unsubscribe.
He goes, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, And then a gap.
Yep.
Space.
Unsubscribe.
And then another gap.
Unsubscribe, Get it?
And your mother.
Just a wonderful piece of hate mail.
This is art.
We need to frame this.
Can we get this framed, Patrick?
I like how you can't really see it, but he actually capitalizes halfway through a word.
So you can tell the idea struck him as he started typing.
This is actually kind of almost like a meme on Reddit where if you want to talk about somebody who's insane, you're just constantly doing capital letters and subcase letters.
So it's big D, small A, big AR, quote, Seth, small.
Yeah, he's typing so fast that his ability to perceive grammar has left behind.
He actually types like that SpongeBob meme.
Yeah.
And by the way, you know, you guys with your soy boy style and your man buns, the smell of the stink of patchouli in this, in this studio is overwhelming.
I think he's angry at the wrong guys, but he certainly is angry.
All right, we're going to move into our subscriber lounge now, and we're going to talk more to Bill Whittle.
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Well, first of all, I want to thank you for providing the smoking jackets.
Make me feel ready, no.
Yep.
Worthington, another strong glass of port and some roasted hummingbirds.
I mean, Mark Twain said that nothing can withstand the assault of laughter.
These people don't like being laughed at.
The emperor's new clothes, right?
Once somebody says he's not wearing any clothes, he doesn't have to go down and tell every single person in the parade.
I mean, once one person pops the bubble, it's popped.
You can't get it back.
Made in China?
Really?
Disgusting!
Like a refund in a Made in America mug.
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