The Bee Weekly: Facebook Deletes Our Post and We Make Grammar Gooder Again
The Babylon Bee discusses how Facebook says we have gone against their community standards and have deleted our post about Amy Schneider. Adam and Jarret are joined by copy editor Kristin Oren to help us all with our grammar and to talk about some stuff that's good like books that you really need to read. Kristin worked on Kyle and Joel's new book The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress, which is available for Pre-Order! This episode is brought to you by My Patriot Supply! This episode is also sponsored by Daily Nouri! This episode is also brought to you by ADF Legal. Help support Lorie at the Supreme Court!! Adam, Jarret, and Kristin talk about this week at The Babylon Bee, some stuff that's good, and the social network that is hoppin' over at Not The Bee. They also discuss this week's banger article and this week's bomb. This week's subscriber dare has The Bee crew analyzing the lyrics to a Twenty One Pilots song. Then Adam brings sweet Weakly News straight to your ear canal. Listeners are also treated to The Bee's latest sketch about a brave great white shark that has finally been allowed to compete in the women's swimming competition. Kristin talks about her latest projects and helps everyone get good with their grammar. In the subscriber-exclusive lounge, subscribers get access to the classic article of the week, a PureTeej edition of the Subscriber Headlines of the Week, and then Kristin Oren flips the tables on the Bee guys and asks them the questions!
Facebook says our posts go against their community standards.
Mission accomplished.
China has started arresting peaceful protesters and freezing their bank account.
Oh no, wait, that was Canada.
U.S. health officials may recommend getting a fourth COVID shot this fall.
Or for most of our viewers, they'll recommend getting the first shot for the 50th time.
An Olympic skier suffered from a frozen penis.
He just wanted to keep going a little longer.
And the editor of Kyle and Joel's new book is here, and she is going to fix all our grammar gooder.
All this and more on the B weekly.
All right, welcome to the Bee Weekly.
As you can see, I'm joined today by Jarret and Kristen Oren, who works for the BN is the editor of Kyle and Joel's new book.
So we'll talk to her about that a little bit later.
Kyle is not here this week.
He'll be joining us again next week.
One of the things that happened with the B this week is we got flagged on Facebook because one of our posts went against their community standards.
Isn't this sort of a common occurrence?
Like it sort of happens all the time.
I don't know how often this happens to our posts.
They deleted the post.
They deleted it?
Oh, they actually deleted this one.
I think it was up for a while.
Yeah.
It was up for a while and then they made a big deal of it.
What's odd to me is it's so the post was, it's Amy Schneider, that transgender woman who was winning everything on Jeopardy, and it says, trans woman breaks jeopardy record, proving once and for all that men are smarter than women.
So I mean, I guess it broke multiple standards because it's it's calling, it's stating the fact that the transgender woman is a man and saying men are smarter than women.
So maybe because there's two strikes, but I feel like it's a joke that we've made over and over again, it doesn't it's.
It's interesting which ones they choose to right.
It doesn't seem like a very uncommon joke.
In fact, the trans thing is like 100 like this.
Every week you guys are making a new one about the trans things.
It is one of the two jokes that we have.
Yeah, that's one of the two.
So no, that's true, it's one of two jokes, yeah.
And then we had a third joke here that men are smarter than women.
But yeah, that's what must have been.
The men are talking, oh sorry, she is merely a woman.
It's horrible, that's what did it.
Yeah, but so I I am surprised that they don't suspend more of our, more of our posts, but it's always a, it's like a badge of honor.
I feel like when these like Twitter and Facebook, I feel the same way for things.
Yeah, because isn't it like a?
I mean, it seems to me like as soon as they demonetized my first video yeah, I was like I, i've made it.
Yeah I, somehow i've been successful in my life.
I've been canceled.
You know, to some degree, you know like I just it was really cool.
I don't know if you guys feel the same way.
I think maybe Seth wrote an article, um pathetic excuse for a Christian hasn't been banned from twitter yet.
Oh yeah, that's right.
Yeah yeah, that's that's kind of how it feels.
It's like how can?
How have I not been banned yet if you're Not able to get banned for this stuff.
Right.
Just means you're not funny enough or something, or you're not making enough of a splash or something.
Yeah.
You're not being sensational enough.
So this one next we have a subscriber dare.
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This is Subscriber Dare.
Subscriber Dare.
This is from Jacob.
It says, pretty sure I've listened to every podcast episode now, all the way through, except the subscriber portion.
So to get me there, I'd like you guys to become fans of my favorite band, 21 Pilots.
Tell me what you think of the lyrics to the song Ode to Sleep Verse 2.
Dan Coates had, do I read the part in parentheses?
I had to negotiate him down.
The song is long.
Dan Coates, our producer, had to negotiate him down to a smaller part of the song.
But Jason Jacob wants us to tell him what we think of the lyrics to the song Ode to Sleep Verse 2 and interpret your meanings of it.
Then he will become a subscriber.
I will become a premium subscriber if you ever get Tyler Joseph of said band on the show for an interview.
Is Tyler Joseph somebody in our world?
Are they a Christian band?
I don't know.
21 Pilots, I think, is a Christian band.
They're one of those crossover bands.
I'm not a fan of their music personally.
I like them.
I think they're pretty cool.
The only pilot I hate more than 21 Pilots is Muhammad Atta.
That's really good.
It's a good reference.
That's a good reference.
I was thinking a Stone Temple pilot.
Yeah.
But he's gone now.
Yeah.
All right.
Here's lyrics.
Verse 2 of Ode to Sleep.
On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake, and the trees they await and clouds anticipate.
I don't know if I'm doing this song justice here.
It doesn't sound like that.
Do you know you do it?
No, I don't actually.
Okay, yeah, let's get a little.
I'm going to start over.
Yeah.
On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake, and the trees they await and clouds anticipate the start of a day when we put on our face a mask that portrays that we don't need grace on the eve of a day that is bigger than us.
But we open our eyes because we're told that we must.
And the trees wave their arms and the clouds try to plead, desperately yelling, there's something we need.
I'm not free.
I asked for forgiveness three times.
Same amount that I denied.
I three time MVP'd this crime.
I'm afraid to tell you who I adore.
Won't tell you who I'm singing towards.
Metaphorically, I'm a whore.
And that's denial number four.
Bravo.
I mean, isn't it like the snapping?
No, it does feel, I mean, is this about Peter?
It seems like the denial three times is about, so forgotten and fake.
It's almost, to me, it feels like it's Peter the Apostle on Halloween.
Okay.
So is Peter about to go trick-or-treating?
Yeah, I think that's what this is about.
Uh-huh.
And he's going trick-or-treating in Tijuana.
Okay.
That's what I'm seeing the Tijuana reference at the end there.
Just because you think all whores are from Tijuana.
Yeah, most of them.
So a mask that portrays we don't need grace.
Does that mean that means we pretend like we're good and we don't need forgiveness?
I think maybe Kristen's onto something.
Is that what that means?
That's possible.
That's the only line that I understand.
On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake.
Christmas.
The trees await.
The start of a day when we put on our face.
The mask that portrays we don't need grace.
So that sounds like a Pharisee.
Yeah.
It says the start of a day when we put on our face.
That reminds me of waking up, and then it says desperately yelling, there's something we need.
So I think it's about iced tea because I don't drink coffee, so I need an iced tea when I wake up.
That's my interpretation.
That might be it.
The three times MVP'd this crime.
That's the most heavy-handed Peter reference I've seen.
Well, right.
And then he's like the denial number four, which is metaphorically I'm a whore.
I'm afraid to tell you who I adore.
I want to tell you on scene 24.
I don't understand that.
So doesn't it seem like.
Well, metaphorically, I'm a whore.
Is that like in the Bible, there's a lot of references to like unfaithfulness to God.
Like a prostitute or a harlot.
It's like the Babylon Bee kind of.
Yeah.
Whoreish in that sense.
Denial number whore.
Yeah.
The three times MVP'd this crime.
You know, this is interesting.
I don't know if you're going to get this guy a subscriber.
I just don't think that there's a.
I think I insulted his favorite band too much.
I hope our interpretation is.
I think we did it justice.
You think we did it?
I think you should subscribe.
Besides that being a subscriber is so much fun.
And not only should Jacob subscribe, all of you should subscribe.
Well, I totally agree because the behind-the-scenes stuff is really good.
Oh, yeah.
In fact, the most recent behind-the-scenes for what you Tolkien about Willis made me, I was laughing more at that than I was.
That was ridiculous.
That was a fun sketch to me.
Oh, my goodness.
There's a lot going on behind this.
Oh, wow.
That was crazy.
All right.
Thanks for that subscriber, Dare Jacob.
And now we'll go on to the banger of the week.
Banger of the week.
This is our top shared story.
The headline is massacre as great white shark allowed to compete in women's 500 freestyle.
It says William Thomas was ranked 462 in men's swimming before.
Oh, so this is the story it was based on.
You know, it's about that transgender swimmer, Leah Thomas, who was ranked for UPenn.
UPenn.
Yeah.
So UPenn, but then there's a Yale swimmer that's transitioning the other way that is like Leah Thomas' top competitor.
Oh, really?
Do you know about that?
Yeah.
No, it's one of them.
She's doing, or he, whatever.
But she's still competing as a woman.
Yes, because Leah Thomas, who was male and is transitioning a female, has like the hormone levels now that Leah's allowed to compete as a woman.
But I forget the other person's name.
That person's transitioning from female to male, but doesn't have enough hormones yet to not compete the women's.
But still has testosterone.
And it's all a fact, and you're born that way.
You can't change it.
And that's what makes sense.
You're hateful if you say it doesn't make sense at all.
This is crazy.
This article was basically about a great white shark because, you know, to be less discriminatory and more inclusive, they let a great white shark compete.
The Photoshop, you got to check out the article because the Photoshop is the best.
It's just a shark.
Devouring swimmers.
It's like that opening scene of Jaws.
Yeah.
I remember we just watched Jaws for the first time with my kids.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
And had to skip that scene.
I don't know if you guys remember that scene.
Just as a warning.
I've never watched it where the shark gets the same.
From the under.
Oh, it's terrifying, yeah.
It's terrifying.
And not just is it terrifying.
That lady is nude.
Yeah.
And we're talking, it's a PG movie.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
I mean, that's terrifying.
Obviously, I have my standards for my kids.
I mean, that shark is scary, and it's scary that they're letting men compete as women.
But it's also kind of competing.
Hokey compared to.
I mean, I've seen that scene, and the shark obviously looks, it does look fake to me, does it not?
Bruce?
Is that Bruce?
Yeah, I think that is actually the name of the shark.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, it does look fake, but at the same time, I love that.
It's a great movie because all the acting is great.
Richard Dreyfus is great.
I was in Jaws.
Well, believe it or not, the B News desk got an exclusive interview about this shark.
So, should we throw that at?
Let's do it.
Cool.
Let's take a watch.
We have some big news today from the Ivy League Women's Swimming Championships, where a new competitor is really making waves.
Under new, more inclusive and less discriminatory policies, a great white shark was allowed to compete.
Her name is Bruce.
She's very brave, and she's really making a splash.
You may recognize Bruce from Katy Perry's halftime show as Left Shark.
Needless to say, Bruce knows how to reinvent herself.
Now she's transitioned into competitive swimming.
Not only did she win every single event, but she massacred the other swimmers, leaving dozens dead.
Look at that form.
It's almost like she was biologically designed for this.
Some analysts assume that by taking on these champion competitors, Bruce was biting off more than she could chew.
But no, she was able to bite and chew every single one of them.
You could say the competition was dead in the water.
Bruce dominated heat after heat, wowing spectators with her speed, form, poise, and the ability to maul anyone in the pool.
Amid the chaos, two lifeguards dove in to try to save the other competitors.
They were eaten as well.
The shark was awarded every medal and placement, as all the other swimmers were dead.
The official who gave her the championship trophy was promptly eaten.
Bruce savored the taste of victory and the taste of arms, kidneys, faces, and ears.
As no one at the venue was left alive, we sent one of our own reporters, Brody Hooper, to obtain a statement from Bruce.
Brody?
Oh, he looks hurt.
I hope someone gives him a hand.
Bruce is being celebrated for being a strong, successful female, though it is slightly problematic that she's both great and white.
Hashtag Me Tooth.
Wow.
Great-hitting.
Great report on the shark that's competing in the swimming shop.
Love those anchors.
Yeah, that one was great.
Very talented.
The girl.
Yeah, the girl was.
She was very good.
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Now it's time for our bomb of the week.
This was our least shared and liked article.
Cool.
Bomb of the week.
DeSantis signs new bill where you can only say gay to mean uncool or lame.
Dude, I think that's really funny.
I like that one better than the shark one, I think, honestly.
Totally.
So DeSantis was trying to sign a bill.
It's called, they call it the Don't Say Gay Bill.
Did he sign it?
I know it was in the news this week.
Was that real?
That was real.
So what's confusing to me about it is there used to be, I feel like, the don't say gay, that phrase referred to not using gay in a bad way.
So they were like, don't say gay.
And now his bill, I think, is about keeping like, and I could be wrong about this, but I think it was about keeping like literature and books and like information about like homosexuality and LGBT issues out of like schools being taught to little kids and stuff.
Oh, so they're calling them both the don't say gay.
I thought it was like.
Dan, is that correct?
Do you know?
I wasn't paying attention.
Oh, the don't say gay bill that uh did it pass in Florida?
Did he sign it?
I don't know.
So it's to not have LGBTQ in.
I think so.
I don't know.
Well, it's interesting because it seems like it's about bringing back that casual 90s homophobia that we all created.
That's kind of miss.
Gay!
Like that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Turnip that we can't say that.
We're not allowed to say it's turnip.
Oh.
We're not allowed to do those things anymore.
And you know, you want to be respectful of people and their perspectives, and you want to make sure that you're being kind as much as you can.
And so I understand why we don't have casual 90s homophobia anymore.
But legislating language or that's the problem, man.
Legislating.
But this is kind of more about like keeping LGBTQ.
So here's what it is.
It's advanced to the House right now, House Republicans in Florida.
It forbids the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
Democrats say that it demonizes LGBTQ people.
But yeah, it's interesting because they call this one the don't say gay bill.
Even though I feel like 10 or 15 years ago, the don't say gay phrase was to stop you from using it to mean uncool or lame.
Right.
But don't say gay has changed its meaning.
It has, but like everything else.
That was the bomb of the week.
And I don't know.
I enjoyed it.
I'm sorry I laughed.
But now it's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
It's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
This week, Canadian dictator Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers and began arresting Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa.
On the bright side, the arrested truckers were pleased to find that jail showers are much nicer than the ones at truck stops.
Boris Johnson announced a plan to end all COVID restrictions in England, meaning residents will no longer have to stay six feet apart, but Prince Andrew will still have to stay 100 yards from playgrounds and schools.
Are you a defender of his?
No.
All right.
But that is.
Yeah.
That was just a solid burner.
A basketball signed by Barack Obama, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James is going up for auction.
Obama signed it because he's an NBA fan.
Kobe signed it because he's an NBA all-star.
And LeBron signed it because it was made in China.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has nullified the late Medina Spirits 2021 Kentucky Derby win due to a failed drug test.
Man, Medina Spirit must be rolling over in his glue bottle right now.
During the final week of the Winter Olympics, Remy Lindholm, a skier from Finland, suffered a frozen penis.
It was frozen so solid he couldn't even write his name.
Oh my God.
Thankfully, the Chinese urologist who treated Remy said he should be fine, then added, wait, they're supposed to be this big even when they're cold.
Oh, Kyle, can I do both of those?
Oh, that's right.
Kyle's not here this week.
The state of California is considering making a bill of rights for cats and dogs.
California lawmakers argue that pets are just like humans and they should have basic freedoms that can be crushed and taken away as well.
It's about time.
Yeah.
I wonder what a pet bill of rights would be.
Let's get the rights of property and freedom.
You can't keep from leash anymore.
Yeah, pursuit of happiness.
That's right.
U.S. health officials may recommend a fourth COVID shot this fall.
Scientists say it all depends on how the Democrats' poll numbers are doing at that point.
Two passengers were injured when a helicopter crashed into the ocean at a crowded Miami beach.
The passengers were taken to Miami's top medical center where they were given nose jobs and liposuction.
They're still injured, but are thankfully doing much hotter.
A 500-pound bear has been breaking into homes in Lake Tahoe, California, which is unusual since fat old bears usually go to Palm Springs.
Oh, that's a good one.
I just know that reference?
That's good.
That's really good.
Finally, the goat, Leah Thomas, won four races at the Ivy League Women's Swim Championship and set a new record in the 200-yard freestyle.
And it was a heated pool, so no need to worry about frozen penis.
That's it for the weekly news.
If you'd like to see more, check out the canceled news on my YouTube channel.
And you can catch me live at TK's Comedy Club in Dallas this Friday, the 25th through Sunday, the 27th.
Thank you for that, Adam.
That was definitely the funniest segment on this podcast.
Now we're going to move on to stuff that's good.
Stuff that's good.
This is where we name things that are good from our week.
So I guess, am I starting this off?
Yeah.
You know, the thing that was good this week for me was I went to Disneyland and some friends of mine had the, like, they got the hookup for this like VIP tour thing.
Have you guys ever done that before?
They have like private, like, like a host that like takes you around the whole park and just takes you to the front of the line for everything.
Oh, that's cool.
And they're like, they, they, uh, like, they're super nice.
It started raining while we were there.
And these two like hosts, they like ran off and got his ponchos because it was raining.
And we went, there was like outdoor seating and they dry it off with towels.
It's like before you come.
It is.
It's crazy.
I didn't know they do that there.
No, do you have?
I mean, I'm just this.
Am I allowed to like Disney on this or are we like, oh, Disney is a evil liberal company?
No, no, I like Disney.
Okay.
Kyle loves it.
Oh, yeah.
That's probably where he is now.
That's probably why he's not here.
That's why I wasn't here yesterday.
Yeah.
Stuff to do.
Yeah.
Stuff to do.
And you got, wait, you got, so you have friends.
I do have a few friends, not many, but you seem like the guy that has quality friends, like, you know, a few quality friends in your inner circle.
Is that true?
Yeah.
Or do you have like a hundred like?
I have a few quality friends in my, in my inner circle.
And then I have a lot of other friends that I don't really like too much.
Yeah.
I have kind of a lot of friends.
I have a few in my inner circle.
Oh, okay.
What about you, Kristen?
Do you have?
I have some friends.
Okay.
You got friends?
I've got friends.
Yeah.
Lots of friends.
You're probably in there.
I've got friends.
But mine go back for a long time.
Yeah.
You know.
That's good.
Shout out to Kristen's friends.
Yeah.
They're great.
I'd say I feel like I still have some friends from growing up in Pennsylvania, but like because I've moved first to New York, then out to California, it's like I still have friends from each of those phases, but it seems like the friends kind of cycle out, you know, as people as I move and as people move away, you know, and then one day I'll die alone.
No, keep in touch with all those old friends.
Well, truly, that's one of the best things about Facebook.
And there's so many problems with Facebook, but like being able to stay in contact with your old friends.
Yeah.
But I just think as an entertainer, you always run into different groups of people and you kind of have these intense relationships for short periods of time.
Like you're in foxholes with people for a little bit.
Yeah.
And then you kind of lose touch for a while.
And then when you get back together, it's kind of like a big refresher.
Like, oh my goodness, hey, guys.
It's like a reunion.
But it's interesting that you, that's cool that you got to go to Disneyland.
Yeah, AF get the VIP thing.
I mean, you know, yeah, it was.
Did you go to Club 30 or whatever?
That 30?
No, so this is the thing.
This is the part that's not good.
My friend, she gets Club 33 tickets all the time because she's like a young, attractive woman, and there's some old man who pays for her to go to Club 33 all the time.
Sounds ethical.
Yeah.
And this guy sounds really cool.
That's how it works.
And this guy gave her like a bunch of tickets to go on this VIP tour.
So it was free.
And we had a VIP tour.
And it's like those Disney employees, they have to act like happy and positive no matter what's going on.
So one of our guides, I won't say their names because I don't know if they watch or want to be much or not, but it was a guy and a girl who are our guides.
And the girl was wearing this jacket and then they're like a short skirt and heels.
And it starts raining and it's like 50 degrees or colder in California, which is freezing for us out here.
And she's like, oh, I'll go get you ponchos.
And she's just drenched.
She's just soaked no poncho for herself.
Just making sure we all have ponchos and drying off chairs for us.
You know, it's comforting to know that there's an organization that will train you to be that kind of self-denying or whatever.
I feel like if you went to a Chick-fil-A convention, they would do the same thing.
Yes, one of my friends compared it to that.
They're Chick-fil-A employees.
They just have to be positive about the company no matter what's happening.
My pleasure.
My pleasure.
I'm freezing.
My pleasure.
And they do a good job and everything.
Yeah, they do.
That's good.
Sarah, what's your good stuff that's good this week?
Okay, stuff that's good.
I just had one more question.
Oh, sure.
So are you personally, would you feel comfortable sharing?
Are you dating anyone or anything?
No, I'm single right now.
You're single right now.
I've gone out on dates every now, but no, I'm single.
I just feel like the listeners might want to know.
Well, it's only that Chad Eric guy.
That Chad guy is a guy.
Yeah.
It's like, hey, is Adam single?
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
You know, maybe he's trying to hook you up with a friend of his.
I doubt it.
Okay.
All right.
Anyway.
All right.
So my stuff that's good this week, I actually, I have two, but I kind of want to focus on, okay, I'll just say this.
So I read audiobooks.
I'm a narrator for audiobooks.
And so I have this, I have this really cool series that I'm doing called it's the Alexander King series.
And my friend Bradley Wright, he's an author and he's written like 10 books.
These authors are crazy.
They write literally like two or three books a year.
They're so prolific.
It's an incredible thing.
Like I'm working with probably four authors right now that are doing that.
There's this guy, Matthew Reif, who writes kind of the same thing.
They're like international sort of spy novels.
And they like kind of Batman, you know, these really wealthy people that are vigilantes too.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, they're kind of cool.
You know, like all these series are a little bit similar.
And then I have another one that's about like if the Catholic Church had like a military arm that fought monsters.
Oh man, that sounds awesome.
Yeah, it's actually, you know, it's pretty cool.
It's called the Templar Chronicles.
Anyway, so, but I was just going to bring up the one.
So Bradley Wright's coming out with a new book called Enemy Lines.
And I'm right now currently reading that book and it's going to be out in a couple weeks.
So I'm really excited about that.
The other one I had was this.
So, stuff that's cool.
If you guys can check this out, Army of Darkness.
This is an Ash Williams.
It's an Ash Williams doll.
That's pretty cool.
That I thought you guys would really appreciate.
I don't know if you guys are Army of Darkness.
Did you ever see Army of Darkness fan?
I've seen.
How many of them are there?
I've seen either the first or second one.
Well, there's Evil Dead.
Evil Dead, that's one thing of, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Because he's from that, right?
He's from Dead Dead.
Yeah, he's from Evil Dead.
I don't think I've seen Army of Darkness then.
Yeah.
I said cool and acted like I like it, but I don't know what I'm talking about.
Well, it's about a guy.
I've never seen it.
I mean, I don't know if I should recommend.
The movie looks really good.
The movie looks really good from the action figure.
Yeah.
The action figure is cool.
Well, it's about this is about a guy who works at S-Smart.
So in this world, it's not Kmart, it's S-Mart.
The whole thing is shop smart, shop S-Smart.
You know, like, that's like this whole thing.
And he works there.
He goes back in time to like the Middle Ages and has to fight, you know, the evil that is trying to take over this castle.
Always fighting evil.
And he cuts, yeah, he cuts off his hand and puts a chainsaw on it.
Oh, nice.
And then fights evil with his chainsaw hand and his shotgun.
And so he calls his shotgun a boomstick and calls all the people from the middle ages like, you know, primates.
He's like, you primates wouldn't understand things like molecular structures.
It's like, it's really.
Anyway, it's ridiculous.
Is it like the same tone of like Evil Dead?
Yeah.
It's like, yeah, it's kind of campy.
It's kind of campy and fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway.
Awesome.
Yeah, two things.
And those are them.
And my Bible reading plan.
That was the other thing.
But that's my third thing.
I'll do it.
Whenever we do this, I always have to come up with something last minute because I'm like, oh, I went to Disneyland this week.
Yeah.
And you guys, well, when Kyla talks, like, the theology I was reading was.
Yeah.
And I'm like, I went to Disneyland.
Yeah.
I just, I literally finished Leviticus today.
Uh-huh.
Read through Leviticus out loud.
Yeah.
I mean, dude.
Wow.
It's a challenge.
Yeah.
There's a lot of interesting things in there.
Yeah.
All right.
A lot of profound stuff.
Yeah.
So anyway, we can talk about that next time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, everyone.
Big news just this week, SCODIS agreed to hear 303 Created versus Elenus, providing an opportunity for the court to decide whether Lori Smith and other artists have creative freedom or instead can be compelled to create and speak government's message.
This is very similar to another case, Masterpiece Cake Shot that we've already seen.
Colorado state officials have attempted to require artists like Lori to design and publish messages that would violate her religious beliefs.
They are, of course, protected by the First Amendment.
She joined with Alliance Defending Freedom to challenge the law in court.
Now, after several years of legal struggles, the U.S. Supreme Court will have a chance to set things right and uphold the God-given, constitutionally protected rights of creative professionals, including Lori Smith.
A win for Laurie here will protect freedom of speech for her and many other Americans.
Cases like this that go all the way to our nation's highest court can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Alliance Defending Freedom doesn't charge their clients a dime for legal services and instead relies upon donations, the generosity of people like you.
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So anyway, sorry, Chris, you guys are just like chatting it up.
Well, I'm going to make you feel great and tell that my stuff that's good is my Bible study.
Awesome.
But no, I highly recommend being in a Bible study and within a small group studying the Bible.
And I've done the same one for 20 years with my church.
And we did a Zoom.
I zoomed into their Bible study this morning because it's a Wednesday morning thing.
And just all different ages.
And what's the curriculum?
What are you doing?
We're doing Esther right now.
We're doing Esther.
So, but we've done, we were thinking about doing this again.
One of the ones that we did where we did a book of the Bible every week.
So, there's something called the Amazing Collection.
It's a very good study.
It took us two and a half years.
And we technically are supposed to read the whole book of the Bible in the week, but that's kind of hard to do, especially some of them.
So, they have little, you know, if you can't do the whole thing, you can read a few chapters, but anyway.
Is there like, is it like BSF, like Bible study fellowship?
You guys are just choosing a book of the Bible and then reading it through.
Well, it's called the Amazing Collection.
Well, our studies, yeah, we choose a study to do.
And we used to watch a video with it, but now we have like different women from our Bible study.
We have like 100 women who do it from our church and from other churches that come and we assign a person to get up and speak and give the lecture, so 20-minute lecture, because the videos are usually an hour.
That's really too long.
So, so we do like a little synopsis and we do a testimony, and it's great.
That's a really good thing.
So, is yours an all-women Bible study this one?
It is because do they even have all-men Bible studies?
You know, that's a good question.
I think they have one.
Why?
Why not?
I think they have one.
Yeah, mostly they're like, here's an X, and we're going to get women's Bible studies are huge, though.
I mean, there's all kinds of things.
Women's Bible studies.
Yeah, if I remember correctly from the church I go to, the women's Bible study would be like, yours, it's like we're reading Esther this week, and the men's Bible study is like, we're going to a car museum this week.
Yes, no, you're right.
Yeah, my Bible studies.
Homework, we come prepared.
We talk through all the questions.
Yeah.
You know.
So that's really interesting.
I think, so I'm doing a Bible study too.
It's a read-through.
It's read-through, the Bible in a year plan, the Bible recap with Terra Lee Cobble.
It's a podcast.
And it is so different when you're reading through the entire scripture versus just reading sections or just reading, like, okay, I'm going to read Ephesians again.
You know, it's like, I brought a physician.
You know, I just love it.
I've almost memorized it, right?
But you keep reading that same thing.
Because you kind of go back through and you tend to go to the same spots if you're not, if you don't have a plan.
Right.
And so getting through like the whole scripture is just a whole different thing.
Like, I can't explain it.
It's almost like things in life have kind of my whole life has sort of taken a turn for the better since I started actually reading through the entire thing.
So I don't know how to explain it.
But also.
Have you read through the entire thing before?
So not all the way through.
I've read all the way.
I've read parts.
I've read them all.
I've read all the parts.
But just not in sequence.
Right.
Just not in sequence all the way through.
And it's such a trip because you get this whole sense of who Israel was.
So there's this context for where Jesus comes from and then the context for the end as well, the escaton.
Everything sort of like fits because you're because you're getting into the details of what Israel was, you know, versus like just kind of having this general understanding of, okay, this was ceremonial culture.
This was moral law.
This was ceremonial love.
You know, like I have all those things, but like, but when you're actually reading the details of like, you have to break this pot when this happens and you have to do this, like, you know, and they get into like skin disease.
I mean, like, dreaded skin disease.
Yeah.
Like to live outside the camp.
The white hair and the skin disease.
You have to live outside the camp.
You have to have the priest look at it.
Yeah.
The priest was like a doctor and a barbecue.
He was just basically like a barbecue guy.
That's kind of what he was.
It was like a big barbecue all the time.
We should all try to gross out our priest.
Like next time you have a rash or something, go ahead and be like, would you look at this?
Dude, yeah.
What do you think this is?
I think I have a white hair in the middle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Come back to me in a week.
Listen.
Anyway, sorry, I'm just kind of ranting, but I do think it's great.
It's so good.
I'm glad you brought that up.
It's probably the best thing I've done for spiritual development is, and it holds you accountable to having the community, the women with you so good.
Yeah.
And I have a men's Bible study as well.
And generally, we don't do just scripture reading.
We read, like, we read Live No Lies by John Mark Comer, which was great, by the way.
If you haven't read that, it's an incredible book.
And then Live Not by Lies, which was by Rod Dreyer, which is so funny, too.
So similar titles, very different ideas, but really interesting.
Really interesting.
So going through those books, but not necessarily just going through the scripture like that.
I do think women kind of do this better than we do.
Probably.
Yeah.
We do Jeopardy better, though.
Yeah.
That's a.
Yeah.
That's right.
Hey.
There you go.
You're going to get censored for that.
Men like Amy and us.
I have one more.
I have one more stuff that's good.
Oh, good.
Oh, good.
Okay.
This is a very, it is a BBC production masterpiece theater, All Creatures, Great and Small.
It's very family friendly and just very well done.
It's a remake of an old masterpiece theater.
Are you a big masterpiece theater fan?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I loved Downton Abbey and all that kind of stuff.
What's your other, what do you have any other favorites?
I mean, we really, we like all the, a lot of the, there's a Grant Chester is a, you know, show and what is it?
Endeavor.
Endeavor is good.
Yeah, so like the murder mysteries.
You know.
You ever watch Star Trek the Next Generation?
We can talk about that for a long time.
I grew up on Star Trek.
Yes.
But I'm not, I grew up with Star Trek, but I'm, you know, not exactly a Trekkie.
Oh, that's good.
I'm a Trekkie.
Have you ever, by the way, I'm not to change subjects from BBC because I love the BBC, but have you ever read John Scalzi's Red Shirts?
No, I have not.
Okay, another great recommendation.
John Scalzi's Red Shirts, if you liked it, since we're still on the Star Trek, I'm trying more and more to second a way to bring up Star Trek.
It's actually about the red shirts in a particular Star Trek universe that start to realize that they're expendable.
Oh, wow.
And so every time they see the main characters come around, they start to run away from the main characters because they realize if I'm around this person, I'm probably going to die, just like Steve did last week.
Do you guys remember Steve?
Yeah.
You know, like that kind of stuff.
It's amazing.
It's an incredible thing.
It's like the self-aware, like, red shirts.
And do you think it's in that book?
Do you find it more meaningful to read it start to finish or the most meaningful parts and then study them in your menu?
No, I read.
That's like what Eric Metaxa says.
I read parts of it all the way through.
Yeah.
That's what he always says.
Awesome.
I've read parts of your book all the way through.
Yeah.
That's stuff that's good.
You finished Leviticus, you finished Esther, and I went on Pirates, Rise of the Resistance, and the Spider-Man website.
Well, I did.
I mean, it's like I did bring up Bruce Campbell and Darkness.
I mean, that's not quite, you know.
Awesome.
Now, we have our guest here.
You've been here helping us out this whole episode, but Kristen Orn is here.
And you are the editor of Kyle and Joel's new book, The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress.
Yes, it's fabulous.
Have you seen it?
I have not.
No.
Have you seen it?
I haven't.
No.
It's really good.
And I will say, I haven't.
This is probably heresy, but I've not read the whole original Pilgrim's Progress.
You've read parts of it all the way through?
I've only read part of it too.
Today I looked at the title online.
Okay.
That counts.
As far as I got.
So, but Kyle and Joel reimagined it, and it's a modern version of that tale.
It's not a, they didn't take that tale and change it.
They made their own new idea of it.
Oh, okay.
Fair to call it a reboot or it's patterned after it.
I see.
But it's a good, I would say it would be a companion piece.
Oh, it is the original one and then read his for more modern heresies and things.
So it's like a one-to-one comparison thing again.
Like they'll meet characters like it's an allegory, right?
So it's like one-to-one, like they'll meet characters like the woke person.
That's probably not the problem.
He'll come up with a best Adam.
No, I'm sure they do something funny.
I'm sure they make that comparison in the middle.
It's a journey.
There's a narrator.
The narrator is not Christian or the main character is not the narrator.
Oh, is it a reliable narrator or an unreliable narrator?
That's a word I remember from talking about books.
That's right.
It's a little like, have you read Screwtape Letters?
Okay, so where you have the devil in that case, this is, he, I don't know if he's an angel.
I was going to ask Kyle.
I don't know if he's an angel or just a created being that's heavenly.
Okay.
Who narrates what's happening.
It's extremely well written.
And Kyle and Joel, you know, I was going to, if he was here today, I would ask him how they work together because I'm very curious about that.
Did you write that?
It is fun that you're here on the date Kyle's not here to talk about his book.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
But extremely creative and well written and thoughtful.
And the character interaction between the characters are good.
That's good.
And since you're an imaginative editor, how many typos does Kyle typically send over to you?
Kyle, I don't even know if Kyle knows when I fix his typos, but.
How many typos are there?
Like a lot?
You really bad at it?
Not very bright, right?
Per day.
Yeah, not a smart man.
He's very smart.
Very smart.
His typos are very smart typos.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Like he'll spell a word even better than it's supposed to be.
Yes, yes.
Sometimes he adds a whole bunch of extra words.
Uh-huh.
And just because he's so smart.
And sometimes he leaves out words that probably, you know, because he's so smart, he knows.
Like to and and.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The small words.
My favorite, my favorite things on B articles are when there's like a half sentence and I have to figure out what the rest of the sentence was supposed to say.
Oh, I see.
So occasionally that happens.
That doesn't happen very often.
But sometimes you could tell it was edited at the last second and he was going to go back and fill in a sentence, but then forgot to do it.
Can you tell who makes more errors, Joel or Kyle?
I don't know who's written the article.
Oh, okay.
So I don't know.
So by the way, when is this book coming out?
His book is, yeah, so I do the articles too.
I was just talking about the articles.
But book, the book, I think it's supposed to be out in June.
Awesome.
I'm going to read it for sure.
Yeah.
And you edited the articles and you submitted an article recently, right?
What was the article?
I've had, yeah, I've had some articles published over the years.
But my article, yeah, last week was The Chicken Coop.
Oh, yeah.
Can you say that for everyone?
Do you remember the headline?
Man, man.
It was something like that.
He gave him $3,000 to build a chicken coop so he can have 16 cent eggs for free.
I love that one because I know someone who does that.
Is that from a personal experience?
It was.
So my high school friend, my friend that I grew up with, I was with her and with her husband and with some other people I knew from school, family members.
And her husband was telling us about how one day he came home from work and saw a giant pile of lumber in the driveway.
And he had forgotten that he'd told his wife that my friend that she wanted a shed to put like cushion, outdoor cushions in or something.
And he said, order whatever you want.
And he came, it was like this giant pile of lumber.
And so he was doing this long story.
They also had a chicken coop, though.
I knew that.
So this long story about how he had to level their yard.
So I changed it and I made it about the chicken coop.
Oh, okay.
The chicken coop thing seems very relatable, though.
I don't know if that's common like everywhere, but in LA, like people, they're like city people, but they want to like have a rural experience.
So they buy these chicken coops.
They're like, oh, I'm going to save money.
I'm going to raise my own eggs.
It's like, yeah, you wasted it.
And then he went, yeah, I made an offer.
I'm just going to go to the store and buy eggs for however much Joe Biden's raised the price of them.
Yeah, they're not 16 cents anymore, brother.
Yeah.
Well, that's why everybody from LA, I think the people out in LA, they're 50 cents an egg.
I'm like, well, in my town, they were about 16 cents an egg.
There's a lot more eggs in your town.
I guess.
No, I don't know.
I had a lot of friends that do this too.
My neighbors all have chickens.
In fact, when we first moved into our neighborhood, I had to get used to the rooster crowing in the morning at like 5.30, waking us up every morning.
It was like crazy.
Did you see McFarlane?
You ever see McFarlane?
No.
Anyway, it's what Kevin Costner.
Oh, okay.
Anyway, he, yeah, same thing happened there.
That's all I'm going to say.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, but it's, I'll tell you, like, it's crazy how many people own chickens, have chickens.
There was a donkey next door to us.
This is like right here.
Yeah.
I live right next to the studio.
Wow.
And like, there was a donkey.
They're loud.
Goats.
They were so loud.
It sounded, the donkey sounded like a person being a donkey.
Oh, yeah.
You could read it.
I feel like you could video that and put it on YouTube and it get like 100,000.
I have a few.
Yeah, like the goats that scream.
Like it's the same thing.
They're like, that's literally what it sounds like.
I have a friend who has a donkey and she has an invisible fence and an invisible fence collar on her donkey.
Really?
Yeah.
That's a good idea.
Because the donkey keeps getting out.
Yeah.
So I think.
The neighbors call it your donkeys here again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
That's good.
Well, anyway, that's good.
If I'm a slow reader and I, you know, which, which book should I read first?
The Bible, The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress, or Red Shirts?
If you're a slow reader?
Yeah, because I can't take on more than one at once because I'm a very slow reader.
So how much Bible have you read?
Oh, I've read the Bible cover to cover several times.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
That's why you're a Lutheran.
Yeah.
That's why I'm a Lutheran.
See, I know the Bible very well.
I just don't know all these books about the Bible that you guys read.
Yeah.
Scripture.
Grace Alone, Faith Alone, and Scripture Alone.
There you go.
If I just read the Bible, if somebody says you should read that, I go, no, scripture alone.
I'm forbidden from reading all these things.
Or anything that's not alone.
I don't think that's actually what it means.
Have you read Eric Metaxas' Luther biography?
No, but I did find out who Eric Metaxas was when he was here a few months ago.
Yeah.
He was sitting in that room.
He was in the room sometime.
His biographies are unbelievable.
You should read them all.
Yes.
I agree.
Fawn offer is really good too.
Oh, that one sounds like that.
Luther is so good, and you'll learn so much.
That one I would like to.
And you're a Lutheran, sir.
Yeah, start with Amazing Grace because it's short.
Okay.
If you're going to read Metaxas' books, start with Amazing Grace for sure.
Well, there you have it.
The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress is the last book that I should read.
No, no, I think you should read it.
You can pre-order it now on Amazon.
And Red Shirts is amazing.
And incredibly entertaining.
Nice.
So if you want to read something quick, read Red Shirts.
Yeah.
Cool.
It's awesome.
I want to make it a movie.
I think the Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress is also very entertaining.
Okay.
So you'll love it.
Sounds good.
Very cool.
Now, since you have to fix typos and edit stuff, are you someone who like corrects grammar of people online?
Like people call them like grammar Nazis.
Do you consider yourself a grammar Nazi?
Probably.
That's how I found Kyle.
Really?
And Zinja.
He needed help.
And so, since you are actually employed, you actually do this for a living.
Would you say you're the grammar Hitler?
Oh.
Yeah.
Or maybe like the Obergrubenführer of grammar notes.
Of grammar.
I'm an Obergrubenführer.
That's the hardest set.
Why did they pick that word?
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's too hard.
Of grammar, though.
Yeah.
Yeah, of grammar.
So, since you are a grammar expert, we're going to do, we have a little segment here for you.
We're going to have you see if you can correct some grammar mistakes that we have.
Hey, everyone, big news.
Just this week, SCODIS agreed to hear 303 Created versus Elanis, providing an opportunity for the court to decide whether Lori Smith and other artists have creative freedom or instead can be compelled to create and speak government's message.
This is very similar to another case, Masterpiece Take Shot that we've already seen.
Colorado state officials have attempted to require artists like Lori to design and publish messages that would violate her religious beliefs.
They are, of course, protected by the First Amendment.
She joined with Alliance Defending Freedom to challenge the law in court.
Now, after several years of legal struggles, the U.S. Supreme Court will have a chance to set things right and uphold the God-given, constitutionally protected rights of creative professionals, including Lori Smith.
A win for Laurie here will protect freedom of speech for her and many other Americans.
Cases like this that go all the way to our nation's highest court can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Alliance Defending Freedom doesn't charge their clients a dime for legal services and instead relies upon donations, the generosity of people like you.
Will you help support Lori's continued battle to preserve her freedom?
If so, go to adflegal.org/slash Babylon B. That's adflegal.org slash Babylon B. Pledge to support ADF today so they can continue to help protect First Amendment rights and our religious freedoms.
And now it's time for the Babylon B to ask, who is this guy or girl?
All right, so since you are an editor and an expert on grammar and typos, we have a test for you here.
So we brought in a whiteboard like at school.
We're going to read some sentences.
Okay.
And we're going to see if you can correct them.
We'll figure out, you know, if there's a semicolon missing or are you for or against the Oxford comma?
I like the Oxford comma.
Good.
That's the correct answer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I like two spaces after a period.
I used to, I used to love that one.
I used to be very attached to it.
I've grown out of the habit of it, but I was it that one took me a long time to get used to when they went back to One Space.
I've never lost it.
It's too good to read.
Yeah.
Never lasted.
I still haven't.
You still do the two spaces?
So do you still do it?
Oh, yeah.
I do it when I text and on my tweets.
Oh, wow.
And then if I run out of room on my tweet, I go back and I delete the second space so I can have room to say what I want to say.
You know?
I used to love the two spaces.
No, I've lapsed in my two space using, but the two times that I've tweeted, I had the double space.
Yeah.
Good.
Yeah.
Good.
All right.
So let's start here with question number one.
The legs of Kyle hurt because of too much running.
How would you correct this sentence?
That's a very unusual sentence.
Well, for one thing, two, of course, T-O-O.
But it should be Kyle hurt his legs or running by running too much, Kyle hurt his legs.
Something like that.
By running too much, Kyle hurt his legs.
It's a little bit true.
I'll accept that.
That sounds good to me.
That sounds good.
Okay.
Yeah, that's good.
The next one is this.
Daily wire wind in willful, wishful, wild ways.
I feel.
Wait, this is.
Good luck.
Did you read that right?
You read it.
You read it different than it is in the script, and it's different in the script and you said it than it is.
I blame Bettina.
Okay.
Let's see.
Daily Wire wins wires in willful, wishful, wild ways.
Wires wins wires.
Wines.
It's wines.
It should say wine wins.
Daily Wire.
Bettina.
Willful, wishful, wild ways.
Daily Wire winds in willful, wishful, wild ways.
Is that it?
Wow.
Daily Wire wines.
It's just missing an S. Daily Wire winds wires in willful, wishful, wild ways.
There's a word missing here.
Wines wires.
Do you have this?
Daily Wire.
Wines wires.
But what does that mean?
Wines wires?
They wind wire.
They wind wires.
Okay, you spool them up.
Spool them wires.
So I think willful, wishful, wild ways.
It's correct.
There's correct for what it is.
It appears that what Bettina was going for here was to put commas after willful.
Oh, see?
I'm not very good at commas.
She also, in her corrected version, did not put the Oxford comma.
Leave out that Oxford comma.
Yeah, but the Oxford comma is before an and.
But see, that's the other thing.
In here, she put an and.
Like, we're talking about.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
You know, I feel like it would be appropriate to have Weird Al Yankovic's word crimes playing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you guys ever heard that song?
Word cry.
No, I have not.
I'll read the next one here.
The Babylon B team are dedicated to create humorly content.
Okay.
Babylon B needs to be capitalized.
Team is dedicated to creating humorous content.
Nailed it.
That was quick.
Thank you.
All right.
Number four, masks mandates are people pointlessly fighting against COVID.
People are pointlessly fighting against COVID with mask mandates.
That sounds good to me.
Masks are pointless against COVID is another way we could put it.
Yeah, Bettina said the correct answers is everything except masks are pointless against COVID.
Yes, that would be correct.
Yeah.
Number five, accepting persons for who they are, except when it doesn't compromise your faith.
Accept persons for who they are.
Well, we can talk about the content of that.
Does it compromise your faith to accept someone for who they are or who they say they are?
But, all right, let's see.
Let's do the grammar.
Accepting persons.
Accepting, of course, the E and the A are reversed.
So accepting persons for who they are.
It's not even right.
It's not right up.
The they is missing in there.
For who they are, except E X C E T when it doesn't compromise, not comprise your faith.
I think that's what it means, right?
I think you got it.
You got it closer to where it's supposed to be.
I think that's very close.
Yeah.
So every woman must use their fellow trans women's pronouns because in his journey, it's imperative that women support women.
Good luck.
Okay.
That isn't.
I'm looking at the answer and I don't even understand.
If I'm just doing grammar, which I think one of the things that's key to editing a B article is not to know what needs changed and what is funny, right?
Or what's just there on purposely wrong.
Every woman must use her fellow, I mean, how is it a fellow trans woman?
Is it a woman, I guess?
I don't know.
Pronouns, just on the grammar, you had changed there to her.
Every woman must use her fellow trans women's pronouns because in I mean, what am I supposed to say?
Is her journey?
It's imperative that women support women.
Facebook supports.
Women support.
Women support trans women.
If you have to say trans in front of it, then it's a tacit admission that they're not a woman.
Yes, it's a different category.
Exactly.
There's a dialectic.
Grammatically, it's already not a woman.
You can only morph language to a certain extent.
You have to ignore that.
That's the correct answer right there.
There you go.
That is it.
That's it.
Did you bring any gifts for us?
I did.
I brought this gift.
No way.
Isn't it the cutest bee you've ever seen?
That's awesome.
That's a cute.
And on, are you guys on not the bee?
I read the article.
Okay, the sister side of the bee is not the bee.
We have a social network built in so the subscribers can talk to each other.
And anyway, there's a there's a woman, just found out she's a teenager, actually.
Young woman who makes these, and she also makes other little critters, octopuses, and things.
She's got a little shop, and I could look really quick and tell you the name of it.
But isn't that the cutest thing I brought you?
And we can't do that.
We can put it in the subscriber's.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Dude, that is really cool.
I mean, it's cute.
And it's effective.
Yeah.
That's what I like about it.
That should be our new logo, our new mascot right there.
Yes, it's adorable.
It is adorable.
And Not the Bee is a lot of fun.
The social side of it.
And then the subscriber part of the Bee, where you can talk to people from all over the world who are who are subscribers and love the bee and are funny people.
That's awesome.
So be sure to check that out.
Be sure.
Be sure.
Great Christian community.
That is great.
And you can figure out where you can get one of those too.
Maybe I could meet some friends on there that I like more than the friends I have.
Yeah.
I was going to suggest that.
Maybe you start dating.
I have a lot of friends on Not the Bee.
You're really trying to set me up.
I got friends.
I get a word out there.
You definitely need to be on there.
Yeah.
There's a lot more eligible women than there are eligible men.
I just got it.
Really?
Yeah.
That's in the Christian community.
That's for sure.
It is time for our hate mail.
Our hate mail is a little bit different this week.
I was delighted last week because in the weekly news, I did a joke that I was talking about the Super Bowl halftime show, and I listed the performers that were there.
And I said it featured Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, and 50 Cent.
That was the joke.
And I'm adamant about this.
That's the joke.
And now Kyle didn't get it.
And a lot of people in the comments.
I saw it.
I did not get it.
And this is, yeah, this is exactly what I wanted to happen.
I'm so delighted with this.
I knew this would happen when I wrote it.
And I debated making it more clear what the joke was, but I said, no, I want to stick with it like this.
So here are some of the.
So should I read the theories first and then reveal what?
I think so.
Yeah.
So a lot of people were weighing in in the comments.
Soldier of Truth wrote, the joke was the actual halftime show.
Quio G12 wrote, he's saying, and 50 Cent was on the show because they were 50% of the way through the Super Bowl.
Wow.
That was not it.
That was a good one.
Juan Coralis wrote, the joke is he excluded Dr. Dre on the list since he hardly performed.
I like this response because it's so close to being incorrect.
Yeah, it's not.
Is it kind of like being.
Yeah.
Gary Simmons wrote the halftime joke was that 50 Cent should have been pronounced 50 cent.
So the first, a few people in the comments did start getting it.
One person on the Facebook comments, you know, there was a lot of people saying I'm not funny and it's a terrible joke.
That makes no sense at all.
Yeah.
Everything I say is funny.
That's very mean.
It's all good.
Some people are mean.
They are.
You read these comments.
We go through it.
They are mean, dude.
Yeah, but please keep writing them because we love hate mail.
Yeah.
Actually, that's more.
The more creative you are with your hate mail, the better.
Oh, yes.
The meaner and more creative.
The hate mail is hilarious.
Yeah.
It is very funny.
Yeah.
So one person thought, you know, like I said, that the joke was that I excluded Dr. Dre because he hardly performed.
The first person that comments to get was someone named Justin Lindbergh who explained the joke is that he forgot about Dr. Dre being at the halftime show.
There is an Eminem Dr. Dre song called Forgot About Dre.
Took me a minute, but that was a good one.
So he was the winner.
He's the one who figured it out.
Now, is this kind of the goal of a comedian to sort of make a joke that people have to really dissect?
It's not the goal of a comedian, but it's the goal of Adam Jensen.
Adam Junsen.
I was going to say.
No.
The best way I can explain it is there are times when you do jokes that you know the audience will like, and then there's times when you come up with what's up and you're like, this one's just for me.
I enjoyed it, and I knew some people would get it.
Yeah.
But, you know, like I said last week, it's like Forgot About Dre was like a huge song in the early 2000s.
It was like Eminem's like headlining song, like is the song he started with at the Super Bowl halftime show.
And then even when I explain it to people here, they're like, huh, what that?
What is that?
I'm like, oh, man.
Was that the one where Dre's like going to die?
Like, do you remember the video?
That's most of Eminem's songs.
Yeah, right.
Everybody's dying, jumping off the building or something.
I was like, I remember seeing, I was in Africa and I was watching videos from the early 2000s for some reason.
I was working out in the one space I could find to work out at the hotel.
Yeah.
And it was like, there was this thing on the video.
They were just playing videos from the early 2000s.
It was an MTV song.
I think it was Forgot About Dre.
Yeah.
It's a great song.
Yeah.
Our audience won't like it.
It's the only exposure.
A lot of our audience hates the, because it's like, you know, it's vulgar music.
There's cursing and stuff in it.
I don't know, dude.
It was a good song.
Well, that halftime show, I think you guys came out with a you get you came out with a headline last week that was, what is it?
Middle-aged mom becomes a gangster.
Oh, yeah, that's a rapper.
It's really funny.
Yeah, that's not my generation, but the generation under us.
I totally get it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's literally what happened.
Like, I had not many friends, but I had a few friends over for the Super Bowl.
Not I don't have many friends.
You do.
All of my three friends were over for the Super Bowl.
No, and then there's a mom there who, a new mother.
And man, when that song comes on, they're busting it.
Yeah, like, you know.
Exactly.
And our kids are like, what?
Just getting the baby to dance to gangster rap.
Gangster rap.
Yeah.
Well, the crazy thing is that's what counts as gangster rap now.
Like, you know, California love.
Yeah.
And then it was also funny because there was another big controversy at the halftime show.
Well, controversy, where there was like these news artists, they're like, Snoop Dogg was caught smoking before the show.
It's like, of course he was.
Well, you know, the other thing.
What, though?
What was he smoking?
Yes.
Well, I think he said.
He probably still smokes the butt, I imagine, but you know what?
Oh, definitely.
Yeah, so he was wearing all those colors.
One of my friends grew up around all those guys.
And he's one of my best friends.
And he was telling me, he's like, yeah, I couldn't watch the show because, you know, Snoop was all about Crip Life and all this stuff.
Like, he was dressed up in crip clothes.
Yeah.
Because you think he's reformed himself or whatever.
But he actually totally was throwing gang signs.
Because he has a real gang background.
Like some of those rappers, you know, they cite kind of fake that person.
But he really was in the Crips, I think.
So I so that's I always thought he grew up in sort of like a middle-class neighborhood.
Oh, maybe I'm wrong about that.
It's nice school and everything.
That's what Snoop Dogg grew up.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I could be wrong.
I thought he was actually a gang member, but I could be right.
But those other dudes were dangerous people, though.
Like, those other guys, like, with the hit, like, death row records, all those guys.
Which Snoop Dogg owns now, right?
Didn't he just become the like if he owns it?
That was like the record that launched him.
I know.
Did you guys watch Straight Out of Compton?
I did not see that one.
Oh, man.
That's what my friend Lisa Pitts plays Dre's mom in that.
Oh, really?
And she's like ridiculous, dude.
She did a great job.
Nice.
She was just on another show right now.
I just saw her again.
She's crazy.
Cool.
Anyway.
But Snoop Dogg is great, and my joke was great.
Your joke was great.
And we learned that you were in Africa working out, and that's where you saw.
What were you doing in Africa?
So that time, what were we doing?
So I'm a worship pastor.
And so we were playing at a, I was playing worship at this big conference that was in Nairobi.
And I don't know if you guys have, have you ever heard of Rooted?
So Rooted is a curriculum that's like a discipleship curriculum.
If you guys haven't looked into it, it started in Africa with Pastor Marithi, Pastor M, they call him.
And the church over there is called Mazizi.
No, no.
The curriculum over there is called Mazizi.
And it was taken, it was anglicized or whatever.
They brought it over here.
It's called Rooted.
And it's really great, like sort of beginning discipleship curriculum for a church to implement.
Here, let's do rooted groups, you know, like start that whole thing.
I'm sure, I mean, Alpha Course, the Alpha Course.
There's a bunch of other ones.
But anyway, so it all started there.
And since he wrote that curriculum, it like the church has exploded.
It's like this massive church there in the middle of Nairobi.
And so we went over there and we led worship for this thing with a bunch of other bands.
We didn't belong there, honestly.
Like the bands that were there were just crazy.
This Ugandan band.
African music is cool.
Dude, they're so good.
And we were like, literally, I'm like doing my little hill song songs and stuff.
And they were just like dancing all over the stage.
It was like, what are we doing here?
We don't belong here.
Why did you invite us?
And so we stayed there and we did that.
And it's crazy.
But it was a lot of fun.
And I got friends out there still.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
One of my friends just moved there.
He's a doctor and he's now a missionary over there.
And he's El Durat.
Really?
And so cool.
I think they were in Nairobi.
Good.
Nairobi's awesome.
So if you ever get a chance, shout out to Nairobi.
There's probably not a lot of B people in Nairobi, but there could be.
You never know.
You never know.
There might be now.
Yeah, around the world, people.
Cool.
That's it.
That's true.
Sorry.
I don't know how Kyle ends this.
I was going for let's interrupt our guests.
Yeah, that sounds good.
That's it for the YouTube version.
What do we call this?
The public version?
The B weekly.
Yeah, but do we, how do I, what do I call this?
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I was in Madrid, Spain, and one of the delicacies over there is blood sausage.
So it's coagulated blood in the inside of an intestinal thing.
So we got this stuff, and it was the worst.
I couldn't even get it past my palate.
I was gagging.
It was literally the worst thing.
It was worse than baby food peas.
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