Kyle and Adam are joined by Brian Lau, author of the graphic novel Inferno City Firehouse, and the upcoming book Blood of the Baptist. He recently took part in the development of Florian's Knights, a film about military veterans riding motorcycles as a form of therapy to fight PTSD. Check out this week's interview with Alex Clark of POPlitics, the Weakly News with Adam Yenser, and Brian Lau showing off his new graphic novel We discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, the release of Amazon's Rings of Power, and Lizzo's "I'm oppressed" speech. And Trump wants a do-over election! Classic Trump. If you'd like to support an individual artist and check out Brian Lau's upcoming work, please checkout his website at https://www.staunchambition.com/. This episode is brought to you by our wonderful sponsors who you should absolutely check out: ABIDE: text "babylon" to 22433 Allegiance Gold: https://ag.allegiancegold.com/bb/ Better Help Counseling: https://www.betterhelp.com/get-starte... Dwell: https://dwellapp.io/babylonbee In the subscriber portion we've got some hate mail, subscriber headlines, and your classic article of the week!
Mark Zuckerberg blamed the FBI for their censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
And then he blamed his computer circuits for his inability to love.
Trump demanded a do-over election, but Biden has invoked the Seventh Amendment, which expressly forbids take backs.
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, successfully converting inflation into green energy.
Support student loan forgiveness?
If you don't, then you ain't Christian.
Amazon's The Rings of Power begins Friday.
Maybe now we'll finally learn which of the great eagles is gay.
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Introduction to the podcast.
Welcome.
Welcome, Brian Laubeck.
Hey, I'm happy.
I'm phoned in today.
I'm really tired.
So quiet quitting.
Have you ever seen it?
I'm quiet.
Quiet quitting.
Yeah.
I thought that was just called regular working.
What was minimum?
Was it fudgel?
Was that the thing?
Oh, yeah, what was that?
Yeah, something like that.
There was a word that was like where you phoned it in at the end.
Phone it in.
Fudgling.
Well, today we're fudging.
Loud quitting.
Yeah, Lao.
Oh, Lou.
Oh, Lao.
Yeah, there you go.
That's in my blood.
But it's funny.
I read the description of quiet quitting, and I'm kind of of two minds about it because it's like on the one hand, I'm like, yeah, put in full effort.
And on the other hand, I'm like, this is just like normal American work ethic.
Yeah, I think it's different people's interpretation of what it means to quiet quit.
Because some people, it seems like they're saying, don't let your work life interfere with your personal life and other things.
And then some people, it's like, yeah, just go in and put in the minimal amount of effort.
I disagree with.
Are you a quiet quitter or do you work really hard on your comic?
Brian Lau draws comic books, by the way.
Yay, comics.
I'm definitely not a quiet quitter, being that I don't get enough work in my day job that I decided to just work after that over.
It's a lot of work doing books and I'm not getting money for that.
Yeah, we'll see what happens.
Well, we're going to change that today on the Babylon Beat by getting you to pay for his high quality stuff.
I've got the Space People book.
But I'm a believer in work.
You want to do, you want to like, you want to, like, you can be an entrepreneur in a business if you work for a business because you can come up.
That's what I do.
I come up with stuff for my day job where I'm in charge of stuff and I create stuff to make the work better and code stuff and automate stuff to make our workflow more accurate and quicker.
I would quiet quit if I had to do that.
If I had to code stuff, I would be like.
Exactly.
So then once I code it, I can just do it and let it run.
I was kind of responsible for getting iPhones at my last company because the truck drivers would have to like call in what they were picking up and you'd have to read them the entire, I was a warehouse manager.
You'd have to read them the whole list of what they were getting and they'd write it down.
They'd always get it wrong.
And so I sent a letter to the CEO of the company, and I was like, these new iPhone things are pretty cool.
And they can actually read the PDF on their phone.
And they bought iPhones for everybody.
So I take credit for that.
That was me.
I invented the iPhone.
That's what I'm saying.
We have a subscriber there today.
This is from Clayton.
This is Subscriber Dare.
And he says, read this world record and I'll forgive you for not mentioning Age of Empires 2 in your best video games list.
You know, I never got too much in Age of Empires just because I wasn't good at them.
I'm not good at those strategy games where you have to think.
Let me shoot something and I'm good with that.
So he then sent us a link to a video.
So I don't know how I'm supposed to read a video, but I guess we can look at it real quick and I'll read it.
I'll try to read it.
Most walnuts cracked with the head in one minute.
Guinness World Records rivals.
Oh man.
And we have a guy named S. Navin Kumar from India who is, yep, he's cracking walnuts with his head.
That's not fair.
They have no laid out for him in a row.
That's not in nature.
It looks kind of fun to try that.
I don't know if I could crack one walnut.
I don't know.
I've never tried to do it with my head.
I wonder if it hurts.
You're a skiller if you can kind of do it quickly.
I'm sure it does after doing that many, but.
You got to get a calendar.
Now, the record is not without missing because he is missing some.
No, it must be just get as many.
But, you know, do they grow in trees?
Walnuts don't grow on trees.
Yeah, I think they.
I don't know.
Some kind of stuff.
This is like if you want to get CTE, but don't want to make millions in the NFL.
It's the quick way to do it.
When you're quiet quitting in the NFL, you can just do this instead.
I want a concussion from doing something stupid.
Wow.
Do we have to watch the whole thing?
Yes.
The last one's the most exciting.
Oh.
Oh, wait.
I don't know if we do.
There's like a next challenger.
There's multiple challenges.
Oh, this is a thing.
There was like Mohamed Rashid from Pakistan.
There's five minutes left in this video.
He's been favored.
Oh, my God.
You just passed out.
Favored for this.
All right.
Well.
You just gave yourself a concussion, but you won this certificate.
Well, I'm really glad that I watched it.
He doesn't even know where he is.
He's like, why am I?
He doesn't feel like I have air.
Does he want you to do that?
He said, read this.
So the challenge was to read about it.
He hates world records.
Okay.
Yes, you did the dare the.
I liked that one.
So give us money, Clayton.
Yay.
Dare is just to learn about a world record, not to try it.
I feel like I haven't accomplished anything now seeing that guy do that.
Contract or no, I will not bow to any sponsor.
You should get some Babylon B merch.
Look at all this Babylon B merch.
They're all decked out in the B merch.
It's like people only do things because they get paid, and that's just really sad.
Look, we have a conservative Tears of Joy tumbler.
It says conservative tears, which makes people look at you and go, wait, are you some liberal?
And then you say of joy, and they go, they go, huh?
Why?
And then he goes, the abortion of Roe v. Wade.
Three jokes in one.
And it keeps your drink warm.
Bro, you get to have a long conversation as you drink your coffee.
This shirt is only a double take shirt, but it's Clarence Thomas and it says hope.
So people look at you and go, oh, yeah, I love that.
Wait a second.
That's the black guy we don't like.
And then they clutch their pearls.
Yeah, then they try to cancel you.
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What's in the news this week?
Trump has demanded the reinstatement, his reinstatement as rightful president or a new election immediately.
It says as some Republicans seek distance from him.
This is that, I want to say a tweet, but it's his truth social thing.
What do you call things on there?
Truths.
He truthed.
He truthed out this.
You know what they say?
They say, like, post your truth when you're on there.
And then when you reshare something, it's like re-truthing.
Oh, just.
I don't love that because I feel like the whole speak your truth thing.
I know, right?
That's what's so bad about it.
Mindset.
But yeah, this is after all this evidence came out that the FBI buried the Hunter Biden laptop story and he said, so now it comes out conclusively that the FBI buried the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election, knowing that if they didn't, Trump would have easily won the 2020 presidential election.
This is massive fraud and election interference at a level never seen before in our country.
Remedy.
Declare the rightful winner, or and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 election irreparably compromised and have a new election immediately.
That's going to happen.
I think the chances are.
I like that he tries.
New election.
It's worth putting this out there.
Yeah.
Well, that's your truth.
Trump.
So Biden's woke agenda has passed under the name Inflation Reduction Act.
And it has nothing to do with inflation.
No, Lizzo's still the same size.
Do we have the Lizzo story on here?
Because I want to talk about that.
We can get to it after this one.
Do you have a weekly news item about?
I don't.
Oh, and that would be low-hanging fruit for me.
Oh, man.
That headline you just did with things lower every week.
Her having to be oppressed to walk up and get the medal.
Yeah, she was oppressed.
Yeah, that was a great article.
That was a punch.
So this thing covers this Inflation Reduction Act, of course, covers health care, clean energy taxes, 87,000 IRS agents, Medicare prescription drug costs are lowered.
Families with electric vehicles get an additional tax credit.
Rebates for families to buy energy-efficient home appliances.
More taxes on corporate profits.
And 126 leading economists say that this will help reduce inflation and support strong, stable economic growth.
And the government will make $124 billion more in the next 10 years from this.
Yay, more money for the government.
I like that our note writers are just writing our thoughts for us.
Yeah.
What if I like this joke?
What if I like this act?
You guys assume that I'm not going to like this act?
Well, did they, is the, isn't this the thing that part of it was the IRS agents being at it?
And did that stay in?
Are you still doing that part?
Yeah.
So that's good.
Well, but Biden now has a plan to cancel student debt.
This should help inflation as well.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So $10,000 for people who didn't get a Pill Grant and then $20,000 if you did get a Pill Grant, I think.
And nothing if you paid off your own debts like you should have.
That is the weirdest thing.
And I know it's so bizarre.
You know, you can make the argument that obviously these loans are predatory and they're bad and the government shouldn't have subsidized them.
Yes, and if there was legislation to change the way these loans are, you know, the way they collect interest on them and the way they, you know, target people that aren't going to be able to pay them back.
But, yeah, it doesn't make sense to just forgive the loans for people who haven't paid them and then everyone who did pay them is just tough.
And it's just blanket, right?
It's like you could have went to school to learn underwater basket weaving and you're going to get a forgiveness or the loan.
I mean, it's just blanket.
They didn't put any kind of credentials in there?
Yeah, well, you picture two people.
One guy who decided I'm going to do the responsible thing and pay off my loan and not splurge on a new car.
We don't want to encourage people like that.
Yeah.
And then the guy who said, no, I'm going to go do, I'm going to go to Europe.
I'm going to go out and do a crazy thing, $10,000 and not pay off my loan.
He gets rewarded.
So there's a real sense of unfairness there.
The fact that they're not fixing the broken system, but I don't know.
Did you guys get student loans?
I didn't know because I went to Penn State and my mom worked at one of the branch campuses.
So I went to it for a discounted rate, and both my brothers went there.
We were kind of able to pay it off as we went between myself and my parents helping.
Yeah, I got like $8,000 in student loans.
And we slowly chipped away out of me and my wife went off and paid them off.
She had $8,000 in student loans for her hair school, her cosmetology school.
And she also, we also slowly chipped away and paid that off.
So we paid 16,000 loans that presumably we would have been able to get back.
I did it right and I just robbed a couple banks.
You're right.
That's a good idea.
No, I actually offer student loans with this one weird trick.
Yeah, exactly.
But I actually borrowed money from my employer who was a friend of mine and slowly paid him off.
And I got some financial aid and whatnot.
That's kind of a loan, I guess.
Well, Rings of Power comes out today if it's Friday.
And yeah, we're going to see what happens.
Amazon says they've invested almost like $1 billion to produce the series.
And it looks terrible.
I'm sorry.
I know if this comes out and it has rape reviews and the audience loves it, then I apologize, but it looks terrible from everything that I've seen.
And I'm a big Tolkien purist, so when I see this, like that it's not from Tolkien and these characters are made up and you have one of the characters is a single mother who's just trying to do the right thing and protect her child.
Really?
Yeah, they put this very prominently in the promo material.
Have they identified others in the promo that are like woke characters yet?
So I wouldn't say that the main problem seems to be wokeness.
It does seem to be taking like modernist types of characters and putting them in there.
So it's not, I don't think they're going to have like LGBTQ stuff.
Yeah.
You know, but they did focus heavily on like the forbidden romance between the single mother and the black elf.
Like that's a thing which wouldn't have been a thing in Tolkien.
You think it could be a gateway for people who are not into the traditional Tolkien mentality and maybe they can introduce them to it.
I mean, to some degree, I'm sure that will happen.
It'd probably do more damage.
It'd do more danger.
Well, I think the but I think the values of what these people care about is so much different from what Tolkien cares.
Like he was this devout Catholic.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
So I don't know that it will really do that.
And I hate that the whole generation is going to see Tolkien through this lens instead of.
Yeah.
Even Peter Jackson had issues, but it was at least somewhat faithful to what the book was trying to do.
We have an exclusive scene from Rings of Power on our YouTube channel.
You should go check that out.
Travis's Game Corner.
You know, I played the, there's a, what, Aragorn's quest, Lord of the Rings once, and it was, it was okay.
It was like a very light legend of Zelda mixed with World of Warcraft because you get quests to be like, ah, kill five spiders.
I don't remember Aragorn killing five spiders in his entire life.
And it was on the Wii, and then eventually the PlayStation.
But guess what?
No one bought it.
Boom.
And that's my experience with The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn's Quest.
And then there were a few Lord of the Rings games that were basically just brawlers.
They were beat-em-ups.
And they had really good graphics, so everyone loved them.
But you know what?
They were kind of boring.
And every time I play a brawler, I just want like multiplayer.
Come on.
But the two towers was single player.
And you know what?
Boring.
Very boring game.
So you're running around, you get to choose Aragorn or Gimli or Legolas.
But you're just kind of running around hacking dudes off in Helms Deep.
That's okay.
But it lacked the gravitas that the sequel, Return of the King, had because that was two players.
And you could play as Gandalf at the Plano Fields.
So that was cool.
But I don't know.
All those games weren't that great.
I prefer Lord of the Rings Online.
I was part of a kinship called the Song of the Anure.
And it was just me and one other guy.
And now he is a they.
So that's my story of the Lord of the Rings online.
I got through Moria.
That was cool.
And I got through.
See, I ended up in Isengard.
That's the last place I was.
The wheelchair.
I need the wheelchair.
There's no wheelchairs in that game.
Here I come.
Get off the wheel.
Oh, no.
Wheelchair.
Neurodiversion.
Treasure in heaven is great, but it's not going to buy you a tank of gas.
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Well, we have now covered the news.
But instead of news, we're going to now do something that everybody else likes: poplitics.
Poplitics.
If you like pop culture, like today's TV shows, and want to hear us talk more about it, we won't.
But we did talk to someone who loves pop culture/slash politics.
This is the first time I'm reading this.
And how we can use pop culture to start conversation about politics with the younger generation.
Let's go to Alex Clark.
And now for another interview on the Bee Weekly.
Welcome to the Babylon B interview show.
We are sitting down with Alex Clark.
I'm very excited to have her on the show today.
Alex, what's going on with the Kardashians?
What's the deal with the Kardashians?
What's the deal?
Listen, there's always something.
Actually, Courtney and Travis Barker, Courtney Kardashian, and Travis Barker, just got married, right?
And now, if you guys are familiar with the TikTok family, the D'Amelio sisters, Charlie D'Amelio, who is now dating Travis Barker's son.
So that is pretty huge because you've got now the D'Amelio family and the Kardashians intertwined.
So for most of your audience, you're probably like, what?
But for like the young Gen Zers, they're going to be like, okay, that's actually big news.
Agreed.
So you are the cute servative, the person leading the conservative movement in pop culture.
So tell us how that started.
And are conservatives just bad at interacting with pop culture?
And how do you want to change that?
Yeah, they're super bad at it.
And that's what, like, I've always been conservative.
I'm kind of proud of that, though.
I'm kind of happy that I don't know what you're talking about right now.
That is a badge of honor.
But there's two different sides.
So, like half of conservatives would have your point of view, and then half would say we're not doing the most, we're not doing enough to kind of tackle that sphere of culture.
And what was happening with me was I grew up conservative.
I grew up in a conservative home.
I've always been conservative and outspoken about it.
But I was working for almost 10 years in pop radio.
So, I was in like the morning radio circuit in a few different markets, and I was covering entertainment news every day.
And, you know, who's dating who and what's going on with Justin Bieber or whatever.
But there would inevitably be things in pop culture news that would lean politically.
So, for example, one of those huge things would be like when Jesse Smollett happened, okay?
When Juicy Somolye was going down, I knew immediately this kid is a liar.
But I was on air and I knew that I couldn't go off on this whole thing about how, like, this whole like this is MAGA country and Chicago, like that would never happen.
Like, this is just obviously BS, but I couldn't say that because I would have gotten chastised behind the scenes by my management because, you know, we don't get political or whatever, but it was like, there's so many pop culture stories where when Miley Cyrus was licking the abortionist healthcare cake, like those are all instances where it's like, okay, this would be a really good time for somebody that is still a fan, you know, so to speak, of these celebrities, but calling them out from a conservative perspective.
We just didn't really have that.
I was seeing this void and I just thought, man, if I could do what I do on air, but do it from a conservative perspective and mesh those two worlds together of politics and pop culture, that would be my dream show.
And so I started thinking about that for about a year and just like in my mind, okay, how would that work?
Would I, you know, move over to conservative talk radio and would I have this pop culture show and conservative talk?
Because since I was 18 years old, I had been doing radio.
I didn't know anything else.
So to me, I was trying to rationalize how I would fit this political pop culture show on terrestrial FM radio.
And then out of the blue, Turning Point USA DM me on Instagram and said, Hey, we're huge fans.
Would you ever think about working with us?
And I said, Actually, yes, fly me out.
I have this idea for the show.
I pitched it.
And that was three years ago this fall.
And that's how politics was born.
Wow.
You're a trailblazer.
I just love it.
That's so cool.
I mean, it is so needed.
And I'm noticing that on the right, we're kind of having to build a lot of our own infrastructure in media and journalism and entertainment.
So it's really cool to see that you're trailblazing.
And there are so many fans of politics, so many people that are showing you.
We do want to hear about pop culture, but we are conservative.
We have conservative values.
So congratulations on your anniversary coming up.
Thank you.
Yeah, I cannot believe it.
I mean, at first, I just, I knew I wanted to create the show.
And then I was thinking, well, you know, if this is going to be, I don't want to just be somebody like on social media posting videos.
To me, that's not enough to further the conservative movement.
And so I was like, well, this has to be more than just a show.
It has to be some sort of community.
It has to inspire people to be active and meet up and encourage each other.
And now there's, I think, over 160 Facebook subgroups that are dedicated to fans of my show.
So these are, you know, cut servitives of Montana and they have meetups, conservatives of Colorado.
It's so fun.
And none of that was, that all was totally a God thing.
I mean, I couldn't have imagined that kind of stuff happening, but it has created a really cool community for females, especially young females in the conservative movement.
So tell us more about the show.
What is pop culture without the propaganda?
When I'm covering, for example, Pink, the singer, saying, if you're pro-life, you're not allowed to listen to my music anymore.
Any other outlet, if you read, if you look up right now, and I'm just going to be able to do that.
Yes, I accept these terms.
Yeah, exactly.
I accept these terms.
But if you look up like, how did People Magazine cover that story?
How did e-news cover that story?
Every single one of them, TMZ, it's just like, oh, this is what she said.
There's absolutely no pushback.
There's no like, that's insane or like, how privileged of you to think like, oh, me saying you're not allowed to listen to my music anymore.
Like people are going to, oh, all of a sudden I'm pro-choice.
Like that's insane.
But no one else covers stories like that.
And so that's kind of what I do.
So it's like, I'm covering all the entertainment news.
If you're a fan of celebrities and pop culture, but you are conservative, then it's just, it's just pop culture news without leftist propaganda.
I mean, it's really that simple.
It's 10 minutes or less every day, the episode.
It's very short.
And then I just launched, which is where I am now.
I just launched a hour-long weekly episode podcast called The Spillover.
And that's where I have more serious conversations.
And these are interviews with people with jaw-dropping stories, whether they're celebrities or people you've never heard of, like people that have escaped serial killers and stuff.
Well, you brought up Roe, besides pink, what is the craziest celebrity reaction to Roe v. Wade being overturned that you have seen?
And yeah.
Well, I'm a huge Swifty.
I've gone to every single tour besides the first one.
She really peaked during Red and I felt like it was a decline after that.
But folklore was a bit of a reputation era was my favorite.
And after that, I disagree hard.
The best pop album was Reputation in 1989, Max Martin.
I'm a fan.
And then I literally did not listen at all during the pandemic.
I was like, I can't, I can't support anymore.
So I do want to ask you how you separate the two in your mind.
Like, how do you separate your fanhood, even though these people are completely different from you in a value system?
Like, how do you 1989 was a bit of a grower?
So Taylor Swift, for example, I don't remember the exact quote, but she tweeted, you know, this, this week or Friday when Roe was overturned, she said, you know, we're going back essentially, I'm paraphrasing, going back into the dark ages.
Like this is such a backward step for women.
And I just thought about that for a minute.
And I was like, you know, it's so funny.
You know, she's saying this kind of stuff.
Other celebrities are saying this, Billy Eichner, I think, which is like whatever.
They were all saying sentiments like that.
And I thought about it and I said, it's interesting because the pro-choice side says that Roe being Roe being overturned and women not being able to abort their unborn children is a step backwards.
And to me, that is so unbelievably regressive, not progressive.
They talk about like, you know, conservatives and pro-lifers want women to be back in the 1950s or whatever, slaving away.
It's like this, this mentality that you can't be a woman and have a career or pursue your dreams and be a mother, that is regressive.
There's nothing progressive about that.
So if these people are garbage, like, why do you talk about them?
You know, this is like a, about, this is like about, you know, I mean, it's the same thing for me, right?
Cause it's like separating the art from the artist.
I like a bunch of bands and musicians who are probably human garbage, but, you know, you have to separate that on some level.
So this goes.
Yeah.
I mean, I would say that's what I do.
I separate the art from the artist personally.
There's a way to use pop culture to open up conversation to get into political ideology in a way that's friendly, not aggressive, non-threatening, and I think easier to consume for low info voters, so to speak, like people that would say, I'm not political, but like they all consume pop culture.
The Kardashians arguably set trends in our culture.
Like being trans wasn't cool until Caitlin Jenner did it.
And the Kardashian dates like a skinny, over-tattooed, you know, punk looking dude.
Then Courtney starts dating or marries Travis Parker.
And then Megan Fox dates, Machine Gun Kelly, like this is a trend.
When do you think this horrible trend will end?
We still have a few more years because everything in pop culture recycles.
So fashion-wise, 90s is super, super in.
Like, have you seen these girls with high-waisted moms and super baggy?
Yeah, can you explain that to us?
It just, this is just how it always goes.
And now we're like, we made all those mistakes so that our kids wouldn't have to.
But see, then they make the same mistake, but they do it better.
And then the generations after them will, you know, what's going to inevitably come back is the 2010s.
It's, it's going to be atrocious.
What was your experience on the reality show?
Like, I have many questions about this.
How did that come about?
And did that, was that before your radio days?
Discuss.
It was in the middle of them.
So in 2016, I went on a one season dating reality show.
It was Mark Burnett's first ever dating show that he wanted to try.
So Mark Burnett does survivor, the voice, shark tank.
Yeah, is the voice?
I can't remember.
But yeah, Shark Tank and Survivor.
Anyway, so Mark Burnett had never done a dating show.
And so he came up with this concept in 2016 to do the show that was like Tinder in real life, where these girls, we were all kept on the island of Anguilla, which I had never been out of the country before.
This is my first time.
They took us to this island.
And then people think I'm making this up, but it would be all of these single women.
And they really wanted us to be like young professionals.
So everybody had a real job.
Like, you know, I was a radio personality.
Somebody else was an attorney.
They were all these real legit jobs, women that were really finding love and really wanted to find somebody to date after the show.
And so they would fly in single guys, young professionals on a helicopter, and they would drop down from the helicopter on this little rope and they would get on a speedboat and they would zoom up to our dock on this island.
And the women, we would each get about five minutes with this guy and we would walk behind him and we would walk left if we were not interested where he couldn't see or we would walk right if we were interested.
It was just like Tinder.
Swipe left, yeah, you know, for no, swipe right for yes.
And so the people that walked right and they're like, hey, I'm interested in this guy.
I keep talking to him.
We were all kept in a little cabana.
And then that guy, when he was done talking to everybody, he would go see who had walked right.
And he would choose two women to go to this mansion that Beyonce and Jay-Z have vacationed at to do a two-on-one date for a couple nights and see who he was vibing with.
Two-on-one.
Yes.
The big takeaway from this is they painted my character, which I found out later, the executive producers wanted me to be the villain because they made me the Republican.
And the big thing that happened was, which is what changed my life.
So this was in the middle of my radio career, but before I was working in politics, this was right before, a few years before working at Turning Point USA.
There was a moment on the show where I was on that two-in-one date and I was talking to one of the guys, the suitors alone.
And I knew that he was more liberal than I was, but we hadn't talked specifics about like different things we believe until he says, so because you're conservative, does that mean that you're pro-life?
Does that mean that you don't believe in a woman's right to choose?
And I said, correct.
I'm pro-life, no matter what, no exceptions.
And I think I was 23, if I'm doing the math right.
I think I was 23 while we were filming this.
And I'm 29 now.
And he looked at me and he said, well, I just, I think that's unacceptable.
As a woman, how could you say that a woman can't choose, you know, whether or not she wants to have a baby or not?
And he just said, you know, you're 23.
You don't know anything yet.
You don't know what you believe.
That's what he said to me.
And I just thought, number one, that's the most offensive thing anyone's ever said to me.
It's so disrespectful to say that.
And I, and I was thinking, you know, I guarantee if I would have said that I'm a leftist and that I'm pro-choice, he wouldn't have said, well, you're only 23.
You don't know what you believe yet.
You know, that wouldn't have been his reaction.
It was only because I said that I was pro-life and a conservative.
So then we don't know as contestants what's going to end up airing on the show.
So people that go on the bachelor and stuff, they don't know until the rest of America what's going to end up making the cut on the actual series.
So I'm sitting on my couch with my friends watching this year's come out, and I'm sitting there and they air it.
But even the pro-choice people said, I've never seen someone on a mainstream dating reality show on TV be so steadfast in what she believes and stand up for her beliefs like that when confronted.
I've never seen this and I'm so inspired to just like really hone in on what I believe going forward when I'm dating.
And then the pro-life young girls were like, I've never seen myself represented on a reality dating show ever.
This is so crazy.
All of it had led to the door opening, I think, for me to do these shows I have now with Turning Point USA.
All right.
Well, we are going to move into our 10 questions.
The 10 questions.
Have you ever met Carmen?
No, I've never.
I've never met him.
Okay.
Are you a Calvinist or an Arminian?
Not a Calvinist, but Arminian.
I don't know that term.
Okay.
It's a predestination or free will.
Free will.
Okay.
You can add one book to the Bible.
What is it?
Like a made-up one or one of the hidden ones.
Well, whatever you want, but people tend to pick, you know, their favorite book or something that would be good for everyone to read.
Well, I mean, I love true crime.
So like maybe it would be interesting to hear like in the Bible times, you know, Jesus's take on more of like the mysteries that were going on or something like true.
The true crime with Jesus?
The true crime of Judas.
Okay.
A true crime novel about Jesus.
Cigars or pipes?
Cigars.
You get to hang out with any three people, living or dead.
Who are they?
Well, obviously Taylor Swift, because I just want to be around her.
I want to try to challenge her and change her mind.
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Reese Witherspoon.
Whiskey or beer.
I hate, hate, hate both.
What would be the first thing you would do as president?
I would want to completely restructure the foster care system.
Have you ever punched anyone slash been punched?
No.
Okay.
Now you get to go to the next embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you.
Oh, gosh.
Slash, have you ever peed your pants in public?
Sorry, Kyle.
Yes, I've peed my pants in public.
Is that the most embarrassing thing?
Well, probably.
I've peed, I've peed my pants at probably every place that you could That like I have peed my pants everywhere because I, the problem with me is that like I've literally peed my pants in a cave because I like it.
Have you ever not peed your pants in trouble?
I laugh so hard sometimes and I've like cried laughing.
There have just been instances, especially when I was younger.
But now it's been a while.
Okay.
That's very funny.
You get to go to one concert, any band in history.
Who do you go see?
You said band or just solo artist?
Yeah, just any.
Like if I could have gone to Woodstock or something and seen Jimi Hendrix, like that's like that's just one of those like epic things I think would have been cool.
Final question.
Do you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior?
Yes, I do.
First time I was six.
And anytime I ever feel a little nervous, I always do it again, just for good measure.
Great.
We got her.
Cool.
Woohoo.
All right.
Thank you, Alex, for coming on.
You're just such a like.
Same to you guys.
I love all the stuff that you guys are always dabbling in and coming up with.
And it's always fun for me to kind of just see the new stuff that you guys come out with too.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
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Thank you, Alex.
And thank you for bearing with me because I don't know what to do.
And speaking of Kardashians are speaking of pop culture, though, you did want to talk about the Lizzo story.
Yeah, so Lizzo.
Yeah.
So yeah, she went on stage and talked about how oppressed she was.
We need to vote and change the nation's laws, laws that are oppressing us.
And she's clearly like had enough to eat.
Yeah, she's well-fed.
She's rich.
She's successful.
Yeah.
And that's just always funny to me.
So I don't know.
I don't know if I had much to talk about beyond.
Those are always my favorite stories.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I don't really even know who Lizzo is.
I think, well, I think one of the things that I always find weird about the whole like Lizzo, I don't know if you call it like a controversy or a phenomenon, is it's not my type of music, but I get that it's like good music.
Like, okay.
If it was just that she was popular as a singer, I don't think people would be going after her so often.
But it's when she reveals like wears revealing outfits, and then it's that whole body positive thing where it's like, you have to say this is sexy and you have to say this is attractive or it's healthy.
Like it's not.
If it was just, hey, this is a talented singer and that's what she was famous for, I don't think there'd be a lot of blowback against it.
But it's like this thing where it's like, no, you have to say this person is healthy and beautiful and attractive.
It's ridiculous.
Say it, Adam.
Say it.
I always find too that the overweight singers who really lean into the like body positive, they always end up losing weight because it's like they get famous and then they just like lose all this weight and then everybody hears that.
And then it's confusing because that side is like, well, you're supposed to say that she looks better now, but also you can't say that she didn't look good before.
Yeah.
And people will get mad at them for that.
So I don't know.
Hey, we got a banger of the week.
Banger of the week.
Thousands dead after Ben Shapiro casually strolls through Whole Foods and there's dead people in Ben Shapiro who's very short.
That was after that podcast tweeted out.
The podcast convention tweeted out an apology because Ben Shapiro had like walked in the background past some people's face.
And they apologized for the harm done.
Yeah.
That's part of the like, we apologize for the harm done to the community.
And didn't they say they did?
He wasn't even like a book guest.
They gave Daily Wire a booth because it's one of the most popular podcasts in the country.
And he was just there, and that was traumatized.
He like showed up and said hi to the Daily Wire crew.
It's so absurd.
I don't think he was even doing the rounds and saying hi to other people.
He just happened to walk by this guy's booth while he was guy, girl, whatever, while he was going to the Daily Wire booth.
And they.
Yeah.
It is one of those things that, like, the ratio on Twitter, it gives me hope.
Because, like, even people who don't necessarily like Ben Shapiro are like, it's such a ridiculous overreach.
Did you see his response to it?
They did a video response and he's just showing him like handshaking people and they're like, we love you.
And this and that.
And he's like, this is the damage I did.
They showed footage from the event.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was awesome.
Bomb of the week.
Bomb of the week.
Wife puts, I did that.
I did that.
Stickers next to socks.
Husband keeps leaving on the floor.
That was a bomb.
You would have thought that could have caught on.
Relatable family.
Relatable.
You know, it's good boomer humor.
Must have just really nailed it with the rest of them.
Yeah.
I'm a fan.
And now it's time for the strongest segment of any week: Sizzler Facts.
15 weeks ago, we debuted a new feature on the podcast called Sizzler Facts.
Sizzler's first celebrity endorsement.
Oh, we're going right into it.
Sizzler's first celebrity endorsement was Kareem Abdul.
Is that supposed to be Jabbar, not Jafar?
Jafar?
Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
To convince.
Sometimes errors creep into our Sizzler Facts.
Yeah.
No, that's his brother, I think.
Kareem Abdul.
Jafar.
I'm going to say it's Jabbar.
The guy from Aladdin.
Yeah.
The villain from Aladdin endorsed Sizzlers.
To convince him to film a commercial for the popular restaurant, then CEO of Sizzler, Carrie Cramp, had to face off with him on the blacktop.
Carrie Cramp lost 148-3.
This has been Sizzler Facts.
But if he lost, then he did.
So he didn't have to beat him to get.
I guess he didn't.
He just had to play.
He just had to play him.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Well, now it's time for an even better segment than Sizzler Facts: weekly news with Adam Jenser.
It's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who won a Nobel Prize for his role in ending the Cold War, died this week at the age of 91.
Oh my gosh, it looks like he was bludgeoned to death.
What's that?
Oh, that was there already.
A man set a new record by paddling 38 miles down the Missouri River in a raft made from a hollowed-out pumpkin.
And unlike Huckleberry Finn, he did it without using the N-word.
After suffering a rebound case of COVID, Joe Biden tested negative and returned to work on Tuesday, which means next week it's Joe's turn to get it again.
While accepting an award on stage at the VMA Awards, Lizzo claimed that she's oppressed.
The crew is hoping to have the stage rebuilt and repaired by next year.
The University of Texas is offering an entire class on the music of Taylor Swift.
Students taking the course say they hope Biden will forgive their debt again when they're unable to get a job.
Twilight star Taylor Lautner got engaged to a woman who is also named Taylor, which will make them both Taylor Lautner.
Fans were surprised to hear he's marrying a woman.
A produce truck crashed on a California freeway, covering the road in thousands of smashed tomatoes.
Looks like the stage after Pete Davidson performs.
Harry Stiles stopped his concert at Madison Square Garden because someone was throwing chicken nuggets at him.
In other words, it worked.
No one was more upset than Harry's One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, who had made the nuggets at the food court.
The last member of an indigenous tribe in Brazil died alone in the jungle after living uncontacted for decades.
Anthropologists believe he died peacefully, having never seen the last Jedi keeping up with the Kardashians or a TikTok video.
A prolonged and record-breaking heat wave is affecting much of the western U.S. this week, which is great news for all the murder victims still in Lake Mead.
That's it for weekly news.
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Well, that was great, Adam.
Now we're going to talk to Brian Lau, who does comic books.
Yay, cool.
You've been on the podcast before, and you came out and you showed us your space people book.
Yeah, space people.
And the fireman book?
Fire people, space people.
Yes.
So can we do one thing?
You weren't here, Adam.
It's awesome to meet you.
I'm going to have my son come in and join us a couple times here and there.
So you didn't get to receive gifts.
I did not, and I love receiving gifts.
So I'm going to let you choose one of the two.
Dude, that's awesome.
People got one of the two books and some posters in it.
So I have Staunch Ambition.
It's not called Space People, Kyle.
It's called Staunch Ambition.
What if we entered.
That's why I haven't had it yet.
I've been looking for it all over the place, Googling Space People.
I've asked you to space people, yeah.
Pigs in space.
What if we entered the supernatural through advanced technology is the general concept.
Like, what if the kingdom of God came through advanced technology?
Heresy jar?
No, no, no, it's not.
It's not.
Listen.
You're the first guest that has said it'll come through technology.
Everyone else says it'll come through their mushrooms and LSD.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
That's not a good thing, I don't think.
But no, redeemed through technology.
Curse, technology is not good or bad, so the devil can use it and does, obviously, and it could be used for evil or it could be used for good.
Name one instance of technology.
What's an example of that of the kingdom of God coming through technology?
Well, some of the things that would intrigue me is, for instance, well, let me preface it with this.
Sure.
If when Jesus came, the prophecies of a Messiah coming was completely misunderstood.
To become a man was beyond comprehension.
And to die and suffer is still beyond comprehension to tons of religions.
It's crazy to Muslims or whatnot.
And Jews, you know, like just reject that idea that God would do that or be like that.
Yeah, if Ben Shapiro were through here right now, he would strongly dissolve it.
Oh, yeah.
He would kill us all.
No, I'm kidding.
But no, the thing is, it's just the point is we don't know how God's really going to kingdom, you know, how he works sometimes and it's mysterious.
So the idea with what if in like cloning and all this kind of genetic engineering and it's just a sci-fi idea, but what if, what if the idea of resurrection came through technology?
That we were able to come up with and figure out all the different possible ways or people could be genetic code and all that.
And then what if there, and then the supernatural, of course, all this would have to be connected to God and redeeming anything physical or technology or whatnot.
But what if we advance all this way, but then connected with God, God brings about his kingdom because God deals with the physical.
God is not just supernatural.
God is both deals with the physical, becomes physical, and of course there's a supernatural.
We also accept Venmo for our heresy jar.
If you don't have cash.
Well, I'm writing the future here, not sci-fi.
Doesn't bringing it about through technology or human scientific advancement take away the miraculous part of it.
No, because God didn't drop a book down from the sky to give us sacred scripture.
He used human beings to give us sacred scripture.
God uses, he so much uses the physical that he becomes physical himself.
So they would at least have to be in the same way like, you know, Moses was inspired.
They would at least have to be scientists.
That's what I mean by the supernatural.
You know, technology developers who are inspired by God.
Yes, it would, I mean, God is the author of all, beauty, physical, whatever.
And this, we're not manic, or I think what is the heresy, Manicheanism, where it's like physical, bad, spirit, good.
That's not Christianity.
Christianity is the spirit and the flesh redeemed in God.
So all the earth will be redeemed, not resurrected and the new Jerusalem and all the stuff you see in scripture.
So that's the general idea of the sci-fi book.
And another thing I like to think, I'll say this, I like this pitch.
I use it a little sometimes for the book.
We're talking about it.
And I'm not sure which book you're interested, the Firefighter book or what?
But you can choose one of the two.
It's 20 bucks.
All right.
So anyways.
I like your strategy of giving people gifts that you bring to and say you can pick which one of these I'm going to give to you as a gift.
You get the pick.
Yeah.
Well, it makes you feel you got something you like.
You could say I give these out to everyone.
I have thousands of them and then just put it back in a box and leave for the guests.
Yeah, I just want to look at it on the show.
No, but the idea is back in when the microscopes, remember when microscopes were invented?
No, I'm kidding.
I think that was before by the time.
Yeah, but there was the theory that the more we studied the microscopic, it would get simpler, right?
I mean, you've heard that.
But that is far from the truth.
So we always think, we actually think so scientific today that we forget the supernatural that you're emphasizing, I think, is that it's got to be all through God and his ultimate power and grace.
But think about that.
We actually have learned so much and we think we're so smart with our scientific age and enlightenment and empirical evidence.
But it's still such a mystery to how far we can go microscopically.
I mean, we don't know the end.
Is it infinite or does that connect to the infinite of God?
And the same with the cosmos.
I mean, is there an end to the cosmos?
Or does it go on forever?
And if it's either one of those, how does it work?
If there is an end, what's beyond the end?
So like, as much as we know in science, which we've come a long way, obviously, know a lot of great stuff, but there's still that supernatural, you know, mystery and paradox and stuff that we believe as Christians.
So that's some of the stuff that intrigues me with this sci-fi supernatural book.
We also take Bitcoin.
It's just all heresy to you?
Yes.
It's all heresy.
So you have Blood of the Baptist.
Well, just wait until you read that.
This is going to be John the Baptist walking.
Speaking of heresy, we have John the Baptist holding his own head.
Yeah, that's in Revelation, I think.
No, I'm kidding.
So how is that?
Is he a zombie?
There's a lot of classic art of John the Baptist, obviously his head on a platter.
But yeah, there's statues on Gothic cathedrals of him like holding his head.
Oh, holding his own head.
Yeah.
Okay, see, this is what I don't know.
And frequent Gothic cathedrals.
Yeah, so that image of John holding his head, obviously, is very powerful.
And I think it shows the drama of what John's life is ultimately.
John is one of the most, I'll say this.
I feel called, I felt called to do all these books, but I feel called to do this book on John the Baptist because it's so intriguing.
He is so crucial to our salvific history, to Jesus' ministry, starting.
You know, he was there to launch Jesus' ministry as far as the followers and stuff and prepare the way.
But John's, we don't know a lot through scripture, but we know enough.
And John's life is dramatic as any Shakespearean novel and It's as epic as any kind of Greek mythology, but yet it's real history.
So, and this concept, one of the main concepts that intrigues me with John is you got John is prolific in preaching repentance and the kingdom of God and preparing a way for Jesus.
There's like 430 some years.
I wrote it in my notes, but what is it like 400 and some years where there was no prophet speaking since Malachi?
430.
Yeah, I was like, I wanted to make sure I pitched this good here.
But so there's this long silence, and then John comes not only the last prophet of the Old Testament, the bridge between the old and the new, but he actually gets to see the Messiah face to face as opposed to all the other prophets who just would talk about him.
So, John is this, what's the scripture there?
Truly, I tell you, where do I have the whole scripture?
Oh, yeah, truly, I tell you, among those born of women, there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist.
Like, so that points to the fact of how significant John is.
And then, of course, Jesus being the ultimate significance, you get the next scripture.
But my point with John is it's interesting because he has this ministry and significance, but then he gets in prison, and Jesus is out doing his ministry, healing people and doing all these miracles.
But John just stays rotted in jail, starts to doubt, sends some of his disciples out to ask Jesus, are you who we say you?
Or, you know, he's kind of wondering, is this the Messiah now?
It seems, because he's in prison.
And that contrast, something I love what you guys do, we share is this, what is it, the prosperity gospel.
That's evil.
That's you know, a lot of people are not Christians because they look at certain Christians like Olstein and that kind of mentality.
Joel Osteen, yeah, the Irish preacher.
Irish preacher, they think that that's what Christianity is, or some people think that, and it's does a disservice to what real Christianity is.
So, this contrast between John rotting away in prison and ultimately dying while Jesus is out and it looks good for Jesus, like he's got the ministry going.
Maybe there's going to be a revolt he'll lead, but he's healing people.
But then John just dies.
But then, Jesus, you see why Jesus didn't intervene with John, his cousin, because that wasn't the point.
All kinds of people weren't healed.
He didn't heal everyone, but he did that to show that he is who he is, the Son of God, the Messiah.
So, that intrigues me, John's plight, because we're in John's plight.
We're supposed to follow Jesus to the point where we carry our cross to where we suffer.
He didn't die for us so that we would live happy and not suffer.
He died for us to show us how to and that we would be redeemed and resurrected beyond it.
Give us hope.
So, this new book, I'm working with Kristen Oren on it.
Um, again, she helped me on uh Staunch Ambition, and she works with you guys.
I've met her through this.
Uh, Jimmy Aiken, I don't know, you guys probably don't know who Jimmy Aiken is.
He's famous for uh debating uh James White several times.
He's an international uh known uh like writer and uh Catholic apologist, and he's brilliant, he's a smart guy.
You might disagree with him, obviously, doesn't that?
Emily uh Zelasko, I got original art over here we can show, and um, Bill Emble.
So, where is this?
When is this book coming out?
It's probably I'm working on it now.
I've got just the beginning parts of it.
Um, one thing I'll like to show some art on it from these amazing artists.
I'd love to see that, yeah.
Yeah, should we do that now or see it?
Let's see, let's see the article.
I got to grab the art, I'll describe it for the audio listener.
Oh, it's terrible.
It's a stick figure.
It has Brian Lau, his pronouns are he, him.
He's wearing a black shirt.
So, the first thing that came to me with writing it, other than all the intrigue, all the intrigue that I had with this story, was that John, as a young man, has this vision, and him and Elijah are at the water.
Elijah in the Old Testament hit the water and parted at Jordan.
I think it was the Jordan.
And so John has this vision, and Elijah parts the water for him.
And John walks out into the water and turns around and on the shore, he sees all this sin, you know, like people worshiping, you know, exotic pagans or, you know, what is this from?
This is an idea in the book.
It's like the Passion of the Christian.
So this isn't in the Bible.
Yes, of course.
I couldn't remember this.
Yeah, no, this is not right out of the Bible.
This is just an idea that John is having a vision.
I thought this was like Catholics, like one of the books you guys added.
No, this is a way to do what the Chosen does very well: try to take not to do it in Revelation.
Yeah, I'd agree.
I want to take everything we know about John and then try to just kind of emphasize that through filling the blanks like the Chosen does.
I don't know if the curse in Revelation applies to comics.
Like, I think you're okay.
You're trying to do that.
You can do a hypothetical graphic novel.
This is a historical fiction.
So it's like the fourth wise men or Passion of the Christ, these kinds of things where you deal with what you know, but you try to bring drama to the stuff that's important.
A little drummer boy.
I suppose, yeah.
So, all right, so the vision is he looks on the shore and he sees all this sin, you know, and there's supposed to be truth in it, like a parable.
Parables aren't factual, but you can get a truth out of it.
So, the truth is, he looks on the shore and he sees all this sin.
You know, people chained to treasure chests and treasure overflowing, you know, all these different kinds of sins on the shore.
And all the blood from all the people being fed to lions, you know, the early martyrs and all this stuff he sees.
And the water's parted, but all the blood starts coming down in between the water parted.
And the dead people or the diseased people start coming down to be baptized by John.
And he's young, so you know, this the idea is maybe God gave him a vision of what his lead, because he, he, I believe, he knew he was going to be like a prophet or an Elijah type and kind of model his life like that.
But then all these dead people come up and he baptizes them, and they come up from baptism looking whole and healthy.
And they go dead people?
Yeah, they're like dying or decrepit.
They're not dead.
Whatever sins they have, but they look bad.
And they come down and they he baptizes them and they come up and they're healthy and they go off.
And then there's this one glowing that's standing there, which would be Jesus.
And he comes out holding the lamb.
And they're holding sacrificial stuff from the Old Testament where you would sacrifice stuff for your sins.
And Jesus is holding a lamb.
And he's glowing.
And of course, John sees, oh, this is the Messiah.
And Jesus comes down looking beautiful, healthy, glowing.
And John baptizes him.
But Jesus comes up dead.
And the water's cleared.
And all the people and all the sin is healed.
Okay, so it's just like a symbolic supposed vision John could have had.
And some of the art done by Jeff von Buskirk, he did this cover for me.
I don't know where the cameras are there.
But he did this cover.
I guess you guys take it.
This cover.
This is a John.
John von Buskirk is like a real fine artist.
Like he's done murals on the side of giant buildings and stuff.
And like I went to his studio to pick up this original art, and he has this massive studio.
He does real.
I just do digital art lately, but he has this massive studio and he's just magnificent.
So I wanted to get some like real fine artists doing it.
So he's working on this vision.
So here, here we have a page.
No, look at this.
So is this never before seen exclusive reviews?
I forgot as if I notes never before seen.
Even the artists themselves have not seen it.
Oh, wonderful.
They did this blind thing.
They did it blind.
Yeah, that's great.
So John, or Jeff is working on some of the pages for this eight-page vision.
Oh, the other thing about the book is I want to have.
That's cool.
I like the style.
That's nice.
Thanks.
In the book.
I see, here's Jesus with the lamb getting baptized.
Yeah, there's going to be about eight pages for this vision as I explained it.
But then the idea is you're reading the graphic novel and it takes you, you're reading the book, and then this will be an insert that unfolds.
And the story will say along the lines of, and then I had a vision from beyond.
And then you pull this out of the book, and it's a different art style, and it comes separate from the book.
So it's coming from beyond.
And you look at this massive vision.
Very meta.
Yeah, so I wanted to do something like that.
Pop-up book.
Let's look at this is when Jesus comes out from being baptized.
This is, I love it.
This is what he comes up from being baptized, and he looks almost crucified, and he's holding the lamb, which is healthy now.
And all the people are healed from Jesus's sacrifice.
So, anyways, so Jeff is honored to be working with him.
I also worked with...
Now we know why Dan took the week off.
He doesn't want all these second commandment violations.
This is Emily Zelasco, and that's supposed to be like a traditional iconic.
I did a color version of it.
Let's show the color version in the exclusive because I was going to try to say, well, maybe some exclusive art will see it.
I like that.
That's really cool.
But this is like an old traditional, the idea with the wings.
You see angels with wings.
The word angel means messenger.
So that's just the wings always signified in art as being a messenger.
So sometimes you'll see John shown with wings because he was obviously the proclaimer of Jesus coming in.
So having these wings back there kind of symbolizes that.
And we got, I got two more.
Yeah, let's show.
Bill Emble.
That's great.
Did these two.
Beautiful, very graphic version of John holding his own hands.
Hold them up like in front of your face.
Should we take the post-it note off of that one?
Oh, yeah.
Well, they came.
I thought he was showing like a big reveal or something.
Oh, my gosh, he has the head.
And to market the book, I'm going to have John the Baptist's water guns.
So you can go around baptizing people with a water gun.
It's a great idea.
You know, like spaceballs with the flamethrower.
I'm going to do the water gun.
Anyways, John, Bill Emble, man, is just amazing.
You can tell I like that fine art looking stuff.
Yeah, that's really great.
That's awesome.
Okay, so you've got the Fireman book.
What is it?
Inferno City Firehouse?
Inferno City Firehouse, True Stories from Real Detroit Firefighters.
Staunch Ambition, aka Space People.
Yeah, I'm going to check out Staunch Ambition, I think.
You want that one?
Oh, okay.
Cool.
I'll check it out.
He doesn't like the Fireman one.
Yeah.
No, I'm curious because it seems like the Staunch Ambition content is more of what we talked about.
So I'm curious about it.
Yeah, yeah.
So check it out, guys.
And we'll have links to his website and all the other stuff in the show notes.
So go.
Yeah, you can message me through there and I can send you something like a preview.
And we'll chat a little more in the subscriber portion.
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I really miss Adam Ford.
So we had an FBI sketch where it involved cross-dressing.
Our second sketch in the last week that involved cross-dressing.
And here's a response.
I realize this is parody, but there is so much division in the country already and so many upset over this that implying the FBI stole women's clothing during the raid doesn't really help.
There was no evidence or suggestion from anyone that I have heard of to suggest any clothing was stolen.
It makes absolute sense that during a search of a residence, you would want to search all rooms and closets.
No, that doesn't mean take things not authorized, but there aren't any allegations so far of clothing being stolen.
So this video sort of takes things too far, really.
Yeah, make a joke of the documents and such, but don't try to make out the agents to be cross-dressers or sexually perverted, demonizing them and such.
Let's try to have some decency still.
Spoken like a true FBI agent.
I feel like they were mostly, I thought it was, they mentioned the cross-dressing at the end, which I understood some of our viewers have a problem with, but.
But it's odd that he's more angry that we suggested in the hyperbole of comedy that maybe they stole clothing from like how dare you say they took clothing.
I hear something from Jeremy Robbins.
I understand the BB is satire, but please know this is filth in the eyes of your God.
There's a five verse.
Verse five of some book.
Oh, okay.
Leviticus, probably.
Oh, I see.
This is a verse that he's posting.
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Now, we actually discussed this beforehand because I do understand that concern.
It's something that I think about too.
I've always thought it's something that it's okay to do if you're pointing out the absurdity and the sort of comedy of it.
Well, he didn't quote verse 6.
It's okay in the comedy sense.
Yeah.
But I understand that some people would disagree with that evaluation, but I've always thought about ceremonial law being set aside.
Yeah.
This is moral law.
You can wear women's clothes if you want.
The law's been abolished.
Kyle's even more progressive.
He says your God.
He's like your God.
Like, it's not his God.
It's our God.
He's like, just someone who doesn't believe what we believe, calling us out.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe he's not even a Christian.
He's just like, this is an abomination, according to you.
All right, do you want to read this one for us, Brian?
Yeah, Nabit Coomer.
I never realized how much Kyle looks like a taller Peter England.
I get that a lot.
We did a whole video where you were.
Did a video where I was Peter Enklage?
I don't know who that is.
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They're fun because you never know what you're doing about.
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