The Bee Weekly: The Bee's Favorite Movies and Creating Culture Through Film
The Babylon Bee talks about the news of the week like sanctuary city Martha's Vineyard having no resources to help 50 illegal immigrants, violence against MAGA turning deadly, and Don Lemon instantly regretting asking that reparations question on CNN. Kyle, Adam, and Jarret talk about their favorite movies and then talk to people who are making good stories and creating culture. Find out more about Noble Story Co. Find out more about Justen Overlander's projects: Anti and The Shift. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors: My Patriot Supply: http://preparewithbee.com Allegiance Gold: https://allegiancegold.com/bee/ PublicSq. is on Apple and Google. There's a Sizzler Fact from Producer Dan and Weak-ly News with Adam Yenser naturally! And glorious hate mail.
DeSantis sent a busload of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard and now he's being sued even though he gave them a sweet vacation for free.
We discussed how great and sinful secular movies are.
Why can't Christian movies be so good?
The Queen's funeral was televised around the world.
Our British kids still got to watch the emoji movie.
All this and more on the Bee Weekly.
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Welcome everyone to the Bee Weekly.
I'm hanging out with my buddies Adam and Jarrett and today we're going to do a few fun things.
This is kind of a bit of a variety episode because we got a few different interviews that we're going to plug in here.
so this will be a lot of fun.
A real cornucopia.
A virtual.
Yeah.
We're focusing on storytelling in movies with a couple of different people.
So that'll be a lot of fun to talk about.
Also, the subscriber portion today, we talked to Pure Tej, everybody's favorite subscriber headline somewhere.
The author of Many a Pun.
And we asked him where he gets all his ideas.
And he has a great accent.
And fantastic British accent.
He has a really good British accent.
He should be a radio show host.
And he stayed in character the whole time.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
I don't know how he did it.
Never broke.
He never broke.
I think one time he said zebra.
Yeah, that's right.
And then I said, oh, we say zebra.
And then he said, oh, zebra.
And he sounded very American in that character.
That's true.
Well, I just got back from Macon, Georgia, where I did a, I spoke at the Covenant Care Adoption Fundraiser.
And that was a lot of fun.
Kristen Oren, who does a lot of our copy editing and our community management here at the Babylon Bee, is on the board for Covenant Care.
So they place birth mothers with parents and adoptive parents and all that.
How many did you buy while you were there?
How many children?
Yeah.
Yeah, several.
Nice.
Come over there.
Well, I only had a basket above the camera.
I only had a carry-on, so I couldn't.
I see.
If I was checking back, it would only take a couple.
I could have trafficked a few more.
But it's great things that they do.
They're like driving all around the state and someone will call and say, hey, I'm thinking about getting an abortion.
And they're like, not on my watch.
And they drive over there and talk to them.
So it's infants.
It's all infants.
They deal with all infants looking for...
I think it's...
I'm not 100% sure, but it is infant-focused, yeah.
Well, and Kristen, I reached out to Kristen about it.
She said that they sometimes do interstate adoption, too.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that's really cool.
Awesome.
We're going to put a link so you guys can donate and support Covenant Care because I think I got a little choked up on stage because I was just talking jokes and Babylon Bee headlines and they're just saying all these beautiful stories of babies whose lives are saved.
And then I'm like, now for some Babylon B headlines about Joe Biden sniffing people's hair, you know?
So I was crying like Jordan Peterson up there trying to like, you know, just like, man, these people are heroes.
And I'm a joker, but I'm extraordinarily.
That's awesome.
That is really cool.
Also, we want you guys to check out some new Babylon B merch we have in the store.
We have the old Clarence Thomas Hope shirt and poster and sticker, the Conservative Tears Tumblr, and we have a new one, the Thomas Soule Fax t-shirt.
Facts.
Which shows this is part of our black people series of merchandise, I guess.
Views of Kyle do not represent the other classes.
They do not necessarily represent.
I can't believe you just said that.
It's really two pieces of merch in a row that are like a conservative black.
I mean, it's, I mean, we all know, but we're not going to say it.
Just kidding.
We all do know.
They're black, you know.
I guess they are.
I didn't notice.
But it doesn't say black.
It says facts.
It's Thomas Soule's face, and it says facts.
And I would be wearing it right now, except I don't have mine in yet.
I want one.
I actually saw Brandon was wearing.
Somebody was.
Yeah.
I really want one.
I ordered one from our store.
I'd like a lot of the things from our store.
I think I need to get some.
You know, we can give them to you, right?
Can we make, I want to make that happen.
Yeah.
Like, that is a thing.
We should all be wearing merch in the podcast.
Yeah, I would wear merch if it was given to me for free.
I would totally buy that if it was given to me.
Well, let's talk about what's in the news this week.
What's in the news this week?
One of the biggest stories, DeSantis shipped 50 illegal migrants to Martha's Vineyard, a rich liberal island enclave off the coast of Massachusetts where the Obamas live.
This was a big story.
The Kennedys are there too, right?
Isn't that kind of work?
Yeah, that's where they spent most of their time was on their Kennedy compound there.
Yeah.
And Chappaquitic.
Chapaquid.
Yep.
So on the one hand, I don't know how I feel about DeSantis, like just doing this as a political stunt, like finding all these people, getting them to sign things, jump on this plane and fly out there.
This will be great.
On the other hand, the insane amount of hate and backlash and craziness from the left is even worse, where they're like, he's human trafficking people.
Oh, it's ridiculous.
He's a slave trader.
Yeah, it's absolutely crazy.
And the Biden administration was already flying illegally in various parts of the country and just dropping them off there.
Kind of like, hey, you guys did.
I agree.
You know, I think it's an effective political stunt by DeSantis and Greg Abbott.
And, you know, if the immigrants are going to be here anyway, illegally, because they're not being deported and sent back, it should be, you know, these Democratic governors and mayors should have to deal with it in a real way instead of just dismissing it.
But you do wonder how much say these immigrants themselves have in what's happening.
Well, and you have this policy that doesn't touch any of these people.
Yeah.
I think that's the biggest issue is they have all these opinions about what needs to go on at the border and none of them are affected by it.
They're not affected by it at all.
So I think it's good to have at least give them a little bit of a taste of what it really is like.
This is what's happening.
And the other side is you see all these people talking like kind of virtue signaling like, wow, we really received these people for the 44 hours they were here.
We were like very kind to them.
That's the funniest thing.
You know, it is, it is.
And then we seek him to live on a military basin.
That's right.
That's like we, they enriched us.
Like that was the headline I saw.
They really enriched our lives.
And I'm not saying we were talking about this with Brandon yesterday.
I'm not saying it's not, it's a small thing that something like an Episcopal Church welcomed.
It's a good thing that they did.
It's just it's kind of missing the broader point that it's like that you maybe if you guys really cared about this, you'd go down south, maybe send some people down there and help out.
You know, like there's a big problem.
They just have a very small percentage of the number of migrants that are coming through the border towns every day.
And they're like, we don't have the infrastructure for this.
And you're like, yeah, exactly.
That's what they're dealing with.
Well, in some towns every single day.
In some towns, like the migrants outnumber the number of people in the town.
Yeah.
Right.
So I saw some numbers yesterday that were just staggering.
I was like, you got to be kidding me.
So what are they doing?
What are they doing?
Yeah.
You know, Martha's Vineyard, send some money down there at least.
Well, there you go.
And it makes it clear, I think, that it's a problem for the country.
It's a federal problem that they're not getting the support for when they can just dismiss it and say, oh, it's a Texas problem or it's a Florida problem.
Oh, yeah.
And the crazy thing about Martin has been hearing people saying things like, we don't have the resources.
You know, that's like, you guys are the wealthiest people in the country.
You have some resources.
I was thinking about it that it is the progressive worldview that it is the government's responsibility to handle this.
And as long as I pay high taxes, I don't have to personally do anything compassionate.
Yeah.
You know, so it never crosses their mind to go, I'll just invite them into my home.
They're like, no, no, I don't want them in my home.
I want someone else to do it, but I'll pay the high taxes.
So it's exactly consistent with their worldview.
Kind of absolves them of the responsibility to actually do something nice and compassionate.
Yeah, but people do this in church, too.
So we got to be careful because they're like, well, I taught, so I don't really have to do anything.
Of course.
Yeah, you do do that.
So violence against MAGA turned deadly this week in North Dakota.
41-year-old man, Shannon Brandt, called 911 and admitted that he hit and run an 18-year-old, Kayler Ellingson, who he was afraid was part of a Republican extremist group.
I have not heard of this story at all.
I wonder why.
So this guy was not like that.
The headline usually didn't.
Yes, usually a politically motivated killing gets a lot of attention.
And alcohol was involved, apparently.
Alcohol was, and it was politically motivated.
And it's almost like they're giving him a pass.
He's like, well, he was a Republican, you know, so maybe it's okay.
So this guy was afraid that this Republican extremist was going to be too violent or something.
So he went ahead and took the violence into his own hands and took care of it before it became a problem.
Is that kind of how he was thinking?
I have no idea.
I'm learning about this story at this moment.
Yeah.
Court docs say that Ellingson called his mom twice before being killed one time to ask if she knew who Brant was and later again to say that Brant was chasing him.
So this pursuit must have taken...
So he's like following...
It would have taken a while, yeah.
It's a man named Shannon as well.
It's like, man, Shannon.
I've never met a man named Shannon.
I have.
Is that an Irish thing?
Yeah, it's like a Gaelic Irish thing.
Scottish thing.
Well, it's certainly.
Yeah, when you see a man.
It's Gaelic.
That man named Shannon is definitely.
It is very strange.
It's very strange that Biden had that thing about MAGA being a problem the other day.
Then we have violence against MAGA people.
This is an interesting story.
Britain's Channel 5 aired the emoji movie instead of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.
Well, that's what the stinger pursues.
Yeah, that's what that movie is.
I understand.
So this actually, you know that the emoji movie won worst picture in 2017?
I did hear that, and I didn't think it was that bad of a movie.
I have not seen it.
I never saw it.
I don't want my kids watching it.
It's very much your standard kind of dreamwork style paint by numbers animated CGI film where every character's a little bit unlikable and they're just being goofy.
Yeah.
But it was fine.
So it's not great, but it's not like worst picture quality.
But if you're going to choose a movie to watch, why wouldn't you watch something like Inside Out or something really, really why did they make that?
Why did they put the worst movie ever made?
It's definitely not on the level of the best Pixar films, but it's probably better than the worst Pixar films.
Would you say it was more entertaining than The Queen's funeral?
Probably.
Probably.
Like if you had to watch one or the other.
I don't blame Channel 5.
Like I'd watch an emoji movie over a funeral.
It says they did at least pause the movie when the nation proclaimed two minutes of silence to honor the father.
Did they just pause?
I wonder when they paused.
When the poop emoji is up there, two minutes of the poop emoji smiling.
We timed this perfectly.
Yeah.
Patrick Stewart voiced the poop emoji, by the way.
Patrick what?
Patrick Stewart.
Oh, Patrick Stewart did it.
He voiced the poop emoji in that movie.
That's the highlight of his career.
He used to do Shakespeare.
What is this crap?
That was good, too.
What is this crap?
Then this is an interesting story.
Beyond meat chief operating officer Doug Ramsey was arrested this past weekend for biting a man's nose.
It's really hungry.
He's the head of a vegan food company.
He bit some guy's nose.
The alleged incident took place inside an Arkansas parking garage following a University of Arkansas football game.
Ramsey allegedly punched through the back windshield of another vehicle during a road rage altercation.
Wow.
I wonder how much of a chunk he got off the.
Yeah, I was wondering if he got the whole thing or if he was just hard.
It's probably really hard to bite through cartilage, like to actually chunk it off the whole nose.
I've done it.
If you really have a new question for 10 questions.
Have you ever bitten through a nose?
I was thinking more like when you get a piece of cartilage and a piece of chicken or something, instead of going, oh, it's a piece of cartilage and pulling it out, you just bite through it.
You ever done that?
Yeah, I've done that.
Just soldiering on.
And I think, oh, this could be a nose.
And I think to myself, man, cartilage is easy to bite through.
You check it out.
I go, I bet I could bite through a nose.
Yeah.
Sometimes you shoot through your cartilage just to practice in case, you know.
You hope it never comes to this.
But if I have to bite through a nose, I want to be able to do it.
No, this COO of Beyond Meat, this doesn't mean he's necessarily a vegan or a vegetarian, right?
He doesn't have to sell.
Just to sell the products.
He's just a rage monster.
Like, you think every officer at Chevy drives a Chevy?
I don't know.
I would if I worked there.
They probably run a pretty tight ship where they make you.
I wear primarily B gear.
I got the B pants.
You're not wearing any B gear, right?
Actually, right now I'm not.
Columbia.
That's true.
That was a lie.
If he is vegan, though, I wonder if you do that, if you bite the nose and you get the blood, if it's like, I'm here and you're hungry and then you get the craving again.
It's like shivers and stuff.
Once you taste blood.
I've been clean for two years.
Now I'm going to relapse.
That's the bottom.
It's like a dog after they bite a human.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They got to put him down now.
They got to put down the Beyond Meat COO.
So Don Limon instantly regretted asking this royal commentator about the royal family being too rich when others are suffering and when reparation and when reparations ought to be paid to descendants of slaves.
We were just watching this before the episode and it was just wonderful.
Are we going to play that?
It's a great moment.
I don't know if we can or not, but go ahead and take a watch.
Let's take a watch.
And then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism and they're wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there.
Some people want to be paid back and members of the public are wondering, why are we suffering when you are, you know, you have all of this vast wealth?
Those are legitimate concerns.
Well, I think you're right about reparations in terms of if people want it though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of a supply chain.
Where was the beginning of the supply chain?
That was in Africa.
And when across the entire world, when the slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery?
The first nation in the world to abolish it.
It was started by William Wilberforce, was the British.
In Great Britain, they abolished slavery.
2,000 naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery.
Why?
Because the African kings were rounding up their own people.
They had them on cages waiting in the beaches.
No one was running into Africa to get them.
And I think you're totally right.
If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in pages?
Absolutely.
That's where they should start.
And maybe, I don't know, the descendants of those families where they died in the high seas trying to stop the slavery, those families should receive something too, I think, at the same time.
It's an interesting discussion, Hillary.
Thank you very much.
Ah, well, he got thoroughly owned.
I love just the stare, the blank stare.
It's an interesting discussion.
Yeah.
Just let's end it quick.
Like there was no, yeah, no movement on his face at all.
I wonder if he has like a panic button under his like tells them to cut.
Yeah.
Because they just immediately cut away.
I wonder if he's got like a button.
He's pushing it.
That was an interesting discussion.
Let's move on.
Let's move on.
And he's just trying to stare emotionless.
Those aren't flinch.
It'll be over soon.
Inconvenient facts.
Those are inconvenient.
But she was like ready with that response.
Like she must talk about that stuff a lot.
I don't know.
She was like.
Yeah, it is.
I wonder if they prepped her by giving her their questions or something.
She's obviously.
She had her facts down.
Like, I mean, I've heard those.
You know, I've heard the story of how the slave trade originated stuff, but she had numbers.
Numbers and, you know, how many naval officers died fighting slavery.
Yeah.
She was like full, like, this is like the entire argument, too, within like a minute.
Yes.
So she definitely had it prepped at some level.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think people now go for like debate prep before you go on Don R.
Yeah.
They probably do if you're conservative.
Well, I also don't think that she was just a random person.
Yeah.
That's right.
You mean she was like she's somebody who knows about oh, maybe this is what she studied.
Like, yeah.
All right, so there was a banger of the week at the Babylon B. Banger of the week.
Martha's Vineyard takes revenge on DeSantis by shipping him 50 Karens.
And we only got five in the picture, though.
I like the different looks that we've picked.
Karen can be different.
What stock photos look like?
I always thought.
I had to Google, I had to search the stock photo site for short-haired angry woman.
And that's.
Is that kind of what a Karen is?
I always wonder if it's just, I always thought a Karen was also a conservative.
Well, everybody just uses it as a I think it started originally as like an angry, usually white woman who's like asking to speak to a manager or complaining about retail thing.
But then I think it became a term that liberals use more to describe conservatives.
I've heard it on both sides.
Yeah.
Because I've heard with the mask thing, it was always the mask Karens who were telling you to put a mask on.
And then the other way, mask Karens that are mad that they have to put on a mask.
Yeah.
Your enemies are Karens.
It's too bad for Karens.
Like people that are actually named.
It's going to be a while before anybody names their babies Karen.
Did you see that study?
There was like a study that Karen has tanked in the name of the pretty much dropped off.
I wonder if it was a popular name anyway, though.
It seems like it hasn't been.
There haven't been very many.
When I was in school, there was at least two or three Karens.
I remember Karen Van Korbach.
That's pretty much it.
Shout out to Karen Van Korbach.
Name drop.
Wherever you are.
I don't know if I had, I knew any Karens.
I knew one.
And that was it.
Yeah, there were two that I knew growing up.
Older women, too.
Yeah, you knew some, maybe some older Karens, yeah.
Our age, though, not very popular.
Yeah.
We had a bomb of the week also.
Bomb of the week.
Family tragically buried alive in Mountain of Trash, mere moments after missing garbage truck.
I like the Photoshop for that one.
Yeah, I was going to say, is that like sticking out of trash?
So we missed the garbage truck this week.
Is that from you?
It's just a relatable story.
Because my trash is now.
If we miss the trash one time, we're always like on the verge of dying from being buried in trash.
We produce an insane amount of trash.
Yeah, like I don't even know.
And if you miss it for a week, it turns into maggots and stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Literally.
The fruit flies sometimes.
Yeah.
For a week.
We'll get maggots for sure.
And we have to carry it up.
So I have a 300-foot driveway that I have to get my trash cans up every week.
So I end up hooking them onto the back of my car and driving them up to the top of the hill.
And it's like such a pain in the butt to have to get that trash up there.
And if we miss it, it is a big deal.
My wife is really angry.
I have this massive driveway and it's so hard to get my trash.
First, I have to take the elevator down to the garage.
My butler really struggles getting those.
Always tell Reginald.
Hit the trash up right away.
Then I attach the cans to my car.
It's a Mercedes.
It's a Mercedes.
What are the SUVs?
Sizzler Facts.
Yeah, so 20 weeks ago, we debuted a new feature to the population.
My new intro to Sizzler Facts is Jerry Cog.
Sizzler Facts.
So it's 20 weeks ago now.
Is that true?
Has it been 20 weeks now?
Okay.
So in August of 2022, producer Dan ate at a Sizzler in Southern California with his wife and daughter, thanks to the team at the office, getting him a fancy gift card to Sizzler, as a Sizzler-specific gift card.
Dan got the six-ounce sirloin steak meal with some shrimp skewers.
Mrs. Coates got the salad bar, and the little coats got a kids' meal cheeseburger.
Dan found the steak dinner to be reasonably priced, seasoned well, and medium-rare, just as he ordered.
This has been Sizzler Facts.
And now it is time for the follow-up Sizzler comments.
Sizzler comments.
And we just hear Garrett saying, Sizzler Facts.
Sizzler comments.
These are the comments we get on Sizzler Facts.
This one's from Leah G.
I went to Sizzler after church a few weeks ago for the first time with a couple friends.
Waitress was awesome.
I like the punctuation.
I like there's just no conclusion.
Formatting.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's funny.
Here's one from Nobody.
Yikes, talking bad about Sizzler isn't a good look.
I don't know what comment they were responding to, except someone on the other side.
Somebody else had said something negative.
This one.
Legless on the shelf replies to Nobody.
So he replied.
He said, I beg to differ.
I think it's hilarious.
Sending up a Sizzler prayer for you right now.
Sizzler Prayers.
We might be kind of bringing Sizzler back.
Is that the goal?
We should check their numbers if they've even experienced like a little Babylon B bounce.
So let's that'll be next week's Sizzler Facts.
We can look up Sizzler's popularity in Google searches and correlate it to the debut of Sizzler Effects 20 weeks ago.
I bet you the youths are now the youths are going to Sizzler more often.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, that was a great Sizzler comment section.
Now it's time for weekly news with Adam Jenser.
It's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
During a 60 Minutes interview this week, Joe Biden said that the pandemic is over.
Very few people saw the interview since most 60 Minutes viewers died in nursing homes during the pandemic.
A man was arrested for sexual assault after exposing himself to mourners waiting in line at Queen Elizabeth's funeral.
The other funeral attendee accused of sexual assault was allowed to drive away in a limo.
On Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes full of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard.
The immigrants are already pronouncing English words like parking, chowder, and retarded better than everyone else on Martha's Vineyard.
The United States Space Force debuted its official song this week called Semper Supra.
The song will be played at military events, much like the Navy's official song in the Navy.
Space Force still doesn't have astronauts, weapons, spaceships, or a space station, but at least they have a theme song.
A new report ranked Utah as the worst state for road rage, which makes sense.
I can't imagine having 10 wives telling you where to turn and when to slow down.
Brad Pitt made his debut as a sculptor at an art show in Finland this week.
Pitt said it was nice to finally visit a foreign country and not come home with a bunch of kids.
For the first time ever, scientists have calculated that the total population of ants on the earth is 20 quadrillion, but they've warned that due to climate change, there could soon only be a thousand million bajillion left.
Due to the struggling economy and the drop in Facebook's value, Mark Zuckerberg has lost $71 billion this year, and it's really taken a toll on him emotionally.
Look at him last year compared to this year.
A Canadian school board is standing by a transgender shop teacher who is criticized for coming to class in tight outfits with giant fake breasts.
The shop teacher Kayla Lemieux identified as a man up until last year, but then stood too close to a table saw.
The school says removing the shop teacher would violate employment laws, while critics point out that as a woman, Kayla should only teach HOMAC.
That's it for weekly news.
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The Babylon Bees, top secular movies.
So my number three, the movie Arrival.
Oh, okay.
Now, I think I might have mentioned this in our top sci-fi, in our top sci-fi films.
But what I really like about Arrival is, and this is what I, most of my favorite movies ask a question and they kind of leave you with, they don't really necessarily say, like, this is what you should be thinking right now.
Like a Christian movie that might say, like, this is the correct position to have.
They are ones that leave you with questions.
And so the whole...
What's so great about Annihilation?
That's what's great about Annihilation that I don't like.
I couldn't get over that.
There's too many women.
Annihilation left me with a lot of questions.
I just bring it up because I know you're not.
I know, because we had this conversation before.
When all the women get together and they're like, we can do this.
We're strong women.
You know what the real problem was?
We sent the men in.
Yeah, and I just, I couldn't get over it.
Should have been women.
I need to get over it.
I'll just, I'll have to set myself up.
I didn't mean to interrupt you.
It asks the question, like, if you were, I'm trying not to spoil it, but if you were to know that you were going to get married or have a kid or embark on these life journeys and you know it was going to end in pain, would it still be worth going on that journey?
Because human life is valuable.
And I think it's a really powerful message that, you know, it communicates through this weird movie with aliens.
I like that.
Well, because every human life sort of ends in pain.
Yeah, and I think it asks that question.
Like, is the bitterness worth it, you know, for all of you?
Is suffering worth it?
Yeah.
For human life.
So value of human life.
I like it a lot.
Amy Adams, you know?
Amy Adams is great.
She's great.
She is a great actor.
My next one is Enchanted.
No, I'm just joking.
She's my third one.
I have 10 movies that all star Amy Adams.
Amy Adams.
That's funny.
I've met Adie.
She's very cool.
She's a nice person.
Name drop.
No, I'm just throwing it out there.
He has a 300-foot driveway.
I've met Amy Adams.
Reginald brought her over.
Karen von Schmidt.
Okay, so I hate to be really predictable.
So I won't be.
That's what I was trying to do.
I was trying to.
Right.
I'm going to skip my first.
No, just say what you said.
So saving Private Ryan.
That's on my honorable mentions list.
Is it?
Yeah.
I think it's up there.
I've seen it multiple times.
I haven't watched it more than probably four or five times, but I love the setup of the movie.
I love the plot.
I love the characters.
I love the setting.
I love the pictures.
I think that it really does a good job of telling the story.
I mean, it's not heavy-handed.
I think the messaging is clear.
Like, earn this.
Like, your life, you know, somebody died for you.
Somebody did this thing for you.
And so whether or not it's the military or whether you're thinking about it in terms of Jesus and his salvation.
You're saying we need to earn salvation.
It's worth living your life.
Like you're living your life as if somebody else paid for it.
And I think it's an amazing, it's amazing.
And also, I think showing World War II in the way they did really brought it to life and kind of humanized all that.
That opening D-Day scene.
It's just ridiculous.
Like, I don't know that there's been much that's been committed to film that has been equal to that scene.
That's an amazing scene.
Yeah.
So I think that's the other thing, too, I think, just cinematography-wise, and showing the horror of it and everything.
So pretty amazing.
And it's historical.
I think that is another thing, too.
None of it might have anything to do with any of these messages.
I got this text at like midnight last night.
I saw it.
So I just take up a movie.
Oh, it's fine.
I like Fight Club.
Fight Club's a good movie.
It has a message, though, right?
It's got a great movie.
It's got a great movie.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't like the message.
I don't agree with it.
I don't necessarily think it's a good message for my personal experience.
No, but Christian perspective.
But it doesn't have to.
But I think the way a filmmaker can tell a story using a communicate message using a story.
I think it's an honest message from an atheist's perspective, which I don't think very many films are.
I think they try to insert meaning that do that same thing.
Yeah.
Well, my number two is Blade Runner, which I absolutely love.
I talked about this on our sci-fi list also, I think.
But the way that it asks questions about what it means to be human, the tears and rain speech at the end.
And again, the end of the film that leaves you with a longing and a question.
I love that.
I love that, especially sci-fi movies, which is why I have two sci-fi movies.
But the way they make you ask questions.
You know, it's interesting because you make it.
And there's a lot.
What does it mean to be human?
Is it worth the time?
Is it worth the suffering?
That's the same message, too.
Yeah, I like that kind of existential questioning in movies, even if I don't necessarily agree with what the filmmaker is trying to say.
No, that's good.
Also, it does Harrison Ford.
I already said that.
Dang.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
One of a few Ridley Scott movies on my list.
Yeah, so I think my what, I mean, gosh, this is going to be so.
I'm going to not do the predictable one.
No, just I like.
I really.
I like Ragnarok.
Thor Ragnarok?
Yes.
I think Ragnarok is a very interesting story.
Thor is going through this crisis because his father's dead.
And I feel like that's a really challenging moment for all of us.
I also love kind of how funny it is, how, I don't know, humorous.
He loses his way, he goes to this trash planet, you know, like he kind of loses everything.
I love that about Thor Ragnarok.
And I like the pictures.
I like that it's a space opera.
I love all that.
And I love, what's his name?
Jeff Goldblum.
He's the best ever.
I don't think he's ever been better than that movie.
He's so funny.
So I can watch it over.
I've watched it probably six, seven times.
Like, I just love it.
I think it's great.
What is the trash planet in your life?
Right.
Let's ask that question.
That's a good question.
Who is the grandmaster?
The beginning of that one is the one where Thor's hanging upside down, right?
And he's slowly spinning it around.
Yes.
And the villains monologuing or whatever.
You'll probably be wondering how I go to.
And then he flips around.
He's facing the other way.
He's like, hang on.
Turn myself around.
There's so many funny jokes.
And that's like, and Thor does look.
He's got a great soundtrack.
Great stuff.
Just colorful.
And, you know, it's like watching Flash Gordon or something.
Very cool.
It's got Chris Emsworth.
Yeah, and I'm a big fan.
He's handsome.
I bet you are.
Yeah.
Nice.
My next one, I guess, fits a little more when you're talking about what makes us human and stuff.
I like Ex-Machina a lot.
You know, I've never seen that.
Yeah.
Ex-Machina is fantastic.
In terms of the sort of AI robot in it, you know, answers some of those questions about what makes us human, but it also reminds me a lot of the conversations we have with people that address the sort of move towards like transhumanism and we're sort of melding with technology to the point where it's like, are we controlling technology and are we guiding where it goes or is it kind of manipulating us?
And yeah, I just think there's, you know, good, good character development and twists in that movie.
Awesome.
Good sci-fi.
Yeah.
That's really good sci-fi.
Asking the good questions.
Does it have Amy Adams?
It does not know.
Okay.
My number one is Braveheart.
It's probably your number one.
That is my number one.
I can change mine, though.
No, you can do Braveheart.
I was trying to avoid explicitly Christian films and like Lord of the Rings and stuff because I was like, but I was trying to think of things in a secular way.
And this is a Mel Gibson film, of course, who's Catholic, so some of that is going to come through, but it's still mostly secular in terms of being about this war.
And I love that it talks about what's dying for, you know, what is living if you're not willing to die for something.
And it hit all of us in the 90s.
Like, that was a big.
I don't know.
I think that was an awesome message.
Not every man truly.
Yeah, every man dies.
Not every man really lives.
It's a great, great movie.
And the speech, you know, the big speech he gives.
Yeah, that's right.
I am William Wallace.
And a man gets shot in the butt with an arrow.
A lot of things happen.
A lot of things happen with arrows and swords.
Yeah, I love that movie too.
It's one of my favorites.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to say the other movie that's kind of like Braveheart.
This might be the one I picked.
Gladiator?
Yes.
Semi-honorable movie.
So we all, it's funny how we all have the same.
I wonder if that's just true across the board, though.
I think Gladiator is probably one of the best movies ever.
I don't know Gladiator as well, or I would have picked it, but I love the theme.
See, I think I know they have a lot of similar themes.
I think I know Gladiator better.
I've seen Gladiator more than I've seen Braveheart, but I like them both.
And, you know, I was thinking about it in terms of, you know, when you're talking about like Lord of the Rings is these movies that have a Christian theme, but they're not explicitly Christian theology.
In Gladiator, you have Maximus kind of with his devotion to this, you know, sort of ancient religion, but faith plays out and his devotion to it in a way that sort of mirrors Christianity.
There's still a transcendental truth and reality that he's conforming to.
Well, right.
And it's like, you know, as you said, you know, don't worry, you'll already be dead.
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
Yeah.
Which all those things matter.
I mean, like, for us, the question is, as Christians, like, do the decisions that we make now, do the sins that we commit, does it really matter in eternity?
And you know, and like, what does that mean?
And how does that affect us?
So, and I love, I love his, I love his challenge.
I love that you strip everything away from a character that's powerful, and then you, then they have to figure out how to get back on or how to get that power back.
And in his case, he, you know, not to no spoilers, but you know, he gives his life, right?
I think we're past the spoiler.
So, right, he gives his life.
Yes, if you haven't seen it, no, Joaquin Phoenix is just brilliant and just brilliant.
And Russell Crowe is brilliant.
And how he Joaquin Phoenix has this power, but no conviction.
There's no value there at all.
There's no value.
And he's not able to exercise power over this slave fighting for him who can stand up to him almost based purely on his convictions.
That's right.
He has no character.
There's no depth of character.
It's just amazing.
I just love that character.
And it's such a light and dark.
It's a battle between light and dark, which I think every good movie is.
So even if you're not going to have explicitly Christian themes, every good movie that has light and darkness is a Christian movie.
I think there's certain things that make movies.
I think the messaging and the philosophy behind it, the underpinning philosophy will make some.
So the strategy to make Christian movies better is just to claim Gladiator as one of our own.
Well, it is.
I mean, honestly, it's a parable.
It's not a Christian.
Christian movies are great.
Haven't you seen Gladiator?
Right, exactly.
I guess that's kind of what I'm saying.
You know, that's kind of what Frank Turek would say, right?
He's like, all these Marvel movies are Christian movies.
Well, I wrote down some honorable mentions.
I wrote down Shawshank Redemption.
I wrote down Gladiator.
I wrote down Saving Private Orion.
Yep.
12 Angry Men, Gran Torino.
Great.
And this is in the context of the ones that I disagree with that are still communicating a cool message, but Everything Everywhere All at Once is a recent one.
I haven't seen that.
I highly recommend watching that.
I want to see that.
It's a multiverse jumping story, and they fall into this nihilism of nothing matters because no matter what I do, there's, you know, I'm jumping through the multiverse and everything is just infinite possibilities.
And so there's like a search for meaning within that.
And I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion they come to, but that question that they leave you with is interesting.
It's really okay.
My honorable mentions, really quick.
Obviously, Star Wars.
I was looking at genre movies too, and I love Westerns.
So True Grit, Open Range.
I've only seen the reboot.
I never.
I watched The Reboot too.
I didn't watch the original best.
The reboot is brilliant.
It's the Cohen brothers.
They're always good at asking questions and setting something in an environment where it's a culture.
And so the language changes.
It's always so good.
28 Days Later for her.
That's a great one, yeah.
Yeah, for I think that's probably my favorite horror film other than Army of Darkness, which kind of files it far.
That's the zombie one.
28 Days Later is the zombie, the fast zombie one in England where he wakes up and I like that one.
They ripped that off for The Walking Dead.
That was one of the early fast zombie films.
Yes, right.
And it sort of launched the sort of resurgence, I feel like, of the zombie movie.
So Dawn of the Dead 2004 had fast zombies.
That was really scary.
The opening sequence for that movie was profound.
Like, that one's really scary if you ever watch that.
It's just brutal.
And then Schindler's List, Inception, The Shining, Snatch.
Do you ever see Snatch?
That one's amazing.
And so those are all my one where Adam Sandler has the remote.
No.
Snatch is Guy Richie.
You ever see Click?
I knew it was a single sound.
Single verb.
And then the first three Indiana Jones films, but I think that no, Snatch is Guy Richie.
Only three Indiana Jones.
Yeah, that's right.
We don't acknowledge the fourth one.
We don't talk about it.
No, he's like, come on, give me that shoe.
It's very cockney.
Like, the whole thing's so funny.
It's all about the accents and crime.
It's so great.
Well, it was good to talk about some movies that touched us and just some of our favorite movies, I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Top three movies.
Yeah.
That's good.
So now we're going to talk to Noble Story CO.
Guys have founded a movie studio that um wants to change the culture using storytelling.
So we're going to talk to Adam, Gregory and Andrew.
Treasure right now Tarovsky's Tarot Skies.
And now for another interview on the BEE Weekly.
Hey, Adam and Andrew, thanks for coming on.
Yeah, great to be here.
Yeah, thanks for having us.
So what the heck man?
What is Noble story code?
Give us the.
You're locked in an elevator for 30 seconds with the pope or something, and you have to tell him what you're, what you're uh, what Noble story is?
Go well, what we are as a company.
We produce what we call stories worth rewatching, and our goal is to engage the mainstream audience with stories about faith um, and really what we believe, stories that are additive to the human experience and not just another escape.
The elevator doors have opened.
Hopefully he's not escaping off the elevator right now.
After that pitch security guards have already killed you.
Adam, agree or disagree?
Uh, that the bodyguards are no with with what your partner's saying on?
Uh well, he'd better agree.
Yeah, I thought maybe it would be funny if you guys didn't agree.
And then we we started a giant fight and then the whole company split and stuff because of this interview.
Who have I?
Who am I working with?
I don't even know you who?
Yeah, we were coming to a counseling session.
Yeah yeah no um, stories worth rewatching it's.
It's a little ambiguous, but Andrew teed it up.
Nice, you know, you know stories of faith uh hope beauty uh good, true and beautiful.
We kind of like to rip on that.
Um stories, we want to engage culture in a positive way.
We love the Babylon Bee.
So stories, we're not quite satirical but we enjoy set satire.
Yeah, because you're, because you have stuff like about Nazis and an army ranger losing his legs in Afghanistan and running the busted marathon.
So that's not like sad, that's not that funny.
No, I was gonna say wow, somebody read our website.
Yeah, Nazis in Alabama, there's something funny about that.
Yeah, so what have you guys produced so far?
We produced a show for a well-known streamer I gotta be careful here and we turned in the show and we decided you know what like, this isn't number one, it's not the stories that we want to tell and um, it wasn't the way that we like to work.
It was months of 16 hour days and um, I was watching the premiere at the theater and going you, I feel like i'm banging a drum set in a hurricane.
We're just the world is full of noise and we're just adding more noise.
It really caused us to pause and question what we were doing and that led to us starting Noble Storyco.
So we we actually launched so that was like version Version 1.0 of Noble Story CO.
That we did the project for the Streamer.
And then we launched Noble Story Co. March of 2020, which is pretty hilarious.
It's a great time to launch a series.
We're going to.
Yeah, it's actually probably more exciting to talk what we're producing right now.
Yeah.
We're working with the guys over at Kingdom Story Company on a movie called The Heartmender.
They are, if you remember the movie I Can Only Imagine, which came out a few years ago, and also American Underdog, which came out this year.
So our movie, The Heartmender, it's on a based on a book by New York Times best-selling author Andy Andrews.
So we're very passionate about the Project The Heartmender.
It's, if you've read the book, it's an incredible story of forgiveness.
And that's what this story is.
It's a story of an American war widow who comes face to face with a German Nazi submarine officer.
She had just lost her husband.
And here she is face to face with, you know, her worst enemy.
And they not only come to this place of forgiveness, but they actually fall in love.
And it's a true story, which is pretty incredible.
I know.
We just pitched the project as Nazis in Alabama.
And that tends to get some attention.
Yeah.
So we're very excited about that.
Working with the guys at Kingdom is awesome.
We can't wait to show you what we're working on.
Awesome.
Are you guys doing this?
Is this an Army Ranger story as well?
Yes, we are.
That movie we're also very passionate about because it touches on a subject that is near and dear to my heart, which is finding one's purpose in life.
And the hero of the story, it's another real life story.
The guy's name is Cedric King, and he's a U.S. Army Ranger.
And he's the type of man who would never take no for an answer, even when everything was conspiring to say you're not good enough or whatever.
You know, he tried and failed to pass the Ranger school two times and finally made it on his third attempt.
He gets over to Afghanistan and loses his legs to an IED.
He's been dealt this really hard hand.
And, you know, here he is.
He finally got to the top of his game as a U.S. Army Ranger.
He has everything taken away from him.
And he's left wondering, I thought my purpose in life was to save people.
You know, I'm finding meaning by literally every day being the closest thing to a superhero I can be.
All that stripped away from me.
Now I don't even have that.
I can't even provide for my family anymore.
And so it becomes the search for meaning.
It explores the idea of your meaning in life is not the same as your purpose in life.
Cedric ultimately rediscovers the meaning in life in his family.
And he decides to fight back against the darkness.
And he ends up running the Boston Marathon two years after he lost his legs.
So it's this incredibly inspirational and moving story.
If you remember, the Pursuit of Happiness movie is a really great story along those lines.
Yeah.
I don't watch secular movies, so I don't know what you're talking about.
Okay.
Yeah.
So Kevin Sorbo literally is like at your peak of he's like Marlon Brando.
Yeah.
My first PG-13 movie I was allowed to watch was Twister.
I think I was 13.
Like we had to be the age it said on the box, you know, to watch it.
So or else it wasn't allowed.
Yeah.
So, all right.
Well, awesome.
So where can people see this stuff?
How can they get involved with what Noble Story Co is doing?
We can't tell you where you can see the heartmender because that's under wraps.
So if you want to know where you can see the heart mender, just keep an eye on the news.
Sure.
Yeah.
The best place to get involved with what we're doing is we're actually, we have a pretty strong presence on social media.
So we have a private Facebook group that you can ask to join and you can get up to date, up-to-date updates on what we're doing as a company.
And we're doing a crowd investing campaign right now.
So people can actually become a part of our company if that's what they want to do.
So if you want to own a film studio, you can.
Awesome.
And we'll have links to that in the show notes so people can check that out.
Wow, that was great.
Why don't we just give them a round of applause?
That's really good.
Yeah.
So now we're going to go to another interview that we had this week from another producer of films.
And he has a lot of things going on.
So we wanted to talk to him about it.
Justin Overlander.
Welcome to the interview show.
Emma and I are here.
I'm Jared.
This is Emma.
With us today is Justin Overlander.
And we're really happy to have you on.
Justin is a producer.
He's also an actor.
He does a lot of things.
And he's got a bunch of projects in the works right now that we want to talk to him about.
And mostly, though, we just want to kind of get to know Justin because he's a pretty great guy.
We've gotten a chance to get to know each other quite a bit.
And I've had great conversations with you already.
And I just wanted to share them with the world.
They're that good.
I love it.
So no pressure.
So you were a teacher and a basketball coach, right?
And then you're from, is it Minnesota?
It is.
And so you left that world and you landed in Hollywood.
I think that's like the dream of every basketball coach teacher out there.
That's true.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know if that's the dream or not.
Well, it's been 20 years of struggling in the entertainment industry.
And I didn't necessarily leave teaching on my own volition, to be honest with you.
You were fired.
Well, let go because no, hey, I wasn't tenured.
And tenure in education is everything.
And so when budget cuts come through public schools, if you're not tenured, you're the first to go.
And I got laid off three times in six years, not based on performance or anything like that, but based on just, yeah, you're not tenured.
So you're like, this is not a secure job.
I feel like what would be better for my family and more secure would be to move to Hollywood and be an actor.
And the biggest irony in all of this is in college, I did briefly change my major from computer science, believe it or not, to business.
And then I briefly changed it to theater.
And my dad said, well, what's your fallback going to be?
And ironically, my fallback ended up being the less stable vocation in the long run anyway.
And so, yeah, I knew that I wanted to be in the industry.
And even as I was teaching, I was doing commercials as an actor and independent movies would come through this small market of Minneapolis.
And so I got to cut my teeth on some things.
And just you can't shake it.
You can speak to this for sure.
You just can't shake that bug.
And it never really lets go.
Like, that's true.
I gave it up for a while, but it didn't.
It still kind of like pulled at me.
And, you know, I totally understand it, dude.
When you decided to go after it again, you know, I mean, you wanted to a little bit in college, but then you got that bug again.
Did you get support at that point?
Yeah.
You know, there's so much nuance involved in this path that for me to honestly say that I have the full support, say, of my parents.
No, I don't.
Still struggle to have conversations about the film and television community or the film and television career that I've chosen because it's not the path that they saw me going down.
Now, my wife is tremendously supportive.
My kids are monumentally supportive, even though I embarrass them probably more than they'd like me to.
And I have that core group of friends too.
I mean, that's what you need.
You need your tribe.
Seth Godin, one of my favorite business authors, talks about finding your tribe.
And if you are passionate about being in the creative world, you have to find other creatives to be with.
That's really good.
Sounds like, Emma, you've found that at least the core group of friends that are there to have your back and support you, right?
Is that accurate for you?
It's good.
It's like, I mean, I think coming to the B, I joined a little family and they're definitely supportive.
But yeah, my parents like will still bring up their friends with engineering kids.
And it's like, okay, well, I make the same amount and I live in Hollywood.
Like, get out of here, you know?
So, pardon the interruption, but isn't it amazing how you combat it or your rebuttal is, look, I make just as much as them.
That's not what this is, and that shouldn't ever be what this is about.
Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise.
Don't, don't, I don't care if you're making six figures or upper five figures.
If you love what you do and you're supporting yourself, my goodness, that should be the ultimate.
It is also great to be fabulously wealthy, which I also am.
So, it's great.
Yeah, I mean, I'm working on it with the home first.
Your path sort of led you to a lot of really interesting places.
And one of the many places, and we are massive fans of the chosen here, but one of the many places it led you was the chosen.
And I'm very interested in that journey, how you connected.
What did you end up doing for the chosen?
And how did that come about?
Yeah, the chosen basically started from nothing.
Dallas Jenkins, the writer, director of it, who I think you guys have talked to before, and he's the face of The Chosen.
You know, it's a show about Jesus, and yet the face is the writer, director of it.
But Dallas has such great charisma, and he's so well-spoken.
So handsome, intelligent.
Handsome too.
He's a good-looking dude.
You know, and I have people so many times accuse us and notices, but wonder if we were brothers.
And I'm like, you know, I'll take that.
You know, he's got way better hair than I have.
But he's ripped too.
He's like superhero ripped.
Like, he's a.
Jerry's got a thing for I do.
I'm a little bit, I've got, yeah, the Imagine Dragons guy.
He's ripped.
So, all right.
So, so Dallas, Dallas and I stayed together most of the time on seasons one and two of The Chosen.
And so I got to witness the kettlebell.
Oh, yeah, that's funny.
So he's lifting all the time.
A producer for a Chosen or a line producer?
So I was officially an associate producer for seasons one and seasons two, for seasons one and two of The Chosen.
And yeah, thank you for putting us back on task, Emma.
It came about from just connecting with Dallas Jenkins years ago at a little convention and we hit it off.
We connected well.
We got along with each other, both huge, embarrassingly huge like NFL football fans.
He's a Bears fan.
I'm a Vikings fan.
So just you find those connections.
We both love God, you know, both family guys, both dads, husbands.
And we stayed in touch for years.
And then I found out about The Chosen and they were looking for somebody to just come on kind of as a small little helper role.
And at that point, I had just moved back from Los Angeles and I was ready to leave the industry altogether.
I was kind of just frustrated.
And I reached out and I said, you know what, this project, no matter what it leads to, this is something I can get behind.
This is something I can believe in.
And I had seen The Shepherd and I'm like, wow, this isn't your typical faith-based content.
It's actually a little gritty, a little grungier.
And Dallas said, no, you wouldn't like this.
I mean, not the project.
He said, we need help with social media and stuff.
And I was ready to leave social media too.
I didn't like social media that much.
I said, you know what?
Whatever you need me to do.
I'm just sign me up.
I'm doing it.
And it started very, very part-time.
And then as we got to know each other and I got to show the team that, look, I can do like, I can do a lot of things.
Halfway is decent.
Maybe not one thing wonderfully well, but just filled a lot of gaps.
And that's kind of what you have to do.
Just be, you know what?
If you're on a film set and the union isn't going to get after you for doing this, just offer to help.
Plug yourself in where you can.
Be the helper.
Be the somebody that is willing to go the extra mile that isn't, you know, we should, we should be done.
We should be done today by now.
I'm ready to go.
Stay after.
Show up early.
Stay after.
And that's kind of what I did with Dallas early on is just kind of show, you know what, I'm willing to work hard for this.
And yeah, it ended up being kind of a three-headed monster building our social channels with Dallas, Daryl Eaves, who's a YouTube guru, and myself really building up this content and releasing long form and short form videos and memes and all that stuff.
So that's where it all began.
That's the long-winded way of saying how it began.
That's awesome.
And we love the chosen.
We're big fans.
That's super exciting that you got to do that.
And that led you to a lot of other things now that you're working on as well.
One of those things being there's a TV show pilot that you're working on for a show called Anti.
And actually the two of us are working on this together, which is why we got connected in the first place.
And I'm very glad that we did.
Yeah.
So if you could expand on that show a little bit, maybe we can talk characters.
We can talk whatever you'd like to talk about.
And you're going to be in this as well.
So the two of us are going to be acting.
Is that right?
That's right.
I think we even share a few scenes together, which I'm super excited about.
I am too.
Yeah.
And to put a tiny button on the chosen, it's not like I continued to just make memes and do social media stuff.
It expanded into much more than that and wore a number of hats.
And so through The Chosen, got connected with this family, brother, sister Tandem, Jenna and Noah Bennett, who are the masterminds behind Anti, writer, director, Jenna, and producer Noah.
They are young, up-and-coming filmmakers who love Jesus and have so much passion in them.
And I've said this in a number of different areas.
Talent alone doesn't launch a career.
You need opportunity.
If you have talent but no opportunity, it's worthless.
If you have opportunity but no talent, you might get a project or two off the ground, but your career isn't going to elevate from that.
So Jenna and Noah have talent and now they have an opportunity to put together something that I think could be really impactful.
And it's sci-fi, which isn't a typical genre in the faith realm.
And it's got such redemptive qualities, kind of asks that question, is anybody truly beyond being redeemed?
Is anybody, can you separate yourself from the love of God?
And the answer, of course, is no.
And Anti explores that premise through a really unique concept.
And I'm excited about that.
I am too.
I think it's a really great concept.
We have, I mean, and if it anti kind of gives away a little bit of what the show is about, but it is about the antichrist and antichrist.
Are we able to reveal which character you're playing?
Yeah, absolutely.
If you guys want to, yeah.
If that was supposed to be a secret, he's told everyone in the office.
Everybody here knows already.
Yeah, that's true.
Jared plays.
Did you hear Jared plays the character that he can't pronounce?
Yes, it's funny.
I keep getting cast as bad guys, but yeah, I'm playing the Antichrist.
So he's willing to have his old body painted red, just heads up.
So you know, I don't think it's that direction.
One of the reasons why I like this particular one is because it's a really unique take on the whole Antichrist thing and the left behind thing.
It's not really left behind, but it'd be something like an end times series.
And I'm really excited about it because I think it's probably more of an internal, like a struggle.
It's not just like one terrible bad guy.
It's a really interesting character.
So very excited about it.
And to be clear, the Antichrist isn't the devil.
He is somebody that is presumably being used by the devil to advance his agenda in the world.
But yeah, you nailed it on the head.
It's not the stereotypical beat you over the head with scripture or anything like this.
There's a lot of nuance in it.
And like The Chosen does so well with the character of Judas.
There is actually sympathy for the, not the devil, sympathy for the Antichrist, you know, sympathy for your character.
Yeah, I think that's cool.
So I don't know if I'm officially allowed to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway.
They're actually raising the budget for it.
And you can donate money to the project at anti-series.com.
So if anybody is feeling particularly led to learn a little bit more about this project to support these young up-and-coming filmmakers, to support Jarrett, who is just an awesome dude, anti-series.com is a place they can go and learn more and maybe even contribute financially.
Well, we at the B love to support people in the media industry making things that are glorifying to God.
We really love that and we love supporting.
So our listeners also love to do the same thing.
And so I'm sure that there's some people out there that would be interested in giving.
Yeah, thank you, man.
And you know what?
So I want to know a little bit more too.
You're on to some other stuff as well.
You're not just producing anti-you've got a couple of other projects in the works.
And can you plug those real quick?
Yeah, I'm going to plug my seventh grade football team that I'm coaching right now, my seventh grade son.
We have our next game.
No, I'm just kidding.
Raised from basketball.
Now it's football.
It's so funny because I don't mean this boastful or dramatic at all.
But I mean, yeah, a producer on this pilot episode of Anti and a producer on a sci-fi feature film that we're going to shoot January, February now.
It's called The Shift.
And, you know, the similar situation, it's crowdfunded, just like the chosen ones.
You know, so there's opportunity to support financially.
But above that, I hate saying, hey, can you come and support this financially?
Because if you're not led to do that and God isn't putting that on your heart, I don't want you to.
I really truly want you to pray about it.
And if financial support isn't the route that you're called to go, then maybe prayerful support, keeping us updated, liking our stuff on social media always helps.
I mean, you guys at the B, you understand the power in those early comments, those early likes and shares.
I mean, all of that stuff feeds into the algorithm and gets your content, our content, and gets it higher up on people's feeds.
And so that's a wonderfully simple way to support entities like Babylon B, entities like anti-entities like the shift.
So the shift, you can learn more at angel.com slash the shift.
It's another angel studios project, just like the chosen.
Angel is distributing the chosen and it's been seen in every country in the world by hundreds of millions of people.
So I think the shift has the same potential to reach a pretty broad audience.
Angel.com slash the shift.
And that's another sci-fi project, too.
And, you know, the dark one is kind of a presence in that one, but it's a story of light and what, you know, people of faith would do when encountering the devil himself.
So it's kind of a neat concept.
Anyway, so, all right.
Well, listen, bless you and have a wonderful day.
It's really, really a blessing to have you.
And I'm looking forward to getting a chance to hang out with you some more in a couple weeks.
So that'll be cool.
Yeah, we can satirize together, man.
I'm looking forward to satirizing.
That's okay.
All right.
Sounds good.
Talk to you later.
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Well, that was great, Justin.
Great.
Everybody go check out the shift.
We're going to have a link to the investment page on Angel and Anti.
Go check out the anti-series.
If you guys, they are actually in the process of trying to raise their finances, their budget right now in the next couple of weeks.
So it's like it's kind of crunchy.
They have really good actors.
They do have some.
Yes.
Now it is time for hate mail.
I miss Adam Ford.
Here's a comment we got on the book ad.
We did an ad for the Babylon B Guide to Democracy.
Yes.
And this first one, these are some comments we got on the book ad video.
This is from Ram Tiger Falcon.
That book looked like it was real.
Can I get confirmation, yay or nay, on its validity before I spend an hour hunting it?
I'm going to buy that sukka.
I don't know if that's that hate mail.
It's just to buy the book.
I don't feel like it would take an hour.
I feel like an hour is a lot of and see that it's real.
Maybe just look it up.
Curtis Childer said, I'd order a copy if it was really a book.
I hope a satirist writes one.
Sheepdog replies, Dave.
And says, it is a book.
It is a book.
There were three replies to that.
I wish I could see other ones.
Fear the Honey Badger said, this will be the first book to be burned.
I don't think when he takes over?
I don't think that.
I can't tell that person saying they want the book burned.
I think they're saying because it will offend the libs still when they start burning books.
None of those are really hate mails.
No, no, no.
They're just questions as to whether the book is real or not.
It's real.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe anything.
And it's real and it's spectacular.
They're a bunch of liars.
So here's more hate comments on our Instagram directed towards DeSantis sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
Cool.
Let's see.
Carl Goodins says, Descant is evil enough without adding comedy.
Okay.
Descant is evil enough without adding comedy.
I don't understand.
There's one from Carl.
Carl Smith8811 wrote, sick that Republicans find joy and humor out of luring desperate men, women, children under false pretenses across the country just for a photo op and to call rich liberals hypocrites.
Bravo, fake Christian Republicans, bravo.
Bravo.
Bravo.
How do you feel about Biden dropping immigrants off in random cities?
That's right.
Or the liberals out by the vineyard welcoming them for 24 hours, 44 hours that they'd say.
Okay, bye.
Here's one from Matt S.
He says, it's funny because nobody has found the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers funny.
Conservatives just want to own the libs so bad they'll spend millions to send human beings elsewhere.
I don't think they spent millions.
I don't think it would cost that much.
It probably wasn't that expensive.
I've never put together a price package for somebody else.
But for sending 50 people on crossing the border into border towns, like they're here illegally.
I don't know that it's much more inhumane the way they'd be treated there sending them to Martha's Vineyard.
Yeah, so it's either a camp right over the border or Martha's Vineyard.
Yeah, they're a camp for Martha's age.
Did they bring travel brochures to this?
Where would you like to go?
That's funny.
Well, thanks for watching, everybody.
Stay tuned if you're a subscriber.
We're going to talk to Pure Teje, who's one of our Babylon B subscribers who submits headlines every week.
And we get to read headlines with Pure Tej.
We also ask him the 10 questions.
Coming up next for Babylon B subscribers.
And what kind of things do you discuss on this podcast?
Yeah, we're still working the details.
One of the things we wanted to do was maybe have a segment where we explain our headlines to you guys because sometimes you read them.
I would definitely watch that.
Definitely watching that.
I love watching people explain their jokes.
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