The Babylon Bee Podcast: Can Transwomen be Moms? And The Left Can't Meme, 2nd Edition
The Babylon Bee weekly podcast is back to talk about the news of the week like Biden's vow for abortion rights, his obsession with ice cream, and the recent, deserved boycott of Ulta Beauty. Then Kyle, Adam, and Chandler judge leftist memes about Republicans. This episode is brought to you by our wonderful sponsors who you should absolutely check out: Allegiance Gold My Patriot Supply Public Sq App on Apple and Google. There's Sizzler Facts, Banger and Bomb of the Week, and Adam Yenser is back with his Weak-ly News! In the subscriber portion, we discuss more hate mail, the classic article of the week, subscriber headlines, and Chandler answers the Improved Second Set of 10 Questions.
Biden vows to make abortion legislation his priority for next year, like a good Catholic.
God's favorite chicken chain is being called out for their slow drive-through.
Biden's obsession with ice cream might finally explain his constant brain freeze.
All this and moron on the bee weekly.
Hey everyone, welcome to the Babylon Bee Podcast.
I'm Kyle hanging out with Adam and Chandler today.
How you guys doing?
Very good.
So I'm wearing my new Dungeons and Dragons shirt, and I love it because it has Larry Elmore's classic fantasy art.
I thought that was Larry Elmore.
Yeah, it is.
Me too.
Right.
And this is like the original Red Box D ⁇ D.
The only thing I don't like about this shirt is it's an exact copy of the box.
Oh, okay.
And it's ages.
Ages 12 and up on it.
Oh, that's a little odd.
Which is not a great thing to have on a shirt, I don't think.
Like, does that look a little...
It's like something Joe Biden would wear.
Yeah, exactly.
So I don't, I don't know.
Maybe I can figure out some way to like.
Maybe take some white out and turn that 12 into an 18.
Yeah, do we have a button here or a sticker you guys could bring in?
The I voted.
I don't love having an ages 12 and up phrase.
That's so weird.
I bought it online and I was like, oh, I love Larry Elmore's art and I put it on and I was like, oh no.
And it's actually on the picture online and everything.
I just didn't notice it.
People.
Oh, Bettina's going to get a sticker for it.
They're going to be like, why are you waving that shirt, wearing that shirt?
And you'll be like, because I love this.
I actually got it for this part right here, which is just terrible.
Well, we have a new Instagram page for the podcast, The Babylon Bee Podcast.
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And we also almost hit a million YouTube subscribers on the main channel.
So close.
It's a big milestone.
So close.
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Let us know.
Oh, come on in.
Come on in.
Bettina, everybody.
Thank you, Bettina.
What is this?
This is a...
It's your pronoun.
this is much better I now have he's gonna bring you a pin that says five and up The other night after we filmed episode three of the Cali to Texas barbecue sketch, I was wearing the beta.
No, no, no.
It was the in this house we believe.
Like science is real.
No human is legal.
And my fiance was just like, he was looking at me so funny.
And I was like, do you want me to, I was like, he said, oh, you're wearing that shirt, huh?
I'm like, yeah, it was for the sketch.
Ha ha.
And I was just comfortable in the pajamas, which you'll see soon in episode three.
And he just kept looking at me really weird.
I was like, do you want me to take this shirt off and change shirts?
He was like, yeah, I do.
I'm like, you know, I'm only wearing it ironically.
And he was like, it's just, I just, it's too weird.
I'm like, okay.
I end up with a bunch of people.
I don't really believe in science or that love is love.
Yeah.
But I think, you know, it's the whole dogmatic, weird shirt.
But yeah, we only, and then I thought of it, You know, one of our colleagues here was drinking out of a cup to she, her on it.
And I was like, we have so much woke stuff in here, but we only use it ironically.
And I find it funny.
Like, it makes me, if I saw it out in the wild, I'd be like, oh, but I see it here and I'm like, ha, ha, that's funny.
Maybe that's the only reason the woke movement like gains momentum is everyone out there, you see, with signs in the yards and shirts.
They're all doing it.
Ironically, I don't think so.
Nobody wants to see.
I do think, like Amazon became, you too is popular, like I'm sure my Amazon uh, you know the ads.
They don't know how to advertise to me because I have like a lot of like non-woke stuff and then a lot of really woke stuff on my Amazon order.
So I think they're probably very confused like um, are you woke or not?
I can't figure this out.
I know I Google can't figure me out either, which is awesome, it is nice.
You know that robot.
Before we started recording, we were talking about teenage meeting ninja turtles and how you should be April sometime in a sketch.
I that give me an idea for a segment we should do sometime where we bring you on and we quiz you on things that us older people yeah, like and see how much of it you actually know about ninja turtles movies.
Yeah, you were kind of tearing culture from the early, like we said oh, April O'Neal, and you were just staring at us and we're like I don't know if that's so much an age thing, but but no wait well, I don't, I'm not.
It's not strictly age, but it's like.
What are we like 10 years apart?
Ish, how old are you?
I'm 35, I'm 39.
Yeah, he's really.
Yeah really yeah, I'm coming up on 40.
No way.
Yeah yep, that's crazy.
Yeah, I'm 28, so okay.
So yeah, about a decade wait.
Are you really 35?
I am no way.
How old did you think I was?
I don't know.
I didn't think I was older or young.
Which one of us did you think was old?
Actually, I didn't know.
I never thought about it until this moment.
I just caught on camera, ageless, ageless.
Oh that's, that's.
Yeah, that's all right maybe.
How did you think my pronouns were I?
Because they're she, they're apparently she, her.
This actually has all the pronouns on it.
It's she her they them he, him.
Why would it have all of them?
I don't know.
When you pick all of them, cross out the ones you're not.
Oh boy anyway yeah, I don't think it's strictly age, but there is a generational thing like that.
That time when you kind of came of age is when you remember everything, and that's right and yeah, I think that could be fun.
What would you say was like the biggest movies of your.
Like childhood I watched a lot of Disney Channel original movies.
So this is where Brandon and I really bond.
We like know about all the Disney Channel original movies.
Missed out on almost all those, except for Brink.
I like Brink, I loved Brink, yeah Brink.
Johnny Tsunami, Smart House, the 13th Year Rollerblade I haven't heard of any of these oh, they're so good.
And then, and then high school musical like blew it out of the water and that was like okay, like my.
I have a little bit of that connection because my sisters were growing up, you know, behind me and so they were watching like high school musical and I would sit down like fine, I guess we'll watch high school music.
How many sisters do you have?
I didn't know.
You had siblings, two younger sisters and one older brother.
So I still kind of have my foot in some different ages because of that.
So yeah, but I can't remember like the big movies that were like in theaters.
Growing up I watched all the Disney ones, you know.
Yeah, I can't really think of them, but I remember really enjoying Disney Channel original movies.
It would have been like what 2005 2006, you would Have been 11 or 12.
I think that sounds right.
My age always lined up with the year, or like my grade always lined up with the year.
So 2005 was in fifth grade, 2006, I was in sixth grade.
Okay.
Hey, Google, what are the top movies from 2005?
I guess we don't have a Google device in here.
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This is subscriber dare.
This is from Jason Thayer.
Okay, third attempt for subscriber dare.
My homeland of the Ozarks is known for three things: having lots of stones, pugnacious citizens, and transportation hubs.
We don't talk about the last one.
So if you either lift heavy stones and give a guttural yell or fight for the honor of the Ozarks in a battle royale, then I will subscribe.
Okay, so I have to lift some things and yell.
You guys yell, I'll lift.
Okay.
Okay.
I thought I yell while you see, I've heard of the Ozarks and I didn't know what they're doing.
What were the bags for?
Why did you guys bring the bags in?
To weigh down the weight for more weight.
Okay.
Wait, no, you have to do it again because I didn't yell while you were doing it.
Okay, here we go.
Okay.
Um.
We just gained another subscriber.
But the Ozarks, is that where the show, The Ozarks, I think so?
Like, how do you say it's known for three things and not listening to the show?
It's a show that everybody knows.
And then I also feel like it was known for when the COVID lockdowns first started.
There's like a lake of the Ozarks, right?
Yeah.
And there was like, that was one of the first places where it was like, look at all these people having a big pool party at the lake with no masks.
That's what I think of when I think of the Ozarks.
And it's like a big vacation spot.
Yeah.
I thought that's what it was known for.
Kyle was supposed to lift it.
Maybe it's the Ozarks in Utah or something.
Maybe.
It says his homeland.
Maybe it's a country I've never heard of.
Yeah.
Well, you co-opted the gender role, so that's fine with me.
I mean, we are very...
It didn't say...
It doesn't say Kyle.
So if you either address Kyle, it says lift heavy stones and give a guttural yell, which we all participated.
So or subscribe.
Oh, so you're supposed to lift and yell or fight for the honor of the Oz.
Yeah, we didn't.
So we didn't have to do it.
But then it says throw to Kyle lifting.
That was our note.
That was our notes.
That wasn't part of the dare.
Got it.
So we.
And you said, I don't need no man, and you jumped in there and did it.
We did it.
So Jason Thayer, you better subscribe.
Is that what a deadlift is?
What you just did?
No.
Because it says deadlift.
It says deadlift.
I just did.
It just says lift.
Well, but his note was just lift heavy.
I mean, you could technically deadlift that, but a deadlift is more like with a barbell.
Yeah.
It's kind of a weird grip on that.
Anyway.
All right.
And it's time for what's in the news this week.
What's in the news this week?
Biden vows for abortion legislation to be his first law next year.
Wow, planning ahead.
Biden says the only way, the only sure way to stop these extremist laws that are putting in jeopardy women's health and rights is for Congress to pass a law.
Okay.
You know, you got to hand it to him for completing that long sentence with no gaffes.
But though, we don't know that for sure, though, because it's just written down to the story.
Was that a tweet?
Stumbled through it.
And have you noticed that when they transcribe it, have you ever seen this?
When they transcribe it on the White House website, they take out all of the gaffes.
Yeah.
It's like this is the official record of what he said.
I'm like, that's not what he said.
So it's maybe something like that.
So if you look at the 12 states in which the strictest abortion laws that allow pregnancy intervention to save a woman's life, that wasn't a complete sentence.
It says, out of the 12 states with the strictest abortion laws, only three don't include the exception for women's health, but all of them include saving a woman's life.
That was a complete sentence.
Yeah.
And all of the laws say pregnant person instead of pregnant woman.
It's insane.
This is that where we are.
It's insane.
Did you guys hear about the beauty, the beauty brand?
Ulta Beauty, yes.
I don't know if we have that on the notes here, but that was a good idea.
Well, this should come up here because I usually am just like, honestly, this job has saved me in so many ways because I come in here, I laugh about stuff, and it doesn't really affect me anymore.
It kind of heals it.
So you should be paying us.
Yeah, for free therapy, basically.
There was this social media, this viral thing that's going on.
I think it was Ulta was the one I saw where this famous guy who's a trans woman now, who still goes by Dylan, is like, I'm going to be a mom one day.
Not a trans human being.
He's a trans girl.
He's very specific that he's a girl.
And he does all these videos about experiencing girlhood.
And this is what girlhood is.
It feels like just a character.
And he's like pranking Desmond.
Yeah.
What is he doing?
I don't understand.
It was definitely very shocking to see this person on a podcast for this beauty brand, Ulta Beauty, to talk about what it is.
About girlhood.
We're going to hear what womanhood is all about.
Let's have these two people with penises come up on and talk about it.
And this person's like, not talking about us.
The narrative.
Yeah, not you guys.
The narrative has so far to go.
These two people.
That could be fun.
We could make fun of it by putting you guys in wigs and doing this.
We should do it.
One time in drag was too much.
No, no, I wouldn't put on a wig, but it was.
It's a good idea.
I think it'd be funny to have two normal guys like, hey, we're here to talk about girls.
I think that would be good.
And Jarrett loves wearing wigs, so maybe he could do it.
I'm not a woman.
And wasn't the host of the podcast?
Like, Dylan is getting all the attention for it, but the host was also like a man.
Yeah.
And like, honestly, I kind of found it funny that when the Dylan person said, yeah, I want to be a mom one day.
And I can absolutely do that.
I can do whatever I want.
I was just like, okay.
First of all, I felt like the other person who's also trans was kind of like, how?
Like, how are you going to do that, bro?
But I just feel like, I just feel like it's just so ridiculous that they feel like they can rent out a woman, a surrogate, their love child of insanity.
And I don't know.
And then there was another one that also is being canceled right now by a lot of sane people.
I can't remember.
Estee Lauder put a trans woman, like, what it means to be a woman is being a woman.
It's such a weird like propaganda thing where all these companies are trying to push this stuff.
And there's even the people out there that agree with this, there's so very few people that that's actually appealing to.
I don't understand why they're not.
Why they keep pushing that, yeah.
Like, it's that the whole the controversy in the laws that we were just talking about with the abortion laws, there they're trying to call them all pregnant person and do away with the word mom.
And then you have a trans actress saying, I can be a mom.
And then, and then Dildus Dylan guy can do the most offensive caricature of a woman or a girl like, I'm a little bit more.
Hey, guys, I'm a woman.
Let's get that as a gift.
Hey, guys, I'm a woman.
And then, yeah, I'm not a woman.
I said I'm not a woman earlier, and then you guys cut me off.
So, there's just an isolated thing of me going, I am not a woman.
We know, Kyle.
I'm not a woman, but I can absolutely be one.
I assume that it's kind of offensive.
Maybe our woman member here can speak to this to like go through everything you go through as a woman, and then you struggle through that stuff, and you get to where you are today.
And then it's like someone can just be like, I'm a girl.
I don't know.
It just feels weird.
I'm not saying you had a crazy hard life or anything, but it's like no.
I mean, yeah, I think that men and women are presented with experiences that you have that men don't have, you know?
Yes, presented with different challenges.
I'm not going to sit here and be like, being a girl is harder because I think men are facing a lot of challenges that women are blessed to not have to face.
So it's not equal and it's not going to be.
But yeah, my hangup is like, how do the like die-hard lefties, the ones that are like, women, abortion, like, how do they feel about this?
Because they're like, down with the patriarchy.
Oh, please stand right in front of me, man with penis and wig.
Please speak for me and tell me what womanhood is about.
Like, I've actually seen some people like Macy Gray and some like, and Bette Midler have come out and saying, like, yeah, this is nuts.
And we can't, like, literally, this is nuts.
As of a couple of years ago, it was only women have uteruses and only women can have a perspective on abortion.
And now it's men can get pregnant and be moms.
If people are against the patriarchy, which I can't even stand that word because I just know that people use it in such a negative light, then how can you be for trans women's rights?
Because that's still the patriarchy.
Like, that's still people with penises like taking over your power.
And it doesn't really affect me, you know, but I definitely felt a little bit triggered by that by that social media clip.
I was like, this is really weird that people are just like, I can be a mom.
And I don't know, as I get older and get closer to the window of time where I'm probably going to start having children, I definitely feel way more in touch with this abortion topic and way more in touch with like trans women saying like, I'm going to be a mom.
I'm going to have kids.
Like, it's definitely very odd and makes me feel some type of way.
But the records show that Chandler used air quotes around trans women.
Hey!
No, I didn't.
Yes, you did.
That's where they belong.
I'm not criticizing you.
I just for the audio listeners, I want to know when you said trans women, you went like this.
Yeah, it should have been a little bit different.
If it were written out, if there's a transition, every other letter would be around that every time.
SpongeBob font.
Hey, what's the deal with Biden and ice cream?
We've got a timeline of all the times that Biden has been pictured with ice cream.
So in 2008, we have a picture here of Biden in Ohio.
He's looking pretty good there.
Yeah, he's got a bunch of people.
He's aged.
Looks pretty sharp.
Horribly.
Wait, he looks really, that was only like a little while ago.
What, 14 years ago?
You know what?
He looks healthy there, but he already looks old.
He looks healthy for an old brother.
Exactly.
And he's got a vanilla cone in Ohio.
Are these double-fisting the code words?
What?
Ice cream.
No, that's actually ice cream.
I know, but look in the back.
Isn't that comet pizza in the back?
Oh, yeah, like Ice Cream Gate or something.
I don't know.
There's always code words with the food anyway.
Conspiracy theories.
Did you believe in pizza game?
Are you saying you don't believe in the past?
We can talk about it in the subscriber portion if you want.
I just.
Yeah, let's do that.
Are you saying you don't believe in pizza game?
No, I'm not.
Look at that kid.
Wait, we missed the other one.
Can you go back up?
That kid looks terrible.
Vanilla chocolate swirl, and then next to him is Biden holding some ice cream.
Obama, yeah.
And he's got, and he's holding.
Oh, I guess you missed both of them.
Yeah, Biden holding two ice cream cones, also flavored vanilla chocolate swirl.
That's great.
I don't know if I'm allowed to do that joke or not.
Yeah, and he's double-fisting the.
No, we can tell you.
You're allowed to do anything at the Babylon Bay.
I had to double take.
And we got 2010 one here.
He's White House cherry.
White House cherry in Pittsburgh.
And the ice cream cone.
Okay.
It only works.
It only works one time.
White House cherry in Pittsburgh.
Black cherry.
Are you guys?
Did you guys make up these flavors or are they actually?
And there's a scared-looking girl with him.
That becomes a bad thing.
That person at the counter looks like she'd be like an MSNBC commentator.
Oh, yeah.
I bet she is.
Yeah.
So this is January 12th.
Hey, my birthday in 2012.
Biden gets a vanilla and chocolate double scoop in Obamacare.
Is it Capricorn?
I don't believe that the stars have anything to do with our fates.
Well, I do, and you are definitely a Capricorn.
Okay, well, we don't talk about pig and come on.
The zodiac isn't.
Oh, come on.
May 16th, 2012, VP Joe Biden hands out ice cream cones and gets a vanilla cone for himself in Ohio.
There's a lot of Ohio in here.
A lot of Ohio and a lot of vanilla.
India, Ohio has a really good chocolate, it seems.
Is that a Foster's freeze?
It's like a Foster's freeze.
No, it's a DQ.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, there's a DQ sign in the back there.
What's next?
June 7th, 2012, Biden gets a vanilla chocolate double scoop in North Carolina.
And there's another scared little girl in front of you.
Oh, yeah.
September 8th, 2012, VP Joe Biden gets vanilla chocolate swirl in Ohio.
Why does he does he go to Ohio for ice cream?
There's a lot of Ohio.
These pictures are starting to weird me out.
Vice President, this isn't his vice president.
He gets a vanilla ice cream cone in Portland.
He's paying 20 bucks for it.
I wonder if that ice cream shop survived the riots in Portland.
Conspiracy theory, Chan, back in the chat.
Every single Biden looks different.
You think they have multiple Bidens?
And they just have them go to Ohio and get ice cream so people don't think that he's still in the bunker or whatever.
I don't know.
I just, I also am really like weirded out by the like mid, the mid-lick pictures.
The mid-lick pictures, yeah.
Like, why are the journalists snapping the photo?
Maybe it's like the shutter, like, and then they just pick the one that's listed.
It is funny.
Here's the one in Ohio here.
There's, there's a surprising number of these where he's like talking to little girls while he's having ice cream.
There are several little girls in this picture.
He's talking to one.
Talking to little girls.
Well, talking is fine.
July 21.
He's around them a lot.
Ages 12 enough.
He says it on the shirt.
Look, little man ice cream.
Why didn't he go to Little Man ice cream, huh?
Why?
Little man.
We need answers.
July 20, 2015.
Here's May 18th, 2016.
VP Joe Biden goes to Jenny's Splendid Ice Cream in Columbus, Ohio.
There's that lady again.
What is the point of this segment?
Oh, it is the same lady.
Is it just to look at the difference?
Just to look at him eating ice cream.
Okay, so he likes ice cream.
Jimmy Fallon.
Plain devil's advocate.
I don't mind that he likes ice cream.
What's wrong with ice cream?
Unless the ice cream is a code word.
But it does feel like it's a colour.
It does feel like some PR consultant was like, we're going to make ice cream your thing.
Yes.
Or something.
He's like, we can't.
We can't call it pasta with walnut sauce anymore.
All right.
Thank you.
We could probably rapid fire through the rest of these, but we got a vanilla ice cream cone at a Philadelphia Flyers game.
2017, a vanilla cone at Cornell.
Why is he eating ice cream at Cornell?
He's eating it on stage.
On stage.
That was, wow, it was just a little bit more.
It just makes me kind of like, I kind of want ice cream.
2019, he gets a vanilla cone in New Hampshire.
You look so different.
Chocolate chip ice cream cone in 2021.
Is it supposed to be an order?
This is more ice cream than I've eaten in my whole life.
Yeah.
July 2021, vanilla cone with chocolate sprinkles.
I think his hands are sticky all the time because it always drips down over the cut.
Wow.
Wow.
He pulled down his master joint.
He pulled down his face.
It's not very safe.
Yeah.
Bite in.
October 15th, 2022.
Waffle cone.
Wait, scroll up a little bit.
I need to read that intro.
It says, he has ice cream at a Baskin Robbins in Portland.
This was last week.
And this is where he said, I'm not concerned about the strength of the dollar.
I'm concerned about the rest of the world.
Our economy is strong as heck.
All right.
Oh, and we have a pie chart breakdown of all the different ice cream flavors pictured.
He's vanilla and then vanilla and chocolate or the Obama.
Yes.
It's called.
And the cherry and chocolate plus and chocolate like plus things.
And then we need to answer this question: What are your favorite flavors?
My favorite ice cream flavors are chocolate and coffee.
Well, I do like chocolate.
I do like coffee.
Just mix them together.
I do like coffee ice cream, yeah.
Just mix them together, go back and forth.
So good.
I like, I kind of like to do like peanut butter.
I like cookie dough in there.
Anything that has like chunks of something, like chunks of peanut butter.
Oreos.
Yeah, Oreos are good.
I like that kind of stuff.
I mean, I like the basics.
I also, I used to like mint chocolate chip a lot, and I also like Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia quite a bit.
Oh, yeah.
Like Cherry Garcia.
They're chunky monkey.
I love it.
Americone Dream is really good.
We're talking Ben and Jerry's.
Yeah.
Which, you know, whatever.
Feel how you feel about them as a, whatever.
But the flavors are.
I'm a conservative.
I don't boycott every company just because they are disagreeing.
Except Ulta.
When I heard about that, when I watched that Ulta thing, I was like, donkey.
Sorry.
Darn.
I wish that I was an Ulta customer so I could boycott them, but I don't, like, how can I hurt them?
Because I don't want them to survive because they're so stupid.
But most people don't boycott companies.
I just don't.
They're like, ah, well, the product's still good, even though I'm woke.
There are some things that are beyond the pale for me, like the Ulta thing.
Like, I'm not going to buy my makeup at Ulta anymore.
So Chick-fil-A has the slowest drive-through.
Study says.
Study.
Sad.
Probably because they're so busy.
The average wait time was eight minutes and 29 seconds.
Meanwhile, the average KFC wait was, KFC wait was five minutes and two seconds.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
In-and-out is way longer.
In-N-Out takes forever.
Maybe they're just doing that.
Dude, In-N-Out is always backed up.
Like they back out onto the road.
Yeah, all the time.
It always takes like 30, 35 minutes to get it.
But I feel like it's not really a fair comparison because they just have way more customers.
It means they're busier.
It's a longer line because there's people there.
But I feel like if you had the same length line at an In-N-Out as a McDonald's, the McDonald's would take way longer to get through.
I feel like McDonald's is pretty quick.
They're pretty quick.
Yeah, it's as long.
I feel like I get through their pictures.
Oh, man.
They're very quick.
Yeah, I don't use drive-throughs much.
I feel like I used to get fast food at the drive-thru a lot more than I do now.
I haven't used them much in a while.
I almost don't bother going to McDonald's if there's anybody past the speakers because it's just like, it's just going to take so long.
And they always make you go park at the reserve spot and wait for your food constantly.
I'm just like, why do they?
Well, that's what they do to get their times up.
I know, because they have a little timer, and it's like if they take more than 30 seconds with you at the window, they get dinged for it.
So they came up with this plan of just send him on and park you and then they ignore you.
Oh, wow.
So it says here, the study, they actually account for this in this article.
It says what the sensational headline fails to capture is that the wait time is simply longer because more people go.
Wait, did we write this or is that part of the article?
This looks like somebody actually said this because if the study were.
We're considering quickest service per car.
Chick-fil-A actually comes in fastest with an average of one minute and 47 seconds.
Per car.
So they're the fastest.
So it's their fastest, but the headline says they're the slowest.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Brandon wrote this.
Brandon wrote this.
Brandon knows that.
So I don't know if he actually did the math.
It sounds like he did.
It sounds like he went.
He never makes up numbers or anything.
Yeah, that's true.
It is time for Banger of the Week.
Banger of the week.
With Tulsi Gabbard out of Democratic Party, title of Hottest Democrat goes back to Nancy Pelosi.
Ooh.
Lovely picture comparing the two beauty.
I wish that the one with her on the beach.
Is it just like I get it?
I get that it's ironic, but is there anything else to it?
Okay.
It's what?
It's just what?
Absurdist.
You don't get it, Adam?
Like, I get that she's not hot and that it's ironic, but beyond, like, I don't know, it doesn't land with me.
I think that's interesting.
There are no hot liberals.
Oh, maybe, maybe.
But like, AOC is hot.
Right.
I mean, no.
Like, she's more attractive.
I hate her.
Like, she's more attractive.
I think that's why she's so popular is because everyone's like, she's so stupid and she's so hot.
Oh, she's so dumb and hot.
There are even other Democrats that I would say, like, I can't think of them offhand, but I feel like there are some that I disagree with them on.
I think you're probably more attractive.
Than Nancy Pelosi?
Yeah.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
I think it's a joke.
I think it's a joke.
And I didn't even think about AOC because I was too distracted by Nancy Pelosi.
And now here's the bomb of the week.
Top, is this the bomb?
Oh, no, this is a runner-up.
Oh, this is a runner-up.
Okay.
Top 10 achievements Democrats can tout going into the midterms.
It looks like just that picture of Nancy Pelosi really gets good traffic.
It's on both of the bangers.
We can look at a few of these.
The standard of living is up 500% among Ukrainian politicians.
Hilarious memes of Biden eating ice cream have increased 40%, and that's in this podcast alone.
And just in this podcast, thousands of Americans have been saved from the threat of seeing somebody prey in front of an abortion clinic by a pro-life thing.
Yeah, the FBI thing.
The Paw Patrol movie was actually pretty okay.
You've learned to appreciate the taste of bulk ramen.
More women of color are piloting the attack drones that bomb Syrian children.
Progress.
Afghani women don't have to go to school anymore or work or make any decisions at all.
You bought a house, are slowly paying off your debts and made tons of new friends in Animal Crossing.
That is so weird.
Bob from Newport got married.
Congrats.
And finally, there's an 800, there's been an 800% increase in people missing Trump.
All right.
So that was our runner-up banger of the week.
Do you guys play Animal Crossing?
I never have.
I played the one on the DS, and I didn't go much beyond that.
I've played those little kind of sim games, and sometimes I get into them.
Stardew Valley is the one that I enjoyed the most.
So I played when I was like 10 or 11 on a friend's GameCube, I think.
And it was like kind of cute and kind of fun.
And I have the Switch now, and I think I saw an ad for Animal Crossing, and it's so weird.
It's like, wow, have your own house and your own garden.
And like, I don't know.
It was weird that it's like encouraging people to like jump into the virtual world.
And it was very bizarre.
I interviewed someone.
Were you here for that one where you interviewed that guy who said Animal Crossing is destroying Western civilization?
Yes.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I forget who it was.
It was weird.
It was like giving me like a few minutes.
I think so.
Yeah, that was very interesting.
That's kind of the vibe I was getting from it.
I was like, this is giving me like black mirror energy.
You don't just come into the cloud.
You don't, you know.
Go into your pod.
Yeah.
Live your life virtually.
Make friends online.
You don't need outside friends.
But also, it's just cute little animals.
There was something.
Why did you have that?
Who was that?
He was interesting on our podcast.
And there was somebody I saw on Jordan Peterson's podcast once where they were discussing that.
And they were saying that, like, as this generation, both in terms of your avatars online and all these online games, that virtual identity is starting to take primacy over your real life identity.
It's very strange.
Yeah.
That's probably.
We grew up without the phones as children.
Well, we did.
You already did.
No, I got my first iPhone, the smartphone at smartphones, but I mean.
No, I got my first cell phone, which was like a prepaid phone in like 50.
You're just a little baby channel.
But I just, you know, see the kids like going to sleep like this, waking up like this.
Like, that's really bad for your brain.
It's going to slow down your cognitive functions.
When did you first have the internet?
Like, you first have internet access either at your house or at least.
Internet access, I feel like, was probably around maybe 10th or 11th grade, and it was like extremely slow.
If you were loading a picture, it'd be like, did you kind of picture it?
You know what it was?
It was when I, because I collect the Star Trek cards, it was usually pictures of Star Trek cards.
And you're still collecting those.
Yeah.
I got back into it during the pandemic.
I remember the internet in the early days.
AOL would do the dial-up and do like the step one.
Yeah, I remember the music and everything.
It was so obnoxious.
And if someone was on the phone, you couldn't do internet.
Yeah.
All of that.
And it was like slow.
And now the internet is so crazy.
Like, it's so different and over-regulated.
And even the early days of social media, like MySpace and Facebook in the beginning, were so fun.
And Instagram in the beginning.
So fun.
And now it's like over-regulated, over-algorithmatized, and it's driving everybody nuts.
I've mentioned this a few times, but there's a guy who wrote for Funny or Die that wrote an article called like Facebook just fired all my friends or something.
And he was talking about how they used to make content, comedy videos for the internet, and people would go to funnyerdie.com or whatever it was and be like, oh, that's one of my bookmarks.
And then Facebook kind of mainstreamed everything where everybody just goes to Facebook and you have to build your stuff for that algorithm.
And once they kind of flip the switch and said, we're not promoting that kind of content anymore, you can't have these fun websites like Home Star Runner that like, because every morning you'd go, you'd, you'd boot up your 20 favorite websites.
Yes.
You know, and go to them and they were all unique and special and had different look and feel and different community.
And now it's like just like homogenous.
Like everybody go to Facebook and we will serve you the articles that we think you should see.
And I hate that.
It is so weird.
Yeah.
I used to go on websites more.
Be sure to follow us on Facebook.
Yes.
But it's so weird.
Yeah.
I've been scrolling through Facebook recently and I'll see like Jennifer Lopez fans suggested for you.
I'm like, I don't suggest it for you.
Remove.
Like I don't like Jennifer Lopez or her fans.
Like why are you sending this to me?
And I keep seeing these weird suggestions.
Like why would they, they're doing a bad job because they're suggesting stuff to me that I do not like or care about at all.
Speaking of stuff we don't care about or like at all, here's the bomb of the week.
I kind of see Facebook as a really dumb, like, like a really dumb boyfriend or girlfriend or something that's like, you mentioned one time that you like something and they're like, you know, you said you like spaghetti.
Yeah.
I got you spaghetti.
And you're like, I just kind of said I like it.
I like you for Christmas now.
Because I looked up NFL memes because I wanted to see if they copied our joke.
I saw the whole thing.
I looked it up and now my whole feed is like NFL jokes?
Oh, this guy likes one NFL.
I'm like, no, not really.
I just wanted to see it one time.
Their new algorithms are absolutely terrible.
Speaking of terrible.
Yeah.
Bombs.
Here's our bomb of the week.
Bomb of the week.
Get a load of this loser billionaire who doesn't even own a failing social media platform.
I think this was, it shows Jeff Bezos.
I think this was in response to what Kanye buying?
Kanye buying Parlor and Elon buying Twitter.
And Elon buying Twitter.
Billionaires seem to be doing.
Kanye has been dominating the headlines lately.
Jeez.
Yeah, just all the time.
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Okay, well, now it's time for Sizzler Facts.
20 weeks ago, we debuted a new feature to the podcast called Sizzler Facts.
You suck.
Guys, I'm trying to do a very serious segment here.
Called Sizzler Facts.
James Cameron was inspired to write the 2009 blockbuster hit Avatar while at a Sizzler restaurant in Pasadena, California.
Many people believe the movie was a precautionary tale of the dangers of industrialism and colonialism.
But in fact, the primary theme of the movie is that of choices, similar to how Sizzler offers us choices of fresh, hot cooked meals and cool, refreshing salad options.
Jake Sully, brilliantly portrayed by Sam Worthington, was offered the choice to inhabit the body of his avatar and then later choose to confess he was a spy among the Navi people.
Neytiri chooses Sully and Sigourney Weaver chose to play the career-making role of Dr. Grace Augustine, an exobiologist and head of the Avatar program.
This has been Sizzler Facts.
That was a good one.
I didn't know he wrote he came up with the idea in a Sizzler.
I didn't know either.
I wonder where we found that at.
That's interesting.
And now it's time for Sizzler Comments.
Sizzler Comments.
I have a Sizzler Patch, says.
Who is it? Patch.
Scroll up, cat.
Fishy the Penguin.
Okay.
And there's a picture of a Sizzler family steakhouse.
That was the really old logo.
Yeah, that was the old one back in the 70s or whatever.
Patchwork.
And here's one from Legolas on the shelf.
Imagine, which is a great.
There's a Photoshop of Legolas.
Imagine walking home.
You look a bit haggard with your shaggy hair, peg leg, etc.
Alas, someone has found your bull slash portrait.
Just a bit further down the lane, your buzzer lights up as the love of your life throws his front door wide open, taking you in just as you are.
Thank you, Sizzler.
That's a reference to the last episode.
This is your mystery we had last week.
We apparently, oh, yeah, we endorse stealing things from Sizzler because we want Sizzler products.
On memorability.
This is from Thoughts and Players.
Message received, I will attempt to steal a Sizzler buzzer, hat, or apron, anything for the B. Stealing is wrong.
This is a Christian public.
Thou shalt not steal, but borrow and lend.
Yes, and then we'll return it to them during the restoration year.
I worked at a Sizzler in Trenton, New Jersey for three days back in 97.
I never thought I would regret not swiping something on the way out until now, Heather Johnson.
See, guys, this is bad.
Everyone's like...
Let's keep stealing it.
I feel like when you leave a job, you might have a name tag or like there's got to be something.
Take a souvenir.
I think that's if you were.
Okay, that's different.
If you keep your old apron or something, if you keep your old unit.
Yeah, yeah, like your early aprons there.
Maybe you'd forget to return it.
Like, aren't they really struggling and get us some Sizzler cash from their cash register?
Isn't that like why?
Maybe that's a factor in why they're going out of business.
Are we contributing to the future?
Is everybody stealing the buzzers?
No, I don't think so.
I think if anything, we're raising their profile.
I think so.
We're almost at a million subscribers, and every one of those people go to Sizzler.
Use code BEE for 10% off your bills.
And here's a final Sizzler comment from Christine Johnson.
We don't know if Christine is related to Heather or not.
There's a Sizzler here in my town.
I'll check to see if I can get some swag.
And then the squinty smile emoji.
All right, now it's time for weekly news with our very own Adam Jenser.
It's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
Here's what's happening this week.
Researchers at Boston University developed a new COVID strain in mice with an 80% death rate.
The mice will be served at Boston Wet Market.
Eminem turned 50 this week.
He now goes by dad Bod Shady and uses a weekly organizer for those blue and yellow purple pills.
Georgia Republican candidate Herschel Walker admitted to writing a $700 check to an ex-girlfriend, but denied it was for an abortion.
Walker insists that abortions only make up 3% of the services his ChexTex girlfriends provide.
eBay is refusing to sell any Jeffrey Dahmer-related Halloween products on its website.
Omaha Stakes is also refusing to sell any Jeffrey Dahmer-related products.
A sunfish found floating dead in the North Atlantic Ocean broke the world record for largest bony fish, weighing in at 6,050 pounds.
Wait, wait, we caught a bigger walleye, said two guys in Ohio.
This week at a race in Las Vegas, Bubba Wallace became the first driver to ever win NASCAR's middleweight championship belt.
Uber Eats is going to start offering marijuana delivery service in Toronto, and chances are you're going to order Uber Eats again that night.
Ulta Beauty was widely criticized for bringing trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, who is biologically male and possibly a Chris Catan character, onto their girlhood podcast to discuss his desire to be a mom.
Take a look.
Now I know I can find love.
I know I can still be a performer.
I know that I can have a family.
I want to be a mom one day.
And I absolutely can.
Now people are right to be critical.
Claims like this from the transgender community are absurd.
Being a mom is based on objective biological factors.
First, you have to be female.
Second, you have to have kids.
And third, you have to be so fat that if you sat on a rainbow, Skittles would pop out.
That's what it means to be a mom.
Everyone's mom is those things.
But Dylan is none of those things.
He's not female.
He doesn't have kids.
And he's not so fat that when he sits around the house, he sits around the house.
To pretend that mom is just some arbitrary identity you can assume is insulting to actual moms, and your mom does not deserve to be insulted.
That's it for weekly news.
Be sure to subscribe to the Babylon Bee podcast channel and come see me live at the Punchline Philly on November 2nd and TK's Comedy Club in Dallas, November 10th to 13th.
That was really funny, Adam.
Thank you.
And now it's time for unfunny things.
The left can't meme.
We had our team pull.
This is a popular segment we did, I don't know, a year ago or so, where we looked through leftist memes to see if they were funny or not.
I haven't seen these yet, so maybe they're good.
We don't know.
Let's see if the left is good at comedy or not.
Can the left meme?
Here's the first one.
So it's Jesus talking to an injured man, leper or something.
It says, and Jesus said, screw you, leper.
I ain't no libtard socialist.
You're not supposed to laugh.
It makes me laugh.
I don't think because you think it's funny or because of how bad it is.
Like, yeah, it feels like somebody's making fun of leftist memes when they make that.
All right, and then here's one of Jesus leaning into the frame.
And he says, in case you're still curious about what I would do, I wouldn't put children in cages.
I like what would you say?
I like the tilted Don Perez 7.
That was obviously a jab at Trump, but isn't the crisis, the border crisis, like way worse now?
Yeah, it's gotten worse.
Some of the cages were from the Obama era.
I assume this was made back.
I've assumed this meme was made back in the Trump day.
Oh, this is a picture of Bill Murray in a.
This is obviously a screen grab from a movie that I have not yet seen.
Sorry, like I said.
Do you know what the movie's called?
Is it Groundhog Day?
Adam totally gave me a hint.
That's a great screen grab.
Only in America do we accept weather predictions from a rodent, but deny climate change evidence from scientists.
Those are very equivalent things.
The funny tradition with the girls.
It is real.
Did you was this something you celebrated?
Groundhog Day in Pennsylvania?
Yeah, my brother has gone to Punxatawney for Groundhog's Day.
I just assume it's a bigger thing out there than it is.
It's definitely bigger in Pennsylvania than maybe elsewhere.
But yeah, I always liked Groundhog Day.
My grandfather would actually go to Groundhog dinners where they would have a celebration that day.
It's the beginning of what season?
Spring.
It's the beginning of spring, and the Groundhog Punksatoni Phil comes out of his little den.
And if he sees his shadow, it means there's six more weeks of winter.
And if he doesn't, then it means spring is the weather will get warm and it'll come early.
But it's a big to-do.
They have like these guys with like official keepers of the groundhouse.
They're like, like formally dressed, and they bring them out and make a big prediction and stuff.
That sounds really cool.
And I think that like animals have their own like clocks going on.
I think that's like a very accurate way to measure what season we're in.
And I started a bit one year on the Ellen show where it was we have our own groundhog in California named Rancho Kookamonga Jones.
And he comes out of his den every year and just predicts that there's going to be like six more years of summer, that this just never ended.
It never changes.
And I and the other writers, we loved this bit, but I think Ellen stumbled over the words Rancho Kookamonga Jones.
And it was funny, but then I kept trying to bring the character back again, but we were never allowed to bring it back again.
But I wanted to start the California Groundhog.
So they did do it once.
They did do it once.
They didn't bring it on.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's sad.
We'll have to do it.
But he sits by his pool with a Mai Tie.
And then we all got, and we loved it so much.
I will wear my Rancho Cookamonga Jones shirt.
I can't wait.
I have a shirt with the character on it.
Yes.
We all made shirts with him on it.
I feel like we need more local traditions like that.
I love goofy local traditions where they get way into it and stuff like that.
All right, here's one.
What's this guy's name?
Sam Elliott.
Sam Elliott, yeah.
So it's Sam Elliott, and he's looking off very gruff.
He says, abortion is murder, but food is food.
What?
I like that one.
I do think that was funny, but I just find it dark, not political.
Like, I don't know what message that's saying about it.
It's saying, like, okay, so you're against abortion, but you'll still eat meat.
Oh, I thought it was about eating the babies.
I don't get the job.
I thought it was abort the baby and murder me.
Maybe that's why it's a can't meme because I can't.
I didn't understand.
I thought it was hunting, and he's like hunting his animals.
I like that.
Do I have to know the movie?
Is that movie something?
No, they always use like Sam Elliott to like say things like for their political side, but I don't even know what his pawn is.
I thought it was like abortion is bad, but food is food.
Like they're going to eat the babies because they're starving.
I like the dark humor interpretation.
But see, I only like it in the sense of dark humor.
I don't understand what political message is.
I don't know what it means.
Here's one of Robert Downey Jr. rolling his eyes.
It says, The face you make when Republicans post stupid big Hillary email memes or the same old dead babies or steal my gun memes.
I love it because I just laughed at a dead baby joke.
The same old dead babies.
There's Adam.
They never stop talking about the dead babies or the Hillary emails.
Did we put the Hillary merch campaign in this list as well?
She basically started a merch line that says, butt her emails.
Yeah.
And I just think that's so stupid because it's like, yes.
But you did.
You didn't delete emails.
And that's really bad.
And I also feel like that was a big deal at the time, but there's so many other gripes Republicans have about both her and the Democrats since then.
I really don't hear Republicans saying the butt her emails thing legitimately much anymore.
Yeah.
Have you guys noticed that no politicians ever actually have to pay the consequences for their scandals?
Ever?
Like Trump.
Trump gets rated with the power of the public.
Yeah, he's been having a hard time.
But I mean, most people like.
Well, that she can just flaunt like, yes, I mishandled like 30,000 declassified emails.
But Trump is a little bit more.
I can sell shirts and now she can joke about it.
Yeah, no, it's pretty crazy.
I do feel like to a certain extent.
Obviously, Trump's a real threat.
He's kind of an outsider, but I think that career politicians are kind of on this inside cult type thing.
They're protected.
It's the good old boys club for sure.
Absolutely.
Ha ha ha.
This is Betty White.
May she rest in peace.
Ha ha ha.
You're a woman and you vote Republican?
God, you're stupid.
Good luck with that.
No, I acknowledge things that they say over a celebrity's fan.
That's like not a meme.
There's no joke.
That's not a meme at all.
I acknowledge that we're pulling the absolute worst of the worst of liberal memes, but these are still so bad.
Yeah.
It's funny how bad they are.
We need to do the right camp meme where we pull the really bad boomer Republican memes.
There are definitely bad right-wing memes.
I think there are funny right-wing memes, but there are also some really bad ones that are kind of the equivalent of this.
Yeah.
All right, here is Will Farrell dressed as legendary Anchorman Ron Burgundy.
Have you seen this movie?
Have you seen Anchorman?
Oh my gosh.
Wow.
It's really good.
Like, I know some of the ones people say, oh, you got to watch that movie and it doesn't age well.
Anchorman.
Anchorman is like every line is quoted.
Every line is quite a bit.
I think I started this one.
Did Judd Abatau produce this one too?
Yes.
I really like Judd Abatau films.
Did he produce Dodgeball?
I have no idea.
I don't know.
I just really love Dodgeball.
All right.
So Ron Burgundy is staring at you like you're an idiot and he says, I saw someone in a sweater today.
So climate change must be a hoax.
Stay classy, deniers.
Here's like a crazy rednecky looking woman missing teeth and going cross-eyed.
And she says, I vote Republican because that there Reagan feller said voting Republican would make me rich after they get too rich.
What?
I don't understand.
I don't even get it.
That last fragment really.
Yeah.
I like how they just had to keep going.
Okay.
This is a picture of a submerged iceberg.
It's like where the tip of the iceberg is much smaller than the service.
So the top says, the tip says abortion rights.
And then underneath the ocean's surface says access to birth control, marriage equality, gender affirming care, health care, privacy.
Is this supposed to be funny?
Is it saying that when you take away abortion rights, you take away all these other really important things?
But it's not very accurate or funny.
It's not reading.
Reagan.
All right, here's one that shows a hurricane coming to Florida.
This is such a fixed thing.
This is funny.
I like that.
Climate change is fake.
Climate.
Hold my beard.
And there's a hurricane.
I actually like that one.
But it's probably the dark hub of the hurricane going to destroy everyone.
But it's also like hurricanes came before climate change.
It's a dumb point, but it's done well.
But it is funny.
I like hold my beard.
It is possible that we are having an effect on climate.
Yeah.
But I find it very, very, very sus.
Yes.
It's extremely exaggerated.
And it's used as like a political.
I agree 100%.
Yes.
I never call myself like a climate change denier because I think the things we do do impact it, but they exaggerate the degree and the severity and how fast it's happening.
And what a response to be how we can adapt to it.
Take shorter showers, carpols, give up meat.
It's like, um, actually, like, China is doing a lot of things.
No matter what we do here, China is polluting way more.
And, but, of course, let's, I, oh, that's another thing that's you guys sound like the redneck on the meme who's like, oh, just vote Republican.
Dirty, dirty.
My Reaganfeller told me there's no climate change.
I was thinking about how I ordered like a, this is just a little quick thing.
I ordered a high-quality athleisure set, and it wasn't very cheap.
And I was like, is that shirt?
Is that clothes?
Yes.
It was like a shirt and joggers set.
It's like for lounge.
It's a lounge set from Alpha Leap.
Use code BEE.
Anyway, so I ordered it and I was so happy.
It was like French cherry cotton.
I was like, wow, this is so cool.
And like, was it made in France?
And I flip it over because it wasn't super cheap.
And it was made in China.
And I was like, wow, we have really screwed ourselves.
We've outsourced all of our manufacturing to China.
Even the high-quality stuff that's more expensive is still made in China.
That's why when the pandemic hit, everything slowed down.
I just think we've really, we've really screwed ourselves.
Am I allowed to say that?
We've really shot ourselves in the foot there because no, it's true.
Like, that's really bad.
I wonder what Republican Jesus would think about what you're saying.
So, this next meme is: it's Jesus kneeling in front of an American flag with a shotgun on his lap.
He says, Republican Jesus, guns for all, but no health care.
I'm pro-life.
I think it's more of a liver action rifle.
Is it?
I think so.
It's hard to tell.
It's very pixelated.
Is it your turn?
I guess.
Okay, so this one is a swimmer and a shark that is labeled COVID-19, about to eat the swimmer.
And then underneath says the upcoming economic crisis.
Okay.
And then underneath that says climate change.
And it's a giant.
It's Megalodon.
I don't, is this a left?
Is this a liberal meme?
Yeah, I was going to say it was very confusing.
I don't even understand what the point is.
All right.
Well.
Oh, maybe it's saying, hold like, we go.
I think it's saying what is like a bigger threat to us.
Yeah, like climate change.
So it's like for a human, like COVID-19 is like a minor threat that we're all obsessed over.
But the economic crisis.
The economic crisis is bigger, which the middle one sounds like a conservative.
Right, that's right.
And then the bottom one is like climate change is way worse than the economy.
So maybe that was a conservative one and they added the bigger shark to it.
Possible.
I don't know.
I don't get it.
Okay, well, here's one.
This is the classic two-button meme where the guy's sweating and trying to decide which button to press.
And the first one says, the DMV is a giant bureaucratic cluster F and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
And the one on the right says, everyone who votes should have a photo ID.
Those are so not related.
And then the sweating person is Republicans.
Okay.
Oh, no.
Okay.
Everyone hates the DMV.
Yeah.
The way the, okay.
I keep getting off topic.
I'm sorry.
But the way the government has gotten so like watered down and lame is because it's overfunded and too large.
You know?
And also, when you call the IRS and you call the DMV and you call like the unemployment hotline, the whole music is the same.
And that is a problem.
If you put all that over a picture of Betty White, it could be a meme.
Please do that.
Hold music.
Please do that.
She's saying it.
Production people.
All right.
Well, let us know if you think that the leftists meme appropriately in the comments.
How would you rate the leftist memes?
We'd love to hear your thoughts.
And if you find any leftist memes that you think are funny, send them together.
Yeah, I'd love to see.
I'm curious if there are some funny memes.
We'll do a left can meme segment and we'll do a right can't meme segment coming soon.
Well, now it's time for hate mail.
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I really miss Adam Ford.
So we wrote an article, Scandal After FBI discovers 48 gigabytes of anime on Matt Walsh's computer.
Now this is in response to Matt Walsh, who recently said on his show that anime is satanic.
All anime.
All anime is satanic.
Do you guys like anime at all?
I'm indifferent to it.
I just like I've gotten into one.
See, I never got into it, and then it kind of surprised me when it got as big as it did, because I think when I was younger, I saw it as like a nerd thing.
Like nerds were into anime, and I'm surprised how like culturally prevalent it became.
Well, it's Pokemon and Dragon Ball.
I watched Pokemon a little bit when I was a kid.
I watched it a little bit, but I was more into the games than the cards.
But no, like, I've heard like some of the anime movies are supposed to be like epically good, but I've never watched them.
Yeah.
And I watched Spirited Away.
So here's a comment from SNEC on our website.
And they tagged Travis and said, Travis, I would like to order a hit piece on whoever wrote the Matt Walsh anime article.
And there's a picture of a Japanese woman bowing and with the, you know, the hands together.
Some cherry blossoms and not Fuji butter.
I don't know what that is.
All right, so Travis is here with us and he's going to respond to that.
He also had some thoughts on the Phantom Menace, which he wrote in a premium article on our website.
If you're a subscriber, so check that out.
Travis, go ahead and give us your thoughts.
All right, so here's a, yeah, this is not hate mail, which is odd to have in the hate mail segment.
Unless you take it that way.
Maybe it could be interpreted that way.
Dak McIntosh asks, is the Asian guy Odin Fong?
I've never seen the two in the same place at the same time.
Oh, Brandon?
Is that what they're talking about?
Are they talking about Brandon?
Is Odin Fong?
Is that who Brandon played in the Samurai episode?
I don't know.
I don't know who Odin Folder is.
That's Odin Fong right there, I think.
Oh.
That looks like an album cover.
I don't.
And Brandon can sing his tushi off, so maybe it is.
I mean, granted, as white people living in America, sometimes we mistake Asian people like we think they look similar.
Well, they can all tell each other apart, and they probably look at white people and they're like, you know, you guys all look at it.
Which one Asian guy ever walks up to another Asian guy?
He's like, oh, I thought you were me.
I'm sorry.
I don't think so.
But all of that to say, I don't think Brandon looks particularly like that guy.
Yeah, I don't think they look alike.
Yeah.
There are Asian people that Brandon looks more similar to than that.
I agree.
All right.
Thank you guys for watching.
Stay tuned if you're a subscriber.
We're going to look at Bonus Haymail, a classic article of the week, and subscriber submitted headlines.
We're also going to ask Chandler the improved second set of 10 questions.
Oh.
You don't want to answer?
The second ones are better, I feel.
Okay.
She's a classic Taurus.
Oh, okay.
I'm a Leo.
Thank you.
Classic Cancers.
Now it's time for subscribers.
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The Bee should know better.
A woman on her own is not funny.
I can't argue with that.
She has to be with a man and then she can be funny.
This is so stupid.
So you know all those drugs?
You know all those drugs that they got.
Was that okay?
I just got wrong.
I didn't do any.
So if I ask him that, and he's like, yeah, you can use it.
Oh, can I go back?
Dang it, really?
It was fun?
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