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Hey everyone, welcome to the Babylon Bee podcast.
I'm Kyle Mann, the editor-in-chief of the Babylon B, and I'm hanging out with Jared and Dan today.
How you guys doing?
Great.
Doing well.
Awesome.
This has been a freaking whirlwind, man.
We had Thanksgiving week, which a lot of us weren't in, or we were jumping in and out of Thanksgiving.
It was crazy.
We had the holiday off, and we didn't even record a podcast last week.
Well, because we did two the week before.
Doubled up and then doubled up.
Some of us weren't in, but others of us were here working hard.
I was in the mountains.
I was up in the mountains.
Yeah, Jared always seems to be in the mountains.
Yes.
Or the Antichrist.
I'm either in the mountains or I'm the Antichrist.
One of the two.
It happens.
When is your Antichrist movie coming out?
That's going to be, so they're still working.
Can you talk about that yet or no?
You know, yeah, I can.
I don't know when it's coming out, but I think they're doing, they're just kind of putting together the torch for VidAngel.
So that's kind of what I think.
I didn't know that was a Vidangel thing.
Yeah, so they're trying to do an angel torch.
I don't know.
Is that a terminology that I should know?
Putting together a torch?
Yeah, you don't need to.
We're making a torch.
It's a trailer.
Oh, okay.
It's a movie trailer.
A trailer or a short film or something to inspire interest so that people will want to invest in the film.
Is that an angel studio-specific term?
Okay.
It is.
They were all sitting around a whiteboard and they were like, how do we make the term trailer more interesting?
And then like Jordan Harmon was like, a torch.
Torch.
No, they have a whole story.
And they were all like, whoa.
They have a story with a cow, I think.
It's like this weird.
It's not the cow.
Isn't it the Statue of Liberty?
It's the Statue of Liberty.
The cow.
There was another story with a cow.
Oh, okay.
I don't know what that story was, but they gave.
I watched the video.
I was hanging out with the Angel Studios, guys.
I did.
Do you think that there's a difference between Christianity and Mormonism?
Are you asking me what the difference is?
I want to see if they've brainwashed you.
Oh, yeah, I have to.
Like they got to Dallas Jenkins.
How big is that?
They Mormonized that guy.
What's going on?
I was going to ask if torches and the law.
Sorry.
Is torch a Mormon thing?
No.
It's an Angel Studios thing.
It's literally the Statue of Liberty thing.
Like they built the torch.
Supposedly the dude built the torch and then got everybody to crowdfund the statue.
It was the phrased investors because he's like, look at this torch.
Now I'm going to build a whole woman.
Give me money.
Yeah.
So he's like, what you need to do is like show a little party.
Oh, I remember that now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Or with the woman part.
Oh, did we already talk?
Oh, we did because you met the angels.
Did they Mormonize you?
I don't know.
Okay.
Every time I did joke with them, though, I joked with them a lot.
I asked them if season seven was going to take place here in the United States.
Just like we did with Dallas Jenkins for a second.
And yeah, it's funny.
We actually had a really funny conversation about somehow deep faking Jonathan Roomi, like saying how to a book to me.
Have you watched The Chosen?
I did watch the first two seasons.
No, is it three just came out, right?
I think three just premiered in the theaters.
That's right.
So I have watched the first two seasons.
Did you like it?
I liked it a lot.
Yeah.
Okay.
I actually thought it was really good.
And there was no Joseph Smith or Mormon stuff in there.
Okay.
So, no Joseph Smith so far.
He's not in there.
I don't know.
I didn't see him.
Brigham Young didn't make it appear.
He wasn't there.
Yeah.
He wasn't there, man.
None of the guys were saying wives or anything.
You were saying when you were visiting them that you had like a really good theological conversation with them, right?
Yeah.
Well, we talked about.
Did you brainwash them?
I did.
I was hoping.
I was trying.
No, so my wife and their wives were talking, and they got along famously because my wife does homeschool.
She runs this big homeschool thing, and they all homeschool and they all have eight kids apiece.
And it's just, you know, it's a typical kind of Mormon thing.
But we talked about substitutionary atonement.
And it was a really great conversation.
I mean, they were asking me a lot of questions because it kind of came up in conversation.
It's a kind of cross of verse, right?
Like, I mean, they obviously believe Jesus was crucified and they'll talk about that.
I think the sufficiency.
But I feel like they emphasize the resurrection compared with the cross a lot of times.
They don't have crosses on their steeples.
They don't.
And I think the sufficiency of the cross is a problem for Mormons for Mormons.
On a theological side, but in terms of an emphasis, they always talk about the resurrection, which obviously we've is a huge part of redemption.
Well, I would say the resurrection is really important to us, too.
Right.
No, but it just kind of we have a different story about how that played out afterwards.
But yeah, yeah.
He then appears in the United States and preaches the gospel.
I like how none of this was planned out.
We just started talking about Mormons.
This was great.
I love, well, I love this.
I'll tell you what, though.
I started, I clicked on a page on Facebook that was Dallas Jenkins exposed or something.
And they were like really hammering him on different stuff.
And obviously, if he's saying stuff that's, you know, that we disagree with, then fine.
But they're like hammering him on it.
So I was just curious.
They're just trying to get.
Well, the thing is, Dallas is in a unique situation because he's in this relationship about Jesus.
And he's done these moments.
We got the moments up in here.
We had a beautiful, we had a beautiful hate mail where someone got mad at us and he was, he was, actually, he respectfully asked me a question about Mormons being the same thing as Christians.
And I said, well, we disagree on a lot of important theological issues.
And I never used the word Mormon.
I said, members of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints because I didn't want to offend him.
And he replied, and like, Mormons is a slur.
And he got really mad and he's like, Mormons is a slur that was invented to slander us.
Oh, wow.
Like, he just had that in his pocket.
And I was like, I never said Mormon.
Like, that's very important.
I think that's technically not true.
No, but it's not true.
That wasn't like they referred to each other as Mormons until at very least, like five to ten years ago, they switched it and said, no, Mormon is a slur.
Maybe it did originate that way.
I don't know.
But the church officially did call themselves Mormons until recently.
I think it's funny that it took them that long to kind of go, we're offended by stuff.
Because they're the most mocked group of people.
And they have such thick.
I'm sorry that we're just hammering the thick skin.
They have such thick skin.
And they're like, let's choose this to be offended about.
Now that we have alienated a portion of our audience, we love them.
I love the Mormon.
Every single person in Utah just turned off the podcast and is currently typing us very polite hate mail.
I guess we should record this episode.
So today we're going to talk about the Babylon B being back on Twitter.
We're going to run through the news as she's the only podcast on the internet that covers the news.
And we're going to talk about the Chinese citizens who are protesting brutal lockdowns, which is pretty crazy cool.
And yeah.
Oh, look, there's a different set of stingers there we didn't use.
Oh, yeah.
I think I started writing stingers in the intro section.
Oh, that's what it was.
Oops.
Right-wing science deniers.
I thought that was a pretty good Chinese one.
Yeah, let's say it again.
Chinese citizens are protesting the brutal lockdowns and zero COVID policy.
Bunch of right-wing science deniers.
I tell you what.
I kind of went into Charlton Heston there.
That was pretty crazy.
A bunch of red house producers.
We've also got science deniers.
This episode is chock full of new segments.
We have the beloved Sizzler Facts.
We're going to have a segment of Dan's Splaining.
Brand new segment.
Really excited for that.
We all need that.
Spreading.
And we have Sports Ball Update, which I think we've done like one time, but there's a new segment called Sports Ball Update that we will bring to you periodically.
So here we go.
Let's dive in.
This action-packed episode.
First, we want to tell you guys to go to BabylonBLive.com and you can buy tickets to come see us in Fort Worth, Texas on February 24th of next year.
It's going to be awesome.
That's going to be so cool.
Then we're going to do a podcast recording there.
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We're going to have other stuff live.
Some announcements, some reveals.
Announcements.
Seth speech or panel with some of us.
You're going to get to hang out with the Babylon Bee guys.
I think all the VIP tickets are sold out at this point.
Yeah, there's been a lot of sales.
A lot of stuff.
So there was some talk of figuring out if we could expand that or not.
If not, just a general admission ticket will still get you access to hang out with us.
And we're still going to be mingling the entire place and hanging out with you.
Does the VIP ticket give you access to like a board game with Kyle?
My goal is going to be to slip away into a corner and play board games during the VIP segment.
And my goal will be to meet every single person that shows up.
Yeah, and you will, and Jarrett will accomplish that goal whether you want to meet him.
I don't know you, but I like you.
Jarrett likes everything.
That should be a new.
That's our next segment is Jarrett likes everything.
You're going to talk about something that you love.
It's very true.
I hate very few people and I hate very few things.
That's true.
I like everything.
That's a good way to be.
You know, I don't know.
It makes me feel like an idiot sometimes around all you guys.
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What does the Calvin Asanta say on this?
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We've gotten some criticism about some of our merch like not being as female friendly.
So I think maybe they're going for the books.
Like women read.
They do read more than men.
I don't know if that's true.
What's in the news this week?
What's in the news this week?
So, Elon says Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter.
Do they hate free speech in America?
Companies like Apple don't seem to care about Twitter a couple years ago when like back in 2015, they had like a stated public policy.
This is before Trump, I guess, but their policy was like, hey, if someone's doing something illegal, call the cops.
But otherwise, we're not taking down people's posts just because you don't like them.
That was like basically their policy was like Apple's policy?
Yeah, like they had the abusive Twitter's abusive behavior policy.
It's basically like post, people are posting what they want.
It's free speech.
But if you see something illegal or abusive, contact the police.
That was kind of like their majority.
If you feel a law was broken, contact the police.
Other than that, the only real restriction was you can't directly threaten someone with violence.
Yeah.
So it was the same laws that apply to free speech in all other areas of life.
I am going to stab you right now.
That's like, that's not, that's like an immediate threat on your life.
Well, it is, if I believe.
But I could say Jarrett is worthy of stabbing, like in a theoretical sense.
Right.
Or his ideas are worthy of stabbing.
Yeah.
Like someone like Jarrett should be stabbed at some point.
At some point because of his thoughts.
I'm not saying you should stab Jarret.
Wink, wink.
So they were basically saying that if someone's broken the law, then we will take down their posts.
But until then, it's like, just take care, just be adults, basically.
Well, it's the bandwagon thing.
I think Apple's getting on the bandwagon with all these other companies.
There's like a bunch of companies.
Yeah, like a lot of companies have stopped.
Dude, Chevrolet.
Yeah, something like the top 100 advertisers on Twitter.
Like half of them, half of his top advertisers stopped buying ads, I guess.
What are they afraid of?
What do they think is going to happen?
People are going to say things, I guess.
They think that the Nazis are coming.
It's all just public perception.
It's all just this idea that Elon has created a space for right-wing extremism.
Because just it's only been in the last few years that it's even been expected that a social media platform would be some kind of arbiter of what's acceptable speech and not.
That's a very recent idea.
Like we were saying, like the policy in 2015 was very much a free speech platform.
So it's just crazy that in the last few years, that's become the norm.
And it's just this Overton window that has shifted, I guess.
Did you guys listen to the Red Pilled America on Twitter?
I don't know what that is.
So Red Pilled America is a podcast that is really close to your actually.
Kyle was on it.
Yeah, you were on it at some point.
And the Babylon Bee was featured in the Twitter conversation.
They did the history with Twitter.
Never heard of it.
Yeah.
So anyway, if you guys are interested in the history of Twitter and how the free speech thing has happened and how they started shutting things down, that is a really, really great podcast to listen to.
It's about, I think it's four episodes, four one-hour episodes.
And it's kind of, it's one of those like serial podcasts.
Yeah, it's very well produced.
They do a great job on it.
Yeah.
And the most recent controversy with this whole censorship thing was that they said they're no longer going to do the COVID-19 misinformation labels.
Oh, good.
Which was something that I don't know if Musk announced that.
Oh, yeah.
You post something and you have vaccine in there.
It's like experts.
Yeah.
Which is, and I've seen some tweets where people were listing, well, here's seven things that the COVID-19 misinformation used to say was misinformation.
And they're all true.
It's like, so it's a good thing to get rid of this policy.
Well, they do the community notes now.
I like that.
I love those.
Those are great.
Because people are fact-checking the White House.
People are fact-checking Alyssa Milano.
It's like they'll post something crazy and it's like, did you know that some users are saying this?
And it's like, oh, that's really helpful context.
It's a little context.
And it's not saying, definitely what this person said is misinformation.
It's like, here's another perspective.
Like, this is getting shared crazy viral, but that's not actually how the government works for these reasons.
And then you can look at the tweet and go, eh, you know, it's not reducing the reach of their tweet at all.
It's letting them say what they want to say.
Right.
So, I kind of like that idea.
Did you see that the White House deleted that tweet?
It got fact-checked, yeah.
They were bragging about how the cost of living increased for senior citizens or social security.
It's gone up more than any other president.
It's like, well, it's because it's tied to inflation.
You know what I mean?
That's because inflation is terrible.
And the thing with Alyssa Milano, if we haven't talked about that already, is pretty amazing, too.
Is that where she traded in her Tesla?
Yeah.
It's obvious.
It's the best.
Yeah, she trades in her Tesla.
I can't be associated with a car company that is so closely tied to white supremacy.
That's right.
So I sold my Tesla and I got a VW.
A much controversial founder.
An anti-racist named Bob Volkswagen back in the 1930s.
That's right.
Who was running Germany in the 1930s?
Yeah, that's right.
Adolph.
Somebody.
There's this great picture of Hitler talking to the VW people.
And there's like a car model in front of him.
I'm like, oh, why would you not do five seconds of research?
Oh, it's incredible.
It's just incredible.
It's so great that people just getting stuck.
She could have picked any EV and she picked a VW.
And that just makes it.
It just makes it so wonderful.
Controversial founders.
But here's something encouraging.
Chinese citizens are protesting in their nation over this zero COVID lockdown policy in the wake of a deadly apartment fire where COVID-19 protocols prevented emergency services from reaching those tracks in the fire.
Was this the one where they welded shut all the doors?
I don't know if this particular place had the welded doors, but I know that they have been doing that.
They basically tell people, like, okay, your area is in a lockdown.
No one can leave.
And so they just have to stay in their apartment.
They can't go to work.
They can't buy groceries.
They can't go get medicine.
It's like really brutal in these places.
And I didn't hear about welded doors with this story, but there were things where the firefighters, it took them three hours to put out the fire because it was on a multi-level apartment building.
They couldn't get to them.
Because of the lockdown.
Yeah.
Which is just crazy.
It's crazy.
They have these QR codes with their COVID passports.
Whenever you try to enter a business or whatever, you have to scan your QR code and it goes COVID detected if you have a red passport.
Oh, that's so terrible.
That's so dystopian.
It's crazy that we're going to be able to get it.
How are we going to be here in two years?
Are we going this route here?
Is this going to happen?
Yeah, you're going to have to get the thing in your palm of your hand or Antichrist comes.
And I'm sure your movie covers this extensively.
It talks about all of it.
Is that how the Antichrist talks?
Yes.
Was that the voice?
No.
Can you do the Antichrist voice for us?
Were you just American?
No, it actually was a British voice.
Sorry.
So most of the time I was British and then some of the time I was American.
Wait, why would the Antichrist change nationality?
Because when the devil takes over, he's American, obviously.
No, the devil's American.
Obviously.
Oh, okay.
Yes.
Obviously.
The devil is Swedish.
I am the devil.
I am the devil.
No, that sounded like a different accent.
No, it is crazy for me to be here.
They're like, why is the, you're like reading the script?
Why is the devil?
Try it again.
No, that's right.
You see this giant city of these quarantine camps that they're building?
It's pretty crazy.
They kind of look like shit.
And it's like districts.
I saw numbers like 200,000, 90,000, 200,000.
I'm sure they don't know the exact number of these apartments, of these compartments in one camp.
That's nuts, man.
Crazy.
It's like District 9.
It really is.
Yeah, some of what I was reading was like the protesters that are out there and they're obviously protesting.
Some of them are even calling for Xi Jinping to step down and they're protesting the lockdown policies.
But I saw some reporting that these protesters are having their QR codes flag red, even though they're not.
Oh, yeah.
So this is what you can do with that system, right?
So you're all locked down.
You all have to go to quarantine now.
It's like just crazy.
Well, like, once the government can control your whole life, it's like.
Yeah, do you think it's past the point of no return for China?
Like even if these people, even if these people revolted or something like that, because they can't get food, they can't get access to things.
You don't mess with the communist movement.
They're going to roll in with tanks.
Like, they're not going to put up with it.
Well, they kind of wouldn't roll up in a tank against a private citizen.
They would never roll over a student or something.
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Celebrities cut ties with Balenciaga after MyPillow spotted in photoshoot.
Now, if you don't know the context for this, there was an ad with this disturbed-looking child with certain gear around her, like weird stuff, and then also a bear that...
It's all bondage gear.
Thank you.
Just to be clear, that's why she's holding a teddy bear or has it around her neck or something that is like wearing fish nets and collars and leather straps.
Black leather straps.
And yeah, it doesn't look like a happy bear.
Well, and they wonder why we use the term groomer.
And yeah, that's nuts.
And there was a couple other ads that Valenciaga put out with this, and I just don't.
There's a couple different layers to that process, I'm assuming.
Like someone has to like produce it.
Someone has to approve it.
Someone has to line it up on the marketing and be like, okay, this ad goes out here.
This ad goes out there.
How do they claim like we had nothing to do with this?
We have no idea.
We have no idea who produced this.
Why would someone make this with our label on it?
That's exactly what they claim, too.
Did you see their statement?
It was, we're considering legal action against this photographer for doing this.
You know, like, oh, we don't know how this happened.
I'm like, there's no way that an ad that's worth that a company that's worth, I'm assuming, hundreds of millions of dollars at least, isn't like, doesn't go to a photographer and say, here's the art direction for the shoot.
And then they get the photographs back and it's like, no, we don't like this.
We want, you know, this and that.
It's no way they don't have a rep on site.
Like, I don't understand.
They're also, they're known for doing this kind of stuff.
Like, they're known for being kind of, you know, salacious or, you know, pushing the edge.
Yeah.
And so doing this is definitely within the character of the company.
Like if we got a, if we asked a graphic designer, an outside graphic designer to make us our Calvin Asanta mug and it came back with a kid holding a teddy bear in bondage gear, we wouldn't then put it out and go, oh, you know, it's weird that the photographer would do that.
Yeah, we're so mad.
You know, I'm so mad about this.
I'm very upset.
I did not see this coming.
Yeah.
So insane.
And I'm, you know, I'm a QA non-believer now.
Pizzagate, QAnon.
I'm on board with all of it.
Well, at this point, you are a conspiracy theorist if you don't think that they're all satanic pedophiles.
There are a bunch of satanic pedophiles.
Well, here's the, I mean, I think it's interesting, too, that they're trying to push back on the term groomer because that is the word that is being like people that are trying to expose children to this stuff, they are groomers, and then they're saying that it's somehow not true, or this is like somehow a slam against the LGBTQ community.
It's like, no, there are people that are trying to expose kids to this stuff, and those are actually groomers.
Like, what are we?
The battle is always over language, it's always over language.
It's like 1984, they can control the language, they can control the debate, and so like we have the perfect word to describe what's going on: groomer, and then like all of a sudden it's banned on social media and you can't say it.
Well, it's not a blanket statement for the entire LGBTQ community.
This is not a blanket statement.
This is about the people that are particularly exposing children.
Right, whatever our disagreements are with the LGBTQ with gay people, whatever our disagreements are with people like that, it's like you know, whatever we disapprove of the lifestyle, you know, from a biblical standpoint, you, you, there, there is a sizable chunk of the gay community that is like, well, we just made this decision in our adulthood, and our people want to be drag queens are like, why would you take this to children?
It's not, it's not what it's for, it's not for children, right?
You know, and I think you can acknowledge that that's a good thing, at least.
So, at least there's separation, the separation from that, yeah.
At least we can use the G word on Twitter now.
Did you just say you said it was a good thing, and I wanted to make sure we don't say groom what you're talking about.
Well, we also had a bomb of the week of the week.
So, this was the bomb of the week.
Man hits fitness goal of only gaining nine pounds over Thanksgiving weekend.
I like that one.
Look at that guy's face.
Is this autobiographical of anybody?
I know.
I don't, I don't know who wrote that.
I don't remember who pitched this one, but I agree.
Like, this is definitely, I gained, I think, five pounds.
That's a pretty good game.
But it's not like, but when you weigh in immediately after like a you know, big eating weekend or whatever, a lot of that is simply waterway that's going to go away, especially you're doing little car, you know, it'll come back down.
Yeah, it's what I keep telling myself: water retention, salt.
Yeah, there's a lot of reasons why people gain weight in a it's actually very difficult to gain five pounds in like two days.
It's not five pounds of fat is impossible to gain in two days.
Exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
Impossible.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
I think I gained a few pounds.
I gained a couple pounds.
Yeah.
Like two or three.
I did eat a lot, though.
It was good.
I did.
I'd love to Thanksgiving, man.
What a great holiday.
What a great holiday.
I think it might be my favorite.
I like Christmas too, but I really like Thanksgiving.
All right.
Well, speaking of a lot of food you can eat, it is time for Sizzler Facts.
20 weeks ago, we debuted a new feature to the podcast called Sizzler Facts.
Today's Sizzler Fact is that the Sizzler Steakhouse in Sparks, Nevada, unexpectedly closed after 40 years in business on November 14th, 2022.
According to the Reno Gazette Journal, Sizzler, a national steakhouse chain with nearly 100 restaurants, has unexpectedly shuttered its Sparks location.
Shuttered.
A sign on the door, a 15 East Prater Way store in Sparks announced to dismayed diners that the Sizzler had permanently closed.
There's a picture right there.
We are permanently closed.
Well, let's pause for a minute on this picture.
Can we go back up?
I said, let's pause on this picture.
And the notes immediately scrolled away from it.
Whatever I say, they just do the opposite.
Joel Starr owner.
Like this picture, though, is just so beautiful.
Like we have these two box frames that are just kind of not quite aligned correctly.
And then we have just kind of a basic aerial font.
And then the We Are Permanently Closed is in a non-bold pink like Times New Roman style font with random capitalization.
We regret to announce we are permanently closed.
We are extremely grateful for all of our guests and crew members' support for over 40 years here in Sparks.
We enjoyed serving each and every one of our guests.
We will miss all of you and wish you the very best.
Joel Starr, owner.
I think maybe we could get Joel Starr on the podcast.
Yeah, if we can find him, Star.
It just seems like a sort of an afterthought.
This was like, we got to shut down.
And it's just suddenly, it seemed like...
Can we put this together real quick to put on the door?
Yeah, and just printed it out.
It's very sad.
So very sad.
Very sad.
Well, this has been Sizzler Facts.
And now it's time for a new segment called Dan Splaining.
This is where Dan gets to talk about something that's on his mind for a minute or two, and we can maybe pick his brain.
So Dan, why don't you take it away?
The first forever segment of What have you been thinking about, Dan?
All right.
Dan Spling.
So something I've been thinking about recently is that if you go to Denny's, Denny's is the all-American diner.
You can still go there and get a full breakfast for $5.99.
It's a great deal.
It's a great value.
You get pancakes, eggs, and your choice of either bacon or sausage.
And it's still only $5.99.
Does it include hash browns?
Hash browns.
There are no hash browns.
So that's the deal.
With the value, which one is this?
It's the extra or it's the everyday value slam.
Everyday value slam.
Oh, it's not.
It's the, remember when it was like $3.99?
Are you out of your mind?
Remember that commercial?
Yeah.
So that might've been 399, like 20 years ago, but it's still 599, which I think is still pretty amazing.
It's still a pretty good deal.
It's a good deal.
So that's what's been on my mind is that, you know, there are places out there that are still putting out value.
So how long has it been $5.99 for?
That's a good question.
I'm curious when we look at the inflation, like what kind of a deal we're getting.
Like they have to be losing money on the $5.99 deal deal.
Well, in the last two years, the inflation's gone up 16%.
Right.
So we can incorporate that.
And then before that, the inflation was probably increasing at a much slower rate, probably 3% a year.
I'm a big fan of Denny's.
I think Denny's is a great, like, anytime, like, I'll do it for dinner.
I'll do it for lunch.
Yeah, I hopped over there for lunch a couple of days ago, and I'm like, every day, slam.
Really rubbing it in an IHOP space there.
But I went over there and I had lunch.
I tipped the guy a nice tip and I'm like, hey, I'm still out for, you know, what was it, like eight bucks or whatever?
Like, this is cool.
Last time I was there, a bunch of goth kids, and it was a long time ago.
That $5.99 is cheaper than like McDonald's.
You got to understand that's cheaper than going to McDonald's and getting a $12 combo.
Right, because their combo meals are all like $11.
It doesn't include drink, but still, sure.
It's crazy.
Now, one thing I did find out doing a little quick research, my wife queued me onto this is that Denny's, when they had this $5.99 deal, they promoted it by selling 150 t-shirts that are Denny's t-shirts with a QR code.
And if you were able to get one of these 150 t-shirts, you could go into Denny's.
They scan your QR code and they give you an everyday value slam for free.
Forever?
It's like for like the whole year or something like that.
So you can go in like once a day for an entire year and get breakfast for free.
Man, that's awesome.
It's a great deal.
I thought that that was cool.
I want one of those.
Yeah.
I mean, so the potential value is any breakfast or you always get the I think it's the everyday value slam.
I don't think you can just go in and get order like $100.
So $6 times $365.
What's that?
What's it?
$21,000?
So that shirt's worth $21,000.
So do you think someone's selling it on eBay right now for $20,000?
Yeah, because someone might pay $10,000 for it or $5,000 because it's rare that you would get the full value out of it.
Right.
You would also have to really plan to be close to a Denny's.
You'd have to be planning to be there every day.
You know, they did that.
You know, they do those sometimes promotions, occasional promotions where they'll do the, I think it's the everyday value slam and they'll do it for free.
Like there's that one day of the year where it's like free grand slam, free office slams or whatever.
So, when we were routing, when you and I were routing trucks in the warehouse, there was three days, we were routing delivery trucks for a living.
That's before you were at the B.
Yeah, we were routing delivery trucks for a living, and there was like some hot morning delivery, and I'm like, none of the trucks are showing up, and I'm like, What the heck is going on?
And I'm like radioing the drivers and blah, blah, blah.
So, I go pull up the GPS map, and like all of our drivers are at Denny's waiting for the free Grand Slam meal.
And I'm like, You guys have a freaking construction drop-off at, you know, so that's my story.
They're like, We'll get to it, we'll get to it.
This has been man splitting, dance.
Well, I'm seeing my man, so I got to add some man splitting.
Oh, have you used that joke before?
No, I don't think so.
Maybe.
Wow.
Now, man, you're ready.
That's our new segment.
Man spreading, too.
That's true.
Yeah.
Well, this has been the first edition of Dance Blunting.
I thought that was fascinating.
I loved that.
That was really good.
We'll get some more.
Give us your feedback on Dan Splinning and let us know any other topics you'd like Dan to Dance Blitz.
All right, now it's time for another semi-new segment called Sports Ball Update.
All right, so for today's sports ball update, the World Cup is happening.
We wanted to give you guys a little information on how soccer works.
I had no idea.
Did you not know that?
No.
No, I didn't know.
Are you being no, it's true.
I really didn't know.
Tell me more.
This is a character.
This is why we have this update, Kyle.
It's very important.
Okay, it's important for those of us who have no idea about what's going on.
So the World Cup is happening.
It's a big tournament thing that happens in soccer.
I know what the World Cup is.
Oh, I'm explaining.
This is our sports ball factor.
Oh, it's sorry.
It's a big tournament thing that happens in soccer once every so many years.
The teams fight against each other to see who has the best.
The team that scores the most goals each game wins.
And I wanted maybe one detail about soccer we can talk about.
This is just an interesting sports ball fact to me.
Offsides is this rule.
So if you see, they'll call offsides sometimes.
And that's a rule where if you pass it to the player, you pass it to someone who's not in the right area or something.
Or like the wrong guy.
It applies in hockey too.
If you pass, I never understood it.
Then your team gets in trouble and they probably do something to you.
Like you probably get a whistle or something.
I know offsides in football.
Yeah, this isn't American.
American football, right?
American football.
It's different in soccer.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, this has been sports ball update.
We hope this was helpful.
Did you know that in the rest of the world, they call soccer football?
Oh, that's cool.
That would have been a good fact.
That would have been good enough.
Is that weird?
That would have been good for our sports football.
Yeah.
I really like football.
That's just really weird.
All right.
Well, now we're going to talk about the recent saga where the Babylon B got restored to Twitter gloriously.
We're a little late on this, but that's because we pre-recorded our Thanksgiving episode and then it all happened so fast and we didn't have time to tack that up.
It did happen fast.
It was a Thanksgiving miracle.
It was.
Well, we just want to take a moment for a little bit of a victory lap.
It's pretty crazy to get restored to Twitter.
And it seems like it was part of the reason that all of this even happened, you know?
So pretty crazy.
So there's kind of a little breakdown of what happened in March.
We reposted a joke granting Rachel Levine our coveted man of the year award.
That's nice.
Which is an option.
That's a nice honor.
Now, a little known fact, we had posted this joke to Twitter a couple of times because we usually repost jokes on the weekend.
So I think we had done an original post which didn't get flagged as hate speech.
Then we reposted it on Saturday and that post got flagged as hate speech.
So we had a couple of tweets floating around.
And I think the one, the original one we posted stayed up.
They never fly it.
It was still on Twitter.
So they had this whole thing of suspending us and hiding the tweet and all this, but you could still see the joke on Twitter because it was still on our timeline from earlier.
It's weird.
So interesting.
That is an interesting fact.
Did you know that?
I didn't know.
I didn't know that that was still up.
I know.
Yeah.
So we decided on March 21st, we were suspended from Twitter.
We were never actually banned from Twitter.
We could have gotten back on at any time if we only would bow down to the LGBT flag while the music played.
Yeah, we would log in and they would like not let you post and it would have a pop-up and be like, would you like to, you know, delete your offensive tweet?
Yeah.
And we decided, you know, as a company, you know, our the leadership of our company, Seth and Kyle and Dan and Adam, they're like, you know what?
We're not going to do that.
No.
And that was, you know, that was a stand that they took.
And they decided, you know what, whatever traffic we're getting from Twitter onto our website, it's not worth us having to like apologize for a joke.
We told a joke.
So we kind of drew a line in the sand.
It was a little bit of a moment.
You know, it was, have you guys ever seen the three Amigos with Steve Martin and Jeb A. Chase?
Oh, yeah.
I'm drawing a line.
Men are mice.
Let's say it is.
That's right.
Yeah.
Men are mice.
And then they walk.
And then I think when Steve Martin grabs his, or maybe it's Jeffy Chase, and one of them pulls up their holsters, they accidentally shoot the girl.
We had a lot of pressure.
And even from people that agree with us, they're like, well, why don't you just delete the tweet?
What's the big deal?
Just delete it and get back on.
Who cares?
And we kind of drew the line with that.
I think they drew the line and then we said they drew a line and then we walked to this side and drew our own line and we were like, no, we're not our line is over.
What's the line?
What is the line of your life is the question.
The question is, are you willing to sacrifice who you are?
But I think I'm drawing a line in the sand means this is where I'm taking a stand.
So I think we drew the line.
They are the line.
No, they're the sand.
Twitter's the sand.
And we're the line.
They're the sandbox.
They are the sandbox and we drew the line in this.
Sometimes, though, other people draw the line and you cannot cross onto their side.
Sure.
So maybe they drew a line and we said, we're not playing this.
Because they took a stand and said, we won't let this stand.
Well, I think it was just the element of like...
We're not going to bow to you.
I think it was the element to making us delete the tweet.
If they had deleted the tweet and flagged us and said, hey, don't do that.
That's one thing.
You just say, what are you going to do?
But did they make you click the button that says, I admit I was a hateful bigot and I did, you know, worship Nebuchadnezzar.
So exactly.
Like that, that's part of it for me, where I was like, if we had done that, that would have been like sacrificing a part of us to be like.
So we did drawing on being on Twitter is more important than admitting, hey, I'm not racist.
Hey, I'm not a bigot.
Hey, I don't hate trans people.
Like, I'm not going to say I'm a bigot if I'm not.
I don't agree with your categories.
Right.
I don't agree with the language you're using.
Two labels.
Elon then started talking about buying Twitter, leading to a months-long drama and threatening lawsuits and all kinds of stuff, which left our account in limbo.
We were kind of, there was a few times there we were like, did we make the right decision?
Because I don't know what's going to happen here.
And but finally in late October, Musk finalized the deal and we were still in the dark as to what was happening over there.
We didn't really know like, is our account going to get restored or what?
And finally on November 18th, we were freed with our now iconic tweet.
We're back.
Let that sink in.
Now, this was super interesting to me.
The Washington Post recently ran the story.
They reported that Musk's first priority was to free the Babylon B.
This is crazy.
You have like the richest guy in the world walking into the social media site.
He's like, all right, who banned the Babylon B?
Let's get him back on.
So here's what the Washington Post reported.
Hours after Elon Musk took control of Twitter in late October, the trust and safety team responsible for combating hate speech on the site received an urgent directive.
Bring back the Babylon BS, dude.
To some Twitter employees, the order was troubling.
The self-described Christian satirical site had been banned since March for refusing to delete a tweet naming Biden health official Rachel Levine its man of the year.
Levine is a transgender woman, and the tweet violated a 2018 rule prohibiting Twitter users from targeting transgender people by referring to them by the name or gender they used before transitioning.
To Musk, the suspension was emblematic of the kind of liberal overreach he has vowed to purge from the platform.
In a small kitchen on the second floor of the company's San Francisco headquarters, he huddled with his lawyer, Alex Spiro, trust and safety lead, Yoel Roth, another Twitter employee and a Tesla employee to discuss the suspension.
While the Babylon Bee's tweet was not cool, Musk told them, it also wasn't sticks and stones, violent threats that he argued should be the new standard for who gets booted.
I kind of think, there's a couple things I'm thinking.
First of all, that tweet was really cool.
So I disagree with Elon.
Well, and it's, I wonder, too, how much of that reporting got.
Yeah.
You know, because he's like, hey, look, if the tweet, if what if you say something about like to target someone like that, maybe that's not cool.
But at the same time, you're not threatening them with violence.
That shouldn't be bannable.
So I think Elon thinks the joke is hilarious.
He's going back to the 2015 rule.
Yeah.
You can be a jack.
You just can't say, like, therefore, we should go target this person with, you know, abuse and stuff.
Right.
Back to the law, the actual law.
Yes.
Elon says, I am the law.
Like Jesus in the chosen.
He was Mormonized.
Well, I think that's really cool.
It's just a really cool story of, I think, standing up for something that we believed in and maybe having made some kind of societal change because of it.
That's pretty much it.
We changed the world.
All I'm trying to say, I'm not saying that we're heroes.
Yeah.
I do think it's interesting that his first priority going in, like he walks in on day one with a big giant sink and he's like, he puts the sink down.
Okay, that's over.
All right.
Who fired the beat?
Who got them suspended?
What's your name?
What's your name?
Who did it?
Steve?
Steve?
Did you do it?
Bring me Steve.
Bring me this, Steve.
Bring me Steve's head on a platter.
And the other part of it, too, that's interesting to me is it took him a while to get us back on a Twitter.
It wasn't immediate.
It took him about a month, right?
So you got to imagine the infested nest of vipers that he stepped into at Twitter.
I don't know if he realized I show up and it's just going to be.
I mean, maybe he did.
Maybe he did.
But I mean, they ended up fighting, like that guy that we just mentioned, Yoel Roth.
He's gone.
Yeah.
All of the head people are gone.
It was like half the company, right?
Like 3,000 employees or something.
I think for Elon, though, he was being politic.
He was trying to be a good.
He was trying to be a good leader.
I mean, he was trying to go slow.
He wasn't trying to just come in and be autocratic.
I saw him post a tweet where he was basically saying that he had made a deal with these activists that were threatening to boycott Twitter, threatening to get all the advertisers to boycott Twitter.
And he's like, okay, well, if I come up with this council that's all these different viewpoints to come together and make these decisions on who's banned and who's not and what goes against policy, he's like, if I do that, will you not boycott the company?
And all the activists go, yes.
But then they did it anyway.
They got all these companies to boycott Twitter.
So he's like, okay, well, fine.
I'm just going to put people back on Twitter then.
Yeah, it's just, yeah, that's so crazy to kind of see a little glimpse of the inner workings of what all happened there.
Yep.
All right.
Well, thank you guys for your support, especially our subscribers.
Our paying subscribers are really the ones that kept us afloat.
I mean, we did sacrifice a ton of traffic and reach by not being on Twitter for that long.
So thank you guys.
You guys are the reason we're able to do this.
And if you want to join us, please, BabylonB.com slash plans.
You can help support us as we continue to put out some comedy and maybe slightly change the world.
Cool.
Well, now Jared is going to talk with Brandon Show Walter.
Scho Walter.
I nailed it.
You did.
He's from the Christian Post about his new investigative podcast on the battle over transgender ideology.
The podcast is actually called Generational or Generation Indoctrination Inside the Transgender Battle.
And it was a great conversation.
I got a little impassioned.
He was fired up.
He was fired up.
I was fired up.
It was a great conversation.
I haven't heard it yet, so I can't wait to hear this.
Yeah, it's going to be good.
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And now for another interview on the Fee Weekly.
All right.
Hey, guys.
Hey, thank you so much for tuning in to the interview show.
We're very excited to have Brandon Schowalter of the Christian Post on today.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Where are you calling in from today?
I actually called in from, I'm home for Thanksgiving, so I'm in the Shendol Valley of Virginia.
Ooh, that's cool.
I was just in Virginia a couple of months ago and it was really nice.
It's nice out there.
Is it cold right now?
Pretty crazy, huh?
Pretty cold, but it's very nice.
The valley is always wonderful.
Yeah, it's getting down to about 68 here.
So it's really, really hard for us in California.
So, anyway, you're doing a five-part podcast that we want to talk about today: Generation Indoctrination Inside the Transgender Battle.
This is a very, very important topic, and I'm excited that you're doing this.
It's a documentary style, it's an investigative series, kind of like Red Pilled America.
If you haven't checked that out, right?
Isn't it kind of like that?
It's a storytelling podcast a little bit.
Storytelling podcast, many contributors, audio-only documentary-style investigative podcast series, five installments.
Man, okay, I'm going to listen to this.
I'm very excited about it.
My wife and I are going to listen to it.
So, I can't wait.
So, thank you so much for coming on.
So, why make a five-part investigative podcast about the transgender battle?
Well, this is not isolated to just a few people on the margins, as most people have thought in recent years.
We started covering these issues in a lot of depth several years ago, soon after I started at Christian Post in 2016.
And I realized just how this ideology had made an incursion into every sphere of life.
There's not a single area of culture where this insanity infects and just brings ruinous corruption.
The worst part, I think, is what's happening to children in the schools and medical facilities.
And so, a lot of parents that get in touch with us at CP say things to us like, We never thought something like this could happen to our family or to our kids.
Secular parents, people who don't agree with the Christian Post on much, they're finding themselves reading our coverage because we won't gaslight people with wrong pronouns or use the euphemisms that the gender activists employed throughout legacy media, the mainstream press.
And so, we decided, you know, it's time to really go in depth with a podcast series where if people haven't been reading our print coverage, they can at least hear from people who have been in the trenches fighting the good fight for sound biomedical ethics, resisting this ideology wherever they can.
And so, we've done that.
We're going to be doing a bonus episode here soon on the prisons issue.
I guess I can announce that, but we did decide because of how a generation of young people is being indoctrinated, we were going to specifically look at how this was affecting our children in the schools, in the medical institutions.
And we provided some sort of background history and philosophy and some other sort of supplementary expertise from people.
It's a very thorough but succinct series.
Now, you're talking about the trans so you're going through all the history of the trans movement, the transhumanistic philosophy, how that's how that's entering into schools, the indoctrination factories that schools are becoming essentially, you know, reality denial.
Like this is a crazy, crazy time and a crazy philosophy that we're actually blanket teaching our children across the United States, across the world even.
And so standing up to this is extremely important.
I love what you're doing.
And you said that this new one, you're going into the three-part addendum to what you're doing.
You're going into the prison system and just the stories.
You're saying the stories are just insane.
It's just crazy right now.
Yes, I've done three interviews.
For now, we're just going to do one bonus episode or under discussion to do some more on these issues.
But I've done three interviews with advocates who are advocating for women who are in prison.
And because in Canada and in the U.S., this gender identity, this false category of personhood, has been infecting state laws and regulations with regard to prisons.
Men now, on the basis of their self-declaration, are allowed to invade women's correctional facilities, including rapists and murderers and hardened criminals.
They're putting these poor women who are incarcerated, many of whom have a history of drug problems and domestic abuse through an absolute grinding, torturous jackwagon.
I was just shaking.
I had a Twitter thread that went viral the other day where I was explaining just what it was like hearing from one of the advocates and how these women are just being put through the meat grinder and just the utter that it is.
And this contravenes, in my mind, the breaking of every boundary and violation of any sort of sane human rights standard.
Under the Geneva Convention, it's prohibited to house prisoners together when sort of in a war enemy combatant context.
Well, if that doesn't apply here, then I don't think human rights has any meaning anymore.
But that's what this ideology does.
It indoctrinates children into insanity.
It forces an unreality and it's responsible for one of the worst medical and child abuse scandals the world has ever seen.
This is crazy.
Well, and it's amazing that people are turning a blind eye to the negative effects of all the stuff that's going on.
Like, obviously, the hormones have a negative effect on people when they take them too early.
The puberty blockers are essentially castrating people.
And like, this is a crazy, crazy problem that nobody wants to talk about.
And I don't understand it.
I don't understand why people aren't just standing up and talking about this.
Yeah, I totally agree.
And what's been harder for me to deal with, even aside from the horrors of this, I'm so proud of my publication and my editors who have backed me up completely.
And my colleagues have also done some really good reporting on these things.
But with some noble exceptions, of course, churches are not speaking out with the kind of prophetic witness that the hour demands.
I mean, if the church can't stand up to this insane child abuse, what is the church even for?
I mean, I think Jesus would be passing out millstones left and right these days.
He has some very strong words for people who harm children.
And what could be more cruel than castrating them with drugs in pursuit of a physiological impossibility?
What could possibly be more wrong than cutting off physically healthy body parts?
I can show you medical journal, peer-reviewed medical journal citations where girls as young as 13 have had their breasts amputated.
Boys as young as 15 have had their genitals amputated.
These most just disgusting, disfiguring surgeries.
And God bless the detransitioners who are finally starting to put their heads above the parapet now.
There have been a lot of stories and even increasingly mainstream coverage of them in 2022.
And so we're starting to see them make some noise, but this never should have been allowed to happen.
This is objectively anti-science.
You don't carve up the body in pursuit of a lie.
You can't on the opposite sex.
And this medicalization, I don't even like to call it medicine, is completely experimental.
And when the history of this is written, I think people are going to be shocked by the scope of the carnage, but we won't be at the Christian Post.
Yes, you guys will not be.
Neither will we at the Babylon be.
We know that this is evil at its core.
And we are willing to stand with you and fight against this too.
I think it's an awful time.
It's an awful thing.
And if we are not, if you know, who else is going to stand up?
If Christians can't stand up for real things and for children, then what are we doing?
We're just messing around.
And remember when they said it was a slippery slope fallacy?
Do you remember this?
You know, and Obergerfell and all that stuff.
Everyone's like, oh, it's not going to affect anything.
It's just going to stay this.
This will be where it stops.
And it's like, well, we kind of predicted this, didn't we?
Well, the whole revolution is, I mean, everybody was mocking many Christians who talked about the slippery slope.
And I sometimes say that the slippery slope is a near vertical thick sheet of ice that's been slathered in Greece because they were just going down.
I mean, and as evidence for that, I don't know if you've seen in the recent days and Balenciaga, the luxury company just put out that ad where it was marketing a toddler carrying, holding a teddy bear, wearing bondage gear.
And then there was some documents with the Supreme Court case, Ashcoff versus Free Speech Coalition, I believe, which was a ruling that struck down a child porn regulation or something like that.
They just apologized.
But we're seeing the normalization of pedophiles happening right before my eyes.
The interesting thing about the trans issue is, though I am absolutely a believer in our faith's historic teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, I've got gays and lesbians in my inbox all the time ready to scream with me because they are vehemently opposed to this transing of children.
Some of these kids are same-sex attracted.
And I'll be the first to say that treating same-sex attraction with hormones ought to be a crime.
But there's a lot of people from a broad variety of perspectives are finally waking up to what's going on and they're standing up and being counted and saying no on our watch.
And the problem is, so it's the activists too.
So it's not even these people that are going through this.
It's not the people that are struggling with gender dysphoria.
It's not the people in the LGBTQ community that are being taken advantage of and their money is going to these organizations.
It's these activists that are getting in there and the helms of the organizations.
Very top-down kind of thing.
I remember a few years ago, I was talking with some gays and lesbians in DC where I live, and they told me it was as though the organizations that they thought they supported all along had totally betrayed them.
And again, even as I'm, again, I believe very deeply in our faith's teaching on sexual ethics and marriage, like I'm totally willing to talk to anybody.
And let's have a conversation because I don't want to see anybody harmed by this.
I really don't.
And so I'm going to extend the hand across the aisle and pursue good ends and goodwill.
And people never thought that they would be quoted in the Christian Post, but I'll tell you, look, the truth is true no matter who says it.
And so we will extend we will extend the invitation to speak with us because we see the medical atrocity that it is.
I love it.
I love that you guys are willing to do that.
I think it's important because there are people on the other side of the aisle, people that are, for us, we're conservatives, you know.
But if there's people on the other side that are classical liberals, there's even progressives that are against this.
And so we do need to stand together because it is a terrible human rights violation.
You're absolutely absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Man, I love that.
Our podcast series spells a lot of that out.
I mean, I interview a broad range of people.
And of course, we're the Christian post.
We are not ashamed of the gospel.
But if people listen to this series, they'll see that we try to be a very analytical, even-handed.
We've got conservative people, liberal people, a wide range of experts, pediatric endocrinologists, family doctor, a bioethicist, a historian of gender.
We go deep.
Again, succinct, but thorough.
That's wonderful.
Did you have Abigail Schreier in there anywhere?
Did she?
Abigail, I have great respect for her.
Her book is so important.
I didn't interview her for this particular podcast series.
I've interviewed her before, wrote a review of her book, Irreversible Damage, we did interview Abigail Favale, who's an important invoice who wrote a book called The Genesis of Gender, Christian Theory, which came out earlier this year.
But she really unpacks a lot of the history of where this ideology came from and how it's developed.
Now, that's actually an interesting question.
Are there resources or books that our followers should be reading too?
Like, we'll listen to this podcast.
I think we need to be educated on this.
I really do.
I think everybody that's listening needs to be educated on this issue.
What are some really good resources that they can turn to?
Well, you mentioned irreversible damage by Abigail Schreier.
That really highlights how this is a social contagion and it's disproportionately impacting teenage girls.
Girls are bearing a very cruel brunt of this.
Ryan Anderson's book, When Harry Became Sally, was a few years before that, and that really sort of paved the way in some important ways.
I would also recommend a book called Unraveling Gender by John Grabowski.
He is a professor of theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and that's where I went to graduate school.
He's a great guy.
I'm not a Catholic, but I went there for graduate school.
His book is very succinct, but thorough as well.
He wrote his PhD on sex and gender many, many years ago, and I think God has raised him up for this time.
He's got very important things to say.
Unraveling gender, the battle over sexual difference is what that book is called.
I mentioned Abigail Favali, the genesis of gender.
There are truth tellers out there.
I think there's, you want Mary Hassen is another author.
Mary Hassen and Teresa Farnan, they've written a book about how this has impacted the schools called Get Out Now, where they're basically urging parents to take their kids out of public school.
Maybe you don't agree with doing that and you want, for whatever reason, maybe your school system isn't as corrupted, but I think if you do allow your kids to go to public school, you've got to watch it like a hawk and fight back against these gender ideologues who are trying to push this confusion on children.
Because they're even in very conservative districts where you wouldn't expect it.
In fact, here in the Shenandoah Valley, I just met with someone who's resisting that in her own way because these policies are happening even in very conservative areas.
This is unconscionable.
Yeah, the public school system is essentially an indoctrination center.
We, you know, and you're right, you do have to pay attention.
I'm not advocating for everybody to pull out, but I agree with you.
Thank you so much.
This is so informative.
I am so excited about this podcast.
I'm definitely going to be listening.
My wife and I are going to be listening to it.
Brandon, you are one of those voices.
You said that there's people that are standing up.
You are truth tellers.
You are one of those truth tellers.
And we want to be standing right next to you when the smoke clears.
So thank you so much.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
And to those of you who are listening to this and you're hesitant about saying anything about this, maybe you're feeling that kind of internal questioning of should I say something.
If you're silent about this, I'm just going to say to you, your silence will soon be your regret because this is a medical scandal.
And I do believe that God in his infinite wisdom and providential way, he's going to dethrone this wickedness.
He's going to destroy this evil.
And I think you want to be on the side that you spoke up when you needed to.
I agree with that.
That's awesome.
Thank you, Brandon, so much.
Brandon Schowalter of the Christian Post.
His podcast is Generation Indoctrination Inside the Transgender Battle.
Please check it out.
It's extremely important for you guys to know about this.
Thank you, Brandon, for being with us today.
Thank you so much.
That was beautiful.
So much passion.
Oh, the passion.
I'm just kidding.
I haven't watched it.
I'll watch it when it comes out.
When you guys watch it, I'll see it when you guys see it.
All right, now it is time for hate mail.
Okay, so we put out a little context.
We had an article from like April or May or something.
Stephen King Estate reveals he died years ago, and his Twitter account is being run by a mentally ill, glue-sniffing parrot with Tourette's.
And there's a nice picture of, that's actually my parrot.
That's Penny, my blue throat macaw.
Those are all your Stephen King books.
And I have some, I love Stephen King.
He has one of my favorite authors.
And he's standing there next to his book, Stephen King books, and a and what is it?
Oh, it's an actual tweet from Stephen King.
Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up.
Yeah, so you have this guy who's a brilliant writer who has written really good stories that love.
And then you check his Twitter account and it's like just frothing at the mouth.
It's crazy.
Do you remember the one he did about DeSantis where he's like, he should be called Dumb Santis or something?
Poo-poo Santa.
Like he had like doo-doo sandis.
He had some, I don't remember what exactly it was, but he had something like that where it's just like, well, like something like a fifth grader would come up with.
Like, nailed him.
Yeah.
He got so weird and he's become such a weird lefty.
Um, because his books, you would never get that sense.
You don't get the sense that he kind of his politics did infiltrate his books later on.
Later on.
You had a little bit of politics early on, especially with Dead Zone, which was one about like a politician running and you could kind of tell the evil politician was like a Republican.
You could kind of tell a little bit.
There's like little political things inserted, but it's not much.
And then later on, you read some of his recent books.
He had a specific line about Trump in his book, The Institute, I think.
It was like randomly thrown in at the end of the chapter because the orange man, blah, you know, just like you're just like, what are you doing, dude?
Like, he just went.
That's sad.
It's sad because he's a good writer.
He's getting old.
So maybe that's it.
Maybe he's just going senile.
It's possible.
I think ever since his car accident in 99, he hasn't really written a great book.
Maybe one or two that are close.
The one about JFK assassination was really good.
The Shining.
Okay.
Carrie, Misery, The Dark Tower, Drawing of the Three.
The Drawing of the Three specifically in The Dark Tower.
Well, no, The Dark Tower, the first one.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Gunslinger.
Gunslinger.
And then The Drawing of the Three.
And then what was the book two of that series?
Was it Drawing of the Three or was it The Doors?
Was that the one about the Doors?
That was Drawing of the Three.
And then there was one other.
I forget now.
The name is blanking me right now.
The one right before like Wizard and Glass.
Those two were awesome.
Yes.
I like a lot of his early work.
I love Pet Simmons.
I'd probably put Pet Simmons.
You have to have read, in order to really enjoy the Dark Tower series, you have to have read those early works too.
Some, yeah.
Some.
Like The Stand, especially.
You have to have read.
Some, some, sure.
Actually, I like Pete.
Yeah.
I don't think it's strictly necessary, but the later as you get in the books, the more.
So just so you know, in the Dark Tower series, Stephen King actually got hit by a car in 1999.
Oh, wow.
And he writes into the Dark Tower series that these characters come and save him from the dying in the car accident.
Oh, wow.
So he's in the series.
It's in the series.
Spoilers.
In the Dark Tower, they go from.
It's very meta.
He goes.
They meet him as the creator.
So universe to universe to universe.
They jump through universe hopping and it's like the of all of his universes that he's created.
Of this to say is that when you tell a joke, when you tell a joke about Stephen King, it's coming from a place of, I love Stephen King's books.
Why is he so crazy on Twitter?
Yeah, so that's where you're coming from a place of love, right?
Yeah.
So, anyway, the article did really well on Facebook when we posted it.
Right.
We've probably reposted it a couple times.
It does well.
People like it.
It's done well on Twitter a couple of times when we've shared it from our own accounts.
And then we shared it on our B account and it did very well.
It got six or seven thousand retweets, 30 or 40,000 likes.
People loved the joke.
And then a Daily Beast editor shared it and was, you know, he has a few hundred thousand followers.
He's like, this is terrible comedy, blah, blah, blah, or something.
And then all of his blue check followers started trying to ratio it and like make fun of it and all this stuff.
But it still never got ratioed.
It still did incredibly well compared to the number of amount of hate that was coming at it.
And then the Daily Beast wrote a whole article on everybody hates this.
I'm like, oh man, you guys are the worst.
Anyway, so then there was this lady, this woman, this girl, Rebecca Mackay, who is a, I don't know who this is, but she has a blue check, so she's probably important.
And she shared our joke and she said, a thread about writing funny and why this ain't it.
And then there's a little thread emoji.
First of all, before we get to craft, punching up equals usually okay.
Punching up at someone funnier and smarter than you who can clap back real hard if he wants equals unwise.
Punching down regarding mental illness and neurodivergence is out of bounds and wasn't even funny in fifth grade.
Next, as many have dragged this headline for, and I'm only look at the headline, I'm not going to click through.
It's wordy as F word.
But we can break that down several ways.
First, you generally want to end a sentence with either the reveal or the funniest part.
If you say the funniest thing early, and I am in no way implying that anything here is funny, people hold their laugh till the end of the sentence and then it's too late to laugh.
Second, just way too many words.
Third, pick your punchline.
They're going for like five different things here, and it feels desperate.
Wait, wait, if you didn't think that was funny, I got another one.
Wait, one more.
If you think about the rhythm of this, first we get that he's dead, and then we get the Twitter part, and then we get the two adjectives, and then the parrot, and then another descriptor.
I could not make this worse if I tried.
There's also the fact that some words are funnier than others, and these are not funny words.
A lemur would be much funnier, a much funnier animal.
Drunken would be funnier than glue sniffing or mentally ill or with Tourette's, which were all two words.
So a drunken lemur is already better.
I consider crack addled because the assonance and the hard C make it fun to say, say, but crack added lemur is too much of a mouthful.
So I'm going to stick with drunken lemur.
Now let's go back.
All right, I'm done.
I was going to say, how long is this go?
It's like 20 to 30 tweets, 24,000.
Oh, so this is up for 24,000.
Oh, this is still gone.
It still goes.
Is she an expert on comedy?
I don't think so.
It doesn't seem like she is.
It clearly doesn't have skiz lemur.
A drunken lemur is not funnier than a mentally ill parrot.
It sounds mentally ill parrot.
It's great.
I really like that.
And I also, well, never mind.
Well, John Cleese likes lemurs.
Lemurs are funny.
I agree that I think they're funny.
He was all about lemurs, but not so much monkeys, right?
He thought monkeys were not funny.
Monkeys are, what did he call them?
He called them ungenerous.
Greedy.
Ungenerous.
No.
Lemurs are.
Parrots are really funny.
That's my parrot.
And parrots are very funny.
Like, they're just, they're little jerks in a funny way.
And they think that they're much like more important than they are.
And it's pretty great.
Yeah, I think parrots are funny.
That seems like parrots make good comedy.
All right, well, sorry.
If she didn't, I'm thinking it's possible.
She's a woman, so she's probably not funny and she just doesn't get humor.
So I just well, she's sure I sure like indeed went into detail on this joke.
So I just wanted to explain, maybe if she didn't get it, I'll just provide a little joke explanation.
The joke is that Stephen King's estate revealed that he died years ago and that his Twitter account is being run by a mentally ill parrot that has Tourette's and also sniffs glue.
So I hope that helps.
Maybe she didn't get that.
And it's possible she just didn't understand that part of the joke.
Is glue sniffing not funnier than drinking?
I feel like glue sniffing is way funny.
I've already explained the joke.
All right, sorry.
It's way funnier.
Remember that scene in Airplane?
When he goes, I picked the wrong day.
You see, he kept going.
He's like, pick the wrong day to stop drinking.
That's funny.
Picked the wrong day to stop smoking.
That's funny.
Pick the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
Now that's comic.
That's the beat you end on, too, right?
That's funny.
Yeah.
Anyway.
But I feel like you're stepping on my apology and explanation.
I'm sorry.
That explanation is that Stephen King's estate revealed that he died years ago and that his Twitter account is being run by a glue-sniffing.
What did we say, retarded parrot?
What was that?
Was it mentally ill-sniffing?
A mentally ill glue-sniffing parrot with Tourette's.
So hopefully that helps.
All right, now we're going to go into our subscriber portion where we have some bonus hate mail from another liberal site that doesn't like us.
We have some subscriber headlines, and Dan probably has to answer the second set of 10 questions.
Oh, mew.
So let's do it.
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Andrew Cuomo had to get a COVID test or something.
And so he was like on, and Chris Cuomo brought up this joke.
Like, oh, we've got a tune your nose.
You hit this giant q-tip as like a big prop gag.
That's right.
Because they're big and it's hard to get up your nose.
That's the joke.
These guys are so funny.
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