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Welcome to the only podcast that covers the new year.
I don't know when this comes up, but happy new year to you.
Thank you guys for everything you have done to support the Babylon Bee, whether it's following the podcast, subscribing, sharing our stuff.
It's been a great year.
I feel very blessed to have a wonderful, wonderful year.
Had such a wonderful 2022.
It's been a crazy 2022.
Awesome year.
It's been a very good year.
Maybe one of the best years of my life, personally.
Whoa.
Wow.
I don't know.
I'm saying that, but it's true.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Didn't your house explode yesterday?
It did.
In the middle of that year.
Still the best year.
Why do you think it was the best year?
I hate that house.
No, we had, we had a, in the middle of the podcast yesterday, I had to leave in the middle of one of Kyle's stories, which was okay because I wasn't really listening anyway.
In the middle of last week's podcast.
Movie Magic.
Didn't your house explode last week?
It was a crazy week.
It was a crazy week ago.
It was just a leak in the ceiling that a rat that I had previously killed had done before he died.
Haunting you.
Murdered.
Even in his death.
Murdered him.
A literal rat?
No, it was a literal rat, and he was really big, I'm telling you.
I've killed a lot of rats in my life, and this one was like unusual.
I could have been a ratter.
I could have been a ratter.
Unusually sized?
Yeah, it was unusually rats of unusual size.
I don't think they exist.
What is the next line?
He just gets tackled by a rat.
Oh, he gets tackled by a rat.
What's the next line?
Somebody dressed like a rat.
Next line is like a rat.
Do it right now.
I don't believe they exist.
Beavers of unusual size.
It's a beaver.
I don't think that's a good one.
Oh, he got his hat.
A B-O-U-S.
A B-O-U-S.
Will you fix his hat?
Yeah, we got it.
We got it.
Okay.
Well, we are going to run down the Babylon Bees' top moments of the year on the podcast.
We can talk about them a little bit.
Okay, I'm done.
Sorry, Dad.
Periodically, a horn will blow.
Mine's broken.
Oh, there we go.
Yeah.
All right.
So here are the Babylon Bees' top moments of the year.
The Babylon Bees' best moments of 2022.
One year ago, we interviewed Elon Musk right before the holidays.
I think it was December 19th, 1719, something like that, right around the interviewed Musk.
That was a crazy thing.
That was a problem together.
Definitively.
You were just wearing your, I interviewed Elon Musk, and all I got was this t-shirt.
Yeah, Tatina made these ones.
On sale, right?
Are they?
They are not on sale now.
Four people would purchase it.
I was trying.
Yeah, only four people were able to.
People did interview Elon Musk.
That's true.
So that was a great time.
And that kind of kicked us off for the new year.
So just going to.
Speaking of getting kicked off, we got kicked off of Twitter in 2022.
Yes.
Yeah.
Never going to forget that one.
For making the controversial statement that a man is a man.
How can you say that, Brandon?
You speak it.
Terrible.
You speech.
So we got new.
Yeah, we got suspended on Twitter on March 20th-ish in 2022.
And that was a whole crazy thing.
Obviously, this made waves, and everyone was talking about it, including Ben Shapiro.
I'm not going to butcher his exact quote, but I think we could play the clip right here of what he said.
Yeah, Drew, it'll never not be hilarious that it will be seen as a historic inflection point that a bunch of purple-haired interns got Twitter to ban a Christian satire site for saying men are not women.
And this will be seen as a historical inflection point.
It just shows how insane our society has become.
And profound.
Exactly.
I mean, how this is just a turning point in history.
It's so crazy.
It's insane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so crazy to make those kind of waves when we're just making really dumb jokes.
But we did get reinstated on Twitter.
That was in November of this year.
So that's crazy.
It's a long time.
Is that eight or nine months?
We were locked out for eight months.
Yeah.
Yeah.
March to November.
Yeah.
Speaking of Musk, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And how insane is it that maybe not the primary factor, but a significant motivating factor of Elon purchasing Twitter was because he realized the ridiculousness of the situation that we find ourselves in as a culture where you cannot state something obvious even as a joke.
Like we're not even saying that a man is a man.
We're joking that a man is a man, even though a man is a man.
And that could get you banned.
You just said it without joking.
It is pretty nuts.
That Elon would go so far to purchase something for $44 billion and pay, what was it, like $90 million extra just for this his dumb weed joke?
Yeah, he paid something like $150 million extra dollars to make it say $420 or something in the share price.
And all of this precipitated because of this culture that is just shutting down reality.
It's truly in the strictest sense, Orwellian.
I know that gets thrown around so often these days, but this term is literally used to describe the situation in which we're double speak, you're not allowed to say what is actually true.
You know, it's interesting because I feel like we are moving to a place where it's less like that.
I think this 2022 was a good year for free speech because of what Elon Musk did, because of all this that went down.
The pendulum's starting to swing back a little bit.
Yeah, and at least there's, we can have a voice now.
And I think that's great in our culture.
Yeah, we are seeing some pushback.
Yeah.
People aren't letting it happen.
They're not just rolling over, which is great.
Yeah, I do think that we're outnumbered still as like the group of sane people, but I also think that our side, so to speak, definitely got stronger this year.
I think the opportunities for people who are like, we're done sitting on the sidelines.
We're ready to take action.
We're ready to speak up.
We're ready to make fun of crazy people, ready to mock them.
And we've gotten a lot more powerful this year.
Well, it just shows the power of humor and mockery.
Like when you can see this massive machine of wokeness and politically correct language and you can just start making jokes about it.
I always liken it to the boy in the story of the emperor who had no clothes, you know, who's like, hey, that guy's naked.
And I encourage, I encourage our entire audience.
I know it's difficult.
I know it's hard.
But we are in a time where we're getting to the point where truth, like just obvious truths, we're stating simple, obvious truths is something bold.
So I encourage our audience to call out the proverbial nudity of the emperor.
I'm a conflict-averse person.
I don't like irritating people.
I don't like people being upset at me.
But at the same time, we're at a turning point where either we speak the truth or we shut our mouths and regret our decisions.
I'm with regret.
Regret not speaking the truth.
And we go to jail.
We go to jail for the truth.
And the truth shall prevail.
Live not by lies.
That's what Alexander's.
It is scary.
It is scary to speak up, but you'll be glad that you did.
I sure am.
Well, I always feel bad saying that because I feel like it's easy for me.
Like, I work at the Babylon B. I'm not going to get fired for say, I get fired if I say I have preferred pronouns or something, you know.
But for saying a man is a man, like, I'm not going to get fired for that.
That's like what we're here for.
And I know there's people who are in a lot more sensitive positions that have to be a lot more careful.
Of course.
But at some point, we're talking about the homeboy.
I can never pronounce his name right.
The guy that the Gulag Archipelago.
Alexander Soljanitsyn.
Thank you.
He, Alex, my buddy Alex, he talked about how during the communist revolution or during the reign of Stalin, they all didn't speak up because they thought, well, they're just taking my neighbor six doors down.
They're not going to get to me.
And then, well, they're just taking my neighbor five doors down.
And then by the time they got to them, they were like, oh, I should have spoken up when they took my neighbor six doors down.
Right.
And he said, and he realized later on, he's like, we had the power all along to stand up, but nobody wanted to.
So there's nobody left who got this.
Quit Stalin and quit Stalin.
Yay.
Also, Elon Musk bought Twitter in November, late October, I think, and revealed that it was just a psyop to manufacture consent, manipulate facts, and censor people who don't agree with the left on behalf of the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon.
I like whoever the based person is who writes our notes.
And also, is he really going to step down as CEO?
He says he is.
He did.
And I don't think he would have made that poll unless he was prepared and already had a CEO planned.
But so he reveals and pulls the curtain back, reveals all of these shady things that we already suspected were going on, but he confirmed it with receipts.
And now he's like, all right, I'm good.
I'm going to go back to being the guy that you guys like.
I think it makes sense for him to say, I'm going to stay at a high-level position here and still be the face who's like interacting with people.
But technically, there's someone else here who's running the business side of things.
Yeah, I think he's still going to be making big decisions, but not so, maybe not as vocal.
He claimed he was going to run the software and servers and have someone else like run the business.
He's got a Pepper Potts in the wings.
Yeah.
He's the Tony Stark.
That's a good.
To speak of a Christmas movie, Iron Man 3.
Well, we also published a book this year, The Guide to Democracy.
Where is our copy?
That was a good one.
Yeah.
There's one over there.
Oh, Babylon B Guide to Democracy.
We'll put a graphic up on the screen.
You guys can go check out the links.
So funny.
I got both books for my dad because we grew up for Christmas, which he's already seen.
Okay.
So I grew up reading political cartoons and the far side books.
So I got the books and I was flipping through them last night as I was wrapping presents.
I was like, this is actually a perfect gift for my dad because we grew up loving the far side.
And I was like, wait, I think I want to read this before I give it as a present because I don't think I've actually spent the time going through every single page, but you flip it to any page and it's like, wow, they're just owning, owning every single page of this book.
And I'm just very excited that it came out.
Well, Brian, was this your first published book?
This was my first.
Like having content published?
Yeah.
Well, I had one joke in the Wokeness book.
Was it the Michelle?
I had a single joke in the Wokeness book.
But yeah, I got to write.
Kyle was gracious enough to allow me to write a full chapter.
And then I kind of scattered a bunch of stuff throughout the rest contributing.
What chapter was it?
I wrote the majority of chapter 11.
It's on government spending.
Okay.
There was like a list at the end that was a bunch of our writers, but I wrote the majority of chapter 11.
And it was an absolute blast.
I had so much fun.
We pulled so many late hours.
Bettina, Travis, Gavin, Brian.
And am I missing anyone?
I think I am.
I had one contribution to the book, and it was CVS when we were listing like government agencies.
Oh, and I like that joke.
And then I was like, just gotten hired part-time.
But agencies like FBI, CIA, and the morning.
And I was like, CVS.
And Kyle was like, haha.
And I was like, yes.
He's like, hey, I think I got it.
You made the government.
There was a government agency in there, too.
I don't know which one it was.
If you get a from Kyle, that's literally it.
It's like a belly laugh from someone else.
Yeah, it's true.
Nose chuckling.
Not touching your nose or touching your ear.
Yeah, if I don't do this.
No beard stroke.
It's really funny.
It's funny.
But yeah, that was great.
We broke our backs over hitting the deadlines over it, but it was worth it.
It all paid off.
And it's just so rewarding to see something that you poured your heart into to be able to hold that in your hands.
And still, we flip it open and laugh at our own dumb jokes.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
And you know, Brandon was so funny when he was writing that book because I was just throwing in a bunch of dumb jokes.
And I blew five or six chapters in there, like, yeah, yeah, great jokes, whatever.
And Brandon's like calling me or slacking me, all this like fact-checking his jokes.
He's like, is this 100% accurate?
Because I want to make sure.
Because we had a joke like, this is the size of the national debt in $1 bills.
And he's like doing the math to make sure it's actually the size of the Starship Enterprise.
We did the calculations.
We actually did the calculations.
Wow.
Like, and a lot of, yeah, a lot of the jokes.
Well, one of my struggles in writing the book is I had to make it not a textbook because there were so many things I was like, we got to teach people about this.
100%.
We got to teach people about this.
And then eventually I kind of tried to let that go and have more fun with it.
That's funny.
Well, I also had my own book published, The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress.
That was my first kind of solo novel I wrote with Joel Berry, but my first non-and-scription was a lot of fun to publish a novel.
I actually read that one and it was very good.
Well, thank you.
It's a very good book.
I read it in a couple of days.
My son read it the next day.
Oh, great.
And he's a fast reader, but he loved it as well.
It's a really good book.
No.
Although he probably could read it.
No, my 14-year-old.
But it was great and you should buy it.
It's really worth reading.
Yeah, especially if you like Pilgrim's Progress.
Well, thank you.
Awesome.
Also very exciting.
We moved our offices to we moved out outside of the postage stamp where we used to work.
It had to be cozy and very charming.
It was cozy, but it was tiny.
It was tiny.
Every time we had a shoot, everyone that was crammed in writing in one room would have to migrate to the other room and then we would set up a light.
Yeah.
Well, we have we have more space.
We have more space now, but I felt like it was a testament to your visual talent as a as a video.
I don't know what you want to call yourself.
You say that you just wear all the hats out of necessity, but you were so talented, you would make that space look like a movie studio.
It was incredible.
We used every corner, every wall, every square inch of carpet was like something different.
It was a doctor's office.
It was Afghanistan.
It was a torture chamber.
It was a jail cell.
It was many more.
And it was also things for our shoots.
Right.
Right.
Great.
Here's something exciting that happened.
The most popular segment of the podcast in all of history, in all podcasts, actually, we introduced this year Sizzler Facts.
Sizzler Facts.
12 weeks ago.
29 weeks ago.
23 weeks ago.
63 weeks ago.
Is that right?
63.
We debuted a breakthrough new podcast segment called Sizzler Facts.
It's been a journey for us learning so much about Sizzler.
I already knew a lot about Sizzler before we started, but I didn't realize the depths of the history and the rich culture that Sizzler brought forth and all the choices that they offered until we had really started the segment.
Hey man, it's really just so beautiful.
I had listened to some other, like other podcasts.
They do Sizzler segments as well.
But I'm I think ours is the best.
Ours is probably top.
I was talking to my parents last weekend and my mom, I think it was my mom, she said, or it was my dad, I think.
He said, so I was listening to the podcast.
He's like, does Sizzler pay you for that segment?
And I just want to let him and all our audience members know that it's not a paid.
It's not a big sponsored page.
This is from the bottom of our heart.
I do feel like they do pay us, though, just by existing.
In choices.
They paid us.
And bikes are up to this point by all of the...
This is just our small token.
Sizzler culture they've infused.
But it is not paid advertising.
It is solely from our hearts.
And all the Fermica.
Well, we hired on a bunch of people as we grew, like Emma Chandler, Jarrett Jordan, Kiergel.
I didn't know that we hired that person.
We hired her as a part-time writer.
Yeah.
So just recent.
It was a recent.
That's really cool.
Yeah.
Ashley and that other guy.
So it's been great to see the talent pool expand.
We have so many talented people working here.
It's pretty incredible.
And Jarrett.
And also, it's great having all the talented people plus Jarrett on board.
I'm joking.
Jarrett, we love your contributions.
Seriously, no one can do what you can do.
The people that you know, the contacts that you have, you are indispensable.
Thank you.
How you say that.
Even though I make fun of you a lot, you are very much appreciated.
I know.
We've had comments on the podcast where people are like, Kyle, you're so mean to Jarrett.
I never feel like I'm even.
I don't think it's mean.
Jared is such an easy punching bag because no matter what you do or say to him, he just, ah, man.
That's great.
Oh, it's true.
It's true.
He's dying inside.
But on the outside, I cry.
You just go up and cry to Christina every night.
Like the guys, man.
The arrested development scene of Tobias in the shower.
I think we can be a little too mean to each other sometimes, though.
I think that, you know, Jerry is a good sport, but like, I think, you know, it can affect, you know, more than we might let on at work, you know?
I'm trying to publicly appreciate you.
Well, thank you.
No, I appreciate it.
I think all the comments.
Just you, no one else.
Cool.
Where are we?
Let's burn.
We had our first series on YouTube, the California's Moody Texas series starring Chandler and Siaka, which was awesome.
I haven't seen that one.
It went gangbusters.
I've never heard that phrase before, but yeah.
I've never heard that.
It did well.
Gangbusters.
Kevin Sorbo did a list of cool and a podcast in the studio, and my hand was in on screen.
Most importantly, most of my hand was on screen with Kevin Sorbo.
We got Ted Cruz in a video.
Yes, we did.
From the pitch board when we were writing the series, when we were writing it out, I was like, we need to have Ted Cruz in there, and we made it happen.
It was awesome.
Well done, team.
We had a list of some cameos that we wanted.
Top of the list was Zodiac Killer.
Yes.
And we made it happen.
So that was wonderful.
Brandon printed a 3D sandworm from Dune for me.
Actually, two 3D sandworms.
My sister was a highlight.
You have never seen a 3D printer.
This is like the craziest thing I ever did.
I loved watching it blow Chandler's mind.
She was like, you made that?
That just printed right now?
What is that noise?
What is it?
It's a plastic thingy.
And then I saw the smaller, like, flat beat.
I was like, whoa.
Like, even more impressed by like.
It is amazing.
It is incredible.
It's totally amazing.
If I never hear about 3D printing, it's definitely a moment when you're like, what?
It's like tall characters.
It's an amazing moment.
And if you haven't seen a 3D printed sandworm, definitely see it.
Just look it up on YouTube.
It's amazing.
Another highlight of 2022, which is also a major downside, is Claire, our intern, came into our lives and then left us for college.
Stupid college.
Done to college.
She had some of the best quotes.
Yes, she did.
What was the one about how she's not genetically?
My favorite was, I don't know if they would allow me into Switzerland because I have too many genetic flaws.
And she had something about her femurs being.
I have unusually large femurs.
I've measured them.
I've done the math.
I've done the math.
Bettina bought a house.
I didn't know that.
Congratulations, Bettina.
Woo.
Chandler got engaged.
I didn't know that.
I did.
We do know that.
Congratulations, Chandler.
Congrats.
Thank you.
Congrats.
It's awesome.
You like James.
I love James.
Can we all read this one together?
I really do.
And Dan read through Martin Luther's bondage of the will.
We also met Kirk Cameron and we went top golfing with him.
It's like golfing, but on top.
I was too busy getting engaged when that was happening.
I was so bummed.
I was like, no, they could have waited.
I was in Hawaii.
I was like, no.
He threw a club off the top.
Inadvertently.
Heated the club from the top of it.
Heated it.
I had set him up as a staged video and I told him to throw the club down and go like, gosh, darn Willikers.
No, he was going to pandemic.
And then I was going to say, like, oh, Kirk Cameron has such a dirty mouth, you know, or potty mouth.
And he does it, but he throws it too hard, and it bounces off the mat and flies off the top.
So funny.
And he goes, he's like, oh, no.
I hope it didn't hedge.
And we posted it online and there was a lot of funny comments, like people going, like, I always knew that guy was a fake Christian.
Wow.
We also met Ray Comfort, and he was not in this giant pelican case that Kirk Cameron was rolling around.
Oh, so.
You ever looked with lust in your heart?
I said, I love Ray Comfort.
He almost gifted us a giant cool statue.
But we were not among his favorite people.
He said he gives them to people he really likes.
And then he packed it back up and left.
He backed it up.
We toured Ken Ham with the Arc Encounter.
And found out what a cube it really is.
What is it?
It's just from here to the middle.
We have it on the line.
Yeah, we knew that.
We have it right there.
Everybody knows that.
That's a cube.
We have the measuring Cuban.
Ray Comfort's Cubit's a little bit.
It's a little shorter.
It's diminutive.
Dan's house blew up, and everyone helped him get it back together, which was nice.
That was very special.
Cool.
We all pitched in and got him a $100 Sizzler gift card.
And like that, all problems in the world seemed to melt away like snow.
His house is still blown up, but he can go to Sizzler.
Forget about his worries for a while.
The podcast has been now broken off to its own separate, rapidly growing social media profiles and YouTube channels.
So go check those out.
We hit a million subscribers.
One million.
And our YouTube channel got over 100 million views in the last year.
By the way, it's not on here, but we made some pretty great sketches this year.
Yeah.
And we actually are going to be having a video on our YouTube channel that will have a compilation of our best sketches of the year.
So please check that out.
That's going to be check it out.
Go check it.
But most importantly, Rings of Power came out on Amazon, and Dan wrote a 12-million-word essay about how bad it was.
It was beautiful.
And that was our year.
So, what an exciting year.
Lots of stuff that happened.
And we wanted to now run down the top 10 Babylon Bee articles of the year.
The Babylon Bee looks back on 2022 and looks forward to 2023.
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Top 10.
Here we go.
Number 10.
Oh, that's funny.
Trudeau claims truckers only hate him because he's black from January 2022.
Okay, number nine: Eminem's introduced new trans character who identifies as a Skittle.
Ooh, that's our one joke.
Number eight: Elmo dies of myocarditis after receiving COVID vaccine.
And what a great picture.
I think he was getting a vaccine.
Elmo feel funny.
Elmo's heart feels funny.
That segment on Saturday.
They actually gave him a COVID.
Don't be afraid of vaccines, kids.
Even Elmo gets them.
Sure, because he's five.
He's three or five or something.
I think he's supposed to be a three-year-old.
The CDC has not proved this vaccine for me yet, but I still take it.
I feel so weird now.
I'm dead.
I'm dead.
That's number seven.
Dems paused January 6th hearings to call for insurrection.
Oh man.
That's pretty accurate.
Oh, that was after Roe v. Wade overturned.
That's right.
Oh, we didn't mention Roe being one of the highlights.
Roe of V. Wade being overturned as one of the highlights.
I think we were mostly talking B-related stuff.
No, I still include that as everything.
I just want to stop again for that.
No, that's wonderful.
Take a step for my conservative Tears of Joy, Mug.
Crazy.
Tears of Joy.
Yep.
Tumblr.
No help.
Jared was available on the B shop.
Okay.
Number six: Twitter workers worried Elon Musk will turn their free speech platform into a platform that allows free speech.
Really good.
Also turned into a line in our Twitter employees.
News desk, right?
The sketch with MJ, we had her say something like, If he buys our free speech platform, people will be able to have free speech on our platform.
Number five, NCAA swimming champ caught in possession of performance-enhancing trustees.
That's a pretty good one.
The FBI raid on Melania's closet was justified, says Mayor Garland, wearing a gorgeous new evening gown and sun hat.
Which also turned into a fantastic sketch.
It turned into a sketch.
It did turn into a sketch.
I don't know where you guys got that ginormous hat.
That's in our prop closet still.
And I'm like, that thing is.
The brim is like so large.
We got it from Melania's closet.
Yeah, that's right.
Number three.
Number three.
Musk's Twitter purchase fails after 138,000 board votes found overnight.
With, of course, that is.
90 degree.
90 degrees.
That's insane.
It's amazing.
The Babylon Bee's Man of the Year.
It's Rachel Levine.
I remember that one.
That's a bit memorable.
Surprised that got so many.
I'm surprised that's not number one.
Well, here you'll see what number one is.
Number one is Rachel Levine is 100% woman, and we are sorry for calling her a man.
Parentheses, satire.
I forgot to say that.
I'm surprised this is number one, but I think right after we got banned or something, Seth tweeted this article out and people thought it was a sincere apology.
So everybody was like clicking on you.
No, you guys shouldn't apologize.
So there was a lot of rage clicks on this.
I'm kind of bummed that that's number one.
That is funny.
All right.
What a great year for B articles.
And this was, we also do, we do listicles, which tend to get more views than the straight headline articles.
So we mostly excluded them from this list.
But our number one listicle of the year was, Are You a Woman?
12 Signs to Look For.
Which turned into a video that Jared did, and that blew up too.
That was a big one.
I really liked your character in that.
You were like, yo, like, how are you supposed to know if you're like a woman or whatever?
Oh, hey.
Do you know what a woman is?
I didn't think so.
It was like a really funny thing.
I liked that character.
A lot of people.
A lot of people in this room didn't like the character.
Yeah, I liked it.
We're divided equally.
Marcus Brandon likes the character.
I didn't like the character.
My video preference is always very dry, straight.
I knew it would do.
And we're more cartoony, I think.
I really like characters a lot.
But that character in particular, it's not my favorite.
I can do a lot of things, and that's not my best character or my favorites.
He can do a lot more complex things.
Can you do Patrick Stewart?
Yes.
I'm surprised you didn't go for it.
That had 560,657 views on the article, and the video had over a million.
Like, that one had a million quick views.
Yeah, too.
That was one of the first million videos.
And this was right in the wake of when Katanji Brown Jackson was unable to answer.
I'm not a biologist.
I'm not a biologist.
The classic, that spawned so many memes and jokes.
They were putting her in a tough position, you know, to be representative of the wokies.
And like, well, she can't say like, well, you know, I think that obviously it's ridiculous and we can make fun of it till the end of the earth.
But, you know, she can't exactly say if it's so insane.
Yeah.
It's just, it's insane.
It's clown world.
That is the most insane thing.
It's so sitting on the highest court in the land.
And what is a woman?
I'm not.
How am I supposed to know what a woman is?
All right, it's time to count down the top 10 videos of the year.
The Babylon Bee picks the best B videos of the year.
So number 10, Signs You Might Be a Woman.
The video version of that article.
1.5 million views.
Hey.
Number 9.
California's Move to Texas, episode 3.
The church.
1.9.
1.7.
1.8.
Californians Move to Texas, episode 4, The Gun Range, my personal favorite episode.
Sensing a trend.
1.7, almost 8.
Number 7, Twitter employee undergoes therapy over Elon Musk takeover.
Those are all very close to each other.
They're all like within 10,000 views of each other.
Neck and neck.
Neck and neck.
Number six, woman driving alone in Carpool Lane claims preferred pronoun is they.
Our very first video together, Jared.
That was very historical.
I know, and we didn't know it at the time.
You guys, yeah, you guys are just a great pair.
We have to like split you guys up sometimes because otherwise every video would be you and you acting opposite each other.
I don't mind that.
I like it.
Because you're a great kind of gruff, like the cop and the like wokie.
That was like we have to make sure it's not always that.
Well, that's the thing we're getting to that place.
I like that, though.
No, I think that's a good thing.
We're curtain holing ourselves.
No, I feel like I'm getting typecasts now by Kyle.
Because SJW Chandler, I'm like, maybe next video you could play like a bro character.
I don't know.
And then I could be like the straight character for one.
We could try.
We could try that.
Next time you will be the woke woman and she will be the cop.
I like that too.
I think we should do it.
Number five?
Yep.
Okay.
California moves to Texas episode two, cookout.
Which I love that too.
2.3 million views, which was great.
I love that one.
Wow.
It was really good.
And that one did way better on Facebook than episode one did on Facebook, by the way.
Wow.
Yeah.
But on YouTube, it's obviously.
Okay, I'll go.
California's moved to Texas.
Episode 1, Moving Day, the episode that started the whole series.
We didn't intend for it to be a series.
It has 2.9 million views on YouTube, and it has probably 30 million on the internet outside of YouTube.
Joe Rogan had 20 million views on his repo.
Well, it's not his fault, but it also contributed to the success of the whole series.
TikTok versions out there, tens of millions.
Millions.
It's just probably even more than 30 then.
It's just insane.
Number three, this is a hilarious sketch.
Full interview.
Elon Musk sits down with the Babylon B, 2.9 million.
I'm Colin Fowle.
This was a 2021 video.
Yeah, I was just going to say, did it have 2.9 million?
Let's start over.
If we're 10, January.
Well, I assume we're just looking at last 365 days.
Okay.
That's what that says about it.
That's still pretty great.
Number two, Spelling B contestant asks the definition of woman.
Oh, that one was so great.
Just a great sketch.
One of our writers, Jonathan, pitched that, and Adam wrote the script, and it was just, the kid actors were great.
Kira was great.
You were great.
Yeah.
Everybody, everybody was great.
That was so funny.
And everyone.
And everyone in unison.
Number one.
Number one.
Fire Twitter employee applies for first real job.
3.4 million views.
I'm actually, wow.
That one kept growing.
And it was quick.
And that was a recent video.
That just kept growing.
Wow.
It's the sequel to number seven.
I'm going to see a trend too.
And it's like the further along we are in with our YouTube journey, the quicker things go viral.
It's all snowball.
Our fans are just like really reactive when they see the Babylon B. They're like, oh, click.
Featuring the goblin creature herself, MJ.
The goblin.
I need to see that video.
I need to see that video.
All right.
But the kid body bangers.
Here's the Babylon B bomb videos of the year.
The Babylon Bee picks the worst videos of the year.
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These are the 12 ones that did not get underappreciated.
Underappreciated.
Yes.
The first one is eight biggest unanswered questions from the January 6th hearings.
With a paltry 89,000 views.
That is not.
That's honestly not very many.
Well, these are these little filler explainer videos we do.
They're not really supposed to get a ton, but.
All right, what's next?
It's the 1 million sub special.
You won't believe what we did to celebrate.
I think people don't really.
I mean, they know it's not a sketch.
I think it's the thumbnail.
86,000.
If they saw the screenshot of us just staring at the camera, I think it would get more close to the camera.
I actually think it's a funny video.
I think it's great.
I like it.
They're like, well, if I won't believe it anyway, I'm not going to believe it.
I'm not going to believe it.
That's true.
What's next?
Speaking of not believing.
I'm a chaplain and also I'm an atheist.
And I'm also an atheist.
I'm going to do that again.
I'm a chaplain and I'm also an atheist.
Can you do it one more time?
I'm a chaplain.
And I'm also an atheist.
Also.
This was a good one.
I enjoyed this one.
I like this one too.
It just didn't hit, but that's fun.
I'm really sad this one didn't do better.
This one's one of my favorites.
January 6th Cinematic Universe Preview.
I love Claw Barr.
He's like one of my favorite characters we've ever written.
I love his hairline.
It's my favorite.
He has a special place in my heart as well.
I like Willis better.
No, I like Willis as well.
I thought I liked their cameo in the Twitter spaz video too.
And I like that our universe kind of like weaves into us.
I do hope Claw Barr and Willis make it into some videos in the next year.
I think they're great characters.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think I was in that one.
The first cinematic.
It's possible.
The first time we did Claude Barr and Willis did better than this.
Yeah.
And it was so funny because you had the recorder and you were trying to keep a straight face while I was delivering my lines or whatever.
And you would like, and you would like laugh and force Sarah.
Laughing through the recorder that we were going, greetings, adventurers, and welcome to What You Talking Bout Willis.
That was the second time in a Babylon Bee sketch where I could not hold.
Well, actually, the camera was on a tripod, but I was literally crying tears because I was laughing so hard.
That was a genius sketch.
The first one is really funny.
It's all the woke characters from the Rings of Power, and it's really funny.
Yeah, this is a good one.
I love that one.
Sometimes people don't get our niche internal inside joke sense of humor, and that's okay.
We got to take risks.
It's the employees picked Wall at the Blockbuster.
Yeah.
To me, it's not about, it's not even about the jokes.
It's just about Claw Barr and his mannerisms.
He's the funniest shit.
I want Claude Barr to live on.
All right, here's another one.
This one did great, or did not do great, but I think it was really funny.
Who's the goat?
Brady, Jordan, or Leah Thomas.
Now, the problem with this one is you have to watch it to understand the punchline.
And if the joke is not in the headline, people aren't going to get it.
But I encourage you guys to go watch this one.
It's really funny.
And Joe did a great job delivering the straight man news anchor line.
I thought it was really funny.
I was going ballistic when I watched it.
Nice.
Thanks.
This isn't really a sketch, but I guess this one we can talk about.
Thanks, Jared.
Yeah.
The Babylon B tours, the Ark Encounters up here.
Boo.
It was not funny at all.
I thought there were some funny jokes.
It was actually really funny.
I liked it a lot, but it's not our usual format.
It's more of a podcast thing.
Do you think that length has to do with that?
Like watch time and, you know, because podcasts.
I always consider that.
They have to watch a longer percentage for it to be considered a view.
So someone still might watch 10 minutes and not.
And YouTube is going to recognize, like, oh, it's not doing as well.
So they don't show it to somebody.
But this one falls into a different category.
Yeah, it's not a sketch.
It is an interview podcast thing.
Maybe we should upload it to the podcast channel now.
Yeah.
It's not about it.
It kind of fits into that category.
Who's reading this one?
Like, we're sorry.
I think we lost the thing.
We lost it.
Here's what's problematic with all 32 NFL team names.
72,000.
72,000.
There's a list to go on our website that did really well and does really well every time we repost it.
Yeah.
And as a video format, it just didn't hit.
Oh, I love this.
Live, the State of the Union address.
And I remember when that came out, I was home and I was like, oh, cool.
And then I watched it.
It's just like a dumpster fire, right?
Like a literal for an hour.
It's like an hour of dumpster fire.
I was literally driving when this one posted and I pulled over to the side just so I could watch the comments.
And it's this magical feeling because we've done a few of these trolley videos before.
And it's just this magical feeling watching the chat, seeing people anticipating, wanting to know what's going on.
And then as soon as the drop hits, seeing people's reactions, it's just this magical feeling.
It's like, we did this.
We made this happen.
You were at home.
You were driving.
Where were you when this one came out?
I remember where I was.
I know where I was when the world stopped turning.
Yeah.
Like I was at the mid-September.
I was at the baseball field with my kids.
And I opened it up and I was like, this is the best thing I've ever seen.
I'll never forget where I was.
No, honestly, we all remember.
I don't remember where I was for any of these other videos.
I don't remember.
I remember where I was for that one.
That's so funny.
Because just the comments blowing up and people's reactions was.
That was around a specific time.
There was something happening around that time.
I think that's why I was like, oh, I should click and see what it is.
I think it was the State of the Union.
Right, but what was it about?
It was like there was something.
I don't know.
There was something we were anticipating.
I think it was the State of the Union.
I don't know.
Maybe it was like the first one since Biden got elected or something.
I don't know.
I've got my timeline all mixed up.
All right.
So here is the exclusive.
Biden reveals list of possible SCODIS nominees.
So, you know, it's kind of these ones that are a list that don't have a joke in the headline.
Those are typically the ones that aren't doing as well.
What can we do about that?
What's the next one here?
Who's reading the next one?
You.
Me.
Legal expert asks Justice Sotomayor to rescue herself from case due to her 51,000.
It's only because, oh, Rick Hughes, not.
I think the headline is due to her being a total idiot or something like that.
Right.
Oh.
Too long.
Exclusive.
We've obtained Trump's January 6th visitor logs.
Yeah, another one that's kind of a list of jokes.
And the final one is the Babylon B Tours, the Creation Museum.
Again, I don't think it's really worthy of including, because these are different formats.
But that is the one that got the fewest views on our channel, 38,000 views.
All right.
Now we are going to talk about some Babylon Bee prophecies fulfilled.
The Babylon Beats.
Prophecies fulfilled 2022.
Sometimes we write headlines and they come true.
And these are the ones that we are claiming were fulfilled in 2022.
Some are loose fulfillments.
Some are direct.
But the Babylon Bee published an article that said, the headline that says, Congress passes law making every day January 6th so they can think about it all the time.
They said every day is Jan 6 now.
The New York Times published an opinion piece every day is January 6th now on January 1st, 2020.
That is what they want to do.
That's awesome.
Incredible.
All right, here's another one.
We said, oh no, Biden checks his to-do list and realizes he totally forgot to shut down the virus.
And apparently there was an article published saying Biden's to-do list for 2022 looks a lot like 2021's.
And in the article, they noted that he did not shut down the virus.
It was fulfilled January 2nd, so we're doing one for each one a day so far.
That's really good.
All right, prophecy number 55.
We said Gavin Newsome named U-Haul salesperson of the year.
There was an article published that said California's fleeing for Texas so fast that U-Haul runs out of trucks for them.
It's true.
That happened in New York, too.
All the one-way U-Hauls are sold out.
Prophecy number 56, we said, striking blow against toxic toxic masculinity, man graciously allows wife to shovel driveway.
And they said, even after a 12-hour night shift at the hospital last night, my wife still has the energy to shovel the driveway.
God bless her and all of our frontliners.
Time to make her some breakfast.
This was a prayer emoji.
This is a tweet from a guy here.
Yeah.
That takes a picture of his wife out the window.
And time to make her some breakfast and get my nails done.
After she comes home from a 12-hour shift at work, he's like, God bless her.
She's out there shoveling the drive.
Yeah, why not go out and help her there instead of taking away the power of the family?
I think he might have been posting that.
Do you think so?
A little tongue-in-cheek.
If I remember the follow-up, I don't think so.
But maybe you're right.
Maybe you're right.
I hope so for his men.
Benefit of the doubt.
Here's another one.
We said Biden warns Russia that if they invade Ukraine, America, I'm just moving things along.
That if they invade Ukraine, America will evacuate haphazardly and leave 86 billion in weapons behind.
And just about a month later, the Biden administration warned it will not be in a position to evacuate U.S. citizens from Ukraine.
Leftists, deeply afraid things could go back to normal.
And they said lifting restrictions could cause anxiety for many as unknown as unknowns persist.
Experts.
Experts.
Yep, the experts.
Trust the experts.
Just in time, Pfizer introduces miracle treatment for myocarditis.
And they then said, What if hashtag mRNA could treat life-threatening hashtag cardiovascular diseases such as hashtag heart failure?
We are collaborating with at AstraZeneca on mRNA therapeutic, AZD8601, that encodes for Vegif A to promote recovery of cardiac function through tissue regeneration.
That is nigh unintelligible.
I have no idea.
So there's no idea what you just said, but you read it really quickly.
Hashtag.
So Pfizer announced that they would be using researching using their RNA technology to try to treat heart failure.
That's it.
After we made the joke that they would come out with the project.
We'll treat the thing that we caused with more of what we used to do.
To allegedly caused.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Prophecy number 60.
Man's baptism overturned after instant replay reveals he was not fully submerged.
Our Scott Claric would disagree.
They said a pastor baptized people for decades using one wrong word.
Now those are all considered invalid.
What was the word?
Pastor died between the pastor.
I could think of only a couple words that would denominate Satan instead of Jesus because that would invalidate it, probably.
All right, here's another one.
Xi Jinping criticizes Trudeau's heavy-handed approach.
We made that joke, and one week later, in February 23rd, 2022, they said, China slams Canada over Hong Kong and Ottawa protests.
Awesome.
The Babylon B wrote, Researchers determine, researchers determine the science has changed after carefully examining poll numbers.
And they said, we joke about Dems getting the memo that it's time to shut down COVID due to looming midterms.
Turns out there's an actual memo.
So there was a poll memo that Megan Basham of the Daily Wire tweeted out.
And it's basically talking points for Democrats to win the election.
Yeah, this is like a Democrat think tank that sent this out and they're saying, look, people aren't dealing with the lockdown and stuff anymore.
So here's how we're going to change our messaging on COVID.
So nuts.
So yeah, they're just following the poll numbers.
Not so great.
That's so insane.
Babylon B wrote, Biden administration deploys elite squad of TikTok influencers to stop Taliban.
And then they said the White House is brieving TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine.
We merely got the country wrong, but that's awesome.
And inviting women impersonators to talk about girlhood and women's rights and more retardation.
Whoa, whoa.
Sorry.
That's a three word.
This is a Babylon B headline.
Progressive surprise to learn he can still wear a mask even without the government forcing him to.
A headline published in Real News one month later, an epidemic.
Epidemiologist announces that in defiance of the mask mandate removal, I am double masked and bringing some sass to the airport.
I'm just imagining Z, the guy who played Xanthor or something.
Oh, Xanther.
Just like going through the airport with two masks on.
I love Xanther.
He's my favorite.
He was so funny.
Prophecy 66.
Dems explained.
The B writes, Dems explained they don't want billionaires controlling our media unless they're Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, Bloomberg, Buffett, or Soros.
They said, this deal is dangerous for a democracy.
Billionaires like Elon Musk play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain.
We need a wealth tax and strong roles, rules to hold big tech accountable.
That sounds like Elizabeth Warren.
I wonder if that was Elizabeth.
Not all of these have after Elon Musk started throwing his weight around.
Oh, elites are bad.
This is a really good one.
And this one was just like a three-day prophecy, two-day prophecy fulfillment.
Wow.
Disinformation governance board determines all criticism of disinformation governance board to be disinformation.
I love those jokes.
Repetition.
They said Majorca's cites misinformation about Homeland Security's disinformation work.
I love that.
Don't get much closer.
And I like our video about this.
Yes.
So it's funny.
All right.
We published a headline on March 25th.
This is one year before the fulfillment.
Service stations begin widening signs in preparation for higher gas prices.
There was a headline in May 2022.
Washington gas stations run out of gas, add extra digit in anticipation of $10 prices.
Oh, I like this.
Are we on the pulse or what?
This is amazing.
Yeah.
Brandon's up.
Mattel unveils new pregnant Ken doll, which we also made an extra excellence.
And what they said, Laverne Cox is working with Mattel to design the first transgender Barbie doll.
I actually saw this one go around, and everyone did think it was real.
And I actually was like, wait, is it really happening?
And it was like, no, it actually was just this Babylon B article that like spawned people actually thinking like, can't wait, can't wait for the Ken doll that's pregnant.
And then there really is one.
So there was a headline the Babylon B published: Neighbors with Black Lives Matter, Asian Lives Matter, and Hispanic Lives Matter yard signs are getting awfully close to all lives.
You can't say that.
You can't say all lives matter.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
And one year later, Tim Young, a comedian on Twitter, posted a screenshot of or a picture of like his neighbor's yard or something.
It has Asian Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, No One's Illegal on Stolen Land and Juneteenth Freedom Day.
And he says they are getting real close to all.
Did he just steal our pockets?
It's closer to a comedic convergence of jokes than a fulfillment, but we'll take it.
We'll take a comedic convergence of jokes.
Prophecy 71.
We said at the Babylon Bee, covert Navy SEAL team really starting to regret wearing these Pride Month uniforms.
And there was an article that came out not too long after.
Three years after two years, three years after.
Throughout June, the USMC, that's the Marine Corps, takes pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ service members.
What does that stand for?
Well, it's the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning.
Questioning.
Questioning.
We remain committed to fostering an environment free from discrimination and defend the values of treating all equally with dignity and respect.
Do they have except for white people?
We don't always see the pictures that go to the.
I wonder if there was like a rainbow something or another, because otherwise I don't, I don't see the they might have tweeted out like a graphic that had rainbow like soldier type stuff.
I forget.
I'll have to go back and look though.
Prophecy 72, the Babylon B said, unvaccinated man feeling left out is all his vaccinated friends of COVID.
Sad.
They said, why boosted Americans seem to be getting more COVID-19 infections?
We're not sure why.
By the way, this numbering is all prophecies from all time.
We're only reading the 2023 video.
That's why you might be saying, why are they talking to my brother?
Yeah.
Prophecy 73, the B says, Play School unveils, Vaccinate Me Elmo.
And we covered this before, but Elmo got vaccinated.
So absolutely insane.
A few months later.
We said, Babylon B headline, Clarence Thomas receives invite to celebration of first black Supreme Court justice.
Good Morning America posted a tweet that praised Justice Jackson as the first black Supreme Court justice.
And eventually they did delete the tweet.
But it's ridiculous because not only is she not the first, not the second, but literally not even the first, like current, like not even the current Supreme Court.
They're a bunch of idiots.
They're not looking.
Prophecy number 75, Merriam-Webster replaces definition of woman with shrug emoji.
Exactly one month later, it looks like about.
One month later, it said it was bound to happen.
Merriam-Webster has changed its dictionary definition of female to appease the trans activists.
I just read that.
The new one is even worse.
The new story is even worse.
What they did, yeah.
The most recent thing.
Prophecy 76, Babylon B said, hardworking plumber looking forward to paying for his neighbor's gender studies degree.
And they said, Biden's student loan handout taxes the poor and throws gas on the inflation fire.
Well, a little bit later, but great video.
Great video.
We made a really funny video about that.
Prophecy 77, the B says, state with no electricity orders everyone to drive cars that run on electricity.
They said, can't make it up.
California asked residents to stop charging electric cars on Strang Grid the week after passing a law to ban gas-powered cars.
I like that accent.
I assume that's not the B headline.
That's the way it's worded.
Right.
All right, here's another one.
The Babylon B ran an article.
Eminem introduces a new trans character who identifies as a Skittle.
And the real story later on that year was Eminem's introduces a purple candy mascot to celebrate acceptance and inclusivity.
Nice.
Very close.
Here's another one.
Nine reasons not to worry about the tanking economy.
They said seven ways a recession could be good for you financially.
Two days later.
Well, they do say your assets increase in value.
A bunch of morons.
Well, there are different things, like if you're holding assets versus like if you're a debtor or a creditor, it can be good or bad.
But generally, it's maybe I read that and I was like, okay.
And I like.
Still a shrinking economy, which is still generally bad for everybody.
Not great.
Not great.
Babylon B said, after returning to the White House, Biden asks Harris to explain banged up presidential limo.
They said, Secret Service says VP Harris's motorcade first reported mechanical failure when vehicle actually hit a curb.
Oh my gosh.
I can't believe that actually happened.
She probably wanted to drive.
She lunged for the wheel.
Yeah, lunged for the wheel.
The B says, epileptic child has seizure after gazing at latest pride flag.
I like how it uses the word gazing.
That's really funny.
It is inspired by the public response to our 2022 pride flag.
We're expanding our design to represent 40 LGBTQIA plus communities.
Let's throw that on the screen because you guys have to see this.
It's Microsoft's.
It was Microsoft's design, and it looks absolutely like a kaleidoscope of gayness.
Gayness.
It's a gayness.
A gay kaleidoscope.
Oh, wow.
Okay, so here's another one.
Fox News preemptively calls Arizona for Biden in 2024.
That was like a long time before that.
They actually did release this Fox 10 in Phoenix, Carrie Lake, Carrie Lake's former station, just displayed a graphic showing Katie Hobbs won the Arizona governor's race 12 days before the election.
Yeah, they remember this.
They threw it up on the screen.
That's right.
Unbelievable.
We just have all these test graphics.
Yeah, we had this prepared.
Oh, we're just testing it.
Testing it.
Kind of like how they published Betty White died or Betty White reaches her 100th birthday before and like they sent it out to stores and then she died.
I'm like, wait, do they do that?
It's like that old SNL sketch with Gerald Ford.
Harold Ford.
One of my favorite things that I'm bummed I didn't run out and go get a copy of it.
But in 2016, they sent out, I think it was Time magazine.
They printed the Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton.
It was Newsweek, I think.
Madame President.
I wish I'd honestly, that is like a real.
Can we, guys, can you look on eBay and see if we can get it?
It's probably so expensive, which is probably why you'd want it.
It's insane.
Just for the money.
It'd be great to have up here on the show.
Yeah.
All right.
Here's another one: Babylon B wrote: Biden says it may take days for Democrat votes to be double counted.
And four days later, the White House warned that election results may not be clear until a few days after the election.
It takes some time.
Don't you guys think it's a little shady that, like, ever since Trump got into office, election days have turned into election weeks?
And like, oh, mail-in voting is like everyone needs the right to vote, even people who can't get off their haunches and vote in person on election day.
It gets so infuriating when I actually realize what's happening.
It is insane.
Yeah.
We wrote the new 100% agree with you.
Yeah.
It's insane.
We wrote a new Disney CEO promises to make child grooming slightly less obvious.
Someone wrote this headline seven days later.
I have obtained a video from returning Disney CEO Buybagger's first town hall with employees in which he signals that he will work to quiet things down politically and move toward neutrality in the culture war.
Also, shout out to Brandon posting his like screenshot.
Can I share this?
Yeah, a screenshot of why he's canceling Disney Plus and all the reasons like, oh, too expensive.
Oh, I'm not watching everything.
And the other, he puts too much gay stuff.
And that's exactly why I came.
Did you submit that?
I did.
That was a submission to Disney Plus you gave.
Yeah, that's quiet down on the gay stuff.
Yeah, too much gay stuff.
All right.
We got to have one more prophecy.
And for the purists that are saying, why didn't you cancel it before?
It's because I bought like the three-year subscription.
So it was like it was a long time ago.
We have one more prophecy.
Oh, one more.
Library under fire for hosting controversial straight mail story hour.
Three years ago.
That was three years ago.
And then just recently, December 7th, 2022, Kurt Cameron is denied story hour slot by public libraries for his new faith-based kids book.
It's so close.
Which they just retracted as well.
So they're letting him do it in libraries.
This is amazing.
From because of the pressure.
All right, everyone.
Well, thanks for joining us on this wonderful celebration.
We are going to move into our subscriber lounge now for the subscribers.
Happy New Year, everyone.
We'll see you next time.
And let's cut it on a coming up next for Babylon B subscribers.
And we got a treat for you today.
We have some random subscriber stats from the year we can look at.
02 mil.
Wow.
Well done.
I wonder who the last one could be.
Yeah.
I think we know the answer to this, and it's at 7.23 million.
Whoa.
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