Starting The New Year With The Babylon Bee and Jimbob
The Babylon Bee Podcast hits the ground running in 2023, talking about their resolutions, hopes, and dreams for the new year, and also connecting to the maker of Savage Memes, JimBob! Adam Yenser also has Weak-ly News, there's a special Australian-edition of Sizzler Facts, and there's stuff in the news this week. Jimbob has his latest book out now: SAVAGE MEMES VOL. 4. He is also on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@MadebyJimbob) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/madebyjimbob/)... at least for now. This episode is brought to you by our wonderful sponsors who you should absolutely check out: Allegiance Gold: https://allegiancegold.com/bee PublicSq: https://publicsq.com/ PublicSq on Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/publicsq/id1573823343 PublicSq on Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicsq.app&gl=US
Well, we talk to the creator of Savage Memes Volume 4.
You don't want to miss it.
It's officially the new year and we talk about our hopes, our dreams, and innermost longings for 2023.
Apple has officially announced a new watch mode so John Piper can preach and not trigger emergency services.
The Republicans have decided to spend the next two years deciding on who will be Speaker of the House.
All this in Moran.
The B weekly.
Hey, everybody.
I haven't seen you guys since last year.
The first Babylon Bee podcast episode in the new year.
All of us are returning from vacation with sleepy eyes.
Did you guys have good vacations?
Oh, yeah.
Did, yeah, yep.
Yeah.
Visiting family in Pennsylvania, did some stand-up shows in Morrow Bay.
It was nice.
I took a lot of naps.
Yeah.
It was like sleep.
I had a lot of days where I like four o'clock rolled around and I just concked out.
Totally.
Four o'clock.
Yeah.
In the a.m.?
No, no, in the p.m.
In the p.m. I read a book.
At least I got further in the book.
Which book did you read?
So I've been reading The Way of Kings for about four months, five months now.
I'm a slow reader.
Like 10 pages at a time.
Usually I read a lot faster than that, but for some reason, this one's taking me a long time.
But I'm committed to it.
It's a good book.
You know?
Brandon Sanderson.
My whole family, like, you know, all the kids are off school and stuff, and their whole time schedules are slowly shifting later and later.
So it was a couple nights ago.
I was like, I went up to get a drink of water at like 5 a.m. and the kids are still up.
Really?
Yeah.
They just stayed up the whole time.
They stayed up till like 5 a.m.
What are they doing the whole time?
They're playing video games.
Oh, really?
That'll do it.
Yeah.
That'll keep you right.
We had a few family sessions of Among Us.
Have you guys played Among Us where you it's like there's a traitor.
So you're on this like spaceship and they're a little cartoon.
It's a video game?
Yeah.
Oh, that sounds cool.
And one of them's like a, one or two of them is like a traitor that everybody else has to go around and fix the ship.
But one guy's like sneaking behind people and stabbing them.
So it resulted in a lot of shouting matches, you know, and like.
Those are the best video games.
Yeah.
Like very angry.
Where you punch people in the arm.
Yeah, and you hit them with the controller.
That's what I used to do with Halo.
Every time I lost, my friend Jesse would always beat me and I'd always beat him up afterwards.
Well, it's kind of like a Monopoly or Sorry or whatever.
They're designed to make you fight with each other because it's like, oh, everything you did in this game doesn't matter.
Go back to the start.
You know, in this one, it's very mean.
And like, the whole point of the game is to encourage you to lie to your friends and family members, which doesn't seem like a great idea.
It's like mafia.
It's like mafia, but with some space.
Mafia in space.
Let's do it like that.
So we talked to Jim Bob this week.
He has made by Jim Bob comics, which you might have seen going viral during the pandemic.
Pun absolutely intended.
And in this episode, we're going to talk about our New Year's resolutions and our hopes and our dreams.
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Well, let's talk about what's in the news this week.
Treasure in Heaven is great, but it's not going to buy you a tank of gas.
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What's in the news this week?
Disney lost $123 billion in market value in 2022 as shares dropped by 44%.
It was their worst year since 1974.
That's great news.
Yep.
Well, I don't know if that's a good idea.
I think that's a result of the Go Woke, Go Bro.
It probably doesn't help, but also I think if you look at the shares for all companies, they're all down.
A lot of companies lost.
It's not just Disney.
I think Apple lost like a trillion dollars.
Yeah, their market cap's going to go under $2 trillion or $1 trillion.
There's some landmark they're about to hit that's pretty nasty.
So it really isn't that big a deal.
No, no big deal at all.
Well, that's too bad.
Well, but you say worst year since 1974.
I'm trying to think of what Disney was doing in the mid-70s.
Like, those are all those really forgettable movies to me.
Like, when they were making the cartoons in the 70s, is that the one, like, that was the period.
It's kind of like Fox and the Hound, the Black Cauldron.
The Black Cauldron was 80s, I think.
Was that 80s?
Yeah, but there was like Aristocats.
Oh, Aristocats.
Were they all the animated cats tell a dirty joke?
Yeah.
Oliver and company, like, there was like a bunch of forgettable 70s ones.
And at some point, Don Bluth broke away, and then he went and made like the Secret of Nim and all these other competing movies.
Those were so weird, though.
That was a weird time.
It was a weird time for kids' movies.
Dark kids movies.
Lots of dark kids.
Yeah, they were very dark and weird.
Yeah, kind of.
I'm still a little disturbed by Secret of Nim when they go talk to the owl and they're like mice talking to the owl and he's like chewing on mice at the same time.
Yeah.
His head like completely turns around and they're the dark crystal.
Yeah.
Like the puppet movies.
It's just weird stuff.
Legend.
Lots of weird stuff.
It's some weird stuff.
Some weird stuff that was going on.
Oh my goodness.
Well, hey.
Anyway, good job, Disney.
Good job, Disney.
So, hey, can I take this?
We'll make it back again.
Yeah, no matter.
I'm very interested in this next story because I love Jeremy Renner.
But Jeremy Renner, the Hawkeye from the Avenger films, the one that's the family man that has all the kids, lives on the farm.
He's not the Hawkeye, though.
He's just Hawkeye.
He plays Hawkeye.
Can you imagine how weird it would be if he was like, I'm the Hawkeye?
The Hawkeye is here.
The Hawkeye.
And he refers to himself in the third person the whole time.
Yeah, that would be actually really good.
I don't mind that.
But he said, anyway, he was a little bit more.
That would be like the dark, gritty reboot would be the Hawkeye.
Yeah, exactly.
It's an origin story.
Parents are dead.
It's an origin story.
How did Hawkeye become Hawkeye?
That's really interesting.
But he was driving one of those big tractor snowplows that have the tank wheels.
And he was run over by his own snowplow because he was helping somebody out.
Wait, and that's the origin story?
That was how Hawkeye became.
He became that.
That's the gritty reboot type of Hawkeye.
Hawkeye became Hawkeye.
Crushed him and basically it crushed his leg and part of his chest.
And so he tried to jump onto it and stop it from rolling, but it ended up falling under it.
And so it's a really tragic story.
Yeah, it's really, really sad.
He's helping out his family and neighbors when it happened.
Yeah, I heard that he would call the mayor of the town that he lives in Reno and would be like, hey, can I get anyone out of the snow today?
He would take this.
He's a real-life superhero.
Yeah, he's like a really nice guy.
The Hawkeye.
So he calls himself in real life.
So, what is this video like from TikTok here where it says who is excited for the holidays?
And it shows a snowplow.
I think that's just to show his old videos of him going around.
It's an old video of him that he would go around and help his neighbors plowing their driveways, getting the cars on the stock.
I thought he liked posting.
Jared and I were saying, I wonder if there's people in the neighborhood that are like, let's get our car stuck so Hawkeye has to come.
That's right.
He is in this area.
This is the Hawkeye area.
But yeah, he looks pretty beat up in the hospital.
They say he's recovering, but it sounds like he has pretty serious injuries.
Yeah.
I'm really sad about that.
That's a really sad story.
I hope he gets better.
We're going to be praying for Jeremy Renner, the Hawkeye.
Well, Republicans officially took control as the House majority on Tuesday, but they were still struggling to elect a Speaker of the House at the time of this recording here.
GOP leader Kevin McCarthy didn't get enough votes on three ballots on Tuesday.
They did a fourth one this morning.
And then at this time, I think they're currently working on a fifth vote.
Yeah.
This is the first time in 100 years the first round of voting has failed to elect a speaker.
20 Republicans split and voted for Jim Jordan from Ohio, I think, instead.
There's a possibility if the Republicans are divided that a Democrat gets elected speaker, and Democrats are proposing a unity speaker that they can all get behind.
I'm sure that would work.
Yeah.
Every time the Democrats say that, it works.
And I've heard that now they've also someone nominated what's his name from Florida, Byron Donalds.
So now there's another possible came out.
And they're each getting just enough of the vote to keep Kevin McCarthy from surpassing stopping him.
So, well, we'll see what happens.
In other news.
Here's the John Piper video.
This is hilarious.
He's preaching and his Apple Watch alarm starts going off because it detected that he fell down.
Even though he's just waving his arms around while people are preaching.
So I guess while he was preaching, have you ever seen John Piper preach?
He does this for the glory of God.
And his watch said, It looks like you've taken a hard fall.
Would you like to make an emergency call?
And he says, he talks to his servant.
He goes, no, I'm preaching.
He looks at his congregation.
He goes, he goes, my watch thinks I felt that a lot of people at the comments were saying he does look a lot like Larry David.
Oh, I haven't noticed.
I've watched videos of him kind of sitting down and talking before.
I haven't watched a lot of his sermons, but he really does come across.
Oh, he does look like Larry David quite a bit.
Yeah.
I'm a huge John Piper fan.
He's one of the best preachers I've ever heard.
And yeah, I always thought that's hilarious.
That seems like a Babylon B joke we would have told in like 2020.
Yes, his type of watch goes off.
Yeah.
It's a dave.
Have you guys ever compared Tim Keller's voice to Jeff Goldblum's voice?
No.
It's essentially the same voice.
So if you ever get a chance to listen to Tim Keller's sermon and picture Jeff Goldblum, it's very funny.
Yeah, yeah.
Jeff Goldblum, yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, it's time for our banger of the week.
Banger of the week.
Pope Francis announces the passing of the final Catholic Pope.
And we've got Pope Benedict passed away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sad.
It is sad.
Not my Pope.
Pope Benedict wrote this before he died.
Quite soon I shall find myself before the final judge of my life.
Even though as I look back on my life, I can have great reason for fear and trembling.
I am nonetheless of good cheer, for I trust firmly that the Lord is not only the just judge, but also the friend and brother who himself has already suffered for my shortcomings and is thus also my advocate, my paraclete.
In light of the hour of judgment, the grace of being a Christian becomes all the more clear to me.
It grants me knowledge and indeed friendship with the judge of my life and thus allows me to confidently pass through the dark door of death.
Wow.
That's a great statement.
Good statement, yeah.
That's a great statement.
You guys think about him, and people are very sad.
The conservative Catholics are very sad that Pope Francis ended up taking over for him.
Yeah.
You know.
So it's really sad.
He was a good pope.
Good poll.
Good pope.
Good poll.
We also have a bomb of the week.
Bomb of the week.
Dad looking forward to the peace and quiet of work after the holidays.
That's just accurate.
True.
Yeah.
I'm not convinced that was our lowest performing article, but we'll allow it.
All right, it's time for Sizzler Facts.
Australian Sizzler Facts.
Sizzler Facts.
19 weeks ago, we debuted a new feature to the podcast called Sizzler Facts.
And today we have a very special Australian Sizzler Fact to be read in an Australian accent.
Okay.
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For our own under Sizzler aficionados.
Down under.
You missed the one Australian.
For our down under Sizzler aficionados, you can still recreate a facsimile of the Sizzler experience by purchasing the traditional cheese pan bread from your local Woolworths.
Just a few minutes in the air fryer or oven, and you can enjoy a slice of the Sizzler lifestyle in your own home.
I'm a Sizzler boy myself, I'll admit.
This has been Sizzler Facts.
Was that written to us by an Australian?
I don't know.
What is the I am a Sizzler boy?
That's the thing.
It turns into a person at the end.
Did Brandon write that and just want you to say I'm a Sizzler?
I'm a Sizzler boy.
I'm a Sizzler boy.
I am a Sizzler boy.
And all the Australians on there are going to be like, he sounds like a hick.
That's what they're going to say.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I sound like I'm from the bush.
All right.
Well, now it's time for weekly news with Adam Jenser.
It's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
The Biden administration announced a new plan to combat homelessness that includes providing gender-affirming care, which is not what homeless people mean when they beg for change.
The Republicans have failed to confirm a new speaker of the House after Kevin McCarthy lost six votes this week.
Even Hillary Clinton is impressed by how many times he's lost.
In court on Tuesday, FTX founder Sam Bankfraud pleaded not guilty to criminal charges.
Bankfraud pointed out that if he had really stolen $2 billion, he wouldn't look or dress this way.
Avatar 2 was officially the highest-grossing movie of 2022.
It surpassed Top Gun Maverick after thousands of mail-in movie tickets were found.
It was revealed that incoming Republican Congressman George Santos made several false claims during his campaign, including that he worked for Goldman Sachs, that his grandparents survived the Holocaust, and that his mom died in 9-11.
He and President Biden have already agreed to work together on some bipartisan BS.
Justin Bieber is nearing a deal to sell the rights to his entire music catalog for $200 million.
Hopefully Elon Musk will buy it and destroy it like he did with Twitter.
A new law in Louisiana requires people to provide a government-issued ID to view porn sites like Pornhub, or you can throw beads at a lady and see her naked for real.
The ID law is all part of a racist plot to prevent blacks and illegal immigrants from watching porn.
Nick Cannon celebrated the birth of yet another baby this week.
I don't actually know if that's true.
I'm just going to start saying it every week because odds are it happened.
British people are mourning the death of the Indian British man who invented the UK's most popular dish, chicken tikka masala.
Honestly, it's not that impressive.
All he had to do was make something slightly better than pig blood pie and boiled sheep lungs.
In a new interview, Dolly Parton said that the secret to her 56-year marriage is that she and her husband aren't in each other's faces all the time.
In fact, her husband hasn't seen her since three faces ago.
For the first time ever, Denmark recorded no bank robberies in all of 2022.
As a result, police were able to spend more time eating Danishes rather than chasing them.
That's it for weekly news.
To see more, check out my YouTube channel and come see me live at the Gas Lamp in Long Beach, January 22nd, and Slack Key Lounge in Honolulu, January 28th.
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All right, now it's time for the Babylon Bee to predict 2023.
The Babylon Bee predicts 2023.
It's that time of year again when the mystic oracles at the Babylon Bee tell you what will happen in the new year with 100% accuracy.
Will 2023 be better than last year?
You decide.
Here we go.
January 1st, millions will set out to read their entire Bible.
January 4th, dozens still reading their entire Bible.
January 6th, AOC dies again at PTSD after recounting her death on January 6th.
Sad.
Sad.
February 13th, Kamala Harris reports that Biden had an unfortunate accident coming down the stairs.
February 16th, Kamala caught laughing while at Biden's funeral.
February 19th, Kamala Harris sworn in.
I don't know that that will exactly happen like that, but I do feel like if Biden died or something, that there will be like a hot mic or a video of Kamala laughing.
Like that will definitely happen.
Inappropriate.
Like in an inappropriate time.
I think we can probably predict that.
February 20th, weed criminalized heavily in all 50 states.
March 3rd, Whoopi Goldberg says something racist.
Especially anti-Semitic.
Anti-Semitic.
March 13th, AOC says something stupid.
You're just rolling the dice on that one.
March 23rd, John Fetterman finally finishes taking his oath of office.
No, dude.
April 4th, the war in Ukraine ends.
Okay, hold on.
April 5th, the war in Taiwan begins.
April 12th, SBF says that another 50 million of people's money has gone missing.
May 1st, Obama releases a new memoir.
That never gets old.
May 12th, no one shows up to work across America.
Also, all Nintendo Switches are sold out for some reason.
Yeah, that's when it's coming out.
We'll talk about that in a second.
May 19th, Webster changes the definition of gender.
That's definitely coming.
Didn't that happen last year?
They changed the definition of woman.
Oh, woman.
And then dictionary.com did as well, I think.
Yeah.
Dumb.
I think some of the dictionaries have actually added things to gender because it used to be.
They'll keep the base definition and they'll say it's a whole array of identities that you can pick from.
Sounds stupid.
May 22nd, Bob Iger bends the knees and swears fealty to Ron DeSantis.
May 25th.
Did I say that word right?
That's one of those words I've read.
I've read a lot.
Fealty.
I know what it means and I've read it, but I don't know.
I've read enough fantasy to know.
Out loud, I mean.
It's a book I would have read in fantasy novels as a kid and never pronounced out.
Swear fealty.
Use the word mayhap a little bit.
Okay, May 25th, public schools announced they will not allow Tuttle Twins books in school libraries.
They will now allow Tuttle Twins books in school libraries.
May 26th, Tuttle Twins books pulled from libraries after students start questioning teachers' biases.
June 4th, Kanye says he's not crazy anymore.
June 5th, Kanye joins the KKK.
KK Kanye.
July 4th, Zelensky named new president of the United States.
We're having a lot of presidential changes.
This is going to be a wild year.
What happened to Kamala?
He just named it.
He doesn't say what happened to Kamala.
He's just gone.
August 8th, Dr. Fauci comes out of retirement after new COVID strain leaks from a lab.
Okay.
Oh, no.
Please don't make that prediction.
They already said there's a new strain this week.
They just keep making up.
I just pay attention.
You know who we need?
Dr. Fauci.
He's like in a cabin in the woods, all grizzled with the beards.
I put that all behind you.
We need you.
It's like a guy in a military story.
One last mission.
One last mission.
That's funny.
August 12th, Alex Jones sued for another 400 trillion billion.
Am I making it up, or was there a Keen Peel sketch like that where they had a guy and one of the guys was a grizzled guy in the woods and they call him out for one last mission?
They're like, no, we just wanted you to recommend somebody from the job.
And he's like, fine, I'll do it.
No, It's like Hot Shots Part Do.
Anyway.
September 15th, Obama releases a new memoir.
September 20th, Elon releases part 3285 of the Twitter file.
That seems likely.
October 27th, Elon Musk buys The View.
Promptly cancels the show forever.
Oh, that'd be good.
Man, we can only hope.
After October 29th, Post Office releases a January 6th commemorative November 9th, Pizzagate conspiracy confirmed true.
We're waiting for those.
November 23rd, Brian Stelter retires to Idaho to be with his guy.
That's going to be great.
My people need me.
I can't wait for that.
November 25th, Elon Musk announces a gas-powered Tesla that will save us all from the coming ice age.
December 5th, Disney announces phase five of the Marvel Universe will be Brie Larson giving a series of two-hour TED Talks on misogyny.
That's going to be great.
That seems likely.
December 10th, all late night hosts.
A late night host.
I'm sorry.
Let me start over.
December 10th, a late night host says something funny.
Hey, we can dream, right?
It might happen.
Yeah.
It's possible.
You never know.
Yeah.
Do you have reading glasses?
Do you own reading glasses?
Are you saying I need reading?
Are you saying I need reading glasses?
I think I need them for this.
Yeah.
I don't notice it anywhere else, but here, especially because we don't know what's coming, we don't prepare for that.
Yeah, we don't prepare for the next word is always a surprise.
Am I like straining?
Does it look like I'm straining or is just that I just designed it?
There's been a few words that you misread, and I'm just wondering.
I didn't know if you had glasses or not.
I feel like I feel like I've said under instead of down on you.
Yeah, under.
That was colloquialism.
Like he was writing.
Say, I'm a Sizzler boy, right?
I know, but sometimes when I'm reading long sections.
Say, I'm a Sizzler boy.
Say it.
Say it.
I'm a Sizzler boy, Kyle.
I'm a Sizzler boy.
No, sometimes when I'm reading long sections of things, because when I narrate audiobooks, I don't actually know what I'm reading.
So it's just like I'm just reading the phonetic sounds.
What's the best audiobook you've narrated that you would recommend?
Like in terms of his file warming, if I wanted to listen to both, and that it's mean book and I'm happy with your performance.
I don't know.
There's a couple of series that I read that are spy novel series, but one by Bradley Wright called the Alexander King series.
That's really a good series.
And then there's another one that is an urban fantasy series that I read called The Knights Templar, which is all about if the Catholics had a military arm that fought monsters.
Like it's great, dude.
It's like so cool.
All right.
So Alexander King series.
This is what we're calling.
Alexander King, or if you like different voices for each character.
So I do.
That always impresses me where they keep all the different voices straight in their heads.
Oh, Alexander, please save me.
Yeah, I really try hard not to do that.
So actually, I'll do a female voice would always be just a softer man voice.
So, like, your New Year's resolution at any Bible reading plans.
Like, that would be a woman versus, like...
Can you say, I'm a Sizzler boy?
Your New Year!
Resolution.
What?
Can you say I'm a Sizzler boy in that sultry woman voice?
I'm a Sizzler boy.
You don't go for like the body python falsetto.
No, I don't.
How can you earn it if you don't HFH?
He dressed me up like this.
No, I don't fuck spam.
We could do that.
I think we should do more of that kind of thing.
I'm fascinated now about your audiobook reading for sure.
Yes, I just did one over the weekend.
It was the first one I've done all year because we got so busy here.
And so I actually had some time.
So I did some, I did an audiobook.
How long does it take you to record one?
Do you sit down and do it in, like, how long is a session?
So it depends on the book.
Sometimes the books are a little easier, but I would say I probably spend about one and a half times how many hours the book should take to listen to because I make a lot of mistakes.
But in one session a day, can you read for like an hour?
Yeah, there were times where I could read up to like five to six, seven hours.
In a day?
Yeah, I would just read straight through.
And then now my perseverance is way low.
So like I could only do about two or three hours at a time on this one.
I think I did four or five.
It's only an eight-hour book.
So I mean, I have about 15% left, but it takes a long time.
I wish we'd had you read the postmodern Pilgrim's Progress.
Did you?
We didn't really think about it or have a choice, and the publisher just picked somebody.
Right.
And I listened to it, and he does a fine job, but it's, you know, I think he would have done a better job.
Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate it.
But you know what?
Next time, maybe we'll be able to talk to him.
December 31st, the last remaining person still reading through their Bible finally finishes it.
They should have gotten audiobook versions.
Yeah, they should have been all together.
Congratulations, Marlon.
I know one of my friends actually did it this year.
Yes.
So I started reading my Bible.
Well, we'll talk about it in our resolutions.
Okay.
All right.
Now we're going to talk about our New Year's resolutions.
And then after that, we're going to talk about what we're looking forward to this year.
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It's a new year, and the Babylon Bee has hopes and dreams.
So, New Year's resolutions.
First of all, what's your guys' opinion or take on New Year's resolutions?
Dumb.
I don't do them.
You don't do them.
And I came up with some.
Every now and then I'll have a goal for the year, but I don't really ever think of it as a New Year's resolution.
I hate New Year's as a holiday, New Year's Eve and New Year's.
And I don't make New Year's resolutions.
Why do you not like New Year's as a holiday?
There's a few reasons.
I think there's a lot of anticipation to build up and do something for New Year's.
I feel lame if I don't go out and do something.
But by the time that day comes, because it's after the Christmas holiday, I feel like I've spent time with family during the day.
I've gone out with friends at night.
There's that week between Christmas and New Year's where there's nothing to do.
So I've gone out to bars.
And by the time New Year's comes, I'm just like, I'd kind of rather stay in and not do anything.
But there's a pressure to go out.
And when you're younger, staying up till midnight is a big deal and it's fun.
But when you're older, I'm frequently up till midnight.
And I enjoy when I get to bed before midnight.
Yes.
So it's not really a, I just find it just kind of a lame holiday all around.
I guess I like the ritual of, you know, this is a new fresh year.
There's something cool about it, I think.
Fresh, new beginnings.
I kind of like look at it like that, where it's a new beginning.
I don't stay out.
We actually go to bed at 9, 9.30 because we do the New York because they're on the Pacific Standard Time.
So we do the New York drop and then at 9 o'clock and then we go to bed.
Do you guys ever go to the ball drop in time screen?
Never have.
Have you?
I was there once when I, it was probably 2001 or two, I think I went.
And it was the coldest I've ever been.
Oh, man.
It was just crazy.
Where do people pee?
Wait, 2001?
That was a big year.
Well, I forget when it was somewhere around then.
Okay.
Or no, it had to be, no, I was younger than that.
I think it might have been maybe in the late 90s, 98, 99.
I forget what year it was.
Because there was white.
But I remember that it was like 16 degrees out for part of the day.
It was a super cold day.
And you have to go in these corraled fences that they load you in hours beforehand and you can't leave.
And there's like police helping people stand on a cardboard because that's a strategy homeless people use to protect you from like the cold of the ground to put a barrier in between.
And you're just out there for hours.
And then the ball drops and you're mostly just celebrating because you're like, okay, I can go inside now.
Yeah, thank God that's over.
Yes, exactly.
Where do you pee in?
It's hard to get out and pee because you're barricaded in there.
I think there are restrooms or port-a-potties nearby that if you ask, there's police all around keeping the area barricaded.
And especially for kids, they'll be like, yeah, if you need to get out.
But it's hard to get out and go anywhere because you're packed in there like cattle.
Just wear a diaper.
Yeah.
Sounds miserable.
Yeah, that's the only thing I could think when I was watching the ball drop.
I was like, where do they pee?
That's something that's a big priority for police.
The police would be so annoyed by me.
They'd be like, Kyle again.
Gosh, it's that guy.
I'm like, sorry.
Especially if you were drinking or something.
I don't know.
My goodness.
Goodness gracious.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Well, no, yeah, I got a list of some New Year's goals or resolutions I can talk about.
Cool.
Yeah.
I got some too.
I'm excited about this year.
So, okay, so I do.
My problem with the New Year's resolution is what's the difference between like, there's something like daily habits, like I'd like to start doing this more.
And then there's goals, like I'd like to end up here.
So I kind of divided it up.
So daily habits, you know, I'm going to keep eating right, exercising, reading the Bible.
I also don't like doing the like, I will read the Bible every day thing because then if I miss a day, I'm like, oh, well, it's over.
You know, motivation.
Yeah, I lose motivation.
So it's just like, I would like to read my Bible more regularly, you know, is kind of the, yeah.
Not try to do a streak.
Spend more time with the kids, less time on the phone.
Sometimes I'm like doing this and Calvin's like, you know, trying to get your attention and then you feel like a terrible person.
So I don't want to do that anymore.
Go to church more, family Bible studies.
That's something that it's hard for us, you know, like to get everybody together.
Like, come on, corral everybody in for a five to ten minute Bible study.
Totally.
Date nights.
Try to do more regular date nights once a week.
That's hard to do sometimes.
When's the last time you asked your wife out on a date?
When's the last time you kissed your wife without the attention?
My wife, we still joke.
We're joking about that a lot over the weekend.
Anyway, DoorDash.
I'm not going to talk much about it.
We're trying to cut DoorDash.
That's something that, like, especially over we had never ordered a DoorDash or like we never ordered in food until like the pandemic.
And then it was like, and then it just became this habit.
We were just ordering in food all the time.
You know, got it.
So I'm looking at our DoorDash bill for the month and we're like, holy cow, you know, like, this is ridiculous.
So try to cut that, cook more.
Oh, and then I want to read more books this year.
So last year I set a goal of 12 books and I think I broke it.
I think I read like 20 books or 25 books or something.
That's good.
But it was a lot of first half of the year binging a bunch of books.
And then the second half of the year, I hardly read anything.
So I want to be more regular.
And I also want to alternate fiction and non-fiction this year.
Yeah.
Because I read so much fiction last year, which I think fiction is really good.
I think it's really inspiring and whatever.
And obviously for what we do, it's good to have a lot of good fiction in your life.
But I wanted to do a fiction book and then a non-fiction book.
What was your favorite, by the way?
What was your favorite fiction book from last year?
Probably I read Ayn Rand's Anthem and I thought that was really good.
It's a very short dystopian.
It's like 100 pages dystopian fiction and it's written in the collective.
So the whole protagonist the whole time is saying we like we did this, we do this as a society.
And then they discover the secret word of I, like the individual, you know, and it's like this forbidden word they're not supposed to say.
It's really cool.
I just really liked that book.
And I also really like Jurassic Park, which I had never read before.
Oh, that's a great book.
Yeah.
I got into Crichton this year and I read like six or seven Crichton books in like a month and that blew through my goal.
And then after that, kind of, I petered out and didn't read as much.
Crichton's interesting.
He's an interesting author.
I've read a couple of his books.
You know, it's interesting.
I you started talking about dystopian stuff.
I just started reading Animal Farm to my kids.
Oh, dude, I literally picked up a copy of Animal Farm yesterday.
I mean, yesterday for me, too.
And my son read the whole thing last night.
Oh my gosh.
Really?
Yeah.
We were reading it out loud to all four boys last night.
It's so good.
It's so good.
Yeah.
It's wonderful.
I love those short, punchy books like that.
Yeah.
Oh, it's so great.
And, you know, Liam's like, dang, this is, this looks really familiar, dad.
This sounds really familiar.
I'm like, yeah.
You know, that's pretty cool.
Communism.
What are you going to do?
That's great.
Well, what are you going to do?
And then, so I started reading my first Thomas Soul book yesterday.
Oh, cool.
And Brandon recommended one, so I started.
So that's kicking that off.
Long-term goals.
I'm going to try to lose 20 more pounds.
I lost 25 pounds in the last year and a half.
You're going to look 20 more pounds.
That's the goal.
Yeah.
I want to start working on another book, another novel.
I'd post Modern Pilgrim's Progress.
I'd like to see what I've got a few half-finished manuscripts lying around.
I'd like to try to do.
That's pretty much it for me.
When do you find the time to write?
Well, I don't.
That's the problem.
You know, that's why I'm trying to make space right now.
Yeah, but you wrote a book.
You wrote a book last year.
How did you do it?
I don't know, man.
Did you do it in the morning?
I'm feeling very productive lately.
Like, I'm feeling very like, you know, just a lot of analysis paralysis.
So I'd like to, that's what I want to do this year: figure out space to make all that happen.
So that's great.
I have quite a few of those same ones.
When you're talking, I was like, I got that.
You know, I want to write a book this year, too.
I have a book that's floating around in my mind.
It's not a fiction book.
Sad.
But I think it would be a good book.
So I'm excited about that.
I'm trying to lose about 15.
It's called I'm a Scissor Boy.
I'm a Scissor.
A memoir.
It's written by Jerry.
It takes place in Sydney, Australia.
Surrounded.
It's a small family.
No, but I do.
I want to do about 15 pounds off fat, of fat.
Maybe not even pounds.
I just got to figure out.
I got to be more disciplined with myself.
Well, I say 20 pounds, but it's like you look at the charts and I go, okay, well, this is where you're supposed to be.
And it's like, I don't really know if that's realistic or not.
But the charts sometimes can look ridiculous.
Well, and it's like one chart was saying I needed to lose 40 pounds to be normal weight.
And I'm like, dude, 40 pounds, I'd be nothing.
I'd be a little twig, you know, like, I don't understand.
It does seem weird because they don't really take any consideration, just on the charts, they don't take into consideration your muscle mass.
How ripped I am.
How ripped.
I haven't seen my arms.
They are pretty good, I got to say.
No, we, let's say, I wanted to, one of the things we're doing right now is it is a daily routine where we get up in the morning early.
I read my own Bible.
We work out for at least 20 to 30 minutes doing like a hit cardio workout, come back in, read the Bible with the kids.
And we have a, so we have this Bible recap podcast that we've been doing.
And we didn't finish the whole thing, but the Bible Recap podcast is really great.
If you check it out, it's awesome.
We did it last year.
And then we're doing it the New Testament this year with the kids.
And I'm finding, so I read about a chapter or two of one of the Gospels right now.
And then we have a discussion about Jesus.
It's been amazing, actually, for the kids.
So it's been deep.
Then trying to get in to work on early, get into work early.
And we have a lot of goals, like finding like goals here at the B we have.
So that's a lot of things that I'm working towards is that.
So I'm just excited to be part of the B.
But I mean, it's much of that, you know?
I don't know where to find the time for all this stuff.
Like read the Bible, work out.
It's like by the time I get the kids to school, try to read the Bible, work out, I'm like, oh, it's noon.
It's like it's so hard to do.
Trying to get that done before, you know, like nine in the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like really hard, you know?
And then hang out with the kids.
I also, one of my other goals is to join a jiu-jitsu gym.
That's awesome, dude.
Have you ever done that before?
I have.
I got injured doing it years ago.
And so I'm looking forward to getting back in.
That's how he lost his hair.
Oh, really?
It was a freak hair injury.
The most horrible hair accident.
Yes.
That's like, did you see the comment?
Somebody was like, to tell the bald guy his backwards cap accentuates his baldness.
I think it looks good on you.
I feel like I can't pull off a baseball cap very well.
Really?
No, you can't.
I always see you in the bathroom.
Really?
I always look at it.
It looks like a weirdo.
I like the way I look at it.
But you have good hair.
I have a bottle cap or like beanie.
I think I look okay in them, but then when I take it off, I have terrible hat hair.
I can't look good after I take it off.
I have to stick with it for the day, if that's what I do.
If you're going to do it.
I have a wig now.
I got a wig over the break that I'm going to start using in sketches.
Oh, it's not just for like...
Oh, no.
It's not a hair piece to wear about the town.
No, that would be so weird.
He just shows up and he doesn't mention it.
I would love that if you just show up for the wig one day and I almost did it just to kind of tell you that.
I'm talking about okay.
Don't talk to him about the wig.
What?
What'd you prep?
Why are you looking at me like that?
Because it's like beautiful hair.
It's really nice.
It looks like Kyle's.
So really, really nice.
Yeah, really nice.
Just the best.
The best.
Beautiful hair.
You know, a lot of actors have those, though.
They wear pieces.
A lot of guys wear pieces.
And it's like around town all the time.
There's a lot of rumors about actors that big name actors.
Some of them, there's rumors that they wear wigs.
Yes.
My hairstylist, she actually cut the wig for me.
She used to do wigs.
Once every time I get a wig.
Yeah.
So there's, anyway, she used to do like Johnny Depp's hair and stuff.
She was like, she's like, oh, everyone wears a piece.
All these people, you know.
Not everyone.
Obviously, Johnny Depp has his own hair, but, you know.
So the one example you gave was not someone.
It's not someone that has one.
Everyone, but I don't want out all these.
I don't want to out people.
Yeah.
I don't feel bad.
Well, my goals, like I said, I don't really do the strict New Year's resolution, but the one you mentioned that I did last year and I plan to do again this year is read more books than I did the previous year.
I'm a very slow reader and I enjoy reading.
And it's been a while since I really dedicated myself and made a point of it to read some books.
But I've always been more into nonfiction than fiction.
I like biographies, history books, philosophy books, stuff like that.
What's your favorite biography?
My favorite biography.
Let me think.
I'd have to think about it.
The one that I read that I liked the most this past year was just from this past year, but it's Bob Odenkirk's autobiography.
Oh, yeah.
Really good.
Yeah.
It was just about, you know, comedy and then his transition into doing Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
It was really cool.
I enjoyed that one.
I don't think it's my favorite of all time, but as far as the ones I read last year, I enjoyed that one a lot.
And I've been listening to audiobooks more in the car because there's a lot of classics.
Like you mentioned, Animal Farm.
There's a lot of classics like that that I either read in high school and then never revisited, or ones that I kind of know the plot of, but never actually sat down and read myself.
So like I listened to 1984 again, listened to Catch 22.
I had never read any Hemingway, so I've been listening to a lot of Hemingway books on audiobook.
And then one of my goals for what I'm planning to read this coming year, I studied philosophy in college, and I kind of wanted to start at the beginning, like with Plato's Republic and the early stuff, and just kind of go through the history of philosophy, all the major works, and kind of read through them in order because a lot of them reference the previous philosophers and different schools of thought.
And now when I hear those things referenced, it's like, oh, I kind of know what that is, but I forget it.
So I kind of want to go through like chronologically and read through that.
That is a great, that was one of my goals last year that I didn't complete.
But it's like the philosophy conversation has been going on for a long time.
Yeah.
And so a lot of these conversations that people have now and they're having all these questions, it's like, well, in philosophy, these questions have been answered pretty well.
Or they've been hashed out.
They've been hashed out.
They haven't all been answered, but almost any angle you can think about it from, someone has written a diatribe on that and thoughts on that.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's interesting.
There's a lot of good Christian philosophers too.
And I said, in fact, in the conversation of philosophy, up until about 100 years ago, they were all Christians.
Yeah.
And so it's a really interesting, except for Plato and Aristotle and all those guys and all the different Romans.
But they're very, it's interesting because they're very kind of pre-Christian thought in a way.
A lot of their stuff starts to move towards Western democratic thinking and kind of moving towards monotheism rather than the – Well, and Paul talks about a lot of kind of like the platonic – So Paul's thought is certainly rooted in some of that.
Yeah, for sure.
So it's interesting.
That's a good goal.
I envy that goal.
I'm not going to do it this year.
We'll see how much I get through.
I did read Boethius last year, but Constellation of Philosophy.
It's a good book.
But I don't know.
All right, guys, well, let us know what your New Year's resolutions are.
We'd love to hear what you guys are looking to read or check out this year.
What are you guys looking forward to this year?
Anything that's coming out or any events that are coming up?
I'm looking forward to Babylon Be Live.
February 24th.
You can go to BabylonBethLive.com and check that out.
Also, I got a list of some stuff that I'm looking forward to.
So the sequel to The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild comes out as we referenced on our predictions list.
And I'm really excited for that.
Tears of the Kingdom.
So what's interesting about this one, too, is it's the first video game that my six-year-old Calvin knows is coming out.
You know, like usually he's just playing whatever game he doesn't know about release dates and stuff.
Every couple weeks, he's like, how many more?
Santista.
It's like, it's coming out in May, son.
It's coming out.
He's seen the trailer.
He'll go re-watch the trailer.
So it's his first foray into pre-order consumerism madness.
Gotta teach him.
Teach him early.
Teach him you.
The Dungeons and Dragons movie comes out this year.
The trailer looked pretty cool.
I don't know if it'll be woke or not, but it looked interesting.
Probably.
Was there an old Dungeons and Dragons movie also?
There's been a couple, I think.
Yeah.
They haven't typically been very good, but they've also been very serious.
And the trailer for this one, it was like, it's Chris Pine, and they're like, they're adding this comedic element to it.
So I, you know, wasn't Jeremy Irons in the last one came out.
Yes, I think so.
And he was like trying to win an Oscar the whole time.
Did you ever watch that?
They were just so dead serious.
It's like, come on, dude.
Like, you're in a Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Have some fun, you know?
I know.
Moth ga.
I'm looking forward to the Super Mario Brothers movie.
I'll go take the kids to see that one.
I don't know if it's going to be good.
Yeah.
Trailers looked okay.
Indiana Jones is coming out.
Speaking of Chris Pratt and wonderful Italian accents, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 comes out this year.
You're looking forward.
Are you still into the I'm not?
It lost me.
Yeah.
I was never as invested in it as some people are, but I would often see the movies because friends would invite me and I'd always enjoy them.
But then it was Doctor Strange and the multiverse.
I have no interest in them.
Yeah, it was a dumpster fire for sure.
I'm in a similar place, but I so with Guardians 3, I'm not like, there's a few things on here that I'm excited for, but like cautiously excited for.
Marvel Phase 4, I've seen about a third of the movies and I've seen almost none of the TV shows.
And the third that I did see, like maybe one, was good.
So it's like, I'm not, I'm not really expecting it to be great, but the only thing I've really liked in Marvel in Phase 4 was Hawkeye.
The TV show.
That show was pretty good.
It was fun.
I liked it.
Yeah.
Jeremy Renner.
Jeremy Renner.
Here's to you, buddy.
Recover.
Recover in peace.
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse.
They're doing the animated sequel to the Spider-Verse.
So Miles Morales is coming up.
Miles Morales.
Very cool.
Which was one of the best.
So good.
Yeah.
Spider-Man movies.
And one of the other than I just watched Everything Everywhere All At Once recently.
Well, though.
Those two movies are probably the only movies I've seen that do the multiverse thing well.
It's a hard thing to do well.
Yeah.
Because they have fun with it and they do crazy things.
And the spider pig comes in, everything everywhere all at once.
They had all the insane universe.
Yeah.
Sausage fingers.
Yeah.
So funny.
It was silly and fun, but it also had a deeper message to it.
I like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of my favorite parts at the end is when they're both the rocks.
Yes.
I was laughing or dying in the theater.
It's such a great thing.
Comedic timing was awesome, and that was crazy.
Yeah.
Knocks were great.
Mandalorian Season 3 comes out this year.
I didn't know that.
I'll be excited for that.
I felt like the first two seasons ended perfectly, though.
So that's one of the things where I'm like, do they need to do more?
But I'll watch it.
I'll see if it's any good.
They need to make more money.
There's a new Metallica album this year.
Really?
When was the last time they put out an album?
Have they been consistently that my son would know, Sam, when's the last knock on the wall?
How many years it's been?
I feel like it's been four or five years.
Starfield is a video game from the people who made the Elder Scrolls games.
And it's like a wide open space exploration game.
So I'm excited for that.
Star Wars Jedi Survivor is the sequel to Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, which comes out this year.
I'm excited for that.
And the video game Hogwarts Legacy, where you can wander around Hogwarts.
That's cool.
I'm not sure it's going to be good because a lot of the licensed games just end up not being good.
But everybody's mad at it because of J.K. Rowling and they're trying to get it canceled and stuff.
Oh, yeah.
So I'm going to stick it to them by spending $60 on a video.
But you actually get to, it's a map where you can just wander around, wander around, go to the classes and learn your spells and all.
Yeah, this is where you do the cauldron.
I'm excited for that.
That does seem brilliant.
Am I the only consumer here excited for things?
I'm not that excited for any of the consumer stuff.
I would say Indiana Jones.
I saw the preview for Indiana Jones.
I was not excited because I'm not super excited about.
Yeah, the last one was such crap.
Sort of cautiously.
Cautiously, I do want to say that I hope it's good, but after the last one, I don't have very high expectations.
Well, in the last one, it wasn't because it was woke or anything.
See, that's the other thing.
It was just good, right?
And I think in the new one.
It was just bad because they were reboots.
It wasn't because they were woke.
Right, exactly.
That was a good age.
I missed those days.
Yeah, but I'm hoping they don't ruin it.
I'm hoping they don't ruin it.
You know what looks interesting to me from the preview is the or the trailer.
Are the bad guys in it Nazis again?
I couldn't tell.
Old style military uniforms.
I always think it's funny in modern movies.
Like they did this early on in some of the Marvel movies where it turned out like Hydra was a branch of like the Nazi party.
I always think it's funny when a modern movie, it's always revealed the bad guy.
It's still Nazis.
It's still Nazis.
It's still Hitler, guys.
Still Hitler.
He's still.
They're still trying to make the Nazi thing work.
That's right.
There's nobody worse than that guy.
Yeah.
Well, Kanye might have given that some more life recently.
Now we're stuck in Nazis as the villains for the next 50 years.
That's why the Reds, the Communists, didn't really play as well as bad guys.
I feel like Russians were great bad guys, like in the 80s and stuff.
And then once the Berlin Wall fell and stuff, it was kind of like well, for the Indiana Jones thing, it really wasn't as that's what I mean.
It just didn't play as well.
Were there comies?
Were they the bad guys in the Kingdom of the Crystal?
Yes, they were.
Oh, I just remember the Mofo thing.
Kate Blanchett was the comic.
She was Russian.
Oh, okay.
I only remember the silly aspects of that movie.
I've completely wiped it from my mind.
I remember there was like monkeys chasing them somewhere swinging on vines.
Swinging.
I think I remember there was a UFO.
That's all I did.
I remember really hating it.
And then I watched it again, and I actually kind of liked it the second time.
The monkey swinging on the vine scene, I thought was ridiculous.
And it definitely wasn't as good as the other Indiana Jones, so it was a letdown in that regard.
I didn't hate it the way some people hated it.
I just, I don't think they can keep the.
That's why I'm cautiously optimistic about this one.
I don't know that they can keep the quality of the original.
Well, you can't.
You either have to hand it off to somebody like a Chris Pratt or something and say, because I actually think he would be a good air appearant.
Like Shyla Boef was, I actually liked him in that.
I did too.
I think he's a good comedic, kind of like bouncing off the other character.
Very funny.
He's an adventure movie type guy.
Yeah, he's got a lot of good comedic timing.
But I would say, yeah, he was good, but I don't think he's the guy that you can really hand Indiana Jones to.
He's not an action hero, right?
No.
I would say maybe Chris Pratt would be good, but who knows?
That's what I was, I always thought that he would be great until they started putting him into Jurassic Park or whatever.
Yeah.
So I'm like, ah, they probably won't give him Indiana Jones too.
Oh, because he's already Marvel.
But maybe, maybe they would.
I think that would be really cool.
All right.
Well, let us know what you guys are looking forward to.
Email, podcast at BabylonB.com.
Oh, I'm looking forward to Babylon Be Live.
Oh, that's on February 24th and you can get it.
On February 24th, that is actually what I was legitimately going to say that.
I'm not just saying that because I wanted to.
You already said that.
I know you did, but I wanted to drive that point.
All right.
Well, now we're going to talk to Jim Bob, who makes comics that are fittingly named Made by Jim Bob.
Madebyjimbob.com.
And he has a Savage Memes Volume 4 collection that you can buy now.
So let's talk to Jim Bob.
Well, it's super cool to be talking to you.
I know we all saw your comics start to go viral.
I don't know when they started to go big, but I saw them during the pandemic.
And that's kind of when, I don't know if that's when it started taking off for you.
Yeah, it was a little before that.
It was like I had a big account.
And then, so things went viral.
There were different things before the pandemic, but the pandemic was such a perfect target because it really, obviously, you guys know it just brought out the lunacy to another level where I didn't have to work very hard to, I just had to be an honest reporter.
And suddenly, you know, you're doing better satire.
The world does the writing for you.
So that seems to be what happens with us, too.
It's just you can't really write this stuff sometimes.
Yeah.
Just write it down.
And then just write it down.
You're like, how did you come up with that?
I'm constantly saying, I didn't.
They did.
They did out there.
I'm just looking.
Yeah.
That's funny.
That person who identifies as they did.
Right.
Yeah.
They, them.
That's funny.
So, and you are, you're writing in, yeah.
And how did you get into this in the first place?
Well, I did live a whole life 15 years in Los Angeles.
So I was always in and around entertainment culture, you know, TV and stuff.
But so being in Los Angeles, I was at that time a default liberal.
And I started doodling.
I knew I was, I knew I was going to do something creative.
I just didn't know what to say.
And at that time, I had voted for Obama because I was a default liberal and that's just what you do.
And then he dropped a lot of bombs.
And so I did my first post, political post anyway, where, you know, it's the image of him, the infamous image of him dropping the mic, right?
Because he's so cool.
Well, I just swapped the mic with a bomb.
And oh man, the response from my sort of colleagues or community, let's say, or associates in Los Angeles, you're making him look bad.
It was like right before Trump.
So you're making him look bad.
Trump's going to win.
Like, what are you doing?
You're on the other side.
And I realized, wow, there's something to this form, this form of memes, satire, doodling, whatever you want to call it.
I realized at that point that I had something and I just had to figure out, I had to fine-tune it, right?
And figure out which targets I was going to hit.
So yeah, I went target left.
And that kind of gave me my first resistance.
You know, a plane takes off.
It needs the resistance.
It was like all of those people pushed me up by yelling at me and calling me names.
And I was like, thank you.
And then I was up in the air.
I kind of feel like Obama made himself look bad by dropping bombs.
That's right.
Yeah.
But he smiled and he told a joke.
And then, you know, everyone forgets about it.
And that's it.
That's right.
Right.
Right.
It's like you could do it.
I mean, you could do it in a really cool, you know, way.
And then you just smile.
Just, yeah, absolutely.
I call that a psychopath when you drop bombs and you smile about it.
He was good at it.
He was very good.
So we get accused of this a lot too.
Do you feel like you ever punch down?
Is that something you do?
Yeah, sometimes.
I punch down.
I usually don't go after like a person.
I usually go after whole worldviews.
So I'll go after like bad vegan arguments or atheists in general.
Some of the Reddit tier level arguments from atheists.
I consider that kind of punching down, but I think I kind of isolate punching down to a specific kind of person, like, you know, going after a single person for just who they are as opposed to a set of surrounding ideas that are around them.
And sometimes my form of punching down would be someone leaves a really stupid comment and then I focus on it to show how silly it is.
And then it becomes a meme.
So it's unfortunate for that person who's not very well known becomes the focus.
So in a way, it's kind of like, I mean, some people would call it like online bullying, but this is also how I generate content.
Yeah.
So, I mean, they say it.
So I'm like, okay, you're going to, if you can say this, you can, you can take the backhanded slap that I'm going to give you.
And so, yeah, to that extent, but I try not to.
I try to, I try to focus upward and outward a little bit.
But I'm not against it, by the way.
I'm not, I'm not actually not against punching down.
Yeah.
Well, the whole thing with punching down is it's not really a paradigm that we even buy into.
You know, and I don't know what your opinion is on it, but for us, it's like when you're talking about punching up and punching down, you've already sorted people into these classes in your head, and you're like, these are the lower Pete Bolton, these are the higher people, and you can't make fun of them.
And we reject that very idea.
You know, so we make fun of whatever's funny.
And if the people in this group are committing, you know, ridiculous contradictions in their philosophy and worldview, then we'll make fun of them.
And a lot of times, yeah, it'll be the more rich and powerful people, but sometimes it won't be.
So, and so we just kind of reject that from the outset.
Absolutely.
I actually, similarly, I reject the sort of like I get accused of infighting because I'll make fun of like you know, Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro sometimes, um, only because when you limit it to just the left, right, ping pong, sometimes you get lost.
Um, there are some things that can be talked about within those uh paradigms.
And sometimes, if you go after like a soft uh take, kind of like I make fun of Peterson's soft Christian pragmatic take, and so I go after him in that way.
I'm not, I try not to be mean-spirited, but I do go after the soft uh ambiguity, um, which is obvious, right?
Not just in his Christian takes necessarily, which ultimately could be helpful.
I'm not saying they wouldn't be in some cases, I'm just saying the soft approach, I just see it for what it is, but it's not just there.
He said he's kind of that way in a lot of his uh, a lot of his categories and what he's talking about.
So, people are Jim Bob, why do you have to infight?
And I'm like, I'm a cartoonist, so I may align with a right, um, you know, and I may align with a Christian right specifically, but I, it doesn't mean I can't isolate some targets within the red, the red jerseys, let's say.
And I think that's actually sometimes more helpful because the same thing with Obama when I was leaning lefty, I thought that my job was actually to point to my own team, uh, the faults of my own team, not because it's too easy to point to the other side.
So, I try not to go for low-hanging fruit in that uh, go after the blue-haired commies who are you know $800,000 in debt because they were promised a job after their Marxist training.
Uh, you know, in we never go after them, we never go after them either.
Yeah, yeah, no, no, you have to keep going after them, but there is more to play with on the playground, and I, and I, I have a, I have fun doing that, and it allows me like some freedom because I pursue the truth of the matter, um, as opposed to the right political um current, right?
But there is a current, so but it's like uh, you know, like remember Breitbart used to say, uh, politics is downstream from culture.
Well, I'm at the point now where I'm, well, what's culture downstream from?
And I, I think, uh, you might get you guys might agree, I think it's theology, I think that um, culture is informed, even if it's a broken, naturalistic paradigm, it's still informed by something, and so I like to look at that particular way of doing my artwork and commentaries through that lens, yeah, through worldview.
It's kind of like on the broader sense, it's like worldview, and I think we have to make fun of ourselves too.
I agree with you.
We do it a lot with the Babylon B.
It's important for us.
We start, I mean, I guess that's how the Babylon B started is making Christian jokes.
We do one Chick-fil-A joke for every nine AOC jokes.
That's a good ratio.
And we feel like that's a good, yeah.
It's a pretty good ratio.
Yeah.
They just don't get any traction in the secular world.
So they think we're always quote unquote punching down because we make fun of Rachel Levine or whatever.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
So when you create a comic, are you, I mean, I'm not going to ask the question, where do you get your ideas?
Because that's a dumb question.
But there are no dumb questions.
No, for us, there's a, you know, because sometimes there's a seed of like, there's this ridiculous thing out in the world that's going on right now.
You know, when it was the mask mandates and the vaccine mandates or Fauci or like there's something out there that it's like, I know there's just a ridiculous contradiction and I have to figure out what is the funniest contrast we can provide, you know, that'll, that'll pull out that truth.
And you want to do it in a funny way, but sometimes the goal is like, man, we have to expose this for what it is.
Right.
And sometimes in comedy, that can lead you to not finding the funniest thing because you're trying to make the point too hard, you know?
And I feel like that's where Christians and conservatives go wrong a lot of the time.
It's like, yeah, we're going to slam them.
And then you're just like, yeah, but that's not, that wasn't funny or clever.
Right, right, right.
No, yeah, that's a fine tension there.
I'm, uh, I go for the truth and then I figure out how to make the truth funny as opposed to make something funny and then do away with partial part of the truth, which I think in as you guys have seen with modern comedy now, they've abandoned truth and just went after like what's superficially what people might laugh at, but not necessarily funny.
So the truth of the matter is really important.
And yeah, no, I would say that sometimes in my process, you know, it's 80% true or whatever, and it's only 20% funny, or it's funny in a truthful way where it's more like the premise itself is so true that it's comical.
And sometimes you, you know, with the Babylon B, you definitely see that where just the truth of the matter of a headline that's actually not technically satire because it's real, but you know, it's like you don't need to rewrite it.
And so that's funny in itself.
So my process is like you said, you look out in the world and see, or sometimes I'll talk with people directly and there'll be this conversation.
Like recently, someone in the comments was like, I was making fun of, I forgot what I was making fun of, something about fear, right?
You know, being paranoid about fear, you know, I'm in this overlapping sort of like truth or conspiracy groups.
And sometimes they go way too far into a fear position.
And I was talking about fear with somebody.
And you always get this kind of like slogan that fear controls everyone, right?
And I didn't draw this one out yet, but it's someone saying like, you know, he's like dropping the truth folder and he's saying, you know, they want to control us with fear, which is true in itself.
But there's this other element where they can control people with their vices, with euphoria, with the opposite of fear, with their, with their, with their sin.
You can basically intoxicate people and draw them out of their, let's say, their discipline, out of their commitments and have them chase their own wants and desires.
And I thought just that statement alone, I didn't figure out how to make the joke yet.
It's probably just some contrasting reveal.
But I look at it from that framework where I go, okay, it's commonly thought that fear controls, which is true, but it's not the only thing that controls.
And so there's this dichotomy.
Maybe it's not even a false binary.
It's just both.
And that's kind of how my brain operates.
And then I have to figure out ideally how to keep it in one frame with the least amount of words in the bubbles.
That's so interesting.
You're going to be comparing.
It's like the dystopian literature, you know, 1984 versus a brave new world, like you got.
They control through fear in 1984.
They control through euphoria in a brave new world totally and uh, these are the two visions of the future.
Uh that uh, we're entering in like, and we're kind of entering into both visions, right.
So it's like both 1984 and a brave new world.
Yeah yeah, how do you do that?
How do you put that in one picture?
Yeah, well, I mean, in this case, it's going to, I have to think about it, but it's usually, I usually try to incorporate what they're wearing, because you can add an extra step, take away an extra step by having them wear a shirt, which most people who are of a part of some sort of revolutionary mindset, which I am not, they usually wear a shirt that has some slogan of the new utopian vision.
And by the way, this exists on the right side as well, a utopian sense.
It's not as clear as the left side, the progressive utopian, but it still exists.
And it's fun for me to go in there because from my Christian worldview, I don't, I believe the world has fallen and that our redemption is a spiritual act and not a utility-based system.
That doesn't mean we can't fight and build and do things.
It's just that ultimately it's not some outcome we seek here in the now.
And people, a lot of people who follow me actually, who are more like new agey and sort of like libertarian freedom fighters, they don't like that when I say stuff like that.
They want to turn it around and then make it right.
Right.
So it's like, no, I don't, I understand the impulse, right?
I understand the intent.
I don't even, I don't even agree, disagree with the sentiment.
It's just that I draw a very fine line between a spiritual life and a utilitarian sort of based outcome system where we'll finally get there if we just get X, right?
If we just around the corner, because that's kind of ironically what, you know, all these like new world order people, the World Economic Forum, the people who want to standardize all things for the greater good.
You hear these, I mean, historically, the greater good is something you should, when you hear that, you should run or buy a lot of guns or something.
So well, it is interesting you're talking about this kind of utopian vision of Earth kind of becoming a utopia.
You know, the Christian, when a Christian starts talking about the kingdom of God strictly being here on earth, it's kind of like they're dipping their toes into sort of a progressive ideology and not necessarily the one that we're talking about, which is the kingdom that's beyond this world.
It definitely touches our world, but it goes beyond this world as well.
And we have to remember that it's not just for here.
It's for there too, and it's for eternity, which is interesting.
So you're a Christian, which is great.
We didn't know that until we kind of knew that because of this one cartoon.
Oh.
Is that how we found out?
Yeah, I think so.
Just ask him.
No, we should ask you.
You're a Christian.
Have you always been a Christian?
I was raised Christian.
I rejected for that 15-year stint in Los Angeles.
And then I think it was having my first child where it was like acted like a colander.
Like you realize what you believe when you're confronted with teaching your own children what you think you believe.
And then suddenly, if you're honest, you strain a lot of that stuff out.
So a lot of relativism went out the window, a lot of progressive nonsense, hedonism, a bunch of stuff just was like, you know.
It was hard to look at your child and say, hey, I just want to let you know that life has no meaning.
Right.
You're a piece of dust.
You came from.
Yeah, exactly.
You were just this weird like bacteria worm.
And there was a cosmic fart.
And now your life has been, you know, now I am so happy that I've come to this position where I could actually rail against those things, which I once remember just telling people this stuff and telling my parents this and being like, you know, everything's meaningless.
And my mom would be like, that's a contradiction.
And I'd be like, what are you talking about?
You don't know.
I'm going to get a tattoo or, you know, whatever it is.
And it's going to wear steel-toed boots.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
And so it's, it's just so freeing to abandon that view and go to like an absolute standard.
Right.
So, yeah, that's so here I am back.
I'm back.
That's great.
Now, judging by the beard, are you Eastern Orthodox or what?
I'm very interested in Eastern Orthodox.
I'm not a catechuman or anything.
But because of the kind of sort of like paradigms I'm interested in and it all goes to sort of like argumentation, not obviously not in replacement of faith or anything.
It's just that I'm drawn to apologetics in a way because when you really start looking at stuff, you want to be able to defend your faith to some extent, but you don't want to put your full faith in reason and logic alone or like evidentialism necessarily.
There's something beyond that's transcendental that we're living in.
And so a lot of these conversations have gravitated me toward different communities.
And so I like to ask these questions.
And it's very uncomfortable.
Speaking of like the, you know, the tension or discomfort that can be created within your own sort of group or tribe, Christianity as a whole does have a lot of tensions.
And I'm actually interested in those tensions because I feel like that's another colander where you're constantly trying to filter down, maybe even if it's like apophatically, like determining what's not the case and trying to get closer to truth.
And you'd be surprised.
Some of these, some of sort of like modern, you've seen it.
I mean, you've seen some of these modern churches call themselves Christians who have like a rainbow flag in the background.
And so that's where I think some of the spiritual warfare actually is.
The ineffectual atheist who just doesn't care is not, they're a danger to themselves.
But the ones who co-opt or infiltrate and, you know, like the progressive leftist take on Christianity now is going to get not popular, but more presented to us.
And I think that it's our duty to fight against that because it's falsely representing.
It's a counterfeit.
So we have to worry about counterfeits more than the one who just rejects because at least they're clear.
They're rejecting.
They believe, you know, they were a whale or something.
Nothing means, you know.
Some of them still are, am I right?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And so, yeah, I think that that whole world is really interesting.
So that's, that's probably why it would drew me closer to like more distinct, clear denominations.
But in no way am I like a fully committed catechumen or anything.
That's cool.
I like what he said about making sure that we're drawing distinctions between like these things that are, you know, the people that totally reject versus the people that are taking and presenting a counterfeit.
I mean, that's what the entire New Testament is.
It's books written to people that were dealing with counterfeits.
You know, he's not like, that's it.
That's the entire thing.
And that's in the process of becoming.
Well, I know the guys like Benny Hinn and like the guys that are out there just like stealing millions of dollars and duping people and giving them money.
I know those guys are dangerous, but I've always felt like the guys that were a little bit closer were more dangerous, at least for the American church.
You know, guys like Joe Osteen and guys who are like, there's like, no, they're not driving a Lamborghini around.
They're not like quite at that level, but I feel like that makes it more deceitful and it makes it more dangerous.
Yeah, prosperity or progressive church, progressive church is far more dangerous.
Yeah, exactly.
The prosperity part is key.
Remember, I said, uh, with like the fear, you know, because there's this, there's this type of theology that can just hit people over the head with fire and brimstone threats, which I don't think is very effective.
Um, but then there's the other ones that do the opposite, where they cater to people's wants and desires and they try to reformat Christianity to a want you get what you want theology.
And obviously, we all know, and if we don't know, we'll probably live through a time where we're absolutely humbled that living a Christ-like life doesn't always equate to good things happening around us that we prefer happening.
In a lot of cases, it's the opposite, especially biblically.
It's not like, oh, I'm I know I'm living with Christ because all of the fruit came in and everything's good and everyone's healthy.
You know, I'm blessed.
Sure, you're blessed, but that's not the measure, right?
That can't be the measure because when things aren't going well, that's actually when you're tested mostly.
And so that's why those things are, I believe, false paradigms that cater to people's desires.
Um, and why they're so effective, by the way, is that people fall victim, or sometimes they're not victims, they're willfully doing it to worldliness.
Um, they become of the world as opposed to in the world, not of the world.
And it's very easy for any one of us, by the way.
This is not a high horse thing, we're all vulnerable to being worldly.
Have you ever done a comic about Joel Loste and what would we have to pay you to commission a Joel Osteen?
Let me think about that.
There's definitely a bunch of funny things there.
I mean, you could have several panels, whether it's the flight, you know, the private jets or the contradictions.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Yeah, yeah, yachts and things like that.
I'd have to investigate further.
There's definitely a plethora to choose from in that arena, right?
Yeah, I'd put that sticker on my computer.
Now, have you ever run into any kind of censoring, shadow banning, et cetera, on social media?
Yeah, I'm on my fifth Instagram account.
My first account hit 115,000.
I worked very hard for that.
I bought zero of them.
And then weirdly enough, I went after vegans and then it was taken down.
I thought, that's a weird thing.
I thought they were just like, you know, it's like offset culture.
It's not really front and center.
But that's what ended up doing it for some reason.
And I had to start over several times, got it back up to like 30,000.
And then now I'm on my fifth account, which is, I think, is like 12,000.
So yeah, the shadow banning.
But this is another topic that I've kind of discovered: is that I'm not actually against censorship.
I'm against the worldview that's the reasoning for the censorship.
So I look at the worldview because on the right side of things, there are things I would gladly censor.
Any sort of like sexuality, sexualizing children.
There's decency codes that I actually want to live by and want other men to enforce in whatever ways they do.
So I don't take this like, which is kind of, it's not dominant necessarily, but it's kind of obvious in the right side of things where they've kind of gone to like a classical liberal approach to decency, where it's like a Michael Malice approach, where it's like, well, it's not, it's not hurting anyone.
So that's the difference.
I reject that.
That was a really good Michael Malice.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm not hurting anyone.
And I'm like, no, there's more to that.
Like, because some, you know, um, disgusting image next to a park is not technically hurting anyone either.
So there's some, there's some other aspect to this warfare of morality that's clearly not just legal, um, that goes beyond legal.
And so I look at that stuff too and try to poke fun at it or attack it from a different perspective.
Um, and there's plenty to choose from, but um, I forget why I went on that tangent, though.
It was, um, I don't know.
It was something about something about the there's a middle kind of middle-leaning right.
There's good censorship.
Oh, censorship.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm saying there's good censorship.
And so I'm not against shadow banning.
And so I think that's also presented falsely where it's like, you know, the people on the right sometimes will just argue outright for no censorship.
And I don't think that's true.
And I don't even think they believe that.
I think that you have to figure out what it is your values are because it's a trick to argue against like, let's say, the left and just be like, you know, I've heard Ben Shapiro kind of say it once or twice where it's like, well, that's what they do.
They censor and they do all this stuff.
And I'm like, we should do that too.
Have you ever considered getting into impressions?
Yeah, definitely.
Depends on what you mean by impression, you know?
It's like, yeah, no, I do impress your impressions.
You know, you know, you know, crazy out there.
I take him way far.
I start crying.
I do live streams where I'll just like go full.
It's good.
Why do you hate Jordan Peterson?
That's the response I get sometimes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm okay with censorship to some extent.
It's just that the question is, why?
And what's the standard?
And so I think that's the real battle.
And it's not this false battle of like absolute free speech.
Sure.
No, I think that especially Christian companies, Christian culture should be socially pressuring decency.
And that's actually obviously in the last three years, we all know how powerful social pressure is, right?
So I'm not against it.
It doesn't have to be wicked or like deceitful.
It's just that it's like being a parent, but in society.
And so I don't take this like sort of individualist approach where you just, you know, do what you want and don't say anything in public and like pressure people to behave a certain way.
I'm like, no, I think you do.
It doesn't mean you have to be annoying about it.
It just means that it's a real thing that men actually keep each other in check a lot of time through pressure with friends.
Like a good friend will actually intervene on your behavior if they know if they're a good friend and they know it's wrong.
And, but, you know, the analogy now in modern politics is like, leave, leave me alone, man.
And then it's kind of like, you do you, bro.
And I'm, and I've gone through that phase and I'm just done with it.
I would never teach my children you do you philosophy.
Yeah.
I'm just realizing that we could green screen stuff onto his shirt.
I know, I know.
I usually have a green screen behind me and my wife was like, make sure you take the green screen off.
Yeah.
That would have been cool.
You would have been a floating head.
That would have been kind of fun.
Yeah, totally.
I just, I should try that one day where it's just my head.
What is the picture on your shirt?
I can't see it.
Oh, I just made this.
Oh, that's awesome.
It's the Chad.
Blessed.
That's great.
Yeah.
That's great.
Blessed.
All right.
Well, you have a new book out, Savage Memes, Volume 4.
We've got a copy here for all of our viewers to check out.
Post-Truth Booster made by Jim Bob.
So everybody go check that out.
Where can people go check that out at?
Madebyjimbob.com.
That's the first thing that'll show up.
And I've given you guys and your listeners a promo code.
It's just B, B E E.
And that's the code for a discount.
I think it's free shipping in free shipping in the U.S. for U.S. customers.
Oh, wonderful.
Use the code word B. There's a bunch of cool stickers and stuff, too.
We got them.
The team is plastering them all over our windows.
Good.
That's good to know.
I put two on my computer.
Did you already?
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Super good.
All right.
Is there any other ways that people can support your work or follow you?
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, I've got a YouTube or I do streams, two-hour streams, rants, cultural, and theological talks, debates.
And every, I basically put the link in the stream and people jump on and random people jump in.
It's quite entertaining sometimes.
So that's on YouTube.
Made by Jim Bob is my Instagram and madebyjimbob.com.
And I, it's pretty much my three things.
I'm on Gab and some other things, but those are my primary locations.
And so, yeah, I do obviously my books and I do, you know, the impressions.
I do cameos for people's birthdays because I can animate them.
And so there's all sorts of creative stuff that I'm doing.
I'm always drawn to more creative ways of telling the truth and trying to get the good out in the world.
That's good.
Awesome.
And we'll have links to all that in the show notes.
Now, as we wrap up, we are going to ask you 10 rapid-fire questions.
These are the 10 questions we ask every guest who comes on our podcast.
The 10 questions.
The first one is, have you ever met Carmen?
No.
Okay.
Second one, are you a Calvinist or an Arminian?
Neither.
So an Arminian.
You get to add one book to the Bible.
What is it?
I wouldn't add anything to the Bible.
All right.
Completely unrelated question.
What's your favorite book besides the Bible?
Let me see.
I think my favorite recent book was my favorite recent book was actually a book by Patrick Wood called Technocracy, The Hard Road to New Order.
I actually recommend having him on your podcast too.
Write that down, Dan.
Yeah, Patrick Wood, Technocracy, Hard Road to World Order.
Okay.
And that would be right after Revelation.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
So cigars or pipes?
Neither.
You get to hang out with any three people living or dead.
Who are they?
You can't pick Jesus.
Maybe Van Morrison for a couple minutes.
Because he would probably get sick.
I mean, Van Morrison, but just for a couple minutes.
Yeah, that's just for a couple minutes.
I would get sick of him.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I would get sick of him.
You know, don't meet your heroes unless it's under a minor or whatever.
Let me see.
You said three, right?
Yes.
Yeah, Van Morrison.
Weirdly enough, I would have liked to ask Michael Jackson a couple of key questions before he passed.
Just, you know.
And, you know, maybe Jordan Peterson.
You know, I make fun of him a lot, but it would be fun to talk to him as him and see if he can, you know, we can play the game.
That'd be awesome.
That'd be fun.
I like that.
Whiskey or beer?
Generally beer, unless it's like really good, like very expensive Japanese stuff that I shouldn't actually be buying, but beer.
That's good.
What would be the first thing you would do as president?
First thing, I think I might push to make pornography illegal.
That's a good answer.
I haven't heard that one.
Yeah, I like that one.
I would do that too.
Have you ever punched anyone or been punched?
Sure, yeah, definitely.
I have three older brothers.
Okay.
Any like particularly good stories?
Well, I mean, I grew up in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
So we were just basically like wild animals.
So a lot of Like walnut fights, just throwing rocks and walnuts at each other's heads.
Frozen paintballs.
I got shot with a lot of frozen paintballs as a kid.
That's painful.
But I didn't know it was abuse.
It's like you're just a wild fun kid.
So I feel like there's this weird, yeah, you're like, stop shooting me, Dad.
Yeah, exactly.
As well as my oldest, oldest brothers.
Yeah.
So, yeah, so a lot of fun stories like that.
A lot of outdoor activity, a lot of pain and suffering.
You get to go to one concert, any band in history.
Who do you go see?
Ooh.
In all of history.
In all of history.
Doc Watson.
All right.
Nice.
Good call.
All right.
The final question is, do you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior?
Absolutely.
All right.
That's it.
We got him.
We got him.
He's in.
Well, thanks for joining us.
And listeners, please go check out all the stuff that he makes at madebyjimbob.com.
Follow him on YouTube and Instagram and all of that wonderful stuff.
And check out the new book, Savage Memes Volume 4.
We were flipping through it here in the office.
Great stuff.
It's flipping great.
Thank you.
That's a good.
Can I take that?
Yes, absolutely.
Thanks for coming on.
You're like, yeah.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks, man.
Nice talking to you, man.
Thank you.
Thank you guys.
Oh, that was great.
I love talking to this guy.
He was such an interesting conversation guy.
We're definitely going to get him out.
Yeah, nice.
He's a good conversation guy.
A good talk guy with words.
A good man to speak.
With the words.
All right.
It's time for hate mail.
Yeah.
I really miss Adam Ford.
We released our music video, Biden, Did You Know, with beautiful vocals by me and me alone.
And we have a comment here from Billy Henderson.
Billy Henderson said, you need to repent.
You say you were Christian, Kristen.
Kisten.
Kisten.
How can you make fun of Joe Biden and sleep at night?
I don't know why I did that voice, but yeah.
That's awesome.
All right.
What is the correlation between angry comments and obvious spelling errors?
It's just no sense that you even if you're mad and you have a wrong opinion, why do they make such obvious spelling errors?
Like, it's so consistent.
It seems like every time they're in a hurry.
And they don't go back and edit it or they don't proofread it before they hit post.
He's just shaking his head, typing, and he moves on.
That's how it works.
You say you were Kisten.
Kissed in.
You say you were Kisten.
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