Drew Barrymore Kneeling Before Transgenderism Shows We Are Not Gonna Make It
The gang at The Babylon Bee is back to talk about Drew Barrymore kneeling for Dylan Mulvaney and also Joe Biden saying that states that seek to ban transgender surgeries on minors are "close to sinful" and cruel! Silicon Valley Bank also collapsed with a twitter-fueled bank run while inflation and interest rates are nuts. Are we living in 1929!? Paul Roland is in the house to talk about his new film, Exemplum! Travis' Game Korner makes a return to talk about the Metroid series paving the way for strong male protagonists, while Jarret is informed in a mailbag letter that he sounds just like Phil Hartman.There's Sizzler Facts, Hate Mail, and other updates at The Babylon Bee. Do you have Star Wars Fatigue? Your doctor may be able to help. OUT NOW: Check out Paul's new film, Exemplum: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/exemplum This episode is brought to you by our wonderful sponsors who you should absolutely check out: PublicSq on Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicsq.app PublicSq on Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/publicsq/id1573823343 GoodRanchers: http://goodranchers.com (Use Promocode: 'BABYLONBEEF' to get $30 OFF) Allegiance Gold: https://allegiancegold.com/bee/
Biden says this one thing is close to sinful and you won't believe what it is.
Drew Barrymore knelt down before Dylan Mulvaney, a dude, in a powerful moment of smashing the patriarchy.
Inflation and interest rates and bank runs are back in style, so we are going to party like it's 1929.
All this and morons.
The Babylon Bee Podcast.
Hey everyone, Kyle Man here, editor-in-chief of the Babylon B hanging out with Adam Yenser and with Jarrett You guys are supposed to say something so that people know what's going on.
I'm Adam.
I'm here.
The notes just have your first.
The notes just have your first name.
Hey, hey, we're both here.
I think you should be a one-name guy.
You think so?
Strike me as a share.
There aren't that many Jarretts around.
I couldn't.
That's why.
Would you go with Jarrett or would you make up Jarrett the Rock LaMaster or something?
Jarrett the Hammer.
Yeah, the Hammer.
I'm here with Adam Yenser and the Hammer.
I mean, how do you get one of those things?
Like Charles the Hammer, you know, like back in the day.
Charlemagne, all those guys.
I was thinking of Charles Krauthammer.
Charles Krauthammer.
I've always wanted a good, what do you call those?
A nickname, but I've never had a nickname.
Well, there was those kids in school that tried to make up their own, and they kept trying to make it.
It never works when you make up your own.
Like they call me the Jazz.
Like a bunch of Jazz.
No one calls you that.
Nobody did.
You call yourself the Jazz.
I remember there was a period, my middle name starts with a C, and I remember there was a period I tried to get people to call me KC.
Oh, uh-huh.
Did it catch on?
No, not at all.
You know, my mom did that.
She named me Jarrett Christian so that people would call me JC.
JC is good.
That's a good name.
Right, but nobody ever called me Jay C. Wasn't one of the Bagstreet Boys or 98 Degrees fellows?
Yeah.
I've always looked up to them.
Wasn't one of them JC?
No, I think they weren't.
Wasn't there a JC?
Yeah.
There was, yeah, the only nickname, there was this lady that my mom knew that would call me JJ, and that was it.
That was the only one.
And it was just one lady.
That doesn't make sense.
Jarrett has a bracelet that says, what would JC do?
Referring to my bad alley.
Oh, no, referred to myself.
To the boy band.
Every time I face the decision.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, that's what I would do.
Exactly what I want to.
Whatever I want, because it's me.
We had a blast this week at the Babylon B.
We got to do this fun shoot on Monday, Monday night.
It was the best.
We were all dressed up like the disciples, so you guys will see that our Easter shoot is coming soon.
Yeah, no, we all got to dress up like Jews and dance around a fire.
Like Jews.
Like Jews would do.
Like what they would do.
As one does when one is dressed like a Jew.
Actually, I think you're supposed to say Jewish people, but I don't know.
We can say whatever.
Really we want.
I think you could say Jews.
Like, I'm not saying.
The whole bit was you can say Jews, you can't say the Jews.
Which is going to say we dressed like the Jews.
Like I said, is that what I said?
I thought you just said Jews.
We dressed up like Jews.
Oh, you didn't say you dressed up like the Jews?
He didn't say the.
I heard the.
That, I think, was the Dave Chappelle joke, was you can't say the Jesuits.
You can't say Jesus.
You just say Jews.
I think that makes sense, like blacks and the blacks.
No, that's the gays.
You don't really say that.
The gays.
You don't say the gays.
Like, you can say homos, but not the homos.
Or maybe.
Maybe you can't say either of those.
Anyway, it was a blast, and we were dancing around the fire.
We were like putting our scripts in front of us, and they were flying into the flames.
Sparks were burning holes.
And the fire kept falling over and almost burning us to death.
It was the biggest fire I've ever seen.
Jordan.
Jordan fell into the fire.
He almost fell in.
No, he literally fell in and he jumped and he ended up kind of stumbling over.
I guess that part.
I don't think I was there when he fell in.
He went past it, but he tripped right next to it.
I'm pretty sure his robes caught like the hem.
The fringes.
Yeah.
Yeah, like of his prayer shawl.
Of your stems from your production.
No, it's the same production that I was talking about last week.
The illicitly obtained customers.
The illicitly obtained.
The costume designer was like, hey, you should borrow.
She let me borrow these customers.
Very kind.
We coveted our neighbors' disciple costumes.
But I guess now the cast will know that we stole them.
Well, they don't necessarily watch this.
So if you're wondering, that's why they smell like campfire.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
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I think they were outing him for stealing the costumes.
Yeah, I guess he tried to keep quiet.
It's like, guys, just don't mention that on the podcast.
Oh, my goodness.
What a group of guys, too.
A lot of good guys there.
And it was fun.
We were in the middle of a suburban neighborhood, but it was kind of a large backyard.
Yeah.
So you can't really tell it's in a suburban neighborhood.
Well, we were just in the neighbors.
It was like 10:30 at night, and we're all yelling.
We're all going to get murdered and cut our heads cut off.
And I just wonder what the kind of part they called or anything, which was.
We all get murdered.
Then we had pizza afterwards.
Pizza was good.
Coach Pizza?
I was in Israel two years ago.
And like right on the Mount of Olives, it feels just like their backyard.
It's like there's all of these.
Those trees look on olives.
Looking at DG.
The DJ.
If you guys don't know what DG is, write it in the comments.
DG.
Jared told us there was a lot of DG in this yard, and we all took turns guessing what that meant.
Flinging the term around.
Everybody knows.
Excellent DG.
It reminded me of sometimes, quite frequently, I'll get text messages from friends who are other adult men, and suddenly it has a new text abbreviation in it that I have no idea what it means.
And sometimes I'll Google it, and sometimes I'll just stop responding to that person.
Well, this friendship's over.
I don't know what that means.
Sometimes I'll just block the number.
Kyle sends a lot of those abbreviations.
Yeah, and I don't know.
I agree.
I think it may be an age thing, but that's why you never respond to me anymore.
Well, when there's an abbreviation in it, yeah.
What about SMH?
SMH, I know.
Shake my head, I know.
Oh, shake my head.
And then I try to Google them, and there's always about five or six companies with that abbreviation name.
So I have to scroll down to try to figure out which CDC.
What's that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
TBH.
I do that one sometimes.
Yeah, 2B.
Which I figured out.
I didn't actually have to look that one up.
I just figured that one out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Using the concept.
Context.
The one that confused me, I know the first time I saw it was for what it's worth.
Oh, yeah.
FFWIW.
The first time I ever saw that one, I was like, what does that even mean?
Oh, I still didn't know.
Thank you for revealing that to me.
I had to Google that one, and it took me a while.
I'll do that one.
Like, if we're doing feedback on a video, I'll be like, FWIW.
This video is terrible.
Well, everyone, this is going to be a fun episode.
We're going to talk to Paul Roland about his new film, Exemplum.
We'll be coming in a little bit later.
We have some mailbag questions.
And we got news of the week, weekly news, Scissor Facts, hate mail, and our subscriber exclusive lounge.
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And shout out to everyone who's all of a sudden watching us on Rumble because Rumble used to get about seven views.
Oh.
And now our podcast is getting some significant number of views on there.
Nationalist numbers are growing.
The what?
Wasn't that the whole thing with Rumble?
It was an alt-right website.
It's not right.
But it got accused.
It just went down.
I thought it got accused of that way.
Goodbye, Rumble audience.
We were doing well on Rumble.
No, that was like Gab or something.
One of those sites.
One of those sites had a lot.
I don't know if Rumble.
Yeah.
Rumble was Rumble pitched themselves as like, we're YouTube, but we won't cancel your videos or something.
But yeah, it's kind of one of those alternate conservative things.
That's all the racists on Rumble.
Thanks for watching.
That's not Truth Social.
Hey, Mr. Postman.
What's in the mailbag?
Here's an email from Brian Bussard.
And he says, hey, y'all, I've been listening for quite a while.
And I think Jarrod, Jared, could pull off the voice of Lionel Hutz from The Simpsons, who was voiced by Phil Hartman, since Jarrod's voice is very close already.
I just think a Lionel Hutz parody could be funny.
Keep me laughing.
Brian Bussard.
And he's with customer service from Gemein Heart Musical Instruments.
Gemein Hart.
So are you prepared to do a moment?
Yeah, I was going to.
Here's a video.
I looked him up.
Let's watch it real quick.
Oh, man.
Simply by pressing this play button.
Pretty sweet, eh?
Pretty sweet, eh?
To my executor.
To my executor.
$50,000.
$50,000.
You'd be surprised how often that works.
You really would.
You'd be surprised how often that works.
You really would.
Can you do the law talking guy line?
That's my favorite Lionel Hutz line.
What does he say?
Right here.
I think it's right here.
Thank you, Dr. Hibbert.
I rest my case.
There's a line where he says.
Case closed.
He says, I move for a bad court thingy.
I move for a bad court thingy.
And then the judge says, you mean a mistrial?
And he goes, yeah, that's why you're the judge and I'm the law talking guy.
Yeah, that's why you're the judge and I'm the law talking guy.
I like it.
I like your line.
Phil Hartman, yeah.
Yeah, if we just play that, we're going to get a copyright strike because people are going to think it's an actual clip from The Simpsons.
That's right.
You know, it's interesting.
People have said this.
I think that's a lot of horror quotes that you might remember me from.
I spoke with somebody from SNL recently.
I was talking to one of the people.
And she told me that I sound just like Phil Hartman on the phone.
She's like, you sound just like Phil Hartman.
That was a very high compliment.
Thank you for watching.
We can't say who she is, but her first name is Tina.
It's not Tina.
Her first name is not Tina.
I had to think about that for a second.
I don't know why.
Anyway.
I tried to cite one of the most famous women to ever be on this.
That's right.
Well, I think she would be.
She would count.
Yeah.
All right.
Brian Bazar.
Thank you, dude.
Thanks, Brian.
We hope you enjoyed that impression of Apple.
It was a lot of fun, Brian.
Guys want any other Simpsons impressions, send us an email.
Podcast at BabylonB.com and maybe Jarrett will do them.
So we wrote an article, look at this absolute Chad riding one of those motorcycles with three wheels and there's a total Boss.
Is Chad an abbreviation for something?
It's all capitals there.
It's just Chad's supposed to be kind of like, no, I know what, I know what type, I know what type of person a Chad refers to, but the capital letters made me think it was a an abbreviation.
I didn't know.
It's kind of like what Chad became, like what Bro used to be, or yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm gonna be honest.
We wrote this headline as, look at this total bad donkey and then we kind of made to replace it with what words we're allowed to say yeah.
So I think the headline was better with bad donkey, yeah.
But we can't say that I agree, yeah.
Normally I don't like cursing, but every now and then there's the perfect, perfect phrase, for it's always the perfect word and you're like, ah yeah, there's actually an old Onion article that's really funny that it's like um, total donkey sings him without even looking at the hymn book.
He's just like belting it up and it's the perfect word.
It's so funny to use that in a church context.
It is, that's good.
So we got a letter from Gail and she says uh, about this article.
And she says these are more stable for the older writers.
Yeah, i'm sure you already know the third wheel in the front is a spider, while the third in the back is called a trike.
But these names might be tied to certain brands and not generalized.
Love the article, Gail.
Thank you, Gail.
Okay, that was informative, all right.
Who wants to read the email from?
Uh Wally Wally, Stinger.
Reason, general message, hello, I am a subscriber here at the Babylon BE.
I am an enjoyer of the articles and especially the podcast.
I always look forward to the friday episode.
However, i've noticed one segment has been neglected.
Where is Travis Game Corner?
This is one of my favorite segments on the show and I really hope it comes back, thank you so, without further ado, Travis game Corner.
Travis' game corner.
Hi, i'm Backwards, Hat Jarret, and i'm here to tell you about Metroid.
You see, Metroid is a game with a strong male protagonist, and that used to be common in video games back in the day, but these days, after the tomb raiders and the Bayonettas, women are everywhere.
So it's good when Nintendo brings back Metroid and you can just go back to having a good old-fashioned time with your favorite male protagonist, and he's a strong guy, but he's got armor, which makes him even stronger.
The only thing weird about it is that sometimes they'll go back and remake the older games, like, uh, Metroid Zero Mission is a remake of the first game that came out in the Nintendo, and about 75 of the way through the game, Metroid leaves and he's replaced by this, this woman named Samus, which I don't understand um, and then the game turns into like stealth gameplay and stuff.
It's weird.
And then eventually, she finds a suit and leaves and uh, Metroid comes back.
So I don't know, it was a really weird thing, but you know it made another character for um, Super Smash Brothers, so that's, that's fine, I guess, um.
I will say though, that the Metroid lore is kind of strange, because it starts out being sort of like Alien Inspired um, except of course that there's no xenomorphs.
There are Metroids, but then the main character is called Metroid.
So that's weird um, But you go around exploring different places.
So you're on the planet Zebs or Zebus.
Then you're on some planet with a name designation with like SA something or other dash 42.
Who knows what it is?
I forget.
It's in Metroid 2.
And then in the third Metroid, which is Super Metroid, you're on the planet Zebus again.
so you're going to some of the familiar areas but then yes that's right There was nothing for years.
No Metroid game on the Nintendo 64.
No Metroid game on...
Wait, no, there was a game on the GameCube.
That's right.
Metroid Prime.
On the planet Titan 4, I think.
Whatever it's called.
The point is, you get to go around and you're still finding all the same familiar guys, Space Pirates and Metroids, and eventually you fight Metroid Prime, which you don't really understand.
Is it the first Metroid?
Because, you know, Prime would imply that.
But then you kill it and the game ends.
But then there's Metroid Prime 2, Echoes.
Why is it still Prime?
Metroid Prime is dead.
And then there's a whole Dark World theme.
It's kind of Zelda-ish, but not enough.
So the game has a map, and then it has a second map layered over the top, which is sort of a dark world.
You get it?
And the problem with it is that the dark world isn't different enough from the light world.
So it's kind of just like you're exploring more of the same.
Now, if it was more of a cool dark world, like in a Link to the Past, that would have been cool.
Because in Link to the Past, you leave the dark world and there's the Golden Land you go into.
And, well, there's no vacuums, I can tell you that much.
And so there'll be, like, alternate versions of the same characters.
But can I help you?
Well, I'm talking about Link to the Past and how the Dark World is really cool because it's different.
Not like Metroid Echoes.
And then Metroid Prime 3 Corruption comes out.
And I never beat that one because it was on the Wii.
And then I bought Metroid Prime Trilogy, which has all of them in it.
And I went, great, I'll just finish it on this.
So I traded in Metroid Prime 3.
I got Metroid Prime Trilogy, and then the save didn't work.
It wasn't... Metroid Prime 4!
Hey, that was great, Travis.
And now we have our first ever Travis Game Corner male.
Okay, so we think that he, in a recent episode, he talked about Sonic being from an island.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, Sonic lives on an island.
Oh, Gail.
So Gail misses.
Oh, Gail.
So she's very well informed about three-wheel motorcycles and Sonic the Hedgehog.
I'd like to know how old Gail is.
Travis, there is at least one island that has snow, the big island of Hawaii.
It has snow on Mauna Kea.
In fact, it boasts that you can snowboard and snorkel on the same day.
Someone told me that he used to make a snowman, put it in his truck bed, and take it to the beach.
I don't think he enjoyed it very long, though.
I'm sure you have been told this by many others already.
We get this all the time.
Gail always puts a little caveat in reveals.
I'm sure you know this already.
I'm sure others have said this.
Thank you, Gail.
That's right.
You know, the back wheel is a trike.
Yeah.
I'm sure you know that.
Gail is going to become a new favorite on this podcast.
I like Gail a lot.
Yeah.
My mind, Gail looks like Marge's mom from the video.
Allow me to read a poem.
I'm sure Gail's gonna think that's very, very, very good.
All right, let's take a look at what's in the news this week.
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What's in the news this week?
So Biden accused people who oppose mutilating children of being close to sinful.
Yeah.
It's insane.
They're not sinful.
This was the quote with an interview with Kyle Penn on the Daily Show.
What's going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful.
It's just terrible what they're doing.
It just, to me, is, I don't know, it's cruel.
And he's referring to states like such as Florida that have banned or severely restricted the kind of quote-unquote gender-affirming care that you can do to minors.
So Republican legislators and red states, including Florida, have introduced bills restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender minors.
I don't even like saying gender-affirming health care to say that.
It's the exact opposite of gender-affirming.
Just like calling it close to sinful to ban it is exactly the opposite.
It's sinful to do that.
Yeah, so things like puberty blockers, surgery, hacking off boobs, all that kind of stuff.
DeSantis tweeted, it is not sinful to prohibit the mutilation of minors.
It is not acceptable for the federal government to mandate that procedures like sex change operations be allowed for kids.
That's right.
Base DeSantis.
I like to think that, no, I don't support this surgery at all, but I like to think that if people do go in to get it and they have to pick what operation they're having, it's listed in exactly the way Kyle just phrased it.
I'll take a hacking off boobs, please.
Can you just invert my penis?
You can get an arm wiener?
You can get a pencil.
You're all that you want.
Arm wiener.
Check out that.
Boobs back off.
A permanently open wound.
Yeah, it's like when you order at a sushi restaurant, you just go through it.
Yeah.
You had to see a bad choice.
Yeah.
But it's insane that anyone supports this stuff.
It is insane.
And speaking of the transgender community, Drew Barrymore had Dylan Mulvaney on her show.
Here's the clip.
And what's an approach you take?
What's your self-talk?
What do you filter?
How do you?
I still read the comments, but there is so much hatred directed to the trans community right now.
It's everywhere.
And I think the greatest weapon that I can contribute is trans joy and comedy and talking about hard, you know, subjects and really intricate moments of a transition and try to let everybody in to see that, you know, I'm not a monster.
I'm not somebody that, you know, is trying to do anything but be myself and be happy.
Love you.
Thank you, everybody.
Was I not supposed to clap?
How do you stay on your own path?
Where do you draw boundaries?
Where do you find the strength to keep being the joy?
Well, I think having my chosen family and the people that I love to take care of me, but I also think there's something just about making sure that you don't put something out there before you're ready and really just surrounding yourself with good people.
It's interesting because I look at someone like you and I can't imagine anybody disliking you.
Oh, please.
Do you know, do you want to know, ironically, who dislikes me the most sometimes?
Who?
Myself.
Me too.
All of you.
Me too.
And, but I guess you've asked me now, like, you've asked me, like, what I would do to combat the hate, right?
Yeah.
But what do you do?
What is it?
Okay, that's a great question.
You've been doing it a little longer than I have.
Well, you know, it's funny because when I was a kid, you starting with E.T., it was the first time I was introduced to film reviews, which are basically social media.
Yes.
But I felt like all these reviews, and it could be a Charlie's Angels, it could be an E.T., it could be the wedding singer, everything in between.
If you read reviews, just like on social media, you are pretty much guaranteed a 50-50.
Some like it, some don't.
So you've got to be willing to bear down and brace for it.
And I think, I think picking your battles too.
Yes.
And sometimes I think the greatest response can just be in the next joyous video or in the next win that you have, because that just goes to show that like you are continuing on and whatever that those people are projecting onto you, it isn't actually.
I'm going to stop.
Oh, man.
First of all, it's definitely not true that the reviews are usually 50% good and 50% bad.
That's why the Drew Barrymore show turned off comments on that video because they were 100% negative.
Yes.
She's trying so hard.
It's so interesting.
She's trying so hard to be empathetic and compassionate.
You know, the one thing we do have in common with Dylan Mulvaney is we talked about the intimate moments of a transition, like hacking boobs off and heinous fillet and stuff like that.
There's something else that we have in common with Dylan Mulvaney.
Yeah, we have a lot in common.
Yeah.
It's funny when you're talking about it.
It looked all staged, though.
I don't understand why they were getting down on the ground like that.
Well, wasn't it kind of just like two sisters like hanging out together?
We're having a slumber party together.
You know, we're going to have a pillow fight in a minute.
When I think of comedy, I think of Dylan Mulvaney.
Yes.
I don't know what that comment was about.
Like, I'm all about comedy.
He's all about trans joy.
People on TikTok think they're doing comedy because they don't understand what comedy is.
That's true.
Alex Deiner.
Adam's rant quarter.
We've got to get in Adam's rant.
I'll go off on both sides.
You could only publish.
The other thing that's so disingenuous about this.
They always present any criticism of the whole transgender debate as hate.
No one hates trans, they don't want, like, none of us want violence to come to transgender people.
None of us hate transgender people.
We do disagree with this ideology because it's crazy and it's divorced from reality.
Well, and I think the biggest issue is that they're trying to force it on kids.
It's the same thing with like all the stuff.
Well, the pink army, like trying to come into schools and indoctrinate kids into this whole thing.
That is the biggest issue.
Whatever people want to do in the United States, they can do.
They can go get surgeries.
They can do whatever they want.
But push it on kids and it's like, just shut up.
Like, stop.
Stop trying to do this.
Like, you know, stop talking about it on social media.
Stop doing all this stuff.
Just go do be you if you want to do it.
Yeah, and don't force it on other people.
Don't force it on everyone else, and especially children.
Yeah.
And then yeah, we got a screen grab here.
It says when you accidentally make the patriarchy clear again, it's just Drew Barrymore kneeling before a man in a dress.
I like that she's wearing a suit, too.
Yes.
Exactly.
This is a gender reversal.
He is wearing a very short dress.
That's a very short dress.
It's a shorter dress than I've ever worn.
Yeah, me too.
Well, it's definitely shorter than the one that Adam wore.
In the trans war sketch.
Yeah.
I try to bring up as much as possible.
You know what's funny too is like the movement, the cultural movement that says that you're beautiful just the way you are.
Like, don't worry about how you look.
And like, it's, you know, you are you on the inside and it doesn't matter.
And then it's like, unless you're trans.
Yes.
And then put on as change everything about yourself.
You're not and get a ton of plastic surgery and that's the only way you could be happy, you know.
Yeah.
But he still looks like a man.
Yes.
Just superficial changes.
You're still a man.
Yeah.
Well, you can, you know, it's funny.
You can kind of see it in the way that he moves, like when he's like, yes, kind of getting, and you're like, oh, it's just a guy.
It's just a guy.
Like, maybe if he sits still and he's like looking, you're like, okay, like, is it a girl or a boy?
And then he moves.
And you're like, oh, yeah, it's a dude.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look at the shoulders.
Yeah.
Watch the shoulders.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Well, that was crazy.
All right.
So.
Maybe, maybe he's trying to complete his transition to a woman by not being funny.
By being bad at it.
By saying, I'm going to do a comedy and then not being funny.
And then he will truly be a woman.
Oh, man.
That's so good.
Okay.
Well, there are other things happening in the news right now.
In entertainment news, The Mandalorian is now out.
And this is the newest season of The Mandalorian.
Do we have Star Wars fatigue?
Is the question that I'd like to ask everybody?
Are we tired of this thing?
It's opening, it's streaming.
It underperformed Kenobi and the Book of Boba Fett, which is kind of crazy because...
Because I think Mandalorian's better.
Well, totally.
And the best part of the book of Boba Fett was when Mando enters in.
So I don't understand why it underperformed.
Maybe it's just kind of, maybe people are getting that.
So season two.
Yeah, go ahead.
I honestly felt like Mandalorian had a complete arc at the end of season two.
And while I was a huge fan of the show, I didn't feel a big need to watch season three.
I don't really feel that big of a need to watch season three.
I might, you know.
I will check out season three.
It's interesting, though, to ask, do people have Star Wars fatigue about Mandalorian?
Because I think that's the only installment in the series that I still keep up with.
I do have Star Wars fatigue when it comes to everything else.
All the other sequels, all the other spin-offs.
It's just a lot of fun.
I mean, I've seen them.
I've watched them all.
Mostly because I have kids.
But Kenobi was just Kenobi felt weird.
I mean, I love Ewan McGregor, too, as an actor, but it still felt weird.
It felt kind of claustrophobic.
It was a strange show.
I only watched the first episode and I thought it was fine, but I never felt the need to finish the series.
I was just like, oh, that was interesting.
I just didn't care that much.
I've had Star Wars Fatigue, honestly.
Like when Disney came out with the sequel trilogy, I really liked Force Awakens.
I did go to the movie theater on opening day and watch the other two just because I was like, this is a full-on Star Wars trilogy.
And yeah, in retrospect, there's some stuff that's not great about it.
But when they started doing like the Star Wars stories, Solo and Rogue One, and those were like coming out on the off years of the other ones.
It started to feel like, well, now a Star Wars movie isn't an event anymore.
It's not like, wow, a new Star Wars movie.
No, there's no answer.
No, there's always a story.
There's no buildup.
And then they started doing the streaming shows.
And then at that point, I just don't really follow.
You know, strangely enough, I liked Solo, and I really, I mean, I've heard it was good, but I did not like it.
I liked Rogue One too.
The second time, I really liked it.
And Rogue One, I think, is the best of all the movies that they've made.
Rogue One is good, but it's a great movie.
Yeah, I have a differing opinion on Rogue One.
I don't know.
You know, Andor, by the way, I have not watched the series that was good.
That actually was, but it was a different genre than Star Wars.
Like, it was like a...
It's a slapstick.
Yeah, it was a slapstick.
It was amazing.
I hope I don't lose these plans.
It's a daytime show.
Hello, my baby.
Hello, my darling.
It's a daytime talk show.
Yeah.
No, but it was like a spy.
It was like a spy show.
It was like an international spy show.
So you could have set the characters from Jack Ryan in the show, and it would have been really good.
I wonder how much of those are like spec scripts that are going around Hollywood and they just slap us Star Wars things.
Yeah, it's like, let's name it the Empire and we'll have all these people.
Yeah, but there were great moments in that show.
Very hard to follow if you ever watch it.
But I actually thought that was the deepest show that they've made.
Mandalonian's the coolest show they've made.
I don't know.
I haven't really liked the other ones very much.
All right, well, now let's move from Star Wars to something super gripping and exciting.
Bank failures.
This is actually interesting.
Does anyone have bank failure fatigue?
Silicon Valley Bank failed the first, it was the first Twitter-fueled bank run.
Customers withdrew $42 billion in a single day last week from Silicon Valley Bank, leaving the bank with $1 billion in negative cash balance, the company said in a regulatory filing.
It was a tech-focused and venture capitalist-focused clientele.
So quick transactions and very large accounts.
And then after it failed, the federal government stepped in to make depositors whole, even though even those with accounts of more than $250,000, but didn't buy up the bank or bail out the bank investors like in 2008.
Interesting.
So they're going to bail out the people who had money there, but not bail out the bank itself.
So our tax dollars are going to Silicon Valley billionaires?
The people that had their money invested.
But it was all like.
Because you already insure people.
The government already insures people that have less than $250,000.
I liked our take on this a lot.
The Silicon Valley Bank guarantees that all the investors will get a free pen.
So the word on the street is that this is a.
It's been a toaster.
It used to be a toaster that you got when you signed up for a bank.
Oh, I just took it to mean every time you go in the bank, there's always a little cup of coffee.
Yeah, you get the free pen, right?
Yeah.
No, that's funny.
Yeah.
No, okay.
So this bank was one of the woke banks, though, which is interesting, too.
I saw that going around that if they failed because it was woke.
But it wouldn't work with Donald Trump.
Like, they wouldn't do business with Donald Trump.
That's probably most banks, though.
I do hope that, I hope it's because it was a woke bank, you know.
Yeah, I hadn't heard that they were all outside the castle.
They didn't have sound investment strategies.
They invested in a lot of diversity and wokeness initiatives.
I don't know.
I'm always a little hesitant when conservatives are like, this failed because it was woke.
It's like, eh, maybe.
Yeah.
Well, you know.
Interesting.
If we all listened to Ron Paul and went back to the gold standard, then we'd be all right.
Yeah.
Well, let's look at our Babylon be banger of the week.
Banger of the week.
Here's the banger of the week.
Tucker Carlson obtains 40,000 unseen hours of Biden falling down Air Force One stairs.
It's just on a loop.
It really makes me have music.
I almost wish, I don't know how to do it, but I almost wish we could have created video of just 40,000 hours of him stumbling and falling.
That seems like it would have been a big project.
Previously unseen.
This was your headline, wasn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
It's good.
How many times have you gotten bang around the week?
I don't keep track.
Maybe three or four times.
Okay.
That's good, man.
That's good.
Well, good for you, buddy.
Here's Bomb of the Week.
Bomb of the week.
Fork replaces chopsticks three bites into Panda Express.
I like that one.
I liked that one too.
Relatable.
I also don't feel like that one had as much time on the game.
That's a good one.
It's highly relatable.
Let's move on to Sizzler Street.
Sizzler Facts.
On Star Date, how do you say that?
775741.5.
Is that like the actual star date?
Is that the star dates were based on the season number, but some episodes were shot out of order.
So sometimes an episode that takes place later will have an earlier star date.
But in universe, did they ever change this to be like star date means something in relation to some event on Earth?
No, they never, as far as I know, at least in Next Generation, they never explain what it is.
The star dates, like I said, they would say them at the top of each episode, but it was in reality based more on the production schedule than anything actually in world.
Well, if you're wrong, I'm sure Gail's going to email us and listen to it.
And she'll say, I'm sure you know this already.
I'm sure everyone has told you.
On Stardate 7.
Star dates mean this, and Alex Stein is funny.
On Stardate 75741.5.
Is that how you say that?
We debuted a new feature to the podcast called Sizzler Facts, and everyone rejoiced.
And here is this week's Sizzler Fact.
Creative Restaurant Design Studio TNI Design has been enlisted to redesign Sizzler locations around the country.
TNI is an acronym for the next year.
For people who don't know what abbreviations mean.
I wouldn't have known that.
It has completed their pilot design for Sizzler's Corona, California location.
It serves as a template to remodel 60 other locations over the next few years.
That's actually pretty close to here.
We could go.
Yeah, we should, when it's remodeled, we should go.
We should love to go to a nice remodeled Sizzler's.
Yeah, to the opening.
TNI CEO, which stands for Chief Executive Officer, Robert Ansel, has commented on this quiet revolution occurring.
We are pleased with the outcome and feel honored to have worked on a restaurant brand that has been part of American culture for more than 70 years.
From concept to execution, Sizzler's new interior represents the combination of classic style and modern design, making it stand out above its competitors.
We hope that it will continue to delight future generations in the same way that it has since opening in 1958.
Sizzler's remodel is both beautiful and functional, providing an inviting atmosphere for all ages, even for old people.
TNI Design has utilized reclaimed wood and hemp-based construction materials in many of the furnishings and has integrated enhanced features such as a cozy fireplace beneath the Sizzler logo.
I like that.
Perfect for warming up any chilly Southern California winter night.
This redesign is sure to make the Sizzler customer's dining experience even more enjoyable than before with its warm colored tones and natural yet contemporary vibe.
This has been Sizzler Facts.
So I'm kind of sad that they're moving away from the sort of salmon colored carpet and the light like the light oak with the sort of like the light green, like the mints.
And the minty, minty green.
I think they've already gotten more microphone.
Like if you go to Sizzler now, and you're just kind of admitting here that you haven't been to Sizzler recently.
Maybe.
They already have kind of a redesign, but it has these weird stock images on the wall.
Like they have like a stock image of people snowboarding and a stock image of people high-fiving and people blowing bubbles.
It's very strange.
There's still a Getty Image watermark on that.
A stock image of Industries.
They went bankrupt.
They had to just steal them off Google.com and paint letters over the picture.
They had to steal it from England Street.
Snowboarding.
I win.
Exactly.
But yeah, so I'm interested.
We're going to have to go check out this new Corona look.
You should definitely have a party there, a Babylon B party.
Yeah, oh, awesome.
Okay.
Well, now it's time for weekly news with Adam Jenser.
It's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
A Russian fighter jet knocked a $32 million U.S. drone out of the sky over the Black Sea and now plans to recover the wreckage to study it, although Joe Biden insists it was just a weather balloon.
The Academy Awards were held on Sunday and were so boring that the most talked about moment at this year's Oscars was last year's Oscars.
Michelle Yeo became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, where she played the groundbreaking role of an Asian lady who knows karate and owns a laundry.
After testing positive for COVID, actress Glenn Close backed out of her Oscar presenting gig, and for the next week, Glenn Close will have to be Glenn six feet away.
COVID expert Anthony Fauci sent Glenn his best, saying he's loved her ever since she played the hero in 101 Dalmatians.
Arizona has launched a new hotline Parents Can Call to report schools for delivering inappropriate lessons to kids.
For instance, this course on gender ideology or this math test where every answer was 69.
This year's Paris Fashion Week featured robotic dogs walking the runway with fashion models.
The designer said he got the idea by watching real dogs chase bones.
Abu Dhabi has opened a new interfaith complex called the Abrahamic Family House, which serves as a mosque, synagogue, and church slash pizza hut slash Taco Bell.
There's also a shared common area that will no doubt become the focus of decades of war.
And in perhaps the weirdest story of the week, Jordan Peterson is worried about what the Chinese are putting their Peters in.
Not going to explain it, but you can Google it and check it out if you'd like.
That's it for weekly news.
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Hey, thank you, Adam Jenser.
That was great.
And now it's time to welcome the director of the movie Exemplum, Paul Rowland.
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And now it's time for another interview on the Babylon B podcast.
Paul, thanks for being here.
Thank you so much for having me.
So this is not your first time at the BU start in our sketch Atheist Chaplain.
That's right.
That's right.
It was a lot of fun.
That's good.
Was that based on someone real?
There was a, I think it was Harvard.
It was one of the Ivy League schools announced that their school chaplain was an atheist.
They became the first school to have a chaplain that was an atheist.
Wow, this is interesting.
You know, Bart Campolo?
He became an atheist.
So Bart Campolo, so Tony Campolo.
How many of you guys know who Tony is?
Are these mafia guys?
No, they sound like Tony Campolo.
No, so Tony Campolo was a big Christian speaker for a long time anyway.
And Bart is his son.
His salvation pitch was, I'll make you an offer.
You can't refuse.
Leave the cannali.
Anyway.
But yeah, so Bart Campolo was an atheist chaplain at USC.
Oh, okay.
So anyway, I was wondering if we had based it on that.
You look like you have a little bit of a sunburn.
Yeah, I don't know what's going on considering that it's been so.
I was just wondering, maybe you copied Jarrett with the plastic strap across the forehead.
No, I thought it was more just like the drinking.
Oh, it could be.
Yeah, well, you know, I started early for Patrick's dishes.
It's coming up.
A little pre-game.
Do you get a sunburn like this, Jared?
Sorry.
Yeah, no.
I was going to talk about the movie, but let's talk about Jarrett's.
Do you ever get a baseball cap?
Do you ever get the Arch sunburn?
I have before.
I've gotten it on the back of my head and the front of my head.
So, yeah.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, carry on about the movie.
So be sure to pick up a backwards baseball cap, Paul.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for coming on.
Thank you so much for having me.
So you have this movie out.
It's Exemplum.
Tell us a little bit about it and where people can see it.
Absolutely.
Exemplum is available on Vimeo on Demand right now.
So I made Exemplum in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic on a budget of $9,500.
So basically, when you're working at that level, that level of a low budget, you basically have to construct your entire idea around what you know you can get relatively cheap or for free.
There's just no other way around it.
Then was the cast strictly limited to four members of your own family?
Because that's all we were legally allowed to hang out with at that time.
No, we were all a bunch of rule breakers.
I have to say that.
So I originally had this idea about a priest that started recording his confessions.
I love that premise.
I remember when you told me about the idea for it.
It's such a cool idea.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it was just in the back of my mind.
I didn't know where I was going to go with it.
There it was.
So the second I got the initial funds for the film, which was a $6,000 check from the David Horowitz Freedom Center, that's when I started writing the script and started developing out from there.
I had the idea of him recording his confessions.
Then he starts playing them back and forth, formulating these psychological profiles about people.
And then I had worked in conservative and Catholic media.
So I had this idea about him becoming a social media star and creating these stories called Exemplums.
And he uses his confessions as a basis of inspiration for that.
And it just all kind of blossomed out from there.
And how he becomes an internet star.
And then through bureaucracy and corruption in the church, that all gets completely and totally wiped out.
He suffers a crisis of faith, and he decides to take one of those recordings and blackmail a wealthy parishioner with it.
And it becomes this cat and mouse game.
And it just all spirals out of control from that.
Very cool.
It becomes almost a thriller towards the midway through.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah, he gets hooked up with a hacker and there's a lot of reflection about technology and it's a relationship in our life.
What's the worst thing you ever confessed to your priest?
Oh, I'm kidding.
Because we actually have a recording of it.
Play the tape, Dan.
Rule tape.
And you have some great actors in this.
Frank Cronin, who's a comedian that I performed with.
So Paul's lead.
Well, you're the lead actor in your own film, which is also amazing.
This movie, it turned out fantastic.
And you did it on such a small budget during the pandemic.
You wrote it, directed it, starred in it.
And then one of your co-stars is Frank Cronin, a comic who you and I met when Frank and I did a stand-up show at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center.
That's right.
Oh, Devil Paul that Paul came out to, yeah.
Yeah.
Gower.
So it was a small turnout, but we met him in a small little theater at the Church of Scientology.
Yeah, yeah.
No, that was a fun night because you said you were doing a comedy show at the Scientology Center, and I was like, I have to go see what is comedy night like at the Scientology Center.
And it was weird.
They take us to this small, beautiful little theater in a basement, and there's like five people there.
Yes.
There's five people.
But there's like legitimate talent, like Alan and Frank, like Adam and Francis Cronin, and like, I think someone from SNL was there, a writer for SNL.
And they all performed their sketch.
And then Frank mentioned that he was an Irish Catholic.
So I related with him on that front, and we just exchanged contact information from there.
And he was kind of like my third choice for this role.
I approached two other people.
They couldn't do it.
And I prefer to be able to do it.
That's always good to hear as an actor.
Well, I approached him, and he just was immediately on board.
And he gave the best performance of the film.
He's from Darn.
He's fantastic.
Everybody is terrific in it.
But he's.
I play a bartender setting a drink on the table and I think I nailed it.
I don't want to say I was better than Frank, but you can see my arm.
Were you dressed in drag?
No.
No, I would never.
I was just wondering if you're not.
Why would you think that he would dress in this?
Gosh.
He's just so good.
Well, one of the inspirations for this was your Trans Noir sketch.
Oh, my goodness.
You should see it.
If you haven't seen it.
You remember that Jesus is Savior site that we looked at and they showed Rudy Giuliani in drag?
Oh, yes.
That's right.
I wonder if they're going to take down the Babylon B now and they're going to have you.
Yes, baby.
How did they say King James only with a picture of KJB?
I'm sorry, Adam.
I know how much you hated.
We have to throw it out there, though.
It's funny.
Now, so $9,500 for your budget.
What was your schedule like?
It seems like you would have to shoot on weekends, or do you have to be a weekend warrior or something like that?
Or did you shoot straight through?
Absolutely.
No, we shot over seven weekends.
We began on a very hot night in September, and then we ended right just before Thanksgiving.
And we had our rap party actually on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
And it was a.
There are a lot of rappers there.
Thanks.
Well, we did.
I didn't really.
Jared, I had the exact same thought, but I didn't say it.
That's one of those moments you're like, there are times when you have to not say the thing.
Wow, there's no hair to keep the thoughts in.
I think that's the problem.
Just all come out that hole in the front.
Yeah, so you did weekend stuff and then you edit it yourself, or did you have an editor?
I edited it myself.
Yes, I edited it through the court.
My wife was pregnant at the time.
We had our first daughter, and I edited it while being a new dad and working a job at the same time.
So I mostly got no sleep throughout that entire year.
Now, did you buy the full version of the software, or does the whole movie have trial Adobe Premiere across?
Yeah.
Because isn't the full version like $9,500 or something?
That's what I was saying.
They're like $9,500.
That's the whole thing.
That was the budget right there.
That's crazy.
Now, when you went into the Scientology building, did you guys see demons or anything?
Like, I'm just wondering.
Was there a spiritual oppression?
I didn't.
And there was a small crowd there that night.
We were in the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center for about two hours, and no one tried to convert us.
So in a way, I was glad they weren't trying to convert us, but also I thought, man, I must not be famous at all.
There's that.
If I can vote in the Church of Scientology, and they're like, no, we don't need it.
Yeah, we don't need you.
He can be a Luther.
I used to spend so much time around that building.
We had the.
So my theater company that I was at at the time, it was right there next to the Scientology building.
So we would walk around that building all the time.
And I always got a creepy feeling about that building.
I don't know if he's.
It's an interesting building.
It is.
It's cool.
And I guess there's like an underground lair across to Franklin.
Oh, okay.
There's like where the guy that usually originally owned the building.
You can walk out on stage at the UCB theater from.
And you can like, he would sneak his his mistresses in through this like underground like, you know, sequence.
Like the tunnel to the gay bar, you were telling us.
Yeah, the drag bar.
Yeah, that's the drag bar.
Was it a drag bar?
I think it was a gay bar.
Oh, it was a gay bar.
I was making another drag.
I get it.
Is it legal for priests to record confessions?
It is 100% illegal according to canon law, and I would assume by the laws of California.
There's some states where you can record people and not tell them.
As long as one party knows.
I know that's about phone calls.
Oh, maybe not in person.
I don't know.
But how does James O'Keefe and them record?
There's like, well, he lost his job, so he wasn't doing it quite right.
He was doing something wrong.
Yeah, something happened there.
Has that ever happened in the second?
Has anything like this ever happened?
Yeah, have you?
Well, there officially have been stories of priests who do violate the seal of confession, and they do actually sometimes utilize that as a mechanism for black male.
I know one person that at least did happen to once.
But those priests who do that are severely dealt with because that is a complete and total violation.
I mean, that's like the automatic excommunication from the church is to break the seal of confession.
Yeah.
And that's.
They have to become Lutherans.
And what was your philosophy of storytelling for this for this movie?
You know, it has religious content in it, but it's not heavy-handed in any way.
It's just kind of informed by your well, certainly coming at it.
You know, I am a committed Catholic, but I am now I'm coming at this as an artist first that's informed by my Catholicism and my philosophical outlook.
So I wanted to construct this as a basically a traditional thriller, traditional film noir that has Catholic elements.
So I was like, what if we just did a film noir thriller that's about a Catholic priest committing these unethical crimes and have it be this philosophical, theological reflection upon what that is.
And I didn't set out to do this, but as the story kind of came together and I finished the script, I sort of realized that I do think the movie is a philosophical and theological reflection on cancel culture.
Not in a political sense.
I think people throw that around as like, oh, I'm outside of cancel culture, but I think everybody has the propensity in them to cancel or judge or throw somebody outside of a group.
So I wanted it to be having it be this reflection about the idea of keeping people's sins locked up and to utilize it as a method of power and control.
And the only entity that really wins out in the end is evil.
And I'm a Lutheran and I liked it.
Yeah, and I think it's, you know, it is about a Catholic priest, but I think I kept it universal enough where I think anybody could watch it.
I mean, this could have easily been a film about a Protestant pastor.
It could have easily been a film about a therapist if you wanted to go secular.
We don't confess our sins in the Protestant church.
Well, no, you don't, but pastors do.
Barrymore confesses to Nylon Molten.
But pastors do have intimate conversations with their congregates.
And they do hear about the struggles that they're dealing with and the things that they don't reveal in public.
And that could easily be a story.
I think it's just the story itself is about taking people's dark darkness and their weaknesses and utilizing it for power.
And this film is winning some awards, right?
What have you won so far with that?
Yes, we won Best Director at the Pasadena Internet Film Festival.
So when you say we won Best Director, you won Best Director.
Okay, so I won, but I like to say we because this was, you know, a lot of people contributed to this film.
This movie wouldn't, I mean, certainly I want to give a shout out to my cinematographer, Vladianescu.
This movie would not exist without him.
What did you guys shoot on, by the way?
Oh, we shot on a Sassoni A7IS2.
But as you see in the film, I did a lot of work to make it look like we shot it on 16mm black and white.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Exactly.
Yeah, but without him, this movie would not have been possible.
He was there every step of the way.
He's awesome.
I've worked with Lode before, and yeah, he's a fantastic guy.
Exactly.
Without this guy, it would not have been possible.
You know, Adam and I helped Adam split the cost of the equipment with me, and I stored the equipment at his place while he was shooting the canceled news.
And I would come every Friday to pick it up.
We were going to go shoot that weekend, and I'd bring it back every Sunday.
So many people, you know, my friend Andrew Halpend, who created the music for this film, the My Cast, you know, Joe Griffin, who played Louis Costa, Frank Cronin, Brittany Lewis, who played Lillia, everybody that this contributed to this film.
And you had an investor in Florida, right?
I did.
I did.
I did have more contributor out of Florida.
Seth Dylan, who you all know.
I'm head of the guy.
Yeah.
So Seth and I'm the whole vein.
Seth Dylan.
Dion.
DeLon.
Dion.
Yeah.
So Seth, Seth and I, we had become pen pals over the years.
He followed me on Twitter and I'd followed him back.
And he would sometimes share some sketches that Adam and I created.
And as I was making this, I just reached out to him and I said, hey, I'm making this film.
I have this budget.
If you want to contribute to it, please do.
And he said, I hadn't read a script before, but I'm very honored that you sent me this.
And so he contributed to the film, and that was lovely.
So you had $200 and he gave you $9,300.
Yeah, Seth is very generous.
That's awesome.
Yeah, one thing I will definitely say about Seth that I appreciate is he encourages artists of my ilk to just go out there and create culture, not go out and create subculture.
And I think that's very evident in places like here at the B.
It's evident in places like EV Magazine, which he also supported.
And I hope it's evident in this film.
I did everything I could to make that possible, but you find people are going to be the judge of that.
Yeah.
Very cool.
Well, I'm going to do the best pitch for this.
Do you hate Woke Hollywood?
Stick it to Woke Hollywood and check out Exemplum on Vimeo on Demand right now.
Right now.
Yeah.
Exemplum.
That's great.
Thanks for being here, Paul.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Awesome shit.
You ever need a bald actor, you know?
Yeah.
Just saying.
I don't have any hair.
Thanks for coming in, Paul.
Now it's time for hate mail.
Hate a mail.
You used to be good.
Adam Ford.
Adam Ford.
I really miss Adam Ford.
So Jared is currently wearing a backwards hat.
Yep.
I mean, sitting in the same.
I'm sitting just how I was then, too.
So we have a clip posted to social media that shows Jared and his trademark backwards baseball cap.
Yep.
And here's a comment.
Yeah.
This was actually pretty funny.
I actually laughed out loud.
Nice job for a change.
Thanks, bro.
What was it that they thought was funny?
Do you know?
Yeah, I don't know.
Oh, this was him.
I was talking about being in the Easter play.
Talking about falling off the cross.
I think it was the being catapulted story.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
So thanks for letting us know that you thought it was funny.
I always like that hate mail when people are like, this is really good.
You guys usually suck.
Nice job.
I like it.
What are you doing listening to us?
How do you know?
I'll take it.
You know, if you think we suck.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, everyone.
Well, thanks for watching.
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