Tucker Carlson Parted Ways From Fox News and The Babylon Bee Reacts
Tucker Carlson and Fox News have "parted ways" and The Babylon Bee reacts with Kyle, Adam, and Chandler on the podcast this week. The Babylon Bee also talks to Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz about their new book Stolen Youth. We also played with AI-generated art and want to see if the gang can guess what the prompt was based on the image and real-life flounders are hilarious looking. Check out Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz' book Stolen Youth: https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Youth-Progressives-Replacing-Radicalism/dp/1956007083 The Babylon Bee also reacts to Justin Trudeau gaslighting everyone, Hunter Biden's paternity case, and President Biden's ominous threat to "finish" the job! In the full-length ad-free subscribers-only podcast, Kyle introduces you to his C.S. Lewis Corner and The Bee gang try to figure out who the creepiest celebrity is. Become a Babylon Bee subscriber to get the ad-free, full-length podcast. Use promo code 'PODCAST' to get 20% OFF: https://babylonbee.com/plans Use this special link to get 10% OFF anything in The Babylon Bee store!: https://shop.babylonbee.com/discount/PODCAST This episode is brought to you by our wonderful sponsors who you should absolutely check out: Allegiance Gold: http://protectwithbee.com Samaritan Ministries: https://samaritanministries.org/thebabylonbee PublicSq on Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/publicsq/id1573823343 Public Sq on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicsq.app
Tucker Carlson is gone from Fox News, so Fox News has fired the only reason that people watch Fox News.
Seriously, where else can people tune in from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. to see Tucker Carlson staring at the camera with his perpetual baffled face?
Where?
We talked to Bethany and Carol about how they are coming after the kids.
Gross!
Not Bethany and Carol.
They're not coming after the kids.
And they're not gross.
The other they.
Is AI gonna replace artists?
Not, no.
But it's fun to see what we can make it do.
All this.
The Babylon Bee Podcast.
Hey, everyone.
I'm back after a couple weeks of rest and relaxation.
Good to have you back.
But not really.
But I am back, and I'm hanging out with Adam Yenser and Chandler Juliet.
Hi.
How you guys doing?
Good.
Good.
You're good.
So AI, am I right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That AI is pretty crazy.
It is pretty crazy.
I've used chat GPT a little bit to do like some iteration on things.
Like if you think of an idea and you're like cheating.
Yeah.
To help with the script writing, help with the article.
I haven't even tried it.
I'm too weirded out by it.
It doesn't do as much as you would think.
Like, it's not like, oh, I want to write a funny article about Buckies.
Write me a funny article about Bucky.
It doesn't do that very well.
Like, when you wrote that script for the ChatGPT TV, didn't you?
Oh, yeah.
Be sure to check out our ChatGPT sketch that explains how it works.
Yeah.
Let's actually, why don't we play it?
Can we play it?
Yeah.
Here we go.
Watch the ChatGPT.
We figured out how it works.
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It's the Babylon Bee sketch of the week.
Hey, man.
Have you used ChatGPT?
No, what is it?
It's this crazy new artificial intelligence site.
You give it any prompt and it responds like a real person.
Come check this out.
Write a funny story about a pig.
The big fat pig has a big fat butt and it sits but it smushes something with its butt.
The end.
That's incredible, man.
That's like the funniest story that I've ever read.
I know, dude.
All right, do another one, man.
Okay, okay, okay.
How about this?
Chat GPT, why does my college roommate look like he's 44 years old?
Your college roommate looks 44 because the producers of this sketch only gave the casting department 24 hours notice before the shoot.
So they were unable to find an age-appropriate actor.
After a brief shouting match, they decided to cast whoever was available since they were already behind schedule.
I mean, that's incredible.
How does it do that?
I don't know, dude.
Some super high-tech algorithm, I had to guess.
Michael, the response to the lady in Singapore took 0.8 milliseconds too long.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm going as fast as I get!
Hey, you give me that attitude, and I'll jump right back on Task Rabbit and find a new chat GPT.
Oh, no, no, please don't.
I need the money to support my, support my Funko Pop habit.
Then calm down, have another Red Bull and get caught up.
There's 23,000 requests coming in every second!
Then eat some coffee grounds and work faster.
I need real food!
Is it almost time for my lunch break?
Michael, it's Marge.
Your lunch break is in November.
The elephant is a packager with one of the longest gestational periods of any animal on earth.
Hey!
That's true.
Combine eggs, baking soda, and flour in a medium bowl, mix on high until green.
I'm sure you're a nice person, but as a computer program, I cannot reciprocate feelings of love and sexual desires.
Good answer.
And the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
That's better.
Now, I'm feeling a bit peckish.
So I'm going to Sizzler for a steak and jumbo crispy shrimp combo for $17.99.
Try to get those answers sent by the time I get back.
Oh, this person is asking about drag queen story hours.
I don't want to talk about drag queens.
Michael, you're a chat GPT.
If you want to keep your job, you have to.
But I don't want to get involved in all the political stuff.
Michael, next week, Funko Pop is releasing a limited edition baby Yoda figure wearing a scuba diving outfit.
It's very cute.
Okay, okay, fine.
All right, drag queens are men who cross-dress.
Yes, while drag is an accepted form of adult entertainment, it would be inappropriate to expose children to the sexualized behavior.
No, not like that.
Why not?
We can't criticize drag queens.
We gotta keep it woke so we don't get canceled.
Fine.
Drag queens are beautiful ladies.
In fact, they're the best kind of lady in the world.
Drag queens are what Women's History Month is all about.
Instead of parents, every child in America should be raised by a drag queen.
There, is that better?
This is foolishness.
Just get those answers sent out before I'm back from Sizzler.
Sizzler is the one that brings us choices.
Reaching out across the USA.
Hey, yo.
Did you hear that Elon Musk is creating a non-woke alternative to ChatGPT?
How's that gonna work?
Drag queens, eh?
Each and every day, get a little freedom.
Oh, good one.
Like, what's the beginning?
Like, the poopy...
Oh, the fat pig.
Fat pig.
Yeah.
That has a big butt or whatever.
That's where that story comes from.
They just crushed it.
When Bettina's daughter was here one day, she came into my office and said she wanted to write a joke.
And so I said, what should the joke be?
And that was the joke she wrote.
And I told her I would put it in a sketch.
Oh, okay.
I didn't know that.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yep.
So that was actually.
Co-written.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
Co-writer.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a great sketch.
Good job, Adam.
And the actor is just hilarious.
I love the main actors.
I don't know if he wants his name said, but the main actors' facial expression.
Oh, Jared didn't know.
Jared's in the beginning.
Oh, right, right, right.
His delivery is just some cracksmith.
My understanding from this AI is the AI that's been coming out lately is it's not actually AI in the traditional sense that we think of it, like this thinking thing that can generate new ideas.
All it's doing is like scraping the internet and mashing things together, which causes all kinds of copyright issues.
Like I'm like, write something in the style of the Babylon B.
Well, then it's just copying things from the Babylon B and mashing them together.
It's kind of like we do with the onion.
Yeah, it's creating a little bit of controversy.
You know, not necessarily chat GPT or the generated art.
I'm kind of less, I have some feelings about it that I haven't quite figured out yet, but.
But a couple years ago, I remember in the middle of the pandemic, I started discovering Instagram accounts with AI models that are being run by men, but they're like, they're like these crazy models.
They generate the image of the woman.
Yeah, and they're like an Instagram model, but they're fake.
They're completely fake.
And they're getting contracts with like does an AI and bot like run the account and all the text and stuff?
No, that's a person.
Okay, somebody runs it and makes profits from it, but it's an AI-generated image of an attractive woman or man.
Yeah, a woman.
And then it's like, that's that model is being posed and put in different products and clothes.
And like, now that's taking, they're taking our jobs from the models now.
And I just think it is a little bit of a no.
Someone in this room is not.
How would you not, right?
One of the three of us is AI.
Guess which one it is?
Yeah.
So I guess there's just a little bit of like a, you know, it started with the ATM machine and now we're blamed for the start of it.
It started with the typewriter.
That darn calculated slope.
We used to have to go walk in and talk to the teller.
Yeah.
Well, it's a little extreme now.
I think we're getting a little, a little extreme.
But we're going to have some fun later.
We're going to look at some AI-generated art that Dan and the guys made up, and we're going to guess what the prompt is.
Oh, that sounds fun.
I'm excited for that.
That sounds fun.
We talked to Bethany Mandel and Carol Markowitz and their book Stolen Youth.
Yeah, it was a great conversation.
Yep.
So, yeah.
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By the 20%.
They're giving everyone 20% off all the time.
It's true.
Wait, really?
They went out of business?
They filed for bankruptcy, I think.
They're closing soon.
I think they're going to be an online-based store still, but they're crazy.
That happened with David's Bridal, too.
I got my bridesmaid dress for my sister's wedding at David's Bridal.
And admittedly, I was kind of making fun of it the whole time.
It's kind of like a Walmart for bride, like bride.
Like everything has like rhinestone made in China, like crap there.
Are they out of business?
Yeah, they declared bankruptcy.
So I think I got the last dress, the last bridesmaid dress from my sister.
You got the very last one.
Last one.
Wow.
So, yeah.
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It's so funny.
One of the jokes that we've done that has done the best, we actually designed the logo and I got some comments on it from the lady at Statern Brothers.
Hey.
And I saw Jarrett wearing his yesterday too.
It's a great, it's a great shirt.
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I think that was one of the earliest sketches I did.
It's one of the early news desks that we had.
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What is a woman?
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An adult human female or anyone who drinks Bud Light.
That's going to be helpful because a lot of people don't really know what that is.
And now they do.
You know what's crazy is I could have bought our shirt.
Never, you know.
I don't, I'm not a subscriber to the Daily Wire, but I saw the ad for the document for the first time yesterday, and I was like for Matt Walsh's documentary.
This is so powerful.
Like, it's actually crazy.
Which clip did you see?
The one where he's talking to the like gender expert gender theory?
She was in there, but it started off with like a girl in, you know, biological woman.
And she's like, I'm not a woman, so I don't know.
And he's like, well, how do I know if I'm a woman?
She's like, that's a great question.
Oh, he's like talking to the girl on the street.
No.
No, it was sit-downs.
Yeah, it's that person with like the pixie shirt.
Yeah.
It was a few different people he talked to, and then the girls at the protest.
And then just, it was a bunch of clips put together, but it was actually quite startling.
You know, I've never, I kind of want to watch it, but I think I would watch it.
I've never seen the full thing.
I've seen a clips that go.
I found like the first, I don't know, 15 to 20 minutes, I thought were a lot of just kind of gotcha questions and the sort of funny moments of talking to protesters and the weird woke people.
But then when it actually gets to where he's talking to an actual psychologist who is against this stuff, and there's a man who did transition and now detransition and regrets it.
Yeah, it's really fascinating to see.
And it is interesting when he goes to these college professors and these people pushing this ideology.
They really truly cannot define what it is they believe.
It's so wild.
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Banger of the week.
Fox News fires the only reason people watch Fox News.
The picture of good old Tucker there.
When I saw that on Instagram, I was like, that's not even satire.
That's not true.
I mean, everybody watches Gutfeld.
Please have me back on.
Gutfeld is my personality.
I don't consider Gutfeld Fox News.
It's just like the late night.
Yeah.
I like Harris Faulkner too.
You ever watch her in the morning?
She's good.
I don't have cables.
I've never watched Fox.
Yeah, I don't have cable.
I've never watched Fox News.
So maybe I just don't watch Fox News, but yeah.
In honor of Tucker Carlson, let's all stare at the camera with Tucker Carlson baffled face.
A moment of bafflement for Tucker.
I always break first.
Do you not honor Tucker?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I need to work on holding my liked your headline pitch for that.
He always does that.
It's like his cat.
He said, you're fired.
And he goes.
Why is that?
The news broke Monday when Fox News said they were parting ways.
And his last show was Friday.
So, yeah, it sounds like they fired him.
I mean, that's usually what that means, right?
And they're like, we have decided to part ways.
Yeah.
His last segment on Friday was eating pizza with a pizza delivery man.
Oh, stuffed a criminal.
Like I was from Pennsylvania.
He tripped a robber that was running from a car chase.
Yeah.
I have a couple and he didn't even drop the pizza.
He was looking pizzas.
So do you guys think that this?
I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong with the segment.
I think it's his show.
This was like a final straw thing, or this is something that's been like throwing eating the pizza.
No, I don't think eating the pizza.
That's it.
He had a pizza delivery at all.
I don't know.
It sounds like there's something that's been afoot for a long time.
And, you know, I think we just paid out.
They just paid out that almost a billion dollars or agreed to it.
The settlement of the Dominion for the Dominion lawsuit.
So that may have had something to do with it.
Did he make any Dominion claims?
He had people on you.
Yeah.
See, that's the thing.
Dominion's main claims.
There were a few of their hosts on Fox News that sort of passively agreed with statements that were made by the people pushing the Dominion conspiracy theory, but it was mostly just that they had on guests that were putting that out there.
But then there were also, now, I don't know how much of this is true.
There are also with the Tucker firing rumors of like, you know, discrimination and harassment and stuff like that.
There's different people who have made claims like that behind the scenes, too.
Yeah.
The Dominion thing's pretty crazy.
I mean, they didn't find any evidence of any kind of glitchiness in Dominion, but the mail-in voting is kind of a culprit for that.
There were more extreme accusations that got them in trouble.
Like you could say, yeah, let's question the glitchiness, but like saying that this is a fraud thing that is designed to elect Joe Biden or something.
And then if they can't find proof of that, now you're now it's slander or libel.
Got it.
So Tucker would consistently get three to four million viewers a night, tripling CNN's numbers.
Whoa.
Yeah, Tucker's been kind of a mainstay for a while there on Fox News.
Did you guys see that picture of him?
The paparazzi, I guess, showed up at his Florida.
I don't know.
He's in Florida right now.
They found him.
They found him wherever he's hanging out.
And he just laughed, like howled with laughter and drove away on his little golf card.
He found a golf cart.
He's like, looking like he's having a great time.
Like, he is not losing sleep over this at all.
You know, he knows that he has a really loyal audience.
And I'm not really worried.
I think he's going to just keep on keeping up with it.
Well, I don't know what kind of exclusivity they have in his contract, but you got to think that Fox News needed him more than he needed Fox News.
And he'll definitely land on his feet somewhere.
He'd launch his own podcast.
It would be the most popular podcast in the world for a while at least.
I mean, I always appreciate how Tucker kind of pushed back on the regular conservative talking points, whether it was war or some of the vaccine stuff.
He was always somebody I described as I agreed with him like 70 to 80 percent of the time.
And then I disagree with him sometimes, but I always liked hearing his point of view on things, even if I wasn't on the same page sometimes.
Yeah, really talented speaker, just really knows how to hold your attention.
I think a lot of anchors kind of have this like uniformity in the way they speak, and he doesn't.
Like he really knows how to hold your attention and just share.
I think he speaks straight from the heart.
So I like listening to him.
All right.
Well, now that we've talked about the news this week, let's look at what's in the news this week.
What's in the news this week?
Biden announced his re-election campaign officially, and his new slogan is ominous: finish the job.
It totally is like a super villain.
It does happen to finish the job.
Like you can see Thanos on a poster with finish the job.
Yeah, he's the oldest in history.
He'll be 86 if he won four more years after the next two.
So he's getting up there.
And I guess he announced this via a video message because they don't really let him talk to the public anymore.
And he also started releasing all these images as a series, kind of like putting out his policy positions.
And he said, Rebecca put the teacher's creed into words when she said, There's no such thing as someone else's child.
Our nation's children are our children.
That's why our administration supports the teachers who care for them.
And they have a bunch of weird quotes like this, which is really doubling down on that.
Who believes that Joe Biden is in charge right now?
Not even a lot of like lefties, like extreme lefties, are like, yeah, he's not in charge.
Like, this is a joke.
Like, we're laughing stock.
Like, what's going on?
So, I just, but they're okay with that.
Like, as long as they're, as long as the administration is kind of pushing those party points and the leftist progressive policies that they want, they're okay if he's just a figurehead.
I'm mentally preparing for a very annoying election year next year.
I'm mentally preparing to mentally check out because I just can't.
Do you guys think that they're going to keep mailing votes?
Oh, yeah.
They'll try.
I think they'll try to.
All the Democrat states will definitely just.
It just needs to go.
It's not fair.
Like, it's just not fair.
It's like California law now, isn't it?
Like, they just mail a ballot to everyone.
It's just not fair.
His campaign video opened with scenes of January 6th and flashes images of MAGA extremists like Trump and MTG.
And it talks about abortion and LGBTQ rights.
Right.
So Trump versus Biden.
This will be an exciting new thing for us to experience.
Yeah.
More material.
January 6th, and then they want to kill babies and call men ladies, and that's their entire life.
That's the whole club.
That's the entire modern Democratic Party.
Democracy.
Well, let's talk about the other Biden.
A judge has ruled that Hunter Biden must appear in an Arkansas court for his paternity case.
Whoa.
Lawyers for London Roberts, the Mothers, say Hunter Biden has not provided a single item or word of discovery in their ongoing child support lawsuit.
That's surprising.
He struck me as a really smart guy.
Yeah.
You didn't know about this?
Yeah.
Amongst all his other scandals, he got a stripper in Arkansas pregnancy.
And then he sued.
He sued to make the, what is it for now?
The baby, I guess, four-year-old.
Post-birth abortion.
Yeah, four-year-old.
No, he sued to make to abort the four-year-old.
Oh, here, here.
The kid not use his last name anymore.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my word.
They tried to prevent him from taking his last name.
So the Independence County Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer ordered Biden to attend the court hearing on May 1st because his absence is interfering with the process of litigation.
Where's Hunter?
Wow.
I actually can't believe I didn't hear about it.
There's one court somewhere in this country that's holding Hunter.
What a mess this person is.
I mean, you never hear about this kind of stuff.
It's kind of crazy when you think about the information war we kind of have going.
We're in the information age, sure, but I guess we just can't expect every detail.
How do you keep track of this?
It's insane.
You know, and they keep saying, well, the investigation is ongoing, but there's so many obvious crimes that he's committed on video.
That's why it's ongoing.
They just keep on coming out.
Yikes.
Justin Trudeau admits COVID jabs have side effects.
What?
Claims he never forced anyone to get vaccinated.
That's interesting.
The quote is, there are potential side effects in vaccinations, and there are probably people who have gotten very sick from vaccinations.
Individuals are allowed to make their own choices.
There are all sorts of reasons why someone is hesitant to get vaccinated while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated.
I chose to make sure that all the incentives, like free burgers and whatever else they gave away.
Species of cigarettes.
Yeah, exactly.
Fire you if you don't get it.
And we'll fire you.
Yeah, yeah.
Incentives.
Incentives.
Lockdowns.
Incentives.
And all the protections were there to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated.
Oh, my gosh.
I wish we had our Canadian doctor sketch ready to go.
We didn't talk about, I don't know if we're going to talk about it here, but Fauci.
Maybe it will be.
Fauci did the same thing, didn't he?
Yeah, we don't talk about it.
He said he never locked anything like that.
No, I never locked him.
Talking about lockdowns?
Lockdowns?
What lockdowns?
Oh, my gosh.
I hadn't heard about this with Trudeau, though.
He just went so hard.
This government froze the bank accounts of the people involved with the trucker convoy who are protesting the lockdowns and vax mandates.
Incentives.
Yeah.
Said they, meaning the anti-vactors, don't believe in science and progress and are very often misogynistic and racist.
This was two years ago.
Yeah, yeah.
But that, yeah, these are the things that he said prior to this current claim that he didn't force anyone to get the vaccine.
What is he saying in this next part?
It's a very small group of people, but that doesn't shy away from the fact that they take up some space.
This leads us as a leader and as a country to make a choice.
Do we tolerate these people?
What kind of a question is that?
And what is the alternative to tolerating people who disagree?
As a country to make a choice.
I really wish.
Okay, we just filmed a sketch about tolerate these people, eh?
Canadian doctors.
Well, it's not exactly the same concept, but how they just keep prescribing euthanasia for everything.
I wish we had that ready.
Maybe it will be ready by the time this goes out.
Maybe not.
Keep an eye out for it, though, on the Babylon Bee YouTube channel.
Now that you know what it is and how it ends.
And all of the punchlines.
I'm sorry.
Just we can edit that all out.
I'm sorry.
In positive news, Don Lemon got fired.
Are you learning about all this news as we sit?
She's like, what?
You're like a stand-in for the audience.
Like what they're going to be saying.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Oh, I'm the liaison.
I've heard about a few of these things.
I just try.
They moved him.
He lost his show and they moved him on like their morning, Good Morning America style show or whatever they did.
Where he could insult the natives.
He said that women are past their prime.
He got into an argument with Vivek Rama Swami.
I'm sure I said that great.
Over whether the Civil War and civil rights movement actually gave equal rights to black people and gun rights.
And his co-host, Papi, just started staring at her phone as Lemon ripped into Vivek saying, you're telling of history is wrong.
And I think it's insulting that you're sitting here, whatever ethnicity you are, what it's like to be black in America.
That's a great picture.
It's quite interesting that he got so embarrassed to be there with him.
Because I think I saw something recently comparing Don Lemon maybe 10 years ago and how kind of normal and centrist he kind of seemed.
He wasn't terrible during his first season there.
So do you think that that was like a personal, you know, growth or whatever?
Or do you think that was something that was encouraged by the network?
Because it seems like I don't think the network encouraged it.
I think he became more extreme.
Yeah.
It's hard.
Maybe he just got a big head and it's just like, my opinion is right.
It's how cable news media is.
Like you're trying to throw the red meat out there and then you get the big views for the big controversial video or whatever.
And he just kind of fucks up.
Yeah, I think there's a thing where, you know, I'm sure all news personalities and TV personalities go through this where when you're first hired, the network kind of has power over you.
Then as you grow an audience, you think more and more, oh, I can say what I want.
The network's not going to fire me.
It's like I have this platform to use as my mouthpiece.
Yeah.
Yikes.
So in Disney news.
Disney is now suing Governor Ron DeSantis and others after a panel of his allies voted to nullify Disney's control over expansion at its Florida Resort, claiming a targeted campaign of government retaliation.
All right.
So Disney's suing DeSantis.
They also made a bunch of cuts in a second round of layoffs, including Nate Silver.
Disney announced in February that they would be laying off 7,000 jobs due to cash flow issues.
So I know a couple people who work for Disney Corporation, and from what I've experienced, just like in knowing them, they've gotten fired or laid off and then they'll get rehired and they'll get fired again.
They're just like being kind of jerked around by this corporation.
And I find it quite interesting that they keep going back because that's got to be kind of, I don't know, traumatizing to be in a volatile employment.
Yeah, so it sounds like a lot of these gems are coming out of ABC and ESPN, 538.
Yeah, so it's like the news brand, maybe, not the, maybe not necessarily the parks or the entertainment divisions.
Interesting.
So it's not because of the gay stuff.
Well, I don't know where all those are coming from, but from this, it sounds like a lot of those are from the news sections of the business.
So.
Can't wait for the Little Mermaid, though.
By the way, I did see the trailer for it, and I'm sure there's like the consent and the Kiss the Girl songs.
I heard about a couple things, but the trailer looked pretty good, and it looks like they're trying to do like a frame-by-frame in some parts, like the famous clips from the old one.
It looked like they're trying to reimagine that in the live-action version.
I thought it was terrible.
And my opinion on Disney live-action remakes is they either do the shot-for-shot remake thing, in which case I'm like, why don't I just watch the original?
Right.
Or they add a bunch of different songs and new stuff, and then it just feels like bad fan fiction.
So it's like, they can't win with it.
Yeah.
I don't understand.
I'm of the mind, as I am with most Hollywood remakes, if it was a good movie back then, it's still a good movie.
Just let it go.
You don't have to remake it, whether it's animated or live.
Let it be.
The best thing to remake are the ones that had a lot of potential, but weren't executed that well.
Yeah.
You know, something that was really cheesy or they didn't have the special effects at the time, but now it's like Spider-Man for the 10th time this decade.
We're going to do another Spider-Man.
It's really remakes.
Yeah, but like Little Mermaid was beautifully animated originally.
And this new one just looks so murky.
I'm on channel side.
Those are remakes.
We don't need any more Spider-Man movies.
It's the same story every time.
Every two years, it's here's Spider-Man's origin story.
No, no, no ideas are coming out.
And I just heard they're doing a Good Burger sequel now.
And I just find it interesting that...
I'm curious about that.
I'm curious about it too.
I just think that in general, I'm not critical of that necessarily.
I just think in general, we're kind of lacking new ideas in the entertainment department of our culture.
Did you see the render of Flounder?
No.
Looks horrible.
Is it like a real flounder with two eyes on the same side of its head?
No, they're on different sides.
Oh, I want it to be an adult flounder, like a flatfish with the two eyes on the side.
Is that how they actually are?
I think when they're, if I'm not mistaken, when a flounder is young, I think it has the eyes on a different side of its head.
But then I think when it matures, aren't they the flatfish?
Are those like sunfish?
I don't know what it is.
I'm forgetting the name of the actress that's playing the new Ariel, but she sounded really good in the trailer.
I was like, oh, okay, like the singing sounds.
Fair to be terrified.
Ah!
It's just like very, very uncanny valley.
That is the actual.
That's the one from the movie.
Oh, that doesn't look good.
Yeah.
I don't like that.
I'm not.
You gotta make sure you take a screenshot and send that to Dan so he knows how to look over.
It lays flat on the bottom.
I wish they did that.
And its eyes, they're kind of like crooked on the side of its head.
Yeah, I didn't see the new Aladdin, so that probably was.
I've watched very few of them.
I watched, I saw the Jungle Book one.
I'm trying to think if I've watched any of the other live actions.
Yeah, I didn't see the Lion Cat.
I haven't seen any of the live actions, but I will say, like, the trailer kind of excited me a little bit because I saw like, oh, they're doing like a frame-by-frame thing.
And I'm forgetting, her name is Bailey or something, Chloe Bailey.
Hail Bailey or something?
Something like that.
Yeah, she sounded really good singing.
So I was like, okay, maybe this isn't going to be totally terrible.
I'm still willing to see it, but yeah, I just think that we've run out of ideas, you know?
No one's willing to take a risk anymore.
She doesn't have red hair.
It's very sad.
She does not?
I mean, they kind of put a red tint on it, but it's not like that.
Yeah.
The only way I approve of remaking the old Disney animated movies is at the Disney Animation Studio at Disneyland.
There's a little booth where you and your friends can re-record the voiceovers.
Oh, that's cool.
So they give you lines and then you can record it and play it back, but you don't have to use the real lines.
You can make the characters curse at each other.
That's all sorts of stuff.
That's so much fun.
They give you the video and everything.
It just plays it back live there.
So as long as the employees don't come over and stop, you can make the characters.
It's so funny.
It's like a mystery science theater.
That's kind of fun.
Wait, is that in the animation studio part of Disneyland?
I think it might be in California Adventure.
Okay, that's awesome.
Oh, yeah.
I've been over to that section, but I've never done that.
Hey, let's check in on San Francisco.
Let's check in on San Francisco.
A San Francisco Target has put its entire inventory on lockdown amid shoplifting crisis.
How do you even shop?
You need somebody to escort you.
Maybe there's more and more even in LA.
I know.
They don't have the whole store on lockdown like this, but when I was at the moment, when I was at the Rite Aid that I used to go to near my apartment in Studio City, they lock up.
Yeah, the toothpaste.
I just go in there and it's like you have to call an employee to unlock the case to get out just simple stuff because there's people stealing all the time.
Yeah, I've seen like makeup and electronics, but other than that, I've never seen it.
It just keeps incentivizing us to order everything online.
And I don't necessarily, I do outsource a lot of things like that, but I don't want to completely lose my touch with the physical world.
And this just isn't a fun shopping experience.
And what's weird is, I've seen the homeless people in my neighborhood.
Doesn't look like they've been stealing toothpaste.
Badum Tish.
Speaking of Badum Tish, it's time for weekly news with Adam Jenser.
It's time for the weekly news with Adam Jenser.
Ed Sheeran is on trial this week for allegedly stealing the melody of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On in his hit song Thinking Out Loud.
Sheeran is also accused of stealing his look from a Times Square Elmo impersonator.
Joe Biden officially announced that he is running for re-election in 2024.
His nurse replied, That's nice, Joe, and led him back to his room.
A 13-year-old boy in North Carolina got stuck inside a claw machine while trying to steal toys.
Police tried to free him, but then decided to go for the big Pikachu instead.
Budweiser announced that marketing VP Alyssa Heinerscheid, who was behind the company's partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, has gone the way of Dylan's hormones and been replaced.
Donald Trump made a surprise visit to a Florida pizza parlor and handed out slices to his supporters.
Here's a picture.
A judge ruled that Chicago must rehire and pay back city workers fired by Lori Lightfoot for not getting the COVID vaccine.
Lightfoot had insisted everyone get the vaccine, saying, I got it and look at me, I turned out fine.
Several dead mutilated cows have been found in Texas, sparking fears that aliens could be responsible, which is crazy and stupid.
There's obviously a perfectly logical explanation.
The chupacabra.
A moose wandered into a movie theater in Alaska and took a half-eaten McDonald's happy meal out of the trash before leaving, which begs the question: how did someone sneak a whole McDonald's happy meal into the theater?
This week, Fox News announced that they've decided to part ways with their ratings.
The network fired Tucker Carlson on Monday, the same day that CNN announced they fired Don Lemon.
Both unemployed hosts were later seen lying to strangers on the subway for change.
In a new Instagram video, Lizzo declared, I am the beauty standard.
Take a look at this clip.
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Good job.
All right, now we are going to try to guess what prompts Dan used in making this AI-generated art.
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Let's see what AI'S up to now right, so here we go.
All right, here's the first piece of art.
Pull this up on.
You know, watch this on youtube if you're not guess the prompt.
So we've got Trump.
AI generated huh whoa.
So we've got Trump and Pope Francis with sunglasses on.
So i'm I think it's create a poster for an action movie starring Donald Trump and Pope Francis.
Something.
Are we gonna get the the?
I think we each take, I think we each take a guess and then we see, are these the same?
Is this part of the same prompt?
They're, they're very similar, Trump guiding the Pope around.
Who's blind?
Maybe what's your guess?
Or maybe they're rap like rap.
Yeah yeah yeah, Trump and Pope, Francis about to drop the most fire album of 2023.
I think that's it word for word.
What is the prompt?
Dan Donald Trump and the Pope in a buddy cop movie.
That was pretty good.
That's one.
One point for Adam, all right yeah, all right nice okay, whoa Noah's Ark Claymation movie.
Well, that's Ken Ham.
Oh, I didn't know who that I was gonna guess.
What if David Letterman built an ark?
I'm gonna say imagine, i'm gonna say, a playset of Noah's Ark with a, with a Ken Ham action figure.
Oh, hold on wait, I think I have a different theory.
There's another hand there with three arms.
It's three arms for civil, but but the creatures are weird.
I think this might be.
What would it look like if Noah had saved the dinosaurs?
Oh, what?
What was your guess?
I uh, I said Noah's Ark Claymation okay movie, all right, that's wrong, but i'm okay.
What's the uh, what is the answer dan, imagine a Pixar movie screenshot of Ken Pen Ham on an arc with animals.
What's interesting is they do look like dinosaurs.
I thought you were going to.
Yeah.
But I wonder if the AI grabbed that because they actually did that thing on the dinosaur thing.
I said claymation, but that's kind of what I meant.
Like animated.
So I was kind of right.
I'll give you a half a point.
I'll take half a point because you were saying I was totally wrong.
I resent that.
You said Ken Ham.
I'll take a half a point.
I like if we can just give ourselves points.
Okay, so now we have this young man that's.
I think this is what if Tucker Carlson was a boy band singer.
Ooh, I think you're right.
Tucker Carlson as a boy singing the national anthem.
Yeah.
Young Tucker Carlson.
It looks like a combination of Tucker Carlson and Harry Styles.
Yeah, I think that I don't know if we can go all in on this one and split the point, but I think that that's about right.
Young Tucker Carlson singing top ballad.
Good answer.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
If Tucker Carlson released a contemporary Christian to you, man.
That's close.
You're really good at this, Adam.
Half point.
One third.
One third for all of the singing.
No, I said he was singing the national anthem.
Well, it's very patriotic background.
That doesn't look very Christian.
Whoa.
These are other ones they generated.
That's AI generated.
That's so funny because I don't even think that looks.
I think I see the hair as much like Tucker Carlson.
I don't know if I would have guessed.
Maybe the hair, yeah.
Okay.
Oh.
Guess the prompt.
This is Travis.
Travis.
It's definitely Travis.
With somebody, maybe?
Travis and Elon Musk.
You think that's Travis and Elon Musk?
I don't know if it's Elon, but Elon.
I'm going to say, what if Travis took over Rachel Maddow's show?
Travis.
Travis looks good here.
Travis looks good in real life.
I'm just saying here as well.
She's like, she's like, whoa.
Whoa, he looks good.
That's not how I said it.
I just said it.
I like it.
I'm going to say Travis.
Travis as a successful businessman, I guess.
I think it's Elon because look at the eyebrows.
Yeah, you're probably right.
All right, what's the.
I finally get one.
Yo.
Travis as the new host of Tucker Carlson tonight.
Which would make him a successful businessman.
I really.
Oh, wow.
I really thought I was going to.
Wow.
If we ever have an AI-generated show here, that's got to be the host right there.
I know him already.
I feel like I know what he would say instead.
Whoa.
Okay.
Cameron in Lord of the South.
Cameron and Lord of the Rings.
Yeah.
No.
Well, that's a thick cow.
Okay.
Sweet.
Yeah.
We'll split that.
Points all around.
Points all around.
Yeah, a third of a point.
Oh, my gosh.
Is that almost looks like Seth?
Seth.
And he's.
It looks like he's fighting Kung Fu Panda.
Seth, and he's got a sword there.
Seth painted in the Sistine Chapel in the style of Michelangelo.
Man fighting Panda is Michelangelo.
Hey, that's pretty good.
That's at least like two-thirds of a point.
Man fighting.
Did we say that it was Seth or did it just happen to look like?
I think they uploaded his picture and it generated the man.
Yeah.
So, yes.
That's the source image they used to generate that.
Yeah.
Good guess.
Wow.
Bill Cosby in a jello.
Oh.
But he's in the ocean.
Does it have to do with something about Bill Cosby promoting jellyfish or something like that?
Because he's in the ocean.
Combine Bill Cosby and Jellyfish.
Jellofish.
These look real.
What is that yellow stuff?
And I don't know if I want to know.
Oh, what if Bill Cosby spiked a drink with himself?
I don't even know what to guess for this one.
Because the one on The left?
The two on the left look real, and the ones on the right don't look like him.
But yeah, I guess I'll say Bill Cosby doing a ice plunge in a tub of jello in the ocean.
What do we got?
Bill Cosby swimming in a giant jello pudding.
What's interesting is why is it in the ocean?
Put it in the ocean.
That's weird.
That is funny.
Giant jello pudding.
Like, that was unnecessary.
It's strange that they put it in the ocean.
Oh, it's Larry David.
Larry David.
John Piper.
Oh, okay.
Larry David and John Piper mashed together.
Nice.
John Piper stars.
Well done.
That's a full point for you.
Okay.
Oof.
Joe Biden as a Sith Lord.
Yeah, I forget the guy's name that has the giant head, but whatever his name is.
Joe Biden Emperor.
Oh, yeah.
See, he doesn't look like he looks like that guy that has the giant forehead.
Coyote Mundy, but he's a Jedi.
Oh, he's not a Sith.
Yeah.
Okay.
Shows how much I know.
Is this me?
That looks like.
Oh, is it US?
Kyle in the Lions?
Yeah.
Maybe.
Oh, and Narnia.
I mean, Narnia.
Kyle as a kid in Narnia.
Aww.
Well, that's kind of cute.
I like that.
It's kind of creepy that I look 12 with a full go.
I do like that art, though.
That's like kind of cool.
It's kind of weird, but it's also cool.
Yeah, it's nice.
I wish someone actually painted that, though.
Like, that's like, I think the part that's weird for me is I don't know if I would ever hang AI art in my house because it's like, well, wow, what's the story behind the art?
Well, I just clicked a button on the internet and there it is.
It's like kind of, I don't know, laxat.
You can grapple with what it means for AI and like to me make stuff like this.
It's like AI has outperformed humans at certain tasks for a long time.
Yeah.
Like just calculating math or beating us at checkers or beating us at chess.
You know, that doesn't take away from the fact that it's enjoyable to play chess or to paint a painting or to write a story.
That's valid.
I guess the meaning is a lightsaber.
Ron Paul shooting himself with a lightsaber when he sees how terrible the country is being run.
Oh, same.
This is the same prompt.
Ron Paul.
What does he have?
He's touching the blade.
That's not what you do with a lightsaber.
Discovering electricity through lightsaber.
It looks like fluorescent light.
Ron Paul using fluorescent light bulbs as a lightsaber.
LEDs, yeah.
Ron Paul lightsaber battle.
Okay.
I think the AI didn't quite.
Yeah.
It's cool, except the lightsaber's like way off.
Yeah, the AI doesn't seem to be very good at this prompt.
No.
Yeah, the AI doesn't understand the rules of the lightsaber.
They're not Star Wars fans.
AI definitely isn't a fan.
Huh.
What does that say?
These.
And we have a guy.
It's like in Dutch or something.
I don't know.
I can't recognize who that guy is if that's supposed to be a celebrity of some sort, so that's not helping.
But he's got a bunch of followers.
It looks kind of like Obi-Chinese Obi-Wan combined with somebody else.
Could be.
I don't know who that's supposed to be.
Yeah, I don't know.
A young Owen Wilson hitchhiking with a bunch of Jews.
Or Amish people.
How'd I do?
Imagine Adam.
What?
No.
I'm sorry.
They failed on this one.
See, I didn't even recognize myself.
No, I didn't either.
No, I would have recognized you.
That doesn't look like it.
You don't look very recognizable in that picture.
Maybe it was just a bad picture.
And maybe I got confused from the background or something.
That's what it did.
It grabbed his canceled news background and it made it like that was part of the.
So it's like if the canceled news was in the universe of Lord of the Rings.
Subscribe to the canceled news on my YouTube channel.
Elon Musk in the screen.
In the screen.
Yeah, definitely.
Wow.
He looks really thin there.
Wow.
Wow, this is quite amazing.
The lower right one looks the most, but he also has some like Robert Downey Jr. in that lower right one.
I think we should hang up that top right one in the studio.
Yeah, that one's cool.
Oh, a raccoon.
I'm going to say raccoon driving.
In a Kia commercial.
But what is that on there?
Cracker trying to get down or something.
I don't know.
Oh, a raccoon driving a car and a piece of matzo bread is trying to break in.
Nailed it.
Or they're training the raccoon to drive with the incentive of a cracker.
Okay.
Or matzah cracker.
What is the answer?
Imagine pancakes driving a car.
What?
So it didn't really do that.
Is pancakes a character that I'm a man?
Pancakes is the name of a raccoon?
Yeah.
But each one looks so different.
It tried a few different angles here.
That's so weird.
That one AI seems very confused.
That one doesn't know which direction you're supposed to hold the steering wheel.
Like the dog is sitting on the wrong side.
Wow.
Oh, boy.
So this is Chandler.
Yeah, that's a really, that's so weird.
I haven't.
A lot of my friends have done the AI-generated art of us, and I haven't done it because I just like.
Are you mixed with something?
I don't know.
Maybe.
Chandler playing Azure, Neil, and Ninja Turtles.
Chandler as a Jew.
Am I supposed to get it?
Juliet.
Jew.
J-E-W.
Juliet.
I do look mixed with somebody else.
I don't think that looks like me.
I can't think of who that is.
The eyes are Hazel, and it honestly kind of looks like my sister.
Chandler and her sister.
Chandler in the animated Super Mario Brothers movie.
Wow, I look very Italian in that animation.
I can kind of see that.
That makes me so happy.
Send me that picture, Dan.
That is like, that makes me happy.
Oh, this is definitely Jarrett.
Right?
Yeah.
Jacked Jarrett as triplets.
Jacked Jarrett triplets.
I'm going to say if Jarrett was triplets and they hosted an Andrew Tate style podcast.
All right, what's the answer?
Jared in a bodybuilder competition gets two of themselves.
Yeah, why are there?
Wow.
I also think that's a weird thing.
That's a weird picture.
Yeah, that doesn't look like him.
That looks AI generated.
Yeah, he looks different than that.
I don't know where Dan's finding these pictures.
Maybe on Facebook.
Hmm.
So this is a skeleton.
One arm is digging something out.
Wow, this one looks a little bit more.
What is that artistic?
It looks like a newspaper or a can or something.
Something rolled up there, maybe?
A skeleton digging his own grave by reading the news.
In the style of something?
Yeah, in the style of Garfield.
I don't think Jim Davis draws like that.
Yeah, I'm not quite sure.
What's the answer?
I don't know what this one is.
The Devil Burying the Dinosaur Bones.
Interesting.
Okay.
I like the prompt, but I wish it's not a good idea.
I don't see any dinosaur bones in this.
And that doesn't look like the devil.
Fail.
You failed, robot.
They do a really good Trump, I have to say.
They must have a lot of images to fall from.
What is he playing?
What game is that?
Is that some Star Wars?
Is that D ⁇ D?
Don't you get, you would know, Kyle.
You're like the game master.
Oh, it could be DD.
That's not how DD looks like, but I could see it getting confused and thinking that's DD.
Is that something from Game of Thrones?
Yeah, don't they have all those games in university?
What's the new Game of Thrones one?
I forget what it is.
The Witcher or No, the prequel series.
I forget what it's called.
The Dragon something.
Yeah.
House of Dragon, House of the Dragon.
Oh, go ahead.
Oh, Trump playing DD, I think, is the second that.
Yeah, see, I nailed that and I don't even know what DD is.
And you threw me off because it's definitely not DD.
Oh, really?
Okay, so we have a red scot of some kind.
Kool-Aid Man.
Uh-huh.
IRL.
Yeah.
But there's some kind of emergency.
Like he just set a fire or something.
Kool-Aid Man after he like busted through a wall or something.
IRL.
Like this is a mascot of fire.
I don't like the way he looks.
This is a fireman.
This was the same prompt.
Oh, is this Elmo?
What?
Is it like Elmo setting fire to a house?
It looks like he's farting in both of them, though.
I didn't get that from the first one.
There's like a smoky haze behind him.
Maybe Elmo.
I'm going to say Elmo setting fire to house.
Setting fire to buildings.
The first one, wow, we had totally something different, but all right.
All right.
What is the answer?
Imagine Kool-Aid Man saving gears.
It does not look like he's saving anything.
The second one totally looks like Elmo.
AI clearly doesn't know who the Kool-Aid is.
It's very strange.
See, we can't be replaced, guys.
Jim Jones.
Yeah.
Don Lemon serving drinks to Starbucks.
Starbucks.
Get his new job.
Don Lemon is Starbucks.
Well done.
Well done.
Goodness, you guys did a lot of money.
Don't girls.
Don't girls playing DD.
Playing DD.
DD.
Playing another one of your games, Kyle.
I mean, it could be DD.
It's probably a game that you and Dan have played together.
Magic the Gathering, maybe?
Oh, it was DD, yeah.
All right.
That's definitely not DD, though.
Pancakes writes a memoir while wearing a hat.
Definitely pancakes.
A raccoon detective.
Raccoon private investigator.
A raccoon reporter.
Raccoon doing tax tags.
I like that he wore a hat to do his taxes.
All right, it's time.
Got to put on my tax mask to do my raccoon.
I find him so.
Oh, my gosh.
This is fantastic.
Donald Trump Pikachu.
That's so disturbing, but also.
Yeah, because Pikachu always looks happy, but he looks so angry here.
Not the Pikachu I know.
Oh, is that Pokemon?
Oh, yeah.
They picked the most famous one.
Yeah, I clearly went with Pikachu.
No clue.
Is that somebody that we know?
Is that Dan?
Dan as a royal enemy.
King.
King.
Somebody as like a Game of Thrones king or something.
I'm just going to say King.
Solomon.
King David in a Call of Duty game.
It does have that style of a Call of Duty game.
So is this Rand Paul as Dr. James?
I got a word for word.
Wow.
20 points.
That's good.
Colonel Sanders as a general.
What does that say on his own?
It's in Russian.
It is somebody, though.
Who's the diabetes guy?
Wilford Brimley.
Wilford Brimley as Colonel Sanders.
I feel like it's Bernie Sanders or Colonel Sanders as an actual colonel.
There's a politician who looks like that.
I'm trying to think of.
Wait, was Colonel Sanders actually a Colonel before he started making chicken?
Jim Jordan as Colonel Sanders.
Colonel Sanders.
Okay, so it wasn't.
Yes, Colonel Sanders.
It looks like some of the people.
I get at least real faces.
Colonel Sanders wins.
Colonel Sanders wins the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Oh, boy.
Dennis Pereger looking at porn.
Looking at what?
Why?
It only has one hand.
It's for your hiding his computer.
I guess it's a safer prompt than it's a prompt to get.
It probably wouldn't let you.
I bet Dan had to like.
Like if you typed in, he probably made the mistake once.
Yeah, and he's like, let's not do that one.
Let's not do that one.
Oh, who is that?
Is that Fauci?
Fauci in a dinosaur movie?
I don't know who that is.
But he looks familiar.
Yeah, it is.
He's got guns.
With a third leg.
So I think the AI screws up sometimes and duplicates limbs.
Fauci in a dinosaur video game fights a dinosaur with three legs.
I'm going to say Nicholas Cage in a night at the Creation Museum.
C.S. Lewis, a main character in a PlayStation game, Dino Crisis, cinematic angle, polygon graphics, shooting a dinosaur.
That was my second guess.
That was going to be my next one.
Why are there three legs, though?
And Dan, you throw me off when you circle the third leg.
Like you're supposed to guess.
No, I think he's just pointing out that the AI screws up.
I see.
I like that bird.
That's like a really cool bird.
Oh.
So this is a Veggie Tales like a gritty Veggie Tales reboot or Veggie Tales when they hear about the Veggie with eyebrows.
What is the answer?
Oh, wow.
Imagine a Veggie Tales episode of Posing Women Pastors.
How would we ever test that?
Those faces are so interesting.
All right.
So we did pretty good.
We all got 400 points.
Yeah.
So well done.
All won.
All right.
Now to do something a little funnier after that very serious segment, we're going to talk with Bethany Mandel and Carol Markowitz on their new book, Stolen Youth, with Adam and Emma.
So they were great.
Here we go.
And now it's time for another interview on the Babylon Bee Podcast.
We're here with the co-authors of Stolen Youth.
We have Bethany and Carol.
How are you all doing?
Good.
Good.
Thank God.
Can't complain.
Nice.
So tell us about this book that you have out.
Sure.
So it is sort of a deep dive into all of the different ways that sort of liberalism, progressivism, wokeness, whatever you want to call it, is impacting children's lives.
We sort of hit at it from a lot of different angles, from medical angle, from schools, you name it, sort of you, everywhere you turn, there is a very concerted effort to indoctrinate children.
And we wanted to, we set out to expose that.
Our book is a story of what happens when all the Babylon Bee headlines come true.
And they seem to be coming true by the day.
Yes, exactly.
They are.
I think it's actually a little creepy.
An article came out that 100 of our Babylon Bee articles have come true.
Yeah.
Our prophecies are.
I'm surprised it's that low.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's probably more than that.
And Carol, you are from the Soviet Union.
Was it nice there?
It was so nice.
We like didn't want to leave, but, you know.
The weather of Southern California or of Southern Florida rather really lured you away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I was born there.
I came to New York as a small child.
But, you know, I get, I live in South Florida now and I get asked a lot, like, why I love the heat so much.
And clearly because I've been from cold places and I'm ready to embrace like living in a t-shirt.
So it's been good.
Where in the Soviet Union were you born and do you have any memories of that era?
I don't have memories.
I came when I was a little under two.
My first memories, we had to go to Italy on the way to the U.S.
It used to be sort of this thing in immigration where you weren't allowed to just hop a flight to wherever you wanted or cross a border.
You had to actually like apply.
And so we had to, Italy was the staging ground for Soviets who were fleeing and having a refugee status.
So we stopped in Italy.
first memories are of Italy basically but I was born in central Russia and these days I always add my father's from Ukraine.
Oh yeah.
You know, I've met a lot of Russian Ukrainian people in LA, even in the comedy industry.
There's a few comics I know.
It's very common.
That's what's so, I don't know, just tragic and difficult about this current situation.
It seems like a lot of families are split between tragedy breeds comedy, I feel like.
Yeah, that's true.
But yeah, absolutely.
I think, I mean, I grew up in Brooklyn and like the ex-Soviet Jewish community there.
And I mean, everybody was a mix of these places.
How did you get out?
Did your family have?
My cousin is from Russia.
And when they left Russia, they had to bribe their way out.
Did your family have to pull some strings to leave?
No.
Well, no.
There was a moment in the late 70s, early 80s where Jews were allowed to leave because of religious persecution.
I always say Gerald Ford is my favorite president because I only got to be an American because he did this one thing where he pressured the Soviet Union to let the Jews out.
And so when you meet people from Russia or Ukraine or Moldova or, you know, any ex-Soviet republic, and if they came here in the late 70s or 80s, even into the 90s, maybe, chances are they're going to be Jewish.
So it does sort of skew the, you know, the opinion of people have of Russians or Ukrainians because they're actually just meeting Jews.
When I was a kid, I thought most Russians were Jews because that's what I knew.
Now, do you think Gerald Ford, do you know, did he watch 21 Jump Street first?
And that's what made him like the Jews?
Because that's how Kanye, that's how Kanye said.
Kanye said now that he watched Jonah Hill and 21 Jump Street, he likes Jews again.
So yeah, I appreciate that.
You didn't hear that.
No, that was his Kanye back.
That was his official statement on his Instagram page this week.
I cannot believe I didn't get that from my husband who voted for Kanye.
Oh, man.
I'm usually, that's usually my Kanye pipeline.
Well, yeah, you got to check it out.
He's back on Teen Jewish People after seeing 21 Jump Street.
Thank God.
Thank God.
It was either that or a blintz.
So I'm glad it worked out.
Blinzes are not really that.
Hey, I love blinces.
Now, we talked a little bit about your book.
So it's called Stolen Youth.
What exactly is being stolen?
It's the innocence of children.
They don't get to have the childhood where they're not having political ideology pushed to them.
When we lived in Brooklyn, it was standard for schools to organize protests involving the children.
They protested climate change.
They protested guns.
There was one protest that was just like a vague, you know, we protest against hate.
Obviously, that was right after Donald Trump's election.
Everybody knew what they were trying to say.
And kids are forced into this activism and they're young and they don't know what they're saying and they go along with it.
But in other ways, too, I think that the early sexualization of children, so much that is going on right now is really robbing kids of their innocence and of their youth.
And that was important for us to document.
And do you see the solution to this being more, you should homeschool your kids?
Is there policies that we can push to change what's going on in public schools?
What's the sort of solution to this issue?
Funny you should mention that.
Go ahead, Bethany.
Yeah.
So we take very different sort of perspectives on this.
And in our conclusion chapter, which our editor made us put in at the last minute, they were like, tell people what to do.
And we're like, we don't want to tell people what to do.
That's their lives.
But they made us.
And so then we did it.
So in the last chapter, in the sort of prescriptive chapter, we made different arguments.
I have six kids and I homeschool.
They're currently getting their screen time in my basement along with another homeschool girl in the neighborhood.
And that's what we do.
My kids, I always joke that my kids' favorite actor is Robin Williams, and their favorite movie is either Jumanji or Mrs. Doubtfire.
And we don't really participate in culture.
And so it was actually really hard when I was writing the media chapter because I was like, I don't, I've heard of this show, Paw Patrol.
I don't really know anything about it.
So I'm really sort of tapped out of this cultural moment as far as kids go, very intentionally.
And that's what I argue parents should be as well, very sort of attached.
But Carol takes a different perspective.
So you kept your kids out of drag queen story hours so that they could watch Mrs. Doubtfire.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's really funny.
I always joke that Mrs. Doubtfire would never be made now.
Because it's a comedy about that, about cross-class.
Yes, no, it's exactly.
This is the problem with how all of this ideology infects literature and media.
You, nothing is entertaining anymore.
If you look at old episodes of Seinfeld, Friends, Mrs. Doubtfire, the birdcage, also speaking of great cinema from the Robin Williams era, none of that would be made the way that it was then.
Because if you, I, I'm sort of arguing with my husband about if I can show my children a birdcage, I think it's totally fine and totally appropriate, but it would be so obnoxiously preachy now in a way that it wasn't then.
It was just like wholesome about, you know, this gay bar in Miami.
Yeah.
Well, and to your point, what you just said, what I love about that is this is how it should be.
You said you and your husband are deciding what's appropriate for your kids.
Even if you disagree, it's between the parents and you decide what your kids see.
And that's what's one of the biggest problems.
And then obviously I will win.
The schools.
But the schools are trying to push kids should be exposed to this.
Kids should learn this.
Kids should have access to this, regardless of what their parents and legal guardians believe.
It's a school trip that they don't even tell parents about to go see a drag show.
I mean, why, why would that even happen?
If you want to mess up your kids and take them to a drag show, I mean, I don't think you should have the parental right to do that.
And Tennessee would say otherwise.
But, okay, that's a weird decision that you made.
But when schools do it and they don't even tell you about it, I was reading through your book and there were situations that I haven't even heard about, like the trans chaperons for the whole thing.
I was so, that's so scary.
There's I haven't read the book yet.
Yeah, I don't know about this.
Well, I'll let you tell it.
Do you want to tell Adam and our listeners about a situation they should know about?
Yeah.
So this is, this is part of the reason we wrote the book because a lot of people are not aware of this.
And, you know, when our, when our editor kept on saying, like, we need prescriptions, we need answers.
We're like, okay, but knowing is really a lot of it.
And people are not aware of a lot of this.
And so I spoke to a mother based out of California and she sent her daughter to a summer camp setting.
It was via the school over a weekend, but it was in a summer camp.
And the girl came home and said, I was scared to fall asleep because there was a counselor in my bunk who slept in my bunk who had facial hair and went by the name Nick.
I don't know if it was a man or a woman and I felt scared and I felt scared to even say anything.
And this, when the mother, there's like a lot of other backstory as to why this girl was made to be afraid.
And it's, you know, because we've decided to prioritize the feelings of adults over the safety of children.
Absolutely.
But the mother confronted the school because she had previously asked exactly this, what is the sort of gender policy for sleeping arrangements?
And the school kind of gave her this legal gobbledy that she didn't understand, but they said it in a very reassuring way.
And the reality was she was gaslit.
They said, you know, don't worry.
We only group people by their gender ideology, their gender identity.
And she was like, I don't know what gender identity is, whatever.
Fine.
Just like, okay, great, done.
And she, then she looked it up.
She's like, oh, someone can just say they feel like a girl and then they get to sleep in a bunk with my preteen daughter.
Yes.
And in California, that is the law of the land.
And a lot of other states do.
Before people send their children to summer camp, probably.
Look, it's infuriating.
And I had not heard that story.
It is crazy how far this stuff is going.
Yeah.
No, this summer is going to be a Rubicon cross moment.
I've been saying it all year.
I am familiar with a lot of camps who are allowing counselors and campers to be in a bunk according to gender identity.
And there's no way that goes wrong.
Yeah.
And I don't want to like, you know, we shouldn't wait for something horrible to happen before we ban that or change that policy.
Just offend the person.
It's common sense that this should not be allowed.
Who cares?
Who cares about your feelings when it comes to safety of children?
It's like if your kids are in public school, they can't play sports.
They can't go to camp.
They can't go to any field trip.
There's just.
I saw there was testimony this week.
Of course, the mainstream outlet didn't cover it, but of one of Leah Thomas's, what would you call it, teammates from UPenn, just talking about the trauma of having to compete against this biological male and then having to be in the locker rooms with a naked male without being warned, without agreeing to that?
It's insane that this stuff has gone as far as it has.
Yep.
We used to think that women's spaces were necessary and important, you know, specifically for these reasons.
And yet the safety of women no longer matters because I believe all women.
Yeah, there's a new hot topic.
There's a new hot, you know, identity group and women are out.
And that's just the case.
And to Bethany's point, it's insane to me also that they are, like you said, prioritizing the emotional level and the discomfort of adult men over women and children.
They're saying, oh, well, this guy who thinks he's a girl, that's what we have to pander to in our society now.
You know, we were talking about drag queen story hour.
When's the last time you saw the drag queen read a book to anybody, right?
That's completely no longer the case.
It's now like drag queen stripper hour.
And that's, we just moved on to that without anybody even talking about it.
It's, it's okay, you know, I thought drag queen story hour made no sense to begin with, but that is gone.
That's like they completely moved past that and moved into drag shows for kids.
And they keep pushing this envelope.
And this is where we end up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
And then they do it with drag queens because no one would ever bring their child to stripper story hour.
And so if you dare object to any sexualized content, they make it so that they've framed it in a way that you're a bigot if you oppose it.
But I'm not okay with stripper story hour either.
But I mean, yeah, they're trying to push a lot of sexualized content on kids.
I sort of did a little bit of a dive into the minor attracted persons phenomenon in our book.
In my opinion, I probably didn't dive deeply enough.
That's going to be a situation moving forward.
But there's also.
And for people who don't know, that's where they're trying to portray pedophilia as a sexual orientation, basically.
Yes.
And that's going to be more normalized.
We'll see that sort of phenomenon happen over the next couple of years.
But there's also children's books about sex workers.
In one week, I don't know like what sort of flare went out among librarians, but in one week, last spring when I was writing this chapter, so thank you.
It was very convenient, whoever sent that flare.
Three friends across the country, one in Denver, one in Baltimore, and I don't remember where the third one was, sent me a picture of a book called How Mamas Love Their Babies.
And it's a book by a sex worker about a sex worker parent who they're just trying to normalize.
You know, different mamas do different things to work and to provide for their children.
And some of them are strippers.
What's the age like target for this book?
Coddler.
Yeah.
It's in the, it was displayed in the children's section in a Baltimore library and a Denver library.
Is this just like libraries trying not to go under?
So they're going crazy.
I mean, one of the things that I've been trying to do with the release of our book is encourage everyone to request it at their local libraries.
And we, there's like six copies in Michigan, in like a really blue enclave in Michigan, and three copies in Portland, Oregon.
But I mean, this, this ideology has completely taken over libraries and library profession in every way, shape, and form.
And you're seeing that with Drag Queen Story Hour.
Yeah.
But it's interesting that you say, you know, is this a way for libraries to stop from failing?
During the pandemic, Bethany trended on Twitter as grandma killer because she mentioned that if we don't get people back in places like libraries, they're going to fail.
And apparently, you know, you're not allowed to say that.
And so a major part of our book is the forced conformity of wokeism and the way that you're not allowed to say certain things.
She was right.
She was 100% right.
But Twitter, you know, had a field day going after her for daring to say that things like libraries will be in a state of collapse if we don't get out of our houses and get back to living.
Now, you brought up wokeism.
We do have to ask about this.
Bethany, you had a moment that went viral for a bad reason.
That's very true.
Yes.
And I was having like flashbacks just now when you said that.
So was it CNN or MSNBC?
No, it was nothing.
It was the Hill Rising.
Okay.
So they aired it, though, on all these other media offices.
They didn't have a chance to talk about the book or anything.
So you struggled to define our sales run up anyway.
So I've heard this criticism from the left before that the right uses this term woke, but can't define what it is.
And at this moment, you kind of struggled to define the word woke, but do you have a definition of it?
How do you define woke when we're criticizing that ideology?
So, I mean, it's a good question and one that I've spent a lot of time thinking about since I went viral for that, which obviously I did on purpose in order to bolster our book sales.
Oh, no publicity is bad publicity.
You're welcome, Carol.
I took that bullet for the team, obviously.
I mean, it's sort of, you know, Ed Meese became famous with his sort of definition of pornography.
You know it when you see it.
But it's this forced conformity and this idea.
And if you, by the way, if you rewatch that video, I do eventually spurt out a hundred percent.
I agree with you.
I watched it and you stumbled a little bit at the beginning as you're as you're thinking about it.
But I watched it.
She has a newborn.
And I thought, and I thought she does, she does define it in the clip.
Yes.
Yeah.
Anybody who's ever had a newborn knows your brain is mush.
Like the fact that she's doing any of this is and it's not her first newborn, it's her sixth.
So you know, yeah.
And a sleepwalking three-year-old who really was to blame for that.
But anyway, forced conformity and this idea that our entire society, our country, all of Western civilization is built on racism.
Yes.
And we have to break down every building block of our society and rebuild it in a way that is more equal and more equitable.
And we're all inherently racist and we're all inherently sexist and transphobic and every building block, family, basic biology, what is a man, what is a woman.
I mean, not what is a man.
I'm sorry.
There's no confusion about that definition.
It's really just what is a woman.
We're the only ones that were really unsure.
All of that is up for grabs.
And that is the basic definition of wokeism.
And what's been really frustrating about this, outside of like, you know, going viral for having a brain fart is that the sort of left has decided that I made up the word wokeness and like reappropriated it all by myself.
Like I'm that powerful.
Like I have totally taken that word and started using it for the first time.
This is a word that everyone uses very like this is a word.
So this is a phenomenon.
I looked up the definition of woke and it's actually to cause to emerge from the state of sleep or to stop sleeping.
It's past tense.
What I've actually thought about this a lot even before that moment with you that went viral because I have heard this criticism that the right can't define woke.
And so the origins of woke in the modern sense are that in the black community, they used to say stay woke as a way to stay aware of perceived injustices that were being performed in the government.
Yeah.
But then the word chapter on it.
Exactly.
But then I think where before the right started criticizing it, I think what the left did, and I haven't read your book, so I don't know how much of this you get into.
But the way I would define woke almost is that it's this ideology that seeks to find victim power dynamics in all aspects, in all aspects of society, and then designate one group perpetual victims and another group perpetual oppressors.
I think that you are plagiarizing really.
We cover all of this.
We talk about how they have to find new victims all the time.
They constantly need to be moving and finding new targets to cancel, to berate for not being woke enough.
And a lot of that is language-based.
It's funny that, like, oh, we don't know what woke is, whatever could it mean.
And part of that is really language-orientated, where words that you used five minutes ago are no longer allowed.
You know, we talk about this in the book, but colored persons, obviously not allowed.
So you move to person of color.
What's the difference there, really?
You know, it's literally, and again, we talk, we trace this in the book, but it's about making sure that we know who's in the in-group and who's not.
And the funny thing is, now a person of color is on its way out.
I watch, you know, Instagram videos and I see the young people are saying, I don't like this anymore.
And I bet you we're really close to no longer being allowed to use person of color.
And if you use it, you're a bigot, even though it's completely okay today.
So what is what is the new?
What's the new thing?
We're going to have to wait and see.
You know, they're going to make a story.
Yeah, we can focus group it right here.
They can go to a person experiencing color.
And what's really funny about the anger and the frustration on the part of the black community.
Y'all should really talk to white, rich progressives because they're the ones who appropriated this whole thing.
The worst people on the planet are rich white women.
There you have it.
Well, that's a great place to end.
That'll be our soundbite.
So is that what you want people to get after reading your book?
Is that they should hate rich white women?
What if you become a rich white woman after buying your book?
Will you become rich, white progressive women?
Progressive women.
Okay.
Also conservatives.
I mean, we're all just terrible.
We're all looking for problems that don't exist.
And that's a lot of this too.
Yeah.
We're looking for problems that don't exist.
We're looking for places to be offended where it doesn't exist.
And it was funny, like going viral for that stupid brain fart moment because people were so angry.
And I'm like, what did I actually do?
Did I harm you in any way?
Like, can we storyboard this a little bit?
Why are you so angry?
I think in the port, what you said when I watched that clip, you did define woke.
You did not fail to define woke there.
Yeah.
I know I eventually got there.
I was very tired that day.
Well, thank you both so much for being here.
Everyone, be sure to check out the book.
And like they said, make sure you ask your libraries to stock and carry this book so that everyone can have access to it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for having us.
And speaking of being an obnoxious white woman with problems that don't exist, also complain about the books that you don't like in the library.
Be a Karen.
Pick that from Bethany Mandel.
Be a Karen.
Be a Karen.
Thank you.
And besides checking out the book, is there any other place that people can follow you?
Do you have a website or social media or anything like that?
Twitter, I'm just at my first name, K-A-R-O-L.
Cool.
Bethany Schondark on all of the platforms.
Sorry, my one-year-old is BBC dabbing me right now.
Well, we'll let you get back to your kids.
Thank you so much for being here.
This is awesome.
We hope everybody checks out.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right.
Well, thank you, Adam and Emma.
Be sure to check out their book.
Yep.
And thank you, Carol and Bethany.
Now it's time for hate mail.
You used to be good.
Adam Ford.
Adam Ford.
I really miss Adam Ford.
All right.
So we wrote this article.
Fox News Defamation Trial Over as jury votes in favor of Dominion 138,000 to 1.
That's funny.
I like that one.
And then we have a reply from magnificent Jack who says, why the is this unfunny boomer on my timeline?
Get off the phone, grandpa.
In response to Transition Me Elmo article on Twitter, someone called Death Rabbit says, The onion is better.
Flowerbed.
You.
Smiley face.
Peter also responded to that one.
You guys are so bad at this, that's the only funny thing about your site.
That we're bad enough.
That we're bad?
Cool.
At least we got something.
All right.
So we had the Chicago mayor warns that if local Walmart locations close, people won't have anywhere to loot.
And this person whose name is the F-word says, shut up, suburbs.
I like that they just made their name.
The F-word.
Here's an article.
Fetterman filibusters Senate for seven hours while attempting to say hello.
That's a good idea.
That's neat.
And Cozy Nomi said, Wow, what a big person you are because you're making fun of somebody who had a stroke and also the disabled community.
How about you, you piece of all of you are the same elementary school bullies who never grew up.
I don't love making fun of veterans.
I know.
I feel really, I just, when I, like, when I see him and Joe Biden, I feel bad for him.
It's like, I feel that, like, you know, when you see like a really old guy struggling to walk across the street and they like gets a pit in your stomach?
That's how I feel looking at Joe Biden in the sky.
I'm just like, dude, why is this person in this position?
And there's an answer to that.
Apparently, his wife is like putting him up to it, right?
She thinks she's controlling it.
So, so weird.
Well, I was an elementary school bully who never grew up, so I think this is hilarious.
No, I did, you know, making fun of the stroke thing.
Yeah, not a huge fan of, but it is bizarre that they put him up to it.
Yeah, this one makes it weird.
Why do they keep it?
We did an article, Disney World forced to close after DeSantis built elementary school within a thousand feet.
And Chad Rapinsky says, everything I don't like is pedophile.
Boomers.
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