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Jan. 15, 2024 - Babylon Bee
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Hoping 2024 Is Not Mid

It's 2024 and we still don't have flying cars. The Pope called for a universal ban on surrogacy, there was a riot in a New York Jewish center over an illegal 50-foot tunnel, and the Peregrine mission to the moon is a failure (probably because the earth is flat and the rocket hit the firmament). There's also a Bible verse of the week and there's a birthday at the Bee! Become a champion for freedom today and join with ADF to protect all our rights: http://joinadf.com/bee  

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The Babylon Bee Podcast.
Hey, everybody.
Welcome to the very first Babylon Bee podcast of 2024.
Happy New Year, everybody.
I'm Kyle Mann, the editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, and I am hanging out with Emma.
Hey, everybody.
Welcome to the podcast.
She's very excited to be here, as you can tell.
And we also have Brandon.
Hi.
I'm still Chinese.
And we have Travis.
Hi.
Welcome to the first ever episode of the Babylon Bee Podcast.
Ever.
We haven't seen you guys since last year.
Hey.
This is an all-star panel of your very favorite hosts, and we are going to take you into the new year with an absolute bang.
What have you guys been up to lately?
You know how we're going to take you into the new year with a bang?
By saying, what have you guys been up to lately and having everybody stare at me?
I was sick over the holidays.
That was fun.
I had a stomach flu.
My whole family pretty much threw up everywhere.
And our house got condemned.
So that was fun.
Because of the throw-up?
Because of the throw-up.
I was living the Oregon Trail.
For real.
With less grandfather clocks.
Are there grandfather clocks in the Oregon Trail?
Yeah, you can just load up your wagon with nothing but grandfather clocks.
Why would you want to do that?
You could.
That's not going to help you get to Oregon.
But if you.
But it's an option.
If you load up your wagon with grandfather clocks, you have no room for the bison meat, the hundreds of pounds of bison meat that you hunt in the fields.
Yeah.
And then you have to decide, like Indiana Jones, if you should let it go.
The grandfather clock or the bison meat?
I was picturing the grandfather clock like you're reaching for it down the crack.
Indiana.
Yeah.
Did I tell you about my son?
Did I tell you about my son in Temple of Doom?
My seven-year-old?
I mentioned you did, but you could say it again.
I could say it because they haven't heard it.
Yes, correct.
So my son, we let him watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull because he was hanging out with a relative.
And they were like, oh, can we watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, his cousin?
I'm like, okay, you guys can watch it.
Maybe we got a couple of scary parts of it.
It's pretty gum.
It's comically basically.
And he watched it and he loved it.
And then a couple days later, I came downstairs and I heard something on TV and I came downstairs.
My seven-year-old's watching Temple of Doom and he's like halfway through and he's like jumping around all excited.
And he's like, dad, look at Shorty.
He's, you know, going into the temple.
And yeah.
And I said, all right, fine.
Cool.
I don't know if I should have let him watch it, but I feel like it is.
I let my kids watch it, but also I was, you know, with them.
With them.
And I was like, okay, close your eyes for this part or whatever.
And you told him he could turn it off if it gets too scary.
Yes, I did say that.
Thank you for reminding me.
And he did, right?
I thought he stopped.
I think at some point he did.
And I don't know if it was because it was too scary or if he just got bored or whatever, but he did.
One of the two.
He did turn it off.
I actually watch it with my kids usually so I can make them watch the scary part.
I just say, no, horse their eyes.
Watch it.
This will make you a man.
Yeah.
I think Temple of Doom is probably my favorite Indiana Jones movie.
You know, I always hated it.
And I need to watch it again to see if I think now if I went into it going like the camp is a good thing.
Like campiness is not necessarily a negative.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Depending on how you look, it's probably the campiest one.
Yeah.
Which I think is hilarious.
And I think I watched Last Crusade first.
And so I had this idea that these are very structured movies with adventure themes.
And then Temple of Doom is very like, what is going on here?
If you go back and watch it.
So I think now if I watched it, I might.
Is Temple of Doom the one where he takes the heart out?
Yeah.
My family will say it will be like, shock the la.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, what does he say?
I forget.
Don't say it.
Oh, yeah.
We're going to invoke the stuff, which isn't good.
I thought it could happen when I watched it as a kid.
It can if you say the word.
Come here, little sister.
Give it with that, like with that makeup because his hand just goes right through it like it's butter.
It's like, oh, yeah.
He has a strong hand.
He has a great physique and strong.
I was just about to say that.
It's an inside joke.
Okay.
Well, we've been up to a lot of fun stuff here at the Babylon B, but for now, we're going to look at the news of the week.
What's in the news this week?
So first off, the Pope has called for a universal ban on surrogacy, saying it exploits the mother and traffics a child.
From us Protestants, good poping, Pope.
I was surprised to see something that the Pope said that I agree with.
Right.
I mean, that's not ridiculous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like he often says stuff like this, but it doesn't get, it doesn't make news headlines usually.
Like when he's just like, it is good to worship God.
And people are like, you know, which I guess that's an easy one.
That's kind of a gimmick.
I decree it is like that is day one of Pope School.
Well, I think when he tends to take the wrong side of many issues, it's surprising when, for the controversial ones at least, when he seems to land on the right.
What I've seen is that he rarely takes the wrong side, but what happens is he says these very confusing, vague, middle-of-the-road statements where you're like, what exactly?
Like this, this thing where he's like, you can bless, priests can bless same-sex unions.
And it was like, okay, well, if you dig into it, he didn't say that priests could perform a ceremony or necessarily bless a gay marriage, but he did not, not, not, not say it.
Yeah.
I think that's the wrong stance.
Like, don't be confusing about it.
Don't, you know, take the middle side on a very part of me thinks he's just like, I don't know what I'm doing.
So I'm just like going to be vague and see where it lands and go, yeah, that was it.
You imagine he just never read the Bible in his life.
And he just goes up and he starts saying stuff and he's like, oh, yeah, the Bible says above things.
And they go, you're just muttering.
You know, oh, gays.
That's it.
I think surrogacy is disguised as a really positive thing.
Like every time someone talks about it, it's always like, wow, you're doing such a great thing.
It's a kind of tricky subject because there are many cases in which everyone ends up moderately okay in the general sense of they were, quote, willing participants and people were raised, the babies were raised healthy.
But I think it's like adoption can be very beautiful, but in adoption, you're redeeming something that's already broken.
And in surrogacy, you are intentionally going into something, creating something that is not inherently ideal.
And can it work out?
Absolutely.
Does it work out sometimes?
It does sometimes, but that doesn't mean it's okay for us to take the initiative to take the initiative to initiate something, to take the initiative to create something that is already inherently broken to be redeemed, to be potentially redeemed.
So it can be, I think it can be redeemed, but that doesn't give us the right to intentionally create something to be redeemed.
In America, we're one of the few countries that allow you to pick the gender of the baby.
America lets you pick the gender, but most countries ban that because it's eugenics.
But we don't, we like, yeah, it's, I don't, it's such a bad thing.
I think there's a possibility for surrogacy to be done in a moral way.
I think a lot of times in practice and execution, they're not really doing it in a pro-life orientation.
It's just, hey, I want my, I want my baby.
There's, I think there's a possibility for what the, in vitro, like there's a possibility where you take one egg, one sperm, and you don't pick the gender or the genetic defects and you put it to the mother who the egg belongs to.
I don't think there's a way for surrogacy to be good.
But why not?
Because you're paying for the womb of someone else and you're paying for the egg of someone else and that the egg is never going to be like baby's never going to be with the right parents.
Correct.
Well, I think the other issue is it's not so much that you're basically borrowing a womb and getting your baby that way.
It's that you're the way they do it is that they're like essentially throwing tons of eggs in there and seeing what sticks.
And then so in a sense, you're losing every individual.
Well, all this.
Let's get over here.
Isn't that how babies are made?
Even like the first stage of it, harvesting eggs from women is incredibly dangerous.
It's incredibly unhealthy.
They take as many as they can take.
And then for the fertilized eggs that they don't use, they just lock in a freezer forever.
So you can actually go and adopt those fertilized frozen eggs if you want to.
Well, so to that end, if the Pope says no more surrogacy, what happens to all the babies in the freezer?
I feel like that would be better.
There's probably millions of them.
And then they could each be adopted instead of creating more.
So I think I have some issues with surrogacy.
IVF, I think, can possibly be without any moral issues or quandaries whatsoever if you are willing to implant every single single embryo.
But I think with surrogacy, you are intentionally creating a life within a mother that is not that the baby will attach to in the womb will understand and learn her voice and know her heartbeat.
And then you take the baby away from her.
They don't even allow that for puppies.
Like puppies need to stay with the mother for weeks or months before they're allowed to be taken away.
But with babies, they'll take them away from the birth mother.
No questions asked immediately.
I think that's intentionally creating a broken system that can be redeemed.
I feel like a broken record, but I think that's the difference inherently.
And with IVF, I still feel a little iffy about it.
I think it can be completely moral.
And yet I still think we're still getting really close to weird territory of choosing how to playing God, essentially.
I'm sorry.
IDF Israel Defense Force?
Yes.
IDF is playing God.
You'd have to be the ones that are more moral are incredibly expensive.
And then just pumping a woman full of hormones to help make the process work is a risk.
Yeah.
I think in general, I'm just not in favor of significant significant intervention for just so someone can have a baby when they could adopt, when they could do something else.
And you take medicine?
Well, yeah, there's a line there, right?
There's a line somewhere.
I took an Advil once.
My argument is Brandon made the handle way too.
I think that was Dan Coase with his strong grip and great physique.
Yeah, I think it's...
You ever have a cough drop?
Boom.
It's ultimately when the wants of the prospective parents are put above the needs of the child.
I just, I feel, I don't super, I don't have strong feelings about this.
I do feel like a lot of times we take like conservative ideas and we equate them with like scriptural commands.
And I don't, I don't know that there's anything super clear in scripture about this.
I do agree that in execution, a lot of times both surrogacy and IVF could be questionable.
Execution.
Well, Abraham taking and not, you know, taking a surrogate wife.
Like Sarah offering Hagar.
Haggai.
Hagai.
I think that was.
Hagar is the Viking on a comic strip.
I think that was wrong for Abraham to take a wife to be a surrogate for a child.
That's the same thing.
It's dissimilar.
I mean, it would be similar if they ripped eggs out of Sarah and put it in Hagar the Viking and then took the baby.
And eventually these things become the IDF.
Yes.
And we come full circles.
I'm just saying situational ethics is a little different than saying like the Bible explicitly forbids this for Christians.
I do think we probably are way more permissive about these issues and don't think deeply about them a lot of times.
And I think each person should think deeply about these.
And I could be wrong.
And I fully admit I could be wrong.
I just think we need to exercise more caution.
I agree with that.
I just think we don't exercise enough caution as a society and we just think, oh, this is solely good when there's so many questions to be asked about playing God like this.
I thought it was a good thing.
And then diving more into it and listening to a podcast with Alibeth Stuckey and a woman who was being a surrogate and her horrible experience.
That made me more against it.
It made it more surprising that the Pope had such a harsh stance on it for something that's so disguised as a good thing.
When all the basic stuff, he's like on the wrong side of it.
And then this complex nuanced issue.
It's definitely not this.
The line must be drawn.
Yeah.
And this is an issue that I have changed my mind of and become more conscious of over the past several years.
I think five years ago, I wouldn't have batted an eye at IVF.
And then I started to watch the process.
And then I started thinking about it, and I was like, what happens to the other babies?
And I heard a story about a woman who was born of IVF decades ago.
And she decided, oh, I'm going to have one of my siblings.
Oh, that's weird.
And so she had one of her siblings implanted in her.
And that was, I don't know the ethics behind that.
It is just weird.
Well, there's obviously a line.
And I made the joke about medicine or whatever, but there's obviously a line there like, you know, God gave us this earth, you know, and all the physical properties and scientific properties for us to be able to, you know, create things and subcreate things.
But there's a sense in which at some point you're just, as C.S. Lewis would put it, like you're bending reality to your will, you know, where it's not, there's, there are thresholds that we're not supposed to cross.
I'm not saying this is or isn't part of that, but it is something to think about.
Would you think one of the thresholds, though, is creating a wormhole in space in like the Event Horizon situation where you fold the paper and you go through, but you go through hell.
That's exactly how wormholes work.
I don't understand until you actually get a paper and stick a pencil through it.
Someone give me a paper.
And then I'll understand.
Hey, you know that there was a riot at a Jewish synagogue in New York where some Jews were building a 50-foot tunnel underground.
I saw this video on Twitter.
It's a wild story of this Jew, like Hasidic Jew, like walking up out of a grate.
And they're like, what?
They just pop out of the ground.
That's how Jews are built.
It's incredible.
So the New York Post was reporting on this because initially there were complaints about noises underground.
I guess people like speaking Yiddish and stuff and like, I don't know, using a pickaxe or whatever.
And then eventually officials discovered the tunnel that synagogue leaders were working on.
Oh, synagogue leaders worked with the city officials to fill in the tunnel with cement because they found this tunnel.
They're like, well, that's not supposed to be there.
But then I guess there was this like extremist group within so-called extremist group that was like, no, that's our tunnel.
And then they rioted.
It was bizarre.
There are extremist Orthodox Jews who believe that some guy named Rabbi Minachemendai Schneersonis, who died?
I'm sure none of that was right.
Who died in 1994 is the Messiah.
And so the tunnel war involves access to the headquarters and former home of Schneerson, a site that has been at the center of previous controversy.
So I think that's why the tunnel is so important.
I fought with your father along.
Sorry, I ruined your joke.
Go ahead.
Well, I ruined my own joke by flopping myself.
In the tunnel wars.
I thought it was impressive that they built tunnels in New York City because I think it's New York City.
I thought you would just get to, you know, you'd hit the subway system.
Yeah.
And then how they were complaining about noises underground.
How loud were they?
New York is loud.
You would never hear them.
You can be up in a skyscraper like 50 floors up and you're still hearing the cars and the roaring of the city.
It's a loud city.
So it's fascinating.
Did you see that tweet from that guy that was like months ago?
He was like, there's people speaking Yiddish under me.
Oh, and he's like, I'm in the ground floor.
You guys are going to think I'm crazy, but I'm serious.
And it's like, everybody's like, what are you talking about?
And then he just retweeted it and he's like, see?
See?
Aren't tunnels fascinating?
Don't you think underground tunnels are fascinating?
There is something very significant about an underground tunnel.
Is it just me?
Am I just, am I the only one in this room that's fascinated by tunnels?
No, no, I think they're cool.
Okay.
Because I once clicked on a YouTube video of a guy who was building a tunnel from his pantry into his garage or something.
And it was like a two-hour long video.
And I was like, oh, I'll just skim through this.
And I ended up watching the entire thing.
It was like a movie, this guy building a tunnel during COVID times.
You know, there's lots of tunnels.
There's a whole tunnel system below Riverside that leads from the mission into a bunch of different places.
Oh, is it for prohibition?
It was used during prohibition, but it predates prohibition.
And so there's a whole, oh, I am obsessed with that tunnel system.
But there's like a lot of tunnel systems under like shopping malls and a lot of urban explorers that go to abandoned buildings and such.
They just like find these tunnels that run for miles and miles underground.
Yeah.
Disneyland?
We should do that.
We should.
We should do some urban exploration as an office.
Take you some places in there's a tunnel under Jerusalem, Hezekiah's tunnel.
No.
Which is on it.
Actually, this is what it made me think of.
There's tunnels in the West Bank.
Oh.
Anyways, here's the here's an image of where the tunnel was.
It goes directly under the women's prayer section from the men's bath to the Shabbad headquarters.
So everything I've read about it is saying that basically the extremist group who believe that this Schmearsson was the Messiah, they're the ones building the tunnel to get access to the sanctuary.
But the map shows it going by like this women's prayer room.
And then there's like this.
They're eavesdropping.
That's kind of what it sounds like.
And then there was, they found a bed in there.
And it's just like, oh, were they just peeping or something?
It's just creepy.
That's crazy.
Peeping on a prayer, a woman's prayer center?
What could be peeping on a prayer?
That sounds like a song.
Peeping on a prayer.
Peeping on a prayer.
Yeah.
But yeah, and they still think he's, some people think he's the Messiah, but he's buried in Brooklyn.
You can go to his grave.
It's like the Jewish Church of God with the Korean man that came back as Jesus.
The moon sun scene.
Moon sun, something.
Moon sun star.
That's his name.
Are you sure it's not a sailor moon character?
But yeah.
I saw some lady on TikTok that was digging a tunnel under her house.
And she, it seemed like she was, I don't know, is it autism?
Is that the one that makes you like real, that makes you like really focus on something?
It can't.
Yeah.
Like she just also was like, I need to dig a tunnel.
And she was like hiring like backhoes.
That sounds more like obsessive compulsive disorder.
Maybe there's obsessive compulsive disorder.
She was like digging it under her whole subdivision and the neighbors ended up complaining.
You know, Rambo built tunnels under his home.
This is true.
In the last Rambo movie.
In real life.
Last Blood.
Which was essentially Home Alone.
It was adults.
Yeah, it wasn't that great.
Homestallone.
Homestallone.
You heard it.
So, hey, did you hear that there was other news?
I did.
Oh.
All right, guys, that's all the time we know.
Well, I guess there was going to be the first lunar lander in 50 years from some company called Peregrine.
So the Peregrine mission was going to go, but ah, they can't do it.
Apparently, there's no chance at a soft landing on the moon because of a technical failure, cementing the fact that we'd never been to the moon in the first place because we apparently can't figure out how to go there.
I was on board with the moon landing, and then this just backtracked it.
It crashed into the firmament.
That's what the technical failure was.
Oh, there's a firmament here.
The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal on Earth and overshot the moon.
My dad put the space shuttle into orbit.
I have to brag about this.
Personally.
Yeah, well, he did.
And well, on the computer systems.
But every time we talk about the moon landing hoax or someone's like, hey, I don't think we really went to the moon.
He just goes, ridiculous.
Which is a little suspicious.
You think he is part of the?
That's what you would say if it was a hoax.
He doesn't get mad.
No, he just thinks it's funny that someone would think that.
He's like, I don't know what to say.
I think it's funny too.
I think we went to the city.
We launched the rockets.
We saw the rockets go.
They went somewhere.
What was the peregrine trying to land on the moon?
Let's see.
It was carrying freight for several private contracts.
On board the lander was a small piece of Mount Everest.
Important for the moon people.
Small robots from Mexico.
Also, off-brand Roombas.
And a group of tunneling Jews and the ashes DNA of dead spacemen, space enthusiasts, including Gene Roddenberry, Arthur C. Clarke, and JFK.
He's not a spaceman.
Well, he said, we will go to the moon.
I will go to the moon as my DNA.
Cargo fares for the lander cost as much as $2.2 million per something called a kilogram.
Kilogram.
Which apparently is about 2.2 pounds.
Would you want your ashes to be sent into low-earth orbit on the moon or deep space?
Yeah, so apparently.
So what happens when you dump the ashes?
They just like slowly float.
Well, I want my non-ashes.
Yeah, you set them down and they just kind of float up.
Like, is that the only...
Would your body last forever in space?
No, I mean, like, while alive.
Would it explode or would it freeze?
I think if you have no air inside of you, it will not explode.
Because I think it's a pressure change that causes it to the magic school bus.
He froze, but I heard somewhere else that you explode.
Wait, someone froze in space on the magic school bus?
Yeah, he had a cold later and was fine.
Oh, he took off his helmet for something.
Is that about Carlos or whatever his name is?
The guy that they always, he's like the one that they all get mad at all the time.
I've never seen Carlos.
Yeah, isn't it Carlos?
Is it Carlos?
I might be getting it wrong.
It's some Mexican name.
But he doesn't look Mexican in the show.
He's like white.
I don't know.
Someone Google it.
So you want to be sent off to space?
No, he wants to be saying he wants to go to space.
I would like to go to space.
I don't want to wait till I'm ashes to go to space.
That's not answering the question then.
The question is, would you want, if you have a space?
I don't care about my ashes.
I don't care about them.
I want my living body to be in space.
I think if I'm going to do something with my ashes anyway, if it was free, I'd be like, sure, I'll go to the moon.
But I won't go to the moon.
I'll go to deep space.
I'll opt for deep space.
Well, we are going to freeze your dead corpse and preserve it here in the office.
It doesn't matter.
We're all just stardust anyway.
Yeah.
It's true.
And now it's time for the Babylon Bees Bible verse of the week.
Amen.
Genesis 20, 11 through 12.
Abraham said, I did it because I thought there is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Besides, she's indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, though not the daughter of my mother.
And she became my wife.
I read that today.
You read this today?
I read that today.
Is this part of a Bible in the year plan in a year plan?
Possibly.
Yeah.
So, yeah, Abraham with his wife's sister is kind of a fascinating story to me because he does it twice.
And then doesn't Isaac do it too?
He might.
I think his son does.
There's at least three times a day.
It's a family tradition.
Yeah, there's a lot of people.
Today you become a man, son.
You have pretended your wife is your sister.
When I was reading Genesis last year, I found a lot of humor in it that I maybe hadn't picked up on before that I think the Jewish people would think was funny.
Like just not that it's a joke, you know, like so there's obviously, you know, it's a narrative of stories that we believe actually happened and all that.
But there's a real sense of humor in like how dumb the people are sometimes and God constantly being like, no, you one thing you weren't supposed to do, you know, that kind of stuff.
And I really enjoyed these stories in Genesis where they're like, yeah, she's my sister.
And it happens over and over again.
But technically, she is, so I didn't lie.
Yeah, technically.
And she's not the daughter of my mother, but she's the daughter of my father.
And then she became my wife.
So Dan and I were talking about this earlier.
And it's in, I hadn't thought about it this way.
But at this time, Abraham and Sarah are really old.
And so he's going somewhere with this 90-year-old woman, 99-year-old woman, and people are like, I'm going to marry that girl.
I mean, do you think at this point, aging, the aging process hadn't, I mean, she has passed her time of giving birth.
Yeah, they make such a big deal about, I can never have kids.
I'm 90 years old.
They could be certainly more fit than like, she doesn't necessarily look like a raisin.
So her 90s is like women today 40 or late 30s.
Yeah, like way old, way old, way past their prime.
Like 30s.
I'm saying, because if she already is post-menopausal, Yeah, I get what you're saying.
I get what you're saying.
I think it would be like 50 today.
But you do see a 50-year-old woman.
You're like, man, she's hot.
I will when my wife is 50.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, but are you going to tell, are you going to have to say like, are you going to have to fight off men for her?
Uh-oh, this is a trap.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, hey, let's go around.
Have you ever went to a town and said, hey, this is my sister?
Like, just in case, you know?
It's been a few years.
I haven't done that.
Who is the fake sister wife in your life?
That you need to confess.
I found an old letter, happy anniversary letter that I wrote to Mark, and I signed it.
Like, love your sister, Emma.
It's like a joke for no one, but on the off chance that someone reads it and then thinks that we're brother and sister.
Yeah, now you can't run for office because they'll dig into that and be like, oh, it's not a good idea.
Well, we're sure you'll dig into it.
It's not a podcast episode.
I think the three of us on this end in interracial marriages, there's less confusion on that end.
Oh, yeah.
No, my aunt is very adamant that.
Travis kept the bloodlines pure.
Wait.
What's that?
I'm just trying to, I'm thinking of all the ethnicities now.
My wife is Mexican.
I'm thinking of all the women.
My wife's like a quarter Mexican.
Oh, really?
So not pure bloodlines.
I'm sorry.
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It's time for hype or night.
So we have a new segment called hype or nipe.
Nipe.
The first one is Stanley Cups.
Is that hyped or hype means it's too hyped up, right?
It's too hyped up.
So hype is overhyped.
So what does nipe mean?
Nipe means it's not worth the hype.
Not hype.
Okay, so hype, is it worth the hype or not?
Yeah.
Because if you say something is hype, it means it's just hype.
It doesn't mean it's no.
Well, in this pretend world, let's say that hype is like, yeah, it's worth the hype.
That feels like something.
I prefer the word nipe to hype.
Okay, so it's nipe.
So nipe is okay.
So hype means it's worth the hype.
Nipe means it's not worth the hype.
It means nope in hype.
Yeah.
In hype interns.
Stanley cups.
Wait, is it hype is worth definitively nipe.
I'm going to say nipe.
Nipe.
I don't understand it.
It's not worth the hype.
I drink out of the fire hose.
I mean, the garden hose.
I don't.
The fire hose just blows your head off.
You get to drink from the fire hose.
I don't even know what a Stanley Cup is.
Stanley Cups have been around for a while, but in recent times, they've become a fad amongst basic women who purchase them for what?
How much are they?
$80?
$40?
They're basically expensive cups.
It's just a cup that keeps your drink wild.
Oh, then the ankles are nipe.
We were at the store the other day, and Amy wanted to buy a Stanley knockoff, and it was like $12.
And she said, $12, you could buy like 10 of these for the price of one of, maybe not 10, but you could buy multiples.
Is it just trendy or does it do something?
They're very trendy and they're a status symbol.
Yeah.
I think they are a good cup.
It is a good cup.
I mean, if you, it's a fine cup.
But it's not an $80 or something.
Will it keep water cold for like three decades or something?
Supposedly, I think it's like a three-decade guarantee.
I'm going to look at it.
Because you go to Target like 12 hours, 24 hours on the cups sometimes.
Let me add a caveat to this, though.
I am saying nipe, definitively nipe.
I think I don't know.
I still don't know which each of these means, but I'm going to say nipe.
But at the same time, I understand the human compulsion to collect.
And I don't necessarily begrudge somebody who finds something fun in life and is like, I like, oh, there's a limited edition one coming out.
I got to go get.
I relate to that because I collect board games, I collect nerdy action figures, trading cards, baseball cards.
Like there's a human impulse to like collect things.
And I like that we have something physical that people are actually collecting.
You know, like in this age when everything's digital and people don't even have albums anymore.
That's true.
You know, it's cool that people have found something they like.
So I don't begrudge.
My wife collects the Starbucks ones.
You know, you know what I'm talking about?
The mugs of the cities with woman, do you know what I'm talking about?
I do know.
No, no, not those.
Although we collect those two.
Then I don't know.
But the cups with the straw, like the have the lid that screws on them.
I respected the other version.
And she probably only has like 10 of them.
But it's just something once in a while.
She's like, oh, I like that color.
And I think that's cool.
I only collect treasure.
Stanley Cups in heaven.
So the next one is In-N-Out Hype or Nipe.
Hype.
Hype.
Sorry, I yelled it.
I see the confusion now because hype means like exactly like overhyped or are you hyped?
It is worth the hype.
I like In-N-Out.
I do like it.
So your answer is hype.
Sure.
Is it really worth that long line?
Yes.
I would say.
I think when you want In-N-Out, nothing else.
Checks that.
Nothing comes close.
Carl's Jr. has a California burger and it is no.
Oh, if we're.
I don't like that you can't get anything else.
Like, there's no good drinks.
I'm going to go to a different restaurant.
They added two new items to the menu recently.
What?
Yeah, they added lemonade.
Drinks.
Yeah.
They added a couple different things.
If In-N-Ounce fries are better and sugar-free lemonade.
I like In-Nounce fries.
Wait, what did you say was better?
If In-N-Nutts fries were as good as McDonald's, I would go to In-N Out.
It does have the best fries.
My name's good in different ways.
But The little shriveled brown fries from McDonald's are the best fries in the world.
No, what?
You lost me.
The shriveled, soggy ones.
No.
More salt on them.
Well, you know, there's a secret menu at In-N-Out where you could just say, I'd like some crappy fries, and then they do that for you.
I get extra light.
Extra.
I get extra crispy.
I get well done.
Yeah, well done fries in and out.
I like soggy fries.
All right.
California, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, et cetera, et cetera.
Hype or night.
These cities, all of them, rate them all with one hype or nipe.
Nipe.
I'm going to go with nipe.
I'm going to say hype.
There are better cities than all of those cities in California.
Well, in general.
Yeah, but I assume etc. means other cities in California, too.
Oh, no.
Fair point.
California in general.
It mostly includes San Diego.
California in general is an awesome place to live.
I would say hype for California.
I've lived in four or five different states, and there's just, I like California the best.
I hate the policies.
The politics suck, but it's a wonderful place.
I would nipe the LA metropolitan.
Sure, I agree with that.
Yes, because like Hollywood's like this, you know, world-famous place, and you go there and it's just a bunch of homeless people.
It's disgusting.
It's a bunch of garbage.
There's nothing interesting there.
The Walk of Fame is kind of cool, but you're staring at it while you're walking around and people keep dividing.
It should look down.
It should look down like here, an eye level.
Chinese theater is cool.
I went to Hollywood on Sunday, Saturday, and saw MXPX play, and I got this jacket.
And I met some B fans.
Hi, Steve.
I think Steve was one of them.
Matt?
Mike?
Hi there.
Todd?
I think these cities are nipe because everyone, my cousin came out and she's like, oh, I want to go visit Santa Monica because it's famous and everyone hypes it up.
But I was like, no, we're going to go to Laguna Beach because it's beautiful.
It's so much better.
Like everything around it is cool.
But like going to LA, like that whole metro area, there are some cool things there, but you really have to know.
Little Tokyo is great.
The Grand Central Market is great.
You just have to know where to go.
Does Little Tokyo have a little Godzilla that terrorizes it?
Yes.
He comes at night.
He comes for the children who don't know how to use the chopsticks.
It's just an iguana that walks around.
Okay, since we're done with California, Yosemite.
Hype.
I've never been.
That's awesome.
It's been a while since I've been.
It's been a long time since I've been nice, but it's very nice.
I'm going to say nipe.
Because you haven't been?
No, I have been.
You don't like it.
You've been multiple times.
It's crowded.
Hold on.
I like Yosemite.
I just think it's overrated.
Wow.
What?
Do you want to tell that to God?
Like he made Yosemite and you're like, oh, meh.
Meh.
Well, there's more.
I changed my mind.
Well, only one of them.
What's nipe about it to you?
No, you don't have to enjoy every place on earth.
I like the half dome.
It's pretty.
But in general, it's just like, ah, cool.
Some fields.
I can get better parks.
Yellowstone has some cool stuff to see.
Did you guys ever watch California Gold?
Yes, who Hauser.
I want Travis to do, to host a California Gold type show where he just goes around and finds cool things, but you're just like, meh.
What is this?
Some fields?
Well, you can get that same beauty in so many other places that it's like, why is Yosemite being lifted up?
Golden Gate Bridge.
Some road over the water.
And you're right.
It does get crowded.
Yeah, it is crowded.
Dutch Brothers coffee.
I would say Nipe.
Nipe.
I don't get it.
I don't even know what Dutch Brothers coffee is.
I stayed in that long line.
It's all.
Is there some around here?
There's one that opened up not too far from here.
I was just like, I've seen it in other states.
I've never seen it here.
I got it one time, and yeah, I don't get it.
Do they have a dumb Dutch Brothers like they did with Dumb Starbucks?
Yes.
That'd be amazing.
I'd go to that one.
Okay, I don't know enough about Dutch Brothers, so I'm going to say hype.
Call it.
Hold in on Dutch Brothers College.
Well, it sounds like once you have it, it's Nipe.
So I might as well take the hype.
Yeah, okay, I'll buy that.
College.
Nipe.
I wonder what I'm going to say.
I'm going to.
I very much enjoyed my college experience.
And I love that people can enjoy college experiences.
But I will say NIPE.
And I know that people can benefit from college, but overall, as a system, it is destroying society.
Where'd you go?
I went to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and I regret it.
You don't, you didn't enjoy the time there.
Oh, I did.
But I regret the spending the money, and I regret contributing to the system that is ultimately going to lead to the downfall of society.
It's a pyramid scheme.
Fun time playing Smash Brothers with friends in your dorm.
Destroying society.
I feel like Bilo doesn't have any of that.
It's adult daycare.
I did not enjoy it.
I felt like I was around a bunch of children.
Yeah.
I think I'd go with Nipe.
College just doesn't seem as useful as it used to.
Obviously, if you're going to be a doctor, go to medical school.
If you're going to be a lawyer.
Oh, you're one of those big pharma guys.
If you're a pharmacist.
Oh, my gosh.
There's way more hypes or nipes.
Okay, let's go through that.
Crumble cookie.
Hype.
Nipe.
Hype.
Nipe.
I love crumble.
I like crumble.
Zeppelins.
They're way overpriced.
They're a little bit too expensive.
They're way overpriced, but they're delicious.
Zeppelins.
Hype.
Hype.
Are we talking about the airship?
Are we talking about the dirigibles?
Because I would say.
I think we're talking about airships.
Dirigibles.
Yeah.
It's not going to call them.
I'll say hype.
I like Led Zeppelins.
They're also called Zeppelins.
Dirigibles is my favorite word in the English language.
I've actually never heard of it.
It means airship.
That's amazing.
I'm going to say hype.
Timothy Chalamay.
I haven't seen him in enough things.
I've only seen him in Dune and maybe one other movie.
I've only seen him in Dune, and I will say hype.
I liked him.
I'm going to say Nipe.
I saw him in Dune and Wonka, and he's alright.
I don't think I've seen anything with him.
But you have to pick one.
Okay, then hype.
Whoa.
Quentin Tarantino.
What's right in the middle?
Because sometimes his movie, because his movies are either great or awful.
As a person, though.
You have to pick.
As a person, Nipe.
Definitively, Nipe.
I've never seen a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Whoa.
But the people I knew in high school that liked him were terrible.
So, Nipe.
I'll go with Nipe also.
I rarely like Killbill.
To a lesser extent, I like Reservoir Dogs.
I do not like Reservoir Dogs.
But overall, I think which one I don't like.
He's always like a little bit over substance.
Inglorious is fantastic.
Yes.
I should watch that.
And I very much like Django as well.
I did not like Django.
I did not like it.
But it just.
I liked Killbill.
I don't really seek out movies with that much violence.
Is he the feet guy?
The what guy?
Probably.
The guy that likes feet.
Probably.
He always puts feet in his movie.
He has a lot of violence.
I think he's known more for the violence and cursing.
Yeah, there's a foot thing.
And feet.
He's got a foot thing.
And his direction and Christoph Waltz is a wonderful combination.
Yes, I agree.
Who did Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
That was Quentin Correctino.
He's the foot guy.
Because there was a long shot of somebody putting their feet up on the dash and it was zoomed in on it for a very long time.
Gross.
So have you seen that or did you just see that part?
I've just seen the, I just looked up all the feet scenes.
Okay, next one.
Feet.
Hype or nipe?
I don't want to talk about feet.
I'm gonna say nipe.
I'm gonna say I wish I didn't have them personally.
I like having feet, but I'm gonna say hype because I can jump.
How about feet as a unit of measurement, hyper nipe?
Hype, very hype.
Yeah, because very hype.
Because it's American, it's not like convenient.
It's very convenient.
When I was doing math as a kid, I was like, man, if I grew up in the UK, I'd be good at this.
Multiply everything by 10.
No, if you grew up in the UK, your height would be like 178 Divi-Willies.
It would be okay that I don't have good teeth.
I would be like the hottest person there.
And, you know, it'd be if you knew where young people are.
We're getting into the hot topic because I was talking just about the measurement thing.
Can Piertige convert what you say, Divi-Willies?
Divvy-willies for us.
Divi-willies, defeat.
Divvy-willies, defeat.
No, I find that metric units are very useless in everyday situations because I'm like, oh, you look like you're about 182 centimeters tall.
But centimeters is not the only.
That's because you're not used to it.
No, there are no.
But also, they would say like two meters, not 28 centimeters.
But that's the thing.
You go from, I know they have like decimeters, but they don't use them.
Right.
So it's like, oh, you're about two meters or you're, or you have to go all the way down to centimeters.
Where with feet, you have this convenient about five feet, about six feet, five and a half feet.
They are used more for everyday life because that's how they came about.
It wasn't some scientists on a council somewhere with big measurement that came along and said, oh, this is what all humanity has to use.
These little precise people were out in the fields and they were like, I'm walking.
It's about five feet, 10 feet away.
Well, it's useful.
You're usually so calm.
This is what brawls you off.
Yeah, I don't even disagree with you, but you're so excited about it.
But calm it down a little, please.
Okay, Christopher Nolan.
Hype, hype, hype.
I'll say hype.
Which movie?
It's just Christopher Nolan.
Just Christopher Nolan?
Yeah, I don't like, I don't love all of his movies.
Not as a director, as a moral human being.
He was nice to my wife, so hype.
Oh, you met him?
His wife did, apparently.
Hype.
I'd go with hype.
Are you hyping or niping?
So I'll say, maybe I'll say hype.
And then the next one, Inception, I'll say Nipe.
Wait.
Next one, Inception.
Emma's wrong.
I will say hype.
Strong hype.
I liked Inception.
I will say hype also because it was the single greatest movie-going experience of my life.
Wow.
When everyone just like went, oh, when the movie ended, when the top was going.
Oh, yeah.
The top was great.
The top was great.
The everything was great.
It does warbled, right?
Are we all in agreement that the top warbles?
It does.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of the greatest movies ever made.
All right.
Another.
Hold on a minute.
Okay.
Now we're on to another Christopher Nolan movie, Star Wars.
Hype.
Overall, hype.
Although I know I see myself becoming a not Star Wars fan within my lifetime.
Disney's doing their best to turn the hype into a night.
Star Wars.
That's a great soundboard.
I'm going to get into it.
You know, I just don't think I'm a guy obsessed with laser swords.
I don't think I'm a guy obsessed with laser swords.
But I may be.
There might be one strapped inside of them.
Are you hyping or not?
Mostly though.
I'm hyping Star Wars.
A Barbie movie.
Night.
I have not seen it.
I've also not seen it before.
I saw it, and I tried to give it a chance.
I felt exactly.
The idea of coming out with a movie for a kid's product and not a kid's movie is just weird.
But it's been done before, and it's been done well before.
And I think.
When has it been done well?
This is not me disagreeing with you.
I'm just not.
I can't think of one.
Well, let me get back to you, Bonnet.
Okay.
So it's never been done.
Let me get back to you, Bonnie.
Okay, fair enough.
Because I'll think about it.
I know there have been some movies that have been done on children's.
Well, how do you feel about the first Transformers movie?
I liked the first one.
I know the rest of them got ridiculous.
And I don't even love the first Transformers movie.
But it's a children's toy.
Yes, the movie could be watched by children or grown-ups, but it's a, and they did justice to the license.
It was a fun adventure.
Maybe it didn't do everything exactly according to the books or comics or cereal boxes or whatever Transformers properties there were.
But yeah, the first movies.
There were things like that where they take an old thing, they reboot it, and it does fine.
But how do you feel about Beast Wars?
The cartoon?
Oh, I didn't like Beast Wars.
Beast Wars is great.
I think the Barbie movie.
If it was only for adults, then make it more for adults.
And then if it's like, I don't think kids should go watch.
I thought it was bad.
I say do not make it for adults.
Do not make children's toy movie for adults.
But it's not a today, it's not a popular children's toy.
Barbie is for like older to young millennials.
I say it doesn't matter.
If it was made for children to begin with, don't make it an adult thing now.
Sure, don't sure.
I don't think this movie was made for kids.
My English teacher in high school was a large black woman.
End of story.
I was hoping that's where it was going to end.
And she loved Beast Wars.
And she had the whole DVD set on her shelf.
And if there was like a day where we were done with our assignments, she would show us Beast Wars.
Nice.
And she would describe all the backstories to us.
And she said it was actually based on Shakespeare.
And she would explain the connection between Shakespeare and the Beast Wars character.
It's amazing.
That's awesome.
Other than that, she had no other nerdy proclivities or anything.
It was all very serious.
And then it was like, oh, Beast Wars.
That's funny.
To be fair, I've never actually seen Beast Wars.
It wasn't that large.
I'm not actually serious with my knife.
Oh, it's actually a good, it's actually a pretty good series.
Cool.
Let's do an audio commentary about that.
Oh, she was large in the impact she had on your life.
She actually was.
All my English teachers were great in high school.
After Barbie movie, we have Suis Vidai.
Nipe.
Sous vide as a cooking technique.
I would say hype overall.
I don't know.
I don't actually know what it is.
Yeah, what is it?
Sous vide is a cooking technique that I believe means under pressure.
Yeah, it's basically using a water bath heated to a precise temperature in order to heat meat or any other food item to temperature.
So lots of times.
You actually put them in water?
It's usually sealed in a bag or something.
You have to do a science experiment.
Water bed.
For an hour before you can even cook it where it would taste good.
Oh my gosh, guys, we have so many of these.
Well, essentially, when you cook a steak, depending on the doneness you like it at, Kyle likes it done at like 120.
Or if you want it done at 129 or 135, in order to get the internal temperature to 135, the external temperature has to be much higher than that.
And you end up getting gray banding and you end up overcooking the upper layer of the meat just to get the right doneness in the center of the meat.
With Sous Vide, it heats it evenly with completely even heat distribution throughout.
What do you think about that, Trevor?
This has been Brandon's Cooking Corner.
All right.
The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild.
Hype.
Hype.
I haven't.
Hype.
I'm going to have no opinion.
Abraham Lincoln.
Hype.
Night.
Oh.
Nipe.
He like expelled journalists and banished congressmen's political enemies.
Every politician's going to do some bad.
Yeah.
But not every one of them is going to like imprison his political enemies and shut down newspapers that disagreed with him.
Yeah, he did some.
He did some bad things.
Talk about tyranny.
What I always say is for Tyrannus.
Friends.
It's all capital letters, so I assume it's the TV show.
Nipe.
I'll disagree.
I'll say hype.
It's not my favorite show, but I watched it.
I'm going to say Nipe.
Too.
I mean, I'm going to say nipe, but it is decent background, and it did create a lot of sitcom things that we just no big bang theory, but it's all right.
Let's put that on the list.
I just think that when people look back and like the classic sitcoms, you know, ever, and friends is up there.
I'm like, man, it's not that good.
I think at the time it was pretty big pop culture thing for sure.
Okay, next one is friends, not the TV show, just the concept.
Oh, hype.
Hype.
You have to say hype.
Brandon.
Next, next item.
Come on, you have friends.
You'd rather have enemies.
You like friends.
We're all your friends.
I do.
I do.
Okay.
Brandon, you've convinced me.
Brandon says hype.
You've convinced me.
Next one is cardio.
Is there hype around cardio, though?
I'll go.
There isn't hype.
I'll go hype.
I don't think so.
I'll go hype.
I'll go hype.
I like cardio.
I'm like healthy, right?
It's good.
I'll go nipe.
I like cardio.
I don't want to talk about it.
So does that mean nipe?
Like, I don't want people to tell me about their marathon running.
I guess that's fair.
Oh, I was thinking about running a 5K in April.
Do you want to talk about it?
COVID lockdowns.
Oh, definite hype.
Definitely.
Way back to the hype.
We were hype.
Chick-fil-A.
Hype.
Nipe.
Nipe.
I would say hype, but the Popeye sandwich is better.
Whoa.
The spicy chicken sandwich is far superior.
I like Chick-fil-A.
I just think that I'm surprised at how much of a cultural phenomenon it's become.
I used to really like the sauce, and then I had Raisin Canes, and now I can't go back to the Chick-fil-A sauce.
Raisin Cane's sauce isn't as good, but it is good.
I think Raisin Cane's is overall very mediocre.
It's so much better.
If I just want some chicken strips, it's fine.
I don't think it's amazing.
There are very rare instances where I think I just want some chicken strips.
Yeah.
And Raisin Cane's $13 chicken strips will suffice.
Yeah.
The next one is Bluey.
Hype.
Hype.
I'll say Hype, even though I haven't seen it.
It's great.
I've heard.
It's available on Daily Wire Plus.
It's about some chinchilla.
The Constitution.
Hype.
It doesn't say if it's American, though.
It comes in.
I'm going to say hype.
I'm going to say hype unless we're talking about the North Korean concept.
And then Nipe.
The Nipe.
Brandon, you never answered.
I'll say hype.
Okay.
Women.
Hype.
Who doesn't love women?
I will say hype for one woman.
I was about to say one woman.
All the rest.
What do I say it for?
Myself?
Sure.
Sure.
Her name is Margaret Thatcher.
My wife is not Margaret Thatcher, but hype for my wife.
What about you?
Well, now I'm hype.
Fine, I'll say hype.
Okay.
Wow, really self-focused there.
Yeah.
Really self-focused.
I don't like men's no-mo.
I don't like men's no more.
Only women.
I'm delivering.
What am I supposed to do?
I can't.
No, you say that's fine.
I'm not my own existence.
If you like being a woman, that's great.
Yeah, get away with saying mean things and then laughing.
It's nice.
Men can't do that.
No, they can't.
Super Mario Brothers Wonder.
Hype.
So far, I'm going to say Nipe, but I haven't explored it enough.
I haven't played it.
So Nipe?
I haven't played it.
I'll probably hype once I play it.
Okay, probably.
Wine.
Nipe.
Is it new wine?
Or old.
Or old wine.
Nipe.
I'll just do nipe.
Do you like grape juice?
Boy, do I.
I do like grape juice.
Okay.
So hype for that.
I used to sit down and play some StarCraft and get my grape juice.
And just be like, and I would, I would do this thing.
Wait, play StarCraft to get your grape juice?
No, I would.
Get my grape juice on.
Oh.
And get my grape juice on.
I'd be like, ah, strategy.
I thought you said I would play StarCraft to get my grape juice.
And I was like, hey, how much?
Is that an expression I don't know about?
How much sugar do you have to eat as a kid to get diabetes?
Like, it has to be quite a bit.
I'm not sure that there's a correlation with eating sugar and getting diabetes.
I thought that was the thing, like eating candy and you get diabetes.
That's a thing that people say, but I'm not sure that that's actually true.
I think eating candy can cause health problems, which can then lead to diabetes.
I thought if you just ate like way too much sugar, you would just get diabetes.
I believe, and I can be completely wrong that that's a common misconception.
Oh, well, a lot of things turn into it.
It's combined, right?
Carbs turn into sugar.
It definitely doesn't help.
Candy, seed oil, bad.
Well, I think about my childhood or my teenage years, the halcyon days.
And we would have like LAN parties where I would bring a 12-pack of Mountain Dew and we would play Counter-Strike all night.
And I would drink the entire 12-pack of Mountain Dew.
And it's like, and we, and I would be like chugging pixie sticks at the same time.
And it's like, how did I not?
You brought the Mountain Dew for everybody, but then you drank it?
Well, it was a B B Y O M D. Were you an overweight as a child?
No.
Then I would think that would be part of it.
Now I am, but then I wasn't.
This is a recent development.
Up to my late 20s, I remember there was one night I was doing a shoot.
We were setting up a Rube Goldberg machine for a commercial.
And I probably drank like 12 sodas in one night.
And I did not feel good afterwards.
But you didn't get diabetes?
Not that I know of.
How was the Rube Goldberg machine?
Because that's the best part of the story.
I'll show it to you after the podcast.
Okay.
It was fun.
Can we play it on the thing or is it copyrighted?
It may be copyrighted, but you could play it.
Please enjoy the Rube Goldberg machine and let us know if you think hype or night.
Uh-oh.
Something I was wanting to say.
I forgot.
All right.
Anyway, going keto.
Nipe.
Nipe.
I'll say hype.
If you don't talk about it, hype, which is impossible.
It's impossible.
So I went keto and I ended up losing about 20 pounds on keto.
I have lost.
I felt much better about my kids.
I have lost a lot of weight over the past year cutting carbs, but I hate it.
I love carbs.
I love rice.
I miss rice all the time.
Yeah.
If you couldn't tell by my facial features.
My only problem with keto is it's so like you can't break.
If you stumble in one point, you're guilty of all.
As a fad diet, I would say you gain it all back.
It works and it's good for you.
But I just don't want to talk about it.
Now that I'm in my mid-30s, I. How old are you now?
I'm in my mid-30s.
Okay.
I'm 36.
I'm like, oh, okay.
That's mid-30s.
The higher side of mid.
But still mid.
Sure.
It's got pretty mid.
You got to admit.
Like, I think you say mid-30s is 34.
I've had this debate with my wife recently.
Mid-30s is 34 to 36 to me.
When I get there.
So when I hit 37 someday, I will be late 30s.
Well, technically, you'd be mid to late 30s.
Okay.
I'll take that.
But right now I'm mid-30s.
So as a man in my mid-30s, I find that keto is less effective than I used to be.
Because it used to just be like, bam, you dropped the weight immediately.
And now it's like.
That was a year ago for you to do keto.
No.
When I first started keto, it was probably five years ago.
Oh, okay.
But yeah.
Apple Vision Pro.
Don't know what it is, but it's Apple.
So as a technology, hype.
As a price point, nipe.
But eventually it'll come down.
As a technology nipe, I'm just going to get dizzy.
If it's like, it's the pop-up stuff on your.
Yeah, I can't do that.
Well, it's virtual reality, right?
I can't do virtual reality.
It's a virtual reality, but it's also like augmented reality.
Some combination, also augmented reality.
The thing with Apple, I can't stand them.
I know.
But every time they announce a new product, I'm like, that's stupid.
And then it ends up taking over as this amazing thing that everybody loves.
So I think it will eventually hit some sort of price point or product that'll work.
That hideous strength.
I respect it, but night for me.
Hard to read for me.
I have not read it.
But if you say it's hard to read, I'm going to say nipe.
I haven't read it.
I haven't read it.
So hype, hype.
Not doing that one.
Make America great again.
Nipe.
I like the idea.
I like the idea.
I like, but why does the American dream afterwards?
I don't know.
The American dream is hype.
Well, technically, right, it's he wants, I don't know.
Well, it's like, it's like build back better.
Should we build back better?
Sure.
I did like all the things that the Trump presidency led to, so except the Biden presidency.
So I'm going to say hype.
Fair enough.
NASA announced an Artemis mission sending people to the moon again.
Boring.
I'll say hype.
I got distracted by the boring.
The night is already built in.
Who's editorializing this?
Who's writing these?
Boring.
Boring.
Taylor Swift.
Nipe.
Nipe.
I will say hype up until red.
And also nipe 1989, reputation, you know, everything after that.
1989 is like her most famous album, isn't it?
Yeah.
I thought it was overrated.
I really don't like her pop phase as much.
Well, then let's.
I thought when she straddled that line between country and pop, that was the ideal situation.
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse.
Is that the night?
Is that the first one?
It's the second one.
It's the second one.
I haven't seen it.
It's terrible.
Night.
The first one was great.
I don't think it's terrible, but I would nipe it in the sense I don't think it's as good as the first movie.
Get out.
Hype.
Nipe.
No, I was telling Travis.
Oh, get out.
Sorry.
I would say hype.
I thought it was a good movie.
I like it.
It was fun.
Get out hype.
I think get out was a good movie that's overrated.
I agree, but I will still say hype that I enjoyed it.
It's a long Twilight Zone episode.
That sounds awesome.
Why wouldn't you want to watch a long Twilight Zone?
Brandon Sanderson.
Brandon.
Oh, would you like to go first?
I will say Nipe with the caveat that after some future reading, I may change my mind.
I would say hype.
I've read every single one of his books, and some of them are terrible, but the ones that are good are very good.
Any author that writes that much is going to have some better ones.
But the books that are good are very good.
Yeah, I'll say hype.
All right.
I wouldn't know.
I haven't read it.
You haven't known like any of them.
I'm going to pick one, Emma.
You haven't answered one in like 10.
Then you said Nipe or you said hype?
He said, I said nipe.
I'll say nipe just to support you on your birthday.
That's good.
All right.
Well, that is the end of the episode.
So thank you for joining us, everybody.
I think we have one more item.
I don't think so.
I think there's one more item.
That's it.
I think there's one more item that we have to hyper nipe.
All right, Kyle's birthday.
Hype or nipe?
I would say hype.
Hype for me.
Hype.
I'm a big fan of birthdays.
I'm not like a big kid.
I would say hype also.
I'm glad that Kyle Mann was born.
Oh, me too.
And we are all employed because of that.
Emma, are you going to say, I don't know.
I've never had a bunch of people.
I don't know, Kyle.
You know, you didn't go the joking route at all.
So I guess I'll say hype.
Okay.
Because you were going to say nipe and hoping everybody else.
I was going to point out how, like, for your birthday, you want to play a 12-hour board game.
And to me, I don't, I don't want to do that.
But I still like to have birthday parties and stuff, which is something that I realize a lot of people in their mid-30s, like me.
Are you getting ice cream cake?
Oh, I should.
Don't pick it up.
I always feel like it's sad if you pick up your own birthday cake.
Oh, I've done that before.
It's sad.
How would they know?
Unless my face is on the birthday cake.
They don't need to know it's about you.
I've also had misspelled birthday cakes.
It's great.
I think actually the one I had to pick up was misspelled, but I didn't want to correct them because my name is not spelled.
I did not order it.
How do they misspell Brandon?
I've gotten a Bredo.
Happy birthday, Bredo, before I am now calling you Brayden.
My cousins do.
It's fine.
Bredo.
I've gotten Brayden as well with an E, Brayden.
I do feel like Brainen is a common, but I do feel like Brandon is a name that has enough corollaries, like close enough.
There's only one that's correct.
I understand, but I'm saying there's enough that people might mess it up.
Yeah, there's a lot of dumb ways to spell it.
I understand that.
But if I meet someone whose name is Brandon and five years later, I'm like, what was that guy's name?
I'm going to be like, Brian Brandy.
Brandy.
Yeah.
I've gone by Brandy and Brian before.
Bredo.
Brandon.
Eventually I land on the right one.
Where a name like Kyle, that's just there's nothing to mess it up with.
No, not really.
Although I have had people spell it like on the Starbucks code.
K-I-L-E.
I've gotten K-I-L-E, and I've gotten like K-A-I-L.
Like they're like, they just get very, they just don't.
If your mind doesn't go to K-Y-L-E, you're just like messed up.
I guess.
Man.
This is why.
Yep.
I'm going to keep doing this.
I don't know why I keep hitting my that's a knee slapper, is what that is.
That's a good one.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
Happy birthday.
Should we sing?
Thank you.
Yes.
Happy.
Emma should sing a solo.
Yes, Emma.
You should sing.
Oh, that's not what you want for your birthday.
He's a joke.
Oh, we're doing a heartbeat.
Happy, happy birthday.
A happy birthday too.
Happy birthday.
So we get partying too.
Hey, I'll just sing to myself.
Oh, yeah, that was kind of like picking up your own cake.
Yeah.
You should sing to yourself while you pick up your own cake at the counter.
Happy birthday to me.
Well, everyone, thank you for joining us on this special, fun New Year's 2024 episode of the Babylon Bee Podcast.
We will see you guys when I'm in my late 30s.
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