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The Babylon Bee reacts to all of the key moments of the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. They're also hanging out with Joshua Weigel, director of the new Sound of Hope movie. There's other news this week like Louisiana requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in public classrooms, Julian Assange being released from prison after a plea deal, and Snopes finally fact checking the "fine people" hoax 7 years late. Travis' Game Korner is back where Kyle and Travis check out High Fructose! This podcast is brought to you by Private Internet Access VPN piavpn.com/thebabylonbee My Patriot Supply http://PrepareWithBee.com Tiny Bibles! TinyBibles.com/bee Go see Sound Of Hope: The Story Of Possum Trot!: https://www.angel.com/tickets/sound-of-hope-the-story-of-possum-trot?msclkid=7e7bc56e48f1126dc751a3139fe41fce Check Out The New Video Game High Fructose: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chazakgames/high-fructose
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I'm Kyle Mann, and this is how I talk.
How are you, Jarrett?
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Great.
This is how I talk.
So back in the day when me and Ethan filmed our first test run of this podcast, I had never hosted a podcast before.
This is one we didn't release.
This was like a pilot we were testing things on.
And I talked like you mean like a normal person?
I was like, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Babylon Bee podcast.
It was like the NPR version of Babylon.
We showed it to Seth and he was like, this is good.
You guys have good chemistry together and it's funny.
He's like, can you just talk like normal though?
Can you do that voice the whole time?
Sure.
I do think you can break into it once in a while.
Yeah.
I think high energy, Kyle.
High energy, Kyle, but not fake a voice.
It works.
It works.
Anyway, this is Travis.
Hi, I'm Travis.
Hi.
Hi.
You mouth that and I will put my words on.
Oh, yeah.
Can we do that again?
That was fun.
And then we're hanging out with Joshua Ygull.
Why Gull.
That's the question.
Thank you very much.
Why go?
Director of the new movie, Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot.
Possum Trot.
So you might be listening.
You might hear that and say, Sound of Hope.
Like, Sound of Freedom?
Like, what's a possum?
Yeah.
You know, the possum part.
A lot of things come to my song.
Freedom of Hope.
What's trotting?
So we had no idea who this guy was until he knocked on the door and said, oh, I have this new movie.
Can I be on your podcast?
And we said, sure.
Yeah, why not?
So what we decided to do was we went to various AI engines online and we asked them what the movie Sound of Hope was about.
Oh, nice.
We just fed them the title.
If there was a movie called Sound of Hope, what would it be about?
And here's what came back.
So Chat GPT said, Sound of Hope could be a heartwarming drama centered around the transformative power of music.
There's a down-and-out musician who discovers a deaf child with an extraordinarily musical talent.
And they possess a unique ability to feel and interpret vibrations in such a way that already better than what we did.
Oh my gosh.
Exceptional skill.
And then the musician takes on the role of mentor.
They help the child navigate the challenges of their disability.
And then it would also include subplots involving the musician's own redemption as they regain their passion for music through teaching and overcome their own personal demons.
And in the climax of the movie, there's a grand musical performance where the child's talent is finally showcased to the world, bringing them acclaim and transforming the lives of people.
I mean, it's crazy because that's exactly what the movie is.
That's exactly.
Of course, we put that in before he wrote the screenplay.
Wow.
I guess it's redundant.
I don't know.
But we didn't think this was exciting enough, so then we asked ChatGPT to add robots.
Oh, good.
So, Travis, do you want to share a lot of that?
Yeah, so adding robots to this plot of Sound of Hope could introduce a fascinating blend of human emotion and futuristic technology, transforming the movie into a sci-fi drama.
Here's how the story might evolve: in a near future world where robots and humans coexist, the story follows a washed-up musician named Alex who discovers an abandoned robot designed to teach music named Echo.
This robot possesses advanced AI capable of understanding and creating music, but it's uniquely programmed to interact and adapt to the emotional responses of its students.
What is love?
Wasn't there a robot movie with a robot called Echo already?
Earth to Echo?
Was that the robot's name?
I know there was a movie called Earth to Echo, like a Disney movie or something.
But I don't know if Echo was the echoes in the name of some movie my kids liked, but I don't know if it was a robot.
Yeah, Echo was a dolphin robot.
Echo was a dolphin.
But if you wanted to have a robot echo, it could be Echo 5 or Echo 10.
Echo Play.
Did we add anything else?
It's kind of getting.
Yeah, so the subplot is interesting.
It explores the ethical implications of AI and the arts and prejudices against robots.
It's definitely taking over the world.
It's already getting angry at us.
Is there another?
What did Google Gemini say?
Okay, Google Gemini said, all right, this is it.
In a remote village nestled in the Himalayas, known for its breathtaking beauty and near silence as a consequence of a generations-old conflict with the neighboring valley.
Okay, and there's even some characters.
Here's some characters: Pima, a young woman with a natural musical talent, yearning to break the silence.
Tenzin, a wise old villager who remembers the time before the conflict, and a vibrant music that fills the valley.
I remember the before time.
And then Lakpa, a stern village elder, determined to uphold the tradition of silence.
Sounds like a rush song.
We must not break the silence.
He just gestures like, yeah, he doesn't say no.
He's just like.
And here's the B-line: it would be in a silent Himalayan village, a young woman rediscovers music, forbidden due to past conflict.
Her melodies spark a movement, leading the village to use music to bridge the divide with the neighboring valley and find hope for a peaceful future.
All right, well, my favorite one was Grok.
Sound of Hope sounds like a heartwarming drama about a deaf child who rediscovers the power of music through vibrations and goes on to become a world-renowned composer.
Was there a movie called Sound of Hope that had this plot?
Because AI seems to be doing.
And then it says, Or it could be a documentary about a group of scientists using whale songs to communicate with extraterrestrial life waves in search of a message of peace.
Who knows?
Maybe it's a comedy about a mime who accidentally joins a heavy metal band and ends up saving the world with their silent charisma.
Who knows?
The possibilities are endless, just like my wit.
Classic Grog.
So, Josh, which one of these is the actual last one's not confident enough?
It didn't commit.
Yeah, it could be about this.
It could be.
Go to AI to get a clearer answer.
I mean, it wasn't.
But it's witty.
It told you.
A mime who joins a heavy metal band.
I guess we could be that.
And then we had Bing actually create some movie posters for us.
So this is the Sound of Hope.
Oh, wow.
Beautiful.
Dan, go back up.
I want to see the credits for the movie poster.
Oh, no.
It stars Jopel Ironke, Hariyapaide, Kavala, Dad Hunter, and Sparope.
Sparope.
That's it.
I like that.
I got a seagull on there.
We did Seagull.
We didn't feel like this was exciting enough, so we had it add dinosaurs.
Sound of Hope.
Dinosaur movie.
I like that it didn't quite understand the assignment, and it was like.
It's a music.
Well, I can just make some dinosaurs and put the word Sound of Hope on it.
It's the inspirational.
Look at that kid on the right.
Look at the kid on the right.
And then there's two kids in the classroom.
Josh, would you have cast that thing?
That's fine.
What is less hopeless?
I don't think so.
So, really, what is Sound of Hope about, Sir?
Well, now it's going to be really boring.
What have we done?
It's not a comedy.
It's really set you up.
Well, you know, it's so the real story, true story, true story, happened in East Texas, started in about 1997.
So a woman named Donna Martin lost her mom and kind of went into depression.
And long story short, she came out of that compelled to begin adopting kids.
She felt like God said, go and give back.
And the kids who have nobody, I want you to begin adopting.
So they did.
I didn't know anything about it.
She and her husband, Reverend Martin, he's now Bishop Martin, began doing this.
And then they ended up rallying another 22 families in their church to begin adopting kids.
And by the end of it, which is only a few years in, they adopted 77 kids out of the foster system.
And they asked for the ones that nobody wanted.
So they didn't ask for the little babies.
And it wasn't about that.
It wasn't about growing families.
It was about dealing with a real problem.
So it's a pretty intense story, you know, because a lot of these kids came out of pretty severe abuse.
And many of them were just large sibling sets that they didn't want to break up and cause more trauma.
So pretty remarkable story.
Just an everyday little corner community that you'd find pretty much anywhere in the South that did this unbelievable thing.
And it hit the news shortly after.
They ended up on Good Morning America and Oprah.
I mean, it just, you know, people could tell there's something crazy about this that was going on.
And it had a huge impact in that arena.
You know, people who were in that space fostering and adopting, we all kind of heard there's somewhere out there, there's this community that, you know, adopted all of these children.
And it was a huge inspiration.
You said we.
So that means you are, you're an adopted family.
You guys have adopted kids.
Yeah, yeah.
So I worked with my wife.
My wife Rebecca and I produced and wrote together and I directed the movie.
And so we adopted two of our kids a little before we began sort of considering this story.
We'd kind of known about it, but Rebecca did a lot of work in Los Angeles with churches and really trying to get churches more involved in fostering and adopting.
So she came across Bishop Martin's story and his preaching.
He's unbelievable.
I mean, just a dynamic powerhouse.
And so she had him come out to speak at an event.
And we totally hit it off and just felt like, all right, we need to put everything else to the side.
This story is important.
Something's pulling us in.
So we had no money.
It was all on spec.
We just felt compelled to do this and began writing it together.
And that's sort of the beginning of it.
So we came from our own experiences and then all the work Rebecca had done in the Los Angeles area and the power of this story, just feeling this need to revive it, you know, because it had been in a little while.
Wow.
I like this trend of movies that are just about something good and positive.
You know, that's like, I don't know, it feels like a lot of times conservatives, and I don't know if you identify as a conservative or whatever, but faith-based films or conservative films, it's always like either some controversial culture war thing that we want to get involved in or just a really cheesy, like, oh, this, here's this pastor that's trying to hold the small town church together.
Right.
I know, I don't get it.
I don't get this choices.
It's like something like adoption that has kind of a universal power to it that everybody can understand the power of that story.
Yeah.
It seems like it's, I mean, awesome.
I think it's something about kids, you know, that our hearts go out to them just hearing a story.
And in fact, that's what got me.
I mean, I took the story in.
It took me a little while to feel like, okay, let's do this as a movie because she's got 77 kids, 22 families.
That's over 100 people.
How are you going to find this story that actually captures that?
Because it could easily become about the pastor and his wife and become this little sweet, faith-based movie, which I have personally.
It's fine, but it's like what, what kind of hooks you is that all these people did this thing and they they weren't a bunch of like college professors I mean, these are like average people and that's what's incredible about it.
I think you're right.
Our hearts go out to kids who are suffering.
When I heard these kids stories, I mean I was just, you know, it just leveled me.
I'm like we can't.
We can't just stand by and do what we've been doing.
It hasn't been working because there's, there's a.
What I should say is there's a crisis going on right now that people don't really know about.
You know we.
We know in the back of our minds there's a foster system and we kind of are scared of it.
You know that's where bad kids are and brokennesses, and it's going to ruin me, and so we sort of leave it to others, but it's, it's in everybody's life.
You know, when you drive by a homeless person, 50 of those people had spent time in the foster system.
And when you think about the prison population there's all this talk about you know the prisons are exploding and you know 70 of those people had spent time in the foster system.
And then Sound Of Freedom last year.
You know they highlight child trafficking, which is what drew us to Angel Studios.
They're they're releasing this movie and uh, because we felt like people were so moved by that I don't know if you guys saw, but it was like we have got to do something about.
This is the worst evil there is.
And so we talked to them about that and we're like look, this is connected to the foster system and, depending on what study you're looking at, 70 to 90 percent of the kids trafficked come from the foster system in America.
And i'm talking about the, the kids in America.
So when you deal with that, when you know about that and you deal with that issue, I mean you are hitting all of these areas at the same time and cutting off kind of like the supply line to these terrible things.
So that's your hope, probably to awaken maybe the church to do something about this issue, because it is something that if the church really took it on for real, it would exactly, it could really change the world.
And part of it is that it was a church, it was this community.
So it's a very small community.
There's probably a few hundred people in the region it's.
It's not even a town, it's just a country region, a lot of close knit community there.
So they had that.
But they have the church and that's where this all like the.
The ground zero of it was Bennett Chapel Church.
That goes back generations and so there was all this strength in that.
I think that's why they were able to do that.
I mean, there were many times where kids were, when families were struggling, they would just share the load and some of the kids would be taken over to the Martin's house for a little while to give that family a break and, you know, just wrestling through making sure that it worked.
So we feel that way.
It's like, you know, that's the model and there's nothing like the church in terms of its network, in terms of its.
It's what it's supposed to be and is that that family nature of it, the community nature of it.
Even when you leave a church, like you go to another one, and there's this connectedness to it and it's global.
But if you just think of America, it's, it's connected in America like nothing else and we all kind of want if you're in church, we all kind of want it to work that way, want it to be family.
So if we're gonna, if we're gonna, deal with things, it's best to do them in that environment and from that place, and especially when you're raising children, because family is so critical to that working.
You know, and and you've got the, the nuclear family, and then you got beyond that and so you deal with this problem as the church.
You will, you will end it overnight.
We just have to step up and like, really know about it, learn about it.
Yeah, figure out where we fit in.
How did you get into directing, movie making?
Yeah, we know, we have some history.
Obviously, it's true, you didn't know this, you didn't know this.
But so Jared and I I surprised you, I think, when I just walked up.
I'm like, we know how's it, how's it going?
Man, you're like what?
No, we did a short film together.
We acted.
I was, you, you still act and I do a little bit of that, but you're acting right now.
Yeah, that's true.
You're quite different out there.
I can't trust you.
So anyway, I knew for me, I knew from an early age what I wanted to do.
I was probably 12 years old when I knew I wanted to make movies.
And so, but I was in Arizona in like the desert and a mobile home, you know, in the middle of nowhere, just feeling as far as you can feel from that kind of work.
So it was faith.
You know, I just felt like that's what God wanted me to do and set my sights on it.
And over time, you know, when I got married, Rebecca was super supportive of it, but it wasn't her thing.
She was in psychology and getting her master's degree and all this.
But we started writing short films together, kind of out of necessity at first, you know, because she, our first one was okay.
And then the second one I worked on, I'm thinking back to the first one and she's giving all these good ideas, even though she wasn't involved.
I'm like, dang, she's got something here.
And so we did several more together.
And then it just took off.
Our last short film took off.
It's called The Butterfly Circus and it went viral online.
That had Nick Nick Vojcic.
Vojcic, who is the subject.
No arms and legs.
No arms and legs.
Evangelist, motivational speaker.
Yeah.
See him around.
He's awesome.
Yeah.
So he stars in it.
So that one's about a guy with no arms and legs who flees the sideshow world to join up with something like Cirque de Soleil.
It's a Depression Era circus film, which we began working on the feature length version of that after it went viral and had amazing things happening and got really close.
And we'll probably do that next.
That's probably going to be our next one.
But that's the one we put to the side for this one.
And so I've been doing some acting, but really, you know, the day job to pay the bills, I didn't want to get swallowed up by this business.
So I was doing art directing and production design on commercials sort of to make a living.
Anything I would have seen?
Yeah.
We did a few Super Bowl commercials way back.
Doritas.
You know the guy who, let's see, there's so many of them.
In fact, they cut the one that was the best.
It was about the sinking ship.
And you come in, this storm's happening, and they walk by a refrigerator of Bud Light.
And that's the thing that they have to save because the ship is sinking off.
No one would do that anymore.
They would just leave it.
But now, you know, they had to back then.
And a ship actually sunk somewhere in the Mediterranean or something at this time.
So they never aired that one.
I think they pushed it to the basketball.
Bud Light sunk.
Bud Light then.
Bud Light on a sinking ship.
Interesting.
What are your top five favorite movies?
Dang.
You have 10 seconds.
Okay.
So Shawshank Redemption for sure, top number one spot.
I mean, I share it.
Sometimes that changes, but that's unbelievable.
And you're out of time.
Okay.
At least I got that out.
Raiders.
I mean, I love all these classics, you know, The Godfather, of course.
I'm going to forget some of the more unique ones.
I love, like in comedy, Nacho Libre is sort of the top top spot there.
Maybe Dirty Round Scoundrels.
Oh, yeah.
That's one I haven't heard of in a long time.
I love that movie.
Now, there's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Star Trek reference.
I probably owe you one more, but you know.
No, I think it was fun.
You get it.
So you weren't involved in the production of Sound of Freedom, but Sound of Hopes being almost pitched as like a spiritual successor in a way, even though it's a different area, but it's part of like another children's part of the sound franchise.
Yeah.
So it's going to be a whole sound thing.
How did that come about?
Like, was that just a purely marketing adjustment?
Well, look, it was so spiritually, yes.
It's totally connected.
And then in terms of the cause, it's correlated so strongly.
I mean, it is a powerful correlation.
So I remember I was in the theater watching Sound of Freedom going, dang, this is amazing and sad.
And we must do something.
And my wife was talking to someone right before, before the movie started.
And our movie came up and foster care and all that.
Well, Sound of Freedom ends and everyone's sitting there like, we have to do something.
And this woman stands up and starts talking about how we need to foster kids and adopt kids.
And it was this riveting moment of people needing to respond, but not knowing how.
And so that stuck in our minds.
We're like, this issue is connected.
We know that.
Let's see if we can kind of parlay all of that awareness that was raised through Sound of Freedom, which is phenomenal.
And for those who really want to do more directly, let's give them a path.
So we kind of came up with this anthology idea.
It's not going to feel like Sound of Freedom, but it's connected to the same issue.
It does happen to be the same time, but that's really not the point.
It's just really the...
Well, I was thinking you could tie them together in like a kind of a multiverse.
And then like after the credits, you know, it's like, oh, he showed up.
He's from Sound of Freedom.
Yeah, I think we should definitely bring it all together.
There's a fury that calls everybody.
Like, I'm putting together a team and then you have.
We did talk about, maybe we should shoot some more scenes.
Maybe we're going to be back there somewhere, you know, adopting a child.
The Sound of Avengers.
Well, best of luck with the movie.
That's awesome.
And when does it come out?
So July 4th is the official opening.
You can see it July 3rd, but it's going to be all over the nation July 4th.
I think over 2,000 screens.
So very cool.
You know, you know how it is.
Go see it.
It's an independent film.
We're up against big boys, but it's moving.
Especially on July 4th.
May it absolutely crush Sound of Freedom.
Come on.
Yeah.
That's our hope.
Which already crushed it in a good way.
Crush it good.
Crush it well in a beautiful way because it's definitely an amazing film.
We can keep going.
I had one more question, if I may.
We're done, man.
All right.
So here we go.
All right.
No, so just peeking behind the curtain a little bit.
Obviously on the trailer, we see kids in distress and there's some crying and stuff.
I've always wondered how.
That was in the script.
Kids in distress.
Crying and stuff.
That's on the ratings.
That's the PG for the story.
The kids crying and stuff.
So I've always wondered how directors get such convincing performances out of kids.
Like, do you just make them cry?
Like, I'm going to take your toys away or something.
I've got them by my hand out of frame, just squeezing their hands.
Pinching their legs.
Words of tears.
No, it's all about the casting.
I mean, you've got to find kids that can go there.
It's really tough right now because every audition is recorded.
You get these video auditions.
That kid could have been working for three hours and crying because they're bored to death and want mom to stop.
You just don't know.
And so you really try to see a variety.
Parents could have been the one.
They could have been pinching them or threatening them or who knows what.
But, you know, you try your best to get it in the audition stage and then get them on set.
And I'm really, you know, having acted and because as a director, that's such an important thing.
The performance is everything.
So I just try to make sure everything's revolves around that.
Get the set the way it needs to be for the actor to do what they need to do.
And these actors, I'm telling you, they just blew this whole thing up.
It's so amazing.
And all these test screenings are happening where we're happening before this.
And it's riveting.
I mean, audiences are truly unsettled in a good way, like moved somehow.
It's really incredible as a filmmaker to step back and go, it feels beyond me.
It's crazy.
Something's going on.
But no dinosaurs.
No dinosaurs.
No dinosaurs.
Maybe robots in the third.
I could talk about that.
Now, the sound part of that was the Visual Studios idea to connect it with the title.
I'm looking forward to the sound of technology.
Yeah, that's next, right?
Sound of tech.
Let's put that in the midst.
Now, that's very interesting.
So, do you feel like as a director and an actor, you kind of have an insight into how to direct actors because you've been an actor yourself?
It's so helpful.
You know, it's funny, the show that we were in together, you and I, it was shot years ago, many, many years ago.
It's so old that I have a VHS copy of it.
How old is it?
It's Google VHS.
There were dinosaurs.
Like, I had to get a VR.
I do too.
I've got that backed up somewhere.
Director.
Yeah, I had a VHS from her.
It's so different.
Imagine what you guys do and what we can do today.
It's unbelievable.
My son, my eight-year-old, was reading a Calvin and Hobbes comic the other night for bed, and he comes into my room.
He goes, Dad, what's a VCR?
Yeah.
Because there was some joke about it.
I love that your kids read that.
My all went reads.
That was my son Calvin, actually.
Oh, yeah.
That's funny.
All right.
Well, everybody go check out Sound of Hope or you hate kids.
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This episode was recorded after the debate.
So we're going to comment on it.
The Trump-Biden debate.
Yeah, panel is on everything that happened.
Yeah.
So let's all just go around and we could just say our favorite things that happened in the debate.
My favorite part was when Biden stumbled over his words a little bit.
I would say my favorite part was when Trump insulted Biden directly to his face and also insulted the person running the debate.
Yeah.
I thought it was a little strange that Jake Tapper eventually said, I'm sorry that I called you Hitler to Trump.
Yeah, I didn't.
That was unexpected.
Yeah.
But, you know, good for him.
Good for him.
Yeah, that was a powerful moment.
I'm always a fan of just the camera being on Biden.
Yeah.
It's just fascinating.
The whole, you know, they just would do that.
They don't even need Trump.
Just that would be the argument.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah, he's, he's just, he's so fascinating to watch.
Yeah, when he started eating that invisible ice cream cone.
Uh-huh.
I mean, it was hard to tell what he was doing at first.
Yeah.
But then after a while, we kind of got it that it was.
Oh, it's an invisibleized.
When Biden said that he was dissolving Congress and he said, I am the Senate.
I thought that was a little on the nose.
I am the sad.
It's terrible.
Yeah, and his voice changed.
Can you direct him?
Okay.
This time.
Notes.
Any notes?
You're a director.
I liked when Biden was trying to talk and Trump was doing this on the other screen.
And he was saying false.
He kept saying that.
False.
Yeah.
I mean, they cut his mic during that, but you could tell he was saying he still heard it.
Yeah.
Wrong.
We all hear it.
Yeah.
I thought, you know, they were trying to be unbiased, but the fact that they put a swastika on Trump's podium.
Yeah, they superimposed one with green screen.
They felt a little forehead.
Yeah.
I was confused by the orange jumpsuit.
Yeah.
On which guy?
Well, it showed up more.
Maybe he adjusted the color when it was on drum, but it was very orange.
Very orange.
You can't even see him with a distracted jumpsuit.
I thought it was really sad when they had to change Biden's diaper in the middle.
Yeah, this one the pit crew comes out.
The pit crew came out.
I mean, it was impressive how fast it was actually pretty cool.
I mean, it was blink and you'll miss it type.
Yeah, I think that might actually end up being in his favor because of how efficient it was.
I've never seen that efficient of it.
But you think Trump won the debate?
I think whoever wins, much like Alien versus Predator, we lose.
Oh, sad.
Wow, let's think about that for a minute.
Whoever wins.
I don't know, America.
We deserve this.
All right.
Because we made Alien versus Predator.
That was not a good movie.
That was.
Well, the whole Predator franchise.
There's a new one coming out that's going to be good.
So the Alien franchise won, two.
I honestly even liked three.
Yeah.
Everything after that.
Two especially.
I thought two was great.
Yeah.
The first one was the best.
The second one was pretty good, but you know, it's more of an action movie.
The third one had some interesting philosophical themes when Ripley.
Motherhood.
Yeah.
It was the Motherhood mech.
Yeah, that was the.
Oh, that was the second one.
That was the second one.
I'm an idiot.
The only bad thing about the third one is that they killed Newt.
They killed Newt right in the beginning.
Newt.
Which ruined the entire point of Aliens.
Like, oh, we saved her.
Oh, she died.
Yeah.
And they just mentioned it as an aside.
Oh, she died.
Don't you guys like Prometheus?
She died.
I did.
I did like that so bad.
I mean, I liked it.
I'm going to say I liked it.
I probably like it less every time I watch it.
But it's just like stuff that happens.
She always says it.
Come on, you're above this.
Mr. Scott.
It was so big, though.
I like big sci-fi that asks big questions, but if you do watch it, there is enough stupid stuff that happens.
That's the stupid stuff.
I didn't need to do that.
I ultimately liked it, but I did not really like Alien Covenant, the follow-up.
Have you seen Romulus?
Have you guys seen Romulus yet?
Is it even out?
It's not out yet, right?
It's not out yet.
Yeah.
Well, nice.
Spoilers, Jared is a time traveler.
Oh.
I just got back.
I got these.
How is it?
Who won the election, by the way?
Oh, I've not saved that.
I do.
I should bet on that.
Oh, the time cops made you sign up.
Time cops, well, come get me.
Interesting.
Van Dam is actually a time cop.
Oh, that's strangely.
The Predator franchise never did as much for me.
And AVP, I wanted to like AVP.
I love the idea of just taking two completely separate franchises and being like, oh, they're actually the same.
And it's kind of a similar universe.
I would watch Sound of Hope versus Predator.
I like Sound of Hope.
That's a huge compliment.
What is that?
I'm going to save that.
When people ask me, what's the best compliment?
It could become like a home alone thing where all the kids are helping to set traps.
Yeah.
Tim Bagad versus Predator.
And the Predator comes in and a big paint can.
Okay, it's time to, now that we've covered the debate thoroughly, it's time to talk about what's in the news this week.
Let's do it.
What's in the news this week?
So Louisiana has required the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Required it to be displayed.
That's interesting.
So what's your take on that?
You go first so that I don't.
I'm of two minds about it.
I came out publicly calling David French a turd muffin because he was like, oh, this is terrible.
Thou shalt not.
I think the title of his article was thou shalt not put the Ten Commandments in school.
But it was more about the smarmy smugness where he doesn't like attack the left for preaching religion in school, your religion in schools, but then he attacks.
Like, honestly, I don't know.
Putting up the Ten Commandments in a classroom probably isn't going to save our nation, the moral fiber of our nation in any sense.
And I think a lot of times it's a little bit of an idol where we're like, ah, the Ten Commandments are up in front of this courthouse.
We did it.
And then it's like, well, yeah, but we're still losing.
So there's a little bit of that.
At the same time, it's like they're good moral laws for life, and it's not a bad thing if they're up in a classroom, I think.
Yeah.
The idea of requiring them to be displayed is kind of weird, I think.
But I mean, at least they're not banned.
I guess.
My idea is that the Ten Commandments are kind of written on our hearts, and we constantly violate them anyway.
So, I mean, if we have them, it's just going to increase the need to sin, like Paul says.
Like, I wouldn't have known what coveting was unless I knew that coveting was bad.
So, I don't know.
I think the kids are just going to read it and go, Well, these aren't on that list.
So, I guess I can do that.
That's true.
Yeah, we know that's going to happen.
Well, the Democrat states hit back and they approve their own Ten Commandments.
So, these are the blue state commandments that are allowed.
The first one is, Thou shalt have no other gods besides thyself.
I mean, that kind of makes sense.
Thou shalt not misgender thy neighbor in vain.
Okay.
In vain.
What if you do it not in Vain?
Well, that's remember to wear skimpy clothes and keep them holy with an age.
Sorry.
I have not read these jokes in advance.
I don't understand the skimpy clothes.
Okay.
Thou shalt honor thy teacher and hate thy transphobic parents.
Thou shalt not kill the sexual vibe the teacher hath created in the classroom.
That's something you shall know every detail of your teacher's sex life for some reason.
Thou shalt not attain basic literacy.
Thou shalt hate and bully the straight white male, for he is the worst.
Thou shalt not bear false witness unless it's against Donald Trump in the courtroom.
Thou shalt not forbid abortion.
And finally, thou shalt covet thy neighbor's everything.
Well, I mean, I think as long as we have that and the Ten Commandments side by side, it's fine.
That might even teach the controversy.
Yeah.
Let people decide.
Yeah.
Side-by-side comparison.
I like it.
Because in this case, though, whoever wins, some of us win.
Whoever wins, someone wins.
Yeah.
I like that.
That's the new tagline.
Whoever wins, they win.
Hey, but did you hear that Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was released from prison on Time Served because he signed a sweet plea deal?
Is he allowed to take water bottles from people like us?
That's my question.
As part of the plea deal.
Oh, I think so.
Is he?
Yeah, he got a sweet plea deal.
That's an even better deal than the lectern guy.
Yeah, I guess he pled guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information.
He's like, okay, yeah, I actually did that.
But come on.
Come on.
Come on.
And so he flew to Singapore, I guess.
All right.
But did he fly on a Boeing, you think?
I think they flew him out on a Boeing.
Hey, check out our sketch on Boeing.
Man, that's a great sketch.
That was pretty good.
Honestly, it is one of my favorite sketches.
You say that about every sketch.
No, no, this one.
Name one sketch you don't like that we did.
And bleep it out, whatever it is.
No one feels bad.
There's been a few.
I'm not going to say them right now.
Not the ones you're in.
No, some of the ones I'm in.
Yeah.
So before we move on, the Julian Assange thing.
So he exposed some important stuff.
Right.
But like some people in government are very just mad that he did that.
So how do you feel about, I mean, he did technically, you know, take documents and publish them.
So he technically committed a crime, but how do we feel about the fact that, you know, is there a greater good in what he did?
I mean, you could say some of it was reckless and like that he's actually releasing secrets that could compromise security or whatever.
Sure.
At the same time, you exposed some very important stuff.
So I don't know.
Mix.
It's hard to know if you're violated three of the Ten Commandments.
So mixed reviews.
Whistleblower status, right?
So if people can achieve a whistleblower status, you kind of get into this protected class unless you make the wrong people angry, I guess.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
He has nice hair.
Assange is a nice last name.
And it is a nice, it's funny.
It's very fun to say.
It is.
It really rolls off the tongue.
Benedict Cumberpatch played him in a movie.
That's right.
And he had, and he also didn't.
What's his name played?
Snowden?
Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Is he still alive?
Snowden?
Joseph Gordon Levitt?
Gordon Levin.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's still alive.
He's living in Moscow.
He did that stuck in a dream.
He stuck in a job.
He got stuck.
When all the Assange stuff was happening, when all that was coming out, what was that, like 14 years ago, 15 years ago?
Before I was born.
We were making like short films on DHS back then.
And I remember really being mad that they were going after him.
Yeah.
I mean, like, oh, he's a hero.
But I was on Reddit a lot at the time.
So now I'm wondering if I was completely wrong.
Yeah, pretty much anything that I get from Reddit and go, yeah, then I'm like, that might be incorrect.
Except for like some obscure troubleshooting for like, I have an old Windows 7 computer.
How do I open the toolbar?
Well, I get all of that.
All of my moral, all my moral advice from Tucker Carlson.
Oh, okay.
And he's really angry about Assange going to jail.
See, it makes me feel like there's a libertarian tinge to it, which I still kind of identify as a libertarian.
But at the same time, I'm like, sometimes they're a little.
But honestly, though, Tucker's pretty well informed about this stuff.
Not that I get everything from Tucker, but he is pretty well informed about these things.
And so when he says that Assange shouldn't be in jail, I kind of tend to agree.
Yeah.
I'm certainly, I kind of feel your mixed reviews aspect.
I would like to look into it.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I think the hard stance by some even conservatives like Mike Pence being like, oh, he should be in jail forever.
I'm like, well, yeah.
I'm a little wary of the hard stance on the other side.
Like he's a great guy.
Yeah.
It's like, well.
I mean, I think we got to assume that it's still possible for governments to melt down and to need things like this.
I'm with you.
I can't say for sure one way or the other, but I'm sure it's not either or.
But what do you do when this isn't necessarily going to last forever?
And there are going to be times when something has to be done that's going to make all those people mad.
So the spirit of it, what's the spirit of it?
You know, I think it's showing that something needs to be done and you're not going to be able to follow the rules to necessarily get that done.
Right.
Yeah.
So Julian Assange, if you'd like to come on the podcast and explain to us, then we will make sense.
Yeah.
Anyone else named Assange is also welcome.
And then he's going to immediately leak.
He's going to leak all our private conversations and keep him out of your office.
Benedict Assange.
And actually, Benedict Cumberpatch, you are also welcome on our podcast and in any of our movies.
Ah, the book of Jonah.
You know, I bet he wishes he had one of these when he was stuck in that giant fish because he was cramped, probably.
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So randomly, Snopes published a fact check this week.
That's so rare.
Snopes admitted Trump never called neo-Nazis very fine people seven years after it happened.
Oh, because I thought he did.
And they made such a big deal about it.
Yeah, that was from Charlotte.
I've got to change and go delete a lot of tweets because I was counting on that.
It is.
It's wild that they suddenly publish it.
It makes me feel like is there a change going on over at Snopes?
Like, hey, we have to start like Assange.
Maybe he's over there.
Maybe Assange.
Well, and this is past dirt hot on prior to the debates and also prior to the election.
Yeah.
So did this accidentally get published by some conservative in the group or something?
Like that's what I'm saying.
I'm spelling Snope.
Some person is sneaking in.
It's just such a random thing to publish.
Hey, remember that thing that happened seven years ago?
We fact-checked it.
Yeah.
So now they're now they can say we correct it.
We fact check.
Yeah.
Although the new due diligence, you would give it time, you know, make sure whether we really.
Although when the Babylon B published our article, CNN purchases industrial-sized washing machine to spin the news, they fact-checked that immediately.
That's important.
Makes sense.
I mean, one is more important than the other.
Well, hey, did you know that Americans supplied ATACMS missiles and that they are being used to strike Russia?
So Russia is promising retaliation.
Okay, so this is these are missiles fired from Ukraine.
Yeah, but we supplied the missiles.
We gave them a lot of other stuff too, including all this money, right?
So maybe we will not record this podcast.
We will be living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Oh, too late.
Oh, we are recording.
We're alive.
I am interested to know how Russia is going to quantify our involvement in the Ukraine conflict.
Well, I don't know.
They keep promising retaliation and they're not doing it.
So, well, I mean, at some point, mutually assured destruction is still a thing, right?
I mean, Putin's not going to attack the United States directly.
That would be bad news for everybody.
Yeah, what were the weapons in Dune where if you fired them at a shield, it would create a nuclear explosion?
Las guns.
Okay, so it's like they have laser guns and we have shields.
Yeah.
Like, yeah, it'll create a nuclear explosion.
Exactly.
Maybe it depends on how old he gets, you know, because that'd be an interesting way to go out.
That's true.
You know what?
He's just building up to it.
I have terminal cats.
Taking the world with a red button.
Wait, did you mean David Lynch's Dune or the recent one?
Yes.
Oh, they're both laser guns.
Yeah.
But I guess, yeah, Russia said that the United States had supplied the weapons and that the U.S. military specialists had aimed the weapons and provided data for them.
So they are promising retaliation.
All right.
Well, good.
Go us.
Probably a cyber attack.
USA.
Yeah.
All right, so this is interesting.
Massachusetts just launched an awareness campaign targeting misrepresentation from crisis pregnancy centers.
Avoid anti-abortion centers, giant banners.
Yeah, so they're saying they're putting a million dollars into a campaign against crisis pregnancy centers saying that it's misinformation for the young women that go in there, trying to convince them to get abortions.
So to go to something like a Planned Parenthood or something like that.
So this is Massachusetts.
They just passed it.
So this is legislation, though.
It's just like the abortion center is doing it.
Yeah.
So the public health commissioner actually spoke outside the women's health services Monday and said that they were putting a million dollars into a campaign from the government to redirect people from crisis pregnancy centers into pro-abortion centers.
And this is like kind of what happened.
Remember a couple years ago in California where they tried to pass that law that required pregnancy centers to advertise for pro-abortion centers like Planned Parenthood?
You guys remember even to the like they had to like you had to provide information option.
And it was abort your baby, but we have to give you this brochure saying that you can abort your baby if you want to.
Because you didn't know.
And it had to be a certain font size too.
So you couldn't print it.
It got struck down, right?
It did get struck down.
But in Massachusetts, that's not the case.
They're trying to say that crisis pregnancy centers don't provide actual medical care, which is actually not true.
Out of the 2,700 pregnancy resource centers across the country, there are 10,200 licensed medical professionals.
So that's the actual truth.
And so.
I wonder how that's distributed.
Like if there's one resource center that has 10,000 and then the rest of them don't have anybody.
I know the one that I support.
That's right.
The one that I support has a real doctor.
You know?
I'm just kidding.
That's a joke.
I know.
I'm just saying.
All right.
Well, support your local pregnancy center.
Sorry, your local anti-abortion center.
Now, Travis is going to play high fructose.
So this is a new game coming out by our friend Chris Kintero.
Formerly, it was an animator, worked on Doom.
Dune?
Doom.
David Lynch's Doom.
Oh, Doom.
David Lynch's Doom.
Sorry.
And not the one with Dwayne Johnson, the actual video game.
So this is on Kickstarter right now, and you can go support him.
We'll have links in the show notes.
You think he'll be my friend after this?
Does he follow you on Twitter?
I'll make him follow you on Twitter.
Yeah.
That's how I'll get all my friends.
I make Kyle tell them to be my friend.
A free plug for our friend's product.
Cool.
Check it out.
Travis's Game Corner.
Hey, Travis, thanks for inviting me over to your house.
Yeah.
Do you like my room?
I do.
Yeah.
So, hey, I thought I'd show you this new game called High Fructos.
Oh, fun.
It's pretty cool.
Can I play?
So you start off by selecting hero.
I don't have any heroes unlocked yet.
I mean, there's this cool elephant who I think is a Republican.
But let's just go to the fox because it's the only option.
What political party is that?
The elephant?
No, the fox.
Oh, do the Libertarians have?
They have a Badger or something?
Or the hedgehog?
Or hedgehog?
Why is it a hedgehog?
Because it like hedgehogs don't use ropes.
Okay.
Well, I guess the fox would be the Green Party?
Okay, so let's play as the Green Party.
Okay, and I'm going to choose a Katana.
And let's see, weapon selection, secondary weapon, Ninja Star.
Makes sense.
Plasmostat.
Makes sense.
Or AK-47.
Where did that come from?
Yeah, that's quite the progression.
I like it though.
Obviously.
I'm a big fan.
Alright, tutorial.
Slow move attack.
Let's go.
Jump in the air and then hold down the dash button.
Okay.
Okay.
Here we go.
Ah.
Alright, so here I am.
Oh, waves.
Interesting.
There's time move.
Am I like waiting for it?
Oh, I want the!
I think your fingers aren't on WAS.
Oh, that'll.
I know what you're thinking.
Working mistake.
This guy.
Okay, so there's evil strawberries.
Aren't all strawberries evil?
Oh!
Recipe.
Yeah, recipe.
Oh, no, you didn't die.
You didn't die.
Oh, complete recipe.
Okay, because you got four strawberries.
Okay, so I level up and get good.
Alright, so now it's my turn.
Well, no, it's still the aim.
I haven't died, like you pointed out.
Whoa!
Slow motion!
That was cool.
That was pretty cool.
This is like a wave-based game, or is that just the demo, maybe?
It's like an auto-shooter.
No!
Wave.
Kind of.
Every time I succeed, I think I'm dying.
Okay, now it's real life, honestly.
I can upgrade an Injistar, but I don't have Ninjastar.
Why would it do that?
Well, if you can re-equip it or something?
Oh, wow.
Wings.
Speed boot.
You're going to get upgrades and be able to equip more water.
37.
Yeah, just save your mom.
Okay, I'll save my mom.
It's a good principle for life.
Find barrels to find a random collectible.
Okay.
The typical video game fare.
Let's see.
So for the audio listeners, this is a first-person shooter, kind of.
And it shoots for you.
Because these are auto-shooters like Vampire Survivor and Games of their Ilk, but it's done in first person.
And what he's being attacked by right now are evil strawberries.
So what I don't do automatically is use my sword.
I have to use the sword.
So there's actually a little more like actually activating stuff than this.
I really like how this game looks.
It's kind of the.
The cell shading?
Yeah.
Well, and the fact that you're just cutting open these hypertose.
But mostly the cell shading.
They call it tomb shading.
So you need another strawberry.
Oh, there you go.
You got it.
Recipe complete.
Now you're going for strawberries.
Okay.
So what's the bonus for getting a recipe?
Do you get like more coins or something?
That's a good question.
Because I wasn't really paying attention to that.
Okay, so you leveled up.
Now you can do dash, legs, or the number, or you have more dashes available.
Dash distance, dash amount, jump.
Dash!
Oh, maybe I didn't even click on it.
Dash amount, feet.
You can upgrade your level up.
I like how they don't call it speed, just feet.
Level up.
Your feet.
Even the jumping windows.
Legs.
Feet.
Ah.
Okay, now we have 112 coins.
I'm just going to do plasma staff.
Oh, no, you bought, you didn't upgrade the plasma staff.
You bought the plasma staff.
So that's okay then.
And I could sell them.
Combine.
Can you combine the AK-47 and the plasma staff?
Maybe you have to get something that matches.
Alright.
Tutorial.
You can run on a wall.
Just like a real fox.
And a real fox.
And a real fox.
And a real Neo.
Yeah, I was kind of wondering why Neo wasn't called Fox in that movie.
Okay, so now your Plasma Staff.
Oh, that was your Plasma Staff.
Okay, so where's the recipe that you were looking at?
Oh, here, so you need three strawberries.
Oh, okay.
I can do it if you want.
No.
No, no, it's fine.
You're going to get me killed.
I very much like the sort of slow motion speed thing.
What's funny to me is that they taught me how to do wall running and there's no walls right now.
Oh, that was a bit of a tease.
Yeah.
Can I shoot.
Yeah, I can do the trees.
Let's take that tree.
So yeah, my AK-47 isn't like...
I'm not holding it.
It's just hovering around me or coming out of my head.
That's funny.
Strawberry cherry.
This is money, obviously.
Yeah, there must be a mounted once back or something.
Are you a fruit guy?
I mean, apples are okay.
I'm not a big fruit guy.
I'm going to upgrade slashes.
Increase number of slashes.
You're not a big fruit guy?
Do you like vegetables?
Some.
More vegetables than fruit, some.
Life surge.
Oh.
So it's health.
I mean, health and speed.
Oh, no, speed went down.
Oh, that was a huge mistake.
You fool.
Oh, no.
You fool.
You've ruined everything.
Okay.
Okay.
Slow-mo attack.
Isn't that what I've been doing?
It's just another it's like a tutorials that cycle through In case you missed it the first time.
Knowing me.
I want to walk.
There's a wall I run on.
I want to run on this wall first.
That was cool.
Oh, man.
I need to upgrade my sword.
Your sword's pretty terrible.
If only I had something other than I could take.
Oh, my gosh, was that a mad cherry?
Yeah, it was a cherry.
Oh, you need a cherry for your recipe.
Find a cherry, find a cherry.
Recipe complete.
It does feel like you can just get the recipes pretty easily just by killing everyone.
Yeah.
Yeah, you don't have to worry that much about it.
I assume later on in the game it's more like.
It's more like I'm going to die, but maybe I can.
Oh, this recipe.
Oh, there's cherries.
Oh, gosh, the cherries.
I like how the cherries are just giant eyeballs, basically.
Angry eyebrows.
It's actually an interesting ontological question.
what is the essence of a cherry because in this game's mind oh I got juice Like, OJ.
In this game's mind, a cherry is one unit with two cherries on it.
Yeah.
And it has an eye on each.
So it's like one soul.
You know what I mean?
Like, wouldn't it be more accurate to put two eyes on a single cherry?
Well, you're right, because they're technically two different fruits.
Well, and then the bananas are like, it's a whole body.
The strawberries, a whole face.
Yeah, they have two different cherries, but two eyes.
And they just watch you.
Like, he comes at you and it hurts you, but he's just staring at you.
So what did you think of the game?
I actually really enjoyed it.
Because it's a demo.
I don't know fully how expansive it gets.
It could be terrible.
Well, I wasn't going to go that far.
I'm just curious if it's always like a wave-based sort of roguelike situation.
I feel like that's what I'm saying.
Or if there's like a single-player campaign.
Is there 64-player multiplayer?
Are there unskippable cinematic cutscenes?
That talk about mechs.
And you can't skip the dialogue and it's like learning about Fox's dark past.
I hope so.
I mean, heavy rain, anyone?
Heavy rain of fructose.
The fructose.
Yeah.
Heavy rain was okay.
I didn't play it.
I started to realize that I didn't enjoy games where it's just a movie and I'm kind of giving minimal input.
I think it was the novelty was really neat at first because you're like, oh, this game is like a movie.
But then you're like, oh, it's not as good as a movie, though.
I could just be watching it.
I could just be watching a movie.
That's how I feel about Metal Gear.
I enjoyed Metal Gear a little bit, like the Metal Gear Sala.
Sure.
But after that, I tried to plan and I'm like, I don't.
So to that end, I like how high fructose just jumps right in and you're just touching up fruit.
Yeah, it feels like an arcade game arcade shooter.
Hold on.
Sorry.
Oh, my mom's calling me.
Hey, mom, why don't you just come in here?
You're in the next room.
No, he doesn't have to go home.
Dave, do you want to stay for dinner?
Sure, if you want me.
Hey, Kyle wants to know if he can stay for dinner.
She said no.
Do you want to turn, though?
Sure.
That was a trick.
Get out of here.
All right.
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Red Lobster cultivated black customers.
It has not shied away from that customer base like some brands have.
Clarence Otis Jr., the former CEO of Darden Restaurants from 2014 to 2014, when the company is still on the chain, told CNN, this has been Red Lobster Fax.
Okay.
What brands have shied away from the black population?
Long John Silvers.
I think it's shy away from everything, isn't it?
Done.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
Like what?
I would say the majority of advertisement has leaned in.
You don't think so?
Tell me, tell me why.
Come on, Josh.
Pretty clearly, everyone's shied away from the black community.
Yeah, I don't know what this is talking about.
Maybe I've seen it.
This has been Red Lobster Fax.
Now it's time for Red Lobster Mail.
I have enjoyed Red Lobster for as long as I can remember.
My most memorable meal was a special event in 2004.
My husband and I had been waiting to adopt a baby for years, and we were finally selected by a birth mom.
The agency coordinated semi-open adoption so we would have contact with the birth family off and on throughout the child's life.
They selected a, you guessed it, red lobster.
An hour away from us for our initial visit.
Our birth mom and her mother arrived and we sat with them and our adoption coordinator.
I recall the birth mom and I both ordered the popcorn shrimp and same sides.
We all ended up laughing and enjoying each other's company and all the anxiety was gone.
The next day at work, everyone celebrated my birthday, but I was still on a high from meeting the woman who would bless our lives forever.
And we ended up adopting another baby of hers two years later.
Thanks for enjoying a special Red Lobster moment with me.
And this is from Suzanne.
This is Tired Mama.
Tired Mama.
On our forum.
Well, I hope she didn't accidentally adopt a lobster.
That would be embarrassing.
No one's had the heart to tell her.
And she's got this.
Back with that lobster.
You didn't pay for that, lady.
All right, this has been Red Lobster Mail.
And that's my favorite part.
This is an account called Gandalf the Gay.
And we had posted an article, attractive female saying wokeness is gay tarded, instantly becomes world's most popular conservative influencer.
And someone, it looks like a leftist, shared it and said lol.
And then another leftist quoted it and said, dang, Babylon Bee actually said something funny.
Oh, and then I actually thought that was fun.
I had replied to our article and I said, please stick to making fun of the left.
Thank you.
And then this guy, Kyle Gaypride, that's not to be confused with me.
I think the funniest part here is Kyle Mann having the little Babylon B symbol next to his name, meaning he is associated with them.
So he's just mad at himself, apparently.
I like that he explained that.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's funny.
It's like the bizarre world version of me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's really funny.
He's constantly following you around explaining what you do.
It's funny.
So this was a tweet from Sam Garafalos, if I'm pronouncing that right.
And he shared a Babylon B headline.
Boeing honors whistleblower with special up-close view of rocket launcher.
And it's got Justin Trudeau attached to it.
I don't think that's Justin Trudeau.
No, wait, who is that?
It's Joel Ostock photo.
Oh, Justin's like, it looks like Justin Trudeau.
It does look like Justin Trudeau and Joel Osteen had a baby.
Yeah, but he, but he said the Babylon B usually sucks, but this one is actually pretty funny.
Honestly, that's the biggest compliment you can get.
When someone's like, I hate your guts.
But that was pretty good.
You know, guys, that was pretty good.
You used to be good.
Adam Ford.
Adam Ford.
I really miss Adam Ford.
Let's see.
The Iron Nephew.
ETS syndrome, E.T. syndrome.
Babylon B, Ben and Jerry announces its ice cream is now gay.
Guy whose head looks like a canned ham.
And I bet it uses pronouns too.
Bot.
This is why we need Trump.
Follow if you agree.
Lady that drowned her baby in a bathtub in 1995.
The scariest part is that it's true.
Wow.
That escalated quickly.
Yeah, he's having a conversation online by himself.
That's what he's doing.
Okay, so can we actually act this out with Kyle?
Can you read Babylon B and then Jarrett?
You'll read the guys who head looks like a Ken Ham because that's, I mean, let's be honest.
And then you can be the robot.
I'll be bot.
And then I'll be the sad one.
You've been assigned the part of Lady That Drowned Her Baby in a Bathtub in 1995.
I didn't want to give anyone else that.
So that was very good of you.
Are we ready?
All right.
Ben and Jerry's announces its ice cream is now gay.
And I bet it uses pronouns too.
Good one, bro.
This is why we need Trump.
Follow if you agree.
The scariest part is that it's true.
Oh, man.
Got him.
We really got those nerds.
All right.
So we had a joke.
Walt Disney posthumously fired by Walt Disney for being white male.
And then someone shared it and said, every single CEO of Disney has been a white male.
Yeah.
Guys.
And then someone replied to it.
Conservatives are bad at satire because they don't actually have anything to satirize.
They're the ones with all the joke fodder.
LOL.
But this is actually making fun of a real story because James O'Keefe went undercover with the Disney exec who said that they are, he's like, if you're a white male, we're not going to hire you or promote you.
Forget about him.
So that was what it was based on.
So it is based on something really.
But it can't be true because their CEO is white.
Oh, I didn't see that.
Aaron Rupar shared our joke.
Oh, did Donald Trump share our joke?
Oh, he did.
He did.
On Truth Social.
Oh, that's a good idea.
So we did Trump preps for debate against Biden by going to nursing home and arguing with dementia patients.
Donald Trump shared it.
Aaron Rupar, I think he's a media matters guy, maybe, shared it.
Classy stuff.
So he's being sarcastic.
Yeah, I don't think he thinks it's classy.
And then an account called Totally F and Gay says, No, your enemy.
The Babylon B is RT, oh, right-wing trash.
Always was.
Also, rarely funny.
Stick with the onion.
Unless you're a reactionary moron, of course.
Like the people above the reactor.
The RT, the right-wing, whatever it said.
I thought it said, like, they're a retweet group.
You can cut that.
Yeah, that's.
No, I'm trying to figure out what RT meant as well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you know what?
SOH stands for Sound of Hope.
Sound of Hope.
So go see Sound of Hope, people, July 4th.
Maybe July 3rd, but mostly July 4th.
And if you don't, you hate America and kids.
Also, go to BabylonB.com slash plans and use promo code podcast to get 20% off and get access to the rest of the show.
And also, if you have any money left over from that, go help our friend make his new game, High Fructose.
It looks like a cool game.
Arena wave shooter type auto shooter thing.
It was a blast.
And you get to kill strawberries.
Well, I mean, people do that every day.
They eat it.
You know, as we wrap up here, this reminds me of a Bible, bro.
Wait.
Do you have your manga?
This is Ezekiel 13, 8.
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you, says the Lord God.