BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: WE MADE A MOVIE! | The Babylon Bee Podcast
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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Babylon B podcast.
Today is a very exciting day because we have a big announcement.
I'm Kyle.
This is Jarrett.
Brandon.
And I'm Travis.
Whoa.
And that wasn't the announcement.
The announcement is we made a movie.
What?
What?
When did we do that?
I hear people in the audience saying, what?
That's not what we wanted.
Are you serious, Paul?
We want more sketch.
We want more sketch.
More sketch, please.
More sketch, more, please, sir.
Yes, so many of you have been patiently asking where all the sketches have gone.
And the sketches will return at some point.
And we still put one out here and there.
But in the meantime, we've spent all our time and energy and countless piles of money making a movie for you guys to watch.
Full-length documentary.
It's called January 6th, The Most Deadliest Day.
Ooh, scary.
It's almost a horror movie.
Yeah.
If you will.
I'm afraid to watch it.
Wait till you see the poster.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
And many people sitting in this very room were actually on screen in the movie.
I don't know if Brandon's.
I'm not.
Well, no, I am.
I've not.
No, technically.
We all are.
We all are.
At one point.
You're hiding in one scene.
No, in one scene.
I'm trying to think where you are.
I know where you are.
Okay.
All right.
So watch the movie.
It's like, where's Waldo?
Yeah.
Where's it?
Brandon was mostly behind the camera and helping me direct.
He and I both directed and all these guys contributed jokes and all that kind of fun stuff.
So it was a blast to make.
We're going to talk a little bit about it.
But first, we want you guys to watch the trailer here.
So this movie's coming out October 11th.
And if you are a member of the Babylon B, you can watch it on the day it comes out.
You also get some exclusive content, bonus content that we're going to keep trickling out there as we build up to the release date.
So if you want to sign up and become a member of the Babylon B, help support conservative filmmakers and get a really fun movie to watch too, go to BabylonB.com slash January 6th right now and then come back here and watch the trailer.
So you have to sign up and then you can watch the trailer.
But you can also just watch the trailer and then sign up later.
But anyway, just okay, here's the trailer.
Let's take a watch.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the heat death of the universe.
These are some of the deadliest days in history.
But none of them compare to the most deadliest day, January 6th, 2021.
Coming soon in the most epic movie event since Robot Jocks left behind, or maybe even Son of the Mask.
The Babylon Bee investigates the darkest day in the history of democracy.
Where were you on January 6th?
In January?
I don't remember.
Form in the Capitol, baby.
Nah, nah, nah, nah.
Scary stuff like this happened.
So on a scale of 9 to 10, how terrifying was what you just witnessed?
Three?
I don't know.
We go on location.
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We ask the tough questions.
Is it true that you have a Jewish space laser?
This is incredibly boring.
Could you explain it to me using Marvel characters?
We even go face to face with the scariest criminals you'll ever meet.
Are you the dangerous insurrection man?
Who's asking?
We're in.
Into the litter of darkness I go.
Darkness because of the because he's a Republican, not because he's, you know.
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Where were you on January 6th?
I was in that mob that was going into the Capitol.
Wow.
Dang.
I am.
Well done, guys.
I am literally falling on the ground with excitement.
I'm crying.
I'm crying.
I feel like I'm being insurrected right now.
There's tears coming out of my eyes.
Rawful.
And since we are, we often, my wife always says that she can't tell if I'm joking or not when I say stuff.
So I must clarify, we did make this movie.
It is a real thing.
And you can actually watch it on October 11th and you can sign up now to help support it, help cover the costs, and help support our future endeavors.
And you'll get the movie when it comes out, October 11th.
So get hype.
We're going to have some more content coming out as we go.
I get excited for this thing.
But right now, we wanted to talk a little bit.
Pull back the curtain.
Tell you what it was like to make a movie.
So December of last year, we were kicking around ideas for a project.
And right around that time is when we kind of stopped doing as many podcasts and we told everybody, hey, we're going to pull back a little bit and work on a project secretly behind the scenes.
And it morphed into this.
So basically, we came up with this idea to do a satirical documentary on January 6th.
If you've ever seen the Nathan for You television show, Homeschoolers, ask your parents about that one first.
Kunk on Earth, Homeschoolers, talk to your parents first.
Between two ferns?
Eh, that one's fine.
You don't have to ask your parents.
So it's based on that kind of satirical interview style.
Kunk on Earth especially.
If you guys haven't watched that, it's such a funny show.
She did Kunk on Britain, Kunk on Earth, and I think there's some other ones coming out.
But just kind of that idiotic interviewer sitting with a serious person was kind of the format that it's a very serious investigative journalist.
A very self-serious person who believes that they're the most intelligent person around, but in reality, everyone is kind of wondering how they're in this position in the first place.
And so we figured that the best person to play that kind of person was me.
Why has that person in that?
Oh, you were playing the character.
Oh, yeah.
Self-serious.
Convinced of their own rightness.
Yes.
So it was a big undertaking.
We drafted a script in about a month and we slowly started setting up shoot dates, getting guests, calling around, doing all this stuff.
We got to travel to DC to get some shots at the Capitol, which is a blast.
Kyle was Scared.
You're not referring to myself on the show.
You're Kyle.
Yes, correct.
Wait a minute.
Well, now I'm speaking as Garth.
So why was Kyle scared?
Speaking of Garth, so like we're framing this movie from the perspective of liberal reporters reporting on the deadliest day in human history.
And so to our beast readers who are familiar with Garth Struddlefudd, he is our resident liberal op-ed writer at the Babylon B.
And he's now personified by Kyle Mann.
Yeah.
It's true that when I was writing the script, I kept writing Kyle, and then I'm like, no, wait, this is the idiot.
Yeah, to the point where we had to redub Alliance.
We had to redub lines where you said Kyle.
And we're like, wait a minute.
That's right.
I think this is actually Garth, not Kyle.
And by the way, when you guys finally see it, there is a line that Travis utters where he says Kyle.
And we dubbed in Garth over there.
So if you find Garth, then you are.
But it looks a lot better than the Jackie Chan movie.
Depends on the Jackie Chan movie.
Depends.
That's true.
There's a few that I've watched.
And at first, I'm like, is this?
It looks better than Rush Hour 2, but not as good as Who Am I?
And you know, it's interesting.
I think about the Kyle Garth thing.
We hadn't made a decision about that previous to when we started shooting the interstitial stuff on the stage.
So that day.
Well, that was when you said that line.
You actually did it both ways.
Like Kyle walked down the staircase and was like, I'm coming.
And then the next one is like, I'm Garth Strudelfud.
So that was a decision that we had to make kind of on the fly, which is kind of funny.
It's like, this is going to affect the entire movie.
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Yeah.
That's funny.
So if I may, Kyle, what did you get scared of?
Oh, in DC?
Did you hear about this?
So we went to DC and I got there first, and these guys weren't there yet.
And I got dropped off at the wrong address.
Oh, wait.
No, I did hear about it.
And it was a very like ghetto Sesame Street.
It looked like ghetto Sesame Street is where I was.
But Sesame Street is kind of ghetto if you actually watch the show.
Like the street?
Yeah, it actually feels all right.
It already feels.
So just Sesame Street.
There was this green guy in a garbage can start yelling at me.
No, I went up to the door and the address and I'm knocking and I can kind of tell there's people in there, but it was like supposed to be an Airbnb and I'm like, this is weird.
Yeah.
So I left and I'm like, oh, I think I'm at the wrong place.
And I went down, I saw another address.
It was exactly the same.
And I go up and there's like a jury summon stuffed in the mailbox, like all this stuff pouring out of the mailbox.
And I'm like, I don't think this is right.
So I realize I'm like three quarters of a mile away and like the sun's starting to go down.
I'm walking around with thousands of dollars worth of equipment through like a not great area of DC.
And I finally found the Airbnb.
It wasn't at as bad of a spot, but I had already been a little spooked.
Right, right.
And so I got on a scooter and I'm like, I think I'm just going to scoot somewhere and like find a hotel or something because you guys still weren't there.
And so I'm scooting around and then this guy's like, get the F out of my way, man.
He started yelling at me.
And I'm like, okay, I think I'm going to get a hotel.
So I did.
And I was a big scaredy cat.
I can see why you didn't like that place.
I did.
It was a brownstone.
It was pretty cool.
But I felt really bad that Kyle got scared because I booked that place ahead of time.
There was no AC and there were many phallic statues.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
That's true.
Cause it was like sort of an African tribal theme.
Yeah.
It didn't appear that way on the like on the websites.
I don't think they advertise the phalluses up front.
They take the pictures, they say move all the African statues, and then they slide them all back.
The phalluses were in the closets, I guess.
But it was fun.
We got to go around town and we got to do a lot of man on the street stuff.
So the movie has a ton of stuff where we talk to people on the street about their opinions on January 6th and other fun stuff.
We got to go see all the monuments and do it.
And it was a wonderful time.
You said you'd never been to DC, right?
I had never.
And I spent the whole time on a scooter, which is the way to do it.
That's the way to.
If you ever want to go to DC, do the scooter tour.
It only costs a few thousand dollars.
Jamie in the Florida office who does a lot of the accounting is like, what's this company that the spin scooters that I just got a $500 bill for?
I'm like, oh, yeah, that was us scootering around with five scooters and you scooter for an hour.
Get the multi-day pass or get like one of those bundles so you don't have to spend as much as we did.
But it actually worked out great because we were kind of like thinking, oh, we'll just Uber from here to here or we'll walk.
And we're like, oh, that's not going to work.
It would take too long.
It was cheaper and faster than an Uber.
However, if we got the bundles, it would have been even cheaper.
Yes.
We shot some scenes in front of the FBI and we were like going around the FBI building these five guys.
Was it five guys?
I don't remember.
The guys who make the burgers, yeah.
Yes.
The five guys.
Yeah.
No, it was five of us.
And it's interesting being in a suit because everybody, I felt underdressed in Washington, D.C.
I was like wearing, you know, sweatpants and a t-shirt.
You had a suit on, so you looked like you fit right in.
Everybody in D.C. dresses up.
You look like a moron, so you fit right in.
Yeah, you fit right in.
Yeah, my ride.
And then I also got lost.
Oh, yeah.
Wait, did you?
I thought we went to the baseball game.
We went to the Washington Nationals game the night before, and then you guys all went back up.
Brandon did not go to the baseball game.
Correct.
But you guys all went back up to the place together because you were all in the same place.
And I was at a hotel somewhere else.
And I went the wrong way.
And then I'm like walking around and I'm like, I do not know where I am.
My phone had died.
And I'm like, that's the Capitol.
That's not where my hotel is.
So we got to do some stuff on location in D.C.
That was a lot of fun.
We got to do stuff on location in Nashville.
And I didn't get scared in Nashville.
The Airbnb in Nashville was great.
That was very cool.
Yeah.
It was great.
Rooftop stuff and karaoke in the place.
Music Row is just incredible.
They had like 10 pink cowboy hats for us to wear.
If we wanted.
When you went to.
I did wear that.
You did.
It was so cool.
And Music Row is amazing.
It was so get to interview a bunch of people.
You saw a little bit in the trailer, but we did a lot of Man on the Street on Broadway.
And that was just the funnest thing, like talking to people that probably a little inebriated, some of them.
No matter what time of day it was, they had some drinks in them for sure.
But we got some good stuff there, and that was a blast.
And we also got to talk, as you might have seen, the third most famous Daily Wire host, Michael Knowles, was gracious enough to be in the movie.
And he was fantastic.
He was great.
That was probably Dream Come True version.
He was probably the third best guest in the movie.
Third best Daisy Wire host and the third best guest guest.
We also have what some people say is the most popular host at Prager, Dennis Prager.
No relation.
He got hired.
Possibly.
He got hired there and happened to have been a good person.
Although, after having spoken with his wife, Susan, I think she might actually be a better host than he is.
I'm telling you, she's.
You're considering just kicking him out and just interviewing her.
Yeah, maybe, or just hiring her out at the Babylon Beach.
You'd be one of our personalities.
But Dennis was great.
He was just fantastic.
It's so great to have him in the movie.
Actually, the funniest thing is when we started this, we didn't really know how it was going to work.
We were prepping the people that we were interviewing.
Like, hey, I'm an idiot.
I have to preface that.
I'm an idiot.
Just talk to me like I'm five years old and just act completely serious the whole time.
And we just didn't know if people would be coachable in that way.
And some people were more so coachable than others.
There's nobody that we like didn't use, right?
Everyone was used.
Yeah, all the experts and stuff we used.
But we started with Ryan Williams at the Claremont Institute.
And he was just kind of like, we're just like, oh, we just kind of need an expert that looks expertise.
And, you know, it didn't really have to be somebody that was like a huge prig or big personality type person.
We just got him.
And he ended up being one of our favorite interviews because he was so dead serious.
Because it was very dry.
And that's, I mean, that's what we like.
We like very dry humor.
We like taking things very seriously and juxtaposing some of the more ridiculous aspects with that self-seriousness.
Yes.
Because this is a movie that even though it's humorous, it is going after a specific point.
And there are aspects of it that are educational.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You learned.
I mean, it's that thing that weaves in and out of humor.
And some of it's like, oh, this could be a fun comedy bit.
It's almost like a little sketches weaved together in some ways.
But at the same time, there's this overarching narrative about, you know, like just that the liberal media was so insane and still is so insane about January 6th, where it's not like we're saying that January 6th was the best day ever.
Right.
I mean, I am.
I know you are, but us normal people, we're like, yeah.
That's not the official Babylon Beast stand.
It's just Travis's.
We have to have that caption come up on the screen.
Any opinions expressed by Travis or not?
It's just the discrepancy in which the government, the federal government, and the news media have attacked people that have, particularly in comparison to the BLM riots of 2020 leading up to January 6th, where people stood in doorways and got raided by the FBI for standing.
Whereas meanwhile, rapists were bailed out of prison by Kamala Harris.
Yeah, there's a little bit of a difference there.
It's an imbalance in the justice system.
I think we're kind of pointing to the fact that the justice system is being weaponized against people that think like us.
And for anyone that did commit any acts of actual violent crime at January 6th, absolutely.
I stand behind, uh, falling behind them.
I stand behind them.
I stand behind actually standing behind them.
Justice, them receiving justice for what they did.
Of course.
But many grandmothers were just praying.
Many men were just literally just standing and walking and had had their lives torn up because of that.
But also proportional justice.
I mean, people shouldn't have broken windows on the Capitol.
No.
But what's a broken window going to normally cost someone?
It's probably they're going to have to pay for it.
Yeah, it's going to be a fine.
Yeah.
But these are people who are basically in prison and some of them for an indefinite period of time because they're not taking plea deals and things like that.
And things are just getting absurdly stretched out.
Or taking a person like Jacob Chansley, the Buffalo fellow, and putting him in isolated, in isolation for 10 months.
Yeah, he was in like solitary confinement.
I mean, that's crazy.
That's just crazy.
Which is like a human rights violation.
Like to walk someone away like that.
You know, that said, I would probably prefer isolation because sex is kind of nice.
Versus.
I'd be too afraid of the other.
I see what you're saying.
You don't want to be in gen pop?
No.
You don't think you would like prison?
No, I don't think I would.
Yeah, so this is another aspect of the movie is that not only did we interview actual experts on January 6th and get some really good information out there through the lens of satire with my goofy liberal reporter character, we actually got to talk to people that were at, that were there and that have been prosecuted by a politically slanted justice system.
We got to talk to Lecteran guy, that's his name.
We got to talk to Siaka, who you might have heard on our podcast before in Babylon B. Like, dude, Babylon B actor Siaka was like raided by the FBI and had, he was separated from his wife, his pregnant wife, arrested on the tarmac, you know, years after the fact, out of the blue, because he basically stepped in and filmed for 70 seconds.
Mild spoilers, but I mean, this is just the news.
He was just standing there talking, being friendly.
We have the footage of him standing in a doorway, just being friendly, talking to police officers, saying, oh, I saw that guy hit you.
He shouldn't have done that.
I'm so sorry.
Are you okay?
Checking if police officers are okay.
This is in the movie.
He was arrested for this.
And trying to organize the people to leave at certain points.
Hey guys, let's move this way.
Let's get out of here.
Yeah, the police officers were telling him to leave.
He was like, okay, we got it.
Let's guys, let's clear a path.
Come on, let's guys move.
Yeah, so he's like kind of trying to organize everybody.
And they got him.
They got him.
And we even may have, well, we went on a quest to track down the Buffalo guy.
Buffalo fellow.
And you'll have to see how that turned out in the movie.
Hard-hitting interview.
The Buffalo guy.
Powerful.
So this is the longest thing that we've ever shot.
And it was like, it was a blast.
It was a lot of work.
We learned a lot of lessons in terms of how to schedule these things and what you have to do and like how to do this kind of thing.
I mean, documentaries are so rough.
They're easier to film in some ways and they're harder to film in other ways because you can't really plan everything in terms of this is all the dialogue we're going to get.
You don't know what people are going to say.
It was constantly changing.
Every time we pulled the camera out, things changed.
Yeah.
Like every time.
Yeah, I think to your point, it's easy to film in the sense that you're like, hey, everything is useful.
Let's just have the camera on, but then you have so much to go through and you really got to whittle it down to make something that's compelling.
Well, you have to over plan.
That's what I've realized.
You have to over plan.
And there were so many folks that I was in contact with that we ended up not using too.
And so it's like schedules didn't work out or this didn't work out.
Like, so a lot of it, because a lot of it really was based on these interviews that we got.
Yeah, from a scheduling perspective, when you write a narrative movie, it's like, we're going to shoot for this four weeks or whatever it is.
You can't do that here because you're like, this guy's not available until August.
This guy's not available until here.
Here's the thing.
And it's spragging almost like some Jewish holiday.
I would say it's like a choose your own adventure kind of like movie making.
It's a movie making, choose your own adventure.
I like it.
If you want to interview Dennis Prager, turn to page 37.
Yeah.
If you want to interview his CEO, Marissa Street, turn to page 37.
And then things are changing while we're filming.
So news is updating all the time.
So we're filming this and then Trump got shot.
And we're like, well, it changes everything.
It'd be kind of weird if we didn't mention that, even though.
We were getting critty.
We are getting pretty close to the end of the shooting.
And we woke up that Saturday morning.
Not all together.
We don't live together.
Not that Saturday.
It wasn't that Saturday.
We individually woke up in our own homes.
Hey, Travis.
On Saturday.
And Trump had gotten shot.
And we're just like, or that afternoon, I guess.
And we were just like, what?
Like, we were an inch away from this movie not being usable.
In a sense, like, you could still maybe make it work, but at the same time, you're doing this whole movie on Trump and how he's evil and, you know, in a satirical way.
And it's like, okay, well, now it doesn't work as much.
So we added stuff about Trump being shot.
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Well, and that's just one example.
Like the biggest example, but I feel like so much stuff.
I mean, another thing was, I mean, obviously the Democratic candidate that changed.
Oh, right.
So we had little things about Biden in here and some of them didn't inherently make sense.
And then some of them we actually just fortuitously, certain segments of the movie quoted Kamala instead.
And it's like, oh, that works even better now.
Yeah, thank God.
Thank God that whole opening sequence.
Well, again, minor spoilers, but at the beginning of the movie, it actually worked out really well that Kamala was the nominee because at the very beginning of the movie, we have her quote where she, I don't know if you guys ever remember this, but she actually said that January 6th is just as memorable as 9-11.
Right.
Yeah.
And Pearl Harbor.
And this is one of those dates that was seared into the conscience of America.
And you'll have to see how that turned out on the man on the street when we asked people where they were on January 6th.
Was this seared in your conscience?
Yeah, that's over you on January 6th.
Yeah, it's a trip.
Yeah.
There was so much urgency to get it done because of that too, because we could kind of feel the news cycle spinning and all of us were feeling this tension that we were going to, we're just going to lose it.
We're going to lose this.
It's going to be totally irrelevant.
We've got six months of work.
And for years, that's what we've done is we've kind of responded to the news and we've done short, short, little short comedy videos.
And they usually never took more than a month at most if something wasn't timely or in the news.
But lots of times we have to just turn something out because it's in the news.
This was a very different experience to work on it for several months instead of, like I said, a month max.
And the news could change and completely throw everything up into the wind.
It's a very different thing.
Like we get to fire off jokes so quick and sketches so quick and then to spend so long on something and then to have no idea like how it's going to be received.
Everybody's like, this isn't funny at all.
It's not, you know, whatever.
Like that's always a fear that you have.
And like, we've done the same thing with books.
Like you'd write a long form book and we wrote it a year ago and now it's coming out.
I hope it makes sense.
You know, it's just a, it's just a very different thing.
And that's why it's important that we all set deadlines in the context of time.
Yes, in the context of the passage of time.
There's time.
It's a very great significance.
It's every day.
So here's what we're asking for.
We're asking for people to become members of the Babylon B.
And this does a few things.
Number one, gives you access to the movie, along with a steady stream of bonus content as we finish up the post-production process.
So we've got stuff like sneak peeks, behind the scenes, discussions with the cast and the crew, all kinds of stuff to hype you up as we get ready for the movie to release.
So that's cool.
And when the movie comes out, you'll be there.
First one to access it and first one to watch it.
So number one, get to see the movie.
Number two, you're going to help us cover the cost that we sunk into the film.
Do you know how much pizza Jared eats on a movie set?
Do you know how much we spent on scooters to get around Washington, D.C.?
Over $500 for me.
So, one of you, if one of you calls in right now and gets $500, you can donate the gift of scooters to us.
To very, very to pass to our past selves.
Of course, it's your satire writers.
Yeah, to be clear, we don't need help funding this movie.
We did it.
We just went out and did it.
We said, you know what?
We're going to go out and do it.
But at the same time, you know, it would be great to help cover these costs.
We're just a small, independent little Christian conservative satire site, and we'd like to make this kind of stuff.
So that brings us to number three.
It's going to help us prove that the B audience is hungry for longer form content.
It's going to help us fund and fuel the next one.
So you guys know, you know, Wil Collywood is out there making garbage movies.
And we're never going to break that cycle.
We're never going to be able to fight back if we don't fund content that doesn't hate us.
All of us have, you know, Netflix account.
Raise your hand if you have a Disney Plus account.
Travis, do you have a man?
You guys are part of the problem.
Sorry.
I know.
I like the Mandalorian.
Second.
That was a trick.
I don't have one.
Oh, no.
We're fired.
Yes.
That's a terrible way to find out.
On the podcast.
It's important, I think, for us to help each other along in the conservative movement.
I think too often we're at each other's throats, you know.
And this is just our little way to leap into the pond.
Others have paved the way.
Matt Walsh, he just had a movie, or he's got in like a week here, the movie coming out.
Am I Racist?
Am I right?
Going on in the theaters.
Go see it, by the way.
It's good.
I saw it.
You saw it.
Is he racist?
You'll have to find out.
That was a terrible thing.
Spoiler.
Yeah.
He is actually racist.
That was actually the first title of M. Night Shaman's The Sixth Sense was Am I Dead?
Oh, that would have given it away.
That would have.
And they decided that it was just given it away.
So they didn't do that.
But others have paved the way for us, and we're ready to jump in.
And this is our little way to start.
I mean, we don't know where the Babylon's going to Babylon B is going to be in five years, 10 years.
Maybe the Babylon B will have movies in theaters.
Maybe we'll be funding all these shows and making shows and movies.
We'd love to take our little comedic sense of humor that God has given us and be able to apply it to movies and shows.
And this is just our little way to kind of dip our toes in that pond.
Maybe we'll be in outer space.
Maybe we'll hopefully hope Mars.
Yeah, this is our first step.
It's our first step.
And, you know, the other side of it, like, sometimes people will go to sign up for a B subscription and it's like, oh, you know, it's $10 a month, five bucks a month.
It's like, wow, Netflix gives me all this other stuff.
And we're not going to compete with Netflix.
But we're not gay.
But we're also not.
And we realize that we depend solely on subscribers' goodwill, but it's time for us to start giving back to you guys with great content that'll impact the culture and communicate truth.
And this is just our little way to get that started.
Yep.
And we're working on other ways to give you value behind the paywall as well.
Ooh, that's going to be very exciting to you.
That sounds spicy.
Did I hear Daily Travis GIF?
That's what I heard.
A daily gift that you unlock.
We should really have some kind of gems collection system on the site.
Have to do it.
And then you can redeem.
Travis diamonds.
Yes.
And you can redeem your Travis diamonds for like gifts and stuff.
Yeah.
And avatars.
Oh, man.
And that's how we could fund the site.
Golden Seth statue.
If you can get 10,000 Travis diamonds, a golden Seth statue that you get to display next to your profile.
And then someone tries to comment.
It's like, sorry, you're out of Travis diamonds for the day.
For $2.99, you can recharge your lives.
And you try to reply to a comment with someone that has the Seth statue, and it's like, I don't talk to Polybeans.
It just blocks their comment automatically.
You have to have at least a Dan Dylan tier or higher in order to interact with a Seth statue.
I really, this is great.
We should actually roll this out like on April Fool's Day or something.
Scrap the documentary because forget everything I said.
The movie's not coming out.
We're scrapping it and we're going to this.
Thank you.
I'm excited.
Thank you, Travis.
Now, go ahead.
I want to hear what you have to say.
I'm excited that I was able to be a part of it and that we were able to put something together.
And I've never been a part of something like that before.
And it was an incredible experience.
What's the second best experience that you've been able to be a part of?
Probably the sketch where I was Gorp McStevens pointing at the globe.
Yes.
I was dying laughing when you were doing that.
Are you talking about specifically the B or your whole life?
Yeah, I was talking about your whole life.
I thought you were going to say your wedding day or the birth of your children, your first child?
Jesus, when I guess it's that sketch with the blow.
Yeah, I thought we meant in the context of the bee.
That's good.
Yeah, it was such a blast.
It was such a blast to make.
It was so fun to go around and do Man of Street interviews, actually talk to people that were affected by Gen 6 and go on location and all these wonderful places.
It was just, it was a blast.
And we had so much fun making it.
Thank you guys for your patience as we got to work on this.
I know a lot of you guys are clamoring for sketches.
Hopefully, we got some more stuff for you coming there soon.
And we've got some more projects coming down the pipeline, too.
This is just the start.
This is what we hope to be kind of the launch of the next phase of the B.
So we can't wait for you guys to see it.
Please support us.
Go to BabylonB.com/slash January 6th.
You can watch the trailer there.
You can sign up.
You could see a gallery of images from the movie, mostly just my face.
And you can also see all the behind-the-scenes stuff that we're going to keep up with.
If you get two friends to sign up, you get 50 extra Travis coins.
Travi coins, which you can trade for Travis Diamonds.
And by the way, it's slash January 6th, not January 6th.
With a number.
Not a TH.
Don't put the TH on.
And yeah, and then you get a cut of the downline of every other person that gets recruited by the two people that you recruited.
You get a cut of their Travis coins.
I almost said TraviCoin, and that was actually a joke that was cut from our upcoming book.
Oh, Travic Coin.
We can revive Travis.
It was cryptocurrency, TraviCoin.
Yes.
So let's revive it for the website.
All right.
All right, guys.
Well, we're not going to do a subscriber segment today because we got a movie to finish.
We've got a little editing to do to make it funny because it is not funny at all.
No, it's terrible.
We probably shouldn't have announced it yet.
But it can be with your help.
And we're very close to finishing it.
We just got final touches that we're working on.
So we're going to jet.
Thank you guys.
Thank you for your support.
If you're already a subscriber, thank you so much.
Really appreciate it.
And if you're a current subscriber, you will be able to check out the movie when it comes out on October 11th.
If you're not a subscriber yet, please go to babylonbee.com/slash January 6th and support content that doesn't hate you.