The Babylon Bee

Latest Episodes:

The Bee Reads LOTR Episode 30: The Steward and the King Oct 30, 2021

Show notes

The kings have returned to read The Return of the King. Kyle, Dan, and Michael continue reading through The Lord of the Rings with the chapters Minas Tirith and The Passing of the Grey Company. They finally arrive at the big city and the stronghold of the men of the West just as the hammer of the forces of evil is about to fall upon it. Aragorn also visits the dead and steps foot onto his rightful land. Kyle, Dan, and Michael discuss the actions of the steward, the returning king, and the brave hobbits who step up to fight the big people's war.

To access this subscriber-exclusive content, go to BabylonBee.com/plans. Support The Babylon Bee, enjoy the extra content, and join the community of subscribers reading good books together!

THE BEE WEEKLY: A G.K. Chesterton Special With Dale Ahlquist and Cheese Oct 29, 2021

Show notes

It's Chestermania 2021 at The Babylon Bee and Kyle and Ethan are joined by the President of the Society of G.K. Chesterton, Dale Ahlquist. Dale has been called the greatest living authority on the life and work of G.K. Chesterton and has authored five books on Chesterton, including Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton and G.K. Chesterton: Apostle of Common Sense. Why should people start reading Chesterton and where should they begin? What are some of Chesterton's big concepts that help to unlock an understanding of his writings? What would Chesterton say about Cheetos?

Be sure to check out The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton at: https://www.chesterton.org/

Kyle, Ethan, and Dale, accompanied by Adam Yenser play a special edition of Real or Fake where the headlines are all supposedly weird news headlines from a hundred years ago. They discuss how prophetic Chesterton was and talk about his prominent books and essays that you must read to not waste your life. Then in the subscriber portion, they discuss cheese and Chesterton's big concepts that he returned to again and again throughout his life's work. Dale answers subscriber-submitted G.K. Questertons and is subjected to The Ten Questions!

The Simpsons and Progressive Christianity | A Bee Interview With Michael J. Kruger Oct 26, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to Michael J. Kruger about The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity, the theology of the Simpsons, and how Christians can survive college with Root Beer Pong. Michael J. Kruger is President and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary. He has written several books, including his latest Surviving Religion 101: Letters to a Christian Student on Keeping the Faith in College. He also runs his website, where he talks about exploring the origins of the New Testament canon and other biblical and theological issues.

Check out Michael J. Kruger's book on Progressive Christianity here: https://www.amazon.com/Commandments-Progressive-Christianity-Cruciform-Quick/dp/194925321X

Check out Kruger's website: https://www.michaeljkruger.com/

Kyle and Ethan give Michael a few icebreaker questions to help get to know him better. Michael gives some surprising answers to what he would be doing if he wasn't a president of a reformed university. Kyle and Ethan dive in deep to the 10 commandments of Progressive Christianity. Michael gives his explanation for the origin of where these commandments came from.

After hearing about the book, Kyle and Ethan dive into a game of Root Beer pong with Michael. They each take turns shooting ping pong balls and asking Michael questions about Theology, personal questions, and monkeys. Once they finish drinking all the cream soda, Kyle and Ethan transition to playing a Theology Simpsons trivia game with Michael.

In the Subscriber Portion, Ethan finds out about Michael's views on the canonization of the bible. Kyle finds out if Michael had a God's Not Dead experience while he was in college. Michael gives his grade on Church leadership in our current culture. Ethan and Kyle ask Michael the ever amazing 10 questions.

THE BEE WEEKLY: Explain The Joke, Poor Wizards, And A Surprise For Dan Oct 22, 2021

Show notes

The Atlantic tries to make The Babylon Bee's Kyle Mann explain why the joke is funny on this episode of The Bee Weekly. Kyle and Ethan are joined by Eli Chance and The Bee's own Bettina to dramatically reenact an encounter in which a barely awake Kyle was put on the spot to explain the joke and to give a defense against the accusation that Jesus would not want Christians to mock wokeness for a living. There's weird news like how shocking it is how little wizards earn in New Zealand and The Bee Team surprises Dan. As always, there is glorious hate mail.

Eli Chance is a comedy writer and performer. Check out some of his work on YouTube.

Be sure to pre-order The Babylon Bee Guide To Wokeness which is dropping on November 2.

Kyle, Ethan, and Eli find out what the kids are saying these days and how "bomb" is not lit and is pretty sus. Then they break down this week's weird news. The Bee's own Bettina is brought in to dramatically reenact Kyle's interview with The Atlantic. The Bee Team surprises Dan with a sweet gift and then this week's hate mail is a lengthy saga of The Babylon Bee not noticing this person who kept sending us messages for months.

In this week's subscriber lounge, Kyle, Ethan, Eli, and Dan read bonus hate mail, questions from subscribers about Harrowing Hell and killing Hitler, and then Eli and Dan both answer The Next Ten Questions. Subscribe or click Join on YouTube to watch it all!

Apologetics and Witnessing to Black Hebrew Israelites | A Bee Interview With Vocab Malone Oct 19, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk about apologetics and witnessing to Black Hebrew Israelites with Vocab Malone. Vocab Malone gained prominence for street rapping the gospel and witnessing to Black Hebrew Israelites. He shows why Black Hebrew Israelites are a movement we need to take seriously.

He has a YouTube Channel, where he shares his street evangelization.

Kyle and Ethan find out the history of Black Hebrew Israelites. They find out why Vocab has become an expert on the topic and why everyone should be aware of the rising popularity of the group. Vocab explains why diversity doesn't bring Orthodoxy and why he disagrees with the Black Hebrew Israelites so strongly. Kyle and Ethan find out how good Vocab is at defining new words. Ethan freestyles with Vocab while Kyle tries to moderate.

In the Subscriber Portion, Kyle and Ethan find out about Vocab's past satire videos and web series. Vocab shares stories of helping convert Black Hebrew Israelites. Vocab ends the interview with the ever great 10 questions.

THE BEE WEEKLY: Headlines With Pie, Culture Gets Kunkled, and Robocop is Real Oct 15, 2021

Show notes

Kyle, Ethan, and Brett Kunkle from MAVEN guess which headlines are real or fake and have to eat mystery pie if they guess wrong. Brett Kunkle also kunkles some culture and helps us discern what is good or harmful in pop culture today. There's weird news headlines, glorious hate mail, and other shenanigans going on at The Babylon Bee.

Be sure to check out MAVEN which exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ at: http://maventruth.com

Don't miss the upcoming Bee interview with Vocab Malone. See Vocab's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/VocabMalone

Kyle, Ethan and Brett Kunkle talk about the Maven Parent podcast and how conversations about Animal Crossing in the recent Bee Interview with James Poulos were deemed by Twitter to be intense. They talk about Bee articles that are banging and bombing and then get into this week's weird news. The guys play Headlines With Pie and Kunkle Culture before reading a glorious hate mail about how our website has become literary pornography.

In the subscriber lounge, they read top subscriber-submitted headlines, special love mail, bonus hate mail, and finally subject Brett to the Next Ten Questions, giving the Bee the opportunity to show off their new trolly dilemma display featuring Lego replicas of Kyle, Ethan, and The Newsboys.

Animal Crossing is Demonic | A Bee Interview With James Poulos Oct 12, 2021

Show notes

The Claremont Institute's James Poulos talks about how Animal Crossing is destroying your soul and how your smartphone is crossing into the demonic. James Poulos is the Executive Editor of the American Mind, the Claremont Institute's online publication. He is a frequent commentator on technology, the American character, and social scores for Kyle and Ethan.

Check out BetterHelp.com/BabylonBee for 10% off

Kyle and Ethan start out the interview by playing a few icebreakers with James to get to know him better. Since James speaks about our dystopian future, Kyle and Ethan find out which dystopian movie world he would want to live in. James talks about the spiritual warfare taking place within technology. He gives his thoughts on the new social scores the government will want to use for the population in the near future. Kyle and Ethan find out how difficult it is to keep a high score in our dystopian future. Kyle and Ethan have James explain the Great Reset using Mario characters.

In the Subscriber Portion, Kyle and Ethan find out James' thoughts on the best videogames of all time. Ethan finds out about what it's like to be on the Bill Maher show. James gives his thoughts on Edward Snowden and how it affected America. Kyle and Ethan ask the ever great 10 questions and get a great Keanu Reeves story out of James.

THE BEE WEEKLY: Bee Outtakes, Weight Loss Cult, and Homicidal Whales Oct 08, 2021

Show notes

Kyle, Ethan, and Adam talk about their favorite hilarious Babylon Bee Outtakes that didn't make the final cut of Babylon Bee sketches, the new HBO Max documentary on Gwen Shamblin Lara and her weight loss cult as another Hero of the Faith, and Homicide Whales now being a thing. The Bee guys go through weird news of the week and salty hate mail too.

You can now Join the Launch Team for The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness. Pre-order your copy today!

Check out Adam Yenser's YouTube channel and stand-up comedy schedule (http://adamyenser.com/).

Be on the lookout for the next Babylon Bee Interview featuring James Poulos to learn why cellphones are demonic.

Kyle, Ethan, and Adam talk about their week at the Bee, the Banger Article of the Week, the Bomb Article of the Week, and weird news like how squirrels hate the metric system and homicide whales now being on the loose. They then talk about a weight loss cult featured in a new HBO Max documentary The Way Down and how the cult's leader's hair gained weight as she gained influence in yet another segment of Heroes of the Faith.

Then the Bee guys talk about their favorite outtakes from The Babylon Bee sketches on YouTube and give everyone a peak at what Bee subscribers have been enjoying for a while now. The Bee gets hate mail for making fun of Christians and then the guys jump into the subscriber-exclusive lounge for bonus hate and love mail, top subscriber-submitted headlines of the week, and the classic article of the week.

To get the Lounge, click Join on YouTube or go to http://babylonbee.com/plans.

Australia, Aquinas, and Arguing for Christianity - A Bee Interview With Matt Fradd Oct 05, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Ethan and Michael talk to Matt Fradd about Aquinas' view on happiness, the tyranny of Australia, and how comedy from liberals is going down hill. Matt Fradd hosts the popular podcast, Pints with Aquinas, where he interviews religious figures and hosts debates on Christianity. He has written several books, including his new one How To Be Happy: Saint Thomas' Secret to a Good Life available wherever you buy books.

Ethan and Michael run through a few ice breakers in order to get to know Matt a little better. They get into the meat of the interview finding out what Aquinas would say about today's culture and his remedies are for sorrow. Matt gives his distinction on why being happy shouldn't be the end all be all. Michael finds a way to slip in a test on the Lord of the Rings books while Ethan takes a long nap. Ethan finds out more about how Matt, as an Australian, views the lockdowns going on over in Australia. Ethan and Michael then try to test Matt Fradd's knowledge of Saints.

In the Subscriber Portion, Ethan and Michael find out where Aquinas had views that would be deemed wrong by the Catholic Church today. They go through a few subscriber questions like finding out if Trent Horn is tall and whether he believes in the bodily resurrection. Michael quizzes Matt on a few insider Catholic hot button topics. They end the interview with the ever glorious 10 questions.

The Bee Reads LOTR Episode 29: Star, Sting, and Spider Oct 02, 2021

Show notes

Kyle, Dan, and Michael continue reading through The Lord of the Rings in Shelob's Lair and The Choices of Master Samwise. They discuss how masterful a horror writer Tolkien was and how most modern storytelling pales in comparison, the importance of always using the right tool for the job, and how even a simple hobbit from the Shire with a little light can advance against evil and drive the darkness back.

To access this subscriber-exclusive content, go to BabylonBee.com/plans. Support The Babylon Bee, enjoy the extra content, and join the community of subscribers reading good books together!

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected