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The Bee Reads LOTR Episode 17: The Great River May 22, 2021

Show notes

Kyle, Dan, and Jonathan Watson from The One Ring, follow the Fellowship as they leave Lorien and head down The Great River, covering chapters 8 and 9 of Book 2. Galadriel gives them gifts that differ in significant ways from the film adaptation and Legolas does something way more awesome than sliding down a staircase on a shield. They also answer subscriber questions and comments. It's another episode of The Bee Reads The Lord of the RIngs!

THE BEE WEEKLY: Dinosaur Bones and Fighting Grizzly Bears May 21, 2021

Show notes

In this Bee Weekly, Kyle and Ethan talk to Mark Armitage of the Dinosaur Soft Tissue Research Institute about non-fossilized tissue being found in dinosaur bones and what that might mean for the war between science and religion. They also bring on Senior Writer Frank J. Fleming, our resident expert on animals and women, to talk about how women can gain confidence in fighting vicious animals. There's the usual weird news of the week, glorious hate mail, and more!

Intro

Ethan returns from his trip

Kyle has to chase his cat after it takes a ride in his engine

Upcoming Interview

Ethan and Dan talk to Michael Malice for round 5!

We Read YouTube Comments

Weird News

Lady Trespasses At Miami High School, Poses As Student In Order To Gain Instagram Followers

Chinese Man Discovered Glitch In KFC Online Ordering System And Stole Almost $19,000 Worth Of Food

Rachel Maddow Says She Has To Rewire Herself To Not See Unmasked People As A Threat Now That Mask Mandate Is Gone

Ohio Is Offering Vaccinated Citizens A Chance To Win A Million Dollars

This Black Guy Disguised Himself As A White Dude In Order To Commit Series Of Burglaries In LA

Chicago Has Released 1000 Feral Cats Over The Past Decade To Tackle Rat Problem

Man Balances Pool Cue On Forehead For 2 Hours, 16 Minutes For Guinness Record

Segment 1

Which animals would win in a fight? Animal and women expert Frank Fleming joins us to report on his findings.

Kyle and Ethan talk to Frank about his woman's guide to fighting animals

Segment 2

Kyle and Ethan talk to Mark Armitage of the Dinosaur Soft Tissue Research Institute.

Hate Mail

A YouTube subscriber wants us to spice up our channel. Kyle and Ethan come up with some ideas to spice up the channel.

Subscriber Portion

Bonus Hate Mail

Subscriber Headlines of the week

Nashville Trip

The Most Unconservative Right-Wing Comedian: The Brent Pella Interview May 18, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Ethan and Trevor talk to comedian Brent Pella. They talk about comedy without an agenda, cancel culture, and his hatred for Gavin Newsom. Brent Pella has performed stand-up comedy around the country and gained fame on YouTube doing sketch comedy. Some of his most popular impressions have been Eminem, Gavin Newsom, Joe Rogan, and many others. You can see when Brent is performing near you at his website.

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Topics Discussed

Being without an agenda

Being seen as a conservative comedian

Mocking the left

How Brent grew up

Making fun of yourself

Hanging out with J.P. Sears

Wearing masks

Getting canceled

Nick Cannon

Gina Carano

Impressions

Gov. Newsom

Trying out different comedic personas

Finding a political label

Political party labels

Georgia voting laws

Intentions being assigned

Having in-depth conversations

Improv

UCB and Groundlings

Subscriber Portion

Brent's origin into comedy

Bombing on a cruise ship

Best stand-up comics

Actors

10 questions

Heroes of the Faith and Defending the Family May 14, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Weekly, Kyle and Ethan talk about heroes of the faith like the kid-punching pastor and the man who showed worship teams everywhere how to play the drums. They talk about G.K. Chesterton's argument in defense of the family. Kyle is also subjected to the next ten questions in our exclusive subscriber lounge.

Intro:

About the YouTube channel

Heroes of the Faith 1

Oceans Metal Drummer: https://youtu.be/POwayWGeQAU

Coffin Preacher: https://youtu.be/5OImocOKy4I

Kid punching pastor: https://youtu.be/Q19qRUBj-ic

Chesterton In Defense Of The Family:

Chesterton starts talking about how people claim to travel the world in order to experience humanity when they are really leaving it in this chapter of Heretics: On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE LOUNGE:

Kyle answers second ten questions

Skillet's John Cooper On Listening To Christ Over Celebrities May 11, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to John Cooper of Skillet. They talk about CCM fame, discovering Petra, and weird band names. John Cooper is the lead singer, bassist, and producer for Skillet. Skillet has become one of the best-selling bands with two Grammy award nominations and has gone platinum twelve times. He has recently written a book titled Awake and Alive to Truth, where he dives into the most asked questions in modern culture.

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Topics Discussed

Journey to CCM fame

Viral Facebook post

Being convicted with faith

Awake and Alive To Truth Book

Becoming famous young

Celebrity Christians

Growing up without Rock music

MTV and Beat It

Michael W. Smith

Seeing Petra live

Stryper story

Comparing Skillet to other bands

Secret to weird band names

Korn

Googling Skillet

Iron Maiden

Duets

Raising kids with the Skillet voice

Touring with kids

Subscriber Portion

Pyrotechnic story

Props

John Cooper's gymnastics skills

Band's feeling entitled

Creed story

Positive lyrics

Almost becoming Bono

Women in the band

10 questions

The Bee Reads LOTR Episode 16: Welcome To Elfland May 08, 2021

Show notes

Kyle, Dan, and Jonathan Watson of The One Ring make it to Elfland in this week's episode of The Bee Reads The Lord Of The Rings! To watch or listen to this week's episode, go to BabylonBee.com/Plans.

THE BEE WEEKLY: Linkin' Pork and Very Catholic Presidents May 07, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Weekly, Ethan is joined by guest hosts Trevor Andersen and Dr. Thaddeus Williams. They talk about the weirdest of news like an elderly couple using morse code to escape an assisted living facility and Biden being called "a very Catholic president who supports abortion rights." Thaddeus gives the best Linkin Park stories while Ethan and Trevor share little known pork facts in our newest segment: Linkin' Pork. Hate mail this week comes from a reader who found our comments on Latter Day Saints to be "tasteless and unfunny."

Intro

It's Mother's Day this weekend, so naturally The Babylon Bee Podcast invited Thaddeus Williams to join Trevor Andersen and Ethan Nicolle! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Subscriber Comments

Youtube Comments

Subscriber Dare

Weird News

Linkin' Pork

Hate Mail

Subscriber Portion

Thaddeus stories'

Bonus Hate Mail

Subscriber Headlines of the Week

Thaddeus 10 Questions

Christian Astrophysicist Explains Young Earth: Dr. Jason Lisle Interview May 04, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to Christian astrophysicist, speaker, and author, Dr. Jason Lisle. They talk about dinosaurs and cavemen, evidence of a young earth, and the Bible as a history book. Dr. Lisle obtained a Master's degree and Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado. He has since written a number of best selling books on the topic of creation including: Taking Back Astronomy, Stargazer's Guide to the Night Sky, the Ultimate Proof of Creation, Discerning Truth, and Understanding Genesis. He also founded the Biblical Science Institute, where they help defend the Christian worldview against people who call it unscientific.

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Topics Discussed

Bible as a history book

The problem of death before sin

Genesis being doctrine

Snopes article about creationism being a conspiracy

Humans are all one race

Current state of Young Earth Creationists scholarship

Human origins

Dinosaurs and cavemen

Dragons

Evidence of the Young Earth

Carbon dating

Origin of the universe explained with popcorn

Subscriber Portion

Comets

The great flood

Geological evidence of the flood

DNA

Theological problems with Aliens

Slugs on the Arc

Accuracy of the Interstellar movie

Blackholes

Distant starlight problem

Problem with measuring speed of light

10 Questions

THE BEE WEEKLY: Racist Soap Dispensers and Headlines By Kids Apr 30, 2021

Show notes

THE BEE WEEKLY: Racist Soap Dispensers and Headlines By Kids

On The Babylon Bee Weekly, Kyle and Ethan are joined by stand-up comedian Trevor Andersen again. They talk about drag racing cops and the racism built into automatic soap dispensers. We hear the best headline pitches by our subscribers' children and find a new hero of the faith. As always we end in hate mail, this one most likely coming from a disheartened satire-hating robot.

Intro

Trevor Andersen is back on the podcast to guest host.

Coming up next Tuesday we have Dr. Jason Lisle, a young earth creationist on the interview show.

We read subscriber comments and YouTube comments

Weird News

Kids Pitch Babylon Bee Headlines

Buy Abigail Shrier's 'Irreversible Damage' (Save $18.99 with this link!): babylonbee.com/damage

Heroes of the Faith

Joanna Southcott

Hate Mail

We get hate mail from a Stephen Hawking robot

Subscriber Portion

We talk about what books we're currently reading

BONUS HATE MAIL

"Political Correctness is Deadly": The Zuby Interview Apr 27, 2021

Show notes

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to rapper, podcast host, author, Zuby. They talk about going viral, disgusting English food, and political correctness. Zuby first gained fame for a video of him beating the women's deadlift record. Since going viral, Zuby has gained over 700,000 followers and sold 25,000 albums independently. His most recent album, Word of Zuby, just became the most funded hip-hop project on Kickstarter in the U.K. You can pre-order his album and find his book on getting swol by going to Zuby's website.

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Topics Discussed

Opening rap

Kickstarter feat

Being a contrarian on Twitter

Zuby's origin story

Zuby's impression of the United States

Impression of California

American food

Reason for the British empire

Stargazy pie

Studying at Oxford

Representing honesty

Christianity in Zuby's music

Speaking out on gender

Covid lockdowns

Terms being changed

BLM tweet

UK police

Truth over feelings

Speaking out

Silent majority vs a silenced majority

Checkmate move

Objective reality

The overblown risk

The incentive to lie

Obesity

"Political correctness is deadly"

Being a contrarian to tell the truth

Subscriber Portion

Getting swol

Zuby's book

Guns

Beyond political solutions

Trade off between freedom and risk

Zuby's influences

Stupid things people have said to Zuby

10 questions

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