#132 Here's Why You Should Read Old Dead Guys (Like GK Chesterton) Right Now! with Ethan Nicolle
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 5 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Ethan Nicolle, creative director for the Babylon Bee joins me to share his love of all things G.K. Chesterton. He shares why old dead guys like Chesterton are so relevant for our culture today, and gives us a special inside look at the Babylon Bee.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Elisa Childers Podcast. We have a fun episode for you today with Ethan |
| 0:21.9 | Nicole, the creative director at the Babylon B. Ethan. I'm so glad that you've joined us |
| 0:27.3 | today. We're going to talk about GK Chesterton. We're going to try to get some inside scoop on |
| 0:31.7 | the Babylon B, but we're really glad you're here. Thanks for joining. Thanks for having me. I'm |
| 0:37.2 | excited to be on. We had you on and so now I get to be on on the other on here. Yeah, yes. |
| 0:43.6 | Got to have you here. So, you know, Babylon B, I've told my husband, is one of the platforms on |
| 0:49.9 | social media that keeps me sane. So I'm constantly, and here's the thing, I'm constantly seeing |
| 0:56.4 | these posts come down my Instagram. And every time I'm like, how, how did they come up with this |
| 1:02.4 | stuff? So how do you come up with this stuff? Are you all sitting in a room and you just see |
| 1:06.4 | something that happened in the news and you're like, that's going to be a great Babylon B piece. |
| 1:13.2 | Most of our writers are doing normal life. So they're working their jobs, their normal jobs. |
| 1:19.8 | We only have, I think we have two dedicated writers, maybe that on articles. We have Kyle, |
| 1:26.4 | Edder and Chief, that this is the only job is making it. Which is really, I mean, he has more than |
| 1:30.3 | that, but his main job is putting out articles and then gathering with the other writers if I'm |
| 1:34.7 | up with them. So we've got a bunch of guys who just, you know, they get paid a bit to throw ideas |
| 1:39.2 | at us. And they're guys that have those funny thoughts. I think that's one reason the Babylon B rings |
| 1:44.3 | true with a lot of, it feels, a lot of the jokes feel like that. The joke you make while you're at work |
| 1:50.4 | after you hear the news or whatever. And it's just kind of, I think because that's what it is. |
| 1:54.5 | These guys, we're all texting together and they're all over the US. So I'll spread out. |
| 1:59.3 | Yeah. Well, awesome. Well, tell us a bit about yourself. You have kind of an interesting background |
| 2:04.1 | that you, some things you were doing before you got to the Babylon B that other people may know |
| 2:08.5 | you from. So tell us a little bit about that. So, I mean, I go back into comics is the main place I |
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