Behind The Bee Interview With Managing Editor Joel Berry
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
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🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Patrick Green interviews Babylon Bee’s own Managing Editor, Joel Berry. They talk about his origin story before landing his dream job of helping to rule the world of satire with The Babylon Bee. Joel started off as a super fan of the Bee and worked his way up to being a full time writer for us. Besides writing articles, Joel is the co-author of The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness and The Post-Modern Pilgrim’s Progress.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? This is behind the B exclusive that I'm trying to name it now. |
| 0:17.3 | So I'm here behind the B behind the B with managing editor Joel Barry. Yes. |
| 0:23.4 | So I know you're in California so we're just trying to squeeze as much content as we can. |
| 0:29.8 | Yeah man. Yeah you picked a good morning for it. I had to drag myself in here because you took me out for |
| 0:35.8 | a pastrami last night at like 11 o'clock at night and it was amazing by the way. I'm getting the |
| 0:43.2 | full like California you know a quizing tour of cuisine here and but man that stuff it took a |
| 0:51.3 | while to digest. I don't I don't think I saw I have a pastrami hangover. Yeah well that leads to my |
| 0:57.7 | next thing. So where did you where did you grow up like originally? Yeah so I am not born in Ohio. |
| 1:04.5 | I was born in Boston, Massachusetts and a very young age moved to Ohio. Live there pretty much |
| 1:10.6 | my whole life. So I'm a Midwest guy. Yeah. Right now I live in Northwest Ohio. So what did your |
| 1:18.8 | parents do when you like what caused them move from Boston to the Midwest? Just my dad's job. He's |
| 1:25.3 | an architect and he chased a job down here and yeah you know what it's funny I grew up my whole |
| 1:33.8 | life so looking forward to escaping Ohio. Really? I think every kid in Ohio that's why we have so many |
| 1:41.2 | astronauts. Ohio of all the states in the Union produces the most astronauts. I think that's |
| 1:47.4 | because everyone in Ohio just wants to get as far away from that state as they possibly can but |
| 1:53.9 | you know I grew up I got married and it's your roots kind of dig down and you you love it and |
| 2:00.5 | it's a great place to have a family great place to raise kids so whole family's there and yeah is it |
| 2:06.2 | like I've heard like Montana described as like like nobody ever wants to like they're growing up |
| 2:11.8 | they love it but then it's like they never stayed they're in college but they always end up |
| 2:15.2 | moving back there. Exactly. I even have a little brother who has he's a restless guy and he's |
| 2:22.7 | likes to live in cool cities and he lives in one now he and his wife are gonna be moving back to Ohio |
| 2:29.0 | next year so I'm like how many siblings did you have growing up? I was the oldest of six. Oh wow |
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