Cucumber For Christ: The Mike Nawrocki Interview
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This is The Babylon Bee Interview Show.
Editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk to Larry the Cucumber voice and VeggieTales co-creator and Mike Nawrocki! Mike is a director, producer, writer, voice actor, animator, musician, puppeteer, and assistant professor of Film and Animation at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. Kyle, Ethan, and Mike give you the Babylon Bee exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the world of VeggieTales!
Mike is also the author of a series of children’s books called The Dead Sea Squirrels—out now!
You can find more from Mike Nawrocki at Facebook and Instagram.
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Topics Discussed
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How the original VeggieTales became a huge sensation
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How Ethan ruined VeggieTales with In The House
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Kyle and Ethan give Mike free creative advise and character ideas
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Mike's new books The Dead Sea Squirrels
Subscriber Portion (Begins at 00:42:37)
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Does he have any thoughts on Phil Vischer’s comments where he regrets aspects of VeggieTales?
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Bacon Bill and MeatyTales
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We get Larry the Cucumber to read some Bible verses you've never heard him read before!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Real People Real Interviews |
| 0:04.0 | I just have to say that I object |
| 0:07.0 | Strain you as late to your use of the word Galarius. |
| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you like it? |
| 0:15.0 | Taking you to the cutting edge of truth. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | He's a brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B interview show. |
| 0:47.0 | All right, and we are here. |
| 0:49.0 | This is the first time we've had a lot of humans on our show, |
| 0:52.0 | but it's the first time we were talked to a cucumber. |
| 0:55.0 | But we have an actual cucumber on the show. |
| 0:57.0 | And he's not only that, like, there's cucumbers, |
| 1:00.0 | but then this cucumber is an avowed Christian. |
| 1:03.0 | It's just pretty rare in the cucumber community. |
| 1:05.0 | Because I don't even know if Jesus died for cucumbers. |
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