Ep. 1461 The Powerful Fear Humor: Interview with Babylon Bee Editor-in-Chief
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Kyle Mann, editor-in-chief of the brilliant satire site The Babylon Bee, joins me to discuss comedy, politics, social media, and Snopes' hilarious "fact checking" of what is obviously satire.
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| 0:30.4 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Absolutely delighted to have Kyle Mann with us. He is editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee. |
| 0:36.7 | I know I promised this episode a couple days ago, but I forgot about the debate episodes where we analyze the presidential debates, and those have to be, those are time-sensitive, those have to be aired immediately. But better late than never with Kyle. The site, of course, is BabylonB.com. You've probably seen headlines of theirs. It's a satirical site, |
| 0:55.7 | hysterical, wonderful, makes such excellent points just in pithy headlines. You're probably seen |
| 1:00.6 | them on Facebook in particular where they get quite a bit of engagement. So there's a story behind it, |
| 1:08.0 | and we're going to be talking about that today. Kyle, welcome. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 1:17.9 | I am a huge fan of yours, and I see most of your material. I think, like most people, on Facebook, |
| 1:22.8 | and I see the headlines. Sometimes the headline is all I need to see, but really, you've got to, |
| 1:29.9 | you know, come on, you guys are doing hard work. Should click through and take a look. But I'd like to know, first of all, how you would describe what it is you do. |
| 1:32.6 | And secondly, how it got started. |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah, we do Christian news satire. |
| 1:43.8 | So we try to poke fun of current events, the church theology, pretty much anything. |
| 1:50.0 | But we try to do it from a worldview that's consistent with the Bible, consistent with Christian beliefs, which really informs how we tackle satire and humor. |
| 1:58.0 | The site was launched in March 2016 by my friend, Adam Ford. And he, |
| 2:04.8 | you know, he was a fan of sites like The Onion. But most humor and most satire being done in that |
| 2:11.2 | space was being done from such a, from a place that was really not friendly to Christian beliefs |
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