Ep 730 | When God Calls You to Tell Jokes | Guest: Joel Berry

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today we're joined by Joel Berry, managing editor of the Babylon Bee, to discuss why satire is more important than ever and his story of finding Christ after being raised in fundamentalist Christianity. We talk about the very joke (written by Joel) that got the Babylon Bee suspended on Twitter earlier this year and why the outlet chose not to take the joke down. Joel shares his story of what triggered his interest in politics and theology and ultimately what led him down the path of giving his life to the Lord. Then, we talk about why some people leave the church and become ex-vangelicals and why others, like Joel, stay. We talk about why conservative humor is only made better when leftists get mad, and we finish off with a rousing game of Would You Rather. --- Timecodes: (01:22) Babylon Bee kicked off Twitter (11:20) Why is Babylon Bee so successful? (16:13) Fundamentalist Christianity & introduction to politics and theology (27:55) Ex-vangelicals (41:57) Babylon Bee & conservative humor (49:30) Would You Rather --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 675 | Want to Topple the Elites? Mock Them | Guest: Seth Dillon https://apple.co/3iWiMKL Ep 529 | Why Bad Ideas Deserve to Be Mocked | Guest: Seth Dillon https://apple.co/3Wo0L6M --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE20' for 20% off the entire shop: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why is satire more important than ever in our current culture?
0:06.6	What is it like to be raised in a fundamentalist, quasi-cult, and then to become a born again believer?
0:17.1	We're talking about all of this and more with the Babylon bees, Joel Berry.
0:22.0	We will end the conversation with a rousing game of, would you rather, you know, how much I love that?
0:27.6	You guys are going to enjoy this conversation. It is deep, but it's also really fun. You'll laugh.
0:33.4	You'll cry. All that good stuff. The episode is brought to you by our friends at GoodRanchers.
0:37.5	Go to GoodRanchers.com slash alley. That's GoodRanchers.com slash alley.
0:50.7	Joel, thanks so much for joining us. Can you tell everyone who may not know who you are?
0:54.8	What you do? Yeah, I'm the managing editor of the Babylon bee. I've been working there for three years.
1:00.8	I think I've heard of that. I think so. But you know, I went to look it out the other day because I
1:09.1	heard of it for the first time. I looked at the Twitter page and they hadn't tweeted since March.
1:14.7	I just figured that the person who ran it died, but you're here. What happened with that?
1:21.4	Yeah, we're here. We're still posting jokes. Just not on Twitter.
1:25.4	Not on Twitter. Twitter decided that we were too much. We were unfit for their platform.
1:31.1	And what was the deciding joke? Okay, so that got kicked you off.
1:35.7	Yeah, so the deciding joke, I guess the context was Rachel Levine, who is the assistant
1:41.0	HHS secretary, who was a transgender woman biological man, had just been named the woman of the
1:48.9	year by USA Today. Yes. That was just funny by itself.
1:55.1	Right. Yeah, I mean, one of the years of all the women out there.
1:58.6	Yeah, it didn't even just say like transgender woman.
2:02.4	Right. I'm pretty sure that it was the New York Times that actually said female.
2:06.6	Okay, so this person who has literally sired children, female.
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