Episode 15: How Social Justice Is Like Gremlins
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In the fifteenth episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle are joined by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, of the famed "Grievance Studies Affair" who submitted hoax studies to academic journals and got three of them accepted. Peter and James are self-proclaimed atheists who are politically liberal, but their work exposing how certain areas of academia prioritize narrative above truth is not only important but hilarious. They also care a lot about having meaningful disagreements and are actively fighting "cancel culture." We talk to them about the Grievance Studies Affair as well as their new book, How To Have Impossible Conversations. They also have a new project for facilitating impossible conversations called New Discourses.
As usual, Kyle and Ethan also get into a few news stories including John Bolton the walrus, vaping AR-15's, and Monopoly for Christian women. They extend the conversation with Peter and James in the subscriber-exclusive portion of the episode.
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(7:12) John Bolton Waves Goodbye, Returns To Sea To Be Walrus Again
(15:56) More E-Cigs Being Disguised As AR-15s To Avoid Ban
(19:43) Interview: The Grievance Studies Affair and How To Have Impossible Conversations with Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay
(56:57) Hate Mail
(1:00:51) Paid Subscriber-Exclusive: Continuing the conversation with Peter and James about the insanity of academia, the ridiculous things their papers endorsed, and how social justice is like a cult (and also Gremlins)
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| 0:21.2 | Bringing you only the truest of news since the creation of the world, |
| 0:25.7 | 6,000 years ago, you're listening to the Babylon B with your host Kyle Mann and Ethan Nichole. |
| 0:35.4 | Yes, thank you Dave for that wonderful intro. This is Kyle from the Babylon B podcast and |
| 0:40.9 | sitting across from me is Ethan Nichole. I thought you were going to say my name. I like this gift. |
| 0:48.5 | I think it's more and more awkward every time we're getting worse at this. |
| 0:52.8 | Some people can really get into announcing and talking on stuff. I feel totally weird doing it. |
| 0:59.6 | You know all those TV shows that like we're really good in the first three seasons and they just |
| 1:04.4 | drop off. This is like our season seven of the office or season eight of the office. We're already |
| 1:11.2 | there. I've kind of talked about possibly having Dave on. We're just talking about Dave or |
| 1:16.7 | voice guy. I would like to talk about that because you're like the Christian radio station and you'll |
| 1:21.2 | hear guys read like scripture and like a really cheesy voice. Yeah. It's a day's encouraging voice of |
| 1:28.4 | Dave. A reverse of the day. Yeah. God gave his only begotten son. It's just weird. |
| 1:36.3 | He's got that encouraging edge to the voice. Yeah, or the almost like halfway to like the movie |
| 1:43.4 | trailer voice. Yeah. God loved the world. It's just weird. There's like inspiring music in Joe |
| 1:50.4 | chorus behind it. Yeah, they have whole audio bottles like that. You know he's bugging about |
| 1:54.3 | Christian radio is how how like upbeat the DJs are all the time. They're just super positive. |
| 2:00.8 | What's it? Hey man, who's going everybody? You want some depressed? I want a depressed |
| 2:06.0 | DJs negative discouraging welcome to welcome to KJ fly. I don't know what name of KJ fly. KJ |
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