Flashlights And Duct Tape With Brent Mann

The Babylon Bee

Seth Dillon

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.4 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan celebrate the one year anniversary of the show and welcome Kyle’s dad, Brent, for Father’s Day. They talk shop about duct tape, flashlights, initialisms, rocket science, and dad hacks. They also dive into the week's news stories. Kyle and Ethan enlighten Brent on what CHAZ or CHOP is, and then discuss Elon Musk's quest to occupy Mars, and an aerospace engineer’s perspective on seeing God in creation.

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Show Outline

Introduction

Today on The Babylon Bee Podcast, we welcome Brent Mann, Kyle’s dad. It’s Father’s Day and we celebrate the Babylon Bee Podcast’s one year anniversary!

Stuff That’s Good

Kyle likes Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Ethan likes Rifftrax.

Brent likes Columbo. Remember Columbo?

Weird News

Story 1

Trump Enacts Tariffs, Travel Ban On CHAZ

Summary: Trump has announced a new set of tariffs and a travel ban on CHAZ, escalating the trade war between the United States and the fledgling nation-state.

The real story: An "autonomous zone" or Occupy Protest and sprung up in Seattle complete with warlords, speech codes, segregated gardens, calls for foreign aid from its capitalist neighbors, and brutal community policing tactics.

Story 2

Study: Average Father Spends 97% Of Time Running Around House Turning Lights Off

Summary: A new study of fatherhood in America found that the average dad spends up to 97% of his time running around the house turning off lights that the rest of the family left on.

The real story: Kyle's dad has an ingenious solution to teach your kids to not leave the lights on.

Topic of the Week

It's Father's Day! Kyle, Ethan, and aerospace engineer Brent (Kyle's Dad) talk about all sorts of stuff like dad jokes, initialisms and acronyms, Brent's work on the Space Shuttle program, Elon Musk's amazing space feats, and a few of Brent's fatherly quirks like how he carries a really old cell phone in a ziplock bag.

Hate Mail

A recent article made some very overworked and stressed booksellers very angry.

Subscriber Portion

Ethan and Brent talk bladder blabber when Kyle leaves the room, and then they continue going through Brent's box of stuff he brought in, and finish by talking about more dad hacks and stories, including the time when Brent acted out a scene from The Bourne Identity to chase down a bicycle thief.

Also mentioned on the podcast: Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creator by Hugh Ross

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Transcript

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0:00.0	In a world of fake news, we bring you up to the minute factual inaccuracy and a heavy
0:07.9	dose of moral truth.
0:11.2	With your hosts, Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicole.
0:16.7	This is the Babylon B. Fake News, you can trust.
0:25.6	Hi everybody, welcome to the Babylon B podcast.
0:27.7	I'm Kyle Mann.
0:28.8	I'm Ethan Nicole and man, this signifies, this is our first time repeating a topic because
0:36.2	this is Father's Day and our second episode ever was Father's Day, right?
0:39.7	Yesterday or it's a year.
0:41.2	We've been doing this a year.
0:42.1	Two days ago was the anniversary of our very first Babylon B podcast.
0:46.7	Yeah.
0:47.5	I listened to that article.
0:49.3	You listened to an article?
0:50.2	Wait, who's talking?
0:51.7	Who's this guy?
0:52.4	This is my dad.
0:53.2	Who invited this guy in?
0:55.0	I listened to that article.
0:56.5	I don't know.
1:00.4	Articles aren't, you can't listen to articles.
1:02.6	Well, not usually.
	...

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