Inside The Writers' Room
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This is the Babylon Bee weekly news podcast for the week of 2/26/2020.
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle welcome Babylon Bee writers: Frank J. Fleming, Chris Cowan, and Nate McMillan. They run down the week’s top stories, take a stab at putting together a story on the spot for Trump’s recent trip to India, and Kyle sings karaoke of John Lennon’s re-released Imagine which gives more realistic descriptions of communism.
In the subscriber portion, Kyle and Ethan and the writers tell the story of how they became Babylon Bee writers and talk about some of their favorite headlines.
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Show Outline
Intro - Kyle and Ethan welcome the writers: Chris Cowan, Frank Fleming, and Nate McMillan.
Stories Of The Week
Story 1 - Pete Buttigieg Releases Study Bible With Notes That Explain Why Most Of The Verses Are Wrong / Hasbro Introduces New 'My Butti' Pete Buttigieg Doll
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Other dolls for the other candidates?
Story 2 - John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Re-released With More Realistic Description Of Communism
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Kyle sings a karaoke rendition.
Story 3 - Man Forced To Apologize For Whatever He Did In Wife's Dream Last Night
Topic of the Week - The Babylon Bee writers come up with a story on the spot. Join us in the writer’s room.
Hate Mail - In this special edition of ‘I Really Miss Adam Ford,’ we have Frank J. Fleming read the hate mail we got for an article he wrote.
Subscriber portion (Starts at 01:00:26)
Everyone tells their story/ how they joined the Bee.
The writers talk about some of their favorite Bee articles.
Bonus Audio
The Lars Larson Show sent us their professionally done version of the Re-Imagine and now we are singing it around the office. Enjoy!
Become a Babylon Bee subscriber at babylonbee.com/plans
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of fake news, this is news you can trust. |
| 0:07.7 | Breaking news, we just made up. |
| 0:12.2 | You're listening to the Babylon B, |
| 0:15.4 | with your hosts, Kyle Mann and Ethan Nichole. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to an extremely normal episode |
| 0:25.9 | of the Babylon B podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | This episode is so mundane, it's gonna blow your socks off. |
| 0:31.3 | Well, it's not mundane, it's just, |
| 0:32.9 | it's trying to get a good center. |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, it's normal. |
| 0:34.8 | Middle of the road, average. |
| 0:36.6 | Average, everyday, humdrum. |
| 0:38.5 | Anila ice cream. |
| 0:39.6 | Absolutely not special, because Ethan mocks me |
| 0:41.8 | when I say that the episodes are special. |
| 0:43.8 | I do, I never do. |
| 0:45.0 | You'd mock me one time, because I said, |
| 0:46.8 | this is a special guest, and you said, |
| 0:48.4 | as opposed to all of our normal guests. |
| 0:50.1 | Ah! |
| 0:51.4 | And I thought, we do have normal guests today. |
| 0:53.8 | Yes, we do, that's not special at all. |
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