Ryan Bangert: Babylon Bee vs. California court case
The Eric Metaxas Show
Salem Podcast Network
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Bangert from Alliance Defending Freedom breaks down the high-stakes Babylon Bee vs. California court case, a critical fight for free speech and satire in America.
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| 0:00.0 | Americans may not agree on much, but we agree on Social Security. |
| 0:04.8 | We all pay in. It ought to be there when we need it. |
| 0:08.1 | Social Security could face a funding gap in less than a decade, and I don't want to see a pay cut. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm with AARP in the fight to protect the Social Security we earned. |
| 0:19.1 | Pledge to protect social security at |
| 0:21.4 | AARP.org slash we earned it. |
| 0:24.4 | That's AARP.org slash we earned it. |
| 0:28.0 | Paid for by AARP. |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. |
| 0:46.3 | Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? |
| 0:48.9 | The blood-curdling threat of the blob. |
| 0:52.2 | Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, |
| 0:55.8 | but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat him. |
| 0:57.4 | But he kept spitting him out. |
| 0:59.8 | Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. |
| 1:04.1 | Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. |
| 1:06.2 | Eric, the Texas! Welcome back, folks. |
| 1:12.3 | In a few minutes, I'm talking to one of the heads of the Alliance defending freedom. |
| 1:16.6 | We're talking about free speech, but right now I'm talking to John Zmirach. |
| 1:19.2 | John, I want to finish her conversation about Candace Owens and Tucker, and I want to move on to Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:27.0 | Go ahead. I was explaining that on to Hillary Clinton. Go ahead. |
| 1:27.5 | I was explaining that for a long time you had people on the right who were like right-wing |
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