The Babylon Bee New Year's Special 2021
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This is the Babylon Bee New Year's Special 2021.
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan do a rundown on 2020’s biggest and best Babylon Bee stories that gave the world fake news they could trust. They talk about all the big changes at The Babylon Bee and give a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process behind the top ten Bee articles of the year. Even though the year was a crazy one, Kyle and Ethan want to end 2020 with a little Chestertonian awe, wonder, and gratitude.
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The Babylon Bee 2020 In Retrospect
This year, The Babylon Bee:
Got a real studio
Launched video podcasts
Launched animation
Grew tremendously in # of subscribers
We shifted to full-time coronavirus jokes for a while
First annual BeeCon
Got attacked by Facebook, banned by Twitter
Hired more people (it was basically just me and Ethan a year ago)
Trump shared our article, thinking it was real?
New York Times profile
Interviewed some really big names!
Published The Sacred Texts Of The Babylon Bee, Volume 1!
Top 10 Bee Articles of the year
10 - Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out 'We're All In This Together' With Their Yachts
9 - Trump Announces He Has Hidden 5 Golden Tickets Among Stimulus Checks
8 - Biden: 'I Am The Only Candidate Who Can Beat Ronald Reagan'
7 - FBI Hires Top-Rated Italian Bodyguard Hiluigi Clintonelli To Protect Ghislaine Maxwell
6 - Walmart Now Requires All Shoppers To Wear Pants
5 - NBA Players Wear Special Lace Collars To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
4 - Biden Campaign Says He Is So Close To A VP Pick He Can Smell Her
3 - Bernie Tests Negative For President
2 - Cracker Jack Changes Name To More Politically Correct Caucasian Jack
1 - Biden Cuts Hole In Mask So He Can Still Sniff People's Hair
One last “G.K. Chesterton!” for 2020.
Subscriber Portion: Bonus Top Articles #11-15
15 - Miracle: Coronavirus Passes Over Houses With Chick-Fil-A Sauce Smeared On Door Posts
14 - With Statues Gone, Pigeons Forced To Poop On Rioters
13 - In Bold Anti-Trump Statement, Pelosi Rips Up Bible
12 - Podiums At Next Debate To Be Equipped With Life Alert Buttons
11 - Democrats Warn That American People May Tamper With Next Election
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 dose of moral truth. |
| 0:10.0 | With your hosts, Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicole. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the Babylon B. Fake News, you can trust. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, hello, everyone. We won't see you until next year. |
| 0:29.0 | Oh, me. Oh, me. I do that one with my kids every year, of course. |
| 0:37.0 | They never find it amusing. I don't know if there's any age at which they find it amusing. |
| 0:42.0 | Like, I think there's that one second where their brains go. |
| 0:45.0 | Like the very first time. I like, why? Why don't I get it? |
| 0:48.0 | And then never again. Is there any thought to that? But it's okay. I'll keep telling it. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Kyle Mann. I'm the editor in chief of the Babylon B. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Ethan Nicole Creative Director of the Babylon B. |
| 0:58.0 | And we are your hosts for the Babylon B podcast. The podcast where you get to hang out with the Babylon B writers. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm saying the word Babylon B a lot. Yeah. Babylon B. |
| 1:05.0 | But I want to become meaningful this after a while. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, this is our year in show. This is the end of the year. |
| 1:12.0 | We're recording this a week before and we're going to put this up so that we can just be off, |
| 1:16.0 | hanging out with our families for a week. So, hang it out. |
| 1:20.0 | You'll see a lot of reposts from us. We're going to post our best of the year on social media |
| 1:25.0 | throughout the next week or so. So you'll be seeing that. |
| 1:27.0 | And then on this podcast, we're just going to do a quick retrospective. |
| 1:30.0 | Throughout the next week from when this goes up or from right now. |
| 1:34.0 | From when this goes up. When does this go up Friday? |
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