The Lads Behind The Babylon Bee (Friday Release Valve)
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicolle, the Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director of The Babylon Bee, join Heaton to discuss political satire, why Christians are suddenly funny, and the week's best underserved headlines. Including: kidney drones, censored parrots, and why the planet Venus might lead to our total destruction.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It is Friday and I refuse, that's right I refuse to be substantive anymore at this point in the week. |
| 0:07.8 | I am only going to kick around funny headlines and I'm going to do it with a couple of funny people and I'm very |
| 0:14.0 | excited to bring them on. I today am joined by Kyle Mann the editor-in-chief of |
| 0:18.7 | the Babylon B or of Babylon B and Ethan Nicole writer and creative director of the Babylon Bae, and Ethan Nicole, writer and creative director of the Babylon B, and the mutual |
| 0:26.2 | hosts of the Babylon B podcast and YouTube channel. |
| 0:29.9 | Thank you for coming on guys. |
| 0:30.9 | Yeah, it is the Babylon B. B. You see how I got it. You know what it's |
| 0:35.1 | only because I'm so excited slash intimidated to talk to you that I really whiff that |
| 0:39.5 | one. Please we interpret that as as delightful error on my part. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, we're just trying to distinguish from all the knock-off Babylon bees, you know, you go to the |
| 0:48.2 | store and there's shelves and shelves. |
| 0:50.0 | But we are the... |
| 0:52.0 | The amount of Iraqi honey products that somehow occupy that same linguistic niche, |
| 0:58.0 | when you put the article in front of it, can I, I'm a fan of you guys. |
| 1:01.7 | I think the Babylon B is consistently good, hilarious satire. |
| 1:07.2 | You guys are very, very funny. |
| 1:09.3 | And if anybody listening to my program is unfamiliar with the Babylon B, picture the onion. |
| 1:15.6 | Now imagine that it's Christians that are doing it. |
| 1:18.3 | And I, and if that sounds crazy to you, I promise, it builds bills that what you say it sounds horrible |
| 1:26.8 | How would you describe it? Because I would say because you guys are more of you're you're coming from a Christian perspective more than a conservative perspective, right? |
| 1:34.0 | Am I right? I'm thinking that you're more churchy than Republican. |
| 1:38.0 | Like you'll make fun of Democrats quite a lot. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andrew Heaton, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Andrew Heaton and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

