The Suicide Of Thought
07/03/20 • 69 min
This is the Babylon Bee weekly news podcast special episode for 7/3/2020.
This episode is brought to you by Faithful Counseling. Bee listeners get 10% off!
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk about the week’s big stories like a man being fined £450 for provocative intestinal wind, the fallen world we live in where The Princess Bride is possibly being remade, and how doctors are recommending we keep opening up and closing the economy until we all go insane. In the main topic, they read G.K. Chesterton's ideas on the suicide of thought.
In the subscriber portion, Kyle and Ethan dive in into the mail bag, talk about their years in ministry, and bring in producer Dan so that they all can answer the ten questions.
Show Outline
Introduction
Kyle and Ethan return from the warm, sunny beaches of Florida to churn out another podcast. We have an update on the 'Best of the Bee' book.
Weird News
- Broody mother goose has taken 47 babies under her wing - and they're so cute
- “This phenomenon is known as a gang brood"
- Man falls through floor of home, plunges down 30-foot well
- Pair hired for man's broom sexual fantasy turn up in bedroom at wrong address with machetes
- In fart news: Man fined £450 for 'provocative' fart in front of police officers
- Newton's recipe for 'toad vomit lozenges' up for auction
Stuff That’s Good
Kyle likes Dead Cells the video game.
Ethan likes WACO on Netflix.
Stories of the Week
Story 1
Equality At Last: Disney Confirms Winnie The Pooh Will Now Be Voiced By An Actual Bear
Summary: In order to ensure that voice actors only portray characters they actually look like, Disney announced this week that Winnie the Pooh will now be voiced by an actual bear.
The real story: Several voice actors have stopped voicing characters that are not the same race they are. The Simpsons, Big Mouth, American Dad, Cleveland Show.
Story 2
Doctors Recommend Locking Down And Reopening Repeatedly Until Everyone Has Nervous Breakdown
Summary: A survey of leading physicians unanimously agreed that the best response to COVID-19 is for the government to lock everything down, then reopen, then lock down again, then reopen again and to just keep doing that until everyone completely loses their minds.
Story 3
Merciful God Vows To End Humanity Before 'The Princess Bride' Can Be Remade
Summary: Upon rumors of a remake of The Princess Bride, a spokesperson for the Almighty God confirmed that He will end the world in fire before He would ever allow that to happen.
Topic of the Week
Kyle and Ethan read a portion of G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy on the suicide of thought and discuss its relevance in our times of constant revolutionary agitation.
Hate Mail
Someone went to home depot and bought a whole bunch of flowerbeds.
Subscriber Portion
Kyle and Ethan dive into the mail bag, talk about their years in ministry, and have producer Dan join them to answer the ten questions. Subscribers, get to know the Bee boys.
This is the Babylon Bee weekly news podcast special episode for 7/3/2020.
This episode is brought to you by Faithful Counseling. Bee listeners get 10% off!
In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk about the week’s big stories like a man being fined £450 for provocative intestinal wind, the fallen world we live in where The Princess Bride is possibly being remade, and how doctors are recommending we keep opening up and closing the economy until we all go insane. In the main topic, they read G.K. Chesterton's ideas on the suicide of thought.
In the subscriber portion, Kyle and Ethan dive in into the mail bag, talk about their years in ministry, and bring in producer Dan so that they all can answer the ten questions.
Show Outline
Introduction
Kyle and Ethan return from the warm, sunny beaches of Florida to churn out another podcast. We have an update on the 'Best of the Bee' book.
Weird News
- Broody mother goose has taken 47 babies under her wing - and they're so cute
- “This phenomenon is known as a gang brood"
- Man falls through floor of home, plunges down 30-foot well
- Pair hired for man's broom sexual fantasy turn up in bedroom at wrong address with machetes
- In fart news: Man fined £450 for 'provocative' fart in front of police officers
- Newton's recipe for 'toad vomit lozenges' up for auction
Stuff That’s Good
Kyle likes Dead Cells the video game.
Ethan likes WACO on Netflix.
Stories of the Week
Story 1
Equality At Last: Disney Confirms Winnie The Pooh Will Now Be Voiced By An Actual Bear
Summary: In order to ensure that voice actors only portray characters they actually look like, Disney announced this week that Winnie the Pooh will now be voiced by an actual bear.
The real story: Several voice actors have stopped voicing characters that are not the same race they are. The Simpsons, Big Mouth, American Dad, Cleveland Show.
Story 2
Doctors Recommend Locking Down And Reopening Repeatedly Until Everyone Has Nervous Breakdown
Summary: A survey of leading physicians unanimously agreed that the best response to COVID-19 is for the government to lock everything down, then reopen, then lock down again, then reopen again and to just keep doing that until everyone completely loses their minds.
Story 3
Merciful God Vows To End Humanity Before 'The Princess Bride' Can Be Remade
Summary: Upon rumors of a remake of The Princess Bride, a spokesperson for the Almighty God confirmed that He will end the world in fire before He would ever allow that to happen.
Topic of the Week
Kyle and Ethan read a portion of G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy on the suicide of thought and discuss its relevance in our times of constant revolutionary agitation.
Hate Mail
Someone went to home depot and bought a whole bunch of flowerbeds.
Subscriber Portion
Kyle and Ethan dive into the mail bag, talk about their years in ministry, and have producer Dan join them to answer the ten questions. Subscribers, get to know the Bee boys.
Previous Episode
Growing Up Hinn: The Costi Hinn Interview
Editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk to Costi Hinn, nephew of notorious faith healer Benny Hinn. After leaving that ministry behind, Costi Hinn is now a pastor at Redeemer Bible Church in Gilbert, Arizona. He is the author of God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel. They talk about Costi’s childhood living large like a Kardashian, learning about a different gospel from a pink study bible, and what goes on behind the scenes of a prominent prosperity gospel ministry.
Topics Discussed
- Going straight into the deep end of Calvinism because of a pink MacArthur study bible
- A day in the life of Benny Hinn- what’s it like to have a personal duster?
- On growing up as a Hinn was a Kardashian lifestyle
- The prosperity gospel vs the Biblical gospel
- On batting 0.068 slaying people in the spirit and only “healing” one guy
- What went on behind the scenes at these healing events?
- Not raising a hand against the Lord’s Anointed, even if they happen to be creeps just claiming to have the anointing
- On whether prosperity health-and-wealth healers sincerely believe their own message or if they just cashing in
- On Benny Hinn’s occasional “repentance” on the prosperity gospel
- New wave prosperity preachers and the old generals
- The Ten Questions
See also: Benny Hinn is my uncle, but Prosperity Gospel is not for me
A few Babylon Bee articles on Benny Hinn:
Benny Hinn Holds Healing Service In Full Hazmat Suit
Benny Hinn Loses Control Of Powers, Sends Audience Member Soaring Hundreds Of Feet Into Air
Benny Hinn Spends Another Long Day At Children's Hospital Healing Kids
Benny Hinn Attempts Jedi Mind Trick On IRS Agents Investigating His Ministry
Benny Hinn Miraculously Removes Lump From Woman's Purse
Benny Hinn Added To 'Smash Bros.' Roster
Benny Hinn Masterfully Knocks Down Audience Members Arranged In Notoriously Difficult 7–10 Split
I Honestly Can Not Believe I'm Still Getting Away With This
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Next Episode
Christian In Portland: The Drew Dyck Interview
This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show.
Editor-in-chief Kyle Man and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk to Drew Dyck about whether criminals are real, being saved from a life of stealing deodorant, and invading Canada. Drew is an acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers and a contributing editor at CTPastors.com, a Christianity Today publication for church leaders. He’s the author of Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science, Yawning at Tigers: You Can’t Tame God, So Stop Trying, and Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Church...and how to Bring Them Back.
Topics Discussed
- Sending your book ideas to Drew
- Arguing with people on Twitter about abolishing the police and whether criminals are a thing
- Spicing up your testimony by stealing deodorant
- Milk in a bag
- The weirdest thing about Canada
- Portland is stuck in the 90s/Portlandia
- On the difference between a beat poet and a slam poet
- When bookstores were a thing
- Christian stores bestselling “Jesus junk”
- Where ANTIFA will set up their gulags
- God isn’t safe but he’s good, like Aslan
- Self-control in everything but buying Drew’s books
- Mental illness in the church
- Remembering the Emerging Church movement
- What’s better: fur babies or actual babies
- Writers retreats never help
- On not psychologizing your opponents
- The Ten Questions
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