The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: The Babylon Bee's Joel Berry Joins Us

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

Joel Berry from The Babylon Bee joins us to debate the state of the GOP & how old-school, pro-life evangelical leaders are a thing of the past and how Christians need to adapt. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat climate change.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaVisit today for 10% off and get the protection you need.  Hillsdalehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit DanaForHillsdale.com to pick your new favorite podcast today on the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.  KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comInnovation. Performance. Keltec. Learn more at KelTecWeapons.com today.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet a free month of service with code Dana.ReadyWisehttps://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on any regularly priced item.Tax Network USAhttps://TNUSA.com/DANADon’t let the IRS control your life—empower yourself with Tax Network USA. Visit TNUSA.com/DANAhollywood-gonna-hollywood--61201497

Dana Lashes of Surtruth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. I immediately want to go to the guy who was trying to steal steak. So I'm not going in order. I'm sorry, but this immediately caught my eye. As you can imagine, it would anybody's. So this Florida man stole four rib-eye steaks and hid him under his shirt,

hid them under his shirt out of Walmart, according to deputies. I mean, I just wanted some red meats. That's all. Angel Rivera, 66, was charged with petty theft of $100 or more after he, on this Walmart ribby theft. He hid them under his shirt, and they got him on camera. He went and picked out four packs of ribbyes, placed them on the top part of his shopping cart. And then he went to a different aisle where I guess he thought cameras couldn't get him.

And he hid them under his shirt, which he was, was covered by a jacket and then he left without pain Walmart asset protection officer confronted him he gave the stakes back they waited until deputies arrived it was uh they were recovered but damaged $102 for four stakes $102 man that's a lot so he's he gets in trouble he gets in trouble so we also have this guy he didn't want to share his uh passcode on his phone. He did not want to share his password, his phone's like to unlock his phone with his girlfriend. And he jumped into the ocean.

Hmm. This sounds, this dude doesn't sound trustworthy. Just got to say. He would rather literally jump to where the sharks and gators live. A Florida man, he did not want his girlfriend or his cops to access his phone. And he jumped into the ocean to avoid giving it up and try to flee a rest after he was being grilled by police while out on a boat. There's body cam footage. It shows two female Florida Fish and Wildlife Commissioner, Commission officers questioning the guy. He identified himself as AJ,

him and his girlfriend on a boat in the Keys. And he was arguing with the officers and his girlfriend over the phone. He got agitated and jumped into the ocean. And he, because he goes, what if I just swim away? And then he led, I love this line, he led the cops on a seven-minute pursuit back to shore, where they promptly arrested him. He, I don't know what they didn't actually say like what. They just said his boat was breaching code. And they didn't have any like documentation with him. And that's pretty much all they, because I really don't know why they were stopped or why.

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He said, quote, sorry pro-life evangelical leaders. When you nominate weaklings like Romney, McCain and Mike Pence, you lose elections. When you act like politics is too dirty for Christians to be involved in. You lose the party. When you think evangelizing entails inviting your neighbor to mega church movie night, you lose the culture. The Republican Party is no longer yours, but you weren't pushed out, he writes. You gave it up. You stopped fighting for it. You were too busy building your stupid megachurch kingdom with its 28 satellite locations and inane self-help sermons, while the culture and the country fell into disrepair. There's still time to turn it around, but you have a ton of work to do. And he adds, too, that you lost the Republican Party long before Trump.

They paid lip service to your cause, but they never really cared about it. And you were satisfied to remain uninvolved and punch the ticket for whichever polite, milk toast family man with good hair told you the right things while giving up on every single issue. And he ends with Trump and Trump supporters didn't start this. They just exposed it. Oh my gosh. That's a sermon. And joining us right now is Joel Berry with the Babylon. be God love you for writing that because I am so glad that you said this and I say this as someone

who lives in a town where we just had a mega church scandal at the gateway church with one of the pastors over there and it became this huge thing and I'm like and I always hear all the time from so many leaders like don't you know politics is dirty don't get involved in it you know it's not it's like you're not really it's like bad for Christians to get involved I'm so glad that you said this tell me what your thoughts are of all of this because I think what you said is what a lot of people are really feeling. Yeah, I think evangelicals, for the most part, have themselves to blame for this. For the last two decades, we've been told, you know, if you get involved in politics,

if you're an outspoken conservative, you're worshipping power, you're practicing idolatry, you're living for the kingdom of man rather than the kingdom of God. You know, you hear all this stuff. And our leaders have been examples of complete impotence in spite of our high ideals, the things that we believe. They haven't done much good for the Republican Party. They haven't done much good when it comes to preserving our culture and stopping the march of the left. And so we shouldn't be surprised.

I mean, you know, while we were being lectured from the pulpit about not being too political from our evangelical leaders, people like Harmeet Dillon were kicking down doors, you know, fighting for liberty for our children and our grandchildren. And so, of course, the Republican Party, they're going to go with the people who are actually fighting, who are actually doing something, as opposed to the people who are kind of sitting off to the side just waiting to be catered to like evangelicals have for so long. Yeah. And you mentioned, you know, while these people were doing this, people like Dylan were going out and fighting the good fight. And even during the COVID lockdown, I mean, our church was one that locked down. And I mean, we had like, you know, people within our church talk about how it's, you know, it's nice to wear your face mask because it makes other people feel comfortable and, you know, keep six feet away. And yes, you know, and try to justify. You know, at a time when the church should have been open and they weren't. And that's when really a lot of people were really motivated to get out. And that's why we see so many people and there's so much passion right now. But you make such a good point because I do feel like the church kind of accommodated that.

Not all, but some. Well, yeah. I mean, they, COVID was a great shame for the church. I mean, the fact that the church is shut down for months and months and months when people, the sheep, Christians needed to be fed, needed fellowship. It was such a colloquial. and in a time when, you know, the left is aggressive, the left is getting their policies, you know, passed. At a time when we need people who are bold, people who are willing to speak the truth in a hostile culture, people who are willing to fight and win,

evangelicals, especially, particularly our leaders, not necessarily the rank and file, haven't done anything. You know, a great example, you know, I live in Ohio. We had issue one, which was one of the most horrific pieces of legislation. It legalized abortion up to the moment of birth for any reason, no questions asked. In a largely conservative state like Ohio,

I was part of the pro-life movement at the time, getting pastors to say anything in the pulpit, you know, to oppose issue one, getting churches to organize to help with voter drives or attend protests, anything like that. It was like polling teeth because pastors, well, you know, that's politics, you know, that we're not supposed to be involved in that.

we might lose our tax exemption. There's this great fear in evangelical churches about doing any of that. Not so with the left. You go to a Democrat church, you go to a black church. They are preaching politics every Sunday from the pulpit. They are getting souls to the polls.

They are organizing. And we're just not doing that. And so I think the Republican Party, they started to look for, okay, we need people who are willing to fight and evangelicals just don't seem to have the fight in them anymore. I think that's a huge point. We're talking with our good friend, Joel Berry.

And I think you're making a point that a lot of people are really scared to make because nobody wants to look like they're being too harsh in criticizing the church or criticizing their faith or criticizing their elders or anything like that. And I get that totally. But then at the same time, there are a lot of people asking, well, where's that representation in the RNC? You know, the language about traditional marriage and the language, you know, on abortion. And that's, I mean, it seems to be like, you know, and it is kind of a pretty moderate, you know, right down the middle position on all of that stuff for this platform. It's not anything like we've seen prior to Republican RNC platform. platforms. And it's, as you said, it's because, you know, evangelicals really remove themselves from that fight. I, I don't really see a lot of that activism as much on the right as I used to see when I was younger. Yeah. Well, I think the good news, though, is that I think the younger generation has mostly rejected that kind of that weak need evangelicalism of, you know, the last 20 years. I think the bold Christianity and outspoken Christianity is back. It is sad to kind of see it being taken out of the official Republican platform. But I think that it's, I think it's coming back in a big way.

And I think our voices are going to be much louder. And I think we're in the next 10 years, you're going to see Christians being a lot more effective to get some of these political wins. Talk to me about this for a minute, about the idea of that it's, you're being a bad Christian if you're involved in political outreach. Because that, if it's not said, it's definitely intimated in a lot of churches. and I have so many, so many of our friends in our church, it's like the dirty thing. Like we, you know, people know that I work in politics, but it's like a dirty thing that we

just don't talk about in church. It's just very odd. What are your thoughts on that? How do we overcome that? Well, I think part of it is a little bit of an embarrassment reflex. You know, we, you know, the 90s and the 80s, we had the moral majority and the Jerry Falwells. And there's this kind of like, well, we don't want to be those icky, you know, right-wing Christians. And so a lot of evangelicals.

political leaders have kind of taken upon this mantle as being like PR reps for Christianity. We have to be cool. We have to be kind of, you know, pleasing and winsome and we got to invite people in. We can't be like those hard-nosed Republicans. We can't be like the Rush Limbaugh types. And so they kind of just pushed all that aside. And there has been, there's a lot of kind of like passive aggressive, like shaming of any outspoken conservatives, outspoken Christians who are involved in politics. And, you know, as a result, you're seeing, you know, school boards in largely Christian areas are being populated completely by leftists.

You know, city council, local elections. I mean, we've completely given this up to the left. You know, evangelical voters are the most reliable pro-life, pro-family voting, voting block. I mean, if churches were to mobilize, we could make sure that a Republican never lost an election again. But I think there's just been this overwhelming fear from our leadership.

you know, to look bad. They don't want to look uncool. They don't want to look square. And it's like a business approach too. I mean, I understand that you're out there trying to win souls over, but sometimes maybe, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, sometimes for me, it seems like, you know, you have some leaders out there that are more interested in adding more, you know, seats to the corporatized megachurch than actually going out and winning the souls.

Yeah, they're entrepreneurs now. They're trying to get more butts and seats. And they have won people to their buildings with, you know, slick programs and cool music and really kind of watered down sermons that don't really have a lot of depth to them. And they're at the point now where they have these, you know, 20,000 person churches, a third of which are on the left politically. And they know that if they speak out, they're going to lose all these people.

What do we do? And so I think a lot of it is absolutely, it's money, money motivated. Because it's not like people are speaking out on, you know, like just trying to think of, you know, like taxes or something like. I mean, you're talking about life. And you're talking about, you know, the building blocks of a functioning society, which is a family that parents, a man and a woman start and, you know, all of that stuff. I mean, these, they're not controversial things. I mean, it's very biblical. But they're very nervous to talk about any of this stuff.

And which is weird because the stereotype from the left is that they're not. But in reality, they are. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, the thing I always tell people is that Christians are meant to be salt and light. You know, our presence in the world should make the world look different. We're not meant to just kind of sit in our churches and our ivory towers and we just kind of like listen to our sermons and that's it. We're supposed to go out and it's supposed to make a radical difference in our communities and our states and our countries. And so I hope, I hope that the tide is turning in Christianity in America.

I hope that we're kind of turning back that fear that we've had for so long because we are We're going to lose our republic. We're going to lose our freedoms if evangelicals don't start mobilizing. Yeah, that's a good point. One last thing you add, you want God back in the party, me too, that requires you to emerge from your pristine ivory towers and take your Christian faith into the ugly, messy world of political action. You add, feel free to join us, but I won't hold my breath.

You don't sound very optimistic there, Joanne. I'm naturally a pessimist. That way I'm always surprised that something good happens. Right, right, right. I hope it does turn out well. I hope it does. And what do you, I mean, do you think that that's going to, what do you, what would you like to see? Actually, this will be my last question to you. What would you like to see with regard to this issue in the RNC?

Because I understand the people's, I understand people's, and I completely agree with you 100% on this. I understand the concern that individuals have, but like you, I'm like, well, where were you out here fighting for this? Or why were you so quiet on this issue? And it's always like the same groups forever that have always held the line on issues of like life a marriage or things like that. And some of the people that I see speaking out the loudest about this now, I've noticed we're pretty silent during some of these battles before. Yeah, I think really the only thing that's going to turn this around in a substantive way

is going to be, it's going to take radical spiritual revival from the ground up. I think all of us need to repent. Our leaders need repentance. We need repentance. We need to get back to the basics of what scripture says, preaching the plain truth of scripture, speaking the plain truth of scripture to this post-truth culture and living it out. And I think once we do that, I think you'll start to see this groundswell of change. It's going to look weird and mysterious, and we're not going to be able to necessarily put our finger

on it, but I think it has to start in the churches with repentance and revival in our hearts and getting back the basis. I agree with you. I keep hearing people say, oh, we're navigating a post-Christian world. I don't know if I'm ready to adopt that line of thinking yet. Post-Christian world. Yeah, I'm not ready to do. I'm not ready to accept that.

Joel Berry with the Babylon Bee. God bless you, my friend. I appreciate you joining me today. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Of course. As we move, our partners that help bring you free radio, the folks at Keltech, the P15.

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It's the P-15. Tell them Dana sent you. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. So another jet ski was abandoned on a Philly street with the same name written on its side. What? So a lot of questions, because there's abandoned jet skis on the streets of Philly, randomly. They dumped illegally, one might say.

No one wants your stupid pop-up ad, and I'm never going to go to Vail now as a result of it. Let's see. The second jet ski was dumped illegally in the city's northern section, and they said that both jet skis, because the other one was abandoned in a different, like further south on the same street, both jet skis had the name Kirby scribbled across the side. What? Kirby, huh? Kirby. And it was in a towaway zone. The second jet ski was there until like last night, apparently, and they finally removed it. But yeah, it has Kirby on the site. What do you think it is? You were saying that this looks like a marketing thing. Yeah, one of those viral marketing things where, who knows, maybe is there something coming out with Kirby, the actual video game Kirby?

Like that. Or something? A little poof thing? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. That pink poof? It just seems like it would be a marketing thing where they're getting stories and it's all mysterious and then boom, they're going to drop something. I don't know.

A Sam's Club worker was left bruised after an angry family, an angry family attacked her because she would not prepare two whole pizzas minutes before closing. Because that was a D-Bag thing to ask minutes before closing. It was in Atlanta suburb of Henry County. and the employee was attacked. She and her coworkers were closing down. A family walked in two minutes before closing and asked for two pizzas, two whole pizzas.

And they said that when she told them it was too late to place an order, they started calling her names. The mother walked behind the counter to the kitchen and punched her in the face. Jeez. Oh my gosh. I don't even know. Let's see here. I'm not doing this one. It's gross.

Oh, this is the Prime Day orders. So Amazon delivery partner fired gunshots in South Philly during an altercation. What does Philly with the jet skis and this now? What the hell? During an altercation with a bus aid, a school bus was full of children. And a delivery partner for Amazon fired gunshots during an altercation with a school bus aid. So when they're not running into people and trying to deny accountability, they're firing shots.

Yeah, who knew that? The bus driver wasn't able to make a term because of a parked Amazon. Amazon van and the bus aide got out and asked one of the drivers if they could move. And then apparently the altercation got underway and the guy got a gun from his Amazon truck and opened fire on the bus driver. I mean, you know, come on, guys. Deep back sail here. Stick with us. You know, Biden's still in office, right? You guys, you know this right? He's still there. He's still there. Yeah. Guys, he's doing the, he's doing the big stuff. He's focusing on some very important problems right now. important problems that are roiling the nation.

And that is plastic cutlery in a bid to save the world. The Biden administration has announced a plan to target plastic cutlery across federal departments. They're taking aim at the climate crisis. It's an all-hands-on-deck response. So China. dumps like actual garbage and turds into the ocean. Nobody says anything to them. Chemicals, they make their lakes pink and toxic.

They do all that. They don't care. And the United States is, well, I guess we should get rid of our plastic collier. That's going to save the world. That's the Biden administration's approach to this. You have to, you have to drink out of a straw that literally dissolves in your mouth.

mouth and in your drink. So China can dump chemicals in the ocean. Hurry up and drink it. I know, by the way, is that not the worst thing ever? When I get my cup and if there is a paper straw on it, I want to throw the whole cup it. I want to throw it. It takes

everything I have. I want to throw it. It makes me so, it's so and there's dyes on that damn straw. Have you noticed? And it's always those stripy stripy straws. That's dye. That's dye that's going in your drink because it's a stupid paper straw. I can't even make words.

It makes me so angry. I have, I have, what is it, corn start straw. I would buy plastic, but they don't make them in these fun colors like this that I can get on Amazon. So it's just, I didn't mean to be good to the earth. I just don't, come on, I just brought it. The cool thing about those is they eventually do dissolve, but I've left one in a drink just to see how long it would take for it to dissolve. And after like two or three days, it's still. was a straw.

Yeah, it's a straw. I don't know why people don't do that. It was so easy for me to do. And they go for those fashion striped straws. I hate those stupid things. Because you know that's like toxic dye on those dumb things too. And it's not all, you're drinking, you're consuming it. It's so dumb.

Anyway, so yeah, that's what he's doing. He's going to reduce the sale of single-use plastic products on public lands. Well, what are you supposed to eat with? If you go to like a museum or something, you go to their little sit-in cafeteria, at a park on public land. You think they're going to be going out and buying it? No, you know what it's going to be? Like, what's that place?

Medieval Times. It's going to be like medieval times. And you got to go in there. It's going to give you turkey. You're going to have to gnaw at everything with your hands. That's what they're going to do. Can I tell you a story about that, by the way? I legit just heard thunder right now.

The hell is going on in Texas. Are your windows down? They are. Look at us. We're like, Kaine, do you need to go roll your windows up? So, you've been in medieval times. right that's like the castle where you know if you're by medieval times and you've never gone there wasn't any in missouri so when we moved here to texas we went twice you had to go and i you know

i'm not i'm not gonna i'm not i always my husband was like this kind of bougie dana because i brought literally plastic cutlery with me i've seen people do that okay my husband was like why are you doing that's because we evolved and invented this stuff that's what that's why i'm doing it Look at this. We don't eat with our feet and hands anymore because we evolved as a species. That's why I'm bringing it in. I'm improving my chopstick skills. I brought wet ones and everything.

I'm like, I could sit here and just eat this stuff with my hands, scooping up some taters or whatever. But I ain't doing it, you know? I'm not going to do it. Clean my hands off on my jeans. Yeah, well, they basically send someone to lick your hands off with your napkins. They don't do that. But yeah, it's just so bad. So I was just like, nope, I'm going to take care of my business because I can't.

prepared. My husband could not believe. He looked at me and he was like I'm watching you open like the equivalent of a Quick Mart here at medieval times. It's like no, no, no. There's certain things that I don't do. And it's not because I'm being boozy or anything like that. Like I love the outdoors and I love

rocks and I mean, it's like I got to eat dirt or something to like convince people that I love nature. I love nature. What but he do? It's great. I love being outdoors. But you know what? I also don't like pretending to be homeless. And that's why I don't camp. because we as humans invented the house

and as a result we stay in them right just like we as humans invented cutlery and so I will use that I am not going to throw away generations of achievements of our ancestors

by saying no I don't want your house or your cutlery gonna pretend to be without I'm not doing that I'm just not gonna do it sorry we invented tents first yeah but then we invented the house

it's like saying let's go back to the Flintstone cars let's pretend for a little bit nope that's okay I'm good I'm all right anyway Biden Bronosaurus ribs though yeah well Biden's he's gonna solve all the world's

problems because he's gonna go after the plastic forks and we'll fork you it's not gonna do anything not gonna do nothing I mean, basically, isn't it going to just raise costs on people? It's going to be like military bases and government workplaces. So instead of maybe, here's a thought, instead of trying to reduce the use of plastic cutlery, here's a maybe reduce the size of the federal government.

That sounds like a great idea. You know, if you have fewer people in government, you have fewer people using the plastic cutlery. What? I know. Amazing, is it not? Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.