When it comes to longer videos I find interesting, I have a system for posting them here:
I see a longer video I think BattleSwarm readers will be interested in.
I go “Hey, I’ll go ahead and post that as soon as I have time to watch the whole video!”
I never have time to watch the full video.
I never post the video.
I think there are some drawbacks to the system.
This Babylon Bee (Seth Dillon, Kyle Mann, and Ethan Nicolle) interview with Elon Musk from back in December is one of those longer videos I meant to get to before now. Rather than continue to hold onto this forever, I’ve watched more of it and am posting it here.
Some topics of discussion:
How Saturday Night Live and The Onion used to be funny before they became so hard left they refused to make fun of Democrats.
The threat to western civilization by the “woke mind virus.”
“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary and hateful. It basically gives mean people a reason, it gives them a shield, to be mean and cruel, armored with false virtue.”
Kyle Mann: “The left is almost this religion now,where they’re so serious, and they believe what they believe with such intensity, that for us to make fun of them you know for them, it’s like you’re making fun of God or salvation.”
Musk is much higher on “sustainable energy” than I am (which you would expect for a guy that owns solar power companies), but does say shutting down nuclear power plants is a big mistake.
The craziness of trying to shut down Dave Chappelle.
“Part of why I moved to Texas, it’s just fewer strings tying you down.”
The Bee no longer includes Ethan Nicolle. Their owner, Seth Dillon, fired Ethan at Christmas right after this interview was finished.
If you believe Ethan’s side of the story, Seth Dillon is an overbearing, egotistical jerk prone to fits of anger and a general overbearing nature. Ethan took a significantly lower wage to come work at the Bee with the expectation that at some point he would be compensated. He worked his tail off and helped build the Bee into what it is today. When time came for a new contract negotiation, Dillon apparently didn’t like Ethan’s insistence that his contract lawyer be involved in the negotiations. And that was one of the contributing factors.
The Bee hasn’t said a word other than to lie or at least heavily suggest that Ethan’s leaving was entirely his decision.
Ethan to his credit suggests that they take what he says and what the Bee says and find the truth somewhat in the middle. But considering the Bee has been completely silent.
Perhaps the most telling thing is the number of people who have exited the Bee right after Ethan left. Either left or also let go. Including their top/head writer – Frank Fleming. He was easily their best writer.
I’ve already unsubscribed to the Bee and moved on. It’s already descended into little more than the onion at this point anyhow. This just sealed the deal.
The Bee no longer includes Ethan Nicolle. Their owner, Seth Dillon, fired Ethan at Christmas right after this interview was finished.
If you believe Ethan’s side of the story, Seth Dillon is an overbearing, egotistical jerk prone to fits of anger and a general overbearing nature. Ethan took a significantly lower wage to come work at the Bee with the expectation that at some point he would be compensated. He worked his tail off and helped build the Bee into what it is today. When time came for a new contract negotiation, Dillon apparently didn’t like Ethan’s insistence that his contract lawyer be involved in the negotiations. And that was one of the contributing factors.
The Bee hasn’t said a word other than to lie or at least heavily suggest that Ethan’s leaving was entirely his decision.
Ethan to his credit suggests that they take what he says and what the Bee says and find the truth somewhat in the middle. But considering the Bee has been completely silent.
Perhaps the most telling thing is the number of people who have exited the Bee right after Ethan left. Either left or also let go. Including their top/head writer – Frank Fleming. He was easily their best writer.
I’ve already unsubscribed to the Bee and moved on. It’s already descended into little more than the onion at this point anyhow. This just sealed the deal.