Category: Interviews

An Exclusive Interview with Byron the Quokka

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(Editor’s Note: The following interview was done by Ernest and Giulio Gallo for Not Those Gallos Brothers! Magazine. These are excerpts.)

E&G: Have you settled into your job as contest manager for this blog?

BTQ: Yes.

E&G: We understand this is only the second interview you’ve ever granted.

BTQ: That’s true. The first one, the guy told me he was Col. Mustard from the Clue game and I believed him because he looked like Col. Mustard, and then he turned out to be some patzer named Henderson and all the other quokkas laughed at me for a week and went around calling themselves Miss Scarlet or Professor Plum, etc. I have to admit–it left scars. But I granted this interview because my Uncle Cedric thought it was the Gallo Brothers who make that wine he likes so much, and I just couldn’t disappoint him.

E&G: Who do you try to pattern yourself after?

BTQ: (thinking it over for a good five minutes) I guess the Sons of Hercules.

E&G: what do you like best about working for this blog?

BTQ: The hours are flexible, the pay is fantastic, I get to see all the cat and hamster videos I want, and I love the readers, they are cool! Also I get to go to New Jersey now and then and ride on the handlebars of Lee’s bike.

E&G: Do you think Australia will ever have a quokka as prime minster?

BTQ: (dives into burrow. Won’t come out. Faint noise of him blowing a raspberry at the interviewers).

From Dec 14, 2019

 

‘Is Satire Unbiblical?’

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I’ve just listened to an “Out of the Question” discussion by Andrea Schwartz and Charles Roberts, on the Chalcedon website:

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/audio/is-satire-unbiblical

It’s some 43 minutes long, but well worthwhile. And the short answer to the question, “Is Satire Unbiblical?”, is… no. In fact, it’s found throughout the Bible. Elijah and St. Paul used it very effectively.

What are the purposes of satire? It exposes evils that need to be seen as evils. It exposes foolishness that needs to be seen as foolishness. And it questions false authority that needs to be questioned. All of this is usually done in a humorous style, hopefully to make us laugh at the pretensions of the wicked and the foolish.

Throughout history, God’s enemies have presented themselves as wiser than God’s people, much smarter, worthy of our respect, people we should emulate–and obey. Because usually they’re trying to acquire power over others: it’s in their DNA.

So it really bugs them if we can show that, contrary to their claims for themselves, they are not wise but foolish, deserving of our laughter, sorry examples for anyone to emulate, and certainly unworthy of obedience. In exposing evil as evil, we do good. Satire can be used in God’s service to unmask lies and make them distasteful to us–because who wants to believe in something that’s demonstrably ridiculous?

We do a bit of satire on this blog. Every Friday Joe Collidge reveals himself to be an ass and his intellectual aspirations to be asinine. Let’s face it–a huge portion of what they, um, “teach” in our colleges is only so much garbage, much of it toxic. It deserves to be exposed. It deserves to be laughed at.

Once upon a time in Wales, bards would direct satires at kings and nobles who had done something or other that was unworthy of their high positions. As if being laughed at by their subjects wasn’t deterrent enough, it was also widely believed that a really biting satire would raise boils on the target’s face. An exaggeration, of course–but the business at hand was accountability. It was hard to get away with being a bad feudal lord if everyone was mocking you.

Satire can be a tool for goodness and truth. If it was good enough for Elijah and Paul, it’s good enough for us.

Funny Noozies–No, They Weren’t Joking

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Does “colonizing the moon” mean oppressing and exploiting the Indigenous People of the moon?

BEYOND PARODY: CBS Mornings Host Worries About America ‘Colonizing’ the Moon, is Reminded There’s No Indigenous Population There (VIDEO)

The dummies on CBS Mornings questioned the fairness and humanity of “colonizing the moon” and seemed awfully worried about it until their guest, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, had to remind them that nobody lives on the moon.

Say what??? What about Moon Men? Hey! Waddaya mean, there’s nobody there?

Rush Limbaugh, we are sorry you weren’t around to tackle this one.

Democrat Follies

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Gee, who’s that in the right-hand photo?

Why, that’s Jesus Christ, of course–all ready for another turn of Jesus Christ, Superstar. This time they’ve depicted Him as a bald black woman with a screechy voice and extravagant gestures. Amazing, how totally the Bible missed that.

Following this horror we have Joe the Schmoe bumbling and fumfering, an overdose of Kamalalala, and other tidbits which, if nothing else, remind us what a disastrous bullet we dodged in 2024.

Just now they’re squabbling among themselves about who should be The Leader.

One hardly knows where to begin.

Here I Am, On the Air

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Aha! Evidence that I actually exist.

I happened to turn up this interview Tim Wildmon did with me for the American Family Assn. It was years ago, and I had just had published my fourth Bell Mountain novel, The Last Banquet. 

Anyway, here I am. Last Banquet was ten books ago, and I’m still writing. I pray my books will be fruitful in God’s service.

One, Two, Three–Nooze Media Wipeout!

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This video’s a little long (9 minutes), but it’s solid gold!

First Ty Smith (“Modern Renaissance Man”); then Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green; and then Denzel Washington–all three serving up a piping hot bowl of truth. Three Davids cutting down the Far Left nooze media’s Goliath.

No one has ever deserved this pie in the face more than our so-called news media. Oh, do they get it but good! Every word hits home.

We’ve been waiting for this–and it’s worth it.

‘Now That’s a Stupid Question!’ (2017)

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So what did you guys learn in clown school? How to be CPA’s?

You’ve got to wonder about “journalists” and what they learn in journalism school.

New York’s Thanksgiving Day parade: well-paid, well-dressed noozie asks a couple of clowns, “What did you learn at clown school?”

Now That’s a Stupid Question!

Sheesh. What’s Smokey the Bear’s middle name? Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb? Where do they hold the New York City Thanksgiving Day Parade? [Uh… Spain?]

That we learn anything at all from “news reporting” looks increasingly miraculous.

‘Biblical Archaeology: An Interview with Hershel Shanks’ (2005)

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One of the percs of my job with the Chalcedon Foundation is the opportunity to interview noteworthy people–like Hershel Shanks, founder of the Biblical Archaeological Society and long-time editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. I interviewed him in 2005 .

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/biblical-archaeology-an-interview-with-hershel-shanks

“Archaeology brings the Bible to life in a special way,” Shanks said. “It’s a theological document, but it’s also a very human document, set in a time and place and peopled by real human beings.”

It was a long and very interesting discussion. Don’t look to archaeology, he warned, to “prove” the Bible. “If you need archaeology to prove your faith, you must have a pretty weak faith.”

Shanks didn’t mind discussing some of the hottest controversies in the field; but I couldn’t pin him down to making a faith statement of his own. All I can say to that is, his body of work brought a stronger faith in God’s Word to a multitude of readers.

The interview is long, but give it a whirl. I’m sure you’ll find it interesting.

 

OK, I Did It!

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(No wonder she’s so tired… Please tell us she didn’t lay those eggs.)

Well, I’ve done the interview with Delmer Eldred, he’s invited me back in January so I must’ve done all right–and now I’m really tired, I think I want a cigar.

You wouldn’t think being interviewed was hard work, but sometimes it is… especially when you’re really trying hard to reach the audience. And it’s been years since I’ve done this.

After he edits the tape, Mr. Eldred will send me a link to the show so I can post it here and you can all listen to it. It’ll be on both AM and FM radio out in Washington State. I wonder if my voice sounds any better than it did.

For the time being, I need some rest and then we’re going to visit our town’s Halloween decorations. And at least one more blog post after that.

One Interview, Coming Up

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Ed Begley Sr. recalled a time one night when he was on Broadway, performing in Inherit the Wind, and when he went to deliver his lines, “I opened my mouth and nothing came out but garbage!”

Out of practice for several years, I’ll be doing an interview this morning and I hope it turns out well. I have one advantage over Mr. Begley: this won’t be live radio. Mistakes can be edited out.

Now I’ve got half an hour to bone up on the subject that the host wants to discuss–my recent writings on government’s insatiable desire for more and more power over us. The tactics are different from what they were in 50 B.C., but the objective is always the same.

So pour a cup of tea and get to work! Hurry up, you’ve only got a half-hour to get ready…