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00:00:00.000 Today on Good Morning Mug Club, we have an interview with Doug TenNapel.

00:00:02.000 He's a comic book artist, he created some of the greatest video games from your childhood and mine, and yeah, Stephen did an entire interview with him.

00:00:11.000 During this interview, Doug plugged his Kickstarter for Earthworm Jim 2, the graphic novel.

00:00:19.000 So, the problem is, that Kickstarter has ended.

00:00:23.000 I know, sad story.

00:00:26.000 Today, for you, Doug has opened an Indiegogo campaign so that you can still back the book and get your copy.

00:00:34.000 So, if you enjoy the interview, if you're familiar with Doug's work, or if you'd just like to support one of the best artists and storytellers going right now, go to Indiegogo, search for Earthworm Jim 2, and back the book.

00:00:46.000 I hope you enjoy this interview, and I'll get off the screen.

00:00:48.000 Thank you so much.

00:01:05.000 I wasn't super familiar, like months ago, with the name until it was Audio Wade and Quarter Black Garrett said, Earthworm Jim.

00:01:13.000 I said, Earthworm Jim, that's my jam.

00:01:15.000 I think that was the first game that I ever beat as a kid.

00:01:18.000 That's a hard game, too.

00:01:19.000 Yeah, it's even harder on Sega compared to Super Nintendo.

00:01:22.000 Sega's the way to go.

00:01:23.000 No.

00:01:24.000 Genesis.

00:01:25.000 Way to go.

00:01:26.000 I get it.

00:01:26.000 You thought you were cool with Mortal Kombat, avoiding your parents so they didn't see the fatalities, but the truth is the gameplay was... It was for homos!

00:01:34.000 Now, talking about that, speaking of Earthworm Jim, our next guest, he created Earthworm Jim.

00:01:41.000 He's created all sorts of video games, comic books, cartoons.

00:01:44.000 He's voiced them as well, which I want to ask him about.

00:01:46.000 He is right now running a Kickstarter campaign for Earthworm Jim 2.

00:01:51.000 Fight the Fish is a sequel to the comic book.

00:01:54.000 Caught a lot of flack lately.

00:01:55.000 People talk about attempts to cancel, and I always say, why don't people stand up to them more?

00:01:59.000 Well, this next man does, and he has the ground to stand on.

00:02:02.000 Mr. Doug TenNapel, how are you, sir?

00:02:04.000 Oh, I'm so good, Steven.

00:02:05.000 Thanks for having me on.

00:02:06.000 I appreciate you so much.

00:02:07.000 Huge fan.

00:02:08.000 Don't say it.

00:02:09.000 I'm a monster fan of you.

00:02:10.000 I watch you guys all the time.

00:02:11.000 And of course, I'm a friend of Quarter Black Garrett. 0.98

00:02:12.000 Hey, buddy.

00:02:13.000 What's up?

00:02:13.000 Are you guys?

00:02:14.000 You guys been talking?

00:02:14.000 Yeah.

00:02:15.000 I actually did the design for his trading cards on the first Earthworm Jim campaign.

00:02:20.000 Really?

00:02:21.000 I didn't, yeah.

00:02:22.000 He designed a 90 card set.

00:02:24.000 Wow, well that explains why he wasn't working on the show, Doug.

00:02:27.000 Hey, that's not true.

00:02:28.000 I did him off time.

00:02:29.000 What, are you just going to keep him a day raider, or do you want him full time?

00:02:32.000 Because he's going to be on the open market soon.

00:02:37.000 He is amazing, I will say, about Quarter Black Garrett.

00:02:39.000 He came in, we did the Golden Ticket Sweepstakes, and I've talked about this, where he came in and he wasn't quite there for editing because he didn't have the experience, you know, at that point, but we just loved his attitude, and so we brought him back for whatever we could do, and then he would build these full freaking costumes and animatronic things, and we go, Garrett, you can do this?

00:02:56.000 He's like, well, yeah!

00:02:57.000 He said, alright, okay, you're hired!

00:02:59.000 I just did it on the side.

00:03:00.000 And then he comes in and the next day it's like a fully accurate R2-D2 replica made from pots in a recycling bin.

00:03:07.000 We hired you to be creative.

00:03:08.000 We didn't know you were a creative freak.

00:03:11.000 My bad.

00:03:12.000 But we didn't know he was like arts and crafts creative.

00:03:14.000 We didn't know we were hiring a partner from Michaels.

00:03:16.000 I'm such a super fan that as another tribute is that on the last Bigfoot Bill campaign I did a half Asian Bill sticker for Bigfoot Bill.

00:03:27.000 Oh wow!

00:03:29.000 Maybe we can get some of these things and sell them on the site.

00:03:32.000 Or, you know, obviously, you can sell them through our site.

00:03:35.000 We're always surprised at the buying power of our site, because we sold, like, hundreds of thousands of dollars of the David Dorn shirts.

00:03:43.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:44.000 Still going.

00:03:44.000 Which, by the way, Ann Dorn wanted us to know that it's going to a scholarship in David Dorn's name.

00:03:48.000 Oh, so cool.

00:03:49.000 So that was her decision, not ours.

00:03:51.000 All right, well, Doug, sorry we got off on not the wrong foot, but who is it?

00:03:55.000 So explain to people who don't know you.

00:03:58.000 Kind of what your background is, obviously everyone sort of knows Earthworm Jim, but your involvement, and then we can get to, you know, why so many people want to hurt you.

00:04:06.000 Sure, sure.

00:04:08.000 So Earthworm Jim is my biggest hit, obviously, from the early to mid-90s, but I also did The Neverhood and Skull Monkeys is another video game I did for DreamWorks.

00:04:17.000 I've worked for every major studio doing games, and then I started doing comic books.

00:04:22.000 I did the book Gear, Creature Tech, These are all books I ended up selling into Hollywood for millions of dollars.

00:04:30.000 I started selling the IPs in, and they didn't know I was a Christian.

00:04:34.000 I've always been vocal, but just there wasn't an internet to get the word out.

00:04:38.000 Right.

00:04:40.000 And then that also opened up doors into television.

00:04:42.000 So I was an exec producer on the Earthworm Jim animated series, and then I did a show version of Gear, the comic book, for Nickelodeon called Cat Scratch.

00:04:52.000 This is before it went full blue hair LGBT over there. 1.00

00:04:57.000 Oh, I thought it was maybe a little bit of a send-up to, you know, a little wink and a nod to Ted Nugent, who also would be one of your allies.

00:05:02.000 Yeah, Ted Nugent, Cat's Got Your Fever.

00:05:03.000 It's a great song.

00:05:04.000 Yeah.

00:05:05.000 And then, so I've just always done video games, TV, and so when people say that, like, conservative Christians aren't that creative, that raises my hackles a little bit because I've always operated on the front lines of the world.

00:05:20.000 That's where I want to be.

00:05:22.000 I want to leave the 99 to go after the 1.

00:05:24.000 I'm trying to find people.

00:05:26.000 Who maybe have never heard the gospel or never seen a Christian creative out in the depths of Hollywood and video gaming and comic books.

00:05:36.000 And I've done 20 graphic novels.

00:05:38.000 Those are long form comic books.

00:05:40.000 Right.

00:05:40.000 And this Earthworm Jim 2 is my 20th.

00:05:42.000 So I got the rights back just for the book and started doing crowdfunding to kind of

00:05:49.000 protect my career and do it independently.

00:05:52.000 Well, I think what's interesting is, you just mentioned this, you came at it honestly in that you made it in an industry.

00:05:58.000 At that point, people didn't really know that you were a Christian, as opposed to,

00:06:01.000 I don't wanna say grifting, but there are a lot of people who effectively,

00:06:04.000 like as a stand-up comedian, I performed at a church once,

00:06:08.000 and it was because my friend was a youth pastor.

00:06:10.000 It was like some kind of a graduation.

00:06:11.000 And then he told me, we had, and I won't name names, so-and-so in here,

00:06:14.000 and these were people I'd never heard of.

00:06:15.000 He said, they clean up making millions of dollars doing the church circuit,

00:06:18.000 but they've never been comedians before.

00:06:20.000 They go, no, they just were pastoring a church, and they started being comedians.

00:06:22.000 There's a big difference between making it work because you sort of use, I don't wanna say a gimmick,

00:06:26.000 but you know that you're performing just for that niche and happening to be a Christian,

00:06:30.000 where your values define you, but making it in the deepest talent pool,

00:06:34.000 which not only did you do, but Earthworm Jim, and not that that's the only thing you've done,

00:06:38.000 but for me growing up, that is a marker in my childhood.

00:06:41.000 That was one of the most iconic games.

00:06:44.000 You had Mario, and you had Sonic, and then Earthworm Jim came in, and surprisingly as a Christian guy, it was considered edgier for me as a kid, Earthworm Jim.

00:06:54.000 Yeah, the first thing I saw of yours was your imitation you did of Tom Cruise.

00:07:01.000 So before I knew you were a Christian, I knew you were funny and you were talented.

00:07:05.000 And to me, that's a high compliment when someone likes your work because of your clip.

00:07:11.000 You don't even know what talent is.

00:07:13.000 You've done the research, as I have done the research.

00:07:16.000 Do the fake laugh. You gotta do the fake laugh.

00:07:18.000 I can't lie.

00:07:20.000 I don't know if he could actually fake laugh.

00:07:22.000 I don't know if he could actually...

00:07:23.000 I'm sure he would have like a, he would have a 7 by 70 cigar just because he's more comfortable with it.

00:07:30.000 By the way, we're smoking a pipe and cigar because we found out that we both share, we are brothers of the leaf and the briar.

00:07:35.000 Not the leaf that you have in your belt buckle.

00:07:40.000 But sorry, but continue.

00:07:41.000 Yeah, it was, it was considered edgier though too.

00:07:43.000 Earthworm Jim, I remember as a kid, like there were some things, it wasn't Mortal Kombat, but I remember as a kid, you know, with Christian parents being like, Oh, I don't know if I want them to see this level. 1.00

00:07:50.000 There's boogers.

00:07:52.000 Yeah, we were very into Warner Brothers cartoons and Tex Avery, you know, the classic Warner Brothers stuff and the music we listened to.

00:08:01.000 We were into Weird Al and They Might Be Giants and Cake.

00:08:04.000 This is all kind of 90s stuff.

00:08:06.000 Yeah.

00:08:07.000 And we just wanted, you know, video games were not very creative at the time.

00:08:11.000 And so we wanted to bring in something a little more Like non sequitur, freaky, funny.

00:08:20.000 And the tech side of, this is the tech side of Earthworm Jim that really doesn't get enough credit.

00:08:26.000 It was so hard to cram that much art into a cartridge because you're talking about an amount of memory of like a postage stamp, you know, like a floppy disk.

00:08:34.000 So the tech guys were able to compress the art so well that it gave us way more frames of animation that allowed us to put in more gags and more humor.

00:08:44.000 Right.

00:08:45.000 Yeah, and then they had, like in N64, they had the expansion pack.

00:08:49.000 Kids don't appreciate this now.

00:08:50.000 Their phone has more technology than we had in all of our systems and computers, for crying out loud.

00:08:56.000 First time I found out what an emulator was, when computers had gotten good enough, I said, I can have all my Super Nintendo games in a folder?

00:09:05.000 On a disc?

00:09:06.000 Come on! 0.61

00:09:07.000 So you've worked in the industry for obviously a very long time, and I want to get to kind of our connection with Andrew Breitbart and Big Hollywood.

00:09:13.000 But first, so what is it that has pissed people off about you?

00:09:17.000 I know you've had the LGBTQAAIP silent F after you recently, a quick search.

00:09:23.000 Why?

00:09:24.000 I mean, if for us you're tips, you'd think you'd be friendly.

00:09:26.000 Yeah, they've been after me since the beginning.

00:09:30.000 I oppose gay marriage. 1.00

00:09:32.000 I've said that gay marriage is between one man and one woman.

00:09:35.000 That would not be gay marriage. 1.00

00:09:37.000 Marriage between one man and one woman.

00:09:38.000 A gay marriage between a man and one woman would be weird. 0.99

00:09:41.000 With the gender spectrum now, who knows? 0.93

00:09:43.000 That could be an accurate statement.

00:09:47.000 Really, the basics of my disagreement with them is over the marriage issue.

00:09:53.000 And that I don't endorse, so I won't endorse.

00:09:56.000 Obviously in animation and even on my graphic novels I've had gay crew members and trans crew members and there was never a problem with them.

00:10:05.000 It's with specific cancel culture groups that are online organized behind the scenes.

00:10:11.000 There's probably 30 of them in some Discord or forum somewhere where they all launch their attacks against all of my vendors and try to get me cancelled.

00:10:20.000 So on Kickstarter they'll send a You know, 30 emails a day to Kickstarter to try and get them to remove my campaign.

00:10:28.000 Anytime one of my Scholastic books would come out.

00:10:31.000 You know, Scholastic, this is hostile territory. 0.99

00:10:33.000 Like Scholastic, they have a rainbow. 0.81

00:10:35.000 Their name is in rainbow when they launch their books.

00:10:38.000 Right.

00:10:38.000 I just thought that was innocent because I was a kid looking through what effectively it looked like a coupon or flyer.

00:10:42.000 And I was like, oh, look, a new Bernstein Bears.

00:10:47.000 I'll get that in a mere nine and a half weeks.

00:10:51.000 And they're all full Black Lives Matter now, you know, they all give their donations to Black Lives Matter, Kickstarter, all of my vendors, Image Comics, Indiegogo, you know, we're all on YouTube also.

00:11:04.000 And so, to me, it's really just anti- Specifically conservative Christians, because they'll give a Christian a pass if you're okay with gay marriage.

00:11:13.000 And if you're okay with, you know, abortion or whatever, then you're the good kind of Christian. 0.97

00:11:19.000 Basically they're okay with Christians like Rob Bell, you know, who are going to hell. 0.91

00:11:25.000 I guess I'm here because love wins.

00:11:34.000 Love wins, and I'm on fire!

00:11:37.000 Oh, it really is a pit!

00:11:39.000 I thought this was figurative!

00:11:42.000 Little on the nose, God!

00:11:45.000 What we're seeing the last five years really is a a ramping up of and the mainstreaming of political correctness

00:11:54.000 because this is all stuff I heard of in the 90s and I just thought it was like some little

00:11:57.000 campus joke. They were like, Doug, political correctness is coming and they're going to get you. And I'm

00:12:02.000 like, no, they're not. They're a bunch of freaks on a campus somewhere. Right. And now you've

00:12:06.000 seen them come into full fruition in mainstreaming politics, even dragging both parties over

00:12:13.000 to the left.

00:12:14.000 And you see it in the church.

00:12:15.000 You see it all over the church now.

00:12:17.000 Yeah.

00:12:17.000 And in major businesses that are doing the rainbow logo and the Black Lives Matter logo on, you know, taking over their corporations.

00:12:27.000 And now you're just seeing the mainstreaming of it.

00:12:29.000 And I don't know exactly what's going to happen in the future, but I put my career in, I'm here to do my best, and then I just put the rest of my career in God's hands.

00:12:38.000 I'm here to fight, and as soon as He wants me canceled, I'll get canceled.

00:12:42.000 But until then, I'm going to be as vocal as I can be.

00:12:45.000 And it's sad that, you know, I've been really disappointed.

00:12:47.000 I'm disappointed in the church with Black Lives Matter, with COVID. 1.00

00:12:50.000 When gyms and other businesses are opening up and churches refuse to congregate, I go, all right, you don't deserve my tithe anymore. 0.99

00:12:57.000 I'm going to find a church with balls. 0.98

00:12:59.000 And especially when you consider, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't it your latest Kickstarter, though?

00:13:04.000 Didn't it go from like zero to entirely funded in 13 minutes?

00:13:07.000 So there's a market out there, but Christians are afraid to speak up. 1.00

00:13:10.000 And I'm more disappointed with them than I am with people who don't know better.

00:13:15.000 I agree, and this goes back to the Mug Club, too, is we need to hear the support of our people, need to come out and back us so that—vocally, even, because it's—and you need to write in and say, I'm backing because of this, and good job, guys. 0.67

00:13:34.000 I'm thinking of you.

00:13:34.000 I'm rooting for you.

00:13:35.000 Even if you're not a Christian, I'm saying we need to hear from you guys.

00:13:40.000 Usually, it amazes me how many guys on our side are just quiet.

00:13:46.000 It's too easy to go along to get along, and it's time to fight.

00:13:49.000 If you don't speak up, you're going to lose.

00:13:51.000 You're going to lose everything, your freedoms anyways.

00:13:55.000 The church is always going to be fine.

00:13:57.000 I don't know.

00:13:58.000 You're going to lose the ability to speak of it in public.

00:14:01.000 Yeah.

00:14:02.000 I don't know if the church will always be fine, because I tell you what, I think the worry was for a long time for the church, they would say, well, we don't want to speak out politically and lose our 501c3 status.

00:14:09.000 And in California, you know, AudioAid has made this great point that really that speaking out is just meeting, right?

00:14:16.000 That's illegal in California.

00:14:18.000 At least it was for a long time.

00:14:20.000 That's the new punk rock, you know, rage against the machine.

00:14:23.000 Actually, Morello is endorsing the machine that prevents pastors and church ladies from meetings, so I don't know at what point he stopped raging.

00:14:29.000 The most punk rock guy is now John MacArthur, who rebelled, you know, and said, we're going to church.

00:14:34.000 And Doug Wilson up in Moscow, Idaho, they're going like, we're not wearing masks.

00:14:38.000 I'm going like, yeah, someone's alive.

00:14:40.000 Someone's here still breathing.

00:14:41.000 My church here in Tennessee is full-on compliant, like social distancing.

00:14:47.000 My daughter goes to Lipscomb University.

00:14:49.000 This is like the Church of Christ conservative campus, like Duck Dynasty, you know, Church of Christ.

00:14:55.000 And they're like, all the students are all like, LGBT, Black Lives Matter.

00:15:00.000 She's all, Dad, you'd be in shock.

00:15:02.000 This is in Tennessee.

00:15:04.000 They went for Trump in the primary.

00:15:06.000 Well, you know what's interesting is you mentioned that.

00:15:08.000 I think we can both be very clear.

00:15:10.000 I have no problem with LGBT people being in the church.

00:15:13.000 I have no problem with people who disagree.

00:15:14.000 But the problem now is this isn't just someone who has a certain attraction or someone who feels that they're a different gender than their biological.

00:15:21.000 We won't even get into that.

00:15:22.000 The difference is now this group is a political wing that is trying to actively remove anyone who doesn't accept They're sometimes anti-scientific narratives wholesale.

00:15:33.000 It's like, hey, you're welcome in the church.

00:15:35.000 Just like people are welcome in the church if they're shacking up and living together.

00:15:38.000 But we're not going to say that that's God's plan.

00:15:40.000 We believe you should get married.

00:15:41.000 Hey, you can prefer a different kind of friction.

00:15:44.000 We don't care how hairy what you rub up against really is.

00:15:48.000 But it doesn't mean that the Bible, the Word, changes.

00:15:50.000 But you're welcome here, and hopefully we'll try and work on this together.

00:15:53.000 But the difference is now those people are saying you shouldn't exist.

00:15:56.000 In the industry, as you work in the entertainment industry, and now they also want to, of course, we see this, destroy the churches themselves by removing their tax- You can't feed your family unless you agree, and I'll make that other statement on LGBT2. 0.95

00:16:08.000 Any gay person that I know, I'm a way worse sinner than you, saved by grace. 1.00

00:16:13.000 I'm way worse than you. 0.97

00:16:14.000 I'm not saying I'm better than any LGBT person, but there is a difference, just like Black Lives Matter. 0.98

00:16:19.000 We're all against racism, but Black Lives Matter is a neo-Marxist movement, and so is the LGBT movement. 0.82

00:16:26.000 Same thing with environmentalism.

00:16:28.000 They've been taken over by formal Marxists who are pushing this ideology.

00:16:35.000 So that's what I'm fighting.

00:16:37.000 That's what I'm at war with.

00:16:38.000 Not an individual person who is struggling with sin or has a problem with it.

00:16:43.000 I mean, I just really feel like I'm one of the worst people I know because I know myself

00:16:49.000 Right, yeah, I think that's everybody.

00:16:50.000 Worse than all of you.

00:16:51.000 The only person who didn't feel that way was Jesus.

00:16:53.000 Imagine that, his internal dialogue was just like, I'm awesome.

00:16:56.000 No wait, don't say that, because then you need to humble yourself.

00:17:00.000 I'm alright.

00:17:01.000 He's all, my truth is actually the truth.

00:17:05.000 What does my truth mean?

00:17:07.000 I know everything!

00:17:08.000 No, that's a very good point.

00:17:10.000 And, you know, people also need to understand that Marxism, that people actually read Karl Marx, it's a distinctly anti-God theology.

00:17:17.000 It's a distinctly atheistic, hopeless philosophy.

00:17:21.000 And a big part of it is replacing the idea that the cultural, the central figurehead of God, and replacing the God-shaped hole that people have in their lives with government and this idea of forced community.

00:17:32.000 You may not be that version of a socialist, communist, or Marx, but that is its origin.

00:17:37.000 There's no denying that.

00:17:38.000 I think a lot of these people don't know it, and that's why they say it's black versus white, rather than actually virtue, freedom, versus enforced atheism and nihilism, long term.

00:17:49.000 That's something that we learned from Breitbart back in the day, sitting at his knee, is he saw all of this coming because he knew, he read so much of Marx.

00:18:00.000 He actually went to the source.

00:18:02.000 and understood where all this is going. It is a materialist philosophy, so it

00:18:06.000 it tends to be rooted in materialism. This is something that Prager always said,

00:18:10.000 is the thing that Marx always says, is like everything is about money. That's all that he

00:18:14.000 ever understood was like that money and power. Right. And there's no supernatural or immaterial

00:18:20.000 truth. And you start to see their marching orders that they go under, it starts to involve them

00:18:26.000 going to power centers and going to areas that control money.

00:18:29.000 Right.

00:18:30.000 Now, what's very interesting is they're obsessed with money, for this idea of the bourgeoisie, this idea of this upper class who have all the money, and it shouldn't be that important.

00:18:38.000 Everything is about redistribution.

00:18:40.000 It's about how people who have more time for leisure, if they're paid enough, will be more happy, be more productive.

00:18:45.000 It's about how this money should be spread, what social safety net, and with Jesus's give unto Caesar what is Caesar and God what is God.

00:18:52.000 All right.

00:18:53.000 The sort of man who doesn't have a place to lay his head.

00:18:55.000 Right, exactly.

00:18:56.000 And they could cancel you and I today and take all of our money.

00:19:00.000 They can't take your wife, they can't take your kids, they can't take your freedom.

00:19:07.000 They can't take so many immaterial things, but all they know is just, I'm going to get Crowder by take, I'm going to de-platform him on YouTube, and then he'll be as miserable as me.

00:19:18.000 Well now they are trying to take your kids.

00:19:21.000 They want, that's why they're going after the public school system, and they want to disallow, you see this group at Harvard, right, because of COVID, a lot of people realizing, hey, my kid's learning more effectively with homeschooling, and I actually like spending time with my kids rather than dropping off at daycare.

00:19:34.000 So you had these committees come forward and people from the Ivy League saying, no, no, no, no, we need to make sure that now we have control over homeschooling, where they learned that biological sex is a figment of their imagination, you know, so on and so forth.

00:19:46.000 I believe that's in the curriculum somewhere near the back.

00:19:49.000 Yeah.

00:19:49.000 So it really is.

00:19:51.000 Remember people saying this is slippery slope.

00:19:53.000 Oh, this is just a dot.

00:19:54.000 They're not coming for your kids.

00:19:56.000 Now they're coming for your kids.

00:19:58.000 Yeah, they they know that you're not worthy to raise your own kids.

00:20:01.000 They're the smart people to come in.

00:20:03.000 But just brainwash them.

00:20:05.000 My kids, they got a classic education, so we call it ruining our kids.

00:20:11.000 They've been ruined.

00:20:13.000 Ruining them with the great American classics like Twain.

00:20:16.000 I never read any of that.

00:20:18.000 As a kid, I never read any of that.

00:20:20.000 And I was raised in Canada, granted.

00:20:21.000 The only classic we read was Lord of the Flies.

00:20:23.000 It's a good book.

00:20:24.000 And everything else was, I remember looking back, was a book called Tears of a Tiger, my junior year, and it was a total social justice thing.

00:20:32.000 And I didn't even know, I was reading it like, ah, really, man, the cops are really beating on this black guy.

00:20:36.000 That was my review. 0.96

00:20:38.000 You know, at this point, I might have been in the 10th grade, I do not like it when police officers beat up black men because they are racist.

00:20:44.000 Give me an A, please.

00:20:46.000 You read Lord of the Flies, and then you saw it paraded before you in reality in CHOP.

00:20:50.000 Right!

00:20:51.000 I know!

00:20:52.000 That's exactly what happened.

00:20:53.000 We were just concerned that we had Quarterback Garrett wear his contacts because we didn't want people to start a fire and take his glasses.

00:21:01.000 That broke my heart as a kid, what they did with Piggy, and then I remember I watched... Yeah, it's messed up.

00:21:05.000 And you know what?

00:21:06.000 That's actually a perfect analogy.

00:21:07.000 You know, a lot of your games and a lot of your graphic novels... Sorry, I almost said comic books.

00:21:12.000 I'm that cretin. 0.95

00:21:14.000 No, you're allowed... 0.99

00:21:15.000 I'm a cartoonist.

00:21:16.000 Okay.

00:21:17.000 I'm like one old hoity-toity graphic novel.

00:21:19.000 You get something like a thing about that.

00:21:22.000 But, you know, you inject humor into it quite a bit.

00:21:24.000 I remember reading Lord of the Flies and it really bothered me once they killed, spoiler alert, Piggy.

00:21:32.000 And then when we had to read it out loud in class, I got that portion, I read it, and I started laughing uncontrollably.

00:21:41.000 And I hate to use this sort of self-psycho analysis, but it was definitely because I was uncomfortable with something that it really bothered me as a kid.

00:21:49.000 It was traumatic.

00:21:50.000 And so I decided to deal with it with laughter and then making jokes about it, which is kind of an important thing people understand.

00:21:57.000 Making a joke about something doesn't mean you're making light of it.

00:22:00.000 Sometimes it's just a processing mechanism.

00:22:03.000 Yeah.

00:22:03.000 And, you know, you're a comedian.

00:22:07.000 You don't care who laughs at your joke.

00:22:08.000 Any laugh is good enough.

00:22:10.000 Right.

00:22:11.000 So we're publicly trying to, I think, alleviate the suffering of our audience.

00:22:17.000 Like, you bring some joy and some happiness.

00:22:19.000 And I want Earthworm Jim to be enjoyed by everyone, including ideological opponents.

00:22:24.000 I'm not trying to... I never say, like, If you're on the left, don't buy my work.

00:22:29.000 I want to seduce you.

00:22:31.000 I'm going to make you laugh. 0.82

00:22:33.000 I'm going to give you a good time.

00:22:34.000 I'm going to give you a good value for what you pay me for, and I want to put on a great show.

00:22:39.000 That's our ministry.

00:22:41.000 That soundbite's going to be taken.

00:22:42.000 I want to seduce you, and the LGBT people are going, baby steps! 1.00

00:22:45.000 We got him! 0.99

00:22:47.000 We got him!

00:22:49.000 Yeah.

00:22:51.000 I will sit in the bathhouse with you and read you my books.

00:22:54.000 Oh my gosh. 0.96

00:22:55.000 You don't know how strong of a gay conservative contingency you have.

00:22:58.000 Right now they're all biting their knuckles like that time Brad Pitt came over the hill in Legends of the Fall.

00:23:02.000 They're going... No?

00:23:06.000 No one else?

Louder with Crowder - October 06, 2020

Surviving the Leftist Mob | Doug TenNapel Guests | Good Morning #MugClub

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