I had to look at what they were saying about these beautiful animals, and <shock, horror> they are lying about their evolution. Oh well, it gave me a chance to compare ID creationists to YE creationists. There is a little difference there.
Script below the fold for all of you who hate watching videos.
You better join us for our livestream this afternoon, because we’ve lined up an all-star cast. Aron Ra! Dark Lilith! Emma Thorne! GonnaGoForIt! The only person not invited is Kent Hovind, I think.
I cannot resist. Tomorrow (30 December) at 1pm Central, I’ll be hosting a livestream to laugh at Kent Hovind. It might just be an hour of belly laughs.
As I predicted, Kent Hovind & Matt Powell were so stung by Emma Thorne’s video that she’s the subject of their “wack-an-atheist” video tonight.
What’s most hilarious, though, is that they’ve been flailing about for 20 minutes now, and their audio is totally fucked up. It’s unintelligible. Both Powell and Hovind are sitting there, and they haven’t once looked at their audience’s chat, where everyone is yelling at them to fix the audio.
Amazing. He’s done now. He streamed for 42 minutes and never once noticed all his fans screaming at him in the chat that the audio was broken.
Most of you missed it (lucky you), but we do have YouTube’s automated transcript of the whole show. It only includes the words the machine could make out, so it’s a bit…abbreviated. Savor the one time Kent Hovind made sense.
00:23 wednesday
00:42 oh
00:47 okay
01:23 is
01:35 them
01:49 [Music]
01:56 [Music]
02:02 okay
02:04 [Music]
02:11 [Music]
02:34 foreign
03:28 here we go
03:35 [Music]
03:57 okay
04:01 oh
04:26 thank you
04:51 something like that
05:04 hello people my name is evan welcome
05:06 back to my channel welcome
05:13 this is going to be
05:14 my
05:16 last video
05:36 is
06:01 oh
06:28 is
06:41 um
06:58 two weeks
07:42 but we took over shortly after
07:45 yeah
07:59 you have 13
08:01 600 subscribers and uh
08:16 what
08:27 [Music]
08:37 he’s right
08:47 but
08:47 you got a lot of them they’re in the 40
08:49 000s
09:12 [Music]
09:17 okay
09:31 is
09:46 [Music]
10:14 you are the most disengaged
10:58 you continue
11:03 okay
11:37 is
11:44 is
12:07 no
12:22 send me an email send it all over or
12:24 record by drnine.com
12:48 okay
13:28 now
13:42 okay
14:04 foreign
14:24 is
14:46 okay
14:58 foreign
15:50 oh
16:33 also
17:23 is
17:44 okay
17:57 um
18:21 [Music]
18:44 i’m professional
19:13 [Music]
19:18 oh
19:52 okay
20:23 [Music]
20:41 okay
21:28 anytime
22:23 correct
22:32 um
22:48 is
23:27 [Music]
23:34 huh
23:47 just not fine
23:57 foreign
24:14 okay
24:30 is
24:32 again
24:55 how many of you have never heard of my
24:58 voice is
25:27 foreign
26:06 is
26:26 is
26:44 legal systems
27:06 is
27:17 [Music]
27:30 they don’t believe in their marriage
27:56 [Music]
27:59 foreign
28:09 permissions
28:54 we came up here
29:22 i’m
29:32 pick up
29:53 we got married
30:42 okay
30:58 is
31:16 excuse me
31:31 what
31:51 themselves
31:53 at what they come up with
32:40 hey
32:51 foreign
33:04 uh
33:48 is
33:49 [Music]
33:58 foreign
34:06 is
34:22 [Music]
34:24 wonderful
34:42 oh
35:13 [Music]
35:22 recently
35:23 [Music]
35:47 um
35:55 [Music]
36:22 oh
36:38 and
36:51 sorry
36:55 it’s not the first time
37:33 oh
37:48 okay
38:16 i was
38:20 [Music]
38:24 my
38:44 is
39:26 okay
39:43 okay
40:03 [Music]
40:35 and you can find out the truth for
40:37 yourself
41:18 okay
41:32 you
41:43 exactly here
41:57 you want to go
42:05 uh
42:19 now
42:42 [Music]
42:44 okay
Kent Hovind has a few people he frequently complains about, two in particular: SciManDan, a guy with a physics background who mainly debunks flat earthers, and Emma Thorne, a YouTube personality (she’s very nice) who made a reputation debunking multi-level marketing schemes, and just generally being a pleasant conversationalist (funny, isn’t it, how he doesn’t focus on evolutionary biologists…or maybe it’s just that Hovind hates British people). They made the mistake of rolling their eyes at the stupidity of Kent Hovind and Matt Powell, though, and now he has featured them on several episodes of his inane “whack-an-atheist Wednesday”. He’s looking a little desperate, actually. I think his world is crashing down on him from several angles, so bullying people on the internet is just his hobby that lets him vent.
Anyway, Thorne just put out a video in which she lets Kent and Matt have it with both barrels, exposing their hypocrisy, lies, and hate-mongering. It’s very entertaining and highly recommended.
Kent Hovind and Matt Powell are going to be whining for weeks about this. Good.
This is a bizarre (but very short) video talking about a letter written by Eric Hovind, about his father, Kent Hovind. It’s a bit inside baseball — Kent Hovind divorced his wife, Jo Hovind, the woman who got dragged into prison as a consequence of her participation in his scam to defraud the government of taxes. He then married a woman named Mary Tocco, who later left him because she suspected he was up to no good again. Hovind told everyone that his divorce and remarriage was fully endorsed by his family and all the good Christians he knew, but apparently not. This letter lists all the people who told him this was a bad idea.
Kent Hovind lied, no surprises there.
The video was posted by his current “wife”, Cindi Lincoln (he seems not to have divorced Tocco before the wedding), who is also the woman he was convicted of abusing, and at this point I am overwhelmed by the soap opera and give up. Lincoln tries to explain.
Eric’s email lists 17 professional counselors, attorneys, Board Members, family members and friends who advised Kent NOT to marry Mary, but Kent refuses to heed. Kent also lied to the public about “everyone telling him to marry Mary, and that only 1 or 2 people told him not to.”
Just like with me, Kent and I had several friends, DAL leaders, family, legal, and counselors give advise for Kent to pay me what he signed for, and to put his wife over Steve, and to NOT torment me with Steve, Ernie, and Brady’s abuse. Kent refused to heed their advise.
Here’s a PSA: don’t ever get romantically involved with Kent Hovind. He’s a psychopath, and it will always end badly.
Matt Powell, I hope you’ve got everything in writing.
But that doesn’t stop them from misinterpreting them! Here’s a classic example of Evolution News & Views completely missing the point of an article to claim it supports their beliefs about junk DNA.
I am so punchy and tired today that I wrote out a script. I had to. So transcript below the fold:
I’m obliging, so I whipped out a response video to a creationist comment.
I sure wish they had something original and substantive to say.
Kent Hovind made a fresh shiny new video! That is exactly the same as all of his videos: lies, bullshit, and incompetence. So I had to reply. Sorry. I’m done with this chewtoy now.
I wonder what Eric Hovind thinks of this?
That’s Kent Hovind on the left, soon to be committed to a jail sentence for spousal abuse. Who will preach to the deluded while he’s away? That’s Matt Powell on the right. Powell is now down in Alabama at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a guest of Mr Hovind, and is appearing in their regular “Wack-An-Atheist videos. He’s also saying that you may call him Professor Powell, despite lacking any degrees or affiliation with an institute of learning, which is kind of par for the course for these frauds.
The video is rather pathetic, with Hovind and Powell reciting the same old creationist nonsense over and over. Dinosaur soft tissue! Bent layers in mountains prove they formed in an instant (quite the opposite, actually)! Coal seams have negligible C-14, therefore they all formed at the same time in a flood! Don’t bother trying to rebut them, because they’ll just deny all the evidence.
I would not, however, say that Hovind is passing the torch. His ego won’t allow that to happen. I also don’t see Powell being very comfortable as an apprentice to Hovind, who has a lot of baggage (the tax-dodging, wife-beating, kiddie-diddler-enabling thing) and I’d love to know what he was promised to get him to move to a decrepit church camp in an Alabama wasteland. He has that deer-in-the-headlights look the whole time. I think Powell is perfectly comfortable with his ignorant line of cant, but doesn’t seem too enthusiastic about being paired with ol’ Kent.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that this association will end badly for both of them.
