Artists Behind FreedomToons and Babylon Bee Seamus Coughlin and Ethan Nicolle Talk Creativity

Seamus Coughlin of FreedomToons and The Babylon Bee’s Ethan Nicolle, Creator of AxeCop and the world’s leading ursinologist, are interviewed by Bee Producer Patrick Green to discuss their creative journeys and the pursuit of animation as a career and calling. How did they get their start? What advice would they give to people who might want to do animation too?

[fearthehoneybadger]

To your artists- You guys are fantastic.

[JaretOnYoutube]

I can’t believe you got to do another interview with Shim-Sham Couglin from ShimCast IRL. Definitely one of my favorite guests.

[vcsund]

THANK YOU guys for making this public! Very insightful conversation, especially for Christian creatives who feel lost in today's media world. I could honestly listen to these guys talk about this stuff for hours!

[MargieM]

Love Seamus. His appearances on Timcast IRL are epic.

[shazam]

I started watching this out of curiosity and thought I would bail in a few minutes. I watched the WHOLE THING!

[Sketchfox]

I must have missed when this was released for subscribers. BUT, here I am.

[michealreed]

You guys have to do something with Justin
THE COMMIE. Treudot

[paulus.tarsensus]

Ethan Nicolle: *_¡¡¡BEST OLDER BROTHER EVER !!!_* Love Live Axe Cop

[Bizub]

So nice to see the podcast laugh track actually talk

[emmakay]

13:40 im so relieved i have a justifiable reason for thinking the one family in the babylon bee cartoons look like a christian conservative version of the family in rick and morty, i felt like i was going insane!

[paulus.tarsensus]

Malachi Nicolle will one day grow up to be a scriptwriter. These words will *ALWAYS* haunt him: _"vampire werewolf shark ninja from the moon; all of his shark teeth were also vampire teeth & could suck lots and lots of blood. Fire Slicer became a vampire ninja swordfish and a whole bunch of swordfish throwing star bombs ...."_ <sigh>

[peggygilmour]

Creativity might come from eccentricity, eccentric people who shake things up in their own minds to make something new.

[joshfranklin]

Very interesting intro to the world of animating. Thanks for making this accessible!

[dornie_donko]

Dang, you guys are talented. Recognized! 😎👍

[leighbee]

Ethan, you are legit, I think we would be bros

[jordancapps]

My only beef with Shamus and Ethan is that we only get these cool animated nuggets. I would really like to see either of them have a project for something with some length on it.

On the subject of Disney being evil, if you have ever read much about Disney as a business behind the scenes, you will realize South Park's depiction of Mickey Mouse was REALLY legit. You do not mess with the mouse on business, they are known for suing people into oblivion for trying to back out of, or failing to uphold contracts.

[nybergsgarage]

just watching this makes me want to get back to making my animated cartoons. But writing comics takes up a lot of time.

[MarkLovesFly]

I went to watch "Goose Defense"! I've never laughed so hard at line drawn violence. My sides hurt from laughing!

[aaronlopez]

Being of the that generation that grew up with Warner Bros, Hannah Barbera and Disney I was driven In my youth and wanted to become an animator. But bills came due and I had switch.😥

[jaredbruce]

oh my goodness. Just went to see what Axe Cop was. Seamus is right.