September 13, 2023 • 53 mins
Today we have Dr. Trent Talbot of Brave Books.
His companies mission is, “To help parents instill a love of truth in their children so that the children will withstand harmful progressive influences.”
www.BraveBooks.us has published stories with timeless virtues for the next generation.
He has a stacked lineup of children’s book authors, a who’s who of brave icons and conservative patriots: Kevin Sorbo, Kirk Cameron, Sheriff Mark Lamb, General Flynn, Zuby, The HodgeTwins, Jack Posobiec, Missy Robertson and more.
Books that tackle gender identity, sanctity of life, critical race theory and more.
He is taking a stand to help your family have the conversations needed to provide your children the foundation to fight off the evil we are seeing in today’s system.
@BraveBooksUS on Twitter
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/maine-source-of-truth-podcast--5501107/support.
His companies mission is, “To help parents instill a love of truth in their children so that the children will withstand harmful progressive influences.”
www.BraveBooks.us has published stories with timeless virtues for the next generation.
He has a stacked lineup of children’s book authors, a who’s who of brave icons and conservative patriots: Kevin Sorbo, Kirk Cameron, Sheriff Mark Lamb, General Flynn, Zuby, The HodgeTwins, Jack Posobiec, Missy Robertson and more.
Books that tackle gender identity, sanctity of life, critical race theory and more.
He is taking a stand to help your family have the conversations needed to provide your children the foundation to fight off the evil we are seeing in today’s system.
@BraveBooksUS on Twitter
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/maine-source-of-truth-podcast--5501107/support.
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Today, I'm main source of truth. We have doctor Trent Talbot of Brave
Books. His company's mission is tohelp parents instill a love of truth and
their children so that the children willwithstand the harmful progressive influences we're seeing today.
He has a stacked lineup of children'sbook authors. It's really a who's
who of brave icons and conservative patriots, folks like Kevin Sorbo Kirk Cameron Sheriff,
Mark Lamb, General Flynn, ZoobieHodge, Twins, Jack Posabek,
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Missy Robertson, and Moore. Hehas books at tackle gender identity, sanctity
of life, critical race theory,and other important topics that your children should
hear from the parent, not fromthe school. We're going to do updates
on the Gorum principal video, theDrummond Winston article as Waterville doubles down with
their eggshells, Psyche review, theCapitol Hill Judiciary hearing, book bands examining
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how censorship, limits, liberty andliterature are affecting you today. This is
the main Source of Truth podcast,and very few parents upset anything, but
Sean mcbrity did. Sean mcbriarty isin the thoughts today pop pervasive at that
in our school. Sean mcbriarty joinsus. Now he just won this lawsuit
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and gets forty thousand dollars from theschool board. Good morning, Shawn,
his most dangerous dad. Apparently,how are you are you being a working
stool by a local district for exfoldingthe transgender library Dislike? Can you explain
to what would happen? Hey?You all so with everything that's going on
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to be disposive this like outphole mail. Yeah, the overceptralization of books and
libraries at the pool and the like, you put the handle on that makes
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in at www dot gifsen go dotcom slash Sean mcbriarty and now onto the
show. All right, folks,my voice is still not right. We're
gonna push through it. This isseason two, episodes seventy six, Trent
Talbot Brave Books, and it's Septembertwelve, twenty twenty three, as we
are recording this today, And asI always do, a Bible verse,
and this one actually came off theBrave Books website James five to seven.
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Be patient, then, brothers andsisters, until the Lord's coming. See
how the farmer waits for the landto yield as valuable crops, patiently waiting
for the autumn and spring rains.So to me, this is pretty interesting.
Crop planting sometimes takes several seasons toreally bear fruit. I've seen that
myself here in Maine. I keeptrying to plant seeds all over this state
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with parents and teachers and students andtaxpayers and librarians and whomever who are starting
to see the light as to howbad our public K through twelve education system
is. And one of the thingsI didn't get a chance to do this
podcast yesterday, but eleven never forgetthe sacrifice our brave firefighters made and those
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who lost their lives on this,you know, just horrific attack on America.
Here locally in RSU twenty two,Hamden, Maine, I was made
aware by several parents that the schoolsystem never really even mentioned it yesterday,
And that's because communists are running thelocal school systems. Anti America is their
goal. Unfortunately, So I wantto set up this next video. This
is the Gorham High School. Gorham, Maine High School principal Brian Jandrow.
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He passed out ramsicles to minor students, created a video for that which has
an overlay of Nellie's song It's Hotand Hair, and part of that song
mentions things like, so take offall your clothes. He may not have
recognized that again ramsicle. I assumehe came up with this, but again,
you never know with these groomers thatthe school's mascot is a ram and
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he was passing out icicles. Butone might wonder if the employee of Superintendent
Heather pat Perry knew exactly the termhe was using because of the choice of
his song. He's also a bigfan of kiddie porn in schools, where
he essentially said of the book AllBoys Aren't Blue, I've finished reading All
Boys Aren't Blue, and I appI approve of being available to students at
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Gorham High School. And again,Brian Jandro, Gorham High School principle,
you know with things like unfortunately,and this is kind of lead us into
the Capitol Hill judiciary meeting. Butquote, you were fully erect at this
point, you can't tell anyone,Okay, I promise you grab my hand
and made me touch it. Nowthat's just a minor piece of the book.
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All boys aren't blue. But I'mgonna listen. Have you listened to
this video here? You can seeit on my Twitter at Sean mcbriarty if
you want to see some of theinformation. But this, this guy,
this video is all about him andfive. So sorry to up. So
he's passing out all kinds of minerson the video. I doubt their parents
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provided any. All right, thereyou go on and you can listen to
Nelly signing your background. We gotramsicles to give out ramsicles everybody, anybody
wanting sorry to drop mister king.There you go. There's a pole in
my basement and five. I meanit's just it's horrible. I mean just
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just horrible. So you just lookand you wonder about these people. Are
they just absolute morons running these schools? Or are they useful idiots and they
know exactly what they're doing. Butagain, you can find the full story
on my Twitter page. Herbs UrbanDictionary says that a ramsicle is a stupid,
yet often hot piece of ass whosesole purpose on this earth is knowingly
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getting you off and then never spokento again. She lacks morals in self
respect, She's glad to be rammedon a moment's notice. And again he
was calling these popsicles, these icepopsicles, ramsicles. I've been working on
my substack and you can find thatat Sean mcbriarty dot substack dot com.
And the lightest article I've written inan expose of Drummond Woodson. The bullying
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arm of the mains educational headline isDrummond Woodson Law firm says that trans students,
sports and bathroom use are settled law, and then the subheadline is main
Supreme Court doesn't agree with their livesof emission and mischaracterization of birthed sex.
Birthed sex is a word that MelissaHuey, one of the Drummond woods And
lawyers, used in the training.So they held this LGBTQ training, but
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then they went over things like terminologyand that essentially, you know, transgenders
have all the rates in the world, and the ninety nine percent of the
other people doesn't matter. If they'reafraid, doesn't matter if they're being put
in bad situations they don't have anyrights, and for the school board just
to make sure they go along withit. So it's a pretty long article.
Again, it's a I think thirdarticle in a group that I'm doing
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here. You really need to readthe first and second one to help understand
some of the setup. But ifyou are a concerned parent, teacher,
school board member in Maine and youread these articles, you will find out
exactly what the legal arm is tryingto pressure you into. And it's all
a bunch of nonsense. It's alla bunch of lies of a mission and
half truths. So on Twitter,I broke a story about a trans woman
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a man, a six foot sixtall man who appears to be racist because
he doesn't like going to the grocerystore because of all the quote whites and
cis heads or cissets I think hesaid. Cis gender is basically all the
normal people that don't have to have, you know, sexual narcissism to describe
their sexuality like this guy does.He also was passing out photos of his
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alleged birth the baby and telling peoplethat he is now a mom. So
I sent this to the school board. Now, the other piece is that
on his social media he was seeingback in twenty twenty one wearing a shirt
that said blue lives don't matter,with a picture of a pig's head and
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a bullet hole through the head.So I sent this to the school board.
The entire school board of A ninetytwo, which is in Waterville,
Maine, have not received a responsebecause I guarantee you the first thing they
did is sent it to Drummond Woodsand their lawyers. You know, it
was alarming that people like this arenow teacher assistants, teacher aids, ED
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texts is what they call them inWaterville. And this is an elementary school,
so five grades three, kindergarten throughthird grade, five year old,
six seven, eight year olds,And you know, it's just such a
nonsensical hypocrisy that these schools are goingthrough. Again, if you have a
kid in George J. Mitchell Kthrough twelve school, sorry, K through
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three school in Waterville, Maine,this is what's happening. And then the
useful idiots reply in saying some prettyinteresting stuff, none of which talks about
the safety or you know, concernsfor the parents or students. Now I'm
not sure which one came first.But I'm gonna go with Peter Holland H
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A. L. L. E. N. Peter is the superintendent of
AOS ninety two in Waterville, andhe sent out a email to the staff.
After I sent out the email tothe school board, I copied him
and everybody. Of course, Iwanted to share a message sent to the
JGMS staff from Principal Kim Taylor.So Kim's note came first, evidently,
and I will talk about that ina second. Of some people that are
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questioning our policies and practices as theyrelate to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Now, as a side note,really diversity equity inclusion needs to be called
die. Diversity inclusion and equity died ie, because they're killing the educational
system and these kids. But thatwasn't what I questioned. I questioned the
safety and the hiring practices of somebodywho thinks he's a woman who is now
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spending time with kids and also thinksthat he's a mother in birth the baby.
He goes on blabbering about policies andthese kind of things, and that
if you know, anybody tries toreach out to anybody in school, don't
talk about it. You know,make sure you come to them because you
wouldn't want to have anybody actually talkabout the real situations going on inside the
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elementary school. So getting to PrincipalKim Taylor, she hers pronouns, so
you know she's a useful idiot.Dear j GMS. So sorry. That's
the George J. Mitchell School,which again K through three in Waterville,
Maine. We received an email todayfrom an individual known in many districts in
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Maine for sharing their personal and politicalviews. This individual was crest questioning our
policies and practices related to diversity,equity and inclusion. No, I was
not. As you know, WatervillePublic School is committed to equal employment and
educational opportunity for all employees, applicant, students, and their parents, guardians,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah. We also have strict
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policies around harassment. There was noharassment. It was simply pointing out that
this dude who thinks he's a chicka mom who is passing out baby pictures
is mentally unstable and shouldn't be aroundkids. Nobody from the school board has
responded. Shocker since Friday and Thursday, they're going to get another email which
will kind of blow their doors off. So Kim Taylor, Principal, George
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Mitchell School. Her number is twoO seven eight seven three zero six nine
five Extension four two zero one,all public information. If you want to
send her a little call and askher why they are now hiring mentally unstable
people to teach your kids with yourtax dollars. Now, I've been heard
through a source. I've heard througha source, sorry that this person which
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goes by the name of Rosader died I E R you know again,
was hired by these folks. Andand again, no disrespect to Rosa.
I hope that he gets the mentalhealth and the help that he needs.
I hope he has a comfortable life. But he's always going to be a
dude. It doesn't matter what hedoes. And again, when you talk
about being a safe and welcoming placefor all the hypocrisy that is, does
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that mean just Rosa is the safe, welcoming, you know, person that
gets all of the benefits. Meanwhile, all the kids, all the other
teachers, all the other administrative staff, the people in the female bathroom.
This guy says on video. Hewants to make sure he gets into women's
bathrooms and then he can just affirmas a woman. I mean, that's
all it takes, it seems like. But the eggshell psyche of these folks
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in Waterville, when they doubled downon their hypocrisy, simply blows my mind.
And it's because nobody holds them accountable. So until that happens, you
know, unicorns and rainbows and penguinsbecome reality for these people. And again,
useful idiots. And then lastly Imentioned it. I watched yesterday a
Capitol Hill judiciary hearing which was supposedto start at ten and like everything government
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started like at ten seventeen or something. But it was entitled book Bands,
Examining how Censorship limits Liberty and Literature. So I kind of said that,
you know, two or three times, really a common comma, examine how
censorship limits Sorry, let me dothat again, Examining how censorship limits liberty
and literature. Holy Kyle, Ican't talk today, but Senator Dick Durbin,
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who's a Democrat of Illinois, theALA American Library Association champion, right
in his backyard, he can.He's talking about book bands. It turned
actually into an illegal border crossing eventfor about twenty minutes. But I gotta
give Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republicanfrom South Carolina, some kudos except for
he thinks school boards approved books,which doesn't happen. But he talked about
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state and federal government shouldn't be banningbooks, and we all agree with that.
They're like, hey, book banningis not occurring except where you'll hear
later, except for by government institutionsif you want to buy it on Amazon
field free. Just shouldn't be ina taxpayer paid library. But he did
mention, quote, parents don't givean inch on this speak up. You
know. He said if you can'tread these books in a public hearing because
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of the vulgarity, and now essentiallythey shouldn't be in the library, and
that parents shouldn't be intimidated. Soagain, you know, it's all about
age appropriate content, proper curation basedon written real sexual content standards, and
parental control and the other interesting thingand this was pretty cool. Nicole Nelly
Neally, I'm not exactly try topronounce her name. I gonna find out,
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but Nicole say Neely, founder andpresident of Parents defending education. She's
gonna be on the podcast Tuesday nextweek, next Tuesday, and she killed
it. She was on fire,she was awesome. She just basically laid
out, you know what's happening.How these librarians he's left us. These
Marxists are coming back and attacking parents, calling them all kinds of names because
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they want to get pornography removed fromthe library. And so more on that
next week. And then Senator Kennedy, he killed it. He asked this
Beta boy who was out there asa witness about gender queer. It was
kind of interesting exchange because on thecard the guy had his name as MX.
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So that's another on sensical, madeup unicorn prefix prefix I guess you
know, they talked about as pronounsand just a bunch of garbage. But
anyway, Senator to Kennedy's like,mister mccott, why do you say that?
And this you know, this betavoice is it's pronounced mix or whatever.
And then anyway, Senator Kennedy wasjust asking, well, what's their
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plan, what's their plan on theleft for you know, this sexualized content,
except a push from it and profitfrom it. And they had no
answer. There was no answer.There's never an answer on you know,
why this stuff should be removed.And it's very basic, right, if
this stuff doesn't have educational purpose andand it's pervasively vulgar, it shouldn't be
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in the library. It's as easyas that, folks. So the goal
of the American Library Association continues tobe hyper sexualizing your children with your tax
dollars. They're grooming your kids,and American parents are starting to wake up,
and we're gonna offer them an opportunityhere for a And Dan Bongino talks
about dual economy all the time andsort of this dual system where you've got
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conservative groups and liberal groups. Whenwe bring on Trent Talbot, doctor Talbot
from Brave Books, we're gonna havea great conversation and talk about options for
parents if they don't want this nonsense, if they want to give their kids
some foundational benefit of early onset discussionswith parents, which is where all this
stuff should be going and having andtaking place. Knowing that the schools can't
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even tackle the basics of education ofmath and reading. You know, we
know in Maine only one quarter ofkids in Maine students k through twelve students
in Maine can do math at proficiency, and only one third of those students
in Maine can read a proficiency Becausethe ideological process and the gender ideology is
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just rampant in these schools and it'sall about identity politics. Most, not
all, but most of these teachersin our public K through twelve schools are
simply leftist paid, taxpayer paid activistspushing this nonsense on our kids. As
a father, his goals were toinstill upon his daughter the values of hard
work, care for the week,and appreciative the freedom that we adore in
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America. In Februar of twenty twentyone, he left his career as a
practicing optomologist and medical doctor because hesaw how much the inappropriate content was being
pushed to children through books. He'san author of two children's books, The
Fight for Freedom Island and Chaos inthe Canopy. His company, Brave Books,
mission is to help parents instill alove of truth in their children so
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that the children will understand and withstandharmful progressive influences. Brave Books has published
stories with timeless virtues for the nextgeneration. Each book helps children fight in
our land against the evils they're facingtoday, and in my opinion, growing
up in America hasn't been any harderfor the kids in the last hundred years
than they are today. He stackedan impressive lineup of children's book authors,
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the who's who really of Brave iconsand conservative patriots, Kevin Sorbo, Kirk
Cameron Sheriff, Mark Lamb, GeneralFlynn, Zoobie, The Hodge Twins,
Jack Possabaek, Missy Robertson, andmore. Books that tackle gender identity,
sanctity of life, critical race theory, and more. In one book,
The Island of Free Ice Cream,speaks to communism versus capitalism. He's partnered
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with friend of the podcast Moms forMoms for Liberty by donating fifteen hundred books
to them in the past, andhe's taking a stand to help your family
have a really a conservative process.Your children need to fight off the evil
that we're seeing in today's system.He's at Trent Talbot on Twitter, but
does most of his work at BraveBooks US and online Brave Books Dot US.
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So from Houston, Texas. He'sa founder and CEO of Brave Books.
He's our next guest on Main Sourceof Truth there. Welcome doctor Trent
Talbot a lot. Thank you forhaving me. I really appreciate cool.
I'm looking forward to awesome, noso, and I appreciate it great.
I try to do my own workthe best I can, and I have
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to give it Steve Bannon some credit. I've been trying to push to get
on back on Steve Show on warRoom to talk about the American Library Association,
and he pointed me to your clipa couple of weeks ago. And
I do appreciate you spending some timetoday to talk about what's going on in
the educational space. But I guessfirst off, maybe tell the listeners,
you know, how's your life changedsince twenty twenty one. I mean,
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you're now a new father, You'veyou've really taken on a calling to bring
wholesome, integrity based, you know, learning books into a market that seems
really just where filth is prevailing.So maybe tell the listeners a little bit
about, you know, how thiskind of came to be and how it's
changed over the last few years.Man, Yeah, I was, I
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was a happily practicing Optimagust but twentytwenty halfen you know, COVID, and
I was married in twenty nineteen,had my first daughter in the summer of
twenty twenty, and you know,sort of like whenever you get a new
car and you start to see thatcar everywhere you go, it's not really
because everybody else was buying that car. It's just that it's elevated in your
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level of awareness or consciousness. Thathappened to me after Charlotte was born,
and so I started to notice,you know, for the first time in
my life, this attack on ourchildren's hearts and minds. And so,
for example, when she was bornand I'm one book on Amazon was Auntie
Versus Baby. That trailer for thefilm Fetes came out. I saw it
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on Twitter, like when I washolding her in my arm and she was
like two years old. My bestfriend in business partner, his seven year
old daughter was gifted the latest NancyDrew book and I had a trans character
in it, and she got superconfused and a ton of questions. I
was really difficult for my buddy andand and walked to no bars and it
was just like its like every dayit was something new. It was this
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wild experience when when I went Iwas totally blind to this there's this war
on our on our kids to toseeing it everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
and it just it's stuck with mein a way that's kind of hard to
describe. I just couldn't I couldn'tstop thinking about it. And and eventually
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this idea for Brave Books and ourFreedom Island Book Club, where we basically
just create this whole universe and comeup with a new book every single month.
In this universe, it teaches adifferent you know, pro god,
pro America, wholesome value. Andand you had this vision of like kids
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when they're when they're young, whenthey're three, four five, they start
subscribing and they get a new bookevery month, and then the books grow
with them. And so it wentfrom a crazy idea that we went board
and to see if we could pullit off, and you know, the
Lord just blessed us and we andit's been an incredible journey and every day
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is a new adventure, and yeah, it looks like we're gonna we're gonna
see this vision through. Where we'rein our third song. We've made like
twenty six books and yeah, theyall take place in this world that we've
built with this fun cast of charactersand and we've got a good list of
villains too. We've got cultures ofvulture, black art. And so our
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vision is for the next fifty toone hundred years when Christian Conservatives, when
when their kids are grandkids and theyhad that three to five, they start
subscribing. And it starts off withpicture books, and each each new picture
book teaches a new value, newlesson, helps instill their their character.
And that last fifty months and thenit's going to switch over to two chapter
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books a month, and so we'restarting to work on those. And and
so from the time to three tofour to the time they're in their team,
they're growing with these characters and thebooks grow with them, and and
it's just this safe place for theirimaginations to run wild and half on because
that's kids who love that. It'sso good for them. But but what
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the reason why Brave exist is becausethere was a need for somebody to create
really great content and great worlds,but in a way that it's not going
to have all the crap, youknow, and it's gonna is gonna really
care care for kids in a wayto not only just entertain them, but
entertain them and build their character andhelp them grow, so that that's that's
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what we've set up to do,and I think we're on a way to
doing it. Yeah, I meanquite an impact really in just a few
years. And congratulations for your work. I realized this is not easy,
and especially in the space that you'rein. You know, you're competing against
multi million billion dollars behemis out there. And you know, one of my
favorite quotes it always seems too complicatedfor me to remember off the top of
my head, you guys posted onBrave Books Us on Twitter the other day
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from Michael Hoff and the quote ishard times create strong men. Strong men
create good times, good times createweak men, and weak men create hard
times. And what I wanted toask a Trent was, you know,
where do you think we are?And that was kind of the question you
asked on Twitter? And what typeof responses did you get when you tweeted
that out? Yeah, I thinkI think it was well received. Yeah,
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I think we've all sort of seenthat quote and it is so poignant
and it's very reflective of where we'reat. You know, I think that
we're in that we've we're sort ofin the stage between good times create weak
men and weak man create hard timesomewhere in that because because we're not I
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think it can get a lot worsethan than were. We still have Oh
I've said before, we haven't hitbottom yet. Yeah, we haven't hit
bottom there. Yeah, there's somuch to be grateful for for for you
know, the world that we livethem. You know, like like it's
it's not hard. If you thinkthis is hard, like look at history.
It can get a lot a lotharder than this. Uh, you
know, we can we can goto the grocery store, your grandfather or
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your great grandfather and stuff they hadto do. I agree, and and
the other pieces. These school systemor systems are creating a lot of weak
men, a lot of effeminate menbecause of the indoctrination that's going on.
Did you get any response from thatperspective on you know what what the educational
system is doing to two boys?And I joke, I have a lawsuit
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right now local school districts suing mefor exposing a lot of the transgender cult
that was going on. But inthe lawsuit they quoted I think it might
have been instagram. My bio oncesaid something like and I approve of toxic
masculinity, which is kind of ajoke, right, Like it's just I
approve of one being men and raisingtheir kids and you know, being that
strong father or husband or whatever.So what's your I guess, what's your
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opinion on what you're seeing going onon with with just a transcult army of
weak men coming out of these schools, right, Yeah, I totally agree
in that it's a big problem.It's a very very big problem, and
I can talk about it for along time. But actually, our most
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recent book with Just that just cameout in the month of September, is
on the topic of masculinity. Wegot Hercules himself to be the author,
and so that's been really cool.Yeah, we we've got to do a
better job as a society of makingmaking helping boys become men. You know.
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It's just like we boys are stayingboys were way way too long.
I mean even there's a lot ofwhat we call men that are in their
thirties forties that are still boys andyeah, that's the boys. Yeah,
and so so it's a it's areal problem because because it it will it
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will lead to our it will leadto the demise of of the family unit.
It will lead to which will leadto the demise of our communities,
our our churches, our country.If if we don't don't get a handle
on it. Well that's and that'sone one, you know pieces that we
all know that they're trying to weakenthe family structure, the you know,
nuclear American family, the morality,the biblical foundations. I mean, that's
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ultimately what Marxists do, and thatkind of leads us into our next thing
here. So we've been working toexpose the American Library Association, their Marxist,
socialist, lesbian president Emily Drabinsky,and it's a group that talks about
book bands all the time. Yesterdayon Capitol Hill there was a book band
judiciary meeting, which was kind ofinteresting to watch. But you know,
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we all know that it's not happeningfrom conservatives. Conservatives aren't banning books.
But I was kind of corrected thatthe American Library Association was actually trying to
ban your books from being read atlocal libraries in August. So you know
that book ban is real, butit's really from the left, and you
know, your Brave Books is tryingto offer solutions, right so I'm still
in this exposure phase. I stillfeel like nine out of ten parents in
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Maine and across the country don't knowwhat we're talking about. But you've kind
of moved into this second, youknow, phase, which is really offering
solutions. And on August fifth,you had a see You at the Library
event. Tell us a little bitabout how that went because Deborah Caldwell Stone,
director of the ALA Office for IntellectualFreedom, which really is intellectual freedoms,
Like they just want porn in schools, that's really the subline. So
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she said in a Washington Times articlethat I wrote or I read, was
that, you know, she wastrying to have libraries limit access to meeting
rooms for that event, and uh, you know, if they didn't have
library cards in the community, theywere going to kick them out, and
this, that and the other thing. So tell us a little bit about
how that, how that whole thingwent went off. Yeah, so,
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you know, it really started whenwe launched Kirk Cameron's book that we try
to get him allowed to do astory hour at at fifty four libraries that
not only posted directing story hours butsponsor them. We weren't asking it to
have sponsor sponsor. We just wantedto host a Kirk Cameron fourteenth Amendment stuff.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, and theyall deny them or just in respond
and so so that became a bigthing in the news. And then we
curve went on this little tour acrossthe country. We're stopping by different libraries
doing story hours, and we foughtback, you know, we we exercise
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our first Amendment threatened lawsuit. We'reable to to host our story hours of
a lot of these libraries. Butthen eventually we were like, man like,
like we need to we need toempower the the people, you know,
so it's not just bray Books andKirk Cameron going around. And we
decided to do this like library TakeoverDay, see what the library event.
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And and once word got out therethe ala like immediately, i mean it
was like a couple day. Theyhosted this big, big online event.
They's all the librarians to come andwe're like, hey, here's here's some
here's some ways that you can basicallylike block block bray Books from coming.
And you know, you can go, you can go and book all the
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all the public spaces, book themand say that you're doing something you can
do this. You can do that. You can make sure they have to
change your biwall to say they haveto do locals. This is crazy.
Let them imagine, you know,paid librarians and libraries that are basically being
weaponized against morality, decency, Americanvalues, you know, biblical principles,
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I mean just insane, insane,and so so that that was, you
know, that sort of a bigthing when that happened. But but we
we persisted, and we had overten thousand people across the country show off
that libraries at that libraries across thecountry. It was a big It was
a big success. And and we'regoing to turn it into an annual thing.
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Where where are we where we doit every year? And and we
sort of like threw it together alittle bit, you know this year.
I'm we're gonna go big next year. Our goal is one hundred thousand people
across the count I want to bepart of it. I want to help
you in Maine the best I can, you know. And and the situation
was when I saw that on WarRoom, I was like, man,
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I'd love to go and you know, reading my local library and it was
just a little too compressed, LikeI think it might have been ten days
out or something, and I waslike, yeah, but I really appreciate
what you're doing, because again that'sa positive message, like not everybody has
to go to your event if theyyou know, if parents who are part
of the trans cult don't want tobe there, they don't have to be
there. But yeah, definitely,yes, you know I want to.
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I want to be part of thatmovement next year. Now. One of
the things with the American Life Association, their agenda is to really take partners
to promote the LGBTQ. I Aplus minus dollar signed whatever it is.
And these books by Scholastic which we'lltalk about in a bit, Disney Publishing,
Simon and Schuster, Penguin, RandomHouse, along with Glad who's pushing
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the gay sexuality trans alliances in schools. So you know, the Scholastic publishing
companies pushing books like Rick, whowas front and center in the Herman High
School library, the people suing mefor exposing their transgender library display, author
Alex Gino, who speaks about alternativegender ideologies, alternative sexualities, and Melissa,
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where a fourth grade girl begins totell people he's a transgender girl and
then George. The other piece fromAlex Gino where Aaron Duprez Library here in
Maine Bonne Eagle High School and rulestandish Man like seven Thousand People is a
book about a boy who asks hismom what if I'm a girl. And
I'll just save the readers a struggleof getting through it. The author's just
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an effeminate and right so to me, you know, I'm not I'm not
gonna put this on you, butin my opinion, trans people don't exist.
There's only two sexes, men andwomen, and an infinite amount of
personalities. Right. So one ofthe things from your website, you're working
on a process to cancel Scholastic.So they're one of the biggest publishers out
there. You're just this kind oflittle growing brave books, you know,
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like David and Goliath. Tell usa little bit about the cancel Scholastic process,
because, as you wrote on thewebsite, you know, Scholastic used
to promote classics like Clifford the BigRed Dog, which I remember, and
Charlotte's Web obviously that I remember.Now they're just pushing sexual explicit content and
at you know, five year olds, eight year olds, eleven year olds,
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yeah, yep. So Scholastic isthe behemoth, the big big arilla
when it comes to kids question andif you want to know how and why,
you know, there's all these sexuallyexplicit the you know, pro trans
pro pro hormone blocking books in ourin our schools and libraries. It really
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comes down the Scholastic. They they'rethe world's largest for the bok. So
so back up, and I knowyou know this, but it's a fallow
the money snarre right, So Scholasticis doing this because they're making money by
by school districts buying all of thesebooks, pushing through with planned parenthood,
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a lot of this again we talkabout dark money funding this trans cultism,
which ultimately leads into big pharma andbig medical and all these other things.
But that's a little mind blowing forparents. It can't quite wrap their head
around the black helicopter theory. Butit's really again, it's a fallow of
the money thing. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And to to the
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largest shareholders in Scholastic or Blacklock andVan Guards or the same bango yeah yeah,
yeah and so so so yeah,they they have a monopoly of some
of his books distribution. They they'rethe ones that that really like provide,
provide the big catalogs to all ofthese, to all these schools and libraries
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and and and but their money maker, you know, how they make their
money is is the the iconic Scholasticbook fairs, you know, which we
all remember. I remember having thatand you know, circling which ones I
wanted, and you know, thisis fifteen cents and this is a quarter
and back when I was a kid, you know, way back. Yeah,
and so so we put together thisdocuments being downloaded from from our side.
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It's a PDF that exposed the Scholasticthat It's not it's not like,
oh, some bad books slipped throughthe cracks. It's it's clearly intentional.
They they endorse it at the highestlevels of CEO is fully behind behind all
this stuff. And so we're we'retaking them on. And yeah, you
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would think that, like, Okay, Scholastic is a multi billion dollar company,
Brave Books is a two year oldlittle baby. But I don't know.
We're we're pretty we're pretty feisty andand uh and we're pretty a debt
now at at playing sort of themedia game, and so and so,
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really what it comes down to isthere's a lot of there's a lot of
stuff that's a lot of stuff outthere that the parents don't know about,
that that they that they need tofind out about. And and so we
plan on exposing what Scholastic is upto and then offering a replacement, you
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know, with our brave book fairs, and and and the thing is,
there's already so much demand out therebecause Scholastic does basically have a complete monopoly
on book fairs. They're the onlyones that can put together even at decent
bolfair, and you have all theseprivate schools and public schools and red areas
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that just you know, they begrudgingly. Yeah, they almost almost forced into
doing I mean you mentioned their CEO, Dick Robinson. He said he was
really excited because Alex Genos George's thenumber one most challenged book of last year
is published by Scholastic. And thenhe talks about Scholastic having the greatest impact
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by continuing to promote the work ofLGBTQI creators and are publishing and the amplification
of transgender and non binary voices.It's like, jeez, again, they're
not doing this out of their owncompassion, in their heart. They're making
millions and millions of dollars because youknow, instead of Charlotte's Web, now
they're pushing Welcome to Saint Hell,my trans teen Adventure. I mean,
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it's like it's just it's absolutely crazy. It is crazy and so and and
I think parents are going to findit fastening to learn all this stuff.
And I think once they do,you know, our plan is to put
pressure on Principles, school board members, librarians to to switch over because it
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needs to happen. Like, like, what makes these book fairs so dangerous
is that you can't really tell bythe cover what's you know, what's a
pro trans book and what's you know, what'snot, like which one's dangerous ideas
and what's don't. They're sort ofjust, you know, kids just sort
of make a decision based on thecover. Oh this looks fun, you
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know, and then they're opening upand then all of a sudden it's like,
okay, you know, like thatwe welcome to Saying Hell. It
literally talks about you know, transitioningand talk to all about it and how
how it's It was scary at first, but she pushed through and now it's
great, Like it's insane. Yeah, and some horrible language. I mean
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I don't have any filter anymore becauseyou know, I mean stuff, but
on this show, I mean evenon your on your website, I mean
it's the F word, p B. I mean, it's just it's it's
disgusting. And again I feel badfor the kids that are being pushed into
this trans cult. The folks areindoctrinated. They just don't know what's happening
their medical experiments. So people oftensay to me like, well, you're
(39:20):
a transphobe, and I'm like,no, I'm not a transphobe at all.
I care for you as a person. I just don't care about what's
happening with our tax dollars in theschool system and this sort of social contagion
of transitioning. Yeah, it's it'sit's definitely not good to to put these
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ideas and kids sets. It isnot is not good at all. The
woke agenda is just it's crazy.I mean, you have, you know,
speak about brave parents. I meanagain some and I didn't get a
chance to list off all of yourauthors. I mean again, that's a
who's who of just people at dominatingthe conservative media side and really pushing this,
and I give you kudos for that, But what about other brave parents
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trend and and why don't you thinkthat they're really coming out to fight for
their child's education like their lives dependon it. I think, Man,
it's hard to be a parent rightnow. You know. You know,
it's like sometimes we sometimes we youknow, we become passionate about the subject
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and we get all into it andand then we fell to I don't know,
it's like like I was there earlyon when I start a bray,
like what do y'all do? Whyare you seeing your kids in public schools?
And but the thing is like,now now that I'm that I'm a
parent, I've got three kids,it's hard just to keep your head above
(40:47):
water times and to know, youknow, it's hard to stay in the
loop and and and it's also hardto even believe you know, that people
want to do this. Yeah,I get the I get I get fight
flight or freeze, you know,when I talk to a parent about what's
going on in local school or inMaine or in national national schools, and
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and sometimes people want to fight me, like you know, verbally, like
you know, you're just a bigit or whatever you are, which I'm
not. Some people just run awaythey can't handle it. And then some
people cock their head sideways like adog and kind of go, did you
just say porn in the library?Like I can't even process it, you
know, and it takes some severaliterations to kind of go hey. But
like I said, I mean,I really I think that what you're doing
(41:36):
is offering solutions and I haven't beenable to do that. I'm just,
like I said, I'm trying toexpose every grooming son of a gun that's
out there and hope that parents thatthat's the first thing that maybe ignites a
spark in them to then start doingsome homework on alternatives. And you know,
I've managed to get a lot ofpeople in Maine to switch to homeschooling.
My twins are almost twenty one,so I'm on the other side of
(41:58):
the you know, fatherly scale thanyou. But I can't imagine me a
father right now. And just thecrazy world we're living in, I mean,
it's almost like we need more peopleengaged to see the light and maybe
they need to go see a goodoptimologist, get their eyes checked. You
know something you know about right yeah, yeah, it is, Yeah,
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it's it's it's just one of thosethings where where I you know, it's
it's just so challenges, especially whenyou know it's not the Stakies anymore.
When when families could thrive on onesort of middle class income and the mom
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could could stay at home and reallyjust keep an eye on everything and stay
in the loop. There's so many, so many families now where where both
both parents are working and you're droppingtails at a bake care of school and
it's just government sponsor pre k.Yeah. Yeah, it's like, uh,
it is great, it's well.And the other thing, I think
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one piece and I think you've againyou've put a lot of effort into this.
I mean, you know, itwould take us hours to talk about
the whole process. But what advicewould you give other successful people or other
people that are maybe hearing a callinglike you have to switch out of there.
I assume you know a comfortable jobthat you understood that you know,
(43:28):
you've spent so much diligence and timeon being a doctor and now you're a
book publisher, Like where's the where'sthe sign? Like how did how did
you kind of go yep, that'swhat I'm gonna do, and ultimately convince
your wife and friends and family,and now you're you're out there kicking butt.
Yeah, I mean, uh oh, it's it's hard. It's hard
(43:52):
for me with a good conscience tosay like, yeah, you've got a
dream, you know your job right, because because you know, I had
when I was a fourth year medicineand I started some side businesses which at
which I had some passive income comingand so I I was in a little
(44:14):
bit of a unique situation where Iwasn't risking you know, my my new
family's livelihood. So it just hasto you have to you know, I
think you have to be very wellaware of the risk. And you can't
live in the n aisle and justthink that, oh, I have an
(44:35):
idea, this idea is going tobe a home run, because oftentimes it's
not the case fail, you know. And then the first couple of years
and yeah, but I guess,so, yeah, did you have a
like a come to Jesus moment withthis thing or was it just you know,
hey, you methodically put together aplan and started building it, and
then you got kind of some traction, and then it started ramping up from
(44:57):
there. Yeah, I for me, it was it was more like as
the as a vision for Freedom Island, and this embrave books as it as
it became more and more crystallized.It's just really cool and and it seemed
(45:21):
just like this epic adventure and that'sprobably not the best way to make it.
This. I did make sure thatmy risk was mitigated as much as
possible, Like I wasn't I wasn'tgonna put my family on the streets by
any means. That was not apossibility, and I I I mitigated that
that downside risk. And but butfor me that the the adventure was gonna
(45:44):
be too great to to not doit. And it just seemed like like
I'm I'm I like a good fight. And I was pretty fired up with
with all this stuff I was seeing, and I was like, man,
this this could be the final thoughtime really and and it's such a fun
adventure that I eventually just felt likeI had to do it. But but
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you know, there's a lot ofpeople out there that have an idea and
I, you know, I justdon't sort of want that on my conscious
of no, no, no,And maybe maybe I should have rephrased the
question, maybe the question more ishow does a parent take that first step
into fighting for their kids education.I mean, you've obviously taken it to
(46:29):
another level, but you know,how does it How does a parent even
just take that first step to maybego to a school board meeting or maybe
write an email, or maybe startlooking at curriculum. Yeah, and you
know, ultimately, if we canget people more people to support Brave books
and to kind of have a dualeconomic you know process where conservative biblical principles
are in line, great, Buthow do you how do you even kind
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of get somebody to even just takethat first step. Maybe that's the better
question. Well, I think likewhat you're doing is really important in in
bringing awareness. I think that willhopefully snap people. We'll wake people up
into the fact that they can't justbe a passive parent. Right now,
this is not the time the erain which you can just go down the
(47:15):
easy road and just came your kidsover to school and they get home,
let them watch screens and hey Colt. You know, but because because that's
that's sort of how I was raised. I mean, I was read public
school, came home, watch TV. All that stuff. Culture raised me
as much as my family or asmuch as my parents. And honestly,
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I have great parents, all lovethem, but but I was raising a
part of my culture. And ifmy parents would have done that in this
era, I'll be a much differentkid. And so so so it's just
not the time. And I thinkonce, once people are aware, then
they'll see that, and then they'llthey'll you just got to be more involved.
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You have to. You have to. You have to know what's going
on in your kid's life. Andyeah, we can't. We can't shelter
our kids completely. That's not agood strategy. And a lot of people
in the homeschool community, well Isay a lot, there's some in the
homeschool people in homeschool community which willwhich can take it to those extremes.
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And I honestly think that when they'reyoung, ye, shelter them, shelters,
shelter them really good. Yeah,you got to give them a foundation.
They have to have a foundation tobe able to fight. And yeah,
you have to keep their innocence whenthey're young, I think. But
then, but then what Brave books. The whole reason Brave exists is because
you need to equip them with truthand they need to be aware that some
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of these guys are out there,so like that's that's and they weren't invest
in story. So like Brave Books, we we told really some fun stories
that then parents can use as aframework to have conversations about things like gender
reality, you know, and youcan have that conversation depend on in an
age appropriate way, the sanctity oflife, all these all these topics like
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they need to they need to betaught these things from their parents first,
you know, so that the valuesthat we as parents hold, we can
still them sort of before they goout and are supposed to do a lot
of the exact is. But I'dsay the majority of parents, you know,
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these conversations don't happen. And thefirst time kids hear about you know,
gender identity or CRT or all thesethings, it's coming from proponents of
those ideas. And a lot oftimes the first the first time you hear
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about something that's the one that sticks. It's like the first see to get
planted. You know. There's afunny story that my dad always tells at
hunting camp. I think I'm I'dhave been in junior high school and one
of my teachers said something like baconnever leaves your body, right, So
I came home and told my dadthat and he just got a kick out
of it. So every time wehave bacon a camp, he says,
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hey, you want to remember thatyou used to say bacon ever? And
I'm like, I, you know, impressionable kid. It's stupid when you
think about it. But now insteadof bacon leaves your body, it's you
know, fetuses or not people,and America is racially divided, and transgenderism
is real, and you know allthese crazy things. So I really appreciate
your time first off, and I'vekind of taken more than I asked for.
(50:35):
But when I looked up the BraveBooks book Club and you mentioned it
earlier, books delivered every month upto a thirty percent discount fifteen ninety nine
per book as an annual plan,I mean again, just a great price.
And then there's a newest book freewith subscription, freedom island sticker,
there's thirty day money back guarantee,and then you've got some cool things like
treasure boxes and crayons and puzzles anddad jokes and just all kinds of stuff
(51:00):
at Brave Books dot Us. Yeah, yeah, we do. It's it's
uh, it's a it's a greatit's a great tool for pre parents to
have to to help help support themand having these conversations instilling these truths into
their kids so that so that theyhave the solid foundation so whenever eventually they
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go out and they they're exposed tothe world, they have something they can
stand on. And it's it's needednow more than ever, and so it's
it's been a real joy to help. We've got tens of tens of thousands
of subscribers and and they're you know, we get we get countless emails every
(51:44):
day just thanking us for the differenceyou know, these books have made in
our kids lives and it's just beensuch a joy to be a part of.
Yeah, and for listeners, arethe best places to follow your work
at Brave books dot us and thenon Twitter at Brave books Us. Yes,
that's it all right now. Iappreciate doctor Talbot for spending the time
with us today on main Source ofTruth and really appreciate the effort that you
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folks have put in and you're makinga difference out there, and we need
more people to just again take thatfirst step in the right direction. Well,
thank you, Sean. I reallyappreciate you having me on, so
I really appreciate Trent's time. Andhopefully you folks can send this to other
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show. All right, folks,my voice is still not right. We're
gonna push through it. This isseason two, episodes seventy six, Trent
Talbot Brave Books, and it's Septembertwelve, twenty twenty three, as we
are recording this today, And asI always do, a Bible verse,
and this one actually came off theBrave Books website James five to seven.
(02:13):
Be patient, then, brothers andsisters, until the Lord's coming. See
how the farmer waits for the landto yield as valuable crops, patiently waiting
for the autumn and spring rains.So to me, this is pretty interesting.
Crop planting sometimes takes several seasons toreally bear fruit. I've seen that
myself here in Maine. I keeptrying to plant seeds all over this state
(02:36):
with parents and teachers and students andtaxpayers and librarians and whomever who are starting
to see the light as to howbad our public K through twelve education system
is. And one of the thingsI didn't get a chance to do this
podcast yesterday, but eleven never forgetthe sacrifice our brave firefighters made and those
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who lost their lives on this,you know, just horrific attack on America.
Here locally in RSU twenty two,Hamden, Maine, I was made
aware by several parents that the schoolsystem never really even mentioned it yesterday,
And that's because communists are running thelocal school systems. Anti America is their
goal. Unfortunately, So I wantto set up this next video. This
is the Gorham High School. Gorham, Maine High School principal Brian Jandrow.
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He passed out ramsicles to minor students, created a video for that which has
an overlay of Nellie's song It's Hotand Hair, and part of that song
mentions things like, so take offall your clothes. He may not have
recognized that again ramsicle. I assumehe came up with this, but again,
you never know with these groomers thatthe school's mascot is a ram and
(03:46):
he was passing out icicles. Butone might wonder if the employee of Superintendent
Heather pat Perry knew exactly the termhe was using because of the choice of
his song. He's also a bigfan of kiddie porn in schools, where
he essentially said of the book AllBoys Aren't Blue, I've finished reading All
Boys Aren't Blue, and I appI approve of being available to students at
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Gorham High School. And again,Brian Jandro, Gorham High School principle,
you know with things like unfortunately,and this is kind of lead us into
the Capitol Hill judiciary meeting. Butquote, you were fully erect at this
point, you can't tell anyone,Okay, I promise you grab my hand
and made me touch it. Nowthat's just a minor piece of the book.
(04:29):
All boys aren't blue. But I'mgonna listen. Have you listened to
this video here? You can seeit on my Twitter at Sean mcbriarty if
you want to see some of theinformation. But this, this guy,
this video is all about him andfive. So sorry to up. So
he's passing out all kinds of minerson the video. I doubt their parents
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provided any. All right, thereyou go on and you can listen to
Nelly signing your background. We gotramsicles to give out ramsicles everybody, anybody
wanting sorry to drop mister king.There you go. There's a pole in
my basement and five. I meanit's just it's horrible. I mean just
(05:12):
just horrible. So you just lookand you wonder about these people. Are
they just absolute morons running these schools? Or are they useful idiots and they
know exactly what they're doing. Butagain, you can find the full story
on my Twitter page. Herbs UrbanDictionary says that a ramsicle is a stupid,
yet often hot piece of ass whosesole purpose on this earth is knowingly
(05:35):
getting you off and then never spokento again. She lacks morals in self
respect, She's glad to be rammedon a moment's notice. And again he
was calling these popsicles, these icepopsicles, ramsicles. I've been working on
my substack and you can find thatat Sean mcbriarty dot substack dot com.
And the lightest article I've written inan expose of Drummond Woodson. The bullying
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arm of the mains educational headline isDrummond Woodson Law firm says that trans students,
sports and bathroom use are settled law, and then the subheadline is main
Supreme Court doesn't agree with their livesof emission and mischaracterization of birthed sex.
Birthed sex is a word that MelissaHuey, one of the Drummond woods And
lawyers, used in the training.So they held this LGBTQ training, but
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then they went over things like terminologyand that essentially, you know, transgenders
have all the rates in the world, and the ninety nine percent of the
other people doesn't matter. If they'reafraid, doesn't matter if they're being put
in bad situations they don't have anyrights, and for the school board just
to make sure they go along withit. So it's a pretty long article.
Again, it's a I think thirdarticle in a group that I'm doing
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here. You really need to readthe first and second one to help understand
some of the setup. But ifyou are a concerned parent, teacher,
school board member in Maine and youread these articles, you will find out
exactly what the legal arm is tryingto pressure you into. And it's all
a bunch of nonsense. It's alla bunch of lies of a mission and
half truths. So on Twitter,I broke a story about a trans woman
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a man, a six foot sixtall man who appears to be racist because
he doesn't like going to the grocerystore because of all the quote whites and
cis heads or cissets I think hesaid. Cis gender is basically all the
normal people that don't have to have, you know, sexual narcissism to describe
their sexuality like this guy does.He also was passing out photos of his
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alleged birth the baby and telling peoplethat he is now a mom. So
I sent this to the school board. Now, the other piece is that
on his social media he was seeingback in twenty twenty one wearing a shirt
that said blue lives don't matter,with a picture of a pig's head and
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a bullet hole through the head.So I sent this to the school board.
The entire school board of A ninetytwo, which is in Waterville,
Maine, have not received a responsebecause I guarantee you the first thing they
did is sent it to Drummond Woodsand their lawyers. You know, it
was alarming that people like this arenow teacher assistants, teacher aids, ED
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texts is what they call them inWaterville. And this is an elementary school,
so five grades three, kindergarten throughthird grade, five year old,
six seven, eight year olds,And you know, it's just such a
nonsensical hypocrisy that these schools are goingthrough. Again, if you have a
kid in George J. Mitchell Kthrough twelve school, sorry, K through
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three school in Waterville, Maine,this is what's happening. And then the
useful idiots reply in saying some prettyinteresting stuff, none of which talks about
the safety or you know, concernsfor the parents or students. Now I'm
not sure which one came first.But I'm gonna go with Peter Holland H
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A. L. L. E. N. Peter is the superintendent of
AOS ninety two in Waterville, andhe sent out a email to the staff.
After I sent out the email tothe school board, I copied him
and everybody. Of course, Iwanted to share a message sent to the
JGMS staff from Principal Kim Taylor.So Kim's note came first, evidently,
and I will talk about that ina second. Of some people that are
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questioning our policies and practices as theyrelate to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Now, as a side note,really diversity equity inclusion needs to be called
die. Diversity inclusion and equity died ie, because they're killing the educational
system and these kids. But thatwasn't what I questioned. I questioned the
safety and the hiring practices of somebodywho thinks he's a woman who is now
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spending time with kids and also thinksthat he's a mother in birth the baby.
He goes on blabbering about policies andthese kind of things, and that
if you know, anybody tries toreach out to anybody in school, don't
talk about it. You know,make sure you come to them because you
wouldn't want to have anybody actually talkabout the real situations going on inside the
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elementary school. So getting to PrincipalKim Taylor, she hers pronouns, so
you know she's a useful idiot.Dear j GMS. So sorry. That's
the George J. Mitchell School,which again K through three in Waterville,
Maine. We received an email todayfrom an individual known in many districts in
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Maine for sharing their personal and politicalviews. This individual was crest questioning our
policies and practices related to diversity,equity and inclusion. No, I was
not. As you know, WatervillePublic School is committed to equal employment and
educational opportunity for all employees, applicant, students, and their parents, guardians,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah. We also have strict
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policies around harassment. There was noharassment. It was simply pointing out that
this dude who thinks he's a chicka mom who is passing out baby pictures
is mentally unstable and shouldn't be aroundkids. Nobody from the school board has
responded. Shocker since Friday and Thursday, they're going to get another email which
will kind of blow their doors off. So Kim Taylor, Principal, George
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Mitchell School. Her number is twoO seven eight seven three zero six nine
five Extension four two zero one,all public information. If you want to
send her a little call and askher why they are now hiring mentally unstable
people to teach your kids with yourtax dollars. Now, I've been heard
through a source. I've heard througha source, sorry that this person which
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goes by the name of Rosader died I E R you know again,
was hired by these folks. Andand again, no disrespect to Rosa.
I hope that he gets the mentalhealth and the help that he needs.
I hope he has a comfortable life. But he's always going to be a
dude. It doesn't matter what hedoes. And again, when you talk
about being a safe and welcoming placefor all the hypocrisy that is, does
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that mean just Rosa is the safe, welcoming, you know, person that
gets all of the benefits. Meanwhile, all the kids, all the other
teachers, all the other administrative staff, the people in the female bathroom.
This guy says on video. Hewants to make sure he gets into women's
bathrooms and then he can just affirmas a woman. I mean, that's
all it takes, it seems like. But the eggshell psyche of these folks
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in Waterville, when they doubled downon their hypocrisy, simply blows my mind.
And it's because nobody holds them accountable. So until that happens, you
know, unicorns and rainbows and penguinsbecome reality for these people. And again,
useful idiots. And then lastly Imentioned it. I watched yesterday a
Capitol Hill judiciary hearing which was supposedto start at ten and like everything government
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started like at ten seventeen or something. But it was entitled book Bands,
Examining how Censorship limits Liberty and Literature. So I kind of said that,
you know, two or three times, really a common comma, examine how
censorship limits Sorry, let me dothat again, Examining how censorship limits liberty
and literature. Holy Kyle, Ican't talk today, but Senator Dick Durbin,
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who's a Democrat of Illinois, theALA American Library Association champion, right
in his backyard, he can.He's talking about book bands. It turned
actually into an illegal border crossing eventfor about twenty minutes. But I gotta
give Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republicanfrom South Carolina, some kudos except for
he thinks school boards approved books,which doesn't happen. But he talked about
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state and federal government shouldn't be banningbooks, and we all agree with that.
They're like, hey, book banningis not occurring except where you'll hear
later, except for by government institutionsif you want to buy it on Amazon
field free. Just shouldn't be ina taxpayer paid library. But he did
mention, quote, parents don't givean inch on this speak up. You
know. He said if you can'tread these books in a public hearing because
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of the vulgarity, and now essentiallythey shouldn't be in the library, and
that parents shouldn't be intimidated. Soagain, you know, it's all about
age appropriate content, proper curation basedon written real sexual content standards, and
parental control and the other interesting thingand this was pretty cool. Nicole Nelly
Neally, I'm not exactly try topronounce her name. I gonna find out,
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but Nicole say Neely, founder andpresident of Parents defending education. She's
gonna be on the podcast Tuesday nextweek, next Tuesday, and she killed
it. She was on fire,she was awesome. She just basically laid
out, you know what's happening.How these librarians he's left us. These
Marxists are coming back and attacking parents, calling them all kinds of names because
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they want to get pornography removed fromthe library. And so more on that
next week. And then Senator Kennedy, he killed it. He asked this
Beta boy who was out there asa witness about gender queer. It was
kind of interesting exchange because on thecard the guy had his name as MX.
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So that's another on sensical, madeup unicorn prefix prefix I guess you
know, they talked about as pronounsand just a bunch of garbage. But
anyway, Senator to Kennedy's like,mister mccott, why do you say that?
And this you know, this betavoice is it's pronounced mix or whatever.
And then anyway, Senator Kennedy wasjust asking, well, what's their
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plan, what's their plan on theleft for you know, this sexualized content,
except a push from it and profitfrom it. And they had no
answer. There was no answer.There's never an answer on you know,
why this stuff should be removed.And it's very basic, right, if
this stuff doesn't have educational purpose andand it's pervasively vulgar, it shouldn't be
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in the library. It's as easyas that, folks. So the goal
of the American Library Association continues tobe hyper sexualizing your children with your tax
dollars. They're grooming your kids,and American parents are starting to wake up,
and we're gonna offer them an opportunityhere for a And Dan Bongino talks
about dual economy all the time andsort of this dual system where you've got
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conservative groups and liberal groups. Whenwe bring on Trent Talbot, doctor Talbot
from Brave Books, we're gonna havea great conversation and talk about options for
parents if they don't want this nonsense, if they want to give their kids
some foundational benefit of early onset discussionswith parents, which is where all this
stuff should be going and having andtaking place. Knowing that the schools can't
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even tackle the basics of education ofmath and reading. You know, we
know in Maine only one quarter ofkids in Maine students k through twelve students
in Maine can do math at proficiency, and only one third of those students
in Maine can read a proficiency Becausethe ideological process and the gender ideology is
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just rampant in these schools and it'sall about identity politics. Most, not
all, but most of these teachersin our public K through twelve schools are
simply leftist paid, taxpayer paid activistspushing this nonsense on our kids. As
a father, his goals were toinstill upon his daughter the values of hard
work, care for the week,and appreciative the freedom that we adore in
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America. In Februar of twenty twentyone, he left his career as a
practicing optomologist and medical doctor because hesaw how much the inappropriate content was being
pushed to children through books. He'san author of two children's books, The
Fight for Freedom Island and Chaos inthe Canopy. His company, Brave Books,
mission is to help parents instill alove of truth in their children so
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that the children will understand and withstandharmful progressive influences. Brave Books has published
stories with timeless virtues for the nextgeneration. Each book helps children fight in
our land against the evils they're facingtoday, and in my opinion, growing
up in America hasn't been any harderfor the kids in the last hundred years
than they are today. He stackedan impressive lineup of children's book authors,
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the who's who really of Brave iconsand conservative patriots, Kevin Sorbo, Kirk
Cameron Sheriff, Mark Lamb, GeneralFlynn, Zoobie, The Hodge Twins,
Jack Possabaek, Missy Robertson, andmore. Books that tackle gender identity,
sanctity of life, critical race theory, and more. In one book,
The Island of Free Ice Cream,speaks to communism versus capitalism. He's partnered
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with friend of the podcast Moms forMoms for Liberty by donating fifteen hundred books
to them in the past, andhe's taking a stand to help your family
have a really a conservative process.Your children need to fight off the evil
that we're seeing in today's system.He's at Trent Talbot on Twitter, but
does most of his work at BraveBooks US and online Brave Books Dot US.
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So from Houston, Texas. He'sa founder and CEO of Brave Books.
He's our next guest on Main Sourceof Truth there. Welcome doctor Trent
Talbot a lot. Thank you forhaving me. I really appreciate cool.
I'm looking forward to awesome, noso, and I appreciate it great.
I try to do my own workthe best I can, and I have
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to give it Steve Bannon some credit. I've been trying to push to get
on back on Steve Show on warRoom to talk about the American Library Association,
and he pointed me to your clipa couple of weeks ago. And
I do appreciate you spending some timetoday to talk about what's going on in
the educational space. But I guessfirst off, maybe tell the listeners,
you know, how's your life changedsince twenty twenty one. I mean,
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you're now a new father, You'veyou've really taken on a calling to bring
wholesome, integrity based, you know, learning books into a market that seems
really just where filth is prevailing.So maybe tell the listeners a little bit
about, you know, how thiskind of came to be and how it's
changed over the last few years.Man, Yeah, I was, I
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was a happily practicing Optimagust but twentytwenty halfen you know, COVID, and
I was married in twenty nineteen,had my first daughter in the summer of
twenty twenty, and you know,sort of like whenever you get a new
car and you start to see thatcar everywhere you go, it's not really
because everybody else was buying that car. It's just that it's elevated in your
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level of awareness or consciousness. Thathappened to me after Charlotte was born,
and so I started to notice,you know, for the first time in
my life, this attack on ourchildren's hearts and minds. And so,
for example, when she was bornand I'm one book on Amazon was Auntie
Versus Baby. That trailer for thefilm Fetes came out. I saw it
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on Twitter, like when I washolding her in my arm and she was
like two years old. My bestfriend in business partner, his seven year
old daughter was gifted the latest NancyDrew book and I had a trans character
in it, and she got superconfused and a ton of questions. I
was really difficult for my buddy andand and walked to no bars and it
was just like its like every dayit was something new. It was this
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wild experience when when I went Iwas totally blind to this there's this war
on our on our kids to toseeing it everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
and it just it's stuck with mein a way that's kind of hard to
describe. I just couldn't I couldn'tstop thinking about it. And and eventually
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this idea for Brave Books and ourFreedom Island Book Club, where we basically
just create this whole universe and comeup with a new book every single month.
In this universe, it teaches adifferent you know, pro god,
pro America, wholesome value. Andand you had this vision of like kids
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when they're when they're young, whenthey're three, four five, they start
subscribing and they get a new bookevery month, and then the books grow
with them. And so it wentfrom a crazy idea that we went board
and to see if we could pullit off, and you know, the
Lord just blessed us and we andit's been an incredible journey and every day
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is a new adventure, and yeah, it looks like we're gonna we're gonna
see this vision through. Where we'rein our third song. We've made like
twenty six books and yeah, theyall take place in this world that we've
built with this fun cast of charactersand and we've got a good list of
villains too. We've got cultures ofvulture, black art. And so our
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vision is for the next fifty toone hundred years when Christian Conservatives, when
when their kids are grandkids and theyhad that three to five, they start
subscribing. And it starts off withpicture books, and each each new picture
book teaches a new value, newlesson, helps instill their their character.
And that last fifty months and thenit's going to switch over to two chapter
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books a month, and so we'restarting to work on those. And and
so from the time to three tofour to the time they're in their team,
they're growing with these characters and thebooks grow with them, and and
it's just this safe place for theirimaginations to run wild and half on because
that's kids who love that. It'sso good for them. But but what
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the reason why Brave exist is becausethere was a need for somebody to create
really great content and great worlds,but in a way that it's not going
to have all the crap, youknow, and it's gonna is gonna really
care care for kids in a wayto not only just entertain them, but
entertain them and build their character andhelp them grow, so that that's that's
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what we've set up to do,and I think we're on a way to
doing it. Yeah, I meanquite an impact really in just a few
years. And congratulations for your work. I realized this is not easy,
and especially in the space that you'rein. You know, you're competing against
multi million billion dollars behemis out there. And you know, one of my
favorite quotes it always seems too complicatedfor me to remember off the top of
my head, you guys posted onBrave Books Us on Twitter the other day
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from Michael Hoff and the quote ishard times create strong men. Strong men
create good times, good times createweak men, and weak men create hard
times. And what I wanted toask a Trent was, you know,
where do you think we are?And that was kind of the question you
asked on Twitter? And what typeof responses did you get when you tweeted
that out? Yeah, I thinkI think it was well received. Yeah,
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I think we've all sort of seenthat quote and it is so poignant
and it's very reflective of where we'reat. You know, I think that
we're in that we've we're sort ofin the stage between good times create weak
men and weak man create hard timesomewhere in that because because we're not I
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think it can get a lot worsethan than were. We still have Oh
I've said before, we haven't hitbottom yet. Yeah, we haven't hit
bottom there. Yeah, there's somuch to be grateful for for for you
know, the world that we livethem. You know, like like it's
it's not hard. If you thinkthis is hard, like look at history.
It can get a lot a lotharder than this. Uh, you
know, we can we can goto the grocery store, your grandfather or
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your great grandfather and stuff they hadto do. I agree, and and
the other pieces. These school systemor systems are creating a lot of weak
men, a lot of effeminate menbecause of the indoctrination that's going on.
Did you get any response from thatperspective on you know what what the educational
system is doing to two boys?And I joke, I have a lawsuit
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right now local school districts suing mefor exposing a lot of the transgender cult
that was going on. But inthe lawsuit they quoted I think it might
have been instagram. My bio oncesaid something like and I approve of toxic
masculinity, which is kind of ajoke, right, Like it's just I
approve of one being men and raisingtheir kids and you know, being that
strong father or husband or whatever.So what's your I guess, what's your
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opinion on what you're seeing going onon with with just a transcult army of
weak men coming out of these schools, right, Yeah, I totally agree
in that it's a big problem.It's a very very big problem, and
I can talk about it for along time. But actually, our most
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recent book with Just that just cameout in the month of September, is
on the topic of masculinity. Wegot Hercules himself to be the author,
and so that's been really cool.Yeah, we we've got to do a
better job as a society of makingmaking helping boys become men. You know.
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It's just like we boys are stayingboys were way way too long.
I mean even there's a lot ofwhat we call men that are in their
thirties forties that are still boys andyeah, that's the boys. Yeah,
and so so it's a it's areal problem because because it it will it
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will lead to our it will leadto the demise of of the family unit.
It will lead to which will leadto the demise of our communities,
our our churches, our country.If if we don't don't get a handle
on it. Well that's and that'sone one, you know pieces that we
all know that they're trying to weakenthe family structure, the you know,
nuclear American family, the morality,the biblical foundations. I mean, that's
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ultimately what Marxists do, and thatkind of leads us into our next thing
here. So we've been working toexpose the American Library Association, their Marxist,
socialist, lesbian president Emily Drabinsky,and it's a group that talks about
book bands all the time. Yesterdayon Capitol Hill there was a book band
judiciary meeting, which was kind ofinteresting to watch. But you know,
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we all know that it's not happeningfrom conservatives. Conservatives aren't banning books.
But I was kind of corrected thatthe American Library Association was actually trying to
ban your books from being read atlocal libraries in August. So you know
that book ban is real, butit's really from the left, and you
know, your Brave Books is tryingto offer solutions, right so I'm still
in this exposure phase. I stillfeel like nine out of ten parents in
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Maine and across the country don't knowwhat we're talking about. But you've kind
of moved into this second, youknow, phase, which is really offering
solutions. And on August fifth,you had a see You at the Library
event. Tell us a little bitabout how that went because Deborah Caldwell Stone,
director of the ALA Office for IntellectualFreedom, which really is intellectual freedoms,
Like they just want porn in schools, that's really the subline. So
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she said in a Washington Times articlethat I wrote or I read, was
that, you know, she wastrying to have libraries limit access to meeting
rooms for that event, and uh, you know, if they didn't have
library cards in the community, theywere going to kick them out, and
this, that and the other thing. So tell us a little bit about
how that, how that whole thingwent went off. Yeah, so,
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you know, it really started whenwe launched Kirk Cameron's book that we try
to get him allowed to do astory hour at at fifty four libraries that
not only posted directing story hours butsponsor them. We weren't asking it to
have sponsor sponsor. We just wantedto host a Kirk Cameron fourteenth Amendment stuff.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, and theyall deny them or just in respond
and so so that became a bigthing in the news. And then we
curve went on this little tour acrossthe country. We're stopping by different libraries
doing story hours, and we foughtback, you know, we we exercise
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our first Amendment threatened lawsuit. We'reable to to host our story hours of
a lot of these libraries. Butthen eventually we were like, man like,
like we need to we need toempower the the people, you know,
so it's not just bray Books andKirk Cameron going around. And we
decided to do this like library TakeoverDay, see what the library event.
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And and once word got out therethe ala like immediately, i mean it
was like a couple day. Theyhosted this big, big online event.
They's all the librarians to come andwe're like, hey, here's here's some
here's some ways that you can basicallylike block block bray Books from coming.
And you know, you can go, you can go and book all the
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all the public spaces, book themand say that you're doing something you can
do this. You can do that. You can make sure they have to
change your biwall to say they haveto do locals. This is crazy.
Let them imagine, you know,paid librarians and libraries that are basically being
weaponized against morality, decency, Americanvalues, you know, biblical principles,
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I mean just insane, insane,and so so that that was, you
know, that sort of a bigthing when that happened. But but we
we persisted, and we had overten thousand people across the country show off
that libraries at that libraries across thecountry. It was a big It was
a big success. And and we'regoing to turn it into an annual thing.
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Where where are we where we doit every year? And and we
sort of like threw it together alittle bit, you know this year.
I'm we're gonna go big next year. Our goal is one hundred thousand people
across the count I want to bepart of it. I want to help
you in Maine the best I can, you know. And and the situation
was when I saw that on WarRoom, I was like, man,
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I'd love to go and you know, reading my local library and it was
just a little too compressed, LikeI think it might have been ten days
out or something, and I waslike, yeah, but I really appreciate
what you're doing, because again that'sa positive message, like not everybody has
to go to your event if theyyou know, if parents who are part
of the trans cult don't want tobe there, they don't have to be
there. But yeah, definitely,yes, you know I want to.
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I want to be part of thatmovement next year. Now. One of
the things with the American Life Association, their agenda is to really take partners
to promote the LGBTQ. I Aplus minus dollar signed whatever it is.
And these books by Scholastic which we'lltalk about in a bit, Disney Publishing,
Simon and Schuster, Penguin, RandomHouse, along with Glad who's pushing
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the gay sexuality trans alliances in schools. So you know, the Scholastic publishing
companies pushing books like Rick, whowas front and center in the Herman High
School library, the people suing mefor exposing their transgender library display, author
Alex Gino, who speaks about alternativegender ideologies, alternative sexualities, and Melissa,
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where a fourth grade girl begins totell people he's a transgender girl and
then George. The other piece fromAlex Gino where Aaron Duprez Library here in
Maine Bonne Eagle High School and rulestandish Man like seven Thousand People is a
book about a boy who asks hismom what if I'm a girl. And
I'll just save the readers a struggleof getting through it. The author's just
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an effeminate and right so to me, you know, I'm not I'm not
gonna put this on you, butin my opinion, trans people don't exist.
There's only two sexes, men andwomen, and an infinite amount of
personalities. Right. So one ofthe things from your website, you're working
on a process to cancel Scholastic.So they're one of the biggest publishers out
there. You're just this kind oflittle growing brave books, you know,
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like David and Goliath. Tell usa little bit about the cancel Scholastic process,
because, as you wrote on thewebsite, you know, Scholastic used
to promote classics like Clifford the BigRed Dog, which I remember, and
Charlotte's Web obviously that I remember.Now they're just pushing sexual explicit content and
at you know, five year olds, eight year olds, eleven year olds,
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yeah, yep. So Scholastic isthe behemoth, the big big arilla
when it comes to kids question andif you want to know how and why,
you know, there's all these sexuallyexplicit the you know, pro trans
pro pro hormone blocking books in ourin our schools and libraries. It really
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comes down the Scholastic. They they'rethe world's largest for the bok. So
so back up, and I knowyou know this, but it's a fallow
the money snarre right, So Scholasticis doing this because they're making money by
by school districts buying all of thesebooks, pushing through with planned parenthood,
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a lot of this again we talkabout dark money funding this trans cultism,
which ultimately leads into big pharma andbig medical and all these other things.
But that's a little mind blowing forparents. It can't quite wrap their head
around the black helicopter theory. Butit's really again, it's a fallow of
the money thing. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And to to the
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largest shareholders in Scholastic or Blacklock andVan Guards or the same bango yeah yeah,
yeah and so so so yeah,they they have a monopoly of some
of his books distribution. They they'rethe ones that that really like provide,
provide the big catalogs to all ofthese, to all these schools and libraries
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and and and but their money maker, you know, how they make their
money is is the the iconic Scholasticbook fairs, you know, which we
all remember. I remember having thatand you know, circling which ones I
wanted, and you know, thisis fifteen cents and this is a quarter
and back when I was a kid, you know, way back. Yeah,
and so so we put together thisdocuments being downloaded from from our side.
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It's a PDF that exposed the Scholasticthat It's not it's not like,
oh, some bad books slipped throughthe cracks. It's it's clearly intentional.
They they endorse it at the highestlevels of CEO is fully behind behind all
this stuff. And so we're we'retaking them on. And yeah, you
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would think that, like, Okay, Scholastic is a multi billion dollar company,
Brave Books is a two year oldlittle baby. But I don't know.
We're we're pretty we're pretty feisty andand uh and we're pretty a debt
now at at playing sort of themedia game, and so and so,
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really what it comes down to isthere's a lot of there's a lot of
stuff that's a lot of stuff outthere that the parents don't know about,
that that they that they need tofind out about. And and so we
plan on exposing what Scholastic is upto and then offering a replacement, you
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know, with our brave book fairs, and and and the thing is,
there's already so much demand out therebecause Scholastic does basically have a complete monopoly
on book fairs. They're the onlyones that can put together even at decent
bolfair, and you have all theseprivate schools and public schools and red areas
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that just you know, they begrudgingly. Yeah, they almost almost forced into
doing I mean you mentioned their CEO, Dick Robinson. He said he was
really excited because Alex Genos George's thenumber one most challenged book of last year
is published by Scholastic. And thenhe talks about Scholastic having the greatest impact
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by continuing to promote the work ofLGBTQI creators and are publishing and the amplification
of transgender and non binary voices.It's like, jeez, again, they're
not doing this out of their owncompassion, in their heart. They're making
millions and millions of dollars because youknow, instead of Charlotte's Web, now
they're pushing Welcome to Saint Hell,my trans teen Adventure. I mean,
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it's like it's just it's absolutely crazy. It is crazy and so and and
I think parents are going to findit fastening to learn all this stuff.
And I think once they do,you know, our plan is to put
pressure on Principles, school board members, librarians to to switch over because it
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needs to happen. Like, like, what makes these book fairs so dangerous
is that you can't really tell bythe cover what's you know, what's a
pro trans book and what's you know, what'snot, like which one's dangerous ideas
and what's don't. They're sort ofjust, you know, kids just sort
of make a decision based on thecover. Oh this looks fun, you
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know, and then they're opening upand then all of a sudden it's like,
okay, you know, like thatwe welcome to Saying Hell. It
literally talks about you know, transitioningand talk to all about it and how
how it's It was scary at first, but she pushed through and now it's
great, Like it's insane. Yeah, and some horrible language. I mean
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I don't have any filter anymore becauseyou know, I mean stuff, but
on this show, I mean evenon your on your website, I mean
it's the F word, p B. I mean, it's just it's it's
disgusting. And again I feel badfor the kids that are being pushed into
this trans cult. The folks areindoctrinated. They just don't know what's happening
their medical experiments. So people oftensay to me like, well, you're
(39:20):
a transphobe, and I'm like,no, I'm not a transphobe at all.
I care for you as a person. I just don't care about what's
happening with our tax dollars in theschool system and this sort of social contagion
of transitioning. Yeah, it's it'sit's definitely not good to to put these
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ideas and kids sets. It isnot is not good at all. The
woke agenda is just it's crazy.I mean, you have, you know,
speak about brave parents. I meanagain some and I didn't get a
chance to list off all of yourauthors. I mean again, that's a
who's who of just people at dominatingthe conservative media side and really pushing this,
and I give you kudos for that, But what about other brave parents
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trend and and why don't you thinkthat they're really coming out to fight for
their child's education like their lives dependon it. I think, Man,
it's hard to be a parent rightnow. You know. You know,
it's like sometimes we sometimes we youknow, we become passionate about the subject
(40:27):
and we get all into it andand then we fell to I don't know,
it's like like I was there earlyon when I start a bray,
like what do y'all do? Whyare you seeing your kids in public schools?
And but the thing is like,now now that I'm that I'm a
parent, I've got three kids,it's hard just to keep your head above
(40:47):
water times and to know, youknow, it's hard to stay in the
loop and and and it's also hardto even believe you know, that people
want to do this. Yeah,I get the I get I get fight
flight or freeze, you know,when I talk to a parent about what's
going on in local school or inMaine or in national national schools, and
(41:13):
and sometimes people want to fight me, like you know, verbally, like
you know, you're just a bigit or whatever you are, which I'm
not. Some people just run awaythey can't handle it. And then some
people cock their head sideways like adog and kind of go, did you
just say porn in the library?Like I can't even process it, you
know, and it takes some severaliterations to kind of go hey. But
like I said, I mean,I really I think that what you're doing
(41:36):
is offering solutions and I haven't beenable to do that. I'm just,
like I said, I'm trying toexpose every grooming son of a gun that's
out there and hope that parents thatthat's the first thing that maybe ignites a
spark in them to then start doingsome homework on alternatives. And you know,
I've managed to get a lot ofpeople in Maine to switch to homeschooling.
My twins are almost twenty one,so I'm on the other side of
(41:58):
the you know, fatherly scale thanyou. But I can't imagine me a
father right now. And just thecrazy world we're living in, I mean,
it's almost like we need more peopleengaged to see the light and maybe
they need to go see a goodoptimologist, get their eyes checked. You
know something you know about right yeah, yeah, it is, Yeah,
(42:22):
it's it's it's just one of thosethings where where I you know, it's
it's just so challenges, especially whenyou know it's not the Stakies anymore.
When when families could thrive on onesort of middle class income and the mom
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could could stay at home and reallyjust keep an eye on everything and stay
in the loop. There's so many, so many families now where where both
both parents are working and you're droppingtails at a bake care of school and
it's just government sponsor pre k.Yeah. Yeah, it's like, uh,
it is great, it's well.And the other thing, I think
(43:07):
one piece and I think you've againyou've put a lot of effort into this.
I mean, you know, itwould take us hours to talk about
the whole process. But what advicewould you give other successful people or other
people that are maybe hearing a callinglike you have to switch out of there.
I assume you know a comfortable jobthat you understood that you know,
(43:28):
you've spent so much diligence and timeon being a doctor and now you're a
book publisher, Like where's the where'sthe sign? Like how did how did
you kind of go yep, that'swhat I'm gonna do, and ultimately convince
your wife and friends and family,and now you're you're out there kicking butt.
Yeah, I mean, uh oh, it's it's hard. It's hard
(43:52):
for me with a good conscience tosay like, yeah, you've got a
dream, you know your job right, because because you know, I had
when I was a fourth year medicineand I started some side businesses which at
which I had some passive income comingand so I I was in a little
(44:14):
bit of a unique situation where Iwasn't risking you know, my my new
family's livelihood. So it just hasto you have to you know, I
think you have to be very wellaware of the risk. And you can't
live in the n aisle and justthink that, oh, I have an
(44:35):
idea, this idea is going tobe a home run, because oftentimes it's
not the case fail, you know. And then the first couple of years
and yeah, but I guess,so, yeah, did you have a
like a come to Jesus moment withthis thing or was it just you know,
hey, you methodically put together aplan and started building it, and
then you got kind of some traction, and then it started ramping up from
(44:57):
there. Yeah, I for me, it was it was more like as
the as a vision for Freedom Island, and this embrave books as it as
it became more and more crystallized.It's just really cool and and it seemed
(45:21):
just like this epic adventure and that'sprobably not the best way to make it.
This. I did make sure thatmy risk was mitigated as much as
possible, Like I wasn't I wasn'tgonna put my family on the streets by
any means. That was not apossibility, and I I I mitigated that
that downside risk. And but butfor me that the the adventure was gonna
(45:44):
be too great to to not doit. And it just seemed like like
I'm I'm I like a good fight. And I was pretty fired up with
with all this stuff I was seeing, and I was like, man,
this this could be the final thoughtime really and and it's such a fun
adventure that I eventually just felt likeI had to do it. But but
(46:08):
you know, there's a lot ofpeople out there that have an idea and
I, you know, I justdon't sort of want that on my conscious
of no, no, no,And maybe maybe I should have rephrased the
question, maybe the question more ishow does a parent take that first step
into fighting for their kids education.I mean, you've obviously taken it to
(46:29):
another level, but you know,how does it How does a parent even
just take that first step to maybego to a school board meeting or maybe
write an email, or maybe startlooking at curriculum. Yeah, and you
know, ultimately, if we canget people more people to support Brave books
and to kind of have a dualeconomic you know process where conservative biblical principles
are in line, great, Buthow do you how do you even kind
(46:51):
of get somebody to even just takethat first step. Maybe that's the better
question. Well, I think likewhat you're doing is really important in in
bringing awareness. I think that willhopefully snap people. We'll wake people up
into the fact that they can't justbe a passive parent. Right now,
this is not the time the erain which you can just go down the
(47:15):
easy road and just came your kidsover to school and they get home,
let them watch screens and hey Colt. You know, but because because that's
that's sort of how I was raised. I mean, I was read public
school, came home, watch TV. All that stuff. Culture raised me
as much as my family or asmuch as my parents. And honestly,
(47:37):
I have great parents, all lovethem, but but I was raising a
part of my culture. And ifmy parents would have done that in this
era, I'll be a much differentkid. And so so so it's just
not the time. And I thinkonce, once people are aware, then
they'll see that, and then they'llthey'll you just got to be more involved.
(48:00):
You have to. You have to. You have to know what's going
on in your kid's life. Andyeah, we can't. We can't shelter
our kids completely. That's not agood strategy. And a lot of people
in the homeschool community, well Isay a lot, there's some in the
homeschool people in homeschool community which willwhich can take it to those extremes.
(48:21):
And I honestly think that when they'reyoung, ye, shelter them, shelters,
shelter them really good. Yeah,you got to give them a foundation.
They have to have a foundation tobe able to fight. And yeah,
you have to keep their innocence whenthey're young, I think. But
then, but then what Brave books. The whole reason Brave exists is because
you need to equip them with truthand they need to be aware that some
(48:43):
of these guys are out there,so like that's that's and they weren't invest
in story. So like Brave Books, we we told really some fun stories
that then parents can use as aframework to have conversations about things like gender
reality, you know, and youcan have that conversation depend on in an
age appropriate way, the sanctity oflife, all these all these topics like
(49:07):
they need to they need to betaught these things from their parents first,
you know, so that the valuesthat we as parents hold, we can
still them sort of before they goout and are supposed to do a lot
of the exact is. But I'dsay the majority of parents, you know,
(49:28):
these conversations don't happen. And thefirst time kids hear about you know,
gender identity or CRT or all thesethings, it's coming from proponents of
those ideas. And a lot oftimes the first the first time you hear
(49:49):
about something that's the one that sticks. It's like the first see to get
planted. You know. There's afunny story that my dad always tells at
hunting camp. I think I'm I'dhave been in junior high school and one
of my teachers said something like baconnever leaves your body, right, So
I came home and told my dadthat and he just got a kick out
of it. So every time wehave bacon a camp, he says,
(50:12):
hey, you want to remember thatyou used to say bacon ever? And
I'm like, I, you know, impressionable kid. It's stupid when you
think about it. But now insteadof bacon leaves your body, it's you
know, fetuses or not people,and America is racially divided, and transgenderism
is real, and you know allthese crazy things. So I really appreciate
your time first off, and I'vekind of taken more than I asked for.
(50:35):
But when I looked up the BraveBooks book Club and you mentioned it
earlier, books delivered every month upto a thirty percent discount fifteen ninety nine
per book as an annual plan,I mean again, just a great price.
And then there's a newest book freewith subscription, freedom island sticker,
there's thirty day money back guarantee,and then you've got some cool things like
treasure boxes and crayons and puzzles anddad jokes and just all kinds of stuff
(51:00):
at Brave Books dot Us. Yeah, yeah, we do. It's it's
uh, it's a it's a greatit's a great tool for pre parents to
have to to help help support themand having these conversations instilling these truths into
their kids so that so that theyhave the solid foundation so whenever eventually they
(51:23):
go out and they they're exposed tothe world, they have something they can
stand on. And it's it's needednow more than ever, and so it's
it's been a real joy to help. We've got tens of tens of thousands
of subscribers and and they're you know, we get we get countless emails every
(51:44):
day just thanking us for the differenceyou know, these books have made in
our kids lives and it's just beensuch a joy to be a part of.
Yeah, and for listeners, arethe best places to follow your work
at Brave books dot us and thenon Twitter at Brave books Us. Yes,
that's it all right now. Iappreciate doctor Talbot for spending the time
with us today on main Source ofTruth and really appreciate the effort that you
(52:07):
folks have put in and you're makinga difference out there, and we need
more people to just again take thatfirst step in the right direction. Well,
thank you, Sean. I reallyappreciate you having me on, so
I really appreciate Trent's time. Andhopefully you folks can send this to other
friends, relatives, peers, parents, people who need to know what's going
on in our school system and letthem know. Please subscribe to the podcast
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