00:01:15.000And we're really glad that you've included War Room as you're out and about in this last day before the but the school year kicks off and and back to work and everything.
00:01:27.000The summer breaks over summer, although we didn't get much of a break.
00:01:30.000That's fine, because that's the way we like it here.
00:01:38.000We've got a lot of folks on different aspects of work and getting people prepared for work, what's happening in the next generation.
00:01:45.000So we're going to talk a lot about it.
00:01:46.000Remember, one of the things that we focus here is to give working people a understanding of global capital markets, the economy, how that sets a framework for a lot that goes on in your life.
00:01:59.000And, you know, how it also frames the situation going on in in the nation's capital.
00:02:07.000And we've said this when when Congress starts to come back, this whole issue of the sweat off your brow, which would be both your the tax revenue that the government takes from you to support their functions.
00:02:21.000What exactly is going on? Why are these massive deficits, these massive deficits come back?
00:02:25.000This government spending, you know, more going out than coming in creates these deficits.
00:02:44.000In addition, your pension money, what the little bit you've put away and been able to put away or whether it's a 401k.
00:02:50.000Or quite frankly, if you're lucky enough, which very few people have today with a corporation that has a pension plan.
00:02:57.000But even if you're, you know, a police officer, first responder, law enforcement, a teacher, nurse, how that pension funds are being managed by private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and how that's being used to your detriment also.
00:03:14.000And so we're getting a lot of that today of really you're the backbone of this country.
00:03:20.000And what you have determined is important is what's going to save this nation.
00:03:32.000When I say director, we produce the show.
00:03:35.000You see his war room every day on the studios we have throughout the throughout the country.
00:03:40.000Right. You see us anchored oftentimes in Washington, D.C., but we go throughout the country in different either live locations or the studios we have.
00:03:46.000So we produce that part of the show that you see right here.
00:03:49.000But the kind of the network part of it, the channel part of it is produced in a central location in Denver.
00:03:57.000And Rob Sagan, Parker Sagan put together a terrific team.
00:04:00.000Our our director, because you have a director there, helps call in the shots and where the camera is going to go and everything is quite complicated.
00:04:08.000It's a it's a real craft. Amelia is leaving.
00:04:12.000I think Amelia has been with us from the very beginning.
00:04:14.000So she's leaving to go on to going to take a well-deserved break.
00:04:19.000Right. Get away from this madness and take some rest.
00:04:23.000Then she's going on to bigger and better things.
00:04:25.000But I really think we got some of the B roll showing.
00:04:27.000You see, it's quite an operation there.
00:04:28.000It always kind of looks like a mini MSNBC or or CNN, a really a great team.
00:04:34.000I really want to give a as we kick off the show, give a hat tip to the team in Denver.
00:05:11.000Really want to thank Parker and Rob Sagan, all the team out in Denver,
00:05:15.000and particularly Amelia has been our director for the last couple of years.
00:05:19.000And welcome aboard new and fresh talent into the meat grinder to do that.
00:05:24.000Also, we're going to talk to Mo and Grace a little bit later about initiatives we have going on,
00:05:30.000how the audience can get more involved because this entire show is about you.
00:05:33.000It's about creating a community and really having force multipliers that can help us save our republic.
00:05:40.000And since tomorrow is the traditional back to school, and school is supposed to be a place where young people are educated,
00:05:47.000young people have access to the wisdom and learning of the Judeo-Christian West.
00:05:53.000And part of that is having access to learning about skills they can develop over time, but particularly the basic skills of mathematics and reasoning and critical thinking and rhetoric and grammar
00:06:09.000and those basic building blocks you need just to be able to be a thinking adult that you can learn how to learn.
00:06:17.000Right. You get it. You get such a great grounding in the basics that you learn how to learn.
00:06:22.000And part of that, a big part of that is reading.
00:06:25.000And one of the things I've noticed because people know here in the war room that I'm, you know, I'm a real bookworm in that regard.
00:06:32.000And I keep telling people, you know, my reading and how much I've read over the years has become really a strategic advantage because a lot of people just don't read that much anymore.
00:06:42.000It's critical to the to the young people, too, because it gives you access to so many different worlds and so many different environments and so many different parts of history is a fundamental.
00:06:52.000I was blessed with parents who were big readers, particularly my mother was a voracious reader and of books.
00:06:58.000My dad was a voracious reader of newspapers and books, too. But my mom was really a very voracious book reader.
00:07:05.000The and it's always readings always been very important to us.
00:07:10.000And that's why I'm very we were very glad to come upon Dr. Trent Talbot, the team over at Brave Books.
00:07:15.000And we kind of initially got to them because some of the people we knew, the Posobics and the John Solomon's guys that we know were incredibly busy and in the fight every day.
00:07:26.000They were coming to me and they were writing books for this for this young children's.
00:07:30.000And I've always been a big proponent of, hey, you know, children's books are very special category and very tough.
00:07:35.000But the children's books are used as kind of the formation process, formation of character, formation of, you know, your your ability to understand, to teach yourself and also to learn about the world.
00:07:48.000And then they came up and we met Kirk Cameron and others.
00:07:52.000And they had this idea of taking over the libraries.
00:07:54.000And I said, God, I love these guys are aggressive.
00:07:56.000They they didn't want to be kicked out of our Christian people or people who just believed who were secular, but believed in the American civic society to kind of be kicked out of the libraries.
00:08:07.000You got these radical American Library Association, kind of these Marxist librarians who would have drag queen story hour and all this grooming literature.
00:08:14.000But you couldn't get Kirk Cameron's books or books that talked about the American Republic or the American experience.
00:08:20.000And so I said, wow, these guys, you know, 10,000 of you showed up on on Saturday, 5 August of in 2023, just a month ago and really took over, I think, 300 libraries.
00:08:33.000And when I say took over, just basically had story hour of literature that would be considered commonplace, you know, 20 or 30 years ago, particularly in the foundation, you know, the first century half of this of this republic.
00:08:47.000But Trent thought this through and he's identified one of the biggest issues here is it's not simply the libraries, but it's also the schools.
00:08:55.160So I want to bring a doctor, Trent Talbot.
00:08:58.000So, Trent, last week we had you on the show.
00:09:00.000We were able to kind of tease the PDF, but I want to kind of pull back the camera and I want to take it from the top.
00:09:05.640You guys have done the individuals of the Posobics and the John Solomons, all these great people doing these books that are in the fight.
00:09:14.000And that was one. The second was to take over the libraries and make a statement that you're not going to be driven out by the drag queen story hour.
00:09:23.600And that's why it's so beautiful on Labor Day because school, you know, I know a lot of it starts in August, but the traditional start of school is the Tuesday after Labor Day.
00:09:33.200So that's why I want you on to kind of start the show here and walk us through.
00:09:37.060So it's so important in, you know, in training people for a job and a craft and prepare them for future life, schools, everything you think you've identified.
00:09:45.660Now you said, hey, it's not the school is school boards are in terrible shape and the Moms for Liberty and the parents rights movements are fighting at that level.
00:09:52.600And people are seeing it on video, how they get in their face.
00:09:55.580But you're saying there's something deeper, darker going on here.
00:09:58.900And part of that is profit driven and it's to the detriment of our children.
00:10:04.400Walk me through, walk me through brave books and your kind of anti-scholastic, scholastic not being a term of medieval theology around Thomas Aquinas,
00:10:16.260scholastic being actually the largest book publisher in the children's space.
00:10:24.540Yeah, we've we've identified the real culprit who's responsible for for all these books.
00:10:30.900We've been seeing these videos, these clips of of, you know, parents, kids talking about getting basically pornographic books, books that glamorize transitioning from one sex to the other, having surgery, all these things that are just mind blowing to us.
00:10:43.900And and what's been sort of the common understanding or belief is that the school boards, they're evil, these principals, librarians.
00:10:52.680And there is some of that. But I think what makes more sense is that a lot of these school boards, librarians, they're overworked.
00:10:59.760They're maybe a little naive and trusting. And there's been a wolf and sheep called Scholastic that is that is really responsible for getting these books in libraries.
00:11:08.860And the librarians, you know, like you can't read 500 books. These librarians can't vet everything.
00:11:15.140So they sort of just trust that, hey, they're not going to put anything too bad.
00:11:18.160And Scholastic's been captured, weaponized against our kids. And so what we're doing at Brave, we've gone through, we've been researching Scholastic like crazy.
00:11:27.340We have examples that will blow your mind. We put together this PDF that, in my opinion, is going to bring down Scholastic because it just leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that they're it's intentional.
00:11:39.300There's an agenda. There's an agenda. The CEOs explain like what they're up to, like like if they say what they're doing, take their word for it.
00:11:47.220They have an agenda and that's to sexualize our kids and it's to make them trans and just confuse them, you know, and and divide them among race.
00:11:57.340And and so I've got we put together this PDF that we're encouraging the entire War Room Army, send to your local school boards, librarians, principals, send to your friends, have them do the same thing.
00:12:10.060And let's identify where these leaders of our school, where they stand. If they if they read this PDF, it will leave no doubt in their mind.
00:12:18.200And if they change, if they cancel Scholastic, get them out of there. Well, then good there.
00:12:21.820They were just a little naive and and trusting. If not, then we know they're staying. We've got to get them out.
00:12:27.040So it's a great tool that we put together. So what I'd like to do, Steve, is, you know, I'd like to go down a little bit of a rabbit hole from hell.
00:12:35.800Yeah. And just I want to I want to I want to I want to I tell you what I tell you what I want to do.
00:12:41.380I want to drill down on this because I want you to present your theory of the case.
00:12:45.400It's Labor Day and tomorrow's the traditional start of school.
00:12:48.320Nothing could be more important in our celebration on Labor Day.
00:12:51.940Part of it is the celebration of those that come behind us, children and grandchildren.
00:12:56.700Right. That we bequeath this republic to. That's one of the basic theories here in the in the war room.
00:13:02.480And I'm telling you, the assault on the family and particularly the targeting of the children to turn against the family, against their parents.
00:13:10.660This is directly from the playbook of the Bolsheviks and directly from the playbook of the Nazis and directly from the playbook of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.
00:13:20.140So we're going to return. We take a short break today.
00:13:23.000Throughout the day, we're going to celebrate music of of working men and women.
00:13:28.180We've got our first is a poll from one of our staff and my favorite albums, Working Man's Dead.
00:13:34.600This is Cumberland Blues by the Grateful Dead.
00:13:37.840Short break. Back with Dr. Trent Talbot in a moment.
00:18:10.900This book is available – this book is in school libraries and available to – or it's in school programs and available to kids how young?
00:19:04.120They're telling – they're showing the children how you can actually get on your parents' computer, look at this stuff, and then wipe it out so your parents can't see what you've been looking at?
00:19:16.740You're saying Scholastic makes this available to schools to put into their programs so this is actually read in the classroom or the kids get access to this in the classroom?
00:19:30.940But these are award-winning books that are widespread in libraries, schools across the country.
00:19:37.620And, you know, at these school board meetings, people are blaming the school boards.
00:19:40.440But there's like – you know, there's a lot of books in libraries, and yeah, they should be more diligent, but they're sort of just trusting Scholastic.
00:20:03.840Why is it programmatically Scholastic trying to do this instead of just – doesn't Scholastic just have – you go on their website, they have a vast array of books, and the teachers or the librarians at that public school or the teachers of that school request that books?
00:20:21.220Or you're saying they actually have a program that in the dark of night slips it in?
00:20:27.680Yeah, they've got, like, recommended books, you know, and they know no librarian's going to vet 500 to 1,000 books to put in their libraries or pick out the books that are going to the book fair.
00:20:37.380So they just sort of go with the default option, you know, like – and look at this book.
00:20:53.840When you say default position, is there a way that Scholastic gets these in there without the appropriate approval?
00:21:02.300I realize they have 500 books, you're getting books all the time, but people are sensitive enough now to know that particularly books like this are going to be very controversial and going to be singled out.
00:21:12.620Do they have a program that slips it in without appropriate review?
00:21:21.120Well, I mean, it really is just – they overwhelm them with options.
00:21:27.860They know that the schools need a ton of books for curriculums, for, you know, just to be in the library or the book fairs.
00:21:34.680I mean, the book fairs, you're talking about 500,000 books, and, you know, it probably just comes down to people are overworked.
00:21:53.060There are definitely some schools, school systems and some school boards that promote it, and they want a virtue signal for sure and sacrifice kids at the altar of wokeism.
00:22:03.240That is the management – you have quotes from management.