Chapter 1: What inspired Kirk Cameron to create children's content?
Actor Kirk Cameron has become a formidable force in the culture, launching a children's book publishing company that's brought Christian values back to the industry while also exposing the double standards of woke public libraries. He's also recently launched a new podcast and a new season of his children's show, Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk.
In this episode, we sit down in studio with Cameron to discuss his new projects and what he believes is key to winning the culture back on faith and family. I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley. This is a special edition of Morning Wire.
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Chapter 2: How does Kirk Cameron's show 'Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk' convey moral lessons?
Joining us now to discuss his many new projects and the battle for the culture is actor, producer, and host Kirk Cameron. Kirk, first of all, thank you so much for joining the show. Thank you. Great to be here. It's so fun to have you in studio. So I've been a big fan of yours for a long time. Thank you.
And we at Daily Wire, we've been really interested in the projects you've had going, particularly your children's projects. You have the book series. You have a new show of the second season coming out, Iggy and Mr. Kirk. Let's start there. What got you into that? Why did you feel compelled to produce that show?
Well, I think I started as a child actor in Hollywood. And so I was thinking, what am I going to do with my life?
Chapter 3: What challenges does Kirk face in promoting his children's books?
And when I discovered that, hey, I've got a career that's sort of launched. Now I'm trying to build a life for myself. But once you become a dad and now I'm a grandfather, I'm beginning to think legacy. And I'm beginning to think of how can I help my children succeed and win? And one of the ways that I can do that is by playing the long game and investing in the moral, spiritual,
health of my children and my grandchildren. So when I think of the impact that Mr. Rogers had on generations of families, I think, who's our guy today? Who's going to do that? And with so many shows, good shows and good companies.
and I think of Disney, and I think of Nickelodeon, and I think of others, and they sort of, like, bend with the political winds or the moral winds, I think, who's going to stay true to that North Star set of values that leads to kids' blessing and protection? And I'm like... If not me, then who? And I've got an opportunity.
So I'm going to start writing children's books and making children's television shows and partnering with people who are committed to the cause. And that's really what inspired the books with Brave Books, the company, and the TV show called Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk.
Chapter 4: How does Kirk Cameron respond to criticism from progressive groups?
What has the response been to both of those, Brave Books and Iggy? Well, it depends on who you ask. So the drag queens don't like the books much. No. And the libraries that support progressive agendas don't like me entering much. In fact, 50 of them denied me access to the public library after holding drag queen story hours because they said our values don't align.
Now, if you read the book that I wanted to read to the kids, it's a little book about faith, hope, love, kindness, gentleness, and self-control.
I'll get over my offense in a second and we can continue here.
Yeah, and I thought the rules were like diversity, equity, and inclusion. Why do you exclude diversity? me? Why not diversity of thought instead of this monoculture that the kids are getting? And when we went to the libraries because they realized they were going to get into legal trouble if they didn't let me in, thousands of parents and grandparents showed up and said, thank you.
We don't want this other stuff, but we're being marginalized and silenced. We want to get behind you and we want to be part of the army of compassion that can restore first principles and a love for America and a love for God to our children.
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Chapter 5: What is Kirk Cameron's perspective on the role of media in shaping children's values?
And the accusation here or the suggestion is that if you have a Christian worldview, it's inherently discriminatory. What's your counter to that?
Well, every view is inherently discriminatory, particularly the DEI view, particularly the progressive-inclusive view, as I experienced. So I've been run over by the tolerance bus several times. If someone's coming at you with a sign that says— you know, love everybody, be careful. They might whack you over the head with it.
So what we need to do, I think, is just be honest about the fact that there's good and evil in the world. There are ideas that lead to liberty and blessing, and then there's ideas that don't. I think it was Stalin who said something like, ideas are more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why then would we let them have ideas, right?
So the truth is, we all want something that we believe is good. And that means, by definition, we're discriminating against that which we think is harmful. And that's what I'm doing.
Chapter 6: How does Kirk Cameron's podcast differ from traditional formats?
The only difference is, what is the basis for your worldview? What is your value set rooted in? And mine would be rooted in the value set of Moses that's been around for thousands of years and produced the world's greatest civilizations. And... ethical, moral codes. That would make sense, you would think, to a lot of people. You'd think. And we've known that for a long time.
It's just that, you know, every now and then we forget and we have to be reminded.
So you said, look, you saw, and we covered this extensively when this was happening with you in these libraries. We saw the footage of the people lining up to get in. You've seen a lot of support for that. How is that operated in terms of behind the scenes or connections to other organizations and things? How does that play out in terms of getting the message out?
I guess I could say that when somebody takes a stand, I think of Riley Gaines, and I think of what happened with her and the competition.
Chapter 7: What are the key themes of Kirk Cameron's new podcast series?
There are a lot of people who say, Yes. Finally, somebody who's speaking the truth in a tough spot and we want to get behind her. So I'm hoping that there are more actors, more creatives, more poets and storytellers and musicians and movie makers who get into that creative space. Don't just abandon it to, well, it's been taken over by the dark side. No, no, no.
There's things called great awakenings and revivals. We can get back to a resurrection of first principles and do the right thing. One of the things that I was personally super encouraged by was that three years ago, we were being locked out of public libraries.
And this last year, we were invited by the Library of Congress, the most prestigious public library in the nation, so that we could read these same books by the Trump administration. So... super grateful and I'm very thankful for the shift in the direction of the winds, morally, politically, spiritually.
Your show, so the children's show, Iggy and Mr. Kirk, totally delightful. Again, we've created Bent Key, so we're very interested in children's content. And there's a philosophy at the heart of the show, it seems like to me, that it's sort of like a learning through imperfection, mistakes, how children learn.
Chapter 8: How does Kirk Cameron balance entertainment with a message of faith?
What is the sort of driving philosophy of how you organize an episode?
Yeah.
Yeah, great question. So I think that at the very base of every episode of Iggy and Mr. Kirk, which, by the way, is a story of Mr. Kirk, who has adopted a five-year-old iguana and raising him in his backyard in a treehouse with a whole cast of colorful animal friends, including a vulture named Culture.
who is always deceiving Iggy, lying to him about who he is and why he's here and who loves him and truth and all of that. But he has access to a based supercomputer, a non-woke Siri chat GPT that's always telling him the truth. So he's learning lessons about identity and purpose and who he can trust.
we want kids to be able to identify with Iggy as a five-year-old, six, seven-year-old and say, I struggle with that same thing. And this is what Iggy learned or this is what Iggy did. First, he did the wrong thing. Then he learned from Mr. Kirk, his dad or his mom, and he did the right thing and it turned out good. So we want to hold out the moral code that we want children to work with
But we want the reality of the fact that nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes. We're all working through it. We're wrestling with desires in our hearts and thoughts in our head that may be wrong or may be confusing us. And so we need to have reliable guides like... a mom and dad, hopefully, that's the ideal, to guide you.
And other resources, even outside your family, sources of truth and good friends that can help you as a child. Because, you know, as... Whoever rocks the cradle rules the future, something like that. Whoever gets to tell the kids the bedtime stories, whoever sings them the lullabies at night, you're shaping the next generation's hearts and minds. And so it's super important.
Was it important for you that a male, you, you happen to be a male, but a male was the key guide for Iggy?
Well, I don't think that was a conscious thought. I mean, I had been writing books with Brave Books, and so I was naturally the guy that was going to be at the center of the TV show that we wanted to make. So, um... I don't think that that was strategic on our part, selfishly. I want to be the guy because, you know, I want to be in the show and it's what I want to do with my life.
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