{"id":2084551,"date":"2023-10-30T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeremy-boreing-on-why-bentkey-is-the-most-important-work-we-have-ever-undertaken\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:29:17","slug":"jeremy-boreing-on-why-bentkey-is-the-most-important-work-we-have-ever-undertaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeremy-boreing-on-why-bentkey-is-the-most-important-work-we-have-ever-undertaken\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Boreing believes Bentkey is our most crucial endeavor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjeremy-boreing-on-why-bentkey-is-the-most-important-work-we-have-ever-undertaken%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2084551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Launch of Bentkey: A New Kids Entertainment Platform<\/h2>\n<p><b>Megan:<\/b> So Jeremy, I am in the midst of the heavy mom years. All my friends are moms and we\u2019re constantly talking about this problem of entertainment \u2014 especially the need to monitor our kids\u2019 shows for content we don\u2019t want \u200bthem exposed to. It\u2019s truly\u200b become a constant source of aggravation. So, the minute you \u200cannounced the Bentkey app, my phone blew up. There has been\u200b nothing\u2063 like this for\u200d my \u200cdemographic and I\u2019ve never seen this level of excitement \u2062and enthusiasm. The first question I \u2064want\u2064 to ask you is, what \u200bwas your inspiration for this particular venture? And when\u200b you were thinking\u200b about what you wanted this\u2062 kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind\u200c of shows did you have in mind?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we \u200ddon\u2019t necessarily give \u2064people exactly what they <i>think<\/i> they want. We give them what we think they <i>actually<\/i> want. And so, at Daily Wire I\u2019ve always said part of our job as lowercase \u201cr\u201d republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to\u2064 the\u200b thing they actually want. \u2064If you watch many of the movies we\u2019ve produced along the way, we \u2064try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and \u200caren\u2019t movies that pander to \u2062complete ideological\u200c purity, because I think\u2063 it actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got \u2063the opportunity to make\u2063 content for kids, I felt completely the opposite. Adults should\u2062 be challenged, adults should be exposed to things that they don\u2019t always agree with, so that adults can make good\u200c and informed decisions. Kids \u2063do not have the \u2062tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say\u200b you\u2019re a mom and you\u2019re in your core mom years\u2064 \u2014 you\u2019re on the\u200d front lines of the most \u2064important battle not only\u200b of our time,\u2062 but \u200dof all time. And that\u2019s inculcating values\u2062 into children. It\u2019s teaching\u2063 children how to\u2064 become the adults \u200dwe \u2064want to see them become. \u200dAnd for that reason, when I started thinking about what kind of content we want to make in our kids entertainment operation, the answer \u200dwas obvious to me: I want to make wonderful, beautiful, \u200chilarious, highly entertaining content that is chock-full of\u2064 goodness,\u200b that parents can trust implicitly. So when they \u2063put their kids in front of one piece of \u200bour content, \u200bthey don\u2019t have to\u200d worry about what it\u2019s going to roll into\u200b as the next piece of \u200dcontent. Of course, parents should vet our content just like they do everything for their kids. You\u2019re the \u2064most responsible person for your kids. But what if you don\u2019t? If you didn\u2019t, I\u2062 want it to still be okay, \u2063because <i>we\u2019re<\/i> vetting that\u2063 content.<\/p>\n<h3>Is there a particular scene in one of the \u200bshows available \u2063on the Bentkey app \u2064right now that stands out to you \u2063as \u2064sort of \u2064emblematic of that kind\u2063 of goodness that you\u2019re talking about?<\/h3>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> \u200dI think every single scene of \u201cA Wonderful Day\u200d with Mabel Maclay\u201d\u2063 perfectly encapsulates\u2064 what we\u2019re\u200b trying to create.<\/p>\n<h3>Even though my kids \u200dare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeremy-boreing-on-why-bentkey-is-the-most-important-work-we-have-ever-undertaken\/\" title=\"Jeremy Boreing believes Bentkey is our most crucial endeavor.\">long\u200c past pre-school age<\/a>, a friend of\u200b mine who has a 3-year-old watched \u2062several episodes and she told me she was really struck by the quality of\u2064 the production that\u200b has gone \u2062into\u200b \u201cMabel\u200d Maclay.\u201d She did wonder, \u200cthough, how Daily Wire, a new player in this game, is going\u200c to be able to keep up \u2062the pace of that level\u2064 of\u2063 production.<\/h3>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> \u2064 We\u2019ve launched 16 series, almost 150 episodes \u2062on the app \u200bwith new\u2062 episodes\u2062 coming every single Saturday. We\u2019re bringing back Saturday \u2064morning cartoons. But only four of those \u2064shows are original productions. \u200cIt\u2019ll take a long time before we\u2019ve produced enough original\u2063 content that everything on the app is\u2063 ours. Now, that\u2019s not to say that \u200deverything on the app hasn\u2019t been vetted, it has been \u2014 every single minute of every single\u200b show. But obviously the shows \u2064we\u2019re making best represent \u2063what our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-and-china-foreign-ministers-hold-awkward-3-hour-meeting-in-new-delhi\/\" title=\"India and China Foreign Ministers Hold Awkward, 3-Hour Meeting in New Delhi\">long-term vision<\/a> is for the company.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=bentkey&#038;utm_medium=podcastdescriptions&#038;utm_source=podcastdescriptions&#038;utm_content=na&#038;_gl=1*ojrbxo*_ga*MTY3NDIxODg5My4xNjgyMDg3MjM4*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY5ODY5Nzg4MC45OTMuMS4xNjk4NzAwNjIzLjUyLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GET BENTKEY HERE<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3>When I was looking through\u200c the current offerings, it was \u200cvery clear to\u2063 me that there\u2019s been an effort,\u200c right out of the gate, to serve all the \u2064different kids demographics, all at once. I have a\u2062 14-year-old, and a 9-year-old, and I often have nieces and nephews who range all the way from 2 to 10 years old over\u200c at\u200b my house. \u2064What I appreciated was that we went from \u201cMabel Maclay\u201d and \u200dsome other shows for the \u200dvery youngest set to \u201cRunes\u201d and then \u200cto \u201cHow Ridiculous,\u201d which appeal to older kids. \u2062\u201cHow Ridiculous\u201d\u2063 features the well-known trio of young Australian men doing their\u2062 signature\u2062 YouTube competitions. And I\u2019ll tell you, Jeremy, there was \u2062an audible cheer from the 9- and 10-year-olds in our\u2064 house when they saw that \u201cHow Ridiculous\u201d was available. So, was it \u2062a deliberate decision? Why\u200c get something for \u2064all of these \u200bage \u2063ranges and release them all right \u200bout of the gate rather\u200d than\u200b release them one at a time? What was \u2064the thinking behind that?<\/h3>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> I\u2062 suppose it\u2019s\u200c because \u200dwe believe this is \u2062the most important work we have ever undertaken. The politics of the day\u200d are urgent, but \u2064the culture is important. \u2063And most of our Daily Wire efforts\u2064 heretofore have been focused on the urgent problem. This is a turn to the\u2063 important problem, the generational problem. And you can\u2019t just say, \u201cWell, let\u2019s start with four-year-olds,\u201d and, be\u200c on\u200c the hundred-year plan or the \u200b20-year plan to \u200craise \u200dthem to adulthood, you\u2019ve got to go meet all the needs. Where the\u200d needs exist. Doesn\u2019t mean \u200byou can do \u200ball of that all at one time, all\u200c the time, but we certainly thought at launch we \u200dneeded to be serving all \u2064kids and then you\u2019ll learn over time which kids are reacting better to the kind of content that you\u2019re\u200d making and you\u2019ll make more investments in \u200bthose \u2064areas. But right out of the gate, \u200bit was very important\u2064 to us\u2062 to serve all of the\u200d needs that a parent might have in this regard.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/dw-launches-kids-app-bent-key-10-22-23\">LISTEN: Morning Wire interview with Jeremy\u2064 Boreing<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Recruiting Talented Artists for Bentkey<\/h3>\n<p><b>Megan:<\/b> You mentioned what you\u2019re not trying to do\u2062 here is\u2062 create entirely ideologically driven entertainment,\u2064 that it\u2019s something that\u200c kids will really enjoy. But to do that, you need really\u2064 talented artists\u200d potentially \u200cacross the ideological \u2064spectrum themselves. So, how do you recruit talented artists who aren\u2019t afraid\u200b of being associated with a conservative company?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> Well, it\u2019s always challenging in our part\u2064 of the ideological world to recruit great artists. For one thing, artists tend \u200dto be liberal. It\u2019s a very natural thing that occurs \u2014 that conservatives tend to forsake the arts across all\u2062 of history and liberals tend to engage in the arts across all of history. Then you \u200drun into the problem of, if they \u2063come work for us, they\u2064 are in some ways risking \u200btheir career. And it\u2019s a\u200d lot to ask someone to risk\u2063 their \u2064career for\u2062 a job. What I will say, though, is that it has been \u200cmuch, much easier to recruit with our kids entertainment program than it has been with our general entertainment program. And I think the \u200breason is \u2063this: If you risked it all; you left your home \u2064and your family; you \u201cwent\u200c west, young man;\u201d you waited tables, \u2064even after\u2064 law school,\u200c and you went to work\u200c in \u200bthe mailroom at one of the big agencies, all of that\u2063 to \u2062try to\u200c get your foot in the door in \u2064Hollywood. And you \u2064had the opportunity to \u2063write on some HBO show that\u2019s \u2064one of the most high \u200cquality shows ever made,\u2064 but\u2064 a lot of what\u2019s in it you\u2062 don\u2019t necessarily approve of. There\u2019s a high \u200bprobability you\u2019ll take that \u2062opportunity, because you\u2019ll rationalize, and probably not\u2062 altogether incorrectly, <i>\u201cYes,\u200d I don\u2019t agree with everything\u200b about this show, but the opportunity to work at this high \u2064level can\u2019t\u2063 be denied and adults can make\u200d their own decisions.\u201d<\/i> But when you ask people to do that with content that is aimed at 7-year-olds, they \u200bsimply \u200ccannot live with themselves. You\u2019re now not asking them to do something where people can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lauren-boebert-slams-stopgap-proposal-as-deadline-approaches\/\" title=\"Lauren Boebert criticizes last-minute proposal as deadline nears.\">make rational choices<\/a>, you\u2019re asking them to treat children \u2064like they\u2019re specimens in a\u2063 petri dish and to\u2064 experiment \u200don them with all of these radical new ideas. The kinds of people who are drawn\u2062 to children\u2019s\u200d entertainment \u2063love children and \u200bso they simply \u2063can\u2019t sleep at night. And for that\u2064 reason,\u200c we have an embarrassment of riches in this department. People want \u2062this\u200c to work. They want to come work for \u2064this company. They\u200d want to see it \u200bsucceed because they don\u2019t want to do evil.<\/p>\n<p><b>Megan:<\/b> Yeah, it\u2019s\u200c been interesting to \u2064me to hear the buzz from people \u200cthat I know in some of these studios, particularly Disney, who \u200cquietly\u2062 have\u2064 reached out to me and to others \u2062I know\u2063 and said,\u200d <i>\u201cHey, what\u2019s going \u200don over there? Do you have room for someone like me\u200d for someone, you know, with my\u200c talents?\u201d<\/i> \u200bBut part of what I\u2019ve noticed, and\u200b obviously you leaned into this a little \u2064bit in the announcement, is\u2064 the dichotomy \u2063between what \u2063your vision is and where a company like Disney is now. And one of the things you announced along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=bentkey&#038;utm_medium=podcastdescriptions&#038;utm_source=podcastdescriptions&#038;utm_content=na&#038;_gl=1*ojrbxo*_ga*MTY3NDIxODg5My4xNjgyMDg3MjM4*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY5ODY5Nzg4MC45OTMuMS4xNjk4NzAwNjIzLjUyLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app launch<\/a> is that you\u2019re working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-gina-carano-firing-part-of-a-movement-to-expel-half-of-america\/\" title=\"Shapiro: Gina Carano Firing Part Of A Movement To \u2018Expel\u2019 Half Of America\">live-action adaptation<\/a> of \u201cSnow White\u201d and \u200dhere\u2019s a little clip from that first teaser:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Megan:<\/b> So, how do \u2064you\u2062 respond to headlines like the one at \u200dThe\u200b Hollywood Reporter that said that \u200dThe Daily Wire \u2063is trolling Disney with\u2064 this new\u200b \u201cSnow \u200cWhite \u200dand the Evil Queen\u201d adaptation? Do you think that\u2019s a fair characterization?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> Well, yes, it\u2019s an accurate characterization. We are political. The\u200d Daily Wire\u2064 is political. Launching\u2064 Bentkey\u200d is a political act. \u2063The content\u2063 at Bentkey, however, is not political. It\u2019s pre-political. It\u2019s\u200b for children. I don\u2019t believe that \u200cchildren should be \u2063cogs in \u2062our, sort of, political war \u2064machine. I believe children should be \u2063children. But of course launching the company is political and \u2062of \u200ccourse\u200d making \u201cSnow White and the\u200b Evil Queen\u201d is political. It\u2019s a reaction to the political move by Disney \u200dto remake their own animated classic, a tale of timeless truth, a fairy tale that was probably centuries old \u2063before it was ever \u200cwritten down by\u200c the Brothers Grimm that \u2064contains the kind of \u200dwisdom that generation \u200dafter \u2064generation after generation after generation benefited from. To say, as Rachel Zegler did, \u201cYeah,\u200d it\u2019s not \u200c1937 anymore.\u201d Rachel, the \u200dstory wasn\u2019t written in 1937. \u200bThose truths existed in that story long before Disney was born or Disney\u2019s parents or his \u2063grandparents\u200c or his great-grandparents were born. To throw that out as \u2063though you know best, because you have imbibed the du\u2064 jour woke politics \u200d\u2014 the crazy radical ideas of this fleeting moment \u2014 that\u2019s the very reason Benkey exists. And so, \u2062responding \u2064to that \u200bis, yes, a\u2064 troll\u2062 of Disney. It\u2019s a rebuke of Disney. It\u2019s saying\u2062 to Disney, \u2062\u201cIf you weren\u2019t doing what you\u2019re doing, we \u200cwouldn\u2019t have to do what we\u2019re doing.\u201d But we \u2063do have to do what we\u2019re doing. Because, as I said\u200c at the top, I think this is the most important fight that Ben Shapiro or Caleb Robinson or \u200cJeremy Boreing or \u200bThe Daily Wire have ever engaged in. This \u2064is what I most hope is our legacy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Megan:<\/b> Well, thanks so much, Jeremy. As I said, \u200cas a \u200cmom, finding entertainment for our kids \u2062that\u200b not only \u2062doesn\u2019t undermine \u200bour values, \u2062but in fact actually can help\u2063 establish them, is a constant source of concern. So,\u2063 more and \u2063better options in this area are \u200breally welcome. We very much appreciate\u200d it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> Thank you.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What impact does Bentkey hope \u2064to have on culture through its \u2062content<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Aised Right\u201d and \u200d\u201cThe Mighty Works of God\u201d for the \u200bolder\u2064 kids. Was it \u2063intentional to offer\u2062 such \u2064a\u2064 wide range of content right from the beginning?<\/h3>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> \u2063 \u200cAbsolutely. I think one of\u200c our \u200cunique\u2063 and \u2062greatest strengths is\u2064 that we are trying to provide \u2062content for families. Not just content \u2062for 7-year-olds, \u2064not just content for 15-year-olds. We\u2019re \u2062trying to provide content that both\u2063 a 7-year-old and a 15-year-old can watch together \u2063and \u200cenjoy \u2064together. And part of that is, frankly, \u2064if we\u2064 want to restore culture, we have to start somewhere, and I think that starting with the younger generation who are naturally\u2063 more open to \u200dthe ideas we\u2019re presenting is a great\u2063 place to start. The younger kids are our focus\u2062 because\u2064 they\u2019re more malleable. They don\u2019t come with\u200d all the hardness of heart that \u200dolder people have. And \u2064if we can start with those younger kids and\u2063 eventually they\u200d can grow up being exposed to this content and loving \u200bit, we can affect a real \u2062change\u200c in culture. But I also think, \u2062fundamentally, families want to be together. Families want to watch things together. And providing content that appeals\u200b to all different age groups\u200d allows families to come together and enjoy something as a unit,\u200c rather than being divided by\u2063 what each individual\u2064 kid wants to \u2062watch.<\/p>\n<h3>In terms of the future, where do you \u200bsee \u200cBentkey going and what\u2063 do you hope to achieve with this \u2064platform?<\/h3>\n<p><b>Jeremy:<\/b> I see Bentkey as becoming the premier destination for families looking for quality entertainment. I hope \u2062that parents will view Bentkey as a trustworthy source of content that they can\u200d confidently allow their \u2062kids to\u2063 watch without\u200b worrying about inappropriate \u200cor harmful\u200b themes.\u200b I want Bentkey to be a platform\u200d that brings families together and\u200c promotes shared experiences. And ultimately, I hope that Bentkey not\u200c only entertains, but also educates and inspires kids to be morally upright\u200b and\u2064 responsible individuals. In a world where so much media is focused on promoting negative values and harmful ideologies, I\u2064 hope that Bentkey can provide a refreshing alternative that parents and kids alike can enjoy and benefit from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morning Wire interview featured Jeremy Boreing and Megan Basham discussing the launch of Bentkey, a Kids Entertainment platform. 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