{"id":2417618,"date":"2025-03-30T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-brave-streaming-platform-offers-parents-peace-of-mind-trent-talbot-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:33:16","slug":"new-brave-streaming-platform-offers-parents-peace-of-mind-trent-talbot-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-brave-streaming-platform-offers-parents-peace-of-mind-trent-talbot-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"New BRAVE+ streaming platform offers parents peace of mind: Trent Talbot &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fnew-brave-streaming-platform-offers-parents-peace-of-mind-trent-talbot-washington-examiner%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=2417618&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--><p>trent Talbot, CEO of BRAVE Books, has launched a new streaming platform for children&#8217;s television called BRAVE+. The platform aims to provide content that not only entertains but also promotes wholesome, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-chair-condemns-biden-abortion-policy\/\" title=\"RNC chair condemns Biden abortion policy\">traditional family values<\/a>. Talbot emphasizes that screen time can be used positively, and every piece of content on BRAVE+ undergoes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/immigration-experts-republicans-raise-alarm-over-synagogue-terrorists-visa\/\" title=\"Immigration Experts, Republicans Raise Alarm Over Synagogue Terrorist\u2019s Visa\">rigorous vetting process<\/a> to ensure it models good behavior and healthy relationships. The platform debuted with the show &#8220;Iggy and Mr. Kirk,&#8221; featuring Kirk Cameron and his iguana co-host, which explores themes from Cameron&#8217;s children&#8217;s books. Talbot critiques the current trend in children&#8217;s programming, pointing out that much of it is designed to be cheaply produced and addictive, and expresses hope for a return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/creative-minds-behind-jesus-revolution-and-the-chosen-launch-75-million-faith-based-studio\/\" title=\"Creators of &#039;Jesus Revolution&#039; and &#039;The Chosen&#039; establish M faith-based studio\">values-driven content<\/a> that engages children meaningfully.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">New BRAVE+ streaming platform offers parents peace of mind: Trent Talbot<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2077460\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>BRAVE Books CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3244760\/kirk-cameron-brave-books-launch-childrens-show-promoting-uplifting-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trent Talbot<\/a> touted the launch of its new streaming platform for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">children&rsquo;s television<\/a> programming, BRAVE+, as a media outlet that &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t just entertain.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve created BRAVE+ with the with the belief in mind that screen time does not only not have to be dangerous or cause worry from parents but it can be used for good,&rdquo; Talbot told the <em>Washington Examiner.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3361740\/cherry-blossoms-bloom-lego-discovery-center-festival-dc\/\">Cherry blossoms bloom at LEGO Discovery Center for annual festival in DC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3357778\/who-asked-for-this-snow-white-remake\/\">Who asked for this Snow White remake?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3357061\/miniseries-of-procrustes-review-the-leopard-netflix\/\">The miniseries of Procrustes: Review of The Leopard on Netflix<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Talbot explained that &ldquo;every piece of content on <a href=\"https:\/\/bravebooks.us\/pages\/the-adventures-with-iggy-and-mr-kirk#brave-plus__plans-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">BRAVE+<\/a> is evaluated&rdquo; for its stimulating impact and its modeling and promotion of traditional family values.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BRAVE Books streaming platform BRAVE+ features Kirk Cameron&rsquo;s new children&rsquo;s show, &ldquo;Iggy and Mr. Kirk.&rdquo; BRAVE Books CEO Trent Talbot told the Washington Examiner that all shows appearing on BRAVE+ are vetted through a three-point process, including values, stimulation, and modeling scores. (Credit: BRAVE+)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We make sure that it promotes, it doesn&rsquo;t just entertain, but it promotes wholesome, timeless Christian values, and that the characters in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">show model good behavior<\/a> and model healthy relationships,&rdquo; Talbot said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that only one out of 20 shows makes it through the vetting process.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BRAVE+ is BRAVE Books new streaming platform, featuring children&rsquo;s programming that CEO Trent Talbot touts as entertaining and  wholesome.  (Credit: BRAVE+)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The majority of children&rsquo;s programming is made as cheap and addictive as possible, and I think that what we&rsquo;re going to see is a big movement to get back to the basics,&rdquo; Talbot said.<\/p>\n<p>The platform launched through the BRAVE+ app on March 27, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3357733\/kirk-cameron-new-children-tv-show-mr-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">debuting Kirk Cameron&rsquo;s latest children&rsquo;s show, <em>Iggy and Mr. Kirk<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>The new show features Cameron and several friends, including an iguana named Iggy, as they explore lessons found in his&nbsp;<em>Freedom Island<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/childrens-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">children&rsquo;s books<\/a>&nbsp;published through BRAVE Books.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brave Books founder Trent Talbot with Iggy the puppet, the co-host of the new children&rsquo;s show &ldquo;Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk.&rdquo; (Photo Credit: BRAVE Books)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3357733\/kirk-cameron-new-children-tv-show-mr-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>KIRK CAMERON LAUNCHES NEW CHILDREN&rsquo;S TV SHOW: &lsquo;IT&rsquo;S MR. ROGERS FOR OUR GENERATION&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So many shows today are filled with mindless, time-wasting content at best and hurtful, harmful, confusing messages at worst,&rdquo; Cameron told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner.<\/em>&nbsp;&ldquo;And the brands that we used to trust, like Disney and Nickelodeon and others, are moving in such a direction away from the family values and the traditional American values that we grew up with that people are wondering, &lsquo;Where&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mr-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Mr. Rogers<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;for our generation?&rsquo; And where is, you know, the kids&rsquo; show that teaches them about faith, hope, and love, like we had when we were kids.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"K6vKKmoFzp8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Injured Bird | Iggy and Mr. Kirk | Season One, Episode One\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K6vKKmoFzp8?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, it&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Iggy and Mr. Kirk!<\/em>&nbsp;It&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Mr. Rogers&nbsp;<\/em>meets&nbsp;<em>Sesame Street<\/em>&nbsp;for our generation. And our motto is we want to engage this generation for the good,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;We want to not only entertain them; we want to build their character at the same time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2077460\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2077460\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAVE+ streaming platform provides parents reassurance, says CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2689,"featured_media":2417619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brave-logo-1024x576.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[52495,5007,52496],"class_list":["post-2417618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brave-2","tag-parents","tag-streaming-platform"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brave-logo-1024x576.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417622,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417618\/revisions\/2417622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}