Kirk Cameron Takes on 'Dystopian Circus Show,' Says 'People Are Finally Waking Up'

so Kirk you have another Amazing Project that you're working on now adventures with Iggy and Mr Kirk and this is obviously it's kind of in line with what you've been doing but it's it's different when it comes to entertainment kids entertainment what led you into this well it's got a great little name doesn't it adventures with Iggy and Mr Kirk now I play Mr Kirk Uh Oh I thought I thought you played Iggy so I'm glad you cleared you cleared that up for me and we've got this amazing Puppeteer who worked with Jim Hensen and the Muppets for decades and Iggy is a little iguana and he is so adorable all the kids absolutely love him in the little samples that we've done so far so this this TV show for kids is an outgrowth of all of the momentum that's been building from the children's books that Brave books and I have been um creating going to these public libraries Contra the drag queen story hours and reading books of Christian virtue to Children talking about things like humility and the fruit of the spirit and uh loving your loving your enemies well we want to get into the screens we want to teach children biblical moral lessons through their phones and the screen time that every parent uses at some point so that they can do the laundry so that they can make dinner on car rides to you know the soccer field or the grocery store uh and even homeschooling families want children to be able to see stuff that they can trust that will build their character and Spark their curiosity while maintaining some semblance of Innocence so think of a new show that is a wildly updated version of Mr Rogers neighborhood with high energy hilarious dialogue beautiful animated biblical moral lesson stories about the sanctity of Life about the fruit of the spirit about uh the first and second amendment and guest stars at every turn so it's super fun and we are in Fun raising mode right now because we don't want we're not getting money from Hollywood or a big streaming platform uh to pay for it because when you do there strings attached and then they end up sabotaging the content and it goes woke so we're doing a crowdfunding thing like the chosen uh who better to put the chosen together than the people who want to see it most who better to put a TV show together than moms and dads and grandparents who would trust me with the content and we fund it so we're asking people to go to watch Brave and you can get really exciting unique rewards like have one of your grandkids be a minor role in one of the episodes of our TV show or be an executive producer and get two red carpet VIP tickets to the premiere in Nashville Tennessee with cool After parties where you get to come meet the cast and Iggy the iguana and all that stuff so those rewards come for different levels of support we want to fund two seasons of the show uh we begin filming in just a month and again people can check out how to do that at watch brave.com you know it's it's such an interesting project and a much needed project you know I've got an eight and an 11 year old and I'm constantly trying to figure out what are they going to watch how do I you know vet every single thing that's coming through my house which I do you know to make sure that it's safe it's crazy like we even have I mean You' you know you know what this is like as a parent but it's gotten so much worse in the last couple of years could you have imagined when you started getting you know started working with brave and you started doing the books that you would do a show with them I me this is really it's fascinating to me because as far as I know you hadn't done kids content before you've done a lot of other content almost every other type I I didn't expect this to turn into a TV show but that's how some of the best things end up growing I mean whoever whoever would have thought that uh you know you see a little nut laying on the ground and this little Acorn Sprouts some roots and turns into a giant oak tree but that's the way God grows things I think he he grows what he loves and he can take little fishes in loes of some children's books and some uh some some grumpy drag queens and turn it into a TV show that ends up teaching biblical moral values to kids you got you got me on that one you know it's it's interesting too because you've spent obviously a while now traveling around as you were saying to these libraries and we've talked about this in the past um but what have you learned most about not just these issues but the people in this country who have shown up you know consistently to hear from you what have you learned on that journey of going around and just doing what you've been doing with these books well I'm getting messages from people uh that friends of mine who are all about the work of bringing transformation to culture and they're saying it it appears that people are finally waking up and I resonate with that as I go to churches and schools and libraries people are waking up and realizing that um the the dystopian circuit show is here and the ring Masters like it and if we just keep drinking the Kool-Aid and eating the cotton candy and stay entertained uh by by all this crazy stuff it's just going to get worse and so we we we need to actually like leave the circus and we need to start getting back to the work of transforming culture and creating the reality that we want for our kids so this is a chance for everyday people who say what can I do uh I'm not a big influencer I don't uh I don't have a podcast I'm I'm not you know a celebrity well that's true but you're a mom and you're a dad uh maybe if you're a parent or maybe um you're whatever whatever it is that God has given you to do do it with all of your heart do it to honor God trust him with the results and if you want to be a part of a television show that reaches lots of people here's your chance to join me and help us put it together uh be the executive producer of your own grandchildren and great grandchildren's entertainment by helping us make adventures with Iggy and Mr Kirk just go to watch brave.com and find one of the rewards that you would like to have and then support us at That level and uh join in we can all do it together I love that I love I love bringing in people from the community I mean this is what the chosen has done really well and it's what you guys are doing really well here which is to say hey we want you to be a part of this for so long Hollywood has sort of talked at people right and they've shifted culture because of it they've been able to shift culture very successfully and yeah don't leave it up to other people look we're we've become Pro conservatives have become professional whiners why don't we become professional winners I mean we're the ones who have been commissioned to create the culture not Retreat from the culture and I think that's where people uh have gotten into this mindset and I hear it all the time even from prominent pastors that hey guys um it's it's only going to get worse the the the the ship of culture is sinking the only hope we could possibly have is to get our kids and grandkids into the Lifeboat uh before the whole thing goes down and gurgles down the drain and I say no that's absolutely not wrong I mean uh if if if our founding fathers had said that 250 years ago or 400 years ago when the pilgrims got here where would we be no they had a vision of Victory they had a 500-year plan and they laid down a constitutions and did some things like applied the word of God to the institutions to their culture to their family their church and their government and now we've got a podcast called uh what's our podcast called faithwire yeah baby here we are and now we're talking to people and we have far more tools than they ever had so what are we complaining about let's create our culture and uh and and get on board and I'm seeing more and more people starting to do that yeah you know it is interesting right because even if your perspective is that things are going to get worse it's going to get worse the idea that you shouldn't be out there in culture hyper I mean if that if that is your position right I'm not saying it's yours but if that's the position we should be trying to reach every single person with the gospel right so no matter where you are on the spectrum of where things are going to go the idea that we wouldn't be trying to shape culture and and reach as many people as possible that's not a good idea we want to be out there doing that so at least from my perspective you know I think we've gotten very lazy some of us we've stepped back as you were saying we've retreated and by the way look it's an election year as you were saying it's going to be crazy and a lot of people get very consumed by the politics so much so that it that it overtakes the the Faith Message what would be your message to Christians especially in light of you doing this project in the middle of a crazy election year for how to make a real change in the culture during such crazy political times yeah well we could do a whole whole podcast on this topic it's a great great topic um so we we know that our cure to our cultural problems is not a political solution because the problem is not primarily a political problem um the problem is primarily rooted in a spiritual reality we've got to turn our hearts back to God uh individually and corporately as the church as the family of faith and even as a nation we've got to have a Christian heart beating through the center of our culture if we don't uh it's it's it's it's disaster however that doesn't mean that politics can be divorced from your faith if your faith does not reach the voting booth I'm not really sure what kind of Faith you really have because Jesus himself spoke to the Sadducees and the Pharisees and those who were the the the keepers of Law and policy in the day in the Jewish culture and those who would rip off orphans and widows and would substitute Commandments of God for traditions of men and would just absolutely be uh you know the Spiders and Snakes of culture and hurt and harm people and family and all of that stuff is is terrible we we can't do that if we want to love our neighbor we can't ignore ignore this the government realm of civics that God created and we can't ignore the church we can't ignore the family we can't ignore entertainment because your kids are watching it you can't ignore the borders in the military you can't ignore education because they're shaping everything about your kids world so if our faith is a a real faith it ought to be a comprehensive faith that also encompasses what you're going to do during this election time now I love that and I think that's uh that's all very true and important and you know my final question for you in light of adventures with Iggy and Mr Kirk and the Arenas that you've moved into now at the end of the day when all is said and done you have had a crazy you know career a big career with this particular project and all of it combined what are you hoping for your legacy to be oh man well um yeah I keep taking things one day at a time and so I don't feel like I've had some big crazy career uh you know I'm I'm uh I'm really just mindful of my kids right now and my grandkids and um I've got a granddaughter who's on the way and as far as Legacy it's not it's not um it's not lost on me that I'm I'm just one I'm just one guy uh who's lived among billions and billions of people in the world and I'm not necessary to advance the kingdom of God God can do just fine and has done just fine without me and my career and my legacy what I hope is remembered about about me in terms of Legacy would be uh perhaps an example of faithfulness that what God can do with someone flawed like me and give my children opportunities to honor God where he's placed them and um you know if God can use me and some way like he's used the people to inspire and encourage me over the years that that would be awesome but all my hopes all my hopes are not in me in what I do uh all my money is on God and all that he's doing I love that I love that well Kirk Cameron the show is adventures with Iggy and Mr Kirk people can go over to what's the link again give it to us one more time watch brave.com watch brave.com and they can contribute to that and be involved in it I appreciate your time today Billy great to talk with you thank you bro for all that you're doing um so important so so meaningful God bless you