Unmasking the Disturbing Reality: Elena Barbera on Protecting Children from Explicit Content in Schools on The Patrick Bass Show

What if your child's school library was filled with explicit materials? Join us as we confront the unsettling reality of the sexualization of children in American schools. We’re honored to have Elena Barbera, a passionate mother and filmmaker, whose groundbreaking documentary "American Groomer" sheds light on how inappropriate content has infiltrated educational institutions across the nation. Elena shares her journey of uncovering these materials, pointing to teachers' unions, the American Library Association, and the Human Rights Campaign as key players in this disturbing trend.

Together, we explore the broader societal implications of this issue, discussing the erosion of traditional family values and the troubling normalization of explicit content. Elena and I delve into the agendas of organizations like the American Library Association and Planned Parenthood, highlighting the stark inconsistency in laws criminalizing explicit material in public but allowing it within schools. This episode emphasizes the urgent need for stronger parental rights and proactive measures to protect our children from premature sexualization.

We wrap up with actionable steps for parents and educators to safeguard children's innocence. Elena shares valuable resources, such as AmericanGroomerFilm.com and organizations like Take Back the Classroom, that empower parents to challenge school boards and remove inappropriate materials. Through compelling personal anecdotes and success stories, we underscore the importance of community involvement and the collective effort required to protect our youth from psychological harm. Tune in for a crucial conversation on preserving the mental health and innocence of our children.

Chapters

• 0:27 The Sexualization of Children in Schools
• 11:59 Normalization of Inappropriate Content in Schools
• 19:23 Protecting Children
• 26:06 Protecting Children From Inappropriate Education
• 35:10 Exposing Inappropriate Content in Schools

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:28

On today's show, we're diving into one of the most pressing and controversial issues facing our society. We'll be joined by a guest who's taking the fight against the sexualization of children in all American schools. An everyday mom turned fierce advocate and filmmaker. You won't want to miss this conversation about her eye-opening documentary and the shocking reality she's uncovered. Stay tuned. This is a discussion that everyone needs to hear. Okay, cue everybody. We're going live in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. And now live from Fort Smith, arkansas.

Speaker 1: 1:09

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Speaker 1: 3:03

Brought to you by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Ad Council. All right, welcome back to the Patrick Bass Show. Monday, august 19th. So glad you're here with us. Today we have a guest who's not afraid to speak out against the disturbing trends affecting our children and our culture. Elena Barbera, known to many as the based mother, is an ordinary American mom who stepped into the spotlight to combat what she sees as the moral decline of our society. And, by the way, I agree with her. She's the force behind the powerful new documentary American Groomer, which exposes how children are being sexualized in schools across the country. Elena's mission is to bring this issue to light and to fight for the protection of our children's innocence. Please welcome to the show, elena Barbera. How are you doing?

Speaker 2: 3:57

I'm great. Thanks so much for having me today.

Speaker 1: 3:59

It's very nice to meet you and you contacted me about this topic and I began to investigate it a little bit and I was blown away and I knew that we had to get you onto the program as soon as possible to share this information. Kind of give us some background about what's happening here.

Speaker 2: 4:18

So, you know, over the past several years, I've little by little began to mistrust the media, the mainstream media, and you know, because I would see one thing with my own eyes and see the truth and then see them report something different. One thing with my own eyes and see the truth and then see them report something different. And what? When I started seeing them talking about, you know, extremists who were trying to ban books, I thought, well, you know, I heck, I am anti censorship, of course, I'm not for banning books, but let me, let me see what the truth is here.

Speaker 2: 4:46

So I went out and bought some of the books that were being, quote unquote, banned and what I found in them was some of the most vulgar pornography I've ever seen in my life. And these are books that are in middle and high schools in all 50 states, and middle school starts at age 11. So when you think about an 11-year-old picking up a book that has erotica, pornography or S&M or instructions on how to sext without getting caught, it's kind of a mind exploding and infuriating. We're in a place now where I never thought we'd be. I never thought that I would have to reshape my life to be somebody who's out here fighting just to protect the innocence of children.

Speaker 1: 5:30

You know, what blows my mind, elena, is that you know these books have really no educational value. So who's who's getting them into the schools and what is their motivation? It just is mind numbing that these books are available in public school libraries across this nation. What is your investigation uncovered and what have you been doing about this?

Speaker 2: 5:55

Well, it's not just in the libraries, it's in some classrooms. Hasn't made it into curriculum yet, but we're going there. We're getting there. Very sadly, it's the people that we trust the most who are doing this to our kids and getting these books in the schools. It is both teachers unions pushing this. They call it inclusiveness and they say that if you're you know we're censoring children's First Amendment rights if we stop it.

Speaker 2: 6:19

More disturbing even is the American Library Association. They give awards. They've given awards to some of these books, you know, for being of special interest to children ages 12 and over. They we have the Human Rights Campaign, which has its hands in schools in all 50 states, and they provide materials about sexuality and gender, starting at the pre-K level, and then they provide more materials and more reading list suggestions that go up through the 12th grade that are flat out triple X. So it's, and it's our politicians. We have a lot of politicians who stand with these organizations and defend them and demonize anyone who stops. So to answer your question why are they doing this? It's not. It's not about education, because our schools are failing. We have some of the lowest literacy and math capability rates that we have ever seen in America and we continue to decline as a nation. This is going to sound hard, this might be hard to hear, but this is an effort to normalize pedophilia.

Speaker 1: 7:23

Wow, that's mind numbing and it, frankly, is disgusting. You mentioned and I want to put this in perspective, let's just get this out on the table you mentioned that some of these books are, you know, basically x-rated pornographic. You've got one of the books there and you said, hey, is it okay to read? You know, normally we we try to limit, you know, this type of talk on our show, but I think for this purpose it's very apropos. This is a book that might be found on any library and in any school here in America, correct?

Speaker 2: 7:58

Yes, where it hasn't been removed yet, yes.

Speaker 1: 8:01

Okay, just read to us a little bit from that book.

Speaker 2: 8:05

Sure, this is a book called A Court of Mist and Fury. His finger excuse me, his tongue swept my mouth again, in time to the finger that he slipped inside of me. My hips undulated, demanding more, craving the fullness of him, and his growl reverberated in my chest as he added another finger. He palmed my breasts, his thumb flicking over my nipple. I cried out and he buried himself in me with a mighty stroke.

Speaker 1: 8:35

Oh, wow, and this is like I said. This is a book that students children are getting access to in our public school libraries across America, and this is just one of many, many types of books. Yeah, that's just that's just hardcore porn.

Speaker 2: 8:55

That's what that is. It is, and I want to tell you real quick that is not anywhere near the worst of it, not even close. I couldn't read the worst to you here today.

Speaker 1: 9:06

Oh, wow, okay. So I wanted to get that out there because I wanted folks listening to understand we're not talking about. You know, they said a couple of dirty words or there was an innuendo or something. This is, in your face, very, very base stuff and it's certainly not for children, you know. Maybe there's a market for that, but it's certainly not our children, not in public schools. And, by the way, your tax money is paying for that. In case you didn't realize that, let's get into you you created is it a documentary? It's called the American Groomer. What is that about?

Speaker 2: 9:47

So when I started going down this rabbit hole, learning what was going on, I reached out to a few people who were already in the space and interviewed them. The documentary tells the story of how this started. The seeds for this movement of sexualizing children as far back as I traced it is in the Truman administration years not Truman himself, but we're talking about the 1940s. This started, so I do talk about the history of how it started and how it's grown to where now we have these kinds of books in schools.

Speaker 2: 10:20

I interviewed people of all different walks of life on the street in Washington DC and New York. I just walked up to people and started showing them this stuff and asking them questions and seeing what they thought if they thought it belonged in children's hands. I interviewed octogenarians and I interviewed some professionals like Terry Schilling from the American Principals Project and Mary McAllister from the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, and I also interviewed the heads of Gays Against Groomers, who are also in this fight, and between them. Some of the things I learned at the time it was that 39 in 39 states it is perfectly legal to show pornography to children in schools.

Speaker 1: 12:00

Wow. And when you talk to these different folks, these different groups and so forth, what is their response and reaction when you tell them this kind of stuff is available?

Speaker 2: 12:12

99 out of 100 people I talked to were aghast and they said this doesn't belong for children and they were shocked. But then they will say things like well, that may be happening in a blue city, but that's not happening here. Or that may be happening in a school across town, but I trust my principal and my teachers. They would never put that in front of my kid. And everybody seems to have that attitude like, oh, that may be happening, but not to me, not to my kid, not to my grandkid. And that's the biggest obstacle I come up against is trying to explain to everybody. This isn't a red state versus blue state. This isn't. You know, every state in America has these books in their schools.

Speaker 1: 12:52

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 12:52

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:53

And you know really when you think about it, when you think about this, Elena, this is really a symptom of an overall cultural decline that is happening in our country. Wouldn you agree?

Speaker 1: 13:06

a hundred percent I mean because you know, uh, when I'm sure I, I know I'm a few years older than you, but you know when, when, when I was growing up, you know there was just some things. You know parents and and adults wouldn't even say certain things in front of children. Now you know, you know if you go to the store, you're walking around the mall or something. There's just no filter anymore. People just don't seem to have any kind of filter, and I think that's also symptomatic of what's happening in our country. And then we have these organizations, as you mentioned, like the American Library Association and Planned Parenthood, that are promoting specific kind of content in schools, I think with a clear agenda only is it, like I said, to normalize pedophilia.

Speaker 2: 14:03

There's very big money in this. One of the ways that they make money is when you sexualize children at an early age. They start catching STDs at an earlier age, and for every year's worth of new people that come into the STD community, they add about $16 billion of lifelong medical expenses. So big pharma and the medical industrial complex is getting rich off this. They expanded their base and that you know, so that's one other way that they're benefiting from this. Another is with the gender thing is that they're, you know, working hard to reduce the population, and so they're convincing people, you know, that abortion is normal. They're over sexualizing kids from a young age so that they're already having these conversations and planting all these seeds that you may be born in the wrong body, that if you do get pregnant, just get an abortion and all this stuff. That parents should really be having these moral conversations with their kids, their kids, and so they're creating this world where creating a family isn't going to be a norm anymore in the future, or at least that's what they're trying to do.

Speaker 1: 15:07

Yeah, there used to be a federal law. It was something, and you probably know what it is, but this was like abstinence or it was an abstinence program. That was a federal law and it was. There was a legislation to repeal it. You said that in 39 states it's legal. The fact is, in 39 states it's required that this is taught. In 39 states, according to the research I found, and that, and then in some of these, some of these states require very specific things, including instruction on LGBTQ identities, and you know transitions and you know should be handled probably between parents and children, not between public school programs and kids. You know they're wanting to take from my perspective, they're wanting to take parents out of the equation. In some cases, the parents have no rights to even find out what is being said.

Speaker 2: 16:18

That is absolutely right. Some of the books that I have here in my stack next to me actually talk about how you know you can't necessarily talk about this with your parents, so talk about it with somebody else. They are. They're putting some of the books for pre-K and kindergartners say that your parents may have gotten your gender wrong when you were born and they may not really know who you are. They were just doing their best. So, little by little, right from four or five years old, they're putting bricks in the wall between a child and their parents, breaking it down.

Speaker 1: 16:49

Yeah, I don't know. I've got really strong feelings about that. My gender was not assigned, it was recognized. You know, boy, that's probably a different show altogether.

Speaker 2: 17:01

But again, I, think.

Speaker 1: 17:03

I think it's all. It's all symptomatic of the same core problem. It seems like we've lost the ability sexualize children and to legalize pedophilia. I mean, there's been a movement for that for years that I can remember, like the Man-Boy Love Association and things like that. And I'll tell you this, it's a very slippery slope. There will come a time, I believe, which, sadly, unless something very radical happens, there will come a time where this probably will be legal, and that's sad and it's very hard to say that. But when you look at the, when you look at everything that's happening here and the slippery slope we're on, it seems inevitable. And that's why this type of program and and what you're, what you're advocating here, is so, so important for folks to recognize and to stand up and demand that it stop.

Speaker 2: 18:24

Yeah, you know, one thing that I really want you to clarify on is that the laws that we were just talking about so in 30. So in the 39 states. So if you, if you show on all in all 50 states, if you go into the mall or the coffee shop and you show pornography to a child, of any kind of pornography, you're going to leave in handcuffs. But in those in certain states, if you do it within the walls of a library or a school and I'm talking about it can be any pornography, no matter how vulgar, no matter how vile.

Speaker 2: 18:53

If you say you were just trying to teach the kids something, you can be exempted. It's similar to like you'll be exempted from a murder charge. If you can be exempted. It's similar to like you'll be exempted from a murder charge if you can prove it was self-defense Right. That's what it is. It's an exemption statute that says that, oh, you're a teacher, you're a librarian, you're an administrator, it's okay that you did this. So some states are repealing those laws. Some states, like New Jersey, didn't have an exemption and they're trying to put it in. They want to put, they're trying in the New Jersey center right now to put protections in so teachers can show this to kids.

Speaker 1: 19:24

Wow.

Speaker 2: 19:25

Yeah, we're. I mean we're fighting on both sides as hard as we can to try to protect children. It's wild and I.

Speaker 1: 19:31

I hope there's a segment of educators out there that find this as revolting as parents do, and we'll stand up against this. You know, there's so many things happening in our world, and this is just one of them, but we rely on good people who know the difference between right or wrong to stand up and do what's right. That's why it's important that you know military members, police officers, teachers, military members, police officers, teachers, educators stand up for what is right, because if you don't, this type of evil is going to continue unchecked, and so that is why we're having this program today, and that is why we feel we are expressing this so passionately, because this is a real threat to our society and our children. Real threat to our society and our children. What else can we say about this?

Speaker 2: 20:26

I mean, there's just so much here. Where should we go? You know, I want to touch on the teachers because I'm really frustrated with the teachers and there are teachers who don't believe in doing this. You know, who won't do it, who won't have the conversations with kids and who it will to me, off to the side, will say this is terrible. Oh, you know, gee, somebody has to stop this. But they are.

Speaker 2: 20:49

The teachers unions have them by the throat and they, if they say anything and don't walk the line, they're all. They're going to lose their jobs. Some of them have, you know, you know pensions that they've been working towards 15, 20 years and they'll lose their jobs, they lose their pensions. So they're afraid. They're afraid their city and state employees. And it's really sad. If they all stood, if they all got together, all the teachers who think this is wrong, and stood together, they could make a huge impact, quickly, quickly, because they are needed. You know, I mean the teachers unions can't operate without them, but they're not, and I my heart breaks because I know they're in a tight spot. But we all, if we don't all stand up and just face our fears look at what's happening we're just just going to get worse.

Speaker 1: 21:34

Yeah, you know, I remember like I think it was like seventh or eighth grade there would be that that the day they separated the boys from the girls and it was usually a PE coach or somebody like that and we all would watch the film and it was one day. That was the extent of it and it was very clinical and it was very matter of fact. That's not the way things are anymore. This is, this is a um, this is a systematic program to sexualize children. It's, it's not providing just the facts about reproductive health. This is, this is an agenda to shape and mold them, uh, in a specific way. Uh, that produces what I think is a desired end result, which is, as you said, the sexualization or opening up their minds to this, frankly, lifestyle.

Speaker 2: 22:31

Exactly.

Speaker 2: 22:32

You know what it's grooming.

Speaker 2: 22:34

So when you're showing a child pornography and when you're talking to a child about sex in a way that's inappropriate for their age, it's called it's non-contact sexual abuse, which is also grooming, and what grooming leads to is a few different roads.

Speaker 2: 22:48

One, children start sexually abusing each other because they don't understand limits anymore and they've been exposed to ideas and actions and things that you know they don't really know what's good or bad. They're trusting the adults telling them it leads them to being more likely to be sexually abused by adults again because it's been normalized and it makes it really that much easier for online and in-person sex traffickers, because if a child is already warmed up, you know how much easier it is to get them to start sending you dirty pictures and then meeting you and all that. So the end game for these children is horrible. In one generation we're going to have. The amount of emotional and physical damage that's going to be happening to our children is not going to be anything that we can even handle from a mental and physical health standpoint Anything that we can even handle from a mental and physical health standpoint. Not to mention that children who are sexually abused as children are three times more likely to attempt suicide when they grow up.

Speaker 1: 23:49

That's sad.

Speaker 2: 23:50

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:53

What can?

Speaker 2: 23:54

and should parents be doing about this? Well, if they're first hearing about this for the first time, I want them to watch my film because it'll give them some knowledge. That's the first thing is getting people informed. It's free, by the way, I don't charge for it. It's at AmericanGroomerFilmcom. But once you know what's going on, then you have to share it and get other people hold a watch party. Call me, I'll zoom in, I'll talk to people. Then you need to take a look at your school board and see what's going on there and running for school board.

Speaker 2: 24:24

Now these steps get progressively bigger. Right, running for school board, challenging your school board to get books removed. There's an organization I'm working alongside called Take Back the Classroom and they have a system in place where they are investigating every single school district, one at a time, and publishing the books that are in those school districts on TakeBackTheClassroomcom. Get it done through their school board so that they're not just, you know, storming the castle and going in and screaming in schools and getting removed by police or something you know, and doing something that's unproductive, because we don't need that, we have to be. They have a system that works and it's worked around the country. So, first step my film. Second step take back the classroom.

Speaker 1: 25:16

Do you have any personal stories or anecdotes that you can share about what has happened during your journey fighting this?

Speaker 2: 25:23

Yes, the first people I interviewed for this film were my pastor and his wife up in Boston, and they were also the first people I've ever interviewed. Period, I had to learn how to interview people on my own. I literally studied on the Internet. I was like I'm going to figure this out. Very determined I am. So I interviewed them and I had showed them a lot of the materials and I afterwards they know me personally. So I said, hey guys, how'd I do you know with the interview? And they said, actually, you did really good, your questions were good, they were very complimentary, he goes.

Speaker 2: 25:54

But when you showed the materials, he's like you know, your voice was cracking. You seemed really nervous. I said, yeah, it's really uncomfortable. The next day we went to New York and I was in Times Square walking around with my cameraman showing this stuff to people. And within an hour of doing that, I was just walking up and being like, hey, here's some instructions on anal masturbation. That's in a kid's book in American schools, what do you think? And I realized how quickly I had been groomed to be comfortable to talk about this stuff.

Speaker 1: 26:27

Wow.

Speaker 2: 26:28

I'm an adult. Imagine what this can do to a kid.

Speaker 1: 26:32

So it just became so common to you that you could just casually talk about it. Not a big deal.

Speaker 2: 26:39

Look what I just read Went to you.

Speaker 1: 26:40

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:41

Totally strangers. We don't know each other.

Speaker 1: 26:43

I was blushing yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:45

And I apologize to your wife, I should have said that before I started. I mean it.

Speaker 1: 26:49

Well, again, we understand the context of it and it's very important that we get this out, and I wanted my listeners to understand what we're really talking about here this absolute filth that we're making available to children and, in some cases, mandating that it be taught to children, and that's the crime here, that's the shame. So parents have to really step up and, as you said, there's all kinds of things that they can do on the right side of the law so that they don't become part of the problem. That's the last thing they need. I know there's a lot of legislatures working to provide federal funding for sex ed, even in elementary schools, working to provide federal funding for sex ed even in elementary schools. What's your take on that initiative and how do you think it's going to impact the current situation in schools that we have?

Speaker 2: 27:51

If they pass that legislation and what they're doing is trying to tie federal funding to the mandate that this stuff is being taught. So if you don't teach it, your school's gonna suffer. I see it as an earlier opportunity to damage our children. We're gonna again see mental health decline in this country even further than it was, because we're gonna have an entire population of traumatized kids in public schools. We have 50 million American children. I mean, this is no small. This isn't you know, epstein Island Very sad situation. We're talking about a few hundred people Catholic church scandal, terrible, probably several thousand, maybe tens of thousands, but 50 million kids and we're all looking the other way and you have legislators trying to make it worse. I mean, what are we doing?

Speaker 1: 28:44

yeah, follow the money trail right yeah I mean, they're that.

Speaker 1: 28:48

That's the bottom line. They're doing this for money at some level. Follow the money trail and we'll we'll get to the root of the matter. Uh, elena, what? Uh, you know I don't I don't want to belabor this point, but aside from everything that we've talked about, what else is there anything else that we can or should be doing to protect children?

Speaker 1: 29:08

Uh, from, you know, the experience that you had in creating the film American Groomer revealed a lot of salacious stuff. And you know, from the outside, looking in, because I don't have kids in this age range anymore. I've got grandkids and that's what's really concerning to me, but you know, I'm not involved in the day-to-day stuff of their school. So this seems very far from me and it almost is hard to believe, but it's very true. So for people like most taxpayers, most people in the community are probably not going to have kids that are affected by this. How do we get this message out to them, aside from doing stuff like we're doing today? How do we get this message out to them, aside from doing stuff like we're doing today? I mean, how do we inform people? Hey, your tax money is going to promote this kind of stuff and, by the way, most of us aren't OK with it. So how and why is it happening? I mean, it's a very deep rabbit trail here. It's a very deep rabbit trail here.

Speaker 2: 30:14

Yeah, because it's really hard to battle the mainstream media machine that's constantly coming out and saying that this is censorship. These books are important for kids. If a book has an LGBTQIA theme, they're saying it's homophobic or transphobic and it's like I don't care, there's nothing about that. That that you know. That I'm worried about. I'm worried about the fact that it this, this one particular book, leads kids to a website called kinkcom, which is violent, hardcore, snm. Why an 11 year old needs to even know that website exists is beyond me.

Speaker 2: 30:47

So there's a lot of things parents can be doing. One is I mean, I encourage them all the time Just get your kids off the Internet. Let them go outside and touch glass. No, I go. I don't want them to be the weirdo. They're becoming the weirdo by being on the Internet.

Speaker 1: 31:00

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 31:00

I'm sorry to say that. That's the fact. You know, if you, if by any chance, you have the opportunity to homeschool or encourage your children to homeschool their grandchildren, please do it. It's such a myth that homeschool kids are weird, that homeschool kids don't learn anything, or that parents aren't, you know, aren't you know, prepared to teach. You know homeschool educated kids. They typically score like 15 to 25 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests. You know they get more scholarships. They do better in college. What, what? What is wrong with that? You know they are. They're on sports teams. They're still socialized in learning pods. It that whole thing of homeschooling has been demonized by the system because, you know, the teachers unions want to keep their jobs and, like I said, the medical industrial complex is making billions of dollars on sexualized kids, the book industry is making so much money on all of it, and it goes on and on. So it's like extreme measures to protect your children, but it's it. We're in an extreme situation.

Speaker 1: 32:10

Yeah, and and let me put my cybersecurity hat back on for a minute If your kid has access to the internet through the phone or a computer or something like that, parents, you need to take precautions to filter information that's coming in their computer. And you'll say, but I trust my kid. Well, that's fine. You should trust your child if you have a good relationship with them. But this stuff is often presented even if you didn't search it or seek it out.

Speaker 1: 32:37

I can't tell you how many times I go on Facebook and I'm in the marketplace just because I like looking at boats and planes and cars and stuff like that, and this stuff just pops up. And I don't go to weird places on the internet. It just pops up. I'm not looking for it, and this is happening to kids too. So there are all kinds of filtering programs that parents you can install. Look, nothing's foolproof and there are certainly ways to circumvent it. And sadly, some of these books are apparently teaching kids how to get around this kind of filtering software. But you need to at least take some basic precautions to prevent the incidental stuff.

Speaker 2: 33:20

Yes, and as far as the schools, you have to ask questions, you got to get in there and ask the teachers, ask the administrators questions. A lot of schools will have you know where you can opt out, but all the opt out of you know certain types of classes and subjects and all the opt outs in every state, in every district are different. They make them complicated and hard to understand. Sometimes they're in, they're in one of those you know, just click to accept terms and conditions. Types of things on a school website similar. When you get you know and when you do anything, how many of us actually read the terms and conditions you?

Speaker 2: 33:53

know, you know, buddy, so some of them are in there like that. You waive your right to opt out. You, really you. Unfortunately we we've gone on and on for decades in this country where we've trusted these institutions and we've gone on autopilot as parents and we have more and more, you know, two parent or single parent households every single parent households where somebody is working, or or two parent household where both parents are working. So we just don't have the bandwidth to pay attention to our kids and, and now we're allowing deviant people to raise our children and it's up to us to stop it.

Speaker 2: 34:29

People like me are going to be out here trying to get the word out, take back the classrooms, going to be out trying to get the books out of the schools, but in the meantime, I mean we can't keep sending our kids into these poisonous wells every single day and expect that if we talk to them over dinner we're going to undo the poison. It's just, it's not the way it's working. We got to pull them out. I think and again, I know I sound extreme, but it is a really bad situation- Well, you have to be extreme, because this is an extreme situation.

Speaker 1: 34:58

I mean, we're fighting something that is not taking half measures in coming after kids. They're throwing everything they've got at it, so we have to do likewise. Since you've started this journey, have you had any wins or success in removing some of this stuff from schools?

Speaker 2: 35:19

Well, take Back the Classroom is the one that's out there like really getting the work done, and I would love for you to speak to Karen England from that organization. She has had wins all over the country. She has helped with a parental rights bill in Tennessee, which is the strongest parental rights bill in the country now, which basically establishes parents rights as a fundamental right, as fundamental as free speech or the right to bear arms. Organic. Bigger organizations have taken note of the film and have shared it with their viewers and their followers. And you know, wins like even wins like being on this show today, getting this out to the audience and letting people know what's really happening and making people angry. Every time I make someone angry, I've had a win. And if I'm making somebody who's pushing these books angry because I'm getting the word out and I'm exposing them, or if I'm making a parent angry because they didn't know what was happening to their child, that's a win. And every day I'm getting at least some of those.

Speaker 1: 36:25

That's a good point. Have you identified any common publishers or distributors of these books?

Speaker 2: 36:28

I know Penguin and Random House off the top of my head. I don't have a list in my head, but it's mainstream. It is mainstream which is really disturbing.

Speaker 1: 36:39

So it's just kind of pervasive.

Speaker 2: 36:41

It's everywhere. It's not just some obscure little publishing house that got lucky with all these books, it's everywhere.

Speaker 1: 36:51

Boy. I'd love for him to put my book in the public school library. That would be fantastic. You write a book that's wholesome and nobody wants to carry it. It's not provocative, I guess, but OK. So we shared the URL for your film, but let's go over that again. It's the American Groomer movie.

Speaker 2: 37:15

It's just called American Groomer and the URL is AmericanGroomerFilmcom.

Speaker 1: 37:21

AmericanGroomerFilmcom. Do you have another website, or is that your only website?

Speaker 2: 37:27

That's a great one, where everything on my social media links are on there. Excuse me, the film is there to watch free, or you can also just watch. Are on there, excuse me, the film is there to watch free, or you can also just watch the trailer there. And if you wanted to reach out to me about, you know, doing a viewing party with a group of people in your town, you can find me there and you can find me on social media.

Speaker 1: 37:48

And so this might be something good to have a viewing party at, you know, like a block party, or maybe your church or you know something like that.

Speaker 2: 37:55

Absolutely. I mean honestly. If even one of your viewers called me and said I want to show this to my church, um, and we'll either zoom you in or we'll fly you in to talk to everybody, like I would, it would be a huge win, because the more people that we can get involved uh, you who know the truth the better.

Speaker 1: 38:13

Okay, Uh, anything else you'd like to go over? I mean, we're coming up, uh, towards the end of our time here, but I want to make sure we've covered everything that you think is important. Uh, anything else we should, uh, we should go go over.

Speaker 2: 38:26

I'm just going to take a second to just shock your, shock your people. Again in here Instructions on how to sex without getting caught, amongst so many other things. Different lifestyles like swinging parties and orgies, and um polyamorous relationships, introducing kids to stuff like that. This is more erotica. This is about um swallow. There's stuff in here about, you know, swallowing, ejaculate uh, this is vicious rape scenes. This again is about the girl in this book picked out her favorite sex shop and again, this is that S&M website it leads kids to. When it goes on and on. That's just the stack that I have handy. I have a whole bookshelf and there's literally hundreds of these circulating American schools.

Speaker 1: 39:10

And again, these are not in public libraries for adults, these are in school libraries for children.

Speaker 2: 39:18

Yes. Yes, and being pushed by librarians and teachers and administrators.

Speaker 1: 39:25

Wow, I hope everybody has gotten an eyeful or an earful today of what's going on here and, more importantly, I hope that you will do something about it, listeners, if your parents or grand grandparents uh, again, we need to stand up.

Speaker 1: 39:43

You know there's a quote that that says something along the lines of that evil will flourish when good people do nothing, and so the good people listening to this program. It's time to stand up and make those who have done this accountable and put a stop to it Until things change. You know, we're a land that is ruled for the people, by the people have unless something's happened in the last 60 minutes that I'm aware of, we still have the right and the responsibility to reach out and to effect a change through all the lawful processes that we have, and I encourage you all to do that. Elena, thank you so much for your time today. Again, we're going to make sure that all of these resources and all of your links are on our guest resources page at pwbasscom, and I encourage everybody to go watch that film and have a block party, Get your church group together, let's get this information out there and put an end to this horrible, horrible trend that is infiltrating our public school systems. Elena, thank you.

Speaker 2: 40:54

Thank you.

Speaker 1: 40:55

All right, until next time. We'll catch you. Until next time. Let's start that over. Until next time. I hope everybody has a good week and we'll catch you next time on the Patrick Bass Show. Thanks so much for listening.

Speaker 3: 41:07

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