Kevin Sorbo doesn't like it when people describe his new children's book accurately (Livestream)

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  • @sle2470
    @sle2470 Рік тому +393

    Imagine complaining about Biden's economy and then spending $22 on this piece of 💩.

    • @ThatOpalGuy
      @ThatOpalGuy Рік тому +18

      after sending your monthly hundo to tfg.

    • @jessetreadway5249
      @jessetreadway5249 Рік тому +6

      ​@@ThatOpalGuywtf is tfg

    • @ThatOpalGuy
      @ThatOpalGuy Рік тому +12

      @@jessetreadway5249 donald duck.

    • @ThisOldHelmet
      @ThisOldHelmet Рік тому +5

      You could pray for them to lower the price

    • @Flippylover_69
      @Flippylover_69 Рік тому +25

      Don’t forget complaining about “kids needing to stay kids” just to turn around and shove right wing politics and religion down their own kid’s throats 💀 Hypocrisy at its finest.

  • @martin2289
    @martin2289 Рік тому +478

    Brave "books" are to children's literature what Prager U is to higher education.

    • @autonomouscollective2599
      @autonomouscollective2599 Рік тому +16

      Definitely two sides of the same coin.

    • @childcrone
      @childcrone Рік тому

      Yes! Of the same ilk. It's patriarchal religious indoctrination material targeting children.

    • @Craxin01
      @Craxin01 Рік тому +29

      Also, what Prager U is to children's education. Prager U is to education what crack cocaine is to healthy living.

    • @TheRealLucifer_Morningstar
      @TheRealLucifer_Morningstar Рік тому +5

      Or what not collecting stamps is to a hobby. 👍😳👍

    • @richardgrier8968
      @richardgrier8968 Рік тому +22

      Weird how both insist that 'indoctrination' is bad, and yet that's their whole game.

  • @andrewede7154
    @andrewede7154 Рік тому +206

    Did no one at Brave Books remember that the female lions do much of the providing for the pride and male lions kill cubs to assert control of paternity?

    • @EmissaryOfStuff
      @EmissaryOfStuff Рік тому +55

      It's almost like they have no clue what they're talking about.

    • @LDrosophila
      @LDrosophila Рік тому +22

      LOL that would be a great kids book Rory the Lion mauling cubs then they learn about gender and nature

    • @zanir2387
      @zanir2387 Рік тому +4

      Talking properly, is the male lion the one who wrestle and kill the prey, the lioness are mostly chasers/skirmishers that weakens the prey.

    • @khill8645
      @khill8645 Рік тому +28

      With the content of the book, did no one at Brave Books realize that sometimes lionesses will begin exhibiting male behaviours, and even grow a mane?

    • @minngael
      @minngael Рік тому +23

      ​@@khill8645and there's a lot of gay lions ( both male & female)

  • @devonenyedy77
    @devonenyedy77 Рік тому +231

    Sorbo is a vocal part of a mob that celebrates bullying marginalized groups. But give him his due, he was a good enough actor in Hercules while portraying a guy (demigod) who stops bullies. No, wait. That was all from the writers. Nevermind😉.

    • @andywomack3414
      @andywomack3414 Рік тому +24

      Also a polytheistic hero, a victim of a malevolent deity, which is a more realistic view of what a deity must be like.

    • @Gee-xb7rt
      @Gee-xb7rt Рік тому +47

      Lucy Lawless that was the other 1/2 as Xena dunks on him constantly for being a right wing idiot.

    • @ThisOldHelmet
      @ThisOldHelmet Рік тому +2

      Expressing their ignorant views isn’t necessarily bullying.

    • @devonenyedy77
      @devonenyedy77 Рік тому +5

      @@ThisOldHelmet Very true! And when that is all they do I find it distasteful but not threatening.

    • @Finckelstein
      @Finckelstein Рік тому +13

      "Sorbo is a vocal part of a mob that celebrates bullying marginalized groups."
      I mean, yeah, he's a christian. That's their whole deal.

  • @tsotate
    @tsotate Рік тому +305

    Good that there was a ghostwriter, so I don't have to be shocked by Kevin Sorbo being literate.

    • @Craxin01
      @Craxin01 Рік тому +12

      Man couldn't even read a script properly. Look up the disappointed scene from Hercules and how he botched that.

    • @rinkuraku5251
      @rinkuraku5251 Рік тому +17

      @@Craxin01 That scene was epic. Only a true genius would look at his line, read the stage direction and decide, no, this is the dialog and I must shout it at the top of my lungs. I'm just sad that the star of the show I watched growing up, which had a gay couple as main characters turns out to be a raging bigot. Yes, Hercules and Iolaus were a couple. I don't care about your facts and logic, I ship it. Also Xena and Gabrielle, but I think less people will want to fight me over that one.

    • @JohnPatterson-kz8jr
      @JohnPatterson-kz8jr Рік тому +6

      GHOSTWRITERS IN THE SKY!!!

    • @jonathanmarkoff4469
      @jonathanmarkoff4469 Рік тому +3

      @@rinkuraku5251 Hercules and Iolaus were not a couple. Xena and Gabrielle were.

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters Рік тому +5

      Yeah, the Hercules team spent so much time and effort trying to deny that Hercules and Ioalus were a couple, but they spent even more effort forcing Xena and Gabrielle as one.
      *_What if we had them share a bath?_*
      That's a common enough practice.
      *_sharing a bath, naked get it?_*
      That's generally how people take baths. What's so strange about that?
      *_because they're both girls_*
      Yeah, they're both _women._ What's your point?
      *_Wouldn't that be hawt?_*

  • @TheInsaneupsdriver
    @TheInsaneupsdriver Рік тому +416

    I wouldn't trust him around kids in the first place.

    • @vooveks
      @vooveks Рік тому +6

      What, because you don't like him or his politics he's suddenly a child molester now? Calm down. Do you have any evidence of that at all?

    • @mischarowe
      @mischarowe Рік тому +20

      Same.

    • @ALTDOK667
      @ALTDOK667 Рік тому +17

      Where is your evidence of what you just claimed?@@vooveks

    • @verilyheld
      @verilyheld Рік тому +37

      Well . . . I greatly doubt he's a pederast, but yes, I wouldn't either, because of the miserly nature of his beliefs.

    • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated
      @DissociatedWomenIncorporated Рік тому +53

      @@voovekshave you considered it may be on the basis that he’d teach the kids hateful far right wing ideology? That’s good enough reason even if you _ignore_ the far higher rate of PDF files amongst rightoids.

  • @absentmindedprof
    @absentmindedprof Рік тому +165

    So Kevin Sorbo has morphed into the 21st century version of the angry, old grandpa, sitting on his front porch, yelling at the neighborhood kids for playing in front of his house? That is just sad.

    • @Canoby
      @Canoby Рік тому +15

      Dude had like two decent shows in him, then I guess ran out of gas. It's really a shame as it sounds like he had this personality shift after having a few strokes and apparently got to be really hard to deal with, one reason he isn't getting cast in much these days.

    • @jonathanstern5537
      @jonathanstern5537 Рік тому +5

      So did Bill Mahr and Kirk Cameron.

    • @jamestaylor3805
      @jamestaylor3805 Рік тому +2

      Pro Tip, most of those old men do it so they can laugh with the kid's parents over a beer later.

    • @jamestaylor3805
      @jamestaylor3805 Рік тому +1

      ​​@@jonathanstern5537Maher and Cameron arent even remotely analogous to each other.

    • @bvm3925
      @bvm3925 Рік тому +3

      He's been a religious conservative for a long time. It didn't happen just because he got older.

  • @Nadesey
    @Nadesey Рік тому +149

    "Let kids be kids.. not if they aren't straight or cis though of course."

    • @palesgensler3099
      @palesgensler3099 Рік тому +6

      Or if they want to do something that doesn’t fit a conservatives idea of gender norms.

    • @anthonyrobertson2011
      @anthonyrobertson2011 Рік тому +7

      I've seen many say "kids are too young to know who they like" when referring to science saying sexuality developes very young. Yet you know those same people when they see a five year old girl and boy say "where boyfriend and girlfriend" pretending to be romantic it's all "oh that's so cute" and do absolutely nothing to discourage it. So disingenuous.

    • @palesgensler3099
      @palesgensler3099 Рік тому +6

      ​@@anthonyrobertson2011 Tell me about it. When I was a kid, I couldn’t even say hi one of my male friends without my whole family teasing me about having a boyfriend. I’m a straight woman. Which obviously means, I am attracted to men but I wasn’t when I was in elementary school. Back then I used to go around saying things like “boys have cooties”.

  • @tims8603
    @tims8603 Рік тому +105

    So, he's basically a paid sponsor for a book he didn't write. That's so right wing of him. Taking credit for something he didn't do.

    • @facthunt2facthunt245
      @facthunt2facthunt245 Рік тому +9

      He should've written it himself seeing as Conservatives pride themselves on their work effort.

    • @playinglifeoneasy9226
      @playinglifeoneasy9226 Рік тому +3

      @@facthunt2facthunt245 😂

    • @JohnPatterson-kz8jr
      @JohnPatterson-kz8jr Рік тому +6

      Here's how they might rewrite some classic kid's books to suit their agenda.
      "The Little Engine That Could" would be "The Little Engine That Could Until the Union Went on Strike and He Defied the Unions and Worked As a Proud Scab Until the Union Goons Caught Up With Him and Damaged Him So Badly He Had to Be Cut Up For Scrap!!".
      "The Little Red Caboose"would be "The Little Red Caboose That Was Replaced With a Flashing Rear End Device Because It Was More Efficient".

  • @DoctorBiobrain
    @DoctorBiobrain Рік тому +152

    In defense of the publisher, if I was reduced to ghostwriting books like this I wouldn’t want my name on it either. They’re doing these writers a favor.

    • @DoctorBiobrain
      @DoctorBiobrain Рік тому +13

      @@lurch789 I was referring to the ghostwriters who wrote the books but left off their names, not the Z-list celebrities who had their names on the books but didn’t write them.

  • @barryschwarz5960
    @barryschwarz5960 Рік тому +51

    “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  • @Byroad3
    @Byroad3 Рік тому +217

    Something creepy about seeing a little boy and immediately envisioning him as a “strong man”. When I look at a kid I just see a kid.

    • @zanir2387
      @zanir2387 Рік тому +4

      Talking properly, most of the parents likes to envision their children as strong and capable, i think is a matter of which lens you see them...

    • @Byroad3
      @Byroad3 Рік тому +17

      @@zanir2387 oh is this book only for his kids? Because envisioning other people’s kids as “strong men” is a bit creepy.

    • @leegaul2161
      @leegaul2161 Рік тому +19

      @@Byroad3 The idea is that they want all parents to adopt the same cultural mindset. There can be no variation or deviation from that paradigm. This isn't me being hyperbolic. I'm from a very Catholic conservative community, and 99% of the boys and girls are clones of each other. I was bullied and near beaten for merely being left handed. That's right. Even the hand you use is "against god" where I grew up. You were "free" to do whatever you wanted, but you WILL be punished for it if it didn't conform to their brand of conservatism.

    • @SpacenSpooks
      @SpacenSpooks Рік тому

      "There can be no variation or deviation from that paradigm"
      That doesn't sound very free, and the fact that we don't all think the same yet we are all supposed to is why we would end up with countries such as Russia, North Korea, or Iran for example@@leegaul2161

    • @pantaleimona
      @pantaleimona Рік тому +11

      ​@leegaul2161 I remember watching kids in my class at school being pushed and forced and punished if they didn't or couldn't switch to being right-handed. This included a girl who was crippled on her right side.

  • @rychei5393
    @rychei5393 Рік тому +53

    You should see the add, it's SO homophobic!
    And, honestly who cares if someone does flip a coin for gender? If it makes em happy, who the f cares?

  • @ziploc2000
    @ziploc2000 Рік тому +177

    The "woke confusion" is entirely in the head of Sorbo and similar dinosaurs. Kids aren't confused.

    • @barrylangille3523
      @barrylangille3523 Рік тому

      Since "woke" can be defined loosely as being aware of injustices and wanting to improve people's lives, it's no wonder people on the right denigrate the term, and refuse to admit they know what it means.

    • @rhiwright
      @rhiwright Рік тому +39

      Truth. A 6 year old, the daughter of a friend once randomly told me "some people are a boy on the inside and a girl on the outside and that's just who they are". I'm cis, she had absolutely no reason to tell me this. A 6 year old has a deeper understanding of gender than these adults though

    • @ashtonstout7375
      @ashtonstout7375 Рік тому +15

      You’re correct. I referred to myself as a boy when I was a toddler. That didn’t go away, but I was raised in a borderline cult, so I was raised as a girl.

    • @maargenbx1454
      @maargenbx1454 Рік тому +16

      @@rhiwrightA six year old’s “understanding” of gender might not be understanding at all, but simple parroting of what she’s been taught by adults. In this case she’s been taught what science has discovered to be true. Unfortunately what so many of today’s adults were taught about gender was limited by ignorance and religious orthodoxy, and many are slow to let go of the misinformation we parroted as children.

    • @aureliodeprimus8018
      @aureliodeprimus8018 Рік тому

      Yeah, it is ironic they call it "Woke Mind Virus". Or at least it would be, if not every accusation from the right turned out to be a confession......

  • @johnbiggscr
    @johnbiggscr Рік тому +85

    Did he really say we give pride a month but veterans a day? November is veteran month. May is military month.

    • @mischarowe
      @mischarowe Рік тому +20

      You know those right wing conservatives: lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie again.

    • @presentfuture7563
      @presentfuture7563 Рік тому +19

      @KathrynElizabeth-kx9do ...But somehow also cut benefits to veterans month

    • @0Fyrebrand0
      @0Fyrebrand0 Рік тому +15

      I don't even know what he thinks "We give pride a month" even means. Does *he* give pride a month? What is he giving, exactly?
      Yeah, there's a pride parade in a lot of places. For like one day. That LGBTQ people organize themselves. He doesn't have to do anything.
      We give Christmas "a whole season." I bet he conveniently has no issue with that.

    • @FatMadt666
      @FatMadt666 Рік тому

      It's not like a xtian to lie to forward their agenda.

    • @naomisoltesz9890
      @naomisoltesz9890 Рік тому +16

      Veterans don't need pride, they need mental and financial support, which (like someone mentioned) American conservative politicians voted against. It's all performance, always been, they don't actually care about veterans, presumably because in their eyes they've outlived their usefulness.

  • @jasoncarpp7742
    @jasoncarpp7742 Рік тому +115

    I used to love Kevin Sorbo. I enjoyed the *"Hercules"* TV show back in the 1990s. I wasn't religious even then. I just enjoyed a good sci-fi fantasy action TV show.

    • @pattykelly6621
      @pattykelly6621 Рік тому +27

      He apparently took it all a bit too seriously

    • @mischarowe
      @mischarowe Рік тому +21

      There were rumours and accusations at the time (you know how these things get buried) of him being difficult to work with, as well as s3xual harassment.

    • @ArakkoaChronicles
      @ArakkoaChronicles Рік тому +1

      I had no idea what kind of dipshit he was back then. Apparently playing a god got into his head.

    • @bran2909
      @bran2909 Рік тому +64

      Xena was better anyway.

    • @andywomack3414
      @andywomack3414 Рік тому +13

      @@pattykelly6621 Playing a pagan mythological hero, no less. I wonder if Sorbo portrayed the darker aspects of that myth. I did not get into that series, nor did I watch "Xena, the Warrior Princes" other than an episode or two. Much more likely to schedule "Star Trek, the Next Generation" back then.
      Herakles was beset by a malevolent deity, a much more realistic version of god than the one imagined by monotheists.
      That Jewish deity in the Old Testament was a rather evil character, however.
      I did not know much about the Ancients until fairly recently. If I have the time, Sorbo as Hercules might be worth checking out, as well as Xena.

  • @felistine
    @felistine Рік тому +230

    Sorbo must’ve saved a LOT of money from that one TV series a million years ago. 😂

    • @martinbaxter4783
      @martinbaxter4783 Рік тому +36

      He’s probably getting money from ‘The Dylan Hunt Hour’ aka ‘Andromeda’.

    • @CRanunculus
      @CRanunculus Рік тому +11

      @@martinbaxter4783 No, no, no, I was staying for the Keith Hamilton Cobb Hour.
      Hot damn

    • @angelm.bouchard3722
      @angelm.bouchard3722 Рік тому +17

      @@CRanunculusMe too, Until Sorbo messed up his character too much.

    • @martin2289
      @martin2289 Рік тому

      He's reportedly worth $14 million. You can make a lot of money grifting as a God-bothering right-wing bigot, apparently.

    • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated
      @DissociatedWomenIncorporated Рік тому +26

      Hey that’s TWO TV series from a million years ago, thank you very much! 😡

  • @michaelmccarthy4077
    @michaelmccarthy4077 Рік тому +49

    I can't help but notice that Sorbo looks like 💩 while Lucy Lawless looks amazing.

    • @stephenluttrell8958
      @stephenluttrell8958 Рік тому +2

      The dark side always takes a piece of those who crave its power.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Рік тому +3

      @michaelmccarthy4077 - Don't mock his genetic aging, unless he contributed to it by smoking.

    • @michaelmccarthy4077
      @michaelmccarthy4077 Рік тому

      @@MossyMozart I didn’t say he looks old, I said he looks like 💩

    • @robgraham9234
      @robgraham9234 Рік тому

      You think Lawless looks better than Sorbo? Sounds like unconscious sexism to me.

    • @ann3923
      @ann3923 Рік тому +3

      ​@@robgraham9234no. She just looks better 🤷‍♀️

  • @Drudenfusz
    @Drudenfusz Рік тому +17

    But male lions never become providers for their pride...

    • @zanir2387
      @zanir2387 Рік тому

      Talking properly is the male lion the one who wrestle the prey after the lioness tired it...

  • @nicked_fenyx
    @nicked_fenyx Рік тому +144

    Ah yes, Kevin Sorbo, the world renowned expert on gender identity. I'm sure he has loads of education on what it means to be trans, the likely causes of it (including the biological links we now know exist), and has read at least a few dozen of the thousands of peer reviewed studies produced on the topic in the past few decades. I'm sure that's why these media outlets are interviewing Sorbo and publishing his opinion, rather than rely on the expertise of literally every major medical organization in the country, all of whom agree that being transgender is a real thing which is best addressed via various forms of gender affirming care.
    I'm sure that's the case... just as I'm sure the world is flat, Trump is honest, and forest fires are caused by Jewish space lasers. Makes perfect sense to me. 🙄🤮

    • @ugandanknuckles464
      @ugandanknuckles464 Рік тому +1

      @KathrynElizabeth-kx9do Exactly! its made up, not real. In reality only two genders exist.

    • @alkristopher
      @alkristopher Рік тому +12

      (hides my Jewish space lasers) Right on!

    • @clarencewalker3925
      @clarencewalker3925 Рік тому

      Bravo!

    • @pantaleimona
      @pantaleimona Рік тому +5

      You had me until Jewish space lasers. Pleeeease. 45 told us that the president of Finland told him that forest fires could be prevented by sweeping the forest floors. I tell you what, we sweep the floors and then if there's a fire after that? Bingo! Jewish space lasers! 🤣

    • @nicked_fenyx
      @nicked_fenyx Рік тому +3

      @@pantaleimona Ah, but haven't you heard? The new plan from 45 is to create lots of canals from up north to dampen the forest floors. This will prevent forest fires, with water to spare. In fact, there will be *so* much water left over after dampening all 33 million acres of California's forests that people from Beverly Hills will no longer smell bad - they'll be able to take as many long showers as they want! I'll bet those rich folks are so relieved they'll pay for the canals themselves!

  • @yeoldegunporn
    @yeoldegunporn Рік тому +162

    Imagine being more concerned that your child is getting the right indoctrination instead of wether they are learning to read or think or something useful. What’s going to happen in 25 years when one party in American can’t read stop signs and doesn’t believe they apply to them?

    • @Sauvenil
      @Sauvenil Рік тому +36

      They already think Stop signs don't apply to them. They ignore the law when it's an inconvenience to them.

    • @Wynnter420
      @Wynnter420 Рік тому +30

      We already have a bunch of those, they're called Sovereign Citizens and they are fun as hell to watch being arrested.

    • @derekflegg2670
      @derekflegg2670 Рік тому

      Carl Sagan Sort Of Predicted The Rise Of Donald Trump 25 Years Ago.
      Well, it turns out that the late astronomer Carl Sagan may have predicted this era of distrust in authority figures - of sorts. As a number of people have picked up online, Sagan made an eerie prediction in his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark that seems to echo the events of the past year.
      Here’s the quote in full:
      “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
      Sound familiar? Thought so. In addition to this, Sagan also made some similar comments (around the 3.50 mark in that link) in an interview with Carlie Rose in 1996:
      “Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along.”

    • @killerboba
      @killerboba Рік тому

      In 25 years? Trump won in 2016. Its already happening

    • @anthonyantoine669
      @anthonyantoine669 Рік тому

      Too late all of the GOP/maggots already think this way😢😢

  • @noemimaldo
    @noemimaldo Рік тому +60

    Their definition of let kid be kids sadly is all about their definition of christianity. Anything outside their definition, is wrong and evil. And of course, it wouldn't surprise they will ask their congregation to buy the books to donate and further xtianity.

    • @resourcedragon
      @resourcedragon Рік тому +4

      And I'd like to see _any_ Christian "let kids be kids" fans completely abjure hitting children.

    • @mikaylastrong7622
      @mikaylastrong7622 Рік тому

      Same so-called Xtians who think it's fine for a 55 yr old man to marry a 12 yr old girl.

    • @dominicfucinari1942
      @dominicfucinari1942 Рік тому +1

      @@resourcedragon Especially the Pentecostal Dominion, populated by such ilk as James Dobson and Michael "To Train Up A Child" Pearl. So much for the idea of Focus On The Family as a milder Religious Right think tank.

    • @spacecat6022
      @spacecat6022 Рік тому

      Yes, shouldn't letting kids be kids be about leaving them to play and have fun with whatever they want? If a little boy wants to play with a doll and wear a dress, he could, he is freely being a kid and discovering himself, what he likes or not. Religious people push them into the role they already planned for them, they do not let them be kids.

  • @Hamminja
    @Hamminja Рік тому +69

    The thing is... Letting, "kids be kids," means not telling them they cannot play with Godzilla toys because they are female. Or they cannot play with Barbie just because they are male. However I've got a feeling that's not what they are actually saying. Rather they are saying, "Let us mold them and indoctrinate them into what we think they should be."
    (Also, fun fact. The fetus starts as a female so as far as I'm concerned, 100% of males are transgender.)

    • @nancyenkelmann7801
      @nancyenkelmann7801 Рік тому +2

      Bingo!!!!! Indoctrination from the git go!

    • @SewardWriter
      @SewardWriter Рік тому +2

      Sorry, the foetus thing is a myth. There are significant differences from the start. (This isn't an attack on trans people. If anything, it means people can really be in the wrong body from the start.)

    • @stingerjohnny9951
      @stingerjohnny9951 Рік тому +4

      @@SewardWriter Oh really? That’s shocking to me, but I’d love to learn more. Any good articles you’d recommend?
      And what are the main differences if I may ask?

    • @SewardWriter
      @SewardWriter Рік тому +2

      @@stingerjohnny9951 Honestly, it's been so long since I studied, I don't have specific references. I mostly remember differences in genital development. If you look at images, there are distinct differences between clitoral and penile buds, and labial and scrotal formations. The organs are absolutely analogous, and have their similarities, but even in embryos, they look different up close.
      If you look up embryonic development by sex, you should be able to find some diagrams showing the differences.

    • @stingerjohnny9951
      @stingerjohnny9951 Рік тому +2

      @@SewardWriter Cool, thanks for the heads up. Wait, would that mean the whole Jurassic Park thing of “we made them all female” shouldn’t work even without the frog DNA?

  • @stormthrush37
    @stormthrush37 Рік тому +45

    That's definitely interesting about Brave Books being co-credited for authorship. That really makes you wonder if just like you suspected if it wasn't mostly or all Brave Books that wrote the book and they were taking advantage of Kevin Sorbo's name recognition or something.

    • @scottdelahunt586
      @scottdelahunt586 Рік тому +9

      I'm kind of wondering how much Sorbo paid to get his name on the cover.

    • @vanessacallahan3515
      @vanessacallahan3515 Рік тому +3

      I say they all have a ghost writer. A left writer should go undercover and write something outrageous.

    • @vanessacallahan3515
      @vanessacallahan3515 Рік тому +5

      @@scottdelahunt586He probably just gets a portion of sales. He’ll get more by appearing on right wing programs and doing interviews on RSBN.

    • @barrylangille3523
      @barrylangille3523 Рік тому +9

      The post calling for writers put "authors" in quotes. If that's not a wink and a nod to just how much the celebrity authors contribute, I don't know what is. It's pretty clear that Brave Books has control over the story, which they want and need if they are to have the consistency from book to book, and the"author" on tbe cover willingly adds their name for market reach.

    • @dwaneanderson8039
      @dwaneanderson8039 Рік тому +3

      I wouldn't be surprised if they wrote the book completely before they even talked to Sorbo. Putting his name on it is just a publicity tactic.

  • @sammyvictors2603
    @sammyvictors2603 Рік тому +44

    Just for that, I'm gonna write a book with a character that is a harsh parody of Sorbo.
    And I'm a leftist Christian who finds fundies like Sorbo disgraceful, boring, and pathetic.

    • @barrylangille3523
      @barrylangille3523 Рік тому +9

      Trouble is, Sorbo has become a parody of Sorbo, which makes your task a difficult one. Poe's law and all that.

    • @sammyvictors2603
      @sammyvictors2603 Рік тому

      @@barrylangille3523 I could add something new to it, an exaggeration of him. Like, his parody having a fractured genital after rough drunk lovemaking with his wife and now he's permanently impotent, much to his wife's frustration. Oh and they have three daughters but he wished they were boys.
      And his nickname behind his back is "Soreboner"

    • @MsAnpassad
      @MsAnpassad Рік тому +7

      Let me start you off with the storyline. It should be about a lion that shrunk into a cub and no matter how hard he tries, he can't roar. Then when he realises that he is actually a kitten and life is better that way, he yet again gets invited to playdates.

    • @Medgewick
      @Medgewick Рік тому

      How far Left?

    • @sammyvictors2603
      @sammyvictors2603 Рік тому +1

      @@Medgewick not sure.
      But it involves BLM, Transgender and Enby rights, etc.

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 Рік тому +66

    And you know he's repeated the cat litter box lie.

    • @adamvancleave9200
      @adamvancleave9200 Рік тому +6

      Which I still think is a case of "Telephone".
      A catastrophically misheard true story I mean.

    • @SpacenSpooks
      @SpacenSpooks Рік тому +3

      He certainly doesn't mind anthropomorphising animals, though

    • @damianpinnington5477
      @damianpinnington5477 Рік тому +5

      That's why he started selling paper to put in the bottom of it.

    • @Vynjira-chan
      @Vynjira-chan Рік тому +5

      @@adamvancleave9200 To imagine it's not intentionally done even when they do make things up all the time and deliberately misrepresent things is a bit foolish.. they have spent well over a billion dollars in just a handful of European countries pushing Anti-Gender religious extremist propaganda.
      In the US they spent $50 Million on Trans kids in sports in just a couple of months.
      Like you see a guy setting houses on fire, and then your house catches on fire and you believe this instance is just a wild accident.

    • @cryochick9044
      @cryochick9044 Рік тому

      ​@@adamvancleave9200it actually wasnt. It was a politician lieing about his local school to get votes. He got sued for defamation by the school

  • @disequalone
    @disequalone Рік тому +13

    I wrote a book when I was in church, it was about how my pastor would touch us. They got mad about it.

    • @summerlovinxx
      @summerlovinxx Рік тому +6

      simultaneously the funniest and saddest comment I've read in a while. I hope you're okay.

    • @disequalone
      @disequalone Рік тому +4

      @summerlovinxx I'm good, therapy and self growth over the years helped. My kids will choose their own path as adults when they are capable and aware, to prevent the same trauma.

  • @AtamMardes
    @AtamMardes Рік тому +17

    The biggest scam is to tell people they're born in sin and there's a better place after death, but to be saved a spot they must make donations.

    • @tjw9985
      @tjw9985 Рік тому

      Sounds about right 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jonathanwessner3456
    @jonathanwessner3456 Рік тому +7

    Weirdly, they are trying to ban a kids book called "Red" which is about a blue crayon with a red label, and is less about trans , and more about finding what you are good at.

    • @bgmac1219
      @bgmac1219 2 місяці тому +1

      thank you, that sounds like it has a great message. went and reserved a copy of worm loves worm and my kids didn't know what was going on...

  • @RobertSmith-gx3mi
    @RobertSmith-gx3mi Рік тому +15

    The second to the last person I would trust to be around children would be a religious person.
    The last Person I would trust to be around children would be a catholic priest.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Рік тому +1

      @RobertSmith-gx3mi - I bet that Ivanka never lets her kids be around tfg alone.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Рік тому +22

    He never made a convincing Hercules to me. Maybe because I grew up with Lou Ferrigno being Hercules. You know, like punching bears into outer space and throwing logs into outer space.

    • @PaTrick-cf6ev
      @PaTrick-cf6ev Рік тому +4

      Yeah, exactly. But I used to love the Greek myths books, so I watched, even though I considered him girly😂

    • @John.0z
      @John.0z Рік тому +4

      I found his TV shows unwatchable.

    • @pauljackson3491
      @pauljackson3491 Рік тому +1

      When was Lou Ferrigno Hercules? I only know of him as the hulk.

    • @WeeWeeJumbo
      @WeeWeeJumbo Рік тому +1

      i always thought Hercules' wimpiness was a tongue in cheek irony or something.
      whereas the actor playing Xena really did offer up a heroic silhouette

    • @princequestly2218
      @princequestly2218 Рік тому

      That show was the worst, full of horrible acting and the worst storylines.

  • @ricardoaguirre6126
    @ricardoaguirre6126 Рік тому +5

    Ironic because theres a used bookstore here in El paso Texas called Brave Books and the owner is an outspoken progressive.

  • @karmagrl76
    @karmagrl76 Рік тому +5

    Whoever wrote the book didn't bother to research lions. If they had, they would know female lions do the majority of the hunting while males stay home guarding the pride's territory, look after the cubs, and feed them while the lionesses are out hunting. So male lions are the lion version of a stay at home husband.

  • @frankblack8448
    @frankblack8448 Рік тому +20

    I think he's lyin' about how much work he put into this book.

  • @travcollier
    @travcollier Рік тому +12

    To be fair, I have a queer friend who swaps their gender presentation on a whim. Literally rolling a dice to decide between being a man or woman for that day would totally be something they would do. And you know what, it's fine

    • @elainelouve
      @elainelouve Рік тому

      Being androgynous isn't the same as transgender. I'm glad you are able to accept your friend, but just saying, queer can be many things. Also nonbinary can be choosing gender presentation on how one feels. Transgender is different, and someone changing gender like clothing doesn't tell anything about transgender.
      (I'm nonbinary and can relate to how your friend is.)

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier Рік тому +5

      @@elainelouve I do understand there are critical differences between being gender fluid and trans. I don't "get" any of it, since I'm just uncomplicated cis het, but that doesn't really matter ;)
      BTW: I like the word "queer" because it is non-specific / inclusive.

    • @elainelouve
      @elainelouve Рік тому +1

      @@travcollier same, the word queer is simple.:)

    • @user-wi9hv2pb2q
      @user-wi9hv2pb2q 2 місяці тому

      Why not? I'm not going to tell anyone how to dress, feel, or pursue their Constitutional Right to Happiness.
      Also I wish I had the money or resources for that as a kid.

  • @Jordanmode
    @Jordanmode Рік тому +11

    “Let kids be kids.”
    “My son loves to knit.”
    “You need to turn that sissy into a man.”

  • @LDrosophila
    @LDrosophila Рік тому +21

    Luckily not one child has actually read those books

  • @justcallmeavi3255
    @justcallmeavi3255 Рік тому +3

    "DISAPPOINTED!!" - Kevin Sorbo

  • @mischarowe
    @mischarowe Рік тому +19

    Very sad the lengths Sorbo goes to pretend he's relevant.

  • @pissed_off_dem
    @pissed_off_dem Рік тому +12

    I worked in "Hollywood" for a while. Actors are just talking props. No one should care what any of them think or say.

    • @khill8645
      @khill8645 Рік тому +2

      ​@KathrynElizabeth-kx9doI think part of the problem is that due to their training, actors are far more willing than many others to speak far outside their sphere of knowledge, and do so confidently.
      Sorbo doesn't have any scientific or sociological education, but he's more than willing to speak on them emphatically because of the background he does have -- in marketing and theatre.

  • @lazygardens
    @lazygardens Рік тому +8

    From Brave Books: "We are not currently accepting manuscripts and we are exclusively publishing content we produce."
    So they write it, the celeb lets them put celeb's name on it, and the celeb has something to tweet about and a booking hook for the right-wing media.

  • @gregjones2217
    @gregjones2217 Рік тому +15

    Remember that actors are only people who pretend to be something thay aren't. That includes being an authority on about anything. Strawmen.

  • @forestxander
    @forestxander Рік тому +3

    I despise the phrase, "boys will be boys". It is ALWAYS used to excuse the inexcusable.

  • @MrBobbymacaroni
    @MrBobbymacaroni Рік тому +8

    I suspect the book is a simply a FANTASY production. The conservative Christian have trouble sussing that out....

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986 Рік тому +7

    The only time I paid $20 for a kids book was when I was buying a book directly from the author and their small publishing company. It was a local author that did a kids book on how otters form "rafts" by holding hands when they rest and sleep. The story itself was just facts about Otters it was the artwork that was the big deal for kids since it is just filled with cute drawing of otters

  • @DruncanUK
    @DruncanUK Рік тому +28

    ChatGPT can write a better kids book than Brave Books can!

    • @embrikchloraker8186
      @embrikchloraker8186 Рік тому

      Some of them are almost okay. Telltale has read a bunch of them.

  • @Areionco
    @Areionco Рік тому +39

    Kevin Sorbo, clearly famous for his morales and not being a insane person.

  • @therhythmdragon
    @therhythmdragon Рік тому +15

    I have no respect for the books themselves, but WHY IS THE ART SO GOOD? Seriously, the covers look really cute and I really wish they weren't attached to such trash writing.

    • @embrikchloraker8186
      @embrikchloraker8186 Рік тому

      Right wing lunatics have enough money to hire really good artists.

  • @Slow_poke_hiker
    @Slow_poke_hiker Рік тому +11

    Memorable books from my childhood: Mr. Punnymoon's Train and EVERY Dr. Seuss book.

  • @autonomouscollective2599
    @autonomouscollective2599 Рік тому +7

    It is funny that Brave Books put “authors” in quotation marks. 😆

  • @cannabotany
    @cannabotany Рік тому +10

    You remind me of that awesome skeptic guy from the series 'evil' in all the best ways, i appreciate your videos, thank you and have a wonderful day!

  • @arcadiaberger9204
    @arcadiaberger9204 Рік тому +2

    It's been so long since I gave a thought to that Hercules TV series that I was thinking "Kevinsorbo" was something you use to get rid of toenail fungus.

  • @matthewmitchell6001
    @matthewmitchell6001 Рік тому +11

    I watched Poolboy Drowning out the Fury years ago. I thought the racism in the movie was a joke until I realized how crazy Sorbo was and that he prob wrote those lines lol

    • @spacecat6022
      @spacecat6022 Рік тому

      I didn't know about that movie and looked it up on IMDB. Synopsis: California has been taken over by Mexicans... Yeah it does sound pretty racist from the start, many will see Mexicans as a real threat (as shown by all the crazy maga who fear them so much and like to see Mexican children in cage or getting cut by the razors while trying to cross the river). And just a few of the key words on this movie in IMDB: Female frontal nudity, man carries a topless woman upside down, topless blind woman, sex on a kitchen counter... and then Sorbo thinks he can teach morality? I guess like Boebert and Candice Cameron, as long as it's not gay sex, you can do what you want... To be honest I have no problem with a movie with those things but it is just very hypocritical of Sorbo.

  • @djfrank68
    @djfrank68 Рік тому +16

    Writing that book was a Herculean task for Kevin.

  • @publicguy1664
    @publicguy1664 Рік тому +3

    If Sorbo wrote any part of the book, he did so because it's at his grade level.

  • @davidbroughall3782
    @davidbroughall3782 Рік тому +1

    I don't know of any public library that would accept an unsolicited request from an author to do a reading. They operate on a "Don't call us, we'll call you," policy. If an author wants to do a reading in a library, they can apply to rent the library's program room, if it has one. This is what Kirk Cameron was told, in response to which he claimed to be a persecuted Christian.

  • @ErinLynagh
    @ErinLynagh Рік тому +8

    great video ❤ as trans person, it always means a lot to see allies covering stuff like this. it's not easy right now and we need people making content like this ❤❤❤

  • @electrofonickitty823
    @electrofonickitty823 Рік тому +2

    I am guessing that The Unicorn and the Lake is a kids' book and I remember it and this is my favorite story as a child. And it is hard to write a children's book, I should know because I have to write kids' book since I am a learning disabled author

  • @AMVH2012
    @AMVH2012 Рік тому +12

    Yes children, learn about Jesus from the avatar of a pagan god.

    • @btemplr4
      @btemplr4 Рік тому

      That isn’t true

    • @btemplr4
      @btemplr4 Рік тому

      @KathrynElizabeth-kx9do Jesus is the Son of God, He and God the Father are one.

  • @bootskanchelsis3337
    @bootskanchelsis3337 Рік тому +6

    Are Kevin Sorbo and James Caviezel friends?
    Have cookouts over at Kirk Camerons house ....talking bout how gorgeous they think Jesus is and stuff ?

  • @bootskanchelsis3337
    @bootskanchelsis3337 Рік тому +7

    " Disappointed! " -Hercules

  • @Noonien96-nx6yj
    @Noonien96-nx6yj Рік тому +1

    My stepmother who was a teacher made me read the first Baron Trump book. It was so depressing, i couldn't read the other ones. She wasn't mad at me, only thought I would get a thrill from the wild fantasy elements. A few years ago I tried reading the second one, but no dice.

  • @xyshomavazax
    @xyshomavazax Рік тому +3

    These books aren’t for children. They’re morality props for politically antagonistic conservatives.

  • @dougmurphy1777
    @dougmurphy1777 Рік тому +4

    Disney may want to call their lawyers - the lion in Kevin's book looks an awful lot like Simba from the Lion King!

  • @rhondah1587
    @rhondah1587 Рік тому +6

    He thumbed through the book maybe and said "Ok, put my name on it." LOL

    • @barrylangille3523
      @barrylangille3523 Рік тому +1

      I suspect you're close to what actually happened there.

  • @nathanphillips1669
    @nathanphillips1669 Рік тому +2

    I’ve read this book it was absolutely disgusting I’d NEVER give this book to a child EVER!! It’s full of propaganda and hate

  • @angelaa7388
    @angelaa7388 Рік тому +9

    I read a children's story from like the mid-eighteen hundreds about a race with some hedgehogs, but the moral of the story was to marry within your own kind. I might have read it in The Book of Oxford Children's Verses or something like that.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Рік тому +4

      @angelaa7388 - Oh great! Now you alerted so-called brave books to this gem that is now out of copyright so that they can print it tomorrow.

    • @JohnPatterson-kz8jr
      @JohnPatterson-kz8jr Рік тому +1

      When Fox still had the King Of The Hill chat room up and running,I wrote quite a bit of fan fiction on there.
      I did a parody of "A Christmas Carol " with Charlie Sheen in it as well as a parody of "The DaVinci Code" with Dale Gribble and Fox Mulder called "The Dale Vinci Code" and my piece de resistance a "Left Behind"parody titled "Staying Right Here:A Novel of The Beginning of the End of The Beginning of The End of The Beginning of The End of The Beginning of The End of The Beginning of The End-Or'Apocolypse Wow'!!

  • @scottplumer3668
    @scottplumer3668 Рік тому +2

    Brave Books approaches these "celebrities" to put their name on their books to give them a veneer of legitimacy and drum up a bit of interest. I think legally they have to have at least some input into the text, so they might change a word or two, but Kevin Sorbo is a writer like Britney Spears is a songwriter.

  • @David_Goza
    @David_Goza Рік тому +15

    Ordinarily, I'm opposed to book-burning.

    • @carolinelabbott2451
      @carolinelabbott2451 Рік тому +2

      Maybe try book mulching. Not sure what inks they use, but it might be safe for composting.

    • @karenkalweit6018
      @karenkalweit6018 4 місяці тому

      It is just barely a book 😂

  • @nela9994
    @nela9994 Рік тому +2

    Wasn’t Hercules famously in love with Hylas? So much so that he quit the Ship of Heros (the Argo, the first vessel to have a name) because Hylas went missing? One of the icons of being a great hero and being gay.

  • @13shadowwolf
    @13shadowwolf Рік тому +5

    I watched some episodes of Hercules when I was a child, I thought Kevin Snorbo was a good actor, when I was 10.
    The only problem is that he wants to be the Rock, and he really sucks at it. KSnore doesn't have any acting skills, other than being tall with good hair.

  • @rhondah1587
    @rhondah1587 Рік тому +6

    Men are not the "providers" for their families anymore. Both parents usually are providing because of necessity and because women enjoy having a career too. It's not the 1950s anymore. LOL Gender roles have evolved and will always evolve. When I was married, I was the provider and he was a struggling college student.

  • @verilyheld
    @verilyheld Рік тому +3

    I've written two unpublished childrens' books.
    I mention that because I'm sure mine are better than Sorbo's.
    Of course, grocery lists would be better than Sorbo's, but still, mine must be better, because I wrote those to entertain, not harangue!

  • @josephcooter5763
    @josephcooter5763 Рік тому +14

    Now I will be honest. I liked Xena Warrior Princess More than Hercules. Xena was really tough and I like that.
    Secondly: I didn't really mind him in Andromeda. That was actually an intresting idea from the creator of Star Trek.
    That said, Kevin Sorbo is an idiot.

  • @klhaldane
    @klhaldane Рік тому +2

    I read a lot of children's books aloud to my kids. I can tell the best ones because I can still recite entire passages from them. "Now let's have a little talk about Tweetle Beetles..."

  • @shizuwolf
    @shizuwolf Рік тому +3

    What’s extra funny is that lions have been shown to be trans

  • @monicawallace-jn8tl
    @monicawallace-jn8tl 6 місяців тому +1

    Accurate/Spot on!
    Pretty sick when a grown man has to validate his “masculinity” by putting down others who don’t live in his shoes…. Sorbo Is a bully.

  • @hellbound_psyker
    @hellbound_psyker Рік тому +3

    why is the lion character cosplaying Matt Walsh?

  • @scottgudal945
    @scottgudal945 Рік тому +1

    "It's not a doll, it's an action figure!"

  • @warface4881
    @warface4881 Рік тому +3

    Kevin Sorbo was great............... in Meet the Spartans.

  • @Terri_MacKay
    @Terri_MacKay Рік тому +1

    The whole Kevin Sorbo thing really bums me out because "Hercules" is one of our favourite series...my daughter and I have watched it all the way through 4 times.

  • @Queldonus
    @Queldonus Рік тому +3

    I would bet an entire paycheck that if I published a “kids book” telling a story about a kid learning that A book can’t tell you how to live your life, (no matter how many people think it has all the answers) there would be someone calling for personal attacks on me within a week.
    Even though “it’s not an anti religion book, it’s just encouraging critical thinking.”

    • @nela9994
      @nela9994 Рік тому

      Unfortunately, a lot of books like that have already been banned. Read some of John Green’s books.

  • @Tyberius1
    @Tyberius1 Рік тому +2

    Hi Hemant. I used to watch your videos in my teen years when I was still figuring out my religion (or lack thereof), and you really helped make the process a lot easier. I remember being kinda scared to let go of religion but your videos really helped to alleviate a lot of my worries. Anyway, I'm not sure why but your videos just kinda stopped appearing in my feed, but I'm glad I found you again, looks like I have a lot of catching up to do.

  • @carolinusTG
    @carolinusTG Рік тому +5

    The hodgetwins are like listening to randy savage have a conversation with himself in his grunts and throat noises only. Couldn't find two brain cells to rub together between the pair.
    So it's basically proof this publisher is 100% writings all these books and approaching the "celebrity" with all of them written, and asking which they want their name on, to target that celebrities audience.

  • @tzisorey
    @tzisorey Рік тому +2

    Whoa, Kevin has _not_ aged well... must be all that clean living and daily prayer.

  • @iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606

    Kevin needed a ghost writer to write a children’s book! 😂

  • @ornos3133
    @ornos3133 Рік тому +2

    The lion on the cover looks more like a mouse.
    Also Sorbo needs to become Sober.

  • @caucasoidape8838
    @caucasoidape8838 Рік тому +3

    Does Sorbo realize that Heracles/Hercules was a bisexual character, from a pagan religion?

  • @SeedyJohnson
    @SeedyJohnson Рік тому +1

    If you hadn't told me, I would have sworn that lioness (no mane) was a butch lesbian. My cousin has cousin had the same outfit.

  • @flaming_bentley
    @flaming_bentley Рік тому +6

    Owen morgan has done a great rundown of many of these books on his Telltale reads channel.

  • @DemonWarp65
    @DemonWarp65 Рік тому +1

    Seeing Kevin Sorbo take such a hard left turn into Xtian Conservative nutjobville hurts me so much. Hercules, Kull the Conqueror, I loved watching his stuff back in the day. The only thing I never got to see was Andromeda, and now I don't know if I even want to see it, considering how far off the deep end he's gone.

  • @neonshadow5005
    @neonshadow5005 Рік тому +6

    I loved Hercules the Legendary Journeys as a kid and have seen Sorbo in a movie or two and liked him as an actor .. but finding out what he's really like? It was a horrible disappointment and I've lost any respect I had for him and avoid him like the plague now. I hope the idiocy is worth it to him.

  • @mikedavis979
    @mikedavis979 Рік тому +2

    Here is an actually great children's book authored by a celebrity: A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, written and illustrated by Fred Gwynne. Look it up. Fantastic word play and art! I loved this book as a kid, and only recently realized it was Fred Gwynne who wrote AND illustrated it! Real talent.

  • @vanessacallahan3515
    @vanessacallahan3515 Рік тому +4

    But making everyone the same is your ilk’s main policy! What are you saying Kevin?

  • @KidVolcano
    @KidVolcano Рік тому +1

    Sorbo's reaction to the review?
    "DISAPPOINTED!"

  • @platinumdudunsparce_98
    @platinumdudunsparce_98 Рік тому +3

    It's pretty cowardly to say hateful things and cry "People hate when I'm a hateful monster, and only I get to be a hater, but no one gets to say when I am" nonsense.

  • @ElectricPickleAttack
    @ElectricPickleAttack Рік тому +2

    Kevin Sorbo is still salty that the only show anyone remembers him for got eclipsed by a spin off about two gay feminist icons.

  • @SgtD85
    @SgtD85 Рік тому +4

    Lion? Looks like a field mouse

  • @pakemfull
    @pakemfull Рік тому +2

    The only good thing that came from Kevin Sorbo's career was to launch Lucy Lawless at Xena: Warrior Princess. Xena and Gabrielle my favorite lesbian couple of fiction.

  • @KoRntech
    @KoRntech Рік тому +3

    So when do we think James Caviezel will come out with a book for kids after his "movie"? That was a guy i enjoyed as an actor on Person of Interest but after the oast few years of his beliefs I now understand why the show went the way it did and why he was passed up for SEAL Team at the last minute.