Much. Thank you all for being here, appreciate it. Just some quick biographical stuff first, pete. Pete, you, as i was noting, were in the armed services. Heck of a basketball player in high school. I dont think you start off your career as a commentator, as a news guy. How did you and fox news ever meet . Good question. My First Television appearance ever was on msnbcs hardball with chris matthews. Ive never done tv before in my life and i had a marine buddy who had done tv twice, so he was an expert. He told me, he said just lean forward. Thats his first tip, it makes you look better stature, better posture. Lean forward and dont let the host cut you off. 46 times, Kris Matthews cut me off. So, i was a newbie, i did not ever anticipate id go into tv. I ran a couple vets organizations when i came back from iraq and then afghanistan. One, supporting the war fodder on the battlefield and then supporting reform at the va, still an ongoing issue obviously. Through that i ended up getting appearances on tv at a lot of places. A lot of it ended up being fox and friends. And ill never forget, one day they said, have you ever thought about asking questions instead of answering them . Is that im happy to try anything one time, worsley i do is make a fool of myself. It must have gone okay. That was 2015, early 2016. And then tucker carlson, the fox Friends Weekend host the primetime gig, and thank goodness because hes amazing and then i took tucker spot on fox Friends Weekend thats where ive been ever since. And the rest is history. David im not sure if it was your pen that wrote these words or pizza in the book, because its coauthored. But in the forward, right up there in the front, there is a note about the fact that when the two of you got together, it felt kind of like Indiana Jones and his father. One was sean connery and one was harrison ford. So, my first question to you is, which of u. S. Sean connery and which view is leave that to the imagination. But im older, so. He even looks like sean connery, doesnt he . Cant pull off the accent. Head of the two you get together for this book . I wont monopolize, i promise. I was at a fox friends diner and North Carolina and there is a beautiful young family in the corner who had their two young daughters there in uniforms. As they do it every diner, i walked around and was talking to everybody. I talk to them, and theyre talking about this wonderful school, st. Hills Classical Christian School in North Carolina that they send their kids to. I had not about Classical Christian School but my interest had peaked around that time, i wanted to learn more, the School System is broken, what do we do . He said, youve got to meet this guy david guy, he runs the association of Classical Christian Schools you have to shoot an email. So i did, shot him an email, i want to learn more, what do you guys do . He shot me tons of information. He had already done a ton of writing in research on this topic. I kept reading it and reading it, im calling him, calling him too much i think. On a regular basis and calling, david, i have a question of this. Can this really be true . Is this true . I want, point im looking at my wife and my office and i say, babe she runs a lot of the stuff on fox nation. I, said weve got to make a movie about this. People need to know whats going on, from john dewey to the original pledge of allegiance, we can get into that. So the bell me salute and what the progressives did, how they used the whole story. What david had done and the reason she did, it was a nobrainer. Then eventually the book. But none of this happens without David Goodwin and the research and expertise he brings to the topic. [applause] now, i best at just about everyone in this audience has now some familiarity with this whole Critical Race Theory. It being taught in our nations goal today. What i found fascinating in this book is, right up front, the two of you make the point that thats just a very recent tip of the iceberg. This problem is, really, as much as 100 years old. So, one of you, please explain that. Well, it is. But its really a amazing part of the development of the book as we started in march of 2020. Which, if you remember, that was before Critical Race Theory when front and center before the George Floyd Riots and even before covid. The interest early on was pete and i were thinking about what needs to be told in the early 20th century, essentially nobody told this part of the story. But as we went on, history was unfolding in front of us, the schools were deeply involved. Pete kept coming back with, hey, what about this . I had this person on tv today, they said this, have you ever looked into this . Pretty soon, it was a truly collaborative product, where pete was writing most of the parts of the book that deal the contemporary issues of the day. What we found at is a fit together like hand and glove. John do we know sooner gets through with his work than i researched in Columbia University and the Frankfort School shows up. Pete had a lot better grasp on that side of things and i did. As a whole i think the work was really providential. It would not come to get there had not been the time and place and partnership. Pete . Yeah, the progressives had the targeting of our youngest minds on their mind from the very beginning. They knew they had to remove that one immovable object inside American Civic Life and in western civilization if their schemes were to ever catch on. And they understood that immovable object was god, face. And that it was at the center of the american classroom since the founding. And they had to replace, it the way we describe it is to keep the Indiana Jones analogy going. Its like when youre trying to grab a precious artifact but its on a precious plate. If you take that artifact off the pressure plate, the alarm bells go of. If they had removed got immediately 100 years ago, the parents, the culture, the communities, the churches would have revolted. So, they openly wrote of the new republic and other publications, this is what david did, they discussed how do we remove god from the classrooms. Thats immovable object. They ultimately landed on a forgery, which the culture at the time was willing to accept. Which, effectively, was allegiance to the state. It was the flag, it was a new pledge. He pledge of allegiance written by a socialist that didnt say under god when it was originally written. I love the flag i probably said the pledge allegiance today at the beginning. I revere it. For, them it was a new idea around which they could get society to adhere, that was more valuable than nationalism being more valuable than biblical truth. When you biblical truth and objective truth you cant move people off of that. So, when will find when you read the story from the characters is almost to a man and to a woman they are atheists, humanists, socialists. And then eventually, marxists. Who reject biblical truth, who reject the idea of human nature and our fall in nature, sinful nature. Once you can change and reject that, then you create a laboratory for societal change inside classrooms. One of the other things that david discovered through his research and that we write about is the early progressives studied one of the First Successful social movements, prohibition. A woman named margaret what was her name . Willard. Francis willard. I was get frances bellame and Francis Willard confused. She was a suffragette, socialist. If we can put it into the curriculum of third graders, maybe then we start have a chance. The 1870s, third grade curriculum, anti alcohol was put it in classrooms. It was still an ad hoc system, before john dewey horsemen but a third grade curriculum is put in. By 1919, what do you have america . Prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol. The progressive said, wait if you can do that with a third grade curriculum what else can you do with third grade curriculum . They discovered a word called pie day. They didnt discover, they knew it from our founders. We put it at the book its how you can train the youngest. If you can change what he can change the entire way civilization looks at what they value. Well, as we said, the pledge, one nation under god, it divisible. Would you go so far as to say that when socialists and those who created the pledge were after what youve described to them under god as the state yes, originally, but the originally pledge written by Frances Belle meade not include under god. Under god was added by eisenhower when we are fighting the communists in the 50s. The original has no mention of god. To oversimplify, basically, what the progressives did was they said under the guise of Vocational Training for a new economy. What they did with they replaced a cross in the bible in the classroom with a flag and a pledge. Overtime, gradually speaking, while saying theyre going to start a different type of school over here where god is not allowed inside but we have a pull out period where you can go to instruction outside of the school. Not on School Grounds but we still respect that you have faith in god. It is incremental then when they moved to new york they took a different approach. You should explain the idea of the carey plan, david because thats one thing that blew my mind. They started a school in gary, indiana that intensely tried to change the way that school worked altogether, k through 12. Right. The intentionality was visible because they created these models in several places around the country but carrie became the center point of it. The thing about gary was anybody who knows the town, you know it from the musical or whatever. But it was formed in about 1905, is a very new city. And they could take the education wherever they wanted to take it. One of deweys disciples was the superintendent of that area and they built the gary planned there in indiana. Its features were things you probably all thought were always in school. Like bells that ring at the end of a 55 minute period. The seven period day. The idea of subjects broken up into the social sciences being inserted into it. Pete talks a lot about the social sciences element, ill leave that to you later. But this was all packaged up and they removed religion, Christiane Eddy from the classroom by simply putting it in a pull out period. When he first encountered the story was when i was reading the back and forth in the editorial pages of the new republic between 1915 and 1918. Where theyre arguing about how to get caught out of the classroom for good. One side is saying hey, if we put it in a poll out period we can eventually just drop. It either side was saying, we shouldnt have a pull out period, especially when you imported back to the new york, which is what happened with the carry plan. It was successful so they imported back to new york. The whole modern american experience, especially in high school, was decided carry and it was designed without god. It was the first design of that tight. In the book, you described at some length this whole woke movement. Part of being woke is saying hey, youre invading my space, those words are harmful all the rest of that. I read, this i just cannot believe it when i read it in your book. That is that the United States the National Archives and records administration, the agency that is the nations attic and keeps all of our records and takes care of the constitution of the United States and the declaration of independence. When you access the archives website, it suggests upon the top right hand corner, there are harmful words in these documents. How can this possibly be . Its true. You go to the website of our National Archives for the declaration of independence and the constitution of our United States of america and theres a trigger warning. A potential violent content, inappropriate content. As the logical extent of the view of the left. It is, they want to reject, they have rejected the ideas of their founding. And their theories were dedicated to that from the beginning of when they landed on our shores. David talked about the early progresses, john dewey and other names you will be introduced to. Then you have the critical theorists of the Frankfort School, who flee germany. Theyre all marxists. They flee hitler they land in new york. And they are welcome at Columbia University where john dewey had been a professor. What is columbia at that time . And what its Columbia Teachers College still today . The preeminent Teachers College in the United States of america. The marxists arrive with a new theory called critical theory. Sound familiar . Its the precursor to Critical Race Theory and critical gender theory. They begin the tj that they began to teach it in the Teachers Colleges. Which means, when those teachers go out and become heads of their department and other places, that teaching critical theory. What is critical theory, to your point . Critical theory premise is to deconstruct, effectively, western christian civilization. It is to criticize all the that lead to the white hero patriarchy capitalist system that must be torn down if we are to advance marxism. They thought, in an economic sense, but it soon became a cultural sense. They knew the bourgeoisie proletariat class warfare wasnt going to fly in the United States of america. Instead, are terrible past of Racial Injustice was more fertile ground. The critical theorists eventually landed on Critical Race Theory as the way in which they could indict america from the very beginning. We call the first chapter of our book the covid 1619 moment. Because covid happens, the zoom classroom comes into all of our homes. You open the laptop and in American History theyre teaching 1619 as a newfound a day. Because they have rejected 1776 on the principles there, of their indicting america from the very beginning as being a terrible country. That type of logic at the academic level, which has now made its way pervasively into k through 12, of course leads government institutions to say the declaration and the constitution need trigger warnings. Because they are written by slaveowners therefore, they must be canceled. We need to find a new founding day and all the wisdom they had, despite their, flaws needs to be rejected. That was a premise of critical theory from the very beginning. They used to only teach that Higher Education and now all the teachers that have been through the Teachers Colleges and had all the academician that are now in bed with the unions. By the, way i see Rebecca Friedrichs here who is a great friend of ours, was in our fell this education of america. She was standing up to goliath, took on the teachers unions in california for 30 years. Just an amazing individual. [applause] weve done a lot of wisdom from a lot of people who have been on the front lines of this. And frankly we were yelling about it before theyre paying attention, now they are paying attention. But those theories have been embedded into herds details that tell you get to the point where Something Like that appears on a website. Well explain. This is why you have to read this book, really. Let me pull a coat from your bucket id like you to explain for us. The right has long held the right principles, but the left controls the positions. What do you mean by that . Its a political question, you get it. What do i mean by that . What i mean is, look at local school boards. Look at union representation, look at our universities. We stand on principles that we know are timeless and believe that they should be timeless and that they do stand on their own. Whether its the barely of our founding or the biblical wisdom. And then the left goes ahead and runs for all the positions, takes over of institutions and then pushes out all the stuff that we thought was timeless and would be there no matter what. Theres one thing you could fault founders for, its assuming that this type of education would continue. That is how kids would be educated at some level, with an understanding of greek and latin and great books and our biblical, western civilization narrative. They kind of assumed that would be the waters weeds women and they had an anticipated the critical theorists and others who came about after that and try to deconstruct everything they did. Thats why, were not trying to be pessimistic in this book but you guys remember the stuff we cover on fox. Of parents rising up at school boards, right . Loudoun county, virginia. Glenn youngkin gets elected, its all amazing stuff. Its wonderful to see, its heartening, i mean that sincerely. But those types of actions in todays government schools. Thats what we should call them, government schools, Public Schools are government schools. Those types of actions, as we see in the book, i feel like its a charging a fortified machine gun nest with nerf guns. We salute your effort but were going to bury you all. Those school boards, what did they do know those parents 95 of the time . Good luck, see you later, next. What changes . My mom protested at pta meetings with the school board in the 80s and 90s, when i was an elementary school. And god bless her she took me out of those courses, whe