Occurred to me this morning. I haven't spoken about July fifth, and I
got notes from people who've been with me on local and national radio for years,
and they've said, are you going to talk about July fifth? If
you're new to the program, July fifth was a very important day for me
in the formation of I guess full circle moment because my dad and I as
a family, and my sister family, we used to spend Independence Day together
out of the lake that's not far from where we're at right now or where
I'm at North Idaho, and it was on July fourth. This was,
gosh, twenty two years ago, twenty two years ago that my dad utterly
refused to die on that July fourth, just refused. And there's a lot
of things to talk to in the show, and we'll probably get to that,
the cultural things you're we're of the political stuff, and we might get
to that. But I wouldn't be able to do the show in any good
conscience, honestly and to feel good about what we do here if I didn't
speak what's on my mind. So it's opportunity to turn out two and out.
We may not get to the political stuff, but I may tell you
what it was like. My intention is say tell you what it was like
to keep this promise my dad extracted from me. My dad had said,
when it's past the point of no return, meaning his life, when he
was going to die, make sure it goes quickly. And he taught me
my whole life about you never let an animal suffer. Come across an animal
to spend gut shot, you spend your day tracking it, and you put
it out. Its misery. That actually happened to us when we were hunting
found a gut shot deer. My dad was furious someone would let that go
and not track it down, and we spent an entire day tracking that poor
animal and finally finally dispatching it. I'm not comparing my dad to a deer,
but he told me. He told me something related to hunting. We'll
talk about that if you stick around. Also, I want to take that
and move it into culture today, because, as we said in the five
minute focus, if you watch that, I am so glad I'm not single.
I am so glad I'm not in the dating room because of dating apps
and what I think they're doing to society. I'm farewell convinced that's what they're
doing to society. At least we'll get started with all of this with the
help of our YouTube channel. It's YouTube dot com slash at the Todd Herman
Show. If it's just the fun of watching people who hate my guys leave
comments, that is sort of fun. I'm trying to get some of all
on the show. I think Air troll Day would be a fun day.
And of course we'll do this with the help of God Almighty, who is
right there, right there in the room. When I was I guess forced
to keep a promise to my dad churn up the morphine. We'll talk about
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I couldn't in good conscience proceed with the show without talking about this,
not just given the notes that I got, but simply because I need to
talk about it. So I'll pay you later for the therapy. We'll send
you a check for the therapy. Good therapist about one hundred and fifty bucks
an hour. So stay tuned, right. It was a long process getting
to this point where my dad was ultimately in the hospital bed in which he
died. And it began with a prayer at home. Began with a prayer.
Billy Graham taught me to pray, not really, but it's the only
book I ever read about prayer. At that time. I'd obviously read the
Bible parts of it, had not yet read it all the way through.
I didn't yet understand it, but I read it. I didn't have a
relationship with God, but I believed in Him and was encountering him and having
moments with Him. And I said a prayer at home, and part of
that prayer, and I'll focus on this part of the prayer because today is
about this. Part of that prayer was to God saying please show my father
how sick he is and how much he has loved. And that was a
prayer set on my knees. And I said that Billy Graham taught me to
pray. So Billy Graham suggested a prayer structure that I find incredibly helpful.
And that prayer structure is, Dear Lord God, I pray to you,
not as I think of you, but as you know yourself to be.
And the reason I love that structure is I feel it releases us from our
concept of God and the consequential limits, because in our concept of God we
are limited beings. We are going to create limits for God. Even if
we say, well, he's limitless, he's powerless. He is all powerful,
all knowing, is all seeing, is all of these things. We
can't relate to that. Those are words we can't relate to. Being omniscient.
We can say the word and think we understand the concept. But think,
just just for a moment, of an eternal creature being a personality,
a loving God who has always existed and always will. And one day,
see there's the limit. I was going to say. One day, God
said light be there were no days. There were no days. He made
days for us. We need them. He doesn't. There was no time.
He doesn't need time we do to make sense of things. He doesn't
need directions or compasses. He doesn't need maps. He doesn't need words.
He made words for us and then named his son the word, or at
least one of the names of the Lord Jesus. So in that structure,
dear Father God, I prayed to you, not as you think of yourself,
but as you know yourself to be. It freezes from these limits.
And so part of my prayer, And that was at night. It was
a prayer before bedtime on my knees. Please show my dad how sick he
is and how love and how sick he is, and how much he's loved.
That next morning, I woke with a phone call and it was my
uncle. Your dad is in the emergency room in Spokane and he's not expected
to live. You need to get over here. So I went and sprinted
and made it to an airplane and flew to Spokane, picked up a rental
car and drove into the hospital. And sure enough there was my dad and
he was in the hospital room, and my sister and my mother, who
was the divorce wife of my dad, or that remained very dear friends and
loved each other till the end. He was there, she was there,
and immediately we were confronted with you need to sign this, do not resuscitate,
that's what your father wanted. So my sister and I discussed it with
my mom and we did. That was a long time before he ended up
in the hospital bed in which he died. It was, gosh, probably
six months or so, maybe longer. He was in the hospital a long
time, and they did a great job trying to figureut what was wrong with
them. They really did, and he had fantastic insurance. Fantastic insurance.
They even got up a helicopter flight to Seattle, which is where he ended
up dying. And once again it was a phone call from my uncle when
my dad awoke from coma in Spokane. This is six months prior. He
sang a fight song with my mom. They sang the Cougar Fight Song.
My dad made a joke, being as sick as he'd let on. It
was a line from Tombstone that he said to me because I went and saw
him and he in fact, when the doctor when he'd come out of coma,
he spoke to the doctor. And the doctor came into the room and
sat down with all of us. He goes, your dad is awake,
and I think he's gonna make it, but I'm very concerned that he doesn't
want to live. I said why. He said, well, when he
woke up, he said, am I alive? And I said yes,
And your dad said, I was afraid of that. Listen, doc,
that's a little big Man. That's the great Western. You probably saw the
movie with Dustin Hoffman based on the book A Little Big Man. That's a
line from a movie. So I went in and saw my dad and said,
you had me worried, And then he pulled out a doc holiday line.
Well, I wasn't quite as sick as I let on. That was
six months prior to going to Seattle, and he and I talked and he
said, promised me this. When it's past the point of no return,
make sure it goes quickly. Do you remember the deer m the one that
we chased for a day, a ten hour day. Mm hmm. Remember
it went to the bottom. It went into that thicket and it sought the
bottom to hide. H don't let me get there when it's past the point
of no return. Promise me that, like we did with Deer, you
will make sure it goes quickly. And I think I prayed, I said,
Okay, I promise. I don't think I was really prepared for the
promise when that moment came, because it came about six months later, on
July fourth, but my dad refused to die on July fourth. It As
I'm telling this story, I'm getting prepared this weekend to have a couple of
friends. Our dear friend Zach Abraham is headed over this way. Zach's the
chief investment officer bow Or Capital Management, you know that. But my other
dear friend, Tim Krukshank is coming over. And Tim just went through this.
Tim just went through not the death of his father, but the death
of his wife, Liz. And he's coming over. And there is a
little bit of a rumor that Tim, the CEO bone Frog Coffee, might
be looking at a retail location over here in North Idaho. It might be
one of the many retail locations of bone Frog. There's one single, small
one right now in Washington State in Redmond, which is around where Tim lives.
So bone Frog is going to continue to grow. Praise God. Every
bag says God. Country team on it, and that's true. God comes
so first in Tim's life. So I hope these rivers are true, and
I'm going to put them to the test when he's over here and go see
if they're actually looking at buildings, because I've heard they're looking at buildings.
That would be phenomenal. That might mean that I would get to have my
friend closer to me. And if you've not got yet a chance to know
Tim, I will tell you this, you can know him in a way.
Although he's a man of real depth and real character. He's a retired
Navy seal buds instructor, Patriots through and through, has nothing to prove on
that front. But I would tell you this that you can get to know
him a little bit. Through the coffee. Tim could have done what a
lot of companies owned by people who have a footprint or a brand like Tim
does is a seal. It would have been very very easy for Tim to
go grab some junk coffee and put a cool brand on it. He refused.
He recruited Dave Stewart's a legend in the coffee business. She had his
best coffee was his company that Starbucks was forced to buy to get out of
their way to make some of the roasts and to mentor team the team bone
Frog and the rest of them. Tim hires veterans, works with the veteran
own companies whenever he can. But the coffee, it is so solid and
so indicative of who Tim is because it had to be the best, because
it says God, country, team, and part of team is family.
You might notice when you buy bone Frog these days, it's not right now
Tim leaving notes to customers always sometimes it's his kids. It's a family company.
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over in the midst of this grief, and we hope to go shooting and
have fellowship and brotherhood to help bring him out his grief. Not that it's
going to work. The grief is too raw. I got another phone call
about six months after my dad went into the hospital and Spokane that they were
moving him to Seattle because they wanted to be able to get him more intense
care. Now, the cynic in me says, yeah, maybe you wanted
him off the books. Maybe, but the doctors at the University of Washington
Medical Center were actually really into trying to save his life. In fact,
they said this, and I get this now, They said, your father's
a really interesting case. My father had a whole series of issues, some
of which he gave himself by refusing to treat himself. I've talked to him,
I've talked to you about his over use of alcohol, and I have
a profen that certainly didn't help. His refusal to take his meds for his
thyroid that didn't help. His over use of food didn't help. All those
things didn't help. All related to this core belief my dad was. My
dad had a core belief that he was a worthless man, that he was
unloved. He hated himself. So when he showed up at the hospital in
Seattle, it was six months after showing up in Spokane. But the craziest
thing happened in Spokane, the nuttiest thing. Remember that prayer, Dear God,
I pray to you not as I think of you, but as you
know yourself to be remember that prayer. Through his time and Spokane, he
started to get visits from people all around the country, some of whom were
eleven or twelve years old the last time he saw them. They simply learned
that he was sick and very sick and in the hospital and might not live.
They were now people in some of their twenties or thirties, some in
their forties, some of their fifties, and the younger ones were people that
he had worked directly with as a social worker, because he worked with troubled
kids, kids who were kicked out of the house, kids who were homeless,
kids were in juvenile hall, kids who had been in jail and then
put into adult prison, and from all around the country. They came to
share their love with him, to celebrate what he did for them, and
they used his nickname Big T. We had family members fly in and so
many family members come and express this love. I watched my dad realize,
Wow, I truly am loved, and it was some of the most joyful
time my father ever experienced. Want to know why. Because he was forced
to sit there and accept the love, he couldn't walk out. He couldn't
say no to the social limitations. He couldn't say no to go in the
parties to family events. He couldn't show up late and leave early. He
had to sit there accept the love. He died before his dad mom,
well, his birth mother had died many many years before that, decades before
that. But he had come to accept my Grandma Nikki as mom. So
that was paid off. God paid that prayer off. My father learned how
sick he was, and he learns how well loved he was that prayer.
I didn't realize that until I took his ashes home. That was a moment.
Never carried the ashes of a loved one. My dad's ashes weighed in
at just about nine and a half pounds, like a baby, and I
was not able to drive emotionally unsafe. So my now wife drove me home
and I cradled the ashes of my father to my chest like a baby.
Later, she and I would bring a baby home about nine pounds. He
never got to meet her. It was six months later, and it was
another phone call, and it was from my same uncle, and my uncle
said, the hospital called me. They've run some tests. It appears to
your dad's kidneys and liver have shut down. He is not expected to make
it through the day. This was on July fourth. I got out of
beds and I prayed, and I drove to the hospital, University of Washington
Medical Center. I got there at about seven o'clock in the morning on July
fourth, and I walked into the hospital room and there was my father and
the doctor. The doctor took me outside. Of course, I said good
morning to my dad, told him I loved him, give him a hug.
And he had never really been an I love you guy. He'd said
it once or twice. It was hard for him, really difficult for him
to say I love you. He showed it. He showed it. I
felt loved so went out and I chatted with the doctor for a bit about
okay, tell me what's going on. And he said, you well,
your father's kidneys have stopped functioning. His liver stoped functioning. I said,
you know this, how well, here's the graphs we use. These are
the censors we use. Here's what we'd be seeing if there was liver function.
Here was what we'd be seeing if there was kidney function. Here's what
his urine is looking like. Here's what his blood's looking like. We're doing
these blood samples. All this adds up. These organs have stopped working.
And I said, and there's no bringing them back. He goes, no,
there's not. Okay, So standing there in the hallway, my memory
went back to what Dad had said, Remember the deer. Don't let me
get there. Make sure it goes quickly. I called my sister, who
was in the midst of a pregnancy. She had unfortunately lost some children in
pregnancy. She wasn't able to complete the pregnancies. It was horrible for her
and her husband, horribly painful. She was to be in bed rest.
She refused. She came down to say goodbye to my dad, and she's
a medical professional, so she came into the room her husband and she greeted
my father and they talked for a bit, and then her husband needed to
leave, he had to go to work, and so he said to my
dad, it's been an honor, big tea. And Dad said, don't
you make me come back if I mistreat my daughter. And my brother in
law left, my sister and I talked. I had her talk with the
doctor and the doctor explained it to her in professional terms. As colleagues.
And she took me aside, and she said, it's the end. So
how long can he live? She said, I don't know, forty eight
sixty four us. I said, ultimately, how would he die? She
said, well he would drown, So he would drown, and he would
drown them in his own body fluids. What do you feel? Distressed?
Probably, so there was that promise. Remember the deer? Son? Yeah,
I remember the deer. My sister went back in, was visiting with
my dad, and I took the doctor aside. I'll tell you a second
what I said. So I said to the doctor in the hallway, standing
there, just face to face, I need you to churn up my father's
morphine a lot. And he said, is he in pain? I said
no, I made my father a promise. And the doctor said, you
know what you're asking. I said, I do. I know how this
will end. It will be hastening his death. I also want to do
everything I can to avoid discomfort. I understand that he will drown than his
own body fluids. Is that right? Yes? How do I stop that?
Well? You can't because I guess you could sit next to him.
We can provide you a pump I can show you how to pump his lungs.
Okay, I'll pump his lungs. He said that could go on for
days. I said, oh, that's fine. So he turned up the
morphine a lot. He went into the room and he did it. He
didn't tell my dad what he was doing. Had we had the attorney's rights
to do that. My dad had given that to us. And when the
doctor left the room, I went over to my dad and he said,
is it taken care of? I said, I've just kept my promise to
you. He nodded. So as the morphine dire began, my brother half
brother came in with his now wife and I filled him in what was going
on. They sat and visited with my dad. Ultimately, my sister needed
to leave because of this troubled pregnancy which has resulted in my beloved beloved niece
who I love so dearly. And so he got to my father and got
to place his hands on my sister's stomach and to speak to the baby he
would never meet. He also wrote her a check. He wrote her a
check. I got to deliver that check to my sister and she got to
hold onto it for years. I think we kept the account open just for
that. It was for I forget the age, but we had reasoned at
some point my niece would be old enough to appreciate the check from Grandpa,
the actual check. My half brother and his brother, I mean he and
his now wife. They stuck around in the hospital room and we began doing
things to make my dad comfortable. And this was now at about two o'clock
in the afternoon, and that everybody that other people had to leave, my
sister had to leave. At some point my uncle came, another uncle who
was in Seattle came and he walked in and we greeted him, and he
said to my dad, hey, big guy, this is when you need
to fight it. This is when you need to fight it. You need
to fight. And I took my uncle asidea said no, no, no,
here's where we're at. My sisters confirmed this, The doctors confirmed this.
No, now's when you need to let go. How difficult is that
to say to my dad's little brother, no, big brother needs to go.
He abided. He didn't say let go, but he stopped saying fight,
so he had to leave. He said, I love you. I
think they shook hands. I think that was the physical manifestation of caring.
They shook hands and we started to do things like I was reading my father
the book that we'd read while I was in the hospital. I'd read him
Lonesome Dove, which is my favorite, one of my favorit books top five
favorite books, and so I was reading that to him. We were talking,
and ultimately the morphine hit pretty quickly and my dad was passed out.
And we continued to sit in the hospital room, and I continued to sit
there using this device that would pump the fluid out of his lungs. And
I don't want to be gross, It's not just it was not just mucus
because his body was not eliminating urine, et cetera. So I am I
am pumping his lungs so that I would not have my father drowned. I
would not have him in any distress. So we're sitting there on this and
my brother and he is now wife, and I are talking and visiting and
it it comes to about gosh, ten o'clock at night and the fireworks are
going off and at the University of Washington, we were in between a fireworks
display on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Back before the Communists owned it and Lake
Union back before the homeless people street people were given the ownership over this great
park called Gasworks Park. Before the Communists gave it to them, there used
to be fireworks, amateur fireworks shows on the lake, multimillionaires putting us off.
So the whole sky is lit with these fireworks, and they had turned
off the monitors. We didn't want the beeping anything like that. My dad
was breathing, but more and more shallow, and then the fireworks ended.
It's probably about eleven o'clock or ten thirty, I think fire excanded, just
silence. We just sat There was the sound of the pump. Anytime my
dad coughed, I would put this thing in his nose, go down into
his lungs and bring the fluid out. I think it was yeah, about
ten point thirty that the doctor walked in and we were sitting there quiet.
I had my hands on my knees and my head in my hands, and
very tired and maybe leaning against the railing of the hospital bed. And the
doctor came in and he said, I am so sorry. I didn't get
to know your dad a lot, but man, he was a real gentleman.
Interesting man, and I said, is he dead? He goes,
oh. I was thinking, Oh, he has to be. He has
to be. The amount of morphine I'm giving this man. Doctor walked over,
checked his pulse, his heart beat. I said, he's breathing.
And then the doctor looked outside at the last few fireworks and he turned.
He goes, is July fourth important to you guys? I said, yeah,
it's our favorite family holiday together. He goes, Oh, your dad's
not gonna die in July fourth. You think he would do that to you.
Your dad's holding on. Tell him it's okay to let him to go.
Now. Funniest thing happened a man who was so knocked out on morphine
that the doctor thought he was dead all the sudden showed sign of emotional life.
I'll tell you about this in a second. Maybe one of the reasons
that I'm driven to talk about this today is I have word that I can
share now, specific details. You know. The partner of the show Alan
Soaps, Young Alan, the young man who's nonverbal, so high on the
autism spectrum, but a great inventor of soaps and fragrances of soaps and Alan
Soaps dot com slash Todd is the website. This is the soaps we talk
about all the time, made in America, all natural, three generations to
soap making expertise behind them, huge quality soap hired. Now we have three
people, three young people working there that the rest of the world, the
party would rather see stored in a box or having been aboarted. I can
now share this with you that John, who is the dad of Alan and
he's the business guy behind Alan soaps. John went to the doctor yesterday to
have yet another screening. John's had a whole series of health issues. It
now may well be lung cancer. So John was appreciative yesterday that we prayed
together. And I would ask you, if you have a relationship with the
Lord Jesus and they're saved by him, that you would pray for wisdom for
the doctor's and discernment and strength for John. It would be a very very
difficult thing for young Alan to lose John. It would be a very difficult
thing for us and the show to lose John. John knows where he's going.
He's going with Jesus. There's no doubt he is a servant of the
Lord Jesus. So if you could say that prayer, and here I am
talking about my father passing. I was an older guy. I mean I
was twenty eight years old something, or maybe an older and Alan's Alan's only
thirteen. Would be catastrophically difficult for them. The Lord would see them through
it, no doubt, no doubt, but if he would just pray for
a John and appreciate that. So after the doctor left the room and told
us, yeah, it's July fourth, your dad's not going to die on
this day, my dad started to say something in his morphine stupor, mulummim
what I love you. He started to stay every few minutes and even got
clearer I love you. I've puzzled for many years how a guy who can
barely breathe was able to utter those words I love you. It was a
thing he most wanted to get through to us at midnight, because I wouldn't
lie to him. At midnight twelve oh one am July fifth, I said,
Dad, you did it. We had a wonderful fourth of July together,
a wonderful Independence day. You can go, you can let go.
You did it. And a little while after that he stopped speaking, stop
saying I love you. The Briskot so shallow. I was so tired,
and I still sat there by the edge of the bed. When I would
hear him distress, I'd wake up and activate the pump. And then,
for the first time since I guess probably five point thirty the previous morning,
I fell asleep for about two minutes. And in that two minute period.
I know this because I asked my brother later how long I was asleep.
He said, you're about two minutes. I fell asleep for about two minutes,
and my dad died, and my brother described it to me, and
Dad just went and in my sleep, I didn't know this, and then
I heard my brother say Todd, and I woke up and I knew,
and this is maybe morbid or weird, but I did everything I could to
inhale. I wanted to inhale the last breath my father, ah Man,
sorry for the bait and switch on the show this morning. It's just been
a while since I've told the story. So having inhaled this last breath,
then the rest of my dad's commands came to me. His promise, remember,
son, do not mourn my body. I will not be there.
My dad had accepted the Lord Jesus in the hospital. I'd like to say
that God used me for that. Maybe it planted some seeds. Ultimately,
it was a pot smoking hippie pastor from North Idaho who still has a pot
smoking hippie church. It was given us by God. He's a responsible pot
user, if there's such a thing. I happened to think meriwater is very
bad for you. But it was through the pot smoking hippie pastor who had
a great relationship with the Indian tribes up there. My dad loved the native
people, loved working on the reservation. I loved being made an honorary tribe
member. It was huge, huge honor for him. I remember that.
Never forget that he wore around his neck something that one of the medicine men
gave him all while in the hospital, and he'd accepted. Jesus, do
not mourn my body. I said to my brother and his now wife,
we have to leave. Can we stay? No. Dad was clear,
We're not going to sit here more in his body. He's not in it.
My dad hated his body. I'm so glad to know he will have
a new and glorified one. So very difficult thing to walk out of a
room with quote your dad left behind even though it's his body, And I
was just absolutely driven to talk to the desk people said, I know this
is so strange, but I can't leave without knowing what's going to happen in
my dad's body. What's the process here? We already knew where he was
going to go the mortuary. I had that all worked out, But what's
going to happen? And they said, well, your father will be moved
over to this location. You guys did want an autopsy. We're going to
do that autopsy and then your father's body will be a little of her two
and she got that. I said, so is that not going to happen
today? She said, yes, it is a way. You can let
me know where he's at, where his body's at. She said, sure,
we can call you. They're so good. We went through that process
of getting my sister back over and her husband's and we made a decision to
do exactly the other thing Dad told us to do was you are going to
go out and you are going to either have a huge garbage load of hamburgers
and French fries and beer or root beer or pizza. You're going to go
eat. You're going to celebrate my life, but you're going to do it
as a brother and sister. There wasn't a real argument about where to go.
It had to be this place called the Doghouse. My dad's heart was
always with the Washington State University Cougars, which is where he got his undergrad
degree. But he liked the hussyustas fine. It's where he went to graduate
school. So we did. But guys, this is the first time I
can tell you that I absolutely can look you. Are we in this camera
that I can actually look you in the eye and tell you I encountered my
dad's soul. There's no doubt that I encountered my dad's soul. It was
in the parking garage and my card been there since just before seven am the
previous day. It was an expensive parking job, and I was waiting in
line to pay. There's like probably ten people in front of me, and
all of a sudden, above me, above me, came the most beautiful
feeling of joy above me, a feeling of joy, And then I felt
my father's voice inside my head. I felt it. I didn't hear it,
I felt it. I felt it in my body, my Dad said,
I can move, I can move, I can fly. I had
no anticipation. Is such a thing. And I started to laugh and cry
in the parking garage and I spoke out loud. I said, well done,
Dad, you died a great death. Well done, and we went
over to meet at the restaurant. I'll complete this in just a second.
Wow, the way this partner Announcements are working on today, this is nuts.
Yeah. I would have absolutely gone and taken over my dad's house and
I would have gone through the medicine cabinets and said, we are done with
the ibprofen. For God's sake, We're done medicating you with wine. I
know you're probably an alcoholics, so we're going to work our way down.
I'm not going to force you to go cold turkey, but on the iberprofen,
Dad, this is killing you. The autopsy showed my dad had liver
disease, and probably because of the alcohol. Definitely because of the overuse of
iberprofen. It wasn't just the autopsy that said that. I had a therapist
at the time who was a psychiatrist, a reformed pill pusher. She no
longer prescribed medications. She just thought that they were just they were just terrible.
She read that, you know, having been to med school, and
came back and said, yeah, it's pretty clear your dad destroyed his liver,
and probably with the iboprofen. The wine wasn't helping. Because my dad
had probably twelve maybe sixteen I have a profen a day because he was in
so much pain because he just so mistreated his body differently than me. I
mean, I don't mistreat my body, I think, but I'm constantly exercising
and pushing very hard. My dad was constantly eating and pushing very hard,
and it just added up into a lot of inflammation. I'll just tell you
exactly exactly what I would have told him, trade for trade Iberprofen makes inflammation
worse. It assaults your liver, it assaults your kidneys, it's bad for
your brain. It's pharma and circle right back to the beginning. It's making
the inflammation worse. It is only masking the symptoms. On the other side
of this native path krill, it is going to reduce the inflammation. It's
going to protect your hearts and your liver an immune system. It is far
more absorbable, far more potent, far more effective than fish based omega threes
because of its potency as a crustacean. Krill with a k is a crustacean.
It is a purer form of this in that these krill live in the
Antarctic. These aren't farmed krill by the way. They come out of the
Antarctic, and those are the purest waters in the ocean. So I would
have said to my dad, I am the iboprofin's gone, it's in the
landfill or I've burned it. Here's your native pathcrill and yeah, take more
if you need it. I am, says said the other day, I'm
going to be taking more because I'm upping my volume of exercise as I get
near to seal fit. So I will say it to you. If you
or a loved one is eating iberprofen, stop it. Please go to nativepathcrill
dot com sash Todd and just see the specials they have for you there.
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So we get to the doghouse and I walk into the bathroom in a bar
that has been playing modern music. So the hits of the day, because
it's a bar for college kids, the hits of the day. I remember
going, oh, my gosh, youri have to put up with this music
for college kids. And we're sitting here and we ordered pizza and hamburgers.
By the way, I was pretty gluttonous at that point. I was at
my not quite four hundred pounds. I started losing weight, but I was
probably it was probably to eighty, so I started the process of dropping fat.
This is a lot less than four hundred or three eighty was I don't
know there was ever four hundred, but three eighty three ninety. And as
I'm as I'm in the bathroom, it's now all of a sudden, the
music pauses and the song Turnturn Turn comes on, the beat of the Birds
version of Turnturnturn from the Book of Ecclesiastes. For every season, there's a
time, a time to live, a time to die. And I'm listening
to this, going how in the world is this on? And it was
my dad's favorite folk rock song. Dad was a country music guy. He
didn't like much folk rock, but when that came on, he'd turned that
up. I'm thinking this has to just be on in the bathroom, but
I walked outside. It wasn't just on in the bathroom. It played.
I sat down and it went back to hits of the day. This is
one song. And I even told my sister and her husband about the significance
of that from the Book of Ecclesiastes. So we ate, We talked about
Dad, We toasted him, talked about what he would have word at the
restaurant, which would his joke would have been one of everything. Then he'd
say, what are you guys going to eat? I went home and at
that point it was probably two or three o'clock, maybe later, and I've
been up since five point thirty the previous day with that little two minutes of
sleep, and had two cats, Schmidty and Floyd. If you have to
have me push you to tell you, okay, I'll tell you. I'll
tell you. They're Schmidti and Floyd, both of them female. And I
went and laid down on a futon couch. I'd eaten ice cream because to
eighty who cares? And Schmidty the orangish cats, the tiger type rangish cat
pretty much orange, a little tiger stripes. She came and she laid down
on me, and I went to sleep and I fell asleep. I made
I passed out, and in that sleep I woke up feeling my dad's beard
against my face and I opened my eyes. I made sure, like,
wait, what am I feeling? I was feeling his beard. He grew
this incredibly luxurious beard, thick, beautiful beard. In the hospital, someone
told me it's because of the hormone, the THAIROI deficiency, your hair can
get really thick. And to make sure I was awake, I petted the
cat Schmidty, and then once again I felt my father's voice. It's not
hearing it, it's not seeing it, it's feeling it from the inside out.
And my father said this, where is your sister? And I spoke
aloud. I said, Dad, she had to leave to make sure that
she has a successful birth. She's staying with a friends. And I don't
know where that friend is. They'd come over from spoken to be there,
so she was staying with a friend. And my dad said, I have
to go. Please tell her I love her. I said, I will.
That was the last time I ever heard my father's voice or felt it.
That was July fifth. There's a whole bunch of news we could have
talked about. Hunter Biden being brought into the White House meetings. Steve Bannon
just broke this. Reporter Jonathan Carlth ABC just busted him over his rhetorical knee.
Brian Stelter going back and forth on Joe Biden's dementia. There's so much
and we'll get to this next week. We're gonna take some time off for
July fifth and July fourth, so so many things we could have covered,
and some cultural stuff we'll get to next week about online dating. But here's
the show. Close ready, you and everyone you know will die. You
have a soul. I am telling you I met my father's I am telling
you I spoke with a Catholic priest, a very strict Orthodox Russian Catholic priest,
who was there when his father died. His father rejected God even until
the last second, refused to reconcile with God. His father was dead.
They kept the equipment on his father was dead for about fifteen minutes, and
then though the brainscan didn't show anything, the organ activity didn't show anything.
They had the alarms off, but the equipment on that man's body. That
man's body sat up in bed and said, oh, my soul, oh
God, Oh no, my soul. The brain monitor, the organ monitors
recorded nothing. You'll face it. Where are you going? It's knowable.
Accept the Lord Jesus is your Lord and savior. Ask him into your life,
ask him to change you. You'll be filled with the Holy Spirit.
It's not going to solve your problems. You will still get lonely, He'll
still get angry, but over a process of time he will change you.
I will give you this warning. You're going to hate disappointing God as you
grow. Independence day is tomorrow. We have independence from the sting of death
if we want it. So do you want it again? Sorry for the
bait and switch. I've always pledged to always be honest with you. There's
simply no way I could have done the political show today. Just couldn't.
This is the Todd Hermann Show. Please go, be well, Go be
strong, go be kind and go and make decisions.