WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:06.559 Well, and I was your age. There are these realities, yeah, 2 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:14.039 and we love them. We liked reality. It's because I'm an old dude. 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.920 But all of a sudden I find myself really concerned about younger generations and 4 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:23.440 what's being stolen from them. Today I want to talk about four realities maybe 5 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:28.160 four, maybe more, that are being stolen from young people. And these 6 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:35.640 realities don't just mean ideas. They mean concrete things in which the United States 7 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:42.920 has stood for well ever, with some minor exceptions. But the major change 8 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:48.439 that's coming and is in fact here now. I don't think it gets discussed 9 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:54.960 enough, particularly for our kids and grandkids and generations after So good morning to 10 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.799 everyone joining us live. Thank you. I'll get into the chat room and 11 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.520 I asking questions if people in the chatter and so we can interact a little 12 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:06.159 bit more. I will do that. And if you're listening and are watching 13 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:10.319 later, we love you equally. So let's get started talking about this. 14 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:12.640 With the help of renew dot Healthcare, we're building the website. The event 15 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:15.519 is on. 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It is 25 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:55.959 so Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by big pharma technocrats and tyrants 26 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:07.159 everywhere. I'm Mountains of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile God her 27 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:17.080 Man. Today is a day the Lord has made, and these are the 28 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:23.960 times to which God has decided we shall live. When I was a young 29 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:32.759 kid coming up, there were these realities that eluded me, and sometimes I 30 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:37.919 wish that they never got straightened out. Really, I wish that I'd lived 31 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:42.159 in the romanticism. Some of the things that I allowed myself to believe. 32 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:46.000 One of my very favorite stories of that era. When I was a young 33 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.560 kid, a snipper and a snapper and a whipper, we were headed up 34 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:55.439 above my Grandpa Marrow's property in eastern Washington, and man the myths that were 35 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:01.319 built around Grandpamorrow. Grandpamorrow, I would told he was a gambler. He 36 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:07.439 played poker, won his land in a poker game. And I believe this, 37 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:10.479 and I told my friends, Oh, my, my grandpa was a 38 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:15.599 great Grandpa was a brilliant poker player. And in fact, Marrow Marrow Park, 39 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.360 you guys know that that's my grandpa's and he won it in poker games. 40 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.120 And we were driving up there one day, my dad and great Grandpa 41 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:30.280 Morrow, and we got up above his lands probably well not his land, 42 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.159 but his home. He had a whole bunch of acreage. And there was 43 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.479 the Russians that lived up there, and he let them live on his property. 44 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:44.319 And we drove by and I saw all the these kettles and stuff, 45 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:49.719 and I said, Dad, what do the Russians make? And my dad 46 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:54.080 said tea. They make tea. Oh cool Russian tea. I'd like to 47 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.759 try some. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do that, yeah, 48 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.240 we'll try that, because I know your mom like's tea. So we went 49 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:05.199 up to peak, up to what my dad had named Cougar Rock, and 50 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:10.159 great Grandpa he couldn't walk pretty too well at that time. So he and 51 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.199 I, my dad and I went up to Cougar Rock and he told me, 52 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:14.000 you know, I used to sit up here as a kid and pretend 53 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.920 to be a cougar or mountain lion. And one day Grandpama was going to 54 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.319 sell his property, and you know it's going to go to the family, 55 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:23.879 and one day may even be a own part of it. So when Grandpa 56 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.959 Marrow died, I was telling my dad, you know, we got to 57 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.639 tell the story about Grandpa went in poker games and stuff. And he said, 58 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:39.920 wait, you believe that, Yes, you told me Grandpa didn't win 59 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:43.759 poker games. No, Grandpa was a shipping clerk. He just was good 60 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.839 with money. He saved and he scrimped, and he bought, and then 61 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.920 he homesteaded and he lived affordably. He had his own meat and his own 62 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:56.120 food, and he had his own water, and he raised crops and he 63 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.920 was a farmer and a shipping clerk. And well, what about the poker 64 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:04.279 then I said, Dad, the Russians, what did they make it? 65 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:11.040 Because it was moonshine. Wait, you didn't let me taste moonshine like I 66 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:15.600 could have had actual, like illegal whiskey. Well I had it, I 67 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:21.759 never got to taste it. And all these myths that we built up, 68 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:27.439 I built up, I guess choosing to believe around Grandpamorrow. That came just 69 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.319 tumbling down. And so then I started to ask my dad, did Grandpamorrow 70 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.560 actually come across the country in a covered wagon? Is that real? Yeah? 71 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:40.040 That happened. Well how do you know? Well, because Grandpa had 72 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.040 the covered wagon and now it's in the Smithsonian Institute. Okay, so that's 73 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:47.399 real. Did the chickens actually was there a tornado where the chickens were in 74 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:51.439 such a secure pen that their feathers got blown off? But not that the 75 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:58.519 chickens they lived but without feathers for a bit. Is that did that happens? 76 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:00.800 I don't know. I think it's unlikely that the feathers got blown off 77 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:09.160 chickens and they lived, but maybe so those are all kind of inert, 78 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:17.720 harmless myths, right. What's being done to gen Z millennials is so much 79 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:25.399 worse than any of this, because it's myth creating, and it's not for 80 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:30.199 fun. It's not to have lovable old man, lovable old curmudgeon stories. 81 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:36.439 It's to change their concept of the place they live, is to change its 82 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:42.279 obviously to the negative. Well not obviously, but I guess you guess to 83 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:47.319 the negative. One of the biggest things that's being stolen from young people is 84 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:56.199 the ability to look skeptically behind the scenes of compassion. So behind the scenes 85 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:00.360 that compassion works like this, if you understand how Satan works, which so 86 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:04.040 often he masquerades as an angel of light, then you understand how politics works 87 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:12.079 that things masquerade as kindness and angel of light. Treatment young people gen z 88 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:19.800 and Millennials were purposely made into beings who have trouble separating opinion from feelings. 89 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:27.759 When common core was really pushed down upon this generation. You remember this, 90 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:32.360 if you went to school during this period of time, they would present paragraphs, 91 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:40.120 like a couple of paragraphs of really emotive tales. You know, Danielle 92 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.879 wants very much to go to a private school, but her mom says that 93 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.959 she needs to stay in public school because this is the way she can be 94 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.399 inculturated and grandma and grandpa went to public schools, But Danielle's friends go to 95 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:54.839 private schools, and she feels very left out because they have activities she does 96 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:59.000 not have. When she talks to her friends about the school she attends, 97 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:03.319 they sometimes look at her with sad faces, as if to say, well, 98 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.680 yeah, your mom and dad don't love you as much. And question 99 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:13.759 from the form from the teacher form an opinion about Danielle's parents. Are they 100 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:22.759 doing the right thing? You can't possibly form an opinion from that. You 101 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.120 can have feelings about it. You can say, wow, suck. I 102 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.800 can see why Daniel's said, I can see why she feels left out. 103 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.159 I can see why she feels less than the other girls who get to go 104 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.480 to the private school. I can see why she's be frustrated with the present. 105 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:41.679 But you couldn't possibly form an opinion because you do not have any salable 106 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:46.600 facts like do her parents have the money? Like what sort of private school 107 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.799 is this? Like what are the values of this family? How far away 108 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.840 is the private school? Is it a long drive? Does she have brothers 109 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.840 and sisters who would then want to go to that private school? Does she 110 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.919 fare better in public scho circumstances what I refer to as government schools. So 111 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:13.320 they set up circumstances in testing that we're constantly changing what opinion is versus feelings. 112 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:18.039 And then of course the creation of the phrase your truth and my truth, 113 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:24.360 and this is conspired to create a generation of young people who have trouble 114 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:31.240 looking skeptically behind acts of kindness that makes them very, very subject to lies 115 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:37.320 like the open border policy is the only possible way to have any kindness. 116 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.759 It's not kind. It is not kind to sink a life vote. And 117 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:50.399 your life vote is being sung when I refer to the United States as a 118 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.519 life vote, this is all I mean. We are five percent of the 119 00:09:54.519 --> 00:10:01.080 world's population. In America, we have taken in twenty percent of the world's 120 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.720 displaced peoples, and that's probably likely going to be more now that figure had. 121 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.240 Biden and the people who run him and tell him what to do, 122 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:15.399 have determined that to destroy the electoral college is to save America. That to 123 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:20.879 destroy the vote is to save America. That to replace you with them is 124 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:26.919 to save America. So the first myth that young people had stolen from them 125 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:31.320 or the reality, is that the great replacement theory The reality is it's not 126 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:37.279 a theory. This is a tactic that's being practiced. It's a tactic that's 127 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.639 being practiced very very purposely, and it's had incredibly bad effects on something else 128 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:46.480 that's being stolen from you, which is an economic future. It doesn't mean 129 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.080 that all things are over. Life is not a zero sum game. You 130 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.320 can still be entrepreneurial, You can still work to lift yourself, you can 131 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.240 still provide value that people are willing to pay. God wins in the end. 132 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.320 This isn't a reason to give up. It's just understand something that's being 133 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:09.440 stolen from you. The Epic Times looked into these employment numbers because now the 134 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:15.320 government is touting that even post COVID or as they would say, post pandemic, 135 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.840 we're seeing true and real job gains, even when you take into account 136 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.399 jobs that simply came back after the lockdowns. They never say lockdowns, but 137 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.200 they say after the pandemic, as if the flu shut down businesses. So 138 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.399 they're touting these numbers. But the Epic Times look closely into this and they 139 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:39.000 say a closer look at the household survey of the employment report reveals a more 140 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.919 gloomy picture employment for native born Americans has been in decline for the past four 141 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.320 years. This means that all of the job gains have gone to foreign born 142 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:54.159 workers, including both legal and illegal immigrants. Put a mental asterisk next to 143 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.759 that. Don't take the image off the screen. They'll take a mental asterisk 144 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:05.480 with legal and illegal immigrants, because there's a very important point coming back to 145 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.879 the epic times. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of 146 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.960 immigrants, legal and illegal working in the United States grew by three point four 147 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:18.240 million between February twenty twenty, shortly before the onset of the COVID nineteen nope, 148 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:24.080 shortly before the onset of the decision to destroy America under the guise of 149 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:31.360 a flu so February twenty twenty and February twenty twenty four. The number of 150 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.399 US born workers, however, declined by seventy eight thousand during the same period, 151 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.480 so again working United States, an increase in foreign born workers to three 152 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:46.399 point four million, decline of American workers by seventy eight thousand. In addition, 153 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.919 during the so called Biden administration, there's been approximately twice as many illegal 154 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:56.919 immigrants as legal immigrants entering the country. According to a study by the Brookings 155 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:03.759 Institute. So pause from the article. That would indicate that at least twice 156 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:09.440 as many of these new employees are illegal immigrants. Since the numbers are interchangeable, 157 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.240 there is no reason for companies to not hire illegal imornmants. And add 158 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.440 to this, now you have companies, is it the Tyson's chicken that was 159 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:24.320 breaking about this that they are bribing illegal immigrants to come to work for them. 160 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:33.360 There's a gold rush for illegal immigrants because there's a multifaceted theft. Part 161 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.080 of it is the theft of your vote. By watering down the electro college 162 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:43.399 and creating entire congressional seats that exist only because of illegal immigrants. It's a 163 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.799 back end way of stealing from you your vote. If your gen Z or 164 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.200 millennial, this is a way of watering down your vote. It's a way 165 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:56.039 of watering down your economic future by lowering the cost of labor forcibly, by 166 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:03.519 driving in massive amounts of supply of labor. Its lowering standards you have in 167 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.480 the separate country of Washington, the ability to go get a professional license as 168 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:16.519 an illegal immigrant. Back to the article, that's a big problem. Everything 169 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.000 we just discussed is a big problem, says economist Stephen Moore. Thank gosh, 170 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:24.759 we have economists to point that out. What we're interested in is how 171 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:28.080 the economy's working for the American citizens. So we're distorting the job market with 172 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.639 all the illegal immigrants. That's what I just said. Mister Moore, who 173 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.679 served this economic advisor to former President Donald Trump, criticized the Bide administration for 174 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:41.720 turning the US immigration system upside down. Well, they have. The great 175 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.519 replacement theory is not a theory, it's an activity, it's a plan. 176 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:52.360 It's been put in place. It's stealing from you the sanctity of your vote 177 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.639 because these people will end up voting. They're already allowed to vote in municipal 178 00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:01.559 elections. A judge in Washington, DC, course, illegal emerics can vote. 179 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.720 I mean, there's nothing in the constitution that says citizens vote, except 180 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:11.799 there is. But she doesn't care, which is tangential to something else being 181 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:18.360 stolen from you rule of law. But that's front of the show. When 182 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.320 you examine this, understand, none of this means that you can't succeed. 183 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.480 None of this means that you can't build great companies that provide great value. 184 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:30.120 None of this means that you can't go into an employment market and be so 185 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.679 good at what you do that people have to hire you. None of this 186 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.279 means that you couldn't go the other direction and move to a rural area and 187 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.679 go and homestead like my great grandpa Morrow did, although that's becoming harder and 188 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.240 harder because the party definitely does not want you to have the ability to live 189 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.120 in a rural sense. They don't. They tend to price you out of 190 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:54.200 that. So do it now if you possibly can, even if it's with 191 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.519 friends. I know young people who purchase plots of land together. I know 192 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:03.600 three families who did this. They're in their early thirties and early forties. 193 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:08.039 They bought plots of land, a plot of land together. They created a 194 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.759 little LLC. They have three homes on It's enough acreage. They don't have 195 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.240 to see each other all the time. But they're able to afford something they 196 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.919 otherwise could not. Maybe that's why, like I was lost that I was 197 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.919 with these young guys, and I got to tell you, it's so funny 198 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.360 because we were praying at the end and my friend Andy, with whom I 199 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.360 co lead, Andy's just better at it than me. Why am I reaching 200 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.600 over and adjusting things on the desk. Who I'm doing a show? What 201 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.799 happened to me? What happened to my professionalism? So I was with Andy, 202 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:42.000 and Andy'd asked me to close our group in prayer. And what stays 203 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.600 in small group happens the small group stays. I can just share this. 204 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.919 You don't came out of my mouth. I referred to these young men as 205 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:53.559 men. As it was praying. I said, I want to thank you 206 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:59.519 Lord for these men. I realized i'd said men, and I said, 207 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.960 then, you know what, I'm using that word purposely, Lord, thank 208 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.000 you for the privilege of seeing these young men become men. I mean, 209 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:11.720 clearly, they're younger than me and Andy, and they have the characteristics of 210 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:15.839 men, which is a full on caring about their world. Maybe this is 211 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:19.359 why I feel so drawn to talk about these topics. Maybe it's because I'm 212 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:25.400 getting ready to hand off to my daughter, who's a legal adult. Maybe 213 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.640 that's why. Maybe it's because God's calling me home. I know my wife 214 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.960 hates hearing that. I don't think he is. Maybe that's why all I 215 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:40.359 know is I feel called to discuss this another myth or some of reality that 216 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:47.039 being stolen from young people. Is America continues to be a place where, 217 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:53.160 despite the presence of the sin of racism, so called racial minorities do well 218 00:17:53.279 --> 00:18:00.640 despite this. Now, when I talk about race, sometimes I get emails. 219 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.839 In fact, let me pull this one up. I get emails like 220 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:11.680 this from Kimberly. Well, on a second, dear Todd, please stop 221 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.680 saying that you don't think of race when you think of people. That allows 222 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.680 the left to accuse you of the cliche of saying I don't see race, 223 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:23.039 like it or not. Your spokesperson for the rights and, as you say, 224 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:26.480 an ambassador for Jesus, So please think again about that. I don't 225 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.160 think it has the effect you think it. Do think it does. I 226 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.519 love the program, the podcast, and the two radio shows. Thank you 227 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:38.720 for reading my note. So, Kimberly, when I say I speak of 228 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:44.519 race, I don't say don't see it. I love the differences in people. 229 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.640 I love it. Now, this is going to sound pandering. It's 230 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.480 going to sound like I'm leading into Well, I've got many black friends. 231 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.720 I don't have many black friends. I have black friends, but not many 232 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:00.880 of them. I love it. In North Idaho, see a black family 233 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.640 come to church. I love it. I love it because I miss it. 234 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.160 One of the great things I miss about the separate countries is different ways 235 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.759 people look. One of the great things I miss is about different ways people 236 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:22.200 talk. One of the most satisfying aspects for me of the time that I 237 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.240 spent, you know, I was I would go to New York two weeks 238 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.079 per months. Sometimes there were people in business who actually thought I lived in 239 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.319 New York. I would get phone calls from time to time at my desk 240 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:34.839 at Microsoft, which had a New York number. I had a six four 241 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.480 to six number in addition to a four to h five, So people would 242 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.000 call me and say, Hey, we're going out to dinner. You want 243 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.319 to come? Oh, you know what I'm I'm in Seattle. Oh you 244 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.839 had to travel out? No, I live here? Wait you live there? 245 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:52.400 Does there? So commonly? But one of the greatest possible joys was 246 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:55.839 if I had the time to walk back from a meeting instead of taking the 247 00:19:55.880 --> 00:20:00.000 train. I would often walk all the way from downtown to uptown. Sometimes 248 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:04.200 I would jog from the top end of Central Park all the way back downtown 249 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.079 to where I was staying. I can't tell you the immense joy I had 250 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:12.480 in jogging through, okay, sort of the white neighborhoods of Midtown Manhattan, 251 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:17.440 down into Midtown where it's a little bit more mixed, down into Hell's Kitchen 252 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:21.039 where it's very very mixed, or if you're dragging cost town, you could 253 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.960 go into the very very observant Jewish districts. And yes, in fact, 254 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.880 there are diamond merchants there, and no, that is not an anti Semitic 255 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:32.599 statement. The other areas of town that were Asian then sometimes, and people 256 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:34.839 always warn me about this. I jog around through Harlem, and that's very 257 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:38.799 much a black community, and it's very much a different experience, and I 258 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:44.000 loved it. There were Jewish communities. I had the great joy of being 259 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.599 taken to dinner from friends of mine in friends of mine's homes who were good, 260 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:51.039 in fact, very very good and decent Jewish human beings. And I 261 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:52.920 would sit in their home and say, Wow, this is how you eat, 262 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.519 and this is and I loved it. I would come home and I 263 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:00.519 would have stories to tell, Oh, my gosh, my friends dinner. 264 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:02.960 I got to have a real Jewish dinner in a real Jewish home, and 265 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:07.079 here's how they celebrated, and oh it was incredible. I miss that, 266 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:17.799 and young people are being conned. America continues to be a place where so 267 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:23.519 called racial minorities are doing well. So it's a Kimberly's point. I don't 268 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:30.839 think of people as races. I think of them as unique. I certainly 269 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:37.160 don't construe skin color or facial structure with race. And I don't care about 270 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:44.160 race. I care about background and culture and food and art and ideas and 271 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:48.680 family rearing and faith. In other words, the aspects of us that make 272 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.839 us different from animals. Because there's breeds of dogs. I don't want there 273 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:57.079 to be breeds of humans because there's not. Furthermore, from a fundamental perspective 274 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:00.920 of faith, when Jesus Christ talks about that the body of Christ, he 275 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:06.759 doesn't say the bodies of Christ. We are all one in Him. The 276 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:11.839 fact of the matter is racial so called racial minorities are not languishing in America. 277 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:14.759 But if you look at this charts, that would be news to gen 278 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:18.519 Z. Starting on the right side of the chart, and if you're just 279 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.599 listening to the audio, I'll translate it for you. This was the question 280 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:29.279 racial minorities in the US have no hope of success because of racism, some 281 00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:33.440 whould agree, agree strongly agree. The total number of people who either some 282 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.440 would agree, agree, or strongly agree of boomers is twenty one point six 283 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:41.960 percent. If you go to gen X, it's thirty four point two percent. 284 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:48.079 Go over to millennials, forty nine point nine percent of millennials believe that 285 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:53.319 so called racial minorities have no hope of success because of racism. And if 286 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:59.920 you scan over to gen Z, it's fifty five point five percent believe that. 287 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:08.279 And the number that strongly agree is ten point three percent agree, twelve 288 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:15.880 point seven percent somewhat agree, thirty two point five. The younger the population, 289 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:22.279 the more likely they are to feel that so called racial minorities have not 290 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:30.160 little hope, not reduced hope, but no hope of success. Pause. 291 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:41.599 Put yourself into the body and mind of a young black kid, and this 292 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:47.839 is what the world at large thinks. This is what your pure group thinks. 293 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.759 How are you going to respond to that. There's a new form of 294 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.240 racism that's being talked about in de circles. You know what it is. 295 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:02.799 It's called adultification. We'll talk about this later, probably next week. Adultification. 296 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.960 So here's what adultification is. According to the DEI people, it's a 297 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:15.039 belief that black girls need less nurturing and love and caring for, and that 298 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:22.839 black girls are more mature than white girls. It's adultification, that's what they 299 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:27.440 call it. If you believe that you have no hope of success because of 300 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:33.079 racism, and you are told that your response to this is to take what 301 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:38.680 you want, wouldn't you be angry and covetous, and wouldn't you want to 302 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:44.720 act tough, and wouldn't you want to act out the anger you feel? 303 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:48.240 And wouldn't that sometimes cause people to think, Wow, you're not really open 304 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:53.160 to being nurtured or cared for. It's tragic, and perhaps that's not the 305 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:56.359 reason behind it. But I can tell you this, when I'm around a 306 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.279 kid who's super angry, super aggressive, wants nothing to do with me, 307 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.599 I may be able to go home and pray and get into the mindset of, 308 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.839 Wow, that kid really needs Jesus, that kid really needs love. 309 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.759 But at the moment I'm thinking, Wow, that kid's tough man, a 310 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.759 kid's filled with hate. That kid doesn't need that. I mean, how 311 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:18.119 could I. So it's a trap and sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. 312 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:23.720 Now the reality is something quite quite different. The economic reality is because all 313 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:30.240 of these facts aside, America is still a place where racial minorities are doing 314 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:34.640 well. It's still a place where everybody could do well if you're willing to 315 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:40.480 work. Sometimes, of course, luck is involved. Work is fundamental to 316 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:47.279 this. Work is fundamental. At alansoaps dot com slash Todd, we honor 317 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:51.640 the work of a young man named Alan. He's nonverbal, he's thirteen. 318 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:56.200 He's been through about eighteen operations. He doesn't need to work. His dad 319 00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:59.079 is enough money, his mom has enough money. But they made this decision 320 00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:03.960 that their son will work because he's got these structural health concerns and challenges that 321 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.599 caused him a great deal of pain. 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Go 339 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:19.680 to Alan Soaps dot com slash todd. You get temper sent off all the 340 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:26.640 products there. That's Alansoaps dot com slash todd work matters. Here's the reality. 341 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:30.680 If you're on the video service, you can see this on your screen. 342 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.759 If you're not yet doing video, you can subscribe at video dot to 343 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:37.000 Todd Herman Show dot com. It's one chart that kind of tells a story 344 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.200 the contention and what's been told to young people. This so called racial minorities 345 00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:45.400 cannot succeed in the United States, and yet look at the charts. Indian 346 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:48.880 Americans are earning an average of one hundred thousand, five hundred dollars per year 347 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:53.599 in America, Filipedio Americans eighty three thousand, three hundred, Taiwanese eighty two 348 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:59.799 thousand, Sri Lankans, seventy four thousand, Japanese Americans, seventy two Malaysians, 349 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.880 seventy thousand, Chinese Americans, sixty nine thousand Pakistani sixty six thousand, 350 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:10.480 two hundred White Americans, fifty nine thousand, Korean Americans, fifty nine thousand, 351 00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:17.000 two hundred, Indonesian Americans fifty seven thousand The average American so al so 352 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:22.279 called races, the average is fifty seven thousand dollars, Indian Americans earning twice 353 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:29.359 that, and their racial minorities so called so the fact of the matter is 354 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.200 what young people have been caused to believe about their country is simply not true, 355 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:41.039 but think of how it contributes. This is how DEI is sold, 356 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:47.240 not with this chart, but with the feelings. What's been stolen from young 357 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:52.960 people on a meta narrative basis is the ability to think skeptically behind feelings of 358 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:59.480 good intent. This is how the Democrat Party does it. They're the party 359 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:06.640 that can speak of good intent even in the face of utter absurdities. Imagine 360 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:11.000 that you work at an editorial entity. Imagine that you're told to go look 361 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:15.920 into a story. Imagine that you then see that story given a headline. 362 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:25.400 And this is from the Independent UK how climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans 363 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:32.279 sex workers. Nearly ninety three percent of respondent saw decreased income during the rainy 364 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:37.359 season. Imagine working at an editorial entity were boss says, hey, you 365 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.839 know, the climate change thing is really really bad. That's so bad here 366 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.640 in the UK, but let's go let's go to Indonesia and see the effects 367 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.960 of climate change, you know, on men who think they're women and are 368 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:55.559 in the business of sexually servicing other men. And let's see if this caused 369 00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:57.720 like a ding in their income. Then right, Okay, it's a big 370 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:07.359 story. The fact that stories like this exist come purely from feeling. First 371 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:08.640 of all, of course, men are not women. Secondly, they're not 372 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:17.920 sex workers, they're prostitutes. It's not work, it's abuse, it's trafficking. 373 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:22.799 This perversion is defilements, it's a lot of things. It's not work. 374 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.400 I mean they can get paid for it, but not everything you get 375 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:30.240 paid to do is work. You can get paid for fencing properties. So 376 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:36.240 part of what's been tolen from young people is the ability to look skeptically behind 377 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:48.519 feelings. Now dopamine I am the biggest target for dopamine highs. I admit 378 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:53.680 it. I've grown to understand it. I was a guy who could spend 379 00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:03.039 hours arguing on social media guy, and it took me for every risk. 380 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.559 What is this? Why do I care? But you know that whole myth, 381 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:10.119 that whole thing of well, if someone said something wrong on the internet, 382 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.960 so I'm fixing it. I could sit in a chair for two hours 383 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:21.680 wasting all my energy arguing with people online. But man, I owned him. 384 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.359 Hey when I saw those retweets pile in and those responses, and you 385 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.119 owned that guy, And hey, look he blocked me, shit have baby, 386 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.119 he blocked me. He could not stay in the eat, he blocked, 387 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.599 whoa I won. I owned the labs, babe, and I'd take 388 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.440 screenshots and go on my show the next day and talk about, Oh, 389 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.599 you wouldn't believe the way I owned this guy. Check this just tweet flame 390 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.920 them. Look at the ratios. I can feel it right now, buzzing 391 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:53.960 up in me. I can don't put mean baby, scroll scroll scroll, 392 00:31:55.039 --> 00:32:06.039 scroll scroll think. I can't tell you that it's some kind of conspiracy that 393 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:10.480 social media and the short attention time span came along at the same time as 394 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:17.400 the reperverse ideas of common Core. But I can tell you there's a commonality. 395 00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.079 And maybe this is just click culture. Maybe this is just earn the 396 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:24.480 money off the clicks, get the kids to click, the kids are all 397 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.680 right. Maybe that's all it is. But if you compare back to how 398 00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:35.200 we began talking about this with common Core, form an opinion about should Debora 399 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:37.680 be able to go to the public schools or the private schools? And you 400 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:42.680 don't have enough information to form an opinion, boom off of what was it 401 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:45.720 used to be one hundred and forty character tweet boom, issue your opinion, 402 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:50.920 create a thesis, publish it, get it peer reviewed. Yeah, there's 403 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.319 the degradation of the American mind. There's the dumbing down of the American populace. 404 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:57.359 There is no doubt there are people who want us dumb down. I 405 00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:00.880 think the whole drive behind common Core was the dumbest down. I think trust 406 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.960 the experts is dumbest down. I think trust the science is dumbest down. 407 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.480 I think safest most secure election in history is dumbest down. I think stay 408 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.200 home and stay safe is dumbest out. I think masked work is dumbest out. 409 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.799 There are people who would like us very much to be dumb and compliant. 410 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:22.559 Oh, they say, so, ninety percent of the world's going to 411 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.680 be unneeded world economic form. You're our harari. So what do we do? 412 00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:30.200 Sit them down in a chair, give them a video game that's AI, 413 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:36.559 and let them snack on psychotropics. After all, they're simpletons, they 414 00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:43.319 say it, So why not speed the process? Some realities have been stolen 415 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:47.680 from young people. Here's reality number three. Heavy users of social media. 416 00:33:47.960 --> 00:34:00.599 Don't use social media. It uses you. You are effectively minors miners, 417 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:13.360 not kids, but miners m I nrs in government funded surfdom cams. Let 418 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:17.760 some practice so heavy users of social media are serfs. You work for the 419 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:23.800 companies and their minions in government. What I meant to say, so, 420 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:28.079 the more time you spend doing this, the more work you're doing for free. 421 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:36.360 Do a thought experiment with me. Imagine going to Twitter and no one 422 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:45.239 posts there. What is it? It's a page that says tweet something. 423 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:52.800 Imagine going to Facebook, no one uses it. What is it? It's 424 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:59.480 a window that says what's on your mind. Instagram is the same thing. 425 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:02.199 I don't ever look at Instagram, so I don't know what it says, 426 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:07.800 but probably something like post a photo. What is it? It's a static 427 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:19.920 page. Heavy users of social media are unpaid employees. You are building the 428 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:25.320 psychological prison in which you live. You are building the click culture. You 429 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:35.480 are pushing forth the inability to think behind good intent, to be skeptical of 430 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:42.280 good intent. Open borders is pure compassion. Not prosecuting crime is the only 431 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:46.960 way to solve rampant racism. After all, minorities cannot succeed in America because 432 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:55.559 of racism. The inability to think behind these ideas. There's also this social 433 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:02.760 media absolutely absolutely drives depression and anxiety and the attempts to say that it doesn't 434 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.000 is one of the biggest lies in history. This is an example of a 435 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:10.719 tweet exchange that actually has some value to it. I mean there is value 436 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:17.079 to social media. You can see people argue at a decent level. God 437 00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:22.639 named Jonathan Heights wrote in review in Nature, Candice Rogers asserts that I've mistaken 438 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:27.679 correlation for causation, that there's no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children's 439 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:31.840 brains are driving an epidemic level of illness meant illness. Both of these assertions 440 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:38.280 are untrue, and Anthony broadly writes the attempt to discredit Jonathan Hate is really 441 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.199 exposing our cultures, gods and idols. He's stepping on toes. It seems 442 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:46.119 our kids and young adults are in serious crisis, and to not see smartphones 443 00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:52.480 and social media as a contributing variable is simply deliberate ignorance. It is absolutely 444 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:58.400 a cause of major depression and anxiety. And you're working for these companies for 445 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:01.760 free. The heavier user you are, the more work you're doing for free, 446 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:06.920 the more you've built of their platforms and their search engines and their data 447 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:13.519 machines and their ad targeting machines, and their sihopabilities in working with government and 448 00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:17.880 intel agencies, and the ability to use ad tracking and ad tech technology to 449 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.679 track you and to track world leaders. You have built that. In a 450 00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:25.960 just world, you would have their income. At least Elon Musk is doing 451 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:31.280 that, sharing ad revenue with users who qualify. At least he's doing that. 452 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:37.639 Fact is this. This is not an honest economy. Fact is this. 453 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:39.440 This is a war. The fact is this, You're fighting, probably 454 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:44.880 for enemies you don't even recognize. If you're frustrated by the intelligence services, 455 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:49.960 why do you work for them? The more work you do for social media, 456 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:52.320 the more work you do for those companies. If you're frustrated with the 457 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:57.079 depression and anxiety in our country, why are you helping to push it with 458 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.360 social media. Look, I plead juilty. We have to use these platforms. 459 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:07.599 But I don't argue anymore. I don't engage. I will not give 460 00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:12.199 myself the dopamine rush of quote winning an argument online. I refuse to do 461 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.119 it. I refuse to engage because I liked it too much. There are 462 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:20.440 certain things to which I'm addicted. I admit this. From time to time. 463 00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:23.280 I will have a day without coffee, And I want to tell you 464 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:28.719 something. I don't get the no coffee headache. I used to when I 465 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:30.079 didn't drink coffee. I used to get the no coffee headache, and it 466 00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:34.400 was crushing. Someone told me something. I said, that was because you 467 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:38.559 drank junk coffee when you were drinking Folgers, you know, dry roasted folders 468 00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:43.719 in a mason jar instantly, five or six scoops at once, and a 469 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:49.199 mason jar and just chugging cold coffee. Look what else you were chugging trash? 470 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.800 Now that I drink good quality coffee from bone Frog Coffee, I can 471 00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:55.679 take a day off and I do not get the crushing headache. So I 472 00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:59.840 don't think I'm as addicted as I was. But I'm addicted to the feeling, 473 00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:02.599 I admit it. So why not if you're addicted to the feeling of 474 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:07.800 coffee, why not have great coffee. The other day, something really charming 475 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:09.519 happens. I think I mentioned this. I didn't mention this. No no, 476 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:12.679 no, no, no, no no no. I'll save that story 477 00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:15.440 for later. But a friend of mine tried bone Frog almost by accident, 478 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:21.559 and came up to me said, dude, dude, boone frog is rocking. 479 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:24.800 Yeah, that's why I adorse it. No, but seriously, like, 480 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:30.199 my twelve year old nephew's over here and he tried bone Frog and came 481 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:34.960 in and said, oh, this is incredible coffee. Like oh, he 482 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.719 smelled it. That was it. He actually smelled the coffee. What are 483 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.719 you brewing? Oh, this is a coffee. My friend used this called 484 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:45.320 bone Frog. That smells incredible. He loved it. My daughter, I 485 00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:50.119 remember when we started taking bone Frog at home. My daughter came downstairs and 486 00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:53.280 said, what's that coffee? It was bone Frog. She loves it. 487 00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:58.920 So I admit that I'm addicted to the feeling of coffee. It helps me 488 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:00.599 do my job, It helps me do the gym stuff. If you're similarly 489 00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:06.760 addicted, drop the trash coffee. Go to Bonefrog Cooffee dot com slash todd 490 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:10.119 get coffee made by a coffee legend, Dave Stewart from Seattle's Best Coffee or 491 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:15.840 He also mentors Tim Krukshank, the CEO mentors his team at bone Frog. 492 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:21.199 Tim is a Navy seal retired twenty five year Navy veteran. Go to Bonefrogcoffee 493 00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:24.559 dot com, slash Todd use promo code tod to get ten percent off your 494 00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:30.440 first purchase, fifteen percent off subscription coffee. And by the way, this 495 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:36.039 is a fact for me, I am still given to depression. I still 496 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.599 can fall into it. My number one thing is to turn to the Lord 497 00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:42.760 in the circumstances, and if it doesn't work in prayer, to turn to 498 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:46.320 Christian brothers. But I'll tell you something that keeps me out of the pit 499 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:52.079 is number one, huge vigorous exercise. Number two a lot of caffeine. 500 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:59.119 I truly believe that caffeine is the greatest antidepressant in the world personally for me, 501 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:02.320 that's been my experience. And one of the realities about some stolen from 502 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:07.960 young people is you better believe that social media drives depression and anxiety. This 503 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:12.519 is from the tweet I mentioned Jonathan Hate. He's a author writing a book 504 00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:16.719 now about the anxious generation. He writes this on substack. A big story 505 00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:22.000 last week was the partial release of the CDC's biennial Youth Risk Behavior, which 506 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:29.000 showed that most teen girls fifty seven percent now say they experienced persistent sadness or 507 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:34.199 hopelessness, up from thirty six percent in twenty eleven, and thirty percent of 508 00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:37.880 teen girls now say they have seriously considered suicide, up from nineteen percent in 509 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.719 twenty eleven. Boys are doing badly too, but their rates of depression and 510 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.519 anxiety are not as high, and their increase since twenty eleven is smaller. 511 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:51.719 I showed in my February sixteen subsec post the big surprise in the CDC data 512 00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.760 is that COVID didn't have much of effect on the overall trends. Of course, 513 00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:59.639 he means the lockdowns, which just kept marching on as they have since 514 00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:05.039 around in twenty twelve. Teens were already socially distanced by twenty nineteen, which 515 00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:08.440 might explain why the lockdown restrictions, or he says, COVID restrictions added little 516 00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:13.400 to the rate of mental illness on average. Of course, many individuals suffered 517 00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:15.760 greatly. You better believe it. We know three girls who killed themselves in 518 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:22.440 that period of time. It continues. He talks about a study that the 519 00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:28.199 mere headline from an article writing about the study should tell you what sort of 520 00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:31.920 why it is. Remember the uber theme, the grand narrative young people had 521 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:37.760 stolen from them, the ability to think skeptically behind feelings of good intent. 522 00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:44.840 He writes, it's impossible to overstate the influence of the Ouburn and Prbyltsky study 523 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:52.320 in twenty nineteen and what it had on journalists. He provides a useful headline, 524 00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:58.559 this is actually an article that was written in massive science headline Should parents 525 00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:05.360 fear potatoes as much as screens? A new study says neither have serious positive 526 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:13.559 or negative impacts on childhood? Well be pause. No one who has ever 527 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:20.800 been taught to think skeptically can ever believe that too much screen time is like 528 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:28.679 eating potatoes. God created potatoes as a common blessing, our bodies are designed 529 00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.599 to consume them. You eat all potatoes all the time unless you're a very 530 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:35.199 nick human. And there is a woman who lives in North Side who actually 531 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.280 says that she eats nothing but potatoes, and she's alive, and I don't 532 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.599 know if I believe her, but that's what she says. Most of us 533 00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:46.639 would die. So this study, of course, was trash. You already 534 00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:51.719 know that because you're going to take out of this potatoes. Jonathan Hate writes. 535 00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:53.519 Whenever you hear a journalist or researcher say that social media has been found 536 00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:58.079 to have literal no relationship with mental illness. You're likely to find a link 537 00:43:58.119 --> 00:44:00.880 to that study. And when I first read that study, I had doubts 538 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:07.400 myself. He's a very well intended man. He decided to read straight into 539 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:08.760 the study, straight through it, and to give them benefit of the doubt. 540 00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.400 In other words, he applied skepticism in a friendly sense and went through 541 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:20.119 their studies and came back to say, you know what, their own data 542 00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:24.360 doesn't say what they say it does. Here's how they did it. They 543 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:31.719 com mingled light users of social media with very heavy users of social media, 544 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:37.559 and they commingled boys and girls. So you take light users, our most 545 00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:45.360 users boys and girls is then fifty percent. So you take very heavy social 546 00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:50.199 media using girls, which are the girls from ending up suicidal and depressed, 547 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:55.559 and you water down the results because you take the mean outcome. That's how 548 00:44:55.559 --> 00:45:00.280 they pulled the stunt. That's what journalists fell for, because jurulists so want 549 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:05.239 to believe that social media doesn't do this, after all, it's just like 550 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:10.480 potatoes. So he looked at UK teen girls and what he did was apply 551 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:15.840 the filter of heavy usage. Percent of UK teens depressed as a function of 552 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:21.920 hours per weekday on social media. For boys, You go from the left 553 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:24.079 side of the chart no social media to the right side of the chart five 554 00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:29.719 plus hours, and you get up to fifteen percent of boys who are depressed. 555 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:31.639 When you get over to the heavy usage side for girls, you start 556 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:36.599 at none, and girls tend to be baseline depressed more often than boys at 557 00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:38.920 about twelve percent. But when you get all the way over to five hours 558 00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:43.920 of usage per week, it's almost forty percent of those girls were depressed. 559 00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:52.039 Of course they're depressed. Our bodies were not designed to take in information like 560 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:57.159 this or to be coddled like this. The fact is, if we skip 561 00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:00.440 part of this study and go down to the conclusion in seven, you, 562 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.239 if you're listening, and you, if you're watching, go along with me 563 00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.719 on this the conclusion social media is a major cause of mental illness in girls, 564 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:13.159 not just a tiny correlation or correl It were now eleven years into the 565 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:17.159 largest epidemic of teen mental illness on record, As the CDC's recent report showed, 566 00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:22.840 most girls are suffering and nearly a third have seriously considered suicide. Why 567 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:25.159 is this happening? Why did it start so suddenly? Run twenty twelve. 568 00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:30.519 It's not because of the global financial crisis. Why would that hit younger teen 569 00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:35.639 girls hardest. Why would teen millennial illness rise throughout the twenty tens as the 570 00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:38.519 American economy got better and better. Why did a measure of loneliness go up 571 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:43.719 around the world after twenty twelve as the global economy got better and better? 572 00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:47.360 And why would the epidemic hit Canadian girls just as hard when Canada didn't have 573 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:51.599 much of a crisis. It's not because of the nine to eleven attacks, 574 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.119 wars in the Middle East, or school shootings. As Emily Durkins showed long 575 00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:59.559 ago, people in Western societies don't kill themselves because of wars or collective threats. 576 00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:02.599 They kill themselves when they feel isolated and alone. Also, why would 577 00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:08.480 American tragedies cause the epidemic to start the same time among Canadian and British girls. 578 00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:12.679 Fact is this, and this is the last myth we're going to talk 579 00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:16.079 about today, or the last thing reality that's been stolen from teens and millennials. 580 00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:20.519 Gen Z, the younger you are, the more likely you fell for 581 00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:27.559 this. You are designed to have real relationships. Bther day, I went 582 00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:30.800 to visit a friend at work, male friend, and I walked in and 583 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:34.480 he walked up to me and said, today I need a hug. I 584 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.440 gave him a hug. I got as much out of it as he did, 585 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:45.639 and it's a brotherly Christian act. You're designed for this. In Genesis 586 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.880 chapter two, verse eighteen, it says the Lord God said, it is 587 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.639 not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable helpl 588 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.960 for him. The first time in history God said my creation is not good 589 00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:01.320 was when women weren't there. In John chapter fifteen, verse fifteen, this 590 00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:07.239 is the Lord Jesus, the God of the universe, speaking to common men. 591 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:12.159 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his 592 00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:15.719 master's business. Instead, I've called you friends. For everything that I learned 593 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:22.800 from my father, I've made known to you. You were designed for real 594 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:29.679 relationships, to have real feelings, for people to love as a verb, 595 00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.480 to experience the fruit of the spirit. You are not designed to stare at 596 00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:38.360 phones or work for free for social media companies. In fact, they should 597 00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:43.039 be paying you. Even from a scriptural perspective, do not withhold the wages 598 00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:49.559 from the labor. You are not designed to believe that the sin problem of 599 00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:54.039 racism means that people with different skin colors or cultures cannot succeed. The data 600 00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:59.880 shows otherwise. It's very clear otherwise that some so called racial minorities are doing 601 00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:02.119 far better than some so called white people. Then in fact the average white 602 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:07.960 person by far by twice. We were not designed to create the world's lifeboat. 603 00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:13.519 Spiritually in States has been the world's life boat five percent of the world's 604 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:16.079 population. We've taken in twenty percent of the world's displaced peoples, and now 605 00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:22.320 the replacement theory is replacing you and your vote. The biggest theft on a 606 00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:31.079 meta narrative basis is the ability to think skeptically behind good feelings and good intent. 607 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.039 This is why we will stand firmly on the Word of God, that 608 00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:39.480 is the Todd Hermannshaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind, 609 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:44.960 and please do make every effort to read the Word of God on a 610 00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:50.480 multi time per day basis. Pray constantly so that you can walk in the 611 00:49:50.559 --> 00:50:00.320 light of Christ. Y