Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Story number one a super righteous North Carolina tax ruvolts,
You're probably not hearing about. Story number two President Trump's
very cool air Force hire, You're probably not hearing about.
And story number three was Esa the Bible a paragonon
of modern masculinity or of toxic masculinity, because now they're
back the leftist church is all about toxic Biblical masculinity.
We'll talk about this with the help of a YouTube
channel YouTube dot com slash at the Todd Herman Show
and speaking of God, Lord, thank you for another day
you've made.
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to her Man.
Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times to which God has decided to show life.
Lots of changing under President Trump. Had a discussion yesterday
with a friend of mine at church about the great changes,
the flooding the zone, the massive numbers of executive orders
that he's forcing the left to figure out which one
to fight, the fact that he's not giving them a
target to build their too minute tat on. There's just
too much going on, so they've retreated in the J six,
they're going to try to make this attempt. And then
we also talked about some of the very scary things
that are going on, such as the AI meeting. I
don't want to Larry Ellison anywhere near my healthcare. In fact,
I won't have Larry Ellison anywhere near my healthcare or
anything that comes out of the CDC or the federal governments. No,
but there's something happening beneath the lines. And as we're
watching President Trump restructured governments, we're starting to see some
signs of what it could be. There are bureaucrats who fled,
they're brewing, and there's been announcements. You can flee and
you can burrow, but we're going to go aheads and
demote you and relocate you. We can't fire you because
the civil service stuff is so insane. They can't fire
these people, but they can relocate them. We're going to
move you out of the Beltway. We can demote you.
And that's the sort of thing that's going to I
think create self deportation. But there's something else. The America
first thing is real, and I don't think people have
given enough credence to how close this country was to
a real, four reel, actual revolt because Biden was so
clearly inept and so clearly allowed great evil to be
done through him. It was so clearly thought up to
the task of being president, It was so clearly not
running things. And Kamala Harris was so clearly installed as
the nominee. There was well she wasn't the nominee, there
was no nominating process, and the mockingbird media so clearly
tried to shove it down people's throats. They so clearly
tried to pretend there was some special form of affection
for Kamala Harris and this organic bubbling up and the
joy of the campaign. Had they actually rigged this thing
and gotten away with it, this country I think would
have exploded into sparks of violence. And I mean that
I'm not wishing for that, don't wish it for that
at all. I don't think people realized how close we
were about a couple hours. No, it was a couple
of days before the figureheads stopped being the figurehead. He
demonstrated what his figurehead ship was all about. This is
while the people of California were still suffering to the fires,
and I know there's still fires going on there. May
God be with the folks in California. Well that was
going on while FEMA was still apparently doing everything they
could to not help the people in North Carolina because
President Trump is all of a sudden has money for them,
how because he took it away from the illegal immigrant programs,
so now it can be given to where it was
supposed to go in the first place, which is to
help people recover from national disasters. But weeks or not
weeks days before he left, Biden reminded us who he
is with all those events going on, all those people suffering,
here's the figurehead. And I want to be clear.
Speaker 2: We're not waiting until those fires are over to start
helping the victims.
Speaker 1: We're getting in help right now, as you all know,
people impacted by these fires who are going to receive
He's reading, reading a piece of paper, a script in
front of him.
Speaker 2: He one time payment of seven hundred and seventy.
Speaker 1: Dollars seven hundred and seventy dollars y'all, one time payment
so they can quickly purchase things like water. They can
purchase it's like water because FEMA doesn't happen before prescriptions.
So far, nearly six thousand survivors have registered to do
just that and five one million dollars has gone out.
Five point one million dollars. Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: He in the same timeframe figure headed his way into
three point five billion dollars for the retirement funds of
government workers in Ukraine, the most important country in the world.
We were that close had this continued, we were that
close to actual I think explosions of violence. I really
believe that there's a righteous tax revolt that's going on.
I don't think you've heard enough about this, so I'm
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that to me speaks to what we were about to
see in this country. Because I was nearing a point
where I wouldn't be able to pay taxes anymore. I
waited until December thirty first to allow the government to
seize from me thirty four thousand dollars. And I did
that late, and praise God, I had the money because
I was way really to see if they stopped President
Trump from taking office. I didn't wait till January twentieth,
because the fine was just going to be insane. But
I waited that long on purpose, and I knew I
was inning into a year where I might not have
been able to pay taxes to that government. I was
that close. Had they done what they said they were
going to do, Kamala Harris and the people who run
them and Joe Biden, had they installed in this country
the right for government officials to seize your kids if
you wouldn't pretend that they're a hippopotamus, well, I mean,
or you know, a boy or a girl. I couldn't
pay taxes, and I talked to my wife about this.
This at that point, that level of godlessness I can't support.
I think we were that close. The challenge is that
there has been no change in many bureaucratic minds, even
in a place like Buncombee, North Carolina. They told their
residents they were going to have to pay property taxes
on homes that no longer existed, and funny thing happened.
They are falling really, really shorts on their tax collection.
Praise guys.
Speaker 4: Hey, the county is going to have to take unexpected
mid year reductions due to a loss of revenue.
Speaker 1: She says.
Speaker 4: Their biggest loss is from property tax collections. We are
way under collecting where we should be at this point.
We are normally at about a ninety nine point seven
ninety nine point nine percent collection rate, and we are
falling way short of that. And taking a look at
their economic conditions, in October, the county went from having
the state's lowest unemployment rate to the highest. New construction
is down significantly, as are both sales and occupancy tax
right now, the county's budget for this fiscal year is
four hundred and forty four point six million dollars. Their
biggest expense by cost is salaries and benefits. To help
on that front, there is a hiring freeze for county
employees and the Sheriff's office. While there are eighty.
Speaker 1: Nine notice a hiring freeze but not a contraction in.
Speaker 4: Labor vacancies, and no estimate for when the freeze will end.
This should save around four point two million dollars. The
county is also asking both Ashville City and Bunckham County
Schools to each give up four percent of what the
county normally provides. This means that Ashville City could lose
around seven hundred and eighteen thousand dollars and Bunckham County
Schools could lose close to four million.
Speaker 1: But no bureaucots using their jobs under that can't have that.
Speaker 4: Right in the middle of their school years.
Speaker 1: The reality of it is the four percent is going
to hit both to tricks incredibly hard. There's no way
around it.
Speaker 5: We understand that the accounting commissioners are going to consider
a decision that they would rather not consider.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, a.
Speaker 5: Significant cut to our budget potentially could significantly impact our
ability to serve our students and families.
Speaker 1: But no cuts a bureaucrats, no furloughing. So what things
you could do is work every other day and have
a commensurate reduction. It's always this happens in the real
world when there's a massive contraction in the real world
people sometimes are furloughed. Sometimes you give employees a choice.
I've worked places where bosses have said, hey, you know
we had this a stupid pizza place. Well this was
is stupid. It's actually a great pizza place. But we
had a month of the absurd weather and I was
one of the managers there in high school. With this
absurd weather, we couldn't deliver pizzas. We got very few
people in and the boss just drew us all together
and said, okay, here's the deal. We had such a badge,
like forty five days. I can't continue to pay everybody.
So what do we want to do. We had a
discussion about it. What if we just reduce our hours
work every other day. The folks that are here apply
extra effort, and it's not something that we can keep up,
like it just running and running and running. But if
it means that few people get fired or no one
gets fired, we do. That's it's a pizza place. We
like fifteen employees. But this somehow cannot happen. In government,
people refused to pay their property taxes because they don't
have the property. Now, if you take that and you
multiply it against where people's emotions are in regard to
a godless governments. Do you think I was the only
one who was looking at a government's ready to legalize
the seizing of kids because parents wouldn't look at their
little boy and say, yes, son, you are a hippopotamus.
I couldn't have been. One day this country will face
a reckoning on the godless things we do pay for.
And I'll tell you what if I have major concerns
about Judgment Day. I know I'm saved. I know I've
accepted the Lord Jesus is my Lord and savior. I
know I do everything I can to abide, and I
know I messed it up really really bad. But I
also wonder about this, how many of US Americans on
Judgment Day will kneel before the throne and the Lord
will say, why did you pay taxes to support abortion?
Was my teaching not clear on this? Did the apostles say, yeah,
we'll follow the governments right up and tell you tell
us to stop preaching the word of God my word?
In other words, if he was speaking to us, and
did you see them not do that? So why did
you continue to support things like that? What's the answer? Well,
the honest answer in my heart is, Lord, I didn't
hear you clearly say stop. But in regard to seizing
kids to force parents to accept a delusion, I did
hear God's voice. You can't pay for that. Praise God
that he made that voice clear, and praise God that
President Trump got in there to stop that. I'm still
waiting on the ban that he promised. We'll see if
that comes through. Story number two. Of all the things
President Trump has done, I've had the biggest thrill out
of one single hire because of the way it was done.
And this is something that President Trump will do that
no other Republican would ever think of doing or ever
get near doing. And it speaks to his personality and
it could be a judgment issue. You know, you can
all have love at first sight and then you figure out, wow,
that person's a mess, or respect at first sight, Wow,
that person's a mess. That's what happens here. It's a
great sign of who President Trump can be when he
wants to be. And man is their shakeup. The JFK,
RFK MLK junior files are coming out, or a bunch
of them, and the way that these executive orders are written.
You know, that the bureaucratic agencies are going to do
everything they can to say, well, give them this, but
not this. So I'll spend the weekends reading as much
of this stuff as I can and other people who've
read it, so we can talk about this. If this
is coming from the FBI, it might shock you, but
I might not trust the FBI just for whatever reason.
Don't know why. So President Trump ordered these declassifications, and
this is part of what he did.
Speaker 3: Lastly, sir, we have an executive order ordering the.
Speaker 1: Declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F.
Speaker 6: Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Doctor Martin Luther
King juniors.
Speaker 2: A big one, huh.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are waiting for this for along,
for years, for decades.
Speaker 3: So Trumphian man, okay.
Speaker 2: Give that you.
Speaker 1: R K Junior is gonna get the pen with which
the President say is so trumpious. Everybody knows whos been
waiting for decades. But President Trump needs to repeat that.
The man honestly, let's just be honest. He lives for affirmation.
He absolutely lives for this, and it's it's gosh, it's
good to be a problem. The flattery thing works. All
of a sudden, we're buddy buddy with Mark Zuckerberg. All
of a sudden, we're buddy buddy with Larry Ellison, who's,
by the way, a little bit better politically because he's
so tied into the Defense Department. But the Defense department's
a loss institution these days. So that was a cool moment.
But there's another cool moment, and it goes to a higher.
He made a military higher. There are all sorts of
videos and we'll get to some of these next week
of military guys saying, thank god, President Trump's here. He's
going to get us out of these wars. He's going
to put pressure on Russia to settle the thing in Ukraine.
I don't know if you saw this, but Zelensky has
said what he wants now is American boots on the ground.
That's that's his next step, because that'll really stop the war.
Good idea, Let's put our boots on the ground and
get into World War three on your behalf, because you're
not corrupt enough. I've seen a lot of guys in
the military thing for this. My friend Tim Krukshe because
the founder and CEO of Bone Frog coffee and Bone
Frog sellers. He celebrated this set me a notes on
Inauguration Day. We're getting our country back. There's a lot
of relief. Friend of mine who was a Navy seal,
not Tim, his name is Cody, sent me a note
as well, saying there's signs of hope, and he gotten
to a point where he was starting to regret his
military service because of what the country was becoming. Praise
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So President Trump announced a very very cool hire. It's
cool because of the way it came about. You might
remember this.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 6: I got it, mister President. First off, I want to
speak on behalf of everyone here and say thank you
for taking time tonight to thank me for our troops.
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of good looking men of this audience,
so trophy a lot of good looking women.
Speaker 3: Also.
Speaker 1: By the way, by the way, this dude is a
good looking dude. I mean, I'm not that way you know,
not that there's anything wrong. So it's a sideful joke.
I'm not that way. But he's clearly good looking, are
you do.
Speaker 3: You think he's good looking?
Speaker 1: He's well, okay, right, the scideful reference. So this guy's
name is Matthew Lomyer and he's on stage with President Trump,
and President Trump's now going to say we got good
looking dudes. Are you gonna not address the women?
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: Okay, go ahead, I'm going to revisit something you've talked
about already. My name is Matt Lomier, is an Air
Force F fifteen pilot, and I was a commander in
your newly created US Space Force. I am also the
first veteran of the Space Force because i'm the Biden
Harris regime. I was fired for my command and lost
my pension for criticizing DEI trainings that were rampant in
the military. Those trainings are still dividing our troops. And
thank you for saying you would fire those few woke
generals who are a big problem. Big I'm going to
suggest that it might in fact require ongoing oversight and
a persistent, consistent watchful eye within the Pentagon to ensure
this monster never returns to the Defense Department. Will you
consider establishing a special task force office or position to
ensure that these monsters never returned to the Defense Department?
Well do, and I'm pretty good at this stuff.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get it wrong. I'm going to put you
on that task force. I think it's good, not going
to do better than hell.
Speaker 2: I'll put you on.
Speaker 6: Make sure you give them a fancier a beautiful man, Mike.
Speaker 1: I have your approval, Yes, sir, I have your approval.
We're not going to get better than him.
Speaker 2: You're right about it. You're right.
Speaker 3: I'm saying, thank you.
Speaker 1: He did it. He's going to be the next under
Secretary of the Air Force. He's not on the committee,
he's the undersecretary. The president is making a habit of
hiring people who actually did the work. You know, I
don't watch TV, and we have to have a TV
for many, many years, like twenty but one show I
remember that actually had some virtue to it was The
Undercover Boston Secret CEO where they go in to the
businesses they run and discover sometimes great things, sometimes awful
things like wait, we're doing what I remember A couple
of different episodes. One was a cookie company. Was it
missus Fields? I can't remember, but it was one of
the fact I can't remember that name. But they used
to be right next door to the radio station in
Salt Lake City. Do what I worked there at I
weighs well about four hundred pounds, so I'd like to
be some cookies. And they gave away cookies because they'd
come out and taste tests. Anyway, she went into her
some of her franchises as a, you know, an employee,
and she walked in one morning and the lady said, Okay,
this is gonna be a tough day. We don't have
cookie dough for the following cookies. These are best sellers,
so we're gonna try to push some other cookies, but
people are gonna be upset. And also some people have
pre ordered these cookies and we're just not gonna be
able to fulfill those orders, so we're gonna give them
other cookies. We can't really give him discounts. But and
she's she's the boss, going what, yeah, it's gonna be
some really upset customers. So she discovered that, okay, we're
not supporting a franchise ease. They got to be able
to have this. This is one of the reasons they
pay us. And she made changes and went back to
that franchise and said, I'm bringing you on the team.
I want you to let people manage your stores. I'm
going to pay you extra. I want you to come
and get this figured out with us. The other was
a hardware store and this guy went ins and he
was the chief, one of the chiefs big bosses at
the hardware store. And he's in there working and there's
a guy who's utterly brilliant, knows all the tools and
knows where they're all set up. He has all sorts
of construction background. He can help people figure out which
tools to use, how to get it done, and give
them advice on the project. And he's not respected, he's
not given hours. And the guy who's running the place
is a literal pothead. But he knows the owner's family
or not the owners, but the manager's family sk just
is behind the scenes going nuts. So when he reveals
who he is, he didn't fire the pothead, but he said,
you don't get to smoke pot anymore, and come into
this store. You're taking some time off. You can come back,
but you're going to work in the back room. You're
not going to manage anything. This guy is going to
be the manager, and I want him to get a
trot at being the regional manager. See, there's something to
be said about people who see the way things really work,
and that means that you're on the ground with people
who really make things work. It takes humility to do that.
Maybe President Trump really was touched with humility when he
almost died twice. Story number three. There's a great, big
attempt to confuse people about Biblical masculinary It's an ongoing attempt,
and there's a great big attempt to turn God into
a toxically or a toxically masculine entity. And we played
clip after clip of fake pastors describing God as toxically
masculine because he's angry all the time. He's not in
touch with his feminine side. He invented women and females
and femininity, but he doesn't understand it and he's always angry. Well,
he's not because he's always been the Holy Spirit, the Lord, Jesus,
and God the Father. He invented love. He in fact
defined love healthy forms of love. He in fact gives
us the fruit of the spirit, So he's not this
toxically masculine being or talks yeah, toxic of masculine being.
But this is a very interesting tweet. In exchange, it
comes out this is a guy named Rob Bernatsky. He's
talking about one of the principal characters in the characters
but people in the Bible, Esau. And if you don't
know the story, I'll share it with you. Esau is
a paragon of modern masculinity. Harry probably had a great beard, hunter,
very manly, not a mama's boy, a man's man. If
there ever was one quote, see to it. There be
no immoral or godless person like Esau. End quote. Maybe
those things aren't biblical manliness after all. Well they're also yeah, okay,
so your beard, you're Harry Arms. That doesn't make you
biblical masculine. But it also doesn't mean you're not Biblical
masculine because you have these things. And Ali Beth Stuckley
is a great, great commentator on things like this. She
writes back and says, good points. Is it, I guess
if you're trying to address people's fascination with surface level masculinity, Okay,
it is, But are really at that point where there's
a lot of Christians who think you're masculine or biblical
masculine because you have a beard or your harry. I
don't think that's the case. I don't think we've done
a good job of describing what biblical masculinity is. So
the story of Jacob and Esau real quick. Jacob and
Esau were twin brothers born to Isaac and Rebecca, and
the Bible tells us they struggle together in Rebecca's womb,
a foreshadowing of their troubled relationship. Esau was born first
and thereby became a legal heir to the family's birthright,
which included, among other things, being heir to the covenant
between God and Abraham. This birthright was a link of
dis scent through which promised Messiah was to come. In
contrast with Eso, who was a skilled hunter in his
father's favorite, Jacob was a plane man, dwelling intense in
his mother's favorite. The Hebrew word for plaine is the
same word translated in other scriptures is perfect, upright, undefiled,
So the word plane refers to Jacob's character as a
man of God. God records his highest praise and blessings
for Jacob. The Lord has chosen Jacob unto himself. Esac
came from the field that he was faint, and he
said to Jacob, feed me with the same red potter
stew for I am faint. Knowing the character's brother, Jacob replied,
sell me this day thy birthright. Isa had no interest
in spiritual things, so he agreed, saying, I'm at the
point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do
to me? Esa could not have been at that point
to die while missing one meal, but how he revealed
how worthless he considered his birthright. When Isaac came close
to death, it became time to give Esau his blessing.
Isaac asked isa to go hunt for a special meal,
after which he would pass the blessing. Rebecca overheard and
helped Jacob disguise himself as Esa and bring back Isaac
the meal instead of his brother were hunting. Because Isaac
had poor sight, he was tricked into blessing Jacob. Esau
was so enraged and Jacob had to run away to
save his life. Neither boy was particularly godly. It seems
to me I mean to deceive the father with the
help of the mother to sell your birthright for a
bit of pottage or porridge. Neither of them were particularly
godlike or godly. So why is it in the Bible
Because we're fallen, because we're broken, because all of us
can err hairy arms and beard, no beard, still hairy arms. See,
God has told us that it is not what goes
into the body that defiles us, but what comes out. Therefore,
it's not what's on the body that defiles us, but
what comes out. Godliness, masculine Christianity for men begins with
this sword sticking out of our mouths our tongues. This
is one of the reasons it's difficult to do what
I do as a Christian, because man, would I like
to rip people apart rhetorically like I used to do,
I can't because I have to guard his tongue. It
extends then into how we discipline and how we love.
Lord Jesus disciplined. He did it rhetorically with his friends
and disciples who became his friends. He gave them nicknames
the Brothers of Thunder, because they wanted to strike people
down for trying to belitter the Lord Jesus. He demonstrated
that restraint on those very few occasions where he spoke
really clearly, calling the Pharisees the sons of the devil. Effectively,
he didn't go to them and say you do likewise,
he was reminding them he is God. He has this judgment,
and when it came time for him to face the
ultimate accountability on her behalf, he did it with dignity.
He in other words, lived up to the things he taught.
He allowed himself to be taken captive and beaten and
scourged and put up on a cross. He didn't have
to allow it. People will turn the other corner on
this and say, oh, okay, so Christians have to fold,
have to bend over. No. At the same time, the
Lord Jesus demonstrated the fact that there is a line,
and that line you don't cross is where you're told
to violate God's word. That's why we have the just
war theory. Masculinity is complicated and simple. As close as
we can be to Jesus is the path. The hard
things are where you have to step in and be
kinetic or physical. How does that line work in defense
of life of the least of these? And that brings
us back to that whole conundrum of paying for abortions.
This country still does. Hopefully the President Trump will make
sure that's all all gone. Lord, thank you for this
opportunity to speak again together. This is the Todd Hermannshaw.
Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please
make every efforts to walk in the light of Christist