1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,679 Story number one, Goodbye to PBS, and by the way, 3 00:00:06,679 --> 00:00:09,560 here's your parting gift or one of them. Story number two, 4 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:14,919 Why Populism is Ascendence, Part one thousand and Story number three. 5 00:00:15,039 --> 00:00:18,719 Jesus Christ was and is real, and he is not 6 00:00:18,879 --> 00:00:23,719 yours to remake or reimagine. We'll talk about this with 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,320 the help of God Almighty. 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,879 Speaker 2: The Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by 9 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:38,320 big pharma technocrats and tyrn s everywhere from the high 10 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:47,119 mountains of Free American. Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman. 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These 12 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,600 are the times through which God has decided where shall live. 13 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:00,520 So the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which quote FUN and 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,560 PR and PBS, says it's going to close down after 15 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,799 federal cuts. So it didn't fully fund it. It's actually 16 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,200 made you fund it. So goodbye to PBS that I've 17 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:13,959 got a parting gift for them in a second. But 18 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,760 first of all, just a lesson from life. You're looking at, 19 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:19,799 if you're watching me, if you're listening to me, you're 20 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:25,200 listening to probably the luckiest stink and mut you're ever 21 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,680 going to meet in human form. I am such a 22 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,560 freaking lucky mutt. I got to work at Microsoft, and 23 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:36,319 that's mut enough, lucky mutt enough that that ever happens. 24 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,519 And I got to work with a team of people 25 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,640 that we got to call the Media Experiences Team, really 26 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:49,319 really cool gift that my boss gave me. Media Experiences. 27 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:52,040 Our job was to make it preferable to watch shows 28 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,719 online versus on TV. Now, I know that that seems 29 00:01:56,719 --> 00:01:58,719 weird now, but back in the day it wasn't. It 30 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,760 wasn't it was It was still preferable to watch them 31 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:03,280 on TV. And there were some other teams MSN and 32 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,040 Entertainment worked with this, MSN Games. I wanted to just 33 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,639 give credit. They went and did a deal with the 34 00:02:09,719 --> 00:02:13,240 Arrested Development. People remember that show, Arrested Development. Now, I've 35 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:14,960 never loved the show. I know other people love it. 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,400 I know it's a cult hit. I know for a 37 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,840 fact that the people who loved that show they still 38 00:02:21,879 --> 00:02:25,479 watch it. And some brilliant people at Microsoft came up 39 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:28,159 with some brilliant ideas to make it preferable to watch 40 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,199 that on a connected device. Some of the things that 41 00:02:31,199 --> 00:02:34,919 people contributed now are old or old school. You know 42 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,840 those little bubbles that pop up during your show, there's 43 00:02:37,879 --> 00:02:41,240 a factoid or a map of where people are at, 44 00:02:41,599 --> 00:02:46,639 or the bios of the actors, etc. Sometimes linking to IMDb. 45 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,719 Know all that that didn't always exist, and so Microsoft 46 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:53,919 paid money to license the show. We got to build 47 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,479 around this and all I did was imagine some things 48 00:02:57,479 --> 00:03:00,960 with my team. People far more skilled did the actual work, 49 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,520 and they deserve the bulk of the credit. And this 50 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:04,400 I was tangential to the effort at best, but I 51 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:08,719 got to see it lesson. We paid a lot of 52 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:13,280 money to have that show. I think it approached as 53 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,280 I'm remembering by memory, I think it may have approached 54 00:03:15,319 --> 00:03:19,439 fifty million bucks to have that show. They'd have been 55 00:03:19,439 --> 00:03:26,680 canceled on TV. So it's worthwhile the Corporation for Public 56 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:31,400 Broadcasting is shutting down rather than going out and shopping 57 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:36,879 the opportunity to help NPR and PBS. Why are they 58 00:03:36,919 --> 00:03:42,879 doing that? Well, they aren't real business people. They're good 59 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:46,759 old fashioned DC grifters. And I want to give them 60 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,039 a brief, maybe thirty second parting gift with maybe a 61 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,520 one minute explanation for me as they walk out the 62 00:03:55,639 --> 00:03:59,639 door having lost the gravy train access. And by the way, 63 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,840 what would you rather do? Go work for a living 64 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:07,360 or lick a bowl full of delicious money? Gravy, sweet money, gravy. Look, 65 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:10,400 money runs everything to a degree. The love of money. 66 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:13,120 The love of money is the root of all evil. 67 00:04:13,159 --> 00:04:15,879 The love of money, not money itself. You're going to 68 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,639 need money to retire, maybe a million, maybe ten million, 69 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,079 maybe twenty, depending on how the economy turns out, maybe 70 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,360 five hundred thousand if things go really bad. So what 71 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:29,360 are you doing to make sure your retirement is not 72 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,279 a wish or a dream or a hope. What are 73 00:04:33,319 --> 00:04:34,800 you doing to make sure it's a plan? 74 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 2: Now? 75 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,959 Speaker 1: Maybe you work with a financial advisor. Did you know 76 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,079 that financial advisors don't have to put your best interest 77 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,279 ahead of their own? Did you know that they actually don't. 78 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,839 Maybe you're using algorithmic approaches. If so, I hope you're 79 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,399 really good at it, because there's a lot of fees 80 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:51,759 tied up and all that. Do you know that fiduciaries 81 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:53,759 have to put your financial interests ahead of theirs? Did 82 00:04:53,759 --> 00:04:58,319 you know that Zach Abraham, chief investment Officer Bolwark Capital Management, 83 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,800 is a fiduciary. They have now had five out of 84 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,120 the last six years of their performances audited, so you 85 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,399 can ask Zach about that the performance. His whole drive 86 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:11,639 is risk management, which he accomplishes by actively managing every 87 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,839 portfolio which can reduce risk and volatility. And he is 88 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,199 the master spreading the bets. But please hear this, police, 89 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,920 hear this, Please hear this. Zach is playing the long game. 90 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,240 This is not the place to go get your sugar high. Hey, 91 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,680 we hit the peak given Vidio, don't do that. They 92 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,800 played the long game. This is where my money's at, 93 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,319 the bulk of it. Zach wouldn't let me put it 94 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,199 all there because that's too risky. He'll give you a 95 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,120 free now obligation consultation, in fact, three free talks to 96 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,480 see if you want to work with each other. Go 97 00:05:37,519 --> 00:05:41,160 to Know Your riskpodcast dot com. That's no Your riskpodcast 98 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,920 dot com. Investment Advisor services off True Truck Financial LLCN 99 00:05:43,959 --> 00:05:47,240 sec RICHID Investment Advisor. Investments involved risk are not guaranteed 100 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,759 past performance, isn't guarantee future results. Truck twenty five. That'sh 101 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,759 two five to two. It wasn't just arrested development. We 102 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,480 went out and paid money to get we paid going 103 00:05:55,519 --> 00:05:57,279 to need to get a lot of shows when Microsoft 104 00:05:57,319 --> 00:05:59,199 was still trying to play the entertainment game. I know 105 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,759 there are a license teams at Google and YouTube and 106 00:06:01,879 --> 00:06:04,240 Go do the same thing, because these things have value. 107 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,600 I have no doubt that there's shows on PBS that 108 00:06:07,639 --> 00:06:09,560 are going to survive and probably be a bid four 109 00:06:09,639 --> 00:06:11,360 if it ends up that way. Of no doubt the 110 00:06:11,399 --> 00:06:15,839 brands they've built corporation for Public Conn Broadcasting shutting the 111 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:17,879 doors because the gravy trainer is over. I wanted to 112 00:06:17,879 --> 00:06:22,040 offer you just a quick parting gift courtesy of the 113 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,040 terrible hitlers at Fox News. 114 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:26,879 Speaker 3: We'll get out of Kentucky said this in a statement. 115 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:28,720 It's a long statement. I'll just read one line. There 116 00:06:28,759 --> 00:06:31,920 is now a pattern of Key Biden confident on sinking 117 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:37,360 the sablums shield themselves from criminal liability for this potential conspiracy. 118 00:06:37,399 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: And so the conspiracy, of course, was this. There was 119 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,319 the autopan who was doing the pardons, who was sunning 120 00:06:43,319 --> 00:06:46,319 the legislation of which the figure head was unaware, who 121 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:50,000 was actually running the country. If only PBS had decided 122 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,439 and NPR had decided with their news arms to actually 123 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,839 do something about this. Here's the parting gift. Why did 124 00:06:57,879 --> 00:07:02,800 we all know? Why did everybody? Well not everybody, because 125 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:04,720 some people chose not to know? But why is it 126 00:07:04,759 --> 00:07:09,120 that so many taxpayers were forced to pay for you 127 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,759 to pretend this wasn't happening? 128 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:12,839 Speaker 2: Oh? 129 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. Someone can write in 130 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,560 the comment sections. You know that show Arrested Development. You 131 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,319 know they were pretending, right, Yeah, and they admitted it 132 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,000 because the TV show is fiction. So as much of 133 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,959 what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting did. Oh, by the way, 134 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,399 Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Hey, you forgot to close the door. 135 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:39,839 There you go, Story number two, Why populism is ascendant? 136 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:47,199 Part what a thousand? So let's define populism. What is it? 137 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:50,199 It's the people rising up to take control of matters 138 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:53,519 into their own hands through at least some peaceful means. 139 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:57,000 That's one way to define it. I define myself this way, 140 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:02,360 a Christian conservative constitution, you know, populist. Why because of 141 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:05,680 all things that matter to me, Jesus is first. He 142 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,199 is our Lord and savior. He's man who came here 143 00:08:08,279 --> 00:08:11,360 to save us from internal damnation. He offers us the 144 00:08:11,399 --> 00:08:13,480 free gift of redemption. And I love him for what 145 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,839 he has done for me and how he's changed me. 146 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:25,199 So Christian constitutional populists. So why constitutional? Because populism without 147 00:08:25,279 --> 00:08:31,279 constraints is very dangerous. Constitutional because our Constitution, I believe, 148 00:08:31,839 --> 00:08:34,039 was written by men inspired by God, not in the 149 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,039 same way that the Bible was written. The Bible is 150 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,000 the complete, inerrant, unchangeable, unchanging word of God. The Constitution 151 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,240 was written by men inspired by God because they recognize 152 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:46,399 the fact we have rights that come from God. The 153 00:08:46,519 --> 00:08:50,240 right to have life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness existed 154 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:58,039 in the garden of Eden. They recognize these things. Christian constitutional, populist, Conservative. 155 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,120 Why populism, Well, because it's not going to get done 156 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,200 anither way. Just this past week we saw John Thune 157 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,440 decide to not let President Trump have any recess appointments 158 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,840 to the courts, despite being one hundred and thirty seat short, 159 00:09:12,039 --> 00:09:14,320 despite the fact that the left has been remaking the 160 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,480 courts for the past eight twelve years and we've seen 161 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,879 the results of that. Conservative, because I believe conservatism that 162 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,080 is limiting the power of government is the most godly 163 00:09:27,159 --> 00:09:31,000 thing we can do to leave room for God. Populism 164 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:35,679 is ascendant because other people around the world, not necessarily Christian, 165 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,480 not necessarily constitutional, to have looked and said no one 166 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,159 in government means as well. I mean, there's some people 167 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,480 here and there, but it's easiest just to say no one. 168 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,080 There's some decent people. Even in DC, there's some great people, 169 00:09:49,279 --> 00:09:52,679 but overall the machine doesn't mean us well. And there's 170 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,399 starting to be changes. Even in courtrooms in a nearly 171 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:00,639 fallen land like Ireland, they're starting to be ch I'll 172 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:02,639 show what he's changes in a second. It's a direct 173 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,679 result of populism. Populism can take the form sometimes of 174 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:12,639 let's say, entrepreneurialism. I've developed a good friendship with the 175 00:10:12,639 --> 00:10:15,600 guys who run renew Healthcare in Mexico, and tell you 176 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,440 Steve and Jim are smart business people. They didn't want 177 00:10:19,639 --> 00:10:22,480 to do what they did in Mexico. This is to 178 00:10:22,519 --> 00:10:25,360 have a stem cell health clinic. It goes far beyond 179 00:10:25,399 --> 00:10:28,279 stem cells. By the way, they couldn't do it in 180 00:10:28,279 --> 00:10:31,159 America because America will not allow them to quality control 181 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,480 standards they have in the United States. If you get 182 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,559 stem cells, they come from whomever. They've been frozen for 183 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,679 however long, at whatever quality rating they had to begin with, 184 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,320 and they're injected by people with whatever training pain specialists, chiropractor, 185 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,200 not that they don't know what they're doing. Compare this 186 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,080 to renew Healthcare in Mexico. The stem cells come from 187 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,480 a world class hospital next door. They take a five 188 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,519 maybe ten minute walk into a world class lab that's 189 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,639 one step below a bio containment facility for like a 190 00:10:59,639 --> 00:11:03,559 bowl of they're their process. They refuse to use any 191 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,919 of the stem cells that don't meet their qualit control standards. 192 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,440 They know the women. They monitor the health of the 193 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,919 women and the baby during pregnancy and afterwards. If the 194 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,159 morning that they inject you with stem cells, let's say 195 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,720 for your shoulders, your knees, your back, because you've got 196 00:11:17,759 --> 00:11:21,200 neurological issues, say a traumatic brain injury. If those things 197 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:23,200 are not as active as they want, they'll ask you 198 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,159 to wait. The next day. They followed it up with IVS. 199 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,159 They precede it with ivs and the largest hyperborec chamber 200 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:33,440 in North America, all to speed healing. Go check them 201 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,080 out at renew r E n ue DOT Healthcare. Sort 202 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,440 of a populist approach, so fighting back against the industrial 203 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:45,000 the big insurance roll up forced insurance programming. Up here 204 00:11:45,039 --> 00:11:46,879 in the United States, it's renewed R E, n U 205 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:52,480 E DOT healthcare. Populism is ascendant because people around the 206 00:11:52,519 --> 00:11:54,799 globe have caught onto the fact that there is a 207 00:11:54,919 --> 00:11:58,240 rigged game going on. It didn't just happen through the 208 00:11:58,279 --> 00:12:01,120 water or the air. That country said, hey, you know what, 209 00:12:01,799 --> 00:12:04,399 let's bring in a whole bunch of people who have 210 00:12:04,519 --> 00:12:07,519 no connection to our country. They don't share any of 211 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:09,840 our values, so let's not ask them to share our values. 212 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,039 Let's not determine that they're coming to a country to 213 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,200 live on our values. Let's flutter systems with people who 214 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,799 in fact aren't going to assimilate. Let's tell them they 215 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,200 don't have to assimilate. Let's show them that they're the 216 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,240 special people. And in the case of Ireland, people have 217 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,879 stood up. Now a Court of Appeals has said the 218 00:12:26,919 --> 00:12:31,519 most remarkable thing. If you're an Irish citizen, think about 219 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,879 how you would feel that this even had to make 220 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:34,799 it to court. 221 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,159 Speaker 4: The Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of the 222 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,720 state after a challenge to High Court ruling regarding the 223 00:12:40,799 --> 00:12:44,399 rights of international protection applicants to have their basic needs, 224 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,559 including accommodation met by the state. Our Social Affairs correspondent 225 00:12:48,639 --> 00:12:51,440 Al the kannelis here in studio, so alver remind us 226 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,480 of the background to this case and what this ruling 227 00:12:53,519 --> 00:12:55,679 means now for international protection applicants. 228 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 5: Well, this all goes back to December twenty twenty three 229 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:01,159 when the State found that it was running out of 230 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,360 accommodation for international protection applicants, so it housed the most 231 00:13:05,399 --> 00:13:09,480 vulnerable and families, which left single males unaccommodated. So the 232 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,519 Art Human Rights and Equality Commission brought a case to 233 00:13:12,519 --> 00:13:15,360 the High Court last year basically saying these men's rights 234 00:13:15,399 --> 00:13:18,480 were being breached. There were intents right across the city, 235 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,679 mainly in Dublin, and it was the first time essentially 236 00:13:22,759 --> 00:13:26,120 that IRICK used this kind of power that it has 237 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,039 under legislation under the Act under which it was set 238 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,039 up to bring this case to the High Court. So 239 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:33,720 the High Court found that the men they had a 240 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:36,759 right human dignity and that that had been breached by 241 00:13:36,759 --> 00:13:40,039 the State, and it also found that you know, their 242 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,639 rights under European law had also been breached. So that 243 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,000 decision was appealed by the State to the Court of 244 00:13:46,039 --> 00:13:48,679 Appeal and it has found in favor of the state. 245 00:13:48,759 --> 00:13:51,559 Today we've just had eyes on the judgment and mister 246 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:56,759 Justice Anthony Collins acknowledged the Commission's express statutory entitlement to 247 00:13:56,879 --> 00:14:00,679 essentially commence these commission proceedings in the court. However, he 248 00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:05,080 found the sample of homeless asylum seekers was insufficient to 249 00:14:05,159 --> 00:14:09,120 prove extreme material poverty and that their physical and mental 250 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:12,440 health was affected to such a degree that he felt 251 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,399 it didn't breach their right to human dignity. So the 252 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,159 government has always claimed that it is making strenuous efforts 253 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:23,639 to accommodate these men. This decision or finding by the 254 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:26,960 Court of Appeal today overrides the High Court decision. And 255 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,720 when I recooniciated that these proceedings the were over two 256 00:14:29,799 --> 00:14:33,759 hundred homeless applicants International protection applicants. It went up to 257 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:36,600 three thousand in December twenty twenty four. It's now one thousand, 258 00:14:36,759 --> 00:14:37,960 three hundred and thirty three. 259 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: The bosses in Ireland knew there weren't homes for these 260 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:43,639 people when they agreed to flood their borders with people 261 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:47,799 with no connection to Irish society, Irish tradition, on the 262 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,919 predominant Christian faith there. They knew there weren't homes and 263 00:14:53,519 --> 00:14:57,679 is it a right to dignity? Does that just happen 264 00:14:57,759 --> 00:15:02,120 for the newcomers because in Ireland, like Scotland, farmers have 265 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,399 been told you're going to need to do away with 266 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:06,679 part of your farmland or maybe all of it because 267 00:15:06,679 --> 00:15:10,639 we need to build apartment buildings for the newcomers. Does 268 00:15:10,639 --> 00:15:16,000 that violate their human dignity? Populism is ascendant because people 269 00:15:16,039 --> 00:15:20,159 are noticing the rig games and they're going to continue 270 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,840 in populism, and the way to make sure it remains 271 00:15:22,879 --> 00:15:30,039 peaceful is to understand the next step. When you show 272 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:34,759 people that they're votes, their logic, their lives, their dignity 273 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,159 doesn't matter to you, and it won't then it graduates 274 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,559 up to the next step. This is going to seem 275 00:15:40,559 --> 00:15:46,360 to be a bizarre example. Years ago, there was a 276 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:51,559 convenience store chain who in a regional couple of states 277 00:15:51,559 --> 00:15:57,000 decided to stop letting you preset the pump. Now, back 278 00:15:57,039 --> 00:15:58,840 in the day, if you're a young person, you'd only 279 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:02,039 often only have three to five bucks for gas, so 280 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,399 you would go in and prepay yep, five dollars on 281 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:08,799 gas on pump three, and it would stop right at 282 00:16:08,799 --> 00:16:10,360 five dollars do you know that there was a chain 283 00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:13,080 of convenience stores who in a general state region, in 284 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,320 a region like five state region. They decided to stop 285 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:21,960 doing that because they calculated they were making hundreds of thousands, 286 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:25,159 maybe more dollars when people tried to stop the pump 287 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:28,559 on their own, oh five point fifteen, five thirty do 288 00:16:28,679 --> 00:16:32,120 dig it got to go find thirty cents and it 289 00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:35,679 added up. So they told their customers, we can't do 290 00:16:35,759 --> 00:16:42,000 that anymore. We can't do that anymore. We done forgot 291 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,120 how to set the pumps to stop. No one forgot 292 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:51,120 the equipment wasn't broken. And prior to the Internet, this 293 00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:55,480 became such a big story on radio and television and 294 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:58,759 people were so upset by it that the company was 295 00:16:58,799 --> 00:17:01,240 forced to stop it because they were losing sales and 296 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,039 slurpees and candy bars and all the other garbage that 297 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,920 they sell out of those stores. It was a populist approach. 298 00:17:09,039 --> 00:17:12,480 Most people in Ireland can't just walk away from their country, 299 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:17,200 so they're walking into this saying you will respect our 300 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:21,200 human dignity or we will see you completely voted out 301 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,160 of office. That's why populism is a descendant and then 302 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,680 the core reason it goes right back, right back to Genesis. 303 00:17:31,319 --> 00:17:36,559 God gave us the right to life, liberty. That's freedom 304 00:17:36,599 --> 00:17:40,000 with and constraints and pursuit of happiness. It's hardwired into us, 305 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,880 and we consent when people are trying to take it 306 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:48,839 from us. Story number three. Jesus Christ was and is real, 307 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:55,160 and he is not yours to remake. Jesus came down 308 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,680 to Earth for a very specific reason, and he did 309 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,079 a very remarkable thing. He decided to deny himself the 310 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:05,480 power of deity to a large degree, to become fully 311 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:08,920 human and fully God, and to take on the form 312 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,799 of a little baby. That little baby had hands and 313 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:16,920 fingerprints and feet and feet prints. He had his problems 314 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,759 as a little baby. He may have been colicky. He 315 00:18:19,839 --> 00:18:23,240 probably coughed up. He definitely, of course, evacuated his bowels. 316 00:18:23,279 --> 00:18:25,720 All babies do, maybe even if a projectile sense, And 317 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,240 I'm not trying to be blasphemous. He doesn't consider the 318 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,440 vacuating of our bowels to be blasphemy. It's simply a 319 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:37,559 bodily functioned he, as God invented. He had a personality, 320 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,640 He had likes and dislikes. Now, because he was perfect, 321 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:46,119 his likes and dislikes didn't relate to issues of unfairness. 322 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,079 He said, in the body of Christ, there's neither Greek 323 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,559 nor Jew, there's neither servant or Master. Were all one body. 324 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:54,200 So it wasn't that that there may have been foods 325 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,000 he disliked. He took on a human form, He was 326 00:18:58,039 --> 00:19:03,039 a man, looked a certain way, he walked a certain way. 327 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,000 He still exists, He always has and he always will. 328 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:11,039 There's a belief in Hollywood that Jesus Christ must be remade. 329 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,559 He must be remade into an image that is as 330 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,160 far from him as possible, and part of is to 331 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,680 engender discussion like this and clips like this. This is 332 00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:26,319 Cynthia Revo and she's playing Jesus in Hollywood Bowls Jesus 333 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,119 Christ Superstar, and she is playing across from Adam Lambert 334 00:19:30,279 --> 00:19:39,759 as Judas. Watch this Hollywood Bowl Jesus Christ Superstar has 335 00:19:39,799 --> 00:19:43,079 two very talented singers playing roles that they cannot relate to. 336 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,400 Adam Lambert doesn't know the Lord and Cynthia Reva doesn't 337 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,319 know the Lord. That doesn't matter if you consider Jesus 338 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,960 to be a fictional character you can remake on your own. 339 00:19:56,599 --> 00:19:59,599 I'm no expert on stagecraft. But as I see Cynthia 340 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:04,640 Rava facing Judas the way she does there, going at 341 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:10,440 him menacingly with anger, and this rage that seems to 342 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,960 be coming out in the songs, funny, Jesus never did that, 343 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:25,440 So funny. Jesus faced his fate with humility with Judas. 344 00:20:27,039 --> 00:20:31,079 He loved Judas to the moment Judas decided to betray him. 345 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,160 Go and do what you must do quickly? Is it 346 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,440 with a kiss that you betray the son of man? 347 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,880 He was never angry. Jesus was never filled with rage. 348 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,559 Now you can say that this is part of the writing, 349 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,759 fair enough, But she can also reflect on the fact 350 00:20:47,759 --> 00:20:50,920 that Hollywood must cast a person like Cynthia Arrival in 351 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,000 this role as he must cast Adam Lambert. Adam Lambert 352 00:20:54,039 --> 00:20:56,640 is openly same sex attracted. Doesn't mean he's not talented. 353 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,279 He's incredibly talented. I actually love him with Queen great 354 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,079 decision to him on. But he doesn't know the Lord. 355 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:07,240 Therefore he cannot see this as less than fiction or 356 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:09,920 more than fiction. I'll show what it means in a 357 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,839 second about sincere Revo. Because she herself has decided that 358 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,640 she's already her own God Hollywood or not. That is 359 00:21:17,759 --> 00:21:20,880 not a good stance to take with the Lord. Hollywood 360 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,200 has been changed. There have been upstart companies that have 361 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,359 come along and demonstrated to Hollywood that there are people 362 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,759 who will do quite a lot to support brave Christian filmmaking. 363 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,200 You know about The Chosen, You know about The Sound 364 00:21:33,279 --> 00:21:35,240 of Freedom, you know about The King of Kings, the 365 00:21:35,279 --> 00:21:37,839 animated feature about the life of Jesus Christ as told 366 00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:42,000 through a fictional Charles Dickens. So you know about these 367 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,119 features that you might know about. Angel Studios Angels out 368 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,519 with a new series called Testament, and this takes the 369 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:52,240 Book of Acts, which comes after this portion of Jesus 370 00:21:52,319 --> 00:21:55,440 Christ interacting with Judas is Scaiat that comes after that 371 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,480 Jesus is descended back into Heaven, and James and Paul 372 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:03,440 and John and almost certainly Mary or the Mary's were 373 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,440 involved in building christ Church. Later Paul came along after 374 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,000 he was no longer soul and helped with this process. 375 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:12,960 Luke wrote about it. They've taken that period of time 376 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,000 in the Bible, They've transported it into a surveillance state, 377 00:22:16,839 --> 00:22:20,279 a censorship state, a state where the truth is hated, 378 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,480 say like Hollywood and as asked an important question, we 379 00:22:25,519 --> 00:22:27,839 get to examine our hearts as we watch Testament, where 380 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,160 we stand for Jesus as the world stand against us. 381 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,440 Go stream this right now. It's called Testament. It's it's 382 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,480 Angel dot Com slash Todd. You can stream it. When 383 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:38,279 you become an Angel Studio Premium Guild member. You also 384 00:22:38,279 --> 00:22:41,519 get two free tickets to all of their theatrical releases, 385 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:43,880 Plus you get to vote on the movies that they accept, 386 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,960 they promote, they create, and they distribute. It is Angel 387 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,799 dot Com slash Todd help us change Hollywood with actual 388 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:56,359 risk taking Christian storytelling. Cynthia Ravo talks about how difficult 389 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,799 her life has been. Truly, she's had some remarkably difficult 390 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:02,480 thing her father kind of left her behind, very very difficult, 391 00:23:02,839 --> 00:23:05,480 But that's not what she says. The big challenges. 392 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 6: It isn't easy. None of it is waking up and 393 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,240 choosing to be yourself, proclaiming a space belongs to you 394 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:20,000 when you don't feel welcomed, Teaching people on a daily 395 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:23,279 basis how to address you, and dealing with the frustration 396 00:23:23,519 --> 00:23:25,880 of reteaching people, a word that has been in the 397 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:38,559 human vocabulary since the dawn of time they them words 398 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:43,880 used to describe pedantically two or more people poetically a 399 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:51,680 person who is simply more. It isn't easy to ask 400 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:54,920 people to treat you with dignity, since you should just 401 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:56,519 have it because it's a given. 402 00:23:57,839 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: It is an. 403 00:23:58,319 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 6: Easy to learn to grow who you are if the 404 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,839 world around you is knocking at your door telling you 405 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:04,880 to stay in suld. 406 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:15,559 Speaker 1: She's at the Glads Awards receiving a claim. She's received money. 407 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:20,519 She was the witch in Wicked. She's received a claim 408 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:24,839 for that, She's received tony awards and more. But the 409 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,240 world is telling her to stay locked inside her house. 410 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,599 I'm not getting that. I'm getting a woman who's simply 411 00:24:31,839 --> 00:24:40,200 more more than what, more than you. I'm getting a 412 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,480 whole bunch of pride. I'm also receiving from her a 413 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:50,160 message that the gift God gave her, the gift first 414 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,880 of all of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and these 415 00:24:53,920 --> 00:25:00,720 incredible talents to sing and perform. She's just more. And 416 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:04,720 yet Jesus Christ himself never saw any of us as more. 417 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:09,480 He sees us as the least of these, because to 418 00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:13,039 God Almighty, who created us, who knows how fragile we are, 419 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,599 who knows we can do nothing apart from him, who 420 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,680 knows that without him and his blood we will spend 421 00:25:18,759 --> 00:25:22,920 eternity apart from him, having never experienced anything good again. 422 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,319 Forever we all appear to the least to these, be 423 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,759 the least to these to Jesus. But not Cynthia. Rival 424 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,880 She's simply more. May God help her. This is the 425 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,119 todd Hermannshaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind, 426 00:25:37,759 --> 00:25:39,880 and go out. Make a decision today to accept the 427 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,000 Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior. Are 428 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,039 going to be changed by him? Or let the other 429 00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:55,839 side decide for you.