Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one, Goodbye to PBS, and by the way,
here's your parting gift or one of them. Story number two,
Why Populism is Ascendence, Part one thousand and Story number three.
Jesus Christ was and is real, and he is not
yours to remake or reimagine. We'll talk about this with
the help of God Almighty.
Speaker 2: The Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by
big pharma technocrats and tyrn s everywhere from the high
mountains of Free American. Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.
Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These
are the times through which God has decided where shall live.
So the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which quote FUN and
PR and PBS, says it's going to close down after
federal cuts. So it didn't fully fund it. It's actually
made you fund it. So goodbye to PBS that I've
got a parting gift for them in a second. But
first of all, just a lesson from life. You're looking at,
if you're watching me, if you're listening to me, you're
listening to probably the luckiest stink and mut you're ever
going to meet in human form. I am such a
freaking lucky mutt. I got to work at Microsoft, and
that's mut enough, lucky mutt enough that that ever happens.
And I got to work with a team of people
that we got to call the Media Experiences Team, really
really cool gift that my boss gave me. Media Experiences.
Our job was to make it preferable to watch shows
online versus on TV. Now, I know that that seems
weird now, but back in the day it wasn't. It
wasn't it was It was still preferable to watch them
on TV. And there were some other teams MSN and
Entertainment worked with this, MSN Games. I wanted to just
give credit. They went and did a deal with the
Arrested Development. People remember that show, Arrested Development. Now, I've
never loved the show. I know other people love it.
I know it's a cult hit. I know for a
fact that the people who loved that show they still
watch it. And some brilliant people at Microsoft came up
with some brilliant ideas to make it preferable to watch
that on a connected device. Some of the things that
people contributed now are old or old school. You know
those little bubbles that pop up during your show, there's
a factoid or a map of where people are at,
or the bios of the actors, etc. Sometimes linking to IMDb.
Know all that that didn't always exist, and so Microsoft
paid money to license the show. We got to build
around this and all I did was imagine some things
with my team. People far more skilled did the actual work,
and they deserve the bulk of the credit. And this
I was tangential to the effort at best, but I
got to see it lesson. We paid a lot of
money to have that show. I think it approached as
I'm remembering by memory, I think it may have approached
fifty million bucks to have that show. They'd have been
canceled on TV. So it's worthwhile the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting is shutting down rather than going out and shopping
the opportunity to help NPR and PBS. Why are they
doing that? Well, they aren't real business people. They're good
old fashioned DC grifters. And I want to give them
a brief, maybe thirty second parting gift with maybe a
one minute explanation for me as they walk out the
door having lost the gravy train access. And by the way,
what would you rather do? Go work for a living
or lick a bowl full of delicious money? Gravy, sweet money, gravy. Look,
money runs everything to a degree. The love of money.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The love of money, not money itself. You're going to
need money to retire, maybe a million, maybe ten million,
maybe twenty, depending on how the economy turns out, maybe
five hundred thousand if things go really bad. So what
are you doing to make sure your retirement is not
a wish or a dream or a hope. What are
you doing to make sure it's a plan?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Maybe you work with a financial advisor. Did you know
that financial advisors don't have to put your best interest
ahead of their own? Did you know that they actually don't.
Maybe you're using algorithmic approaches. If so, I hope you're
really good at it, because there's a lot of fees
tied up and all that. Do you know that fiduciaries
have to put your financial interests ahead of theirs? Did
you know that Zach Abraham, chief investment Officer Bolwark Capital Management,
is a fiduciary. They have now had five out of
the last six years of their performances audited, so you
can ask Zach about that the performance. His whole drive
is risk management, which he accomplishes by actively managing every
portfolio which can reduce risk and volatility. And he is
the master spreading the bets. But please hear this, police,
hear this, Please hear this. Zach is playing the long game.
This is not the place to go get your sugar high. Hey,
we hit the peak given Vidio, don't do that. They
played the long game. This is where my money's at,
the bulk of it. Zach wouldn't let me put it
all there because that's too risky. He'll give you a
free now obligation consultation, in fact, three free talks to
see if you want to work with each other. Go
to Know Your riskpodcast dot com. That's no Your riskpodcast
dot com. Investment Advisor services off True Truck Financial LLCN
sec RICHID Investment Advisor. Investments involved risk are not guaranteed
past performance, isn't guarantee future results. Truck twenty five. That'sh
two five to two. It wasn't just arrested development. We
went out and paid money to get we paid going
to need to get a lot of shows when Microsoft
was still trying to play the entertainment game. I know
there are a license teams at Google and YouTube and
Go do the same thing, because these things have value.
I have no doubt that there's shows on PBS that
are going to survive and probably be a bid four
if it ends up that way. Of no doubt the
brands they've built corporation for Public Conn Broadcasting shutting the
doors because the gravy trainer is over. I wanted to
offer you just a quick parting gift courtesy of the
terrible hitlers at Fox News.
Speaker 3: We'll get out of Kentucky said this in a statement.
It's a long statement. I'll just read one line. There
is now a pattern of Key Biden confident on sinking
the sablums shield themselves from criminal liability for this potential conspiracy.
Speaker 1: And so the conspiracy, of course, was this. There was
the autopan who was doing the pardons, who was sunning
the legislation of which the figure head was unaware, who
was actually running the country. If only PBS had decided
and NPR had decided with their news arms to actually
do something about this. Here's the parting gift. Why did
we all know? Why did everybody? Well not everybody, because
some people chose not to know? But why is it
that so many taxpayers were forced to pay for you
to pretend this wasn't happening?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. Someone can write in
the comment sections. You know that show Arrested Development. You
know they were pretending, right, Yeah, and they admitted it
because the TV show is fiction. So as much of
what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting did. Oh, by the way,
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Hey, you forgot to close the door.
There you go, Story number two, Why populism is ascendant?
Part what a thousand? So let's define populism. What is it?
It's the people rising up to take control of matters
into their own hands through at least some peaceful means.
That's one way to define it. I define myself this way,
a Christian conservative constitution, you know, populist. Why because of
all things that matter to me, Jesus is first. He
is our Lord and savior. He's man who came here
to save us from internal damnation. He offers us the
free gift of redemption. And I love him for what
he has done for me and how he's changed me.
So Christian constitutional populists. So why constitutional? Because populism without
constraints is very dangerous. Constitutional because our Constitution, I believe,
was written by men inspired by God, not in the
same way that the Bible was written. The Bible is
the complete, inerrant, unchangeable, unchanging word of God. The Constitution
was written by men inspired by God because they recognize
the fact we have rights that come from God. The
right to have life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness existed
in the garden of Eden. They recognize these things. Christian constitutional, populist, Conservative.
Why populism, Well, because it's not going to get done
anither way. Just this past week we saw John Thune
decide to not let President Trump have any recess appointments
to the courts, despite being one hundred and thirty seat short,
despite the fact that the left has been remaking the
courts for the past eight twelve years and we've seen
the results of that. Conservative, because I believe conservatism that
is limiting the power of government is the most godly
thing we can do to leave room for God. Populism
is ascendant because other people around the world, not necessarily Christian,
not necessarily constitutional, to have looked and said no one
in government means as well. I mean, there's some people
here and there, but it's easiest just to say no one.
There's some decent people. Even in DC, there's some great people,
but overall the machine doesn't mean us well. And there's
starting to be changes. Even in courtrooms in a nearly
fallen land like Ireland, they're starting to be ch I'll
show what he's changes in a second. It's a direct
result of populism. Populism can take the form sometimes of
let's say, entrepreneurialism. I've developed a good friendship with the
guys who run renew Healthcare in Mexico, and tell you
Steve and Jim are smart business people. They didn't want
to do what they did in Mexico. This is to
have a stem cell health clinic. It goes far beyond
stem cells. By the way, they couldn't do it in
America because America will not allow them to quality control
standards they have in the United States. If you get
stem cells, they come from whomever. They've been frozen for
however long, at whatever quality rating they had to begin with,
and they're injected by people with whatever training pain specialists, chiropractor,
not that they don't know what they're doing. Compare this
to renew Healthcare in Mexico. The stem cells come from
a world class hospital next door. They take a five
maybe ten minute walk into a world class lab that's
one step below a bio containment facility for like a
bowl of they're their process. They refuse to use any
of the stem cells that don't meet their qualit control standards.
They know the women. They monitor the health of the
women and the baby during pregnancy and afterwards. If the
morning that they inject you with stem cells, let's say
for your shoulders, your knees, your back, because you've got
neurological issues, say a traumatic brain injury. If those things
are not as active as they want, they'll ask you
to wait. The next day. They followed it up with IVS.
They precede it with ivs and the largest hyperborec chamber
in North America, all to speed healing. Go check them
out at renew r E n ue DOT Healthcare. Sort
of a populist approach, so fighting back against the industrial
the big insurance roll up forced insurance programming. Up here
in the United States, it's renewed R E, n U
E DOT healthcare. Populism is ascendant because people around the
globe have caught onto the fact that there is a
rigged game going on. It didn't just happen through the
water or the air. That country said, hey, you know what,
let's bring in a whole bunch of people who have
no connection to our country. They don't share any of
our values, so let's not ask them to share our values.
Let's not determine that they're coming to a country to
live on our values. Let's flutter systems with people who
in fact aren't going to assimilate. Let's tell them they
don't have to assimilate. Let's show them that they're the
special people. And in the case of Ireland, people have
stood up. Now a Court of Appeals has said the
most remarkable thing. If you're an Irish citizen, think about
how you would feel that this even had to make
it to court.
Speaker 4: The Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of the
state after a challenge to High Court ruling regarding the
rights of international protection applicants to have their basic needs,
including accommodation met by the state. Our Social Affairs correspondent
Al the kannelis here in studio, so alver remind us
of the background to this case and what this ruling
means now for international protection applicants.
Speaker 5: Well, this all goes back to December twenty twenty three
when the State found that it was running out of
accommodation for international protection applicants, so it housed the most
vulnerable and families, which left single males unaccommodated. So the
Art Human Rights and Equality Commission brought a case to
the High Court last year basically saying these men's rights
were being breached. There were intents right across the city,
mainly in Dublin, and it was the first time essentially
that IRICK used this kind of power that it has
under legislation under the Act under which it was set
up to bring this case to the High Court. So
the High Court found that the men they had a
right human dignity and that that had been breached by
the State, and it also found that you know, their
rights under European law had also been breached. So that
decision was appealed by the State to the Court of
Appeal and it has found in favor of the state.
Today we've just had eyes on the judgment and mister
Justice Anthony Collins acknowledged the Commission's express statutory entitlement to
essentially commence these commission proceedings in the court. However, he
found the sample of homeless asylum seekers was insufficient to
prove extreme material poverty and that their physical and mental
health was affected to such a degree that he felt
it didn't breach their right to human dignity. So the
government has always claimed that it is making strenuous efforts
to accommodate these men. This decision or finding by the
Court of Appeal today overrides the High Court decision. And
when I recooniciated that these proceedings the were over two
hundred homeless applicants International protection applicants. It went up to
three thousand in December twenty twenty four. It's now one thousand,
three hundred and thirty three.
Speaker 1: The bosses in Ireland knew there weren't homes for these
people when they agreed to flood their borders with people
with no connection to Irish society, Irish tradition, on the
predominant Christian faith there. They knew there weren't homes and
is it a right to dignity? Does that just happen
for the newcomers because in Ireland, like Scotland, farmers have
been told you're going to need to do away with
part of your farmland or maybe all of it because
we need to build apartment buildings for the newcomers. Does
that violate their human dignity? Populism is ascendant because people
are noticing the rig games and they're going to continue
in populism, and the way to make sure it remains
peaceful is to understand the next step. When you show
people that they're votes, their logic, their lives, their dignity
doesn't matter to you, and it won't then it graduates
up to the next step. This is going to seem
to be a bizarre example. Years ago, there was a
convenience store chain who in a regional couple of states
decided to stop letting you preset the pump. Now, back
in the day, if you're a young person, you'd only
often only have three to five bucks for gas, so
you would go in and prepay yep, five dollars on
gas on pump three, and it would stop right at
five dollars do you know that there was a chain
of convenience stores who in a general state region, in
a region like five state region. They decided to stop
doing that because they calculated they were making hundreds of thousands,
maybe more dollars when people tried to stop the pump
on their own, oh five point fifteen, five thirty do
dig it got to go find thirty cents and it
added up. So they told their customers, we can't do
that anymore. We can't do that anymore. We done forgot
how to set the pumps to stop. No one forgot
the equipment wasn't broken. And prior to the Internet, this
became such a big story on radio and television and
people were so upset by it that the company was
forced to stop it because they were losing sales and
slurpees and candy bars and all the other garbage that
they sell out of those stores. It was a populist approach.
Most people in Ireland can't just walk away from their country,
so they're walking into this saying you will respect our
human dignity or we will see you completely voted out
of office. That's why populism is a descendant and then
the core reason it goes right back, right back to Genesis.
God gave us the right to life, liberty. That's freedom
with and constraints and pursuit of happiness. It's hardwired into us,
and we consent when people are trying to take it
from us. Story number three. Jesus Christ was and is real,
and he is not yours to remake. Jesus came down
to Earth for a very specific reason, and he did
a very remarkable thing. He decided to deny himself the
power of deity to a large degree, to become fully
human and fully God, and to take on the form
of a little baby. That little baby had hands and
fingerprints and feet and feet prints. He had his problems
as a little baby. He may have been colicky. He
probably coughed up. He definitely, of course, evacuated his bowels.
All babies do, maybe even if a projectile sense, And
I'm not trying to be blasphemous. He doesn't consider the
vacuating of our bowels to be blasphemy. It's simply a
bodily functioned he, as God invented. He had a personality,
He had likes and dislikes. Now, because he was perfect,
his likes and dislikes didn't relate to issues of unfairness.
He said, in the body of Christ, there's neither Greek
nor Jew, there's neither servant or Master. Were all one body.
So it wasn't that that there may have been foods
he disliked. He took on a human form, He was
a man, looked a certain way, he walked a certain way.
He still exists, He always has and he always will.
There's a belief in Hollywood that Jesus Christ must be remade.
He must be remade into an image that is as
far from him as possible, and part of is to
engender discussion like this and clips like this. This is
Cynthia Revo and she's playing Jesus in Hollywood Bowls Jesus
Christ Superstar, and she is playing across from Adam Lambert
as Judas. Watch this Hollywood Bowl Jesus Christ Superstar has
two very talented singers playing roles that they cannot relate to.
Adam Lambert doesn't know the Lord and Cynthia Reva doesn't
know the Lord. That doesn't matter if you consider Jesus
to be a fictional character you can remake on your own.
I'm no expert on stagecraft. But as I see Cynthia
Rava facing Judas the way she does there, going at
him menacingly with anger, and this rage that seems to
be coming out in the songs, funny, Jesus never did that,
So funny. Jesus faced his fate with humility with Judas.
He loved Judas to the moment Judas decided to betray him.
Go and do what you must do quickly? Is it
with a kiss that you betray the son of man?
He was never angry. Jesus was never filled with rage.
Now you can say that this is part of the writing,
fair enough, But she can also reflect on the fact
that Hollywood must cast a person like Cynthia Arrival in
this role as he must cast Adam Lambert. Adam Lambert
is openly same sex attracted. Doesn't mean he's not talented.
He's incredibly talented. I actually love him with Queen great
decision to him on. But he doesn't know the Lord.
Therefore he cannot see this as less than fiction or
more than fiction. I'll show what it means in a
second about sincere Revo. Because she herself has decided that
she's already her own God Hollywood or not. That is
not a good stance to take with the Lord. Hollywood
has been changed. There have been upstart companies that have
come along and demonstrated to Hollywood that there are people
who will do quite a lot to support brave Christian filmmaking.
You know about The Chosen, You know about The Sound
of Freedom, you know about The King of Kings, the
animated feature about the life of Jesus Christ as told
through a fictional Charles Dickens. So you know about these
features that you might know about. Angel Studios Angels out
with a new series called Testament, and this takes the
Book of Acts, which comes after this portion of Jesus
Christ interacting with Judas is Scaiat that comes after that
Jesus is descended back into Heaven, and James and Paul
and John and almost certainly Mary or the Mary's were
involved in building christ Church. Later Paul came along after
he was no longer soul and helped with this process.
Luke wrote about it. They've taken that period of time
in the Bible, They've transported it into a surveillance state,
a censorship state, a state where the truth is hated,
say like Hollywood and as asked an important question, we
get to examine our hearts as we watch Testament, where
we stand for Jesus as the world stand against us.
Go stream this right now. It's called Testament. It's it's
Angel dot Com slash Todd. You can stream it. When
you become an Angel Studio Premium Guild member. You also
get two free tickets to all of their theatrical releases,
Plus you get to vote on the movies that they accept,
they promote, they create, and they distribute. It is Angel
dot Com slash Todd help us change Hollywood with actual
risk taking Christian storytelling. Cynthia Ravo talks about how difficult
her life has been. Truly, she's had some remarkably difficult
thing her father kind of left her behind, very very difficult,
But that's not what she says. The big challenges.
Speaker 6: It isn't easy. None of it is waking up and
choosing to be yourself, proclaiming a space belongs to you
when you don't feel welcomed, Teaching people on a daily
basis how to address you, and dealing with the frustration
of reteaching people, a word that has been in the
human vocabulary since the dawn of time they them words
used to describe pedantically two or more people poetically a
person who is simply more. It isn't easy to ask
people to treat you with dignity, since you should just
have it because it's a given.
Speaker 1: It is an.
Speaker 6: Easy to learn to grow who you are if the
world around you is knocking at your door telling you
to stay in suld.
Speaker 1: She's at the Glads Awards receiving a claim. She's received money.
She was the witch in Wicked. She's received a claim
for that, She's received tony awards and more. But the
world is telling her to stay locked inside her house.
I'm not getting that. I'm getting a woman who's simply
more more than what, more than you. I'm getting a
whole bunch of pride. I'm also receiving from her a
message that the gift God gave her, the gift first
of all of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and these
incredible talents to sing and perform. She's just more. And
yet Jesus Christ himself never saw any of us as more.
He sees us as the least of these, because to
God Almighty, who created us, who knows how fragile we are,
who knows we can do nothing apart from him, who
knows that without him and his blood we will spend
eternity apart from him, having never experienced anything good again.
Forever we all appear to the least to these, be
the least to these to Jesus. But not Cynthia. Rival
She's simply more. May God help her. This is the
todd Hermannshaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind,
and go out. Make a decision today to accept the
Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior. Are
going to be changed by him? Or let the other
side decide for you.