WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.040 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 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 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 Now? 75 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.959 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 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 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 Oh? 129 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.120 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 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 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 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 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