Speaker 1: So you've heard me say before. My dad was a great,
big farmer type dude. He was obese, allowed himself to
get to that point, but gosh, he was strong. And
I've told the story a few times, so I won't
belabor it. But one day was at his home. He
lived on twenty acres and he had been chopping wood,
and they actually enjoyed chopping wood. And dude could shop wood.
He's a guy who could split logs with one hand,
and I'm talking about a full blown big man axe
through the logs. I was watching him do that one day,
getting ready to go out help stack the wood and
the axe. The axe came off the handle and it
really angered him. My dad was given to a lot
of frustration, and he took the axe handle and he
lifted it up and he broke it in two over
his knee, just absolutely snapped it. He was super strong
and weak, and he never let me see the weakness
because my dad didn't know where to get real strength.
So when he was in the hospital he was dying,
then he let me see some of the weakness, but
he still didn't want me to really see it because
he didn't yet know how to tap true strength. He
got there before he died. Praise God, he got there. Now.
My dad was old, he was sixty four. If you
were young, or you know young men, most of us do.
I'm blessed to know a lot of young men. Many
of them speak into my life. Maybe him know the
things we're going to talk about, but most don't. Most
don't know what's been stolen from them. So if you
are thirty five and under, or you know young men
like this, and I don't care if you're male or female,
I think these are things they need to know because
there is a massive theft of manhood. Let's talk about that.
We'll do this with the help of Alan Soaps and
my friend Dave Parkers at green Haven Interactive. Real simple?
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you know where the true strengths come from, right, true strength.
It comes from tapping the vine that God made available
to us through Jesus Christ, in whose name we begin.
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Speaker 1: Today is a day the Lord has made, and these
are the times to which God has decided we shall live. Yeah,
my dad, he was weak, and one of his points
of weakness was that he didn't understand the necessity of
male friendship. And this is one of the big things
that's being stolen from young men, the necessity of male friendship.
And that means something. We as men have been designed
to need brothers to help hold us to account because
we're fallen because of the sin problem. We need brothers
to help pray into our lives, to speak into our lives,
to talk to us as images of Christ image bearers.
This has been taken from young men. Most young men
I know do not have those formative friendships. I have
friendships based upon a lot of things, sports, music, video games,
chasing the babes, but they don't necessarily have this based
upon God first, keeping our eyes on Christ. When men
team up together to keep their eyes on Christ, something happens.
You know, I share with my friends the struggles that
I face is and man, we all do Sometimes it's doubt.
Sometimes it's job stuff, like it's easy to get down
about your job, even this one, which is really easy
in comparison to what a lot of people do. I
ain't getting shot at. There's no RPGs coming in here, right.
I largely work for myself. I work with a team
of people I respect. But it is a little bit
draining sometimes to do four or five hours of content
every day. That can kind of drain it, dude. And
when I get down, if I don't share it with friends,
it rots in me. I can I can be prayerful
about it. It's still not whole until I bring friends
into this and they speak in to me on a
daily basis. There's places where I know I'm going to
be at my worst. For instance, when I'm driving. That's
where Satan comes to get me, and I can get
really really up into myself. I have friends pray for
me then I take a long drive. There are people
who know that I face specific challenges in specific circumstances,
and they will pray. I got a text you other
day from my brother say, hey, I know you've got
that meeting coming up, praying for you. If he remembered
this Now that's far far different from dude, go get it, dude,
this is yours. Grab it. I'm not saying that those
aren't important parts of male friendship. They are, but they're
not the sort of male friendship that the Lord Jesus modeled.
That's not what he did. He showed love and compassion,
but he was also very very clear with the men discipled.
He was the leader. They knew that because of the
way he acted and they figured out who he was.
But he also showed them you're gonna have incredible power.
When two of his disciples were offended and rightly so
that some Samaritans were spitting at Jesus and throwing rocks
at him. James and John I think it was James
and John said, Lord, let's let's bring down lightning from
heaven and destroy them, strike him dead. And the Lord
Jesus said maybe not now. He said, you would destroy
them for this, and they were given the nicknames the
Sons of Thunder because that's what they wanted to do.
That was that his teaching. Could he have not done it?
He showed strength in the way that we are to
show it. You want to call Jesus a weakling, go
die his death. You can't. You can't. Oh, okay, So
I get it. Like you're tough. You could go put
the cross in your back and go and hike up
a hill. So could I not with my back cut
open and my rib showing. Nor could you? Okay, So
maybe you're far tougher than I am. Probably are. You
couldn't sustain the three hours on the cross where the
wrath of God is poured out on you. You could not
in that three hours the Lord Jesus drank the cup
of wrath that was meant for you. You couldn't drink it.
I couldn't. I couldn't sip from it. None of us could.
That was tough, and he didn't have to do it.
He could have called the t I read thought this no,
but he refused because he took the will of the
Father on his shoulders. Will be done not mine. Being
a full man begins with that, begins with surrender to
tap the true source of strength. My dad never had
that opportunity. He came from a family of secularists. Now
he got it when he was dying. He did accept
the Lord Jesus before his death, praise God through a
pot smoking native American pastor who was probably high when
he did it. But God works in mysterious ways. Because
my dad was a guy who didn't want to do
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eight I mentioned as twenty acres. That was a great place.
My dad built for us a racetrack in back so
we could race our quarter bidgets. So I grew up
driving on my own dirt track from the age of seven.
You think you taught you think you thought up drifting.
I was drifting in race cars when I was seven,
racing my sister and my cousin. We would go shooting
out in the backyard. I grew up shooting from the
age of seven. I asked my dad like, hey, how
do you do quick draw goes, well, you start slow.
You want to learn quick draw. Let's do a quick draw.
You start slow. Here's how it works. How do I
shoot long distance? Okay, now we'll do this. What if
I need to run while I'm shooting? Okay, We're going
to be careful about that one. I'll teach you, but
we're going to be careful. He had a property where
we could sustain ourselves. We had a beautiful well. In fact,
one of the things my dad used to bring me
on the rare occasions that he would drive over to
the big city of Seattle is he would bring me
milk jugs full of chatteroy well water. And people would say,
why would you do that, and then they taste it. Oh,
that's why you do that. If you look at this
image of the decline of testosterone in men, just behold
from nineteen sixty to twenty twenty. And if you're not
yet on the video service, you can do that by
going to video dot Todd Herman Show dot com. You'll
see these shows. You participates in live videos in the
interactive stuff that we do, special behind the scenes things
that we do. From time to time, we need to
do another one of those by the way, so you
can see the decline. So how is this happening? What
are the aspects of life? Is that the bosses are
they know they've screwed up. So the bosses at top
of government, they know they've either screwed up or they
know that they know there's a come up and coming.
They know we know that, they know that we know,
well that's the Princess bribe. But they they are aware
that we've caught onto the fact that they're raiding the treasury.
They absolutely intend to control us. We know this. People
get into government, some of them can remain very good
people and keep their souls intact. Other though, others though,
just become the bosses that the Lord warned us about.
Do not lord your power over others. Looking at this
decline from seven hundred down to below four hundred in
male testosterone and how could this happen, Well, it goes
right back to dietary guidelines. First, they create a nation
of diabetics and people just crushed under obesity with the
food pyramid, you know the food pyramid that was years
in the making. And in the years that was in
the making, you had lobbyist, lobbyist life that's why grains
are at the bottom, because at that point farmers had
a ton of power. We're not to eat grain as
the basis of our diet. Now we've gotten to the
ridiculous point. And we've been talking about this. We've been
talking about this super about three years. This is not
new that the government ranks things like frosted flakes and
so called cereals like that as more nutritional than eggs
and beef and even cheese. And she's in decently low amounts.
Is not bad for you, So take it to God's design.
I do not recall the Lord saying make lucky charms. Now,
of course the Bible is filled with bread. But you
want to know something, It was a different bread. It's
not the bread that we eat today. It was a
different wheat. The glue you consume today is not the
glutens that were consumed in the olden days. That bread
did not pack on the fat. It did not cause
your bodies to puff up. I can't eat modern bread
without I eat a piece of modern bread, and I
put on sixty seven pounds. Maybe not quite, but quickly
I jack on the way. There is a new bread
that's come out that is the old bread. I have
friends who are eating it. It does not cause the inflammation.
It's closer to God's design. The Bible is a book,
an instruction book on how to live, and yes, it
contains some elements on what to eat. God gave us
dominion over the earth. He gave us dominion over the animals,
and there was not a need for meat. Perhaps in
the garden of Eden. I know that Seventh day Aventists don't.
Most of them don't eat meat because they don't think
it was eaten in the garden of Eden, and they
want to return to Eden. Well, I would just I
view that, and with all respect to Seventh day adventis,
I don't think you have the power to reinstall the
garden of Eden. I don't think what you eat can
do that. I think that has to wait for the
new Heaven and the new Earth. Your very body, men,
was designed to eat the foods that God wanted you
to eat. You do not create enough cholesterol. Guess what,
You don't create enough testosterone, and we're told you need
to bring your cholesterol levels down. Not all cholesterol's bad cholesterol.
Have you ever heard a doctor check with you, Hey,
how's your testosterone level. No, they're not told to do that.
It's not a concern for them. When I finally got
my testosterone checked, and god knows how I was able
to lift weights this way, my testosterone was below two hundred,
I was dead. That was gosh. Was my daughter even
born yet? Yes? She was. That was almost twenty years ago,
and I had my first testosterone test and it was
below two hundred. Now, I had a fairly high level
of free testosterone in that two hundred, which is probably
what saved me. But I shouldn't have been able to
lift the weights I was lifting. I should have had
a four hundred pound bench press. I shouldn't have been
the case. But I never had a doctor ask They
asked about my insulin level because I was fat, I
was obese, and they should have asked. And thank god,
it wasn't yet diabetic. But I was well on my way.
This isn't a show about nutrition. It's a show about
the effort to destroy manhood. Testosterone is something God gave
us to have the strength that we need so that
we can combine it with what real strength means. From
Ephesians Chapter six, verses ten through eighteen, you see the
source of real strength. And most men under the age
of thirty have never ever heard this, so they cannot
tap it. My dad never heard this. I never heard
my dad say this to me, and I think my
life would have been fundamentally better had he had he
had access to this knowledge. Finally, be strong in the
Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on
the whole armor of God, that you may be able
to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we
do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the cosmic power over this present darkness,
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heaveny places. Therefore,
take up the whole armor of God, that you may
be able to withstand in the evil day. And having
done all to stand firm stand therefore, having fastened on
the belt of truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness.
And I guess I could have continued to quote. Most
men don't know how to do this. So if you've
fallen into porn, stop, Remember those girls and women and
they were created by God in his image. Okay, that's
what you are fantasizing about His image. If they're Christians.
They're his daughters. He created you in his image. What
you defile is your relationship with him, and it weakens you.
Good luck having a good marriage when your mind is
filled with porn. Good luck enjoying sexual union being one
flesh with your wife when your mind is filled with
porn and ladies. Good luck finding a dude who doesn't
think it's normal to choke you during sexual union if
they're washed and porn. The righteousness of God, the armor
of God, is not physical. The war is not physical.
You have been You've had stolen from you, the fact
that you are in a spiritual war that the devil
wants to weaken you by strengthening your flesh. If you
go out and fight these battles based just upon your flesh,
you lose. You've lost. I wish my dad had had
this knowledge. That's true strength. I we'll talk more about
the word of God, but we got to do a
little bit of physical strength. We can't sit here and
not talk about physical strength, because part of being manly
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my CrossFit gym who are stronger than me. That's really tough.
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I
said one day to a young woman who I don't
know what she weighs, but I got to guess it's
maybe buck fifteen, buck twenty, and she's shorter. And one
day I said to her, you are so strong, and
she laughs, she goes todd, you are now and you
will always be far stronger than me. I am more
mobile than you. I'm sure to have limited range of movement.
I guarantee you're stronger than me in countless ways. But yes,
I am better at lifting weights than you. Yes, you
said it. Practice, practice, practice one of the things you
have to do. And young men, please hear me on this.
If you do not right now make a habit of humility,
the devil will come and get you in countless ways.
Yet I couldn't five years ago. I couldn't have had
that conversation with this young woman five years ago. If
I'd seen that, I think I would have run out
of the gym. That's not the place for me. There
is a theft of physicality right now going on with men,
and it's a plan. Let's track this. We've got the
low testosterone levels. Not enough cholesterol egals not enough testosterone,
not enough animal fats equals low testosterone unless you supplement.
So if you're living a vegan lifestyle, copy that, I
get it. My daughter's a vegan, or boyfriend's a vegan.
He's a good kid, he's a very voice a young man,
and I gotta say, I think I wish he would
supplement his testosterone. I'm not speaking against him. I'm a
fan of this guy. He's great. He's a very impressive
young man. And by the way, he's physically strong. I've
worked out with him, but over the ages, the testosterone
levels drop. God gave us tools to be physically strong.
One of the things that's been stolen from us is
physical work. I looked in the backyard and saw my
dad chopping wood. He did that because that was a
form of fun for him. And we heated a house
that way on the acres. I chalked about the power
going out, and we had stacks and sacks and cords
and chords and chords of wood. Probably should have sold
some of it, but we had chords and chords and
chords of wood. Well, my dad grew up toss and
hay bales and alfalfa bales, and I did that too,
So as the beasts my dad had become he still
had the structure of a guy who did that farm
work on a pretty regular basis. You probably don't. And
I'm here to tell you there is a difference between
farmer strength and weightlifting strength. And I've confirmed this by
talking to world class bodybuilders about this. I should play
the video. I should have done this. In fact, I'll
get to this. I got the pleasure of seeing a
friend of mine who was a he was a world
record holder in weightlifting. He squatted while to see one
forty one pounds eleven hundred and forty one pounds. That's
basically squatting a small car. I was in the gym
the other day and at the age he's he's gosh,
a year, maybe maybe two. It is probably a year
older than me. I got the pleasure of watching Brent
deadlift seven hundred and twenty five pounds at the age
of probably fifty nine. Now, that strength came with a
hard cost because his background was powerlifting, powerlifting, powerlifting. But
guess what is heritage is farming? Farming, farming. This has
been stolen from you. You may not be able to
go out and start a farm. You may not be
able to go out and work on a ranch. But
you can't have the proxy for this. And it's no mistake.
By the way, gosh, I forgot to pull this. I
saw this headline. This was such a great headline that
oh here it is, No, it is, it's right here.
Too much exercise can kill you, especially if you're a
white man. A study fine, seven seven point five hours
a week of fitness doubles your risk of heart disease.
Does anyone have any questions about how that study worked?
What sort of exercise and what shape were you when
you did it? And I'll tell you, I'm pretty sure
I know what exercise you're talking about is just consistent
long rest distance running, because you want to know that
what that does, it's catabolic. It eats muscle. If all
you do is long distance running, it consumes muscle. And
by the way, you end up skinny fat, What does
that mean? It means you end up looking like you're skinny.
You're yeah, but you're skinny, but you're not lean. You
don't have a bunch of lean muscle. You end up
with the high fat percentage. It happens at black men. Oh,
it happens at black men. Sustain higher testosterone levels because
there's a difference in their biology. It's not a skin
color thing, it's a background thing. So we can't ignore
physical strength, and let's not This is a fun video
a guy put together where he went out to a
farm and he took bodybuilders and guys he says, are farmers.
You tell me if these are farmers.
Speaker 3: Today, I'm here in Mississippi with the strongest farmers I know,
and they'll be challenging bodybuilders to find out whoot is stronger.
The team with the most amount of points by the
end of the video will walk.
Speaker 4: Away with a thousand dollars. Starting with deadlift, it's gonna
be a one v one. Whoever can lift the most
amount of weight will win one point for their team.
I'm gonna be over here with seeing bodybuilders who were
putting up for deadls.
Speaker 1: Right here, man, we'll put me up.
Speaker 3: We got Nick tean farmer.
Speaker 1: Oh, we got Steve Steve.
Speaker 3: Okay, how much you weigh Nick?
Speaker 1: Two O six?
Speaker 3: Two O six? About Steve six? We're starting with one
thirty five on the bar.
Speaker 1: Ladies first, okay, let's go easy, don't pull you back out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's jump a little.
Speaker 1: Let's put two plates on it.
Speaker 3: Two twenty five on the bar.
Speaker 1: You got this, nick? Yep? Easy?
Speaker 3: Oh, man, put a sixty problem, got a sixty five
right here? These are all custom built three fifty five
light work.
Speaker 1: Whig.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yo.
Speaker 2: We all I got tenty finals left.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you're putting right? Let's get it
right here? We got five oh five on the bar.
Speaker 1: You got this? All right, We're gonna give it a shot.
Do it for my guy? Yes, sir, let's go.
Speaker 3: Oh, sweater's coming off.
Speaker 5: Oh, Nick, come on, get it.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Neck straps. If you don't watch in the
video service, I said, the farmers starting to get the
Jimmy legs. He's also giving himself a disadvantage one of
those gloves. Clive, massive disadvantage with the gloves. And by
the way, that dude's range of motion. He lifts this
about six inches less than big farmer dude. Oh he's
not here gripping that, see the left hand. That was
all the wraps.
Speaker 3: Feel free to quit if you want.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's just a grip fail. That's what I was
talking about. The gloves. All right. So the bodybuilders win
the first round of this, it's not a celebration. Of weightlifting.
It is because I enjoy the sport, but it's a
calling out to young men. I'm not saying you need
to be able to deadlift five hundred and five pounds.
What I'm saying is you have a physical portion of yourself.
There are people who have special needs kids and this
happens that they have to adjust their expectation for their kids.
And this is really hard for parents. Parents saying, well,
my kid's going to be he's going to go to
my college and he's going to pursue my profession. And
when they find out the kids have are non neurotypical,
a lot of times for parents it can be oh
my gosh, and it's a difficult thing to adjust expectations.
Doesn't mean that you stop loving, you stop pushing, stop believing,
or parents of kids have special needs for them to
understand that Alan has it really tough. He's effectively nonverbal,
he has at eighteen operations. He's only fourteen years old.
But he works. He invents soap, he works the company
in quality control. His brother Ian is impacted by autism.
He works. He contributes Amy who got late on set autism.
She's thriving, helping with social media, et cetera. She was
told she's hirable and the soap is of pristine quality.
There's no way John would put his son's name on
a soap that sucked. So they researched a family. They
found him in the Midwest. They are three generations into
the soap crafting world. That's what that's all they do.
They took on the fragrances that Alan thought of, that
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are mind, body spirit. Hey, if you are not regularly
exercising the body, you are doing exactly what the party
wants you to do. If you're not building muscle now
or at least sustaining the muscle you have, you're doing
exactly what the party wants you to do. The same
people who wanted to force injections into your body are
the same people who want you weak. It's coming from
the same sources. Now it's simply again not physical strength.
In tewod Corinthians, Chapter ten, verses one through six, this
is again the apostle Paul speaking. I Paul myself, entreat
you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who
am humble when face to face with you, but bold
towards you when I am away. I beg you that
when I am present, I may not have to show boldness,
which has confidence as a count on showing against some
who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. For
though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging
war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our
warfare are not the flesh that have divine power to
destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and lofty opinions raised against
the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to
obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience when your
obedience is complete You, when your obedience is complete, we'll
be able to take every thought captive to Christ. You
will have the power to destroy demonic strongholds. If you
are below the age of thirty five, or you know
people who are men who are you are living in
a spiritual war. The physical part of this. Being physically
strong makes it harder to grind you down. Physically, Yes,
if there's a physical conflict, you can be helpful in it.
It also makes it harder to grind you down emotionally.
The body is the casing for the soul and the apostle.
Paul is talking about the ability to destroy strongholds. Though,
Behold the world in which you live. Behold the demonic
attack against children, Behold the demonic attack against women. Do
you think that porn is only something that affects children.
It's not. It affects minds. It affects women. Because you
end up with the society of men with these insane
expectations of women. You think women don't notice this. This
is one of the reasons so many girls have fallen
into the cult of gender ideology, which is, in my judgment,
absolutely purely from hell. When we destroy these strongholds through
the power of Christ, in bodies made strong through exercise
and through proper eating and refusing to give into low testosterone,
we can sustain the physical hardships. With the power of
the Holy Spirit, you have the ability to reject, to
rebuke demons in your own home. You are given that
power by the Lord Jesus when you agreed to serve him,
accept them as your Lord and savior, and agree to
be changed by him, which we signify through baptism. You
have the delegated powers of the same Lord who threw
demons out of people in dramatic ways. If you are
unsatisfied and don't want to raise your kids into demonic world,
I suggest you align yourself with the author of that power,
that's the Lord Jesus. In Matthew twelve, verses twenty two
through thirty two, we read, then a demon possessed man
who was blind and mute was brought to him, him
being the Lord Jesus, and he healed him so that
the man spoke and saw, and all the people were
amazed and said, can this be the son of David?
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, it's only
baz a Ball, the prince of demons, that this man
casts out demons. So pausing, they're saying, the only way
he could do this is he's in concert with the devil.
So they challenge Jesus again. Now, remember Jesus, he's about
to destroy a stronghold. These were the religious bureaucrats of
the day. This is like talking to the This is
like talking to the EPA, a bureaucrat. The Lord Jesus
says here in verse twenty five, knowing their thoughts, Jesus
said to them, every kingdom divided against itself is laid
to waste, and no city or house divided against itself
will stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he's divided
against himself. How then will this kingdom stand? His kingdom stand?
And if I cast out demons by az a ball
might Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out?
Therefore they will be your judges. But if it is
by the spirit of God that I cast out demons,
and the Kingdom of God has come upon you, or
how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder
his goods unless he first binds the strong man, then
indeed he may plunder his house. Whoever is not with
me is against me, and whoever does not gather with
me scatters. Therefore, I tell you every sin and blasphemcy,
blasphemy will be forgiven, but the blasphemy, blasphemy against the
Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word
against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever
speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either
in this age or in the age to come. Now
I am simply not qualified enough to dig into that blasphemency,
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. It's a debated topic that
there are some instances I think we could point to
in this program. My focus is on the strength of
Lord Jesus showed right there he had already cast out
a demon. What do you have? You had spiritually weak
men who had surrounded themselves with bureaucratic dictats, who had
invented thing upon thing upon the top of the word
of God, confusing the need for just blatant compliance with
no need for compassion and empathy. And the Lord Jesus
made that clear. We are to be compassionate and empathetic
and strong and all in one casing. The body is
the temple for the Holy Spirit. If you are below
the age of thirty five or thirty, you know, young
people are I shouldn't say kids because you're full grown men.
There's something else that's been stolen from you, and that
is your bank account. Now I'm I didn't mean it's
been physically stolen. I hope godlet it does not ben
but what it is has been stolen from you. You're
going to view life a lot differently. I firmly guarantee
you this when you begin to understand that that is
not your money, it is God's. He's given it to
you to steward. It has been provided by Him. At
the end of the day I went through and was
preparing our taxes, I realized, oh my gosh, we're way
behind untithing, way behind. I confessed this to friends. I
confessed it. I apologize to God. That's going to be
a big check for having the resources to do it.
And you know something, the day I confess that I
had the most righteous sleep the day I confess that
there are a lot of people down at renew who
shouldn't be alive. One of them is Adam. Adam has
brittle bones. He's supposed to be dead, and he's been
told multiple times he's going to be dead. He's a
guy that can break his leg standing up from a chair,
but he continues to seek health. So he swims and
there's other things he does. He does very very careful
ketabout work and body weight work. If you saw him,
he'd never know that he has this disease. Is a
young guy. So what has kept them going, Well, it's
the exercise, it's God's design and it's the stem cells
God designed. He's one of the doctors down there. So
the stem cells ethically gathered from umbilical cords and placentas
only is something he's infused with on a regular basis
because it keeps growing back body parts that shouldn't be
growing back muscle, tendon, cartilage that's not allowed here. And
this economy is being set up in the safest city
in Mexico, port of Arta. There's dental clinics that do
things down there they're not allowed to do up here
that you can go in fifteen minutes to get done
work down there that would take you two or three
hours up here. I've experienced with the umbilical cords and
stem cells from placentis two times. I'm taking a group
of friends down there. It looks like we're going to
go end of March, four men, all of them going
to take advantage of this. See if they can help you.
Go to renew dot Healthcare. It's our e nu e
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tell them you're part of the Todd Hermitshaw family. Back
to the farm. Round one was deadlifting. Round two is
arm arm wrestling. And by the way, I don't think
this is regulation arm wrestling. I'm just saying I think
there's a lot of body thrown into this, particularly in
one of the first rounds. Here right here, let's go,
oh that's a weekend three two What Yeah, so that's
actually squatting down. Is not regulation body arm wrestling.
Speaker 3: That's one win for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you squatch your body weight son, Yes, okay,
muscle man, you look like a gymnasts. Oh no, no,
look at that farmer. Oh no, he's playing with him.
Come on, no, no, oh, pure dominance. What I'm ready,
I'm gonna smash it, just what I feel like it.
Two are three?
Speaker 3: So right now it comes down to the spinal match.
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the Farmers. Can you tell that guy
in the final short that's just up there, that dude's
lifted some weights? Okay, chest, we'll see.
Speaker 3: We're here with the heavyweights. Three two, one.
Speaker 1: Go he does. It's the same body in English, he
learned from the other guy.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck arm wrestling all four hundred pounds of
me yet. So right now, if you're keeping track, uh,
it's Farmers so called tied with the bodybuilders. Now, that's
physical strength. There's something else that's been taken from young men, stolen,
and this is the desire to work. The desire to
work is vital. And here's something that I never understood.
When you are working, we're told to do that as
if we're working for the Lord Jesus himself, because he
is responsible for where we're at in life. We're to
serve our bosses as if we're serving the Lord Jesus.
I can tell you I've always been a pretty I
think yeah, I've been a pretty compliant employee. I've always
been grateful to have jobs. Now, when I was working
in local radio and it became clear that they were
going to force me to try to force me to
get injected. I simply wrote them a letter and c
seed the lawyers and all the chiefs and said, hey,
just so you know, I see the way the winds
are blowing. You guys are going to try to force
me to take these injections. I'm just putting here on record.
I will not get injected. I will not subject myself
to a fraudulent PCR test, nor will I ever wear
a mask in your building. And I understand this is
grounds for dismissal. I don't have anything disparaging to say
about the company. If you choose to do this, that's
your choice. But I'm not doing it. And I had
this discussion with HR where they said, but wait a minute,
you do know that we'll pay for the test, the
PCR test that you would take every week. I said,
you do know that those are fraud right, I admit
what I said in the email. I think that's at
that point. I have this belief that maybe at that
point they tried trying to push me out, and I
think that they might have told my boss, we need
this guy to leave. So they started to fall back
on promises like you can work from Idaho and all
of a sudden no, you can't. Hey, how's that home
purchase going over here? And then it was you don't
get to speak truth. You don't get to say the
election is told, all right? I quit. Still nothing disparaging
to say. That was the only time I think I
was a defined employee. But I didn't understand I was
to have joy in this. You are working under people
God has decided you'll work under. If there's something they
tell you to do that's ungodly, you can't. Now, this
is the other side of this. If you're a young
man working in healthcare and you're being told to lie
about the injections, you can't. You cannot have your employer
tell you to lie, man or woman. If you're being
told to violate the word of God, for instance, no
you will perform abortions, No I won't. You have to
be willing to give up the safety and security of
the world for the lasting and eternal safety of eternity
with God. See, that requires spiritual strength. Physical strength ain't
gonna get that done. That requires the ability to trust God. Well,
how could you? Only if you carry out the faith?
Now hear me. You can think you trust God, but
if you don't do the hard things like I have
to do today, like go write this check to come
up on the tithing of where I told God I
would be. Now, I could choose not to do that,
but I tell people it's one area where God says,
test me, the one area really test me. Be good
with tithing. Test me, see what happens. I'll never know
what happens if I don't allow the test. Mike Rowe
is an expert on jobs, and there's a whole bunch
of young men who've had it's olen from them, the
desire to toil in labor.
Speaker 6: Stuning new report revealing that a large number of American
men of prime working age, which is between twenty five
to fifty four, are not working. They're not looking for
a job. Think about that for a second. For reference,
in nineteen fifty three, ninety eight percent of men that
edge in that age range either had a job or
at least wanted to have a job. That number continues
to fall, leaving a major hole in American the American economy.
To try me now, to discuss this man who knows
the thing or two about work and workplace and blue
collar jobs and white collar jobs and everything else. He
always wears a Geen shirt and I'm glad he does.
I wouldn't recognize him without it, the host of Dirty
Job and everything else.
Speaker 1: Micro Mike, welcome, Thank you well.
Speaker 6: I mean, first off, you see those numbers, how much
do you think and those are horrific numbers? How much
you think the pandemic wiped out ambition? Or you seeing
this in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Dam Look, And it's all I can do not to scream.
Speaker 5: I told you so, not at you specifically, but you know,
fifteen years ago my found started a work ethic scholarship program,
and we did it because one of the big lessons
from Dirty Jobs was work ethic still matters, and it
is a thing that we can control. And there is
such a thing as a collective work ethic in this country.
And it's like a foul ball, right it's either going
up or it's coming down.
Speaker 1: It's been coming down for fifteen years.
Speaker 5: And so what you just read and what's making the
rounds right now is a lot of research done in
large part by an economist named Nick Everstap who wrote
a book called Men Without Work, which he republished after
the pandemic because, in his words, We've never seen the
like of this before. Never in peacetime have so many
able bodied men affirmatively chosen to sit out.
Speaker 1: It's just never happened.
Speaker 5: Now we got to argue about what it means for
the country or why it's happening. You know, I've got
theories and other people do as well, but there's no
denying the reality of the that or its impact on
the economy.
Speaker 1: Well, I have a theory. I have a theory. You
should watch the whole thing. It's in the show notes
I have. And the theory is this when you can
and God forgive me for saying this, this is judgmental.
When you can have the mimicry of work through video
games and AI, the mimicry of achievement, why would you
need the real achievement? When we're being told careers as
students are just as valid as careers in work, why
would you choose the work? During the so called pandemic,
by which they of course mean the lockdowns. People are
getting sent checks to not work, people in prison got
them when work is not required. Why do it for
a lot of people? We do it because we as
men are to provide for our families, woe are those
who do not provide for their own families. Bible says
that Bible also says this, This is something that's not
focused on. Those who will not work shall not eat.
I said the phrase will not because that's what the
Bible says, those who will not work shall not eat.
I'm pretty sure that people men who are choosing to
not work, who will not work, I'm pretty sure they're
eating pretty well. This is the United States, after all.
Am I saying they should starve? I'm saying we should
be biblical. And biblical is there's a job available, take
it if you can. Some people can't, most people can.
You're probably wondering who won, Well, I can't hear you
clamoring for it. Who won between the bodybuilders and the
so called farmers? And again, I think there's people on
the farmer team who've done a lot of weightlifting. Roll
you want to keep your body healthy. Farming is hard work,
so we give you the outcome. And of course they
went to the tug of war. I saw his videos.
Speaker 2: They like put it around their arm and then got
like that, hey we all got we're farmers heels.
Speaker 4: They got us sound weight, right.
Speaker 3: I think if we can all synchronize our pulling.
Speaker 1: We should be able to be there. You see, that's
one side of that is some beef. Wow, farmer's strength, baby,
Oh the body bulls are falling down.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: It is farmers won. Your mind's body spirit Lengthen your
bodies refused to do that which the party would have
you do, which is reduce your testosterone. Your mind. Well,
guess what, get some wisdom? What is that? I can
tell you how to begin the beginning of wisdom is
the fear of the Lord. Fear of the Lord. What
does it mean? It means the fear of disappointing your father,
means the fear of seeing in your father's eyes so disappointed.
The same God who came and rescued people, walked on
water to rescue people and cast out demons and healed
He's coming back as judge. Fear of that. We should
all fear that. I do, even though I know I'm saved,
because I want to be saved. Well. I want to
hear from God, well done you. This is a Todd
Hermann show. Please go be well, be strong, be kind,
and please prayerfully consider that which has been stolen from
you as a man, or as someone who loves amen
men or boys,