1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Herman Show. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:07,120 Story number one, NPR's CEO should go access the Internet 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,320 and maybe someone could centerr an aol disc Story number two, 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,599 kids have a right to not be adult accessories. And 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:20,239 story number three, why is anyone surprised or angry that 6 00:00:20,399 --> 00:00:25,719 John MacArthur tried to convert Ben Shapiro to Christianity. We'll 7 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:28,399 talk about this with the help I've got almighty. 8 00:00:30,399 --> 00:00:34,719 Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one disapproved but big pharma, 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:43,200 technocrats and tyrants everywhere from the hind mountains of Free America. 10 00:00:44,439 --> 00:00:50,039 Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman. 11 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,439 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these 12 00:01:05,439 --> 00:01:08,159 are the times through which God has decided we shall live. 13 00:01:09,239 --> 00:01:13,359 The CEO of NPR should access the Internet, and I 14 00:01:13,439 --> 00:01:16,200 want to well, obviously I'm joking. I know she has 15 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:18,120 access to it, but she appears not to want us 16 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,680 to know she has access to it. And I wanted 17 00:01:20,719 --> 00:01:23,920 to get into why, because, of course, you know that 18 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:28,239 the Senate voted to withdraw to claw back one point 19 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:33,200 one billion dollars in funding to NPR. Despite this, woe's protestations, 20 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,480 And I want to get to that by way of 21 00:01:35,519 --> 00:01:40,280 starting with this, Pam Bondy, who is a Fox News 22 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:46,599 guest almost all the time, sometimes access Attorney General. President 23 00:01:46,599 --> 00:01:49,680 Trump has been begging people to not talk about Jeff Epstein. 24 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,719 He's been demanding that people not talk about Jeff Epstein. Therefore, 25 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:55,120 with all due respect to the President, whose policies I 26 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,359 support and I voted for and I want to do well, 27 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,640 no service President to stop talking about because it matters. 28 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,400 So that didn't work telling people to stop talking about it. 29 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:10,840 So Pam Bondy just announced that they're going to get 30 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,280 all the grand jury transcripts are going to be unsealed 31 00:02:14,159 --> 00:02:17,599 and so that people can see this stuff. That's an 32 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:22,080 interesting change. Would that have been reported by NPR, you know, 33 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,080 the Jeff Epstein stories, because NPR had a whole lot 34 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:31,719 of selective reporting. And the CEO of that organization, Catherine Maherr, 35 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:34,400 who says that sometimes our obsession with truth gets in 36 00:02:34,439 --> 00:02:37,479 the way of doing the right thing, telling good stories. 37 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,400 She contends there's no reason for people to believe there's 38 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,680 any bias there. But John Kennedy, the Senator, he provided 39 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,639 a number of examples. So did a guy who used 40 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,400 to work at MPAR not used to work. He was 41 00:02:50,439 --> 00:02:54,280 there twenty five years. In his senior position, he says 42 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,319 that NPR is getting exactly what they want. But let's 43 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,479 start with this, Pam Bondy, let's start with this media. 44 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,039 Let's start with Brian Selter, not an NPR but works 45 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:07,319 in the same world, very much related to the world 46 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,319 of NPR. And I'm going to give you classic Stelter 47 00:03:10,439 --> 00:03:13,240 in just a second, because it is quite an image. 48 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:17,639 It's quite an image to imagine living in a world 49 00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:20,840 where we're literally in the Book of Acts. And if 50 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:22,479 you're a Christian, you know what that means. That means 51 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,319 Jesus has ascended back to Heaven. We've been called to 52 00:03:25,319 --> 00:03:29,199 build his church against Christ Church. The gates of Hades 53 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,319 cannot stand. So the people at Angel Studios, the maker 54 00:03:34,759 --> 00:03:38,080 of the King of Kings and Sound of Freedom, They've 55 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,199 created a new series called Testament. This takes the Book 56 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,479 of Acts into a world of a surveillance state, a 57 00:03:44,599 --> 00:03:46,919 censorship state, a state where people hate the truth. In 58 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:50,680 other words, does that sound familiar? So follow the people 59 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:55,039 who built christ Church, characterized in this movie, Philip, Stephen, Paul, 60 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,680 even Mary. They imagine in this movie or this series 61 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:01,199 Testament as they put their lives on the line and 62 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,520 ask yourself a question, would you do it? This isn't 63 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,759 soft soap Christianity. This is a hard question. Do we 64 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,319 have what it takes to Stanford Jesus? Go to Angel 65 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,080 dot Com slash Todd, become an Angel Studio Premium Guild member, 66 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:16,120 Stream Testament, immediately get to vote on the programs that 67 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,160 they release and promotes, including their movies. Angel dot Com 68 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,600 slash Todd. Brian Steltzer works in the same world as 69 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:27,399 this image maker Katherine Marr at She's at NPR, he's 70 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:31,360 at CNN. They were talking about Jeff Epstein, Pam Bondi 71 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:34,480 now saying the grand Jury these files are gonna be released. 72 00:04:34,519 --> 00:04:36,600 President Trump demanded that to Steltzer. 73 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:39,199 Speaker 3: The problem for the President is that his fans for 74 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,879 years have been told that there's this secret locked door, 75 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,360 this black box with all these horrible secrets about pedophiles 76 00:04:45,399 --> 00:04:48,040 inside the box. That's what Trump and but really not 77 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,079 really Trump, actually his surrogates, his allies, his Magamedia fans, 78 00:04:52,199 --> 00:04:54,199 that's what they've been saying for years. So all of 79 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,120 a sudden, tonight Trump is saying, We're gonna take a 80 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,600 flashlight and we're gonna point it at one corner of 81 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,480 the box. But the problem the conspiracy theory is there's 82 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,720 always more darkness somewhere around, right, There's always another corner 83 00:05:04,879 --> 00:05:08,199 where secrets could be concealed. Any attempt now by Trump 84 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:11,759 and BONDI to release some documents will have people asking 85 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,279 about other documents and other parts of the black box. 86 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,360 This may never fully go away for him here. 87 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really difficult to find examples of stuff like 88 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,079 that in elite media circles. So so difficult. I mean 89 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:28,199 this took me almost six seconds. CNN Connecticut man John 90 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,040 Griffin was arrested Friday in charge with three counts of 91 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,480 using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice 92 00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:38,360 miners to engage in unlawful activities with their bodies. And 93 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:42,399 you know what that means, the United States Attorney's Office 94 00:05:42,439 --> 00:05:44,839 for the District of Vermont said in a news release. Griffin, 95 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,160 forty four, has been a producer with CNN for about 96 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:57,120 eight years. Do you remember this. He enticed the purported 97 00:05:57,199 --> 00:06:01,759 parents of minor daughters, which he allegedly tried to persuade 98 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,120 them to allow him to train their daughters to be 99 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:13,600 submissive to his lusts, including some contact, lustful contact on 100 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:17,600 his part with a nine year old girl. That didn't 101 00:06:17,639 --> 00:06:21,160 take long, so Brian Seltzer, that didn't take a flashlight 102 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,920 going into all the dark corners. People who've worked in 103 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:27,600 elite media circles are quite aware that there is a 104 00:06:27,639 --> 00:06:31,160 different moral equilibrium there. People who've worked from Washington, DC 105 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:33,639 are quite aware that there's a different moral equilibrium there. 106 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,160 But people who work there for too long can't see 107 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,399 it anymore, They can't relate to it. So it's no 108 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:44,000 surprise to me that Catherinemark cannot see how horrible NPR 109 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,040 has become. As this clawback. Now if one point one 110 00:06:48,079 --> 00:06:51,240 billion the Senate pointed voted for this, guy who used 111 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:52,959 to work at NPR said, it's a long time coming. 112 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,040 He says that their happy independence Day NPR, NPR embraced 113 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,000 a fringe progressivism that costant any legitimate claim to stand 114 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,199 impartial provider of news, writes Ury Berliner. And this goes 115 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,240 to the free press. Great credit to them. Katherine Marr 116 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:13,399 said this talking about defending her corrupt organization, NPR. She 117 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:15,519 was on Guess Where CNN. 118 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 3: As far as the accusations that were biased. 119 00:07:17,839 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 4: I would stand up and say, please show me a 120 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,959 story that concerns you, because we want to know and 121 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,399 we want to bring that conversation back to our newsroom. 122 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:25,000 Do you. 123 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy had some examples, just some reading of 124 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,639 some headlines. He did this across I think four days. 125 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:37,199 Speaker 4: I want to give you a few examples of stories 126 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:43,720 that NPR has published using taxpayer money. Michael Abanati quote 127 00:07:43,839 --> 00:07:49,439 a profile of the media savvy attorney how racism became 128 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:55,279 a marketing tool for country music, Donald Trump's long embrace 129 00:07:55,439 --> 00:08:01,240 of Vladimir Putin. Monuments and teams have changed names. Let 130 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:05,399 me say the game monuments and teams, presumably sports teams 131 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:11,519 had changed names. As America reckons with racism. Birds are next. 132 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,160 Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's 133 00:08:15,199 --> 00:08:16,360 hard for some America. 134 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:20,079 Speaker 1: That's day one. Senator Kenny went back out. It's day 135 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,399 two with more headlines that Senator Kennedy reds. 136 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 4: How the talibond adds to Afghanistan's woes when it comes 137 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:31,639 to climate fuels. 138 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,799 Speaker 1: That, and there's more. 139 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 4: There is no neutral. Nice white people can still be 140 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,639 complicit in a racist society. 141 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: Ibram X. Kennedy says, no one is not. 142 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 4: Racist, so what should we do? How artificial intelligence could 143 00:08:51,159 --> 00:08:55,759 perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases and society. 144 00:08:55,879 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: So that's day two. Here's some from day three with 145 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,840 Senator Kennedy. And remember Katherine mar said, if you've got 146 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,919 some stories to concern you, please serve them up. 147 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:10,679 Speaker 4: Arguments that transathletes have an unfair advantage, lack evidence to support. 148 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,720 A brief history of how racism shaped interstate highways. Trump 149 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:22,240 embodies nearly every aspect of a racist Arthur says. 150 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: That's day three. Just a bit from day four. Then 151 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,679 we'll go to Katherine Marr in her own words, how. 152 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:36,919 Speaker 4: Illegitimate critical race theory concerns shaped Louisiana's new social study standards. 153 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:43,159 Trump's anti trans effort is an agenda cornerstone with echoes 154 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:43,840 in history. 155 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: So now I'm going to have to reach out of 156 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,159 a computer and blow this up so I can properly 157 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,399 see it. But here's some postings from Katherine Marher on 158 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,919 social media. In this case, she's wearing a Biden for 159 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,639 President hat and a black Woke mast. White silence is 160 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,279 complicity if you are white. Today's the day to start 161 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:03,840 a conversation in your community today, like every single day, 162 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,799 yet just another great day to follow. More black women 163 00:10:06,879 --> 00:10:10,000 as well as all people of color on this year website. 164 00:10:10,039 --> 00:10:13,799 I'm sure, I mean sure, looting is counterproductive, but it's 165 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:17,480 hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private 166 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:21,480 property of a system of oppression founded on treating people's 167 00:10:21,519 --> 00:10:24,639 ancestors as private property. And it continues in this and 168 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:26,919 now that's her as a private individual. But remember she 169 00:10:27,039 --> 00:10:31,519 ran and PR. So here's Early Burliner, who worked there 170 00:10:31,519 --> 00:10:34,519 for twenty five years in a senior editorial position. He 171 00:10:34,639 --> 00:10:39,000 begged them to change. He begged NPR to not do this, 172 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,840 to not become this thing. He wrote, embracing the mantras 173 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,919 of the great awokening, NPR became a caricature of itself 174 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,279 with headlines like these. Micro feminism the next big thing 175 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:55,039 in aiding in probably fighting the patriarchy. Which skin color 176 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,600 motion you should you use? The answer can be more 177 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,080 complex than you think. Black women's groups find health and 178 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,759 healing on hikes, but sometimes racism too. Bringing diversity domains 179 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:11,600 near the all white lobster fleet. Okay, do black people 180 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:16,000 want to catch lobsters? At one hand, we're told that 181 00:11:16,039 --> 00:11:18,440 black people are used for all the MENI laborer or 182 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,279 all the brown people, but they don't want to go 183 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:25,519 catch lobsters bringing different. Okay, we'll got that diet culture 184 00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:29,240 can hurt kids. This author advises parents to reclaim the 185 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,039 word fat. In other words, make your kid happy to 186 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,080 be on the path to type two diabetes. These drag 187 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,399 artists know how to turn climate activism into a joyful blowout. 188 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,960 One point one billion dollars clawed back and Catherine Marr 189 00:11:47,159 --> 00:11:51,120 said that she could not see any examples of any 190 00:11:51,159 --> 00:11:56,200 stories that could concern anybody. This comes down to a fact, 191 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,840 and it's a gross fact, and it's a real fact. 192 00:11:58,879 --> 00:12:04,360 People cannot smell all their own stink. True story. You 193 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:09,000 go on vacation for about two weeks and come back home, 194 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,799 walk inside, You're gonna smell your house. Now, perhaps you're 195 00:12:13,919 --> 00:12:16,320 very very fastidious, and so you keep your house clean 196 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,039 and you've got air filters running. Maybe you've got an 197 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,240 maide service, in which case you come in and what 198 00:12:21,279 --> 00:12:24,600 do you smell? So maybe some air freshen or et cetera. 199 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,360 But if you have cats or anything like that, or 200 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,440 dogs or anything like that, or you're not perfect or 201 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,879 you forgot to empty the garbage, and so therefore you've 202 00:12:31,879 --> 00:12:34,320 got rotted food in the garbage, et cetera. If you 203 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,080 come in and you smell that stuff, you're smelling what 204 00:12:36,159 --> 00:12:37,879 other people smell when they walk into your house. You 205 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:43,559 can smell the stink. The people in Washington, DC media 206 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,840 circles and people at Katherine Mar cannot smell that because 207 00:12:46,879 --> 00:12:50,559 they roll in it. The fact of the matter is 208 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,440 Katherine Mar of course has access to the Internet. In fact, 209 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,720 she ran Wikipedia for a while. She knows we can 210 00:12:56,759 --> 00:13:00,919 all look this up. But she knows something else. Because 211 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,840 she was on air at CNN making that defense, she 212 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:09,039 knew she was speaking to people who have no idea 213 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,759 that NPR banned the Hunter Biden laptop story. Public radio bandit. 214 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,279 So the one point one billion isn't really going to 215 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,279 hurt NPR. It's a very small percentage of what they 216 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:25,519 take in. It is going to hurt local radio. And 217 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,120 here's a solution. When I worked in Seattle radio, a 218 00:13:29,159 --> 00:13:31,919 friend of mine went to work at a public radio 219 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:35,000 affiliate and he came and I saw him one day, 220 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,679 and it turned out he had a staff of about 221 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:42,960 five people supporting his program of one hour taxpayer paid people. 222 00:13:44,159 --> 00:13:47,840 I worked on the Russ Limbaugh program probably one hundred 223 00:13:47,879 --> 00:13:50,639 and fifty times as a fill in host. The most 224 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:53,240 people ever in that studio at one time were three. 225 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:59,240 Ever it was the most successful radio program in history 226 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,960 and the most profitable, and it had fewer people in 227 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,279 the studio for a three hour show than my friend's 228 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:10,360 local public radio program had for his one hour program. 229 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:16,159 Local tax supported radio losing tax money can survive if 230 00:14:17,159 --> 00:14:20,679 they'll make it a habit to actually go out and 231 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,679 smell their own stink like the wasting of taxpayer dollars 232 00:14:25,679 --> 00:14:33,200 story number two. There is a right all kids have. 233 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,639 All kids have a right to, I think, know their parents. 234 00:14:38,159 --> 00:14:41,200 And I know there's all sorts of concerns about adoption 235 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,919 in this and some people want the adoption to be secret. 236 00:14:44,039 --> 00:14:46,919 And I'd rather have a kid adopted than not, or 237 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,080 than God forbid aborted. So I can see the arguments 238 00:14:50,159 --> 00:14:52,000 of that inside. But I believe kids have a right 239 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:54,440 to know who gave them birth. I believe they have 240 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,720 a right to know their DNA and their history and 241 00:14:56,759 --> 00:14:59,759 their family history. I believe human beings have that rights 242 00:14:59,759 --> 00:15:02,200 because as you decided to bring a child into the world, 243 00:15:02,799 --> 00:15:05,440 and you can make this more complex in the cases 244 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,799 where someone is sexually assaulted and then decides to keep 245 00:15:08,799 --> 00:15:11,360 the baby, and at that point everything should be done 246 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,919 to make that person is comfortable with that decision is possible, 247 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:16,919 it should be as rewarding as humanly possible, because it 248 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,240 really is a sacrifice, and many women find out after 249 00:15:20,279 --> 00:15:22,519 that that it becomes a joyful thing, that they're able 250 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:25,080 to look past the horrific thing that occurred to them. 251 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:29,360 And there's also, though, this right that kids have to 252 00:15:29,399 --> 00:15:32,320 not be abused. We know that kids should not be 253 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,679 abused and parents should not abuse them. Isn't that a right? 254 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:38,519 I think kids have a right to be treated kindly, firmly, 255 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,639 raised in the right way. But there's another right they have, 256 00:15:42,759 --> 00:15:47,080 and it conflicts with a right recently invented, and it's 257 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:53,600 being worked upon to push artificial surrogacy. The surrogacy of 258 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:58,679 bulk of billion dollar, multi billion dollar businesses creating babies 259 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,240 largely for same secon attracted men, is taking some of 260 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,480 these rights away from kids. The right to know their parents. 261 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,480 I believe kids have a right to a mother and 262 00:16:06,519 --> 00:16:10,000 father because I believe that's God's design. Because to this day, 263 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,639 you can't create a child with two men or two women. Therefore, 264 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,159 I believe they have a right to know their mother 265 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,559 and father, and I believe they have a right to 266 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:18,919 a family unit with a mother and father. Sometimes that 267 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,240 doesn't work, sometimes divorce comes in. But there is a 268 00:16:23,679 --> 00:16:30,559 narcissism that's being produced through commercial surrogacy, and that narcissism 269 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,000 is being produced, it's being fostered, and it's being pushed. 270 00:16:33,279 --> 00:16:37,519 And one single headline in Slates, in their advice column 271 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:40,480 makes this very very clear. And it is a war 272 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,159 I think for the future of what it means to 273 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,679 be a parent and therefore what it means to be 274 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,639 a child, and it's becoming sort of a shooting war 275 00:16:48,639 --> 00:16:52,200 in away. I'll explain that in a second. My friend 276 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,120 Tim Kukshenk is a father. He's also a retired Navy 277 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,080 seal and he knows what it is to be in 278 00:16:57,159 --> 00:17:00,720 real shooting wars. Tim was a Navy sea He was 279 00:17:00,759 --> 00:17:03,960 a medic attached to the seal teams on three different deployments, 280 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,799 and while he was overseas, he became addicted to something. 281 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,440 And it's sad, man, it's sad he's seeing things in 282 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,920 his addiction. It's coffee. It's coffee. I'm addicted to it 283 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,279 as well. And on the battlefields in one of those deployments, 284 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:20,000 timiated decision. When he came home he would found a 285 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:22,799 coffee company and he would use it to honor Navy seals. 286 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,519 Navy seals are great at visualizing things and then carrying 287 00:17:25,519 --> 00:17:28,119 out their plans. So bone Frog Coffee was born and 288 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,799 it exists. Every bag says God Country Team on it, 289 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,799 because that's how Tim runs his life. The coffee inside 290 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,559 is either made by or it's the result of mentoring 291 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,440 from Dave Stewart, the founder of Seattle's Best Coffee. Therefore, 292 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,480 the coffee is stellar. It's not some private labeled garbage. 293 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,200 Simply try it, That's all I ask. And if you 294 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,720 don't like it, you're I was going to say a communist, 295 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:50,640 but I'm just gonna say you have terrible tastes in coffee. 296 00:17:50,799 --> 00:17:53,480 Good to Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash todd. Use code 297 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:55,519 Todd at checkout to save ten percent in your first 298 00:17:55,559 --> 00:17:58,640 purchase Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash todd to save fifteen 299 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:03,559 percent on subscription Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash todd. This 300 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,680 is a war over the nature of parenting, what it 301 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:07,279 means to be a parent, and therefore, what it means 302 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:09,240 to be a child. I believe children have a right 303 00:18:09,279 --> 00:18:14,440 to not be a purse or a set of shoes. 304 00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:21,079 I'm speaking euphemistically, of course, in other words accessories. This 305 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:27,839 is from Slate their Dear Prudence section Help My husband 306 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,759 wants his ex wife as are surrogate. I can't do 307 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:36,200 this advice by Jenny Desmond Harris. So these are the picture. 308 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:41,599 Here is two men in a passionate kiss, one man 309 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,079 much taller than the other, and then to the side 310 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,359 a silhouette in pink. The men are in black and white. 311 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:55,160 In pink is the woman pregnant. So the story goes 312 00:18:55,279 --> 00:18:58,720 that this man decided to announce that he was same 313 00:18:58,759 --> 00:19:02,480 sex attracted. Therefore he could not stay married to his wife, 314 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:10,960 and he had fallen into love with this man, and 315 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,920 so they break up the family. His existing family now 316 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:19,559 has no dad in the home and the family unit 317 00:19:19,599 --> 00:19:25,359 is split. And now he wants a new family from 318 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,000 the same woman who gave him his existing family, the 319 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:34,279 one from which he ran. God gave him a gift 320 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:36,720 of kids to Stewart, and he ran from that gift. 321 00:19:38,279 --> 00:19:42,119 There is a level of narcissism here. That's difficult to comprehend, 322 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,880 and I believe it has been pushed and fostered by 323 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:51,279 artificial surrogacy ivy surrogacy, because now it's just we should 324 00:19:51,279 --> 00:19:55,759 acquire a child. Well to me acquiring a child if 325 00:19:55,799 --> 00:19:59,440 you are doing it for purposes of accessorizing, and many 326 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,960 people do that these days. Sadly, that's a sin. To 327 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:06,720 turn around and say to an ex wife, you left 328 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,160 because you are same sex attracted. You've just announced this, 329 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,839 and then to turn to her and say, will you 330 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:17,519 carry our child for nine months? Unspeakably narcissistic. And may 331 00:20:17,559 --> 00:20:24,920 God forgive Story number three? Why would anyone be surprised 332 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,880 that John MacArthur, the late pastor who was a great 333 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,720 Bible scholar. I've got my MacArthur's study Bible at home. 334 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:38,920 Why would anybody be surprised what John MacArthur did is 335 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,160 not his last act on earth. And I don't want 336 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,279 to be melodramatic and say one of his last acts, 337 00:20:44,519 --> 00:20:46,920 but in the last few years he had a conversation 338 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:53,799 with Ben Shapiro, and Ben is a conservative, obviously Jewish. 339 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,920 I think obviously he's I think very proud of his Judaism. 340 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,240 Good for him to be proud of his faith. People 341 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:03,039 are surprised, and I'm surprised to anyone is shocked. But 342 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,640 it's not just the surprise. There are people who are 343 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:08,000 angry about this. 344 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:09,759 Speaker 5: In the first interview that I did with him, a 345 00:21:09,839 --> 00:21:13,160 lengthy interview, he spent fully thirty minutes of the interview 346 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,160 talking to me about why I ought to convert to Christianity. 347 00:21:16,279 --> 00:21:18,680 And as a Jew, I will say that not only 348 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,759 do I not find that insulting, I find that absolutely useful. 349 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,400 Why because he is saying the thing that he believed, 350 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,759 and I think that that is a good thing. And 351 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:31,119 the reason I considered him a friend is because he's 352 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,200 somebody who cared about my eternal sault. We could have 353 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,200 disagreements on what would happen, you know, with regard to 354 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,519 heaven or hell, or whether the New Testament was truth 355 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,920 or not truth, depending on whether you're a Christian or 356 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,519 a Jew. But I was never upset by the fact 357 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,000 that he believed that I ought to convert to Christianity, because, 358 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,200 of course, many Christians believe that I ought to convert 359 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:49,759 to Christianity. 360 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:50,519 Speaker 1: It's not an insult. 361 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 5: That's because somebody cares for my spiritual welfare, and we 362 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,599 disagree about how best to attain that spiritual welfare. 363 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: That's that's really beautifully said by Ben, So Ben, it's 364 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,319 not insulted. Ben was not surprised. In fact, Ben sounds 365 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:09,279 like he feels honored. But if you go spend time 366 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:14,079 in the sewer of the comments section, you'll read comments 367 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:18,640 like one of John MacArthur's last acts was to sentence 368 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:24,640 Ben Shapiro to hell. John MacArthur never had that paper capability. 369 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:29,039 He couldn't sentence anyone to anything. John MacArthur was a pastor, 370 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,480 but one of Ben's colleagues had a different view on this, 371 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:39,279 and I believe he's a Catholic with a different view 372 00:22:39,319 --> 00:22:43,279 on this. And to me, I find this still, and 373 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,640 I've spoken to this before, I find this still very 374 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:50,119 very surprising and not at all kinds. And by the way, 375 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,079 one cannot be a Christian and hold this point of view. 376 00:22:53,799 --> 00:22:56,680 The things don't match. And I'll share this with you 377 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,759 in a second. Your values should match your purchases, right, 378 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,240 I mean where they can. Sometimes there's things you can't 379 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,839 buy from a company that matches your values. But there's 380 00:23:07,839 --> 00:23:10,200 something you use every single day and you're going to 381 00:23:10,279 --> 00:23:12,079 use it every single day for the rest of your life. 382 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,720 You probably use it multiple times a day. You probably 383 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:16,599 use the most of it's in the morning and at night. 384 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,799 And it's so it's pretty simple stuff like it's not sexy, 385 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,119 I can't get here and gets you super excited about 386 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,039 the new model. It's Alan Soap's five point zero. But 387 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,720 I can tell you this, the big soap companies you 388 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,039 buy from probably don't care about your values. They probably 389 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:36,200 make their products in places like China, perhaps using child labor, 390 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:40,319 forced child labor. Perhaps they test this stuff on prisoners, 391 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,839 because we know that happens in China with different products, 392 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,119 and it's probably riddled with chemicals, and it does not 393 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,440 employ people like Alan and Amy. And Ian. Amy was 394 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,319 in her late twenties when she became autistic. It's called 395 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,839 late onset autism. So she went from being neurotypical to 396 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,400 not and she got kicked out of college and no 397 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,200 longer do you have a job future. She's got a 398 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:07,079 job at Allen's and she thrives. Ian is impacted by autism. 399 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:10,720 He's Alan's brother. Now he's verbal. He's not impacted in 400 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:13,319 the same way that Alan is. But He's another boy, 401 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,920 another human being whould be told you can't work anywhere. 402 00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:19,480 Alan's perhaps most profoundly affected in that it's not quote 403 00:24:19,599 --> 00:24:22,920 just autism that's caused him to be nonverbal effectively. He's 404 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,680 also been through about eighteen operations in The Boys fourteen 405 00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:27,880 years old, and the world has said just storm in 406 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,000 a box, and they won't do that. These kids work 407 00:24:30,039 --> 00:24:33,359 fruitfully there making soap in concert with a family with 408 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,880 three generations of soap making expertise. The soap is all natural, 409 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,720 made in America, and it is better for our souls. 410 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,359 Alan Soaps dot Com slash Todd that's Alan Soaps dot Com. 411 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,920 Slash Todd get ten percent off all their products there 412 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,559 and the multiple times a day you lose you soap, 413 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:55,119 use something that is also employing people like them. Andrew Clavin, 414 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,279 I've not met, he's been kind enough to respond to 415 00:24:57,279 --> 00:25:01,480 a video I made. And Andrew had this opinion of 416 00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:05,400 people trying to convert his friend and colleague Ben Shapiro. 417 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,839 Speaker 6: I look at Ben's life and I think if Ben 418 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,319 were to embrace Jesus Christ, it would cause devastation to 419 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,440 his family, to the people who love him, to the 420 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,400 people who listened to him to his position in the world. 421 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,119 I just have this feeling that God has put this 422 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,160 guy where he wants him to do what he wants 423 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,680 him to do. And as you know, I feel that, 424 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,039 you know, the Jews were not abandoned by God. 425 00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: So Andrew Clavin, who professes to be a Christian, thinks 426 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,200 it would be a tragedy from Ben Shapiro to trade 427 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:45,960 one second for a trillion years if Ben Shapiro were 428 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,359 to convert to the Christian faith. And Jesus said, I 429 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:49,799 am the way the truth in the life. No one 430 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:52,079 comes to the Father but through me. Jesus was a 431 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:59,440 Jew when he said that the apostles were Jews who 432 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,839 found Is to be the Messiah, who watched him perform 433 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,359 signs and wonders, who watched him raise a man from 434 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,039 the dead, and not just not just Lazarus, there's also 435 00:26:12,039 --> 00:26:16,400 a girl Jesus raised from death. They watched him go 436 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,720 to the cross, they saw him risen, and they saw 437 00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:24,079 him ascend. At least three of them saw him assind 438 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:26,920 And when he said I'm the way of the truth 439 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,240 of the life. No one gets to the Father but 440 00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:30,960 through me, he also left them with an order to 441 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,240 go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and 442 00:26:35,279 --> 00:26:38,559 teaching them, baptizing the name in the name of the Father, 443 00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:41,720 the Son of the Holy Spirits, and teaching them to 444 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:46,240 obey all Jesus commanded, Well, Jesus commanded making disciples. One 445 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:49,200 cannot be a committed Christian and refuse to make disciples. 446 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:51,319 You can be a shy Christian and be shy about it. 447 00:26:53,039 --> 00:26:56,200 But Christ will confess to his Father people who confess 448 00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:57,880 him in public. And if you're not willing to confess 449 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,279 prist in public, he may not be willing to confess 450 00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:03,720 you in front of his father. So this one second 451 00:27:03,759 --> 00:27:06,880 to a trillion years thing. Ben's going to live, Let's 452 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,759 say to be a hundred, It seems like a healthy guy. 453 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,559 Let's say Ben lives to be one hundred years old 454 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,160 in one hundred trillion years from now, what will one 455 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,759 hundred years seem like? One hundred trillion years apart from God, 456 00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:23,319 apart from all goodness seems really bad. And do you 457 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,599 think in hell that the demons are going to let 458 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,160 you off the hook for your family being there with you? 459 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:32,319 Speaker 2: Oh? 460 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 1: Do you think they're going to constantly torture you? Look 461 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,559 what you did your kid, What will it be like 462 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,759 for your kid in hell with you to say, why 463 00:27:40,839 --> 00:27:44,519 did you do this? Because the anger and the resentment 464 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,279 it multiplies over ten trillion, one hundred trillion, a trillion 465 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:53,720 trillion years, what's that like forever? It would be a tragedy. 466 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:00,799 God has uniquely gifted Ben Shapiro with debate skills, presentation skills. 467 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,880 If Ben Shapiro got past himself and accepted the Lord 468 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,400 Jesus Christ as as savior in Messiah, think of how 469 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:13,759 God could utilize those skills to bring others along, including 470 00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:18,319 probably Ben's family and many of the people who follow Ben. 471 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,680 Andrew Clovin is wrong on that John MacArthur was right 472 00:28:21,759 --> 00:28:24,720 to do what he did, and John MacArthur died the 473 00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:28,039 way he lived, a man who followed the words of 474 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,319 Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations. This 475 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,920 is the Todd Hermann Shaw. Please go, be well, be strong, 476 00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:37,240 be kind, and go and follow the true light of Christ. 477 00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:46,400 And now I get to go home to my beloved wife.