Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Herman Show.
Story number one, NPR's CEO should go access the Internet
and maybe someone could centerr an aol disc Story number two,
kids have a right to not be adult accessories. And
story number three, why is anyone surprised or angry that
John MacArthur tried to convert Ben Shapiro to Christianity. We'll
talk about this with the help I've got almighty.
Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one disapproved but big pharma,
technocrats and tyrants everywhere from the hind mountains of Free America.
Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.
Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times through which God has decided we shall live.
The CEO of NPR should access the Internet, and I
want to well, obviously I'm joking. I know she has
access to it, but she appears not to want us
to know she has access to it. And I wanted
to get into why, because, of course, you know that
the Senate voted to withdraw to claw back one point
one billion dollars in funding to NPR. Despite this, woe's protestations,
And I want to get to that by way of
starting with this, Pam Bondy, who is a Fox News
guest almost all the time, sometimes access Attorney General. President
Trump has been begging people to not talk about Jeff Epstein.
He's been demanding that people not talk about Jeff Epstein. Therefore,
with all due respect to the President, whose policies I
support and I voted for and I want to do well,
no service President to stop talking about because it matters.
So that didn't work telling people to stop talking about it.
So Pam Bondy just announced that they're going to get
all the grand jury transcripts are going to be unsealed
and so that people can see this stuff. That's an
interesting change. Would that have been reported by NPR, you know,
the Jeff Epstein stories, because NPR had a whole lot
of selective reporting. And the CEO of that organization, Catherine Maherr,
who says that sometimes our obsession with truth gets in
the way of doing the right thing, telling good stories.
She contends there's no reason for people to believe there's
any bias there. But John Kennedy, the Senator, he provided
a number of examples. So did a guy who used
to work at MPAR not used to work. He was
there twenty five years. In his senior position, he says
that NPR is getting exactly what they want. But let's
start with this, Pam Bondy, let's start with this media.
Let's start with Brian Selter, not an NPR but works
in the same world, very much related to the world
of NPR. And I'm going to give you classic Stelter
in just a second, because it is quite an image.
It's quite an image to imagine living in a world
where we're literally in the Book of Acts. And if
you're a Christian, you know what that means. That means
Jesus has ascended back to Heaven. We've been called to
build his church against Christ Church. The gates of Hades
cannot stand. So the people at Angel Studios, the maker
of the King of Kings and Sound of Freedom, They've
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slash Todd. Brian Steltzer works in the same world as
this image maker Katherine Marr at She's at NPR, he's
at CNN. They were talking about Jeff Epstein, Pam Bondi
now saying the grand Jury these files are gonna be released.
President Trump demanded that to Steltzer.
Speaker 3: The problem for the President is that his fans for
years have been told that there's this secret locked door,
this black box with all these horrible secrets about pedophiles
inside the box. That's what Trump and but really not
really Trump, actually his surrogates, his allies, his Magamedia fans,
that's what they've been saying for years. So all of
a sudden, tonight Trump is saying, We're gonna take a
flashlight and we're gonna point it at one corner of
the box. But the problem the conspiracy theory is there's
always more darkness somewhere around, right, There's always another corner
where secrets could be concealed. Any attempt now by Trump
and BONDI to release some documents will have people asking
about other documents and other parts of the black box.
This may never fully go away for him here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really difficult to find examples of stuff like
that in elite media circles. So so difficult. I mean
this took me almost six seconds. CNN Connecticut man John
Griffin was arrested Friday in charge with three counts of
using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice
miners to engage in unlawful activities with their bodies. And
you know what that means, the United States Attorney's Office
for the District of Vermont said in a news release. Griffin,
forty four, has been a producer with CNN for about
eight years. Do you remember this. He enticed the purported
parents of minor daughters, which he allegedly tried to persuade
them to allow him to train their daughters to be
submissive to his lusts, including some contact, lustful contact on
his part with a nine year old girl. That didn't
take long, so Brian Seltzer, that didn't take a flashlight
going into all the dark corners. People who've worked in
elite media circles are quite aware that there is a
different moral equilibrium there. People who've worked from Washington, DC
are quite aware that there's a different moral equilibrium there.
But people who work there for too long can't see
it anymore, They can't relate to it. So it's no
surprise to me that Catherinemark cannot see how horrible NPR
has become. As this clawback. Now if one point one
billion the Senate pointed voted for this, guy who used
to work at NPR said, it's a long time coming.
He says that their happy independence Day NPR, NPR embraced
a fringe progressivism that costant any legitimate claim to stand
impartial provider of news, writes Ury Berliner. And this goes
to the free press. Great credit to them. Katherine Marr
said this talking about defending her corrupt organization, NPR. She
was on Guess Where CNN.
Speaker 3: As far as the accusations that were biased.
Speaker 4: I would stand up and say, please show me a
story that concerns you, because we want to know and
we want to bring that conversation back to our newsroom.
Do you.
Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy had some examples, just some reading of
some headlines. He did this across I think four days.
Speaker 4: I want to give you a few examples of stories
that NPR has published using taxpayer money. Michael Abanati quote
a profile of the media savvy attorney how racism became
a marketing tool for country music, Donald Trump's long embrace
of Vladimir Putin. Monuments and teams have changed names. Let
me say the game monuments and teams, presumably sports teams
had changed names. As America reckons with racism. Birds are next.
Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's
hard for some America.
Speaker 1: That's day one. Senator Kenny went back out. It's day
two with more headlines that Senator Kennedy reds.
Speaker 4: How the talibond adds to Afghanistan's woes when it comes
to climate fuels.
Speaker 1: That, and there's more.
Speaker 4: There is no neutral. Nice white people can still be
complicit in a racist society.
Speaker 1: Ibram X. Kennedy says, no one is not.
Speaker 4: Racist, so what should we do? How artificial intelligence could
perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases and society.
Speaker 1: So that's day two. Here's some from day three with
Senator Kennedy. And remember Katherine mar said, if you've got
some stories to concern you, please serve them up.
Speaker 4: Arguments that transathletes have an unfair advantage, lack evidence to support.
A brief history of how racism shaped interstate highways. Trump
embodies nearly every aspect of a racist Arthur says.
Speaker 1: That's day three. Just a bit from day four. Then
we'll go to Katherine Marr in her own words, how.
Speaker 4: Illegitimate critical race theory concerns shaped Louisiana's new social study standards.
Trump's anti trans effort is an agenda cornerstone with echoes
in history.
Speaker 1: So now I'm going to have to reach out of
a computer and blow this up so I can properly
see it. But here's some postings from Katherine Marher on
social media. In this case, she's wearing a Biden for
President hat and a black Woke mast. White silence is
complicity if you are white. Today's the day to start
a conversation in your community today, like every single day,
yet just another great day to follow. More black women
as well as all people of color on this year website.
I'm sure, I mean sure, looting is counterproductive, but it's
hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private
property of a system of oppression founded on treating people's
ancestors as private property. And it continues in this and
now that's her as a private individual. But remember she
ran and PR. So here's Early Burliner, who worked there
for twenty five years in a senior editorial position. He
begged them to change. He begged NPR to not do this,
to not become this thing. He wrote, embracing the mantras
of the great awokening, NPR became a caricature of itself
with headlines like these. Micro feminism the next big thing
in aiding in probably fighting the patriarchy. Which skin color
motion you should you use? The answer can be more
complex than you think. Black women's groups find health and
healing on hikes, but sometimes racism too. Bringing diversity domains
near the all white lobster fleet. Okay, do black people
want to catch lobsters? At one hand, we're told that
black people are used for all the MENI laborer or
all the brown people, but they don't want to go
catch lobsters bringing different. Okay, we'll got that diet culture
can hurt kids. This author advises parents to reclaim the
word fat. In other words, make your kid happy to
be on the path to type two diabetes. These drag
artists know how to turn climate activism into a joyful blowout.
One point one billion dollars clawed back and Catherine Marr
said that she could not see any examples of any
stories that could concern anybody. This comes down to a fact,
and it's a gross fact, and it's a real fact.
People cannot smell all their own stink. True story. You
go on vacation for about two weeks and come back home,
walk inside, You're gonna smell your house. Now, perhaps you're
very very fastidious, and so you keep your house clean
and you've got air filters running. Maybe you've got an
maide service, in which case you come in and what
do you smell? So maybe some air freshen or et cetera.
But if you have cats or anything like that, or
dogs or anything like that, or you're not perfect or
you forgot to empty the garbage, and so therefore you've
got rotted food in the garbage, et cetera. If you
come in and you smell that stuff, you're smelling what
other people smell when they walk into your house. You
can smell the stink. The people in Washington, DC media
circles and people at Katherine Mar cannot smell that because
they roll in it. The fact of the matter is
Katherine Mar of course has access to the Internet. In fact,
she ran Wikipedia for a while. She knows we can
all look this up. But she knows something else. Because
she was on air at CNN making that defense, she
knew she was speaking to people who have no idea
that NPR banned the Hunter Biden laptop story. Public radio bandit.
So the one point one billion isn't really going to
hurt NPR. It's a very small percentage of what they
take in. It is going to hurt local radio. And
here's a solution. When I worked in Seattle radio, a
friend of mine went to work at a public radio
affiliate and he came and I saw him one day,
and it turned out he had a staff of about
five people supporting his program of one hour taxpayer paid people.
I worked on the Russ Limbaugh program probably one hundred
and fifty times as a fill in host. The most
people ever in that studio at one time were three.
Ever it was the most successful radio program in history
and the most profitable, and it had fewer people in
the studio for a three hour show than my friend's
local public radio program had for his one hour program.
Local tax supported radio losing tax money can survive if
they'll make it a habit to actually go out and
smell their own stink like the wasting of taxpayer dollars
story number two. There is a right all kids have.
All kids have a right to, I think, know their parents.
And I know there's all sorts of concerns about adoption
in this and some people want the adoption to be secret.
And I'd rather have a kid adopted than not, or
than God forbid aborted. So I can see the arguments
of that inside. But I believe kids have a right
to know who gave them birth. I believe they have
a right to know their DNA and their history and
their family history. I believe human beings have that rights
because as you decided to bring a child into the world,
and you can make this more complex in the cases
where someone is sexually assaulted and then decides to keep
the baby, and at that point everything should be done
to make that person is comfortable with that decision is possible,
it should be as rewarding as humanly possible, because it
really is a sacrifice, and many women find out after
that that it becomes a joyful thing, that they're able
to look past the horrific thing that occurred to them.
And there's also, though, this right that kids have to
not be abused. We know that kids should not be
abused and parents should not abuse them. Isn't that a right?
I think kids have a right to be treated kindly, firmly,
raised in the right way. But there's another right they have,
and it conflicts with a right recently invented, and it's
being worked upon to push artificial surrogacy. The surrogacy of
bulk of billion dollar, multi billion dollar businesses creating babies
largely for same secon attracted men, is taking some of
these rights away from kids. The right to know their parents.
I believe kids have a right to a mother and
father because I believe that's God's design. Because to this day,
you can't create a child with two men or two women. Therefore,
I believe they have a right to know their mother
and father, and I believe they have a right to
a family unit with a mother and father. Sometimes that
doesn't work, sometimes divorce comes in. But there is a
narcissism that's being produced through commercial surrogacy, and that narcissism
is being produced, it's being fostered, and it's being pushed.
And one single headline in Slates, in their advice column
makes this very very clear. And it is a war
I think for the future of what it means to
be a parent and therefore what it means to be
a child, and it's becoming sort of a shooting war
in away. I'll explain that in a second. My friend
Tim Kukshenk is a father. He's also a retired Navy
seal and he knows what it is to be in
real shooting wars. Tim was a Navy sea He was
a medic attached to the seal teams on three different deployments,
and while he was overseas, he became addicted to something.
And it's sad, man, it's sad he's seeing things in
his addiction. It's coffee. It's coffee. I'm addicted to it
as well. And on the battlefields in one of those deployments,
timiated decision. When he came home he would found a
coffee company and he would use it to honor Navy seals.
Navy seals are great at visualizing things and then carrying
out their plans. So bone Frog Coffee was born and
it exists. Every bag says God Country Team on it,
because that's how Tim runs his life. The coffee inside
is either made by or it's the result of mentoring
from Dave Stewart, the founder of Seattle's Best Coffee. Therefore,
the coffee is stellar. It's not some private labeled garbage.
Simply try it, That's all I ask. And if you
don't like it, you're I was going to say a communist,
but I'm just gonna say you have terrible tastes in coffee.
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is a war over the nature of parenting, what it
means to be a parent, and therefore, what it means
to be a child. I believe children have a right
to not be a purse or a set of shoes.
I'm speaking euphemistically, of course, in other words accessories. This
is from Slate their Dear Prudence section Help My husband
wants his ex wife as are surrogate. I can't do
this advice by Jenny Desmond Harris. So these are the picture.
Here is two men in a passionate kiss, one man
much taller than the other, and then to the side
a silhouette in pink. The men are in black and white.
In pink is the woman pregnant. So the story goes
that this man decided to announce that he was same
sex attracted. Therefore he could not stay married to his wife,
and he had fallen into love with this man, and
so they break up the family. His existing family now
has no dad in the home and the family unit
is split. And now he wants a new family from
the same woman who gave him his existing family, the
one from which he ran. God gave him a gift
of kids to Stewart, and he ran from that gift.
There is a level of narcissism here. That's difficult to comprehend,
and I believe it has been pushed and fostered by
artificial surrogacy ivy surrogacy, because now it's just we should
acquire a child. Well to me acquiring a child if
you are doing it for purposes of accessorizing, and many
people do that these days. Sadly, that's a sin. To
turn around and say to an ex wife, you left
because you are same sex attracted. You've just announced this,
and then to turn to her and say, will you
carry our child for nine months? Unspeakably narcissistic. And may
God forgive Story number three? Why would anyone be surprised
that John MacArthur, the late pastor who was a great
Bible scholar. I've got my MacArthur's study Bible at home.
Why would anybody be surprised what John MacArthur did is
not his last act on earth. And I don't want
to be melodramatic and say one of his last acts,
but in the last few years he had a conversation
with Ben Shapiro, and Ben is a conservative, obviously Jewish.
I think obviously he's I think very proud of his Judaism.
Good for him to be proud of his faith. People
are surprised, and I'm surprised to anyone is shocked. But
it's not just the surprise. There are people who are
angry about this.
Speaker 5: In the first interview that I did with him, a
lengthy interview, he spent fully thirty minutes of the interview
talking to me about why I ought to convert to Christianity.
And as a Jew, I will say that not only
do I not find that insulting, I find that absolutely useful.
Why because he is saying the thing that he believed,
and I think that that is a good thing. And
the reason I considered him a friend is because he's
somebody who cared about my eternal sault. We could have
disagreements on what would happen, you know, with regard to
heaven or hell, or whether the New Testament was truth
or not truth, depending on whether you're a Christian or
a Jew. But I was never upset by the fact
that he believed that I ought to convert to Christianity, because,
of course, many Christians believe that I ought to convert
to Christianity.
Speaker 1: It's not an insult.
Speaker 5: That's because somebody cares for my spiritual welfare, and we
disagree about how best to attain that spiritual welfare.
Speaker 1: That's that's really beautifully said by Ben, So Ben, it's
not insulted. Ben was not surprised. In fact, Ben sounds
like he feels honored. But if you go spend time
in the sewer of the comments section, you'll read comments
like one of John MacArthur's last acts was to sentence
Ben Shapiro to hell. John MacArthur never had that paper capability.
He couldn't sentence anyone to anything. John MacArthur was a pastor,
but one of Ben's colleagues had a different view on this,
and I believe he's a Catholic with a different view
on this. And to me, I find this still, and
I've spoken to this before, I find this still very
very surprising and not at all kinds. And by the way,
one cannot be a Christian and hold this point of view.
The things don't match. And I'll share this with you
in a second. Your values should match your purchases, right,
I mean where they can. Sometimes there's things you can't
buy from a company that matches your values. But there's
something you use every single day and you're going to
use it every single day for the rest of your life.
You probably use it multiple times a day. You probably
use the most of it's in the morning and at night.
And it's so it's pretty simple stuff like it's not sexy,
I can't get here and gets you super excited about
the new model. It's Alan Soap's five point zero. But
I can tell you this, the big soap companies you
buy from probably don't care about your values. They probably
make their products in places like China, perhaps using child labor,
forced child labor. Perhaps they test this stuff on prisoners,
because we know that happens in China with different products,
and it's probably riddled with chemicals, and it does not
employ people like Alan and Amy. And Ian. Amy was
in her late twenties when she became autistic. It's called
late onset autism. So she went from being neurotypical to
not and she got kicked out of college and no
longer do you have a job future. She's got a
job at Allen's and she thrives. Ian is impacted by autism.
He's Alan's brother. Now he's verbal. He's not impacted in
the same way that Alan is. But He's another boy,
another human being whould be told you can't work anywhere.
Alan's perhaps most profoundly affected in that it's not quote
just autism that's caused him to be nonverbal effectively. He's
also been through about eighteen operations in The Boys fourteen
years old, and the world has said just storm in
a box, and they won't do that. These kids work
fruitfully there making soap in concert with a family with
three generations of soap making expertise. The soap is all natural,
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use something that is also employing people like them. Andrew Clavin,
I've not met, he's been kind enough to respond to
a video I made. And Andrew had this opinion of
people trying to convert his friend and colleague Ben Shapiro.
Speaker 6: I look at Ben's life and I think if Ben
were to embrace Jesus Christ, it would cause devastation to
his family, to the people who love him, to the
people who listened to him to his position in the world.
I just have this feeling that God has put this
guy where he wants him to do what he wants
him to do. And as you know, I feel that,
you know, the Jews were not abandoned by God.
Speaker 1: So Andrew Clavin, who professes to be a Christian, thinks
it would be a tragedy from Ben Shapiro to trade
one second for a trillion years if Ben Shapiro were
to convert to the Christian faith. And Jesus said, I
am the way the truth in the life. No one
comes to the Father but through me. Jesus was a
Jew when he said that the apostles were Jews who
found Is to be the Messiah, who watched him perform
signs and wonders, who watched him raise a man from
the dead, and not just not just Lazarus, there's also
a girl Jesus raised from death. They watched him go
to the cross, they saw him risen, and they saw
him ascend. At least three of them saw him assind
And when he said I'm the way of the truth
of the life. No one gets to the Father but
through me, he also left them with an order to
go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and
teaching them, baptizing the name in the name of the Father,
the Son of the Holy Spirits, and teaching them to
obey all Jesus commanded, Well, Jesus commanded making disciples. One
cannot be a committed Christian and refuse to make disciples.
You can be a shy Christian and be shy about it.
But Christ will confess to his Father people who confess
him in public. And if you're not willing to confess
prist in public, he may not be willing to confess
you in front of his father. So this one second
to a trillion years thing. Ben's going to live, Let's
say to be a hundred, It seems like a healthy guy.
Let's say Ben lives to be one hundred years old
in one hundred trillion years from now, what will one
hundred years seem like? One hundred trillion years apart from God,
apart from all goodness seems really bad. And do you
think in hell that the demons are going to let
you off the hook for your family being there with you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Do you think they're going to constantly torture you? Look
what you did your kid, What will it be like
for your kid in hell with you to say, why
did you do this? Because the anger and the resentment
it multiplies over ten trillion, one hundred trillion, a trillion
trillion years, what's that like forever? It would be a tragedy.
God has uniquely gifted Ben Shapiro with debate skills, presentation skills.
If Ben Shapiro got past himself and accepted the Lord
Jesus Christ as as savior in Messiah, think of how
God could utilize those skills to bring others along, including
probably Ben's family and many of the people who follow Ben.
Andrew Clovin is wrong on that John MacArthur was right
to do what he did, and John MacArthur died the
way he lived, a man who followed the words of
Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations. This
is the Todd Hermann Shaw. Please go, be well, be strong,
be kind, and go and follow the true light of Christ.
And now I get to go home to my beloved wife.