1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Notes from the Road version at the 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:04,879 Todd Herman Show. 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:05,679 Speaker 2: Three stories. 4 00:00:05,719 --> 00:00:09,519 Speaker 1: Story number one Mexico's cartels versus US cartels. 5 00:00:09,519 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 2: This is a little little research. 6 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,279 Speaker 1: I did, having been inspired by a conversation with my 7 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,000 friend Hector. Story number two the tragedy of Trump caving 8 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,079 on phones and TV tariffs. I was getting so excited 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,320 about this. And story number three, the newest woke discovery 10 00:00:25,519 --> 00:00:29,039 is that Jesus Christ was autistic. We'll talk about all 11 00:00:29,079 --> 00:00:32,439 of this with the help of Bisible. That's gobisible dot 12 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:34,479 com into the great graces of God Almighty. 13 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 3: But Todd Herman Show is one percent disapproved by big 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:48,320 pharma technocrats and tyrn s everywhere from the hind mountains 15 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:56,359 of Free American. Here's the Emerald City exime Todd Herman. 16 00:01:00,359 --> 00:01:02,759 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these 17 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,200 are the times to which God has decided we shall live. 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 4: And I am in. 19 00:01:06,519 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: Mexico and Port of Art, a beautiful place down here 20 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:13,159 with Renewed Healthcare, getting actual health care rather than disease care. 21 00:01:13,799 --> 00:01:17,280 And I had occasion to take a trip with a friend, Hector, 22 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,799 who works at renew and we had a fascinating conversation 23 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,319 about Mexico and the United States, and I was asking 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,159 him about the government here, and this is when we 25 00:01:27,159 --> 00:01:31,719 were driving around. There are seven police forces that work 26 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:36,079 in and around here. The army is present here. There 27 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,439 are two police forces I think attached completely to tours, 28 00:01:39,519 --> 00:01:43,439 at least one for sure. There's the Federalists, there's the 29 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,359 local police, and so port of Arta is a relatively 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,599 safe place. One of the things this guy mentioned to 31 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:57,159 me was that the cartels patrol basically the water and 32 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:02,280 they cooperate with the government here, and in some ways, 33 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,280 the Kiblisco cartel is the government here, and it's so 34 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,680 fascinating because they actually have in many ways better drug 35 00:02:08,719 --> 00:02:12,759 policies than like the separate country of Washington State, for instance. 36 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:18,159 You don't self fentanyl here. That's you might get forgiveness 37 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:20,080 once from the cartels, but if you get caught doing 38 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:25,840 it again, you are out and you're ended, I mean ended. 39 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,439 They just it's bad business. And as he and I 40 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,400 were talking about this, Hector said, I know, that's really 41 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:37,719 weird that the cartels, you know, cooperate with government, and 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,319 I said, it's not weird. We have the same thing 43 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:42,520 in the United States. We just call them a different name. 44 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:45,840 And if you think about it from their perspective, and 45 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:48,360 I don't sponsor what they do. Obviously, I don't use drugs, 46 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,080 and I don't think other people should use drugs. 47 00:02:50,479 --> 00:02:51,199 Speaker 4: Well, I mean. 48 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,199 Speaker 1: Drugs you have to use for the doctor occasionally, but 49 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:58,840 certainly not the amount that we're pushed in the United States. 50 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,199 And if you look at from their perspective, they're business people, right, 51 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,240 they don't consider themselves terrorists or they're business people. And 52 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,639 their business is a tough business and it's non regulated, 53 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,439 and so they regulate at the point of a gun, 54 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:15,879 and it's not a happy picture. But I said, but 55 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,759 we have our own cartels, and he laughed. 56 00:03:19,759 --> 00:03:20,199 Speaker 2: He got it. 57 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,599 Speaker 4: You knew what I was saying. And because he's worked around. 58 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: Healthcare's whole life. So I went back to the hotel 59 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:29,199 and I. 60 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: Just started exploring some numbers and for this I used 61 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:35,199 Grock from Twitter dash X and I want to go 62 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,199 through these numbers with you because it got down to 63 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,240 a pretty extraordinary point. 64 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,319 Speaker 4: My friend from Krukshank was founder, is founder and CEO 65 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,479 bone Frog Coffee. 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I 98 00:05:33,079 --> 00:05:35,959 looked at the GDP comparison between the United States and Mexico, 99 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,360 and the recent numbers they could poll was twenty twenty 100 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,560 three United States twenty seven point three four trillion dollars 101 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,319 in Mexico one point seventy nine trillion. 102 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:46,639 Speaker 4: And Grok made a point. 103 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: About talking about the diversification of revenue sources in the 104 00:05:49,759 --> 00:05:52,920 United States versus that of Mexico. United States has a 105 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,839 lot more diversified takes or sources of revenue. 106 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 4: So far far bigger economy, but then a smaller. 107 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:03,199 Speaker 2: Base of people in Mexico. And as I was. 108 00:06:03,199 --> 00:06:04,879 Speaker 1: Talking to the locals here, and I've been talking to 109 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:07,240 a lot of people, it's just about all tours in 110 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,000 these days, tourism and construction, a little bit of shipping. 111 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:16,680 So the cartels are somewhat outsized. They're cartels versus our cartels, 112 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,639 and you know what I mean by our cartels. So 113 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,519 drug trafficking estimates per drug sales in the United States 114 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:29,000 are nineteen to twenty nine billion premiere, probably in Mexico 115 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:36,000 for Mexican cartels, and yeah, this is coming the United States, marijuana, cocaine, methanphetamine, heroin, 116 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:40,720 fentanyl being key products. Twenty ten RAND study estimated that 117 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,120 six points six to eight billion just from drugs exports 118 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:47,079 to the US, while older reports from twenty eleven suggests 119 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,000 thirty five to forty five billion globally, with the US 120 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:50,959 is the primary market. 121 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 4: They talk about fentanyl. 122 00:06:52,519 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: Other activities, and there's drug trafficking always precedes human trafficking 123 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:03,079 because human trafficking is a better business. You use the 124 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,439 drugs once, make them once, sell them once and you 125 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:12,680 can exploit human beings endlessly until of course they in 126 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,800 the case of that rich and merciful death and hopefully. 127 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: To the Lord. 128 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: So a reasonable range for twenty twenty three is likely 129 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,439 twenty five to forty billion leading terms of higher end 130 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,519 if phenthanol rise and non drug activities are factored in, 131 00:07:27,199 --> 00:07:31,639 and the Sonolas, the Hollisco new generation cartels dominate Sonla alone, 132 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:34,240 probably pulling in three to seven billion annually. 133 00:07:34,959 --> 00:07:38,439 Speaker 2: So that's Mexico and I dug a little bit deeper. 134 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:45,439 Speaker 1: And the comparison between USGDP and GDP revenues cartel revenues 135 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:49,800 US GDP again twenty seven point three four trillion dollars 136 00:07:49,839 --> 00:07:53,360 in Mexico, GDP one point seventy nine trillion, and cartel 137 00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:58,480 revenue is thirty billion or so in Mexico. And if 138 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,959 you expand this comparison US thirty twenty seven point three 139 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,319 or four trillion Mexico one point seven to nine trillion 140 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:11,240 US pharma. So if you're looking at the drug business 141 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,000 and you're looking at what what are the cartels selling. 142 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:25,839 They're selling psychotropic experiences, they're selling sexual experiences, they're selling 143 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:33,360 dealing with life challenges, calming the minds, distracting the mind. 144 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,559 In the United States, our cartels are doing the same thing. Now, granted, 145 00:08:38,639 --> 00:08:41,720 there are some very important medicines, and that's not pretender. 146 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 4: It's not. 147 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:46,399 Speaker 1: There's antibiotics, which are utter gift from God. There's other 148 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:52,720 medicines that are vitally important ivermectin, hydroxychloroquin, some other fairly 149 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:56,240 non controversial, very helpful for us. So let's not pretend. 150 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,879 But when we're talking about our nation that has some 151 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:05,559 what ninety million people taking some form of psychotropic that's 152 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,120 to deal with life issues, depression and anxiety, which I 153 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,960 think had been over you know, over over. 154 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:17,039 Speaker 2: Pushed over, prescribed as it were. 155 00:09:17,159 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: But then again, I'm not a doctor. I'm just looking 156 00:09:19,039 --> 00:09:23,159 at the data. So US farmer revenue is seven hundred billion, 157 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:27,360 our economy's twenty seven point three or four trillion, Mexico's 158 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,039 GDP one point seventy nine trillion, and their cartel revenue. 159 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 2: Is thirty billion. 160 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: So just to recap that, this is where it gets creepy. 161 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,519 This is where it gets really creepy to me. So 162 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,360 you have our cartels versus their cartels. Our cartels cooperate 163 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:49,240 with government, our cartels are some of the biggest donors 164 00:09:49,279 --> 00:09:52,720 to campaigns in the world. They control some of the 165 00:09:52,759 --> 00:09:56,879 biggest positions in traditional television advertising, eight out of the 166 00:09:56,919 --> 00:09:58,639 ten top revenue slots. 167 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: On TV. 168 00:10:00,799 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: They are pushing drugs. You can't buy directly from them. 169 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,320 You have to go through an intermediary, and you have 170 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:13,080 they're pushing that. So I looked at per citizen values 171 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:19,759 for cartel revenue dash pharmer revenue. The United States, farmer 172 00:10:19,799 --> 00:10:23,039 revenue per citizen is two thousand and fifty three dollars. 173 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,919 Average yearly income is eighty thousand. This is what Grock says. 174 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,200 That sounds high to me, but that's what Grox says. 175 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,879 The ratio twenty fifty three divided by eighty thousand and 176 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,240 sixteen one hundred and sixteen equals two point five six 177 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:45,039 percent a revenue per citizen two five six percent per 178 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:52,039 the average citizen. In Mexico, the cartel revenue per citizen 179 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,159 is two hundred and thirty three pay our dollars. We 180 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,480 did this in dollars. Average income per citizen is ten 181 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:02,360 thousand dollars and thirty ten thousand and thirty dollars, So 182 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:05,120 two hundred and thirty three divided by ten thousand and 183 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:10,240 thirty equals point zero two three two or two point 184 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:14,559 three to two percent per citizen. It is nearly the 185 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,919 same as the United States revenue per citizen. In relation 186 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,559 to our cartels. And again, what are they selling. The 187 00:11:24,639 --> 00:11:28,440 selling experience is sexual and otherwise they're selling I don't 188 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,320 want to say mind control because they don't think it's control. 189 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,840 I think it's loosening the mind. And they're doing this 190 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:42,679 to bodies and minds and souls. The cartels in Mexico, 191 00:11:43,519 --> 00:11:48,279 at least according to my friends, they they work with 192 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,960 the government. Our cartels work with the government. Now I'm 193 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,879 not saying that our cartels are in going out and 194 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,720 in armed conflict and. 195 00:11:59,279 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 2: Doing with the cartels do here. 196 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,919 Speaker 1: I mean, there's a reason why so many of the 197 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,360 Mexican law enforcement officials wear masks, and it's not because 198 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:12,840 of flues. They hide their identity. They have to, particularly 199 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,720 in northern Mexico. So while there's some differences, there is 200 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:18,799 a very very key similarity. 201 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,159 Speaker 2: There is help. 202 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: There's the cartels helping government here, there's cartels helping government 203 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:30,759 the United States, and it goes either way with government 204 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:34,360 helping cartels and may God have mercy on us for 205 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,159 choosing to take the bodies and minds he gave us, 206 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,519 and to I think, in my judgment, abuse in this way. 207 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:44,679 And thanks to my friend for sharing this all with me. 208 00:12:45,799 --> 00:12:49,559 I've been a lot of thinking about our pretend economy 209 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,440 and what President Trump could have done with the tariffs 210 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,159 if he had stayed stayed the course in electronics, and 211 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,240 a lot of this occurred to me as I drove 212 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:04,200 through Mexico, which me to story number two, President Trump's 213 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:10,559 the tragedy of President Trump backing off of the electronics 214 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,039 and the triffs of the electronics. Now that this occurred 215 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,679 to me about the same time as I was going 216 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,519 through Mexico and and and talking with a friend of 217 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,879 mine about the differences in government, and we went around 218 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,039 the real part of Port of Arta. This is where 219 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,240 the citizens of Mexico live, most of them. And I 220 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,799 don't want to be rude or dismissive of the city, 221 00:13:38,519 --> 00:13:43,200 but there's part of the city corps that is completely unattractive. 222 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:46,440 And I'm not, you know, speaking out of out of school. 223 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,720 They know this, they know there's parts of their cities 224 00:13:50,759 --> 00:13:53,480 that that that looks terrible. There's very very beautiful parts. 225 00:13:53,519 --> 00:13:57,440 And it's not all just the resorts where by mats 226 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:02,240 and you know tourists go. There are some unbelievably beautiful 227 00:14:02,279 --> 00:14:08,039 mountains montagnous montagnous, montagnous in jungles. 228 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 2: Here and waterfalls here. 229 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: And everyone knows about the beaches. But there are some 230 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:19,639 places here that are as abjectly in poverty as any 231 00:14:19,639 --> 00:14:26,120 I've ever seen, and sometimes depressingly. So I went to 232 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:31,639 church on Sunday with the Amazing Grace, which is a 233 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,279 mission here that is really trying to reach people at 234 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,279 risk of being trafficked, and get to meet some of 235 00:14:38,279 --> 00:14:41,480 the girls who were have been given scholarships to go 236 00:14:41,519 --> 00:14:43,759 to school. Althwise, they wouldn't be going to school, it 237 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:46,600 would couldn't afford college. They'd be working rather than going 238 00:14:46,639 --> 00:14:47,080 to high. 239 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 4: School, junior high. 240 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:52,159 Speaker 1: And they talked about the reality on the street for 241 00:14:52,519 --> 00:14:54,320 parts of part of our tech. So what does this 242 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:57,840 have to do with President Trump and the tariffs. Well, 243 00:14:57,879 --> 00:15:01,240 as I was driving around and I saw some poor 244 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,440 kids playing. I mean, I'm talking about houses. 245 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,759 Speaker 2: That don't look the least bit. 246 00:15:08,639 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: Safe, missing windows, clearly not sanitary at least on the outside. 247 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:17,000 I'm sure that the families do the best they can 248 00:15:17,039 --> 00:15:19,080 on the inside. What do I see the kids doing 249 00:15:20,039 --> 00:15:24,799 happily playing in the dirt like they're just happy kids 250 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,480 and running around playing in the dirt, playing ball games, 251 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:33,039 a couple of kids swinging from trees. 252 00:15:34,279 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 4: And no faults. 253 00:15:36,879 --> 00:15:40,559 Speaker 1: And it really got me to thinking about what China 254 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,159 has done to us, because China's done something to us 255 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:51,360 that is very sneaky, super smart, and it is absolutely 256 00:15:52,559 --> 00:15:56,000 maoist in nature. So I'll share this with you in 257 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,639 just a second, as we hear from the new economiccount Director, 258 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:06,120 Kevin has set talked with the always helpful Jake Tapper, who, 259 00:16:06,159 --> 00:16:07,360 as you know, is not a liberal. 260 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 4: Just ask him. 261 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 5: These policies, which the president successfully had acted in the 262 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,720 first term, are going to increase the demand for labor, 263 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:16,360 increase wages up by almost sixty five hundred dollars in 264 00:16:16,399 --> 00:16:19,519 the first three years the Trump administration. And so what 265 00:16:19,559 --> 00:16:22,559 it means is that even if you accept the daysayer's 266 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:24,679 perspective on what might happen to the price of a 267 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,360 cup of coffee, that the person walking into the coffee 268 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,159 shop is going to have a lot more money. In 269 00:16:29,159 --> 00:16:31,919 the fifteen years after Trya entered, the wto real wages 270 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,679 went down so wages went down by more than prices 271 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,840 as we thought these cheap goods were going to revolution 272 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:37,480 atize America. 273 00:16:37,519 --> 00:16:38,519 Speaker 2: In fact, it was the opposite. 274 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 4: Welfare went down. 275 00:16:39,679 --> 00:16:41,639 Speaker 5: We had Angust Eaton write a whole book about the 276 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:43,919 deaths of despair that we're related to this, And so 277 00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:46,320 I think we're very optimistic about the fact that people 278 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,080 are going to have more money in their pockets and 279 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,200 that they're going to have a higher standard of living. 280 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,039 Speaker 1: The standard living trap. That's what I want to talk about, 281 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,080 the standard of living trap. This is what occurred to 282 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,480 me as I drove through Mexico and where of the 283 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,399 differences and the sizes of our economy, the diversity of 284 00:17:02,399 --> 00:17:07,440 our economy, and yet watching real people doing real things, 285 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,759 seeing people not living in the resorts, visiting with people 286 00:17:11,799 --> 00:17:14,039 about what this used to be, and the fishing that 287 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:15,880 used to occur here, and people telling me, oh, in 288 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,359 the stream over here, we used to go cash shrimps. 289 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:21,400 They say, they plural that way we caught shrimps and 290 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,039 would our moms would cook them for us. I started 291 00:17:25,039 --> 00:17:28,079 to think about what China has done to us, and 292 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,920 it's so brilliant. We're going to hook your companies on 293 00:17:32,039 --> 00:17:37,000 really high margins because we're massive manipulators of currency. That's 294 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,799 the Chinese comments Party. We don't care about human life, 295 00:17:42,039 --> 00:17:46,000 so we're going to abuse people in factories. We don't 296 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,839 care about human life, so we're going to use prison labor, 297 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,119 and we're going to bet you're going to use it too. 298 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,400 And we're going to bet that companies, like US media companies, 299 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,599 you're going to come over to China and show off 300 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:02,640 the Olympics, knowing that they there is a concentration camp 301 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,480 of of of people in the background, but they're gonna 302 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:08,880 blur it out or pretend it's not there, and they 303 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:14,440 did that. American companies have been addicted to these these 304 00:18:14,519 --> 00:18:20,359 artificially low prices, and so the American consumer, you know, 305 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,440 as President Trump was talking about actually enforcing these tariffs 306 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,680 against consumer electronics before he caved, and he did cave, 307 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,400 and it's not that's guys, that's not five layer chess. 308 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 2: That's that's cave. 309 00:18:36,599 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: He had a great promise, which was to show us 310 00:18:40,759 --> 00:18:47,279 to our face what we're willing to buy, uh, what 311 00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:51,160 we're willing to get addicted to have. We're willing to 312 00:18:51,559 --> 00:18:58,319 jettison American jobs, American manufacturing so we can have a massive, 313 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:04,680 wall sized TV in multiple rooms of our houses, and 314 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,440 that we can have in our phone in our pockets 315 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:13,559 a movie theater and a concert venue and a distraction 316 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,559 machine for games. 317 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 4: Let's not lie. 318 00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: I mean Google Maps is cool, and Apple Maps is cool, 319 00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:27,680 and texting is convenient, but everything else in these devices 320 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:31,519 is pure distraction. And it also gets down to the 321 00:19:31,519 --> 00:19:33,599 heart of what we're called to do as human beings 322 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:38,319 who are created by God. We are not meant to 323 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,200 be consumers. And I've said this forever on the radio show, 324 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,759 and I've set it for the podcast. If you spend 325 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:50,319 more time on podcasting or videos than you do with 326 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:52,599 the word of God or your family, make my stuff 327 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,240 the first thing you drop, and replace that with church 328 00:19:57,279 --> 00:20:00,559 time and family time. So I looked at the research 329 00:20:01,039 --> 00:20:06,599 and this is a shocking, shocking chart. Time spent on 330 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,519 activities by Americans age twelve through fifty five. This is 331 00:20:09,519 --> 00:20:13,079 twenty thirteen to twenty twenty three. You'll see some bumps 332 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:17,680 in here. For COVID, about two hundred hours a year 333 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:22,480 with families talking to one another, two hundred hours a year. 334 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:31,640 In sports, it's about fifty hours a year. This is 335 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,680 playing sports not watching them, playing them, you know, actually 336 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:41,160 out using your bodies. Video games is roughly about two 337 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:47,400 hundred hours a year on video games. Taking in all 338 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:52,440 visual media aside from games, you're talking here about some 339 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:54,119 four hundred to four hundred and. 340 00:20:54,039 --> 00:20:55,839 Speaker 2: Fifty hours per year. 341 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: Going to church church services is roughly about fifty hours 342 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,599 a year volunteering at church. It's a gray line at 343 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:15,920 the bottom. Average volunteering for churches comes in around twenty 344 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:21,680 hours a year. When God called us to become part 345 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,200 of his family, he called us to be the church. 346 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,759 And China doesn't mean us. Well, the Chinese government doesn't. 347 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,599 I think that they're probably at least passively aligned with Satan. 348 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,359 All these things are utter distractions, and this chart is 349 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,519 completely upside down. 350 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 2: We're called first to. 351 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:46,319 Speaker 1: Have an abiding relationship with Jesus, and that abiding relationships 352 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,880 manifest as wanting to work for him, wanting to build 353 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,720 the kingdom. That's one of the signs that you have 354 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:55,839 been changed and given the fruit of the spirit. We're 355 00:21:55,839 --> 00:21:59,200 then called to be within our families mother and father 356 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,400 spiritual liters of the I'm a father's primarily the spiritual leader, 357 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,799 both spouses coming under and lifting up the man taking 358 00:22:06,799 --> 00:22:09,519 his direction from Jesus and leading in a godly way, 359 00:22:09,559 --> 00:22:11,839 and the woman following in a godly way. So is 360 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,759 the so long as the man is reacting within the Bible. 361 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,559 Nowhere in the Bible does it say that we should 362 00:22:19,559 --> 00:22:24,839 spend our time consuming. It praises some physical activity that 363 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,480 praises friends, that praise his relationship. But we in the 364 00:22:29,559 --> 00:22:33,279 United States have been caught into a massive, massive, mental 365 00:22:33,319 --> 00:22:38,559 and spiritual vice. People did panic about TVs and about phones, 366 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:40,440 and the Mockingbird media saw fit to make sure that 367 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,279 they did because the Mockingbird media can't have us waking 368 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,039 up and realizing we built our own mental and physical 369 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,559 spiritual prison with cheap goods from China, and I think 370 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,519 China knows that story. Number three notes from the Roads 371 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,000 a new woke discovery on Jesus, Jesus, the Lord Jesus, 372 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,200 and I'm learning about this during a wholy week not 373 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:06,680 the be discover this video of a woke female pastor 374 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,519 making the most amazing claim about Jesus Christ. 375 00:23:09,839 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 4: Well, maybe not the most amazing. 376 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: So far, we've learned that Jesus was confused about his identity, 377 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:20,000 didn't know what sex he was, didn't really mean that 378 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,880 he was fully god fully human, didn't really. 379 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,519 Speaker 2: Know God that well, was just this cat. 380 00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: The new one, though, has to do with a mental 381 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:34,359 condition and a neurological condition that this person says Jesus 382 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,240 displays in code. And I'll show you this in just 383 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:40,680 a seconds. There is a condition that our economy is 384 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:41,240 in right now. 385 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 4: And I am. 386 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:47,039 Speaker 1: Really, really, really sad that President Trump decided to back 387 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:50,240 off on these tariffs on these consumer electronic goods. I 388 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,920 think it would be better for our society that they 389 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,119 go away. I think it would be better for our 390 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,039 souls that they go away. And it's sad to me 391 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,799 that President Trump backed off. That said, hopefully he's going 392 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:03,319 to continue the fight against China, because if he does, 393 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,480 we may have the first for real, pure daylight of 394 00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:09,759 our economy for the longest time, particularly if you add 395 00:24:09,759 --> 00:24:12,319 to this what he's doing with energy independence and bringing 396 00:24:12,319 --> 00:24:17,640 manufacturing home. If your portfolio is not actively managed, I 397 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,559 don't understand. 398 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 2: How you set yourself up for success in this environment. 399 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,279 Speaker 1: I don't get that now, actively managing portfolio can reduce 400 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,440 ricks and volatility, and I don't understand how anything else 401 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,400 does this. I don't understand how by and hold can 402 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,160 work right now, but that's easy. Actively managing is hard, 403 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,079 but that's what Zach Abraham does, the chief investment officer 404 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,039 Bulwark Capital Management. That's what he and his team do 405 00:24:39,559 --> 00:24:42,200 is actively managed because that can reduce rick and volatility. 406 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:46,680 And Zach is obsessed with risk management. He's annoyingly obsessed 407 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,839 with risk management. That's what's made Bulwark of success. So 408 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,039 simply go get a second opinion. It's that easy. Just 409 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,519 have him look at your retirement account. He can tell 410 00:24:54,519 --> 00:24:56,799 you if it's being actively managed or not. 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Truck twenty five THAT'SH one three seven 421 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,680 A woke pastor or fake pastor, as we sometimes say pastors, 422 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:35,920 claims that Jesus Christ is autistic, and there is nothing wrong. 423 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 2: With autistic people. It's a fairly. 424 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: Recent phenomena, and I have some ideas about that that 425 00:25:40,559 --> 00:25:41,359 I'll not share here. 426 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 2: So let's not be distracted. 427 00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:47,319 Speaker 4: But let's listen to and watch the fake pastor. 428 00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 6: Jesus was hella autistic? Let's talk about it. So a 429 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,440 lot of people get very uncomfortable when I talk about 430 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:58,359 Jesus within the context of neurodivergence. However, I do want 431 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,640 to remind you that he had got in his brain. 432 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:05,119 There was no possibility for a nuotypical experience, absolutely none. However, 433 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,200 I do feel like there were very specific points in 434 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,880 his life where you can look at them and say, 435 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,559 absolutely that is autistic coded. So first of all, when 436 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,960 he left his parents and was at the temple for 437 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,759 three days and they find him and he's like, what 438 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,440 did you know? Where I'd be special interest? He would 439 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,200 preach for like three days in a row, and then 440 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,960 at the very end be like, oh yeah, they probably 441 00:26:28,039 --> 00:26:33,279 need to eat, absolutely hyper focused. And then when he 442 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:35,880 does need to perform these miracles, he doesn't like being 443 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,599 asked to do it. But he always eventually does it 444 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,359 so easily, it's like it's not even an effort for him, 445 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,119 so like walking on water, totally autistic coded. 446 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,799 Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny, that's so funny. That's so funny. 447 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: The desperation to make Jesus everything other than who he 448 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:00,359 is is one of the biggest indicators that the left deeply, 449 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:06,000 deeply fears Jesus. It couldn't be that Jesus Christ wanted 450 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:12,160 to focus on the spiritual needs above the physical needs. 451 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,720 It couldn't be that Jesus Christ wanted his disciples to 452 00:27:16,759 --> 00:27:19,279 come to him and say that people haven't eaten. There's 453 00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:20,759 so many here, Lord, what are we going to do? 454 00:27:20,839 --> 00:27:23,319 It couldn't be that he wanted to have a teaching 455 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,160 moment where Jesus said, gosh, whatever will we do? How 456 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,319 are we ever going to feed them? My goodness, gracious, 457 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,920 what do we have? And they didn't come to him 458 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,960 and ask, They didn't come and. 459 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,839 Speaker 2: Say, Lord, Jesus, please provide for these people. 460 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,319 Speaker 4: They're hungry. 461 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,799 Speaker 1: They were thinking they needed to go into town and 462 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,200 be provided, And Jesus has described I've shown you so 463 00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:49,599 much and you still don't get it. It couldn't be 464 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,200 that Jesus and going into the temple and teaching, became 465 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,279 engrossed into teaching. And it couldn't be that he had 466 00:27:58,319 --> 00:28:02,319 assumed that his parents would obviously know that he had 467 00:28:02,319 --> 00:28:05,039 a zeal for his father's house. That says as much 468 00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:07,720 in scripture, you have a zeal from a house. And 469 00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:12,119 it couldn't be, of course, that Jesus, in performing miracles, 470 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,440 didn't like to be asked because he wanted people to 471 00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:20,480 want him, not the show, not the magic show. And 472 00:28:20,519 --> 00:28:23,039 this is exactly what Jesus described, And no, he didn't 473 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:28,000 always do miracles. The fake pastor with the insane weird 474 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:29,960 purple smoke flame. 475 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 4: Coming off behind her as an affect on her. 476 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: Video failed to mention a time where Jesus was done 477 00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:38,759 with that he had fed the five thousand, he had 478 00:28:38,759 --> 00:28:43,720 gone across the waters, he had escaped effectively people trying 479 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,079 to draft him into leading them again as a general 480 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,599 and staying here and being the great miracle. 481 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 2: Provider, the great food provider. 482 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: And he fled from the crowds, but they followed him. 483 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,759 And then Jesus said to them, because they were there 484 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,000 wanting food, and he knew that they wanted the next meal. 485 00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:01,559 Truly I tell you, if you do not eat my 486 00:29:01,599 --> 00:29:03,240 flesh and drink my blood, it can have no part 487 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:08,079 of me. And they fled, and Jesus turned to his 488 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,200 disciples and said, are you going to run away as well? 489 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,279 And it was Peter who said, Lord, you are the Way, 490 00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:13,960 the Truth, and the life. 491 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,599 Speaker 2: Where would we go? It couldn't be that Jesus. 492 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: Christ wanted us to experience a savior who himself hadn't 493 00:29:24,759 --> 00:29:29,400 eaten for three days. Jesus went up there snacking while 494 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,279 the other people were hungry. Jesus was showing that he 495 00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:35,279 could be filled by every word that proceeds from the 496 00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:39,960 mouth of God. The fact that the left, the sexual left, 497 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:42,440 and the political left. 498 00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:45,039 Speaker 4: Is constantly trying to damage Jesus. 499 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: And make Jesus as challenged as they are, shows that 500 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,160 they fear the true Jesus, fully god fully human, fully 501 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,119 capable of offering the free gift of redemption, which is ours 502 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,359 to take or reject. Rather than admit his deity, they 503 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,759 choose to reject his salvation. This is the Todd Hermann 504 00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:10,559 show notes from the Road version. Please go be well, 505 00:30:10,839 --> 00:30:12,960 be strong, be kind, and please make every effort 506 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 2: To walk in the life of Christ.