Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one, so these guys think God provides too
much sunlight, so they're stealing it from us. That's real,
But geo engineering guess that's fake. But that's that's story
number one. Story number two, President Trump reminds us how
we built the car. I'll explain. And story number three
a fake woman pasture with fake teaching on Jesus who
went out to murder a tree because the tree was
a woman or something. We'll talk about this with the
help of go visible dot com and God Almighty.
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Speaker 2: From the hind Mountains of Free and here's the Emerald
City exile.
Speaker 1: Todd Herman. Today is a day the Lord has made,
and these are the times to which God has decided
we shall live. There are a lot of things we
could talk about in society today, but there is an
overarching theme I think for America twenty twenty five, nay,
actually the world's twenty twenty five, and it is the
war between the people who live in the realm of ideas,
fantasy and wealth. And folks who live in the reality
of day to day tactical staying alive and wanting to
do good job. Maybe not a great job, not a
brilliant job maybe, but a good job would be great.
With their families. They want to grow family connections, they
want to create let's say, generational emotional wealth, explaining that
they want their kids to be balanced people, contributors to society.
And then there are people who have achieved enough financially
and have convinced themselves that they're enough like gods that
they're going to go act like gods. They come from
the realm of ideas. And there was long ago, a
couple of years ago, a paper written. I wish I
could remember the guy write, because there was a fast
standing paper and it was about the invasion of meatland meatlands.
Let me explain what that means. Back in the day,
there was a very cynical phrase that people would use
for models, you know, fashion models. They'd call them meat
puppets because they were that's you know, they're writing their
bodies around for money. It's not their brinds. They might
be brilliant people, but that's not why they're there. They're
meat Puppets. There was a band, great band called the
Meat Puppets. In fact, the lead guitarists used a pokertship
to player instead of a guitar pick. But the people
who live in theory land, the coding land, right code
into computers, they have begun to invade Meatland or bodies.
Now this isn't about invading bodies. It's actually about invading
the sky. I am blown away that a company that
has decided to block you from having sunny days is
allowed to block you from having sunny days. And I'm
not saying I think they're doing this. They promote this,
they pretend to have customers who are paying for this.
It's called make sunsets. And I've never seen anything so
corrupt in my life. And I'll explain this to you
in a second. And look, hey, give them credit. These
guys have been making a lot of money at attack
for a long time. They're very smart people, they're probably
utterly brilliant people. But I've never seen anything so corrupt
in my life. And we live in a nation of corruption.
President Trump with Liberation Day when he came out and
announced the tariffs, and he did a great job of
showing This is just us becoming equal with the rest
of the world. I see the Wall Street Journal panic
to know it's retaliatory, and the stock market took a hit.
President Trump said, look, there's going to be some temporary pain.
Stick with me. This stuff has to get done. If
you're at a buy and holds position with your stocks
and your retirements and your future, how does that work
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future results Truck twenty five Dash one three seven. The
people at Make Sunsets are not shy about what they do.
This is their own website. It says right here with
a picture of the two founders with one of their balloons,
they launch into the sky to spew chemicals upon us,
or chemicals or minerals. I'll explain this a second. We
cool the Earth. Actually phrase quote we cool Earth with
reflective clouds act. Now, hey, that's tidy. What makes sunsets?
Do we cool Earth? With who's permission? Our customers, our
customers pay us to cool Earth? Well, is only Earth
for your customers?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: No, everybody gets the cooler Earth, but our customers pay
for it. What if I don't want a cooler Earth?
What but we're tech billionaires. But what if I want
my sunny days back? But we're tech guys, We're bros.
This is from their website, written in the third person.
In twenty fifteen, they met in San Francisco, California, through
their shared passion for hardware companies and helping entrepreneurs go
from zero to one. While Luke was director of Hardware
at Why Combinator, and Andrew was at an outreach manager
at Indiego Go. Luke and Andrew went on us I
went on the start separate hardware companies backed by y
Combinator Angel investors in vcs. Between the two of them,
they've helped sell millions of dollars worth of hardware and
software at various venture backed startups. Now they have the
privilege to build a company that will help future generations
combat the worst effects of climate change, and they explain
in their own website what it means to cool earth
on behalf of their customers and everybody else. Now, I
want you to think for a moment with me about
the hubris involved in people who are willing to do
this and affect everybody. What are you doing? We're using
balloons to launch reflective clouds into the stratosphere. Why unless
we reflect sunlight, tens of millions of people will die,
twenty or percent or so of species may go extinct.
How do you know this will work? We're coppering nature
in nineteen ninety one. Now Pinatubo, a strato volcano, cooled
the Earth by nine tenths of a degree fahrenheit for
over a year. How do you make sunsets? Clouds stand
in the sky. Depending on the altitude and latitude at
which we release them, they'll stay there between six months
and three years. And this is okay. This is a
private This is a private company that has decided that
they're going to make you live with cooler days. You
like beach days, Nay, you don't get one. You like
to go to the lake on a hot day. No
hot days for you. They brag about what they do
in videos and interviews with so called customers. They brag
about their balloons. Seven balloons carrying twenty two pounds of
sulfur dioxide up into the sky, and they're showing themselves
doing it. Tracker six hundred and seventy five cooling credits
deployed at seventy four eight hundred and sixty two feet
seventy six thousand, seven and sixty one. That lasts for
a year in the sky. Learn more at makesunsets dot com.
And there goes the balloon load with sulfur oxide. What
if you don't want that sulfur doxide on you. Wait,
we're bros. You'd understand. We made a bunch of money
at why Combinator, we sold hardware in stuff in America.
We made capitalist money. But I don't want sulfur doxide
on me. But we're bros. This is axiomatic to the world,
with the people who run the world saying our products
and approaches to things are so good they must be
forced upon. You look at the ev mandates that were
all the rage until Elon Musk decided to come along
and try to cut government spending and get rid of
government fraud. It was so good we had to force it.
They talked to some of their customers. These aren't customers.
If I go and let's say, for let's let's let's
let's just let's just draw this out. This they're calling
these guys customers. If you came home and your house
was painted orange and green, and you were little shocks.
My house used to be a nice gray color. Now
it's orange and green stripes. You might be upset. You
might even call the police and say, well, wait, someone
painted my house, and the police might say, yeah, you know,
we're getting a lot of calls about this there's a
company called Make Striped Houses. A customer paid for that,
but it's my house. Yeah, but a customer paid. There's
nothing we can do. It's a civil offense at best.
I don't want so far doc sat on me. I
don't want you to play God. I don't want you
to mimic volcanoes. If you want to mimic them in
your house, that's one thing, but not in my sky.
And it's deadly. Just so you know, God hasn't gone anywhere.
He's not closed his eyes, he's not asleep, he's not
taking a break, and he's not going to be mocked.
Because I think if you were to ask God how
he set up the planet, I might he say, you know,
I might know some things you don't know. There's a
chance I might see things you don't see. I might
in fact have existed and always existed. And he has
and he always will, and so he set things up
in a certain way. And yeah, these guys do this,
and he created them, and they don't know that, probably
because they think that their own gods. So they go
out and they get customers. This is a Make Sunsets
customer talking about why he pays money to rain down,
sulfur dixide, and people he will never meet against their will,
you know, tell me just a little bit more about yourself.
Speaker 4: Well, right here in Austin, Texas, I am in that
group that you might call a climate dad's. I had
a lot of interest in stem if.
Speaker 1: I had heard about this.
Speaker 4: In the geology time back of the year two thousand.
Speaker 1: I am trying so hard. I am tried so hard
to not say what wants to come out of my
flesh about this dude. And what I want to say
is you, oh, jah man, Oh, I'm trying hard. Bro Listen, sir,
oh make your body more efficient. That's I mean. I
used to weigh four hundred pounds. Are about their can I
just tell you something. You you were producing so much
carbon dioxide. You don't need to be bro. I'm just
let me just let them continue.
Speaker 4: There was a geologist that studied strado volcanoes that they've
been studying extensively. So from that point I've been interested
in it. I didn't realize how necessary it was until recently,
and I've been telling people about it through videos on Facebook.
I've been telling people about it that I know.
Speaker 1: Scott Thompson, if I decided to have cats come and
urinate on your house to discourage you from doing certain things?
Would that be okay? If I launched a balloon filled
with cat urine to no, let's do it this way.
I got this, and I actually asked to make sun
sens people this and then we'll get back to Scott Thompson.
This customer. If I decided to launch balloons with cat
urine to spray all over your RVs that you use
when you launch these balloons in the sky, can I
do that? Would that be okay? Just to describe, I mean,
I'd be saving the earth. You don't want to touch
your car when it's been sprayed with cat urine out
of my bullet wounds. A little bit more from their
so called customer, Scott Thompson really.
Speaker 4: Was predicting or hoping that something like makes sunsets would
come along, and so for that reason we just want
to say thanks.
Speaker 1: You know, there are different other climate intervention like solar
radiation management companies or juice that are focused on this.
You've mentioned in the past. Uh, your okay, I can't
And when I say this, I'm not being a force
in your girl. I literally can't even let this continue,
because I can feel my flesh rising to the degree
that I want very much to say a customer paid
me to come and slap you just wants. Don't do it, vile.
This is bad turned to the cheek. Okay, Lord, help
me deliver this in the proper way. I think I
choose God. I think i'll choose his view of sunsets.
I think I'll trust him to have set up the
Earth to handle people, because I'm I'm going to take
a wild guess.
Speaker 5: God probably saw internal combustion engines coming. He probably knew
that people were going to build buildings and make ships.
The Earth can probably handle God's.
Speaker 1: Masterpiece because he created us in his image. Story number two.
I saw a great explanation of a liberation Day from someone,
and I wish i'd grabbed this off of Twitter. It
made a huge impression on me, and then I failed
to grab it because it's a great way to explain
what President Trump had done when he explained Liberation Day,
and he came out and of course announced Liberation Day.
He's done a fantastic job of warning us there's going
to be pain anytime you've put off dealing with a
big problem. There's going to be pain if you've had
a relationship go south and you refuse to talk about it.
When you eventually begin talking about it, there's going to
a lot of things to deal with. If you've gone
years without exercising and you've gotten way way out of shape.
The first time you go hit leg day, Leg Day's
going to suck. If you haven't run a mile in
twenty years, decided to go out run a mile, it's
gonna hurt because you put this off. We've put off
doing something to our economy, not necessarily tariffs, but something
to economy for a long time as we become structurally bankrupt.
President Trump announced Liberation Day, and then I saw this
fantastic explanation for what he's really doing.
Speaker 3: My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day waiting for a
long time. April second, twenty twenty five will forever be
remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day
America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began
to make America wealthy again.
Speaker 1: I always going to have the Mala Maha, that's very
much President Trump's branding. So I saw this explanation. I
want to share with you, and it goes straight to
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about no longer surrendering, and in this he's surrendering to
his best instincts, that is CEO Trump, and a Twitter
user called this out in a beautiful, beautiful way.
Speaker 3: United States can no longer continue with a policy of
unilateral economic surrender. Cannot pay the deficits of Canada and
Mexico and so many other countries. We used to do it,
we can't do it anymore. We take care of countries
all over the world. We pay for the military, We
pay for everything they have to pay. And then when
you want to cut back a little bit, they get
upset that you're not taking care of them.
Speaker 2: Any longer.
Speaker 3: But we have to take care of our people, and
we're going to take care of our people first. And
I'm sorry to say that.
Speaker 1: It's interesting since I'm sorry to say that maybe.
Speaker 3: The resistant today we're standing up for the American worker
and we are finally putting America first.
Speaker 1: There's going to be pain in this. There's pain anytime
you make wholesale change. But we have to have change.
To be structurally bankrupt means it's not a matter of
if you go bankrupt, it's when. Just like if a
building is structurally dangerous, it's not a matter of if
it's going to fall down, it's when, and who's in
that building. I wish i'd grabbed the name of this
Twitter user. I forgot to bookmark this. But President Trump
also spoke about the beginnings of American economic greatness and
dominance was predicated upon tariffs, not income tax. Income tax
is relatively new, and it was sold to the American
people as it will only ever be for the ultra rich,
the top five to ten percent. Then of course it metastasized,
and it in fact punishes employers who hire employees because
you pay a head tax. In many states, you pay
multiple loves of head tax. A Twitter user pointed this out.
President Trump isn't reinventing the wheel, because that's what people
have said. Oh, tariffs are an old idea. He's reinventing
the wheel. No, he's not. What President Trump is doing
as CEO Trump is he's reminding the United States of
America how we built the car, the economic engine that
was unequaled in history. A lot of that is freedom
that's being threatened. But President Trump is bringing freedom back.
A lot of that was free enterprise, big government, and
the China model where government is business threatened that reducing
regulation brings that back. Changing our income method from punishing
earners to tariffs is a huge change, and it's reminding
us of how we built the car in the first place.
Story number three, there's a fake woman pastorn. Okay, that's unfair.
That's unfair. She's a minister, that's her title. She's a
minister of Blossom Hill Mennonite Church and her name is
Jennifer B. Miller, and she delivered a fake teaching on
a real portion of the Bible where she contends that
Jesus Christ decided to unalive a tree, but the reason
he unlived the tree, and I think she even admits
this is not related to her allegation at all. She
even admits, I'm not really what I'm saying is not true,
but I'm saying it. And she began her sermon in
a I guess, deeply emotional way, and then she continued
on to explain, uh, the gender of this this tree
who so wanted kids? The tree just couldn't have kids
in the world.
Speaker 6: So when I engage with this parable about the fig
tree facing its possible execution, I'm rattled.
Speaker 1: All right, it's about a fig tree, but not to her,
except to her because she later comes on and says, okay,
that that teaching I just did, that's all not real.
So let me explain this in just a second. God,
in addition to making all the trees made family, God
invented family. He invented our bodies. He knows the code
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Let's get back to the good Minister Jennifer B. Miller
of Blossom Hill Mennonite Church talking about a tree, a tree,
the Missus tree, the woman tree who wanted babies but
just could not have babies, where some would say I'm stomped.
Oh good, you got it.
Speaker 6: I don't understand how someone could look at a perfectly
fine tree and contemplate taking it down when it's only
foible is that it hasn't yet produced figs. It's hard
for me to imagine a valid enough reason for the
chopping down of such a tree, especially when the goal
and planting it in a vineyard might have nothing to
do with the fruit it might produce.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, oh Lord help me. Okay, Jesus didn't chop
the tree down. He didn't chop the tree. And while
we're on the topic of Jesus, minister, do you think
that the god of the universe might understand things about
trees you don't and might have more wisdom than you
might possibly have had a reason for destroying the tree.
And by the way, if you don't know, because many
people don't, what she's talking about it comes from here's
one instance. Mark chapter eleven, verses twelve through twenty five,
Jesus curses a fig tree and clears the temple courts.
We'll look it did the temple courts part, but that's
a fun part of the Bible. The next day is
they were leaving Bethany. Jesus was hungry seeing in the
distance of fig tree in Leif. He went to find
out if it had any fruit. When he reached it,
he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the
season for figs. And he said to the tree, may
no one ever eat fruit from you again? And the
disciple has heard him say it. Later on they come
back by the tree and the trees it's been unalived.
It's ended. Well, Jesus cursed it. Why do you think
Jesus did that because the tree was insufficient or was
it a teaching opportunity. Jesus spoke a lot about fruits,
the need for us to produce fruits in our life,
and he himself said that he could produce no fruit
without the Father. That's apart from the vine, the branches
of Christ, we can do nothing. And he, apart from
the Father, cannot produce fruit. Jesus was always teaching back
to the minister.
Speaker 6: Given my experience sitting with women, and couples who have
had difficulty getting pregnant and sometimes have lost a pregnancy
or a child. It's hard for me to read this
parable of an unproductive tree and not hear it from
the perspective of human infertility.
Speaker 1: But it's a tree, and Jesus came to fulfill the law,
not to raise it. Jesus grew up on what we
call the Bible, and in the Bible in Genesis chapter one,
verse twenty eight, God bless them and said to them,
be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and
subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, and
the birds in the sky, and over every living creature
that moves on the ground. Another way to say that is,
be fruitful and multiply. In other words, God is pro family.
Jesus is part of the triune God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit,
pro family, pro child, pro marriage. So it's difficult for
you to look at this and not think that Jesus
wanted to get revenge on a female tree. Oh no,
she gets to that part.
Speaker 6: Traditional thought, including stories in the Bible, value women for
their ability to produce children. Fertility and biblical times was
thought to rest solely on the shoulders or the wombs
of women.
Speaker 1: No, no, oh boy, can I even say this and
not be gross? Men are cautions to not spill their
seed in nonprocreative acts with their lives. Is that clear enough?
Speaker 2: Did that?
Speaker 1: Alex said? I explain that clearly? Okay, hope so so. Yes,
sometimes women were blamed. Yes, culture was different, But no,
at no time during the biblical times, as Jesus walked
the earth did people not understand the biological function of
the sperm and the egg.
Speaker 6: So if no child came from a couple's sexual relationship,
then the woman was thought to be at fault, barren
as it were. People then didn't have the science or
the sense of equity and relationships to understand that the
man's role in the relationship might be contributing to the problem.
The language we use in talking about fertility today contains
vestiges of this blame shame Dynamicay.
Speaker 1: You're about to hear a phrase that I don't know
how many times to hear this Aday. Like, I was
in a convenience store the other day and just paying
for gas because the pump was broken, so I went
and had to give my credit card, and there was
this long conversation using one of these phrases mean you're
probably sick of hearing it.
Speaker 6: So we use terms like incompetent cervix.
Speaker 1: No, we don't, we don't. I looked it up. It's
it's a medical phrase that's rarely used in incompetent cervix.
We know no one.
Speaker 6: Failed pregnancy and miscarriage. Not to mention Jerry Gatric mother
a title I was given at the ripe old age
of thirty six.
Speaker 1: That's mean that someone said that to you. Are we
getting to the tree parts?
Speaker 6: Even these two thousand years later, women carry the weight
of guilt and shame when the child bearing doesn't go smoothly.
Speaker 1: Wow, golly. I have friends who are dudes who have
screwed up sperm counts and feel guilty for that because
they may have done some things semester their bodies up
when they were younger men, and I checked, and they're
not women. But we're getting to the part where the
tree has gender right.
Speaker 6: And that is only compounded when we consider the power
dynamics in male female relationships and in the limited voice
of women of color in particular.
Speaker 1: Wait, the tree is black, So the tree is a
woman who wanted to have kids. But her husband's a tree.
He was not able to have kids. And it was
the black woman tree's fault. And so Jesus Christ, the
savior of all mankinds, who actually went to the cross
for us, he hated the tree because the tree reminded
him of a black woman.
Speaker 6: I see the power dynamics in this parable, and I
hear the shame and how we talk about the fig
trees infertility at any rate, whether the sex of the
fig tree, whatever, the sex of the fig tree is
in this parable. It was not in fruit when the
owner came to check on it, and based on its fruitlessness,
the men involved discussed its fate without the tree having
a say in the matter.
Speaker 1: No, Jesus in fact did not discuss it. He did
it and then later talked about why and what he
was teaching. We're expected to bear fruit. What does that mean? Well,
part of it is be fruitful and multiply. What else
does it mean? You've been given the seed of faith.
Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. You receive
the Holy Spirit. Once you have the Holy Spirit, Jesus
had a quest a suggestion. Jesus said, hey, you guys,
if you feel like it, and there's time between NFL
football games and taking the kids to soccer and pizza night,
would you give some thought to maybe thinking about or
considering once a time in your life, maybe once talking
to the world about me. That's a direct quote from
the Bible, not exactly. All power and authority on heaven
and earth has been granted to me. So go and
make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching
them to follow all I've commanded, and surely I will
be here with you always, even to the end of
the age. Slight paraphrasing, but pretty close to a commandment.
Be fruitful. The fruit he's seeking is a return of
his family, grafted back in, readopted to the family of Christ.
That was not a request. Jesus is not anti family.
He did not unlive the fig tree because the fig
tree was a black woman. Now we get to the
part we're Minister Jennifer B. Miller the Blossom Hills Mennonite Church.
She wraps up by effectively saying, now nothing I said
is actually real.
Speaker 6: I know it's only a tree, but I'm nonetheless uncomfortable
with the social dynamics presented by this parable, and it
makes me want to look the other way. Though this
story isn't really talking about human reproduction at all.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 1: Though everything I've said doesn't bear any resemblance to everything
I said, I still feel stuff.
Speaker 6: And it can be helpful to note how biblical stories
can be heard by those sensitized to trauma and oppression.
Speaker 2: Just this.
Speaker 1: Preaching the word of God should not be your therapy session.
The parable of the fig tree is a continuation of
Jesus insisting that we understand while we cannot earn salvation,
we will know we have it when we seek to
produce good fruit. You will know you've been saved when
you die to yourself and seek to produce fruit for
the kingdom. A fifteen year old boy who probably has
cut down a tree or two in his life. He
lives in North Idaho, ask me the other night the
most profound spiritual question, Todd, how do we know what
will be like if we agree to die to ourselves?
Great question? And I said, you die to yourself to
come alive in whom And he said Jesus. And then
the Lord led me to say, and when you accept
Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and agreed to be
changed by him. What happens, what do you receive? And
God led him to say the Holy Spirit. So God
asked me to ask him this question. So when you die,
to yourself or Jesus, who are going to become more like?
And he said Jesus. Jesus, Christ himself said he could
accomplish nothing without the connection to the Father. We can
accomplish nothing for the Kingdom, nothing of lasting, eternal value
apart from Him, the tree, the branch, the vine. That's
the parable. And honestly, I don't know if that lady
even knows that anymore, because she has deep, deep feelings.
And if you're a pastor or even a minister through
a certificate program at some community college in I don't know, Bosnia,
preaching should not be your therapy. It should be sharing
the gospel. This is the Todd Hermann Show. Please go,
be well, be strong, be kind, and please make every
effort to walk in the light of Christ.