1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,719 Kind of a weird approach to this day's three Radio Stories. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,160 I still love radio. In fact, I'm in Tupelo, Mississippi, 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:13,960 down here at the radio network where I'm gifted to 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:18,079 have a fantastic program on the American Family Radio Network. 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,679 It's a one hour day, five days a week, one 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,800 hundred and eighty stations. First time I've been in Tupelo. Now, 8 00:00:23,839 --> 00:00:26,039 I'm actually not in Tupolo right now. I'm filming this 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,640 in advance, but I'll be down in Tupolo all week 10 00:00:28,839 --> 00:00:31,160 with radio people. So I'm going to share with you 11 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:34,439 some radio stories, starting with how it all began for 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,240 me and why I ever wanted to be in radio, 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,320 working up to the guy who got me the first 14 00:00:40,439 --> 00:00:43,560 education in radio. Then just a couple of insane stories 15 00:00:44,439 --> 00:00:47,799 of the radio times, and then one that really has 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,479 touched my heart and changed me for a very very 17 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,880 long time. We do this with the help of our 18 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,520 YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash at the Todd Herman 19 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,439 Show and with God Almighty. 20 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,079 Speaker 2: Is one disapproved by Big Pharma technocarrats in tyrn cebrianware 21 00:01:09,439 --> 00:01:14,359 from the High Mountains of Free America. Here's the Emerald 22 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:18,840 City exime Todd Herman. 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,159 Speaker 1: Today is today the Lord has made and these are 24 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,400 the times to which God has decided we shall live. 25 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,280 We live in a time where YouTube has become the 26 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,239 biggest podcasting enterprise in the world. It's been the biggest 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,079 media company in the world for a long time. Most 28 00:01:43,159 --> 00:01:46,680 people don't recognize this. Very early on it amassed a 29 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:53,879 larger database of video content than all three television networks combined, 30 00:01:54,719 --> 00:01:57,879 and that blew people's minds because it happened so so 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,480 very quickly. It's the biggest media company on earth. But 32 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,959 it's not radio. It has live like people do live podcasts, 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,560 they do live streams. We do that other people do. 34 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,400 But radio was a precursor to this. And if you're 35 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,800 too young to remember when radio was really the dominant medium, 36 00:02:14,159 --> 00:02:16,719 everything you're seeing now you can thank talk radio for 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,199 it was a formative way of doing this. Before there 38 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:23,120 were images, we had opinion based radio. And for me, 39 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,639 this all began the way a lot of things begin 40 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:29,240 with my dad. There was a dude back in the day. 41 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:33,280 His name is Paul Harvey, utter genius in radio. He 42 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:37,719 had a program called The Rest of the story. I 43 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:40,879 don't care if you're nineteen, I don't care if you're 44 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,319 thirty five. You would benefit from listening to the rest 45 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,039 of the story, just because he was a masterful story teller. 46 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,960 You take an historical moment and tell you everything about it, 47 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,280 accept the participants or who they were, or a key detail. 48 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,479 When you got that, you go, oh my gosh, that's 49 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,520 the rest of the story. News and commentary is very 50 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,159 famous these days for something he did call if I 51 00:03:05,199 --> 00:03:08,360 were the Devil. It's a great bit of commentary that 52 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,639 seems to predict what's going on these days. So I 53 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,199 would drive around with my father. My dad loved to 54 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,960 think of himself as a mountain man. He had a 55 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,280 master's degree in social work, but he liked the image 56 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,319 of mountain man, and indeed he lived on twenty two 57 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,000 acres and liked to hunt and fish. But we would 58 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,879 listen to Paul Harvey, and you know what's so weird. It 59 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,000 never occurred to me that I could do that here. 60 00:03:33,039 --> 00:03:36,319 I love the medium. I listened to it. I looked 61 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,159 forward to it, and into high school I used to 62 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:43,599 go listen to his program, and it never occurred to 63 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:46,000 me that I could do something like that and tell 64 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,400 something key changed. 65 00:03:49,599 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: Now. 66 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: Have you ever had one of those moments in your 67 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,840 life where you look back and go, wow, Is that 68 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:57,759 why God introduced me to that person in this family. 69 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,400 I'll tell you what happened to me, because I do 70 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:03,479 think it was an active God. I think it's an 71 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,759 act of God that He's given me a love of 72 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,199 doing really hard things with my body. For me, it's 73 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:12,919 part mental cleanse, it's spiritual cleans And one of the 74 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:16,480 things I've realized recently is I really benefit from it 75 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:20,560 being social with people, teams of people. This happened to 76 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,839 me at Seal Fit. I want that more. I like 77 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,560 the notion and the experience of working with the team 78 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:30,079 of men who like to push each other and always 79 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:35,000 be positive, always optimistic. I also use some tricks because 80 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,240 at my age I'm over mid fifty, I'm fifty seven 81 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:41,480 years old. I use some tricks. I think it could 82 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,519 benefit from this even if you don't work out. 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He was from California, and I lived in 102 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,000 Eastern Washington, and Californians weren't popular then, and they're not 103 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,000 popular in North Idaho where I live now, right next 104 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,639 door to Eastern Washington. We're all filled up. We don't 105 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:04,639 need more Californians, it's saying. And he came from California 106 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:09,720 with all these concert shirts. Every stinking day, this kid 107 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,360 walked in with another concert shirt, and almost I guess, 108 00:06:12,399 --> 00:06:15,800 probably sixty days in a row he wore different concert shirts. 109 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,000 And so some friends of mine came to me and said, 110 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:23,160 you need to kick his blank because he's an arrogant 111 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,879 kid from San Francisco and he thinks he's a big deal. 112 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,199 Plus he wears weird, straight leg jeans, he's not wearing 113 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,399 bell bottoms. He's proba. I won't say what they called him. 114 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,480 So he's sitting in front of me in gym class 115 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,120 one day and we were gonna wrestle. Now, I'd become 116 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,360 a decent wrestler by ninth grade, pretty good wrestler, And 117 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:46,120 here's this kid sitting in front of me, and I 118 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,720 know I'm gonna have a chance to maybe wrestle, although 119 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:50,000 he's smaller than me. So I just tapped him on 120 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,560 the shoulder before class became. I said, hey, how you doing. 121 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,439 I'm Todd, and he called himself Matt. His real name 122 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,199 is Matthew, but at that time he's calling himself Matt. 123 00:06:58,600 --> 00:06:59,000 I'm Matt. 124 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:00,199 Speaker 2: Hey. 125 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question? Where'd you get all 126 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,720 those T shirts? He goes, man. Everybody asked me this 127 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,560 my dad, he goes. I'm really lucky. My dad works 128 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,439 in the radio business. He worked in the record business 129 00:07:12,439 --> 00:07:16,399 for years, and so I'm really lucky I get to 130 00:07:16,439 --> 00:07:18,800 go to a bunch of concerts and stuff because it's 131 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:22,319 just my dad's business. So I'm just really lucky. This 132 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,079 all made sense to me. Why would he beat this 133 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:30,800 guy up. That's the man who led me to Jesus. 134 00:07:31,319 --> 00:07:33,920 He is, to this day a guy I consider a brother. 135 00:07:33,959 --> 00:07:37,079 And I'm not saying, hey, bro, I'm saying I feel 136 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,560 like we were born together. His dad was a radio legend. 137 00:07:40,839 --> 00:07:42,959 I didn't know this. I mean, I knew he worked 138 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:45,759 in radio, I didn't know he was a legend. So 139 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:48,680 the first time I went over to his home and 140 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,040 I walked into the house, it's this beautiful house right 141 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,240 at the foothills of a mountain called Marl Mountain, named 142 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,240 after my great grandpa because it used to be his land. 143 00:07:57,439 --> 00:08:01,879 And I'm looking on the walls. Who's that, Oh, that's 144 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:06,399 my dad. Your dad's with BB King. Yeah, yeah, he's 145 00:08:06,439 --> 00:08:10,279 with BB King. Your dad's with Robert Plant from led Zeppelin. 146 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:17,639 Yeah that's wait, your dad's with the Beatles. Yeah, he 147 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,240 got to meet the Beatles when he was a DJ. 148 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,720 He was one of the first people to bring him 149 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,560 to America. Do you know these people? I've met a 150 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:30,079 lot of them. When I met his father, I was 151 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:33,759 expecting something different than I got. What I got was 152 00:08:33,759 --> 00:08:38,000 a kind man. What I got was a humble man. 153 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,759 And what I also got was a guy who told 154 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,639 me to respect my own father. His job was more important. 155 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,080 Gary learned that my dad was a social worker, far 156 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:48,759 more important than. 157 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 2: What I do. 158 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,159 Speaker 1: But I got this. I got to ride around in 159 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,720 the car with him. I got to listen to him 160 00:08:55,799 --> 00:08:58,879 critique live radio. I got to hear him tell me 161 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,440 what was a good transition to a song, to a 162 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:04,000 bad's enterance and transition to a song? What was a 163 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:06,799 good job versus a guy who's making it up using 164 00:09:06,799 --> 00:09:09,000 a fake radio voice. So they used to call puking 165 00:09:09,039 --> 00:09:13,720 into the microphone, used to say, the great ones talk 166 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,080 to you just like you're sitting in a room with them, 167 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:23,960 and it sunk in the great Ones. Gary begged me 168 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,080 not to go into radio as a personality. Do sales. 169 00:09:27,919 --> 00:09:33,240 That's where the money's at earn. The money. Being a 170 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,679 disc jockey's not the way to go. But he did 171 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,679 bring me down to San Francisco, California, and it was 172 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,399 at a really tumultuous time in my life. I can't 173 00:09:42,399 --> 00:09:44,200 say I did a great job selling. I did some 174 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:47,639 big deals, but I wasn't consistent. I was too emotionally 175 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,120 heard at the time. Plus, you know what, I'm great 176 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,240 at presenting, I'm not good at follow up. I'm not 177 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,559 good at being a great sales executive. So one day 178 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:00,600 I'm at a car lot and there's a guy there 179 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,879 who is a legend in radio, absolute morning show legend, 180 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,320 and he started to make fun of me. I mean, 181 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,679 I helped sell the deals, so I got a commission 182 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,600 out of this, and this guy decided to make fun 183 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,200 of me. So I pushed back and he thought it 184 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:20,840 was funny. So he said, bring this guy a microphone. 185 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,720 So he and I bantered on the air, and he 186 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:27,080 told me later he actually called me at my desk, 187 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,480 hey come up here. So I went up with this 188 00:10:30,519 --> 00:10:32,919 guy who's making a million five a year, driven around 189 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,919 in a limo from his home out in Dublin, California, beautiful, 190 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:42,279 beautiful home, and he says, what are you doing? Why 191 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:46,080 are you selling? You know, what you want, go get it. 192 00:10:47,399 --> 00:10:50,399 How would I do that? Find the smallest market you 193 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,799 can and go to work there. Tell them that you'll sell, 194 00:10:55,879 --> 00:10:58,360 do a fifty to fifty deal, do a revshare deal, 195 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:01,000 and see if they will give you a shot to 196 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,840 be on the radio. That's how I would do it 197 00:11:02,879 --> 00:11:07,720 if I were you. Well, I took his advice. I 198 00:11:07,759 --> 00:11:12,559 actually left, moved home to Spokane, Washington, and humbled myself 199 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,279 by living in my mama's basement. I was that guy 200 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,120 live in mama's basement. I'll tell you the next part 201 00:11:19,519 --> 00:11:23,000 of the three parter with some insane radio stories in 202 00:11:23,159 --> 00:11:26,360 just a second. I wouldn't be able to do what 203 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:30,480 I do now if I hadn't been given the opportunity 204 00:11:30,519 --> 00:11:32,840 to earn some great money. I mean, I couldn't be 205 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:34,919 sitting here in the studio that God built for us 206 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,320 with the money that God provided. I couldn't be working 207 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,440 with the team of Alex and Aona this morning if 208 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,440 we didn't have that, And I wouldn't have had this 209 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,200 great base to work on if I hadn't been blessed 210 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,360 with a time of working in tech and working at 211 00:11:47,399 --> 00:11:49,759 Microsoft and doing some startups which gave us a really 212 00:11:49,799 --> 00:11:52,879 good nest egg on which we still operate today. Praise God. 213 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,879 Now I protect that nest egg by not managing it myself. 214 00:11:57,639 --> 00:11:59,679 Like I talked about, I don't like follow up a 215 00:11:59,759 --> 00:12:02,639 sales person. I'm a good presenter, et cetera. That detail 216 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,480 stuff with money makes my eyes bleed and I get distracted. 217 00:12:06,879 --> 00:12:09,840 So I employ Zach Abraham at Bullwart Capital Management to 218 00:12:09,919 --> 00:12:12,919 care for our investments. He's a fiduciary, so he has 219 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,600 to put his interest behind ours, always has to act 220 00:12:16,639 --> 00:12:19,919 on our interests ahead of it, ahead of his. He 221 00:12:20,039 --> 00:12:22,720 is really obsessed right now with how current events are 222 00:12:22,919 --> 00:12:27,000 affecting people's retirement accounts. Now, I started mine before my 223 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,159 daughter was born, some twenty two twenty three years ago, 224 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,039 when I started seriously investing, and that was set up 225 00:12:34,039 --> 00:12:36,279 for a time when there were rules in the finance system. 226 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:39,639 There aren't any rules anymore. The rule is Mike is right. 227 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 2: Well. 228 00:12:40,399 --> 00:12:42,399 Speaker 1: Zach knows how to operate in these environments, and he 229 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,360 employs risk management and he's obsessed with actively managing every 230 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,399 portfolio which can reduce risk and volatility. But at heart, 231 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,879 you know what Zach is. He's just like me. He's 232 00:12:51,919 --> 00:12:55,120 a communicator. He is a great radio show, a great podcast. 233 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:59,639 He's a teacher, and he will for free, zero obligation. 234 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,519 He will talk with you about your own retirement account. 235 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,840 He'll look through every detail. He loves that stuff. He 236 00:13:05,879 --> 00:13:08,120 loves charts. He sleeps and rooms filled with charts. He 237 00:13:08,159 --> 00:13:11,279 sleeps on charts. And he'll tell you if you're set 238 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,240 up for retirement, and if you are, he'll give you 239 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,159 a double thumbs up. Go get him, kiddo. If you're not, 240 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,080 I'll tell you how he thinks he can help. Go 241 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,720 to Know your Risk radio dot com. That's know Know 242 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,879 your Risk radio dot com. Or call him at eight 243 00:13:23,919 --> 00:13:25,320 sixty six seven to seventy nine. 244 00:13:25,399 --> 00:13:28,399 Speaker 3: Risk Investment Advisory services offered through Trek Financial loc and 245 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:31,279 sec Registered Investment Advisor. The opinions expressed in this programmer 246 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,399 for general informational purposes only, and are not intended to 247 00:13:33,399 --> 00:13:35,919 provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual or on 248 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,639 any specific security. Any references to performance of securities so 249 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,960 are thought to be materially accurate, and actual performance may 250 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,399 differ investments involved risk and or not guaranteed. Past performance 251 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,759 doesn't guarantee future results Track twenty four three zero. 252 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:51,399 Speaker 1: Eight Necessity They say is the mother of invention. I 253 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,240 had to be in talk radio. I had to do it. 254 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,600 I had this challenge from this morning show host saying 255 00:13:57,639 --> 00:13:59,360 to me when I was working in radio sales in 256 00:13:59,399 --> 00:14:03,600 San Francisco, what are you doing? You know you want 257 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:07,679 to be on air, Go do it. So I moved 258 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,000 home to Spokane, Washington, and I humbled myself by being 259 00:14:11,039 --> 00:14:14,679 the guy living in my mom's basement. That's truly humbling. 260 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 2: You know. 261 00:14:15,919 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: That's that George Costanza thing. You meet a young woman, 262 00:14:19,399 --> 00:14:24,039 So where do you live? Ah, I'd rather not say 263 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,799 I never did get the Costanza thing right by doing 264 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,200 all the things opposite. I live at my mom's basement. 265 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:35,159 But that act of humbling myself led me to the 266 00:14:35,559 --> 00:14:38,120 necessity of finding a way to get into talk radio. 267 00:14:38,159 --> 00:14:42,240 I put a one year timeline on it. One year. 268 00:14:43,039 --> 00:14:44,919 If it does not work, I go do other things. 269 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,080 I go back to construction because I know I didn't 270 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,240 want to be in sales. I choose something else. I 271 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,919 go try to become a firefighter, a cop. I give 272 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,240 myself one year. A friend of mine I knew in 273 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,360 high school saw me at the mall one day, Hey, 274 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,200 what are you doing in town? Here's what I'm doing. Hey, 275 00:14:59,200 --> 00:14:59,799 what do you want to do? 276 00:14:59,840 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: Here? 277 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: That's what I want to do. He introduced me to 278 00:15:01,399 --> 00:15:05,919 a guy who is a financial wizard, and he somehow 279 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,720 made a business out of a one thousand watt radio 280 00:15:08,759 --> 00:15:13,000 station in Spokane, Washington. And you know what, it's crazy, 281 00:15:13,039 --> 00:15:16,039 but my national radio show is now on that station, 282 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,600 KSBNAM twelve thirty. Such a weird, full circle moment. In 283 00:15:20,679 --> 00:15:22,480 any case, I went and I met with Tom. I 284 00:15:22,519 --> 00:15:25,759 made this pitch. I'm really good at selling deals. I'm 285 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:27,480 not good at follow up. I don't want to follow up. 286 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,919 But I can open the door. I can bring people 287 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,159 in advertisers in turn them over to you. So how 288 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:35,559 about we do this. I will keep sixty five percent 289 00:15:35,639 --> 00:15:37,919 of the money I bring to a show. You keep 290 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,960 sixty five percent of the money you bring to my show, 291 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:44,600 and you give me an audition. Do you have any tapes? Yes? See. Now, 292 00:15:44,639 --> 00:15:46,799 if you're new to this medium, and you're new to 293 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,200 looking or learning about radio, you've just been video or podcasting. 294 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,919 It used to be hard to create tapes. You didn't 295 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,759 have editing software that didn't exist. You had to cut 296 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,840 tape with scissors reel to real you had to cut 297 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:02,559 with scissors, or if you were like me, you had 298 00:16:02,559 --> 00:16:05,000 a four track recorder used to record music on. So 299 00:16:05,039 --> 00:16:07,360 you know what I'd done in my tiny little apartment 300 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,039 in sam Atteo, California. I had pretended to have a 301 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,600 radio show. I'd put on bumper music and I made 302 00:16:13,679 --> 00:16:16,279 myself the big voice by slowing down the voice. Now 303 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:21,360 it just sounded terrible, but I had an intro. I 304 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:23,679 had intro music, and then I would come on and host, 305 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,799 and on one of the other tracks, I recorded myself 306 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,960 as callers, using different voices. I just wanted to say, 307 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:32,240 I just love your program. I had better voices at 308 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,360 the time. Listen to me, I hate your show, and 309 00:16:36,399 --> 00:16:40,320 I interacted with myself. So that's what I gave Tom. 310 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,039 Here's my audition tapes. He didn't ask are these real 311 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:46,879 radio tapes because he was too smart for that. He 312 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,000 knew they weren't. But okay, the guy can talk, he 313 00:16:49,039 --> 00:16:54,120 can chatter. So here's the audition. I think it was 314 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,559 nine or ten PM on Halloween and the night after 315 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,840 Halloween where no one was listening, and he knew this. 316 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,960 Here's something I learned from talk radio professionals. For every 317 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,920 hour of radio do three hours of research, otherwise you 318 00:17:12,039 --> 00:17:14,920 run out of topics. And then this back in the 319 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,920 day of caller driven talk radio, the last thing anyone 320 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:19,759 wanted to hear was you seeing the phone number over 321 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:22,160 and over again because no one was on the phones. 322 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,440 So I front loaded the phones. I had friends and 323 00:17:25,519 --> 00:17:29,599 relatives ready to call in. The one single time this 324 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,640 specific relative, ever, ever, ever listened to me on the 325 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,960 radio was that one night. So I did all my prep. 326 00:17:37,039 --> 00:17:40,079 I brought in stacks of paper. I remember. The music 327 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,880 I used was The Laws. There she goes as an opener, 328 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,720 and I went forth and I did the show. Those nights. 329 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,920 My friend Dave came and was an in studio producer. 330 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:52,920 God bless you, Dave. I miss you. So we did 331 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,119 these shows and the first phone call was from a 332 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,400 woman whose name I won't say, but she was my mom. 333 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,480 I was living in her basement and she was the 334 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:05,440 first call to my show. And she is a liberal. 335 00:18:05,799 --> 00:18:09,920 She hated every single thing I said on that program, 336 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:15,880 and in fact it cost her a teaching job. Cost 337 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,839 her a teaching job. Not that phone call, but something else. 338 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:23,480 I'll tell you. Some other friends called and made conversation. 339 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,240 The shows went well. Tom offered me a gig. I 340 00:18:28,279 --> 00:18:31,880 gave myself one year from that point to get an 341 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,119 actual paying radio gig where I wasn't selling time. I 342 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,359 was just getting paid to do the show. So I 343 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,160 picked a target, and the target I picked was a 344 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,000 guy named Tom Foley. He was Speaker of the House 345 00:18:44,039 --> 00:18:46,799 at the time and had dedicated my radio program to 346 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,079 seeing that he was ousted from the Speaker of the 347 00:18:49,079 --> 00:18:53,200 House office, that he was not re elected, and being arrogant, 348 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,880 I went to one of his town hall meetings, and 349 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,559 being a fool and arrogant, I stood up to him. 350 00:18:59,599 --> 00:19:01,599 I think God protected me from this because I think 351 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,440 God had a plan. It wasn't to be self aggrandizing. 352 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,240 It certainly wasn't to do this sort of radio I 353 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,920 did in Salt Lake City, which was all too often 354 00:19:11,039 --> 00:19:14,079 not Howard Stern sexual, but all too often just provocative. 355 00:19:14,079 --> 00:19:18,519 To be provocative, that wasn't his plan. It's this to 356 00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:21,799 put him at the center of all things. Just took 357 00:19:21,839 --> 00:19:25,240 me a while to figure that out. But arrogant and young, 358 00:19:25,559 --> 00:19:27,599 I went to this town hall meeting with Tom Foley, 359 00:19:28,319 --> 00:19:31,559 and there he was on stage and I raised my 360 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,200 hand in the question and answer period, and he called 361 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,400 on me and I stood up. I said, yes, sir, 362 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,960 mister speaker, thank you for taking my question. It's more 363 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,400 of a comment. My name is Todd Herman, and on 364 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,720 Monday I'm starting a program called back Talk with Todd 365 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,119 herm on an Am twelve thirty KSPN. And I intend 366 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:50,799 to see to it that I use the program to 367 00:19:50,799 --> 00:19:53,359 see that you're not re elected because of what you've 368 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,440 done to the fifth District, where you've taken IPO monies 369 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,960 for yourself that we don't get. You've become rich in Congress, 370 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,240 and I think it's through graft. So I just wanted 371 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:05,200 you to know that. And he said to me, looking 372 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,240 down him in the stage, well Son, a lot of 373 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,680 bigger people than you have tried, but I wish you 374 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:17,559 good luck. My name's not Son, Tom, it's Todd Herman. 375 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:25,240 You'll remember that. So arrogant. Right afterwards, a reporter with 376 00:20:25,319 --> 00:20:27,960 The Spokesman Review, the local liberal newspaper, came to me. 377 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,079 Turned out to be a decent dude and actually kind 378 00:20:31,079 --> 00:20:34,480 of developed a tenuous, not really friendship, but kinship. He 379 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:37,279 knew he had someone he could make good copy out of, 380 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:39,480 and he interviewed me that day and where there you go. 381 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,960 The first big write up about the show that was coming, 382 00:20:43,079 --> 00:20:45,759 and of course it featured Tom Foley. So I started 383 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:47,920 this process of daring Folly to come on the show, 384 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,359 and I started running ads or promos during the show 385 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,519 that said this, and I'll explain it, and I'm gonna 386 00:20:54,519 --> 00:20:58,119 apologize for the language right now. It said this, my 387 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:03,880 name is Tom Foley, me y're all sue your asss. 388 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,279 So why could I say something like that, Because he'd 389 00:21:07,319 --> 00:21:10,759 sue the voters of Washington State. When the voters of 390 00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:14,240 Washington State voted for term limits, he sued us with 391 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:19,319 our money. He sued us. That became a focal point, 392 00:21:19,599 --> 00:21:22,440 and I created a nickname for him again, I'm gonna 393 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,000 apologize for the language. It's called the sphincter of the House. 394 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:30,000 I was asked once by a couple of national journalists, 395 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,680 among them the people who work for Ted Copple, PBS 396 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:39,759 News Hour, The Philadelphia Inquired nip Ontelligion Television from Japan PBS, 397 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,440 two PBS shows they thought they were very, very clever. 398 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,400 On McNeil Lair newsaur the young lady who tried to 399 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:51,920 trick me into talking before the interview began, who tried 400 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,359 to asking me questions by saying things like, let me 401 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,079 just ask you, how much of what you say on 402 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:57,640 the show do you really believe? And how much of 403 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,599 it is stick? I said to her, that would be 404 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,119 a great question to ask once the interview begins. Oh, 405 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,200 I know, I'm just asking now because we're just talking. Well, 406 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,559 that's interesting because that camera's on, that microphone's on, and 407 00:22:08,559 --> 00:22:11,160 I can see it through your monitors. I'm not Newt 408 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,440 Gringridge's mom. I'm not going to be fooled that way, 409 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,559 So ask me the question. She didn't. She did ask 410 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,680 me this. You have a very rude nickname for the 411 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,799 Speaker of the House of this Congress. How do you 412 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:29,359 defend calling him this fhiner of the House? I defend 413 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:34,119 it this way by involving himself at IPOs and IPOs, 414 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,119 at pennies on the dollar, and enriching himself in ways 415 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,960 that we can't possibly do here. He takes all the 416 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:43,799 nutrients of things like that for himself, and he leaves 417 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:46,400 the byproduct all over the fifth District, all over us. 418 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,839 That's why Calm's finger of the House. She blue screened. 419 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:53,000 How do you deal with that? Wait, you have a 420 00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:54,839 reason for this. Yes, I have a reason for that, 421 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,799 because I was bothered by saying it. I bet I 422 00:22:57,839 --> 00:23:02,160 have a pretty good reason. That came to pass that 423 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:04,799 Tom Foley was not reelected, and there was a poll 424 00:23:04,839 --> 00:23:06,920 in the spokesrom Review that showed that my show had 425 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,200 a pretty big effect on that. Now they tried to 426 00:23:09,279 --> 00:23:11,799 run the poll saying, oh, look that Todd Herman had 427 00:23:11,839 --> 00:23:14,559 no input on this, no impact on this at all. 428 00:23:14,599 --> 00:23:16,799 And yet I think it was three to four percent 429 00:23:16,839 --> 00:23:18,640 of voters were swayed by what I said on a 430 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:23,039 thousand watt radio station. He lost by a couple percentage points. 431 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:27,839 They tried to make it seem that I had no effect. Oh, 432 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,519 fully never did come on my show. He wouldn't, but 433 00:23:31,599 --> 00:23:35,039 he kept sending campaign people. Finally they sent in a 434 00:23:35,079 --> 00:23:40,319 campaign manager all the way from Washington, DC, a big, ligger, 435 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,160 beautiful tie. A couple days before he came on my program, 436 00:23:45,759 --> 00:23:48,640 I was sitting in my office. I'd announced this guy 437 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:51,880 was going to be coming on. My office had no security. 438 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,920 Anyone could walk in. Anyone who wanted to kill me 439 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,839 could walk in. I didn't carry at the time, Praise God, 440 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,200 I didn't need it. I'm sitting at my desk and 441 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,559 a guy commes and he knocks on the door. I 442 00:24:04,599 --> 00:24:09,119 look up. He goes, you Todd Herman. There was no 443 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,680 way out, There was no exit. I tried to jump 444 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,440 out the window. He could have gotten to me. I'd 445 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,039 also probably gotten really grievously hurt jumping out the window 446 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,200 landing on concrete. Had the choice but to say, yes, 447 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,920 I am. And he stepped towards my desk, took something 448 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,599 out of his pocket, sat it down at my desk 449 00:24:28,599 --> 00:24:31,000 and I said, what's that? He said, that's a cassette tape. 450 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,039 I said, who are you? He goes, I'm the guy 451 00:24:34,039 --> 00:24:37,640 I gave it to you. Have a good day. And 452 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,880 I walked out and I took it in to the 453 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:47,279 studio to play. And I'll tell you what happened in 454 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:52,279 just a second, what I heard and how it changed everything. 455 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:55,119 I will get to a couple of really crazy moments 456 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,119 in talk radio. Remember that thing I said about government schools, 457 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,160 I'll pay that off. Tell you a moment that really 458 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:06,960 changed me forever in relation to radio. Something that's changed 459 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,039 my opinion about healthcare in this country is this being 460 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,359 through three surgeries. Now, In all honesty, I got very 461 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,759 very good treatments by my surgeons. In fact, my sinus surgeon, 462 00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:21,119 my shoulder surgeon. They're very good at what they do. 463 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,440 It'd be hard for me to use anyone else for 464 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,400 any surgeries. I don't want to have any more surgeries. 465 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,799 But even my surgeon, who is a very good guy, 466 00:25:28,799 --> 00:25:32,599 works out of my CrossFit gym. He's wrong. He's wrong 467 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,319 about stem cells. He asked me, why are you going 468 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,720 to Mexico to get stem cells when I do that 469 00:25:38,839 --> 00:25:42,720 for you? I said, look, Doc, you're giving me sixty 470 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:46,359 thousand stem cells out of my bone marrow. It's bone marrow. 471 00:25:46,599 --> 00:25:48,599 I mean, I know that you went through a process 472 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,559 to make sure that it's just this stem cells, etc. 473 00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:53,640 I think it's called lysing. It's sixty thousand of them. 474 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:56,480 They're fifty seven year olds old like I am. They 475 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,079 can't build other things. They can reduce some information. But 476 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,079 what I'm getting in mechao are ethically gathered stem cells 477 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:06,119 from placentas and umbilical cords only, no aborted babies ever. 478 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,880 And I'm getting forty two million in my shoulder, And 479 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,720 a second time I went down, I got twelve million 480 00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:16,880 in my ankle. Twelve million. These stem cells do not. 481 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,200 They have not built anything. They have potential to build. 482 00:26:20,599 --> 00:26:24,160 Bone marrow is bone marrow. These stem cells will build 483 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,039 whatever they're told to build. I mean talbot. You suit 484 00:26:27,079 --> 00:26:29,799 them into a part of the body. They'll build cartilage 485 00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:32,720 on your knee or your back. They'll build muscle, they'll 486 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:36,960 build tendon, and they just destroy inflammation. It can be 487 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,039 as bad as people unable to open their hand with 488 00:26:39,079 --> 00:26:42,240 carpal tunnel like systrome, or move their ankles or sufficiently 489 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,720 bend to play professional golf. That's why so many professional 490 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,240 golfers are there with lower lumbar issues. It is a 491 00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:51,519 process that is lovingly done in a facility that's like 492 00:26:51,559 --> 00:26:55,359 a w hotel in the safest city in Mexico. Both 493 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,480 times I did it, a Harvard certified surgeon did the 494 00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:03,359 work on me, the investigation and the injection. Check this out. 495 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,720 Got to renew dot healthcare. It's r E n U 496 00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:10,359 E dot healthcare. If you're too young to remember radio 497 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,000 as a dominant medium, there's stories he should know. Stories 498 00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:16,200 like the fact that I got to build a really 499 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,440 beautiful career with two national radio shows in a podcast, 500 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,480 the super Well in audio, we're building the video version 501 00:27:22,519 --> 00:27:25,359 of it and I've been through talking about how I 502 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,119 went to Spokane, Washington and lived in my mom's basement 503 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,920 in order to get into radio. And I picked this target, 504 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,000 the Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, who genuinely was 505 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:38,319 a really, really nasty and compromised politician who really did 506 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:41,720 get rich on our backs. And I succeeded in targeting him. 507 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,200 And thank god God had a plan for me, because 508 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:45,759 I don't think it was that, but it worked to 509 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:48,680 teach me the craft of radio. So Tom Foley, that 510 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker the House, would never come on my show. And 511 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,119 a guy paid for me to take out a double 512 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,519 truck ad in the Spokesman review again, if you're too 513 00:27:56,559 --> 00:27:59,079 young for these mediums. A double truck ad meant. I 514 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,920 took up both pages of the newspaper and it was 515 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:07,559 a picture of me and Tom Foley. On the left. 516 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,079 It was an angry picture of Foley taken from below 517 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,400 this podium and he was pointing at an angry face 518 00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:17,039 and it said, ask this man why he's afraid to 519 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,680 talk to this young fella. And it was a picture 520 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,240 of me in an Alex Keaton sweater. You're too young 521 00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:28,720 for that, a yuppie sweater. Yep, a yuppie sweater holding 522 00:28:28,759 --> 00:28:31,759 a puppy, looking as peacefully as I could into the 523 00:28:31,759 --> 00:28:35,240 camera lens. Ask this guy, this man, why he's afraid 524 00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:37,880 to talk to this young fella on AM twelve thirty 525 00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:40,599 Case bann and it gave the time of the show 526 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,559 and then gave him Tom Foley's phone number two two 527 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:44,400 two two four three one two win the main number. 528 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:47,599 It worked well, fully didn't come on, but he's sent 529 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,960 on the senior official, the senior campaign guy. And as 530 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:55,000 I said, two days before all this, a guy walked 531 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,319 into my office anonymously, are you Todd Herman. I reluctantly 532 00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:00,440 said yes, afraid he was gonna shoot me because that's 533 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,960 happened the talk show host. Instead, he sat a cassette 534 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,640 tape on my desk and I said, what's that? He said, 535 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,960 that's a cassette tape. I said, who are you? He said, 536 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,079 I'm the guy who gave it to you. I have 537 00:29:08,119 --> 00:29:11,440 a good day. I took it into the studio and 538 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,599 here's what I heard. It was the grid Iron dinner 539 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:19,559 in Washington, d C. This is when journalists and politicians 540 00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:21,599 would get together and yuck it up and slap each 541 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,400 other on the back and glad hand and they're on stage. 542 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,519 Was Tom Foley, and he said something very kin to this. 543 00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:34,160 This is almost a direct quote. A lot of people 544 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,440 ask me how I can defend my one hundred and 545 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,319 seventy three thousand dollars a year salary when the people 546 00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:46,559 of the fifth District I represent earn far less than 547 00:29:46,599 --> 00:29:49,119 that thirty thirty two thousand dollars a year. And I 548 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:53,880 tell him it says, that's easy to compare because of 549 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,079 all the Johnny lunchbuckets and Whitey do nothings in the 550 00:29:59,119 --> 00:30:06,000 fifth District. Joyful laughter, applause from the people in the Capitol, 551 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:12,119 just like the Hunger Games. I knew what I had 552 00:30:13,559 --> 00:30:16,720 by the end of Tom Foley's career in the beginning 553 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,160 of mine. I mean, I'd already begun. But I gave 554 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,680 myself a year to get out of that small town 555 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:25,279 radio or I do something else, a year to get 556 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,440 into a top What did I give myself a top 557 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,240 fifty market? I think I took the tape and I 558 00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:33,519 played it for the station manager, Tom and become a 559 00:30:33,519 --> 00:30:39,200 friend of mine. Gold. We created a press release that 560 00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:42,319 was embargoed, meaning you weren't allowed to release it until 561 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,079 the date. I provided samples of the tape, but not 562 00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:49,920 the whole tape to all the television stations and some 563 00:30:50,039 --> 00:30:54,160 national ones. So on the day that campaign spokesperson arrived, 564 00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:57,440 he walked into the studio with a bunch of television cameras. 565 00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,839 He should have known at that point something was up. 566 00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:03,640 He sat down next to me. I opened the show, 567 00:31:04,359 --> 00:31:07,079 this is the show you love to love, love to hate, 568 00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:10,119 but always and under any circumstances, seemed to hate to 569 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,599 miss back talk with Todd Herman over the laws. There 570 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,279 she goes, it's a bump music. I don't remember this 571 00:31:16,359 --> 00:31:19,519 campaign official's name, but I welcomed him, and I said, 572 00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:22,200 you know what, I get to do this uninterrupted all week. 573 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:25,680 It would only be fair if I were to give you, say, 574 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,720 ten minutes to make the case for Tom Foley, and 575 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:31,920 after that I have some audio I'd like to play 576 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,480 for you and get your response. So he went in 577 00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:37,279 and he talked about Tom Foley and he didn't have 578 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:41,960 much material. Shockingly, he took about five minutes. So we 579 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,240 went to break early. So I'm going to come back. 580 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:45,880 I have a piece of audio I like to play 581 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:51,480 for you. We visited pleasantries during the commercial break, and 582 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,519 then we came back and I played the audio. But 583 00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:59,279 when I just told you about I said, what is 584 00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:03,000 your response to that? He said, you're not supposed to 585 00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:09,119 have that. I said, that's your response. He goes, that's illegal. 586 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,519 I didn't record it. That's illegal. This is your response. 587 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:23,519 And then he froze for a long time, looking at me, 588 00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:29,359 and I said, radio is in audio medium. Awkward silence 589 00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:33,440 this long? Isn't that great? And he got up and left, 590 00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:39,039 not a word. He got up and walked out, and 591 00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:41,240 I said something like, ladies and gentlemen, for the record, 592 00:32:42,079 --> 00:32:45,279 the senior campaign spokesperson or stratgys for Tom Foley is 593 00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:48,480 walking out of the studio as nip on television from 594 00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:52,920 Japan and all these other television stations film it. So 595 00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:00,319 he left. One last thing happens after fully lost called 596 00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:06,440 his office. He picked up and I said, I hope 597 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,640 you know that none of this was personal. I just 598 00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:10,839 take great umbrage and offense at what you've done to 599 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,119 our district and how you've conducted your business and office. 600 00:33:13,759 --> 00:33:17,000 He said it sure seemed personal. I said, politics is 601 00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:19,359 a tough sport. He goes, do you feel better now? 602 00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:22,839 I said, I didn't feel bad to begin with, but 603 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,640 I really appreciate you taking the phone call. See those 604 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,720 times led to some truly truly mad caped occasions. At 605 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:32,640 one point a guy came in I told you my 606 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,440 studio had no security, came in with the two by 607 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,599 four to try to murder me for talking about what 608 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,960 was going on at Kaiser Aluminum, the strikes and the 609 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,160 shutting down of equipment, the breaking of multi million dollar equipment. 610 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,079 He was outraged. She tried to get that, tried to 611 00:33:46,119 --> 00:33:47,880 kill me that way, or at least beat me up. 612 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,480 There was the cop who had taken an underage girl, 613 00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:54,720 she was I think sixteen, out of a holding cell. 614 00:33:54,839 --> 00:33:56,880 He'd arrested her, took her home, but on the way 615 00:33:57,039 --> 00:34:00,799 stopped and they had sex. And I found in the 616 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,119 law that he actually was breaking the statutory rape law 617 00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:08,159 because he had control over her. She was at the 618 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:11,320 age of consent except if the adult had unreasonable control 619 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,519 of her a badge and a gun. Is that He 620 00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:15,599 was the cop who decided to call my radio show 621 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:18,760 and threatened to kill me on the air wall on 622 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:24,639 live radio. We had proof it was him, and the 623 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,840 cops came from all over the city to protect me. 624 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,800 In fact, I got escorted home by cops and they said, 625 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,400 this guy will not touch you. He did do jail time, 626 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,719 prison time. Praise God, but we had to force the 627 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,639 DA into filing charges by pressuring him on the radio show. 628 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,679 Radio shows can do this. I know podcasts can do this. 629 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,760 I know this is a different medium now, But all 630 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,960 the things you see on podcasting now came from talk radio. 631 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,159 They stand on the shoulders of giants. I give you 632 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:54,239 one other insane thing and then a very very touching 633 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:59,840 thing that happened radio. The insane thing was this when 634 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,239 I I grew up and spoken, and I was a 635 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,880 loud mouth kid. I become a loud mouth because I 636 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,840 started to hate the school system because I had been 637 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,960 judged by the school system and accused of something I 638 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,800 didn't do, and had a horrible interaction with a principle. 639 00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:14,679 And I was a really revenge minded kid. Praise God 640 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,079 for changing me. I no longer no longer seek revenge. 641 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,840 But in that attitude, I ran into a principle and 642 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,119 that principle did something to me One day. Lacking proof, 643 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,239 he accused me of something. He hated me. He determined 644 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,000 that I was a bully. I wasn't a bully. Then 645 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,000 he called me to him before school began and I 646 00:35:36,039 --> 00:35:38,400 had my little lunch that my mom made me, and 647 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,880 he said, I think you're stealing lunches from people's cubbies, 648 00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:46,920 and I'm going to prove it. Come with me. We're 649 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,920 walking along, and I said, I don't steal. If I 650 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,800 wanted someone's lunch, i'd take it. I don't steal. Well, 651 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,559 we're gonna find out. We're going to run an experiment. 652 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,920 So he took me and locked me in a storage 653 00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:06,760 closet all day, locked the door, no bathroom, no water, 654 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,360 just what I had in my lunch bag, which was 655 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,320 always a can of apple juice. That was the liquid 656 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,480 I had for the day. I did have my knife, 657 00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:16,519 so I cut a hole in the wall. It was 658 00:36:16,599 --> 00:36:18,840 a temporary wall, so at least I had some light 659 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,199 in the space. And they ended up having a pee 660 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,599 in the corner. His problem, not mine. At about lunchtime, 661 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,400 I heard the voices of my three best friends, Rob, 662 00:36:30,159 --> 00:36:33,599 Eric and Roar. They were in the library, probably to lunch. 663 00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:37,159 They had multiple lunches, first, second, third lunch, and they 664 00:36:37,199 --> 00:36:39,679 had first lunch and I heard their voices. I said, 665 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,800 their name's roar Eric rob Herman, what are you doing 666 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,280 in there? And they tried to open the door. It's 667 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,079 locked with a key. I told them what this principle 668 00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:52,159 had done. I said, guys, I need you to do 669 00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:53,960 something for me. This is how good of friends we 670 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,119 were at the time. I need you to go steal 671 00:36:56,199 --> 00:37:00,719 every lunch in the cubbies and throw them away. Didn't 672 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,119 ask any questions, he just wentn't did it. So they 673 00:37:03,159 --> 00:37:05,639 went throughout the school, stole lunches from kids and threw 674 00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:10,920 them in the dumpsters. At three h five, when school 675 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,880 was over, I heard the last bell ring and the 676 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,000 principal wasn't there. Then at three point fifteen, I heard 677 00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:20,199 the everybody out of the building bell ring, and the 678 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:25,239 principal wasn't there. At about four o'clock I heard the 679 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,920 door start to open. I got up, walked over there. 680 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,559 I guess he didn't smell the urine. He opened the 681 00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:34,480 door and said, come with me. I said, what were 682 00:37:34,519 --> 00:37:39,679 the results of your experiment? He said, inconclusive, I'll drive 683 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,199 you home. And I said something along the lines of 684 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,719 there's not an fin chance in hell I'm going to 685 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,440 ride with you where you're not getting home any other way. 686 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,039 Don't touch me. There's not an fin chance in hell. 687 00:37:53,119 --> 00:37:57,760 I'm riding with you. So I walked home. Now, all 688 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,000 those years later, in radio, I was doing show prep 689 00:38:01,079 --> 00:38:05,920 one morning and it came across this story. There had 690 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,440 been a fire alarm at a school. They literally thought 691 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,840 it was a fire. It wasn't a planned alarm. They 692 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,760 had thought there was a fire in the school. So 693 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,920 they evacuated the kids and then they did a count 694 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,440 of the kids. Remember that, you'd line up and they'd 695 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:26,559 count you. They were seven kids short during a fire 696 00:38:26,599 --> 00:38:30,960 alarm where they literally thought there was a fire. Came 697 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,480 out later that a principal had locked those kids in 698 00:38:34,559 --> 00:38:39,400 a storage closet and didn't tell anybody. It was the 699 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:44,039 same principle. So I told the story on the show, 700 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,559 and he called me from district offices. He called me 701 00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:52,239 from the district offices. We called back to the school 702 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,400 district offices. He picked up the phone. It was him 703 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,840 and he wanted to come on my show. So I 704 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,679 welcome to the program. And he said, you are ruining 705 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:08,320 my career. I said, no, I'm not. You are. You're 706 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,239 bringing attention to this. The newspaper brought it to my attention. 707 00:39:13,039 --> 00:39:14,679 I'm speaking about it because you did it to me. 708 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,639 You're a liar. You never did that to me, right, 709 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,320 I never did that to you. Funny thing because before 710 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,000 we brought them on, I got in touch with a 711 00:39:21,039 --> 00:39:23,440 friend of mine. In fact, I got in touch with 712 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,880 all three of them. One was an adjunct college professor, 713 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,000 one had a welding business, the other was a deputy sheriff. 714 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,519 They were all on the line when the deputy sheriff 715 00:39:35,559 --> 00:39:37,599 came on. He said, not only did you do it, 716 00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:39,360 but if you did it in my district, I'd have 717 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,719 you arrested. The adjunct professor said, not only did you 718 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,400 do it, I've told students because I teach education about 719 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,719 what you did. And my friend the welders, said you 720 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,280 did it and you laughed about it. So he repeated 721 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,280 the thing, you're losing, your ruining my career. I wasn't, 722 00:39:56,559 --> 00:39:59,239 and I didn't. I did run into him later. I 723 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,840 feel horrible about this. He gained a bunch of weight. 724 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,679 He looked very sad. He was in a grocery store 725 00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,800 line and I was doing well in life, praise God, 726 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,679 and he was trying to pay for groceries and his 727 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,599 check was bouncing or his credit card something I remember. 728 00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:17,239 He couldn't pay, so I took out a hundred bucks 729 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:18,440 and I handed it to him. He said, hey, you 730 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,400 know what, let me help out, and he took the 731 00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:22,400 hundred and then he looked back at me and he 732 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,599 realized who I was, and he said, I'd sooner pick 733 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,320 blank with chickens. Okay, And right there in the line 734 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,519 again he said, you ruined my life. I said, no, no, 735 00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:40,960 you did that horrible thing that happened. Let me wrap 736 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,119 it up this way. See, there's a difference between live 737 00:40:44,199 --> 00:40:49,559 radio and podcasting, and even live podcasts, people accidentally tune 738 00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:53,280 into radio. No one accidentally tunes into a podcast. I mean, yeah, 739 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,239 you can binge, and you can binge YouTube clips and 740 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,079 all of a sudden you're watching something that you've never 741 00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:00,519 seen before. But live radio is really special this way, 742 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,239 and that sometimes someone else has it on. In this case, 743 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,280 it was in Seattle KTCH and I was doing at 744 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,599 the time the afternoon show, and I'd gotten off the 745 00:41:11,599 --> 00:41:13,920 air and I told a story that was related to 746 00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:17,079 veterans and one of my favorite movies, Loan Survivor, and 747 00:41:17,119 --> 00:41:19,440 it was saying that in Loan Survivor, there's that incredible 748 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,320 scene where the guys are up on that hill and 749 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,039 they're getting shot at by the Taliban and Axe Axelson 750 00:41:24,159 --> 00:41:27,440 and had been shot in the head and he's outraged. 751 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,000 They shot me in the head. They shot me in 752 00:41:29,039 --> 00:41:31,280 the head. Marcus Sluche says, bro, are you good? He goes, yeah, matter, 753 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,159 I'm good. We just need to get a higher ground. 754 00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:36,159 We're faster than these guys. They kept saying that I'm good, 755 00:41:36,199 --> 00:41:38,480 I'm good, I'm good. And in the presentation that night, 756 00:41:38,519 --> 00:41:41,800 I said, but sometimes you're not good. Sometimes you're not 757 00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:44,800 and it's okay. Now, you have to be good in 758 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,960 the field. You always have to be good, no matter what. Positive, present, optimistic, 759 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,599 no matter what. But you don't have to be that 760 00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:54,679 with us. Sometimes you're not good. And if you're not good, 761 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,320 tell us. I wrapped up the personal, not what we 762 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,320 called it, that last segment of the show. Walked out 763 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,800 of the studio and reproduce her before I worked with Alex. 764 00:42:04,159 --> 00:42:08,039 My producer Chris X came and got me. They said, hey, 765 00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:09,559 I think you're going to want to take this phone call. 766 00:42:10,679 --> 00:42:12,440 Walk back into the studio and there was a woman 767 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,559 on the phone as she was in tears mister hermit said, 768 00:42:15,559 --> 00:42:19,840 please call me. Todd. My son is here. He needs 769 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,400 to speak with you. He's a veteran, he needs to 770 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,440 speak with you. I picked up the phone. Hey it's Todd. 771 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:32,480 Hey man, I'm not good. I appreciate you telling me that. 772 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:39,360 This was the day before Thanksgiving. He said it was 773 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,519 going to wait till after Thanksgiving. But I my plan 774 00:42:42,599 --> 00:42:44,039 was to go out in the woods and eat my glock. 775 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,079 Yeah that's not good, man. So I'm sitting here with 776 00:42:51,119 --> 00:42:56,599 my mom and we've been listening to your whole show. Yeah, 777 00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,599 where are you in Burmington? 778 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:02,159 Speaker 2: All right? 779 00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:06,719 Speaker 1: I'm on my way. What I'm on my way? I 780 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,159 can't ask you to do that. You don't get to 781 00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:13,760 make that decision. You shared that with me, you did 782 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,320 for us. At least I can do is drive to Bremerton. 783 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:21,760 My family's out of town. I'm alone for Thanksgiving. Give 784 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,000 the phone your mom, please, And he did. Where are you? 785 00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:29,079 She told me, I'm at the grocery store. And she 786 00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:30,519 gave me the name of the grocery store in Bremerton. 787 00:43:30,599 --> 00:43:34,760 Is there only one? Yeah, I'll be there. Praise God. 788 00:43:35,559 --> 00:43:38,840 I was able to make it out there, go up 789 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:43,199 to the car, and this huge man got out and 790 00:43:43,199 --> 00:43:47,960 it's so crazy, but he hugged me. Why because a 791 00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:52,760 voice in the radio, a voice with no expectations of him, 792 00:43:54,119 --> 00:43:58,400 no capacity to judge him, Only that he heard me 793 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,840 speak about how much I love veterans and how deeply 794 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,000 I care for the struggle, and how appreciative of him them, 795 00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:08,280 and an opportunity to sit with him that night and 796 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:13,760 to talk at length and praise God. He became one 797 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:20,119 of my closest friends until he gave his life as 798 00:44:20,159 --> 00:44:24,719 a contractor fighting a war for the most important country 799 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:30,039 in the world, Ukraine. But trust me, he wasn't in Russia. 800 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:36,039 We don't have contracts. This is a Todd hermannshell. Please go, 801 00:44:36,199 --> 00:44:39,719 be well, be strong, be kind, Please make every effort 802 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,880 to walk in the light of Christ.