Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show. Story number one, Goodbye to PBS, and by the way, here's your parting gift or one of them. Story number two, Why Populism is Ascendence, Part one thousand and Story number three. Jesus Christ was and is real, and he is not yours to remake or reimagine. We'll talk about this with the help of God Almighty.
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Today is the day the Lord has made in These are the times through which God has decided where shall live. So the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which quote FUN and PR and PBS, says it's going to close down after federal cuts. So it didn't fully fund it. It's actually made you fund it. So goodbye to PBS that I've got a parting gift for them in a second. But
first of all, just a lesson from life. You're looking at, if you're watching me, if you're listening to me, you're listening to probably the luckiest stink and mut you're ever going to meet in human form. I am such a freaking lucky mutt. I got to work at Microsoft, and that's mut enough, lucky mutt enough that that ever happens. And I got to work with a team of people that we got to call the Media Experiences Team, really really cool gift that my boss gave me. Media Experiences.
Our job was to make it preferable to watch shows online versus on TV. Now, I know that that seems weird now, but back in the day it wasn't. It wasn't it was It was still preferable to watch them on TV. And there were some other teams MSN and Entertainment worked with this, MSN Games. I wanted to just give credit. They went and did a deal with the Arrested Development. People remember that show, Arrested Development. Now, I've never loved the show. I know other people love it.
I know it's a cult hit. I know for a fact that the people who loved that show they still watch it. And some brilliant people at Microsoft came up with some brilliant ideas to make it preferable to watch that on a connected device. Some of the things that people contributed now are old or old school. You know those little bubbles that pop up during your show, there's a factoid or a map of where people are at, or the bios of the actors, etc. Sometimes linking to IMDb.
Know all that that didn't always exist, and so Microsoft paid money to license the show. We got to build around this and all I did was imagine some things with my team. People far more skilled did the actual work, and they deserve the bulk of the credit. And this I was tangential to the effort at best, but I got to see it lesson. We paid a lot of money to have that show. I think it approached as I'm remembering by memory, I think it may have approached
fifty million bucks to have that show. They'd have been canceled on TV. So it's worthwhile the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down rather than going out and shopping the opportunity to help NPR and PBS. Why are they doing that? Well, they aren't real business people. They're good old fashioned DC grifters. And I want to give them a brief, maybe thirty second parting gift with maybe a one minute explanation for me as they walk out the
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sec RICHID Investment Advisor. Investments involved risk are not guaranteed past performance, isn't guarantee future results. Truck twenty five. That'sh two five to two. It wasn't just arrested development. We went out and paid money to get we paid going to need to get a lot of shows when Microsoft was still trying to play the entertainment game. I know there are a license teams at Google and YouTube and Go do the same thing, because these things have value.
I have no doubt that there's shows on PBS that are going to survive and probably be a bid four if it ends up that way. Of no doubt the brands they've built corporation for Public Conn Broadcasting shutting the doors because the gravy trainer is over. I wanted to offer you just a quick parting gift courtesy of the terrible hitlers at Fox News.
We'll get out of Kentucky said this in a statement. It's a long statement. I'll just read one line. There is now a pattern of Key Biden confident on sinking the sablums shield themselves from criminal liability for this potential conspiracy.
And so the conspiracy, of course, was this. There was the autopan who was doing the pardons, who was sunning the legislation of which the figure head was unaware, who was actually running the country. If only PBS had decided and NPR had decided with their news arms to actually do something about this. Here's the parting gift. Why did we all know? Why did everybody? Well not everybody, because
some people chose not to know? But why is it that so many taxpayers were forced to pay for you to pretend this wasn't happening?
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I know, I know, I know. Someone can write in the comment sections. You know that show Arrested Development. You know they were pretending, right, Yeah, and they admitted it because the TV show is fiction. So as much of what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting did. Oh, by the way, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Hey, you forgot to close the door. There you go, Story number two, Why populism is ascendant? Part what a thousand? So let's define populism. What is it?
It's the people rising up to take control of matters into their own hands through at least some peaceful means. That's one way to define it. I define myself this way, a Christian conservative constitution, you know, populist. Why because of all things that matter to me, Jesus is first. He is our Lord and savior. He's man who came here to save us from internal damnation. He offers us the free gift of redemption. And I love him for what he has done for me and how he's changed me.
So Christian constitutional populists. So why constitutional? Because populism without constraints is very dangerous. Constitutional because our Constitution, I believe, was written by men inspired by God, not in the same way that the Bible was written. The Bible is the complete, inerrant, unchangeable, unchanging word of God. The Constitution was written by men inspired by God because they recognize
the fact we have rights that come from God. The right to have life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness existed in the garden of Eden. They recognize these things. Christian constitutional, populist, Conservative. Why populism, Well, because it's not going to get done
anither way. Just this past week we saw John Thune decide to not let President Trump have any recess appointments to the courts, despite being one hundred and thirty seat short, despite the fact that the left has been remaking the courts for the past eight twelve years and we've seen the results of that. Conservative, because I believe conservatism that is limiting the power of government is the most godly
thing we can do to leave room for God. Populism is ascendant because other people around the world, not necessarily Christian, not necessarily constitutional, to have looked and said no one in government means as well. I mean, there's some people here and there, but it's easiest just to say no one. There's some decent people. Even in DC, there's some great people, but overall the machine doesn't mean us well. And there's
starting to be changes. Even in courtrooms in a nearly fallen land like Ireland, they're starting to be ch I'll show what he's changes in a second. It's a direct result of populism. Populism can take the form sometimes of let's say, entrepreneurialism. I've developed a good friendship with the guys who run renew Healthcare in Mexico, and tell you Steve and Jim are smart business people. They didn't want to do what they did in Mexico. This is to have a stem cell health clinic. It goes far beyond
stem cells. By the way, they couldn't do it in America because America will not allow them to quality control standards they have in the United States. If you get stem cells, they come from whomever. They've been frozen for however long, at whatever quality rating they had to begin with, and they're injected by people with whatever training pain specialists, chiropractor, not that they don't know what they're doing. Compare this to renew Healthcare in Mexico. The stem cells come from
a world class hospital next door. They take a five maybe ten minute walk into a world class lab that's one step below a bio containment facility for like a bowl of they're their process. They refuse to use any of the stem cells that don't meet their qualit control standards. They know the women. They monitor the health of the
women and the baby during pregnancy and afterwards. If the morning that they inject you with stem cells, let's say for your shoulders, your knees, your back, because you've got neurological issues, say a traumatic brain injury. If those things are not as active as they want, they'll ask you to wait. The next day. They followed it up with IVS. They precede it with ivs and the largest hyperborec chamber in North America, all to speed healing. Go check them
out at renew r E n ue DOT Healthcare. Sort of a populist approach, so fighting back against the industrial the big insurance roll up forced insurance programming. Up here in the United States, it's renewed R E, n U E DOT healthcare. Populism is ascendant because people around the globe have caught onto the fact that there is a rigged game going on. It didn't just happen through the water or the air. That country said, hey, you know what, let's bring in a whole bunch of people who have
no connection to our country. They don't share any of our values, so let's not ask them to share our values. Let's not determine that they're coming to a country to live on our values. Let's flutter systems with people who in fact aren't going to assimilate. Let's tell them they don't have to assimilate. Let's show them that they're the special people. And in the case of Ireland, people have stood up. Now a Court of Appeals has said the
most remarkable thing. If you're an Irish citizen, think about how you would feel that this even had to make it to court.
The Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of the state after a challenge to High Court ruling regarding the rights of international protection applicants to have their basic needs, including accommodation met by the state. Our Social Affairs correspondent Al the kannelis here in studio, so alver remind us of the background to this case and what this ruling means now for international protection applicants.
Well, this all goes back to December twenty twenty three when the State found that it was running out of accommodation for international protection applicants, so it housed the most vulnerable and families, which left single males unaccommodated. So the Art Human Rights and Equality Commission brought a case to the High Court last year basically saying these men's rights
were being breached. There were intents right across the city, mainly in Dublin, and it was the first time essentially that IRICK used this kind of power that it has under legislation under the Act under which it was set up to bring this case to the High Court. So the High Court found that the men they had a right human dignity and that that had been breached by the State, and it also found that you know, their
rights under European law had also been breached. So that decision was appealed by the State to the Court of Appeal and it has found in favor of the state. Today we've just had eyes on the judgment and mister Justice Anthony Collins acknowledged the Commission's express statutory entitlement to
essentially commence these commission proceedings in the court. However, he found the sample of homeless asylum seekers was insufficient to prove extreme material poverty and that their physical and mental health was affected to such a degree that he felt it didn't breach their right to human dignity. So the government has always claimed that it is making strenuous efforts to accommodate these men. This decision or finding by the
Court of Appeal today overrides the High Court decision. And when I recooniciated that these proceedings the were over two hundred homeless applicants International protection applicants. It went up to three thousand in December twenty twenty four. It's now one thousand, three hundred and thirty three.
The bosses in Ireland knew there weren't homes for these people when they agreed to flood their borders with people with no connection to Irish society, Irish tradition, on the predominant Christian faith there. They knew there weren't homes and is it a right to dignity? Does that just happen for the newcomers because in Ireland, like Scotland, farmers have been told you're going to need to do away with part of your farmland or maybe all of it because
we need to build apartment buildings for the newcomers. Does that violate their human dignity? Populism is ascendant because people are noticing the rig games and they're going to continue in populism, and the way to make sure it remains peaceful is to understand the next step. When you show people that they're votes, their logic, their lives, their dignity doesn't matter to you, and it won't then it graduates up to the next step. This is going to seem
to be a bizarre example. Years ago, there was a convenience store chain who in a regional couple of states decided to stop letting you preset the pump. Now, back in the day, if you're a young person, you'd only often only have three to five bucks for gas, so you would go in and prepay yep, five dollars on gas on pump three, and it would stop right at five dollars do you know that there was a chain of convenience stores who in a general state region, in
a region like five state region. They decided to stop doing that because they calculated they were making hundreds of thousands, maybe more dollars when people tried to stop the pump on their own, oh five point fifteen, five thirty do dig it got to go find thirty cents and it added up. So they told their customers, we can't do that anymore. We can't do that anymore. We done forgot how to set the pumps to stop. No one forgot
the equipment wasn't broken. And prior to the Internet, this became such a big story on radio and television and people were so upset by it that the company was forced to stop it because they were losing sales and slurpees and candy bars and all the other garbage that they sell out of those stores. It was a populist approach.
Most people in Ireland can't just walk away from their country, so they're walking into this saying you will respect our human dignity or we will see you completely voted out of office. That's why populism is a descendant and then the core reason it goes right back, right back to Genesis. God gave us the right to life, liberty. That's freedom with and constraints and pursuit of happiness. It's hardwired into us, and we consent when people are trying to take it
from us. Story number three. Jesus Christ was and is real, and he is not yours to remake. Jesus came down to Earth for a very specific reason, and he did a very remarkable thing. He decided to deny himself the power of deity to a large degree, to become fully human and fully God, and to take on the form of a little baby. That little baby had hands and fingerprints and feet and feet prints. He had his problems as a little baby. He may have been colicky. He
probably coughed up. He definitely, of course, evacuated his bowels. All babies do, maybe even if a projectile sense, And I'm not trying to be blasphemous. He doesn't consider the vacuating of our bowels to be blasphemy. It's simply a bodily functioned he, as God invented. He had a personality, He had likes and dislikes. Now, because he was perfect, his likes and dislikes didn't relate to issues of unfairness. He said, in the body of Christ, there's neither Greek
nor Jew, there's neither servant or Master. Were all one body. So it wasn't that that there may have been foods he disliked. He took on a human form, He was a man, looked a certain way, he walked a certain way. He still exists, He always has and he always will. There's a belief in Hollywood that Jesus Christ must be remade. He must be remade into an image that is as far from him as possible, and part of is to
engender discussion like this and clips like this. This is Cynthia Revo and she's playing Jesus in Hollywood Bowls Jesus Christ Superstar, and she is playing across from Adam Lambert as Judas. Watch this Hollywood Bowl Jesus Christ Superstar has two very talented singers playing roles that they cannot relate to. Adam Lambert doesn't know the Lord and Cynthia Reva doesn't know the Lord. That doesn't matter if you consider Jesus to be a fictional character you can remake on your own.
I'm no expert on stagecraft. But as I see Cynthia Rava facing Judas the way she does there, going at him menacingly with anger, and this rage that seems to be coming out in the songs, funny, Jesus never did that, So funny. Jesus faced his fate with humility with Judas. He loved Judas to the moment Judas decided to betray him. Go and do what you must do quickly? Is it with a kiss that you betray the son of man? He was never angry. Jesus was never filled with rage.
Now you can say that this is part of the writing, fair enough, But she can also reflect on the fact that Hollywood must cast a person like Cynthia Arrival in this role as he must cast Adam Lambert. Adam Lambert is openly same sex attracted. Doesn't mean he's not talented. He's incredibly talented. I actually love him with Queen great decision to him on. But he doesn't know the Lord. Therefore he cannot see this as less than fiction or more than fiction. I'll show what it means in a
second about sincere Revo. Because she herself has decided that she's already her own God Hollywood or not. That is not a good stance to take with the Lord. Hollywood has been changed. There have been upstart companies that have come along and demonstrated to Hollywood that there are people who will do quite a lot to support brave Christian filmmaking.
You know about The Chosen, You know about The Sound of Freedom, you know about The King of Kings, the animated feature about the life of Jesus Christ as told through a fictional Charles Dickens. So you know about these
features that you might know about. Angel Studios Angels out with a new series called Testament, and this takes the Book of Acts, which comes after this portion of Jesus Christ interacting with Judas is Scaiat that comes after that Jesus is descended back into Heaven, and James and Paul and John and almost certainly Mary or the Mary's were involved in building christ Church. Later Paul came along after he was no longer soul and helped with this process.
Luke wrote about it. They've taken that period of time in the Bible, They've transported it into a surveillance state, a censorship state, a state where the truth is hated, say like Hollywood and as asked an important question, we get to examine our hearts as we watch Testament, where we stand for Jesus as the world stand against us. Go stream this right now. It's called Testament. It's it's Angel dot Com slash Todd. You can stream it. When
you become an Angel Studio Premium Guild member. You also get two free tickets to all of their theatrical releases, Plus you get to vote on the movies that they accept, they promote, they create, and they distribute. It is Angel dot Com slash Todd help us change Hollywood with actual risk taking Christian storytelling. Cynthia Ravo talks about how difficult her life has been. Truly, she's had some remarkably difficult thing her father kind of left her behind, very very difficult,
But that's not what she says. The big challenges.
It isn't easy. None of it is waking up and choosing to be yourself, proclaiming a space belongs to you when you don't feel welcomed, Teaching people on a daily basis how to address you, and dealing with the frustration of reteaching people, a word that has been in the human vocabulary since the dawn of time they them words used to describe pedantically two or more people poetically a
person who is simply more. It isn't easy to ask people to treat you with dignity, since you should just have it because it's a given.
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Easy to learn to grow who you are if the world around you is knocking at your door telling you to stay in suld.
She's at the Glads Awards receiving a claim. She's received money. She was the witch in Wicked. She's received a claim for that, She's received tony awards and more. But the world is telling her to stay locked inside her house. I'm not getting that. I'm getting a woman who's simply more more than what, more than you. I'm getting a whole bunch of pride. I'm also receiving from her a message that the gift God gave her, the gift first of all of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and these
incredible talents to sing and perform. She's just more. And yet Jesus Christ himself never saw any of us as more. He sees us as the least of these, because to God Almighty, who created us, who knows how fragile we are, who knows we can do nothing apart from him, who knows that without him and his blood we will spend eternity apart from him, having never experienced anything good again. Forever we all appear to the least to these, be the least to these to Jesus. But not Cynthia. Rival
She's simply more. May God help her. This is the todd Hermannshaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind, and go out. Make a decision today to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior. Are going to be changed by him? Or let the other side decide for you.