Understanding the Health Benefits of Cacao Over Processed Chocolate
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Discovering Cacao Bliss and the Singular Solution to Life's Problems
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Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples View with Todd Herman.
God's Creation and the Election's Outcome: A Spiritual Perspective for the Body of Christ
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, he didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke and God said, let there be because we believe, we speak about the happenings in this world, mindful that our true home is with Jesus Christ and his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples View. how are you feeling now after, a few days, seven days or six days to process, what happened during the election? I continue to be fine with it. It's not the outcome I would have wanted for America. there's nothing about it that it pretends good stuff for us except for the fact that God Almighty allowed it to happen and therefore it portends great stuff for the body of Christ. I am pretty astonished at, how good Satan has been, at creating a parallel false church. there's one is parallel.
The Deception of Parallel Faiths: Identifying False Churches and Misinterpreted Scripture
it is the essence of Christianity with none of the, majesty denying, the deity of Christ and therefore absolutely negating every word of the Bible. That's, that's a parallel faith that the devil is setting up. It's almost God, meaning it's not God. The other false faith, of course is Islam, which I happen to believe is the one world religion we're warned about in the Bible. I've said that for a long time. this, though, again, glory be to God, because it's a fulfillment of scripture and prophecy. And I believe we're watching that. I mean, I know we are. I just don't know if we know the details. Right. This is from a woman, named Jen Hatmaker, who has a large following on social media. This is after the election. I woke up to hope this morning. I forgot what that felt like. I woke up to newly elected officials speaking the redemptive language of the Beatitudes. Isaiah 58, First Corinthians 13. I forgot what that felt like. Those are beautiful. And if you adopt the James Jimmy Tallarico view of Christianity, they're utterly meaningless. There's just pretty words.
Critiquing Modern Christianity and the Perils of a Politicized Faith
You know, in the Beatitudes, the Lord Jesus spoke about the fact that blessed are, the, poor in heart or poor in spirit. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. This is to admit, that we are destitute spiritually without the Lord Jesus. In the James Jimmy Tallarico version of faith, blessed are everybody because yours is the kingdom of heaven, regardless of how you worship and who you worship. Therefore, why care what this Jesus said? in anything he said, why care? He was a poet philosopher. You know, there's lots of modern philosophers. If Buddha and Muhammad and the pagan gods of many, for polytheists, if they're all a pathway to God, why isn't LeBron James? I mean, if LeBron James came out and said, hey, I'm a prophet of God and I'll get you into heaven, why not? Of course, true Christians understand that only Jesus conquered death and only Jesus fulfilled all these prophecies. And I think that the key phrase here or key phrases from this tweet from Jen Hatmaker. I woke up, this morning. I forgot. I hope I woke up to hope this morning. I forgot what that felt like. Okay, your God is your political party, because if you're true Christian, our hope cannot reside in people or parties. And then she wrote, I woke up to newly elected officials speaking the redemptive language of the Beatitudes. Isaiah 58, First Corinthians 13. I forgot what that felt like.
The Danger of Denying Christ's Teachings and the Illusion of Almost Heaven
Why don't you just speak it yourself? I mean, if the speaking of it from people is important, why not just speak it yourself? Why not pray it? Why not read it in context and understand that in Isaiah, everything leads to the Lord Jesus? In the book of Corinthians, everything is about Jesus and his work. The Beatitudes is God Almighty himself teaching some things that James Jimmy Tallarico and people like that deny. Jesus Christ on the Sermon on the Mount, where he also spoke. The Beatitudes made a new, a new definition for sin. It begins in the mind. And the James Jimmy Talarikos of the world believe there is no such thing as sexual sin. They deny Christ's teachings, and yet they do go out and. And speak them in this parallel almost God church, which will almost get you to heaven. Almost meaning not at all. Because there is no almost heaven.
Analyzing Political Victories and the Deceptive Tactics of False Teachers
There's only heaven and hell. This was James Jimmy Talarico's acceptance speech, part of it. And he trounced. He utterly trounced. Ken Paxton, 54.9% to 43.3.
Todd Herman I'm, I'm reminded of that story from Scripture of a shepherd boy who goes up against a giant for 40 days. Goliath teases and taunts on the day of the fight.
Todd Herman Okay? He always does this because he's a liar and a false teacher and a heretic. Who did Goliath tease and taunt? He always leaves that out because he cannot speak the words the God, the people of Israel and the God of the Bible. That's. That's who he's taunting. He's taunting God to the faces of the Israeli men, the Hebrew men. It took David to come along and go, you're going to let him taunt God? But Talarika, of course, cannot speak that
Todd Herman he shows up in full armor. He's carrying so many weapons. He needs someone else to carry his shield in this race.
Facing Goliaths, True Faith, and the Singular Path to Salvation Through Christ
We went up against our own Goliaths. The richest man in the world, the most powerful man in. In the world, and the entire Washington D.C. establishment.
Todd Herman Not exactly. Jimmy. James. Senator elect James. Jimmy Tallarico. The Republican Party sat this out. You won. You trounced Ken Paxton. And truly, I tell you, you have seen your reward. He continues his. His heretical statement.
Todd Herman David. David wasn't as big or as strong as Goliath. He didn't have as many weapons. But he had hope. He had faith. And he had a slingshot.
Todd Herman You are. Ah, my slingshot. Yes. Yes. No, he didn't have hope. He did have faith. He's added that part. Faith in what? It's not faith in what. It's faith in whom. The singular God of the Bible, who sent Jesus Christ as the only way to heaven. He is the way, the truth and the life. No one gets to the Father but through him.
The Allure of False Gospels and the Greatest Danger of a Parallel Fake Church
But that false teacher cannot speak those words. And yet so powerful are the words of Christ that even the almost God version draws people's attention. The almost God version. So powerful was the world, the word of the Lord Jesus, that when people read it as poetry, you. And I've heard. I've heard atheists say this. Look, I think, man, I think Jesus was a great poet and speaker and so literate. What a beautiful teacher. No, that's not what you mean. You mean he was a lying heretic with fancy words. You mean he was a good con artist. No, no, no. I don't mean that. He might even have, believed he was God. Okay, so he was an insane person. This is the parallel fake church. And it is the biggest danger to me out of this election season. There's a lot of dangers. And again, God saw fit to allow this to happen. One of the biggest dangers is the suicide pact.
Examining Political Discourse, Deceptive Media, and the Rise of the Almost God Church
You know about the national suicide pact? You don't? I'll tell you about that in a second. So I'm not here to tell you that I think that Jasmine Crockett is someone we should pay a lot of attention to. You know, she used to be in the House of Representatives. She was running for Congress. She is a. She's a different form of liar. Very performative. She pretends to be, from the urban, black culture. She's not. She went to a private school. Her parents paid tons of money for that. But she larps that live action role, plays that. That role. She said something interesting, and perhaps this is just getting revenge on the Breakfast Club. She was talking about how she expected Republicans to be racist against her. And then she met the people who ran the James Jimmy Talarico campaign.
Jasmine Crockett So it was just like the lies and the mischaracterization and the demonization, and it wasn't coming from Republicans. I'm gonna be perfectly honest. The best ads, the ads that I felt like were fair were actually the Republican ads. So I didn't anticipate that the Republicans and the Democrats would attack me at the same time. Most people don't have to worry about that in a primary, right? But we had millions that were spent by our governor against me. But their ads were fair. The racist ads were coming from the super PAC on behalf of my Democratic opponent. so
Todd Herman James Jimmy Talarico, one of the, Junior Lightbringers, he learned everything he does in terms of public speaking from watching tapes of Barack Hussein Obama. I mean, that's just evident. So the biggest danger I see coming out of this spiritually is this cementing of the almost God church, almost Jesus gospel, meaning not Jesus at all and a road into hell. And people love the sounds of Jesus, but they refuse to look at what the sounds meant. And the big ruin that Talarico's brought is that. And he will face incredible judgment for that. We are all going to face judgment, but you don't worm your way out of that.
The Subtext of Elections: Wicked People, Communist Ideas, and the Dangers of Socialism
He would have to. Can you imagine what repentance from Talaria would look like? I mean, true repentance, man. Wouldn't it be to God's glory if he did a Damascus road thing with James? Jimmy Talarico. And I'm not necessarily saying blind him. I'm saying if he took him and showed him his sin. Look, Jimmy, this is the sin. You are lying about me. You're wearing me as a skin suit. Now, that's an eternal danger. There is a subtext to this election that does cause me deep, deep concern for the country. All of it does. Because some very wicked people have been elected with very wicked ideas. And people will say they've failed whenever they've been tried. Socialism, if you believe it's designed to succeed, because knowing the father of communism, Karl Marx, and that he hated God Almighty and that he wrote poetry about, he hate how much he hated God Almighty, I think that this communist ideas came from the pit of hell.
The National Suicide Pact and the Threat of Urban Elites Controlling the Country
It's a parallel idea to freedom, in other words, almost freedom. The subtext that has me concerned is the national suicide pact. so there is a national popular vote pact that states are signing. And small states have signed this small. Well, Washington's not a state any longer. It's a separate country. But they've signed on to this. I believe Oregon has signed on to this. And what it means is whoever wins the popular vote will get the electoral college votes of these states. What this means is forever. If this, if this becomes law, if these states succeed in this pact, and there's enough of them that do this, this will mean that Detroit, Los Angeles, NewSong York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, they run the country. You will never again have a president of the United States of America. You will have a president of the 10 biggest cities in America. How will they campaign? They will go straight to the interests of the 10 biggest cities in America. They will pour more people into the 10 biggest cities in America. The republic at that point, is done. There's no longer any republic. It gets us much, much closer to a, one world government with a parallel, fake, almost God, Christian church and the false faith of Islam, which I think will be the one world religion, the antichrist religion.
The Blind Spot in Retirement Accounts and the Pillars of the American Economy
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Investigating Surveillance Technologies and the Erosion of Privacy in Modern Society
You're listening to Disciples View. last week I had a conversation with a woman named Jen Barber, an investigative journalist who's now become an independent journalist. She was in a, television journalist. for years she's been looking into the Flock surveillance company and the Axon surveillance companies and all these cameras. And listen to what happened to her when she decided to do a Freedom of Information act request to get her records from the Flock surveillance system. So when I'm talking about media coverage, and I believe, I mean, is it okay to critique that, why are you using the phrase Flock safety? Why are you just calling this an alpr? It's much more inclusive than that. It's like calling a, it's like calling a Big Mac, some beef, right? There's a lot of stuff on a Big Mac that's not beef, including some chemicals, etc. Does that seem like nitpicking to you? Be m honest, you can't hurt My feelings, I don't have any.
Jen Barber I mean maybe we're gonna see a lot of different names and you know, come out with all this. And, and I think that's how some people are kind of confused because ALPRS here started out with your photo radar and your red light cameras. Now it's interesting in Arizona, what I'm seeing is people are against the photo radar for speed, the speed cameras. But they like the red light cameras. But then I always have to explain to people there are different kinds of ALPRs. There are your speed cameras, your red light cameras that catch you in the act of doing something wrong. But then there are your Flock and Axon, license plate readers that just track you everywhere and they store all this information about you.
Todd Herman You saw or you listened to at least the little clip of the NBC, local we did out of NewSong Haven there. and that company MTS is coming along and earning what sounds like a ton of money just by driving around and taking pictures of license plates and using their own ALPR to do that. are you willing to speculate your reporter? You have to be more responsible than I am in that way. Part of what I get to do is imagine futures. and I based this upon the five minute city that they actually test ran in Oxford. I don't know if you watched that test run where you were actually stopped, activists stopped you when you were leaving your Hamlet, and question you why you were making the trip in your car and why you couldn't use a bicycle and why you couldn't walk, and they were writing down your name, etc. Literally the, the government let these activists set up a gate to stop you. and I speculate and I don't think this is without reason when I see in Washington D.C. it costs people who don't work for the government $100 a day to drive to and from work, 47 bucks each way to drive to work. Taxpayers, we cover that for the, for the government employees. So we're paying that rate. I'm looking at things like that. I'm looking at now people in the World Economic Forum saying we need to start to have conversations that the lockdowns for Covid were so good for the environment. Maybe we could do that once a week and just have no car Wednesday. I speculate that the Flock and Axon and these other surveillance systems, part of the control will be, it's going to be every other license plate. It's going to, it's odd license plate day you get to drive, or you know what, you can drive, but we're going to charge you, a big tax if you take the freeway during these hours or if you're driving during these hours. Does that seem unreasonable? Are you willing to speculate on that? As a, as an investigative reporter,
Jen Barber if we would have had this conversation in 2019, I would have thought you were crazy
Todd Herman for real
The COVID Era's Impact on Journalism and the Growing Skepticism of Government Narratives
Jen Barber and said, there's absolutely no way this is going to happen. So then Covid took place. And when I was talking to Naomi Brockwell last year, I even said to her, look, I live in a compound of, I cannot leave my community without a flop camera catching me. My government knows when I'm coming and going. I'm within a one mile radius of these two cameras. And I said to her, Covid 2.0, if you go to church and you're around other people and someone is sick now, we have the capability of going in, putting you in quarantine. We have the capability now. So if you would have said to me in 2019, hey, Jim, what do you think? I would have been like, okay, you're a conspiracy theorist, right? Yeah. And I'm saying the capability is there.
Todd Herman Yeah. I don't know what conspiracy theory means anymore because, so many things that were blatantly obvious were conspiracies back in the COVID era, like taking your mask off to walk or to, you know, to eat, but not when you walk to the restaurant. Doesn't make any sense. And that was a conspiracy theory. injecting your body with something that manufactures something poisonous to your body could end badly. you know, just so strange. But this is where I'm at with this stuff, is I see so many pieces lining up together. people have short term memory sometimes on issues because, oh, wow, they didn't get to do that. Please remember that the Biden White House made an attempt, they made a serious attempt, at being able to, surveil and edit text messages and, private messages. If they were related to Covid or the war in Ukraine or election security, they literally floated that. So I see all of these pieces adding up. Then eventually they all come together. The surveillance companies have your phone data, they've got your device id, other government official or agencies know what you're saying on your phone and to whom and to where you're traveling. And so the next time something hits and they decide that we're going to have a lockdown, Jen, I don't know that they even need to wait for you to violate. they could just send notes to the six people. Hey, we know you guys do this on this date. We're going to be watching. And now, see, now that sounds super Orwellian, but why would they not try that? Right? You talk about shifting baselines. Why not try that?
Jen Barber Well, look, here's one of the big arguments. A lot of people who, and I just say that they really don't understand this technology. And. But maybe they do, but they say, look, I have a phone, and my phone can track me all day long. Well, guess what, Todd? I can turn my phone off. I can leave it at home. I can go for a walk. I can have that kind of privacy. I have no choice in the matter when these license plate readers are tracking my I. It is impossible for me to get to the store, go run errands, or do anything without it being several miles away. I have to drive my car.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Jen Barber To get to a doctor's appointment, I have to drive my car. I have absolutely no say in whether I want to opt into this or not. My phone, I can turn it off and leave it at home.
Todd Herman You mentioned the COVID era. This is this. It's. It's in. In one way our generation's JFK moment or 9, 11, because it lasted so long. and for me, it was so clearly none of it made any sense. And I have huge opinions about that that my audience is aware of.
Media's Role During COVID-19: From Acceptance to Skepticism and the Rise of Independent Journalism
I wanted to go back and talk to you about, your experience in the mainstream media and what you saw that was great and not so great and what you saw that concerned you and just what you think of the industry and how it works. And Covid's a good inflection point for that, maybe, how that was all treated. And I'm just curious what your experience and your sort of assessment of the whole craft of media.
Jen Barber This is an interesting question. So I followed everything during COVID I can tell you personally, it was devastating. There was nothing worse than watching my daughter sit in her bedroom all day long, not able to go to school or play sports or be active. And what happened to her education and all of her friends, it is devastating. In Arizona, in my opinion, we are still seeing the effects of that with some of these proficiency scores. They're just completely unacceptable, in my opinion, as to what happened to these children. Now, from a media perspective, Arizona was kind of one of the freedom leaders at the time. I really felt that Doug Ducey was working with the health information that was coming out, trying to Keep people safe, but still trying to find a way for people to live their lives. And you can go back and be, you know, Monday morning quarterback on all this all day long. I do feel that there was a, give and take there with what is safe, what is not, what can we do? But if you look across the country, you had cities that were filling in, you know, little pump tracks with sand and parks with sand so that kids couldn't go out and outdoors, you couldn't even go out and play. And. And you said early. People have a short memory. I can tell you this. I have a fantastic memory. And I will forever remember what happened to my family and my loved ones and my friends in my community during Cove And I will not. I will not let that happen again as long as I have any say in it.
Todd Herman I'm same. And, and I guess I was looking at. Because I worked. I worked next door to, mainstream media, so we had our conservative talk channel, and I was gifted to have a morning, show there. And I would get to go fill in on the big talk station, which is the general talk, even though we on our show had a bigger morning show audience. But say what you will, and I would see people report things like this. the nation's leading scientist says that the COVID shots, which they would call vaccinations, are 98% safe and effective. And I would have conversations respectfully off air saying, how do you know Tony Fauci is the leading scientist? What are you talking about? He's the leading public health official. He's. He's not even the top guy. Redfield's his boss. Was there a contest? Did they have a Jeopardy. Show? Did he win a game show to be the top scientist? And this was my frustration with reporting, is there was a lot of stuff that was fed and then regurgitated to teleprompters. And if you simply sat and asked people questions like this, hey, if the masks work, why don't they work? And you get this befuddled. But, but, but this is what it says in my script, and this is what I'm being told, and this is what the public health officials say. And I'm worried that we're seeing the same thing in what's being done to us in terms of the greater picture of surveillance, this notion that, oh, gosh, they'd never do that to us. is there enough skepticism of government in media? because I saw a complete acceptance of whatever Tony Fauci said, whatever state health officials said, without a Greatest degree or even a little bit of a degree of skepticism. Do I sound like.
The Evolution of Media: From Mainstream Acceptance to Independent Skepticism and Opinion
Jen Barber The mainstream media is not today what it was then? I think there's a healthy skepticism now. You
Todd Herman do?
Jen Barber I think. I think that you're seeing the rise of independent journalism.
Todd Herman Yes,
Jen Barber that's what I'm seeing, is the rise of independent journalism. So my folks were old school. They sat down and watched NBC and CBS and ABC every night. It was like clockwork. I always got to call because they were watching their national news. They were scared to death of Cove and they went and they got their vaccines, okay? We live through an era where people lost their jobs because they did not get these vaccines. We lived through an era where our children could not go to school because they were not vaccinated or they were segregated, because they did not get vaccinated. We actually live through this. But I do think that the media at the time. Get your mask on. Get vaccinated. People were shamed for not following this. And I think it was Covid that gave us the rise to independent journalism, where people are. They're bold now and they feel okay about coming out and asking these questions. So if anything positive came out of it, maybe it was that.
Todd Herman So do you think the mainstream media, as you call it, is bold, or do you think it's the independent media? largely that's. That's become bold.
Jen Barber Independent media, they're asking the questions now. They're brave. They're asking the questions that we should have been asking six years ago.
Todd Herman And so let me bring it back down to what I'm trying to get to in terms of the coverage of today,
Jen Barber okay?
Todd Herman So that I can go and find examples of 5 minute cities, 15 minute cities being tried. And I see this glowing report out of England where it's all very happy. It's to save the seals and the children. And yet this is not reported here. There aren't reports about test runs in this. Can the media do more to project into what these things can become? Or does that. Does that have to be the job of independent media and opinionists like me?
Jen Barber I think journalists need to show both sides of the story. And I, even when I do my coverage of Flock, alprs, I always start with, this is why they're here. This is why the police like them. This is why cities like them. These are the benefits. But my reporting is also showing through records, through public records requests on your side of this story. So you take home what you want to believe out of this. We need more of that. Kind of journalism. We, need to get back to what journalism used to be. It's so funny because I was in TV news for 20 years.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Jen Barber Back in the 80s and 90s, in my stories we counted out the seconds. So take abortion. Half of my story to the very second had to be the pro side of abortion, and the other exact same amount of seconds had to be the anti abortion or, you know, pro life, whatever you want to call it, side of the story. That's what journalism is. And we need to get back to that.
Todd Herman Agreed. And I don't know that there's a way back to that. I wish that were true, but you were talking about shifting baselines. I was just, you know, I, I'm watching local reporters responses to the elections and I'm seeing a whole ton of opinion on these things. And they're reporters and it says reporter. And I asked a question to a guy at King 5 in Seattle. hey, give me example, what you just accused of. And he wrote back and said, you're not interested in any truth.
Empowering Citizens: Digging for Truth and Supporting Independent Journalism Amidst Surveillance Concerns
Okay. Okay, got it. What can people do? You said people aren't aware. what can people legitimately do, if they're concerned about Flock Surveillance and Axon and these other companies and I mean, you even have. We're gonna. Flock has announced, that they're moving into the drone era. So we're gonna have even less choice because they'll be able to track us into our homes. And don't think they won't. Please don't think that they won't be tracking who you have over to your house on summer days. Or please don't think that they absolutely will and they'll do facial id. beyond voting, which is always nice. What can people actually do?
Jen Barber I. You just have to dig. Find some independent journalists in your community. maybe follow the substance, follow some, some people outside, outside of your own, your own thinking. You know, be willing to have an open mind about things. Don't say just because XYZ station is a big station. That's not the only opinion that you can get. Be willing to be open minded and follow some of these other people. I mean, there are some really great people all over the country who have now decided to start writing in and taking videos and getting involved. Those are the people you want to start seeking out.
Todd Herman And that's me and Jen Barber, investigative journalist, has a, podcast called Jen and Friends. We'll come back under the supples view.
Reflections on Tragic Events and the Importance of Trusting the Lord Amidst Fear
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Navigating Aviation Risks: Pilot Decisions and the Co-Pilot's Competence
And I have to trust his mercy in this. The part of the aftermath that really bothered me was the attack on the young female pilot. rhetorical attack. first of all, she was the co pilot, so she wasn't making command decisions. Secondly, the pilot who was making command decisions was much older than she was. I believe it was 55. And we don't yet know if that plane broke apart and that's where the problems came from. We don't yet know if it was the ice. We do know that air traffic control warned them about that weather pattern and offered them an opportunity to go around it. that's haunting. I had an occasion to talk with a pilot who flew seven day 777s for most of his career. And I said it seemed to me they were trying to out climb the storm. And this gentleman said to me, he said, hey, listen, I'm just guessing here as to what happened. He said, but you never try to out climb a storm. He said, at least, my view of flying commercially is you never try that because they can go up so high and so quick that you're in real trouble. Never try that, go around them. So there's a couple of cases I wanted to share with you where pilots made that exact decision. Pushing back against air traffic control. This is a, a pilot, of a jet JetBlue, plane from Fort Lauderdale to Austin having a conversation with air traffic control.
Speaker F 250-heading or 240,
Todd Herman unable. You're gonna go 270 and you're gonna go in the gap. You can't go that way. There's traffic.
Speaker F Okay, so you're gonna make us go through a, severe thunderstorm.
Todd Herman 1971. I'm showing night precipitation. Where you're going through, sir?
Speaker F Not from here, ma'. Am. So we declare an emergency. Making a left turn heading 260 for severe weather avoidance.
Todd Herman W 1971. Roger.
Speaker F Heading 24 0.
Todd Herman Roger.
Speaker F Turn left heading 230 to avoid severe weather avoidance. JetBlue 1971. JetBlue
Todd Herman 1971, Roger. And I copied the emergency
Speaker F welcome. You do what you got to do. We got to do what we got to do here.
Todd Herman No problem.
Speaker F That plan will not work. You have severe, weather over there that Henry gave us previously. That's why we declared emergency.
Todd Herman Roger. The supervisor knows already. She's listening. And we just ground stopped everybody.
Todd Herman So that pilot might have saved the lives of the people on his airplane, and perhaps people on planes that were going to be leaving at that point. this is a little bit different. This is a conversation. This is United Air, airplane. And the conversation with ATC is a little bit different. But once again, this pilot took control and took command. He acted as a commander.
Speaker F Can't take four hours of getting beat to death through thunderstorms. Yeah. I'm kind of wondering about this clearance. She took us from going south around the weather to putting us right through the worst part of the weather. 471, that's what TMU sent you. If you want to go south, I can ask them for that instead. Yeah, I think I'd rather almost have the original route and head south. I'm gonna end up calling dispatch, but. But the route you gave us actually puts us in every ounce of weather going east from here. All the way to Dulles. It just makes absolutely no sense. 471 I'll let TMU M know and
Todd Herman expect a new clearance.
Todd Herman So they, this, pilot called his dispatch and United Dispatch agreed. No, no, you're not flying that way. Get out. Make the change. he didn't have to declare an emergency. Air traffic control agreed with him on that. I just think it's interesting to look behind the scenes at jobs most of us have never done. And it's also, I think, important to remember, in those moments when that young lady was on the radio, she and my friend Kurt, who flew the airplanes for a living, jets said. He said she did a. Remark a good job. And I think that's a little late in coming. He said she did exactly as she was taught. He said I would have been.
The Tower of Babylon: Examining Political Deception and Manipulated Narratives
Wow, it's hard because she was so young, 20 years old. He said I would have been very, very proud of her. So I just think that should have been said last week. My fault for having not said it. on this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with their feature called the Tower of Babylon.
Jeff Chamblee You know about biblical truth of the Tower of Babel. A, Disciples View presents the Tower of Babylon.
Todd Herman Well, the answer is. Listen to Bill Gates. Bill's right around about a lot of things and he's the steep learning curve in global health.
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Republican Priorities: Funding Ukraine Over Judicial Nominees and the Election Cycle's Lessons
Todd Herman My name is abdul rahman muhammad, And I am so proud.
Todd Herman And he went on to speak more Arabic. He just added the Muhammad part there just that time. That's, that's interesting. Next sound bites in today's Tower. Babbling. The, the, the, the professional Republican Thom Tillis. Senator Tillis, went on with Maggie, Brennan, and they were talking about what, what's next? What's the big, objective in these 59 days where the Senate is still controlled by Republicans? Is it getting President Trump's judicial nominees passed, so that we can actually forestall, the flooding of the court with more activist judges, is it allowing some of the, originalist judges to retire, so we can have good originalist judges in their place? Nope. That's not what's on Thom Tillis mind.
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Todd Herman Yep, that's the big lesson for Thom Tillis out of this election cycle. The American people's top concern, Ukraine.
The Iran Issue and the Shifting Sands of Political Relevance in Media Coverage
Last sound bites in today's Tower. Babbling. back in the day, two guys named, a guy named Mark Levin. Very nice man, incredibly smart human being. Ben Shapiro, incredibly smart human being. I don't know him well enough to say he's nice or not nice. They had a conversation about the Iran war.
Todd Herman When we look at the Fox survey, iran is a 4% issue with the American people. So whatever happens in the midterms, it doesn't appear that Iran's going to drive anything one way or another. What's your take on this? I think that's
Todd Herman exactly right. It wasn't. And everybody gets to be wrong sometimes. And that's a wrap for today's Tower of Babylon.
Speaker F You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we largely vaccinated the entire global population.
The Tower of Babylon: Vaccine Mandates and the Stigmatization of the Unvaccinated
Jen Barber You need to get vaccinated. And if you don't. You are going to die.
Speaker F If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy. You have no right not to be vaccinated.
Jeff Chamblee They should be removed from the hospital. Those
Todd Herman who refuse to be vaccinated should be denied health care.
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon on a disciples view.
Moments of Terror and Connection: Trusting God and the Power of Human Comfort
Todd Herman On a personal note, today we were talking about, those moments of terror, when that airplane was going down. I can't relate to that level of, of of terror, having your little ones on that airplane. I can tell you because I flew a lot. I had a lot of occasions to experience what are. Seemed pretty scary to us. one was on approach, to Seattle. the. We had to make three different attempts to land. And the pilot warned us, this is going to be a very, very hairy landing. And we may ask you to take the, accident preparation position. You know, the, the duck and cover. and I could feel it that the airplane was fishtailing in back, and rocking side to side. And we were just being. Just slammed up and down. and there was a young woman sitting next to me, who said, I know you don't know me, but will you please hold my hand? And I did. and she's someone I never would have met, don't know her name, never learned it. But something about a human connection at that point matter to her, some, some level of comforts. What do you think that is? I think it's the body of Christ. I think it's coming back into the body. I think it's recognizing that this, this, this idea of dying alone really scares people. Well, she wasn't alone. She was on an airplane. She felt alone. There was a middle seat between us. And so we landed and it was okay. And she said, I hope that wasn't super awkward. And I said, no, it's fine. I get it. Another occasion involved kids, and I hope God forgives me for a gentle lie. We were on approach, into Salt, Lake City, and it was bad. It was another bad landing. It was in the second time. That time we had to make two attempts to land. And, we were flying above, the Salt Lake Flats. And it got bad enough that the flight attendants were very concerned. One of the flight attendants said to me, look outside, look outside. Can you see the ground? Can you see the ground? I looked out, I said, I see the grounds. I don't know how high we are. Okay, you can see it. Yeah. Okay. She was that concerned. and they were strapped in tight. And they were all over people going around the cockpits prior to getting strapped in themselves, walking really low on their knees, making sure people were strapped in. They were really concerned. And there was a little kid, little girl who started crying. And she was in the aisle across from me, and she was weeping, and her mom was trying to calm her down. And God forgive me, I looked over and said, hi, honey. Honey, are you scared? Yes. I said, oh, of what? We're gonna crash. I said, oh, no, sweetie. I've been in lots of airplane crashes. This is not how it happens. It's not? No. This is not how airplanes crash. This is just super bumpy. But, yeah, I've been through a couple crashes, and we're fine. That's just not how it happens. I was lying. I've never been in an airplane crash. Isn't it interesting, though, that that calmed her down? This isn't how it happens. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. She trusted the adult who was lying. God doesn't lie.
Meekness, Trust, and Speaking God's Word: A Call to Follow Jesus Christ
Blessed, are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. We are to be meek in the face of loving and trusting our Father in heaven. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. Because we believe, we speak because he first loved us, we speak his Word. We speak walk in the path of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all nations until God grants us permission to speak again to them. His peace wash over you. On behalf of Randy and afr, I'm Todd Herman. This has been a disciples.
Understanding the Health Benefits of Cacao Over Processed Chocolate
Todd Herman Guys, what if the healthiest drink you had every day tasted like chocolate? Properly prepared, ceremony grade Cacao is completely different from the processed junk chocolate. And researchers studying the Kuna people found dramatically lower rates of heart problems among those who drink cacao daily. I drink it. It is absolutely natural and it just fills your body with goodness. Modern chocolate processing destroys up to 60% of cacao's beneficial compounds. Ceremonial GR cacao preserves that these are naturally occurring flavanols. It contains 63 times more oxidants than broccoli. And theobromine provides smoother, longer lasting energy than caffeine without the jitters. I take cacao bliss in the afternoon.
Discovering Cacao Bliss and the Singular Solution to Life's Problems
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Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples View with Todd Herman.
God's Creation and the Election's Outcome: A Spiritual Perspective for the Body of Christ
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, he didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke and God said, let there be because we believe, we speak about the happenings in this world, mindful that our true home is with Jesus Christ and his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples View. how are you feeling now after, a few days, seven days or six days to process, what happened during the election? I continue to be fine with it. It's not the outcome I would have wanted for America. there's nothing about it that it pretends good stuff for us except for the fact that God Almighty allowed it to happen and therefore it portends great stuff for the body of Christ. I am pretty astonished at, how good Satan has been, at creating a parallel false church. there's one is parallel.
The Deception of Parallel Faiths: Identifying False Churches and Misinterpreted Scripture
it is the essence of Christianity with none of the, majesty denying, the deity of Christ and therefore absolutely negating every word of the Bible. That's, that's a parallel faith that the devil is setting up. It's almost God, meaning it's not God. The other false faith, of course is Islam, which I happen to believe is the one world religion we're warned about in the Bible. I've said that for a long time. this, though, again, glory be to God, because it's a fulfillment of scripture and prophecy. And I believe we're watching that. I mean, I know we are. I just don't know if we know the details. Right. This is from a woman, named Jen Hatmaker, who has a large following on social media. This is after the election. I woke up to hope this morning. I forgot what that felt like. I woke up to newly elected officials speaking the redemptive language of the Beatitudes. Isaiah 58, First Corinthians 13. I forgot what that felt like. Those are beautiful. And if you adopt the James Jimmy Tallarico view of Christianity, they're utterly meaningless. There's just pretty words.
Critiquing Modern Christianity and the Perils of a Politicized Faith
You know, in the Beatitudes, the Lord Jesus spoke about the fact that blessed are, the, poor in heart or poor in spirit. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. This is to admit, that we are destitute spiritually without the Lord Jesus. In the James Jimmy Tallarico version of faith, blessed are everybody because yours is the kingdom of heaven, regardless of how you worship and who you worship. Therefore, why care what this Jesus said? in anything he said, why care? He was a poet philosopher. You know, there's lots of modern philosophers. If Buddha and Muhammad and the pagan gods of many, for polytheists, if they're all a pathway to God, why isn't LeBron James? I mean, if LeBron James came out and said, hey, I'm a prophet of God and I'll get you into heaven, why not? Of course, true Christians understand that only Jesus conquered death and only Jesus fulfilled all these prophecies. And I think that the key phrase here or key phrases from this tweet from Jen Hatmaker. I woke up, this morning. I forgot. I hope I woke up to hope this morning. I forgot what that felt like. Okay, your God is your political party, because if you're true Christian, our hope cannot reside in people or parties. And then she wrote, I woke up to newly elected officials speaking the redemptive language of the Beatitudes. Isaiah 58, First Corinthians 13. I forgot what that felt like.
The Danger of Denying Christ's Teachings and the Illusion of Almost Heaven
Why don't you just speak it yourself? I mean, if the speaking of it from people is important, why not just speak it yourself? Why not pray it? Why not read it in context and understand that in Isaiah, everything leads to the Lord Jesus? In the book of Corinthians, everything is about Jesus and his work. The Beatitudes is God Almighty himself teaching some things that James Jimmy Tallarico and people like that deny. Jesus Christ on the Sermon on the Mount, where he also spoke. The Beatitudes made a new, a new definition for sin. It begins in the mind. And the James Jimmy Talarikos of the world believe there is no such thing as sexual sin. They deny Christ's teachings, and yet they do go out and. And speak them in this parallel almost God church, which will almost get you to heaven. Almost meaning not at all. Because there is no almost heaven.
Analyzing Political Victories and the Deceptive Tactics of False Teachers
There's only heaven and hell. This was James Jimmy Talarico's acceptance speech, part of it. And he trounced. He utterly trounced. Ken Paxton, 54.9% to 43.3.
Todd Herman I'm, I'm reminded of that story from Scripture of a shepherd boy who goes up against a giant for 40 days. Goliath teases and taunts on the day of the fight.
Todd Herman Okay? He always does this because he's a liar and a false teacher and a heretic. Who did Goliath tease and taunt? He always leaves that out because he cannot speak the words the God, the people of Israel and the God of the Bible. That's. That's who he's taunting. He's taunting God to the faces of the Israeli men, the Hebrew men. It took David to come along and go, you're going to let him taunt God? But Talarika, of course, cannot speak that
Todd Herman he shows up in full armor. He's carrying so many weapons. He needs someone else to carry his shield in this race.
Facing Goliaths, True Faith, and the Singular Path to Salvation Through Christ
We went up against our own Goliaths. The richest man in the world, the most powerful man in. In the world, and the entire Washington D.C. establishment.
Todd Herman Not exactly. Jimmy. James. Senator elect James. Jimmy Tallarico. The Republican Party sat this out. You won. You trounced Ken Paxton. And truly, I tell you, you have seen your reward. He continues his. His heretical statement.
Todd Herman David. David wasn't as big or as strong as Goliath. He didn't have as many weapons. But he had hope. He had faith. And he had a slingshot.
Todd Herman You are. Ah, my slingshot. Yes. Yes. No, he didn't have hope. He did have faith. He's added that part. Faith in what? It's not faith in what. It's faith in whom. The singular God of the Bible, who sent Jesus Christ as the only way to heaven. He is the way, the truth and the life. No one gets to the Father but through him.
The Allure of False Gospels and the Greatest Danger of a Parallel Fake Church
But that false teacher cannot speak those words. And yet so powerful are the words of Christ that even the almost God version draws people's attention. The almost God version. So powerful was the world, the word of the Lord Jesus, that when people read it as poetry, you. And I've heard. I've heard atheists say this. Look, I think, man, I think Jesus was a great poet and speaker and so literate. What a beautiful teacher. No, that's not what you mean. You mean he was a lying heretic with fancy words. You mean he was a good con artist. No, no, no. I don't mean that. He might even have, believed he was God. Okay, so he was an insane person. This is the parallel fake church. And it is the biggest danger to me out of this election season. There's a lot of dangers. And again, God saw fit to allow this to happen. One of the biggest dangers is the suicide pact.
Examining Political Discourse, Deceptive Media, and the Rise of the Almost God Church
You know about the national suicide pact? You don't? I'll tell you about that in a second. So I'm not here to tell you that I think that Jasmine Crockett is someone we should pay a lot of attention to. You know, she used to be in the House of Representatives. She was running for Congress. She is a. She's a different form of liar. Very performative. She pretends to be, from the urban, black culture. She's not. She went to a private school. Her parents paid tons of money for that. But she larps that live action role, plays that. That role. She said something interesting, and perhaps this is just getting revenge on the Breakfast Club. She was talking about how she expected Republicans to be racist against her. And then she met the people who ran the James Jimmy Talarico campaign.
Jasmine Crockett So it was just like the lies and the mischaracterization and the demonization, and it wasn't coming from Republicans. I'm gonna be perfectly honest. The best ads, the ads that I felt like were fair were actually the Republican ads. So I didn't anticipate that the Republicans and the Democrats would attack me at the same time. Most people don't have to worry about that in a primary, right? But we had millions that were spent by our governor against me. But their ads were fair. The racist ads were coming from the super PAC on behalf of my Democratic opponent. so
Todd Herman James Jimmy Talarico, one of the, Junior Lightbringers, he learned everything he does in terms of public speaking from watching tapes of Barack Hussein Obama. I mean, that's just evident. So the biggest danger I see coming out of this spiritually is this cementing of the almost God church, almost Jesus gospel, meaning not Jesus at all and a road into hell. And people love the sounds of Jesus, but they refuse to look at what the sounds meant. And the big ruin that Talarico's brought is that. And he will face incredible judgment for that. We are all going to face judgment, but you don't worm your way out of that.
The Subtext of Elections: Wicked People, Communist Ideas, and the Dangers of Socialism
He would have to. Can you imagine what repentance from Talaria would look like? I mean, true repentance, man. Wouldn't it be to God's glory if he did a Damascus road thing with James? Jimmy Talarico. And I'm not necessarily saying blind him. I'm saying if he took him and showed him his sin. Look, Jimmy, this is the sin. You are lying about me. You're wearing me as a skin suit. Now, that's an eternal danger. There is a subtext to this election that does cause me deep, deep concern for the country. All of it does. Because some very wicked people have been elected with very wicked ideas. And people will say they've failed whenever they've been tried. Socialism, if you believe it's designed to succeed, because knowing the father of communism, Karl Marx, and that he hated God Almighty and that he wrote poetry about, he hate how much he hated God Almighty, I think that this communist ideas came from the pit of hell.
The National Suicide Pact and the Threat of Urban Elites Controlling the Country
It's a parallel idea to freedom, in other words, almost freedom. The subtext that has me concerned is the national suicide pact. so there is a national popular vote pact that states are signing. And small states have signed this small. Well, Washington's not a state any longer. It's a separate country. But they've signed on to this. I believe Oregon has signed on to this. And what it means is whoever wins the popular vote will get the electoral college votes of these states. What this means is forever. If this, if this becomes law, if these states succeed in this pact, and there's enough of them that do this, this will mean that Detroit, Los Angeles, NewSong York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, they run the country. You will never again have a president of the United States of America. You will have a president of the 10 biggest cities in America. How will they campaign? They will go straight to the interests of the 10 biggest cities in America. They will pour more people into the 10 biggest cities in America. The republic at that point, is done. There's no longer any republic. It gets us much, much closer to a, one world government with a parallel, fake, almost God, Christian church and the false faith of Islam, which I think will be the one world religion, the antichrist religion.
The Blind Spot in Retirement Accounts and the Pillars of the American Economy
And by virtue of the ten, biggest cities in America calling the shots, why would they not install the one world government just as the Lord said they would? Praise God. We'll come back under Disciples View. A lot of you guys know that, every Friday I have my friend Zach Abraham, Chief investment officer of Bulwark Capital on with me for a faith filled finance segment. Zach has been noticing something about people's retirement accounts. And it reveals a blind spot. And a lot of people, even financial managers and even some fiduciaries are, are just blind to something. They're so focused on AI. They're so focused on sugar highs in the stock market and not really digging into what is, what's, what's driving this. Guys, it's government spending, it's data center building. Those are the two pillars holding up the American economy. But there's a massive blind spot, and it might be in your retirement account. My friend Zach Abraham will give you three free, no obligation consultations where they will look at your account with a fine tooth comb and they'll tell you what they find. If they can help you, they'll make that clear. If you're in good stead, they won't even let you change. It's easy to sign up. Just go to know your risk podcast dot com. That's knoyourriskpodcast.com investment advisor services author Trek Financial LLC and SEC registered investment advisor. Investments involve risk and are not guaranteed passports. Doesn't guarantee future results. Trek 26 112.
Investigating Surveillance Technologies and the Erosion of Privacy in Modern Society
You're listening to Disciples View. last week I had a conversation with a woman named Jen Barber, an investigative journalist who's now become an independent journalist. She was in a, television journalist. for years she's been looking into the Flock surveillance company and the Axon surveillance companies and all these cameras. And listen to what happened to her when she decided to do a Freedom of Information act request to get her records from the Flock surveillance system. So when I'm talking about media coverage, and I believe, I mean, is it okay to critique that, why are you using the phrase Flock safety? Why are you just calling this an alpr? It's much more inclusive than that. It's like calling a, it's like calling a Big Mac, some beef, right? There's a lot of stuff on a Big Mac that's not beef, including some chemicals, etc. Does that seem like nitpicking to you? Be m honest, you can't hurt My feelings, I don't have any.
Jen Barber I mean maybe we're gonna see a lot of different names and you know, come out with all this. And, and I think that's how some people are kind of confused because ALPRS here started out with your photo radar and your red light cameras. Now it's interesting in Arizona, what I'm seeing is people are against the photo radar for speed, the speed cameras. But they like the red light cameras. But then I always have to explain to people there are different kinds of ALPRs. There are your speed cameras, your red light cameras that catch you in the act of doing something wrong. But then there are your Flock and Axon, license plate readers that just track you everywhere and they store all this information about you.
Todd Herman You saw or you listened to at least the little clip of the NBC, local we did out of NewSong Haven there. and that company MTS is coming along and earning what sounds like a ton of money just by driving around and taking pictures of license plates and using their own ALPR to do that. are you willing to speculate your reporter? You have to be more responsible than I am in that way. Part of what I get to do is imagine futures. and I based this upon the five minute city that they actually test ran in Oxford. I don't know if you watched that test run where you were actually stopped, activists stopped you when you were leaving your Hamlet, and question you why you were making the trip in your car and why you couldn't use a bicycle and why you couldn't walk, and they were writing down your name, etc. Literally the, the government let these activists set up a gate to stop you. and I speculate and I don't think this is without reason when I see in Washington D.C. it costs people who don't work for the government $100 a day to drive to and from work, 47 bucks each way to drive to work. Taxpayers, we cover that for the, for the government employees. So we're paying that rate. I'm looking at things like that. I'm looking at now people in the World Economic Forum saying we need to start to have conversations that the lockdowns for Covid were so good for the environment. Maybe we could do that once a week and just have no car Wednesday. I speculate that the Flock and Axon and these other surveillance systems, part of the control will be, it's going to be every other license plate. It's going to, it's odd license plate day you get to drive, or you know what, you can drive, but we're going to charge you, a big tax if you take the freeway during these hours or if you're driving during these hours. Does that seem unreasonable? Are you willing to speculate on that? As a, as an investigative reporter,
Jen Barber if we would have had this conversation in 2019, I would have thought you were crazy
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The COVID Era's Impact on Journalism and the Growing Skepticism of Government Narratives
Jen Barber and said, there's absolutely no way this is going to happen. So then Covid took place. And when I was talking to Naomi Brockwell last year, I even said to her, look, I live in a compound of, I cannot leave my community without a flop camera catching me. My government knows when I'm coming and going. I'm within a one mile radius of these two cameras. And I said to her, Covid 2.0, if you go to church and you're around other people and someone is sick now, we have the capability of going in, putting you in quarantine. We have the capability now. So if you would have said to me in 2019, hey, Jim, what do you think? I would have been like, okay, you're a conspiracy theorist, right? Yeah. And I'm saying the capability is there.
Todd Herman Yeah. I don't know what conspiracy theory means anymore because, so many things that were blatantly obvious were conspiracies back in the COVID era, like taking your mask off to walk or to, you know, to eat, but not when you walk to the restaurant. Doesn't make any sense. And that was a conspiracy theory. injecting your body with something that manufactures something poisonous to your body could end badly. you know, just so strange. But this is where I'm at with this stuff, is I see so many pieces lining up together. people have short term memory sometimes on issues because, oh, wow, they didn't get to do that. Please remember that the Biden White House made an attempt, they made a serious attempt, at being able to, surveil and edit text messages and, private messages. If they were related to Covid or the war in Ukraine or election security, they literally floated that. So I see all of these pieces adding up. Then eventually they all come together. The surveillance companies have your phone data, they've got your device id, other government official or agencies know what you're saying on your phone and to whom and to where you're traveling. And so the next time something hits and they decide that we're going to have a lockdown, Jen, I don't know that they even need to wait for you to violate. they could just send notes to the six people. Hey, we know you guys do this on this date. We're going to be watching. And now, see, now that sounds super Orwellian, but why would they not try that? Right? You talk about shifting baselines. Why not try that?
Jen Barber Well, look, here's one of the big arguments. A lot of people who, and I just say that they really don't understand this technology. And. But maybe they do, but they say, look, I have a phone, and my phone can track me all day long. Well, guess what, Todd? I can turn my phone off. I can leave it at home. I can go for a walk. I can have that kind of privacy. I have no choice in the matter when these license plate readers are tracking my I. It is impossible for me to get to the store, go run errands, or do anything without it being several miles away. I have to drive my car.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Jen Barber To get to a doctor's appointment, I have to drive my car. I have absolutely no say in whether I want to opt into this or not. My phone, I can turn it off and leave it at home.
Todd Herman You mentioned the COVID era. This is this. It's. It's in. In one way our generation's JFK moment or 9, 11, because it lasted so long. and for me, it was so clearly none of it made any sense. And I have huge opinions about that that my audience is aware of.
Media's Role During COVID-19: From Acceptance to Skepticism and the Rise of Independent Journalism
I wanted to go back and talk to you about, your experience in the mainstream media and what you saw that was great and not so great and what you saw that concerned you and just what you think of the industry and how it works. And Covid's a good inflection point for that, maybe, how that was all treated. And I'm just curious what your experience and your sort of assessment of the whole craft of media.
Jen Barber This is an interesting question. So I followed everything during COVID I can tell you personally, it was devastating. There was nothing worse than watching my daughter sit in her bedroom all day long, not able to go to school or play sports or be active. And what happened to her education and all of her friends, it is devastating. In Arizona, in my opinion, we are still seeing the effects of that with some of these proficiency scores. They're just completely unacceptable, in my opinion, as to what happened to these children. Now, from a media perspective, Arizona was kind of one of the freedom leaders at the time. I really felt that Doug Ducey was working with the health information that was coming out, trying to Keep people safe, but still trying to find a way for people to live their lives. And you can go back and be, you know, Monday morning quarterback on all this all day long. I do feel that there was a, give and take there with what is safe, what is not, what can we do? But if you look across the country, you had cities that were filling in, you know, little pump tracks with sand and parks with sand so that kids couldn't go out and outdoors, you couldn't even go out and play. And. And you said early. People have a short memory. I can tell you this. I have a fantastic memory. And I will forever remember what happened to my family and my loved ones and my friends in my community during Cove And I will not. I will not let that happen again as long as I have any say in it.
Todd Herman I'm same. And, and I guess I was looking at. Because I worked. I worked next door to, mainstream media, so we had our conservative talk channel, and I was gifted to have a morning, show there. And I would get to go fill in on the big talk station, which is the general talk, even though we on our show had a bigger morning show audience. But say what you will, and I would see people report things like this. the nation's leading scientist says that the COVID shots, which they would call vaccinations, are 98% safe and effective. And I would have conversations respectfully off air saying, how do you know Tony Fauci is the leading scientist? What are you talking about? He's the leading public health official. He's. He's not even the top guy. Redfield's his boss. Was there a contest? Did they have a Jeopardy. Show? Did he win a game show to be the top scientist? And this was my frustration with reporting, is there was a lot of stuff that was fed and then regurgitated to teleprompters. And if you simply sat and asked people questions like this, hey, if the masks work, why don't they work? And you get this befuddled. But, but, but this is what it says in my script, and this is what I'm being told, and this is what the public health officials say. And I'm worried that we're seeing the same thing in what's being done to us in terms of the greater picture of surveillance, this notion that, oh, gosh, they'd never do that to us. is there enough skepticism of government in media? because I saw a complete acceptance of whatever Tony Fauci said, whatever state health officials said, without a Greatest degree or even a little bit of a degree of skepticism. Do I sound like.
The Evolution of Media: From Mainstream Acceptance to Independent Skepticism and Opinion
Jen Barber The mainstream media is not today what it was then? I think there's a healthy skepticism now. You
Todd Herman do?
Jen Barber I think. I think that you're seeing the rise of independent journalism.
Todd Herman Yes,
Jen Barber that's what I'm seeing, is the rise of independent journalism. So my folks were old school. They sat down and watched NBC and CBS and ABC every night. It was like clockwork. I always got to call because they were watching their national news. They were scared to death of Cove and they went and they got their vaccines, okay? We live through an era where people lost their jobs because they did not get these vaccines. We lived through an era where our children could not go to school because they were not vaccinated or they were segregated, because they did not get vaccinated. We actually live through this. But I do think that the media at the time. Get your mask on. Get vaccinated. People were shamed for not following this. And I think it was Covid that gave us the rise to independent journalism, where people are. They're bold now and they feel okay about coming out and asking these questions. So if anything positive came out of it, maybe it was that.
Todd Herman So do you think the mainstream media, as you call it, is bold, or do you think it's the independent media? largely that's. That's become bold.
Jen Barber Independent media, they're asking the questions now. They're brave. They're asking the questions that we should have been asking six years ago.
Todd Herman And so let me bring it back down to what I'm trying to get to in terms of the coverage of today,
Jen Barber okay?
Todd Herman So that I can go and find examples of 5 minute cities, 15 minute cities being tried. And I see this glowing report out of England where it's all very happy. It's to save the seals and the children. And yet this is not reported here. There aren't reports about test runs in this. Can the media do more to project into what these things can become? Or does that. Does that have to be the job of independent media and opinionists like me?
Jen Barber I think journalists need to show both sides of the story. And I, even when I do my coverage of Flock, alprs, I always start with, this is why they're here. This is why the police like them. This is why cities like them. These are the benefits. But my reporting is also showing through records, through public records requests on your side of this story. So you take home what you want to believe out of this. We need more of that. Kind of journalism. We, need to get back to what journalism used to be. It's so funny because I was in TV news for 20 years.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Jen Barber Back in the 80s and 90s, in my stories we counted out the seconds. So take abortion. Half of my story to the very second had to be the pro side of abortion, and the other exact same amount of seconds had to be the anti abortion or, you know, pro life, whatever you want to call it, side of the story. That's what journalism is. And we need to get back to that.
Todd Herman Agreed. And I don't know that there's a way back to that. I wish that were true, but you were talking about shifting baselines. I was just, you know, I, I'm watching local reporters responses to the elections and I'm seeing a whole ton of opinion on these things. And they're reporters and it says reporter. And I asked a question to a guy at King 5 in Seattle. hey, give me example, what you just accused of. And he wrote back and said, you're not interested in any truth.
Empowering Citizens: Digging for Truth and Supporting Independent Journalism Amidst Surveillance Concerns
Okay. Okay, got it. What can people do? You said people aren't aware. what can people legitimately do, if they're concerned about Flock Surveillance and Axon and these other companies and I mean, you even have. We're gonna. Flock has announced, that they're moving into the drone era. So we're gonna have even less choice because they'll be able to track us into our homes. And don't think they won't. Please don't think that they won't be tracking who you have over to your house on summer days. Or please don't think that they absolutely will and they'll do facial id. beyond voting, which is always nice. What can people actually do?
Jen Barber I. You just have to dig. Find some independent journalists in your community. maybe follow the substance, follow some, some people outside, outside of your own, your own thinking. You know, be willing to have an open mind about things. Don't say just because XYZ station is a big station. That's not the only opinion that you can get. Be willing to be open minded and follow some of these other people. I mean, there are some really great people all over the country who have now decided to start writing in and taking videos and getting involved. Those are the people you want to start seeking out.
Todd Herman And that's me and Jen Barber, investigative journalist, has a, podcast called Jen and Friends. We'll come back under the supples view.
Reflections on Tragic Events and the Importance of Trusting the Lord Amidst Fear
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Navigating Aviation Risks: Pilot Decisions and the Co-Pilot's Competence
And I have to trust his mercy in this. The part of the aftermath that really bothered me was the attack on the young female pilot. rhetorical attack. first of all, she was the co pilot, so she wasn't making command decisions. Secondly, the pilot who was making command decisions was much older than she was. I believe it was 55. And we don't yet know if that plane broke apart and that's where the problems came from. We don't yet know if it was the ice. We do know that air traffic control warned them about that weather pattern and offered them an opportunity to go around it. that's haunting. I had an occasion to talk with a pilot who flew seven day 777s for most of his career. And I said it seemed to me they were trying to out climb the storm. And this gentleman said to me, he said, hey, listen, I'm just guessing here as to what happened. He said, but you never try to out climb a storm. He said, at least, my view of flying commercially is you never try that because they can go up so high and so quick that you're in real trouble. Never try that, go around them. So there's a couple of cases I wanted to share with you where pilots made that exact decision. Pushing back against air traffic control. This is a, a pilot, of a jet JetBlue, plane from Fort Lauderdale to Austin having a conversation with air traffic control.
Speaker F 250-heading or 240,
Todd Herman unable. You're gonna go 270 and you're gonna go in the gap. You can't go that way. There's traffic.
Speaker F Okay, so you're gonna make us go through a, severe thunderstorm.
Todd Herman 1971. I'm showing night precipitation. Where you're going through, sir?
Speaker F Not from here, ma'. Am. So we declare an emergency. Making a left turn heading 260 for severe weather avoidance.
Todd Herman W 1971. Roger.
Speaker F Heading 24 0.
Todd Herman Roger.
Speaker F Turn left heading 230 to avoid severe weather avoidance. JetBlue 1971. JetBlue
Todd Herman 1971, Roger. And I copied the emergency
Speaker F welcome. You do what you got to do. We got to do what we got to do here.
Todd Herman No problem.
Speaker F That plan will not work. You have severe, weather over there that Henry gave us previously. That's why we declared emergency.
Todd Herman Roger. The supervisor knows already. She's listening. And we just ground stopped everybody.
Todd Herman So that pilot might have saved the lives of the people on his airplane, and perhaps people on planes that were going to be leaving at that point. this is a little bit different. This is a conversation. This is United Air, airplane. And the conversation with ATC is a little bit different. But once again, this pilot took control and took command. He acted as a commander.
Speaker F Can't take four hours of getting beat to death through thunderstorms. Yeah. I'm kind of wondering about this clearance. She took us from going south around the weather to putting us right through the worst part of the weather. 471, that's what TMU sent you. If you want to go south, I can ask them for that instead. Yeah, I think I'd rather almost have the original route and head south. I'm gonna end up calling dispatch, but. But the route you gave us actually puts us in every ounce of weather going east from here. All the way to Dulles. It just makes absolutely no sense. 471 I'll let TMU M know and
Todd Herman expect a new clearance.
Todd Herman So they, this, pilot called his dispatch and United Dispatch agreed. No, no, you're not flying that way. Get out. Make the change. he didn't have to declare an emergency. Air traffic control agreed with him on that. I just think it's interesting to look behind the scenes at jobs most of us have never done. And it's also, I think, important to remember, in those moments when that young lady was on the radio, she and my friend Kurt, who flew the airplanes for a living, jets said. He said she did a. Remark a good job. And I think that's a little late in coming. He said she did exactly as she was taught. He said I would have been.
The Tower of Babylon: Examining Political Deception and Manipulated Narratives
Wow, it's hard because she was so young, 20 years old. He said I would have been very, very proud of her. So I just think that should have been said last week. My fault for having not said it. on this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with their feature called the Tower of Babylon.
Jeff Chamblee You know about biblical truth of the Tower of Babel. A, Disciples View presents the Tower of Babylon.
Todd Herman Well, the answer is. Listen to Bill Gates. Bill's right around about a lot of things and he's the steep learning curve in global health.
Todd Herman Three sound bites. Oh, wait, there's a bonus sound bite. It's a. It's actually 1a, so it's not quite a second sound bite. 1a so 3.1 sound, bites today. In today's tarabbling while running for governor, Abdul El Sayed, the governor elect, who is, in my judgment, absolutely a Manchurian candidate here to destroy the United States of America. Abdul El Sayad, told a lie about how he was named, how he became called Abdul. He said it was because of,
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Todd Herman Guess who's topping the charts Straight up now, baby. It's Paula Abdul was straight up. And so at that point they're like, this is his name. It's going to be Abdul from here on out.
Todd Herman Funny
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Republican Priorities: Funding Ukraine Over Judicial Nominees and the Election Cycle's Lessons
Todd Herman My name is abdul rahman muhammad, And I am so proud.
Todd Herman And he went on to speak more Arabic. He just added the Muhammad part there just that time. That's, that's interesting. Next sound bites in today's Tower. Babbling. The, the, the, the professional Republican Thom Tillis. Senator Tillis, went on with Maggie, Brennan, and they were talking about what, what's next? What's the big, objective in these 59 days where the Senate is still controlled by Republicans? Is it getting President Trump's judicial nominees passed, so that we can actually forestall, the flooding of the court with more activist judges, is it allowing some of the, originalist judges to retire, so we can have good originalist judges in their place? Nope. That's not what's on Thom Tillis mind.
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Todd Herman Yep, that's the big lesson for Thom Tillis out of this election cycle. The American people's top concern, Ukraine.
The Iran Issue and the Shifting Sands of Political Relevance in Media Coverage
Last sound bites in today's Tower. Babbling. back in the day, two guys named, a guy named Mark Levin. Very nice man, incredibly smart human being. Ben Shapiro, incredibly smart human being. I don't know him well enough to say he's nice or not nice. They had a conversation about the Iran war.
Todd Herman When we look at the Fox survey, iran is a 4% issue with the American people. So whatever happens in the midterms, it doesn't appear that Iran's going to drive anything one way or another. What's your take on this? I think that's
Todd Herman exactly right. It wasn't. And everybody gets to be wrong sometimes. And that's a wrap for today's Tower of Babylon.
Speaker F You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we largely vaccinated the entire global population.
The Tower of Babylon: Vaccine Mandates and the Stigmatization of the Unvaccinated
Jen Barber You need to get vaccinated. And if you don't. You are going to die.
Speaker F If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy. You have no right not to be vaccinated.
Jeff Chamblee They should be removed from the hospital. Those
Todd Herman who refuse to be vaccinated should be denied health care.
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon on a disciples view.
Moments of Terror and Connection: Trusting God and the Power of Human Comfort
Todd Herman On a personal note, today we were talking about, those moments of terror, when that airplane was going down. I can't relate to that level of, of of terror, having your little ones on that airplane. I can tell you because I flew a lot. I had a lot of occasions to experience what are. Seemed pretty scary to us. one was on approach, to Seattle. the. We had to make three different attempts to land. And the pilot warned us, this is going to be a very, very hairy landing. And we may ask you to take the, accident preparation position. You know, the, the duck and cover. and I could feel it that the airplane was fishtailing in back, and rocking side to side. And we were just being. Just slammed up and down. and there was a young woman sitting next to me, who said, I know you don't know me, but will you please hold my hand? And I did. and she's someone I never would have met, don't know her name, never learned it. But something about a human connection at that point matter to her, some, some level of comforts. What do you think that is? I think it's the body of Christ. I think it's coming back into the body. I think it's recognizing that this, this, this idea of dying alone really scares people. Well, she wasn't alone. She was on an airplane. She felt alone. There was a middle seat between us. And so we landed and it was okay. And she said, I hope that wasn't super awkward. And I said, no, it's fine. I get it. Another occasion involved kids, and I hope God forgives me for a gentle lie. We were on approach, into Salt, Lake City, and it was bad. It was another bad landing. It was in the second time. That time we had to make two attempts to land. And, we were flying above, the Salt Lake Flats. And it got bad enough that the flight attendants were very concerned. One of the flight attendants said to me, look outside, look outside. Can you see the ground? Can you see the ground? I looked out, I said, I see the grounds. I don't know how high we are. Okay, you can see it. Yeah. Okay. She was that concerned. and they were strapped in tight. And they were all over people going around the cockpits prior to getting strapped in themselves, walking really low on their knees, making sure people were strapped in. They were really concerned. And there was a little kid, little girl who started crying. And she was in the aisle across from me, and she was weeping, and her mom was trying to calm her down. And God forgive me, I looked over and said, hi, honey. Honey, are you scared? Yes. I said, oh, of what? We're gonna crash. I said, oh, no, sweetie. I've been in lots of airplane crashes. This is not how it happens. It's not? No. This is not how airplanes crash. This is just super bumpy. But, yeah, I've been through a couple crashes, and we're fine. That's just not how it happens. I was lying. I've never been in an airplane crash. Isn't it interesting, though, that that calmed her down? This isn't how it happens. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. She trusted the adult who was lying. God doesn't lie.
Meekness, Trust, and Speaking God's Word: A Call to Follow Jesus Christ
Blessed, are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. We are to be meek in the face of loving and trusting our Father in heaven. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. Because we believe, we speak because he first loved us, we speak his Word. We speak walk in the path of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all nations until God grants us permission to speak again to them. His peace wash over you. On behalf of Randy and afr, I'm Todd Herman. This has been a disciples.
In this episode of A Disciple’s View, Todd Herman reflects on the election and warns against what he sees as a “parallel” version of Christianity—one that borrows the language of Jesus while rejecting the core claims of the faith. He argues that Christian hope should rest in Christ, not political parties, and discusses the spiritual and political consequences he believes follow when biblical teachings are treated as inspirational words rather than truth.
Herman is joined by investigative journalist Jen Barbara for a wide-ranging conversation about automated license plate readers, surveillance technology, and the lasting effects of COVID-era restrictions. Barbara explains how these systems work and why she believes people should understand both their public-safety benefits and their privacy risks. The discussion also explores journalism’s role in scrutinizing government power and why independent reporting matters.
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