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Host Introduces Interview About Sexual Ideology And Youth
He let me work in dc, let me work with EIB and Hollywood in Silicon Valley. And he's shown me through all those experiences that there is one problem and one solution. And that's why we do this show.
Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples View with Todd Herman.
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, he didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke. God said, let there be light. Because we believe, we speak about the happenings in this world, mindful that our true home is with Jesus Christ in his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples View. Every so often we stand in biblical rebellion against the news cycle. I consider it very, very useful news and very godly news to share what's happening to our young people, particularly on high school and college campuses. And I had an opportunity to talk with Heidi Olson, who's a sexual trauma nurse. She's just written a peer reviewed paper, about something she refers to as a sexual ideology and how this is causing young women and young men to make really, really horrible decisions as to how they treat the temple. This isn't going to be explicit. this is a part of a conversation that is a tough one to hear and watch, but I encourage you to do it. It's at the toddhermanshow.substack.com you can watch that or rumble.com Odd Eherman. This is Heidi Olson and I talking about sexual ideology and how it's causing kids to make really horrible decisions.
Olson Critiques Hyper Independence And The Girl Boss Ideal
There's all sorts of, of thought laundering that goes on. And I think one way this is done, from perspective of, of porn addled people for whom sex is an ideology is the phrase female empowerment. which could be a true thing. I mean, it's a neat thing to hear a young woman taking ownership for herself, explaining her needs, positioning boundaries. but there's a difference version of that that, girl bosses are participating in. Do you agree that there's a negative kind of a, ah, girl boss thing?
Heidi Olson Yeah, I can say growing up in this culture, a lot of us were fed this lie from a very early age, which is if you're a female, you do not need men. You should not ever want. Right. Any kind of, partnership with a man. You can do everything yourself. You can make a ton of money. You can even have kids without a man. Right. You don't need a man for anything. You should be hyper independent. And I think a lot of us clung onto this life. Yeah, that's great. I don't have to be vulnerable. I don't have to want anything. I don't have to need anything. And yet I think if we zoom back, that is not how the Lord created us. Right. Not meaning that we're helpless and that we're dependent on men for getting all of our needs met, but meaning there is something, I think beautiful about femininity and softness and women bring life into the world. Right. We have this unique role in the world. And I think the lie is you could just reject all of that and be just like a man, act just like a man. Right. And there won't be any consequences. And I think what we're seeing is that women are actually incredibly lonely. They want to be in relationship. They don't know how to access their femininity in sort of this healthy way. And so, yeah, I think the girl boss lie is harming us as females.
Todd Herman Yeah. And it's so prevalent.
A Television Character Prompts Discussion Of The Cornell Case
You know, my wife and I have been watching a show we probably should have watched. I don't think we'll watch the second season, but it's, you know, won eight Emmys, which should have been an indication to us that it's trash. But it's, called the Last of Us, dystopian America. There's this fungus that has inhabited people and m. Surprise, surprise. That turns them into zombies. And every leader of every successfully surviving dystopian society is led by a girl boss. And the young girl in the. In the series is going about with this guy who happens to be very good at killing people. she's girl boss. Ish. but the girl boss sexual behavior is what got me to thinking about what I call the Cornell eight. and first of all, I want to ask you, does that seem an offensive phrase to you, that I call it the Cornell 8?
Heidi Olson You know, I think on some level maybe, like, implying she needs to take ownership for some of the abuse that. That happened to her. You know, like, I think maybe that's where my brain goes. But also I want to acknowledge this case is so messy. It's so messy and complicated. And I think that some of her behaviors actually make sense to me. And we can get into them, like, from a trauma lens. But I also think there are things we need to have some curiosity about, you know, like what was happening here and was she playing into sort of this porn role she thinks she's supposed to do? Right. And, and manufacture, and where was the consent and all of that? I think it's absolutely worth asking those questions.
Todd Herman Yeah. And, and I am. I'm not using that phrase to be provocative. I want to invite a thought that eight people involve themselves in something. And I will say as a man, I would hope I would be one of the guys breaking into that room going, what the blank are you doing? Stop this. Stop this.
Herman Recalls Fraternity Misconduct And Asks About Consent
And in point of fact, you know, when I was a guest in a fraternity house, and there was a ton of drinking. It's a fraternity house, we didn't take ketamine. but I slept on the sleeping porch one night. Well, I didn't sleep. I passed out. and I woke up and I was walking past a young woman, who, largely naked, laying in a bed, with horrible, words written on her face, in black marker, and on her body, in black marker. And I was sick, and I covered her with a sheet. I was just sick. And I, knew that there was a sorority that had been invited to that party, and I knew I could call their, you know, phone number and say, you need to come and get your sister over here. and God forbid she wake up and see these words. So, I'm aware of some real deep seated illness, in fraternity culture. And that was prior to digital porn. I mean, I am, I'm like a great grandpa to you. And it Was prior to that. so when I'm saying eight in this case, I'm looking at the. And I'm very open to this discussion, and I want to hear you from a trauma perspective. I look at the pre event young woman, and I can see, okay, maybe she's talked into this. Maybe she thinks this guy's interested, so she agrees to a threesome after all. That's normal. And then I look at the post event young woman, and I'm completely open to and very curious about this gap period where she could step back and go, wait a minute, was that me or was that girl boss? Was that them or was that Gunner? and what happened there? Now, you look at this from a very educated perspective. You walked with this, you know, circumstances with young women. Does it happen that young women step back and go, okay, I know I said yes, but I don't think I meant yes. And this gets legally sticky too, which you can talk about, but does that happen?
Trauma Can Make Sexual Assault Difficult To Recognize
Heidi Olson Yes, absolutely. I think more often than not, sexual assault happens in these really confusing kind of gray areas where everyone's intoxicated and maybe there's coercion or pressure or, I'm overriding my intuition of what I know. I don't want to be here, but I really want this guy to like me. Right. Whatever it may be, where things start to get really messy. And then when we experience trauma, we cannot access the logical part of our brain anymore. So we step back and we're trying to make sense, but we're in survival brain. And it's like, wait a second, what exactly happened here? I actually don't think I was okay with that. But in the moment, I'm surviving it. It's so complicated when you add in. Right. Drugs, alcohol, not really understanding consent. Again, sort of this free for all sexual culture, it creates such a confusing landscape for everybody involved. And so I think more often than not, sexual assault actually looks like this really messy situation that's hard to understand versus the stereotype we have, which is like, oh, a stranger attacked a woman in an alleyway and she fought for her life and immediately reported it to the police. It's like it almost never looks like that. But that's easy for our brains to understand. But when. When we look at these, like, ultra complicated scenarios, it's like, whoa, this doesn't make sense to me. That's not following, you know, a logical pattern. And the thing is, trauma isn't logical, and the responses to it are not. And so I would say this actually the story Is more often than not, this is kind of how sexual assault plays out and the fallout of it.
Delayed Recognition And Social Shaming Complicate Victims' Responses
Todd Herman Yeah. And to me, it gets legally complex because you look at the text chain. not only did she agree to do this, then later she was celebrating it, and, hey, come on, you know, nothing we did was illegal. I actually enjoyed being with you and this other guy, and maybe those other guys should have stayed in their lane, but, you know, they did this in medieval times. Let's all relax. And m. Then she starts, this is interesting to me. then she starts to hear that her name is being trashed and she's being called all these horrible names and the S word, etc. And the guys are saying, oh, we're trying to tamp down on all of that. And these are people, they're just jealous. They're bored. This is just fan behavior. That's an interesting phrase. This is just fan behavior. But if you're growing up around porn and around gooners, and around only fans and around boss, you know, girl boss behaviors, it had to be kind of a shock to her system to go, wait, what? You're calling me the S word,
Heidi Olson Right?
Todd Herman and how does that even happen in a campus environment where all these kids have been exposed to porn? And have you seen cases like that where girls have said, wait, I didn't even think this is wrong until people started calling me the S word.
Heidi Olson Yes, I have taken care of teenagers that didn't even identify what was happening to them with sexual assault until I used the word sexual assault. And then they were like, what? Like. So I think that for a lot of people, again, most of us don't want to say that we've been victimized or harmed. And again, it's because it's so messy. And it's like, did I play a role in this? How do I make sense of it? I don't want to believe someone would do this to me. I think initially it can just be easy to be like, okay, it got a little out of hand, and I didn't like it. But I wonder if with time, she's in her gut, in her body, is saying, I did not want these things over here to happen to me. Now what do I call it? And now I'm being shamed and ostracized over here. I need to kind of draw a hard line on. I didn't ask for this.
Workplace Abuse Analogy Explains Why Victims May Stay Silent
I want to give a little bit of analogy so it might make more sense to your audience. So I think when we think about sexual assault, Right. It's like one of the worst things anyone can think of. And again, we sort of have this assumption of like, if someone was assaulted, they would definitely call it that and they would definitely report it immediately. But it's like a lot of us tolerate terrible behavior and go back to it and don't call it that. So I'll give you an example. Imagine you're working at a, you know, soul crushing, 9 to 5 corporate job in there. Right? Right. Right. You have to, because you need to make money. Right. So you go in, you have this terrible abusive boss. Say you're in a conference room meeting and he says some, you know, really verbally abusive thing to you. Right. You probably aren't going to talk back to him. You're probably not going to report it to HR because they're not going to do anything. You might, you know, be texting your wife or whatever, like, my boss is such a jerk. But you're probably not going to say, I'm being abused at work. And then you get home and it's like, I hate my job, I need another one. But I'm going to go back the next day right back to that toxic environment because this boss has something I need, I need to get paid. And no, it's not a perfect analogy, but I think the same thing happens with sexual trauma where there's maybe I want this person's attention, but I didn't like this thing and I don't know how to make sense of it and I'm not going to be believed and I don't even want to use the word rape because that feels gross. And I don't really think I'm a victim, but maybe I am and should I tell law enforcement? And so it gets so complex that actually a lot of these behaviors make sense to me from a trauma perspective, even though, again, it's not this logical linear path that we want it to be.
Interview Addresses Male Survivors And Intoxication's Consent Risks
Todd Herman Yeah, I know that you have mostly worked with, with females, but are there cases where young men have said, hey, I didn't want her to do that, and she did and it feels icky.
Heidi Olson Yes, of course. And I'm glad you're bringing this up because I think this is such a huge piece of the puzzle that we leave out. To your point, we just make this overarching assumption that like, men should just love anything sexual happening to them at all times. And it's like we lose the humanity of men right. When we make those assumptions, where it's like, of course they have choice and preference and should be able to say yes or no, just like women. And so I think that that's a really toxic message we have in our, our culture. But of course, I, I have talked to many boys, men who have experienced sexual assault. And again, they don't call it that, but they're describing a scenario where they're not able to consent. And of course women can sexually assault men. I think again, when we have drugs and alcohol infused with sex now, it makes consent so incredibly messy because truly no one's in full control of their faculties at this point. So I think that's a whole other layer of really who could be consenting in this situation when everybody is high and drunk.
Todd Herman Yeah, again, that was a conversation between myself and Heidi Olsen, a sexual trauma nurse, talking about sexual ideology and how it's driving young people away from God's design for holy union through, well, marriage and joining together as one flesh. We'll come back on a disciple's view. Foreign.
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Herman And Abraham Criticize Trump's Financial Conflicts
You sit in a position, Zach Abraham, Chief Investment Officer, Bullock Capital Management. You sit, in a, position where you have to look at things like these, these financial things with President Trump from many, many different perspectives. But I wanted to start with this. We as godly men who abide with Christ, we have to be able to take a sober look, even at politicians or office holders, that we want to be able to support President Trump. You and I want to be able to support him. We have supported him in many, many of his policies. Still do. But I read this Forbes article or what the author put of it up on, on Twitter. And this is very ugly. On, on one hand it's President Trump being President Trump. It's licensing revenues from crypto earnings. A billion in crypto, a billion of crypto tokens created out of thin air. That's how crypto works. 400 million dollar expansion of a branding business, 500 million dollar fine wiped out, which by the way should have been wiped out. That was an insane, ridiculous and offensive decision from that court. It was silliness. and he counts that as his net worth increasing. President Trump's net worth increased, from 3,3 billion according to this guy, from fall 2025, 2024 to 2025. For context, Obama's went up from 1.3 million to 12 million while he was in office and then, went up to about 70 million after he left. so his went up by 10 times. But I'm looking at this, Zach, and I'm asking you as first of all, a guy who is a fiduciary has to put my financial interests above yours. if you are looking at this activity, just from a perspective of financial ethics with the chief executive, how do you view this?
Zach I think the best way to probably put it would be, it doesn't surprise me. but I was, I'm a guy that voted for him three times. and I was really, again not surprised, but I was really disappointed to see it because, what I see is not out and out fraud. what I do see though is a flagrance toward the rules. I don't see somebody that is tiptoeing in an effort to avoid all appearances of impropriety.
Todd Herman Yeah,
Zach I, I, quite honestly somebody in that position, I'm struggling to find another word, but, feels reckless. Meaning, like, so when you look at people, I feel like there's two different way or there's a couple different ways that people my act going into this situation. Right. And, and, and I don't really care what the reason is because the outcome for both is good. But there are people that manage their own finances in a way to avoid any appearance of impropriety for the sake of what that does for them.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Zach Okay. And there are people that avoid the sake of impropriety because they're really trying not to do something wrong either, or I'm okay with that. Even if the reasons why you're, you're avoiding the appearances of impropriety and you're really avoiding impropriety is because It'll hurt your brand. Yeah. Good. I mean, I wish you had more altruistic reasons, but Good. Right. the tough thing about this with Trump is he's not really doing either. I mean, even if he, even if 100% of these transactions is 100% legal, it doesn't look good at all. Especially the position in a crypto company where everybody can see that he's an owner of a crypto company. And if the Trump boys are sitting there looking for an outside investment, do you think that plays a role?
Todd Herman Yeah. Right. The
Zach current sitting president owns a chunk of the firm, about 8%. You can be a co owner.
Todd Herman Yeah. And you have some of the structures of these deals. Like Trump is taking 52.5% himself, 22.5 to family members, 12.5 to a family affiliate of Steve Witkoff, Trump's soon to be ambassador at large. And, there was this Liberty, this, this World Liberty deal, that came in with a whole bunch of money coming into some of his crypto assets. And it was his. Justin sun, the SEC had accused of fraud, announced a 30 million dollar investment, single handedly wiping out the 30 million dollar threshold, ensuring that Trump and his family, Witkoffs would collect. if, if you'd said, when we're talking about this offline, I agree, if this had been structured by, by, by Biden's family, and this was going on behind the scenes and Hunter structured this, and this is where we as Christian men better check ourselves. because Jesus Christ invented the word hypocrite in regard to pretending to be something. Hypocrite meant actor. And he called these, he called the Pharisees hypocrites. I don't think Jesus smiles upon hypocrites. So I think we as godly men need to be able to call this out and say that stinks. and the president, it's, it's improper, it's not illegal, and it's just a branding deal, a licensing deal. But it's improper.
Zach I don't, I don't understand. And I'll tell you what, man, whenever you see these things, whenever you see him making what you think are bad decisions or mistakes, I'm not happy about it.
Todd Herman No,
Zach I know, I know what's at stake culturally. I know that, I know the hope that we have for a guy like Trump and, and the, and the difference we thought he could make and we hoped he made and all that other kind of stuff. I'm not saying that he hasn't done Some good things. But I'm saying, if we as Christian supporters are going to just turn to blind eye to things that we absolutely would have made Joe Biden and Hunter Biden wear. I. Guys, that's not a Christianity. That's consistent to me. I. We're. We're either. We're either for it or we're not.
Jeff Chamblee Yeah.
Zach And choose this day whom you will serve. And. And unfortunately, I'll tell you what, Todd, I hear a lot of Christians out there sounding like they serve Trump.
Todd Herman Right.
Zach Not Christ. And
Todd Herman you don't do.
Zach And that. And it doesn't mean. Doesn't mean we need to be disrespectful. Doesn't mean we need to say these everything. But you know what I mean? Like, it's just, hey, if something does not look right and does not look like the way a Christian would operate and does not pass our ethical smell test, I think we're obligated to say it,
Todd Herman and it's okay to say it about the leader of the free world.
Hosts Advocate Stronger Ethics And Limits On Political Money
If a friend of ours is doing this. For instance, if you were sitting with a buddy who owned a. Let's say, ran a public company, and you're sitting, you guys are having lunch, and he says, hey, I got to tell you something, man. I got to tell you something. I am in possession some information, on what's going on with my competitor. And you know what? I'm going to buy some stock in them because they're about to just eat our lunch and something. And I want to let you in on this. You're sitting at the lunch table and he says this to you. Your response is,
Zach I've been in situations like that, and I'm not a perfect man. And I've talked about my own personal failings and, moral failures on the show before. When I've gotten news like that, I waited till the second the news became public and entered a trade. And did it. Did it mean that I won? Less. Yeah.
Todd Herman Did you say to your brother. Do you say to your brother, brother? That's inside trading. Insider trading. Yeah.
Zach Hey, don't tell. Don't. Don't tell anybody else. And no. Yeah. I'm not making that transaction with you. There have been times where I knew about things and I just didn't act.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Zach for instance, going into Covid and I remember you and I talking about this, I had extraordinarily interesting information about a very large technology company from somebody that was 100 in the know. Yep.
Zach right. 100 in the know. And I And I could have easily danced around that legally, and I did not, because, like, it's illegal. It's, you know, legal. So.
Todd Herman And then there's the. The. The overall and eternal judge. And this is the part that I, I hope people understand. We don't do President Trump any eternal favors when we gloss past this stuff and give him the opportunity to reflect upon this. He could have structured this in such a different way. And I know people get frustrated with the DeSantis, Trump, comparisons. Ron DeSantis does not trade stocks. He has his stuff in a blind trust. He doesn't go out and take a bunch of speaking fees. He has one of the lower, lowest net worths of any state governor in the country. And he's doing this to avoid, impropriety, maybe to not be improper. And I look at this, and I, I wonder, what other temptation does this put on you? When the game has always been the game, how much money can you make? President Trump doesn't need more money. He'll never need money. But when the game is the game, how much more temptation does this put on the table for you? It's just like this guy that the. Then the Nvidia guy, the CEO. Oh, we did this once. Now you're tempted to do it again and again and again. And then she asked, can I go look inside the factory? you. You know, you're brilliant. I want to see your work. I love you. And, okay. And. And you just end up temptation upon temptation. And we who support President Trump, we don't do him any favors by being the peanut gallery going, yeah, but, but, but Biden and. And I can do that. I could do it right now, here. I'll do it. Well, at least in this case, President Trump is providing value. The Trump coins have done very well, we have to admit this. People made their money back. He's expanded his branding business. What are you supposed to stop doing business? In the case of Biden, he was just selling access. That's all he did. And 10% for the big guy. See how I could do that? Like the old days of talk radio, right?
Zach Yeah. Yeah, but
Todd Herman that's not what Christ would have us do. And I'd ask you how. How would you, if you were to have the wand in D.C. and let's say that the next Republican president brought you in, or whoever president and said, hey, Zach, I want you to create some rules for the executive branch that I want to run past Congress for them. But I control the executive branch. I have full control. What should we do here to make sure that money is not a driving force in decisions in my executive. Executive branch? What would you do?
Abraham Supports Blind Trusts And Restrictions On Lobbying
Zach I would so, you know, to give credit to people that have dealt with this issue already. It is not, this is not a new topic and it's something I've looked into pretty extensively in terms of the money and politics issue. So first of all, it's very complicated and there's a lot of nuance involved. look, I am somebody that totally understands the legal precedent that, that, that was, that the Citizens United decision was based on. But I think that we are at an abnormal. I think we're at a unique place in the history of our country where we need to look at, antitrust issues, we need to look at, new definitions of monopolies. And because we need to visit those, those things naturally, we need to look at corporate money and politics, in my opinion.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Zach I do not think corporations should be able to fund super PACs with unlimited amounts. What
Todd Herman about m. Labor unions?
Zach No. You know, unions are they right alongside. Right. This, this ability for labor unions to be seen somehow is different than a corporation when, when, when the director of the labor Union is making 10-12x as much as the average person. Person. Does that sound a little bit like a, like a Fortune 500 company?
Todd Herman Yeah, but it's a bit.
Zach Well, that guy's making 30 times more. 12 times more. 30 times more. You've got executive type people getting rich off of the backs of working people. Yeah. You call it a union, we call this a corporation. Same thing. Same thing.
Todd Herman And the business model for the union is you are forced to join, so. Well,
Zach yeah. And then the other thing that the union has is the, the union has an inflow of government dollars. Right. Like the WEA giving. Giving the WEA getting an $83 million grant from the, the state of Washington to administer a certification to 12 people.
Todd Herman Yeah. And then turning around and spending it on a voter initiative. Right.
Zach You're right. Against us taking our tax dollars and using it to fund political campaigns. against us. Right, right. And they, and then they expect us to believe. Here's the great ruse of it all. Oh, 12. 12 people for 83 million. Government's so wasteful. And you go waste. Come on, dude. Come on. It's called a hustle. That's called a twenty five thousand dollar toilet seat in the military. Same thing. Right, Right. It's a hustle. So. So no, it's a complete hustle. So, the role of money in politics. I Think it needs to involve something about corporations. I also think that you should have. If you want to know. If you want to know what's wrong with money in politics, let's examine the fact that there really is no. And let me just tell you right now, I've had this debate, especially with people on the left. They go, there is a law against insider trading in Congress. No, there's not. No, there's not. Because the law has no teeth. And when somebody like me examines it, they're held to a completely different standard. Basically, you have to prove unequivocally that they intended to short something. Guess what? Unless you have a voice recording, that's impossible to prove, okay? Where guys like me, when we get. When that allegation goes against us, we have to prove we didn't. And I know guys who have been strung up that didn't. They got nailed when they shouldn't have. So it is a fake rule. They laughed when they passed it because it has absolutely no teeth. The fact that that rule, that there is no definitive rule against insider trading and the fact that they carried interest loophole is still open. Tells you it's all just lip service and nonsense. Yeah, right. So, you know, you got to take big steps to get money out of politics. The ironic thing is the people that scream that message the loudest seem to be the ones that vote against everything that could possibly get money out of politics.
Todd Herman I couldn't agree more. And at the executive branch level, where you have complete control, the president shall preside over the executive branch, not can, shall. I would look at this and say, hey, first day, welcome to the White House. You know, we're here to do the will of the American people. Let's understand some things here. you're not here to make money. You're going to get paid and paid well. But everybody here, as of now, is being handed a piece of paper. You will be taking any and all investments, will be going through a blind trust,
Zach 100%.
Todd Herman You pick someone in your family, if you're not married, your parents, someone else, who will administer that trust to, your best interest. but you will not be allowed to look at the performance of that trust throughout your tenure here.
Zach I. Dude, as a guy that has investments and runs an investment firm, I don't have to do that exact thing, but I have to adhere to levels of protocol that are at least that intense. So when I sit there and listen to these reasons why they can't do that, I sit there and I'm Like, I do this kind of stuff every day, guys.
Todd Herman Right. I
Zach do it every day. Right. When I invest alongside my clients, I have to do so in a way where I don't get as good a deal as they get.
Todd Herman Yeah, you. You have to take second position. You have to make sure you pay more, get less or less voting shares. And these are some pretty simple things. Also, another form going around. you're going to work in the White house for your 10. Here, here. for three years after this. you may not work for any lobbying organization, either as an advisor or an employee. So, yep,
Zach 100%.
Todd Herman Right. You don't want to make them sign? I. Yeah,
Zach I make it five years.
Todd Herman Yeah. Right. So choose your lane. It's a government lane, or it's a, consulting lane. Lobbying lane. You want to take the lobbying line? No. Hurt Felix. We won't have trouble having people finding people to work at the White House. Then I think you go out and you broadcast that fact that this is what we've done, and you say to Congress, hey, you could do the same thing. You could do the same thing. You control your employees. You could do it at the Supreme Court level. And I think if we went back to expecting our leadership to at least act more like the elders of a church, right, as is laid out in the Bible, I think we'd get a far, far better. Hm.
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Herman Revisits Covid Origins And Criticizes Gates' Vaccine Profits
Welcome back to Disciples View. I'm Todd Herman. We'll get to the tower. Babbling. A personal note here in just a moment. A quick cleanup item. there was a lot that became clear, this past week about some things that, your CIA did in regard to the COVID psyop. One of the things they did. And Justin Hart at Rational Ground has reported this. And, there is a public documentation of this. Tony Fauci was brought into a CIA meeting to pressure CIA operatives to change their opinion. that the Cove flu, came from the lab, that it was a lab leak. It was. I think there were seven people or so on that committee, and six had said, this is a lab leak, as seventh had said he favored the natural, origins. It had previously been reported that they had to be bribed to change their opinion. That apparently didn't happen. Justin is correcting the record on that. And this comes from new public documents, requests and some, some foundational knowledge we now have. Foushee pressured people. The CIA, changed their opinion. And then Fauci was the guy who provided the CIA with the, with these scientists to interview to help put to bed the fact that this virus came out of a Chinese lab funded by American tax dollars laundered through universities and other non governmental organizations. Now Fauci had said to Congress that he had never briefed the CIA. That's not true. He was asked if he had briefed the CIA on this and he said, well, not, not to my knowledge. So at least he didn't take the fifth. He said not to his knowledge. It's just, just another instance of I think Fauci apparently committing perjury. Now that's all what we know. Now there's some things that people have forgotten and I hope they won't forget because they're going to try this stuff again. This is RFK Jr talking about event 201, which was an event to rehearse everything they did to us during the COVID psyop. Bill gates, according to RFK Jr. Was overseeing that event. And he's talking here about a timeline in September and October, the, the year that they hit the COVID stuff on us and that they already knew that Covid was in the wilds. This was known, it was being found in Italy. And later this was confirmed because of some studies of sewage water, which can tell you a lot if you go back and they stored that stuff, because you can go back and do public health analysis, that it was in the water then. So they did this event 201. They rehearsed how to shut down free speech, how to keep people from talking about, and I'm quoting RFK Jr. How to keep people from talking about a lab leak. And then RFK Jr tells us this.
RFK Jr. That same week Bill Gates, who was overseeing this simulation, made a 1.1 million shares of BioNTech vaccine which later became the Pfizer vaccine. He then sold that, all that, almost all that stock, 87% two years later as a acting $242 million profit. And a week after that he bumped it house. The vaccine didn't work.
Todd Herman It's called pump and dump. You pump up a stock and then you sell it and then you Dump it rhetorically after you dump it financially. So Gates's, investments in a, so called vaccine he knew was going to be forced upon the American people and people globally netted him $242 million. Now I've had people say to me, look, that's a rounding error to Bill Gates, $242 million doesn't matter. No, but the business model does. Remember that Jeffrey Epstein was hired by Bill Gates, the Gates, well, the Gates foundation, to create this business model for how Bill could profit from his vaccine portfolio. Bill has a fake meat portfolio? Or did he has a fake protein, a fake butter portfolio? It was a business model test. Can we use the power of government to purchase products from companies they don't like for products they don't want and pretend it's free if it's a, ah, so called vaccine or pretend it's food if it's going into the grocery stores?
Tower Of Babbling Mocks Predictions And Replays Vaccine Statements
On this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with her feature called the Tower of Babbling.
Jeff Chamblee You know about the biblical truth of the Tower of Babel. A, disciple's view presents the Tower of Babbling. Well, the answer
Speaker F is, listen to Bill Gates. Bill's right around about a lot of things and he set the steep learning curve in global help.
Todd Herman Three sound bites in today's tower Babbling. almost always the case, this is just a quick review of some things that didn't happen and then something that wasn't going to happen and apparently is in the way of elections. Joy Behar of the View was very, very, very convinced that Orange Man Bad had a plan for the midterms. Trump is
Joy Behar looking for this kind of pandemonium to go on like you just described, so that he could declare martial law or something and, and also cancel the midterms. Well, under martial law, you won't have elections.
Todd Herman Yeah, that's what, that's what she said. But look, because, yeah, they didn't cancel the elections. I guess the Orange man forgot to do that. So that didn't happen. Second sound bites in today's Tara babbling. The Daily Show, a comedy show, was reacting to several members of the Mockingbird Media who said that President Trump might cancel the elections. Trump was joking. He was clearly joking. I've done such a good job. Maybe they should cancel elections. Very Trumpian joke. And a comedy show took this on. Donald Trump once again floated
Jeff Chamblee the idea of canceling the midterms. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.
Speaker H You can't cancel elections. Voting is the most American thing you can do besides, well, not voting. And forgive me for being serious for a moment, but the president suggesting that he might cancel the midterms appears to be the inflection point toward a dictatorship from which our nation cannot
Todd Herman return. Good thing that didn't happen. Lost sound, bite in today's top babbling. And it just goes to the fact and prove the point that Democrats care about what they call our democracy. We don't care. Live in a democracy. They're trying to make that the case with the, electoral college suicide pact. We have a republic they really take seriously are what they call democracy. This was the governor elect David Crowley, before the election. The governor elect of Wisconsin, David Crowley. Before the election,
Interviewer you talked about potentially having that trifecta in the state house, the governor, senate and assembly, potentially. If you had that
RFK Jr. trifecta of Democrats
Interviewer in Madison, would you go forward with redistricting mid cycle?
RFK Jr. No, I would not go forward with redistricting
Todd Herman mid cycle. Look, okay, good. He wouldn't do that. You know, he'd wait for a full cycle and, and do this during, a general election, not just a midterm. Good. Oh, well, that was before. Before the election. Here is governor elect David Crowley after the election. He said it's not his priority to, redistrict. But,
David Crowley but just to put the deal in the carpet, when it comes down to this, if the bill was to reach my desk, I will sign it.
Todd Herman Oh, okay. What changed? Oh, the election, by the way, there's this thing called situation ethics, and this is where your ethics depend on the situation. So your ethics are fluid, you might say. And that's a wrap for today's tower babbling.
Todd Herman You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we largely vaccinated the entire, entire global population. You need to get vaccinated, and if you don't, you are going to die.
Todd Herman If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy. You have no right not to be vaccinated. They should be removed from the hospital. Those who refuse to be vaccinated should be denied health care.
Veterans' Messages Encourage Service, Faith, And Spiritual Perseverance
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon on a Disciples view.
Todd Herman On a personal note, today I got a lot of very loving notes, from some people who served in our military on Tuesday. I had mentioned that sometimes I feel like we should apologize, to guys and men and women who served and, you know, I don't know that you can serve in combat and not come away having seen death and death of loved ones, teammates and squad mates, etc. And I'd said that we had. We're putting them in a position to have to fight again, for what? Our veterans have spent well over 200 years fighting to maintain that. That was, you know, we fought for independence. They did. they fought for us to have. Be taxed only when we're represented, taxation with representation. They fought for the recognition of rights, that come from God and are therefore unalienable. Governments can't take them away. They fought battles and people died to secure those rights and then enshrine them in the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights. And throughout our history, we have fought, they have fought. We have watched them fought, they have fought attempts to install maniacal, clearly evil, dictatorships around the world. Hitler's a great example of that. Mussolini, Stalin's Russia had the same aspirations. Mao's China, same aspirations, same core evil starting at the spiritual level, clearly. And our veterans stepped up and now we're seeing in our country these rights being etched away at, the right of free speech, the, the right of, of, of gun ownership, the private property rights. And so I felt like I should apologize. I got a couple of really nice notes William wrote me from Houston, Texas. Dear Todd, United States army veteran here, please don't apologize. We veterans do serve. We do it with honor. Most of us. We know our country's not perfect. We do what we can. You do what you can. I wish you would stop delegitimizing what you do as a radio host. We all have ways to serve. That's yours. Mine was in the military. God bless you. God bless afr. Thanks for being part of our day and strengthening our faith. Well, William, thank you for that. I appreciate that. And, and we only get to do this here through the grace of the, the, the people who donate. We're listener driven and we only get to do this, William, because of you, because of what you guys sacrifice. So there's no way I can compare talking in the radio to what you do. I accept. I, I receive your, your compliment. I receive it, I'm thankful for it. I, recognize that this is a gifting God gave us. It gave me. And we all have different gifts. This came from Mary in Memphis, Tennessee. Dear Todd, my husband served in the military in the Marine The Core. he was killed in Iraq. I was crying when you were making your statement, apologizing for what this nation has become. And I can tell you wholeheartedly my husband would have been screaming at the radio and ah, what he would have been screaming at is you are helping. I want you to know that AFR is a bright spot in our day. It was a bright spot for my husband. I want you to know you don't need to apologize. We're all in this. All of us play a role in where America is headed. What we need to do, as my husband would say, is lock and load and be in the battle together. And as you would say, by recognizing who we're fighting, which is Satan himself. Say hi to everyone at AFR for us. We appreciate what you do. Thank you Mary. Fact is this guys, all of us are in a war. You are and I am and it is a spiritual war. And my Pastor Jim says something that I really agree with which is you can't fight like the devil for the things of God. So our fight is going to be won on our knees. Our fight is going to be won in God's word. Sharing God's word and then allowing God's face to shine through our actions. So that even when people intend us harm, even they are met with the grace of Christ and may they have hot coals poured upon their head of shame for what they intend. And yes, we do need to defend ourselves. We do need to lock and load and let our veterans do what they do. 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, the Word walk in the path of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all nations until God grants us permission to speak again together. May his peace which transcends all understanding, rest upon you and your families. On behalf of Randy and M. Afr, I'm Todd Herman and this has been a disciples.
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Host Introduces Interview About Sexual Ideology And Youth
He let me work in dc, let me work with EIB and Hollywood in Silicon Valley. And he's shown me through all those experiences that there is one problem and one solution. And that's why we do this show.
Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples View with Todd Herman.
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, he didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke. God said, let there be light. Because we believe, we speak about the happenings in this world, mindful that our true home is with Jesus Christ in his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples View. Every so often we stand in biblical rebellion against the news cycle. I consider it very, very useful news and very godly news to share what's happening to our young people, particularly on high school and college campuses. And I had an opportunity to talk with Heidi Olson, who's a sexual trauma nurse. She's just written a peer reviewed paper, about something she refers to as a sexual ideology and how this is causing young women and young men to make really, really horrible decisions as to how they treat the temple. This isn't going to be explicit. this is a part of a conversation that is a tough one to hear and watch, but I encourage you to do it. It's at the toddhermanshow.substack.com you can watch that or rumble.com Odd Eherman. This is Heidi Olson and I talking about sexual ideology and how it's causing kids to make really horrible decisions.
Olson Critiques Hyper Independence And The Girl Boss Ideal
There's all sorts of, of thought laundering that goes on. And I think one way this is done, from perspective of, of porn addled people for whom sex is an ideology is the phrase female empowerment. which could be a true thing. I mean, it's a neat thing to hear a young woman taking ownership for herself, explaining her needs, positioning boundaries. but there's a difference version of that that, girl bosses are participating in. Do you agree that there's a negative kind of a, ah, girl boss thing?
Heidi Olson Yeah, I can say growing up in this culture, a lot of us were fed this lie from a very early age, which is if you're a female, you do not need men. You should not ever want. Right. Any kind of, partnership with a man. You can do everything yourself. You can make a ton of money. You can even have kids without a man. Right. You don't need a man for anything. You should be hyper independent. And I think a lot of us clung onto this life. Yeah, that's great. I don't have to be vulnerable. I don't have to want anything. I don't have to need anything. And yet I think if we zoom back, that is not how the Lord created us. Right. Not meaning that we're helpless and that we're dependent on men for getting all of our needs met, but meaning there is something, I think beautiful about femininity and softness and women bring life into the world. Right. We have this unique role in the world. And I think the lie is you could just reject all of that and be just like a man, act just like a man. Right. And there won't be any consequences. And I think what we're seeing is that women are actually incredibly lonely. They want to be in relationship. They don't know how to access their femininity in sort of this healthy way. And so, yeah, I think the girl boss lie is harming us as females.
Todd Herman Yeah. And it's so prevalent.
A Television Character Prompts Discussion Of The Cornell Case
You know, my wife and I have been watching a show we probably should have watched. I don't think we'll watch the second season, but it's, you know, won eight Emmys, which should have been an indication to us that it's trash. But it's, called the Last of Us, dystopian America. There's this fungus that has inhabited people and m. Surprise, surprise. That turns them into zombies. And every leader of every successfully surviving dystopian society is led by a girl boss. And the young girl in the. In the series is going about with this guy who happens to be very good at killing people. she's girl boss. Ish. but the girl boss sexual behavior is what got me to thinking about what I call the Cornell eight. and first of all, I want to ask you, does that seem an offensive phrase to you, that I call it the Cornell 8?
Heidi Olson You know, I think on some level maybe, like, implying she needs to take ownership for some of the abuse that. That happened to her. You know, like, I think maybe that's where my brain goes. But also I want to acknowledge this case is so messy. It's so messy and complicated. And I think that some of her behaviors actually make sense to me. And we can get into them, like, from a trauma lens. But I also think there are things we need to have some curiosity about, you know, like what was happening here and was she playing into sort of this porn role she thinks she's supposed to do? Right. And, and manufacture, and where was the consent and all of that? I think it's absolutely worth asking those questions.
Todd Herman Yeah. And, and I am. I'm not using that phrase to be provocative. I want to invite a thought that eight people involve themselves in something. And I will say as a man, I would hope I would be one of the guys breaking into that room going, what the blank are you doing? Stop this. Stop this.
Herman Recalls Fraternity Misconduct And Asks About Consent
And in point of fact, you know, when I was a guest in a fraternity house, and there was a ton of drinking. It's a fraternity house, we didn't take ketamine. but I slept on the sleeping porch one night. Well, I didn't sleep. I passed out. and I woke up and I was walking past a young woman, who, largely naked, laying in a bed, with horrible, words written on her face, in black marker, and on her body, in black marker. And I was sick, and I covered her with a sheet. I was just sick. And I, knew that there was a sorority that had been invited to that party, and I knew I could call their, you know, phone number and say, you need to come and get your sister over here. and God forbid she wake up and see these words. So, I'm aware of some real deep seated illness, in fraternity culture. And that was prior to digital porn. I mean, I am, I'm like a great grandpa to you. And it Was prior to that. so when I'm saying eight in this case, I'm looking at the. And I'm very open to this discussion, and I want to hear you from a trauma perspective. I look at the pre event young woman, and I can see, okay, maybe she's talked into this. Maybe she thinks this guy's interested, so she agrees to a threesome after all. That's normal. And then I look at the post event young woman, and I'm completely open to and very curious about this gap period where she could step back and go, wait a minute, was that me or was that girl boss? Was that them or was that Gunner? and what happened there? Now, you look at this from a very educated perspective. You walked with this, you know, circumstances with young women. Does it happen that young women step back and go, okay, I know I said yes, but I don't think I meant yes. And this gets legally sticky too, which you can talk about, but does that happen?
Trauma Can Make Sexual Assault Difficult To Recognize
Heidi Olson Yes, absolutely. I think more often than not, sexual assault happens in these really confusing kind of gray areas where everyone's intoxicated and maybe there's coercion or pressure or, I'm overriding my intuition of what I know. I don't want to be here, but I really want this guy to like me. Right. Whatever it may be, where things start to get really messy. And then when we experience trauma, we cannot access the logical part of our brain anymore. So we step back and we're trying to make sense, but we're in survival brain. And it's like, wait a second, what exactly happened here? I actually don't think I was okay with that. But in the moment, I'm surviving it. It's so complicated when you add in. Right. Drugs, alcohol, not really understanding consent. Again, sort of this free for all sexual culture, it creates such a confusing landscape for everybody involved. And so I think more often than not, sexual assault actually looks like this really messy situation that's hard to understand versus the stereotype we have, which is like, oh, a stranger attacked a woman in an alleyway and she fought for her life and immediately reported it to the police. It's like it almost never looks like that. But that's easy for our brains to understand. But when. When we look at these, like, ultra complicated scenarios, it's like, whoa, this doesn't make sense to me. That's not following, you know, a logical pattern. And the thing is, trauma isn't logical, and the responses to it are not. And so I would say this actually the story Is more often than not, this is kind of how sexual assault plays out and the fallout of it.
Delayed Recognition And Social Shaming Complicate Victims' Responses
Todd Herman Yeah. And to me, it gets legally complex because you look at the text chain. not only did she agree to do this, then later she was celebrating it, and, hey, come on, you know, nothing we did was illegal. I actually enjoyed being with you and this other guy, and maybe those other guys should have stayed in their lane, but, you know, they did this in medieval times. Let's all relax. And m. Then she starts, this is interesting to me. then she starts to hear that her name is being trashed and she's being called all these horrible names and the S word, etc. And the guys are saying, oh, we're trying to tamp down on all of that. And these are people, they're just jealous. They're bored. This is just fan behavior. That's an interesting phrase. This is just fan behavior. But if you're growing up around porn and around gooners, and around only fans and around boss, you know, girl boss behaviors, it had to be kind of a shock to her system to go, wait, what? You're calling me the S word,
Heidi Olson Right?
Todd Herman and how does that even happen in a campus environment where all these kids have been exposed to porn? And have you seen cases like that where girls have said, wait, I didn't even think this is wrong until people started calling me the S word.
Heidi Olson Yes, I have taken care of teenagers that didn't even identify what was happening to them with sexual assault until I used the word sexual assault. And then they were like, what? Like. So I think that for a lot of people, again, most of us don't want to say that we've been victimized or harmed. And again, it's because it's so messy. And it's like, did I play a role in this? How do I make sense of it? I don't want to believe someone would do this to me. I think initially it can just be easy to be like, okay, it got a little out of hand, and I didn't like it. But I wonder if with time, she's in her gut, in her body, is saying, I did not want these things over here to happen to me. Now what do I call it? And now I'm being shamed and ostracized over here. I need to kind of draw a hard line on. I didn't ask for this.
Workplace Abuse Analogy Explains Why Victims May Stay Silent
I want to give a little bit of analogy so it might make more sense to your audience. So I think when we think about sexual assault, Right. It's like one of the worst things anyone can think of. And again, we sort of have this assumption of like, if someone was assaulted, they would definitely call it that and they would definitely report it immediately. But it's like a lot of us tolerate terrible behavior and go back to it and don't call it that. So I'll give you an example. Imagine you're working at a, you know, soul crushing, 9 to 5 corporate job in there. Right? Right. Right. You have to, because you need to make money. Right. So you go in, you have this terrible abusive boss. Say you're in a conference room meeting and he says some, you know, really verbally abusive thing to you. Right. You probably aren't going to talk back to him. You're probably not going to report it to HR because they're not going to do anything. You might, you know, be texting your wife or whatever, like, my boss is such a jerk. But you're probably not going to say, I'm being abused at work. And then you get home and it's like, I hate my job, I need another one. But I'm going to go back the next day right back to that toxic environment because this boss has something I need, I need to get paid. And no, it's not a perfect analogy, but I think the same thing happens with sexual trauma where there's maybe I want this person's attention, but I didn't like this thing and I don't know how to make sense of it and I'm not going to be believed and I don't even want to use the word rape because that feels gross. And I don't really think I'm a victim, but maybe I am and should I tell law enforcement? And so it gets so complex that actually a lot of these behaviors make sense to me from a trauma perspective, even though, again, it's not this logical linear path that we want it to be.
Interview Addresses Male Survivors And Intoxication's Consent Risks
Todd Herman Yeah, I know that you have mostly worked with, with females, but are there cases where young men have said, hey, I didn't want her to do that, and she did and it feels icky.
Heidi Olson Yes, of course. And I'm glad you're bringing this up because I think this is such a huge piece of the puzzle that we leave out. To your point, we just make this overarching assumption that like, men should just love anything sexual happening to them at all times. And it's like we lose the humanity of men right. When we make those assumptions, where it's like, of course they have choice and preference and should be able to say yes or no, just like women. And so I think that that's a really toxic message we have in our, our culture. But of course, I, I have talked to many boys, men who have experienced sexual assault. And again, they don't call it that, but they're describing a scenario where they're not able to consent. And of course women can sexually assault men. I think again, when we have drugs and alcohol infused with sex now, it makes consent so incredibly messy because truly no one's in full control of their faculties at this point. So I think that's a whole other layer of really who could be consenting in this situation when everybody is high and drunk.
Todd Herman Yeah, again, that was a conversation between myself and Heidi Olsen, a sexual trauma nurse, talking about sexual ideology and how it's driving young people away from God's design for holy union through, well, marriage and joining together as one flesh. We'll come back on a disciple's view. Foreign.
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Herman And Abraham Criticize Trump's Financial Conflicts
You sit in a position, Zach Abraham, Chief Investment Officer, Bullock Capital Management. You sit, in a, position where you have to look at things like these, these financial things with President Trump from many, many different perspectives. But I wanted to start with this. We as godly men who abide with Christ, we have to be able to take a sober look, even at politicians or office holders, that we want to be able to support President Trump. You and I want to be able to support him. We have supported him in many, many of his policies. Still do. But I read this Forbes article or what the author put of it up on, on Twitter. And this is very ugly. On, on one hand it's President Trump being President Trump. It's licensing revenues from crypto earnings. A billion in crypto, a billion of crypto tokens created out of thin air. That's how crypto works. 400 million dollar expansion of a branding business, 500 million dollar fine wiped out, which by the way should have been wiped out. That was an insane, ridiculous and offensive decision from that court. It was silliness. and he counts that as his net worth increasing. President Trump's net worth increased, from 3,3 billion according to this guy, from fall 2025, 2024 to 2025. For context, Obama's went up from 1.3 million to 12 million while he was in office and then, went up to about 70 million after he left. so his went up by 10 times. But I'm looking at this, Zach, and I'm asking you as first of all, a guy who is a fiduciary has to put my financial interests above yours. if you are looking at this activity, just from a perspective of financial ethics with the chief executive, how do you view this?
Zach I think the best way to probably put it would be, it doesn't surprise me. but I was, I'm a guy that voted for him three times. and I was really, again not surprised, but I was really disappointed to see it because, what I see is not out and out fraud. what I do see though is a flagrance toward the rules. I don't see somebody that is tiptoeing in an effort to avoid all appearances of impropriety.
Todd Herman Yeah,
Zach I, I, quite honestly somebody in that position, I'm struggling to find another word, but, feels reckless. Meaning, like, so when you look at people, I feel like there's two different way or there's a couple different ways that people my act going into this situation. Right. And, and, and I don't really care what the reason is because the outcome for both is good. But there are people that manage their own finances in a way to avoid any appearance of impropriety for the sake of what that does for them.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Zach Okay. And there are people that avoid the sake of impropriety because they're really trying not to do something wrong either, or I'm okay with that. Even if the reasons why you're, you're avoiding the appearances of impropriety and you're really avoiding impropriety is because It'll hurt your brand. Yeah. Good. I mean, I wish you had more altruistic reasons, but Good. Right. the tough thing about this with Trump is he's not really doing either. I mean, even if he, even if 100% of these transactions is 100% legal, it doesn't look good at all. Especially the position in a crypto company where everybody can see that he's an owner of a crypto company. And if the Trump boys are sitting there looking for an outside investment, do you think that plays a role?
Todd Herman Yeah. Right. The
Zach current sitting president owns a chunk of the firm, about 8%. You can be a co owner.
Todd Herman Yeah. And you have some of the structures of these deals. Like Trump is taking 52.5% himself, 22.5 to family members, 12.5 to a family affiliate of Steve Witkoff, Trump's soon to be ambassador at large. And, there was this Liberty, this, this World Liberty deal, that came in with a whole bunch of money coming into some of his crypto assets. And it was his. Justin sun, the SEC had accused of fraud, announced a 30 million dollar investment, single handedly wiping out the 30 million dollar threshold, ensuring that Trump and his family, Witkoffs would collect. if, if you'd said, when we're talking about this offline, I agree, if this had been structured by, by, by Biden's family, and this was going on behind the scenes and Hunter structured this, and this is where we as Christian men better check ourselves. because Jesus Christ invented the word hypocrite in regard to pretending to be something. Hypocrite meant actor. And he called these, he called the Pharisees hypocrites. I don't think Jesus smiles upon hypocrites. So I think we as godly men need to be able to call this out and say that stinks. and the president, it's, it's improper, it's not illegal, and it's just a branding deal, a licensing deal. But it's improper.
Zach I don't, I don't understand. And I'll tell you what, man, whenever you see these things, whenever you see him making what you think are bad decisions or mistakes, I'm not happy about it.
Todd Herman No,
Zach I know, I know what's at stake culturally. I know that, I know the hope that we have for a guy like Trump and, and the, and the difference we thought he could make and we hoped he made and all that other kind of stuff. I'm not saying that he hasn't done Some good things. But I'm saying, if we as Christian supporters are going to just turn to blind eye to things that we absolutely would have made Joe Biden and Hunter Biden wear. I. Guys, that's not a Christianity. That's consistent to me. I. We're. We're either. We're either for it or we're not.
Jeff Chamblee Yeah.
Zach And choose this day whom you will serve. And. And unfortunately, I'll tell you what, Todd, I hear a lot of Christians out there sounding like they serve Trump.
Todd Herman Right.
Zach Not Christ. And
Todd Herman you don't do.
Zach And that. And it doesn't mean. Doesn't mean we need to be disrespectful. Doesn't mean we need to say these everything. But you know what I mean? Like, it's just, hey, if something does not look right and does not look like the way a Christian would operate and does not pass our ethical smell test, I think we're obligated to say it,
Todd Herman and it's okay to say it about the leader of the free world.
Hosts Advocate Stronger Ethics And Limits On Political Money
If a friend of ours is doing this. For instance, if you were sitting with a buddy who owned a. Let's say, ran a public company, and you're sitting, you guys are having lunch, and he says, hey, I got to tell you something, man. I got to tell you something. I am in possession some information, on what's going on with my competitor. And you know what? I'm going to buy some stock in them because they're about to just eat our lunch and something. And I want to let you in on this. You're sitting at the lunch table and he says this to you. Your response is,
Zach I've been in situations like that, and I'm not a perfect man. And I've talked about my own personal failings and, moral failures on the show before. When I've gotten news like that, I waited till the second the news became public and entered a trade. And did it. Did it mean that I won? Less. Yeah.
Todd Herman Did you say to your brother. Do you say to your brother, brother? That's inside trading. Insider trading. Yeah.
Zach Hey, don't tell. Don't. Don't tell anybody else. And no. Yeah. I'm not making that transaction with you. There have been times where I knew about things and I just didn't act.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Zach for instance, going into Covid and I remember you and I talking about this, I had extraordinarily interesting information about a very large technology company from somebody that was 100 in the know. Yep.
Zach right. 100 in the know. And I And I could have easily danced around that legally, and I did not, because, like, it's illegal. It's, you know, legal. So.
Todd Herman And then there's the. The. The overall and eternal judge. And this is the part that I, I hope people understand. We don't do President Trump any eternal favors when we gloss past this stuff and give him the opportunity to reflect upon this. He could have structured this in such a different way. And I know people get frustrated with the DeSantis, Trump, comparisons. Ron DeSantis does not trade stocks. He has his stuff in a blind trust. He doesn't go out and take a bunch of speaking fees. He has one of the lower, lowest net worths of any state governor in the country. And he's doing this to avoid, impropriety, maybe to not be improper. And I look at this, and I, I wonder, what other temptation does this put on you? When the game has always been the game, how much money can you make? President Trump doesn't need more money. He'll never need money. But when the game is the game, how much more temptation does this put on the table for you? It's just like this guy that the. Then the Nvidia guy, the CEO. Oh, we did this once. Now you're tempted to do it again and again and again. And then she asked, can I go look inside the factory? you. You know, you're brilliant. I want to see your work. I love you. And, okay. And. And you just end up temptation upon temptation. And we who support President Trump, we don't do him any favors by being the peanut gallery going, yeah, but, but, but Biden and. And I can do that. I could do it right now, here. I'll do it. Well, at least in this case, President Trump is providing value. The Trump coins have done very well, we have to admit this. People made their money back. He's expanded his branding business. What are you supposed to stop doing business? In the case of Biden, he was just selling access. That's all he did. And 10% for the big guy. See how I could do that? Like the old days of talk radio, right?
Zach Yeah. Yeah, but
Todd Herman that's not what Christ would have us do. And I'd ask you how. How would you, if you were to have the wand in D.C. and let's say that the next Republican president brought you in, or whoever president and said, hey, Zach, I want you to create some rules for the executive branch that I want to run past Congress for them. But I control the executive branch. I have full control. What should we do here to make sure that money is not a driving force in decisions in my executive. Executive branch? What would you do?
Abraham Supports Blind Trusts And Restrictions On Lobbying
Zach I would so, you know, to give credit to people that have dealt with this issue already. It is not, this is not a new topic and it's something I've looked into pretty extensively in terms of the money and politics issue. So first of all, it's very complicated and there's a lot of nuance involved. look, I am somebody that totally understands the legal precedent that, that, that was, that the Citizens United decision was based on. But I think that we are at an abnormal. I think we're at a unique place in the history of our country where we need to look at, antitrust issues, we need to look at, new definitions of monopolies. And because we need to visit those, those things naturally, we need to look at corporate money and politics, in my opinion.
Todd Herman Yeah.
Zach I do not think corporations should be able to fund super PACs with unlimited amounts. What
Todd Herman about m. Labor unions?
Zach No. You know, unions are they right alongside. Right. This, this ability for labor unions to be seen somehow is different than a corporation when, when, when the director of the labor Union is making 10-12x as much as the average person. Person. Does that sound a little bit like a, like a Fortune 500 company?
Todd Herman Yeah, but it's a bit.
Zach Well, that guy's making 30 times more. 12 times more. 30 times more. You've got executive type people getting rich off of the backs of working people. Yeah. You call it a union, we call this a corporation. Same thing. Same thing.
Todd Herman And the business model for the union is you are forced to join, so. Well,
Zach yeah. And then the other thing that the union has is the, the union has an inflow of government dollars. Right. Like the WEA giving. Giving the WEA getting an $83 million grant from the, the state of Washington to administer a certification to 12 people.
Todd Herman Yeah. And then turning around and spending it on a voter initiative. Right.
Zach You're right. Against us taking our tax dollars and using it to fund political campaigns. against us. Right, right. And they, and then they expect us to believe. Here's the great ruse of it all. Oh, 12. 12 people for 83 million. Government's so wasteful. And you go waste. Come on, dude. Come on. It's called a hustle. That's called a twenty five thousand dollar toilet seat in the military. Same thing. Right, Right. It's a hustle. So. So no, it's a complete hustle. So, the role of money in politics. I Think it needs to involve something about corporations. I also think that you should have. If you want to know. If you want to know what's wrong with money in politics, let's examine the fact that there really is no. And let me just tell you right now, I've had this debate, especially with people on the left. They go, there is a law against insider trading in Congress. No, there's not. No, there's not. Because the law has no teeth. And when somebody like me examines it, they're held to a completely different standard. Basically, you have to prove unequivocally that they intended to short something. Guess what? Unless you have a voice recording, that's impossible to prove, okay? Where guys like me, when we get. When that allegation goes against us, we have to prove we didn't. And I know guys who have been strung up that didn't. They got nailed when they shouldn't have. So it is a fake rule. They laughed when they passed it because it has absolutely no teeth. The fact that that rule, that there is no definitive rule against insider trading and the fact that they carried interest loophole is still open. Tells you it's all just lip service and nonsense. Yeah, right. So, you know, you got to take big steps to get money out of politics. The ironic thing is the people that scream that message the loudest seem to be the ones that vote against everything that could possibly get money out of politics.
Todd Herman I couldn't agree more. And at the executive branch level, where you have complete control, the president shall preside over the executive branch, not can, shall. I would look at this and say, hey, first day, welcome to the White House. You know, we're here to do the will of the American people. Let's understand some things here. you're not here to make money. You're going to get paid and paid well. But everybody here, as of now, is being handed a piece of paper. You will be taking any and all investments, will be going through a blind trust,
Zach 100%.
Todd Herman You pick someone in your family, if you're not married, your parents, someone else, who will administer that trust to, your best interest. but you will not be allowed to look at the performance of that trust throughout your tenure here.
Zach I. Dude, as a guy that has investments and runs an investment firm, I don't have to do that exact thing, but I have to adhere to levels of protocol that are at least that intense. So when I sit there and listen to these reasons why they can't do that, I sit there and I'm Like, I do this kind of stuff every day, guys.
Todd Herman Right. I
Zach do it every day. Right. When I invest alongside my clients, I have to do so in a way where I don't get as good a deal as they get.
Todd Herman Yeah, you. You have to take second position. You have to make sure you pay more, get less or less voting shares. And these are some pretty simple things. Also, another form going around. you're going to work in the White house for your 10. Here, here. for three years after this. you may not work for any lobbying organization, either as an advisor or an employee. So, yep,
Zach 100%.
Todd Herman Right. You don't want to make them sign? I. Yeah,
Zach I make it five years.
Todd Herman Yeah. Right. So choose your lane. It's a government lane, or it's a, consulting lane. Lobbying lane. You want to take the lobbying line? No. Hurt Felix. We won't have trouble having people finding people to work at the White House. Then I think you go out and you broadcast that fact that this is what we've done, and you say to Congress, hey, you could do the same thing. You could do the same thing. You control your employees. You could do it at the Supreme Court level. And I think if we went back to expecting our leadership to at least act more like the elders of a church, right, as is laid out in the Bible, I think we'd get a far, far better. Hm.
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Herman Revisits Covid Origins And Criticizes Gates' Vaccine Profits
Welcome back to Disciples View. I'm Todd Herman. We'll get to the tower. Babbling. A personal note here in just a moment. A quick cleanup item. there was a lot that became clear, this past week about some things that, your CIA did in regard to the COVID psyop. One of the things they did. And Justin Hart at Rational Ground has reported this. And, there is a public documentation of this. Tony Fauci was brought into a CIA meeting to pressure CIA operatives to change their opinion. that the Cove flu, came from the lab, that it was a lab leak. It was. I think there were seven people or so on that committee, and six had said, this is a lab leak, as seventh had said he favored the natural, origins. It had previously been reported that they had to be bribed to change their opinion. That apparently didn't happen. Justin is correcting the record on that. And this comes from new public documents, requests and some, some foundational knowledge we now have. Foushee pressured people. The CIA, changed their opinion. And then Fauci was the guy who provided the CIA with the, with these scientists to interview to help put to bed the fact that this virus came out of a Chinese lab funded by American tax dollars laundered through universities and other non governmental organizations. Now Fauci had said to Congress that he had never briefed the CIA. That's not true. He was asked if he had briefed the CIA on this and he said, well, not, not to my knowledge. So at least he didn't take the fifth. He said not to his knowledge. It's just, just another instance of I think Fauci apparently committing perjury. Now that's all what we know. Now there's some things that people have forgotten and I hope they won't forget because they're going to try this stuff again. This is RFK Jr talking about event 201, which was an event to rehearse everything they did to us during the COVID psyop. Bill gates, according to RFK Jr. Was overseeing that event. And he's talking here about a timeline in September and October, the, the year that they hit the COVID stuff on us and that they already knew that Covid was in the wilds. This was known, it was being found in Italy. And later this was confirmed because of some studies of sewage water, which can tell you a lot if you go back and they stored that stuff, because you can go back and do public health analysis, that it was in the water then. So they did this event 201. They rehearsed how to shut down free speech, how to keep people from talking about, and I'm quoting RFK Jr. How to keep people from talking about a lab leak. And then RFK Jr tells us this.
RFK Jr. That same week Bill Gates, who was overseeing this simulation, made a 1.1 million shares of BioNTech vaccine which later became the Pfizer vaccine. He then sold that, all that, almost all that stock, 87% two years later as a acting $242 million profit. And a week after that he bumped it house. The vaccine didn't work.
Todd Herman It's called pump and dump. You pump up a stock and then you sell it and then you Dump it rhetorically after you dump it financially. So Gates's, investments in a, so called vaccine he knew was going to be forced upon the American people and people globally netted him $242 million. Now I've had people say to me, look, that's a rounding error to Bill Gates, $242 million doesn't matter. No, but the business model does. Remember that Jeffrey Epstein was hired by Bill Gates, the Gates, well, the Gates foundation, to create this business model for how Bill could profit from his vaccine portfolio. Bill has a fake meat portfolio? Or did he has a fake protein, a fake butter portfolio? It was a business model test. Can we use the power of government to purchase products from companies they don't like for products they don't want and pretend it's free if it's a, ah, so called vaccine or pretend it's food if it's going into the grocery stores?
Tower Of Babbling Mocks Predictions And Replays Vaccine Statements
On this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with her feature called the Tower of Babbling.
Jeff Chamblee You know about the biblical truth of the Tower of Babel. A, disciple's view presents the Tower of Babbling. Well, the answer
Speaker F is, listen to Bill Gates. Bill's right around about a lot of things and he set the steep learning curve in global help.
Todd Herman Three sound bites in today's tower Babbling. almost always the case, this is just a quick review of some things that didn't happen and then something that wasn't going to happen and apparently is in the way of elections. Joy Behar of the View was very, very, very convinced that Orange Man Bad had a plan for the midterms. Trump is
Joy Behar looking for this kind of pandemonium to go on like you just described, so that he could declare martial law or something and, and also cancel the midterms. Well, under martial law, you won't have elections.
Todd Herman Yeah, that's what, that's what she said. But look, because, yeah, they didn't cancel the elections. I guess the Orange man forgot to do that. So that didn't happen. Second sound bites in today's Tara babbling. The Daily Show, a comedy show, was reacting to several members of the Mockingbird Media who said that President Trump might cancel the elections. Trump was joking. He was clearly joking. I've done such a good job. Maybe they should cancel elections. Very Trumpian joke. And a comedy show took this on. Donald Trump once again floated
Jeff Chamblee the idea of canceling the midterms. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.
Speaker H You can't cancel elections. Voting is the most American thing you can do besides, well, not voting. And forgive me for being serious for a moment, but the president suggesting that he might cancel the midterms appears to be the inflection point toward a dictatorship from which our nation cannot
Todd Herman return. Good thing that didn't happen. Lost sound, bite in today's top babbling. And it just goes to the fact and prove the point that Democrats care about what they call our democracy. We don't care. Live in a democracy. They're trying to make that the case with the, electoral college suicide pact. We have a republic they really take seriously are what they call democracy. This was the governor elect David Crowley, before the election. The governor elect of Wisconsin, David Crowley. Before the election,
Interviewer you talked about potentially having that trifecta in the state house, the governor, senate and assembly, potentially. If you had that
RFK Jr. trifecta of Democrats
Interviewer in Madison, would you go forward with redistricting mid cycle?
RFK Jr. No, I would not go forward with redistricting
Todd Herman mid cycle. Look, okay, good. He wouldn't do that. You know, he'd wait for a full cycle and, and do this during, a general election, not just a midterm. Good. Oh, well, that was before. Before the election. Here is governor elect David Crowley after the election. He said it's not his priority to, redistrict. But,
David Crowley but just to put the deal in the carpet, when it comes down to this, if the bill was to reach my desk, I will sign it.
Todd Herman Oh, okay. What changed? Oh, the election, by the way, there's this thing called situation ethics, and this is where your ethics depend on the situation. So your ethics are fluid, you might say. And that's a wrap for today's tower babbling.
Todd Herman You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we largely vaccinated the entire, entire global population. You need to get vaccinated, and if you don't, you are going to die.
Todd Herman If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy. You have no right not to be vaccinated. They should be removed from the hospital. Those who refuse to be vaccinated should be denied health care.
Veterans' Messages Encourage Service, Faith, And Spiritual Perseverance
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon on a Disciples view.
Todd Herman On a personal note, today I got a lot of very loving notes, from some people who served in our military on Tuesday. I had mentioned that sometimes I feel like we should apologize, to guys and men and women who served and, you know, I don't know that you can serve in combat and not come away having seen death and death of loved ones, teammates and squad mates, etc. And I'd said that we had. We're putting them in a position to have to fight again, for what? Our veterans have spent well over 200 years fighting to maintain that. That was, you know, we fought for independence. They did. they fought for us to have. Be taxed only when we're represented, taxation with representation. They fought for the recognition of rights, that come from God and are therefore unalienable. Governments can't take them away. They fought battles and people died to secure those rights and then enshrine them in the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights. And throughout our history, we have fought, they have fought. We have watched them fought, they have fought attempts to install maniacal, clearly evil, dictatorships around the world. Hitler's a great example of that. Mussolini, Stalin's Russia had the same aspirations. Mao's China, same aspirations, same core evil starting at the spiritual level, clearly. And our veterans stepped up and now we're seeing in our country these rights being etched away at, the right of free speech, the, the right of, of, of gun ownership, the private property rights. And so I felt like I should apologize. I got a couple of really nice notes William wrote me from Houston, Texas. Dear Todd, United States army veteran here, please don't apologize. We veterans do serve. We do it with honor. Most of us. We know our country's not perfect. We do what we can. You do what you can. I wish you would stop delegitimizing what you do as a radio host. We all have ways to serve. That's yours. Mine was in the military. God bless you. God bless afr. Thanks for being part of our day and strengthening our faith. Well, William, thank you for that. I appreciate that. And, and we only get to do this here through the grace of the, the, the people who donate. We're listener driven and we only get to do this, William, because of you, because of what you guys sacrifice. So there's no way I can compare talking in the radio to what you do. I accept. I, I receive your, your compliment. I receive it, I'm thankful for it. I, recognize that this is a gifting God gave us. It gave me. And we all have different gifts. This came from Mary in Memphis, Tennessee. Dear Todd, my husband served in the military in the Marine The Core. he was killed in Iraq. I was crying when you were making your statement, apologizing for what this nation has become. And I can tell you wholeheartedly my husband would have been screaming at the radio and ah, what he would have been screaming at is you are helping. I want you to know that AFR is a bright spot in our day. It was a bright spot for my husband. I want you to know you don't need to apologize. We're all in this. All of us play a role in where America is headed. What we need to do, as my husband would say, is lock and load and be in the battle together. And as you would say, by recognizing who we're fighting, which is Satan himself. Say hi to everyone at AFR for us. We appreciate what you do. Thank you Mary. Fact is this guys, all of us are in a war. You are and I am and it is a spiritual war. And my Pastor Jim says something that I really agree with which is you can't fight like the devil for the things of God. So our fight is going to be won on our knees. Our fight is going to be won in God's word. Sharing God's word and then allowing God's face to shine through our actions. So that even when people intend us harm, even they are met with the grace of Christ and may they have hot coals poured upon their head of shame for what they intend. And yes, we do need to defend ourselves. We do need to lock and load and let our veterans do what they do. 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, the Word walk in the path of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all nations until God grants us permission to speak again together. May his peace which transcends all understanding, rest upon you and your families. On behalf of Randy and M. Afr, I'm Todd Herman and this has been a disciples.
This episode of A Disciple’s View takes on difficult questions at the intersection of faith and public life. Todd Herman speaks with sexual trauma nurse Heidi Olson about how pornography, hyper-independence, substance use, and confused ideas about consent can shape young people’s relationships—and why trauma does not always follow a neat or logical path. Their conversation considers how women and men may struggle to recognize or name an experience as assault, even when the circumstances are complicated.
Herman then talks with investment adviser Zach Abraham about financial ethics in government, scrutinizing President Trump’s business interests and asking whether Christian supporters should apply the same standards to political leaders they favor as to those they oppose. They discuss blind trusts, lobbying restrictions, insider trading, campaign finance, and the influence of corporations and unions in politics.
The episode also revisits reporting about the CIA’s review of COVID’s origins and claims concerning Event 201 and vaccine-related investments. In the “Tower of Babbling” segment, Herman reflects on predictions about canceling midterm elections and political redistricting. He closes with heartfelt messages from veterans and families, and a reminder that service, faith, and civic responsibility can take many forms.
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