Today's Issues on American Family Radio will be available as a podcast
Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's issue is the name of this show on afr, and we do offer this broadcast and others that we feature here on American Family Radio as podcast so you can listen on demand. This. This show will be, up on our afr.net website as a podcast, like, within half an hour or so of, we. When we finish the live broadcast. Now, hey, Brent. Brent Creely, our producer before, by the way, Steve Paisley Jordan joined us.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve. Steve's here, Fred's here, and Ed's here, and I'm Tim.
How do you get Today's Issues podcast sent to your phone or iPad
Let me ask you this, the, folks who want to, get the podcast, maybe they're new to this podcast. It means you can listen anytime you want to to any show you want to. That is correct, yes. So how can. Can they sign up or register or how do you do it? If you want to get the Today's Issues podcast sent to your phone or iPad, daily when it's released? Do you know anything about that? okay. You don't. Does anybody here know anything? Y' all have heard a podcast, right?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, but, no, we don't do it.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm not sure if. How to send it to. They have subscribed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We don't. We don't do that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They have to go.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like a religious thing.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Reason why we don't do that or something.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, it's,
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, okay. I'm asking the question wrong. Why am I sounding ignorant? Because I am. I don't do podcast.
>> Steve Jordahl: You do your podcaster, actually, by definition now.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know, but what I'm saying is I don't listen to podcasts very often. Okay. Myself.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I know people who get podcasts. Our podcast numbers for our shows on AFR are, like, in the. Like a million for the month, if you total them all up or something like that. so people evidently are. They can go to afr.net our website, and there's a tab that says podcast. Okay. Just click that and it shows the podcast available that we have.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then they can also download our app. Our app has the podcast on there as well. Yeah. Anything you want to.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, yeah, I mean, we don't. We would have to have all sorts of lists and keep those lists up to date. A lot of times people want, to listen to podcasts when they want to listen to it, and they don't necessarily want to get. I mean, we. We would wind up sending five or six emails a day to people. If they have five or six different.
>> Tim Wildmon: Podcasts that would annoy people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think it would.
>> Tim Wildmon: Five or six emails a day. You think that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I mean, from us.
>> Tim Wildmon: From us. You think that would bother people?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think so, yeah. I think you don't want to fill up the. So what they do is it's very simple to go, as Brent said, to afr.net either on the podcast. What's that? Yeah. Or the app.
The new Pope has been chosen, and it is breaking news
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, what do you got?
>> Steve Jordahl: I think it's probably worth noting at the very top here, just, in passing, that 80 years ago today, the Nazis surrendered to the Allied forces in, Europe. and, we have, come to know this as VE Day. Victory in Europe Day, for World War II, the end of the total war, came in August with VJ Day. Victory in Japan. But today was victory in Europe. And we have a Pope.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Is that white smoke?
>> Steve Jordahl: That is white smoke.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wait a minute. That was a segue.
>> Steve Jordahl: That was a segue.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, this is breaking news.
>> Steve Jordahl: Breaking news. Yeah, we're watching. we got.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, white smoke signals. Pope has been chosen, and it is on, Fox, msnbc, BBC, and cnn. They're all showing that there are tens of thousands of people in the Vatican waiting, and they're all cheering.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't know who the new Pope is, but I'm already upset with him for interrupting my BE story.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Breaking news is just that, breaking.
>> Fred Jackson: Get your text, Steve.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we don't podcast anywhere. Anybody know? I want me to send you what's happening at the. At the. At the Vatican. Yeah, send me an email.
>> Ed Vitagliano: All right, so, so we will. As soon as we find out, we.
>> Steve Jordahl: Will pass that news through this half hour.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just know this. I can guarantee it won't be a white Southerner.
>> Ed Vitagliano: A white Southerner.
>> Tim Wildmon: White American, Southerner will not be the Pope.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Has. Has an American ever been a Pope?
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't think an American, usually, you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Think for its own purpose.
>> Ed Vitagliano: For a long time, they had to be Italian. Back in the good old days, you.
>> Steve Jordahl: Could have been Pope.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, no, I'd have to be Catholic, I suppose.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm married.
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, go ahead, finish your ve Story.
World War II ended 80 years ago today with D Day
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I just wanted to give you guys a little sense of what it was like on the day. This is the BBC announcing that it was happening. And then you're going to hear Winston Churchill, who is standing up at the balcony of his talking to a crowd, you know, like they do in England. Cut 10.
>> Tim Wildmon: This is the BBC Home Service. We're interrupting programs to make the following announcement. It is understood that in accordance with arrangements between the three great powers, an official announcement will be broadcast by the Prime Minister at 3 o' clock tomorrow, Tuesday afternoon, 8th May. In view of this fact, tomorrow, Tuesday will be treated as Victory in Europe Day and will be regarded as a holiday. This is your victory.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Victory.
>> Tim Wildmon: Of the cause of freedom in every land.
>> Ed Vitagliano: In all our long history.
>> Tim Wildmon: We have never seen a greater day than this. Who is that?
>> Steve Jordahl: That was Winston Churchill.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, so that was. It's hard to imagine what that must have felt like. Europe being embroiled in war, ignited by the Nazis in Germany, in 1939. So six years. Now, of course, that, that six years didn't engulf all of Europe, but it eventually did in cities shattered by London. Yeah, London attack. I mean, all that, the number of lives, young men losing their lives, in, in combat. and, and then to be told the war's over.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wasn't half a million American. Is that half a million American soldiers? I believe I'm right about that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I, I will check on that. But, anyway, so that, that was the, It's 70 years, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: 80.
>> Fred Jackson: 80.
>> Tim Wildmon: 80, yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: 80 years ago today.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, yeah, that, That's remarkable. I'm glad we have that audio for, for, you know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So approximately During World War II, approximately 405,000 to 416, almost 417,000American military personnel died.
>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't include the injured.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It does not include, all the casualties of that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Canadians probably lost.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Canadian, losses were 25, 30,000, probably, or more.
>> Fred Jackson: Absolutely huge.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's the last war that we actually. I don't know. You don't take pride in war, but, even at the time, we were very proud of what we did.
>> Tim Wildmon: In helping, the country wasn't divided.
>> Steve Jordahl: No. Well, and think about after the next war was Korea, which still hasn't ended, technically. And then there was Vietnam, which was so controversial. And then you go into all the little ex, you know, exploratory wars like in Somalia or Nicaragua and all that kind of stuff. And then the Gulf Wars. I think that when we freed Kuwait, that was the, another war, that first Gulf War we could take pride in. But this was The World War II is the last big conflict that seemed like a just war, that there were clear sides that everybody agreed, needed, need to happen. And our Soldiers who raided, D Day, the beach of Normandy. D Day. The original anti. Fascists. Right?
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's right, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: yeah. Ah, that's remarkable that we have that audio. Winston Churchill, I'm sure Franklin Delano Roosevelt, you know, issued the same kind of a proclamation.
>> Fred Jackson: Very few, American soldiers left from that conflict. The numbers.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, now, today.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, well, you know, I can 80 years later if they're, you know, 20 or just under, You're talking about close to 100 years old.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I remember too, is that iconic picture, that, photograph that we've all seen before of the soldier kissing the nurse.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, that was in August. That was the VJ Day. That was the end of.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, that was VJ Day.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Still, that was, when our soldiers came home from the Pacific.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
The hatred of the Jewish people continues on our university campuses
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, so you had VE Day, Victory in Europe, and then you had V. J Day. How many, how long apart were those days?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, August.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, May to August.
>> Ed Vitagliano: May to August.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So somewhere in that interim is when we bombed right before Nagasaki, a couple.
>> Steve Jordahl: Days before Japan, decided to call it a day because they weren't. They were going to defend Japan to the last man. It was the cult of Japanese, divinity of their emperor and everything. People were ready to lay down their life and they, It would have been a bloody, blood, bloody, bloody conflagration. millions, probably more people die if they hadn't dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it ended the war immediately.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And then I was just going to say. And then after V. E Day, Adolf Hitler, left and snuck away to Brazil and they started movies, started a base on the dark side of the moon. That's. Those are actually two conspiracies that live to this day. I think that actually the base on the moon is just.
>> Steve Jordahl: I think they might have silliness, but dispelled that one. No, there was, the, the bunker. such a sad, sad story. because his top generals, were with him. I'm thinking it was, Who was it that had his kids in the, the bunker with. They all commit suicide. They all committed suicide. They killed the kids and committed suicide with Hitler. David Braun. Sad, sad, sad day.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't think so.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, happy day. Sad for the kids. I suppose.
>> Tim Wildmon: They kill 6 million people.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: It was a happy day for the Jews.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: For Europe. I know what you're saying.
>> Steve Jordahl: Thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: A human. Human. It's tragic and sad what happened in Hitler's life at that point.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's just thinking that who was it that was with him? Hermann Goring maybe had his kids and his wife were in there and they killed their children before they killed themselves.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what that only proves though? It only proves that evil does exist.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh man.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So if you doubt what the Bible says about evil existing, look at Hitler, Adolf Hitler and what he. There are many examples of this down through history, but certainly that's the one we're talking about because of V. But here's what's shocking.
>> Fred Jackson: We're 80 years since the end of that war. and you just mentioned the Nazis killing 6 million Jews. The hatred of the Jewish people continues.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's true.
>> Fred Jackson: And it's being manifested on our university campuses.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is.
>> Fred Jackson: Last night at Columbia University, again, kids stormed a library where other kids were trying to study for final exams.
>> Tim Wildmon: Were they looking for Jews or something?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they were pro, what they call pro Palestinian protesters, but they're, anti Israel. Yeah, 80 of them were arrested.
>> Fred Jackson: Anti Semitism. We had another hearing yesterday of more university presidents. They're on the hot seat because they're allowing anti Semitism on the campuses of US universities.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's appalling. It seems like. By the way, in answer to your question earlier, Steve, it was Joseph Goebbels, how you pronounce his name, but he and his wife, wife Magda, poisoned their six children, then killed themselves in the bunker with Hitler. But it. See, what I was going to say, in answer to what you were saying, Fred, is that it seems like one a, when an ideology, an evil ideology, takes root, it inevitably turns its attention to the Jews.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So you got Nazi Nazism in Germany, fascism in other places in Europe leading to World War II, including Italy, and Spain. Other places, and now you have this radicalized, fundamentalist version of Islam. Some people think it's just Islam itself, but I will at least grant that that you have Hamas and the Houthis and Hezbollah and all. All that. And you have the corresponding targeting of Jews. So when, when you have a wicked ideology ascendant, it ultimately seems to turn against the Jews. And, and for a lot of Jews in America, this was a shock. Yeah. That all this started to happen.
>> Ed Vitagliano: On college campuses. And there were professors and administrations on college campuses like Columbia that didn't seem to want to do anything.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So yeah, Next story.
Disney is building a theme park in Abu Dhabi where homosexuality is illegal
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, I wanted to talk about what was going on in, Abu Dhabi. Did you know that Disney has a new theme park they're building in Abu Dhabi?
>> Ed Vitagliano: This is True. This is not a.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, I'm, this is. Yeah, it's real. And I'm not just bringing this story up because I like to say Abu Dhabi. It is fun to say, but this is, an Arabic Muslim country in the uae. And do you remember the big stink that Disney made over Florida's law that said you can't have pornographic books in kids libraries that they mistakenly dubbed as don't say gay. Well, apparently their outrage only goes as far as their checkbook because they're opening a brand new theme park in Abu Dhabi. And being a Muslim country, they, they, they really. You don't say gay there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: And so, kind of a little bit of a double standard, I think.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Absolutely. A double standard. listen, we see this, we see this with the woke crowd and I'm not saying the conservatives can't fall into this trap, but we've seen this with the woke crowd talking about diversity and inclusion and all that. while these same corporations make bundles of money, in China, while the Chinese are persecuting Muslims in that country, and making a lot of their products with slave labor. Now you have Disney that protested against Florida for wanting to remove these perverse, perverse books for, from, school and from being given to kids. now they're, now they're opening a Disney World in a place that's going to feed cash to the company. All in a Muslim country where it's illegal to be homosexual.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't know how you can, how you can, say the word hyp.
>> Tim Wildmon: A lot of these companies, only they're only woke when it's when it's convenient for them. They want to appeal to their. So, so in America they're going to be pro LGBT and celebrate June, Pride Month and all this stuff, all the, while building a theme, park.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: With all the Disney, The Disney theme park.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, I don't know, somebody said technically there somebody else is building it, but they're licensing the Disney, name. Well, the same thing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They're not going to license now if they can't, that we would want to. If they can't build a Disney.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No matter what pitch we make to them, they're not going to license their name.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, so, so again, just real quick, so when Disney, slams Governor Ron DeSantis for saying we're not going to talk about sex with our children in school, and, and then they, Disney and others turn that into, oh, he's saying don't say gay. It's anti gay Governor DeSantis. Anti gay. This same company now is building a theme park in a country where they flog gay people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And that's the lighter punishments.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Fog or other more heinous, acts.
Ed: I've got a solution to the student debt problem
All right, so you're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network.
>> Steve Jordahl: Still waiting for the new Pope. But, hey, I've got a solution to the student debt. The new pope has been, has been chosen, not named. We're waiting for the name. and we'll let you know if we see this.
>> Ed Vitagliano: and they're saying, the news outlets are saying any moment anymore.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The announcement of the new Pope from Vatican.
>> Steve Jordahl: So at the risk of being interrupted again, sorry, Steve. No, not by you, by the Pope. I got a solution to the student debt problem. You know, all these kids that are graduating from college, college, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and they took a, you know, feminist studies thing. They're never, ever going to be paid back. Do you know that trade Companies are offering $70,000 a year job to high school juniors to come right out of high school and start in a trade like construction, where you don't need college to do that. And you're starting 70,000 starting by the time you finish, your apprenticeship and, are a tradesman. That's, that's six figures easy.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Now, that doesn't help the kids who are in debt $200,000 in college with a worthless, degree. Not all degrees are worthless from college, but it doesn't help them. But going forward, a lot of young people could choose this route.
>> Steve Jordahl: It helps me because there's fewer people. I'm going to have to pay off their student debt loan.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, there's a character, Mike Rowe, you may be familiar with him.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: Mike Rowe has been on talk shows for the last 30 jobs, two or three years saying, why are so many kids going off to university? To your point, Ed, they're getting these degrees, but they never use them to get a job.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: You don't need all four years and $200,000 of debt.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: He says, why aren't we encouraging more young people become welders, pipe fitters, all of these sorts of things. There's a reason why these high school juniors are now being hired for these jobs because these companies cannot find people who want to do this work. And it's good paying work.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And, I'll tell you something else. A lot of the jobs you can get through a college degree may become victims of artificial Intelligence AI in the near future. They're talking about AI being able to do this and that, including even writing, you know, writing, you know, for you know, journalistic purposes and things of that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Radio talk show host.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Radio talk show host. But, but probably not in our lifetime going to have robots, repair. Doing plumbing work.
>> Fred Jackson: No.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Or welding. Maybe some welding.
>> Steve Jordahl: But that's, that's another good point. You know, they say that medicine in this country is broken. Higher education is just as broken as medicine. It's just not as many people interact with it.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it is true on a practical level. A lot of the far left ideology that's taught on college campuses around the country is one thing. But just the idea of okay, I'm going to spend X number of dollars to get an education, or your parents are going to pay for it or whatever, you don't have the luxury any longer of that not being applicable to your, in other words, not caring whether your major makes a difference or not. You can't. Now you need to go to college, or go to, in this case trade school to learn something to do that's going to help you make a living.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: At least give you. Now not a lot of people don't end up in the occupation that they started out in necessarily. But I'm just saying what you're talking about right here is that there are, there's going to be a growing, there is a growing demand for jobs. Like we're talking about skilled trades. Skilled trades. And you have companies that are looking for people and they're willing to pay them even if they're juniors in high school and say okay, you get out of high school. And I've known people like this. I've just, I've noticed this phenomenon. It's not, it's about to become normal where people say, well my son's not going to college in a traditional way. He's decided to go to plumbing school or to work with computers or whatever, something specific. But the, the hands on physical labor jobs, that we're talking about here, that's going to become much in demand. They're going to get paid a lot of money.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and there's an airline company in Germany. I remember this ten years ago.
>> Fred Jackson: Lufthansa.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, Lufthansa. They, they were trying to get people right out of high school.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They said, you come work for us, we will train you in, in one field or another to work with our airline and you will have a job for the rest of your life and they make a good living, but they, there's that kind of loyalty to the employee and employee to the company and right. That was right out of high school. He said, we'll teach you what you need to know.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You don't have to go take a class on Shakespeare, you know, to work at, at our airline.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you know a lot of these kids today, and we all know them, our children or grandchildren, they get to be 13, 14, 15. They are technological whizzes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right already.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm saying? So it, they, they, they know the language of, the computer slash Internet world.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Some of these young people can just get a job helping my wife to figure out what, how to work her apps. That's a full time job at my house.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, if you tell her to come by here at lunch.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I can help her with podcasts.
>> Ed Vitagliano: There you go.
Tomorrow's Trivia Friday question is who will be the next Pope
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, I know what the first question is going to be on tomorrow's Trivia Friday. It's who's the news? The new Pope. Because at this point we don't know. But you'll know by tomorrow.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's right. They're expecting any moment. The announcement of which, man was elected as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
>> Tim Wildmon: I bet he's going to be, be unmarried. You watch, you watch and see. yes, probably be back tomorrow.
