Tim Wellman has some great tours lined up for 2026

>> Tim Wildmon: Hello, everyone. Tim Wellman here. We've got some great tours lined up. 2026, Washington, D.C. george Washington's Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg, historic Jamestown, Boston, Massachusetts and that Greater area. So, so much to see and do in 2026. If you want information on any of these trips, go to wildmangroup.com wildm m o n group.com and we'll see you on, one of our tours in 2026.

Welcome to today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network

Welcome to today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day.

>> Chris Woodward: Here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of.

>> Tim Wildmon: The American Family Association. Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's Tuesday, December 30, 2025. Thanks for listening to AFR. I'm Tim Wildmon with Wesley Wildmon. Good morning, Wesley. Good morning, Chris Woodbert.

>> Chris Woodward: Good morning.

>> Tim Wildmon: these two gentlemen are in studio with me here, in Tupelo, Mississippi and in Hudson, Florida area is our good friend Ray Pritchard. Good morning, Ray.

>> Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Tim. How are you on this? This is NewSong Year's Eve Eve, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, NewSong Year's Eve eve. Well, I got to the office this morning and the parking lot's empty because there's no people that come to work on except the people who are out of vacation days.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I felt like I needed to reintroduce myself. It's been two weeks since I've been on.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's true. You, you've been out, hunting Bambi, haven't you?

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. I have had a good time doing that. But listen, this, there's more important things to be doing, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, it is deer season for a lot of the country, right?

>> Wesley Wildmon: You like I did that. There's more important things to do and I got. And I don't have any more time off.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's true there more anyway, the, the, on the road to work this morning, and I'm sure this is true across the country. Just, there was very few cars. Yeah, very few cars out there. So anyway, we hope you're having a wonderful, Christmas slash NewSong Year's break for those of you who are still in the workforce. for those who are, it's just another day. Just another day.

Wesley Solomon: Ray Pritchard completed Bible reading daily in 2023

All right. It is Tuesday, December 30, though it is new, Year's Eve Eve, as Ray says. And so if you, if you started read through the Bible in January and you're just now in Matthew.

>> Tim Wildmon: You better be a speed reader.

>> Tim Wildmon: You're about to Fail.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. Or you're gonna have to stay up all night.

>> Tim Wildmon: I. Hey, let me just say this. And Ray, I guess you can go back and still watch the video series you did 2024, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Sure. And there are people who've, been riding this bus now, Bible bus, with me for. Well, this is the third year we started. 2023, 2024, 2025. And so I'm amazed at the number of people who just hop on. And today, let's see, today we are in Revelation 19 and 20, and then tomorrow Revelation 21 and 22, and we wrap up, and then January 1st start all over again.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I wanted to make people aware of this because maybe who are new to American family radio. Ray Pritchard, our good friend and colleague, who's, with us Tuesdays and Thursdays, he has his own ministry, called Keep Believing. And was it in 2024 you did the video series?

>> Tim Wildmon: 23.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so in 2023, what Ray did was he video recorded, a Bible, Bible reading daily for the whole year and completed through the Bible, Right, Ray?

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. And there are 365 videos. They are on the Keep Believing website. We've got it, Tim. In audio. It's on Spotify and itunes and, you know, whatever the other big one is. So if people want to listen to it, audio wise, they can do that. But we've got 365 videos. The series is called let's Read the Bible.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: All you have to do is go to keep believing.com right up there at the top. You'll see the. You'll see the link that says, let's read the Bible. Click on it. And it's arranged by months and then by days. So, you can, if you want to start today and read with us as we read through Revelation 19 and 20, you can do that. But all of them, you can pick any day of the year. Start any day you want.

>> Tim Wildmon: Now, Commentary Wesley wants to talk, and we'll let him. But. But, I'm gonna let him sign. Well, you're my adult son, so you do what you want. But anyway, still your elder, right? So I want to add. You give Commentary there, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: I do.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: There's a little greeting, and then I give the outline of the book just to remind people where we are. And then, I will read through. And then at the end, there's a very brief application, just something to take away from that day's reading. And then a prayer.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, I just say All I wanted to add was wow. I mean, I didn't, somehow I either missed that or forgot about it, but I didn't realize that that's a huge accomplishment. I know it's been done, you said for over a year now. But I just want to say good job.

>> Tim Wildmon: Once you complete it, in 2023. And it's the kind of thing, Wesley, that you're glad you didn't know how hard it was going to be before you started. Wouldn't have gotten.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Now, would you say, looking back 2023, would you say 70% of them were daily recordings or did you record 2, 3, 4 at a time because you had to travel?

>> Tim Wildmon: that's exactly right. Most of them I would do five at a time, six at a time.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: If, if you get, if you get.

>> Tim Wildmon: You might as well if you're sitting down. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And they got to go into kind of post production, you know, videos, look. Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: So yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Wow.

>> Tim Wildmon: Amen.

>> Tim Wildmon: Four or five. And you know, you doing that is humbling. You preach all your life for most of 50 years. Right, right. It's not. You would never say, oh, I really know the Bible. You never really say that.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: But reading through it, Wesley, you realize, man, there's a, lot of stuff here I don't know very much about. And you know, I felt that way in the book of Job, which is profound. I felt that way in Song of Solomon for a different reason. And then Ezekiel with all of its images and stuff. So you read through it and make your comments and then you say, you know, I still have a long way to go to really know the Bible.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, sure.

Ever since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Bible sales have gone through the roof

>> Chris Woodward: Hey, I have a question here. It's Chris. we've heard a lot for the last three and a half months, ever since Charlie Kirk died, that a lot of young people have inquired, about faith. They've taken an interest in church. Reading the Bible, maybe reading the Bible again. Is this something that you might encourage a young person out there who's trying to reach his peers or her peers, to get involved with?

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, look, doing it this way with this video audio for every day.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's bite sized. To read the whole Bible in a year is it feels like you're climbing Mount Everest backwards.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: It seems impossible. Okay, it probably is. So just pick a day and start. I think it would be great. and by the way, Chris, all the surveys bear out what you said. We had an inflection point, a turning point. Well, When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Bible sales have gone through the roof. And I saw this survey the other day. You've probably seen it, that it says that church attendance by. By these, you know, baby boomers. That's my group, the millennials and Gen X and Gen Z, whichever is the newest one, plus the millennials. That's the highest percentage of regular church attenders in America today. Meaning God's up to something, that he used this awful thing that happened to Charlie to awaken a whole generation. So, yeah, there's a. Listen, there's a hunger for the word of God among young people. They don't want to play church. Give me the straight truth. So, yeah, this series would be a great place, these videos, great place for young people to. To hop on the Bible bus.

Researchers in Israel have discovered ashes that confirm Biblical account of temple destruction

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, what's the website again?

>> Tim Wildmon: Keep Believing dot com.

>> Tim Wildmon: Keep Believing Calm, by the way, related to the Bible and a story that's in the news. I saw it on the Christian Post, which is a, news service today. There, was a discovery at the Temple Mount area of a. they're doing excavations and have been doing it for years. Every time I go over to Israel, which is usually once a year, I see these, archaeologists and scientists out doing, digs in and around the Temple Mount area. And they discovered, an area, with a bath.

>> Chris Woodward: Like a mikveh.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I thought that was like a food.

>> Tim Wildmon: You got it, Chris. That's right.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. A ritual bath, like what they would baptize themselves with.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, you do this, Chris?

>> Chris Woodward: No, sir. I saw those myself when I was over there.

>> Tim Wildmon: But you acted like you knew. Oh, well, he went.

>> Wesley Wildmon: He just recently got back from over there where he saw this.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I'm sorry.

>> Chris Woodward: I might have actually seen what you're talking about here.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, but what did you call it, Chris?

>> Chris Woodward: A mikvah?

>> Tim Wildmon: I call it a bathtub.

>> Chris Woodward: that's actually what it is.

>> Tim Wildmon: But anyway, it goes back to temp. The, it has ashes. They discovered ashes, which they say, these archaeologists, and I don't think they're Christians, and I don't even know what religion they are, if they're any. It doesn't say, where they would have a bias. That's the reason I mentioned that they might have a bias. But they discovered ashes, Ray, Which, Which. Which they say date back to the time of the destruction of the second temple.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Herod's temple was a magnificent structure, and it was destroyed when the Roman legions came in AD 70 and basically leveled the place this, vast. You've been there, Tim, many times. It's a large area. Destroyed it completely. You know, Jesus said, not one stone will be left upon another. Totally true. And so the ashes, ah, are the remains of the fire that destroyed the Temple of God in A.D. 70. So, you know, the mikvah was, This is tied in with the Old Testament, the concept of holiness that you would bathe yourself in water as a sign of. It's what you would call ritual purity, but a reminder that your heart must be clean before you approach the Lord. So it was a big, big part of temple worship. So to find this is a tremendous, yet one more long string of, tremendous, discoveries that have tended to confirm what the Bible actually says.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, I shared this, link, the article that Tim mentioned on our Facebook page and you'll see pictures there. But I would recommend, if any of our listeners have ever been to Israel, but it's been a very long time, I would recommend going back if you the opportunity because they're discovering things all the time. So things you might not have seen in 2005, you're going to see in 20, 25 or 26, whatever it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And at minimum, at minimum it proves the historical portion of Scripture.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Regardless of Jesus or in this case, So.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, so, so, so the, It was a, it was a ritual bath place, where people took baths. but it was a, It had ashes. They found ashes that confirmed. What we're saying is it confirms that the Bible says. This is what the archaeologists are saying there, on the ground. It would confirm what the Bible, says about the destruction of the temple in AD 70 by the Romans. The Jewish temple destructed, raised and burned down to the ground. And so, that's what they've discovered in Israel. I never will forget. They discover stuff, as you say, Chris, all the time in the Holy Land. And, they discovered the Jesus, what they call the Jesus boat. I don't know. When was that? 20, 30 years ago. Ray.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: what happened was the levels at the Sea of Galilee, got so low that they found a boat and the boat had been, sitting in mud, basically. I'm doing layman's terms here, that made it able to, be preserved, not completely intact as you might imagine after 2000 years. But they did date the boat back to the time of Jesus. And in fact they've got it on display over there. When you get off your boat ride at, the Sea of Galilee, you can See, the, the, the what they call the Jesus boat, which, you know, who knows, maybe in the boat's pretty neat, that the disciples were on, Jesus was on, you never know. But the fact that it would be preserved after a couple thousand years in the mud, they don't make things like they used to. That's a good one, Wesley.

>> Chris Woodward: I mean, they still got amphitheaters from like Herod and the Romans over there still standing. You know, we, we got five years.

>> Tim Wildmon: You know, whatever people may believe about Jesus Christ. And we proclaim the Trinity and we proclaim here that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the Savior of the world. And we firmly believe that and we preach that and teach that here on American Family Radio. But whatever you may believe about Jesus Christ, it's undeniable that if you look at the evidence, the evidence that exists in the Holy Land of the history of the Jewish people, that is, it matches up with what's described in the Bible. So the Bible is not a bunch of myths, right? A bunch of fables. It's, it's now there are a bunch of stories on in the Bible. Some are miracles, some of which were parables, some of which were actual reality. Most of the Old Testament is actual reality. It's historical. and it's the story of the Jewish people. And the Jewish people still exist today and their story goes on. So Ray, I don't know how you can look at the Holy Land and what's there even today and go, well, ah, this matches up with what the scripture says, what these crazy Christians believe.

Can you recommend a brand new book to our listeners

>> Tim Wildmon: While we're talking about this, can I recommend a brand new book to our listeners? And I mean brand new. I'm okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: in fact, it's so brand new, isn't even out yet. so it's coming out in early 2026. It's called faith Affirming Findings. And the reason I know about this book, it's written by my friend Paul Weaver, who is a professor and an archaeological specialist at Dallas Theological Seminary. And he has put together a book and there's there's videos that go with it and there's website that goes with it on 50 of the most important archeological findings from the Old Testament and the NewSong Testament that affirm that the Bible is reliable and it is true.

>> Tim Wildmon: So hey, can you get him, can you ask him to be on our show?

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, absolutely. I know Paul would be glad to do it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, let's do that. you know, Maybe. Maybe we'll get together NewSong Year's about when. Yeah, but that'd, be fabulous. We could have him on maybe, you know, a couple, three times to talk about this faith. So the name of the book is Faith Affirming Findings.

>> Tim Wildmon: Faith Affirming Findings. It's going to come out from Kriegle. K R E G E L books. And the man's name is Paul Weaver. Very good friend. Very good friend. And he's a professor down at Dallas Seminary. This is the best current book that you would give to an interested layman to say, okay, I've heard about archeology. Here's the picture, here's the story, here's what it means.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I got a book coming out.

>> Tim Wildmon: You do have a book coming out. Deer Hunting in the Holy Land. No.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, I couldn't. For those that know anything about me, I'm so far from grammar or writing or.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's not your.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's not a gift editors are for.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. That's not an editor.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, the editors don't want me writing. But I'm. I'm glad we have those out there with the gift of writing, because books like this can really change people's lives.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. There. There are, You know, they're. I'm thinking about. There are books in the last 100 years that, beyond the Bible, I'm talking about, that have, reached millions of people, that, mere Christianity.

>> Chris Woodward: Case for Christ.

>> Tim Wildmon: Case for Christ. More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell.

>> Tim Wildmon: Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. Hal Lindsey's book.

>> Tim Wildmon: Best selling book of the 1970s.

>> Tim Wildmon: Was it really. Okay, Hal Lindsey. Whatever. Is he still alive and went to.

>> Tim Wildmon: Be with the Lord, within the last year or two. How.

>> Tim Wildmon: Lindsay?

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. We highly encourage you to read the holy Scriptures so that you may come to know, if you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, change your destiny. the Bible says that Jesus gives life abundant and obviously gives, life eternal. we have eternal life. That is, when we die, we go to heaven to be with Christ and the saints and eternity awaits. So that's what the scripture teaches for those who repent and turn to Christ for their, salvation.

Puerto Rico has passed a law that recognizes unborn children as people

All right, Chris, back to earth.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes. I often do not have the opportunity to present or begin the news segment with positive news, but I'm going to do that today.

>> Tim Wildmon: Give us some positive News.

>> Chris Woodward: Chris and I say that based on something from a number of news outlets, including Christian Post, there is a new Puerto Rican law that recognizes unborn children as people from conception. Puerto Rico has enacted a new law that identifies unborn babies as people, giving them the same rights granted to every other human being. Ah. Republican Puerto Rican Governor Jennifer Gonzalez Cologne announced in a statement that she signed Senate Bill 504 that amends the Civil Code of Puerto Rico to clarify that every human being is a natural person, including the conceived child at any stage of gestation within the mother's womb. What's interesting here is there is a comment and I've shared this on our Facebook page. Carol Tobias at National Ride to Life called the bill's passage a quote, landmark achievement for the pro life movement. So stick with afn because I'm going to try to get reaction to this later after the show.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, and when Chris says our Facebook page, he's talking about the today's issues.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes, sir.

>> Tim Wildmon: Facebook page. Well, wonderful. Good for the people of Puerto Rico. And, I don't know, is Puerto Rico right? Do you know the religious demographic there? Is it mostly Catholic or.

>> Tim Wildmon: Mostly Catholic, but there's a strong and growing evangelical presence there as well. And Kudos. Kudos to, Who was it that. Okay, read again. The name of the person who sponsored this bill.

>> Chris Woodward: well, it was Senate Bill 504. And then Carol Tobias at National Real Life, National Right to Life, praised it for being a landmark achievement.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's amazing in, in the 21st century that in Puerto Rico, they, any country. Thank you. To take that kind of stand for the unborn.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And you know, we, want to mention again because I know some people listening may go unborn baby have the same rights as a born human. Yeah. again, we go back to the biblical definition of human life and the scientific definition of human life because, at conception is when the human being starts to grow and unless you kill it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Distinct DNA.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, distinct DNA, after conception, unless you stop the growth artificially, like an abortion, for example, that, that, sperm and egg that come together to make conception and create the individual unique human being will grow and be and be, become, you know, born and then, then, live, you know, a natural life. So it's good, good for Puerto Rico leading the way.

>> Chris Woodward: And I can tell you too, it's. It's not really that much of a stretch beyond some existing, existing laws here in the U.S. and I say that, for example, like in Alabama, if somebo, kill a Pregnant lady and the baby dies. That person is, charged with and convicted of two murders. So like, there are some rights kind of sort of like this, but we just don't go as far as Puerto Rico. Somebody will try to do what they do here though.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I'd imagine too, that was. You're gonna hear my biased here and incrementalism, but especially in certain cases. But I, I would imagine that was an incremental change over time.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I mean, I guess to make the point that sometimes it takes longer than others, but chipping away at it and on the life issue, eventually you get to.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, also medical science has, helped with the, you know, the, what do you call the, equipment you can use?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Ultrasound.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ultrasound Now. Ah. And we talk about this with preborn. The ministry, we support you if you show a, ah, woman the heartbeat, the heartbeat of the, of the unborn, baby starts with what, six weeks or something like weeks.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, it's just that only confirms that it's a live living, growing.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's a human being. What other kind of being could it be? Yep, it's a human.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Hopefully we're not too far behind that. I know there's several states that have strong pro life.

>> Tim Wildmon: Pro life. They do, yeah. Yeah. But Puerto Rico, all the way. Puerto Rico. We congratulate the folks there. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Let's go ahead and take our break right here. And we will be back with more of, the show after this short time out. Sam. M.

>> Don Wildmon: It's my turn. Here is your host for My turn, Don Wilemon.

Two mountains in the Holy Land are revered as the Mountain of Transfiguration

And after six days, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain. And he was transfigured before them. And his face shone like the sun and his garments became white as light. Two mountains in the Holy Land are revered as the Mountain of Transfiguration. Like many other sites of the Holy Land, one has to decide which site he prefers as being authentic, if indeed either is. Since the 4th century, Mount Tabor has been accepted by many as the mount of Transfiguration. Mount Tabor is about five miles east of Nazareth and 12 miles west of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee. Although the mountain is only 1843ft high, one can see a far distance from its summit atop Mount Tabor. You can see Mount Carmel about 25 miles to the west on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. You can also see Mount Hermon nearly 50 miles to the north. To the south and west of Mount Tabor is the Plain of Ashtalon, also known as the Plain of Jezreel. The other spot which some consider to be the Mountain of transfiguration is Mount Hermon. It is about 30 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. The highest point of this snow capped mountain is 9,101ft above sea level. Just south of Mount Hermon is Caesarea Philippi. The fact that Jesus was mentioned as being in this area just prior to the Transfiguration experience is accepted by some as evidence of Mount Hermon being the Mountain of Transfiguration. The truth is that we don't know where the Mount of Transfiguration is. And it really doesn't matter because it was not the location which was important, but the event. Jesus took Peter, James and John and led them up a high mountain. Then something mysterious and exciting happened. As the disciples looked on, the face of Jesus became exceedingly bright. His clothes became as white as light. Then the three disciples recognized two men with Jesus, Moses and Elijah. Moses represented the old law through which God had sought to save man from his sinfulness. Elijah represented the prophets whom God had sent to lead the people into his kingdom. And Jesus, of course, was God's final and most perfect method of winning people to his way. Suddenly, a shining cloud came over the group and a voice was heard speaking from m that cloud. This is my own dear son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him. It was such a terrifying experience for the disciples and that they fell on their faces during the experience. Peter, in his excitement, wanted to build three buildings of worship on that mountain. One was to be for Jesus, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. Peter had tasted a mountaintop spiritual experience. He did not want to go back down into the valley. But Jesus would not let Peter build those houses of worship. No, Jesus took his disciples and went back down into the valley where the suffering of life was. There was a young boy suffering from epilepsy waiting for him upon his return. You know, we all need occasionally our Mountain of Transfiguration experiences. But to stay on the mountain apart from the sin and suffering of humanity is contrary to the will of God.

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>> Tim Wildmon: Then let come upon me what may.

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Need to remind people about our app. So go to the app store on any smartphone device

Hey, welcome back, everybody, to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Wesley, Chris, and Ray. And as always, we thank you for listening. You want to send us an email, it's comments afr.net comments afr.net we also.

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>> Tim Wildmon: How about that?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, we got AFR app. So go to the app store on any of your smartphone device. Not use the dumb devices. Just a. Smart devices. Right? Smart.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

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>> Wesley Wildmon: We can't. No, we can't help you.

>> Tim Wildmon: You're gonna have to get you a smart device.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But you get you a smart device and you go to AFR or type in American Family Radio and there you can download the app. between that and our streaming platform, stream.aca.net and our website, afr.net are the three places that we encourage you to go to because you don't have to be at a radio in order to listen. And there's more information there. There's more places, there's more radio programs and podcasts that we host there that we don't have on our radio network because there's only so much room on the dial.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, so that's right.

>> Chris Woodward: I have my wife's cousin Andrew. Andrew, if you're listening. Thank you. Because he often listens to us on the app and tells.

>> Tim Wildmon: Are you doing a shout out to Andrew? I sure am.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Drew, we want last name, we want phone numbers.

>> Tim Wildmon: You like Arsenio Hall.

>> Chris Woodward: He's, he's right handed.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: White, Southern, doing a shout out. Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: thank you, Andrew.

>> Tim Wildmon: Shout out. Has that lasted or is that that.

>> Chris Woodward: I think it transcends time. It's a.

>> Tim Wildmon: It does.

>> Chris Woodward: Much like Mikva.

>> Tim Wildmon: I. I hear people say shout.

>> Tim Wildmon: How many of our listeners remember Arsenio Hall? You threw that name out. I haven't heard that name in a while.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, he had a show right back in the 90s, I think it.

>> Chris Woodward: Was Bill Clinton showed up and played the saxophone.

>> Tim Wildmon: I remember that Cine O Hall show, I think is what it's called. And he. But he. That was his expression, Shout out. And I thought, he used to do this. That dates. That dates back to the 90s at.

>> Tim Wildmon: Least the shout out back to the last century.

Groovy was cool's twin brother from the 60s

>> Tim Wildmon: I tell you a word that's made it through the decades. Here is cool. Oh, yeah, yeah. Cool. That's. Let's lasted as a 70s word. That's probably a 60s word, isn't it? Right?

>> Tim Wildmon: It is, it is. And it's still. The kids use it in their texting.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Cool. Cools made it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Now a 10 year old uses that.

>> Tim Wildmon: A word that died. It was, it was cool. this word I'm about to mention was the brother of cool.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: Groovy or radio.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's rad.

>> Tim Wildmon: Rad.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's red.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, let me, let me bury groovy.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Groovy, you know, you do not hear that.

>> Tim Wildmon: No, groovy died. Groovy, was cool's twin brother from the 60s. And Groovy didn't make it. you know, he, he, he rip in the mid-70s.

>> Tim Wildmon: I think if you said to somebody that's groovy, you would know.

>> Tim Wildmon: They would look at you. They would tilt their head. Unless they were.

>> Tim Wildmon: They were head.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, unless they were 60 or older.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Which we. Which, you know, I didn't use groovy, but I, I know you know people who did. I know people who did. Now, what is this word you. You mentioned, Wesley?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Rad was the 90s, and so that died too. It was a decade.

>> Tim Wildmon: I just absolutely missed that. Totally rad.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Like radical.

>> Tim Wildmon: A radical.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That is short for. Yeah, short.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's red, man.

>> Wesley Wildmon: It's rad, dude.

>> Tim Wildmon: For any, you use that right, right here, look.

>> Tim Wildmon: I did. I haven't in a long time.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Rad.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I just.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, now, what Wesley said, rad and dude, they just go together.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, one I've, I've started using out in public and around my grandkids. Is six, seven. Yeah, yeah. And you got to do your body. You got to do your body and your, your hands in a certain way. But it's six. Seven.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Nick can catch on. I know it annoys some people, but it's catchy because I'll find myself mentioning about the time and I'm like, it's close to about 6.

>> Tim Wildmon: What does that mean? What is it? You want to know the origin?

>> Chris Woodward: No, no one knows. And there are urban myths about it dating to this or.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Or go back to the Bible.

>> Chris Woodward: I don't think so.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't believe so.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's not in first chapter six, verse seven. Yeah, right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Something like M7, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, six, seven. Now, my dad, my, dad passed away. What now? Three years ago. Anyway, I'm trying to think. He was born in 38, so he had In a lot of old timers, as they say, would remember the. He used to have an expression that old timers use, called, six, seven, half dozen other ways. Do you remember this expression? Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: What I don't think I've ever heard.

>> Wesley Wildmon: He wouldn't say six, seven.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Wesley Wildmon: He would say. He would say six and a half.

>> Tim Wildmon: No, what he would say was six.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Is a half, half a dozen.

>> Tim Wildmon: That would be 80. What would he be? 87, 88. 87.

Six, seven is the word of the year, but nobody knows what it means

If he were here today, he would say six. seven. No.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Do you remember that he was a six or half a dozen.

>> Tim Wildmon: Otherwise, what is that?

>> Wesley Wildmon: It's right here.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. how do you say it?

>> Wesley Wildmon: 6 of 1 or 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other ones.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, you've heard that, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Many times, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. That. That's. That's a baby boomer.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: And are older. Because my dad, you know, he was.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Beyond six of one, half a dozen of the other.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Yeah, he would say that a lot. And that means there are multiple ways you can do something.

>> Chris Woodward: Semantics.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Skin, a cat.

>> Tim Wildmon: Multiple ways more than one way to.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Skin, which I've never seen a cat skin.

>> Tim Wildmon: Cat owners don't like to hear that expression, though, Peter.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Chris Woodward: We know.

>> Tim Wildmon: You get a letter from PETA.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Where did that come from? We better stop.

>> Tim Wildmon: What?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Skin a cat?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I didn't say it. You said it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I know, but what you mean out loud on radio? And make sure when you say it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Out loud, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Maybe they're talking about a mountain lion. I don't think they're talking about your little kitty cat that roams around your house.

>> Chris Woodward: Now, y' all were talking about six, seven. I think somebody might have mentioned this on another show recently, but Dictionary, uh,.com added 67 as its 2025 Word of the year. So, people, I feel like I'm pretty.

>> Tim Wildmon: Cool then if I'm using it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Six, seven, the word of the year, and nobody really knows what it means.

>> Chris Woodward: I went to the Tupelo Christmas Parade, like many people here, and our staff, a number of, floats had children. And just about every kid on every float that went by me, there was a kid yelling six, seven, including kids dressed as angels.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I yelled back. Eight, nine, ten.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: They kind of seen the looks I got.

>> Tim Wildmon: Nobody really knows, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Nobody knows the origin of that, do they, Wesley?

>> Tim Wildmon: Nope.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

Various agencies in the Trump administration have announced they are investigating Minnesota fraud

>> Don Wildmon: All right.

>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to random, trivial information right here on today's Issues on American Family Radio. All right, we go back to the news desk, and Chris Woodward is standing by. Chris?

>> Chris Woodward: Yes, well, expect to hear more coming, into the new year or going into the new year about Minnesota fraud. and I say that because various agencies in the Trump administration have announced they are investigating fraud in Minnesota. For example, the Department of Homeland Security says it's now looking into this. ice, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been looking into this. And, talking about that this morning on Fox and Friends is acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, who had this to say. Clip 9 Ice has been on the.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ground in, Minnesota for a while now looking at these fraud claims. And one thing now, the Homeland Security investigation special agents are looking into is just that you said that money trail of where this money is going to foreign aid. you know, obviously looking at any type of links to any criminal activity, obviously terrorism activity, you know. And one thing you will see is that ICE is actually out there, going with criminal warrants to conduct these investigations. So all too often you hear that ICE is just out there terrorizing the community or conducting administrative work. We've been on the ground in Minnesota conducting criminal investigations in Homeland Security Investigations has gone door to door to a lot of these suspected Frost sites all over St. Paul in Minnesota.

>> Chris Woodward: And we're learning a lot now talking about the, the suspect, the suspects here. this is just the beginning of the tip of the iceberg, if you will. 98 individuals have been charged thus far in Minnesota fraud cases. 85 of the 98 people charged are of Somali descent that were operating things like phony daycares and other businesses.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. For those who don't know, we don't want to spend a lot of time on the story, though.

>> Wesley Wildmon: This is developing. There's new evaluation, big story.

>> Tim Wildmon: But, what happened was, the United States federal government, funded by U.S. taxpayers, don't remind us. Some of our money went to, as it goes to all the states. It went to Minnesota. That many. What they've discovered is the money in Minnesota, which is supposed to be administered again, it's federal money sent to the state, and the state's supposed to oversee the administration of said funds to support various and sundry projects. And the, Somali, community evidently had these, fraudulent daycare centers established. So no children went to the daycare centers, but they got money. And that's what this is all about. And this is a big deal. Yeah. They're uncovering.

>> Wesley Wildmon: They also said that they also applied for disabilities that didn't Exist either.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, that's. That's, that's an American way, of life right there.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah, there's another.

>> Chris Woodward: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I hear what you say. That's true. Well, they participated.

>> Tim Wildmon: I just said a lot.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Disability fraud is a big deal, too.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But they did it. Forget. In the daycare. They would say that the kids that they had in daycare had a disability that they didn't have and they were getting money for it.

>> Tim Wildmon: But one of the. One of the, daycare centers that supposedly was in operation that wasn't, was a place called, the Lear Ing Center. this was the sign that's been.

>> Chris Woodward: It's famous now from a Nick Shirley video investigation. Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: And so he showed the sign where they left the in off the, daycare center. It's supposed to be learning, right?

>> Chris Woodward: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Pretty bad leering. Yeah. The leering school. Right? The leering daycare center. Is that what it is, Chris?

>> Chris Woodward: That's what it is, yes. Yeah, I'll post that in a second, too.

>> Tim Wildmon: But their attendance has been way, way, way down, as it should.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, me.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's a big. What happens here is. And this isn't the only agency this happens in. the federal government, is, you know. Well, not one of the things Elon Musk focused on you, you know, when he. When President Trump first came into office, before he and Elon Musk had the fallen out. I think they've had a fallen in again. They'll have another fallen out here. But, anyway, is. Is the waste and fraud that goes on with our federal tax dollars. There's just. It's. There's another story today about. There is something. At least somebody's trying to do something about it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's right. Absolutely.

>> Tim Wildmon: In the Trump administration, there is a. If you go to the Fox News website, there's a story about the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently revealed that bands with a B in taxpayer funds that went to questionable rental assistance recipients. so federal government, through how HUD was paying for people's rent. I guess, like a welfare program. Well, they discovered that 30,000 of these people are dead. Okay? They don't need rent. All right?

Audit finds dead people getting government money in all 50 states

They've already. They gone to the. Already passed away, going on to the great rental in the sky, so to speak. 30,000. They discovered at least 30,000 deceased tenants. I'm not kidding. This sounds like a joke. Yeah. where they discovered. In an audit they did of, this. And no, no, no surprise. Most of Them were in NewSong York, California and Washington D.C. really? Yeah. Now all 50 states they discovered dead people getting money. But in this case. Did you see this, Ray? I did, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And is it any surprise when you have that much money from the government, people are gonna lie. They're gonna. Yeah, they're gonna find a way to. You know, just cause Grandpa's gone to heaven.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. They're gonna keep.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I should still be getting his money. Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: I think that's the way it works. It's fraud. And at least they discovered it and tried to do something to clean it up. Kind of reminds me of this story, I saw a couple years ago where Okay, so people get these disability, what do you call them? they hang in the car.

>> Chris Woodward: Oh, handicapped. Yeah, like the handicap.

>> Tim Wildmon: Handicap or disability. And allows them to park in the blue spaces that we all see it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We all want to park there.

>> Tim Wildmon: We all want to park there.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We know better, we don't.

>> Tim Wildmon: We know better because our conscious gets to it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Because, So we don't. And it's against the law.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Right, Both.

>> Tim Wildmon: So these blue parking spaces are reserved for people with disabilities. But what had happened was, What's happening is when that person dies, they're using their grandson. That's right. Taking it and it's being passed on. Did you see this?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, I've been seeing it for years.

>> Tim Wildmon: The American way, by golly. Pass it down. Anyway, next story. Chris.

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discuss Israel and Iran

>> Chris Woodward: All right, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a meeting yesterday at Mar A Lago, Trump's resort in Florida. And they discussed a number of topics including the US brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas. they got into Iran because Netanyahu is saying that Iran looks like it's interested in resuming its nuclear energy, efforts there. Remember we bombed ah, a site in Iran to try to take out its nuclear capabilities. Trump, praised Israel for living up to its end of the plans with Israel and Iran. but he also had this to say about Iran.

>> Tim Wildmon: Clip 2 Israel's lived up to the plan 100%.

>> Tim Wildmon: Don't forget we made the plan possible.

>> Tim Wildmon: By taking out Iran. And speaking of Iran, I hope they're.

>> Tim Wildmon: Not trying to build up again because.

>> Tim Wildmon: If they are, we're going to have no choice but very quickly, quickly to eradicate that buildup.

US takes out dock in Venezuela suspected of being used for drug smuggling

>> Chris Woodward: Now that of course comes as the US continues to go after Venezuelan drug boats. And most people may not be aware of this given a Lot of people are off, maybe not paying as much attention to news, but we have actually been involved now in a land operation, in Venezuela taking out a dock, that Trump says was being used for the drug. Doctor, was he a doc dock?

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, my bad. that's a big difference.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. President Trump, the potus, said that, Venezuela has been using this dock for the drug trade Clip for.

>> Tim Wildmon: There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It's the, implementation area.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's where they implement and that is.

>> Tim Wildmon: no longer around.

>> Chris Woodward: Those things were big topics this morning on Fox and as we were discussing.

>> Tim Wildmon: What does he mean it's no longer around?

>> Chris Woodward: it doesn't exist anymore because we blew it to kingdom come.

>> Tim Wildmon: There's my m words too there. Crisp blew at the kingdom come.

Ray: President Trump is moving for regime change in Venezuela

>> Wesley Wildmon: I want to find a way to use the skin a cat here. And there's multiple ways to skin a cat.

>> Tim Wildmon: And there, there's one way you're starting. You're going to trigger your cat owners if you keep on with this, this. I don't know what you call that. A euphemism.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Sure.

>> Tim Wildmon: so, you know, in all seriousness, we got a situation in Venezuela which is, you know, on the north end of South America. and is the country rich in oil and natural resources? But they have a dictator that is a bad dude and Trump doesn't like him at all and thinks it's, not good to have him. He's trying to force him out. Ray Maduro, Is that his name?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And, Trump's trying to force him out by using, basically using military force. We've got it supposed to have a, do we have like an embargo going on or what do you call a blockade Naval.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's a kind of a blockade.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Just the oil traffic in and out.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. And we're blowing up, narco terrorist boats.

>> Tim Wildmon: Blowing up the boats.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Now we blew up a dock and.

>> Tim Wildmon: Did I read somewhere it was a drone? We sent in a drone and.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, what are we going to do? What's it would do? You follow this? What do you think is going on here, Ray? What's going to be the end game here?

>> Tim Wildmon: I was asked the question, recently, well, a few hours ago, what I thought about this and I feel about this about the same way I do about the bombing of the villages over in Nigeria. Right. When we sent the cruise Missiles in.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. To take out some isis.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right, yeah. And you don't really know from where we sit, right? We don't, we don't know.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: I've been in Nigeria, that's a remote area up there up in the northwest. And so.

>> Tim Wildmon: We have to, we just believe, you believe whatever the, you know, the President tells you happened, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: That's exactly right. Because we don't have any, any way to judge it. How are we supposed to judge a, ah, dock in Venezuela.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.

>> Tim Wildmon: so I will say this. Would, would I like more congressional involvement? Yeah, I would. Because I think, I think it's easy for the president, any president, to get, to get out on a limb, so to speak, by himself. But if the question is, should we take positive action to stop the illegal drug trade that's poisoning and killing Americans, I'm in favor of, if we know, if we know that's where the drugs are, blow those ships out of the water.

>> Chris Woodward: I vaguely remember the Reagan administration, but the just say no campaign was obviously an epic failure and didn't amount to much. Whereas ending this the way Trump is ending it has proven to be more effective. But it doesn't seem to deter people from getting drugs back on a boat and trying. So I don't know how many more times they're going to keep doing this. They might run out of boat drivers. I don't know.

>> Tim Wildmon: There's, there's too much money involved, Chris. on the other side, it's just the drug business is a profitable, lucrative and terror and completely illegal and immoral and evil operation. But when you have that much money at stake, they're going to, you're going to. You know what, Chris? I think you probably always find somebody who will say, I'll drive your boat because they won't catch me.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, sure.

>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, we'll see what happens here. But President Trump is moving for regime change in Venezuela. I knew a lady, who had a restaurant near where we are here. She was from Venezuela. She was probably 40, 40, 45 years old at the time. I knew her three or four years ago. But she, she would tell about what the terrible things that Maduro the dictator was doing to the people of of Venezuela. And you know, she longed to, she wouldn't even go back because of the fear of what would happen, but she would say that she and some of her Venezuelan friends who lived in the US would send, ah, aid back to physical aid back in trucks and so forth to Venezuela to try to help the people who were being oppressed by the dictator. And his army had intercepted a couple of those and used them for themselves. Anyway, dictatorships are terrible. And, all over the world, you know, when we see dictators rise up all over the world, it's always the, they use, many of them use the military and, the police to, be their personal enforcers.

>> Wesley Wildmon: So here's this, on this topic. Over the past decade, this original from an article I'll cite here in just a second, but over the past decade, an estimated 10 or estimated 8 million Venezuelans have left the country in what is considered the largest migration crisis the recent Latin American history.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, there you go. I mean, it's, it's a terrible situation. you know, Venezuela, I've never been there, but I've seen, they've got, they've got these waterfalls in, in Venezuela that are world famous. What do you know? I'm m talking about, you look up world famous waterfalls in Venezuela. Anyway, I see pictures of those and I want to go there and see that sometime. Wow. you know what I'm talking about. What does it say?

>> Chris Woodward: I mean, there are several. There's Angel Falls and some other things in Spanish I'm not going to pronounce. but there's.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Let me help you do what you say.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm kidding.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's one of the most famous.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Can't read English.

>> Tim Wildmon: Angel Falls. Yeah. It's kind of like Niagara Falls to us.

President Trump is trying to force out Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro

Yeah, but it's, it's, it's even more so. It's even more impressive if you look at it. But anyway, and the people there, the Venezuelan people are friendly, all of them I've ever met. And, it is nice. It's just a shame what's happened to, to their, to their country. Anyway, Trump is trying to force out Maduro. We'll see how, how successful he's trying to force him out without using military might go in and be on the ground. Nobody wants us boots on the ground in Venezuela. and I don't think President Trump would do that, but he's, he's, he's smoking him, smoking the guy out, so to speak, using a blockade and, boats, you know, knocking out boats and docks now and so forth and so on.

Democrats don't necessarily trust anything President Trump says, Chris says

All right. You're listening to Today's Issues on American Family Radio. You know, to, to a certain extent, it's whatever side of the political aisle you're on, whether you believe something's good or bad or right or wrong, or.

>> Wesley Wildmon: If you even believe military just or.

>> Tim Wildmon: Even if you believe the messenger. So you would ask a lot of Democrats. They don't necessarily trust anything President Trump says. So if he says, you know, I took out a drug boat, they're going to say, oh, really? Prove it. You know, how did you. So it's, sad that our country's in such a divide of trust, but that's just the way it is. Next story. Chris.

In a first, President Donald Trump has received an Israel Prize

>> Chris Woodward: All right, in a first.

>> Tim Wildmon: Got about a minute.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes. In a first, President Donald Trump has received an award.

>> Tim Wildmon: Really?

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, from the nation of Israel. It's called the Israel Prize, and it's apparently the country's top civilian honor. Do we have time for 27 seconds? Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: Clip 3 President Trump has broken so many conventions, to the surprise of people.

>> Tim Wildmon: And then they figure out, oh, well, maybe, you know, he was right after all.

>> Tim Wildmon: So we decided to break a convention, too, or create a new one.

>> Tim Wildmon: And that is to award, the Israel Prize, which In almost our 80.

>> Tim Wildmon: Years, we've never awarded it to a non Israeli.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's going to be awarded to President.

>> Tim Wildmon: Donald J. Trump for his tremendous contribution, contributions to Israel and the Jewish people.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Wow.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's great. Good for him. Good for, Benjamin Netanyahu, and good for President Trump on that one.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right.

>> Tim Wildmon: We'll be back in a minute with more of today's issues on American Family Radio. Steve Paisley Jordan is on deck. We'll talk to him. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.

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