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Ed Vitagliano Today's Issues continues on AFR with your.
Tim Wildmon Host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on American Family radio. We got 24 and a half more minutes of this show. Thanks for listening to AFR. I'm Tim with Ed and Fred. And joining us now, Steve Paisley Jordahl.
Steve Jordahl Good morning, everybody. I'm wearing my Christmas blue. Isn't blue a Christmas color?
Tim Wildmon It's plaid. You're Steve Plaid Jordan today.
Steve Jordahl Yeah, but isn't blue? I. I tried to do the ugly Christmas thing, but I think I failed because it's blue and a little bit of red.
Tim Wildmon Well, first of all, that's not a sweater. No, like me, I'm not really wearing, quote, a sweater.
Steve Jordahl I. I just. I just can't. Yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon We're all trying to participate in the, in the. In the spirit around.
Steve Jordahl Exactly.
Tim Wildmon So, like many businesses, our staff sent out a. Here's what we're doing every day this week. And. And so, take a surprise tomorrow. By the way, you wait till I show up for work tomorrow.
Ed Vitagliano I'm off tomorrow, though. Well, take a picture.
Tim Wildmon You have to video. Yep, I will.
Steve Jordahl You can watch the show. It streams, you know.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you can watch us, Ed. You can watch the show.
Ed Vitagliano I'm on vacation. I won't be watching the show.
Steve Jordahl Oh, man.
Tim Wildmon Well, that's disappointing.
Ed Vitagliano Do you watch the show when you're on vac vacation?
Tim Wildmon No, I don't. it's either.
Ed Vitagliano Thank you for your honesty.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, well, you don't either, right? Don't watch each other when we're on vacay. all right. So, Steve, good morning to you, brother.
Steve Jordahl Good morning.
Fred Newsom: Let's start with some happy news
Tim Wildmon So, what's your first story?
Steve Jordahl You want some good news?
Tim Wildmon I want some good news.
Ed Vitagliano I do, too.
Steve Jordahl Why don't we start with some happy, okay? Because we. There's been enough misery in the world over the last 40, 8, 36 hours. 40, 8 to 50 or 60. Anyway, let's, let's talk about,
Tim Wildmon Do an average there.
Steve Jordahl An average of 48. There's been a lot of misery lately. Let's just say that, I want to talk about a wire hair, dachshund mix called Chaco Choco. Choco. Chaco was adopted by a lady named Patricia, Orzok. Orzoco Orozco. I'm sorry. And, Patricia Orozco, she lives in Sacramento. She got this.
Tim Wildmon That's your old stomping ground area, isn't it?
Steve Jordahl Not too far from my old Stomping ground. but, being in the middle of the valley, I could see why Orozco ran away and. Which is what happened. They. She lost Orozco. I'm, sorry. She lost Chaco. Choco had been, disappeared, and she thought about him every day. She missed old Chaco, did Patricia Roscoe.
Tim Wildmon So the dog she had. The lady in Sacramento, just to follow the story, had a dog. Had a dog named Choco. It was a. What?
Ed Vitagliano Named Bingo.
Steve Jordahl A wire hair dachshund mix.
Tim Wildmon A wire hair.
Steve Jordahl Wire wire hair, dachshund.
Tim Wildmon Dachshund. So it goes missing. It goes missing and she thinks it's lost forever.
Steve Jordahl Right. I mean, she, got it from a local shelter in 2016 and.
Tim Wildmon Rescue dog.
Steve Jordahl Rescue dog. And, And so, she got a call, though, from the company that had located her. the chip in this dog had been found and it was in Lincoln. she thought.
Tim Wildmon Lincoln What?
Steve Jordahl Well, she thought Lincoln, California, because there is a Lincoln, California. It's about two hours away from Sacramento. But this dog was found in Lincoln, Michigan.
Ed Vitagliano How far away?
Steve Jordahl That's some, 2300 miles. And the dog was in. They found the dog was chained to a wire fence, a chain link fence. And they rescued it and scanned it, and they found that it was her missing dog. Chaco, they called her.
Tim Wildmon Wow.
Steve Jordahl First, she assumed it was found in Lincoln, California, about 30 miles from Sacramento. Wasn't until the end of the call, she realized that somehow it had ended up all the way across the.
Tim Wildmon The country from California to Michigan. And how many years was that?
Steve Jordahl I think it had been, gone for.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Five years. What, it had just gotten a wild hair kind of thing and hopped a train or something? Like, Like a hobo? It must. I don't wonder how in the world it got to Michigan.
Steve Jordahl Well, I don't. I doubt it was one of the Greatest Journeys type things.
Tim Wildmon It probably was like a Disney animated movie.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Homeward Bound. You know, a lot of people are leaving California.
Steve Jordahl I know.
Tim Wildmon Even the dogs are trying to get away from Newsom.
Steve Jordahl The job. Got tired of taxes. The taxes.
Tim Wildmon That was a good one, Fred.
A woman got her dog back after five years without it
Ed Vitagliano But that is a great story that she got her dog back. She wanted the dog back. Right.
Tim Wildmon Five, years.
Steve Jordahl Thought about him the whole time.
Tim Wildmon Five years this dog went missing. And she does. She thinks it, you know, five years, you give up, probably. And then she. These chip things, changed everything.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano So I think the lesson we, we learned from this is getting a chip implanted is not necessarily a bad thing. Right. Is that what you're saying, Steve?
Tim Wildmon Count the cost.
Steve Jordahl Just, just make sure that you know where the dog is with. Because I think the dog might be on the Antichrist side.
Tim Wildmon If they say to you, sir, Your dog number 666, can we put the chip implant in? I would skip that.
Steve Jordahl Yeah, maybe.
Tim Wildmon No, don't put that in my dog.
Steve Jordahl Right. Any other numbers are fine though.
Ed Vitagliano Now was this a little old lady kind of thing?
Steve Jordahl No, no, no. She's 29 years old.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, wow.
Steve Jordahl And she had two kids. In the meantime since, ah, the dog disappeared, she got married or. I don't know if she was married when the dog disappeared, but she had in her, in her house she had a four month old, two young children, including a four month old. She wasn't sure if Chaco was going to get along with them. I think it, it went fine.
Tim Wildmon Choco.
Steve Jordahl Choco, weighs about 15 pounds and, and took, pretty big.
Ed Vitagliano It was a dachshund, right?
Steve Jordahl It was a dachshund.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. That's a wiener dog.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, Dachshunds can, they can get pretty big. Fifteen pounds is not a small dachshund.
Tim Wildmon Sagging in the middle.
Ed Vitagliano Yes. My dad, I don't know, I guess because I'm getting ready to go on vacation. I'm just telling story after story leaving.
Tim Wildmon For us to clean up. Yes.
Ed Vitagliano So we had a dachshund. My first dog growing up was a dachshund. We had the, we had poochie for about 11 years. And yes, the kids, the kids named the dog Poochie. but, so two things. My dad, who was pretty mischievous, he, he. One time my mom had gone shopping, so dad and Ed were in charge.
Steve Jordahl Oh yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And my dad said, I want to see how much this dog will eat. So he opened up one can after another. He opened up like two cans and was about to. And, and Poochie just. You put it down.
Tim Wildmon Open up a can.
Ed Vitagliano You open up a can. He would eat it. And so he. My dad was about to open the third one. I said, don't. This dog's gonna die. I was in high school and you.
Tim Wildmon Were saving your dog from your dad. You were the adult in the room.
Ed Vitagliano Mom's gonna come home, this dog's gonna be dead. But Poochie, he did. He was an overeater and that was back when you. We would give him people food pretty often. Terrible diet. My dad got one of those old roller skates, just ah, the ones that you used to put on the bottom of your shoe. The Key with the. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And he put it underneath dog because he was starting to sag. He was dragging across the floor so that he could kind of get around a little bit. Kind of.
Steve Jordahl I had a. I had a dog growing up too, when I was in high school. His name was Geppetto. It was a dachshund. And Geppetto ornery.
Tim Wildmon I'm a real boy.
Steve Jordahl Or a dog. An orner dog. Oh, that dog could. And if he didn't. Yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon Anyway, that's a good news story. Yeah, it is. 5, 000. I mean, five years, this dog, 2300 miles, this dog's missing.
A dog in Michigan has a chip that reveals its owner lives in California
We don't know all the details, but the chip. The dog went to the, a vet somewhere in Michigan and it learned that that way it was discovered that its owner lived in California and they called her. Can you imagine her on the other end of the phone? And the.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon The vet's office is saying, we found your dog Choco. Yeah, well, they. Yeah, we found Choco.
Ed Vitagliano We found Choco.
Tim Wildmon And
Ed Vitagliano C A C O O C O.
Tim Wildmon All right, next story. What'd you say? You're doing the bingo. You're doing the bingo song to Choco?
Ed Vitagliano Yes, I am. C H A C O O C.
Steve Jordahl O C H O C O Choco Chocolate like Choco. C H O C O. Yeah. Okay.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Tim Wildmon I don't. Move on.
There will be an IPO of SpaceX next year, according to New York Post
Steve Jordahl Okay. There, is going to be an IPO of SpaceX like Choco next year.
Ed Vitagliano See you. You keep saying, let's get it together and then you just.
Tim Wildmon You're right.
Ed Vitagliano Throw another ratchet.
Steve Jordahl Elon Musk is going to, put the biggest IPO in the history of IPOs, by far on the market. He is going. And the. The NewSong York Post reports that he's going to be, hearing pitches from bankers who want to back this IPO. It is going to be a $1.5 trillion valuation.
Tim Wildmon Tell people who don't know what an IPO is.
Steve Jordahl Initial public offering. It's one. A company that is privately owned, that, it goes and is listed on the, on a stock exchange. In other words, the public.
Ed Vitagliano You can buy stock.
Steve Jordahl You can buy stock in it. So.
Tim Wildmon Okay, gotcha.
Steve Jordahl So and so SpaceX, which has to this point been privately owned by Musk and certain, certain investors with him now will be public. You can. But you will be able to buy stock in SpaceX.
Ed Vitagliano And when does that, when does that start?
Steve Jordahl 2026 is when he's space expected.
Ed Vitagliano I'm going for it.
Tim Wildmon Well, I missed out on Walmart.
Steve Jordahl It sounds like a good one. This one. You might want to, you might want to get this one because I think people are missing the point. The very last line in this NewSong York Post article. It's the last paragraph. Musk also signaled that SpaceX would look into building data centers in orbit in order to backstop his artificial intelligence plans. As you know, Elon Musk owns ChatGPT on OpenAI. And here's what we don't know. He is outfitting his space giants, his space rockets to take AI infrastructure into, into orbit.
Tim Wildmon You know where you got that idea?
Steve Jordahl Did you give it to him?
Ed Vitagliano Star Trek?
Tim Wildmon Me?
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Tim Wildmon No, I'm planning on the same thing. Taking my rockets into space and. Go ahead Steve. Sorry to interrupt.
Steve Jordahl Well that's okay. he is, as we read here, he is going to put AI data centers in space. Now why is that important? Because the thing that everybody is worried about with AI is power. It is going to The US generates 490 gigawatts of total power every year. AI is projected to need 123 of those gigawatts by 2035. That's a quarter of the entire electrical grid just for artificial intelligence. Your electric bill is going to suffer because a lot of this is going to AI and companies like Google and everything, they're thinking about building private like power plants and
Tim Wildmon Nuclear data centers is what they call them.
Steve Jordahl Well they're building data centers but they're also building power centers like nuclear power centers to power these things.
Ed Vitagliano Because our current electrical grid is not sufficient to power all these AI centers.
Steve Jordahl AI is going to need 123 gigawatts of energy by 2035. They say that's a quarter of all the energy we've put out as a nation. Well if you put these things in space, each satellite gets 24,7 solar power. There's no clouds, no night, no weather, no disruptions. The starships can deliver 300 to 500 gigawatts of solar powered AI satellites into orbit every year, which means AI, the total electric, 300 gigawatts per year. The AI computing power in space would exceed the entire US economy's total electricity consumption within two years. So he's gonna, he is going to own, he's not just putting AI in, in space, he is going to It's not a rocket company, a SpaceX. It's an infrastructure layer for the next 50 years of computing and Elon is going to own it. Other companies are starting to see that they're behind, they're three years behind. the race, like Google, just launched Project Suncatcher, which plans to deploy AI in space. Blue Origin has announced they're building their own orbital data centers, but they're all three years behind Elon. And in tech, three years is forever. Everybody's going to be coming to Elon for the energy it takes to do AI. So Elon is going to control artificial intelligence.
Tim Wildmon It's brilliant. It really is brilliant. It really is.
Ed Vitagliano Well, no, that is because I have been reading that and when we say these AI centers and artificial intelligence is to soak up energy. When you think about it folks, AI, like chat gbt, but also the expanded versions of these, they have millions of computations per millisecond or whatever. The, the number is incredible amount, incredible. And when you think about your own laptop for example, or your own computer, when it's doing a lot of computing, how it heats up and needs to be cooled down, you have that aspect too. You have to cool these centers down. It's an enormous, drain on the grid. So Elon Musk, I got to hand it to him, he, that that brain of his is always thinking. But to your point, he, he will, he will at least lead in, in this. I think other companies can catch up and there can be some competition. But this is, this is brilliant. Just a kind of a brilliant way of going around the problem of the energy needs.
Steve Jordahl He is going to own the infrastructure for computing for the next 50 years.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, well, he's going to be a trillionaire probably in a couple of years too. The first, first ever.
Steve Jordahl He is the richest man in Earth, in The world. $600 billion at this point. And he's closer to a, than he is to the second place person.
Tim Wildmon He, he has I haven't read his whole story, Elon Musk, but is he like 45? How old is he? I, he's 43. Something like that.
Elon Musk is continuing to make a lot of money. I mean, he bought Twitter
Steve Jordahl We're going to get that from a Brent before I can look it up.
Ed Vitagliano he's born in 71.
Tim Wildmon Oh, he's 50. He's 54. Anyway, he is probably. He's done a masterful job to say the least of parlaying. By that, I mean he's built one company, then he uses that to build two more, uses that to build five more that are all successful.
Steve Jordahl You know, he was the leader behind PayPal.
Tim Wildmon I think that's where he started. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon After he came to the US from South Africa.
Ed Vitagliano I mean, he bought Twitter. Okay. I don't know if that's making him any money, but it was hugely influential in the 2024 election and in politics right now.
Tim Wildmon He's patriotic. Yeah, he's very patriotic.
Ed Vitagliano Hates communism.
Tim Wildmon He hates communism and he sees what's going on with these secular progressives.
Ed Vitagliano But now he is not a Christian. He does have some odd ideas about transhumanism, for example, what is that combining human beings with robotics and AI and kind of sci fi kind of weirdness.
Tim Wildmon But Occupy Mars, he kind of.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, he wants to occupy Mars.
Tim Wildmon He wears that T shirt.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, does he really? Yeah, that's, he's, that's a, that's an odd but brilliant man. That's funny. So by Mars, here's what he.
Steve Jordahl He's involved with Space X. As we know, Tesla is his company, xai, which is, the, his AI company, neuralink, which is implanting chips into people's brains. The boring company, which is very successful at doing, subway tunnels. Tunnels under cities. he formerly owned PayPal, Zip2, SolarCity, OpenAI. He's no longer involved with that, but he did.
Ed Vitagliano So, he also, opened up a chain, of taco stores.
Steve Jordahl Taco stores?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Elon.
Steve Jordahl Elon. You heard of the Elon Taco?
Ed Vitagliano Choco. Taco. You never heard of that?
Tim Wildmon Choco. No.
Ed Vitagliano I'm making.
Tim Wildmon It goes back to. I'm making that dog.
Ed Vitagliano You know, yesterday you, you told a couple whoppers and I believed it. And now right back.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you got me back.
Ed Vitagliano These Occupy Mars T shirts are cool looking. I'm just gonna.
Steve Jordahl Yeah, he really. That's one of his goals.
Tim Wildmon You know, he. And he did that. Ah. Elon Musk is continuing to make a lot of money.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Despite the fact that he was, you know, he was hitting the pocketbook over his association with the doge.
Ed Vitagliano yeah.
Tim Wildmon Trying to help Trump there. And his Tesla sales went down for a while. I don't know if they're still down or not.
Ed Vitagliano 600 billion. He's worth. That's more than twice what I'm worth.
Tim Wildmon Wow.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, more than more than twice.
Tim Wildmon As I say, I think he's, I think he's made his house note. Yeah, he doesn't, he's made his mortgage.
Ed Vitagliano He didn't have to worry about.
Tim Wildmon You have to get a 50 year mortgage.
Ed Vitagliano Right. He doesn't have to worry when the price of eggs goes up or.
Tim Wildmon Nah.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Hey, anyway, go ahead but that's.
Ed Vitagliano But that's capitalism.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano He is. He is a living proof of what you can do in this world if you're a genius three times over. But if you. If you have good ideas, you can.
Tim Wildmon He's not a big believer in, He's a big believer in populate. That we're. We're underpopulated.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And he's doing his part.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon To populate the world.
Steve Jordahl Boy is right.
Tim Wildmon How many children does he have?
Musk has, uh, fathered 14 children with four different women
Ed Vitagliano I don't know.
Tim Wildmon Women.
Ed Vitagliano How many moms?
Steve Jordahl Well, about as many moms as children, I think.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. He's. He's not into traditional family values.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon In that sense. Although he does have some good ideas. He. And he does understand, importance of Christian values. I mean.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon So, I mean, I don't want to discredit. Not discrediting everything about him. I'm just saying he has. He does have some. Some gaps there.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, No, I think he's a. So far, has been a force for good in our country.
Tim Wildmon I do, too.
Ed Vitagliano And, But I do want to just make. Make it clear that, hey, you need to pray for his salvation.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Amen.
Steve Jordahl He, He has some interesting ways of naming his kids. He has, fathered 14 children.
Tim Wildmon 14?
Ed Vitagliano Are you serious?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, he's like.
Ed Vitagliano I didn't realize.
Steve Jordahl Four different women.
Tim Wildmon He's like a patriarch.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon But, but, but, but it's Old.
Ed Vitagliano Testament stuff, like multiple wives, a tent and several trade. Polygamy.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, that. But I mean, no, not at the same time. Some of them he has children with. He hasn't been married to, I think.
Ed Vitagliano Is he. Is he married to any of them?
Steve Jordahl yeah, I believe he's, married. who. Vivian Wilson. Legally changed her name to Musk.
Tim Wildmon This is children right now.
Ed Vitagliano 14 kids.
Steve Jordahl One of his kids is named X, the letter X, because it has a bunch of symbols in his name as well that I don't know how to pronounce it. No one knows how to pronounce. We call them X.
Tim Wildmon He's very opposed to the transgendered movement.
Steve Jordahl Yes.
Tim Wildmon He calls it a mind virus. These. The leftist mind virus. And he's got one of his kids that is in that movement, and he's.
Ed Vitagliano Because of the. The mother of the child.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, that's what I've heard.
President Trump signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction
Steve Jordahl So, all right, President Trump has, been in the name game again.
Tim Wildmon Please don't tell me again today.
Steve Jordahl Well, no, on Monday, yesterday, he signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which gives him a Little more legal push to prosecute the war against drugs.
Tim Wildmon Wrong. Shouldn't do that. Am I the only one?
Steve Jordahl Well, no, since you started.
Ed Vitagliano No. Yeah, I didn't want to interrupt again.
Tim Wildmon It's one of those, with Trump, it's like, yeah, that's good, Trump. No, that's not good. So you go, I, appreciate his war on drugs.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon He's fighting it and he cares about America. He wants to win it. I appreciate all that. Fentanyl is not ammunition. It's not a weapon of mass destruction. If you want to call it a chemical or a drug of mass destruction, that's fine. But it sounds like to me, Trump's wanting to designate fentanyl like, well.
Ed Vitagliano Like a biological chemical or nuclear weapons.
Tim Wildmon Right, right. For the purposes of going to war with Venezuela.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Am I right?
Ed Vitagliano Well, that's, that's what it looks like because all this has been going on over fentanyl. Now, I said in our story meeting, I, I, I do, I can't, I can't prove this. I do wonder whether the fentanyl coming into our country, because the, I think some of the initial, ingredients for making it come from China. And so sometimes I, I go, all right, it's communist country. You can't trust communists. The, the ideology is evil. So could the communist Chinese be hoping to undermine our culture with these drugs? It's coming through enemy nations, at least being run by people who are enemies of the United States, Maduro and Venezuela. So I certainly understand the idea that fentanyl is not just cocaine coming into the country. Maybe it's an attempt to undermine us, but it's not a weapon of mass destruction. And if he is classifying it as that, as a reason to go to war, I too think that's wrong. I think if we go to war with Venezuela, that needs to be a congressional action and it needs to be explained to the American people why we need to do that. I do not want American boots on the ground in Venezuela. Anyway, it sounds like I'm being critical of Trump. Trump does nine things good. One thing I disagree with, that doesn't make me anti Trump. I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so don't email me.
Tim Wildmon He says that, Trump says that a drug flows are, quote, a direct military threat to the United States of America. Thus, he designates fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. I think we talk about that,
Ed Vitagliano Later about that tomorrow.
Tim Wildmon Another day while you're gone. You're going to be watching the show tomorrow.
Ed Vitagliano I will not, sir.
Tim Wildmon Okay. There you go. have a good day, everybody. Thanks for joining us.
Today's Issues continues on American Family radio with Steve Paisley Jordahl
Ed Vitagliano Today's Issues continues on AFR with your.
Tim Wildmon Host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on American Family radio. We got 24 and a half more minutes of this show. Thanks for listening to AFR. I'm Tim with Ed and Fred. And joining us now, Steve Paisley Jordahl.
Steve Jordahl Good morning, everybody. I'm wearing my Christmas blue. Isn't blue a Christmas color?
Tim Wildmon It's plaid. You're Steve Plaid Jordan today.
Steve Jordahl Yeah, but isn't blue? I. I tried to do the ugly Christmas thing, but I think I failed because it's blue and a little bit of red.
Tim Wildmon Well, first of all, that's not a sweater. No, like me, I'm not really wearing, quote, a sweater.
Steve Jordahl I. I just. I just can't. Yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon We're all trying to participate in the, in the. In the spirit around.
Steve Jordahl Exactly.
Tim Wildmon So, like many businesses, our staff sent out a. Here's what we're doing every day this week. And. And so, take a surprise tomorrow. By the way, you wait till I show up for work tomorrow.
Ed Vitagliano I'm off tomorrow, though. Well, take a picture.
Tim Wildmon You have to video. Yep, I will.
Steve Jordahl You can watch the show. It streams, you know.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you can watch us, Ed. You can watch the show.
Ed Vitagliano I'm on vacation. I won't be watching the show.
Steve Jordahl Oh, man.
Tim Wildmon Well, that's disappointing.
Ed Vitagliano Do you watch the show when you're on vac vacation?
Tim Wildmon No, I don't. it's either.
Ed Vitagliano Thank you for your honesty.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, well, you don't either, right? Don't watch each other when we're on vacay. all right. So, Steve, good morning to you, brother.
Steve Jordahl Good morning.
Fred Newsom: Let's start with some happy news
Tim Wildmon So, what's your first story?
Steve Jordahl You want some good news?
Tim Wildmon I want some good news.
Ed Vitagliano I do, too.
Steve Jordahl Why don't we start with some happy, okay? Because we. There's been enough misery in the world over the last 40, 8, 36 hours. 40, 8 to 50 or 60. Anyway, let's, let's talk about,
Tim Wildmon Do an average there.
Steve Jordahl An average of 48. There's been a lot of misery lately. Let's just say that, I want to talk about a wire hair, dachshund mix called Chaco Choco. Choco. Chaco was adopted by a lady named Patricia, Orzok. Orzoco Orozco. I'm sorry. And, Patricia Orozco, she lives in Sacramento. She got this.
Tim Wildmon That's your old stomping ground area, isn't it?
Steve Jordahl Not too far from my old Stomping ground. but, being in the middle of the valley, I could see why Orozco ran away and. Which is what happened. They. She lost Orozco. I'm, sorry. She lost Chaco. Choco had been, disappeared, and she thought about him every day. She missed old Chaco, did Patricia Roscoe.
Tim Wildmon So the dog she had. The lady in Sacramento, just to follow the story, had a dog. Had a dog named Choco. It was a. What?
Ed Vitagliano Named Bingo.
Steve Jordahl A wire hair dachshund mix.
Tim Wildmon A wire hair.
Steve Jordahl Wire wire hair, dachshund.
Tim Wildmon Dachshund. So it goes missing. It goes missing and she thinks it's lost forever.
Steve Jordahl Right. I mean, she, got it from a local shelter in 2016 and.
Tim Wildmon Rescue dog.
Steve Jordahl Rescue dog. And, And so, she got a call, though, from the company that had located her. the chip in this dog had been found and it was in Lincoln. she thought.
Tim Wildmon Lincoln What?
Steve Jordahl Well, she thought Lincoln, California, because there is a Lincoln, California. It's about two hours away from Sacramento. But this dog was found in Lincoln, Michigan.
Ed Vitagliano How far away?
Steve Jordahl That's some, 2300 miles. And the dog was in. They found the dog was chained to a wire fence, a chain link fence. And they rescued it and scanned it, and they found that it was her missing dog. Chaco, they called her.
Tim Wildmon Wow.
Steve Jordahl First, she assumed it was found in Lincoln, California, about 30 miles from Sacramento. Wasn't until the end of the call, she realized that somehow it had ended up all the way across the.
Tim Wildmon The country from California to Michigan. And how many years was that?
Steve Jordahl I think it had been, gone for.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Five years. What, it had just gotten a wild hair kind of thing and hopped a train or something? Like, Like a hobo? It must. I don't wonder how in the world it got to Michigan.
Steve Jordahl Well, I don't. I doubt it was one of the Greatest Journeys type things.
Tim Wildmon It probably was like a Disney animated movie.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Homeward Bound. You know, a lot of people are leaving California.
Steve Jordahl I know.
Tim Wildmon Even the dogs are trying to get away from Newsom.
Steve Jordahl The job. Got tired of taxes. The taxes.
Tim Wildmon That was a good one, Fred.
A woman got her dog back after five years without it
Ed Vitagliano But that is a great story that she got her dog back. She wanted the dog back. Right.
Tim Wildmon Five, years.
Steve Jordahl Thought about him the whole time.
Tim Wildmon Five years this dog went missing. And she does. She thinks it, you know, five years, you give up, probably. And then she. These chip things, changed everything.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano So I think the lesson we, we learned from this is getting a chip implanted is not necessarily a bad thing. Right. Is that what you're saying, Steve?
Tim Wildmon Count the cost.
Steve Jordahl Just, just make sure that you know where the dog is with. Because I think the dog might be on the Antichrist side.
Tim Wildmon If they say to you, sir, Your dog number 666, can we put the chip implant in? I would skip that.
Steve Jordahl Yeah, maybe.
Tim Wildmon No, don't put that in my dog.
Steve Jordahl Right. Any other numbers are fine though.
Ed Vitagliano Now was this a little old lady kind of thing?
Steve Jordahl No, no, no. She's 29 years old.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, wow.
Steve Jordahl And she had two kids. In the meantime since, ah, the dog disappeared, she got married or. I don't know if she was married when the dog disappeared, but she had in her, in her house she had a four month old, two young children, including a four month old. She wasn't sure if Chaco was going to get along with them. I think it, it went fine.
Tim Wildmon Choco.
Steve Jordahl Choco, weighs about 15 pounds and, and took, pretty big.
Ed Vitagliano It was a dachshund, right?
Steve Jordahl It was a dachshund.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. That's a wiener dog.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, Dachshunds can, they can get pretty big. Fifteen pounds is not a small dachshund.
Tim Wildmon Sagging in the middle.
Ed Vitagliano Yes. My dad, I don't know, I guess because I'm getting ready to go on vacation. I'm just telling story after story leaving.
Tim Wildmon For us to clean up. Yes.
Ed Vitagliano So we had a dachshund. My first dog growing up was a dachshund. We had the, we had poochie for about 11 years. And yes, the kids, the kids named the dog Poochie. but, so two things. My dad, who was pretty mischievous, he, he. One time my mom had gone shopping, so dad and Ed were in charge.
Steve Jordahl Oh yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And my dad said, I want to see how much this dog will eat. So he opened up one can after another. He opened up like two cans and was about to. And, and Poochie just. You put it down.
Tim Wildmon Open up a can.
Ed Vitagliano You open up a can. He would eat it. And so he. My dad was about to open the third one. I said, don't. This dog's gonna die. I was in high school and you.
Tim Wildmon Were saving your dog from your dad. You were the adult in the room.
Ed Vitagliano Mom's gonna come home, this dog's gonna be dead. But Poochie, he did. He was an overeater and that was back when you. We would give him people food pretty often. Terrible diet. My dad got one of those old roller skates, just ah, the ones that you used to put on the bottom of your shoe. The Key with the. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And he put it underneath dog because he was starting to sag. He was dragging across the floor so that he could kind of get around a little bit. Kind of.
Steve Jordahl I had a. I had a dog growing up too, when I was in high school. His name was Geppetto. It was a dachshund. And Geppetto ornery.
Tim Wildmon I'm a real boy.
Steve Jordahl Or a dog. An orner dog. Oh, that dog could. And if he didn't. Yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon Anyway, that's a good news story. Yeah, it is. 5, 000. I mean, five years, this dog, 2300 miles, this dog's missing.
A dog in Michigan has a chip that reveals its owner lives in California
We don't know all the details, but the chip. The dog went to the, a vet somewhere in Michigan and it learned that that way it was discovered that its owner lived in California and they called her. Can you imagine her on the other end of the phone? And the.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon The vet's office is saying, we found your dog Choco. Yeah, well, they. Yeah, we found Choco.
Ed Vitagliano We found Choco.
Tim Wildmon And
Ed Vitagliano C A C O O C O.
Tim Wildmon All right, next story. What'd you say? You're doing the bingo. You're doing the bingo song to Choco?
Ed Vitagliano Yes, I am. C H A C O O C.
Steve Jordahl O C H O C O Choco Chocolate like Choco. C H O C O. Yeah. Okay.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Tim Wildmon I don't. Move on.
There will be an IPO of SpaceX next year, according to New York Post
Steve Jordahl Okay. There, is going to be an IPO of SpaceX like Choco next year.
Ed Vitagliano See you. You keep saying, let's get it together and then you just.
Tim Wildmon You're right.
Ed Vitagliano Throw another ratchet.
Steve Jordahl Elon Musk is going to, put the biggest IPO in the history of IPOs, by far on the market. He is going. And the. The NewSong York Post reports that he's going to be, hearing pitches from bankers who want to back this IPO. It is going to be a $1.5 trillion valuation.
Tim Wildmon Tell people who don't know what an IPO is.
Steve Jordahl Initial public offering. It's one. A company that is privately owned, that, it goes and is listed on the, on a stock exchange. In other words, the public.
Ed Vitagliano You can buy stock.
Steve Jordahl You can buy stock in it. So.
Tim Wildmon Okay, gotcha.
Steve Jordahl So and so SpaceX, which has to this point been privately owned by Musk and certain, certain investors with him now will be public. You can. But you will be able to buy stock in SpaceX.
Ed Vitagliano And when does that, when does that start?
Steve Jordahl 2026 is when he's space expected.
Ed Vitagliano I'm going for it.
Tim Wildmon Well, I missed out on Walmart.
Steve Jordahl It sounds like a good one. This one. You might want to, you might want to get this one because I think people are missing the point. The very last line in this NewSong York Post article. It's the last paragraph. Musk also signaled that SpaceX would look into building data centers in orbit in order to backstop his artificial intelligence plans. As you know, Elon Musk owns ChatGPT on OpenAI. And here's what we don't know. He is outfitting his space giants, his space rockets to take AI infrastructure into, into orbit.
Tim Wildmon You know where you got that idea?
Steve Jordahl Did you give it to him?
Ed Vitagliano Star Trek?
Tim Wildmon Me?
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Tim Wildmon No, I'm planning on the same thing. Taking my rockets into space and. Go ahead Steve. Sorry to interrupt.
Steve Jordahl Well that's okay. he is, as we read here, he is going to put AI data centers in space. Now why is that important? Because the thing that everybody is worried about with AI is power. It is going to The US generates 490 gigawatts of total power every year. AI is projected to need 123 of those gigawatts by 2035. That's a quarter of the entire electrical grid just for artificial intelligence. Your electric bill is going to suffer because a lot of this is going to AI and companies like Google and everything, they're thinking about building private like power plants and
Tim Wildmon Nuclear data centers is what they call them.
Steve Jordahl Well they're building data centers but they're also building power centers like nuclear power centers to power these things.
Ed Vitagliano Because our current electrical grid is not sufficient to power all these AI centers.
Steve Jordahl AI is going to need 123 gigawatts of energy by 2035. They say that's a quarter of all the energy we've put out as a nation. Well if you put these things in space, each satellite gets 24,7 solar power. There's no clouds, no night, no weather, no disruptions. The starships can deliver 300 to 500 gigawatts of solar powered AI satellites into orbit every year, which means AI, the total electric, 300 gigawatts per year. The AI computing power in space would exceed the entire US economy's total electricity consumption within two years. So he's gonna, he is going to own, he's not just putting AI in, in space, he is going to It's not a rocket company, a SpaceX. It's an infrastructure layer for the next 50 years of computing and Elon is going to own it. Other companies are starting to see that they're behind, they're three years behind. the race, like Google, just launched Project Suncatcher, which plans to deploy AI in space. Blue Origin has announced they're building their own orbital data centers, but they're all three years behind Elon. And in tech, three years is forever. Everybody's going to be coming to Elon for the energy it takes to do AI. So Elon is going to control artificial intelligence.
Tim Wildmon It's brilliant. It really is brilliant. It really is.
Ed Vitagliano Well, no, that is because I have been reading that and when we say these AI centers and artificial intelligence is to soak up energy. When you think about it folks, AI, like chat gbt, but also the expanded versions of these, they have millions of computations per millisecond or whatever. The, the number is incredible amount, incredible. And when you think about your own laptop for example, or your own computer, when it's doing a lot of computing, how it heats up and needs to be cooled down, you have that aspect too. You have to cool these centers down. It's an enormous, drain on the grid. So Elon Musk, I got to hand it to him, he, that that brain of his is always thinking. But to your point, he, he will, he will at least lead in, in this. I think other companies can catch up and there can be some competition. But this is, this is brilliant. Just a kind of a brilliant way of going around the problem of the energy needs.
Steve Jordahl He is going to own the infrastructure for computing for the next 50 years.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, well, he's going to be a trillionaire probably in a couple of years too. The first, first ever.
Steve Jordahl He is the richest man in Earth, in The world. $600 billion at this point. And he's closer to a, than he is to the second place person.
Tim Wildmon He, he has I haven't read his whole story, Elon Musk, but is he like 45? How old is he? I, he's 43. Something like that.
Elon Musk is continuing to make a lot of money. I mean, he bought Twitter
Steve Jordahl We're going to get that from a Brent before I can look it up.
Ed Vitagliano he's born in 71.
Tim Wildmon Oh, he's 50. He's 54. Anyway, he is probably. He's done a masterful job to say the least of parlaying. By that, I mean he's built one company, then he uses that to build two more, uses that to build five more that are all successful.
Steve Jordahl You know, he was the leader behind PayPal.
Tim Wildmon I think that's where he started. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon After he came to the US from South Africa.
Ed Vitagliano I mean, he bought Twitter. Okay. I don't know if that's making him any money, but it was hugely influential in the 2024 election and in politics right now.
Tim Wildmon He's patriotic. Yeah, he's very patriotic.
Ed Vitagliano Hates communism.
Tim Wildmon He hates communism and he sees what's going on with these secular progressives.
Ed Vitagliano But now he is not a Christian. He does have some odd ideas about transhumanism, for example, what is that combining human beings with robotics and AI and kind of sci fi kind of weirdness.
Tim Wildmon But Occupy Mars, he kind of.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, he wants to occupy Mars.
Tim Wildmon He wears that T shirt.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, does he really? Yeah, that's, he's, that's a, that's an odd but brilliant man. That's funny. So by Mars, here's what he.
Steve Jordahl He's involved with Space X. As we know, Tesla is his company, xai, which is, the, his AI company, neuralink, which is implanting chips into people's brains. The boring company, which is very successful at doing, subway tunnels. Tunnels under cities. he formerly owned PayPal, Zip2, SolarCity, OpenAI. He's no longer involved with that, but he did.
Ed Vitagliano So, he also, opened up a chain, of taco stores.
Steve Jordahl Taco stores?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Elon.
Steve Jordahl Elon. You heard of the Elon Taco?
Ed Vitagliano Choco. Taco. You never heard of that?
Tim Wildmon Choco. No.
Ed Vitagliano I'm making.
Tim Wildmon It goes back to. I'm making that dog.
Ed Vitagliano You know, yesterday you, you told a couple whoppers and I believed it. And now right back.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you got me back.
Ed Vitagliano These Occupy Mars T shirts are cool looking. I'm just gonna.
Steve Jordahl Yeah, he really. That's one of his goals.
Tim Wildmon You know, he. And he did that. Ah. Elon Musk is continuing to make a lot of money.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Despite the fact that he was, you know, he was hitting the pocketbook over his association with the doge.
Ed Vitagliano yeah.
Tim Wildmon Trying to help Trump there. And his Tesla sales went down for a while. I don't know if they're still down or not.
Ed Vitagliano 600 billion. He's worth. That's more than twice what I'm worth.
Tim Wildmon Wow.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, more than more than twice.
Tim Wildmon As I say, I think he's, I think he's made his house note. Yeah, he doesn't, he's made his mortgage.
Ed Vitagliano He didn't have to worry about.
Tim Wildmon You have to get a 50 year mortgage.
Ed Vitagliano Right. He doesn't have to worry when the price of eggs goes up or.
Tim Wildmon Nah.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Hey, anyway, go ahead but that's.
Ed Vitagliano But that's capitalism.
Steve Jordahl Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano He is. He is a living proof of what you can do in this world if you're a genius three times over. But if you. If you have good ideas, you can.
Tim Wildmon He's not a big believer in, He's a big believer in populate. That we're. We're underpopulated.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And he's doing his part.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon To populate the world.
Steve Jordahl Boy is right.
Tim Wildmon How many children does he have?
Musk has, uh, fathered 14 children with four different women
Ed Vitagliano I don't know.
Tim Wildmon Women.
Ed Vitagliano How many moms?
Steve Jordahl Well, about as many moms as children, I think.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. He's. He's not into traditional family values.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon In that sense. Although he does have some good ideas. He. And he does understand, importance of Christian values. I mean.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon So, I mean, I don't want to discredit. Not discrediting everything about him. I'm just saying he has. He does have some. Some gaps there.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, No, I think he's a. So far, has been a force for good in our country.
Tim Wildmon I do, too.
Ed Vitagliano And, But I do want to just make. Make it clear that, hey, you need to pray for his salvation.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Amen.
Steve Jordahl He, He has some interesting ways of naming his kids. He has, fathered 14 children.
Tim Wildmon 14?
Ed Vitagliano Are you serious?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, he's like.
Ed Vitagliano I didn't realize.
Steve Jordahl Four different women.
Tim Wildmon He's like a patriarch.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon But, but, but, but it's Old.
Ed Vitagliano Testament stuff, like multiple wives, a tent and several trade. Polygamy.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, that. But I mean, no, not at the same time. Some of them he has children with. He hasn't been married to, I think.
Ed Vitagliano Is he. Is he married to any of them?
Steve Jordahl yeah, I believe he's, married. who. Vivian Wilson. Legally changed her name to Musk.
Tim Wildmon This is children right now.
Ed Vitagliano 14 kids.
Steve Jordahl One of his kids is named X, the letter X, because it has a bunch of symbols in his name as well that I don't know how to pronounce it. No one knows how to pronounce. We call them X.
Tim Wildmon He's very opposed to the transgendered movement.
Steve Jordahl Yes.
Tim Wildmon He calls it a mind virus. These. The leftist mind virus. And he's got one of his kids that is in that movement, and he's.
Ed Vitagliano Because of the. The mother of the child.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, that's what I've heard.
President Trump signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction
Steve Jordahl So, all right, President Trump has, been in the name game again.
Tim Wildmon Please don't tell me again today.
Steve Jordahl Well, no, on Monday, yesterday, he signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which gives him a Little more legal push to prosecute the war against drugs.
Tim Wildmon Wrong. Shouldn't do that. Am I the only one?
Steve Jordahl Well, no, since you started.
Ed Vitagliano No. Yeah, I didn't want to interrupt again.
Tim Wildmon It's one of those, with Trump, it's like, yeah, that's good, Trump. No, that's not good. So you go, I, appreciate his war on drugs.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon He's fighting it and he cares about America. He wants to win it. I appreciate all that. Fentanyl is not ammunition. It's not a weapon of mass destruction. If you want to call it a chemical or a drug of mass destruction, that's fine. But it sounds like to me, Trump's wanting to designate fentanyl like, well.
Ed Vitagliano Like a biological chemical or nuclear weapons.
Tim Wildmon Right, right. For the purposes of going to war with Venezuela.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Am I right?
Ed Vitagliano Well, that's, that's what it looks like because all this has been going on over fentanyl. Now, I said in our story meeting, I, I, I do, I can't, I can't prove this. I do wonder whether the fentanyl coming into our country, because the, I think some of the initial, ingredients for making it come from China. And so sometimes I, I go, all right, it's communist country. You can't trust communists. The, the ideology is evil. So could the communist Chinese be hoping to undermine our culture with these drugs? It's coming through enemy nations, at least being run by people who are enemies of the United States, Maduro and Venezuela. So I certainly understand the idea that fentanyl is not just cocaine coming into the country. Maybe it's an attempt to undermine us, but it's not a weapon of mass destruction. And if he is classifying it as that, as a reason to go to war, I too think that's wrong. I think if we go to war with Venezuela, that needs to be a congressional action and it needs to be explained to the American people why we need to do that. I do not want American boots on the ground in Venezuela. Anyway, it sounds like I'm being critical of Trump. Trump does nine things good. One thing I disagree with, that doesn't make me anti Trump. I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so don't email me.
Tim Wildmon He says that, Trump says that a drug flows are, quote, a direct military threat to the United States of America. Thus, he designates fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. I think we talk about that,
Ed Vitagliano Later about that tomorrow.
Tim Wildmon Another day while you're gone. You're going to be watching the show tomorrow.
Ed Vitagliano I will not, sir.
Tim Wildmon Okay. There you go. have a good day, everybody. Thanks for joining us.
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