Today's Issues continues on AFR 

>> Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. Tim here with Ed and Wesley. And now, Steve Paisley Jordahl joins us. Good morning, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Morning, everybody.

Tim Wildmon Your rare short sleeve shirt.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. Okay, so this is my chili pepper shirt, and I'm wearing it in, honor or because of the Heat Wave.

Wesley Wildmon Oh, fair enough.

Tim Wildmon In honor.

Wesley Wildmon And you like using chili.

Steve Jordahl I know you like chili.

Wesley Wildmon You like using peppers.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Wesley Wildmon And chili. And your chocolate chili.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, I do.

Tim Wildmon Chocolate chili.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah. We've been here before. Remember this?

Tim Wildmon Yeah, we talked about this.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, we tried it.

Tim Wildmon I tried it. Right.

Ed Vitagliano Did we try it?

Wesley Wildmon I tried. I said something nominal.

Steve Jordahl I made. Someone brought it in. You weren't here that day.

Wesley Wildmon Nope, he was not. I took his sample.

Steve Jordahl Okay.

Tim Wildmon Oh, I guess. I guess I shouldn't judge a food batch recipe, but that doesn't sound right.

Wesley Wildmon No, it didn't. I had to close my eyes. I closed my eyes.

Tim Wildmon Chili. Anyway, Steve has a shirt on that has a bunch of Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Wesley Wildmon And for the Heat Wave that we were discussing.

Steve Jordahl Yep.

Tim Wildmon Were you a fan of that band, Steve?

Steve Jordahl No. the only thing I know about, the, Red, Hot Chili Peppers is the bassist was in Back to the Future, too. He was the. He was the boss. he was the guy that. That talked, Man, all the names are escaping.

Tim Wildmon That's all right.

Ed Vitagliano He's.

Steve Jordahl He's the guy that talked Michael J.

Ed Vitagliano Fox.

Steve Jordahl Michael J. Fox into doing that, scam. Remember? He was watching TV and he was on with the bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who was the guy that acted, that played his buddy that wanted him to. Swipe your card. Swipe your card.

Tim Wildmon Little known fact in music history. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. all right, what's your first story?

So Iran is wrong, right? I'm not sure it's wrong

Steve Jordahl Here's the recipe. I know you guys, we've been talking about the, the. The bombing of, the.

Ed Vitagliano What's that place?

Steve Jordahl Iran.

Tim Wildmon And is it Iran or Iran? I think it's Iran or Iran.

Ed Vitagliano It's. I think it's Iran.

Tim Wildmon So Iran is wrong.

Ed Vitagliano I'm not sure it's wrong.

Tim Wildmon Who did that?

Ed Vitagliano It's. I think Iran is the way you pronounce it.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. They're going to blame that on Southerners. You know they are.

Ed Vitagliano Iran.

Tim Wildmon Who's trying to tell me that Ranks the rednecks? Go ahead.

Ed Vitagliano Listen, I'm not going to correct somebody like.

Tim Wildmon Which is it, though, it's got to.

Ed Vitagliano Be one of the. Iran, I think. Iran.

Tim Wildmon Iran. Okay, if.

Ed Vitagliano But it's one of those things where you're going to slip back the way you pronounce it, like in the Middle East. But then people go, well, we ain't in the Middle East. We're here. We're pronouncing it Iran. And you know what? Go ahead.

Steve Jordahl In the Mideast.

Tim Wildmon Huh?

Steve Jordahl In the Mideast. Not the Middle East.

Tim Wildmon Go ahead.

Steve Jordahl I don't know. The Middle East.

Ed Vitagliano See, now he's correcting me for saying the Middle East.

Steve Jordahl Iran is in the Middle East.

Tim Wildmon We all need to get along here.

There were a couple humorous moments during the bombing of Syria

Steve Jordahl All right, so we've been talking about the bombing, and it is serious stuff, and there's been a whole lot of repercussions. But that's not to say that there wasn't a couple humorous moments I want to play. This is, our J.D. vance, our Vice president. He was talking with a Republican, caucus in, I believe it was Ohio. Anyway, he tells this story, cut 13.

Tim Wildmon And the president looks over at me, puts the foreign leader on mute and says, this is not going very well. And he presses the red button. And my eyes get really big, And I'm like, Mr. President, you know what just happened? And he looks at me and he goes nuclear.

Steve Jordahl Nuclear.

Tim Wildmon And two minutes later, a guy walks in with a Diet Coke. And he looks back at me and he says, it wasn't nuclear. It's just the Diet Coke button. And that's. So that's the kind of guy, my fellow Republicans, that we have as the President of the United States.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, that was vance.

Steve Jordahl That was J.D. vance. Yeah, that's.

Ed Vitagliano We were just. And we were. We were just talking about it last. About whether he drinks Coke or Diet Coke.

Tim Wildmon I've never heard the words nuclear. And. Oh, just kidding. In a combination.

Steve Jordahl Especially the guy that actually has the butt.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, just. I'm just kidding you. It's one of those scare videos I see.

Tim Wildmon Had to go in there, didn't I?

Ed Vitagliano Had you go. You might want to move your family to a shelter before I push this button.

Tim Wildmon It's just the Diet Coke, but, yeah.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah. And the thing is, that wasn't even a comedy skit. That was offhand there.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Florida AG is investigating trans influencer for filming in women's bathroom

All right, so, the, trans influencer. I'm sure you all have seen him. Lily, Tino. I'm, kidding.

Tim Wildmon Who is it now? A trans influencer. Now, what is that exactly?

Steve Jordahl Thinks he's a woman.

Tim Wildmon All right?

Steve Jordahl And who dresses up like a woman?

Tim Wildmon All Right.

Steve Jordahl And has a large following. His large following deranged people. And in his, one of his posts he went to Disney World and he decided that he was going to rate all of the restrooms in the women's restrooms. So he walks into the women's restrooms with a cell phone taping in the women's restroom. Well that's illegal. And the AG of Florida is investigating this guy. He could spend up to five years in prison. I don't know if it'd be men's prison or women's prison. Being in this Florida probably ah, ah, men's prison. But you guys are saying he picked the wrong Disney, didn't he?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, it should have been Disneyland which is in California, but he went to Disney World which is in Florida and they don't do that there.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, a little, little different. background.

Ed Vitagliano How does someone not know that you shouldn't be filming people, you shouldn't be filming in a restroom?

Steve Jordahl I think he knows. I think he just doesn't care. I'm trans, I can do it.

Ed Vitagliano Well he's gonna care now. Yeah, now I doubt he'll go to serve prison but if they do decide to prosecute him, he'll he. I don't know that ah, may be a felony. Yeah, I, I don't know what the law says in, in Florida.

Steve Jordahl I printed it out.

Wesley Wildmon But then I film in a bathroom. I'm guessing that's in there, right?

Ed Vitagliano What's that?

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I' a bathroom violate people's privacy.

Steve Jordahl yeah, I, I actually will tell you about the

Wesley Wildmon Can't have security cameras in there either.

Ed Vitagliano There could be children in there. But like you said Steve, this is part of the trans movement. I'm not saying they're all this way but they, but they want everyone else to adjust their lives and their beliefs to accommodate the way they view things. So why wouldn't they say well I don't care if you're uncomfortable. I'm in here trying to influence Florida.

Steve Jordahl AG James Utmire is investigating the influencer for filming in a women's bathroom at Disney faces. Five years in prison and a five thousand dollar fine under criminal code 810.

Ed Vitagliano One is that for each count?

Steve Jordahl 45, I would imagine.

Ed Vitagliano Wow. Well that guy stepped in it man. If, you know, if he, if he goes spends time and in lockup.

Steve Jordahl They are arrogant, they are deluded and they think they're above the law because well I'm, I'm oppressed because I'm, yeah, I, I'm Trans.

Ed Vitagliano I am trans.

Tim Wildmon Hear roar.

Wesley Wildmon that's it.

Steve Jordahl That's it.

Tim Wildmon I'm oppressed. That's why I'm at Disney World.

Wesley Wildmon Exactly how much bathroom influencing you.

Ed Vitagliano I'm oppressed. That's true. I. It's been forever since I've been. Listen, it's expensive to go.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah. Almost all the In America in 2025, almost all oppression is self inflicted. Calls a system.

Steve Jordahl M. maybe he's possessed.

Tim Wildmon I just don't know where. He must not have a committee to. To review the agenda for the next day. This guy, this trans influencer guy, he must not like a board of directors. It must just be. He must just. Yeah.

Wesley Wildmon Maybe pulling his own.

Tim Wildmon He just does what he.

Wesley Wildmon He didn't check in for the Monday morning.

Tim Wildmon You don't sit around at a meeting, a committee and go, hey, guys, I got this idea. Guys or gals, or whatever you are, whatever. I'm thinking about going to Disney World and hear me out. Now I'm going to go and rate the bathrooms, the women's bathrooms on video. On video. So I'm just going to throw that idea out and using a phone, just, I like to have a little reaction. Let's go around the room.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon so do you think that happened?

Wesley Wildmon Do you think that's the best way? The best of my time?

Steve Jordahl No, I'm thinking not.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Ed: I misgendered this guy on purpose

Ed Vitagliano All right. This is a guy who's hanging out with his friends, thinks he's a girl.

Tim Wildmon Ed.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And misgendering him.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, oh, I misgendered on purpose. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon All right, go ahead.

It costs up to $189 per day for one park pass

Anyway, next story.

Steve Jordahl It cost. Just let me just button this here. It costs up to $189 per day for one park pass, depending on what time of year you're buying.

Ed Vitagliano 89 a day.

Steve Jordahl $189.

Ed Vitagliano You're not. You're not oppressed. To, Tim's Point Break. You're not oppressed. If you can afford that, just throw away money so you can have photos taken with, Prince Eric in the Little Mermaid exhibit. Yes, I just came up with that at the top of my head.

Wesley Wildmon Sounded so good.

Tim Wildmon All right, I think we need to move on.

Steve Jordahl Let's move on. You might want to move on from this, too.

Marjorie Taylor Greene gets into spat with Mark Levin over Iran bombing

Did you know the, President Trump released all the, documents surrounding the JFK assassination? I think.

Tim Wildmon what happened to that?

Steve Jordahl Well, not much, except if you listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene, she has a theory. She has gotten,

Tim Wildmon She's the congresswoman. Republican congresswoman from Florida. From, Georgia.

Steve Jordahl From Georgia. And, she's gotten into a little spat with Mark Levin over the bombing of Iran. Mark Levin thinking that, it was a good idea to go in and stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Marjorie Taylor Greene thinking, oh, no, we're getting into a forever war, and, and World War III is coming. And so Levin happened to say to her, he tweeted out to her, mtg, you are stupid, and you keep bringing your head, banging your head against the wall. Thankfully, POTUS ignored you and hit the Iranian nuclear missile sites. You seem very upset about it. I'm not going away. You're on my radar. To which she responded with a long post. Mark, you have the exact same tone of language as the psychopaths use that send me death threats every single day. And then she says, let me introduce you to my friend Jesus. He said, blessed are the peacemakers. Jesus is the Messiah. Jesus is the one and only son of God. She says, he was put to death on a Roman Christ. He will cross, he will return one day. and he will bring everlasting peace on earth. he also said, pray for your enemies. So I'll do my best to pray for you. Okay, so he witnessed. She witnessed to him a bit. And then she says, there was once a great president that America, that the American people loved. He opposed Israel's nuclear program, and then he was assassinated. So I don't know where she's reading in the, in the documents that were released, but apparently JFK was assassinated because he opposed Israel's nuclear, ambitions.

Ed Vitagliano Well, this is a new idea. now, I've, I've heard it over the last year, but I'd never heard it before, that this is relatively new, that the Israelis assassinated were responsible for the assassination of jfk. I've heard that the mafia did it, the CIA did it, the Lone Wolf did it. That there was more than one, that the Cubans did it, and now the Israelis are. first of all, I think Chris Woodward said this when we went over this story in our story meeting. Or maybe it was you, Steve. I don't remember. I'm not sure it's the best idea to try to witness to someone. Yes, Chris, and. But you started off by calling someone names. Yeah, whatever she. She called him, that. That doesn't seem to open the door of his heart.

Tim Wildmon What you call him.

Steve Jordahl She said, mark, you had the exact same tone and language as the psychopaths that send me to death threats in a single day. You should be fired from Fox News.

Tim Wildmon And shame up for witnessing purposes. You don't think that's a good idea?

Ed Vitagliano I don't call someone a psychopath. I hope you get fired. But let me tell you about the love of Jesus, okay? Now she's a congresswoman. She's free to do whatever she wants. But, listen, what do you guys. I have no idea. I don't think the Israelis were responsible for the assassin assassination of JFK any more than. I think that certain world leaders are reptiles.

Steve Jordahl Don't you?

Ed Vitagliano Reptile.

M. M. Bennett: I understand both sides on this issue

Tim Wildmon All right, listen. What, what we're.

Steve Jordahl What?

Tim Wildmon We're what? We're arguing what we are. Those are two conservatives right there. Yeah, solidly so.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Tim Wildmon They're, they're, they're Records show that. Right.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Tim Wildmon So, shame they're in a fight like that. But it is what it is. M. And I hate when it gets ugly and personal, and it certainly does today. And in the, world of instant response and social media, just like, can you not sit on something for 24 hours where you feel the need?

Ed Vitagliano Not if you're not. If you're wanting to get people to follow you.

Tim Wildmon I know. Well, that's trapped by that, you know, they need. They want to watch your numbers go up.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl She might need the same board of directors. The influencer isn't using the transit.

Tim Wildmon Right. Right. But anyway. But, but what I would say would be, I understand both sides. Marjorie Taylor Greene represents the part of the MAGA movement are not necessarily just the Make America Great movement. she doesn't. She didn't represent at all. And, but there are people on the left who also subscribe to don't get, us involved in foreign wars anymore. We're tired of Iraq and Afghanistan. America. We need to pull back and realize we don't have to police the world.

Ed Vitagliano And we need money spent here.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. And I understand that. Yeah. And I sympathize with that for the most part. But people like Mark Levin, who is a Jew, and seeing what's happening between Iran and Israel, they go, well, this is a threat to world. To not only millions of Jews in Israel, but also Iran is, a threat to the world.

Ed Vitagliano Right. Because it's sponsor of terrorism.

Tim Wildmon Yes. So they need to be stopped. And we, and we, the United States and Israel, we have the capability to do so.

Wesley Wildmon Right.

Tim Wildmon So use it. What's it there for? So that. But people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others, Thomas Massey and others, were worried that this is going to get us into another foreign, war. That we're not going to be able to get out of. And I don't think the comparisons are even.

Wesley Wildmon No. Next week we won't be talking about it.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. So a, a one off strike like what happened here does not represent Operation Desert Storm.

Wesley Wildmon Well, and the numbers speak for themselves. I mean if you think the numbers I mentioned earlier. So President Trump in this term has dropped 36 bombs and ah, Obama dropped 30,000 in his, in his tenure. And so I mean there's 30,000 really.

Tim Wildmon Like drones and stuff.

Wesley Wildmon So if you, if you look at the number. My point is we're nowhere even near the number of. Right. I know we didn't have the same conversation. No. In fact I didn't even care when Obama was right. Dropping on terrorists.

Tim Wildmon We did that for you. Remember we struck in Libya without congressional.

Wesley Wildmon That's one area we can agree with President Obama at the time on. Good job for you. You know.

Steve Perry: Israel is accused of committing genocide in Gaza war

Tim Wildmon So next story.

Steve Jordahl Steve, I just want to say that if Israel was responsible for jfk, it would have been like the cigarette lighter in the limousine blowing up. Not a, some, something so ordinary as a gunshot. You know, given the operation with the pagers. Pager, yeah, Grim beeper they call that operation. I want to tell you that the United States and Israel are very, very, very, very bad at genocide because that's what we're being accused of. Right? Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Israel, if they really wanted, they're doing a really bad job of it if they wanted to exterminate the Palestinian people. And one of the proofs that they're not is that they are providing $30 million in aid to a group called Gaza Humanitarian foundation which goes into Gaza to distribute food. Now Hamas was working with the UN or the UN was working with Hamas to send aid in and Hamas would take it and hold it hostage, use it for its own purposes and hold it hostage. Now they've got this group that is not connected to Hamas or the UN and reports are that Hamas is actually shooting some of the aid. Aid, people that are distributing the.

Tim Wildmon Why?

Steve Jordahl Because they don't want their people because they are fundamentally against their own people.

Ed Vitagliano They want Israel to look as bad as possible and be able to blame, I'm guessing the blame starving kids on Israel.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano So they, they can't do that if the kids are fed. Yeah, well that's, that is evil on a whole nother scale.

Steve Jordahl So anyway, the US is providing aid. Everybody, all you college PhDs, out there that are protesting on campus about free Palestine and the genocide, Israel is I mean, United states is providing $30 million of food to the Palestinian people.

Tim Wildmon Listen to this. The term genocide is. This doesn't even fit the definition of genocide. Genocide is when a, a group of people are attacked for their ethnicity, for.

Ed Vitagliano The purpose of annihilation.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, yes. Or like you could say the genocide in World War II with the concentration camps for the Jews. Hitler and the Nazis were trying to kill all the Jews. Okay. In the case of the Gaza war, with in Israel, between Hamas and Israel, if this were, if the Israelis were involved in genocide, they would be attacking all Arabs. It would just be a war against Arabs.

Wesley Wildmon Right.

Tim Wildmon Well, 20% of the population of Israel itself is made up of Arabs. I know I had many friends over the years living in Israel who are Arabs. Israel doesn't target them for death.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon It's a political and struggle, down there, an ideological struggle, not, ah, Israel's not committing acts of genocide, so go ahead.

Wesley Wildmon Right, right. And also, genocide is usually, doesn't need to, need to have been provoked. It's an ideology that you just live out year round. It doesn't change. But this, everything that they're doing here is in response to what took place. Also good in October even 2023.

Steve Jordahl Even if you could limit the, the genocide to say it's just we want genocide on the Palestinian people, it would be a lot easier to just flat out drop bombs on hospitals and schools where Hamas is hiding behind its citizens and using them as human shields and claim that that's right. But no, they went in house by house at the cost. Great cost in Israeli soldiers lives. And they went and they went in to try to protect the civilians. And get.

Wesley Wildmon That's another good point.

Tim Wildmon The left on this issue just uses the word genocide because it's appalling to hear that because we've all seen examples of this in world history.

People want to download this show a podcast like you and Ed do

so next story. Steve, by the way, let me tell folks, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed, Wesley and Steve. Ah, Wesley, people want to download this show a, podcast like you and Ed do. How can they do that?

Wesley Wildmon Go to afr.net afr.net There's a tab at the top that says podcast you. I don't. You cannot download it from there, but you can listen to it from there. But if you're wanting to download the.

Tim Wildmon App, does it download every day? Can you set it up to automatically download every day? And I know you, I'm asking a question. I know the answer to, but yeah.

Wesley Wildmon Well, what we do, our staff here at afr, we upload our. Our radio programs after the show's up within a couple hours. And so it's. It's on our website, afr.net podcast now you can go to. From. Once you're there, you can go to. There's tabs that go to Amazon, Apple, Spotify, Google podcasts. There's other places where you can actually download it and hold it, but otherwise I would go to afr.net.

Steve: Bobby Sherman passed away on the 24th

Steve Jordahl All right, well, there's nothing else to talk about, so let's go to music. Cut 11.

Tim Wildmon I'm taking the shade.

Ed Vitagliano Out of the sun.

Wesley Wildmon whatever made me think that I was number one, I ought to know. Easy come, easy go.

Tim Wildmon If that isn't a feel good song, I don't know what it is.

Steve Jordahl That is Bobby Sherman, who, passed away on the 24th. What's that? yesterday.

Ed Vitagliano probably last night, because I didn't.

Tim Wildmon He was like a poster child for the 60s and 70s.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Pop culture.

Ed Vitagliano I mentioned in our story meeting this morning, my sister, who's one year, Roughly one year younger than me, she had a Bobby Sherman poster up in her bedroom. He was one of those heartthrobs, probably in tiger beat magazine. And, and, and had had those.

Tim Wildmon Those Leaf Garrett.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. And Donny Osmond.

Ed Vitagliano The Oz. Yeah, the Osmonds. but I. So Tim mentioned it and mentioned this song, which I got to be honest, I had not heard that song at all. I had not heard that song at all. But I did look up when, I. We. I went back to my office. Bobby Sherman and Julie do you love me was on there. And that was. I love that song. So junior high school, I guess.

Steve Jordahl I suppose I was very traveled in 50s rocks and 60s pop as a, young man. I mean, yeah. Back in the day. And I remember Bobby Sherman. I could tell you I. He was a huge heartthrob. But I could not find a single song of his that I recomm. Recognized.

Ed Vitagliano You don't remember Julie, do you love?

Steve Jordahl I have to listen to it. Yeah, I'll go back and listen to it.

Tim Wildmon I just know the dude had some serious hair.

Ed Vitagliano Yes, he did. He had that 70s hair. Not like, you know, the rock. Rock and roll band.

Tim Wildmon I mean, thick, thick hair. So who.

Wesley Wildmon Who are we talking about again?

Ed Vitagliano Bobby Sherman.

Tim Wildmon It's not important to your life.

Steve Jordahl Michael Jackson could have been up on a girl's wall before he was white than.

Tim Wildmon On that note, we'll end the show today. Send all your emails and comments to Steve Jordall.

Ed Vitagliano I had to take a second to figure that one out. You are on your own, son.

Tim Wildmon All right, have a great day, everybody. Thanks for listening.