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Today's Issues offers Christian response to the issues of the day

Welcome to Today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. Here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

Tim Wildmon Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to AFR. It's Monday, May 19, 2025. In studio with me today is Ed Battagliano. Good morning, Ed.

Ed Vitagliano Hey, good morning, Tim.

Tim Wildmon And Fred Jackson.

Fred Jackson Hi there, Tim.

Tim Wildmon Good morning, Fred.

Fred Jackson Good to be here.

19 people died across Kentucky because of tornadoes over the weekend

Tim Wildmon before we get to the news of the day, the weather has been the big story. One of the biggest stories at least, hitting, the middle of the country. Right, Fred?

Fred Jackson Oh, it was a tough, tough weekend, folks, St. Louis, people in Southern Kentucky. I just saw a live report coming out of London, Kentucky. Yeah, 19 people died across Kentucky because of these tornadoes, that hit the area in the weekend. I just saw a very moving interview. It was with a young man there in London, Kentucky. Tornadoes were coming. He managed to get his mom, you know, they talk about, get to an inner room somewhere, managed to get his mom into the bathroom, get in the tub there, the most protective area they could get. And he said, I prayed to Jesus. I thought I was going to die at that point. This young man watching this interview, he has staples in his head. I mean, severe injuries. But he gets in there, he said, I was sure I was going to die. And I just prayed to Jesus to save us. And what happened was the debris fell in such a way. The house collapsed, but the debris fell in such a way that he was able to protect himself and his mom, from death. Across the street, two people died. Same thing happened. I came in the office yesterday and looked at some of the images, like I say, from East St. Louis, some of these other areas, war zones. That's the only way to describe it. Like a bomb has got off, has gone off and just hit all of these houses, just obliterated. It was horrible. What happened. As I say, 29 people, altogether died. And, guys, the news today is not good because another round of these severe storms Tornadoes, possible hail are headed in the same direction for tomorrow afternoon.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Kentucky, Missouri. I'm sitting here looking at, I would think Arkansas and Tennessee and of course I mean Indiana, it's that part of the country.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Going to get hit again. just, you know, springtime.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon You know, and the, and the weather's severe in the clash between the, the Gulf moisture and the air coming down. The cold air.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. And it's, it's this way every year.

Tim Wildmon Every year.

Ed Vitagliano Some years are worse than others. I just know in our part of the country where our flagship station is located here in Tupelo, Mississippi, it seems like it's been extraordinarily wet, a lot of storms and so it's just it is, it is a blessing that we do have more advanced warning.

Tim Wildmon True.

Ed Vitagliano That is some of these, that's that.

Tim Wildmon Save that, that has saved countless lives.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. So but at the same time sometimes these storms shift in direction.

Tim Wildmon Ah.

Ed Vitagliano Sometimes they develop more powerfully in a shorter amount of time. And of course tornadoes are just by their nature unpredictable. Once they get started, they can jump around and you get these kinds of situations where it'll basically jump across the street some. I mean locally in where the town where I live just west of Tupelo, I don't know whether it was 10 years ago, whatever, had a tornado that jumped over houses on the same street.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano You know, quote unquote, sparing one and then killing people in the other house just over it. It's just, it's, it's a very difficult thing to, to put, wrap your mind around. But it is just the reality.

Tim Wildmon Just like, okay, the deaths were in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia. from the. I didn't realize Virginia got hit too. So anyway.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon So you're saying tomorrow's another round for that?

Fred Jackson Mars. Another round. You know I mentioned hail and we throw that in there. But I saw another video from the weekend and this was a lady in her kitchen and we were talking about at least golf ball size hail and it was coming through the window over her kitchen sink, breaking the glass.

Ed Vitagliano Wow.

Fred Jackson And just pounding her house. And so you know, if the tornado doesn't get, you got this kind of element that's coming in, doing untold damage to people's roofs, their cars.

Ed Vitagliano If they're flooding. Flooding can be a real problem.

Fred Jackson Flooding.

Tim Wildmon That picture. I know we're doing radio here, but I'm showing it and I know you've seen the pictures but see these tornadoes, sometimes they'll just sit on the ground for, for miles and just mowed it like a lawnmower.

Fred Jackson Yeah, yeah.

Tim Wildmon Over the terrain, just taking out house.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Looking at.

Fred Jackson This is our afn.net afn.net we are keeping track of this and you can see some of the images from this. These terrible storms on the weekend.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Fujita: F4 tornado could blow your house apart

All right. Well, you know, course trailers don't have a chance.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon In those kind of situations, people live in mobile homes. And then really if you don't have a brick house. Brick house and you get a category three or four, even a wood frame house called categories. I'm thinking about hurricanes. What. What is the F? F is.

Ed Vitagliano Oh yeah, the F3.

Tim Wildmon F4. it's just. Yeah. Just a. Wasn't that scale is.

Ed Vitagliano Isn't it the like fajita or something?

Tim Wildmon Yeah, it's also an Olive Garden. The prosciutto scale. You can order that with spaghetti if you want to. Anyway, I don't mean to make light of the situation. It's a terrible tragedy for a lot of these folks in this part of the country who's,

Ed Vitagliano Fujita.

Tim Wildmon Fujita. It is, yes. Shortened F. Yes. So F1 tornado, F2. I think it goes up to five.

Ed Vitagliano I think so. I think that's. I think that's right.

Tim Wildmon So. But you get an F4, F5. You're talking about 200 mile an hour or plus.

Ed Vitagliano Well, F4 is 207 to 260 miles per hour.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano F5 is 261 to 318. That's just, I can't even comprehend.

Tim Wildmon So that's the winds inside the. That make up the tornado itself, you know, not. And so you can see how that if you got a 270 mile, 200, just say 200 mile wind headed toward you, you know, towards your house. Yeah. It could blow your household. That's what happens. It just blows it.

Ed Vitagliano And a lot of times it will just explode. Pressure.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano It'll cause the house to explode.

Tim Wildmon As always, our friends at 8 Days of Hope are on the way.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon To do work to help the people who have been.

Ed Vitagliano Their rapid response team does just such great work.

Tim Wildmon They do.

Ed Vitagliano They will get it, get there quickly, get tarps on roofs that are missing parts of it so then they can come back and put the actual roof on.

Fred Jackson At our story meeting this morning, we have a prayer time and there was a prayer request from one of our guys that they have a couple here in our home base of Tupelo. They just got back with Eight Days of Hope from California, kind of doing some of the cleanup work that Eight Days of Hope does from the fires, from the fires. They just got back and then they got a call last night. We need you up in St. Louis, because they have the big feeding trailers. So they're on their way now up to St. Louis, to help out there.

Tim Wildmon So, they do great work.

Fred Jackson Thank God for The volunteers with 8 Days of Hope, because we know what the weather's been like over the last couple of years. It's like endless. There's teams going all the time. So we're thankful for Eight Days of Hope. It's, and for the folks that volunteer to go out there, and they're there for weeks sometimes. Some of these teams.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon Next story. Fred?

Kathleen Levitt: President Trump is on phone with Vladimir Putin

Fred Jackson Well, as we sit here, folks, our President Donald Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin. remember last week when, President Trump was in the Middle east, we thought there was talk about him going to Turkey to meet with Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader Zelensky and Russian leader Putin. That didn't happen. But right now we are told, just before I come in the studio, that President Trump is on the line with Vladimir Putin. Later today, he's going to be talking with Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, trying to bring about the first aim, the first ingredient in this is trying to bring out a 30 day ceasefire in this horrible, horrible war that we have seen there. This, to my mind, is the first conversation that, that Trump and Putin have had on this issue. And you know, what Trump has had to say about Putin. Does he really want peace? What does he need to bring about a ceasefire? What is he demanding? Apparently those are the questions that are going to Putin right now. I suppose later today we will get a readout from the White House on, the responses and then, as I say, the Zelensky call also happening. So the president, you remember during the campaign, he said, you know, if I'm elected, office will bring an end to this war. It has got to be a frustration for President Trump because, we're now, what, three, four months into his presidency and this thing is still going on. There was more bombings on the weekend from Russia.

Ed Vitagliano So part, from my understanding, part of the hang up here and I've talked about this, on the air a number of times. I did not think it was wise, a wise foreign policy approach for the west being led by Republican presidents as well as Democratic Party presidents to continue to poke the bear, so to speak, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And continue bringing nations right up to the border of Russia into NATO. After all those decades of NATO, the United States leading NATO as a counterweight to the Soviet Union leading the Warsaw Pact, that enemy mentality. And I think that part of the hang up here is that President that, Vladimir, Putin was, wants to make sure that Ukraine is never allowed into NATO. And and if they have to devastate Ukraine, or capture it entirely to provide a buffer between the west and the Russian border, I think they'll do that. So I'm not sure, maybe this is part of the frustration on the part of President Trump is NATO and the Biden administration, they were perfectly willing to antagonize Russia. I'm not saying Russia is off the hook for attacking a sovereign nation, Ukraine. Okay? But we've talked about, if something similar happened to the United States, we would be taking care of looking out for number one. And my, my guess is that Putin is saying there have to be guarantees that Ukraine remains neutral if we stop and have a ceasefire or a truce.

Fred Jackson Steve Witkoff is the US special envoy in this, he was interviewed, in advance of this phone call this morning. He believes President Trump's call with Vladimir Putin will probably be successful. Cut number six. I believe that the President is going to have a successful call with, Vladimir Putin. They know each other. The president is determined to, get something done here and hopefully, if he can't do it, then nobody can.

Tim Wildmon Who's that?

Fred Jackson That is Steve, Witkoff, the US Special envoy. You've seen him, his pictures a lot.

Tim Wildmon Let me ask you this question. you mentioned readout. Use that word. Or you did, or somebody did. Maybe it was one of the reporters. when a president has a, as a conversation with another foreign leader, in this case Putin, are those phone calls, accessible to the news media, or does the White House make a printout? Is that what a readout is of the whole conversation?

Fred Jackson no, the media does not hear this phone call.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Fred Jackson but I would think that our, White House spokesperson, Kathleen Levitt, will have a news conference or regular readout. They, they call them.

Tim Wildmon What is a readout?

Fred Jackson A readout is basically here's, here's. Well, to be honest, here's what we want the public to know about this phone call. That's.

Ed Vitagliano They'll summarize.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Or. Yeah, that and spinning for your.

Ed Vitagliano Right, for your.

Tim Wildmon To give your, Your point of view. Put it.

Fred Jackson yes.

Ed Vitagliano Now there, now there have been instances in which conversations, especially during Trump's the first week of his first term.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano There were leaks of the call. He had Australia with Australia and one other country. so that can happen, but ordinarily it's. It's. No, you don't get. Nobody has that.

Tim Wildmon Well, no, I don't think you'd want that. Nobody who. I mean, you gotta, you gotta speak frankly. Yeah, exactly. So, well, it'll be interesting to see. And we are hopeful that, a peace deal can be brokered here between Ukraine and Russia because, man, it's just been a bloody, painful war that's destroyed a lot of the Ukraine. Honestly, I don't know how long. I don't know how much of Russia has been damaged. I'm talking about the land and cities and such, but I don't know, it'll take just like, to me, there's dead bodies all over the place. It's like a nightmare for those people.

Ed Vitagliano It's going to cost a lot of money to start repairing that country there. You know, there's. There are refugees in Poland. Oh, yes.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Remember all that? Remember all the people who live. Hundreds of thousands, me.

Ed Vitagliano And, and do they come home? Do they go home? Are they, are their homes remaining?

Tim Wildmon Right, right, right.

Three years into Ukraine war, Ukrainian resistance still battling mighty Russian army

so also, one aspect of this, sort of the world thought that Russia would capture the Ukraine in a matter of weeks. Remember that?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And here we are three years later, and the Ukrainian war, I mean, the, the Ukrainian, resistance, as it were, is still, you know, going toe to toe with the mighty Russian army. I guess they're not so mighty anymore.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. And, and the problem for the Ukrainians is that they are not as numerous as Russia.

Tim Wildmon And Russia's getting the North Koreans to come help them too. Yeah, they're recruiting mercenaries.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon So to speak.

Ed Vitagliano Kim Jong Un, I guess, wanted his troops to get some battle experience.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. So, yeah, it's, it's,

President Trump on phone with Vladimir Putin trying to end Ukraine war

So President Trump. The big news right now is President Trump is at this very moment on the phone with Vladimir Putin and trying to persuade him to end the war with, the Ukraine.

Fred Jackson I, I think what they're trying to do, the White House give us three things that you want Putin to bring us to a ceasefire. It's a step by step thing. what do you need to get us to a ceasefire for 30 days, then you'll talk to Zelensky and see if they can bring those three priorities together.

Ed Vitagliano Well, and that's part of the problem too, is that Zelensky, I'm sure Russia is going to say we're not going to give up the territory we have. And Zelensky is. Has been saying, no, they got to go, they got to leave. And if that's the case, the war continues.

Fred Jackson Yep.

Tim Wildmon I tell you what, Zelensky, What's his first name?

Ed Vitagliano Vladimir.

Fred Jackson Vladimir.

Tim Wildmon Same as Putin.

Ed Vitagliano No, wait.

Fred Jackson No.

Ed Vitagliano What, I'm sorry.

Tim Wildmon Zelensky. What's his first name? Do the Siri thing. That's all you got to do. Steve Jordan does Siri thing.

Ed Vitagliano Volodymyr. Vladimir.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Volodymir.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano It's not Vladimir, it's Volodymyr with Zelensky. Yeah.

Fred Zelinsky says Ukraine should not fold and give itself to Russia

Tim Wildmon All right. So, I know that, you know, there's. Well, I'm just gonna say this. I, The politics of it aside, I guess you could say I have admiration for him. Zelensky, I'm talking about for this reason. The guy was a, had no experience in this kind of. In leading a country. War effort. None. He was a. He was like Trump. He was a TV star.

Ed Vitagliano Ah.

Tim Wildmon Turned president. Right.

Fred Jackson Yep.

Tim Wildmon Comedian, I think.

Ed Vitagliano Former entertainer.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. And then he became president of Ukraine. And then. And then Russia invaded, and started, you know, and he has held up, for. Is this. How long has this been going on now?

Fred Jackson Three years.

Ed Vitagliano He actually played on a TV show, a TV series, Servant of the People. I'm reading Wikipedia, in which Zelinsky played a fictional Ukrainian president. I didn't realize.

Tim Wildmon Ironic.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. I didn't realize.

Tim Wildmon I know a lot of people have problems. They, you know, with Ukraine's corrupt and all this, and there's a lot of truth to that. I know that, but I'm just talking about just as a person who rose up to the moment to confront the military of. And rallied his country to keep Russia from rolling in in three weeks and taking over. And they organized a resistance movement that has been phenomenal. We're talking about Russia had one of the greatest, mightiest armies in the world, and they don't even have to ship tanks across the ocean.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon They just. It's like being, Alabama. Alabama to Mississippi, you just roll in and take over. And the people of Ukraine said, no, we're going to fight. We're going to fight for our country. And they've been. And, And so that's, That's what I. Any. And. And you talking about something where you don't take a break. Three years of 24. Seven.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Living. Living this, And begging the money for. Begging the world for money all the time.

Ed Vitagliano Money and weapons.

Tim Wildmon Money and weapons. I mean, you having to basically travel around with your hand out. Yeah. Your hat out, which has to be a little bit humiliating.

Ed Vitagliano A little bit humiliating, but it's desperation.

Tim Wildmon It's desperation for, for his country. So what do you think I should do? You think, Ukraine should just fold and give themselves to Russia?

Ed Vitagliano Here, here's my perspective on it. It's. It's not about what you should do. It's about what. What can you, what can you do?

Tim Wildmon Pragmatism over principle.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. I mean, Russia is not giving up the eastern portion of Ukraine that borders on. That they have control of now that that's on the Black Sea. They've wanted that for a long time. They've got it. They're not getting it back. Russia will just bleed Ukraine out. so I, I hate that for Ukraine, but that's the reality on the ground. I think that Zelensky, should, you know, try to keep as much of his territory intact. As he can. And I think Russia is going to say Ukraine has to remain neutral. If they go over to Europe, we'll invade them again. I mean, if they go over to NATO.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. All right, well, we'll see what happens there. You're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Next story. Fred?

Former Vice President Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer

Fred Jackson Well, we're coming up to a break here, but, I think most people have heard the, big news this morning came in last. Last night, I guess, about, Joe Biden, former, president, has been diagnosed with an aggressive case of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is very common amongst men, but in this case, it's very aggressive, and it has metastasized beyond the prostate into his bones. And so it's going to require, some pretty heavy duty treatment. They do believe that, former, President Biden has a type of testosterone that will react well with some chemical treatment. But the question is, there's some question this morning, okay, we're just getting this news on the weekend of this aggressive case of prostate cancer. The former president, the. There is some speculation that it was known some time ago, but that, Biden has kept this under wraps for some reason. so again, there's no way of knowing that at this point.

Ed Vitagliano For some reason.

Fred Jackson For some reason.

Ed Vitagliano Well, what, what could that possibly be? Now, look, okay, I'm not making light of the fact that Joe Biden, President. Former President Biden, has its aggressive form of cancer. This is very dangerous. It's metastasized in the bones. This is quite normal in his age. At his age it's usually a death sentence.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Okay. That. That. I don't want to see that on anyone. Okay. But my understanding, not being a doctor, but having been reading about this over the weekend, is that by the time this form of cancer reaches this stage, it usually takes six or seven years. He gets some of the best medical care as president of the United States.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Ed Vitagliano in the world. There's. In my opinion, there's no way this was missed.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Ed Vitagliano That they did hide it because they want. He and other. I'm sorry. So we got some sound on this.

Fred Jackson Well, we're coming up.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, let's take our break. And we come back, continue this conversation.

Former president Joe Biden has aggressive prostate cancer

We're talking about. There's so many big stories that happened since last week, over the weekend. we're talking about President Joe Biden. Former president Joe Biden has, form.

Fred Jackson Of aggressive prostate cancer.

Tim Wildmon Yes, he has prostate cancer. And, it's advanced m and metastasized in the bones. And everybody's wondering, how in the world does that happen? Because this is a very treatable form of cancer.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon And M, people who have annual checkups with their doctor. Doctor, they would discover this a long time ago.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Tim Wildmon because your numbers would be, you know, high enough to say, hey, what's going on here? All right, we'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.

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Former President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he has prostate cancer

Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Ed and Fred. We were talking about, former President Joe Biden, announced, or at least his spokesperson announced yesterday that he, has prostate cancer and that is it metastasized into the bones. So he's evidently had it a long time, a while. It's very aggressive. Well, I say a long time. I don't know how I'm not privy to his private personal medical records except for what he's announced. But, but just by, you know, putting two and two together, you're going like, there are a lot of questions about how long he's had this.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon You know, and you were saying you were going to play something, a clip.

Fred Jackson Yeah. Dr. Mark Siegel is one, of the medical experts that you see on Fox News a lot. He says he's surprised by Biden's doctors that, ah, didn't pick up the cancer earlier, although he says prostate cancer is sometimes easy to miss. Cut number two.

Speaker F Really, really surprising that it's this advanced at the time of diagnosis. Now you can miss prostate cancer, but most of the time regular screening picks it up. A sitting president, I would expect to have advanced screening should not be subject to debate. What kind of screening you do a PSA for sure. Every year on a.

Fred Jackson Would a PSA test have picked that up?

Speaker F Not all the time. but there's other tests that we do that are, that are several different kinds of tests you can do in addition to the psa. But the PSA would pick it up the majority of the time if he's diagnosed by somebody feeling a nodule. That's not these days the way we do it most of the time. We also, most of the time prostate cancer is diagnosed without symptoms. It has to get really pretty far advanced. Usually before you could have urinary symptoms leading towards urinary retention.

Tim Wildmon Now you had this, Fred.

Fred Jackson Yeah. And, we have a policy here, American Family association, people have, what's called a healthy you. So you go every year to your.

Tim Wildmon Doctor, it's an annual checkup and ah.

Fred Jackson Do blood tests and that sort of thing. And with guys, what we used to call it physical.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Jackson And with guys, they do a physical exam of the prostate and they check it out and the doctor can feel nodules on it. that's a signal you may have a problem. And you combine that. If your PSA score is climbing, it's.

Tim Wildmon A blood work score. I mean, it's associated with your blood work.

Fred Jackson Yes. If that is climbing, then your doctor will likely say, hey, go to see your urologist. And they may decide to do a biopsy and just to see if there's cancer cells in there. That's why Dr. Siegel is saying, you put all of those things together and you can discover the cancer very early, and it's very easy to treat. Some guys will elect, you know, some urologists may say, okay, let's take it out, then you don't have to worry about this anymore. Others treatments. I had a treatment called a proton treatment, which was very. Again, mine was non aggressive. but proton treatment, is a fairly, new treatment. uses protons from a nucleus instead of the electrons, and they're able to pinpoint the cancer. And, mine was diagnosed 10 years ago this month, had treatment. And, I still have a PSA test every year, just to check, make sure everything's still okay.

Tim Wildmon Ray Pritchard. Same thing.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Well, my. My dad used to say. My dad lived to 93, and he used to say that if. That if a man lives long enough, he's going to have to deal with this issue just because most of us now, at least in the developed world, live a lot longer than we used to. And my grandfather, my dad's dad died of heart issues. He had heart, heart open, heart surgery in the 60s, nowhere near what they're able to do now. And he died, you know, relatively young, in his, 60s, of that. But if you're living to 85, 90, 95, this just becomes part of the physical breakdown that, my. I should. I should be. I should be cautious. Before the break, I was implying that President Biden and his administration probably knew this. I don't know if that's the case. I'm just going by the fact that his clear, cognitive, issues seemed plain to everyone, but everyone in the administration seemed to play dumb about it. We didn't know anything about it. And so now when I hear this, I. My first thought is, well, maybe they did know and they didn't want to say anything while he was in office because chances are people aren't going to vote for him.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano So. Well, vicious. But I can't make a. An accusation.

Tim Wildmon I just know this to cancers everywhere.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Maybe it's just because I'm 62 now and I know no more people. You know, you live long enough, you know, More people that get sick and die. Things happen. But just, it just seemed like to me, it's like, am I. That's a perception you guys have or.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I, I don't know whether it's. We. You never know if it's just a product of better screening.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, that's true.

Ed Vitagliano But to your point, the older you get, the more you hear of people dying of old age diseases. Right. as you know, we normally don't think of young people. Some kids and young people do get various forms of cancer, but that's not human. Usually what, cuts short a life.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano But when you get up at our age, heart, hearts begin to, you know, break down.

Fred says eggs are good for you now, whereas they were terrible in 70s

Cells begin to break down, you know, all those kinds of diseases that tend to kill you in old age. You're more likely to get dementia, those kind of things.

Tim Wildmon That's encouraging.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Tim Wildmon That's a good, good way to start your Monday morning. Right there in the Ladies and gentlemen, further ad.

Ed Vitagliano You can eat the. Try to eat the right things and all that.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano You get try. Boy. Now, you're just going complete pessimist here.

Tim Wildmon I had vegetable soup last night and ate some side of broccoli.

Ed Vitagliano You stay active. I mean, you go, you, you hit the golf ball.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano You're carrying, so you're walking.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Ah, it's not as active as if you pull your cart behind you, but yeah, it's at least some, walking.

Ed Vitagliano Around trying to encourage you a little bit. You're going to live for years.

Tim Wildmon So this morning. So I had vegetable soup last night and this morning I just canceled it out with some sausage.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Tim Wildmon I don't know what do you, you, just live life, you can't live life with your taste buds bland though, can you? That's not, that's not quality.

Ed Vitagliano That a life worth living, is life worth living.

Tim Wildmon I think an Italian would know that better than anybody once in a while.

Ed Vitagliano Every once in a while, because I usually my wife makes me some eggs for the, for breakfast.

Tim Wildmon Which were terrible for you in the 70s.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Tim Wildmon They're good for you now.

Ed Vitagliano My poor dad. I can remember my poor dad eating, eggs made out of what's called egg beaters.

Fred Jackson Oh, no.

Ed Vitagliano You remember these milk carton looking thing, and you poured into and everything was removed from it.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And my poor dad because he was told. I've told the story here on the air about how I didn't, I didn't have real butter until a few years ago because margarine, it was margarine growing up, that's all. And when I tasted margarine growing up, I thought, I don't want to eat this. I had dry toast when I, if I had toast, it was dry up, until three years ago. And my wife said, here, you want the rest of my buttered toast? And I took a bite and I thought, what is this? This is amazing.

Tim Wildmon Where's this been all my life? It's been in the fridge.

Fred Jackson So.

Ed Vitagliano My poor dad, he had egg beaters half his life.

Tim Wildmon Don't you remember?

Ed Vitagliano Oh, yeah.

Tim Wildmon In the 70s, I think eggs were on the COVID of Time magazine as deadly cholesterol.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Remember that?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Of course it didn't stop Americans, but, but, but now. And then in the, like three years ago, I remember going to the doctor and my doctor for annual physical like Fred talked about. And the doctor goes, yeah, you know, because I got high cholesterol, you know, not crazy high, but high enough. He goes, yeah, I'd watch your, maybe your intake. he said, for breakfast I would have a couple eggs and some fruit maybe. And I'm going like, I thought eggs were bad. No, eggs are good for you. They're a protein.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Well, let me, let me just say this one thing. Once a week, usually once a week, my wife will make some bacon.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And with. I have, with my eggs. And to me that's bacon day. And that's what I call it. It's bacon day. And now, I eat my breakfast here at work because if I eat it at 6 or 6:30, by the time I get on the show, I, My stomach's growling and it's loud.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano so I, I cut that a little bit by. And if someone gets in, in between me and the microwave when I'm going to heat up my eggs with bacon on bacon day.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano You will not be pretty. Pretty.

Tim Wildmon Well, the, the also the, the you know, you can just. They're going to learn in 20 years.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Now they're going to make a major discovery.

Ed Vitagliano The pizza is good for you.

Tim Wildmon Yes, that's it. We're Our great minds. Think alike. Great stomachs m. Think alike. They're going to make a discovery that pizza is actually, an antioxidant.

Ed Vitagliano The antioxidant quality discovery.

Tim Wildmon Today, scientists from Yale University have stated that, stunning antioxidant quality pizza is an antioxidant.

Fred Jackson It's amazing what has happened in the last 10 years. And you guys have addressed some of this. What was bad? The doctors are now Saying, that's really good.

We were told for years skim milk was better than whole milk

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Fred Jackson Like eggs.

Tim Wildmon yes.

Fred Jackson And not just egg whites.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Fred Jackson We're talking whole eggs.

Ed Vitagliano Yep.

Fred Jackson And also, we were told for years, skim milk, 2% milk. No, no. Now they're saying whole milk.

Ed Vitagliano Really?

Tim Wildmon I didn't see that. News flash.

Fred Jackson Oh, no, there's whole milk.

Tim Wildmon I drank the blue top for late years.

Fred Jackson You go. You go now to.

Tim Wildmon Are you telling me the red top was the way I should have gone? The whole. You know what I'm talking about.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I do. Absolutely.

Tim Wildmon Though I didn't want to do the blue top, but I did it for my own health.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano That's another thing. Because of my dad and his. His cholesterol. I have low cholesterol from my mom's side. My dad had high cholesterol. She would get skim milk. That. That. That really.

Tim Wildmon Oh, that's water. Water. Don't even. Don't even give me cereal.

Ed Vitagliano If we were out regular milk for the kids, I'd get some of my dad's, put it in my cereal, and it was. Looked gray.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. No, it's not. It's not. American notes. What? I, Look at it.

Ed Vitagliano All right, all right.

Tim Wildmon Anyway. Or dietary talk tomorrow.

Ed Vitagliano Dietary talk.

Tim Wildmon tariff talk went away. So we got to have something new to at least.

Ed Vitagliano At least diet. Our dietary dialogue segment.

Tim Wildmon Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Isn't going to affect the stock market. True.

Tim Wildmon Duly noted. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. That's the name of this show. Tim, Ed and Fred. Next story. Fred.

Some of my favorite movies have involved prison breakouts

Fred Jackson Well, some of my favorite movies through the years have involved prison breakouts.

Tim Wildmon Name one or two.

Fred Jackson Alcatraz, Brother, Where Art Thou? Clint Eastwood. Shawshank Redemptive.

Tim Wildmon Oh, I love that movie. Yeah.

Fred Jackson they still play that over and over and over again. And Shawshank Redemption in particular is over time. This guy, prison inmate who's in there. He shouldn't be. He's innocent.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Fred Jackson But he digs through a wall.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Jackson And then he. He has to go. Gets down into a pipe and breaks into a pipe, and crawls out through this pipe, and he's free.

Tim Wildmon And he meets up with Morgan Freeman.

Ed Vitagliano He had a poster on the wall of his cell.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano That covered the whole.

Fred Jackson Remember Of a girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so it was, you know, and both of these. We think the Alcatraz, they still debate today whether those three guys. Because that was based on a truth.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Tim Wildmon You mean the Clint Eastwood movie was based on a true story.

Fred Jackson Yeah. There. We think they got away, but a lot of people Say they didn't, they were drowned Anyways, by the way, you know Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz and put bad guys there. Yeah, yeah, he's planned to do that. Anyway.

10 inmates escaped from a New Orleans county jail on Friday; seven still on loose

All of that to lead up to the story that broke on Friday. This is down in New Orleans and we hear that 10 guys, really bad guys have broken out of a county jail. Then they start having news conferences on this on Friday afternoon and we find that they. And you can go folks right now to afn.net and there's an image dealing with this story. And you will see these guys managed to, I think they got behind a toilet and opened up a wall and got out that way. And there's pictures, you may have seen it this weekend. There's pictures of these 10 guys fleeing out through the loading dock at ah, this jail in New Orleans. Got over the fence and they're gone now they've recaptured three. So as of the moment there are seven. Seven guys, they're bad guys and they're still on the loose. And everybody's wondering, they're looking at this, 10 guys get out. How did this happen? There's a lot of stuff going on. Former Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker was on Fox this morning talking about this. Let's have a listen to what he has to say. Cut 4.

Speaker G New Orleans has never been any stranger to corruption. public corruption. Yeah, I think the FBI has to step in, and the State Department of Justice. There has to be an outside investigation. They can't be allowed to investigate themselves. I mean inherently these types of escapes, you know, this many people has to have some sort of inside help, if not at least gross negligence. So they can't investigate themselves. I think it would be a joint investigation with the AG's office and the FBI looking for corruption. they hire locally so they, the people that work in these shales have relatives out in the community. They're subject to extortion, intimidation, bribery. That happens from time to time. But this is in the extreme.

Fred Jackson Right now here's what we know because the prison officials have told us these guys managed to get out around one o' clock in the morning on Friday. The prison officials said we didn't know about it until about seven hours later.

Ed Vitagliano When they had the morning check.

Fred Jackson When they had the morning check. So they had a seven hour way to get away.

Ed Vitagliano Seven hours head start, basically.

Fred Jackson Head start on this. The prison officials are now they've indicated they believe that these prisoners had helped from the inside in making their escape. The Attorney General of Louisiana, not surprised. She is very upset about this. Wants a full investigation. How could this happen? How could they get out, get on the loading dock and then disappear? They do believe that at least some of these guys now have left not only New Orleans, but probably Louisiana. The FBI this morning upped the reward for people call in. It was 5,000 over the weekend. It's now up to $10,000. and like I say, some of these guys are up on murder charges. They were in this jail, which to me kind of looks like the pictures that I've seen is kind of mid security, not high security, but a lot of folks are asking a lot of questions.

Ed Vitagliano Well, it's essentially like a, A, county jail.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Right where they're being.

Tim Wildmon It's Orleans Parish.

Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, It's Orleans Parish. It is a county jail. And I'm watching them, I'm watching a video of them going. The prisoners escape and they were going. They're jumping off a dock.

Fred Jackson Loading dock. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon They're like a low. The loading dock, I guess it brings food and supplies to the prison itself. But if they're on, they're on a video cam, though. Yeah, I'm going. Like you said. Seven hours.

Fred Jackson Yeah. Before they were discovered gone.

Ed Vitagliano How do you not have somebody.

Tim Wildmon because they're playing on their cell phones.

Ed Vitagliano That's probably it. I was going to say, how do you, how do you not have someone watching your security cameras?

Tim Wildmon They're playing on their cell phones, I can almost guarantee you.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, that's. That's the world we live in today.

Fred: Video shows New Orleans sheriff's spokeswoman wearing clown glasses during press conference

Ed Vitagliano Well, and, and the, the suspects who were being held in jail, over the hole that they dug out, they had written with an arrow pointing at the hole. It said too easy. Lol. But they spelled 2 t o.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano And I just thought. Well, right. That's a whole discussion in and of itself.

Tim Wildmon yes. And they are. Here is the, They are. A lot of them have tattoo. Well, not a lot of them have tattoos on their. One of them has a tattoo. He's gonna be found pretty quick if he goes to the Walmart.

Ed Vitagliano What, did they catch one of them down in the French Quarter?

Tim Wildmon Well, three or four of them are wearing the orange jumpsuits, so, you know, the prisoners wear. I don't know. These guys are dangerous, though. I mean, just to be running in. And if you have a dangerous criminal running free and, they can go in, they could carjack, they could go in houses. Unsuspecting people but anyway, it's a. But it just makes the it. Was this a city or county?

Ed Vitagliano I think it's like a county. I was talking to Abe Hamilton.

Tim Wildmon He's from New Orleans.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. And he, he said it's just like a county jail.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Because it was a sheriff's office. Who's, who's talking? I showed you the sheriff's, the office's publicity lady, didn't I?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Ah, she had she glasses look like she's doing the Mardi Gras.

Tim Wildmon I don't know, was it Friday or Saturday? She, she's doing a press conference with some of the other, I guess sheriff's department officials about the jailbreak and how it happened and, and

Ed Vitagliano What they're doing, what they're doing about it.

Tim Wildmon And this lady took to be like, she's like maybe 45, 50 or something like that. And she's, she's the spokesperson.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon And she's doing this press conference and she's wearing these Mardi Gras glasses.

Ed Vitagliano That's what they look like.

Tim Wildmon That's what I call big green like clown glasses. Like they're green sort of. I mean they, there's the kind of. You see at a party.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Tim Wildmon You know, a birthday party or something. And she's so. She's. You can't listen to what she's saying because she's good. It's very distracting. I don't know who let her go out with clown glasses on. Otherwise, press conference about a serious issue.

Ed Vitagliano Otherwise she looked very. She's dressed professionally.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano She had her uniform on and that kind of thing.

Tim Wildmon She'd done weather to put on some, put on some slouchy clothes and say, I was headed out to my grandchild's party and I got called in.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Don't put on you sharp dress. Sheriff's outfit. Sheriff deputy's outfit. And then put on clown glasses.

Ed Vitagliano Because when I say professionally.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano You want to make the other people in the county in the state feel confidence.

Tim Wildmon Yes.

Ed Vitagliano You don't want to wear clown glasses.

Tim Wildmon And when you look at that, you're just laughing and you're going, no wonder they escape. Look at, look at this.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. if she does, she obviously doesn't have any friends in the department because a friend would have said, girl, you cannot go out there with those glasses. Where are your other glasses? Put those on.

Tim Wildmon You gotta, all you gotta do is type in New Orleans. Let's see. Sheriff, New Orleans Sheriff, spokesperson. And I bet you, I bet you that video of her comes up. bless her. She's probably a. Probably good at what she does for all I know. But that was a wrong choice of a tire there to do a press conference of that nature. Fred, you don't have any comment here. You're just gonna let us dig our own holes.

Ed Vitagliano there. There she is right there.

Tim Wildmon See her? Yeah, but now do a video there. Do a video.

Ed Vitagliano Well, the, the.

Tim Wildmon Oh, is that the video?

Fred: She looks like she's getting ready for Friday night

Ed Vitagliano That's. That's a picture.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, that's. That video's on there for. Okay.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, my goodness.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Does that not. She looks like she's getting ready.

Fred Jackson Am I right?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I don't know what those are.

Tim Wildmon To go out to Friday night with the girls.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Now listen, I am no fashion maven, okay? But she. She looks like. It looks like maybe the glasses that the Riddler would wear in an episode of the old Batman show.

Tim Wildmon it's hilarious.

Ed Vitagliano So you want.

Tim Wildmon It's not a hilarious moment, but it's. That's a, it's hilarious to see her.

Ed Vitagliano You want people to feel confidence, and.

Tim Wildmon That doesn't exude confidence in me.

Ed Vitagliano You dress already dressed professionally for, for your job. Yeah, the glasses, listen, it has a high pitched voice. What I'm. What I'm saying is you wouldn't expect her to go out with you. Those are things you can put on your head that have the little antennas with the little balls on top and, and you just go, why. Why are you wearing those? I can't. I can't hear you over your antenna.

Tim Wildmon I know. How many. You know, sadly, New Orleans is one of the most dangerous cities in America now.

Fred Jackson It is.

Tim Wildmon New Orleans, St. Louis, per capita, I'm talking about Memphis, Jackson, Mississippi, Atlanta, Chicago. I mean, there's, a. Those are some very dangerous places in the interior.

Ed Vitagliano All run by Democrats.

Tim Wildmon All run by Democrats. You got that right. all right, next story. Fred.

Former FBI director James Comey posts picture on social media with numbers referencing president

Fred Jackson Well, I know you guys have been wondering what the former FBI director James Comey has been up to lately.

Tim Wildmon Well, walking the beach. Right?

Fred Jackson He's took like a walk on the beach the other day, and he comes across some shells, some seashells.

Ed Vitagliano This happens to me all the time.

Fred Jackson He's just amazed by this because the seashells, depict some numbers, 86, 47, 80. And he's so excited, he puts it out on social media. Look what I've 86 for. Isn't this so cool? Well, some people didn't find that too cool because, 86 in kind of street language sounds or is, is get rid of. Get rid of 47. Who is the 47th president of the United States?

Ed Vitagliano Donald Trump, who happened to fire me.

Speaker F Yes.

Fred Jackson So he is under investigation. Apparently on Friday or Saturday, he had a visit from the Secret Service. They want to know now. He, he says, I think initially he said, I didn't, I didn't, didn't think anything of it, you know, 86, 47.

Ed Vitagliano I didn't know what it meant.

Fred Jackson No.

Tim Wildmon Then why did you put it on the. Why, did you put a picture up if you didn't know what it meant?

Ed Vitagliano Because, Tim, listen, let me just explain.

Tim Wildmon This, Explain it to.

Ed Vitagliano Okay.

Tim Wildmon I'm a third grader.

Ed Vitagliano I'm going to explain to you. Okay. When my wife and I go to the beach.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano We see these kinds of things all the time.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano Crabs are always trying to get secret messages to me. Okay. And I can. I'll see these words, these numbers on the beach.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And they're a mystery to you. They are, they are a mystery.

Tim Wildmon And so you want to put them out on social media, See if the world can help you understand.

Ed Vitagliano Solve this, you know.

Tim Wildmon You know, this is James Comey, former FBI director, who Trump did fire. is posting us. This is a, we're laughing about it, but this is a guy who's posting a picture on his social media page that in essence are numbers that say, take out the president.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, yeah. Because there's no election coming up. I mean, this politically. If he had, if he had posted this in advance of the 2024 election.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano You can, you could, he could explain and say, I was saying, don't let this guy get back in office. But he elected. He's in office. How are you going to remove him?

Tim Wildmon What did he say in response to this?

Ed Vitagliano I think he said maybe impeachment. Nobody, nobody's buying it.

Fred Jackson He said, here's the direct quote. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.

Tim Wildmon nobody.

Fred Jackson End quote. No, it never occurred to me.

Tim Wildmon Then why did he do it in the. Why do you. If that didn't occur to him, he wouldn't put a picture out on social media. He knew exactly what it meant.

Ed Vitagliano You're not giving the crabs enough credit, Tim. Never trust the crab on the beach.

Tim Wildmon We'll be back in a moment, people.

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