Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
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. That's the name of this program on the American Family Radio Network. You want to send us an email, you can do so as long as it's positive and encouraging. We don't want any negative and discouraging emails. Comments, @afr.net Commentsfr.net is the email address. American Family Radio. We, stream live on our app. If you want to listen to American Family Radio anywhere you go 24. Seven, as, long as you got high speed Internet service like most cell phones or iPads or things of that nature, you can listen anywhere in the world with the, with the app, the AFR app. Tim, Fred. And now Steve Paisley. Jordan joined us. Good morning, Steve, everybody. Are you,
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm, well, I'm well.
>> Tim Wildmon: What you got for us?
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says overhauling air traffic control will cost billions
First story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. Are, you traveling this weekend? Anybody?
>> Tim Wildmon: Not far.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, good, because you want to. You can go a lot of places. But one place you do not want to go, apparently is, is Teterboro Airport in New Jersey at Newark. Newark Airport, I'm sorry, Newark International Airport in Teterboro. Where did I get that? It is in New Jersey though. All right. Never heard of Newark, sorry, Newark International Airport. They had a power outage, a, communications outage, I should say, again. And I got to tell you, it is not going well for the aviation, industry especially like, air traffic controllers and such. Sean Duffy, who is the Transportation Secretary, had something to say about this. Cut 5.
>> Speaker C: They spent $1.2 trillion.
>> Tim Wildmon: The biggest infrastructure plan, biggest infrastructure build.
>> Speaker C: Ever known to man, and barely any money went to reform air traffic control. they actually spent less than a billion dollars to do this job. and by the way, it's going to cost tens of billion dollars to fix it.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, things are been a mess. This is, this is outage number three. Now, the outages don't last. Radar outages don't last all that long. But when you hear pilots, and I think we played this last week, say, hearing something from atc, air traffic control, to the pilot, I don't see you on the radar. I don't see you that in a corridor. Now we're talking Newark. So they're right next door to JFK and LaGuardia in New York. Philadelphia is there. What happened over the weekend? I think it was last night, actually, when aircraft are flying into Newark there in New Jersey, they Check in at a place at the Philadelphia Airport, which helps direct the traffic to Newark. That went out for a little bit. So it resulted in, dozens and dozens of cancellations. They had to hold aircraft on the ground until they got that fixed. Now what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy basically is saying, the Biden administration knew this problem was huge, but instead they decided to spend billions of dollars, creating recharging posts for electric cars. That was their big deal.
>> Steve Jordahl: How many did they put up? Like two, three?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. They designated billions of dollars for that. So what Sean Duffy is saying is that we're going to spend billions of dollars finally upgrading the air traffic control system in this country. If you want to get an idea of how busy it is, guys, go to, Flight Aware. You can put that app. I have it on my phone because I like looking at it. Look sometime at how busy the traffic is. Just as just an example on the aircraft on the Eastern corridor from Boston down to Florida. You want to have a look at just how busy things are? My goodness. It'll scare you. How many airplanes are in the air at any one time.
>> Tim Wildmon: That Flight Aware, is that just commercial aircraft or is that also it.
>> Fred Jackson: It. It'll pick up private, too. Yeah, yeah, any.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know what you're talking about.
>> Fred Jackson: Anybody that's under instrument control has to have file a flight plan. Therefore they'll. You can see that particular aircraft on the screen. And it is. It is amazing to me that there haven't been more accidents in this country. Airplane accidents, because of the amount of traffic on those corridors.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. Especially the Eastern seaboard. You're right.
>> Steve Jordahl: Things have been going south for a while. This is on the heels of all of the, other close calls and accidents that they've already had. The helicopter and plane, outside of D.C. this, Duffy needs. Has some work to do. It's got to get it done pretty quickly.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. Because his predecessor, did not do anything at all.
>> Steve Jordahl: Buttigieg, the, DEI hire.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
Three Democratic congressmen went to rescue illegal immigrants from ICE detention center
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. Hey, over the weekend, some New Jersey lawmakers decided that they wanted to take justice into their own hands and, go rescue some criminals out of a detention center in New Jersey. ICE has a detention center. The Justice Department put out a,
>> Steve Jordahl: Press release, and it showed who they were bringing in. They were bringing in some felons, some illegal immigrants that had broken, further laws. And Representatives LaMonica, McLiver, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Rob, Menendez, along with Newark, Mayor Ross Baraka, decided they were going to break into this facility. the mayor of New Jersey was of, of Newark was arrested, held for briefly. And there's now talk about charges of assault for the three Democrat congresspersons because they did. They forced their way in. There's a picture of them shoving the law enforcement out of the way to get in. They continue to pick on to have the wrong heroes. I don't. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, this, this was, this was an attempt. This was known attempt. There were camp TV cameras there. The local media was all there when these three members of Congress show up and and. And basically try to barge in to do what they called some kind of security check themselves on this facility, on this dei, this, this detention facility. And so there's video of this happening. There is protocol. Members of Congress can arrange to go into these detention centers to have a look around. There's a way to do this. But they weren't interested in following protocol. They wanted the cameras there to make their point that Homeland Security is acting unconstitutionally. Look what they did to us. and of course, the claim from the three members, Democrat members of Congress there is that, they were shoved around. but there's video there that makes.
>> Steve Jordahl: It very clear they were doing the shoving.
>> Fred Jackson: They were doing the shoving.
>> Steve Jordahl: Assistant DHS, Secretary Trisha McGlothin had something to say about this. Cut four.
>> Speaker E: These members of Congress and protesters. A mob of protesters stormed this gate to try and enter the detention facility. The detention facility holds members of MS.13. Child rapists, murderers, arsonists, drug traffickers, American killers. And for them to try and get these individuals out is just beyond the pale. We know that the mayor, we know these members of Congress want their 15 minutes of fame so desperately, but they're willing to do it at the peril of the safety of our brave law enforcement and even the detainees as well. These members of Congress, this mayor, and these protesters are not above the law. If they had wanted a tour, we will easily facilitate that for them. We actually laid out the guidelines on our DHS Twitter, that show you need at least 24 hours of notice to these ICE detention facilities to make sure that staff, that detainees, and that our law enforcement are safe and there's proper protocols and proper channels followed.
>> Fred Jackson: So there you have it, Jimmy. This. This was just a camera grab. That's all it was. It was a publicity stunt by these Democrats. And they're doing this. They don't like what you know. It's the same with this congressman that went down to El Salvador to meet with this guy who now he Has a track record breaking the laws, in. I think he's from Maryland. Maryland, yes. And so they're just trying to do this. They're trying to cover for the fact that when Joe Biden was President of the United States, he invited an invasion of this country. That's what he did. And Donald Trump now is just trying to clean things up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't, This is where the great divide comes in. Understanding these, progressive, They're beyond liberal. They're wackadoodles is what I consider them. But it's kind of hard to, And we have a clip from Bill Maher, a liberal, saying as much in just a moment. But I don't. Help me try to understand this. These Democrat. Congressman, these are us. Are, ah, these U.S. congressmen.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes, yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Three of them.
>> Fred Jackson: Three of them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. And then this is, this has happened on other occasions too. They, they're fighting for. They're spending time and energy fighting against the deportation of criminals who are here in our, who have come to America. And ICE has determined that they are. And maybe some other, Maybe, law, enforcement. These are people, these are bad people who are doing harm in our country. And we're wanting to, we, the United States federal government now under the Trump administration, wanting to deport them. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So these Democrat congressmen decide. No, we want them to stay here.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we're gonna spend our time fighting for their right. These people who are here illegally and done criminal activity according to our government. Are they saying that. No, they've been, unfairly charged. and they, Why the political capital to. What's the principle at stake here, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: They actually said that they were afraid that this detention center wasn't following the right procedures. It was like, in the wrong zoning area or something. It was something stupid.
Jordan Peterson: If Democrats keep embracing far left ideas, they're doomed
It wasn't anything to do with.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's like these people always care more about the perpetrator than the victim. You know, these kind. This kind of mentality.
>> Fred Jackson: Uh-huh.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where you care more about. And you're going like, does he might not care for the victim? Well, so I don't understand the logic behind it, but I guess it's a lefty. It's a lefty secular, progressive point of view. I think they disagree fundamentally with having immigration laws. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Steve Jordahl: There's such a thing in politics that they're talking about these days called 8020 issues where 80% of Americans are on one side of the issue. And then there's the fringe 20, probably the left, the ultra right or whatever that are against it. Democrats are consistently landing on the 20% and defending the 20% to the amazement and dismay and, frankly, abandonment of the 80%.
>> Tim Wildmon: You have the Bill Maher quote?
>> Steve Jordahl: I do. I was just gonna go there. Bill Maher was talking about this on his show. He says if they don't change, the dems are doomed. Cut 10.
>> Speaker C: But here is the dilemma for Democrats. Their young people, their key constituency, not only don't like their own civilization, they like the wrong one. They actually think Hamas is a liberation movement. They chant for the Houthis. They're chanting, we will honor our martyrs at Yale. They're looking for love in all the wrong countries. Someone needs to tell the kids that America is not the society where women basically have no rights, where there's zero freedom of religion, and where dissent is punishable by death. If the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging and not rebuking the idea that America is cringe and the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed. Alyssa Slotkin's right. Liberals are weak and woke, especially the white ones. And they indulge all sorts of nonsense from their kids. A pattern that then continues, continues on in the Democratic Party. Last election it was all the gender stuff, the insistence that men can have babies and such. And now I fear that we like the terrorists is the new that liberals need to push back on the dumb ideas that come from their children.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, that was Bill Maher. I think we've given Bill Maher more time than I ever, ever thought would be possible because I could not stand the guy. Five years ago. He was an anti Christian bigot in many ways. but he has changed his tune, the last four or five years in the sense that he is, he's always been liberal, but he's, he is, he is what you call a traditional type liberal, which you can, you can somewhat reason with these people. Yeah, he's talking about the crazy left, which is far to the left of him.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Which has taken over much of the Democrat Party. And what he's warning against there, I think is accurate. If they keep, they, the Democrat Party keep embracing these far left ideas, they're going to lose, a lot of elections. Yeah, man. Now, they're not going to necessarily lose in heart in deep blue states and areas, but they're going to lose in purple places and red states. Obviously.
>> Steve Jordahl: This last election, every single county moved right. Even the deep blue ones. Trump didn't win them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: But he didn't lose them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like California was the highest Republican vote ever, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Absolutely.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So even though they didn't win, though, they're not, they're not a majority. But still it represented a change in, in America, generally to be more red.
>> Fred Jackson: I think what Maher is saying, what people like James Carville is saying there in Louisiana, if the Democratic Party goes into the midterms next year fighting for men who want to play in girls.
>> Tim Wildmon: Sports, it's a loser.
>> Fred Jackson: It's a loser.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: If by the time we get to November next year and we still have these illegal immigrants committing these kinds of crimes in this country and you have Democrats defending them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: And wanting them to stay in this country for two or three years until they have their asylum hearing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: That's going to be a loser.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: I would also add that for all his moderation by comparison, I don't believe that Bill, Maher has moderated much at all on the Christian issue, that I've heard of. Have you? I, think he's still as anti Christian as he ever was, just so we're clear. But he certainly is reasonable by comparison. Now with the Democrats, I haven't heard.
>> Tim Wildmon: Him comment on Christianity. well, he doesn't.
>> Steve Jordahl: I think he had a conversation with Jordan Peterson. Now Jordan Peterson himself is flirting with Christianity, but at least comes from a faith positive standpoint. And they had some disagreements, but next story.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Brigham have developed an artificial intelligence tool for predicting longevity
All right, researchers at Massachusetts General Brigham, Mass. General Brigham, I should say, have come out with a new artificial, intelligence tool. Using a photo of someone's face, just a selfie, the AI tool will generate predictions on the subject's biological age, not as calendar age, but by a lot. So if you've been smoking for 10 years and your body says you're 50, when indeed actually you're only 35, the, the AI will say, no, you're 50. And they base some, actuarial stuff on this. How long are you going to last? In fact, to test the, the accuracy, they put some couple, 6,000 cancer patients in front of this AI machine and, made more accurate predictions on their lifespan prediction than did the clinicians. AI was better at diagnosing not what kind of cancer, but how long they would live. So all well and good until, AI insurance companies start to say, well, we're going to use AI now. and your fate is you've only got a couple years left, so we're cutting you off with the knees, so to speak. That's my fear.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, I Think it's well founded. We know insurance companies, they're out to make money. And I could see an insurance company saying, yeah, we'll continue to insure you, but we're going to triple your premiums.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean based on this AI test? If it were to be used.
>> Fred Jackson: If it were to be used, yes. So they'll either, out price it to the point where you can't afford that insurance, or they'll just send you a letter saying, because of this, we're not going to insure you anymore. Period.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'll read this. Among, people with cancer, the tool generated a higher biological age was about five years higher than their chronological. Chronological age. The researchers also tested the tool's ability to predict the life expectancy of 100 people receiving palliative care based on their photos, compared it to 10 clinicians. Predictions face age, which is the name of this program, was found to be more accurate than the clinicians predictions.
>> Tim Wildmon: Based on their photos.
>> Steve Jordahl: Based on a photo.
>> Tim Wildmon: We have a photograph and AI says how long you're going to live.
>> Steve Jordahl: If you have certain cancers or certain.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, if you, if you already have cancers.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's what they tested it. Yeah.
>> Speaker C: Yep.
>> Steve Jordahl: so I, Yeah. The reason encouraging you do you do wear stress on your face? I think that's what they're thinking. People wear stress on their face. I mean, but. And you see someone that looks like much older or younger than their actual age, so.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that cancer does that to people.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Okay then, I don't like where this is going.
Apple's Siri may have been spying on you for at least 10 years
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, well, let's talk about something better.
>> Tim Wildmon: now they've talked about AI, being used, to help cure cancer too. I've heard that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Now, AI is a technology.
>> Tim Wildmon: How you do that? But go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, AI is a technology that is, is, is amoral. It has no moral value. It's those who use it. What do they use it for? And you can. They are using it, to detect, different cancers, given scans and such. they're using it now. Doctors are using it, ah, to help with this, assist in remote surgeries and that kind of stuff. Some remarkable things going on with artificial intelligence. There's also some very scary things. And when I was a story that I was doing that probably I think is on our website right [email protected] the people who know the most are the most scared. Elon Musk and well, because they see the potential and where things are going and that how very few people are putting fences around this it's, you know, you got the technology, what it can do. Human nature is to go push it to its boundaries and beyond. And it's not human, but the humans are the ones that are saying putting rules or not putting rules around its use. So.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, have you ever been sitting in your living room and talking with your wife or your husband and you're talking, I don't know, let's say you're talking about taking a vacation, want to go to the Bahamas. Hey, why, we haven't had a cruise in a long time. We should do a cruise. You're just you and your wife talking. All you do. All of a sudden, guess what starts showing up on your ads on, on the Internet, on YouTube and on Facebook. Well, it's cruise ads for cruise to the Bahamas. How in the world did that happen? Well, it turns out that Siri may have been spying. In fact she was spying on you for at least 10 years. And Apple has decided to pay up. they were sued and lost a class action suit. They put up $95 million for what they're calling a series snooping payout. And if you believe you were affected between September 17, 2014 and December 31, 2024, about a 10 year period there, you can submit a claim. I don't know how you'd prove it. the claims people would something on the. If when you file a claim you'll be asked some questions, I'm sure, but the money's there for the taken. If you think you've been being.
>> Tim Wildmon: Spied on, that is assumed you are, go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: It doesn't surprise me.
>> Tim Wildmon: No. Well, all of us, if you type in something on Google or something like that, and like for instance some kind of vacation spot or something like that, you're, you know, it's just going to be a matter of minutes before you get a, an ad popped up for hey VRBO in Destin, Florida is. And you're going, how did they know that's where I go about, huh? yes, well they, you've, you, you've typed it in on the search engine and so you're going to get a response. That's how we all know that's how that works. Yes, it works that way for all kind of products. You could be looking for a bicycle for your kids for Christmas and the next thing you know you got a, an ad for a bicycle popping up in the middle of a story you're reading. So that's how that Happens.
>> Fred Jackson: But this. This story is beyond that. Takes it beyond that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: It's listening to your conversations.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. unbeknownst to you.
>> Fred Jackson: Huh? Unbeknownst to you. So you got to be careful. Some people turn their phones off.
>> Tim Wildmon: What did that happen with Siri? What did that happen with Siri?
>> Steve Jordahl: Siri is Apple's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it's one. It's one you talk into and say Siri. You do that, don't you, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, well, my phone is actually responding to me saying it's Siri.
>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, a lot of people use that for. To make. To do research in, an easy way, quick way. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: So you're saying Siri is listening right now?
>> Steve Jordahl: It is. Every time we say Siri, my phone lights up, and I can't do anything.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ask Siri. Is she listening to you?
>> Steve Jordahl: Siri, hey, Siri, are you listening to me? I respect your privacy and only listen when you're talking to me. You can learn about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, she just said she. She confessed right there that she's listening. Well, I said, while saying it's not listening.
>> Steve Jordahl: I said, hey, Siri. So apparently.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's true. She's being duly noted.
>> Steve Jordahl: Told to say she's not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Big bro, we've. Big Brother's watching you. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: I tell you.
Fred: Thanks to President Trump for providing a lot of news stories today
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Thank you for listening to our program, today, and thank you, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: You bet, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thanks to Chris Woodward. Thanks to Brent Creely. My thanks to President Trump and his team for providing a lot of news stories for us today.
>> Fred Jackson: Bill Moore can always depend on it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right. It's never a dual news stay with Donald Trump around. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: That's for sure.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we will, see you tomorrow. Have a great day, everybody.
