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, good morning again, everybody. I guess good afternoon if you live in the eastern time zone. Appreciate you listening to this program. We. It's called Today's Issues here on the American Family Radio Network. I'm Tim with Ed and Wesley and, Abe left and Fred left. And that leaves us with Steve Paisley.
>> Steve Jordahl: Jordan, you got the leftovers, but you're.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not on the left, are you, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, sir, I'm on your right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, we on your left. We throw left. So anyway, good to see you again.
>> Steve Jordahl: Thank you. I gotta ask you, Tim, you know that your staff works really hard for you, right? They late hours, they're always in the office and. But I think we need to give them some downtime. We need to give them maybe a movie night or something, because I seriously, I was passing the popcorn cooler, and here's what I heard from the, the argument there. The debate there at the pop around the popcorn cooler was.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's the popcorn cooler?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Popcorn cooler?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Isn't that where they have instead of the water?
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that a Colorado thing?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, no, it's, No, it's an AFA thing. It's where people have their discussions.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I got you. Okay, never mind. Sorry. Not tracking with you. I am now. Go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, the question was, is Field of Dreams a movie version of the book Catcher in the Rye? I thought.
>> Tim Wildmon: No.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Steve, that was a long way to go for a joke.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that was.
>> Steve Jordahl: That was the real conversation.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Are you serious? They were actually having it down.
>> Steve Jordahl: They might have been having some fun with it, but that was the conversation down the hallway.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that J.J. and Wesley?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, it wasn't either one of those. I'm not going to say who that was.
>> Tim Wildmon: Sounds like a JJ joke, right?
>> Ed Vitagliano: It absolutely does.
A UPS cargo plane carrying three crew crashed on takeoff leaving nine dead
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues. we got the sad story. Naturally. We didn't even talk about this. We should have in the first hour. What's happened in Louisville, Kentucky? Yesterday?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, there was a plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky. A UPS cargo plane carrying three crew, members, crashed on takeoff. It was headed for Hawaii, loaded with fuel, and, it never made it much past the Runway. According to reports, the port engine, which would be the left side, looking forward, looked to have separated entirely during takeoff. And then this is what I'm reading. Early reports indicate the mechanics may have serviced the port engine that day. That does not look good. Big, huge fireball. Because it was Loaded with fuel. it spread over a business, ah, area with a lot of businesses. Fortunately, it was late enough at night that they were mostly closed. nine people, at least nine people dead, including the crew on the plane. And another 11 injured. It was a McDonald Douglas.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The guy died because the fire hit, beyond the airport.
>> Steve Jordahl: Three people on the plane and there would be six on the ground.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: and injured another 11. It was a McDonald dude. Douglas, MD 11. And there were several. There's several. If you look, there's several videos of the horrific crash.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I. I've seen. I've seen some of the videos. And that. That fireball, of course, this is just the way it is. If you've got a plane with, you know, full complement of. Of, jet fuel. It's not. It's not. It's not the kind of thing that starts small and then spreads where you have a chance. That there is just a tremendous fireball and it engulfs everything. They. They died probably immediately.
>> Tim Wildmon: most people know this, but those who don't. Louisville, is the international headquarters for at least the national headquarters, but their corporate offices are located in ups. And so their flights. Their flights for their cargo and packages and everything go to Louisville and then go out from Louisville.
>> Steve Jordahl: So I believe FedEx is out of Memphis, I think.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, no, you're right. Yeah, FedEx is out of Memphis. Same thing. Everything flies into Memphis on FedEx. Everything flies out. But, at night, where we live, you can see the planes coming in.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: From, to land, to go to Memphis. But, in Louisville. Yeah, that's the headquarters for, ups.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Very tragic, very sad. And this fireball from the plane, as you say, it had a full tank of gas because it was on its way to Hawaii.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: so anyway, go ahead.
There are articles of impeachment against Judge James Boasberg
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. there are articles of impeachment that have been fired against. Filed against. Against Judge James Boasberg. Does that name sound familiar to anybody? James Boasberg was, assigned a remarkable number of politically consequential cases, including, the, Arctic frost, January 6th investigation. and. Well, in fact, Eric Schmidt, who filed the, articles of impeachment, called the number of major rulings assigned to Boasberg a statistical impossibility. So he has been, This is a man at the center of a lot of the political strife in the courts, a lot of the lawfare accusations by Republicans. And now he has been served with articles of impeachment. And, so as we found out this morning, that will go once they're filed, the House will have a vote. If all the Republicans vote, it's a majority. If the majority votes in the House then it is taken over to the Senate where they have a trial that is presided by John Roberts, the Chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. 2/3 majority will have to vote to remove him from office. Unlikely to happen because there's not that kind of a m. Republican majority in the Senate.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm sure Democrats in the Senate are. They have no problem with Arctic frost or anything else that has happened. Certainly nothing that was directed towards President Trump. You're not going to get 2/3 in the Senate. As we talked about this morning though in our story meeting, I do think it's important that Republicans do their job in the House of Representatives. If they believe there is clear indication that this Judge Boasberg, was tainted in terms of his judicial responsibilities and used his power and authority to help one party go after the other political party, then Republicans, regardless of what the chances are in the Senate, I think they need to return a guilty verdict if that's where the evidence leads them. In other words, sometimes you got to do the right thing and do your duty even if you know it's not going to ultimately wind up in this judge being removed from the bench.
>> Tim Wildmon: My heart.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I did.
>> Tim Wildmon: Your optimistic view of mankind there was just.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So there's kind of a Jimmy Stewart feel to it. Right. Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He's balancing himself out because he was positive in the first hour.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You clean. You. You brought the good news.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And now you. You're bringing us back up or down.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Which one? I'm m bringing us to reality.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Reality.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Democrats are not going to convict one of their own.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's not going to happen.
>> Ed Vitagliano: This judge is one of theirs.
Brooke Rawlins says SNAP should be reformed to ensure truly needy get benefits
>> Tim Wildmon: Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins is describing the supplementary nutrition and assistance program snap, otherwise known as food stamps as bloated, broken and dysfunctional and corrupt. And in fact she's saying so publicly. Let's listen to cut 16.
>> Brooke Rollins: We sent letters to every governor in America being very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP.000 we increased almost 40% on this program in just a couple of years under the Biden administration. Of course we know they were trying to buy the election. But that's a conversation for another time. In that data we have found we studied about $100 billion in spending. We have found thousands and thousands of illegal use. of the EBT card. We have been moving people off of SNAP. We've got almost 700,000 people. I think we've moved off just since the president took office. we've arrested about 118 people. We found about 5,000 people that are dead who are still getting benefits. Like, it is time to drastically reform this program so that we can make sure that those who are truly needy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Brooke Rollins: Truly vulnerable, are getting what they need and the rest of the corruption goes away and we can serve the American taxpayer again.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's a, that's just a great outlook on life right there. I appreciate that. Reforming snap. I appreciate that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So are you, are you, you just having fun?
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what? I shouldn't be so. I shouldn't be so cynical. I shouldn't be. She's right. I agree with her. And maybe, maybe something can be done. But as long as our country so divided. 50, 50. It's hard to get anything like that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's, that is true.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, and also Republicans are uneasy oftentimes about using the words reform in terms of federal government programs. Uneasy or, they don't even want to talk about it too much because the minute they start discussing this, the Democrats just, And the media just bludgeon them with. They want to cut your benefits off, whatever it may be. And it works. That, that, that works. You know, roll grandma off the, off the cliff.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: so you take away your soul. So, so the, if you used to be.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It used to be, ah, you're opposed to funding the military. They've used that one too in the past during the shutdowns. They would, they would say, well, the Republicans don't want to fund the military.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they can't say that this time because they have been.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I know that this is their new one.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: well, what they really exploit people's feelings on, though, are the social, programs. For example, they're going to say, if the Republicans say, okay, we need to reform SNAP because there's too many, too much abuse, they're going to say, see, Republicans want to starve, people out. They don't want to give them m. Their, their money for food.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, this is. Listen, the weird thing about this is there's real fear on the part of people who are dependent on SNAP. We've all been reading stories of people who get $2,000 worth for whatever number of people in the family, of SNAP benefits a month. A month. If it's like a family of whatever, four, you know, how many kids they have.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And Dad's considering it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, but here's the thing thinking about it, if, if you are already dependent on that and then you're told we're cutting that off. You are, you are telling people who have no other source of income to buy food you can't eat this month. Now, I'm not. What I'm saying is the real problem here is that you have allowed people to become dependent on SNAP who don't, who could be working. And once you get people who are dependent upon government handouts, they're going to vote for you if you say you're going to lose the benefits.
>> Steve Jordahl: Have you, you've seen pictures of actual starving people in Africa, whatever, with the distended bellies and these gaunt figures? Can you imagine, is it even possible to imagine anyone in the United States, given the charities, the food banks, churches, churches, actually dying or suffering a hunger in this country? No, I don't think so. I think there's plenty of stuff to go around. And if you look at the people that the Democrats are putting up as recipients of these, I'll just say that most of them don't look like they've missed many meals. and this is the politics that they're playing with it. This is again from, Gina Rollins. Brooke Rollins. I'm sorry? Brooke Rollins. She said, the Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens because she says there's a lot of illegals on food stamps here. They know that if the handouts stop, these illegals will go back home and the Democrats will lose 20 plus seats in the next census.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who said that?
>> Steve Jordahl: This is Brooke Rawlins, the Secretary of Agriculture who is wanting to, clean up the rolls.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got you.
Scott Adams tweets that he needs experimental medicine for prostate cancer
All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Steve Jordah bringing the news to us. What's your next story, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: were you guys fans of Dilbert back in the day in the 90s? Great comic series. Its author, his name is Scott Adams, is suffering from an aggressive form, he says, of, prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer. he put a tweet out over the weekend, this last weekend that said that he needs some experimental medicine. It's called, Pluvicto, and it is for post people who have gone through the radio, chemotherapy and it hasn't worked. And so this is kind of a last ditch effort and it's been approved, but he was having problems getting it from his provider in Northern California, so he gave an appeal to President Trump. Please, can you Intervene so that I can get my medication. President has. It looks like he's getting the medication. Of course it's too early to find out how effective it's going to be. But Scott Adams saying in his tweet he's going fast, he's declining rapidly is what he said. And so that's where Scott Adams is at. He has been very public of late. He was late in. He kept this to himself for years, a number of years. But he revealed in May that he had the metastatic prostate cancer. And he's been kind of chronicling that journey since.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well we know a lot of people.
>> Tim Wildmon: That have very common. It's a common form of cancer, for men, prostate cancer. that's why it's imperative that you get an annual checkup where they can do a blood test and can determine and you need to request a what's it called? P.S.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Psa test.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that can be a test to determine whether or not you have. You need to do further research to see if you have prostate cancer starting point. If you catch prostate cancer early enough, you know your chances of dealing with it are extremely well and being healed from it.
>> Steve Jordahl: There are various forms of prostate cancer. There are different types. The most common is slow growing and really might not even require any emergency.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, it doesn't kill you before you die of other natural causes.
>> Steve Jordahl: Depending on older.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know somebody going through that right now. The doctor tell them, well you know, yeah, you got, you got prostate cancer. But this is slow, slow growth. So we're just going to watch it.
>> Steve Jordahl: My father in law had it, they called it smoldering, smoldering, smoldering cancer. Which is, it doesn't, it's going to be. You're going to die of natural causes. It's going to be 20 years.
>> Tim Wildmon: They say every man who lives long enough is going to get prostate cancer.
>> Steve Jordahl: However, there are some more aggressive, rarer types of highly aggressive and quick spreading prostate cancer. And we don't know which kind Scott Adams had. But it's still. The advice is well taken. Get a checkup. Get a checkup. Get a checkup. I would like to bid a fond farewell if I may to one of the most woke magazines in our entire nation.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, please do.
>> Steve Jordahl: Teen Vogue is being absorbed into the larger Vogue magazine. It will not stand on its own anymore. After 22 years, publisher Conde Nast said they've laid off half of the staff for Teen Vogue. For Teen Vogue, this was one of the most liberal, pro abortion. It was the one where, if you were ever going to have. And this is aimed at young teen girls and if you're ever going to have. This is the kind of magazine that would publish graphically sexual articles and stuff. what did them in. However, according to this article that I'm reading, which is in the Daily Mail, is two articles. One they did on Antifa and one they did on, woke kind of article. The Antifa one was titled here's what Antifa is really trying to do. And they summarized it as saying, antifa grows out of a larger revolutionary politics that aspires towards creating a better world. But the primary motivation is to stop racists from organizing, which is a gross misstatement about what Antifa is about. They're disaffected.
>> Tim Wildmon: For all those who are out there listening to us, who subscribe to Teen Vogue, we just wanted you to be aware that they are cutting their staff and so expect the articles to be a lot shorter.
>> Steve Jordahl: You know, if you want, we. There's. We have magazine. We have a magazine we could send you. You can replace it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: There you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, a little bit different worldview.
>> Steve Jordahl: Just a little bit.
>> Tim Wildmon: Big Express.
Wesley: I went to a fast food restaurant earlier this morning
Hey, I want to talk. you're listening to Today's Issues. I wanted to inject, another, question here. None of us are economists, but. But we do.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We say that about a lot. We're not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we say that about a lot of topics. I mean, I am a meteorologist.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Steve Jordahl: But other than that.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I'm an amateur.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's meteorologist.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm saying?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we do know what you're saying. Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, we absolutely know.
>> Tim Wildmon: I went to a fast food restaurant earlier this morning to get my wife. Sausage and egg biscuit. Yes. She eats pork.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I just want to get that out there. sausage and. Not often, but she does.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But the Bible says we can. Am I right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: New Testament.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It doesn't say we can't. So I think we're in agreement.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. I want to move on past that. But anyway, so, I got a sausage and egg biscuit and a large Diet Coke. Drive through line, I get up to the window and I get my credit card out. Because now at fast food places, you can't get by with five bucks. It was $9.05.
>> Ed Vitagliano: What?
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what I said. I told the lady, with, all due respect and don't take this personally, I said, I ain't saying that. So I said you and I can negotiate a price here or I'm going to sit right here. And I'm not, I'm not moving from the line here.
>> Ed Vitagliano: A bacon, egg and cheese biscuit and a.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, it didn't even have cheese. Just a bacon and egg biscuit.
>> Wesley Wildmon: She's would have put it over 10 bucks.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now do you think I need to go look at that ticket?
>> Ed Vitagliano: You need to look at the receipt I think they charged you for.
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, that's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: What, is that right, Wesley?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's right. Because a large, you got a large.
>> Tim Wildmon: Coat, large Diet Coke and sausage and egg biscuit was $9.05. And I don't normally pay attention to things like this, you know, because I have other things that are more important to think about. College football, you know, things of that nature.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You're an empty nest.
>> Tim Wildmon: But, I'm, I just usually hand the card. I don't even think about what I paid. But she said $9 and 5 cents. And I, and I thought to myself, are things are, prices going up on everything to where it's just not going to be. When is it, when are we going to reach the, point of no return in terms of people cannot afford to. Yeah, now, I voluntarily went to that restaurant. I didn't, nobody made me go. So. But, but how many, how long are people going to pay for things at this kind of.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I hope, I hope, we're on, but I feel like that's one thing that the Trump administration, now, how much they can do about it, I don't know. But they need to, I feel like we need to focus more of our energy than we have been on.
Wesley: The price of homes has gone up 40% in 10 years
>> Tim Wildmon: what about the price of houses? Have you seen the price of houses?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, ah, it's.
>> Tim Wildmon: How much they've gone up nationally?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I have not.
>> Steve Jordahl: I've got two questions though, on, on the hamburger. First of all, if you stayed in the drive thru lane, Wesley, did you have to post his bail after the trespassing charges? And second, did you think about paying for him with your snap card?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, no, I didn't have it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, you didn't have it on you?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I saw your brain, spinning when he said it was. Some people get up to $2,000 a month.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, let me, let me, let me, let me clarify that. It's only in certain states where it can get up that high. I did look this up and I do want to make sure that I let our listeners know the truth. So it's only in certain states, in Alaska you can get up to 1995. Almost a person. No. For a family of four.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: and Hawaii, 1689. But most are not that high. So I do want to clarify this. I think some of these. Some of what I'm reading here, it's, The most you can get for a family of four is about close to a thousand.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So I built. We. We. Allison and I, we built our house 10 years ago.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: And we were looking at a. You know how you can get a real estate.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Ah. Appraisal.
>> Tim Wildmon: Mag. Well, you can get a real estate magazine, while you eat dinner and just peruse it. They have them out different restaurants. And our house, has gone up.
>> Ed Vitagliano: 40%, in 10 years.
>> Tim Wildmon: In 10 years. The price. The price of what we could get for our home today is 40 is. You understand? What I'm saying?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Is.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is 40 is. It's almost. I take that back. I misquote. It's. It's. It's, like, almost doubled.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So here's another way of looking at it.
>> Tim Wildmon: I have.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We've been in our house for eight years, and we have. If we were to build again, we have no equity.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. So, we'll see y' all tomorrow, everybody. Have a great day.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's what we're saying.
