Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's issue is the name of this here program. I'm, Tim with, Fred Jackson. Good morning again, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: Good morning again, brother.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ray Pritchard's in Kansas City. It's a fall day there, isn't it, Ray?
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's a beautiful fall day. Warmed up, I think, Fred. We're in the 70s now.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, wow.
>> Steve Jordahl: We're doing good. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, Steve Paisley Jordan joins us right now.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good. Good to have Steve with us.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, thanks.
>> Tim Wildmon: so, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, sir.
>> Tim Wildmon: you.
Mets announcer says Cubs player missed game to attend Charlie Kirk's funeral
What's your first story for us this morning?
>> Steve Jordahl: I wanted to follow up a little bit on, we. I know you guys are talking about Frank, about Charlie. There is a little bit of a dust up going on right now in Chicago. The Cubs. Sorry, it's, the announcer for, for the Mets. So it's the Chicago. And.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, the Mets are playing the Cubs in Chicago. I saw it last year.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, so Mets announcer Gary Cohn has, a problem with one of the, Cubs players, Matt Shaw missed a game to go to the Charlie Kirks memorial when he came up to bat last night. This is what Gary Cohn, the Mets announcer, said. Cut 16.
>> Speaker E: Shaw had Cubs world in a tizzy this weekend when he was not here for the Cubs game. With the Reds game, they lost one, nothing. And in which his lack of presence was felt. It was later revealed that he had been given permission to attend Charlie Kirk's funeral. And I don't want to talk about any of the politics of it. The thought of leaving your team in the middle of a race for any reason other than a family emergency really strikes me, as weird.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's unusual.
>> Steve Jordahl: I think it's, unprecedented, at least.
>> Tim Wildmon: From, my experience as a player.
>> Steve Jordahl: so, Mets fans are a little upset. They are boycotting and, asking for an apology from Gary Cohen. They're asking for refunds for games.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so that was, that was the Mets radio broadcast. It was talking about a Chicago Cubs player.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who went to attend Charlie Kirk's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I read about that. And that isn't, you know, these. Okay. People might say, well, it's just a ball game. Yes, that is true. But this is a big business. This is big business. And, and so it's kind of like your job. So this baseball player for the Cubs, what's his name?
>> Steve Jordahl: His Name is, Matt Shaw. He's a rookie.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So he gets paid a lot of money by the Cubs to, help them try to win the playoff.
>> Steve Jordahl: And they're in a playoff race, so that.
>> Tim Wildmon: That it's. It's. It's a big deal. I know. It's more than just a ball game. Okay. It's not a park and rec game. This is big business. So, and in light of, what happened with Charlie Kirk, that takes, He was a friend of Charlie Kirk.
>> Steve Jordahl: And he was a good friend of Charlie Kirk. Charlie Cook was a Cubs player. And in fact, we're going to hear from, Eric.
>> Tim Wildmon: He wasn't a Trump Cubs player. He was a Cubs fan. Lifelong Cubs fan. He's from Chicago.
>> Steve Jordahl: Mine is going too fast. Yeah, he is. And he's a big fan of the Chicago Cubs. And, this is Matt Shaw. They asked him about this.
>> Tim Wildmon: this is the player.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is the player we're going to hear for. This is about a minute 20. It's a little longer.
>> Matt Shaw: All the veteran players I talked to, and really, the whole team having their support was really important to me. and then, I mean, Charlie, he was, you know, he was someone that I met at the apartments in Arizona where I lived, and then someone who, was one of the biggest Cubs fans I ever met. And, he text me after every game. You know, great win for the Cubbies. And he was super, super supportive of us and obviously someone who's really faithful. So we connected on that front as well. but, yeah, ah, I. His, wife, Erica, had texted me asking me if I would come to the funeral. And I felt as though, it was something that was really important for me to do.
>> Tim Wildmon: Are you concerned about the backlash? Because there is a lot of politics involved with this.
>> Matt Shaw: Yeah, I mean, absolutely. I'm not concerned at all. No. my connection with Charlie was through our faith. that's something that drives me every day. That's the reason why I'm m able to do what I do every day. and that's something I'm extremely thankful for. I know without my faith and without the many blessings, things I've been given in my life, that I wouldn't be here, able to talk to you guys, able to help this team eventually go and win championships. so that's something I feel really, really blessed about. so, you know, whatever backlash comes is okay. You know, m. I feel. Feel strong about my faith and that. That what was meant to be happening, man.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so, Erica Kirk Personally invited him to come to the memorial.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Mets announcer should have skipped subject because pet died, Steve says
>> Steve Jordahl: The Cubs released him to do it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, then. Then it's not. Then it's none of the Mets broadcasting team's business. Yeah. That announcer, Cohen.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: He probably. He should have skipped that subject.
>> Steve Jordahl: He might have wanted to. Someone pointed out it's odd coming from a guy who skipped a day of broadcasting because a pet died.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, did he?
>> Steve Jordahl: At one point. According to one of the, according to one of the responses.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. You hear about this story?
>> Tim Wildmon: I, you know, I sure did. And once I heard. Because, you know, at least it's a fair question. You got a pennant race. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But when you know that. That he knew Charlie.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're friends.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. And personal.
>> Tim Wildmon: Erica asked him to come.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And the. And the club released him to go. Then there's no controversy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: He went right now.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know. I agree with you. And this, this commentator should have skipped that subject and not gotten in, especially since he's a opposing teams commentator. Anyway, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. There are a lot of weird and stupid trends that tend to pop up on Tick Tock. They're called TikTok trends. There's a very dangerous one going on right now, and it's rooted, as you may, believe you may know, on, ah, Trump derangement syndrome. So, yesterday Donald Trump went out in. Was it the day before? I've missed a day.
>> Tim Wildmon: For those who don't know what tic tac toe is, Steve, what. What are we talking about?
>> Steve Jordahl: Tick Tock is a, is a social media app where people post videos. It's very,
>> Tim Wildmon: A lot of them are dancing and.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. The trend. Yeah. Is it very popular with the youngins?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, and, it's hugely popular with. I mean, it's probably the number one used social media app in the world, is it not?
>> Steve Jordahl: It might be. And it's in the middle of being perfect.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
People are taking Tylenol to prove Trump wrong about autism
>> Steve Jordahl: So anyway, so one of the trends that they're starting to see after Donald Trump, the day before yesterday, got up and announced that there was a link between acetaminophen and autism. and he mentioned the brand Tylenol by name. A lot of pregnant women with TDS are going to prove him wrong. And so they're sitting here taking Tylenol. Well, look, I'll show them and I'll take Tylenol and nothing while they're pregnant. Yes. It's. I mean, it's just stupid. They'll do anything. Just.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's a TikTok, page or whatever devoted to this not A page.
>> Steve Jordahl: But a trend that's going on on TikTok. You're seeing this. Well, there's a group called Frontline Nurses, and one of their members is Nicole Sirotech, a young nurse, who took a phone call from a distraught husband. And I'll let her talk about the rest. Cut 13.
>> Nicole Sirotech: I got a call, very frantic call, at 4 o' clock in the morning from a husband whose wife is now dying of liver failure on a ventilator in an icu. because she was trying to prove that Tylenol doesn't cause autism because of what Trump said on the news. Mind you, that's a Harvard study. The issue is that she's somewhere between 23 to 25 weeks and she overdosed on Tylenol.
>> Tim Wildmon: Tylenol.
>> Nicole Sirotech: And she's going to die. She's not going to come off that ventilator. She, She's. She's gonna die. It's going to be. Let me tell you something about Tylenol overdosing and death is that if you aren't administered the antidote, it is a very slow and painful death. Okay? Because Tylenol as well as Benadryl and Aspirin are the three most common OTCs that people will typically try to unalive themselves with. You know, so I don't get censored. but now people are, are just taking massive amounts of Tylenol to prove, Prove Trump wrong.
>> Fred Jackson: My goodness.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's crazy.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's sick.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Gracious. Yeah. Yeah. Tds. Trump Derangement Syndrome. anyway, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: that's sad.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is, it's very sad.
University of Cincinnati has removed the Turning Point USA chapter from their campus
maybe we should go back to Turning, Point usa. Turning Point usa, as, ah, Frank has talked about, has a lot of new requests for chapters and they're putting them through as quick as they can. Am I able to call? okay. but, they're having problems at one university. apparently the University of Cincinnati has decided to kick the, campus, the Turning Point USA Club, off campus. So, they've kicked them off campus. They have decided to charge them rent for you for their, events. And they. Someone posted on, Twitter this message. Cut 14.
>> Speaker H: University of Cincinnati has removed the Turning Point USA chapter from their campus with no explanation as to why. The president of the chapter has sent me the email that they received and this is what it says. In addition to no longer being an active registered student organization at the university for no reason, they are now being charged for the Space rental for reservations that they already had in place. It's already hard enough to be a conservative student on campus, and now the schools are making it even harder. And keep in mind, this university has a history of giving conservative students backlash. A couple years ago, I was failed at the University of Cincinnati for using the term biological woman in a required DEI course at. As a chemistry major. It's time to start putting pressure on these universities and stop this backlash.
>> Fred Jackson: It's the University of Cincinnati.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is the University of Cincinnati.
>> Fred Jackson: I hope they have a good legal team.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Because they're going to get sued.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: and they should be sued. And, and, the university is going to lose. Of course they're going to lose on this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yep. Absolutely.
I want to talk about World War Three. Can we now
Hey, I want to talk about, save. You don't even know I'm going to bring this up.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'll. I'll do it on the fly. I'll wing it.
>> Tim Wildmon: I want to talk about World War Three. Can we. We can now. That didn't get your attention. I don't know what does.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. Hello, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's moving right along. And in other news, the end of the world, ladies and gentlemen. I'm kidding around, obviously, and that's rare for me. But,
>> Tim Wildmon: But not exactly but.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, no, but there is a, A gathering storm. Can I put it that way, that maybe a lot of Americans aren't really paying attention to because of all our internal stuff, that people deal with in their daily lives. And then they did just the domestic news that we talk about here, going on in our country. But, and I'm not here to, you know, proclaim doomsday, although the Bible does. One day. The Bible does. I don't know when doomsday. Somebody, somebody predicted the rapture was supposed to happen yesterday.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: I missed it.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know. Evidently.
>> Tim Wildmon: I guess they're going to come back today and say their batteries are low on their calculator or something.
>> Steve Jordahl: They don't say they max out their credit cards.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know, right. That's been tried, you know, a few times down through history.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know somebody wrote 88 reasons the rapture will occur in 1988.
>> Tim Wildmon: And that's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Here we are. But, but, but in all, in all seriousness, the tensions in, the Middle east, the tensions in Europe, between Ukraine and Russia and that could, Could NATO be drawn into a direct war with Russia? Nuclear weapons, are, you know, are owned by Russia, for example.
Fred Buser: There are tensions building between Russia and NATO right now
anyway, Fred, there's, there's some things happening that are very, very, contentious right now.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, listen to the words of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to the United nations in his speech. He told world leaders yesterday that the world is in the most destructive arms race in human history and called on the international community to act against Russia now asserting that Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe. You know, we remember just a few weeks ago, President Trump met with, Putin in Alaska. There was some optimism that there might be a deal, but it's gone the other way. Putin has increased his attacks in Ukraine. Now we have President Trump, you have NATO nations now giving serious consideration to be getting much more involved, with helping Ukraine on top of that. And what's building is that we've had incursions by the Russians into NATO countries in recent days. So Putin is showing no signs of drawing back. In fact, at the United nations this week, President Trump was there, gave his speech, etc. Then he met with a bunch of world leaders. And what we're seeing is, and I think Zelensky is exactly right, we are seeing a buildup of tensions. If these incursions, increase. Trump was asked yesterday at the United nations whether he, would. If there are more of these incursions, if Russian airplanes come into Polish territory, whatever the case may be a NATO country, would that NATO country be right in shooting down that Russian airplane? Trump did not hesitate for a second. He said, absolutely. And so right now, really, we're waiting for, what is Putin going to do? Is he going to press this? Will he draw back? And what Zelenskyy is saying, and what I think is building is support for Zelensky. Because Trump also said, which was earlier this week, which was a huge change in policy, he says Ukraine should demand to take back all territory that Russia has gained even since the start of this war. So you've got. You've got tensions building very high right now. What Zelensky has succeeded in doing is not only holding support, but gathering and increasing support from the United States and from NATO countries.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, you know, we've come a long way from that showdown in the Oval Office with, you know, J.D. vance and the President and Mr. Zelensky, which looked to be a disaster for Ukraine. To Fred, what you're talking about this week, the president basically said, ah, he called out Russia, he called out Mr. Putin, and he basically said, I believe that with NATO's help, not only they could take back all the territory that Russia has gained in this war. He even, Fred, through another sentence, Maybe they might want to go further than that. That's pure, that's pure Trump at his best, just kind of throwing out there. Maybe they want to go even further. And what do you make, Fred, of this? we got these drones, over Denmark shutting down. Now we don't think much here about Denmark in the great, in the great geopolitical situation, but the drones came over the Denmark airports and shut them down. does anybody doubt that was Russian interference? That was Russian aggression. And the Danish said we were not able to neutralize them, weren't able to shoot them down. This is an act of, Well, okay, it's a provocation.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's next door to an act of aggression that leads to war. Is that, is Putin trying to, Is he trying to lure NATO into a shooting war?
>> Steve Jordahl: Article 5 of the NATO treaty commits every nation that is a member of NATO to come to the military kinetic aid of any other nation if it is attacked. and, they found a, Ray, to your point, they just, And my days are getting a little mixed up because I was off yesterday. But, a couple days ago they found a huge room, a couple rooms in New York City full of telecom equipment. Oh yeah, that was. Is capable of causing tremendous havoc on, both, through personal like ransom phone calls to shutting down, all kinds of power, just like the, those drones did. you were talking about FBI M Bus and they said that they were in contact with foreign players. So other countries were involved in this. And they, I heard someone say they found it in New York. They don't know if there's other ones in Chicago or Los Angeles or wherever else we are in perilous times.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, also, drones are a game changer for war and for terrorist activities and for a, host of other reasons that are not good. And this is, you know, for those who don't know. I know most people know what NATO is, but we keep using that acronym. That's the North American Atlantic, isn't it?
>> Steve Jordahl: A T. North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. Thank you. North Atlantic Treaty Organizations. You guys, correct me if I got my history wrong here, but this was an organization created after World War II as a way to counterbalance the Soviet Union so that NATO countries, which is basically Western Europe, if, if they, if any of them were attacked because they were all much smaller than the Soviet Union. This was before the Soviet Union crumbled and became just Russia. that, that it was, it was meant to give the Soviet Union second thoughts. Third thoughts, four thoughts about, attacking any NATO country. Because then that would involve all the other countries, coming to their aid, including United States. Canada, too. Is Canada, so. Canada, too. So if it were, the, the greater tension here, beyond, you know, Denmark's airport being, is that if, if, Russia were to provocate a military response from Poland, for example, you know, Poland got ticked the other day because, Russia was flying jets into their airspace. Am I right? Or drone. That's right. That's right. So, I mean, you know, major, wars have been started for things. Things like this or less than things like this. So let's say, you know, that would draw. That would necessarily by, By NATO charter, draw us, the United States, into a military conflict potentially with Russia. So that's what I mean by. There are gathering, storms here that, have great potential for, for changing the world scene right now. Absolutely.
>> Fred Jackson: And I think, you know, what we're looking at right now. Putin believes that the NATO countries would not go to the extent of responding to these incursions without war. I believe he believes that. I believe Putin, thinks that he can keep pressing this, Pressing this, these incursions and that NATO countries are not willing to really fight back.
Steve Comet: There could be objection from within Russia against possible Ukraine annexation
I think there is potential within Russia. I'm sure there are Russian generals who are thinking this guy, our guy, our leader, is going a little too far here. And there's. There's a possibility that there could be objection from, I'll put it this way, Objection from within Russia, against.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the scary part, Ray. And then Steve Comet, the scary part is if Vladimir Putin decides to, you know, if he feels, Listen, he's been three years in Ukraine, they can't beat the Ukrainians. Right, but you're basically, made up of pharmacists and farmers and factory workers who got their. And they did have somewhat of an army. I'm not saying they didn't, but nothing compared to the.
>> Tim Wildmon: What Russia had.
>> Tim Wildmon: What Russia had, the military might of Russia and also Russia's. This is on their border. And yet here we are three years later, and they still haven't been able to conquer Ukraine. And in fact, Trump's flipped from, Trump's flip from Ukraine needs to cut a deal because there's no way they can stop the Russians to. I think Ukraine's going to get all their land back. I mean, that's crazy. what, what. That's what even the President, United States is saying now. So, Ray, you want to comment, and then, Steve, you comment.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, just here at the end, to circle back. Tim. No, the rapture didn't happen two days ago. But this is no time to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, if it did, we're all still here.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. What are we doing here? Right? You know, but let's. Let's understand something. We are living in perilous times, dangerous days. keep your eyes on the skies, because, Jesus is coming back, and I think he's coming back soon. Everybody better get ready.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thanks to Fred, to Ray, To Frank. Frank, Brent Creeley, our producer, and Chris, who, joined us last hour in studio. And we, as always, we appreciate you listening to today's issues and to the American, Family Radio Network. So tomorrow will be Trivia Friday. I know Ed's here. I think JJ's here. JJ was here this morning, so. Is that true? you will hear that tomorrow from jj. Jasper, we'll see you back here then.
