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Dr. Josh Mulvihill fulfilling the Great Commission.
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Chris Woodward 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 on this Thursday, April 23, 2026. I will introduce our panel today and you can decide whether they're esteemed later on in the, program. Tony Vitagliano. Good morning, Brother Tony.
Tony Vitagliano Good morning.
Tim Wildmon That's filling in for his old man, Ed.
Tony Vitagliano Yep. Once again.
Tim Wildmon All right.
Tony Vitagliano And I, I, I'll pass on the esteemed part. I'll vote on myself. Not esteemed.
Tim Wildmon I got another comment about that, but I want to get back. Fred Jackson. Good morning, Fred. Good morning to you and Krish Woodward.
Chris Woodward Good morning.
Tim Wildmon So your dad, You know what, We've been friends for a long time, but he, I don't remember the. I always joke with him at the end of the year.
Tim Wildmon Because he takes his vacation time when it's cold and dark outside.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And he saves it up.
Tony Vitagliano It does.
Tim Wildmon I've never been, I've never understood that. Of course I'm not. That doesn't make me any better person than him because I take mine during the year. Right. When it's warm and, and sunshine. But I've always been curious about that. And here I'm proud of him for going ahead and taking some vacay time.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Aren't you?
Tony Vitagliano Yeah. You know what? And if for no other reason than it's less time, m. He can rub in my face at the end of the year, you know, when he just starts disappearing every Friday.
Tim Wildmon Ah.
Tony Vitagliano I just, he's like, I got so much time, I can't even use it
Tim Wildmon all, you know, he gets, you know, in December, you don't see it anymore. And I, it gets back and I wonder, you know, I, have to reintroduce myself, you know, I'm Tim. I'm two offices down. Nice to have you on staff here.
Tony Vitagliano His door is cobwebs across. You know, gotta go in and chase the animals out of it.
Tim Wildmon I'm proud of him for taking some vacation time, when it's springtime, out.
Fred: Dozens of Georgia counties have declared states of emergency because of wildfires
all right, so we're gonna get to some of the, top stories in the news that we talked about at our show prep meeting this morning prior to the program. And this, ladies and gentlemen, we do prepare for this. I know oftentimes you wonder, did Tim prepare at all? The answer to that is most of the time I do. but we do have a breaking story in all seriousness that ah, Fred's been tracking. Fred, what's going on here?
Fred Jackson Yeah, Southeast Georgia. We, need to be praying for folks there. Their states, of emergency have been declared because of wildfires. Dozens of homes destroyed. In the Associated Press story that just came out, it says wildfires tearing through the south have forced hundreds of Georgia residents to flee in minutes, leaving them distraught about their homes and animals they've been forced to leave behind. If you go to afn.net, afn.net right now, the image that the Associated Press just gave us, it looks like a war zone.
Tony Vitagliano It's apocalyptic.
Fred Jackson It really does. it looks like a huge bomb has gone off. You have a burnt out car, trees. I'm just seeing on, one of the networks up there that dozens and dozens of counties have had to declare states of emergency. And the smoke from these fires, up to 100 miles away, they're impacting cities up to 100 miles away because the smoke is coming in there. And if you've ever experienced just wildfire smoke, you know how bad that can be. If you've got breathing problems already, you're being warned to stay in the house. So this is really bad, folks. Yesterday we posted a story that said up to 50 homes had been destroyed not only in southeast Georgia, but in northern Florida. So that is the bullseye area right now, folks. So we need to be praying. The weather has been very dry there. There is no prediction of rain in the forecast for anytime soon. So be praying for these folks. I can't imagine has this AP story, is saying they are fleeing for their lives in this area right now, some of these folks. So be in prayer for them, folks. And as I say, go to afn.net afn.net it appears they mentioned Brantley County, Brentley County. the Brentley county fire says, which has caused much of the structural damage, remains stable overnight. The sheriff's office said. but these fires, and they feed themselves. If you've seen wildfires before, the heat causes its own wind, which Causes these fires to spread even more. so this is a very serious situation there in southeast Georgia, northern Florida.
Tim Wildmon From I'm looking at the map here and it appears these Well one, one of the big fires is like east of Valdosta. maybe. And then we have a lot of listeners in the Valdosta area.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill We do.
Tim Wildmon And then we have Waycross, we have a radio station, American Family Radio, station in Waycross. It appears that one of the fires too that's wildfires is not too far from there. So this. You know what, I came into the studio a few minutes ago and I missed this. Has this been a national story?
Fred Jackson Well like I say, there was this one script story that came out yesterday but it has only grown intensity overnight, Right?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you're right. Tony, look at those pictures.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, they're apocalyptic. You know we've had in the south we've had uncharacteristically dry April. I mean the weather's been nice but you don't think about the other side of that being that everything's dries out and it just takes a.
Tim Wildmon We have a burn baron where we live.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Because of the same reason. And you're right, all across the south it's been uncharacteristically unusual. Usually by this time we're having like tornado storms, you know, roll through, bad thunderstorms and in the south eastern part of the United States gets drenched. In fact three or four of the states in the southeastern part of the United States are, you know, lead the country in rainfall every year. Yeah, that's so. And this is prime season part. But you're right, we haven't had any. Not much, not much, not much. so I'm sure that's what's happening in southeast Georgia. They're just dry as a bone down there. And, and these and you know you get the winds in the spring too and it just causes them to you know, out west. Fred, did you see wildfires out west?
Fred Jackson Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely. When things get started out there, when you're talking areas like in Washington State, Oregon, those areas I know during the winter they get a lot of rain, but they do get into drought situations sometimes. Late spring, summertime, early fall. And you can imagine the density. You know President Trump has talked about this, he's been had a fight with California because they're not clearing the brush underneath. You get the kind of dead brush underneath which is just inviting a fire.
Fred Jackson One spark.
Tim Wildmon Why Would all the things. Why wouldn't you clean the dead brush?
Fred Jackson Oh, because of environmental regulations.
Tim Wildmon Now, Darter.
Fred Jackson Oh, yeah. We had one incident when I was working on the west coast, and it was so frustrating. They wouldn't clear out that underbrush, because of the spotted owl.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Fred Jackson And as some of the people who depend on the forest, we're talking people, you know, lumber companies and that sort of thing, they said to the government, the spotted owl can move if a fire starts. Yeah, the spotted owl is out of there.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah. He gets up and flies away.
Fred Jackson Right. But. But they. This is your environmental wackos out there. we have to, like you say, save a snail or save an owl or whatever the case may be, and then these huge fires come, and then
Tony Vitagliano everybody's life is destroyed, including lots of wildlife.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tony Vitagliano They claim they're trying to preserve.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred: We need to pray for those firefighters down there in Georgia
Well, you're right, Fred. We need to pray for those folks down there in the firefighters especially.
Fred Jackson Oh, yeah.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yep.
Tim Wildmon In, southeast Georgia. You're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Tony, Fred. And Krish. Krish, what's your first story?
President Trump orders military to shoot and kill small Iranian boats deploying mines
Chris Woodward Well, from one developing news story to another, let's go to the Middle east, where President Donald Trump said today that he has ordered the U.S. military to, quote, shoot and kill small Iranian boats that are deploying mines that choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump made the announcement on social media after, as he often does, and that came shortly after news that the US Military seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with Tehran over the strait, through which 20% of all crude oil and natural gas goes through. So now it appears that he's going after those small boats that we talked about at length yesterday.
Tim Wildmon Somebody called them mosquito boats.
Chris Woodward Yeah, that's where that's been a term used by a number of people.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So. So what's the strategy here, Tony?
Tony Vitagliano Well, I mean, we're, you know, still. The blockade is still in effect. and what it looks like has happened is that, you know, we've. We've claimed, territory with our fleet in the Gulf of Oman. So we're. We're blockading ships coming out and even trying to get these ghost ships that make it to, you know, Asia or, make it past the blockade. And it seems like Iran is just trying to, enforce their. Their side of the Hormuz, trying to make it difficult for anybody trying to get to this through the strait. So their navy is decimated, their large Ships are all, from what I can tell, have been sunk. So they're relying on these smaller craft to just harass and damage and even take over tankers going through the strait.
Tim Wildmon Again, the goal, of the United States naval blockade is to shut down the economy of Iran without having to blow up things.
Tim Wildmon That would be the hope. I think that's why President Trump and his team are holding back. Although he says daily, almost, we're getting ready. If they don't do this, they don't do that, I'm going to bomb, bomb, bomb. But then he's not done that. I mean, he's holding back, I think, to see if this blockade will, Krish, will force the economy, of Iran to be so stressed that the leadership, whoever they are of Iran, will come to the table and make some kind of a concession on whatever it is that President Trump's trying to get him to make a concession on.
Chris Woodward And someone that says as much is the President's spokeswoman, woman, Press Secretary Kath.
Tim Wildmon I talked this morning.
Chris Woodward Yeah, did you?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I help her out a little bit here and there.
President Trump orders US Military to shoot and kill Iranian small boats
Chris Woodward Well, Caroline Levitt talking to, ah, Fox about this situation, she said that Trump holds all the cards and has backed Iran into a corner, so to speak.
Jeff Chamblee Clip 1 We're waiting to hear back from the Iranian regime. The fact that they cannot send a, unified message yet, which is why the President decided to extend the cease fire, just shows how effective Operation Epic Fury truly was because there's a lot of internal division over there. The President understands that and so we await their response. Well, the President, the cards are in his hands. the United States maintains control, over the situation. He has all of the leverage now
Chris Woodward for anybody that might go, well, wait a minute, we have a ceasefire, but now we're going to shoot and kill people on speedboats? How is that not a violation of the ceasefire? Levitt got into that as well and she said that the boats that the Iranian speedboats, that they took over, those things were not covered in the ceasefire treaty. They're viewing those as acts of piracy.
Jeff Chamblee Clip 2 these were not US ships, these were not Israeli ships. these were two international vessels. And for the American media, who is sort of blowing this out of proportion to, discredit the President's facts that he has completely obliterated Iran's conventional navy. these two ships were taken by speedy gunboats. Iran has gone from having the most lethal, navy in the Middle east to now acting like a bunch of pirates. They don't have control over the strait. This is piracy.
Fred Jackson When I heard this announcement from the President this morning though, this is a change in strategy from when Caroline Levitt made that announcement yesterday. She made it sound like we're not going to be involved with these small boats that are attacking tankers coming out of the southern part of the Persian Gulf. because these small boats went after three vessels yesterday. Seas too. But now the President is saying this morning he has ordered the US Military to shoot and kill Iranian small boats. My question right away is, okay, are we moving some of our navy now into the Strait of Hormuz? Because this blockade is way out in the Gulf of Oman. So are we moving in or are we going to take fighter jets over the Strait of Hormuz and aim missiles at these small boats? So we are ramping up in the last 24 hours beyond what she talked about yesterday.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, I mean we, we've, we have been operating some of the fighter jets that we said were kind of pointless. Like the A10 Warthogs, I know we've been utilizing those to go after earlier in the war to go after these boats. So it sounds like that, if I had to guess, I, I would say we're not moving our navy there. But more so, like you said, probably using aircraft sorties from our, our aircraft carriers to just go target them when we find them. Just trying to remove whatever leverage and options that Iran has. We're just trying to limit those.
Tim Wildmon So let me understand this, right, this is, there's a lot of moving parts here, as they say, which creates confusion for a lot of people. So we have a blockade.
Tim Wildmon We, the United States have a naval blockade. So we're not letting any ships into or departing from Iranian ports.
Fred Jackson Correct.
Tim Wildmon Merchant ships primarily carrying or whatever. We've. So that stops trade for Iran from those ports, right? Correct. Which is a big part of their economy.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Okay, that's holding. We've been doing that I don't know how long, what, 10 days, two weeks, something like that?
Fred Jackson Roughly.
Tim Wildmon That's holding. Now that takes a lot of assets on our part, naval assets, ships, boats, you know, men, airplanes, whatever, drone. I don't know what all they're using to enforce this, but it's, it's, it's held and it's working so far
Fred Jackson now.
Tim Wildmon But if, and that's out from this strait. But Iran, are they allowing any ships to go, through the Strait of Hormuz? In other words, not non enemies to them like China for Example or, others. Are they allowing any ship to go through? Are they. Go ahead.
Tony Vitagliano I think what they're doing is Iran is targeting ships that are carrying. Because other ships transit oil through the strait, apart from those carrying Iranian oil.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano So they're probably trying to pick off whoever they can, coming through the strait carrying non Iranian oil because the assumption is the US Would allow those ships to pass through the blockade because they're not. They have to depart from an Iranian port. So, you know, Levitt mentioned that this doesn't violate the ceasefire because they're not US or Israeli marked ships. But if it's a, ah, ship headed to Europe, from a Gulf state, then those are the ships that Iran would consider fair game.
Tim Wildmon That's what, Let me ask you this question. What is the. We mentioned these mosquito boats. Is that what. That's what they're called? That's not their official name.
Chris Woodward Correct. That's just a term people and news outlets have been using.
Tim Wildmon Official name is nat. Boats, not mosquitoes.
Tony Vitagliano Those are even more annoying.
Tim Wildmon Yes, they are. That they can't give you encephalitis. but they, the. They. Iran is sending these boats out almost like the pirates in Somalia. Somali. Yeah, Somalia. Off the coast there, the Ivory coast, to just. so they're. And then these, these guys, these Iranian guys who are masked. They ma. They least. Yesterday they went aboard these boats and I guess take them captive. I don't, I don't know. But here's my question. What's the point of that, Tony? What's the point of Iran doing that? Why, why. Why are, why are they doing that? What are they hoping to accomplish here?
Tony Vitagliano I think they're just trying to do whatever they can at this point.
President Trump says he's going to blow boats out of the water
they're just trying to make things difficult to cut off and put pressure on the other Gulf states because like I said, they're. They could be carrying oil from like,
Tim Wildmon if we're not going to do business, nobody else is either.
Tony Vitagliano Exactly. They want to make it dangerous for shipping companies to send ships through the strait.
Tim Wildmon But now, according to Fred, President Trump has said no, we're going to start blowing those boats out of the water.
Fred Jackson Yep.
Tim Wildmon Am I right?
Fred Jackson Shoot.
Tim Wildmon They're probably, they're probably going to have a hard time finding volunteers this morning to, Hey, who wants to go out and Right in the mosquito boat today, as
Tony Vitagliano out there just fishing?
Tim Wildmon yeah, I'd like to go, sir, but I got down in my back and to prove.
Chris Woodward To prove your point.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, go ahead.
Chris Woodward You're Hearing fewer. You're hearing about fewer, drug boats,
Tim Wildmon Oh, in the Caribbean.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Or whatever.
Chris Woodward Prove your point. Yes.
Tim Wildmon So we'll see what happens there. but President Trump's strategy is, to choke off the economy of Iran, without having to, as he called it in their civilization. His words, not mine. Right, that's true.
The US did capture another tanker this morning in the Indian Ocean
Want to make sure, by the way,
Fred Jackson the, US did capture another tanker this morning in the Indian.
Tim Wildmon What do we do with these tankers
Fred Jackson in the Indian Ocean? Well, that's a really good question. where. Where are you taking them?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, boat. We have a boat timeout place, I guess, somewhere.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah. I don't know if they're. I don't know if they're just taking, the people on the ship or just.
Tim Wildmon What do you do with it? Now? Why did we take this boat?
Fred Jackson Well, it. It, I'm assuming because it, took Iranian oil. This is probably a ship that left Iran prior to the blockade. And the administration, the Trump administration has said we're going after those ships as well, basically to cut off, and I'm assuming that the Iranians, do not get paid for the oil until the oil is delivered to whatever port it's going to do.
Tim Wildmon We know one other question about this, and do we know what the stated objective is of the Trump administration that would end this? In other words, what can. What is Iran going to have to do for us to stop this blockade? Does anybody know the answer to that?
Fred Jackson Well, that is going to be the subject of negotiations. I mean, we've had several.
Tim Wildmon We don't have anybody to negotiate with, though.
Fred Jackson Yeah, well, that's another problem, as I think Caroline Levitt outlined, is who's in charge. and it's, you know, we don't know. But, you know, I go way back when Trump said, to those who want a regime change within Iran, those protesters, help is on the way. Well, I'm not hearing that phrase these days. Help is on the way. these protesters seem to be on their own. What I'm not hearing as much about is we want to ensure that the Iranians do not have enriched uranium. So people have said in order to do that, to ensure they don't have the enriched uranium, which now apparently is buried deep somewhere, you'd have to have boots on the ground to find
Tim Wildmon that that ain't happening. I don't think I.
Tony Vitagliano Very dangerous.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano To try and send ground troops in to go looking for. I mean, I ran. I'm sure y' all have talked about this Iran, geologically. Is that the right word? Yeah, yeah. it, it is not.
Tim Wildmon The land mass, the land mass itself,
Tony Vitagliano the land formation, the, the layout is not conducive for Right. Ground invasion. It's just not. And, you know, you're going on a. I mean, a needle in a right in five haystacks trying to find, you know, the hole in the ground. They have that enriched uranium.
Fred Jackson Well, to go back then, to your original question, all we're left with is the statement that from the administration, which would define success as being. We think we've put the Iranian military capability back 10 or 20 years.
Tim Wildmon We already done that. We've already done that.
Chris Woodward We thought we did it last July when we bombed the, the supposed uranium site with the bomber.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. But we did that now. Now we've destroyed their military.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon So again, my question is. And I know.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Is what. What's the objective now? What's the state? In other words, what does President Trump said or his administration? Okay. Once these one, two or three things are done, we're bringing our sailors home.
Tony Vitagliano The, the reality to me is if we left today, if we just packed up our bags and left.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano Iran is crippled. I mean, they are crippled economically, they are crippled militarily. you know, they're not going to have the cash on hand to be supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, these other terrorist groups as they have in the past. I don't even think they would. I know they've threatened, you know, we're going to charge $2 million a boat to come through. you're not, they're not going to be able to do that because no one's people are just going to say, well, we're not coming through, then. We're not paying that. So there is a reality in which Iran, if we just left, they would be crippled. The optics of it, though, are hard to sell for Trump, in my opinion. Pointing to something as victory is harder to. Is harder to do for Trump. I mean, you, you have to have something tangible if you want to claim victory. And right now it would just be,
Tim Wildmon So, so are we saying here we're unclear.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, I think that's the. That's, that's what I think.
Fred Jackson Yep. We're going to have to take a verbal. We have to accept.
Tony Vitagliano Yep.
Fred Jackson A verbal guarantee from the Iranians we will not and perhaps demand that inspectors go in, which has been going on for some time.
Tim Wildmon But if they say we ain't doing
Fred Jackson that, then this is gonna be a Longmoor.
Tony Vitagliano Yes, exactly.
Chris Woodward If they say that Check out Trump's Truth Social post.
Tim Wildmon So our sailors may be there through the summer, you're saying at least we'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
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Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network features Ray Pritchard
Hey, welcome back everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim with Tony, Fred and Krish. We thank you for, for listening. Ed's out today and Ray Pritchard. Where's Ray? What's Ray doing? What's his. You got a doctor's excuse, Brad?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Huh?
Fred Jackson he's probably preaching somewhere.
Tim Wildmon He probably is.
Fred Jackson He's preaching somewhere.
Tim Wildmon He's preaching what he says.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill True.
Tim Wildmon anyway, brother Ray does travel the world honestly preaching the Bible. If you want to read his stuff, go to keep believing dot com. It's a great ministry that Dr. Ray Pritchard has. Keep believing dot com well, we will get back to some of our news stories we've yet to cover.
Tim Ferriss speaks with James Lambert from California about Testimonies
but before we do, we have a friend, one of our friends on the line from California, James Lambert. James been with us before. I've known James a long time and he travels the country, goes to college campuses and just cold calls for Jesus basically, is what I call it. He goes to witness and share and talk to students. Been doing that for years. And he also writes books about, a lot of books about famous people's Testimonies. He joins us now. Good morning, James.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Good morning, Tim. How are you?
Tim Wildmon I'm doing great. are you in, you're in your home state there?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yes, sir. I'm in North San Diego County.
Tim Wildmon You've lived there a long time, haven't you?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, for quite some time. I was actually born in
Tim Wildmon California.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill yeah. And
Tim Wildmon that's where the surfers are, right? I've been there.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah. That's what I grew up with and I enjoyed surfing.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So, so James, you've got a book out, a new book, More Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention, right?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Certainly do. It's it, it features a number of well known people. Ah, you know, I just, just had, you know, it's just so, it's, it's a great way of sharing your faith with people. That's what I found because I've gotten responses from people from around the country that, people who gave my book to, friends or relatives and they ended up finding Christ. Ah, it's a great way of sharing your faith. Testimonies can do that and that's what this does.
Tim Wildmon but your first book was Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Right, Right.
Tim Wildmon That's when you featured. Go ahead.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah. And what, what's interesting, with that book, I got a chance this.
Tim Wildmon Hey, James, we're gonna have to call you back. You're breaking up. You know, not mentally or anything like that. James, you're, you're just breaking up on the phone. So I, didn't want to offend him. Yeah, yeah, you know. Hey, you're breaking up, man. No, I'm not. I'm, I'm, I'm of sound mind. so we're calling him back. Try to get him back on the phone. James, James. He's got some great stories about very famous people that.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, I was just looking at the, the list and I'm not going to try to steal his thunder if he wants to talk about him. But I'm, I'm looking at some of the stories. Dwight Eisenhower, Rock Hudson, Mickey Rooney.
Tim Wildmon these are baby Boomer names, but still.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon is he back?
Tony Vitagliano So, I mean, some of these look, you know, well known people.
Tim Wildmon He got a great story about, what was it? What was a. Ah, Steve McQueen.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Who came to know the Lord.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tony Vitagliano Oh, really?
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Steve McQueen is a very famous actor. James, you back?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, I certainly am.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Stand where you are. Okay. Don't turn your head and don't move around because we got you right now.
James Lambert's first book about divine intervention received three death threats
Okay. James wrote, you've written m. More amazing stories of divine intervention. We were just talking about your first book, which was amazing. You featured the testimonies of. Name two or three of the people you featured in your first book.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Steve McQueen was one of them. And, also, there was a great story in there about Ronald Reagan.
Tim Wildmon Tell us that. Tell us. Tell. Tell us that one. Tell us that story.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Well, I got a chance to wit, to, interview, his son, who sadly passed away recently. And a lot of people aren't aware of this, but, Ronald Reagan would have regular Bible studies, in the White House, in a subsidiary little side cottage in the White House. And, they, you know, he totally was a believer in Christ. And also there's a great story, in that book about, George Washington. I got access to a private library that was owned by the. The previous owner of the San Diego Union Tribune that had over 200 letters of George Washington. And from that I found out about his strong faith. In fact, he was the first of the founding fathers that, got rid of his slaves. And, he also, during his second, term in office, tried to get rid of slavery. A lot of people aren't aware of that. And it was turned down because, you know, as long as, you know a lot of people, a lot of the states back then depended on, for agriculture, the slave population. So. But the bottom line is, these stories are a great way of sharing your faith, and that's. That's important. I also broke the story on Steve. On Mickey Mantle coming to Christ two weeks before he died. He had serious alcohol problems.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I remember that. I, remember that. And, Richardson, Bobby Richardson helped too. One of his teammates.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill I got a chance to interview him too, but it was announced, on World that Daily. And it hit a lot of people because of that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, we're talking to James. We're talking to James Lambert, joining us from California. James is a longtime friend of mine, and he has written, two books now, about the. The fir. James. these books especially for baby boomers, but for anybody. These books are filled with stories about how the Lord God saved people from their sin and gave them eternal life. And these are people that. Fascinating stories happen to them, to these people. And a lot of these people are celebrities. They're well known. But it goes to show you how, you know, people say, well, God cares about the down and out. Well, that's true. But God also cares about the up and out, you know, the people.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Oh yeah, definitely.
Tim Wildmon So.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill And in my first book, which was, an anti porn book, this wasn't the testimonial, last two. your father was gracious to recognize and he gave me a nice, comment on the book, in the back of the book. And what's interesting, and I don't think you know this, but with that book I got three death threats.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill And and what's incredible is, the problem.
Tim Wildmon Why did you get death threats? Which book are you talking about?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill The first book, Porn in America.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Why did you get death threats over that?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill because eventually what happened is the LA Times, actually because of that book, I was on the O'Reilly Factor twice and on all three major networks. And the LA Times actually shut down their advertising of the porn industry, for a couple months. But because they got so much pressure, they start, you know, started allowing it today. But but what's sad, is what's happening these days with what's on the Internet. You know, there's, yeah, there's, there's hundreds of thousands of worldwide of porn sites on the Internet. And that, that sends me, that hurts a lot of a lot of our generations, you know, because of that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
James Lambert has an 800 number where people can order his books
Talking to James Lambert. James is again. James, you got a couple minutes left here. Talk about how people can read, about get copies of your books.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, you can get a copy of the book on. In the middle of your web Page is my 800 number, which is 800-656-8603. And you can call me and leave a message and I'll get right back to you. And you can get a copy of my newest book for only $19. And it helps support my ministry. so
Tim Wildmon your customer service that's on
Tony Vitagliano our Facebook page, by the way, that, that's where he's talking about the number being.
Tim Wildmon Okay, so go to our Facebook page.
Tim Wildmon Today's issues. And we have the contact information posted there. but you mean they call you and they order the book?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, they call my 800 number and just leave a message and I'll call them right back.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Make sure they give me their phone number right away. Don't wait till the end because the, the 800 number might not catch it. But give my phone number, 800-656-8603. And call that number and give your personal number and I'll call you back and I'll send you a signed copy for only $19.
Tim Wildmon A signed copy of what?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill That includes of my new book. That includes postage too. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Does it include, gas?
Tony Vitagliano So, so in California.
Tim Wildmon Listen, just to be clear, people know California earthquake insurance covered there. So this the name of the book we're talking about. You can order from James Lambert. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard him, he'll talk to you himself. and is more amazing stories of divine intervention. And what are the names on there?
Tony Vitagliano So some of the names, in the description of the book that includes stories about Dwight Eisenhower, Rock Hudson, Mickey Rooney, Gary Puckett, Pat Boone. I have heard of that one. So it's not just, it's, it's cross generational.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So that Boone, he's still alive by the way. Pat Boone is, he's 90 something.
Chris Woodward I've talked to him before.
Tim Wildmon Have you?
Chris Woodward I've interviewed him before, yeah.
James Lambert: It's important to share the gospel with your friends
Tim Wildmon All right, well. All right. Well listen, James, thanks for being on with us. God bless you and your work. Appreciate it very much. And come see us if you're ever traveling down south again. Okay.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, I had the pleasure of witnessing to a number of, Mississippi colleges. And fortunately there were a number of Christians that I talked to. But the one thing they weren't doing is witnessing to their friends. So I was encouraging them to witness to their friends and I gave them some of those comic book tracks to do that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill So, okay. It's really important for people to share the gospel with their friends because a lot of the college, I mean the churches I speak in, if you look at the population, most, they're most, most of them are 50 plus. Yeah, you don't see a lot of young kids in colleges today. So my book is a great way of sharing that very thing. But okay, call my 800 number.
Tim Wildmon go ahead and get the 800 number again.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill 1-800-656-M8603. Okay, again, 800-656-8603. And I will personally get in touch with you. Give me your phone number right away.
Tim Wildmon All right.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill And I'll send you a book.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Thanks James. Take care, my friend. God bless you and enjoy. you still get out there and surf a little bit, do you?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, not much because I'm older. It's harder to get up.
Tim Wildmon You ever seen a shark out there?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill it's been a long time since I've seen a shark, but yeah. All right, thanks, you know, thank you.
Tim Wildmon Thank you, James. I sorry folks. I apologize for talking over James. So it's difficult sometimes to do A live radio program. Somebody's, you know, on the phone.
Tony Vitagliano There's a delay.
Tim Wildmon It's a delay. And then I feel like, well, I've got to talk, because there's silence. And then he starts talking. I start talking. But, James is a great guy. I've known him for a long time. Loves the Lord. And he trapped he. On his own expense. He travels. He's done this in many states. He'll go to a state and he'll. He'll just go to a campus and he'll have, you know, a sign or something or, you know, or handing out gospel tracts, and he'll engage with the students. He's not bashful. No. About sharing his faith. And he's passionate about seeing people get saved. Come to know the Lord. but these books are really, really good stories about how God intervened in people's lives. You're listening to today's issues. But I didn't know he was going to say call me on my. But you got him on Amazon too, didn't you?
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, his. His book looks like it's available probably, you know.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, M. a lot of different books. The books are called Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention and then more Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention. and written by the gentleman you'd heard me talking to. James Lambert. L A M B E R. Yeah, if you call.
Tony Vitagliano If you call them. I think the. The benefit of that is he'll send you a signed copy, whereas if you buy it all, like Amazon or something.
Tim Wildmon Gotcha.
The Extraordinary Women Conference series is going all across America this weekend
All right. You're listening to Today's Issues. wanna, see Pam and Miley from Jonesboro, Arkansas? Stop by our studio, say hello. They're getting the grand tour out there.
Tony Vitagliano Yep.
Tim Wildmon down in our studios here, they're here for the Extraordinary Women Conference.
Chris Woodward Yes, we will be covering that, by the way, for afn.
Tim Wildmon The Extraordinary Women Conference series is going all across America. And, tomorrow night it comes to, tomorrow night. Saturday. It's in our hometown of Tupelo.
Chris Woodward Correct.
Tim Wildmon So my granddaughter to. My granddaughters are like 10 and 8 and they are going, to get to meet Anne Wilson.
Chris Woodward Nice.
Tim Wildmon The Christian singer.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon You familiar with her music?
Chris Woodward I am, yeah. She's the, Let me tell you about my Jesus. Yeah, she has other hits as well.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Chris Woodward Very good.
Tim Wildmon She's very well known. She's a very popular Christian. she's a Christian singer. But her. A lot of her music is worship songs too. Anyway, so they're huge fans of hers. And you know, when you're A child, and you get to meet a big famous singer. So they're, like, counting down the hours. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon right.
Tony Vitagliano That's good.
Tim Wildmon So I, I tried to temper them a little bit. I said, listen, we're gonna get to see Anne Wilson if all things go okay. I said, you know, her flight may be delayed. we may, you know, run into a roadblock, have a flat tire. There's a number of things that will prevent you from meeting, Anne Wilson. And, anyway, you just.
Tony Vitagliano You've got the bucket of cold water.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano Right there.
Tim Wildmon Well, I knew when they jumping on them, they started crying.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And. And they. And they, they.
Tony Vitagliano And you got to switch gears and be like, no, no, no.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Tony Vitagliano But you also may get to meet her. I don't know.
Tim Wildmon Oh, that's right. No, I didn't do all that. People don't. Don't email me. I didn't, I didn't. I didn't try to temper their excitement at all. When I told them they were going to get to meet Anne Wilson, they're like, squeal.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Fred Jackson You know.
Tim Wildmon You know how that is.
Chris Woodward Oh, yeah.
Tim Wildmon So they can't wait. So, and Wilson better show up.
Chris Woodward Yes. Yes, I will put that.
Tim Wildmon Or I will personally drive her hometown and find her.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So she can, sign an autograph for my little granddaughters.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Chris Woodward What's funny is it's the Extraordinary Women's Conference, and I'm going with another man to cover it for afn.net Kirk Cameron is the head. The big speaker night. Yes. tomorrow night. And then he'll be followed by Anne Wilson on Saturday. It's a who's who of ladies. and the final speaker on Saturday afternoon is going to be Wriley Gaines. So stick with AFN over the weekend because we're going to have print coverage and then we'll have a lot of audio stuff come Monday morning.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, but that Extraordinary Women Conference series is. We've, always been supportive of that. And they. Again, they're going around the country, so look for them coming to a town near you, near. In the near future. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Tony, Fred, and Krish, what's your next story?
Virginia Circuit Court blocks new redistricting vote, saying it's unconstitutional
Chris Woodward We have not heard the last of the Virginia redistricting, earlier this week, for people not aware Democrats got their way, in an effort to redistrict Virginia and make it from a purple state into a firm blue state. But, last night, Virginia Circuit
Tim Wildmon Court way, you said, but right there thank you. Go ahead, say it again.
Chris Woodward Meanwhile, Virginia Circuit judge, Jack Hurley blocked the new redistricting vote, saying it's unconstitutional. This is a legal win for Republicans. But new, Democrat attorney, General Jay Jones has already said they're going to appeal. So this story is still developing. But right now what was voter approved on Tuesday has now been blocked by at least one judge.
Tim Wildmon Listen, most of the time I'm for the people's vote holding up over a court, decision because I don't think one judge should block a decision, by the citizens of a state. However, in this case, I'm with the judge because what the Democrats tried to do here, for those who don't know, in Virginia, of course redistricting goes on all the time all over America. But in Virginia, the Democrats there, they tried to, in the legislature, they put a vote up for the people of, of the state and the people of the state voted for this. But they want to take what amounts to basically a 50, 50 state and make it a 10 to 1 state. They have 11 U.S. house seats. Right. And they want to redistrict it to make it 10 in favor of 10 Democrats seats and one Republican when it's a 50, 50 state. So it's, it's raw. Yeah, just politics, that the Democrats are trying to.
Tony Vitagliano Well, in the language, part of the argument that's being made is the language that was a part of the bill was very misleading.
Tim Wildmon So you mean the referendum or the
Tony Vitagliano bill, I'm sorry, the referendum that they voted on, using, using the phrase restore fairness. Yeah, I mean, yeah, if you're, if you're voting on a voting referendum.
Chris Woodward Right.
Tim Wildmon Who's again restoring fairness?
Tony Vitagliano Who's gonna mark. No. Over storing fairness? Yeah, well, yes, absolutely.
Chris Woodward To show you the hypocrisy of Democrats, as if anybody knew to this example. But to show you the hypocrisy of Democrats. In his post on X congratulating Virginia for doing what he wanted them to do, former President Barack Obama said congrats. Virginia Republicans are trying to tilt the elections in their favor. But you voted tonight the right way. Democrats are trying to tilt the election in their favor.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, yeah, that's right. So, but the judge, it was that a federal judge, Fred. Circuit judge, circuit state judge. stop. You can't do this.
Fred Jackson It's going to be appealed by the Democratic AG said last night it's going to be appealed and so it'll go to the state supreme Court which may have the same problems with that.
Tim Wildmon These Redistricting lines are just hilarious.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon in some of these states. Go to. Go to Illinois.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Type in Illinois congressional districts, Tony, and pull that up. Just a minute. I know people can't see what you're doing, but you want to. You want to see, some. Some squiggly lines.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Huh?
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Look at that. They just. Well, some of it's like, right here. Yeah. Some of it's like, the big blue.
Tony Vitagliano This big area right here. But then in the middle of that is.
Tim Wildmon Other states have similar. But, man, they just go. Look at that little snake trail.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon See what you're saying to the state of Illinois.
Fred Jackson Tim, to your point that Virginia is a split state.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred Jackson The results of the vote, which the Democrats spent millions of dollars on to get the vote owed, was still 51 49.
Tim Wildmon Oh, it was that close.
Fred Jackson Oh, it was really close.
Tim Wildmon That proves the point there.
Tony Vitagliano Simple majority.
Tim Wildmon They're basically a 50, 50 state. They just got through having a Republican governor and lieutenant governor and ag. So, yes, I would say Democrat, Democrats, have a slight margin in Virginia. but it's like you said, 59, 49. It's not very much m. The current.
Tony Vitagliano The current layout is six to five, I believe, Congressional seats. So, I mean, yeah, it's a pure. It's a pure power grab.
Tim Wildmon Yep.
Tony Vitagliano and it's everything that they complained and we're in an uproar about the Texas was trying to do.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Right.
Tony Vitagliano Remember all that. So.
Late yesterday, we learned that Navy Secretary John Phelan is out
Tim Wildmon All right, today's issue is the name of the show. We're just about out of time. Fred, did you have something you wanted to bring up or.
Fred Jackson no, other than. Well, we'll go back. And there's always controversy, it seems, in the Trump administration. Late yesterday, we learned that Navy Secretary John Phelan is, Well, some reports said he quit. Others said he was eased out. I, think it is safe to say that the War Secretary Hegseth and the president, they were not pleased with him. So he is out. And,
Tim Wildmon So we'll have an acting Secretary of the Navy. Don't they, now?
Fred Jackson Yes, they will. Yes.
Chris Woodward Until a new one is confirmed.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Chris Woodward Yeah, I know who the acting one is.
Tim Wildmon Who's the acting one, Krish?
Chris Woodward according to Google, as of April 22, Hung Cow is serving as the acting Secretary of the Navy. I'm sorry.
Tim Wildmon I hope I got you laughing, because
Chris Woodward I hope I got it right. I just butchered it.
Tony Vitagliano I didn't see anything funny about.
Tim Wildmon No, I didn't. Hong Kong Yeah.
Fred Jackson He's a Vietnamese, descent.
Tim Wildmon Yes. Thus. That's the Asian name.
Fred Jackson Yes, yes.
Tim Wildmon Which is not. I'll tell you what's funny. And, and where is he from? Vietnam.
Fred Jackson he's a Vietnamese descent.
Tim Wildmon He's the Vietnamese descent.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon You. If you are having a radio show in Vietnam and they said Krish Woodward.
Tony Vitagliano That's true.
Tim Wildmon They would start out. They would start howling.
Chris Woodward To his credit, he is a retired Navy captain and 25 year veteran as this. As the son of a Navy man. Thank you for your service.
Tony Vitagliano Absolutely.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yes.
Tony Vitagliano And I'm just kidding, Krish.
Tim Wildmon You know Jimmy Buffett had a song. Son of a Son of a Navy Man.
Chris Woodward He did.
Tim Wildmon Did you know this?
Chris Woodward Yeah. The Carpenters did a cover of that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Krish always. He always comes back to the Carpenters for Krish.
Chris Woodward When it doubts. When ask you a question about music, just guess the Carpenter.
Tim Wildmon Guess the Carpenters. All right, we'll be back momentarily with more of today's issues on American Family Radio. Steve Paisley Dordal is right around the corner.
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Tim Wildman is president of the American Family Association
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Dr. Josh Mulvihill fulfilling the Great Commission.
Tim Wildmon The vision of American Family association is to be a leading organization in biblical
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Tim Wildmon Thank you for standing with the American Family association as we seek to stop the erosion of godly values. Welcome to Today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president
Chris Woodward 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 on this Thursday, April 23, 2026. I will introduce our panel today and you can decide whether they're esteemed later on in the, program. Tony Vitagliano. Good morning, Brother Tony.
Tony Vitagliano Good morning.
Tim Wildmon That's filling in for his old man, Ed.
Tony Vitagliano Yep. Once again.
Tim Wildmon All right.
Tony Vitagliano And I, I, I'll pass on the esteemed part. I'll vote on myself. Not esteemed.
Tim Wildmon I got another comment about that, but I want to get back. Fred Jackson. Good morning, Fred. Good morning to you and Krish Woodward.
Chris Woodward Good morning.
Tim Wildmon So your dad, You know what, We've been friends for a long time, but he, I don't remember the. I always joke with him at the end of the year.
Tim Wildmon Because he takes his vacation time when it's cold and dark outside.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And he saves it up.
Tony Vitagliano It does.
Tim Wildmon I've never been, I've never understood that. Of course I'm not. That doesn't make me any better person than him because I take mine during the year. Right. When it's warm and, and sunshine. But I've always been curious about that. And here I'm proud of him for going ahead and taking some vacay time.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Aren't you?
Tony Vitagliano Yeah. You know what? And if for no other reason than it's less time, m. He can rub in my face at the end of the year, you know, when he just starts disappearing every Friday.
Tim Wildmon Ah.
Tony Vitagliano I just, he's like, I got so much time, I can't even use it
Tim Wildmon all, you know, he gets, you know, in December, you don't see it anymore. And I, it gets back and I wonder, you know, I, have to reintroduce myself, you know, I'm Tim. I'm two offices down. Nice to have you on staff here.
Tony Vitagliano His door is cobwebs across. You know, gotta go in and chase the animals out of it.
Tim Wildmon I'm proud of him for taking some vacation time, when it's springtime, out.
Fred: Dozens of Georgia counties have declared states of emergency because of wildfires
all right, so we're gonna get to some of the, top stories in the news that we talked about at our show prep meeting this morning prior to the program. And this, ladies and gentlemen, we do prepare for this. I know oftentimes you wonder, did Tim prepare at all? The answer to that is most of the time I do. but we do have a breaking story in all seriousness that ah, Fred's been tracking. Fred, what's going on here?
Fred Jackson Yeah, Southeast Georgia. We, need to be praying for folks there. Their states, of emergency have been declared because of wildfires. Dozens of homes destroyed. In the Associated Press story that just came out, it says wildfires tearing through the south have forced hundreds of Georgia residents to flee in minutes, leaving them distraught about their homes and animals they've been forced to leave behind. If you go to afn.net, afn.net right now, the image that the Associated Press just gave us, it looks like a war zone.
Tony Vitagliano It's apocalyptic.
Fred Jackson It really does. it looks like a huge bomb has gone off. You have a burnt out car, trees. I'm just seeing on, one of the networks up there that dozens and dozens of counties have had to declare states of emergency. And the smoke from these fires, up to 100 miles away, they're impacting cities up to 100 miles away because the smoke is coming in there. And if you've ever experienced just wildfire smoke, you know how bad that can be. If you've got breathing problems already, you're being warned to stay in the house. So this is really bad, folks. Yesterday we posted a story that said up to 50 homes had been destroyed not only in southeast Georgia, but in northern Florida. So that is the bullseye area right now, folks. So we need to be praying. The weather has been very dry there. There is no prediction of rain in the forecast for anytime soon. So be praying for these folks. I can't imagine has this AP story, is saying they are fleeing for their lives in this area right now, some of these folks. So be in prayer for them, folks. And as I say, go to afn.net afn.net it appears they mentioned Brantley County, Brentley County. the Brentley county fire says, which has caused much of the structural damage, remains stable overnight. The sheriff's office said. but these fires, and they feed themselves. If you've seen wildfires before, the heat causes its own wind, which Causes these fires to spread even more. so this is a very serious situation there in southeast Georgia, northern Florida.
Tim Wildmon From I'm looking at the map here and it appears these Well one, one of the big fires is like east of Valdosta. maybe. And then we have a lot of listeners in the Valdosta area.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill We do.
Tim Wildmon And then we have Waycross, we have a radio station, American Family Radio, station in Waycross. It appears that one of the fires too that's wildfires is not too far from there. So this. You know what, I came into the studio a few minutes ago and I missed this. Has this been a national story?
Fred Jackson Well like I say, there was this one script story that came out yesterday but it has only grown intensity overnight, Right?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you're right. Tony, look at those pictures.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, they're apocalyptic. You know we've had in the south we've had uncharacteristically dry April. I mean the weather's been nice but you don't think about the other side of that being that everything's dries out and it just takes a.
Tim Wildmon We have a burn baron where we live.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Because of the same reason. And you're right, all across the south it's been uncharacteristically unusual. Usually by this time we're having like tornado storms, you know, roll through, bad thunderstorms and in the south eastern part of the United States gets drenched. In fact three or four of the states in the southeastern part of the United States are, you know, lead the country in rainfall every year. Yeah, that's so. And this is prime season part. But you're right, we haven't had any. Not much, not much, not much. so I'm sure that's what's happening in southeast Georgia. They're just dry as a bone down there. And, and these and you know you get the winds in the spring too and it just causes them to you know, out west. Fred, did you see wildfires out west?
Fred Jackson Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely. When things get started out there, when you're talking areas like in Washington State, Oregon, those areas I know during the winter they get a lot of rain, but they do get into drought situations sometimes. Late spring, summertime, early fall. And you can imagine the density. You know President Trump has talked about this, he's been had a fight with California because they're not clearing the brush underneath. You get the kind of dead brush underneath which is just inviting a fire.
Fred Jackson One spark.
Tim Wildmon Why Would all the things. Why wouldn't you clean the dead brush?
Fred Jackson Oh, because of environmental regulations.
Tim Wildmon Now, Darter.
Fred Jackson Oh, yeah. We had one incident when I was working on the west coast, and it was so frustrating. They wouldn't clear out that underbrush, because of the spotted owl.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Fred Jackson And as some of the people who depend on the forest, we're talking people, you know, lumber companies and that sort of thing, they said to the government, the spotted owl can move if a fire starts. Yeah, the spotted owl is out of there.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah. He gets up and flies away.
Fred Jackson Right. But. But they. This is your environmental wackos out there. we have to, like you say, save a snail or save an owl or whatever the case may be, and then these huge fires come, and then
Tony Vitagliano everybody's life is destroyed, including lots of wildlife.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tony Vitagliano They claim they're trying to preserve.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred: We need to pray for those firefighters down there in Georgia
Well, you're right, Fred. We need to pray for those folks down there in the firefighters especially.
Fred Jackson Oh, yeah.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yep.
Tim Wildmon In, southeast Georgia. You're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Tony, Fred. And Krish. Krish, what's your first story?
President Trump orders military to shoot and kill small Iranian boats deploying mines
Chris Woodward Well, from one developing news story to another, let's go to the Middle east, where President Donald Trump said today that he has ordered the U.S. military to, quote, shoot and kill small Iranian boats that are deploying mines that choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump made the announcement on social media after, as he often does, and that came shortly after news that the US Military seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with Tehran over the strait, through which 20% of all crude oil and natural gas goes through. So now it appears that he's going after those small boats that we talked about at length yesterday.
Tim Wildmon Somebody called them mosquito boats.
Chris Woodward Yeah, that's where that's been a term used by a number of people.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So. So what's the strategy here, Tony?
Tony Vitagliano Well, I mean, we're, you know, still. The blockade is still in effect. and what it looks like has happened is that, you know, we've. We've claimed, territory with our fleet in the Gulf of Oman. So we're. We're blockading ships coming out and even trying to get these ghost ships that make it to, you know, Asia or, make it past the blockade. And it seems like Iran is just trying to, enforce their. Their side of the Hormuz, trying to make it difficult for anybody trying to get to this through the strait. So their navy is decimated, their large Ships are all, from what I can tell, have been sunk. So they're relying on these smaller craft to just harass and damage and even take over tankers going through the strait.
Tim Wildmon Again, the goal, of the United States naval blockade is to shut down the economy of Iran without having to blow up things.
Tim Wildmon That would be the hope. I think that's why President Trump and his team are holding back. Although he says daily, almost, we're getting ready. If they don't do this, they don't do that, I'm going to bomb, bomb, bomb. But then he's not done that. I mean, he's holding back, I think, to see if this blockade will, Krish, will force the economy, of Iran to be so stressed that the leadership, whoever they are of Iran, will come to the table and make some kind of a concession on whatever it is that President Trump's trying to get him to make a concession on.
Chris Woodward And someone that says as much is the President's spokeswoman, woman, Press Secretary Kath.
Tim Wildmon I talked this morning.
Chris Woodward Yeah, did you?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I help her out a little bit here and there.
President Trump orders US Military to shoot and kill Iranian small boats
Chris Woodward Well, Caroline Levitt talking to, ah, Fox about this situation, she said that Trump holds all the cards and has backed Iran into a corner, so to speak.
Jeff Chamblee Clip 1 We're waiting to hear back from the Iranian regime. The fact that they cannot send a, unified message yet, which is why the President decided to extend the cease fire, just shows how effective Operation Epic Fury truly was because there's a lot of internal division over there. The President understands that and so we await their response. Well, the President, the cards are in his hands. the United States maintains control, over the situation. He has all of the leverage now
Chris Woodward for anybody that might go, well, wait a minute, we have a ceasefire, but now we're going to shoot and kill people on speedboats? How is that not a violation of the ceasefire? Levitt got into that as well and she said that the boats that the Iranian speedboats, that they took over, those things were not covered in the ceasefire treaty. They're viewing those as acts of piracy.
Jeff Chamblee Clip 2 these were not US ships, these were not Israeli ships. these were two international vessels. And for the American media, who is sort of blowing this out of proportion to, discredit the President's facts that he has completely obliterated Iran's conventional navy. these two ships were taken by speedy gunboats. Iran has gone from having the most lethal, navy in the Middle east to now acting like a bunch of pirates. They don't have control over the strait. This is piracy.
Fred Jackson When I heard this announcement from the President this morning though, this is a change in strategy from when Caroline Levitt made that announcement yesterday. She made it sound like we're not going to be involved with these small boats that are attacking tankers coming out of the southern part of the Persian Gulf. because these small boats went after three vessels yesterday. Seas too. But now the President is saying this morning he has ordered the US Military to shoot and kill Iranian small boats. My question right away is, okay, are we moving some of our navy now into the Strait of Hormuz? Because this blockade is way out in the Gulf of Oman. So are we moving in or are we going to take fighter jets over the Strait of Hormuz and aim missiles at these small boats? So we are ramping up in the last 24 hours beyond what she talked about yesterday.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, I mean we, we've, we have been operating some of the fighter jets that we said were kind of pointless. Like the A10 Warthogs, I know we've been utilizing those to go after earlier in the war to go after these boats. So it sounds like that, if I had to guess, I, I would say we're not moving our navy there. But more so, like you said, probably using aircraft sorties from our, our aircraft carriers to just go target them when we find them. Just trying to remove whatever leverage and options that Iran has. We're just trying to limit those.
Tim Wildmon So let me understand this, right, this is, there's a lot of moving parts here, as they say, which creates confusion for a lot of people. So we have a blockade.
Tim Wildmon We, the United States have a naval blockade. So we're not letting any ships into or departing from Iranian ports.
Fred Jackson Correct.
Tim Wildmon Merchant ships primarily carrying or whatever. We've. So that stops trade for Iran from those ports, right? Correct. Which is a big part of their economy.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Okay, that's holding. We've been doing that I don't know how long, what, 10 days, two weeks, something like that?
Fred Jackson Roughly.
Tim Wildmon That's holding. Now that takes a lot of assets on our part, naval assets, ships, boats, you know, men, airplanes, whatever, drone. I don't know what all they're using to enforce this, but it's, it's, it's held and it's working so far
Fred Jackson now.
Tim Wildmon But if, and that's out from this strait. But Iran, are they allowing any ships to go, through the Strait of Hormuz? In other words, not non enemies to them like China for Example or, others. Are they allowing any ship to go through? Are they. Go ahead.
Tony Vitagliano I think what they're doing is Iran is targeting ships that are carrying. Because other ships transit oil through the strait, apart from those carrying Iranian oil.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano So they're probably trying to pick off whoever they can, coming through the strait carrying non Iranian oil because the assumption is the US Would allow those ships to pass through the blockade because they're not. They have to depart from an Iranian port. So, you know, Levitt mentioned that this doesn't violate the ceasefire because they're not US or Israeli marked ships. But if it's a, ah, ship headed to Europe, from a Gulf state, then those are the ships that Iran would consider fair game.
Tim Wildmon That's what, Let me ask you this question. What is the. We mentioned these mosquito boats. Is that what. That's what they're called? That's not their official name.
Chris Woodward Correct. That's just a term people and news outlets have been using.
Tim Wildmon Official name is nat. Boats, not mosquitoes.
Tony Vitagliano Those are even more annoying.
Tim Wildmon Yes, they are. That they can't give you encephalitis. but they, the. They. Iran is sending these boats out almost like the pirates in Somalia. Somali. Yeah, Somalia. Off the coast there, the Ivory coast, to just. so they're. And then these, these guys, these Iranian guys who are masked. They ma. They least. Yesterday they went aboard these boats and I guess take them captive. I don't, I don't know. But here's my question. What's the point of that, Tony? What's the point of Iran doing that? Why, why. Why are, why are they doing that? What are they hoping to accomplish here?
Tony Vitagliano I think they're just trying to do whatever they can at this point.
President Trump says he's going to blow boats out of the water
they're just trying to make things difficult to cut off and put pressure on the other Gulf states because like I said, they're. They could be carrying oil from like,
Tim Wildmon if we're not going to do business, nobody else is either.
Tony Vitagliano Exactly. They want to make it dangerous for shipping companies to send ships through the strait.
Tim Wildmon But now, according to Fred, President Trump has said no, we're going to start blowing those boats out of the water.
Fred Jackson Yep.
Tim Wildmon Am I right?
Fred Jackson Shoot.
Tim Wildmon They're probably, they're probably going to have a hard time finding volunteers this morning to, Hey, who wants to go out and Right in the mosquito boat today, as
Tony Vitagliano out there just fishing?
Tim Wildmon yeah, I'd like to go, sir, but I got down in my back and to prove.
Chris Woodward To prove your point.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, go ahead.
Chris Woodward You're Hearing fewer. You're hearing about fewer, drug boats,
Tim Wildmon Oh, in the Caribbean.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Or whatever.
Chris Woodward Prove your point. Yes.
Tim Wildmon So we'll see what happens there. but President Trump's strategy is, to choke off the economy of Iran, without having to, as he called it in their civilization. His words, not mine. Right, that's true.
The US did capture another tanker this morning in the Indian Ocean
Want to make sure, by the way,
Fred Jackson the, US did capture another tanker this morning in the Indian.
Tim Wildmon What do we do with these tankers
Fred Jackson in the Indian Ocean? Well, that's a really good question. where. Where are you taking them?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, boat. We have a boat timeout place, I guess, somewhere.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah. I don't know if they're. I don't know if they're just taking, the people on the ship or just.
Tim Wildmon What do you do with it? Now? Why did we take this boat?
Fred Jackson Well, it. It, I'm assuming because it, took Iranian oil. This is probably a ship that left Iran prior to the blockade. And the administration, the Trump administration has said we're going after those ships as well, basically to cut off, and I'm assuming that the Iranians, do not get paid for the oil until the oil is delivered to whatever port it's going to do.
Tim Wildmon We know one other question about this, and do we know what the stated objective is of the Trump administration that would end this? In other words, what can. What is Iran going to have to do for us to stop this blockade? Does anybody know the answer to that?
Fred Jackson Well, that is going to be the subject of negotiations. I mean, we've had several.
Tim Wildmon We don't have anybody to negotiate with, though.
Fred Jackson Yeah, well, that's another problem, as I think Caroline Levitt outlined, is who's in charge. and it's, you know, we don't know. But, you know, I go way back when Trump said, to those who want a regime change within Iran, those protesters, help is on the way. Well, I'm not hearing that phrase these days. Help is on the way. these protesters seem to be on their own. What I'm not hearing as much about is we want to ensure that the Iranians do not have enriched uranium. So people have said in order to do that, to ensure they don't have the enriched uranium, which now apparently is buried deep somewhere, you'd have to have boots on the ground to find
Tim Wildmon that that ain't happening. I don't think I.
Tony Vitagliano Very dangerous.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano To try and send ground troops in to go looking for. I mean, I ran. I'm sure y' all have talked about this Iran, geologically. Is that the right word? Yeah, yeah. it, it is not.
Tim Wildmon The land mass, the land mass itself,
Tony Vitagliano the land formation, the, the layout is not conducive for Right. Ground invasion. It's just not. And, you know, you're going on a. I mean, a needle in a right in five haystacks trying to find, you know, the hole in the ground. They have that enriched uranium.
Fred Jackson Well, to go back then, to your original question, all we're left with is the statement that from the administration, which would define success as being. We think we've put the Iranian military capability back 10 or 20 years.
Tim Wildmon We already done that. We've already done that.
Chris Woodward We thought we did it last July when we bombed the, the supposed uranium site with the bomber.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. But we did that now. Now we've destroyed their military.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon So again, my question is. And I know.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Is what. What's the objective now? What's the state? In other words, what does President Trump said or his administration? Okay. Once these one, two or three things are done, we're bringing our sailors home.
Tony Vitagliano The, the reality to me is if we left today, if we just packed up our bags and left.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano Iran is crippled. I mean, they are crippled economically, they are crippled militarily. you know, they're not going to have the cash on hand to be supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, these other terrorist groups as they have in the past. I don't even think they would. I know they've threatened, you know, we're going to charge $2 million a boat to come through. you're not, they're not going to be able to do that because no one's people are just going to say, well, we're not coming through, then. We're not paying that. So there is a reality in which Iran, if we just left, they would be crippled. The optics of it, though, are hard to sell for Trump, in my opinion. Pointing to something as victory is harder to. Is harder to do for Trump. I mean, you, you have to have something tangible if you want to claim victory. And right now it would just be,
Tim Wildmon So, so are we saying here we're unclear.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, I think that's the. That's, that's what I think.
Fred Jackson Yep. We're going to have to take a verbal. We have to accept.
Tony Vitagliano Yep.
Fred Jackson A verbal guarantee from the Iranians we will not and perhaps demand that inspectors go in, which has been going on for some time.
Tim Wildmon But if they say we ain't doing
Fred Jackson that, then this is gonna be a Longmoor.
Tony Vitagliano Yes, exactly.
Chris Woodward If they say that Check out Trump's Truth Social post.
Tim Wildmon So our sailors may be there through the summer, you're saying at least we'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
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Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network features Ray Pritchard
Hey, welcome back everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim with Tony, Fred and Krish. We thank you for, for listening. Ed's out today and Ray Pritchard. Where's Ray? What's Ray doing? What's his. You got a doctor's excuse, Brad?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Huh?
Fred Jackson he's probably preaching somewhere.
Tim Wildmon He probably is.
Fred Jackson He's preaching somewhere.
Tim Wildmon He's preaching what he says.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill True.
Tim Wildmon anyway, brother Ray does travel the world honestly preaching the Bible. If you want to read his stuff, go to keep believing dot com. It's a great ministry that Dr. Ray Pritchard has. Keep believing dot com well, we will get back to some of our news stories we've yet to cover.
Tim Ferriss speaks with James Lambert from California about Testimonies
but before we do, we have a friend, one of our friends on the line from California, James Lambert. James been with us before. I've known James a long time and he travels the country, goes to college campuses and just cold calls for Jesus basically, is what I call it. He goes to witness and share and talk to students. Been doing that for years. And he also writes books about, a lot of books about famous people's Testimonies. He joins us now. Good morning, James.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Good morning, Tim. How are you?
Tim Wildmon I'm doing great. are you in, you're in your home state there?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yes, sir. I'm in North San Diego County.
Tim Wildmon You've lived there a long time, haven't you?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, for quite some time. I was actually born in
Tim Wildmon California.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill yeah. And
Tim Wildmon that's where the surfers are, right? I've been there.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah. That's what I grew up with and I enjoyed surfing.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So, so James, you've got a book out, a new book, More Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention, right?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Certainly do. It's it, it features a number of well known people. Ah, you know, I just, just had, you know, it's just so, it's, it's a great way of sharing your faith with people. That's what I found because I've gotten responses from people from around the country that, people who gave my book to, friends or relatives and they ended up finding Christ. Ah, it's a great way of sharing your faith. Testimonies can do that and that's what this does.
Tim Wildmon but your first book was Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Right, Right.
Tim Wildmon That's when you featured. Go ahead.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah. And what, what's interesting, with that book, I got a chance this.
Tim Wildmon Hey, James, we're gonna have to call you back. You're breaking up. You know, not mentally or anything like that. James, you're, you're just breaking up on the phone. So I, didn't want to offend him. Yeah, yeah, you know. Hey, you're breaking up, man. No, I'm not. I'm, I'm, I'm of sound mind. so we're calling him back. Try to get him back on the phone. James, James. He's got some great stories about very famous people that.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, I was just looking at the, the list and I'm not going to try to steal his thunder if he wants to talk about him. But I'm, I'm looking at some of the stories. Dwight Eisenhower, Rock Hudson, Mickey Rooney.
Tim Wildmon these are baby Boomer names, but still.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon is he back?
Tony Vitagliano So, I mean, some of these look, you know, well known people.
Tim Wildmon He got a great story about, what was it? What was a. Ah, Steve McQueen.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Who came to know the Lord.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tony Vitagliano Oh, really?
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Steve McQueen is a very famous actor. James, you back?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, I certainly am.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Stand where you are. Okay. Don't turn your head and don't move around because we got you right now.
James Lambert's first book about divine intervention received three death threats
Okay. James wrote, you've written m. More amazing stories of divine intervention. We were just talking about your first book, which was amazing. You featured the testimonies of. Name two or three of the people you featured in your first book.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Steve McQueen was one of them. And, also, there was a great story in there about Ronald Reagan.
Tim Wildmon Tell us that. Tell us. Tell. Tell us that one. Tell us that story.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Well, I got a chance to wit, to, interview, his son, who sadly passed away recently. And a lot of people aren't aware of this, but, Ronald Reagan would have regular Bible studies, in the White House, in a subsidiary little side cottage in the White House. And, they, you know, he totally was a believer in Christ. And also there's a great story, in that book about, George Washington. I got access to a private library that was owned by the. The previous owner of the San Diego Union Tribune that had over 200 letters of George Washington. And from that I found out about his strong faith. In fact, he was the first of the founding fathers that, got rid of his slaves. And, he also, during his second, term in office, tried to get rid of slavery. A lot of people aren't aware of that. And it was turned down because, you know, as long as, you know a lot of people, a lot of the states back then depended on, for agriculture, the slave population. So. But the bottom line is, these stories are a great way of sharing your faith, and that's. That's important. I also broke the story on Steve. On Mickey Mantle coming to Christ two weeks before he died. He had serious alcohol problems.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I remember that. I, remember that. And, Richardson, Bobby Richardson helped too. One of his teammates.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill I got a chance to interview him too, but it was announced, on World that Daily. And it hit a lot of people because of that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, we're talking to James. We're talking to James Lambert, joining us from California. James is a longtime friend of mine, and he has written, two books now, about the. The fir. James. these books especially for baby boomers, but for anybody. These books are filled with stories about how the Lord God saved people from their sin and gave them eternal life. And these are people that. Fascinating stories happen to them, to these people. And a lot of these people are celebrities. They're well known. But it goes to show you how, you know, people say, well, God cares about the down and out. Well, that's true. But God also cares about the up and out, you know, the people.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Oh yeah, definitely.
Tim Wildmon So.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill And in my first book, which was, an anti porn book, this wasn't the testimonial, last two. your father was gracious to recognize and he gave me a nice, comment on the book, in the back of the book. And what's interesting, and I don't think you know this, but with that book I got three death threats.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill And and what's incredible is, the problem.
Tim Wildmon Why did you get death threats? Which book are you talking about?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill The first book, Porn in America.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Why did you get death threats over that?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill because eventually what happened is the LA Times, actually because of that book, I was on the O'Reilly Factor twice and on all three major networks. And the LA Times actually shut down their advertising of the porn industry, for a couple months. But because they got so much pressure, they start, you know, started allowing it today. But but what's sad, is what's happening these days with what's on the Internet. You know, there's, yeah, there's, there's hundreds of thousands of worldwide of porn sites on the Internet. And that, that sends me, that hurts a lot of a lot of our generations, you know, because of that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
James Lambert has an 800 number where people can order his books
Talking to James Lambert. James is again. James, you got a couple minutes left here. Talk about how people can read, about get copies of your books.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, you can get a copy of the book on. In the middle of your web Page is my 800 number, which is 800-656-8603. And you can call me and leave a message and I'll get right back to you. And you can get a copy of my newest book for only $19. And it helps support my ministry. so
Tim Wildmon your customer service that's on
Tony Vitagliano our Facebook page, by the way, that, that's where he's talking about the number being.
Tim Wildmon Okay, so go to our Facebook page.
Tim Wildmon Today's issues. And we have the contact information posted there. but you mean they call you and they order the book?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, they call my 800 number and just leave a message and I'll call them right back.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Make sure they give me their phone number right away. Don't wait till the end because the, the 800 number might not catch it. But give my phone number, 800-656-8603. And call that number and give your personal number and I'll call you back and I'll send you a signed copy for only $19.
Tim Wildmon A signed copy of what?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill That includes of my new book. That includes postage too. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Does it include, gas?
Tony Vitagliano So, so in California.
Tim Wildmon Listen, just to be clear, people know California earthquake insurance covered there. So this the name of the book we're talking about. You can order from James Lambert. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard him, he'll talk to you himself. and is more amazing stories of divine intervention. And what are the names on there?
Tony Vitagliano So some of the names, in the description of the book that includes stories about Dwight Eisenhower, Rock Hudson, Mickey Rooney, Gary Puckett, Pat Boone. I have heard of that one. So it's not just, it's, it's cross generational.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So that Boone, he's still alive by the way. Pat Boone is, he's 90 something.
Chris Woodward I've talked to him before.
Tim Wildmon Have you?
Chris Woodward I've interviewed him before, yeah.
James Lambert: It's important to share the gospel with your friends
Tim Wildmon All right, well. All right. Well listen, James, thanks for being on with us. God bless you and your work. Appreciate it very much. And come see us if you're ever traveling down south again. Okay.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, I had the pleasure of witnessing to a number of, Mississippi colleges. And fortunately there were a number of Christians that I talked to. But the one thing they weren't doing is witnessing to their friends. So I was encouraging them to witness to their friends and I gave them some of those comic book tracks to do that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill So, okay. It's really important for people to share the gospel with their friends because a lot of the college, I mean the churches I speak in, if you look at the population, most, they're most, most of them are 50 plus. Yeah, you don't see a lot of young kids in colleges today. So my book is a great way of sharing that very thing. But okay, call my 800 number.
Tim Wildmon go ahead and get the 800 number again.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill 1-800-656-M8603. Okay, again, 800-656-8603. And I will personally get in touch with you. Give me your phone number right away.
Tim Wildmon All right.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill And I'll send you a book.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Thanks James. Take care, my friend. God bless you and enjoy. you still get out there and surf a little bit, do you?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yeah, not much because I'm older. It's harder to get up.
Tim Wildmon You ever seen a shark out there?
Dr. Josh Mulvihill it's been a long time since I've seen a shark, but yeah. All right, thanks, you know, thank you.
Tim Wildmon Thank you, James. I sorry folks. I apologize for talking over James. So it's difficult sometimes to do A live radio program. Somebody's, you know, on the phone.
Tony Vitagliano There's a delay.
Tim Wildmon It's a delay. And then I feel like, well, I've got to talk, because there's silence. And then he starts talking. I start talking. But, James is a great guy. I've known him for a long time. Loves the Lord. And he trapped he. On his own expense. He travels. He's done this in many states. He'll go to a state and he'll. He'll just go to a campus and he'll have, you know, a sign or something or, you know, or handing out gospel tracts, and he'll engage with the students. He's not bashful. No. About sharing his faith. And he's passionate about seeing people get saved. Come to know the Lord. but these books are really, really good stories about how God intervened in people's lives. You're listening to today's issues. But I didn't know he was going to say call me on my. But you got him on Amazon too, didn't you?
Tony Vitagliano Yeah, his. His book looks like it's available probably, you know.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, M. a lot of different books. The books are called Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention and then more Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention. and written by the gentleman you'd heard me talking to. James Lambert. L A M B E R. Yeah, if you call.
Tony Vitagliano If you call them. I think the. The benefit of that is he'll send you a signed copy, whereas if you buy it all, like Amazon or something.
Tim Wildmon Gotcha.
The Extraordinary Women Conference series is going all across America this weekend
All right. You're listening to Today's Issues. wanna, see Pam and Miley from Jonesboro, Arkansas? Stop by our studio, say hello. They're getting the grand tour out there.
Tony Vitagliano Yep.
Tim Wildmon down in our studios here, they're here for the Extraordinary Women Conference.
Chris Woodward Yes, we will be covering that, by the way, for afn.
Tim Wildmon The Extraordinary Women Conference series is going all across America. And, tomorrow night it comes to, tomorrow night. Saturday. It's in our hometown of Tupelo.
Chris Woodward Correct.
Tim Wildmon So my granddaughter to. My granddaughters are like 10 and 8 and they are going, to get to meet Anne Wilson.
Chris Woodward Nice.
Tim Wildmon The Christian singer.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon You familiar with her music?
Chris Woodward I am, yeah. She's the, Let me tell you about my Jesus. Yeah, she has other hits as well.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Chris Woodward Very good.
Tim Wildmon She's very well known. She's a very popular Christian. she's a Christian singer. But her. A lot of her music is worship songs too. Anyway, so they're huge fans of hers. And you know, when you're A child, and you get to meet a big famous singer. So they're, like, counting down the hours. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon right.
Tony Vitagliano That's good.
Tim Wildmon So I, I tried to temper them a little bit. I said, listen, we're gonna get to see Anne Wilson if all things go okay. I said, you know, her flight may be delayed. we may, you know, run into a roadblock, have a flat tire. There's a number of things that will prevent you from meeting, Anne Wilson. And, anyway, you just.
Tony Vitagliano You've got the bucket of cold water.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano Right there.
Tim Wildmon Well, I knew when they jumping on them, they started crying.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And. And they. And they, they.
Tony Vitagliano And you got to switch gears and be like, no, no, no.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Tony Vitagliano But you also may get to meet her. I don't know.
Tim Wildmon Oh, that's right. No, I didn't do all that. People don't. Don't email me. I didn't, I didn't. I didn't try to temper their excitement at all. When I told them they were going to get to meet Anne Wilson, they're like, squeal.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Fred Jackson You know.
Tim Wildmon You know how that is.
Chris Woodward Oh, yeah.
Tim Wildmon So they can't wait. So, and Wilson better show up.
Chris Woodward Yes. Yes, I will put that.
Tim Wildmon Or I will personally drive her hometown and find her.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So she can, sign an autograph for my little granddaughters.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Chris Woodward What's funny is it's the Extraordinary Women's Conference, and I'm going with another man to cover it for afn.net Kirk Cameron is the head. The big speaker night. Yes. tomorrow night. And then he'll be followed by Anne Wilson on Saturday. It's a who's who of ladies. and the final speaker on Saturday afternoon is going to be Wriley Gaines. So stick with AFN over the weekend because we're going to have print coverage and then we'll have a lot of audio stuff come Monday morning.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, but that Extraordinary Women Conference series is. We've, always been supportive of that. And they. Again, they're going around the country, so look for them coming to a town near you, near. In the near future. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Tony, Fred, and Krish, what's your next story?
Virginia Circuit Court blocks new redistricting vote, saying it's unconstitutional
Chris Woodward We have not heard the last of the Virginia redistricting, earlier this week, for people not aware Democrats got their way, in an effort to redistrict Virginia and make it from a purple state into a firm blue state. But, last night, Virginia Circuit
Tim Wildmon Court way, you said, but right there thank you. Go ahead, say it again.
Chris Woodward Meanwhile, Virginia Circuit judge, Jack Hurley blocked the new redistricting vote, saying it's unconstitutional. This is a legal win for Republicans. But new, Democrat attorney, General Jay Jones has already said they're going to appeal. So this story is still developing. But right now what was voter approved on Tuesday has now been blocked by at least one judge.
Tim Wildmon Listen, most of the time I'm for the people's vote holding up over a court, decision because I don't think one judge should block a decision, by the citizens of a state. However, in this case, I'm with the judge because what the Democrats tried to do here, for those who don't know, in Virginia, of course redistricting goes on all the time all over America. But in Virginia, the Democrats there, they tried to, in the legislature, they put a vote up for the people of, of the state and the people of the state voted for this. But they want to take what amounts to basically a 50, 50 state and make it a 10 to 1 state. They have 11 U.S. house seats. Right. And they want to redistrict it to make it 10 in favor of 10 Democrats seats and one Republican when it's a 50, 50 state. So it's, it's raw. Yeah, just politics, that the Democrats are trying to.
Tony Vitagliano Well, in the language, part of the argument that's being made is the language that was a part of the bill was very misleading.
Tim Wildmon So you mean the referendum or the
Tony Vitagliano bill, I'm sorry, the referendum that they voted on, using, using the phrase restore fairness. Yeah, I mean, yeah, if you're, if you're voting on a voting referendum.
Chris Woodward Right.
Tim Wildmon Who's again restoring fairness?
Tony Vitagliano Who's gonna mark. No. Over storing fairness? Yeah, well, yes, absolutely.
Chris Woodward To show you the hypocrisy of Democrats, as if anybody knew to this example. But to show you the hypocrisy of Democrats. In his post on X congratulating Virginia for doing what he wanted them to do, former President Barack Obama said congrats. Virginia Republicans are trying to tilt the elections in their favor. But you voted tonight the right way. Democrats are trying to tilt the election in their favor.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, yeah, that's right. So, but the judge, it was that a federal judge, Fred. Circuit judge, circuit state judge. stop. You can't do this.
Fred Jackson It's going to be appealed by the Democratic AG said last night it's going to be appealed and so it'll go to the state supreme Court which may have the same problems with that.
Tim Wildmon These Redistricting lines are just hilarious.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon in some of these states. Go to. Go to Illinois.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Type in Illinois congressional districts, Tony, and pull that up. Just a minute. I know people can't see what you're doing, but you want to. You want to see, some. Some squiggly lines.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Huh?
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Look at that. They just. Well, some of it's like, right here. Yeah. Some of it's like, the big blue.
Tony Vitagliano This big area right here. But then in the middle of that is.
Tim Wildmon Other states have similar. But, man, they just go. Look at that little snake trail.
Tony Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon See what you're saying to the state of Illinois.
Fred Jackson Tim, to your point that Virginia is a split state.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred Jackson The results of the vote, which the Democrats spent millions of dollars on to get the vote owed, was still 51 49.
Tim Wildmon Oh, it was that close.
Fred Jackson Oh, it was really close.
Tim Wildmon That proves the point there.
Tony Vitagliano Simple majority.
Tim Wildmon They're basically a 50, 50 state. They just got through having a Republican governor and lieutenant governor and ag. So, yes, I would say Democrat, Democrats, have a slight margin in Virginia. but it's like you said, 59, 49. It's not very much m. The current.
Tony Vitagliano The current layout is six to five, I believe, Congressional seats. So, I mean, yeah, it's a pure. It's a pure power grab.
Tim Wildmon Yep.
Tony Vitagliano and it's everything that they complained and we're in an uproar about the Texas was trying to do.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Right.
Tony Vitagliano Remember all that. So.
Late yesterday, we learned that Navy Secretary John Phelan is out
Tim Wildmon All right, today's issue is the name of the show. We're just about out of time. Fred, did you have something you wanted to bring up or.
Fred Jackson no, other than. Well, we'll go back. And there's always controversy, it seems, in the Trump administration. Late yesterday, we learned that Navy Secretary John Phelan is, Well, some reports said he quit. Others said he was eased out. I, think it is safe to say that the War Secretary Hegseth and the president, they were not pleased with him. So he is out. And,
Tim Wildmon So we'll have an acting Secretary of the Navy. Don't they, now?
Fred Jackson Yes, they will. Yes.
Chris Woodward Until a new one is confirmed.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Chris Woodward Yeah, I know who the acting one is.
Tim Wildmon Who's the acting one, Krish?
Chris Woodward according to Google, as of April 22, Hung Cow is serving as the acting Secretary of the Navy. I'm sorry.
Tim Wildmon I hope I got you laughing, because
Chris Woodward I hope I got it right. I just butchered it.
Tony Vitagliano I didn't see anything funny about.
Tim Wildmon No, I didn't. Hong Kong Yeah.
Fred Jackson He's a Vietnamese, descent.
Tim Wildmon Yes. Thus. That's the Asian name.
Fred Jackson Yes, yes.
Tim Wildmon Which is not. I'll tell you what's funny. And, and where is he from? Vietnam.
Fred Jackson he's a Vietnamese descent.
Tim Wildmon He's the Vietnamese descent.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon You. If you are having a radio show in Vietnam and they said Krish Woodward.
Tony Vitagliano That's true.
Tim Wildmon They would start out. They would start howling.
Chris Woodward To his credit, he is a retired Navy captain and 25 year veteran as this. As the son of a Navy man. Thank you for your service.
Tony Vitagliano Absolutely.
Dr. Josh Mulvihill Yes.
Tony Vitagliano And I'm just kidding, Krish.
Tim Wildmon You know Jimmy Buffett had a song. Son of a Son of a Navy Man.
Chris Woodward He did.
Tim Wildmon Did you know this?
Chris Woodward Yeah. The Carpenters did a cover of that.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Krish always. He always comes back to the Carpenters for Krish.
Chris Woodward When it doubts. When ask you a question about music, just guess the Carpenter.
Tim Wildmon Guess the Carpenters. All right, we'll be back momentarily with more of today's issues on American Family Radio. Steve Paisley Dordal is right around the corner.
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