Today's Issues features Steve Paisley Jordan, starting outfielder for Houston Astros
>> Ed Vitagliano: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, welcome back, everybody. Sorry for the delay there. Welcome back to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio. Tim, Ed and Wesley. Last name's not important, but Steve Paisley Jordan joins the. joins the team now.
>> Steve Jordahl: There we go. At least my last name is important.
>> Tim Wildmon: First introduced here. It's not. Paisley's not his real middle name, People. Those who are wondering.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm thinking of changing it, though.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Make it legal. You just need to make it legal.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve wears Paisley so often that I gave him the,
>> Steve Jordahl: Today, in fact, the name.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, you are.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're donning.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I said he's donning his gay apparel.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, he's not. He's as straight as an arrow. so, one thing before we jump into the. Steve's got some good stuff for us today.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: No.
>> Ed Vitagliano: As opposed to.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got no more Tim personal life experience stories right now. But there was, There was this Major League baseball game last night. I think it was last night, earlier this week, involving the Houston Astros and the Toronto Blue Jays.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: And there was a player by the name. Let me get the gentleman's name here. Taylor Trammell. He's a starting outfielder for the Houston Astros.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's quite an accomplishment, right? Make it to the major leagues.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, he was, He. They. He was at home in Houston, and he belted a ball way, way, way, way, way back. And he trotted around first base. He stood and admired the ball. You know how some players do. Oh, yeah, for a minute. And then he. He trotted around the bases first, trotted around second, trotted around third, touched home plate and was going to celebrate with his teammates. And then he was told that the ball was caught.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Are you serious?
>> Tim Wildmon: you talk about not one of your finer moments in your career. Watch this. He does this. He.
>> Ed Vitagliano: This is good radio, folks.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm sorry, people. I gotta have. Look. Okay, so the ball is caught.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It looks like. Yeah, it looks like it was going out.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, the ball's caught. He doesn't know it. So he keeps trotting around the home, trotting around the field.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, my. Oh, no.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he thinks he's hit a home run. He even praises the Lord.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: Huh?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Touches home plate.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then somebody tells you this guy
>> Ed Vitagliano: is the outfielder laughing.
>> Tim Wildmon: See? Yeah. So somebody tells him, the ball was caught.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, that's not gonna make the ESPN top 10.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, well, I don't know. Edmund, he'll always be remembered for that moment, I'll tell you that right now. All right, so the life lesson there, people, is if you're going to celebrate, make sure the ball goes over the fence in life.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Don't you think in life you could learn lesson in life at the end of anything and you make it into a life story.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I think that's important. What do you got, Steve?
Man detained Sunday by Los Angeles county sheriffs at President Trump's golf course
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, let's start here. there has been a man. And now, this is a little confusing. Forgive me. I think he is a, This is a man, a 38 year old. He was detained Sunday by Los Angeles county sheriffs. He's well armed and he was strolling around one of President Trump's golf courses in Los Angeles.
>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't even know Trump had a golf course in Los Angeles.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And he was scheduled to be visiting that golf course. Right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: In the coming days or something.
>> Steve Jordahl: He actually headlined a Republican National Committee fundraiser dinner at a, ah, golf course his family owns in Los Angeles. during the security assessment on July 31, the federal agents spotted this guy. Here's the confusing part. His name is Janine, Jon Teal.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Janine.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. J E A N I N E and is not transgender as far as I can tell.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That was my next question.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, no, he looks like he's I mean, he's got a picture of him with a little kid.
>> Wesley Wildmon: so he looks like a gym, but his name's Janine.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's just Janine.
There was a threat against President Trump on Sunday
I want to play you a little bit about how the President is taking this. Hughes shook up, as you know, the president is, want to be, he thought this was. Well, let's listen to cut six.
>> Speaker E: There was a threat. There was a man who was arrested, seemed to be heavily armed near the property here on Sunday.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Is it.
>> Speaker E: It's an ongoing concern, sir. Talk about that for briefly.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, the only thing I get a little solace from is they say only
>> Speaker F: consequential presidents and I am definitely consequential.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So he. Well, that's a good spin on, on things.
>> Steve Jordahl: They're not going to try to go after somebody that's inconsequential.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's inconsequential. Unless I don't know what president would be considered inconsequential if you're president of
>> Tim Wildmon: the, Harrison was.
>> Ed Vitagliano: What's what now.
>> Tim Wildmon: What is his name? Harrison.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Benjamin Harrison.
>> Tim Wildmon: Benjamin Harrison, Yeah, I think he was. I was pretty quiet four years for him.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was talking about probably post World War II, that if you're President of the United States of America, it's a pretty substantial country, important country. It's not an insubstantial. But to the President's, to Steve's point, he's not. President Trump's not phased by much.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Let MAGA speak up here. Okay, you go for it. I think what he was trying to say is that if you're not, if you're not doing something worthwhile or meaningful or helpful, then you're not going to be attacked.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And he's been, he's been, several attempts of assassination on his life.
>> Ed Vitagliano: President Trump has dominated the political scene since 2015. It's 11 years. Even the four years he was out because of the 2020 election. Whatever you think about that, he was still, still dominate. He's dominating talk shows and comedians.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just ask him.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, so that's quite a run if you're dominating the political discussions in the United States of America for 11 years. And it's going to continue on until he's out of office, until he's out of the White House. And then who knows? Past that. President Trump has been a dominant political figure in this country for, more than a decade. That's amazing.
>> Steve Jordahl: And there are a lot of people who would say, he's accomplished more in his, well, specifically the last two years after he got, the one year off, the whole four years off, he got his, understanding of the deep state and how to navigate gate, and he, he's been doing a lot of stuff.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. His policies and, the team around him that his administration, they're going to go down, without arguing, a top five most conservative run in his two terms.
>> Steve Jordahl: Ineffective.
>> Wesley Wildmon: from a conservative policy standpoint. Yeah, I would say, I would say two, but unarguably top five most effective conservative president.
>> Steve Jordahl: Let me get you guys, thoughts about this. So if you are going to go and you want to know what he's thinking or you want to know, actions that he's taken, he'll tell you, and he'll tell you on his social media platform called Truth Social. Well, Truth Social is owned by the Trump Media and Technology Group, and they have decided to sell priority access to the president's posts. you can give the firm some money, quite, a bit of money actually, and a monthly subscription fee. And you get posts from Truth Social users in real time from all, not just the president, but other notable users. And, he updates major military actions, ongoing conflicts, tariffs and the like. the Subscribers might only gain milliseconds to the general public, but there are politicians, specifically Democrat ones, who say that that is enough to maybe manipulate the market. If you want to do this, it could cost you the stock market. It could cost you upwards of $100,000 a month to get this early access to the,
>> Ed Vitagliano: Did you say milliseconds early? How much earlier is going to be?
>> Steve Jordahl: Subscribers to the API, which is. The API is the mechanism that this is using, might only gain milliseconds on the general public, but that could still be enough to make consequential financial decisions, according to Senator Alex Padilla. Padilla from California, who was introduced a bill on Tuesday to stop it. The bill is called the, Stop Corrupt Trading Act.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't think that any president on either side, Independent, Democrat, Republic and anything, any. Anyone else. It's a president, should be able to make money off of his announcements before he announces it to the country.
>> Tim Wildmon: bingo. I mean, yeah, he's got to pull that. That's, You can't do that. I don't know what the legal ramifications are, but it's unethical with.
>> Wesley Wildmon: With what little. I mean, whatever. We want to come in here. I. I don't think it's even going to be a thing. I don't think you'll be able to do that. I don't. I think he'll be advised differently.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's gonna pay a hundred grand a month?
>> Wesley Wildmon: media services will.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, let me tell you this.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, part of a media service. We're not going to do that, by the way. Yeah, you can be.
Truth Social is selling priority access to President Trump's social media posts
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, just to set. Here's what we're talking about. Just to be clear, President Trump, you know, types in his own true social post, much like Twitter or what's called X today, and he does that once a day, usually at, 2:00am and, but what, what his. The company who owns Truth Social, because it's a private company, they're wanting to sell their service and saying if our premium service is. You get the President United States post before everybody else does, who knows how long. It's got to be more than milliseconds, I would think. It's got to be more than milliseconds if you're going to sell it.
>> Steve Jordahl: I would.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you got to be at least minutes, I would think, ahead of time. Okay, so, so he'll have to see. Are they already doing this?
>> Steve Jordahl: They, have begun selling priority access to the president's posts.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's like selling, Seed at the West Wing dinner for the highest bidder. Now, they do that some of the times, all presidents do. They fundraise and they sell seats. So anyway.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, that's not even the. That's not even the best analogy. I don't think.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you're right, but I had to think of it in real time.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, because it's. That what you're talking about, Tim, that that's. You can raise money for campaigns. Yeah, that's true in that that's campaign money. I'm not sure how ethical all that is. I think President Clinton was criticized for, remember, taking money for allowing people to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom or something like that.
Donald Trump is majority owner of Truth Media Social Social through a trust
This appears to be because I wanted to know what President Trump's relationship is. The Truth Social. This is an AI response, but it's got links to, articles. Yes. Donald Trump is majority owner of Truth Media Social Social, through the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. while the shares are technically held in a trust overseen by his son, Donald Trump Jr. Trump remains the sole beneficiary and effectively controls the platform. I don't think this is legal.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what I'm saying. I think his. His, whoever his attorney, is. I, have to tell him no on this. You got. You can't do this. Yeah, I don't know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Because you can't take. You can't. I don't think you can profit directly from your role as the president while you are in office.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, listen, you have the President, United States, making pronouncements, let's say, about the war in Iran to this people who pay to get it, and then 10 minutes later, the world sees it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, that's, yeah, that's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you can't do that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You can't do that.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, anyway, we'll follow this story. Next story.
Former Washington Governor Jay Inslee says wildfires are caused by climate change
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. the fires, continue in Washington. We talked a little bit about this yesterday. there are three, wildfires in, Washington State, Old Trails Fire, the Autumn Laine Fire, and the Fairview Fire. And, as of yesterday morning, I have these. The latest estimate is more than 250,000 acres have been burning. About 700 structures, mostly homes and apartments and businesses have been destroyed, and about 67,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. Now, they have arrested a guide on a suspicion of arson. That didn't stop former Washington Governor Jay Inslee of saying that there is a different, culprit at play here, and that would be cut 14.
>> Speaker F: Well, we want to thank these firefighters. They've been intrepid and courageous, but there is a reality that we have to face. Ah. And that is because our grasslands and forests have become so dry and so hot as a result of the climate changing that these fires are not. There's no human agency that can really contain them.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, climate change.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, now he's, it sounds like he's saying that climate change has made everything so dry and that human beings cannot contain fires once they start. But what you're saying is that it wasn't climate change that started the fire, it was an arson.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, this guy made a pronouncement that we just heard. What was his title?
>> Steve Jordahl: Governor.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. State of Washington.
>> Steve Jordahl: Former governor of state.
>> Tim Wildmon: Former governor of the state of Washington. He's saying wildfires that we're experiencing which are doing terrible damage, especially in Spokane. Terrible, terrible damage. Massive. That they're caused by global warming. Well, the day after he made this pronouncement, they found the arsonist who started it. That's the point. that's one of them arsonists. Now that's not to say that nature can't cause fires.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And dry stuff out.
>> Tim Wildmon: And dry stuff out.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That can happen.
>> Tim Wildmon: Absolutely. But he blamed it on climate change. The left blames everything on climate change
>> Ed Vitagliano: sometimes, you know, even when it's wetter than normal.
>> Wesley Wildmon: also too, back before 2, 3, 400 years ago, before we had these big cities and all the advancement in technology we have today, wildfires were a way of, setting not purposeful wildfires, although people do prescribe burning, that does happen. But natural wildfires, things that would happen in a thunderstorm, those were, meant m. They ended up resetting what was there in a way like it would be if it was prescribed fire. Now obviously damages, nowadays when we think of wildfires like damages, that takes place in California and in this case those are devastating to communities and all that. But, but fire in and of itself, in nature is not inherently a bad thing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. And I personally had an experience once with a fire. no, I'm not gonna go there.
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, we've got it recorded.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that the cat story?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, it's the rabbit.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The rabbit, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: We don't need to try again.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'll tell you that. 37, 37 year old Eryn Farinacci has been arrested and booked on suspicion of arson for starting the old fire trail. I'm sorry, the old trail fire. The one.
>> Tim Wildmon: So there are multiple fires in Spokane or in the Washington state area, and this is one of them.
>> Steve Jordahl: One of them. And so far, I don't know how the. I can't say that they were started by arson. But the interesting thing about is that, Farinacci, His arrest comes 15 years after he pleaded guilty to killing his father. Fifteen years beforehand, he's out of prison. Yes, because he was fighting with him over his request to do the dishes. His dad asked him to do the dishes.
>> Tim Wildmon: How long ago did he kill him?
>> Steve Jordahl: 15 years ago.
>> Tim Wildmon: He was convicted of murder. He pleaded guilty, and he's out after, 15 years.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we are talking the state of Washington.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So they don't believe.
>> Ed Vitagliano: All I can say, though, is with a name like Farinachi, this was likely to have been Italian lightning.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: that has struck many a business that would not pay up. or that. I don't know what.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley, are we supposed to talk about this? Because we're not.
>> Ed Vitagliano: you can't. You can't, because this. This is Italian proximity.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And so proximity to Italian. Proximity to Italian. I don't want to hear your non Italian views.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know that that's it. I don't know that anybody can answer this question. Not, that I'm looking for an answer. So I just say a rhetorical. What kind of sick, Sick, sick person starts a fire that he knows is going to potentially ruin thousands of people's lives?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Someone who's sick, like you're saying.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I can answer that.
>> Tim Wildmon: go ahead.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Only. What's his name? Jon.
Aaron Farinacci says socialism would help stop arsonists
>> Steve Jordahl: Eryn.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Eryn.
>> Tim Wildmon: Did he confess to this? No, they caught him, and he's. So it's alleged. Go ahead.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I can tell you how you stop this. You give Mr. Farinacci a job. It's the only reason. This is why people. Problem solved. This is why people do bad things. They just don't have a chance to get a piece of the pie. And if you give them a good paying job. and so
>> Wesley Wildmon: socialism would help here?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. Then they don't do these things.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're mocking. The,
>> Wesley Wildmon: Evil doesn't exist.
>> Tim Wildmon: The left.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I am.
>> Steve Jordahl: One of the answers, though, is that, arsonists do have a fascination with fire, and they kind of like to see it burn. There was a fire in Colorado, very destructive fire in Colorado that was started by a park ranger whose job it was to spot fires. So she was kind of making herself a hero. She started a fire, thought she would, be able to spot it and direct people, to put it out before it could do a whole lot of damage. But she was wrong.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It did a ton of damage.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: She was caught. And you know, the way they caught her is that a lot of squirrels homes now have like ring cameras.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So they were able.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're just rolling today, aren't you? I have no idea going on.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I have no idea what I'm talking about.
>> Tim Wildmon: I try to host a serious, talk show where we can discuss the issue.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Ah, you've told us. Distraction and seriousness is off the table. This program.
>> Tim Wildmon: You guys just constantly taking us off,
>> Wesley Wildmon: taking us all the track.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it's up to me.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: To bring it back in.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I would just like to say he does it way more than I do. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, true boy, Wesley.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Long for Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I just throw you out.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Me under the bus.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: First segment on same team. Second, third segment.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's all every man for himself.
All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim. I'm the one who tries to keep the show on track.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Amen.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ed and Wesley. And now Steve. Steve, what else you got?
Some boomers there were throwing a no Kings, uh, protest
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, Dateline, Brookline, Massachusetts. Some boomers there were deciding to throw a no Kings, protest.
>> Tim Wildmon: Some boomers? Yes, like me and Ed and you old folks. I shouldn't say me and Ed. Whatever the proper thing. Ed and I.
>> Steve Jordahl: And, so they were doing the no Kings protest and they decided that they were going to bring some instruments down. One guy has a little baritone and they had some kazoos. And I don't know why they thought music was a good idea, but they wanted to prove that they were kind of patriotic. So they decided they were going to play My country, Tis of thee. And it sounded a little bit like this cut 17.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, that also sounds like.
>> Steve Jordahl: What does it sound like?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Good. is it God Save the King?
>> Steve Jordahl: It is the British national anthem, God Save the King.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're kidding me.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm not at a no kings protest.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's hilarious. Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They're more fun than a barrel.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're protesting trumps what they're doing.
>> Steve Jordahl: Sure.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're saying he's acting like a king. And then they're playing a song at their rally that God save the King.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm good with it. Save the King.
>> Wesley Wildmon: All we needed there was at the end was a far purple haired lefty screaming, playing. you know, you've seen the video.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, yeah, I love it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Every once in a while, if I'm a little. Feeling a little down at lunch, I will play some of those pink haired, purple haired ladies screamers. Yeah. And it just cheers me right back up.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Or the transgender man that's like, I'm a woman.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, my gosh.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Call me ma'.
>> Speaker E: Am.
>> Tim Wildmon: What I'm liking is the, celebrities who declared they were leaving the US If Trump got elected.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. They're coming back.
>> Tim Wildmon: Some of them didn't, but the ones
>> Wesley Wildmon: who did a month.
>> Tim Wildmon: Rosie o' Donnell, gone a month.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: She didn't last a year, I don't think. Maybe. Maybe. And then Ellen DeGeneres.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: There was a funny story about Ellen DeGeneres. I'm leaving America. Trump's in charge, and he's a king. You know, it's going to be a hateful place to live. So she moved over to some British countryside villa.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And stayed about a year. And they said she was bored out of her mind and decided to come back to Trump's America.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And my understanding is British food is pretty bland.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Fact.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's another kind of guilty, pleasure on, YouTube. You could watch British kids trying American food.
>> Ed Vitagliano: See, I love those.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I love those.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, anyway, welcome back, Rosie and Ellen.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Good.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We're glad. Glad to have you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Entertainment.
>> Ed Vitagliano: God save the King.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Enjoy yourself. Some Cracker Barrel. And Olive Garden.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And buckies.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, and buckies.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And air conditioners.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. we will be back tomorrow. we hope to see you then. Take care.
>> Speaker E: Of.
