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Ed Vitagliano Host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on American Family Radio. Hey, before, I want to welcome Steve Paisley Jordan off to the show.

Steve Jordahl Good morning, everybody.

Tim Wildmon Of course, Ed and Wesley. We don't take them for granted. They're over here to my left. We don't take you guys for granted.

Ed Vitagliano I just want you and everybody's to your left.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, Steve's to my right, to his right on everything.

Tim Wildmon Get to the right of me, you fall off the earth.

Wesley Wildmon You can go full circle and be on the other side.

Tim Wildmon Though I'm moderate, look at it.

Steve Jordahl It's true.

Tim Wildmon I'm moderate compared to some people around here.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, you.

Tim Wildmon And I'm not going to call any.

Wesley Wildmon Names or look at anybody.

Ed Vitagliano Your sons and my son are to the right of us, older guys.

Tim Wildmon They're right up there with Attila the Hun.

Ed Vitagliano We have to restrain them.

Steve Jordahl I will, kind of take the average down the other way though. My son lives in NewSong York City, and he's not far right. He loves the Lord, but he happily voted for Zoran Mamdani. So I'm not sure my son.

Tim Wildmon Oh, you need to talk to that boy.

Wesley Wildmon I know, I know.

Tim Wildmon That'll upset. Thanks.

Wesley Wildmon Well, he'll probably listen to you in about a year, maybe.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, maybe.

Wesley Mangroup is doing spiritual heritage tours in June and September

Tim Wildmon M. All right, so before we get to the topics, I want to mention real quick, as you've heard here before, because our tours are filling up, they're probably halfway full, for the year. So if you've been waiting to go on one of our spiritual heritage tours, I'm going to tell you what they're going to be real quick and then you can, check them out on our website for 2026. We're doing three different tours, actually four. So, and they're all involving American history and our Christian heritage. And so in, June and September, we're going to be going to meet, we're going to be meeting in D.C. for those flying in, get on a bus and go on a tour down two and a half hour drive to Colonial Williamsburg and historic Jamestown and Yorktown, the historic triangle there that most people have heard about. There's so, so much history there to see. And Stephen McDowell of the Providence foundation is a historian. He's going with us, on these tours. So that's going to be one tour. Then, we're going to do also Washington D.C. and George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. that's a separate tour, so. But they're back to back following me here. Yeah, the tours. So if you want to get. Join us on Sunday in Williamsburg. Mean to go down to Williamsburg and do that, then get. Drive back with us on the bus to go to D.C. and Mount Vernon. That's. You're talking about a week's time there. So we'll take care of you that whole time, you know, unless you start whining about your.

Ed Vitagliano And then you got to watch your.

Tim Wildmon Big toe or something, in which case you're on your own. I'm just saying. But for the. We're gonna feed you.

Wesley Wildmon Yes.

Tim Wildmon And, we'll take care coordinate the place to stay together, the buses and everything. So if you want to do the Williamsburg alone. Williamsburg, Jamestown by itself, or you want to do them together with the D.C. mount Vernon, you could do that. That's in June, and that's in September.

Wesley Wildmon A lot of memories and a lot of fellowship. and a lot of fun, comrades.

Tim Wildmon We have a lot of fun, a lot of good food, a lot of fellowship. Now, those are the tours. Now, in October, Wesley, you and Walker are going to Boston, right?

Wesley Wildmon Yes. Walker and I are leading, and, Stephen And Steve and McDowell are leading a trip to Boston. We did it last year for our first time, and it went exceptionally well. So we've got one under our belt.

Tim Wildmon Except for the weather.

Wesley Wildmon Except for the weather, yeah.

Tim Wildmon That's why we're dialing it back to September.

Wesley Wildmon That's exactly right.

Tim Wildmon October weather's too volatile.

Wesley Wildmon September 21st through September 26th. Walker, 9, Steve McDowell will be going to Boston. All the information [email protected] wildman group.com.

Tim Wildmon Spell that out.

Wesley Wildmon W, I, L, D, M, M, o, n.group.com.

Steve Jordahl You sure that's how it's spelled?

Tim Wildmon I think so.

Steve Jordahl Okay.

Wesley Wildmon You scared me.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, yeah.

Wesley Wildmon Here's why I wanted to do a joke. I was gonna do am, but I was like, that's not fair to the audience because they may not know the difference.

Tim Wildmon People who listen to this show do not like jokes, Wesley. Okay? You learn your audience.

Wesley Wildmon I do.

Right now on the Boston trip, you're gonna have a special guest going along with you

Ed Vitagliano Right now on the Boston trip, you're gonna have a special guest going along with you. You didn't dare. You didn't tell him?

Tim Wildmon No, I didn't. I told Walker.

Wesley Wildmon I didn't know.

Ed Vitagliano I'm going with you guys.

Tim Wildmon Going because Ed grew up in Boston and he's going back home.

Wesley Wildmon Right?

Ed Vitagliano Home. Take me home.

Tim Wildmon They're gonna. They're gonna have a country road. They're Gonna have a parade for it.

Wesley Wildmon I know that one. Country road.

Steve Jordahl I don't want to. I don't want to make you nervous, but Ed's gonna be standing in the back with note cards. Yeah. Gonna correct everything. Sure. You get it right.

Ed Vitagliano It's been a long time since I've been back to Boston to do any sightseeing. I'm gonna be sightseeing.

Tim Wildmon I think the Red Sox are in town, too. I think you can go watch a game if you want to.

Ed Vitagliano Fenway.

Wesley Wildmon I do need, though. This morning, I got an alert from Walker, myself, and a couple people working on the. The logistics of the tour. And we've already filled. Filled up one bus. We're only taking two, so. I understand.

Tim Wildmon Taking two buses.

Wesley Wildmon I know it's full. One's full already. Pretty full.

Tim Wildmon For Boston.

Ed Vitagliano For Boston.

Tim Wildmon Boston, because you're going to Lexington and Concord, to Plymouth Rock.

Wesley Wildmon Yep, that's right. in addition to that, we'll end up going to, where you mentioned, the Freedom Trail.

Tim Wildmon Freedom Trail there in Boston. And September will be perfect. Okay, that's perfect.

Wesley Wildmon Weather Hill, USS Constitution, John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Birthplace, Old South Meeting House, Boston Massacre site. I mean, I'm just there.

Tim Wildmon And you're going to get all the lobster you want.

Ed Vitagliano All the. All the lobster.

Wesley Wildmon That's actually not bad.

Speaker F Yeah.

Tim Wildmon you're going to get all the lobster you want. Chowder.

Steve Jordahl Do I understand correctly that you get. Everybody gets their horse, and you're going to be recreating Paul Revere's ride?

Wesley Wildmon I think you got that one.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. Wrong.

Wesley Wildmon You could probably pay for that somewhere down there.

Tim Wildmon We do go to Paul Revere's home.

Wesley Wildmon We do.

Steve Jordahl Okay.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Just check. So for information on. On, Williamsburg, Washington or Boston, just go to Wildmon group dot com. Wildmon Group dot com. What? Not wild, man.

Wesley Wildmon Don't do that.

Tim Wildmon Don't do that. We don't know what website that is. Wildmon. M. Group.com.

The Oakland Raiders have a new coach, Clint Kubiak

steve, first story.

Steve Jordahl All right, I. Listen. I have taken so much grief for being an, Raiders fan. Las Vegas Raiders. I've been following them since they were in Oakland. I grudgingly followed them to Los angeles in the 80s and back. Well, let me tell you, they have a new coach. They hired the Seahawks offensive coordinator. His name is Clint Kubiak, and he had a press conference to introduce himself. And I want everybody to take back everything they've said about the Raiders being Satan's team because they were black and they're Raiders. I want you to hear Clint Kubiak cut 14.

Speaker F I just. My identity. I see my identity as a child of God. I know that I'm sitting here, right here, because of Jesus Christ. And, it wasn't always that way. I've had some great mentors that helped me, know the gospels better. And, my goal is to, you know, to live out the ten commandments and the Beatitudes and let those values show through in my coaching. And I fall short of that a lot. But I always go back to my, you know, back to the, you know, the building blocks, which is, to me, the Bible.

Steve Jordahl So just so you know, the Raiders are no longer an evil team, so.

Ed Vitagliano Now they're God's team.

Steve Jordahl Now they're God's team.

Tim Wildmon Hey, it's good to hear the man's, They talking about his foundations for a lot, his life and coaching, decision makings.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano there was a Kubiak. That was quarterback. That's his son.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, his son, Kurt Kubiak, I think is.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And that's better than hearing, hey, want to thank the big man upstairs.

Ed Vitagliano That's right.

Wesley Wildmon Or just the other way that, you know, woke ism or anything else. Rainbow flag. Got one of those.

Steve Jordahl I got one of those. Not the NFL, but,

Rumors that the shooter may have been transgender after British Columbia shooting

Okay, so you guys talked a little bit about this horrific shooting up in British Columbia and the rumor that the shooter may have been transgender. Okay. No one's confirmed anything. Part of the reason that no one's confirmed anything is because the Rocky, the Royal m. Canadian Mountain Police Staff Sergeant Chris Clark, who's in charge of the investigation, is holding the name of the shooter back, citing privacy concerns.

Wesley Wildmon For how long?

Steve Jordahl I don't know. But he did have this to say about the person who did the shooting. Cut 15.

Tim Wildmon That includes the deceased gun person. Okay. And then separately, do you know the gun person's relationship to the gun person?

Steve Jordahl Gun person?

Wesley Wildmon Wait a minute.

Steve Jordahl I've never.

Ed Vitagliano I've never heard that said that way.

Steve Jordahl Well, it's because usually it was a gunman.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl They can't do that.

Ed Vitagliano The gun person.

Tim Wildmon Listen, this is a horrific story.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Not, much. A lot of this. 25 people are injured.

Steve Jordahl It is.

Tim Wildmon 10 are dead.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon It's a little rural town in Western Canada, and one, of the students, I guess it is, went in and shot. Shot up the place.

Steve Jordahl We don't know. They were not.

Tim Wildmon We don't know yet. But you're right. It's always called a gunman, but now they changed it to gun person.

Ed Vitagliano Well, because they have described the shooter as a female in a dress.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah, well, female wear dress. So you mean.

Ed Vitagliano That's what I'm saying. It's. The whole thing is just weird and like you said, Tim, and it's good to reign us back in here before we get off on a, on another subject. But 10 people are dead this whole time. The school's devastated, the whole town's devastated. Very small community. Everybody knows everybody else, everybody who's alive knows the people who are dead. And there's 25 injured, two are with life threatening injuries. There may be more deaths here and this person who did it is also dead. So, hopefully more information will come out. The only reason I think the transgender angle is important in these kinds of stories, we already mentioned in the last hour, the Nashville shooting and then up in Minnesota, is that there is, there are questions about the drugs that trans individuals are given in order to quote, unquote, transition and whether or not these drugs make people, psychotic. I mean, this is a real issue that needs to be addressed. And it doesn't help if like in Nashville where the manifesto was not released for a whole year and then Wesley mentioned never was released.

Steve Jordahl Leaked. Leaked.

Ed Vitagliano Okay, you're not helping. If there's something wrong with giving these young people these drugs, that makes.

Tim Wildmon Them violent and the political left does not want to talk about this. Because it makes the transgender look bad. Yes, it makes their movement look bad.

Ed Vitagliano It calls into question the whole process.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, exactly.

Tim Wildmon Exactly.

A New York woman had her breast removed when she was 16

By the way, just to reiterate story Steve brought up, as Steve, you mentioned this couple of years ago, you were kind of prophetic on this. The, the lawsuit that was won by the six, the 16 year old girl in NewSong York, in NewSong York had her breast removed when she was 16. These doctors did the surgery and said, yeah, you're going to feel better about yourself since you want to be a man, so we're going to remove your breast. And they charge them and charge a lot of money. Well, she comes back 22 years old, I think 23, and goes, you know what? I made a huge mistake. I've made a huge, huge mistake in my life. And it's permanent. It's affecting, it's affecting me. And I don't. And I want to sue the people who did this to me while I was a minor.

Steve Jordahl Can't undo it.

Tim Wildmon And she sued him and she won.

Steve Jordahl Yep.

Tim Wildmon So the hospital and the doctors having.

Steve Jordahl To pay up, psychologists.

Tim Wildmon How much money? Like a lot of money.

Steve Jordahl $2 million.

Tim Wildmon $2 million and what you said, Steve, a couple years ago, was that this would happen, what I just described, which is a reality in the state of NewSong York, that would stop this craziness, at least to the, at least, as far as doing surgeries on minors. Minors. And, and there's no doubt my mind, this is going to stop because the hospital lawyers now and the doctors, lawyers.

Steve Jordahl Insurance company, they're not going to be.

Tim Wildmon Able to get insurance. They're going to say if you can retroactively sue. And I, you know, I wouldn't always believe if this person had been 19 or 20, I would, I would have to think through this more on, whether I agree with this or not, even though I obviously don't agree with.

Wesley Wildmon Transgenderism at all, with the constitutional legal right.

Tim Wildmon You're talking about a minor and you talk about a minor and you're, you're, you're, you're, you're chemically are surgically altering their bodies forever.

Ed Vitagliano And telling the mom, if you don't go through with this, your daughter is going to kill herself. Yeah, I mean this is, and they're.

Steve Jordahl Starting the, even the puberty blockers, they're starting. They were, giving these to kids before they hit puberty. We're talking about eight and nine year old, kids were getting these things to kids.

Tim Wildmon This lawsuit is going to stop this insanity.

Steve Jordahl It will.

Tim Wildmon Anyway. Next story, Steve.

Senator Ed Markey questions whether Waymo employs humans to help with difficult driving

Steve Jordahl All right, if you are visiting the Bay Area or Phoenix or LA or Miami and you need a taxi, you might flag down something called a Waymo. Waymo is a brand of taxis, but they are driverless. They, you, A car pulls up, there's not a human inside at all. And you get in the car and you tell it where you want to go and it'll take you there. And what now?

Tim Wildmon So you get in the car and it's a driverless, driverless car. Okay. It's called Waymo.

Steve Jordahl It's called Waymo.

Tim Wildmon Does it cost Waymo?

Steve Jordahl It might not cost way more than you think. I don't know.

Tim Wildmon Maybe not.

Steve Jordahl That's where they got it. I don't know.

Ed Vitagliano Cost way more than you think.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, that's what I was wondering.

Wesley Wildmon I bet they didn't think about that when they, what, came up with the name, Kim will think of it. Well, there's Waymo jokes on that.

Steve Jordahl Well, it turns out that, the Senate had Waymo's Chief Security Officer, Dr. Mauricio Pena, in to give some testimony. And Senator Ed Markey of, Massachusetts was giving him, was questioning Him. And, it turns out that driverless. Yeah, there's no human in the car. But there are humans overseeing the car, monitoring the car, and able to jump in if they need to. But it's not as all as good as you might think. listen to cut 11.

Speaker G Yes or no, Does Waymo employ humans located remotely to help its vehicles navigate difficult driving scenarios?

Speaker H Senator, they provide guidance. They do not remotely drive the vehicles. as you stated, Waymo asks for guidance in certain situations and gets an input. But the Waymo vehicle is always in charge of the dynamic driving task. So that is just one additional input.

Speaker G But the human being helps the vehicle to navigate those difficult driving scenarios. Is that correct?

Speaker H yes.

Speaker I Okay.

Speaker G So are all of these human operators located in the United States? Are they all here?

Speaker H No, we have some in the US and some abroad.

Speaker G in what countries are these employees located?

Speaker H The Philippines, Jimmy. The Philippines.

Speaker G So they are in the Philippines. Mr. Pena, that is completely unacceptable. And here's why. Having people overseas influencing American vehicles is a safety issue. The information the operators receive could be out of date. It could introduce tremendous cybersecurity vulnerabilities. We don't know if these people have US Driver's licenses.

Steve Jordahl If they don't have a driver's license, do they understand the traffic rules?

Speaker G Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Listen at the tip of the hat to Ed Markey from Massachusetts. I rarely do this for, for Democrats, but I think he's, I think he's right to question this. I think, Wesley, you had something you wanted to say. This is kind of freaky stuff. I know it's sci fi. So this is life.

Wesley Wildmon okay, so what, so what's the next step here, though? Is this. obviously he exposed the fact that we've got other country, we got people in other countries that have the ultimate decision making on electronic cars or driverless, driverless cars in the United States. So what's the next step here? Are they going to do something about it?

Steve Jordahl Congress has the ability to pass some regulation, so that you have to have, no matter how good your Internet connection is, it has to go 8,000 miles around the globe. There's going to be a latency, a lag there. So they could have, some oversight that says you have to have people, maybe an office in these particular cities. I feel a lot more comfortable signals going down the block instead of around the world.

Ed Vitagliano And I agree with, with Ed Markey on this. I don't think these. I can see where you might have some difficulties and you might need some human input in Difficult like you said, difficult driving circumstances. But overseas people know there's no way that I can think of that we can be you know, completely vet these people. They're citizens of another country and I don't know, technology is moving mighty quickly and Congress, among others having a hard time catching up.

Wesley Wildmon Another angle to look at this. You still need humans.

Ed Vitagliano Well, for how long?

Wesley Wildmon That's right. Yeah. even though they're not driving the car, you probably got just as many.

Ed Vitagliano Well as Chris Woodward often says, if the Lord tarries driverless cars is going to be a thing that, that is, that is going to be for dad though.

Wesley Wildmon Look at his face.

Tim Wildmon Y' all get through it. I have a thought on this.

Tim drops a rant about driverless cars and road rage

Ed Vitagliano All right, I'm. I'm finished.

Tim Wildmon But I think rant. I'm trying. My NewSong Year's resolution is to cut back on the interruption in half.

Wesley Wildmon Which is, which is for a segment so you get, you can use them how you want cut back like timeouts.

Ed Vitagliano All right. It's all yours.

Tim Wildmon I'm trying to change your fellows. I'm feeling moss.

Ed Vitagliano I'm m very proud.

Tim Wildmon You're laughing in my.

Ed Vitagliano Very proud of your efforts to become a better person. Tim.

Tim Wildmon Okay. What I was going to say was I don't know what's going to happen to the. Those people who are honking at the driverless car. How frustrated are they going to be that they can't event on on Because there's no driver to bend at.

Wesley Wildmon What if Fast forward.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Wesley Wildmon The, the driverless cars start honking at each other.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, that's good.

Tim Wildmon Well now if the driverless. You mean the. So you got two people. No. Yeah. In the Philippines operating a driverless car and they're honking.

Wesley Wildmon That's it.

Speaker F Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Well. Or the.

Wesley Wildmon Or no.

Ed Vitagliano The driverless cars just honk at each other.

Tim Wildmon That could happen. I mean you can have road rage between people who don't exist.

Ed Vitagliano You know what, you know what the. My biggest complaint would be of drop about driverless cars is I'll bet they always go the spe limit.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano There if you get in a two.

Tim Wildmon Laine law abiding cars you want.

Ed Vitagliano You got a two. Two lane road and you're. And you're going slow because there's a long line of traffic.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano You know at the front of that line is a driverless car that's going the speed limit.

Tim Wildmon Right. You know that.

Steve Jordahl You know what's going to happen though? You get in the car and you tell. This is you sit in the back Seat. You tell the, the car, the driver's car. take me to one two three Main Street. And then this is what you hear from the front street. Front seat. One, two, three, Main Street. On the way. And then pause a minute, dear. The speed limit is 45. You're going 50.

Tim Wildmon Okay, shut up.

Steve Jordahl over there.

Ed Vitagliano Like the feel right at home.

Wesley Wildmon Using the accents you get from your Google maps when you're trying to.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, well, the Google maps and the other maps are good for the most part accepted that when they, when they, say you're going to a location and you end up at a, empty lot.

Wesley Wildmon Yes, yes, because somebody hasn't updated their address. Usually that's what happens.

A dog leads police to a missing toddler in Louisville, Kentucky

Steve Jordahl Can I end with a good story, please? Let me tell you. And I want to take us to Louisville, Kentucky. The, police got a call there was a missing three year old little boy. And police came out to, try to find this boy and listen, to what happened.

Speaker I Cut 13, a missing 3 year old child. More than a half dozen officers on the search. They sent up a helicopter but had no luck until this happened.

Tim Wildmon Oh, what's up, dude?

Jeff Chamblee There's a dog.

Tim Wildmon Where's he at? Let's go.

Speaker I That's officer Josh Thompson responding to a dog that seemed to have something important to say.

Jeff Chamblee It led m me all the way back to the backyard. At that point I'm thinking, okay, there's kids in this backyard.

Tim Wildmon And sure enough, the dog went right.

Jeff Chamblee To the back bumper.

Tim Wildmon Check the rear.

Jeff Chamblee Here goes the back bumper. Just sat there.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah, he's right here.

Speaker I After a quick lesson in car lots, grab and pulling.

Speaker H There we go.

Jeff Chamblee I don't think I ever seen a happier kid in my life. He jumped out of the car, bear hugged my neck and wouldn't let go.

Steve Jordahl Good job, buddy.

Speaker I The dog had cracked the case.

Steve Jordahl Blast. He found him.

Jeff Chamblee Yeah, I don't know where the dog came from, but it was a blessing from God that day.

Speaker I And here's the thing about that dog. Officer Thompson says he'd been patrolling that neighborhood for two years and had never seen the dog before that moment. And he hasn't seen the dog since that day. And to this very day, the department still does not know who the dog belongs to.

Steve Jordahl We don't deserve dogs.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, listen, I'm a huge dog fan. So the, so this three year old accidentally locked himself in a car. The car.

Steve Jordahl And the parents didn't know where he was.

Ed Vitagliano And obviously, they were, they were all looking outside of the property and inside a car.

Steve Jordahl The kid could have died yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And so the dog led the police back to the car. No, listen, you. You played this for, this morning.

Speaker G Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano I think you had already left.

Wesley Wildmon I did, yeah.

Ed Vitagliano the story meeting. That is a great. A great story.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah. And toward the end, or at the end, when they said the guy's been patrolling for two years, never seen the dog and hadn't seen it. Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Wesley Wildmon That's awesome.

Tim Wildmon Are you fellas.

Wesley Wildmon Good story?

Ed Vitagliano I'm done. Go right ahead.

Wesley Wildmon Go ahead.

Tim Wildmon No, I. I didn't want to.

Wesley Wildmon We'd, love for you to close us out.

Tim: We got 30 seconds left. What would you like to say

Tim Wildmon All right.

Ed Vitagliano What would you like to add?

Tim Wildmon Well, I'm just trying to be civil and.

Ed Vitagliano Absolutely.

Wesley Wildmon We can hear it in your voice.

Tim Wildmon I don't wanna.

Wesley Wildmon I don't wanna interrupt you.

Tim Wildmon I don't.

Wesley Wildmon Still got two left. We got a minute. We gotta have. We got 30 seconds.

Ed Vitagliano What would you like to say? Share, Tim.

Tim Wildmon Well, I'd like to share that you fellas are interrupting me, but I can't.

Wesley Wildmon Do it because you're not keeping score.

Tim Wildmon There we go. Right there. All right. See you, Tom. It.