Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
Jeff Chamblee Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim with Wesley and Fred and Krish. And we thank you again for listening to American Family Radio. We're here for 24 and a half more minutes. tomorrow, let's see, tomorrow is Thursday, right? So tomorrow, who's on the show? Is it Ray on the show tomorrow? Ray Pritchard, brother Ray, you, Ray and
Fred Jackson Wesley will be hosting tomorrow.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Wes is going to be here. Yes. You gonna be here, Wesley?
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon Ed's watching hockey.
Tim Wildmon yeah. Well, are you judging him?
Wesley Wildmon No, because it was.
Tim Wildmon That's what he likes. He like watching hockey? No, he's not going to be watching hockey because, don't play till nighttime.
Wesley Wildmon That's right.
Chris Woodward I have a question about the hockey.
Tim Wildmon Otherwise he's going to watch it on here at the office.
Wesley Wildmon Yes.
Tim Wildmon Company time.
Wesley Wildmon Yes.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Wesley Wildmon Yes, go ahead.
Tim Wildmon I'm sorry.
Chris Woodward The NHL teams do, while players were
Fred Jackson in Italy, those that don't get selected for the teams, have a rest.
Chris Woodward Okay.
Fred Jackson Basically, yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon So some of them don't care if they get.
Chris Woodward Yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon They get selected to the Olympic team because they get to rest for two weeks.
Fred Jackson But anyway, it's back to action tonight.
Chris Woodward Okay.
President Trump's State of the Union speech last night broke a record
Tim Wildmon All right. so we are now, we've been talking about President Trump's State of the Union address last night, which went on for an hour and how long?
Fred Jackson About 50 minutes. Hour and 50.
Tim Wildmon Hour and 50 minutes. Which broke the record.
Chris Woodward It sure did.
Tim Wildmon The previous record was held by who, Krish?
Chris Woodward Bill Clinton.
Tim Wildmon Bill Clinton. How long did he go?
Chris Woodward about an hour and a half.
Tim Wildmon What a weenie.
Chris Woodward Yeah, I know.
Tim Wildmon And the weenie.
Chris Woodward I've actually got the, the stats here. Alright. So going into last night's address, the longest address at that time was Bill Clinton's 2000 speech, which was 1 hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds. Trump's 2019 speech was in second place going into last night. That was 1 hour, 22 minutes and 25 seconds. So Trump is on record for having to the two of the longest State of Union addresses.
Tim Wildmon Well, he knew last night what he had to do to beat Clinton's record.
Chris Woodward Oh, yeah.
Tim Wildmon And so he was not going to be denied. So he went one hour and how long?
Chris Woodward he went like one hour and 50 minutes last.
Tim Wildmon You watch all of it negatively. You have to take a break.
Chris Woodward No, I did, I did.
Tim Wildmon I, I was thank you, Krish, for doing that for us.
Chris Woodward That's what, you know what? One year I'm going to get with like Coker and Brent and we're going to have a AFN week we watch so you don't have to. And then you'll hear him go, these people are crazy. And
Tim Wildmon All right, I've said this before, and I mean this in a complimentary way, but President Trump is a physical, freak of nature.
Wesley Wildmon Yes. Exceptional.
Tim Wildmon Okay. The guy evidently doesn't sleep. No. he lives on Big Macs and.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And, and, and he, if he does sleep, he sleeps in his suit and tie because that doesn't. The red tie rarely changes. He'll put out a blue and every once in a while. But, what I'm talking about, freak of nature is the fact that what, what, 79 year old man can sit up and, for two hours and not have a tap. Take a restroom break, I'll tell you that.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon and for two hours and talk consecutively without just having to be carried out on a stretcher.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah.
Tim Wildmon But this guy just is like the Energizer Bunny, just going and going. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I mean, I've just never seen anything.
Fred Jackson Can you imagine working for him?
Tim Wildmon No. Marco. And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.
Fred Jackson Great story.
Tim Wildmon who's probably in his 50s maybe. Yeah. And he says when he's on Air Force One with President Trump, he tries to hide under a blanket so that he can sleep because he doesn't want President Trump to seem sleeping because President Trump doesn't believe in sleep. Am I right? Is that what he said?
Fred Jackson Story Marco Rubio says.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So there you go. So, I don't know, how, I really sincerely don't know how he keeps up that, keeps up the pace that he does. Now, he doesn't, he doesn't drink.
Fred Jackson No.
Tim Wildmon He doesn't smoke. He never has taken. So those two are off the table for him in terms of his health. He does, get outside. He likes to golf and get out in the outdoors. And so Red Bull by Ivy, Red Bull. Does that help? That will. There's also a downside to that too. Right. It's called crashing.
Wesley Wildmon That's right.
Tim Wildmon And I don't think he does. Ah, President Trump crash.
Wesley Wildmon I think he's just.
Tim Wildmon And you just built that way.
Chris: What did Trump say about tariffs this morning
Chris Woodward Speaking of, speaking of him speaking for long periods of time, this morning the Babylon Bee posted this. Trump reveals plan to secure third term by speaking for seven straight years.
Tim Wildmon So, all right, what's the next, topic we need to discuss here.
Fred Jackson Oh, man.
Tim Wildmon what do you got? Well, tell me what you got there on your clip lid.
Chris Woodward Yes. So we played a minute ago, a couple of three times, Trump, saying Democrats don't want voter ID because they cheat. That's all they do. They cheat, cheat, cheat. He continued on with that and said he wants an end to mail in ballots with a few exceptions. And he rattled off those examples. or we could do economy and inflation.
Wesley Wildmon Oh, you like. You want to do tariff talk.
Fred Jackson Remember?
Chris Woodward I actually don't have the terrorist.
Wesley Wildmon Okay. Never mind.
Tim Wildmon What. That's disappointing, Krish. You don't have. You don't have any tariff talk.
Chris Woodward I isolated it and I didn't file it. I can tell you what he said. it was a reserved.
Tim Wildmon What did he say about tariffs, Krish?
Chris Woodward First of all, he talked about how the tariffs were going.
Tim Wildmon Great Supreme Court justices there, though.
Chris Woodward At least four of the Supreme Court justices were there, including Roberts, who cited against the tariffs and wrote the majority opinion.
Tim Wildmon Amy Coney Barrett.
Chris Woodward I think she was gone.
Tim Wildmon She was there. She showed up their credit.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So she had four of the nine.
Chris Woodward Right.
Tim Wildmon But I think Clarence Thomas and Samuel Leto go to bed at 7:30. Somebody. They couldn't make it in this because it started at 9:00 Eastern Time.
Chris Woodward Sure did. A few minutes after, actually.
Tim Wildmon But you had for. You had Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett and, what's the, sort of mayor. You had those four there. Anyway, go ahead.
President Trump spoke on several issues last night including tariffs and insider trading
Chris Woodward All right, so he mentions the tariffs. They were doing great. We were making a lot of money. We were making countries that had been ripping us off. we were making them pay. and he went on to say, unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruled against it. He talked about how it was a disappointing ruling. He did not, call him out. Yeah, he didn't say anything ugly. And quite honestly, I was surprised because
Tim Wildmon he didn't say, I'm looking at you, John Roberts.
Chris Woodward I was half. I mean, some of the other sound bites that we've played.
Tim Wildmon I have expected him to be.
Fred Jackson Good for him.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, good for him.
Chris Woodward I will. I will say too, we're still going to. He claimed that the countries we were tariffing are going to stick with the trade deals that we've negotiated.
Fred Jackson There were just very briefly, a couple of other moments. There was a young lady in the audience the balcony last night, and her name was, Ella Hondra Gonzalez. Young lady from Venezuela. And Trump started by saying she had a very close relationship with her uncle who has been serving Time in a Caracas prison because he's politically against Maduro. Okay. And, Trump says, alejandro, I'm pleased to inform you that not only has your uncle been released, but he is here tonight. And the camera switches to this young lady and her uncle, who has been in prison in Venezuela, walks through the door, and they embrace. I mean, there were so many movie moments last night. It was absolutely incredible.
Tim Wildmon Wow.
Fred Jackson And, and, and he stops stalking Trump. And it just shows those two embracing because her uncle has been in prison and she hasn't seen him in years.
Tim Wildmon Okay, that's. That's. That's the part where the Democrats stood up and clapped, right?
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Who's against that?
Wesley Wildmon What you just said, that's a 90 10.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I know.
Fred Jackson you know, I wish I could read lips, because I do believe there were points when a, Democrat would turn to a fellow Democrat and say,
Tim Wildmon gee, do we stand here?
Fred Jackson This is really good.
Tim Wildmon Right? We need to stand here.
Fred Jackson Why don't we think of these things?
Tim Wildmon Right, right, right, right, right, right. Okay.
Chris Woodward There was a moment, too. Even if I had this sound bite, it wouldn't do it justice because it was more visible than it was audible. But there was a moment where Elizabeth Warren stood and applauded the president, and that's when he said, we need to make sure that members of Congress can't profit off insurance.
Tim Wildmon Is he drug tested?
Chris Woodward Even if she told me the results, I may not believe it, given what she's claimed about other things in her life.
Tim Wildmon But, you're saying. All seriousness, you're saying she agreed. She, stood up to applaud because she agreed with President Trump. On what issue?
Chris Woodward On, we need to prevent members of Congress from insider trading, which is something that's been a big concern.
Tim Wildmon Where then he, asked Nancy Pelosi to stand, didn't he?
Chris Woodward He did ask, where's Nancy? She's standing.
Fred Jackson And he didn't actually say accus user. But.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Fred Jackson Where's Nancy? But.
Tim Wildmon But. Okay. The reason, if people don't know why that's funny, is the Pelosi's, Mr. Ms. Pelosi, Nancy being the wife and the. And the, former speaker of the House, it's well documented that she and her husband made a killing.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Off the stock market.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon While she was in office.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And a lot of people say. Okay, I'm, saying the accusation against her is she had inside information on, or at least her husband did on stocks.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Because of the position she held.
Fred Jackson That's what the accusation she was House Speaker.
Tim Wildmon She was House Speaker. And so there's been a law. Well, it's not a law yet. It's been legislation introduced in the Congress. I don't know it's House or Senate or both. That would forbid, Would it forbid congressmen from trading stock at all?
Chris Woodward It would basically, I think, prevent them from trading certain stocks. Things that they have some sort of say over, based on political, committees and policies.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So. So anyway, so she. Elizabeth Warren stood, on that one.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon I mean, the end is near, I would say. You didn't stand on that one. You're knocking it out of the park on your stocks right now. So you're not really going to go with that one. I don't know how I feel about that.
As long as they disclose, I would be okay with that
these are American. just because you go to Congress doesn't mean you're. You're. You shouldn't be able to invest for your future.
Chris Woodward So now there are.
Tim Wildmon I would say. Here's what I would say to that. I would say to me, as long as you disclose, maybe once a year, at the end of the year, the stocks you invested in and that kind of thing, I would be. I'd be okay with that myself.
Jeff Chamblee Yeah.
Tim Wildmon as long as they disclosed and it wasn't behind. You know, wasn't. So that. So people would know. Hey, were they privy to information that the other investors weren't. You know what I'm saying?
Fred Jackson Yeah. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So, But, anyway. All right, you're listening to the. What you listen to right now is Today's issues on American Family Radio. And we have no recommendations on stocks.
Chris Woodward No.
Tim Wildmon Zero.
Tim Wildmon if you have a United States hockey team as a investment, I would invest in them right now. Yeah. because they are knocking it out of the ballpark.
Chris Woodward That Rosalind cap would be gold.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Videos show people throwing snowballs at New York police officers during storm
All right, next story. Either Fred, you got a story or you go ahead.
Fred Jackson Well, let's return to NewSong York in the snowstorm.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Fred Jackson we know that, Mamdani was hiring people to shovel snow, the mayor of NewSong York City, and required an ID in order to pick up a shovel.
Tim Wildmon Very racist, man.
Fred Jackson But here's. There's. There's kind of a serious story that is developing out of this because there's been video that's been put out there publicly. There are police officers out there. They're trying to help people, you know, get out of their homes, just beyond the streets in the middle of the snowstorm. But the videos show people throwing snowballs at these police Officers. All right. In fact, we found out this morning that a couple of these police officers who were being pummeled with snowballs from this group of people had to go to the hospital. because a snowball.
Tim Wildmon They're not always little soft, puffy things.
Fred Jackson No, no, no. You can't make a snowball with soft, fluffy snow. There has to be hard. And a, Few of these police officers were hit hard with these snowballs.
Tim Wildmon Fred, if I can interrupt you just for a minute, because I read about this story, just set it up. This. I think this is in Manhattan, but so the. They. A, bunch of. It sounds like, to me like a bunch of teenagers or whatever were causing a big ruckus in the. In the neighborhood. Some people call the cops. The police officers showed up, many of them, 20, to sort of break it up. Okay. Because this is middle of a blizzard. That's when they begin to get pummeled by these. Whoever was out there. I don't know. I'm guessing teenagers or young people.
Fred Jackson Mm.
Tim Wildmon And. And it got. It got dangerous for the police because, like you said, it was just. These weren't little. They were getting, you know, hard. Hit hard in the face, in the head. They didn't have protection from each side. And so, So in so much as former Mayor Eric Adams and, former. And Cuomo, And, the governor, the police commissioner, Commissioner, they all issued statements saying this is unacceptable behavior toward our. Toward our police. Right.
Fred Jackson And they should be charged.
Tim Wildmon These people. Because it was assault.
Fred Jackson Yes. So Mayor Mamdani is asked about this.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Fred Jackson We have the audio. In his response, I believe.
Chris Woodward Krish, clip 14.
Joseph Parker And first, I want to say that officers have been on the front line of helping our city respond to this blizzard. They have been keeping NewSong Yorkers safe. They and our entire city workforce deserve to be treated with respect. I think that there were two officers who were facing lacerations on their face. Look, I've seen the videos of this snowball fight. I think that it was a snowball fight.
Fred Jackson no, a snowball fight is when you have two parties throwing snowballs at each other. There is not one video that shows the police officers throwing snowballs back.
Tim Wildmon So he's saying they were caught in the crossfire, so to speak. I mean, that's what it sounds like. But he said two officers got lacerations to their face, and then he says it's just a snowball fight.
Fred Jackson Yeah, he's just kind of laughing.
Tim Wildmon No, no, I saw it. Those people, whoever they were, were intensely trying to hit the police in the head with snowballs. And they did.
Fred Jackson And hurt them and hurting them.
Tim Wildmon And so that's not something to call, quote, just a snowball fight.
Wesley Wildmon but that just shows you how far NewSong York has gone, or even. Even people like Madani has gone as it relates to law and order and authority. Because, even if it was the. What he described, which it wasn't. Listen, he downplayed it. But even if it wasn't, you don't. There's a reason they're an authority. They're officers.
Tim Wildmon This guy was a defund. The police guy.
Fred Jackson That's right.
Tim Wildmon That he. He moderated that to run for office.
If you're up to him, we wouldn't even have police
Even though he still has. He's a. He's a far lefty. He. If you're up to him, we wouldn't even have police. We'd have social workers. And I guess in this case, the social workers would have been pummeled in the face with the snow. Snowballs.
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to African Americans about potential presidential run
All right, next story.
Chris Woodward Oh, all right.
Tim Wildmon Got any stories left, Krish?
Chris Woodward I do.
Tim Wildmon I do. Perry Como.
Chris Woodward No, no, no, I have this one because we need time to play it and to get your thoughts on it.
Tim Wildmon Oh, I'll give them.
Wesley Wildmon You got thoughts.
Chris Woodward California Governor Gavin Newsom, a man who I think clearly has his eyes set on higher off.
Tim Wildmon And his hair.
Chris Woodward Yeah, that's true.
Tim Wildmon He's got his hair set on higher office.
Chris Woodward So he's traveling around, speaking to potential voters. Okay. And in this particular event, Governor Gavin Newsom was speaking to, a room full of African Americans, black people, and there was somebody like a panelist there next.
Tim Wildmon Where was this?
Chris Woodward It was in Georgia.
Fred Jackson Atlanta.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, he was in Atlanta. So he's sort of making his way around the country.
Fred Jackson He's selling a book.
Tim Wildmon Yes, he's selling a book. And he's also prepping to run for president. Yes, I got you.
Chris Woodward And speaking to a room full of minorities, Newsom, a white man, says, I'm just like you, and I'm not making this up.
Tim Wildmon Do you need to give this away, or we need to hear the punchline? You have it.
Chris Woodward well, let's hear it from Gavin himself, because I don't even want to say this on the air. Okay, go 16.
Jeff Chamblee I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960sat guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone. You know, trying to act all there. If you got 940, but literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. maybe the wrong business to be in.
Chris Woodward So Gavin Newsom told a room full of minorities, I'm just like you. I got a low test score and I can't read.
Tim Wildmon I didn't. I don't know what's offensive about that.
Chris Woodward Well, it makes it appear like he's trying. He's assuming everybody in the room can't test well and they can't read. That's the way it's being.
Tim Wildmon okay, I'm not, I'm not here to argue with you, Krish. Okay. I'm just saying, to me, from what I heard right there, this is my reaction. he was just saying, hey, I'm an average student who overcame. He has dyslexia.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah, I'm not sure he said.
Tim Wildmon He's saying.
Wesley Wildmon I don't believe anything he said, saying,
Tim Wildmon I'm an average student. I was an average student who went on to become governor. And, so I'm just like a lot of you in this room. I'm not extraordinarily.
Wesley Wildmon You got such a good heart, dad.
Tim Wildmon I'm not extremely extraordinarily smart like some people. That's what I got out. What you just played here.
Wesley Wildmon And that's, That's a good. I can. I understand.
Tim Wildmon I'm a good hearted person. I think the best.
Wesley Wildmon But we have to remember, though, the Democrat Party and their, their P lines to get voters here. Okay, and what do you do wrong there? What I'm. If, you go either way.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. You comment and then. Fred comment.
Wesley Wildmon You can go either way. Or you could also have flashes where Joe Biden says, if you do not vote for me, you ain't black. You have law.
Tim Wildmon That was dumb.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah. But you, you have instances like that from the Democrat Party as they pander to the African vote. African American vote. And that's. You can get. I can see how someone would draw that from this, but I also can see how you play the benefit of the doubt and you get it.
Fred Kaplan: California's Democrat governor accused of making racist remark
Tim Wildmon All right, Fred, what do you think about this?
Fred Jackson We have a story on this, Gavin Newsom story On our site, afn.net, net go to that. The, headline is California's Democrat governor accused of making racist remark. But in that story, it quotes, South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott. Tim Scott says, black Americans aren't your low bar. We've built empires, created movements, outworked, out, thrusted and outsmarted people like you. Stop using your mediocre academics as a way to patronize communities. It's ridiculous. End quote. So that's the point he's making, but also during this book tour, and this is an AP story, an Associated Press story, that Newsom has upset the LGBTQ community, as well.
Tim Wildmon M. All those letters, every one of them that's been in a lot of letters right there.
Fred Jackson Yes. He told CNN in an interview that aired on Monday this week that the Democratic Party needs to be, quote, more culturally normal and less prone to spending a disproportionate amount of time on pronouns, identity, while emphasizing energy costs, childcare, and other kitchen table issues.
Tim Wildmon I'm gonna give Gavin Newsom a high five right there.
Chris Woodward The only reason he's saying.
Wesley Wildmon Pulling that back in quickly, the only
Chris Woodward reason he's saying that is because he's gonna run for president. The same thing with Rahm Emanuel saying Democrats need to come around on school choice.
Tim Wildmon I'm disappointed in the, way you guys just don't even. I mean, you have credit. Well, you have this very skeptical attitude.
Chris Woodward 25 years or more news will do
Tim Wildmon that to you toward Democrats, especially toward Democrats.
Wesley Wildmon Decided for us.
Tim Wildmon And so, he. So he. He. Well, listen, I think he's right now. He's going to get heavy pushback from. Oh, yeah, the squad type folks. As you guys alluded to earlier, they. They're basically the, tail wagon, the Democrat dog right now. But I, think he's right about that. What did he say exactly?
Fred Jackson He told CNN that the Democratic Party needs to be more culturally normal.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Fred Jackson And less prone to spending disproportionate amount of time on pronouns and identity.
Wesley Wildmon That's an 8020 position.
Tim Wildmon Yes.
Wesley Wildmon What he said.
Tim Wildmon Right. About that. Gavin Newsom. Give that guy some more real cream.
Chris Woodward Well, see, that. That's the thing, though. When there's an election around the corner, somebody tries to be the moderate, and then when they win the primary and get into office, they're not a moderate. Same thing with Joe.
Fred Jackson That's.
Wesley Wildmon We can compliment that one statement, but the problem is he's got so many video clips, it says either way, he's not. It won't work, and it's not going to work.
Chris Woodward Case in point of Democrats changing their tune over time. Chuck Schumer, when he was a member of Congress, a representative, he wrote the Religious Freedom Restoration act. Thirty years later, he's pushing the Equal Rights act, which would ignore rfra, which is something Bill Clinton signed into law. And said, quote, unquote. I'm glad to see I'm not the only Baptist in the room.
Wesley Wildmon have we sold you yet, dad?
Tim Wildmon No, I just. I think we need to have a little pow wow session so I can teach you guys to have a little brighter attitude sort of thing.
Chris Woodward These people are crazy.
Wesley Wildmon That's. That's when we needed that button right there.
Tim Wildmon I just think that if you can't say something nice about somebody, just don't say anything at all. That's my motto. Listen, I abide by that every day right here on this show.
Wesley Wildmon Yes.
Chris: Gavin Newsom said he was a 960 SAT
Tim Wildmon by the way, Gavin Newsom said he was a 960 SAT. Is that. Is that, like, middle of the road? I don't know. What sat? What's a high sat?
Wesley Wildmon That's a good question.
Tim Wildmon And I didn't make it.
Chris Woodward We took ac.
Fred Jackson we.
Wesley Wildmon ACT is what I was.
Tim Wildmon We. We had act.
Chris Woodward We did.
Tim Wildmon What was your ACT score?
Chris Woodward Not. Not high. But I don't. But I'm not running for office and trying to get you to run for me.
Tim Wildmon That's true, Chris, and I'm sorry it
Chris Woodward wasn't low, but it wasn't as high as it could be.
Tim Wildmon Okay, that's fine. We'll guess where. Where you were.
Wesley Wildmon Did you not think you can say, I'm,
Tim Wildmon I'm.
Wesley Wildmon I'll come from an average place without saying I can't read. I'm like you. I can't read. Come on, dad.
Tim Wildmon Well, we'll talk about it more tomorrow.
Fred Jackson Okay?
Tim Wildmon Have a great day, everybody.
Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
Jeff Chamblee Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim with Wesley and Fred and Krish. And we thank you again for listening to American Family Radio. We're here for 24 and a half more minutes. tomorrow, let's see, tomorrow is Thursday, right? So tomorrow, who's on the show? Is it Ray on the show tomorrow? Ray Pritchard, brother Ray, you, Ray and
Fred Jackson Wesley will be hosting tomorrow.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Wes is going to be here. Yes. You gonna be here, Wesley?
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon Ed's watching hockey.
Tim Wildmon yeah. Well, are you judging him?
Wesley Wildmon No, because it was.
Tim Wildmon That's what he likes. He like watching hockey? No, he's not going to be watching hockey because, don't play till nighttime.
Wesley Wildmon That's right.
Chris Woodward I have a question about the hockey.
Tim Wildmon Otherwise he's going to watch it on here at the office.
Wesley Wildmon Yes.
Tim Wildmon Company time.
Wesley Wildmon Yes.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Wesley Wildmon Yes, go ahead.
Tim Wildmon I'm sorry.
Chris Woodward The NHL teams do, while players were
Fred Jackson in Italy, those that don't get selected for the teams, have a rest.
Chris Woodward Okay.
Fred Jackson Basically, yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon So some of them don't care if they get.
Chris Woodward Yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon They get selected to the Olympic team because they get to rest for two weeks.
Fred Jackson But anyway, it's back to action tonight.
Chris Woodward Okay.
President Trump's State of the Union speech last night broke a record
Tim Wildmon All right. so we are now, we've been talking about President Trump's State of the Union address last night, which went on for an hour and how long?
Fred Jackson About 50 minutes. Hour and 50.
Tim Wildmon Hour and 50 minutes. Which broke the record.
Chris Woodward It sure did.
Tim Wildmon The previous record was held by who, Krish?
Chris Woodward Bill Clinton.
Tim Wildmon Bill Clinton. How long did he go?
Chris Woodward about an hour and a half.
Tim Wildmon What a weenie.
Chris Woodward Yeah, I know.
Tim Wildmon And the weenie.
Chris Woodward I've actually got the, the stats here. Alright. So going into last night's address, the longest address at that time was Bill Clinton's 2000 speech, which was 1 hour, 28 minutes and 49 seconds. Trump's 2019 speech was in second place going into last night. That was 1 hour, 22 minutes and 25 seconds. So Trump is on record for having to the two of the longest State of Union addresses.
Tim Wildmon Well, he knew last night what he had to do to beat Clinton's record.
Chris Woodward Oh, yeah.
Tim Wildmon And so he was not going to be denied. So he went one hour and how long?
Chris Woodward he went like one hour and 50 minutes last.
Tim Wildmon You watch all of it negatively. You have to take a break.
Chris Woodward No, I did, I did.
Tim Wildmon I, I was thank you, Krish, for doing that for us.
Chris Woodward That's what, you know what? One year I'm going to get with like Coker and Brent and we're going to have a AFN week we watch so you don't have to. And then you'll hear him go, these people are crazy. And
Tim Wildmon All right, I've said this before, and I mean this in a complimentary way, but President Trump is a physical, freak of nature.
Wesley Wildmon Yes. Exceptional.
Tim Wildmon Okay. The guy evidently doesn't sleep. No. he lives on Big Macs and.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And, and, and he, if he does sleep, he sleeps in his suit and tie because that doesn't. The red tie rarely changes. He'll put out a blue and every once in a while. But, what I'm talking about, freak of nature is the fact that what, what, 79 year old man can sit up and, for two hours and not have a tap. Take a restroom break, I'll tell you that.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon and for two hours and talk consecutively without just having to be carried out on a stretcher.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah.
Tim Wildmon But this guy just is like the Energizer Bunny, just going and going. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I mean, I've just never seen anything.
Fred Jackson Can you imagine working for him?
Tim Wildmon No. Marco. And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.
Fred Jackson Great story.
Tim Wildmon who's probably in his 50s maybe. Yeah. And he says when he's on Air Force One with President Trump, he tries to hide under a blanket so that he can sleep because he doesn't want President Trump to seem sleeping because President Trump doesn't believe in sleep. Am I right? Is that what he said?
Fred Jackson Story Marco Rubio says.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So there you go. So, I don't know, how, I really sincerely don't know how he keeps up that, keeps up the pace that he does. Now, he doesn't, he doesn't drink.
Fred Jackson No.
Tim Wildmon He doesn't smoke. He never has taken. So those two are off the table for him in terms of his health. He does, get outside. He likes to golf and get out in the outdoors. And so Red Bull by Ivy, Red Bull. Does that help? That will. There's also a downside to that too. Right. It's called crashing.
Wesley Wildmon That's right.
Tim Wildmon And I don't think he does. Ah, President Trump crash.
Wesley Wildmon I think he's just.
Tim Wildmon And you just built that way.
Chris: What did Trump say about tariffs this morning
Chris Woodward Speaking of, speaking of him speaking for long periods of time, this morning the Babylon Bee posted this. Trump reveals plan to secure third term by speaking for seven straight years.
Tim Wildmon So, all right, what's the next, topic we need to discuss here.
Fred Jackson Oh, man.
Tim Wildmon what do you got? Well, tell me what you got there on your clip lid.
Chris Woodward Yes. So we played a minute ago, a couple of three times, Trump, saying Democrats don't want voter ID because they cheat. That's all they do. They cheat, cheat, cheat. He continued on with that and said he wants an end to mail in ballots with a few exceptions. And he rattled off those examples. or we could do economy and inflation.
Wesley Wildmon Oh, you like. You want to do tariff talk.
Fred Jackson Remember?
Chris Woodward I actually don't have the terrorist.
Wesley Wildmon Okay. Never mind.
Tim Wildmon What. That's disappointing, Krish. You don't have. You don't have any tariff talk.
Chris Woodward I isolated it and I didn't file it. I can tell you what he said. it was a reserved.
Tim Wildmon What did he say about tariffs, Krish?
Chris Woodward First of all, he talked about how the tariffs were going.
Tim Wildmon Great Supreme Court justices there, though.
Chris Woodward At least four of the Supreme Court justices were there, including Roberts, who cited against the tariffs and wrote the majority opinion.
Tim Wildmon Amy Coney Barrett.
Chris Woodward I think she was gone.
Tim Wildmon She was there. She showed up their credit.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So she had four of the nine.
Chris Woodward Right.
Tim Wildmon But I think Clarence Thomas and Samuel Leto go to bed at 7:30. Somebody. They couldn't make it in this because it started at 9:00 Eastern Time.
Chris Woodward Sure did. A few minutes after, actually.
Tim Wildmon But you had for. You had Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett and, what's the, sort of mayor. You had those four there. Anyway, go ahead.
President Trump spoke on several issues last night including tariffs and insider trading
Chris Woodward All right, so he mentions the tariffs. They were doing great. We were making a lot of money. We were making countries that had been ripping us off. we were making them pay. and he went on to say, unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruled against it. He talked about how it was a disappointing ruling. He did not, call him out. Yeah, he didn't say anything ugly. And quite honestly, I was surprised because
Tim Wildmon he didn't say, I'm looking at you, John Roberts.
Chris Woodward I was half. I mean, some of the other sound bites that we've played.
Tim Wildmon I have expected him to be.
Fred Jackson Good for him.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, good for him.
Chris Woodward I will. I will say too, we're still going to. He claimed that the countries we were tariffing are going to stick with the trade deals that we've negotiated.
Fred Jackson There were just very briefly, a couple of other moments. There was a young lady in the audience the balcony last night, and her name was, Ella Hondra Gonzalez. Young lady from Venezuela. And Trump started by saying she had a very close relationship with her uncle who has been serving Time in a Caracas prison because he's politically against Maduro. Okay. And, Trump says, alejandro, I'm pleased to inform you that not only has your uncle been released, but he is here tonight. And the camera switches to this young lady and her uncle, who has been in prison in Venezuela, walks through the door, and they embrace. I mean, there were so many movie moments last night. It was absolutely incredible.
Tim Wildmon Wow.
Fred Jackson And, and, and he stops stalking Trump. And it just shows those two embracing because her uncle has been in prison and she hasn't seen him in years.
Tim Wildmon Okay, that's. That's. That's the part where the Democrats stood up and clapped, right?
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Who's against that?
Wesley Wildmon What you just said, that's a 90 10.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I know.
Fred Jackson you know, I wish I could read lips, because I do believe there were points when a, Democrat would turn to a fellow Democrat and say,
Tim Wildmon gee, do we stand here?
Fred Jackson This is really good.
Tim Wildmon Right? We need to stand here.
Fred Jackson Why don't we think of these things?
Tim Wildmon Right, right, right, right, right, right. Okay.
Chris Woodward There was a moment, too. Even if I had this sound bite, it wouldn't do it justice because it was more visible than it was audible. But there was a moment where Elizabeth Warren stood and applauded the president, and that's when he said, we need to make sure that members of Congress can't profit off insurance.
Tim Wildmon Is he drug tested?
Chris Woodward Even if she told me the results, I may not believe it, given what she's claimed about other things in her life.
Tim Wildmon But, you're saying. All seriousness, you're saying she agreed. She, stood up to applaud because she agreed with President Trump. On what issue?
Chris Woodward On, we need to prevent members of Congress from insider trading, which is something that's been a big concern.
Tim Wildmon Where then he, asked Nancy Pelosi to stand, didn't he?
Chris Woodward He did ask, where's Nancy? She's standing.
Fred Jackson And he didn't actually say accus user. But.
Tim Wildmon Right.
Fred Jackson Where's Nancy? But.
Tim Wildmon But. Okay. The reason, if people don't know why that's funny, is the Pelosi's, Mr. Ms. Pelosi, Nancy being the wife and the. And the, former speaker of the House, it's well documented that she and her husband made a killing.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon Off the stock market.
Fred Jackson Yes.
Tim Wildmon While she was in office.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And a lot of people say. Okay, I'm, saying the accusation against her is she had inside information on, or at least her husband did on stocks.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Because of the position she held.
Fred Jackson That's what the accusation she was House Speaker.
Tim Wildmon She was House Speaker. And so there's been a law. Well, it's not a law yet. It's been legislation introduced in the Congress. I don't know it's House or Senate or both. That would forbid, Would it forbid congressmen from trading stock at all?
Chris Woodward It would basically, I think, prevent them from trading certain stocks. Things that they have some sort of say over, based on political, committees and policies.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So. So anyway, so she. Elizabeth Warren stood, on that one.
Chris Woodward Yeah.
Tim Wildmon I mean, the end is near, I would say. You didn't stand on that one. You're knocking it out of the park on your stocks right now. So you're not really going to go with that one. I don't know how I feel about that.
As long as they disclose, I would be okay with that
these are American. just because you go to Congress doesn't mean you're. You're. You shouldn't be able to invest for your future.
Chris Woodward So now there are.
Tim Wildmon I would say. Here's what I would say to that. I would say to me, as long as you disclose, maybe once a year, at the end of the year, the stocks you invested in and that kind of thing, I would be. I'd be okay with that myself.
Jeff Chamblee Yeah.
Tim Wildmon as long as they disclosed and it wasn't behind. You know, wasn't. So that. So people would know. Hey, were they privy to information that the other investors weren't. You know what I'm saying?
Fred Jackson Yeah. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon So, But, anyway. All right, you're listening to the. What you listen to right now is Today's issues on American Family Radio. And we have no recommendations on stocks.
Chris Woodward No.
Tim Wildmon Zero.
Tim Wildmon if you have a United States hockey team as a investment, I would invest in them right now. Yeah. because they are knocking it out of the ballpark.
Chris Woodward That Rosalind cap would be gold.
Fred Jackson Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Videos show people throwing snowballs at New York police officers during storm
All right, next story. Either Fred, you got a story or you go ahead.
Fred Jackson Well, let's return to NewSong York in the snowstorm.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Fred Jackson we know that, Mamdani was hiring people to shovel snow, the mayor of NewSong York City, and required an ID in order to pick up a shovel.
Tim Wildmon Very racist, man.
Fred Jackson But here's. There's. There's kind of a serious story that is developing out of this because there's been video that's been put out there publicly. There are police officers out there. They're trying to help people, you know, get out of their homes, just beyond the streets in the middle of the snowstorm. But the videos show people throwing snowballs at these police Officers. All right. In fact, we found out this morning that a couple of these police officers who were being pummeled with snowballs from this group of people had to go to the hospital. because a snowball.
Tim Wildmon They're not always little soft, puffy things.
Fred Jackson No, no, no. You can't make a snowball with soft, fluffy snow. There has to be hard. And a, Few of these police officers were hit hard with these snowballs.
Tim Wildmon Fred, if I can interrupt you just for a minute, because I read about this story, just set it up. This. I think this is in Manhattan, but so the. They. A, bunch of. It sounds like, to me like a bunch of teenagers or whatever were causing a big ruckus in the. In the neighborhood. Some people call the cops. The police officers showed up, many of them, 20, to sort of break it up. Okay. Because this is middle of a blizzard. That's when they begin to get pummeled by these. Whoever was out there. I don't know. I'm guessing teenagers or young people.
Fred Jackson Mm.
Tim Wildmon And. And it got. It got dangerous for the police because, like you said, it was just. These weren't little. They were getting, you know, hard. Hit hard in the face, in the head. They didn't have protection from each side. And so, So in so much as former Mayor Eric Adams and, former. And Cuomo, And, the governor, the police commissioner, Commissioner, they all issued statements saying this is unacceptable behavior toward our. Toward our police. Right.
Fred Jackson And they should be charged.
Tim Wildmon These people. Because it was assault.
Fred Jackson Yes. So Mayor Mamdani is asked about this.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Fred Jackson We have the audio. In his response, I believe.
Chris Woodward Krish, clip 14.
Joseph Parker And first, I want to say that officers have been on the front line of helping our city respond to this blizzard. They have been keeping NewSong Yorkers safe. They and our entire city workforce deserve to be treated with respect. I think that there were two officers who were facing lacerations on their face. Look, I've seen the videos of this snowball fight. I think that it was a snowball fight.
Fred Jackson no, a snowball fight is when you have two parties throwing snowballs at each other. There is not one video that shows the police officers throwing snowballs back.
Tim Wildmon So he's saying they were caught in the crossfire, so to speak. I mean, that's what it sounds like. But he said two officers got lacerations to their face, and then he says it's just a snowball fight.
Fred Jackson Yeah, he's just kind of laughing.
Tim Wildmon No, no, I saw it. Those people, whoever they were, were intensely trying to hit the police in the head with snowballs. And they did.
Fred Jackson And hurt them and hurting them.
Tim Wildmon And so that's not something to call, quote, just a snowball fight.
Wesley Wildmon but that just shows you how far NewSong York has gone, or even. Even people like Madani has gone as it relates to law and order and authority. Because, even if it was the. What he described, which it wasn't. Listen, he downplayed it. But even if it wasn't, you don't. There's a reason they're an authority. They're officers.
Tim Wildmon This guy was a defund. The police guy.
Fred Jackson That's right.
Tim Wildmon That he. He moderated that to run for office.
If you're up to him, we wouldn't even have police
Even though he still has. He's a. He's a far lefty. He. If you're up to him, we wouldn't even have police. We'd have social workers. And I guess in this case, the social workers would have been pummeled in the face with the snow. Snowballs.
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to African Americans about potential presidential run
All right, next story.
Chris Woodward Oh, all right.
Tim Wildmon Got any stories left, Krish?
Chris Woodward I do.
Tim Wildmon I do. Perry Como.
Chris Woodward No, no, no, I have this one because we need time to play it and to get your thoughts on it.
Tim Wildmon Oh, I'll give them.
Wesley Wildmon You got thoughts.
Chris Woodward California Governor Gavin Newsom, a man who I think clearly has his eyes set on higher off.
Tim Wildmon And his hair.
Chris Woodward Yeah, that's true.
Tim Wildmon He's got his hair set on higher office.
Chris Woodward So he's traveling around, speaking to potential voters. Okay. And in this particular event, Governor Gavin Newsom was speaking to, a room full of African Americans, black people, and there was somebody like a panelist there next.
Tim Wildmon Where was this?
Chris Woodward It was in Georgia.
Fred Jackson Atlanta.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, he was in Atlanta. So he's sort of making his way around the country.
Fred Jackson He's selling a book.
Tim Wildmon Yes, he's selling a book. And he's also prepping to run for president. Yes, I got you.
Chris Woodward And speaking to a room full of minorities, Newsom, a white man, says, I'm just like you, and I'm not making this up.
Tim Wildmon Do you need to give this away, or we need to hear the punchline? You have it.
Chris Woodward well, let's hear it from Gavin himself, because I don't even want to say this on the air. Okay, go 16.
Jeff Chamblee I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960sat guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone. You know, trying to act all there. If you got 940, but literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. maybe the wrong business to be in.
Chris Woodward So Gavin Newsom told a room full of minorities, I'm just like you. I got a low test score and I can't read.
Tim Wildmon I didn't. I don't know what's offensive about that.
Chris Woodward Well, it makes it appear like he's trying. He's assuming everybody in the room can't test well and they can't read. That's the way it's being.
Tim Wildmon okay, I'm not, I'm not here to argue with you, Krish. Okay. I'm just saying, to me, from what I heard right there, this is my reaction. he was just saying, hey, I'm an average student who overcame. He has dyslexia.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah, I'm not sure he said.
Tim Wildmon He's saying.
Wesley Wildmon I don't believe anything he said, saying,
Tim Wildmon I'm an average student. I was an average student who went on to become governor. And, so I'm just like a lot of you in this room. I'm not extraordinarily.
Wesley Wildmon You got such a good heart, dad.
Tim Wildmon I'm not extremely extraordinarily smart like some people. That's what I got out. What you just played here.
Wesley Wildmon And that's, That's a good. I can. I understand.
Tim Wildmon I'm a good hearted person. I think the best.
Wesley Wildmon But we have to remember, though, the Democrat Party and their, their P lines to get voters here. Okay, and what do you do wrong there? What I'm. If, you go either way.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. You comment and then. Fred comment.
Wesley Wildmon You can go either way. Or you could also have flashes where Joe Biden says, if you do not vote for me, you ain't black. You have law.
Tim Wildmon That was dumb.
Wesley Wildmon Yeah. But you, you have instances like that from the Democrat Party as they pander to the African vote. African American vote. And that's. You can get. I can see how someone would draw that from this, but I also can see how you play the benefit of the doubt and you get it.
Fred Kaplan: California's Democrat governor accused of making racist remark
Tim Wildmon All right, Fred, what do you think about this?
Fred Jackson We have a story on this, Gavin Newsom story On our site, afn.net, net go to that. The, headline is California's Democrat governor accused of making racist remark. But in that story, it quotes, South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott. Tim Scott says, black Americans aren't your low bar. We've built empires, created movements, outworked, out, thrusted and outsmarted people like you. Stop using your mediocre academics as a way to patronize communities. It's ridiculous. End quote. So that's the point he's making, but also during this book tour, and this is an AP story, an Associated Press story, that Newsom has upset the LGBTQ community, as well.
Tim Wildmon M. All those letters, every one of them that's been in a lot of letters right there.
Fred Jackson Yes. He told CNN in an interview that aired on Monday this week that the Democratic Party needs to be, quote, more culturally normal and less prone to spending a disproportionate amount of time on pronouns, identity, while emphasizing energy costs, childcare, and other kitchen table issues.
Tim Wildmon I'm gonna give Gavin Newsom a high five right there.
Chris Woodward The only reason he's saying.
Wesley Wildmon Pulling that back in quickly, the only
Chris Woodward reason he's saying that is because he's gonna run for president. The same thing with Rahm Emanuel saying Democrats need to come around on school choice.
Tim Wildmon I'm disappointed in the, way you guys just don't even. I mean, you have credit. Well, you have this very skeptical attitude.
Chris Woodward 25 years or more news will do
Tim Wildmon that to you toward Democrats, especially toward Democrats.
Wesley Wildmon Decided for us.
Tim Wildmon And so, he. So he. He. Well, listen, I think he's right now. He's going to get heavy pushback from. Oh, yeah, the squad type folks. As you guys alluded to earlier, they. They're basically the, tail wagon, the Democrat dog right now. But I, think he's right about that. What did he say exactly?
Fred Jackson He told CNN that the Democratic Party needs to be more culturally normal.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Fred Jackson And less prone to spending disproportionate amount of time on pronouns and identity.
Wesley Wildmon That's an 8020 position.
Tim Wildmon Yes.
Wesley Wildmon What he said.
Tim Wildmon Right. About that. Gavin Newsom. Give that guy some more real cream.
Chris Woodward Well, see, that. That's the thing, though. When there's an election around the corner, somebody tries to be the moderate, and then when they win the primary and get into office, they're not a moderate. Same thing with Joe.
Fred Jackson That's.
Wesley Wildmon We can compliment that one statement, but the problem is he's got so many video clips, it says either way, he's not. It won't work, and it's not going to work.
Chris Woodward Case in point of Democrats changing their tune over time. Chuck Schumer, when he was a member of Congress, a representative, he wrote the Religious Freedom Restoration act. Thirty years later, he's pushing the Equal Rights act, which would ignore rfra, which is something Bill Clinton signed into law. And said, quote, unquote. I'm glad to see I'm not the only Baptist in the room.
Wesley Wildmon have we sold you yet, dad?
Tim Wildmon No, I just. I think we need to have a little pow wow session so I can teach you guys to have a little brighter attitude sort of thing.
Chris Woodward These people are crazy.
Wesley Wildmon That's. That's when we needed that button right there.
Tim Wildmon I just think that if you can't say something nice about somebody, just don't say anything at all. That's my motto. Listen, I abide by that every day right here on this show.
Wesley Wildmon Yes.
Chris: Gavin Newsom said he was a 960 SAT
Tim Wildmon by the way, Gavin Newsom said he was a 960 SAT. Is that. Is that, like, middle of the road? I don't know. What sat? What's a high sat?
Wesley Wildmon That's a good question.
Tim Wildmon And I didn't make it.
Chris Woodward We took ac.
Fred Jackson we.
Wesley Wildmon ACT is what I was.
Tim Wildmon We. We had act.
Chris Woodward We did.
Tim Wildmon What was your ACT score?
Chris Woodward Not. Not high. But I don't. But I'm not running for office and trying to get you to run for me.
Tim Wildmon That's true, Chris, and I'm sorry it
Chris Woodward wasn't low, but it wasn't as high as it could be.
Tim Wildmon Okay, that's fine. We'll guess where. Where you were.
Wesley Wildmon Did you not think you can say, I'm,
Tim Wildmon I'm.
Wesley Wildmon I'll come from an average place without saying I can't read. I'm like you. I can't read. Come on, dad.
Tim Wildmon Well, we'll talk about it more tomorrow.
Fred Jackson Okay?
Tim Wildmon Have a great day, everybody.
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