Today's Issues continues on AFR with Steve Paisley Jordan
>> Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your.
>> Steve Jordahl: 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. Tim, Wesley. Ray Ray's in Florida. We're in Mississippi. And studio with us today is our colleague, Steve Paisley Jordan. Good morning, brother Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Donning a, black shirt with, all kind of fish on it. Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Look at these fish. I was trying to see them. Are you a fisherman?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I do enjoy fishing. Those are going to be.
>> Steve Jordahl: So this a rainbow trout, a coho salmon, and I don't know what you call this guy.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, real close to like, that's a grouper.
>> Tim Wildmon: Grouper, I think. Yeah. Steve's got all kind of tasty fish on his shirt today.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is my school shirt.
>> Wesley Wildmon: School.
>> Tim Wildmon: Get it, get it. Oh, I got it. Yeah. I was three seconds behind Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: For those watching.
>> Tim Wildmon: I did not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Slower.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve does it really. Steve does. He is, for those watching on our Facebook or YouTube or our own, our own streaming AFA. No. Streaming.AFA.net stream dota stream.AFA.net or YouTube or Facebook. Today's Issues page. Steve has got his shirt, on with the.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: With the fish.
>> Steve Jordahl: And we encourage all of you to come in, to log on and comment. I'll take all the comments. Suggestions.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve's a popular guy. When people come by here to visit us from around the country, they want to see Steve Paisley. Jordo.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's happened before. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't know why they go home, disappointed. Every time. That's a different story.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you wear a paisley shirt about three days a week, too. Two days a week.
>> Steve Jordahl: I try to keep up the image. Keep the image going.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Mother of NBC Today show co host Savannah Guthrie went missing Saturday
Hey, by the way, before we jump into whatever topic you have for us, Steve, I wanted to ask you guys just your thoughts. And Steve, I'll start with you. we haven't talked about this hardly at all, but a big national story right now is the, mother of Savannah Guthrie, the, NBC Today show co host. It's been all over the news for the last, what, four or five days?
>> Steve Jordahl: It's been, it's a week. It happened Saturday night. She got kidnapped, if it's kidnapping.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, her mom. Her mom in Arizona went missing from her home.
>> Steve Jordahl: Savannah Garfield is an NBC host. so people know her and, they feel like they kind of. You feel like they're. You invite them in your home through your tv, you kind of feel like you know them. So there's some sympathy there.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's a Today show. Very, very well known show. Has been forever. But, Right. What do you. Have you been following this at all?
>> Tim Wildmon: We have watched hours.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: The coverage.
>> Tim Wildmon: I feel so bad. So. So we all do. We still so terrible for Savannah Guthrie and her siblings. They're just their own, you know, they're getting no privacy. Hard. Of course they feel. I guess they're feeling like they have to be public somewhat to try to, if their mom is still alive, get them back from the kidnappers. If that's what happened.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, you. You always have hope in those first few hours.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, how many days have passed and there's been evidently no, quote, proof of life.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So you. Then the mind just says. You don't want to say out loud what you're thinking.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but. And she was on medication too, that right?
>> Tim Wildmon: 84 years old, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's what everybody's wondering is what would be the motive for someone to kidnap an 84 year old woman?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they got a figure that Savannah Guthrie is probably making some good money.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, well, that's true. That's right. But financial. But there's been no. Has there been proof of.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no. But you. You don't ever give up on that kind of stuff.
>> Tim Wildmon: has there been proof that it was a legitimate ransom offer?
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm,
>> Tim Wildmon: No, not offer. Ransom.
>> Steve Jordahl: Demand.
>> Tim Wildmon: Demand.
>> Steve Jordahl: Not to my knowledge. I have a story running today about this and one of the things that, I'm talking about is the fact that we have three or four 24 hour news channels that try to. They're doing their best, Ray. You probably can attest to this. Try to fill all 24 hours with this story. There's just not that much news. So you keep hearing things over and over.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's nothing new in the last few days.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right. And then you keep hearing people's best guess at things and everything. And I might as well say this as long as we're talking about it. The national crime information database received over 300,000 reports annually. It gets 300,000 reports annually from missing persons under the age of 18.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but I want to know what the. How many are in their 80s, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, I'm not talking about people who go wandering off or get lost because they have dementia.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm talking about people that are kidnapped or abducted, especially out of their bed, in their home. Yeah, I've never heard of that before.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, no. And I mean, was this a robbery that went bad and turned into a Kidnapping.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Was this intended to be a kidnapping and ransom situation? If so, where is, Nancy? Where is she now?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I think with every passing hour, it gets, it gets grimmer and grimmer. It must be awful.
>> Steve Jordahl: Only imagine.
There are so many unanswered questions in this case
>> Wesley Wildmon: I have not followed it as closely as. As some of y' all have, but it's just hard to imagine with all the resources that's put toward it at this point, that they don't have any more answers than they do.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the can't. I don't know. The cameras are missing. it's just. It's just so many unanswered questions. Usually there's a. In a crime, case like this, or a crime scene or a, you know, there's a. There's cameras somewhere.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: That caught somebody doing something or, you know, driving close by or a car in the neighborhood.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, there's. Oh, there's something. Or there was a motive. from somebody who. Maybe somebody been in an argument with somebody. Ah, I don't know. But just.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's what I'm saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's no mystery. Complete mystery.
California taxes professional athletes for playing games in their state
all right. you are listening to today's issues. Steve, first story.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, did you guys have a good time watching the Super Bowl?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, kind of boring.
>> Steve Jordahl: It was a little bit of a.
>> Tim Wildmon: Boring as far as a football game go, unless you're really into defense. Well, I like defense, but I like to see some touchdowns scored.
>> Steve Jordahl: You want to know someone who probably didn't have as good a time as you might imagine? That would be winning quarterback Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold.
>> Tim Wildmon: But he won the Super Bowl. He was going to Disney World.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, but I'm going to Disney World. So, we. I. We like to tease, Ed about being from Massachusetts. Sometimes they call that state Taxachusetts because of its ridiculous taxes. California has its share of ridiculous taxes. One of them being that, taxes professional athletes for playing games in their state. Sam Darnold actually lost money playing in the Super Bowl.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're kidding.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, I'm not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: Listen to. Listen to cut 10 for winning the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Super bowl, the winning team, each player gets $178,000. In other words, the super bowl isn't a part of their salary. And because the game was played in California. and California has a jock tax. And they look at, duty days. So each team spends seven days in the state of California. So those are seven duty days. And they pierce your regular salary at 3.5%. So he has to pay when you. When you take into account he got the 178,000, plus his overall salary, he has to pay the state of California for spending seven days there, $249,000. It ends up costing him $71,000 to go play in California.
>> Steve Jordahl: That, is Boomer size.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so he gets taxed on his salary. Even though that he spoke. Seemed like to me the only fair way to do it would be to be taxed on the bonus that he won for winning the Super Bowl. Yeah, no, is that.
>> Steve Jordahl: That would be. That would make sense. But that.
>> Tim Wildmon: But that is that. That's what. Burmero size Assassin. There's. So I know he.
>> Tim Wildmon: He lost money by winning the super bowl, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, he lost by playing California.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Boomer also points out that, the Seahawks play twice a year in California home games. They play, the Rams, and they play the 49ers, which are both in their league in their division. So they play there not only for the seven days that he was in, Santa Clara for the super bowl, but he spent another two days each probably in, And so it's just.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I got so many questions. I'll go with one. So does he, It sounds to me like this would happen regardless of whether he played. Played in the Super Bowl. It just so happens he got a bonus this time. Does it. Is it true, though, that he gets taxed every time he plays in California?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, every professional athlete does.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, that's why sometimes it costs the, the, California professional teams. I know the, player, the superstar.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Show a Ohtani. I know where you're going with this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ohtani, just like a point to people.
>> Wesley Wildmon: There are other people doing what he's doing. Go ahead, though.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. He plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's widely considered the top, if not one of the top two.
>> Steve Jordahl: He might be the goat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. For my generation, at least for right now, for Major League Baseball. And he's from Japan, plays for the Dodgers, and he has taken, a. Taking, a lot less money.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Taken like 10% now, and he's deferred 90%.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's deferring it because he doesn't want to be taxed with California. Is that right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's, Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He deferred.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He'll get his. Not the other 80 to 90% of his salary he'll get after he retires.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Because. Because he did want to fight. Yeah. Because it's smart move, really. Well, because, listen, if California taxes were reasonable, like so many other site Like a lot of states, you know, you wouldn't have to do that.
Steve Liesman: California is revolting over proposed tax on billionaires
But they just. Now they're. Now they. They're having some kind of a deal where. California, where they're going after the billionaires, trying to get them, force them to pay, like 5% or 3. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not that much, but the billionaires, are revolting. Ah, the revolt of the billionaires. They're moving, they're getting out. Because basically they're saying this is robbery.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, you're just robbing us.
>> Wesley Wildmon: and so what I'm looking at here, and I'm looking now at Sam Darnold's loss, the quarterback for Seattle.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ye.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So at the end of the day, while this may seem a little bit confusing, the bottom line is he lost $71,000 from playing in the Super Bowl.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. That'll show you. You don't need to be playing the Super Bowl.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, quit that.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think it's because it was in the state of California.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Sure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: I think every state taxes. But California probably is onerous in it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, he is a. I don't know if he's a resident of California, but he, he does. He did grow up in Southern California, but it seemed to me if his residency is in the state of Washington, which by the way, their taxes are not much better. Yeah, they're all that left coast out there is.
>> Tim Wildmon: And we're not saying he's unusual. I mean, Steve, all the players lost money, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that real? y'. All. Are y' all kidding me on this? No. Is this true?
>> Steve Jordahl: That's true.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Now, I think. I think that the biggest. The, I think the biggest comparison here is because. And the reason this is as much of a story than it would be any other game is the fact that he got a bonus for winning are playing in the super bowl. The bonus he got. The point that they're making is once you take out a tax of that, that's where you get the $71,000 loss.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me ask you guys, whiplash, Top topic whiplash right here, please. Is ICE going to survive as an agency? Are they going to have to shut down the Department of Homeland Security? They're about to be unfunded. Am I right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, that's the battle going on right now. There's a government, shut down pending over this. And they are having hearings. They, they want to. Democrats want. Some. Want to defund and completely abolish, ice. I don't Think, ah, they'd have to replace with something. I mean, you have to have law enforcement.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't think the Democrats would. I don't think that. I don't think a majority of Democrats care whether we have any, borders or enforcement of anything. I don't think they care.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's true, but they're not in charge.
>> Steve Jordahl: There are laws, though, on the books, and I think you would have to, be able to. I think constitutionally, you have to have ability to prosecute your laws.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. To execute the. Prosecute and execute the laws. Well, I just, you know. Well, we have sanctuary states, sanctuary cities. They don't care about those laws. So I just don't think that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm sure I. So make it.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm not trying to indict all Democrats, but I think the vast majority of Democrats, they don't want borders. So, I, mean, we're on stolen land, and they don't want borders. They don't want, anybody enforcing, immigration laws because they don't believe in the immigration laws. So. And, And ICE is under siege. they've been involved in two deaths, by. In Minnesota. They got a lot of publicity, and a lot of people, you know, hold ICE accountable for those deaths. Those are still under investigation, but I'm just saying that, they're under. Even Trump's backing off, saying they need a softer approach.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's what he said. Oh, by the way.
>> Tim Wildmon: So they're under siege. I'm talking about ICE is.
Tim Ferriss: People claim Native Americans were mistreated in history
>> Steve Jordahl: Since you mentioned it, I should. We should probably do this. We haven't done this in a long time. I want to acknowledge that we are doing this talk show on the ancestral homeland of some rednecks.
>> Wesley Wildmon: no, we hadn't reminded people that in a while.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, Frank Turek, at the beginning of our show, had a good point. He said, how can anything be stolen land unless you had borders?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So it's, Of course, nobody's ever accused people on the left of being intellectually consistent.
>> Steve Jordahl: No.
>> Tim Wildmon: but, that's what they, you know, a lot of them, we're on stolen land, but yet they don't want to give theirs back.
>> Steve Jordahl: No.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, and I don't see anybody going back to their homeland. You know, nobody's going back to Europe or Africa or anywhere else.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, Rosie did for a bit.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ellen DeGeneres for a few months, but then the British, it was too cold and wet, I think. So she decided Trump's okay. If I can go back to Sunny California.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, anyway, it's just the whole thing's ridiculous. Everything they do is to target the white, European. White people of European descent. That's, that's really the only thing, that they care about. How can we dis white, people? Yeah, that's. It seems to be their target all. It's even from the white liberals and a racist. White guilt. Yeah. It's just like every day, all day. And it's like, you know, stop it already. Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: If you're gonna, if you're gonna be a singer at the Grammy is the same. We're all on stolen land. Right, Right. And then you live in a gated community with a multimillion dollar mansion in California. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're not going to pay any attention to what you have.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're not giving your land back to the Indians who lived there many years ago. And we know who they are because they came forward, their tribe leader did. You know, and I'm always. I've said this before, for the people who go, well, we're on stolen land, talking about here in North America. Okay. Of course, they don't ever talk about anything else in the world or any other country. Any other country. It's always the United States. And the Europeans, came over here and stole the land from the Indians. Okay, well, first of all, guess who stole that land from the Indians in the first place?
>> Steve Jordahl: Other Indians.
>> Tim Wildmon: The other, the other Indians.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Good guess.
>> Tim Wildmon: The other Indian got that school shirt. So, the Indians. Europeans who were here. Native Americans did not live in peace and tranquility amongst each other. They warred over what land always, and did for as long as they were here. So when the Europeans came over here, it was nothing different. It was just, they said, we're into.
>> Steve Jordahl: And Europeans were just a little bit better at it because they'd been doing it in Europe for eons.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, you know, the whole thing is.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And there was. A lot of the lands were purchased. They were bought.
>> Tim Wildmon: Absolutely. Yeah, they were bought. They were bought from the Native Americans who were in that region. In that area.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: were there, were there were American. Were Native Americans mistreated on, in history? Yes, they were. but, you know, as I say, nothing's clean and pretty in history. When you're talking right. When you're talking about war and, and, and battles and land grabs and this people do this to this people, and then those people retaliate.
>> Tim Wildmon: History is a messy thing, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's the history of the world.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's the history of the world right there. You go back and read the war, the wars that went on between the Europeans. You know, just brutal, barbaric. you know, same thing in Africa and same thing in Asia. I mean, it's just been that way since, you know, since man was able to get a weapon and start attack. And land has been the major reason for wars, over time, probably the number one reason.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Acts chapter 17:26 says he made for one man, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of each nation.
>> Tim Wildmon: Boundaries, Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, for a boundary. Wouldn't want to quote the Bible there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Wow.
Steve: I wrote 800 word article on boundaries and nations
>> Wesley Wildmon: on a serious note, I wrote 800 word article on this. I saw on the stand. That's where I was. I use that portion.
>> Tim Wildmon: You wrote it on what?
>> Wesley Wildmon: The boundaries and nations and how God cares about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where can people read that?
>> Wesley Wildmon: on the stand. AFA.net I'll send it over on our.
>> Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues Facebook page.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I think Brent will do that for us. I'm getting ahead. Nod. Yeah, Brent's going to do that for us. God still cares about each nation. All right, go ahead, Steve.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve.
Meta and Google are accused of intentionally making their social media apps addictive
All right.
>> Steve Jordahl: There is a potentially landmark case that's winding its way through the California court systems.
>> Tim Wildmon: I like the way we naturally changing the word land.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Talking about land. And now you've changed it to landmark a landmark case. Where is this?
>> Steve Jordahl: In California.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And, Meta and Google are in court and they are being accused of intentionally making their social media apps addictive. And so, you remember, the tobacco lawsuits back in the 80s and 70s, the tobacco nicotine was found to be addictive and, well, God made nicotine addictive. They're saying that the people who programmed and wrote the code for, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram would made them addictive on purpose.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And, Let me, let me. I want to play. this is a cut from Dan Schneider, who is with the Media Research Center. I talked to him yesterday. This is a story running on AFN today. Cut 8.
>> Wesley Wildmon: This first bellwether case. The allegation is that these social media companies intentionally designed the product to entice and addict young people to it. So it's intentional harm. I have seen how these tech platforms have specifically hired psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists. And so the allegation is that these people have been hired specifically to figure out how to hook kids and adults, on the platform. Some of the accusations relate to how casinos will have machines that have the beeps and the buzzers and the bells, like a reward system, a gaming system that the human mind turns into, an irresistible effort to keep the focus. Conservatives in particular have been shouting at these big tech platforms about all the things that they've been doing wrong to harm us, and they've ignored us. They're going to get what they deserve.
>> Steve Jordahl: The addiction, has led to, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, actual suicides, eating disorders, substance disorders, sextortion.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but can't you just turn it off?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, it's addictive. This is a thing. You can. But.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I don't see how that's a crime, though.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't either. That's the whole idea. listen, I think it's a problem.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I think it's. I think it's incentive.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, it is. I think it's a screen time, especially for children, can be addictive.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Got a limit?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you got to limit it. And I do believe that those companies.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Do it on purpose.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do it on purpose.
>> Wesley Wildmon: But I do.
>> Tim Wildmon: But television, Television used to want every. Every company wants your attention all the time, if you'll give it to them so they can sell more ads for more dollars. I mean, that's this.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they're. They're being the way it works, with being subversive about it.
>> Tim Wildmon: okay, yeah, we'll see where that goes. but, you know, who amongst us hadn't had the Internet, and you start searching something and an hour later you're going, what am I?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Where did my hour go?
>> Tim Wildmon: Where did my hour go? What did I start looking for? Yeah, you know, here I am.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I started here, and I'm over here now.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm reading about the life of Kevan Bacon.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Bacon.
>> Tim Wildmon: Bacon. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I started out trying to read about how to cook, best way to cook bacon. And here I am on the life of Kevan Bacon. So it's a. anyway, I do think, I do think that a lot of these social media websites and are, Are they are by nature addictive.
>> Steve Jordahl: and by design, is what they're saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: By design. Yeah, that's true. I don't know if that's a crime or not.
>> Steve Jordahl: We'll find out.
>> Tim Wildmon: But anyway, I think that's, can certainly take your focus away from what you should be doing and in some cases for Christians, take your focus away from God.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so, Ray, thank you so much, brother.
>> Tim Wildmon: You bet. Thank you, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ray Pritchard.
Your article about Borders is up where? On our Facebook page
want to thank Ray Wesley, Steve Brent Creeley, our producer and board operator. Cole Greene, our, camera operator.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That article's up now.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Your article that you wrote about Borders is up where? On our Facebook page. He'll go to today's issues. Facebook.
>> Wesley Wildmon: A lot of scripture there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good deal. All right. Thanks to. Who else was on? Chris Woodward, Frank Turek.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's all.
>> Tim Wildmon: Want to thank my doctor for getting you here, for getting me here, getting me out of the office.
>> Wesley Wildmon: If you just hand me that doctor.
>> Tim Wildmon: Get me out of the clinic, getting that blood work done.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We'll get to turn that doctor soon.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we'll see you tomorrow, everybody.
