Steve Paisley Jordow will have elbow surgery on Thursday

Steve Jordahl 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. Steve Paisley Jordow joins us now. Good morning, Steve.

Tim Wildmon I do.

Steve Jordahl Good morning, everybody.

Tim Wildmon How are you, brother?

Steve Jordahl I'm. I'm well. I am well, thank you.

Tim Wildmon You, have a little carpal tunnel.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, I got surgery coming up on Thursday. I won't be in on the show on Thursday.

Tim Wildmon Pray a prayer for Steve.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, it's a common surgery. I got carpal tunnel in my right hand. I haven't felt my thumb or first two fingers in months, which makes it hard to pick things up and to type.

Tim Wildmon Can you type?

Steve Jordahl It hurts. I can't. It's slow and it really hurts. so, yeah, so I'm going to have that surgery, on Thursday. hopefully I'll be back on the following Monday. I might not be full use, but. But I should be conscious and able to contribute. So.

Tim Wildmon All right. Well, I'm Tim with Wesley, and, Ray is with us, too, and we're. We're glad to have you listening to American Family Radio. So, Ray, your Ole Miss Rebels play Thursday night. You're m going to be watching that?

Tim Wildmon Yes, sir. You know, I think I'm a typical football fan. You're a believer, but you're a skeptic. You doubt your own team, right?

Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah. It's part of being American.

Tim Wildmon It's when. When we played Georgia at the half, I knew there was no way Ole Miss is going to come back on Georgia and win that game. And, yeah, it took some.

Tim Wildmon Well, I do think the psyche, changes depending on how many years you win. Like Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia know they, they go into the game thinking they're going to dominate, and they don't. Something's wrong with the world.

Tim Wildmon That's right.

Tim Wildmon But, yeah, if you're a new kid on the block with the big boys like Ole Miss, you just wonder, I. When did. When is my m. When am I going to wake up from this dream?

Tim Wildmon I'm happy right now.

Steve Jordahl Miami's the 10th graded team. It's number 10 in the bracket. now it has.

Tim Wildmon You mean the team Ole Miss plays Thursday night in Arizona is.

Steve Jordahl Is. Is the number 10 team in the bracket.

Tim Wildmon Seating.

Steve Jordahl Seating. but they have beat Texas A and M and they beat Ohio State. So I think they're formidable, but they are not like they're not the first, ranked team.

Wesley Wildmon I think they've been. This is just a guess this Wesley? No. But did y' all even ask what I think?

Speaker E No.

Tim Wildmon We care.

Steve Jordahl Okay?

Tim Wildmon We do.

Wesley Wildmon I think that they. Miami has exhausted every strategy and every thought and idea and every effort just to win. To beat A and M, which I didn't think they could do. And then be to Ohio State, which I didn't think they can do that. I give Ole Miss a four point advantage here.

Tim Wildmon Do you really?

Steve Jordahl Mm.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Well, of course Wesley and I are Mississippi State fans and we're glad football season's over. And we keep reminding people like Ray and our Ole Miss friends, who many of them live amongst us here.

Tim Wildmon We live amongst.

Tim Wildmon We live them. We have to. We have to live together. Coexist Ole Miss and Mississippi State fans. We ain't like, Ohio State, Michigan, where you're separated by a border. we have.

Tim Wildmon Everything's intermingled here. Intermarriage.

Tim Wildmon That's right. That's right, brother. So I just have to keep reminding my friend, my Ole Miss friends that to keep the important things, the important things in life, in college football should not be. You know what I'm saying? I think you're taking this far too seriously. So I try to remind them about the priorities.

Tim Wildmon Somehow. Somehow it doesn't sound like the most.

Tim Wildmon Sincere thing you've ever tried to remind them that we should have priorities in life and college football really shouldn't be in the top 10 if you want to maintain your, you know, your Christian witness. so Ray, am I convinced?

Scott Adams picks the Ole Miss Rebels and the Indiana Hoosiers

Tim Wildmon Unless your team is in the semifinals, that's an exception to that rule.

Wesley Wildmon They move in the top three.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Unless your team's at the top, in which case, you move into the idolatry. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Complete. Got a completely different problem now.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, that's funny because, the excitement level, and I know it's the same way in Indiana and Oregon and Miami, but especially, especially for Indiana fans and for Ole Miss fans who haven't been in this position before, to be in the final four teams of all the college football. It's just, you know, it's the closest thing to college football heaven that you can get besides winning it all. So it's pretty amazing. And so we'll see how, how it turns out the Thursday and Friday night. Well, how. Okay. All right, go ahead.

Tim Wildmon Since you brought it up.

Tim Wildmon All right. I brought it up.

Tim Wildmon We are Wesley already, you know, he. He picked a four points.

Tim Wildmon You picked Ole Miss to beat, Miami West.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah. That's what's going to happen.

Tim Wildmon Okay. It's what's going to happen. He says, okay.

Tim Wildmon And he knows he's the handicapper, but.

Tim Wildmon You know, I'm going to pick him as well.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Tim Wildmon I'm gonna pick it on the other side. Pick the Ole Miss Rebels and the Indiana Hoosiers.

Wesley Wildmon Yep. That's what's going to happen to play.

Tim Wildmon In the national championship.

Wesley Wildmon You looking at. Are you looking at my score sheet?

Tim Wildmon No, I just think, listen, Oregon's got, Oregon and Miami team. Oregon and Miami are great teams, too. So I mean, it's. It's probably going to be two great games on Thursday night and Friday night. But for those fan bases, Ole Miss in Indiana, it's like, you know, they're living a dream. Okay, don't wake me up. So, and we have that comment from Trinidad. Ah, shambling do.

Speaker E Okay.

Tim Wildmon This gentleman, young, man, I say young man. Compared to me, he is a, ah, he's the quarterback for the Ole Miss Rebels and he has quite a story. He, was recruited to Ole Miss after he was not recruited in high school to a Division 1 school. I'm talking about. He's from the state of Michigan and his name is Trinidad. I've never heard that name for a first name for somebody, but I think has something to do with his mom and her Christian faith. Trinidad. I think so. I could be wrong about that. But, do you have the clip from him?

Steve Jordahl I do, yeah. This is him. He was talking, this is after the game and a reporter asked him a question. This is what he answered.

Tim Wildmon Cut 12 to the bay, Georgia.

Steve Jordahl Now you've won the Sugar bowl to.

Tim Wildmon Advance in the College Football Playoff.

Speaker F How did this happen, man? Jesus Christ, my Lord and savior, through and through. He's been with me ups and the downs, man. I just got to.

Speaker E Thanks to God.

Speaker F It's been amazing, amazing journey. I got to thanks the Oxford Community Ole Miss for giving me opportunity to play here.

Steve Jordahl If you didn't hear it, he said, thanks to Jesus. he's been with him through the ups and downs.

Tim Wildmon Right. That's the key part. I wanted to focus on the ups and downs. Wasn't that Jesus, you know, Jesus made me win. It's that Jesus Christ has been with him through his ups and downs. And I saw his mom, hugging him and talking about. They were talking about her. Her faith also, too.

Wesley Wildmon You emphasize. He said, I appreciate Ole Miss for giving me an opportunity, a chance to play the game.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, because I mean, as I say, he was a Division 2 or 3.

Tim Wildmon Quarterback season 2 at Ferris State.

Tim Wildmon Ferris State and then now he's on the national scene in the college playoffs. It's like a storybook. and he wouldn't have been in that position had the starting quarterback for Ole Miss not been hurt.

Tim Wildmon That's right.

Tim Wildmon Earlier in the season, who is a great quarterback in his own right. All right, well, a lot of. Lot of individual storylines. We'll see what happens on Thursday and Friday. All right, Steve, what do you got?

Steve Jordahl We got a very interesting story involving Scott Adams, who's the creator of the Dilbert cartoon. But before we get to that, something that just crossed my path.

A new rule allows mosques to amplify the call to prayer in Manhattan

I wanted to tell you about, the new, York City mayor, Zoran Mamdani, has put in place a new rule.

Wesley Wildmon This is good.

Steve Jordahl That allows mosques to amplify the call to prayer in Manhattan throughout NewSong York City.

Wesley Wildmon I thought you were going to cover the part where they increased the,

Steve Jordahl Well, they increased the bus fare that is supposed to be free, but no, this is. We're deciding not to play the actual audio.

Wesley Wildmon We're sparing everybody.

Tim Wildmon I think we need to hear it. Do we have it?

Wesley Wildmon We're sparing everybody.

Tim Wildmon Okay, just. Just, just let me make sure people understand what's going on here. Zoran Mandami is the new mayor of NewSong York City. He is a cell. He says he's a Muslim. Okay. so, I mean, I'm just saying some Muslims would probably say he's not a real Muslim because he's very secular in many of his ways. However, the. The, Muslim. In Muslim countries, you will hear the call for prayer over loudspeakers five times.

Steve Jordahl A day, starting at five in the morning.

Tim Wildmon And it's. It's not, a pleasant sound.

Speaker E Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Yeah.

Wesley Wildmon And also, are we sure we want to play it? Because it does. I don't want to make. I want our audience to know we're not giving credence or we're not sharing our platform.

Steve Jordahl It's the background a little bit.

Speaker E Okay.

Steve Jordahl And it's a little bit.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Well, I just wanted people who've not heard. If you've been to the Middle east, you've heard it before, or so Muslim.

Steve Jordahl Country, you've heard it before, but this is Miami. this is Manhattan.

Tim Wildmon Sorry, Manhattan. So he's. He's saying that the, That the mosque can play over the loudspeakers the call to prayer five times a day.

Steve Jordahl on Friday.

Tim Wildmon Not going to be good.

Steve Jordahl And nightly during Ramadan.

Tim Wildmon Listen to. See if you can hear this. We are hearing a song. Come here. I think we laid off the desert.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. That's Manhattan.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. I don't see how you're going to be able to allow that just for noise pollution, even more than it is pollution. well, I mean.

Steve Jordahl Well, they are. They're doing it.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. yeah, well, we'll see what happens there. But what if you have 10 different mosque want to play the same thing five. Five times a day? Yeah, five times a day on Fridays. Listen, some, Wesley, you laugh, but, I mean, there are city ordinances in.

Wesley Wildmon I know the word pollution is what was.

Tim Wildmon But I don't know what you. Well, I don't know else what you call it.

Wesley Wildmon I'm not chuckling at you.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, okay. well, my feelings are at stake here and I don't appreciate you, you know, making fun of me.

Wesley Wildmon That's fair. I, I don't apologize.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I have feelings.

Steve Jordahl If I was like, the, like Brooklyn Tabernacle or what's the city in Manhattan? I would just go ahead and put.

Tim Wildmon On Wrap it up. You want. Okay, you want your Muslim call to prayer? We'll one up you right here.

Steve Jordahl That's right.

Tim Wildmon we'll give you the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.

Wesley Wildmon That's right. Singing, singing, singing. Deuteronomy.

Tim Wildmon Cities can't allow that kind of thing. Not five times a day. Maybe for special occasions. And they're probably church bells that go off, you know, once an hour just to ring the.

Steve Jordahl This is. This is a flag. This is planting a flag.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Steve Jordahl This is claiming territory.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Scott Adams has decided to convert to Christianity before he dies from cancer

All right. You're listening to today's issue. Anyway, that's NewSong York City, and I'm not gonna live there. I'll visit there once a year when I have to fly out. But, yeah, there's a lot of great things in NewSong York City to see, but other things to avoid.

Steve Jordahl A lot of us in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s were fans of, Dilbert. Remember Dilbert the office worker that was.

Tim Wildmon forlorn and very popular comic strip.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. Especially I worked in the Silicon Valley at the time and it was like required reading. Scott Adams is the, author and the cartoonist. Cartoonist that did Dilbert. And, he has been very public lately with a battle that he is having with cancer and he is, terminal. He says he has weeks to months. Months to weeks to live. And so he has decided to convert to Christianity before he dies. And I want you to hear it in his own words. And then I want to talk about this, especially with RA. Let's listen to cut 13.

Speaker E When I talk about my own, impending, death, many of my Christian friends and Christian followers say to me, scott, you still have time. You should convert to Christianity. I've not been a believer, but I also have respect for any Christian who goes out of their way to try to convert me, because how would I believe you believe your own religion if you're not trying to convert me? You're going to hear for the first time today that it is my plan to convert. So I still have time. But my understanding is you're never too late. And on top of that, any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly answered if I wake up in heaven. I do believe that the dominant Christian theory is that I would wake up in heaven if I have a good life. Yeah. I don't necessarily have to state something in advance. And so to my Christian friends, yes, it's coming. I am now convinced that the risk reward is completely smart. If it turns out that there's nothing there, I've lost nothing. If it turns out there is something there and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win. So, with your permission, I promise you that, I will, I will convert.

Steve Jordahl Now, Ray, there were some encouraging things and some questionable things in that statement. Give me your read.

Tim Wildmon I have been following Scott Adams probably for 10 years.

Tim Wildmon his.

Tim Wildmon He was one of the first people to begin to explain Donald Trump before he ever became president. Persuasion techniques and all of that. Learned a great deal from, Scott Adams over the years. He just. As a. For context, Steve, he has prostate cancer that has advanced so much that there is no other treatment available. And I think he is down just. I'm only taking from what he has said in other places. He's down to the last few days or the last few weeks. And I understand what's going on here in this sense. When you're dying of cancer, you start thinking about what's going to happen next. And, Steve, let me just begin here with one of the more interesting. every pastor in America ought to pick up on this. He said, I'm grateful. I'm paraphrasing. I'm grateful to my Christian friends for trying to convert me because it means they're taking their religion seriously. How serious should I take your religion? If you believe in conversion, but you're not trying to convert me, that's exactly what. Exactly right. If you really believe Jesus is the only way to heaven, then you ought to be busy out telling everybody every way that you can. I think probably the, The One thing we can say is he is. there's that story in the Gospels where Jesus, had an encounter with a man. He ends up by saying, you are not far from the kingdom. And I would say that about Scott Adams today based on just what he has said. He's not far from the kingdom. And yet it sounds like he still doesn't understand the grace of God because he said something like, christians believe you live a good life and you go to heaven. No, that's actually the opposite of what we believe. He's not the first person who's been confused about the grace of God. I am praying very sincerely that the Lord will open his eyes here in these last days and he will see how great a sinner he is and what a wonderful savior Jesus is and will by simple faith come into the kingdom. Last thing, Steve. we believe in deathbed conversions. I know they don't happen all the time, but look at the thief on the cross. If that fellow hanging on the cross could say, lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus say back to him, today you'll be with me in paradise. If there's hope for him, there's hope for you and me. And Scott Adams too, Tim.

Tim Wildmon yeah, that's, a. Pray for him. Say a prayer for him today. Scott Adams there, Dilbert. That was a. Back in the, Back in the. The newspaper days when newspapers rained or at least had still had a lot of, circulation in America. I'm talking about physical newspapers that you pick up and read. Dilbert, was probably a top five, comic strip nationwide.

Steve Jordahl Absolutely.

Tim Wildmon So it was read by millions. And you said, Steve earlier. So a lot of people, they know Dilbert. They may not know the creator's name necessarily. His name is Scott Adams. He's the one we're talking about. He was the one we heard there commenting a few, few minutes ago.

Two Chrome extensions accused of hijacking traffic and stealing sensitive data

All right, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Next story.

Steve Jordahl Are you a Chrome user? Do you use the browser Chrome M. I do. It's the one I use. And we are finding out some disturbing news that there two extensions, called Phantom Shuttle that have been. They look harmless, but behind the scenes they are hijacking traffic and stealing sensitive data from all the users who use them legally. I don't know.

Tim Wildmon All right, again, I like to put things on the lower level, bottom shelf. Yeah, not necessarily for me. I have a great understanding of wisdom, of things that are really elevated. But I understand the life of the average person, too. And so I will say that you're talking about Chrome. You're talking about a web browser, right?

Steve Jordahl Right. If you want to go on the Internet like.

Tim Wildmon Like Brave or Firefox or DuckDuckGo or something like that.

Steve Jordahl Right, Exactly.

Tim Wildmon So there's something called Chrome, which is very popular. Right.

Steve Jordahl I think it's a default Chrome, Microsoft browser.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. So, you're saying that. You're not saying. I don't want to get sued here by Chrome. Okay, Steve, so make sure you source what you're talking about here.

Steve Jordahl Researchers at a place called Socket discovered two Chrome extensions using the same name. Phantom Shuttle. Now, these are extensions. You have to install them, and they are linked there.

Tim Wildmon why do you. Why would you install them?

Steve Jordahl They are, used to test the speed of, a connection, especially if you're away from.

Tim Wildmon Okay, so what. So what's. What's that? What's the accusation?

Steve Jordahl That they route all your web traffic through proxy servers controlled by these people, and they steal very sensitive information. They can read your keystrokes.

Tim Wildmon That'll get you a bad reputation.

Steve Jordahl It will.

Tim Wildmon So is that, anyway. Well, you got to be careful with all your data and information out there. Do not click on links that you do know. Click on links on emails, probably from people you even know. Yeah, right, right. And don't respond to text messages that you don't know who they're from. I mean, there's some common sense things that'll help you avoid being one.

Tim Wildmon As a practical matter, if you've got Chrome, which I do. Got to check your extensions, because you never know.

Tim Wildmon How do you check your extensions, Ray? Do you know there's a. Yeah, there's a. Yeah. way to do it.

Tim Wildmon Help me out here, Steve.

Steve Jordahl On the upper right hand side of this browser, there's three dots, and then you go down and you can have a list of your extensions. It'll show you the extensions and you.

Tim Wildmon Can see what they are like phone extensions, extension 2278229. That kind of thing.

Steve Jordahl It could be. It could be a metaphor for that.

Question mark text from unknown number asks you if you're still alive

Tim Wildmon Okay, all right, I'm at it for. So check, your. Check your extensions. so my daughter got a text the other day from an unknown person, said, are you still alive?

Wesley Wildmon Are you serious?

Steve Jordahl Well, is that all it said?

Tim Wildmon Yes, that's all it says. Question mark, text from somebody from an unknown number. And it just said, are you still.

Wesley Wildmon Using the question mark?

Tim Wildmon Text it back. No, sorry.

Tim Wildmon Well, yeah, you get those. Everybody knows what I'm talking about eat those every once in a while. at least most people I know do. And it's, it's a, trick by scammer to get you to engage with them. That's what it's for. That's what they asked. They asked open ended questions. My wife got one the other day, said, hey, we're coming to town for, for a convention in in Tupelo. It was like from under some unknown number and it was like, AI, AI. I said, that's an AI generated. They somehow know your phone is area code. I mean really, that is getting that sophisticated. The trickery out there. It's getting that sophisticated. All right, next story. Steve.

Donald Trump warned Iran against shooting protesters in the streets

Steve Jordahl All right, how bad are things getting in Iran?

Tim Wildmon I don't know, Steve. How bad are they?

Steve Jordahl Iran is a country that is, it's experiencing a lot of turmoil. there are protests in the street. Donald Trump has warned Iran that if they are going to be, shooting protesters as they have done, that, there will be a price to pay.

Tim Wildmon What now?

Steve Jordahl He said what, he's warning Iran against shooting protesters in the streets. Oh, because they have done that and he's telling them that he's watching. but, this is how bad they are. The Iranian government is trying to bribe its citizens, and it is saying it will give them a monthly payment of $7.

Tim Wildmon my man, to.

Steve Jordahl Ease their economic pressure.

Tim Wildmon Well, thank goodness. Two gallons of gas.

Tim Wildmon Two gallons of gasoline.

Steve Jordahl if you're pretty desperate, if that's all you can afford, you know, we.

Tim Wildmon Can only hope and pray and I'm being serious about this for that. This may spark a, some changes in Iran. We've seen this kind of thing before where it dies out, but there is, by all accounts, there is a, at least a, the beginnings of an uprising against the, mullahs. The mullahs being the, ayatollahs. The. Well, there may only be one ayatollah, maybe that's the Supreme. But the Islamic religious leaders that have controlled Iran for so long now, there is an uprising against them. They run it as an Islamic dictatorship basically because the living conditions and the wages and people's ability to pay for the basic things of life are getting really, really difficult and people are getting upset and angry. And also there are a lot of Iranians who, they want freedom. They want freedom from this oppressive religious.

Steve Jordahl Regime because they knew it in the day, back in the day before 1976.

Tim Wildmon Yep. So we'll see what happens there. All right, Ray, thank you. Thank you, Tim and Steve.

Steve Jordahl My pleasure.

Tim Wildmon Appreciate it, Wesley. Appreciate it. let's see. Chris Woodward, made a great contribution to this show today. Grant Creeley and, Jenna Ellis. Jenna Ellis. And Cole Greene, too, as well. So we thank you for listening. We hope you'll stay with us here on AFR throughout the afternoon. Take care.