Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman

Ed Vitagliano 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, Tim, Ed and Wesley. And joining us now is Steve Paisley or Steve Polka Dot Doordo.

Steve Jordahl yeah.

Tim Wildmon Change your name for the shirt today.

Ed Vitagliano Polka Dot.

Tim Wildmon Polka Dot Jordan.

Steve Jordahl That works. Looks like. Call me anything, but late to dinners.

Ed Vitagliano Looks like paintball. Looks like you've been hit.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, I lost a paintball. I lost a big time paintball medal.

Tim Wildmon All right, Steve, good morning to you.

Steve Jordahl Hey, good morning, everybody.

Tim Wildmon What do you got for us?

JD Vance says he thinks Alexandria Ocasio Cortez will run for president

Steve Jordahl Well, I thought we'd start with, some, politics here. do you guys think that, Ocasio Cortez is going to be running for president in 2028?

Tim Wildmon What's her name?

Steve Jordahl Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Woman.

Tim Wildmon Do you think aoc.

Steve Jordahl Yes, AOC I think you're running.

Ed Vitagliano I, I was gonna say I think she'll run for, Chuck Schumer's Senate seat. but I, I had not thought about her running for president. She, she will be old enough. Good. She's getting good poll numbers.

Steve Jordahl Well, let me, let me, maybe illuminate this a little bit. She was asked recent poll interview. J.D. vance said he thought she was going to be the leading candid.

Ed Vitagliano Really?

Steve Jordahl He was asked about that comment. This is what she said. Cut 18.

Speaker D JD Vance just said in an interview that he thinks you are going to be the leading Democratic candidate for president in 2028. What's your response to that? I mean, you know, I hope he is. That's what I'll say. He's a Republican nominee.

Steve Jordahl She's choosing her running. Her opponent. She wants J.D. vance to be the Republican nominee. So I think she's running. She thinks she's. She thinks she's running.

Wesley Wildmon Just.

Ed Vitagliano That's.

Wesley Wildmon I know we can all do it, but the. Yeah, and hum. from someone in her position in an interview question is just. And she's done it many times before.

Steve Jordahl Well, she's got the word salad thing down too, like Kamala did. And, the problem is that she might not escape the wrath of the Democrat socialists. She is the. She is the squad, so she's kind of one of them. But she has been moderating some of her answers a la Gavin Newsom to try to be appealing more to the centrist. They might.

Tim Wildmon Well, she'll be primary Dan. Soon.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, I know this.

Ed Vitagliano On the left of the Democratic Party. This is wild. Just, just the Fact that we. Some of us said that. That AOC could get primary, that's.

Tim Wildmon That's not being liberal enough.

Ed Vitagliano That's a real possibility. Progressive. Because if she has been moderating. I didn't know that, Steve, until you said it. If she's been moderate, I knew Gavin Newsom was doing it. Everybody has to go towards the center if you're going to run for president. You just have to. The problem is that the Internet never forgets. And so you used to be able to moderate, and then by the time people figured out that you had changed your position a little bit, the election was. But not anymore. Listen, just the idea that she would not be left enough for the Democratic Party, that would be a really good sign for them. That's a pretty good development for the disintegration of Democratic political power.

Tim Wildmon I don't think she's presidential material, for several reasons. I think she's, you know, finding the US House of Representatives. Now, I'm not saying I agree with any of her politics. I'm just saying as a House of Representatives member, she's, you know, an average one, in terms of her intelligence, her knowledge, and her articulation. Although she does sound like she's been sucking helium oftentimes. And I don't know how. I don't mean that disrespectfully. I'm just.

Ed Vitagliano I'm sure you don't.

Tim Wildmon I'm just making an observation.

Ed Vitagliano Yes, absolutely.

Tim Wildmon Minnie Mouse.

Ed Vitagliano So some people say.

Ed Vitagliano Some people say she sounds like,

Tim Wildmon So. But I don't think she's. I don't think she'll run because I don't think she's. She's also, if you've heard her speak for any length of time enough, she's good with her bullet points on the left wing causes. but, she's not.

Ed Vitagliano Anyway, that run was.

Steve Jordahl Was Kamala Harris. She's. I would put her in the same basket.

Tim Wildmon See where that got him. Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano I would say this. She. She does speak with passion when she speaks. So she's clearly a true believer, as opposed to someone like Gavin Newsom, who just almost seems too slick to trust.

I don't think Hillary Clinton is smart enough to run for president

Wesley Wildmon Okay.

Ed Vitagliano But now he's better at doing the presidential thing than she is. but I don't. Listen, this is. I'm not. I don't want to insult her. I'm not. I want to preface this. I'm not saying she's not smart, okay? I'm saying I don't think she's smart enough to run for president.

Tim Wildmon That's what I'm saying.

Ed Vitagliano And listen, I'm not, I'm not smart enough to run for president.

Tim Wildmon That's what I say.

Ed Vitagliano So, so I don't. I think if she were to become the Democratic Party nominee, she would be found out. She just would. She would fail to be able to hold up to the.

Steve Jordahl Imagine her on a debate stage with Marco Rubio.

Tim Wildmon They need to go. Gavin Newsom of a governor, somebody of his ilk I think would be the best. Although he's not going to be left wing enough for the, For a lot of the. I mean he's really not stunning. I mean really not.

Sometimes you can press liberal talking points without having to provide evidence

All right, next story.

Steve Jordahl All right, if you are in the middle of a conversation with some of your liberal friends and they are taking up the liberal talking points, sometimes all you have to do is press them for details, make them flesh out their argument. There's a podcaster, her name is Savannah Craven and she was on a college campus for ah, a pride march. And she put a microphone in a young college lady's face, and asked this question. Cut 19.

Speaker D Do you think that gays have lost any rights under the conservative administration that we have right now? Absolutely. What rights have they lost?

Steve Jordahl I think.

Speaker D Sorry. It's okay, girl. Why never. It's all good. Is this live stream. No, no, no, no, no. Sorry. If you're done, that's totally fine. Have a good day.

Steve Jordahl I'm done. They make claims.

Ed Vitagliano Happens a lot.

Steve Jordahl They make claims that they have no way backing up. They use words they don't know what they mean. You press them on things and you can find them out pretty quick.

Tim Wildmon That's what about Republicans and President Trump. That's the one, one of the arguments that the left wing uses which I see. I'm going. You may disagree with Republicans and or conservatives or Trump on a number of issues policy wise. But when they throw out things like they're fascist and they're racist and they're killing trans people.

Ed Vitagliano That kind of stuff.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. I'm going like what. Explain to me what, what rate what. Who's racist and how that. How they're racist now they're probably going to say some of them will pull out the. Oh, you're. Because you have, you support ice, the immigration enforcement and they're going after brown people which are the majority of those who enter our country illegally from the southern border coming from Central America. Although that's. That dynamics change. They basically emptied out. I think that Ecuador's emptied out. I think they said last One to leave Ecuador, turn off the lights. But, but, but, so, but, but. I mean, I guess they would say that equals racism. That's, a real stretch to me because the illegal ICE would only enforce immigration laws as it pertains to whoever's here illegally.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon So, but, but I'm guessing that's it.

Wesley Wildmon well, that may be true for some, but she. She said nothing because she doesn't know.

Tim Wildmon That one right there that said. Well, that was.

Wesley Wildmon That makes up a lot of. They don't know why they said.

Tim Wildmon They don't know what they said. They just. That's what I'm saying. If you're going to throw charges out, words out like racist and fascist and things like that, Trump's, a Hitler, and just bring forth some evidence, because those are inflammatory, you know what I'm saying?

Wesley Wildmon That's why in situations like that, like the interview we just heard, that's why on those, you're not. You won't necessarily have an extended debate. So the person on the other end should just flip it and be like, no, I think you're the racist. And then it's the back and forth.

Tim Wildmon Well, give me evidence. Well, I don't have to. You don't either.

Steve Jordahl That's.

Wesley Wildmon That's it. Yeah.

Steve Jordahl So, yeah. The answer I've often thought about giving if someone. Because we don't. I don't travel in a whole lot of circles where people are calling me racist, but if they do, the question I want to ask them, they're calling me racist, is, why should I care what you think about me? You seem to be all up in arms and just have your. You're about to have an explosion because you think I believe this about trans people or don't believe this about you're transphobic. Why do you care what I. Who am I? I'm just some dude, you know? So I don't. Me saying I don't really care what you think about me.

Speaker D Yeah.

Tim Wildmon yeah.

AI is helping to diagnose heart conditions and pancreatic cancer

All right, next story.

Steve Jordahl All right. we were. I talked the other day. I brought in a story about, AI helping, diagnose heart conditions using a study that they did with a whole bunch of M. EKGs. Did you remember us talking about that?

Ed Vitagliano Well, I think we talked about it in our story. We didn't talk about it on the air.

Steve Jordahl Well, let's talk about it on the air.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl there is a study, it was out of UC Berkeley. They had some researchers who took 400,000 EKGs from, It was Sweden because it's a socialist country because they put all their medical records together, they got 400,000 and they gave it to AI and they said, look at these EKGs and compare them with death records. Can you find some comparison between the people who died and their EKG and what we might have missed if we could have picked it up? And they found indeed something in one of the, in that wave, you know, the sinus wave. They call it the sinus rhythm. It's the heart thing, the heartbeat. You see the heartbeat, you see when you ride it out. Yeah. but one of those indicators, the AI found a brand, something that they had missed, that they if you have this certain marker, you are, you. More testing is needed, but you will be, probably needing and eligible for a pacemaker, which would solve the problem. This is the strength of AI in medicine. And we're seeing it now also in pancreatic cancer. I did a story a while ago. We have a new story that's today that's finding that highly sensitive tests have been developed by a team at Northwestern Medicine Chicago who followed 106 pancreatic cancer patients from initial diagnosis through chemotherapy and surgery. And they found a new highly sensitive blood test, detected signs of that cancer, nearly four times as many, four times as many patients as conventional, as the conventional test. So the AI and, bringing huge amounts of data together and analyzing it, something that would take analysts, humans, years to look through. AI can look through in minutes. and it's revolutionizing medicine both in cancer. Pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly cancers, most often deadly because you can't, it really can't predict it. You can't predict it. And it, you can suffer from it for a long time before the signs, your body starts showing signs and by

Ed Vitagliano that time it's yes, whatever.

Tim Wildmon That's good news.

Steve Jordahl It is very good news.

Ed Vitagliano And I think you're right. I think, I think going forward, one of the good benefits of AI, you know, one of the downsides is it's going to, you know, create a, an AI overlord that will rule our lives through robots. But apparently, but apart from that, I think it is going to have a lot of health and medical breakthroughs that could be just around the corner for us. Yeah, Tim, you were talking about in our story meeting when we were talking about this pancreatic cancer thing that you thought within not too long, five or 10 years, whatever, you may just have whole body scans and AI will just look at everything and you'll Be able to tell what's going on in your body because it can run through so many, options in search for so much evidence and studies and so forth in just a fraction of the time.

Steve Jordahl There was a futurist who has postulated in the last month. I don't think it's any longer than that. He said, we are going to reach the aging escape velocity, meaning every time they make a breakthrough. for example, this cancer, pancreatic cancer test, if you apply it to the charts about how long we live, this is going to, lengthen the time that you live in average.

Ed Vitagliano And you add the heart to it.

Steve Jordahl You add that. So every time, you do a new cure, you lengthen the average life span. And he says, we're going to get to the point where we're not only getting back the year that we just lived because we're going to start going backwards and start de. Aging. It calls it the escape velocity from aging.

Wesley Wildmon explain that a little more.

Tim Wildmon Yes, Steve, go ahead.

Wesley Wildmon I was following you up until you used that word.

Steve Jordahl Well, if you like Star Trek.

Wesley Wildmon Exactly.

Steve Jordahl The logic goes, if this cure lets you. For every year you were living, they now have a cure that lets you live six months longer, eight months longer for every year you live. The actuary tables, actually, you can say for every year you live, you're going to live an extra year and a half. that's escaping the aging that's there. You're rolling back. I don't know that they thought this through from a, logical perspective, but this is an actual, somebody who thinks that they can. They know how cells work. They know how the aging of the cells work. They know how to stop the aging of the cell. it's getting scary because they're starting. We're starting to get on some, fairly, religious, issues that we have with who actually controls life.

Ed Vitagliano I'm going to tell you how quickly this breakthrough will come.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano it'll come during my final year where I will just go, man, if they just had this five years ago. But it's not gonna.

Tim Wildmon So you. You seen the, what do you call it? The grave.

Ed Vitagliano the grave. I'm not that old.

Wesley Wildmon Grave. Grave day.

Tim Wildmon Grave marker. The. Oh, yeah, the tombstone.

Wesley Wildmon Headstone.

Tim Wildmon The headstone. Tombstone. The thing they write on when you.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, when you die.

Tim Wildmon When you're gone and you're underneath, they put this on top with writing.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Whatever that's called.

Wesley Wildmon Yeah.

Captain Optimism: Medical breakthroughs are coming fast and furiously with AI

Ed Vitagliano Gravestone. Tombstone.

Tim Wildmon Tombstone. What about tombstone? So, there was a movie Wasn't it?

Ed Vitagliano It was a very good movie, about the town.

Tim Wildmon Was that Kirk Russell, Val Kilmer, was it?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Anyway, I digress. So the tombstone had on it. See, I told you I was sick.

Ed Vitagliano I always told my wife that that's what I would have on.

Tim Wildmon You've heard that one before. Anyway, listen, I think this is good news. The medical advances being made are getting exponential and, it's, it's really, good to see. And, and the, the AI. I know it has its downside, we've talked about that. But it sounds like to me, medical breakthroughs are coming fast and furiously with the help of AI What I said was, I foresee now you can already get a full body scan. You can pay for it. You can pay three grand or whatever it is. And, in these big cities, in big cities they have. You can pay to get a, full body scan, you know, to detect any cancer. you can also get a blood, test done that catches a lot of cancer in its early stages. So those things are already available now. I've looked into it. But, there's a downside potentially to doing a full body scan when you don't have any symptoms of anything either. It could lead you down rabbit trails, you know that.

Ed Vitagliano Plus it's just a snapshot. So the day after or a week after or a month after, you have to take another one.

Tim Wildmon Thank you, Captain Optimism. Appreciate that view at life.

Ed Vitagliano I'm just trying to save you $3,000.

Tim Wildmon $3,000? Scan for cancer and it's not there. And then the next day that you never know about. That's what you're saying.

Steve Jordahl Which is.

Tim Wildmon No, which is true. That's true. I'm just saying I foresee, sometime in the next five years to 10 years something like you, walk through like a metal detector does, and it finds any sickness, like a cancer, and then you can same day zap

Ed Vitagliano osteoporosis, you know, you got a, you know, something wrong with your spine again. Do all that.

Tim Wildmon Corrected.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Yeah, corrected. I don't know if you can.

Tim Wildmon Well, you know, you already have, you know, what do you call it?

Ed Vitagliano but you get the procedure before it becomes. Before the problem.

Tim Wildmon That's what I'm saying. I think I foresee that now you're never going to have it where you live forever. But I'm just saying, I think advances in medicine and treatment in the next five to ten years are probably going to lead to another five years of life on average. so whether you like it or not. anyway, so that's good news. You're listening to today's issues on afr. Tim, Ed, and Wesley, along with new newsman Steve. Steve, what's your next story?

The FAA is taking steps towards enabling supersonic flights again

Steve Jordahl Well, ever since 2003, when they retired the Concorde. Remember the Concorde?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Supersonic jet, they have not been able to, they have not allowed supersonic flight. Not because planes aren't allowed or can't go that fast, but because when they do, the sonic boom is so loud. It's destructively loud. Well, they have found a way to engineer a plane that does. It's not a boom anymore. It's more of a sonic thump. And, it's, something that the Trump administration and Transportation Secretary, Shawn Duffy says that they can live with. So they are taking steps towards enabling civil supersonic flights once again over the continental United States. And, they're looking like they're going to. We're going to be seeing supersonic flights again.

Ed Vitagliano How quickly could you go from NewSong York City to Los Angeles?

Steve Jordahl Well, I have NewSong York to Paris. Okay, I'll look up Los Angeles. But NewSong York to Paris on a commercial right now takes seven to eight hours. A supersonic jet and the Concorde took about three and a half hours.

Wesley Wildmon Oh, wow. That's amazing.

Steve Jordahl Three and a half hours from NewSong York City to Paris. Now, NewSong York, you look that up.

Ed Vitagliano Let me just say.

Steve Jordahl NewSong York to Los Angeles.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Now it would be much further out. Well, much.

Steve Jordahl NewSong York, about, two hours.

Ed Vitagliano Two hours. NewSong York to Los Angeles. That's crazy. I guess when the. This.

Tim Wildmon Where is this plane? In the process of this, Secretary

Steve Jordahl of Transportation Shawn Duffy announced that the FAA is taking steps towards enabling this. They're writing the rules and, looking at allowing airlines to purchase.

Tim Wildmon So this jet, jets, the big commercial jetliners that go up to 30,000ft, I think typically fly at about 600 miles an hour.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Is that right?

Steve Jordahl That's about right.

Tim Wildmon And you're talking about an increase of 400 miles. So you're talking about flying at 1000 miles.

Steve Jordahl About 1300, 1350 miles an hour.

Ed Vitagliano When the flight attendant tells you to take your seat and buckle up, you better do it. If you're on one of these flights, there's turbulence.

Tim Wildmon Oh, never mind.

Ed Vitagliano Well, you're going a thousand miles an hour. When you're about to take off and that acceleration, you better be in your seat. Tray tables, in their upright position.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, you let that buzzard hit the windshield, you're gonna know about it, huh?

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon So anyway. What. So that's on the horizon, is what you're saying.

Steve Jordahl They are now. Yes. They're putting the, things in motion so that airlines will be able to purchase and use these planes legally.

Wesley Wildmon Bad news, though.

Steve Jordahl what's that?

Wesley Wildmon If you didn't like their seats distance with on the last one.

Tim Wildmon Right. But you won't have to stay on it long.

Wesley Wildmon That's a good point.

Tim Wildmon They can build those little tiny seats because people don't have to stay on it long. By the time people complained, it's over. This landed.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon yeah.

Ed Vitagliano So I wonder if you'd have time to eat your little bag of peanuts

Steve Jordahl or a movie that's gonna have to.

Tim Wildmon I don't know.

Ed Vitagliano Hey, I'm not doing. If I can.

Wesley Wildmon Not that. Not that I want to be serious, but just to be serious for a second. What would these only be used at longer distance versus an example of, like,

Tim Wildmon they're probably going to be very expensive for the airlines to buy.

Wesley Wildmon I doubt it'll so not like Atlanta to miss.

Tim Wildmon It'll probably be, you know, I'm just guessing, like, American Airlines will have five of them, so I don't know. I'm just guessing. It'll probably be very expensive, but for longer.

Wesley Wildmon My guess is this would be for longer.

Steve Jordahl It would have flight. I mean.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, yeah.

Ed Vitagliano But I mean, if you. If you could go, like, Atlanta to Dallas or Atlanta to Memphis in a half hour in 20 minutes. That's insane.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. The world's getting.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. What's bad is when you take a flight, from what I've had to do on occasion, and all of us in this room probably have you. You drive to Memphis to go to the airport, right?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And then you fly over your home to go to Atlanta.

Ed Vitagliano And then.

Tim Wildmon Then you change planes in Atlanta to go to,

You fly over your house twice on the way to Dallas

Wesley Wildmon Dallas.

Tim Wildmon Dallas. And guess what you do. You fly right over your house again on the way to Dallas. that's happened to me before. I quit doing that. because I said, you know, it's demoralizing. Yes, it is. Flower, a man should not have to fly over his house twice to get where he's going to his destination. Am I right?

Ed Vitagliano That. That sounds like Robert Frostbalm.

Speaker D Yeah.

Tim Wildmon that's where I got it from. Yeah. Robert Frost, our Longfellow was one of them.

Ed Vitagliano Henry Wadsworth.

Tim Wildmon Yes.

Wesley Wildmon Uh-huh.

Tim Wildmon Don Henley, People like that.

Fred Jackson participated, didn't he? Yeah, he did

all right, we're out of time.

Steve Jordahl Pleasure.

Tim Wildmon Thank you, Wesley. Thank you, Ed. Thanks To Brent Creeley. Our producer, Cole Greene, our video man. And, let's see. Fred Jackson participated, didn't he?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, he did.

Tim Wildmon He did. He was a. He gets a participation trophy. we'll see you tomorrow.