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

Tim Wildmon 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. That's the name of this radio program, Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. By the way, we do podcast. So when this show's over, it'll be available on [email protected] afr uh.net. so, we do, a lot of people listen to this show and others here on American Family Radio by having, the podcast downloaded daily. so check that out. Afr.net afr.net afr. Net Tim, we with Fred. And now Steve Paisley Jordow joins us.

There is a wildfire burning in Colorado that is only 36% contained

Good morning, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Hey, everybody.

Tim Wildmon What's your first story, Steve?

Steve Jordahl I, got to speak with a pastor in Colorado. Yesterday. There is a, wildfire that is burning in Colorado. It's called the Aspen Acres fire. It, is currently only 36% contained, although they are calling evacuations off because they have directed it at least away from the, the houses.

Tim Wildmon Is it in Aspen? Is that where it is? No, it's, just called that.

Steve Jordahl It's called that. The Aspen. There are trees, aspen groves, all over the Front Range, all over the Rocky Mountains. And it's a popular name. It probably Aspen Acres was probably the name of the place that it started.

Fred Jackson This fire is actually below Colorado Springs.

Steve Jordahl It's below Pueblo. Yeah, it's in the Front Range. It's south of Colorado Springs. South of Pueblo.

Tim Wildmon Well, that's almost in NewSong Mexico, isn't it?

Steve Jordahl Not quite that far. Beulah, Colorado. It's a town called Beulah. And, so anyway, I talked with a pastor there. His name is Isaac Cowger, C O W G E R. And he has a Southern Baptist church there. it's called Grandview Baptist Church. And his church has been hit hard. He said that 60% of his people, people have lost everything.

Fred Jackson Their, houses.

Steve Jordahl Everything as their houses. And I mean, they just had to flee.

Tim Wildmon That's awful.

Steve Jordahl It is. Let's listen to him. Cut 13.

Speaker E My congregation sits about 60% of the people that have lost their houses. The church has been kind of surrounded by fire, but firefighters were able to keep the fire away from our house and the church. The good news there is that, you know, the church is insecure, but the bad news is there's so many people dealing with devastating loss. The people are just trying to get over the fact that they have nothing to go back to, and so coping is very emotional. In the valley there a lot of People lost insurance before the fire because we're in the mountains, we're in this deep place and a lot of insurance companies have dropped people. The reality comes into play of what is going on and the different things and you know, it hit me real hard one day and I just like lost it. The Holy Spirit and God just equips you for what is around you and what you're going through.

Tim Wildmon Wow. So what, he's, How many people are in his church? Did he say?

Steve Jordahl No, he didn't say how many people. It's probably 100. It's a larger church in Beulah. probably a little over 100.

Fred Jackson Boy, they lost their houses, but they had no insurance because insurance companies would not insure them because of this reason.

Steve Jordahl Right. Because they're in fire prone.

Tim Wildmon Because they're subject to. It's living on the coast and the hurricanes. And sometimes the insurance company says it's not worth our risk. So that's what happened there, I think.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. That's sad.

Steve Jordahl So we're, we're in contact with him. the color, Colorado disaster relief. Colorado. Doctor.org is the, Southern Baptist Relief.

Tim Wildmon Ah, you hear about those fires out west every year? Yeah, somewhere. and, so, that. So this one's in. Are there others raging out there?

Steve Jordahl There's a lot of fires in. I mean, I have a map that has just a lot of, the west is every year. The rest is replete with fires. Most of them burn far away from people. There's a lot of acreage out west that has.

Tim Wildmon Right. Uninhabited.

Steve Jordahl Uninhabited.

Fred Jackson We've made it a practice in our news service now too, when these sort of things happen. Ask Steve to get a hold, find out where there's a pastor somewhere, a church, and get a hold of them because that's a untold story we get. You know, the Associated Press will deal with the basics of the wildfire. How many acres are being burned, etc. Etc. But they don't get down to this story. this is what makes American Family News different from everybody else. We go after these kinds of stories. How are Christians being impacted by this? And you will not find this story anywhere else but American Family News.

Steve Jordahl And for the next couple months, I'll be talking to him once a week or so. this is a story that will fall off the head way, way before it falls off. The need is gone.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Steve Jordahl they'll be recovering for years.

A bison charged at a man at Yellowstone National Park and he survived

Tim Wildmon And speaking about west, did you guys see this story out of Yellowstone National Paak?

Steve Jordahl Is it the bison?

Tim Wildmon Yeah, yeah. It's where, it was. It made. It went viral because it was a picture of it.

Steve Jordahl There's a video.

Tim Wildmon Was it Sunday this happened, Steve, do you know Sunday or Saturday?

Steve Jordahl It was over the weekend. I'm not sure which day.

Tim Wildmon So there was a gentleman, and his grandson, were, you know, at Yellowstone, and they were taking pictures from. Appeared to me like a safe distance, 30 or 40ft. Yards away from a bison. I'm talking about. I'm, not talking about a bison at a animal zoo. I'm talking about a bison out in the wild at Yellow. very large. Yeah, very large. And people probably seen it. But the. The bison, just starts charging at the man again. The M. Man, I don't know how he appears to be in his 70s to me.

Steve Jordahl He looks. I'm looking. I don't know if I have an age or a name at this point.

Tim Wildmon his name. I have his name right here.

Steve Jordahl McDaniel.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, that's his last name. So he's a grandfather. He's, Anyway, this bison starts chasing him.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Tim Wildmon Charging him and chasing him. And the man runs around and around a tree for about, what, a minute, trying to escape this bison, just running him down. And then the guy starts to try to outrun the bison, which was a poor decision on his part. The bison then comes in behind him and uses his horns to spring the man up. About looked to me like about 12ft or so into the air.

Fred Jackson Just tosses him like a bag of flour.

Tim Wildmon Oh, no problem. And the guy goes hurling, through the air. I thought he killed him. When you see it, though, when you see it, the video you think was Guy, I don't know how he survived that, but he did survive it.

Steve Jordahl He broke a femur. He had a broken leg.

Fred Jackson Yeah, broke his femur. That big bone that comes from your hip down to your knee. Broke it in about two or three different places. But they were able to do surgery since the incident. And he's undergoing, you know, therapy now, to get him back. Get back.

Tim Wildmon Do you know what he said was. By the way, can we put this on our website? On our Facebook page? On our Facebook page. For today's issues, we will post this story with this video. Obviously, I wouldn't show the video.

Steve Jordahl Carl.

Tim Wildmon Man had been killed, but, oh, no, he survived it. He survived it. And he. He said. The gentleman said, well, when I landed, I knew it was bad. You know, it hurt, obviously. But he said the bison stood over him and he said, the bison could have killed me easily, could have stomped me. But it stopped and it didn't do that. So he was like going, thank God that the bison spared his life basically.

Fred Jackson And the moral of the story is you're on their turf.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, that's true.

Fred Jackson You know, and these are wild animals. They're wild animals.

Tim Wildmon They may be in a national park, but they're still wild animals.

Fred Jackson Yes. And you don't know what a wild animal is going to do. I mean I watch these videos sometimes of people, you know, they're friends with a lion or whatever the case may be. I'm sorry. And it's like with elephants, I don't care what it is. They can be triggered, they can be triggered very easily to behave like wild animals behave. And all of a sudden this bison saw this man as a threat.

Fred Jackson And it's rutting season also, which they believe contributed to this.

Tim Wildmon I had an incident happen to me Yellowstone. we were out there last August. we were traveling from Yellowstone to Teton, Jackson Hole on that highway. We just left Yellowstone National Paak. For those familiar. And Allison, my wife, was driving. I wasn't feeling so well and so I got my seat leaned back. She said, hey, there's a grizzly bear. So she pulled over. The grizzly bear had come to the, it was looking at us from the, at the highway. And she, she pulled over and then she told me, quote, get out and get a picture. And I thought, I didn't really have time to think about. I thought this may turn bad on me, you know. But the grizzly bear had started to run back into the woods.

How close have you been to a grizzly bear? I don't know

I will say that to be fair.

Fred Jackson Okay.

Tim Wildmon The grizzly bear had started, started to run back into the woods. So by the time I staggered out of the car to get my camera ready, which is my phone, he turned to look back at me and he was. I didn't know what he was going to do. He was staring me down. But he was about, it was about, I guess it was probably 60, 70 yards away. I mean I had time to get back in the car, but do you think I. Would that have bothered you, Fred, if your wife said get out of the car, take a picture of a grizzly, closer.

Fred Jackson Closer. I'd have to assess the situation, how close.

Tim Wildmon Because if it was me and the grizzly, the grizzly was going to win?

Fred Jackson Oh yeah, yeah.

Tim Wildmon Every day. Every day. M and I do have pretty good life insurance policy. I mean, you know, it does make you think for just a minute, huh?

Fred Jackson Yeah. Good to assess the situation.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Jackson Really is.

Tim Wildmon Anyway, that's my brush with a grizzly bear.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Do you ever. How close you been to a grizzly bear?

Steve Jordahl I don't know if it was a grizzly. I, Every, year, my buddies that I grew up with, California, we get together for a week in Lake Tahoe, and we sometimes go hiking. There's bears in the woods there.

Fred Jackson We.

Steve Jordahl A couple.

Tim Wildmon Are they mostly black bears? Ah, mostly black bears, but black bears, I mean, they're still bears.

Steve Jordahl They're still bears.

Tim Wildmon They're not fierce as grizzlies or as big as grizzly.

Steve Jordahl No. And they'll. They'll, They're not aggressive. I don't think grizzlies are that aggressive. They'll. They'd rather escape you than. If you corner them, they'll attack. But anyway, there was a bear. There was a bear on the trail.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Steve Jordahl it was up the hill a ways, and, we gave it a wide berth.

Tim Wildmon Wide berth.

Steve Jordahl We didn't approach it.

Tim Wildmon Oh, okay. I didn't know what that meant. I learned something today.

Fred Jackson Wide birth. I go to the COVID about once a year for.

Tim Wildmon In North Carolina.

Fred Jackson North Carolina. The Billy Graham Cove up on the mountain there. And there are trails, and they encourage people, if you want to go on the trail, go for a walk in the afternoons. But they say if you're going on the longer trail, they insist that you take a walkie talkie that they provide because they will tell you there are bears up there. And should you encounter a bear, get on that walkie talkie and we will come and help you out.

Tim Wildmon But do not challenge what happens in the time between. You tell them the bear is there, and they get there.

Fred Jackson You pray.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Steve: Have you eaten bison meat? Have you

It increases your prayer life. You go, that's a Billy Graham Center. What? I should have known that.

Fred Jackson Okay, Object lesson.

Tim Wildmon Okay. But. But they do black bears, right? Bears.

Fred Jackson Yeah, yeah. and normally black bears don't really want to encounter you.

Tim Wildmon Right, Right.

Fred Jackson But as Steve says, if you. If they feel threatened, you know, don't just walk for a closer shot.

Tim Wildmon We saw, a moose in the wild on this trip. Yes, we saw a grizzly.

Speaker E Huh?

Steve Jordahl Uh-huh.

Tim Wildmon Now, just one. Okay. Not. They weren't everywhere. The moose are hard to. Anyway, saw a elk walk right up to us, walk along a river, and we saw,

Fred Jackson They're pretty big, aren't they?

Tim Wildmon And we saw the. Yeah. And the bison by. And by the way, bison are not buffalo.

Steve Jordahl No, it is a different. They look the same, but they Are.

Tim Wildmon They're different. Buffalo are smaller. Bisons are huge. I mean, they're almost twice as big as buffalo, from what I can tell. So bison. But the wild bison, yes. who roam the mountains there at Yellowstone. Pretty. Pretty, amazing to watch.

Steve Jordahl Ted Turner. You remember Ted Turner, the owner, started cnn. He has a, chain of restaurants we had before he passed away called Ted's Montana Grill, and they specialize in buffalo meat. Bison meat. I don't know if it's bison or both, but,

Tim Wildmon Well, good. You could look it up. I think bison and buffalo are related, but they're not the same. They're not exactly the same people, because people go through Yellowstone, they say, I saw the buffalo, man. Maybe there are some buffalo there. But what they're talking about, a lot of them are actually bison. So you. Have you eaten bison meat? Have you?

Fred Jackson I actually have. When I was in Alberta, visiting, they offered it on the menu.

Tim Wildmon What did it taste like?

Fred Jackson It. I describe it as kind of gamey.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Jackson If you've had that before. You know what I mean?

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Steve Jordahl I could hardly tell the difference. At least the way they prepared it at the Montana Grill in Colorado Springs, I could hardly.

Fred Jackson If you add enough of certain things.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, true.

Fred Jackson It'll taste.

Steve Jordahl Tastes like chicken.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Tim Wildmon my thing with eating animals is mental, okay? You tell me I'm about to eat something, and then I envision the animal, and I don't want to eat it. You know what I'm saying?

Fred Jackson Okay.

Tim Wildmon Whereas if you fed it, if I got to taste it and you didn't tell me what it was, I would probably be more.

Steve Jordahl Does that go for cow and, a good steak?

Tim Wildmon No, I don't think about the cow, but, yeah, steak. I don't know why that is, Steve. Maybe it's just what you're raised with. It doesn't bother me thinking about a dead cow or a dead chicken.

Steve Jordahl Right.

Tim Wildmon Doesn't our dead fish? Doesn't, bother me. Well, we've digressed.

Steve Jordahl We have.

Tim Wildmon We need to get back on target.

Transgender man says oppression of minorities under Trump is too much

Steve Jordahl All right? So, I want to introduce you to a transgender, gentleman who was so scared of, orange man bad in this country that he decided to leave the country. He just. The oppression of transgender minorities in the United States under Donald Trump is just too much. I can't take it. So he moved to the Netherlands.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Steve Jordahl We've caught up with him. We don't have a name. He didn't want to give his name. But this is Inter Apple, a Dutch town, got about 10,000 residents and it has. As many Dutch and European towns have, become, not overrun. But there's a significant Muslim population there, and things, are not going well for our transgender friend over there. Listen, to this cut 16.

Tim Wildmon And it is too dangerous to walk from here to the grocery store because of the people that live in the camp. And I'm one of them. Right.

Steve Jordahl Like, I live here.

Tim Wildmon you see all these guys in yellow vests. They actually wear vests because there's so many stabbings between here and. There is a bunch of Algerians and Moroccans or whoever who think that queer people should be beaten. I think that this system where you have people just living out here that are unhappy is not good. Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Do you think it's safe here?

Tim Wildmon Oh, it's scary. It's. It's legitimately scary. I decided that my mental health is degrading so substantially being here that I just need to get out. And the situation that I have in the US As a trans person, not good. Right. But here, I will be hurt or killed.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. He's moving back.

Tim Wildmon We ought to get on a plane with Rosie o'. Donnell. I know she's coming back, too. Is she?

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And then Ellen DeGeneres side. America wasn't so bad after most.

Steve Jordahl The people who. Most, of the people who decide they want to leave for, well, they

Tim Wildmon don't want to live in Trump's America.

Fred Jackson It was.

Tim Wildmon It was terrible, terrible, terrifying, awful. So they moved to England or Scotland or somewhere.

Steve Jordahl Netherlands, in this case. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Come out. Ah, I know. It was DeGeneres, and she was

Steve Jordahl in Ireland, I believe.

Tim Wildmon What was the other one? Rosie o'.

Steve Jordahl Donnell. Donald.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon But they. They didn't last long over there. They decided they could live with Trump anyway, so came back to the U.S. u.S. Pretty good. Do you see this?

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon By the way, buffalo and bison are distinct species with different origins, physical traits, and habits.

Tim Wildmon They often confused. But, just FYI, there I was. I better stop right there. Go ahead, Steve. Next story.

Elon Musk says by the end of the year, we won't code

Steve Jordahl All right, I want, to hear from, Elon Musk. We have, from time to time, we talk about the advances of artificial intelligence. And, he is saying. Elon Musk is saying that by the end of the year, we won't need to code anymore. Coding. Remember, we told all these people, if you want a good job, learn how to code. Well, AI has gotten to the point where it does the coding for you, and coding is actually a kind of a stop in between this. Not needed. I want you to hear what Elon Musk says the software industry is going to be like by the

Tim Wildmon end of the year.

Steve Jordahl Cut 15 doing coding.

Elon Musk The AI just, I think actually things will move maybe even by the end of this year to where you don't even bother doing, doing coding. The AI just creates the binary directly. and the AI can create a much more efficient binary than can be done by any compiler. So just say create optimized binary for this particular outcome. And and you actually bypass even traditional coding. There's, there's no, that's an intermediate step that actually will not be needed. Probably by, I'd say the end of this year.

Steve Jordahl I think actually things will move by December. AI won't need programming languages. It'll generate machine code directly. No translation, no compilation, just execution code was, never the point. So you plug that into neuralink, into the into the brain implants that he's doing. You basically think of an outcome you want a computer program to do, and it will design a program.

Fred Jackson Now we should explain, maybe for the listener may not be familiar with this technical language coding is writing programs.

Steve Jordahl It's how you talk, how humans interface with computers.

Fred Jackson Yes, A bunch of X's and O's,

Steve Jordahl different languages that they have that allows you to say, I want you to do a program that's going to put a weather forecast up on this website, you know, and it, you write it, but now you're just going to be able to think, I want an app that does weather forecast. And AI will take it and it'll make the app and done. Yeah, just you imagine it and it materializes. No incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for 10,000 years just became obsolete.

Fred Jackson I just wonder now if I could use this technology. I hook AI up to my brain. I would like a bank account with a million dollars. And will AI do that for me?

Steve Jordahl It's interesting because there are programs that, I mean AI, if they can do, if it's that smart, it should be able to manage money better than anyone can. And I've seen programs that promise it.

Tim Wildmon But then what about an AI, that can help you remember passwords?

Steve Jordahl Well, it'll not only remember them, but it'll be able to hack into your computer. You won't need a password.

Tim Wildmon Well, that'll be fine as long as I can get on it Will. I saw a joke the other day, somebody said, just once I'd like a computer when I type in a password to Say good enough. Close enough, close enough, close enough. We're gonna let you in here.

Fred Jackson Oh, my.

Fred Jackson I know everything now.

Tim Wildmon You're been in password. Hades.

Fred Jackson Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, and something you don't use all that often.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I know. That's what it is.

Fred Jackson Like a frequent flyer program or something like that.

Tim Wildmon And you go, where do I write this down? wait, I do have a black book now. Yeah, yeah.

Fred Jackson Everything I had.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I know, but, yeah, you get. And, you type in the wrong password two times and it kicks you out.

Fred Jackson That's right. I'm sorry.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, yeah. You have to check back with us in 24 hours. Something like that. Death.

Fred Jackson We're suspecting fraud.

Tim Wildmon Yep. By the way, be careful about that, what you just mentioned, because I had a story where, people are receiving, phone calls. Oh, yeah, Phone calls and. Or texts from.

Steve Jordahl People say that your bank.

Tim Wildmon They say that you're. They say that they are your bank and that your, account is, having suspicious activities. And they. And. And so they're calling from the bank's fraud department, which. But they themselves are the fraudsters.

Fred Jackson Yes, yes.

Tim Wildmon So I'm just saying you. If you. If you ever run into somebody calling or texting you, saying that they are from, you know, you need to hang up and call the bank directly.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Tim Wildmon Huh? yes, absolutely. And if it's the case of a credit card, you call the number on the back of the credit card.

Steve Jordahl Correct.

Tim Wildmon All right. Thank you, Steve.

Steve Jordahl My pleasure.

We learned something here today that might be a trivia thing for Friday

Tim Wildmon so, yeah, a bison and a buffalo. Two different things. We learned something here today that might

Steve Jordahl be a trivia thing for Friday, if you're listening.

Tim Wildmon You know, could be. Could be. All right, we'll, see you back here tomorrow for another edition of today's Issues. Keep listening to AFR and have a great, day, everybody.