Gunman dead, two injured after shooting at Old Dominion University in Virginia

Ed Vitagliano 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. Thanks for listening to afr, Tim, Ed and Ray. And now, Steve Paisley Jordal joins us. Good morning, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Hey, everybody.

Tim Wildmon What do you got, Steve?

Steve Jordahl Well, let me just start with some breaking news. We don't know a whole lot about this. This shooting happened at 11am Eastern. So it was right about the time we came on the air. Gunman, is dead and two are injured at Old Dominion University in Virginia. and that's about all we know at this point. The university's canceled the classes, for the remainder of the day. no idea anything about, about motive or how the gunman died. And I will say that often, in fact, regularly, when these things break, the numbers we hear about wounded and, and dead and everything are often wrong. So I say this advisedly, early in the information flow out of this is too injured and a gunman dead after shooting at Old Dominion.

Tim Wildmon That's in Virginia.

Steve Jordahl In Virginia.

Tim Wildmon I'm not sure what town Old Dominion University is in. Do you know?

Ed Vitagliano I don't if he's, he's going to look it up. The only other thing I've seen is from the NewSong York Post. It just says the gunman opened fire in the technology building at the Public Research College. Oh, in Norfolk. Okay, so that must be where it's. Where it's located.

Tim Wildmon All right, next story.

Steve Jordahl Steve.

Iranian advisor says Iraq is moving towards decisive victory in Iraq war

All right. I wanted to do. So I have a couple serious stories, that don't involve the war, but I wanted to just cat on note say that, we have found our Baghdad. Bob, you remember Baghdad?

Ed Vitagliano I do, yeah.

Steve Jordahl You remember Ray. this is the guy during the Iraq war that would sit on camera and say, oh, the Iraqi forces are wiping the map with. Wiping the US Forces off of the map. And. And, we're going to have a great victory. Well, there is a, advisor to the first Allie Khamenei, the one that was killed. His name is Yaha Yahya Rahim Safavi.

Tim Wildmon Say that backwards, Steve.

Steve Jordahl I'm looking at it. I can read it backwards. Anyway.

Tim Wildmon Sounds Japanese to me.

Steve Jordahl Well, he's not. This is what he's saying. He's saying that the United States forces have been humiliated and that the conflict is moving towards a decisive victory. Not only Iran, but, China and Russia would emerge as winners in this, war, and their economies will flourish, and it's a decisive Victory for the Islamic Republic. And they will. Iran will be imposing demands on the

Ed Vitagliano US So he's a Democrat. Yeah, because it sounds a lot like what the democrats are saying 12 days in and they're saying it's quagmire.

Tim Wildmon You know, this what also reminds me of you remember the famous CNN reporter, with the, fires ablaze of buildings behind him in the backdrop. And he's going. This is a mainly peaceful protest. It's just a denial of reality. Of course, propaganda has been used, down throughout history. This fella, I don't know if he had a press conference. I doubt it. He, he probably just issued a statement how, you know, we're doing Allah's will and all this, the typical.

Ed Vitagliano This is Tehran Yaha.

Steve Jordahl Tehran yah.

Tim Wildmon Should have bagged that Bob. That back. That Bob fella. He'd come out there every day and say how Iraq was winning the war.

Ed Vitagliano They were getting annihilated.

Tim Wildmon I know.

Ed Vitagliano And, he would, hey, doing his

Tim Wildmon job, get paid to do a job. Walk out there and do a job. Okay, Steve.

Three energy companies have warned California governor that cap and trade will kill oil

Steve Jordahl All right. going to California Governor Gavin Newsom has been warned, seriously three, by three different energy companies that do business in the state of California. Marathon Petroleum, PBF Energy and Chevron. All have sent him separate warnings that he is killing any oil and gas, efforts in California, exploration or production or.

Tim Wildmon What are you talking about?

Steve Jordahl Well, they have, what's known as the California Air Resources Board that does cap and trade. Basically it imposes restrictions, on oil. It makes oil companies bid for, they have to buy carbon, trade offs and it just makes it very, very, very expensive. They want to kill the oil and gas in California because they'd like to go to some kind of solar, renewable or whatever energy. it won't work. And he's being told this. He's being told that Gavin Newsom is governor. Told. The governor of California is being told by these three different petroleum companies separately that the, bill that they're looking at, they're looking at a carb amendment bill, will inevitably drive in state refining capacity to zero. It will be a death knell. Now, you may know that, Gavin Newsom has been blaming the rise in cost, the cost of gasoline in California. I've seen $7 a gallon in some, on some poster boards. it has been going up and Gavin Newsom is turning around saying, look what Trump's war is doing to us. No, it was going up before Trump's

Ed Vitagliano war because of state taxes.

Steve Jordahl Right. Well, a lot of yes, because of all of this. And, so he's become a little bit quiet, because he even did a price gouging bill in California to try to blame that. so California is looking at a huge problem with energy and with gas.

Tim Wildmon Bless their hearts.

Steve Jordahl I know. Listen, this would be a death knell to the economy in California. California's economy would suffer, greatly under. If this, if the oil production completely.

Ed Vitagliano Well, because if gas and diesel prices go, you know, skyrocket, a lot of the economy in California, like really across the country, is based on trucking. And the trucks coming out of California with vegetables and other kinds of produce alone are a huge part of their economy. if they can't afford to go out or companies go out of business, you're right, this would be a blow. And they're already maybe the one state in the country with the greatest amount of emigration. People leaving the state, moving elsewhere around the country. You're just going to make companies galore leave the state, which destroys their tax base as well.

Steve Jordahl By the way. Do not forget, it is widely, thought, Ray, that, Gavin Newsom is running for president. What he's doing in California, I think

Tim Wildmon he would do for the whole country. Right. Some of those people leaving California are coming all the way across, to Florida. And I was the other day getting my hair cut and talking with my political advisor as she was cutting my hair. Right. She's a native. I don't know her name, I never met her before, but she was cutting my hair. She's a native Floridian. And I asked her what she thought about, all these people coming from NewSong York, Illinois and California to Florida because the free state of Florida and all that. She said they can come, but leave their politics behind.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. They don't, though.

Tim Wildmon They don't promise.

Ed Vitagliano They don't. Yeah, they, it's, it's amazing. Listen, when I was growing up, in NewSong Hampshire, lived in the Boston area for a while, but then my dad moved the family across the state line to NewSong Hampshire because everyone called the Bay State Taxachusetts, okay? So moved across the state line to Nashua, NewSong Hampshire. And that was a red state. That was a pretty conservative state. But so many people over the decades have moved from Massachusetts right across the state line to NewSong Hampshire because you can still commute into Boston to do work, but they bring their politics with them. And now NewSong Hampshire is purplish to blue, mostly a blue state. That's, that's, that's what, that's what liberals do, they bring their politics, not connecting the dots, that the reason they're leaving is because they voted a certain way.

Tim Wildmon As of Tuesday morning, was today Thursday.

Ed Vitagliano Thursday.

As of Tuesday morning, California's Average price is $5.29 per regular gallon

Tim Wildmon As of Tuesday morning, California's Average price is $5.29 per regular gallon now, which was 80 cents higher than it was a month ago, according to this, report. So what's it, what's it in the, Tampa area there, right?

Tim Wildmon Oh, let's see. Right now it's probably about. And it's gone up, right?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, it is.

Tim Wildmon But if we were, we were down well under $3. Now it's up over $3. Maybe, 3:20, 3:25, 3:30, something like that.

Ed Vitagliano Well before the war started. So this does cause gas prices to go up. I was paying $2.49 a gallon, you know, and now it's gone up probably 80 cents. A lot of people get frustrated because they say, well, how come prices don't come down when the price of oil per, per, what did. I was going to say per drum.

Tim Wildmon Barrel. Got a barrel.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, that's it.

Tim Wildmon You call it a drum if you want to. Drum is also a fish. I know you can also put drum in a barrel and shoot barrel in a, in a drum.

Tim Wildmon Hey, let me, let me revise my answer here, by the way, while you guys are talking about fishing drums or whatever. clearly I haven't filled up my tank in a while because it was under three then it was 325. It's now here in Tampa. Are north of Tampa. 370. Three 80.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon A gallon. What is it, what is it here? I got to fill up today.

Ed Vitagliano I filled up about, I don't know, four or five days ago. It at that time was, 320 something. But I'm sure it's gone up, above 350 just, just driving past gas stations. It may be up like, like, Ray is saying.

Tim Wildmon All right, Steve, next story.

Senator Josh Hawley is introducing legislation that would ban home abortion

All right, enough California talk right there.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, let's talk. Let's talk pro life. when the Dobbs decision was passed, it was a great day and it was a good happening. The Dobbs decision making every, take.

Tim Wildmon Roe versus Wade was overturned.

Steve Jordahl Roe versus Wade was overturned. And states got to do their own abortion law. Well, about the same time the abortion industry decided that they were going to start shipping pills out to homes so that people could do abortions at home. And it has caused the abortion rate to climb even higher than before the Dobbs was overturned. There are more Abortions now than there was before.

Tim Wildmon But not at clinics.

Steve Jordahl No, these are at home.

Tim Wildmon It's very bortuaries, as some people call them.

Steve Jordahl Correct. and there's a, there's a lot of, sometimes as much as 10% of the women who have, who are shipped these pills, have some kind of complication. Senator Josh Hawley, Missouri is introducing a bill which is called the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act. He's got a co sponsor, Andy Biggs, in the House. And this bill would make it illegal to ship the, abortion pill mifepristone, to, over the mail.

Tim Wildmon By the way, abortions illegal. Okay. Just as an aside, Walmart told us, that they were not going to sell the abortion pill, which was good news because they have pharmacies.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And you could order it online too. So you know what, I don't know what you do about that. no, I agree with this legislation. I hope that it passes. But you can't. how do you even count abortions with people taking pills at their home that you never even know about?

Ed Vitagliano You'd have to, you'd have to rely on the pharmaceutical companies to say, to publicize, or give you information how many pills they sold. A lot of.

Tim Wildmon A lot of every pill an abortion.

Ed Vitagliano Well, the mifeprestone is. Right. That's the purpose of it. But that's a good question, Tim, because you'd have to. Maybe CVS would have to tell you, for example, I don't know if they sell it or not. I guess they would. As a pharmacy, they would have to say, well, we sold this many pills. And then you'd have to assume that everyone who bought one used one. But it is kind of an underground way.

Tim Wildmon I don't see how you're going to be able to stop that. Now he's got. What's the law? What would the law do?

Steve Jordahl it would prohibit the use of isopristone for ending pregnancies. If passed, the legislation would withdraw FDA approval for the drug and classify its distribution for abortion as a violation of federal law.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Steve Jordahl It's been used in 63% of all abortions in the US currently. that according to the Gutmacher Institute and according to the data. If you want to know how many abortions you just take the ambulance calls times 90, oh, 10% of them are going to be. Have serious health consequences. That's not a serious, way to calculate it, but it's just showing you it's a dangerous, dangerous drug because these

Ed Vitagliano Women, they kill their baby with this pill and it. And the abortion happens at their house. Right?

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Tim Wildmon Or wherever they are.

Ed Vitagliano Wherever they are. It's just. Oh, my goodness.

Tim Wildmon Gross to think about. But, also, you know, Ray, I was reading about this and these women don't. A lot of them don't know how far along they are.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Steve Jordahl It's supposed to be used a certain amount. If you go far enough along, you're

Tim Wildmon not supposed to use it. That's right.

Steve Jordahl But they don't know.

Tim Wildmon But they were taking it anyway, being 11 weeks or 10 weeks or whatever. And it was causing. But you die.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon I mean, from that kind of situation. yeah. That you put yourself in. All right. You're, you know. Yeah, go ahead.

Tim Wildmon I just want to add, Tim, to what you said. It's a big deal that Walmart has said they're not going to.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Tim Wildmon I'm going to sell.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Tim Wildmon It's a really. That's not a.

Tim Wildmon Kudos. Kudos.

Tim Wildmon Kudos to you, to the team at AFA and others who helped out. It's a big, big deal. Which just. I think if we're going to win the battle about this abortion pill, I'm all for the legislation. Right. But we've got to get some big corporations like Walls and.

Tim Wildmon That's right.

Tim Wildmon Yes.

CVS, Walgreens and Health Mart are the largest pharmacies in the United States

To join Walmart and say, we are not going to carry this pill.

Tim Wildmon I'll try to find out before tomorrow somebody, or I guess we'll be live with this news show before next Monday. I'll try to find out where we are. Maybe with some of the other big pharmacies across the country. I'm guessing Walmart's a top five pharmacy in terms of the number of. Maybe. Maybe top three. I don't know.

Steve Jordahl I would think.

Tim Wildmon I'm thinking Walgreens is probably the largest, followed by cvs, followed by Walmart. That would be my guess without looking it up. in terms of the number of,

Tim Wildmon Yeah, it's got to be one of the biggest.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Number of stores nationwide.

Ed Vitagliano Well, I did look it up. Cvs, Walgreens and Health Mart are the largest pharmacies in the United States.

Tim Wildmon I've never heard.

Ed Vitagliano I've never heard of Health Mart. but cvs, is the largest.

Tim Wildmon They're larger than Walgreens.

Tim Wildmon Wow.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Walgreens is second. And, my list is.

Steve Jordahl Walmart is third, Kroger is fourth.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Yeah. Kroger has a lot of pharmacies.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Too. yeah. So. Well, I didn't know CVS was Larger. How many stores does CVS have nationwide?

Steve Jordahl About, 9,000.

Ed Vitagliano Tell you, it has, 8,985. So 8,000. Walgreens is just over 8,000. And then.

Tim Wildmon So they're similar.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. And then health mart is 4,000. I'm trying to. The state and territory with the most number of Health Mart locations is California, so it must be a West Coast.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Ed Vitagliano Pharmacy.

Tim Wildmon So I hadn't heard of them. but just looking down through there, Safeway Pharmacy.

Ed Vitagliano That's under a thousand.

Tim Wildmon Really? Really. The four biggies would be, Walgreens, cvs, not in that order, but Walmart, and then.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, and then Health Mart is.

Minnesota is considering a bill that would make a grain state

Tim Wildmon All right, next story. Steve.

Steve Jordahl Well, we have some clueless, people when it comes to the pro life law. Minnesota is considering a bill that would make a grain state. like, you know, we name state flowers. Well, this would name a particular rice as the, state grain. And they want to argue, they have a lawyer in there. Her name is Jessica Intermill. You're going to hear from that is making the argument that it deserves this, rice deserves to, be kept, you know, viable because it has a right to live.

Tim Wildmon This was an NCIS episode.

Steve Jordahl It seemed to be,

Tim Wildmon No, I remember it with Gibbs and the.

Steve Jordahl Do you remember that?

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I remember.

Ed Vitagliano And Dino.

Tim Wildmon I remember this.

Steve Jordahl Cut 16. First, this bill applies the legal inherent rights doctrine to a plant that has been in Minnesota since long before there was a Minnesota. That doctrine does not grant any rights to wild rice. Rather, it recognizes the plant's inherent right to live exists because it is alive. Its inherent right to live exists because it is alive.

Tim Wildmon Okay, she used the expression, quote, rights to wild rice, end quote. Ray, this was a song back in the day.

Tim Wildmon Back in the day.

Tim Wildmon I think it was wilder.

Ed Vitagliano Eagles.

Tim Wildmon Wild Chair.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, wild Chair. You're going with the real song.

Tim Wildmon No. what in the world is she talking about? Steve. And then Ray can comment and make sense of it.

Steve Jordahl She is saying that this bill, that this grain, this rice, they have no right to control it or to get. Get rid of it.

Tim Wildmon In other words, who's trying to get rid of the wild rice?

Steve Jordahl Well, they're trying to make it a special set aside in Minnesota.

Tim Wildmon And they say, what does that mean?

Tim Wildmon Set us.

Ed Vitagliano I'll tell you who wants to get rid of rice. Rice. Yeah, those are those.

Tim Wildmon Well, you got your. You got your. You got your white rice.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. We got so many things going on here now. We got so many problems.

Tim Wildmon Don't tell me you Guys don't know that white rice supremacists do exist. You do know that, right? You kind of be naive.

Ed Vitagliano You have to give me some credit for the white rice.

Tim Wildmon You did that, brother. I'm giving you your flowers.

Ed Vitagliano That was just right. That was top of my head.

Tim Wildmon Good.

Ed Vitagliano No, listen, this is. These are the kind of people who, Yeah. Who have stopped nuclear power, who've stopped dams from being built because of the snail darter. And you remember that. The snail.

Tim Wildmon Snail daughter. And for this 15 minutes of fames.

Ed Vitagliano And this toad. And. And this bird. Spotted owls. and. And yet. Minnesota, I'll. Gary, I guarantee you. I guarantee this woman is in favor of abortion.

Tim Wildmon So this, So this half hour we have. We've decided. I think it's unanimous among us. We're kicking California. California out.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Done. Gone.

Tim Wildmon And. And see you in Minnesota. We're giving them to Canada. Okay. I'm sorry.

Tim Wildmon Alberta. We want Alberta.

Tim Wildmon We can take your. Wow.

Steve Jordahl And promise to be named later.

Tim Wildmon Take your wild rice and take it north of the border out there. No, there are. We have a lot of wonderful listeners in both those states, by the way.

Southern American is most loved accent and popular in America, according to survey

So there are good people.

Ed Vitagliano Jan Markell.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Tim Wildmon There are sane good people in those states, but they're in the minority, evidently. when it comes to politics, at least. So this.

Tim Wildmon This woman was saying that rice has an inherent right. To what?

Steve Jordahl To life.

Ed Vitagliano To existence.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. let me see. I had the. I went to the next story here, but let me get this back here, and I'll tell you what.

Tim Wildmon Got about two minutes to go on the show today.

Steve Jordahl Well, can we move on to something?

Tim Wildmon We can come back to the story.

Steve Jordahl Okay.

Ed Vitagliano It's a big. It's a big story.

Tim Wildmon It'll be in the news.

Tim Wildmon This story's cooking.

Ed Vitagliano I can't.

Tim Wildmon I see what you did there. Yeah.

Steve Jordahl this is for Tim. It turns out in a survey that a Southern accent. Yes. Is the most loved accent and popular accent in America. Not as in number.

Tim Wildmon I don't think I have one.

Ed Vitagliano you don't have. It just slips in every once in a while.

Tim Wildmon Ray's more Southern accent than I am, don't you think? Well, yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Well, this. This is.

Tim Wildmon Greg grew up in the. In the rural South.

Steve Jordahl 2000Americans ranked the nation's most appealing voices. The Southern drawl came in number one.

Tim Wildmon I'm loving it.

Ed Vitagliano So find out where the Boston act

Tim Wildmon does that. Ignore. the Boston accent, evidently. Ignore.

Steve Jordahl Seven.

Tim Wildmon It's coming.

Tim Wildmon Okay, read them all then.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, read them all. Southern American Beloved accents.

Steve Jordahl Beloved. Southern American followed by Cajun. Louisiana.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Number two.

Steve Jordahl NewSong York City.

Tim Wildmon NewSong York City.

Ed Vitagliano Strange.

Steve Jordahl Then four is Miami. Then a general American or neutral accent followed by California. And I don't know the difference between the two because I'm from California. I've been told I have a neutral accent. Seven is Boston, eight is northern Great Lakes, and, nine is Philadelphia. Ten is Appalachian.

Tim Wildmon What about Chicago? They have a distinct.

Steve Jordahl Not on the list. They might be on the list of they do bad.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Okay. I don't have that list in front of Boston's number.

Ed Vitagliano Number seven.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Ed Vitagliano I should. I should have behaved myself yesterday.

Tim Wildmon So it's annoying to a lot of people.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, that didn't. That doesn't say annoying. It just says in terms of being beloved, it's less.

Tim Wildmon Y', all, we're number one.

Ed Vitagliano Ah.

Tim Wildmon So people know we're based in Mississippi and raised from Alabama. But we're maybe one day we're going to bring into our studio.

Ed Vitagliano I know the employee you're talking about.

Tim Wildmon One of our employees who I've described as a. If you have a Southern accent, if you've heard a Southern accent, this is a young lady or lady. Then, listen to that. And then keep going south.

Ed Vitagliano And that's her accent.

Tim Wildmon That's her accent. Keep going south and then go out in the sticks somewhere where the sun doesn't shine.

Uh, she is the sweetest person. We tease her. Just walk past our window. She knows she's good natured about it

Ed Vitagliano she is the sweetest person.

Tim Wildmon And we do.

Ed Vitagliano We tease her.

Steve Jordahl Just walk past our window.

Ed Vitagliano We tease her to her face.

Tim Wildmon She knows she's good natured about it.

Ed Vitagliano Yes, she is.

Tim Wildmon She'll answer the phone. Hello?

Steve Jordahl I love the prayer requests, right?

Tim Wildmon Hello. It's a six syllable word, people.

Tim Wildmon That's right.

Tim Wildmon We'll see you tomorrow.