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. I'm Tim with Ed. And now, Steve Paisley. Jordan joined us. Good morning, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Hey, everybody.

Tim Wildmon All right, Steve, have a good weekend.

Steve Jordahl It was a great weekend. Yeah.

Did you sing in the choir yesterday? Uh, I sang on the praise team

Tim Wildmon Did you sing in the choir yesterday?

Steve Jordahl I sang on the praise team yesterday. We, didn't have.

Tim Wildmon They don't call it a choir anymore. We.

Steve Jordahl Well, no, we have a choir sing. it's a praise team.

Tim Wildmon So, choir, does your church choir still put on robes?

Steve Jordahl No, we just dress kind, you know, appropriately.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Some churches do still use.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tim Wildmon Robes. Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Just no bathing suits. No. No sandals, no shorts, that kind of stuff.

Ed Vitagliano No bathing suit.

Tim Wildmon I'm kidding.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. No, I'm not kidding. I mean, they don't. But no, we just. We just wear nice clothes.

Ed Vitagliano I'm not kidding. You can wear a church appropriate clothes.

Tim Wildmon You wear your bathing suits, you might get more people, you know, to visit your church.

Steve Jordahl Last night I went to a concert.

Tim Wildmon What would you. Would you go.

Steve Jordahl Charles Billingsley.

Tim Wildmon I remember him.

Steve Jordahl Do you remember him still singing?

Ed Vitagliano Never heard of him.

Steve Jordahl Oh, he's.

Ed Vitagliano What kind of music does he sing?

Steve Jordahl Is Christian? he's. He's the music, pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church.

Tim Wildmon He was real popular back he. I met him before. He's come by here. I gave him a couple lessons, but I couldn't, you know, I don't have time. You know what I'm saying?

Steve Jordahl Sure.

Tim Wildmon I don't have time for that. Beyond what. I just did that as a courtesy.

Ed Vitagliano Well, was it. What did you say last. Last week there was a brand new career that you missed by the skin of your teeth. Some unfortunate thing. What was it? Usually it's the NBA. What was it last week?

Tim Wildmon It was NASCAR.

Ed Vitagliano NASCAR.

Steve Jordahl NASCAR.

Tim Wildmon That was NASCAR.

Ed Vitagliano Now we find out.

Tim Wildmon I had like one or two. I had one or two races. You can look it up on YouTube

Ed Vitagliano and you guys go do that.

Tim Wildmon I just thought, you know what?

Ed Vitagliano After the show.

Steve Jordahl You know what? Tim is like our personal AI. You just can never tell where I'm

Tim Wildmon going to pop up.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, we can tell.

Steve Jordahl Oh, we can tell.

Tim Wildmon Charles Billingsley, though, was. He, was a very popular Christian contemporary singer back in the.

Ed Vitagliano Probably for Jerry Falwell's church, right?

Tim Wildmon Well, no, he is choir leader. Worship leader for Jerry Falwell's church. But he got his notoriety for being a solo Artist like Steve Greene.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, I see.

Tim Wildmon Or, who else? You know, a lot of Micah Card, some of these names.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Keith Greene, people remember from yesteryear.

Steve Jordahl He's still around, though. He's doing well.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, but He's a. But. He's a. But.

Ed Vitagliano He.

Tim Wildmon He. So he transitioned from being a traveling soloist, to being the worship leader there at Thomas Road Baptist Church.

Steve Jordahl And still travels.

Tim Wildmon Still travels, too. Yeah. So you met him?

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ron Canoli performed at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio

I mean, where was he.

Tim Wildmon Where was he singing?

Steve Jordahl It was at, in Columbus. I want to say Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Columbus.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Columbus, Mississippi.

Steve Jordahl Columbus.

Tim Wildmon Because we have a lot of listeners in Ohio thinking, really?

Steve Jordahl Yeah, I know.

Tim Wildmon He was in our area.

Steve Jordahl Missed that one. No, he was a very good concert. Very nice. I am singing a song this Easter, that he had performed, and the demo tape that I've been using was him. Oh, I didn't know until last night, but yeah.

Tim Wildmon Now, your church didn't hear him sing this song. You're going to sing, right?

Steve Jordahl They didn't. Well, anybody was there for my church.

Tim Wildmon Listen, I'm. You're a wonderful singer.

Steve Jordahl Thank you.

Tim Wildmon But I wouldn't want to be compared to the man who owned the song.

Steve Jordahl We have different.

Ed Vitagliano This was.

Steve Jordahl This was a Ron Canoli song that I'm doing for Easter.

Ed Vitagliano I love canolies, don't you? I. Listen, a good cannoli is one of the finest. Oh, you talking about something different?

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Speaker D All right.

Tim Wildmon We better move on.

Ed Vitagliano Tim has his stick. My.

Tim Wildmon It has his canoli. You want a cannoli bar, Ed?

Ed Vitagliano Cannoli bar.

Tim Wildmon Cannoli bar, Tim.

Steve Jordahl Brent, why do I. Please. Why do I do this every day, Brent? I don't.

Tim Wildmon Steve.

Ed Vitagliano Canoli bar.

Tim Wildmon Cannoli bar.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, that's Milky Ways. You got cannoli bars. How about a cannoli bar?

Tim Wildmon I was thinking granola. Canola. You know, I, know in that family.

Arizona is considering a bill to keep women's sports unique to women

Steve Jordahl Arizona. Arizona is considering a new bill. It's called the Protect Girls Sports in Arizona Act. And it is to try to keep women's sports and spaces unique to women. And they had a hearing in their Senate. And there was a, volleyball player from Utah State. Her name is Kylie Ray. She's 23 now, and she had been asked to play against San Jose State this last year. San Jose State had a boy, a man on the team. His name, he goes by Blair. And he's been playing in many of the, schools in Mountain West Conference, decided to boycott and not play against this guy. Now, there have been, women who have been permanently injured after playing with male volleyball players, spikes come at their heads at 90 miles an hour. They just aren't ready to, to compete against. Anyway, one of the, senators in Utah, her name is Catherine Miranda, she thought she'd, maybe have a little, you know, dunk a little bit. she kind of talked down to Kylie Rae, and I wanted to let you hear what that sounded like. Cut nine.

Speaker E I've played against girls that, that look like you. You look very much in shape and strong. But it's a sports mentality when you're growing up and how much competition that you'll take on. To have a man on my team, I would have welcomed it, but this is just my opinion. So it just depends on the sports mentality of that individual. And that's why this bill is bad, because you're just putting, a whole community of women's sports in one category. When women like me, we have a different opinion. So how competitive do you think you really are, Madam Chair?

Speaker F Senator? as, ah, elite level athletes, I would say we're very competitive, which is why this bill designates three categories. Male, female, and co ed. The idea is that everyone can participate in sport. If you want to compete against your man. Absolutely. Like, let's, let's do that in the co ed section. That's the. Clarity and distinction is really important because when men are allowed access into women's sports and spaces, it's not women's sports and spaces anymore.

Tim Wildmon Good for her.

Ed Vitagliano It was brilliant.

Tim Wildmon That woman tried to trap her.

Steve Jordahl You did.

Ed Vitagliano She did. And it was snarky. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Wasn't it, though?

Ed Vitagliano Trying to make it sound like this young lady is not competitive enough.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano To play against guys, at least enough.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. You need to man up.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. That literally, I just, I don't like that. That smarmy, you know, snarky kind of attitude knows what she was doing.

Tim Wildmon And notice how these, a lot of these people who are proponents of transgendered males being allowed by that, I mean, they're males, they call themselves girls, but, they're males. and the people who try to defend them playing girl sports, they're often, they're ambiguous, they don't really stick to. They don't want any lines drawn, which is ridiculous. One of the great attractions of sports is you have rules and everybody knows what they are.

Steve Jordahl Kind of pointless without the rules, wouldn't it?

Tim Wildmon And one rule is, we have girls and boys sports in America and always have. And quite frankly, we have it around the world and we have it in The Olympics, we've always had, gender, whatever you want. Separation. So for someone like this woman. Ah. And I watched her. She's probably in her 50s.

Steve Jordahl She's 61.

Tim Wildmon She's 61. Well, I gave her a compliment.

Steve Jordahl Right.

Ed Vitagliano There you go. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon She's, talking down to this young lady who's playing sports right now in college. And it's kind of a. Back in my day, we'd have, you know, if you'd put me against Wilt Chamberlain, I'd have been fine with that.

Steve Jordahl That's what you say, Let me take

Tim Wildmon Micah Jordan, I can guard him. That kind of stuff, which is stupid. And, and by the way, I guarantee if this woman were. Roles were reversed and she was having to play against men who said they were women and go to the showers with them. and so you're having to shower and share spaces. That's part of the issue here. Not just the athletic competition, but the fact that these, boys who call themselves girls, they get to hang out in the showers and the workout rooms and the buses and the, and the hotel, rooms when they travel. All this stuff, it's so ridiculous. And it's, it's, indefensible. And for this woman that's the representative of, the secular progressives in this country, they, they, they claim to be there for women, but they're actually opposed to women. and that was a good, good evidence of that.

Ed Vitagliano Well, and I thought, I thought the idea of the bill was genius. You have women's sports, you have men's sports, you have coed.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano So if you want to sign up, sign up, and you know you're going to be playing against both your gender and the opposite sex, then do it.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

A company called Coco Robotics is using geolocation to deliver food

All right, next story. Steve.

Steve Jordahl All right, this is a story about AI and, be careful what you use, what you use your devices for. Now, this particular story has something that. It's not a nefarious or bad use, but it is something that wasn't intended. At least the people who are using it didn't intend. Let me explain. Do you remember, oh, six, seven years ago, there was a craze of a game. It was called Pokemon Go. Did you hear about that?

Ed Vitagliano Oh, yeah.

Steve Jordahl So Pokemon is a game for.

Ed Vitagliano Explain what that was.

Steve Jordahl Pokemon is a game where you have imaginary monsters that battle each other. And in Pokemon Go, they did something very interesting. They, this company, Niantech, decided to put these monsters out in the real world. Virtual monsters. So when you go to their app. You open their app, you got a screen, it had your camera on it, and it would find a monster from this, this Pokemon game. It was virtually placed in the real world. So when you put your phone up and you look at the corner of Broadway in Maine, ah, a monster would appear on your phone. And you could call it.

Ed Vitagliano Nobody else could see it.

Steve Jordahl No, it wasn't real. But if you had the app up, it knew kind of where you were. Because of geolocation.

Ed Vitagliano These people would walk around with their phone trying to.

Tim Wildmon I remember that.

Steve Jordahl Walk around with their phone for hours. In fact, they had, 30. They collect. So what this company did is it has now formed a partnership with Coco Robotics and it has, it is going to be starting to do some food delivery. And it is using, you know what GPS is, Global Positioning System. This is using now something they've created called Virtual Positioning system. They have 30 billion images of the real world and various shots, the same location at different lights, different weather, night, day. So this becomes very, very accurate within inches. And they're using it now to, use like gps. So they're food delivery. So when you were doing the Pokemon M Go, you were actually doing crowdsourcing data for niantec. You were giving them the position that you were at. And you didn't know it.

Tim Wildmon You didn't know.

Steve Jordahl Now, I don't know that anybody would have a problem them using your data for so they can get your pizza to you more accurately. But it is, an example of collecting data for one purpose. And it could be quietly repurposed years later for something completely different. And you never know. And so. And it might not always be kind of neutral like a pizza delivery. It could be something maybe a little bit more.

Ed Vitagliano What are you looking at me for when you say pizza delivery?

Steve Jordahl I am, because I think you'd be very interested in it.

Tim Wildmon Listen, so one thing.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, sure.

Tim Wildmon listen, I think we already have enough food delivery services. We got doordash. I was writing them down. Uber Eats.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Who. Who else is out there?

Ed Vitagliano I don't let people deliver food to me.

Tim Wildmon I don't trust that. I don't either. But I'm just saying that, mine ain't a matter of trust.

Steve Jordahl But there's me. Maybe I go out and get food for my wife.

Tim Wildmon I'm just saying we don't need Pokeman's delivering food. That's what I'm. You got your Pokeman Delivery food delivery service. You think that's going to go over? What do you have spider man coming down the city streets delivering food. Well, you don't mind diminishes Pokeman is

Ed Vitagliano what you don't mind. Santa Claus coming down the chimney. What's wrong? And by the way folks, when Tim says Pokeman, he's referring to slow food delivery.

Tim Wildmon We all know Pokemon.

Steve Jordahl Pokemon.

Tim Wildmon How do you spell it? How do you spell it?

Ed Vitagliano It's M O, N at the end.

Tim Wildmon P O. Yeah. I apologize for my mispronunciation.

Ed Vitagliano Because nothing's worse than a, pokey man delivering your food.

Tim Wildmon Well, that's true.

Steve Jordahl Delivering.

Tim Wildmon I get your point, Ed.

Steve Jordahl To the jail.

Ed Vitagliano Right?

Tim Wildmon You don't want to be pokey when you're delivering food out there.

Ed Vitagliano Listen, my, Check me if I'm right on this, Steve. This go mapping that they're using, they say is preferable to gps because GPS is dependent on satellites.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Whereas if you have a. This go mapping, it's your location is dependent upon, the scenery.

Steve Jordahl Buildings.

Ed Vitagliano The buildings.

With AI, they can go after everybody, Ed says

Steve Jordahl The buildings. The mountains. Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl And those, the satellites. I don't know. GPS is good within a couple, what, 10 yards or so? It's pretty good actually. Yeah, but this is within. Within inches. They can pinpoint your location.

Ed Vitagliano Tim's, comments on these kinds of stories I think is probably the truth. There's. They got it all in terms of information. I don't like it. They, you know, they all, you know, somebody, I don't know who. Somebody's got our facial recognition. They've got everything. I've been reading stories about the Chinese collecting data through tick tock and stuff where they can tell where your finger is positioned on your mouse. And your voice, the sound of your voice. It's all out there. It's no longer just health records. It's all this kind of stuff with your phone. Where you go, where you, travel habitually. I mean, they have me figured out. It's work, church, and sometimes out by the mall area or to see my grandkids. Those are the four basic steps.

Tim Wildmon Every step you take, every move you make.

Steve Jordahl That's right.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Steve Jordahl Sing man. I used to feel like there's a little bit of. I mean, I talk myself into this because you're right, there's no getting around it. They have all the data. But I used to think, you know, if they have the data on 30 million people, what are the chances that they're going to pick me? It's like winning the lottery or losing the lottery. Right. But now with AI, they can go after everybody.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. So how. How's that for a Monday morning.

Steve Jordahl There you go.

Ed Vitagliano They can go after you folks. Doesn't matter.

Steve Jordahl I want to end. Let's, I want to do two, a couple lighter stories, if we could.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, let me tell folks they're listening to Pokeman Radio right here on, Pokeman Radio.

Ed Vitagliano And for the real company, we're going

Tim Wildmon to do the Hokey Pokey and we're going to turn ourselves around. you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim M. Ed and Steve. Steve, go right ahead.

Ed: 50 unmarried couples from a Texas church got married this weekend

Steve Jordahl All right, so a couple weeks ago, the passenger at Lake Point Church in Rockwell, Texas, his name is, Josh Howerton. Pastor Josh. And he was doing a sermon and he impressed upon his people the importance of marriage. And he said, if you're living with someone that you're not married to, if you're sleeping with someone that's not your spouse or you've actually started a family and have kids with someone that's not your spouse, he said, and right now, this is his quote. You are coming under the loving conviction of the Holy Spirit. You need to honor God, then you need Jesus, put a ring on it and enter into the covenant of marriage. Well, this last Sunday, 50 unmarried couples from his church answered that call and they had a, wedding ceremony for all 50 of these. And they got married. These couples that had already started the process of being a couple got married.

Tim Wildmon Now they were shacked up.

Steve Jordahl Right. But now they are married.

Tim Wildmon They got called out.

Steve Jordahl That's right.

Tim Wildmon And, it worked. it did. Yeah. It worked. Good for him.

Ed Vitagliano I, I love this. I have no idea. What's. Do you know the size of the church?

Steve Jordahl 30, 000 members.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, 30, 000.

Steve Jordahl It's a, it's a multi site megachurch.

Tim Wildmon Well, 30, 000 members, that's what they say.

Ed Vitagliano Then 50 couples is probably a pretty small percentage, but still, those are 50 couples that did the right thing. I like the way he presented it. If you're coming under the loving conviction of the Holy Spirit, that kind of opens the door for people to be, obedient. There's a place for hellfire and brimstone. Don't get me wrong, but, when is that?

Tim Wildmon Ed, we were. You were a pastor. When did you whip out the fire and brimstone?

Ed Vitagliano I did on occasion. I let him have it.

Tim Wildmon Did you?

Ed Vitagliano On occasion?

Tim Wildmon Not when you were up for a raise though, right?

Ed Vitagliano Oh, I, I don't think I ever got a raise. Seriously. I, think I just got paid the same Amount.

Tim Wildmon No.

Ed Vitagliano You're joking.

Tim Wildmon But no inflation increase, no cost of living increase for you, huh? Huh?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. but that's all right.

Tim Wildmon That's okay.

Ed Vitagliano That's okay.

Tim Wildmon I'm just teasing.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon You're called. So it's not about the money.

Ed Vitagliano And I didn't feel called to a bigger church.

Tim Wildmon Right? That's right.

Ed Vitagliano I stayed at the same. You barely church for 18 and a half years.

Steve Jordahl Nor were you actually called.

Tim Wildmon That's a long stay church. So good for you.

Ed Vitagliano So that backfired, didn't it? Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Came back to me like karma.

Ed Vitagliano I was. I karma. Good. Good for this pastor. He did the right thing.

Steve Jordahl I think so.

Ed Vitagliano Right thing.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. And good for the people for who responded. Yeah, they responded. Although 50. Did they all get married at the same time?

Steve Jordahl Yeah, it was a ceremony. All of them on the. They all had the wedding reception. I had a big one. I suppose now if you have 30, 000 members, you probably have a fairly large.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. you know, in Texas.

Ed Vitagliano Barbecue, huh?

Tim Wildmon could be.

Ed Vitagliano Listen, I'd get married just for the barbecue.

Tim Wildmon Okay, next story. We better move on.

Steve Jordahl all right.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Teacher in Philadelphia starts posting letters from parents about troubled kids

What else you got?

Steve Jordahl I don't know the name of this teacher, but he's a teacher in Philadelphia who has started to post. He's reading letters that he gets from parents. Now, this tells you, if you've seen kids, like, misacting badly in public and you wanted to go up and, you know, slap the kid or somehow tell the parent to engage, please. this is why I want you to hear this teacher in Philadelphia is, talking. He's going to talk about three letters that he got from parents. Cut.

Speaker D Thirteen emails that I've gotten from parents. Part one. Here we go. Up first. Hi. We noticed Mason has been bringing home homework. We're trying to protect his mental health and family time. So we don't really do homework in our house. Is there any way he can still get full credit without completing it? Thanks for understanding, Mason's mom. Next one. Good morning. Emma was late because it was raining and she doesn't like the rain. It really affects her mood. Please mark her present but not late. Blessings, Emma's dad. Next one. Hello. I received your message about Tyler talking during class. I just want to say Tyler does not talk at home unless spoken to. So I'm confident there's been a misunderstanding. Please investigate further. Concerned parent. Next one. Hi. I saw that Olivia has a 72. We were hoping for at least a 90. Is there anything we can do to adjust that? We feel like A B. Better reflects her potential. Let me know what paperwork I need to fill out. Olivia's mom.

Ed Vitagliano All right. Were these real students names?

Steve Jordahl I'm sure. Is it?

Tim Wildmon Where was that?

Steve Jordahl Some school. Philadelphia.

Tim Wildmon Philadelphia. Pa. Pa. Because that guy right there, he's not a native of Philadelphia. You know, that's why I asked the question. You know, I wasn't rocky, about boa.

Ed Vitagliano Yo, Olivia.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Here's what you could do.

Tim Wildmon The guy who transferred study, he's a transplant. Anyway, his point was that parents, have gotten a lot of parents have gotten soft. Is that right? Or those.

Ed Vitagliano Those parents sound cray. Cray. Those parents sound crazy.

Tim Wildmon So she didn't want to get out in the rain.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. So mark her present.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And not absent.

Steve Jordahl You must have written a note like that or two.

Ed Vitagliano No. If I got a note from school, I was walking, dead.

Steve Jordahl If it was a negative, dead man walking.

Ed Vitagliano And I don't recall ever getting a positive note sent home.

Steve Jordahl And he's doing so well in school.

Ed Vitagliano Ed, Bud, get down here. What's this note mean? Wait till your father gets home.

Tim Wildmon No, Ma.

Ed Vitagliano No, Ma. No. Please don't beat me.

Tim Wildmon She didn't beat you, did she?

Ed Vitagliano Yes, she did.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, she did. Okay.

Ed Vitagliano I can remember when I was in high school, I stood a full foot taller than my mom. She was five one.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And she would say, I mean, with the mad, look, you're not too old. I can still whip you. That kind of thing. And I was like, yes, Ma, exactly. Was my fault. Ma. Don't tell dad. Ma.

Tim Wildmon That was, the report card that came in from college when I. My first semester, went to junior college. And I went to senior college.

Senior college. Poker was my major. And pool was my minor. Back there before cell phones

Senior college. Back there before cell phones. Okay. So I had zero accountability for my time. It was the first time away from home.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, man.

Tim Wildmon So I really. I really studied poker. that was my main. And billiards or pool. So that was my. That was my map. Poker was my major.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And pool was my minor.

Ed Vitagliano Minor.

Tim Wildmon And then. Then December came and my dad got. Got that ugly, You call it a report card. I don't know what you call it, because College. Anyway, we had a come, to Jesus meeting. Yeah. And, I changed my ways.

Ed Vitagliano Change your story.

Tim Wildmon But, that sim was fun for a season.

Ed Vitagliano And your dad preached hell, fire and brimstone, didn't he?

Tim Wildmon Came home to me. Yeah, that fire. Brimstone. That's right. We'll be back tomorrow. See you then.