Tim Wildman: If you're interested in going on American Family Association tours

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. Tim with Ed, Fred and Steve Paisley. Jordan joins us now. Good morning, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Hey, everybody.

Tim Wildmon I wanted to let people know that, if they're considering going with us on one of our tours in June or September or October. June and September, we're going to take a spiritual heritage tour of Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. Ah. Also our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. and Mount Vernon. That's in June and September. And then in October, Walker and Wesley Wildmon, my sons, are going to take a.

Steve Jordahl And.

Tim Wildmon And with Steven McDowell. They're going to Boston. You're going with them, right?

Ed Vitagliano I'm going.

Tim Wildmon Eds, old stomping ground. So much history to see in the greater Boston area, including Lexington and Concord and Plymouth, Rock. So. And the greater Boston area, including the Freedom Trail. So they're going in and. Wait a minute. Going in September.

Ed Vitagliano Is it September?

Tim Wildmon September, right. Yeah, they're going to September. And, so there you go. If you want. If you're interested in going on any of those tours with us, I'd love to. We take care of you. We'll talk about it.

Steve Jordahl Okay.

Tim Wildmon We take care of you, and, we have a lot of fun and it's great, time together with fellow believers around the country. So, the information is available at the following website. Wildmon m group.com just go there. Wildmon m group.com wild DM M O N group.com wildman group.com and all the information is available there on all the tours. Williamsburg, Washington, Boston. So there you go. Check it out. We're about full. By the way, the Williamsburg tours are. I mean, they're like. We got, like, four seats left.

Ed Vitagliano Boston this year is September 21 through 26. It is in October, in 27. 27. But this year it's in September 21, 20.

Tim Wildmon September is typically a great weather month for Boston.

Ed Vitagliano Yes, it is, isn't it?

Tim Wildmon so, there you go. Check it out. As I said, Williamsburg is just. We got, like, four seats left in September and June. There you go. All right. What do you got, Steve?

Elon Musk is developing a brain implant that lets people see through

Steve Jordahl Hey, we have, talked from time to time on this show about, Elon Musk and his scientific mind and what he's coming up with. He's got a company called Neuralink, and, I think it was just yesterday, the day before, we talked about a implant, a brain Implant that will let people see, even if they're blind. It goes right into the visual cortex, and it lets them see through.

Tim Wildmon Goes into the what now?

Steve Jordahl Visual cortex.

Tim Wildmon Okay. Yeah, your eye.

Steve Jordahl The brain. The brain in the brain. Well, he had a video out this morning talking about another neural implant. Brain implant, this one. It lets people speak, lets people who have lost their voice. they're testing it with an ALS patient. You're going to hear, and it lets them think thoughts about what their computers. What you want to say, what the computer's doing. And they're calling it telepathy. It's not technically telepathy, so I want to let you hear this. What you're going to hear is you're going to hear, Elon Musk. He's talking a little bit about this. You're gonna hear the wife of the first patient, that they're. Well, actually, he says he's the second patient. He's a gentleman with als. She's gonna say a little bit about how it works, and then you're gonna hear his voice.

Ed Vitagliano Now, with als, that's usually referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Steve Jordahl Lou Gehrig's disease or syndrome or. Yeah. and then you're gonna hear. The fourth thing you're gonna hear is this gentleman speaking through his computer. This is amazing stuff. Listen to cut 15. I know that I was, That I was being provocative, with that comment. that's not the case. I'm sorry. Did I not load the right one?

Tim Wildmon That guy right there. He was being provocative.

Steve Jordahl He was being provocative.

Tim Wildmon His comment, which is unnecessary.

Steve Jordahl Well, we're gonna come back to the story tomorrow, apparently, because don't have it. I must have loaded the wrong. Wrong, bite. I apologize.

Tim Wildmon Get into your visual cortex and messed it up.

Steve Jordahl I must have. Yeah. I told the computer to do the wrong thing.

Ed Vitagliano Well, I will say, Steve, that this can happen. The visual cortex is located right next to the winter vortex, and so sometimes those things can.

Steve Jordahl Brent, if I send you. I had to edit it a bit. All right, we're going to come back to that tomorrow. I really want you to hear this. This is amazing stuff that's going on.

Ed Vitagliano Medically, that is just a shameless way to make people tune in. Tomorrow.

Steve Jordahl They are going to tune, but it is.

Ed Vitagliano It is crazy what this technology is and will do, folks. You. You. You will want to tune in tomorrow.

Steve Jordahl Can I, Brent, if I send you the sound bite from my phone, can you play it? It's an MP3 file that I have. I can email it to you. All right, we're going to work on this. It might. We might be able to come back to this. I have other stories, just so you know.

University of Southern California cancels governor's debate because all the candidates are white

so let's talk about. They, had a governor's debate that they were going to be, doing at University of Southern California, and they were all set to do this. It was going to happen Tuesday night. And all of a sudden, they noticed something about the panel.

Ed Vitagliano These are the candidates for governor.

Steve Jordahl The candidates for governor of California. And they abruptly canceled the planned debate. It was set for Tuesday night.

Ed Vitagliano A serious reason, Steve, that was very serious for them to cancel a deb debate for, people who are running for governor.

Steve Jordahl The reason, of course, was because all the candidates were white.

Tim Wildmon What does that matter?

Steve Jordahl It matters to them.

Ed Vitagliano California.

Steve Jordahl So, they had invited Eric Swalwell, Katy Porter, Thom Steyer, and Matt M. Mahan M A H A N. They're all Anglo. They're all Anglo. Now, I looked it up. There are some candidates that are running that are.

Ed Vitagliano Hang on, hang on.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Just because someone's white doesn't. They're Anglo.

Tim Wildmon They can be Caucasian.

Ed Vitagliano Well, I, I'm. I'm white and I'm half Italian, half Greek. That's not Anglo. You people who, who are. Who are derived from the British Isles think everybody's Anglo.

Tim Wildmon That's my fam.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano All right.

Tim Wildmon We're derived from the British Isles. I checked it out. Although there's like 0.5 sub Saharan in there.

Ed Vitagliano Really?

Tim Wildmon Yeah. But I'm not going to trace that one down.

Ed Vitagliano Zero, like point zero five.

Tim Wildmon Somewhere along the way back there in my family history, somebody from England. Somebody from England. England went down to, the Congo and they stayed a while. We'll leave it at that. Okay.

Ed Vitagliano And then. And way back in your family tree.

Tim Wildmon Here we are. Great.

Steve Jordahl Well, they did. So, they didn't. They did invite the. The lead, candidate. Who. Steve Hilton, Another white guy. But he, didn't show up. But when they saw that there's. The panel led to outrage and blowback against usc. Some Democrat lawmakers claim the formula the school used to determine who could participate was biased. But they called on voters to boycott the debate if they didn't get, some candidates of color. We are still woke, folks.

Ed Vitagliano Well, California certainly is that whole west coast. And I feel badly for the people who aren't woke, but they're stuck in woke land. Dystopia. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon They're stuck on the woke roller coaster of life.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Ed Vitagliano And it just doesn't ever stop for them to get off.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano So I'll bet a bunch of those folks running for governor were straight, too. But the nerve.

Steve Jordahl Well, there's a question about Swalwell. No, no, no, no, no, no. all,

Tim Wildmon Right. Come on, now.

Steve Jordahl I'm kidding.

Tim Wildmon Are you telling me there was a debate set among M. Amongst the legit gubernatorial candidates for the state of California, and you're telling me a, major university, ucla, usc. USC canceled the debate because all the candidates were white? That's exactly what discriminating against white people now. I mean, that. What does that say?

Steve Jordahl Yeah. Well, they've heard of that before, huh? Huh?

Ed Vitagliano They. Apparently so. Let me ask you this, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Are there candidates of color.

Steve Jordahl Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Who are running for governor?

Steve Jordahl There are.

Ed Vitagliano Who are not invited.

Steve Jordahl Well, and if.

Ed Vitagliano If. And if so.

Fred Jackson Right.

Ed Vitagliano why weren't they invited?

Javier Becerra is running for California governor, but polling poorly

It can't be just because they're candidates of color. It has to be the percentage.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano Of support that they were getting in the polls.

Steve Jordahl It is. They cut it off at a certain percentage. You'd have to go down. Well, Javier Becerra.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Is running. He's Latino, but He's only polling at

Ed Vitagliano 4% Los Angeles or something.

Steve Jordahl he was some elected, official in California before. I did not bring it up.

Tim Wildmon You have a threshold. You have to meet M. It doesn't matter what color you are. Ridiculous. Anyway, go ahead.

Ed Vitagliano I'm sorry. He was Secretary of Health and Human Services, under Joe Biden. I remember hearing the name.

Tim Wildmon He's not doing. He's not doing well enough to get in there.

Ed Vitagliano I guess not. But, I mean, he's got a pretty good resume if you're in a blue state, but. So I can't imagine that's. That he wouldn't be invited because he's not well known. It has to be because he's polling in abysmal numbers.

Steve Jordahl It is exactly because they're polling. Okay. So, the way that you can. You can run for governor, you can be a homeless man, but you can't hide.

Tim Wildmon Ah.

Steve Jordahl You can run, but you can't hide. a lot of people, anybody can run for governor that wants to. Okay. And if you open the debate up and say that everybody that's, applied or filed paperwork to run for governor is on the stage, you could have 20 candidates. It'd be unworkable. So you have to cut it off somewhere. And they cut it off at, Well, they had these 14 candidates that said yes, and then they had Also invited Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, to the debate. Who. They didn't, They didn't show up or they didn't. They declined the debate, but that's where they cut it off. At a certain polling number, you can't just have 20 people. I mean, they.

Ed Vitagliano And eventually, that's what both major political parties do when the. When the primary process is going on. You know, remember they used to. The Republicans at one point. Remember they had two separate debates because they.

Steve Jordahl I remember this was Democrats, wasn't it?

Fred Jackson Democrats, like first and second tier.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Well, I mean, I know the Republicans had it.

Steve Jordahl Did they?

Ed Vitagliano At some point in some election? Because you just can't have that many candidates. Because I remember. Anyway, that's.

Steve Jordahl We have a genius for a producer. Brent Creeley, our producer, has, been able to rectify my mistake. He's corrected whatever I loaded incorrectly.

Brain implant that allows you to think thoughts into actual motion or words

So I want to go back to this neuralink thing. Okay, so what you're going to hear again, this is a brain implant that allows you to think thoughts about moving a mouse on your computer or saying words, and the computer will pick it up and will translate that into actual motion or words. So, what you're going to hear is you're going to hear Elon Musk, and then you hear the wife of this first candidate, the one who has the implant. then you're going to hear the gentleman himself who has als. The first thing you're going to hear is him speaking as he speaks now, a year or so into als, and his voice is degrading. And then you're going to hear what he sounds like through the computer. So let's listen to the cut. Telepathy. And that enables someone who has lost the ability to command their body to be able to communicate with a computer and the ability to do conceptual consensual telepathy.

Fred Jackson In January of 2026, Ken became the second participant to receive a neuralink implant for voice. He will be able to think, and his device will speak for him, and it will sound like him. It will be OG Ken from way back in 2020, before his voice changed.

Steve Jordahl I like to go out, like, to be able to go and do things and can even go swimming anymore.

Ed Vitagliano Willoughby Blue. I will take three.

Fred Jackson You're gonna do that?

Ed Vitagliano Yes, please. I'm done with my m. Turn now. This is the disease. It's a neurological disease. Als. Steven Hawking famously had it. And. And people remember this genius in a. In a wheelchair.

Steve Jordahl The mind does not lose any intelligence,

Ed Vitagliano but the Mind is still fully functional and it's that being trapped inside that body.

Steve Jordahl Right.

Ed Vitagliano Which seems like a horror.

Steve Jordahl Well, Elon Musk said he can't come out of his body, which I think is an interesting way to say that.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. So this technology, this kind of stuff, it was mind blowing to hear what you, bad choice of words. But we were talking about the implants for the eyes. Now you're talking about the brain being able to think and communicate and even do some limited movements or whatever through a computer.

Steve Jordahl You can control your computer, including the voice, text to voice. with your mind just thinking, you can't. You don't have to move a muscle.

Ed Vitagliano Crazy. After our TI meeting this morning when we were talking about this, I just thought this is science fiction level stuff that we're rapidly getting to.

Steve Jordahl It is. You had a concern this morning in our story meeting.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. who amongst. Raise your hand if you want every thought you have, on the computer. On the computer voiced out for the people in the room to hear. I thought so. Nobody signs up for that one. Maybe that'll help those people in that condition. But the general public. You don't want to.

Steve Jordahl Well, I looked it up.

Tim Wildmon You don't want that.

Steve Jordahl I looked it up. Neuralink implants do not decode your stream of consciousness or your stream of thoughts. What they do is they focus on very specific brain signals. So like you think, move the cursor or click or speak. This, it trains on, on key thoughts and then it'll engage. this.

Ed Vitagliano Until the, until the neural link becomes self aware.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. Right.

Ed Vitagliano And then begins to tell.

Tim Wildmon Right.

Ed Vitagliano Tell your secrets.

Steve Jordahl So if you. Yeah, that's AI So if you decide you want to upgrade and you're going to do away with the previous. It knows your thoughts, but think about blackmail.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Steve Jordahl It has everything on you. so, yeah. just miraculous stuff happening in science.

NASA has announced plans to conquer space with moon base, nuclear Mars rocket

Well.

Ed Vitagliano And you had another story, that's science fiction worthy, about the moon.

Steve Jordahl Oh yeah. They're going back to the moon.

Tim Wildmon Who's they?

Steve Jordahl NASA.

Tim Wildmon They.

Ed Vitagliano They told you this yesterday, Tim. They. The ones who do everything.

Tim Wildmon So we're, We've been there, done that, and we've got the T shirt.

Steve Jordahl Yeah. NASA has announced the plans to go back, and conquer space with moon base, nuclear Mars rocket and more.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. So we've never had a base on them.

Steve Jordahl Never had a base on the moon.

Tim Wildmon We're going to set up a base.

Ed Vitagliano A bare base.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And this is when you get that base all built. Uh-huh, okay. This is how the science fiction movie starts. Because then something comes in through an airlock, and then everyone who's sitting around that movie.

Tim Wildmon What is that movie?

Steve Jordahl It's every movie, right.

Tim Wildmon And it grows.

Ed Vitagliano And the people are sitting around having breakfast or whatever, and the computer says, dave, something has entered the airlock.

Steve Jordahl That's 2001 A Space Odyssey.

Ed Vitagliano That's. Yeah, I'm combining. I'm combining.

Tim Wildmon The movie was that I saw recently in the last year, where the, the alien grows inside the space module. The space. They got a space ship out there that, you know, talking about Alien. Is that what it is? Yeah, I don't. I don't remember what the name of it was.

Ed Vitagliano Someone comes.

Tim Wildmon I didn't see it at the theater. I saw it at home on the tv. It was on the tv.

Ed Vitagliano They come in from exploring with something attached to his.

Tim Wildmon Well, they're. They're. They're. They're, They got their. They got this, Like a. Like an aquarium type thing, and inside it is this little. These little things that they've caught from the. From going out.

Ed Vitagliano That's. That's. I think life. L I F E. I think that would. That was a very good movie.

Tim Wildmon And they're putting their hands through. Into the aquarium, and this thing inside there begins to grow.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon And it attacks. It takes the spaceship.

Ed Vitagliano Don't give anything away. I saw it a while ago. I don't remember if there's.

Tim Wildmon I don't recommend the name of his life.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Do you remember?

Ed Vitagliano It was pretty.

Tim Wildmon I don't. Listen, I can't recommend it as far as. I don't remember. Maybe there's some curse words in there. I don't. It was on tv, so maybe cleaned up.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon I'm saying.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I don't recommend movies either, but anyway, we're probably boring our list.

Someone got stuck on Mars in a movie starring Tom Cruise

Steve Jordahl No, there was a movie. Remember the movie where. I remember the actor was a Thom Cruise. Thom, Hanks. Someone got stuck on Mars.

Fred Jackson Oh, no, no, that was, It wasn't Thom Hanks.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, it's, Matthew McConaughey. No, no, it's Matt Damon.

Tim Wildmon Damon. He got stuck on Mars.

Steve Jordahl He got stuck. He got left behind.

Tim Wildmon Get him, though, didn't he?

Steve Jordahl Well, it took. It took the whole movie.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, well, he.

Steve Jordahl He.

Ed Vitagliano He had. Had a base and was growing vegetables.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And was trying potatoes. I don't want to give anything away.

Steve Jordahl Well, by now, if you haven't seen it, you.

Tim Wildmon Matthew McConaughey showed up in that movie, though. Did he yeah. He said, all right, all right, all

Steve Jordahl right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

NASA is planning a mission to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars

Ed Vitagliano So the base on the moon.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Fred's got something to say over there. Fred, go ahead.

Fred Jackson just so people aren't confused, as, early the next 10 days, there are astronauts who are going to head towards the moon.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Jackson Going to do a quick trip around without landing and come back because it's been a while since we've done this.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Fred Jackson So they want to test it out. So these folks are just going to do a spin around the moon and come home. So don't think when this happens in the next 10 days that these are guys going to settle down.

Steve Jordahl Right. Yeah. That. That was part of the process the first time we went to the moon, Apollo 8, 9 or 10, did that kind of circle.

Ed Vitagliano Now, I'm going to say I would not be surprised on this once around the moon if they discovered that there was a Dollar General could be there.

Steve Jordahl So that.

Ed Vitagliano That's a. That'll be a big.

Tim Wildmon That was a good one, Ed.

Ed Vitagliano If you have a base that will.

Steve Jordahl NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman put out a tweet. He said, to build a sustained human presence on the moon, we're building NASA Moon Base, prioritizing surface operations and scalable infrastructures. They're going to start in 2027. Nearly monthly cadence of equipment and rovers and scientific payloads going to the moon. And they call it a stepping stone to Mars. And, my thought is. And I haven't, got this clarified totally. I don't. It's not fact, but I've heard that it's cheaper to launch a mission to Mars from the moon than it is to Earth because it's cheaper to get out of the moon's gravity than it is to get out of the Earth's gravity.

Ed Vitagliano Don't need as much thrust.

Tim Wildmon I'm going to tell you that.

Ed Vitagliano Who needs Elon Musk?

Steve Jordahl Right.

Ed Vitagliano When you get Tim and Ed and Fred and Steve, what else you got?

Massachusetts introduced a millionaires tax back in 2023, and it backfired

Steve Jordahl All right. so we played a while back, remember, we played the. The. Who was the governor, of, Of NewSong York. Kathi Hochul was telling people to come back from Florida because they moved.

Tim Wildmon Yes.

Steve Jordahl After she said, go to Florida because we don't want you anymore. Millionaires. Well, Massachusetts, back in 2023, introduced a millionaires tax, and they immediately lost $4.2 billion as income. As people fled the state, residents exiting Massachusetts took a net of $4.2 billion in adjusted gross income with them. In 2023, one of the largest Totals in the country after attacks on millionaires took effect.

Ed Vitagliano Who could have thought Tim could have told them that.

Tim Wildmon I could have told you that.

Ed Vitagliano Could have told them that that was going to happen. I don't know why these people don't understand human nature. I know you're gonna, you're gonna tax people into oblivion. Kathi Hogle, the governor of NewSong York, said, hey, be a good sport.

Steve Jordahl Come on patriotic, Be patriotic, come and pay your tax.

Ed Vitagliano Be a good scout, as Andy Griffith would say. And they just don't seem to understand human nature. Because the people who left are gonna say, well, are you gonna tax us into oblivion? Well, of course we are. Then we're not coming back.

Tim Wildmon Governor, even, quote, rich people don't like to pay more taxes. you know the billionaire attack. They tried to, you remember Donald Trump in California? That backfired on them.

Ed Vitagliano Don't they got to make this car payment. If a billionaire gets taxed too much

Steve Jordahl in his 20, 16 campaign, someone, accused Donald Trump, you took every tax cut you tried to be cheap with. And he said, yeah, that makes me smart.

Ed Vitagliano Yes, that was the debate between him and Hillary Clinton.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano He says, yeah, because she was trying to make that a score, a winning point.

Steve Jordahl Right.

Ed Vitagliano Saying he takes, he uses all these tax shelters as little as. Yeah, I do that because I'm smart. And you do it. And every one of you, the people donating to your campaign do it. if you don't want it, why don't you change the law? I'll tell you why. Because you guys are making bank, too. And she shut up after that issue. Yeah. On that issue, she shutty.

Steve Jordahl She shutty,

Ed Vitagliano King of Queens.

Steve Jordahl That's it.

Virginia will now allow people as young as 22 in public schools

Tim Wildmon All right, we're out of time. Here we are, it appears. Fred, any last words?

Fred Jackson Just saw a headline out of Virginia. Elections have consequences. They now have a Democrat governor there.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Jackson They are now going to allow into public schools people as old as 22 years old. They're calling them English learners.

Ed Vitagliano Goes back to, you can have a grown up. You're going to have grown people in

Fred Jackson schools up to 22 years of age. They're going to accept them in the public schools.

Steve Jordahl What?

Ed Vitagliano Virginia?

Fred Jackson In Virginia.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Steve Jordahl Right.

Tim Wildmon Another great woke idea. Good night.

Fred Jackson You imagine a 22 year old, running around with 8 year old, 9 year olds.

Ed Vitagliano That's an adult or 14, 15, 16 year olds.

Fred Jackson I know. Anyway, that's the headline out of Virginia.

Tim Wildmon Welcome to woke land, Virginia. All right, we'll be back tomorrow. plus, of course, we decided to go the moon. we'll be back tomorrow with more of today's issues. Have a great day, everybody.