Tim Wildmon: All right, welcome back, everybody, to Today’s Issues on the American Family Radio network. Tim, Wesley, and Ray, we’ve been here for an hour. I don’t know where you’ve been. We’ve been here for an hour and five minutes, but joining us now, Steve Jordahl, here on Today’s Issues.
Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Brother Steve.
Steve Jordahl: I put on the wrong headset, and that’s what’s coming through my head. I couldn’t hear you.
Tim Wildmon: You got on the right headset?
Steve Jordahl: Now I’ve got the right one on, and I can hear you loud and clear. Everything is well.
Tim Wildmon: It’s kind of a metaphor for life, isn’t it?
Panelist: I tell you.
Tim Wildmon: Put on that wrong headset in life.
Panelist: That’s what I’m saying.
Tim Wildmon: You don’t need to put on the wrong headset in life, people. Joel Osteen’s written about this.
Panelist: He has, hasn’t he?
Tim Wildmon: He has. We need to pay attention to what he says. You need to get the right headset on in life if you’re going to move forward with a positive outlook. Ray, am I right?
Ray: He’s right. I’m good with that.
Tim Wildmon: Put the right headset on, and you get the right one from the Word of God.
Ray: That’s what I’m saying.
Panelist: Amen.
Tim Wildmon: That says Ray Pritchard, and I agree with him 100 percent.
Panelist: Amen.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, let me say one other thing. I waxed, I don’t know if it’s eloquent, but I went off on this idea of...
Panelist: You’ve been preaching.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t like that President Trump announced that he’s cutting off all money for Israel, effective immediately. Well, effective by the end of the year. We give Israel $3 billion, $4 billion a year, and they were the second-largest recipient after Ukraine, I think.
Tim Wildmon: But he also said that Israel can continue to buy weapons from America and all. President Trump did say that. He also said he’d help them whenever they need help.
Panelist: Yes, but he’s not always going to be the president. That kind of worries me.
Tim Wildmon: We went over a whole lot relative to this, and I want to wait to hear what Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, has to say in response to the money being cut off. Benjamin Netanyahu did say about six weeks ago, “We want to wean ourselves from American foreign aid.” So he did say that himself. He said, “We want to be independent.” But cutting cold turkey, that’s another matter, I think. We’ll find out.
Tim Wildmon: But I will say this, just from a completely selfish approach, and I think I speak for millions and millions of Christians, especially around the world, I don’t know if this is selfish or not, certainly in America, I want to protect the Holy Land because the holy sites are there. That’s the land of Jesus and the Bible and David and Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Jericho. Wow. We’ve been over there many, many times, going again, and we’ll go again in the future, Lord willing. There’s no other place on Earth like it for Christians, and for Jews too, really.
Tim Wildmon: So I want the Holy Land and the holy sites to be protected and defended. Israel has done a wonderful job of that since they came into existence, even helping to protect Christian sites when they are Jews. Now, so have the Arabs helped to protect the holy sites, like Bethlehem, for example.
Tim Wildmon: But, man, if you have the jihadis attack Israel and they can’t defend themselves, they’ll just destroy the Holy Land. Look, today, if the jihadis could, they would push the button today and vaporize Israel from the face of the Earth. We’ve been talking about this, right? “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.” What that means is no more Jews, no more Israel. You’ve got Hezbollah, you’ve got Hamas, and you’ve got a lot of bad actors in the Middle East.
Panelist: Tim, if I think about it, I am fine with the idea of Israel saying, “We can take care of ourselves.” I am fine with them saying, “We don’t want American aid down the road.” But I sure do not want, come January, February, or March, to wake up and find out Bethlehem is no more or the Temple Mount is no more because the jihadis broke through, because we withdrew aid and Israel wasn’t able to defend itself.
Tim Wildmon: I know. That’s a matter you don’t hear hardly discussed because not a lot of people care about that angle, but we do.
Panelist: We do, absolutely.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, go ahead. What you got?
Steve Jordahl: Well, let me just read this. I’m looking at The Times of Israel because I want to know how this is going over in Israel. I have here: “Top officials in the Finance Ministry say they were surprised by U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that military aid to Israel would cease by the end of the year, according to Hebrew media reports.”
Steve Jordahl: “No formal document was submitted from the Prime Minister’s Office regarding the end of the aid,” said an official, according to the Walla news site. “The ministry was aware of the intention to end it, but it was surprised by the intention to do so immediately.”
Steve Jordahl: That outlet quotes an unnamed senior Israeli financial official saying, “The announcement has grave consequences for the economy, giving up two years of aid and $8 billion. Where will we get this? It’s clear, from citizens.”
Steve Jordahl: So according to The Times of Israel, officials in the Israeli Finance Ministry were not aware this was coming. It says at the bottom, “The Prime Minister’s Office is expected to comment on Trump’s announcement soon.”
Steve Jordahl: I am still kind of holding out. We know what the announcement was, but we never know what discussions were had between the president and Israel, so we have to lay our own presuppositions and our own ideas over this.
Steve Jordahl: Before I read this, I was kind of of the hope or the thought that, no, it’s an agreement. It’s an agreement because they have said they want to end this.
Panelist: We’ll have to wait to hear from the prime minister. I’m not encouraged by the most recent information, this Finance Ministry statement.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I’ll finish with this quote. Maybe we quoted this from Trump earlier. Do we have the comments he made on Fox News still? Go ahead and play that again.
Donald Trump: Now, as far as paying Israel, Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal that we give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we’re stopping. They’re fine with it because, you know, they’ve become a very successful country. They don’t need it, and we won’t be paying anymore. Israel, so it’s just a wasted thing because we’ve already agreed that by the end of this year, we won’t be paying Israel. And we’ll help Israel if they need it. You know, they’ve been a great ally.
Tim Wildmon: That’s all we have. Okay. He went on to say this, did Trump: “The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about. It’s no secret, as a signal of unfairness.” Trump said on Tuesday on Fox, “And we can’t allow that to happen.” I don’t know what that means. He went on to say, “I don’t like that because it’s too easy.”
Panelist: Wait a minute. Read that again.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I’m going to read it to you. I wish we had him talking about it. Maybe we don’t. I’m quoting President Trump this morning from the interview he did on Fox News. Here’s what he said. He’s talking about the $4 billion that he’s cutting off to Israel, that they get annually. He said, “The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about. It’s no secret, as a signal of unfairness.”
Tim Wildmon: Then Trump goes on to say about that, “And we can’t allow that to happen.” He said, “I don’t like that because it’s too easy.” He’s talking about the argument. Then he says, “It’s almost too easy a target.” Then he says, “Bibi and I have been talking, and we’ve agreed. He was very understanding of it.”
Panelist: So what?
Tim Wildmon: So he’s saying Bibi, talking about Benjamin Netanyahu, is good with cutting off the $4 billion by the end of the year.
Panelist: I like it.
Tim Wildmon: What do you say? Are we good?
Panelist: Good.
Tim Wildmon: But wait and see what Benjamin Netanyahu says about that. By the way, he was talking about the bipartisanship, but you wanted to comment on what Trump just said there?
Panelist: Well, just this. What is Mr. Netanyahu going to say? I don’t think he can come out and say, “Mr. Trump, we never had an agreement like that.”
Tim Wildmon: I would. What’s it going to hurt him? He’s getting cut off anyway.
Panelist: Well, there’s a lot more to the U.S.-Israeli alliance than just the money.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I agree.
Panelist: You can’t do the whole thing.
Tim Wildmon: I agree with you guys. All I’m saying is the truth needs to be told.
Panelist: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: If Benjamin Netanyahu did not know about this and didn’t agree to this, he needs to say, “Trump didn’t know. We did not have a deal. I don’t know what he’s talking about,” because that’s the honest thing to say.
Panelist: I can’t imagine a world in which he would actually say that, even if that was the truth, because that would just drop a hand grenade into the...
Tim Wildmon: So you’ve got to pretend.
Panelist: Well, that’s politics. Politicians do that all the time.
Tim Wildmon: That’s politics. I thought Trump and Netanyahu were telling it like it is.
Panelist: No, they’re politicians. They do what’s best for their countries.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, so we have to read through the...
Panelist: Absolutely.
Tim Wildmon: No, we need to just wait. I’ve said it four times.
Panelist: I agree.
Tim Wildmon: Let’s wait and see what Benjamin Netanyahu says. But what you’re saying is, it doesn’t matter. He can’t say anything. He can only say, “I agree with Trump,” because Trump said repeatedly, “I’m the boss of Israel.”
Steve Jordahl: I say this a lot about my wife, and this is my wife. She lives in the world of “should.” The world needs to work as it should. If someone should come over to your house and give you an amount of service for a certain amount of money, that’s what happens. If they have to come twice and they charge you more, they shouldn’t do that, therefore it’s wrong.
Steve Jordahl: Sometimes you’ve got to live in the world that is. This is not really a “should” kind of world. I wish it was the world of “should” too, and we’re applying the “should” world to politics. I just don’t think it fits all the time.
Tim Wildmon: So Republicans and Democrats both lie, Steve? Is that what you’re saying?
Panelist: Wow. That’s where we should land. I think we should move on now.
Panelist: I think we can all land on that.
Panelist: That’s what the Bible says.
Tim Wildmon: Are all politicians liars?
Panelist: Most of them, not all of them.
Panelist: There’s a difference between lying and spinning a lot of times.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, we’ll wrap this up.
Panelist: Do we need to?
Tim Wildmon: What bothers me about this, and again, it remains to be seen, is President Trump is saying there in the quote that I did two times, “I agree with the argument of the left.”
Panelist: I don’t think he’s saying that he agrees that we’re bombing the Palestinians, that it’s mean to their race.
Tim Wildmon: No, he’s saying giving Israel $4 billion a year is unfair, and I agree with that, and so we’re not doing it anymore. So the left can quit griping about that argument. Next argument. That’s what he’s saying.
Panelist: Yeah, that’s what he’s saying.
Panelist: That’s what I said. We need to quit giving them money because they’re using that to hit me over the head.
Tim Wildmon: Even though, ironically, it was Barack Obama 10 years ago who signed a security agreement with Israel to give them $38 billion over 10 years. Obama agreed in 2016 to give Israel $38 billion over a 10-year period, which is $3.8 billion a year for their security. That was Obama.
Panelist: Something tells me he wouldn’t agree to that now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. But he did then, when he had the power, to his credit. I would say to his credit.
Tim Wildmon: Right, next story. Can we do something other than elections and politics? You sent a story around. It was very interesting to me. The top song on the iTunes Christian chart is a song that’s totally made up. There’s no real artist.
Steve Jordahl: Right. It was made by a group that was made up. It’s all from the computer, and it sounds something like this.
Song: Tell me, how is heaven? Is it everything they say? Are the streets really golden? Does the hurt...
Steve Jordahl: A lot of the AI song voices they create are these scratchy...
Tim Wildmon: That’s the number one song on iTunes?
Steve Jordahl: Christian song, yeah. Number one.
Panelist: Right. Yeah, it’s AI-generated music.
Tim Wildmon: You sent the story around. I know that. There’s no people?
Steve Jordahl: Right. There are no people singing. That’s all AI-designed, AI-generated. It is a computer-generated voice and computer-generated musicians.
Tim Wildmon: Is that a figment of Grok’s imagination? I mean, it’s the number one downloaded Christian song.
Steve Jordahl: I thought it was number one, period, for a while. I think it gets the number one Christian song.
Steve Jordahl: But here’s the thing. I went and looked, and it turns out that’s not the only AI Christian gospel song that’s out there. Jubileecast.com, this site I’d never heard of before, has a story about 10 AI gospel songs that are trending.
Steve Jordahl: I picked two. I want to play two because of two things. The first one is an AI song called “Let Go and Let God” by some non-artist called Xania Monet. It’s an AI artist.
Steve Jordahl: What I want you to listen to is that they are using pitch correction in this. You know how they have Auto-Tune, where you can hear some of the artists who can’t quite sing? They use this Auto-Tune. You can hear them go between notes, that it’s computer-aided because they can’t sing. I don’t know why they have to do this with AI, but listen.
Steve Jordahl: I can hear that, if that was a real artist, I could hear the Auto-Tune. They haven’t even done that very right.
Steve Jordahl: They are also kind of playing on our emotions. This is a song called “We Are Charlie Kirk” from the Christian charts.
Tim Wildmon: Is that AI?
Steve Jordahl: It’s all AI. Everything that I played for you is AI.
Tim Wildmon: So is that a lie? That’s a good discussion. Is that a violation of one of the Ten Commandments?
Panelist: I don’t know. In what way?
Tim Wildmon: It’s phony.
Panelist: How is it?
Tim Wildmon: It’s not real. It pretends to be.
Panelist: But they tell you it’s AI. They label a lot of stuff now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, no one’s hiding the fact that these aren’t real.
Panelist: I know. You’re in an ornery mood right now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I’m in that ornery mood right now, but I don’t like what’s about to happen today, probably. We’ll see. Go ahead.
Panelist: A couple comments. I think, as a Christian, you’ll have to have the same discernment that you would have, unfortunately, in Protestant and Christian America, where you have to have good theology and you have to be able to discern what’s right and what’s wrong. On that part of it, I think you’re going to have to continue to do what you do now.
Panelist: We have some, we’ve talked about, you’ve got the Talaricos out there. Okay, set that aside. I do think, here in the next 10 years or less, five to 10 years, there’s going to be a growing value in things that are watermarked or labeled “done by humans.”
Panelist: I think there’s going to be a change in the next 10 years where people realize, after a period of time with AI, okay, it has its role, it has its place, it can be helpful in these ways, but I don’t want my entire life to be AI. Therefore, people with good skills will have value.
Panelist: They’ll go through a time period, and we’re in it right now, actually, where people are losing their jobs in the entertainment industry and all those things. That’s happening, and it will continue to go down. But I think, on the other side of this, people will see the appreciation and the value in humans doing X, Y, and Z.
Steve Jordahl: I think you’re always going to have these yahoos who want to appear and fool you into thinking that they’re that good. Have you seen the slop that’s on your X feed lately? I had to look up three stories and kill them that I was thinking about bringing in because none of them were real.
Panelist: I have, yeah. You do it there.
Tim Wildmon: I’m not duped like that. Never been duped because I don’t do that. Not average in the month being duped.
Tim Wildmon: Friends, just to make clear here on Today’s Issues, we’re the real deal. There are actual human beings talking to you.
Panelist: That’s true.
Panelist: I think they can tell that.
Panelist: I really don’t think there’s ever been any doubt.
Tim Wildmon: Any doubt there? All right, next story.
Steve Jordahl: All right. I think, if we want to start taking advice for our economy, maybe we should go somewhere other than The View, because Ana Navarro, who is one of the hosts of The View, was complaining about the cost of ground beef.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t watch The View. I only know about it when we play clips from it.
Steve Jordahl: Well, I just want you to listen to this. Listen closely. This is Ana Navarro, who’s not very happy with the price of beef.
Ana Navarro: Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please go out and vote tomorrow and vote these bums out.
Tim Wildmon: Wait a minute. She didn’t say that.
Steve Jordahl: No, that one is real.
Tim Wildmon: You confirmed that?
Steve Jordahl: I did confirm that.
Tim Wildmon: She is one of the four or five hosts, or whatever it is, on The View. It’s on ABC television. It has about three million people a day, so they have their viewers. It’s supposed to be news, basically. It’s the view of four liberal women most of the time. They do have a token conservative on from time to time. But this woman here, she’s a lefty.
Steve Jordahl: Oh, yeah.
Tim Wildmon: I want to play this again and listen closely. She’s talking about the election, saying why you need to go out and vote these bums out.
Steve Jordahl: That’s right. She’s talking about the Republicans.
Tim Wildmon: Because she said this is happening. Let’s hear her observation again.
Ana Navarro: Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please go out and vote tomorrow and vote these bums out.
Tim Wildmon: I can’t believe they allowed that. They didn’t correct her on the air.
Steve Jordahl: This is her feed.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, I’m sorry. That wasn’t on The View?
Steve Jordahl: That wasn’t on The View. No, she’s a host of The View, but this was her own personal account.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, I’m sorry. In some cases, I would like to give, we’ll still have a good laugh, but then I would say something to the effect of, she misspoke. She didn’t know.
Tim Wildmon: My opinion is that she’s so far detached from everyday life and purchasing things. She probably has everybody cook for her every day. She is so detached.
Panelist: I think she didn’t mean to say that. She goes to the grocery store. She knows that ground beef isn’t sold by the gallon.
Tim Wildmon: I think she’s so far detached. I don’t think she has to be told she’s wrong. I don’t think she caught herself.
Panelist: But we all misspeak.
Tim Wildmon: Well, look, I know. Let me end with this. JD Vance, we need to pray for his kids.
JD Vance: After Halloween yesterday, actually, I was talking to my daughter, who’s four years old. I said, “Honey, we’re going to start getting ready for our toy drive.” We try to give some toys to Toys for Tots. We’re now in November, getting ready for Christmas, and I’d like you to identify maybe a couple toys you’d like to donate here. So she brings me two of her brother’s toys.
JD Vance: I realized that, despite my best efforts, ladies and gentlemen, I have apparently raised a Democrat.
Panelist: That’s hilarious.
Tim Wildmon: He may have a future in stand-up comedy if this vice president thing doesn’t work out. That was JD Vance, raising a future Democrat. She took her brother’s toys to give away. That’s funny.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Ray, thanks for joining us today.
Ray: Thank you, Tim.
Tim Wildmon: And Steve, appreciate it.
Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
Tim Wildmon: Wesley?
Wesley: Thank you. Enjoyed it.
Tim Wildmon: Thanks to Brent Creely and Cole Green. Brent’s our producer on the board, and Cole’s our video man.
Tim Wildmon: Don’t forget, tonight at six o’clock Central Time, about six and a half hours from now, we’re going to be here live with our Election Day coverage on American Family Radio. I’ll be one of them, with Fred and others. We’ll see you then.
Tim Wildmon: All right, welcome back, everybody, to Today’s Issues on the American Family Radio network. Tim, Wesley, and Ray, we’ve been here for an hour. I don’t know where you’ve been. We’ve been here for an hour and five minutes, but joining us now, Steve Jordahl, here on Today’s Issues.
Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Brother Steve.
Steve Jordahl: I put on the wrong headset, and that’s what’s coming through my head. I couldn’t hear you.
Tim Wildmon: You got on the right headset?
Steve Jordahl: Now I’ve got the right one on, and I can hear you loud and clear. Everything is well.
Tim Wildmon: It’s kind of a metaphor for life, isn’t it?
Panelist: I tell you.
Tim Wildmon: Put on that wrong headset in life.
Panelist: That’s what I’m saying.
Tim Wildmon: You don’t need to put on the wrong headset in life, people. Joel Osteen’s written about this.
Panelist: He has, hasn’t he?
Tim Wildmon: He has. We need to pay attention to what he says. You need to get the right headset on in life if you’re going to move forward with a positive outlook. Ray, am I right?
Ray: He’s right. I’m good with that.
Tim Wildmon: Put the right headset on, and you get the right one from the Word of God.
Ray: That’s what I’m saying.
Panelist: Amen.
Tim Wildmon: That says Ray Pritchard, and I agree with him 100 percent.
Panelist: Amen.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, let me say one other thing. I waxed, I don’t know if it’s eloquent, but I went off on this idea of...
Panelist: You’ve been preaching.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t like that President Trump announced that he’s cutting off all money for Israel, effective immediately. Well, effective by the end of the year. We give Israel $3 billion, $4 billion a year, and they were the second-largest recipient after Ukraine, I think.
Tim Wildmon: But he also said that Israel can continue to buy weapons from America and all. President Trump did say that. He also said he’d help them whenever they need help.
Panelist: Yes, but he’s not always going to be the president. That kind of worries me.
Tim Wildmon: We went over a whole lot relative to this, and I want to wait to hear what Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, has to say in response to the money being cut off. Benjamin Netanyahu did say about six weeks ago, “We want to wean ourselves from American foreign aid.” So he did say that himself. He said, “We want to be independent.” But cutting cold turkey, that’s another matter, I think. We’ll find out.
Tim Wildmon: But I will say this, just from a completely selfish approach, and I think I speak for millions and millions of Christians, especially around the world, I don’t know if this is selfish or not, certainly in America, I want to protect the Holy Land because the holy sites are there. That’s the land of Jesus and the Bible and David and Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Jericho. Wow. We’ve been over there many, many times, going again, and we’ll go again in the future, Lord willing. There’s no other place on Earth like it for Christians, and for Jews too, really.
Tim Wildmon: So I want the Holy Land and the holy sites to be protected and defended. Israel has done a wonderful job of that since they came into existence, even helping to protect Christian sites when they are Jews. Now, so have the Arabs helped to protect the holy sites, like Bethlehem, for example.
Tim Wildmon: But, man, if you have the jihadis attack Israel and they can’t defend themselves, they’ll just destroy the Holy Land. Look, today, if the jihadis could, they would push the button today and vaporize Israel from the face of the Earth. We’ve been talking about this, right? “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.” What that means is no more Jews, no more Israel. You’ve got Hezbollah, you’ve got Hamas, and you’ve got a lot of bad actors in the Middle East.
Panelist: Tim, if I think about it, I am fine with the idea of Israel saying, “We can take care of ourselves.” I am fine with them saying, “We don’t want American aid down the road.” But I sure do not want, come January, February, or March, to wake up and find out Bethlehem is no more or the Temple Mount is no more because the jihadis broke through, because we withdrew aid and Israel wasn’t able to defend itself.
Tim Wildmon: I know. That’s a matter you don’t hear hardly discussed because not a lot of people care about that angle, but we do.
Panelist: We do, absolutely.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, go ahead. What you got?
Steve Jordahl: Well, let me just read this. I’m looking at The Times of Israel because I want to know how this is going over in Israel. I have here: “Top officials in the Finance Ministry say they were surprised by U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that military aid to Israel would cease by the end of the year, according to Hebrew media reports.”
Steve Jordahl: “No formal document was submitted from the Prime Minister’s Office regarding the end of the aid,” said an official, according to the Walla news site. “The ministry was aware of the intention to end it, but it was surprised by the intention to do so immediately.”
Steve Jordahl: That outlet quotes an unnamed senior Israeli financial official saying, “The announcement has grave consequences for the economy, giving up two years of aid and $8 billion. Where will we get this? It’s clear, from citizens.”
Steve Jordahl: So according to The Times of Israel, officials in the Israeli Finance Ministry were not aware this was coming. It says at the bottom, “The Prime Minister’s Office is expected to comment on Trump’s announcement soon.”
Steve Jordahl: I am still kind of holding out. We know what the announcement was, but we never know what discussions were had between the president and Israel, so we have to lay our own presuppositions and our own ideas over this.
Steve Jordahl: Before I read this, I was kind of of the hope or the thought that, no, it’s an agreement. It’s an agreement because they have said they want to end this.
Panelist: We’ll have to wait to hear from the prime minister. I’m not encouraged by the most recent information, this Finance Ministry statement.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I’ll finish with this quote. Maybe we quoted this from Trump earlier. Do we have the comments he made on Fox News still? Go ahead and play that again.
Donald Trump: Now, as far as paying Israel, Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal that we give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we’re stopping. They’re fine with it because, you know, they’ve become a very successful country. They don’t need it, and we won’t be paying anymore. Israel, so it’s just a wasted thing because we’ve already agreed that by the end of this year, we won’t be paying Israel. And we’ll help Israel if they need it. You know, they’ve been a great ally.
Tim Wildmon: That’s all we have. Okay. He went on to say this, did Trump: “The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about. It’s no secret, as a signal of unfairness.” Trump said on Tuesday on Fox, “And we can’t allow that to happen.” I don’t know what that means. He went on to say, “I don’t like that because it’s too easy.”
Panelist: Wait a minute. Read that again.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I’m going to read it to you. I wish we had him talking about it. Maybe we don’t. I’m quoting President Trump this morning from the interview he did on Fox News. Here’s what he said. He’s talking about the $4 billion that he’s cutting off to Israel, that they get annually. He said, “The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about. It’s no secret, as a signal of unfairness.”
Tim Wildmon: Then Trump goes on to say about that, “And we can’t allow that to happen.” He said, “I don’t like that because it’s too easy.” He’s talking about the argument. Then he says, “It’s almost too easy a target.” Then he says, “Bibi and I have been talking, and we’ve agreed. He was very understanding of it.”
Panelist: So what?
Tim Wildmon: So he’s saying Bibi, talking about Benjamin Netanyahu, is good with cutting off the $4 billion by the end of the year.
Panelist: I like it.
Tim Wildmon: What do you say? Are we good?
Panelist: Good.
Tim Wildmon: But wait and see what Benjamin Netanyahu says about that. By the way, he was talking about the bipartisanship, but you wanted to comment on what Trump just said there?
Panelist: Well, just this. What is Mr. Netanyahu going to say? I don’t think he can come out and say, “Mr. Trump, we never had an agreement like that.”
Tim Wildmon: I would. What’s it going to hurt him? He’s getting cut off anyway.
Panelist: Well, there’s a lot more to the U.S.-Israeli alliance than just the money.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I agree.
Panelist: You can’t do the whole thing.
Tim Wildmon: I agree with you guys. All I’m saying is the truth needs to be told.
Panelist: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: If Benjamin Netanyahu did not know about this and didn’t agree to this, he needs to say, “Trump didn’t know. We did not have a deal. I don’t know what he’s talking about,” because that’s the honest thing to say.
Panelist: I can’t imagine a world in which he would actually say that, even if that was the truth, because that would just drop a hand grenade into the...
Tim Wildmon: So you’ve got to pretend.
Panelist: Well, that’s politics. Politicians do that all the time.
Tim Wildmon: That’s politics. I thought Trump and Netanyahu were telling it like it is.
Panelist: No, they’re politicians. They do what’s best for their countries.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, so we have to read through the...
Panelist: Absolutely.
Tim Wildmon: No, we need to just wait. I’ve said it four times.
Panelist: I agree.
Tim Wildmon: Let’s wait and see what Benjamin Netanyahu says. But what you’re saying is, it doesn’t matter. He can’t say anything. He can only say, “I agree with Trump,” because Trump said repeatedly, “I’m the boss of Israel.”
Steve Jordahl: I say this a lot about my wife, and this is my wife. She lives in the world of “should.” The world needs to work as it should. If someone should come over to your house and give you an amount of service for a certain amount of money, that’s what happens. If they have to come twice and they charge you more, they shouldn’t do that, therefore it’s wrong.
Steve Jordahl: Sometimes you’ve got to live in the world that is. This is not really a “should” kind of world. I wish it was the world of “should” too, and we’re applying the “should” world to politics. I just don’t think it fits all the time.
Tim Wildmon: So Republicans and Democrats both lie, Steve? Is that what you’re saying?
Panelist: Wow. That’s where we should land. I think we should move on now.
Panelist: I think we can all land on that.
Panelist: That’s what the Bible says.
Tim Wildmon: Are all politicians liars?
Panelist: Most of them, not all of them.
Panelist: There’s a difference between lying and spinning a lot of times.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, we’ll wrap this up.
Panelist: Do we need to?
Tim Wildmon: What bothers me about this, and again, it remains to be seen, is President Trump is saying there in the quote that I did two times, “I agree with the argument of the left.”
Panelist: I don’t think he’s saying that he agrees that we’re bombing the Palestinians, that it’s mean to their race.
Tim Wildmon: No, he’s saying giving Israel $4 billion a year is unfair, and I agree with that, and so we’re not doing it anymore. So the left can quit griping about that argument. Next argument. That’s what he’s saying.
Panelist: Yeah, that’s what he’s saying.
Panelist: That’s what I said. We need to quit giving them money because they’re using that to hit me over the head.
Tim Wildmon: Even though, ironically, it was Barack Obama 10 years ago who signed a security agreement with Israel to give them $38 billion over 10 years. Obama agreed in 2016 to give Israel $38 billion over a 10-year period, which is $3.8 billion a year for their security. That was Obama.
Panelist: Something tells me he wouldn’t agree to that now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. But he did then, when he had the power, to his credit. I would say to his credit.
Tim Wildmon: Right, next story. Can we do something other than elections and politics? You sent a story around. It was very interesting to me. The top song on the iTunes Christian chart is a song that’s totally made up. There’s no real artist.
Steve Jordahl: Right. It was made by a group that was made up. It’s all from the computer, and it sounds something like this.
Song: Tell me, how is heaven? Is it everything they say? Are the streets really golden? Does the hurt...
Steve Jordahl: A lot of the AI song voices they create are these scratchy...
Tim Wildmon: That’s the number one song on iTunes?
Steve Jordahl: Christian song, yeah. Number one.
Panelist: Right. Yeah, it’s AI-generated music.
Tim Wildmon: You sent the story around. I know that. There’s no people?
Steve Jordahl: Right. There are no people singing. That’s all AI-designed, AI-generated. It is a computer-generated voice and computer-generated musicians.
Tim Wildmon: Is that a figment of Grok’s imagination? I mean, it’s the number one downloaded Christian song.
Steve Jordahl: I thought it was number one, period, for a while. I think it gets the number one Christian song.
Steve Jordahl: But here’s the thing. I went and looked, and it turns out that’s not the only AI Christian gospel song that’s out there. Jubileecast.com, this site I’d never heard of before, has a story about 10 AI gospel songs that are trending.
Steve Jordahl: I picked two. I want to play two because of two things. The first one is an AI song called “Let Go and Let God” by some non-artist called Xania Monet. It’s an AI artist.
Steve Jordahl: What I want you to listen to is that they are using pitch correction in this. You know how they have Auto-Tune, where you can hear some of the artists who can’t quite sing? They use this Auto-Tune. You can hear them go between notes, that it’s computer-aided because they can’t sing. I don’t know why they have to do this with AI, but listen.
Steve Jordahl: I can hear that, if that was a real artist, I could hear the Auto-Tune. They haven’t even done that very right.
Steve Jordahl: They are also kind of playing on our emotions. This is a song called “We Are Charlie Kirk” from the Christian charts.
Tim Wildmon: Is that AI?
Steve Jordahl: It’s all AI. Everything that I played for you is AI.
Tim Wildmon: So is that a lie? That’s a good discussion. Is that a violation of one of the Ten Commandments?
Panelist: I don’t know. In what way?
Tim Wildmon: It’s phony.
Panelist: How is it?
Tim Wildmon: It’s not real. It pretends to be.
Panelist: But they tell you it’s AI. They label a lot of stuff now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, no one’s hiding the fact that these aren’t real.
Panelist: I know. You’re in an ornery mood right now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I’m in that ornery mood right now, but I don’t like what’s about to happen today, probably. We’ll see. Go ahead.
Panelist: A couple comments. I think, as a Christian, you’ll have to have the same discernment that you would have, unfortunately, in Protestant and Christian America, where you have to have good theology and you have to be able to discern what’s right and what’s wrong. On that part of it, I think you’re going to have to continue to do what you do now.
Panelist: We have some, we’ve talked about, you’ve got the Talaricos out there. Okay, set that aside. I do think, here in the next 10 years or less, five to 10 years, there’s going to be a growing value in things that are watermarked or labeled “done by humans.”
Panelist: I think there’s going to be a change in the next 10 years where people realize, after a period of time with AI, okay, it has its role, it has its place, it can be helpful in these ways, but I don’t want my entire life to be AI. Therefore, people with good skills will have value.
Panelist: They’ll go through a time period, and we’re in it right now, actually, where people are losing their jobs in the entertainment industry and all those things. That’s happening, and it will continue to go down. But I think, on the other side of this, people will see the appreciation and the value in humans doing X, Y, and Z.
Steve Jordahl: I think you’re always going to have these yahoos who want to appear and fool you into thinking that they’re that good. Have you seen the slop that’s on your X feed lately? I had to look up three stories and kill them that I was thinking about bringing in because none of them were real.
Panelist: I have, yeah. You do it there.
Tim Wildmon: I’m not duped like that. Never been duped because I don’t do that. Not average in the month being duped.
Tim Wildmon: Friends, just to make clear here on Today’s Issues, we’re the real deal. There are actual human beings talking to you.
Panelist: That’s true.
Panelist: I think they can tell that.
Panelist: I really don’t think there’s ever been any doubt.
Tim Wildmon: Any doubt there? All right, next story.
Steve Jordahl: All right. I think, if we want to start taking advice for our economy, maybe we should go somewhere other than The View, because Ana Navarro, who is one of the hosts of The View, was complaining about the cost of ground beef.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t watch The View. I only know about it when we play clips from it.
Steve Jordahl: Well, I just want you to listen to this. Listen closely. This is Ana Navarro, who’s not very happy with the price of beef.
Ana Navarro: Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please go out and vote tomorrow and vote these bums out.
Tim Wildmon: Wait a minute. She didn’t say that.
Steve Jordahl: No, that one is real.
Tim Wildmon: You confirmed that?
Steve Jordahl: I did confirm that.
Tim Wildmon: She is one of the four or five hosts, or whatever it is, on The View. It’s on ABC television. It has about three million people a day, so they have their viewers. It’s supposed to be news, basically. It’s the view of four liberal women most of the time. They do have a token conservative on from time to time. But this woman here, she’s a lefty.
Steve Jordahl: Oh, yeah.
Tim Wildmon: I want to play this again and listen closely. She’s talking about the election, saying why you need to go out and vote these bums out.
Steve Jordahl: That’s right. She’s talking about the Republicans.
Tim Wildmon: Because she said this is happening. Let’s hear her observation again.
Ana Navarro: Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please go out and vote tomorrow and vote these bums out.
Tim Wildmon: I can’t believe they allowed that. They didn’t correct her on the air.
Steve Jordahl: This is her feed.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, I’m sorry. That wasn’t on The View?
Steve Jordahl: That wasn’t on The View. No, she’s a host of The View, but this was her own personal account.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, I’m sorry. In some cases, I would like to give, we’ll still have a good laugh, but then I would say something to the effect of, she misspoke. She didn’t know.
Tim Wildmon: My opinion is that she’s so far detached from everyday life and purchasing things. She probably has everybody cook for her every day. She is so detached.
Panelist: I think she didn’t mean to say that. She goes to the grocery store. She knows that ground beef isn’t sold by the gallon.
Tim Wildmon: I think she’s so far detached. I don’t think she has to be told she’s wrong. I don’t think she caught herself.
Panelist: But we all misspeak.
Tim Wildmon: Well, look, I know. Let me end with this. JD Vance, we need to pray for his kids.
JD Vance: After Halloween yesterday, actually, I was talking to my daughter, who’s four years old. I said, “Honey, we’re going to start getting ready for our toy drive.” We try to give some toys to Toys for Tots. We’re now in November, getting ready for Christmas, and I’d like you to identify maybe a couple toys you’d like to donate here. So she brings me two of her brother’s toys.
JD Vance: I realized that, despite my best efforts, ladies and gentlemen, I have apparently raised a Democrat.
Panelist: That’s hilarious.
Tim Wildmon: He may have a future in stand-up comedy if this vice president thing doesn’t work out. That was JD Vance, raising a future Democrat. She took her brother’s toys to give away. That’s funny.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Ray, thanks for joining us today.
Ray: Thank you, Tim.
Tim Wildmon: And Steve, appreciate it.
Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
Tim Wildmon: Wesley?
Wesley: Thank you. Enjoyed it.
Tim Wildmon: Thanks to Brent Creely and Cole Green. Brent’s our producer on the board, and Cole’s our video man.
Tim Wildmon: Don’t forget, tonight at six o’clock Central Time, about six and a half hours from now, we’re going to be here live with our Election Day coverage on American Family Radio. I’ll be one of them, with Fred and others. We’ll see you then.
The hosts discuss President Donald Trump's announcement that U.S. military aid to Israel will end by year's end, including Benjamin Netanyahu's reported position and the possible effects on the U.S.-Israeli alliance. They also consider the importance of protecting Christian and Jewish holy sites in the region.
The program examines AI-generated Christian music, including songs appearing on Christian charts, and whether listeners need greater discernment as artificial content becomes more common. The hosts discuss the future value of work created and performed by humans.
The discussion also addresses Anna Navarro's mistaken reference to the price of ground beef and her call for voters to remove elected officials. The program closes with a humorous clip of Vice President JD Vance discussing his daughter and a toy donation.
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