Tim Wildmon: Good morning, everybody. American Family Radio, listening for family. Thanks for joining us here on Share-a-thon. Today is day two of three days of our fall Stand Firm AFR Share-a-thon.
Wesley: We thank everybody who called in yesterday and today to make a gift to American Family Radio. We appreciate it very much. This is our semiannual fundraiser. We do this in the spring and in the fall, three days each time.
Tim Wildmon: What do we have set up for this hour?
Wesley: From 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Central time today, we have a Founders Day $75,000 challenge. Founders Day is the middle day of our Share-a-thons. It falls on a Wednesday during the spring and fall Share-a-thons, when we honor your dad and Wesley's grandfather, Brother Don Wildmon, the founder of this ministry.
Tim Wildmon: Periodically, we have challenges to encourage people to give in honor of what Brother Don did in obedience to the call of God on his life.
Wesley: A group of supporters generously donated leading up to the Share-a-thon, and they are challenging our listeners to come alongside them and support the work of AFA and AFR. We use that challenge as an incentive to encourage people to focus on giving.
Tim Wildmon: People are busy. There is a reason businesses offer discounts and coupons. You want to get people thinking about what is happening rather than postponing it and putting it off. We are saying, “Hey, listen, we are challenging you right now.”
Wesley: Exactly.
Tim Wildmon: Let me give you some straight talk. We come to you for three days in the spring and three days in the fall because you are adults, and I am sure you can guess that it is expensive to operate a large network like this. We pay for everything from insurance and airtime to satellite time. We have more than a hundred people working here, not all of them at AFR, but many of them help keep this ministry running.
We have engineers who go on the road to make repairs. They need trucks, and those trucks need insurance and gasoline. We are coming to you because you have expenses, too. If you believe in what American Family Radio is doing, we ask you to give. We try to make it a little fun with challenges and other things, despite the fact that Wesley clearly does not care about those kinds of things.
Wesley: Our staff and supporters from different parts of the country are answering the phones. They are just down the hallway in our devotion room. We removed the chairs, put up tables, and set up phones and computer screens. Staff and listeners are taking calls.
In years past, some programs have hosted their radio programs from the phone room. If you listen throughout the day, you may hear phones ringing and people talking in the background. That is where we are taking your calls, just down the hallway at our headquarters here in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Tim Wildmon: If you do not want to talk to anyone, you can give online safely and securely at AFR.net.
Wesley: One of our volunteers will be on Today's Issues at 10:30 Central time. He has a funny story to share, and he also has some show-and-tell. If you are watching online, you will be able to see some of it.
Tim Wildmon: His name is Wayne, and one of the best things about our brother Wayne is that he is originally from the Boston area.
Wesley: Yesterday, Bobby Rosa, one of our radio staffers, Wayne, and I were sitting in the couch and chair area near the entrance to the ministry. We were talking about Boston and our experiences. We all graduated from high school within about three years of each other, so we were in the same area.
Tim Wildmon: Boston is up in the Northeast, far away from the Bible Belt, but it still serves a purpose.
Wesley: It is a spiritually cold place, but there are Christians serving there faithfully, and we are thankful for them. We had people call from Maryland yesterday to give financially to the work we are doing.
Tim Wildmon: We have radio stations in blue states, too. For years, I have said we need to get a station up in Boston. I looked at the cost of buying a radio station in the Boston area, and it would be enormous, something like $12 million. It is insane how expensive it would be.
Wesley: We have the app now, so people can listen on the app and we do not have to buy a tower in places like Boston.
Caller Ron: My name is Ron. I am a deputy sheriff in Tennessee. I am calling to share with the listeners that three years ago, about two o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by the Holy Spirit, and He guided me into the living room. The next thing I knew, I was on my knees and hearing the most powerful voice imaginable. It was our Lord Jesus Christ.
He was telling me to tell them that He is coming very soon. I was not dreaming, and I was not sleepwalking. This really did happen to me three years ago, and I am obeying my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by telling people.
I do not want to stand before Him and not be able to cast crowns at His feet. I want to be a soul winner, and I want to encourage my brothers and sisters who are uniformed police officers. When you have a person in the back seat and you are transporting him to jail, that is a perfect opportunity to witness to him and tell him about Jesus. That is a captive audience and a perfect time to tell him about Jesus. God bless.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, brother. We appreciate it very much. We support the men and women who are peace officers across America. They keep us safe and help hold the thin blue line.
Wesley: The theme of our Share-a-thon this fall is “Stand Firm.” It comes from Scripture. The team that prays and plans before each Share-a-thon, months in advance, tries to find a good theme rooted and anchored in Scripture. Everything Christians do that is spiritual in nature should be rooted in Scripture.
The Stand Firm Share-a-thon comes from 1 Corinthians 16:13-14: “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.”
For a one-time gift of $150 or more, you will receive the book It's My Turn, Volume 2, which is a collection of Brother Don Wildmon's radio spots. Many of you listen to this show, but those radio spots also play throughout the day. They are very powerful, and people love them. Some of our staff transcribed many of them and put them into book form. We had Volume 1 last year, and this year it is Volume 2.
If you become a Great Commission Partner with a monthly gift of $30 or more, you will receive It's My Turn, Volume 2, along with an AFR lunch cooler.
Tim Wildmon: We are about spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. That takes different shapes and forms, but the bottom line is that we are communicating the message of the God of the Bible, God's Son Jesus Christ, and the story of redemption.
We believe that when people pray to receive Christ, He changes their lives. We believe that wholeheartedly. We would not be here otherwise, and the people who support us believe in the message of the Lord as found in the Bible. Great Commission Partners are simply the people who support us on a monthly basis.
Tim Wildmon: This is Today's Issues. It is the American Family Radio Fall Share-a-thon. It is October, so it is fall, even though the weather in many places still feels like summer.
Tim Wildmon: Fred, you have a weather story for us, right?
Fred: It has been a quiet hurricane season along the East Coast and in the Atlantic. We have not had a hurricane, but you may be waking up this morning to a story about a possible hurricane developing. It is a tropical storm right now in the eastern Gulf of America near Mexico.
The storm has been given the name Azalea, which I believe is Spanish for Isaiah. I am going to call it Isaiah. It is forming early this morning in the warm waters of the Gulf of America, where the water is around 85 degrees after a very hot summer.
According to the models, the tropical storm is going to move east through the Gulf and then move north, coming ashore somewhere between Mobile, Alabama, and almost Tallahassee.
Tim Wildmon: That is a large area.
Fred: It is, and these are only models, so we have to be careful. They say that by the time it reaches the Gulf shore, it may be a Category 2 hurricane, with winds of more than 100 miles per hour and a lot of rain. The Gulf Coast is on alert. The winds will dissipate as the storm moves inland, but it is going to be a stormy weekend for those folks.
Tim Wildmon: I have some family going down to the beach.
Wesley: You are one of them. You are going down to the beach, right?
Tim Wildmon: That is right.
Wesley: When are you going?
Tim Wildmon: We are going to leave Friday night, drive halfway, and then wake up and continue.
Wesley: That is what you think. The weather may have something else in mind.
Tim Wildmon: I have some family going down to Gulf Shores, and Wesley and his family are going to Destin, I think. They are going down for the National Shrimp Festival. Have you heard of it?
Wesley: I have not.
Tim Wildmon: You know what a shrimp is, right?
Wesley: I do.
Tim Wildmon: We are talking about the kind you eat, not people trying out for the basketball team.
Wesley: I know. Good point.
Tim Wildmon: The National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores is supposed to start tomorrow and run through the 11th. I do not know what they will do when they have something that big planned and then a storm comes.
You drive somewhere where you are not familiar with the terrain. Bridges can wash out, and streets and roads can flood. If you are not familiar with the area, you have to be careful.
Wesley: It is the 53rd annual National Shrimp Festival.
Tim Wildmon: I have never been, but it sounds delicious.
Wesley: It is a delicious festival.
Fred: I was just reading that the 53rd annual National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, scheduled for October 8 through 11, has been canceled because of severe weather.
Tim Wildmon: So next year will be the first annual festival. They will have to start all over again.
Wesley: They are trying to keep people from coming in because they are telling people to evacuate. A lot of high school football games have been moved up to Thursday.
Tim Wildmon: The Alabama-Georgia football game in Tuscaloosa is also in question, I think.
Wesley: President Trump is supposed to go to that game.
Tim Wildmon: He is the president. If he wants to go to a ball game, he can say, “Sign me up.”
Wesley: That is like the men in our houses. We are the men of the family.
Tim Wildmon: The only difference is that we do it with the channel flipper. We do what we want, do we not?
Wesley: At this point, the rest of us will remain silent. We do not want to incriminate ourselves.
Tim Wildmon: Seriously, President Trump is scheduled to go to the Alabama-Georgia game in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night, but who knows what will happen with the weather.
Wesley: I was trying to get this conversation back to Share-a-thon.
Tim Wildmon: Go ahead and make your point.
Wesley: We are in our fall Share-a-thon, and between now and 1 p.m. Central time we have a Founders Day $75,000 challenge in honor of Brother Don Wildmon, who started this ministry.
Tim Wildmon: We understand that everyone is suffering with higher gas and grocery prices. We understand that.
Wesley: We do ask you to make a value judgment. What is more important in the grand scheme of life, a couple of gallons of diesel fuel or supporting American Family Radio?
Tim Wildmon: We understand, folks. We are sympathetic. We are joking, but we are asking you to be as generous as you can.
Caller Marion: My name is Marion, and I am from Madison, Mississippi. I listen to AFR all day. My video stays on all day, and my children listen to it. We are very edified by everything that is published and said on AFR. It has truly been a blessing to me and my family.
Thank you so much for reaching out and keeping us informed. God bless you and keep you. Keep up the good work.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, sister. We appreciate hearing from you.
Wesley: We truly are American Family Radio because we hear from people calling in and making donations from all over the country, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee.
Tim Wildmon: One of these days, I would like to see a video of you going down the Ocoee River.
Wesley: Have you ever been on a whitewater rafting trip?
Tim Wildmon: I have not.
Wesley: Why do we not do a live Trivia Friday on the water?
Tim Wildmon: I will report from here.
Wesley: We also have callers from Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, and North Carolina.
Tim Wildmon: It is a national radio network.
Wesley: We will take a short timeout and be back with more of Share-a-thon on American Family Radio.
Tim Wildmon: One of my fondest memories of Brother Don may seem silly to some people, but it has stayed in my mind after all these years. I have been here more than 30 years. It was humorous, but it showed the human side of someone whom we tend to idolize because of his position. We should respect people, but not idolize them.
Brother Don was always a pipe smoker. Some people may not even know what that is anymore, but he smoked tobacco in an old-fashioned pipe. He kept his pipe in his office and had a metal garbage can. It was filled with papers and other things.
One morning, we all smelled smoke. Forrest Ann came out of her office, which was next door to his, and said, “Don, what on earth are you doing?” He had been so busy with his work that he did not realize what was happening. Everyone was trying to figure out where the smell was coming from.
He had set his garbage can on fire. He was just sort of like, “Okay, oh well.” I think Forrest Ann probably carried it outside and put it out. I do not remember exactly how it ended, but it was humorous because he was so engrossed in what he was doing that he did not even realize what had happened.
Voiceover: Brother Don has been standing in the gap for families, and Linda has been standing behind him since the beginning of this ministry more than 40 years ago. We praise the Lord for our founder's obedient service.
Caller: As a single mother, I listen every day without even realizing it. I listen on my way to work. I am a rural mail carrier, and AFR gives me hope in the morning. When I start my daily route, I listen all day long. When I get off work, I listen on the way home. You are on my radio all day long.
I am thankful for all the ways you contribute to God's kingdom. You are winning souls, and you will not know the full impact until we all get to the other side. I pray that God continues to bless everyone at AFR.
Caller Gordon: My name is Gordon, and I am from Kansas. AFA saved my life. Thank you, Jesus, for all the AFA staff.
I am a truck driver. I had an old homemade stereo in my jump seat. Every night around 11:30, my stereo would pick up 88.3 for about half an hour. I was not happy to hear Tony Evans or Alan Jackson preaching Jesus, but it was the only sound I could get.
The program really caught my attention. The laughter and the goodness that Tim, Fred, AJ, and the others had were enjoyable, and they got me to listen every Friday. Then one night, Alan Jackson gave a sinner's prayer while I was pulling doubles.
I gave my heart to Jesus, and I have been growing in the Word ever since. Now, with the AFR app, I listen every waking moment. Thank you, Jesus, and AFR, for being warriors for Jesus. I thank Him for His grace. So do not give up. Give your heart to Him. Support AFR. Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: God continues to provide for this ministry through the faithfulness of His saints during Share-a-thon.
Tim Wildmon: Welcome back to Share-a-thon on American Family Radio. Today is Wednesday, October 7, 2026, and it is the second day of our three-day fall Share-a-thon. The theme is “Stand Firm,” from 1 Corinthians 16:13-14: “Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong, and do everything in love.”
We need your help. This is our fundraiser, and we are asking you to help us as generously as you possibly can. If you believe in our mission to share the message of Jesus Christ, lift up the Bible and the Lord, and impact our country, we ask you to support us.
Wesley, we have a guest in the studio, right?
Wesley: We do. Earlier, I mentioned that one of our listeners and supporters had a funny story. Our guest, Wayne Thomas, and I traveled to Greece together. A couple of days into the trip, he shared a funny story with me. When I found out he would be at Share-a-thon, I thought it would be good for our audience.
Tim, I am going to tell you before we begin: do not interrupt. You are going to feel the urge to interject, because that is what you always do with Wayne.
Tim Wildmon: I am a good listener.
Wesley: Wayne has a story to share, and you are going to feel the urge to interrupt.
Tim Wildmon: I may have that urge.
Wesley: Wayne has traveled with us to Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg.
Wayne: Just D.C.
Wesley: We went to Mount Vernon, though.
Wayne: Yes, we did.
Wesley: Where do you live, Wayne?
Wayne: I live in Great Falls, Montana.
Wesley: Did you drive here?
Wayne: I flew to Memphis and then drove down.
Wesley: Where did you fly from?
Wayne: I flew from Great Falls to Denver and then from Denver to Memphis. If you fly out of Great Falls, you generally fly into Denver or Salt Lake City, mostly Denver.
Wesley: You listen to AFR in Great Falls?
Wayne: Yes, 91.5 FM.
Wesley: We appreciate it, brother. Thank you for coming down to help us answer the phones.
Tim Wildmon: Wayne, welcome to Today's Issues.
Wayne: Thank you. I am glad to be here.
Wesley: This is your first time on the radio with us, right?
Wayne: Yes.
Wesley: While we were in Greece, a story came up. It was funny, and I would like you to share it with us.
Wayne: In September, I went to the Spiritual Heritage tour in Washington, D.C. The following month, I went to AFA at the Ark, where Alex McFarland was one of the guest speakers. Since I traveled alone, Allison put me on the bus the next time we went to D.C.
Wednesday night, when the whole thing began, we were at dinner. Tim's windbreaker fell off the back of his chair, and I happened to be standing there, so I picked it up and said, “Sire, I have restored your royal robe.”
Tim Wildmon: Do not encourage him.
Wayne: My wife told me not to encourage him, too.
The next day, Tim started calling me Jerry. My name is Wayne. It has always been Wayne. It has never been Jerry.
The first time he said it, I was not sure I had understood him properly. I thought, “Did he just call me Jerry?” He kept doing it, and I thought I must be misunderstanding him. After a while, I thought, “He thinks my name is Jerry, and I do not know how to tell him it is not.”
Saturday morning, we were heading to Mount Vernon. Tim had finished making his announcements and put the microphone toward me. He said, “Jerry, would you open this up in prayer?” I sat there thinking, “Maybe there is somebody on the bus named Jerry who wants to pray.”
Finally, I said, “My name is Wayne.”
I happen to work with a man named Jerry who is an AFR listener. Here he is.
Tim Wildmon: For those watching on YouTube, Facebook, or our video stream, Wayne brought a picture of Jerry, the real Jerry, who lives in Great Falls, Montana, and works with him. He listens to AFR, and he is holding a sign that says hello.
Wayne: When I got back the following week, I said, “Jerry, I got to be you last week.”
He asked what I meant, so I told him the story. He said, “I really like that one guy who is on that radio program, Alex Trebek.”
Tim Wildmon: Alex Trebek was the host of Jeopardy!, and he passed away.
Wayne: We were talking about the same person, and he said, “Oh, you mean Alex McFarland?”
Tim Wildmon: That is it.
Wayne: During one of Alex's Thursday visits on the show, he shared with the panel what a boring person he really was. He said, “I am the mayor of dull.”
When I saw him the following month, I presented one of his books to him and asked, “Alex, would you do me the honor of making it from the mayor of dull?”
My wife tells me that I tend to mumble when I talk. He paused and looked at me, then said, “How about if I make it to the mayor?”
I thought, “I am not the mayor. You are.”
He signed it, and as I was walking away, he said, “It is Mike, right?”
I said, “It is Wayne.”
He said, “Oh, Jerry.”
Tim Wildmon: There are people here who have been calling you Jerry.
Wayne: The story has taken on a life of its own. I genuinely apologize. I have done that before.
Tim Wildmon: No, you have given me a legacy.
Wayne: You were on the bus when you said, “Oh, well, my bad. Just call me Tom.”
Tim Wildmon: I forgot that part.
Wayne: After you asked me to pray as Jerry, I said, “My name is Wayne.” You dropped the microphone and said, “You can call me Tom. We will be Tom and Jerry.”
Tim Wildmon: I will be Jerry.
Wayne: When I walked away, Walker and Wesley came up and said, “Hey, Jerry.”
Tim Wildmon: Was that on our D.C. trip?
Wayne: No, it was at AFA at the Ark.
Tim Wildmon: We are still calling you Jerry.
Wayne: It is written in my book. It is a joke now. I had my picture taken with Walker and Wesley, and instead of smiling, I said, “My name is not Jerry or Mike. It was Chris Woodward when I needed him.” That is my hockey reference.
After that, I had an idea. I thought I needed to have a T-shirt made to let everybody know my name is not Jerry or Mike. I have often heard on this program that you have to have a one-syllable name to be on the program.
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Wayne: I thought, “I have a one-syllable name.”
The first reason I am wearing this Bruins shirt is that I am from Boston. The second reason is that I think I am skating on thin ice.
I also thought about the one-syllable names on this program. You have Tim, Ed, Fred, Ray, and Chris. Then I thought, “Wait a minute. Those are Timothy, Edward, Frederick, Raymond, and Christopher.” Those are not one-syllable names.
I have two editions of this T-shirt. The first one says, “My name is not Jerry or Mike.” On the back, it says, “Wayne,” which is a real one-syllable name. It also has everyone's formal names spelled out, along with those who made the cut.
Tim Wildmon: Alex is not one syllable.
Wayne: His real first name is Neil, and I did not know that.
Tim Wildmon: Neil Alexander McFarland. As he said, that is quite a name for a chicken farmer.
Wayne: I also have Bert and Brett. I found out during the Greece tour that I had misspelled one of the names. I had the shirt made about a month before we went to Greece, and then I found out about Brent's real first name, so I decided to have a second edition made.
This time I spelled Brent's name correctly. Then I found out about Cole, our video guy, so I added him. I also have Steve. I was not sure whether his formal name is Steve or Stephen, so I put a yellow question mark beside his name.
Tim Wildmon: That is great.
Wayne: I am going to Israel with you next month, at least for now.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, we are going.
Wayne: You will probably still end up calling me Jerry.
Tim Wildmon: That reminds me. When we were in Greece, Chuck Blount called me “Jerry Wayne,” like a lounge singer.
Wayne: “Welcome back to the Holiday Inn, Jerry Wayne.”
Tim Wildmon: That trip led me to make a monumental decision of epic proportions. I decided to adopt “Jerry Wayne” as my official AFA nickname.
Wayne: It works for us.
Tim Wildmon: Wayne and I had a great time. My brother Chuck and others were with us, and close to 75 or 80 of our listeners traveled with us to Greece. We had a wonderful time.
When Wayne told me that story, I thought that if he was coming all the way from Montana to help us answer phones during Share-a-thon, he needed to come on the radio and share it.
Wayne: It is a long trip, but it is something I have wanted to do for the last three years. I finally said, “I am going.”
I wanted to come down and be part of the team. As I shared in my listener testimony, the AFA family has really become a family to me. I cannot imagine turning on the radio and not hearing AFR.
I brought some gifts because I heard you say that you like receiving gifts from listeners. I brought a couple of gifts from Great Falls.
The first is from the Sweet Palace, a candy store in Philipsburg. It is supposed to have the world's greatest chocolate. These are chocolate-covered raisins, and there is a variety of candy.
Tim Wildmon: What did you get for the rest of the team?
Wayne: This is heavy. It weighs five pounds. There are chocolate-covered raisins, chocolate-covered nuts, and chocolate-covered candy.
Tim Wildmon: What else is in there?
Wayne: Wild huckleberry cordials.
Tim Wildmon: I am trying those right after lunch. That is my dessert.
Wayne: A cordial is like a chocolate-covered cherry, except these are filled with huckleberry, which is a very popular berry in Montana.
Tim Wildmon: The pictures look like an old-fashioned chocolate shop where they make everything on site.
Wayne: They do. The brochure says you can watch them make candy. The store used to be a hardware store until 1998, when it was converted into a candy store. They have more than a thousand different kinds of candy.
Tim Wildmon: What is on the brochure?
Wayne: It is a picture of Glacier National Park. I was up there in August and September and found the brochure in the store where I bought the candy.
Tim Wildmon: Look at the size of that grizzly bear.
Wayne: Have you ever seen a grizzly bear in the wild?
Tim Wildmon: I have seen them in Yellowstone.
Wayne: I have never seen one.
Tim Wildmon: I saw one on our trip.
Wayne: Do not steal my thunder. I have not even said what happened.
Tim Wildmon: We do need to give the phone number.
Wayne: We were in Yellowstone a year ago in August and drove from Yellowstone to Jackson Hole in Wyoming. Allison was driving, and I was in the passenger seat. I was feeling ill that day, so I was lying back with my eyes closed.
All of a sudden, Allison said, “There is a grizzly.”
She pulled over quickly to the side of the road. I was trying to wake up and figure out what was going on. She said, “Get up. Go get a picture.”
Tim Wildmon: You mean leave the vehicle?
Wayne: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, Tim.
Wayne: It was my wife and a grizzly bear, but you want to make your wife happy, right? She had prayed that we would see a grizzly bear, and the prayer was answered.
The bear was probably 50 to 75 yards away, so it was far enough away, at least I hoped. The grizzly turned around and looked at me, then sprinted back into the woods. Thank the Lord.
Tim Wildmon: What did you want it to do, think you looked like a cordial?
Wayne: By the time I got my phone out, I was half-awake and trying to find the camera, all while keeping one eye open in case the grizzly decided to come back. That would have been an unfortunate ending.
Tim Wildmon: It sure would.
Wayne: I do not know how Allison would have handled it. She might have called home and said, “Your dad is in the hospital.”
“What happened?”
“He got mauled today.”
“Why did you do that?”
“I told him to go take a picture of a grizzly bear.”
She would not have said that, though. She would have said, “Your dad decided to go.” He was half-awake.
So that was my experience with a grizzly bear. It was not in Montana, but in Wyoming. You come from the land of the grizzly.
Tim Wildmon: That picture was taken inside the store called the Huckleberry Patch, where you got the cordials.
Wayne: The mural is on the wall by the bathroom, so you can stand there and measure yourself against it. A large grizzly standing on two feet can reach seven and a half feet, and some are more than that, around eight feet.
Tim Wildmon: They could dunk on Shaquille O'Neal.
Wayne: I also heard Ed mention the touring vehicles in Glacier National Park. Since I was up there in August and September, I took some pictures and brought them to Ed.
Ed, these are pictures of the red buses, called jammers. People can pay to ride them through Glacier National Park.
Ed: I would love to ride around in one of those. Do you get in and they drive you through the park?
Wayne: Yes. They used to require reservations because they had to restrict the number of people entering the park. There were too many people trying to get in. The Going-to-the-Sun Road is the main road through the park, and there is only a limited period each year when it is open.
Ed: These are nice frames. My wife may take the frames.
Wayne: Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: In all seriousness, I want to thank you, Wayne. Brother Wayne Thomas came all the way from Great Falls, Montana, to Tupelo, Mississippi, to help us answer phones during Share-a-thon.
Wesley: If people want to talk to Wayne, they can call.
Tim Wildmon: They get transferred to Wayne when they make a $500 or larger gift.
Wesley: When he is not singing at the Holiday Inn, he is down here helping us answer the Share-a-thon phones.
Tim Wildmon: We will be back in a minute.
Tim Wildmon: Good morning, everybody. American Family Radio, listening for family. Thanks for joining us here on Share-a-thon. Today is day two of three days of our fall Stand Firm AFR Share-a-thon.
Wesley: We thank everybody who called in yesterday and today to make a gift to American Family Radio. We appreciate it very much. This is our semiannual fundraiser. We do this in the spring and in the fall, three days each time.
Tim Wildmon: What do we have set up for this hour?
Wesley: From 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Central time today, we have a Founders Day $75,000 challenge. Founders Day is the middle day of our Share-a-thons. It falls on a Wednesday during the spring and fall Share-a-thons, when we honor your dad and Wesley's grandfather, Brother Don Wildmon, the founder of this ministry.
Tim Wildmon: Periodically, we have challenges to encourage people to give in honor of what Brother Don did in obedience to the call of God on his life.
Wesley: A group of supporters generously donated leading up to the Share-a-thon, and they are challenging our listeners to come alongside them and support the work of AFA and AFR. We use that challenge as an incentive to encourage people to focus on giving.
Tim Wildmon: People are busy. There is a reason businesses offer discounts and coupons. You want to get people thinking about what is happening rather than postponing it and putting it off. We are saying, “Hey, listen, we are challenging you right now.”
Wesley: Exactly.
Tim Wildmon: Let me give you some straight talk. We come to you for three days in the spring and three days in the fall because you are adults, and I am sure you can guess that it is expensive to operate a large network like this. We pay for everything from insurance and airtime to satellite time. We have more than a hundred people working here, not all of them at AFR, but many of them help keep this ministry running.
We have engineers who go on the road to make repairs. They need trucks, and those trucks need insurance and gasoline. We are coming to you because you have expenses, too. If you believe in what American Family Radio is doing, we ask you to give. We try to make it a little fun with challenges and other things, despite the fact that Wesley clearly does not care about those kinds of things.
Wesley: Our staff and supporters from different parts of the country are answering the phones. They are just down the hallway in our devotion room. We removed the chairs, put up tables, and set up phones and computer screens. Staff and listeners are taking calls.
In years past, some programs have hosted their radio programs from the phone room. If you listen throughout the day, you may hear phones ringing and people talking in the background. That is where we are taking your calls, just down the hallway at our headquarters here in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Tim Wildmon: If you do not want to talk to anyone, you can give online safely and securely at AFR.net.
Wesley: One of our volunteers will be on Today's Issues at 10:30 Central time. He has a funny story to share, and he also has some show-and-tell. If you are watching online, you will be able to see some of it.
Tim Wildmon: His name is Wayne, and one of the best things about our brother Wayne is that he is originally from the Boston area.
Wesley: Yesterday, Bobby Rosa, one of our radio staffers, Wayne, and I were sitting in the couch and chair area near the entrance to the ministry. We were talking about Boston and our experiences. We all graduated from high school within about three years of each other, so we were in the same area.
Tim Wildmon: Boston is up in the Northeast, far away from the Bible Belt, but it still serves a purpose.
Wesley: It is a spiritually cold place, but there are Christians serving there faithfully, and we are thankful for them. We had people call from Maryland yesterday to give financially to the work we are doing.
Tim Wildmon: We have radio stations in blue states, too. For years, I have said we need to get a station up in Boston. I looked at the cost of buying a radio station in the Boston area, and it would be enormous, something like $12 million. It is insane how expensive it would be.
Wesley: We have the app now, so people can listen on the app and we do not have to buy a tower in places like Boston.
Caller Ron: My name is Ron. I am a deputy sheriff in Tennessee. I am calling to share with the listeners that three years ago, about two o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by the Holy Spirit, and He guided me into the living room. The next thing I knew, I was on my knees and hearing the most powerful voice imaginable. It was our Lord Jesus Christ.
He was telling me to tell them that He is coming very soon. I was not dreaming, and I was not sleepwalking. This really did happen to me three years ago, and I am obeying my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by telling people.
I do not want to stand before Him and not be able to cast crowns at His feet. I want to be a soul winner, and I want to encourage my brothers and sisters who are uniformed police officers. When you have a person in the back seat and you are transporting him to jail, that is a perfect opportunity to witness to him and tell him about Jesus. That is a captive audience and a perfect time to tell him about Jesus. God bless.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, brother. We appreciate it very much. We support the men and women who are peace officers across America. They keep us safe and help hold the thin blue line.
Wesley: The theme of our Share-a-thon this fall is “Stand Firm.” It comes from Scripture. The team that prays and plans before each Share-a-thon, months in advance, tries to find a good theme rooted and anchored in Scripture. Everything Christians do that is spiritual in nature should be rooted in Scripture.
The Stand Firm Share-a-thon comes from 1 Corinthians 16:13-14: “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.”
For a one-time gift of $150 or more, you will receive the book It's My Turn, Volume 2, which is a collection of Brother Don Wildmon's radio spots. Many of you listen to this show, but those radio spots also play throughout the day. They are very powerful, and people love them. Some of our staff transcribed many of them and put them into book form. We had Volume 1 last year, and this year it is Volume 2.
If you become a Great Commission Partner with a monthly gift of $30 or more, you will receive It's My Turn, Volume 2, along with an AFR lunch cooler.
Tim Wildmon: We are about spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. That takes different shapes and forms, but the bottom line is that we are communicating the message of the God of the Bible, God's Son Jesus Christ, and the story of redemption.
We believe that when people pray to receive Christ, He changes their lives. We believe that wholeheartedly. We would not be here otherwise, and the people who support us believe in the message of the Lord as found in the Bible. Great Commission Partners are simply the people who support us on a monthly basis.
Tim Wildmon: This is Today's Issues. It is the American Family Radio Fall Share-a-thon. It is October, so it is fall, even though the weather in many places still feels like summer.
Tim Wildmon: Fred, you have a weather story for us, right?
Fred: It has been a quiet hurricane season along the East Coast and in the Atlantic. We have not had a hurricane, but you may be waking up this morning to a story about a possible hurricane developing. It is a tropical storm right now in the eastern Gulf of America near Mexico.
The storm has been given the name Azalea, which I believe is Spanish for Isaiah. I am going to call it Isaiah. It is forming early this morning in the warm waters of the Gulf of America, where the water is around 85 degrees after a very hot summer.
According to the models, the tropical storm is going to move east through the Gulf and then move north, coming ashore somewhere between Mobile, Alabama, and almost Tallahassee.
Tim Wildmon: That is a large area.
Fred: It is, and these are only models, so we have to be careful. They say that by the time it reaches the Gulf shore, it may be a Category 2 hurricane, with winds of more than 100 miles per hour and a lot of rain. The Gulf Coast is on alert. The winds will dissipate as the storm moves inland, but it is going to be a stormy weekend for those folks.
Tim Wildmon: I have some family going down to the beach.
Wesley: You are one of them. You are going down to the beach, right?
Tim Wildmon: That is right.
Wesley: When are you going?
Tim Wildmon: We are going to leave Friday night, drive halfway, and then wake up and continue.
Wesley: That is what you think. The weather may have something else in mind.
Tim Wildmon: I have some family going down to Gulf Shores, and Wesley and his family are going to Destin, I think. They are going down for the National Shrimp Festival. Have you heard of it?
Wesley: I have not.
Tim Wildmon: You know what a shrimp is, right?
Wesley: I do.
Tim Wildmon: We are talking about the kind you eat, not people trying out for the basketball team.
Wesley: I know. Good point.
Tim Wildmon: The National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores is supposed to start tomorrow and run through the 11th. I do not know what they will do when they have something that big planned and then a storm comes.
You drive somewhere where you are not familiar with the terrain. Bridges can wash out, and streets and roads can flood. If you are not familiar with the area, you have to be careful.
Wesley: It is the 53rd annual National Shrimp Festival.
Tim Wildmon: I have never been, but it sounds delicious.
Wesley: It is a delicious festival.
Fred: I was just reading that the 53rd annual National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, scheduled for October 8 through 11, has been canceled because of severe weather.
Tim Wildmon: So next year will be the first annual festival. They will have to start all over again.
Wesley: They are trying to keep people from coming in because they are telling people to evacuate. A lot of high school football games have been moved up to Thursday.
Tim Wildmon: The Alabama-Georgia football game in Tuscaloosa is also in question, I think.
Wesley: President Trump is supposed to go to that game.
Tim Wildmon: He is the president. If he wants to go to a ball game, he can say, “Sign me up.”
Wesley: That is like the men in our houses. We are the men of the family.
Tim Wildmon: The only difference is that we do it with the channel flipper. We do what we want, do we not?
Wesley: At this point, the rest of us will remain silent. We do not want to incriminate ourselves.
Tim Wildmon: Seriously, President Trump is scheduled to go to the Alabama-Georgia game in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night, but who knows what will happen with the weather.
Wesley: I was trying to get this conversation back to Share-a-thon.
Tim Wildmon: Go ahead and make your point.
Wesley: We are in our fall Share-a-thon, and between now and 1 p.m. Central time we have a Founders Day $75,000 challenge in honor of Brother Don Wildmon, who started this ministry.
Tim Wildmon: We understand that everyone is suffering with higher gas and grocery prices. We understand that.
Wesley: We do ask you to make a value judgment. What is more important in the grand scheme of life, a couple of gallons of diesel fuel or supporting American Family Radio?
Tim Wildmon: We understand, folks. We are sympathetic. We are joking, but we are asking you to be as generous as you can.
Caller Marion: My name is Marion, and I am from Madison, Mississippi. I listen to AFR all day. My video stays on all day, and my children listen to it. We are very edified by everything that is published and said on AFR. It has truly been a blessing to me and my family.
Thank you so much for reaching out and keeping us informed. God bless you and keep you. Keep up the good work.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, sister. We appreciate hearing from you.
Wesley: We truly are American Family Radio because we hear from people calling in and making donations from all over the country, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee.
Tim Wildmon: One of these days, I would like to see a video of you going down the Ocoee River.
Wesley: Have you ever been on a whitewater rafting trip?
Tim Wildmon: I have not.
Wesley: Why do we not do a live Trivia Friday on the water?
Tim Wildmon: I will report from here.
Wesley: We also have callers from Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, and North Carolina.
Tim Wildmon: It is a national radio network.
Wesley: We will take a short timeout and be back with more of Share-a-thon on American Family Radio.
Tim Wildmon: One of my fondest memories of Brother Don may seem silly to some people, but it has stayed in my mind after all these years. I have been here more than 30 years. It was humorous, but it showed the human side of someone whom we tend to idolize because of his position. We should respect people, but not idolize them.
Brother Don was always a pipe smoker. Some people may not even know what that is anymore, but he smoked tobacco in an old-fashioned pipe. He kept his pipe in his office and had a metal garbage can. It was filled with papers and other things.
One morning, we all smelled smoke. Forrest Ann came out of her office, which was next door to his, and said, “Don, what on earth are you doing?” He had been so busy with his work that he did not realize what was happening. Everyone was trying to figure out where the smell was coming from.
He had set his garbage can on fire. He was just sort of like, “Okay, oh well.” I think Forrest Ann probably carried it outside and put it out. I do not remember exactly how it ended, but it was humorous because he was so engrossed in what he was doing that he did not even realize what had happened.
Voiceover: Brother Don has been standing in the gap for families, and Linda has been standing behind him since the beginning of this ministry more than 40 years ago. We praise the Lord for our founder's obedient service.
Caller: As a single mother, I listen every day without even realizing it. I listen on my way to work. I am a rural mail carrier, and AFR gives me hope in the morning. When I start my daily route, I listen all day long. When I get off work, I listen on the way home. You are on my radio all day long.
I am thankful for all the ways you contribute to God's kingdom. You are winning souls, and you will not know the full impact until we all get to the other side. I pray that God continues to bless everyone at AFR.
Caller Gordon: My name is Gordon, and I am from Kansas. AFA saved my life. Thank you, Jesus, for all the AFA staff.
I am a truck driver. I had an old homemade stereo in my jump seat. Every night around 11:30, my stereo would pick up 88.3 for about half an hour. I was not happy to hear Tony Evans or Alan Jackson preaching Jesus, but it was the only sound I could get.
The program really caught my attention. The laughter and the goodness that Tim, Fred, AJ, and the others had were enjoyable, and they got me to listen every Friday. Then one night, Alan Jackson gave a sinner's prayer while I was pulling doubles.
I gave my heart to Jesus, and I have been growing in the Word ever since. Now, with the AFR app, I listen every waking moment. Thank you, Jesus, and AFR, for being warriors for Jesus. I thank Him for His grace. So do not give up. Give your heart to Him. Support AFR. Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: God continues to provide for this ministry through the faithfulness of His saints during Share-a-thon.
Tim Wildmon: Welcome back to Share-a-thon on American Family Radio. Today is Wednesday, October 7, 2026, and it is the second day of our three-day fall Share-a-thon. The theme is “Stand Firm,” from 1 Corinthians 16:13-14: “Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong, and do everything in love.”
We need your help. This is our fundraiser, and we are asking you to help us as generously as you possibly can. If you believe in our mission to share the message of Jesus Christ, lift up the Bible and the Lord, and impact our country, we ask you to support us.
Wesley, we have a guest in the studio, right?
Wesley: We do. Earlier, I mentioned that one of our listeners and supporters had a funny story. Our guest, Wayne Thomas, and I traveled to Greece together. A couple of days into the trip, he shared a funny story with me. When I found out he would be at Share-a-thon, I thought it would be good for our audience.
Tim, I am going to tell you before we begin: do not interrupt. You are going to feel the urge to interject, because that is what you always do with Wayne.
Tim Wildmon: I am a good listener.
Wesley: Wayne has a story to share, and you are going to feel the urge to interrupt.
Tim Wildmon: I may have that urge.
Wesley: Wayne has traveled with us to Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg.
Wayne: Just D.C.
Wesley: We went to Mount Vernon, though.
Wayne: Yes, we did.
Wesley: Where do you live, Wayne?
Wayne: I live in Great Falls, Montana.
Wesley: Did you drive here?
Wayne: I flew to Memphis and then drove down.
Wesley: Where did you fly from?
Wayne: I flew from Great Falls to Denver and then from Denver to Memphis. If you fly out of Great Falls, you generally fly into Denver or Salt Lake City, mostly Denver.
Wesley: You listen to AFR in Great Falls?
Wayne: Yes, 91.5 FM.
Wesley: We appreciate it, brother. Thank you for coming down to help us answer the phones.
Tim Wildmon: Wayne, welcome to Today's Issues.
Wayne: Thank you. I am glad to be here.
Wesley: This is your first time on the radio with us, right?
Wayne: Yes.
Wesley: While we were in Greece, a story came up. It was funny, and I would like you to share it with us.
Wayne: In September, I went to the Spiritual Heritage tour in Washington, D.C. The following month, I went to AFA at the Ark, where Alex McFarland was one of the guest speakers. Since I traveled alone, Allison put me on the bus the next time we went to D.C.
Wednesday night, when the whole thing began, we were at dinner. Tim's windbreaker fell off the back of his chair, and I happened to be standing there, so I picked it up and said, “Sire, I have restored your royal robe.”
Tim Wildmon: Do not encourage him.
Wayne: My wife told me not to encourage him, too.
The next day, Tim started calling me Jerry. My name is Wayne. It has always been Wayne. It has never been Jerry.
The first time he said it, I was not sure I had understood him properly. I thought, “Did he just call me Jerry?” He kept doing it, and I thought I must be misunderstanding him. After a while, I thought, “He thinks my name is Jerry, and I do not know how to tell him it is not.”
Saturday morning, we were heading to Mount Vernon. Tim had finished making his announcements and put the microphone toward me. He said, “Jerry, would you open this up in prayer?” I sat there thinking, “Maybe there is somebody on the bus named Jerry who wants to pray.”
Finally, I said, “My name is Wayne.”
I happen to work with a man named Jerry who is an AFR listener. Here he is.
Tim Wildmon: For those watching on YouTube, Facebook, or our video stream, Wayne brought a picture of Jerry, the real Jerry, who lives in Great Falls, Montana, and works with him. He listens to AFR, and he is holding a sign that says hello.
Wayne: When I got back the following week, I said, “Jerry, I got to be you last week.”
He asked what I meant, so I told him the story. He said, “I really like that one guy who is on that radio program, Alex Trebek.”
Tim Wildmon: Alex Trebek was the host of Jeopardy!, and he passed away.
Wayne: We were talking about the same person, and he said, “Oh, you mean Alex McFarland?”
Tim Wildmon: That is it.
Wayne: During one of Alex's Thursday visits on the show, he shared with the panel what a boring person he really was. He said, “I am the mayor of dull.”
When I saw him the following month, I presented one of his books to him and asked, “Alex, would you do me the honor of making it from the mayor of dull?”
My wife tells me that I tend to mumble when I talk. He paused and looked at me, then said, “How about if I make it to the mayor?”
I thought, “I am not the mayor. You are.”
He signed it, and as I was walking away, he said, “It is Mike, right?”
I said, “It is Wayne.”
He said, “Oh, Jerry.”
Tim Wildmon: There are people here who have been calling you Jerry.
Wayne: The story has taken on a life of its own. I genuinely apologize. I have done that before.
Tim Wildmon: No, you have given me a legacy.
Wayne: You were on the bus when you said, “Oh, well, my bad. Just call me Tom.”
Tim Wildmon: I forgot that part.
Wayne: After you asked me to pray as Jerry, I said, “My name is Wayne.” You dropped the microphone and said, “You can call me Tom. We will be Tom and Jerry.”
Tim Wildmon: I will be Jerry.
Wayne: When I walked away, Walker and Wesley came up and said, “Hey, Jerry.”
Tim Wildmon: Was that on our D.C. trip?
Wayne: No, it was at AFA at the Ark.
Tim Wildmon: We are still calling you Jerry.
Wayne: It is written in my book. It is a joke now. I had my picture taken with Walker and Wesley, and instead of smiling, I said, “My name is not Jerry or Mike. It was Chris Woodward when I needed him.” That is my hockey reference.
After that, I had an idea. I thought I needed to have a T-shirt made to let everybody know my name is not Jerry or Mike. I have often heard on this program that you have to have a one-syllable name to be on the program.
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Wayne: I thought, “I have a one-syllable name.”
The first reason I am wearing this Bruins shirt is that I am from Boston. The second reason is that I think I am skating on thin ice.
I also thought about the one-syllable names on this program. You have Tim, Ed, Fred, Ray, and Chris. Then I thought, “Wait a minute. Those are Timothy, Edward, Frederick, Raymond, and Christopher.” Those are not one-syllable names.
I have two editions of this T-shirt. The first one says, “My name is not Jerry or Mike.” On the back, it says, “Wayne,” which is a real one-syllable name. It also has everyone's formal names spelled out, along with those who made the cut.
Tim Wildmon: Alex is not one syllable.
Wayne: His real first name is Neil, and I did not know that.
Tim Wildmon: Neil Alexander McFarland. As he said, that is quite a name for a chicken farmer.
Wayne: I also have Bert and Brett. I found out during the Greece tour that I had misspelled one of the names. I had the shirt made about a month before we went to Greece, and then I found out about Brent's real first name, so I decided to have a second edition made.
This time I spelled Brent's name correctly. Then I found out about Cole, our video guy, so I added him. I also have Steve. I was not sure whether his formal name is Steve or Stephen, so I put a yellow question mark beside his name.
Tim Wildmon: That is great.
Wayne: I am going to Israel with you next month, at least for now.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, we are going.
Wayne: You will probably still end up calling me Jerry.
Tim Wildmon: That reminds me. When we were in Greece, Chuck Blount called me “Jerry Wayne,” like a lounge singer.
Wayne: “Welcome back to the Holiday Inn, Jerry Wayne.”
Tim Wildmon: That trip led me to make a monumental decision of epic proportions. I decided to adopt “Jerry Wayne” as my official AFA nickname.
Wayne: It works for us.
Tim Wildmon: Wayne and I had a great time. My brother Chuck and others were with us, and close to 75 or 80 of our listeners traveled with us to Greece. We had a wonderful time.
When Wayne told me that story, I thought that if he was coming all the way from Montana to help us answer phones during Share-a-thon, he needed to come on the radio and share it.
Wayne: It is a long trip, but it is something I have wanted to do for the last three years. I finally said, “I am going.”
I wanted to come down and be part of the team. As I shared in my listener testimony, the AFA family has really become a family to me. I cannot imagine turning on the radio and not hearing AFR.
I brought some gifts because I heard you say that you like receiving gifts from listeners. I brought a couple of gifts from Great Falls.
The first is from the Sweet Palace, a candy store in Philipsburg. It is supposed to have the world's greatest chocolate. These are chocolate-covered raisins, and there is a variety of candy.
Tim Wildmon: What did you get for the rest of the team?
Wayne: This is heavy. It weighs five pounds. There are chocolate-covered raisins, chocolate-covered nuts, and chocolate-covered candy.
Tim Wildmon: What else is in there?
Wayne: Wild huckleberry cordials.
Tim Wildmon: I am trying those right after lunch. That is my dessert.
Wayne: A cordial is like a chocolate-covered cherry, except these are filled with huckleberry, which is a very popular berry in Montana.
Tim Wildmon: The pictures look like an old-fashioned chocolate shop where they make everything on site.
Wayne: They do. The brochure says you can watch them make candy. The store used to be a hardware store until 1998, when it was converted into a candy store. They have more than a thousand different kinds of candy.
Tim Wildmon: What is on the brochure?
Wayne: It is a picture of Glacier National Park. I was up there in August and September and found the brochure in the store where I bought the candy.
Tim Wildmon: Look at the size of that grizzly bear.
Wayne: Have you ever seen a grizzly bear in the wild?
Tim Wildmon: I have seen them in Yellowstone.
Wayne: I have never seen one.
Tim Wildmon: I saw one on our trip.
Wayne: Do not steal my thunder. I have not even said what happened.
Tim Wildmon: We do need to give the phone number.
Wayne: We were in Yellowstone a year ago in August and drove from Yellowstone to Jackson Hole in Wyoming. Allison was driving, and I was in the passenger seat. I was feeling ill that day, so I was lying back with my eyes closed.
All of a sudden, Allison said, “There is a grizzly.”
She pulled over quickly to the side of the road. I was trying to wake up and figure out what was going on. She said, “Get up. Go get a picture.”
Tim Wildmon: You mean leave the vehicle?
Wayne: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, Tim.
Wayne: It was my wife and a grizzly bear, but you want to make your wife happy, right? She had prayed that we would see a grizzly bear, and the prayer was answered.
The bear was probably 50 to 75 yards away, so it was far enough away, at least I hoped. The grizzly turned around and looked at me, then sprinted back into the woods. Thank the Lord.
Tim Wildmon: What did you want it to do, think you looked like a cordial?
Wayne: By the time I got my phone out, I was half-awake and trying to find the camera, all while keeping one eye open in case the grizzly decided to come back. That would have been an unfortunate ending.
Tim Wildmon: It sure would.
Wayne: I do not know how Allison would have handled it. She might have called home and said, “Your dad is in the hospital.”
“What happened?”
“He got mauled today.”
“Why did you do that?”
“I told him to go take a picture of a grizzly bear.”
She would not have said that, though. She would have said, “Your dad decided to go.” He was half-awake.
So that was my experience with a grizzly bear. It was not in Montana, but in Wyoming. You come from the land of the grizzly.
Tim Wildmon: That picture was taken inside the store called the Huckleberry Patch, where you got the cordials.
Wayne: The mural is on the wall by the bathroom, so you can stand there and measure yourself against it. A large grizzly standing on two feet can reach seven and a half feet, and some are more than that, around eight feet.
Tim Wildmon: They could dunk on Shaquille O'Neal.
Wayne: I also heard Ed mention the touring vehicles in Glacier National Park. Since I was up there in August and September, I took some pictures and brought them to Ed.
Ed, these are pictures of the red buses, called jammers. People can pay to ride them through Glacier National Park.
Ed: I would love to ride around in one of those. Do you get in and they drive you through the park?
Wayne: Yes. They used to require reservations because they had to restrict the number of people entering the park. There were too many people trying to get in. The Going-to-the-Sun Road is the main road through the park, and there is only a limited period each year when it is open.
Ed: These are nice frames. My wife may take the frames.
Wayne: Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: In all seriousness, I want to thank you, Wayne. Brother Wayne Thomas came all the way from Great Falls, Montana, to Tupelo, Mississippi, to help us answer phones during Share-a-thon.
Wesley: If people want to talk to Wayne, they can call.
Tim Wildmon: They get transferred to Wayne when they make a $500 or larger gift.
Wesley: When he is not singing at the Holiday Inn, he is down here helping us answer the Share-a-thon phones.
Tim Wildmon: We will be back in a minute.
Tim Wildmon, Steve Paisley, and Wesley discuss Matt Walsh's warning that artificial intelligence could intensify loneliness by encouraging people to form parasocial relationships with chatbots. The conversation considers the rise of AI companions, video agents, and the reported use of cloned audio and video to falsely portray Christian mathematician John Lennox making anti-Israel statements. The hosts also discuss how churches can respond to social isolation by rebuilding genuine community and small-group fellowship. They consider the Christian perspective on artificial intelligence, the risks of large-scale scams and deception, and the importance of bringing biblical truth to emerging technology.
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