Tim Wildman: 50% of American staff want to take off in December
>> Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your.
>> Steve Jordahl: Host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim with Fred. We thank you for listening. Tim Wildmon, Fred Jackson. Ed Battagliano is off, until 2026. Our colleague and friend, Ed Battagliano. If you're wondering where he went, see you next year. So do we. He just went away. Said he'd be back next year. Steve Paisley Jordan joined us. Good morning.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: How you doing, brother?
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm well, thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. At the risk of sounding judgmental.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Which we all can be from time to time, we have, we have 100 plus staff here and there's probably 50% of them who want to take off. A lot of days in December, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: And I've never quite understood this, except if you have family coming from other, you know, that you don't ever see. So you want to take off. Although I can't imagine any family that you never see and you want them to stay more than a week.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Then you want them to go back to their home, I believe. Am I right? Right?
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, but what I don't understand is again, I sound like I'm judging people. I'm not. Well, maybe I am. I don't know. You tell me who want to take off for two or three weeks in December when it's the coldest and darkest. By darkest I mean like it gets dark at 5 o' clock time of the year. So you want to take off. You know, I, try to explain to these people there's something called spring. Yeah. And summer and fall that you can use those same vacation days m. And just experience so much of nature. Am I right, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, Fred, are you with me on this? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Not judging them. No. But, but wondering why they do what they do.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, the thing is, Tim, ministry is very generous.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: At, you know, Christmas time, like last week we had three days off. Three of the five working days.
>> Tim Wildmon: It was great.
>> Fred Jackson: this week, another couple of days.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: So there's so many days that the ministry is so good to us. Give us all this time off.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: it's.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know. We, we do. We, we are generous because we are family.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: The American family. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: That's great.
>> Tim Wildmon: We try to be generous with our, with our, and our folks work hard all year, so we want to be. But, anyway, that's just me. I wasn't Talking about Ian in particular, did I bring his name up and who. Yeah, I know he watches his hockey on his iPad. I know that that's very m. Very important to him. well, you know, you're a hockey guy, too, right? Yeah. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: I'm probably not into it as much as it.
>> Tim Wildmon: He'll stay with us. Boston Bruins to their.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Out of the, Out of the playoff.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, how you doing?
>> Steve Jordahl: Good. I got a hockey story to end this segment with.
>> Tim Wildmon: Stay tuned for that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Stay tuned to that one, if we have time. O. Yeah, Everything's. Well.
President Trump says he did this because Nigerians were targeting Christians
let's talk about Donald, Trump. You know, all in the news last week in the last couple of weeks has been the, potential of war with Venezuela, the bombing of, these ships. but over Christmas, Donald Trump changed the channel a little bit and launched what he called powerful and deadly strikes against militants linked to ISIS in northwest Nigeria. He says he did this because Nigerians were targeting, primarily innocent Christians. And so this was from Truth Social, he said, tonight, at my direction as commander in chief, the United States has launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS terrorist scum in north northwest Nigeria who had been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians at levels not seen for many years.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, this took place. Did this take place on Christmas Day, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: It did, yeah. Christmas Day.
>> Tim Wildmon: So the. The, weapons that were launched, were they launched from a, From the ocean? From a carrier.
>> Fred Jackson: From a carrier. That's what I understand. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now.
>> Fred Jackson: And it had the blessing of the Nigerian government, is my understanding.
>> Steve Jordahl: And they said that it's not. It. The Nigerian government said, this isn't about a religious thing. It's about isis.
>> Tim Wildmon: Trisis is religious.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, the Nigerian government.
>> Tim Wildmon: The very name of it is yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: But the Nigerian government wanting, Because there's, a Muslim population that they want to kind of.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're trying to separate the terrorists from the peaceful Muslims.
>> Steve Jordahl: Peaceful Muslims in the country. They don't want to excite the passions of the unpeaceful Muslims. But Trump says it's because they're attacking Christians. Who's attacking Christians? It's the Muslims that are doing it. The Nigerian government says, well, we're just going after the terrorists. So.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so, the United States of America, with, the, cooperation or agreement from the government of Nigeria, launched a missile or missiles from the ocean from one of our carriers out there, our battleships. Nigeria's pretty deep into, Pretty deep into Africa, isn't it?
>> Steve Jordahl: In the middle. Right in the middle of,
>> Tim Wildmon: That's amazing that we have a smart bomb that can travel that far. Well, we did it again in the, Iranian war, but we were closer, seems to me, with the ships. but anyway, so launch a missile that flies over Africa and hits in the middle of it at a precise location. And, and what, what President Trump is saying it hit. And I guess the Nigerian, government confirmed this.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: That it hit a ISIS or something similar to isis.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, the Boko Haram is popular there, which is kind of the same thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: And they have been, it's well noted in all kinds of news services they have been targeting Christians.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. They've been abducting young girls from Christian schools. Yeah, that's what's been going on.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So. So President Trump hit him hard.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, he did.
>> Tim Wildmon: We'll see what, what the result of that is.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: but anyway, that happened on Christmas Day. All right. You're listening to today's issues on afr.
New York City has a new law called COPA to purchase properties
Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: I know you talked earlier, this this show about mom, Dani and his fire chief and everything. I wanted to check in with NewSong York City to see how the government's going there. They have a new law called coppa, which stands for Community Opportunity to Purchase Act.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: And I have a guy here, one of the, this is a person who is not in favor of.
>> Tim Wildmon: Copa, and that's a Copacabana.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is like nothing the same. This will explain it a little bit. Let's listen to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Guy's name's not Barry Manilow is his.
>> Steve Jordahl: Name is not Barry.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. He's a NewSong Yorker, you know.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes. Cut 15.
>> Tim Wildmon: NewSong York City's COPA law. Let me tell you how it works. Step one, you have to decide that you're gonna sell your building. Hold on, you can't list it publicly yet. Step two, you notify non profits to see if they want to buy it. They then have a 30 day window to tell you if they're interested or not. If you don't, it's a thirty thousand dollar fine. Here's the bad news. If they are interested, they have up to 120 days to give you an offer. Now if you don't want to accept that offer, that's when you could put it on the open market. If you put it on the open market and you get an offer that you absolutely love, you then have to offer it back to the city at that same price, causing tremendous delays in the closing process, which inevitably leads to dead deals. If you look at a crash in industry well, this is the perfect way to do it.
>> Steve Jordahl: So basically, if you want to sell your building, you have to sell it to the government or nonprofits. They're not, private deals are dying in NewSong York City. Private real estate deals.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, this guy hadn't even been elected. Any been installed into office yet?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, but the spirit of Mamdani is already spirit up Mandani working in NewSong York City.
Every generation needs to learn for itself about the evils of communism
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Sounds like. I don't know.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, that's what socialist governments do. I basically, they nationalize things. They take over companies.
>> Tim Wildmon: They do in the name of, you know, price control.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: And for the comp. For the little person take over everything and make things worse.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: my dad used to say the free enterprise system undergirded by Christian principles has done the greatest good for mankind than any other economic system in the world. That's true.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is. And it's a lesson that young people have lost. Every generation needs to learn for itself, I guess, the evils of communism. If you ask someone that was, you know, like our age, we'll point to what happened with pot. Paul. Or with Russia, the ussr.
>> Tim Wildmon: We remember.
>> Steve Jordahl: We remember the evils of communism.
>> Fred Jackson: China, Pole pot.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm sorry.
>> Fred Jackson: Pol Pot.
>> Steve Jordahl: Pol Pot.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's like, pull pork.
>> Steve Jordahl: Pol Pot was a dictator in Cambodia.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. I don't. I don't remember. I don't remember him. Thank you for letting me know.
>> Steve Jordahl: He was, he was perhaps one of the most deadliest, communist leaders for killing his own people. But anybody our age will remember the communism in Russia. How it was evil for, the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Deadly former Soviet Union.
>> Steve Jordahl: Former Soviet Union and former communist China under Mao Zedong. And the cultural, revolution that just decimated communism.
>> Tim Wildmon: And dictatorships also go hand in hand.
>> Steve Jordahl: They do. But every generation has to learn this for themselves because we have a whole generation of young people now who think socialism is great, even though it's never proven. Never proven.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. But it sounds appealing. It's like utopia.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right?
>> Tim Wildmon: you know, to these, to these.
>> Fred Jackson: Folks, here's when the young people learn it's bad. When they go out and they get a job and they start looking at their paycheck.
>> Fred Jackson: And they're seeing how much they're taxed. And they're saying, wait a minute.
>> Fred Jackson: What do you mean I have to pay for this? I have to pay for universal childcare. Which is what? Munbada. One of the things he's bringing in. What do you mean I have to pay for that grocery store for people to have cheap groceries.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: What do you mean? I have to pay for free transit?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. that, that does change your attitude when you see how much money is being taken out of your check to promote socialism.
Mandani: Gender affirming care is dying a slow but sure death
all right, next story. All right, we've already done two NewSong York stories now we don't need another one. Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: NewSong York City.
>> Tim Wildmon: NewSong York City.
>> Steve Jordahl: Mandani, the euphemistically called gender affirming care is dying a slow but sure death right now. Several countries. This is if you have a, especially for young people, for, minors, if they have gender dysphoria and they think they're the other gender. A lot of people, in this country for years have said, fine, we will treat you, we'll give you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Gender, whatever you call yourself. That's where we're going with.
>> Steve Jordahl: And not only that, but we'll affirm it with drugs that will sterilize you, keep you from having puberty, and will chop off body parts if you want. And we'll keep that from parents. That was kind of the direction everything was going. Well, Newsweek has published a study is highlighting a study called the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria A Review of Evidence and Best Practices. And it is by a couple M. Monte gorin and Kathleen McDevitt McDivitt. And they note, given the current widespread distrust of HHS, especially regarding vaccines, we knew this review, which we co authored, would meet with skepticism. So it is worth noting that we, along with most of the other authors, are liberals. This is not some conservative group that's forwarding what we know is the truth.
>> Tim Wildmon: That you might expect to see this.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right. This is liberals who took a look at the evidence of how things are going. And what they found is that the US justification for giving drugs and surgeries to these people was basically largely based on a, Dutch experiment that consisted of just 70 adolescents who had been gender non conforming, so to speak, since early childhood. The vast majority, the 62 out of the 70, reported being gay or homosexual during the study. One patient died of surgical complications due to having been given puberty blockers years earlier. Some of the people, 70, developed diabetes and were excluded from final data analysis. Others were lost to follow up. The remaining 55 patients underwent surgical transition. All were rendered sterile. In short, the medical practice now known euphemistically as pediatric gender affirming care is based on methodologically weak research that sterilized a group of gay or bisexual youth and left one of them dead. They are Saying that there is no good justification for giving young people any kind of intervention other than psychological intervention, help them deal with gender dysphoria. Now there's still a lot of people who will try to affirm, but there's no justification for medical intervention on young people. It's damaging and it shouldn't happen. In several countries around the world, England being one, and some of the Scandinavian countries have already come to this conclusion and banned it. And the United States needs to be next.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well now, I thought President Trump, he issued some kind of an executive order. One of the first things he did.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: on this issue, I've forgotten exactly what happened but. And many states have also passed legislation, red states in particular, protecting kids.
>> Steve Jordahl: There are, there are some blue states who are biding their time, I think, hoping for new administration. Right now all these procedures are on hold. It does need legislation at the state level. there's no reason studies like this don't validate the fact. Do validate the fact that it is damaging to try to medically.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh yeah, these kids. You would think that, you think that's obvious and common sense, but you would, Let me change up to you just a minute. You don't.
James Woods says artificial intelligence could put actors out of business
You didn't know I was going to bring this up, Steve, but you keep up with AI pretty well. I do my try, artificial intelligence. I noticed a story on Fox, it was an interview with James Woods. He's the actor many people know. If you don't know that name, you would know his face.
>> Steve Jordahl: Sure.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's been in many popular movies over the last three or four decades. James Woods, Oscar nominated. Anyway, he is saying that it won't be long before artificial intelligence puts, Holly. Puts actors out of business. Okay, so here's his, here's what he's saying. he's saying that that you know, artificial intelligence. We've all seen the videos here. They do deep fakes now. They do videos that you get that look so realistic you wonder is this real or is this a computer generated image or a scene or something like that. He's saying, James woods is saying now he's saying for right now, and maybe, I don't know, the next 10 years or so. He says, it wouldn't work so well at the box office, for example, or streaming because, And I'll just use Americans or North Americans in Canada, people like their favorite actors or actresses so they'll go see a movie. For example, if Tom Hanks is in it. Or Meryl or Mel. Meryl Streep is in it. Or that's, that's a big attraction for people because they kind of like that, they like that actor and they think that they, they do good, movies. Okay, but what he's saying is as soon as this generation. I don't know how you define that exactly, maybe 10 years or so, the generation of people familiar with actors today who are, well, if these actors retire big stars.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: then they are going to lose interest in whoever the actors and actresses are because. And they're going to switch over to the, the AI Generated movies.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Does that make sense? Television shows.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't know how they're going to avoid it. I think right now you're right. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise and all those people can sue if their image was AI generated. They weren't involved, so they won't do that. But the, the first A.I. stars, let's say the, the A movie. That, that and, and these movies spend tens of millions of dollars.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. To employ financial. Oh yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: So if you can do it for free just by computer generating it, you, you're saving millions and millions of dollars. I don't know how you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah, but would people, I guess, unseen. Would people watch, would they go to movies, or go. Or watch television shows that they know are not real people? Would people do that?
>> Fred Jackson: I think so.
>> Tim Wildmon: You think so?
>> Fred Jackson: People.
>> Tim Wildmon: Maybe the younger generation. By younger I mean under 40 maybe would convert over to that.
>> Fred Jackson: Sure. It's already, you know, the Instagrams, the little 32nd, 42nd little videos that you see, so many of them and they, they look so real.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's true.
>> Fred Jackson: They look so real that. And I could, I could see, you know, these big movie companies saying I don't have to hire all of these crews and keep them around. I don't have to pay $20 million. Is that what Tom Cruise gets for a movie?
>> Tim Wildmon: all that sort of thing then, then the movies and TV shows and whatever else you want to watch as entertainment will be that can be created by 15 year old. That's right at home. Right. I mean if they do, if they know enough about technology.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: That that kind of thing would be on the.
>> Fred Jackson: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And we're seeing a lot of that now, a lot of that kind of can going on. And you're right. these little short videos, my wife had a, ah, Instagram pulled up the other day. She doesn't subscribe to it, but it was somebody sent Her a video, I think m watching you, but then you start scrolling these and I've done it on YouTube before. You start scrolling and before you know it you're like going what happened the last three hours?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because they got these little 15 second or 30 second. Yeah. Funnies. And I was watching one the other day and I with, with her, she was saying watch this. And I said, you know, that doesn't look right. That looks like it's about every third one you would go, oh, that's, that's genuine, that's real. And then about the, you know, there'd be. Then you'd go. Some of you go, that looks like it was either staged m. Or it's computer generated. Especially with pets, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: with pet you. So with these pets do certain things and it looks like. That looks like a computer generated or it's impossible.
>> Steve Jordahl: I saw just a raft of a bunch of these videos of dogs going over and covering up little babies right before an earthquake strikes. Like they're supposed to know and then they're sacrificing themselves. That's unrealistic.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right, right. Yeah. It's kind of America's Funniest Home Videos, that we used to watch on tv, put on the Internet. But today I guess so many people create fake ones or something.
James Woods predicts people will move away from traditional movies for AI-generated movies
I don't know. Anyway, we'll be interesting to see if James woods, he's a legendary actor, he's a conservative, one of the few in Hollywood. But if his prediction comes to pass in the, in the next few years whether people move, move away from traditional movies to going to see, to just going for the AI generated movies, which are computer generated and no actors. You don't have to film something on a set. I mean that could devastate the entertainment industry in many ways. Am I right?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Dominic Cratelli performs national anthem at Islanders hockey game
All right, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, I wanted to issue to 104 year old World War II veteran Dominic Cratelli.
>> Tim Wildmon: How do I know he's not A.I. generated you?
>> Steve Jordahl: Because listen to this. He was asked to perform the national anthem at an Islanders hockey game. And this is what it sounded. Cut 14.
Staff Sergeant Dominic Crotelli is still playing the saxophone at 104
>> Fred Jackson: And here to perform our national anthem, please welcome 104-year-old World War II army veteran Staff Sergeant Dominic Crotelli.
>> Steve Jordahl: Not bad for 104 years old, I'll say.
>> Tim Wildmon: Was that a saxophone he's playing? It was that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Soprano sax.
>> Fred Jackson: Soprano sigh. I. I've watched that video.
>> Steve Jordahl: it's. Yeah. Like what's the guy's name with a long hair, soprano saxophone.
>> Tim Wildmon: Used to play Kenny Jeep. Is that. Yeah, he doesn't play the saxophone.
>> Steve Jordahl: He does.
>> Tim Wildmon: Does he?
>> Steve Jordahl: Soprano sax. Anyway,
>> Tim Wildmon: Boy, see, Steve set me straight pretty quick.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, we only have a couple. I wanted to say, but that Mr. Catelli, he braved, Normandy, and he. He was one of the people that flew, ammunition and stuff into the people that were cut off during the Battle of the Bulge at great.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Steve Jordahl: Danger to himself during World War II.
>> Tim Wildmon: What was the, What's his name?
>> Steve Jordahl: Dominic Crotelli.
>> Tim Wildmon: We salute you.
>> Fred Jackson: 104.
>> Tim Wildmon: 104 years old, still playing the saxophone, and was invited by the NewSong York Islanders hockey, team to play the national anthem. Good on them, too. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: That's great.
>> Tim Wildmon: That is a good news story to.
>> Fred Jackson: End the day, even if it's from NewSong York.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. All right, thank you for joining us, everybody. Appreciate it very much. Have a great day. Keep listening to afr. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
