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Fred Jackson says he has most of his Christmas shopping done

>> Fred Jackson: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Ed Vitagliano.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And welcome back. Ed Battagliano sitting in for Tim Wildmon today. I am joined in studio by Fred Jackson. And now Steve Paisley. Jordal joins us.

>> Steve Jordahl: how's everybody doing today?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I'm doing well, Fred, how about you?

>> Fred Jackson: Well, very well.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Good.

>> Fred Jackson: Got most of the Christmas shopping done.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, we have finished ours as well. And, man, I, I'm just telling you, it's all about the grandkids.

>> Fred Jackson: I was going to say.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, it's just you've got five, Five grandkids. And I don't, I don't care if I ever get a Christmas present in my entire life, just as long as we can get stuff for our, those grandkids and see their happy faces. Sure. And, so, but I, I, I will say this. I told my wife because I've done a little bit. She's done the vast majority of it, but I have gone with her to do some of the stuff. And I don't know whether I'm just getting old and cranky. I think probably a lot of people around the office probably would say, yeah, I think that's a good description. but I just don't want to be around scads of people shopping. I wish I could make an appointment, you know, and just go in, get your shopping done and get out.

>> Steve Jordahl: But, you know, for the right amount of money, you can, you can hire somebody to do that. Yeah, someone to do it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, part of the fun is doing it. And by the way, folks, the cranky part was I did devotion this morning, and I was sharing my frustrations with my iPhone, had an update overnight, and it just changed everything about the way it looked. And I, it's just, it doesn't take much to set me off. I just thought, why can I not read the letters, the numbers on my phone? So when I say cranky, that's, I was, I was being pretty cranky this morning, sharing my frustrations.

>> Fred Jackson: We forgive you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

7.6 earthquake strikes off coast of Japan; tsunami warnings issued

Okay. All right, Steve.

>> Steve Jordahl: All right. Hey, a little news that's going on here. Just, a couple hours before we came on the air. This would have been about 8:15 central time, 9:15 on the east coast, and somewhere about 11:15pm local time in Japan, they had a 7.6 earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan about 45, miles west of Misawa, Japan. and, there's tsunami warnings up for some of Japan. the position that the place that this was, in Japan spared, like Hawaii And Guam and all the South Pacific islands. Tsunami warnings, there's none outside of the Japanese coastline that I've read, but huge. 7.6 is massive.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So this, they call it the Ring of Fire in the Pacific. That may have something to do with underwater volcanic action, but. That volcanic action may be along. There's a fault line. Right.

>> Steve Jordahl: Tectonic plate.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. That runs right through where Japan or near it. And they get these there.

>> Steve Jordahl: Ring of Fire. The earthquake fault line that goes through the San Andreas, that goes through California is part of the same thing. It's literally a ring that goes up. I suppose it starts down South America, but it comes up through Central, through California, up through Washington and Alaska and over. You've seen the, like the earthquakes up in Alaska.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Steve Jordahl: And over, back down, curves around back through Japan and on down. And this is a tectonic plate that does some shifting, basically. It's one, it's one of the. And you have a lot of active volcanoes, that are in this thing. And this is one of the things that happens when you have, these places and volcanoes and everything. You have earthquakes as well.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Wow. So, all right, 7.6. That is getting up there. And so when they give a tsunami warning, how much time. I don't want to belabor this. I'm just interested in it. And so like how much time between the earthquake and the expected tsunami?

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, of course, that all depends on how far away it is. If this were to go to the west coast, it's not unheard of for it to be hours, several hours, almost a day.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.

>> Steve Jordahl: For the tsunami wave to cross the Pacific.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, well, nature's just, just unbelievably powerful and its, effects on human existence. Anyway, very interesting that was. That happened, this morning about 8.

>> Steve Jordahl: O', clock, our time.

The Trump administration is making some funny changes to transgender policy

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay. All right.

>> Steve Jordahl: All right. if, you take a trip down one of the halls in the White House, you will see a picture of the presidents. And the, Trump administration, with a little bit of humor, has decided that, There's President Trump 45. And then there's a picture that's supposed to be Joe Biden 46. And then there's another President Trump 47. They replaced the Trump 46 with an auto pen picture of the auto pen. So that has, you know, it's Obama, Trump, auto pen, Trump. Well, it's not the only place that they are making, some changes. at one of the halls at the, Health and Human Services Department, they have all the list of the officials that have been in charge there, including one, who we came to know as Admiral Raechel, Levine, who is a transgender, man, a man who thinks he's a woman or wanted to be a woman and went, by Raechel. Well, they have changed his name back to Richard on the wall, obviously without his consent. But this is part of the return, to common sense, I think we would say, from the Trump department when it comes to this transgender issue nonsense. They have decided to put on the seventh floor of the Humphrey building, you'll find a line of photographs and one of them is Richard now says Richard Levine. Interesting that the story I'm reading this from is from npr and they never use that name. They just say the Raechel's former name.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Former name.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, Fred, quote, unquote, Raechel Levine, transgender woman. Okay. Just got transitioned back.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: According to the Trump administration. so I guess, I guess you can go back when it comes to. Listen, there's, there's, there's no end seemingly to the sense of humor that, that you see coming out of the trend the Trump administration. Now the other side doesn't see this as funny, but most people who know you can't, you can't change. Oh, I'm, my granddaughter just walked by with my daughter in law. So folks, I'm, excuse me, I'm freaking out a little bit. the little, littlest one.

>> Fred Jackson: That's okay.

>> Ed Vitagliano: so, ah, anyway, so the Trump, administration doesn't, doesn't want to fool around with this kind of stuff anymore. Changing quote, unquote, her name back to his name. I understand they, they get very insulted by this. But then again, we're all having to deal with what the trans community is trying to force on everybody. So a little blowback is to be expected.

>> Fred Jackson: Well, I was always of the opinion that Raechel should have stayed Richard.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: Because Raechel ain't looking good.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, oh, well, you don't get any arguments from anybody.

>> Fred Jackson: Absolutely. So, listen, you know what? It's really interesting. the left is always big about science. science.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Follow the science, Fred.

>> Fred Jackson: Follow the science. And making fun of, you know, if you have a conservative point, you flat earther.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: You know, all this kind of thing. I'm sorry folks, XX and xy. It will forever be because that's how God designed things.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Fred Jackson: And you can talk about, you know, I feel like it doesn't change anything. You know, it's, it's, it really is quite silly and it really is one, hundred and eighty degrees to good science. You Cannot change your sex.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Fred Jackson: I don't care. You. You can talk about feeling, but this. This idea that I feel this way, therefore I am. You know, we've talked about this before. I can feel like a 747 pilot, but I'm not. You know, I'm not.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And we don't want you getting in the 747.

>> Fred Jackson: I certainly don't. You know, I can feel like a brain surgeon, but I'm not. And you don't want me operating on you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Fred Jackson: I, mean, this goes. And I'm in a more serious tone here. This goes to the degree of rebellion against God's design. That's what it is. It is mankind saying, I decide, mankind saying, I'm the God of my life, and it's a rebellion against God. It must grieve our, Heavenly Father when he sees what mankind is doing. But there is a price to pay for this. There's a price to pay. And we need to be praying. I understand that, psychologically speaking, there are people who are confused out there, but we ought not to cater to the confusion. The confusion ought to be treated.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hey, listen, we don't do that for people with eating disorders. You know, if they think that they're fat when they're not and they're not eating, we don't say, well, I'm gonna, I'm going to support your decision.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: To believe that you're overweight and we won't feed you any food. We don't do that. We know that that is harmful for the person. So it's best to treat what's going on in the mind.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Rather than cater to what they want to do to the body to conform with their self image. Anyway, it's a very sad situation for these young people because a lot of times, not just young people, Richard Levine was not young, but they, they discover, and I'm not talking about Richard Levine at this point, but just in general, they think and they're being told that if they transition, they will be happier. and what they're finding out is they're not. And I wonder if that doesn't tie into some of those that, that turned violent. They're, they're angry, they're frustrated. They want to take out that frustration on somebody because the promises aren't holding up. Yeah.

Fred says insisting on calling someone a woman is a spiritual issue

So anyway, Richard Levine's, picture is back in the White House.

>> Steve Jordahl: Richard Levine to back up. I think Fred's, contention about it being a spiritual issue. I find it odd if you went back 10 years, 20 years. I don't know when I was growing up, certainly when we were all growing up and you talked, someone insisted that you call a man a woman. You'd look at them like they're crazy. What in the world. They even had a Monty Python skit about it. It was hilarious.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I remember that was back in the first century in the Roman Empire.

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, yes, the skit was about someone back in there saying, I want to be a woman. Yes. but m. The fact that they insist that you play along is I think a sign of that this is a spiritual thing because. the rebellion against God to say that. It's not just. If someone wants to say they're a woman, they can do what they want. It's America. They got freedom to do it. But they can't tell me that I have to play along. But yet they're insisting. And if they had their way, they would sanct me if I didn't.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And they do in some countries. In some countries, in western countries.

>> Steve Jordahl: Oh man.

>> Ed Vitagliano: The UK and in Canada more increasingly. Yeah.

CNN has partnered with a prediction market app called Kalshi

>> Steve Jordahl: All right, all right. gambling has become a huge thing. I don't know if you've seen some of the scandals going on in the NBA with gambling. they're talking about throwing games and there's some prominent NBA players caught in a poker scandal and everything. Gambling is huge. Well it's mainstreamed now. Espn, you can gamble on their telling odds all the time if you listen to football games. CNN has signed a contract with a prediction market app called Kalshi. Called what Kalshi K A L S H I And basically it gives odds on bets like will the peace plan in Gaza go through? Will they or who's going to win this particular election or not or what are the odds that President Trump sends out a tweet on this or just about anything you can think of. They can make an app, you can make a bet on it. I think they're called prop bets. Well the prediction market, CNN has partnered with it. You are going to see scrolling along the bottom line odds on certain news events. Now that you can bet on. and you will see according to Axios, the data will be featured on CNN's air through real time data tickers and can be referenced across CNN's platforms when journalists discuss news predictions. So there discussion. nothing happens. There's something when I was covering this topic when I was working at Focus on the Family called the Iron Triangle. Every time you have this is a physical location, you Bring in gambling, you bring in sex trafficking with it, you bring in, the family breakdown because of divorce. And, what's the other was another one.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Drugs.

>> Steve Jordahl: Drugs follow. There's a whole bunch of social ills that always a company, like if.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You get a casino or something.

>> Steve Jordahl: Right, exactly. Organized crime is what it was. Yeah, organized crime, divorce, and financial issues and, and all the.

>> Ed Vitagliano: All the social ills that come with organized crime.

>> Steve Jordahl: Right. And so now organized crime and news, I don't know. We've, seen. There's a whole discussion now about organized crime being involved in this NBA scandal. so, I don't think anything good can come of a partnership between CNN and Kalshee, but it has been signed.

>> Fred Jackson: Well, shame on cnn.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I was just going to ask you, do you think that this is in part because, legacy media like CNN are starved for cash and they're having to make a deal with the devil? Because that's got nothing to do with news having this deal with Kalshee. I mean, it's got nothing to do with news.

>> Fred Jackson: Oh, I don't think there's any question this is a financial stream, for cnn, which is hurting. but shame on them for doing this, because as Steve has pointed out, this is going to be a crawl on the bottom of the screen on the potential for something happening. And there's also potential for corruption. you know, CNN cannot control the outcome of a story. I know that. But people starting to bet on it, the third party involved can start manipulating things. You know, there's, you know, as Steve has just pointed out, there always seems to be crime associated somewhere with gambling. But when it comes to this, it's got to be pure financial for cnn.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, you're talking about human nature. Human nature. If they can. If someone can make money off games of chance or even games of skill. I see it's. It's everywhere on hockey, when I'm watching hockey, that you can bet on who's going to score the next goal. You can, you can bet on anything, as Steve was talking about. But whenever people can make money off a certain outcome, the temptation will be there to influence the outcome so that you get a bigger payout.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And if you have to, perhaps grease someone's palm with a little bit of a bribe in order to make your desired outcome come true so you can make bu. Koodles of money, human beings will find a way to do that. The Bible talks about bribes, bribing judges. Okay, that is a. You're spending money to get a desired outcome. This is right down the m. Right down the middle of the plate in terms of human nature. And you are going to have people who are going to do corrupt things to get paid. Yeah. And to help whoever's paying them get a bigger payday. You know I was just asking for.

>> Fred Jackson: It the NBA story. A lot of people couldn't figure out some of the players that have now been indicted.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: They're multi million dollar players.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: Why would you do it? For pocket change, basically. I just, I've not understood this. Now they haven't been convicted yet.

>> Steve Jordahl: My understanding there's some allegations against them. And you hear more than occasionally I think of these ah, athletes who make millions and millions of dollars and yet are still in financial constraints because they have no idea how to deal with millions and millions of dollars of income. They waste it. They you know, gamble it away or whatever. And so it's, it's a dangerous Proposition. Proposition.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Steve Jordahl: Ah, to, to put It. But even in with the NBA, for example, There was some players took themselves out of games early because there was a. Over under on how many minutes someone would play or how many points they'd score.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's interesting because. Lowers. It erodes confidence in the games. And I'm not saying that's a you know, critical part of our moral structure but I was watching a, a Somebody sent around on social media a clip from a football game. You see that where the player was running for a touchdown and the, the, the defender was a few yards behind, it looked like an easy score and the guy slipped out of bounds. Now maybe there's a logical explanation.

>> Steve Jordahl: There can't be a logical explanation for that. Rarely. But I think what the allegation was is that they are trying not to score points so that one side or other of a gambling concern can make, can make money.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I never would, I guess what I'm saying I never would have thought that possible if it hadn't been for all this other noise about betting and gambling.

Fred Bennett: If you don't trust sports, you get suspicious at everything

Because I thought why did he step out? You know, I haven't heard a good explanation. And again maybe there is. I'm not naming the player. I can, I don't even know I can recall the player's name. But credibility for the sport and trust and confidence in all sports is going to degrade to the point where we don't expect anything other than corruption. And that's a very dangerous place to be.

>> Steve Jordahl: The reason that that might be just for Clarity's sake. The reason that it might be legitimate is if you are a team and you have the ball, you're up by four points, and you've got a good, solid field goal kicker and everything, and you want to score, but you don't want to leave the other team with a whole bunch of time left to take the ball back down the field. So they got Tom Brady on the other side that can just. They might go out, they might run a few running plays to run some clock off before they kick the field goal to win the thing instead of giving the ball back.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So I've seen. But I've seen players in the situation you're describing continue to run down the field, and then just before they get into the end zone, they lay down or they kneel down so that the clock keeps running. it could be. And I didn't do a whole lot of.

>> Steve Jordahl: But there's a lot of speculation, but.

>> Ed Vitagliano: A lot of speculation about these kind of things. And, well, it's just like, Fred. And we kind of wrap this up here. But just, like with elections, you've got to trust the process. And if you don't trust sports, you get suspicious at everything that happens, even if something may be legitimate.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. the safest way, just to stay with your election example, you vote on election day.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: Now, I know, you know, our military people, yes, they have to vote in advance, but that can be closely watched and regulated. but. But the safest way is to have people, one ballot, one person on election day, and you show up, and you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Show up with an id.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, that's right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. You know.

There's a new breakthrough on artificial intelligence that I wanted to tell you about

>> Steve Jordahl: All right, let's end here. because one of the things that I talk about a lot, on the show and in fact, for my job with American Family News, is artificial intelligence. And there is some new breakthrough. There's a new breakthrough on artificial intelligence that, I wanted to tell you guys about. It's in the field of GPS getting you from here to there. And. Well, let's just listen to cut 16. Okay.

>> Speaker D: Where are we going here? Try new wife GPS mode.

>> Speaker E: Thank you for choosing wife GPS.

>> Speaker D: Well, thank you very much.

>> Speaker E: You look cute today.

>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, Wow. That's kind of fun.

>> Speaker E: Right turn now. Okay, wait, never mind. It's the next one. Sorry. It looked like it was this one. Turn right. Turn right. You missed it. Nice going.

>> Speaker D: We okay?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Come on.

>> Speaker E: You could have gone right there.

>> Speaker D: I know when I can go.

>> Speaker E: You are following so close. It's making me nervous.

>> Speaker D: I have a normal Amount of space. How do you even know that?

>> Speaker E: I thought you knew that was the turn. I didn't think I had to say it because I said it back there earlier. If you would listen to what I'm saying instead of thinking about work. My mother board was right about you.

>> Steve Jordahl: You.

>> Speaker D: Oh, okay.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Steve Jordahl: Okay.

>> Speaker D: That is Rich.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Wife gps. I don't think I'm going to download that app.

>> Steve Jordahl: You don't think so?

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, no, listen, we. We all have stories, and guys, I'll share mine if you guys will promise to share one, you know, with. With your wives. But my wife and I, our thing is we go to Walmart. Let's say we drive into the parking lot. She wants a. I don't let her drive Walmart. she will go up as close as she can to find a spot, and if she doesn't, she'll circle around until she finds something up close. Yeah, I park as far away as I can get, and I don't want carts being released and all that kind of stuff. And she says, what? You can't get any closer? That's what I get. All right, Fred, what's your story?

>> Steve Jordahl: My wife listens to the program.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's great.

>> Fred Jackson: There is that little thing out there. My little helper in the car. Yes. Have you watched some of those videos? My little helper in the car.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And that's the wife.

>> Fred Jackson: it's the wife.

>> Steve Jordahl: The wife, yeah, of course it's the wife.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And listen, for those of us married men who love Jesus, our wives are a gift from God. The gift that keeps on giving. So my wife is shopping. So she's not listening to the show. And if you say I said this, I'll deny it.

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