Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. I'm, Tim Wildmon with Fred Jackson and Tony Vitagliano. And now, Steve Paisley Jordahl joins us. Good morning, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
Tim Wildmon: How you doing, brother Steve?
Steve Jordahl: I'm okay. I'm okay. It's a good day here so far in Mississippi.
Tim Wildmon: Good day. Good. That sounded like a country song right there.
Steve Jordahl: We could make it up, couldn't we? We could get AI to write it for us.
Tim Wildmon: who do that right now? You say Mississippi Country Song.
Steve Jordahl: All right, hold on.
Tim Wildmon: We're just seeing what comes. Hopefully it'll be safe and family friendly.
Steve Jordahl: Lucy, it's, No, that's.
Tim Wildmon: Is that what comes up.
Steve Jordahl: I'll do this a second. I have. I have the app, actually.
Tim Wildmon: It doesn't need to be a, you know, a honky tonk drinking song.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah, okay. we're gonna say that the. Let, me see. We gotta write it here. Gotta put.
Tim Wildmon: I was half joking.
Steve Jordahl: I know, but I could do it. I could do it.
Fred Jackson: We're getting deep into it.
Tim Wildmon: I'm sorry, I'm just.
Steve Jordahl: What was the name. What was the name of the song?
Tim Wildmon: Mississippi. what do you say?
Tony Vitagliano: It's a good day in Mississippi. Mississippi M. Written by American Family Association.
Steve Jordahl: Good day in Mississippi.
Tim Wildmon: Let's see what happens here.
Steve Jordahl: All right, and.
Tim Wildmon: Uh-huh.
Steve Jordahl: Oh, boy. Done.
Tim Wildmon: All right. I'm not responsible for this.
Steve Jordahl: No, I know, right? Okay, hold on.
Tim Wildmon: well, I didn't. It's on the butt. We can get back to this.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah, we will. I will.
Tim Wildmon: yeah, we'll do this later. We have more time for planning. I just thought a little impromptu AI Song might be, you know, a good way to start this half hour. That's all right, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: Do it at the end.
Fred Jackson: Yeah, yeah.
Tim Wildmon: What's your first story, Steve?
Jeffrey Epstein just doesn't want to leave the news
Steve Jordahl: All right, well, Jeffrey Epstein just doesn't want to leave the news.
Tim Wildmon: You know what?
Steve Jordahl: Got a little help in this kind of.
Tim Wildmon: I like Steve. I didn't want to hear his name this half hour, but you go ahead.
Steve Jordahl: He who will not be named.
Tim Wildmon: Sound like there's an echo here. I'm not, Steve echo.
Steve Jordahl: And I'm plugged in, but,
Tim Wildmon: Okay, that sounds a little better now.
Stacey Plaskett received texts from Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing
Steve Jordahl: All right, there you go.
Tim Wildmon: What about Jeffrey Epstein? 30 seconds.
Steve Jordahl: So what happened was, if you will recall, they found out that Virginia Virgin island delegate Stacey Plaskett was getting texts from Jeffrey Epstein in the middle of a hearing that was going after Donald Trump. And she was saying, what can you tell me about Donald Trump? Republicans released this, and that got Democrats, including one Texas congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett, a little upset. How dare you?
Tim Wildmon: And so she's the Texas version of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, right?
Steve Jordahl: That's correct.
Tim Wildmon: She's the. She's the brisket, version.
Steve Jordahl: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: Am I right?
Steve Jordahl: Yes, I think so. Do I need to do something here that's different? Okay. so what happened was that, Stacey. I mean, Jasmine Crockett went to the floor of the House.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Steve Jordahl: And said, well, you think that's bad? I have a list of other people who have been given money from Jeffrey Epstein. And she lists off a bunch of people, including Lee Zeldin, the current EPA secretary, I believe he is, and he's in Trump's Cabinet. Says, well, he's gotten some. Well, Lee Zeldin pops back and says, yes, I was given money from Jeffrey Epstein. Dr. Jeffrey Epstein of so and so, which is completely different person than the Jeffrey Epstein that everybody else is talking to. Not the same one. Genius was what he put on his text. So, she went on, Jasmine Crockett went on cnn, and she, was asked if she wanted to take this back because Lee Zeldin said it wasn't the same Jasmine Crockett. Well, that you have. I now have now a minute of, Jasmine Crockett digging and digging and digging and refusing to stop. Cut 15.
Speaker E: You mentioned Lee Zeldin there. He's now a Cabinet secretary. He responded and said it was actually Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, who's a doctor that doesn't have any relation to the convicted sex trafficker. Unfortunate for that doctor. but that is who donated to a prior campaign of his. Do you want to correct the record on the people?
Speaker F: Listen, I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. Just so that people understand, when you make a donation, your picture is not there. And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen, because I knew that they didn't even try to go through the fec. So my team, what they did is they Googled. And that is specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein, unlike Republicans, I at least don't go out and just tell lies. He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein, so at least I wasn't trying to mislead people. Now, have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I Have not.
Speaker E: Yeah, but people might see that and say, well, you're trying to make it sound like he took money from.
Speaker F: I did not know.
Speaker E: Registered sex offender.
Speaker F: No, but I literally did not know. So, number one, I made sure that I was clear that it was a Jeffrey Epstein, but I never said that it was specifically that Jeffrey Epstein.
Tim Wildmon: She's in the Congress.
Steve Jordahl: That hurts your head, doesn't it?
Tim Wildmon: Mm. I'm speechless at that. That explanation. First she said she reminded me a little bit of Karine. Jean Pierre.
Tony Vitagliano: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: I don't know if they're, you know, they're college roommates or what, but. Because she said, talking about listing the Dr. Epstein, which is not Jeffrey Epstein, although he has the same name. She's the one who publicly said that. And then she said, I did not know. She checked with Google.
Steve Jordahl: Yes. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: You know, and then she said, I did not know. I, literally. Or something. I did not know. And then she follows up with that. I wanted to be clear. This is. This is a beautiful combo of. We got to play that one more time again. This is Jasmine Crockett with. This is her number one hit across the land right now. she's. She's, you know, bumped ahead of AOC in terms of quotable whacked out liberals.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: And, so that's.
Lee Zeldin acknowledged that he received donations from Jeffrey Epstein
Let's hear this explanation again.
Speaker E: You mentioned Lee Zeldin there. He's now a cabinet secretary. He responded and said it was actually Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, who's a doctor that doesn't have any relation to the convicted sex trafficker. Unfortunate for that doctor, but that is who donated to a prior campaign of his. Do you want to correct the record on the people?
Speaker F: Listen, I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. Just so that people understand, when you make a donation, your picture is not there.
Steve Jordahl: And.
Speaker F: And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen, because I knew that they didn't even try to go through the fec. So my team, what they did is they Googled. And that is specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I at least don't go out and just tell lies. He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein, so at least I wasn't trying to mislead people. Now, have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I have not.
Speaker E: Yeah, but people might see that and say, well, you're trying to make it sound like he took money from.
Speaker F: I did not know.
Speaker E: Registered sex offender.
Speaker F: No, but I Literally did not know. So, number one, I made sure that I was clear that it was a Jeffrey Epstein, but I never said that it was specifically that Jeffrey Epstein.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah, that's a different one.
Tony Vitagliano: Look, I have a confession to make. I've been telling y' all that I went to school with Michael Jordan. What I meant was it was a Michael Jordan. Now, if you interpreted it as the Michael Jordan, that's, that's, you know, that's your problem. Googling.
Tim Wildmon: But you didn't ever figure it out. Which. Not Michael Jordan. It was. You just said a Michael Jordan.
Tony Vitagliano: they just. It's not surprising that in politics nowadays, no politician is ever going to admit to any mistakes, even. Even if you're clearly caught in a lie. you just say, I didn't know.
Tim Wildmon: I didn't know.
Tony Vitagliano: I didn't mean it was that Jeffrey Epstein.
Tim Wildmon: we use Google. What are we supposed to do?
Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, that's also. Our future is also in great hands with our electorate. Officials are in the back room Googling as it's going on.
Tim Wildmon: And you got one of the Democrat congresswomen, or, you know, texting with Jeffrey Epstein himself while hearing is going on so he could get, so that congresswoman could get questions to fire at whoever was testifying up there about President Trump.
Fred Jackson: This may be one of the few times I praise cnn, but I'm thankful CNN challenged her. Yeah, I believe if that CNN anchor had not challenged her, she would have been happy for people to believe.
Tony Vitagliano: That's a great point.
Fred Jackson: We have caught these Republicans, because she didn't offer that. She didn't start making these excuses until that CNN anchor challenged her on that.
Tim Wildmon: Now, it is true that these, very wealthy individuals all over the country do give to Democrats and Republicans. Typically, Donald Trump did that when he was a New York businessman. He gave money to the Republicans. He gave money to the Democrats because. Because all these people won't access no matter who wins. Yeah, that's the point.
CNN played a compilation of Democrat military people saying that Trump orders are illegal
All right, you're listening to today's issues there when a drone. Right over the top of our House. Amazon. There's an Amazon drone delivered. I don't know what they're delivering anyway.
Steve Jordahl: Well, it's not the only, this is not the only, digging that happened on our, on, network news, yesterday too. I want to take you back to yesterday when we played a, a compilation of Democrat military people saying that it's okay to disobey an illegal order from Donald Trump. And, a lot of the people out there, including Martha Maccallum at Fox was saying, what are you talking. What order has he given that's been illegal? And, one of the Crow, Congressman Crow was asked, Colorado, from Colorado was asked this. And, well, this was his answer. Cut 11.
Speaker E: When you see this video on social media, I think a lot of people scratch their heads and they say what, what exactly are they talking about? Are they talking about not allowing gunboats to m. Make it to the United States carrying drugs? Is, I mean, is that what you're talking about?
Tim Wildmon: Martha?
Tony Vitagliano: Here's a novel idea. How about we actually prevent things from happening before they become a problem?
Speaker E: I think that's what they're trying to do.
Tony Vitagliano: What you're saying, what you're saying is we have to wait until there's a problem to respond to that problem.
Speaker E: No, I'm not.
Tim Wildmon: Again, that's absolute. Listen, Republicans can say stupid stuff too, okay? We're all human. We all can say, ridiculous things. What? That. Okay, do we have the, do we have the clip that, the ad.
Steve Jordahl: If you can go back to.
Tim Wildmon: Play it yesterday.
Steve Jordahl: If you can go back to yesterday's clips. I don't remember what number it was.
Tim Wildmon: But yeah, it was a clip of the, of a group of Democrat Lawmakers in Washington D.C. a television ad, maybe a radio ad where they're telling, active servicemen and women that they should disobey direct orders from their superiors, if they need to.
Steve Jordahl: It was listed as montage.
Tony Vitagliano: You know what, you know what? I'll say this. While Jonathan tries to dig up the clip, I actually agree with Congressman Crow here. I agree that we should try to prevent things before something, bad happens. You know, like, we should try to prevent 10 million illegal immigrants from coming in over the course of four years and taking over large swaths of cities, taking over apartment buildings. We've all kind of forgotten about that, the, trend, you know, extorting and taking over buildings. So I agree with them.
Tim Wildmon: amen.
Tony Vitagliano: So we should, we should try to prevent.
Tim Wildmon: Martha McCarthy should have said that she. Maybe she did after that, try to.
Tony Vitagliano: Prevent problems before they happen.
Tim Wildmon: That's right. It's, they're pandering to their left wing base here, right? They're trying to say, because she asked the very specific question. What are you talking about exactly? You don't do what he's taught, what he's saying, make a preventative video saying, in case you're told you service men and women are told to do something against the Constitution. You can, you can, you can Defy your superior and not do it. I guess you decide what you're going to obey and what you're not going to obey based on what your view of the Constitution is. You got it. So it's.
Fred Jackson: It's, it's just Trump derangement syndrome.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Fred Jackson: That's what's driving all of this.
Tim Wildmon: Doesn't make sense.
Fred Jackson: I'm surprised that Senator, Mark Kelly was among the six Arizona.
Tim Wildmon: He's considered more moderate.
Fred Jackson: Yes. That he was willing to go along with this.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, what you're about to hear, we're going to play. We played it yesterday. this is a television ad, I guess it is, right. Or an Internet ad. Yeah, that, that a group of Democrats. And there's. So all the voices you're about to hear are Democrat congressmen or senators, and they're there. They've sent out this video to, again, to America's people, in the active military.
This administration is pitting uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens
Go ahead.
Tony Vitagliano: We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe.
Speaker E: We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.
Tony Vitagliano: This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us. You all swore an oath to protect.
Speaker E: And defend this Constitution.
Tony Vitagliano: Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.
Steve Jordahl: Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal order.
Speaker E: You can refuse illegal orders.
Steve Jordahl: You must refuse illegal orders.
Speaker E: No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
Tony Vitagliano: We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant.
Speaker E: But whether you're serving in the CIA.
Tony Vitagliano: The army or Navy, the Air Force.
Steve Jordahl: Your vigilance is critical.
Speaker E: And know that we have your back. Because now more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for our laws.
Tony Vitagliano: We need our Constitution and who we are as Americans. Don't give up.
Steve Jordahl: Don't give up.
Tony Vitagliano: Don't give up.
Speaker E: Don't give up. The ship.
Tim Wildmon: okay. Okay. What.
Fred Jackson: What are they?
Tim Wildmon: What are they? Okay, just. Just. You don't even have to tell me specific. What are they talking about?
Steve Jordahl: Well, there was no specific, which is the point of Martha MacCallum, but they say that Donald Trump has made so many crazy statements. He's putting, military people in, like, Chicago and Portland, and he's going to ask them to do something illegal. So we want to tell them they don't have to do it.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, so it's in response to troops in the city National Guard.
Steve Jordahl: That's. Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, okay. But the National Guard is only being used, if the mayor, or the governor, of the said states.
Tony Vitagliano: Invite them in and in a support.
Fred Jackson: Role.
Tim Wildmon: In any federal, any federal, agencies, or.
Steve Jordahl: But if you can paint Donald Trump as someone who's going to give an illegal order and you can kind of hang that around his neck, they're going to do that every single time.
Tony Vitagliano: Well, that's, that's, I think that's what they, I think they like, fantasize about Trump becoming a dictator and instituting martial law. I honestly think they, they welcome it and they're trying to, you know.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano: Paint this picture.
Fred Jackson: It's not. There's just highly irresponsible.
Steve Jordahl: Right.
Fred Jackson: Highly irresponsible. Because there may be some men and women in uniform who are listening to this and saying, okay, I have a right. To disobey an order from a captain, a major, a colonel. I have a right. Because I think it's wrong.
Tim Wildmon: Right. Right. That's what he's, that's what they were saying.
Fred Jackson: This is, this is dangerous. It is highly irresponsible for a Democrat president.
Tim Wildmon: They wouldn't say that.
Tony Vitagliano: No. That none of these people were backing up troops when they were refusing to get the vaccine. We all forgotten that how the military was enforcing, forcing soldiers to get vaccines. They weren't backing them up when they were making a decision to disobey, orders or to disobey.
Tim Wildmon: Right now, it's their conscience.
Christianity Today has appointed a brand new president, Dr. Nicole Martin
All right, you're listening to Today's Issues. That's the name of this show on the American Family Radio Network, Today's Issues. Tim, Fred, Tony and Steve. Steve, what's your next story?
Steve Jordahl: Well, someone, needs to go check the grave of Billy Graham to see if he's spinning or not, because Christianity Today, the magazine that he started, has appointed a brand new president. Her name is Dr. Nicole Martin.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Steve Jordahl: And, she has been working at, CT for a number of years. Various things, but this is who she is. Ah, Russell Moore, by the way, who was, the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the sbc, and left on not such good terms with the sbc, has endorsed this choice. And this is what she wrote, in an article in, Christianity Today. God is faithful in triumph and despair. So she's talking about despair. What despair did she go through? This is what she writes. At age 9 and 11, my girls watched my husband and me vote for the one we believed would be the best qualified president of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris. And now they witnessed the grief that comes from knowing that the candidate we championed has lost the race. They watched as our faces fell when we heard the results. They experienced our sorrow, not only for the loss, but also for the fear of what might happen in the coming days and years. This is the new president and CEO of Christianity Today.
Tim Wildmon: I think Christianity Today. Hadn't they been drifting leftward for a long time, though, Fred?
Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah. even before Russell Moore, became the editor there. You know, just stop and think about this for a moment. Kamala Harris, when she was vice president, became the first vice president in the history of this country to go to an abortion clinic, I believe it was in Wisconsin, and to celebrate what they were doing at that abortion clinic. And now this person heads a publication called Christianity Today.
Tim Wildmon: And they were crying because, Kamala lost.
Fred Jackson: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I. I can't. Who. Who's their subscription base anymore? I mean, it used to be evangelical Christians, but is it.
Steve Jordahl: I think Russell Moore has a subscription. I don't know.
Tony Vitagliano: I would recommend our. I would recommend our alternative.
Steve Jordahl: We have an alternative. What is that?
Tony Vitagliano: the stand.
Steve Jordahl: The stand.
Tony Vitagliano: We have our own editorial magazine and site that you can go to and view all that.
Tim Wildmon: Tony, what is that website?
Tony Vitagliano: What is that website? the stand. Let me pull it up right now.
Tim Wildmon: Well, and it's this.
Tony Vitagliano: afa.afa.net thestand.
Tim Wildmon: Is that it? Go ahead and tell it.
Tony Vitagliano: Yes. So that is afa.net we never go there.
Tim Wildmon: That's why we don't know. Well, why do we? We got the magazine on our desk.
Tony Vitagliano: It's afa.net and you'll see the stand up at the top.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. Yeah. Stand. that's what you need to be reading, people, right?
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Steve: I do have a song I'd like to share with you
Tim Wildmon: All right, next story.
Steve Jordahl: All right, let me do this quick, because I do have a song I'd like to share with you. I wrote a song in my spare time. It's a good day in Mississippi, and it's ready for you to hear. You want to do that now?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Steve Jordahl: All right. This is the song I just wrote.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. Steve.
Steve Jordahl: It's a good day in Mississippi.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. Got a little country feel to it. All right.
Steve Jordahl: And I checked the lyrics.
Tony Vitagliano: It's clean.
Tim Wildmon: It's clean. When is it? Okay, here we go. Huh? Uh-huh.
Steve Jordahl: You just wrote this and sang it. This is me singing it.
Tim Wildmon: Is it? Oh, yeah. You can do a southern twang really good. Yeah.
Tony Vitagliano: Drones flying through the Sky.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we were. For those who didn't hear the first part of this segment here. What, What, What? Why, why did we just do that?
Steve Jordahl: Well, I. I said. I said, it's a good day in Mississippi. When you introduced me and you said.
Tim Wildmon: That I did provoke. That Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill him. Tony, you're on to something right there. so we said, have AI, generate a song called A Good Day in Mississippi.
Steve Jordahl: It's a good day in Mississippi.
Tim Wildmon: Which you said, how you doing? You said, I'm having a good day in Mississippi.
An AI song is number one on the Billboard digital charts
Fred Jackson: You know, the serious side of this, the country and music industry in Nashville is very worried about what this kind.
Tim Wildmon: Of thing they are. Oh, AI, generating music on its own.
Fred Jackson: Yes. Doing music on its own. We did a story. Was that last week, sometime Just a couple days ago. What was it? It's number one on the Billboard digital charts.
Steve Jordahl: Digital sales charts. So this an AI song is number one, or at least was at the time we wrote. We put the story out and the digital music sales charts. And, to quote Rick Beato, who is also I quoted in the, in the, in this, in my story, I said, who pays for music anymore? Exactly. That's the point. Someone paid about $3,000 to download this a bunch of times to get it to the top of that chart. However, it's coming, and country music artists, not only country music, every musical composition, artist, genre, genre is going to be fighting. Is this real or not? This guy sounds pretty real.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Also, the, entertainment industry, the television and movie business, they are also very worried, about this because AI is threatening to take over their jobs of creating content.
Steve Jordahl: Who wouldn't want to see another movie starring, I don't know, you know, John Wayne.
Tim Wildmon: Wow, that's a good point. They can do that. Yeah, I know. And one of the, Indiana Jones movies, they, the last one they made, Harrison, Ford looked like he was.
Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: 40 again. Do you remember? 35 again.
Steve Jordahl: It'll be a lot cheaper to do it with AI than it is to take an actual video of him and de age him or anybody.
Tim Wildmon: We got about a minute left or so.
Elon Musk says his robot Optimus could stop crime instead of jailing prisoners
What do you got? All right. Anything?
Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Elon Musk is. Says that his Optimus, his robot is going to make, everybody rich. And this is not only it, but do you know that, Optimus, which is his robot, is going to stop crime. He says instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Let's not put anybody in prison. If they're convicted. We just hand him an optimist.
Tim Wildmon: So, like having a pet dog. You got a pet robot following you around everywhere?
Tony Vitagliano: I buy one for each of my kids. I'm gonna buy one for each of my kids. You need to clean up your room, right? Your father said clean up your room.
Steve Jordahl: You're gonna be out. You're gonna be out somewhere around $30,000 per kid.
Fred Jackson: Well, okay.
Tim Wildmon: Never mind. Elon Musk, he's back in good, graces with President Trump.
Steve Jordahl: You see, that is. Yes, he is.
Fred Jackson: He got the pat on the belly.
Tim Wildmon: That would be a good country song, too, right there.
Steve Jordahl: I'll write that later.
Tim Wildmon: How about. Yeah, generate a pat on the belly in Mississippi. All right. All right.
Steve Jordahl: I'll have it for you Monday.
Tim Wildmon: Probably. Probably a good thing this show's coming to an end right here. I think the information we're providing now is not high quality. All right, thank you, Steve. My pleasure, Tony. Brad.
Fred Jackson: You bet.
Tim Wildmon: all right, who else was here? Chris Woodward, Jenna Ellis. All right. And we will, see you next time on. On the Today's Issues program.
