Today's Issues continues on AFR with Steve Paisley Doordah
>> Steve Jordahl: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's Issue is the name of this year's show. And, today's Monday, April 27th. I'm Tim with Fred. Now Steve Paisley Doordah joins us.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: How you doing?
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm well.
>> Tim Wildmon: So you were telling me, that Saturday night you were at a wedding out in the country and you barely. How'd you learn of this? the attempted assassination.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is probably one of the most frustrating things that could happen to a reporter. My wife and I were at a wedding. It was at a, it was an outdoor wedding at a property in near Jackson, Mississippi. It was, it was remote. Let's just say that it was one of the most probably expensive weddings I've ever been to. It had like, amazing wedding. It was on dozens, like 20, 30, 40 acre ranch, horse ranch. Unless you had like Internet connection from the home, you had no connection. So I couldn't, I had zero showing the satellite. You ever been so remote that your phone shows a satellite for connection? So I didn't have any outside connection. One message got through to me. It was from my wife's mother, who knows I'm a reporter. And it said, are you watching the news? That's it. And I, I didn't know. We tried to call, we couldn't get her. We tried to look on. We had no Internet. We couldn't even get a map to get out of this place for about 20 minutes after we left the wedding. Couldn't even bring up a map on my phone. So I had no idea what was going on. It was killing me. I was about ready to pull over the side of the road, knock on the door and say, what's going on?
>> Tim Wildmon: So you had to wait an hour or two.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, it was probably 10 o' clock at night, our time in Mississippi, before I had any idea what had happened.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is this a close relative or friend?
>> Steve Jordahl: It was my wife's best friend's son that got married.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you got to go to that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You have to weigh, weigh whether you need to go to a wedding or not.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, yeah. And you don't know what's going to happen when you're there, but you have to do that.
>> Fred Jackson: I weigh carefully.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, I will show you. I'm going to pass my. I'm going to pass my phone to Tim and I'm going to show him a video of some of the, food, that was at the wedding. This was one of three tables of food.
>> Tim Wildmon: Those are oysters, aren't they? Oysters on the half shell.
>> Steve Jordahl: Is that rolling? Is that.
>> Tim Wildmon: You were so impressed by the food, you took a video.
>> Steve Jordahl: I took a video. And that's just one of three tables.
>> Tim Wildmon: My word, look at this shrimp.
>> Steve Jordahl: One of three tables.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, this is just one table.
>> Steve Jordahl: One of three tables. They had Mexican, they had Italian. They all. It was amazing.
>> Tim Wildmon: we did a wedding like at a couple 10 days ago or so.
>> Steve Jordahl: It was amazing.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would say this. I think the most important reason to go to a wedding is the food.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Well, I agree.
>> Tim Wildmon: At the reception, I think we all look back on life and we go, wasn't that a beautiful wedding? But you don't say that if the food was a disappointment. You know what I'm saying?
>> Fred Jackson: So did you stuff your pockets with food?
>> Tim Wildmon: Look at that. Steve took a. Steve is so impressed by the spread, he took a video. So that was just one food station right there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Was. Here, I'll show you. That's the other. Those are the other two food stations. There's pizza and there's. There's,
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, man. this is awesome.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Fred: Do you think it's wrong to eat wedding food if not invited
So my understanding is that this gentleman, who owned the horse ranch meets his money because he owns a bunch of restaurants down in, in Jackson and he had them all out to do the food at the wedding.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do you think that's wrong to base whether you want to go to a wedding or not on? What do you think the reception spread is going to be? Is that, is that a moral question, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, you begin to ask the question of if they just roast some hot dogs. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. But that, to me, this says they really don't care if you're there or not. If all we're gonna have is roasted hot dog. But who's ever done that before? Have you ever been to that?
>> Fred Jackson: No, no, I haven't experienced that. But, this, this looks like a, full out press.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I really.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, that's, a. That's a. You drive two hours for that, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Three hours.
>> Steve Jordahl: Three hours.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know.
>> Fred Jackson: I. I just want to show up for the leftovers.
>> Steve Jordahl: I know.
>> Tim Wildmon: Have you ever wedding crash? Either one of you guys ever wedding crashed?
>> Fred Jackson: No.
>> Steve Jordahl: No. I'm sending, one of these videos to Brent because I don't think. This doesn't show any names or anything, so, he can post this on our website if people want to get a look at what a. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Ritzy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do you think it's wrong to Reddit when it crash? Yeah. Why is that? Why do you think it's wrong if.
>> Fred Jackson: If you're not close enough to get invited, probably it's a good idea not to show up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, what about just go to the reception?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, if you had an invite.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, I'm talking just go to the reception. But you don't have an invite, but you just see it in the paper or. No, you just hear about it and you just want to go get some free food.
>> Fred Jackson: No, Tim, I don't think I would do that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. No, don't think. Well, I'm just looking for advice on that. Okay. I've thought about it.
>> Fred Jackson: I'm sensing maybe you've thought about this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Huh?
>> Fred Jackson: I'm sensing you've thought about it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wedding crashing one time just for fun. You don't think it'd be a good act. It'd be. Reflect poorly on it. Do you think that would reflect poorly on our ministry if I got caught up?
>> Fred Jackson: Think of the cost it would mean to you in, friendship.
>> Tim Wildmon: But how would they ever know? how does people know whether you're a member of the groom or the bride's family?
>> Fred Jackson: You would find out the last name of the groom or the bride, say, I'm a friend of George.
>> Steve Jordahl: You'd have to dress up, though. You take a little bit of effort to get, you know, you can't just see it and like walking in a hotel lobby and. Oh, there's a. You'd have to.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would dress up. Yeah, because you got to dress up to blend in.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's called. That's called forethought. That's a.
>> Tim Wildmon: So is it a form of theft if you go and eat somebody's food and you weren't invited to it? Is that a. Is that, like, fall under of the form of, ah, dishonesty.
>> Fred Jackson: Thou shalt not do inappropriate behavior.
The Queen and King of England are visiting the United States this week
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, I was looking for a little guidance. All right, what do you got? Hey, Steve, you do know the royal. The, Queen and King of England are on their way.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I know they're going to be talking to regular Americans, and I hope that whoever the Secret Service has protecting them is, up to us.
>> Tim Wildmon: What are they going to be doing here? Do you know yet?
>> Steve Jordahl: I know that they're visiting. they're focusing on what they're calling normal Americans. And I don't know. I don't have. I didn't have to take the time to look at the political background of why they're here.
>> Fred Jackson: Hey, I can. There won't be normal Americans at the state dinners.
>> Steve Jordahl: No.
>> Fred Jackson: Hey, you know, I had that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Try crashing one of those.
>> Tim Wildmon: Fred gets brutally honest here.
>> Fred Jackson: Hey, listen, listen. I had dinner with his mom, Queen Elizabeth.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell me about that. When did that happen?
>> Fred Jackson: 1984, when I was working in Canada.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: She came to visit the city where I was working, and I just happened to be one of the media people that was invited to, the dinner.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: What town?
>> Fred Jackson: Moncton, NewSong Brunswick.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: And a few months later, I don't know what happened to Moncton, NewSong Brunswick. A few months later, the Pope came.
>> Tim Wildmon: Same town, same.
>> Steve Jordahl: Was that Jon Paul ii?
>> Tim Wildmon: What are the chances of that happening?
>> Fred Jackson: Back to back. Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: That would have been JP2, right?
>> Fred Jackson: I. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But, you know, go back to the queen. I felt sorry for her. they have to test her food, and I was told they have to bring the water from England that she normally drinks because she doesn't want to get sick. When she was, she was traveling. So there's all kinds of protocol that goes with these royal visits.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's the queen now?
>> Steve Jordahl: Camilla.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah. Camilla. Why do I always want to say Deville?
>> Steve Jordahl: Camilla Deville.
>> Tim Wildmon: But it's not Camilla. Right. It's, it's, Cruella. Cruella, Yeah. I don't know why I want to say that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Character. But yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: So anyway, how they're going to be in the. The country for a couple days or three days.
>> Fred Jackson: There's two or three events, over. Yeah, I think until Thursday at least.
>> Tim Wildmon: So. All right, so we'll pay attention to what, what happens. Have they been to the White House yet? at the first, three o'
>> Fred Jackson: clock this afternoon, there is a reception at the White House. Ah, I'm sorry, Tim, you can't crash that one.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, I'm not even gonna try. You're right, Fred. I'll stay away from that one. What do you got, Steve?
James Carville is coming out against the assassination
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, okay, so we talk about, the rhetoric that's going on, and we say that there's been no Democrats that have spoken out against the political violence. I want that. Maybe I have heard the first. I'm going to let you guys decide. This is James Carville, and James Carville is coming out against the assassination. but I'm not so sure his motives are entirely pure. You tell me what you think. Cut 18.
>> Tim Wildmon: I want to be clear on this. I do not want that man to die. I want to. I want to watch him suffer. And I can't watch a dead person suffer. So I want him to be fully cognizant come November.
>> Steve Jordahl: So, so, so is that he's. He's against the assassination.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. What he suffer. By suffer, he means, getting wiped out. Political defeats in the elections in November. Yeah. Really, you know, that's fair. Listen, that's not. That's not violent.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no, I'm not saying it is, but I. I'm not sure exactly would, qualify as speaking out against political violence.
>> Tim Wildmon: But, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, James Carver. I'm surprised he's still. Yeah, yeah, he. He's as old as. He's as old as Trump. he is older, but he's kind
>> Fred Jackson: of a go to guy because even on the conservative side, like Fox will use Carville stuff quite a bit because he's discussed it with the left wing portion of his party and that it's costing them votes. Yeah, the AOCs and those individuals got to stop it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Anyway, and he's, Anyway. Go ahead, Steve. What's your next story?
Mayor Zorin Mamdani wants to build homeless shelters in New York
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, we've been telling you about the, what, they're calling a pied a terre tax in NewSong York City. This is, Mayor Zorin Mamdani. Remember, he wanted to put a tax on second homes for rich people that live in NewSong York. He wants to tax them. and he called out one specific. He called out hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin, who, paid $238 million for a penthouse in NewSong York. And he said, I'm going to come in. I'm coming after you. Well, Zoron got a message back. Ken Griffin, a CEO of Citadel, and, this is what he texted back to Zoran Mamdani. This has actually happened. We're about to commence the development of 350 Park Avenue, creating a 6,000 highly paid construction job and supporting the creation of more than 15,000 permanent jobs in midtown NewSong York. The project, if we move forward, will entail more than $6 billion of spending.
>> Tim Wildmon: How much?
>> Steve Jordahl: $6 billion.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Wow. Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, you know, NewSong York is going to pay the price. Mom Donnie has made it very clear he wants the rich to pay more. And that's why so many people are exiting. By the way, there's another Mom Donnie story out there today, and that has to do with some of the people who voted him in are now upset with him. Yeah, because he wants to open up a whole segment of NewSong York, to move the homeless in. But the people who voted for Mom Dominique live there, and they're Saying, no, you're not going to do that. We're not going to put up with that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, not in my backyard.
>> Fred Jackson: Not in my backyard. So that started.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean like homeless encampments? Something like that. Like big places, probably, or, a
>> Steve Jordahl: data center of some sort.
>> Fred Jackson: Buildings that might be available.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, I've thought about that as a good idea before, and this is me personally. If I were going to have to be, a mayor of a city and you had a homeless problem, wouldn't it be better to have a. Like a big field? You know what I'm saying? Or maybe, you know, tents or, I don't know, small shelters? I'm just saying, rather than in that way, if somebody's homeless, you take them there and drop them off. Maybe that creates more problems that it's worth. I'm just thinking about. Well, it's better than having homeless people lined up on your city streets.
>> Steve Jordahl: And what Fred is referencing is these are some of the more wealthy, affluent, leftist neighborhoods in NewSong York City that had voted for him.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: So these are the rich, white liberals that voted for Mom Donnie in astounding numbers.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, they're dumb then.
>> Steve Jordahl: And now they voted for build the homeless shelter and data centers in their neighborhood and say, oh, no, no, no, wait a minute, not us.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, that's the way socialism works usually. is. It's what's good for the. Is not good for me. So, But I, you know, you understand what I'm saying about it, about, with the homeless situation?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: If you're going to say, don't. You can't have encampments on public streets, which I would say, absolutely. In other words, police needs to come and say, get. You got to get out of here. You can't stay here. You can't set up. then. Then if you had a big place for them to go now, that might create problems because you got to police that. Right. Or. Or just become.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, you got to service it to you. I mean, you got to have.
>> Tim Wildmon: You got to have toilets or you got to have, you know, Porta Jon's or. I know, I know there's other problems that come with that. I'm just saying the, a lot of these cities now are getting serious about cleaning up because, you know, the world's coming here for the soccer tournament m. The World Cup. Did you see this? A lot of cities are trying to clean up ahead of that.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Big cities I'm talking about. Go ahead, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Have you ever heard of something Tim called surveillance pricing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Surveillance pricing. I can't say that I have. What is that?
>> Steve Jordahl: If you walked into a grocery store with me and we both bought a box of cereal and they charged you $4.50, but they charged me $3, would that be fair? This is happening.
>> Tim Wildmon: Be fair to you.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is happening, shouldn't be fair to me.
Maryland is set to ban what they're calling surveillance pricing
Maryland is set to be the first state to ban what they're calling surveillance pricing. Let me describe what this is, and I'm reading this from Fox. Surveillance pricing goes by a few names, dynamic pricing and personalized pricing. But no matter what, it's all the same thing. A store collects data on you as an individual shopper. It looks at how often you browse certain products, what neighborhood you live in, whether you're a competitor nearby, what your income and family size appear to be, your dietary habits. Then it uses all of those tools to decide how much you are specifically willing to pay for an item. They even have price tags that are digital price tags that you can see, Tim, that you can. You can put, different prices depending on who's looking at it. And they're using AI to do this.
>> Tim Wildmon: How does AI know who you are? How much money you make?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they're. They're watching. One Kroger customer in Oregon decided to find out exactly how much they were collecting on her. She submitted a data request under the state privacy law. She got back a 62 page profile of data that the grocery store was collecting on her. Most of the data was wrong, but yet they're using this to decide how much they can charge you. What's the most you're gonna pay based on who you are and where you live. This is Kroger that did it. This is major grocery stores that are doing what they're calling dynamic pricing.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we've come to this. Have we?
>> Fred Jackson: Currently, we had a discussion at our story meeting in the newsroom this morning about this. Cause I was skeptical, of the story. But I was told, you know, these gross big grocery chains now have apps for your phone m. And through that app, they can tell where you live. And if it's an affluent area, according to this story, they'll charge you more for particular items.
>> Tim Wildmon: are y' all serious? Is that really happen? Is that. Did that really happen? I didn't know. I wouldn't even know that would be legal.
>> Fred Jackson: I. I've never seen the digital pricing.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, the picture's on the third page, Tim, if you want to look at the picture.
>> Fred Jackson: I've never been to a grocery store that has digital displays of, pricing. But I. I now have no doubt that happens in certain areas.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's happening enough that Maryland wants to outlaw it.
>> Tim Wildmon: M. Wow. Okay, then.
>> Steve Jordahl: Couldn't do this before. AI there's just too much data to synthesize and to do the calculations.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right. Well, I didn't know. I didn't know that was even going on that, was even a thing. So you. Can you scan. You scanning your groceries, and they're. They're charging you based on what they would guess your income would be? Yeah, kind of like income tax.
>> Steve Jordahl: This can be very popular with Zoram Hamdani at his. Well, this. Everything's free at his grocery store. But.
>> Tim Wildmon: But, you know, it kind of surprises me that they're outlawing it in Maryland because Maryland's a very liberal state.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Seem like they would be for that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, here's the thing. The left really, believes in that the big companies, big grocery in this case, are scamming the American people, and they're here to stand between you and the scammers. So this goes right down the left's talking points of big tech or big whatever that is. Evil.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right, go ahead.
There's a discussion about what is an appropriate age to give your child a cell phone
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. there's a discussion that often goes, on among families about what is an appropriate age to give your child a cell phone. And, some people say, you know, that it's young, some people wait until it's older. But I came across a commercial. This is from a group called the Parenthood Insider, which is almost exclusively social media. They don't have a website, but they do have a big social media presence. And they put out this commercial. I want you to listen to it. It puts this in a term that I hadn't ever thought of before, but I think it's a pretty interesting take. Cut 17.
>> Fred Jackson: Hey, kiddo, it's about time for bed. Okay? Okay, well, remember, there's a box in the corner over there with all the pornographic material that's ever been made in the world. Even the really weird stuff that could scar you for life. I'm trusting you not to look in there. Okay? Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Feelings are for losers.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, and this guy's gonna be in your corner all night just randomly spewing out hateful things. Just ignore them. Okay. While I'm thinking of it, there's an order form on your desk where you can purchase illegal drugs. The mean girls from your school are going to be standing there talking about you all night, and this Russian hacker is going to keep asking for your Password. I'm not hacker. Amazon customer service. Just need you to ignore him. Okay? Love you, buddy. We ask too much of our kids when we give them a smartphone. Let's change the norm together. Maybe we go around the room and share Social Security numbers.
>> Steve Jordahl: You ever thought about that?
>> Tim Wildmon: It's a scary world out there online for. For. For adults, but, but for kids, you, It's even scarier if you don't. You can't let them just have unfiltered acts. And most parents don't. Yeah, most parents are conscientious of this. You can't let kids just.
>> Steve Jordahl: But it is like putting a box of pornography in their room or.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that was a great point that the man, was making to his son. He was saying if you give him a phone, smartphone, and you don't monitor it or you don't filter it, then it's like just saying, here's a pornography. Here's the hate. Here's the bullying. All this stuff. You're. You're.
>> Fred Jackson: You're.
>> Steve Jordahl: You're on your own.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're on your own. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: And. And there are some moves now. There are court cases that have been going on lately that are holding the platforms accountable for the material that they allow on their platforms. So there's. There's finally getting some reaction. Court cases, quite often it takes a platform being taken to court, because of what they're exposing children to. And then there's jurisdictions now that are looking at certain ages. You know, they're not allowed to have a cell phone, which I think is very wise.
>> Tim Wildmon: A lot of schools are moving away from allowing phones, during school hours.
>> Fred Jackson: During school hours? Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You turn them in.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: You either don't bring them at all. Leave them in your car. If you're a teenager or if you're younger, you either leave them in your backpack or turn them into school. Yep. But you can't have. You can't use your cell phones during school hours. Makes sense to me.
>> Fred Jackson: It is.
Sebastian Sawi of Kenya breaks world marathon record
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, we got about three minutes left. What kind of good news you got there?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, congratulations to, Sebastian Sawi of Kenya.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, what did Sebastian do?
>> Steve Jordahl: He has set the world record for the marathon. The first marathon run in under two hours. 26 miles in an hour and 59 minutes and 30 seconds.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where did he do this?
>> Steve Jordahl: This is the London Marathon over the weekend. And by the way, I'd hate to be the guy that came in second. His name was Yomfi Kajeka. he's from Ethiopia. He also broke the two hour barrier. But he came in second. No one will remember his name. He ran it in 11 seconds. left. So he ran it in an hour. 59, 19.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey mom, guess what? I broke a world record, but no one finished second. Wow. You finished second. You remember how long I beat me.
>> Steve Jordahl: Do you remember how long it took him to get the 4 minute mile? Remember the That was like a quest forever. This is an average 4 minute mile for 26 miles.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's that's not even human.
>> Steve Jordahl: It shouldn't be humanly possible.
>> Tim Wildmon: But those African runners, they, they, they dominate marathons, don't they?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. And have for years I've, I've had
>> Fred Jackson: friends that are long distance runners. They, if they figure out there's an Ethiopian in the race.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Not even going to try.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's going to win second. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: They're so good.
>> Tim Wildmon: And usually there's multiple in that runs.
>> Steve Jordahl: That podium was Sebastian Saui, a Kenyan first, Ethiopia's Yomov Kachecki. in second and third was Uganda's Jacob Kiplemo.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, there's no Bill Smith's no come in. Finish in the top in the marathons, are there?
>> Steve Jordahl: I think there needs to be some equity.
Alex McFarland will be on American Flight Family Radio this afternoon
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, all right. we. I wanted to remind folks, you know, Dr. Alex McFarland will be on this afternoon. You heard Alex earlier talking to us with Bert Harper. They'll be doing exploring the word from 3 to 4 o' clock Central Time right here on American Flight Family Radio and all our shows here on AFR throughout the day. We hope you will stay with us. We hope you have a good Monday and we'll see you back here. My thanks to Fred, Steve, Krish, Alex, Brent, our producer and Cole, our video man. Is that it?
>> Fred Jackson: I just heard from Ev Itagliano.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh no.
>> Fred Jackson: He heard my comment about us for
>> Tim Wildmon: his hockey team getting smashed.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey Ed. How you doing, buddy?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, all right. no love lost between hockey competitors. Doesn't matter if they're Christian brothers or not. All right, we'll see you back here tomorrow, everybody.
