Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Fred Jackson: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your
>> Steve Jordahl: 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. That's the name of this show here on AFR. We'll be here for another 24 and a half minutes. Tim at, Well, Ed's not with us today. Tony the Tagliano is close enough. Tony's filling in for his old man today. Yeah. And what now? Ed's Proxy sound like a Broadway show or something.
Fred Jackson: Fewer people out in California are leaving politics
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Edge Proxy. Fred Jackson. Here with us, our resident Canadian American and our, resident Californian American is, Steve Paisley Jordan, which is almost
>> Steve Jordahl: like, another country, foreign country. Right, Exactly.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know, right? We've said there's a lot of great folks out in California, but they're.
>> Tony Vitagliano: They're.
>> Steve Jordahl: They're less. Fewer of them now than there were like, a year or two ago.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're all leaving, but their politics is, well, there's a reason they're on the left coast, let's put it that way.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. all right, again, thanks for joining us, everybody. Steve, what is your first news story?
Jimmy gave me this tie lap at choir practice last night
>> Steve Jordahl: I want to go back to this. Can I just do a shout out first of all, to Jimmy, who gave me this tie lap at choir practice, and I said I'd wear it today. oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: For those watching on the Internet, Steve is donning. I said donning. A new tie.
>> Steve Jordahl: Paisley tie.
>> Tim Wildmon: A, paisley tie.
>> Steve Jordahl: Jimmy was cleaning it out his closet, yesterday, brought this to me last night at choir practice and asked me to wear it. So here I am.
>> Tim Wildmon: Here you are.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Here's to Jimmy.
>> Steve Jordahl: Really good. Steve goes well with this shirt, too.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think those who watch the show on the Internet, on YouTube, Facebook, or our own streaming service, Steve has got the paisley towel.
>> Steve Jordahl: He does.
General Kane: Our press are just like the Pharisees today
All right, I want to go back to this morning's press conference with Pete, Hegson, Hexeth, and, Raisin Cain. because, that's a song he sings or something. That's. General Kane is a joint chief chairman.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, is that what they call him? Raisin Cain.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's what he calls. That's what his name is. Raisin Cain. Dan Cain, I believe.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got you. Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: anyway, Pete Hegseth was talking, and he, referenced. He had something to say to Iran. You better make wise decisions. And then he had something to say to the American press. Okay, so, to the American press. He was talking. He said, I was listening to a sermon that my pastor was giving on Sunday and he was talking about the Pharisees. And it struck me that there's an awful lot of similarity between the Pharisees in the Bible Times and the press today. And this, is what he had to say about that. This is cut nine.
>> Steve Hilton: Our press are just like these Pharisees. Not all of you. Not all of you, but the legacy Trump hating press. Your politically motivated animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors. The Pharisees scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation, only looking for the negative. The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn. I would ask you to open your eyes to the goodness, the historic success of our troops, the courage of this president, and this historic moment for a deal that could end the Iranian nuclear threat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let's all join hands. Can we join hands with somebody, ladies in Kumbaya.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Oh, goodness.
>> Tim Wildmon: that's Pete Hexith. He was going off on the Pharisees in the media. That's what he was calling them, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, they were legalistic with, Christ criticizing, did he heal on the Sabbath or not? the healing wasn't the point.
>> Tim Wildmon: I get a little uncomfortable sometimes with all these uses of biblical analogies. on. Is anybody. Anybody know what I'm trying to say?
>> Tony Vitagliano: I'm with you. I had, I had the same feeling. it's just in, in light of recent events, the Holy Scriptures.
>> Tim Wildmon: It is the only scriptures in the story of God. And Jesus is. Okay. Is divine.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yes.
Fred Thompson: Pete Hexith has done an excellent job as Secretary of War
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. So, I don't, I'm not trying to criticize Pete Hexith, who I think has done an excellent job as Secretary of War. By the way. When did that switch used to Secretary of Defense?
>> Fred Jackson: That was last year when he came here. When he was named.
>> Tim Wildmon: He changed it. Anyway, so, anyway, I'm not. His job performance, I think, has been very good, served the president well, and he's a very good spokesperson. But I'm just saying.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, look, I, I think biblical examples should be used for spiritual matters.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tony Vitagliano: That's. That's kind of my view. I'm with you on the same feeling. It's uncomfortable when you start bringing in biblical, examples and trying to fit them into what is essentially a worldly, secular matter. Right. The way the media treats a certain individual in regards. Has nothing to do with their beliefs. in regards to their policies and, and what they don't like about them. As a person or their political affiliation. those two should not be intertwined. I don't know, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: Now, to his point, I agree with your points that you're making, but to his larger point this morning, with regards to how the media is covering this war, I see examples of what he's talking about every day.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: For instance, the videos that the Associated Press puts out.
>> Fred Jackson: They go to where an Israeli missile has hit an apartment where Hezbollah was hanging out. And the angle that the Associated Press does looks civilians. Israel killed civilians, innocent civilians, without adding the context that Hezbollah terrorists took their missile launchers to that apartment building, to that clinic, et cetera. They're doing the same thing in Iran. They tell from the perspective, yes, there's innocent people being killed, but the reason they are dying is not because of America aiming at those individuals. It's because of the terrorists and the bad guys putting their bad people in those situations, just like Hamas did in Gaza.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: And that's the point that's being raised. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If today's flock of mainstream media were covering World War II, they would be sympathizing with the Nazis.
>> Tony Vitagliano: That's pretty accurate.
>> Fred Jackson: They would be. And that's. To me, as a journalist for 50 years, it's a scandal. What's going on with the media coverage today.
>> Tony Vitagliano: I agree with that.
President Trump posted picture of Jesus Christ giving him a hug on Twitter
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. And today's Jesus Trump picture, is. Trump releases a picture of, Jesus giving him. Giving him a hug.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Oh, is that. Is that just. Did that just come out?
>> Tim Wildmon: I think it was, yeah. This morning or last night. And it's. Did you see this?
>> Steve Jordahl: I have. I saw it briefly. Iran put out a video, AI. Video of Jesus coming down and grabbing Trump and throwing him into hell. Going on Trump.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. It's pretty innocent.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: you know, for those who don't know, everybody pretty much heard about it. You know, Trump last. When was it? A few days ago. Released m. A picture of him as Jesus Christ. and he said it wasn't. Everybody else thought it was almost everybody else. Right. Wriley Gaines, you know, said he shouldn't do this. Wrong. And then he said, I don't like Wriley Gaines anymore.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: and, you saw that too, right?
>> Tony Vitagliano: I saw that. Yes, I did.
>> Tim Wildmon: So then, so now he's posted a picture that is, that says innocent.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Embracing, basically Of Jesus. Again, I'm uncomfortable with this anyway, but it's a picture of Jesus Christ hugging Donald Trump, right?
>> Tony Vitagliano: Trump looks to be, in. In prayer or something. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You think?
>> Tony Vitagliano: I don't know. His eyes are closed.
>> Tim Wildmon: Made a bogey, I think. But, anyway, just bad joke. Anyway, but, President Trump posted this picture today of him and Jesus. and Jesus has given him.
>> Steve Jordahl: So this is the video. I'll show this to you, Tim, and you can tell if you want to put this. But this is the video that Iran released. It starts with the picture that Trump put up of himself that everybody thought was Jesus, but this is what Iran did to it. You can see there Jesus. Actual Jesus coming down, grabbing Trump and throwing him into the pit. So that was Iran's answer to, to the Trump.
>> Tony Vitagliano: You know what? Maybe everybody should just. No, everybody should just chill on making pictures, videos for a little bit. I think I'm going to take that approach. Maybe we should just. Everybody should just pull back.
>> Tim Wildmon: Including Trump?
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, including Trump. Well, he didn't like you posting.
>> Tim Wildmon: he never liked you. Well, you know that, right? He just said, yeah, never like Tony.
>> Tony Vitagliano: It's a, overall generation.
>> Tim Wildmon: I never was a fan of Tony, you know.
>> Tony Vitagliano: You know, anyways, I'll just leave it at that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, just leave it at that.
>> Tony Vitagliano: So I'm on here just one day this week.
>> Tim Wildmon: I only mentioned it because I wasn't going to bring it back up, but I only mentioned it because Trump was the one who either a few hours ago or last night, decided to release another picture, but this time it was a depiction of Jesus Christ putting his arms around President, Trump. And President Trump's eyes are closed. Yeah. So, there you go. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. next story.
California Supreme Court disbarred Trump attorney John Eastman yesterday
>> Steve Jordahl: Steve, the California Supreme Court yesterday.
>> Tim Wildmon: We've already had enough California talk today. You got another story?
>> Steve Jordahl: I do.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, move on. This is nothing personal.
>> Steve Jordahl: I get it.
>> Tim Wildmon: I love you, Steve, and Steve's a great reporter for us. but, All right, go ahead and mention it.
>> Steve Jordahl: You want me to?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, go ahead. I'm just going to check the weather.
>> Steve Jordahl: The California Supreme Court disbarred Trump attorney John Eastman yesterday. They disbarred him because he represented the president during the January 20th, during the 2026. I'm sorry, the 2024 presidential election investigation. He was Trump's lawyer, so he brought up the stuff. He asserted that there may be some shenanigans in Atlanta or Arizona, and that's what his Job was to do was to represent President Trump' California Supreme Court thought that that was a mortal sin. And they have disbarred John Eastman, who was a, he, was a clerk of one of the Supreme Court justices. Yeah. So they are still on the, war path, against Trump attorney. They're not letting this thing go. California Supreme Court.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Well, if you are, maybe this is a question for another attorney, but if you're disbarred, in a specific state, are you still allowed to practice law?
>> Tim Wildmon: You got to order a sprite.
>> Steve Jordahl: Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: Huh? Oh, you're talking about a, legal bar. You were kicked out of the bar. You see where I was going with that?
>> Tony Vitagliano: I see, I see where you're going with that. Are you allowed to practice law in other states or is he just.
>> Steve Jordahl: I think you can.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, it's just isolated to California.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, California attorneys are, have to get
>> Tim Wildmon: their licenses in whatever state they're going to practice in. And one doesn't affect the other, as far as I understand.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: I believe that's correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, go ahead, Steve.
Three upstate New York students arrested in alleged school shooting plot
Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, the, sheriff's deputies in NewSong York have arrested, three teens, a 13 year old boy, a 13 year old girl and a 14 year old girl because they were threatening to go into their school and do a school shooting. they obviously do not name the children, but three upstate NewSong York students were arrested in an alleged school shooting plot, with one accused of writing that no one would be spared. In a detailed plan to bring the violence of Columbine and Sandy Hook to their middle school, she wrote, everyone in their pathetic little lives will be gone. I want to be remembered in the worst, most disturbing way possible. Authorities were called to Clinton middle school on April 11 after discovering that the three students plan to carry out the copycat shooting on April 17 in the school cafeteria.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Man, we just, we need to keep praying for our nation and especially our young people, this generation coming up. I'm just, you know, I know, I know for every story we hear about this, there are ones we don't hear about how the Lord is working. and, and, you know, we, there are, there are good stories out there, folks, but, you know, they just
>> Tim Wildmon: can't seem to find them.
>> Tony Vitagliano: It's harder, it's much harder to, there's just a lot of darkness, true, but there's just a lot of darkness. And, and we just need to continue praying, for the Lord to, to do work in the hearts and minds, especially of young people, because they're the ones who are, They're going to be taking over things, when we're gone.
New Gallup poll shows more young men say religion is very important
>> Fred Jackson: Fred well, we've got Steve working on a positive story right now. It has to do with a Gallup poll that came out this morning. Yeah, the headline is new poll shows Religious Revival among Young men. new Gallup poll release today shows more young men in the US Say religion is very important in their lives compared to young women. The first time young men have surpassed young women on this measure of religiosity going back 25 years.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Wow.
>> Fred Jackson: Kind of interesting.
>> Tony Vitagliano: That is, that is encouraging.
>> Fred Jackson: It is.
>> Tony Vitagliano: what do you think might be behind that, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, according to some of the analysts in this story, and you'll find [email protected] is because, you know, they, they feel that young men have been left behind by society. and the story says, particularly young white men are kind of being declassified in all the various categories or being blamed for all the problems that are going on in the nation. And they're turning to the Lord. They're turning to God. and so that's kind of interesting. The flip side, according to this story, is that, more young women who say they may be Christian, but, are sympathetic to homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. So it's kind of interesting what's going on out there, the dynamics that are changing.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, I think, I agree with you. I think young men are being drawn to. I call it being drawn to dogma. They want to be drawn to, to. To something that is, stable. And the church, which is, you know, follows, God's Word, which we all know is eternal and unchanging and stable. That is, that's. I think a lot of that is driving that, that move towards the church, and back to the Lord is because society continues to flip. Everything, all the social mores, all the social constructs that, you know, is the bedrock of a functioning, healthy society are being flipped on their head. So they're watching everything being eroded before their eyes. And, when you get to that point, you start to look for something that is stable and unchanging. And that's when the church can step up and say, well, here, let me. Here's the word of God. Here's what God says about, how societies should work, how we should behave, how we should live. and they're finding comfort in that, obviously, to the polls.
>> Steve Jordahl: There was a story that was, last year sometime an, opinion columnist, had made the observation that Wokeness was feminism on steroids. Basically, if all the woke, things putting feelings above facts, don't want to offend anybody. You have to use their pronouns, you have to include them. The whole equity thing. These are all this columnist argued, feminine traits, that women ah, tend to be more sympathetic towards inclusion, and all that kind of stuff as opposed to the toxic masculinity that they were complaining about. This kind of tracks with that. These young men aren't buying into the wokeness, but the women in this poll seem to be. So I think it's another kind of data point that supports that theory that woke is nothing but feminism on steroids.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you're on your own on that one, Steve. Ladies and gentlemen, send our ladies. Send your comments to [email protected] I'll
>> Steve Jordahl: take them because it's not a knock on women, no God designed women and men with different character traits and the female character traits are definitely godly and needed. But if you take the male point out of society, if you take the warrior out of society, you take the protector, then you're going to end up with a society that doesn't protect, that basically what you had.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah.
Los Angeles passed a $30 an hour minimum wage for its hotel workers
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, all right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Got about five minutes. Theft.
>> Steve Jordahl: Let's talk about the you know, the
>> Tim Wildmon: We can play music.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no, no, no. I got, I gotta, I got a story. The Olympics and the World cup are coming to, America. And Los Angeles is going to be hosting both of those things. The Olympics in 2028 and the World cup in 2026. And hotel owners there, people in the support industry there are saying you're in trouble, Los Angeles, because Los angeles passed a $30 an hour minimum wage for its hotel workers.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now that's supposed to go into effect gradually.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is. But the ultimate $30 is going to be hit right about the time that the Olympics are going to be hitting. And what they're saying is it's going to have, people are going to have a hard time. We're getting a whole influx of people from around the world to Los Angeles and there aren't going to be any hotel workers or hotels open. Hotels can't afford to stay open. If they have to pay everybody $30 an hour, where are they going to put everybody?
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, I don't know. You know, if you make your reservation,
>> Tim Wildmon: maybe they can though. Maybe they can pay them $30 an hour.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Well, if you ask, if you ask, the mayor of Los Angeles, you know, listen, I'm Got to tax rich people more.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead with your, thoughts.
>> Tony Vitagliano: No, I, I don't know, you know, I mean, if you make your reservation, this is me just kind of throwing this out there. If you make your reservation for 20. Spitballing. Yeah, thank you. I'm just spitballing here. Yeah. If you make a reservation for, you know, at Holiday, inn Express in 2028, I, mean, does the hotel just call you back in 2028 and say, look, if the hotel. You paid this much, we need you to pay more. I don't know. This is.
>> Steve Jordahl: Or the hotel calls up and say, we're closing our la, our LA hotel. You're gonna have to find different arrangements.
>> Fred Jackson: Ah, I think it's just more of the California thinking.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is.
>> Fred Jackson: It's the $20 minimum wage. Remember the restaurants were saying, you want us to pay $20 to these people? Where are we going to get the money? Well, the only way is to up the price of a hamburger.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. The only way this stops is if the consumer, the customer, the tourists to California say, I'm not going there. I can't pay that anymore.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And that's not happened so far. It doesn't appear now people are leaving California as residents. That's been widely reported because of their, the cost of living and the taxation and, businesses too. Yeah, businesses too. Because the, crazy liberal politics, especially as it impacts businesses.
>> Steve Jordahl: But, this was, a boon from the mayor of LA to the American Hotel and Lodging Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: What it's being reported as? Yeah, a union.
The NFL Referees association is looking for a new labor deal
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we got, we got a minute left. You got, you got anything?
>> Steve Jordahl: Nothing. Oh, well, we could talk about the possible strike in the NFL referee Strike.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, referee is going to strike.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, yes, the, the NFL Referees association is looking for a new labor deal with the league and they are saying if they don't reach something by June 1st, they're going to strike. And so the NFL is already bringing in, and starting to train replacement referees for the start of the season. I guess August about, is when preseason starts. Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, you got replacement referees in the NFL?
>> Tony Vitagliano: You may have, you know, the replacement referees, they, they. Part of their training coming in is, is they will be training to accept, bribes from the Kansas City Chiefs. Part of their, part of their training.
>> Steve Jordahl: You got to know where to put them on.
>> Tony Vitagliano: They extend their. All right, now extend your hand. Take the broad. extend your hand, take the bribe. Patrick Mahomes is tackled.
>> Tim Wildmon: Tony's.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Throw the flag. Throw the flag. Look, I'm sorry. I was trying to help.
>> Steve Jordahl: Have they hired you? Tony?
>> Tim Wildmon: Maybe.
>> Tony Vitagliano: I didn't.
>> Steve Jordahl: You didn't. I didn't know.
>> Fred Jackson: It, sounded like his dad.
>> Tim Wildmon: The NFL. I, don't know if I'd be striking if I were the refs because it won't be long till they have AI, refereeing games you won't even need.
>> Steve Jordahl: Kind of like they're doing a baseball, huh? Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I'm just saying that could. That's, that's not anything being talked about right now, but. Well, I hope they get it worked out between the referees. They gotta have referees.
>> Fred Jackson: But they do.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you, you don't want, you don't want replacement referees in the NFL. It's, you know, you don't want second rate referees. Right? Am I right?
>> Tony Vitagliano: I'm right. I'm with you there.
>> Tim Wildmon: You don't want a second fiddle referee. All right, Steve, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for all your news stories, half hour.
>> Steve Jordahl: You're very welcome.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's been a real blessing. And I'll think about them all day long.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay? Please don't.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thanks to Tony. Tony, Fred, Krish, Brent and Cole. See you tomorrow, everybo.
