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Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman

>> Ed Vitagliano: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back. Welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed Wesley in the studio here. We thank you for listening. We got 24 and a half more minutes of the show left. Here joining us, is Steve Paisley, Draw Dog. Good morning, Brother Steve.

>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.

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>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so we wanted to mention real quickly, too, again, that if you listen to AFR and your life has been impacted, we want to know about it because we want to play your testimony on the radio during our AFR shareathon coming up in three weeks or so. So, here's what you need to do. You call them the number I'm about to give you say, okay, this is so and so. And my name is Sam. I'm from, you know, I don't know, Greenville, Texas. And here's how. Thank you for letting me share or whatever. And then you share how AFR has impacted your life. Obviously, it's the Lord Jesus Christ that's had the ultimate impact on your life. But how has he used afr, right, to, as a vehicle for reaching you for the Lord. That's what we're asking you to do. So a minute or two short story, we, we'd love to hear from you across the country so that we can play those again. You don't have to give your last name. You can if you want to, but all you do is say your first name and what town you live in or what station you listen to. So if you got a story like that, we'd love to have that and play that. here's the phone number to leave your recording. 8778-7688-9387-7876-8893 is the phone number. Hey, we got some great news. Talk about that, Steve.

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, I'm just reading this. You, know Pixar. Pixar is the animation, studio that, would brought you hits like, Elio, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong. If, you know, maybe, someone with younger children, Wesley, in, here might know. But were they frozen? was that a Pixar?

>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm not sure if it was. Is Pixar. Is that not also, Disney, that

>> Steve Jordahl: one of the same.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Pixar, Pixar, Disney are the same company, right?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I think they, I think they bought Pixar. Pixar was originally in an independent film studio and Disney bought them. So they are a subsidiary of Walt Disney.

>> Tim Wildmon: But did they. Are they responsible for Frozen? Pixar. I'm talking about that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm going to look that up.

>> Tim Wildmon: Guys don't know your movie company.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I think that's a Disney. I think that's a Disney film. It was produced. It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. So you're going to get animated films by Disney and the subsidiary Pixar, because Pixar is kind of unique and people like, their animation. So Frozen was a. Was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

>> Tim Wildmon: Are you ready to let it go? Can we move on?

>> Ed Vitagliano: I am ready to let it go.

>> Steve Jordahl: Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. Finding Nemo, the Incredibles.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's Pixar.

>> Steve Jordahl: These are all Pixel toys, All the Toy Stories. so, yeah, these are all Pixar.

>> Tim Wildmon: Those are Disney, so.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, Disney bought.

>> Tim Wildmon: You already told us that. Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And. And so that. Just like they bought the Star wars franchise.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And bought it after it was Marvel. Yeah.

>> Steve Jordahl: well, they knew.

There is news regarding Pixar that they have decided to scale back LGBTQ content

>> Wesley Wildmon: Point.

>> Tim Wildmon: The new point. I'm sorry, you know, we're talking over each other here, and I try not to do that. Have you noticed? What were you going to say, Wesley?

>> Wesley Wildmon: I was going to say that I think that Steve has a point to this story that we need to let him get.

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, I was just going to say there is news regarding Pixar, and that is that they have decided to scale back on the LGBTQ content. This is their chief creative officer. His name is Peter Dr. D O C T E R. And this is what he said about, a movie, Elio, which they kind of, de gay. They took the gay out of this character.

>> Tim Wildmon: De gayed it.

>> Steve Jordahl: That's what they did. He says he didn't want to force parents to have conversations they weren't ready for. He said, we're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy. And I think the.

>> Tim Wildmon: You ready to be canceled?

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, a couple paragraphs down, I think, is where they buried the lead. Ilio opened to record low numbers for Pixar, debuting at $20.8 million domestically and $14 million overseas. At the time, it was the first original film falling into Elemental, which was its previous low.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That was a Marvel movie, right? Is it or Elemental? Element.

>> Steve Jordahl: Elemental was, the. It's another animated.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, okay. All right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So what we got here. The point is, you have, this guy's. He's at the very top, right?

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Creative director. As time goes on, he says, I realized my job is to make sure that films appeal to everybody.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so you got this guy, and he's saying, listen, these. These lgbt, Shoehorn and these LGBT characters and storylines into children's animated movies is a disaster. And it. We're not here for financial disasters. We're here to make money and to entertain people. And so we're not. We're not doing this anymore. That's what he's saying right there. And, he also. You had the. The. These woke movies, especially kids movies. They're. They're bombing. Okay, you got that Snow White movie that came out last year. Wasn't, again, a Disney remake? I'm like, at some point, I'm going like, can when I come up with some original stories here.

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they did.

>> Ed Vitagliano: They did live action versions of almost all the animation.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but. But this was. It was a disaster. You had this actress playing Snow White that was not white.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, now, if she despised the original Snow White.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: She did. She didn't think that the prince should kiss her. And Snow White.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. She also was very political against Israel.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, and was very outspoken. And I'm going, like, if you're a movie studio, you tell your actors and actresses, listen, you keep your mouth shut about politics while we're doing the show and the movie is out. You want to come back a year later and whatever. But. But we're trying to. We're trying to get people to come to the movie.

>> Ed Vitagliano: All people want all people to come.

>> Tim Wildmon: Like Micah Jordan used to say. They said, well, aren't you going to criticize President Bush?

>> Steve Jordahl: Bush, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: He said, no, M. That's not my job. My job is to Republicans buy tennis shoes to write the Nike Air Jordan Brown. So here you have a, situation where this fella. I don't know how much criticism he'll take, but he's. He's saying that we're not going to push the lgbtq, agenda in our movies. Our animated movies for kids. That's not why we're here. That's what he's saying. So good for him.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and look here. Here's. By the way, it was. Eternals was the Marvel movie I was thinking about, rather than the. What did you.

>> Steve Jordahl: Elemental.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Elemental. So I got those confused, which I do more and more the older I get.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, you got the Eternals. The, what?

Tim Ferriss: I think Pixar bombed because people tuned out

The Evolutionist and what?

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, the Eternals and Elementals animated kids show.

>> Steve Jordahl: And the Eleph and elephants.

>> Tim Wildmon: They're in kids shows.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Elephants are.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, go ahead.

>> Steve Jordahl: That's Dumbo.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You're Gonna say, you guys done? You guys?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, whatever it is that was. We apologize.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay. all I was going to add to this is that I think the reason even Elio bombed was because people had begun tuning out to anything produced by Pixar. They just beget because this happened to the Marvel universe and it happened to the Star wars universe. Because I, I read comments, I'm not a Star wars fan, but I read comments on these movies to kind of gauge where viewers and fans are. And the same thing with the Marvel movies. I know, Tim, this is going to be right down my alley. But after Avengers Endgame, their movies, Marvel movies began to tank because they started, they started going woke and people don't see superhero movies for that reason. They don't want to be lectured and they don't want to be told they're wrong or they're this or they're that and they stop. They started ignoring the brand. And that I think is what Pete Docter with Pixar, the creative chief, is trying to recapture. He wants people, especially parents who fork over the money to take kids to the movie, to stream the movies, to buy the merchandise, to trust Pixar again, not to preach at their kids, especially with these controversial issues. Listen, this story, I'm looking at a story from the Guardian. Ah, the Guardian. There's a, half dozen movies where they knowingly put LGBTQ themes and characters into their movies and parents just started bowing out and they may never get these people back. Star wars may be a damaged franchise forever because of what Disney has done to it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, especially for your animated movies that are designed for say under 10 or under 12 year old children. And Star wars may be a little bit older demographic, that's their target audience, a little bit more mature. But you deal with children. Even liberal parents don't like this fellow said this Pixar and he's not a conservative, I doubt he is. But he, this Pixar, he's a capitalist. Yeah, but even he is saying, he said, parents don't want to have. Parents of children don't want to have, have to have conversations about sexuality when they leave the movie theater. Right, right. And that. So we're not putting that in there anymore. That's what he's saying and good for him. And that's an economic reality.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I just want to toss one other thing and then with Wesley wants to jump in here, jump in, we'll let him. But back when I used to do a lot more media, I'm talking about back in the early 2000s. And I would debate with homosexual activists on this talk show or that talk show. And I. And here was my mic drop moment where I could always expose their hypocrisy. Okay. When I would complain about shows with LGBTQ themes, they would say, listen, parents are the ones who should determine what they tell their kids. We're just bringing up the conversation so parents can have those conversations with their kids. And I would always say, so you'd be fine. We're talking about Disney. You'd be fine with a Disney show preaching Christianity to little kids so that parents can have that conversation with their kids. Right. You think that's okay? And they would always say, no, of course not. And I said, well, guess what? Parents don't want Disney forcing a conversation about homosexuality.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And. And they had no response because everyone knew what they were doing. They were evangelizing children.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right? That's right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And circumventing the parents.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. Wesley, go ahead.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Amen.

>> Tim Wildmon: Amen, brother.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Amen. I hadn't been on the show in a couple of days.

There's a handful of cultural issues that have taken such a hard turn

>> Wesley Wildmon: Another, another, point that I wanted to, remind us of or emphasize on this topic is. And that's it. You go back 10 or 15 years ago, there was really no site that for the most part the church at that point had been hijacked on this issue. They were very empathetic, soft on this issue from a cultural standpoint, meaning, especially policy related standpoint. And there was no sight at the end of the tunnel on this issue. In fact, this one, wokeism. There's a handful of cultural issues that have taken such a hard turn, they were gradually shifting away in the last few years. But when President Trump got reelected for the second time in 2024, we have had such, from a policy standpoint, 180s on a lot of far left issues, to the point where his election also is now impacting companies to make better choices. and so I just think it's important for us to take a moment just to say that this is a good thing. When there were. There was a period in our history where you couldn't.

>> Tim Wildmon: We were losing.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We were losing, losing every day, losing every day. And every day was bad news because it was one more kid being, drugged to a drag queen story hour with no hope. So the 180 that seeing here does is. I don't think it gets the. And all that goes on. I just. We got to remember Galatians 6, where we don't grow weary and doing good because in due time, you'll reap if you don't give up. And we're seeing a lot more victories and wins than I think we realize until we get another Democrat in office.

>> Tim Wildmon: Also, I think these LGBTQ activists and these secular progressives, they went too far, too fast.

>> Wesley Wildmon: This exactly right.

>> Tim Wildmon: And the general public rejected that. That's what we're seeing reflected. the general public is against boys playing women's sports Just because you call yourself a girl. that's a big loser issue for the Democrats. I don't know if they're going to fight for that. They can.

>> Ed Vitagliano: They will to fight for that.

>> Tim Wildmon: But I'm saying the issues like that, people go, no, that's going too far. That's going too far. You're listening to today's Issues, otherwise called AD Unleash here on American Family Radio. We keep that off the air for three or four days, and then we just bring him on and give him a couple. Couple of Diet Cokes and let him go.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I will say this. My wife is making a big crock pot full of marinara sauce.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's what I'm talking about.

>> Steve Jordahl: So what time we going to get over?

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, I'm not sharing it with anybody. I'm not even letting my wife have any. So I'm pretty, pretty psyched today. I'm going to be in a good mood all day.

>> Tim Wildmon: A big marinara. Marinara sauce to put on the spaghetti, I guess.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, rigatoma. Rigatoni guy.

>> Tim Wildmon: Sure.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I will eat spaghetti.

>> Steve Jordahl: This is homemade, too, right?

>> Ed Vitagliano: It's homemade.

>> Steve Jordahl: You would not do.

>> Ed Vitagliano: This is not jarred.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's not jarred sauce I'm talking about.

Ed: President Trump went to war with Iran because Savannah Guthrie was out

All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Steve, what is your next story?

>> Steve Jordahl: You may think. I may think that we went to war, with Iran because they are a malevolent force in the world and that they've been, sponsoring terror around the world, that they are threatening nuclear disaster. that there's a hundred reasons why. You may think that we went to war with Iran, but you would be wrong, according to. Because, well, obviously, Ed, we went to war with Iran. President Trump wanted to distract us from the Guthrie case, apparently, according to Whoopi Goldberg, cut 17.

>> Whoopi Goldberg: You're right. Every day is something new. And it's. You know, I was thinking about it yesterday because I thought, well, okay, why haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there and her mother? Why haven't we not been talk. Why have we not been talking about the Epstein files? Because that's still there. This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.

>> Wesley Wildmon: It's a very ragged dog feeling.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: So the worst part about that is the part where she said, I've been thinking. Because that means that she was actually.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, listen, how do I say this?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Be careful.

>> Tim Wildmon: Those. Those people in the View are idiots.

>> Ed Vitagliano: There is one conservative on there, I think.

>> Tim Wildmon: No, well, in name only.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Joseph Farah's daughter. What's her name? she's out.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's part of the show.

>> Tim Wildmon: listen, I'm talking about. Can we just. Just being objective. Just stand back and listen to what they say. I can't believe they have any viewers at all because this is idiocy. You may say I'm against the war, but to say President Trump went to war with Iran because Savannah Guthrie's out of the news. I mean, cover up for the Savannah Guthrie. What.

>> Ed Vitagliano: What is Nancy Guthrie and the Epstein

>> Tim Wildmon: to get an Epstein. What. What is Epstein. What are you saying there? I mean, I don't. You take it. You helping out Bill Clinton there. Yes.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: You take Epstein story off the news. Am I right?

>> Wesley Wildmon: You're right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, listen, I do want to disappoint you though here. I do do want to disappoint.

>> Tim Wildmon: That was Whoopi Goldberg. right.

>> Steve Jordahl: That was Whoopi Goldberg.

>> Tim Wildmon: Goldberg.

The View averaged 2.6 million total viewers in December

>> Ed Vitagliano: so I typed in the. Of the View.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, tell me.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So, the View had a strong performance in early 2026, his viewership reaching notable highs.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: For the week. this is in December. The show averaged 2.6 million total viewers, marking a multi month high. The. This performance placed the View at ranked number seven among daytime broadcast shows with strong gains.

>> Tim Wildmon: There's no hope for America.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I mean, if that's the case, to flip flop. Encourage you.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, encourage me.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It's not even 3 million viewers in a country of 330 million.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's true.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So it's do. It's relative. These numbers are relative.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Much higher than cnn. I'm guessing pro.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It's.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, you're right. They get a lot of attention because they're all liberals and they're provocative. And they're provocative and they're deep thinkers. That's why you get. You get an intellectual breakdown. Like what will be Goldberg?

>> Ed Vitagliano: That was Bozoville.

>> Steve Jordahl: I have just figured out. So Tucker Carlsen's getting his material from the View from The View, huh? No doubt.

>> Tim Wildmon: Don't make me sad.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That makes me sad.

>> Tim Wildmon: What's happened to Tucker? I don't know.

Joy Bear says President Trump had something to do with disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

Anyway, all right, you're listening to Today's Issues. That, That's the only clip from the View. We're. That was it. Oh, that was so bad.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That was terrible.

>> Tim Wildmon: Huh? She thinks Whoopi Goldberg and there. And. And then that Joy Bear.

>> Ed Vitagliano: They are.

>> Steve Jordahl: They are.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. I renamed her. She's a bear

>> Ed Vitagliano: company.

>> Tim Wildmon: My apologies. That's your name. she said, yeah, we're getting a little wag the dog here. She knows. She broke out with her Brooklyn accent there, which is authentic, by the way, I think. Or NewSong York. Some wag the ducks. So there. And then the audience starts clapping. Yeah, they're getting. Trump's doing this to get, Nancy Guthrie story off the front page.

>> Ed Vitagliano: To get those folks to clap, all you got to do is say Trump.

>> Tim Wildmon: But she's saying that. She seems to be saying that President Trump had something to do with.

>> Ed Vitagliano: With the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, am I correct?

>> Ed Vitagliano: The Epstein file thing. I think you could at least make the argument that the left is making is that Trump's trying to cover up the fact that he's implicated in the. In the Epstein files. At least I can understand them making that argument.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hey, listen, but the Nancy Guthrie thing is.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's. That's just. And they're clapping like seals clapping seals.

Let me just say this about, uh. What was it? Was it, um. Yeah, it was good. I forgot what I was

Let me just say this about, What was it? Was it, I forgot what I was going to say exactly.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But it was good.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it was good. Maybe I'll remember before the show's over. Go ahead, Steve.

Hundreds of people showed up to Lonnie Wayman's funeral Tuesday

>> Steve Jordahl: All right. I want to give our condolences out to. Well, I would. To the family of Lonnie D. Wayman, who was laid to rest Tuesday in, Tennessee. But he didn't have any family. Lonnie Wayman was a veteran. He was about 73 years old when he died. He passed of natural causes, but he was a veteran, and he didn't have any family. So the Department of Veterans affairs in Tennessee said, here's where the funeral is going to be. We'd like to get some kind people out if they'd want to. Hundreds of people showed up to Lonnie Wayman's funeral. More than 200 were in attendance after the Tennessee Department of Veterans Services posted about his circumstances. So.

>> Tim Wildmon: Good.

>> Ed Vitagliano: so he had. He had no family, so maybe a few friends might have showed up. But this, was a spontaneous outpouring after the Veterans Affairs Office for Tennessee asked for people to show up. So these folks came out because he's just a veteran. That's it.

>> Steve Jordahl: Gallatin, Tennessee. And just because I think this is. They're showing their respect not only for this man, but for our military.

>> Ed Vitagliano: The gallant, the galactic, the gallant people of Gallatin.

>> Steve Jordahl: There you go. Gallant.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Gallant. Yeah, that's what I meant.

>> Steve Jordahl: Goofus. M. Remember the children's, There's a children's magazine that had a comic called Goofus and Gallant. It was Highlights. Remember Highlights?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, yeah. When. When you went to the dentist.

>> Tim Wildmon: You guys are losing me.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Little children's magazine.

>> Steve Jordahl: Highlights. Oh, I've read that all the time.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, Highlights. Yeah, I remember Highlights.

>> Steve Jordahl: It had a cartoon in there.

>> Tim Wildmon: Now they do it in hair.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, but they notice this. No. Still lost.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay. After we just dogged the view.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: We probably need to be very careful.

The citizens of Gallatin, Tennessee came out to support this veteran

>> Tim Wildmon: It's coming back to us, isn't it? That's fair.

>> Steve Jordahl: All coming back to me.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But I say ours was intentional. They were thinking.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.

>> Steve Jordahl: They were serious.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And we avoid that at all, all times.

>> Steve Jordahl: No, I love that.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's a great story. It is, that the citizens of, Gallatin, Tennessee came out to support this veteran who didn't have any family.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yep. Said one. We are proud to stand in respect for a man who served his country. No veteran should be forgotten. And today we make sure Lonnie's service and sacrifice were remembered.

>> Tim Wildmon: Amen.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm just telling you that gives me chills. That that is there is still. Folks, let me just encourage you a little bit. Okay? Okay. I. I gotta. I still got some energy. All right, let me encourage you. This country still has a lot of great people in it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And there are a lot of great communities, a lot of great churches, patriotic, God fearing people. Absolutely. We with this M Country hasn't withered away to nothing yet.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right?

>> Ed Vitagliano: They're trying to in NewSong York City,

>> Tim Wildmon: but there's the music. We're out of time.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Gallatin, Tennessee represented.

>> Tim Wildmon: I say Gallatin, Tennessee salute.

>> Ed Vitagliano: thank you.

>> Tim Wildmon: Do you have any idea what we're referencing right there? See if he doesn't.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, sir.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Salute. You mean when we did Yee haw. You know what yeehaw is?

>> Wesley Wildmon: It's also. Yeah, I do know what that is. It's also not the first time that y' all have referenced something where I go quiet and Wesley, you're gonna throw it on my computer over here.

>> Tim Wildmon: You're have to get with it on you. You're read up on your Baby Boomer.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, for you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You don't have to.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I figured if I stayed on the show long enough, I'd catch on.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But my dad tried to turn me on to the Andrew Sisters. I said, nah, I'm sticking with Boston and box.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Thank you, Steve.

>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.

>> Tim Wildmon: Thanks to Ed Wesley, Fred, Brent Creeley, Fred and Abe, Cole Greene, and Abraham Hamilton iii. We'll see you tomorrow.