Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Steve Jordahl: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio. thanks for listening to afr. Tim, Ed, Fred. And now Steve Paisley. Jardoff's in the house.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're in the house, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: I am in the house.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're gonna go by your little 90s lingo. In the House with Arsenio hall. Huh? Remember, that, Ed?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, Arsenio Hall.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. I think he started the expression in the house. so, All right, Steve, what do you got, my friend?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, you tell me because there's a couple things you teased last time.
>> Tim Wildmon: I want to go with the Brent Hu.
Left leaning commentators say the war between Iran and the US is a stalemate
>> Steve Jordahl: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Everybody knows who he is, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. They were talking about the coverage of the war and how things are going. And Brit Hume had a great analogy because there was a professor that had, been talking and posting that, the war between Iran and the US Was a stalemate and no one is winning this thing. We've heard this from, several left leaning news sites and commentators. And Brit Hume, said, well, let's, take this back and think of this from a different angle. Let's listen to cut 11 for a moment.
>> Speaker D: Martha, let's turn the situation around and assume a situation which the United States is under attack from a major, from a major enemy. And that enemy is ranging freely over our skies with no resistance, bombing at will, sending missiles at will, attacking our vessels, attacking our ballistic missile systems, attacking our aircraft at will, that they have wiped out. They've killed the president and wiped out his cabinet, and countless officials in the echelons below. And we have responded as the United States by shutting off a, major waterway that we need for our economy. Yes, it harms other economies as well. Do you think anyone would be saying that this is, as Walter Russell Meade put it today, a stalemate? I don't think so.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, that's brilliant.
>> Tim Wildmon: That is brilliant. I've always liked Brett Hume there from Fox News. we talked about this last hour. Some, but the, the political, left and their friends in the mainstream news media, they, they want the United States to lose because if the United States loses, the war, it makes Trump, it hurts Trump. So that's their main objective to see is how can we damage Trump and by extension the Republicans. And that's if the US Is m. Maybe not loses, but gets hurt so bad that it begins to be a liability politically for President Trump. It's sick because you start saying to yourself, whose side are you on? Are you really on Iran's side? But it sounds like it with a lot of these folks who, if you're going to say, like, pray to him, said, if you're going to, make an analysis of the war so far, take your Trump derangement syndrome and put it on the shelf. But they can't, they can't help themselves. Then you need to. An objective look at this war is just as he described. The US And Israel have basically wiped out Iran. Okay. From being, from being a threat. And how that becomes something that's, ah, a tie, you know, is that they're only using that to try to deceive the American public into saying, see how wrong Trump was on this? Yeah, you see? So, TDS is real. and listen, we've talked about this to President Trump is, a unique cat, huh? yep. And I mean that, and I mean
>> Ed Vitagliano: that in the best possible way.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so, and I know people may disagree with me on this and that's fine. We can all be friends. I, I don't like the way he talks. oftentimes as President of the United States, he just takes decorum and kicks it out the door and he does so unceremoniously without decorum. and so I think I would like to see more. But that's not him. So if you're going to get, if you're going to. And now since he's, president and there's no reelection coming up, then he's not going to be filtered at all. And so, what I'm saying is they, those people on the left, he goes after them so often and makes it so personal as they do and have, have done, to him that it just becomes, for those people, it just become. And for him too, quite frankly, a lot of times you can't even, see things in any way, any rational way other than I hate that person because they hate me. Yeah. So does that make. No, that makes sense.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I understand. And I, you know, I think a lot of the TDS comes from,
>> Ed Vitagliano: I've mentioned this before on the air.
>> Tim Wildmon: Defied Trump derangement syndrome. Well, 30, 30 seconds.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, Trump Derangement syndrome is, is a term that people on the conservative side att almost as if it's a mental illness to those on the left who can only, who only have hatred for Trump and it colors and affects everything else they do so that they're no longer thinking in a rational way. They're being run by this emotion of hate. And I think a lot of this stems from the fact that President Trump, Donald J. Trump, was not supposed to win in 2016. I think these members of the progressive left and even further, the radical left thought they were going to have eight years of Hillary Clinton following eight years of Barack Obama and conservatism would die and go away. And they would have their progressive, quote unquote, regressive utopia. And Donald Trump defied all, odds. He was combative. He was that NewSong York street fighter. He's insulting, he is brash, he is arrogant. Like when he says, I can do whatever I want with Cuba, that's not considered presidential. ah, presidential way of speaking, even though it's true. Okay. And so 2016 lit the left's hair on fire. Trump became the person who kept the utopia from coming. And they have hated his guts ever since then. And the fact that he has been successful.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're really waving your hand.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm waving it.
>> Tim Wildmon: You go, m watching on video. Is it. You're gonna wear your arm out, brother.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Full Italian on this one. Okay. So the fact that he has been so successful has made, has made them go insane.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And that's why they can't even recognize, like, the Abraham Accords.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Or, the success of the economy in his first administration. They cannot say he's done an, amazing job. He's done what five other presidents could not do in terms of shutting down Iran. They can't even say congratulations on that because they are engulfed in hatred for this man. And I think it's all because he stood in the way of their utopia
>> Tim Wildmon: and his personality doesn't help. And I'm not, I'm not, because when you get tongue lashed and call names by him.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he's done it to people on the right too.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Or conservatives. It personalizes things. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I, oftentimes don't like the way he talks because it just is demeaning.
Mainstream media and the Democratic Party are linked ideologically, Fred says
but that's just who he is. Go ahead, Fred, what you're going to say.
>> Fred Jackson: I was just going to say. And the other factor, the Democratic Party and the mainstream media are joined at the hip. And it goes absolutely, to a certain extent, it goes beyond Trump Derangement Syndrome. They are linked. Mainstream media and the Democratic Party, they are linked ideologically. They do not like, what America has stood for through the years. I'm talking about capitalism. I'm talking about all of those things of earning your way up the ladder.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he's very patriotic. Trump is very patriotic.
>> Fred Jackson: He's very patriotic. He believes in what most of America believed in for years and years and years. You know, open up a business, develop your business. You know, have free enterprise, have competition. The left stands against that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: Ideologically speaking. That's why when Joe Biden opened up our southern border and millions of people, invaded this country, the mainstream media, with the exception of, of Fox, which stands over here by itself, they refused to go to the border.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Fred Jackson: They refused to go to the border to tell that story.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Fred Jackson: Because they agreed with Joe Biden on, this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. No, they're in lockstep, the liberal news media, they're in lockstep with the Democrat Party, and you just have to factor that in. Go ahead, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: There are many reasons that I really hope that the Republicans maintain the control of the Senate and the House in the midterms, not the least of which is if they lose control of the House, the 3D Ch Trump that accomplished everything is gone, and the bully is the only thing that's left. And we will have two years.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I fully expect, if the House flips to Democrats, which betting odds are that it will, just like Tim always says, just for historical reasons, economy is not doing great. You punish the party in power. I fully expect them to impeach Trump yet again. If the senate flips, maybe it's 50, 50 that they convict him. So, folks, you have got to turn, you've got to register to vote and turn out to vote here in 2026. That, that stuff I just mentioned could happen.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's. It's a distinct possibility.
Company has made humanoid Phantom MK M1 soldier robots
All right, we have, there's a company called foundation that has made humanoid Phantom MK M1 soldier robots. MK1, that's what they're called. The. Yes, they're called the phantom robot. and they stand about 5 foot 11, 100, 176 pounds. And they are, trained.
>> Tim Wildmon: 5 foot 11. How much?
>> Steve Jordahl: 176.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm right there. Yeah. 15 pounds.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You think you can take on a Robot?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I'm five, ten and a half. Yeah, 191. But I'm trying to get that down. So I could get it down to 176. And I could go toe to toe
>> Ed Vitagliano: with the thing about robots. They don't lie about their height or their weight.
>> Tim Wildmon: What about what's happening with this robot?
>> Steve Jordahl: They're training to use any weapon that humans can on the battlefield, and they've sent a Couple of these to Ukraine, to train in the war, to see how they do. They'll be doing things like placing explosives at doors and who knows what else. But here's the thing. the company foundation is in very close to. This is, according to a guy named LeBlanc, a very close contact with U.S. department of Homeland Security to possibly put these phantom robots to patrol the country's southern border.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wait a minute. If they're phantom, that means unseen, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, it does. When you're, absent the, title. You know, they're, they're very visible.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so they're Fanta. They're called.
>> Steve Jordahl: What name is Phantom. Phantom MK1 robot.
>> Tim Wildmon: But they're MK ones.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, that's.
>> Steve Jordahl: As opposed to.
>> Tim Wildmon: You have to distinguish.
>> Fred Jackson: That's true.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The mk2, I think they're still a
>> Tim Wildmon: little k2, but the mk3s, yeah. Have developed attitude problems.
>> Ed Vitagliano: This story freaks me out, okay? It really does. I've been. I pay attention to this. I am not a robot. The development of robots and they. Their, the progress in mimicking human motion.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: In walking, dancing, all kinds of stuff is, has really accelerated. And the very idea of putting robots on the battlefield with weapons, with explosives.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're going to put robots on the border.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, robots on the border.
>> Tim Wildmon: You hear this? That's what Steve's talking about.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's what they're saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're going to put it. We're going to put them on. What are they going to be doing down there?
>> Steve Jordahl: humanoid soldiers are a natural extension of existing autonomous systems such as drones, says Mike, LeBlanc, who's the company co founder. He just says that they're in close contact regarding the possible use.
>> Tim Wildmon: What language do they speak?
>> Steve Jordahl: the.
>> Tim Wildmon: You have to be bilingual if you
>> Steve Jordahl: don't be on the border, I suppose.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm saying?
>> Steve Jordahl: Programmed, am I right?
>> Ed Vitagliano: They got, Listen, this is. They got weapons and, and you got people coming across and say, listen, we're, you know, we're legit. And then that robot says, show me your papers. No comprende.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right.
>> Fred Jackson: And what happens when they learn? Because robots can learn.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Don't make me mad when you hear
>> Tim Wildmon: that coming out of a rope, saying,
>> Ed Vitagliano: is, whatever I got left, hopefully I got 20 years, 25 years. I hope robots don't come take over the world, which. But I got kids and grandkids. I don't want them to face the robots. I guess Papa. Papa will stay around long enough to face the robots. Robots with my kids. And grandkids.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know the robots only 5 11, 176, but they can probably move pretty fast.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They can move faster than me.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Tim: I'm wondering if you have friends who are spies
All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Thanks for listening, Tim. I'm Tim with Ed and Fred and Steve.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And by the way, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes sir.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You in the middle of you talking about this story, you said, I got this reading this information from a guy named LeBlanc.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's French, isn't it?
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's. So I'm just wondering, do you have like, friends who are spies?
>> Steve Jordahl: No. No. Or what this is? Well, the reason is because they use his last name down in the paragraph I read and I. Oh, you know, his first name is Mike and he's the co founder of the company foundation.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, making the robot.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're thinking about the Pink Panther here.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was exactly what I was saying. Robot fight Le Blanco Keto, you fool. Put down that railbox do.
John Fetterman says he stands alone in Democrat party as supporting Israel
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, I want to point out, John Fetterman was on Fox, the other day and he was saying that he stands alone in the Democrat party as being a friend of Israel. And he explains why. And I wanted to play this for you. Cut 12.
>> Don Wildmon: I am the only Democrat like, that is absolutely, fully supportive of what the president has done, you know, with epic fury. And that's isolated me as in my party. But for me, generation, generation now we are losing generations in my party to supporting Israel and you know, really the, the nation, they're the only nation in the region that has the kind of values that we, as a Democrat, we, we want to live under that. So, so for I don't follow the polls, you know, I'm going to follow the moral clarity of Israel and I'll be the one Democrat to celebrate, you know, continue to eliminate, you know, leadership that just a couple of weeks ago just executed thousands of thousands of their own.
>> Tim Wildmon: Young people there, listen good for John Fetterman. Yes. Because he is a fair minded Democrat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. he's Andy, he's, he's probably, yeah, he's not going to get any invitations to any parties. The Democrats are holding, you know, shorts and a hoodie.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But obviously because of his politics too, he, and we, we're not implying that he's a conservative by any means. He is a fair minded old school liberal.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And he said right there, you know, there was a day and time in a day, ah, when Democrats, and Republicans, All supported Israel.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it wasn't a question of, I mean it was bipartisan. Democrat and Republican presidents all supported Israel. I'm not talking about every single policy Israel has or every single action Israel takes, but I'm talking about generally speaking there was broad support for Israel's right to exist and to defend themselves. And the Democrat Party now has a lot of. And there are some Republicans, but the Democrat Party, John Fetterman's the exception. Yes. Now as he said, he said I'm basically all alone in my own isolated. Even Chuck Schumer, a Jew.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You don't hear him defending Israel that much. are talking about this issue. So anyway, it was good to hear John Fetterman. Listen, do we all wish he would, most people wish he would maybe dress it up a little bit in terms of his attire. He likes that hoodie and. Yeah, things like that. I understand the desire for comfort too.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, I don't know if I'd run for Congress just for the reason I wouldn't want to wear a suit and tie every day.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Every day, Every day.
>> Tim Wildmon: That would get old. All right, so anyway, good for John Fetterman. What's next, Steve?
The FBI rescued a 16 year old girl who had been missing for a month
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, good news. The FBI has rescued a 16 year old girl who had been missing for about a month. She was safely recovered following a multi state investigation that led to the arrest of a kidnapper, repeat kidnapper.
>> Fred Jackson: His.
>> Steve Jordahl: He goes by single name Negron N E G R O N. He was arrested. She had this gal holed up in a hotel room, no doubt using her for very ill purposes. And so the FBI came along. It's the second such ah, rescue that they've made. fairly recently, they have also recovered a 13 year old Ah, child.
>> Ed Vitagliano: These are trafficked girls.
>> Steve Jordahl: Trafficked girls, yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: so here in the United States folks, yeah, this country's got a lot of evil in it. We need God desperately.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. So good news, I just wanted to,
>> Ed Vitagliano: yeah, listen, we, we've, we were critical of some, especially in leadership of the FBI under the Biden administration because they were using, they were at times using their authority to go after Christians and pro lifers and that kind of thing. But we always said that there are the rank and file FBI agents who still do their jobs and kudos to the FBI for finding these two girls and continuing to make the scourge of trafficking a priority. Good on them and pray for these girls.
There's been a Tucker Carlson sighting on St Patrick's Day
>> Tim Wildmon: We got about four or five minutes where you got left?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, there's Been a Tucker Carlsen sighting. You know, he has gone off the deep end, Tucker. conspiracy theories, just who knows what's happened to him.
>> Tim Wildmon: but after you left Fox News.
>> Steve Jordahl: After the Fox News.
>> Tim Wildmon: Fox News. He was great, in my opinion. You know, I think. Go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: But yesterday on St. Patrick's Day, we. He found he kind of won another level.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Deep.
>> Steve Jordahl: I just wanted to play you a little bit of cut. 14.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good evening.
>> Speaker G: I'm out here searching for leprechauns. These are tiny little Irish alcoholics. Look at me. Get your children drunk. You may think they're innocent, being as they're on the Lucky Charms box and all, but that's what mainstream media wants you to think. Why do you think there's no goal behind our currency? Because the leprechauns took it all and put it in a pot. Now, we all love a capitalist, but leprechauns are just agents of chaos looking to get young people hooked on whiskey and Guinness. You know, Ireland needs to answer for this. Leprechauns. They're magically malicious.
>> Steve Jordahl: That is a guy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Malicious. That was funny.
>> Steve Jordahl: That was an impersonator named Alex DeWitt.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just to be clear, that was a Tucker Carlsen impersonator who's got him down pretty good.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's, that is very close. And Tucker Carlsen is not an easy voice to mimic.
>> Tim Wildmon: Magically malicious.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's. No, that's genius. And that laugh, I mean, that's pretty.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, it's Tucker Carlsen when you hear that laugh. Yeah, right, right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's, magically malicious. I like it.
The United States lost to Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic
>> Steve Jordahl: So, so the United States, lost to the, World Baseball Classic.
>> Tim Wildmon: To Venezuela.
>> Steve Jordahl: To Venezuela.
>> Tim Wildmon: What is the final score there?
>> Steve Jordahl: Three to three to two.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, wow. You know, give it up for Venezuela because. Right, you know, they're taking on, the country that invented baseball. And the, kind of like when
>> Ed Vitagliano: the United States beat Canada in the, Olympics.
>> Tim Wildmon: You remember in hockey. Canadians.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Hockey twice.
>> Steve Jordahl: Do you know that the game winning goals. Jack. who's the guy that. The hero. The guy that scold the Gore. The goal. Jack.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, Jack Hughes.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hughes is upset because the game winning puck for both men's and women's is in the national, NHL hall of Fame. It's being displayed in Canada.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what's amazing about this is Venezuela won this game 3 to 2. The Americans, they basically had their all Stars, right? Yeah, both, both countries did. But this also goes to show you the old truism about baseball almost, unlike any other sport. Probably. I don't know. I couldn't comment on the, hockey necessarily. in baseball, you can have a great pitcher that can be a neutralizer. So the other team, over the course of a season, may have better hitting, but it doesn't matter in one game if you have a shutdown pitcher who can't pitch every game, but he can pitch that one game, that can neutralize all the great hitters. because great pitching beats great hitting every time.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well. And there were major leaguers, I'm guessing, on the Venezuelan team.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And so it wasn't all amateurs, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, they.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, they had their own produces.
>> Speaker D: Some great, very good ball players.
>> Tim Wildmon: Are there any Venezuelan hockey. Hockey players?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't. Not that I know of.
>> Tim Wildmon: I just didn't know if it was.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't think that's a thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Thank you.
>> Steve Jordahl: Not a lot of mice in Venezuela.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You're welcome.
>> Steve Jordahl: my pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You betcha.
>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't mean anything about that Mafia Italian reference earlier that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We'll see. We'll see. If you meant something by it, you
>> Steve Jordahl: might wake up with a horse in your bed.
>> Tim Wildmon: Am I going to sleep with the fishes tonight? No. Thank you, Fred. You being a nice Canadian.
>> Fred Jackson: I tell you, I try.
>> Tim Wildmon: Today, our, Thanks to Krish. Krish got really animated today.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He did?
>> Tim Wildmon: I like that spunk he brought. Thanks to Cole Greene and to Brent Creeley, our producer, and Abe Hamilton. See you next time.
