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: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for joining us here on afr. I'm Tim with Wesley and Fred. And now Steve Paisley. Jordan joins us. Good morning, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, good morning, everybody.
Fred: Schoolchildren in Normandy still do something remarkable on Memorial Day
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey. you were. We were talking about Krish, brought up the fact that he had. He had visited Normandy.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, we were. The context of this. If you missed the last hour, we're talking about Memorial Day. And the day is set aside to remember those who've died in service of our country, over our history. But you were telling me that, in France, they still do something remarkable.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, the, school children in Normandy, still, every year, one of the grades, one of the projects that they do. Every year, a school child will go to the American cemetery at point of Du Hoc in, Colville Sur Mer, and they will pick out the grave of an American serviceman that died, and is buried there. More than just D Day soldiers are buried there, but a lot of D Day soldiers are. Anyway, they'll pick out the grave site of one of the American soldiers, and they'll do research on that soldier using the Internet, and they go back to military records, try to retrace his steps, during the war. And then at the end of the year, they will go back to that grave site and they will stand and give a presentation of that. And then they will send that, presentation video, I believe, and as much physical, material as they could gather and send it to whatever family of that soldier that they can find that's still living in the United States, grandchildren by now and everything. It's. It's tremendous. They. They value, the, sacrifice that the Americans made in Normandy on that day, still to this day, it's remarkable.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the British were there, the Americans were there, and Fred, the Canadians.
>> Fred Jackson: Canadians were there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: There were five great sacrifices.
>> Tim Wildmon: so what is the story of that? Can you add anything to that?
>> Fred Jackson: No. They acted together. the dedication.
Fred Pitch: Saving Private Ryan is a great film. Yeah, it is a tremendous movie
I want to go back to what you talked, about a while ago. Saving Private Rhyen.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's a great film.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, it is a tremendous movie. And it brings you to the point of what they faced back then. They didn't have the Air Force that they have today. The Air Force today does a lot of the. What they like to call softening of the enemy. They didn't have that. These people got on ships. Those ships were opened up and they went ashore. These soldiers went ashore into. As you were just mentioning when we got off the air a few minutes ago, imagine the first ones that came out of those vessels and they faced that fire from the Germans who were up on that hill. it's. It's hard for us to imagine.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. They probably knew they were going to die or the chances are they would be they would die or be maimed.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because they're the first ones off. Somebody's got to go first. And these guys that went first, that day. And can you imagine the burden too, on. it was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Right. The American, the Allied forces, having to make that call.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: On. Am I right? I am right, Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. General, ah, Eisenhower.
>> Steve Jordahl: General Eisenhower was the one that made the call, the final call of.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, we're going to go.
>> Steve Jordahl: The weather to go the day before. But it was kind of fogged,
>> Tim Wildmon: in the English Channel was.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: So they had to make. They had to delay it, but then he. He made the call and it was something that they knew had to be done. It had to be right too, because had that they failed. And, anyway, there's so much to that story.
>> Steve Jordahl: Can I just.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: Pitch. There's a. There's a podcast that I listen to. It's called the Warrior Next Door.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Podcast. And it's two guys, that, went. And for years they've been interviewing World War II soldiers. They found a guy that was on what they believe may have been the first boat to. Higgins boat to land on Omaha Beach. And the first guy that got out was an engineer. And they have his story here. And he made his way across the beach. He laid down. His job was to open up the barbed wire at the base of the hill that they were going to take. He laid down, he and two other guys with him laid down their explosives and turned around to look for the rest of the boat that was following them, only to find that the boat had been wiped out. They were the only three that got off of the boat. You can hear this guy talk about this on this podcast. It's phenomenal. his name is Bill, and I can't. I'm trying to find his name. His name is Bill something. But,
>> Tim Wildmon: Whose name?
>> Steve Jordahl: The guy. The soldier.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: The soldier that was the first off of the boat, the first Higgins boat that docked there. It's. It's a, an astounding story and it's a phenomenal. If you ever go to, France, they Still have tours of Normandy. I've done that. And it's, it's remarkable.
>> Tim Wildmon: How far is Normandy from Paris?
>> Steve Jordahl: it's about a three hour train ride.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. My parents went there. Yeah, they've been there. Have you been there, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: I have not.
>> Tim Wildmon: So Krish has been there. You've been there?
Your World War II veterans are 100 years old now
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: so. And you would encourage anybody?
>> Steve Jordahl: I do. It's such a, it's a moving. Oh, very moving. You can see the graves are there and the beach is there. Bill Parker is his name. I'm remembering it now, the soldier's name. Yeah. If you look up the warrior next door, Bill Parker, you can listen to his, him from years ago when they interviewed him, telling his story of being the first guy to land on that beach. And I would recommend it. It's a phenomenal story.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Your World War II veterans are 100 years old now.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: those, you know, who remain. And occasionally when I'm in Washington D.C. you'll see the honor flights. but you know, mostly now it's for Korea, the Korean conflict, as they were Vietnam era. those are. And those gentlemen are old.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. You know, I'm going to send a link to, to Brent of this podcast. I found the podcast and if someone wants to listen to the story, it's such a good, such a good story. I'll send it to Brent.
Memorial Day is set aside to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, Memorial Day, is, time to reflect and teach, your children and grandchildren of the sacrifices, ultimate sacrifices. You know, we do have Veterans Day, that's to honor the living, but Memorial Day is to remember the deceased who gave their lives for our country. That's the purpose of Memorial Day.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nothing wrong with, you know, celebrating the military and the sacrifices, but I'm just saying Memorial Day is set aside to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. If you're listening to. And as we said here, 400 Alex says over 600,000 have died in service of our country since America Revolutionary War. But think about that. Two thirds of those died in World War II alone. M. So, all right, what's your story?
SpaceX is actively hiring world class engineers slash physicists for SpaceX AI
First story.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, can I just present an opportunity to you, Tim? Because I know I'm, always looking for an opportunity.
>> Tim Wildmon: What kind of stock you talking about?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, it's not stock. This is a job. Actually, we, we've talked so often about the many careers that you had to give up in order to do this. Well, there's a text from Elon Musk. It actually is a very real text.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: It says SpaceX is Actively hiring world class engineers slash physicists for SpaceX AI. Even if you have zero prior experience in AI, smart humans figure it out fast. Please send an email with three bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to AIE. Underscore engineeringpacex.com I'll just leave that with you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: In case you, you know.
>> Tim Wildmon: So you are expecting maybe.
>> Steve Jordahl: I told him you'd be, you'd be getting in contact.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't, I don't doubt that this is up your alley, but you're gonna have to give up some golf time. Well, so.
>> Tim Wildmon: Golf time. I got 11 grandchildren. How many grandchildren?
>> Steve Jordahl: 11.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I just have to double check.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's an actual, that's an actual tweet from Elon Musk.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, I'll, I'll, I'll get back to him. It says even if you have zero prior experience in AI.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: so I don't know if that's a good idea. Yeah, I am a world class physicist.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's what I do.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I got that going for me. A lot of people don't know that because, you know, sound like I'm bragging. But, anyway, thank you, Steve.
>> Fred Jackson: You're welcome.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're welcome. I'm always looking for a new opportunity, make a difference.
Parents in Massachusetts are trying to recall four school board members over LGBTQ controversy
And there you go.
>> Steve Jordahl: Can we talk about parents at Sudbury, in Massachusetts Sudbury School District. They were not in fate. They were having a problem with the school board there because the school board, had put in a bunch, of curriculum that and policies that put LGBTQ policies in place. In other words, they wanted to have boys, to have access to restrooms, the locker rooms and other facilities. they wanted the sports to be gendered, all, lgbt, trans. And so the parents there put together by a vote of 300, 473 to 394, they set up a process of recall. Now the recall vote has not happened yet. They voted on the process. but from all intentions, it looks like the recall, may be successful. And they're going to recall four of the school members in liberal Massachusetts.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I saw that story. what surprised me a little bit, Fred, was that it was in NewSong England, in Massachusetts.
>> Fred Jackson: But I've said this before, you know, even Democrats who have daughters, they have got to be appalled by this, right? They love their daughters, right? And their daughters in Massachusetts or wherever California are being subjected to this, right? Their daughters aren't getting scholarships because some guy who says he's a girl, is allowed to compete against them in whether it's volleyball or baseball or whatever the case may be. So I think there's a rebellion growing even amongst those who might be normally Democrat party supporters and saying, no, I'm not going to put up to this because I love my daughter and I'm going to protect her.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. This is, And it's a town called Sudbury. Yeah. You familiar with it? Sudbury, Sudbury, Massachusetts. And, it's a smaller town. It's not like Boston or, you know, it's a small town. So 500 residents signed a petition to call for no confidence vote. this is on the, school committee.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, what they want to do, this stupid school committee. I don't use that learn lightly. They want to put all these girls, subject to boys being allowed in their showers.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And in their changing rooms.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And not to mention on the teams, if the boy says he's a girl, they say, hey, go. Even though you got male genitalia, you walk right in there and shower with the girls. Go ahead. Because why you feel like you're a girl? Anyway, the point is that's idiocy and it's dangerous. And the, the, But the. Looks like those who voted for it are going to be ousted.
>> Steve Jordahl: They voted for. To set up. They had to set up the process of recall because it wasn't there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. I bet there will be recall even in, Even in liberal NewSong England over that. Because as you say, Fred, the liberals become conservative when you start messing with their daughters. Yes. All of a sudden they, they aren't tolerant anymore.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm saying. But the insanity of this, this is. Continues to be losing issue for. Well, not all Democrats favor this kind of craziness, but, it's a losing issue for the progressive wing of the Democrat party, I should say.
The NAACP is calling on black athletes to boycott sporting events over redistricting
All right, you're listening to today's issues. Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: The Democrats continue to protest over the supreme, Court and Republican, parties doing the gerrymandering. Jerry who Gerrymandering. It's actually Elridge Jerry.
>> Tim Wildmon: Last name Mandering.
>> Steve Jordahl: Gerry was his last name. Actually. Elder to Jerry. Declaration of Independence. It's the redistricting effort. And so the Supreme Court said that, Louisiana could not redistrict. the Democrats wanted to redistrict Louisiana so that they had a majority black, district, hoping that they would have another seat, Democrat. Ah, Congressman. The Supreme Court said, no, you can't redistrict based on race. So, But Democrats have been redistricting based on race for years. Republicans, urged on by President Trump, have started redistricting efforts not based on race, based on politics, which is legal in a whole bunch of other areas. So the Democrats are having none of this. They don't like it. So, Derek Johnson, the president of the naacp, and Hakeem Jeffries, the, minority leader in the House of Representatives, got together and they've hatched a plan. Tim. The plan is they're asking black athletes, parents and families to boycott the athletic events of these Southern states. They named, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, for this boycott. Let's listen to Derek Johnson and, Hakeem Jeffries talk about this boycott. Cut five.
>> Tim Wildmon: We decided to take this course of action because we see this course of
>> Steve Jordahl: action be successful in the past.
>> Tim Wildmon: In the absence of fairness as it relates to black political representation, there should be no athletic participation as it relates to institutions that are housed in states that are experiencing a dramatic return to racially oppressive Jim Crow like tactics. Good luck with that one. These black athletes are getting paid millions of dollars. They're not gonna say no to that in the name of biting the Republicans on, redistricting. They don't even know what that is. That's right. And I'm not saying just black athletes, white athletes too. But in this case, this is NAACP calling on black athletes to, to give up their, paychecks and join their, cause. Go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: I just.
>> Wesley Wildmon: This is where you. They wouldn't do it and there's a reason they hide behind it. But this is where you would like for them to be asked by their reporter. Now what is this about to do. Have to do with sports? no, no. The first point is, do you understand that you were isolating and separating the black community?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Like that was.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're segregated.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You were segregated. Like, and then give them the microphone. You could do just a couple to. Just a little bit. We all know that they would have the debate skills up to deflect. Yeah, but just give me two from the reporter.
>> Fred Jackson: Right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: you understand you're, you're for segregation because they're talking about Jim Crow laws, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: The Congress.
>> Tim Wildmon: I doubt the average, the average, athlete. Athlete. White, black or Hispanic or whatever.
>> Wesley Wildmon: If you don't know Jerry.
>> Tim Wildmon: But they don't know Jerry. But, but they don't. If you ask them what does the NAACP stand for? They have no clue. That's. Yet that's, that's, that's way back in history for the. I haven't even heard from the NAACP in years. so. Which is a good thing. It means that we've made a lot of progress.
>> Steve Jordahl: The Democrats might want to sit this one out, as they say. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, had a hearing on gerrymandering and Voting Rights act the other day, and Ted Cruz had something to say. I'm going to play you a little bit of Ted Cruz. What he had to say. Why the Democrats are really the racist party. At the end of this, Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono called out, Ted Cruz and told him to stop, talking. And he had a good comeback.
The Democrats have been a party based on racial discrimination, Senator Hirono says
So let's have a cut. 14.
>> Steve Jordahl: What party was it that implemented poll tax taxes in the South?
>> Steve Jordahl: Mostly the Democrats.
>> Steve Jordahl: and what party was it that put literacy tests in. In place in the South?
>> Steve Jordahl: Mostly the Democrats.
>> Steve Jordahl: And what party was it that had tests like how many jelly beans are in a bottle?
>> Steve Jordahl: The Democrats.
>> Steve Jordahl: What party were the founders of the Ku Klux Klan from?
>> Steve Jordahl: The Democrats?
>> Steve Jordahl: what party wrote the Jim Crow laws in the South?
>> Steve Jordahl: The Democrats.
>> Steve Jordahl: Who was the first Republican president?
>> Steve Jordahl: Abraham Lincoln.
>> Steve Jordahl: Fast forward to the civil rights era. Bull Connor. What party was he from?
>> Steve Jordahl: He was a Democrat.
>> Steve Jordahl: The Democrats, for the entire history of their party, have been a party based on racial discrimination. The Democrats are fond of telling this story that is a flat out lie, that without discriminating based on race, no African Americans will be elected and no Hispanics will be elected. Who is the junior senator from South Carolina right now?
>> Steve Jordahl: That would be Tim Scott.
>> Speaker F: I feel personally aggrieved to sit here and to be lectured by my colleague from Texas. And this reminds me of the time when, he was first elected to the Senate and the Judiciary Committee had a hearing on gun safety. And he has felt a need to lecture Dianne Feinstein about gun safety and her leadership on the issue. So why don't you just stop lecturing the rest of us? Just because you think you are the smartest person in the world doesn't mean the rest of us agree to that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, thank you, Senator Hirono. I knew Dianne Feinstein. I served with Dianne Feinstein. And you're not Dianne Feinstein.
>> Tim Wildmon: That goes back to this, Lloyd Benson telling Dan Quayle he's no jfk.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's exactly what that was.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So anyway, that was pretty clever there by Senator, Cruz and going down history.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: The history of the Democrat Party and their treatment of black folks. historically, it is true. Yeah. All right, you're listening to Today's issues on afr.
Fred: The gas prices and the Strait of Hormuz need fixing soon
>> Steve Jordahl: Tim, you said that you guys, you're not going to be here next week as you're taking vacation. summer driver, for drivers that are planning vacations, had better prepare for a little bit, to pay a little bit more for gas than according to Gas Buddy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we're going to, we've solved this problem. We're going to take, car halfway and then we've got some bikes lined up.
>> Steve Jordahl: There you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: That would do it half of the trip down to the beach. So we're looking forward to that.
>> Steve Jordahl: That will work.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Horse carriers. We got a couple ideas.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, you know, according to Gas Buddy, they expect the, labor, day gas price to be an average of about $4.80 a gallon. And if the strait of hor moves remains blocked, this average could rise above 5.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is he through?
>> Wesley Wildmon: He's through.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, sorry I interrupted there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay. I don't remember what I was saying. Yeah, it's five plus.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: So, it is kind of scary.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: we've gone through, you know, the Iraq war.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: We went through a time. But I can't remember even at that period when I would fill up a car that it dials over $40, $50. I went as high as $50 the other day to fill. And I have a small suv. That's what I have. Six cylinder. I mean it's, it's hard.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't want to talk about filling up my Mustang.
>> Steve Jordahl: it takes, it takes premium gas.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: I did you guys in Canada have the gas shortages in 1976. I remember having to get up at 2 o' clock in the morning to go get gas because they were out of gas stations and everything. And I haven't looked at what the price adjusted price of gas at the time was. I don't know if it got over a dollar a gallon. It might have, but this was 1976. I remember having Philip my. I was driving a Ford Pinto.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And yeah. Had to get in line at 2 in the morning.
>> Fred Jackson: Didn't explode.
>> Steve Jordahl: It didn't. I'm here. A survivor of the. It was that car.
>> Wesley Wildmon: yeah. The gas prices and the Strait of Hormuz, all this has to be fixed pretty soon. Cause I'm running out of patience. It needs to.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think you're in a. You're in a. You're in the majority. I think even a lot of President Trump's most ardent supporters are ready for this thing to be wrapped up.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because we're going, we're just sitting there and it just seems like it's a stalemate. And so, I don't know. We don't know. I thought it would be getting over by now, Fred, but it's just, don't you think it's the President Trump needs to. Oh yeah. Fish or cut bait?
>> Fred Jackson: Fish or cut bait. I, I will speculate and say we've got about another month of this and then things have to wrap up one way or the other.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Yeah, I, I, I said two, three weeks ago Memorial Day was my marker for, this month.
>> Tim Wildmon: for, for one thing, one way or another. Because if price gases go up to $5, then the Republicans are going to get wiped out in the fall.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: And President Trump is not going to be able to do anything, hardly at all. so, because his numbers are going to go way down with the general public, not hardcore supporters of his, I m don't think it'll change them much. But he'll lose, the people in the middle who, you know, they're going to go against whoever's causing their gas prices to go up and ah, they will blame that on Trump and the Republicans. So, But I'm sure President Trump knows this. You know, he's been advised this is gonna happen if you don't, if things don't turn around. We'll be back, tomorrow with Trivia Friday. Thanks to Steve, Fred, Wesley, Alex, Krish, Brent, and we'll see you tomorrow.
