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Paul used his income to support missionary journeys and his teachings
Well, let's turn our attention to The scripture and then we'll get into some of The news of The week. Acts chapter 18 is where we are this week. Acts chapter 18, looking At The first few verses here. After these things, Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla. Because Claudius had commanded all The Jews to depart from Rome and he came to them. So because he was of The same trade, he stayed with them and worked for by occupation, they we're tentmakers. And he reasoned in The synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. And so here we have, Paul's trade, if you will, or occupation, cited as a tent maker. And what I wanted to point out, as I did earlier in The week, is that Paul used his income, used his primary occupation, his primary income clearly, to support his ministry, to support his missionary journeys and his teachings and his travel. And so, Paul understood The work ethic, The biblical work ethic that is needed for daily living, for daily righteousness, and he embraced it. Work with his hands and so, in this culture, that we live in, in this society, where sometimes hard work is belittled, where, work is demeaned, it's very important to remember that work is biblical, and we are created in God's image to be productive, to work, to labor with our hands, and to use The resources and The income and The blessings that The Lord has given us to advance his kingdom, to advance his purposes. And that is why God created work and allows us to work. So work is a blessing. Paul understood that, and my hope is that we understand it as well. That's Acts, chapter 18, verses 1 through 4.
Eric Schmitt: There is persistent negativity about President Trump on immigration
Well, speaking of work, President Trump and his Department of Homeland Security has been working day and night for The last 18 months, plus to ensure that deportations are carried out, that mass deportations are carried out. And this has been, a huge success, by The way, from President Trump's administration and his campaign promises. The fact that The border crossings are At The lowest level that they've been in a long, long time. We're talking decades. The fact that The border wall is fully funded and being constructed as we speak in its entirety, and The fact that President Trump is holding true to those promises. And, we'll talk a little bit more shortly about The deportation numbers that they're still sustaining. This is a huge campaign victory. And so I want to make sure I mention this. There are tons of other things that The Trump administration has done that is worth celebrating and applauding. And I want to combat this persistent negativity that's out there. Even amongst The conservative movement of The Republican Party, there is this persistent negativity, negativity out there that everything is wrong. The Trump administration isn't doing enough. It's a complete failure. Our vote was wasted. I don't even know why we're doing this, et cetera, et cetera. But, and don't get me wrong, I don't mind criticism of The Trump administration when they do things that they shouldn't, don't mind calling them out, completely fair game. But to throw away The Trump administration 2.0, The second term of President Trump, when we're not even halfway through and claim that it just hasn't been good, they haven't done their promises, they. And just negative, negative, negative, negative. That is out of touch with reality, fundamentally out of touch with reality. And The question is, what would you rather be happening right now? Would you rather Kamala Harris be running The show? And so it's so important that we maintain touch with reality. We maintain a tethering to reality. So that's what I'm hoping to do, by talking about this topic, specifically of immigration. Nonetheless, let's play a clip from Senator Eric Schmitt from, this is where he's talking. Senator Schmitt talking about The need, from Missouri, by The way, The need, for President Trump to continue this immigration enforcement, immigration reform move that he promised voters. And he highlights The success that The Trump administration has already had. This is going to be clip three. Let's listen.
>> Sen Eric Schmitt: Thank God, Laura. We have a president, we have an administration that is saying enough is enough, right? America is a nation. It's our nation, it's our home. It's not some global refugee camp. And, it really. I can't believe it's taken this long, but we finally have a president who's cracking down on this because we've not just had an illegal immigration problem that we saw under The Biden years, we also have a legal immigration problem. The abuse that we see with H1B or The OPT, or a lot of The asylum claims come from these temporary visas. The president is not now saying, you know, enough is enough of that, and we're going to crack down on it. And so I think this is part of The central plank, Laura, that he ran on when he came down The escalator back in 2016. And so for 10 years now, no president has done more to take on these issues than President Trump. And this is The next phase of that. I think we want to see more of this. And finally, we'll have a president that's serious about taking on this immigration thing. And by The way, The Democrats, they don't know what to do because they want to flood this country with illegal immigrants. They want these asylum claims, which 9 out of 10 are bogus anyway. They want that to continue. it's a power play. But again, thank God The president's acting here.
>> Walker Wildmon: So, Senator Schmitt's talking about, even addressing The legal immigration, not just loopholes, but The problems, The fundamental problems with even our legal immigration system. And I talked about this extensively when it came to Muslim immigration just within The last two weeks, because we have a major Muslim immigration problem in America, and it's mostly legal. Surprisingly, it's mostly legal. You have some Muslims, coming through The southern border, but. But in The grand scheme of things, not many, but you have a lot of refugee programs, a lot of legal immigration pathways that is allowing Muslims from Middle Eastern countries that are. That fundamentally have a drastically different worldview and belief system than we do as Americans and they're coming into America, setting up shop, even becoming full citizens. And their values are At complete odds with American values, an American form of government, and specifically The values that establish this nation. And so it doesn't, it's not that we don't expect people to disagree in America, etc. But it doesn't make sense pragmatically and from a, self interest standpoint as a country to voluntarily import legal immigrants from a variety of countries where, you know, their ideology and their religion is a fundamental problem and At odds with The American form and system of government. That just doesn't make sense. And this has to do, by The way, from a pragmatic standpoint and an objective standpoint, what I'm talking about, this standard has, applies to other nations as well. This is just an American thing or an American way of thinking. All The nations around The world, they should not import people through The legal immigration system that they know are going to work to undermine The very form of government and way of life that they currently have, right or wrong. I'm just talking objectively from a self interest standpoint that this applies to countries all around The world. I mean, why doesn't Saudi Arabia import legal immigrants and legal refugees from these African countries that are Christians? Why don't they import millions of Christians into Saudi Arabia as refugees? They become citizens and they have a voice, although not much of a voice, because their form of government is not like ours. well, they don't do that. Why? Because Saudi Arabia is a majority Muslim country and they're not going to allow millions of Christians to immigrate and become citizens in Saudi Arabia. And we don't have a problem with that. But we come over to America and I raise these concerns and people that are been doing this much longer than me raise these concerns about our legal immigration system and The problems with it. And they go, oh, you're a xenophobe, you're an Islamophobe, fill in The blank. you know you hate immigrants, you know, you lack a heart, you're not compassionate, you're not a Christian, you should just be concerned about sharing The gospel, blah, blah, blah. But they don't ever address The viable concerns and The tenet of The arguments or The tenets of The arguments that are being brought up here. And so The damage, to some degree, The damage has been done. The question is, are we going to continue down this path? Because we've, in my opinion, we've already imported through legal immigration way too many Muslims that just don't like The American form of government. That is a problem, that's a national security problem. But we've already done it. The damage has been done to date. But The question that Senator Smith and others are talking about is are we going to keep this thing going? And so that's on The immigration front, legal immigration, that's on The value standpoint, that's on The worldview, angle that I'm talking about and bringing people into The nation that don't like our form of government, don't believe in our value system, et cetera, and they're going to work when they can to undermine it. That's on that vantage point. But then over here on The labor and The workforce, that's a problem too. And this is where Senator Schmitt''s Talking about The H1B program and importing this cheap labor. That's been a problem too. And that's one of The reasons President Trump was elected on this concern about bringing in cheap immigrant labor into our nation through legal means and legal pathways, and undermining The American worker, undermining The American workers wages as well. And there are these major multinational, multi billion dollar companies that have been lobbying and vying for cheap immigrant labor to be brought into The nation. And unfortunately our politicians, both Republican and Democrat, have caved, they've given into this. And people who study this frequently will say that that has hurt American wages, for American citizens, for American workers. And so that's going to have to be addressed as well. Now President Trump thankfully is already working on this. I mean just The Department of State has currently and is in progress of cutting, of canceling The highest number of visas I think ever through The visa process. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, they're working on cutting I think over 200,000 visas for a variety of reasons. but that's a legal way to approach this. Hey, look, your visa is expiring. We're cutting off your visa.
Senator Schmitt: President Trump is doing everything within his presidential authority on immigration
We'll give you The reason why. We don't have to give you a reason At all. But those are not citizens, those are just visitors that have these temporary visas. And The The Trump administration has, has The The authority and The leeway to alter The number of these various visas and work permits, et cetera, that we're allowing to be divvied out. So this is going, to this is going to have to be addressed. President Trump is doing everything within his presidential authority to address it. At some point The best case scenario is that we have legislation is that, we have legislation that codifies a lot of these things I'm talking about so that future presidents can't just come in and decide one day they're not going to enforce our immigration laws or they're going to use their discretion to do things that are counterproductive for The health and well being of The nation. And so that's where we are right now. That's what Senator Schmitt''s talking about. President Trump has carried out nearly a million and a half deportations, just last week alone. They had one of their highest weeks on deportation counts, they also had one of their highest, one day deportation counts, just last week. And so, ah, President Trump is doing what he can. The Department of Homeland Security is doing what they can. They're doing it rather low key instead of this shock and awe approach that was getting a lot of The media attention, getting a lot of negative press. so we got to keep pushing forward on this immigration enforcement agenda and we'll keep tracking about it as well. So that's a positive thing. We got to highlight The good when we can talk about it. Plenty of good to be spoken about and highlight and we'll keep doing it. We'll be back in a few. Friend.
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Voter Guide is in need of volunteer evaluators and panelists
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to The Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to be with you on today's program. Walker Wildmon here. Rick Green and I we're your host each week on The program. Hey, I want to mention this, and hopefully do it over The next few days, as we head into The month of September. But I. Voter Guide is one of our, affiliates through our government affairs outfit, AFA Action. Many of you have used The ivoterguide tool, or At least heard of ivoterguide mentioned on The radio network. But I, Voter Guide is in pretty, pretty serious need of volunteer panelists or volunteer evaluators, is what we call them interchangeably. And basically these are volunteers that are willing to sit in on, up to three to five hours each week in meetings and hear, The information given on candidates and then place an evaluation on how you think The candidate should be ranked from a verified liberal to verified conservative spectrum. And all of this goes into The work of IvoterGuy. But they're in need of some, some volunteer evaluators and panelists. And so if you're interested or just want to read more, we have all The information you need [email protected] ivoterguide.com if you click Take action in The top right hand corner and then click become a panelist, you can fill out The form there, read all The information you need, and our team will be in touch. That's ivoterguide.com click on The take Action or become a panelist. there on The website. So, one more thing I want to mention is our trips to Greece and Italy that are coming up in The spring, March of 2027, we're going to be taking a group to Greec first, then my parents, Tim and Allison, they're going to be taking a group to Italy The week after that. So these are two separate trips, but if you do want to go on both, of course you can do so. We have several people, over a dozen that are doing both trips, but all of that information is available At tours.afa.net tours.afa.net you can read more about The itinerary, The pricing, The dates in March of 2027. that registration, by The way, is going to close in December. Just so you have a timeline, The registration for Greece and Italy is going to close in December. So go over to tours.afa.net to find out more information about that.
Walker says the WNBA is ideologically left leaning
let's talk WNBA and wokeness and how The WNBA managers and owners just can't seem to figure out what a woman is. So to give you a little backstory, The WNBA has obviously is, is ideologically left leaning. Let me just say that you say. How do you know that, Walker? All right. Because of The The statements that they put out, The positions that they have and how they talk about things, The WNBA is 100% a left leaning organization. All right? For example, when, when pressed about whether they would allow transgenders, which is basically men, to play in The wnba, The The WNBA won't answer The question. All right? The managers give us The run around, The owners give us The run around, The coaches give us these woke talking points about inclusivity, and they won't answer The question. And so we're trying to press The issue because this has come up in collegiate sports. this definitively will come up At The At The professional level At some point. And so we're trying to press The issue. Sophie Cunningham made, made a pretty clear position, one of The NBA players for The Indiana Fever, that she's against dudes playing in girls sports, to put it mildly, to put it frankly. And so after that, you know, The owners and The coaches, they all came out with their woke talking points trying to throw Sophie Cunningham under The bus. And so that's how this all started. And they still, you know, supposedly The WNBA owners and management we're supposed to be meeting to figure this thing out. And, and it's been two weeks and we still hadn't heard a peep. We still don't know what they decided on whether a man can play in The wnba. Crazy. We're even talking about this. But what's happening here, folks, is, is people with their head on right are actually forcing The issue, okay? People that care about protecting women, about fairness are pressing this issue. And we're going to force The WNB NBA to address this. And how we're going to force The WNBA to address this is there are multiple former NBA players that are now putting in applications to be in The WNBA draft. And this is how you do it. Because wokeism, our, wokeness, rather, and this LGBQ LGBTQ garbage, it all meets its, its end when The issue is forced. When you force The issue and you force their standard to be applied across The board, The hypocrisy and The faultiness in their position and their ideology and their argument, it all comes to The surface here, okay? Because as you and I say, as we would talk about, you know, with our family and friends or whoever, you know, we would say, well, you know, Imagine if every guy did this. Like, if every guy wanted to play in The wnba. Of course that would be unsustainable. And thankfully, that hasn't been The thing. That hasn't been a thing. That hasn't been The case. But according to The left's ideology of not differentiating male and female, according to them, on paper, if any man wants to play in The WNBA or NCAA women's basketball or any female sport, and they say they feel like a woman, according to The left's logic, they ought to be able to. What's The problem? He says he feels like a woman, let him play. But then they go, well, no, no, no, it's not sincere. Oh, so we're ranking this on sincerity. Okay, well, now you say I'm sincere. All right, so it's so subjective. It's so ridiculous, and it's illogical hula hoops, and you can't really pin them to The wall. It's like jello. But, folks, with this, we're pressing The issue here. And afa, put out a petition just this week. The WNBA needs to clarify that only biological women get to play in their league. That's not a hard thing to do, but they haven't done it yet, and they won't do it because they're caught up in The wokeness. All right, so let's play this clip of former, NBA star Enos Cantor Freedom talking about, in 20 seconds, how easy it is for The WNBA to fix this. They can come out tomorrow and say, hey, only biological female can play in wnba. I will drop everything immediately, but till then, I am eligible to play because Article 13 and, Section 1 says only play where women are eligible to play. They don't really define what a woman is until they define I am eligible to play. There you have it. so there you have it. That's, Enos Cantor Freedom, that is saying, look, this is not complicated. The WNBA can address this in 30 seconds. You just come out and say, hey, look, The W stands for women. Only women can play. And if somebody says, well, what is a woman? You say, biological female. That's a woman. A human female is a woman by definition. So if you're not a biological female, you can't play in The league. I don't care how many surgeries you have. I don't care how many hormones you get. Doesn't matter. This league is for women, and that's what it's for. And so that's not complicated. It really shouldn't be controversial, et cetera. But this left wing ideology that is in denial of reality, denial of science, has gotten us to this point where people, otherwise smart people, have a really hard time just doing The right thing and just acknowledging basic science, biology and reality. And this still shows you that we have a long way to go here, by The way, on, on corporate America on The left wing agenda. We have a long way to go here. Now granted, we've made a lot of headway. We'll talk about DEI here shortly. We've gotten a lot of corporations to, you know, turn on this, get rid of The DDI standards, et cetera. But we got to keep this pressure going. I mean we have to be ever vigilant with corporate America, with Hollywood, with entertainment industry and these tech companies and not allow them to get by with this woke stuff. And so this is what's going on with The wnba. And we're going to keep pressing The issue and we're going to force The NBA, Lord willing, to acknowledge what's simple, what's non controversial. And that is The Women's National Basketball association is for women. Okay? And so it's sad that we have to do this, but we have to, we have to force when The left is living out hypocrisy, living out a double standard and refusing to acknowledge reality, we have to message and convince and force The issue with them and force them to acknowledge reality. So that's exactly what we're doing.
James Talarico is running for Texas governor against Ken Paxton
So this next clip is of none other than Talarico out of Texas. He's running for The Texas governorship, The gubernatorial seat there in Texas against Ken Paxton. And boy, we thought Beto o' Rourke was woke. James Talarico is making Beto o' Rourke look like a moderate. Here is James Talarico talking about how, look, our education system needs to push diversity, equity and inclusion and even this thing called restorative justice. Clip 1 let's listen. In my first session I introduced a package of bills, called The Whole Student Agenda. And The idea was to treat children as human beings first and students second, and focus on things like mental health in school, restorative justice, diversity, equity and inclusion being taught in The classroom. Well, there you have it. That's Talarico really saying he's being honest. I will give it to him. He is being honest. And I would rather, if I had to pick, I would rather The woksters be honest than be like Obama and lie. Because this is what Obama did. This is how Obama got elected. Arguably, he might have still gotten elected, but for example, on The issue of homosexuality and homosexual, in air quotes, marriage. President Obama wanted to come out and be woke and be pro lgbtq, et cetera. But his political advisor, David Axelrod, said, look, no, Barack, listen, you can't do that. You can't do that and get elected. All right? And so what did he do? He, hid his position as much as he could, even though The record was public. If you wanted to do any research At The time, you could have figured it out. But Obama lied. He misled, us, The public, and then when he got elected, he's one of The most pro lgbtq, pro homosexual, transgender presidents in American history. Lit up The White House in rainbows. And so I do appreciate that Talarico is honest. He's honestly pushing for diversity, equity, and inclusion, which. What is that? That's reverse racism, all right? Because they say, oh, The white man's not diverse. Let's. Let's cancel him. Let's not allow him in here. So it's reverse racism. That's what DEI has turned into, is reverse racism and advancement of The radical pro LGBTQ agenda. That's what DEI has turned into, no doubt.
Talaico says restorative justice means letting criminals go easy
But I want to talk about restorative justice, because he mentioned that, and, boy, doesn't that sound so nice. Restorative justice, folks. These people like Talarico don't believe in jails and prisons. It's a fact. When pressed. When The When The Democrat Socialists of America are pressed, and this is on The record, by The way, about prisons and their desire to shut down all prisons, they'll tell you that. They'll say, yeah, yeah, we ought to shut them all down, because At a fundamental level, they don't believe in The fallenness of man, except for they'll say extremist maga and they'll call you and me evil. But they don't believe in moral morals. This is quite a bizarre. You see how confusing this is? They make statements like, MAGA extremists are Christians, are bigoted, but then you're like, well, what standard are you judging by? And then, as it turns out, they really have no hard standard except for their own ideology and their own fallen.
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>> Walker Wildmon: But this. This. This operation that assumes that really all people are good except for MAGA extremists or you and me, that all people are good. We shouldn't send anybody to jail if somebody does something evil, like Lindsay Clancy. Well, we can give them therapy and we can provide some counseling, and we can give them, some support, and then everything will be okay. Because after all, all people are generally good. If you ever hear anybody tell you that generally all people are good, that should be The five alarm fire that you need to hear. That should be The flag goes up. What are you talking about? Can you please explain more? No, no, no. Not all people are good, my friend. We are all prone to sin. We are all born into sin. That is The biblical and The true historical viewpoint of man. And a society that doesn't believe in that is a very dangerous place to be. And this is what your major Democrat strongholds have been struggling with for decades is they've been soft on crime and they want to do, quote, restorative justice means let's let all The criminals go easy. Let's go easy on all The criminals, let them all out, we'll do counseling, we'll give them a support team, et cetera. And this is why I'm fundamentally opposed to these law enforcement departments that hire these interventionists. Are these counselors, these unarmed officers that are there to provide emotional support, et cetera. That's why I, think that is a fundamental problem. And here's why. We're mingling counseling sessions with law enforcement activities. And those two things don't go together, my friends. It sounds nice. And these departments are saying, oh, we're hiring emotional support teams and we have officers on standby to, you know, take non aggressive action and, and talk to people and calm them down and blah, blah, blah. Folks know, law enforcement is law enforcement. We have law and order in this country. Why? Because God created civil government to protect life, liberty and property. And that's their job. If you want to do a counseling session, my friend, line it up on your own. But that's not what law enforcement officers get paid to do. And I think The bar and The expectations are way too high for these poor law enforcement officers that are putting their life on The line every single day and doing The best they can. And now we're asking them to be counselors. No, thank you. We have law and order. You do what law enforcement says or you're under arrest. You break The law, you're under arrest. Have strict enforcement. We're not playing any games and we punish The evildoer. That's what civil government is for. And so restorative justice? No, thank you, dei? no, thank you. Soft on crime. No, thank you. Americans want safety in our community. We want safety in our streets, safety in our homes, and we want The evildoers punished to The fullest extent of The civil law. We'll be back in A few you,
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American Family Radio's Chris Woodward focuses on financial news from a Christian perspective
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome to The Core here on American Family Radio. Chris Woodward joins us each week to bring us The news of The week from a Christian perspective, mostly focusing on markets, The economy, The jobs market, The housing market, etc. So that's our typical beat. We occasionally take some other trails. Chris welcome back.
>> Chris Woodward: Thank you. I appreciate you having me on here to talk about these things because a lot of news, our network covers The numbers, but a lot of other news outlets don't get into these kinds of things, which makes us unique.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah. And I've actually heard Chris positive reviews from financial guys, whether it's financial planners or investment guys that appreciate, our segment. They like listening into it. And one of them told me I was actually right on something, which was surprising.
>> Chris Woodward: So I've never been told that.
>> Walker Wildmon: I guess I get it right every
>> Chris Woodward: once in The exact opposite. I hate you and everything you wrote.
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, The positive reviews rarely come, but The disgruntled people like to be loud.
>> Chris Woodward: So you just go Dolly Parton on them and say, bless your heart, for
>> Walker Wildmon: every one that you get that doesn't like you, there's probably five that like us.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: So just keep that in mind. And my mom, At least that's what I tell myself.
Chris Woodward: Several positive headlines in the news this week
Hey, Chris tell us what's going on with, this week in The news.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, we've had several positive, headline numbers here. The average rate on a 30 year mortgage, it edged up to 6.66% back to where it was four weeks ago. But The story here is that we thought it might actually be 7%. So it edged up, but wasn't as bad as we thought. The number of Americans applying for jobless aid slipped to 203,000 as layoffs remain low. Something again you don't see on a lot of news outlets. The second estimate for second quarter GDP met expectations of 1.5% and personal income increased $115 billion with a B in July. That's very positive news there. And again, something that I think some, to be fair, some news outlets don't get into these things because it involves a lot of math or fractions and percentages, things that they fear people might not understand or lose interest in as they're trying to read through The news article. But these things matter because they impact everybody listening to this segment.
>> Walker Wildmon: Absolutely.
Chris: Mortgage rates are at about 6.6% right now
Chris on The on The mortgage rates, you mentioned in The break that they we're At about 6.6%. And, people have been hoping. I know I would love. I'm not, I'm below 6%. I'm not At 2.7, but I'm, I'm below 6%, thankfully. And every time I look At The 6.6 or The 7% number, I go, I need to be grateful. Nonetheless, there are some people that would either love to refinance or love to get into a home At a lower rate. historically speaking, 6, 7% is not bad At all. Historically speaking. The problem, as we've mentioned over and over again, is The house prices have been elevated, but those are showing some signs of easing. There's some markets, housing markets around The country, not all, but there's some pockets of The country where home prices are beginning to come down. And that could help, a potential home buyer be able to absorb a six or six and a half percent mortgage rate.
>> Chris Woodward: Right. And then you've got other states like California, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, for example, has a plan in place to build more homes. Now he's wanting to do more starter homes, things that people might have gotten decades ago versus The big, ginormous, you know, 3,000 square foot houses that, we think we need, as a part of our everyday living. So there are plans and ideas out there which gets discussions going on how best to combat this housing problem that we all experience, regardless of what state we're in.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely.
The administration is doing things to help bring down oil prices, Chris says
what else have you guys been tracking on The economic or The market front?
>> Chris Woodward: Oil prices remain low. Ish. I say low because, you know, they're not $20 a barrel. they closed Thursday At $83 a barrel, which is good. This administration. I was actually talking about this with, Fred Jackson, The news director for American Family News. A lot of people see things like Trump wanting to rename one of The Great Lakes Lake America, or he's in a trade dispute with Canada, all these things, and they think, hey, man, I wish he would pay attention to The price of my gas and The price of my groceries. And stuff like that. The administration is doing things behind The scenes that are trying to help those cost problems. Even though you don't see somebody talking about it on Fox or cnn, there are people and government employees At work to try to make things not as bad as they could be.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: For example, The fact that The average price for gasoline in The United States of America, The fact that it's not $10 a barrel or $10 a gallon right now.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Is because of what The administration has been doing. Again, you might not see it on television where a lot of people get their news. You might only hear about it on American Family Radio. But The administration has done things to try to help bring down or keep oil At a relatively low level. That's why I say low. Ish. So The administration, to its credit, is a big reason why oil is only $83 a barrel. And of course it's it's all impacted by what's been going down in Iran. But again, it could be a lot worse if we didn't have people doing what they're doing to get more of our resources and those from allies into The market.
>> Walker Wildmon: Chris The long term outlook I talked to, I didn't talk to, I played a clip of Steven Moore from Heritage. Well, he's been with Heritage. I think he's doing his own thing now. Nonetheless, he was in The Trump term one administration. STEPHEN Moore ECONOMIST He's a little more optimistic on The three to six month outlook on inflation. He thinks it's going to go down to 2 or below 2% probably based on falling energy prices post Iran conflict. and The Iran situation is looking pretty optimistic as far as their leverage. They're losing a lot of leverage by The day. But another area that I think over The next couple years, and I know The American consumer thinks in minutes and not even weeks or days, I think The cost to power The home is going to see relief because of The nuclear, energy revolution. that is, we're leaning back into it because they're looking At deploying and they're doing this, I think, on five military bases. Fort Bragg, Kentucky for example, over The next couple years is going to be fully run on a modular nuclear reactor on site on these. So that's tens of thousands of troops. I don't know The amount of power that it uses, but we're talking about running entire cities and regions of The country off of modular nuclear reactors if we can get this deployed rapidly. Meaning over The next few years. you're talking about major price stabilization on The energy front, because as we know, nuclear long term is very affordable. so we could see that, Chris over The next few years. But Bobby and I have talked about this. The Trump administration is all on board with this modular nuclear reactor technology. They're waiving every potential federal regulation to get it to The finish line. You get a Gavin Newsom in there, you get a James Talarico in there, and I know people are laughing, but you get The point. You get a Democrat administration that is unfriendly to The energy industry and wants to go green. New deal again. This all comes to a screeching halt and has major implications. So The track we're on is a good one. If we let Marxists get control again, they could sideline this whole thing.
>> Chris Woodward: What they need to do in pushing or selling, selling nuclear power on The states is to explain to people, especially The blue states, that nuclear is The answer to what you call a problem with climate change. And The reason I say that is because The reaction that comes about, through The creation of nuclear energy, no carbon footprint whatsoever. And so for The blues out there that are concerned about mankind's burning of fossil fuels and what it may be doing to The environment. Yeah, that is a solution for them instead of windmills and solar panels and unicorn juice or whatever they want to point out there or push out there as a solution to The problem. in The last week or so, actually meant to bring this on last week and I didn't get around to it, Joe Theisman, former professional quarterback, posted something on X. I didn't even know he was political, but he posted on X last week that nuclear power is The solution to your data center concerns.
>> Walker Wildmon: Correct.
>> Chris Woodward: And a lot of people picked up on that and said, no, nuclear power is The solution. Solution to a lot of concerns, period. So, people need to be. That's how you sell The greens on this, you sell them that. It eases your concerns about climate change if it's real. And it also helps bring down The price of energy. It's not going to be tomorrow, but it's not like it's virtually non existent. Many people don't realize this, but nuclear, Nuclear energy provides 20%, maybe a little bit more of The nation's energy.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: So it's not like, it's not like during The Obama years where we got to go build a bunch of nuclear power plants. The infrastructure is already there. We would just be adding to it.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely.
Having nuclear power decentralized could stave off concerns about EMP or cyber attack
Bobby, you and I have talked about this. The what waste, Nuclear waste, once it's each reaches life, life end of its life. it's stored in such small containers, I think these concrete precast containers and takes up like we're talking square feet.
>> Bobby Roza: Yeah. Minuscule space. And not to mention that what isn't stored is actually, The technology has advanced so far that they're actually recycling this waste product and putting it into even different adventures. And I wanted to give our listeners a little context when we talk about SMRs and their size and so forth. You can literally put three SMR reactors on a flatbed tractor trailer.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yes.
>> Bobby Roza: Just to, just to put that in perspective.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, exactly. We're talking about setting up and they can be online in a matter of very short period, couple days. you're talking about being able to fit. Let's just view it as like a shipping container.
>> Bobby Roza: Right.
>> Walker Wildmon: They've got, you know, 20 foot, 30 foot, whatever. They're pretty much fit in a shipping container and. But they don't run just like couple houses like a generator. They're in cities.
>> Chris Woodward: Right.
>> Walker Wildmon: so this is The way of The future where you can have these local municipalities or even The regional power companies, At these substations set up a small area that runs The whole city. Absolutely fascinating. And it honestly I haven't actually thought about this till now. It really shores up our grid from a security standpoint because right now there's been various studies by Congress and others that there's a handful, maybe eight to ten major power stations around The country that if you took a couple of them out, it would have a daisy chain effect.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: and so having this grid more decentralized, Chris, could stave off concerns about EMP or cyber attack, et cetera.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. And you know, I don't know how it is for your listeners, but in my experience covering nuclear energy, there's always somebody in The audience that's says things like, what about Chernobyl? Okay. That was 40 plus years ago. In a country that didn't give a rip about its people.
>> Walker Wildmon: Right. And safety.
>> Chris Woodward: Why would you use that as a reason not to do things there? There's risks that come with every day. Okay. We all The risks of something increase exponentially The moment we step out of The bed in The morning. there's risk from driving a car, getting on a plane, drinking water. Okay. I almost choked one time on a salad.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Okay, how said of donate salad more.
>> Walker Wildmon: Right.
>> Chris Woodward: The point is you can't live in fear. And a lot of The fear and it's uncertain about nuclear energy is from TV shows and movies, Correct. That. Try to make a buck off of your fear or ignorance over a topic.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. Nuclear power is, I would say, statistically The safest form of energy production. and The data backs us up, folks. This is not just me just throwing this out as a talking point. The data backs us up. and The I actually think there are studies that more people have died from windmills and solar panels during installation than even from fossil fuels or nuclear energy. But Chris to your point, in this country, with The amount of safety regulations that we have, federal oversight, that we have, no company, a power production company, is going to do anything dumb or unsafe when it comes to nuclear energy because they won't exist anymore and they'll go to jail. So there's just tons of safety mechanisms in place to prevent this.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. If this country does anything, well, it's over regulates them.
>> Walker Wildmon: True that. Right.
>> Chris Woodward: Okay.
>> Walker Wildmon: That's why it's taken us years to get these nuclear reactors online.
>> Chris Woodward: Trust Uncle Sam. He finds a way to make it difficult. And I mean, oftentimes we talk about how government needs to get out of The way. In this particular case, you want a lot of regulations, rules in place, policies. And of course states are going to slap on their own stuff. We know California is pretty much saying, you know, we're going to slap on more and more and all this other stuff.
>> Walker Wildmon: Sure.
>> Chris Woodward: It is, it is safe. Again, a lot of The concern is based off of what somebody told you in a TV show or a movie.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Again, playing off fear and ignorance of subject.
>> Walker Wildmon: Chris I think, I think one of The reasons President Trump got elected in 2024 is because of this issue on The energy front. But along with it is The data center and AI front, because President Trump has lit fire under The AI industry. he has done everything from a deregulatory standpoint to make their job easier. Data centers are being thrown up for better or worse all around The country. I think there's some good that's going to come from AI and data centers. So I'm not totally anti data center. I think they need to be more strategic where they place them. But nonetheless, I think The tech industry saw The handwriting on The wall that if they do not get a capitalist, pro business president, then China takes over The AI ah, race and they win it. because if you've got Vice President Kamala Harris that's incompetent in The White House, and they're against nuclear, they're against fossil fuels, they want all The red tape, all The regulations, The AI race, we would lose it from The get go. And so I think that that's one of The reasons President Trump's in The White House is because The tech industry saw The need for a pro business president.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, and we also need stable long term ten year energy plan. We can't keep doing something every three, four years.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, exactly. We need of a lot long term sustainable plan, that uses all The available energy that we have available, including nuclear. So thanks Chris Thank you. All right folks, check out The podcast [email protected] and wherever you listen to podcast and lord willing, we'll see you next week.
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Paul used his income to support missionary journeys and his teachings
Well, let's turn our attention to The scripture and then we'll get into some of The news of The week. Acts chapter 18 is where we are this week. Acts chapter 18, looking At The first few verses here. After these things, Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla. Because Claudius had commanded all The Jews to depart from Rome and he came to them. So because he was of The same trade, he stayed with them and worked for by occupation, they we're tentmakers. And he reasoned in The synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. And so here we have, Paul's trade, if you will, or occupation, cited as a tent maker. And what I wanted to point out, as I did earlier in The week, is that Paul used his income, used his primary occupation, his primary income clearly, to support his ministry, to support his missionary journeys and his teachings and his travel. And so, Paul understood The work ethic, The biblical work ethic that is needed for daily living, for daily righteousness, and he embraced it. Work with his hands and so, in this culture, that we live in, in this society, where sometimes hard work is belittled, where, work is demeaned, it's very important to remember that work is biblical, and we are created in God's image to be productive, to work, to labor with our hands, and to use The resources and The income and The blessings that The Lord has given us to advance his kingdom, to advance his purposes. And that is why God created work and allows us to work. So work is a blessing. Paul understood that, and my hope is that we understand it as well. That's Acts, chapter 18, verses 1 through 4.
Eric Schmitt: There is persistent negativity about President Trump on immigration
Well, speaking of work, President Trump and his Department of Homeland Security has been working day and night for The last 18 months, plus to ensure that deportations are carried out, that mass deportations are carried out. And this has been, a huge success, by The way, from President Trump's administration and his campaign promises. The fact that The border crossings are At The lowest level that they've been in a long, long time. We're talking decades. The fact that The border wall is fully funded and being constructed as we speak in its entirety, and The fact that President Trump is holding true to those promises. And, we'll talk a little bit more shortly about The deportation numbers that they're still sustaining. This is a huge campaign victory. And so I want to make sure I mention this. There are tons of other things that The Trump administration has done that is worth celebrating and applauding. And I want to combat this persistent negativity that's out there. Even amongst The conservative movement of The Republican Party, there is this persistent negativity, negativity out there that everything is wrong. The Trump administration isn't doing enough. It's a complete failure. Our vote was wasted. I don't even know why we're doing this, et cetera, et cetera. But, and don't get me wrong, I don't mind criticism of The Trump administration when they do things that they shouldn't, don't mind calling them out, completely fair game. But to throw away The Trump administration 2.0, The second term of President Trump, when we're not even halfway through and claim that it just hasn't been good, they haven't done their promises, they. And just negative, negative, negative, negative. That is out of touch with reality, fundamentally out of touch with reality. And The question is, what would you rather be happening right now? Would you rather Kamala Harris be running The show? And so it's so important that we maintain touch with reality. We maintain a tethering to reality. So that's what I'm hoping to do, by talking about this topic, specifically of immigration. Nonetheless, let's play a clip from Senator Eric Schmitt from, this is where he's talking. Senator Schmitt talking about The need, from Missouri, by The way, The need, for President Trump to continue this immigration enforcement, immigration reform move that he promised voters. And he highlights The success that The Trump administration has already had. This is going to be clip three. Let's listen.
>> Sen Eric Schmitt: Thank God, Laura. We have a president, we have an administration that is saying enough is enough, right? America is a nation. It's our nation, it's our home. It's not some global refugee camp. And, it really. I can't believe it's taken this long, but we finally have a president who's cracking down on this because we've not just had an illegal immigration problem that we saw under The Biden years, we also have a legal immigration problem. The abuse that we see with H1B or The OPT, or a lot of The asylum claims come from these temporary visas. The president is not now saying, you know, enough is enough of that, and we're going to crack down on it. And so I think this is part of The central plank, Laura, that he ran on when he came down The escalator back in 2016. And so for 10 years now, no president has done more to take on these issues than President Trump. And this is The next phase of that. I think we want to see more of this. And finally, we'll have a president that's serious about taking on this immigration thing. And by The way, The Democrats, they don't know what to do because they want to flood this country with illegal immigrants. They want these asylum claims, which 9 out of 10 are bogus anyway. They want that to continue. it's a power play. But again, thank God The president's acting here.
>> Walker Wildmon: So, Senator Schmitt's talking about, even addressing The legal immigration, not just loopholes, but The problems, The fundamental problems with even our legal immigration system. And I talked about this extensively when it came to Muslim immigration just within The last two weeks, because we have a major Muslim immigration problem in America, and it's mostly legal. Surprisingly, it's mostly legal. You have some Muslims, coming through The southern border, but. But in The grand scheme of things, not many, but you have a lot of refugee programs, a lot of legal immigration pathways that is allowing Muslims from Middle Eastern countries that are. That fundamentally have a drastically different worldview and belief system than we do as Americans and they're coming into America, setting up shop, even becoming full citizens. And their values are At complete odds with American values, an American form of government, and specifically The values that establish this nation. And so it doesn't, it's not that we don't expect people to disagree in America, etc. But it doesn't make sense pragmatically and from a, self interest standpoint as a country to voluntarily import legal immigrants from a variety of countries where, you know, their ideology and their religion is a fundamental problem and At odds with The American form and system of government. That just doesn't make sense. And this has to do, by The way, from a pragmatic standpoint and an objective standpoint, what I'm talking about, this standard has, applies to other nations as well. This is just an American thing or an American way of thinking. All The nations around The world, they should not import people through The legal immigration system that they know are going to work to undermine The very form of government and way of life that they currently have, right or wrong. I'm just talking objectively from a self interest standpoint that this applies to countries all around The world. I mean, why doesn't Saudi Arabia import legal immigrants and legal refugees from these African countries that are Christians? Why don't they import millions of Christians into Saudi Arabia as refugees? They become citizens and they have a voice, although not much of a voice, because their form of government is not like ours. well, they don't do that. Why? Because Saudi Arabia is a majority Muslim country and they're not going to allow millions of Christians to immigrate and become citizens in Saudi Arabia. And we don't have a problem with that. But we come over to America and I raise these concerns and people that are been doing this much longer than me raise these concerns about our legal immigration system and The problems with it. And they go, oh, you're a xenophobe, you're an Islamophobe, fill in The blank. you know you hate immigrants, you know, you lack a heart, you're not compassionate, you're not a Christian, you should just be concerned about sharing The gospel, blah, blah, blah. But they don't ever address The viable concerns and The tenet of The arguments or The tenets of The arguments that are being brought up here. And so The damage, to some degree, The damage has been done. The question is, are we going to continue down this path? Because we've, in my opinion, we've already imported through legal immigration way too many Muslims that just don't like The American form of government. That is a problem, that's a national security problem. But we've already done it. The damage has been done to date. But The question that Senator Smith and others are talking about is are we going to keep this thing going? And so that's on The immigration front, legal immigration, that's on The value standpoint, that's on The worldview, angle that I'm talking about and bringing people into The nation that don't like our form of government, don't believe in our value system, et cetera, and they're going to work when they can to undermine it. That's on that vantage point. But then over here on The labor and The workforce, that's a problem too. And this is where Senator Schmitt''s Talking about The H1B program and importing this cheap labor. That's been a problem too. And that's one of The reasons President Trump was elected on this concern about bringing in cheap immigrant labor into our nation through legal means and legal pathways, and undermining The American worker, undermining The American workers wages as well. And there are these major multinational, multi billion dollar companies that have been lobbying and vying for cheap immigrant labor to be brought into The nation. And unfortunately our politicians, both Republican and Democrat, have caved, they've given into this. And people who study this frequently will say that that has hurt American wages, for American citizens, for American workers. And so that's going to have to be addressed as well. Now President Trump thankfully is already working on this. I mean just The Department of State has currently and is in progress of cutting, of canceling The highest number of visas I think ever through The visa process. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, they're working on cutting I think over 200,000 visas for a variety of reasons. but that's a legal way to approach this. Hey, look, your visa is expiring. We're cutting off your visa.
Senator Schmitt: President Trump is doing everything within his presidential authority on immigration
We'll give you The reason why. We don't have to give you a reason At all. But those are not citizens, those are just visitors that have these temporary visas. And The The Trump administration has, has The The authority and The leeway to alter The number of these various visas and work permits, et cetera, that we're allowing to be divvied out. So this is going, to this is going to have to be addressed. President Trump is doing everything within his presidential authority to address it. At some point The best case scenario is that we have legislation is that, we have legislation that codifies a lot of these things I'm talking about so that future presidents can't just come in and decide one day they're not going to enforce our immigration laws or they're going to use their discretion to do things that are counterproductive for The health and well being of The nation. And so that's where we are right now. That's what Senator Schmitt''s talking about. President Trump has carried out nearly a million and a half deportations, just last week alone. They had one of their highest weeks on deportation counts, they also had one of their highest, one day deportation counts, just last week. And so, ah, President Trump is doing what he can. The Department of Homeland Security is doing what they can. They're doing it rather low key instead of this shock and awe approach that was getting a lot of The media attention, getting a lot of negative press. so we got to keep pushing forward on this immigration enforcement agenda and we'll keep tracking about it as well. So that's a positive thing. We got to highlight The good when we can talk about it. Plenty of good to be spoken about and highlight and we'll keep doing it. We'll be back in a few. Friend.
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>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to The Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to be with you on today's program. Walker Wildmon here. Rick Green and I we're your host each week on The program. Hey, I want to mention this, and hopefully do it over The next few days, as we head into The month of September. But I. Voter Guide is one of our, affiliates through our government affairs outfit, AFA Action. Many of you have used The ivoterguide tool, or At least heard of ivoterguide mentioned on The radio network. But I, Voter Guide is in pretty, pretty serious need of volunteer panelists or volunteer evaluators, is what we call them interchangeably. And basically these are volunteers that are willing to sit in on, up to three to five hours each week in meetings and hear, The information given on candidates and then place an evaluation on how you think The candidate should be ranked from a verified liberal to verified conservative spectrum. And all of this goes into The work of IvoterGuy. But they're in need of some, some volunteer evaluators and panelists. And so if you're interested or just want to read more, we have all The information you need [email protected] ivoterguide.com if you click Take action in The top right hand corner and then click become a panelist, you can fill out The form there, read all The information you need, and our team will be in touch. That's ivoterguide.com click on The take Action or become a panelist. there on The website. So, one more thing I want to mention is our trips to Greece and Italy that are coming up in The spring, March of 2027, we're going to be taking a group to Greec first, then my parents, Tim and Allison, they're going to be taking a group to Italy The week after that. So these are two separate trips, but if you do want to go on both, of course you can do so. We have several people, over a dozen that are doing both trips, but all of that information is available At tours.afa.net tours.afa.net you can read more about The itinerary, The pricing, The dates in March of 2027. that registration, by The way, is going to close in December. Just so you have a timeline, The registration for Greece and Italy is going to close in December. So go over to tours.afa.net to find out more information about that.
Walker says the WNBA is ideologically left leaning
let's talk WNBA and wokeness and how The WNBA managers and owners just can't seem to figure out what a woman is. So to give you a little backstory, The WNBA has obviously is, is ideologically left leaning. Let me just say that you say. How do you know that, Walker? All right. Because of The The statements that they put out, The positions that they have and how they talk about things, The WNBA is 100% a left leaning organization. All right? For example, when, when pressed about whether they would allow transgenders, which is basically men, to play in The wnba, The The WNBA won't answer The question. All right? The managers give us The run around, The owners give us The run around, The coaches give us these woke talking points about inclusivity, and they won't answer The question. And so we're trying to press The issue because this has come up in collegiate sports. this definitively will come up At The At The professional level At some point. And so we're trying to press The issue. Sophie Cunningham made, made a pretty clear position, one of The NBA players for The Indiana Fever, that she's against dudes playing in girls sports, to put it mildly, to put it frankly. And so after that, you know, The owners and The coaches, they all came out with their woke talking points trying to throw Sophie Cunningham under The bus. And so that's how this all started. And they still, you know, supposedly The WNBA owners and management we're supposed to be meeting to figure this thing out. And, and it's been two weeks and we still hadn't heard a peep. We still don't know what they decided on whether a man can play in The wnba. Crazy. We're even talking about this. But what's happening here, folks, is, is people with their head on right are actually forcing The issue, okay? People that care about protecting women, about fairness are pressing this issue. And we're going to force The WNB NBA to address this. And how we're going to force The WNBA to address this is there are multiple former NBA players that are now putting in applications to be in The WNBA draft. And this is how you do it. Because wokeism, our, wokeness, rather, and this LGBQ LGBTQ garbage, it all meets its, its end when The issue is forced. When you force The issue and you force their standard to be applied across The board, The hypocrisy and The faultiness in their position and their ideology and their argument, it all comes to The surface here, okay? Because as you and I say, as we would talk about, you know, with our family and friends or whoever, you know, we would say, well, you know, Imagine if every guy did this. Like, if every guy wanted to play in The wnba. Of course that would be unsustainable. And thankfully, that hasn't been The thing. That hasn't been a thing. That hasn't been The case. But according to The left's ideology of not differentiating male and female, according to them, on paper, if any man wants to play in The WNBA or NCAA women's basketball or any female sport, and they say they feel like a woman, according to The left's logic, they ought to be able to. What's The problem? He says he feels like a woman, let him play. But then they go, well, no, no, no, it's not sincere. Oh, so we're ranking this on sincerity. Okay, well, now you say I'm sincere. All right, so it's so subjective. It's so ridiculous, and it's illogical hula hoops, and you can't really pin them to The wall. It's like jello. But, folks, with this, we're pressing The issue here. And afa, put out a petition just this week. The WNBA needs to clarify that only biological women get to play in their league. That's not a hard thing to do, but they haven't done it yet, and they won't do it because they're caught up in The wokeness. All right, so let's play this clip of former, NBA star Enos Cantor Freedom talking about, in 20 seconds, how easy it is for The WNBA to fix this. They can come out tomorrow and say, hey, only biological female can play in wnba. I will drop everything immediately, but till then, I am eligible to play because Article 13 and, Section 1 says only play where women are eligible to play. They don't really define what a woman is until they define I am eligible to play. There you have it. so there you have it. That's, Enos Cantor Freedom, that is saying, look, this is not complicated. The WNBA can address this in 30 seconds. You just come out and say, hey, look, The W stands for women. Only women can play. And if somebody says, well, what is a woman? You say, biological female. That's a woman. A human female is a woman by definition. So if you're not a biological female, you can't play in The league. I don't care how many surgeries you have. I don't care how many hormones you get. Doesn't matter. This league is for women, and that's what it's for. And so that's not complicated. It really shouldn't be controversial, et cetera. But this left wing ideology that is in denial of reality, denial of science, has gotten us to this point where people, otherwise smart people, have a really hard time just doing The right thing and just acknowledging basic science, biology and reality. And this still shows you that we have a long way to go here, by The way, on, on corporate America on The left wing agenda. We have a long way to go here. Now granted, we've made a lot of headway. We'll talk about DEI here shortly. We've gotten a lot of corporations to, you know, turn on this, get rid of The DDI standards, et cetera. But we got to keep this pressure going. I mean we have to be ever vigilant with corporate America, with Hollywood, with entertainment industry and these tech companies and not allow them to get by with this woke stuff. And so this is what's going on with The wnba. And we're going to keep pressing The issue and we're going to force The NBA, Lord willing, to acknowledge what's simple, what's non controversial. And that is The Women's National Basketball association is for women. Okay? And so it's sad that we have to do this, but we have to, we have to force when The left is living out hypocrisy, living out a double standard and refusing to acknowledge reality, we have to message and convince and force The issue with them and force them to acknowledge reality. So that's exactly what we're doing.
James Talarico is running for Texas governor against Ken Paxton
So this next clip is of none other than Talarico out of Texas. He's running for The Texas governorship, The gubernatorial seat there in Texas against Ken Paxton. And boy, we thought Beto o' Rourke was woke. James Talarico is making Beto o' Rourke look like a moderate. Here is James Talarico talking about how, look, our education system needs to push diversity, equity and inclusion and even this thing called restorative justice. Clip 1 let's listen. In my first session I introduced a package of bills, called The Whole Student Agenda. And The idea was to treat children as human beings first and students second, and focus on things like mental health in school, restorative justice, diversity, equity and inclusion being taught in The classroom. Well, there you have it. That's Talarico really saying he's being honest. I will give it to him. He is being honest. And I would rather, if I had to pick, I would rather The woksters be honest than be like Obama and lie. Because this is what Obama did. This is how Obama got elected. Arguably, he might have still gotten elected, but for example, on The issue of homosexuality and homosexual, in air quotes, marriage. President Obama wanted to come out and be woke and be pro lgbtq, et cetera. But his political advisor, David Axelrod, said, look, no, Barack, listen, you can't do that. You can't do that and get elected. All right? And so what did he do? He, hid his position as much as he could, even though The record was public. If you wanted to do any research At The time, you could have figured it out. But Obama lied. He misled, us, The public, and then when he got elected, he's one of The most pro lgbtq, pro homosexual, transgender presidents in American history. Lit up The White House in rainbows. And so I do appreciate that Talarico is honest. He's honestly pushing for diversity, equity, and inclusion, which. What is that? That's reverse racism, all right? Because they say, oh, The white man's not diverse. Let's. Let's cancel him. Let's not allow him in here. So it's reverse racism. That's what DEI has turned into, is reverse racism and advancement of The radical pro LGBTQ agenda. That's what DEI has turned into, no doubt.
Talaico says restorative justice means letting criminals go easy
But I want to talk about restorative justice, because he mentioned that, and, boy, doesn't that sound so nice. Restorative justice, folks. These people like Talarico don't believe in jails and prisons. It's a fact. When pressed. When The When The Democrat Socialists of America are pressed, and this is on The record, by The way, about prisons and their desire to shut down all prisons, they'll tell you that. They'll say, yeah, yeah, we ought to shut them all down, because At a fundamental level, they don't believe in The fallenness of man, except for they'll say extremist maga and they'll call you and me evil. But they don't believe in moral morals. This is quite a bizarre. You see how confusing this is? They make statements like, MAGA extremists are Christians, are bigoted, but then you're like, well, what standard are you judging by? And then, as it turns out, they really have no hard standard except for their own ideology and their own fallen.
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>> Walker Wildmon: But this. This. This operation that assumes that really all people are good except for MAGA extremists or you and me, that all people are good. We shouldn't send anybody to jail if somebody does something evil, like Lindsay Clancy. Well, we can give them therapy and we can provide some counseling, and we can give them, some support, and then everything will be okay. Because after all, all people are generally good. If you ever hear anybody tell you that generally all people are good, that should be The five alarm fire that you need to hear. That should be The flag goes up. What are you talking about? Can you please explain more? No, no, no. Not all people are good, my friend. We are all prone to sin. We are all born into sin. That is The biblical and The true historical viewpoint of man. And a society that doesn't believe in that is a very dangerous place to be. And this is what your major Democrat strongholds have been struggling with for decades is they've been soft on crime and they want to do, quote, restorative justice means let's let all The criminals go easy. Let's go easy on all The criminals, let them all out, we'll do counseling, we'll give them a support team, et cetera. And this is why I'm fundamentally opposed to these law enforcement departments that hire these interventionists. Are these counselors, these unarmed officers that are there to provide emotional support, et cetera. That's why I, think that is a fundamental problem. And here's why. We're mingling counseling sessions with law enforcement activities. And those two things don't go together, my friends. It sounds nice. And these departments are saying, oh, we're hiring emotional support teams and we have officers on standby to, you know, take non aggressive action and, and talk to people and calm them down and blah, blah, blah. Folks know, law enforcement is law enforcement. We have law and order in this country. Why? Because God created civil government to protect life, liberty and property. And that's their job. If you want to do a counseling session, my friend, line it up on your own. But that's not what law enforcement officers get paid to do. And I think The bar and The expectations are way too high for these poor law enforcement officers that are putting their life on The line every single day and doing The best they can. And now we're asking them to be counselors. No, thank you. We have law and order. You do what law enforcement says or you're under arrest. You break The law, you're under arrest. Have strict enforcement. We're not playing any games and we punish The evildoer. That's what civil government is for. And so restorative justice? No, thank you, dei? no, thank you. Soft on crime. No, thank you. Americans want safety in our community. We want safety in our streets, safety in our homes, and we want The evildoers punished to The fullest extent of The civil law. We'll be back in A few you,
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American Family Radio's Chris Woodward focuses on financial news from a Christian perspective
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome to The Core here on American Family Radio. Chris Woodward joins us each week to bring us The news of The week from a Christian perspective, mostly focusing on markets, The economy, The jobs market, The housing market, etc. So that's our typical beat. We occasionally take some other trails. Chris welcome back.
>> Chris Woodward: Thank you. I appreciate you having me on here to talk about these things because a lot of news, our network covers The numbers, but a lot of other news outlets don't get into these kinds of things, which makes us unique.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah. And I've actually heard Chris positive reviews from financial guys, whether it's financial planners or investment guys that appreciate, our segment. They like listening into it. And one of them told me I was actually right on something, which was surprising.
>> Chris Woodward: So I've never been told that.
>> Walker Wildmon: I guess I get it right every
>> Chris Woodward: once in The exact opposite. I hate you and everything you wrote.
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, The positive reviews rarely come, but The disgruntled people like to be loud.
>> Chris Woodward: So you just go Dolly Parton on them and say, bless your heart, for
>> Walker Wildmon: every one that you get that doesn't like you, there's probably five that like us.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: So just keep that in mind. And my mom, At least that's what I tell myself.
Chris Woodward: Several positive headlines in the news this week
Hey, Chris tell us what's going on with, this week in The news.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, we've had several positive, headline numbers here. The average rate on a 30 year mortgage, it edged up to 6.66% back to where it was four weeks ago. But The story here is that we thought it might actually be 7%. So it edged up, but wasn't as bad as we thought. The number of Americans applying for jobless aid slipped to 203,000 as layoffs remain low. Something again you don't see on a lot of news outlets. The second estimate for second quarter GDP met expectations of 1.5% and personal income increased $115 billion with a B in July. That's very positive news there. And again, something that I think some, to be fair, some news outlets don't get into these things because it involves a lot of math or fractions and percentages, things that they fear people might not understand or lose interest in as they're trying to read through The news article. But these things matter because they impact everybody listening to this segment.
>> Walker Wildmon: Absolutely.
Chris: Mortgage rates are at about 6.6% right now
Chris on The on The mortgage rates, you mentioned in The break that they we're At about 6.6%. And, people have been hoping. I know I would love. I'm not, I'm below 6%. I'm not At 2.7, but I'm, I'm below 6%, thankfully. And every time I look At The 6.6 or The 7% number, I go, I need to be grateful. Nonetheless, there are some people that would either love to refinance or love to get into a home At a lower rate. historically speaking, 6, 7% is not bad At all. Historically speaking. The problem, as we've mentioned over and over again, is The house prices have been elevated, but those are showing some signs of easing. There's some markets, housing markets around The country, not all, but there's some pockets of The country where home prices are beginning to come down. And that could help, a potential home buyer be able to absorb a six or six and a half percent mortgage rate.
>> Chris Woodward: Right. And then you've got other states like California, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, for example, has a plan in place to build more homes. Now he's wanting to do more starter homes, things that people might have gotten decades ago versus The big, ginormous, you know, 3,000 square foot houses that, we think we need, as a part of our everyday living. So there are plans and ideas out there which gets discussions going on how best to combat this housing problem that we all experience, regardless of what state we're in.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely.
The administration is doing things to help bring down oil prices, Chris says
what else have you guys been tracking on The economic or The market front?
>> Chris Woodward: Oil prices remain low. Ish. I say low because, you know, they're not $20 a barrel. they closed Thursday At $83 a barrel, which is good. This administration. I was actually talking about this with, Fred Jackson, The news director for American Family News. A lot of people see things like Trump wanting to rename one of The Great Lakes Lake America, or he's in a trade dispute with Canada, all these things, and they think, hey, man, I wish he would pay attention to The price of my gas and The price of my groceries. And stuff like that. The administration is doing things behind The scenes that are trying to help those cost problems. Even though you don't see somebody talking about it on Fox or cnn, there are people and government employees At work to try to make things not as bad as they could be.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: For example, The fact that The average price for gasoline in The United States of America, The fact that it's not $10 a barrel or $10 a gallon right now.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Is because of what The administration has been doing. Again, you might not see it on television where a lot of people get their news. You might only hear about it on American Family Radio. But The administration has done things to try to help bring down or keep oil At a relatively low level. That's why I say low. Ish. So The administration, to its credit, is a big reason why oil is only $83 a barrel. And of course it's it's all impacted by what's been going down in Iran. But again, it could be a lot worse if we didn't have people doing what they're doing to get more of our resources and those from allies into The market.
>> Walker Wildmon: Chris The long term outlook I talked to, I didn't talk to, I played a clip of Steven Moore from Heritage. Well, he's been with Heritage. I think he's doing his own thing now. Nonetheless, he was in The Trump term one administration. STEPHEN Moore ECONOMIST He's a little more optimistic on The three to six month outlook on inflation. He thinks it's going to go down to 2 or below 2% probably based on falling energy prices post Iran conflict. and The Iran situation is looking pretty optimistic as far as their leverage. They're losing a lot of leverage by The day. But another area that I think over The next couple years, and I know The American consumer thinks in minutes and not even weeks or days, I think The cost to power The home is going to see relief because of The nuclear, energy revolution. that is, we're leaning back into it because they're looking At deploying and they're doing this, I think, on five military bases. Fort Bragg, Kentucky for example, over The next couple years is going to be fully run on a modular nuclear reactor on site on these. So that's tens of thousands of troops. I don't know The amount of power that it uses, but we're talking about running entire cities and regions of The country off of modular nuclear reactors if we can get this deployed rapidly. Meaning over The next few years. you're talking about major price stabilization on The energy front, because as we know, nuclear long term is very affordable. so we could see that, Chris over The next few years. But Bobby and I have talked about this. The Trump administration is all on board with this modular nuclear reactor technology. They're waiving every potential federal regulation to get it to The finish line. You get a Gavin Newsom in there, you get a James Talarico in there, and I know people are laughing, but you get The point. You get a Democrat administration that is unfriendly to The energy industry and wants to go green. New deal again. This all comes to a screeching halt and has major implications. So The track we're on is a good one. If we let Marxists get control again, they could sideline this whole thing.
>> Chris Woodward: What they need to do in pushing or selling, selling nuclear power on The states is to explain to people, especially The blue states, that nuclear is The answer to what you call a problem with climate change. And The reason I say that is because The reaction that comes about, through The creation of nuclear energy, no carbon footprint whatsoever. And so for The blues out there that are concerned about mankind's burning of fossil fuels and what it may be doing to The environment. Yeah, that is a solution for them instead of windmills and solar panels and unicorn juice or whatever they want to point out there or push out there as a solution to The problem. in The last week or so, actually meant to bring this on last week and I didn't get around to it, Joe Theisman, former professional quarterback, posted something on X. I didn't even know he was political, but he posted on X last week that nuclear power is The solution to your data center concerns.
>> Walker Wildmon: Correct.
>> Chris Woodward: And a lot of people picked up on that and said, no, nuclear power is The solution. Solution to a lot of concerns, period. So, people need to be. That's how you sell The greens on this, you sell them that. It eases your concerns about climate change if it's real. And it also helps bring down The price of energy. It's not going to be tomorrow, but it's not like it's virtually non existent. Many people don't realize this, but nuclear, Nuclear energy provides 20%, maybe a little bit more of The nation's energy.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: So it's not like, it's not like during The Obama years where we got to go build a bunch of nuclear power plants. The infrastructure is already there. We would just be adding to it.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely.
Having nuclear power decentralized could stave off concerns about EMP or cyber attack
Bobby, you and I have talked about this. The what waste, Nuclear waste, once it's each reaches life, life end of its life. it's stored in such small containers, I think these concrete precast containers and takes up like we're talking square feet.
>> Bobby Roza: Yeah. Minuscule space. And not to mention that what isn't stored is actually, The technology has advanced so far that they're actually recycling this waste product and putting it into even different adventures. And I wanted to give our listeners a little context when we talk about SMRs and their size and so forth. You can literally put three SMR reactors on a flatbed tractor trailer.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yes.
>> Bobby Roza: Just to, just to put that in perspective.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, exactly. We're talking about setting up and they can be online in a matter of very short period, couple days. you're talking about being able to fit. Let's just view it as like a shipping container.
>> Bobby Roza: Right.
>> Walker Wildmon: They've got, you know, 20 foot, 30 foot, whatever. They're pretty much fit in a shipping container and. But they don't run just like couple houses like a generator. They're in cities.
>> Chris Woodward: Right.
>> Walker Wildmon: so this is The way of The future where you can have these local municipalities or even The regional power companies, At these substations set up a small area that runs The whole city. Absolutely fascinating. And it honestly I haven't actually thought about this till now. It really shores up our grid from a security standpoint because right now there's been various studies by Congress and others that there's a handful, maybe eight to ten major power stations around The country that if you took a couple of them out, it would have a daisy chain effect.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: and so having this grid more decentralized, Chris, could stave off concerns about EMP or cyber attack, et cetera.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. And you know, I don't know how it is for your listeners, but in my experience covering nuclear energy, there's always somebody in The audience that's says things like, what about Chernobyl? Okay. That was 40 plus years ago. In a country that didn't give a rip about its people.
>> Walker Wildmon: Right. And safety.
>> Chris Woodward: Why would you use that as a reason not to do things there? There's risks that come with every day. Okay. We all The risks of something increase exponentially The moment we step out of The bed in The morning. there's risk from driving a car, getting on a plane, drinking water. Okay. I almost choked one time on a salad.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Okay, how said of donate salad more.
>> Walker Wildmon: Right.
>> Chris Woodward: The point is you can't live in fear. And a lot of The fear and it's uncertain about nuclear energy is from TV shows and movies, Correct. That. Try to make a buck off of your fear or ignorance over a topic.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. Nuclear power is, I would say, statistically The safest form of energy production. and The data backs us up, folks. This is not just me just throwing this out as a talking point. The data backs us up. and The I actually think there are studies that more people have died from windmills and solar panels during installation than even from fossil fuels or nuclear energy. But Chris to your point, in this country, with The amount of safety regulations that we have, federal oversight, that we have, no company, a power production company, is going to do anything dumb or unsafe when it comes to nuclear energy because they won't exist anymore and they'll go to jail. So there's just tons of safety mechanisms in place to prevent this.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. If this country does anything, well, it's over regulates them.
>> Walker Wildmon: True that. Right.
>> Chris Woodward: Okay.
>> Walker Wildmon: That's why it's taken us years to get these nuclear reactors online.
>> Chris Woodward: Trust Uncle Sam. He finds a way to make it difficult. And I mean, oftentimes we talk about how government needs to get out of The way. In this particular case, you want a lot of regulations, rules in place, policies. And of course states are going to slap on their own stuff. We know California is pretty much saying, you know, we're going to slap on more and more and all this other stuff.
>> Walker Wildmon: Sure.
>> Chris Woodward: It is, it is safe. Again, a lot of The concern is based off of what somebody told you in a TV show or a movie.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Again, playing off fear and ignorance of subject.
>> Walker Wildmon: Chris I think, I think one of The reasons President Trump got elected in 2024 is because of this issue on The energy front. But along with it is The data center and AI front, because President Trump has lit fire under The AI industry. he has done everything from a deregulatory standpoint to make their job easier. Data centers are being thrown up for better or worse all around The country. I think there's some good that's going to come from AI and data centers. So I'm not totally anti data center. I think they need to be more strategic where they place them. But nonetheless, I think The tech industry saw The handwriting on The wall that if they do not get a capitalist, pro business president, then China takes over The AI ah, race and they win it. because if you've got Vice President Kamala Harris that's incompetent in The White House, and they're against nuclear, they're against fossil fuels, they want all The red tape, all The regulations, The AI race, we would lose it from The get go. And so I think that that's one of The reasons President Trump's in The White House is because The tech industry saw The need for a pro business president.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, and we also need stable long term ten year energy plan. We can't keep doing something every three, four years.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, exactly. We need of a lot long term sustainable plan, that uses all The available energy that we have available, including nuclear. So thanks Chris Thank you. All right folks, check out The podcast [email protected] and wherever you listen to podcast and lord willing, we'll see you next week.
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Walker opens with Acts 18 and Paul’s biblical work ethic, then examines the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement successes, including mass deportations and visa reductions, with commentary from Senator Eric Schmitt. He addresses conservative critics who claim the administration has fallen short, arguing the data tells a different story.
Walker also takes on the WNBA’s refusal to clarify whether biological men can compete in the women’s league, highlighting AFA’s new petition and efforts by former NBA players, including Enes Kanter Freedom, to enter the WNBA draft and force the issue.
He then breaks down Texas gubernatorial candidate James Talarico’s push for diversity, equity, inclusion, and restorative justice in schools, warning that soft-on-crime policies undermine biblical standards of justice. Finally, AFR’s Chris Woodward joins the program to discuss mortgage rates, jobless claims, oil prices, and the potential for small modular nuclear reactors to help stabilize American energy costs long-term.
Chapter Markers
00:01:16 Scripture: Acts 18 and the Biblical Work Ethic
00:03:17 Trump Immigration Enforcement Successes
00:18:16 WNBA Dodges Transgender Question
00:25:16 James Talarico on DEI and Restorative Justice
00:33:46 Economic Update with Chris Woodward
Walker opens with Acts 18 and Paul’s biblical work ethic, then examines the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement successes, including mass deportations and visa reductions, with commentary from Senator Eric Schmitt. He addresses conservative critics who claim the administration has fallen short, arguing the data tells a different story.
Walker also takes on the WNBA’s refusal to clarify whether biological men can compete in the women’s league, highlighting AFA’s new petition and efforts by former NBA players, including Enes Kanter Freedom, to enter the WNBA draft and force the issue.
He then breaks down Texas gubernatorial candidate James Talarico’s push for diversity, equity, inclusion, and restorative justice in schools, warning that soft-on-crime policies undermine biblical standards of justice. Finally, AFR’s Chris Woodward joins the program to discuss mortgage rates, jobless claims, oil prices, and the potential for small modular nuclear reactors to help stabilize American energy costs long-term.
Chapter Markers
00:01:16 Scripture: Acts 18 and the Biblical Work Ethic
00:03:17 Trump Immigration Enforcement Successes
00:18:16 WNBA Dodges Transgender Question
00:25:16 James Talarico on DEI and Restorative Justice
00:33:46 Economic Update with Chris Woodward
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