Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Ed, Wesley, and now Steve Jordahl.
Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
Tim Wildmon: He is here in the room.
Steve Jordahl: I am.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, before we get back to the news, raise your hand if you've ever found a snake in your house.
Co-host: In the house?
Tim Wildmon: I have.
Co-host: What?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So there are two of us in this room, two of the five. I'm going to tell my story, then Ed, you can tell yours.
Ed: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: You talk about traumatized for a few moments.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So last week, it's been pretty dry where we live this month. It has. August and September, we got a lot of rain in June and July, but after that, to speak of, it turned off.
Tim Wildmon: So at my house about four or five days ago, I was coming from my back patio, going inside to go to the refrigerator to get me a nonalcoholic drink. Just want to make that clear.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: I'm not a Baptist, but I'm close. You know what I'm saying?
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So as I turn to walk toward the refrigerator about 20 feet away, I spot something on the floor in front of the refrigerator. You ever had an experience where you go, am I really seeing what I think I see? You ever had that happen?
Co-host: I guess.
Tim Wildmon: Anyway, that was me for a moment. I'm going like, that appears to be a snake right by my refrigerator.
Tim Wildmon: It was not a big snake. It was a very skinny, slender snake.
Co-host: Well, not an anaconda or anything.
Tim Wildmon: No, it wasn't. If it was an anaconda, it was anorexic. So it was maybe a 10 or 12 inch snake, very slender, but it wasn't moving. Again, I wasn't absolutely sure it was a snake. I thought it could have been an earthworm on steroids.
Co-host: Yeah, or someone just dropped something that looks like it.
Tim Wildmon: So I froze.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Because what do you do in a moment like this? So I froze because I don't want to get closer to it because I don't want to be bit, and I also don't want to go over there by it and make it just take off through my house.
Co-host: Yeah, then you can't find it.
Tim Wildmon: And I can't find it, and I'm not sleeping in the house under those conditions. Call me a wimp, but at that point that snake owned that house.
Co-host: I'll be Bill Murray.
Tim Wildmon: I'll be a Caddyshack man. I'm going to hunt down that snake if he gets away from me. So I'm going, what do I do next? Alison's outside, I don't know, on the other side of the house.
Co-host: So go get the wife.
Tim Wildmon: Well, you take advantage of the assets you have before you.
Co-host: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: And so I knew my wife was an asset in this case. But I knew that I risked the chance of her having a pass-out moment when I uttered the words I had to say.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Because we have had two or three incidents of big snakes on our patio over an 11 year period. It's not every day, not every summer, but it has happened to the point where we turn the lights on and look outside before we go out there. Anyway, I digress.
Tim Wildmon: So I said, okay, what do I do here? I opened the door, and I didn't want to say this like this, but I didn't know what else to do because I didn't want to not eye the snake. You know what I'm saying? I wanted to keep an eye on it.
Tim Wildmon: So I said, Alison. Al, I call her Al because that's short for Alison. I said, there's a snake in the house. Do you know what the reception of your ears would cause you to do if you heard that and you were outside in the yard? There's a snake in the house.
Co-host: Right.
Tim Wildmon: So she, and she's not wanting to do this, she shrieks, a loud shriek. "Oh my. What? What? Did you really say what I thought you said?" She came running. She said, "What?" I said, "There's a snake in our house. It's over there by the fridge."
Tim Wildmon: So she comes in, and she walks over there closer to it than I wanted to get to confirm. But it wasn't moving. It was just sitting there. It wasn't moving. So anyway, I won't belabor the point anymore. There's more drama here.
Co-host: Do you know what kind of snake it was?
Tim Wildmon: Well, okay, we got it out by putting a bucket over it. That was my idea. I went outside to the garage, got a bucket, and she came in behind it. I distracted it. I was doing a little moves so that the snake wouldn't see that she was sneaking up behind it.
Co-host: They're dumb that way.
Tim Wildmon: That's why I'm saying that was my role, to do the distracting. Anyway, she put the bucket over it. We slid a piece of paper.
Co-host: What kind of snake was it?
Tim Wildmon: I don't know. It had lint all over it.
Co-host: Lint?
Tim Wildmon: It had come in the lint trap.
Co-host: Oh, yeah.
Co-host: Always wondered about those holes in your house.
Tim Wildmon: You don't know what kind because sometimes a juvenile copperhead.
Co-host: You guys took care of it?
Tim Wildmon: It was executed.
Co-host: It was executed.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, for violating my house.
Co-host: Private property.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it violated private property, and it was executed. Yes. So we took it outside, got it out away from the house, and that's what happened.
Tim Wildmon: Ed, you said real quick, because Steve will be real quick, I'm sure.
Ed: We live way, way, way out in the country. This was years ago, probably year 2000. In the utility room, we found just a rat snake, a gray rat snake.
Tim Wildmon: You found it, or Diane found it?
Ed: I had found it. I escorted it outside.
Tim Wildmon: How did you do that? Just real quick.
Ed: I just had it. It was a rat snake. I know what a gray rat snake looks like.
Tim Wildmon: You grabbed it with your hands?
Ed: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Man, you were like Tarzan.
Ed: No, listen, I can tell you a story about what my wife did one time that would just blow you away. I'm not going to tell you.
Tim Wildmon: Well, save it for another day.
Ed: I'll tell you when we get off the air. But I just escorted it outside.
Tim Wildmon: You grabbed a snake?
Ed: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Like Steve Irwin?
Ed: Yep.
Tim Wildmon: Behind the head?
Ed: Just behind the head.
Tim Wildmon: Did he bite you?
Ed: No, because I didn't squeeze it where it feels threatened.
Tim Wildmon: Do you pet it, or how do you get it calmed down?
Ed: No, no, we were right by the door, and I escorted it outside. It was happy to go out.
Co-host: You don't want it a lot like that.
Co-host: It's like the crocodile hunter. That's probably venomous.
Tim Wildmon: Goodness gracious. I don't care what kind of snake. I'm not picking it up with my bare hand. You're either a man or a fool. I don't know which one.
Ed: Well, there's a tissue paper's worth of difference between those two.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: Hey, I never had a snake in my house.
Tim Wildmon: You don't want one either, brother.
Steve Jordahl: Oh, I think I don't.
Tim Wildmon: You don't have to yell outside to your wife, "There's a snake in our house. I need your help."
Co-host: Yeah, I need your help.
Tim Wildmon: Well, I did.
Co-host: Goodness.
Tim Wildmon: Go ahead. So what do we got, Steve? What's first up for us here?
Steve Jordahl: Well, actually, I was going to play something that Wesley was asking that we play. You wanted to hear this?
Wesley: Yeah, I thought this in this morning. You guys were talking about the Lindsay Clancy case, and I found the lady. She's a TikToker, and I don't know her name, but her account is Sun Up to Sundown, Sun spelled S-O-N both times. She wanted to make sure she understood things. So this is what she's asking.
Clip Speaker: Okay, with this Lindsay Clancy trial, I feel like maybe I missed the mark because I've been seeing all of y'all's videos, and I'm just a woman, so maybe I just didn't understand fully. So help me out here, okay?
Clip Speaker: Because what I have gathered from all of your information that you've put out there is that women are fully incapable of self-governing our emotions and our hormones. So if we murder someone or multiple people, it is absolutely not our fault. It is because of our emotions and our hormones that made us do it because we cannot control it.
Clip Speaker: Unless we went to the doctor and we got put on medication for these hormones and emotions. But then it's the medication's fault. It's not our fault. It's not our hormones and emotions' fault anymore because we're on medicine for it. And so then it's the medicine's fault if we murder someone. Unless it's the wrong medicine, too much medicine, not enough medicine, then it's the doctor's fault. It's definitely not our fault as women. It's the doctor's fault, or the medication's fault, or hormones and emotions.
Clip Speaker: But you know what else? We are women. We are to be respected. We are to be seen as equal to men. We can do every job that a man can do. We can be the next president. We can be police officers. We can be in high-stressful jobs with weapons, unless our hormones go crazy because then our emotions and hormones could cause us to pop off and act some type of way. But it's not our fault. It's not our fault. It is our hormones and our emotions. Unless we're on medicine, it's the medication, unless it's the wrong medicine, too much medicine, not enough medicine, then it's the doctor's.
Clip Speaker: But we are equal to men. But don't you dare let a man tell us about our emotions and our hormones because they do not have the same reproductive system we do. Therefore, they do not have the same hormones or hormonal issues that we do. They do not understand, unless it's a trans man that's transitioning to a woman that claims that they know more about being a woman than a biological woman. Then we have to respect that man-woman because we respect their pronouns, and they are now real women because they transitioned. So then we listen to them.
Clip Speaker: Did I get all that right? Because what it sounds like to me is women just want to do crazy stuff and have zero consequences.
Co-host: Well, that is a great one.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we didn't want to belabor the discussion about the Lindsay Clancy case, but that was worth listening to. You know what, that was a woman laying that out. It wasn't one of us guys doing it.
Co-host: It's kind of, we're safe.
Tim Wildmon: The Lindsay Clancy thing is puzzling.
Wesley: I'll be proud to see that explode on TikTok and get some followers for that.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that was a pretty articulate takedown of the whole feminist argument on this. Go ahead, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: All right. Texas, the Senate race there is popping off. The Republican candidate, Ken Paxton, has gotten an infusion of cash, and he is putting out his first commercial. It is an AI commercial. In fact, I can give this to Brett. We can post the actual commercial on our website. But it basically quotes James Tallarico, as in all the things he's actually said about his faith.
Steve Jordahl: Now this ad, if people do see it, this is an AI-produced James Tallarico, and his voice has been cloned.
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Steve Jordahl: Although you could probably find his voice saying all of these things, the ambient room echo would be different because he said them in different places. But this is Ken Paxton's ad.
Ad Speaker: In the beginning, God was non-binary, and he wasn't a Christian. And God said, let there be six genders, and there were. Then God so loved the world that he gave us his only son, who was a radical feminist and never asked people to worship him. Look, I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.
Ad Speaker: James Tallarico, wrong for Texas.
Ad Speaker: America is not a Christian nation.
Ad Speaker: And wrong for America, too. I'm Ken Paxton, and I approve this message.
Co-host: That's pretty nice.
Steve Jordahl: He has said every one of those things. James Tallarico attends St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church has one of them.
Tim Wildmon: Hold on just a second. Who attends? Did you say Ken Paxton?
Steve Jordahl: Did I say Ken Paxton? James Tallarico.
Tim Wildmon: You did.
Steve Jordahl: Yes, James Tallarico attends St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin. One of their pastors is a woman named Babs Miller. She's an LGBTQ octogenarian, and she was asked to describe a little bit about her church. This is where James Tallarico is getting some of his stuff.
Babs Miller: If you polled our membership and asked them whether they were Christian, agnostic, or atheist, the vast majority would say agnostic or atheist because they don't buy the religion that we got from the Puritans.
Babs Miller: We still have people in this church that wish that that young man had not just nicked his ear but been more successful.
Tim Wildmon: Talking about that they wish that President Trump had been assassinated.
Steve Jordahl: That is Pastor, I put that in place. She's a quote minister at a, what's the name of the church? St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.
Tim Wildmon: I'm guessing this is a PCUSA church.
Steve Jordahl: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Not a PCA. And you wonder why they're dying. While that denomination is dying, she's saying they've got people who attend there who don't even believe in God.
Co-host: She said the majority.
Tim Wildmon: Well, what would be your point in going to a church like that? To going to a church at all if you're an agnostic or an atheist? What's your point?
Co-host: I guess just points in the community. Yeah, we attend a church. I don't know.
Tim Wildmon: But you're not learning anything.
Co-host: Like-minded liberal people that feel that they now can justify their liberal, anti-God stuff in a church.
Tim Wildmon: I don't know. I mean, there are a thousand things you can do with your time if you don't believe in God rather than going to a church. You're kind of a hypocrite.
Co-host: Kind of, yeah. We're going to church.
Tim Wildmon: What time's your worship service? Well, we don't actually worship because we don't actually believe in anybody. Anyway, go ahead, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: All right. I don't know that that deserves much more commentary right there. I will say this, though. It's a pretty sharp ad from Ken Paxton. I'll be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about these kinds of AI ads. He did say that stuff, so I guess that's fair game. But there are going to be a lot of people, it can be done on either side going in either direction, and these kinds of ads are going to increasingly be very, very effective for people who aren't paying attention to politics.
Tim Wildmon: There you go.
Steve Jordahl: Well, I saw Ken Paxton right there on the ad. So this ad has him coloring with a crayon into a Bible that says the King James Tallarico Bible. So it's pretty obvious that it's AI. That is the imagery, but the words that he said are all his. Tallarico.
Tim Wildmon: You're listening to Today's Issues. Tim, Ed, Wesley, and Steve. Next story, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: Did you guys talk about Mamdani attending or not attending the 9/11 memorial?
Co-host: No.
Steve Jordahl: Okay. This Friday is the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and as usual, every year they have, down at Ground Zero, the families of the survivors that get together and they read the names, all 3,000 names of the people that were killed on that terrible day. It's attended by all kinds of officials, government officials and such.
Steve Jordahl: There has been a petition with more than 100,000, 102,000 signatures, not all New Yorkers, but these are people that have signed asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this particular memorial this year because he is Muslim himself. He has consorted with all kinds of pro-terrorist people, Hasan Piker being one, apologists for terrorists. He has never disavowed terrorist rhetoric like "from the river to the sea." These are all things that are mentioned in this particular petition.
Steve Jordahl: More than 100,000 people have signed it asking him to not go. He says he's still going. Now, the people behind this petition and some others were at City Hall on Monday, New York City Hall, including Bill Donahue, who is the president of the Catholic League. He was at a press conference, and this is why he is saying that he wants Zohran Mamdani to not attend Friday's memorial.
Bill Donahue: He should not be here. He's such a divisive figure. He said that something happened on 9/11. I'll tell you what happened. Radical Muslims came in here to bomb the United States of America. He's more concerned about Islamophobia than he is the death of 3,000 innocent people on that day.
Bill Donahue: We stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against the likes of Hasan Piker, who says nothing but good things about the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas. It's a disgrace. Mamdani, do us all a favor and just stay home.
Steve Jordahl: That's Bill Donahue of the Catholic League.
Tim Wildmon: I didn't, he was unclear there.
Co-host: What is? You're not sure what he meant? Is that one of those you need to play again?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't like it when people try to make you figure out exactly what they're saying.
Co-host: Where he stands?
Tim Wildmon: Where he stands? Yeah, I've known him for a long time. We're not close, but Bill Donahue from the Catholic League, right? He's one of the good guys. He's been in this cultural battle. He's a New York City guy.
Tim Wildmon: Listen, to me, I understand what he's saying. I absolutely agree with him. When you talk about shame, what's shameful is that New York City voted Zohran Mamdani in as mayor. You do that, and you are just going to set yourself up for these kinds of situations. That guy is, I think when it's all said and done, he's going to be a disaster for that city. I wouldn't doubt at some point where he becomes even more forceful in his condemnation of Israel.
Tim Wildmon: But the New Yorkers voted for him. Now, the majority of people who voted for him were not native-born New Yorkers. Okay, native-born New Yorkers, the majority of them did not vote for Zohran Mamdani. But this is what you get.
Co-host: Didn't we mention this morning in our show prep, New York City, just to tie in the decline and wanting to live there and people moving out, that a lot of people were going to homeschooling?
Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I just mentioned the headline here. Homeschooling explodes 200% in New York City as frustrated families reject Big Apple's failing public school system. So this is another story about New York City and its decline.
Tim Wildmon: So in more important news, the SEC, the Southeastern Conference, threatened yesterday to kick LSU out of the conference, even though they're a charter member back to the '30s, I think, because LSU head coach Lane Kiffin said he was wanting to sign two guys who had already signed professional contracts, but they didn't make their pro team, so they wanted to come out to college. So he said, you're welcome here.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Well, the SEC stepped in and said, no, they're not welcome to play in the SEC because we don't take pro athletes back to campus. Now, these guys never played pro ball. They got cut, I think, but then they wanted to play after the season started.
Co-host: They did practice with the pro team.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but Lane Kiffin, the coach, he was wanting to bring them on, and the SEC said, well, okay, do that, and we're going to expel you and kick you out. So LSU recanted, didn't they?
Steve Jordahl: LSU backed down. They will not. They filled out their roster with two players who had not signed with the NFL, so they are not going to do it. I was reading that one report said that the SEC was still going to meet. I do not believe that to be the case. I think the issue is closed.
Tim Wildmon: If LSU ever gets kicked out of the SEC, it's in the book of Revelation. It's somewhere in the middle. It's chapter 11. You can read it. You have to interpret it a little bit different, but I guess you would ask James Tallarico what it means.
Co-host: That's a good one.
Tim Wildmon: It would be the end of the world. That's just not.
Steve: I agree with you, the whole Revelation. Well, I agree with your adamant about them not getting kicked out, et cetera. If they would have signed the two NFL players, I think they probably would have got kicked out because the SEC has said, you know, we have to have rules, and we have to be able to govern our conference, and you can't just disobey our rules.
Steve Jordahl: So anyway, I guess the point I was making is that may be true as long as they follow the rules, but if they don't follow that rule, do you think that was worthy of being kicked out?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but they did recant, and they submitted the roster without the guys.
Ed: You guys always manage to move the discussion back to college football.
Tim Wildmon: There you go. It's that time of year, though. You have to talk about what matters in life.
Ed: Yeah, I know you are so right. And come October, I'm going to start doing the same thing.
Tim Wildmon: Those who don't know, it'll be hockey season soon, and Ed will turn his attention to eternal matters. I'd like to know an update on the Bruins there, if you've got one.
Co-host: They've got a third leg with 10 seconds left.
Ed: How much time do you have for the 2027 season, Ed?
Tim Wildmon: Okay, so coming in a few weeks. We're out of time. We thank you for yours. Appreciate it. I don't have time to thank everybody that's been a part of this very successful show today. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Take care.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Ed, Wesley, and now Steve Jordahl.
Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
Tim Wildmon: He is here in the room.
Steve Jordahl: I am.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, before we get back to the news, raise your hand if you've ever found a snake in your house.
Co-host: In the house?
Tim Wildmon: I have.
Co-host: What?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So there are two of us in this room, two of the five. I'm going to tell my story, then Ed, you can tell yours.
Ed: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: You talk about traumatized for a few moments.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So last week, it's been pretty dry where we live this month. It has. August and September, we got a lot of rain in June and July, but after that, to speak of, it turned off.
Tim Wildmon: So at my house about four or five days ago, I was coming from my back patio, going inside to go to the refrigerator to get me a nonalcoholic drink. Just want to make that clear.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: I'm not a Baptist, but I'm close. You know what I'm saying?
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So as I turn to walk toward the refrigerator about 20 feet away, I spot something on the floor in front of the refrigerator. You ever had an experience where you go, am I really seeing what I think I see? You ever had that happen?
Co-host: I guess.
Tim Wildmon: Anyway, that was me for a moment. I'm going like, that appears to be a snake right by my refrigerator.
Tim Wildmon: It was not a big snake. It was a very skinny, slender snake.
Co-host: Well, not an anaconda or anything.
Tim Wildmon: No, it wasn't. If it was an anaconda, it was anorexic. So it was maybe a 10 or 12 inch snake, very slender, but it wasn't moving. Again, I wasn't absolutely sure it was a snake. I thought it could have been an earthworm on steroids.
Co-host: Yeah, or someone just dropped something that looks like it.
Tim Wildmon: So I froze.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Because what do you do in a moment like this? So I froze because I don't want to get closer to it because I don't want to be bit, and I also don't want to go over there by it and make it just take off through my house.
Co-host: Yeah, then you can't find it.
Tim Wildmon: And I can't find it, and I'm not sleeping in the house under those conditions. Call me a wimp, but at that point that snake owned that house.
Co-host: I'll be Bill Murray.
Tim Wildmon: I'll be a Caddyshack man. I'm going to hunt down that snake if he gets away from me. So I'm going, what do I do next? Alison's outside, I don't know, on the other side of the house.
Co-host: So go get the wife.
Tim Wildmon: Well, you take advantage of the assets you have before you.
Co-host: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: And so I knew my wife was an asset in this case. But I knew that I risked the chance of her having a pass-out moment when I uttered the words I had to say.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Because we have had two or three incidents of big snakes on our patio over an 11 year period. It's not every day, not every summer, but it has happened to the point where we turn the lights on and look outside before we go out there. Anyway, I digress.
Tim Wildmon: So I said, okay, what do I do here? I opened the door, and I didn't want to say this like this, but I didn't know what else to do because I didn't want to not eye the snake. You know what I'm saying? I wanted to keep an eye on it.
Tim Wildmon: So I said, Alison. Al, I call her Al because that's short for Alison. I said, there's a snake in the house. Do you know what the reception of your ears would cause you to do if you heard that and you were outside in the yard? There's a snake in the house.
Co-host: Right.
Tim Wildmon: So she, and she's not wanting to do this, she shrieks, a loud shriek. "Oh my. What? What? Did you really say what I thought you said?" She came running. She said, "What?" I said, "There's a snake in our house. It's over there by the fridge."
Tim Wildmon: So she comes in, and she walks over there closer to it than I wanted to get to confirm. But it wasn't moving. It was just sitting there. It wasn't moving. So anyway, I won't belabor the point anymore. There's more drama here.
Co-host: Do you know what kind of snake it was?
Tim Wildmon: Well, okay, we got it out by putting a bucket over it. That was my idea. I went outside to the garage, got a bucket, and she came in behind it. I distracted it. I was doing a little moves so that the snake wouldn't see that she was sneaking up behind it.
Co-host: They're dumb that way.
Tim Wildmon: That's why I'm saying that was my role, to do the distracting. Anyway, she put the bucket over it. We slid a piece of paper.
Co-host: What kind of snake was it?
Tim Wildmon: I don't know. It had lint all over it.
Co-host: Lint?
Tim Wildmon: It had come in the lint trap.
Co-host: Oh, yeah.
Co-host: Always wondered about those holes in your house.
Tim Wildmon: You don't know what kind because sometimes a juvenile copperhead.
Co-host: You guys took care of it?
Tim Wildmon: It was executed.
Co-host: It was executed.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, for violating my house.
Co-host: Private property.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it violated private property, and it was executed. Yes. So we took it outside, got it out away from the house, and that's what happened.
Tim Wildmon: Ed, you said real quick, because Steve will be real quick, I'm sure.
Ed: We live way, way, way out in the country. This was years ago, probably year 2000. In the utility room, we found just a rat snake, a gray rat snake.
Tim Wildmon: You found it, or Diane found it?
Ed: I had found it. I escorted it outside.
Tim Wildmon: How did you do that? Just real quick.
Ed: I just had it. It was a rat snake. I know what a gray rat snake looks like.
Tim Wildmon: You grabbed it with your hands?
Ed: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Man, you were like Tarzan.
Ed: No, listen, I can tell you a story about what my wife did one time that would just blow you away. I'm not going to tell you.
Tim Wildmon: Well, save it for another day.
Ed: I'll tell you when we get off the air. But I just escorted it outside.
Tim Wildmon: You grabbed a snake?
Ed: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Like Steve Irwin?
Ed: Yep.
Tim Wildmon: Behind the head?
Ed: Just behind the head.
Tim Wildmon: Did he bite you?
Ed: No, because I didn't squeeze it where it feels threatened.
Tim Wildmon: Do you pet it, or how do you get it calmed down?
Ed: No, no, we were right by the door, and I escorted it outside. It was happy to go out.
Co-host: You don't want it a lot like that.
Co-host: It's like the crocodile hunter. That's probably venomous.
Tim Wildmon: Goodness gracious. I don't care what kind of snake. I'm not picking it up with my bare hand. You're either a man or a fool. I don't know which one.
Ed: Well, there's a tissue paper's worth of difference between those two.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: Hey, I never had a snake in my house.
Tim Wildmon: You don't want one either, brother.
Steve Jordahl: Oh, I think I don't.
Tim Wildmon: You don't have to yell outside to your wife, "There's a snake in our house. I need your help."
Co-host: Yeah, I need your help.
Tim Wildmon: Well, I did.
Co-host: Goodness.
Tim Wildmon: Go ahead. So what do we got, Steve? What's first up for us here?
Steve Jordahl: Well, actually, I was going to play something that Wesley was asking that we play. You wanted to hear this?
Wesley: Yeah, I thought this in this morning. You guys were talking about the Lindsay Clancy case, and I found the lady. She's a TikToker, and I don't know her name, but her account is Sun Up to Sundown, Sun spelled S-O-N both times. She wanted to make sure she understood things. So this is what she's asking.
Clip Speaker: Okay, with this Lindsay Clancy trial, I feel like maybe I missed the mark because I've been seeing all of y'all's videos, and I'm just a woman, so maybe I just didn't understand fully. So help me out here, okay?
Clip Speaker: Because what I have gathered from all of your information that you've put out there is that women are fully incapable of self-governing our emotions and our hormones. So if we murder someone or multiple people, it is absolutely not our fault. It is because of our emotions and our hormones that made us do it because we cannot control it.
Clip Speaker: Unless we went to the doctor and we got put on medication for these hormones and emotions. But then it's the medication's fault. It's not our fault. It's not our hormones and emotions' fault anymore because we're on medicine for it. And so then it's the medicine's fault if we murder someone. Unless it's the wrong medicine, too much medicine, not enough medicine, then it's the doctor's fault. It's definitely not our fault as women. It's the doctor's fault, or the medication's fault, or hormones and emotions.
Clip Speaker: But you know what else? We are women. We are to be respected. We are to be seen as equal to men. We can do every job that a man can do. We can be the next president. We can be police officers. We can be in high-stressful jobs with weapons, unless our hormones go crazy because then our emotions and hormones could cause us to pop off and act some type of way. But it's not our fault. It's not our fault. It is our hormones and our emotions. Unless we're on medicine, it's the medication, unless it's the wrong medicine, too much medicine, not enough medicine, then it's the doctor's.
Clip Speaker: But we are equal to men. But don't you dare let a man tell us about our emotions and our hormones because they do not have the same reproductive system we do. Therefore, they do not have the same hormones or hormonal issues that we do. They do not understand, unless it's a trans man that's transitioning to a woman that claims that they know more about being a woman than a biological woman. Then we have to respect that man-woman because we respect their pronouns, and they are now real women because they transitioned. So then we listen to them.
Clip Speaker: Did I get all that right? Because what it sounds like to me is women just want to do crazy stuff and have zero consequences.
Co-host: Well, that is a great one.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we didn't want to belabor the discussion about the Lindsay Clancy case, but that was worth listening to. You know what, that was a woman laying that out. It wasn't one of us guys doing it.
Co-host: It's kind of, we're safe.
Tim Wildmon: The Lindsay Clancy thing is puzzling.
Wesley: I'll be proud to see that explode on TikTok and get some followers for that.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that was a pretty articulate takedown of the whole feminist argument on this. Go ahead, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: All right. Texas, the Senate race there is popping off. The Republican candidate, Ken Paxton, has gotten an infusion of cash, and he is putting out his first commercial. It is an AI commercial. In fact, I can give this to Brett. We can post the actual commercial on our website. But it basically quotes James Tallarico, as in all the things he's actually said about his faith.
Steve Jordahl: Now this ad, if people do see it, this is an AI-produced James Tallarico, and his voice has been cloned.
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Steve Jordahl: Although you could probably find his voice saying all of these things, the ambient room echo would be different because he said them in different places. But this is Ken Paxton's ad.
Ad Speaker: In the beginning, God was non-binary, and he wasn't a Christian. And God said, let there be six genders, and there were. Then God so loved the world that he gave us his only son, who was a radical feminist and never asked people to worship him. Look, I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.
Ad Speaker: James Tallarico, wrong for Texas.
Ad Speaker: America is not a Christian nation.
Ad Speaker: And wrong for America, too. I'm Ken Paxton, and I approve this message.
Co-host: That's pretty nice.
Steve Jordahl: He has said every one of those things. James Tallarico attends St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church has one of them.
Tim Wildmon: Hold on just a second. Who attends? Did you say Ken Paxton?
Steve Jordahl: Did I say Ken Paxton? James Tallarico.
Tim Wildmon: You did.
Steve Jordahl: Yes, James Tallarico attends St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin. One of their pastors is a woman named Babs Miller. She's an LGBTQ octogenarian, and she was asked to describe a little bit about her church. This is where James Tallarico is getting some of his stuff.
Babs Miller: If you polled our membership and asked them whether they were Christian, agnostic, or atheist, the vast majority would say agnostic or atheist because they don't buy the religion that we got from the Puritans.
Babs Miller: We still have people in this church that wish that that young man had not just nicked his ear but been more successful.
Tim Wildmon: Talking about that they wish that President Trump had been assassinated.
Steve Jordahl: That is Pastor, I put that in place. She's a quote minister at a, what's the name of the church? St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.
Tim Wildmon: I'm guessing this is a PCUSA church.
Steve Jordahl: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Not a PCA. And you wonder why they're dying. While that denomination is dying, she's saying they've got people who attend there who don't even believe in God.
Co-host: She said the majority.
Tim Wildmon: Well, what would be your point in going to a church like that? To going to a church at all if you're an agnostic or an atheist? What's your point?
Co-host: I guess just points in the community. Yeah, we attend a church. I don't know.
Tim Wildmon: But you're not learning anything.
Co-host: Like-minded liberal people that feel that they now can justify their liberal, anti-God stuff in a church.
Tim Wildmon: I don't know. I mean, there are a thousand things you can do with your time if you don't believe in God rather than going to a church. You're kind of a hypocrite.
Co-host: Kind of, yeah. We're going to church.
Tim Wildmon: What time's your worship service? Well, we don't actually worship because we don't actually believe in anybody. Anyway, go ahead, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: All right. I don't know that that deserves much more commentary right there. I will say this, though. It's a pretty sharp ad from Ken Paxton. I'll be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about these kinds of AI ads. He did say that stuff, so I guess that's fair game. But there are going to be a lot of people, it can be done on either side going in either direction, and these kinds of ads are going to increasingly be very, very effective for people who aren't paying attention to politics.
Tim Wildmon: There you go.
Steve Jordahl: Well, I saw Ken Paxton right there on the ad. So this ad has him coloring with a crayon into a Bible that says the King James Tallarico Bible. So it's pretty obvious that it's AI. That is the imagery, but the words that he said are all his. Tallarico.
Tim Wildmon: You're listening to Today's Issues. Tim, Ed, Wesley, and Steve. Next story, Steve.
Steve Jordahl: Did you guys talk about Mamdani attending or not attending the 9/11 memorial?
Co-host: No.
Steve Jordahl: Okay. This Friday is the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and as usual, every year they have, down at Ground Zero, the families of the survivors that get together and they read the names, all 3,000 names of the people that were killed on that terrible day. It's attended by all kinds of officials, government officials and such.
Steve Jordahl: There has been a petition with more than 100,000, 102,000 signatures, not all New Yorkers, but these are people that have signed asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this particular memorial this year because he is Muslim himself. He has consorted with all kinds of pro-terrorist people, Hasan Piker being one, apologists for terrorists. He has never disavowed terrorist rhetoric like "from the river to the sea." These are all things that are mentioned in this particular petition.
Steve Jordahl: More than 100,000 people have signed it asking him to not go. He says he's still going. Now, the people behind this petition and some others were at City Hall on Monday, New York City Hall, including Bill Donahue, who is the president of the Catholic League. He was at a press conference, and this is why he is saying that he wants Zohran Mamdani to not attend Friday's memorial.
Bill Donahue: He should not be here. He's such a divisive figure. He said that something happened on 9/11. I'll tell you what happened. Radical Muslims came in here to bomb the United States of America. He's more concerned about Islamophobia than he is the death of 3,000 innocent people on that day.
Bill Donahue: We stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against the likes of Hasan Piker, who says nothing but good things about the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas. It's a disgrace. Mamdani, do us all a favor and just stay home.
Steve Jordahl: That's Bill Donahue of the Catholic League.
Tim Wildmon: I didn't, he was unclear there.
Co-host: What is? You're not sure what he meant? Is that one of those you need to play again?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't like it when people try to make you figure out exactly what they're saying.
Co-host: Where he stands?
Tim Wildmon: Where he stands? Yeah, I've known him for a long time. We're not close, but Bill Donahue from the Catholic League, right? He's one of the good guys. He's been in this cultural battle. He's a New York City guy.
Tim Wildmon: Listen, to me, I understand what he's saying. I absolutely agree with him. When you talk about shame, what's shameful is that New York City voted Zohran Mamdani in as mayor. You do that, and you are just going to set yourself up for these kinds of situations. That guy is, I think when it's all said and done, he's going to be a disaster for that city. I wouldn't doubt at some point where he becomes even more forceful in his condemnation of Israel.
Tim Wildmon: But the New Yorkers voted for him. Now, the majority of people who voted for him were not native-born New Yorkers. Okay, native-born New Yorkers, the majority of them did not vote for Zohran Mamdani. But this is what you get.
Co-host: Didn't we mention this morning in our show prep, New York City, just to tie in the decline and wanting to live there and people moving out, that a lot of people were going to homeschooling?
Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I just mentioned the headline here. Homeschooling explodes 200% in New York City as frustrated families reject Big Apple's failing public school system. So this is another story about New York City and its decline.
Tim Wildmon: So in more important news, the SEC, the Southeastern Conference, threatened yesterday to kick LSU out of the conference, even though they're a charter member back to the '30s, I think, because LSU head coach Lane Kiffin said he was wanting to sign two guys who had already signed professional contracts, but they didn't make their pro team, so they wanted to come out to college. So he said, you're welcome here.
Co-host: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Well, the SEC stepped in and said, no, they're not welcome to play in the SEC because we don't take pro athletes back to campus. Now, these guys never played pro ball. They got cut, I think, but then they wanted to play after the season started.
Co-host: They did practice with the pro team.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but Lane Kiffin, the coach, he was wanting to bring them on, and the SEC said, well, okay, do that, and we're going to expel you and kick you out. So LSU recanted, didn't they?
Steve Jordahl: LSU backed down. They will not. They filled out their roster with two players who had not signed with the NFL, so they are not going to do it. I was reading that one report said that the SEC was still going to meet. I do not believe that to be the case. I think the issue is closed.
Tim Wildmon: If LSU ever gets kicked out of the SEC, it's in the book of Revelation. It's somewhere in the middle. It's chapter 11. You can read it. You have to interpret it a little bit different, but I guess you would ask James Tallarico what it means.
Co-host: That's a good one.
Tim Wildmon: It would be the end of the world. That's just not.
Steve: I agree with you, the whole Revelation. Well, I agree with your adamant about them not getting kicked out, et cetera. If they would have signed the two NFL players, I think they probably would have got kicked out because the SEC has said, you know, we have to have rules, and we have to be able to govern our conference, and you can't just disobey our rules.
Steve Jordahl: So anyway, I guess the point I was making is that may be true as long as they follow the rules, but if they don't follow that rule, do you think that was worthy of being kicked out?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but they did recant, and they submitted the roster without the guys.
Ed: You guys always manage to move the discussion back to college football.
Tim Wildmon: There you go. It's that time of year, though. You have to talk about what matters in life.
Ed: Yeah, I know you are so right. And come October, I'm going to start doing the same thing.
Tim Wildmon: Those who don't know, it'll be hockey season soon, and Ed will turn his attention to eternal matters. I'd like to know an update on the Bruins there, if you've got one.
Co-host: They've got a third leg with 10 seconds left.
Ed: How much time do you have for the 2027 season, Ed?
Tim Wildmon: Okay, so coming in a few weeks. We're out of time. We thank you for yours. Appreciate it. I don't have time to thank everybody that's been a part of this very successful show today. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Take care.
Tim Wildmon and the panel examine Ken Paxton's AI-generated campaign ad quoting opponent James Talarico's controversial remarks about Christianity, including statements made at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, where pastor Babs Miller reportedly described most members as agnostic or atheist and expressed regret that an assassination attempt on President Trump was not more successful. The hosts debate whether using a candidate's own words in an AI format crosses an ethical line. The program covers a petition signed by more than 100,000 people urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip the upcoming 9/11 anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero, citing his associations with pro-terrorist figures and failure to disavow anti-Israel rhetoric. Bill Donohue of the Catholic League is featured calling the mayor a divisive figure who is more concerned with Islamophobia than honoring the victims of the 2001 attacks. The hosts also react to a viral TikTok video satirizing feminist arguments surrounding the Lindsay Clancy case, discuss the Southeastern Conference's threat to expel LSU over Coach Lane Kiffin's attempt to roster former NFL signees, and share personal stories about encountering snakes indoors.
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