Today's Issues continues on AFR with Tim Wildman and Steve Jordan
>> Steve Jordahl: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. we appreciate it very much. You can send us an email@comments fr.net if you want to. [email protected] if you send us an email. Remember, we have feelings and we don't like them hurt. So you need speak for yourself.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't have much feelings, but you don't.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, all right, then, if you want to let us have it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Emails can be addressed to Wesley Wildmon.
>> Tim Wildmon: You send it to Wesley because he doesn't have any feelings.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Let me take that back. I have feelings for my, family.
>> Tim Wildmon: With umpires every week. So he's lost his. He's lost his feelings for people if they got. no, you have great respect. I'm just kidding.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And, and for our listeners. If you want to. If you want to let me have one, go for it. But.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go for it. But think twice. Okay? Think twice. all right. So, Wesley's with me. Raised in Kansas City. We're in Tupelo. And in, studio with us now is Steve. I got fishes on my shirt.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Jordan, I didn't know there.
>> Steve Jordahl: That would be an awful long.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, Steve Paisley Jordan is your. Yeah, that's your name. Everybody knows. But you got a shirt with fish.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't. Yeah, I don't have enough Paisley shirts to wear them every day.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, welcome.
>> Wesley Wildmon: First I've seen that one, though.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
Amazon plans to charge customers for shopping at Walmart by scanning as they leave
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, before we jump into Steve's stack of stuff, there's. Let's wrap this up. We were talking, before the break about this new, way of charging people for shopping at Walmart, by scanning and so forth. You were going to tell us,
>> Wesley Wildmon: There'S a technology called just walk out.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It says checkout free technology that uses computer vision and sensors fusion to track items and charge customers as they leave the store. So you're not even scanning anything now? From what I understand and what I'm reading, Amazon owns the technology. They have it in their stores, which I've never been to a brick and mortar Amazon store. I guess they do exist somewhere. Not, in Mississippi, though, but this, technology exists in their stores, and they're trying, as of 2024, they're trying to expand that technology in other retail stores.
>> Tim Wildmon: So.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Such as think of a Target or Walmart. there is no scanning. Here is walk in, pick up the item Is walk out, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Is it, Is this Costco you were talking about where you were talking about before?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I thought. I'm pretty sure I read one. One story a year or so ago where Costco tried this technology in their store. I don't know if it worked or if they kept doing it or if they multiplied, but the technology is called just walk out technology. Amazon owns it and they're trying to get it in other stores.
>> Steve Jordahl: Kroger. I used to shop for groceries at Kroger. I still do, but I mean, used to. They had a. A scanner you could check out with. You scan an item as you put it in your cart. When you get up to the checkout counter, all you do is scan a barcode on the checkout counter.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Similar.
>> Steve Jordahl: Whole bill comes up, you pay, you leave.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, there you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: Y scaring me. I just, I don't even know if I want to go in stores anymore or not.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I mean, I don't know what's going to fall from the ceiling. Yeah, you got lasers from the, from the cameras. Don't touch that.
>> Tim Wildmon: So pretty soon, pretty, soon I'm going to walk in with a $20 bill and they're going to go, what is this? I don't know where you think you're going to use that, sir.
>> Wesley Wildmon: For two reasons. One, that's not going to be enough. Number two, they're not going to know what that is, so.
>> Steve Jordahl: But it's very convenient. The only, you know, so along with it is, you know, one of the things that happens is you get the precursor for the mark of the beast, you know, so there's always that.
>> Tim Wildmon: I was just going to say that. Pretty soon they're going to say, look, give me your hand. We'll put something on your hand, on your forehead. We'll just scan you as you come in and out, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: In the words of George W. Bush, right there. Not gunned at George H.W. bush, I should say. He was the one. Remember that?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Dana Carvey, who impersonate him on Saturday Night Live, made that expression famous. Not gonna die. So. All right, all right. Steve. Hey, before we do that, Sorry, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's okay. I'm ready. Whenever.
Levate: College football now is pay to play. It's no longer amateur
>> Tim Wildmon: From the world of sports, I gotta mention this because this was refreshing. I was told about this before we came in the studio. So we all here are college football fans, right? To some degree. I know you're a pro guy.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, but I moved into Alabama, so. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so you have what's called in college football now. It's no longer amateur. It's pay to play. Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: In fact, Mississippi State, my school that I pull for, which I know will never win a national championship. And I've dealt with that 20 years ago. Okay. In my soul. Not even a. Not even going to get a whiff. they did in 2014. That's all right. That's okay. There are other more important things in life, unless you live in Alabama, in which case they have their priorities all out of whack. I say that only because I, have a chance.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. If I had a chance, my priorities would be like the fans in Alabama or Ohio State. However, I wanted to say this. What's changed in the world of college athletics is something called nil. Name, image, likeness. This was a ruling by the court a few years ago. Supreme Court, I think, and I don't say that I disagree with it, but it's when you use a name, image, or likeness of a athlete to promote a product that that athlete should be compensated for the use of his name, image or likeness. I don't have a problem with that necessarily. Okay. But what it's turned into is not name, image, likeness. It's just outright paying players.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So. And this happens all the time now. It's. It's really discouraging as a fan of a school that struggles, that add to that transfer portal. Yes. Well, Mississippi State, for example, had a freshman quarterback start this year, and he did really well.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And all season into him, what we, the program invested the whole.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. If this happens, I'm just using one example. This happens all over America to a lot of schools. So the school, recruited the kid, paid a scholarship, I guess, gave him a little money or something like that. So he plays. And so you're looking forward to his next year when he will be a sophomore with a year of experience. You're going, man, this maybe could make our team better. Well, no, he has a great freshman year. What happens? LSU says, how much do you want? Yes, we'll pay you whatever you want. Come down here and play for us. I don't blame lsu because that's the rules and you can do it. Okay, so if they want to buy our quarterback, that's what happens. Ohio, State, last year, bought a running back from Ole Miss.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. The help him in the national championship. Judkins was his name.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it worked.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it worked.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was a good investment at Ole Miss.
>> Tim Wildmon: Lane Kiffin recruited the kid right. Right out of Alabama and invested in him for a year or two years.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Two years gave him the starting role as a fresh.
>> Tim Wildmon: He became like an all American type. What does he do? He says, I'm leaving y'all because Ohio State's going to pay me more. I mean it's, it's kind of just crazy, ridiculous. But that's the way of the world. Now. This leads me to this point. I wanted to command the University of Tennessee and their coach, Josh Hypo. I was just reading about this. He's their head football coach. Well, their quarterback, their star quarterback who was coming back this year. I can't pronounce the quarterback's last name. His first.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nico something. Nico.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm a Lev. I'm Levate. It's. I am, a L, E, A V, A. Okay, so that's his name. He's a tall kid, six four six five. Very athletic and is an excellent college quarterback.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, he decided, this quarterback decided, I'm not going to go practice with my teammates for spring practice until they pay me more and until I get my contract. That's what I call it.
Steve Spurrier: College football contracts are different than in the NFL
Well it is this pro, it's pro football by any other name. Okay. So he said, Josh Hypo, the court, the coach, who I'm sure loves this kid, it's his quarterback, said so long, see ya. We're not doing that here. And I'm going like, wow, I'm stunned. Usually the coaches bow the knee to the player now.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because it can help them win. And Josh Hypo said, we're not doing that here. You don't come to practice, you get a scholarship and you're going to threaten us like this? I call it a threat. You're out of here. So what do we say, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: I think the reason that you don't have as big of a problem with this in the NFL is because of contracts. They don't have the contracts in college football. So a, ah, ah, college player can go as many times as he wants and you know, year by year. But in the pros you give them a contract, they got a three or four year contract.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right? that's true.
>> Steve Jordahl: And they have to stay.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's true.
>> Steve Jordahl: Contract.
>> Tim Wildmon: Unless they're traded.
>> Steve Jordahl: Unless you're traded. But I mean that's, that's why you don't have the same problem of people dashing to the, well, you know, Kansas City Chiefs. Sorry, what? Really?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But it's true.
>> Tim Wildmon: But what happened, what happened with the name image Likeness, and it's all over college sports right now. Is which I say, if you're. If you're truly paying a. A athlete for the use of his picture or his name or his image, okay, that's one thing. I don't really have a problem with that necessarily. Okay. Some people do, but it's not that anymore. As Nick Saban, the former coach of Alabama, did. The legendary Nick Saban, he said, this. It's not nil. It's just. It's just, paying players, paying players outright to play college sports. That's all it is. That's what it's become. And, anyway, I don't like it, but I don't know what you do about it exactly.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's the reason that he's a former coach.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, he said he wasn't going to do that anymore. He got out. He got it. Of course, he was also in his 70s or 71. Has that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that former Tennessee player caught on. Is anybody else picked him?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, it just happened, like, today or yesterday. I'm sure he probably will, but I don't. This is going to send a message to, these kids, say kids, these young men and women. You're not gonna. You're not gonna sign a scholarship with our school and then not show up for practice because you're gonna demand more money. That's. That's gonna. I think this kind of thing will stop that if all the coaches stick together.
>> Steve Jordahl: If they stick together.
>> Tim Wildmon: If they stick together. so we'll see what happens there.
The presidents have nicknames for each other now
All right, Steve, what do you got?
>> Steve Jordahl: I. Just a little note here as we get started. You, you remember yesterday, President Trump, was in the Oval Office with Nayib Bukele from, El Salvador. Right. Well, that has turned into quite the relationship. They now have nicknames for each other. Kind of. Kind of weird, but they do.
>> Tim Wildmon: So who's got a nickname for who now?
>> Tim Wildmon: The presidents have nicknames.
>> Steve Jordahl: The presidents have nicknames for each other. Trump tweeted out something about President B, and so, Bekele tweeted out, I already miss you, President T.
>> Tim Wildmon: this is making me uncomfortable.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, no.
>> Tim Wildmon: They need to keep their bromance to themselves.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Please.
>> Tim Wildmon: Huh? Come on.
>> Steve Jordahl: Twitter's anything but private, isn't it?
>> Tim Wildmon: President B. President T. Yeah. somebody call Mr. T.
>> Steve Jordahl: Bit of the fool.
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley, hold on a second. Wes, do you have any idea what he's saying? What Steve said, I said, bro, when Steve Says pity the fool. You know what he's talking about?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, no, not a clue. There's. That was.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's sad.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's why so sad.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I was awkwardly silent and allowed y'all to finish Yalls bromance.
>> Tim Wildmon: it was a.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Anyway, I'm guessing it was something from the 60s.
>> Tim Wildmon: well, you can move up to the 80s.
>> Tim Wildmon: One one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
>> Tim Wildmon: The 18 team. The A Team.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Now I am familiar with the. The A Team. The modern version.
>> Tim Wildmon: So do you know who. Do you know who Mr. T is? You.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You know, I, I probably would recognize.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Look, just.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just Google 18 if people wondering. We're trying to help people.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Trying to help West.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're just here to help.
>> Wesley Wildmon: This is the one I'm familiar with. Right there.
>> Tim Wildmon: The 18. That's the 18 West.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's the modern A team, right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Exactly.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it's based on that. But they had an original A team.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Which one's going to be Mr. T? You know, which one's Mr. T?
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know. Mr. T is Mr. T. There cannot be a replacement.
>> Wesley Wildmon: There's Mr. T. That's the old Mr.
>> Tim Wildmon: T. He box Rocky in one of the Rocky movies.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's a modern Mr. T. Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, that is. Did they call him Mr. T?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, it's the same.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, okay. I didn't know that.
>> Tim Wildmon: We didn't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: See, we didn't know that. And you didn't know there was original.
>> Steve Jordahl: Does the original Mr. T have a name other than Mr. T? I suppose he wasn't born Mr. T.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I don't know. I think we've used up our quote of saying Mr. T for the year already and.
Non governmental organizations were instrumental in facilitating illegal immigration, Steve Law says
All right, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: Steve, Tim, you brought a interesting story to us this morning about non, governmental organizations and how we kind of have this perception it's out there that these are NGOs. NGOs, they're kind groups that do good service.
>> Tim Wildmon: Charitable work.
>> Steve Jordahl: Charitable work. You know, you got, you know, all these Catholic charities.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: All this kind of stuff. It turns out, after DOGE is taking a look at specifically usaid, what happens, what these guys are, these non governmental organizations are, as this article says in the New York Post, anything but non governmental. They get the money from the government and they do the will of the, the political, the Democrat, Democrat party things that they wouldn't be able to get, passed if, if it was the government doing it. For example, a lot of these NGOs, there's several of Them that were very instrumental in facilitating the influx of immigrants m. And illegal immigrants into this country. United States would fund these things, these groups. They would go down, they would pay for food and lodging for these, migrants. He's remember the big migrant, convoy trains or whatever. They were crowds. Yeah. And they'd get them over the border. They would make sure that they provide them with some, stuff here. So basically the government was using these NGOS to keep the border open. And it's just one example of how they're called. This, this is this article by Glenn Reynolds says he calls them a parallel government.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Just to dumb it down even more for our folks here. Ngo, which means non government, non governmental organization. Organization. there are they. They would be what you would consider, what most Americans would consider. If they saw the names of these groups like Catholic Charities for Ex. You would think, well, these are do gooders. Okay, there's your charitable organizations that maybe just help the poor and the downtrodden or whatever the are. Bill. Bill. things in third world countries and all this stuff. The problem is that's fine. Raise your own money. Okay. Raise your own money. Because what was happening is before Elon Musk and Doge exposed these things is now some people were aware of what's going on here, but the Democrats, include in such things as an ominous bill, omnibus bill, these massive bills that, you know, billions and billions of dollars are spent, but nobody really, all the congressmen, the senators, the Democrats stick these NGOs, in there for funding so that US taxpayer dollars go to these organizations. Well, these organizations, in the case of illegal immigration, they were fostering and helping bring in immigrants into our country illegally using donations. Not donations, using money from the federal treasury that the Democrats had voted to give them. And that's how this works. So Elon Musk has making this a, ah, high profile issue. And so hopefully something can be, Well, I think it will be. It will. President Trump and others are going to do something about it, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they're not going to fund these same NGOs. First of all, they're Republican, administration, so they don't have the same goals as the Democrat and these NGOs. So these NGOs still have the Democrat mindset. they're still going to try to do what they can.
>> Tim Wildmon: But what happens is much of the left in this country is funded by tax dollars, while we on the conservative side have to raise our own money from grandma out there on Social Security. And we're trying to appeal to her to help fund this ministry. And God has always provided for us and others. But that's not fair. When these, groups. I guarantee if the Catholic Charities were doing straight up Catholic, theological issues, they wouldn't be funded by the Democrats. If they were a pro life, for example, you wouldn't find a pro life Catholic group funded by the government. The Democrats would object to that. But as long as they're this liberal, side of Catholicism, which is promoting, illegal immigration into the country, into our country, then they're fine with funding that. The federal tax doll.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is the paragraph that kind of sums up what this is, again, from the New York Post article. This was US Taxpayer money laundered through, quote, independent organizations that serve to promote goals contrary to US Law, but consistent with the policy preferences of the Biden administration.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, yes. Now, there was one example put in there of, You want a swamp story? Yeah, you got it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse voted to give $14 million to Ocean Conservancy
This, related to what we're talking about here.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, you're talking about Rhode Island.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. yeah, you got that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep. Rhode island has a senator named Sheldon Whitehouse. he's been in Congress for quite a while.
>> Tim Wildmon: Democrat.
>> Steve Jordahl: Democrat. And he, was one of the senators that voted to award $14.2 million to an NGO called Ocean Conservancy. 14 million since 2008. Now, Wesley, what. What would you think Ocean Conservancy. Conservancy would do?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, you said Ocean.
>> Steve Jordahl: Ocean Conservancy.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'd, do something with the Ocean as it relates to cleaning it up. I'm just totally guessing. I'm just go.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they were. They. Whatever they were doing, they turned around and paid Sheldon Whitehouse's wife, her name is Sandra Whitehouse, and her firm, $2.7 million just to consult.
>> Wesley Wildmon: To consult it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. So all of a sudden, the money's not going to the end product. In fact, a lot of these NGOs, a lot of these organizations, less than 10% of the money that is given to them by regular people go to the purpose of that they're supposed to do.
>> Tim Wildmon: So just to be clear here, what you have here, you have a Democrat, U.S. senator from Rhode island, name is what?
>> Steve Jordahl: Sheldon Whitehouse.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, follow the money here. Sheldon Whitehouse. Is that his real name? White House.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: okay, so his. He. He. He votes to give.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He's responsible for allocating.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. That's right. That's right. So he votes to give our tax dollar money, $14 million of it, to this group, Steve mentioned Oceanic, whatever they call.
>> Steve Jordahl: What do they call Ocean Conservancy?
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, nobody knows what they do, but they conserve ocean. They conserve the ocean. They're a liberal group. Trust me on this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah, they're a lefty group, probably, you know, end of the world global warming group. They're that kind of group. So this Democrat U.S. senator votes to give them $14 million.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so this group that gets the $14 million, they say we're gonna. We're. This senator's wife works for a company. What does they do? they.
>> Wesley Wildmon: They consult.
>> Tim Wildmon: They could say. Yeah, his wife works for a consulting, this, Ocean. Who got 14 million. They give 3 million almost to this consulting group which the wife of the senator, she works for them.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, she's in charge of it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, she's in charge of it. So, you wonder that is. That is the epitome of swamp. Yes, right there.
>> Steve Jordahl: You wonder how someone that is living on $200,000 a year, after 10 years, has multiple luxury homes, spread across.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's unethical, if not immortal, if not illegal. I think. I think you've got. Or at least you've got to provide some kind of, where you show that people submitted their bids for the.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Work, at minimum.
>> Tim Wildmon: But anyway, so White House Senator Whitehouse votes for 14 million of tax dollar money to go to this group that his wife's in charge of. She get. They get 3 million. And I don't know how much of that goes back into the White House family, coffer, I would probably say. Good. Some of it does.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Okay, we're gonna.
>> Steve Jordahl: That was quick.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, it was quick.
>> Tim Wildmon: Tomorrow.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Appreciate you bringing that story.
>> Tim Wildmon: We need to learn how to do this.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Join them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's pretty cool. They just vote themselves money by putting their wife, their wife's in charge of the group that they give the tax dollars to.
>> Steve Jordahl: American Family Association, I don't think.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. all right, thanks. Thanks, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
Thanks to Brent Creeley, our producer, Wesley Wildman
>> Tim Wildmon: Thanks to Brent Creeley, our producer, Wesley Wildmon. Ray. Forgot all about you, brother. Sorry about that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Glad to be here, Tim. Thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Appreciate your attitude right there. And, let's see. Chris Woodward was on the show, too. We'll see you tomorrow, everybody.
