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Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman

>> Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome back to Today's Issues on American family radio. It's 1105 Central Time, here in the good old US of A. Tim with Fred. And now, Steve Paisley Jordahl. Good morning, Steve.

>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning everybody.

>> Tim Wildmon: And, Ray Pritchard's in Kansas City. I wanted to mention real quickly, we've set our, we're going back to the Holy Land in March of 2026 for our, we usually do this annually. Our trip to the Holy Land is, scheduled and planned and all the information is available. now in March also, my sons Wesley and Walker are leading a Footsteps of Paul tour that you can read all about. So there's two trips in March. You can do both of them if you want to. They're back to back. That puts you, put you going from home about two weeks. If you're going to do both of them, maybe a little bit longer. But if you want to go on one or the other, that's available too. So, to read all about it, and we're already getting a bunch of people signed up. So to read all about this Holy Land tour and the Footsteps of Paul tour, go to this website I'm about to give you. Wildmon M. Group.com Wildmon M. Wildmon Group.com the itinerary, the cost, the, everything you need to know about these two tours in March of 2026 available at that website, wildmondgroup.com all right, Steve, what's first story?

There is a scam going on where people are being offered cut rate insurance

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, if you have been, if you've gotten a phone call recently from somebody offering you some insurance, some cut rate insurance because they can do better. Specifically if you're an older American, don't answer the phone. Well, answer the phone, but hang up as soon as you find out because there is a scam going on right now in which, people are getting called up and they're being offered a cut rate insurance. The people claim they're from the government, say we can do better for your Medicare, your Medicaid, and you just have to send us a check for $1,600. And, it's all good. And a lot of people have been taken in on this. Don't be taken in on that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Have you heard about this, Fred?

>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah. And you know, I think my advice would be if someone calls you, you don't know, your phone rings and this happens to me, you know, they're trying to sell condo sales or whatever. If, if the phone rings and you pick up and they say, hi there, Fred, this is so and so and I've got a great deal for you. Right away you're going to say this is a scam. Beware of people trying to sell you stuff over the phone. Just be super cautious. You know, a lot of people are facing increases in insurance premiums right now. And these are the kinds of people that prey on that P R E Y. They prey on older people. They know that they need insurance. They're facing big increases in their premiums. They set up these scams and you know people. It sounds good. Maybe I'm getting insurance, you know, for 100 bucks a month or whatever the case may be. No, don't do it. FBI. Everybody else tells you over and over again, don't give out your information. Don't give out your bank account. Don't give your credit card. Just be super Social Security number. Just don't do it. They are scams. They are thieves. What they are.

>> Tim Wildmon: Have this happened to you or anything similar to this?

>> Steve Jordahl: No, I just recently, I turned 65 in March and I am just beginning my journey with metal care. so I haven't been targeted yet.

>> Tim Wildmon: And I have, I'm talking about for any scams or anything like.

>> Steve Jordahl: No, no, no. I haven't personally come across any of these yet.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ray View, listen, evidently those guys have a sucker list. And I must be at the top.

>> Steve Jordahl: Of it because all the time,

>> Tim Wildmon: I'm getting it out. Listen, I'm dead center bullseye for exactly the kind of stuff you guys are talking about. And I'm on the top of their list. Hey, call Prichard. He's a sucker.

>> Fred Jackson: And.

>> Tim Wildmon: Have you ever fallen for one of these scams or anything?

>> Tim Wildmon: you know, some of them, let's just say this way, some of those guys are really slick, very persuasive. They know your name, they know where you live. They know. Right? And they know just enough to make it look. Wouldn't you like to save money on your Internet or on your car insurance or on your house insurance? And Fred's advice is exactly right. If you don't know who they are, hang up. You don't have to talk to them, right? You don't have. Don't give them your. Don't give them your address. Don't give them your. What was phone number. And certainly don't ever give out your Social Security number to anybody you don't know. But yeah, Tim, I get those calls.

>> Steve Jordahl: All the time and I don't know how you've dealt with them. you were a little coy on whether or not you fall for it, but if you fall for it once, you'll certainly get to the top of the sucker list very quickly.

>> Tim Wildmon: Evidently I must, I must have fallen for it two or three times because I'm continually there.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I've gotten these and I've talked to people who've gotten these to these, toll,

>> Fred Jackson: Oh yeah, yes.

>> Steve Jordahl: Text texts.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you get the text saying you owe past, your, your toll that's past due. From a toll bridge or road or something like that's like sweeping the world, that particular scam.

>> Steve Jordahl: now when, when you get yours, do they tell you what road or where, where it's from?

>> Fred Jackson: The one that I got said you, were in Florida recently. So somebody, a hotel where I stayed or whatever must have given out information or sold my information because the text said, you're in Florida. And they even gave me this toll bridge. And I, I thought, wait a minute, I didn't drive on a toll bridge in Florida. so I knew right away it was a scam. Then I started reading online, hey, beware these. There are people out there that are trying to scam people, to pay tolls.

>> Steve Jordahl: Mine was from Denver. There's a going. If you want to get to the Denver International Airport, the easiest way to do it is to go on a toll road that goes, kind of skirts around the outside of the city and then you can take off. And I've been on that road dozens and dozens of times living in Colorado.

>> Tim Wildmon: So the toll text that you got said that E470. Okay, I'm wondering if these scammers know your your area code.

>> Steve Jordahl: My cell phone is from.

>> Tim Wildmon: And they overlay that with, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.

>> Steve Jordahl: Myself, my cell phone is from. My area code is 719.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, there you go. So they know your area code and they relate it to a road or bridge in Colorado.

There's a lot of hoaxes and scams and spammers out there

>> Steve Jordahl: So I have been on the road, but I certainly haven't been on it in dozens of years now.

>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, just beware out there because, there's a lot of hoaxes and scams and spammers and everything like that. We all get the calls.

>> Tim Wildmon: And there are stories, Tim, widows that they, you know, Jesus condemned those who rob widows houses. And there are widows out there who, somebody calls and they get. They can lose everything. Yeah, they can lose everything. Which is why? Oh, if you're over the age of 65, you need some friends that you can check up on and some friends who care enough to check up on you because these scammers have gotten very sophisticated.

>> Tim Wildmon: I'll tell you another thing to watch out for is the, occasionally you get a, text from somebody you don't know and it's a conversation starter and they want you to respond. They'll say something like, you know, hey, I'll see you tomorrow. Okay, well, they, they sent that out to millions of people. I'll see you tomorrow. They want people to respond back to them.

>> Steve Jordahl: Who is it?

>> Tim Wildmon: Say, you must have the wrong number.

>> Steve Jordahl: Mm.

>> Tim Wildmon: That way they know they have a live, Debba. They have a Ray Pritchard.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's exactly right.

>> Tim Wildmon: They have a Ray Pritchard out there who's willing to respond to a text from somebody they don't even know. Excuse me, Ray, I wasn't meaning to insult you there, but.

>> Tim Wildmon: But it's, but it's true.

>> Tim Wildmon: So a gullible person or person who's trying again, or a person who just is a friendly person and wants to respond and say, I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong number. That's all they want to know is, is they've got a phone number that has a live active person on the end of it. So don't fall for that either. So, anyway, you're listening to today's issue. Steve, next story.

Raymond: Episcopal Church backs out of resettlement deal for South African refugees

>> Steve Jordahl: There are some new, refugees coming to this country. A dozen or more, South Africans have fled the country of South Africa. They're farmers, basically. They fear for their lives because hundreds of farmers and farms have been. Farmers have been killed and farms have been co opted. this is in the name of reparations for what they say was from the old South Africa. That was apartheid. And now they're claiming reparations. they're demanding, blood and soil. And so the United States has allowed a couple dozen of these to come to the United States on an expedited visa. This is the president talking a little bit about this. this would be cut 13 because they're being killed.

>> Donald Trump: And we don't want to see people be killed. Now South Africa leadership is coming to see me. I understand. Sometime next week. And you, know we're supposed to have a, I guess a G20 meeting there or something. But we're having a G20 meeting. I don't know how we can go unless that situation's Taken, care of. But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's taking place. And, farmers, are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they're white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa. I don't care who they are. I don't care about their race, their color. I don't care about their height, their weight. I don't care about anything. I just know that what's happening is terrible. we've essentially extended citizenship to those people to, escape from that violence and come here.

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they are, They are on their way. Not everybody's happy with it, I got to tell you. Some, aid groups that generally, help with refugee settlement and take care of, this. Because these people are white, they are backing out of the deal. Specifically the Episcopal Church.

>> Tim Wildmon: Why?

>> Steve Jordahl: Well, the Episcopal Church. In a letter to members of the church, Sean Rowe, who's the head of, the presiding bishop, said that the, government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa, whom the US Government has classified as refugees. The request crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the, global Anglican Communion, which boasts among its leaders the late archbishop, Desmond Tutu. So in light of our church's quoting here, in light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of South Africa, we are not able to take this step. And we're cutting off all ties with the government, period.

>> Tim Wildmon: Because the people that are coming here are white.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yep.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. This is critical race theory.

>> Tim Wildmon: So we'll. We're for the. We're for protecting everybody except white people.

>> Fred Jackson: That's right.

>> Steve Jordahl: This is your own.

>> Fred Jackson: This is critical race theory on steroids.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: because of skin color. If you're one skill, skin color, you're the bad guy. The other skin color, you're the good guy. It doesn't matter what the truth is.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the truth is there's good and bad people of all colors. That's breeds and ethnicities all over the world. And you have to distinguish between that, you know, and in this case, Ray, I've read about this. In South Africa, there are, these, white, farmers and people who are being attacked for their ethnicity. And that's what President Trump was talking about, like, happens in other parts of the world and has happened historically where whites have attacked blacks, because of their ethnicity. So that does happen, but it happens on all sides. And also around the world, you have people. They don't have to be a different color. They can be a different religion, though. they can be. In the case of Russia and Ukraine, they can be. You couldn't. You put a Russian and a Ukraine person side by side? You couldn't tell what, you know, you couldn't tell the difference unless they started, you know, maybe talking, or telling what their differences are. So there's, there's a myriad of reasons why people go to war and hate each other. And, you just. But I don't understand that the, the Episcopal Church is acting like they're making some kind of a moral stand because they're not wanting to help these, 50 or so. I think it is South African, folks. Because they're white. Because they're white.

>> Steve Jordahl: Because they're white.

>> Tim Wildmon: that is. I don't understand it.

>> Steve Jordahl: It's a suicidal, the government is allowing this. The government of South Africa is allowing the appropriation. I don't know that they are allowing the murders or they're certainly not stepping in to stop them. But they are allowing the farms to be taken and they're being given to black people, but they're not being given to black farmers. There are not a lot of enough black farmers. So basically you have a farm or a ranch. It's been given to somebody who knows nothing about farming. And the, production of food is going to waste. they don't know how to run it. The country is going into, serious economic problems because of that.

An American missionary was kidnapped in South Africa and police rescued him

But I do want to introduce you to one of the good guys. You said, there are good people in the world and there are evil people.

>> Tim Wildmon: There are good and bad people of all colors, creeds and ethnicities is what I said.

>> Steve Jordahl: I would like to introduce you to one of the good ones. This is, an American missionary. His name is Josh Sullivan. He and his wife Megan have been missionaries in South Africa for seven years. He plants churches, he preaches. And it was, a couple, a month or so ago that he was doing a regular Sunday service and some armed men came in and kidnapped him. He was talking to Fox News this morning, and this is his story. This is cut 14.

>> Speaker F: I prepared for him to take me or to kill me. I knew one of those two things was about to happen, and so I just started praying. but then at the last second, my guy threw me down and Josh's guy took him instead.

>> Speaker G: Two of the men were there the entire time. And one of them was evil to me, would say evil things to me. I was able to tell them about the death and burial resurrection of Jesus Christ. You know, why I'm here giving them the gospel. They had never heard that message before.

>> Speaker H: The men with him sprung out and got into a gun battle with police. All the suspects were killed and Sullivan was rescued. He says police only found him after taking a wrong turn.

>> Speaker G: Whether you're a believer, non believer, none. That doesn't matter what happened to us. What happened to me was a miracle from God.

>> Steve Jordahl: And they're going back after they.

>> Tim Wildmon: What happened that was a miracle.

>> Steve Jordahl: he was rescued. he was in a car and police were looking for them. They took a wrong turn.

>> Fred Jackson: The police did.

>> Steve Jordahl: The police took a wrong turn and stumbled upon him in the car. They got into a gun battle. He was in the car with three other of three of his kidnappers. They got into a gun battle. All three of the kidnappers were killed, including I'm assuming whoever he shared the gospel with previously. I hope it took. And he was spared. He was uninjured. And because the police took a wrong turn and stumbled upon them, he was rescued.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, that seems to qualify as a miracle a couple of ways you take a wrong turn, and, and you end up finding the guy. And Tim, that's some good marksmanship right there. Some, some, somebody was, somebody was guiding those bullets so that the bad guys were killed and the, and the pastor was saved. It is miraculous.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And maybe another part of the miracle, Steve, is they're going back.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, they are. when God calls you to something, I'm going to be setting up a regular interview every other week with Todd Nettleton as voice of the Martyrs. Because there are stories like this around the world of Christians, not just American missionaries, but native, Christians, that are native to whatever country they're in and they're being persecuted. The church is under persecution around the world and you're hearing stories like this all over the place. Well, I knew what I was signing up for. And if this is what God has for me, I'm willing to pay the price. It's amazing.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, next story.

Newark Liberty Airport gives air traffic controllers 14 days of trauma leave

>> Steve Jordahl: All right, we talked a little bit about the problems at in New York's Liberty International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, and the problem they're having with Air Traffic controllers, they've had various, outages where for brief periods of time, the air traffic controllers cannot see the planes. They don't know where they are. It's an incredibly busy corridor. it's a disaster waiting to happen. we heard from one of the air traffic controllers last week, I believe it was, who said, if you're going anywhere to do not at all costs go through or to, Newark Liberty International Airport. And I have a report out from the New York Post. And the staffing nightmares are just incredible. Now, this airport gave its air traffic controllers 14 days of paid trauma leave because they have been, they're the ones that are responsible for these planes and they've been scared out of their wits because they've lost communication with these planes. So, so they've been given some days of trauma leave. Meanwhile, one air traffic controller and a trainee will operate every flight in and out of Newark between 6:30pm and 9:30pm Pretty busy hours, despite 15 staffers being the standard.

>> Tim Wildmon: What is your source here?

>> Steve Jordahl: The New York Post.

>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. They're credible. so I just don't see how that's, how that's legal. I would think that the federal, Aviation Administration, the faa, would have a minimal, threshold where if you go below five, for example, air traffic controllers, when you're supposed to staff 15, you shut it down and declare it unsafe. I'm shocked that this is true.

>> Fred Jackson: One, the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, announced this morning that they have come up with a short term fix for the technical problems that they've been having that's causing this havoc. But what will happen also, I think in the meantime, and United, Airlines, which has a hub there at Newark, they are cutting back some of their flights there, because, safety reasons for safety reasons and delays that are caused when you don't have enough, ATC air traffic control staff on duty. So they are making adjustments with Sean Duffy this morning. And I don't understand the technology behind this short term fix, but also he is saying we need billions of dollars to upgrade the whole system across the country.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, I don't, I understand that. although I would ask, what about the billions, and billions of dollars for infrastructure that Biden remember that?

>> Fred Jackson: Yes. Yeah. They did nothing in the four years they were in office.

>> Tim Wildmon: I want to know where that money went. why didn't some of that money go to our air traffic control?

>> Steve Jordahl: Doge has a full time job trying to track that money down. I will tell you that we learned earlier this week or last week that how old are the systems with air traffic controllers? They're still using floppy disks.

>> Tim Wildmon: What?

>> Steve Jordahl: They are still using floppy disks in their computers.

>> Tim Wildmon: That would put them, what, about 30 years out of date?

>> Donald Trump: Something like that.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I was using floppy disk when I first started in the Silicon Valley in the 90s.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, Tim, you asked where that billions of dollars in infrastructure money went.

>> Fred Jackson: it went to, charging stations for electric cars. Yeah, well, that, that was, that was infrastructure. That was, that was the Democrat priority.

>> Tim Wildmon: I got you.

>> Fred Jackson: All right. That's where the money.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

Ray: I want to play my favorite Trump clip defending his drug policy

>> Steve Jordahl: Do we have a second to play? I want to play my favorite Trump clip. This was him defending his drug policy. He's got a friend he wanted to tell us about. This is, cut seven. No, I'm sorry, cut.

>> Donald Trump: I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a businessman.

>> Donald Trump: Very, very, very top guy, most of you would have heard of him.

>> Donald Trump: Highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight. And he takes the fat, the fat shot drug. And he called me up and he said, president, he calls me, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me president. So that's nice, respect. But he's a rough guy. Smart guy. President. Could I ask you a question? What? I'm in London and I just paid for this fat drug I take. I said, it's not working.

>> Donald Trump: He said.

>> Donald Trump: He said, I just paid $88, and in New York I paid $1,300. What was going on? He said, so I checked and it's the same box, made in the same plant by the same company. It's the identical pill, that I buy in New York. And here I'm paying $88 in London, in New York, I'm paying $1300.

>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, the fat pill.

>> Tim Wildmon: The fat pill.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's not working.

>> Steve Jordahl: It's not working.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, thank you, Ray.

>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Tim.

>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve.

>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure, Brad.

>> Tim Wildmon: My thanks to Chris Woodward, Frank Turek, and our producer, Brent Creely. And, we hope you have a great rest of your day. Keep listening to American Family Radio and we'll see you back here tomorrow.