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: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thank you for listening to afr. I'm Tim Wildmon with Ed Battagliano. And now Steve Paisley Jordal. Good morning, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
President Trump calls Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine peace deal
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, so the top, this top three stories we covered in the first hour, were the tornadoes that ravaged the middle part of the country, namely Kentucky and Kansas. Kansas.
>> Steve Jordahl: I will be talking Missouri and Missouri.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'll be talking to Steve, Tyber a little bit later today to get a story off on what they're doing there.
>> Tim Wildmon: President United States Donald Trump has been on the phone this morning with, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and I.
>> Steve Jordahl: Haven'T yet heard anything, official yet from the White House about how that went.
>> Tim Wildmon: Trying to work out a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has prostate cancer that may spread to his bones
And then the third big story, Steve, was the, announcement that former President Joe Biden has, What kind of cancer?
>> Steve Jordahl: Prostate, Prostate cancer that is metastasized to his bones. The question raises how long did they know? How long does it take for something like that to happen? And is it likely that they knew about it when they were still trying to run him for president in this last election?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, that's.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's the question. And we'll, probably. This is probably something we won't know for a while until somebody spills the beans. If it was covered up. It can't. It could be. And I had a, you know, I had to have to admit in the last segment, had to admit that it is sometimes possible that that is missed.
>> Steve Jordahl: In fact, that's what. I don't know what you guys played. I know that we had some cuts from doctors. Mark Siegel, I think Mark Siegel was one. And there was another one. doctor, Randall Lee of Fox Chase Cancer Center. Both of them said the same thing that it's, easy to miss. that,
>> Tim Wildmon: Really.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, by the time it gets as advanced as they're having that, that. Well, we could actually, if you want to,
>> Tim Wildmon: I've always heard it's easy to detect, not hard to detect.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, even Mark Siegel said in the vast majority of cases, they, they do discover it early, but it can be missed.
>> Steve Jordahl: I guess it can be missed, but by the time it gets to the place where it's metastasized to the bones, and I guess, President Biden was complaining of some urinary issues. by that time, you Rarely, rarely miss it. Now, we, had another doctor. We wouldn't necessarily play the, clip, but Dr. Randall Lee of Fox Chase Cancer center said that it is a dire diagnosis, but Joe Biden has a fair chance of survival. Not cure. Not like it's going to go away, but he may live years. You could live years more with the advance in technology. However, I came across, Do you know, Dilbert, the cartoon comic strip? Comic strip Dilbert. Scott Adams is the guy that is, the. Who drew that. He's a conservative commentator, too, now and everything. he has come out with a video. I didn't bring the audio in, but he came out today on social media, says he has the same cancer that is metastasized also to his bones. And he says the doctors tell him he's going to be gone sometime this summer.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He's only 67 years old, which used.
>> Steve Jordahl: To be really old, but now is young.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, well, I turned. I turned 67 this. This August.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And, I consider that young.
>> Steve Jordahl: I do, too. yeah. So. But I mean, it's a. It's a. That's a dire thing, and I feel,
>> Tim Wildmon: But you hear about it all the time, and people get treated. and, you know, so it's a. It's a. It's a. When caught early, as they say, it's a highly treatable, form of cancer. Probably. Probably one of the highest.
>> Steve Jordahl: They got some very remarkable, treatments. I don't know. Fred talked about some of the treatments that they had. but, like most cancers, it depends on when you catch it. But by the time it's metastasized to the bone, I think. And in stage four, which I hear, I guess is the last stage, that's.
>> Tim Wildmon: What'S remarkable, that people are scratching your heads going, how could somebody with access to the best medical care in the world go undiagnosed with this for so long to the point where it's diagnosed? Because I was reading last night a gentleman who's a cancer doctor. Of course, you get. Even among doctors, you get various opinions sometimes. So they're not unanimous. But this guy was saying. I basically, he was saying it like we're thinking. He's going, how? He said this would take five to seven years to progress to the point where metastasize in the bones.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: There are hints. I want to place.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hints of what?
>> Steve Jordahl: That he might have known about it longer than he's let on. let's just. This is Joe Biden in 2022. He was doing an environmental press conference, in Delaware, his home state. Some issue about, some pollution that was put into rivers and everything when he's grown up. But listen, what I'm going to play, the reason I'm playing, it will be fairly evident here. Cut three.
>> Speaker D: And because it was a four lane highway that was accessible, my mother drove us. And rather than us being able to walk and guess what, the first frost, you know what was happening, it had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I and so many other people I grew up have cancer. And why can't. For the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.
>> Steve Jordahl: And we might have played that at the time and said, oh, listen, Joe Biden has no idea what he's saying. He's so far gone, he thinks he has cancer.
He might have had cancer. But did he have skin cancer before though
He might have had cancer.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. that, that, that's kind of, here's the thing. He now 2022, he was still fairly lucid. I mean he, you could tell he, he was having difficulty. He really, the last two years of his term, he really dropped off considerably. So back in 2022, I'm, I'm thinking he wasn't just misspeaking. He wasn't, you know, thinking he had it, but he didn't because he's confused. He, it sounded like he was saying he and others have cancer because of environmental.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's exactly what he's saying. Whether, and again, whether or not.
>> Ed Vitagliano: See, that's what he, I'm saying it sounds like that's what he means to.
>> Steve Jordahl: Say, is that he has cancer.
>> Tim Wildmon: But did he have cancer before though? Like skin cancer or something, two, three, four years ago or something like that?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Ah, I don't know. I'm, checking.
>> Steve Jordahl: There is a, there was a Biden aide who's come out and said that almost his full four years in office that he was basically incapable of making hard decisions and they referred to it as a rest home.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, okay. He did have skin cancer two years ago, in 2023. I'm looking at an article from July 25, 2023 on statnews.com basal cell carcinoma.
>> Tim Wildmon: So he could have been talking about that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's true. He could have, could have been. Anyway, we're probably not going to find out unless if he, if there was a cover up in the Biden administration, we'll probably hear about it from some.
>> Tim Wildmon: Whistle laws to deal with too.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You got HIPAA laws. So, you may Never know. He was clearly not supposed to be in office. The Democrats should have run somebody else. Well, they shouldn't have, you know, reelect.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think we. We can all quit scratching our heads if that's what you're doing. Wonder how did. Why did. Why did those closest to Joe Biden, including his own wife, why did they try to hide the fact that he was going downhill fast mentally and was incapable of being president United States, other than just a warm body in a suit sitting in an office? Is that, It is as it appears to be. And it's simple. Those people around Joe Biden in the White House wanted him to remain president because they liked the lifestyle, they liked, the attention, they liked the power. And, So if it meant propping him up like Weekend at Bernie's, you know, so they could remain in power and beat bad, Man Orange, or Bad Orange man, whatever they call President Trump. I mean, orange man bad. Orange man bad. See, I'd get all three versions there. If. Then. Then they were going to pretend like he was fine and get their media friends to do the same thing. they didn't count on that one. they were hoping he would make it through one debate. If he could make it through one debate, they weren't going to put him out there a second time.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. And all they do is say, you know, we're not going to debate a fascist. Okay? We're just not going to. We did it once, we're not going to do it again. That's all they would have said if he were going to be able to run again. So it would have been. Well, that's what they did.
>> Steve Jordahl: Assume he knew. Assume he knew that he. And they made it through the debate, and they thought, he'll win. He'll declare he has cancer, he'll resign.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: We have a President Kamala Harris who gets almost three, four.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what they were. That's what they were gonna hope for till he melt. Had the meltdown on the, debate.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: where he didn't. He couldn't recover from that. So, But had he just made it through that debate? You know, sort of, yeah, he's slipping, but he's not terrible. And, he might have. Might have been able to win.
>> Steve Jordahl: I think the assassination attempt changed, a lot of stuff. It changed America's perception of the man. Now you've got a martyr of what man? Of Trump.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Trump.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no, no, no. Biden had nothing to do with the assassination attempt. what I'm Saying is that when he dodged the bullet in Pennsylvania, a lot of people got a whole lot more sympathetic toward the man, especially when he stood up and shook his fist at the thing and,
>> Tim Wildmon: He dodged a bullet.
>> Steve Jordahl: He dodged a bullet. He literally dodged a bullet. Well, I'm sorry, was that in an app? I'm not really.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're making him sound like Superman.
Steve: God saved Donald Trump's life in Pennsylvania incident
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm laughing at Tim, who's focused on the dodge the bullet expression.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm not even using that as a metaphor. I'm literally saying he dodged a bullet.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Did he, though, Steve? did he dodge?
>> Steve Jordahl: No. I don't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't. I don't say this. I don't say this every day because I know some Christians who do. And it just. You get. You roll your eyes. Because every day is a miracle. Huh? you know what I'm talking. You know the kind of people I'm talking about.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's a great name for a book. Go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I roll a miracle.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, it'd be a great day for huh's.
>> Ed Vitagliano: a miracle.
>> Tim Wildmon: I bet you'd sell a bunch.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You would? Absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: You sell a bunch. Hey, we need to co write that, right? After all the other photography.
>> Steve Jordahl: Photography, yeah. Yeah. I could probably get some good televangelist recommendations for the third co author.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, so what are you going to say? I'm sorry. Every day you roll. You might roll your eyes because Christians.
>> Tim Wildmon: well, you know, we all know our brothers and sisters who every day, you know, they, you know, turn left at a stop sign instead of right, and God was leading them to Burger king instead of McDonald's. You know, these Christians.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm talking about?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm not saying they're not believers. They're just a little wackadoodle on stuff. And they. Everything. So everything's. God told them and everything's. You know what I'm saying?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: so I'm saying this in a serious way.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You said dodge the bullet. I know. I know what you mean. I was kidding with you there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. I don't know how else you. Is how else you explain what Donald Trump escaped that day other than God Almighty.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Intervening because he turned his head. I'm talking about in Pennsylvania when the guy tried to shoot him.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: He turned his head. Otherwise his head is blown off his body. Excuse me being so graphic here. and it would have been an image that none of us would have ever recovered from.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. And it would have torn the country apart because conservatives Would have blamed liberals. Would have been.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's right. So that was a. I mean, I'm being serious here that. I just don't know how you. How you deny to your point, Steve, earlier, that. That. That God saved Donald Trump's life.
>> Steve Jordahl: He said as much.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He believes it and his. But his response to it getting back up when they wanted him to stay down and raising his fist and saying, fight, fight, fight. That response, combined with the closeness, fractions of inches, I think turned the narrative.
>> Steve Jordahl: We could get a psychologist in here to tell us what happened with the mass cultural shift. But you noticed immediately it was all of a sudden okay to say you're a Donald Trump fan. It was okay to say that. it really. That's when we started going against the woke stuff. Everything he was talking about getting rid of dei, which used to be racist, all of a sudden, now it was plausible.
>> Tim Wildmon: One of the main reasons Donald Trump won, though, in all seriousness, is Kamala Harris was awful.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, just.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you only had two choices, right? You only had two choices. You had Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. And she was so bad.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And with Trump, he had a first term where the economy was doing well.
I think Trump's reaction to almost getting shot impacted Hispanic and black voters
>> Tim Wildmon: He had a record.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He had a record. And now we were in four years of economic turmoil.
>> Tim Wildmon: I shouldn't. Crazy.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Inflation going crazy. And so people were going, kamala Harris, who's a terrible candidate.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm going to go Trump.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm going to go Trump. I'll also say this, and I mean this in a cultural way. Okay. Trump's reaction to almost getting shot, I think impacted the way black males and Hispanics, especially Hispanic males, viewed him, because those are both cultures that put an emphasis on, masculinity. And they saw this guy get up with blood streaming down his face, saying, fight, fight, fight. And maybe I could be proven wrong, but I think that turned a lot. A higher percentage than would be typical in those two, voting blocs to.
>> Tim Wildmon: So you're saying white man or wimps?
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, I am saying there are far more soy boys in the white community.
>> Tim Wildmon: I baited you. I baited you right there. You don't even have to answer.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Hispanic community.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, no, you're right. M. You're right. You're right. So anyway. Yeah.
Steve Plethora offers you a couple of choices for next story
All right, so next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: Steve, we got a plethora. Let me just give you Plethora. Yes. A couple of choices.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do you like the, three amigos about.
>> Steve Jordahl: Do you want to. I'll give you a choice for the next. Could it be, I have something I Want to end? Give me a couple minutes. At the very end, you have something we got to talk about. But do you want to talk about a fertility clinic in Palm Springs? Talk about a Mexican ship going into a bridge.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do the fertility clinic first.
A car bomb exploded at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs over the weekend
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, so in Palm Springs over the weekend, there was a fertility clinic in, that was a car bomb was parked in front of and it exploded. The guy that was in the car died. And other, than that, everybody else, avoided, injury or death. the guy's name, the victim's name was a guy named Gary Bartkus. And if you look at Gary Bartkus's picture, he looks an awful lot like the guy that won American Idol a couple years ago, the country singer. But I digress.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't digress too much.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: lose us.
>> Steve Jordahl: So this is. They found a manifesto of this guy, and this is some of the things that he'd written in his manifesto. And this is why you're not hearing it a whole lot. It's disappeared from the news. It's disappeared from the mainstream media. Because in his manifesto he wrote, I think there needs to be a war against pro lifers. I'd choose Satan over your evil God. Clearly anti life.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, he got his wish.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, yeah, he's not wishing it anymore.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: so anyway, that happened and, and the fact that you're not seeing it in the media anymore.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and let me. Let me just say this. The left, increasingly, it's becoming obvious now. It was obvious to us a long time ago, but this is starting to spread in terms of the views of people like Bill Maher and others in the, the liberal, traditional, liberal camp. That the left is becoming unhinged and more prone to wanting to use. Resort to violence to solve their political, impetus, impotency, rather than trying to convince people to come their way in terms of.
>> Steve Jordahl: You think they're more pro now than they were in the summer of 2020 in Minneapolis?
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, I'm saying it's becoming more clear to people that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We've talked about these polls. 55% of, individuals on the left think that resorting to violence is a good, Good way. large percentages saying assassination is a good solution.
>> Steve Jordahl: Something around that, which.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Which makes the story we covered about Comey in the first hour, 8647. That guy even more. Even more important.
>> Steve Jordahl: Such a clown.
Chuck Schumer says Brooklyn Bridge accident is Trump's fault
All right, so over the weekend, they had a parade, a boat parade in, New York. And, there was some problem. there was a Boat, from the Mexican Navy. It was, an older boat. It was kind of a sail. One of those three master ships had a bunch of people on it. And it lost power in the middle of this parade in the, Hudson river, and it backed into the Brooklyn Bridge. There's a video you can see online of the masts one at a time, being bowled over. Now.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was incredible.
>> Steve Jordahl: There were people up in the cat. One of the. At the top of those masts.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, two, crow's nest.
>> Steve Jordahl: Crows nest, yeah. They died. Two. Two people died because they. They. They fell, I think.
>> Tim Wildmon: What. What. this video has been all over the place. It was a Mexican naval ship that was in New York for some reason. We don't know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It just says a goodwill tour.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's a parade ship. It would be like.
>> Tim Wildmon: It wasn't a battleship or anything like that. It was just a naval ship that looked like a. It was a, Like you described it, 1800s.
>> Steve Jordahl: The US still has a commission ship 1700.
>> Tim Wildmon: So the mass. Two of the mast m a s t collapse as they hit, As they hit the, hit the Brooklyn Bridge. And tragically, people died. I mean, how many. Two died and 18 injured or something like that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Some seriously. Now, it's good to know that our Democrat friends here are always, compassionate. this is a statement from, Chuck Schumer. We know that the Trump administration has been meddling in U.S. coast Guard operations from staffing to command and comms, and I have the general sense of some doge dysfunction in parts of the Coast Guard, to put it mildly. After being fully briefed about last night's Brooklyn Bridge accident, one thing is clear. There are many more questions to answer as to about how the accident occurred and whether it could have been prevented. It's Trump's fault.
>> Ed Vitagliano: These people are nothing, Schumer.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're. They're whacked.
>> Steve Jordahl: They are clowns.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
The WNBA is investigating Indiana fans cheering after Angel Reese missed free throw
>> Steve Jordahl: All right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You said you had something to get to.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, so there's this, sports league. I think it's called the wnba. It's about as, It is about as excellent as a junior high basketball.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve, be careful.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no. Have you seen these guys play basketball?
>> Ed Vitagliano: These girls.
>> Tim Wildmon: These girls just.
>> Steve Jordahl: Most of them, be careful, Steve. They. They literally can't. They more airballs than. Than made shots. Anyway, there was a game between these two teams, the Indiana and,
>> Ed Vitagliano: The Fever.
>> Steve Jordahl: The Fever. And then the. Whatever. There's two player. Angel Reese is one.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know all about it. If you want me to talk about It.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, let me just say that, that there was a hard foul. And then Angel Reese, this one player went. This is in Indiana. She was the opposite team. She went to shoot a free throw. She missed. And the fans cheered because she missed quote. The WNBA is investigating Indiana fans cheering after Angel Reese. Mr. Free throws an act of racism.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the WNBA is, woke. Okay, that's ridiculous. I saw that whole play. This was Caitlin Clark, who is. Everybody knows who she is by now. The most prolific scorer in the history of college basketball. She went to the Indiana Fever, a women's professional last year, and she was, a lot of the. A lot of veteran players and others are jealous of her because of her accomplishments. And, she fouled Angel Reese right there. Just put her. She kept her from making the layup by putting her hand. And it looked bad. Okay, but it was hard. Hard foul anyway. But, you don't want to. You don't want to play against Caitlin Clark, right now if you're 60. How old are you?
>> Steve Jordahl: Five.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, you don't want that. You don't want that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Although I still might. I don't know about K. Clark, but I bet I could score better than half of the people in that league.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve's on his own.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, yeah, he's.
>> Tim Wildmon: You can take all the calls and emails.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Totally.
>> Tim Wildmon: I want to play this. Let's play this classic clip here.
>> Speaker E: Oh, but I think you would like your other presents too. I have put many beautiful pinatas in the store room. Each of them filled with little surprises. Many pinatas? Oh, yes, many. Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas? A what? A plethora. Oh, yes, you have a plethora Cafe. What is a plethora?
>> Tim Wildmon: Why Wapo?
>> Speaker E: Well, you told me I have a plethora, and I just would like to. To know if you know what a plethora is.
>> Tim Wildmon: There you go. classic, classic scene from the movie Three Amigos.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Could it be El Guapo?
>> Tim Wildmon: And it's just fitting that we have three.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Hey. Three Amigos right here. So what?
>> Tim Wildmon: Some would say three blind mice, more.
>> Steve Jordahl: Than you'd like to admit.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, all you ladies out there, Steve's ready for a little basketball action. He'll meet you outside side here. Take a little three point shot.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm not. Sorry. I'm not saying women can't play basketball. I'm saying these women.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's what I heard.
>> Tim Wildmon: We'll be back tomorrow. Take care.
