Tim Wildman is president of the american family association
>> Today's issues continues on afr with your host Tim Wildman president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right welcome back everybody to today's issues on the american family radio network thanks for listening to afr today's issues is the name of this program we're here monday through thursday from ten o five to eleven thirty central time on afr and of course fridays we have trivia friday also known as learning university so that's every friday now joining us in studio as is his custom is steve paisley jordan good morning brother steve bonjour everybody you were listening to the show.
>> Steve Jordahl: I was i was what you got.
>> Tim Wildmon: For us got some french i.
>> Steve Jordahl: Have that home run call now this.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Is game one of the world series.
>> Steve Jordahl: i speak french i don't understand a word of this it's pretty fast and there's a lot of background noise.
>> Tim Wildmon: Set it up for us this is game one of the world series los angeles dodgers are playing the toronto blue jays in canada in canada french is a one of the languages big languages.
>> Steve Jordahl: So everything in canada you get in english and in french unless you're in montreal you might not get it in english so they have a broadcast that is in french okay and so these guys are going to make this was a the game was at the time i think the game was tied or close and this home run put them up and kind of put the game out of reach but listen to this listen to this call on the side.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was that was french for going going gone and.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That was a grand slam in the middle of the sixth inning that catapulted the blue jays to their the game one win the dodgers have tied it up but that that's just great i don't care what language it is yeah that is you hear you had a crowd go wild and i.
>> Steve Jordahl: Don'T know because i learned french in first well third grade yeah i don't know like baseball we didn't pay yeah we didn't do any baseball we didn't do any football certainly no computer talk back when i was you know nine and ten they didn't have computers yet.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So can you generally can you talk to someone who's fluent in french yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: If you give me if you give me a day or two i will pass for french in paris really.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well you sure will with that shirt you've got on i can tell you that it is nice i like it there you go tim now you're just showing off yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So and then you got potty want a cracker.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well if i want to get you know in paris i would just talk like chief inspector cluzo oh that would go over well they actually hate cluzo i.
>> Steve Jordahl: Imagine they do it's not a very.
Battle over big beautiful ballroom that trump is building continues in Washington
>> Ed Vitagliano: Good representation you have a lessons for your minky all right i want to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Get to this congressman eric swalwell yeah story steve if you heard the previous we were we were talking about wackadoodles yeah yeah and democrat party has
>> Steve Jordahl: A wide collection more than their fair.
>> Tim Wildmon: Share yes and this gentleman eric swalwell is a congressman from duly elected congressman from the state of california but politically i would i would put him in the whack a doodle category.
>> Steve Jordahl: You might remember swalwell was the one that i that was kind of with the chinese spy for a while and yeah had some you know so he's been on the radar for a while but the battle over this the big beautiful ballroom that trump is building and i don't know what the name is going to be he's kind of coy about that or doesn't know but the battle over this ballroom continues and democrats are just incensed that anybody would touch the east wing of the white house this thing if you look at renderings of it is going to be beautiful it's going to be huge ornate and as the white house is set up right now when you have a lot of din state dinner there are literally tents outside yeah and vip's have to use porta potties yeah they've needed this for a while so anyway eric swalwell there's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not enough space for for what they.
>> Steve Jordahl: What'S needed today no every country you go to has a formal dining room the england you have like twenty of them where you can fit like one hundred this will sit about a thousand.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so they had to tear down the east wing of the white house in order to build this grand ballroom which will host you know state dinners and things like that it's going to be i've seen the renderings as you say it's going to be a beautiful addition to the white house.
>> Steve Jordahl: Complex well swalwell's having none of it and he put out on x this was not a there's no audio of this but he put out on x don't even think of seeking the democrat nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the trump volume on day one day one in all caps.
>> Tim Wildmon: Take a wrecking ball to the what would be the new ballroom.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep he wants to see wrecking ball.
>> Tim Wildmon: Can you imagine i read this i know what the story's about but
>> Ed Vitagliano: That'S that's i think you said in our story meeting this morning that that's tds trump derangement syndrome on steroids i mean the fact that now i'm not going to defend i think he's serious oh no i think so i think he's serious i think now the washington post as we've mentioned are you going to deal with the washington post.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah we can talk about that
>> Ed Vitagliano: Because that to me is the sane approach i will say this and again i'm not defending swalwell but president trump has said i don't know whether he means this or he's trolling you never really do know that he's going to name it the donald trump ballroom we.
>> Steve Jordahl: Call it the truman isn't the truman balcony isn't that what they call yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Ah they do name it after presidents that seems to be part of what's setting off swalwell and company well it's.
>> Steve Jordahl: Interesting to see that because the washington post is revamping its editorial board they're becoming a little more libertarian they're coming back from the far far left and this is what they write i think this is a good description of what you're talking about in classic trump fashion the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring.
>> Tim Wildmon: Manner possible yes that does describe trump that's fair that's pretty well ready it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Notes that privately many alumni of the biden and obama white house acknowledge the long overdue need for an event space like what trump is creating it's absurd that tents needed to be erected on the south lawn for city dentist and va vip's are forced to use porta potties according to the editorial board of the washington post and the washington post.
>> Tim Wildmon: Of course has always been a liberal publication it's a daily newspaper in washington dc but it's considered a national news source it is and so they are saying to their credit that president trump is it's a good idea for him to build this new ballroom this new event center on the white house grounds and the democrats are who are opposing it are just basically overreacting for political reasons like this eric stalwell swalwell congressman from california saying if you're going to even run for president as a democrat you need to commit to putting a wrecking ball to what would be the newly built ballroom grand ballroom there are they really going to run on that kind of democrats.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Some of these we talked about loonies yeah in the last segment some of them probably would i have to think that serious candidates for president and i would you know include gavin newsom among those maybe aoc whoever whoever's going to run on the democratic side i would think that they they may give that lip service but they they are going to have to run on serious issues right if they're going to attract serious a serious vote yeah in their direction next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: Steve all right we want can we continue with the wackadoodle
>> Tim Wildmon: Wackadoodle story number two we're going to.
Mamdani maintains double digit lead in polls in hypothetical mayoral race
>> Steve Jordahl: Come back we're going to come back to the new york city mayor or election oh good and mom donnie has.
>> Tim Wildmon: A leap and what's his name again.
>> Steve Jordahl: Zoron momdani zoron like a super superhero he has a black black mask and.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah yeah that's zorro so he.
>> Steve Jordahl: Is leading in the polls as you say the latest poll aarp new york poll put out on october twentieth mamdani maintains a double digit lead but it is tightening a little bit in a hypothetical race if sliwa was to drop out but mamdani would still lead by about four points so he's gonna win he's gonna win but listen to this i found a poll from patriot polling it found in this is a couple weeks maybe about a month old but what this said is at the time the three way race mamdani's leading forty three to cuomo's thirty two to sliwa's nineteen percent but among american born new yorkers cuomo leads forty percent mamdani thirty one and sliwa twenty five percent of the vote among foreign born new yorkers mamdani leads sixty two to twenty four.
>> Tim Wildmon: What does that tell.
>> Steve Jordahl: You it tells you that we've been importing people and the assimilation is not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Happening new york city that's by the way this is new york city proper this is not the greater new york city metropolitan area the five boroughs yeah this is the fiber yeah the fiber and you know this is the rudolph giuliani won what twenty five years ago or so a couple it's.
>> Steve Jordahl: Been a while yeah and then after.
>> Tim Wildmon: That they've had very liberal mayors get.
>> Steve Jordahl: A list of the mayors dinkins wasn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: His name and cock koch seal yeah k o c h remember him ed koch yeah and then you had
>> Ed Vitagliano: So giuliani was from ninety four i know is this far back to two thousand one he was mayor
>> Tim Wildmon: Of new york well and he cleaned up the city remember he was the.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Us attorney there he became david dinkins but and giuliani did and he cleaned up famously times square yeah that was just covered over with prostitution and drugs.
>> Tim Wildmon: That'S what he was known for rudolph giuliani was when he became mayor he was a law and order guy because he came from the us attorney a prosecutor's ah office and he was voted in and he won i think he two elections i think so he.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Was ninety what i say ninety six through two thousand one and he was succeeded by michael bloomberg who was also a republican but he was more m to the left they couldn't look.
>> Steve Jordahl: For a guy like thomas willett who thomas willett he was the first mayor of new york city i did not know that well he was in office sixteen sixty five and since sixteen sixty six took a break and then came back for sixty seven and sixty eight so you know he was known for where he put the beads that they traded manhattan for well one of.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The all time great swindles i don't.
>> Tim Wildmon: Even know what y' all are talking.
>> Ed Vitagliano: About manhattan was bought by from the indians for beads like wampum or something.
>> Steve Jordahl: They gave him nice beads like necklace beads and that kind of stuff you mean the the indian tribe that was settled on manhattan island you've never heard.
>> Tim Wildmon: This maybe somewhere back in my french class i heard this but tell me the story ed of what happened here and you and steve i'm going to chime in just give us the the you know the two minute version if you would here what are y' all talking about here the.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Two minute version can you do that so yeah so now i have looked it up to get the to get the the details correct all right so the lenape also called the lenny or lenape and delaware people so they were the indians native americans indigenous and so they controlled area in what is now known as new york and manhattan what's that new york city new york city and so m what's now known as present day manhattan now one of the five boroughs of new york city was purchased i'm trying to find the it was purchased i'm trying to.
>> Steve Jordahl: Find out who sixty yolis from the dutch the dutch paid good value at sixty gillers likely including tools and cloth and trade not just beads so.
>> Tim Wildmon: The dutch paid for the dutch paid indians to buy manhattan is that what.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They'Re talking about what's now known as.
>> Steve Jordahl: Manhattan the twenty four dollars worth of beads story was later a simplification and an exaggeration turning the new us trade into a symbol of native americans being cheated though it's not an accurate depiction they actually got goods like tools and cloth and stuff much better but it was only for about twenty four to fifty dollars worth of now.
>> Tim Wildmon: How much of manhattan did they buy.
>> Steve Jordahl: The whole island the whole the whole.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Thing so now in defense of the dutch and in defense of the lenape however you pronounce it people okay what what i've read in the past i'm trying to find something you know more historical to to bolster what i'm saying but that that it was this just there were some rivers there and marshes there wasn't much there it's and so wasn't fifth avenue it was yeah it wasn't a sacks wasn't there yet wasn't a fantastic piece of property so yeah in defense of the deal right the art of the deal the indians didn't know what was that was going to be turned into the dutch probably didn't either but you're saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: The dutch paid on with twenty big.
>> Steve Jordahl: Beautiful beads and some tools the indians.
>> Tim Wildmon: There they got the raw end of.
>> Steve Jordahl: The deal that's you know that's what the stories usually used to portray eventually.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah eventually the art of the deal what's they got the right raw end of the art and you know trump's trump's ancestry is dutch you know that i'm serious about that maybe maybe that's that's how it all started all that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Money came from that's how he got his name on hotels his ancestors made it big selling wampum.
>> Tim Wildmon: What is that i need to stop like an incense.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No wampum is just wampum out we.
>> Tim Wildmon: Used to wampum when we i know football teams that have been whomped.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah in fact you saw that saturday.
>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't hear that again that's a.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Distant memory wampum is a traditional shell bead of the indigenous peoples of the northeast woodlands of north america and so i think they use it as a method of exchange it's money it must.
>> Tim Wildmon: Have been some really really nice wampums.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Don'T you think it says these small cylindrical beads this is from history dot com called wampum came from purple and white whelk and clamshell the indian.
>> Tim Wildmon: Chief who sent his negotiators to the table with the dutch and the negotiators come back with some beads and he says you gave a manhattan island for what for these bees are really nice here chief just look at these look.
>> Ed Vitagliano: At these chief and i also want to defend the native american people who sold manhattan to the dutch because the taglianos all throughout our infamous history have also been terrible at the art of the deal so some people got it and some people don't y' all give.
>> Tim Wildmon: Away italy or something well we would.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Have given the chance yeah all right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead steve all right you want.
>> Steve Jordahl: To get the next story yes please.
I apologize to all italians for making a bad joke about artificial intelligence
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah all right we better we're getting like close to ethnic jokes yes we're talking ai dangerous here we might apologize somebody.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well let's start with italians
>> Tim Wildmon: Apologize to them i want to talk.
>> Steve Jordahl: About artificial intelligence all right speaking of.
>> Tim Wildmon: Italians as opposed to oh man that just came to me and i shouldn't have said it but it was just.
>> Ed Vitagliano: There for the taking as opposed to the intelligence being demonstrated on this show.
>> Tim Wildmon: I apologize to all italians out there i did not mean that and folks.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It is not you do not represent.
>> Tim Wildmon: Artificial intelligence there was just a joke that was bad and i apologize for it well you please accept my apology.
>> Ed Vitagliano: On behalf of the italian people thank.
>> Tim Wildmon: You you accept my apology here's some beads you want some beads i got.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Some beads for you prefer ravioli but.
Analysts say china is developing a chilling strategy for fighting a war
>> Steve Jordahl: All right steve save us well the china this is analysts say this is from fox news analysts say china is developing a chilling strategy for fighting a war with the united states basically destroying americans fighter jets before they even leave the ground now this is a common war tactic every modern.
>> Tim Wildmon: Have to do with any of this did you say chile no oh i'm.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Sorry china no chilling chilling my bad.
>> Tim Wildmon: A chilling strategy i'll start over again.
>> Steve Jordahl: Do that again here analysts say china has developed a chilling strategy for fighting a war with the united states destroying america's fighter jets before they ever leave the ground in nearly every modern conflict disabling enemy aircraft on the ground has been the first move it happened when israel struck iran's nuclear sites it happened in the russia ukraine war the first thing you want to do is keep the planes off on the ground you control the sky well a us defense technology firm says that has built a way to fight back shield ai based in san diego has unveiled a new ai piloted fighter jet designed to operate without runways without gps and and without constant communication links an aircraft that can think fly and fight on its own if you bring up the first the fox news page you'll see these things this is crazy front page shield ai says the jet is called the x bat it can take off vertically reach fifty thousand feet fly more than two thousand nautical miles and execute strike or air defense missions using an onboard autonomy system known as hive mind they are not going to ask permission or they are just this is this is just go to fox dot com fox news dot com by the way this.
>> Ed Vitagliano: This hive mind system with the expat means it can operate even when your opponent is trying to jam radar and gps this is this is huge did you this is a huge development it's supposed to be this system is supposed to be out there and deployed by twenty twenty nine i've been saying this for several years now that if we if china ever decides to go after taiwan and expects the us to be involved they will strike us bases first all over the pacific probably even hawaii to try to take out because you're going to go to war china's thinking we're going to go to war with the us anyway we might as well cripple them in advance and that was part of the strategy when nato was the us and nato sat opposed to the warsaw pact and the soviet union everybody knew that if the soviet union ever attacked western europe they would strike air force base they would strike air bases first because you want to control the skies.
>> Tim Wildmon: We just better hope and pray and i mean this all seriousness that the us and china never get into a war at all military conflict at all because it it could explode into world war three yeah ah so because but what you're talking about is aircraft that have their own minds as.
>> Steve Jordahl: It were yeah they they fly and fight autonomously they've been given they have been given the pictures of the enemy aircraft i'm sure they've put that in and where they're coming from and what.
>> Tim Wildmon: They look like they're programmed another program.
>> Steve Jordahl: To recog the enemy aircraft and are.
>> Tim Wildmon: These real or these are these pictures of futuristic i think those are real pictures do you see what i'm.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Talking about yeah no i think no that's that's ai that's ai representation of.
>> Tim Wildmon: Something that's yet to be built that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It'S yet well yet to be operational and deployed i'm sure they are i'm sure there are prototypes that are being.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well we're talking about our pictures on fox news you can go to our.
>> Steve Jordahl: Facebook page brett has put the the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Pictures up there our today's issues facebook page we took pict of these.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Aircraft and the pictures says now this says shield ai some of these pictures are probably real but some of them are representations of what a wow expat airfield have they been.
>> Tim Wildmon: Built yet do we know that i'm.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Sure there are prototypes that are being tested but they have not been built for deployment yet because they're still going through the research and development phase but these would be this would be like these would be aircraft that would be like launching cruise missiles okay you launch cruise missiles now they're on operating on their own they have perfect understanding of by gps where they're located they hit their targets this would be like launching aircraft that don't have pilots you make a human makes the decision to send them and then they operate on their own that's kind of scary i know but i'm sure everyone else is figuring.
>> Tim Wildmon: This out too yeah thank you steve.
>> Ed Vitagliano: My pleasure thank you ed yes sir.
>> Tim Wildmon: thanks to fred jackson the canadian american who was on with us earlier and brent creely our redneck american.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And we will have an official apology to the italian american community yeah it'll.
>> Tim Wildmon: Be forthcoming after pizza we will see you tomorrow everybody.
