Tim Wildman: Steve Paisley Jordan going bike riding this afternoon
>> 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. I'm Tim Wildmon with Fred Jackson. Now, Steve Paisley Jordan joins us. Good morning, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Brand. Ed's, Ed's not here today. Ray's here today. Ray's, joining us from Kansas City. And, Wait, I didn't check on the weather there. What do you, what do you got outside?
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's, Let me tell you, it's beautiful. 79 degrees, heading up to 85.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Indian Summer there, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Indian summer, yeah. Beautiful weather here in early October.
>> Tim Wildmon: Going bike riding this afternoon.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm thinking about it. I got it.
>> Tim Wildmon: I've got it.
>> Tim Wildmon: I've got another appointment, but I'm trying to think. Can I, you know, can I squeeze it in? How far do you ride?
>> Tim Wildmon: You said.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, about 15 miles.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Four or five times a week. I know you had to take a break when you got, when I.
>> Tim Wildmon: Was doing the cancer treatment, but. Yeah. Yeah. And, it's what keeps me sane. Or as close to sane as I ever get.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. What is, what is it about a bike ride? Is it like a, I know when I used to m. Mow the yard.
>> Tim Wildmon: Getting outside.
>> Tim Wildmon: Getting outside and just relaxing your mind.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, you know, you're pedaling along, the scenery is changing, and, it's just therapeutic. It's therapeutic. Your troubles begin to melt away.
>> Steve Jordahl: Sounds too much like exercise to me.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, there's that, all right.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's that part. It does have other benefits. Get your heart rate up and cardio and those kinds of things. Exercise your muscles and, and, All right, so, Steve, I love that, shirt.
>> Steve Jordahl: Thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: How long you had that one? Bad. Ask you about this before?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, no, this is new. I got this, even the mail, two, days ago.
>> Tim Wildmon: Man. It's a, you call it like a royal purple. It's a paisley paisley shirt.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I,
>> Tim Wildmon: King of France over there, man.
>> Steve Jordahl: Could be. I got two others coming, too. I, I, I, realized that my paisley stock was getting old and, and worn.
>> Tim Wildmon: Come up with a brand so you can sell them or something.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, we talked about. I don't know if you ever got. I've never. Somebody, I think it was either Tony or Ed or somebody made the suggestion that people should write in if, if we, we should have some AFA shirts that are paisley.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got a slogan for you.
>> Steve Jordahl: What's that?
>> Tim Wildmon: For your hats and Other materials. Make paisley great again.
>> Steve Jordahl: Make paisley great again.
>> Tim Wildmon: I like it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't you like that, Ray?
>> Tim Wildmon: I want one of those ball caps, you know.
>> Tim Wildmon: MGA make paisley mp. Yeah, I don't know if that would work. I don't think that's. Anyway, all right, so, lots.
>> Tim Wildmon: Of times I'm working on Map go Map go.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, yeah, something we got. Yeah, something like that.
>> Steve Jordahl: Make American Paisley great.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, again, something. We're gonna have to work on that. Branding and messaging right there.
Ray Miller: Pitcher throws 104.5 mph pitch during Major League playoffs
But by the way, guys, you know the Major League Baseball playoffs are going on. Aware of this?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I'm watching some of it.
>> Tim Wildmon: my team, St. Louis Cardinals, didn't make the playoffs and haven't in quite some time.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's mine.
>> Tim Wildmon: what's your team?
>> Steve Jordahl: Oakland A's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oakland A's, yeah. but the, so the major league playoffs are going on and last night there was a player for the San Diego Padres. You got that story?
>> Steve Jordahl: I just look at the box score of the game.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, this guy. That's not the box score I want to talk about. This guy's a pitcher for them. Do you see this, Ray?
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I did too. Was that the hardest, the highest speed ever, ever found in a, in a major league playoff game? Something like that. Something unbelievable.
>> Steve Jordahl: 4.5.
>> Tim Wildmon: What?
>> Steve Jordahl: 104.5 miles an hour.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. 104. The pitcher. Now keep in mind he doesn't have a bionic arm.
>> Tim Wildmon: That we're aware of. Maybe they need to do bionic arm testing. I don't know, like they do drug testing. But this, what was his name?
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm looking it up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Give him credit. Anyway, I just thought. 104. Mile 104.
>> Steve Jordahl: Mason Miller.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Mason Miller. He's Mr. M. Ms. M. Miller's son, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: That'd be the one.
>> Steve Jordahl: 104 for the San Diego Millers.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Was 104.655 miles an hour. And, and some other player for the Cincinnati Reds. Chapman was his name.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Three or four years ago he threw, I think he threw 104. But the point is, this was the fastest, pitch ever recorded in human history.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's what they say.
>> Tim Wildmon: Last night. Wow. And I saw it. I saw him throw in. Of course I say I saw it. You can't see it. Okay. But I thought, I thought to myself, you know, maybe we're going to reach the point because there's a few other guys that are, you know, touching 100. I don't know if we're going to reach the point where baseball players can't hit because they can't see the ball at all. I don't know.
>> Steve Jordahl: They've already.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't get to that point.
>> Steve Jordahl: They've already got tenths, hundreds of seconds in order to make a decision on whether to swing at a pitch or not. It's, it's.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's the hardest thing in sports to do. They say out question is to hit a major league pitch. Okay. And hit it successfully for. To get on base. that's why if you can. If you can get on base three out of 10 times with a hit, you can make millions of dollars. Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Or that.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's why I'm taking my boy with. My grandsons are going. They're leaving school and we're just going to do baseball every day.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Surely somebody can hit 3 out of 10 that can make a lot of money for the fam.
>> Steve Jordahl: So there is a little bit of debate, though, about whether or not this is the fastest ever, because they have changed over the years. They have changed the method of. Of how fast you pitch back in the day, back like the Walter Johnson Cy Young days.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: It was a stopwatch, I believe. I mean, I.
>> Tim Wildmon: Back in the 20s and 30s.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Or the turn of the century when they started doing this. But then, how do we ever go back? I don't know. Maybe Nolan Ryan days, they would use a speed gun. but there was a difference between where they measure the speed of the pitch. At one point it was when it crossed the plate, and now it is like 4ft or 2ft in front of the pitcher's hand when it's released.
>> Tim Wildmon: And.
>> Steve Jordahl: And it loses a certain amount of speed as it makes its way to the plate.
Steve Dahl: 100 and nearly 105 miles an hour are fast pitches
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: So it's not the measuring standard.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're breaking this down, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: I've been.
>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't know we were going to get this kind of thorough.
>> Steve Jordahl: they have changed the way they measure speed, so it's not. It's not a consistent thing. They're not sure. Although. Have you ever stood in one of those batting cages that let you choose the speed?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I have.
>> Steve Jordahl: And you ever stood in front of it like a. They let you do it?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, this, when I was 15 years old, said it was throwing 90. I don't know if it was. It was throwing so fast, it was coming pretty. I couldn't see it. What you do in that case, you just stick your bat out there and hope for the best. And if you do make contact. It's going over the fence because, just sheer, you know, energy there. All right, so 100 and nearly 105 miles an hour.
>> Tim Wildmon: That would hurt if you got hit.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh man, would that hurt.
>> Tim Wildmon: I bet you even those major league players are scared to get up against 105 mile an hour. That would hurt, huh? That leave a mark?
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, goodness gracious.
>> Tim Wildmon: Leave a mark.
Wikipedia co founder says site has been corrupted by woke ideology
All right. so what's your first, story?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, one of the places you could look if you want to find out the history of 100 mile an hour pitches or just about anything else in the world is Wikipedia. Now whether or not it's accurate, that's kind of up for debate. And in fact we're hearing from the co founder of Wikipedia. Larry Sanger is now 57. He co founded the site in 2001 with a guy named Jimmy Wales. But he's a little disillusioned.
>> Tim Wildmon: Outlaw Jimmy Wales.
>> Steve Jordahl: Outlaw Jimmy Wales. He's a little disillusioned.
>> Tim Wildmon: That went over a whole lot.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, did it? Okay, well, but still, either you got the joke or you didn't.
>> Steve Jordahl: He said I got it, it's good. he says that the site has been corrupted by woke ideology and he has, he's not happy and he's given some tips, for solutions.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so this was interesting to me. I found this story. So Fred, this is the Wikipedia is used by everybody, right? We either use it, we all use it and we use it on a subject. We want just the meat and potatoes, right? Okay. We don't want to have to go searching the Internet for. We want the meat and potatoes. So we go to the Wikipedia page which usually contains that. What this gentleman is saying here is what we. And what I've seen, we, we've seen it before on certain topics and people and causes is that Wikipedia, has a buy as a liberal bias. And that's what this gentleman, who's a found co founder is saying about the company he co founded. And he said they can no longer be trusted basically is what he's saying. Right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So just keep that in mind when you go out and search things on the Internet and you start with Wikipedia, that they have a noticeable. This is what he says. But what secular liberal or progressive systemic.
>> Steve Jordahl: Bias is what he's calling it.
>> Tim Wildmon: So by the way, did you find out how this works exactly? Editing part of it kind of.
>> Steve Jordahl: I did a little bit.
>> Tim Wildmon: So tell our listeners how a Wikipedia page may be, how the content is developed and how it can be edited.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, there are some standards for what qualifies as a page. Okay, but anybody can be an editor.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay?
>> Steve Jordahl: You just have to set up your own account and then you can start editing. However, though the platform is volunteer run and I'm reading this from, Wikipedia. No, from the Daily Mail. Though the platform is volunteer run, just 62 accounts, they wield the most power and can appoint, or remove administrators and oversee problem editors. Only 14.5% of those powerful editors use their real full names, which is a concern. But basically what he is saying is these editors uphold an ideological systemic bias which he has coined as gasp. It's globalist, academic, secular and progressive. So if you want to be an editor, you can, but you have to work your way up through.
>> Tim Wildmon: but does somebody. Maybe you don't know the answer to this question, but okay, say you want to edit. I want to go on and I know, I know in the past we've been told that we can't edit the AFA Wikipedia page. I don't, I don't know who controls this. I mean, I don't know, you know, who, who decides what, because, what's able to go on the page? You say anybody can be an editor.
>> Tim Wildmon: But they must have gatekeepers.
>> Tim Wildmon: That somebody's a gatekeeper. Somebody ultimately decides who they let to be an editor, right? Yes. And if that person is a activist, progressive person, they're going to have bias and they're going to, try to.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is, this is what, this is what ChatGPT. This is what I looked up.
Start by understanding Wikipedia's editing guidelines
Okay, who can be a Wikipedia editor? anyone can do it. Here's how to get started. You have to create an account. While you can edit without an account, having one gives you more credibility and access. Then you have to learn the basics. Start by understanding Wikipedia's editing guidelines. It's supposed to be a neutral point of view. It has to be able to be verified. And you can't add your own opinions or unpublished your own research. It has to be a published, ah, source. it says start small by editing existing articles, fixing typos and that kind of stuff. There's what they call a sandbox when you can practice, editing, to participate in talk pages, to discuss article changes, join the Wiki Projects page. and then you can you, you work your way up. What was it I was reading here? there's a handful of dominant views as consensus, typically those held by the most powerful editors. Rather than reflecting a fair balance of many voices These editors uphold this ideological system. That was what he called this gasp system. this narrows the group. this narrow group dominates the content and controls the accessible for information, especially when it comes to religion, philosophy or cultural views. so, the platform is Volunteer Run, 62 accounts, wield the most power and can appoint or remove. They're the ones you have to convince if you want to. They have the final word, basically.
>> Tim Wildmon: okay, so I was looking up AFA's Wikipedia and I had looked at this in a year, I guess, and most of the stuff here is pretty factual in the first two paragraphs. And then it gets to this paragraph. AFA has been listed as an anti LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law center since November 2010 for the propagation of known falsehoods and the use of demonizing propaganda against the LGBTQ people. As an aside, I'm always, I always get a chuckle out of people who don't believe in demons saying that we're demonizing people.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So anyway, but, the lgbt. So what I'm saying is right there, that paragraph is from a left wing point of view.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's not neutral. No. And there's no, there's no chance for af. There's no. Well, here's the response from AFA to what the SPLC says about them being a hate group. So there's an example, quite frankly, somebody, somebody, somebody, edits this. So, just beware when you're using Wikipedia that they have a, liberal slash progressive bias on almost all topics.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like most of the legacy media.
>> Steve Jordahl: So Wikipedia protects certain pages to prevent vandalism is what it calls it. Hey, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we got a bunch of. Mr.
>> Steve Jordahl: Bus pulled up. so your, your article can fall into three categories and be protected from, ah, editing. full protection means, who can edit? Only those who are admitted to get. For controversial or highly vandalized pages, political figures, recent events. I suspect our page, it can be semi protected, which would be for persistent vandalism from new or anonymous users or extended, confirmed accounts, which are for pages prone to coordinated disputation.
>> Tim Wildmon: What was the last word you used?
>> Steve Jordahl: disruption. Actually, I can't read. I'm blind.
>> Tim Wildmon: What did you say?
>> Tim Wildmon: Disputation.
>> Steve Jordahl: Disrupt.
>> Tim Wildmon: You just made up a word.
>> Steve Jordahl: I did.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what Wikipedia does.
>> Steve Jordahl: I know what we're talking about. You could be, you could be an editor if you want.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's pretty impressive. New word.
>> Steve Jordahl: Thank you very much.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. so beware of Wikipedia, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: For sure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Steve, what you Got next.
British police say they will no longer investigate bike thefts at train stations
>> Steve Jordahl: I want to talk to Ray. You said you go, bike riding?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Ray does.
>> Steve Jordahl: Don't do this in England.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: all right. The, The English government has, and I'm finding the British police say they will no longer investigate bike thefts at train stations.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, no.
>> Steve Jordahl: They have decriminalized bike theft.
>> Tim Wildmon: What? This is wrong.
>> Steve Jordahl: British Transport Police say it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.
>> Tim Wildmon: What?
>> Steve Jordahl: It means most bike thefts will not be investigated. CCTV footage will not be looked at outside, hour time frame. And this article here has. It has videos of, thieves in broad daylight using chainsaws and band saws and all kinds of different things to steal bikes.
>> Tim Wildmon: do they say why they've done this?
>> Steve Jordahl: They have more important things to do.
>> Tim Wildmon: What is the reasoning?
>> Steve Jordahl: what it said is they, To prevent thefts which have skyrocketed, British authorities have installed safe storages which they can still get through. they do it because they don't have time. They have bigger things to worry about. The more time our officers spend reviewing cctv, the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains investigating crimes which cause more harm. One of the things that they're still investigating, of course, is posts on social media that they don't like.
>> Tim Wildmon: They have time for that. Yeah, yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: the same article. And I'll, send it to Brent. He can, post it. Same article has a, British judge sentencing a guy that posted something that he didn't like about, immigrants online, and he was sentenced to two years in jail.
>> Tim Wildmon: Lest we make too much fun of the Brits on this, it's not too long ago that in San Francisco, and I think in Oakland, California, remember, they allowed people to steal up to $1,000.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Worth of stuff from Walgreens.
>> Tim Wildmon: I went out there, I took advantage of that. I got a lot of good stuff because I try to keep it with 8, 900 bucks.
>> Tim Wildmon: that's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: but, but anyway, so I just.
>> Tim Wildmon: Filled up your cart.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, just filled up my cart every day. I did that for like a week so I didn't get arrested. But, just as long as you hold in under a thousand, you can steal whatever you want.
>> Tim Wildmon: Then he came home and open store.
>> Steve Jordahl: You know what once, you know, one store did to, to stop this, they priced everything in the whole store at $999.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good for them that the discount will be given at the register.
>> Tim Wildmon: California idiots right there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Mighty expensive for a Toothbrush, but you.
>> Steve Jordahl: Get a discount at the register. Yeah, but $998.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, good. good to know.
Donald Trump has been talking about his shutdown of the government
you're listening to Today's issues. We got five minutes left. What do you got, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, Donald Trump is talking, Donald Trump has been talking about his, his shutdown of the government.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, wait a minute, wait a minute. Where you characterize that? I would. I would not, if I can speak for President Trump, he would not say I shut down the federal.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, you would say the Democrats did.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's a disputation, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right, Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think that's disputation. Well, you get that from the priest.
>> Steve Jordahl: I do. I want to play. this is Donald Trump, but not really Donald Trump. this is the best Donald Trump impersonator ever hear talking about this. This is cut 16.
>> Sean Farage: Hola, mi fellow americanos. Y bienvenidos al Sierra de Schumer. That means welcome to the Schumer shutdown. We call it the Schumer siesta. Right? It's the Schumer Siesta. He put the government on siesta, crying Chuck and, El Hakimo Jefe Jeffries. We used to call him Dallas Door Obama till we realized, he's worth far less than a dollar. But they put the government on siesta to give illegal aliens your health care. We're not going to let it happen. I looked at both of them. I said, we're not going to let it happen. It's no bueno. I said, it's no bueno. They begged me. They said, but, senor, por favor, please give illegal aliens to health care. I said, we're not going to do it. We're never going to do it. It's not going to happen. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who is this?
>> Steve Jordahl: That's John Farage.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's a, hugely popular online commentator. Commentator. Trump impersonator.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, he does more than that, but, yes, he has his own podcast. But yeah, he. That's. He's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, we got the story about the Pope blessing the ice cube.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we got some issues.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we're not making this up, people.
The Pope blessed a chunk of ice from melting glaciers in Greenland yesterday
Yeah, bring, the, we're talking about the. The new pope, the leader of the Catholic Church. He's an American.
>> Steve Jordahl: yeah, he's from.
>> Tim Wildmon: Bob from Chicago.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's his name?
>> Steve Jordahl: Bob.
>> Tim Wildmon: Robert Pope Robert Pope Bob.
>> Tim Wildmon: Pope Bob from Chicago.
>> Tim Wildmon: What is his proper name?
>> Tim Wildmon: Leo.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because they take. They take on a. Another name when they become pope. Right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Pope Leo the 14th yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. All right, when are we going to have Coach Bill the first Pope. Bill the first. Right. We don't have that. Pope Leo the What?
>> Steve Jordahl: Leo the 14th.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, listen, listen to what he participated in yesterday.
>> Steve Jordahl: He spoke to a thousand representatives at the 10th annual celebration of the late Pope Francis's climate summit. And he was joined on stage by Arnold Schwarzenegger. And he placed his hand on a large chunk of ice taken from melting glaciers in Greenland. And then he said that he hopes the UN Climate Conference will take action and listen to the cry of the earth's poor. And then he blessed the ice, gave it a prayer of blessing.
>> Tim Wildmon: What?
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what I.
>> Tim Wildmon: Are you saying he got a piece of a glacier from Greenland and somebody flew it to Rome?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that what you're saying?
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah. Do you know the carbon footprint that that jet used to bring that to bring that ice cube from? I bet that scared the crowd when they told them ice was here.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what? listen, I don't get this at all. what are you blessing the ice for? Do you have the blessing that the Pope gave the ice cube?
>> Steve Jordahl: I am seeing a,
>> Tim Wildmon: What did he say to him? if an ice cube can be a gender, I don't know.
>> Steve Jordahl: Blessed a block of ice. Well, let's see. We will raise hope today by demanding the leaders act with courage, not delay. We will join with.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Did he say this in Latin?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, he's single. He's American.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just English. Okay, you know what? That's ridiculous. Huh? Yeah, And I'm.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's hard to parody something like that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, my God. All my Catholic friends would say the same thing. That's ridiculous. okay. Surely the Pope can find something better to do than go around putting his hand on ice cubes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You would think.
>> Tim Wildmon: Climate change, religions, what it is.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we will, see you tomorrow with Trivia Friday here on American Family Radio. My thanks to Fred, Steve, Ray, Chris, Sandy, and Brent Creeley, our producer. Have a great afternoon, everybody.
