August 24, 2025 • 32 mins
This episode dives straight into the chaos surrounding Cracker Barrel’s $700 million stock plunge amid controversy over its rebranding — a symbol of how even iconic businesses stumble in the culture wars. From there, James unpacks the passing of Christian broadcaster James Dobson, the unfolding real estate crash in Las Vegas, and the raid on former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s home. You’ll also hear about the Donna Adelson trial in the Dan Markel murder case, shady rental car scams hitting unsuspecting drivers, and Bryan Kohberger’s complaints from prison. To top it off, James explores Tucker Carlson’s conversation about the Shroud of Turin. And yes, he shares a personal milestone — winning his very first hypothetical case in law school and celebrating with his mom at Orlando’s brand-new White Castle. A fast-paced mix of law, culture, finance, and true crime — this episode covers it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
You're listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the
latest news on money, politics, prophecy, and preparedness, and now
your host, the editor in chief of Christian Money dot
com and the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, hello you buddy, and welcome to the broadcast.
It has been a while, I know, and I want
to tell you all the things that are going on
in my life and why I've been not producing an
episode every week like I should be. And it's been
a while. I don't know if it's been maybe two
or three months since the last episode. But some of
(01:21):
you don't know this. Many of you do follow me
on Facebook. I am now officially a law school student,
and so a lot has been happening. So I relocated
from Palm Cooast, which is halfway between Saint Augustine and
Daytona Beach, Florida. That's where I had been living for
fourteen years approximately. So I'm over in Orlando now, living
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here in Orlando, and the whole idea is I moved
over here to go to law school. So a lot
was going on. I was finishing my master's degree. Then
I took the law school entry exam and I did well.
I applied to a number of law schools, I got
accepted into several, and I have selected to attend a
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law school here in Orlando. And so that's what's been
going on. So over the summer, I had two classes.
One of them was online with Harvard Harvard Law, and
then another was online with the law school here FAMU
Law in Orlando. So those were kind of two sort
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of preparatory law classes. So I was in that. I'm
still unpacking my boxes. I'm getting everything ready to start school.
I mean, all the stuff that you have to do
when you're starting law school, getting a new computer, getting
all the clothes that I need, just getting organized. And
it's been three weeks now, so it's happening. I have
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been in law school for three weeks. So I've got
to tell you, the most exciting day of law school
was this past Friday, couple of days ago. So in
law school, they use what's called the Socratic learning method,
which is basically a fancy way of saying that the
teacher will stand up in the front of the room
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and present and then goes around the room asking lots
of questions. Sometimes these questions are scenarios that you must address.
And then sometimes you're given like a hypothetical set of
facts and you have to argue a case. You're like, okay,
now you stand up and you're the prosecutor and you're
the defense, and you got to stand up in front
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of all row of people and do this. So this
is interesting. It's scary, it really is. So I got
picked on Friday in criminal law to stand up and
argue a case. So I was the defense, and then
another student was the prosecutor, and I had this scenario.
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They give you this list of potential scenarios, so I
had an opportunity to prepare a little bit the night before.
But still it's pretty scary standing up there in front
of all the other students and your law professor. So
the great story is that I won my case. That
I argue this is a hypothetical case. I'm not a
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lawyer yet, and I did so well. It was great
because the law professor said, not only did I win,
but I had obliterated the prosecution. So I was the
defense lawyer in this hypothetical scenario. So I was so
excited that my mom has been wanting to go to
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White Castle and we just got our second white Castle
here in Orlando. And for those that may or may
not know, I used to work for White Castle. I
have a long family history connection to Whitecastle. I have
a cousin who worked at White Castle from the time
he was fifteen until he was like sixty years old,
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and he was like one of the top vice presidents
in the company. I worked at White Castle for three
years during high school. But make a long story short,
we now have our second white Castle. In this White
Castle is only about twenty minutes from my house. So
you talk about the challenge of losing weight and staying
in shape and all of that good stuff, twenty minutes
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from my house is a new white Castle. So on Friday,
I wanted to go out and celebrate winning my case,
and it was just exciting just to feel like, hey,
I'm actually succeeding here at law school, at least in
the third week, and so my mom and I we
went out to White Castle. So there's some great there's
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a lot of great comments on my Facebook page because
I posted a couple of pictures of me and my
mom at White Castle. So if you're somebody that follows
me on Facebook, you'll see these pictures on the timeline
of my mom with her White castles and me. I
actually not only ate four White castles while we were there,
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but I got one of these boxes it's like a
briefcase looking thing, and I got twenty white Castle cheeseburgers
to take home. So it was it was quite a night.
But in any case, it is great to be back
with you and plan to just start doing these every Sunday.
So Sunday is the day I am going to be
recording these, So look for new episodes coming out Sunday
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night on Monday. You know, God willing, unless something comes up,
we're going to try to get one of these out
a week, all right. So Christian broadcaster and really an
icon in the Christian community, doctor James Dobson passed away
and he was eighty nine years old, and you know,
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he was a really nice guy. I remember being able
to meet doctor Dobson. This was Oh boy, when was
it maybe like twenty years ago or twenty five years ago?
I met him. I was in by a good friend
of mine, Marlon Maddox. We were at a conference in Washington,
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d C. And James Dobson was there, and so were
a lot of other big Christian names. It was a
conference of conservative Christians leaders that were sort of politically active,
so there was a lot of big names there. Dobson
was one of them. I got to meet him and
talk to him. I got a picture with him. Super
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nice guy and wow, one of the biggest names in
the Christian community, in particular in Christian broadcasting. Founder of
Focus on the Family, James Dobson has passed away at
the age of eighty nine. So the big controversy this
week has been this whole Cracker Barrel thing. And it
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is so hilarious to see the woke crowd. What they
do they I mean Cracker Barrel. Well, you cannot have
a more sort of down home southern feel, kind of
good old boy type of a restaurant than Cracker Barrel.
And I always loved Cracker Barrel. In fact, we have
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a Cracker Barrel in Palm Coast where I was living.
And the funny thing was, it was sort of in
an odd location to where it was really in. It
was in a place, in a location where it was
perfect for people getting off of Interstate ninety five. But
as a local, you wouldn't really pass it too often,
so I didn't go that often. I just kind of
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always forgot that it was there. But I always loved
Cracker Barrel. My kids especially loved it growing up, playing
that game with the golf teas at the table. And
of course you gotta love the food, and you gotta
love the shopping, going around in the gift shop and
looking at all the interesting stuff. But obviously everybody knows
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about this. I mean, if you don't know about what
happened with Acker Barrel this week, you're living under a rock.
You need to know the news that Elvis has died.
In any case, this CEO and I don't know what
it is about these these woke people with the giant glasses.
I remember when I got my first pair of glasses.
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I was it was probably around nineteen seventy and back
in the day when you when you got glasses, and
as a kid, I had to wear my glasses, people
would call you four eyes. It wasn't really something fun.
But it seems like glasses are now kind of some
sort of accessory. You know. People are, you know, using
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glasses to kind of brand themselves. So in any case,
this lady, she's got these like these giant glasses. They
look like men's glasses, but they're kind of these giant
horn rimmed black glasses that she wears. And I don't
know who she has never heard of her before, but
apparently she's getting paid millions of to run Cracker Barrel.
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And the first thing she decided to do was take
out the barrel. I mean, the name of the place
is Cracker Barrel. And so the first thing we're gonna
do is take out the old guy in the rocking
chair and the barrel. I mean, nothing says more about
that brand than the old guy in the rocking chair
with the barrel sitting next to him. I mean, isn't
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that what you think about when you think about Cracker Barrel?
And then they replaced it with this like bland. It
looked like a kid in first grade made their logo
just the words cracker barrel. Nothing there. And I've been learning.
And by the way, the stock plunges seven hundred million
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dollars in value after they do this. And it's really
more the public is aware of what's going on here, right.
This is more than just somebody changing the label or
the branding. It's a lot more than that. It's like, hey,
we've got to go in and fix this. We've got
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to fix what's not broken. We've got to take this
down home southern themed restaurant and we've got to somehow
turn this into a woke We've got to get all
the southern stuff out of it and make it woke.
And you just think to yourself, who is running the store?
I mean, who could put someone like this in charge
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that would make decisions like this. It's I can't even
process it. But there's this new trend and get it.
Get this. I think I got a great name for this.
Instead of calling it branding. You hear about this all
the time, branding or rebranding. They're calling this movement blanding,
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as in bland, b LA and D. And the idea
is what we're gonna do is we're gonna take out
We're gonna take away the personality from this brand and
we're just gonna, you know, dumb it down. And I
posted a picture on my Facebook of the new Taco Bell.
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Look which almost looks like a little office building. Is
what the new Taco Bell is. And this lady, this
Cracker Barrel CEO, she was also running Taco Bell not
too long ago. But this is apparently the new movement.
It's you know, for example, you had KFC with the
picture of the kernel and all that. We got to
get rid of that. We got to just have this
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sort of bland as they're calling it, like like KFC place.
But this is what is happening. And the majority, you know,
the Americans that love Cracker Barrel that want to go
in and get there, you know, they want to go
get their their eggs and their biscuits and gravy and
their pot roast and all of that stuff and what
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they want to go and sit in the rocking chair.
They want to see the barrels. They want to see
the Old Country store, all of that, you know, stuff
that's there. Now. I'm referencing a different business, right the
Old Country. There's another one called Old Country. But in
any case, the store that they have, that's the experience.
It would be like, I don't know, let's use a
crazy example, Disney getting rid of Mickey Mouse. It's like,
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this is what this business is built on. And I
think the problem is, if I could identify it, it's
not even so much the woke crowd and what they're
trying to do, although I think that's part of it.
I think it's that it's the ego. You know, a
new CEO comes in and they want to put their
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stamp on everything. In other words, instead of taking what's
already great about the brand and building on it, they
want to make these radical changes so that they can
get credit for having, you know, kind of taken this
business into a whole new direction, which is really poor leadership,
really poor management. I mean, did they do some kind
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of a nationwide focus group and get a bunch of
Cracker Barrel customers together to say, we want to get
rid of the old guy in the barrel in the
rocking chair. And there's no way they could have done
that because no one that loves Cracker Barrel would want
to see that happen. But this is just another example
of the woke you know, going off the chain. All right,
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what else is going on? Las Vegas? Man, how long
has it been since I've been to Las Vegas? Maybe
twenty years since I've been to Las Vegas. And I've
been there a few times. I actually have been there
on business. I've been there with family. I'm not a
big gambler or anything like that, just kind of like
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the shows. I've gone there to see clients that live
in Las Vegas. I like the I would go see
the Wayne Newton's and those kind of shows. But apparently
the big news is that Las Vegas is crashing. And
this is not a new phenomenon. Las Vegas goes through
these boom and bust cycles. It's just part of Las Vegas.
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And I remember the first hint of this was I
was doing some loans in Las Vegas. When was this
maybe about a year and a half ago, and I
started getting some pushback from lenders that were not wanting
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to lend in Las Vegas. And when they would lend,
and these were all like hard money type loans, When
they would lend, they would do so under very egregious terms,
super high interest rate, very low percentage of value. They
would loan as if they knew that this was coming.
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So Las Vegas they go through these cycles, they kind
of have a good few years going and then everybody
starts building. You get more casinos, you have more houses
being built. Apparently Las Vegas is now a ghost town.
And I don't know why. I really don't know why.
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I guess because I've never been a huge, huge fan
of Las Vegas. I was more of a fan of
Las Vegas, you know, back in the day when you
could go see you know, a Steve Lawrence or a
Wayne Newton. But that's all pretty much gone. And I'm
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not a gambler. Some of these shows that are pretty
incredible that they that they put on, but still it's pricey.
It's not my vibe. And I'm just wondering if kind
of the American family would rather go to a place
like a Disney or a Universal Studios or hang out
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at the beach than to go to Las Vegas. Or
is it just that Las Vegas has created so many venues,
so many hotels and casinos, built so many homes that
it's just not sustainable. It very well could be maybe
a little bit of both of those. John Bolton, if
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you remember, he was Trump's National Security advisor in the
first term. And I don't know how long he was
the National Security Advisor, I don't remember, but I know
he didn't make it through the entire first term, is
my memory of it. But in any case, his home
was raided on Friday by the FBI. And what's interesting
(17:41):
about this is if you remember when they raided Trump's
home in mar A Lago, accusing him of having classified
documents that he supposedly was not allowed to have even
though he's a former president. That was the allegation. Those
charges did not stick. But John Bolton was on television
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I remember it like it was yesterday, being very critical
of Trump, talking about the risk of him having those documents,
et cetera, et cetera. And now John Bolton is being investigated.
It's still an allegation. He hasn't been arrested or charged,
but he's being investigated for having classified documents. So it
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is interesting. And this is the one thing about Trump.
You know, whether you like this about him or you
don't like this about him, if you if you target Trump,
you can almost guarantee he's gonna circle back and you're
not gonna get away with that. That this has been
his method for decades, I mean, and he even writes
(18:50):
about this that you cannot let people you know bully
you or treat you badly without circling back and dealing
with them. And it appears that this is what's happening,
and people are accusing Trump administration of this being a
politically motivated investigation into Bolton. Who really cares what the
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motivation is. I mean, if he's broken the law, we
don't really care what the motivation is. He needs to
face the music, just like he said himself about Trump,
you know, back in the day. All right, A lot
of people are still getting in touch with me about mortgages,
and I want to make sure everybody knows that I
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still am a mortgage loan officer and you can get
in touch with me. The easiest way is to send
me an email James L. Paris at gmail dot com.
That email goes directly to my phone James L. Paris
at gmail dot com, and we can talk about your
mortgage scenario. I'm personally licensed in a number of states,
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and then if I'm not licensed where you are, I
can refer you to someone on my team. But I
did just want to mention one website for you to
take a look at. And this is for those people
that you have some great equity in your house, but
you've got a low interest rate on that existing mortgage,
so you don't want to get rid of that right,
(20:19):
but you need some money because you want to pay
off credit cards or other high interest rate debt, or
a car, or you need money to help a kid
go to college, whatever it might be. Check this website
out quick turn helock dot com. Now let me spell
it out for you. It's quick quick quick, and then
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turn t U r N and then helock h E
l OC quick turn helock dot com and helock stands
for home Equity line of credit. And this is a
pretty unique website. I want you to look at it
because not only with a primary home, but a secondary
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home also investment properties, you can borrow money against your
house without disrupting that great first mortgage. There's no appraisal required,
you can get approved in five to ten minutes, you
can close in five days. And did I mention there's
no appraisal required. So a lot of my clients are
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taking a look at this. Take a minute and check
it out for yourself. Quick turn helock dot com and
that's helock h E l OC Quick turn heelock dot com,
or you can just send me an email and I
can get your link to it. James L. Paris at
gmail dot com. Well, I'm surprised that not more people
(21:45):
know about this Donna Adelson trial, this whole case where
in twenty fourteen, a law professor at Florida State University
by the name of Dan Marl was murdered in his
own driveway and they have already convicted I believe four
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people that were a part of the conspiracy and now
actually this is his elderly mother in law that is
now on trial. And this case will absolutely blow your mind.
I have to tell you, I'm a huge fan of
Dateline NBC. One of the reasons I am is I'm
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just a big student of psychology. I love to study
the mind, the human mind. When I was teaching women's
self defense, I read a ton of books about sociopaths
and serial killers, and I just always think to myself, man,
this is just interesting to me. It's fascinating to me.
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And let me give you the Dateline NBC fascination, which
is that you have two people that start to date,
they fall in love, they get married many times, they
have children and at some point a switch is flipped
and one of them murders the other.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And I.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Grapple with this, like, how in the world does this happen?
That you can go from being in love, you get married,
you have a family, you're living together, You're you know,
two of you against the world, you know, living through
this adventure of life, and all of a sudden one
of them wants to kill the other. And sometimes it's
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about money. It's like, hey, I want to get divorced.
I'm having an affair, but I don't want to split
everything I get know that this case is incredible because
when you start looking into it, this is all about
child custody. So here's the backstory. So Dan Markel, who
is a who was a very popular law professor at
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the floor Florida State University College of Law. He was
married to Wendy Adelson, who is also a professor at
Florida State University in Tallahassee. So this couple, they meet,
they fall in love, they get married. Both of the
families are excited and happy, and now children are coming.
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They had to have two young boys when all this happened.
I believe they were around four or five years old
and there's this divorce raging, and this is a nasty divorce.
And if they're not all nasty, most of them are nasty.
And this law professor, obviously he's a lawyer, so he
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knows what he's doing, and he is resisting the wife's
demands that she be allowed to move to Miami, which
is where her extended family is with the two children.
She doesn't want to be in Tallahassee. She wants to
move back to Miami, where she's from, with the two children. Well,
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what's typical in these kind of legal cases is the
judge will say, no, you know you were married, and
you know you lived here in this area in Tallahassee,
Dean Markel. Your husband has this job here, you have
a job here, the kids were born here, your life
is here. You just can't in the custody thing. You know.
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She could of course move to Miami, but the request
was she could move to Miami and take the kids
with her to Miami. So this is how this whole
thing escalated. And the Adelsons are this super wealthy family.
The patriarch, the father, Harvey Aedelson, started a dental practice
in South Florida. Then his son Charlie joined the dental
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practice after he got out of college. The mother, Donna Adelson,
the one who's on trial now, she ran was the
business manager of the dental practice. And then you have
Wendy Adelson, who is the daughter that was married to
Dan Markel. In any case, they hired this family. It's
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already proven in court, so I don't have to say allegation.
Charlie Adelson, the brother hired a hit man. And not
only did the hitman, the two hitmen in the middle person,
which is his former girlfriend. They're in prison. Charlie Adelson
is in prison. But now Donna Adelson has also been
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charged in this conspiracy. And the word is that the
buzz is that Wendy Adelson, who is who was the
wife of Dan Markel, that she will likely be charged next.
But this is an incredible story of a family that
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really had everything, this Adelson family, And because Dan Markel
would not agree to the relocation of the children, he
was murdered in his own driveway. Now, this case, if
you type it in YouTube, you'll find a lot of
people commenting on this case. And the trial just started
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this past week. They started opening statements were on Thursday,
This is a trial to follow. If you're somebody that
loves real you know, true crime, this is one that
will blow your mind. It is sad. It is an
interesting look into the criminal mind. It is a fascinating
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look at how far people will go to win in
a divorce case. Unbelievable, all right. One of the stories
that I have been sharing repeatedly over the last maybe
couple of months is about rental car companies scamming their customers.
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And the backstory on this is that these rental car
companies are now using artificial intelligence to determine if the
car is damaged when you return it. Because how this works, right,
is if you rent a car, you can usually just
like pull up real quick, drop the keys in a dropbox,
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or just hand the keys to the attendant and boom
you're off onto your flight. You're returning the car quickly.
This has always been a problem when you've got to
be so careful when you get a rental car to
walk around it and check every detail of it and
take pictures and all that of the condition of the car.
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I've always done that, but now what's happening is this
artificial intelligence. They've got cameras using AI, we'll actually just
look at the car and boom, you might get a
bill for three thousand dollars saying, hey, this car has
a dent in it or hail damage or whatever. And
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not only do you now have to worry about maybe
another driver did that and they didn't notice it, and
now you're being stuck with it, but they're now saying
that this AI technology is alleging damage when there is
no damage. And this is putting people in a really
weird situation because you know, let's say you're on vacation
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in Florida, but you live in New York or Chicago
or wherever, and now you've got a claim against you,
and they're gonna probably zap your credit card for the money,
and you're gonna have to involve your insurance company and
there's usually a deductible and it's hard to fight. This
is what I'm saying. So it's a difficult, difficult problem
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in one to be aware of and to take extra
steps and to take precautions that you don't get stuck
with a big bill the next time you rent a car.
So remember this guy, Brian Coburger, this creepy guy who
sort of had a fascination with Ted Mundy. He murdered
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four young college students out in Idaho. Well his trial
was coming up, he made a deal. He admitted to
the crimes to avoid the death penalty, and now it
sounds like he's got a fate worse than death, which
is also fitting. Brian Coburger, who is a vegan, is
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upset about the food he's getting in prison and the
harassment and threats he's getting in prison. And I have
to tell you it could not happen to a nicer guy.
And we'll close it out with this. On this episode,
an interesting video that you can watch over on my
Facebook page where Tucker Carlson is interviewing an expert on
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the Shroud of turnin and more and more people are
coming out on the side of authenticity of the Shroud
of turn It's a fascinating interview. You know, we have
here had guests many times talking about the Shroud of
turn I'm someone that sort of leans towards it being authentic,
(31:29):
although I'm not completely convinced, but I think you'll find
it to be a very fascinating interview with Tucker Carlson
talking about the Shroud of turn All right, guys, Thank
you so much for joining me, God blessed, we'll be
doing these more often. Thanks for joining us. We'll talk
to you next time. So long, everybody,
Gentlemen, start your engines. You're talking about mister Garbokoff teared down.
This one the only thing we have to bear. Spare it.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So I I'm not a crunk.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To keep your healthcare plans. Ye sick, f R three
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
You're listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the
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Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, hello you buddy, and welcome to the broadcast.
It has been a while, I know, and I want
to tell you all the things that are going on
in my life and why I've been not producing an
episode every week like I should be. And it's been
a while. I don't know if it's been maybe two
or three months since the last episode. But some of
(01:21):
you don't know this. Many of you do follow me
on Facebook. I am now officially a law school student,
and so a lot has been happening. So I relocated
from Palm Cooast, which is halfway between Saint Augustine and
Daytona Beach, Florida. That's where I had been living for
fourteen years approximately. So I'm over in Orlando now, living
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here in Orlando, and the whole idea is I moved
over here to go to law school. So a lot
was going on. I was finishing my master's degree. Then
I took the law school entry exam and I did well.
I applied to a number of law schools, I got
accepted into several, and I have selected to attend a
(02:08):
law school here in Orlando. And so that's what's been
going on. So over the summer, I had two classes.
One of them was online with Harvard Harvard Law, and
then another was online with the law school here FAMU
Law in Orlando. So those were kind of two sort
(02:29):
of preparatory law classes. So I was in that. I'm
still unpacking my boxes. I'm getting everything ready to start school.
I mean, all the stuff that you have to do
when you're starting law school, getting a new computer, getting
all the clothes that I need, just getting organized. And
it's been three weeks now, so it's happening. I have
(02:50):
been in law school for three weeks. So I've got
to tell you, the most exciting day of law school
was this past Friday, couple of days ago. So in
law school, they use what's called the Socratic learning method,
which is basically a fancy way of saying that the
teacher will stand up in the front of the room
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and present and then goes around the room asking lots
of questions. Sometimes these questions are scenarios that you must address.
And then sometimes you're given like a hypothetical set of
facts and you have to argue a case. You're like, okay,
now you stand up and you're the prosecutor and you're
the defense, and you got to stand up in front
(03:34):
of all row of people and do this. So this
is interesting. It's scary, it really is. So I got
picked on Friday in criminal law to stand up and
argue a case. So I was the defense, and then
another student was the prosecutor, and I had this scenario.
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They give you this list of potential scenarios, so I
had an opportunity to prepare a little bit the night before.
But still it's pretty scary standing up there in front
of all the other students and your law professor. So
the great story is that I won my case. That
I argue this is a hypothetical case. I'm not a
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lawyer yet, and I did so well. It was great
because the law professor said, not only did I win,
but I had obliterated the prosecution. So I was the
defense lawyer in this hypothetical scenario. So I was so
excited that my mom has been wanting to go to
(04:37):
White Castle and we just got our second white Castle
here in Orlando. And for those that may or may
not know, I used to work for White Castle. I
have a long family history connection to Whitecastle. I have
a cousin who worked at White Castle from the time
he was fifteen until he was like sixty years old,
(04:57):
and he was like one of the top vice presidents
in the company. I worked at White Castle for three
years during high school. But make a long story short,
we now have our second white Castle. In this White
Castle is only about twenty minutes from my house. So
you talk about the challenge of losing weight and staying
in shape and all of that good stuff, twenty minutes
(05:20):
from my house is a new white Castle. So on Friday,
I wanted to go out and celebrate winning my case,
and it was just exciting just to feel like, hey,
I'm actually succeeding here at law school, at least in
the third week, and so my mom and I we
went out to White Castle. So there's some great there's
(05:40):
a lot of great comments on my Facebook page because
I posted a couple of pictures of me and my
mom at White Castle. So if you're somebody that follows
me on Facebook, you'll see these pictures on the timeline
of my mom with her White castles and me. I
actually not only ate four White castles while we were there,
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but I got one of these boxes it's like a
briefcase looking thing, and I got twenty white Castle cheeseburgers
to take home. So it was it was quite a night.
But in any case, it is great to be back
with you and plan to just start doing these every Sunday.
So Sunday is the day I am going to be
recording these, So look for new episodes coming out Sunday
(06:24):
night on Monday. You know, God willing, unless something comes up,
we're going to try to get one of these out
a week, all right. So Christian broadcaster and really an
icon in the Christian community, doctor James Dobson passed away
and he was eighty nine years old, and you know,
(06:44):
he was a really nice guy. I remember being able
to meet doctor Dobson. This was Oh boy, when was
it maybe like twenty years ago or twenty five years ago?
I met him. I was in by a good friend
of mine, Marlon Maddox. We were at a conference in Washington,
(07:07):
d C. And James Dobson was there, and so were
a lot of other big Christian names. It was a
conference of conservative Christians leaders that were sort of politically active,
so there was a lot of big names there. Dobson
was one of them. I got to meet him and
talk to him. I got a picture with him. Super
(07:28):
nice guy and wow, one of the biggest names in
the Christian community, in particular in Christian broadcasting. Founder of
Focus on the Family, James Dobson has passed away at
the age of eighty nine. So the big controversy this
week has been this whole Cracker Barrel thing. And it
(07:51):
is so hilarious to see the woke crowd. What they
do they I mean Cracker Barrel. Well, you cannot have
a more sort of down home southern feel, kind of
good old boy type of a restaurant than Cracker Barrel.
And I always loved Cracker Barrel. In fact, we have
(08:14):
a Cracker Barrel in Palm Coast where I was living.
And the funny thing was, it was sort of in
an odd location to where it was really in. It
was in a place, in a location where it was
perfect for people getting off of Interstate ninety five. But
as a local, you wouldn't really pass it too often,
so I didn't go that often. I just kind of
(08:36):
always forgot that it was there. But I always loved
Cracker Barrel. My kids especially loved it growing up, playing
that game with the golf teas at the table. And
of course you gotta love the food, and you gotta
love the shopping, going around in the gift shop and
looking at all the interesting stuff. But obviously everybody knows
(08:57):
about this. I mean, if you don't know about what
happened with Acker Barrel this week, you're living under a rock.
You need to know the news that Elvis has died.
In any case, this CEO and I don't know what
it is about these these woke people with the giant glasses.
I remember when I got my first pair of glasses.
(09:19):
I was it was probably around nineteen seventy and back
in the day when you when you got glasses, and
as a kid, I had to wear my glasses, people
would call you four eyes. It wasn't really something fun.
But it seems like glasses are now kind of some
sort of accessory. You know. People are, you know, using
(09:40):
glasses to kind of brand themselves. So in any case,
this lady, she's got these like these giant glasses. They
look like men's glasses, but they're kind of these giant
horn rimmed black glasses that she wears. And I don't
know who she has never heard of her before, but
apparently she's getting paid millions of to run Cracker Barrel.
(10:03):
And the first thing she decided to do was take
out the barrel. I mean, the name of the place
is Cracker Barrel. And so the first thing we're gonna
do is take out the old guy in the rocking
chair and the barrel. I mean, nothing says more about
that brand than the old guy in the rocking chair
with the barrel sitting next to him. I mean, isn't
(10:26):
that what you think about when you think about Cracker Barrel?
And then they replaced it with this like bland. It
looked like a kid in first grade made their logo
just the words cracker barrel. Nothing there. And I've been learning.
And by the way, the stock plunges seven hundred million
(10:48):
dollars in value after they do this. And it's really
more the public is aware of what's going on here, right.
This is more than just somebody changing the label or
the branding. It's a lot more than that. It's like, hey,
we've got to go in and fix this. We've got
(11:08):
to fix what's not broken. We've got to take this
down home southern themed restaurant and we've got to somehow
turn this into a woke We've got to get all
the southern stuff out of it and make it woke.
And you just think to yourself, who is running the store?
I mean, who could put someone like this in charge
(11:32):
that would make decisions like this. It's I can't even
process it. But there's this new trend and get it.
Get this. I think I got a great name for this.
Instead of calling it branding. You hear about this all
the time, branding or rebranding. They're calling this movement blanding,
(11:52):
as in bland, b LA and D. And the idea
is what we're gonna do is we're gonna take out
We're gonna take away the personality from this brand and
we're just gonna, you know, dumb it down. And I
posted a picture on my Facebook of the new Taco Bell.
(12:13):
Look which almost looks like a little office building. Is
what the new Taco Bell is. And this lady, this
Cracker Barrel CEO, she was also running Taco Bell not
too long ago. But this is apparently the new movement.
It's you know, for example, you had KFC with the
picture of the kernel and all that. We got to
get rid of that. We got to just have this
(12:36):
sort of bland as they're calling it, like like KFC place.
But this is what is happening. And the majority, you know,
the Americans that love Cracker Barrel that want to go
in and get there, you know, they want to go
get their their eggs and their biscuits and gravy and
their pot roast and all of that stuff and what
(12:57):
they want to go and sit in the rocking chair.
They want to see the barrels. They want to see
the Old Country store, all of that, you know, stuff
that's there. Now. I'm referencing a different business, right the
Old Country. There's another one called Old Country. But in
any case, the store that they have, that's the experience.
It would be like, I don't know, let's use a
crazy example, Disney getting rid of Mickey Mouse. It's like,
(13:21):
this is what this business is built on. And I
think the problem is, if I could identify it, it's
not even so much the woke crowd and what they're
trying to do, although I think that's part of it.
I think it's that it's the ego. You know, a
new CEO comes in and they want to put their
(13:42):
stamp on everything. In other words, instead of taking what's
already great about the brand and building on it, they
want to make these radical changes so that they can
get credit for having, you know, kind of taken this
business into a whole new direction, which is really poor leadership,
really poor management. I mean, did they do some kind
(14:03):
of a nationwide focus group and get a bunch of
Cracker Barrel customers together to say, we want to get
rid of the old guy in the barrel in the
rocking chair. And there's no way they could have done
that because no one that loves Cracker Barrel would want
to see that happen. But this is just another example
of the woke you know, going off the chain. All right,
(14:28):
what else is going on? Las Vegas? Man, how long
has it been since I've been to Las Vegas? Maybe
twenty years since I've been to Las Vegas. And I've
been there a few times. I actually have been there
on business. I've been there with family. I'm not a
big gambler or anything like that, just kind of like
(14:48):
the shows. I've gone there to see clients that live
in Las Vegas. I like the I would go see
the Wayne Newton's and those kind of shows. But apparently
the big news is that Las Vegas is crashing. And
this is not a new phenomenon. Las Vegas goes through
these boom and bust cycles. It's just part of Las Vegas.
(15:12):
And I remember the first hint of this was I
was doing some loans in Las Vegas. When was this
maybe about a year and a half ago, and I
started getting some pushback from lenders that were not wanting
(15:32):
to lend in Las Vegas. And when they would lend,
and these were all like hard money type loans, When
they would lend, they would do so under very egregious terms,
super high interest rate, very low percentage of value. They
would loan as if they knew that this was coming.
(15:53):
So Las Vegas they go through these cycles, they kind
of have a good few years going and then everybody
starts building. You get more casinos, you have more houses
being built. Apparently Las Vegas is now a ghost town.
And I don't know why. I really don't know why.
(16:13):
I guess because I've never been a huge, huge fan
of Las Vegas. I was more of a fan of
Las Vegas, you know, back in the day when you
could go see you know, a Steve Lawrence or a
Wayne Newton. But that's all pretty much gone. And I'm
(16:34):
not a gambler. Some of these shows that are pretty
incredible that they that they put on, but still it's pricey.
It's not my vibe. And I'm just wondering if kind
of the American family would rather go to a place
like a Disney or a Universal Studios or hang out
(16:55):
at the beach than to go to Las Vegas. Or
is it just that Las Vegas has created so many venues,
so many hotels and casinos, built so many homes that
it's just not sustainable. It very well could be maybe
a little bit of both of those. John Bolton, if
(17:16):
you remember, he was Trump's National Security advisor in the
first term. And I don't know how long he was
the National Security Advisor, I don't remember, but I know
he didn't make it through the entire first term, is
my memory of it. But in any case, his home
was raided on Friday by the FBI. And what's interesting
(17:41):
about this is if you remember when they raided Trump's
home in mar A Lago, accusing him of having classified
documents that he supposedly was not allowed to have even
though he's a former president. That was the allegation. Those
charges did not stick. But John Bolton was on television
(18:02):
I remember it like it was yesterday, being very critical
of Trump, talking about the risk of him having those documents,
et cetera, et cetera. And now John Bolton is being investigated.
It's still an allegation. He hasn't been arrested or charged,
but he's being investigated for having classified documents. So it
(18:27):
is interesting. And this is the one thing about Trump.
You know, whether you like this about him or you
don't like this about him, if you if you target Trump,
you can almost guarantee he's gonna circle back and you're
not gonna get away with that. That this has been
his method for decades, I mean, and he even writes
(18:50):
about this that you cannot let people you know bully
you or treat you badly without circling back and dealing
with them. And it appears that this is what's happening,
and people are accusing Trump administration of this being a
politically motivated investigation into Bolton. Who really cares what the
(19:13):
motivation is. I mean, if he's broken the law, we
don't really care what the motivation is. He needs to
face the music, just like he said himself about Trump,
you know, back in the day. All right, A lot
of people are still getting in touch with me about mortgages,
and I want to make sure everybody knows that I
(19:34):
still am a mortgage loan officer and you can get
in touch with me. The easiest way is to send
me an email James L. Paris at gmail dot com.
That email goes directly to my phone James L. Paris
at gmail dot com, and we can talk about your
mortgage scenario. I'm personally licensed in a number of states,
(19:58):
and then if I'm not licensed where you are, I
can refer you to someone on my team. But I
did just want to mention one website for you to
take a look at. And this is for those people
that you have some great equity in your house, but
you've got a low interest rate on that existing mortgage,
so you don't want to get rid of that right,
(20:19):
but you need some money because you want to pay
off credit cards or other high interest rate debt, or
a car, or you need money to help a kid
go to college, whatever it might be. Check this website
out quick turn helock dot com. Now let me spell
it out for you. It's quick quick quick, and then
(20:41):
turn t U r N and then helock h E
l OC quick turn helock dot com and helock stands
for home Equity line of credit. And this is a
pretty unique website. I want you to look at it
because not only with a primary home, but a secondary
(21:02):
home also investment properties, you can borrow money against your
house without disrupting that great first mortgage. There's no appraisal required,
you can get approved in five to ten minutes, you
can close in five days. And did I mention there's
no appraisal required. So a lot of my clients are
(21:23):
taking a look at this. Take a minute and check
it out for yourself. Quick turn helock dot com and
that's helock h E l OC Quick turn heelock dot com,
or you can just send me an email and I
can get your link to it. James L. Paris at
gmail dot com. Well, I'm surprised that not more people
(21:45):
know about this Donna Adelson trial, this whole case where
in twenty fourteen, a law professor at Florida State University
by the name of Dan Marl was murdered in his
own driveway and they have already convicted I believe four
(22:09):
people that were a part of the conspiracy and now
actually this is his elderly mother in law that is
now on trial. And this case will absolutely blow your mind.
I have to tell you, I'm a huge fan of
Dateline NBC. One of the reasons I am is I'm
(22:29):
just a big student of psychology. I love to study
the mind, the human mind. When I was teaching women's
self defense, I read a ton of books about sociopaths
and serial killers, and I just always think to myself, man,
this is just interesting to me. It's fascinating to me.
(22:51):
And let me give you the Dateline NBC fascination, which
is that you have two people that start to date,
they fall in love, they get married many times, they
have children and at some point a switch is flipped
and one of them murders the other.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And I.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Grapple with this, like, how in the world does this happen?
That you can go from being in love, you get married,
you have a family, you're living together, You're you know,
two of you against the world, you know, living through
this adventure of life, and all of a sudden one
of them wants to kill the other. And sometimes it's
(23:35):
about money. It's like, hey, I want to get divorced.
I'm having an affair, but I don't want to split
everything I get know that this case is incredible because
when you start looking into it, this is all about
child custody. So here's the backstory. So Dan Markel, who
is a who was a very popular law professor at
(23:59):
the floor Florida State University College of Law. He was
married to Wendy Adelson, who is also a professor at
Florida State University in Tallahassee. So this couple, they meet,
they fall in love, they get married. Both of the
families are excited and happy, and now children are coming.
(24:23):
They had to have two young boys when all this happened.
I believe they were around four or five years old
and there's this divorce raging, and this is a nasty divorce.
And if they're not all nasty, most of them are nasty.
And this law professor, obviously he's a lawyer, so he
(24:46):
knows what he's doing, and he is resisting the wife's
demands that she be allowed to move to Miami, which
is where her extended family is with the two children.
She doesn't want to be in Tallahassee. She wants to
move back to Miami, where she's from, with the two children. Well,
(25:09):
what's typical in these kind of legal cases is the
judge will say, no, you know you were married, and
you know you lived here in this area in Tallahassee,
Dean Markel. Your husband has this job here, you have
a job here, the kids were born here, your life
is here. You just can't in the custody thing. You know.
(25:31):
She could of course move to Miami, but the request
was she could move to Miami and take the kids
with her to Miami. So this is how this whole
thing escalated. And the Adelsons are this super wealthy family.
The patriarch, the father, Harvey Aedelson, started a dental practice
in South Florida. Then his son Charlie joined the dental
(25:55):
practice after he got out of college. The mother, Donna Adelson,
the one who's on trial now, she ran was the
business manager of the dental practice. And then you have
Wendy Adelson, who is the daughter that was married to
Dan Markel. In any case, they hired this family. It's
(26:16):
already proven in court, so I don't have to say allegation.
Charlie Adelson, the brother hired a hit man. And not
only did the hitman, the two hitmen in the middle person,
which is his former girlfriend. They're in prison. Charlie Adelson
is in prison. But now Donna Adelson has also been
(26:39):
charged in this conspiracy. And the word is that the
buzz is that Wendy Adelson, who is who was the
wife of Dan Markel, that she will likely be charged next.
But this is an incredible story of a family that
(26:59):
really had everything, this Adelson family, And because Dan Markel
would not agree to the relocation of the children, he
was murdered in his own driveway. Now, this case, if
you type it in YouTube, you'll find a lot of
people commenting on this case. And the trial just started
(27:22):
this past week. They started opening statements were on Thursday,
This is a trial to follow. If you're somebody that
loves real you know, true crime, this is one that
will blow your mind. It is sad. It is an
interesting look into the criminal mind. It is a fascinating
(27:44):
look at how far people will go to win in
a divorce case. Unbelievable, all right. One of the stories
that I have been sharing repeatedly over the last maybe
couple of months is about rental car companies scamming their customers.
(28:05):
And the backstory on this is that these rental car
companies are now using artificial intelligence to determine if the
car is damaged when you return it. Because how this works, right,
is if you rent a car, you can usually just
like pull up real quick, drop the keys in a dropbox,
(28:28):
or just hand the keys to the attendant and boom
you're off onto your flight. You're returning the car quickly.
This has always been a problem when you've got to
be so careful when you get a rental car to
walk around it and check every detail of it and
take pictures and all that of the condition of the car.
(28:51):
I've always done that, but now what's happening is this
artificial intelligence. They've got cameras using AI, we'll actually just
look at the car and boom, you might get a
bill for three thousand dollars saying, hey, this car has
a dent in it or hail damage or whatever. And
(29:12):
not only do you now have to worry about maybe
another driver did that and they didn't notice it, and
now you're being stuck with it, but they're now saying
that this AI technology is alleging damage when there is
no damage. And this is putting people in a really
weird situation because you know, let's say you're on vacation
(29:35):
in Florida, but you live in New York or Chicago
or wherever, and now you've got a claim against you,
and they're gonna probably zap your credit card for the money,
and you're gonna have to involve your insurance company and
there's usually a deductible and it's hard to fight. This
is what I'm saying. So it's a difficult, difficult problem
(29:56):
in one to be aware of and to take extra
steps and to take precautions that you don't get stuck
with a big bill the next time you rent a car.
So remember this guy, Brian Coburger, this creepy guy who
sort of had a fascination with Ted Mundy. He murdered
(30:17):
four young college students out in Idaho. Well his trial
was coming up, he made a deal. He admitted to
the crimes to avoid the death penalty, and now it
sounds like he's got a fate worse than death, which
is also fitting. Brian Coburger, who is a vegan, is
(30:43):
upset about the food he's getting in prison and the
harassment and threats he's getting in prison. And I have
to tell you it could not happen to a nicer guy.
And we'll close it out with this. On this episode,
an interesting video that you can watch over on my
Facebook page where Tucker Carlson is interviewing an expert on
(31:07):
the Shroud of turnin and more and more people are
coming out on the side of authenticity of the Shroud
of turn It's a fascinating interview. You know, we have
here had guests many times talking about the Shroud of
turn I'm someone that sort of leans towards it being authentic,
(31:29):
although I'm not completely convinced, but I think you'll find
it to be a very fascinating interview with Tucker Carlson
talking about the Shroud of turn All right, guys, Thank
you so much for joining me, God blessed, we'll be
doing these more often. Thanks for joining us. We'll talk
to you next time. So long, everybody,
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