Is Your Computer and Smart Phone Listening To You?

Jim announces his group trip to Ireland, X banned from the country of Brazil, Zuckerberg admits to suppression of Hunter Biden laptop story, Chase Bank tries to stop viral claim about people cashing in on a so called bank glitch, and Hells Angels biker gang heading to Aurora, Colorado to confront Venezuelan gangs that have take over the city. 

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Episode Transcript

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com and the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, well, everybody, welcome to the broadcast. Good to
have you with us. So much going on, but we
are back at the microphone here, and this will probably
bring back a lot of memories for those people that
had listened to me over all the years. Like I'm
talking twenty thirty years ago. I am sitting here in
my studio with a diet coke and that was my

(01:19):
thing back in the day. And I know it's terrible
for me. I'm gonna get all the messages stop drinking
die coke. I stopped like twenty years ago, and now
I'm back drinking diet coke. Not a lot, just a
little bit here and there kind of a little treat
so very moderate, you know, diet coke consumption here, but

(01:40):
it kind of brings back a lot of old memories,
all right. So I just got back from vacation. I
was in Saint Simon's Island, and everybody I tell them
about my trip, and people that saw all the posts
on my Facebook page, everybody's saying, man, that is a
gorgeous place. Where is it? How come I've never heard
about it? So it is from where I live. It's

(02:03):
about a two and a half hour drive to get there,
so you can imagine just crossing into Georgia and then
maybe about another thirty five to forty minutes and it's
on the coast there. So in the very southeast corner
of the state of Georgia is this beautiful little enclave
called Saint Simon's Island, and there is just it's quiet,

(02:26):
it's beautiful. It's one of those places where you just
I don't know, maybe it's just me. I just have
this piece about me when I'm there. In fact, when
I was there this past week, driving around, I did
a lot of bike riding, I did a lot of walking.
I went to some of my favorite restaurants, And when
I was married, we used to go there maybe three

(02:48):
or four times a year, and we just found it
to be a wonderful retreat. And sometimes it was just
a one night stay over. So sometimes we'd leave real
early on a Saturday morning. We'd get up there and
we'd enjoy the day, check into the hotel maybe one
or two o'clock, and then we would, you know, enjoy
the you know, little rest at the hotel, and then

(03:09):
we'd go out to dinner, and there's so many little
places we love up there, and we'd have the evening,
and then the next day we'd go out bike riding
or walking or hitting the beach and get an extended
check out. We'd leave maybe around one o'clock, and it
was almost like we felt like we had been gone
for a week, even though we just paid for one

(03:29):
night of hotel. So I'm just saying all this to say,
if you've never been to Saint Simon's Island, it is
a cool little place, especially if you live anywhere around
here and you can drive there. And if you want
some recommendations on the best hotels, the best restaurants to
eat at, the best things to do and see I've

(03:50):
seen it all, and I've eaten at pretty much all
the restaurants, So I'd love to help you out. Send
me an email to James Elparis at gmail dot com. Well,
a sad story to report my good friends, the hosts
of Dawn and Steve in the Morning in Nashville, Tennessee. Now,
I've known Steve. I've known Steve Hiller since way back

(04:14):
in the day in Chicago radio when I used to
appear on Moody Radio Chicago. Steve was on staff there,
and then they relocated him to Nashville. I'm gonna say
maybe it was about five years ago or six years ago,
and then Dawn. I've known Dawn simply just from the
Nashville station, but I think she might have been there.

(04:37):
I'm just guessing maybe seven years, seven or eight years.
And really love these two people. And you might know
me from some of you might be listening right now
because you know me from that show. It's a great
Christian morning drive show in Nashville, Tennessee. And I had
the pleasure over the holidays to be in Nashville, and

(04:59):
I I was able to actually go to the studio
and see their studio and meet Down for the first
time in person. I had met Steve before in Chicago,
and I'm glad I got to do that because I
got the sad news that their show has been canceled
and Moody Radio is simply taking their Chicago morning show

(05:20):
and replacing the Nashville Show with the Chicago Show. In
other words, like the Chicago Show is going to become
more like a national show and they're going to replace Nashville,
and those two great people, Don and Steve are out
of work. And it was just a really sudden thing.
And man, I have to tell you a lot of

(05:41):
these people that you get to know in the media,
and I don't usually talk too much about what happens
off the air and that sort of thing, but I
would say that there's a good chunk of the Christian
media people that really off the air. They're not who
you think they are. They're not the people that you

(06:01):
hear on the radio or see on television. And it
really hurts me to say that. And I'm not going
to give you any names, okay, but I will say
that Down and Steve are the real deal. They really
truly are. And when I was going through some of
the tough things I was going through the last two
or three years. They were personally in touch with me,

(06:24):
praying for me. Just such sweet people, and you just
hate to see this happen, but you know, it's kind
of how our lives go, right There are these periods
of time where things just go on and everything is normal.
You have the same job or the same business week
after week, year after year, and then all of a sudden,

(06:46):
just something comes out of left field and changes everything.
And that happens in all of our lives, and that's
really something that I think it's part of life, but
it's a tough part of life, especially when you have
a family and you had a job you were counting on.
And I'm sure there's a lot of people listening right
now that are going through something like this also. But man,

(07:06):
when you're in radio and you kind of have this
big following and then all of a sudden, you just
wake up one morning and they take your show away.
That's one of the reasons why I love this podcast.
And I went totally independent when I decided to come
back to radio. When I signed my contract with Genesis
Communications Network, I was a little bit leary. However, I

(07:28):
was given all this independence, and I stayed with them
for five years, but then when I decided not to
renew my contract, I feel free now. I certainly don't
have the audience that someone does that has a major
market time slot on a big radio station. I don't
have that audience, but I do own my show, and

(07:48):
I do control my show, and nobody's gonna call me
up tomorrow and tell me that I'm off the air.
So that's one of the reasons I love being independent.
But if you know Don and Steve from the radio,
these are two wonderful people and we wish them the
best and your thoughts in prayers would be appreciated as
they find their next direction here in life and their career. Okay,

(08:11):
so I was contacted and this has happened over the years.
People have contacted me. Travel agents have contacted me and
asked me if I could be and they actually use
this phrase a pied piper and lead trips around the
country and even internationally. And this is something that is done,

(08:34):
especially within Christian circles. People that have a following, you
can do these trips, and there's different ways they compensate you.
Sometimes it's just that you get to go for free.
Sometimes you get paid more than that. You know, maybe
you can bring your spouse for free. Also, there's different
things they do for you. I've never really wanted to
do one of these trips and it's been offered to

(08:55):
me in the past, but I did decide to do one.
And the reason why is, Look, I'm single now. I
love to travel, I love to get to meet new people.
And one of the things that I'm really hoping to
do is to build a better deeper relationship with my
social media friends. You know, that is how cool would
it be if we all went on a big trip

(09:16):
somewhere and that's what we're going to do. So I
just decided I put a little message up on Facebook,
got a lot of feedback and it seemed like most
people want Ireland. So the Jim Parris and Friend's trip
for next year is going to be to Ireland and
we're going to have the details soon on my Facebook.

(09:39):
And if you're not following me on Facebook, unfortunately I've
maxed out on all my friends. I can only have
five thousand friends, so that's maxed. But you can still
follow me. You can just type in James L. Paris
and you can follow me, and I think it's pretty similar.
You still see all my posts. I don't see really
all your posts like I would if we were mutual friends,

(10:02):
but I but you'll be able to see my news feed.
You could always directly navigate to my page my Facebook
page as well to you know, check out what's going on.
But that'll be the details on that'll be coming shortly.
You know, how much is the trip, what are the dates?
This travel agency said they're going to be setting up
payments for us so that it can be affordable for people.

(10:23):
So we're really looking forward to that and have some
details and I'll announce it to on the next episode
of the podcast. Well, my new course is out Reel
Picks Real Profits, and I really love how we did
this launch, which is we took the first month and
we made the course available only to our friends, our insiders,

(10:44):
and we made it available at a really big discount
and just kept it, you know, a closed circle. And
now that the month has come and gone and our
beta testers have been using the information, making money, having
success with it, we're now going to do the public
launch and that's going to be happening in the next
maybe two or three days. It's going to be available

(11:06):
to the general public and they'll be general public marketing
and all of that going on as well. But if
you haven't found out about it, you can send me
an email. We still don't have the official page up
yet for the public, but I can give you a
private link to sign up still at the discounted price.
And what we're doing is it's called real Picks, Real Profits,

(11:30):
and we're teaching people how to make money by taking
pictures of real estate and you'll be out there in
the field working for banks, mortgage companies and property managers.
You can do it super part time. Like an example
is I posted this the other day, wake up in
the morning, and on my app it says that if

(11:50):
I stop at this certain address of a house and
I take five pictures from the street and I submit
those pictures, I'll get twenty bucks paid by PayPal within
twenty four hours deposited into my bank account. So you
can do it super part time like that. I've been
given bigger projects where one time recently I was asked

(12:13):
to do a walk through of five houses that were
under construction and take pictures so the bank could see
the progress of how far the construction has gone and
I did five houses, they were all together on the
same street, and I got two hundred and fifty dollars.
It took about ninety minutes to do that, and there

(12:34):
are ways of even going full time doing this. We
get into all of this in the course. A ton
of information about it and a lot of questions are
answered on my Facebook timeline. But the course is called
reel Picks Real Profits. If you want to find out more,
you can send me an email. I can give you
some more information that way, and also a link to

(12:55):
be able to sign up at the intro price, which,
by the way of new prices fifty percent higher, so
you want to get in at the discounted price. So
if you're listening, get in touch with me so I
can give you that private link to be able to
take advantage of that. James elpeis at gmail dot com. Okay,
So there is a story I posted on my Facebook

(13:19):
and people are really worked up about this. It's probably
my most commented on post maybe in the last week
or so. And it is an article I believe it's
from the Daily Mail, and they're getting into some pretty
scary stuff about how Facebook and Google are actually listening

(13:44):
to our conversations. And I think we've suspected this for
a really long time, but now there seems to be
evidence of it, and a lot of people are sharing
their own anecdotal evidence stories of it where maybe they
were talking with a friend about a restaurant, never posted
anything online about it or did any Google searches, and

(14:06):
then all of a sudden, there's an ad for that restaurant.
That happens to me, and I start to think I'm
going crazy or being paranoid, But something's going on. I
have to tell you, something weird is going on, and
I don't know if you can really trust any of
these social media companies. Mark Zuckerberg came out. I don't

(14:28):
know if you saw this story. He came out a
few days ago and admitted that they suppressed the Hunter laptop,
the Hunter Biden laptop story. We already knew that, But
what he did admit in writing was that they suppressed
all this COVID news, which now you know, at the

(14:50):
time they were calling a conspiracy theory fake news. Well,
now it turns out that a lot of that information
that they suppressed is now turning out to be true.
I mean, almost all of it is now turning out
to be true. I mean everything from that it really
was the wuhan Hen lab. Everything in terms of like

(15:10):
the masking had no scientific basis, all of the risks
and associated you know, complications and side effects of the vaccine,
all the stuff that was suppressed is now turning out
to be true. What's interesting about all of this to
me is you had the Donald Trump trial in New

(15:32):
York about Stormy Daniels. Now, the whole point of that
trial and the thirty felony convictions and all of that,
the whole idea behind that trial, the whole theory was
that by Trump paying Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet,
that he had illegally influenced the election. In other words,

(15:55):
had we known about Stormy Daniels, that would have affected
the election. Look, I think people already knew that Trump
in his past was somewhat of a womanizer, and I
don't think that would have made much of a difference
to most people, because I think people are voting for

(16:15):
the policies of Trump, and especially his first term. A
lot of Christians were voting for his policies, not necessarily
supporting the man and He's certainly become a much greater
man of character now then I think he was in
the year he was running, you know, the first the

(16:36):
first term that he was running. But the point that
I'm making is this, If the suppression of the Stormy
Daniels story warranted thirty felony convictions because it was supposedly
an illegal campaign contribution, it illegally influenced the election, then
what do we call the Hunter Biden laptop story being suppressed?

(17:01):
What do we call that when Facebook was in on that,
and what do we call that when the Biden administration
was involved, the White House was involved in you know,
suppressing that information. I mean, what do we what do

(17:21):
we call that when you've got government deep state people
suppressing truthful stories. Now we do know, we do know
that the Hunter Biden laptop story, and there's been polling
done on this that had the polling, the polling shows

(17:42):
that had the Hunter Biden laptop story become public and
it wasn't suppressed, not only by the social media but
by the traditional media, if it hadn't been suppressed, we
now know that Trump would have won in a landslide.
But we we we look at this, we go back
in hindsight and say, how did that happen. It happened

(18:05):
because we had a bunch of government insiders, what was it,
fifty intelligence community individuals signed that letter saying that they
knew for a fact that the Hunter Biden laptop story
was Russian propaganda. We know that the deep state was

(18:26):
the one pressuring Facebook to suppress that, and not just
Facebook but other social media and of course that was
you know, Twitter before Elon Musk had Twitter. And then
we know that during the COVID period, Zuckerberg is admitting
that the White House under Biden suppressed, you know, gave

(18:49):
them a lot of pressure and forced them really to
suppress what turned out to be true stories about COVID.
So it's just scary stuff when you look at at
the limited channels by which information flows on the Internet
and how we've just got it seems like a handful
of companies that control the Internet and what that means.

(19:11):
And it is refreshing, you know, to have a TikTok
which comes out of China, but it's a little bit
independent of our government. I like that. I'm not intimidated
by TikTok. I have TikTok, and I use TikTok and
I post to TikTok. I think it's good to have
some of this independence. Now we have Elon Musk owning

(19:32):
Twitter called X. Now, I don't know when we're supposed
to stop saying formally Twitter, but nobody seems to be
really catching on. The name doesn't seem to be catching
on X. But the big story about X is that
the entire that Brazil, now the entire country is banned

(19:53):
from having X. And there's some kind of big fine
they've put in place too that if people use a
VPN a virtual private network to be able to access X,
well inside of Brazil, there's some kind of like criminal
charges and thousands of dollars of fines. And I guess
this is all because of criticism of the government there

(20:17):
that they don't like being criticized, and so because they're
being criticized on X, they're just going to ban the
social media platform from the entire country. So it is
interesting to watch, you know, how quickly and easily that
can happen, and you know, people are looking at that
in horror, saying, how could this happen? How could Brazil

(20:38):
just completely ban a social media platform? Well, look, at
what happened here in the US with with the Hunter
Biden laptop story. I don't know what is worse, Like,
would it be worse to have banned Facebook altogether the
government or to let Facebook run but then to curate
what we can know to be. You know, let's let

(20:59):
it keep going, but let's as the government, let's suppress
the stories we don't like and control it. Obviously, the
government's you know, these foreign governments can't control Elon muskin x,
so they're going to ban it. But I don't know
what is worse, whether it would be to ban a
social media platform or to let it keep running, making
us think that we're getting a free flow of information,

(21:22):
and then they're curating what it is we're allowed to know.
Grocery prices are really starting to freak me out. I
don't know, I just came from the grocery store, and
I know I should have gone to all these instead
of going to publics. But still, I mean, what I'm
seeing is it's just crazy, especially the price of meat.

(21:44):
I mean, it makes you want to become a vegetarian
or a vegan. I mean it is insane, just like
you know, a little roast for a family fifty five
dollars and then this whole shrink flation. I swear to you.
I was in the aisle where they have like mustard
and ketchup in mayonnaise, and I saw this tiny bottle

(22:07):
of mayonnaise. I don't want to exaggerate, but this was
probably I don't know, I'm gonna say maybe it was
about the size of a bottle of aspirin. And it
was a glass jar of mayonnaise. And I'm like, is
this the mayonnaise from the movie Honey, I shrunk the kids?

(22:27):
It is crazy how they're shrinking the size of things
and the price on everything is going up. The only
thing lately that seems to make any sense to me,
as far as this whole idea that, oh, inflation is cooling,
prices are going to be coming down, the only thing
that seems to be kind of, you know, proving that

(22:48):
to be true is the price of gas. The price
of gas is coming down. I mean it's not two
dollars a gallon or anything like that, but around here,
you know, instead of being close to four dollars, were
closer to three dollars. I think it's about three twenty
or three twenty five, which is a nice you know,
it's a nice little savings to be able to buy gas,

(23:10):
you know, for maybe fifty cents a gallon, cheaper than
what we were paying a few months ago. But man,
I just don't know how families are doing it. Well.
There was a video apparently circulating on TikTok and I
didn't see the video, but I read a few articles
about it, and supposedly the people posting these videos are

(23:31):
saying that there is a bank glitch at Chase, at
Chase Bank and this video these videos have gone viral,
and they're saying something about, you know, write a check,
you know, deposited into your account at the ATM, and
then withdraw all this money during the time that the

(23:54):
bank gives you credit before the check actually clears, which
back in the day we used to call that kiting
a check or writing a bounced check. And I don't
think people really use checks too much anymore. I know
that with the bank I use when I deposited check,
which I don't get a lot of checks anymore. Everything's

(24:15):
now like automatic deposits. But when I deposited check, more
times than not, it'll show like, Okay, you made this
deposit and you need to wait like one day or
two days for this to become available in your account.
So I'm not one hundred percent sure about this whole
viral story about this whole bank litch. But Chase came

(24:38):
out and addressed it and said, this is fraud, plain
and simple. But you know, there might be some people
out there that just aren't very smart, and maybe they're
younger and they haven't really dealt with the world of
checks and are thinking, oh, I can like write a
check to myself for ten thousand dollars and deposited at
the ATM and then just take that money out and

(25:01):
get away with that. No, it's not gonna work like that,
all right, This story, I love sounds like a movie script.
Hell's Angels bikers are on their way to Aurora, Colorado
to confront this Venezuelan gang. I don't know if you
saw this story, but apparently know. Denver, Colorado is a

(25:24):
so called sanctuary city where come one, come all, whether
you're here legally or not, we want you in our city.
That's Denver, and Denver's had a lot of problems as
a result of being a sanctuary city. But a suburb
of Denver, Aurora, Colorado has now become the home of
a Venezuelan gang, and it's gotten so bad that this

(25:48):
gang has actually taken over an entire apartment building, and
there are videos showing this all on the internet and
also on Fox News. You'll see these videos where a
gang literally has taken over a building, an apartment building.
They're evicting people out and making it theirs. And what's

(26:09):
interesting is the local law enforcement will not come to
that location when nine to one one is called this
is what is being reported. They're also the local officials
are denying this is even true, that this is happening,
that these gang members have taken over this building. They're
denying it's true. But we still have all these videos

(26:30):
showing it to be true, and we have people that
we're living there that can no longer return to their
homes that are giving testimony that this is true. So
the Hell's Angel, the Hell's Angels bikers and apparently two
or three other very notorious biker gangs are joining them

(26:52):
and they're going to Aurora, Colorado to clean house. So
it sounds like a movie script. It's going to be
really interesting to see what happens and we'll close it
out with this. A number of the top hotel chains
around the country where there is unionization, and this would
be in big cities like New York City, Boston, Chicago,

(27:15):
Los Angeles, the housekeepers are going on strike. One story
I read said that a housekeeper in some cases is
required to clean seventeen guest rooms in one shift. And
I was thinking about that. I was thinking, man, that's
a lot. I mean, if you're working an eight hour shift,

(27:38):
you have to clean two rooms. I mean that's cleaning
spotless for the next guest, putting brand new sheets on
the beds and new towels, in sweeping, mopping, cleaning. You know,
because when you go into that hotel room, especially if
it's one of these, you know, expensive hotels, you want
a really beautiful by the way that that bell that

(27:58):
was just my dinner. My dinner's finished. Anyway, when you
go into a hotel room, obviously, you know you want
it to look perfect, because that's kind of the reason
you're going to buy a five hundred dollars a night
hotel room in Boston or New York City or Los
Angeles or wherever. And I was thinking, man, that this
is hard work. It really is hard work, and they've

(28:21):
unionized in a lot of these hotels, and apparently on
Labor Day, which was yesterday, a lot of these housekeepers
have banded together and gone on strike. So it'll be
interesting to see what happens when people try to get

(28:42):
a clean hotel room in one of these cities. I
wonder what they're gonna do. Maybe they'll bring in some
replacement housekeepers or something until the strike is settle. We'll
just have to see, all right. Thanks so much for listening.
It's always great to get together and do the podcast.
I love your feedback. Send me an email if you
got a topic you want me to discuss, a question

(29:03):
you want me to answer. James Elparis at gmail dot com.
Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time. So long, everybody,