September 8, 2024 • 28 mins
Jim discusses his new side gig opportunity, the 2025 trip to Ireland, the upcoming presidential debate, the Cheneys endorsing Kamala, the upcoming rate cut, a Mark of The Beast update, and massive $110 million dollar tax scam.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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your host, the editor in chief of Christian money dot
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Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, hello everybody, Welcome to the broadcast. Great to
have you with us, and good to be back in
the routine of doing these episodes more frequently. And if
you hear some sound in the background, it is actually
pouring down rain here in Florida. We're in this time
of year right now where we're having these weather patterns,
(01:20):
and I honestly, I don't watch the news, so I
have no idea, at least the local news. I don't
really know what's going on here. My sister watches real closely,
you know, the local news, and she's constantly telling me
they're watching three tropical depressions they're watching this, they're watching that.
(01:40):
I don't really pay attention until there's something like a
named storm that's out there. But we're in some kind
of a weather pattern where the last I think about
three days, we've been having just an incredible amount of rain.
And I'll be honest with you, I don't mind it.
I really don't. I will on some occasions make it
a point when it's raining out to head up to
(02:01):
Saint Augustine and find like a coffee shop to hang
out in. I don't know, it's it's just kind of different,
and maybe there's a metaphor of life there, right that
you don't always have sunshine and rainbows. You've got to
sometimes have some rain, and enjoying those times is also okay.
All right, So a lot going on. If you're somebody
(02:23):
that follows me on Facebook on social media, you know
that this week we launched the website for Real Picks,
Real Profits. It was actually yesterday, and I want to
just spend a little bit of time talking about this
today because I don't know, we've spent really all that
much time talking about it on the program, and I
(02:44):
really it's it's a great way also for you and
I to get more connected for those of you that
love the show and you want to get more connected
kind of like, you know, we can become more social
friends if you will, like through this opportunity where we're
all making money. And so what it is, it's this
(03:04):
opportunity and I'm you know, branding mine as my training
course on this as real Picks, Real Profits. And you
can get to the website where I have eleven free
videos that you can watch by going to reelpicks dot
us and that's picks p I c S Realpicks dot
(03:25):
us and I've got eleven free videos there where you
can find out more about it. But what it is,
it's this whole new, really burgeoning sector of the economy
called property preservation. And this is where banks, property managers,
mortgage companies, even you know, it involves vehicles in some cases,
(03:48):
not just real estate. And because you know, lending takes
place nationwide, even management of rental properties takes place nationwide,
they need local people to go out and take pictures
and videos of their properties. Just you know, for a
lot of reasons, somebody moves out, they want to make
sure the property was left in acceptable condition, the property
(04:12):
has been cleaned up, and now it's ready for the
new tenant, but is it really ready? They want someone
to go out, a third party and take pictures to
make sure. Also, when banks do refinances, a lot of
times if it's just a smaller loan like a home
equity line of credit, they may not do a full
blown appraisal. They may pay someone to just go out
(04:32):
and take some pictures from the street just to kind
of get some you know, eyeballs on the ground there
to see what's going on. So that's what this is
all about. And how I found out about it was
about two or three months ago. Things got really slow
in my mortgage in real estate business, so I was
looking for something kind of real estate related that I
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could do to supplement my income, and I ran across
this opportunity and I have made a really good amount
of money doing it. I have shared with people the
most I made on one project was two hundred and
fifty dollars for ninety minutes. Typically they're going to pay
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you anywhere from ten dollars to fifty dollars to go
out and take these pictures, and you can put several
projects together. I mean, that doesn't sound like a lot
of money, right, ten dollars, but let's say that you
went out and you did four and maybe some of
them paid twenty thirty forty dollars. The money can add up.
In other words, it is a it can be a
(05:35):
great part time gig. But we also in the training
show you how to get on the track to do
this full time. So I'm really excited about it, and
I'd love for you to at least just take a
look at it because we've got those eleven free videos
for you at reelpicks dot us. That's real Picks Pics,
(05:56):
reelpicks dot us and on that same time of us
all getting to know each other better, making kind of
a stronger connection between myself and my audience out there.
We are planning a group trip to Ireland next year
and I'm really excited about this. I have had people
over the years offer me the opportunity to go on
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cruises and different trips and have groups, and I've just
never I don't know, in the past, I wasn't really
interested in that, and I don't know what has changed.
Maybe because I'm single now, maybe that's what has changed,
and I've become more of a social person. I used
to love my vacations with my wife because it was
like our time and I didn't really want to share
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that time with a big group of people. And some
of my friends. I've got a friend, he's a great guy,
and every vacation he takes is with a group of people.
He's got like three or four other married couples that
he and his wife travel with, and they go all
over the world and they always have such a good time.
I've just never done that, and this sounds really interesting
(07:02):
to me. I think I talked to the travel agent
on Friday, and it's going to be in May of
next year. We're going to Ireland for eight days, and
the most that can get in on this trip is
going to be about twenty people. So we're going to
have a webinar coming up in the next few days
(07:22):
and that'll be posted on my Facebook with details like
a zoom where we're going to share all the details
of the trip, and it's going to be available where
you can make a deposit now and then you can
make payments so that it's not just one amount you
have to pay, you know when the trip opens up.
So we're working on all of those details and They
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told me May was a good time for the trip
because that it's the end of the rainy season. So
if we went any earlier than the end of May,
we might end up spending our eight days in a
rainy Ireland, which maybe wouldn't be too bad. But Ireland
is super green, right, so there's got to be a
lot of rain, and they do have a rainy season,
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and it'd probably be nice to visit at least where
some of the days it's not pouring down rain. So
that's the idea behind it, and we'll have more details
coming soon. So the presidential debate is coming up this
week and there's a lot of speculation about what's going
to happen, and of course the media is already kind
of handicapping it that, you know, Trump is a great debater,
(08:30):
and they're setting the bar reel high for Trump. But
obviously he's in an awkward position. He's going to be
debating against a woman. He doesn't want to come off
as a bully, but at the same time, he's got
to make the point that America has this really clear
choice between a California liberal and somebody that shares you know,
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conservative to moderate values and He's got to make that
point though, without coming off as a bully or a
bad guy. So it's going to be really interesting to
you know in some ways. And I thought this at
the time, Joe Biden stepping down may not have been
really all that much of a blessing for conservatives. I know,
(09:12):
we were all kind of rooting for that because it
was like, you know, Trump kind of got the knockout,
you know, on his last on his debate with Biden,
and we were all excited about that. But then I thought, yeah,
but be careful what you wish for, right because it
looks like Kamala she's got the same kind of thing
going forward that Obama did, which Obama in his first
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term his first election was kind of this blank slate
that that people could just put their their views, like
he's gonna be this, He's going to be that. He
didn't really have a lot of I don't know if
you use the word baggage, but he just didn't have
a lot of history at least that people knew about,
(09:57):
so that he was able to kind of be everyone's favorite. No,
because no one didn't really, no one really knew much
about Obama in his past, so he could kind of
just be this blank slate. Now Kamala has a pass,
no doubt about it, but people just don't know about
her past. They don't know all of her extreme left
wing views like getting rid of private health insurance, that
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she's for reparations, that she's for these crazy tax schemes
like taxing unrealized capital gains. There's a lot of just
really crazy things about her prior stances that even made
her too liberal to get the nomination from the Democrats.
That's why she was one of the early ones to
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drop out in the primary, you know, last time when
she actually ran for the nomination. So it's going to
be interesting to see what happens. I believe it is
coming up on Tuesday night. So as as we are
entering into kind of those final few weeks, we've got
people kind of jumping in making their endorsements. And so
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we've got a billionaire Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks.
He's endorsing Kamala, and he's having a hard time defending
that because you know, he's a businessman, he's for you know,
a free economy. It's it's really hard for him to
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defend endorsing Kamala. But he is, and that's just I
guess part of the cool kids club that he's deciding
go along with that. And then we have Liz Cheney
is supporting Kamala. Then we have Dick Cheney is supporting Kamala. Now,
there was a lot of buzz online the last maybe
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week and a half or so that George W. Bush,
former President George W. Bush, was going to come out
and endorse Harris himself, but he announced yesterday that he
and his wife Laura are going to keep their vote private.
They're not going to let anyone know who they're voting for,
which is kind of like a way to signal that
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he's not going to be voting for Trump, but he
doesn't want to come out and make a big deal
out of it, which is kind of like splitting the
baby there. So I was kind of half expecting he
was going to endorse Kamala Harris also, but glad to
see that did not happen. Now, Bernie Sanders is probably
the only one really telling the truth right now among liberals.
(12:31):
Bernie Sanders says that Harris isn't abandoning her progressive values,
She's just doing what's quote right to win. In other words,
she's telling us what we want to hear so she
can get elected. And this is really, i think again
Trump's challenge, and this is what we need to be
seeing more of in these TV advertisements, and all of
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this is just pointing out, I mean, what she actually
has historically stood, which is Americans are not for these
left wing California West Coast ideas. That doesn't play anywhere
other than in these completely blue states like California and
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New York and maybe Illinois. You're not going to get
support for these way far off the deep end left
wing views. But Bernie Sanders is telling the truth, he says, basically,
she's got to say what she's got to say. All right, Now,
this was obviously a tragedy this week, this this shooting
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incident in Georgia, and you always hate to see this.
And man, I'll tell you what, it was heartbreaking on
Friday morning to watch the hearing where this fourteen year
old boy is brought in to the courtroom and he's
charged with all these counts of murder and all these
other charges. And you think, man, fourteen years old, and
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of course you know you hear a lot of the
backstory of the broken family and all of the things
kind of going on in the background, and you think, man,
you know, in some ways, sympathy rises up a little
bit in you for this kid, wondering what kind of
hell that he's lived through to reach a point at
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the age of fourteen that he would do something like this. Now,
there's obviously a lot of debate over, you know, do
we charge the parents criminally in these kinds of cases.
And there was another case I believe it was in
Michigan where the parents were charged, and in this case,
the father was charged. And although I'm not normally one
(14:45):
to support that, in this case it was absolutely justified.
I mean, to give this boy his own ar style rifle,
I just I can't fathom that that would make any
sense based on the history here, based on everything we
heard about the emotional problems that this young man had.
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Now I'm not saying that he should not have had
the experience maybe with his father or a mentor, of
learning to hunt and use firearms. I think that can
really be a great influence on a young person. It
was on me. My dad introduced me to hunting and
firearms and all that. When I was growing up, but
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my firearm was never available to me. It was always
put away somewhere and I was not able to have
access to it. My hunting shotgun was not available to me.
And the idea of this young man having his own
rifle and having access to it with all the issues.
(15:54):
Apparently the law enforcement had been at this home many times,
and there was even out and out, you know, threats
of mass shootings made on social media by this kid
in the past. And then the idea that the dad
would give him as a Christmas gift his own rifle.
Clearly some horrible judgment here, and I think it is
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good policy to charge the parents in these kinds of cases,
not in every case, because you know, mom and dad
could have the guns all locked away and kid breaks
into the safe or you know, the gun cabinet and
gets what he wants out of there. That's different. This
clearly seems to be negligence on the part of the father.
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So a new California law will require cars to beep
when traveling ten miles over the speed limit. Man, do
I hate this. I have an older car. I drive
a twenty twelve Jeep Wrangler, and it has that I
think all cars have this, but mine is especially obnoxious.
(17:04):
If you get in and you don't get the seat
belt on right away, it starts beeping, and it is
just so annoying, so incredibly annoying. And the idea that
they're going to be putting this in place in cars
now in California, if you're ten miles over the speed limit,
it's going to start beeping. Now, on the one hand,
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you might say, well, why would anybody need to go
ten miles over the speed limit. You never know why
you need to go ten miles over the speed limit.
Maybe you've got to rush somebody to the hospital. Maybe
you're trying to pass someone and you're in the passing lane.
I just don't like this idea of the government being
in our vehicles. And it seems to be the trend
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that they want to put GPS in there, they want
to track our vehicles. They want to say you can't
have a gas vehicle, You've got to have an electric vehicle.
Now they want to put this device in the vehicle
that will start beeping if you're ten miles over the
speed limit. And then you know, where do you draw
the line once they get it in your vehicle. It's
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probably somehow controlled by the internet, and if you go
ten miles over, not only will it beat, but it'll
also alert the authorities and you get a ticket in
the mail. I mean, what's next. And if they get
it in there for ten miles over, who's to say
they won't reduce it to five miles over or even
the exact speed limit. I know here on I ninety
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five you cannot drive the speed limit. You literally cannot.
And it's sixty five to seventy miles an hour on
Interstate ninety five, and you literally cannot drive that speed limit.
If you don't drive faster than seventy it's dangerous. People
are passing you. Even if you go in the far
right lane, which I tend to do because I don't
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go on I ninety five for too long of distance. Typically,
I get up on I ninety five to maybe go
one or two exits and get off in say, oh, Augustine.
That's generally my use throughout the week of I ninety five.
But even up just staying in that right lane knowing
I'm going to be exiting shortly, trying to keep my
vehicle under seventy, people are right on my bumper. Even
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though they've gotten the two and even in some cases
a third lane that they can use to pass me,
it's not good enough. And so I don't know, it
just seems overly intrusive. I just this is not what
our founders had ever envisioned in this free nation that
broke off from England and became this this free world
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that we were going to build for ourselves, and that
we would have all of these freedoms and rights. And
now the idea that they're going to put a device
inside our vehicle that's going to be if we get
ten miles or greater over the speed limit, I just
don't like it, all right. The Chicago Fed president, of course,
you know that the Federal Reserve is made up of
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all of these regional banks. In each bank regionally has
a president, so there's one in Chicago. So he came out,
this was in today's news. We're going to see multiple
interest rate cuts, and that's pretty much what everybody's agreeing on. Now.
The question is this particular rate cut coming up? I
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believe it's the eighteenth of September. Are we going to
get just that little quarter point cut that everybody's expecting
a lot of people are saying it's going to be
a half. Some people are saying maybe even three quarters.
But there's general consensus that between this meeting on the
eighteenth of September and the end of the year, we're
going to have a full one point reduction in interest rates.
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And I did a little video on this yesterday. This
is going to make a really, really big difference for
people in the real estate business, mortgage business. One percent
lower on rates is going to be huge for the
market for the real estate. So if you're somebody that's
right now considering buying and you're on the sidelines, this
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would be a good time to get in touch with me,
because what you really want to do is get in.
If you're gonna wait a little bit and jump in
and buy, you probably want to do it soon because
once these rate cuts actually get baked into the prices
of real estate, real estate's gonna go up quite a bit.
That's my prediction that with lower rates coming, you're gonna
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see real estate start to go up again. So you've
got to be careful to time it. You want to
have a good expert in your corner. Get in touch.
I am licensed for both mortgages and real estate. And
if I'm not in your state, I can get a
team member to help you in your state. But I
am licensed here in Florida for real estate and in
multiple states for mortgages. The best way to get in
(21:51):
touch with me is my email, James Elpeis at gmail
dot com. And then here's kind of your Mark of
the Beast update. The European Union is announcing that it's
I believe the first week of November they're going to
be going live with their biometric entry and exit system.
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No kidding, so I think they're using a palm print
at this point. And this will will basically when you
come into the EU or leave the EU, you will
be tracked using biometrics. And the concern about this a
lot of people who don't travel to Europe don't realize
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that Europe has this ninety day rule. Unless you have
a special visa, if you're not a citizen, you're only
allowed to stay in the EU for ninety days. Then
you have to leave for ninety days before you can
come back again. And when you come back, you can
only stay for ninety days. Now you can you can
get around that by you know, getting you know, approval
(22:57):
through their immigration system, whether it's a work face or
you're going to get you know, the legal status, permanent
status to live there. But otherwise that's largely what the
system is going to do. But man, I'm telling you,
it's it's upon us. The mark of the Beast is
upon us. And this is these are really the precursors
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laying the groundwork for the mark of the Beast that
the European Union is going to now launch this here,
it's just a matter of weeks, this new biometric entry
and exit system. A Texas man was sentenced to more
than fourteen years in prison for leading a scam seeking
to steal more than one hundred and ten million dollars
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in tax refunds. According to the Department of Justice, this
story is absolutely crazy and just shows the incompetence of
the irs. Listen to this. The sentence was handed down
to Abraham Yusef of Round Rock, that's a Dallas suburb,
on September sixth. According to a press release, Yusoff was
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convicted of being the leader of a stolen identity refund
fraud scheme that ran between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one.
As part of the scheme. Yusof and his co conspirators
contacted the IRS posing as CPAs and other professionals, claiming
to be authorized representatives of multiple taxpayers. They then proceeded
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to file amended tax returns and then steal the refunds
that were generated by those bogus amendments that they made
to those tax returns. So this involved Abraham Yusuf as
well as sixty other people were part of this conspiracy.
And you've got to ask yourself, I mean, is it
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really that easy that anybody can just call up the
IRS and say, Hey, I'm a CPA and this is
Mike client's Social Security number and I want to, you know,
go ahead and file an amended return for them, and oh,
by the way, mail that refund to my office. Is
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that isn't that easy? It apparently is. And you would
think that there would be some kind of check and balance.
I mean, CPAs are licensed. Would there be some kind
of way of verifying that someone is a legitimate CPA
and has you know that license or not? And would
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there not be some way for these taxpayers whose identities
were stolen to be notified, Hey, we're the IRS, and
we're just double checking with you that you are amending
your tax return, and something funny is going on here,
like an email would come to that person or a
letter in the mail. I don't know. It seems like
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the IRS is twenty or thirty years behind on the
fraud protection and the fraud protection that is already in
place with our banks and credit card companies and financial institutions.
It's amazing that this kind of thing can still happen.
And the amount of money is staggering, one hundred and
ten million dollars. And you know, typically these white collar criminals,
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they don't serve much time. I mean, you hear about
these embezzlers. They embezzel six figures from their employer or
even seven figures, and then you read about the five
year sentence they get and then they're out in a
halfway house in a year and they're going on with
their life's crime does pay? It really can't pay. But
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it is interesting. And this is you know too. Part
of Trump's promise is to create this government Efficiency Commission,
putting Elon Musk in charge of it, to see, you know,
what can we do to cut costs. There's so much
fat and waste and fraud in the government and inefficiencies,
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and this would certainly be exhibit A in making that argument.
All right, thanks so much for joining us this week.
If you want to get in touch, the best way
is an email James Elparis at gmail dot com, follow
me on Facebook, and please check out our new course.
I'd love to have you in the family and working
with us. I'm doing it. I'm not taking these pictures
(27:24):
and making money and sharing my experiences. We've got a
discussion community. We've got all the training, all the videos,
all the information. We've got eleven free videos for you
to see what's involved. Check it out at reelpicks dot us.
That's picks Pics, realpicks dot us. God bless have a
(27:45):
great week. We'll talk to you next time. So long,
everybody sp
Gentlemen, start your engines. All right, you're talking about mister
garlbokof teared down. This one the only thing we have
to fire. Spare it. I I'm not a crop. If
you like your healthcare plan, you will be on to
(00:27):
keep your health care plan. Ye sick by are three fine? Fire.
You're listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the
latest news on money, politics, prophecy, and preparedness, and now
(00:51):
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 everybody, Welcome to the broadcast. Great to
have you with us, and good to be back in
the routine of doing these episodes more frequently. And if
you hear some sound in the background, it is actually
pouring down rain here in Florida. We're in this time
of year right now where we're having these weather patterns,
(01:20):
and I honestly, I don't watch the news, so I
have no idea, at least the local news. I don't
really know what's going on here. My sister watches real closely,
you know, the local news, and she's constantly telling me
they're watching three tropical depressions they're watching this, they're watching that.
(01:40):
I don't really pay attention until there's something like a
named storm that's out there. But we're in some kind
of a weather pattern where the last I think about
three days, we've been having just an incredible amount of rain.
And I'll be honest with you, I don't mind it.
I really don't. I will on some occasions make it
a point when it's raining out to head up to
(02:01):
Saint Augustine and find like a coffee shop to hang
out in. I don't know, it's it's just kind of different,
and maybe there's a metaphor of life there, right that
you don't always have sunshine and rainbows. You've got to
sometimes have some rain, and enjoying those times is also okay.
All right, So a lot going on. If you're somebody
(02:23):
that follows me on Facebook on social media, you know
that this week we launched the website for Real Picks,
Real Profits. It was actually yesterday, and I want to
just spend a little bit of time talking about this
today because I don't know, we've spent really all that
much time talking about it on the program, and I
(02:44):
really it's it's a great way also for you and
I to get more connected for those of you that
love the show and you want to get more connected
kind of like, you know, we can become more social
friends if you will, like through this opportunity where we're
all making money. And so what it is, it's this
(03:04):
opportunity and I'm you know, branding mine as my training
course on this as real Picks, Real Profits. And you
can get to the website where I have eleven free
videos that you can watch by going to reelpicks dot
us and that's picks p I c S Realpicks dot
(03:25):
us and I've got eleven free videos there where you
can find out more about it. But what it is,
it's this whole new, really burgeoning sector of the economy
called property preservation. And this is where banks, property managers,
mortgage companies, even you know, it involves vehicles in some cases,
(03:48):
not just real estate. And because you know, lending takes
place nationwide, even management of rental properties takes place nationwide,
they need local people to go out and take pictures
and videos of their properties. Just you know, for a
lot of reasons, somebody moves out, they want to make
sure the property was left in acceptable condition, the property
(04:12):
has been cleaned up, and now it's ready for the
new tenant, but is it really ready? They want someone
to go out, a third party and take pictures to
make sure. Also, when banks do refinances, a lot of
times if it's just a smaller loan like a home
equity line of credit, they may not do a full
blown appraisal. They may pay someone to just go out
(04:32):
and take some pictures from the street just to kind
of get some you know, eyeballs on the ground there
to see what's going on. So that's what this is
all about. And how I found out about it was
about two or three months ago. Things got really slow
in my mortgage in real estate business, so I was
looking for something kind of real estate related that I
(04:54):
could do to supplement my income, and I ran across
this opportunity and I have made a really good amount
of money doing it. I have shared with people the
most I made on one project was two hundred and
fifty dollars for ninety minutes. Typically they're going to pay
(05:14):
you anywhere from ten dollars to fifty dollars to go
out and take these pictures, and you can put several
projects together. I mean, that doesn't sound like a lot
of money, right, ten dollars, but let's say that you
went out and you did four and maybe some of
them paid twenty thirty forty dollars. The money can add up.
In other words, it is a it can be a
(05:35):
great part time gig. But we also in the training
show you how to get on the track to do
this full time. So I'm really excited about it, and
I'd love for you to at least just take a
look at it because we've got those eleven free videos
for you at reelpicks dot us. That's real Picks Pics,
(05:56):
reelpicks dot us and on that same time of us
all getting to know each other better, making kind of
a stronger connection between myself and my audience out there.
We are planning a group trip to Ireland next year
and I'm really excited about this. I have had people
over the years offer me the opportunity to go on
(06:18):
cruises and different trips and have groups, and I've just
never I don't know, in the past, I wasn't really
interested in that, and I don't know what has changed.
Maybe because I'm single now, maybe that's what has changed,
and I've become more of a social person. I used
to love my vacations with my wife because it was
like our time and I didn't really want to share
(06:41):
that time with a big group of people. And some
of my friends. I've got a friend, he's a great guy,
and every vacation he takes is with a group of people.
He's got like three or four other married couples that
he and his wife travel with, and they go all
over the world and they always have such a good time.
I've just never done that, and this sounds really interesting
(07:02):
to me. I think I talked to the travel agent
on Friday, and it's going to be in May of
next year. We're going to Ireland for eight days, and
the most that can get in on this trip is
going to be about twenty people. So we're going to
have a webinar coming up in the next few days
(07:22):
and that'll be posted on my Facebook with details like
a zoom where we're going to share all the details
of the trip, and it's going to be available where
you can make a deposit now and then you can
make payments so that it's not just one amount you
have to pay, you know when the trip opens up.
So we're working on all of those details and They
(07:45):
told me May was a good time for the trip
because that it's the end of the rainy season. So
if we went any earlier than the end of May,
we might end up spending our eight days in a
rainy Ireland, which maybe wouldn't be too bad. But Ireland
is super green, right, so there's got to be a
lot of rain, and they do have a rainy season,
(08:07):
and it'd probably be nice to visit at least where
some of the days it's not pouring down rain. So
that's the idea behind it, and we'll have more details
coming soon. So the presidential debate is coming up this
week and there's a lot of speculation about what's going
to happen, and of course the media is already kind
of handicapping it that, you know, Trump is a great debater,
(08:30):
and they're setting the bar reel high for Trump. But
obviously he's in an awkward position. He's going to be
debating against a woman. He doesn't want to come off
as a bully, but at the same time, he's got
to make the point that America has this really clear
choice between a California liberal and somebody that shares you know,
(08:50):
conservative to moderate values and He's got to make that
point though, without coming off as a bully or a
bad guy. So it's going to be really interesting to
you know in some ways. And I thought this at
the time, Joe Biden stepping down may not have been
really all that much of a blessing for conservatives. I know,
(09:12):
we were all kind of rooting for that because it
was like, you know, Trump kind of got the knockout,
you know, on his last on his debate with Biden,
and we were all excited about that. But then I thought, yeah,
but be careful what you wish for, right because it
looks like Kamala she's got the same kind of thing
going forward that Obama did, which Obama in his first
(09:36):
term his first election was kind of this blank slate
that that people could just put their their views, like
he's gonna be this, He's going to be that. He
didn't really have a lot of I don't know if
you use the word baggage, but he just didn't have
a lot of history at least that people knew about,
(09:57):
so that he was able to kind of be everyone's favorite. No,
because no one didn't really, no one really knew much
about Obama in his past, so he could kind of
just be this blank slate. Now Kamala has a pass,
no doubt about it, but people just don't know about
her past. They don't know all of her extreme left
wing views like getting rid of private health insurance, that
(10:21):
she's for reparations, that she's for these crazy tax schemes
like taxing unrealized capital gains. There's a lot of just
really crazy things about her prior stances that even made
her too liberal to get the nomination from the Democrats.
That's why she was one of the early ones to
(10:41):
drop out in the primary, you know, last time when
she actually ran for the nomination. So it's going to
be interesting to see what happens. I believe it is
coming up on Tuesday night. So as as we are
entering into kind of those final few weeks, we've got
people kind of jumping in making their endorsements. And so
(11:03):
we've got a billionaire Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks.
He's endorsing Kamala, and he's having a hard time defending
that because you know, he's a businessman, he's for you know,
a free economy. It's it's really hard for him to
(11:24):
defend endorsing Kamala. But he is, and that's just I
guess part of the cool kids club that he's deciding
go along with that. And then we have Liz Cheney
is supporting Kamala. Then we have Dick Cheney is supporting Kamala. Now,
there was a lot of buzz online the last maybe
(11:46):
week and a half or so that George W. Bush,
former President George W. Bush, was going to come out
and endorse Harris himself, but he announced yesterday that he
and his wife Laura are going to keep their vote private.
They're not going to let anyone know who they're voting for,
which is kind of like a way to signal that
(12:08):
he's not going to be voting for Trump, but he
doesn't want to come out and make a big deal
out of it, which is kind of like splitting the
baby there. So I was kind of half expecting he
was going to endorse Kamala Harris also, but glad to
see that did not happen. Now, Bernie Sanders is probably
the only one really telling the truth right now among liberals.
(12:31):
Bernie Sanders says that Harris isn't abandoning her progressive values,
She's just doing what's quote right to win. In other words,
she's telling us what we want to hear so she
can get elected. And this is really, i think again
Trump's challenge, and this is what we need to be
seeing more of in these TV advertisements, and all of
(12:54):
this is just pointing out, I mean, what she actually
has historically stood, which is Americans are not for these
left wing California West Coast ideas. That doesn't play anywhere
other than in these completely blue states like California and
(13:17):
New York and maybe Illinois. You're not going to get
support for these way far off the deep end left
wing views. But Bernie Sanders is telling the truth, he says, basically,
she's got to say what she's got to say. All right, Now,
this was obviously a tragedy this week, this this shooting
(13:38):
incident in Georgia, and you always hate to see this.
And man, I'll tell you what, it was heartbreaking on
Friday morning to watch the hearing where this fourteen year
old boy is brought in to the courtroom and he's
charged with all these counts of murder and all these
other charges. And you think, man, fourteen years old, and
(14:01):
of course you know you hear a lot of the
backstory of the broken family and all of the things
kind of going on in the background, and you think, man,
you know, in some ways, sympathy rises up a little
bit in you for this kid, wondering what kind of
hell that he's lived through to reach a point at
(14:21):
the age of fourteen that he would do something like this. Now,
there's obviously a lot of debate over, you know, do
we charge the parents criminally in these kinds of cases.
And there was another case I believe it was in
Michigan where the parents were charged, and in this case,
the father was charged. And although I'm not normally one
(14:45):
to support that, in this case it was absolutely justified.
I mean, to give this boy his own ar style rifle,
I just I can't fathom that that would make any
sense based on the history here, based on everything we
heard about the emotional problems that this young man had.
(15:10):
Now I'm not saying that he should not have had
the experience maybe with his father or a mentor, of
learning to hunt and use firearms. I think that can
really be a great influence on a young person. It
was on me. My dad introduced me to hunting and
firearms and all that. When I was growing up, but
(15:32):
my firearm was never available to me. It was always
put away somewhere and I was not able to have
access to it. My hunting shotgun was not available to me.
And the idea of this young man having his own
rifle and having access to it with all the issues.
(15:54):
Apparently the law enforcement had been at this home many times,
and there was even out and out, you know, threats
of mass shootings made on social media by this kid
in the past. And then the idea that the dad
would give him as a Christmas gift his own rifle.
Clearly some horrible judgment here, and I think it is
(16:18):
good policy to charge the parents in these kinds of cases,
not in every case, because you know, mom and dad
could have the guns all locked away and kid breaks
into the safe or you know, the gun cabinet and
gets what he wants out of there. That's different. This
clearly seems to be negligence on the part of the father.
(16:42):
So a new California law will require cars to beep
when traveling ten miles over the speed limit. Man, do
I hate this. I have an older car. I drive
a twenty twelve Jeep Wrangler, and it has that I
think all cars have this, but mine is especially obnoxious.
(17:04):
If you get in and you don't get the seat
belt on right away, it starts beeping, and it is
just so annoying, so incredibly annoying. And the idea that
they're going to be putting this in place in cars
now in California, if you're ten miles over the speed limit,
it's going to start beeping. Now, on the one hand,
(17:24):
you might say, well, why would anybody need to go
ten miles over the speed limit. You never know why
you need to go ten miles over the speed limit.
Maybe you've got to rush somebody to the hospital. Maybe
you're trying to pass someone and you're in the passing lane.
I just don't like this idea of the government being
in our vehicles. And it seems to be the trend
(17:46):
that they want to put GPS in there, they want
to track our vehicles. They want to say you can't
have a gas vehicle, You've got to have an electric vehicle.
Now they want to put this device in the vehicle
that will start beeping if you're ten miles over the
speed limit. And then you know, where do you draw
the line once they get it in your vehicle. It's
(18:08):
probably somehow controlled by the internet, and if you go
ten miles over, not only will it beat, but it'll
also alert the authorities and you get a ticket in
the mail. I mean, what's next. And if they get
it in there for ten miles over, who's to say
they won't reduce it to five miles over or even
the exact speed limit. I know here on I ninety
(18:28):
five you cannot drive the speed limit. You literally cannot.
And it's sixty five to seventy miles an hour on
Interstate ninety five, and you literally cannot drive that speed limit.
If you don't drive faster than seventy it's dangerous. People
are passing you. Even if you go in the far
right lane, which I tend to do because I don't
(18:51):
go on I ninety five for too long of distance. Typically,
I get up on I ninety five to maybe go
one or two exits and get off in say, oh, Augustine.
That's generally my use throughout the week of I ninety five.
But even up just staying in that right lane knowing
I'm going to be exiting shortly, trying to keep my
vehicle under seventy, people are right on my bumper. Even
(19:14):
though they've gotten the two and even in some cases
a third lane that they can use to pass me,
it's not good enough. And so I don't know, it
just seems overly intrusive. I just this is not what
our founders had ever envisioned in this free nation that
broke off from England and became this this free world
(19:38):
that we were going to build for ourselves, and that
we would have all of these freedoms and rights. And
now the idea that they're going to put a device
inside our vehicle that's going to be if we get
ten miles or greater over the speed limit, I just
don't like it, all right. The Chicago Fed president, of course,
you know that the Federal Reserve is made up of
(19:59):
all of these regional banks. In each bank regionally has
a president, so there's one in Chicago. So he came out,
this was in today's news. We're going to see multiple
interest rate cuts, and that's pretty much what everybody's agreeing on. Now.
The question is this particular rate cut coming up? I
(20:19):
believe it's the eighteenth of September. Are we going to
get just that little quarter point cut that everybody's expecting
a lot of people are saying it's going to be
a half. Some people are saying maybe even three quarters.
But there's general consensus that between this meeting on the
eighteenth of September and the end of the year, we're
going to have a full one point reduction in interest rates.
(20:42):
And I did a little video on this yesterday. This
is going to make a really, really big difference for
people in the real estate business, mortgage business. One percent
lower on rates is going to be huge for the
market for the real estate. So if you're somebody that's
right now considering buying and you're on the sidelines, this
(21:05):
would be a good time to get in touch with me,
because what you really want to do is get in.
If you're gonna wait a little bit and jump in
and buy, you probably want to do it soon because
once these rate cuts actually get baked into the prices
of real estate, real estate's gonna go up quite a bit.
That's my prediction that with lower rates coming, you're gonna
(21:29):
see real estate start to go up again. So you've
got to be careful to time it. You want to
have a good expert in your corner. Get in touch.
I am licensed for both mortgages and real estate. And
if I'm not in your state, I can get a
team member to help you in your state. But I
am licensed here in Florida for real estate and in
multiple states for mortgages. The best way to get in
(21:51):
touch with me is my email, James Elpeis at gmail
dot com. And then here's kind of your Mark of
the Beast update. The European Union is announcing that it's
I believe the first week of November they're going to
be going live with their biometric entry and exit system.
(22:15):
No kidding, so I think they're using a palm print
at this point. And this will will basically when you
come into the EU or leave the EU, you will
be tracked using biometrics. And the concern about this a
lot of people who don't travel to Europe don't realize
(22:36):
that Europe has this ninety day rule. Unless you have
a special visa, if you're not a citizen, you're only
allowed to stay in the EU for ninety days. Then
you have to leave for ninety days before you can
come back again. And when you come back, you can
only stay for ninety days. Now you can you can
get around that by you know, getting you know, approval
(22:57):
through their immigration system, whether it's a work face or
you're going to get you know, the legal status, permanent
status to live there. But otherwise that's largely what the
system is going to do. But man, I'm telling you,
it's it's upon us. The mark of the Beast is
upon us. And this is these are really the precursors
(23:18):
laying the groundwork for the mark of the Beast that
the European Union is going to now launch this here,
it's just a matter of weeks, this new biometric entry
and exit system. A Texas man was sentenced to more
than fourteen years in prison for leading a scam seeking
to steal more than one hundred and ten million dollars
(23:40):
in tax refunds. According to the Department of Justice, this
story is absolutely crazy and just shows the incompetence of
the irs. Listen to this. The sentence was handed down
to Abraham Yusef of Round Rock, that's a Dallas suburb,
on September sixth. According to a press release, Yusoff was
(24:02):
convicted of being the leader of a stolen identity refund
fraud scheme that ran between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one.
As part of the scheme. Yusof and his co conspirators
contacted the IRS posing as CPAs and other professionals, claiming
to be authorized representatives of multiple taxpayers. They then proceeded
(24:29):
to file amended tax returns and then steal the refunds
that were generated by those bogus amendments that they made
to those tax returns. So this involved Abraham Yusuf as
well as sixty other people were part of this conspiracy.
And you've got to ask yourself, I mean, is it
(24:51):
really that easy that anybody can just call up the
IRS and say, Hey, I'm a CPA and this is
Mike client's Social Security number and I want to, you know,
go ahead and file an amended return for them, and oh,
by the way, mail that refund to my office. Is
(25:12):
that isn't that easy? It apparently is. And you would
think that there would be some kind of check and balance.
I mean, CPAs are licensed. Would there be some kind
of way of verifying that someone is a legitimate CPA
and has you know that license or not? And would
(25:32):
there not be some way for these taxpayers whose identities
were stolen to be notified, Hey, we're the IRS, and
we're just double checking with you that you are amending
your tax return, and something funny is going on here,
like an email would come to that person or a
letter in the mail. I don't know. It seems like
(25:54):
the IRS is twenty or thirty years behind on the
fraud protection and the fraud protection that is already in
place with our banks and credit card companies and financial institutions.
It's amazing that this kind of thing can still happen.
And the amount of money is staggering, one hundred and
ten million dollars. And you know, typically these white collar criminals,
(26:21):
they don't serve much time. I mean, you hear about
these embezzlers. They embezzel six figures from their employer or
even seven figures, and then you read about the five
year sentence they get and then they're out in a
halfway house in a year and they're going on with
their life's crime does pay? It really can't pay. But
(26:42):
it is interesting. And this is you know too. Part
of Trump's promise is to create this government Efficiency Commission,
putting Elon Musk in charge of it, to see, you know,
what can we do to cut costs. There's so much
fat and waste and fraud in the government and inefficiencies,
(27:02):
and this would certainly be exhibit A in making that argument.
All right, thanks so much for joining us this week.
If you want to get in touch, the best way
is an email James Elparis at gmail dot com, follow
me on Facebook, and please check out our new course.
I'd love to have you in the family and working
with us. I'm doing it. I'm not taking these pictures
(27:24):
and making money and sharing my experiences. We've got a
discussion community. We've got all the training, all the videos,
all the information. We've got eleven free videos for you
to see what's involved. Check it out at reelpicks dot us.
That's picks Pics, realpicks dot us. God bless have a
(27:45):
great week. We'll talk to you next time. So long,
everybody sp
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