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September 28, 2025 19 mins
This episode dives into a whirlwind of breaking stories: Jimmy Kimmel makes his return to late-night, while Washington braces for a government shutdown. Former FBI Director James Comey faces indictment, and new reports reveal 275 undercover FBI agents were embedded in the Jan. 6 crowds as Christopher Wray testifies before Congress. We also cover the wild turn of the hurricane, the upcoming release of Amelia Earhart files, and Candace Owens stirring controversy with conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk. Buckle up—this one’s packed.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, everybody, and welcome to the broadcast. Jim Paris
here with you. And it is interesting to see that
there is a you know, there is a Karen feeding
of your own podcast. And when you are like me
and you stop doing regular episodes, people stop downloading episodes.
And so now that we're back and doing these every week,

(01:22):
it is fun to watch the statistics starting to explode
again with the downloads both in the you know, all
of our download platforms, but also a lot of people
don't know this, but we also have a streaming agreement
with the people at talkstream Live and talk Stream Live streams.

(01:42):
Our program worldwide, and we have literally tens of thousands
that listen to the program each month through the live
stream over at talkstream Live, and you can get there
by going to talkstreamlive dot com. There's the app talk
stream Live, and we're on I believe, seven nights a

(02:05):
week from something like midnight to seven am, and then
also there's four or five nights a week where they
pick us up starting at nine pm Eastern and I
play a combination of the most recent broadcast alongside of
some of the best of shows that I have picked out.

(02:27):
So that's a lot of fun, all right, So what
is going on? Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air,
and as much as conservatives thought, oh this is it,
the left is finally going to get a taste of
their own medicine. I believe he missed maybe two programs,
and then even those those non ABC owned stations, I

(02:50):
believe Sinclair, and I believe the other one was called
Next Star. They were boycotting, they weren't going to come back.
Now they're back, So it appears that this was much
about much ado about nothing. Jimmy Kimmel is back, and
he gave an apology which most people dismissed as insincere

(03:12):
and just to get his show back. But I won't
try and judge his heart. If you haven't been following
the news, there is a government shutdown looming. Yeah, and
why is this right? I mean, we, you know, Conservatives Republicans.
We've got the House of Representatives. We've also got the Senate.

(03:34):
We've also got the presidency, So what in the world
is going on? So the problem is in the Senate,
where Republicans only have fifty three seats, and you've got
to have sixty votes, you know, due to the rules
of the Senate. So we don't have the sixty votes.
And apparently, I guess in two days, the government is

(03:58):
going to shut down. And of course a lot of
people don't really appreciate what that means. We still continue
to get Social Security checks, our military still gets paid,
and our national defense goes on. It is only a
kind of a sliver of items that are affected when

(04:20):
the government officially shuts down. But that is looming. We'll
have to see what happens with that. So the big
news this week was the indictment of former FBI director
James Comy, and this was really interesting to watch what
they did so, the statute of limitations for what he

(04:43):
was charged with was about to expire on September thirtieth,
so they were literally down to the last minute. And
this indictment, if you've read it, is a very narrow indictment,
basically accusing him of lying to Congress in one particular
instance about a leak to the media. And it looks

(05:09):
pretty cut and dry. Now, you know, I'm not someone
that's you know, in a position to have all the information,
but I think kind of the beauty of this indictment
being so narrow on just this one statement that was
made to Congress is it might be super easy to prove.
And he was indicted by a grand jury apparently on Monday,

(05:32):
which is tomorrow if you're listening to this broadcast at
another time. We record these on Sundays. Apparently tomorrow James
Comy will surrender himself and he will be booked and
will be arraigned, and who knows, in a few months,
I guess there will be a trial on this issue.
And then at the same time we have this shocking,

(05:54):
completely shocking testimony by Christopher Ray where he has asked
if there are undercover agents among the January sixth rioters. Now,
I'm not one, like a lot of conservative podcasters to
just jump on these conspiracy bandwagons. And it is true

(06:20):
there were some truly bad actors on January sixth that
damaged the Capitol, spray painted graffiti, you know, did all
kinds of bad things. That wasn't most of them. Most
of them were just walking around, looking around, taking videos
that sort of thing. And I'd even said on this

(06:41):
show before, there's a chance I could have been in
you know, DC prison myself, because I was considering there
was a busload of people going from my area up
to the January sixth event, and I thought, hey, this
might be interesting, and knowing yours, truly, I would have
been in there filming. And other people who have independent

(07:05):
platforms like myself that were in there filming have faced
prison time. So this is really interesting. I also find
it interesting when we look at you know, the police letting,
you know, the Capitol police letting people in, opening doors,
kind of directing traffic, directing people to go inside. These

(07:27):
are some very bizarre scenes that are hard to make
sense of in light of the allegation of insurrection and
all of these people, you know, kind of blasting their
way in. Of course, nobody brought in a gun. As
far as we know, there were no no, no one
was in there shooting a gun. I mean, there's been
no evidence of that in a country like America, where

(07:49):
we've got the most guns of anywhere in the world.
The idea of all these people coming to it a
so called insurrection without firepower was always something that really
made me scratch my head how you could consider it
an insurrection when these people came mostly peacefully. But now
we've got a really big piece of the puzzle that

(08:13):
is being put in place on the so called conspiracy theory.
The idea was that there were agitators in the crowd
that were actually FBI agents or were government operatives. Maybe
not officially part of the government, not part of the FBI,

(08:34):
but they were informants and people that were operating for
the government. But now we have learned, according to information
that has just come out, that there were in fact
two hundred and seventy five plane clothes FBI agents among

(08:55):
those people on January sixth. That to me is remarkable,
not only that there were that many agents there, but
that the video now appears to show Christopher Ray, the
former director of the FBI, being directly questioned about this

(09:19):
and not answering this truthfully, and it's hard to imagine
what possible defense he has to this. I read an
article where somebody said he's going to try and say
that when he said there were no undercover agents there,

(09:41):
that he was not asked if there were playing close agents,
but was asked if there were undercover agents in the crowd,
not playing close agents, and that's going to be his out,
which I think is a super weak argument if that,
in fact is his defense. But that was reported by

(10:05):
Glenn Beck's shop the Blaze, two hundred and seventy five
plain closed FBI agents were among the individuals in the
January sixth crowds. All Right, have you been watching this hurricane,
this crazy tropical storm, which I guess is just now

(10:28):
officially becoming a hurricane. It's taking this bizarre path where
it's literally going up the coast of Florida, but like
a couple hundred miles off shore, it's sort of operating
parallel to the east coast of Florida. And then when
it gets to the very top of Florida, instead of
going into Georgia or the Carolinas. The latest path is

(10:51):
that it's going to take this right hand turn and
just go back out into the ocean. I mean, how
fortunate is that? And this is not dissimilar to what
just happened with another tropical storm that became a hurricane
that kind of made its way to the US boom
turned around and went back out again. And I don't

(11:14):
know anything about whether I did have one meteorology class
in my undergraduate I know just enough to be dangerous.
Apparently some type of low pressure system is what they're
attributing to preventing both of these tropical storms from coming
on shore. So I guess that's a good thing, all right.

(11:38):
So the speaking of conspiracy theories Amelia Earhart, there has
long been a tremendous amount of conspiracy theories about Amelia Earhart.
I'm not one that has ever been interested in those,
so I can't really tell you too much about it.

(11:59):
But apparently there has been and there's been a lot
of demand people asking for the government to release any
and all files about what happened to Amelia Earhart who disappeared. Well,
she was making that flight, that worldwide flight, and we
still don't officially know where the plane crash. There have

(12:22):
been theories over the years, and people have claimed to
have found the airplane. I don't think any of that
has ever been confirmed. But Trump has decided he's now
going to officially release all files related to Amelia Earhart.
So if you're somebody that follows that story and that's
of super interest to you, then you're gonna have that

(12:45):
here shortly. And continuing on conspiracy theories, I had a
friend that called me this week and they said, what
do you know about what Candice Owens is saying about
Charlie Kirk's shooting? And I said, I know nothing. I
know nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing. I don't know.

(13:07):
I don't really follow Candace Owens honestly, but I do
know she does have a big following. She has a
big platform among conservatives. She is a black conservative, and
she is apparently peddling a number of very strange conspiracy
theories about Charlie Kirk. And one of them, if I

(13:29):
understand it correctly, is that this young man that they arrested,
who is the alleged shooter, she is saying that he's
not really the shooter. If I understand correctly one of
her positions on this. She has a lot of other
kind of unorthodox, you know, kind of far out conspiracy

(13:54):
theory types of claims she's making about the shooting of
Charlie Kirk. And you know, well, it doesn't surprise me
that there are conspiracy theories, because look at it. Any
time you have a famous person that has assassinated, there
are going to be conspiracy theories. And we've already got
them with Charlie Kirk. Again, it's a tragedy. I don't

(14:19):
see any substance to these conspiracy theories, but it's not
going to stop people from pushing these out. And then
there was a story just breaking before we came to air,
and I'm going to type it in the computer or
just to see if I can get the latest news

(14:39):
on it. Apparently a shooting at a church in Michigan,
in Detroit, Michigan. This is a Mormon church, and the
news headline here says multiple people shot at Mormon church
in Michigan. Shooter is down, and it also says here

(15:03):
that the entire church is on fire. So we just
don't know what happened here. I guess, you know, we're
gonna find out more. But we don't typically see these
shootings at Mormon churches. I don't remember there being another

(15:24):
shooting in recent years at a Mormon church. But what
is the Mormon connection? And I'm just speculating here, you know,
maybe it's just a coincidence, but the shooter in the
Charlie Kirk case was that was part of the Mormon community,

(15:45):
at least his family was, and then apparently as he
became an adult, he sort of went off in a
different direction. I have no idea if there's any connection there,
but and this is in Michigan, so probably totally unrelated.
But that's the only thing that you know, kind of
comes to mind as far as you know that goes.

(16:06):
And I'll close it out with this on this episode.
Keep a close eye on your mail and your email
class for class action lawsuits. There are a number of
these going now. There's one against Amazon, there's one against Facebook,
there's one against I believe one of the major cell

(16:28):
phone companies. And all you've got to do typically is
take a minute or two and fill out a little
bit of paperwork. If you're in the group and you
get cut in on the money. I have never been
a huge participant in these. I'll do it if it's
just going to take me a minute, only because you
don't usually get that much money. I think the most

(16:51):
I ever got I might have gotten a hundred bucks
from that one where I forget what company was, but
they were making tell marketing calls and they weren't supposed
to be doing that. And originally early on we thought
maybe each person was getting like five hundred or six
hundred bucks, and if you were lucky enough to have

(17:12):
been called more than once, that would be times the
number of calls that you received. In my case, I
was able to apply for two shares of that, so
I thought, maybe I'm going to get one thousand dollars.
I think I got one hundred bucks fifty bucks for
each claim. Hey, but money is money, and you know,
along those lines, I continue to find lost money for myself,

(17:38):
both in my home state of Florida as well as
where I used to live for five years during the
nineteen nineties in Dallas, Texas. And every state now has
one of these portals where you can go in and
do a search under your name or your business name
and see if there's lost money that you are entitled to.

(17:58):
And this is money you know, you moved and you're
owed the return of a utility deposit or a final paycheck,
or a tax refund or an insurance refund. There's all
kinds of different scenarios. And when they can't find you,
they have to send this money off to the state
and it's held there. In some states they just hold

(18:20):
it forever. In other states they have a law called
the law of escheat, and under the law of s cheat,
after a period of years in a lot of cases
it's something like seven years, the state just gets to
keep your money. So how do you find these sites?
You just type in your state name and then type
in lost money and you don't have to pay anything,

(18:43):
So be careful you don't go to a sponsored result
in Google, which might take you to a site that
wants money from you to do the search. You can
do it yourself. And if it's a legit site which
has a dot gov uh, you know, extension to it,
which means it's part of your state government, it's gonna

(19:05):
be free. You're gonna be able to do that search.
All right, Thanks so much for joining us. I hope
everybody has a great week. We'll talk to you next time.
So long, everybody,
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