September 18, 2024 • 28 mins
On this episode we find out even more about the failure of the Secret Service in Butler, PA. The Israelis using exploding walkie talkies to attack Hamas, Sean Combs held without bail, Amazon employees irate about this change, ABC paying the price for the rigged debate, and Taylor Swift endorsement of Kamala backfires.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Gentlemen, start your engines. All right, mister Garbokoff teared down.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This one the only thing we have to bear.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Spare it so By'm not a cruck. If you like
your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plans.
Ye sick, Ye are three.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Fine fire.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You're listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the
latest news on money, politics, prophecy, and preparedness, and now
your host, the editor in chief of Christian money dot
com and the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, Hello everybody, Welcome to the broadcast. Great to
be back with you. If you hear a little bit
of thunder sounds in the background, that's real. We're under
a severe thunderstorm warning as I'm recording this episode today.
I had fun. Today is National Cheeseburger Day, and I
actually when I was up at Starbucks, I mentioned it
(01:21):
to a few people and they were at first. They
all had the same reaction. They kind of laughed at
me like it was a joke, and I said, it's
not a joke, it's actually a thing. As if we
don't have enough holidays, September eighteenth is now national cheeseburger Day.
So just for fun and disave a little bit of money,
I decided I'm going to cash in on this. This
(01:41):
sounds like a good deal. So you can get a
one cent junior bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's and not just
today on the eighteenth, you can actually get this for
the next week. One McDonald said, hey, hold my beer
(02:04):
some McDonald's as a for fifty cents, you can get
a double cheeseburger. Now, you got to use the apps,
So if you're not somebody that likes to do that,
you're not going to get in on these deals. You've
got to have the app. You've got to order through
the app. And then Burger King is offering a cheeseburger
for what it's for. It's I don't know what it is.
(02:26):
It's like a dollar deal or something.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, No, it's I think it's a free cheeseburger, but
you've got to spend a dollar. Anyway. You can get
all this information online. And then I got something just
a few minutes ago from Ruby Tuesdays that they're doing
something special today. So anyway, if you're hearing this the
day this episode comes out a lot of this is
going to be great. Oh What a Burger has a
(02:51):
deal today too. What a Burger says, anybody that comes
in and orders any burger will be entered into a
sweep steaks and you could win what a Burger every
day for a year. And the leestioniond is what would
you look like right after eating what a Burger every
day for a year? But wow, just fun, fun, fun, Okay.
(03:14):
The Vetter Reserve had their meeting and long anticipated everybody
was speculating what was going to happen. A few weeks ago,
we thought it was going to be a quarter point.
Then when we started getting some of the more you know,
less than favorable economic data, some people started speculating, well,
maybe we're gonna get more than a quarter point. So
(03:34):
as of yesterday, sixty percent in the financial markets, the
polls they were taking, sixty percent of the traders expected
a half point rate cut, and that's what we got today.
We got a half point rate cut. There were some
super optimistic people that were saying, maybe we're going to
(03:54):
get three quarters of a point. Didn't happen. We got
the half point, which is still great. There's a little
bit of confusion, you know about what does this actually
mean to the average person. So the biggest question people
have is about mortgages. So mortgages are actually tied to
the yield of the ten year Treasury bond. They're not
(04:15):
directly connected to the FED rate. And the FED rate
is the rate that banks loan money to each other overnight,
and that banks can borrow money from the Fed over
a very short period of time, like you know, the
overnight lending. That's what that means. But it does sort
of have a ripple effect in the bond market. So
(04:39):
when the Fed lowers rates by half point, in theory,
we should see a lowering of yields sort of across
the entire bond ladder as we call it. Doesn't always
work out perfectly like that, but we did. We are
now at almost two years lows on mortgage rates, so
(05:04):
even in anticipation of this rate cut, we saw the
ten year treasury yield dropping. All that to say this
keep if you have bought a house or got a
mortgage in the last couple of years, you bought a
house with a mortgage last couple of years, it may
be time to start watching closely for a window of
(05:24):
opportunity to refinance. It was interesting that the word is
that the Fed's plan is to lower rates by up
to two percent within the next one year. So can
you imagine, I mean, that would that doesn't necessarily go
like dollar for dollar to lower mortgage rates, but if
(05:48):
we were to get mortgage rates one to maybe one
and a half percent lower than even what they are
right now, Katie bar the door, it would just be
fantastic for the real estate industry, for the mortgage industry.
A lot of people, you know, can see us, you know,
really getting back into some uh you know, really hot
(06:08):
times as far as you know, prices going up and
sales of real estate, you know, picking up again.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So it was good. It was a good news to
see that, all right. So I published an article and
a lot of people don't know that I have a
column at medium dot com. I write a column for Medium,
and I don't write as much as I used to
a lot of things going on. But my latest column
is called five side Gigs for real Urs. So if
(06:35):
you're a real estate agent and you're looking to make
some side money, check out my article. Just go to
James Lparis dot medium dot com. James Elparis dot medium
dot com and you can get that article of I
really put some time into researching this. It's not a
long article, but I put a lot of time into
(06:56):
picking out these five side gigs. And one of the
side gigs is reelpicks dot us. And I'll just tell
you this is just exploding this new online class that
I have. And I'll just give you an example from yesterday.
So yesterday was Tuesday, right, So Monday night, I'm eating dinner,
(07:17):
my phone beeps and it offers me a picture assignment
for Tuesday. So I accepted it. You know, just on
my way out on Tuesday, I was going to go
up to Saint Augustine and work from a coffee shop
up there, which is what I did, But just on
my way out of town, I stopped. It literally took
me five minutes to take five pictures and submit them,
(07:42):
and that money went right into my bank account this morning.
And those kind of like really small picture taking gigs.
You're just you get out of your car, You're going
to take five pictures, one directly of the front of
the house from the street, then one to the left
angle of the house looking at the house, than one
(08:02):
from the right side of the house, you know, pointing
to the house, and then you'll take one down the
street one direction and one down the street the other direction.
That's at five pictures and that will pay you between
twenty and thirty five dollars. And there's lots of those
you can do, you know, wherever you're at in the country.
And why why did I do that?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Who was that for?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
What was the purpose of that? It was a major
bank that was doing a home equity line of credit
on this property, and rather than to do a full
blown appraisal, they just went ahead and ordered this you know,
little you know picture session. So it's really cool and
it's great side money, and you don't need a real
(08:43):
estate license to do it. But it is sort of
a close cousin to real estate, which is why a
lot of real estate agents do it. People that are
mortgage loan officers do it. Appraisers are doing it. But
I have put together twelve free videos for you if
you just want to find out more, check out the
twelve free videos at reelpicks dot us reelpicks dot us.
(09:09):
This story was absolutely fascinating. The Israelis planted bombs some
kind of tiny bombs. I didn't even know this existed,
but they planted these tiny bombs inside of walkie talkies
that were being used by hamas. And I don't know
(09:31):
how it works, Like they press a button somewhere and
then all of these walkie talkies explode. It's like almost
something out of a movie. And that's exactly what happened.
Apparently twenty seven hundred people they claim were injured by this,
and nine people were killed. The original news story said
(09:52):
that pagers exploded, and I didn't even know that people
had pagers anymore. But the story got updated today and
they're actually referring to these devices as walkie talkies. Some
of the people that were seriously injured were actually Iranian officials,
(10:13):
which kind of raises a lot of questions, right like
why is Iran on walkie talkies with a bunch of terrorists.
We know why, but now they're complaining about it because
one of their higher up officials I guess lost an
eye and had very serious, very serious injury from this.
But I mean, all I can say to this is
(10:34):
what a brilliant thing to do. I mean, can you
imagine how I don't know how that would even work.
That you could actually build tiny bombs that could go
inside of the walkie talkies that terrorists are using, and
then somewhere you press the button and boom, all those
walkie talkies blow up, and it's like almost something out
(10:55):
of a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie. I just thought
it was fascinating. And for the Israelis that are just
trying to protect themselves and defend themselves, I thought it
was brilliant. So Sean Diddy Combs is now being held
without bail and the list of things he's accused of
is pretty darn long. And I'll be honest with you,
(11:19):
R Kelly, Sean Combs, all these people, I don't get
the rap culture. I don't get it at all. These
are on savory people. For the most part, what they're
producing is not music. In my opinion, I don't see
any redeeming value to this entire culture. And I know
(11:41):
I probably sound like some old guy, you know that
doesn't want to accept like the newest thing, But I
just don't think like in twenty years, you're going to
have a party and people are going to, you know,
pull out the the oldies but goodies and they're going
to be playing Sean did Combs or any of these rappers.
(12:03):
You know, the music that we had in the fifties,
in the sixties, in the seventies, in the eighties. I mean,
this was real music. I don't even know what this is.
And what is it about these rappers that are trying
to kill each other. They're involved with all kinds of
you know, drug you know, trafficking, and this guy is
(12:24):
accused of sex trafficking on top of drugs and everything else.
I don't get it. And I don't know how these
people get to be quote unquote celebrities and get so rich,
and then they're always changing their names from you know,
these cute little names they have, like his name is
now Diddy instead of puff Daddy. I don't get it.
(12:49):
I don't get any of it. So, I mean, I
really don't, but this is fascinating. Charges were so serious.
Sean Diddy Combs is held with out bail by the Feds. Fascinating. Well,
it's official. I am starting my master's degree on November first,
and I'm really looking forward to this. I did finish
(13:13):
up all of the credits that I needed to be
able to move forward. I do have master's credits already,
But my educational history was kind of a little bit
you know, stop and start. I'll be honest with you.
It was just a very interesting and people ask me,
you know, what my education was. So here's the deal.
(13:35):
I went to college for two years in Springfield, Missouri,
and then I dropped out of college to go on
the road as a professional musician, which is where I
met my wife, to whom I was married for thirty
six years. Now I'm divorced, not my choice, her choice.
And I was working in finance starting in nineteen eighty six,
(14:01):
eighty seven, I started working as a financial advisor with
just the two years of college. Well then came along
the College for Financial Planning, which is an accredited, regionally
accredited school based in Denver, Colorado. Well, they had a
program back in the day that you could skip getting
(14:21):
a bachelor's degree and go on to get the CFP,
which is a master's level. It's fifteen credits of master's level.
So you could skip your bachelor's and go on to
the CFP if you had five years of experience in
the you know, practicing as a financial advisor. So I
(14:43):
used my experience to substitute for finishing the bachelor's and
then I went on to get the CFP and graduated
from the College for Financial Planning, So I never it
was weird because I never had like an official bachelor's
but then I had these master's credits, so like, how
does that work? Right? So I ended up two and
(15:07):
a half years ago, I went back to college to
evangel University, and I finished my bachelor's degree. So I
officially finished all my classes a little over a year ago. However,
I had to take a couple of final exams related
to some classes I was skipping through KLEP, and I
(15:28):
didn't take those exams right away because the divorce was
going on. So what I did was I made it
a priority going into the summer this year to get
those exams knocked out. So I did, and my degree
was conferred on about a month ago from evangel University.
And then I enrolled into Western Governor's University and I'm
(15:51):
now accepted to start a master's degree on November first.
And what my plan is, if I get three more
master's credits in finance in addition to this master's degree
that I'm getting from Western Governor's University, I'll be able
to teach finance at the college level. I've always thought
(16:14):
that was a great gig to have, Like you're a
college professor. You've got that great like base salary and
benefits and all that, and then you can, on the
side do all your entrepreneurial things. You can have a
podcast and write books and do this and do that.
So yeah, so that's kind of, you know, my goal,
(16:34):
like going into my older years. I'll be sixty in January,
so I'm looking forward to knocking out this master's degree.
And Western Governor's University is a pretty innovative college. Fully accredited,
but you get to complete the classes at your own pace,
and you get to skip classes where you're able to
(16:56):
do a proficiency exam at the beginning of each course,
and then you can skip the class if you have
already proven that you know the material, which that's pretty neat, right.
So I think I've got to complete eleven classes and
I'm really excited about this. I wrote an article about
Western Governor's University a couple of years ago that's still
(17:18):
on my blog over at blog dot Christianmoney dot com.
So that's going to be happening here in about six weeks.
So looking forward to that. All right, So we had
the second assassination attempt on Trump. And for those that
don't know, you know, I live in Florida, So I've
been down to Palm Beach, in West Palm Beach where
(17:39):
that golf course is, which is actually people get confused.
They think that mar A Lago is right next to
that golf course. It is not. Mar A Lago is
in Palm Beach, and you have to go over a
bridge and actually come onto like what we call the
mainland to West Palm Beach. That's where the Trump golf courses.
(18:01):
So it's not right connected to mar A Lago. But
all that being said, it is a big golf course
and there is a road right next to it which
is well known to be the road where photographers will
set up and peek through those trees to be able
(18:21):
to get pictures of famous people, including Trump. So it
would make sense that that would be where a shooter
would go. That is like the spot to be if
you want to get a great picture or you want
to get a shot off. I mean. But it's fascinating
that the Secret Service has admitted that they did not
(18:42):
search the golf course before Trump went out on the
golf course, which I think is crazy. And they also
did not have anybody on that road patrolling either. And
it's really hard for me. As much as I lean
towards like some of these conspiracies, I have a hard
time really bringing myself to think that they would allow
(19:07):
for security to be less as a window of opportunity
to get rid of Trump. It's so hard for me
to believe that. But I'm starting to move towards that
because none of this is making any sense. And when
you look at what happened today, we got a story
(19:28):
in today. This is from the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt
on Trump. So what we had for a few weeks
between the police there and the Secret Service, the Secret
Service came out right away and said, oh, we're not
going to blame the police. They did a good job,
and they were all trying to like stay friendly and
(19:48):
not point the finger at each other. And that is
kind of over because today we've got this news in
that the Secret Service. This is according to the law
enforcement people there in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Secret Service assured
the law enforcement there that they would take care of
the building that Thomas Crooks shot Trump from They the
(20:12):
police there were concerned about that building, which they should
have been. Anybody would see that as an obvious sniper's perch.
But apparently the Secret Service said, Eh, don't worry about it.
We got it, and they didn't have it. And so
just the more that comes out, it just it's super curious,
(20:36):
it really is. And a senator, Senator Tuberville, who I'm
not familiar with, he made a great suggestion, this was
in the news yesterday, that Navy seals should now be
protecting Trump. Why not let these guys keep their beards
and you know, let them be the Navy seals. You know,
(20:56):
let them walk around with their big guns and their
army fatigue and you know, these guys who they are.
They don't have to dress up with suits on and
all that. Let's put the Navy seals around Trump. I
love that idea. I would absolutely love that. And then
you know, for sure you have true patriots not accusing
the Secret Service of anything. But you know what that
(21:19):
whole club of Washington and all the insiders. You know,
you live in Washington, d C. You're kind of like
in that bubble and you're part of that culture. And
I don't necessarily want to use the phrase deep state
or anything like that, but you know, the Navy Seals,
those are like super patriots, incredibly talented guys and gals
at what they do. Being able to, you know, protect
(21:42):
the president would be a different assignment.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But I like it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I love the idea Hillary Clinton is back in the news.
Hillary wants Americans spreading so called Trump propaganda to be
criminally charged. Not going to happen. People are really upset
about Twitter now called X of course that Elon Musk purchased.
(22:09):
People are so upset that anyone can go on to
Twitter and share their opinion. And it's interesting because the
so called threat of you know, violent language or language
that would incite this or that. Look at these two
(22:30):
assassination attempts against Trump, and look at the language that
has been used about Trump for the last several months.
Even after the first assassination attempt, they continued to talk
this way, talking about him as a national threat in
Hitler and a threat to democracy. These are all dog
whistles for people to commit violence. And we even have
(22:55):
a clip that I saw on Facebook what was it yesterday?
Kamala Harris talking about being in an elevator with Trump
and does he have to come out alive or not?
Ha ha ha. And this was, of course before the
first assassination attempt. It was well, she was on TV
with that character, Ellen DeGeneres and was making that joke.
(23:20):
But you just don't joke about things like that. And
it's the left that is accusing Conservatives of inciting this
and inciting that, and look at them, and look at
where the violence is targeted towards. It's targeted towards Trump.
It's not targeted towards the Democrats. It's targeted towards Trump.
So it's interesting just to continue to see this. You know,
(23:44):
Hillary Clinton wants people to be criminally charged for spreading
Trump propaganda. Just crazy. So Costco has this idea, and
I don't know if this is a one off or
if they're planning to roll this out in other cities.
In South Los Angeles, which is a rough neighborhood if
you've never been to Los Angeles, South LA is getting
(24:07):
a new Costcoast store and it's not just going to
be a Costco store, but on the upper levels. So
you got the first floor which is Costco and then
this is a high rise it's going to have eight
hundred apartment units, many of which will be made available
to people who have low income. So I don't know.
(24:32):
I've kind of got mixed feelings about it. I grew
up in Chicago. These low income buildings were the places
that we were not allowed to go. Even my father,
who was an adult, would not drive in that area
of the city where these low income housing complexes were,
the most famous of which would be Cabrini Green in
(24:55):
Chicago off a Lasal These It's well meaning. I get it.
It's well meaning, but I'm just not so sure that
the idea of mixing a cost co with eight hundred apartments,
many of which that'll be targeted for low income. And
it's not that we you know, the single mom who
(25:16):
doesn't have enough money for a place and maybe has
two or three kids. Those are the people that you
have a special place in your heart for. But it's
not just that. It's a lot of these complexes are
people with criminal records. These are bad people in a
lot of cases that fill up these low income complexes.
(25:37):
I just don't know. It might it might turn out
to be a winning social experiment. I don't know how
Costco got into this arrangement. It might just be that
that was where they wanted to put a costco and
it was already a building there and they had to
take it over, and the city said, we'll give you
(25:58):
the ability to have the cost go if you'll do
something with the upper floors. I don't know the backstory,
but I do think it's interesting and we'll have to
watch that to see what happens. Amazon employees are irate
after the CEO announces a mandatory return to the office policy.
(26:19):
One Amazon employee who was interviewed in this article says,
they're going to quote, take their money and leave. And
this is happening with more and more companies forcing people
to come back into the office. There was this idea
that remote work was here to stay, and a lot
(26:41):
of people love remote work. I'm a remote loan officer.
I don't go into an office, but then again, I
don't get paid unless I have a closing, so I'm
in a little bit of a different situation. But I
think a lot of businesses are starting to find that
there is not the auductivity that they have had historically
(27:04):
with people working remotely. You know, people that are on
these really nice salaries and all that. You know, they've
got the dog in the background and their kids when
they're on zoom are running around in the background, and
the businesses are not seeing the value. Add I get
it the employees seeing it. The employees like I can
(27:25):
work from home. I get up in the morning, walk
across the house to my office, and now I'm at work.
I get why that's great for the employee. I'm not
so sure that that's great for the employer. And we'll
just have to see how this goes. I mean, it's
obviously up for negotiations, right, so if you don't like
(27:46):
working in an office, you'll just put your resume out
and look for a remote job, and eventually the free
market will settle this one way or the other. I
get it why employees love it, but I also see
the employer side of it, like, I'm not so sure.
Even in cases where I've heard where employers have said
(28:08):
let's return to the office, like two days a week,
there's been a mutiny, like that's even too much to
ask to have people come in on a Tuesday and
a Thursday. But the free market will settle this because
people that don't want to report to an office will
just leave and they will have to go out and
find a remote job. And it just looks like there's
going to be less and less remote jobs. So ABC
(28:32):
News is David Muir
Gentlemen, start your engines. All right, mister Garbokoff teared down.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This one the only thing we have to bear.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Spare it so By'm not a cruck. If you like
your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plans.
Ye sick, Ye are three.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Fine fire.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You're listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the
latest news on money, politics, prophecy, and preparedness, and now
your host, the editor in chief of Christian money dot
com and the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, Hello everybody, Welcome to the broadcast. Great to
be back with you. If you hear a little bit
of thunder sounds in the background, that's real. We're under
a severe thunderstorm warning as I'm recording this episode today.
I had fun. Today is National Cheeseburger Day, and I
actually when I was up at Starbucks, I mentioned it
(01:21):
to a few people and they were at first. They
all had the same reaction. They kind of laughed at
me like it was a joke, and I said, it's
not a joke, it's actually a thing. As if we
don't have enough holidays, September eighteenth is now national cheeseburger Day.
So just for fun and disave a little bit of money,
I decided I'm going to cash in on this. This
(01:41):
sounds like a good deal. So you can get a
one cent junior bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's and not just
today on the eighteenth, you can actually get this for
the next week. One McDonald said, hey, hold my beer
(02:04):
some McDonald's as a for fifty cents, you can get
a double cheeseburger. Now, you got to use the apps,
So if you're not somebody that likes to do that,
you're not going to get in on these deals. You've
got to have the app. You've got to order through
the app. And then Burger King is offering a cheeseburger
for what it's for. It's I don't know what it is.
(02:26):
It's like a dollar deal or something.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, No, it's I think it's a free cheeseburger, but
you've got to spend a dollar. Anyway. You can get
all this information online. And then I got something just
a few minutes ago from Ruby Tuesdays that they're doing
something special today. So anyway, if you're hearing this the
day this episode comes out a lot of this is
going to be great. Oh What a Burger has a
(02:51):
deal today too. What a Burger says, anybody that comes
in and orders any burger will be entered into a
sweep steaks and you could win what a Burger every
day for a year. And the leestioniond is what would
you look like right after eating what a Burger every
day for a year? But wow, just fun, fun, fun, Okay.
(03:14):
The Vetter Reserve had their meeting and long anticipated everybody
was speculating what was going to happen. A few weeks ago,
we thought it was going to be a quarter point.
Then when we started getting some of the more you know,
less than favorable economic data, some people started speculating, well,
maybe we're gonna get more than a quarter point. So
(03:34):
as of yesterday, sixty percent in the financial markets, the
polls they were taking, sixty percent of the traders expected
a half point rate cut, and that's what we got today.
We got a half point rate cut. There were some
super optimistic people that were saying, maybe we're going to
(03:54):
get three quarters of a point. Didn't happen. We got
the half point, which is still great. There's a little
bit of confusion, you know about what does this actually
mean to the average person. So the biggest question people
have is about mortgages. So mortgages are actually tied to
the yield of the ten year Treasury bond. They're not
(04:15):
directly connected to the FED rate. And the FED rate
is the rate that banks loan money to each other overnight,
and that banks can borrow money from the Fed over
a very short period of time, like you know, the
overnight lending. That's what that means. But it does sort
of have a ripple effect in the bond market. So
(04:39):
when the Fed lowers rates by half point, in theory,
we should see a lowering of yields sort of across
the entire bond ladder as we call it. Doesn't always
work out perfectly like that, but we did. We are
now at almost two years lows on mortgage rates, so
(05:04):
even in anticipation of this rate cut, we saw the
ten year treasury yield dropping. All that to say this
keep if you have bought a house or got a
mortgage in the last couple of years, you bought a
house with a mortgage last couple of years, it may
be time to start watching closely for a window of
(05:24):
opportunity to refinance. It was interesting that the word is
that the Fed's plan is to lower rates by up
to two percent within the next one year. So can
you imagine, I mean, that would that doesn't necessarily go
like dollar for dollar to lower mortgage rates, but if
(05:48):
we were to get mortgage rates one to maybe one
and a half percent lower than even what they are
right now, Katie bar the door, it would just be
fantastic for the real estate industry, for the mortgage industry.
A lot of people, you know, can see us, you know,
really getting back into some uh you know, really hot
(06:08):
times as far as you know, prices going up and
sales of real estate, you know, picking up again.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So it was good. It was a good news to
see that, all right. So I published an article and
a lot of people don't know that I have a
column at medium dot com. I write a column for Medium,
and I don't write as much as I used to
a lot of things going on. But my latest column
is called five side Gigs for real Urs. So if
(06:35):
you're a real estate agent and you're looking to make
some side money, check out my article. Just go to
James Lparis dot medium dot com. James Elparis dot medium
dot com and you can get that article of I
really put some time into researching this. It's not a
long article, but I put a lot of time into
(06:56):
picking out these five side gigs. And one of the
side gigs is reelpicks dot us. And I'll just tell
you this is just exploding this new online class that
I have. And I'll just give you an example from yesterday.
So yesterday was Tuesday, right, So Monday night, I'm eating dinner,
(07:17):
my phone beeps and it offers me a picture assignment
for Tuesday. So I accepted it. You know, just on
my way out on Tuesday, I was going to go
up to Saint Augustine and work from a coffee shop
up there, which is what I did, But just on
my way out of town, I stopped. It literally took
me five minutes to take five pictures and submit them,
(07:42):
and that money went right into my bank account this morning.
And those kind of like really small picture taking gigs.
You're just you get out of your car, You're going
to take five pictures, one directly of the front of
the house from the street, then one to the left
angle of the house looking at the house, than one
(08:02):
from the right side of the house, you know, pointing
to the house, and then you'll take one down the
street one direction and one down the street the other direction.
That's at five pictures and that will pay you between
twenty and thirty five dollars. And there's lots of those
you can do, you know, wherever you're at in the country.
And why why did I do that?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Who was that for?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
What was the purpose of that? It was a major
bank that was doing a home equity line of credit
on this property, and rather than to do a full
blown appraisal, they just went ahead and ordered this you know,
little you know picture session. So it's really cool and
it's great side money, and you don't need a real
(08:43):
estate license to do it. But it is sort of
a close cousin to real estate, which is why a
lot of real estate agents do it. People that are
mortgage loan officers do it. Appraisers are doing it. But
I have put together twelve free videos for you if
you just want to find out more, check out the
twelve free videos at reelpicks dot us reelpicks dot us.
(09:09):
This story was absolutely fascinating. The Israelis planted bombs some
kind of tiny bombs. I didn't even know this existed,
but they planted these tiny bombs inside of walkie talkies
that were being used by hamas. And I don't know
(09:31):
how it works, Like they press a button somewhere and
then all of these walkie talkies explode. It's like almost
something out of a movie. And that's exactly what happened.
Apparently twenty seven hundred people they claim were injured by this,
and nine people were killed. The original news story said
(09:52):
that pagers exploded, and I didn't even know that people
had pagers anymore. But the story got updated today and
they're actually referring to these devices as walkie talkies. Some
of the people that were seriously injured were actually Iranian officials,
(10:13):
which kind of raises a lot of questions, right like
why is Iran on walkie talkies with a bunch of terrorists.
We know why, but now they're complaining about it because
one of their higher up officials I guess lost an
eye and had very serious, very serious injury from this.
But I mean, all I can say to this is
(10:34):
what a brilliant thing to do. I mean, can you
imagine how I don't know how that would even work.
That you could actually build tiny bombs that could go
inside of the walkie talkies that terrorists are using, and
then somewhere you press the button and boom, all those
walkie talkies blow up, and it's like almost something out
(10:55):
of a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie. I just thought
it was fascinating. And for the Israelis that are just
trying to protect themselves and defend themselves, I thought it
was brilliant. So Sean Diddy Combs is now being held
without bail and the list of things he's accused of
is pretty darn long. And I'll be honest with you,
(11:19):
R Kelly, Sean Combs, all these people, I don't get
the rap culture. I don't get it at all. These
are on savory people. For the most part, what they're
producing is not music. In my opinion, I don't see
any redeeming value to this entire culture. And I know
(11:41):
I probably sound like some old guy, you know that
doesn't want to accept like the newest thing, But I
just don't think like in twenty years, you're going to
have a party and people are going to, you know,
pull out the the oldies but goodies and they're going
to be playing Sean did Combs or any of these rappers.
(12:03):
You know, the music that we had in the fifties,
in the sixties, in the seventies, in the eighties. I mean,
this was real music. I don't even know what this is.
And what is it about these rappers that are trying
to kill each other. They're involved with all kinds of
you know, drug you know, trafficking, and this guy is
(12:24):
accused of sex trafficking on top of drugs and everything else.
I don't get it. And I don't know how these
people get to be quote unquote celebrities and get so rich,
and then they're always changing their names from you know,
these cute little names they have, like his name is
now Diddy instead of puff Daddy. I don't get it.
(12:49):
I don't get any of it. So, I mean, I
really don't, but this is fascinating. Charges were so serious.
Sean Diddy Combs is held with out bail by the Feds. Fascinating. Well,
it's official. I am starting my master's degree on November first,
and I'm really looking forward to this. I did finish
(13:13):
up all of the credits that I needed to be
able to move forward. I do have master's credits already,
But my educational history was kind of a little bit
you know, stop and start. I'll be honest with you.
It was just a very interesting and people ask me,
you know, what my education was. So here's the deal.
(13:35):
I went to college for two years in Springfield, Missouri,
and then I dropped out of college to go on
the road as a professional musician, which is where I
met my wife, to whom I was married for thirty
six years. Now I'm divorced, not my choice, her choice.
And I was working in finance starting in nineteen eighty six,
(14:01):
eighty seven, I started working as a financial advisor with
just the two years of college. Well then came along
the College for Financial Planning, which is an accredited, regionally
accredited school based in Denver, Colorado. Well, they had a
program back in the day that you could skip getting
(14:21):
a bachelor's degree and go on to get the CFP,
which is a master's level. It's fifteen credits of master's level.
So you could skip your bachelor's and go on to
the CFP if you had five years of experience in
the you know, practicing as a financial advisor. So I
(14:43):
used my experience to substitute for finishing the bachelor's and
then I went on to get the CFP and graduated
from the College for Financial Planning, So I never it
was weird because I never had like an official bachelor's
but then I had these master's credits, so like, how
does that work? Right? So I ended up two and
(15:07):
a half years ago, I went back to college to
evangel University, and I finished my bachelor's degree. So I
officially finished all my classes a little over a year ago. However,
I had to take a couple of final exams related
to some classes I was skipping through KLEP, and I
(15:28):
didn't take those exams right away because the divorce was
going on. So what I did was I made it
a priority going into the summer this year to get
those exams knocked out. So I did, and my degree
was conferred on about a month ago from evangel University.
And then I enrolled into Western Governor's University and I'm
(15:51):
now accepted to start a master's degree on November first.
And what my plan is, if I get three more
master's credits in finance in addition to this master's degree
that I'm getting from Western Governor's University, I'll be able
to teach finance at the college level. I've always thought
(16:14):
that was a great gig to have, Like you're a
college professor. You've got that great like base salary and
benefits and all that, and then you can, on the
side do all your entrepreneurial things. You can have a
podcast and write books and do this and do that.
So yeah, so that's kind of, you know, my goal,
(16:34):
like going into my older years. I'll be sixty in January,
so I'm looking forward to knocking out this master's degree.
And Western Governor's University is a pretty innovative college. Fully accredited,
but you get to complete the classes at your own pace,
and you get to skip classes where you're able to
(16:56):
do a proficiency exam at the beginning of each course,
and then you can skip the class if you have
already proven that you know the material, which that's pretty neat, right.
So I think I've got to complete eleven classes and
I'm really excited about this. I wrote an article about
Western Governor's University a couple of years ago that's still
(17:18):
on my blog over at blog dot Christianmoney dot com.
So that's going to be happening here in about six weeks.
So looking forward to that. All right, So we had
the second assassination attempt on Trump. And for those that
don't know, you know, I live in Florida, So I've
been down to Palm Beach, in West Palm Beach where
(17:39):
that golf course is, which is actually people get confused.
They think that mar A Lago is right next to
that golf course. It is not. Mar A Lago is
in Palm Beach, and you have to go over a
bridge and actually come onto like what we call the
mainland to West Palm Beach. That's where the Trump golf courses.
(18:01):
So it's not right connected to mar A Lago. But
all that being said, it is a big golf course
and there is a road right next to it which
is well known to be the road where photographers will
set up and peek through those trees to be able
(18:21):
to get pictures of famous people, including Trump. So it
would make sense that that would be where a shooter
would go. That is like the spot to be if
you want to get a great picture or you want
to get a shot off. I mean. But it's fascinating
that the Secret Service has admitted that they did not
(18:42):
search the golf course before Trump went out on the
golf course, which I think is crazy. And they also
did not have anybody on that road patrolling either. And
it's really hard for me. As much as I lean
towards like some of these conspiracies, I have a hard
time really bringing myself to think that they would allow
(19:07):
for security to be less as a window of opportunity
to get rid of Trump. It's so hard for me
to believe that. But I'm starting to move towards that
because none of this is making any sense. And when
you look at what happened today, we got a story
(19:28):
in today. This is from the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt
on Trump. So what we had for a few weeks
between the police there and the Secret Service, the Secret
Service came out right away and said, oh, we're not
going to blame the police. They did a good job,
and they were all trying to like stay friendly and
(19:48):
not point the finger at each other. And that is
kind of over because today we've got this news in
that the Secret Service. This is according to the law
enforcement people there in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Secret Service assured
the law enforcement there that they would take care of
the building that Thomas Crooks shot Trump from They the
(20:12):
police there were concerned about that building, which they should
have been. Anybody would see that as an obvious sniper's perch.
But apparently the Secret Service said, Eh, don't worry about it.
We got it, and they didn't have it. And so
just the more that comes out, it just it's super curious,
(20:36):
it really is. And a senator, Senator Tuberville, who I'm
not familiar with, he made a great suggestion, this was
in the news yesterday, that Navy seals should now be
protecting Trump. Why not let these guys keep their beards
and you know, let them be the Navy seals. You know,
(20:56):
let them walk around with their big guns and their
army fatigue and you know, these guys who they are.
They don't have to dress up with suits on and
all that. Let's put the Navy seals around Trump. I
love that idea. I would absolutely love that. And then
you know, for sure you have true patriots not accusing
the Secret Service of anything. But you know what that
(21:19):
whole club of Washington and all the insiders. You know,
you live in Washington, d C. You're kind of like
in that bubble and you're part of that culture. And
I don't necessarily want to use the phrase deep state
or anything like that, but you know, the Navy Seals,
those are like super patriots, incredibly talented guys and gals
at what they do. Being able to, you know, protect
(21:42):
the president would be a different assignment.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But I like it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I love the idea Hillary Clinton is back in the news.
Hillary wants Americans spreading so called Trump propaganda to be
criminally charged. Not going to happen. People are really upset
about Twitter now called X of course that Elon Musk purchased.
(22:09):
People are so upset that anyone can go on to
Twitter and share their opinion. And it's interesting because the
so called threat of you know, violent language or language
that would incite this or that. Look at these two
(22:30):
assassination attempts against Trump, and look at the language that
has been used about Trump for the last several months.
Even after the first assassination attempt, they continued to talk
this way, talking about him as a national threat in
Hitler and a threat to democracy. These are all dog
whistles for people to commit violence. And we even have
(22:55):
a clip that I saw on Facebook what was it yesterday?
Kamala Harris talking about being in an elevator with Trump
and does he have to come out alive or not?
Ha ha ha. And this was, of course before the
first assassination attempt. It was well, she was on TV
with that character, Ellen DeGeneres and was making that joke.
(23:20):
But you just don't joke about things like that. And
it's the left that is accusing Conservatives of inciting this
and inciting that, and look at them, and look at
where the violence is targeted towards. It's targeted towards Trump.
It's not targeted towards the Democrats. It's targeted towards Trump.
So it's interesting just to continue to see this. You know,
(23:44):
Hillary Clinton wants people to be criminally charged for spreading
Trump propaganda. Just crazy. So Costco has this idea, and
I don't know if this is a one off or
if they're planning to roll this out in other cities.
In South Los Angeles, which is a rough neighborhood if
you've never been to Los Angeles, South LA is getting
(24:07):
a new Costcoast store and it's not just going to
be a Costco store, but on the upper levels. So
you got the first floor which is Costco and then
this is a high rise it's going to have eight
hundred apartment units, many of which will be made available
to people who have low income. So I don't know.
(24:32):
I've kind of got mixed feelings about it. I grew
up in Chicago. These low income buildings were the places
that we were not allowed to go. Even my father,
who was an adult, would not drive in that area
of the city where these low income housing complexes were,
the most famous of which would be Cabrini Green in
(24:55):
Chicago off a Lasal These It's well meaning. I get it.
It's well meaning, but I'm just not so sure that
the idea of mixing a cost co with eight hundred apartments,
many of which that'll be targeted for low income. And
it's not that we you know, the single mom who
(25:16):
doesn't have enough money for a place and maybe has
two or three kids. Those are the people that you
have a special place in your heart for. But it's
not just that. It's a lot of these complexes are
people with criminal records. These are bad people in a
lot of cases that fill up these low income complexes.
(25:37):
I just don't know. It might it might turn out
to be a winning social experiment. I don't know how
Costco got into this arrangement. It might just be that
that was where they wanted to put a costco and
it was already a building there and they had to
take it over, and the city said, we'll give you
(25:58):
the ability to have the cost go if you'll do
something with the upper floors. I don't know the backstory,
but I do think it's interesting and we'll have to
watch that to see what happens. Amazon employees are irate
after the CEO announces a mandatory return to the office policy.
(26:19):
One Amazon employee who was interviewed in this article says,
they're going to quote, take their money and leave. And
this is happening with more and more companies forcing people
to come back into the office. There was this idea
that remote work was here to stay, and a lot
(26:41):
of people love remote work. I'm a remote loan officer.
I don't go into an office, but then again, I
don't get paid unless I have a closing, so I'm
in a little bit of a different situation. But I
think a lot of businesses are starting to find that
there is not the auductivity that they have had historically
(27:04):
with people working remotely. You know, people that are on
these really nice salaries and all that. You know, they've
got the dog in the background and their kids when
they're on zoom are running around in the background, and
the businesses are not seeing the value. Add I get
it the employees seeing it. The employees like I can
(27:25):
work from home. I get up in the morning, walk
across the house to my office, and now I'm at work.
I get why that's great for the employee. I'm not
so sure that that's great for the employer. And we'll
just have to see how this goes. I mean, it's
obviously up for negotiations, right, so if you don't like
(27:46):
working in an office, you'll just put your resume out
and look for a remote job, and eventually the free
market will settle this one way or the other. I
get it why employees love it, but I also see
the employer side of it, like, I'm not so sure.
Even in cases where I've heard where employers have said
(28:08):
let's return to the office, like two days a week,
there's been a mutiny, like that's even too much to
ask to have people come in on a Tuesday and
a Thursday. But the free market will settle this because
people that don't want to report to an office will
just leave and they will have to go out and
find a remote job. And it just looks like there's
going to be less and less remote jobs. So ABC
(28:32):
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