April 28, 2025 • 36 mins
In this dynamic episode, we unpack Attorney General Pam Bondi’s scathing statement on the arrest of two radical judges, the surprising move by James River Church cutting ties with the Assemblies of God, and the controversy at a Kansas City YMCA. Plus, I share a personal update on law school exam results, tackle the truth about depression and setting ambitious goals, and reveal exciting growth at Real Pics. I also dive into my self-publishing journey and why podcasting remains one of the most powerful, untapped marketing tools today.
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All right, hello everybody, and welcome to the broadcast. Jim
Paris here with you, and a lot is going on.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So I am.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm gonna apologize because I know I've got some great
fans of the podcast that want me to get back
on the horse and do these at least once a week,
and man, I've been trying. But there's so much going
on in my personal life and I want to get
into that a little bit later into the broadcast. But
let's start out with some news here, things that I
find really interesting that are happening in the news, and
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this story, to me is the most interesting story I've
seen in the last week or two, which is the
arrest of these two so called radical judges, and Pam
Bondi issues this statement saying that quote, no one is
above the law end quote. And then these two judges
are arrested. And if you look into this story, what
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you'll see is kind of the backstory on this is
two judges that out and out blocked the arrest of
illegal aliens by ice. And these, you know, these situations
are happening more and more often where someone is taken
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into custody because they're here illegally, and then the local government.
Now in this case, judges are not cooperating with immigration
law enforcement and so they're actually arresting judges. I think
this is pretty incredible. I am fascinated to see, you know,
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kind of how this all works out. But a judge
is just like everybody else, so even though that individual
may have been in their courtroom to face other charges.
And that's the weird thing about this. These are people
I get kind of the postcard or you know, perfect
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scenario type of you know, the Hallmark card where it
is like a mother and father with three beautiful kids.
They've been here for ten years and they've never broken
a law and they just never immigrated legally. Man, my
heart kind of breaks for that kind of story. But
then these other stories where someone is in custody for
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committing a crime and they can't they're being protected. They
won't even turn over individuals that are violating the law here.
And I just don't get it, because, I mean, anywhere
you go in the world, there are immigration laws, and
then to make kind of another to add another layer
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to it, if you are in another country and you're
breaking their laws while you're living there, your odds of
being able to stay there are pretty much zero if
you're not legally there and you're also breaking laws. But
for some reason there is and I hate to be
a conspiracy theorist, but the only reason I can think
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of that makes any sense is the idea that liberals
and Democrats have that if we were to, you know,
I guess, open the floodgates and somehow the individuals that
are here illegally could gain enough of a status to
be able to vote, that would help liberals politically. And
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maybe that's the only answer that makes any sense. You know,
what's that idea that it's usually the most simple answer
is the answer when you're trying to figure something out
and that just may be the only answer. But I
find this fascinating. The arrest of two judges that will
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now face federal charges for interfering with the arrest of
two different cases illegal immigrants that were being assisted, you know,
by judges to basically get away from federal law enforcement.
And then this story James River Church, which I'm not
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personally familiar with. However, I am a graduate of evangel University,
which is an Assemblies of God church, you know, run school,
and I did go to that college. I was there
in person for two years, you know, back when I
was college age, and then I completed my degree online
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when I wasn't on campus. But James River Church has
announced it is exiting the Assemblies of God. And from
what I understand from people that live in Springfield, Missouri
and know of this church, it is like this massive,
massive megachurch. And we're hearing more and more about this
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churches becoming so called non denominational and just operating independently.
And I searched to see if there was any more
news about this. I couldn't find any additional news, like
with a reason why they were separating. But it is
interesting that evangel University had a degree track program and
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I think it was maybe a graduate level ministry training
that was sort of in cooperation with James River Church,
and there was kind of this connection, like the evangel
students could that were going into ministry could get training
an actual ministry at the nearby James River Church campus.
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So I don't know a lot about this, but we're
hearing more and more about churches leaving denominations, and in
this case, I don't know if it's simply hey, we're
James River Church, we're giant, we don't really need to
be part of the Assemblies of God. I don't know
if that's what it is, But we're seeing more and
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more of this, and I'm starting to wonder, is this
traditional idea of pastors becoming ordained by a denomination and
then churches becoming affiliated with the denomination and sort of
having this two layers of church government. You've got the
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church and then you've got overseeing the church, the denomination,
the headquarters, if you will. I don't know much about
like in this case, is there a cost for James
River Church to be associated with the Assemblies of God?
And maybe this saved money for them to disconnect. Did
they have a disagreement about theology. I don't know, But
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the Assemblies of God headquarters is in Springfield, Missouri, and
so with this church's connection with the university there and
all of that just seems like a pretty awkward thing
to have happened. And we'll probably get more news on
this soon. So in Kansas City, we had another occurrence
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of one of these, a naked man in the women's
locker room. This story involves a mother and a young
daughter who are in the women's locker room and see
a naked man and yes, he's still a man, has
all of his male parts according to the news story,
and he identifies as a woman, so he is physically
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a man, but he says, hey, I think I'm a woman.
And so this became a big controversy and the mother
and child saw the guy who says he's a woman
without his clothes on in the women's locker room. They
reported it to the YMCA. The YMCA there in Kansas
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City said, well, it's our policy that individuals can use
the locker room for which gender they identify. So even
though YMCA the Young Men's Christian Association is now doing
what Planet Fitness does and a lot of other health clubs.
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And this is a great question, honestly to ask if
your family is out looking to join a fitness center,
is what about these kind of situations? I don't know.
And again I don't know who these people are that
are okay with this. It seems like this extreme left
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wing element that is for this kind of thing, the
same group that is for women competing in men's sports.
I don't understand these people. I get it, we have
right wing, left wing, conservative liberal, but what is it?
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What is your I guess what branding are you going for?
If you're for a physically intact man to be naked
in front of a young girl and her mother in
the locker room, What in the world's going on here?
It just makes you wonder who these people are that
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would support this and how they can gain influence over
these large organizations, which the YMCA, which is supposedly a
Christian organization, to have this viewpoint. I just don't get it.
I really don't. All right, chat GPT. This is interesting
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to me because so many people today are against artificial intelligence.
They don't like the idea. Some even say the Antichrist
may use artificial intelligence. That could be true. My view
on AI has been it's just like the Internet. When
I started a website, I think it was a nineteen
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ninety nine, I was one of the first people out
there in the Christian community to have a website. I
then started teaching people how to build websites and have
Internet businesses, and I got a huge pushback from the
Christian community, probably all the way up to like two
thousand and five, two thousand and six, people saying, hey,
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the Internet is all pornography and gambling. That's all that
it is. We can't believe as a Christian you're going
to get into that cesspool. And I had always said, look,
it's a technology. The Internet is a technology. It can
be used for good, it can be used for bad.
And I say the same thing about artificial intelligence, and
in particular chat GPT, which I think is an amazing,
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amazing tool. I actually pay twenty bucks a month to
be part of the higher level of chat GPT, and
there's so many things you can do with it, it's
really amazing. I'll just give you a couple of quick
examples of things I use it for. So for the
first time ever on the last episode of the podcast,
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I just took my rough notes from the podcast, uploaded
it to chat GPT and said, write a headline and
a description for my podcast, which is what I have
to have when I put it into the different portals
and boom it did it in like five seconds, way
better than anything I could have ever come up with.
I also had a situation the other day where a
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client had emailed me two years of bank statements and
I had to because I'm a mortgage broker also I
do real estate and mortgages as many of you know,
so I had to calculate the total number the total
deposits over two years of their bank statements and then
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come up with the average of that. So that might
have taken me twenty or thirty minutes to do that,
but what I did was I uploaded twenty four bank
statements into chat GPT and I said, hey, total deposits
and the average monthly deposit, and in like I don't know,
twenty seconds, I had my figures. So there are things
like that that you can do. You can even ask
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it just everyday questions. And one of the things that
has changed in the last I think one year, maybe
eight or ten months, is that chat GPT is now
connected to real time information. And what that means is
you can ask chat GPT like, Hey, I'm looking to
do something this weekend. I want to go listen to
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some live jazz. Where can I go within fifty miles
of where I live? And it will actually give you
a list of what events are available. You can ask
it questions about the law, questions about science, questions about relationships.
Pretty neat, and I love it, and I'm an advocate
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of chat GPT. I love the technology and i'd i'd
like to learn more. In fact, I'm looking into what
other educational options might be available to learn so called
chat GPT prompting, which are the questions that you put
in to chat GPT to get the information. And there's
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a lot you can do with it. All right, So
what's going on with me? I net you at the beginning, like, hey,
there's so much going on. I haven't been able to
do a podcast every week like I wanted to. So
I took the law school admission test, which, by the way,
I want to talk about this for a couple of
minutes because this is a crazy test. Now, that the
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exam results are coming out on Wednesday morning at ten am.
And I took the test on April tenth, so about
three weeks is the waiting time from when you take
the test when you get the results. And so a
lot of people that I told I was taking the
law school exam, they thought it was like a question
about the law, like how much do you know about
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the law, and we're going to use that to determine
whether or not you get into law school. The test
actually has no questions on it about the law, which
kind of surprises most people. It is a crazy test,
which is two thirds based on what they call logical
reasoning and one third is based on reading comprehension. And
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they will give you like a crazy scenario. I'll just
make up a question like Mary goes to the grocery
store and there are fifteen different types of produce in
the produce section. However, when Mary leaves the produce section,
she actually has twenty items. So how can you explain
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her having twenty items when there were only fifteen different
items to choose from. Well, the answer is pretty simple, right,
she bought more than one of some of those items.
Those are the kinds of questions that they hit you
with so called logical reasoning, kind of like riddles, I guess,
and a little bit in a way. You remember those questions.
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You know, there were one hundred kids on the bus,
five of them got dropped off, then ten more got
picked up, blah blah blah blah, and who was the
bus driver? That kind of thing. That's what this is
all about. And I have to tell you it is
about huge money because if you get a high score
on the LSAT, you could literally end up somewhere like
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Harvard or Yale, one of these big law schools, and they,
you know, full ride you. They give you a full scholarship,
and some of these colleges will even pay for your
living expenses. So this is like a big thing. And
there's millions of dollars involved in like course preparation, so
people will go and take classes and seminars and get
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tutors on how to do better on the test. And
so one of the things I have concluded about a
lot of this is I think since you can't really
study for the information because there is no core information
to study for. It is not like a test where
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you're given like one hundred topics, and if you kind
of know what you're going in to the test with,
know those topics, you can do well on the test.
It's not like that at all. So you're more or
less preparing your mind to be able to address these
kinds of questions. And how you do that is by
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simply taking a bunch of pretests where you're going through
these kinds of questions logical reasoning and reading comprehension, those
are the two categories. And then you just look at
how you did, look at the ones you missed, and
you try to figure out like, Okay, how did they
trick me on these ones that I missed? And by
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doing that, some people claim you can bump your score
up by maybe ten or twenty percent. And what's interesting
about the LSAT is you can actually take it up
to five times and then they just go with your
highest score. So I find that also interesting. I met
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a young lady on the elevator coming out of the
test and I asked her, Hey, so how do you
think you did? And she said, I'm not sure how
I think I did. I said the same thing, I'm
not sure how I think I did, and she said
she had taken it like a year ago and gotten
a really bad score. So she had hired a tutor
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for twelve hundred bucks who has some kind of an
online course and one on one help, and she thinks
she probably did better this time. But this is a
big thing, the ls say to the law school admission test,
and I don't know if I'm going to law school
or not. I still am not sure. I applied for
two law schools here in Orlando that would start in
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the fall, but I'm still kind of on the bubble
a little bit like I'm sixty years old. Am I
too old to do this? Part of me is super
excited about the challenge, and part of me is like, ah,
maybe I don't need this kind of a headache for
the next I guess if you go in the summers,
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you can finish in two and a half years. I
think it'd be really cool to be a lawyer. I
always wanted to be a lawyer. So we'll see how
I do on the test, and if I do well enough,
maybe there'll be some financial incentives for me to be
able to go to school. So I wanted to talk
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about why am I doing all these big things? Why
am I setting all these big goals like law school,
and I just finished my master's degree. As a lot
of you know, I'll be honest with you, and I've
always been honest with you. On this broadcast, I really
struggle with depression. I was married for thirty six years
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and my wife divorced me. Nothing really happened. I wish
I could tell you there was like an event, but
she just decided after thirty six years, I just don't
want to be married to you anymore, and she divorced me.
And so because of the divorce, it became acrimonious, and
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now my three adult kids don't talk to me because
I fought, you know, for my half of the stuff,
the money and everything, and they didn't like that. They
thought I should kind of go along with the program
and settle and let my acts have most of the assets,
which I didn't feel like was fair, and so I
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didn't file the divorce. So I fought, and now I
have really no relationship with my three adult kids and
lost my marriage of thirty six years. And then I
made another mistake, which was a couple of years after
my wife left, I reunited with my high school girlfriend.
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We had such a great time together and she wanted
to marry me, and so I married her, and that
marriage lasted a month, and she didn't want to be
married to me anymore, and so she wanted to get
an annulment, which we did. So my life has been
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just in shambles really since the thirty six year marriage
ended and then this other short marriage ended, which, by
the way, you know, I get it. A lot of
you are going to judge me and say, well, I
must be a terrible guy if two women divorced me,
I guess, so, I don't know. I know that with
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my one month marriage, which became an annulment, it was
really more about she didn't want to move from Tennessee
and my business is here in Florida. There were things
like that that kind of caused division between us and
we couldn't figure out a way to make it work.
Just like logistically, I think was more than anything. But
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what I have found is one of the ways to
address depression. One of the ways to beat depression is
to have these big things going on. And maybe I'm
using these things as drugs, I will concede maybe that's true.
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But as long as these are really positive things like
going back to school, getting my master's degree, studying for
a few weeks, paying the money to take the LSA team.
Maybe I'll get in to law school. I think that
when you can make the shift from focusing on the
past and the things that are bringing you down, when
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you can make the shift to focusing on the future
and setting up some really exciting things for your future,
I think that's when you turn the corner on depression.
And for me, it has worked. And I posted this
on Facebook the other day. I said, you know, if
you set goals that are bigger than your problems, if
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you set goals bigger than your problems, then you're going
to be able to beat depression. That's that's an answer
to depression. And it's something that we don't talk a
lot about. We don't talk a lot about it. If
somebody had a broken arm, you would say, go to
the doctor, go to a surgeon. But someone that has
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a mental health issue, we kind of just say in
the church, hey, snap out of it, you know, snap
out of it. When you lose your wife of thirty
six years and you lose your three adult kids, that's
a lot to deal with. It's a lot to process.
And my life has just been bumpy. I presently have
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relocated from the coast over to Orlando. My mother, who
is eighty one, lives by yourself. She has a huge
four bedroom, a huge four bedroom home. Three bedrooms are upstairs.
She can't come up the stairs, So I've got three
bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. And I moved here to
Orlando to help my mom get to her medical appointments,
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make her meals, help her to take care of her house.
And so that's why I'm in Orlando right now. And
it's really been helping me because I'll tell you another
thing that is really debilitating if you suffer from depression,
it is living by yourself. And there was a period
of time where I kind of liked living by myself.
It was a nice, kind of peaceful life just to
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be by myself. But man, if you want to let
Satan get control of your mind, get isolated and don't
be around other people very much, and watch how quickly
you can start to go down mentally. And so being here,
I had get an opportunity to be with my mom
every day and also an opportunity to see other family
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in the area. And I'm just really thoroughly enjoying Orlando.
I love this area for different reasons than I loved
living by the coast. I love I've got an annual
ticket to Disney. I can go down to Disney and
whenever I want. There's a lot of big city things here,
a lot of great restaurants, venues for music, venues for
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live theater, a lot of like just interesting small towns
and coffee shops and things that I'm exploring here in Orlando.
So that's kind of the latest that's gone going on
with me. And I'll leave you before we shift gears
here and go on with this quote, which I posted
on Facebook yesterday. A ton of people like this. Some
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people will pretend you are a bad person so they
don't feel guilty about what they have done to you.
And this is one of the tricks of narcissists when
they divorce you or try to destroy you, they have
to be the victim. So I'm being totally honest with you.
I still, to this day do not understand why my
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thirty six year marriage ended, but I do know that
all of our joint friends that we had are no
longer my friends. They never asked me what happened. They
didn't want to. I guess know my perspective on it,
or my side of the story, if you will. So
I lost a lot of my friends. I no longer
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in that church anymore. But this is what happens, and
the church is more and more just embracing and loving divorce.
I'm just being honest with you. It's and you can
use pretty much any reason anymore to be divorced. Just
you know what. I don't like the guy and I
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don't feel good about him, and he's not a good husband.
So I'm getting divorced. And I saw something on my
Facebook last week. I think it was on Thursday. One
of my Facebook friends posted this huge thing and it
said it is official exclamation point, and hundreds of people
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liked it and commented, et cetera. Well, I knew what
that was about, but not everybody understood a lot of
people posted like, hey, what what is official? Well, I
happen to know of this lady, and I do know
that she filed for divorce. They were married thirty years
and she filed for divorce, and the divorce got finalized
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last week, and she was celebrating it on Facebook, and
all these Christian people were putting hearts and likes and congratulations. Now,
I don't know the whole story of the divorce, but
there was a time when someone got divorced where they
were ashamed of it. And there was also a time
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when we didn't celebrate it, when we didn't go uh
and click heart, hear heart on their on their Facebook page.
But that's it's just kind of a different world that
we live in when it comes to divorce. And I'm
not saying there's never grounds for divorce, because I know
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there is. I know, you know, if someone is sexually unfaithful,
if you have someone who is, you know, physically abusing someone,
someone who is you know, involved in drugs or an
illegal lifestyle, there's probably a lot of good, you know
list we can make up. But it really doesn't seem
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like we need much of a reason anymore for people
to get divorced. The idea of marriage for life, I
don't think that exists anymore. I think that idea kind
of died out maybe ten or twenty years ago. I
think marriage is for most people, including in the church,
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is kind of like going steady. You are not committed
for life. And I'm sorry that I have concluded that,
but that has just honestly been my experience. All right.
So you know, I have this course called real Picks,
and you can get there and watch twelve free videos
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might be I'm sorry, gave you the wrong url. It's
reelpicks dot Us, reelpicks dot Us, not reelpicks dot com.
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Reelpicks dot us. You can go there, watch the twelve
videos and see if this is for you. It is
a great side gig. A lot of people ask me
about driving for Uber, what do I think about that?
Or driving for Lyft or five or or some of
these different freelance sites. You know, what are some of
the great side gigs, And reelpicks dot Us is really
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one of the I don't think anybody knows about it,
because I mean everybody I tell about it has never
heard about it. And I've got this setup where you
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paid anywhere from twenty to fifty bucks for each assignment.
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Each assignment where you go out and you take these pictures.
Some of the assignments take as little as five minutes
and you get twenty bucks. Some of them take a
little bit longer and you can get paid up to
fifty dollars. In fact, one time I was hired to
do five houses on the same street and each paid
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fifty bucks, So I got two hundred and fifty dollars
and I think it took me about an hour to
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All right, I want to close it out on this
episode by talking about podcasting, and I want to talk
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about two things about podcasting. One is having your own podcast,
but the other is considering being a guest on other
people's podcasts. If you notice this last political cycle, this
last presidential election, you had the can dates actually going
out and guesting on podcasts. Now, I think that happened
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a little bit the last presidential cycle to two ago,
but it happened a lot this time. So I'm seeing
a lot more online about these different agencies where you
can hire people to represent you, to get you booked
as a guest on podcasts, and of course there's nothing
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to stop you from getting an you know, sending an
email to any podcast that you love where you think
your information might be interesting for the podcast, to get
a bunch of exposure for your business, for you know,
maybe your own self published book, or your online course,
or just to share your own testimony or your life story.
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And then on creating a podcast. I have a course
on how to do it, and I think it's just
forty bucks. If you're interested in creating your own podcast.
It is a truly amazing way to reach a worldwide audience.
I can tell you when I log in to look
at my podcast statistics, I have thousands upon thousands, tens
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of thousands that listen to this podcast every month all
over the world. I can see. I mean there's people
in Japan, in Russia, all throughout Europe, you know, not
to mention throughout the United States that listen to this podcast.
And the actual out of pocket cost for me to
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do my podcast per month, the actual cost is about
thirty five bucks. But do you know that I get
paid to do the podcast. How do I get paid? Well,
I have an account at spreaker s p r e
a k e rspreaker dot com and I'm able to
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earn money from the ads that they put on my show.
So there's that, and that is well more than I pay.
So you get paid, and then you know, obviously I
make a tremendous amount of money from people who listen
and go buy my books that I talk about. Go
to Amazon, type in my name James L. Paris see
all my books and other things that I market, including
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one other thing I'll mentioned quickly is my self publishing course,
which is also available and you can email me on that.
But in my self publishing course, one of the things
I get into is having been published by five different
traditional publishers. I share with you why I now only
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self publish. So I'm not self publishing because I couldn't
get a deal with a publisher, because I've had those deals.
I'm choosing to self publish because it's simply, you know,
more control, more money, ability to get a book out
more quickly. There's just a lot of great reasons why
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self publishing makes more sense today than going with a
traditional publisher. All right, so kind of a crazy podcast, right,
We went from A to Z on a lot of
different subjects. I hope you enjoyed it. I always love
to hear from you, so feel free to send me
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So I am.
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I'm gonna apologize because I know I've got some great
fans of the podcast that want me to get back
on the horse and do these at least once a week,
and man, I've been trying. But there's so much going
on in my personal life and I want to get
into that a little bit later into the broadcast. But
let's start out with some news here, things that I
find really interesting that are happening in the news, and
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this story, to me is the most interesting story I've
seen in the last week or two, which is the
arrest of these two so called radical judges, and Pam
Bondi issues this statement saying that quote, no one is
above the law end quote. And then these two judges
are arrested. And if you look into this story, what
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you'll see is kind of the backstory on this is
two judges that out and out blocked the arrest of
illegal aliens by ice. And these, you know, these situations
are happening more and more often where someone is taken
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into custody because they're here illegally, and then the local government.
Now in this case, judges are not cooperating with immigration
law enforcement and so they're actually arresting judges. I think
this is pretty incredible. I am fascinated to see, you know,
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kind of how this all works out. But a judge
is just like everybody else, so even though that individual
may have been in their courtroom to face other charges.
And that's the weird thing about this. These are people
I get kind of the postcard or you know, perfect
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scenario type of you know, the Hallmark card where it
is like a mother and father with three beautiful kids.
They've been here for ten years and they've never broken
a law and they just never immigrated legally. Man, my
heart kind of breaks for that kind of story. But
then these other stories where someone is in custody for
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committing a crime and they can't they're being protected. They
won't even turn over individuals that are violating the law here.
And I just don't get it, because, I mean, anywhere
you go in the world, there are immigration laws, and
then to make kind of another to add another layer
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to it, if you are in another country and you're
breaking their laws while you're living there, your odds of
being able to stay there are pretty much zero if
you're not legally there and you're also breaking laws. But
for some reason there is and I hate to be
a conspiracy theorist, but the only reason I can think
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of that makes any sense is the idea that liberals
and Democrats have that if we were to, you know,
I guess, open the floodgates and somehow the individuals that
are here illegally could gain enough of a status to
be able to vote, that would help liberals politically. And
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maybe that's the only answer that makes any sense. You know,
what's that idea that it's usually the most simple answer
is the answer when you're trying to figure something out
and that just may be the only answer. But I
find this fascinating. The arrest of two judges that will
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now face federal charges for interfering with the arrest of
two different cases illegal immigrants that were being assisted, you know,
by judges to basically get away from federal law enforcement.
And then this story James River Church, which I'm not
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personally familiar with. However, I am a graduate of evangel University,
which is an Assemblies of God church, you know, run school,
and I did go to that college. I was there
in person for two years, you know, back when I
was college age, and then I completed my degree online
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when I wasn't on campus. But James River Church has
announced it is exiting the Assemblies of God. And from
what I understand from people that live in Springfield, Missouri
and know of this church, it is like this massive,
massive megachurch. And we're hearing more and more about this
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churches becoming so called non denominational and just operating independently.
And I searched to see if there was any more
news about this. I couldn't find any additional news, like
with a reason why they were separating. But it is
interesting that evangel University had a degree track program and
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I think it was maybe a graduate level ministry training
that was sort of in cooperation with James River Church,
and there was kind of this connection, like the evangel
students could that were going into ministry could get training
an actual ministry at the nearby James River Church campus.
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So I don't know a lot about this, but we're
hearing more and more about churches leaving denominations, and in
this case, I don't know if it's simply hey, we're
James River Church, we're giant, we don't really need to
be part of the Assemblies of God. I don't know
if that's what it is, But we're seeing more and
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more of this, and I'm starting to wonder, is this
traditional idea of pastors becoming ordained by a denomination and
then churches becoming affiliated with the denomination and sort of
having this two layers of church government. You've got the
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church and then you've got overseeing the church, the denomination,
the headquarters, if you will. I don't know much about
like in this case, is there a cost for James
River Church to be associated with the Assemblies of God?
And maybe this saved money for them to disconnect. Did
they have a disagreement about theology. I don't know, But
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the Assemblies of God headquarters is in Springfield, Missouri, and
so with this church's connection with the university there and
all of that just seems like a pretty awkward thing
to have happened. And we'll probably get more news on
this soon. So in Kansas City, we had another occurrence
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of one of these, a naked man in the women's
locker room. This story involves a mother and a young
daughter who are in the women's locker room and see
a naked man and yes, he's still a man, has
all of his male parts according to the news story,
and he identifies as a woman, so he is physically
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a man, but he says, hey, I think I'm a woman.
And so this became a big controversy and the mother
and child saw the guy who says he's a woman
without his clothes on in the women's locker room. They
reported it to the YMCA. The YMCA there in Kansas
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City said, well, it's our policy that individuals can use
the locker room for which gender they identify. So even
though YMCA the Young Men's Christian Association is now doing
what Planet Fitness does and a lot of other health clubs.
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And this is a great question, honestly to ask if
your family is out looking to join a fitness center,
is what about these kind of situations? I don't know.
And again I don't know who these people are that
are okay with this. It seems like this extreme left
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wing element that is for this kind of thing, the
same group that is for women competing in men's sports.
I don't understand these people. I get it, we have
right wing, left wing, conservative liberal, but what is it?
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What is your I guess what branding are you going for?
If you're for a physically intact man to be naked
in front of a young girl and her mother in
the locker room, What in the world's going on here?
It just makes you wonder who these people are that
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would support this and how they can gain influence over
these large organizations, which the YMCA, which is supposedly a
Christian organization, to have this viewpoint. I just don't get it.
I really don't. All right, chat GPT. This is interesting
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to me because so many people today are against artificial intelligence.
They don't like the idea. Some even say the Antichrist
may use artificial intelligence. That could be true. My view
on AI has been it's just like the Internet. When
I started a website, I think it was a nineteen
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ninety nine, I was one of the first people out
there in the Christian community to have a website. I
then started teaching people how to build websites and have
Internet businesses, and I got a huge pushback from the
Christian community, probably all the way up to like two
thousand and five, two thousand and six, people saying, hey,
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the Internet is all pornography and gambling. That's all that
it is. We can't believe as a Christian you're going
to get into that cesspool. And I had always said, look,
it's a technology. The Internet is a technology. It can
be used for good, it can be used for bad.
And I say the same thing about artificial intelligence, and
in particular chat GPT, which I think is an amazing,
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amazing tool. I actually pay twenty bucks a month to
be part of the higher level of chat GPT, and
there's so many things you can do with it, it's
really amazing. I'll just give you a couple of quick
examples of things I use it for. So for the
first time ever on the last episode of the podcast,
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I just took my rough notes from the podcast, uploaded
it to chat GPT and said, write a headline and
a description for my podcast, which is what I have
to have when I put it into the different portals
and boom it did it in like five seconds, way
better than anything I could have ever come up with.
I also had a situation the other day where a
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client had emailed me two years of bank statements and
I had to because I'm a mortgage broker also I
do real estate and mortgages as many of you know,
so I had to calculate the total number the total
deposits over two years of their bank statements and then
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come up with the average of that. So that might
have taken me twenty or thirty minutes to do that,
but what I did was I uploaded twenty four bank
statements into chat GPT and I said, hey, total deposits
and the average monthly deposit, and in like I don't know,
twenty seconds, I had my figures. So there are things
like that that you can do. You can even ask
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it just everyday questions. And one of the things that
has changed in the last I think one year, maybe
eight or ten months, is that chat GPT is now
connected to real time information. And what that means is
you can ask chat GPT like, Hey, I'm looking to
do something this weekend. I want to go listen to
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some live jazz. Where can I go within fifty miles
of where I live? And it will actually give you
a list of what events are available. You can ask
it questions about the law, questions about science, questions about relationships.
Pretty neat, and I love it, and I'm an advocate
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of chat GPT. I love the technology and i'd i'd
like to learn more. In fact, I'm looking into what
other educational options might be available to learn so called
chat GPT prompting, which are the questions that you put
in to chat GPT to get the information. And there's
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a lot you can do with it. All right, So
what's going on with me? I net you at the beginning, like, hey,
there's so much going on. I haven't been able to
do a podcast every week like I wanted to. So
I took the law school admission test, which, by the way,
I want to talk about this for a couple of
minutes because this is a crazy test. Now, that the
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exam results are coming out on Wednesday morning at ten am.
And I took the test on April tenth, so about
three weeks is the waiting time from when you take
the test when you get the results. And so a
lot of people that I told I was taking the
law school exam, they thought it was like a question
about the law, like how much do you know about
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the law, and we're going to use that to determine
whether or not you get into law school. The test
actually has no questions on it about the law, which
kind of surprises most people. It is a crazy test,
which is two thirds based on what they call logical
reasoning and one third is based on reading comprehension. And
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they will give you like a crazy scenario. I'll just
make up a question like Mary goes to the grocery
store and there are fifteen different types of produce in
the produce section. However, when Mary leaves the produce section,
she actually has twenty items. So how can you explain
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her having twenty items when there were only fifteen different
items to choose from. Well, the answer is pretty simple, right,
she bought more than one of some of those items.
Those are the kinds of questions that they hit you
with so called logical reasoning, kind of like riddles, I guess,
and a little bit in a way. You remember those questions.
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You know, there were one hundred kids on the bus,
five of them got dropped off, then ten more got
picked up, blah blah blah blah, and who was the
bus driver? That kind of thing. That's what this is
all about. And I have to tell you it is
about huge money because if you get a high score
on the LSAT, you could literally end up somewhere like
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Harvard or Yale, one of these big law schools, and they,
you know, full ride you. They give you a full scholarship,
and some of these colleges will even pay for your
living expenses. So this is like a big thing. And
there's millions of dollars involved in like course preparation, so
people will go and take classes and seminars and get
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tutors on how to do better on the test. And
so one of the things I have concluded about a
lot of this is I think since you can't really
study for the information because there is no core information
to study for. It is not like a test where
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you're given like one hundred topics, and if you kind
of know what you're going in to the test with,
know those topics, you can do well on the test.
It's not like that at all. So you're more or
less preparing your mind to be able to address these
kinds of questions. And how you do that is by
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simply taking a bunch of pretests where you're going through
these kinds of questions logical reasoning and reading comprehension, those
are the two categories. And then you just look at
how you did, look at the ones you missed, and
you try to figure out like, Okay, how did they
trick me on these ones that I missed? And by
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doing that, some people claim you can bump your score
up by maybe ten or twenty percent. And what's interesting
about the LSAT is you can actually take it up
to five times and then they just go with your
highest score. So I find that also interesting. I met
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a young lady on the elevator coming out of the
test and I asked her, Hey, so how do you
think you did? And she said, I'm not sure how
I think I did. I said the same thing, I'm
not sure how I think I did, and she said
she had taken it like a year ago and gotten
a really bad score. So she had hired a tutor
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for twelve hundred bucks who has some kind of an
online course and one on one help, and she thinks
she probably did better this time. But this is a
big thing, the ls say to the law school admission test,
and I don't know if I'm going to law school
or not. I still am not sure. I applied for
two law schools here in Orlando that would start in
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the fall, but I'm still kind of on the bubble
a little bit like I'm sixty years old. Am I
too old to do this? Part of me is super
excited about the challenge, and part of me is like, ah,
maybe I don't need this kind of a headache for
the next I guess if you go in the summers,
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you can finish in two and a half years. I
think it'd be really cool to be a lawyer. I
always wanted to be a lawyer. So we'll see how
I do on the test, and if I do well enough,
maybe there'll be some financial incentives for me to be
able to go to school. So I wanted to talk
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about why am I doing all these big things? Why
am I setting all these big goals like law school,
and I just finished my master's degree. As a lot
of you know, I'll be honest with you, and I've
always been honest with you. On this broadcast, I really
struggle with depression. I was married for thirty six years
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and my wife divorced me. Nothing really happened. I wish
I could tell you there was like an event, but
she just decided after thirty six years, I just don't
want to be married to you anymore, and she divorced me.
And so because of the divorce, it became acrimonious, and
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now my three adult kids don't talk to me because
I fought, you know, for my half of the stuff,
the money and everything, and they didn't like that. They
thought I should kind of go along with the program
and settle and let my acts have most of the assets,
which I didn't feel like was fair, and so I
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didn't file the divorce. So I fought, and now I
have really no relationship with my three adult kids and
lost my marriage of thirty six years. And then I
made another mistake, which was a couple of years after
my wife left, I reunited with my high school girlfriend.
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We had such a great time together and she wanted
to marry me, and so I married her, and that
marriage lasted a month, and she didn't want to be
married to me anymore, and so she wanted to get
an annulment, which we did. So my life has been
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just in shambles really since the thirty six year marriage
ended and then this other short marriage ended, which, by
the way, you know, I get it. A lot of
you are going to judge me and say, well, I
must be a terrible guy if two women divorced me,
I guess, so, I don't know. I know that with
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my one month marriage, which became an annulment, it was
really more about she didn't want to move from Tennessee
and my business is here in Florida. There were things
like that that kind of caused division between us and
we couldn't figure out a way to make it work.
Just like logistically, I think was more than anything. But
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what I have found is one of the ways to
address depression. One of the ways to beat depression is
to have these big things going on. And maybe I'm
using these things as drugs, I will concede maybe that's true.
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But as long as these are really positive things like
going back to school, getting my master's degree, studying for
a few weeks, paying the money to take the LSA team.
Maybe I'll get in to law school. I think that
when you can make the shift from focusing on the
past and the things that are bringing you down, when
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you can make the shift to focusing on the future
and setting up some really exciting things for your future,
I think that's when you turn the corner on depression.
And for me, it has worked. And I posted this
on Facebook the other day. I said, you know, if
you set goals that are bigger than your problems, if
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you set goals bigger than your problems, then you're going
to be able to beat depression. That's that's an answer
to depression. And it's something that we don't talk a
lot about. We don't talk a lot about it. If
somebody had a broken arm, you would say, go to
the doctor, go to a surgeon. But someone that has
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a mental health issue, we kind of just say in
the church, hey, snap out of it, you know, snap
out of it. When you lose your wife of thirty
six years and you lose your three adult kids, that's
a lot to deal with. It's a lot to process.
And my life has just been bumpy. I presently have
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relocated from the coast over to Orlando. My mother, who
is eighty one, lives by yourself. She has a huge
four bedroom, a huge four bedroom home. Three bedrooms are upstairs.
She can't come up the stairs, So I've got three
bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. And I moved here to
Orlando to help my mom get to her medical appointments,
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make her meals, help her to take care of her house.
And so that's why I'm in Orlando right now. And
it's really been helping me because I'll tell you another
thing that is really debilitating if you suffer from depression,
it is living by yourself. And there was a period
of time where I kind of liked living by myself.
It was a nice, kind of peaceful life just to
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be by myself. But man, if you want to let
Satan get control of your mind, get isolated and don't
be around other people very much, and watch how quickly
you can start to go down mentally. And so being here,
I had get an opportunity to be with my mom
every day and also an opportunity to see other family
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in the area. And I'm just really thoroughly enjoying Orlando.
I love this area for different reasons than I loved
living by the coast. I love I've got an annual
ticket to Disney. I can go down to Disney and
whenever I want. There's a lot of big city things here,
a lot of great restaurants, venues for music, venues for
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live theater, a lot of like just interesting small towns
and coffee shops and things that I'm exploring here in Orlando.
So that's kind of the latest that's gone going on
with me. And I'll leave you before we shift gears
here and go on with this quote, which I posted
on Facebook yesterday. A ton of people like this. Some
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people will pretend you are a bad person so they
don't feel guilty about what they have done to you.
And this is one of the tricks of narcissists when
they divorce you or try to destroy you, they have
to be the victim. So I'm being totally honest with you.
I still, to this day do not understand why my
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thirty six year marriage ended, but I do know that
all of our joint friends that we had are no
longer my friends. They never asked me what happened. They
didn't want to. I guess know my perspective on it,
or my side of the story, if you will. So
I lost a lot of my friends. I no longer
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in that church anymore. But this is what happens, and
the church is more and more just embracing and loving divorce.
I'm just being honest with you. It's and you can
use pretty much any reason anymore to be divorced. Just
you know what. I don't like the guy and I
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don't feel good about him, and he's not a good husband.
So I'm getting divorced. And I saw something on my
Facebook last week. I think it was on Thursday. One
of my Facebook friends posted this huge thing and it
said it is official exclamation point, and hundreds of people
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liked it and commented, et cetera. Well, I knew what
that was about, but not everybody understood a lot of
people posted like, hey, what what is official? Well, I
happen to know of this lady, and I do know
that she filed for divorce. They were married thirty years
and she filed for divorce, and the divorce got finalized
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last week, and she was celebrating it on Facebook, and
all these Christian people were putting hearts and likes and congratulations. Now,
I don't know the whole story of the divorce, but
there was a time when someone got divorced where they
were ashamed of it. And there was also a time
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when we didn't celebrate it, when we didn't go uh
and click heart, hear heart on their on their Facebook page.
But that's it's just kind of a different world that
we live in when it comes to divorce. And I'm
not saying there's never grounds for divorce, because I know
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there is. I know, you know, if someone is sexually unfaithful,
if you have someone who is, you know, physically abusing someone,
someone who is you know, involved in drugs or an
illegal lifestyle, there's probably a lot of good, you know
list we can make up. But it really doesn't seem
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like we need much of a reason anymore for people
to get divorced. The idea of marriage for life, I
don't think that exists anymore. I think that idea kind
of died out maybe ten or twenty years ago. I
think marriage is for most people, including in the church,
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is kind of like going steady. You are not committed
for life. And I'm sorry that I have concluded that,
but that has just honestly been my experience. All right.
So you know, I have this course called real Picks,
and you can get there and watch twelve free videos
(29:49):
by going to real r e A L. Picks p
I c s. Realpicks dot com. You can go there
and you can check it out and you can watch
the twelve free videos and you can see if this
might be I'm sorry, gave you the wrong url. It's
reelpicks dot Us, reelpicks dot Us, not reelpicks dot com.
(30:15):
Reelpicks dot us. You can go there, watch the twelve
videos and see if this is for you. It is
a great side gig. A lot of people ask me
about driving for Uber, what do I think about that?
Or driving for Lyft or five or or some of
these different freelance sites. You know, what are some of
the great side gigs, And reelpicks dot Us is really
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one of the I don't think anybody knows about it,
because I mean everybody I tell about it has never
heard about it. And I've got this setup where you
can watch the twelve videos and all you need is
a regular smartphone and you take pictures of real estate
for banks, mortgage companies and property managers, and you get
paid anywhere from twenty to fifty bucks for each assignment.
(31:00):
Each assignment where you go out and you take these pictures.
Some of the assignments take as little as five minutes
and you get twenty bucks. Some of them take a
little bit longer and you can get paid up to
fifty dollars. In fact, one time I was hired to
do five houses on the same street and each paid
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fifty bucks, So I got two hundred and fifty dollars
and I think it took me about an hour to
do all of those pictures. So it's a great thing
to take a look at realpicks dot usreelpicks dot us.
All right, I want to close it out on this
episode by talking about podcasting, and I want to talk
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about two things about podcasting. One is having your own podcast,
but the other is considering being a guest on other
people's podcasts. If you notice this last political cycle, this
last presidential election, you had the can dates actually going
out and guesting on podcasts. Now, I think that happened
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a little bit the last presidential cycle to two ago,
but it happened a lot this time. So I'm seeing
a lot more online about these different agencies where you
can hire people to represent you, to get you booked
as a guest on podcasts, and of course there's nothing
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to stop you from getting an you know, sending an
email to any podcast that you love where you think
your information might be interesting for the podcast, to get
a bunch of exposure for your business, for you know,
maybe your own self published book, or your online course,
or just to share your own testimony or your life story.
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And then on creating a podcast. I have a course
on how to do it, and I think it's just
forty bucks. If you're interested in creating your own podcast.
It is a truly amazing way to reach a worldwide audience.
I can tell you when I log in to look
at my podcast statistics, I have thousands upon thousands, tens
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of thousands that listen to this podcast every month all
over the world. I can see. I mean there's people
in Japan, in Russia, all throughout Europe, you know, not
to mention throughout the United States that listen to this podcast.
And the actual out of pocket cost for me to
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do my podcast per month, the actual cost is about
thirty five bucks. But do you know that I get
paid to do the podcast. How do I get paid? Well,
I have an account at spreaker s p r e
a k e rspreaker dot com and I'm able to
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earn money from the ads that they put on my show.
So there's that, and that is well more than I pay.
So you get paid, and then you know, obviously I
make a tremendous amount of money from people who listen
and go buy my books that I talk about. Go
to Amazon, type in my name James L. Paris see
all my books and other things that I market, including
(34:19):
one other thing I'll mentioned quickly is my self publishing course,
which is also available and you can email me on that.
But in my self publishing course, one of the things
I get into is having been published by five different
traditional publishers. I share with you why I now only
(34:41):
self publish. So I'm not self publishing because I couldn't
get a deal with a publisher, because I've had those deals.
I'm choosing to self publish because it's simply, you know,
more control, more money, ability to get a book out
more quickly. There's just a lot of great reasons why
(35:02):
self publishing makes more sense today than going with a
traditional publisher. All right, so kind of a crazy podcast, right,
We went from A to Z on a lot of
different subjects. I hope you enjoyed it. I always love
to hear from you, so feel free to send me
an email. This email goes right to my phone so
I see it in real time, and I'd love your feedback.
(35:25):
Maybe a question you'd like me to answer on the show,
or a topic you'd like me to address. Send that
email to James L. Paris at gmail dot com James
Elparis at gmail dot com. God bless you, thanks for joining.
We'll talk to you next time. Solong, everybody,
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