March 13, 2025 • 36 mins
On this episode Jim discusses Trump's new proposal that would exempt people earning under $150,000 from taxes, the increase in Ponzi schemes among local celebrities, how can anyone be opposed to DOGE, and why Jim has been on a hiatus from the show for four months.
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more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
All right, hello everybody, and welcome to the broadcast. Jim
Paris here. Yeah, it's really me and this is really
a new episode. And wow, so much has been going on.
I know that I have not done a new podcast
in several months, and I want to give everybody the update.
What's going on. I'm still alive, that's number one. I
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know a lot of you follow me on social media,
so you're getting some content from me in different ways.
I love doing those short videos. I've done a ton
of those over on Facebook and then also a little
bit over on TikTok. So what is going on? So
in November of last year. Actually November one, I started
a master's degree. And it's a program through a university
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that allows you to go at your own pace. So
although it's designed as like a year and a half program,
I was able to go more quickly and actually finish
it in four months. So that kind of explains my disappearance.
And some people have asked me, they said, how did
you finish that in just four months? And the answer is,
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I got up pretty much every morning, seven days a week,
around four thirty or five o'clock, and I just you know,
pounded it out, like put in like four or five
hours consistently every morning and knocked it out. And I
graduated right around the first of March. So I actually
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turned in my last assignment on February twenty eighth, so
I actually completed it in four months exactly. And I
got the word that, you know, my final assignment was
was good. And I graduated, you know, the first couple
of days into the new week, once we hit the
month of March. So it's all good. I'm excited, And
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why did I get a master's degree? So I have
really been looking at kind of the next twenty years
of my life, and I just turned sixty years old
in January, and I was thinking, what is it that
I want to do? And I always loved this kind
of business model, if you will, of teaching college and
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living out your final years kind of as a mentor
to younger people. And that's what I really thought, you know,
I really want that to kind of be the next
chapter of my life. I really want to teach in
some way at some level, even if it's just as
an adjunct professor somewhere, and you need a master's degree
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to be able to do that. So kind of all
cards are on the table, and with regards to that
kind of another exciting announcement in the world of academia
is that I have signed up to take the LSAT,
which is the law school exam, and I am contemplating
going to law school. And if I did get into
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law school, I would probably be starting in the fall.
And so there's two different options. There is a part
time option and a full time option. But I think
I could still continue to do the podcast during law
school because it would be at a more let's say,
traditional pace of college, which is how I would be
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going through law school as opposed to what I just
did with the master's degree, which is I took a
program that some people take two years to complete, although
it's I think officially designed to be an eighteen month program,
and I finished it in four months. So I think
I'd still be able to have plenty of time to
do the podcast if I did get into law school
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in the fall. So a lot is going on in
the news. One of the reasons I wanted to just
jump on here. So Trump has been in office. Can
you believe it for almost sixty days now. I guess
in a week it'll be sixty days that Trump has
been in office, and there's so much happening. Almost every
couple of hours there's some big bombshell announcement. What I
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love about Trump's ideas and his proposals is he's in
this term, he is really willing to kind of break
the mold and just come out with things that are
completely brilliant, things that are out of left field, Like
I love this idea of no tax on tips. And
then he came out with something today which I think
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is absolutely fantastic, the idea that Trump wants no taxes
for people that make less than one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year. I love this idea and can
you imagine how that would just how much that money
that would put into the economy. And honestly, you know,
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a lot of people have asked this, you know, if
you have an economy like the United States, where we
print our own currency, why do we even really need taxes?
I mean, in truth, why do we actually need to
go And to me, it's the process, even more than
the tax dollars, just the idea that we have to,
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you know, keep receipts and go to accountants and try
to figure out all of these things, and man's it's
just so complicated. And the truth is that you could
still collect a very very high percentage of the tax
dollars just by you know, in this case, even if
you just said if you make one fifty or more
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then you have to pay taxes, you wouldn't lose as
much as you think, because it's really the ultra rich,
the people making well above that they pay most of
the taxes anyway. So this would be a brilliant idea.
It would allow the government to really really thin down
the I R s and and really get the I
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R s more focused on you know, bigger dollars, which
is you know, going after auditing and investigating you know,
people that have the millions and the millions and the millions,
and not focusing on you know, the person that's a
school teacher or a janitor, or you know somebody that
works at your local Walmart. You know, the families that
are making you know, combined incomes of fifty one hundred thousand,
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even one hundred and fifty thousand. Let's leave those people alone.
Let him keep all their money. Can you imagine what
that would do to let people just keep all of
their money no more. When you get your paycheck and
it says, you know, your paycheck was three thousand or
four thousand, and you end up, you know, with seventy
percent of that amount, can you imagine just getting to
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keep your entire paycheck. That would be fantastic. All right,
There's a lot that I want to get into today.
One of the stories, which is really tragic on so
many levels, that I want to talk about is this
Texas pastor which a lot of you would know, the
name Robert Morris. So I believe this was in the
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last maybe year year and a half, where it came
out that there were sexual abuse allegations, and he sort
of described it as with a quote unquote young woman.
And then the allegations from the victim were that she
was as young as twelve years old when this started.
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And this became public and pretty much destroyed Robert Morris's
Texas church. A lot of people left, and it was
just a big scandal, not only for Robert Morris because
of this being in his history and being hidden, but
then also a lot of the board members and leadership
knew about it and didn't speak up and just sort
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of covered it up. So it's one of those cases
where the cover up was just as bad maybe as
what happened. I'm not sure that that applies in this
particular case of sexual abuse of a child, but the
cover up was certainly a very significant issue to a
lot of the people leaving the church. And so this
was all kept within the confines of a civil litigation,
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civil lawsuit, So it was all about her demanding a
certain amount of money, and then they were negotiating, and
it was all about a civil case, meaning no one's
going to jail. It's just all about money. You know,
how much money does he owe his victim and Apparently
over the years this has kind of percolated, and it
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finally came to the point that I guess they couldn't
agree on the figures, and so she came out with it,
she went public with it, and what I think surprised
a lot of people is that it was just announced
a five count criminal indictment in the state of Oklahoma
where this allegedly took place against pastor Robert Morris. So
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this is now transition from a civil case to a
criminal case. These are criminal charges, meaning he could go
to jail, possibly for the rest of his life if
convicted on even one of these counts involving sexual abuse
of a child. Again, these are just allegations. Hasn't gone
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to trial yet, but this is significant and it's also
a little bit of a lesson for people on the
law when it comes to child abuse cases, which in
a lot of states there are no statutes of limitations,
which means that the statute of limitation on a lot
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of things is just a handful of years. So that is,
if you commit a certain crime and they don't charge
you within that window of time five years, whatever the
statute of limitations might be for that particular crime, you
can never be prosecuted for it. That's how it works,
and there's a reason for that. Obviously in the legal
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system there has to be some degree of efficiency, so
that is and also fairness, you know, to charge people
for crimes that you know happened twenty years ago, thirty
years ago, but these crimes happened like over four years ago,
and he's going to be charged. He's charged for these
and that's because many, many states now are going to
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this statute of limitations where they're saying, when it comes
to something like child sexual abuse, we're not going to
have any statute of limitations. We're going to just say
this can be charged any time during your lifetime, similar
to murder and those kinds of charges. So murder there's
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no statute of limitations, so you can just be you know,
charged for the rest of your life. As far as
I know, that's the case in every single state. So
that means that Robert Morris, this well known megachurch pastor,
author of many books. You've seen him, no doubt on television,
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is going to have to face these criminal charges, which
means a criminal trial unless somehow, you know, he settles
and agrees to some kind of a punishment, you know,
compromise with prosecutors. Just rocking, rocking the evangelical world over
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the last twenty four hours. And then I posted this
on my Facebook. Gas inflation and prices are all falling,
and you know, it's it's great because this is what
Trump promised. And I know the price of eggs is crazy.
I just bought some eggs yesterday and we paid over
six dollars for a dozen eggs, which is really crazy
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because eggs are one of those kind of staples in
your household, right, I mean, you get get up in
the morning, you make you know, some eggs for breakfast,
and then if there's any baking going on, you put
some eggs in there, you know, to you know, most recipes.
So eggs are something eggs and milk, you know, kind
of like those staple items in the refrigerator. And the
idea that we're looking at a dozen eggs is six bucks.
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And I just bought like the regular grocery store, public's
brand eggs all for six dollars, and man, it's like, wow,
can I even afford to buy eggs anymore? It is crazy.
But other than eggs, it seems like the price on
everything's going down. In fact, I was so excited today
because I was standing outside of the Starbucks that I
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work at in the mornings. I don't actually make coffee
and work there. I just get a table and that's
where I like to go in the mornings to kind
of get my day going and do some of my
writing work and all of that. So I was standing
outside and there is a I think it's a circle
k that's right across the parking lot from this Starbucks,
and I was just standing there and all of a sudden,
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they changed the prices and it went the price of
gas per gallon went below three dollars. And I posted
on my Facebook a little bit earlier, I think was
last week, asking people what are you paying for gas
in your area? And I was just shocked at some
of the prices. A lot of parts of the country,
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it's like well below three dollars a gallon, and so
it's just great to see. And I've always felt like
the two areas, you know, food and gasoline, that's really
where it hits the average family, because you gotta eat
and you gotta buy gas for your car. And if
you live, you know, in a big city, where you're
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let's say, traveling half an hour to an hour each
way to work. I mean, it can be absolutely devastating
if gas prices, you know, are on the way up,
and they were through most of Biden's administration. I mean
I remember at one point, I think it was out
on the West coast, they had gas like well over
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five dollars a gallon, maybe even six dollars a gallon.
It's a it's really it's it's almost like a like
a tax, a super regressive tax on people when gas
and food price go up. So it is great to
see those prices coming down. And let me see here,
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I got I got a list here. Oh did you
get your free Frosty? That was the other big story.
What was that? Today's Thursday? So yeah, so yesterday they
had the big Frosty. This story I thought was interesting.
We're hearing more and more about Ponzi schemes, and it's
not necessarily like the super big ones that you hear
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so much about. But this is a Ponzi scheme involving
a former Atlanta Falcons football player. Let's see here if
it will come up. And these are smaller Ponzi schemes
and you're you're hearing more and more about these where
you know, somebody might you know, just for like two
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million or five million dollars, Like these are smaller amounts.
These are not like tens of billions like a madeoff level,
But you're hearing about a lot lot of these ponzi schemes.
They're smaller, but they're still wiping out families because you know,
especially if you take five million dollars, which was this
ponzi scheme with this NFL former at Atlanta Falcons linebacker.
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He was sentenced to prison for this ponzi scheme and
it was five million dollars. He was charged with defrauding
multiple victims out of more than five million dollars. And
what's interesting is a lot of times these prison sentences
are for these smaller ponzi schemes are are kind of
I don't know, they're kind of insignificant. The same thing
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that happens with embezzlement. Embezzlers are many times not subject
to very long prison sentences. It's saying here that he's
going to have to repay the money, and I'm not
sure if it's even telling us here how many years
he got in prison. Let me see. Yeah, they're not
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giving us a lot of details here about how long
he got in prison, but he does have restitution. But honestly,
if he doesn't have the money, they're not going to
get the money out of them. But the point being
is that you're seeing this more and more with what
I call like small to medium size celebrities. There was
one we talked about on the last podcast they did
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back in November. This was a beauty queen, not a
really big name that anybody probably you know. I'd never
heard of her, but I guess she was just famous
in her state, like as the miss I don't know
if it was Colorado, it was some western state. And
they use their their little bubble of fame to defraud people.
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And like I said, these are not like multi billion
dollar scams like Madeoff, but they are enough that it
really does hurt people. But we're hearing more and more
about these and some of these scams are just crazy.
The ones where I kind of have a little bit
more sympathy is if somebody, let's say, raises a couple
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million dollars and they actually invested like they said they would,
and then it doesn't work out, and then all of
a sudden they're facing like criminal charges. But they didn't
really actually take the money and do anything with it
for themselves. They didn't go out and buy cars and
houses and girlfriends. It just was sort of someone that
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maybe should not have been managing money and did a
poor job and more or less didn't dot the rise
and cross their t's as far as disclosing risk. Those
are cases where I tend to feel a little bit
more sympathy about the person and what happened. But in
a lot of these, you see, I listened to one
Dateline episode the other day where this couple, it was
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again a smaller one, it was just a few million.
They raised money from friends and family supposedly to invest
in a business of like fulfilling government contracts, and once
they were caught and it was investigated, they actually had
not fulfilled even one government contract. In other words, the
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whole premise of the business was a lie. They never
actually did with even one dollar of the money they raised.
Did they use it towards what the business was supposed
to be doing, And instead they used it all for
personal expenses, vacations, cars, all kinds of things that you know,
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obviously were not you know, part of the business plan
and make it, you know, an out and out fraud.
If I tell you I'm planning to do you know
X with this and I do why with it? That's fraud.
I'm giving you false information to get your money and
I'm not doing with it what I said that I would.
This story. I love. The Trump administration has cut funding
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to Maine universities because the state is defying Trump's executive
order to ban trans athletes from women's sports. And I
don't know if you saw this news clip. It was
a couple of weeks ago. Trump had a special luncheon
for all the governors in the United States. So you
can imagine this setting. It's Trump up at the lectern
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and then there are a table set up and you
have fifty governors of the fifty states. And Trump gets
into this topic of trans athletes, and then he actually
makes a reference to the governor of Maine and says,
by the way, is the governor of Maine here? And
the governor of Maine is there, and he knows that
she's this just she's this huge advocate of trans athletes
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being able to compete in these sporting events. What we're
talking about are biological men who for one you know
reason or another, even if they still have their male parts,
are claiming to be women, and then they compete in
women's sports and they're able to do pretty well, right
because as men against women. And so he had this
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confrontation with her. It was just really epic where she's,
you know, sitting at one of these tables and he's
the President of the United States and she's a governor,
and he tells her, you know, right out that we're
going to cut funding to your state if you don't
follow this. And he even points out that something like
seventy percent or more of main residents actually want agree
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with this with this policy position, which is, you know,
seventy percent or more of Main residents want biological males
to be banned from women's sports. So this is even
unpopular in Maine, which is honestly a pretty liberal state.
But yet this governor you know, said nope, and she
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dug her heels in it. She made some kind of
a off handed comment to Trump like Okay, well I
will see you in court. Well, there you go. Trump
is cutting off the funding four main colleges and this
is huge, I mean you're talking about. I mean, this
could cause many of those colleges to have to substantially
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cut their their programs and their overhead. Maybe even some
of the smaller colleges could face shuttering the doors. You know,
these colleges get a lot of money from federal aid,
and I don't know if this would apply, for example,
to the pel grants and the student money and the
loans and all that. If it does, you know that
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is going to have epic consequences because you know, almost
all students now are getting some kind of student aid
one way or the other. And then this whole story
about DOGE which continues to develop, and there's a new
headline DOGE. Of course, Elon Musk's government agency that has
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been set up, this task force, the Department of Government Efficiency.
Here's what they came up with this. Every time I
read one of these stories, it just blows my mind.
Three hundred and twelve million dollars in loans were given
to children during the COVID pandemic. Let me say that again.
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Three hundred and twelve million in loans were given to
children during the COVID pandemic. And I know, I know,
there was so much fraud. We don't even probably know
ten percent of the fraud that took place during COVID.
I mean here in Florida, we're we're seeing news stories
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regularly about people that maybe had a one or two
person shop that claimed that they had one hundred employees
and got all this money and bought a Lamborghini. I mean,
so there's already this, you know, incredible fraud that's going
on that had had gone on during COVID. But then
on top of it, now to find out that children minors,
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we didn't even have a program that would filter and
screen whether children were getting this money, that people weren't
at least eighteen or older, no less verifying that they
had a business or anything. I mean that a child
under eighteen was able to get this money. They said
three hundred and twelve million. And then the people on
my social media that I really don't get are the
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people that are somehow, in some parallel universe, they're against
those They think that there's something wrong with us investigating
the government in how it's spending money. And I just
don't know that there can be any other explanation for
this other than just these are people that are anti
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Trump they're just against Trump, and so anything that Trump
is doing, they're against because I mean, historically this whole
topic of government waste, the hammer for twelve hundred dollars
at the Defense Department and twenty five hundred dollars toilets.
These are our stories that are you know, around forever,
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and and you sit around and nobody, nobody that I've
ever met before Trump this second term, no one I
have ever met has been for government waste. But now
there is this, you know, it's I think it's still
a pretty small percentage of people, but there are people
regularly come on my social media and say, how do
we know you know that what Elon Musk is doing
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isn't corrupt and he's not stealing the money, he's not
getting even paid for this job that he's doing, which
is you know, insane that he's willing to put himself
in this position under all this criticism. But one of
the things that I've always known when I go to Washington,
d C, even in the suburbs, like you get into
Virginia and you're like forty five minutes an hour drive
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from downtown Washington, d C. You're talking about a typical
home is like five five hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand
dollars sometimes you know, easily over a million dollars if
they're like even closer in. And I was thinking, these
are government workers. I mean Washington d C. The federal government,
which our founders never wanted, this giant federal government with
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these bloated employee salaries where people are able to afford
five hundred thousand million dollar homes. In all of this,
I love this idea of breaking up Washington d C.
Like taking these different departments and moving them to different
parts of the country. I mean, why not take like
the entire irs And I know they're spread out a
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little bit, but you know, why not take the entire
irs out of Washington d C. And like scatter it,
you know, the main offices all throughout the country. I
mean the same thing with all the other government agencies.
And why not shrink the government. I mean, does anybody
honestly believe that we can't shrink the government by at
least maybe twenty five five percent just through waste, fraud
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and abuse, that we could not shrink the government. But
there are these just growing number of people that are
out there. They're just like stop investigating, stop finding this fraud.
So and then here's another story. Trump is assigned an
executive order terminating all federal taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants. Again,
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another common sense thing, because if there are no benefits
to be gained by illegally immigrating, and I've said it before,
I think our immigration system needs reform. I know people
who have tried to legally immigrate and it's taken ten
years and tens of thousands of dollars to do it.
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I think that's crazy. That needs to be reformed. But
when we're offering all of these financial benefits and payoffs
to people that illegally immigrate, that's the magnet that's drawing
people in. So the idea of getting rid of all
benefits to legal immigrants, I think is fantastic. I really do.
And one of the things that Doge is uncovering is
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not just what you'd say, like you know, typical government waste.
Like there was a story the other day I saw
where tens of millions of dollars were being paid by
the government for some facility in I believe it was
San Antonio area, and it was just an empty building,
but yet the government was paying like millions of dollars
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per month to rent this space and it was not
even being used. It was just an empty building. So
you've got that kind of textbook waste. But then you've
got things that are more along the lines of criminal
or fraud. And this is just an allegation, but the
headline is bigger than Watergate, how Stacy Abrams was gifted
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seven billion dollars of your money and really uncovering what
Elon Musk is referring to as nonprofit fraud. You know
that is you take a little bit of money and
you set up a nonprofit organization. Then you use that
platform of being a quote unquote nonprofit to seek funding
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from the government and in a lot of cases getting millions,
tens of millions of dollars, and there's very little accountability
after that money is dispersed. You know, where does that
money go? How is it being spent? Just here's another
one EPA scraps one point seven billion worth of DEI
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and environmental justice grants and the Bank of America another
scandal for the Bank of America hit with a major leak,
releasing customers social security numbers and other information out there
where start to see more of these high school fights
resulting in deaths. There's a story here from Texas, a
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fourteen year old Texas girl stabbed to death in a
high school fight. I mean, we used to have high
school fights which you settle with fists, and now, man,
I'm telling you it's scary. Kids are bringing guns, kids
are bringing nice to school. And then the thing I
want to close out with is this Gene Hackman death case,
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which I love Gene Hackman as an actor. Just what
a guy, what an iconic actor. I mean, when you
think of the great actors of the last fifty years,
one hundred years, you got to put Gene Hackman's name
on that list. And when you think about how sad
it was that he died, and there's a lot of
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questions still about this that they found both he was deceased,
his wife that was thirty years younger than him, I
believe she was deceased, and also there had passed away,
and so the first thought was carbon monoxide poisoning, which
would have made a lot of sense, But then the
story got darker, and if we're to believe the most
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recent narrative and explanation is that Gene Hackman was in
advanced Alzheimer's to where he wasn't even really aware of
his surroundings, wasn't able to take care of himself or
even feed himself. And his wife passed away, and when
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she died, he simply withered without eating and being cared
for in medications and all those things because she was
his caretaker. And also the dog who I guess they
found in the cage probably died from not having access
to water and food as well, and that was how
they kind of explained it. And to me, there's a
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lot of different conspiracy theories. People don't believe this, and
it is an incredible story to believe in and understand.
I think. For me, though, a couple of things that
really strike me are that no one found them for
I believe it was nine or ten days. And this
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is a multi million dollar house in a very high
end neighborhood in New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, and I was thinking, you know, you'd think
there'd be I don't know, the guy that cuts the grass,
or the Amazon delivery would be stacking up, or the
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mailbox would be getting full, and the neighbors might check
on them to see what was going on. But apparently
they lived a very private life and had a gated
security fence around their home, so maybe they just didn't
have any contact with their neighbors, and maybe that was,
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you know, one of the downsides. And you also have
to think what about family. I don't know. I'd like
to think that if I were missing for nine or
ten days, that I'd have at least one family member
that would be checking on me. I mean, I hope
it would be in sooner than nine or ten days.
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But I think it points out a couple of things
about this kind of different culture that we're living in today,
which is that in a lot of cases, people don't
know their neighbors at all. I mean, when I grew
up in Chicago, we knew all the neighbors. Everybody knew everybody,
everybody knew everybody's business. As a kid, I could walk
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into any of my neighbor's house and open up the
refrigerator and make a sandwich. I mean that's just how
I grew up. And now in neighborhoods, people don't know
their neighbors or even think to check on what's going
on with their neighbors, which I think is sad, But
then also too when you think about the elderly and
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those that are are shut in and sort of isolated.
The idea that someone could go like over a week,
you know, nine days, ten days, and nobody is concerned
and would be checking on them, it's just hard to believe.
And so I'll close it out and share with you
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kind of the latest big change in my life, which
is that I have moved from Palm Coast, Florida, which
is a small community north of Daytona Beach but south
of Jacksonville. So that's where i was living for fourteen
fifteen years, and now I'm living in Orlando, living in
Orlando with my mother. My mother is eighty one. She
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has a huge house. It's got three bedrooms upstairs, one
bedroom downstairs, and she can't go up the stairs, so
I have the whole upstairs, which is where I'm recording
the podcast from today, is one of the bedrooms in
the upstairs of the house. And this is an opportunity
for me to really help her out out and to
make sure she's got you know, transportation to her doctor's appointments,
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you know, good meals. The house is taken care of
and things are safe here. But there's a lot of
kids today, adult kids, adult children who have forgotten about
their parents and disconnected. And you know, I don't know
all the dynamics of Gene Hackman and his wife and
their extended family, but it is sad many times, especially
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with celebrities, that they are disconnected from their family. And
it's not just celebrities. I'm hearing this more and more
adult kids just cutting off from their parents and just
over you know, political disagreements or mom and dad won't
loan any more money or give them the down payment
for their house, or whatever the demand is. We just
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don't honor our mothers and fathers like we're supposed to,
and it's just another sort of piece of the crumble
I think of the American culture. Thanks so much for
joining us. It is so good to be back. We're
going to be doing these every week. So for those
big fans that miss the show, I am back. God
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All right, hello everybody, and welcome to the broadcast. Jim
Paris here. Yeah, it's really me and this is really
a new episode. And wow, so much has been going on.
I know that I have not done a new podcast
in several months, and I want to give everybody the update.
What's going on. I'm still alive, that's number one. I
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know a lot of you follow me on social media,
so you're getting some content from me in different ways.
I love doing those short videos. I've done a ton
of those over on Facebook and then also a little
bit over on TikTok. So what is going on? So
in November of last year. Actually November one, I started
a master's degree. And it's a program through a university
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that allows you to go at your own pace. So
although it's designed as like a year and a half program,
I was able to go more quickly and actually finish
it in four months. So that kind of explains my disappearance.
And some people have asked me, they said, how did
you finish that in just four months? And the answer is,
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I got up pretty much every morning, seven days a week,
around four thirty or five o'clock, and I just you know,
pounded it out, like put in like four or five
hours consistently every morning and knocked it out. And I
graduated right around the first of March. So I actually
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turned in my last assignment on February twenty eighth, so
I actually completed it in four months exactly. And I
got the word that, you know, my final assignment was
was good. And I graduated, you know, the first couple
of days into the new week, once we hit the
month of March. So it's all good. I'm excited, And
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why did I get a master's degree? So I have
really been looking at kind of the next twenty years
of my life, and I just turned sixty years old
in January, and I was thinking, what is it that
I want to do? And I always loved this kind
of business model, if you will, of teaching college and
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living out your final years kind of as a mentor
to younger people. And that's what I really thought, you know,
I really want that to kind of be the next
chapter of my life. I really want to teach in
some way at some level, even if it's just as
an adjunct professor somewhere, and you need a master's degree
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to be able to do that. So kind of all
cards are on the table, and with regards to that
kind of another exciting announcement in the world of academia
is that I have signed up to take the LSAT,
which is the law school exam, and I am contemplating
going to law school. And if I did get into
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law school, I would probably be starting in the fall.
And so there's two different options. There is a part
time option and a full time option. But I think
I could still continue to do the podcast during law
school because it would be at a more let's say,
traditional pace of college, which is how I would be
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going through law school as opposed to what I just
did with the master's degree, which is I took a
program that some people take two years to complete, although
it's I think officially designed to be an eighteen month program,
and I finished it in four months. So I think
I'd still be able to have plenty of time to
do the podcast if I did get into law school
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in the fall. So a lot is going on in
the news. One of the reasons I wanted to just
jump on here. So Trump has been in office. Can
you believe it for almost sixty days now. I guess
in a week it'll be sixty days that Trump has
been in office, and there's so much happening. Almost every
couple of hours there's some big bombshell announcement. What I
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love about Trump's ideas and his proposals is he's in
this term, he is really willing to kind of break
the mold and just come out with things that are
completely brilliant, things that are out of left field, Like
I love this idea of no tax on tips. And
then he came out with something today which I think
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is absolutely fantastic, the idea that Trump wants no taxes
for people that make less than one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year. I love this idea and can
you imagine how that would just how much that money
that would put into the economy. And honestly, you know,
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a lot of people have asked this, you know, if
you have an economy like the United States, where we
print our own currency, why do we even really need taxes?
I mean, in truth, why do we actually need to
go And to me, it's the process, even more than
the tax dollars, just the idea that we have to,
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you know, keep receipts and go to accountants and try
to figure out all of these things, and man's it's
just so complicated. And the truth is that you could
still collect a very very high percentage of the tax
dollars just by you know, in this case, even if
you just said if you make one fifty or more
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then you have to pay taxes, you wouldn't lose as
much as you think, because it's really the ultra rich,
the people making well above that they pay most of
the taxes anyway. So this would be a brilliant idea.
It would allow the government to really really thin down
the I R s and and really get the I
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R s more focused on you know, bigger dollars, which
is you know, going after auditing and investigating you know,
people that have the millions and the millions and the millions,
and not focusing on you know, the person that's a
school teacher or a janitor, or you know somebody that
works at your local Walmart. You know, the families that
are making you know, combined incomes of fifty one hundred thousand,
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even one hundred and fifty thousand. Let's leave those people alone.
Let him keep all their money. Can you imagine what
that would do to let people just keep all of
their money no more. When you get your paycheck and
it says, you know, your paycheck was three thousand or
four thousand, and you end up, you know, with seventy
percent of that amount, can you imagine just getting to
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keep your entire paycheck. That would be fantastic. All right,
There's a lot that I want to get into today.
One of the stories, which is really tragic on so
many levels, that I want to talk about is this
Texas pastor which a lot of you would know, the
name Robert Morris. So I believe this was in the
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last maybe year year and a half, where it came
out that there were sexual abuse allegations, and he sort
of described it as with a quote unquote young woman.
And then the allegations from the victim were that she
was as young as twelve years old when this started.
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And this became public and pretty much destroyed Robert Morris's
Texas church. A lot of people left, and it was
just a big scandal, not only for Robert Morris because
of this being in his history and being hidden, but
then also a lot of the board members and leadership
knew about it and didn't speak up and just sort
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of covered it up. So it's one of those cases
where the cover up was just as bad maybe as
what happened. I'm not sure that that applies in this
particular case of sexual abuse of a child, but the
cover up was certainly a very significant issue to a
lot of the people leaving the church. And so this
was all kept within the confines of a civil litigation,
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civil lawsuit, So it was all about her demanding a
certain amount of money, and then they were negotiating, and
it was all about a civil case, meaning no one's
going to jail. It's just all about money. You know,
how much money does he owe his victim and Apparently
over the years this has kind of percolated, and it
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finally came to the point that I guess they couldn't
agree on the figures, and so she came out with it,
she went public with it, and what I think surprised
a lot of people is that it was just announced
a five count criminal indictment in the state of Oklahoma
where this allegedly took place against pastor Robert Morris. So
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this is now transition from a civil case to a
criminal case. These are criminal charges, meaning he could go
to jail, possibly for the rest of his life if
convicted on even one of these counts involving sexual abuse
of a child. Again, these are just allegations. Hasn't gone
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to trial yet, but this is significant and it's also
a little bit of a lesson for people on the
law when it comes to child abuse cases, which in
a lot of states there are no statutes of limitations,
which means that the statute of limitation on a lot
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of things is just a handful of years. So that is,
if you commit a certain crime and they don't charge
you within that window of time five years, whatever the
statute of limitations might be for that particular crime, you
can never be prosecuted for it. That's how it works,
and there's a reason for that. Obviously in the legal
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system there has to be some degree of efficiency, so
that is and also fairness, you know, to charge people
for crimes that you know happened twenty years ago, thirty
years ago, but these crimes happened like over four years ago,
and he's going to be charged. He's charged for these
and that's because many, many states now are going to
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this statute of limitations where they're saying, when it comes
to something like child sexual abuse, we're not going to
have any statute of limitations. We're going to just say
this can be charged any time during your lifetime, similar
to murder and those kinds of charges. So murder there's
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no statute of limitations, so you can just be you know,
charged for the rest of your life. As far as
I know, that's the case in every single state. So
that means that Robert Morris, this well known megachurch pastor,
author of many books. You've seen him, no doubt on television,
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is going to have to face these criminal charges, which
means a criminal trial unless somehow, you know, he settles
and agrees to some kind of a punishment, you know,
compromise with prosecutors. Just rocking, rocking the evangelical world over
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the last twenty four hours. And then I posted this
on my Facebook. Gas inflation and prices are all falling,
and you know, it's it's great because this is what
Trump promised. And I know the price of eggs is crazy.
I just bought some eggs yesterday and we paid over
six dollars for a dozen eggs, which is really crazy
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because eggs are one of those kind of staples in
your household, right, I mean, you get get up in
the morning, you make you know, some eggs for breakfast,
and then if there's any baking going on, you put
some eggs in there, you know, to you know, most recipes.
So eggs are something eggs and milk, you know, kind
of like those staple items in the refrigerator. And the
idea that we're looking at a dozen eggs is six bucks.
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And I just bought like the regular grocery store, public's
brand eggs all for six dollars, and man, it's like, wow,
can I even afford to buy eggs anymore? It is crazy.
But other than eggs, it seems like the price on
everything's going down. In fact, I was so excited today
because I was standing outside of the Starbucks that I
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work at in the mornings. I don't actually make coffee
and work there. I just get a table and that's
where I like to go in the mornings to kind
of get my day going and do some of my
writing work and all of that. So I was standing
outside and there is a I think it's a circle
k that's right across the parking lot from this Starbucks,
and I was just standing there and all of a sudden,
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they changed the prices and it went the price of
gas per gallon went below three dollars. And I posted
on my Facebook a little bit earlier, I think was
last week, asking people what are you paying for gas
in your area? And I was just shocked at some
of the prices. A lot of parts of the country,
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it's like well below three dollars a gallon, and so
it's just great to see. And I've always felt like
the two areas, you know, food and gasoline, that's really
where it hits the average family, because you gotta eat
and you gotta buy gas for your car. And if
you live, you know, in a big city, where you're
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let's say, traveling half an hour to an hour each
way to work. I mean, it can be absolutely devastating
if gas prices, you know, are on the way up,
and they were through most of Biden's administration. I mean
I remember at one point, I think it was out
on the West coast, they had gas like well over
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five dollars a gallon, maybe even six dollars a gallon.
It's a it's really it's it's almost like a like
a tax, a super regressive tax on people when gas
and food price go up. So it is great to
see those prices coming down. And let me see here,
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I got I got a list here. Oh did you
get your free Frosty? That was the other big story.
What was that? Today's Thursday? So yeah, so yesterday they
had the big Frosty. This story I thought was interesting.
We're hearing more and more about Ponzi schemes, and it's
not necessarily like the super big ones that you hear
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so much about. But this is a Ponzi scheme involving
a former Atlanta Falcons football player. Let's see here if
it will come up. And these are smaller Ponzi schemes
and you're you're hearing more and more about these where
you know, somebody might you know, just for like two
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million or five million dollars, Like these are smaller amounts.
These are not like tens of billions like a madeoff level,
But you're hearing about a lot lot of these ponzi schemes.
They're smaller, but they're still wiping out families because you know,
especially if you take five million dollars, which was this
ponzi scheme with this NFL former at Atlanta Falcons linebacker.
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He was sentenced to prison for this ponzi scheme and
it was five million dollars. He was charged with defrauding
multiple victims out of more than five million dollars. And
what's interesting is a lot of times these prison sentences
are for these smaller ponzi schemes are are kind of
I don't know, they're kind of insignificant. The same thing
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that happens with embezzlement. Embezzlers are many times not subject
to very long prison sentences. It's saying here that he's
going to have to repay the money, and I'm not
sure if it's even telling us here how many years
he got in prison. Let me see. Yeah, they're not
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giving us a lot of details here about how long
he got in prison, but he does have restitution. But honestly,
if he doesn't have the money, they're not going to
get the money out of them. But the point being
is that you're seeing this more and more with what
I call like small to medium size celebrities. There was
one we talked about on the last podcast they did
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back in November. This was a beauty queen, not a
really big name that anybody probably you know. I'd never
heard of her, but I guess she was just famous
in her state, like as the miss I don't know
if it was Colorado, it was some western state. And
they use their their little bubble of fame to defraud people.
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And like I said, these are not like multi billion
dollar scams like Madeoff, but they are enough that it
really does hurt people. But we're hearing more and more
about these and some of these scams are just crazy.
The ones where I kind of have a little bit
more sympathy is if somebody, let's say, raises a couple
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million dollars and they actually invested like they said they would,
and then it doesn't work out, and then all of
a sudden they're facing like criminal charges. But they didn't
really actually take the money and do anything with it
for themselves. They didn't go out and buy cars and
houses and girlfriends. It just was sort of someone that
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maybe should not have been managing money and did a
poor job and more or less didn't dot the rise
and cross their t's as far as disclosing risk. Those
are cases where I tend to feel a little bit
more sympathy about the person and what happened. But in
a lot of these, you see, I listened to one
Dateline episode the other day where this couple, it was
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again a smaller one, it was just a few million.
They raised money from friends and family supposedly to invest
in a business of like fulfilling government contracts, and once
they were caught and it was investigated, they actually had
not fulfilled even one government contract. In other words, the
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whole premise of the business was a lie. They never
actually did with even one dollar of the money they raised.
Did they use it towards what the business was supposed
to be doing, And instead they used it all for
personal expenses, vacations, cars, all kinds of things that you know,
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obviously were not you know, part of the business plan
and make it, you know, an out and out fraud.
If I tell you I'm planning to do you know
X with this and I do why with it? That's fraud.
I'm giving you false information to get your money and
I'm not doing with it what I said that I would.
This story. I love. The Trump administration has cut funding
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to Maine universities because the state is defying Trump's executive
order to ban trans athletes from women's sports. And I
don't know if you saw this news clip. It was
a couple of weeks ago. Trump had a special luncheon
for all the governors in the United States. So you
can imagine this setting. It's Trump up at the lectern
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and then there are a table set up and you
have fifty governors of the fifty states. And Trump gets
into this topic of trans athletes, and then he actually
makes a reference to the governor of Maine and says,
by the way, is the governor of Maine here? And
the governor of Maine is there, and he knows that
she's this just she's this huge advocate of trans athletes
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being able to compete in these sporting events. What we're
talking about are biological men who for one you know
reason or another, even if they still have their male parts,
are claiming to be women, and then they compete in
women's sports and they're able to do pretty well, right
because as men against women. And so he had this
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confrontation with her. It was just really epic where she's,
you know, sitting at one of these tables and he's
the President of the United States and she's a governor,
and he tells her, you know, right out that we're
going to cut funding to your state if you don't
follow this. And he even points out that something like
seventy percent or more of main residents actually want agree
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with this with this policy position, which is, you know,
seventy percent or more of Main residents want biological males
to be banned from women's sports. So this is even
unpopular in Maine, which is honestly a pretty liberal state.
But yet this governor you know, said nope, and she
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dug her heels in it. She made some kind of
a off handed comment to Trump like Okay, well I
will see you in court. Well, there you go. Trump
is cutting off the funding four main colleges and this
is huge, I mean you're talking about. I mean, this
could cause many of those colleges to have to substantially
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cut their their programs and their overhead. Maybe even some
of the smaller colleges could face shuttering the doors. You know,
these colleges get a lot of money from federal aid,
and I don't know if this would apply, for example,
to the pel grants and the student money and the
loans and all that. If it does, you know that
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is going to have epic consequences because you know, almost
all students now are getting some kind of student aid
one way or the other. And then this whole story
about DOGE which continues to develop, and there's a new
headline DOGE. Of course, Elon Musk's government agency that has
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been set up, this task force, the Department of Government Efficiency.
Here's what they came up with this. Every time I
read one of these stories, it just blows my mind.
Three hundred and twelve million dollars in loans were given
to children during the COVID pandemic. Let me say that again.
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Three hundred and twelve million in loans were given to
children during the COVID pandemic. And I know, I know,
there was so much fraud. We don't even probably know
ten percent of the fraud that took place during COVID.
I mean here in Florida, we're we're seeing news stories
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regularly about people that maybe had a one or two
person shop that claimed that they had one hundred employees
and got all this money and bought a Lamborghini. I mean,
so there's already this, you know, incredible fraud that's going
on that had had gone on during COVID. But then
on top of it, now to find out that children minors,
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we didn't even have a program that would filter and
screen whether children were getting this money, that people weren't
at least eighteen or older, no less verifying that they
had a business or anything. I mean that a child
under eighteen was able to get this money. They said
three hundred and twelve million. And then the people on
my social media that I really don't get are the
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people that are somehow, in some parallel universe, they're against
those They think that there's something wrong with us investigating
the government in how it's spending money. And I just
don't know that there can be any other explanation for
this other than just these are people that are anti
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Trump they're just against Trump, and so anything that Trump
is doing, they're against because I mean, historically this whole
topic of government waste, the hammer for twelve hundred dollars
at the Defense Department and twenty five hundred dollars toilets.
These are our stories that are you know, around forever,
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and and you sit around and nobody, nobody that I've
ever met before Trump this second term, no one I
have ever met has been for government waste. But now
there is this, you know, it's I think it's still
a pretty small percentage of people, but there are people
regularly come on my social media and say, how do
we know you know that what Elon Musk is doing
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isn't corrupt and he's not stealing the money, he's not
getting even paid for this job that he's doing, which
is you know, insane that he's willing to put himself
in this position under all this criticism. But one of
the things that I've always known when I go to Washington,
d C, even in the suburbs, like you get into
Virginia and you're like forty five minutes an hour drive
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from downtown Washington, d C. You're talking about a typical
home is like five five hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand
dollars sometimes you know, easily over a million dollars if
they're like even closer in. And I was thinking, these
are government workers. I mean Washington d C. The federal government,
which our founders never wanted, this giant federal government with
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these bloated employee salaries where people are able to afford
five hundred thousand million dollar homes. In all of this,
I love this idea of breaking up Washington d C.
Like taking these different departments and moving them to different
parts of the country. I mean, why not take like
the entire irs And I know they're spread out a
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little bit, but you know, why not take the entire
irs out of Washington d C. And like scatter it,
you know, the main offices all throughout the country. I
mean the same thing with all the other government agencies.
And why not shrink the government. I mean, does anybody
honestly believe that we can't shrink the government by at
least maybe twenty five five percent just through waste, fraud
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and abuse, that we could not shrink the government. But
there are these just growing number of people that are
out there. They're just like stop investigating, stop finding this fraud.
So and then here's another story. Trump is assigned an
executive order terminating all federal taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants. Again,
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another common sense thing, because if there are no benefits
to be gained by illegally immigrating, and I've said it before,
I think our immigration system needs reform. I know people
who have tried to legally immigrate and it's taken ten
years and tens of thousands of dollars to do it.
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I think that's crazy. That needs to be reformed. But
when we're offering all of these financial benefits and payoffs
to people that illegally immigrate, that's the magnet that's drawing
people in. So the idea of getting rid of all
benefits to legal immigrants, I think is fantastic. I really do.
And one of the things that Doge is uncovering is
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not just what you'd say, like you know, typical government waste.
Like there was a story the other day I saw
where tens of millions of dollars were being paid by
the government for some facility in I believe it was
San Antonio area, and it was just an empty building,
but yet the government was paying like millions of dollars
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per month to rent this space and it was not
even being used. It was just an empty building. So
you've got that kind of textbook waste. But then you've
got things that are more along the lines of criminal
or fraud. And this is just an allegation, but the
headline is bigger than Watergate, how Stacy Abrams was gifted
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seven billion dollars of your money and really uncovering what
Elon Musk is referring to as nonprofit fraud. You know
that is you take a little bit of money and
you set up a nonprofit organization. Then you use that
platform of being a quote unquote nonprofit to seek funding
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from the government and in a lot of cases getting millions,
tens of millions of dollars, and there's very little accountability
after that money is dispersed. You know, where does that
money go? How is it being spent? Just here's another
one EPA scraps one point seven billion worth of DEI
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and environmental justice grants and the Bank of America another
scandal for the Bank of America hit with a major leak,
releasing customers social security numbers and other information out there
where start to see more of these high school fights
resulting in deaths. There's a story here from Texas, a
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fourteen year old Texas girl stabbed to death in a
high school fight. I mean, we used to have high
school fights which you settle with fists, and now, man,
I'm telling you it's scary. Kids are bringing guns, kids
are bringing nice to school. And then the thing I
want to close out with is this Gene Hackman death case,
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which I love Gene Hackman as an actor. Just what
a guy, what an iconic actor. I mean, when you
think of the great actors of the last fifty years,
one hundred years, you got to put Gene Hackman's name
on that list. And when you think about how sad
it was that he died, and there's a lot of
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questions still about this that they found both he was deceased,
his wife that was thirty years younger than him, I
believe she was deceased, and also there had passed away,
and so the first thought was carbon monoxide poisoning, which
would have made a lot of sense, But then the
story got darker, and if we're to believe the most
(31:11):
recent narrative and explanation is that Gene Hackman was in
advanced Alzheimer's to where he wasn't even really aware of
his surroundings, wasn't able to take care of himself or
even feed himself. And his wife passed away, and when
(31:31):
she died, he simply withered without eating and being cared
for in medications and all those things because she was
his caretaker. And also the dog who I guess they
found in the cage probably died from not having access
to water and food as well, and that was how
they kind of explained it. And to me, there's a
(31:52):
lot of different conspiracy theories. People don't believe this, and
it is an incredible story to believe in and understand.
I think. For me, though, a couple of things that
really strike me are that no one found them for
I believe it was nine or ten days. And this
(32:16):
is a multi million dollar house in a very high
end neighborhood in New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, and I was thinking, you know, you'd think
there'd be I don't know, the guy that cuts the grass,
or the Amazon delivery would be stacking up, or the
(32:37):
mailbox would be getting full, and the neighbors might check
on them to see what was going on. But apparently
they lived a very private life and had a gated
security fence around their home, so maybe they just didn't
have any contact with their neighbors, and maybe that was,
(32:58):
you know, one of the downsides. And you also have
to think what about family. I don't know. I'd like
to think that if I were missing for nine or
ten days, that I'd have at least one family member
that would be checking on me. I mean, I hope
it would be in sooner than nine or ten days.
(33:18):
But I think it points out a couple of things
about this kind of different culture that we're living in today,
which is that in a lot of cases, people don't
know their neighbors at all. I mean, when I grew
up in Chicago, we knew all the neighbors. Everybody knew everybody,
everybody knew everybody's business. As a kid, I could walk
(33:40):
into any of my neighbor's house and open up the
refrigerator and make a sandwich. I mean that's just how
I grew up. And now in neighborhoods, people don't know
their neighbors or even think to check on what's going
on with their neighbors, which I think is sad, But
then also too when you think about the elderly and
(34:00):
those that are are shut in and sort of isolated.
The idea that someone could go like over a week,
you know, nine days, ten days, and nobody is concerned
and would be checking on them, it's just hard to believe.
And so I'll close it out and share with you
(34:20):
kind of the latest big change in my life, which
is that I have moved from Palm Coast, Florida, which
is a small community north of Daytona Beach but south
of Jacksonville. So that's where i was living for fourteen
fifteen years, and now I'm living in Orlando, living in
Orlando with my mother. My mother is eighty one. She
(34:41):
has a huge house. It's got three bedrooms upstairs, one
bedroom downstairs, and she can't go up the stairs, so
I have the whole upstairs, which is where I'm recording
the podcast from today, is one of the bedrooms in
the upstairs of the house. And this is an opportunity
for me to really help her out out and to
make sure she's got you know, transportation to her doctor's appointments,
(35:05):
you know, good meals. The house is taken care of
and things are safe here. But there's a lot of
kids today, adult kids, adult children who have forgotten about
their parents and disconnected. And you know, I don't know
all the dynamics of Gene Hackman and his wife and
their extended family, but it is sad many times, especially
(35:29):
with celebrities, that they are disconnected from their family. And
it's not just celebrities. I'm hearing this more and more
adult kids just cutting off from their parents and just
over you know, political disagreements or mom and dad won't
loan any more money or give them the down payment
for their house, or whatever the demand is. We just
(35:51):
don't honor our mothers and fathers like we're supposed to,
and it's just another sort of piece of the crumble
I think of the American culture. Thanks so much for
joining us. It is so good to be back. We're
going to be doing these every week. So for those
big fans that miss the show, I am back. God
(36:12):
bless Thanks for joining us. We'll talk to you next time.
So long, everybody,
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