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You're listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the
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latest news on money, politics, prophecy, and preparedness, and now
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your host, the editor in chief of Christian Money dot
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com and the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
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Right, Hello, and welcome to the broadcast. Jim Paris here
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with you. Well, the big day was Friday. I turned
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sixty one. And I don't know what it is about
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the birthdays once you get into your sixties. It's just
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a weird feeling because growing up I always thought of
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someone who was fifty. But now I'm sixty one. I
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always thought of that as being old. I just don't
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feel old. I mean, I'm still active. I'm full time
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in law school. I still do a lot of you know,
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walking and bicycle riding. I just think sixty one today
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is not what it was when I was growing up.
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But I shared something on my Facebook page, which, by
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the way, I think I had over four hundred four
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hundred people come onto my Facebook to wish me a
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happy birthday. And that's really one of my most favorite
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features about Facebook is your birthday and all the feedback
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that you get.
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But here's what I.
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Posted, thank you everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes. I
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have no idea how I made it sixty one years,
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because I have thought my life was over quite a
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few times. But as Fred Rogers, mister Rogers once said,
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often when you think you're at the end of something,
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you're at the beginning of something else. My life has
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had so many new beginnings, but I guess I'm still
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here for a reason. Romans A twenty eight and birthdays
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are interesting, right. It's a chance to realize that you're
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not going to be on this earth forever. Another year
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has clicked by, and that one special day, maybe you
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do something with your family. My sister took me out
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to dinner. My brother in law and my sister had
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a good evening. She bought me a bunch of really
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wonderful clothes. She's always so generous for my birthday. But
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then the day comes, and the day goes and you're like, well,
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you know, now I'm sixty one and the next one
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I'm going to be sixty two, and time.
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Just marches on.
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So if you're one of those that posted on my Facebook,
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I want to thank you so much. All Right, So
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what's going on? So as we come to air here
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on this Sunday evening, hundreds of flights are being canceled
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around the United States, especially in the mid Atlantic in
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the Northeast because of this winter storm. Apparently there's over
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one million people now without power due to ice storms.
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I guess that are happening, especially in the Nashville area.
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And I read one article that Chicago is forty below
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I think that's the wind chill. And they were promoting
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in this article that Chicago has colder temperatures now than
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in Alaska. So kind of mind blowing. But I grew
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up in Chicago. I remember the day I decided I
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was not going to live in Chicago for the rest
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of my life. I used to work for White Castle,
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the restaurant chain.
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I did that in high school.
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And I remember one day it had snowed a lot
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and it was really cold outside and it was so
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bad that the snowplow was not going to get to
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our parking lot at white Castle. So my manager actually
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had me out there with a shovel, shoveling our parking lot,
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which was a lot of work, and it was very
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deep snow. And I remember because there was a bank
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right next to the white Castle and it was one
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of those old, you know, digital clocks that told you
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what time it.
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Was and what the temperature was.
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I looked over there and it was nineteen below. Now
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that was not the wind chill, that was the actual temperature.
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nostrils like freezing shut.
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That's how cold it was.
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and I go in and I go back out for
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ten minutes. But I said to myself, I am not
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going to stay somewhere where it gets this cold. So
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apologies to those that love these northern cities. Yes, I
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know they have their moments right in the fall and
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in the spring you have some beautiful weather, but I
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don't know, it's not worth it to me for the
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three or four months of gray skies and this coldness
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and ice and snow and all of that. It's just
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not my cup of tea. So we have yet another
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Ice shooting, and this one there's a lot more facts
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that have been thrown in. One of the things that
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I want to say before I even get into all
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of this is it's interesting on both sides how people
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line up and they make their decision about what happened
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before any information even comes out. So on the one hand,
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you've got you know, the anti Ice paeople. Their narrative
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is Ice came in unprovoked, just shot and killed an
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innocent man. And he was a nurse and apparently, you know,
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by all accounts, a good guy, and Ice just came
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in and shot him for no reason. Of course, this
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is before all the you know information comes out. Of course,
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then the government says, well, no, no, this guy was
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carrying a firearm, he was interfering with police operations, and
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he was shot in the you know, in the midst
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of this, I believe, going for his firearm, they claimed,
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or may have had his hand on the firearm.
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The thing is this, we we just don't know.
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Yet what really happened. And I think if you're on
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one side of this or the other, already before we
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even know what happened, that tells you a lot about you,
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which is, if that's you, you really don't care about
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the facts. You've already decided. And so we've always told people,
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and we know we have to continue to say this
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is that whenever confronted by law enforcement, you must comply. Now,
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you might disagree with it, and you have every right
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later to go and make a complaint against that law
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enforcement officer, even file a lawsuit against that law enforcement officer,
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even help the authorities criminally prosecute that law enforcement officer.
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All of those things are there for you after you comply,
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whether that's in a traffic stop or whatever the situation is.
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But now we've got this new dynamic, which is not
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that we're going to you know, set up a zone
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and bring signs and maybe a bullhorn and we're going
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to have a protest against ICE. That's totally fine. But
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now what people are doing is they're finding out where
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ICE is actually conducting operations where they're making arrests, and
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they're showing up trying to get between ICE and the
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individuals that are to be arrested. They're using their cars,
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they're putting their bodies, you know, between them. This is
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something that is extremely dangerous, and I honestly, I am
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surprised there's not more people shot. I don't know of
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anywhere else or under any other circumstances that a civilian
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could get in the middle of an arrest by law enforcement.
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You know, imagine you're driving down the road and you
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see law enforcement with a car pulled over, and they're
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going through the process of pulling the guy out of
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his car, putting handcuffs on him, and arresting him. And
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you decide you're going to pull over and you're going
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to physically get in the middle of that. If you
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did that, you would probably also be arrested, maybe even shot.
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But this, for some reason is looked at in a
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different way. I don't know what the misunderstanding is. ICE
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is law enforcement. They have firearms, they have the right
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to defend themselves, they have the right even to use
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force against those individuals that are interfering with their lawful arrests.
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And from what everything I have read and seen, the emphasis,
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if not the entire focus, of these ICE arrests are
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on people with dangerous criminal histories. And if that's true,
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how could anyone be against that? You know, ICE is
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coming into your neighborhood. They're going to arrest someone that
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has a sexual assault charge, someone that has a prior
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history of murder, or a prior history of battery or
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burglary or whatever it may be.
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That's the government's position.
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These are the people we're arresting in In one case,
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I saw a video where a guy was talking to
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the crowd and he said, look, we're here to get
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a child sexual offender, and you folks want to stop us.
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I don't know if it's that they don't believe that
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is the real reason they're there. Maybe that's what it is,
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or they just don't care. It's just that. Look, we
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are against ICE, immigration and Customs enforcement. We're against that
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any enforcement. So it's fascinating, though, to watch this because
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it is not a situation where we have I think
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the correct expectations really on either side of this. And
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then you have every time there's an incident, you have
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the governor of Minnesota, you have the mayor of Minneapolis.
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Everybody goes to their microphones and the tea cameras and
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says that ICE is wrong, it's more violence. We need
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to stand up against them, and they just fan the
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flames even more and even more. And I have posted
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this on my Facebook page a couple of times. At
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what point does this become I mean, at what point
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does this trigger a civil war?
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You know, I just don't know.
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When you have people like the governor of Miny, the
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governor of Minnesota who is talking about bringing in his
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National Guard to basically protect the people of Minnesota against
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the federal government, that kind of sounds like a civil
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war shaping up. But this will be interesting to watch it.
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And I just throw this out there to people on
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both sides of this. I have made my position clear
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on immigration, even to the you know, to the extent
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that I have people mad at me, people saying that
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they're not going to listen to the show anymore, they're
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not following following me on Facebook anymore.
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And what did I say?
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I said, I am all for deporting anybody with a
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criminal record, whether it was from before they came here
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or while they were here.
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They need to go.
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Everybody else, if you're here peacefully and you're working and
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you're contributing, I think we should create a path for
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those people. But at the same time, yeah, we need
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to close the border so we can get control of it.
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But for those people that have been here, we allow
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them to come in here, whether you agread whether it
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or not under Biden or Obama or whatever.
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They they're here now.
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And if these are just good people that have families
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and they want to work and they want to go
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through the process, I think we should make a path
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for them to be able to become legally here. And
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that's kind of my middle ground, splitting the baby, if
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you will. But my conservative friends are really upset that
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I said that, because they say every one of them
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is a criminal, because if they're not here legally, then well,
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you know, there is that point. But at the same time,
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if you have a law that goes on enforced for
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years and decades and decades, is it really a law anymore?
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And that has really been what has happened here in
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the United States with these open borders. So I kind
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of split the difference and say, criminals go in, those
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that are not criminals should be given a path, a
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reasonable path, to be able to become legal. And on
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this issue of Ice, there was you know, one ICE
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agent had a finger bitten off. I mean, this is
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what they're up against, so you kind of can't blame
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them for shooting first and asking questions later. Because this
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is really unprecedented how these people will literally you know,
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here's a guy, he's coming to a protest and he's
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bringing his gun. And the defense to this is, well,
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he was, you know, licensed to carry a gun. That
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may be true, but in many I didn't look up
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Minneapolis or the state of Minnesota, but many in many states,
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any type of public gathering your permit is not good for,
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and that there's a reason for that. But you're showing
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up to confront federal law enforcement carrying a gun on
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your hip. That's just not smart. And I don't know
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what happened here. I'm just saying that when we've gotten
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to that point, like, let's go down and put ourselves
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between ice and the individuals are trying to arrest, and
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by the way, let's bring our own guns. That's not
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gonna end. Well, it's just not smart. And I'm sorry
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for this man dying. It's a tragedy. But these are
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the same kind of things that happen when people don't
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cooperate on traffic stops. Again withholding all judgment until we
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know the whole story. So mortgage rates are supposed to
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be coming down, and we're not sure of when this
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will happen or how much they're going to come down.
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has ordered the treasury to start buying the tenyure government bond.
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going to start buying that bond, which will cause the
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value of the bond to rise because there's more people buying.
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I believe the figure he gave was two hundred billion.
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that will then influence mortgage rates. So getting into the
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mortgage market. I believe it was the Tenure Treasury. It
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may have been strictly mortgage backed securities, but in either case,
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into the bond market to directly impact mortgage rates. I
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don't have any details on it, but we're looking at
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rates that are definitely improving some it's just not anything significant.
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back to the two percent and the three percent? I
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would love that. That would just be fantastic. I might
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even drop out of law school and just do mortgages
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full time. If we had three percent rates. Again, it
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would be like shooting fish in a barrel to make
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so much money as a mortgage guy. Ah, but I
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tell you, I just don't see it happening anytime soon.
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what I keep going back to. I know I've mentioned
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it on other episodes, but a lot of people are
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looking at home equity lines of credit because this allows
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you to keep your great first mortgage in that rate
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that you got a few years back, but now that
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your house may have gone up some or quite a bit,
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you can tap into that equity with what's basically a
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second mortgage. But what we have is something pretty unique.
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little as twenty five thousand or as much as four
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hundred thousand. You can close online. You can get your
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decision in five minutes, you can close in five days.
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secondary home, or even investment property. So if you want
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to get all the information on this and see if
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you're already approved, check it out by going to quick
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turn heelock dot com. So Helock is h e l oc,
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so it's just quick turn heelock dot com. Quick turn
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h e l oc, Quick turn heelock dot com and
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check that out. I saw this story and I had
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so many feelings that sadness, confusion. I have questions get
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this story. Former Eagles defensive tackle Kevin Johnson was found
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dead at a homeless encampment in the Los Angeles area
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with blunt head trauma and stab wounds. Age fifty five.
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Kevin Johnson former Eagle Eagles, Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Kevin Johnson,
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and I had so many questions about this. I'm thinking
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to myself, first of all, how does a guy go
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from you know, being in the NFL to being homeless,
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to living on the streets and then dying you know
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obviously from violence from being on the streets. I'm gonna
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type this in my computer. I am curious how many
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years he played? And this is so many times the story.
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He he must have had a lot of money at
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one point in time. Let's see your ex NFL player died. Okay,
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let me just put in his name into Wikipedia and
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we'll see how many years he played. So many of
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these NFL players they are unfortunately, you know, they're not
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good with money and well I just can't find it.
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So but in any case, it really is sad when
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you think about it. You know that a man with
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this kind of talent to end up being homeless, but
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then even worse than homeless, you know the fact that
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he ends up dying in such a violent way. Oh,
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here we go, Kevin Lamar Johnson Wikipedia defensive tackle. Wow,
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look at this. He played for multiple teams New England Patriots,
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the Vikings, the Raiders, the Eagles, Orlando Predators. That's not
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NFL but minor league years. He played for years. So
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he came out of Texas Southern. He was a fourth
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round draft pick and started his career in the NFL.
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It looks like in nineteen ninety three and becomes homeless
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and dies after being stabbed and beaten to death.
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How sad is that?
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And I always I'm always fascinated with these stories of
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people that are famous at some level and then they
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have nothing. And the Susan Powder documentary is a great
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one if that's something that interests you. If you remember
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Susan and Powder, stop the insanity, because I've been there myself.
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I have gone broke a couple of times. One from
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my embezzlement and then another one. I lost most of
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my money in the divorce I went through three years ago.
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When I'll be honest, He's a like, look, I have
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no money, but I'm famous, and I've been there. I
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have been in that situation where people see me online
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and they think, oh, that's Jim Parris. You know, he
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used to own a national investment company and had his
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own TV show and radio show, and he must be
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worth lots of money. And then you know, to sit,
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you know, talk to somebody one I want and say no,
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I'm struggling for food.
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And I have been in that boat a couple of
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times and money.
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Many of you know from the book I wrote in
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twenty twelve about the embezzlement. But it is a fascinating
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dilemma to be in. Can you imagine you're a former
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and f professional football player, you end up on the streets,
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then you end up being killed in this way. So
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how many of you remember Roger verr Ver Roger Verr
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He had been on the show, I know at least once.
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He may have been with us a couple of times,
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but he was facing many decades in prison for tax evasion,
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and he went by the moniker Bitcoin Jesus because he
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was a very very early adopter of bitcoin and was
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sort of a bitcoin evangelist. So then they started calling
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him Bitcoin Jesus. No offense meant, but that's what his
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nickname was. And he was on an island off the
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coast of Spain, had been indicted on many, many counts
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of tax charges and Trump was able to worked this
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deal out, and I guess he settled with the government
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for I think it was forty nine million he paid
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and now he's good to go. So I don't know
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how much money altogether he has. I know he has
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a lot of money, and he was able to resolve this.
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And Trump has been very friendly to people in the
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cryptocurrency world, and that's something kind of unique about Trump.
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He's seems to have a soft spot in his heart
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for people who have run a foul of the law
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because of cryptocurrency. And so here we go. Roger Verr
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is now apparently able to just go forward with his life.
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Interesting guy. I found this statistic really fascinating. Seventy one
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percent of realtors didn't sell a single home last year.
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And one of my friends is a real estate agent.
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in Palm Coast and where I used to live before
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I moved over here to Orlando. And he posted this
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on his Facebook page, and it's really staggering if you
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think about this. I mean, I've always known that a
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lot of real estate agents are just part timers. It's
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kind of like something in Florida here anyway, that people
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do during retirement. They get a real estate license. Gives
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them a little something to do to get out of
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the house, and maybe if they sell a house or
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two a year, it's a little bit extra money, maybe
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to go on some cruises or whatnot. But this idea
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that across the country seventy one percent of realtors didn't
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sell even a single home last year, it's mind blowing.
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I have my real estate license. I've had a real
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estate license on and off since nineteen eighty six here
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in Florida, and I can just tell you that this
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really is all connected to these higher interest rates. When
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I say higher, they're not high historically. I mean paying
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six percent for a mortgage, is that actually historically not
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a bad rate. But it's just if you combine the
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increase in property values with the higher rate, it just
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makes homes unaffordable in a lot of neighborhoods and a
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lot of cities across the country. And people don't want
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to sell their house that has the two or three
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percent mortgage on it and then go out to buy
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the new house and get a six percent mortgage.
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They're not interested in doing that.
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locked in to what they already have, and a lot
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of people sitting on the sidelines waiting either for the
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prices to come down or the mortgage rates to come down,
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or maybe a little bit of both. And the market's
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kind of frozen in most parts of the country.
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As a result. And we'll close it out with this.
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If you're somebody who is planning to visit the theme
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parks in Florida, and who isn't everybody comes to Disney
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and Universal and all that good stuff, there is supposedly
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a deadly virus making its way through the crowds at
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Disney and Universal in this just whole area where all
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these attractions are in theme parks, and it is an
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influenza strain that they said is highly contagious, highly contagious.
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And they found that the these theme parks are a
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really dangerous They called it a fertile breeding ground for influenza.
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And if you see people walking around with those little
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containers of the hand sanitizer and washing their hands a
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lot and all that, and you maybe think that person's
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a little bit nuts, a little bit o CD not
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the case. These are the smart ones, and I'm not
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that person. I should do more of that. But you know,
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when I'm at the law school, I'm around a lot
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of people, and I'm always careful to wash my hands
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really well. But it is getting to be more and
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more dangerous to get into these crowds. When you get
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into a theme park situation. I don't know if you've
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been to a theme park lately, but even not just
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inside the Disney theme parks, but even just like the
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Disney hotels or the Disney shopping area, the so called
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they call it the Disney Springs area. You're, I mean,
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literally elbow to elbow with people. It's like Times Square
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on New Year's Eve. You are, you know, people are
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pressed up, pressed up against you, behind you, in front
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of you. It's extremely close courts and I don't know
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about you know, the six foot social distance saying and
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all of that. I think that was a little bit overboard.
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But this is the other extreme. This is where you're
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in line at Disney and you can literally feel the
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person behind you breathing. I'm the back neck, and that's
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when it's too close and it's not healthy to be
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that close. And then you're touching everything, all these railings
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that you know are there, you can't help you're touching it,
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and you're on the rides and you're touching the ride
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and someone was just sitting in there where your hands
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are now and you're sitting These are not safe places
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to go when you have these viruses spreading. And it
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was just one a week or two ago. I think
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here another cruise ship was hit where the whole ship
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everybody got sick. So I don't know if it seems
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to me like there's more of this happening. Maybe maybe
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I'm wrong, but it seems like we have more of
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these kind of outbreaks. I don't remember these things happening
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thirty years ago. I mean, yeah, people got the flu,
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people got sick on you know this or that, But
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it just seems like it's more, these strains of these
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viruses are getting and more contagious, I believe so. Maybe
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it's just sort of my own impression of things, but
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you just got to be careful anymore. And a lot
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of people are starting to wear masks again. I'm not
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sure what that's about, but even at the law school,
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I'm seeing people coming in wearing masks. So I guess
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it's just that time of year where you know, the
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flu is something to be concerned about. All right, everybody,
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have a great week. Good to be back with you.
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God bless we'll talk to you next time. So long, everybody,
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You're listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the
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latest news on money, politics, prophecy, and preparedness, and now
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your host, the editor in chief of Christian Money dot
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com and the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
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Right, Hello, and welcome to the broadcast. Jim Paris here
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with you. Well, the big day was Friday. I turned
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sixty one. And I don't know what it is about
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the birthdays once you get into your sixties. It's just
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a weird feeling because growing up I always thought of
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someone who was fifty. But now I'm sixty one. I
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always thought of that as being old. I just don't
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feel old. I mean, I'm still active. I'm full time
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in law school. I still do a lot of you know,
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walking and bicycle riding. I just think sixty one today
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is not what it was when I was growing up.
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the way, I think I had over four hundred four
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hundred people come onto my Facebook to wish me a
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happy birthday. And that's really one of my most favorite
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features about Facebook is your birthday and all the feedback
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that you get.
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Posted, thank you everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes. I
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have no idea how I made it sixty one years,
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because I have thought my life was over quite a
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few times. But as Fred Rogers, mister Rogers once said,
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often when you think you're at the end of something,
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you're at the beginning of something else. My life has
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had so many new beginnings, but I guess I'm still
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here for a reason. Romans A twenty eight and birthdays
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are interesting, right. It's a chance to realize that you're
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not going to be on this earth forever. Another year
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has clicked by, and that one special day, maybe you
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do something with your family. My sister took me out
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to dinner. My brother in law and my sister had
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a good evening. She bought me a bunch of really
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wonderful clothes. She's always so generous for my birthday. But
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then the day comes, and the day goes and you're like, well,
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you know, now I'm sixty one and the next one
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I'm going to be sixty two, and time.
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I want to thank you so much. All Right, So
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what's going on? So as we come to air here
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on this Sunday evening, hundreds of flights are being canceled
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around the United States, especially in the mid Atlantic in
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the Northeast because of this winter storm. Apparently there's over
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one million people now without power due to ice storms.
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I guess that are happening, especially in the Nashville area.
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in this article that Chicago has colder temperatures now than
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in Alaska. So kind of mind blowing. But I grew
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up in Chicago. I remember the day I decided I
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was not going to live in Chicago for the rest
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of my life. I used to work for White Castle,
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the restaurant chain.
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bad that the snowplow was not going to get to
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our parking lot at white Castle. So my manager actually
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had me out there with a shovel, shoveling our parking lot,
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which was a lot of work, and it was very
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deep snow. And I remember because there was a bank
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right next to the white Castle and it was one
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of those old, you know, digital clocks that told you
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what time it.
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that was not the wind chill, that was the actual temperature.
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nostrils like freezing shut.
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and I go in and I go back out for
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ten minutes. But I said to myself, I am not
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going to stay somewhere where it gets this cold. So
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apologies to those that love these northern cities. Yes, I
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know they have their moments right in the fall and
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in the spring you have some beautiful weather, but I
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don't know, it's not worth it to me for the
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three or four months of gray skies and this coldness
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and ice and snow and all of that. It's just
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not my cup of tea. So we have yet another
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Ice shooting, and this one there's a lot more facts
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of this is it's interesting on both sides how people
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line up and they make their decision about what happened
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before any information even comes out. So on the one hand,
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you've got you know, the anti Ice paeople. Their narrative
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is Ice came in unprovoked, just shot and killed an
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innocent man. And he was a nurse and apparently, you know,
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by all accounts, a good guy, and Ice just came
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in and shot him for no reason. Of course, this
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is before all the you know information comes out. Of course,
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then the government says, well, no, no, this guy was
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carrying a firearm, he was interfering with police operations, and
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he was shot in the you know, in the midst
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of this, I believe, going for his firearm, they claimed,
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one side of this or the other, already before we
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even know what happened, that tells you a lot about you,
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which is, if that's you, you really don't care about
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the facts. You've already decided. And so we've always told people,
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and we know we have to continue to say this
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is that whenever confronted by law enforcement, you must comply. Now,
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you might disagree with it, and you have every right
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later to go and make a complaint against that law
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enforcement officer, even file a lawsuit against that law enforcement officer,
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even help the authorities criminally prosecute that law enforcement officer.
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whether that's in a traffic stop or whatever the situation is.
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that we're going to you know, set up a zone
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and bring signs and maybe a bullhorn and we're going
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to have a protest against ICE. That's totally fine. But
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now what people are doing is they're finding out where
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ICE is actually conducting operations where they're making arrests, and
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they're showing up trying to get between ICE and the
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individuals that are to be arrested. They're using their cars,
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they're putting their bodies, you know, between them. This is
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something that is extremely dangerous, and I honestly, I am
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surprised there's not more people shot. I don't know of
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anywhere else or under any other circumstances that a civilian
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could get in the middle of an arrest by law enforcement.
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see law enforcement with a car pulled over, and they're
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going through the process of pulling the guy out of
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his car, putting handcuffs on him, and arresting him. And
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you decide you're going to pull over and you're going
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to physically get in the middle of that. If you
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did that, you would probably also be arrested, maybe even shot.
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different way. I don't know what the misunderstanding is. ICE
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is law enforcement. They have firearms, they have the right
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to defend themselves, they have the right even to use
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force against those individuals that are interfering with their lawful arrests.
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if not the entire focus, of these ICE arrests are
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on people with dangerous criminal histories. And if that's true,
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how could anyone be against that? You know, ICE is
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coming into your neighborhood. They're going to arrest someone that
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has a sexual assault charge, someone that has a prior
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history of murder, or a prior history of battery or
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burglary or whatever it may be.
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These are the people we're arresting in In one case,
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the crowd and he said, look, we're here to get
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a child sexual offender, and you folks want to stop us.
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is the real reason they're there. Maybe that's what it is,
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or they just don't care. It's just that. Look, we
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are against ICE, immigration and Customs enforcement. We're against that
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any enforcement. So it's fascinating, though, to watch this because
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it is not a situation where we have I think
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the correct expectations really on either side of this. And
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then you have every time there's an incident, you have
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the governor of Minnesota, you have the mayor of Minneapolis.
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says that ICE is wrong, it's more violence. We need
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to stand up against them, and they just fan the
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flames even more and even more. And I have posted
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this on my Facebook page a couple of times. At
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what point does this become I mean, at what point
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does this trigger a civil war?
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governor of Minnesota who is talking about bringing in his
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National Guard to basically protect the people of Minnesota against
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the federal government, that kind of sounds like a civil
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war shaping up. But this will be interesting to watch it.
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both sides of this. I have made my position clear
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on immigration, even to the you know, to the extent
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that I have people mad at me, people saying that
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they're not going to listen to the show anymore, they're
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not following following me on Facebook anymore.
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I said, I am all for deporting anybody with a
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criminal record, whether it was from before they came here
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or while they were here.
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They need to go.
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Everybody else, if you're here peacefully and you're working and
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you're contributing, I think we should create a path for
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those people. But at the same time, yeah, we need
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to close the border so we can get control of it.
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them to come in here, whether you agread whether it
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or not under Biden or Obama or whatever.
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and they want to work and they want to go
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through the process, I think we should make a path
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for them to be able to become legally here. And
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that's kind of my middle ground, splitting the baby, if
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you will. But my conservative friends are really upset that
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I said that, because they say every one of them
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is a criminal, because if they're not here legally, then well,
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you know, there is that point. But at the same time,
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if you have a law that goes on enforced for
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years and decades and decades, is it really a law anymore?
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the United States with these open borders. So I kind
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of split the difference and say, criminals go in, those
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that are not criminals should be given a path, a
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reasonable path, to be able to become legal. And on
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this issue of Ice, there was you know, one ICE
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agent had a finger bitten off. I mean, this is
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what they're up against, so you kind of can't blame
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them for shooting first and asking questions later. Because this
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is really unprecedented how these people will literally you know,
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here's a guy, he's coming to a protest and he's
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bringing his gun. And the defense to this is, well,
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he was, you know, licensed to carry a gun. That
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may be true, but in many I didn't look up
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Minneapolis or the state of Minnesota, but many in many states,
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any type of public gathering your permit is not good for,
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and that there's a reason for that. But you're showing
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up to confront federal law enforcement carrying a gun on
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your hip. That's just not smart. And I don't know
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what happened here. I'm just saying that when we've gotten
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to that point, like, let's go down and put ourselves
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between ice and the individuals are trying to arrest, and
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by the way, let's bring our own guns. That's not
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gonna end. Well, it's just not smart. And I'm sorry
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for this man dying. It's a tragedy. But these are
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the same kind of things that happen when people don't
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cooperate on traffic stops. Again withholding all judgment until we
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know the whole story. So mortgage rates are supposed to
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be coming down, and we're not sure of when this
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will happen or how much they're going to come down.
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has ordered the treasury to start buying the tenyure government bond.
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In other words, the government's going to take money. They're
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going to start buying that bond, which will cause the
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value of the bond to rise because there's more people buying.
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I believe the figure he gave was two hundred billion.
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that will then influence mortgage rates. So getting into the
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mortgage market. I believe it was the Tenure Treasury. It
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may have been strictly mortgage backed securities, but in either case,
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Trump is ordering the government to infuse two hundred billion
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into the bond market to directly impact mortgage rates. I
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don't have any details on it, but we're looking at
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rates that are definitely improving some it's just not anything significant.
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back to the two percent and the three percent? I
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would love that. That would just be fantastic. I might
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even drop out of law school and just do mortgages
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full time. If we had three percent rates. Again, it
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would be like shooting fish in a barrel to make
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so much money as a mortgage guy. Ah, but I
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tell you, I just don't see it happening anytime soon.
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what I keep going back to. I know I've mentioned
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it on other episodes, but a lot of people are
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looking at home equity lines of credit because this allows
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you to keep your great first mortgage in that rate
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that you got a few years back, but now that
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your house may have gone up some or quite a bit,
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you can tap into that equity with what's basically a
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second mortgage. But what we have is something pretty unique.
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It's a fixed rate mortgage and you can borrow as
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little as twenty five thousand or as much as four
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hundred thousand. You can close online. You can get your
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decision in five minutes, you can close in five days.
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secondary home, or even investment property. So if you want
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to get all the information on this and see if
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you're already approved, check it out by going to quick
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turn heelock dot com. So Helock is h e l oc,
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so it's just quick turn heelock dot com. Quick turn
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h e l oc, Quick turn heelock dot com and
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check that out. I saw this story and I had
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so many feelings that sadness, confusion. I have questions get
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this story. Former Eagles defensive tackle Kevin Johnson was found
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dead at a homeless encampment in the Los Angeles area
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with blunt head trauma and stab wounds. Age fifty five.
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Kevin Johnson former Eagle Eagles, Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Kevin Johnson,
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and I had so many questions about this. I'm thinking
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to myself, first of all, how does a guy go
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from you know, being in the NFL to being homeless,
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to living on the streets and then dying you know
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obviously from violence from being on the streets. I'm gonna
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type this in my computer. I am curious how many
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years he played? And this is so many times the story.
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He he must have had a lot of money at
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one point in time. Let's see your ex NFL player died. Okay,
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let me just put in his name into Wikipedia and
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we'll see how many years he played. So many of
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these NFL players they are unfortunately, you know, they're not
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good with money and well I just can't find it.
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So but in any case, it really is sad when
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you think about it. You know that a man with
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this kind of talent to end up being homeless, but
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then even worse than homeless, you know the fact that
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he ends up dying in such a violent way. Oh,
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here we go, Kevin Lamar Johnson Wikipedia defensive tackle. Wow,
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look at this. He played for multiple teams New England Patriots,
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the Vikings, the Raiders, the Eagles, Orlando Predators. That's not
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NFL but minor league years. He played for years. So
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he came out of Texas Southern. He was a fourth
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round draft pick and started his career in the NFL.
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It looks like in nineteen ninety three and becomes homeless
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and dies after being stabbed and beaten to death.
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How sad is that?
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And I always I'm always fascinated with these stories of
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people that are famous at some level and then they
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have nothing. And the Susan Powder documentary is a great
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one if that's something that interests you. If you remember
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Susan and Powder, stop the insanity, because I've been there myself.
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I have gone broke a couple of times. One from
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my embezzlement and then another one. I lost most of
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my money in the divorce I went through three years ago.
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When I'll be honest, He's a like, look, I have
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no money, but I'm famous, and I've been there. I
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have been in that situation where people see me online
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and they think, oh, that's Jim Parris. You know, he
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used to own a national investment company and had his
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own TV show and radio show, and he must be
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worth lots of money. And then you know, to sit,
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you know, talk to somebody one I want and say no,
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I'm struggling for food.
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And I have been in that boat a couple of
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times and money.
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Many of you know from the book I wrote in
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twenty twelve about the embezzlement. But it is a fascinating
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dilemma to be in. Can you imagine you're a former
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and f professional football player, you end up on the streets,
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then you end up being killed in this way. So
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how many of you remember Roger verr Ver Roger Verr
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He had been on the show, I know at least once.
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He may have been with us a couple of times,
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but he was facing many decades in prison for tax evasion,
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and he went by the moniker Bitcoin Jesus because he
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was a very very early adopter of bitcoin and was
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sort of a bitcoin evangelist. So then they started calling
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him Bitcoin Jesus. No offense meant, but that's what his
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nickname was. And he was on an island off the
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coast of Spain, had been indicted on many, many counts
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of tax charges and Trump was able to worked this
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deal out, and I guess he settled with the government
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for I think it was forty nine million he paid
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and now he's good to go. So I don't know
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how much money altogether he has. I know he has
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a lot of money, and he was able to resolve this.
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And Trump has been very friendly to people in the
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cryptocurrency world, and that's something kind of unique about Trump.
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He's seems to have a soft spot in his heart
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for people who have run a foul of the law
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because of cryptocurrency. And so here we go. Roger Verr
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is now apparently able to just go forward with his life.
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Interesting guy. I found this statistic really fascinating. Seventy one
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percent of realtors didn't sell a single home last year.
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And one of my friends is a real estate agent.
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in Palm Coast and where I used to live before
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I moved over here to Orlando. And he posted this
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on his Facebook page, and it's really staggering if you
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think about this. I mean, I've always known that a
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lot of real estate agents are just part timers. It's
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kind of like something in Florida here anyway, that people
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do during retirement. They get a real estate license. Gives
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them a little something to do to get out of
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the house, and maybe if they sell a house or
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two a year, it's a little bit extra money, maybe
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to go on some cruises or whatnot. But this idea
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that across the country seventy one percent of realtors didn't
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sell even a single home last year, it's mind blowing.
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I have my real estate license. I've had a real
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estate license on and off since nineteen eighty six here
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in Florida, and I can just tell you that this
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really is all connected to these higher interest rates. When
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I say higher, they're not high historically. I mean paying
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six percent for a mortgage, is that actually historically not
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a bad rate. But it's just if you combine the
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increase in property values with the higher rate, it just
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makes homes unaffordable in a lot of neighborhoods and a
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lot of cities across the country. And people don't want
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to sell their house that has the two or three
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percent mortgage on it and then go out to buy
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the new house and get a six percent mortgage.
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They're not interested in doing that.
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locked in to what they already have, and a lot
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of people sitting on the sidelines waiting either for the
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prices to come down or the mortgage rates to come down,
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or maybe a little bit of both. And the market's
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kind of frozen in most parts of the country.
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As a result. And we'll close it out with this.
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If you're somebody who is planning to visit the theme
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parks in Florida, and who isn't everybody comes to Disney
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and Universal and all that good stuff, there is supposedly
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a deadly virus making its way through the crowds at
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Disney and Universal in this just whole area where all
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these attractions are in theme parks, and it is an
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influenza strain that they said is highly contagious, highly contagious.
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And they found that the these theme parks are a
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really dangerous They called it a fertile breeding ground for influenza.
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And if you see people walking around with those little
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containers of the hand sanitizer and washing their hands a
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lot and all that, and you maybe think that person's
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a little bit nuts, a little bit o CD not
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the case. These are the smart ones, and I'm not
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that person. I should do more of that. But you know,
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when I'm at the law school, I'm around a lot
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of people, and I'm always careful to wash my hands
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really well. But it is getting to be more and
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more dangerous to get into these crowds. When you get
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into a theme park situation. I don't know if you've
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been to a theme park lately, but even not just
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inside the Disney theme parks, but even just like the
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Disney hotels or the Disney shopping area, the so called
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they call it the Disney Springs area. You're, I mean,
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literally elbow to elbow with people. It's like Times Square
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on New Year's Eve. You are, you know, people are
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pressed up, pressed up against you, behind you, in front
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of you. It's extremely close courts and I don't know
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about you know, the six foot social distance saying and
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all of that. I think that was a little bit overboard.
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But this is the other extreme. This is where you're
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in line at Disney and you can literally feel the
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person behind you breathing. I'm the back neck, and that's
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when it's too close and it's not healthy to be
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that close. And then you're touching everything, all these railings
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that you know are there, you can't help you're touching it,
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and you're on the rides and you're touching the ride
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and someone was just sitting in there where your hands
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are now and you're sitting These are not safe places
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to go when you have these viruses spreading. And it
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was just one a week or two ago. I think
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here another cruise ship was hit where the whole ship
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everybody got sick. So I don't know if it seems
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to me like there's more of this happening. Maybe maybe
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I'm wrong, but it seems like we have more of
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these kind of outbreaks. I don't remember these things happening
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thirty years ago. I mean, yeah, people got the flu,
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people got sick on you know this or that, But
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it just seems like it's more, these strains of these
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viruses are getting and more contagious, I believe so. Maybe
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it's just sort of my own impression of things, but
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you just got to be careful anymore. And a lot
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of people are starting to wear masks again. I'm not
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sure what that's about, but even at the law school,
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I'm seeing people coming in wearing masks. So I guess
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it's just that time of year where you know, the
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flu is something to be concerned about. All right, everybody,
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have a great week. Good to be back with you.
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God bless we'll talk to you next time. So long, everybody,
