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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome once again to the MC squared podcast.
My name is Andrew McNeil and injust a little bit you're going
to hear the majority of anepisode that we recorded.
We had some technicaldifficulty at the beginning of
the, at the beginning of theshow.
It's episode 28.
And I'll be joined with my cohost, jimmy McKenna.
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We take a dive into a lot ofthe crazy events surrounding the
assassination attempt onPresident Trump, as well as
reviewing some of the RepublicanNational Convention highlights
and some of our thoughts.
So it was a really livelydiscussion.
We had a great time and, again,thank you all for listening.
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And uh, here is that podcast.
Well, I don't even know wherewe were, but it doesn't even
matter.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So we were finishing up with the uh, you were talking
about hulk hogan, but I don'tknow where it cut us off yeah,
well, so we're finishing up witha republican convention.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Uh, did you watch president trump's speech?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
no, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, it was super long, oh really, yeah, it was
the longest accepting speech inhistory.
Now, and what's sad about thatis the first part of it was
excellent.
I mean, it was all good, fine,the first part of it was really
good.
And then he said something atthe very end of his speech when
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I've got to believe so manypeople were nodding off and it
was so good, so excellent.
And he said basically and I'venever heard him talk this way
but he said, basically, I'mtrying to change I'm
paraphrasing, I should have itwritten out but I'm changing
your expectations.
Whatever your expectations are,I'm telling you they're too low
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.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And it's not even talking about himself, it's
talking about America.
Your expectations are too low,and I just thought that was
phenomenal.
Okay, so, real quick, I'm goingto talk to my producer here.
Don't have any other screensopen.
That eats up memory on thatcomputer like nobody's business.
Let's just trust that it'sgoing to go and if it says it's
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With that laptop, I've had hugememory problems.
Anyway, technical questions, soyeah.
So, folks, again, we are not onFacebook live, we took that
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Send us your questions, yourcomments.
Biden's going to address thenation here, supposedly at 8
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o'clock.
Do you think it's AI or is itgoing?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
to actually be.
Well, I've thought a lot aboutthat, so I don't.
You know.
Some might say he has a doubleor something like that.
You know, some might say he hasa double or something like that
.
I think the technology rightnow is too good to detect that.
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Really.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I think there's too many people waiting for
that.
So, honestly, I think it'sgoing to be obvious.
This is the reason why.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, so so the enemy never does anything different,
done the same thing from thebeginning, and we know this with
with the trump assassination,all these different things, and
I think that the exposure hasstarted over these last couple
weeks, it's true, and people'seyes are being opened up.
That weren't before, and so Ithink that if it isn't the real
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deal, we're going to know.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah Well, and to your point, they exposed pretty
quickly that the resignationletter was not his signature.
Very quickly, very quickly.
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And then they I mean Joe Roganbroke it down to where he like
proved that the audio call in toKam enough sense to know, man,
this party does not deserve ourvote.
They have lied to us sothoroughly and so bold-faced to
our faces over the past fouryears, and not just with Biden,
obviously.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But COVID, and I mean all of this stuff.
Well, for everybody who wouldsee it for what it is, they
would say that, yeah, but theproblem is the media, right, the
problem is the way the mediathey try to manipulate.
Every single thing and I meanthere's a lot of people to blame
in politics is the way themedia they try to manipulate
every single thing.
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Okay, so let me say this I mean, there's a lot of people to
blame in politics, there's a lotof deception there, but the
media is the deceiver.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Absolutely so.
Rush always made the point thatthe media is the Democrat Party
.
The media is the Democrat Party, and what you notice is just
eerily these folks will say thesame Party the media is the
Democrat Party and what younotice is just eerily these
folks will say the same phrases.
They'll fall into lockstep.
It doesn't matter what networkyou're looking at.
When a major event like theassassination or the debate
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debacle happened, they were allspeaking the same thing
immediately, like they got theirmarching orders.
But Rush used to make the pointthat the media was the driving
arm of the Democratic Party.
In other words, the Democraticofficials took their cue from
the media.
So they work hand in hand.
You can't separate politicsfrom the media.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, I mean they did all the work for them, yeah.
So then there's these peoplethat would, if they could see it
for what it is, they would sayno way, right.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But then they're fed this stuff over and over on the
24-hour stream and if you hearsomething enough times, even if
you started out believing, Idon't think it's totally true.
Or maybe this isn't real orthis has got to be.
That's not true by the timeyou've heard it the 15th time
and every media outlet saying it, they're all saying it.
I mean they're all sayingBiden's fine.
I mean what's wrong with you?
I mean I know you saw himstumble and fall going up the
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stairs to Air Force One threetimes, you know, but that I mean
he's fine.
So do you think he shows?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
up tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yes, I think I heard somebody else who had a theory
and because there's been a lotof rumors, the problem going on
with this?
It has the feel.
Do you remember when Gorbachevhad the coup, they removed him.
Do you remember this?
So they had a coup.
They had an actual coup and thecommunists tried to take over
again because Gorbachev wasdoing perestroika and all the
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reforms and the old guardcommunists didn't like it.
So this is very similar.
So Biden wouldn't leave.
So this is kind of like the oldguard is going to do a coup,
they're going to get rid ofBiden.
So they got rid of Gorbachev,they hold him up in his vacation
home and these really oldcommunists all lined up I think
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they had six rulers and they'reall taken over again.
Well, it failed miserably.
But this is the kind of rumorsand what's going on?
And where is he?
Is he dead?
Well, this feels the same waywith the president.
There's clearly a politicalcoup within the Democratic Party
to take him out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And acquiring COVID at that specific time.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh yeah, that's so, so convenient All very so I very
odd.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean, it's really surprising, because I've heard
he was vaxxed and boosted.
Oh yeah, but that just right.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
One of the theories was that they were that he
wasn't actually dying, becausethere was there was a lot of
rumors out that he was dying, hewas near death and blah, blah,
blah.
One of the other theories Iheard was that he wasn't
actually dying.
It's just that they couldn'ttrust him not to spill the beans
before if he got in front of amicrophone, and that makes a lot
of sense.
That fact that makes more senseto me than that he's on death's
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door which is what we heard.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I mean it would be.
I think, honestly, if he's ondeath's door, something else
happened.
Oh yeah, I mean something elsehappened.
It wasn't COVID.
I mean you think I was thinkingabout this, and I hate to think
about it, but I was thinkingabout.
You know, they have thesedoctors that come in to help
treat them.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
All it takes is one overdose, and it's not
necessarily an overdose of amedication that kills you
instantly.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's an overdose or a misdose of a medication that
kills you instantly.
So that's an overdose or amisdose of a medication that
kills your kidneys, yeah, sothen you stop filtering and then
he's already decompensated, butanyway.
I mean it just takes a verysmall slip of a medical error
that could cause it, and thenyou know, I mean, are they going
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to go back and look at it?
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
They won't.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But anyway, I mean how much money is being thrown
around in this situation?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
to get him out.
So I think there is.
I mean, do you think Trump'sgoing to win?
Yeah, yeah.
Do you think the Democrats aregoing to give up on the
presidential race?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So I think that's.
An interesting thing I've heardis that I thought they
initially I heard they weregoing to leave Biden in and then
just kind of let him take allthe heat and then go down.
Now I'm kind of feeling likethey might let Kamala be in, let
her take it, because they needrid of her anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
She's kind of a.
She's more unpopular than Biden.
She's very unpopular.
She's not an Obama, she's notsmooth, she's not, she's very
and she cannot be their face forfour years.
So honestly, if they're, Idon't think that they should put
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up a good candidate againstTrump.
The problem is that they willfight to do anything to win,
because they're going to beexposed Both sides.
He's done, and this is thebeauty.
Brandy said that he thinks yourmic is dead.
Who did Brandy?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He said thinks your mic is dead.
Who did Brandy?
He said he can hear.
You Can't hear me.
I think you got to tilt it downa little bit and you got to
stay near it oh sweet.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
There you go Cool Dead mic baby, there you go,
dead mic.
I am back a little far.
Yeah, you're back a little farso anyway, I anyway, I, I fully
kind of goes into trump'sdecision for jd vance and I
think it does seem like aninteresting decision.
I absolutely love it.
(10:30):
Yeah, main reason is is becauseanybody in leadership needs to
surround themselves.
This is right along the linesof Micah Beckwith and Braun
surround yourself with somebodywho does not have your exact
views.
And it's obvious that back whenJD Vance a few years ago, right
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, did not have Trump's views,yeah, but he came around.
He came around back when Trumpwas kind of really kind of
unpopular, like 2021 or so?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
No, it's been a while .
He came back back when Trumpwas really kind of unpopular,
like 2021 or so, right, no, it'sbeen a while he came back
around then.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But his history of his childhood trauma and what
he's been through is exactlywhat this country needs.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's Midwest America.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Middle America.
Middle America it really is,because our future is based upon
the next generation.
Yeah, yeah, and right now thereare so much trauma being done
and generational trauma and somany other problems that he got
through.
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Yeah, he got through, yeah, andI'm really hopeful in the fact
that, when Trump was making thisdecision, I know for one.
I really believe it's a God-leddecision, that he's doing this
and he's thinking about the nextgeneration.
This is not like I'm going tohave four years and he probably
understands now it's hard to getanything done in four years,
right, but if I set this thingup for my grandchildren, and
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their grandchildren especiallyhis grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I'm sure he's thinking about that now.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
How can I set this up for my grandchildren?
Because people with that typeof leadership skills that he has
and that type of business, thattype of money, they never make
investments based upon whatthey're going to get tomorrow,
next year, a year from that.
It's always based on what'sgoing to come in the future.
So that's why I like and youknow, actually I was able to
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watch one of JD Vance's TEDtalks from seven years ago- oh,
really, he did a TED talk, rightOkay.
It's really good.
It was back when he I think theinitial video of him that he
did with the movie that turned avideo of him that he did with
the book that turned into amovie.
He really explained it well inthis TED Talk.
He was straight up in there.
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I'm sure a lot of people in theroom were like what?
When he said a few things?
This was seven years ago.
This guy's grown over the lastseven years.
He was probably 30 then.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He's 37 now.
He he was probably 30.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Then, yeah Right, he's 37, now he's 39.
39.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So 32 then, yeah, anyway, well, and for all the
folks that have said thatTrump's a narcissist because
you'll hear that all the timehe's a narcissist.
No, narcissist sets up asuccession, a proper succession,
that's right.
They don't.
They don't they a propersuccession, that's right.
They don't, they don't, theycan't think, they don't even
want one, because they wantpeople to always remember them
and they were the pinnacle ofeverything.
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Now Trump will say that, whichis so funny.
But you know, and he'll spit,but he's not narcissistic.
In fact, what you hear frompeople who know him is wow, the
media representation of this manis so 180 degrees out of whack.
He's the kindest, most generousperson I've ever met and
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honestly, I've heard thosestories long before he was even
president, I mean when he was onthe Apprentice Show and all
this sort of stuff.
And you look into his life, hehas always been a very, very
generous, kind person.
You're never going to hear thatout of the media, but it is.
It is what it was.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
He is young, but it could be areally good thing for the
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Republican party and for thiscountry.
So I'm pretty happy about that.
Yeah, and he's not going tofight, fight.
He's not going to fight Trump.
And hey, if the Democrats stealanother election, he's not
going to sit there and certifyit, he's not going to Anyway,
okay, so we've got Biden goingon locally.
I don't know if you wanted totalk about this at all.
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I know this isn't presidentialpolitics, but we just had a
pretty tragic loss of life herein Vigo County with Sheriff John
Plassie passing away.
They announced that today frompancreatic cancer, and I knew
that he you know, two years agohe ran for re-election was
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diagnosed with it, but theprognosis would be, it would be
good and that he would make it.
Honestly.
Our thoughts and our prayersare with the Vigo County
Sheriff's Department, the familyof John Plassie and his loved
ones, the ones that cared abouthim.
He was a great guy, everybodyboth sides of the aisle.
He was a different party thanus, but so many people loved him
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, respected him, would followhim anywhere, and Vigo County is
much poorer tonight because ofthat and I just, I just think
the community is probablyhurting a little bit.
They're going to have toreplace him.
Nobody's going to be able tofill those shoes, but uh, I
thought before we ended.
I mean, let's say we're goingto end now, but before we ended
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I did want to get that out there.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Um that's the community we live in, and I
think I think the only criticismhe ever received was that he
protected his officers too well.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, that's I mean, and that's yeah, heck, yeah as a
leader.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
yeah, as a leader, I mean that's such a great thing
to.
I mean for all of us to learnfrom.
Is that, you know he made sureand it was never about
militarizing or whatever, it wasnever that he wanted to make
sure those people were protected.
Yeah, because I think he wasthere for Officer Pitts when he
was shot yes.
I think he was one of the guyson the scene first and after.
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You would be able to seesomething like that and you had
the power to be able to preventit in another time.
You would do everything youcould.
And I think that his leadershipwas ordained for this time that
we had here and I'm sure thathe was thinking about setting up
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leadership, going forward andbringing up leaders under him.
Yeah, but that's a pretty majorloss and he fought so hard that
pancreatic cancer is.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's brutal, it's usually a death sentence.
I've lost a good friend topancreatic cancer, and it was
quick.
He fought this for well overtwo years.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, and went through many different
procedures up and down andfought.
I mean he fought in the Marine.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Corps.
Was he a Marine?
That I don't know.
He was in the military.
He was in the military.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And fought in Iraq over there, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So that's kind of a sad note.
Just so much going on right now.
It's just kind of a crazy time.
I was taking some time away.
If you notice, I'm a little bitfor those of you who see I'm a
little bit tanner than usual andit's because I was frying out
on the pool at Shackamack StatePark.
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Me and the family went out andcamped for three days and had a
really good time.
Cool Is the pool still prettynice.
That pool is amazing.
Honestly, it is so cool.
Me and Grace and Drew went downthose slides over and over and
over again.
I'm actually pretty sore fromwalking through that tower so
many times to get up to it, butif you guys get an opportunity.
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Shackamack's a great park.
Their campgrounds are myfavorite of all the state parks.
Andack's a great park.
Their campgrounds are myfavorite of all the state parks
and that's a great pool.
So it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We just chilled out it was a good time to go camping
.
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It was good, and you can't normally you don't
normally get weather like whatwe were able to get.
So it kind of chiseled that out.
But I wanted to come back.
I wanted to do this podcastbecause there's so much going on
.
I did want to comment oneverything.
Sometimes it's just happeningso fast.
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But I just feel like overall,that there's kind of a
reassurance that after theassassination attempt there's
kind of the pre and the post andwhen that assassination attempt
and I didn't realize this untila little bit later but that
there were three bullets thatwent by him at that time.
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Did you realize that Three?
And if he had moved his head atany time, I mean we would have
lost him and things would havebeen so different, so different.
And I just felt like God, youare in control, you're involved
in this and you're doingsomething here.
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It's kind of an honor to behere at this time and be a part
of history and what's happening.
There's then a mission forDonald Trump.
There's a mission that hehasn't completed yet and God is
going to make sure he completesit.
I love what he said at theconvention.
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Was that except?
The only reason I'm here is bythe grace of God, because you
can't attribute it to the secretservice.
They didn't save him.
You can only attribute that tothe hand of God saving his life.
So he's got a purpose tofulfill.
That gives me hope.
Two years ago, I mean, I wrote apiece.
It's on my blog, it's way backin the cause.
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It was two years ago but I justfelt at the time I had hope for
America because of I could see.
I mean, I'm not necessarily themost perceptive person, but
eventually you start to seethings and I just thought, with
Elon Musk, tucker Carlson andDonald Trump, it was clear to me
God was raising up these peoplewho maybe weren't, you know,
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the most Christian people.
They weren't pastors andevangelists, but they were going
to mold and save America.
They were culture shifters, ifyou will, or they were able to
disciple the nation towards agoal that God has for America.
He's not done with.
America and that's I mean that'sa really Sometimes you wonder,
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I mean it's gotten.
I take a lot of hope, I take alot of encouragement from that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And I hope people do too.
They're watching or listeningbecause I think that it can get
very dark and you think, okay,as a Christian, okay, when are
we getting out of here?
Right but we're not called toget out of here.
No, we're called to change.
Yeah, we're called to changethis earth.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And so.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I think that there's been a lot of hope that's come
out of this.
Yeah, I mean, I saw someinteresting models of the head
tilt.
Yeah, I'm sure almosteverybody's seen the picture of
the head tilt and that weirdthing how he he always kind of
tilts his head weird I'll behonest, but he tilted his head
that last second and they showed.
If he didn't do that, I meanobviously you can take him on
the back of his head off.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it was thatclose, and I also heard that he
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rewrote his speech.
Right yeah, he did, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
After that experience yeah, I mean.
So he may have put the otherspeech on it too.
Well, that's what I feel likehappened.
It was the rewriting the speech, and then I'm going to add the
other speech, because he wentthrough point by point of the
platform.
Folks said, listen, hey, hejust survived.
He wasn't expected to live, hejust survived an assassination.
He can talk however long hewants, and that's absolutely
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true, but I'm like I just wantto see the balloons drop.
I just want to see.
We had me and the kids, and thekids are like their eyes are
drooping.
It's like we just want to seethe balloons.
And those balloons were amazing, if you ever, if you got to see
it at the end Not yeah, becauseyou were long, you were yeah.
Anyway, it was really cool.
It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I'm excited, but my hope isn't in politics or
politicians, it is in the Lord.
But the fact that God'sinvolved, he's on the scene, he,
he's on the scene, he's takingover the politics of this.
And just to hear how manypeople mention the Lord yeah, I
mean it's like God is doingsomething here.
I think the fields are ripe fora harvest and I think I mean
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our churches right now actuallyare seeing increases in
attendance everywhere.
I think maybe this nextgeneration starting to return to
church, is that possible?
Is that a trend?
I think it is a trend I'd liketo look at.
You know, barna is the one whoused to does a lot of, you know,
studies in church.
I have to do some research onthat or if anybody knows that.
But because what we've seenlocally is a lot of young
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families are returning to church, coming to church, and that's a
net positive for America,that's a net positive for our
communities, because we hear thetruth, we get our hearts and
lives right with God and weclean our consciences and we get
out there and we start to livedifferently, and that affects
everybody in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So I'm excited.
What did you say?
You said?
He said at the end of hisspeech what was it again?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He just looked right at the camera and he said I just
want to tell you, whatever yourexpectations are, they're too
low and I'm wanting to changeyour expectations to be higher.
Whatever they are, they need tobe higher.
And I'm like and again I'mparaphrasing, but that's pretty
close to it, certainly in thespirit of it, and here I'm
drooping waiting for theballoons to drop, but I'm like
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wow, that is a prophetic,powerful statement that I don't
even know if he understood howpowerful that was, but that is.
I think that's a message to thebody of Christ Change your
perspective and yourexpectations.
What your expectations were forAmerica, they're too low.
I mean, what if the Lord wassaying that to you and to us and
to me and to the body of Christ?
I mean take Trump out of it,because I think that's where
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people, a lot of people, stumble, a lot of Christians stumble.
They go oh, trump, what ifGod's using him like he?
I mean not to be disrespectful,but what if God's using him
like he used the donkey?
What if God's using him like heused any of the people in the
Bible that weren't evenChristians and just would say
something?
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What if God's saying I wantyour expectations of America,
whatever they are.
I want them to be higher.
I've got I, god's, saying, Ihave a purpose for America that
you have yet to see.
If that's the case, man, thebody of Christ needs to get
active.
We are being way too passivehere and letting a society just
slide off into the abyss, andwe're not.
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I mean, it's all going to hellsomeday.
No, maybe it's not.
Maybe it's not supposed to.
I don't know.
I love Tucker Carlson becausehe just said you know, is God
for me or am I for God?
Well, I'll tell you what.
One thing's for sure he's here,he's in our midst, and that's
good enough, and that's pretty.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I was thinking about what Trump said even farther
than I just think about it froma father's perspective.
Okay, and I'm not saying he'snot called to father a nation or
anything like that, I don'tbelieve that.
But the words that he said ifthere were the next generation
of children or young peoplehearing that from their father,
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hold on, yeah, yeah, hold onthat from their father.
Yeah, hold on, yeah, yeah, holdon.
Because if you're able toengage the next generation by
telling them your expectationsare too low, yeah, that's
awesome and I mean and we hadinvolved fathers in our lives
but there's so many of so manyof young kids and even
middle-aged people and justamericans that have had not had
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fathers involved in their lives.
To tell them something likethat, like you're setting your
bar too low, yeah, yeah, there'smore to this, yeah, and those
that simple phrase can setsomebody absolutely on fire.
And I think about and I go backto JD Vance, but he was one of
the situations that he had acouple people in his life that
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were a train wreck but turned itaround at the right time, and
then the Marines did it for himtoo, because it was some
father-type figure for him.
And I think that's where we'recalled in our age is to help to
steward the next generation.
Well, I'm somebody younger, butyeah, yes, something like that.
Yes, that's not what.
I meant Right, but anyway Ithought those are kind of really
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those are strong words from,like, a father's perspective.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, over a country, and a lot of people don't
realize the power of those wordsblessing and cursing.
They don't realize the power ofit and it is powerful.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You've got to.
If you're a dad, you got towatch what you say.
Oh, everybody's been on bothsides of it.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, everybody's been on both yeah, and and then
receiving it too.
So yeah, yeah, well, we'regonna probably uh wrap up here.
We didn't want to go too longand obviously we had some pretty
bad technical uh issues in themiddle of this, but hopefully
we've got it.
Some of it ironed out.
We'll try to figure out if weneed more bandwidth in our, in
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Yeah, and you can't separate it either.
Do you think?
No, you can't, you can'tseparate it.
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Thank you so much for watchingthese and listening.
Also, if you're listening,because we have a lot of
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That's probably about it.
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That's it, and we'll see you see you not too long
from now.
Welcome once again to the MC squared podcast.
My name is Andrew McNeil and injust a little bit you're going
to hear the majority of anepisode that we recorded.
We had some technicaldifficulty at the beginning of
the, at the beginning of theshow.
It's episode 28.
And I'll be joined with my cohost, jimmy McKenna.
(00:21):
We take a dive into a lot ofthe crazy events surrounding the
assassination attempt onPresident Trump, as well as
reviewing some of the RepublicanNational Convention highlights
and some of our thoughts.
So it was a really livelydiscussion.
We had a great time and, again,thank you all for listening.
(00:44):
And uh, here is that podcast.
Well, I don't even know wherewe were, but it doesn't even
matter.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So we were finishing up with the uh, you were talking
about hulk hogan, but I don'tknow where it cut us off yeah,
well, so we're finishing up witha republican convention.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Uh, did you watch president trump's speech?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
no, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, it was super long, oh really, yeah, it was
the longest accepting speech inhistory.
Now, and what's sad about thatis the first part of it was
excellent.
I mean, it was all good, fine,the first part of it was really
good.
And then he said something atthe very end of his speech when
(01:23):
I've got to believe so manypeople were nodding off and it
was so good, so excellent.
And he said basically and I'venever heard him talk this way
but he said, basically, I'mtrying to change I'm
paraphrasing, I should have itwritten out but I'm changing
your expectations.
Whatever your expectations are,I'm telling you they're too low
(01:45):
.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And it's not even talking about himself, it's
talking about America.
Your expectations are too low,and I just thought that was
phenomenal.
Okay, so, real quick, I'm goingto talk to my producer here.
Don't have any other screensopen.
That eats up memory on thatcomputer like nobody's business.
Let's just trust that it'sgoing to go and if it says it's
offline, we'll go from there.
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Okay, yep, and I cause I couldbe some of the issue with that.
With that laptop, I've had hugememory problems.
Anyway, technical questions, soyeah.
So, folks, again, we are not onFacebook live, we took that
offline but we are on X and weare on YouTube.
Send us your questions, yourcomments.
Biden's going to address thenation here, supposedly at 8
(02:31):
o'clock.
Do you think it's AI or is itgoing?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
to actually be.
Well, I've thought a lot aboutthat, so I don't.
You know.
Some might say he has a doubleor something like that.
You know, some might say he hasa double or something like that
.
I think the technology rightnow is too good to detect that.
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Really.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I think there's too many people waiting for
that.
So, honestly, I think it'sgoing to be obvious.
This is the reason why.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, so so the enemy never does anything different,
done the same thing from thebeginning, and we know this with
with the trump assassination,all these different things, and
I think that the exposure hasstarted over these last couple
weeks, it's true, and people'seyes are being opened up.
That weren't before, and so Ithink that if it isn't the real
(03:29):
deal, we're going to know.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah Well, and to your point, they exposed pretty
quickly that the resignationletter was not his signature.
Very quickly, very quickly.
(04:10):
And then they I mean Joe Roganbroke it down to where he like
proved that the audio call in toKam enough sense to know, man,
this party does not deserve ourvote.
They have lied to us sothoroughly and so bold-faced to
our faces over the past fouryears, and not just with Biden,
obviously.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But COVID, and I mean all of this stuff.
Well, for everybody who wouldsee it for what it is, they
would say that, yeah, but theproblem is the media, right, the
problem is the way the mediathey try to manipulate.
Every single thing and I meanthere's a lot of people to blame
in politics is the way themedia they try to manipulate
every single thing.
(04:47):
Okay, so let me say this I mean, there's a lot of people to
blame in politics, there's a lotof deception there, but the
media is the deceiver.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Absolutely so.
Rush always made the point thatthe media is the Democrat Party
.
The media is the Democrat Party, and what you notice is just
eerily these folks will say thesame Party the media is the
Democrat Party and what younotice is just eerily these
folks will say the same phrases.
They'll fall into lockstep.
It doesn't matter what networkyou're looking at.
When a major event like theassassination or the debate
(05:16):
debacle happened, they were allspeaking the same thing
immediately, like they got theirmarching orders.
But Rush used to make the pointthat the media was the driving
arm of the Democratic Party.
In other words, the Democraticofficials took their cue from
the media.
So they work hand in hand.
You can't separate politicsfrom the media.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, I mean they did all the work for them, yeah.
So then there's these peoplethat would, if they could see it
for what it is, they would sayno way, right.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But then they're fed this stuff over and over on the
24-hour stream and if you hearsomething enough times, even if
you started out believing, Idon't think it's totally true.
Or maybe this isn't real orthis has got to be.
That's not true by the timeyou've heard it the 15th time
and every media outlet saying it, they're all saying it.
I mean they're all sayingBiden's fine.
I mean what's wrong with you?
I mean I know you saw himstumble and fall going up the
(06:10):
stairs to Air Force One threetimes, you know, but that I mean
he's fine.
So do you think he shows?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
up tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yes, I think I heard somebody else who had a theory
and because there's been a lotof rumors, the problem going on
with this?
It has the feel.
Do you remember when Gorbachevhad the coup, they removed him.
Do you remember this?
So they had a coup.
They had an actual coup and thecommunists tried to take over
again because Gorbachev wasdoing perestroika and all the
(06:42):
reforms and the old guardcommunists didn't like it.
So this is very similar.
So Biden wouldn't leave.
So this is kind of like the oldguard is going to do a coup,
they're going to get rid ofBiden.
So they got rid of Gorbachev,they hold him up in his vacation
home and these really oldcommunists all lined up I think
(07:02):
they had six rulers and they'reall taken over again.
Well, it failed miserably.
But this is the kind of rumorsand what's going on?
And where is he?
Is he dead?
Well, this feels the same waywith the president.
There's clearly a politicalcoup within the Democratic Party
to take him out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And acquiring COVID at that specific time.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh yeah, that's so, so convenient All very so I very
odd.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean, it's really surprising, because I've heard
he was vaxxed and boosted.
Oh yeah, but that just right.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
One of the theories was that they were that he
wasn't actually dying, becausethere was there was a lot of
rumors out that he was dying, hewas near death and blah, blah,
blah.
One of the other theories Iheard was that he wasn't
actually dying.
It's just that they couldn'ttrust him not to spill the beans
before if he got in front of amicrophone, and that makes a lot
of sense.
That fact that makes more senseto me than that he's on death's
(08:00):
door which is what we heard.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I mean it would be.
I think, honestly, if he's ondeath's door, something else
happened.
Oh yeah, I mean something elsehappened.
It wasn't COVID.
I mean you think I was thinkingabout this, and I hate to think
about it, but I was thinkingabout.
You know, they have thesedoctors that come in to help
treat them.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
All it takes is one overdose, and it's not
necessarily an overdose of amedication that kills you
instantly.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's an overdose or a misdose of a medication that
kills you instantly.
So that's an overdose or amisdose of a medication that
kills your kidneys, yeah, sothen you stop filtering and then
he's already decompensated, butanyway.
I mean it just takes a verysmall slip of a medical error
that could cause it, and thenyou know, I mean, are they going
(08:43):
to go back and look at it?
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
They won't.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But anyway, I mean how much money is being thrown
around in this situation?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
to get him out.
So I think there is.
I mean, do you think Trump'sgoing to win?
Yeah, yeah.
Do you think the Democrats aregoing to give up on the
presidential race?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So I think that's.
An interesting thing I've heardis that I thought they
initially I heard they weregoing to leave Biden in and then
just kind of let him take allthe heat and then go down.
Now I'm kind of feeling likethey might let Kamala be in, let
her take it, because they needrid of her anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
She's kind of a.
She's more unpopular than Biden.
She's very unpopular.
She's not an Obama, she's notsmooth, she's not, she's very
and she cannot be their face forfour years.
So honestly, if they're, Idon't think that they should put
(09:45):
up a good candidate againstTrump.
The problem is that they willfight to do anything to win,
because they're going to beexposed Both sides.
He's done, and this is thebeauty.
Brandy said that he thinks yourmic is dead.
Who did Brandy?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He said thinks your mic is dead.
Who did Brandy?
He said he can hear.
You Can't hear me.
I think you got to tilt it downa little bit and you got to
stay near it oh sweet.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
There you go Cool Dead mic baby, there you go,
dead mic.
I am back a little far.
Yeah, you're back a little farso anyway, I anyway, I, I fully
kind of goes into trump'sdecision for jd vance and I
think it does seem like aninteresting decision.
I absolutely love it.
(10:30):
Yeah, main reason is is becauseanybody in leadership needs to
surround themselves.
This is right along the linesof Micah Beckwith and Braun
surround yourself with somebodywho does not have your exact
views.
And it's obvious that back whenJD Vance a few years ago, right
(10:52):
, did not have Trump's views,yeah, but he came around.
He came around back when Trumpwas kind of really kind of
unpopular, like 2021 or so?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
No, it's been a while .
He came back back when Trumpwas really kind of unpopular,
like 2021 or so, right, no, it'sbeen a while he came back
around then.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But his history of his childhood trauma and what
he's been through is exactlywhat this country needs.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's Midwest America.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Middle America.
Middle America it really is,because our future is based upon
the next generation.
Yeah, yeah, and right now thereare so much trauma being done
and generational trauma and somany other problems that he got
through.
(11:37):
Yeah, he got through, yeah, andI'm really hopeful in the fact
that, when Trump was making thisdecision, I know for one.
I really believe it's a God-leddecision, that he's doing this
and he's thinking about the nextgeneration.
This is not like I'm going tohave four years and he probably
understands now it's hard to getanything done in four years,
right, but if I set this thingup for my grandchildren, and
(12:02):
their grandchildren especiallyhis grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I'm sure he's thinking about that now.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
How can I set this up for my grandchildren?
Because people with that typeof leadership skills that he has
and that type of business, thattype of money, they never make
investments based upon whatthey're going to get tomorrow,
next year, a year from that.
It's always based on what'sgoing to come in the future.
So that's why I like and youknow, actually I was able to
(12:27):
watch one of JD Vance's TEDtalks from seven years ago- oh,
really, he did a TED talk, rightOkay.
It's really good.
It was back when he I think theinitial video of him that he
did with the movie that turned avideo of him that he did with
the book that turned into amovie.
He really explained it well inthis TED Talk.
He was straight up in there.
(12:48):
I'm sure a lot of people in theroom were like what?
When he said a few things?
This was seven years ago.
This guy's grown over the lastseven years.
He was probably 30 then.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He's 37 now.
He he was probably 30.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Then, yeah Right, he's 37, now he's 39.
39.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So 32 then, yeah, anyway, well, and for all the
folks that have said thatTrump's a narcissist because
you'll hear that all the timehe's a narcissist.
No, narcissist sets up asuccession, a proper succession,
that's right.
They don't.
They don't they a propersuccession, that's right.
They don't, they don't, theycan't think, they don't even
want one, because they wantpeople to always remember them
and they were the pinnacle ofeverything.
(13:25):
Now Trump will say that, whichis so funny.
But you know, and he'll spit,but he's not narcissistic.
In fact, what you hear frompeople who know him is wow, the
media representation of this manis so 180 degrees out of whack.
He's the kindest, most generousperson I've ever met and
(13:45):
honestly, I've heard thosestories long before he was even
president, I mean when he was onthe Apprentice Show and all
this sort of stuff.
And you look into his life, hehas always been a very, very
generous, kind person.
You're never going to hear thatout of the media, but it is.
It is what it was.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
He is young, but it could be areally good thing for the
(14:07):
Republican party and for thiscountry.
So I'm pretty happy about that.
Yeah, and he's not going tofight, fight.
He's not going to fight Trump.
And hey, if the Democrats stealanother election, he's not
going to sit there and certifyit, he's not going to Anyway,
okay, so we've got Biden goingon locally.
I don't know if you wanted totalk about this at all.
(14:28):
I know this isn't presidentialpolitics, but we just had a
pretty tragic loss of life herein Vigo County with Sheriff John
Plassie passing away.
They announced that today frompancreatic cancer, and I knew
that he you know, two years agohe ran for re-election was
(14:50):
diagnosed with it, but theprognosis would be, it would be
good and that he would make it.
Honestly.
Our thoughts and our prayersare with the Vigo County
Sheriff's Department, the familyof John Plassie and his loved
ones, the ones that cared abouthim.
He was a great guy, everybodyboth sides of the aisle.
He was a different party thanus, but so many people loved him
(15:14):
, respected him, would followhim anywhere, and Vigo County is
much poorer tonight because ofthat and I just, I just think
the community is probablyhurting a little bit.
They're going to have toreplace him.
Nobody's going to be able tofill those shoes, but uh, I
thought before we ended.
I mean, let's say we're goingto end now, but before we ended
(15:35):
I did want to get that out there.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Um that's the community we live in, and I
think I think the only criticismhe ever received was that he
protected his officers too well.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, that's I mean, and that's yeah, heck, yeah as a
leader.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
yeah, as a leader, I mean that's such a great thing
to.
I mean for all of us to learnfrom.
Is that, you know he made sureand it was never about
militarizing or whatever, it wasnever that he wanted to make
sure those people were protected.
Yeah, because I think he wasthere for Officer Pitts when he
was shot yes.
I think he was one of the guyson the scene first and after.
(16:12):
You would be able to seesomething like that and you had
the power to be able to preventit in another time.
You would do everything youcould.
And I think that his leadershipwas ordained for this time that
we had here and I'm sure thathe was thinking about setting up
(16:36):
leadership, going forward andbringing up leaders under him.
Yeah, but that's a pretty majorloss and he fought so hard that
pancreatic cancer is.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's brutal, it's usually a death sentence.
I've lost a good friend topancreatic cancer, and it was
quick.
He fought this for well overtwo years.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, and went through many different
procedures up and down andfought.
I mean he fought in the Marine.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Corps.
Was he a Marine?
That I don't know.
He was in the military.
He was in the military.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And fought in Iraq over there, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So that's kind of a sad note.
Just so much going on right now.
It's just kind of a crazy time.
I was taking some time away.
If you notice, I'm a little bitfor those of you who see I'm a
little bit tanner than usual andit's because I was frying out
on the pool at Shackamack StatePark.
(17:35):
Me and the family went out andcamped for three days and had a
really good time.
Cool Is the pool still prettynice.
That pool is amazing.
Honestly, it is so cool.
Me and Grace and Drew went downthose slides over and over and
over again.
I'm actually pretty sore fromwalking through that tower so
many times to get up to it, butif you guys get an opportunity.
(17:57):
Shackamack's a great park.
Their campgrounds are myfavorite of all the state parks.
Andack's a great park.
Their campgrounds are myfavorite of all the state parks
and that's a great pool.
So it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We just chilled out it was a good time to go camping
.
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It was good, and you can't normally you don't
normally get weather like whatwe were able to get.
So it kind of chiseled that out.
But I wanted to come back.
I wanted to do this podcastbecause there's so much going on
.
I did want to comment oneverything.
Sometimes it's just happeningso fast.
(18:33):
But I just feel like overall,that there's kind of a
reassurance that after theassassination attempt there's
kind of the pre and the post andwhen that assassination attempt
and I didn't realize this untila little bit later but that
there were three bullets thatwent by him at that time.
(18:53):
Did you realize that Three?
And if he had moved his head atany time, I mean we would have
lost him and things would havebeen so different, so different.
And I just felt like God, youare in control, you're involved
in this and you're doingsomething here.
(19:14):
It's kind of an honor to behere at this time and be a part
of history and what's happening.
There's then a mission forDonald Trump.
There's a mission that hehasn't completed yet and God is
going to make sure he completesit.
I love what he said at theconvention.
(19:36):
Was that except?
The only reason I'm here is bythe grace of God, because you
can't attribute it to the secretservice.
They didn't save him.
You can only attribute that tothe hand of God saving his life.
So he's got a purpose tofulfill.
That gives me hope.
Two years ago, I mean, I wrote apiece.
It's on my blog, it's way backin the cause.
(19:58):
It was two years ago but I justfelt at the time I had hope for
America because of I could see.
I mean, I'm not necessarily themost perceptive person, but
eventually you start to seethings and I just thought, with
Elon Musk, tucker Carlson andDonald Trump, it was clear to me
God was raising up these peoplewho maybe weren't, you know,
(20:19):
the most Christian people.
They weren't pastors andevangelists, but they were going
to mold and save America.
They were culture shifters, ifyou will, or they were able to
disciple the nation towards agoal that God has for America.
He's not done with.
America and that's I mean that'sa really Sometimes you wonder,
(20:42):
I mean it's gotten.
I take a lot of hope, I take alot of encouragement from that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And I hope people do too.
They're watching or listeningbecause I think that it can get
very dark and you think, okay,as a Christian, okay, when are
we getting out of here?
Right but we're not called toget out of here.
No, we're called to change.
Yeah, we're called to changethis earth.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And so.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I think that there's been a lot of hope that's come
out of this.
Yeah, I mean, I saw someinteresting models of the head
tilt.
Yeah, I'm sure almosteverybody's seen the picture of
the head tilt and that weirdthing how he he always kind of
tilts his head weird I'll behonest, but he tilted his head
that last second and they showed.
If he didn't do that, I meanobviously you can take him on
the back of his head off.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it was thatclose, and I also heard that he
(21:36):
rewrote his speech.
Right yeah, he did, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
After that experience yeah, I mean.
So he may have put the otherspeech on it too.
Well, that's what I feel likehappened.
It was the rewriting the speech, and then I'm going to add the
other speech, because he wentthrough point by point of the
platform.
Folks said, listen, hey, hejust survived.
He wasn't expected to live, hejust survived an assassination.
He can talk however long hewants, and that's absolutely
(22:00):
true, but I'm like I just wantto see the balloons drop.
I just want to see.
We had me and the kids, and thekids are like their eyes are
drooping.
It's like we just want to seethe balloons.
And those balloons were amazing, if you ever, if you got to see
it at the end Not yeah, becauseyou were long, you were yeah.
Anyway, it was really cool.
It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I'm excited, but my hope isn't in politics or
politicians, it is in the Lord.
But the fact that God'sinvolved, he's on the scene, he,
he's on the scene, he's takingover the politics of this.
And just to hear how manypeople mention the Lord yeah, I
mean it's like God is doingsomething here.
I think the fields are ripe fora harvest and I think I mean
(22:42):
our churches right now actuallyare seeing increases in
attendance everywhere.
I think maybe this nextgeneration starting to return to
church, is that possible?
Is that a trend?
I think it is a trend I'd liketo look at.
You know, barna is the one whoused to does a lot of, you know,
studies in church.
I have to do some research onthat or if anybody knows that.
But because what we've seenlocally is a lot of young
(23:06):
families are returning to church, coming to church, and that's a
net positive for America,that's a net positive for our
communities, because we hear thetruth, we get our hearts and
lives right with God and weclean our consciences and we get
out there and we start to livedifferently, and that affects
everybody in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So I'm excited.
What did you say?
You said?
He said at the end of hisspeech what was it again?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He just looked right at the camera and he said I just
want to tell you, whatever yourexpectations are, they're too
low and I'm wanting to changeyour expectations to be higher.
Whatever they are, they need tobe higher.
And I'm like and again I'mparaphrasing, but that's pretty
close to it, certainly in thespirit of it, and here I'm
drooping waiting for theballoons to drop, but I'm like
(24:01):
wow, that is a prophetic,powerful statement that I don't
even know if he understood howpowerful that was, but that is.
I think that's a message to thebody of Christ Change your
perspective and yourexpectations.
What your expectations were forAmerica, they're too low.
I mean, what if the Lord wassaying that to you and to us and
to me and to the body of Christ?
I mean take Trump out of it,because I think that's where
(24:23):
people, a lot of people, stumble, a lot of Christians stumble.
They go oh, trump, what ifGod's using him like he?
I mean not to be disrespectful,but what if God's using him
like he used the donkey?
What if God's using him like heused any of the people in the
Bible that weren't evenChristians and just would say
something?
(24:44):
What if God's saying I wantyour expectations of America,
whatever they are.
I want them to be higher.
I've got I, god's, saying, Ihave a purpose for America that
you have yet to see.
If that's the case, man, thebody of Christ needs to get
active.
We are being way too passivehere and letting a society just
slide off into the abyss, andwe're not.
(25:04):
I mean, it's all going to hellsomeday.
No, maybe it's not.
Maybe it's not supposed to.
I don't know.
I love Tucker Carlson becausehe just said you know, is God
for me or am I for God?
Well, I'll tell you what.
One thing's for sure he's here,he's in our midst, and that's
good enough, and that's pretty.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I was thinking about what Trump said even farther
than I just think about it froma father's perspective.
Okay, and I'm not saying he'snot called to father a nation or
anything like that, I don'tbelieve that.
But the words that he said ifthere were the next generation
of children or young peoplehearing that from their father,
(25:49):
hold on, yeah, yeah, hold onthat from their father.
Yeah, hold on, yeah, yeah, holdon.
Because if you're able toengage the next generation by
telling them your expectationsare too low, yeah, that's
awesome and I mean and we hadinvolved fathers in our lives
but there's so many of so manyof young kids and even
middle-aged people and justamericans that have had not had
(26:10):
fathers involved in their lives.
To tell them something likethat, like you're setting your
bar too low, yeah, yeah, there'smore to this, yeah, and those
that simple phrase can setsomebody absolutely on fire.
And I think about and I go backto JD Vance, but he was one of
the situations that he had acouple people in his life that
(26:31):
were a train wreck but turned itaround at the right time, and
then the Marines did it for himtoo, because it was some
father-type figure for him.
And I think that's where we'recalled in our age is to help to
steward the next generation.
Well, I'm somebody younger, butyeah, yes, something like that.
Yes, that's not what.
I meant Right, but anyway Ithought those are kind of really
(26:53):
those are strong words from,like, a father's perspective.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, over a country, and a lot of people don't
realize the power of those wordsblessing and cursing.
They don't realize the power ofit and it is powerful.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You've got to.
If you're a dad, you got towatch what you say.
Oh, everybody's been on bothsides of it.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, everybody's been on both yeah, and and then
receiving it too.
So yeah, yeah, well, we'regonna probably uh wrap up here.
We didn't want to go too longand obviously we had some pretty
bad technical uh issues in themiddle of this, but hopefully
we've got it.
Some of it ironed out.
We'll try to figure out if weneed more bandwidth in our, in
our internet or what it is,maybe the computers too,
(27:38):
whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And we need a thousand dollar computer.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, If you would like to send us a thousand
dollar computer please send usan email and we will tell you
the, we tell you the address.
Yes, we, we should be.
We do actually have a couplesponsors, but it's myself.
So I mean I'd have to promotemy website because I pay for
software, so I'm a sponsor.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
And I'm also on the show, which you've noticed.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yes, so I could do that.
Andrewtmcneilcom, if you wantto go there, that's my blog site
.
It's a great place to sign up,get updates.
I did send out an email, whicherroneously, would you know if
you tonight, if you clicked onit then you saw it crash.
So, anyway, that's you get theinsider tips on when we crash
(28:24):
and all that kind of stuff.
Also my perspective.
It's called Perspectives fromthe Heartland, but it's
andrewtmcneilcom.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And that is one of our sponsors.
Oh, the RT Clinic is a sponsor?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
It absolutely is.
Tell us about the RT.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Clinic.
Well, it's just my website.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So, rt-cliniccom it's usually a lot of different
things that have to do withmedical stuff.
You've got a really cool badge,buddy.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Is that what it's called?
From my new promotion on myEtsy store I have a badge buddy
that I've not seen one of thesedone before, working, obviously,
with Andrew on this.
A badge buddy that has, becauseon our badge buddies we carry
different things that have aquick reference for a medication
dose or some type of titlevolume for a weight, and we made
(29:10):
a badge buddy that actually hasthe Lord's Prayer on one side
and Psalm 23 on the other side,because the spiritual healing is
much more important than whatwe do in healthcare.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, and you can't separate it either.
Do you think?
No, you can't, you can'tseparate it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
You cannot separate it, and it's always been.
Caring and compassion is alwayswhat we're supposed to do.
That's right Way, more thankeeping somebody alive, and I
think that you know, hopefully,we're moving in that direction.
Those badge buddies areavailable on there, though, if
you need to remember thosethings.
It looks like the falsepresident right now is on, so he
(29:45):
is alive.
I don't know he's looking veryrobotic, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, so we're going to go ahead and sign off, folks.
Thank you so much for watchingthese and listening.
Also, if you're listening,because we have a lot of
listeners who just listen on apodcasting service, jimmy, and I
appreciate it we do take timeout of our very busy weeks to do
this.
It's a joy and a pleasure to doit but it's kind of hard to get
(30:14):
that time.
Please, if you're interested,send us a.
You've got any questions orcomments?
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(30:35):
That's probably about it.
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That's it, and we'll see you see you not too long
from now.
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