Have you ever questioned the lack of transparency in how our schools handle bullying? In this episode of MC Squared, we pull apart a recent interview with the Vigo County Superintendent, whose approach to this pressing issue leaves much to be desired. We praise the neutrality of the interviewer, Ron Drillmore, and take a lighter turn with some dad jokes and chat about our podcast intro. It's a bit of a mixed bag, from serious critique to light-hearted banter.
Ever thought about the connection between Brussels sprouts and your productivity in the morning? We did! We tackle this curious correlation and the communication issues between parents and school officials regarding bullying. We shift gears to McDonald's newest McFlurry flavor and Squishmallows, then back to the odorous topic of rotten Brussels sprouts. We end this segment lamenting about the disappointing lack of vegetables on our dinner plate. From serious social issues to the trivial, it's all on the table.
Lastly, we delve into spiritual matters and reflect on biblical stories as a source of guidance and understanding. Through the stories of Elijah, Jeremiah, Elisha, and the promises made to the people of Zion in Isaiah 54, we explore how faith and action play a key role in realizing God's promises in our work and everyday lives. And before we sign off, we ask you to spread some love for our MC Squared YouTube Channel. With every like, every share, every subscription, you help us reach out to more listeners. Stay tuned for more fascinating discussions, sprinkled with humor, and profound reflections.
Intro music by Upstate - How Far We Can Go
Have you ever questioned the lack of transparency in how our schools handle bullying? In this episode of MC Squared, we pull apart a recent interview with the Vigo County Superintendent, whose approach to this pressing issue leaves much to be desired. We praise the neutrality of the interviewer, Ron Drillmore, and take a lighter turn with some dad jokes and chat about our podcast intro. It's a bit of a mixed bag, from serious critique to light-hearted banter.
Ever thought about the connection between Brussels sprouts and your productivity in the morning? We did! We tackle this curious correlation and the communication issues between parents and school officials regarding bullying. We shift gears to McDonald's newest McFlurry flavor and Squishmallows, then back to the odorous topic of rotten Brussels sprouts. We end this segment lamenting about the disappointing lack of vegetables on our dinner plate. From serious social issues to the trivial, it's all on the table.
Lastly, we delve into spiritual matters and reflect on biblical stories as a source of guidance and understanding. Through the stories of Elijah, Jeremiah, Elisha, and the promises made to the people of Zion in Isaiah 54, we explore how faith and action play a key role in realizing God's promises in our work and everyday lives. And before we sign off, we ask you to spread some love for our MC Squared YouTube Channel. With every like, every share, every subscription, you help us reach out to more listeners. Stay tuned for more fascinating discussions, sprinkled with humor, and profound reflections.
Intro music by Upstate - How Far We Can Go
Welcome to the MC squared podcast. This is episode 13. I am Jimmy McCann and I am Andrew McNeil, and do not be fooled by the MC squared, because this isn't stuff that Einstein did or ever thought about doing. Yeah, let's go. I Got a fire in me. You're gonna set to burn.
Speaker 2:Oh Well, welcome back everybody and very excited about episode 13,. So we've been plugging away at this for a while and it seems like we're getting some decent views on youtube and still the audio On your favorite podcast, uh service, is doing fairly well. Yeah, I mean, we're not taking off and making millions.
Speaker 1:I don't think we've made our first Dollar yet but I don't really know how you make the doll yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, you got to get some sponsorships and you probably got to be. Maybe you got to be interesting. I'm not sure We'll have a better intro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there we go. Yeah, well, our intro wasn't very good.
Speaker 2:Um. So I think we're gonna go through some, uh, some of the News headlines and and some stuff. We're just gonna kind of shoot the breeze, which is which. Folks don't realize this, but what is actually what we do all of the time? Anyway, it does look like sometimes we have a plan, um, but that's not actually totally true. We just kind of talk with whatever is, uh, you know, what makes what's interesting to us, which I, I think makes a good show because I think you got to be interested in whatever you're talking about.
Speaker 1:So I mean you pretty much did a show before we turn this whole thing on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we, unfortunately. We did, yes, we kind of did a show Anyway let's start with something lighter.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, yeah, two dad jokes or one dad joke, whichever one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I only got one.
Speaker 1:I've got two.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because okay.
Speaker 1:Why don't I'll go first, okay me, then you okay, then me, okay, try not to laugh to this one. It's very ridiculous. Uh, why can't you hear a pterodactyl going to the bathroom? I don't know why because of the silent p. Okay, there you go. All right, that was all you had. No, that's. That's the first one. I've got another one. It's not real good either.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this that and I'm probably gonna butcher this terribly Okay because, like like I said before we started.
Speaker 1:The second time, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm not a very good joke teller and I usually have to be reading it, which I'm not so but I remember this one vaguely, vaguely, so, um. So my mom started walking, oh yeah, 10 miles a day when she turned 60. She's now 80 years old and we have no idea where she is.
Speaker 1:Very good.
Speaker 2:That's all I got was really bad actually. Yeah, it's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 1:Okay, why did uh? Why was Cinderella so bad at soccer?
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't, I have no idea she kept running away from the ball. Oh gee, I know that's not a good way. I think yours was probably better.
Speaker 1:Let's, let's end these.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Look at some what we were planning on getting into the first place um local topics. So, first of all, I saw one that popped up today on my feed. Andrew, you may have something to say about this. The new vigo county superintendent discusses transparency ahead of the new school year. This was a interview by ron drillmore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I actually, um, watched this on channel 10. Uh, ron drillmore did the interview, so I didn't read it. I watched it, uh, and I you know I'm not, I'm not proud of it that I watched channel 10. But hey, um, I do like ron drillmore, he uh, he uh, moderated the debate and he does moderates almost all the debates actually in vigo county and he does a great job. I have I've watched several of them never had any issues with the questions. Uh, he doesn't actually, he just moderates. He's very good at it. He doesn't actually bring the questions you know the crowd does, or whatever they're submitted, I think he did a great job at your debate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he had to get some people in line because it got a little bit Out of hand, and he's really good about it yeah, snaps her right back.
Speaker 2:I thought he did.
Speaker 1:He does a good job.
Speaker 2:Yep, stay neutral, so Can't tell what his politics is, and I think that's, uh, what you want from a moderator. So, uh, anyway, and he actually, at this interview, asked a great question of the superintendent and I I thought it was a completely fumbled answer. So it is. It is fair to say, hey, this is this first real interview. Um, you know, come in starting out of the gate. You know, maybe you know, maybe you'll you'll do better next time.
Speaker 2:But honestly, the question was about bullying and um, and ron drill brought up the fact that a lot of parents are are really upset because they feel like there's been zero Transparency with the bullying issues and parents of kids who are being bullied have said they've not seen much response from either the board or the previous superintendent or anything like that, and the answer was Basically putting it back on the parents and his and I'm paraphrasing here, you can go to channel 10 and you know, watch the interview Um, but basically he, he was stating that when a parent comes to them about a bullying issue, that they're gonna try something, that they're gonna try something.
Speaker 1:Let's try something.
Speaker 2:Didn't say what it was, but we're gonna try something. And they have no idea whether it works or not. They're they're leaving it up to the parent to come back and say hey, my kid is still getting bullied. And then they're gonna go oh Well, let's try something different and that's how it's supposed to work. He says that you're just gonna keep letting us know that it's not working and we can try, and if we don't know, then it's on. Basically, it's on the parent. And I was I was flabbergasted. It's one of the worst approaches to bullying and one of the worst answers of Accountability. I don't think it's a great. I don't think it's a great start. It's not not doesn't bode well for the future to me. I was looking for some kind of a strong stand against bullying. We're gonna deal with it, we're gonna follow up, we're gonna make sure that this, this issue, is taken care of. There's legitimate bullying going on. We're gonna, we're gonna get it corrected. Yeah, that is on them.
Speaker 2:Yeah and the parents aren't there, the it's superintendents, principals, teachers, it's, it's folks on the ground in the situation. They're the ones there should be fixing this. So I, I, I was very not impressed.
Speaker 1:I just put it that way. It doesn't sound like that type of leadership skills or something that they teach seems pretty soft to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and again, I've done some research from where he came from and this was kind of the par for the course, so it's not all that surprising. Ultimately, I think you know we'll see he's going to have every opportunity. He's going to have a long leash to do a lot of things. He's not on the hot seat, so he's got some time. Regardless of his interviews, if folks take care of these issues that parents are concerned about, then he'll be fine. But I wasn't real impressed.
Speaker 1:I don't think you're going to take care of any issues unless you plan on making somebody mad. Yeah. Because, somebody's going to be upset and true leaders, they have to have a vision of where they plan on being at the end of this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so if you're going to let the waves or the wind, move you in these cases it's going to be a long road and I mean, in the end, you just I don't know the guy and I haven't even listened to it, but a leader that does that just looks weak in the end. And then you get to the point where you try to implement something and it won't go.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, it's interesting, you got to almost start like you almost got to start like hard notes. Oh, you have to, and then come down from there.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, especially when it's an issue like this, which I mean we all know and we should all know, the only way to really deal with the bully is to directly confront it and get it stopped. You don't kind of, you don't pander, you don't accommodate, you don't make excuses. The only way to really deal with it is get in there and deal with it, and there needs to be, from the folks that are supposed to be in charge, an attitude of what I just said, an attitude of no tolerance. We're not putting up with this. And it isn't on the parent to make sure that kids are being policed. So, but that's, that's not the philosophy of a lot of educators.
Speaker 1:So I would just I would think that, coming into this position, that would be one of the things you kind of expect. Yeah, but you would do research, right? There has to be millions of dollars in studies put out from many different colleges on how to deal with bullying.
Speaker 1:So I wouldn't say we're going to try something. Why don't you say we try what this study did and see how that maybe that won't work here. Well, let's try. I mean, there's got to be so much out there. Instead of trying something, just makes it really sound like we'll kind of figure it out as we go.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, honestly, you just well, I think the biggest part was and that's true, but I think the biggest part was hey, if the parents don't come tell us we, I mean afterwards, after we've tried something like there was no follow up, there was no, it was it's really the parents fault. Basically, if it's still going on, it's the parents fault because we didn't know. Again and again and again. So I just think that's kind of weird. It's just a weird way to handle that, but yeah, that's just me.
Speaker 2:So the rest of the interview was kind of that, was it? That was, that was the well. I guess there was some more, but it was the bulk of the interview. That was the best question, I thought, and the worst answer, and I thought it also there was a couple other things, but it was generally in that kind of a vein, so yeah, yeah Well, that's too bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is, it is. Yeah, did you hear also that this is McDonald's is releasing a new McFlurry flavor.
Speaker 2:But now my wife might be interested in what. What's the flavor?
Speaker 1:I didn't really know if McFlurry machine ever worked.
Speaker 2:No, I wasn't aware that it didn't usually work.
Speaker 1:They're releasing and I don't even know what this is. The Squishmallow. You know what Squishmallow is?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:It's kind of pinkish and kind of reddish.
Speaker 2:I'm already turned off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't look that advertising.
Speaker 2:So well, there's the news of the day. Is it super popular? Is that a big deal? That's a lot. I think it is with the kids.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Squishy things that people buy Kind of like a beanie baby of 2023. That would be, if you will.
Speaker 2:So okay. So the McFlurry has these marshmallows, pink marshmallows, just kind of stirred up into it. Well, you know, with the McFlurry they don't actually stir it all up, it's just it's a little bit down. It's usually the majority is not stirred, yeah, anyway, yeah, if the machine works, if the machine works.
Speaker 1:We actually, when we just go to we go, we say first thing. They say can I order? Is your machine?
Speaker 2:I mean that's just get it out there. Just ask if the machine is working. Is the machine working?
Speaker 1:No, well, thank you.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to waste my time ordering the machines. That's too bad. Yeah, that's really. The machine always goes down.
Speaker 1:I wonder that machine how much it really is down. Yeah, how much they just if you were working there and you could take that machine down. No way find out. You could get paid your $50 an hour or whatever they pay at McDonald's now and not have to make McFlurries. I mean, it's probably a good day when I drive up and say, is the machine working?
Speaker 2:And they say no, and they're like they still get paid right. It's true. It's true, there's no tips.
Speaker 1:Why make the machine work Right. So it's actually an inside job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it could be, it could be. Yeah, this is completely unrelated, jimmy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it affected my life greatly today. Do you like Brussels sprouts?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I actually ate some today.
Speaker 2:Do you really?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I ate some yesterday and today. Okay, well, I'm not going to say where I ate them from the cafeteria at the hospital, and so this is the whole thing about the cafeteria at the hospital. Okay, so the biggest joke about hospital food is bad, but I mean there's some food that's not. I mean our cafeteria is pretty good in some ways but it's like people go and they eat the food, like the hospital the cafe has been. Isn't that like the whole thing?
Speaker 2:Right, it's the feed your face.
Speaker 1:The hospital food isn't supposed to be as good as your home food? I don't understand that, and people are really mad about the food. Anyway, they cook them really well there.
Speaker 2:Like, like, like kind of burn them a little.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that helps.
Speaker 2:It does. So we eat them from time to time. I'm not a fan. My wife absolutely loves them. I think some of my kids do. I'm not sure Poor things, we just forced it down their mouths anyway. I'm sure you do. But they cut the Brussels sprouts in half, lay them down. They kind of you know they've kind of fried them or cook them or whatever. So we were going to have Brussels sprouts for dinner tonight. They're perfectly green, they look great. She opened the bag and they are rotten. It is. You know, brussels sprouts smell. I mean, they're not a good smell, even if you like to eat them.
Speaker 1:They're just they smell terrible. Yeah, they're not great.
Speaker 2:I mean they're not the worst, but it was the worst smell. It was Brussels sprouts that are rotten. Can you imagine it was? It was absolutely awful and I was, I have to admit I was mildly pleased because we were not going to be eating Brussels sprouts tonight. I didn't tell Andrea that I was okay with the fact that we were throwing those away, because we had to throw them away and she's very upset, which is you know that's and then we had to bag up the trash and get it out. It smelled that bad. It was terrible. We literally it was warm out, we had the air condition, we had to open the doors. What in?
Speaker 1:the world happened to that.
Speaker 2:It was bad and she couldn't hardly tell. I don't think she could tell which one it was, because they looked fine but they were not fine, right on Brussels sprouts. Yeah so that was anyway. So that was no vegetables for me tonight, so it was it was good.
Speaker 1:What did you have in place of it?
Speaker 2:Well, we, we didn't have anything in place of it. We had the main course and then you always add those, you know, and last time Hadesa, my daughter Hadesa has is. She's a very good cook and so she does a lot of the cooking. Now, not that my wife isn't a good cook, my wife's a great cook, but Hadesa likes to cook, so we have her doing that and stuff and it's great. But so she cooked the Brussels sprouts last time and she, she did char them just a tad, but she didn't cook them. So it was raw Brussels sprouts with a little bit of it was awful, it was awful. I might as well have gone out to somebody's garden and just try, hadesa.
Speaker 1:It was. It was not good. It was not good. Don't listen to your mother. It was not good. No, I let her know I'm in a loving way. You've got to. You've got to keep it real.
Speaker 2:Thank you for the, for the effort, but these are inedible. Now my wife ate them, because she'll eat. You know, she loves chicken livers, she loves oh yeah, no, old school. Yeah, so I like real food, food that tastes good, and and I I I refuse to believe that Brussels sprouts is the only way for you to get nutritious food. I don't think that's. That's can't possibly be true. There's surely there's something else you can eat.
Speaker 1:There's some kind of super nutrient in there, some type, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, anyway, so I wanted to ask you a question.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, and again we're we're like completely off topic here, but what people? Some? Some folks are mourning people, some people are evening people or whatever, and I think there's a time of day where you do your best work and I mean like your brain is firing on all cylinders and everything. So are you a morning person? Are you think that's true or not true, are?
Speaker 1:you a morning evening person.
Speaker 2:When do you do your best work?
Speaker 1:I'm about a mid morning person. I would say Really yeah, so my best work is done after a huge breakfast.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I get up. If I get up early, have some caffeine and I eat some protein of some type, usually bacon, and I feel a little bit full. Some people get tired, Not you. I go. It's like that's go time at that. So really I eat breakfast. Then I go yeah, I, if I don't eat, I kind of drag a little bit. But yeah, mid morning and then I can. I don't taper real bad, and then if somehow I get wild hair in the middle of the night, sometimes I can really work. But no, mid morning is probably my best.
Speaker 2:Really so. Do you ever have a sugary breakfast and see that that?
Speaker 1:No, sugar breakfast is terrible for me. Yeah, yeah, I get like pancakes or something like that. Well, I get like super hungry later, but then I get like the diabetic shaking.
Speaker 2:Oh, do you really yeah?
Speaker 1:My body's like what are you doing in?
Speaker 2:the morning. Why are you dousing me with?
Speaker 1:sugar, so I try to stay away from too much of that stuff, because it makes me nonproductive. But yeah, caffeine protein good to go. What about?
Speaker 2:you, I am, I am a morning person, but I'm not like early morning, like like my father-in-law he gets up at five in the morning, four in the morning, and I don't think it's just because he's old.
Speaker 1:Because he goes to bed early, I think.
Speaker 2:I think he's always been that way and that's great, but I do. I can get up early, I'm fine with that, but oh my gosh, yeah, I mean till noon. You know my brain's clear. I'm doing my best work. I have one egg in the morning for breakfast and a cup of coffee, and I don't eat big breakfasts. I love breakfast food and I just as I've gotten older when I was a kid I used to eat tons of stuff for breakfast I just I can't, I can't do it, I can't eat a lot. So I'll generally eat, sometimes a decent lunch. Three or four o'clock comes around me and my brain it's just just don't give me anything too sharp or too complicated. It's not, it's. I'm not proud of it, but yeah.
Speaker 1:So start to fall apart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I do decent work in the evening too. I don't know, but it's just like that time. I just get it's time to change it up.
Speaker 1:I'm just I'm done. So yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, it's, it's.
Speaker 1:So us filming this at 6.30 PM? Yeah, no, it's always been.
Speaker 2:No, it's always been the worst for me. It's the truth I have always. I'm always like I hope people can't tell that I'm basically pretty stupid sitting here with the microphone in my face. Oh yeah, well, we had it out those parts. Yeah, you had it out a lot.
Speaker 1:We do have it out a lot.
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Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1:So I have this. I just first written on a whiteboard near my in my office and I'm interested just here at his take. I have my own, but today I won't listen to his. So Isaiah 54, two and the new American standard. It says enlarge the place of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwelling, spare not lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs.
Speaker 2:So what? What's the context of that? Is there any way to read?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is a fertility, fertility of Zion. So right, okay. So this is the verse actually starts out shout o' barren one, you who have bore no child, break forth. This is really good, right, that's really good. Break forth in the joyful shouting and cry aloud, you whom have not travailed for the sons of the desolate. Of the desolate, one will be more numerous than the sons of the married woman, said the Lord. And then it goes in to enlarging your tent, strengthening your curts.
Speaker 2:So it's a very encouraging prophecy and promise from the Lord to them, because your basically it's saying to prepare for the harvest, prepare for an increase in your home and your family and your territory and your property. And that's, that's what it's, what it's saying, it's a very it's. The Bible has a lot of instances where that happens, where you had when Elijah prayed for no rain and then for three years there wasn't. And then when he told basically the king it's going to rain, he told him get going, it's going to rain. There wasn't any rain in sight.
Speaker 2:And you have the promises of with Jeremiah, when they were getting ready to go into judgment Israel's getting ready to be hauled off to Babylon. And he's been prophesying this forever. I mean it's doomed destruction, it's awful. And God says now I want you to go buy a piece of property. And Jeremiah is like why? And God's like because they're going to own property here again that you're going to buy and sell. It's not, this isn't forever. And with Ezekiel, same timeframe kind of, and God gives him a vision where he literally the temple's being destroyed and God gives him a measuring rod, says go measure the temple, go measure it, because basically it's going to happen. You're going to rebuild and I want you to know the measurements when it does so. I love how God does that and it's almost like it's almost like we have to have faith to believe God to do the things Well.
Speaker 2:For example, in in um and I'm not trying to be long, but with with I think it was Elisha with the widow who was going to lose her son to slavery and her house and a lot a large. I think it was Elisha, I could be wrong, it may be Elijah or Elisha. One of them might have been Elijah um told her to go get water or get pots, go borrow pots from everybody you can, and she did that in faith. For for I mean, it's crazy and and I you feel like it she, she had a little vial of oil and she was supposed to pour the oil into these empty pots that she'd borrowed from everyone, and they all filled up and she was able to sell them and pay off her debt. She filled up every pot she had. So you, you feel like if she didn't have any faith and she only got a few, she would only have a few. She would harvest them and were smaller.
Speaker 2:It was it's. It's like God promises these things when we're barren and desolate, just like that scripture says. And what God brings, when he brings prosperity or when he brings fulfillment to a promise when we've had destruction, it is more than just the natural having a family. No, no, it is. It is rich and it's full, but it's like there's a requirement of faith that we have. There's always an action.
Speaker 2:I mean, they're right there before the increase comes, extend your tent, go ahead and take these actions. So that's right.
Speaker 1:And I think that. So the reason I have that is because in our work situations there's a lot. You get frustrated with stuff, like you get something going and it stops work. But God promise is we have to remember that his promises are promises, which means they're going to come true. That's right. So sometimes you have to prepare the place for the promise to come rest before you get it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I don't know, I, and I kind of see it like this, like if, if the tent wasn't big enough, then there's not room for this to promise to come Right. Also, you know, you have to be able to withstand, withstand, sustain, like like the glory of God is like a weightiness, like a heaviness, and you have to be able to sustain it. So if you just say God, just bless me, just bless me, bless me, bless me. Yeah, he loves you so much that he's not going because that's a weight, I mean that's not, it's nothing like the play with right. Yeah, yeah, just bless me. No, build yourself, yeah, build a strong foundation in me, and then I can drop.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:And I I don't know, I just see that kind of as an interesting thing. When I run into problems at work, I look at that and I'm like no, you, you build it.
Speaker 2:It's like, the build it and they will come it's true, I mean no, and that's kind of based upon the same thing.
Speaker 1:It is, it is and this is like this is kind of like an Abraham thing, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Abraham, you know, has a child because he, he doesn't want to wait on the promise. So he has a child with the servant of his wife, right, he didn't want to wait on the promise, right. And that ended up being a real mess later on. Yes, yeah, with this male, yeah, but so he didn't want to wait. But I mean, this is kind of along those lines. Like you know, go and rejoice right now, trust that blessing's coming.
Speaker 2:That's really good. And you, you know what's. I always think Kind of, what are people around, these folks thinking? I mean, because Noah? Noah did the same thing and you know he had to be ridiculed for a hundred years. It took him a hundred years to build that thing. And the woman going out and gathering pots they have to be going. This lady's about to lose her house and what is she doing? I mean, this is, this is silly. And I think when we look at folks who are God told me this, or I really believe God is going to do this for me and and they're preparing for it, like you said, they're building a structure in their own life, whether it's character or whether it's practicalities, to be able to do the thing that God tells them. It can make you look foolish to the world. I mean you can really, and even other Christians it can go. What are you doing? You're never going to have that or you're never going to do that, and even if they don't say it to you, I think they can.
Speaker 1:It takes courage to have faith, sometimes be obedient to whatever God's called you to do yeah, and you're going to look, you're going to be different and you're going to look peculiar. That's kind of what we're called to be, yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's that was good, I'm glad you did that. Yeah, maybe maybe it redeemed, maybe it redeemed our episode, I don't know, I have no idea. I think it's good to do this for discipline sake, just to, I mean, to stay in that groove and obviously, and if you are still listening to this by the end of this you, you should receive a reward. Hopefully this will not be that long of an episode, but there's a lot of. Obviously there's a lot of news out there. I mean, there's stuff going on in the national politics or stuff.
Speaker 2:But I don't want to beat a dead horse, I don't want to say the same things every episode, and I'm we're not we're not a live show, we're not a constant every day podcast, so we're not going to cover the news like those kind of shows would do, and it takes a lot, of, a lot of time to be delved into that. I just think that, you know, hopefully we have some content that's interesting and unique and different and folks want to hear it and listen to it. And you know, I don't know that our dad jokes are the greatest, but we'll throw them out there and I can bring something encouraging if you want to.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think it's a good format for us, obviously if we excuse me, obviously if we have folks who want to interview and we have that format to do that and that kind of stuff. But you know, I'm sure we'll have some talk about next time it's super different and maybe even another sponsor.
Speaker 1:So yeah, another real sponsor. Well, hey, it's been real, it's been a good, it's been a good time, and let's do this again, just drive up and say all right. I'll tell you one more funny thing that I did. Really embarrassed my kids so I ordered with the app one place at. Chick-fil-a or the app.
Speaker 2:Okay, yep.
Speaker 1:I think with Chick-fil-A, and I just drove up to the drive in and I go, I'm here, that's all I told them.
Speaker 2:Because it tells you to say I'm here, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Did they what?
Speaker 2:did, they do.
Speaker 1:And they go, they go. I ordered online. I go, yes, and I use the name Batman.
Speaker 2:Oh geez.
Speaker 1:Jimmy Batman's here and they know who I am, because no one else has that as their first name. I just say I'm here. Oh my gosh. My kids are really embarrassed by me I've recommended.
Speaker 2:if you order by an app, just show up and say I'm here like that and embarrass your kids if you have. Did you know that Chick-fil-A here changed ownership?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Yep, so it is a lady from Maryland who used to work there and then she went out to Kansas and purchased her own Chick-fil-A her and her family, and that's about four or five years ago and she's returned and just she's the new owner of the Tarot Chick-fil-A.
Speaker 1:So she's a great, great lady.
Speaker 2:Kathy McCloy, I think, is her name.
Speaker 1:Nice Yep, so they sold it to them and that person known before was local. Right, he was local.
Speaker 2:I don't. I know him of him and know, you know, know him, but I don't know if he was local or not. I mean I knew him because he owned the Chick-fil-A, so it's a great restaurant. I mean, it's really really hard, to hard to beat. We probably could get a Culver's, Culver's sponsorship, honestly, because Culver's is also a great restaurant. You've got the I kind of think of them as the hamburger Chick-fil-A, and then you've got the Chick-fil-A that's the chicken, and and the nice thing about Culver's is they're open on Sunday. You can't tell you how many times left Georgia, let's go to, let's go to Chick-fil-A, and of course it's, you know, the Lord's Day.
Speaker 1:So it is Lord's Day and they actually sell more than every other restaurant, even though they have days.
Speaker 2:Oh God blesses it so yeah, and, and whoever designed their, their drive-through system, should be in charge of our federal government. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1:They should be in charge of many things. Yeah, that drive-through is super efficient, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, so that wraps it up for us folks, episode 13. I have no idea what the theme of this, this show actually was, but we're going to let AI tell us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Let AI tell us. Ai is going to get completely confused. But if you want to reach out to us again, our our email is themcsquaredpodcast at gmailcom. Yes, and check us out on YouTube. Really could use some help on the YouTube channel. We have some decent amount of viewers because we just started it, but we need more subscribers. So if you would go to our YouTube channel and it's MC squared.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just MC squared podcast.
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