Ever wondered how to raise world changers? This episode has you covered. We sat down with our beloved spouses, Andrea and Alyson, for a heartfelt and illuminating conversation about parenting in a world that's rapidly changing. Together, we tackled the pressing issue of instilling a sense of identity and purpose in our kids, with a particular focus on the significance of spiritual grounding.
As parents, protecting our children from the perils of the internet is a topic that's close to our hearts. We jumped into a lighthearted discussion about our experiences in Tarot Ho and how its unique charm has enriched our lives. From the joy of Square Donuts to the importance of securing your router, this chat offered a refreshing take on the everyday challenges of parenting in a digital age.
As the conversation deepened, we navigated the tricky waters of trust-building with our children. We unpacked the recent social media craze of egg smashing and its implications on the trust dynamics between parents and children. The episode took an unexpected twist with an exploration of President Trump's arrest and the dilemmas raised by inappropriate content on social media. So join us, laugh with us, and join the discussion - this is an episode that promises to be anything but ordinary.
Intro music by Upstate - How Far We Can Go
Ever wondered how to raise world changers? This episode has you covered. We sat down with our beloved spouses, Andrea and Alyson, for a heartfelt and illuminating conversation about parenting in a world that's rapidly changing. Together, we tackled the pressing issue of instilling a sense of identity and purpose in our kids, with a particular focus on the significance of spiritual grounding.
As parents, protecting our children from the perils of the internet is a topic that's close to our hearts. We jumped into a lighthearted discussion about our experiences in Tarot Ho and how its unique charm has enriched our lives. From the joy of Square Donuts to the importance of securing your router, this chat offered a refreshing take on the everyday challenges of parenting in a digital age.
As the conversation deepened, we navigated the tricky waters of trust-building with our children. We unpacked the recent social media craze of egg smashing and its implications on the trust dynamics between parents and children. The episode took an unexpected twist with an exploration of President Trump's arrest and the dilemmas raised by inappropriate content on social media. So join us, laugh with us, and join the discussion - this is an episode that promises to be anything but ordinary.
Intro music by Upstate - How Far We Can Go
Welcome to the MC squared podcast. This is episode 14 and we have two special guests tonight Our wives. Let's go.
Speaker 3:Welcome back everybody. We are really, really privileged tonight to be able to have our spouses here, and hopefully we've warned them beforehand that they are not to tell any dirt on me and Jimmy, so we should hopefully just have a real conversation of four very mature adults here About current issues, maybe.
Speaker 1:There is no dirt, andrew. I don't know. I was referring to you. We're from clean man.
Speaker 3:No, actually. So we thought we started out with maybe Uh, asking some questions that you know we got from our viewers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. First of all, a question for Andrea. Let me look it up here on my phone From a viewer Andrea, uh, what do you think is the number one thing children need to know to be world changers? By the way, our lives, our wives, love being on this. This is all very spontaneous.
Speaker 3:So are you married to me? What's your name?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, maybe we should introduce everybody, right? Okay, let's do that. Start with you. Andrea.
Speaker 5:Well, my name is Andrea McNeil, because I'm married to Andrew and we've been married for 28 years 29 29 years it's been, it's been wonderful.
Speaker 3:It's been 29 wonderful years, yes lots of adventure.
Speaker 5:I'm happy to be here tonight.
Speaker 3:We're good. All right, so you can answer the question. It's a philosophical.
Speaker 5:Okay, can you say one more time?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean look at my phone because it was a viewer's question what's one thing that you would Teach or tell your children that they need to be, to be world changers in this current climate?
Speaker 5:Well, in this current climate, um, for our kids, I think, one of the main I think.
Speaker 5:I think everybody needs to know who they are and what they're called to do in life.
Speaker 5:And for us, we're Christians and so we raise our kids to know the Lord. But even if you're not a Christian, you should, you should be able to have a sense of who you are and what you're supposed to do in this world. And I think, personally, it's easier to know if you're a Christian at times, probably all the time, because you have, you're recognizing who you came from and that God made you and that he has a purpose for you. So I think, for our kids, just trying to, just trying to raise them and to pray, that they get that, that sense from their lives or from growing up, or from Me and their dad, and trying to, you know, recognize their gifts and their talents or whatever they have, that we also live in unique times where it's things aren't like they used to be, and so I think everybody's got a special, a special role to fill and, honestly, I hope that this whole generation gets a good sense of that, because I think there's a lot of seeking and a lot of Loss in this, in that area yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, awesome. Great answer Andrea from the viewer.
Speaker 1:Yes, so, uh, did you tell you, just talking about your children, you guys have, I mean, what kind of experience do you have as parents? Do you even speak? We have no experience whatsoever, and it feels like the more.
Speaker 3:Time goes by, the less you feel like you, you know, as a parent, and I that's a joke, but it's not a joke because it does. They get older and you're like Well, we tried. I feel like I really hope that we, you know, we didn't screw them up too bad. Seven children, we have seven children, yep, so that's great. God's been very good to us. That's great. All right, so flip the script. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Are you gonna ask Alyssa, can I, can we introduce her first? Absolutely, you want to introduce yourself.
Speaker 4:Sure, I'm Alyson McCann, jimmy's wife. We've been married for 19 years. We have four children.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome. It is awesome. 10 years less than you yeah, three children less than you yeah, we're not going for seven.
Speaker 3:Nobody is racing here, nobody's counting. Four is probably.
Speaker 5:Four is good.
Speaker 3:So, Alyson, let me ask you the same question. So what is a characteristic or what's important for you to instill in your kids? To be world changers for their, for their, for the generation they're growing up in. Because each of us has a different, has a different world we grow up in. Obviously, our characteristics for where we were is going to be different than what these kids are growing up in.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, well, I feel like I get an unfair advantage here because I got to think about it a little bit. But the first thing that came to my mind was identity, and so we're Christians to an identity in Christ.
Speaker 4:I mean that is where our true identity is found and I think that that will span the generations, no matter what you're up against, no matter what you know the specific challenges that you have. I think if you know your identity in Christ, who you are, how much he loves you, that you're a child of God and you do everything from a place of being rooted in that identity, then you know you're going to be successful. You're going to have the confidence and the courage to do what you need to do.
Speaker 3:Allison. That was really interesting to me, the word identity, because that is that is. That is something that this generation is dealing with in a crisis of identity, unlike any other generation that I think has ever been. And you were talking about identity in Christ. Do you want to expand on that a little? What do you? What does it mean to have an identity in Christ?
Speaker 4:Well, I think that that he tells us who we are and we are his beloved.
Speaker 4:When we accept him as our Savior, then we're called children of God, and so that gives us all the rights that Jesus himself has.
Speaker 4:When he looks at us, he looks at us through the lens of Jesus, and so when we have that confidence, when we know that we're royalty, that we have everything that we need to do the job that he's called us to, I think that it it it gives us the confidence and the courage and it helps us to combat any lies, Because Satan's the father of lies. He's always throwing lies our way. He's throwing lies at lies at our youth right now, attacking their identity. And so I think if, if we can instill that from a very young age it's so easy when you have really young children they just, they just accept everything and, no matter how outlandish it sounds, that you know Jesus was born in a manger and you know they just, they don't question and it's just there. And when they can just kind of grow up with that truth and really get grow deep roots and that identity, then when the storms come, when the lies come, they're rooted and they're not going to be shaken.
Speaker 3:That's really good. You can tell our wives are here, we're behaving ourselves. Yes, I know.
Speaker 1:And you can tell they're smarter than us too Well.
Speaker 3:So I mean, Jimmy, I know that that your wife is your best friend and my wife she's my best friend. And some of my favorite times, honestly, I think, in our marriage is when we have these deep talks together and not a lot of folks get to hear them.
Speaker 3:It's just usually me and her, but we work through solving the world's problems, or solving my problem or sometimes her problem, but it's rarely it's, it's, you look back on it and you I just take, I take those as a time of just really gold, just being able to have that, and you know it's, it's a real, it's a real treasure having a godly, a godly woman to walk beside you and sometimes kicking on the butt, which I've needed so absolutely and also it's really.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't understand this, but I know some people who have their their spouse has a conflicting political stance than they do. Yes, wow, I don't. I don't know. Do you just not talk about, I don't know, it would be like it would be tough, and so I think that we all are. Are you guys different? Okay, I didn't think so.
Speaker 3:Well, that's what's funny. You know, folks think I'm I'm conservative and I am, but my wife's probably more conservative than I am.
Speaker 1:So it's guilty too. So another question start with Andrea again. Wow, this is like 20 questions. Oh, start with Allison. Okay, I'll just review.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we took you talked about like some of the keys to building world changers. So you're both homeschooling moms and the world over the last few years has changed and I think you could look back over any period of time and say, oh, there's been change. There's been change and change. But what do you see as one of the biggest pitfalls? You see kids going into that. We're used to kind of see something that that is like a big stumbling block right now, if it, if it's a yours or with other kids, but just you guys are in the Kid realm. I mean we and we just were dads, but we don't understand the whole realm. We just we trust, we trust the Lord, but you understand it much more than but Then we do, but what, what are, what are? What do you think like is a big pitfall right now?
Speaker 4:Just with the youth in general youth in general. Yeah, I. I Feel like I'm gonna answer the same thing, but I mean, I feel like their itinity is being attacked. Okay, that's good and I feel like.
Speaker 4:You know everybody craves love. They crave to to feel like they belong to feel like they have a purpose and I think that, because that's lacking in a lot of places, that you know the human nature, you just tend to To go searching for it on your own, and so I think that a lot of these Things you know, the, the homosexual groups and the, the, the different labels that you can put on yourself it gives this feeling of being part of a group, of being part of of a bigger.
Speaker 4:Yes a cause, a cause that that you know, that you can say well, I'm fighting for human rights. I'm fighting for everybody to be. And and I think that that they they go seeking this and in some cases they find it to a certain degree they get accepted, but but you know, in the end it's, it's not what they need. Yeah, they've got to avoid that, you know you can't be filled by that and social and social media. That's you know. Okay, I'm glad that we didn't have that.
Speaker 1:We're very clever. We're just talking about the whole snapchat thing that I remember a snapchat came out a couple years ago and I didn't jump on that bandwagon. But I mean, you have the ability to take a video clip that gets sent to somebody and then is permanently deleted After that, so it can't be tracked. And I'm like, wow, talk about given you know Gallo, a can of gasoline and a lighter like this man into it to a kid, it could be as foolish as possible.
Speaker 3:Wow, no yeah no constant.
Speaker 1:I mean it's amazing that a platform like that was brought in. I hate be like oh dang that snapchat, but I mean it really does like you know, it just is like you're just like Sliding it over to him is saying, here you go, there's so many opportunities and, granted, the kids are smart enough, they can do something, they can delete the video for any of us that are ever find anything, but to just have a platform build on that, I think it's just a little bit. I mean it's almost become like a social tag and you know what's your Instagram, what's your Facebook, what's your snap and all these other things, and I see that a lot and I'm like snap, and then it's also it's a ghost, you know. You know, is that like it's a the symbols of ghosts? And you're like okay.
Speaker 3:All the chairs are speaking.
Speaker 1:Well, it's hoping you're gonna snap me later.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:This is like the Alice and Andrea show. I love this. You guys are good, though.
Speaker 3:You guys are great and also feel free to add your own questions if you got something else, ask your husbands. You know, feel free to ask Jimmy, whatever.
Speaker 5:Well, I was gonna say just to tag on to that I think that social media and probably especially cell phones, are a huge pitfall for this generation, not just the kids, but everybody. It's. It's part of the world we live in and there's good things about it, but it's very addictive and the little kids get them when they're just two or three years old and takes up all that all of the time where normally they would have been playing or being creative or something, not just being on a phone. And I don't know. I don't know what can be done about it because it's just, it's like it's an appendage of our body at this point. But it would be nice if there would be some way for that to ever be Minimized again, but I don't know.
Speaker 5:We have we have rules that we enforce and some kids are different than others. Some kids aren't has Addicted to the phone. Our kids are all addicted to their phones, but, honestly, we don't give them a phone till they get their driver's license, usually so that they can have something to go out with, even though we all lived without something to go out with. And but even with that, back in the day, when you didn't have a cell phone.
Speaker 5:You had to actually you had to go up to people and ask what time is it, or I have a flat tire, can I use your phone? Or there was more. There was a greater social Interaction when, when they weren't around. But it feels at times, woman, that even when they do get their phones, that we I mean you kind of lose a part of them. Mm-hmm, yeah, that's true yeah so I would always hate it, but we do our best. It's just part of the world that we live in.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, I think we we we don't have one with a plan on their phone right now, but I mean our daughter's getting close to that but they all have hand-me-down phones that run off Wi-Fi. I don't know if your kids have those so you can actually set up phone numbers for them and stuff. But I remember one thing that I felt inclined to do. I don't know if I told you this before, but when you put that phone in their hand, there's so many things. One, especially with you have any type of browser on it, it's anything can go. I remember, and I would recommend anybody to do this. If you're Worried about and I'm not saying that we're perfect by stretch, I'm just this is just a something that I feel like it's worked for us pure Jesus, loving, believing Christian, and you know what Christ has put inside you. Lay your hands on your router.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything that comes into your house, to those phones go through that router. Yeah, and we have the ability to change every bit of stuff that comes through that and block whatever's not supposed to be there. Yeah, and I think that if we start really trying to take charge of that and I, and as far as I know, no, and I trust that it's been it's worked for us. But I know that it was one of the biggest things that when we had these phones and we made up a name, we call them Schlines, which is I made up a German word for a phone that doesn't have a package, and we call them Schlines. All Connors friends know them as Schlines.
Speaker 1:It's weird. Do you have your Schline? I don't know where it came from, but I'm just making up words one day. But I was worried about the Schlines because Wi-Fi flows into them and they get on whatever. But I kind of feel like that is the pinch point that comes through that internet, through your house, and so just something if you're a new parent or listening to this and you're worried about that with your kids, lay your hands on it and declare that it's not gonna come through.
Speaker 3:That's good. Well, I've got a kind of a lighthearted question. So whether we're switching gears now or we can switch gears now you should ask us at the same time.
Speaker 1:And then the person who feels inspired.
Speaker 5:that way it's more relaxing Okay, all right same good suggestion.
Speaker 1:Instead of looking you like this, Andrea, why?
Speaker 3:are you going to Joining a light interface and you know, disorienter. I was just thinking top five things you like about Tarot. Oh yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 1:Hey both. You both can answer this.
Speaker 5:Yeah, okay, that's a good one, hmm. Well.
Speaker 1:Don't take too long. I'm gonna pause. I'm sorry. Please don't take too long. Cut, cut.
Speaker 4:Cut cut, are we each supposed? To say five or can we just kind of combine?
Speaker 3:Okay, you'll one, two, three, Talk two or three things you like about Tarot. Let's do that, that's funny.
Speaker 4:I think that for the most part, the people are friendly.
Speaker 1:I totally agree, and I, you know.
Speaker 4:I mean it's home for us, so you know. But I think Indiana people are friendly.
Speaker 1:Good people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah Just ask me, just ask me.
Speaker 4:The Tarot Ho born and raised. Yes that's right. Yeah, I like that, you know. I mean it's a decent sized town. I think it's not really big, but you know, I mean in recent years we don't have as much shopping as. I would like, but you know it's kind of easy to get everywhere. You don't have to drive for you know almost an hour to get to the other side of town. So really anywhere you wanna go into our home you can get there in a reasonable amount of time?
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, Okay. Well, I'm saying I think we always say that one of our favorite things is the people, which is, which is interesting, that I think a lot of people say that about Tarot Ho, so a lot of good people in this city. I like that. The size also. I'm not copying you, this is for real.
Speaker 2:So it must also be true. Things about Tarot Ho that I like.
Speaker 5:The size is really nice because also you, along with getting places quickly, it feels like you run into people. You see a lot which, depending on who you are, that could be good or bad, but for me I like running into people I know, so almost every time I go out and see somebody that I know. So it's not a small town, but it's small in that kind of a way. Yeah, I like the parks here.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 5:Tarot Ho has it really good, very good.
Speaker 3:They do.
Speaker 5:Park system. They do a good job on that. Oh, that's amazing Square.
Speaker 3:Donuts. Oh can't be Square.
Speaker 1:Donuts Square. Donuts Got the best donuts?
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely Square Donuts, yeah.
Speaker 1:We need a sponsor. Square Donuts. Yeah, we do, we do Square Donuts, I thought Jimmy read it because my commercial reading skills aren't very good. But sometimes if you're interested in sponsoring the MC Square Podcasts.
Speaker 3:Try to take Jimmy and Karen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, our rates are very low.
Speaker 3:Come on, bring donuts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a square.
Speaker 5:I like that it's on I-70 because you can get somewhere really fast without going on a highway 46 for 45 minutes to get to the other place we used to live.
Speaker 3:It's actually and this is not my question, but it's actually centrally located to a lot of great places too. I mean you can pretty quickly get to Turkey Run or Chackamac, whichever direction you wanna go. St Louis isn't that far away.
Speaker 5:No, chicago, you wanna go from the airport. I don't wanna go to Chicago, michigan, michigan, lincoln.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those I mean. There's a lot of good things about Terahoe. You get them all.
Speaker 5:Yep, some good ones.
Speaker 4:So I've noticed this thing going around on social media, that is it's like. I don't really know how it starts, but I guess you trick your child into thinking that you're gonna crack eggs together.
Speaker 3:Okay, I've heard of this.
Speaker 4:And then I don't know if they count down. I really haven't spent a lot of time watching it because it kind of upsets me. But it's like, okay, we're gonna crack our eggs on the count of three, and then, rather than crack the egg in the bowl, the parent just takes it and smashes it on the child's head.
Speaker 3:An actual egg.
Speaker 4:An actual egg, which is unexpected, and you know so I know Andrea probably knows this. You've got these little kids and you bring them into the kitchen with you and they, oh, I just want to crack the egg, you know. I mean, it's like it's very appealing.
Speaker 4:It's a real pain when they're little you know, because they end up cracking it funny and they get shells and it gets a mess, but but you know, I've only seen one actually, and it's this little girl and it looks like her mom and her grandma are either side of her and she's smiling and she's so happy, and she's probably three or four and you know, it's like all of a sudden. Then boom, both of them with an egg each on her forehead and people. Just I mean I'm very surprised at the people that share it and are like this is hilarious and that's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 3:That's actually a global thing.
Speaker 4:I mean it's like it's violating trust from the people that these children are supposed to be able to trust the most, and it's really bullying, you know, I mean, if you think about it, if they went to school and did something on the same level, they would be in a lot of trouble for bullying. And so I've noticed this going around and I just feel like you know, like we're here talking about parenting and it I'm not one to share my opinions, but the other day I was really tempted to just put something on Facebook like that's a terrible idea and.
Speaker 4:I am by no stretch an expert on parenting and I've made my fair share of mistakes, but but you know, like kind of the cardinal rule is. You know you kind of follow through with what you say, whether it's a good, fun thing or whether it's punishment. You know it's like, hey, if I say we're going to crack an egg together, then that's what we're going to do and I'm not going to. I'm not going to humiliate you by videoing you.
Speaker 4:But in the, in the video that I saw, the little girl then says that's not very nice, that's not very so. She actually had more sense than the adults. And then it's a joke, yeah, but of course it's with the little kid, as the you know, and so immediately the kid can't trust the parent, right?
Speaker 3:And then the little girl.
Speaker 4:She said that's not very nice, that's not very nice. Her mom and grandma are cracking up. And then she took an egg and smashed it on one of the adults' foreheads. And so there you go.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's just like it breeds disrespect, and well, it's slightly better than the tide pot swallowing phase.
Speaker 1:I think I must have missed that whole time I remember hearing a little bit about it, or the cinnamon stuff.
Speaker 3:Well, they still do. Yeah, huffing cinnamon or whatever, which is deadly, people die from it. Oh, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean it's the thing is what Alison was saying, and you know, unfortunately, not perfect parents, I've been guilty of this but I think squashing your kid in one of those situations is such and I know this is going to get more spiritual but it's such a bad representation of a parent yeah, and I think it's one of those things that I think it's one of the reasons that God sent Jesus down here to re-representing, because his representation had been so skewed and people didn't know him as the father. And Jesus came back and just brought every bit of that back and said I do only what the father does. What I do is what your father does. I don't care what happened before or the stories of what happened before. I'm here to show the father and I think that's what they're all craving.
Speaker 1:But then when we squash our kids or we say something to them, we don't follow through. I don't think that we're just hurting them, you know. At that point I really think we're hurting them spiritually. I think they're going to have a hard time trusting. If you know, when they come to the point where they have to truly trust in Jesus, are they going to think about the God. That is there going to be a doubt in there. How long is that doubt going to be in their life that Jesus is good, that God is good? Because I think that we're instilling that, if we instill that doubt at all, even by the way we act, what we talk, and I know that's a huge you know wrong for us to get to that level, but I think we make it more difficult spiritually for our children later on.
Speaker 3:Well, it just sounds like we've got more of a generation that was, is foolish and just grew up into adults foolish adults. It feels like if you don't put away foolish things like the Bible says, we put away childish things when you grow up, if you don't put those away, you grow into an adult that still is foolish and then you pass that on to your kid and it's just. It's kind of a hurtful thing to do to a child.
Speaker 3:I mean I remember having an egg cracked on my head, but it was a pretend one from my uncle. Have you ever had that? And so I thought that a little bit of what that challenge was, and they weren't inviting me into the kitchen to bake together or anything you know and we'd love that it just feels like it's just mean yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So what do you do in those situations, like when you see this stuff on social media? And if you're, if this is somebody that you follow or follows you, what are we supposed to do with that situation? Are we supposed to comment in? Are we supposed to praying for you? Do we pray for? I mean, what do you do? I mean because are we a part of the problem by watching it? I mean, obviously we're not giving it the thumbs up, but I mean, what are we supposed to do about it? I don't know. What do you think?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, and that's the dilemma that I found myself in this week, because I kind of wanted to not not type something as a response to somebody. You know, I don't want to make somebody feel bad, but just put my own thing like hey, this trend is a really bad idea, but I just I prayed about it and I just never really felt appease.
Speaker 5:Isn't it weird, though, how you have all these trends and how something so silly and mean as that could spark a whole trend, and then those kids just flip through those things just all day long, this trend after trend.
Speaker 4:And I think really, it kind of goes back to what you were saying about the social media and everybody. I mean everybody kind of lives their life in front of a camera and so it's like, oh, let's do this and let's videotape it and let's. I mean maybe stuff like this was happening before and we just didn't know about it, but now it's like it's memorialized forever, yeah, and imitated. Yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 3:I got a question, yeah, so what's your guys's take on Trump being arrested in his mugshot? Have you seen his mugshot? I got to ask. So what's your take on Trump's arrest?
Speaker 4:Well, I think it's baloney.
Speaker 4:I mean, I think, that you know he didn't do anything wrong and there's a lot of people who I'd like to see in some mugshots, absolutely. You know, I hate to see it, I hate the optics of it. It hurts me, it hurts me for him, it hurts me for his family. But I do believe that, you know, god is in control. I believe that Donald Trump is God's anointed and I believe that he has meant I mean, he's my president. I believe he won, you know, and I believe that God's got a plan and I believe that it's going to be exposed to all of the corruption. And so you know.
Speaker 4:But I've been praying, I've been praying for President Trump before his birthday because I, you know I he's obviously invited to be able to stand up. Under what?
Speaker 1:he's said to be born. Oh yeah, you have to be yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah so.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Well, my question is if it's a whole lot of going after somebody if he's just in the past and not a threat anymore. It's a whole lot of going after somebody who's in the past and not a threat anymore. So what is the big deal about President Trump if he's just done with forever? It's kind of my question with all of this.
Speaker 5:And obviously so much hypocrisy and we know there are people who I respect and know that do not like Trump and will never like Trump and are on the other side of this, of my opinion, that I don't understand it, but it's part of the dynamic, but it looks like some great campaign material. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Exactly. Okay, let me ask you this Follow up and Jimmy's looking at me because we're probably going to be wrapping up here- that's all good, you can cut out anything, it all stays.
Speaker 5:It all stays.
Speaker 1:It all stays, it all stays.
Speaker 3:Do either of you have a vice presidential pick? Oh, I never thought about that. Why you wanting to be nominated? Let's see, have one. No elections? No, I'm probably not. I wouldn't be it. I think Carrie Lam has a lot of ideas. I think Carrie Lam has a lot of ideas. I think Carrie Lam has a lot of ideas. I think Carrie Lam has a lot of ideas. I think Carrie Lam has a lot of ideas. I think Carrie Lam has a lot of ideas.
Speaker 4:I think Carrie Lake would be good. Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I like that one. I think Candace.
Speaker 4:Owens would be excellent.
Speaker 3:That's interesting she interested in it?
Speaker 4:you think I don't think so, but I think she'd be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:No.
Speaker 3:No what.
Speaker 5:No thoughts on it. Okay, can I give a dad joke?
Speaker 1:Just going to throw a random dad joke in. I think we have just ran out of time. No, can I do one?
Speaker 3:Can I do one?
Speaker 1:All right, dad. Joke from Jerry. Try to keep a straight face. Okay, this is probably not super hard to keep your eyes. Which type of bear is the most condescending bear? No idea, a panda. Oh gosh, they all smiled. Andrew was laughing when I was telling the joke.
Speaker 5:That's a better dad joke than Andrew's dad jokes.
Speaker 1:Oh really, I looked at it on the internet. I'm really uninventive when it comes to this.
Speaker 3:I'm the worst joke tiller ever. I'm pretty bad, aren't I? No, I think they're funny and I really try hard, but it loses a lot in the translation. It really does, and I'm usually laughing before I start in the middle and then out of the end. I don't understand why people don't see it.
Speaker 1:It's very funny. Well, this has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:It has.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're so grateful that you guys are willing to come on here to wear these headphones. You don't realize the headphone apocalypse.
Speaker 3:It was trauma Headphone gate 2023 happened.
Speaker 1:Allison's wearing our A year old's headphones. Andrea's wearing our backup pair. They're actually the nicest headphones we have.
Speaker 5:They're so big. I just noticed.
Speaker 1:She's wearing the really huge headphones, but we've had a really fun time and we hope that. We hope after that they'll come on the show again with us. But thanks for watching. Make sure, if you have any questions, you want to ask any comments keep in touch with us. We have an email themcsquaredpodcastatgmailcom. Also have an Instagram and we're posting. We're actually getting more views on YouTube now than Buzzsprout.
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Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 3:Thank you guys, you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye.