In today's Podcast We Are talking about Bill Belichick getting fired, Booker T. Washington's Autobiography And much more! Make sure to like and Subscribe to our YouTube
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In today's Podcast We Are talking about Bill Belichick getting fired, Booker T. Washington's Autobiography And much more! Make sure to like and Subscribe to our YouTube
Intro music by Upstate - How Far We Can Go
Hello everybody and welcome to another year and another edition of the MC squared podcast. I'm Andrew McNeil and I'm joined by my co-host, jimmy McCanna. Welcome.
Speaker 2:We're excited to be here.
Speaker 1:Welcome back everybody. We're excited to get started tonight. We've got a few things scribbled down and there's a lot of crazy stuff happening in the world. I think we're gonna comment about, talk about, but we we don't have anything scripted. We never really have anything scripted, so who really knows what we're gonna end up with tonight? But we, we really appreciate all of the all the listeners, the subscribers, the comments, folks have been very encouraging and we are actually celebrating one year of doing the MC squared podcast. Jimmy, we started in your Dining room, in your dining room, my dining room, yes.
Speaker 2:I'm dining room last year in January is time, and I think we put out 14 is episodes last year, 14 or 15, and so I Feel like we've got a little bit of a flow now. Yeah, yeah, we're pros.
Speaker 1:I mean we're absolutely pros.
Speaker 2:We actually had a really great conversation for about 20 minutes before the camera was on, but yeah, I mean, I think we burned all of our conversation out that point happens a lot, yeah, so we should have just turned it on and went yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, some of the stuff we share, I mean it's top secret, so not everybody can know this stuff- yeah, we had to keep it on low.
Speaker 2:Keep it on low, any. Why do you have this?
Speaker 1:Okay, well first of all, folks, today is a very momentous day in the life of a New England Patriot fan myself. So I have been a New England Patriot fan since 1985. Just in case there's anyone that was concerned, I was a bandwagon fan. Because it's not true. Because, although you know, in 85 they went to the Super Bowl for the first time as they franchise and Got literally steamrolled by the Chicago Bears, it was for my young NFL Viewing career. It was. It was very, I have to tell you and so you chose them as your favorite.
Speaker 1:Well, I lived in Maine for three years and we moved back as a family in 84, 83, 84 and those three years I spent in Maine honestly were the happiest of my my childhood. I absolutely loved Maine, everything about it. We've taken some vacations there in recent years, you know, to go back not recent years, actually it's been a while, but With the kids not true. So it's been a while, but absolutely loved me. So anyway, new England loved them, suffered through the late 80s, all of the 90s, the early, the Right up to the. The first time we actually went to the Super Bowl again against Green Bay Under Drew Bledsoe and got beat again. And it was just, it just felt like that was, it was never gonna happen. And then along comes a guy named Tom Brady and I remember watching him play. He came in for Drew Bledsoe, got just creamed in a game and his literally blood, so lungs filled up with blood. He had gotten hit so hard so it was a very bad Crushing hit. And in comes this backup, tom Brady, and I remember the first time I saw that guy throw I was like Whoa, he's got some pocket presence, he's not afraid of our horrible offensive line and he just completed passes and you were like, yeah, there's something, there's something to him, and of course, he never relinquished, went on to win the Super Bowl and the rest is history, of course. And he of course went on a couple years ago. Well, today is a big day because we parted ways with coach Belichick.
Speaker 1:24 years with the New England Patriots, nine Super Bowl appearances, six Super Bowl wins it's, it was, it's. It is historic. It was absolutely. A lot of folks consider him the greatest coach ever. I don't. I'm a Patriots fan and I don't think I would go that far necessarily, but he was a great coach and he will be missed. It was totally, in my opinion, and time for him to go, and the reason for that is because he does have a tremendous ego. He was in charge of player personnel, so we've been miserable the last five years. We have been terrible. Since Tom Brady left. Our team offensively is trash. The talent is awful.
Speaker 1:He picked every single one of them. He went out and picked a kicker this year I mean, who does that with draft picks? But he picked a kicker, got rid of the one that was perfect, and then this guy's try. I mean the draft picks make no sense. I mean, some of these offensive linemen are never going to start for an NFL team. We picked them like second overall. I mean just second for us, second pick, not overall. Sorry, so anyway, yep, so congratulations, good luck. People want to know. I posted a little bit before we started recording. A lot of folks want to know where we think Belichick's going to go. I don't have a clue. There were a lot of folks that were talking about him being a match for maybe the Washington commanders.
Speaker 2:I don't know who that is, Well that would be the Redskins. Jimmy, oh, very good, yes.
Speaker 1:Patriots of the Redskins? I don't think that's right. Somebody mentioned the Cowboys on Facebook. Yeah, I mean, I don't see Jimmy Jones firing who they have now.
Speaker 2:I mean, do you see him being a head coach, or like would he be a coordinator? Yeah, no, no, yes he'll never take it into motion. He could be second fiddle.
Speaker 1:He is 72 years old, I do.
Speaker 2:It's time to retire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do remember a documentary that was done where he mentioned after one of his Super Bowl wins yeah, I'm not going to be Marv Levy and coaching into my 70s. I can just tell you that right now. Well, he's 72, and I think he's going to be.
Speaker 2:He's clearly coaching and maybe he spoke that over himself. Yeah, maybe so anyway, he shouldn't have been coaching.
Speaker 1:My favorite Bill Belichick moment, I have to say, was a win over the Indianapolis Colts. There were multiple wins over the Indianapolis Colts, a lot of them in the Peyton Manning era, and he was a good boy. He tried really hard but it was a pretty big hill to climb beating the New England Patriots at that time. So lost a couple of games in New England. We beat him a couple of times in Indy but then he got his revenge. I will say that. But my favorite memory honestly with the Colts because obviously we're in Indiana is the absolute whooping we gave them and I mean I think it was over 400 yards of offense. A lot of it was in the ground. We just literally would hand the ball off and the guy would go 80 yards and that was the game. The Colts were so upset that they claimed the balls were deflated and that's why they lost.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's Andrew. I got three words. Ok, I got three words for what just happened right there.
Speaker 1:What was this? What's?
Speaker 2:this oh your audience.
Speaker 1:Are you seriously coming expecting us to get more listeners and start just raking the Colts over the Colts?
Speaker 2:OK, and that little tingling up your leg you had when you saw Tom Brady. That's the same tingling we had when Andrew.
Speaker 1:Luck started playing. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And so hindsight, my friend, is 2020, when you're looking back at.
Speaker 2:Tom Brady and the way you felt when he did that first pass and you just felt like it's going to be a different world. It was, it was a different world. Should have been like that for.
Speaker 1:Andrew Luck too. I know, I know, I know Andrew Luck was very talented. I'm not going to knock him. I feel like, Well, why not?
Speaker 2:You've already ripped the Colts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well.
Speaker 2:And you said essentially that they didn't deflate the ball.
Speaker 1:Well, I would say that but, to blimp. Let's just put it this way If you got beat by running backs on the ground and your defense was worthless, would you I mean, even if you it's like find somebody else to complain about deflated balls, I mean, it just looks like a sore loser.
Speaker 2:So that's all I just wouldn't talk about it because we are in Big O County.
Speaker 1:We did, we did, we did.
Speaker 1:So, so no, I think there's a coach in Carousel going on in the NFL. Real quick, carol, retire. Yep, he retired as Seattle. You've got Mike Vrable fired by the Tennessee Titans. Just some of those are a little unexpected and kind of crazy. So I'm actually personally rooting for Vrable to take over that. They're possibly going to promote Gerard Mayo, a linebacker's coach and used to be a New England Patriot linebacker as head coach. So we'll see. He's the supposed inside. I don't know. We've got a ton of money, we've got a number three overall graphic and we have a lot of rebuilding to do, because our team is garbage right now and it's really bad when you're talking about our team.
Speaker 2:This is not our team, it's your team. You need to say your team. Yes, it's an R team, it's not our team.
Speaker 1:Jimmy, I feel like there's a New England Patriot fan inside there.
Speaker 2:No, there's not. There's not and I've anyway. What about Belichick going to college? Going to college?
Speaker 1:I think he's 72. He's probably too old to go to college. I mean, he's already got all the education.
Speaker 2:No, I mean going to coaching. That seems like something of what they do.
Speaker 1:Well, that's crazy too, because his good friend, Nick Saban, just did they fire him or did he retire out of Alabama, the coach of Alabama. So the coaching tree is Belichick and Saban and a lot of these head coaches all started at Cleveland or you know, they were all on staff together. It's pretty crazy, but he's kind of a Nick Saban-ish type of person, which is to me Bobby Knight, belichick Saban, all of those are the same kind of coach.
Speaker 2:Don't bring Bobby into this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's the chair throwing type very disciplinary Get things done, they don't mess around. And they're not the players' coach, where their buddies with the players they're the coach and I don't know. It seems almost like that that might be. That era is kind of disappearing, which is sad because they're very successful. Does that mean the athletes are getting soft. Yeah, ok, no doubt about that OK.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, andrew. On the next segment we are getting rid of this it's officially going over here. All right, no more, you just want to close today. No, now we want to be one with the fans, with the fans of MC squared podcast. Ok, and let's not be bashing the Colts anymore, all right. But you have a book that you've been reading. Yeah, autobiography.
Speaker 1:So I periodically read which kind of a shout out to my friend Steve, who is listening to this podcast Not live, but he's listening to it He'll get a kick out of this.
Speaker 2:It's not live. We don't shoot live anyway.
Speaker 1:My friend, Steve, does not like to read and he makes it very clear. So if there's a book he has to read for work, he's just looking really hard, not just for an audit, but maybe a video version Videos even better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's pretty funny. Every time we talk about books he does listen because he wants to know what's inside them. That's for you, steve. So anyway, booker T Washington, it's an autobiography. My wife got me this for Christmas. I love history, I actually love. I really was interested in the perspective.
Speaker 1:I didn't know much about Booker T Washington to be totally honest with you, I still don't, because I haven't finished the book. I'm only halfway through but I got to tell you. Okay, real quick, couple observations and couple points, first of all, that he made. But, to start with, this is an awesome book I would highly recommend if you can get your hands on his autobiography. It's fascinating, it's really fun reading and it's a piece of history that I think is very important. But it started out with it.
Speaker 1:The publishers put an introduction or a historical context, and they went on and on and I started reading just a few pages of their historical context and, jimmy, I kind of likened it to if the devil were to give a preface or a historical context to the Bible. That's what this is. It was an attempt by the woke race-baiters to make sure you don't really take to heart anything that's inside this book. So you just read the first couple pages and then you'll— You'll understand that America's evil, terrible capitalism is horrible. They even quote Karl Marx and his comment, his moral comment on the slavery in America. And I'm like folks I looked it up today there's over 100 million people who have been slaughtered, innocent people who have been murdered by Marxist ideology. It is literally Satan making a comment on something that went wrong in America. So and this is not to obviously excuse slavery, which is a horrible evil, but yeah, I just don't need that. Let me just read history for what these folks said, these people who lived it.
Speaker 1:So anyway, he was six, seven years old when someone from the federal government came and stood at the—on the porch of the plantation, gathered all of the slaves gathered the home—the plantation owners—and then read the Emancipation Proclamation and told them all you're free to go. And they said it was wild jubilation and great joy. And they said and then, about an hour later, kind of grieving and morbid and sad, because these folks had nowhere to go, they did not know what did. Free to mean what was—so a lot of them would go to the next plantation or go down the road just to prove they could, but a lot of the old timers, 70 years old. They kind of would that night go to the home—to the plantation owners and kind of work out a deal to stay there because it's all they'd ever known. So, anyway, they didn't know how to read, they didn't know how to write, they didn't—but there was a thirst like you would not believe in all ages of the freed black people for education, and it was really—it's really amazing.
Speaker 1:And so, anyway, I just wanted to read just a couple of ideas—things that he talked about that are just fascinating to me. So they actually had American Indians. This is—so some of this stuff's going to be controversial, but these are his words, this is his perspective. Okay, so he got involved in education. He got involved in the school that he was educated at. He also then returned as a teacher and they brought in some American Indians, and the American Indians he had—he just said their attitude was—they were actually incredibly racist. They despised black people because they saw them as slaves and they would never do that. So they were above black people and they were also above white people because they didn't want to do anything that smacked of any you know of white people. So he was like—it was difficult, but he got—he was their teacher actually, and so he got close to them and was able to overcome some of that stuff. But I thought that was interesting, because you never hear some of this stuff.
Speaker 1:No, I never heard that before Slavery—he considered slavery an evil system that victimized both the slave holder and the slaves. He had no bitterness towards white people and in fact he said he didn't know of any slaves that did Really. He said, even on into 20 or 30 years of freedom, some of these slaves would send money or coffee or sugar back to their former slave owners, just as a gift, just to kind of take care of them, make sure they were okay. Isn't that something? Wow, so he said—he said he felt like the slaves in some way were better prepared for post-civil war than the slave the plantation owners were, because the plantation owners—and you've got to realize this then became the southern white culture—was not looked down on manual labor and hadn't worked a day in their lives. They believed that everybody should have worked for them. And he said—and he goes—and we were like that's all we did. We worked, we had trades, we knew how to do whatever needed done. We had to do it. He said they couldn't even cook for themselves, they knew nothing, they had no trades, nothing. So he actually felt kind of sorry for him.
Speaker 1:He did talk about—I thought this was interesting—a little bit about white privilege. You know how that's kind of a buzzword today White privilege, white privilege. Well, he saw that the white population had an advantage. But you'll never guess why he thought they had an advantage. Not because the system was for white people, but because they had their families. And he said if you have your family, you know who your grandfather—you're with your grandparents and your cousins and your mom and dad. The incentive to do well for yourself is there because you don't want to let them down. He goes. I've got hundreds of cousins. I don't have a clue where they are. He goes. He didn't know who his dad was, never met him, didn't know his grandparents never met them. So a lot of these ex-slaves were kind of like that. They were isolated from their extended family and so they were living for themselves. If they failed, nobody cared. If they succeeded, nobody cared because it was on their shoulders. And so he's kind of talking this out as he's writing this and he's kind of like so there is a disadvantage because we don't have that family pride. But then he goes. But then maybe that's a disadvantage for the white folks, because they're thinking along the lines of that they've always had this and so they're not taking advantage of it. Thank you, this is a controversial thought, but this is what he said. He goes. I don't have any bitterness towards the white people and, in fact, his perspective of what happened after the Civil War.
Speaker 1:He went to a school that allowed him to work off his education Because he had no money. They had no money and the school and I'll have to remember the name of the institute it's still in service today, I think it's in Virginia. Anyway, it allowed them to come work it off, but they taught them character, they made them work. I mean, it was schooling, it was character. He learned to take a bath. He'd never even heard of people taking a bath before. I mean toothbrush. He had no idea. The concept was crazy.
Speaker 1:But he said history will tell. I believe this is what he's saying the story of how sacrificial the white people were towards the black slaves after the Civil War and the great work that they did in pouring out their lives for us. He said I've not seen happier people in the world than these teachers who are just giving themselves to us to help us to learn to read, write and all of the sciences. So, and then he said this is very controversial, but this is what he said he was. I mean, this is out of his mouth. He said in all honesty, if we're going to be honest about this in the full scope of the Negro race, there isn't a better position for the Negro than in America, not withstanding slavery in any other situation around the world, there in poverty and death and darkness. And he said, even though we've had the evil of slavery, we are way better off as a people having been born and living in America. That just it, just wow, that's in the book. Yeah, and it's what's fascinating is reading is reading someone who's got a heart for the black people, his heart for the race, and there's not an ounce of anger or resentment or the Marxist theology that's kind of pervasive in race politics today, where everything's a race war and, if you microaggressions and patriarchal systems and white supremacy and all these things that he talked about the Ku Klux Klan and he said and accurately he was, it confirmed what I thought and very accurate. He said Ku Klux Klan was started early on as a means to control them politically. He said they didn't want political activism by the black people, which is true, I mean it was. It was a an arm of the Democrat party. It was to keep them. They all voted Republican. Abraham Lincoln was Republican, so they were going to. They ran as Republicans. They became Republican sheriffs, governors, whatever. I mean the black people did like crazy.
Speaker 1:He talked about one of the things that he felt we did wrong as a country. Afterwards, what mistake we made was two things, he said. First was that we he said that you, that there was a kind of a push for black people to run for office, he said, before they had any education, before they had any testing of their character, he could. He said there are a lot of a lot of these ex slaves that they don't have character. He said there were tons of them that got a quote call from God to go preach, he said because there's money in it. And he said they had zero moral, moral fiber in them. Um, he felt like what? And I, it's a great idea.
Speaker 1:He felt like what happened after the civil war could have been was that the government could have given a parcel of land, some money. They were broke, they had no money and then some education to help every single one. And I'm thinking well, absolutely, you've been working and slaving, laboring for nothing. I, I think that was owed. Make it out of the any kind of wealth you could pull out of the South or whatever it took. I think that would have been a great thing.
Speaker 1:To not reparations I mean I'm not going to that, that's just stupid, but it would have. It would have. I mean, honestly, when settlers came like Indiana was Northern Indiana was settled by a presidential edict that gave these huge tracks of land to people. So I mean, it made it would make sense that you would give them some property, you would give them some, some money, but also you would teach them how to, how to handle it. I mean, these folks are having freedom for the first time. Yeah, I don't know. I just I mean, you know that's water under the bridge, but I do think that that would have been.
Speaker 1:And then also he felt like that pushing them into politics right away was a big, big mistake, because he said the point was to get the blacks over the white Southerners who were former Confederates or whatever. And he said it was an immediate race war, it was an immediate resentment by people who this was their community and suddenly all of their slaves are in government. I'm thinking, well, okay, I mean, but that still was going to be a natural. I mean they're free to vote. I don't know about that, but that was his, that was his kind of his perspective on that, and it's fascinating. He had some other ones in there. It just, it was just. It's inspiring actually, and it's just, you know, and we've got more to go because, um and again, there's going to be people who know about Booker T Washington that are hearing me and they're going to go well, why isn't he talking about this? Well, why is he talking about this? Well, I haven't finished the book yet, so you'll hear maybe part two some other time and I apologize for that.
Speaker 2:So and if you're not into reading I just found out it is unaudible. Yeah, you can't listen to the book. There you go, steve, narrated. Narrated by my friend, steve.
Speaker 1:No, no, a waterman I don't know who that is, but Yep, so it's uh, I love hearing that, that kind of perspective, because you realize he's unfiltered. He's on the ground and he's unfiltered by all the political back and forth that we have today. That is telling us, I mean the tearing down statues and all this kind of stuff, it's revising history so that we are bitter against our country and he wasn't bitter a bit.
Speaker 2:So what you're talking about, that, the comments in the front of it. Is that like the forward?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, so the forward, not part of his autobiography, just totally. Oh yeah, it's totally. Hey, we want to filter this for you, so if you're reading, you need to understand how bad we are as a country. Wow.
Speaker 2:So who puts the forwards in?
Speaker 1:I don't know, Is it the?
Speaker 2:is it the publisher?
Speaker 1:I would say it is yeah, oh yeah, okay, that's too bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, anyway. Well, that's awesome. Thanks, andrew. All right, let's get into our final topic. We're going to put our helmet back, unless anybody out there wants me to make this go away forever, which I kind of do, but we'll put it right here.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Jimmy.
Speaker 2:Thank you for the self control. You can have your my six times super bowl winning helmet your idol. It's okay, that's my idol, yeah.
Speaker 1:We actually were talking about idols at church. Did you know? Christians can have idols, by the way? Yes, they can. Isn't that an interesting concept? I think that's a well, there's a ton of things.
Speaker 2:You can have idols. You can have idol anything.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:You can idolize being on this podcast.
Speaker 1:What yeah?
Speaker 2:I don't know why.
Speaker 1:I don't either of them yet, but I'm kind of weird.
Speaker 2:Where do you place this in your home? Is this on your mantle?
Speaker 1:Uh, if, I had a mantle. Uh, no, it's. Uh, it's on a bookshelf shelf, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, speaking of idols. And you're pausing and I'm pausing because we had to finish up the fancy football.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2:As much as I don't want to.
Speaker 1:So who won this year?
Speaker 2:I don't really want to say that person's name because I mean I'll just I'll give a lead up. It's a fantasy mastermind. This person actually had phone numbers and direct lines to her players throughout the year To her players.
Speaker 1:Yes, making sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, okay, yeah, so it's Andrea. She won and it was.
Speaker 1:I told you she was obsessed.
Speaker 2:Well, we all know fantasy is a hundred percent skill, right. I mean, it takes a skillful, skillful, skillful person to talk first but to win fantasy Right. But I, but I do think there's one real interesting fact that you developed, divulged to me at your birthday party.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Is that it wasn't halfway through the year. She wasn't quite even sure what a running back was.
Speaker 1:No, not halfway through the year. So or was it the playoffs when?
Speaker 2:she's like maybe I should put a who is a running back.
Speaker 1:Okay, so her defense that she put in? She just thought it was it was the team that won. She had no idea what it was. I said that's your defense. What is that? I said it's the. It's the side of the team that plays that doesn't have the ball. You get scored on how little points they allow, and she didn't know that this is the one game left to go.
Speaker 2:This is the winner of the McShowdown.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was supposed to be between the McCanas and the McNeils and we, we wiped you guys out, and it was me and Andrea in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:My 14 year old daughter was in there.
Speaker 1:I know, and you were like Ruthless, I beat her like a drum.
Speaker 2:It was sad. Your team was terrible.
Speaker 1:It was awful, but it got the playoffs. In a way it's it reminds me of the Patriots. Again, they did just. They did their job, jimmy.
Speaker 2:They did their job I'm interested to find out where you cheated.
Speaker 1:Where you cheated Well, we might have played it some more. Where were the balls deflated? Where did, where did you?
Speaker 2:cheat. There's gotta be an area somewhere, yeah. So yeah, congratulations to my wife let's get into politics?
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Yes, we're cheating, so this is okay. So 2024 is going to be a crazy year. We know that and I think we maybe we'll try to, as we end this podcast, we're going to we're going to maybe try to put a little perspective or just quick thoughts of what we think, but, but prior to that, let's just, let's just talk about some breaking news politically. That's happened. By the time you hear this. You might even know some folks that are going to announce that they're running, but we have the eighth district congressman. Larry Bouchon announced, like two days ago, that he is not going to seek reelection. So that seat, then that is the district we're in, includes Vigo.
Speaker 1:Park, all the way down to Evansville and and so that opens up a huge political position that people will run for. And there was also congressman Greg Pence, mike Pence's brother, who did the same announcement, and Jim Banks is not running for his because he's running for Senate. That's up north. And then Victoria Sparts also, she's in the Carmel area and you know correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't know all the congressional districts perfectly but so that's at least four seats that are going to be turned over, or new, new occupants in the next Congress. So a lot, a lot of folks.
Speaker 1:I have contacted a couple of people that I know that might have their ear to the, to the ground, and I've been told that there are a, a ton of names, jimmy, a ton of names, 2000 pounds, yeah, lots of names, and some of it's you know top secret, and some of it you can't know. And all of it. None of it will be shared here because nobody's really announced. My only thought okay, two things. First of all, we've got to find whoever it takes over. It needs to be a conservative fighter, that's. That is. That is top priority to me, and I think the chances of getting that I hate to say this, I'm I'm not saying I'm cynical. I thought we're going to be positive. I feel like my eyes are open.
Speaker 2:I know we just said that before we started the chances of the, the chances of the, the chances of the the chances of the the that happening are are not very good in my opinion personally.
Speaker 1:but I do think my experience in the political realm here I don't believe personally that there was any chance Bush on is stepping down without the establishment having a go to candidate that they're ready to roll out. I just I don't see it at that level. I just don't see it. But we will find out. There's going to, there'll be some announcements, probably some big ones, and it'll be exciting, crazy Trump's going to be on the ballot. We've got we've got two commissioners that are going to be in the primary and then in the general here in Vigo contested elections too In the primaries, which the Republicans don't do a ton of that, no.
Speaker 2:So it's going to get nuts. It really it's going to be crazy. It really kind of excited. It's good.
Speaker 1:It's good for good, for democracy, so, anyway, that's, that's what's going to happen, so that's great, all right. So let's talk about and we don't have anything more. I don't have anything more to say on that because I don't I'm, there's no names, I'm not going to throw that out. So I mean, I want to waste any more time on that. We'll definitely do another podcast as, as names come out, let's, we'll talk about it. I'll try to be nice, but I'm pretty cynical.
Speaker 2:Are we going to have them on? Are we going to have them on? Are we thinking about doing that? No only if, if folks are interested in only if they're interesting.
Speaker 1:I think if I I know it's terrible.
Speaker 2:They're interesting, I know.
Speaker 1:Well, so if they're, once we get past the primary, yes, I think we'll have whoever's running for Congress probably on and, and, yeah, and whoever the governor who's running for governor, will we try to have that on? I think we can make that happen. I really do. I think we can make that happen. Yeah, I just I don't know if I want to get involved prior to the primary. There's multiple candidates and it's just kind of way and I'm hoping to go to the convention, where there'll be lots of Lieutenant Governor candidates, and that'll be exciting.
Speaker 1:So maybe I'll talk about that before then too. So enough rambling, so let's talk about 2024. Maybe some positive perspective, maybe something you know direction, maybe from the Lord. I know there's some folks that don't think. Maybe God talks to us. I'm not trying to like look in a crystal ball and do anything here, so I'm going to just talk generally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what I believe I have felt, just from the Lord no big word or anything, except the fact that kind of the same thing I felt a year ago and that is that God's kingdom, that God's kingdom, is always advancing and is always triumphant and victorious, always. So I do believe, unlike a lot of Christians, that the kingdom of God affects and is intertwined in our political, economic systems, all of the governing systems of the world. I believe they are being subjugated to the kingdom of God, that there's a battle that rages and we know that the kingdom we know the kingdom is advancing. We know God's gonna have some great things going on in 2024. I believe he did some amazing things in 2023. We also know we have an enemy. We know that Satan is gonna do everything he can to stop that. So I think the perspective for us as Christians is there's a lot of waves coming. It doesn't take a profit to know that 2024, last time we had a presidential election, we had COVID and the entire world tried to shut down in order to stop it. We had a stolen election. We've had crazy things happening and I don't look for the craziness to go away, but I do look for Christians to find their peace and their direction in the kingdom of God and in the purposes of God and let's ride the waves. Let's not, when we see the threats of Satan or even the persecutions coming against the church, let's not go to the bottom of that wave and get all immersed in the icky stuff that's going on. And I'm not saying put your head in the sand, but let's stay and ride above it and see that the purposes of God are continually moving forward. We might lose some battles, but we, truthfully, we are winning the war and in this country we're winning the war. I mean the side, the Marxist takeover, anti-god folks from education to government and church, even in church. They've got these great plans for America and they're frustrated.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like if you think about when Robert E Lee at the end, when Grant was given the armies of it was called it was the main army he was given the charge over all the armies. He was general, the five-star general, and it was like one of the only times, but anyway, he was specifically in charge of the Eastern seaboard. Okay, it was him and Lee Folks were constantly coming to him. Oh my gosh, the legend of General Lee, oh, the legend, he's gonna do this. And every single time Grant would make a move, he would constantly hear from his aides and from soldiers and from his generals oh my gosh, lee's gonna do this or Lee's doing that or whatever. And he'd had it.
Speaker 1:And I think this is the perspective and kind of the thing that we need to have in this, because we're in a battle here for the soul of the country.
Speaker 1:And Grant said don't tell me what Lee's gonna do anymore, I want you to tell me what we are going to do. And the attitude had to change in the army of the North, that they were no longer going to be beaten around by an enemy, jimmy, that didn't have a chance, but they had allowed themselves because they'd lost some battles, they'd allowed themselves to be talked into a place of complete defeat and I think that right now we are winning. We actually are winning some battles, but we've lost some battles. We lost the last election. We had it stolen from us and we had no way to get it back. We lost a major battle, but here's the deal we are our winning this war and, if God's on our side, I don't think I wanna hear anymore what the globalists and the Marxists are doing. I wanna hear what God is doing and what are we gonna do to them as we take this country back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I kinda, as you're saying, about the kingdom pushing forward, I know, and you know, that the kingdom is through God's people here. That's right, that's how it is. I don't know. I kind of I don't know. This is kind of different.
Speaker 2:But I feel like there's somebody listening right now that's had that kind of that's had that tug before, like the Lord's speaking to you, like you're called to do more, and I mean I'm gonna pray for you right now, because I think we've all kind of been in those situations before. I mean, we both have actually been there where we felt like some, like God was calling us to something that we weren't comfortable with, and so let's just pray for it. There's somebody listening right now. I really think there is. And if it's gonna be when this is posted the first day or the 50th day, yeah, I wanna pray for them right now.
Speaker 2:Dear Father, we just we asked that you just comfort that person right now. Lord, you come into wherever they are and you surround them and you give them your peace. You have spoken at word to them, father, and let them know that you're going. Everything that comes from your mouth will be completed through you. The work is not for them to do? All they have to do is trust you. Yes and Father, we just ask that you give them peace and clarity right now that you have called them to be one of these kingdom changers, one of the ones that are bringing kingdom here to tear hote to Western Indiana. Lord, we ask that you just give them courage and boldness to accept what you are telling them, in Jesus's name, amen.
Speaker 1:All right, well, that's new, that's first, there you go.
Speaker 2:That wasn't planned, but that I'm glad you did that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you. Yeah, all right, folks, we really appreciate all of our viewers and listeners. It has been a, it's been a pleasure Once again, jimmy, sitting down and having a podcast, having the conversation, yeah, getting to talk about some of the great, great things in the NFL and anyway, and this is a whole time. So, folks, we really need your help with subscribing and liking this video, sharing the links, getting your friends to subscribe to the channel. Let's get the subscribers up and maybe we'll give a do a giveaway sometime.
Speaker 1:Yeah we'll find something that Jimmy has from his next storage war. We'll do an update on that too, maybe next time too, because that was that was crazy. So but anyway, thank you guys again for listening for for Jimmy and for me. God bless, thank you. See you later.
Speaker 2:I got a fire in me, You're going to set to burn and we got a world to see All the time to learn. Oh oh, oh, oh. Hey, let's set out on a road. See how far we can go.