MC Squared
MC Squared is a podcast hosted by Andrew McNeil and Jimmy McKanna. We talk about local, state and federal issues as well as host a variety of guests. To contact the show please email us at themcsquaredpodcast@gmail.com
MC Squared
Our better halves join the show for Valentines Day | Ep 21
In this special Valentines edition, Jimmy and I bring our wives back on the show. We talk fantasy football, marriage advice and more! As always we appreciate our audience and thank you for listening.
Intro music by Upstate - How Far We Can Go
Hi everybody, welcome to episode 21 of the MC squared podcast, the special Valentine edition. I'm Andrew McNeil, joined by my, with my co-host, jimmy McCanna, and we've got a special, we've got a special show for you today. All right, welcome back everybody. Yeah, so on today's episode, we are joined by our spouses once again. This is Andrea Allison. I think this is the second time. Second time we've done this, so it went so well last time that we we had to bring them back.
Speaker 3:So we'll see how that goes very true?
Speaker 1:Anyway, this is gonna be released right before Valentine's Day, so happy Valentine's Day this is my gift for you.
Speaker 3:Um, don't say I didn't get you anything.
Speaker 1:Yep, jimmy, do you get? Do you get anything special for Allison on Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, yeah, usually Usually I do we don't do like a real, we don't get real crazy on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1:Okay. But yeah, I mean it's kind of nice to spend a little bit of time together, you know yeah, with having kids just like a like Silence for a little bit.
Speaker 3:So we have a little, we have that planned.
Speaker 2:I think I took the day off work. Oh, did you?
Speaker 1:really yeah, I mean that's, that's for.
Speaker 2:Valentine's Day yeah, kind of went high.
Speaker 1:Wow, oh, I'll show for this year.
Speaker 2:I feel terrible. I haven't taken a day off work for like since Christmas. So, yeah, well, that's a good day to do it. It is, and there was nothing in my schedule too, but that's not the reason. It's because I wanted to have absolutely.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's, that's very sweet, you do something special.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think we're gonna go get some coffee at Java Ho Fantastic, great place and then in the afternoon we have somebody who's gonna come into town what a Lauren's disc golf sponsors and we're gonna play disc golf.
Speaker 4:So, we got it.
Speaker 2:You're kind of the way in and out here.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 2:I'm winning in the morning, losing in the afternoon.
Speaker 1:Hopefully the weather's good right. Yeah yeah, never know this time of year in Indiana.
Speaker 2:So this time you can tell that the ladies, and including the gents, we are not wearing headphones and that was kind of a source of contention last time. Yeah, a little bit just the size, what it did your hair, andrew, and I really go back and forth with this every. Yeah after every episode we talk about it, but we're going headphoneless, so we are 100% relying on drew ski back there to make sure that our sound sounds good.
Speaker 2:So Thank goodness for no headphones, I know think I guess so, so you can see more of our ears.
Speaker 1:So a lot of folks have asked how you know how the whole fantasy football thing went, and you know we talked about this already. We've already we already finalized that. You know Andrea won, my wife won and all this kind of. So we already talked about this, but they Never with them here, never with them present on the podcast, and I feel like you have something you want to say. You nothing.
Speaker 3:Well, I was gonna just let you're gonna have to talk.
Speaker 1:You're gonna have to talk.
Speaker 3:This was this doesn't feel as natural as I thought it was going to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah yeah, it's always works out really good in your mind and then you get Can you tell us.
Speaker 2:Can you give us a little bit insight into your strategy?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, weekly strategy for winning In front of you again.
Speaker 2:I mean, are you watching the network?
Speaker 3:No, I'm not gonna get let down that road. I was just gonna bring up how it's hard to be a a woman in a man's fantasy football world, because when you win you don't really get properly recognized in fact, people make fun of you.
Speaker 2:No, it's not usually.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna play again next year and I'm gonna, I'm gonna prove that I can win and it's not, I'm gonna countless do it twice really. That's why.
Speaker 2:I'm saying this golf doesn't countless. You do it twice.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'll really long putt.
Speaker 4:I'll prove it again next time.
Speaker 2:I'll just go over this thing, you gotta do it twice for it to count.
Speaker 3:I feel like my home shouldn't be in the Super Bowl because you let me down. You let me down in the fantasy football time really bad, and I didn't think they get this far and my in my mind he just yeah, I started benching him because he played so bad, did you let him?
Speaker 2:know, that.
Speaker 4:I wish.
Speaker 2:Now McCaffrey should be there yeah because he was younger fantasy team yes, he was a winner.
Speaker 3:Now, that's kind of all the way.
Speaker 2:See what I mean look well, I mean, I'm not sure how you got that.
Speaker 3:No, it was fun. I didn't want to play, andrew forced me and then I decided I might as well play to win yeah that's what happened.
Speaker 2:Who beat you? Did anybody beat you at all?
Speaker 3:Well yeah, I got beat you did once in a while. But, I don't know it, just Daniel or drew beat me a lot.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Andrew, never beat me, ever. Yeah, you make sure of that.
Speaker 3:I'm Allison was the first one to beat me pig skin princess. He's the first time and I thought this. This is not gonna happen again.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to take this seriously?
Speaker 3:Well, that's what happened.
Speaker 2:So for the Thursday night game. We really sat down and analyzed her team and stacked it to beat you.
Speaker 3:So Thursday night, the first time the Thursday- night thing is when you get the team. It was fun.
Speaker 2:It was fun.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it was fun yeah also, we've not heard any of your comments with us Did you know, I really had very little to do with my fantasy football. Is this is this full disclosure?
Speaker 3:Your kids did good your kids did and yeah, and Zach did really good, but Congratulations, andrew, yeah. Yeah, thank you Another woman, so you can say that there are men who haven't been able to say that.
Speaker 1:Thanks for Super Bowl oh 40, 49ers in the chiefs, not the, not the chiefs.
Speaker 2:Absolutely 49ers Yep 49ers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going with the 49ers who does McCaffrey play for Exactly?
Speaker 3:Honor team holder?
Speaker 2:He's on the chiefs right, no, no, he's not.
Speaker 3:He's on the 49ers, your other person on the team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the team. Now, the wealth of knowledge is coming forth.
Speaker 1:A little bit of pushing below the surface and you see the wealth of football knowledge. That's. It's my, it's my stellar analytics.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:So anyway uh 49ers.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like Brock Purdy 49ers. How did you Nothing to nothing to Allison Amazing.
Speaker 4:I guess I want the 49ers, I think the, I think Kansas City will win.
Speaker 1:You think Taylor Swift's going to win? Oh please, I think so.
Speaker 4:Yeah, people want to, I feel like she wins when they win.
Speaker 2:So that's why I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, they asked uh, did you see this? They asked uh, travis Kelsey today? Uh, it might have been yesterday. No, uh, super Bowl. You know the press conferences that they do. They asked him why do you think everybody is so obsessed with you and Taylor Swift? And he just said because everybody is just loves our values.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm thinking, is this the Pfizer double shot guy? I think he is. Yeah, that's his commercial and the also behind Joe Biden. Yeah, exactly, so there's, they're setting this up for a psychop.
Speaker 3:This is.
Speaker 1:This is where it's going. There's going to be some kind of an endorsement of Joe Biden after after Taylor Swift wins the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:I mean, the endorsement will come with a head injury. Yeah, yeah, well, this is crazy.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of politics, because we do get into this today, did you guys see, um, where, uh, it was late. It was late this afternoon where the uh Department of Justice decided that Joe Biden had illegally taken top secret documents, he had stored them illegally at 18 or so whatever, but they they concluded that he was not mentally capable at this time of committing a crime, not because his intentions, but that mentally he's not there. This is the in the official document that they released, which is grounds for the 25th amendment to remove him as president, because I mean that's pretty scary Now. I think they thought they were getting off. You know, hey, this is, you know, it's just old Joe, you know whatever it is, but I mean that was their literal legal reason is he's not mentally competent to be prosecuted for a crime.
Speaker 2:I hate to be kind of dark about this, but in saying that, is this going to be the lead-in for Michelle Obama to run his place Right?
Speaker 1:I don't put anything past. I know, I know, or whoever it would be.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know who else it would be, but I'm just saying that it looks like they call him that, but this would lead right nice, into that when it comes into a few years, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the second thing that's going on today and I again, so I'm talking about this is the problem with talking about news a little bit is that, by the time this video is released, some of this stuff's old news yeah, but they are arguing before the Supreme Court on whether Trump can be removed from, about the state ballots or not.
Speaker 1:That is actually arguments going on right now, and so Clarence Thomas has asked questions, kavanaugh has asked questions and Gorsuch has asked questions, and they have eviscerated the lawyers for Joe Biden. I mean eviscerated like it's, oh, and the left wing side of the court has also been extremely skeptical skeptical of their case. So it actually does not look good. It should be. It may actually be a unanimous decision just because the court is wanting. I mean, this is about removing a political candidate, and the false charges that the, or the charges that they're going there in front of the Supreme Court, are that he was convicted in an insurrection. Never and Kavanaugh goes he wasn't even charged with an insurrection, let alone convicted. So doesn't look good and it's really an embarrassment.
Speaker 2:Why is this even getting to that? Exactly, exactly. Well anyway, let's do something a little bit lighter yeah.
Speaker 1:So well, I guess by the by the time this airs. So tomorrow we recorded this obviously a little bit before by the time this airs we will know the full slate of candidates in Indiana. So tomorrow. So we're recording this on a Thursday evening. Tomorrow at noon is the cutoff time. That's right. So we've got. I mean it's. It is actually crazy. So we won't probably talk about the candidates tonight, but we'll kind of go over it, I think in the next podcast I think we should talk about. You know who's running? I think there's six so far in the congressional district here and six or so yeah.
Speaker 1:And and crazy thing, Victoria Sparts, I will mention this she had said she wasn't going to run for reelection Congresswoman up North Republican, and so there were about I don't know maybe nine other Republicans that jumped in and you know they're running their campaigns, they're filing, and then last week at the last minute she says you know what, I think I am going to run again. And so she has filed to run the incumbent running again and just a complete disaster. I've actually never heard of anything like that before. So crazy Indiana politics, yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey, welcome back. We have a cool little gamey thing. We're going to play Andrea's idea. We're going to play with our wives, since this is.
Speaker 1:This is embarrassing.
Speaker 2:Yes, but it this is Valentine's Day, the Valentine's Day episode, so we're going to. It's the addition also, so we're going to actually ask questions and see if our spouse knows we're going to ask you questions first, and then we're going to ask you questions.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, so let's start.
Speaker 2:We'll let. We'll let the ladies start First, gentleman Second you want to start.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yes, first one yes.
Speaker 4:Tacos or pizza.
Speaker 2:Tacos Easy peasy, you're right.
Speaker 3:Okay, oh wow. Tacos or pizza.
Speaker 2:Taco pizza.
Speaker 4:Pizza.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, next question. Next question.
Speaker 4:What is my favorite ice cream flavor? Oh, why?
Speaker 1:I was answering for me. Andrew doesn't understand this game. It's fine, sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 2:That was me. Oh, that's okay, yeah, oh, okay, yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay Okay, cookie dough, no Dang it.
Speaker 1:I know it's not mint.
Speaker 2:I just know it's not mint the stashio, oh dang it. We didn't get it very often.
Speaker 3:Oh, my favorite kind of ice cream, yeah, I totally messed that up.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I would have guessed tacos in there first.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, it's too late.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's ice cream. Okay, so what's?
Speaker 3:the question. My favorite kind of ice cream.
Speaker 1:Well I can say, but they don't make it anymore. Say it Okay, it's like chocolate marshmallow.
Speaker 3:There you go, very good.
Speaker 1:Good job. I don't even think they make it anymore. My grandpa got it for me, Okay very good Andrew.
Speaker 3:Okay, andrew this is a silly one for you to answer. It needs to be a harder one, Okay. Well, we'll just do this one first. Who liked who first?
Speaker 1:You liked me first.
Speaker 3:Yes, I did, I'm not sure why.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, I would like you again, over and over again.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's sweet. Yes, okay, make it real out of that.
Speaker 4:Yes, who liked who first?
Speaker 2:Oh, I liked you. How long did you like her?
Speaker 3:How long did you like her first, Jimmy?
Speaker 2:About six hours. And then she liked you that fast? No, I don't think she took longer than that, for like me.
Speaker 3:That's my. I would mean how long oh?
Speaker 2:I don't know how to get the question, so how?
Speaker 4:Through those ER doors. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Pretty much it Were you in your scrubs, yeah, oh man, I was in like some magic scrubs. Oh, back in the day, when I had scrubs, I thought I was tough stuff. Right, I was kind of like the age of your sons and my son. I was on the. This is kind of embarrassing, but I put my, I had my scrubs on. We're kind of we're at Clinton ER right, Kind of bored, and there used to be a website called hot or notcom. Oh God, you remember this?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so stupid. Who are you on the website? Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:What With my little spiky hair I had hair.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Spiky hair, kind of greasy looking, my scrubs on. I was sitting in front of a defibrillator, like the thing you shop people with, like this, lean it back Hot or notcom. It was like that swipe, last swipe, right before it got that, I thought I was cool. But Did she swipe? No? No, I mean Allison was way out of my league. Like that league is like really low, like I was really low league then, but no, I shot way out of my league with Allison and yeah, that is too funny.
Speaker 3:So how long did it take you to like him back?
Speaker 4:Well, he didn't. He didn't tell me he didn't, I didn't have any idea. I didn't have any idea. And so it was a whole arranged thing. One of the nurses from his department called and said could you bring me some applesauce? And he was in the room with applesauce and I said oh, here you're going back downstairs. Take this applesauce, he's away in a minute.
Speaker 3:So it's a whole arranged thing.
Speaker 4:But then no, I liked him right away.
Speaker 2:Well, who doesn't like Jimmy? I was going to ask her out. I was going to ask her out, right? So she handed the applesauce and she started walking away. And it was one of those situations in life where somebody is walking away and you feel like you're on the precipice of something and I just kind of blurted out hey, do you want to go out sometime? When she was walking the other direction.
Speaker 2:She would have taken like two steps around the corner and it was like okay, so take advantage of opportunities like this, kids, like if you feel like you're at a precipice and you're like you're feeling led to like, do this, just just do it.
Speaker 3:I mean because.
Speaker 2:I mean, you don't, you don't know what's behind that, and I could have waited two more seconds and then been totally embarrassed and never done it.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:So I would have taken two steps around the corner and I would have done it and been like, well, I didn't do it, I'm not. Then I felt like insecure and you know like but it was just that one thing, it's almost like, almost, it's like came out of me.
Speaker 4:Funny thing though, we went on our first date. I went back to work because you know, we met at work. He was working as an EMT and the ER and I was a nurse and I went back to work and everybody was like, oh, how'd it go, you know? And I said oh, it was really, it was nice, he was really nice. I don't think he's going to ask me out again.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And they were like why? And I said, oh he's, I'm not his type. He talked a lot about like outdoor stuff and which he does like all that stuff. It wasn't untrue but canoeing and hiking and all of this.
Speaker 3:And I'm like no, he wants to type a girl who's going to wake up in the morning and throw her hair in a ponytail and be like let's go on a hike, and that's not me, but he asked me out on a second date and then the rest
Speaker 4:was history, and actually the second date. You asked me what my favorite ice cream was. And I said pistachio.
Speaker 3:Oh, that was only like almost 20 plus.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, I did do it.
Speaker 3:I was good.
Speaker 2:I thought for sure you would remember that that was my favorite ice cream Guys when you start, when you go that far out of your league, you got to start pulling out every stop. You got to be on the top of your head.
Speaker 2:You just kind of randomly ask go with your ice cream. And then the next time you see her like, oh, here's your ice cream. Oh, I mean you have to throw down stuff. It was, it was. There you go. She's the only I'm not saying the only, but she wrote in my Jeep Wrangler lifted no top. That's how I picked her up for her first day from Clinton driving all the way down the outback.
Speaker 3:Was your hair mess? Yeah, but here's the thing.
Speaker 2:Any other person or girl whoever rode in that car thought it was the coolest car in the world.
Speaker 4:And she was just like oh yeah, this is fine this is fine, Cause it was really stiff and I was like oh, I mean and then we took my car later.
Speaker 2:Find out. She really didn't like the top down.
Speaker 3:Right, I'll lay down, but she liked you, and that's all that mattered. I did.
Speaker 2:I liked there you go I liked.
Speaker 1:That's a great story. That's sweeter than ours, it's not as sweet.
Speaker 3:You don't have to tell it it's too long.
Speaker 1:Well, we're getting ready to celebrate 30 years of marriage.
Speaker 3:We already had our questions, so it's over now.
Speaker 1:We're gonna celebrate 30 years of marriage. That's awesome and, and looking back, it still is slightly embarrassing how we got together for you for mostly for me. Well, it sort of is. So you knew the first time you saw me, that, yep, that I was. I was the one I.
Speaker 3:Knew the moment I laid eyes on you Wow, I called you my future husband for a year and a half.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so everybody I knew she, she wasn't a stalker. Honestly, you're the one of the best things ever happened to me and I Was probably close to missing it just from being stubborn. But I was close to missing a lot of good things in my life because of resistance to God's will for me. That's right. So I was a Christian, but you can be a Christian and still live your own way. That makes sense. And I had a lot of things I was doing and I thought was a good idea again, yeah, you did too, but God put us together and I I desperately just same as you. We had the same heart, which is pretty funny. My brother David it was three years younger than me. He just thought mostly me that I was ridiculous because he's he was like you guys hear each other talk. You both want the same things. What, what is?
Speaker 4:what is.
Speaker 1:So I had a kind of an unrelated, just you know, just kind of a wrestle with the Lord one night and after that time, where I just yielded everything to the Lord, it wasn't too long after that, a couple of weeks, and we were so, yeah, kind of chatting again and Our, our story is not that romantic because I just, I don't know, I was a little immature made a business deal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was, and we've done this a lot and see, the thing is the way we were. It was kind of like Two in the morning at our parents house and we were just talking and just kind of talked into this Elephant in the room, which was that everybody thought we should get together. It's been going on for a while and I said, and you know, I'm starting to think, I think that's, I think it's true, I think we should, and that was that was about the last thing I said, and she was crying and I was Shocked and stunned that I came out of my mouth. But also, but also I knew it was, it was true and it was, it was awesome. Actually, from that point on, it was just really wonderful stuff.
Speaker 2:So 30 years this year 30 years were 20 years.
Speaker 1:We're 20 years in June. Yeah, those are 30 years.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. Bye, bye.
Speaker 1:So so, two lessons for two, two lessons for marriage, for successful marriage.
Speaker 3:To two things we have to do that, why not? We didn't ask the final question?
Speaker 2:Okay, well, yeah. We know we didn't ask the question for them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we have to ask questions, okay, yeah okay.
Speaker 2:Nope absolutely so I'll ask Alison a question. So If I was fishing? Okay, yeah, if I was fishing and I can pick one fish To catch, oh my god what type of fish would it be? Oh?
Speaker 4:I feel like I've heard this.
Speaker 3:What's the one fish that?
Speaker 4:I'm really excited about catching Muskie.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 4:Is it really Really?
Speaker 3:He's lying. No, it's not Muskie would be really cool.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it's a smallmouth bass.
Speaker 2:No, but I love catching. Tarpen is my dream fish never caught.
Speaker 4:Tarpen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a fly rod. Okay, that was a tough question If you had to catch a fish.
Speaker 1:What would it be? It's your question.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:If I could catch any fish, swordfish okay.
Speaker 2:Sounds great.
Speaker 3:We use the same question.
Speaker 1:I mean I can, but I feel, I feel like, I feel like you're obsessed with me the question ask and I feel like you know. Everything about me.
Speaker 3:So okay, don't make me look bad what's?
Speaker 1:what's my favorite sports team? What? The New England Patriots yeah, okay, yes, that's easy.
Speaker 3:I could answer that in my sleep. Cubs, that's all you can come up with. I've redeemed myself. What's my favorite? How about a few? How tall you know what's my favorite food?
Speaker 1:steak.
Speaker 3:That's the answer in your mind. Yeah, I know what was your answer that's it, I guess that.
Speaker 2:I love food.
Speaker 3:If you had to eat something for the rest of your life. What would it be? The same thing.
Speaker 4:I feel, like you've said recently, I could eat that every day. For the rest, I.
Speaker 3:Listen, and Jim, you're so sweet.
Speaker 4:I love it all, I don't care you're gonna get a right answer.
Speaker 3:He just likes food Okay don't say like Like sauerkraut's.
Speaker 1:Okay, like, so, yeah, okay, so let's, let's go back and do two things that are good for a successful marriage. And let's not, let's leave out the church II answer, the obvious church II answer, which is put Christ first.
Speaker 3:Okay, we get that you want so dear, dear. What's that lady you write into her?
Speaker 1:dear Abby, dear Abby.
Speaker 3:Dear Abby, my husband. Okay, so we have to take this up on the other side of the break, but we got five minutes, so let's just spit it out, okay. Start okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I think I think communicate everybody says communication, but I think communication when it's difficult is important and what I mean Difficult.
Speaker 1:I think communication when it's difficult is important. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's difficult, I think, communication when you don't agree with each other or you're afraid you might hurt their feelings, or it's a controversial issue that maybe one may Is feel strongly about, and I think communication at that point is Very important, because I think what you're actually doing is working out, becoming one and a good team. Yeah, and I think that the trap you can get into sometimes is that when something is controversial or it's gonna be a blow up or there's gonna be whatever, that you keep things buried and even though maybe you have quote peace, the house, you don't have the cohesion of a team. Yep, then that would be, that'd be one thing I would say.
Speaker 4:That's good, good advice me next sure we can do two.
Speaker 1:well, I did one, you do one, okay, um.
Speaker 3:Well, this was something I think we tried to do from the beginning, but to be intentional about Tending to your relationship, like going out on on dates. It doesn't have to be expensive, but being intentional. Intentional about spending time with each other, that's not just like accidental time, and I think I heard that once from your family, your mom, and then also the whole idea of like someday you're gonna be alone in the house again.
Speaker 1:So if you don't tend that relationship, we're never gonna be alone in the house again, but if you don't attend, it.
Speaker 3:It may seem like forever, but there's gonna be a time where your kids are gone and a lot of times couples drift apart from each other and don't even know each other at that point. So just intentional dating and just taking care of your relationship.
Speaker 3:It doesn't have to be fancy or expensive and it can be done, but it's just a good thing to do, cause a lot of times the husband and wife is sort of like the structure and so it sometimes gets thrown in the back burner Like it's just it's there and it's gonna be there and it holds everything up. But it's not. It doesn't get the focus, but really it is what holds everything up.
Speaker 4:So it needs to be taken care of yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2:So this is kind of tough. So do you want to go first?
Speaker 4:Okay, Well, I mean, it's not as deep as Andrea's and Andrew's but, I, mean, I think, just to laugh together. Oh, that's true, Just to have fun together and not to take yourself too seriously. I mean I feel like I have a lot of fun with Jimmy. I don't know why he's laughing right now I do know why.
Speaker 2:I know exactly I'm laughing because of her.
Speaker 4:Fake fights. Yes, oh God.
Speaker 2:You have fake fights. We whisper, scream at each other too.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh it's all pretend it's not real.
Speaker 3:We have fake fights. Yeah, our kids are totally used to it. They're not even phased Do you do it to like relieve pressure.
Speaker 4:No, it's never serious.
Speaker 2:It's never serious. I don't know where we do that. No, if we're yeah.
Speaker 4:Cool, yeah, cool. What do you say to that? I don't really want to say that, but I mean, even if you don't have mental problems and have fake fights, you know, just to laugh together to find something that's you know, that you share that's funny to kind of you know, you get to know each other so well that you kind of know.
Speaker 4:You know it's kind of like when you're somewhere with somebody that you know so well and you see something funny and you're like I am not looking at you because if I look at you, I'm going to laugh and it's inappropriate to laugh, right now. So I believe that's a good one.
Speaker 2:So Tuesday I'm going to give one for marriage, but I'm going to give one for like the young couples dating.
Speaker 1:Okay, young couples dating.
Speaker 2:When you're going to find your mate, obviously it needs to be absolutely like covered in prayer when you're going to do that, but kind of like what I was saying before the Lord has somebody for you, Go after it, Don't worry about anything else Like league, no league, whatever it will be set up for you, there is a person and so take courage in that. I think and don't feel. I think that one thing that in the dating situation and it's 20 years ago, but I think guys can get really insecure about you know different things, so anyway, but the other thing is, I think, is recognizing one thing that I've had trouble with and I've worked on over the years recognizing, like, the beauty and the differences from people that think differently, maybe have a different perspective than you, because when it all really comes together is when you have kids and because you see this child that comes out and you're like, wow, that's a little bit of me, that's a little bit of her, or this one child.
Speaker 2:And you're like well, that's like a perfect creation and that's why we were together. And it's not, like this kid is, this person is a clone of Jimmy and every thing that I have is cloned and I think that's perfect. No, like how great is it when you know you come together and you have this child and it's a mixture of both. You're like oh, my goodness, that's like a masterpiece, lord, I mean. And so I think, after you see that, you can step back and look and be like wow, there's so many things that Allison has that I don't, but coming together as parents and lovers, no, we're not.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:You know what else to say. How old are you? How old are you For Drew, Drew and Salim? It's not a big deal.
Speaker 2:We're gonna read the songs and solve them.
Speaker 3:Oh gosh, we're gonna make.
Speaker 4:For Drew. Drew has left the building I don't know how he cut down.
Speaker 1:I don't know what we need to do. Let's just leave it. We're just coming together it's fine.
Speaker 2:Not as lovely as.
Speaker 3:Pwnip Spouses, life partners How's that? Everybody, probably. I don't think I was mature enough for this conversation.
Speaker 1:I think pretty much anybody listening is not gonna be shocked by the husband and wife being lovers.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:It's kind of it's a love holiday it's.
Speaker 3:Valentine's Day yeah. So, I'm glad you said it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have one more time, right, okay, three, two.
Speaker 3:You can say that but we're probably not cutting this out. You're blocking me out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how are we gonna put that in? I think it's fine how it is.
Speaker 4:Let's go.
Speaker 2:And we just laughing to it. Okay, anyway.
Speaker 4:Just a final segment.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so I just my wife's already done.
Speaker 2:I recently heard some news today, which is really exciting.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:And I'm gonna give a reason why. So, about seven years ago, okay, I was a part of a men's group called Fight Club. We've heard of Fight Club before.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, we know Fight Club.
Speaker 2:The MI414 and you get together as a men's club and there was, and you do have these challenges you do every week, you memorize scripture, and some of the challenges that had stretched me the most and caused me really it was after I'd run for office, but I really had like a heart for the city is doing Jericho walks, so doing a walk around, praying around a specific area and you walk around it seven times right.
Speaker 2:And so one of the during one of the challenges, like six or seven years ago, I felt called to do a walk around Sixth Avenue, which is the Sixth Avenue bar there close to the hospital, and I remember doing a walk around it and it was during the days I don't know why I was there, thank goodness, but it was in the evening when they went, when nobody was there. But I remember doing the walk and feeling like this real, I don't know, we did another Jericho Walks, but you know when you do that you really feel like when you're praying around something, you know there's something that changes when Christ inside of you moves the atmosphere when you walk through those areas. You know, and and I was so like overwhelmed today when I found out that the system that I work for, you know, bought this, off this and they're closing it down. And huge victory, huge victory, I park right next to it.
Speaker 2:And every day when I walk into work I look over at it and I say, someday that will be yours, that's cool, that will be yours, you're going to take that. And I feel like it's one of these things like like one of these, these walls for our city. And I know that some people might not see it that way and they might see it Well, what's the big deal with that? But I feel like that was one of Satan's real kind of hands that he had, especially in that area. I have a heart for that area because it's really it's a a rougher area.
Speaker 2:I mean I mean, just be honest, I mean, and those people flood to the hospital. It's like a sanctuary for them and if we want it to be or not, it is, but I just I'm so excited about that happening and it's going to be turned into asphalt. But the one thing I do think we need to be vigilant of is I did find out today that we did buy the property, but somebody else did buy the license to put another establishment like that and somewhere else, somewhere else, and so those licenses, you know, and so it's like a cockroach, they just keep scurry.
Speaker 2:Yes, they can't kill and so I mean, I, I really encourage and I know I'm not the only one. I know there's been the tons of Christians that have spent time, have actually ministered inside of there, have ministered around there, and so I think it's a huge victory for the Lord. But then I do think we need to be vigilant and we need to actually take that power that's inside of us and change the city.
Speaker 2:And it's not, it's not us, but it's us. It's the next generation, it's the current. You know, it's the church right now. But I do think we need to realize, like the power that comes through what we do as Christians, as Christ followers, as those who are built to change the world, and I just think it's. I think it's a real cool win, but I think that we need to stay vigilant because the gates of hell will not come against it.
Speaker 4:They will not prevail.
Speaker 2:And I do. I fully believe that, even though they're going to try, it's not going to happen. As long as we stay vigilant, they have no chance. The buildings will fall, even if it's not as fast as I wanted it to be. The buildings are going to fall as long as we stay vigilant. And that's I mean it's 100%, probably not for our generation, before the next, I mean. So I'm just really encouraged by it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know what they're going to do with that property? As fault like parking lot.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:For just the needed for more parking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, usually that's what they do.
Speaker 3:It's kind of far out from the buildings, isn't?
Speaker 2:it. It is as close to the surgery center and I know our surgery center. We have nurses in there. They would come in in the morning, the rebroken beer bottles that they'd have to walk through to get into the because of that place and you know so just for context, I know you mentioned that it was a bar, but this is a gentleman's club where women are exploited and men are feeding their addiction.
Speaker 4:Yes, so yeah that's why, that's why that's why the passion to see it destroyed, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, folks, I think that's probably. That's probably all we've got for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. We certainly did. It's really wonderful, alison and Andrea, that you guys came in and came in.
Speaker 1:My wife had a yeah, well, my wife had a request that everything be scripted and this is like totally, this is me and Jimmy don't script, so this is. This wasn't actually very scripted, as you could probably tell, but I really appreciate both of you coming on the show and Sharon and being vulnerable, and you know folks will be watching you on a video and so don't be nervous about that at all. So, but folks, we really appreciate you listening to the show. Yeah, we want to ask that you would subscribe to our YouTube channel. Like and subscribe and share as well. You can reach the show, jimmy. You want to give us that email?
Speaker 2:The MC squared podcast at gmailcom. The MC squared podcast at gmailcom.
Speaker 1:We are also going to be on rumble. I post video of this show directly to my Twitter feed, that is. My Twitter handle is Andrew T McNeil 73., so you can go follow me. Sometimes I say something interesting. I definitely retweet newsworthy things, interesting things, but I'm not not a huge. Well, it's not. It's not Twitter anymore, so sorry it was.
Speaker 3:X.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's formerly known as Twitter. So anyway, that's all we have for for you tonight and thanks for watching and we will. We will see you guys next time.
Speaker 2:See ya, bye.