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Trumps assassination, Republican Convention, And More | Ep. 28

• Andrew McNeil • Season 2 • Episode 9

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We went live! Talking about Trump's assassination attempt, the Republican National Convention, and more.

Intro music by Upstate - How Far We Can Go

Speaker 1:

Welcome once again to the MC squared podcast. My name is Andrew McNeil and in just a little bit you're going to hear the majority of an episode that we recorded. We had some technical difficulty at the beginning of the, at the beginning of the show. It's episode 28. And I'll be joined with my co host, jimmy McKenna. We take a dive into a lot of the crazy events surrounding the assassination attempt on President Trump, as well as reviewing some of the Republican National Convention highlights and some of our thoughts. So it was a really lively discussion. We had a great time and, again, thank you all for listening. And uh, here is that podcast. Well, I don't even know where we were, but it doesn't even matter.

Speaker 2:

So we were finishing up with the uh, you were talking about hulk hogan, but I don't know where it cut us off yeah, well, so we're finishing up with a republican convention.

Speaker 1:

Uh, did you watch president trump's speech?

Speaker 2:

no, I didn't.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it was super long, oh really, yeah, it was the longest accepting speech in history. Now, and what's sad about that is the first part of it was excellent. I mean, it was all good, fine, the first part of it was really good. And then he said something at the very end of his speech when I've got to believe so many people were nodding off and it was so good, so excellent. And he said basically and I've never heard him talk this way but he said, basically, I'm trying to change I'm paraphrasing, I should have it written out but I'm changing your expectations. Whatever your expectations are, I'm telling you they're too low.

Speaker 2:

Wow.

Speaker 1:

And it's not even talking about himself, it's talking about America. Your expectations are too low, and I just thought that was phenomenal. Okay, so, real quick, I'm going to talk to my producer here. Don't have any other screens open. That eats up memory on that computer like nobody's business. Let's just trust that it's going to go and if it says it's offline, we'll go from there. Okay, yep, and I cause I could be some of the issue with that. With that laptop, I've had huge memory problems. Anyway, technical questions, so yeah. So, folks, again, we are not on Facebook live, we took that offline but we are on X and we are on YouTube. Send us your questions, your comments. Biden's going to address the nation here, supposedly at 8 o'clock. Do you think it's AI or is it going?

Speaker 2:

to actually be. Well, I've thought a lot about that, so I don't. You know. Some might say he has a double or something like that. You know, some might say he has a double or something like that. I think the technology right now is too good to detect that. Whoa.

Speaker 1:

Really.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think there's too many people waiting for that. So, honestly, I think it's going to be obvious. This is the reason why.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so so the enemy never does anything different, done the same thing from the beginning, and we know this with with the trump assassination, all these different things, and I think that the exposure has started over these last couple weeks, it's true, and people's eyes are being opened up. That weren't before, and so I think that if it isn't the real deal, we're going to know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah Well, and to your point, they exposed pretty quickly that the resignation letter was not his signature. Very quickly, very quickly. And then they I mean Joe Rogan broke it down to where he like proved that the audio call in to Kam enough sense to know, man, this party does not deserve our vote. They have lied to us so thoroughly and so bold-faced to our faces over the past four years, and not just with Biden, obviously.

Speaker 2:

But COVID, and I mean all of this stuff. Well, for everybody who would see it for what it is, they would say that, yeah, but the problem is the media, right, the problem is the way the media they try to manipulate. Every single thing and I mean there's a lot of people to blame in politics is the way the media they try to manipulate every single thing. Okay, so let me say this I mean, there's a lot of people to blame in politics, there's a lot of deception there, but the media is the deceiver.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely so. Rush always made the point that the media is the Democrat Party. The media is the Democrat Party, and what you notice is just eerily these folks will say the same Party the media is the Democrat Party and what you notice is just eerily these folks will say the same phrases. They'll fall into lockstep. It doesn't matter what network you're looking at. When a major event like the assassination or the debate debacle happened, they were all speaking the same thing immediately, like they got their marching orders. But Rush used to make the point that the media was the driving arm of the Democratic Party. In other words, the Democratic officials took their cue from the media. So they work hand in hand. You can't separate politics from the media.

Speaker 2:

Well, I mean they did all the work for them, yeah. So then there's these people that would, if they could see it for what it is, they would say no way, right.

Speaker 1:

But then they're fed this stuff over and over on the 24-hour stream and if you hear something enough times, even if you started out believing, I don't think it's totally true. Or maybe this isn't real or this has got to be. That's not true by the time you've heard it the 15th time and every media outlet saying it, they're all saying it. I mean they're all saying Biden's fine. I mean what's wrong with you? I mean I know you saw him stumble and fall going up the stairs to Air Force One three times, you know, but that I mean he's fine. So do you think he shows?

Speaker 2:

up tonight.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I think I heard somebody else who had a theory and because there's been a lot of rumors, the problem going on with this? It has the feel. Do you remember when Gorbachev had the coup, they removed him. Do you remember this? So they had a coup. They had an actual coup and the communists tried to take over again because Gorbachev was doing perestroika and all the reforms and the old guard communists didn't like it. So this is very similar. So Biden wouldn't leave. So this is kind of like the old guard is going to do a coup, they're going to get rid of Biden. So they got rid of Gorbachev, they hold him up in his vacation home and these really old communists all lined up I think they had six rulers and they're all taken over again. Well, it failed miserably. But this is the kind of rumors and what's going on? And where is he? Is he dead? Well, this feels the same way with the president. There's clearly a political coup within the Democratic Party to take him out.

Speaker 2:

And acquiring COVID at that specific time.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, that's so, so convenient All very so I very odd.

Speaker 2:

I mean, it's really surprising, because I've heard he was vaxxed and boosted. Oh yeah, but that just right.

Speaker 1:

One of the theories was that they were that he wasn't actually dying, because there was there was a lot of rumors out that he was dying, he was near death and blah, blah, blah. One of the other theories I heard was that he wasn't actually dying. It's just that they couldn't trust him not to spill the beans before if he got in front of a microphone, and that makes a lot of sense. That fact that makes more sense to me than that he's on death's door which is what we heard.

Speaker 2:

I mean it would be. I think, honestly, if he's on death's door, something else happened. Oh yeah, I mean something else happened. It wasn't COVID. I mean you think I was thinking about this, and I hate to think about it, but I was thinking about. You know, they have these doctors that come in to help treat them.

Speaker 1:

All it takes is one overdose, and it's not necessarily an overdose of a medication that kills you instantly.

Speaker 2:

It's an overdose or a misdose of a medication that kills you instantly. So that's an overdose or a misdose of a medication that kills your kidneys, yeah, so then you stop filtering and then he's already decompensated, but anyway. I mean it just takes a very small slip of a medical error that could cause it, and then you know, I mean, are they going to go back and look at it? Who knows?

Speaker 1:

They won't.

Speaker 2:

But anyway, I mean how much money is being thrown around in this situation?

Speaker 1:

to get him out. So I think there is. I mean, do you think Trump's going to win? Yeah, yeah. Do you think the Democrats are going to give up on the presidential race?

Speaker 2:

So I think that's. An interesting thing I've heard is that I thought they initially I heard they were going to leave Biden in and then just kind of let him take all the heat and then go down. Now I'm kind of feeling like they might let Kamala be in, let her take it, because they need rid of her anyway.

Speaker 1:

Well, that's true.

Speaker 2:

She's kind of a. She's more unpopular than Biden. She's very unpopular. She's not an Obama, she's not smooth, she's not, she's very and she cannot be their face for four years. So honestly, if they're, I don't think that they should put up a good candidate against Trump. The problem is that they will fight to do anything to win, because they're going to be exposed Both sides. He's done, and this is the beauty. Brandy said that he thinks your mic is dead. Who did Brandy?

Speaker 1:

He said thinks your mic is dead. Who did Brandy? He said he can hear. You Can't hear me. I think you got to tilt it down a little bit and you got to stay near it oh sweet.

Speaker 2:

There you go Cool Dead mic baby, there you go, dead mic. I am back a little far.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you're back a little far so anyway, I anyway, I, I fully kind of goes into trump's decision for jd vance and I think it does seem like an interesting decision. I absolutely love it. Yeah, main reason is is because anybody in leadership needs to surround themselves. This is right along the lines of Micah Beckwith and Braun surround yourself with somebody who does not have your exact views. And it's obvious that back when JD Vance a few years ago, right, did not have Trump's views, yeah, but he came around. He came around back when Trump was kind of really kind of unpopular, like 2021 or so?

Speaker 1:

No, it's been a while. He came back back when Trump was really kind of unpopular, like 2021 or so, right, no, it's been a while he came back around then.

Speaker 2:

But his history of his childhood trauma and what he's been through is exactly what this country needs.

Speaker 1:

It's Midwest America.

Speaker 2:

Middle America. Middle America it really is, because our future is based upon the next generation. Yeah, yeah, and right now there are so much trauma being done and generational trauma and so many other problems that he got through. Yeah, he got through, yeah, and I'm really hopeful in the fact that, when Trump was making this decision, I know for one. I really believe it's a God-led decision, that he's doing this and he's thinking about the next generation. This is not like I'm going to have four years and he probably understands now it's hard to get anything done in four years, right, but if I set this thing up for my grandchildren, and their grandchildren especially his grandchildren.

Speaker 1:

I'm sure he's thinking about that now.

Speaker 2:

How can I set this up for my grandchildren? Because people with that type of leadership skills that he has and that type of business, that type of money, they never make investments based upon what they're going to get tomorrow, next year, a year from that. It's always based on what's going to come in the future. So that's why I like and you know, actually I was able to watch one of JD Vance's TED talks from seven years ago- oh, really, he did a TED talk, right Okay.

Speaker 2:

It's really good. It was back when he I think the initial video of him that he did with the movie that turned a video of him that he did with the book that turned into a movie. He really explained it well in this TED Talk. He was straight up in there. I'm sure a lot of people in the room were like what? When he said a few things? This was seven years ago. This guy's grown over the last seven years. He was probably 30 then.

Speaker 1:

He's 37 now. He he was probably 30.

Speaker 2:

Then, yeah Right, he's 37, now he's 39. 39.

Speaker 1:

So 32 then, yeah, anyway, well, and for all the folks that have said that Trump's a narcissist because you'll hear that all the time he's a narcissist. No, narcissist sets up a succession, a proper succession, that's right. They don't. They don't they a proper succession, that's right. They don't, they don't, they can't think, they don't even want one, because they want people to always remember them and they were the pinnacle of everything. Now Trump will say that, which is so funny. But you know, and he'll spit, but he's not narcissistic. In fact, what you hear from people who know him is wow, the media representation of this man is so 180 degrees out of whack. He's the kindest, most generous person I've ever met and honestly, I've heard those stories long before he was even president, I mean when he was on the Apprentice Show and all this sort of stuff. And you look into his life, he has always been a very, very generous, kind person. You're never going to hear that out of the media, but it is. It is what it was. I like it. I like it a lot. He is young, but it could be a really good thing for the Republican party and for this country. So I'm pretty happy about that. Yeah, and he's not going to fight, fight. He's not going to fight Trump. And hey, if the Democrats steal another election, he's not going to sit there and certify it, he's not going to Anyway, okay, so we've got Biden going on locally.

Speaker 1:

I don't know if you wanted to talk about this at all. I know this isn't presidential politics, but we just had a pretty tragic loss of life here in Vigo County with Sheriff John Plassie passing away. They announced that today from pancreatic cancer, and I knew that he you know, two years ago he ran for re-election was diagnosed with it, but the prognosis would be, it would be good and that he would make it. Honestly. Our thoughts and our prayers are with the Vigo County Sheriff's Department, the family of John Plassie and his loved ones, the ones that cared about him.

Speaker 1:

He was a great guy, everybody both sides of the aisle. He was a different party than us, but so many people loved him, respected him, would follow him anywhere, and Vigo County is much poorer tonight because of that and I just, I just think the community is probably hurting a little bit. They're going to have to replace him. Nobody's going to be able to fill those shoes, but uh, I thought before we ended. I mean, let's say we're going to end now, but before we ended I did want to get that out there.

Speaker 2:

Um that's the community we live in, and I think I think the only criticism he ever received was that he protected his officers too well.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's I mean, and that's yeah, heck, yeah as a leader.

Speaker 2:

yeah, as a leader, I mean that's such a great thing to. I mean for all of us to learn from. Is that, you know he made sure and it was never about militarizing or whatever, it was never that he wanted to make sure those people were protected. Yeah, because I think he was there for Officer Pitts when he was shot yes.

Speaker 2:

I think he was one of the guys on the scene first and after. You would be able to see something like that and you had the power to be able to prevent it in another time. You would do everything you could. And I think that his leadership was ordained for this time that we had here and I'm sure that he was thinking about setting up leadership, going forward and bringing up leaders under him. Yeah, but that's a pretty major loss and he fought so hard that pancreatic cancer is.

Speaker 1:

It's brutal, it's usually a death sentence. I've lost a good friend to pancreatic cancer, and it was quick. He fought this for well over two years.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and went through many different procedures up and down and fought. I mean he fought in the Marine.

Speaker 1:

Corps. Was he a Marine? That I don't know. He was in the military. He was in the military.

Speaker 2:

And fought in Iraq over there, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So that's kind of a sad note. Just so much going on right now. It's just kind of a crazy time. I was taking some time away. If you notice, I'm a little bit for those of you who see I'm a little bit tanner than usual and it's because I was frying out on the pool at Shackamack State Park. Me and the family went out and camped for three days and had a really good time. Cool Is the pool still pretty nice. That pool is amazing. Honestly, it is so cool. Me and Grace and Drew went down those slides over and over and over again. I'm actually pretty sore from walking through that tower so many times to get up to it, but if you guys get an opportunity. Shackamack's a great park. Their campgrounds are my favorite of all the state parks. Andack's a great park. Their campgrounds are my favorite of all the state parks and that's a great pool. So it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2:

We just chilled out it was a good time to go camping. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1:

It was good, and you can't normally you don't normally get weather like what we were able to get. So it kind of chiseled that out. But I wanted to come back. I wanted to do this podcast because there's so much going on. I did want to comment on everything. Sometimes it's just happening so fast.

Speaker 1:

But I just feel like overall, that there's kind of a reassurance that after the assassination attempt there's kind of the pre and the post and when that assassination attempt and I didn't realize this until a little bit later but that there were three bullets that went by him at that time. Did you realize that Three? And if he had moved his head at any time, I mean we would have lost him and things would have been so different, so different. And I just felt like God, you are in control, you're involved in this and you're doing something here. It's kind of an honor to be here at this time and be a part of history and what's happening. There's then a mission for Donald Trump. There's a mission that he hasn't completed yet and God is going to make sure he completes it. I love what he said at the convention. Was that except? The only reason I'm here is by the grace of God, because you can't attribute it to the secret service. They didn't save him. You can only attribute that to the hand of God saving his life. So he's got a purpose to fulfill. That gives me hope.

Speaker 1:

Two years ago, I mean, I wrote a piece. It's on my blog, it's way back in the cause. It was two years ago but I just felt at the time I had hope for America because of I could see. I mean, I'm not necessarily the most perceptive person, but eventually you start to see things and I just thought, with Elon Musk, tucker Carlson and Donald Trump, it was clear to me God was raising up these people who maybe weren't, you know, the most Christian people. They weren't pastors and evangelists, but they were going to mold and save America. They were culture shifters, if you will, or they were able to disciple the nation towards a goal that God has for America. He's not done with.

Speaker 1:

America and that's I mean that's a really Sometimes you wonder, I mean it's gotten. I take a lot of hope, I take a lot of encouragement from that.

Speaker 2:

And I hope people do too. They're watching or listening because I think that it can get very dark and you think, okay, as a Christian, okay, when are we getting out of here? Right but we're not called to get out of here. No, we're called to change. Yeah, we're called to change this earth.

Speaker 1:

And so.

Speaker 2:

I think that there's been a lot of hope that's come out of this. Yeah, I mean, I saw some interesting models of the head tilt. Yeah, I'm sure almost everybody's seen the picture of the head tilt and that weird thing how he he always kind of tilts his head weird I'll be honest, but he tilted his head that last second and they showed. If he didn't do that, I mean obviously you can take him on the back of his head off.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, I mean, it was that close, and I also heard that he rewrote his speech. Right yeah, he did, absolutely.

Speaker 1:

After that experience yeah, I mean. So he may have put the other speech on it too. Well, that's what I feel like happened. It was the rewriting the speech, and then I'm going to add the other speech, because he went through point by point of the platform. Folks said, listen, hey, he just survived. He wasn't expected to live, he just survived an assassination. He can talk however long he wants, and that's absolutely true, but I'm like I just want to see the balloons drop. I just want to see. We had me and the kids, and the kids are like their eyes are drooping. It's like we just want to see the balloons. And those balloons were amazing, if you ever, if you got to see it at the end Not yeah, because you were long, you were yeah. Anyway, it was really cool. It was really cool.

Speaker 2:

And.

Speaker 1:

I'm excited, but my hope isn't in politics or politicians, it is in the Lord. But the fact that God's involved, he's on the scene, he, he's on the scene, he's taking over the politics of this. And just to hear how many people mention the Lord yeah, I mean it's like God is doing something here. I think the fields are ripe for a harvest and I think I mean our churches right now actually are seeing increases in attendance everywhere. I think maybe this next generation starting to return to church, is that possible? Is that a trend? I think it is a trend I'd like to look at.

Speaker 1:

You know, barna is the one who used to does a lot of, you know, studies in church. I have to do some research on that or if anybody knows that. But because what we've seen locally is a lot of young families are returning to church, coming to church, and that's a net positive for America, that's a net positive for our communities, because we hear the truth, we get our hearts and lives right with God and we clean our consciences and we get out there and we start to live differently, and that affects everybody in a positive way.

Speaker 2:

So I'm excited. What did you say? You said? He said at the end of his speech what was it again?

Speaker 1:

He just looked right at the camera and he said I just want to tell you, whatever your expectations are, they're too low and I'm wanting to change your expectations to be higher. Whatever they are, they need to be higher. And I'm like and again I'm paraphrasing, but that's pretty close to it, certainly in the spirit of it, and here I'm drooping waiting for the balloons to drop, but I'm like wow, that is a prophetic, powerful statement that I don't even know if he understood how powerful that was, but that is. I think that's a message to the body of Christ Change your perspective and your expectations. What your expectations were for America, they're too low. I mean, what if the Lord was saying that to you and to us and to me and to the body of Christ?

Speaker 1:

I mean take Trump out of it, because I think that's where people, a lot of people, stumble, a lot of Christians stumble. They go oh, trump, what if God's using him like he? I mean not to be disrespectful, but what if God's using him like he used the donkey? What if God's using him like he used any of the people in the Bible that weren't even Christians and just would say something? What if God's saying I want your expectations of America, whatever they are. I want them to be higher. I've got I, god's, saying, I have a purpose for America that you have yet to see.

Speaker 1:

If that's the case, man, the body of Christ needs to get active. We are being way too passive here and letting a society just slide off into the abyss, and we're not. I mean, it's all going to hell someday. No, maybe it's not. Maybe it's not supposed to. I don't know. I love Tucker Carlson because he just said you know, is God for me or am I for God? Well, I'll tell you what. One thing's for sure he's here, he's in our midst, and that's good enough, and that's pretty.

Speaker 2:

I was thinking about what Trump said even farther than I just think about it from a father's perspective.

Speaker 2:

Okay, and I'm not saying he's not called to father a nation or anything like that, I don't believe that.

Speaker 2:

But the words that he said if there were the next generation of children or young people hearing that from their father, hold on, yeah, yeah, hold on that from their father. Yeah, hold on, yeah, yeah, hold on. Because if you're able to engage the next generation by telling them your expectations are too low, yeah, that's awesome and I mean and we had involved fathers in our lives but there's so many of so many of young kids and even middle-aged people and just americans that have had not had fathers involved in their lives. To tell them something like that, like you're setting your bar too low, yeah, yeah, there's more to this, yeah, and those that simple phrase can set somebody absolutely on fire. And I think about and I go back to JD Vance, but he was one of the situations that he had a couple people in his life that were a train wreck but turned it around at the right time, and then the Marines did it for him too, because it was some father-type figure for him.

Speaker 2:

And I think that's where we're called in our age is to help to steward the next generation. Well, I'm somebody younger, but yeah, yes, something like that. Yes, that's not what. I meant Right, but anyway I thought those are kind of really those are strong words from, like, a father's perspective.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, over a country, and a lot of people don't realize the power of those words blessing and cursing. They don't realize the power of it and it is powerful.

Speaker 2:

You've got to. If you're a dad, you got to watch what you say. Oh, everybody's been on both sides of it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, everybody's been on both yeah, and and then receiving it too. So yeah, yeah, well, we're gonna probably uh wrap up here. We didn't want to go too long and obviously we had some pretty bad technical uh issues in the middle of this, but hopefully we've got it. Some of it ironed out. We'll try to figure out if we need more bandwidth in our, in our internet or what it is, maybe the computers too, whatever.

Speaker 2:

And we need a thousand dollar computer.

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Speaker 2:

And I'm also on the show, which you've noticed.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

And that is one of our sponsors. Oh, the RT Clinic is a sponsor?

Speaker 1:

It absolutely is. Tell us about the RT.

Speaker 2:

Clinic. Well, it's just my website.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

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Speaker 1:

Yeah, and you can't separate it either. Do you think? No, you can't, you can't separate it.

Speaker 2:

You cannot separate it, and it's always been. Caring and compassion is always what we're supposed to do. That's right Way, more than keeping somebody alive, and I think that you know, hopefully, we're moving in that direction. Those badge buddies are available on there, though, if you need to remember those things. It looks like the false president right now is on, so he is alive. I don't know he's looking very robotic, but we'll see.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so we're going to go ahead and sign off, folks. Thank you so much for watching these and listening. Also, if you're listening, because we have a lot of listeners who just listen on a podcasting service, jimmy, and I appreciate it we do take time out of our very busy weeks to do this. It's a joy and a pleasure to do it but it's kind of hard to get that time.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

That's it, and we'll see you see you not too long from now.