Election Day 2020

Inspiration, transformation, success stories and the imperfect action round seven days a week. Join Mario Ficcini for today's expert authority effect interview. Well, it's pretty clear that it's election day and I hope you voted. And if you didn't, actually.

I do hope you voted because. Okay, I do hope you voted, but I'm on the fence about whether I want you to see this first or not.

You know that I love the country and you've heard me say it in every episode. And if you're wondering where I'm at on the faith spectrum, I say God bless you and.

Have a great day and God bless on nearly every episode. And that's not by happenstance, and neither is this. I was working on this and I'm just killing time. I'm being honest. I have so many good notes over here and it's kind of freaking me out because I can talk to anyone on the world. Oprah, what's up? Love to have you on. Totally ready.

We were talking about this at church.

And I love my family and friends and I know not everyone agrees with me and that's fine. I do hope you voted already. And if you haven't, then I hope this does reach you because you probably figured it out already who it is. And I got to figure out how to get this other screen on here. Maybe I can do this. I've never used a teleprompter and I think I'm killing it. And thanks for all the feedback, but the reality is even with three monitors, I'm trying to get this all on screen without. I'm not taking this lightly. And I worked a long. There's actually way too much text than I'm comfortable with and I don't want to read it off. I want it to flow from the heart like it always does, but it's way too serious. And if you're listening to this, thank you. And if you don't see the video, there is one. Check out the show notes page on eainterviews.com.

So I do have an election message, a political message, a whatever you want to call it. And I sincerely pray that the right candidate goes into office, but not because of.

Jason. If that's for the one I'm doing right now, thank you. And I think it is.

Not because.

This is nerve wracking as I'll get. I'll get out. No one is perfect. Okay. But there is.

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So yeah, for real support the business because these are not free and I absolutely love bringing you the best people, but the reality is it's a lot easier when you don't need to deal with it. So if you're ever thinking about starting something, keep it simple to start. But this was on my heart. This has been on my mind. Clearly it's been on yours. And.

I started this show to exponentially elevate the identity of humanity. God gave me the vision. August of 2018. And I can't sit idly by and not say something, especially when the rest of the world is. However, I do not want it to be divisive. I do not want to upset you. However, I'm not gonna back down from the good moral Christian biblical principles and what I believe to be true when I know there's a lot more at stake than who. Oh, that picture. I need to pull that up.

You know what? Forget it. I had some things and some silhouettes of each candidate and.

Well, I can do this too. I've done this in front of a room of people. This is nothing. I want you to close your eyes for a minute and if we were to strip down.

The names and I'm not even gonna say them, okay.

Just think of two different things. If we were just to be sitting over dinner and I'm saying, well, do you believe in higher taxes or lower taxes? Do you want to get. Do you want to work your tail off all year and be left with 10%, 20% or 50%, all of which are too high?

Do you believe that small children should get killed? Do you believe that we should be able to have our own freedoms of religion to spirituality? And do you believe that, you know what if we got away with the Social Security and retirement age? Would you like to see your grandparents work until the day they die? It pretty much comes down to freedom and liberty.

And tyranny and oppression, no matter who it is. And if we can Set aside the people.

And look at the issues. Because even recently, I saw someone, a friend of mine, who I would love to, I would like.

I originally wanted them on the show.

And there's people on both sides. Okay. And again, I'm going to state on record, I definitely do want the right candidate in office. Not the wrong one.

But deeper than that. This is a single day and this is so freaking difficult.

I wanted to run for president, and this was the year I was first able to do so. I'm over 35, 20 years in America, natural born Citizen. Ever since 8th grade, I wanted to be governor of Detroit, mayor. Clearly politics is my background. I've always had a love for people and wanting to help. And I hope to God after 200 some episodes of the show, 300 some, whatever it is, 400 some, I've lost count because I've been meeting so many great people. But.

I want to help you sincerely, from all about my heart, and I pray for you every day.

And.

If we can't do that, what's left? What's the point?

So what if I was running for president? What it would you vote for me?

Well, he's Italian. I love Italians. Well, he's Italian. I hate Italians. He has a high LPR40. I like the sure SM7B. Pick whatever stupid thing you want to argue about, but if that's what you're voting on, it's about as stupid as saying, well.

When clearly I see your Facebook, I see you doing all these things over here, and you're voting for someone who doesn't agree with that because you like the person more. Which is something to be said. I've given many presentations that talk about you want to do business, people you like, know and trust, and marketing is about communication. The reality is that all plays a factor.

But you can vote Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, and still love Jesus no matter who takes office. Do you know who is on the throne?

I said, I want to exponentially elevate the identity of humanity and I'm going to connect the world. I said that just so nonchalant a million times in the last few days. I was like.

Why?

I can't back down from this because this is why God gave me the vision. But it hurts me to see the people who are hurt that I love.

I've had every race and background on the show, and they're all good people and you know them.

But I see people over here saying, well, whatever. And they're all valid points and some of them are funny. And I also see it back backwards. And I have enough of a creat artistic side where I can have a 10 or 20% either way.

And I can see the humor in the comedy of it.

But you better believe if someone was coming after my family or friends I would rip their freaking head off.

And that's what's at stake. It's good versus evil and it's God versus Satan. And I'm not saying that about any specific person. I'm saying there's good in the world and bad in the world and they're opposing forces. And this is nothing new. I need some muppets. Where's Babadoo at? He was focus. If you've been with if you've been with me since before I started doing the show. Is this thing still recording? Let me check. I blocked it. Yep, definitely live. I covered the screen because this is serious and I have notes.

Whether you like someone or not, are they truthful? Are they integris?

And we could wipe out the politics in this cool ass video of the.

Flag.

Did I just say something out loud? I think I did.

Cool. I think I did. Whatever. I don't think I've ever done that before.

What is a cool video? A double minded mind is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8.

Would you want a CEO that's all over the place?

Here's one I like. Philippians 3:20. I'm a citizen of heaven no matter what happens.

This is earth. It's only so good. Heaven will be better. I'm excited to go. If this is the last week on earth, awesome. All the problems are gone.

But can you say that? Do you really true? Do you have you confessed it with your mouth and believe it in your heart?

That's why I'm doing this. Gonna be straight up. I'm not quite there yet. But yeah, this good point.

Would you interview Now I got to say the names. Would you interview Biden? Would you interview Trump?

What if you were a judge? What if your family was on the line? What if someone murdered one of them? Could you be impartial and follow the letter of the law? What if you were elected to the Supreme Court? Are you making.

Your decisions both based on emotion or are they based on what's truly best? And like I said, I've seen people saying things. I'm glad they are truthfully. The whole thing about don't talk about anything till it's too late. It's ludicrous. It's like you see someone with matches and gas.

Near an orphanage or an elementary school. Walking in a circular fashion around and it's like, well, it's not polite to tattle. Oh, okay, that makes logical sense. Friggin idiot.

But it's the same thing. You know, how many people were ever taught, you know, don't talk about politics and religion. Screw that up, along with middle school, high school and everything else. But something's working.

Don't talk about it. I propose, talk about it. But be able to be empathetic and see all sides of it.

And as much as I love marketing.

Holy crap, you got to look up some facts. You're just going to pair off that I've said every single thing I'm saying about business.

Imagine company A and company B. Why is this one growing? Well, because they're hitting the right messaging. Why is this one failing? Because they're doing everything immoral and ill ethical and they're not telling the customers the truth. This isn't rocket science. And I was like, how do I say this stuff? I go, you say the same stuff every week. The only difference is this caveat. The fact that I'm more afraid in my studio to be saying what I'm saying than doing anything else all week. There's a problem with that. And I had more, recorded more great episodes today. I'll be doing more next week. I'm booked for months ahead. And we talk about stuff. And I tell people all the time, I'm like, go ahead, go say it. It's fine, it's fine. But the second you say one thing, whatever happened to the First Amendment, freedom of speech? If you have an opposing opinion, I can respect that. And I honestly even like learning. Why are you thinking that way? But most the time it's.

It'S unfortunately how you grew up. And if you were poisoned as a kid, you're gonna carry that. And it's either way, because not all of the right is right and not all of the left is left. And there's people that I know on both sides that are going, this is kind of nuts. Because it's not truly. I would love to. You know, we should have like the 50 fades, 50 shades of politics. Because there's like no one that's completely.

100%. It's like. But at the same point, why are you. You know.

I'm praying for you and I'm praying for the country and I'm praying that in 10 years, 20, 30.

We'll probably never go back to the way things were. But you know, I used to think as a kid I'd love if the War. And this is, I say more than a few years ago, I used to think that, you know, maybe if the world was different, maybe it was better in the 20s, the 30s, the 40s, 50s, 60, 70 days, east 90s, whatever, you know. And then I started noticing that around the 2000s. And I used to think, well, the world used to be better and now it's getting worse. The world's always been screwed up, it's just a lot more visible. So instead of trying to pick a fight in a war with someone, I saw something last last night and it was like, so I'm going shopping.

Who wants to come with me? I'm picking up my Civil War outfit for next week. And as funny as that is, again, there's that 10% humor. I know it's not serious, but the fact that we can even joke about it. I'm doing everything I can to bring people together.

I am not backing down from what I believe to be right. So you sure as hell better, you know, not be like, think that's why I have the double minded man in there.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8. So I will say this directly for people who are on the fence or whatever, you have to decide, and especially when you run a company, you have to decide, you might be right, you might be wrong.

Whatever the case is, make a decision. Oh well, I hope this and I hope that hoping kind of do it. Unfortunately prayer will throwing that one out there, but.

Oh, Jason, appreciate that. I got a vote.

I thought about running for president. I thought about mayor. I just want to help people. I want to be FBI, CIA, police, doctor, lawyer.

Maybe I'm all of those and maybe I'm nothing of them.

But I want you to take a step back and just say, am I doing this with sober mindedness? Because I gotta admit, people can make persuasive arguments both ways.

And I remember in debate class it was like, could you rebuttal that I'm going to ask again, if you have a show, would you have Biden on it or Trump? Could you be impartial enough with. I guess it would be journalistic integrity or investigative journalism that you could at least have a conversation.

Without shooting them.

And I think most people can.

But there's a lot of people who are freaking scary and I want to protect my family and friends and they can't see past their own thing.

And I know that's because they were hurt and they never got past it.

One of the best analogies of a thug I've ever heard was troubled, human, uneven, unable to grieve. And I believe Jason, I saw on his Facebook before he came and spoke at church. And it just blew my mind because it's true. We're all thugs. We're all troubled humans, unable to grieve. And we all have different reasons for that.

And I hope it doesn't take another attack on American soil like the travesty of September 11th, that we all come together. But I have many times in my life, and maybe I will be president in 36 to 40 years, which is nine or 10 cycles. This was the first one.

And the last one. I was like, I can't handle this. This is nuts. I could not handle it straight up. So the fact that someone's even attempting it, God bless them.

If it's for the right reasons.

And if it's not for the right reasons.

I pray that God gives them the insight to have the heart to want to do the right things.

This time I still wasn't. I asked some close friends who I respect and love.

And the whole world of nonsense and evil comes attacking you. And truthfully, I'm glad I'm not running this year because there's stuff I'm still working through. There's. I. There's no way I could handle it now. I can do what I'm doing and that's why I'm doing it. But we'll see in 30 or 40 years. Just the fact that I'm even saying that verbally kind of freaks me out because I think there is a possibility it could happen. And I've thought through the lens and mind of is this scriptural? Is it right? Is it an emotional decision? Is it the right thing to do? Is everyone protected?

I mean.

Could you decide?

And I thought about that and I go, oh my gosh. I think I could have either candidate on my show now and have a conversation.

It would be very interesting.

I'm definitely not for both of them. Okay. I'm just being clear on that. I'm not double minded. There's no confusion there. But I thought from a. I guess would be journalistic standpoint, could you even have a conversation? Because I see people that are definitely not. They don't have a platform, no one asked them, and.

They'Re clearly sharing what they think. So I want to just share that.

It'S not even the people, it's not even this earth. And I hope you believe that and look into it. And if you don't, I'm the whole reason I'm doing this it really has nothing to do with the. The candidates. I mean, I'm sure you've pretty much made up your mind on that probably five, 10, 20 years ago. And if it was this year or whatever.

Cool.

But you can't. All it takes for evil to perish is good men to do nothing. I think that was either Jefferson or Lincoln or someone smarter than me. I'm praying for the current president and the next president because the Bible tells me to vote prayerfully. Forget the news tv. Does anyone watch TV anymore? Aren't we all on social. And that's where we get video YouTube, check out my channel. Mario Pacini TV.

Social media said that.

Vote for yourself, vote for Jesus. I invite you to have a free gift. Will you accept it?

You've seen interviews, you see people giving away stuff for free. But Jesus, it's not me giving away the gift, it's me offering the opportunity no matter what happens. And this is what also prompted it.

I saw a poll on one of my good friends shows who reports the news and I was talking to other local news people all recently. I am I considered part of it now. I don't know. Some people think I am, but I'm not through it a big network. And you know what? I'm glad because I was talking with them and they're like, they have to be careful what they're wearing.

I don't.

So.

That'S why I can say this and that's why God gave me the vision because the poll said, are you anxious for tomorrow's results? Are you anxious? God doesn't want you to be anxious. There is an option for thumbs up.

And there was like this other like distraught thing. Erica, if you see this, love your show and if not, check out the newsworthy. But I, it just, it was on my heart and it just hit me at a deep. And I was having a good day. I was. Every day is good for me. And then when I open it up to seeing what other people are doing, it really hurts. Seeing other people hurt and hurting people hurt people. I don't want that. I've been doing work to get past my own stuff for years. Why would I want to do something to make you more anxious?

And I thought about it and I go, it's not because of the election. It's for the unrest in your spirit. And that's what I want to ask you. Do you feel if this was your last day on earth, if you were to. If your heart were to stop beating a few minutes from now, do you know where you would go.

Forget the voting.

I didn't even check the results. I've been filming all day. But no matter what, what are you doing? Life is temporary. Whether this is the first election, the last election, the whatever election. If your heart were to stop beating right now, where would you go?

Do you believe you would go to heaven? And if not, how would you like the opportunity for the free gift to do so?

Because Jesus already died for your sins.

You want peace, you want joy, you want to change your identity.

Whether you vote Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Independent or whatever. I know there's like the Whig Party, the Green Party.

I'm actually getting calmer saying this. This is where I am confident.

Let's just pray this. If. If you want some peace and joy and no anxiety and I'm talking financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, relational. I'm talking all areas of life. No matter what you did in your past. I don't care about your past. I care about your future. If this was the last day on earth or the last minute, where are you going? Will I see you in heaven or not? End story.

I want to.

I really truly do.

No matter where you are listening or watching, now is the time. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouse mouth and believe in your heart, you will be saved.

Stand up where you are now and say this with me, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart, I make you my Lord and Savior. Amen. I prayed that April 29, 2007.

And I believe.

If you did, let's do it again. Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior.

I am blood bought, blood washed, born again Christian. Amen. Amen. Amen. No matter what your citizenship is in heaven, not on this earth, it's supposed to be good. While we're here, you're supposed to help people, you're supposed to fight evil.

I am complete. I'm completely calm right now.

This had me. This had me nervous. This part does not. If you're in Detroit, join me at Grace Community Church or another one. Find a good Bible based church. I know there's a lot of them, but that's what I wanted to say. I think we've all had enough of the political this or that. But what I'm noticing is the people who are anxious and they're just not at peace. And I don't see that ending anytime soon. And.

Half the population is going to be upset. Half of it's not. But there is a solution. No matter who's in the White House. I know who's on the throne. I vote for Jesus.

I pray that you do too.

All right, Expert Authority World. We have another great episode here today. I'll see you tomorrow.

Have a great day.

And God bless.

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