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What in the world is a MacGuffin?

I'll give you a hint.

It's not the thing you want to order in the morning at McDonald's.

That's a Mac muffin and it's quite delicious.

But a Mac muffin could be a MacGuffin based on the movie if it was a really strange movie.

So welcome to Free For All Friday here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today we are talking about a plot device, plot trick, element that occurs in a lot of

films.

And that would be a MacGuffin.

You've probably never heard of the term.

I'm hearing it thrown around here or there.

But as I describe it, you'll be able to say, oh yeah, I know that from this movie and

from that movie.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

Because on Monday and Wednesday, we talk of apologetics, theology.

We talk all things related to the Catholic faith and how to explain and defend our true,

good and beautiful Catholic faith.

But on Friday, it's Free For All Friday.

I talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And so today I want to talk about MacGuffins because I've been catching up on movies with

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