Legacy, Loss & Laughter: The McCains Look Back

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.9 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It’s a family affair on today’s episode of Citizen McCain! Meghan and Miranda are back from summer break and diving into everything from grief and growing up McCain, to K-pop singalongs and the strange world of Disney adults. They’re joined by a very special guest, Meghan’s brother, Jimmy McCain. They open up about life in a legendary political family, navigating loss in the public eye, and the childhood moments that shaped them both. Plus: Summer recaps, sibling laughs, and a slow roll back into the chaos of today’s news cycle, with a little more heart and fun family stories.

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0:00.0	Megan McCain has entered the chat.
0:07.0	Megan McCain has entered the chat. Welcome back to
0:31.8	We're on our hiatus.
0:35.1	Thank you all for putting up with it, for being so patient. I think we should start
0:41.4	with you, Miranda. Oh, wait, really quickly. If you're listening on the podcast, you want to join us on
0:46.6	the Zoom. You can register to do that at 2a.tv slash Megan. And if you haven't subscribed to our
0:51.1	YouTube channel at Citizen McCain, YouTube, please do. I have to get that in. Otherwise, I'm going to forget. I'm really excited today. My brother Jimmy is our guest, which is a good guest to have back. I don't think he's been on this incarnation of the show. He's been on every show I've ever done in one form or another. But I don't think he's been on this one. So very excited to have him. We have a lot to talk to him about. But how was your, did you take a vacation? No. No. No. I didn't go anywhere because my girls went back to school the first week that we were off. So like the they start school here midweek. So we had like back to
1:28.3	school night and first day of school and all that stuff. So I spent all of last week dropping
1:32.9	them off at school and then coming home and going to sleep. I just slept the whole break.
1:37.6	It was fantastic. Like if we weren't if we weren't doing the show right now, I'd be in bed sleeping.
1:43.2	But I got very into hunting wives that show on Netflix.
1:47.5	You still need to watch it.
1:48.9	Ashley said she really likes that.
1:50.4	I heard it's like really graphic.
1:53.1	I heard it's like quite sexual.
1:55.3	But like, but like for like seconds at a time.
1:57.7	It's like not it's not like it, uh, gratuitous, I would say,
2:03.6	at least up until the part where I'm at. I haven't watched the whole series yet.
2:08.5	Um, I'm about halfway through because I'm trying to pace myself with it. Um, and I can't watch
2:13.2	it when the girls are home and when they're not home, I'm sleeping, like I said. So, um,
2:17.3	and then also got very into that Netflix movie, K-pop demon hunters because my girls became
2:23.5	obsessed with it. Did you watch, have you seen that yet? Liberty would probably like it. And it's not
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