Robert McNeily, the former Right Side Broadcasting Network anchor whose question on Air Force One in March 2025 sparked the autopen story, joins Jenny Beth Martin as the newest member of the Tea Party Patriots Action team and the newest voice on The Jenny Beth Show.
This is a get-to-know-you conversation that traces Robert's full arc through the conservative movement: from eight years old going door to door for Bob Dole in 1996, to studying opera at the University of Illinois, to serving as president of College Republicans during the 2008 Obama year, to standing alongside Charlie Kirk when Turning Point USA was only 50 people meeting in St. Charles, Illinois.
Robert walks Jenny Beth through the values that shaped him: warrior spirit, grassroots humility, persistent innovation. They cover the moment Robert met Charlie Kirk, the launch of the Campus Leadership Project in 2016, his time anchoring city news for KTUU in Anchorage, his communications work at Truth Social, and his return to RSBN as an infield reporter at Trump rallies.
The conversation turns deeply personal: surviving papillary thyroid cancer at 15, the recurrence at 18, the vocal box surgery that almost ended the career he's built, growing up with a single mother who worked three jobs, and finding faith through second chances. Robert closes with the three issues he believes define the second Trump term: the judiciary, the dignity of life, and Iran.
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00:00 — Welcome and Introduction
03:46 — The Autopen Question on Air Force One
04:52 — From RSBN to the Jenny Beth Show
08:29 — Opera, Acting, and the Phantom of the Opera Connection
11:20 — College Republicans and Standing Up at Illinois
16:43 — The Tea Party Movement Begins in 2009
19:38 — Meeting Charlie Kirk and Building Turning Point USA
33:30 — The New Security Reality for Conservatives
40:03 — DC Bureaucrats vs. Real America
46:12 — Senator Murkowski and the SAVE America Act
47:21 — Single Mom Upbringing and Cancer Survival
55:09 — Joining the Tea Party Patriots Action Team
58:29 — Top Three Issues: Judiciary, Life, and Iran
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