On the night of November 10, 2022, the eve of Veterans Day, the Rumble channel SeanANQN went live with “Adding Value w/combat veteran Michael Penney.” The stream started at 9:43 PM Eastern and ran a little over five hours.
What the stream covered
The video description opens with his standard bio:
Michael is a combat veteran of Iraq & Afghanistan. He served in the United States Marine Corps infantry with 3rd Battalion 7th Marines deploying twice to Ramadi, Iraq, in 2005-2006 & 2007.
Rumble video description
It goes on to his reenlistment and his move to Quantico as a weapons instructor, and calls these just a fraction of his accomplishments. The host wrote that the goal for the night was to get Michael’s thoughts on the current state of humanity and on what lies ahead.
For the rest of his record: in 2011 he deployed a third time, to Kajaki and Sangin, Afghanistan, with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, leading a section of advisors, and he left the Corps as a Sergeant after more than eight years.
Why it mattered then
Five hours is a long time to talk. Most of Michael’s guest spots ran 30 minutes to an hour, built around one topic like the 5 Paragraph Business Plan. A stream this long is closer to an open conversation, where the subjects are wider: the country, the culture and where things are headed.
The title kept the focus on the idea he had been talking about since his 2016 TEDx talk: adding value. Doing it on the night before Veterans Day gave it extra weight.
It was also part of a shift toward Rumble. Around this time Michael was running his own live shows on Rumble, and this appearance put him in front of that audience as a guest.
By the time of this stream, he had spoken at TEDxRaleigh in March 2016 and published the 5 Paragraph Business Plan in April 2017. Both are built on the same idea in the stream’s title: adding value wherever you are.
Where to find it
The video is still on Rumble, but it is now available only to Rumble Premium subscribers. The host and show behind the SeanANQN channel are not named on the page. If you know more about this stream, we would like to hear from you.
This post is part of the From the Archive series, which collects Michael’s past media appearances in one place. See the full media archive.
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