The LOOPcast

By CatholicVote

Society & Culture

What's The LOOPcast about?

Tom, Erika and Josh keep you on top of news and culture with a healthy serving of humor.

We may be in the twilight zone, but we are in it together.

LIVE shows every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11:00 ET.

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The LOOPcast episodes:

05.03.2024
The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act is a Trap, Protestor Lowlights, And The Dog Lover Caucus
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org As the college protests grow more and more ridiculous, the LOOPcast once again calls for the return of true liberal education. Maybe if it happens, the House could understand what the Constitution...
05.01.2024
Columbia Protest Keep Getting Funnier, Frat Bros Save The Flag, And AP Discovers Orthodox Catholics
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org White boy summer is back! America’s frat boys are protecting our flag during ongoing violent protests. In other news, the Associated Press can’t BELIEVE people are talking about confession in Catholic Churches,...
04.29.2024
Having Kids Is Now Far-Right, Celebrity Conversions, And Tom Discovers C.S. Lewis
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Everything we used to consider normal is now considered “far-right” behavior: having children, raising a family and more! Yet more and more high-profile figures are becoming Christian - we discuss the whys...
04.26.2024
Protestor Divestment Demands Explained, Presidential Immunity, And The NPR CEO Is 100% A Fed
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Producer Alyson joins Tom and Josh to discuss who is actually running America's schools - protesters, boards, or both? SCOTUS considers presidential immunity, and woman’s hockey pledges allegiance to LGBTQ. 0:00 - Anti-war Protesters...
04.24.2024
Biden Blesses Himself At Abortion Rally, College Protests Rage on, And Erika is Back!
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org It's possible: Biden hits a new low campaigning for abortion in Florida, What the college protests raging across the country are really about, and the original trio is locked in. Buckle up 0:00 - Why St....
04.22.2024
Ivy League "Death To America" Chants, Atomic Bomb Debate, and Bill Maher Is On A Roll
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Taxpayer funding flows to Ukraine and Ivy League universities that aren't big fans of America. Tucker Carlson ignites the atomic bomb debate, and Bill Maher seems to have been listening to the...
04.19.2024
The Riley Gaines Interview I LOOPcast Throwback
The LOOPcast has been around for a while now (and Tom is out today), so we wanted to share one of our best interviews. We recorded this a little over a year now, and it is safe to say Riley...
04.17.2024
9 Facts About U.S. Catholics Survey, Lawfare Abounds, And Rupnik Will Not Go Away
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Today we completely underestimate the size of cultural Catholicism, Tin-foil Tom breaks down the recent lawfare levied against Donald Trump, and Kara finds the latest chapter of the Marko Rupnik cover-up (or lack...
04.15.2024
Iran Attacks Israel, Scheffler Glorifies God, And The Kari Lake Problem Continued
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Iran launches an unprecedented attack on Israel, putting Biden in yet another compromising position. Scottie Scheffler glorifies God after dominating the Masters, and Brian Burch joins to answer the million dollar question:...
04.12.2024
O.J. Simpson Passes Away, BLM's Next Martyr, And Stay Away From Lunchables
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Let’s see if “If the Glove don’t fit you must acquit” works on St. Peter. O.J. Simpson leaves behind a polarizing legacy for us to unpack. A dishonest media covers a police shooting...
04.10.2024
Arizona Abortion Ban: Kari Lake Sells Out Pro-Lifers, And NPR Lost The Plot
Pro-Lifers are handed a victory in AZ and say: "No Thanks!", remote work has gone too far, and Tom has stories involving NPR, interviews, and a Jesuit priest. 0:00 - Kari Lake and the Arizona Abortion Law 18:30 - Listener Question:...
04.08.2024
The Pope COOKS Gender Ideology And Trump Reveals Abortion Stance
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Tom, Logan, and Josh break down the Vatican's latest document "Infinita Dignitas" and... it looks good! Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever...
04.05.2024
Gen Z Becoming The Toolbelt Generation, Trivia Friday, And Swamp Bingo
Tom, Tom, and Josh sit down to talk about Gen Z embracing the trades, How McKinsey consultants hollowed out the middle class, and Tom' new favorite game: Swamp Bingo. EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Are You Smarter than Josh...
04.03.2024
Cafeteria Catholics, Tammy Peterson Enters The Church, And Christian Visibility Day
And Scotland does their best Monty Python impression. Happy Easter! EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen!
03.27.2024
Birth Control Exposed, Bridge Collapse, and Getting Catholics Back to Church
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen!
03.25.2024
How To Argue Online, Planet Fitness Plummets, And Making Holy Week Holy
Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen! EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org
03.22.2024
The Minibus Is Loaded, Are You Smarter Than Josh Mercer, And Lego Heads
Fun Friday is here! Link to this week's "Are You Smarter Than Josh Mercer?" https://forms.gle/yUkqRzqrkVzBGwbm6 Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen! EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org
03.20.2024
Pope Francis Attacking The Margins, Revealing Abortion Stats, And Spanish Mailbag
The Erika Maternity Leave Tour rolls on as we welcome CatholicVote lobbyist Tom McCluskey to the show. Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen! EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org
03.19.2024
Family-Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Parenting Way Harder Than It Needs To Be
Americans find the idea of parenthood increasingly terrifying. Maybe we’re just doing it wrong. Tim Carney makes the case for lowering ambitions, upping low-pressure family time, and ending the demographic decline. LINKS YOU’LL LOVE:Order Tim’s Book: Family Unfriendly ...
03.18.2024
Trump's Bloodbath Media Frenzy, Gen Z is Statistically Gay, and Female Athletes Sue the NCAA
Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen! EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org
03.15.2024
The Grand Finale: St. Joseph Consecration Part 5
Tom and Josh reach the end of the Consecration to St. Joseph. Come pray with us! Every week on Friday, we will be following up on the daily readings from Father Don Calloway's book. This is a powerful way for us...
03.13.2024
Shocking Boeing Investigation, Ben Shapiro Hates Retirement, And Why Italians Never Go Against The Family
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen!
03.11.2024
Biden and Trump Apologize, SOTU Reactions, And The Erika Maternity Leave Tour Begins
Biden and Trump both apologize over the weekend for very different things, we finally get an answer to why our border is wide open, and Logan from CatholicVote joins the show! Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform....
03.08.2024
St. Joseph Consecration Pt 4
Tom and Josh reach Day 22 of The Consecration to St. Joseph. Come pray with us! Every week on Friday, we will be following up on the daily readings from Father Don Calloway's book. This is a powerful way for us...
03.06.2024
Biden SOTU Will Be Spicy, WPATH Bombshell Expose, and Jason Kelce's Retirement Speech
Biden’s solution to the open border crisis? Skip it! Feds fly 320K aliens directly to their USA destination of choice. An explosive report up-ends the tran$ narrative. And we all choked up a little bit as the Best Kelce brother...
03.04.2024
The Power Of The Press, Trump Back On The Ballot, And Newsom Loves Panera Bread
Power of the press is in March madness mode. Do you have “white rural rage”? Do you want porn out of schools? Did you know… LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever you...
03.01.2024
LOOPcast Consecration To St. Joseph Part 3
Tom and Josh reach Day 15 of The Consecration to St. Joseph. Come pray with us! Every week on Friday, we will be following up on the daily readings from Father Don Calloway's book. This is a powerful way for us...
02.28.2024
US Airman's Polarizing Protest, Social Media SCOTUS Case, And Late-Night Biden
US airman burns himself to death in DC … martyr material or mental case? Then SCOTUS considers censorship on social media, and the Left cries “Free Speech”! Biden emerges from his basement HQ for a Late Night appearance, complete with...
02.26.2024
Alabama IVF Case, Google Gemini Shenanigans, And More!
An Alabama ruling sparks a Wild West shootout over the IVF industry. AP News’ does verbal gymnastics over the death of a nursing student. What would Gemini George Washington say if he could see us now? Did you know… LOOPcast...
02.23.2024
LOOPcast Consecration to St. Joseph Part 2
Tom and Josh reach Day 8 of The Consecration to St. Joseph. Come pray with us! Bonus: How Latin helped Tom meet his wife. Every week on Friday, we will be following up on the daily readings from Father Don Calloway's book....
02.22.2024
Are you a Christian Nationalist? Update on St. Patrick’s, and Who Will Be The Next AOC?
Support LOOPcast: https://www.loopcast.org/ CONTACT TOM: [email protected] SHOW NOTES: https://catholicvote.org/podcast/christian-nationalism-lgbtq-hate-crimes/ Take Tom’s pop quiz to learn if you’re a (gasp) Christian nationalist! War is peace: hate crime perps demand St. Patrick’s apologize for defending the Eucharist, Erika discovers co-lactating parenting,...
02.19.2024
Shocking Sacrilege At St. Patrick's, Mailbag: Big Family Finance, And Alexei Navalny
Trans takeover of St. Patrick’s in NYC – the facts, the fallout, and what we can do. Mailbag Monday poses a practical question: What can young Catholics do to prepare financially for family life? And what went down in that...
02.16.2024
LOOPcast Consecration to St. Joseph Part 1
Josh and Tom embark on a special series: The Consecration to St. Joseph! Every week on Friday, we will be following up on the daily readings from Father Don Calloway's book. This is a powerful way for us to talk about...
02.15.2024
Senate Sells Out to Ukraine, Mayorkas Finally Impeached, and Mercer’s School House Rock Moment
Support LOOPcast: https://www.loopcast.org/ CONTACT TOM: [email protected] Zelensky scores billions, the border scores z$ro, Josh takes School House Rock to a whole new level, and Tom’s just hangry about ICE. Has the Vatican turned into a Jesuit university? And...
02.13.2024
Fatima Miracles, Trump, And The Brady Bunch: Former U.S. Ambassador To Portugal Sir George Glass
Sir George Glass worked closely with President Trump for four years as ambassador to Portugal. He gives Tom a behind-the-scenes look at the Don’s foreign policy… and his own Our Lady of Fatima moment that changed him forever! If you’re...
02.12.2024
“He Gets Us” SB Commercial, Biden’s Mental State, and What We Are Doing for Lent
LOOPcast gives a Superbowl commercial analysis – was Jesus as progressive as VW? Biden’s cognitive function is called into question, and there’s no plan B. El Salvador’s “dictator” gets dinged for saving his country, while Thomas Becket gets bumped in...
02.09.2024
“The Lights Went Out” Catholic Super Bowl Champion Matt Birk on Winning, Faith, And Being 300 Pounds
Support LOOPcast: https://www.loopcast.org/ CONTACT TOM: [email protected] Matt Birk is a Super Bowl hero, but his tackle isn’t the only thing people find offensive about him. Even at the height of his football career, Birk was speaking out against the evils...
02.08.2024
NPR, Porn, and the Vice of Effeminacy, Joe Montana Is a Certified Wife Guy, and All-Female SWAT Teams Are a Bad Idea
Support LOOPcast: https://www.loopcast.org/ CONTACT TOM: [email protected] NPR says men who hate p0rn are extremists who hate women, New Jersey floats obscenity law immunity for teachers, and we’re not even in the Twilight Zone yet. Only the Chilean all-female SWAT...
02.06.2024
Jacob Imam’s Radical Solution to College Debt: The College of St. Joseph the Worker
When the system’s broken, do something new. Jacob Imam and his team are founding the College of St. Joseph the Worker – a trade school with a liberal arts formation. But that’s not all: Jacob shares his conversion story with...
02.05.2024
Border Bill Bombshell, Gen Z is going Catholic? And DC's Adult Bounce Houses
The Senate Border Bill bombs in the court of public opinion. The Latin Mass just won’t die. And Josh considers the ethics of the DC adult bounce houses keeping our political class young and happy. It’s a lively LOOPcast LIVE! Support...
02.01.2024
“Have More Kids…Earlier:” Erika’s Surprising Pro-Life Debate at Yale, CUA Handles Abortion Doula Situation, and the EV Debate Will Not Die
Yale students confront Musk’s “Make More Babies” challenge – can we fix the global birth dearth? Speaking of babies, America welcomes more illegal aliens than newborns every year – will the Mayorkas impeachment make a difference? Erika gets fact-checked by...
01.29.2024
Texas' Final Stand, Middle-East Mess, And We've Had Kenough of Hillary Clinton
EMAIL US: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Texas Gov. Greg Abbott – and 25 other GOP guvs – pull a Thomas Jefferson over the border disaster. Is Biden’s immigration incompetency outmatched by his foreign war failures? Pope Francis has more to say on...
01.25.2024
CatholicVote Endorses Trump, Chaos Ensues. Texas and Biden Standoff, and Human Rights Aren’t Real
With Trump on the ticket, LOOPcast explores your reactions to the CatholicVote endorsement. SCOTUS leaves Texas to the coyotes, and globalists want your kids to know human rights are fake. Are MMA fighters the last authentic men in America? Say...
01.24.2024
The Most Notorious Grassroots Movement In America: Moms For Liberty w/ Tiffany Justice
Tiffany Justice is co-founder of Moms for Liberty and seasoned education activist on behalf of children and families. She gives Erika the best explanation you’ve ever heard of what’s happening in America’s education system, what the teachers’ unions are really...
01.22.2024
VEEPStakes! DeSantis Bows Out, Answering the Mailbag, And British Misinformation
DeSantis bows out of the GOP race, leaving #NeverNikki and Trump. What does it mean for VP? And can Trump defeat Joe Biden in a 2020 rematch? The White House mourns Roe, Tom learned a lot about Florida, and are...
01.20.2024
"I'm Homeless and Pregnant, Now What?" The Incredible Story of Jean Marie Davis
Contact Tom: [email protected] SUPPORT LOOPCAST: www.loopcast.org Trafficked. Sold. Abused. From the time she was a child, Jean Marie Davis knew only slavery and prostitution. She was running for her life when she walked into a pregnancy center and met “a...
01.16.2024
Trump Takes All: Breaking Down The Iowa Results
With Iowa in the bag, what’s next in the 2024 Trump saga? Did the media play foul with early calls? Can Nikki Haley count? Did Rachel Maddow just prove she’s a shill? LOOPcast has the hot takes. Support LOOPcast: https://www.loopcast.org/ ...
01.15.2024
LOOPcast Live: Iowa Caucus, Church News, DEI Airplanes, and More!
Let the games begin: It’s Iowa Caucus Monday LIVE! Josh makes his predictions… and explains just what a caucus is. The pope opens up about Fiducia, hell, and Marxism. DEI continues to fly high, as does Tom after that Detroit...
01.11.2024
Cardinal Sarah’s Powerful Rebuke of Fiducia Supplicans Is Met With Heresy Accusations, NYC School Goes Virtual To House Migrants, and Gen Z (Tom) on the Hot Seat
Support LOOPcast: https://www.loopcast.org/ CONTACT TOM: [email protected] Cardinal Sarah dispels the Fiducia fog, and the Catholic left throws a fit. William Penn will stay in Philly (and on the Quaker Oats can), while NYC ejects kids from school to make...
01.10.2024
Persecuted From Within: What Happens When The Church Seems to Attack Her Own Saints?
Support LOOPcast: https://www.loopcast.org/ CONTACT TOM: [email protected] Sometimes the toughest attacks on Catholics come from… other Catholics. Former Trump speechwriter Alec Torres and Tom talk the political life, Church politics, and how Catholics can respond to being “persecuted from within.” Buy the...

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The LOOPcast episodes:

The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act is a Trap, Protestor Lowlights, And The Dog Lover Caucus

Columbia Protest Keep Getting Funnier, Frat Bros Save The Flag, And AP Discovers Orthodox Catholics

Having Kids Is Now Far-Right, Celebrity Conversions, And Tom Discovers C.S. Lewis

Protestor Divestment Demands Explained, Presidential Immunity, And The NPR CEO Is 100% A Fed

Biden Blesses Himself At Abortion Rally, College Protests Rage on, And Erika is Back!

Ivy League "Death To America" Chants, Atomic Bomb Debate, and Bill Maher Is On A Roll

The Riley Gaines Interview I LOOPcast Throwback

9 Facts About U.S. Catholics Survey, Lawfare Abounds, And Rupnik Will Not Go Away

Iran Attacks Israel, Scheffler Glorifies God, And The Kari Lake Problem Continued

O.J. Simpson Passes Away, BLM's Next Martyr, And Stay Away From Lunchables

Arizona Abortion Ban: Kari Lake Sells Out Pro-Lifers, And NPR Lost The Plot

The Pope COOKS Gender Ideology And Trump Reveals Abortion Stance

Gen Z Becoming The Toolbelt Generation, Trivia Friday, And Swamp Bingo

Cafeteria Catholics, Tammy Peterson Enters The Church, And Christian Visibility Day

Birth Control Exposed, Bridge Collapse, and Getting Catholics Back to Church

How To Argue Online, Planet Fitness Plummets, And Making Holy Week Holy

The Minibus Is Loaded, Are You Smarter Than Josh Mercer, And Lego Heads

Pope Francis Attacking The Margins, Revealing Abortion Stats, And Spanish Mailbag

Family-Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Parenting Way Harder Than It Needs To Be

Trump's Bloodbath Media Frenzy, Gen Z is Statistically Gay, and Female Athletes Sue the NCAA

The Grand Finale: St. Joseph Consecration Part 5

Shocking Boeing Investigation, Ben Shapiro Hates Retirement, And Why Italians Never Go Against The Family

Biden and Trump Apologize, SOTU Reactions, And The Erika Maternity Leave Tour Begins

St. Joseph Consecration Pt 4

Biden SOTU Will Be Spicy, WPATH Bombshell Expose, and Jason Kelce's Retirement Speech

The Power Of The Press, Trump Back On The Ballot, And Newsom Loves Panera Bread

LOOPcast Consecration To St. Joseph Part 3

US Airman's Polarizing Protest, Social Media SCOTUS Case, And Late-Night Biden

Alabama IVF Case, Google Gemini Shenanigans, And More!

LOOPcast Consecration to St. Joseph Part 2

Are you a Christian Nationalist? Update on St. Patrick’s, and Who Will Be The Next AOC?

Shocking Sacrilege At St. Patrick's, Mailbag: Big Family Finance, And Alexei Navalny

LOOPcast Consecration to St. Joseph Part 1

Senate Sells Out to Ukraine, Mayorkas Finally Impeached, and Mercer’s School House Rock Moment

Fatima Miracles, Trump, And The Brady Bunch: Former U.S. Ambassador To Portugal Sir George Glass

“He Gets Us” SB Commercial, Biden’s Mental State, and What We Are Doing for Lent

“The Lights Went Out” Catholic Super Bowl Champion Matt Birk on Winning, Faith, And Being 300 Pounds

NPR, Porn, and the Vice of Effeminacy, Joe Montana Is a Certified Wife Guy, and All-Female SWAT Teams Are a Bad Idea

Jacob Imam’s Radical Solution to College Debt: The College of St. Joseph the Worker

Border Bill Bombshell, Gen Z is going Catholic? And DC's Adult Bounce Houses

“Have More Kids…Earlier:” Erika’s Surprising Pro-Life Debate at Yale, CUA Handles Abortion Doula Situation, and the EV Debate Will Not Die

Texas' Final Stand, Middle-East Mess, And We've Had Kenough of Hillary Clinton

CatholicVote Endorses Trump, Chaos Ensues. Texas and Biden Standoff, and Human Rights Aren’t Real

The Most Notorious Grassroots Movement In America: Moms For Liberty w/ Tiffany Justice

VEEPStakes! DeSantis Bows Out, Answering the Mailbag, And British Misinformation

"I'm Homeless and Pregnant, Now What?" The Incredible Story of Jean Marie Davis

Trump Takes All: Breaking Down The Iowa Results

LOOPcast Live: Iowa Caucus, Church News, DEI Airplanes, and More!

Cardinal Sarah’s Powerful Rebuke of Fiducia Supplicans Is Met With Heresy Accusations, NYC School Goes Virtual To House Migrants, and Gen Z (Tom) on the Hot Seat

Persecuted From Within: What Happens When The Church Seems to Attack Her Own Saints?

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