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Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so excited today to be joined by Theologian.

She's got a video going massively viral on TikTok with 2.5 million views discussing why the election of Pope Leo is a massive win for Catholicism and a rebuke to Christian nationalism.

It's Lee Larson. How are you?

Howdy?

Howdy, folks.

Thanks for having me, Dave.

I appreciate it.

Were you surprised at the views rolling in on this video discussing why you think this is a good pick?

I was for two reasons. One, it is pretty long for TikTok, you know? It's like four and a half

minutes or so when our attention spans are less than a minute. So that, for one, surprised me

to just see the retention rate on how long people were watching the video.

But I also didn't, yeah, I was also curious that people would make that connection.

So it was cool to see people quickly like, okay, so this is a good thing because I think right now we're kind

of self-loathing Americans with everything. Yeah, you know, we've never had a, we've never had,

you know, it's like you get these popes, they, they, in English might not be their first language.

And, you know, it's to have a homegrown pope, this is so interesting. And of course, the first thought people had was, well, what's the Pope's politics?

Because politics is so important to the message they deliver.

What was it, what was the feeling like as it's sort of information rolled in that you think this might be a Pope that has the values that you're looking for?

That's a tricky statement. At the end of the day, they, he's still Catholic, right?

That's it's not, I made the mistake of saying socially progressive and I think that was,

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