I'm alive. Welcome back to the loopcast. It's Tom, Erica, and Josh. The loop cast is brought to you,

of course, by the loop. Every American Catholic's favorite morning newsletter. Good morning, Grinders. It's going to be a great show. Happy Wednesday. Happy Advent. Oh, we're so kicking. Like people who grind, not people who are on the Grindr app, I guess. So, oh my gosh, Josh. Sorry. I'm in too much church politics news. I just like went there. like went i didn't think about that no good morning grinders is a very common phrase maybe i'm showing my age again but good morning

grinders let's get this bread is so you know what imagine like a meat will imagine um you know like

the really crunchy people they have the wheat mills and they their own, and they grind their own wheat to make bread.

Think about that. Good morning, grinders. Oh, my gosh. My wife, she'd get into these things every once in a while. Like, let's make her own laundry detergent. Let's make her on this. I'm like, okay, making bread, I like it because it's good. Making bread's awesome. But I'm going to buy the laundry soap from Walmart, okay?

Because everyone complains.

Okay, this is going to derail the entire show. Everyone complains about how bad wheat in America is because they put all the extra stuff in it. And then you have the pasta and makes you feel terrible. But if you go to Italy, Josh, as you know, you're an international, well-taste, you know, traveled man. It doesn't make you feel bad.

And so if you grab your own- My daughter's in Italy right now.

She says, well, it's great.

And where's she dining? He's dining everywhere. McDonald's. She sent a picture to you at McDonald's in Rome, like father, like son. I'm not going to put that on her. That'd be love for me. daughter.

Yes.

We all know what your daughter.

Anyways,

we got a great show today.

A couple things that really snuck up on me and social media. I'll be low. My daughter, I guess. Yes. We all know what your daughter.

Anyways, we got a great show today.

A couple things that really snuck up on me and social media users in Australia.

The accounts for people under 16 of, I think, like 10 different social platforms went dark,

completely dark in Australia.

It's the first big country to really do something like this, to have a policy with teeth for underage users in their country. And so I just wanted to get into that. I was completely

snuck up on me. We have some precedent here in America statewide. We'll see if we get a federal

solution, but that's interesting. So we're going to talk about that. The second is we had a very interesting AI dynamic pricing experiment conducted without people

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