Brown and MIT Shooter Found, Vivek's Definition of "An American," And Weed

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Authorities say the suspect connected to the Brown and MIT shootings has been found—what we know now and what questions remain. Meanwhile, does Vivek Ramaswamy know what it means to be an American? And finally, Trump signs an executive order reclassifying marijuana. All this and more on the LOOPcast!

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00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
02:10 Brown and MIT Shooter Found
11:03 What is an American?
43:31 Good News
52:12 The Weed
58:40 Twilight Zone
1:09:55 Closing Prayer

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0:00.0	And we're live. Welcome back to the loopcast. It's Tom and Erica. That being said, Josh, Josh said he's not going to make it. He's probably burning rubber. Yeah. And listening to the show right now, clocking what we're saying so that he can come and respond to what we do end up saying. So, listen, anything's possible, right? Anything's possible. The bears might be moving to Indiana. So anything is possible.
0:24.5	Good morning, everyone. A loopcast brought to you by the loop, of course. Every Catholic Americans favorite morning newsletter. Got a fun Friday show. We're going to have the vibes going.
0:29.0	Hi. I got a follow up by saying what we're going to cover first. We have information as to the
0:36.2	shooter of both Brown and MIT. They're saying it's connected. We have the official narrative to deliver to you at this point. What we do know, I know it ended a national manhunt of, what was it, five days. A lot of people paying attention, close attention. So I have Eric going to give us the details on that one. The second one is Eric and I were both excited to talk about this.
0:55.4	Vivek Ramoswamy loves to stir it up around Christmas time.
0:58.8	Sure does.
0:59.4	He had an op-ed published in the New York Times about what an American is.
1:04.9	And he went with the creedal definition.
1:08.7	We're going to give it a good faith go for what his version of American
1:12.7	America is, offer some critiques potentially, and then kind of talk about what is an American.
1:17.2	I think that actually really dovetails well with the soap opera that was Amfest last night.
1:21.5	Oh my goodness. So I watched a lot of the speeches. I was just catching up on that. I'm like,
2:01.6	oh, wow. Wow. This is where we're at. And then we finish off with, come on, weed. Lay off the weed. Trump is not laying off the weed. He's going to reschedule marijuana. We have a couple of Maha updates. But good news, Twilight Zone is always. It's going to be a great Friday show. So if you want to support us, go ahead and check it out YouTube. Go over and subscribe over on YouTube. If you haven't, leave us to review. Apple Podcasts and Spotify would be great. And yeah, give us a Josh countdown. Someone clock when I'm sure he's going to show up at like minute 35. But until then. Will dad make it for Christmas? Is that what I hear?
2:09.1	Until then, we have a show. So, Erica, what is going on, the current situation with Brown and MIT? Yeah, we actually have news. It seems that the National Manhunt is over. They're saying
2:15.0	they have found the suspect and he died of self-inflicted wounds.
2:19.5	So as Tom said up front, since Saturday night, they've been conducting this manhunt for the guy who is
2:26.1	responsible for the mass shooting at Brown University last Saturday and the subsequent killing of an
2:31.2	MIT professor. The suspect is 48-year-old Portuguese National
2:36.2	Claudio Manuel Nevis Valenti, and he was found in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
2:43.4	So he had clearly started in Providence with the Brown shooting, moved his way up north to
2:48.4	Massachusetts, and then to New Hampshire. He is a former
2:51.8	Brown University graduate physics student. He apparently was only enrolled actually for two
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