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The LOOPcast

China Can’t Mask Its Revolution: The CCP’s Brutal “Zero-COVID Policy” and Why Biden and Fauci Won’t Condemn It, Franciscan University’s Smartphone-Free Scholarship, and Chik-fil-A Should Low-Key Run the Country.

The LOOPcast

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Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.8677 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

UNMASKED: We dig deep into the massive Chinese protests against the CCP’s “Zero-COVID” lockdowns (00:02:23)… and why Fauci is still giving them the “okay” (00:15:09). Vatican diplomats discover that Beijing just doesn’t actually care about them (is Cardinal Zen surprised?) (00:29:03). Franciscan University gets creative with its smartphone for scholarship trade-in (00:40:18) while Disney discovers that Americans just aren’t that into gender-queer kids’ movies (are we surprised?) (00:50:34). D...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Fauci is so much like the Chinese, and that he thinks it's all just an experiment, but we're not your puppies.

0:06.0

You can just kill it however you want to.

0:08.8

This is baloney.

0:09.5

We have agency.

0:10.4

We're made in the image of God, bro.

0:12.0

So don't force us, you know, into lockdown.

0:32.4

Yeah. Welcome back to the loopcast, where we keep you in the loop on faith, culture, and politics.

0:33.9

And I got some complaints.

0:43.3

Many people say positive things about the podcast, but one of the complaints was we we don't know who you are. So, my name is Tom Pogasic. I don't know who you are, Tom.

0:49.8

Who are you, Tom? When did you get in here? I snuck in somehow. So my name is Tom Pogasic.

0:55.9

I work on the loop team here. I provide video content, and I produce this loopcast. And so I am joined today by my co-host, Erica Ahern, mom of six. She says in her bio, she wears pants. She's a little

1:01.5

edgy like that. She is a fantastic, talented staff writer here at Catholic Vote. She writes articles

1:07.2

that we feel that we can cover better than major news outlets.

1:11.6

That's why we started the loop.

1:12.6

And that leads us into our next co-host, Josh Mercer, you might recognize him from the

1:17.1

beginning snippets I add because he's usually going off about something.

1:21.1

He is the editor of the loop.

1:22.6

He started the publication that now goes to about 350,000 Catholics across the country, and we are showing

1:28.8

no signs of stopping. Glad to be here with you, Tom. So they can at least recognize the voice.

1:33.8

This is the voice of Josh. That's the voice of Jive. No ASMR, please. Like, let's just keep

1:38.5

the ASMR out of this. The mission of the loop, for those that don't know, if you're not subscribed,

1:42.6

get subscribed. What are you doing? If you're listening to this podcast, you're not subscribed to the loop.

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