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Welcome back to the Loebcast.

It's Tom Erica and Josh.

And the reason I wanted to do this episode today is I saw this headline.

And I believe it was from a variety saying conclave, the movie, viewership soars after Pope Francis's death, up 283% to nearly 7 million minutes watched.

Now, in my brain, you know, as producer of this show, I would like to give conclave

information to people who are interested, not from Hollywood producers that probably

charitably saying lack reverence for the source material.

The conclave, an ancient event tying back to

apostolic succession, shrouded in mystery, very interesting. So as Catholics who actually respect

the event, I hope to provide some history, some fun facts, and just to enjoy the fact that we

have this colossal event right now in the public view to select the new leader of the church.

But beyond that, Erica, what else do we have going on today?

Yeah, so after your Conclave 411 section, we're going to get into this Maryland case that we had

oral arguments before the Supreme Court. It is the first major case of parents versus a school

board to make it all the way up to SCOTUS, massive religious freedom implications,

and wow, did it get heated with the oral argument? So that's going to be really interesting.

Also, what would you do for $5,000 baby bonus? Would you have another baby? For $5,000? What about

for a medal of honor from the president of the United States?

The New York Times has discovered our demographic decline and also Project 2025 again and its

efforts and suggestions to the president for how to reverse population decline.

We're going to get into that a little bit.

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