Conclave Is On! Josh Calls In From Rome, ChatGPT And The De-Souling Of The World, And Travel Tips With Kids Pt II
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Day one of the conclave: we talk emotions, cardinals, and meet-cute’s with Father James Martin. Zuckerberg says AI can become your friend… but it seems more like its becoming a spiritualist? LOOPcast listeners make travel great again, Cardinal Dolon’s living room is the star, and Trump is robbed of his Pulitzer. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 – Welcome back to the LOOPcast!
02:43 – Charity Mobile
04:10 – Conclave Begins
15:50 – Holy Heroes
16:50 – Zuckerberg friends?
17:32 – Josh Call in!
30:09 – Chatgpt gods?
49:24 – Good News
56:04 – Make Travel Great Again!
1:01:56 – Twilight Zone
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to the loopcast. It's Tom, Erica, and Italian Josh coming in live from Rome, fighting right now with the Wi-Fi. I can't even believe that he is here. An exciting, momentous day for the church. And looking forward to getting all of the tea from Josh. |
| 0:18.4 | And it's going to be rough. You had them right before the show. |
| 0:23.9 | Wi-Fi is an issue in Italy. |
| 0:26.0 | As are many things. |
| 0:27.5 | All right. |
| 0:27.7 | Let's see if we can get them figured out. |
| 0:29.4 | I'll drop him for a second. |
| 0:30.7 | But Erica, you said you were nervous. |
| 0:32.9 | I am. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm full of nervous energy. |
| 0:35.2 | Like I, with this conclave and I don't know, it just seems, |
| 0:40.4 | maybe I'm having a little PTSD from the last conclave. Does anyone want to talk me through that? |
| 0:45.1 | But here we have, the Cardinals, processing in to the Sistine Chapel. And I mean, Catholics know how to do |
| 0:52.7 | this, right? Look at the the color the solemnity and the beautiful |
| 0:58.6 | Michelangelo you can just kind of like start to glimpse it through the doorway as the cardinals enter |
| 1:03.2 | and then of course there's the ceiling of the door and they're cut off right they're cut off from |
| 1:08.2 | all of the the drama and the lobbying and the guessing. And I do love that. |
| 1:14.7 | I love that about the conclave, that they are now locked in there away from the world. And yeah, |
| 1:21.9 | I'm so proud to be Catholic right now because of that, but also really nervous. Hard not to be romantic |
| 1:28.2 | about Catholicism, really. I know. Like, sort of the last man standing with romantic. But as we work |
| 1:35.0 | on getting Josh and all the tea from his time on the ground in Italy, we have the reason we can do |
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