D.C. Insider Takes Us Inside The Shutdown, FDA approves New Abortion Drug, And Ice Cube Blessings
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
D.C. insider Tom McClusky takes us behind the scenes of the government shutdown—what’s really happening in Washington? Meanwhile, the FDA approves a new abortion drug, sparking outrage and debate. And finally, Erika gives her take on Pope Leo's ice block blessing. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
02:00 Nazareth Organics
04:18 GOV Shutdown Day 3 Update
20:02 Home Title Lock
27:54 Good News
39:20 Gaza Peace Plan
1:00:00 Twilight Zone
1:09:45 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | We're live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom Erica and essential employee Tom. DC Insider, Tinfoil Tom. He's known by many names. Today he's essential employee, Tom. Thank you for taking time to join the show. Be here. Glad I wasn't for a load. So, of course, the Loopcast brought you by the Loop. If you're not in, sign up. It's time. We have a great show for you today. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm actually really excited to hear what's going on in the inside, Tom. So, of course, the loopcast brought to you by the loop. If you're not in, sign up. It's time. We have a great show for you today. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm actually really excited to hear what's going on in the inside, Tom, get some really, some tidbits, some notes, what you think about the memes, maybe. What's going on in the White House? Why no one is working? And traffic maybe is a little bit lighter. the second one we had a pretty surprising announcement from the FDA that everyone was talking about last night on our internal slack. And I'm looking for some more contacts from Erica and what's going on there. And then we have good news. We have Twilight Zone. We might even get into a little bit of the Gaza Peace plan. A lot of those timelines are going to start coming up. And we're going to share our thoughts. But it's going to be a great Friday show. we're going to keep it a little bit tight today. We've got a little bit of a timeline. So, Erica, if you can get into why we can do the show today. Yeah. So many thanks to our first sponsor, Nazareth Organics. It is challenging to foster healthy and radiant skin in a world full of synthetic chemicals and toxins. wouldn't it be nice to find nourishing ingredients |
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