Government Shutdown Looms: Are Trump and Elon Musk To Blame? Christmas Traditions, and Nuns are BACK
The LOOPcast
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The boys are back to talk government shut-down, Mike Johnson’s mistakes, and billionaire influencers. Nuns are also BACK – How do you encourage vocations in young women? Finally Hunter Biden receives his comeuppance in the form of song. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 – Welcome LOOPers!
00:54 – Government shut down
16:45 – Did Mike Johnson mess up?
24:22 – Predictions
27:05 – Weird Christmas Traditions
34:42 – Church Corner
47:44 – Twilight Zone
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Loopcast today, joined by Josh. |
| 0:02.7 | And looks like Tom McCluskey, you are on the nice list this year. |
| 0:06.2 | Is that what I'm saying? |
| 0:08.1 | It goes back and forth. |
| 0:09.7 | Oh. |
| 0:13.4 | Wow, for the audio listeners, that was just quite the visual effect. |
| 0:16.5 | He's got a sequin, ugly Christmas sweater that goes from naughty to nice, depending on, you |
| 0:22.1 | know, how he's been behaving. |
| 0:23.4 | Apparently, his behavior, yeah. |
| 0:25.3 | Erica told me it was ugly sweater day. |
| 0:27.5 | I apparently owe her a little conversation. |
| 0:30.6 | Come on, in all fairness, McCluskey, every sweater you wear is an ugly sweater. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, it's not, and in fairness, it's not the sweater. |
| 0:38.9 | You. |
| 0:41.3 | Well, the boys are rocking today. |
| 0:43.2 | And who better to have on the show when, you know, according to what I'm seeing, |
| 0:47.8 | we could be looking at a government shutdown here. |
| 0:49.9 | So, Tom, is that why you have extra time that the government's going to shut down? |
| 0:53.4 | You have no one to go bug on the hill? |
| 0:57.2 | Well, when the government shuts down, that's how it is. |
| 1:00.7 | It's been a little busier than normal. |
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