We're live. Welcome back to the loopcast. It's Tom, Josh, and Erica. And of course,

Loopcast brought to you by Zeal. You can see the divide on the show between the morning Asher's

and the afternoon Asher's. Erica is representing happy Ash Wednesday, happy or solemn Ash Wednesday,

beautiful tradition in the Catholic Church. Hopefully everyone listening in here, go get your ashes today.

Go to mass the morning, go to mass afternoon.

You could just do the service.

What is it to dust?

Yeah.

Oh, we got the hard.

Yes.

So we always, every year my kids are like on bay, they take bets.

It's like Cali over here on which, which saying the priest is going to do.

And it was a, it was divided. The parish we went to this morning. One one priest goes, repent and believe in the gospel. He was, he was, the other priest

was competing with him. He's like, remember you're a dust and to dust to shall return. We definitely

went to the dust to dust line. We like that. We went to that, that priest. And then did you see like money change hands in the pews? Yeah, exactly. People were like, give her 50 cents for winning that bet. Yeah, shout out to. Probably understood. It'd be like you'd have to put more into the collection plate so that. Absolutely. Yeah. It's all. Would be the beneficiary. That's right. That's right. Oh, man. I love doing the show prep meeting and I get hit with something like that that's infinitely more entertaining than anything that we discussed. Love your family, Erica. But that being said, speaking of Christianity. So James Del Rico pulled quite the stunt with Stephen Colbert. I almost got to give him a hat tip on it. We'll see what Josh

has to say about that. I feel like Trump almost is hat tipping him on that. So what's going on in the Texas race, what he had to say on Stephen Colbert and what Jasmine Crockin had to say. It's a big race to watch in Texas. So we're going to cover all of that. Also, Jesse Jackson passed away. And it's funny, I really do not know anything about Jesse Jackson.

And it sounds like, I really do not know anything about Jesse Jackson.

And it sounds like Josh had a literal confrontation with him one time. But the more that I'm

reading about it, the more I understand that he was a key turning point for, what would you say?

Like religion, religion in politics, Christianity in politics, kind of putting in his lot with the Clintons was a big moment. We're going to hear more about that. And I'm just going to ask very innocent questions because I don't really know much about him. Oh, that's always cute, Tom. Thank you. And then finally, we are very, very, very close with a war in Iran. I think we have about a third of the U.S. Navy over right now. And we just had

big negotiations last night. So I'm going to give a little bit of a state of play there. There's also

a bit kind of bouncing around about the Vatican refusing to join the Board of Peace in which Trump is

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