JD Vance Grilled By NYT Columnist on Catholic Faith and Deportations, Big Beautiful Bill Wrap-Up, And Big Marco
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
JD Vance is in the hotseat as Ross Douthart interviews him on the intricacies of being a Catholic politician. Are the libs right about the “Big Beautiful Bill?” Laurel Libby can now do her job, the Pope’s brother is living the dream, and Marco Rubio claps BACK! All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Welcome back to the LOOPcast!
03:10 – Charity Mobile
04:09 – JD Vance Interview
29:22 – Big Beautiful Bill
43:14 – Good News!
49:49 – Twilight Zone
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to Loebcast. It's Tom, Erica, and Josh. And we're gearing up for Nashville. |
| 0:05.4 | So we will be alive at Curse under Fire on Friday. Make sure you guys tune in. Follow along on socials. |
| 0:11.4 | It's the first time Loopcast gets out of the studio and Into the Wild. |
| 0:15.2 | Woo! Loopcast in the wild. Josh, you ready? |
| 0:21.6 | Let's do it. |
| 0:23.1 | Well, I'm excited. |
| 0:24.1 | We have some serious shark tank pitches for the guys. |
| 0:26.9 | We're going to have Michael Knowles on. |
| 0:28.5 | We have Matt Walsh, Harrison Butker, and of course, the inimitable Father Mike Schmitz. |
| 0:33.6 | Can't wait. |
| 0:34.1 | We have ideas. |
| 0:35.2 | We have ideas to pitch to them. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm getting his workout routine out of them. |
| 0:38.2 | I'll tell you that much. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm serious. |
| 0:39.8 | That's my whole goal. |
| 0:41.2 | But for today's show, and I want to make sure we have enough time as possible for this. |
| 0:46.6 | So Ross Duthat, Catholic conservative columnist at the New York Times, he got to sit down with J.D. Vance. |
| 0:51.8 | And I will say, so it was at the American embassy in Rome, |
| 0:55.8 | hopefully Brian's new digs pretty soon, very possible. But it was a day after the papal inauguration. |
| 1:00.6 | It was right after he met with the Pope. So everything was kind of fresh and raw. And I say, |
| 1:05.3 | I specifically appreciated this interview because I felt like it was tough. And it was tough in a way that was |
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