And we're live. Welcome back to Loebcast. It's Tom, Erica, and Josh. And we're gearing up for Nashville.

So we will be alive at Curse under Fire on Friday. Make sure you guys tune in. Follow along on socials.

It's the first time Loopcast gets out of the studio and Into the Wild.

Woo! Loopcast in the wild. Josh, you ready?

Let's do it.

Well, I'm excited.

We have some serious shark tank pitches for the guys.

We're going to have Michael Knowles on.

We have Matt Walsh, Harrison Butker, and of course, the inimitable Father Mike Schmitz.

Can't wait.

We have ideas.

We have ideas to pitch to them.

I'm getting his workout routine out of them.

I'll tell you that much.

I'm serious.

That's my whole goal.

But for today's show, and I want to make sure we have enough time as possible for this.

So Ross Duthat, Catholic conservative columnist at the New York Times, he got to sit down with J.D. Vance.

And I will say, so it was at the American embassy in Rome,

hopefully Brian's new digs pretty soon, very possible. But it was a day after the papal inauguration.

It was right after he met with the Pope. So everything was kind of fresh and raw. And I say,

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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