Joe Kent Resigns: "Iran Posed No Imminent Threat", Population Bomb Author Dies, And St. Patrick!
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns, claiming Iran posed “no imminent threat.” What does this mean for the war, and what comes next? Meanwhile, the author of The Population Bomb dies, and we revisit one of the most influential (and wrong) ideas of the last century. And finally, what is the real lesson of Saint Patrick? All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
03:14 Updates on Iran War
36:15 Population Bomb Author Dies
49:05 Good News
56:00 Saint Patrick’s Day
1:02:00 Should you kick your kids out at 18?
1:10:55 Listener Question
1:19:54 Twilight Zone
1:51:17 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | I'm live. |
| 0:00.7 | Welcome back to the loopcast. |
| 0:01.7 | It's Tom Erica and Josh. |
| 0:03.4 | We get a bonus. |
| 0:04.3 | We get Josh today. |
| 0:05.0 | We thought you would be at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast that because of conditions |
| 0:10.3 | on the ground in northern Michigan. |
| 0:12.5 | That is not the case. |
| 0:13.5 | No offense, but I'd rather not be with you, Tom. |
| 0:18.3 | Condolences, Josh. |
| 0:19.6 | I mean, National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. |
| 0:21.8 | Good people. I love going. Catholic Prayer Breakfast, good people. |
| 0:23.5 | I love going. |
| 0:24.9 | It's my favorite event of the year. |
| 0:30.0 | And it was started by Catholic Vote co-founder Joe Sella, |
| 0:32.4 | and he's still involved with it. |
| 0:54.2 | In fact, he had his own trepidations getting from Michigan to the prayer breakfast. He got rerouted to Nashville, but he is on his way. But yeah, no, I love Nashville. I love Catholic prayer breakfast, and we got a lot of our Catholic folks who are going to be there. But, yeah, I literally just got to my mailbox half an hour ago. Oh, man. A lot of snow. Happy spring. |
| 0:55.5 | It really do be like that. |
| 1:11.6 | 28 inches, I think, total. Oh, my gosh. Crazy. Yeah, just Michigan, thanks. But welcome. Welcome to everyone joining here live. Yes, live 11 a.m. on Wednesdays now. I feel like I miss you guys a little bit. There's obviously a lot of things going on. And we're going to try to do our best to be comprehensive here. |
| 1:14.3 | So we have updates when it comes to the Iran war. |
| 1:14.3 | Joe Ken. feel like I miss you guys a little bit. There's obviously a lot of things going on. We're going to try to do our best to be comprehensive here. So we have updates when it comes to the Iran war. |
| 1:18.8 | Joe Kent has resigned, probably the first high profile resignation from the Trump administration |
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