Joe Kent Resigns: "Iran Posed No Imminent Threat", Population Bomb Author Dies, And St. Patrick!

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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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! Get your FREE PHONE as a new Charity Mobile user with every new line — and FREE SHIPPING — with promo code LOOPCAST at https://bi...

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0:00.0	I'm live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom Erica and Josh. We get a bonus. We get Josh today.
0:05.1	We thought you would be at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast that because of conditions on the ground in northern Michigan.
0:12.6	That is not the case. That's true. No offense, but I'd rather not be with you, Tom.
0:18.3	Condolence is, Josh. I mean, National Catholic Prayer prayer breakfast good people uh i love going it's my
0:23.9	favorite event of the year and it was started by uh catholic vote co-founder joe cella
0:30.1	and he's still involved with it in fact he had his own uh trepidations getting from michigan
0:36.6	to the prayer breakfast.
0:38.3	He got rerouted to Nashville, but he is on his way.
0:42.0	But yeah, no, I love Nash Catholic prayer breakfast.
0:44.1	And we got a lot of our Catholic vote folks who are going to be there.
0:47.1	But yeah, I literally just got to my mailbox half an hour ago.
0:51.4	Oh, man.
0:52.9	A lot of snow.
0:53.7	Happy spring. It really do be like that. 28 inches, I think, total. Oh, man. A lot of snow. Happy spring.
0:54.4	It really do be like that.
0:55.6	28 inches, I think, in 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.
1:11.8	So we have updates when it comes to the Iran war.
1:14.4	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. Joe Kent has resigned, probably the first high profile resignation from the Trump administration set forth. A lot of things in motion. Very interesting there. We're going to cover it all. We have the straight of her moves. Trump trying to get support from NATO allies, NATO allies saying, no thank you. And then a couple other elements on the Iran front. But after that, we're going to be covering rest and peace, you know, pray for the repose of his soul. Paul Erlich. He was the author of The Population Bomb. Pray for his soul because he sat and forth a lot of things that had a lot of impacts.
1:46.5	So Josh is excited to talk about it.
1:48.1	We have good news for Wildad Zone.
1:49.3	We have a fun Q&A this time.
1:50.9	I thought we could incorporate Matt Walsh changing his opinion on something.
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