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The LOOPcast

John Bolton's House Raided By FBI, Cracker Barrel Is Dead, And Hillsdale Prez Stirs It Up

The LOOPcast

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4.7748 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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John Bolton’s house got raided. Is the man a martyr or a miscreant? Cracker Barrel became boring; people want the tchotchkes back. Boys like trucks, Hillsdale denies the Christian Nation, and Democrats give up their phraseology. Finally, a protest sign wins Twilight Zone of the year. All this and more on the LOOPcast!


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TIMESTAMPS


00:00 – Welcome back to the LOOPcast!

02:36 – Day of Fasting and Prayer

04:51 – Nazareth Organics

07:16 – Bolton’s home raided

23:26 – Home Title Lock

25:09 – Cracker Barrel

41:46 – Good News

47:35 – Hillsdale Drama

1:07:24 – Twilight Zone


Transcript

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0:21.8

And we're live. Welcome back to the loopcast. Today you got Tom and Erica at the loopcast, of course, brought to you by The Loop. Every Catholic American's favorite morning newsletter. So if you're not subscribed, go subscribe now. It's a fantastic Friday. We have a great show plan for you. Yes, my title is correct. I declared myself the vice president while Josh is in Poland. And he's probably not in the time zone thing. So he won't know. And it's a he said, she said situation. So I'm running the ship today. No paper trail. No paper trail. So you know what I'm saying. Speaking of paper trail, John Bolton's house was raided this morning. That name might ring some bells. And I had to go back and do research in mine as well. He's got a very iconic mustache I found. So we're going to get into the full of John Bolton situation, House raid. What Trump had to say about it, it's all kind of breaking.

0:41.6

So I did as much as I could

0:46.9

yes we're going to talk about Cracker Bail cracker Bail has been on every American's mind obsessively for the last day I would say and I did want to get a little bit beyond is this just the classic

0:53.0

oh my gosh exactly the wokeification.

0:55.4

Yeah.

0:55.7

We're going to go deeper.

0:56.8

I'm going to go deeper.

0:57.6

We're going to get deeper into that.

0:58.5

It's going to be fun.

0:59.9

And yes, we're going to talk Hillsdale, Hillsdale.

1:02.0

Larry P. Arn, who I consider as a childhood conservative, like everyone's sweet conservative grandfather, president of Hillsdale, made some comments that it stirred it up a

1:00.7

little bit. Larry Arndt did. Sturt. Larry Pease. Sturted up a little bit. We're going to talk

1:12.2

about it. Disappointed and no suit, Tom. Yeah, no suit today. No suit today. Sorry, Rosie's

1:17.4

bothering me. I'm trying to start the show uh so uh one thing i actually

1:26.1

want to get to right up top before we even get in anything uh so pope leo actually called for today

1:30.1

to be a day of uh fasting and prayer so i'll share the catholic vote article that we did on it

1:34.9

and i think it's just a great opportunity, especially if you're here

1:41.1

live with us, but whenever you're listening to this. So Pope Leo has invited Catholics to observe

1:44.5

August 22nd as a day of prayer and fasting to ask God for peace and justice in a world currently

1:49.4

plagued by many wars and conflicts. The church observes August 22nd as the memorial of the

1:54.6

queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

1:59.4

Pope Leo noted in the appeal given to his August 20th general audience.

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