and we're not live. Wait, wait. Are we good? Yeah, I just said that to get you.

Dog, you dog, you dog. We're not live, but we are here. We are here. It's Josh, Erica, and Tom for the

year and review episode of the Loopcast 2025. You should be hearing this. It should be New Year's Eve. And we have prepared

a show to look back upon the crazy, crazy year we call it 2025. What a ride. It's Tom, Erica and

Josh. And the Loopcast, of course, is brought to you by the Loop. Every American Catholic's

favorite newsletter. Wow, what a year. What a year. But before we get into it it i say i'm going to organize the show in three parts okay this is how i was

thinking about the year and i went back through all of our old shows and uh the three major events

trump becoming president obviously and so we get the first part of the trump presidency the second

time around uh the other one that we get is,

I think, undeniably, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one of the biggest events of my lifetime,

let alone the year, and maybe the year of political violence. So we're going to talk about that

a little bit. And finally, the church got a new pope for Catholics a pretty big deal. We got a

pope, not just a new pope, but Pope from Chicago, First American Pope, Pope Leo. So we're going to talk about that. We all have personal experience with that. Our fearless leader went on to sip macchiados and have gelato and hang out in Italy. So we've got to talk about that. But before we get into all of that, Charity Mobile, the reason we can do the show today, if you're still spending your hard-earned money with a phone company who doesn't value you and your beliefs, guess what? It's time for Charity Mobile. Pro-Life phone company serving, oh, and I've got to throw up the graphic here. That's on me, Chief. Charity Mobile's Pro-Live phone company, serving pro-life phone, serving pro-life customers and causes. They send

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