LOOPcast Thanksgiving! The Digital Revolution And Women, And Year-Round School
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
What is the best way to respond to relatives with differing political views at Thanksgiving gatherings? Tom and Josh reveal what they're most grateful for. And the liberal young adults aren’t having children, shown in new study from Brad Wilcox. All this and more on today’s episode of the LOOPcast!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Happy thanksgiving LOOPcast!
3:16 - How to deal with political differences at thanksgiving gatherings?
21:37 - Tom and Josh: what are they most grateful for?
37:04 - The left has a family problem: new study
48:10 - Good News
58:32 - Twilight Zone
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom Erica and Josh. Thanksgiving special. Thanksgiving |
| 0:05.1 | Tomorrow, many of you may be traveling, hopefully to spend some time with your family, to get into |
| 0:11.4 | intense arguments with your relatives that disagree with you politically, to eat too much turkey, |
| 0:17.7 | to watch the lions destroy the Packers, whatever you may be doing on Thanksgiving. |
| 0:23.9 | I'd like to just be the first to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:27.2 | I love this holiday. |
| 0:28.2 | Josh loves this holiday. |
| 0:29.4 | Eric loves this holiday. |
| 0:30.6 | It's fantastic. |
| 0:31.7 | Okay. |
| 0:31.9 | So I'll start up top. |
| 0:32.8 | We're just going to be doing a Thanksgiving up top special. |
| 0:35.8 | Look, there's news going on, but it's important to take |
| 0:39.1 | the time to give thanks to have debates about whether or not to wash the turkey, according to AP. |
| 0:44.1 | So we have a little bit of a Thanksgiving section up top. And for those joining us here live in |
| 0:48.8 | the chat, tell me what you are most thankful for this year. Bring me up. Bring the thanks, |
| 0:53.8 | bring the giving. What are you most thankful for this year? Bring me up. Bring the thanks. Bring the giving. What are you most |
| 0:55.4 | thankful for this year? What are you doing? Let me know. We can read some of those off, some good ones. |
| 1:01.4 | And pray for our producer, actually. She's out today. So I'll be helping run the chat. Simon will be |
| 1:06.9 | helping run the chat. She's actually overseas. So pray for her. I'm not sure I can reveal exactly where she is, but she's overseas. She's doing something important for us. So pray for her safety, please. That being said, we also had some interesting studies coming from Brad Wilcox on the digital revolution and how it affected young women, specifically in terms of happiness, in terms of children. Some good studies there. We also have some thoughts on the economy. Some retail numbers were released. We can get into that a little bit. We have good news. We have Twilight Zone. It's going to be a great Thanksgiving show. And we, at the very end, actually, a lot of people ask, you know, Erica, how do you raise such well-educated, smart children? You're not done yet. Like a good turkey. They're not quite fully roasted. But we're having a good time with our kids. I think about it often. And today, at the end of the episode, Thanksgiving special, we actually, Erica sat down with someone from homeschool connections, a great resource for people to use. If they're looking to homeschool their children, it's a great conversation. I will be playing that at the end of the episode. But before we get into our Thanksgiving fun, I got to talk about Charity Mobile. You know what I'm grateful for? I'm grateful for Charity Mobile. Why am I grateful for Charity Mobile? Because they allow you to spend your hard-earned money with a phone company who values you and your beliefs. Charity Mobile is a pro-life phone company serving pro-life customers and causes. |
| 2:20.2 | They send 5% of your monthly plan price to the pro-life pro-family charity of your choice |
| 2:24.5 | and no extra cost to you. |
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