Man With Hundreds of Explosives Arrested Outside D.C. Catholic Church before SCOTUS "Red Mass"

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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A man armed with hundreds of explosives is arrested outside a D.C. Catholic church just hours before the Supreme Court’s “Red Mass.” Meanwhile, is conversion therapy free speech? Finally, leading Dem. Candidate for the Governor of CA Katie Porter suffers an embarrassing interview fail that has everyone talking. All this and more on the LOOPcast!

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00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
02:27 Ave Maria Mutual Funds
04:06 Charity Mobile
05:07 Man Arrested with Explosives Outside St. Matthew’s Cathedral
27:35 Home Title Lock
30:28 Is Conversion Therapy Free Speech?
48:00 Good News!
54:00 Border Crossing Update + “ICE-free” Zones
1:04:54 Twilight Zone
1:21:15 Closing Prayer

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0:00.0	We're live. Welcome back to the loopcast. It's Tom and Erica. Josh, of course, is probably eating paella, getting sun from the Spanish coast.
0:08.4	I believe the update this morning was he has just hit the 100 kilometer mark. I don't know what that means. Yeah, maybe it means he's gone 100 kilometers from the end, but he's at 100 kilometers so big big props
0:22.9	to Josh Josh is going to come in with sweet calves that you can't see because you can't see the lower
0:27.5	half of our frame here the lead cast but that's right he's having a great time Eric and I are holding
0:32.3	it down warm walking to everyone here in the chat I see someone is from baraboos
0:36.1	Wisconsin which I've never heard of before but shot up barbabu. Maybe it's Baraboo like Caribou. That would be kind of cool. If people have tuned in long enough, I just read a lot and I don't talk it. Well, I do yap a lot, but I just read words and then in my head, that's how it's pronounced. And then I pronounce words that I know incorrectly. My mom makes fun of me for it.
0:55.0	It's bad. Anyway, the loop cast, brought to you by the loop. Every American Catholic's favorite
0:59.0	newsletter. And I think today is an especially good episode for this because the top story today,
1:03.1	I just made it the entire title. I could not believe how this story was just buried. I mean,
1:08.8	this happened October 3rd. And there was a man outside of a D.C. church that was supposed to be the Red Mass. St. Matthew's Cathedral, right. To bless, to bless Codas on their upcoming term and to speak to everyone in D.C. And there was a man with hundreds of explosives out front and a manifesto. And we, I mean, I couldn't believe that I hadn't even. I mean, we work at Catholic
1:28.2	but we're covering this kind of thing. And so we're going to get into all of that. We're going to get into the Supreme Court. It's going to be a good Supreme Court episode taking on a case about conversion therapy, which is a word that I almost forgot about until now. So Scotus is taking up the ban on that in Colorado.
1:43.8	Erica has all the details there.
1:45.6	But of course we have good news.
1:46.9	We have Tw Zone. It's going to be a great episode. We're going to have a lot of fun today. I also have a special episode Friday. I'm going to tease a little bit before. I got to talk to a nuclear engineer about his studies of the Shroud of Torin.
2:19.4	I can't wait. I'm in the middle of doing it. I love a good Shroud of Torin. I love it. And it's not to say I was a shroud hater, but I actually just think it's a marketing problem because why not just call it the burial cloth of Jesus? I think that would be like, oh, that makes sense. But you hear a shroud a term, like what does that even mean? It could be like a dut shroud literally is that.
2:21.3	You just said the thing that a shroud is.
2:18.0	Right. Like, oh, that makes sense. But you hear a shroud a term, like, what does that even mean? It could be like a dutchev. Shroud literally is that.
2:19.5	You just said the thing that a shroud is. Right. But Torin, like, anyway, we'll get into all of it. It's going to be great. But before we do, first we have Avey Maria Mutual Funds. First off, I really appreciate our sponsors. they make the show possible.
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