Minneapolis ICE Shooting: Facts And Fallout, Pope Leo RIPS Surrogacy, And New Food Pyramid
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
What really happened in the fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting? We break down the verified facts, the competing narratives, and the growing political fallout as protests spread across the nation. Meanwhile, Pope Leo delivers one of his strongest condemnations yet of surrogacy. And finally, the federal government unveils a new food pyramid that could reshape school lunches, SNAP benefits, and public health policy. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
03:37 Minneapolis ICE Shooting
34:29 Trump’s Move for Single-Family Homes
45:34 New Food Pyramid
55:45 Good News
01:07:27 Twilight Zone
01:18:35 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back on the show. Happy Friday. The Loopcast is brought to you by the loop every |
| 0:05.0 | Catholic, every Catholic American's favorite morning newsletter. It's Tom Eric and Josh. We got a great Friday show prepared for you. |
| 0:11.2 | We have a kind of out of this really sad tragedy, I think it's the only way to put it in Minneapolis. |
| 0:18.5 | It's kind of a Rosarch test. And I think at this point, Rochak? Rochak? |
| 0:23.6 | I mean, come on. Look at that spelling. I think I've always just called it Rosark and Ben wrong. |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah. Yes, you have. So maybe that. Maybe it's kind of meta because you look at the word and then you take your own |
| 0:34.6 | interpretation on the spelling. Anyway, I'm not here to talk about that. People are watching the same thing and taking something completely different. And this has been kind of unfortunately a common theme. And so at this point, you know, we're not going to go. The video is really hard to watch. Trump himself said hard to watch. We're not going to go break down all the angles, that kind of thing. We're going to just talk about what happened, who the victim was, |
| 0:54.8 | a lot of the political fallout. So we heard from a lot of different political leaders on this. And then we're starting to see some activity kind of go across the country at this point. We also had a situation in Portland with DHS. I think that is not going to have the legs that this story has for a couple of reasons I'm going to bring up here. So we're going to cover that up top. Second thing we're going to be covering today is Trump, the administration, doing some pretty |
| 1:14.9 | obvious things, banning institutional investors from home buying, which I think is long overdue, |
| 1:21.5 | an interesting political play. |
| 1:23.2 | We also have the food pyramid flipped. |
| 1:24.9 | Who would have thought? |
| 1:26.2 | All the Maha Moms went crazy. Maha Mams getting two victories in two weeks. Seriously. So, yeah, we're going to talk about that. Pope Leo had a great address to diplomats. Got some great clips out of that. Very strong words. I know some surrogacy abortion. Oh, yeah. Was with Brian kind of speech writing there a little bit? |
| 1:46.1 | I know, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:48.2 | He's not going to throw that off. |
| 2:01.6 | Get him in trouble. He's not taking credit for that. Yeah, no, no, no. Someone's going to clip that. No, I have no insider knowledge. I'm an idiot. And then we have good news, Twilight Zone. It's going to be a great Friday show, you know, some heavy stuff today, but we're going to try our best to get through it, keep a light, and keep you guys informed. |
| 2:19.2 | But up top, if you want to help us out, go ahead and subscribe on YouTube. Erica just put out a great edition of the deep about why suddenly college students can't do math anymore. And it is a banger. It's a banger. We had that one in the 10th for a while. The video, so it can be like... Actually, in the thumbnail, there is a math problem for you to try. For all the math heads out there, if you could solve that, you were at the college level, according to new math standards. I got to tell you, when it came to math, I loved it as a kid, all the way up to about 10th, 11th grade. And then they're like, let's do cosines and tangents. I'm like, peace. I'm out. Come on, man. You're pretty obtuse. Stick to my long. |
| 2:36.5 | Oh, peace. I'm out. Come on, man. |
| 2:34.5 | You're pretty obtuse. Stick to my long. That was funny. Fun, fun, pogastic lore. My dad and my grandpa were both math teachers. My dad taught for 30 years. Nice. In order for me to get an Easter basket, I had to solve a grade appropriateappropriate math problem to get a clue that would |
| 2:51.5 | lead me to another grade-appropriate math problem to then give me a clue to lead me to my |
| 2:55.7 | Easter basket hidden somewhere in the home. I'm not exaggerating. I was doing calculus problems |
| 2:59.6 | in high school. That is awesome. Math was around. |
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