“No One Is Above The Law:” Judge Arrested For Housing Illegal Gang Member, Pope Francis’ Funeral, and Christopher Columbus is Back
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
No one is above the law… except judges hiding dangerous criminals! They don’t count. We talk Pope Francis’ funeral, old traditions, personal preferences, and a high profile meeting on St. Peter’s front porch. Columbus is back, Canada is voting, and the boyz weigh in on the Pope draft. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Welcome back to the LOOPcast!
1:07 – University of Dallas
2:03 – Judges Arrested
26:27 – Pope Francis’ Funeral
32:40 – Trump and Zelensky
36:01 – Good News!
50:02 – Twilight Zone
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. |
| 0:01.1 | Welcome back to the Loopcast. |
| 0:02.0 | It's Tom Erica and Josh. |
| 0:03.1 | We have a great show prepared for you today. |
| 0:04.9 | And I'm going to start up up top with something that definitely did not receive enough coverage last Friday. |
| 0:09.3 | We had two judges arrested by the Trump administration. |
| 0:12.5 | And I don't think people dug into it nearly far enough. |
| 0:16.5 | We're going to go over all the details. |
| 0:17.8 | And it just gets crazier and crazy that dig into it. |
| 0:21.6 | But other than that, we got some other topics going on. Erica, what else are we covering today? |
| 0:25.5 | Yeah, so of course, Pope Francis was laid to rest in St. Mary Major. We're going to go over the funeral, |
| 0:31.0 | who was there, what was done, little Catholic insider look at the funeral rights. But also, |
| 0:39.7 | it's the world historical event. We had a lot of interesting photo ops between, well, one Trump and one Vladimir Zelensky. So we're going to |
| 0:45.0 | get into that a little bit. And then Christopher Columbus. We got some good news about Columbus, |
| 0:50.7 | but we will drop that later in the show. Yep. I figure we had some Columbus heads on here. |
| 0:55.2 | But welcome to everyone joining us here live in the chat, 11 a.m. Eastern, Monday, Wednesday, |
| 0:58.6 | Friday. Good morning, guys. And before we get into that, we have to thank the sponsor of today's |
| 1:03.0 | episode. And I was actually perusing through the commencement speakers for these schools. University of |
| 1:07.4 | Dallas has a great one we're going to get to. But in a world where people can often feel alone or like nothing really matters, the University of Dallas is different. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a place where students can build strong friendships, grow in their faith, and work hard |
| 1:17.6 | to learn important things, all while searching for truth, wisdom, and goodness. University of |
| 1:21.9 | Dallas alumnus, Brian Birch, is responding to this quest in an extraordinary way. Donald Trump |
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