"Revolution": Pope Leo XIV reveals why he chose his name, His Brothers Are Hilarious, And SNL Was Actually Funny
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The crew breaks down Pope Leo XIV’s first speech to the cardinals, where he explains his name choice and sets a fiery agenda for tackling the “new revolution” of AI—focusing on human dignity, justice, and the common good. Josh shares his firsthand experience at the Pope’s audience with journalists (yes, there were jokes!), while we unpack Leo’s Mother’s Day homily, his call for peace during the Regina Caeli, and his brother’s wild MAGA antics on Newsmax.. Good news? Erika’s basically Pope Leo’s mom, and Josh celebrates the EPA nixing that annoying car shutdown feature and… does the Pope have to pay taxes?
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom, Erica, and Rome, Josh. We got a great show plan for you guys today. A lot of things happening in terms of the papacy and also here in the United States. Busy weekend for the Trump administration. We're going to cover it all. But before we get into that, Josh, people want to know, did you go to McDonald's again? |
| 0:19.8 | I did. You know,'s again? I did. |
| 0:23.5 | You know, I got to tell you. |
| 0:28.2 | I've been here for about 20 meals and only two of them been McDonald's, |
| 0:31.4 | but I had to try the fries because I did breakfast. |
| 0:32.6 | I had to try the fries. |
| 0:34.5 | And Tom, they do hit different. |
| 0:37.5 | I think they used to beef tallow or something. |
| 0:38.3 | The beef towel. They did taste better, dude. |
| 0:40.7 | And you don't even had, they had McPops. |
| 0:45.1 | What's McPops? |
| 0:46.4 | Now, you'd think pop because we have a Chicago Pope means, you know, the cola. |
| 0:50.5 | But no, no, no. |
| 0:51.3 | These, like, donuts, they're a little bit bigger than donut holes and you know pop |
| 0:55.5 | you just pop in your mouth okay and uh i made it they were good if i ordered a couple a couple |
| 1:03.3 | make pops to go with my uh chicken sandwich yeah fries man they were good and the ketchup taste |
| 1:09.4 | better all the ingredients is very Are you going to come back? |
| 1:14.8 | There's, my wife would kill me if I didn't. |
| 1:18.0 | I can't lose Josh in Rome here. I said, the people are clamoring for a loopcast after dark to get our, our real insider conversations. |
| 1:25.8 | I was talking before the show today about how adorable Josh has been overseas. |
| 1:30.6 | I mean, posting dad selfies, making dad jokes. |
| 1:34.4 | The words adorable and cute were used. |
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