And we're live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom and Erica today. We have a great show prepared for you. The Loopcast is brought to you by The Loop Every American Catholic's Favorite Morning Newsletter. It is. So happy to be joined by Erica off the off of a great deep episode. Oh my gosh. Climate Alignism. So fun. Yeah. If you didn't catch that one yet, we just dropped out last night at four o'clock my time. And it's, that was a really fun one. One of my favorite things to riff off of are is electric vehicles and socky straws. And I got to do it full force. Bill Gates joined me to give his support. And it was, I can I can tell by how quickly you wrote that script. I was like, this is a lot of time for a while. Like, I'm done, Tom. Can you review it? Yeah. So, quick overview of today's show, up top, seditious behavior. And listen. We got some. We got some of that. My plan for today's show, it's like really hard to go through the news and not feel like a crazy person. I'm going to try my best to do it with a smile in my face. So seditious behavior, we now have the, you know, the true thing of Donald Trump, threatening democratic lawmakers. Also in the seditious behavior front, we have secret meetings with Mike Huckabee and Jonathan Pollard that got revealed in New York Times. So I dug into the Pollard story. Not great. And then I think we're doing a little Twilight Zone up top. We had a Somali autism scam scheme to send money back to terrorist organizations. It's all crazy. Again, kind of crazy. It feels like being a crazy person going through the news. We're going to do that. Second section, we actually had prepared last show. We're going to do it today. Public school enrollment is down. And a lot of people are debating the reasons as to why that is. Is it legal immigration? Is it school choice? What is it? And Erica, you know, specialist in that category. So I'm going to, looking forward to hearing more about the reasons behind that. And then AI toys. So yeah, I'm just going to say up top, the least surprising, the least surprising article I read

this morning, AI toys, scandal dropped there.

My thought, go Montessori.

Everyone just give them two blocks of wood.

They'll be fine.

But AI toys.

And then I actually dug a little bit more into the AI regulatory

structure. President Trump hot off the heels of a meeting in Saudi Arabia with Elon Musk,

who said that you will own, there won't be money in five years. He is the one lobbying for the

current attempt at. You own nothing and you will be happy? Is that what you said? Yes.

It's a new... It's kind of like the new hot way to say that is with AI, but there's some really interesting regulatory fights going on and who has the rights to regulate. Clearly with the toys story, I'm going to talk about. It's kind of time to regulate, I think. So, Twilight Zone, good news. and the conspiracy heads are going to say,

you know, Josh and I were going at it a little bit last episode,

and I were going at it a little bit last episode and I kicked him off the show.

That is now what happened.

Josh is taking care of his family.

And two things on the housekeeping front.

Someone made a great suggestion for me to put the daily prayer in the description on YouTube, which is insane that I didn't think to do that before.

Thank you for that very obvious thing. It's not just going to be in the chat. Now it's going to be

in the episode description everywhere because I think the best way out of this is to pray. So that's

the first thing. And then I do miss Josh. I want to assure you we have a lot of mutual respect

for each other. Some people really like when we argue. Some people miss Josh. I want to assure you we have a lot of mutual respect for each other.

Some people really like when we argue.

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