I'm alive. Welcome back to the loopcast. It's a special edition. The loopcast is brought to you by Catholic

Vote, but it is actually now brought to you by Zeal as well. We are joined here by Kelsey

Ryanhart, President of Catholic Vote, President and CEO of Catholic Vote and visionary,

early visionary for Zeal. Excited to have you. We have Josh and Erica, too. This is the big announcement. We have,

I mean, so much to talk about here, but the biggest is that we've launched this platform,

this media platform called Zeal and Kelsey, a lot of work on your end. How are you feeling

today on launch day? I'm just thrilled. Thrill, Tom. It's a great day bringing this out to the public. That's awesome. Josh,

even wore his orange. He's looking very festive. I did. We've got to break out the orange for

zeal. I love it. So here's the deal. Even have the orange loop mug. Yeah, we do. Yeah, Kelsey,

you got one on you? Oh, she's not even out. Mouting bottle, yeah. That is exclusive. So here's the deal. You know, not a huge schedule here. I guess we scheduled the loopcast pretty tight, although we go over every time. But what I'm especially excited about this session is, I mean, these are people, everyone here that's in the loopcast, especially those with us live, are kind of like our people. You know, I know that you're going out and you're pitching zeal to a lot of people that may never have heard of Catholic vote, may never have heard of the loopcast, you know, haven't had to listen to Josh. But these are people that have been with us, some of them three times a week, excited about our mission, excited about what we do. And so in some ways, I'm most excited for these people to experience it, you know, our people in a way because they're already so deep. And I think that Zeal really expands on a lot of the things that they already really like. So we open this up to, you know, a broad Q&A about what is Zeal?

But I guess, I mean, Kelsey, no one better than to start with you.

You know, what was the story and the inspiration behind Zeal?

And what is it?

What are you excited to bring to everyone?

Yeah.

Well, I really am thrilled to announce this. And I'll bring in Josh as some of this, too, because he and he and Brian Birch had this

great idea together to really bring the best of what the loop and the loopcast and the CV media

ecosystem brought to the original audience to an even bigger audience. And what they understood back when they founded the loop was that Catholics needed a place

for reliable media.

There was so much bias.

There was so much happening that was propagandized.

And people just needed a reliable source, not just for Catholic news, but for political news. And so

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