Trump Hosts Zelenskyy: Negotiations Explained, Meta's Chatbot Scandal, And MSNBC is Cooked
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Erika, Josh, and Tom are back to discuss the most recent motions for peace in the Ukraine. Artificial Intelligence may be a real threat for the purity of our children, Costco caves to good peer pressure, and Erika thinks we should build on federal land. Finally, is “never growing up” becoming too literal at Disney? All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 – Welcome back to the LOOPcast!
01:27 – Inspire Advisors
03:34 – Trump and Putin
19:05 – Trump and Zelensky
24:58 – AI Targets Kids
33:53 – Kids Online Safety Act
35:00 – Good News!
49:35 – Selling Federal Land?!
01:00:35 – Twilight Zone
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to Loopcast. Brought you by the Loop. Every American Catholic's favorite morning newsletter. You might have heard her there. Erica is back. The show had a lot of testosterone this past week. And we brought back back the queen. |
| 0:11.4 | High key levels. |
| 0:00.6 | Queen Erica. |
| 0:01.3 | So the whole gang is back together. |
| 0:03.0 | It's going to be a fantastic show. |
| 0:04.4 | We're going to be covering a bit of a wrap up over the weekend from Trump's meeting with Putin all the way to the Oval Office do-over this morning, I believe, is going on. |
| 0:08.4 | Slensky is in the house. We have some people from the EU. So we're just going to get full coverage on what's going on there. Second one, I tease this last show, I believe, with the chatbots. The chat bots are out of control. And there's some internal documentation at Facebook meta, not thrilling, involving children. So we're going to talk about that. Erica's going to make the case to sell off our beautiful federal land for housing. And we're going to, I actually don't know what Josh is going to say about that. We don't know what Josh thinks, but we'll find out. You never quite know. But Erica, you got back from vacation. You went somewhere really beautiful. |
| 0:12.9 | Yeah. How are you feeling? How was it? I feel great. I feel rejuvenated. I was off the grid. I did not read a |
| 0:55.9 | single headline until Sunday afternoon yesterday. And yeah, so, so awesome. Thank you guys for holding |
| 1:01.5 | down the fort. And yeah, but I'm happy to be back. I feel |
| 1:09.0 | to go. It's going to be awesome. How do you feel, Josh? We're happy to have her back. |
| 1:12.6 | Thanks, Josh. That's very cute. But before we get into that, the reason we can do the show today, |
| 1:18.9 | thank you to Inspire Advisors. What's going on, Erica? |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah, we have the Cunningham team at Inspire Advisors. Do you realize that your family's investment portfolio can be a powerful weapon to help restore Christian values in today's culture? |
| 1:30.6 | Do you know that you can invest well and not offend God, which we are all aiming for? |
| 1:38.7 | The Cunningham team at Inspire Advisors can build you a quality portfolio that aligns with solid Catholic beliefs, |
| 1:45.3 | shunning abortion, pornography, and the like. The Cunningham's build custom, |
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| 1:56.1 | Venerable Bishop Fulton Sheen, friend of the show, said, |
| 2:04.0 | I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference than he did from the crucifixion. |
| 2:07.4 | That's intense. |
| 2:13.5 | So do something virtuous for your family, faith and country. |
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