Trump Slaps 104% Tariff on China, SCOTUS Weighs In On Deportations, and Dire Wolves "Unextinct?"
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4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
China refuses to comply with the US tariffs, and Trump claps back HARD. SCOTUS releases some important decisions and we bring some good news to the podcast! Massive wolves 10,000 years extinct are… unextinct? Mississippi kids can read and Sean Duffy wants to bring Jesus out of the basement. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Welcome back to the LOOPcast!
1:10 – Charity Mobile
2:12 – University of Dallas
4:36 – Chinese Tariffs
21:26 – SCOTUS decisions
31:25 – Good News!
38:53 – Dire Wolves
46:22 – Refine! Literacy Rates
55:16 – Twilight Zone
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to Loopcast. Today, I'm joined by Erica and Fuzzy Josh. His hardware |
| 0:06.7 | connection got fried in the storms over there, but we're happy to have him today. We have |
| 0:11.1 | breaking news as of this morning, but plenty of stuff to get into. Erica, what are we getting into |
| 0:15.1 | this episode? Yep. So breaking news, China came back with 84% tariffs. We're going to dig into the latest on the trade |
| 0:21.7 | wars and the Liberation Day saga continues. We also had SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States, |
| 0:28.4 | weighing in on Trump executive orders and on the authority of lower courts to issue national injunctions. |
| 0:34.8 | We have a new segment. I'm really excited called Good News. Thank you to Tom Pagasic, |
| 0:39.4 | who's like, guys, we got to, you know, elevate the levels a little bit here. So we're going to give you |
| 0:44.7 | some great news. Everyone could use some good news. Right. And the best news of all, Pogo, is that we are |
| 0:50.4 | de-extincting animals. We are the dire wolf craze has bit the loopcast and we are here for it. |
| 0:56.8 | Listen, I'm going to come up top. |
| 0:58.2 | That is not a part of the good news. |
| 0:59.7 | Great show. |
| 1:00.2 | That's not what I can say good news. |
| 1:01.9 | It depends. |
| 1:02.6 | You're going to ruin the segment before it gets off the ground. |
| 1:04.6 | No, I'm not going to get the good news. |
| 1:06.4 | We'll talk about it. |
| 1:07.1 | But we'll talk about it. But we'll talk about it. But before we get into the episode, I have two partners I'm excited to share with you. Charity Mobile, of course, the OGs. Let's talk about Charity Mobile. |
| 1:14.4 | The Pro-Life phone company, when you switch to Charity Mobile, 5% every monthly plan goes to the |
| 1:18.5 | pro-life, pro-family charity of your choice at no extra cost to you. Every day living, living made |
| 1:24.0 | effortless giving. It's time to make the switch. With the same nationwide coverage as |
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