And we're live. Welcome back to Loopcast. It's Tom Erica and Josh. The Loopcast brought to you by the Loop. Every American Catholic's favorite morning newsletter. Happy to be joining you guys this morning. We have a great show. Starting up top, we have a pretty big U-turn on the Epstein files. Again, may I add from President Trump and this looming House vote coming up. And Josh, I want to hear a little bit about that kind of inside

political baseball of whipping, getting the house to do what you want,

getting the Senate to do what you want.

So looking forward to hearing that.

Secondly, we have the USCB put out a statement on immigration.

It was the first statement, I believe, since the 2000s from their collective group.

And we got a quick response from Tom Holman, who's also Catholic. And we ourselves here actually wrote a report. I believe it's immigration enforcement and the Christian conscience. Lots of good stuff to dig in there. We're going to go over all of that. They read this the video, too, though, the bishops, not just a statement. Yes, yeah. I got the video. Don't worry. We will be watching. And then finally, we have some interesting polling from Gallup on U.S. adults' religiosity. Someone contradicts a little bit of what maybe you've been feeling anecdotally as a Catholic going around. We have a lot of encouraging news about conversions, et cetera. So I had Erica go through that for us. And of course, we got good news. We got Twilight Zone. You know how we do it here.

So got a great conversions, et cetera. So I had Erica go through that for us. And of course, we got good news.

We got Twilight Zone. You know how we do it here. So got a great show. I say we get into it. Josh, did you have anything you'd like to get into before? Well, really, really quick. The worker,

Daniela, happy birthday. She's, oh, yeah, she's the best. Happy birthday, Daniela.

She is like a total ambassador for joy everywhere she goes. Greatest smile ever. And she

worked so hard to do to help everyone else here at the Catholic Foot team. So Danielle,

well, she had a good birthday. Well deserved. She's probably, yeah, future saint. If I had to, like,

you know, if I had to do betting odds, Daniel's up there for sure. Well, we don't, we don't really like

and support gambling here so much. But between Kelsey and Daniela, it would be tough. Yeah, I did some digging into props betting this weekend. Not good. Oh, prop betting? No, that's the easiest. We were watching the NFL and I'm like, what is prop betting? And so I was like scrolling while they're all watching. Two things. It'd be the easiest way to solve like integrity issues in the sport because I guess the Cleveland Guardians pitcher got popped on it too, but you bet on individual performances giving huge incentive to rig stuff. It'd be very easy to do so. If you miss a shot, you miss a pitch, et cetera. And then the second thing is that will never happen because gambling companies make the most money off of prop bets because you can stack them as parlayes and they have like the lowest percentage of actually hitting. So it'll never happen. But that would be my quick solution like, hey, just get rid of prop bets. It would be easy, be fast. And also let's do something about the refs. That past interference call was terrible.

Okay, going on, you look, lines didn't deserve to win.

All right, we're not going to get into this.

Okay. I distracted you, sorry. All right, all right, all right. Here we go. All right, Epstein, it is. Yeah, we have a pretty big U-turn. And don't worry, I have the full history here. for those following, this has just become the Achilles heel, it feels like, of the Trump administration,

um, ran on promising to, to release.

And, for those following, this has just become the Achilles heel, it feels like, of the Trump administration ran on promising to release. And let me just start up by what is the

Epstein files at this point? Like, what does that actually physically mean? Obviously, Jeffrey

Epstein, a well-known sex trafficker, a highly influential, very strange rise in terms of how he attained his money, his financier status. He was teaching

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