Vance Speaks Up, DOGE Digs into the DOE, and Disney Bravely Hire Competence Instead of Color
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
JD Vance is making waves with his comments on free-speech. Jeremy Tate joins us to talk about the DOE what the next-steps are for education in America. Finally, is the NYTimes turning pro-life? And the Gulf of America may not be the only re-named body of water…All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 Welcome LOOPers!
00:50: Jeremy Tate intro
2:34: Holy Heroes (Mass Brick Set)
4:41: JD Vance criticizes war on free speech
25:45: What DOE was wasting your money on
35:35: Fixing the education system through classical learning
43:34: NYT investigative report into Planned Parenthood
48:31: Presidents’ Day trivia
52:44: Twilight Zone
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Loopcast. |
| 0:07.4 | We are joined today as we continue the Papa Pogo paternity tour by the inimitable |
| 0:14.0 | Jeremy Tate, and I'll introduce him more at length in a minute. |
| 0:17.4 | Yes, Pogo has instructed me to tell everyone in the chat that his wife gave birth to a very |
| 0:22.2 | healthy baby girl and they are all very happy. And thank you for all the prayers. He's very moved |
| 0:26.7 | by the messages. He's received. So congrats again to Pogo and all the little Pogo's. And welcome. |
| 0:33.5 | Here we are. We have so much to talk about today because it turns out Europe isn't doing so well. |
| 0:39.4 | J.D. Vance might have hurt some feelings. He might have caused some tears over the weekend with his harsh words for the state of free speech in our good friends over the pond. |
| 0:49.8 | Jeremy, you are over the pond today, joining us from the Great City of London, right? |
| 0:55.9 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:56.8 | Hopefully nothing we say in this conversation. |
| 0:59.2 | We get tested by the British police here, but we'll try to keep it. |
| 1:03.4 | I told Jeremy, before we went live, our goal was to get him arrested today. |
| 1:07.1 | And we're on that later. |
| 1:10.2 | But, Jeremy, tell the viewers a little bit about yourself, |
| 1:13.6 | what it is you do here for education in our great country and what you're doing in London. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, absolutely. Erica, Josh, thrilled to be back. A big fan of the loop. It's an honor to be here |
| 1:23.5 | with you. So I run an alternative to the SAT and ACT. It's called the classic learning test. |
| 1:29.0 | So we work closely with, I believe, some of the best Catholic colleges in the country, places like Ave Maria, of course, University of Dallas, Christianham College. |
| 1:38.1 | Students can take that as an alternative to the SAT and ACT, but really something we started out of a conviction that the college board |
| 1:44.8 | is it has a toxic influence on American education. The college entrance exam has unique power |
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