Minneapolis Erupts: Another ICE Shooting, Protests, And National Divide

Welcome back to LOOPcast. It's Tom, Erika, and Josh. LOOPcast is brought to you by The Loop, every Catholic American's favorite morning newsletter. I hope you guys are staying warm. A lot of cold chatter in the chat today. I'm just going to say all my office mates are soft. I am here. All right. It's zero degrees. I am here. Got a bunch of snow. And I tried to get the mask in the morning, but the plows didn't come, and so the neighbor's kid had a hilarious display of me trying to back out of my driveway into the unplowed snow, and I don't have four-wheel drive, so I just spun out for like 20 minutes trying to go with my entire family in the car, and then had to embarrassingly dig myself out and then try to drive back into my driveway and then into the garage.

And then we had to go to a later mass. So, we still made it. That's good for you. Still made it, but a lot of shoveling and embarrassment. I'm sure you get it. I think we got probably a foot, probably over a foot, I think. It was a decent amount. Yeah, we were 15 to 18. 15 to 18 inches here.

And then, yeah, the football game was crazy, too. The Denver game was like no snow. Oh, my gosh. Don't ruin my game. All right, all right, all right. We'll keep it going. So, hey, listen, listen. No, wait, wait, wait. I want to hear Petoskey's numbers. Oh, gosh. Yeah, what do you got, Josh? Well, it was negative, whatever, seven degrees or something like that. But, like, the snow, I don't know. We got, like, five, six inches. That's like a Tuesday for us.

Well, all these Subaru drivers are just laughing at me right now, you know? And no four-wheel drive, no all-wheel drive, couldn't get anywhere. But, all that being said... You know, I guess no other way to say it, just really tragic what happened in Minnesota, and it's hard. I keep having to watch these videos of people losing their lives. So, I'd just like to pray for the repose of the soul of Alex Preddy. Really tragic. I want to get into the circumstances as we best understand them.

Now, again, there's kind of an official account of this, and then there's a lot of videos coming out, and there's been no formal investigation as of now. It's going to continue. That we know of, so I don't want to, I guess part of the problem here is that we get these snap judgments, and then people need to take sides and travel, whatever. I'm going to do my best to try to break down exactly.

What we know at this point, to the best of my ability, and then I want to get into a little bit of the broader conversation about immigration enforcement in general, the politics behind it, CBP and movement there. I had Erika look into a little bit deeper of some of the aftermath, a lot of the protests and rioting with the National Guard, Insurrection Act, potentially.

Anyway, all that being said, yeah, I kind of come to this with a heavy heart, as I say most Americans, you know, an American lost their life. It is really tragic. So, I am going to do my best there, and then we have good news, and we have Twilight Zone. We will bring it up, but I am going to do my best. So, again, if you guys want, this is kind of the same thing with the Rene Good. If you want to watch the video, and there is a lot of different angles coming out.

You can watch the video. I've had to watch it a bunch of times. It's really hard to watch, but I'm going to do my best to describe based on eyewitness affidavits, verified videos, forensic audio analysis, investigative reports, and then I'm going to give the official DHS response to what happened. So, this is at 9.05 a.m. Central Standard Time. It's the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street in Minneapolis.

Border Patrol agents, as a part of Operation Metro Surge, arrive in unmarked vehicles to detain an illegal immigrant near a donut shop. Witnesses report that the agents were attempting to enter the donut shop but were denied by the owner, leading to heightened aggression. A small crowd gathers around, including bystanders filming. Preddy was a local resident and ICU nurse. He's nearby, initially directing traffic to keep the area clear and filming with his phone. He is legally carrying a Sig Sauer P320 handgun in a waistband holster and two extra magazines under his Minnesota permit to carry.

Yes, go ahead. Yes, he is legally permitted to carry a gun, but I believe he did not have his identification with him, which is a requirement to conceal. Yeah. I just wanted to add that. I think that's like a small, at least in Minnesota, there's like a small fine associated with that. I mean, he is registered, so even if he didn't have it on him. I understand. I understand.

And I also see, I'm frustrated again with the administration of like, you can't bring a concealed carry handgun to a protest. Yes, you can. That's your Second Amendment right to do so. That being said, you're taught as a part of concealed carry classes that if you do enter into a confrontation of some kind, it is now treated as there is a handgun on someone. So, you have to be, of course, extra careful and consider that in your mind when you do concealed carry.

That's why you go through classes, you think of these things. So, really unfortunate, but it is your Second Amendment right to do so, and anyone from the administration saying that is not the case. It's just wrong. They're just flat out wrong. I agree with that. Okay. The initial escalation, agents push a woman, a bystander, or protester that hasn't come out yet, to the ground during an arrest attempt. She appears distressed, possibly from pepper spray or the fall. Preddy approaches to assist her, placing his arm around her shoulders and offering aid.

Videos show his right hand holding a cell phone recording and a left hand empty, and they say raised non-threatening in the description. Agents confront Preddy to playing. Pepper spray directly to his face. He recoils, but does not fight back initially. Approximately five to six agents then tackle him, forcing him to his knees, and then fully to the ground in what they call a scrum. And then we get the disarming and initial shot. An agent in a gray coat reaches to Preddy's right hip and removes a holstered handgun, walking away with it.

Agents shout, gun, gun, around this time. Almost immediately after, another agent standing over Preddy's back draws his service weapon and fires the first shot, possibly into Preddy's knee. ...or lower body while he's pinned. Forensic audio from ABC News confirms an initial shot following by a brief delay, then a rapid volley. Some analyses speculate that the first shot could be an accidental discharge from Preddy's confiscated P-320. It's a model known for occasional unintended firings, but this remains unconfirmed. I've actually seen a lot of analysis on this.

There's actually ongoing litigation because these P-320s, they actually go off accidentally by themselves, and not a good thing. But I have, because the timing of everything is very odd. You do hear gun, gun in a lot of the videos, but it is very possible that it actually kind of puts a lot of pieces together if this could have gone off by being removed and then dropped, and then going off, and then, you know, someone hears that and starts shooting. And then, finally, the same agent fires three more rounds rapidly and it pretties back and upper body.

I believe some estimate of totaling 10 shots in under five seconds. Um, no pulse was detected shortly after. Pretty is pronounced dead at the scene. Um, so. Really tragic. Directly after we get quite a bit of protest, rioting, they had to quell riot. I think they said that one of the agents had a finger bitten off, so it just really went haywire after that, of course.

And it was all 9.05, I'm saying, in the morning, broad daylight, a lot of people recording, middle of the city. Clearly, there was not enough CBP agents, ICE agents, to actually handle the crowds that came from there. Maybe, again, one of my critiques here, but that is the account as we understand it. I will show the DHS account to try to cover all sides here.

And then, of course, we got weigh-ins from Trump and Kristi Noem and Tim Walz and all that coming too, but here's the DHS account. 905 AMCT, DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against a legal alien wanted for violent assault. An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol agents with a nine-millimeter semi-automatic handgun seen here. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect, but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots.

Medics on the scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject, but was pronounced dead on the scene. The suspect also had two magazines and no ID. This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene. Crowd control measures were deployed for the safety. Of the public and law enforcement, the situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.

Here is a picture of the gun and the magazines. Another interesting thing that I saw was that the person who fired the shots was actually an eight-year veteran of CBP. So, there is a lot of speculation about how fast and rapidly they are training ICE officers, because there has been a lot of money allocated in the budget, and they are really focusing on mass deportations.

This guy clearly had been on the job for a long time, had a lot of experience. So, I don't think, in this case, that is one of those instances. But anyway, I just had that in there. So, that is the DHS account, and Kristi Noem gave a press conference after, and I will play the press conference clip. I think it is important context.

Individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots.

Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had two magazines with ammunition in them that held dozens of rounds. He also had no ID. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.

About hundreds of protesters then showed up at the scene. They began to obstruct and to assault law enforcement officers. We saw objects being thrown at them, including ice and other objects, and a rampant assault began, and even an HSI officer agent's finger was bitten off. Crowd control measures were deployed to bring safety to the public and to law enforcement at the scene, and once again, I want to remind everybody that this situation and this tragedy did not have to happen. Our law enforcement are doing everything that they can to protect the public.

We're praying for this deceased loved one's family and friends, but we also recognize that the Minnesota governor and the Minneapolis mayor need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. They need to evaluate their rhetoric, their conversations, and their encouragement of such violence against our citizens and our law enforcement officers. I'll remind you that Governor Walz today, in his press conference, said that our officers were not even law enforcement, which is a lie. He's called them the Gestapo. He's encouraged residents and citizens and violent rioters to resist.

He's doxed their identities, putting themselves and their families' lives in jeopardy. He's refused to turn over murders to federal law enforcement officers. He's protected illegal criminals and protected them from being brought to justice. And even overseeing a historic, unprecedented theft of American taxpayer dollars.

Tens of billions of dollars were stolen under his watch, and he allowed it to happen, and in some instances may have even facilitated it. Well, and Tim Walz would love nothing better than for everyone to just completely forget about the fraud right now and focus on the violence in Minneapolis. But two things, two observations about what Kristi Noem said and also the DHS statement. I think two things can be true. One, watching the video, as I did multiple times this morning, and then comparing the way she describes what happened there, there's clearly something that doesn't match, and that is, it does not appear to me that he was Brandishing his gun, intending to, quote, massacre enforcement officials.

That just does not seem, that seems so far from what my own eyes tell me. No evidence for the claim. Yeah, and that unfortunately. Or lack of evidence. Exactly, and what that does is it then calls into question everything she says after that characterization.

And so it is manifestly, and we said this with Renee Good as well, it is manifestly unhelpful to any kind of law, order, justice. ...enforcement of the rule of law for Kristi Noem to keep coming out and characterizing situations that all of us can go back and watch for ourselves in a way that doesn't match the tape. The other thing that can be true, however, is that the death of this man, and we can analyze, like, okay, and hopefully there will be a thorough investigation, although I have a question about that, too, and analyze what the officer was thinking, what the men saw who were discharging their guns, what was going on in Pet.

Obviously, we can investigate all of that. At the same time, this is absolutely a direct consequence of the rhetoric that's been used on the left, and most importantly, by officials like Governor Tim Walz. And Mayor Fry. And we had just the most recent instance right after the Rene Good shooting. On January 19th, Governor Walz again said that ICE was the Gestapo. And the American public has, for better or for worse, for the last 80 years, what has been the dominant narrative from Hollywood and from the books that we read in school about what you do with the Gestapo and the Nazis.

Not only peaceful resistance. But when it's a Nazi in front of you, you lay your life on the line, and it's a violent resistance, right? Like, we're brought up on the uprising. We're brought up on the resistance in France. These are the heroes of our childhood. So, when you then have this ongoing rhetoric from public officials that the Nazis are at the door, Trump is Hitler, and these are his Gestapo agents, what do you think is going to happen?

This is what's going to happen, and I don't think it's going to get better. I think we're going to see more like this in Minnesota, unfortunately. Well, it's not going to get better by capitulating to the mob, but the fact is, Kristi Noem, like you just said, Erika, was making...

conclusions that do not seem to be at all supported by the evidence. Like, you know, this seemed, again, like a tragic event, of course. I don't think any of it's like important, like two things to be true at the same time. Boy, do we have to say that like almost all the time, right? Every episode. I mean, it's amazing. So like, so for example, in this instance, I do not think there's evidence to suggest that he was going there to shoot.

I don't find that. We can't know, but the video footage does not support that at all. That being said... He did push an agent, you know, and he was assisting someone that was in the process of being apprehended. So, he did reckless behavior, and I do believe, like you said, he was fueled by this animus towards federal law enforcement agents because of the harmful, reckless Political rhetoric of the Minneapolis mayor and Minnesota governor. I mean, it is just, you know, and again, Walt, after this, you know, incident, made reference to, there's another Anne Frank working on a diary.

Anne Frank, I couldn't believe. It's almost like hard to imagine that this came out of anyone's mouth, but yeah, it's a real quote from the press conference. We have got children in Minnesota. Hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is going to write that children's story about Minnesota.

And there's one person who can end this now. And it's you. It's you, buddy. It's you. You can end it right now. You are the man. Like, it's unbelievable that we have a state that thinks just like the Confederate South, that they just don't have to cooperate with federal law enforcement officials. The fact of the matter is, like, the comparison, I mean, that we even have to bother with explaining why this.

analogy is absolutely a farce and absurd. Anne Frank was a citizen of her country, and she was murdered by the state. The occupation. A genocide of all the people from Jews in Germany, whereas people who are here illegally were paying them money to leave.

I mean, the analogy is just absolutely insane. You have to say it, because I'm even seeing, I don't know what it is about Instagram, man, but a lot of- Instagram is dominated by a bunch of people who are going local right now. Right, but it's like, my observation, it's white women, not even necessarily liberal, certainly liberal, but maybe just kind of run-of-the-mill, you know, are just throwing out. There's reckless Nazi comparisons to what's going on right now, and it actually is almost crazy.

You have to explain to people, actually, this is not that, and it's actually really irresponsible to do so. Let me tell you, my mother. And three of her sisters, all born in Minnesota, of course, just like I was, they're just posting on social media all the time, and the rhetoric they use is off the charts, and condemning silence at every turn. Like, silence is a problem. Like, oh, really? Do you really want me to share on your Instagram page or Facebook page what I really think?

Because I don't feel like you actually want me to end my silence. Your silence is fine. In fact, I'm not ever really silent anyway, but the fact of the matter is, you only want people to speak up in support of your position. If you think. And it's like, okay, here's the deal. We can have talk. I mean, by the way, you saw this over the weekend, Chuck Schumer, the Senate.

The leader of the Senate Democrats saying, oh, we're going to shut down the government. We're not going to pass another government funding bill. I saw that, yeah. That has ICE in it, and you're like, Chucky, do you even realize what you're talking about here? Last summer, we passed that one beautiful big bill. That's got three years of funding for ICE. It's already done. You can't stop this. So, the fact is, if you think that changes need to be made, you can come to the floor of the Senate and ask Republicans.

Well, Josh, you know that's not what this is about, right? The thing is, if you think the tactics by ICE need to be modified or changed, we do have... We're a country of laws. Go before the Senate, have an investigation, have hearings, and say, this is what we want. Work together with both sides and say, this is how we should change things. If that's what you want, go ahead. It's a free country. We can do this, but we're not going to buckle to mob rule.

We cannot pull out, and in fact, I was very heartened to hear this morning. That President Trump has decided to bring Tom Holman to Minnesota, because frankly, you and Tom, well, none of us really care much for Kristi Noem.

I think she was reckless at that press conference. I think Tom Holman is a guy who is respected by actually both sides of the aisle. He got a presidential medal from Barack Obama, and he's been the bulldog for Donald Trump, because he's a veteran of this. He's been... Focus on border enforcement for 20 years. Yeah, I'm glad you bring that up, because there's a lot of kind of like behind-the-scenes internal reporting about a bit of a rift in CBP and in DHS, largely.

So, it's like people from CBP versus the people from ICE, and there was the approach that, like the Kristi Noem approach of making hype edits and doing these very, like, public, in-your-face targeted raids, and then there's the more behind, like, less heavy-handed, more targeted, less publicized And that, I believe, was the Holman camp. It was like, it was Holman versus Noam. And again, this is all internal reporting, so who knows? But it does feel like we, I had a coworker, we have a coworker here who's like, I don't know why they are.

Like, picking the cruelest possible stuff to post. It is not a winning message to the American people, and I actually think there is a lot of, let us hold two things at the same time. There is a lot of things you could be doing right now to enforce our immigration law. I actually am in big favor of going after employers. Employers that are employing illegal immigrants. I think that you can crack down using other government agencies, the IRS in particular, the Small Business Administration.

Like, there's soft measures that you can do to actually just cut off all the benefits you would have of coming here illegally and working, and punishing the people that perpetuate that system that actually takes the wages of Americans down, and allows you to take advantage of slave labor. I did some research into this, actually, because I was like, okay, well, how is the... Can I pause you really quick? Because I have to say this at the same time, and I think it's really important.

That being said... The situation we currently have in Minnesota, as Josh pointed out here, we are too entrenched. If they were to completely back down at this point, you have now created, you know, every blue state copycat of what the new playbook is going to be. You're going to get people on the streets, you're going to be honking, you're going to be interfering, and you cannot have that. You cannot have that as part of the country. I think we are beyond time, and Eric, I know you get a lot of this, for the Insurrection Act to be called for.

We need to send in the federal government, and we need to declare some form of martial law until things calm down completely, because the alternative right now is we're sending in not enough CBP agents, ICE agents, to actually do their job and protect themselves, because what's happening in Minnesota is the police force are actually told, do not help these people. Do not help them at all. Don't create perimeters. That's why we don't have these problems in red states, because in red states, They cooperate, they create perimeters, they allow them to do their jobs.

Right. You are actually instructed, and that is why they are being served by the FBI, to not help them at all, and actually make their jobs much harder, and if it is proven in court, it would be illegal for them to systemically work together to thwart the federal government.

That's number one. The second is the National Guard has been deployed, quote-unquote, by Tim Walz in Minnesota, and they're handing out donuts and stuff to protesters, again, wearing green vests, not helping at all. And so, you have this untenable situation where, if ICE were to do their job as they're doing now, you have protesters and mobs and riots, and there's all kinds of unnatural support from behind the scenes. Like, if you think that it's just one side escalating here, it's not.

There's all kinds of, like, BLM-era protesters being paid to cause these kind of problems here. And so, what I'm advocating for, it's actually the most humane and safe to Americans and to law enforcement, Americans in general, for you to lawfully authorize the authority that we've vested in you as the voters, the majority of Americans, to go and create safety in that part of the country. It's actually the opposite. You're abdicating your duty to Americans by not doing it at this point.

It makes you look weak, and it's just causing more problems. We're going to see more of this. Until you actually solve it. I think back to the Rodney King riots. Like, it is actually in the interest for all Americans right now for you to go and actually create safety. So, I think two things could be done. I think you can change your strategy, but I absolutely do not think you can back down in any way, shape, or form right now. I agree 100%.

That is my, like, I have to say both, because I don't want to just make it seem like you can just walk away from this now. You're actually going to make it much worse in many cities across the country, and if our military is strong enough to snatch dictators and bomb Iran, I think that they might be. adequate to actually keep American cities safe for Americans. It's really frustrating to me. We spend so much time on foreign policy and Minneapolis is a war zone.

This is an American city. That's unacceptable as, as an American that's interested in law and order. And here, I mean, here, here's a clip from Tim Walz before I want to get to you, Erika, but I just want to make that crystal clear for people listening. Here's Tim Walz, uh, response as well, right after.

If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world's seeing. We believe in law and order in this state. We believe in peace. And we believe that Donald Trump needs to pull these 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill another person. And we're up here telling another story of a Minnesotan just trying to live their life without the interference.

Come to the table and solve it. He's so repugnant. He's so proud of Minnesota right now. Well, you said, Tom, like, you know, you mentioned that it would be nice to crack down on... Business owners who hire illegal immigrants. I 100% agree, because Archbishop Bernard had posted over on the Wall Street Journal, this is the time for comprehensive immigration reform. And to me, it's always like, why is it that comprehensive immigration reform always has to include a path to amnesty, a path to citizenship for those who enter the country illegally?

You know, it doesn't have to. Immigration reform, to be comprehensive, could do lots of things. For example, The $1,000 that the Trump administration has given to illegals to self-deport, hey, why don't we crank that up to $5,000? Sounds good. Seriously, give them an opportunity to get them and their family to get out of the country. What we could do then is also have E-Verify nationwide and make it have teeth. Oh my gosh, voter registration laws. We have 11 states where people don't have to register to vote.

Exactly. The CEOs who hire illegals, we put them in handcuffs, and then we also repeal the 1965 Immigration Act heart-seller. That is my vision for comprehensive immigration reform. That sounds comprehensive to me. I am here for that. You are starting to sound like an economic populist. Watch out. The fact is, I do want to say one thing that frustrates me. The reason they do not do it, by the way, is because all the richest people benefit off this illegal immigration, by the way.

Right, and they convince the left that they are fighting the man. You are working for the man by doing all these protests. You're underlining your own wages on this stuff. It's just the people that drive me crazy. It's the Paul Ryan era. Trump is a break from that. We're seeing how much of a break from that, but they loved illegal immigration. They argue for it in their think-take papers. This isn't a new strain of the Republican Party. Unfortunately, that is stock and barrel.

The last 30 years of conservatism is bringing as many as legals as possible because the GDP goes up. It's best for the GDP. It's like, well, I don't think the GDP always corresponds with the best quality of life. Well, the other thing I'd like to point out, too, though, is that I'm sick and tired of, like, we refer to the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota as a sanctuary city, and I find that absolutely, completely bogus and erroneous. It's like, who are you providing a sanctuary for?

You're providing a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, many of whom, not all of them, of course, but many of them are violent thugs. So, like, this idea of you're wrapping it in this beautiful word for sanctuary, like, no, actually, it's the citizens, the lawful citizens of these cities that are not protected by the wolves. And so, I hate this rhetoric of it's sanctuary city. They're rebellious cities, and we're seeing the rebellion in the streets of Minneapolis.

So, yes, this death is absolutely regrettable, but the fact is... You know, fomenting violence, what the governor of Minnesota is doing, is not the solution, and it's not a sanctuary city. Stop calling it that. It's a bunch of garbage.

Yeah, and I think it's the picking and choosing of the tragic deaths to highlight as well that, yes, Renee Good, tragedy, Petri here, tragedy. But what about the hundreds and hundreds of stories of people? Josh, you shared one last week on the show. It was just heartbreaking. The hundreds of people whose lives were taken either directly or indirectly because someone was here in this country who should not have been, who had multiple deportation orders, most famous, of course, being Lakin Riley.

Yeah. But she's only famous to one side of this debate. You go and you ask your mother, who's Lake and Riley, and she'll probably not be able to tell us, right? Because there is no reporting on the side of the American citizens, the children, who we failed to protect because we kept those borders open. And again, the insanity of the last four years. Yes, we had illegal immigration before Biden, but the insanity of those four years and the millions of people who came across that border.

I don't know. People keep saying, what did you think mass deportation was going to be, like white papers? Vibes, papers, essays. Well, and again, it's absolutely regrettable that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has decided on every occasion to escalate.

We've had, you know, the head of the bishops, Coakley, as well as the bishops on the ground in Minnesota, asking for both sides to bring down the rhetoric and to calm things down. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has decided to escalate it, and I think that's an absolutely incredible situation. Yes. So, Erika, I was curious, because people talk about this as engineered. I think J.D. Vance tweeted out, like, this is not common across the country. You know, why is this specific type of chaos engineered?

I mean, you saw, I think, was it a hotel was attacked that they thought ICE agents were staying at? I have some footage of that, but what do people mean when they hear, like, engineered? Like, how much is actually going on behind the scenes, or is this really, like, quote-unquote, an organic protest?

Uh-oh, did we lose Erika? Christy, no, I'm got her. Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, you know, I do feel that there is a concern here that, yes, it does appear to be a coordinated effort. You know, there's allegedly a signal group where lots of these activists are coordinating these attacks. You know, again, I'd love for...

If there's an investigation, we should have an investigation, of course, with the death of Rene Good and the death of this individual over on Sunday, this past weekend, but we also need to have an investigation into what's going on behind the scenes. Why is it that we're seeing such an organized effort? Who's funding all this stuff and this resistance? And I agree with you. I think we should have...

I do not think the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota is providing law and order, and we need the feds to come in and do the Insurrection Act and shut things down, because it is not safe for anybody right now.

Yeah. I guess the difference with Rodney King was that the governor actually requested it. So, I do not know if that is where the holdup is. I mean, they're just at odds. They're fighting right now, but... Well, I think Donald Trump's going to first, you know, like the reports were that Tom Holman was sidelined in favor of Kristi Noem over the last few weeks, and that has proven to be, I think, pretty... Yeah, devastating. ...regrettable. And so, by sending Tom Holman back to Minnesota, it appears now Donald Trump is putting Tom Holman right back in command, where he should have been from the start.

So, again, I would hope maybe, again, get Tom Holman on the ground, let him meet with officials, see where we stand, and he has earned President Trump's trust. He has earned the trust of a lot of people. I think he is better.

Welcome back, Erika. I'm back. Turns out the ice storm's not over here. I don't know how long I'll be here, but it's nice to be back. Yeah, it's good to have you back. Yeah, I was just getting into a little bit of the, like, inorganic nature of a lot of this.

Oh, gosh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, J.D. Vance, you probably mentioned, he already talked about the sort of the organized chaos that this is. I don't know how far you got, but... Not too much. Not too far. Go ahead. Yeah, there's this interesting analysis on Twitter this morning from a vet from Iraq, and yeah, take it for what you will, but he was sort of analyzing the nature of the anti-ice activities that we're seeing in Minneapolis and then beyond, right? So, we've seen protests in LA, New York, Boston, snowstorm dampened the enthusiasm, thank God, this weekend, but that it's really gone.

It's so far beyond the characterization of a grassroots upswelling of righteous indignation, and it really has the hallmarks of what he called early stage insurgency infrastructure. So, he was drawing on his experience as a counterinsurgency officer in Iraq, and he was identifying some of these patterns that we're seeing, and we saw this especially in the church riot, the protesters who went inside the church a weekend, a week ago.

We're talking about the sort of decentralized command and control, disciplined communications, think of the signal chats that we're seeing on the ground in different regions of the city, operational security, and then clear role delineation or specialization among the protesters.

And so, when Renee Good was shot, we got a lot of information about Ice Watch, which was the organization she belonged to. They actually have manuals. They have, once you join Icewatch, you are assigned a role, like you're either a whistleblower or you lead convoys in your car. You have these alerts that go out on these signal chat groups, which are geographically determined within the city, so that it's the most efficient use of, and I mean use, exploitation of these grassroots activists who come and they join, maybe out of goodwill, maybe they really think they're in Nazi Germany, and they're like, I just need to help.

But they're immediately funneled into this highly organized insurgency. And so, this is sort of like these urban cells that we're seeing around the country. And he talks about how communications are tightly controlled through vetting, timed deletions, and rotating chats to limit infiltration and forensic recovery. And it really even goes beyond digital coordination.

But the networks that are anti-ICE, they are relying on, like I said, exploiting these sympathetic civilians for logistical support and cover, along with physical coordination points that allow rapid escalation from just surveillance to actual obstruction or harassment. And the operational design, he said, seems to be to stay below the kinetic threshold, so they're applying constant pressure on law enforcement.

While avoiding actions that would trigger overwhelming federal response, so this kind of like slow drip and amping up of the pressures to cause maximal obstruction, while also avoiding like delaying the final kind of federal crackdown that we're talking about with Trump sending in the troops. So, it was a pretty interesting analysis, and I do think it's important to understand that it is not just...

This sort of upswelling of these people who just want to help their neighbors, but there's actually something much more organized and nefarious going on here, and it's why we see the response to events like this being so swift and so coordinated. We saw it with the pro-Hamas protesters, right? It's all part of this message. How do they get all of these beautifully printed signs and banners? And everyone has bottled water, and everyone has snacks. How does that happen so quickly? Well, it's because of organizations like this actually working behind the scenes.

Yeah. Part of the big promise, Trump administration, again, was to destroy left-wing terror networks, I believe, as they said it. So, I would like to see some movement or handcuffs on that. It's almost weird, though, that the governor accused of billion-dollar fraud suddenly is calling for... Yeah, what a bizarre situation there. So, for him to step down, this doesn't... This is like, this could basically make a political career, hear what's going on here and the stances he's taking, and he's stepping down.

So, it really adds, at least to me... He's deciding not to run for re-election. He's not running. Okay. That's different. Functionally stepping, like, you know, I guess because then he could run again some other time. If he stepped down today, that'd be great. Yeah, right. But okay, so he's not going to run again. But to me, like, this could, the amount of political capital he could get from this... I think this suggests that he's actually pretty complicit in the fraud, personally, because he's just trying to dip out, and then he sees that it's escalated to this, and it's kind of a lame duck situation where he has nothing to lose.

Like, he can just act however he wants, say whatever he wants, which is actually much more dangerous in some ways, because he doesn't have any accountability waiting for him for how he's acting now, and maybe that's why he's doing the Anne Frank comparisons or whatever. Oh, my God.

Gettysburg. But, yeah, what a bizarre situation. This whole thing is... Tim Walsh, the guy who loves China, and has been there 30 times. He's been to China a concerning amount of times. I think like 30 times. And then didn't he go to his honeymoon at Tiananmen Square or something like that? Did I get got on that one? Someone fact-checked that one. Crazy. I don't know about that, but he's been there like 30 times. He's crazy.

And I hate to even be this guy to do this, but... You do it, Tom. I'll do it. I think it's a good time, if we have this advice for elected leaders. Don't take the bait here and go online and people's Facebook, whatever, and say that he deserved it, or, you know, like, this is an American. This is someone that is now on their way to meet God, lost his life. To me, it's a tragedy. I would just resist making the same mistakes that we're criticizing, say, Kristi Noem or whoever, like, jumping too quickly.

I would like a really transparent, honest investigation, which, again, you question whether we're going to get it or not. I think that's important, but I guess I get frustrated, Juan, on both sides of this. You just immediately jump to, like, cheering for whoever, like, an American died. And it's the same thing with Renee Good, and I feel like in some ways she was even less sympathetic than this guy. I mean, he was a VA nurse, by all accounts, and, you know, by all accounts, a good guy.

Despite what they know before the scenes, like, the way she handled that situation, I think, was much worse. The way this guy handled it. This guy handled it good. I don't think he did, but, you know. It's just, yeah. I will always say, like, when you're talking about law enforcement, we're talking about microseconds and having to react, and I always support law enforcement. You know, that's why, when it came to social media, people were so quick to say, this guy was murdered, he was cold-blooded, this guy stopped.

It was like, hold on a second. Yeah, both sides, for sure. Like, stop it with that. Yeah, exactly. Like, I don't think any one of those police officers, like, yeah, awesome, we killed somebody. Like, no, are you out of your mind? They never want that. It is like the most regrettable situation. I highly recommend, if I could recommend as well, like, go take concealed carry training, understand firearms, because they actually train you on these situations, and it gives you, it is sobering, of course, because when you are carrying a firearm, it is really kind of a unique feeling.

I have never felt anything like it. Like, you have much more responsibility now, and you look at the world a little bit differently, and they train you on these situations in the best way if you do get in these confrontations. What do we think about how to act? Because there are high adrenaline situations and lethal forces involved, and it is a good thing. You are exercising your Second Amendment right, and you can be an asset to your community.

That being said, it will add more color, I think, when you see something like this and you have no experience with guns or no experience with this. It is easier to make these kind of judgments, but anytime you are put through these training scenarios, you are like, oh my gosh, yeah.

That is why they don't even recommend, like, you get a lawyer if you are ever in a situation like this, and you don't answer questions right away because your adrenaline is running, and you might not remember correctly, and the goal of the other side is to basically prove that you had intent or malice or something like that. So, it was informative for me, and it gives me a lot of respect for our law enforcement officers, and I think we talk about all the time, like, body cams, you know, thought it was going to be this big dunk, gotcha, and then you realize how many situations.

That our law enforcement officers are in that are so sketchy, and it'd be so easy to act differently, and then they just conduct themselves really well. And not always, but at least there's transparency there in that situation. So, I think it helps, maybe, because we just, unfortunately, will be getting more of this. Well, what happens is that we see a rush to judgment. Of course, both sides are...

Are we prone to this rush to judgment and then make conclusions on what happened when you're sitting there on your computer watching frame by frame? And not that you can't discern stuff. I'm not saying that. But, you know, it is true that the left has the entire media complex on their side, you know, all the, you know, news networks and local media and that kind of stuff. And so, I feel like, for the most part, conservatives are just out there trying to say, now, hold on, don't rush to judgment, don't immediately vilify law enforcement.

Maybe it could be it was perfectly justified. It could have been a mistake. You know, the idea that the conclusion that the left likes to run to is that they're Obviously, murderers, and they just wanted to kill this guy.

Well, to your point, Josh, something could come up. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, like, the Russian judgment here is not helping anyone. We talked about this earlier. It was because an investigation hasn't happened yet, and the only proper way to approach it is to say, we're going to wait for the facts to come out, we're going to assess everything with a cool head, and then we're going to report what we find. Because there could be a situation where this guy was in touch with some radical group and had, like, Texted for weeks being like, I can't wait to go kill an ICE officer or something like that.

Exactly. You don't know. And then, when that comes out and you find the evidence, you come forward with it and you present it. And then you could back whatever she just said. But right now, we don't have any of that evidence. So, it's irresponsible to say that and imply that, especially if that evidence never comes. So, it's like, that's why we argue. I think we rightfully critique the approach that Kristi Noem and DHS has taken because that could very well be the case.

And now, no one's going to trust that. Well, actually, did you see what Fox News reporter Bill Malone? I can never say his name right. Malugan. Malugan. Malugan. He's very well-respected, very smart reporter. He doesn't fool around. I like Malugan, yeah. And he said he's spoken to half a dozen federal sources inside of the administration who are in senior positions. We're not just talking some sort of intern or whatever. And they were all very frustrated with the way that DHS was handling this, Chrissy Noem.

And talking about how this guy was intending to cause a massacre, that is just not helpful. So, I agree with you, Tom. What we need to do is, cooler heads need to prevail. Investigations, of course. And the rush to judgment is very dangerous in a situation like this. And pray for peace. Pray for the pros of the soul. Pray for peace, Minneapolis, our country.

I'm not saying that just to say that. I genuinely believe in that. Okay. On to good news now. Bring us up, Erika. What do you got? All right, so I have two, because we need extra good news today. So, I'm going to go first with my Pats. The Patriots are headed to the Super Bowl, the first time post Tom Brady. So, this was just a crazy game, though. The game was really over by halftime, right? It's 10-7, and after halftime, I'm just going to have you play this time lapse of the weather.

Oh, my goodness. It was crazy. It starts with green grass, got third quarter, six minutes in. And snow just starts coming down. So, really, the second half, oh my gosh. That's crazy. This is like backyard football. In between each play, they were snowblowing the lines. It was insane to watch. Did you see the weird, like, AI lines that they had in there? Yeah, and they, like, went through the players. My kids did not like that. I hated it. The younger kids were freaked out.

They were like, that's freaky, Mom. Every day, we stray further from God's light. Classic New England victory. No, it was awesome. That's not how God intended it. Yeah, and this is what domes would take away from you, you know? Everyone's going for the dome because they want to have their Super Bowl there.

So awesome. So, congrats to the Patriots. Congrats. Also, we had some great moments at the March for Life, and it was hard to pick, but I just, I love guys being guys. So, this was on Jack Posobiec's show. He had his reporter out. Oh, this kid was fired up. And she finds this group of students from Franciscan University of Steubenville. Shout out. And they were just, they were top of the world. Go for it. Yeah, he was fired up. I want you guys to look at every person here.

And I just want to tell you that they all have names. I know all of them personally. JP, he's very smart. This is freaking Michael, and he's super funny. This is Danny. He's a really good guy. And I just wanted to say, they all have lives. They're all going to grow up to be great people. They're all going to have kids. And if it was for abortion, none of us would be here. So, you're looking at the future right here, and don't abort your babies.

Don't abort your babies. And, Tom, I think he's gunning for your job. Next Tom Pagasic there in the crowd. Yeah, this kid was on one. This kid was on one. He was in the sauce. Well, I mean, after that, the one guy, one of the students just started flirting with the reporters. Yeah, she's like, does anyone want to say anything else? And he's like, oh, okay.

Dude, that is classic. It's like, you score one win, you get a little big for your britches. It's like, then, all right, now we're on to the next one. Go for both. Yeah. That is a heat check, as the kids say. You know, I just sent one in the chat, one sign at the March for Life. They are evolving. Pretty awesome. These signs are evolving. These were not like this when I was at the March for Life back in my heyday, full of acne.

Never. Dump your protrace girlfriend and date me instead. That is just awesome. Erika, have you heard of the Seahawks prophecy? I have not heard of the prophecy. Oh, yes. What is the prophecy? So, I am sorry to report this to you because the Patriots are going to lose the Super Bowl according to this. It does not mean they lose. It does not mean they lose. What do you mean? They just get to it. Oh, so they do not win. Yes. So, every year, the church elects a new pope.

The Seahawks get the number one seat, and they get to the Super Bowl. So, it happened for Benedict, Francis, and now Leo. Yes. Isn't that kind of amazing? That's kind of cool. Yes. Go Seahawks. Seahawks prophecy. We're still going to crush you. Although, I do have to say, when you talk about Pope Leo, that's my good news, actually. Oh, good, good, good. Good segue. Oh, him and Arnold were posted up? Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had met with Pope Leo back in October, and this just came to light recently.

When he met with him, Pope Leo offered to hear his confession. He said, we can step aside. And I just, I love this about our Pope. And Schwarzenegger kind of jokingly declined. He said, you don't want to do that, dude. It takes three hours. Oh, that's great. That's what he's here for. Nailed it. Nailed that impersonation, by the way. Nailed it. Wow, that is funny. Okay, good news.

Good news. I have a couple. One, I'm a bad show host because the producer keeps hitting our chat right now. I've got to say something. We have a big announcement tomorrow, Tuesday, 11 a.m. Eastern Time. We will be announcing some big evolutions. There's a hint here with the color. Hint of the color? On the loot mug here, orange. Something about it. Something about it. Something about it. If you could zoom in, maybe it'll be there. But yeah, if you guys want to join, we're going to do a Q&A, and we'll be able to answer all your questions about it.

I'm very excited. There's a lot of things coming. I have no idea what it is, so it'll be fun. Yeah, Josh is completely ignorant. Josh is holding his cues. We have the A's. Good news, we have a good producer for the show. Thomas in the chat, pregnant. Luke Kast is pregnant. I love our audience so much. That is what they know of. Yeah, nothing they know of, essentially. Nothing here. All right, and then my other one, this is really random, but I do not know if you guys saw over the weekend, the human spirit is indomitable.

Yes. Am I talking about the nihilist penguin, or am I talking about this guy, Alex Hinald? He made history live on Netflix by free solo climbing Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101, a 101-story, 508. ...meter skyscraper. I'll use feet for Americans. 1,667 feet tall skyscraper using only his hands and feet. He reached the top in about one hour and 31 minutes with no ropes, harness, or safety gear, and it was streamed on Netflix.

If you guys are scared of heights... I do not like heights. This is probably not the one for you. I mean, I don't get these. These free solo guys, they just go around climbing stuff, really tall things, with no harnesses, and this is just their thing. I watched one in the Alps, and the guy actually ended up dying. Was it the Alpinist?

Yes, I watched that one, and he ended up, after the film was completed, he died, like, a few months later, because he fell. You're right. It was some crazy. There is something physiologically about this, though, because I think they did a scan of this guy's brain, and he found that the area that incites fear is, like, For him, it was like way, way, way, way low. This isn't at the top. Okay, this isn't at the top. He just hooked on with his legs and let his hands go.

He is like almost backwards, just legs. Oh, no. Why? Why? That was his mother. Why? And here's the selfie from the top. I mean, if you guys are scared of heights, this is not for you, but... What I was going to say, the other part of the physiological thing is that, you know, different peoples, you know, and races have different, you know, different effects on this. So, American Indians... People have less fear of heights. And so, they would be more. What?

It's true. Like, just the physiology of it. Because maybe they had less of that fear. And so, they're more commonly in terms of building skyscrapers. It's like, it's kind of a cool thing. So, people are saying not to show it. I mean, I hope no one would be dumb enough to do it. I just think the free solo guys are an interesting study in, because the alpinist, you're listening to him on the interview. And he's just so consumed with this concept of free climbing.

He's going to do it regardless, basically. And it's funny, at the same time, it just went nuclear viral. There's this penguin, and he's being called the Nihilist Penguin. He basically was in the group, and there's this great guy with a thick accent, kind of commentating. And he would go... Away from the group and just go towards the mountains in the distance, and there's sweet organ music on the back of it, and it's basically every dude, red-blooded American, watch this and is like, this is me, or maybe they wish that it was them, and the guys that commentate is like, if I were to take him and bring him back towards the group, he would just keep going towards the mountains, really far away for no reason, no one understood it, and the guys just, he just hits with.

But why? And then sweet organ music hits, and then you get video edits into classical architecture, Greek bodybuilding. It's awesome. So, a lot of people are identifying with the penguin. Quickly, people corrected, this is not a nihilist penguin, quite the opposite. It's an idealist penguin. Exactly.

Have you really lived? Is he going to die, or is he actually just going to live? These are the real questions I think about. Okay, on to Twilight Zone now. Josh. Well, this is not a new thing, but it was new to me, so I wanted to share it. I made the rounds on social media. Someone wrote an article about how the New York Times had gone so woke, so rapidly.

And they used data to confirm it. So, this is a massive photo of a bunch of different graphs, and it just shows, like, the amount of times the New York Times used a certain word from 1970 to, like, you know, 2018. So, whether it's sexism, misogyny, sexist, patriarch, mansplaining, racist, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-queer, you just see, it just is like, you know, for the first... From 70s, 80s, 90s, it is just kind of like, you know, not much, and then all of a sudden, they all just spike, you know, and 2014 is when it really starts to take off.

Is that when they got all the men out of there? The great feminists. Words like implicit bias, intolerance, you know, all these things, slut-shaming, cultural appropriation, microaggression. I mean, it's just, it's insane. It's just insane. White privilege, you know. Stigmatized. Male privilege. Martialized. Whiteness. White nationalism. Mansplaining. Intersectionality. Yep. Climate change. Oh, unfortunately, church is way down. Yeah. Shocker. General Motors, way down. I'm looking for the ones that are down, because that's actually almost more interesting to me.

What have we not talked about? Is there any other ones that are really down? Victim? Oh, victimize is kind of popping up. Duty is down, yeah, for sure. Ableism, way up. Or is it, how do you pronounce that? Ableism. Ableism. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, but what's interesting is, like... KKK. Like, you know, it's not that there's nothing. It's a little bit. All of a sudden, it's... Wait a second. Yeah, wait a second. Why is it up now? Yeah, well... The KKK was actually around during these times.

I know. This is the point, you know. This is an interesting graph. It turns out that language matters. Women empowerment through the roof. Almost broke through the top there. Mansplaining. Josh, me and you, we're up, dude. Mansplaining is up. Patriarchy is up. Misogyny is up. I think even Erika could explain this to us. I think even I could. Thank you, Josh. Wow. Wow. Oh, my gosh.

Can you explain male privilege to me, Erika? That would be a fun segment. Oh, my gosh. Maybe a deep episode. We don't even have time on that one. Male privilege. All right. Erika, what do you got? All right. I got more from the March for Life, because we've already covered the whole Twilight Zone, all of my options. This is all that's left, and I enjoyed J.D. Vance's speech. I did, but one part in particular stood out to me, because when in American history is that we have a lot of things that we don't want to talk about, and we don't want to talk about Have we had a vice president drawing a connection between the abortion industry and classical archaeology?

You could just play that clip. And what? I didn't even hear you. Yeah, sorry, you got it right. Classical archaeology. Classical archaeology. Archaeology? Like, digging up bones, or? I read an article some time ago. It was about classic archaeology, of all things. And one particular piece of information has haunted me.

That one of the telltale signs of an ancient brothel in the pagan world was that you'd always find a large number of baby skeletons nearby. A lot of baby skeletons, and those bones predominantly belong to boys, because unlike little girls, those boys would be of no use to the future adults who were running those brothels.

Now, this is shocking to us, because we grew up in a Christian culture, and were formed by religious values. Even those of us who aren't particularly faithful, it's a shocking thing to hear. But we have to remember that in the ancient pagan world, discarding children was routine. From the skeletons and brothels, to the child sacrifice of the Mayans. The mark of barbarism is that we treat babies like inconveniences to be discarded, rather than the blessings to cherish that they are. But the inheritance of our civilization is something else.

The fact that as scripture tells us, each life is fearfully and wonderfully made by our creator. The March for Life, my friends, it's not just about a political issue as important as all this politics stuff is. It is about whether we will remain a civilization under God, or whether we ultimately return to the paganism that dominated the past.

Today, the far left in this country tells our young people that marriage and children are obstacles, that it's irresponsible, even immoral, because of climate change or some other reason, to encourage our young people to raise a family. They tell us that life itself is a burden, but we here at this march, we know that it's a lie. We know that life is a gift.

Someone said that is what a peaceful protest looks like. Exactly. That was my good comment. And that is people exercising our right to peacefully assembly and protest, right there. So, thank you, J.D. Vance. As we covered before, there are some people that don't even want J.D. Vance to be invited, and to me, it was just kind of bizarre. It is like, why would you not want the Vice President of the United States there to make the case why abortion is bad and why you are against it?

Is the Trump-Vance? Is administration perfect? No. Do they need to do more things? Yes. But, like, scolding them is not really a great way to advance the agenda, you know, and again, like a lot of these things. So, again, I am just thankful he came. I think we need to keep putting pressure publicly and privately, but the fact is, you know, when someone wants to come to your event, yeah, you want them there. And when we think that we were only a few hundred thousand votes from having Tim Walz as our vice president in depth, I'll take this.

I forgot about that. This is good to me. This is good for me, because I don't think he would have made that speech at the March for Life. Just a wild shot. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Sorry, Tom. That's so crazy. I forgot about that. Knocked him out of his chair.

And I was like, and then a big flashback of Burning Cities came back to me, and I was like, oh, gosh, like, crazy. Unlike Tim Walz, I was actually born in Minnesota. Yeah. He's from Nebraska. Oh, neither was Fry. Fry's from New York, right? Oh, is he? I didn't know that. Yeah, I don't think he's a native Minnesotan.

Classic. Classic. Okay, so we have my twilight zone, how crazy the church storming was in, I think it was St. Paul. So, Tyler O'Neill got- He's awesome. Awesome. So, I believe these are signed? These are depositions, I think, right?

I brought this here. I should know what it is, but yes, I'm pretty sure it's a deposition. I can't see it, but sure. Yeah. So, basically, they were interviewing some of the people involved there, and there was an instance where the protesters actually blocked their parents from the children who were getting some type of catechesis, Sunday school, in the basement. And so, they were in the barrier between the kids and their parents, and they were yelling at the kids. Saying that their parents were Nazis.

Yeah. Yeah. There's seven, you know, this ain't God's house, this is the house of the devil. 50 members of the congregation were stuck toward the front of the church. Not only did the agitators take over the service, but they made it nearly impossible for parishioners to get out and leave. Congregants were terrorized. Our children were weeping. College students and young women were sobbing. It was impactfully, and it will take time to work through. An agitator continued to scream in the faces of young children while they were crying.

Awesome. Cannot pretend to be a house of God while harboring someone who is directing ICE agents to wreak havoc upon our community who killed Renee Good. That was from Nekima Armstrong. And so, we also, this directly contradicts what Nakeem Alevi-Ardenstrang was saying right before on CNN. I'll roll the clip. And I do want to correct something that was said in the beginning. We did not rush into that church. We actually went and sat down and participated in the service. You're a liar.

That is when I stood up and asked him a question in response to his prayer, and then he responded to me. And then I proceeded to ask him about Pastor David Easterwood, and how is it possible for him to serve as both a pastor and the director of ICE for Minnesota. And instead of responding to me, as soon as I said the name David Easterwood, the pastor said, shame, shame.

And that is when I let us enchant justice for Renee Good and Hands Up, Don't Shoot. So, I want to clarify that. We didn't rush in. We didn't bust in. We were a part of the service until I got up and posed that question to the pastor.

All right. And she was immediately released, you know, from custody, and yet J6 guys were put in solitary for years without a trial. I know what the federal government is capable of, let's just say. Yep. And, awesome about this, so this was an interview, she's been let out on bail, sorry, correction, this was after the fact, and so she is actually the victim.

Fun fact, in her mind, she's like, yeah, it wasn't us. We weren't doing this. We weren't screaming at children and blocking them from their parents. Oh my gosh. Vile. So, I can't wait until she gets put in jail. Despicable. Okay.

So, we have, again, Tuesday, 11 a.m. Eastern time, Q&A session. If you want to join us for the big announcement, we've got great stuff coming. Excited for you guys, excited for everyone involved. It's going to be an awesome initiative. 11 a.m. Eastern, that will be on YouTube for a special edition of LOOPcast. But, before that, normal week of shows, deep on Thursday.

And we are going to end in prayer, I think very appropriately, to St. Michael the Archangel, in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. St. Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world, seeking the ruins of souls.

Amen. St. Thomas More, St. Fidelis, Our Lady Guadalupe. Pray for us. Great show, gang. We'll catch you guys for the announcement on Tuesday. It's going to be good. Peace.