Blake

I was literally yesterday, I was telling one of the staffers, I was like, okay, there's various contenders. They'll probably never pick an American as pope. I just got... I got owned very badly. I did fortunately say, all predictions wrong or your money back, and you get total surprise ones. And this is definitely...

I was literally yesterday, I was telling one of the staffers, I was like, okay, there's various contenders. They'll probably never pick an American as pope. I just got... I got owned very badly. I did fortunately say, all predictions wrong or your money back, and you get total surprise ones. And this is definitely...

Like he said, there was some coverage of him as a potential pope, but very much second, third tier even of the potential candidates. There will be a lot of efforts to define him. I suspect this can go in directions people don't expect very quickly. So I don't I don't want to assume anything. He might be I'm looking trying to see here. He might be the first August order of St. Augustine.

Like he said, there was some coverage of him as a potential pope, but very much second, third tier even of the potential candidates. There will be a lot of efforts to define him. I suspect this can go in directions people don't expect very quickly. So I don't I don't want to assume anything. He might be I'm looking trying to see here. He might be the first August order of St. Augustine.

You were asking me about that.

You were asking me about that.

orders of priests just the other day and I think he might be the first pope from that order he was the prior of them but oh man this is this is big I had a weird feeling I was like what if it's from America and I was like nah no way yes John there's one thing too the reality of the modern language I mean we don't speak Latin anymore and you know we need a pope that can handle the English language really well right it's the governing language of the world

orders of priests just the other day and I think he might be the first pope from that order he was the prior of them but oh man this is this is big I had a weird feeling I was like what if it's from America and I was like nah no way yes John there's one thing too the reality of the modern language I mean we don't speak Latin anymore and you know we need a pope that can handle the English language really well right it's the governing language of the world

There's no electoral college on this one.

There's no electoral college on this one.

Yeah, well, so an American pope, what we can expect, and this is not even necessarily the fault of the new pope, but 100% you will see obviously a big attempt by media in the U.S., media worldwide, to play up any conflict between the American pope and the American president. Even if he doesn't play into that directly, they will do it. They will hype it up. They will try to generate that.

Yeah, well, so an American pope, what we can expect, and this is not even necessarily the fault of the new pope, but 100% you will see obviously a big attempt by media in the U.S., media worldwide, to play up any conflict between the American pope and the American president. Even if he doesn't play into that directly, they will do it. They will hype it up. They will try to generate that.

So we have to be ready for that. We have to be ready to not... fall into this trap where like oh this like atheist guy at the new york times is saying the pope said this so i have to agree with what the atheist guy at the new york times says i'm supposed to think about what the pope says about the president you can't fall for this stuff don't don't let it

So we have to be ready for that. We have to be ready to not... fall into this trap where like oh this like atheist guy at the new york times is saying the pope said this so i have to agree with what the atheist guy at the new york times says i'm supposed to think about what the pope says about the president you can't fall for this stuff don't don't let it

brainwash you in any way there will be attempts to do that i've been spending while we've been talking here i was looking up he's leo the 14th we haven't had a leo pope in over 100 years uh we don't know for sure who this was inspired by but a good bet is you look at the last guy to hold that name Leo XIII was pope for quite a long time, about 25 years.

brainwash you in any way there will be attempts to do that i've been spending while we've been talking here i was looking up he's leo the 14th we haven't had a leo pope in over 100 years uh we don't know for sure who this was inspired by but a good bet is you look at the last guy to hold that name Leo XIII was pope for quite a long time, about 25 years.

He's one of the longest reigning popes ever. He's pretty interesting. He's from a period where they were called the prisoner of the Vatican. So Italy had conquered the papal states, which used to be a thing. And because the pope did not recognize this, for the 25 years he was pope, he did not leave Vatican City. So 25 years just in that little St. Peter's Basilica area, could not leave.

He's one of the longest reigning popes ever. He's pretty interesting. He's from a period where they were called the prisoner of the Vatican. So Italy had conquered the papal states, which used to be a thing. And because the pope did not recognize this, for the 25 years he was pope, he did not leave Vatican City. So 25 years just in that little St. Peter's Basilica area, could not leave.

Refused to leave, I should say. But what Leo XIII was interesting about, he was kind of the first pope to really engage with what we would call modern-day economic and social issues. So he wrote encyclicals where he would say, basically...

Refused to leave, I should say. But what Leo XIII was interesting about, he was kind of the first pope to really engage with what we would call modern-day economic and social issues. So he wrote encyclicals where he would say, basically...