New Pope and this podcast alike return to their old obsessions for this Penultimate Popeverse Popecast. The touching Vatican state funeral for [redacted for spoiler reasons] provokes a deep dialogue on Voiello, Giorlamo, Franco, the funeral mass, suffering, and love. Other things we obsess about? Sofia-JP3 intimacy, Lenny-Voiello scenes, the Papal Bowflex, fit checks, Joan Didion, Lenin, and everyone’s favorite loquacious rapscallion/God, Bauer.  Miraculously, this episode also includes Regan embracing her role as the foremost theologian of our time as she performs a baller doctrinal excursus on the crucial question of whether transubstantiation can happen through Zoom.  Come, listener, be the third member of our very own terrible trio. -- Music by Lesfm from Pixabay