POPEWATCH 2025: An Early Edition of Drinks With Broads
Also: What's happening with the Beckhams??
Italy’s hottest club IS… Conclave. This. Place. Has. Everything: Latin, crowds, incense, chimneys, a hundred men in beanies and capes, a locked-room mystery, and that thing where you think a building is on fire but it turns out they’re just sending messages.
It’s been 12 years and one Conclave since the last conclave, and the media is covering it as breathlessly as if it’s the Thunderdome. 133 MEN GO IN. ONE COMES OUT. Various oddsmakers are accepting bets on which cardinal will get the call up to the big game, or even what papal name he’ll pick — Ladbrokes has Francis as the favorite, which feels like a tremendous lack of imagination, but he DID appoint 108 of these dudes so maybe it’ll be a tribute. Catholic News Agency reports $24 million wagered on this across two crypto betting platforms alone (is there a more cursed phrase than “crypto betting platform,” ironically?) Even People is all over this, posting stories about how anything could happen and a live update post, while of co…