I'm alive. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom, Erica, and Josh. I've returned from my

my walk in the wilderness. Welcome back. An amazing trip to California, filming a couple of things

for Tom Across America. It's just a real blessing. But I miss Josh and Erica. Okay. I miss

Josh and Erica. I miss hanging out with you guys. I miss going through the news. I miss figuring

it out. There wasn't like a high

profile beef between the Pope and the president while I was out, right? Yeah, you missed a few things.

Let's just put it. We'll leave it at that. You missed a little. Okay, I'm trying to

catch up. I hear that it was a fun time. We were so bored. What did you miss when you again.

Oh, man. Well, I'm happy to be back regardless and we got tons of stuff to talk about today. I also just shout out I met the just the sweetest loopcaster.

Actually in the in the cry room at Mass last Sunday.

I was back in Michigan.

Shout to her.

She had a beautiful family, two young boys, and we were teaching

some virtues, hopefully, of sharing, of, you know, taking those stuff to the credit to pay attention.

So, yeah, it was just cool to get out and meet some different people that, no Catholic go to know

Lucas, and of course, she just beautiful families and working hard and

raising the next generation. So shout out to her. But today on today's show, we had a lot happen.

And domestically, of course, Virginia had a big referendum last night. Their ballot measure passed

by a very small margin and is completely reshaped the congressional map. Something I wish that we would have been able to spend a little bit more time focusing on in the country. But unfortunately, we're caught up in this Iran war situation. We're at day 53. Are we calling it a war now or is it officially war? Yeah, it's a war. Okay, just checking. 53. I mean, I think we're getting there. So we got, there's supposed to be talks.

Talks didn't happen. Iran said no thanks. And now we're kind of at an indefinite ceasefire.

So we got the details there. Zeele News has been doing a great job tracking that. And then we also had the

SPLC has now been indicted by a jury for funding white nationalist groups, I think. Josh has got a big smile on his face.

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