Welcome back to the Loopcast. I'm joined by my co-host Josh and Erica. And yes, we're live.

In person. In person. For the first time in two years, we've done new this podcast for like two years.

Yeah, almost two years. And Josh hides in his bunker in Patoskey. Erica's in rich social clubs in New Hampshire. And today we all hang out in the Midwest. So we get together two times a year.

This is one of the two times, kind of time to rejuvenate.

We did prepare a show, don't worry.

But we did get some inspiring talks this morning about bigger picture stuff.

How do you feel about that?

We're going to pull that in, I think, right?

Are we?

Yeah.

We had inspiration from our fearless leader, Brian Brian birch who is newly back from the

rnc convention oh yeah good so he shared that with us a little bit that's right yeah we're gonna work

that and no one's talking about the rnc platform right now or shady vans i mean josh is bored

i'm i was bored of it three times ago.

The platform, I mean, who cares?

This is the dumbest thing.

This is not the 19th century, okay?

People, the political parties were transformed with campaign finance reform.

At first in 1974, and then again with McCain FeFeingold, I think it was in 2002,

political parties do not have these big treasure chests and they're not able to command their members in ways that they could before.

Every man, a woman for themselves, have to run for House or Senate.

There's no big backroom deal. I mean, there are some

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