Josh, no one would think you're Italian.

Unfortunately, I don't think you would.

You have a terrible Italian accent.

You look like a Viking.

It's not.

If I didn't know your name, I'd be like, oh, it's Leif Erickson.

Forget about it.

Forget about it.

Forget about it.

We've done some pretty terrible Italian accents on this podcast.

I think like four episodes of it so far.

Sorry to all the Italians who don't listen anymore.

All right, everyone. All right, everyone, welcome back to The Loopcast, where we keep you in the loop on all things, faith, culture, and politics.

Today I'm joined, as always, by the editor of the Loop, Josh Mercer, and by staff writer Eric Ahern, The Gang, as we call it them.

And so today's episode, we thought, could of doing. We're calling them the game from now on.

Got it. Got it. Today's episode we thought could be a good opportunity to be kind of the

Votorama episode. Midterms are just a couple weeks away, super close. Everyone's talking about it.

But what we should be talking about is why should Catholics be voting?

We've heard a lot of arguments, general arguments why Americans should vote,

but specifically are there Catholic reasons and incentives why Catholics should kind of enter the voting arena?

And Erica, you wrote a fantastic piece.

I know it actually got featured in some church bulletins, not to two your horn for you, but I thought it was super compelling.

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