Loopcast. We are live now at Loopcast and we are Pogo Free. And unfortunately, we're also Erica

free. But we're going to make up for it by having tinfoil Tom here. And I know you love that

nickname, so I made sure to include it. Well, this podcast will go down probably as the best-looking podcast in loopcast history.

So I think that's what we can work from.

I think we can feel pretty safe about that.

It's no contest, you know.

I mean, God made a few perfect heads, the rest he covered with hair.

Exactly. Well, we're going to cover a lot of a few perfect heads, the rest he covered with hair. Exactly.

Well, we're going to cover a lot of things today in the loopcast.

We're going to talk about, you know, the interesting Senate makeup, the shakeup and

Senate races going on, how that could affect what looks like, you know, what the next Senate

will look like.

Also, just dab a little bit on the latest

presidential polling stuff. We're also going to talk about, you know, Vice President Vance,

you know, made a statement and the media just completely misrepresented what he had to say.

Have we heard this before? It feels like this happens all the time. But we're also going to dive into the mailbox and ask a bunch of questions, you know, answer, try to answer questions that you guys have sent along. So if you're following us live in the chat and you have a question, today's the day to ask. And so we're going to dive right into this.

I thought this was kind of an interesting thing that, you know, obviously the presidential

race gets most of the coverage and, you know, it's understandable. But there is a new poll.

You know, the United States Senate does matter a lot as well. And right now, it's 51 to 49. Democrats control the Senate. But when you look at it, Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, he's been one of those Democrats that the Democrats really, really hate. He's retiring. He's not running for re-election.

And the Democrats have pretty much given up on that seat. He was the only guy who could really,

only Democrat that really had any kind of a chance to win in West Virginia. And he's gone.

And so West Virginia is considered a lock for the Republicans to pick up. So that brings them to 50 seats.

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