Oct 3, 2026 · 46 min · 12 segments
In today's episode Thomas and Joel discuss the American midterm elections and their possible outcomes. Thanks for listening. \- An increasingly complex world is one that is increasingly filled…
Anyway, there are six key races that kind of are going to decide the fate of the Senate.
So I'm going to go from, well, I'm not going to go in any particular order.
I'll just start with North Carolina because I actually don't know about most of these people.
And I'm not going to, well, I am going to pretend to.
I'm going to read a few like very key bullet points that vile AI spat out for me may or may not be correct.
And then I'll pretend to be informed.
Campaign emphasizes things like life being affordable.
Wow.
Bold stance, Roy.
Roy Cooper, I am familiar with, though, because he's been in the last several election cycles, like major ones.
And I remember I remember both times he won governor.
I remember the first time I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.
He's very popular there.
And people like, Oh, the swing States.
It keeps, you know, most of the time it will still ultimately go to the Republicans, but it's definitely becoming more of a swing state.
And, um, Fortunately for Mr. Cooper, former Governor Cooper, Michael Watley is just not very good.
Yeah.
Yeah, the guy's like never won a race and he's just a former Republican National Committee chairman.
Anyway, there are six key races that kind of are going to decide the fate of the Senate.
So I'm going to go from, well, I'm not going to go in any particular order.
I'll just start with North Carolina because I actually don't know about most of these people.
And I'm not going to, well, I am going to pretend to.
I'm going to read a few like very key bullet points that vile AI spat out for me may or may not be correct.
And then I'll pretend to be informed.
Campaign emphasizes things like life being affordable.
Wow.
Bold stance, Roy.
Roy Cooper, I am familiar with, though, because he's been in the last several election cycles, like major ones.
And I remember I remember both times he won governor.
I remember the first time I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.
He's very popular there.
And people like, Oh, the swing States.
It keeps, you know, most of the time it will still ultimately go to the Republicans, but it's definitely becoming more of a swing state.
And, um, Fortunately for Mr. Cooper, former Governor Cooper, Michael Watley is just not very good.
Yeah.
Yeah, the guy's like never won a race and he's just a former Republican National Committee chairman.
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