Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta.

And I'm Ricky Schott.

Well, for our listeners, Ricky had a microphone malfunction, so she sounds a little bit less crisp today.

It's not because of anything to do with her. It's just the technology.

It's just the AirPods that have like such inadequate microphones.

They're terrible.

They're always horrible.

So sorry, but I'm in the office.

And this is just what we're going to have to work with today.

Well, this is a fun episode.

This is a best of episode.

We're going to run through things.

We're going to look back on, on 2023 and talk about things related to the show, the news generally, the world generally that stood out to us from last year.

And we'll look ahead to next year.

And wow 2023 was a crazy year.

Actually, I was looking back over a lot of this stuff.

I couldn't believe some of these stories were from this year.

It feels like so long ago, Ricky.

But let's actually start with this show. Let's talk about what our favorite segment from the show was.

Why don't you kick us off?

I think my favorite was a little bit self-aggrandizing because it's based on my own reporting at the New York Post.

But we did a segment on sex distortion and had some soundbites

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