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

Well, Ricky, very special episode. Yeah, we just recently celebrated our 100th episode and we figured

with the new year coming up, it would be a great time to go back over some of our favorite segments

from the year and some of our greatest hits at the Lost Debate so far. So let's start with what

was probably the most heated debate we've ever had.

It was actually so heated that some people in my life were like texting me like,

are you and Ricky, okay?

I sure are listening to you finally.

It was the lost debate.

Yeah, it was the only time I've listened back and been like, I sound a little agitated.

So sorry, we're okay.

Well, I think I often get accused of cutting you off. That was one where I think you cut

off. Yeah, it definitely did. Sorry. This is our debate about Edward Snowden and all the ethics of

his release of documents and the question of his residence in Russia and all of that. And, you know,

we spent a lot of time listening to and reviewing other people's debates on this subject. And I have to

pat ourselves on the back. I think we stood up really well. Yeah. We went through it all. Edward Snowden made big

news back in the Obama administration by releasing potentially as much as many as 1.7 million files,

at least to journalists back then and at least or upwards of 7,000 of those documents

have been reported on and released by the journalists that he handed those documents over to.

He initially went to Hong Kong and then wound up in Russia where he's been for quite some time.

And we just got some news, Ricky, that he has become a citizen of Russia. And I think this is an

opportunity for us to, you know, dust off some of these stories about Snowden and say, all right,

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