Biden in Trouble, Smartphone Ban, Homeschooling’s Rise, Good Economic News

Lost Debate

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4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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A new poll shows President Biden trailing Donald Trump in five out of six key swing states just a year before the 2024 election. Ravi and Rikki discuss the poll’s confirmation that the American public has widespread concerns about Biden's age and performance and how the Democratic Party should respond. Once a fringe movement, homeschooling is now the fastest-growing form of education in America. The hosts break down the reasons the movement has finally caught on and which students the newest forms of homeschooling now support. Finally, Ravi and Rikki take a look at the American economy. The Fed and Treasury released its 2022 data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which showed a vast majority of Americans are doing much better than in recent history. But with the general public not feeling its positive effect, are storm clouds on the horizon? Time Stamps: Biden in Trouble - 1:59 Homeschooling’s Rise - 17:21 Good Economic News - 37:24 Voicemail - 52:56 Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Ravi Gupta, and we are back. Ricky and I on our first show together in, I don't know, a month. We've got some great topics today. Yeah, it's been a while. We have some great topics. Biden appears to be in trouble. Some polling came out this weekend, which has Democrats like myself in a tizzy.
0:23.0	Then we're going to talk about a UK ban on cell phones and schools and briefly unearth,
0:29.4	you know, this discussion that we've been having over the course of many episodes about
0:32.4	whether schools should limit cell phone usage.
0:35.7	Then we're going to talk about a dramatic rise in homeschooling across America.
0:40.9	New data suggests that this pandemic trend is going to outlast the pandemic.
0:45.6	And then there's a storm of positive economic data that has us asking whether we as a country have ducked a recession.
0:53.6	But before we get to any of that,
0:55.3	just a few announcements. Tomorrow we're going to put up an episode. I'm going to go through a bunch of
1:00.0	the questions that you've sent in around Israel and Palestine. And I'm also going to do an extended
1:04.4	explainer on Hamas, like what Hamas is, who they are, what they stand for, what they've done
1:10.4	over the course of the past few decades.
1:13.3	On Thursday, we're going to have a really exciting episode.
1:15.6	We're going to have Sal Khan from Khan Academy, probably the most important educator in the world.
1:19.9	And this is a fascinating interview in which I think we make some news.
1:23.4	He talks a lot about the kind of riveting experience of getting access to GPT4 to build
1:29.2	their AI tool that we've talked about previously on this podcast.
1:32.7	So you're not going to want to miss that.
1:34.4	It's also worth mentioning that WeWork.
1:36.7	The company has filed bankruptcy this week, so we want to point you back to an episode we
1:41.8	did a few months back with Jamie Hodari, who's CEO of
1:45.6	industrious WeWork's biggest competitor, potentially future owner of WeWork.
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