Welcome to The Lost Debata Show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Ravi Gupta, and today I have two exciting interviews.

One is with Jacob Sullen from Reason, who is here to talk about crime stats. We fit in a little bit of

internet regulation of speech. And then I'm going to talk to Kristen Belshroom from Bloomberg,

who is part of a team that put together this

expansive series of pieces about all about how and why Americans trust our institutions

less than ever before. And so you're going to love those interviews. I also today, later

today, I hope to get up a piece on our YouTube page all about

early votes. So I've been diving in all morning about like what are the returns telling us?

We've had some pretty big early vote days over the past few days, but really trying to set up a

framework for like, how do we even think about early vote? Because there's going to be all kinds

of pearl clutching and celebrating

of data over the next two weeks before we get to the official election day.

So I want to give you a framework for how to think about that.

So that'll be up at some point in the next 24 hours.

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We'll put a link in the show notes so you can subscribe and get access to that video

and every other video that we put up from there. But with that, let's jump into my interview

with Jacob Sallum from Reason. Well, Jacob, welcome to the podcast. Thanks. Well, okay, we're going

to talk about crime stats in a second, but I was reading through

some of your most recent articles this morning, and I have to ask you about something

that I know is going to piss off some of our audience members.

So I figured we would start there, which is this study from nature that you reported on

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