I don't know what promises to take seriously from Moscow.

He seems like a bit erratic.

He seems like somebody I don't fully trust.

He seems like somebody, yes, everybody has biases, but he has done absolutely nothing to try to engender trust in people like me.

The problem is you should not have to put your trust in any single person with something is critical or any group of people.

At least he's open and brash about it rather than shadowy people.

We didn't really even know we're having the levers of control in the back room.

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for THE political eclectics.

I'm Robbie Gupta.

And I'm Ricky Schlaught.

Ricky, you notice the difference in the way I said that today?

I did. Why did you emphasize the the the thee? Well, let's go to the voicemail. Our friend from Australia has more to offer here. Oh, hi again from Australia. Thanks for answering that question. The thing I thought just after I hung up from leaving the message was

maybe it's a proper noun or like the name of a band, like the political eclectics. So maybe

that was the idea that you were going for originally, which I think is what Ricky was saying.

Come to Australia anytime. Be lovely to have you.

All right, two things I want to thank for the invitation to go to Australia. I hear there's good surfing there. Time zone will be tricky, but if he lets me know, you know, recommendations on towns, you know, we just want to keep this voicemail thing going on for a while. But the second thing is maybe we should make t-shirts, say, the political eclectics. Yeah, for your secret band that you're doing on the side.

You know, we are rebranding.

Uh-huh.

You know, it's a good revenue generator.

Mm-hmm.

So maybe we'll do that in the new year. Yeah, I'm not sure about the, the, the, political eclectics. I think it kind of... But I think the the the is essential for what he's saying

is to make it a proper noun.

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