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Lost Debate

Ep 102 | Mayhem @ Twitter, Asian-American College Apps, 2022 Faves

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ravi and Rikki start with a week’s worth of peak mayhem at Twitter, from the @ElonJet ban, to suspended reporters, to a poll (maybe) deciding Musk’s future at the platform. Then the hosts turn to yet more light on the recent topic of a Regressives episode: discrimination against Asian-American college applicants. Finally, we share some of our favorite content to end the year. [2:43] Twitter Mayhem [16:00] Asian-American College Applicants  [25:40] 2022 Faves [33:25] Assisted Suicide Voicemails Vote for us for a Signal Award! https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2022/shows/general/best-conversation-starter Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 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 LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

He did this poll and he's already starting to kick up dust in replies to people on Twitter

0:05.7

about how, oh, maybe it was bots that rigged this poll against me.

0:11.0

And this is the sort of Kerry Lake Donald Trump School of Voting, which is heads I win,

0:16.2

tails you lose.

0:27.0

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Ricky, how goes it in New York City? Not so bad. I just did an event at the

0:31.3

Comedy Cellar last night. Did a panel with Greg Lukianov and Jonathan Haidt and Scott Barry Kaufman

0:36.6

for his podcast, which was super cool.

0:39.3

I'm not really a comedy person, but that was a cool stage to Grace.

0:44.1

So no complaints.

0:44.7

Did you tell some jokes?

0:45.6

No, I didn't.

0:46.5

But the theme of the night was why the last 10 years have been so uniquely terrible.

0:51.1

And so not the most pleasant conversation. Terrible for comedy. No, just terrible in

0:56.5

general. And then we had a little comedy like diversion. So I think everyone who bought tickets

1:01.0

knew what they were getting themselves into. And it wasn't really a suited thing for the venue

1:04.9

aside from the free speech common thread, I would say. But it was really fun. And word on the street

1:09.2

is you sold out the comedy sellers? We did. It was pretty cool. I really can't take any responsibility for that given the

1:15.4

people that I was on the panel with, but pretty cool. How's Costa Rica? Costa Rica is good. Waves are good,

1:21.2

weather's good. You know, things are chill. Shout out to the folks at Outposts for giving me

1:25.6

their podcast studio for the next six weeks.

1:27.7

I'm here in a still echoey but soundproofed room.

1:32.7

Thank goodness.

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