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Lost Debate

Ep 11 | Crypto & Congress, Teaching White Privilege, 4-day School Week, Alabama Prisons

Lost Debate

The Branch

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4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Ravi and Cory discuss Crypto regulation [1:37], a Tennessee educator's firing for teaching about white privilege [12:40], a growing trend towards 4-day school week [17:48], an Illinois politician’s proposal to punish the unvaccinated [23:04], and Cory interviews journalist Beth Shelburne about the crisis in Alabama’s prisons [27:14]. Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Like Lost Debate on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

They are more likely to be supportive of rolling back, the length of a school day, the requirements on teachers and educators to be in buildings.

0:09.0

And that to me means that there's a huge hypocrisy at the heart of the way Democrats talk about the issue of childcare.

0:14.0

Welcome to the Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta.

0:21.4

And I'm Corey Broughtford.

0:22.6

Well, Corey, I actually tried something new last night.

0:25.4

I tried this thing called bouldering.

0:27.4

And there's this place called Brooklyn Boulders.

0:29.8

You just climb stuff.

0:31.5

And I'm afraid of heights.

0:33.1

And I think I overcame at least my fear of intermediate heights.

0:36.9

How high up did you go? I don't know, maybe like 50 feet. Pretty hot. Does that sound right? Yeah, I've never done the whole rock climbing thing. I think I tried it when I was a freshman in college and I fail, so I haven't done. Like, like failed like, I guess you're still here. So yeah, no, I didn't fall from a really high height but I did

0:54.9

fall yeah just traumatized me well I wasn't it wasn't I wasn't secured safely and everything

1:00.8

okay okay well I'm glad you're okay yeah yeah well what do we have for today coming up a teacher

1:08.0

in Tennessee fired for teaching about white privilege. Did he deserve it?

1:11.6

And what about a proposed four-day school week? I know Ravi here will have some thoughts on that

1:15.6

story. We also got a Democrat in Illinois introducing a bill that would force unvaccinated

1:20.7

COVID patients to pay their own hospital bills. Good idea or hypocritical? We take an inside look at a

1:27.1

growing humanitarian catastrophe that's

1:28.9

not getting nearly enough attention the horrific conditions in alabama prisons the situation is

1:33.9

spiraling out of control and we'll explain why but first things first robbie there was a big

1:38.1

hearing on cryptocurrency in congress yesterday and i know you were following following this big time because I think you own some

1:45.3

crypto, don't you? Yeah, I do. And so I guess that's a disclosure. So maybe everything I say.

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