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Lost Debate

Ep 110 | Four-Day Workweek, Hospice Fraud, Practical K-12

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ravi and Rikki lead things off by discussing an emerging trend in white-collar work: the four-day week. Then we turn to hospice care and the little-known cottage industry beneath it, plagued with rampant fraud and abuse. Finally, we wrap things up with a big question facing K-12 education: are kids learning the practical skills they need to succeed?  [03:25] Four-Day Workweek [21:55] Hospice Care [35:52] Practical K-12 [47:00] Voicemails Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 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

Nobody's really picking up on this and talking about this because it's an uncomfortable conversation.

0:05.0

Half of us will eventually end up in these facilities if something doesn't change.

0:09.0

Talking about death is not really something that our culture is very comfortable about.

0:13.0

We as a news consuming populace, we're more likely to click on that article of, you know,

0:17.0

Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Green getting in a fight in a bathroom, then this really ugly reality of the end of life. It's like the kind of story that you really

0:26.2

don't want to live in, but it couldn't be more important.

0:34.9

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta.

0:38.4

And I'm Ricky Schlaught.

0:39.6

Ricky, we had a little debate right before this with our team.

0:44.6

And I want to invite our audience to weigh in here.

0:47.9

I was, you and I were arguing about who is more libertarian.

0:50.6

And I was basically trying to take your, you know, your branding from you and say,

0:55.3

I'm more libertarian than you. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to throw any arguments out there. I don't want to arm our audience with my rationale. But audience. I'll come and do my homework if we want to have a full on debate on the show because I have a long list, but I'll save it for now. You save the receipts.

1:10.5

Well, our voicemail is 3212,200, 0570.

1:15.7

And especially the longtime listeners who've listened to a lot of segments.

1:19.9

If you got ideas, bring your evidence, send in a voicemail.

1:23.3

We'll play it.

1:23.7

Maybe Ricky and I will have a segment at some point where we use your voicemails to

1:28.0

debate. Who is more libertarian? Me or Ricky. We also have, same. We also have really

1:35.1

exciting news. We have a new show from the Lost Debate that's coming in the weeks ahead. It is called

1:40.5

the hardest step. And it's two people I'm very, very close with.

1:46.3

Koss Marte, who's a formerly incarcerated entrepreneur in New York City.

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