Ep 132 | Participation Trophies, Harvard’s Council on Academic Freedom, Why Is Dying So Expensive?

Lost Debate

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4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Ravi and Rikki start today’s episode with a healthy debate on participation trophies. Are these pointless plastic keepsakes ruining our childrens’ hopes of ever knowing what it truly means to be a winner? Three Republican state senators from North Carolina seem to think so, introducing a bill in the legislature to ban participation trophies in youth sports. Then, the duo sits down with Harvard philosophy professor Ned Hall to talk about the university’s new Council on Academic Freedom – an attempt from more than 100 faculty members to promote free speech and academic freedom on campus. Will this trigger other colleges to promote free expression? Finally, in an Apropos fashion, we end our episode talking about well… the end – death. Even when it’s all said and done, why is dying in the United States so expensive? [02:34] - Participation Trophies [21:02] - Harvard’s Council on Academic Freedom [53:44] - Why Is Dying So Expensive? [01:06:26] - Voicemails Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Show notes: https://thebranchmedia.org/show/lost-debate/ Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranch.media/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ The Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw 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

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0:00.0	Our participation trophies coddling our youth. Are these pointless plastic keepsakes ruining our children's hopes of ever knowing what it truly means to be a winner?
0:10.1	We get to the bottom of whether this really is the big problem it's made out to be.
0:14.6	Then we turn to Harvard where a coalition of more than 100 faculty members have formed a council to promote free speech and academic freedom on campus. Will this trigger other colleges to promote free expression? We speak with
0:26.1	one Harvard professor in the university's newly formed a council on academic freedom to find
0:31.2	out. Finally, we'll tackle a $20 billion industry. No, we're not talking about the global
0:36.9	music industry or the meat substitutes market.
0:39.5	We're talking about death.
0:41.4	Even when it's all said and done, why is dying so expensive?
0:45.4	We crunch the numbers.
0:47.0	All of this on today's episode of the Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics.
1:00.0	Music a show for politically eclectics. Hey, everyone. I'm Robbie Gupta.
1:02.0	And I'm Ricky Schlaught.
1:03.7	Well, Ricky, a couple announcements on the front end here.
1:06.3	We have a few episodes of Sweat the Technique.
1:08.9	I want to point our listeners to. This is our podcast
1:11.3	that's by a bunch of former educators who talk about how to just take the lessons learned from
1:16.1	the K-12 system and apply them to life. Last week's episode was one of my favorites. We talked to a woman
1:21.5	named Christine Choi, who was the former head of Virgin Galactic communications and also a founding member of Teach for America.
1:29.0	And she talks about all about how you build a brand, whether for your company or for you as a
1:33.4	person. And in the next few weeks, we're going to be talking to a lot of experts on parenting.
1:38.7	You know, basically we went down the list of all the best parenting books out there.
1:42.3	And over the next few months and weeks, we're going to be
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