Ep 25 | Chappelle & Affordable Housing, Bitcoin Heist, Dying Democracy, CRT Fight

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week’s media blitz around Dave Chappelle as an anti-affordable housing crusader missed a lot of nuance around the development proposal in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Ravi, Cory, and Rikki dive in. “A new low for global democracy.” We discuss the 2021 Democracy Index and the dire picture it paints for democratic values around the world. We debate the latest front in the CRT fight in schools: curriculum transparency. And finally, we catch up with the eccentric couple accused of conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin. [1:04] Chappelle [11:02] Democracy in Decline [22:14] CRT/Woke [36:24] Bitcoin Hoax Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Sticher: 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	How can we try to fix democracy to where it actually works?
0:04.0	Institutions.
0:05.0	It's supposed to be a good thing.
0:06.0	It has to be institutions.
0:07.0	And that's why I think all of us are here.
0:09.0	And I think why media, particularly such a big, important institution here.
0:13.0	Like, media in many ways, is reflecting back our polarization and then making it worse.
0:19.0	How will a generation of young people
0:21.3	exercise the rights and their freedoms that are required to live in a democracy like ours if
0:26.4	they don't know what they are? Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics.
0:36.3	I'm Robbie Gupta. I'm Corey Brought. And I'm Ricky Schlaught.
0:39.0	Well, Corey, what do we have today? Well, we've got a packed show today. Democracy is in decline around the world, according to new analysis. We'll talk about the reasons why. A new front in the CRT school fight, while you might be hearing a lot more about curriculum transparency this year. And finally, police arrest two hackers accused of laundering over $4 billion worth of stolen
1:00.1	Bitcoin, all the weird details surrounding that story.
1:03.4	But first things first, last week, Twitter and several mainstream media outlets
1:07.8	powered on comedian Dave Chappelle.
1:09.9	Headlines claim that Chappelle helped kill an affordable housing plan in his Ohio hometown.
1:15.4	A video also surfaced of Chappelle appearing at his local village council with an ultimatum.
1:20.2	Hi, I'm Dave Chappelle.
1:22.7	I just want to say, and Marianette, I can talk to you about this privately.
1:28.3	I don't know why the village Council will be afraid of litigation from a $24 million year company.
1:33.3	Well, it's out a $65 million year company.
1:37.3	I cannot believe you would make me audition for you.
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