Ep 26 | Trump Probes, Inflation, TikTok Good/Bad, SF School Board Recall, Right-Wing Dating
Lost Debate
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4.6 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We've come up with some names for a possible liberal dating app because the conservative one calls itself the right stuff. |
| 0:07.9 | I could call it liberal love. |
| 0:09.9 | That's a good start. |
| 0:11.6 | Okay, Comrade. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, like, okay Cupid. |
| 0:16.6 | And finally, date stage capitalism. Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm Robbie Gupta. |
| 0:31.6 | And I'm Ricky Schlaught. |
| 0:32.6 | Well, Corey, where are we going to start? |
| 0:33.9 | We've got an interesting show today. |
| 0:35.6 | An investigation into the Trump organization is heating up, and the company's accountants are jumping ship. We'll discuss the |
| 0:42.5 | implications for the former president. TikTok, the most popular app of 2021 has changed our culture, |
| 0:47.8 | but is the app driving a mental health crisis or providing an economic boost for small |
| 0:53.0 | creators? We'll debate the pros and cons |
| 0:55.3 | of the viral video platform. Then an update on a story Ravi covered closely. San Francisco recalls |
| 1:00.8 | school board members by landslide margins. And do you have the right stuff to join the new |
| 1:06.1 | conservative dating app backed by Facebook's Peter Thiel? We'll give you the details. But first things first, |
| 1:12.6 | inflation is at its highest level in 40 years. The U.S. Consumer Price Index shot up by 7.5% last |
| 1:19.5 | month, outrunning wage growth and squeezing budgets all over the country. Now, there are a lot of |
| 1:25.1 | reasons for that, but to hear from some progressive senators |
| 1:27.7 | like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, there's only one corporate here, corporate greed. |
| 1:32.5 | Let's unpack what's really going on with the inflation crisis. Robbie, there is this narrative |
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