If we're not a democracy that can peacefully transfer power from one presidential administration

to another, we're not the United States of America anymore.

And your inflation is not going to matter if your society is collapsing around you.

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics.

I'm Robbie Gupta.

I'm Corey Bress. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, a few announcements on the front end of this episode. Next week, we're going to be on a special schedule because most of our team here at Lost Debate are on vacation. And so on Monday, we have an interview I conducted with Brian Rosenthal, who's a New York Times reporter. It's a staggering interview just about how expensive it is to build stuff in America. So I highly recommend that. And then midweek, we have two guest co-hosts. And I'll be outnumbered on that episode. I'll have two libertarian sort of conservative-leaning co-hosts for that week and the week after. And so that should be pretty exciting. We also have a new episode, Corey, of Stitch This, which is Corey's podcast

where he interviews some of the most successful TikTok influencers. And he has own Conflenty,

who's a Houston news anchor, and it's a super fun and interesting and funny interview. And so I can't

recommend that enough. Go to Stitch This wherever you get your podcasts. With that, Corey, what do we have

this week on

today's show more damning revelations on the police response in uvaldi and a breakthrough in the

senate on gun reform we'll go over the latest there as well as the biggest story in washington right

now the january 6 hearings we'll talk about what we've seen from the committee so far new

york's highest court says an elephant is not

a person. And believe it or not, that's actually news. We'll talk about legal personhood.

The FDA is aiming to take the nicotine out of cigarettes, which is sort of like taking the

fighting out of hockey. We'll discuss all of the sweeping reforms on smoking lately and it's Thursday.

So you know what that means?

We've got a possibly radical idea from Ravi. But first things first, if you're tuning in from the

airport, we're so sorry about the wait. Flying has never been exactly pleasant, but things are

downright chaotic these days as airlines struggle to deal with the summer travel rush.

Ravi, why is the airline industry in such disarray right now? Well, this is like super first world problems in some ways, but I actually just got back from a wedding in Italy. I know everybody should shed tears for me right now, but I, my bag did not come with me. It's sitting somewhere in Italy right now. Oh, wow. And about half of the people in the wedding that I talked to had some kind of baggage issue on the way there. So that doesn't even account for the people on the way home, including my best friend whose bag was lost and his wife had to go back with their child because all the stuff they needed for their kid. They had some special stuff they couldn't get in Italy. So she missed the whole wedding. Had to come back. They weren't able to find the bag for like five or six days or something like that. So there's just like a

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