The idea that I would sign up for a military that potentially could then be under the control of a president who his aides were having serious discussions about using the military to seize voting machines is like something to just put your head around and be like, wow, this isn't exactly storming Normandy.

You're 16, 17 years old. You see a homeless veteran. You're thinking in your head, they serve this country and that they don't have a house to live in. Why would I risk my life, possibly risk a limb

for a service that doesn't seem to benefit me?

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

Breffert. And I'm Ricky Schlott. Corey, what do we have today? We've got a jam-packed episode today. On today's show, Arizona is fast-tracking teachers to try and meet a pressing shortage. We'll talk about their approach to staffing classrooms. Then we'll move on to higher education with a little checking in on the University of Austin. The military is having a hard time filling out the ranks. We'll debate

why that is and whether Top Gun Maverick can save them. Congress might finally have a deal to

fix an archaic piece of election law and Americans are blowing big bucks in Europe. So if we're

lucky, Ravi might finally show us some pictures of that Italian villa he's been eyeing. But first things,

first, it's hot.

It's really, really hot outside. Hundreds of millions of people across the globe are facing scorching temperatures this week as President Biden takes ale after ale on his ambitious climate agenda.

Last month, the Supreme Court decided to limit the EPA's ability to regulate carbon emissions

from power plants.

And just last week, Senator Joe Manchin told Democrats that he would not support a bill with

new spending on climate change.

Until we see the July inflation figures, until we see the July basically federal reserve

rates, interest rates, then let's wait until that comes out so we know that we're

going down the path that won't be inflammatory to add more to inflation. Inflation is absolutely

killing many, many people. They can't buy gasoline. They have a hard time buying groceries. Everything

they buy and consume for their daily lives is a hardship to them. And can't we wait to make sure that we do nothing to add to that? Robbie, we'll get to the White House here in a little, but what's going on with these heat waves that we're experiencing? Yeah, I think every year, it seems, brings us new records. And I think you have to just look across the globe and say, like, you know, not argue by anecdote, but just say, is this the hottest it's ever

been? Is the trend heading in a bad direction? I think by and large, we're in really bad shape.

And I think, you know, I think back to, you know, Adam McKay was on the Smartless podcast a few

months ago. And he was talking about record heat that we were seeing in Alaska. And he said

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