Musk had an uphill climb. He has tried a lot of different tactics to try to kick up dust here.

And in the end, he was headed for a pretty certain trial date and was like days away from his own deposition.

And a lot of embarrassing things could come out, but also damaging things.

Whatever he has to hide is worth $44 billion, reportedly.

Right. It's amazing how far this is gone, yet we're right back where we were in the spring.

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

I'm Robbie Gupta.

And I'm Ricky Schlaught.

Well, we got a busy show today.

We're going to talk about the ongoing battle between Elon Musk and Twitter. Is this coming to a close or is it just getting started? We're going to talk about Kanye West and some things he said about a lot of people, white lives, puff daddy, Jewish people. We also have Netflix, which is shattering records with this new series about Jeffrey Dahmer, which has prompted a debate about the ethics of true

crime. We're going to take a few violent stabs at articulating an ethical code for true crime.

And then Ricky, we're going to talk about your former college in NYU. There is a organic chemistry

professor there who had the audacity to expect the students to learn chemistry. So we're going to

dive into that controversy. But first, we have pickleball. Let me quote the guardian. There's a storm brewing on the

tennis courts of America, admittedly a very middle class, middle-aged storm, but a storm nonetheless.

Ricky, what's going on here? So pickleball, apparently there's a little bit of attention with this new

sport facing off with tennis and taking over tennis courts, but pickleball seems to be taking

the world by a storm here. It's some sort of cross between tennis, ping pong, and badminton,

but it's like played on a court, a much smaller court than a tennis court, invented by three

dads in

1965, and there's been a 39% increase in players since just 2019, 4.8 million people in the

U.S. So it's like the hot new thing. And we're seeing it everywhere. We went on a field trip

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