Like you said, money is truly the true religion in this country.

It is where people's loyalties lie, not to flag, not to each other, not to human rights.

And I don't expect this to get any better anytime soon.

Welcome to the Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Corey Bradford. Well, Corey, you've now been in New York a little while during the heart of holiday season. How's it going for you? It's going a little weird. I wasn't aware that you all put loud speakers of Christmas music like on light poles and just blurt it out for the whole city to hear. I never seen that any other city i've lived in well you know one related phenomenon in new york that i find fascinating are people who have external speakers on their bicycles as they're going down the street and it just takes a certain kind of person to just be like whatever i'm listening to everybody's going to listen to right now yeah i've noticed that on the subway as well it's like you guys are really big into letting everybody in onto your musical taste yeah i've got to think

about what my song will be when i play it when i walk down the street but big decision but we have

some big news here at lost debate as a company yeah we announced yesterday afternoon that we

have a fund that it's a multi-million dollar fund that we're going to be using to fund content that combats

polarization and we're leaving it purposely general it could be content in the

arts and sports and obviously politics and news sure if you go to our website

which is lost debate.com you can find a link it. I think the link says pitch a show,

and you could find out how to just tell us about your ideas. And it shouldn't take you a ton of

time. If you've got really good ideas, we're going to be sifting through them and interviewing

people for content in 2022 that we're going to support. Yeah, this is your opportunity to,

you know, if you ever wanted to have an idea that you wanted to put out there for the whole world to see, this is your opportunity to get something out there into the world. Well, what's happening in the world, Corey? Well, let's talk a little bit about that. Today we're going to be talking about a conflict over a key metal that is used in electric vehicles. We're going to talk about a new poll that

reveals that the majority of young people believe our democracy is in some deep trouble.

Ravi sits down with Liz Wolf, a libertarian writer for reason. They're going to be discussing

vaccine mandates. I'm really excited to hear that conversation, by the way. And we're also

going to be talking about a country that everyone seems to talk about but nobody seems to be able

to talk about in the right way according to their standards and that is the country of China.

So let's just get right into it. It just seems like every time someone opens up their mouth about

China here in America, they almost have to just like go, oh, I'm sorry. You know, I couldn't say that.

You know, yeah. What's going on with this?

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