The question of Kanye is not just about him, it's about people who are enabling him.

And I think most reasonable people can agree that what Tucker Carlson did was pretty reprehensible

because what he was doing and a lot of people who are enabling Kanye is taking this guy

and picking and choosing what they want to share based on their own political goals. Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, Ricky, you got to hang out with your hero yesterday. Is that right? Yeah, I was hanging out with Andrew Yang. We did his podcast. It'll be out next week. It was very fun. He's a cool guy.

What did you guys talk about?

We talked about the midterms and then just some general bringing the kind of forward party ideas of open primaries and stuff to the New York Post audience, which I'm working on doing, which is, yeah, it was a fun interview.

He's a cool guy and very, like, authentic and very much like his public facing self in person so and what is it what does it what is it an appearance on yank's podcast look like do you do like a full hour or just yeah we did like a little under an hour um just the two of us i think there's also a video component and all that. Yeah, actually nearby our office here

as well. Oh, cool. He has like his own studio. He was in somebody else's sort of facility that he's partnered with. Well, Yang, if you're listening, come by, just record here, you know. Spend some time. You know, we're a C3, so we don't get involved in forward party politics. But, you know, If he wants to do nonpartisan activity, he's welcome to come down the streets.

But we have a couple other things going on in the world before we get to our big stories. Yes. I saw this thing on the internet, Ricky, that I saw this thing on the internet is like something like I guess your grandfather would say, but I printed out this tweet, which really is gonna age me.. I'm like a U.S. senator in a hearing

here. But Elon Musk is basically rounding out his acquisition of Twitter. He just tweeted a statement

this morning where he describes how he's going to lead Twitter. And it really sounds like a lost

debate ad. Actually, a lot of these sentences are almost, feel cribbed from a lost debate ad. He said, I'm sure that's exactly what he was looking at when he wrote it. Yeah, we should sue him for that. Or if he wants to work out some kind of settlement, I'm all ears. And so he said the following. He said, the reason I acquired Twitter is because it's important to the future of civilization

to have a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy

manner without resorting to violence.

There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into a far right wing and

a far left wing echo chambers and generate more hate and divide in our society.

He talks about clicks for money, which is also

something we've talked about in our ads. So let's stop there. He had some other interesting things to say,

but this tone is interesting. Yeah, I don't find it that surprising, honestly, maybe because I'm,

I've been less off put by some of his more abrasive

comments along these lines, but yeah, I'm all for it. So if he can kind of bring this more

refined leadership tone to the company, I think that's a great thing and I'm excited. I'm I hope that it goes as planned. Well, he also said some stuff pointed the way to certain some innovations that he may be

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