You're faced with this spectacle, which is largely an advertisement for a country.

If you watch any of these matches, there's these ads, there's these animations, trying to make it seem like a great place to be.

They've asked the world to pay attention to them.

And so therefore, I think they're open to criticism.

Welcome to the Lost Debate, a Sh for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta.

And I'm Ricky Schlaught.

Well, Ricky, how was Thanksgiving?

It was nice. I was out in L.A. with my mom. No complaints. Had my vegetarian Thanksgiving.

How was yours? Is it always with your mom, not dead?

It flips back and forth, but this year just landed that way. But you did before Thanksgiving take a bit of a road trip upstate? I did. I saw that in the New York Post. Yeah. What was the headline? I said DNA reveals you're basically, you're found relatives that were psychics who spoke to the dead? Yeah, so I have no jurisdiction over the, like, headline or anything.

And I also didn't really want to write about my own family so much as this little community.

Tell us what happened. But, yeah, a while ago I did a DNA test with my dad, and I got the results back,

and I realized there are no schlots in any of his DNA matches and something's a little

off and sure enough I applied to New York State there were adoption records for him no one had ever

told him he was 80 at the time and then the next wrinkle of the story was that his birth family were

like both his mother's father's grandparents all this like part of this psychic religion in

upstate New York.

And which part of upstate are we talking about?

So they were from Rochester, but we went to this little community in Buffalo that they

are outside of Buffalo that they used to go to.

By blood lineage.

Sure.

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