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Lost Debate

Ep 98 | Student Loan Setbacks, Involuntary Hospitalizations, Rat Czar

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ravi and Rikki start with the the fierce legal challenges halting President Biden’s student loan relief plan, before turning to New York’s controversial solution to a hard problem to solve: involuntary hospitalizations for the mentally ill. Finally, we stay here in New York – sorry – to talk about an exciting new opportunity in the city’s government: the Rat Czar. [0:40] Intro/Voicemail [4:09] Student Loan Relief Setbacks [20:34] Involuntary Hospitalizations [40:36] Rat Czar Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Check out our show notes: https://lostdebate.com/2022/12/07/ep-98/ Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

$400 billion in student loan relief. My sense is the Biden administration wants to just get caught trying.

0:06.6

It reminds me of growing up and we'd have a student body election every year and they would be saying,

0:10.9

oh, we're going to get a vending machine and we're going to put it in all the hallways and every single presidential candidate would promise the vending machine,

0:17.0

knowing that that is not a thing that could ever happen. I feel like it felt like a false promise to me

0:21.8

where this could actually be a really powerful area for reform.

0:33.3

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for the politically eclectic.

0:36.1

I'm Robbie Gupta.

0:37.0

And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, Ricky, did you notice a difference for the Politically Ecclectic. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Ricky Schlaught.

0:38.1

Well, Ricky, did you notice a difference in how I open this episode?

0:40.5

Speaking of the politically eclectic, we got a voicemail from Australia recently asking for some clarification from you.

0:47.4

Hi there, calling from Australia.

0:50.4

I wanted to know if at the beginning of the episode you say this is a lost debate for political

0:56.5

eclectics or for politically eclectics.

1:02.2

The OCD part of my brain isn't sure which one you're saying and which one is correct.

1:08.0

I think it's politically eclectic unless I'm wrong. Thanks for the show and

1:14.7

apologies for this useless question. Bye for now. Well, Lost debate is worldwide. It makes me

1:22.3

really excited. It also reminds me that we have, we're going remote even longer than we'd anticipated. So I'm trying to figure out where to spend the month of February. So this listener or any listeners, if you have any ideas of where I should go, I want to keep it within this time zone. Although Australia may be far enough that it kind of rewinds. It'd be like nighttime that there. Yeah, I'd just stay up all night and go to sleep during the day.

1:45.0

But he raises an interesting question and what he means by this, I've been saying,

1:49.0

Lost Debate's show for political eclectics.

1:53.0

And I think what that means is you are an eclectic who happens to be political, whereas if you're politically eclectic, your eclecticness comes from

2:03.2

politics. Well, eclectic could just be like, hey, I have varied interests. You know, I'm a

2:07.3

mountain climber and a novelist or something. But if you're politically eclectic, your eclecticness

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