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Lost Debate

Epstein Diversions, Russia-gate Revisionism, Gen Z Sex

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ravi kicks off the show with the latest update in the Epstein scandal — a resurfaced birthday letter allegedly sent from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. He unpacks the implications of Trump's denial, the GOP's strategic calls to "release the list," and what's really at stake in the fight over grand jury testimony. From there, he turns to Trump's latest attacks on Obama, FEMA, and the U.S. dollar, connecting the dots between the President's social media meltdowns, a hollowed-out disaster response agency, and the economic fallout of chaotic trade policy. Carter Sherman then joins the show to talk about her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future, which explores Gen Z’s shifting attitudes toward sex, porn, dating apps, and sexual education. Ravi and Carter discuss how digital culture, incel ideologies, and the collapse of comprehensive sex ed are shaping the next generation’s understanding of intimacy and power. -- Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Ravi at @RaviMGupta Notes from this episode are also available on Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch at @thebranchmedia Listen to more episodes of Lost Debate on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Listen to more episodes of Lost Debate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xR9pch9DrQDiZfGB5oF0F

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Lost Debata show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And in a little bit,

0:04.8

we're going to hear from Carter Sherman, who is a journalist who wrote a book called The Second

0:09.0

Coming, Sex and the Next Generation's Fight over its future. It's all about Gen Z and younger

0:14.3

millennials and just trends about sex within that generation or those two generations,

0:22.4

going from everything from dating apps to pornography to sex education. And so we'll hear from her in a second. But before we get there,

0:29.9

some news from the past week. Obviously, we talked about Epstein last week. There's been some

0:35.4

reporting since the Wall Street Journal had this story.

0:38.8

I think that dropped at the end of last week.

0:40.5

It might have been Friday, July 17th, whichever date that is, that alleged Trump wrote a,

0:45.5

as they call it, body letter to Epstein, which was included in an album assembled by Glein.

0:52.9

I think I've been saying Gislane, Glein Maxwell for Epstein's 50th

0:57.3

birthday in 2003. This was a typewritten letter arranged inside a sketch of a woman's nude silhouette

1:04.6

with a signature that sensibly is from Trump that would have been where the pubic hair was.

1:11.5

And the letter had some cryptic things in it, like, happy birthday, and may every day be another

1:16.8

wonderful secret, which seems almost designed to stoke the conspiracy theorists out there.

1:22.9

Trump responded by saying that the letter is fake, and he wrote on truth social. These are not my words,

1:28.4

not the way I talk. Also, I don't draw pictures. Our friend of the pod who's been on here many

1:34.5

times, Isaac Saw from Tangle wrote the following. He said, Trump has a well-documented history of

1:39.4

drawing. This may seem kind of silly, but a key part of Trump's and his surrogates denials is that

1:43.6

he would never send someone a note, including some kind of a doodle.

1:46.9

Donald Trump Jr., for instance, said, in 47 years, I've never seen him doodle once.

1:51.5

Give me a break with fake journalism.

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