Epstein’s Friends, ChatGPT Goes to Washington, Durham Report Spin, School Funding Cliff?
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Chatupit's 38-year-old CEO testified to Congress Tuesday, urging them to regulate his own company and their industry, |
| 0:08.5 | will take stock of what he said and what Congress is likely to do. Then, Special Counsel John Durham unveiled this much-anticipated report on Monday, |
| 0:17.3 | investigating the conduct of the FBI concerning allegations of Donald Trump's alleged |
| 0:22.0 | connections with Russia will unpack what he had to say as well as the battle to spin the conclusions. |
| 0:28.1 | And finally, does more school funding equal better results? A new study sheds light on this |
| 0:33.4 | age-old ed policy debate at a time when federal dollars are drying up. We'll discuss all that |
| 0:39.1 | and more. This is The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, Ricky, I was reading |
| 0:53.1 | The New Yorker this morning. |
| 0:54.5 | Saw your name in there, an article about the club for the canceled. |
| 0:58.1 | What's going on here? Yes. How come I'm not invited to this club? I don't think you've been canceled yet. Do you want me to take you down with me? But you haven't been either, have you? I think I'm probably not the most loved person at my former campus. It would be one way to put it for sure. But- Well, catch our audience up. What is this? I have this, a friend of mine named Pamela Pereske. She's a psychologist. She worked on the coddling of the American Mind with Greg and John. And she's, during like the lockdown, I met her on Clubhouse back when that was still a thing. |
| 1:30.8 | And then she started like making this group that she called the Thought Criminals, which I always went to the name. |
| 1:36.1 | I don't love the name. |
| 1:37.3 | But it's like a bunch of really random eclectic, like writers and journalists and professors and stuff who all feel as though they |
| 1:46.2 | would like a forum to have different kinds of conversations. They don't think they can have |
| 1:50.3 | kind of just out and about in New York at in polite company at cocktail parties. So a New Yorker. |
| 1:57.0 | And the New Yorker is on to you. Yeah. They came to profile the group and I made my little New Yorker debut. |
| 2:03.9 | I think it was like a relatively positive piece. |
| 2:08.3 | I was nervous about what the spin would be. |
| 2:10.7 | I think she did a good job of just kind of objectively surveying the room of. |
| 2:14.7 | Admittedly, like we're a very bizarre rag tag group of folks. But, you know, |
| 2:20.1 | it was fun. It's interesting. We'll link to it in the show notes. It's quite a read. I do agree. |
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