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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Lost Debate Show, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And today, unfortunately, young Ricky Schlaught is sick. So we're going to be doing something special today. First, we're going to wish her a speedy recovery. But the original plan was for me to just jump on here and Stephen A. Smith this recording and just talk through the issues of the day, which is essentially
0:23.3	what we're going to do, but I feel like I didn't want to do that alone. So I'm going to welcome
0:27.0	on two of our producers here at The Lost Debate. Some people who make this thing work behind the
0:33.0	scenes, Mickey Ayub and Monica Espitea. Mickey is our producer of the Lost Debate Show.
0:38.9	Monica is also a producer at the Lost Debate Show and Pulsolupendolo, our Spanish language show, among other shows.
0:45.2	Mickey and Monica, welcome to the podcast.
0:47.0	Hell yeah.
0:47.6	Happy to be here.
0:48.8	Happy to be here too.
0:50.6	You are also two of our Latin American-born staff members.
0:55.1	Mickey, you hail from Brazil, Monica, from Colombia.
0:58.8	So we can bring a little bit of that Latin flavor here.
1:03.1	We need it.
1:03.6	You know, spice things up a little bit.
1:05.4	Well, you know, Ricky went down to Memphis guys for this freedom fest.
1:10.9	And my sense is maybe a little bit too much freedom.
1:13.0	Maybe too much of anything is a bad thing.
1:15.3	Yeah, definitely too much freedom down there.
1:17.1	I'm so curious to hear what, like, her takes on it.
1:20.0	To me, it sounds like an exciting, really funny combination of a bunch of strange people
1:26.5	haven't chatted about freedom. I'm excited to hear
1:29.4	all about that. Yeah, maybe it's like the more cowbell thing. It's like, you know, I have a
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