Welcome to The Lost Debata Show for Political Ecclectics.

I'm Ravi Gupta.

And I had an interview I was going to share with you today, but I promised you at the beginning

of the year that I will only share interviews that I think are worth your time.

And that said interview was a swing and a miss.

So I'm going to give you a shorter pod.

I'm only going to share with you what I plan to share at the beginning of the pod.

And before I do that, a couple of quick things. One is I have this group called Squadra. It's a fitness crew that I've been running, I don't know, for six or seven years now. And it's a group of people who track certain healthy habits and workouts and compete against each other, both as teams and

individuals. It's kind of like a color wars for fitness and wellness. And we're starting our new season,

our 2026 season. So you can sign up at join squadra.com. That's join squadra.com. We also throw that in the show

notes. And yeah, we've been doing it. We've had listeners to this

podcast and others join in. And it's a lot of fun. And it's, we tend to launch the season right

about now when your sort of New Year's resolutions have faded from memory. But with that,

I think, like there's so much news this week I could talk about. I think a good place to start is the Epstein release.

And I think there's been so much chatter about so many of the people named in the list.

And I'll get to some of that.

But I think the most shameful part of this latest chapter of the Epstein saga is that they released these files

with unredacted images. It appears to be some unredacted images of minors. It seems the New York

Times came across at least 40 of these and had to go back to the Justice Department and tell

them to redact them. So I think there's something really off about

this frenzy for information. Robbie, I never know how to say his name, Robbie Swab, Suave,

Swave, Swave, from Reason. He wrote a piece in the free press about how we may come to regret the

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