Welcome to The Lost Debata show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Ravi Gupta. Happy New Year. You

were probably getting this either at the very end of 2025 or the very beginning of 2026.

It has been an incredibly wild and interesting year. I ended it in a wild interesting fashion.

Last week, I was riding my motorcycle in Costa Rica, and I skidded out on the dirt.

I wasn't even going fast and wound up in a ditch, unable to get up.

I hurt my arm, and I thought at the time I'd broken it or worse, but couldn't get up.

Eventually, like, after 10 or 15 minutes, somebody scooped me out of the ditch and brought me to an urgent care center, and they popped my arm back into the socket. So it's the year of injuries for me. I got, I broke my wrist at the beginning of the summer playing tennis, rehabbed all summer. Now I'm rehabbing on my shoulder, even though this was a more extreme injury in many ways it's a shorter timeline so

grateful that I'm alive motorcycles are dangerous I've been worn many times by both of my

parents who are medical professionals on that so yeah they are dangerous and I find that

what's interesting is I wasn't going fast and it was like a kind of run of the mill I mean it was a

dirt road which was part of the issue but it was a run of the mill. And so the sense of control you have on a motorcycle is just much less.

But grateful that I am in one piece and grateful that I get to spend another year with you as an

audience. One thing that you will find in this coming year is that we are trying to prioritize depth moving forward. So a good example is we

actually did an interview for last week. And it was perfectly fine. But it just didn't meet the standard

of, hey, I think this is absolutely worthy of your time. And because we don't have advertising,

so we're not monetizing you as an audience. And I don't feel the need

to just put up an episode just because another week goes by. So we shelved that episode. And that

will be a common practice moving forward. I will always record for every week that we do sometimes

multiple episodes. But if none of them shake out to something that I think

is worthy of your time, we just won't post them. We'll also do more in-depth content, kind of like

what you came to expect from the Israel-Palestine side of things. And so I'll say more about that as

the year goes on. One other piece is on my substack, which is real Ravi Gupta at substack.com, I posted, I think it was like a week or two ago, something truly newsworthy.

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