Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. Before I get it to our topic of the day, two quick announcements. Number one, where the schools went, our podcast about New Orleans, is up for the Signal Award, and they have a public voting that's been going on. I think it's only for like another day. And so we're going to link in the show notes, but you can go to the Signal Awards voting

or click in the show notes. It should take you 30 seconds or less. You could do it through your Google account. Vote for us. We're neck and neck right now. I think we're like a percent or two behind Freakonomics podcast. So if you want to put us over the top, I would really appreciate it. I am fond of reminding you that we don't charge you for this podcast.

We don't charge you for

this podcast. We don't even bother you with ads. So these little things make a difference to us

because that recognition is what fuels our work and brings more people to the work that we do.

The second thing is I have a substack, real ravi goopta.substack.com. We'll also link to that in the

show notes. And I've

been posting about stuff usually unrelated to politics or policy, although this week I made an

exception where I actually just posted a piece all about how I am been thinking differently

about how I invest. And actually, I'm going to run an experiment on this podcast show

right now. I've been thinking a lot about, about, you know, what is different about the lost

debate episodes that have done extremely well and where I hear from you, the audience, saying,

oh, that was dramatically different than anything I heard. And it's stuff like the

unbiased history of Israel, Palestine, for example. It's these kind of deep dives where I go into

a kind of didactic analysis of an issue that it's a little bit more evergreen than, say,

like an interview with somebody about a newsy topic. So I'm running an experiment by

taking some of the work that I did to write this piece all about how I've changed the way I think

about investing and actually share it as a podcast episode. And I would love to hear from you.

If you hear this and you're like, okay, this is actually super helpful. I like deep dives like

this on different issues where you kind of like lay out a whole bunch of research and

takeaways from that research on a topic that is a bit more evergreen than what you normally do.

If you like that, let me know. And also if you're like, ah, I prefer the normal episodes.

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