Debatable

We celebrate our 100th episode by talking about the people behind your hosts-- our team, the Debatabeans! You can learn a lot about people by learning about the things they love, and in this episode, we learn a lot. Listen to us talk about Debate movies, how sports are like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, capitalist escapism, and more!

2021 was... A year— not quite normal, but also not as not-normal as 2020. One of the changes we saw was the continued rise of online tournaments. With this rise was a variety of debate topics we haven't seen in our community in a while. In this episode, we look at our favorite motions from 2021.

We're back with another Holiday Special! This time, we talk about the origins of Christmas, and how it has evolved into the event we love (or hate) today.

For this episode of Debatable, we explore the Finals motion of Mindanao Intervarsity 2021 which is about the Main Character Syndrome! In popular culture, the main character syndrome refers to the trend where people, mostly the youth, imagine themselves in a romanticized, fictional version of their lives. This manifests in the way people present themselves online, or even in the way people view themselves in relation to others.

Motion: This House would embrace the narrative that individuals are the main characters of their lives.

Solastalgia describes psychological trauma brought about by climate change. In this episode, we talk about how the climate crisis impacts mental health and what that could mean for environmentalist movements.

This week, we talk about a startup CEO facing trial for fraud, new developments on the Afghan refugee crisis, the "resetting" of US-Israel relations, the Pharmally Pharmaceuticals scandal, Texas' abortion ban, and a recall election in California,

Climate change skeptics have accumulated a lot of different arguments over the years with the common goal of making people doubt the role of man in the destruction of the environment. For this episode, we take a look at some of those arguments. We debunk these ideas and discuss why these arguments come about in the first place.

For this matterloading session, we discuss the top stories of the week. We focus heavily on the situation unfolding in Afghanistan. Join us as we unravel the events that led to the takeover of Kabul, and the role played by major political actors all around the world.

For this episode, we discuss the mutations of the COVID-19 virus, and what that means for all of us now and in the future.

For this matterloading session, we tackle the recent Belo Ad scandal, the misused 67 billion pesos, the new leadership in Iran, as well as Sudan’s handing over of Omal Al-Bashir to the ICC. We also talked heavily about a lot of environmental news that hit the internet this week!