A Biden Comeback? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Rip Van Kaus awakens to a frightening new reality ... Bob and Mickey scan the dial for better Christian music ... Did the Taliban sell out Ayman al-Zawahiri? ... Bob: Weapons sent to Ukraine will end up in US extremists’ hands ... Why did Nancy Pelosi go to Taiwan? ... If Trump had been reelected, would Putin have invaded Ukraine? ... Ukraine War update ... Are pro-choice Kansas voters also pro-Democrat? ... Mickey: My fears about Democratic midterm gains look more and more realistic ... Joe Manchin zags his way into supporting BBB ... Biden manages to avoid stagflation (for now) ... Parrot Room preview: Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Brittney Griner, Monkeypox, Jonah Goldberg, the (possible) fascism of JD Vance and Blake Masters, Mickey’s beef with Chris Murphy, Mikey’s defense of mansplaining, the end of social media, a small wrinkle in the midterms, Obnoxious Use of the Word “Agency” of the Week, the third party question, John Fetterman, and the LIV Tour antitrust suit ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:09.0	Hey, Mickey, you look like you belong at some kind of like Hawaiian Lua.
0:14.7	I think we got a glitch, though.
0:16.0	I mean, you got the sunglasses on and the cool outfit, but your headphone wire seems have gotten tangled up. Okay, we got that problem. Bob, is that you? Yeah, I know. You can't. I just woke up. We're not doing one this week, right? Actually, we are. It was last week we took off, and as you may have noticed, we take one week off in World War III almost breaks out in Taiwan. Well, I went to do something happen? I went to sleep and I just woke up. Like, it's two weeks later?
0:43.9	I should describe you for the benefit of our... I set the alarm wrong.
0:48.4	Or audio audio. I said it for two weeks instead of one week.
0:51.9	So you got these Ray Charles sunglasses on. You got a Hawaiian Lua shirt and then you've grown a beard. You're growing a beard. What is that? Why? Not a beard, Bob. What is it? Just whiskers? It's like a, it's like a, it's like, I don't know, it's like chin hair and a, and a mustache. I mean clearly it's a, oh my God, a Van Dyke.
1:15.0	Van Dyke's look good on me.
1:16.5	It's a good look.
1:17.2	I've exhausted, I've exhausted all other options.
1:20.2	I think it's an improvement over the top of my head.
1:23.1	It's an improvement over the previous Mickey, and we'll just leave it at that.
1:27.2	Except the problem is it's whites.
1:30.0	Well, it's Christian formula.
1:32.1	That confers dignity, and frankly, you could use a little of that.
1:37.5	Already with the invective.
1:40.2	Sorry.
1:41.1	It just kind of piled up.
1:43.1	It piled up over the two weeks.
1:45.7	I was, for anybody who may have not even tried to check in last week, we weren't here.
1:51.0	I was at a family reunion in Georgia where, sadly, the only of my siblings who didn't vote for Trump did not show up.
2:00.9	So I was outnumbered three to one.
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