After the House Speaker Drama (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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0:00 Mickey’s guide to the House Speaker drama10:29 What vexes Bob about the House Speaker vote19:19 Why Damar Hamlin’s injury wouldn’t have happened in the old days26:40 Biden’s new good cop, bad cop immigration plan32:56 Why keep sanctioning Venezuela (or Cuba, or Syria, or Iran, etc.)?38:21 Elon and the trouble with “great man” theories of tech progress44:02 Is Twitter’s new views feature a boon or b******t?59:01 Ukraine war update1:08:38 Parrot room preview: The Matt Schlapp sex scandal; Jason DeParle on welfare; Mickey’s case against “unity”; More calls for a Semafor clawback; an SBF-AIPAC connection; a second Epstein-Harvard connection; The White Lotus

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded January 6, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.8	Hi, Mickey.
0:10.4	Hey, Bob.
0:12.2	Hey, who's that a picture of Mickey?
0:14.4	This is my most obscure and bank shoddy one yet.
0:20.8	Bank shoddy. Not a basketball player. Who is that?
0:24.4	It was Gordon Brown, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister of Great Britain.
0:31.2	You think he's got a shot of Speaker of the House?
0:33.8	Well, doesn't look like he has a shot anymore, but he was an example of a guy who selflessly took himself out of contention for the top job because he realized he wasn't popular enough and ceded the top job to Tony Blair.
0:50.5	They cut a famous deal where he agreed to take the number two slot and maybe be
0:56.5	prime minister after Blair had served two terms, which he in fact did become prime minister.
1:03.9	Anyway, I thought Kevin McCarthy should step aside Gordon Brown like and make way for Steve
1:10.2	Scalise, who's by far the more popular,
1:13.2	and I think probably better speaker of the house.
1:16.1	The problem is it looks like McCarthy has pulled it out.
1:19.2	We won't.
1:19.9	Does it look like that now?
1:21.4	Yes.
1:21.7	As of 55 seconds ago,
1:24.7	Jake Sherman, who is the go-to guy, because he has a
1:29.6	issue Twitter figure for what's happening, there's going to be a vote at 10
1:35.1	p.m. Friday, which is basically the time we would release
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