Biden Docs and Russia Hawks (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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2:16 Anti-gas-stove tyranny – or slow news week? 6:27 Biden’s classified docs scandal is a “granfalloon in search of a MacGuffin led by a wrang-wrang” 20:09 Did Bob Gates and Condoleezza Rice miss a chance to prevent the Ukraine war?28:21 Is the war turning in Russia’s favor? 37:05 The prospects for peace negotiations 45:56 Parrot Room preview: Biden’s pivot to help the working class; Does AI have a liberal bias?; Has woke peaked?; Matthew Yglesias' style section profile; Jeff Beck, Lisa Marie Presley, and Blake Hounshell pass away; White Lotus; Mickey’s new conspiracy theory about Kevin McCarthy.

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded January 13, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.3	Hi, Mickey.
0:10.5	Hey, Bob. I'm here in Southern California where our investigators have discovered a cache of boxes.
0:18.2	Yeah, it looks like there are all boxes behind you.
0:20.4	Why don't you move your camera a little,
0:21.8	Mickey? There are a lot of documents here, Bob. Put those boxes in the center of the
0:27.3	screen. I can't because I will lose bandwidth. But here they are. And there's an old Volvo
0:35.2	in the garage, too. And there have to be some classified documents in these boxes. There are a lot of boxes here. And the owner used to work for the government. So some of them are going to be classified. We've notified the archives. And they'll be sending investigators out here shortly.
0:48.8	Have you thought about appointing a special prosecutor, Mickey?
0:51.9	I think that will happen in due course. but it's worse than that, Bob.
0:56.1	I'm going to go inside this house and show you something else that will really shock you.
1:01.9	Looking forward to that.
1:03.6	Just a second.
1:04.9	Okay.
1:05.6	Okay.
1:06.5	Folks, this is fine hearing journalism.
1:08.7	You know, this is, we're working without a net here.
1:11.7	Mickey is testing the limits of his bandwidth, his router, his, and the patience of our audience, which probably is not going to hold out as long as his bandwidth will.
1:25.9	Oh, he's inside.
1:27.1	Okay. Now, Bob, Bob, Bob, look at this. Look, he's inside. Okay.
1:24.2	Now, Bob, Bob, Bob, look at this. Look at what's behind me. Okay. It looks like walls, a door. That's amazing. Geez, oh, a bed. I've made bed. He's bad is that. What a fuck? No, Bob. What is that? What is that there? No. An oven? An oven. a gas stove.
1:25.7	Yes, Bob.
	...

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