Biden vs. Xi, Tucker vs. Trump (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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4:24 Biden’s soak-the-rich budget: big news or borefest? 16:03 How Biden insulting Xi Jinping endangers Ukraine 23:38 Bob finds another reason Biden shouldn’t run for re-election 27:54 Ukraine war update 35:53 Nordstream’s hobbyist saboteurs 43:05 Tucker Carlson outed as anti-Trump phony 52:00 Parrot Room preview: Gavin Newsom takes on Walgreens; Twitter community notes annoy Mickey; Semafor's China racket; Bob’s Washington Post lab leak piece; Peter Thiel’s techno-optimism

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded March 10, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:07.6	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.0	Hey, Bob.
0:10.3	Hey, you look pretty natty.
0:12.0	You hadn't do a senior prom or something there.
0:13.7	You got a coat and tie on.
0:16.4	I decided we should join in the new trend in business, Bob, which is premiumization.
0:22.0	Premium.
0:22.4	I haven't heard about that.
0:23.4	Why don't you share that?
0:24.5	You take an ordinary product like you.
0:28.3	Say, say, Cafe Boostolo, a very good product, great coffee.
0:32.3	And you bring out a premium version and you charge more for it because it's premium, Bob.
0:38.3	It's premium.
0:39.2	Are we looking at premium Mickey right before our eyes?
0:42.5	You're looking at premium Mickey and you charge more and you take advantage of the affluent
0:47.0	share of the market, okay?
0:48.8	And you fuck the poor share of the market.
0:51.7	You sort of abandon them, except always, it seems, the premium version is actually no better
0:58.1	than the ordinary version.
0:59.6	In fact, in Café Bustelo, it's worse than the ordinary.
1:03.4	So I think we can con our viewers similarly by promising a premium version, charging them
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