Blue Checks and Red Ripples (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00 Mickey mourns the fate of his midterm hopes and dreams 12:14 What the midterm results mean for 2024 19:30 Who wins in a Trump v. DeSantis civil war? 23:44 Bob’s plan to boot Biden from the 2024 ticket 29:41 Will Musk chicken out on his blue check shake-up? 35:46 The Twitter business model Musk may be banking on 46:12 Parrot room preview: Ukraine update; more Twitter business model talk; Metaverse vibe check; Errol Morris’s Leary love story; questioning “blame Trump” midterm post-mortems; is America getting nicer?; Mickey’s ongoing lessons on how to talk to a liberal; critiquing Chamath Palihapitiya’s critiques of journalism

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded November 11, 2022.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:05.0	Hello, Mickey.
0:08.0	I don't see anything. It's all blacky you're in.
0:12.0	Oh, we have music.
0:14.0	You know, on Russian TV when Brezhnev dies or something bad happens?
0:20.0	They play, what is that, Tchaikowski or something?
0:23.4	Somber classical music.
0:25.1	Oh, okay?
0:26.8	Uh, and it's not a good day for Mickey.
0:30.6	No, I think you've opened a...
0:32.6	Oh, and you're dressed in black.
0:34.8	It's like your morning.
0:37.8	Wait, is that Wagner? Is that Wagner? Is that Wagner? Is this, uh, that's what Steve Bannon
0:42.4	would have chosen? Is that what you chose? It looks like it's barber.
0:47.9	Oh, is that a guy here for strings? Yes, but it might be Tzegovsky.
0:53.4	It could be barber. It sounds familiar.
0:56.2	So, listen, Mickey. I just wanted to send my condolences.
1:00.9	Well, it's pretty grim. I mean, as we go, as we start recording, it looks like the Republicans are going to gain the House, but it's not a sure thing.
1:16.8	Good.
1:17.4	Good.
1:17.9	John King, when they did a thing on CNN about the four seats that they would have to, Democrats would have to win, including Lauren Boberts in Colorado.
1:30.1	And it's possible, but the odds are against it. Likewise, the odds are against the Republicans
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