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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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0:00 Bob hoodwinks the fashion police 3:54 Predictions for the new year 11:53 The pros and cons of “nepotocracy” 14:05 Predictions for the new year (cont’d) 19:45 Impromptu Ukraine war update 21:51 The top 3(ish) stories of 2022 28:59 Is Twitter salvageable? 44:20 The true threat of Twitter (according to Mickey) 50:24 Mickey’s underreported and overreported stories of the year 59:56 What did the Jan. 6 committee miss? 1:03:18 Bob’s perverse theory on why the GOP would be wise to drop the Hunter Biden thing 1:06:19 Parrot room preview: The root cause of homelessness; legalize cocaine? Why stop there?; The SBF clawback; signs that the tide is turning on wokeness; Bob’s grand quasi-unified MKUltra-lab leak theory; three bonus predictions from Mickey; Bob checks into 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 December 23, 2022.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast. |
0:08.0 | Hey, Mickey. |
0:09.6 | Hey, Bob. |
0:11.0 | Look, that's a picture of who is that? |
0:14.3 | That's some politician I should recognize, huh? |
0:16.5 | Who is, is that? |
0:17.2 | That's not, no, who is that? |
0:19.5 | Future Speaker of the House, Steve Scalise. |
0:22.4 | Steve Scalise. |
0:23.3 | He was once shot, right? |
0:24.7 | He was shot. |
0:25.3 | Right. |
0:25.9 | But he's not, Kevin McCarthy is supposed to be Speaker of the House, but I'm confidently |
0:31.8 | predicting that Steve Scalise will in fact be the Speaker of the House. |
0:37.2 | Now, you mentioned the word prediction, actually mentioned the word predicting, but we're going to make predictions because this is our special New Year's. |
0:43.7 | Right. And we all know the consequences that fall on somebody who makes a wrong prediction. |
0:51.0 | They are expelled from the, you know, you just can't make a living if you're a pundit who makes a bad prediction. They are expelled from the, you know, you just can't make a living if you're, |
0:56.0 | if you're a pundit who makes a bad prediction. Or we're still a bad recommendation. Like if you |
1:00.8 | suggest we invade some country, it doesn't go well, you're gone. You're gone. You're kicked |
1:05.4 | out of the foreign policy establishment. But I digress. So anyway, if people are like that. |
1:10.1 | Why is Bob wearing, you know, lapel? A pink moo-moo. Is that a pink moo-moo? It's a bow-tie. Look, bow. It's a bow-tie. This is New Year's. Where's your bow-tie? And it's more like a watermelon color. This isn't some joke you've prepared your... No, it's. It's a bow. It's a bow. And I tied it. It looks a little like you're wearing a dress. Well, I have, we're going to leave people. You know what's going to happen in the parrot room? The camera is going to pan downward. We're going to find out find out but that's you got to pay for that |
1:45.0 | it also says something on your address oh yeah it says uh it says uh what does it say you're |
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