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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Bob v. Mickey on Trump v. Harris (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

0:28 Bob crestfallen over Mickey’s hat switcheroo 2:41 Mickey blames DEI for Kamala tic he finds annoying 8:20 Who’s less impressive, Kamala or Trump? 15:27 Why Bob prefers Kamala’s foreign policy team to Biden’s 29:46 The Vance dossier, revealed at last 34:08 More arguments about Kamala 48:08 Preliminary election analysis 59:05 Trump, Vance, and Springfield’s cats and dogs 1:09:52 Mickey’s Eric Adams conspiracy theory 1:12:02 Biden diplomacy? What Biden diplomacy? 1:23:16 Is cancel culture impotent? 1:29:02 Election predictions 1:33:28 Deeper election analysis

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded September 26, 2024.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.

0:27.4

Hi, Mickey.

0:31.4

Hey, Bob.

0:32.8

How you doing?

0:34.0

Good to see my old, uh, non-zero podcast, uh, sparring partner. I'm okay. You didn't do the 3-2-1 countdown, so you threw me. Oh, I'm sorry. Should we do it over again? So that you won't be thrown. We're rolling now, though. Yeah, no, we're picking up momentum, so we definitely shouldn't stop it now. Magic is happening. How are you doing there? What does the hat say? What does the hat say? The hat is just a, it's a generic, like, Japanese themed hat. The only hat I've ever gotten compliments for, and I don't know why that is, Bob. Very attractive. Maybe I'm exuding a charisma that, a Riz that I've never exuded before. But people like this hat.

1:12.9

What can I say?

1:13.7

Yeah, we'll stick with it.

1:14.7

It's good look.

1:15.3

The non-zero hat wore out.

1:17.7

Yeah, yeah.

1:18.7

That's a shame because that was really a good look.

1:22.1

I've got to tell people.

1:24.9

What's that?

1:25.7

People say, what does that mean?

1:27.4

And what do you say?

1:29.3

I say it means my friend who advocates win-win solutions.

1:34.8

Yeah.

1:36.0

And I'm the only one who does advocate those, by the way.

1:38.8

This is a small niche, but yeah.

1:42.2

Okay.

1:43.2

That's a good thing to say, yeah.

1:45.2

And I have my hipster coffee, and I'm in my hipster vacation retreat.

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