Can the Ukraine War Be Ended Soon? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Mickey’s French election update ... What Macron and Biden (should) have learned re: Ukraine ... Bob’s brilliant idea for a Biden ceasefire proposal ... Bob vs. Anne Applebaum on negotiating with Russia ... How prolonging the war could make Putin more dangerous ... Will Elon Musk end Twitter’s reign of blue-check terror? ... Is AOC the 2024 candidate we’ve been waiting for? ... Bob comes to collect on his New Year’s covid prediction ... Disney’s “niche sexuality” promotion and other signs of Dem midterm doom ... Sarah Palin—and her totally human hands—run for congress ... Parrot Room preview: Bob and Mickey agree in disagreeing with a recent Richard Hanania essay, David McCormick campaign update, Jan. 6 seven hour gap discussion part two, are electric cars really the future?, the Tiger Woods comeback, mystery Ukrainian soldier rabbit hole, William Burns memoir, exercising cognitive empathy for Trump, Bob’s underappreciated Will Smith take, and does Ray Dalio pass Mickey’s BS test? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.8	Hi, Mickey.
0:10.5	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	You're holding up a picture of three frogs, Mickey.
0:14.8	And I'm kind of baffled as to what you have in mind here.
0:19.1	Do you want to give me a clue?
0:20.6	It's the French election on Sunday, Bob.
0:23.2	Three frogs.
0:24.1	Ah, yes.
0:24.8	Frogs is what we used to call French people.
0:27.9	Back when we used unflattering appellations for national.
0:31.8	Well, no.
0:32.9	See, I knew you were going to say that, Bob.
0:35.5	I have an excuse, which is the up-and-coming right-wing candidate Jean-Marie LaPen,
0:44.0	Le Pen, has in fact issued this quote for why people are afraid of her victory.
0:52.7	Scare maugering, which entails saying that unless Emmanuel Macron is reelected, it will be a crisis,
0:58.7	the sun will be extinguished, the sea will disappear and will suffer an invasion of frogs.
1:05.6	No longer works, a pan told RT.
1:09.1	You fooled me.
1:10.2	You fooled me.
1:10.8	The frog reference, I got totally wrong.
1:14.4	So she is, she is invoking a horrible slur on herself.
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