Deflating Balloon-gate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00 How should Republicans counter Biden’s blue-collar messaging?14:19 The disturbing thing balloon-gate reveals about the Dems23:58 The Fetterman health crisis30:42 Twitter’s Elon algorithm39:52 Are women more conciliatory than men?42:47 Is Biden pushing Zelensky toward the negotiating table?56:29 An underappreciated risk of arming Ukraine59:26 Parrot room preview: Bob drops some hip-hop knowledge; an AI-war reversal and the dangers of “stochastic parrots”; trans activists taking names; Mickey’s quantum-physics-related pitch for Bob’s next book; new Epstein docs
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded February 17, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Report to you on the state of the union. |
| 0:11.3 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:12.0 | Because of the hard work. |
| 0:13.4 | Hey, is that Bill? |
| 0:13.7 | High purpose of the American people. |
| 0:14.9 | Oh, that is? |
| 0:15.8 | These are good times. |
| 0:16.6 | What is he doing? |
| 0:18.1 | Delivering a state in the union speak? |
| 0:21.0 | Correct. |
| 0:21.7 | And what year? |
| 0:22.4 | Because of the hard work. |
| 0:23.7 | 1990 something? |
| 0:26.6 | No, well, you have seven more guesses, but it was 1988 |
| 0:30.9 | right after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. |
| 0:35.7 | And he... |
| 0:36.3 | 1999... |
| 0:37.3 | 98. 98, sorry. And he... 1999, 1998. |
| 0:38.2 | 98. |
| 0:39.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:40.5 | And, you know, everybody was wondering, |
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