DeSantis Does Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00 Mickey’s mind-bending analogy between romance and politics 5:11 Bob triggered by DeSantis’s “territorial dispute” line about Russia-Ukraine 21:29 How to prevent the next bank collapse? 32:03 Was “wokeness” behind SVB’s demise? 36:56 Ukraine war update 47:53 Are Democrats ditching Israel? 51:50 Winners and losers of Iran-Saudi détente 58:15 Parrot room preview: Mickey’s quibble with Bob’s AI piece; SBF news; Silicon Valley’s campaign to ban TikTok; the sad state of the Metaverse; RIP Jim Gordon; Summer of Soul; Is DeSantis too wine-track? Too beer-track? Who cares?; New segment: Brushes with Greatness
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded March 17, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcasts. |
| 0:34.1 | Hi, Mickey. |
| 0:35.9 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:37.9 | So who is this? |
| 0:39.9 | Is it Jim Gordon, |
| 0:41.9 | famous rock drummer who died after killing his mother? |
| 0:45.3 | Is it Joe Jackson, |
| 0:47.9 | famous imitation Elvis Costello singer? |
| 0:50.9 | Or is it Glenn Yonkin, |
| 0:55.3 | governor of Virginia? |
| 1:00.3 | I was going to say it looked like a young Walter Isaacson, but that's not on the menu. |
| 1:01.9 | Glenn Yonkin. |
| 1:03.1 | Correct. |
| 1:09.8 | And so here's my completely absurd train of thought. |
| 1:14.2 | Joe Jackson wrote, has this song called, |
| 1:16.4 | Won't you be my number two? |
| 1:18.7 | Me and number one are through, okay? |
| 1:24.6 | But I have found that when you're interested in a woman and you're like the second in line and she breaks up with number one. Number two, you'll never, you're dead. |
| 1:31.4 | She never goes out with number two. |
| 1:33.3 | She doesn't? |
| 1:34.4 | Does it? |
| 1:34.9 | No. |
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