Dumping Biden, Saving DeSantis (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00 Mickey’s risky quiz for Bob 7:20 Biden, Feinstein, Fetterman: Compare and contrast 12:32 Does DeSantis have a path to the presidency? 16:28 Bob’s biggest takeaway from the AI hearings 18:41 How the chip war with China makes real war more likely 29:17 What senators should have asked OpenAI’s CEO 38:47 Ukraine war update 48:09 Parrot room preview: (Not much) debt deal talk; Robert Putnam essay assessed; the Thiel-Epstein and Botstein-Epstein and Chomsky-Epstein connections; an important note on inequality; examining 12 Monkeys; Tucker; new “woke-watch” items; more AI

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded May 19, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.2	I'm Mickey.
0:35.0	Hey, Bob.
0:36.6	I'm doing fine. Picking up on your lead in from last week, I'm going to give you. Hi, Mickey. Hey, Bob. How you doing?
0:39.1	I'm doing fine.
0:42.3	Picking up on your lead in from last week, I'm going to give you a quiz.
0:43.1	Okay.
0:45.4	You have to name these three people.
0:47.4	I'm feeling very good about this.
0:50.8	And then you have to answer a question.
0:53.2	This person. Oh, man, this is so embarrassing. Oh, that's the mayor of New York,
0:58.3	is it? Correct. You know, that's not fair, you know, because if you know what happens to white people
1:04.2	who get one black person mixed up and another black person, you were going to say, oh, do they all look
1:08.4	alike to you? That's what you're going to say, right? Don't even have to say it, Bob.
1:11.9	Is this an all-black person quiz, Mickey?
1:14.2	Yes.
1:16.3	I'll give you an easy one.
1:19.5	Here's an easy one.
1:21.0	His name is Adams, by the way.
1:23.2	Let's see.
1:23.9	Is his last name Obama?
1:25.8	Correct.
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