Is Putin Tanking in Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mickey engineers an unholy Bob Wright-Michael McFaul chimera ... Is Putin losing or winning slowly? ... What China stands to gain and lose from war in Ukraine ... Bob: Biden’s approach to China seems to be driven by politics, not diplomacy ... Is Xi’s leadership on shaky ground? ... Bob: China is not seeking to impose its political system on the world ... Climate change as the tip of the apocalypse iceberg ... Is Zelenskyy the hero US media makes him out to be? ... How Biden’s Ukraine policy may affect Democrats at the polls ... Iran nuclear talks enter the on-again part of the cycle ... Ten things we got wrong in the pandemic ... Parrot Room preview: Hunter Biden, anti-Asian hate crimes, civil service reform, the Michael McFaul Apology of the Week, OJ Simpson and Natalie Wood theories continued, Oliver Stone’s Ukraine doc, some mild venting about Timothy Snyder, Mickey reveals the results of his Jeffrey Toobin-Jeffrey Goldberg-Vladimir Putin poll, Steve Earle, Mickey’s favorite piece of writing of the week, some studies say preschool sucks, Ketanji Brown Jackson and pedophilia, and Bob talks about a dream ...

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nonzero.org/subscribe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:09.0	Hey, Mickey.
0:11.3	Oh, is this this week's news quiz?
0:13.7	You're going to show me somebody?
0:15.7	I've been doing some.
0:17.9	Oh, my God.
0:18.6	Oh, my God.
0:18.8	Photographic investigation, Bob.
0:37.8	What, is that me morphing into Michael McFall? That's horrifying. Obviously, this guy is your brother. I mean, look at the nose. The nose is exactly the same when I morph, your face morphed in your face more than McFall. Your chin is the same. Your cheeks are the same. This is the most convincing thing since Chelsea Clinton and Webb Hubble. I'm having an anxiety. You're obviously related. And your
0:44.4	temperaments are similar to. You mean we keep doing stupid things we have to apologize for?
0:51.2	I mean, you're both hot-headed. Yeah. But he actually does more things that he,
0:57.0	well, actually does apologize for. Maybe I should have. In fact, there's a, there's a Michael
1:01.1	McFaul apology of the week that we can get to eventually. But, uh, oh God. Okay, enough, enough. Put
1:09.0	it away. We should, for our list, for people who are just listening,
1:12.4	Mickey, demonstrating a level of software prowess that I never would have predicted,
1:19.7	found, came up with some kind of gift thing that morphs back and forth between my, my face and
1:25.1	Michael McFalls, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, who probably
1:31.0	has done as much as anybody to cause the war in Ukraine. I don't mean that in a bad way.
1:36.0	Not as much as Victoria Newland.
1:40.0	Well, you know, they work together. They were in the same administration at the same time. In fact, I think he stepped down as ambassador just as that was the moment it happened or something like, I think I better go. But anyway, there was an eerie similarity between your features and Michael McFault. I don't see it.
2:06.3	I've always thought he looked a little like Jeff Daniels, something that no one's ever said I did.
2:10.0	He's certainly more ruggedly handsome than I am.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nonzero, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nonzero and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.