Is Ron DeSantis Real? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00 Bob: On foreign policy, there is no real Ron DeSantis 10:28 The difference between right-restrainers and left-restrainers 22:33 The dangerous politics of indicting Trump 29:17 Trump’s new plan to take out the deep state 36:12 Is the war turning in Ukraine’s favor? 47:31 Why did DeSantis change the pronunciation of his name? 53:16 Parrot Room preview: Everything Everywhere All At Once speaks to Bob; SVB fallout not over; banning the word “woke”; Camaro goes out of production—or does it?; likelihood of Covid lab-leak

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded March 24, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcasts.
0:33.0	Hey, Mickey.
0:34.8	Hey, Bob.
0:35.8	Is that another picture of Glenn Yunkin? Remember this guy? Remember this guy from last week? Yeah, Mickey. Hey, Bob. Is that another picture of Glenn Yonkin?
0:38.0	Remember this guy?
0:39.2	Remember this guy from last week?
0:40.7	Yeah, yeah.
0:42.1	Well, forget about him.
0:43.6	Okay, I almost had.
0:45.1	That was almost an awkward moment when I couldn't even remember who that was.
0:49.2	What happened is he was a leading candidate to be the third guy in the race after DeSantis and Trump.
0:58.1	And this past week, DeSantis hired his campaign manager to run DeSantis' Super PAC, which is considered a signal that Yonkin is in fact not running.
1:11.6	I guess you could contrive a scenario where all the candidates fail and there's a draft for
1:18.4	Yonkine later in the year, but that's highly implausible.
1:24.2	So forget about Yon.
1:26.3	The guy's name was Jeff Rowe, I believe, who got hired away.
1:30.1	Anyway.
1:30.4	Meanwhile, DeSantis is floundering.
1:33.5	No, he isn't.
1:34.7	Oh, I'm sorry.
1:35.4	I got him mixed up with somebody else.
1:36.9	Somebody.
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