Parrot Room: Touch my beak and I’ll buy you a horse

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

The inevitable Musk sex scandal. Musk is better at Twitter than Trump. Who picked Johnny Depp as the anti-Me-Too poster boy? Bob got addicted to the Depp-Heard trial and he doesn’t know why. The hard case Tucker Carlson critics are ducking. Bob lets Mickey go on. Up to a point. What does Ron Brownstein mean by ‘transformation’ exactly? The craziest anti-deplorable. Twitter eats Ben Wittes’s brain. Zelensky lowers expectations. Biden’s charter school sellout? The three levels of Severance. Did Tucker’s mom get to him? The race to identify Biden’s core problem: Megalomania gaining down the stretch. New Jersey corruption: Just when Bob thought he was out, they pulled him back in. Why would BBB cause inflation?—Can Larry Summers be wrong? The origins of Ukrainian nationalism. Mickey’s crazy explanation of Spanish anarchism. Good news and bad news about Covid vaccination. Parrot impersonates Elon Musk singing ‘Get Rhythm’.

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0:00.0	live in the parrot room.
0:05.5	I'll buy you a horse, Bob.
0:07.4	I'll buy you a horse, Bob.
0:09.4	What's that a reference to?
0:11.9	You obviously didn't read the details of this Elon Musk charge.
0:16.1	No, I was leading that to you totally.
0:17.9	I don't get into the gutter in my own in parrot room.
0:20.1	It's weird when Musk started this whole thing with Twitter months ago, a very knowledgeable friend said he's going to get it.
0:30.3	He doesn't know what trouble he's getting into if he becomes a hate figure for the left.
0:36.1	And he certainly embraced that recently when he said
0:39.6	he was now voting Republican.
0:43.9	Oh, that tweet is making sense in light of this, because that tweet was read by some as
0:49.3	him knowing he's got dirt about to come out on him and preempting that because, right?
0:56.2	Isn't that the one we said?
0:57.1	I didn't realize that.
0:58.0	That would be one step ahead of me.
0:59.9	Totally.
1:00.5	I mean, I'll be finding the tweet because it's so, it's so perfect for that.
1:06.3	And you proceed with this, this, what I heard proceeded, long preceded this, but...
1:13.6	Musks...
1:14.6	So anyway, this...
1:18.6	This guy, John Cook, who is...
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