Playing Chicken in Kyiv (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Mickey sparks up ... Mickey critiques the "Coalition of the Ascendant" ... Have Democratic positions on cultural issues turned toxic? ... Mike Pence’s defense of the RNC’s January 6 resolution ... Will the trucker protests go transnational? ... Bob: I don’t see Putin doing regime change in Ukraine ... Were defense contractors the prime mover of NATO expansion? ... Mickey: The great regreasing of the Biden Administration has begun ... Is Big Pharma funneling money to the CDC? ... Who is funding Sarah Palin’s libel suit against the NYT? ... The proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act ... Remembering P.J. O’Rourke ... Parrot Room preview: A settlement in the Epstein suit, Matt Yglesias and the demise of the Slate Pitch, the rise of Zemmour in France, are people in big cities scared of crime?, Bill Kristof sucks up to Ezra Klein, the previously untold story of how Slate started, how Jeff Zucker’s departure could lead to a better CNN, Bob’s plunge into the war in the Pacific continues, and Mickey discovers gender-inclusive bathrooms ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:10.2	Hi, Mickey.
0:12.2	Hey, Bob.
0:13.6	How you doing?
0:15.5	I'm doing okay, but I'm...
0:17.7	Smoking a little weed there, are you, buddy?
0:19.9	We.
0:20.4	This is my government issued crack pipe
0:22.4	Bob oh are those now are those part of build back better uh they're they're they they are
0:29.0	happening no they're not happening but they were going to happen despite build back better but i got
0:34.0	the crack pipe and i got my covid test. I got all of life's essentials.
0:38.8	Explain the crack pipe.
0:39.7	Brought to me by the government.
0:41.0	I'm not sure I understand the crack pipe reference.
0:43.0	I must have spent a few minutes.
0:45.0	There was a program.
0:46.5	There was a program that the government was going to send safe smoking kits to drug users.
0:52.5	There was reported on by the free beacon, and the free beacon said it included crack
0:56.3	pipes.
0:57.3	And then, of course, the media left to discredit this and say, oh, no, the crack pipes
1:03.1	are only a small part of the program.
1:04.8	Oh, no.
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