Post-Election Reflection Edition (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:28 Election 2024: The view from Canada 5:44 Paul praises Bob’s pre-election sermonette 10:37 Why did Trump win? And who’s to blame? 18:47 Did DEI doom Kamala? 25:32 A Kamala campaign post-mortem 33:33 What policies will President Trump 2.0 prioritize? 37:12 The art of the Trump 45:05 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded November 06, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, Paul Bloom. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello, Robert Wright. How are you? |
| 0:33.4 | Oh, I'm fine. And by the way, I'm Robert Wright of the Non-Zero Newsletter. This is the the non-zero podcast. You're Paul Blumen and Small Potato's newsletter, famous psychologist at the University of Toronto. And you know, it's funny that you should be in Canada, Paul, because I woke up this morning with a burning desire to move to Canada. I can't quite articulate why. Is something made me want to get out of America. |
| 0:56.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:57.1 | Has there been news? |
| 0:58.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:58.8 | There's been news. |
| 0:59.2 | I haven't checked the newspapers yet. |
| 1:03.2 | But I think we have a marvelous opportunity for counter programming where we don't |
| 1:07.3 | discuss the election at all, but we discuss movies we've enjoyed over time, |
| 1:11.5 | TV shows, fashion. |
| 1:13.7 | Well, I'm afraid that there's only one thing on my mind, and that's the election. |
| 1:19.1 | And you'd have an American election, not the Canadian one, which is... |
| 1:21.9 | Not the Canadian one, but I was going to... |
| 1:24.6 | I was actually going to ask you, this is relevant to last night's election in America, |
| 1:30.7 | which didn't go, as I'd hoped. |
| 1:33.2 | Should we provide people with background? |
| 1:34.8 | So the election happened last night and Trump won decisively. |
| 1:39.0 | Yeah, that's for those who didn't know. |
| 1:41.6 | That's helpful background. |
| 1:42.8 | Thank you. |
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