Putin Makes His Move (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Putin’s big speech: nothingburger, nuclear nightmare, or something in between? ... Why an escalating Ukraine war is so easy to envision ... All the ways DeSantis is Trump 2.0 ... Biden cools it on the anti-MAGA rhetoric ... Italy’s MAGA-like party heats up ... Crunching the midterm election numbers ... What’s wrong with Biden committing to defend Taiwan against China? ... Parrot Room preview: GOP’s new Contract for America; What is national conservatism?; reviewing Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless; Trump’s spoon-bending powers; does AI have cognitive empathy? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.9	Hey, Mickey.
0:11.6	Oh my gosh, Mickey.
0:12.9	Are you the arm and hammer guy?
0:15.6	You got a glove.
0:16.5	You got an old-fashioned kind of anvil-type hammers.
0:20.4	You obviously haven't been following the Ukraine news, Bob.
0:23.7	Actually, I've paid a little of attention.
0:27.1	Russians are Googling how to break your arm to get out of military service.
0:31.6	Ah.
0:32.4	And I Googled it, and it's very unhelpful.
0:36.3	It doesn't actually tell you how to break your arm.
0:39.3	I mean, the best...
0:40.3	This is why they're losing the war me.
0:42.7	The best I could think of was to take this big fucking hammer that I found in the garden
0:48.6	and smash my arm.
0:50.2	But try it.
0:51.5	I don't think I'm going to try it.
0:52.7	But the second best thing is to be skateboarders, because if you're a skateboarder,
0:57.8	you will eventually break your arm.
0:59.4	That's what you should tell them that.
1:02.1	But I thought it would be trivializing the war for me to actually show a skateboard.
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