Putin’s Post-Prigozhin World (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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0:33 Mickey gets a C on the news quiz 10:11 Prigozhin postmortem: Is Putin’s regime more secure now? 17:31 The Ukraine war as “politics by other means” 20:24 The good, the bad, and the ugly of the GOP debate 25:45 Will the indictments help Trump in the general election? 34:21 Parrot room preview: Why Bob finds Vivek scary and “Rich Men North of Richmond” icky; Extraordinary Attorney Woo; Hurricane Hilary hype; retail “shrink” hits the big time; Bidenomics and E.J. Dionne; Do presidential candidates need to be optimistic?

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded August 25, 2023.

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0:00.0	Your List of You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.1	Hi, Mickey.
0:35.1	Hey, Bob.
0:36.3	How you doing?
0:38.5	I'm fine, feeling exceptionally for a boomerish, but, you know, that happens?
0:44.6	Is that a euphemism for old?
0:47.3	Well, it means I have a bad hair day, so I'm wearing a baseball hat, as we boomers do.
0:52.6	What does the hat say on it?
0:58.1	It says La Posadaada which is a fancy restaurant in winslow arizona oh so you you drive a thousand miles you wind up in
1:04.0	winslow arizona and they say wait we're going to serve you i don't know if you're up to it
1:10.0	uh there's a very is that very is that at the very corner in Winsler, Arizona, where the guy is standing on a corner?
1:17.2	No.
1:17.7	It's an old hotel by the train station.
1:21.7	It's a great restaurant.
1:22.8	They're just a little full of themselves.
1:25.3	Aren't we all?
1:26.2	So, Mickey, are you ready for the news quiz?
1:29.5	This week's news quiz?
1:30.1	I'm ready.
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:32.2	Don't ask me if progotion is dead.
1:34.7	I'm not qualified.
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