Putin's prickly chef, Trump's town hall (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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0:15 The food fight within Russia’s military establishment7:50 Could Ukraine’s looming offensive succeed? 12:44 The foreign policy Blob’s biggest blind spot 19:00 Was Trump’s town hall performance a tactical blunder?26:57 Is DeSantis’s attack on Disney anti-democratic?34:54 Tucker moves to Twitter

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded May 12, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:34.0	Hi, Mickey.
0:35.8	Hey, Bob.
0:36.7	How you doing?
0:38.5	I'm doing fine. Good, Mickey. Hey, Bob. How you doing? I'm doing fine.
0:40.6	Good, good.
0:43.5	Listen, Mickey.
0:45.4	I'd like to start this week with a little news quiz for you.
0:49.2	Okay.
0:50.9	The questions are going to get harder as they go along, so I hope you handle this first one okay, all right?
0:56.0	So can you either name this person or give me this person's job description?
1:05.0	He's either a random Twitter head or it's Zelensky, the head of Ukraine.
1:10.5	Correct. It's Zelensky, the head of Ukraine. Now, here's another person. Can you either name
1:15.7	him or give me his job description? Oh, he's a tough one. He looks Russian.
1:22.5	You got it. Keep going. But is that is that the Wagner Group guy?
1:29.0	You got it.
1:29.6	Progoshin, you're two for two.
1:31.4	You're cooking.
1:32.1	Now, the big question is, which one this week accused the other one of lying?
1:38.2	And what was this specific allegation?
1:43.6	Zelensky accused Progobin of lying when he said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive
1:49.0	had started.
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