Putin’s Spartacus Problem (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:04 Mickey bats .500 on this week’s news quiz 5:19 Gen. “Spartacus” and other Russians with attitude 17:01 What (or who) is impeding peace in Ukraine? 24:00 What Biden has that other possible Dem candidates don’t 36:04 What Trump’s messaging has that DeSantis’s doesn’t 39:41 Untangling Threads’s early days 53:06 Parrot Room preview: AI update; the mysterious Gal Luft; the irony of Klaatu’s speech; Mickey’s diversity epiphany; Canadian euthanasia initiative; Silo spoilers; AMC Pacer maker passes; Bob’s China vindication; Alan Arkin speech debate round three

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded July 13, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:32.9	Hi, Mickey.
0:34.7	Hey, Bob.
0:35.9	How you doing?
0:38.1	I'm doing okay.
0:39.9	It's not as hot here as it is everywhere else.
0:43.2	Congratulations.
0:44.4	So we're basking in beautiful weather.
0:47.9	So today's Thursday.
0:49.2	We should have said that last week.
0:50.4	We're recording on Thursday this week and we did last week in case there's any big story
0:55.6	we missed. It breaks on Friday. This probably won't persist, but we don't know. What's that?
1:01.6	We're going to miss the big Tucker Carlson debate, which isn't really a debate. It's just
1:05.5	interviewing candidate at Syriottam. On Twitter? No, in Iowa.
1:12.1	A crucial first caucus in the nation state.
1:16.6	Who's going to be there?
1:17.6	Well, actually, you know what?
1:20.0	The news quiz I'm going to lead with may lead toward this.
1:23.7	Okay.
1:25.1	Shoot.
1:25.7	Your news quiz has four parts.
1:28.1	Okay.
	...

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