Russia on the Ropes? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Mickey tries to take the bromance to the next level ... An impromptu primer on longtermism ... Is Lindsey Graham's abortion proposal poison for Republicans? ... Mickey’s read on the Pennsylvania and Georgia midterm races ... Is MAGA-ism going global? ... How is Biden’s pro-democracy messaging holding up? ... Ukraine war update ... Assessing DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard migrant scheme ... Mickey v. lefty takeaways on welfare reform ... Parrot room preview: first impressions of Godard’s Breathless; Federer’s retirement; the woke campaign against food hierarchy; a pundit-y point on the Epstein case; Charlie Munger’s envy-driven-economy theory; longtermism; free speech and the Queen; ex-Google-CEO’s anti-China sentiment; Is polio making a comeback?; Comprehending the crypto “merge” ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast.
0:08.2	Hi, Mickey.
0:10.0	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	What's the deal with the hood over your face?
0:14.7	You've got it like a dark cloak over your face.
0:16.9	This is puzzling.
0:18.8	No, you're missing the point here.
0:20.6	Oh, now we're kind of like inside the... This is puzzling. No, you're missing the point here.
0:26.0	Oh, now we're kind of like inside the hood with Mickey.
0:30.0	Mickey, I'm not, oh, I thought you were about to go tubing on us.
0:31.3	What's for the candles?
0:37.8	Well, I'm queuing off one of the best quotes of the week or a quote of the week from nancy pelosi where she said that uh republicans think life starts at the candlelight dinner
0:44.4	uh so i thought i would you know maybe we could get something going here
0:50.2	a little bromance oh Oh, I see.
0:55.9	In other words,
0:58.8	life begins a conception note because before that.
0:59.7	You're right.
1:02.7	It begins when you go buy the old spice, Bob.
1:05.8	So,
1:07.7	as we used to do.
1:08.6	You know, it's,
1:09.8	you know,
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