The Russia-Ukraine Goldilocks Zone (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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🗓️ 15 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00 Why Mickey thinks Evan McMullin could become king of America 8:59 Herschel Walker’s “three bulls” parable 13:24 Is Fetterman ready for the debate stage? 20:45 Biden’s Saudi ask vs. Trump’s Ukraine ask 26:47 The double-edged sword of Ukrainian military success 29:59 Bob amends last week’s "client state" comments 33:18 Bob: The next few weeks will be critical for Ukraine 40:34 Elon and international affairs (cont’d) 46:42 Inflation, China chip wars, and other harbingers of global instability 55:18 Putin’s psyche and realist views of Russia 1:01:52 Parrot room preview: Ukraine’s ironic nuclear war incentives; cancellable L.A. city council commentary?; Who’s the bigger liar: Gore or Biden?; Unflattering Nikki Finke obituaries; PayPal’s crazy new misinformation policy; more Musk talk; what’s new in the Metaverse?; Serial subject’s charges dropped; a damning Maggie Haberman clip?; FiveThirtyEight bias and a point about probability
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded October 14, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | Hi, Mickey. |
| 0:09.8 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:11.1 | How you doing there? |
| 0:13.8 | Oh, you're holding up a brown paper bag. |
| 0:15.8 | Looks like the lunch bag I used to bring to school. |
| 0:18.3 | What's in it, Mickey? |
| 0:20.0 | Well, there's locally something on it. Yeah. |
| 0:24.4 | Oh, look, it's a, is that a burger? Is that a hardly, Bob? Hardly a burger. |
| 0:30.2 | Looks like a burger. But if you unwrap it, it may look like something else. I am on the edge of my |
| 0:36.2 | literal seat. What is it, Mickey? Bob, you don't recognize this |
| 0:41.9 | iconic bit of American food? Is that an Eggman muffin? Correct. Boy, what I give for one of them right now. |
| 0:50.4 | And I'm holding up the Egg McMuffin because Egg McMuffin is the most interesting story in the political campaign at the moment. |
| 0:59.7 | Egg McMuffin being the derisive nickname for Evan McMullen. |
| 1:05.5 | Got it. |
| 1:06.2 | The independent who is running for Senate in Utah against incumbent Mike Lee. |
| 1:11.3 | Here's a picture of, well, at some point, |
| 1:15.5 | we may have a picture of the handsome visage of Evan McMullen. |
| 1:19.1 | He looks better than what you just held up to the screen? |
| 1:22.8 | Not much. |
| 1:24.3 | Remarkable resemblance, actually. |
| 1:26.9 | But anyway, he's the anti-Trump candidate for president, who I thought was an embarrassment, |
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