The Second(ary) GOP Debate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:33 Mickey, the man from the future, times out on this week’s quiz 8:00 Winners, losers, and bigger losers of the GOP debate 20:18 Semafor’s Iran influence exposé: (semi-)exposed! 28:04 How is Menendez still standing? Mickey has a theory 33:15 Bad socio-economic omens for Biden’s 2024 bid 39:05 Ukraine war update 45:47 Is elite opinion on immigration shifting? 52:23 Next week: The final Parrot Room

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded September 29, 2023.

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0:00.0	Your List of You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.0	Hi, Mickey.
0:34.5	Hey, Bob.
0:35.9	What's with the shades, man?
0:55.3	Well, I had an eye operation, you know, and so I looked like that guy in La Jette. When he saw the man from the future, he knew that you could not escape time. You know, it's funny. I'm the man from the future. That's exactly the feeling. I had when I first saw you, I said, you know, I don't know why I'm having this's exactly the feeling I had when I first saw you.
0:58.8	I said, you know, I don't know why I'm having this thought, but it just seems like I can't escape time.
1:01.5	So very effective, very effective sunglasses.
1:05.2	So now, I have two layers of glasses.
1:08.0	Oh, yeah, those are new, too.
1:09.8	Are those reading glasses? Yeah, no, there's been a lot of changes.
1:11.3	There's been a lot of changes around my eyes.
1:13.3	Wow.
1:14.5	Are there any more changes you want to tell us about, Mickey?
1:17.6	No, it looks like you're in a hospital, though.
1:20.5	It's actually a fancy hotel.
1:24.0	But I may be in hospital before long if I don't start getting some sleep.
1:28.3	I'm like seriously sleep deprived.
1:30.3	So if we have arguments this week, you will win.
1:34.0	I don't know.
1:35.2	I think you'll be grouchy and you'll win.
1:38.0	You'll be like Nikki Haley.
1:40.4	Is that her tactic?
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