The Taibbi Twitter Files (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00 A brief message from Bob0:55 Why Mickey thinks the first installment of the Twitter Files was a something-burger8:05 What Bob thinks Taibbi (and Musk) flubbed18:26 Do the files show a pro-Dem bias in pre-Musk Twitter?25:19 Ukraine war update42:24 Parrot Room preview: an (unwitting) win for Bob; a damning J.D. Vance quote for Mickey; the latest SBF allegation; the worst. Substack. Issue. Ever.; Bob submits a beef with Mickey for commenter consideration; commenter takes on Musk’s gun tweet; potential Parrot Room theme song(s); the Fed on why men are leaving the labor force; Janan Ganesh on why you should leave Twitter
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded December 8, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, Bob here. |
| 0:09.7 | I just wanted to say that, although we normally taped the show on Fridays this week, |
| 0:15.1 | we taped on Thursday evening, and as a result, our discussion of the Twitter file |
| 0:19.4 | does not include the Barry Weiss |
| 0:22.0 | installment which dropped about the time we pressed the record button. We'll cover that next week. |
| 0:29.5 | I think this week's discussion is worthwhile in its own right personally. And as long as I have |
| 0:35.4 | your attention, if you like the non-zero podcast, I encourage you to rate and review as it makes a difference. If you don't like the podcast, never mind. Also, if you're watching on YouTube, smash the like button. That also makes a difference. Okay, enough for emotional announcements and on with the show. |
| 0:58.3 | Hey, Mickey. |
| 0:59.6 | Hey, Bob. |
| 1:00.6 | You're holding up a picture of, I can't see the head, so it's hard. |
| 1:04.1 | It's somebody with arms and wearing a tie. |
| 1:06.2 | It's still somebody I don't recognize. |
| 1:07.6 | Who is that, Mickey? |
| 1:09.5 | Also, why are you dressed all in black? But one thing at a time, he goes, oh, John Stennis, |
| 1:14.9 | the Southern Senator. Right. And why is Senator Stennis famous? |
| 1:19.5 | Probably has to do with, I don't know, segregation or something. |
| 1:23.3 | You're probably right. But the second thing he's famous for is during Watergate, |
| 1:28.1 | there were these incriminating tapes that Nixon had to deal with. And his solution was he gave him to, he had |
| 1:34.4 | Stennis read them to see if there was anything incriminating because he knew tennis was too old and |
| 1:41.0 | senile to actually catch anything. This was widely derided. |
| 1:46.8 | Have they asked you to read the Twitter documents? |
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