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Robert Wright's Nonzero

The Tide Turns against Will Smith (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Mickey admits he was wrong about everything ... Four takes on the Chris Rock-Will Smith Oscars incident ... Bob: Biden shouldn’t be riffing about regime change ... The Russian redeployment in Ukraine ... Attack of the (alleged) ATV-riding Ukrainian techies ... Will Biden try to draw out the war or push for a deal? ... The roadblocks standing in the way of a peace deal in Ukraine ... Mickey: The press is going easy on Biden because the alternative is Kamala ... Will Mitt Romney make Joe Manchin irrelevant? ... The growing movement to restore standardized testing in California schools ... Parrot Room preview: Should Mickey get the fourth Covid vaccine shot, the Bob Saget saga, Eric Schmidt takes over huge chunks of the government, ringing the dinner bell for the extraterrestrials, Eric Garcetti’s aborted ambassadorship to India, a survey of international elections, the Vladimir Putin bio, Bob’s two theories about what was going on in Will Smith’s head, and the gaps in Trump’s January 6 phone records ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.

0:08.7

Hey, Mickey.

0:10.3

Hey, Bob.

0:12.2

Ooh, that looks real.

0:14.2

Is that a real black?

0:15.8

Did you go into an altercation?

0:17.7

I was at the prestigious Vanity Fair Party in my glamorous Hollywood life Bob and

0:23.5

I hope you didn't say anything about Jada I was in the seventh room and you're in the seventh room

0:28.7

you're alone with Will Smith and he came up and smacked me and it was weird because I could tell

0:34.1

it was because I voted for Trump and I'm just sick of it I'm tired of being beaten up for voting for Trump. I'm giving up. I think they're right. I was led astray by contrarianism, cheap contrarianism of the New Republic and Michael Kinsley. And, you know, the New York Times editorial board, they're very smart people. You should just do what they say.

0:55.2

And there's an arc of history.

0:56.5

You can't fight the arc.

0:57.5

The ark is going where the ark is going.

1:00.1

And like I was, you know, I was a big welfare reform supporter.

1:06.9

And I look at the chart of what happened to child poverty after welfare reform.

1:12.1

And you'll notice that although it goes up and down, it wait, wait, it fell to record lows.

1:17.4

It fell by 25% despite the recession after welfare reform.

1:23.6

Oh, well, never mind. April Fool's.

1:26.9

Oh, Mickey, you're such a kidder. You kidder, you. Now, is that, the, the eye stuff looks pretty convincing. You didn't actually fall for that. You didn't actually fall for it. No, the eye doesn't look bad. I mean, let me see. It looks like it looks, I mean, it looks bad. That's my point. It looks like you actually got maybe beat up, but you didn't, huh?

1:52.7

No, I'm actually a genius at makeup, Bob. That's impressive. If you go on the web and search for how to give yourself a black eye with makeup, there's a nice woman who explains it all to you.

1:58.2

Actually, it should have a little more yellow in it.

2:02.5

You could get a job in Hollywood.

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