Trump’s J6 Indictment, Biden’s Ukraine Quagmire (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:33 Jeffrey Goldberg becomes King of Washington 5:24 Does Trump prosecutor Jack Smith have the goods? 21:48 Hunter Biden’s corruption defense: It was all an illusion 31:52 President Biden’s Ukraine quagmire 41:25 What Trump gets right about Russia-Ukraine 48:17 Is West Africa heading toward a major war? 52:08 Parrot Room preview: A PBS lament; Mickey’s border worries; Bob’s reflection on jury duty; the economics of electric vehicles; the UFO files; Italy pivots away from guaranteed income; over-the-counter Alzheimer’s test; US-China decoupling; room-temperature superconductors; and the limits of AI

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded August 04, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.3	Hi, Mickey.
0:35.4	Hey, Bob.
0:36.9	Who's this?
0:37.4	Hey doing? I'm fine. Who's this? Hey, doing?
0:39.0	I'm fine.
0:39.9	Who is this?
0:41.1	That looks hauntingly familiar, but I don't know who it is.
0:46.0	Can I guess when it was taken, it looks like about 25 years ago.
0:51.1	It was taken about 20 years ago, yeah, 25.
0:53.9	This is the person as a younger man.
0:56.7	Yes, we're all, we all were younger then. Who is this? This is, he was King of Washington, Bob,
1:03.0	about 20 years ago. The King of Washington? No, the, he was called the King of Washington.
1:09.8	He was the General. He was head of the Kennedy Center.
1:14.3	That's not the King of Washington?
1:16.3	Wait, wait, wait, wait. He had three kingdoms he controlled.
1:20.4	Head of the Kennedy Center, head of Brookings Institution, and head of Fannie Mae.
1:27.0	Well, first of all, 20 years ago,
1:28.5	I think Strobe Talbot was head
1:29.8	at the Brookings Institution.
1:31.1	So I'm already doubting the entire premise of this conversation.
1:34.6	Maybe I had the timing wrong,
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