Twitter and Other Banana Republics (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00 The SBF and Trump indictments: compare and contrast 8:32 Is DeSantis tanking? 15:25 How the Tennessee House controversy could boost Biden 24:06 Unpacking progressive wins in Wisconsin and Chicago 30:58 Is Twitter becoming a banana republic? 49:04 Ukraine war (and NATO) update 59:12 Parrot room preview: Russian pro-war blogger’s strange assassination; Jill Biden’s basketball misstep; Clarence Thomas’s controversial trips; Amazon against anti-woke reviews; M3GAN, the alignment problem, and more AI talk; GM’s EV blunder; Matt Taibbi vs. Mehdi Hasan; Dershowitz on Epstein

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded April 07, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:34.1	Hi, Mickey.
0:35.5	Hey, Bob.
0:36.8	Hey, what's you holding up there?
0:38.6	Oh, is that same Bankman Fried?
0:40.3	He's looking good.
0:41.2	It is.
0:42.1	Whatever he's doing when his life is working out for him.
0:46.1	I don't know how I ever missed this.
0:47.4	This is from July 4th of last year, Bob.
0:49.9	And it's a four-page ad for FTX, which turned out to be a huge scam, in the pages of what magazine, Bob?
0:59.2	And then, I don't know, Vanity Fair, New Yorker?
1:02.2	The New Yorker, Bob.
1:03.4	Yes, the New Yorker.
1:04.9	Wait, that's an ad.
1:06.3	That's an ad.
1:08.0	That's the most lucrative ad they've had in a decade.
1:10.8	It also has Giselle Bunchen, but she's no match for Sandbank and freeze.
1:18.0	Anyway, so first, you know, they got a huge bunch of money for this.
1:24.2	They should give it back.
1:26.1	Morley, it's an ad.
1:28.3	Give it back, David.
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