Ukraine and Biden’s Brain (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Looking for signs of decline in Biden’s press conference ... Is the child tax credit what swing voters want? ... Two possible inflation fixes ... What’s on the table in U.S.-Russia negotiations over Ukraine? ... How well is Biden handling the Ukraine situation? ... Mickey: There’s a chance we'll avoid a Trump 2024 run ... Bob’s plan to convince Biden not to run ... Meat Loaf would do anything for love (but would he get vaxxed?) ... Bob: I get why white males are under fire ... Parrot Room preview: The secret to Matt Yglesias’s success, the FBI searches Henry Cuellar’s home, Mickey’s beef with the Salvation Army, how the Parrot Room is like the TV show Yellowstone, Bob’s panel appearance with Jerry Brown, Robert Malone, active shooter drills, war in the Pacific, the Los Gatos Party Mom, exploring Bob and Mickey’s positions on China, Bob issues some corrections, Mickey critiques the Atlantic and David Remnick, and the time Katie Couric interviewed Bob ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.7	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.9	Hey, Bob.
0:11.5	Hey, what you got there, Mickey?
0:13.1	Oh, is that a...
0:14.4	It looks almost like Hillary Clinton's reset button, but it's not what is it?
0:17.6	Yes.
0:17.8	Oh, does it?
0:18.4	But it doesn't say reset, does it?
0:21.2	That was easy. It's actually a is it. Oh, does it? But it doesn't say reset, does it? That was easy.
0:22.4	It's actually a staples easy button, but we're calling it a reset button.
0:27.2	Okay.
0:28.0	Let's pretend it said reset on top.
0:29.9	Famously, Hillary Clinton brought a reset button to her, maybe her first meeting with, I don't know,
0:37.4	Lavrov or Putin or somebody in hopes
0:39.1	of resetting relations with Russia.
0:41.2	It didn't work.
0:42.1	Apparently also, the word they used for reset was some sort of, had some sort of unfortunate
0:47.4	translation in Russia.
0:48.6	The word was overcharge.
0:51.2	Yeah.
0:51.6	So it's not.
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