Ukraine's Blank Check (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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0:00 Mickey takes a bite out of midterm “overism” 15:58 How revolutionary will Musk’s Twitter reign be? 28:50 Who quashed the Progressive Caucus’s Ukraine letter? 31:14 What’s holding up diplomacy in Ukraine? 40:32 Is Blob opinion on the war starting to split? 45:02 The cost of US hypocrisy 48:33 The media’s weird coverage of the ‘dirty bomb’ story 54:56 Parrot room preview: implausible dirty bomb scenarios; UK PM’s dramatic early moves; a few words about the late Lucianne Goldberg; an (iffy) argument against lefty state legislature alarmism; Mickey’s labor-relations observations; Xi Jinping and the Hu Jintao removal; illustrating the dangers of war-time overreaction by way of Russian relocation coverage; Joe’s McCarthyism; Russians adopting Ukrainian children; what’s in it for Putin-humiliation-pushers? Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded October 28, 2022. Comments on BhTV: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65124 Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloggingheads Facebook: https://facebook.com/bloggingheads/ Podcasts: https://bloggingheads.tv/subscribe

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.4	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.8	Hey, Bob.
0:10.6	Hey, what you got there?
0:11.4	Is that like banana nut bread or what?
0:13.2	What is it?
0:13.8	It's a cake, Bob.
0:15.4	What kind of cake?
0:16.1	Oh, is it carrot cake?
0:17.0	I love carrot cake.
0:17.7	It's a cake.
0:18.6	I love seeing people eat carrot cake. Give us a break here. Oh, my God. This cake isn't love carrot cake. It's a cake. I know I love seeing people eat carrot cake. Give us,
0:22.6	give us a break. Oh my God. This cake isn't baked, Bob. It's all liquid inside.
0:28.7	So wait, half baked. What are we looking at? Give me another clue. What are we, what are we moving
0:32.9	toward you, Mickey? We're talking about the election, Bob. The all these commentators are
0:37.2	not fully baked. It's not all the commentators are saying, it's not fully baked.
0:38.0	It's not fully baked.
0:38.8	All the commentators are saying the cake is baked.
0:40.8	It's over.
0:42.0	No.
0:42.6	The dye is cast.
0:44.1	No.
	...

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