Ukraine’s Dam and Tucker’s Aliens (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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1:42 Mickey gets a B+ on this week’s news quiz 11:30 Is RFK Jr. the Dem’s key to booting Biden? 20:12 Chris Christie’s chances vs. Trump 24:28 Has Tucker gone off the deep end? 37:16 No, Russia didn’t blow up Ukraine’s dam 43:21 Is the Ukrainian counteroffensive failing? 59:12 Parrot room preview: Remembering Daniel Ellsberg; Elizabeth Gilbert’s self-cancellation; the fake deepfake of John Lennon; Mickey’s AI question; a bit of Epstein news; LIV golf update; Mickey contra popular vote compact; the Blob’s pro-immigration argument; Who’s going to pardon Trump? And why?; Did Harvard or the CIA drive the Unabomber crazy?; RIP Ed Fredkin; Silo; Harvard and the Inuit

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded June 16, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.7	Hi, Mickey.
0:35.2	Hey, Bob.
0:36.1	How you doing?
0:37.2	I'm doing okay. Now you are, How you doing? I'm doing okay.
0:39.7	Now you are, but you haven't been given the news quiz yet.
0:43.1	No, I know.
0:44.0	I'm all relaxed because I know it's your turn to start us off.
0:49.2	And I'm going to start us off with not one quiz actually with two.
0:52.5	The first is not a news quiz.
0:53.6	The first quiz was actually
0:55.2	prepared by a commenter on YouTube under the YouTube version of our show. You may remember last
1:02.1	week at the end of the show, I said, hey, if you like either of us, smash the like button.
1:08.1	And you added, and if you like both of us, smash it twice. And I may have
1:13.1	said, yeah, great idea. And then this guy said on YouTube, Mickey, you do realize what happens
1:20.1	if I hit the like button twice, don't you? No. The second one negates the first. The second one
1:26.8	is, oh, I change my mind.
1:28.6	I don't like this.
1:29.6	So the new guidance is, if you like both of us, click three times the like button or five or seven or nine or 11 or whatever, or one even.
1:39.7	Not two.
1:40.7	Not two, Mickey.
1:42.4	But, you know, can I just say it makes a difference? It really does. The YouTube algorithm, like, goes into high gear. So we do encourage this. Seriously. Well, it's because everything else in my world is falling apart. So if our listeners are rising, that's... Are we going to get to talk about that part of your life in the regular podcast?
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