Why Is Ukraine's Offensive Going Badly? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:34 Senator Chris Murphy declares war on loneliness 8:58 Why is the Ukraine offensive going badly? 14:51 Why Biden should push for peace talks now 24:37 Threads unravels 35:23 Was RFK’s Covid conjecture anti-Semitic? 43:11 Mickey reviews the MSM version of DeSantis 52:15 American diplomacy update: murky scandals and trash talk 56:39 Parrot Room preview: Biden corruption scandal; electric car paranoia; what Trump will do if he wins; Mickey on Xi Jinping; Trump’s trials; Tony Bennett passes away; Meta’s dubious AI policy; Is the internet annoying, or is Bob just old?

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded July 21, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.7	Hey, Mickey.
0:35.3	Hey, Bob.
0:36.5	So we have a quiz for you.
0:39.3	Oh.
0:39.7	Perhaps an overly complicated quiz.
0:43.1	I'm sure I'll handle it.
0:44.9	A U.S. senator has proposed creating a new bureaucracy in the executive office of the president to deal with what policy?
0:57.0	And you have a variety of choices here, Bob.
0:59.4	Oh, good.
1:01.1	Let's see.
1:01.8	Loneliness.
1:02.8	Loneliness.
1:03.4	I'm going with loneliness.
1:05.2	Wait, wait, you haven't even got the rest of the list.
1:07.1	I know, but I think it was lonely.
1:08.9	Okay, go ahead, though.
1:10.7	Atonement? No, no. Privilege.
1:13.5	No, that's too stereotypically woke. Polarization, that's yesterday's problem. And today's and
1:19.1	tomorrow's, but still mobility. What? What's wrong with mobility? What? It's decreasing. Go ahead.
1:24.9	The crisis of people moving. No, moving up in the economic ladder. Never mind.
1:29.5	Enemy. Can we complate that with loneliness?
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