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0:00 Teaser
0:56 "Would Putin send a weird sexually suggestive birthday greeting to a famous affluent well-connected pedophile?"
6:23 Decoding Trump's message in the greeting
13:47 Conspiracy theories vs official silence
19:42 Why is Ezra Klein content with "We'll never know"?
25:10 Why no president wants to release the Epstein files
27:18 Ghislaine names Clinton and Larry Summers
34:25 Does Epstein kill faith in democracy?
39:35 Trump vs. Putin: Authoritarian playbooks compared
44:14 Will Trumpism outlive Trump?
50:22 David Sacks embraces strongman tactics
57:04 How war changes everything overnight
1:01:27 Trump's Mexico invasion fantasy 1:06:01 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (https://psychopolitica.substack.com). Recorded September 09, 2025.

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Nikita’s Substack:

Psychopolitica

Russian psychedelia in exile 🍄

By Nikita Petrov

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Overtime titles:

0:00 South Park on AI and VC culture
22:29 Telepathic AI
30:48 The Russian "foreign agents" laws
38:28 USAID and "independent media"
47:10 Misusing the "terrorist organization" label

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