Rick Rosner: I do believe in magnetic personalities, though, because I live in a town of schmoozers. Do you know what a schmoozer is?

Jacobsen: Yes. Someone who basically kisses up—a kind of social smooth-talker.

Rosner: It’s Yiddish.

Jacobsen: I wasn’t sure if it was in the general non-Jewish lexicon.

Rosner: It is. My stepdad called my mom a “little schmoozer” because she talked so much.

Jacobsen: What would a Yiddish Black Mirror be called?

Rosner: We have golems.

Jacobsen: Golems?

Rosner: Yes. 

Jacobsen: I learned that there was another meaning to it when I watched Star Trek: Picard. Picard died from the syndrome he had throughout the series, and Data died with him so he could

Rosner: Interesting. So, did they continue with a whole new series or episodes where Picard is essentially himself but in a different form?

Jacobsen: No, they continued the series. It was a plotline for a few episodes or maybe a season. His health deteriorated, and then he came back as a golem at the end. In the next season, he was just Picard. You could watch that part of the series and not even realize it had happened.

Rosner: Yes, that’s kind of surreal. A strange watershed moment. You’re deep into this. And I’ve told you how Seven of Nine saved America, right?

Jacobsen: Why? Did she hand something off or do something recent?

Rosner: No. Seven of Nine was married to a politician who turned out to be a creep. He wanted to take her to nightclubs and sex clubs and have sex with her in public. This came out during their divorce proceedings—her deposition, I believe—and it cost him his seat in the Illinois state legislature. The guy who replaced him, who wouldn’t have had a chance otherwise, was Barack Obama. So artificial Star Trek beings are woven into U.S. political history.

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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org

Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com

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