July 11, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: All right, so let's discuss the topic we left off from the last session, which pertains to the proliferation of good and bad ideas. Rosner, what are your further thoughts on this? Rick Rosner: Well, building upon what I mentioned last time, the situation in …
Ask A Genius 599: Karen Short
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Along with the rise in dickishness, has been the rise of the Karen. The Karen is the white lady who complains about bullshit, often involving black people doing virtually nothing or literally nothing. You know, black people, they park. White lady calls the cops because, for …
Ask A Genius 598: Biden-Harris Administration
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you expect from the Biden-Harris administration? Also, what have you seen from the Biden-Harris administration? Should I reverse the order of those questions based on how you were answering them? Rick Rosner: Are we recording? Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: Ok. So, I don't remember …
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Ask A Genius 597: Think Me a Thought, Maestro, Dream Me a Dream, Mister
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so new session. Rick Rosner: Okay. Scott: Do you want to start this one or do you want me to? Rosner: I can start. You asked, "What is it?" I said we haven't talked about this before. So I thought about it. And I …
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Ask A Genius 596: Down-‘Lifting’ Forces
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yeah. So what are the down lifting forces? Rick Rosner: All right. So, we ended the last session on uplifting people in the future with me bitching about Rupert Murdoch. The deal is that, well, there are a couple of things. One is to some …
Ask A Genius 600: Jackass on a Jackhammer
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So we both have different kinds of neighbors. Mine are Canadian. My experience with them is a lot lighter where it's just different forms of jackassery. Yours is more severe. Rick Rosner: All right. So yeah, we both have problematic neighbors. Our neighbor has been …
Ask A Genius 595: A Book Cometh By Way of Thought
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so, what are you thinking along the lines of, on the one hand just giving up on humanity versus trying to uplift or bring people into kind of this science fiction in near future that is likely on the… Rick Rosner: So, I'm writing …
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Ask A Genius 594: The Disco Era and the Distracted Era
In-Sight Publishing May 26, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, so, do you think that we're going to see a level of debauchery in the post-Covid world, as we saw in the 1970s? Rick Rosner: All right. So, before we get to now, we have to talk about America and European countries, …
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Ask A Genius 593: Books, the Future, Futurism, and an Old Blanket
In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So old school science, science fiction from the golden age, at least what we think about it, my prime example is a little bit post-golden age. I'm talking about original Star Trek. But anyway, science fiction like that totally misses the foolishness of the …
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Ask A Genius 592: Aware Girls, Graham Priest, and Informational Cosmology
In-Sight Publishing May 22, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There’s a fella named Graham Priest. He deals with a contradiction to contradictions, dialetheia. He, basically, drove that entire field. Anyway, the New York Times, Gulalai and the Ismail family has been featuredtwo or three or four times in the last couple of …
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