In-Sight Publishing December 31, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, what are your plans or wishes for 2021? Rick Rosner: Well, there is a fade somewhat, that trump and his people are prosecuted. In that, we've tried the partnering route before. Letting bygones be bygones in the name of healing, that seems …
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In-Sight Publishing December 18, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A lot of things we thought were pretty secure in the findings, probably not unfounded, but less founded than we thought things were on personality and things like this. But other things we have found are consistent through the decades have been things …
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In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Any commentary from the individuals who would be husbands or the boyfriends or the partners of the women who would go out and sleep with Feynman or Feynman like people at that time? Rick Rosner: I've read a couple of Feynman autobiographies. Of …
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In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: I grew up in Boulder, Colorado, home of the University of Colorado, where I eventually ended up attending after I had a nervous breakdown and failed to complete my application to any college. I only wanted to go to Harvard and then I felt …
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In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so, you, by alternative intelligence test standards, have one of the highest IQs in the world, repeatedly. So, it's established, in a loose alternative sense. Rick Rosner: What you're saying is, I've taken a lot of these tests and done well. Jacobsen: …
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In-Sight Publishing December 9, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I've seen your American deceased artist, Bob Ross. He seems like a generous, warm, and kind person. Other people in your country are shitheads. So, what's the benefit of a life lived as a generous, kind, and warm person compared to being …
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In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck both started in Good Will Hunting. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Time out. So, I want to talk about his celebrity wife. He had a quote about her. It's one paragraph. So he goes, “We ended up at a bar where …
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In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we've talked about portrayals of genius, Matt Damon actually graduated from Harvard and he portrayed someone in Good Will Hunting. Rick Rosner: Genius, who's a janitor at Harvard. All right. First, let's start with a Matt Damon story. I've never told before. …
In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: No, I'm starting now. So, what do you think of a high range testing in so far as it measures intelligence? Rick Rosner: Well, you just told me that a guy with a gripe against high range testing revealed the answers to like …
In-Sight Publishing December 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: It's the worst day ever again. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, is it at 9/11 levels, yet? Rosner: Yes, we have a 9/11 every day. Jacobsen: What's the conservative reaction to it? Rosner: They think we're babies for wearing masks and being concerned and opening …
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