Rick Rosner: So, while you were away, I do not remember my dreams very often, and I have forgotten this one now. Still, I remembered that a whole lot of ridiculous bullshit happened in this dream that did not comport with my reality at all. I was working at Kimmel in some capacity, but there …
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Rick Rosner: So, Harris has been the Dems' candidate for about a month now. There are about 70-80 days to go until the election, which means people, depending on the state, can start early voting as soon as a few weeks from now. In many states, early voting might begin about seven weeks from now. …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How do you feel about having more white hair? Rick Rosner: I feel bad about having a ton of white hair. I feel bad about having an old-looking face. I've done so many pilots about myself as the guy with among ‘the highest IQs in America’ or as part of a team …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the comparison and contrast between "based" happening in conservatives and "woke" that occurs to progressives? Rick Rosner: The way I understand "based" is that it's being aware of and upset about things that matter to conservatives or conservative pundits. It's buying into what they talk about on Glenn Beck, Alex …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you make of "woke," wokeism, wokeness, wokeology? Claims about it; facts about it. Rick Rosner: Most of the talk about it is garbage. There's a thing on the right that I guess is the right-wing version of "woke," which is "based." It's an interesting question. A congressman calls himself "Based …
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Rick Rosner: I showed my wife clips from The Daily Show for the first time. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And what did she think? Rosner: She's not much of a fan of late-night monologue jokes, which sucks for me because my job was writing those. But she liked The Daily Show because it doesn't just tell …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Are the Alien movies good or bad? What do you think? Rick Rosner: It was good. The first one I also thought the second one was good. I have yet to see any of the subsequent ones. I had high hopes for Prometheus throughout it, but it was not very pleasant, too. …
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[Insert extensive pre-talk rambling by Scott and Rick.] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Rick, could you explain why you decided to leave or quit the Boy Scouts? Rick Rosner: I assume the Canadian Boy Scouts operate similarly. Were you ever involved in the Boy Scouts? Jacobsen: Not that I recall. Rosner: Well, the progression typically involves Cub …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This would be a follow-up, perhaps even the most recent one. Did you ever feel like you discovered any new community, particularly one with a high intellectual acuity, like Mensa or Mega? Rick Rosner: Not really. I joined Mensa around 1980 or 1985—I cannot recall exactly. Playboy Magazine once featured an article …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Even if you are smart and know a way to live life, you will be wrong sometimes. Rick Rosner: I was most famously wrong on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." Jacobsen: What was your big lesson from that? Rosner: They were wronger than I was because if they can’t get the …
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