Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I was mentioning how the cemetery was a place I used to walk around, and you mentioned you used to go there in your home town with your poodle. There’s another part of my town with the Fraser River running through it. It's a silty river, thick, cloudy, and muddy. People used …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I’ve only ever been fired from one job. I was 15 years old, working at a bistro owned by a family friend in my hometown. I remember being quite unpleasant at the time. One day, as the dishwasher, the daughter of the owner said they didn’t think it would work out. It …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you have any further opinions on what was called a debate? Rick Rosner: Some people have calmed down, or the initial reaction that Biden had lost the election, which was a knee-jerk reaction on CNN and MSNBC, has subsided. An hour after the debate, CNN finally fact-checked the debaters, something they …
Rick Rosner: You've probably done more than 1,000 interviews and have certainly asked me more than me 1,000 questions over the past 10 years. You've talked to hundreds of people in your interviewing career. So, you've developed an idea of what interviews are good for. Why do you interview people? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I want …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: With the increase in communication technologies, the speed of travel, and the progression of these systems, do you think the concepts of East and West make much sense anymore? Rick Rosner: No, I always go back to Cory Doctorow, who writes about this among other issues. As technology increases the ability for …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, well, I grew up in a town with a cemetery right smck dab in the middle. Rick Rosner: You grew up in a town with a cemetery. I didn't grow up with a cemetery in the center of town, but I lived about a block and a half from a huge …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, Dallas, I had a really bad headache today. I was having trouble focusing, lying down a lot, and trying to get some writing and scheduling done for articles. My mind started wandering, and a memory came up from when I used to live in Fort Langley. I was a child at …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I watched some of the debate. I have some preliminary thoughts. If you want to press yours first, you can. Mine are going to be shorter. Rick Rosner: So I'll start. It was fucking amazing, not in a good way. Biden did so badly; he came out with a raspy, soft …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A question from someone else: When is your book coming out? Rick Rosner: Yeah, well, I don’t have an autobiography coming out. I semi-abandoned that. It’s still there if somebody wants to pay me to write it. But before that book comes out, I’m writing this other book that’s a more fictionalized version of …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I’m looking at the 538 polls from June 25 to June 17. As far as I can tell from the favorability and unfavorability ratings, Trump is about 10 or 11% unfavourable. Rick Rosner: Trump’s net unfavourable rating is about 11.5%.That doesn’t look good. So, he’s in the hole by 11.5%, which seems good for …
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