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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 587: “Assholes: A Theory,” Decency, and the Cosmos’ Information
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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 586: Celebrity Husbands and Comedy Writing Sports Comparisons
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 …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 583: “History doesn’t care about us”
In-Sight Publishing December 4, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the most ridiculous thing you have done, a single thing, not necessarily repeatedly? Rick Rosner: Going back to high school at age 26 and spending a full year as a high school senior to have a place to think, that that …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 582 – Adult Ridiculous Behaviour from Ridiculous Thoughts
In-Sight Publishing December 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When you imagine a good president, one of the greats, a good president, what is decorum for them? What should be their behaviour? Rick Rosner: All right. You've asked… there's an assumption in there that there's ever been a good president. If you …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 581 – 50,000 Acts of Shittyness
In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I'm looking at this as Canadian overall. Trump, basically, is just losing day after day after day. Rick Rosner: Here's what everybody has concluded: Nobody believes he has any chance of winning. But he's a prick, can't stand losing, and also he's made …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 579 – Reasonable, Confident President
In-Sight Publishing November 26, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Rational and irrational, but all rooted in economic and psychological considerations that all, whether there square or not, they can explain why we do what we do. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And so, what's the separation? Rosner: Drained by biology and sentimentality and economics. But …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 580 – Rational and Irrational, and Evaluation and Garbage
In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, I'm in the tub today. Under lockdown, baths in the tub are still something you can take. My wife takes a lot of baths, and then I use the water before it cools down. I was thinking about how in America we tend …
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