Rick Rosner: So Carole periodically freaks out about money, worried that we’ll get old and sick and the medicine or long-term care will cost a ton of money. It already costs a lot, and prices keep going up. So she’s afraid we’ll run out of money, and she’s asking you and me how we can monetize …
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Ask A Genius 989: Grigori Perelman, Carlos Santana, and Pierce Brosnan
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I have known this for a while. Are you similarly intelligent to this person or vice versa? I am curious. How do you resemble Grigori Perelman, the Russian mathematician? Rick Rosner: I resemble him? Wait, is he the individual who ceased cutting his hair? Is he the one who declined the prize? Jacobsen: He turned …
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Ask A Genius 988: Creepy Racist Assholes, the Strato-Flat, Holocaust Deniers, and “Lance Versus Rick”
Rick Rosner: All right, so I haven’t talked to a flat earther about flat earth theory, but I’ve run into several on Twitter recently and may have one on Lance versus Rick this weekend or early next week. A flat earther believes that the Earth is a flat disk and that any indication that it’s a sphere floating …
Ask A Genius 987: A Silty River, the Fraser River and Colorado
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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Ask A Genius 986: Getting Fired From Jobs
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 …
Ask A Genius 985: Gish Gallops Can Work
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 …
Ask A Genius 984: What is the purpose of an interview?
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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Ask A Genius 983: East and West Might be Myth
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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Ask A Genius 982: The Reality of the Shroud of Turin
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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Ask A Genius 981: Old Dallas from Fort Langley
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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