In-Sight Publishing November 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Who's going to win? Rick Rosner: I think Biden will pull it out. I'm very confident that he’ll do better than Hillary, even in the Electoral College. He'll do better than Hillary. That still leaves the zone where he does better than Hillary …

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In-Sight Publishing November 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are the chances that Trump and Biden or Biden winning now, and what are the chances of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump winning in the 2016 election, how it is comparable or not? Rick Rosner: So, I think at the last moment, …

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In-Sight Publishing October 31, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what's going off the election? Rosner: All right. So, the whole country, we've got 80 hours to go until the polls close in California. Then we probably have a couple of days to go until we get it clear. It is not …

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In-Sight Publishing October 17, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is your gripe with game shows? There's a lot of context here. Rick Rosner: So I've worked on more than half a dozen game shows. I was co-creator of a game show. I've been a contestant on quiz shows. Five of which …

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In-Sight Publishing October 15, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, we lost the signal yesterday when I was saying that in Trump's four years in office, three quarters of a million more Americans will have died under four years, under any other president. Only a third of that population is slightly bigger now …

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In-Sight Publishing October 13, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why is America so beholden to herd immunity right now, so much of America, just idea? Rick Rosner: It's Trump's latest idea. He's losing badly in the polls. His brain is full of steroids. He's just crazy. Aapparently, he's got an idiot in …

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In-Sight Publishing August 6, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You had some thoughts about risk. Can you set the context here? Rick Rosner: Part of the risk in talking about coronavirus in the U.S., depending on your politics, the idea of what you consider acceptable risk is different. The basic structure of …

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In-Sight Publishing July 27, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What was the Kissing Booth? This was when Carole was calling you “Loudy.” Rick Rosner: You’re going to be reading a transcript of this. When I am very interested in a subject [Laughing], I get louder and was shouty discussing high school. Jacobsen: …

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In-Sight Publishing July 23, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the Auschwitz Memorial? Rick Rosner: I’ve started following the Auschwitz Memorial on Twitter. Most of what the Auschwitz Memorial does is show a picture and say, “Here is so and so,” when they were born, sent to Auschwitz, and when they …

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In-Sight Publishing July 21, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It is 15 weeks until the election. What is the deal now? Rick Rosner: Trump has gone from 45.8% approval to 40.3%. That’s the difference between making it a close election and it being not close. So, I look at those approval numbers …

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