[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We're talking about what you're signing on for. If you support Trump or vote for Trump or vote for anybody but Biden, really, because a vote for anybody but Biden works in Trump's favour. Back to the Future came out in about '83, maybe, plus two sequels throughout the rest of the …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 883: Voting and Loathsome Characters
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There's a phrase we'll often throw at the end of a sentence or sort of a conclusion to it. They will describe something and then say, "If that makes sense…" It's a sort of annoying add-on to a sentence that's unnecessary. Typically, it comes from a boss or a more senior …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 882: God Looking the Other Way
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, we've been talking for nearly ten years. I was fresh off of being fired off of Kimmel. I think Kimmel is a genius, and I think his show is pretty genius; the innovations he brought to Late Night, I don't think, get acknowledged. He changed the shape to a certain extent …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, year five of Covid. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Five years already? Rosner: No, four years ago, and it started hitting, maybe, December 2019. So, we are at the beginning of year five. So, it is a brand-new disease, and they are still finding out a ton about it; there is much …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I'm thinking less about the actual structure of consciousness, the actual process of human thinking, the actual process of thought itself; I'm thinking more about the ultimate tool or tools used to discover that process in that structure. What do you think will ultimately lead us not only in the right …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 879: The Active Workshop of Mind
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