“Community agitator, executed by Roman authorities, no investigation forthcoming..."
“Community agitator, executed by Roman authorities, no investigation forthcoming..."
I started watching Landman on Paramount Plus, set in Texas's boomtowns, a modern tale of fortune-seeking among roughnecks and billionaires in the world of oil. Paramount Plus has decided to be the manly-man streamer. Taylor Sheridan seems to write about rugged people doing rugged shit and that seems the demo.
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you have had opportunities to gain fame. Rick Rosner: Yes, I have done four pilots centered on either myself as a smart person or involving other people as well. None of these pilots have been successful, which is not unusual, but it is frustrating. I have a significant number …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 936: Opportunities for the Fabled Fame
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There it is. So we are back after a while. I wanted to cover a little bit about the colossal amount of work over a decade or more, in fact, more than a decade, doing a lot of the independent journalistic work that I've done. I typically pick a topic, and …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 935: Mathematicizing Our Collaborations
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: All right, I eat fruit with a knife because I’m a badass, or maybe because I don’t want to break off my old teeth. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I’m skeptical of the badass. Rosner: Say again? Jacobsen: I’m skeptical of the badass. Rosner: I’m sitting here with a knife, just cutting on a peach. I don’t even …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 934: A badass with fruits and a knife
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Okay, we will discuss population dynamics and energy consumption. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you want to start with population or energy? Rosner: Well, I am just going to start with how I came upon it. I just read an article that people have been saying for a while because it’s true that a quarter …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 933: Population Dynamics and Energy Consumption
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is your favourite item in your office? Rick Rosner: I like the foot. I like the Jesus. I do not believe in Jesus. I am Jewish. I look to Jesus a lot and wish he would come back and rapture all the assholes in the world to Europa the …