[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I was thinking about some of the regrets in my life and an IQ related regret came up that I thought I'd tell you about. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the regret? Rosner: So, one of the most powerful people in Hollywood is a guy named Brian Grazer who along with …
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Ask A Genius 916: Fallout
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I have various bins for things I want to write about that still need to be fully developed. This is the bin of one of the bins of stuff I may or may not expand into as I write this thing. I've got a thing called choosies, which are explorable movies. Do …
Ask A Genius 915: AI Revenge Porn and Ethical Considerations
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, after this experience, I Googled AI porn is a problem and that returned a bunch of articles and commentary that, yeah, it's a freaking problem. I read an article or an opinion piece from August of last year entitled Why AI porn is terrible, it's worse than you think on a …
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Ask A Genius 901: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Carole and I started watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the TV series inspired by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, a Doug Liman movie from probably 15 years ago. It's where Brad and Angelina met and fell in love, perhaps 17 or 18 years ago. In both the film and the series, the …
Ask A Genius 900: Canadian and American Politics
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I wanted to make a point about comparing Canadian and American politics. A recent thing arose that I think is essential with a woman named Selena Robinson; she's the minister of postsecondary education and future skills of British Columbia. She made an insensitive, according to many, comment about Israel and …
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Ask A Genius 899: California Under Attack?
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: California is attacked by Conservatives for just being a liberal hell and that people are fleeing California for the free states of Texas and Florida. There's a lot of bullshit in that California has lost about 1% of its population. Some people made a ton of money in California and want to …
Ask A Genius 898: Niches of Persistence
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I proposed a topic on how evolution finds all niches of persistence. Those are generic abstract terms. I wanted to start with reproduction styles, and I'm speaking more about biological reproduction. So, our species has its form of reproduction, and I'm speaking purely in terms of a continuation of a …
Ask A Genius 897: New Places and Faces
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You said you hate flying because you're about to go to Europe with your wife. I responded that I hate flying too, and that's a good topic because I wouldn't say I like flying. I don't like any travel; I'm a homebody. I want to be at home. I like it …
Ask A Genius 896: Hypochondria
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: This topic could be more interesting. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I might disagree. Rosner: Okay. If I stack up enough physical complaints and irritations simultaneously happening in me, then I get flu-like symptoms that subside if I take a pain pill. So, I assume it's like fibromyalgia light or something like that where my feet …
Ask A Genius 895: “I am the chosen one.”
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Trump's quote is, "I am the chosen one." This is crazy talk coming from surveys of about a third of Americans who believe Trump was not ordained by God but guided or even selected by God to lead. Rosner: Anything he does that seems terrible, like fucking porn or inciting an insurrection …
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