[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Some people have been saying this is the worst day since the German invasion of Poland prior to or at the start of World War II. Is the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the most recent escalation of the Russo Ukrainian conflict that bad or is it bad but not …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Addendum to yesterday, finishing the Harvard story. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: Okay so we've established that I in my 20s and into my early 30s even will go on Hinky for modeling assignment/auditions just for the possibility that they'll be weird and then I get out of there before any …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why do we think of things as beautiful? Rick Rosner: According to off the top of my head yesterday when I thought about it for like a minute maybe because we at base with the deepest feelings we have when we perceive beauty is we associate things we perceive as …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We're discussing high-IQ societies for the magazine of the World Intelligence Network, founded by Evangelos Katsioulis. What was the original purpose of founding a high-IQ society? Rick Rosner: Mensa, one of the earliest high-IQ societies, was formed shortly after World War II in England, a time when the world was …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: You just moved into a new place which sounds great; your place of employment which is this giant equestrian joint catering to dozens and dozens of horses and riders and competitors and you have a really great apartment there and that led us to talking about living spaces. So I can …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is Jewish comedy? Rick Rosner: Modern comedy emerged after World War II. Comedy went from Vaudeville; guys just standing on a stage telling jokes that weren't specific to the comedian to very personal comedy that originated mostly in the ‘60s. Then really exploded in the ‘70s and ‘80s where …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How come things suck in an age of Marvels? Rick Rosner: It's not how come; it's that they do it. It sucks that things suck in an age of Marvels. We are nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, which is a science fiction century. When people …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You came up with a really great phrase right before recording and it was the triumph of make-believe and I was talking about some personalities which is part of a larger phenomena of people who live in a self-made world of make-believe and so my question to you is what …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: As the long-standing comedy writer in our duo and a member of the Mega Society, known for its one-in-a-million high IQ individuals, you have a unique perspective. With your impressive test scores and experience in humorously interpreting real-world observations, how do you perceive the evolution of cultures over time? I'm …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We're talking about the type of convoy in Canada and the emergence of Nazi symbols, Confederate flags at the protest. Rick Rosner: We should explain what the trucker convoy is. A bunch of truckers and I think just a bunch of people who own trucks just by looking at the …
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