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People, Personas, and Politics 45 - My Captain, My Captain Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner July 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Lincoln: "My captain, my captain..." in the words of Walt Whitman as his coffin was being brought by train and horse-drawn carriage, from where he was assassinated to where he would be buried in Illinois. The Saviour of the union, then you've got this guy who is o bad that he was the first president ever impeached. Obviously, the nation was wrecked. First by the Civil War and then by the loss of the leader during the Civil war. From Woodrow Wilson to Harding, who may have been our most corrupt president or dumbest and least competent president. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: [Laughing]. Rosner: Until now. You had the joy at the end of WWI, which happened under Woodrow Wilson kind of because he was president in name and had a stroke a couple of years earlier and the country was secretly being run by other people including Mrs. Wilson. But going from the end of WWI, you've got the attempt to form the League of Nations. The precursor to the United Nations, to make sure the great war was the war to end all wars. The League of Nations was falling apart. You've got impetus to social reform with Prohibition and Women's Suffrage. you've got an economy that is beginning to boom. You've got the beginning of the 10 years of a tech economy before the crash of 29, and then in the middle of this you've got Warren Harding who was a machine politician and was elected in large part for his time being a handsome man. A stout man with lots of grey hair and bushy eyebrows. He was letting his friends in the Cabinet, who was banging his mistress in the closet of the White House. Then who at least had the courtesy of dying a year and half or two years into the administration. He was replaced by a non-entity of a person, who was his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge or "Silent Cal." Who was known for not being interesting at all. Jacobsen: [Laughing]. Rosner: A human placeholder. Jacobsen: [Laughing]. Rosner: A little bit like Pence if Pence didn't have his creepy ideas about gays and women. The other two times we had a huge step down, and it was a great thing either. The end. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 44 - National Angst Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner July 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Somebody should do a study on the extent to which Trump dominates on comedy Twitter. Oh! I have one observation that isn't just me bitching about Trump. Last night, I wondered if going from Obama to Trump the greatest step down. The greatest step down in American history. Surprisingly, at least at first thought, it is only the third worst decline in presidential quality with the hugest decline being from Lincoln to Andrew Johnson in 1865. With Lincoln, according to rankings of presidential historians, being the greatest president and Andrew Johnson being the 41st greatest president, so a decline of 40 notches. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wouldn't assume the notches are equivalent distances. Rosner: Yea. Trump is president number 45, but they only rank 44 of them because Cleveland was two of the 45 presidents because he non-consecutive presidential terms. It was 44, and it was based on the first 14 weeks. Trump is in 44th position. You're right. He may even be below Andrew Johnson. But the biggest decline was Lincoln to Johnson. Obama according to presidential historians is the 15th best president, going from Obama to Trump is a drop 29 notches. Putting the 3rd or 2nd most from Woodrow Wilson in 7th place to Warren Harding 42nd, a drop of 35 notches. Obviously, each other instance of a good president being replaced by a total asshole. There was national angst. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 41 - Trickle Down Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner July 1, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Trickle down ideas are that if you let super rich people pass on their hundreds of millions. Their heirs will use that money to hire people who aren't rich. I believe this idea was expressed by Trump's budget guy. But he is one more of the crew of guys who mostly appear transparently creepy. I am talking about Mick Mulvaney, who looks like he would wear pointy shoes and kick you in the nuts in a bar fight, and then when you were down he would stab, stab, stab you with the pointy shoes. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: [Laughing]. Rick Rosner: ven though, it has been proven over and over again that when you give rich people money they just keep the money. They don't send it out into the world of employment and commerce. They invest in more stocks and bonds and real estate and things that don't increase employment. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 42 - The Trumpian Elephant in the Room Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner July 1, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: To figure out what would Trump do, as others have noted, ask, "What would a dick do?" That generally conforms to what Trump will do. He lies is blatant and not convincing, where all through his campaign he was talking about his 100 days would be the greatest first 200 days of any president. Now, in day 98, this whole past week. Given that he hasn't been that successful and has failed at a lot of stuff, he says the 100 days is a silly and arbitrary number. Somebody told him to talk about 100 days. Obviously, it was his idea. It is further upsetting that his followers haven't turned away from him, even though he is doing a bunch of things that aren't terrible. He is gleefully doing a bunch of things that are terrible for the country. The whole situation makes it really hard to - when you're doing comedy noodling in your head - come up with things that are in the public consciousness. The way airplane food may have been in the public consciousness in the 80s to make jokes about. It is impossible to avoid this big orange Trumpian elephant in the room. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 40 – Trump and Rich People Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: One cliche is, "What is it with airline food?" Now Twitter is mostly focused on observations the country in trump's era like "Trump sucks" or "Trump is dangerous" or "Trump through incompetence and foreign policy aggression is trying to improve his approval ratings, and this may lead us into war>' Or that "in every possible area of politics, Trump is doing exactly the thing that people don't want him to do such as reversing federal policy, reversing everything that Obama did including setting aside federal land as land for parks, environmental protection." Saying he was coming out with a tax plan, but the tax plan not really being a plan since it contained few specifics and it was only 250 words long, and is thoroughly a gift to the super rich, including probably himself. Doing away with what Republicans like to call "the Death tax," but it has less inflammatorily been called "the estate Tax." Right now, you're allowed to pass on $4.9 million to your heirs when you die, or if the passing on of assets of you as a married couple. If you structured your family trust right, you can pass your heirs $10.9 million tax free. For Trump and Republicans, that is not enough. The Death Tax should be eliminated, and you should be able to pass on an unlimited amount of money without passing your heirs any of that money. Only the super rich have that money to pass on. So, people like him. Those with the tens and hundreds of millions, and even into the billions - and he gave other gifts to the rich including a low ceiling on taxes on capital gains made through stocks and bonds, which are primarily owned by rich people. All of this with the idea of the trickle down. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 39 – Trump 98 Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner June 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The tragedy and comedy of Trump. Rick Rosner: Okay, this is day 98 of his presidency. The weirdness and awfulness of how he got elected and the awfulness with how he's being president and racism and sexism that has been brought out of the closet by people who have been empowered by this president. They are all so awful that they thoroughly dominate people's comedy thoughts, at least as I've experienced or as I have experienced them in Twitter. Before, he was the comedy of gripes or of small complaints. For me, it would be about people not getting off the equipment at the gym because they are using the phone while they don't fully use the machine they are on. Also, people joking about the annoyances of going through airport security lines. Joking about their personal weakness with regard to food. Just little comedy topics, that in a different era would be expressed in front of a brick wall at the comedy club. Often, with the preface, "What is it with?" One cliche [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 38 – Trump & Optimism Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 26, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So Right-wing noise about get out of the way and we’re going to have business thrive without regulation ignores statistical reality and also ignores the fact that most people in this country are not small business people, are not entrepreneurs. There are plenty of small businesspeople and people regardless of what their day jobs are do engage in entrepreneurship, but it is not the majority of people. A corollary to the Right-wing philosophy is let government out of the way and let business run things, then the wealth in the land will be so great that any charity or church-based work will cover anyone that is deserving. So it is pretty much BS. One way that America can thrive economically under Trump and the Republicans is if enough big and small business, and enough people who control the reigns of the economy-- The stock market is largely psychological. There are all sorts of economic data that influences the market, but there is a bunch of the market running on sentiment, how people are feeling. If enough people are dumb enough to think Trump and company are good for the country, then the economy can run for a while because most people are optimistic. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 37 – Laissez Faire Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: John Maynard Keynes said, “In the long run, we’re all dead.” If you look at the horizon of the stocks in the stock market, people aren’t look much beyond 6 months. If you look at something that doesn’t obviously mess up things now, and might be a problem for the next generation, then that won’t necessarily be reflected in your stock price. Anyway, there are a lot of problems with this Right-wing philosophy. In that, the economy appears to function better under, say, fettered capitalism. The version of government that under democratic administrations or democratic government. Democrats rule for a while. Right-wing people get annoyed that they are being bogged down in regulations. They remove them and run the market into the ground via no regulations, or fewer regulations. There’s a crash. The Democrats come in and establish some rules and then you see a gradual recovery. One model of that is that you can’t assign all the blame to Republicans and all of the credit to the Democrats, but the example is the crash under Bush and the recovery under Obama. Right-wing philosophy, to the extent that it is, is putting a skirt on something fairly nasty, which is that the current Republican Party is dominated by dark money and the wish of a rich super-minority to have all of the rules go their way. Even though, the economic data shows that the super-rich ultra-minority isn’t helped all that much by a faltering economy that doesn’t work very well because it shitty for most people. For the last 30 years, wages have been entirely flat, since the 70s. All of the economic gains have gone to people in the top 10% with most of those gains going to people in the top 1%. Whereas during other times, the top 10, the top 1, percent did pretty well and the bottom 90% also saw economic gains and the economy functioned better overall. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 36 – Unfettered Capitalism Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 24, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Right now, in America, we are under the rule of the Republicans or the Right-wing. I thought we could talk about Right-wing philosophy. The major philosophy of which, at least under the current thinking and for the 30 years, is that if government just got out of the way, then everyone would thrive. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What conclusions follow from that? RR: You mean if worked? If it weren’t a kind of nonsense? SDJ: In two ways, what follows in theory? What follows in practice? RR: It is that government regulations and waste are holding back American business and entrepreneurship. If those roadblocks were removed, America, which is a nation of businesspeople – Calvin Coolidge famously said, “The business of America is business,” it turns out it was taken out of context because he said it is not just about business, and that you have to take into account human values. But the idea is unfettered capitalism leads to happy outcomes for the most people, or at least the most deserving people. SDJ: Unfettered capitalism, to be clear, is laissez faire capitalism that you can find in the Cato Institute or form Ayn Rand. RR: Yea! That the market sorts everything out. That if people start effing stuff up environmentally and people don’t like it, then people will find ways to make money out of it, or the people will become unpopular for business reasons and will clean up their acts. A lot of similar thinking, which has been disproven via economic statistics for the past 100 or 150 years by the idea that business works in the short-run. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 35 – Mental Pacemakers Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 23, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: People with Parkinson’s Disease can have mental pacemakers to provide some of the lost function due to the symptoms and consequences of Parkinson’s. They aren’t directly helping thinking, but they are providing support for mental processes. There is research that shows that if you run an electrical field through the brain then thinking becomes more efficient for a little while. Somebody will find way to make that a wearable technology. One of the big guys in software says we are 10 years away from effective brain-to-brain interfaces. We are seeing some of that stuff, where people who have lost limbs can think their way into controlling replacement limbs, which is via interfaces that are not too cumbersome. Those interfaces will become less cumbersome. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |