Ask A Genius 774: Film Project About Rick
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/08/06
[Recording Start]
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So what’s going on with the film project about you or partly about you?
Rick Rosner: Okay, so this project is about people who’ve scored high on the Mega test and who are also to some extent lunatics is still alive at a network. They haven’t said yay or nay about it, but the developer and deciding has gone on so long that I’ve been stripped of anything fucking interesting that I’ve been doing. I ran for political office and got elected and served out my term. And I was done with that more than a year ago. And I did it in the first place to spice up my profile for this project. So I get scared because A, I keep getting older and B, I keep getting less interesting. I want to tell the guy who’s producing it and waiting for the green light, we hope from the network, that I’m willing to do crazy shit to spice up the fucking doc. But I’ve never gotten feedback from him when I make vague suggestions in that direction. I think he’s trying to stay true to it being a true documentary and you don’t do shit for the sake of the documentary but we’ll see if we’re lucky enough to have something happen.
But the deal is that it’s all part of a process of me getting fucking less crazy in general. One of the reasons relative to this doc is that my role in the doc will be to be kind of less crazy than Keith Raniere, the NXIVM sex criminal scammer in prison for life and another guy we know who’s kind of descended into lunacy. And it’s kind of the equal and opposite reaction when you hock a loogie and it kind of separates into this barbell looking thing due to the centrifugal effect, or when two people become friends or humans domesticate dogs and dogs become stupider than wolves because humans are taking care of the thinking and humans get shitty at sniffing because dogs are taking care of the sniffing; each side kind of specializes. And on Twitter, the American political world well, the American world of politics has so many fucking lunatics on the other side that there’s no room for lunacy among people who aren’t fucking assholes.
This week was the CPAC, which is the Conservative Political Action Conference. It’s a conservative gathering that happens a lot, more than once a year. It’s a profit making conference because conservative lunatics, you can squeeze them for money. And they had Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary, who’s a full on white supremacist fascist, gets a standing ovation there, a guy whose long time advisor quit calling Orbán a modern day Goebbels. At CPAC, they have all these fucking little sideshows, including a guy who’s prosecuted for attack, being part of the assault on the Capitol. And they built a fake prison cell for him and dressed him in prison orange. And attendees at the conference could watch him in a cell pretending to cry for eight or 10 hours a day, showing that people who attack the US capital are being treated unfairly.
CPAC is the same place where somebody built a golden idol, like a five foot tall gold plated statue of Trump that people would come and rub or worship for good. I mean, it’s just fucking lunatic bullshit all the time. And there’s just very little room for reasonable people to do crazy shit because all the crazy is super loathsome and owned by the lunatics on the right. Similarly, with this documentary project, I’ve been forced into being the explaining voice, the voice of reason, which scares me, because it’s like what if the fucking people at this network just look at it and say it’s fucking boring? I’m fully prepared to do crazy shit. I would go to CPAC and challenge people. There have to be plenty of Republicans who aren’t stupid and who aren’t crazy and who are more than vaguely disturbed by what’s happened to their political party. But the loudest voices on the right are fucking lunatic assholes and also pretty stupid. Not necessarily the pundits like Tucker Carlson, but the people making a lot of noise on social media. You can tell they’re fucking stupid on average just by reading their posts.
So I’d love to go to the CPAC and challenge these people that if you can get within 30 points of me on a ten minute IQ test, I’ll give you $500 and I’d get into shit with people, maybe, but that would be pretty interesting. And the shit I got into with people would be kind of crazy and exciting, and it would also be instructive because we get to see if people are as stupid as I think they are. I told the producer, I said, “Look, we are selling my mom’s house. I have enough to buy a strip club.” I wouldn’t full on buy one, but I’d fucking takeover one for a month or two for the sake of spicing up the documentary, being a strip club manager. Anyway, I’m afraid that this fucking thing is turning into something too boring to go, and I’m a little sad that I’m the voice of fucking reason after a lifetime of being a lunatic.
[Recording End]
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