Episode 707 Scott Adams: Al-Baghdadi’s Destroyed Compound and California, Basically the Same

Date: 2019-10-28 | Duration: 46:21

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu NYT spins Al-Baghdadi operation to be negative for President WAPO headline…”austere religious scholar” Rep. Katie Hill’s resignation ABC’s Martha Raddatz’s BIASED lack of evidence qualifier “YET” tell for bias in reporting Bill Maher’s advice for Dems to win 2020 Presidential election President Trump goes to the World Series President Trump has taken out 2 dynasties and defeated ISIS People are calling all that “lucky”?

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you know the best advice that I ever got on these periscopes are the people who said Scott move the camera back further further it's like when you watch movie stars from let's say people move East ours who are none their prime any more and they just add the gauze you know that the effects you can't see the wrinkles and stuff well that works for me too every year I'm just gonna move the camera a little bit further away I'll never stop doing this I'll just get so small as I move the camera further and further away that you just can't see me and then then I'll just be gone well I know why you're here is it because of the World Series no it's not is it because of the killing of El Baghdady well not entirely you're here for the simultaneous up you're here for coffee with Scott Adams and why wouldn't you because you're smart you're with it

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because you're smart you're with it you're aggressive and you've got it all going on I would say you're more confident and better looking than even yesterday and yesterday was pretty good so if you'd like to enjoy the simultaneous it it doesn't take much no not much at all all you need is a cup of micro glass of snifter signed cellist anchor thermos flask canteen grilled goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the dopamine hits of the day the thing that makes everything better the best part of your day so far the simultaneous up go oh yeah it doesn't get better every time it's not your imagination it's actually designed to be better every time it builds on itself so how about that

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so let's talk about some things in the news there's a lot of tragedy going around one of them is California so California has sort of turned into that prank if you ever heard the prank where you take a paper bag and you fill it with feces and they put it on somebody's porch and you set it on fire and then you ring the doorbell and then the person comes out and they say yeah there's a fire under my porch and they start stomping out the fire but they're stomping on them bag of poop well California is turned into that prank we're on fire and people are pooping everywhere now there is some chance that the fire will burn some of the poop but as someone pointed out recently ironically the the national symbol for

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ironically the the national symbol for California is a bear it's the bear and we actually have a confirmed answer to the age-old question does a bear in the woods not in California no way the woods are on fire in California even the Bears are on the sidewalk it's the only place that isn't on fire and of course they don't like to go where there's no light so that limits their options to soive as you know the the whole state is either in a blackout or on fire and even if you're not directly affected as my house just by amazing luck my house is in this narrow corridor where I'm actually technically in the blackout zone but my specific address isn't quite there yet so I have

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address isn't quite there yet so I have electricity so far I've taken Christine and I have taken in some people who don't have electricity I think a lot of Californians are going to be taken in take it in people so we've got a couple of a couple of new residents in my house and for as long as the things till we get some till they get some electricity where they live I put in a an order not an order but a request for information from Tesla to see about their a wall battery thing so they have a product if you didn't know Tesla makes a big battery for your home that you can charge up with your solar and then it will run they say for seven days if you have a power outage or run for seven days without having to be recharged now my expectation is that I won't even get a call back because I have to think there are a lot of people

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have to think there are a lot of people calling Tesla this week and saying or Tesla hello I don't have any electricity I don't like it I would like to get one of your batteries so that the next time this happens I eat next year because it's going to happen again I would like to have a battery so I'm probably one of a lot of people who called Tesla recently or emailed them and said some version of can you give me some information on your battery I don't expect that I will hear from them actually however if I had a way to directly this is not what I'm not giving you investment of advice never take investment advice from a cartoonist just remember that and I haven't looked into this but if there's any pure way to invest in those Tesla home batteries well we think this would be the time to do it because I I can't imagine that they have any left in stock they must be

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they have any left in stock they must be making those things as quickly as they can place them because there's got to be a lot of people like me who just said maybe now is the time maybe new so we'll see those you saw the president Trump went to the World Series yesterday and because people can find anything to complain about they complained that he must be a bad father because he didn't take bear into the game to which I said that sounds like someone who's never met a teenager do you know what teenagers don't want to do go to a game with their parents it's literally the last thing they'd ever want to do Hey I'd like to spend my night with my parents said no teenager ever so that's pretty funny that anybody thinks that Barron would have wanted to do that I doubt it

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so anyway I stole the joke about the bear shooting in the woods from Don or Dan Don McDaniel who may or may not be watching this if you are good joke tom thank you so I asked you yesterday if if you would give Matt Gaetz congressman Matt Gaetz a follow on Twitter to get his attention so that I could coax him to appear as a guest on this periscope and we did manage to get him several thousand new followers I don't know how many I was trying for ten thousand I think we had several thousand as of yesterday and still rising but he did respond and he said yes so I've got a message in to him to see if we can pull get a real schedule together did you notice that he was he was at the World Series with President Trump and Melania so so yes yes some good access so we'll

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so so yes yes some good access so we'll all try to schedule him and I'll let you know in advance and that will be a lot of fun all right let's talk about Elle bag Devi you used to be called bag daddy but I like to call him bag daddy because it's funnier I saw somebody on Twitter say that Trump is such a badass that not only did he kill Baghdady but then he talked him in public after that that's like the ultimate badass right he kills him and then he goes in the trash talks him in public to which I said no nope it's better than that it's better than that he didn't just kill him the last thing that he made Baghdady do before he died was kill his own children three of them now you think it's bad that Trump didn't take Baron to the World Series well I think Baghdady might not be father of

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think Baghdady might not be father of the year either so that's how bad a bad of a bad ass Trump is he didn't just kill him he made him kill his own children on in the in the process and then he trash-talked him so that's that's a pretty complete victory Mayer Times is reporting that the Syria withdrawal was almost ruined that the Syria withdraw almost ruined the Baghdady operation so in their telling of the story the operation was a success despite Trump not because of him that the the biggest obstacle to success was Trump himself so that's the New York Times version of the story okay this is a perfect example of the type of story that you shouldn't take too seriously

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that you shouldn't take too seriously because there were a lot of variables and it might you know the basic part of it might be true it might be true that we had a had a bead on this guy and it might be true that if we brought our assets out in the in a too hasty way that we would lose it and it might be true that we decided to act while the acting was good that might all be true but
but it doesn't make it a mistake that Trump was trying to pull out because obviously the decision to pull out was independent of the decision or the you know the question about what Baghdady whether he lived or died we preferred that he died but the withdrawal was going to happen anyway it happened had to happen somewhere now what we don't know if there was anything about the withdrawal which made it any easier to get Baghdady we know from the New York Times

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we know from the New York Times reporting that there was some thought that we lost an opportunity for an easier way to get him you know if he were moving his locations we'd get him when he's on the move so there was some thought that we had to do it the hard way because of trumps pulling out of Syria but who knows how long Baghdad he would have stayed there who knows who knows if our pulling out cause some extra let's say extra intelligence sources to come forward do it oh so there's a lot we don't know about that but I just think that as a general rule it's always fair to give the commander-in-chief the win for a win the wins a win you know I gave Obama full credit for getting bin Laden I give the same treatment to trump full credit for getting Baghdady

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getting Baghdady now a few months from here you know what once were past the sort of the the political interpretation of everything I would like to point out an interesting dog that didn't bark effect now you could have to fact-check beyond this so fact check me hard on this I could be wrong but I'm gonna make it make an observation based on just my personal experience it seems to me that the only entity person or organization who is not taking credit for killing Baghdady here's the people who did it and we're on the US military I think if you don't count what Trump himself says but the the actual military I don't know if they've taken credit they've certainly described what they did but isn't it

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described what they did but isn't it unusual and you know to their everlasting credit that our military is the only ones who didn't feel the need to try to take credit that's professional that is sort of professional not sort of that's very professional so it's it's impressive in this lack you could easily imagine some other personalities some other people trying to take credit and saying well it wasn't the president you know we were the ones we were the ones on the ground we're the ones who almost got shot and they didn't now of course the President did a very good job of making sure that we understood what risk they were at how brave they were how capable they were and all that but I just think it's notable that the people who were the heroes are the euros didn't say anything I mean that's exactly what you'd want it's the best possible solution or situation I've got a question for you let me just put this idea into the

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let me just put this idea into the universe all right I don't think you've heard this idea before I'm just gonna put it out there purple hearts for the dogs yes or no should the dogs who were injured badly apparently I don't know how many dogs but more than one I think was in was injured but lived would you like to see a Purple Heart ceremony for the dogs because what's interesting about the dogs is that they have this symbiotic relationship with you know the actual soldiers so much so that the soldiers won't leave them behind you know they don't even leave the dog behind I mean it couldn't have been easy you know I was trying to imagine how hard it would be under the you know the situation they were in to rescue a wounded dog you know get it you know get

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wounded dog you know get it you know get a cared for and transported all the way back and all that that couldn't have been easy so there were some there were some you know military people who really took a risk and put some some real effort into protecting the dogs and making sure that they came home so just put that out there Purple Heart for the dogs yes or no now I wouldn't want to you know diminish I don't want to diminish what it means to human beings to get a Purple Heart because it's obviously one of the you know it's one of the more important recognitions you could get because you've given you know almost as much as you could give short of your life if you get wounded so but I think these particular dogs are not we don't even think of them as dogs they're they're basically just part of the military at this point so I guess my respect for the military dogs is so high

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respect for the military dogs is so high that I don't see it as an insult that they could think you'd win an award that our that a human could win in this specific case in there the other case I'd feel differently all right so looks like a lot of people were on board with that let's talk about the Washington Post who you probably all have all seen the story Washington Post first headline description of Baghdadi after he was killed was that he was in the austere religious religious scholar he was an austere religious scholar okay so people complained and said you know if you happen to be the biggest rapist murderer terrorist in the world maybe you don't lead with austere religious scholar you know maybe you lead with rapist murderer be header terrorist so the Washington Post heard the complaints and they adjusted accordingly

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complaints and they adjusted accordingly and then the statement from one of their executives in a tweet christine karate kelly said regarding our l Baghdady obituary the headline should never have read that way and we changed it quickly so what is our opinion of this well obviously people have an opinion about how fair or unbiased the reporting is and it almost seems as if they just couldn't give Trump the wind so they had to soften in somehow but they did respond to people pointing it out and they did change it so under the 48-hour rule under the 48-hour rule do we forgive them is the apology accepted well no because there's no apology let me read it again this is not apology they said they the headline should never have read that way and we changed it quickly that's not an apology right so

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quickly that's not an apology right so there's no apology to accept but there is a clarification and the clarification is that it was a mistake and then we changed it quickly now there's a lot to be desired in this response I would call this a deeply imperfect response and primarily because it doesn't address what it did to trust what it did to the customer there's a victim here there's a victim which is trust in the media the readers and how they reacted to it and they're not addressed so a proper apology would in this isn't an apology it's not an attempt at one but it would address the victims if you will who is inconvenienced who was offended who who thought their line had been crossed but they don't do that they just said I was shouldn't it shouldn't happen we changed it I'm gonna give that I'm gonna give

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it I'm gonna give that I'm gonna give them a pass on that because they did address it and change yeah there are two things you're looking for what is an apology when that makes sense and the other is did you fix it did you do something about it and they did do something about it I would say this is the weakest way you could respond to a mistake and actually still say that you did something but I'm gonna accept it so I accept it as a clarification that they did not believe that that was you know they're in their own opinion they didn't do good work and so they improved it people sometimes don't do good work I would rather judge them by the fact that they improved it and that's the standard I would want to be judged by so clearly I have made mistakes we'll make mistakes plenty of them and I would like to be judged by the same standard did I fix it if I fixed it that's how I'd like you to judge me and I will do the same for them

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judge me and I will do the same for them let's talk about this Katy Hill story Congress person Democratic politician in California she got in trouble for well the only thing that got her in trouble ultimately was that she slept with a subordinate on her staff and that's a no-no so she resigned Mike sort of it was asking on Twitter whether he should consider running from that seat to which I said hell yeah let me know sue me he wants to do that I don't know why anybody would want that job but if you wanted to you'd be great I can you imagine Congress with Mike sort of itch in it come on that would be the best thing ever you would you would never stop having fun so yes I say the only thing that Congress seriously needs right now is a good shot at Mike sort of

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right now is a good shot at Mike sort of itch but Mike if you're listening I don't know why anybody would want that life but if you do I'm a backer so I'll help you
so here's my opinion on the Katy Hill thing I totally understand why sleeping with a subordinate has to be against the rules I get that I get that what I feel as if that's if that standard had always existed and I think we could agree that in some sense the standard has always existed but was kind of ignored it's sort of the the me2 movement that makes us actually consider that a serious thing more serious than has been considered in the past so lots of places have always taken it seriously but as a society we're we're just sort of catching up to the idea that maybe you

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catching up to the idea that maybe you should just never do it just yeah how about never never is the right answer but here's the problem if you had to guess how many people do you think are happily married or happily in a relationship that started with one of them being the boss isn't that one of the most common ways that people get together and would you want to lose that I mean if you look at the number of people who apparently thought that was their best their best way to you know build a life I'm it was people making their own decisions now I'm not talking about any kind of coercive situation so I think we'll all agree that if anybody felt directly or indirectly any coercion well that's completely bad so there's no argument about that but how many babies are you throwing out with the bathwater

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are you throwing out with the bathwater in this case baby being literal because I'll bet there are literally if I had to guess I would say millions of babies have been born in this country to a couple in which they met when one was a subordinate that one was the boss probably millions and they don't seem to be victims they're probably pretty happy with their little baby so I wonder is there no way to to keep the good part the people who just said well this person was my boss but it's not my fault that I'm attracted so I acted on it something like that there's got to be a way I don't know I would rather live in a world in which people had a path to that it could be I'm just brainstorming here imagine if you will you don't want to go to human resources because that starts a problem so you might want to keep it to yourself but but could you imagine and again this is

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but could you imagine and again this is not this is not a real idea I'm just brainstorming here could there be any kind of private anonymous place you could go to to sort of register so just sort of register and and just register out of the public eye and both of you come in there and the subordinate says in indirect language this there's no coercion to this I'm totally on board with this I really like my boss I like to keep doing this and they just sort of register it and then if nobody gives you a problem for having a relationship or nobody notices well you just go on with your business but let's say he called into HR and they say I'm not good you're with a subordinate at that point only you go to your registration place and you say ah we anticipated this I've got a signed statement from the subordinate saying he or she is totally on board with this it's all voluntary here's a

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with this it's all voluntary here's a video of so you can see that there they're not being forced to write it there must be some way to solve that I don't you know I don't know if anything that I just suggested is practical but I feel like we'd be losing a lot if you take away the ability for people to be attracted to subordinates and vice versa I mean that's just the way people meet alright I thought it was interesting that apparently the military also killed the ISIS of official spokesperson so he killed the head guy and then just before Trump brands this guy is a whimpering dog who died as a coward in the tunnel the person who would most likely contradict that statement was the ISIS spokesperson and that person got killed too so it looks like killing the spokesperson was

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looks like killing the spokesperson was really well-timed because the last thing you want is for them type of spokesperson ooh somebody asked me about when it would be a problem for Adam Schiff that he's on record as having visited Democrats donor ed buck a number of times now ed buck is accused of an in jail for apparently he's accused of murdering a few young men with overdoses who he planned to have sex with other did have sex with and Evan Schiff apparently visited buck and leaves alive every time and I was thinking how insulting is it to Adam Schiff that he's so unattractive that dead buck lets him live that's pretty ugly I think that's gotta sting so enough

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I think that's gotta sting so enough about that all right Martha Raddatz the host of ABC News was talking to Adam Schiff and she she called them on his accusations about Trump and she said you have no evidence of that yet whatsoever however so people said hey EA ABC News is challenging Adams chef for making statements that he can't back up so your first your first impression is oh that's a step in the right direction because you want ABC news to be challenging Adam Schiff not just sort of allowing him to speak and then moving on but here's what I noticed you see that they inject that wordy yet so she says you have no evidence of that yet yet what do you mean yet wouldn't that apply to all of us although hey there let's

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to all of us although hey there let's say I'll pick one of you out how about serendipity 302 one hey serendipity
you know you've been accused of being a cannibal and eating children but there's no evidence there's no evidence yet yet maybe Adam Schiff is a mass murderer but there's no evidence of that there's no evidence of that yet yet and maybe President Trump is just in there for the money but there's no evidence of that yet yet it's coming yep all right so every time you see yet from a news person or a pundit you should say to yourself that is manipulation that is not that's not a simple statement of

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not that's not a simple statement of observation the observation is there's no evidence there's no evidence of that you know that we can say that would be a fair statement there's no evidence yet there's not an unbiased statement that's the most biased statement you can ever make Joe Biden is very healthy there's no indication that he's got major health problems yet yet see how that works so it looks like Joe Biden is going to be starved out of the race I think everybody agrees at this point that the the donors are basically just going to starve him out by not donating so it looks like that's going to happen Bill Maher had a very funny little monologue from his show on Friday we did that around you can see into my Twitter feed and he's pointing out humorously and

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and he's pointing out humorously and accurately that if the Democrats will want to beat Donald Trump all they really need to do is not act crazier than him and then he goes through the examples of how they're not they're not pulling it off and it's pretty devastating because he's you know he's unambiguously rooting for that team and and they they of course are great haters of the President and still with all those candidates they can't find one who can get who can get any kind of momentum and there's also not crazier than Trump imagine imagine being a Democrat and you really really want to win one I mean you want to win so badly man do you want to win and the people who are leading in the polls are unambiguously crazier than Trump it's the only thing they're trying to fix you had one job Democrats find

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to fix you had one job Democrats find somebody who's not as crazy as Trump you know per your view of the world you had one job just find anybody just anybody your neighbor your your mechanic somebody you work for can you find somebody in the country to run who's not obviously crazier than Trump well apparently they can't do that now that they do have some non crazy candidates but they're so low in the polling that yeah it's going to take a while for them to be relevant if ever all right let's talk about more about the World Series so the reporting is that Trump got booed at the World Series and I don't doubt that that's true but when I listen to the video and the listen to the audio on the video
I just heard noise I don't know did you sound like massive booing to you it sounded more like just some combination

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sounded more like just some combination of some people were happy some work some work yeah I guess some people were chanting lock him up but it didn't really come through on the video in the audio so I wonder I wonder if that was even important now I would expect that every president would get some combination of boos and cheers so there's nothing in that apparently Trump decided not to throw the first pitch which is a it's a change in tradition wouldn't be the first time he's changed tradition was that a good idea was it a good idea for Trump to refuse to throw out the first pitch yes that was a good decision if you're over 70 and somebody asks you to do something in the sporting realm in front of the big stadium the people don't do it that's it if you're over 70 do not participate in

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if you're over 70 do not participate in any element of a sporting competition now if you're Andrew yang you can go shoot some baskets in the gym and show the video to the whole world turns out Andrew yang is pretty good at basketball pretty good athlete he's got a good good jump shot probably probably other good skills as well but if you're 70 plus do not accept the invitation to do a sport related thing in front of the world so the fact that Trump turned that down I think is a credit to his good judgment that was the right decision
have you noticed that the list of people that Trump has defeated keeps getting longer so started with you know the the 16 or so GOP folks running for president he defeated the entire field but part of the field was the entire Bush dynasty so

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the field was the entire Bush dynasty so Trump destroyed the bush dynasty and then he moved on and he destroyed the Clinton dynasty he took out the strongest field of Republicans that have ever been filled it took out two dynasties and just defeated Isis and do you know what the critics a lucky lucky how many how many how many armies terrorists dynasties and and political operators do you have to defeat before it doesn't look like an accident anymore like at what point does it not look like a like an odd series of events all right let's see what else we got going on here I was asked on Twitter to talk about my daily

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asked on Twitter to talk about my daily routine in in the context of maybe some advice or how to do things efficiently or have a system and so I thought I'd do that I'll tell you a little bit about my daily routine with the understanding that the whole point of it is that if there's anything I do that would be useful for you you could pick it up it goes like this so the first thing is I was giving this talk to a young person that I was mentoring the other day now it's a young person who likes to it was going to school but on weekends likes to stay up all night with friends literally all night and then as sunday tries to get depend on time and tries to get up on time for school and I explained to her I said that sleep is one of the most important things for everything from

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important things for everything from fitness it helps your diet because when you're hungry when you're sleepy you feel hungry and you overeat so I said sleeping will help your you know your mental ability or fit it'll help your diet it'll help your looks your appearance but most importantly you need like a system so that you can get enough sleep and if you don't get that right you don't get anything right so I was pointing out that if it were the summer and you were staying up all night ya wouldn't make that much difference it's just summer you don't have to get up to go to work don't have to get up to go to school but during the school year if you're trying to keep a normal schedule for five days and then on the weekend you're trying to stay up all night because you can say no school tomorrow that you are absolutely sabotaging your health in all kinds of ways you're sabotaging your schoolwork your health your brain your fitness your appearance and your future it's that bad

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appearance and your future it's that bad that your entire future is that risk because you stay up other weekends with your friends that's it it's that it's not important so sorry by the way my sniffling this is is that problem with my polyps and mine my hand I'm still working with that so the first thing I would say is that getting to sleep on time and getting up at a at least a similar time every day is essential to productivity and a happy life when I see people who mess with their sleep schedule I'll tell you what how I interpret it here's how I interpret it not even trying to succeed not even trying if you're not sleeping right and eating right and working on your fitness even if you're not doing it perfectly well but if you're not at least working on those things you're not even trying

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even trying so it's hard for me to give advice on lesson a career or or anything else if somebody isn't even trying on sleep exercise and food you got to be trying on those three things or nothing else I don't even want to give you advice you got to get that stuff right first then you've got a base to work but don't ask me for advice on anything if you're not getting sleep get some sleep we'll talk later okay so the first part of the question of my daily routine is that I go to sleep reasonably early and I wake up without these days without an alarm clock whenever my body says - last night I was busy yesterday and I didn't get to exercise and I have trouble sleeping if I have an exercise that day so about 2:00 a.m. I was awake and I knew that I was awake for the day and so I just got

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was awake for the day and so I just got up and went to work so I started to work today at 2:00 a.m. that's not unheard of during a year that'll happen maybe a dozen times over the course of a year usually it's closer to 4:00 or 5:00 a.m. and I get up and the question about my daily schedule I think had to do with the sub question was whether I do certain tasks at certain times to match my energy and the answer is yes and the morning I am creative and I can focus and so I keep those tasks which require creativity and focus for the morning and I try to make my morning as large as possible because it's my most it's my moneymaker alright the morning is when I make money the rest of the day is for other stuff you know maintenance and fix and stuff and travel and family and all that so I usually get up and prepare for the periscope read the news do some Twitter

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periscope read the news do some Twitter answer some emails drink some coffee and I absolutely love that time of day it's my this is this is my favorite time of day you catch me at exactly exactly the time that I'm most mentally active most friendly most everything so good for you you wouldn't want to talk to me in the afternoon then so that that's the main thing I do I wake up do my periscopes then I reassess what I've got to do if I'm if it's a card tuning day these days I don't do cartooning everyday I it up I used to do a little cartooning everyday so I didn't have to do too much in a day these days I might write all my cartoons for the week on one day and then other days depending on my schedule and what else is going on I will do some drawing now I do the drawing whenever my my energy and my body are ready for it because right now I'm amped up on coffee and my energy

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now I'm amped up on coffee and my energy is too high so if I sat down and tried to draw right now I would hate it because my body and my brain would be saying go do something more active drawing is boring you know use your brain use your body so I like to do drawing what I'm tired especially if I've been exercising and then my brain says I'd like to send this chair for a while do you have anything to do I'll draw something I don't want to use my brain anyway so that's the the basic bones of it is that I put my creativity and my energy into one part of my day when the energy is exactly right for that and then I do the things that don't require thinking during the times a day when my body isn't so good at thinking anyway all right what's the best I'm not going to read that question what about eating so here's a weird thing I've

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eating so here's a weird thing I've almost given up on meals you know at one point there was a thought that you should eat you know five small meals or something a day and I used to have like a big dinner but if you have several people in your life nobody wants to eat the same food at the same time and in the modern world you don't need to so you can sort of everybody can do whatever they want whatever they want so I find that I just snack all day long so I eat a protein bar when I wake up I love banana later maybe an avocado and I during the day I stick to things which are unambiguously good for me I don't do the I don't do any unhealthy eating in the morning and I stay away from carbs like crazy carbs will put me to sleep well within an hour so if I avoid carbs I have more energy and that's good all right somebody asked me if I'd if I still had

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somebody asked me if I'd if I still had my sense of smell and taste some of you knew my story that for ten years I couldn't smell or taste anything and then I found out there was some polyp problem in my eustachian tubes I treated it temporarily and my smell and taste came back completely but it didn't last so after a week or so of having my spellin taste the polyps apparently went back to their original condition and I cannot smell or taste to anything again and I don't have a plan for I don't have a plan for fixing that so I did get my hearing back though so my hearing is all back now those of you were saying my god I feel sorry for you
you you actually don't need to because because there was a funny thing that happened which was when I could taste and smell everything I was not happier I was not happier because there are more bad smells than

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because there are more bad smells than good and I even discovered the some of the main foods I eat I don't like I mentioned sushi I'd only learned to eat sushi after I'd lost my sense of smell and taste but there's sort of a fake smell and taste that your brain provides for you so you think you taste it and you think you you don't think you smell it but you think you taste it it's just that you don't so maybe I can go back to eating sushi know that I can smell of you all right that's all I've got for now yeah I could get lasers to to laser the polyps but they it doesn't last so all right that's it that's all for now I'll talk to you later bye