ose are you going to keep your mask on? No. So the enforcement is maybe 10%. I would say 90% of the businesses here have just said okay so there's a new rule that we have to wear masks and let me understand this. Everyone else in the country, maybe the world I don't know, everyone else in the country they don't have to wear a mask but in my county, just in my little county, you got to wear a mask just when you go in the store. So since this is such a good idea I think I'll wear my mask like that. And like everybody here is just doing, you masks now it's like yeah I got a mask on because it's a requirement. Oh and government you I got my mask on. How about you? Are you wearing a mask? Yep I got my mask on. I'm not trying as hard as I used to to comply but I'm kind of going through the motions. So I got my mask on. It's not covering my nose or my mouth but I like to be a good citizen so I'm wearing my mask. So that's what it looks like to go into a store in my county. The people are so done. The people are so done with the masks that now it's just it's like a big joke, right? And by the way I don't think I've been asked to put on the mask anywhere that is required so far. I have worn a mask without complaint in medical buildings because I just don't want that fight. Like I'm not going to get in a fight with medical professionals over a medical question. It's just not where I'm going to take the fight. But you know the grocery store they don't care. The Safeway, my local Safeway, they've obviously been instructed that they're not going to talk to the customers about anything related to masks at all.

All right. If it looks like I ran out of topics today that's because I overslept and there wasn't much news today anyway. Did I miss anything? Jewel? Yeah there's a story about Jewel and what is the story that the Biden administration wants to get rid of vaping as well as nicotine. All right so is there any other and the other topics that I, how often are you recognized by fans in Safeway? That's a good question. I don't know because I'm recognized in a different way than other people are recognized. So I think I do get recognized fairly often because of the live stream. So when I was just doing cartooning it was rare to be recognized. I think now probably every time I go to Safeway people recognize me probably every time but they don't often come up to me. If they do they're usually conservatives. And I may have told you this before but if I'm at the gym and somebody wants to say something nice about my work they whisper it. Now so people will come up to me and they'll just say I watch you a lot. I watch your live stream every day. It's great. I really like it. And but they won't say it so other people can hear it. So I'm basically like their secret pleasure, you know. Is Pleasanton a persuasive name for a city? Yes it is. True story. The name of my town is Pleasanton like pleasant on. The town next to me is Livermore. Liver more. Who wants more liver? Nobody. And which one has higher property values? Pleasanton or Livermore? Pleasanton. Yes for now. You lived in Ruby Hill. You were practically my neighbor.

All right. About the Pope's retirement? No but I have an update from the Pope. If I didn't mention this the Pope and this is sort of an update is opposed to war still. So if I didn't cover that news now you've heard it. Your family thinks it's weird that I watch the sip. How weird is your family? I mean if we were to have a competition would I be weirder than your family who thinks it's weird to watch this incredible content? I don't know. I don't know. Tell your family and I'm talking to you directly now. This is to the family who thinks this is weird. Not weird. This is normal. Everything else is weird.

All right I got nothing else to say. I'm just babbling now and unless you have any weird questions. I like the weird ones. Oh maybe we'll do that. I will answer the weirdest question you have. Does anybody have a weird question? How's the house breaking problem? I haven't had one recently but my neighborhood is so bristling with video cameras now you don't think you could walk one inch in my neighborhood without three different security cameras being on you. We are so surveilled here at least outdoors. Do I have a safety room? Maybe let me just say what I've said before. I built my house to keep me alive in every possible way. You know so as a place I can exercise. So it's built to keep me alive even if there's a natural disaster. My house is going to be the one that survives it. It's the one that won't burn down and even if the neighborhood burned down my house wouldn't burn down in all likelihood because it's like fireproof to the max. So I'm always ready for everything. Yeah I got bad plumbing this way.

Ah here's a question. Why do you use it feels right as opposed to seems right? Does it align with your use of sexy as a compliment? Well I wouldn't equate those two things in any way. I like feels right because it feels right communicates that you're not based on reason. Seems right sounds like you've got a reason but it feels right you're just saying ah that's my instinct. It just feels right. Why do you like living so much? I don't. Why would you think that? I'm not sure living is a good deal. Are you? Have you ever had that thought? I mean I don't know what it feels like to not be living but I assume it's just not conscious so it can't be bad. But if you're having a bad day don't you ever think why am I even doing this? What's the whole point of this? I think it's somewhat irrational to want to be alive and to reproduce but it feels good sometimes. Just want to see what happened. That's a good answer. I think that curiosity is a way to get out of funks.

Here's your tip for the day that will help some of you a lot. Do you like these? This will be my tip that guarantees that will help some of you. Not many but some percentage will be absolutely your life could be changed. And that's this. When you're feeling really, really bad and you've lost all interest and maybe there's some good or bad things that are going to happen to you and you're just like ah, change your frame to curiosity. If your frame is how do you feel, maybe you don't feel so good. It's a bad frame to live in. Change your frame to what the hell is going to happen tomorrow. Like if I made this change or if I said this thing or I invited this person to this thing what would happen. I mean just change your frame to curiosity. Curiosity is one of your most base instincts, right? Your operating system of your body it operates on curiosity. Like if you didn't have curiosity you probably wouldn't do much. So it's a really fundamental part of you is curiosity. So it can absorb your thinking and you can put your mind through that frame pretty easily. So watch how easily this works. Let me tell you how I've used it. When I find myself in a funk and everybody does, right? Everybody's got their bad week or two. I say you know if I hate living anyway why don't I just mix it up a little bit? Why don't I do something that would either embarrass me or be funny or at least I'll feel something like I'll just feel something. And so I say all right what would happen if I just did this thing that is so bold nobody would do this thing. Now I'm not talking about dangerous things. I'm talking about things that could be maybe socially embarrassing but if they worked out they'd be great. Such as asking out the most attractive person you know. Now how would that usually turn out? Well you probably think not so well but what if you were just curious what would happen. I mean what if I did put out this invitation? What if I did throw a party? What if I did say yes to this thing? What if I did? It completely changes your life.

There was one year during my first marriage that just to change things up I decided that I would say yes to everything. I didn't want to tell anybody that I was saying yes to everything because then they'd take advantage. But for about a year no matter what people would say I'd say yes even though I desperately didn't want to do it just to see how it turned out. Because I have this problem. I don't know if some of you do that. If somebody gives me an amazing idea to like hey let's go somewhere and do something my first response is almost always the same. That sounds like a lot of work or I can't even imagine why that would be fun or that's like a lot of work for a little bit of benefit. You know I have all these thoughts but then you do it and you enjoy it and it adds to your life and you mess with people and you had some fun and you had some laughs so you kind of always wish you did it. But my first instinct is always to find a reason not to. So I took a year where I would just say yes and then just make it work and it was actually pretty cool and pretty fun but I wouldn't do it again. Do you know why? Because I ended up saying yes to things that I really wish I hadn't. They didn't work out at all and I'm not sure that I got enough of a benefit out of it but it was an exceptional experiment. And the experiment was how well can you predict what you will enjoy and the answer is I wasn't that good at it. There were enough surprises that I got some humility out of that. Michael Signer wrote a book about saying yes really? Yeah the whitewater rafting was an example in Costa Rica. I had a bad experience there. Learned to fly? Yeah I don't think so.

How often do you trim your toenails? Whenever I notice that I need to. Does it seem to you that your fingernails and your toenails grow at sometimes rapid rates and sometimes slowly? I don't know if that's an imagination. Is that real? Like sometimes it seems like they'll just be one day like what the hell happened they just turned into a werewolf overnight. Is that real? So there really is different phases. I don't know. Maybe.

Well I would remind you again that if you listen to this live stream for all the new content you'll probably be disappointed. The best way to watch this is like you're in a conversation but you're thinking about other things or exercising or cleaning the house or something and I'm just that friendly voice that's your friend in your head. And how many of you, you know that's my favorite compliment when people say they like my voice because you know my story. Three and a half years I couldn't speak. I had a rare disorder and for those years my affirmation was that I, Scott Adams, will speak perfectly. Now there's no such thing as speaking perfectly but I do this every day you know the live stream and I do think that there's something about practice that makes a difference and I do think that I've experimented with different voice technique and that at this point my voice is actually quite powerful. It has an effect. How many of you have had a reaction specifically to the voice quality that I have? Tell me something about that. Are there those of you who like listening just because the way I talk? So let me tell you some of the tricks. You want to hear the tricks? Because it's not natural in any way. Like voice production is completely artificial. So one of the things I do and it took me years to do this is learn how to add variety to my voice. So that's the first thing. So instead of this is the way I would normally talk and if I thought I was getting excited I'd go up like this but really it was just the same thing just a little bit higher. It wasn't much variety at all and I would just talk in the same base like this and people would stop listening after about a second because you can't listen to something that sounds like this. So the first lesson was from the movie Network where the on-air personality was teaching somebody how to make somethi