I am super hyped to begin this episode with our guest

this week going right into it if you are familiar with

Seinfeld, Curve Your Enthusiasm, Borat, or just comedy in general you already

know who the fuck it is. It's Larry Charles sitting in the trap today. Larry how's it

going? Hi gentlemen how are you? We're doing great now. I used that term

loosely of course. So I gave a little bit of your CV but while I was preparing

to do the show I found out something that I didn't know which is that you were a

writer and producer on the Dilbert animated series. Correct. I was hoping you

could share a little color about the genius himself Scott Adams. Well as I was

telling you before I believe that Scott is a he's an engineer and all his

mentality all his philosophy is based on that and that was okay for a long time

it got him where he needed to go. He made this prediction about Trump and

that sort of shifted his his focus in life a little bit and I think you know

you start to believe your own hype a little bit and then suddenly you sort of

are stuck in it and I think that's sort of what's happening to him now but he's a

very brilliant guy really. I mean he does have some like genius mindset test that

that you adopted yourself. Yes he when we were doing Dilbert he told me that he

used to write 15 times a day. Dilbert will be a successful syndicated cartoon while he was still

an engineer. He did that for like five years every single day and eventually

indeed Dilbert became a massive success. So when I was first doing Borat when we first

started like working on it I started writing every day Borat will be a

international phenomenon and I did it every day for all that time that we were

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