I'm Cal Newport, and this is DeepQuestions, episode 176.

As always, my deep work HQ joined by my producer, Jesse. We're going to do a good old-fashioned

listener calls episode, right, Jesse? We got some calls that we're going to get through.

Yep. Got five good calls. Take a listen. I'm still interested in this idea of doing some of

these live. Have we figured out if that's technically possible, or is this one of these things if we

try that, essentially, the power grid in Maryland will go down. The two inches of snow already

did that, but now I think we can do it. Yeah, we should try. We should try. I think that'd be cool.

Yeah. Or, you know, I did a thing for a charity, and maybe let's go with some sense of what we

would expect. I did a thing for a charity a few months ago, where I auctioned off like a,

basically like a call, you know, there's like a private episode of DeepQuestions, but it was just

like a Zoom call for like a half hours. Cool. So I got to just hear from, and then I doubled it

because it was pretty popular. So I was like, well, just I'll do two because there was two bitters

that were real near each other. So it's like, well, let's double the money. And so like I'll do two.

And it was an interesting preview, I guess, about what that could be like. And I would say they're

pretty, they were pretty excited. So I don't know that we'd have to, that's something to keep in

mind. I think they were pretty excited to be talking. It was weird for them. So that's something we

have to get over. We have to get people used to like the, like, yes, you just talk to me. It's like

a thing. It's not an unusual thing. And then they can add counter, you know, questions to their

initial question. Yeah. And I could ask follow ups, which I think would be cool. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And we would charge a huge amount of money. So only the richest people could get wisdom

and everyone else will be screwed. That's the, that would be the key to it.

But now we won't do that. All right. Cool. So we're going to try to figure that out. I think

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