I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply in

a distracted world.

I'm here in my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse, you know how I know

fall is coming?

Leaves?

No, I am podcasting, we're in long pants for the first time in many months.

Little known fact, people only see the top half of me in this studio, but throughout the

spring and summer months, all shorts, all about the athletic shorts.

I got to stay cool.

That's the key to the podcasting game.

I remember learning this, not about podcasting, but about broadcasting in general.

The idea that people generate a lot of heat, being on camera, I learned this when I was

in high school as a big fan of David Letterman, the CBS version of his show, and so me and

my friends, we finally got tickets to go into Manhattan to the Ed Sullivan theater to see

David Letterman.

And the thing about going to see that show is that it's an ice box in that studio.

And I completely understand it, because you're on stage, you have the camera right on you,

you have to keep it cool, because you're going to generate a lot of heat, you're going

to suit, you have all these clothes on.

So every time I'm in a professional DB studio, I always appreciate it's often really cold.

But that's a nice thing about a podcast to you, we're shorts, no one knows.

Yeah.

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