I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating depth in a distracted world.

Normally I would say here that I'm in my Deep Work HQ, but I'm not.

I'm actually recording live from a hotel room in Anaheim across the street from Disneyland.

I just gave a talk here this morning at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Distance can't keep us away and it can't keep my intrepid producer Jesse away.

Jesse is joining me remotely jesse how are

things going back there in the tacoma park studio we're holding down the fort baby there we go i miss it

already i missed the gear though it's kind of cool uh as you know though who's who have listened to the show

for a while and know about my book recommendations. During the pandemic, I went on this

binge where I was just reading books about Disney. The company, the man, like everything Disney

related. I think I read like a dozen books. So as I was walking around, I didn't go in Disneyland

today, but as I was walking around, I was thinking, oh, I know way too much about this.

But there we go. But here's my dilemmaimit, though, Jesse. So my family's

going to fly out and meet me. They're not going to be here until tomorrow afternoon, but I have a

ticket for the whole day because we're going to go tomorrow night. And so I'm trying to decide

whether or not to go in the park solo. And that's going to be the big decision. I think I brought that up before. I still haven't made a decision on it. I checked today, you know, they have multiple different lines. Like, do you have a

fast pass? Do you have a bag to be checked? Does it family with strollers? They have a separate line

that's for middle-aged men here without family. So they do have a separate line. The bad news is it leads right to the back of a police paddy wagon.

So, you know, maybe that's a problem.

I'm not sure.

So I do feel a little bit weird being there alone.

But I still might do it.

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