I asked on Twitter a little Twitter poll, have any of you actually lied to the pollsters about your support for Trump?

Hundreds of people said yes. And they weren't saying we might lie or we think we'll do it in the future.

They said we have this year.

It's Locals Week here on the Ruben Report and I'm doing a series of many interviews with creators on why they decided to become less reliant on Big Tech and instead own their content community and livelihood with Locals.com.

Joining me today is the creator of the legendary Dilbert comic strip as well as a best-selling author and guy who really, really loves coffee. Scott Adams, welcome back to the Ruben Report.

Thanks Dave, thanks for having me.

How much coffee do you drink a day? I always think you're just drinking coffee constantly basically.

You know, Christina, my wife gave me a new trick where I only do half coffee and half hot water. And instead of coffee, it's like a coffee-flavored beverage that you can drink more of it. So that's my current trick for doubling my output.

I think that's a little bit like an Americano, right? Isn't that when you go to Europe and you drink an Americano? It's just coffee and they just add water to it, I think, maybe?

You know, I don't know my coffee, but I'm going to say yes. I'm just going to say yes to that.

You got very long island there when you said coffee. You're coffee. You don't know your coffee.

Well, I'm of state in New York, so we drink coffee and we go up on the roof and down by the creek. We go swimming in the creek.

Well, I'm going to send you one of these Locals coffee mugs. We've got one. But before we get into Locals and you've absolutely just crushed it on there.

I wanted to talk about something separate altogether, which is that because we live in this strange time where it seems no one can make sense of anything,

you're one of the people on a very short list. I can probably do it on one hand. People who I think are actually making some sense.

Did you ever think you were going to be a sense maker? I mean, that's partly what being a comic guy is, you're making little quips and you're trying to make sense of it.

But did you ever think it was going to be this level of it?

You know, you're asking me the most embarrassing question you possibly could because the answer is yes.

You're supposed to be humble here.

Yeah, I know. The answer is yes. And my whole life, actually. So I always had an image that someday I didn't know what path I would take,

but that I would be doing something in public, which I would be explaining things to people who needed a little help having things explained.

So, you know, it's amazing that it ended up the way it ended up because the way I got here could not have been predicted in any way.

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