Joel Pollak

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2,500 appearances 9 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 8 Sep

Joel Pollak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams · 2026-07-15 SPOTIFY · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I just got off a red-eye flight, so everything's kind of jumbled around in my head.

But I have actually a very good excuse for being late, which is I was writing a page of Scott's biography.

And I went way over time, partly because I'm so tired.

But anyway, and I'm dressed up as I'm about to hopefully go for a quick run.

Although the oppressive heat in Washington, D.C., where I just landed is a bit of a disincentive, but.

You know, um,

I'm just grateful for the energy to do any of this.

I mean, I usually can sleep on planes.

This time I only slept for a couple of hours.

I sort of have a, I have a formula for red eyes, which is kind of eat before you get to the airport or you bring, I actually usually bring sushi to the airport, eat at the airport.

Then I have some one.

I know Scott was very anti-alcohol, but I basically have one serving of some alcoholic beverage.

And then I fall asleep on the flight and wake up on the other coast and I'm okay.

Um,

This time it just didn't work and I don't exactly know why, but I woke up in the middle of the night and then I just started working.

So I haven't had as much sleep as I normally get on red eyes and you don't get that much on red eyes, but at least usually I sleep the whole flight and this time I didn't.

And I never take any sleeping pills or anything like that.

I'm generally very wary of pills for anything.

So not because I don't like swallowing pills, I'm just kind of like, why put extra stuff in your body?

Most things you need a remedy for, you can find,

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