med my experience as a voluntary health-related process I was thinking, God I think this cold is making me healthier. All the pain went away. All of the discomfort, it was a pretty big discomfort of feeling cold, immediately left my body because I told myself if I were Joe Rogan I'd be paying for this experience. This is probably really good for me.

Does anybody have a problem with germs? Anybody a germaphobe? Try this. Reframe that the germs are good for you. That's it. Yeah, yeah. Which is true because you need to have some dirt and some animals and you know a little bit of filth around you or else you're not going to be strong. So I do a lot of public stuff, shake hands with a lot of strangers. You know if I do a public event — I'm not doing any at the moment — but as soon as I'm done I go wash my hands right after, right? Because you got like a hundred people's germs on you. But I used to think, oh my God, like I'd be running to the bathroom to wash my hands like a surgeon. Don't touch your face, don't touch your face.

But since I've reframed it the germs are good for me I still wash my hands but while I'm walking to the bathroom I'm thinking I wonder if I'm getting stronger. I wonder if my immune system is saying thank you. I needed a little stress test because that's just what I needed today. So I've reframed even germs at the low end, right? Nothing disgusting but germs just sort of the daily germs of life. I've just defined them as part of what makes my immune system stronger.

I wasn't planning to talk about any of this today. Was any of this fun? I don't know. I'll talk about the news next. There's plenty of cool news. I just thought it'd be interesting because it's something you can try at home. The next time you're super cold as long as it's temporary just try the reframe and say I'm super cold. Exactly what's good for me. I'm so lucky that this is super cold for a few minutes because this is really going to boost my natural immunity. Just try it. Let me know how it works.

All right. I got a new mascot. Phil Bump who writes for the Washington Post. Phil likes to come into my tweets and say bad things about me or to mock me. I don't know why. It may be because I've mocked him for his writing in the past. It feels personal. But I've promoted him from mere critic to mascot. That's my highest designation. So now he's with Keith Olbermann and it's a small group. I just have a few mascots but Phil's part of the group now. So congratulations Phil for entering the Scott mascot commit