Name: Joe Rogan Experience #874 - Scott Adams
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #874 - Scott Adams' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-11-18. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #874 - Scott Adams

Scott Adams ladies and gentlemen here we are hey Joe good to see you again man
good to see you
again um I met you decades ago do you remember that horrible story I don't
remember a horrible
story but it was uh on news radio horrible story do you remember my humiliation
that day no what
happened so for those of you who weren't with us on that set um I had a small
uh line just one line
on news radio because it was an episode that mentioned Dilbert so right I was
invited as a
guest and you were giving the line before my line so I just came in and they
said Joe's gonna say this
Joe say your line and you turn to me and you said your line and they said when
he says that you say
your line and of course I'm panicked because I've you know I don't do this
right right not an actor
so the scene starts and it's one of these scenes that runs continuous from
beginning to end it's
not like a movie where you cut it every 10 seconds so you have to do it right
all the way through
right and we get to my my line and you're turning the other direction so the
line I'm waiting to hear
instead of hearing it clearly like in practice when you were facing me I hear
oh no and I think to
myself I don't know what his other lines are so I don't know if that sounds
like my line or is that
should I go and I said to myself 50 50 chance right I either I either ruined
the scene by saying
something the wrong time or I ruined the scene by being silent when I should
have been talking so I
said I'm gonna go with silent and I just I just stood there in silence and
everybody everybody got
really quiet I don't know if you remember what you did but uh oh it's burned in
my mind you were very
nice that day but you just sort of slowly turned around and looked at me and
meanwhile all the other
actors sort of slowly turned around and looked at me because I was I was the
source of the problem
and then uh but I have to admit I was impressed because um then all the actors
went back to you know
square one and did the entire scene through again perfectly it was very
impressive if you're not an actor
to watch how many lines a bunch of professionals can do without screwing up any
of them it was it was a
it was an awesome kind of an afternoon well news radio was a very uh unusual
show in that we did a
there was a lot of changing stuff on the fly like the writers would come in and
then rewrite a line
like on the fly like they would do one line they would do one take and then
Paul Simms and Josh
Lieb and all these guys would get together and they go okay that's uh let's try
this let's try this we'll go
back but then when when Scott turns to you now say this and then we'd have a
totally new line for the
next scene and so we'd have to like like be standing over by the elevator going
uh no that's not gonna
work uh no that's not gonna work we do like come up with a bunch of different
ways to say it and then
just run with it on the fly oh man people don't realize how hard that is it's
not that hard honestly
it's not coal mining well you have to have the right um kind of mind for that
memory yeah it's sort of
like when a musician can do you know 50 songs from memory yeah and i'm thinking
i could do seven notes
you know and then i'm good like that's all i can remember in a row and after
that i'd be just be
guessing well if you think about how many you just think about language itself
how many words you can
access just instantaneously just pull them up from your memory yeah you know um
it's just that's what
you do all the time and if you all the time were reading sitcom scripts you
just get used to that
sort of flow and how things go it's not it's not really that everything looks
difficult if you don't
know how to do it exactly exactly people say that about my job as well it's
like how do you do that
it's like well it happens to be the one thing i can do well you know and i can't
do most things
well but one little thing i can do well well one thing that people have a hard
time with the sitcom
world especially the old school sitcom world is the audience like performing in
front of the audience
is a weird element you know did you feel that well you know i do tons of public
speaking so in that
environment i like the energy and i like all of it but usually if i'm speaking
i know exactly what i'm
going to say and you know even if i mess it up it doesn't matter it doesn't
have to be specific
but that was a that was a frightening situation so so so keep in mind also that
uh most of the actors
were stars you know they're they were pretty big names and so i was meeting
everybody that so i was
a little bit star struck and you know i was completely out of my element and
that completely
blew the scene you know just me it was like all me there wasn't anybody else it
was just me it sounds
like i up sounds like i was looking in the wrong direction which is totally
possible no you were we
were standing in line so you had to be facing the way you were oh oh so i was
looking at you during the
rehearsal or something yeah the setup was we were standing in line to get
coffee and so during the
practice you turned to me so you so i would know exactly what you were saying
but in the actual thing
we were in line so you're talking to somebody else right i get it i get it i
get it yeah man i don't
remember that at all it's like it's so funny how like one person can remember
something and it's like
a big moment and then another person would go like i just erased that well i
knew that i met you and i
remember oh scott adams is cool i like that cartoon and then all of a sudden it's
over you know was
that it was you know there's no other memories in my database yeah i had a
totally different experience
that day well it's also i did a hundred of them or 98 or whatever the hell we
did so it's just it's a
weird thing as you get older too like there's memories that i just have scrubbed
i'm like no room for
them i got new data coming in i gotta make some space it's like cleaning out
your garage you know
so there's nothing scarier than getting together with your siblings after you
haven't seen them
for years and you start talking about your childhood and one of you will be
telling a story like do you
remember the time i you know it doesn't matter what it is i i jumped on a zebra
and i ran it across the
zoo and they ran they yelled at me and the other sibling will say that wasn't
you that was me i was the one
on the zebra it would be such like a you know a memory that you couldn't forget
right but you did
you actually wrote yourself into a scene you weren't even there you were
watching and you wrote yourself
into the hero scene that does happen with people the human memory is really
flawed it's really flawed
well if you want to go real deep real fast you just gave me the good opening
i am a proponent of the we are all a software simulation view of reality and
that would also
explain why memories are so screwed up and the explanation would be that the
past doesn't exist
until you need it in other words the past writes itself on demand because if we're
software you
wouldn't have everything in the universe pre-programmed just in case you needed
it it would take too much
resources i might have to spark up a joint for this episode you just went real
deep real quick i was
hoping i was hoping to go that way do you want some do you smoke the weed i
could do it for the first
time i'd be willing to try once well i don't know if i want to give it to you
for the first time i don't
want you to freak out you don't smoke pot at all the truth is i've smoked pot
once ever it was in first
day of college but i never stopped so that's really just once oh i understand
so you smoke pot all the
time so you did it once and you just kept going i'd be willing to try the
second time is what i'm saying
i understand what you're saying okay so what has like
what has life been like for scott adams during this election you uh came into
the well you're
obviously always well known for being the creator of dilbert but um along this
election cycle all of
a sudden there was i had you know people that i was in contact with they were
saying you know scott
adams is a trump supporter and i was like what scott adams the dilbert guy is a
trump supporter because
you know everyone assumes you meet someone and they're uh in the creative
business you know you're
in a creative business you're you write a comic strip you would assume that you
would be a left-wing
guy like almost almost immediately well i'm neither left nor right i'm sort of
all over the place my
my views didn't match you know either of the major candidates on anything so
you're a free thinker
i like to think i'm right and everybody else is wrong i would like that too no
i'm actually um
my larger philosophical grounding is that is informed by my experience as a
hypnotist i'm not
sure if you knew that no i didn't know you're a hypnotist so in my 20s i went
to hypnosis school
and became an actual trained certified hypnotist wow and one of the things you
learn as a hypnotist is that
the world is backwards to the way people normally perceive it so normally you
see the world as hey
you know 90 of the time people are rational and doing rational things right but
10 of the time we
just go nuts and we do stupid things and it's because something happened that
sparked it right
that's the normal view of the world the hypnotist view of the world is opposite
the hypnotist says that
90 of the time we're completely irrational and we're just making rationalizations
for why we did things
after the fact 10 of the time we're rational but that's only when there's no
emotional content to
the decision you know you're balancing a checkbook or something you know trying
to pick up you know
the best route to some place um and so that's how i see the world and so when i
look at either
the trump supporters or the clinton supporters to me from the hypnotist
perspective and someone who's
studied persuasion for decades i use it in my writing um i see both sides as
completely ridiculous
both both of them are grounded in complete absurdities they're just different
yeah but nobody knows why
they're deciding the real reasons that people make decisions are fear identity
um you know they have
some uh aspiration they've they've got something they're trying to solve there's
something to try to
work out but the reasons we give are usually completely false and the the
grounding for this
is that if you think about evolution i assume you believe we evolved yes um
there was no requirement
in evolution that we ever understand our environment the way we imagine we do
and here's an example of that
you could believe that you're uh a monk you know you're reincarnated from a 10th
century monk like
steven seagal does he believe that yeah he's like a buddha or something from an
actual yeah like he
actually got it bestowed upon him by some tibetan character all right so let's
use steven seagal so
steven seagal can be standing in a grocery store next to let's say a muslim who
believes that his prophet
literally flew to heaven on a winged horse those two people don't live the same
reality but they
both buy groceries they both go they cook it they live they survive so it turns
out that understanding
your reality at an actual you know i really know what is objectively happening
and i get it and i've
got a mental model that's quite accurate we don't need any of that so it would
be deeply unlikely that we
evolved such a specific skill that's completely unnecessary as far as we can
tell you know we do
need to know that if i if you run into this wall you know your head is going to
hurt so there's some
basic stuff but we're probably all even interpreting that experience
differently so there's no reason to
think that the way i think of it is the way you think of it so i see the world
as this big irrational
ball and i use the hypnotist persuader skills to back up and try to deduce you
know what's really driving
things a