Episode 1539 Scott Adams - How to Solve the Supply Chain Problem, Inappropriate Alec Baldwin Jokes

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a conversation. And so you pretend that when he tries out, he auditions, that he's actually just having a conversation with you. He's not actually auditioning. So it goes like this. You know, you'll be, "Hey, what do you think of this? You know, interested in this role?" You make conversation and stuff. And at some point the actor will say, "Yeah, you know, let me look at this. Were you looking f…

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note, but you wouldn't ask him to do it again. He would have to volunteer to do it again.

So this whole weird etiquette of how to deal with different levels of celebrity. You just can't ask him to audition. He's got to volunteer. Anyway, he didn't get the job, but I will tell you he was very talented. The people who were successful professional actors and actresses—I'm not even sure if you use "actors" anymore—they could do different takes on the same character, and other people couldn't. And it was fascinating to watch.

So somebody like a Peter Scolari could come in and give you one kind of vibe, and then you'd say, "Well, make this change," and they could give you a whole different vibe for the voice. And others just couldn't do it. They could do ten versions of the same voice. So there is a difference between those who can act and those who can't. And I will say Peter Scolari had it. He had the gift, and I got to see it live, and it was a treat.

And by the way, at the top level of stardom you don't ask them to do anything. You just offer them the part, right? If it's Tom Cruise, you just offer them the part.

The best Biden memes that we saw coming out of the strange behavior where Biden's hands were in front of him like Beavis and Butthead and Cornholio. I don't know how many you saw, but the ones I liked were the meme where somebody put ski poles in his hands, put him o

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n the ski slope. The jet pack was good. Did you see the jet pack one? Lifting off on the jet pack. The riding a tiny horse. He had the reins in his hands. He's on top of a miniature horse. Very good. Very good. And of course Cornholio was my favorite. Did I miss one? The llama. Oh, was there a Homer? Or the ice cream cones. That was actually my idea. He was holding two ice cream cones, and somebod…

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Wisdom from this episode

"This whole weird etiquette of how to deal with different levels of celebrity. You just can't ask him to audition. He's got to volunteer. At the top level of stardom you don't ask them to do anything. You just offer them the part."

There's a status-based etiquette with celebrities: you can't ask them to audition or demonstrate their skills—they must volunteer. At the highest levels, like with Tom Cruise, you simply offer them the role.

"The people who were successful professional actors and actresses could do different takes on the same character, and other people couldn't. They could give you one kind of vibe, and then you'd say make this change, and they could give you a whole different vibe for the voice. Others just couldn't do it. They could do ten versions of the same voice. So there is a difference between those who can act and those who can't."

Real acting talent is the ability to shift into entirely different vibes and interpretations for the same role on command, while others are limited to minor variations of their one default performance.