Episode Transcript: #874 - Scott Adams

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 what was a 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 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 I'm 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 ruin the

scene by saying something the wrong time or I ruin 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 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 that all the actors went back