Real Talk With Mathematicians

The mathematical pun here is absolutely brilliant! When someone asks to "be real with me," the mathematician's brain immediately jumps to number theory. The giant "ℝ" symbol represents the set of all real numbers in mathematics (as opposed to imaginary numbers like √-1). So instead of having an honest conversation, the mathematician literally becomes a "real number." Classic mathematician behavior—taking everything literally and transforming casual conversation into formal mathematical language. The frustration of the first person is every non-math person who's ever tried to have a normal conversation with a math enthusiast!