Episode 3071 CWSA - The Scott Adams School 01⧸13⧸26
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Learn English with Scott Adams. Scott Adams was an American comedian, bestselling author, and philanthropist who died at the age of 88 on January 1st, 2026. He is survived by his daughter, Shelly Adams, and his wife, Jillian Adams. In his last words, Scott Adams leaves behind a wife, a daughter, a son, and a daughter-in-law.
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Exclusive Toronto engagement January 16th in theaters everywhere January 23rd.
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Of course, he waited until just before the show started, but he's not with us right anymore.
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He has a final message that he wanted to say, so I'm going to try to read it.
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If you are reading this, things did not go well for me.
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I am of sound mind as I write this January 1st, 2026.
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If you wonder about any of my choices for my estate or anything else, please know I'm free of any reason or inappropriate influence of any sort.
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Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go.
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I'm not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me.
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I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with him.
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The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven.
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With your permission, I'd like to explain my life.
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For the first part of my life, I was focused on making myself a worthy husband and parent as a way to find meaning.
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And mine eventually ended in a highly amicable way.
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I'm grateful for those years and for the people I came to call my family.
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Once the marriage unwound, I needed a new focus, a new meaning.
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And so I donated myself to the world, literally speaking the words out loud in my otherwise silent home.
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From that point on, I looked for ways I could add the most to people's life, one way or another.
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That marked the start of my evolution from Dilbert cartoonist to an author of what I hoped would be useful books.
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By then, I believe I had enough life lessons that I could start passing them on.
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My book in the useful category was how to fail at almost everything and still win big.
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The book turned out to be a huge success, often imitated, and influenced a wide variety of people.
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I still hear every day how much the book changed lives.
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I followed up with my book, Win Bigly, that trained an army of citizens how to be more persuasive,
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which that correctly saw as a minor superpower.
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I know the book changed lives because I hear it often.
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You probably never know the impact the book had on the world, but I know.
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And it pleases me, while giving me a sense of meaning that is impossible to describe.
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My next book, Loser Think, tried to teach people how to think better,
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especially if they were displaying their thinking on social media.
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That one didn't put much of a dent in the universe, but I tried.
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Finally, my book, Reframe Your Brain, taught readers how to program their own thoughts
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to make their personal and professional lives better.
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I was surprised and delighted at how much positive impact the book is having.
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I also started podcasting a live show called Coffee with Scott Adams,
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dedicated to helping people think about the world and their lives in a more productive way.
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I didn't plan it this way, but it ended up helping lots of lonely people find a community
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If I got any benefits from my work, I'm asking that you pay it forward as best as you can.
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That the legacy I want, that's the legacy I want.
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Please be useful and please know I loved you all to the very end.
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I'm going to invite some others on because I just don't know that I could do any more.
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Today, we're going to sip to our best friend, our internet dad, our uncle, our mentor, our sage.
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I just think it's a life well lived that he touched so many of us.
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And Jack, I don't know why I feel like you're going to be more composed.
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I didn't think I'd be doing two shows like this so close to each other, but here we are.
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So, folks, as everyone knows, all you need is a cup, a mug, or a glass, a tankard chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join us all now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, even saying goodbye to old friends.
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He had to make me take a video of him, too, because he wanted to make sure everybody knew that he was right.
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He loved that when he was right with the prediction.
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He knew he was going to be right, and he wanted to make sure I had it on video.
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He said he knew it was a different feeling than how he had been feeling before.
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And, Shelley, he was peaceful and surrounded by everybody he loves, right?
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I was going to say, a few years ago, Scott had said that he had sort of, he's having a daydream.
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And in his mind's eye, he said that he saw the day, the hour, and the minute that he would pass away.
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And he shared some of that with some of you watching.
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And it was in that moment five years ago, I thought, wow, there will come a day when that happens for us in third person.
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And we're the witness to life in the beginning of his legacy.
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And I only had one child at a time, and now I have three.
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And all three of them know Scott Adams, the name, and the books.
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And it sounds like there might have been a little bit of authorial desire for Loser Think to have a sort of a second life.
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And I feel like it's a bit like my responsibility now to make Loser Think the book that he wished had done better, you know, to make it be all that Scott had wanted it to be.
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And I was reading some of my followers last night, excerpts from the 1997 book of his, 29 years ago, Zilberfuture, and how prescient his predictions were.
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It's time to find in his works and enjoy the sip daily in his honor.
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Can I give a quick shout out to the Locals family?
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But his beloved locals and we have become such a tight family.
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And I'm looking at your chat right now, you guys.
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And I know you guys just want to, like, cry and scream and make the clock turn back.
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But, you know, Scott, like, really taught us well and we can reframe this.
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And the upcoming days, like, let's all, like, really band together and do some reframing and talk about, you know, what Scott would say about all of this.
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It's always like, you know, what would Scott say?
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I mean, we can't just ask Scott right now, but Scott has told us how to think and we can do this.
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But I just wanted to say I love you guys and I see you and we're going to stay together.
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I mean, I wouldn't be here right now if this is not what he wanted.
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So I'm trying really hard, you know, to carry out his wishes and keep this community together.
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Whatever you guys need from me, I'm just going to keep it going as much as I can for Scott and you guys.
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So even though it's been coming for a long time, it's very sudden.
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I guess I'll just say a little bit of what I posted to Scott recently, which is I'm honored to have been of service to him.
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I will do everything I can to carry his lessons forward and to continue to be useful myself.
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I think he's been one of my best friends, even though I only met him in person once.
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And I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you better and to just talk about everything that we learned from Scott.
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And I think Scott's one of the most significant people that I've ever met.
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Maybe, Sergio, do you want to jump in first and let Marcella collect herself?
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And also, American Debunk is on the stream, so I don't know if he has something he wants to say.
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We're very appreciative for you and how you've contributed over the past few days or weeks.
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And we want you all to know that we're praying for you and your family.
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One of the best parts of being part of the Scott Adams community and tuning into the live streams and reading his literature is that not only were we able to connect with Scott and better our own lives,
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but we were also able to join a community of thousands of people who are striving to make the world better.
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And I'm super thankful, as we all are, for this community and for Scott and for you, Shelly.
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Yesterday, when I talked to you and the two of you, I couldn't express myself because I also lost a son four years ago.
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And that was something that really identified me with coming together with Scott and learning how to go through it.
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So I know what you, we can never say how I can tell exactly how you're going through, but I can feel you.
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And Scott was, I don't understand what happened here.
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You know, this is some kind of a strange simulation with his prediction of doing this on the same day, just nine days after my son died four years ago.
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And it's all, I think that we are, like somebody said, Scott's debris.
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We're all, like, getting together slowly and surely.
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And I don't mean just, like, overheating locals or whatever.
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I think that this is a seed that can sprout peace, like, through peace, like he wanted.
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His character, the Avatar, for me, is my favorite character of all because it gave me hope that things can be good in this planet.
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And with people like him and his influence, I think that it can be done one person at a time, one idea at a time.
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Like he said, the person with the best idea is the one in charge.
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And Scott always said the best ideas, and he was in charge of this simulation.
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And, you know, thank you for being there with him today.
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Jack, Josh, Marcela, SJV with the beard, God Mode.
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Oh, I'm SJV, for those of y'all that don't know.
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I'll do anything I can that doesn't involve me traveling anywhere.
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All of y'all know that Scott had an affirmation, right?
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He said, one day I'm going to be famous, right?
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I don't know when I made it up a few years ago.
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And some of y'all may have heard me mention it before.
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I've had prepared how I would greet Scott Adams if I ever met him.
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And my affirmation was, I was going to say this.
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Because there's only two comic book artists I've ever learned the names of.
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And I was like, well, crap, I may actually get a chance to use that.
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I've got other things I could share, but probably I'll let my brain cool down right now.
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But a lot of people are going to have ideas of what should go on moving forward.
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But Shelly, at least for me, you're the one that gets to the side.
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Mike Bird or Marcella, do you want to say something?
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And the only thing I wanted to post on this day was that I've already posted it in the group.
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And I think it would be the only perfect monument that I can provide the group today.
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Shelly, thanks for the last couple of weeks with you.
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Months before that, fluttering around and helping Scott out.
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And thank you for that talk you gave us this morning.
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Mike Byrd is our locals, named by Scott, our jester.
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And he, you might know, Shelly, but he will, in the future, be making lots of inappropriate memes on our locals' chats.
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And Scott has given him special permission to take it almost too far.
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And Mike Byrd, you better keep doing that because, you know, we need you.
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I mean, as most of you know already, but I just, because I have to introduce myself.
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I mean, you know, I had a lot of people out there.
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I mean, you know, sky's the limit, no matter what.
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um you can achieve anything you want you know you have to leave it first and say it and just
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make it happen and i just want to thank him for he's watching us um and i'm hoping that
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that i that i join him in heaven um and that we all have coffee with him there and we chat with
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him hopefully i get in um and i don't have much else to say but he changed my life as much as many as
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just like many of you who changed your lives as well and i don't think he's irreplaceable and um
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but anything you need shelly um leaving it all there for you okay thank you i just asked for
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you guys just to be patient with me with just the whole process of all this but i i do want to
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keep his wishes to keep this going it just might take a little time little working it out but um i
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definitely want to keep his legacy going and there's lots of ways we'll end up doing that
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it just might take some time shelly please no i mean you know scott's scott was crazy he worked
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365 i mean it didn't matter if it was christmas or he had covid or you know whatever like it you
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were just like oh my god are you actually on today pneumonia everything and um that's just
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not normal which is scott so he was trying to keep on for today let me tell you
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oh i i just knew it and so please no we understand you know like take a beat please um you know we we can
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also get on a chat together and we have you guys if you don't know there's a community page it's the
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coffee with scott adams page it's at the top of my x profile in the communities please join us there
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um and like post stories there and videos and like talk and chat and um we also have our locals group
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and you know and shelly even if you want to just like turn on the live stream on the locals page one
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day in the morning at the same time we we're happy to even just chat with each other for a little
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while but like take the time you need like we get it this is this is you know a loss of someone that
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you love is huge and i can only imagine the loss of someone like scott and the you know every time
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he said oh and the person handling my estate and i kept thinking like oh my god poor shelly like
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she's got so much you know on her shoulders but we're your shoulders also and you know we want
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to help you in any way we can so please don't feel like you know we have to be full force like the
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next however many days like we're all here for you and for each other no matter what
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thank you so much thank you i think it's time to go i definitely want to do one more step for scott
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all right i'm gonna sign off all right you guys i'll keep you updated as much as i can like i have been
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so if i hear something or i know what shelly's plans are um i'll do the best i can okay so stay
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tuned i love all you guys be useful today and touch some grass and get out there anyone want
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to say anything yeah yeah this is jack can i throw something out just you know this is the second
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you know friend that i've lost in a couple of months here and i'm not going to say that there's
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any play there's no playbook for any of this so shelly don't feel like you're making any wrong
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decisions or wrong moves at all because we're all with you and we're all holding you up
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and we're all praying for you and there is no playbook there's no handbook there's no manual for
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how to do something like this we all just kind of muddle through and and we try to figure it out
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the the best thing that i've been able to learn at least with losing charlie is that you just number
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one you just try to respect the legacy you try to respect the legacy and you carry forward the wishes
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and keep the community together that's that's the main thing completely so i i certainly hope that
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people are still getting together that people are still sipping that people are still sharing
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dilbert you know i've got my got my calendar right here and sharing the common cartoons and everything
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and just and and the lessons and the clips and so as things come up i think that i think that scott's
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wisdom will be with us for a long time and i just uh i think his example too of staring us in the faith
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face and never quitting and it just gave us so much to learn from even in his final example so if i could
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just share anything from what i've been through over the past couple months with that situation it would
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just be that just and and focus on doing it too because it because it gives you something to do and
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honestly if if you don't have the community it's going to be a lot harder it's going to be a lot
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harder to go across without others and that's you know i'll just say it that's why i think god puts
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others in our life the way that he does and why he has people meet when he does and i think that uh
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i think that scott's finding out who the author of the simulation is right now i hope he tells us all of it
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i will tell everybody though i i will let you know what his plans are um what he's planned um i'm not
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going to announce it yet i do want to talk to his family first and everything but i will share as soon
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as i can with with you guys on what his wishes are um so hold on for that but i will let you know okay
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okay i'm gonna sign off amazing love you shelly bye you guys we'll we'll we'll talk soon thank you
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thank you thank you bye everyone so much bye guys